Queen Purple Tip (Colotis regina): So named for being the premier member of the red, orange, purple and gold tip ‘whites’. It is distinguished from other similarly coloured purple tips by its larger size. It belongs to the great family of Pieridae which includes in its membership the African Vagrants, white butterflies renowned for their migrations when countless thousands of them move across the veld towards some common objective.
Details
- Subject: Colotis regin
- Designer: Jeff Huntley
- Printer: Mardon Printers (Pvt.) Ltd., Salisbury, Rhodesia
- Process: Lithography
- Paper:
- Chromo with brown gum (1st & 2nd Printing)
- White coated with white gum (3rd Printing)
- Watermark: None
- Perf: 14 (comb)
- Cylinders: 1A 1B
- Sheet: 5 x 10 (50 stamps)
- Quantity:
- 1st Printing – 390,000 (No.001-3,900)
- 2nd Printing – 270,000 (No.3,901-6,600)
- 3rd Printing – 530,000 (No.6,601-11,900)
- Reprints:
- 6 January 1975 (2nd Printing)
- 17 November 1976 (3rd Printing)
Sheet Numbers (1st Printing)
Sheet Numbers (2nd Printing)
Sheet Numbers (3rd Printing)
