Details Series: 1968 Gold Coins of the Bahamas Subject: $100 Gold Coin Designer: Printer: Thomas De La Rue & Co Ltd Process: Recess Paper: Metallic Gold Watermark: None Perf: 13.5 (comb) Plates: 1A Sheet: R5 x 10 (50 stamps) Quantity: Sheet Numbers
View More Bahamas Philately: 1968 Gold Coins of the Bahamas – 3c $100 Gold CoinAuthor: thedigitalphilatelist
Australia Philately: 1968 Macquarie Lighthouse 1818
Details Date of Issue: 27 November 1968 Withdrawn Date: Invalidated: Designer: Reserve Bank of Australia, Melbourne Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia, Melbourne Process: Recess Cylinders: Paper: Wiggins Teape – chalk coated with Derby luminescence Watermark: None Perf: 14.25 x 13.5 (comb) Sheet: Printed in two panes of 50 stamps (R5 x…
View More Australia Philately: 1968 Macquarie Lighthouse 1818Malawi Philately: 1968 Definitive Stamps – 3s Paradise Flycatcher
Details Designer: Victor Whiteley Printer: Harrison & Sons Ltd, London Process: Photogravure Paper: Watermark: Cockerels (sideways on 1d to 4d, and 3s to £1) Perf: 14.5 (comb) Cylinders: 1A 1A 1A 1A Sheet: R5 x 12 (60 stamps) Quantity:
View More Malawi Philately: 1968 Definitive Stamps – 3s Paradise FlycatcherMalawi Philately: 1968 Definitive Stamps – 9d Lillian’s Lovebird
Details Designer: Victor Whiteley Printer: Harrison & Sons Ltd, London Process: Photogravure Paper: Watermark: Cockerels Perf: 14.5 (comb) Cylinders: 1B 1B 1B 1B Sheet: R6 x 10 (60 stamps) Quantity: Sheet Numbers
View More Malawi Philately: 1968 Definitive Stamps – 9d Lillian’s LovebirdMalawi Philately: 1968 Definitive Stamps – 6d Yellow Bishop
Details Designer: Victor Whiteley Printer: Harrison & Sons Ltd, London Process: Photogravure Paper: Watermark: Cockerels Perf: 14.5 (comb) Cylinders: 1B 1B 1B 1B 1B Sheet: R6 x 10 (60 stamps) Quantity: Sheet Numbers
View More Malawi Philately: 1968 Definitive Stamps – 6d Yellow BishopMalawi Philately: 1968 Definitive Stamps
For so small a country, Malawi has a remarkable range of birdlife, over 600 species having been recorded locally to date. This richness of avifauna is due to the country’s wide variety of habitat: wooded areas that include heavy montane forest, sparse brachystegia woodland, thick mopani bush and open acacia…
View More Malawi Philately: 1968 Definitive StampsMalawi Philately: 1968 Definitive Stamps – 4d Red-Billed Firefinch
A small pinkish red waxbill with a distinct rosy red bill. It feeds mainly on the ground in pairs or family parties. It is a tame and confiding little bird much at home around human habitations and in gardens and is well known as the “animated plum” , not an…
View More Malawi Philately: 1968 Definitive Stamps – 4d Red-Billed FirefinchMalawi Philately: 1968 Definitive Stamps – 3d White-Browed Robin
A common and characteristic bird of wide range. A fine songster and remarkable mimic with a wide range of notes. Normally they are shy and skulking but exceedingly pugnacious attacking any other species of bird on their own territory. Details Designer: Victor Whiteley Printer: Harrison & Sons Ltd, London Process: Photogravure Paper: Watermark:…
View More Malawi Philately: 1968 Definitive Stamps – 3d White-Browed RobinMalawi Philately: 1968 Definitive Stamps – 2d Violet-Backed Starling
These are gregarious and beautiful birds which breed in the Southern part of Malawi in September and December, and migrate northwards in the non-breeding season. They build their nests in a hole or in a tree at any height from the ground and then and then line it with either…
View More Malawi Philately: 1968 Definitive Stamps – 2d Violet-Backed StarlingMalawi Philately: 1968 Definitive Stamps – 1d Scarlet-Chested Sunbird
Most sunbirds are about 6 inches long. The bright lines of colouring are limited to the males, the females usually appearing as dull grey, brown or olive green. One of the outstanding characteristics attributed to the sunbird is the hanging purse-like nests they build of plant fibres woven and matted…
View More Malawi Philately: 1968 Definitive Stamps – 1d Scarlet-Chested Sunbird