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Pont du Gard

Country:

France

Series:

Tourism

Catalog codes:

CopyWrong

Variants:

Click to see variants

Themes:

Bridges | Buildings | Water | Water works

Issued on:

VisitColnectCom

Size:

40 x 25.5 mm

Colors:

Red Brown

Watermark:

No Watermark

Designers:

Henri-Lucien Cheffer | Henri-Lucien Cheffer (E)

Format:

Stamp

Emission:

Commemorative

Perforation:

comb 13½

Printing:

Recess

Paper:

opaque paper

Face value:

20 F - French franc

Score:

67% Accuracy: Very High

Description:

Printed in sheet of 50 stamps with rectangular serration.
Type I : under the 3rd arcade of the middle line, the shadows are formed of horizontal streaks. No line between the value cartridge and the frame of the central image
Exists according to the Yvert catalog:
- light red brown (a).
Gum Type I is more than épaise type II.
If the Pont du Gard is the first series before tourism took him a few stamps for about sites or for tourism, in the series of Orphans of War "The Lion of Belfort" or "La Marseillaise by Rude" and in the Sinking Fund series "the smiling angel" of the cathedral of Reims.
This stamp has errors has more or less voluntary: the number of arches of the upper deck was reduced by Henry Cheffer and shape of the arches has been modified.

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