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Stamp of Hong Kong (British crown colony); 1962; definitive stamp of the issue "Queen Elizabeth II"; stamp drawing with a half-side portrait of the British Queen Elizabeth II after a painting of the Italian painter Pietro Annigoni (1910-1988) from the year 1956; stamp postmarked
Stamp: Michel: No. 206Xy; Yvert et Tellier: No. 204; Scott: No. 213
Color: multicolored on normal paper
Watermark: Hong Kong No. 5 (St. Edward's crown over the characters "CA")
Nominal value: 1.30 ((Hong Kong-)Dollars)

Postage validity: from 4 October 1962 until 30 June 1997
date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1962-10-04T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1997-06-30T00:00:00Z/11

Stamp picture size: 26.0 x 29.5 mm
Date (first issue day of the stamp)
Source scan of original
Author Postal administration for the British crown colony Hong Kong
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This work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain.

This is because it is one of the following:

  1. It is a photograph taken prior to 1 June 1957; or
  2. It was published prior to 1974; or
  3. It is an artistic work other than a photograph or engraving (e.g. a painting) which was created prior to 1974.

HMSO has declared that the expiry of Crown Copyrights applies worldwide (ref: HMSO Email Reply)
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See also Copyright and Crown copyright artistic works.

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- Variant: Stamp in the same drawing, but printed on coated paper and with other watermark (Michel No. 206Yy from 1972)
Picture description Drawing with a half-side portrait of the British Queen Elizabeth II after a painting of the Italian painter Pietro Annigoni (1910-1988) from the year 1956
First day of issue
Publisher Postal administration for the British crown colony Hong Kong
Design Pietro Annigoni (1910-1988) (creator of the painting served as template of this stamp)
Printer "Thomas De La Rue and Company Limited, London and Basingstoke" (? Probably... There one has printed also other stamps for Hong Kong with exception of the 1941 issues.)
Printing technique Recess printing or photogravure (?)
Circulation ?
Perforation Comb perforation: K 14 : 14½
MICHEL Nr. Hongkong, Nr. 206Xy
SCOTT Nr. Hong Kong, No. 213

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