Stamp catalog [Theme: Animals (Fauna) | Currency: $ - Newfoundland dollar] [1/2] : Colnect 📮

Group of Grey Seals - Overprinted & Surcharged

Country:: Newfoundland
Series:: 1st Trans-Atlantic Air Post
Catalog codes:: Mi:NW 109, Sn:NW C2, Yt:NW PA2, Sg:NW 143
Overprints:: Click to see overprints and surcharges
: Has minor variants: 3
Themes:: Animals (Fauna) | Anniversaries and Jubilees | Discoveries | Sea (Marine) Mammals | Sea Life | Seals (Animals)
Issued on:: ColnectScrp
Size:: 28 x 21 mm
Colors:: Scarlet
Watermark:: No Watermark
Designers:: R.O. Smith
Printers:: American Bank Note Co. | Royal Gazette, St. Johns (O)
Format:: Stamp
Emission:: Air Post
Perforation:: 12
Printing:: Recess
Face value:: 1 $ - Newfoundland dollar
Score:: 97% Accuracy: Medium
Description:: 15c stamp surcharged $1; overprinted 'Trans-Atlantic AIR POST, 1919. ONE DOLLAR.'.
Issued for use on the mail carried on the first successful flight across the Atlantic by Capt. J. Alcock and Lieutenant A. Brown, and on other projected trans-Atlantic flight.
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Country:: Newfoundland
Series:: 1st Trans-Atlantic Air Post
Catalog codes:: Mi:NW 109I, Sn:NW C2a, Yt:NW PA2a, Sg:NW 143a
: Minor variant of #251480
Themes:: Animals (Fauna) | Anniversaries and Jubilees | Discoveries | Sea (Marine) Mammals | Sea Life | Seals (Animals)
Issued on:: 1919-06-09
Size:: 28 x 21 mm
Colors:: Scarlet
Watermark:: No Watermark
Designers:: R.O. Smith
Printers:: American Bank Note Co. | Royal Gazette, St. Johns (O)
Format:: Stamp
Emission:: Air Post
Perforation:: 12
Printing:: Recess
Face value:: 1 $ - Newfoundland dollar
Description:: 15c stamp surcharged $1; overprinted 'Trans-Atlantic AIR POST 1919, ONE DOLLAR.' (ie. no comma after 'POST').
Issued for use on the mail carried on the first successful flight across the Atlantic by Capt. J. Alcock and Lieutenant A. Brown, and on other projected trans-Atlantic flight.
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