Two 5c commemorative stamps will be issued in February 1969.
The first will appear on 5th February, to mark the centenary of the first permament settlement in the Northern Territory. Designed by Mrs. Marietta Lyon, a Melbourne artist, the stamp expresses the passing of a centenary of development in the Territory by combining two factual elements — an 1869 photograph of the party which, under George W. Goyder, Surveyor-General of South Australia, surveyed the site on which the township of Darwin grew, and a drawing of a modern Darwin building.
Details
- Date of Issue: 5 February 1969
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- Invalidated:
- Designer: Marietta Lyon, Melbourne
- Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia, Melbourne
- Process: Photogravure
- Cylinders: Sepia – Yellow-Brown
- Paper: Unwatermarked paper incorporating helecon
- Watermark: None
- Perf: 13.25 x 13.5 (comb)
- Sheet: Printed in two panes of 50 stamps (R10 x 5) divided by vertical gutter.
- Quantity: 18,509,000
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