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Stamp of Guyana; 1967; commemorative stamp of the issue "1st anniversary of independence - Guyana Landmarks"; stamp motive with a depiction of the column-monument of "Chateau Margot Chimney" on the East-coast of Demerara.; This chimney (constructed by Antonio Gordon, a bricklayer from Buxton (Derbyshire, England)) was originally belonging to a sugar factory of "British-Guiana" in the 19th century and served after the demolition of this factory as base building for a lighthouse). This chimney is since in private ownership ("Nadia Gardens Housing Development Incorporated").; stamp postmarked
Stamp: Michel: No. 269; Yvert & Tellier: No. 254; Scott: No. 28
Color: multicolored
Watermark: none
Nominal value: 6 Cents

Postage validity: from 26 May 1967
date QS:P,+1967-05-26T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1967-05-26T00:00:00Z/11

Stamp size (printed area of a single stamp): 26.0 x 39.5 mm
Date (first issue date of the stamp)
Source scan of original
Author "Guyana Post Office Corporation" (established 1782 by France)
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Public domain This work was first published in Guyana and is now in the public domain because its copyright protection has expired by virtue of the Copyright Act 1956 of the United Kingdom, which is used with modifications in Guyana (details). The work meets one of the following criteria:
  • It is a sound recording or cinematographic work and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication
  • It is a television or sound broadcast and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication
  • It is a photographic work work, and 50 years have passed since the date of its publication
  • It is a posthumous artistic literary, dramatic and musicial work, and 50 years have passed since the date of its publication
  • It is a artistic literary, dramatic and musicial work and 50 years have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author)
  • It is a work created under the direction or control of [...] a Government department and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication
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  • A map of the terrain of the later sugar factory in the then colony Demerari in Guyana from 1780
    A map of the terrain of the later sugar factory in the then colony Demerari in Guyana from 1780
Picture description "Chimney of Chateau Margot" in Demerara (Guyana)
First day of issue
Publisher "Guyana Post Office Corporation" (established 1782 by France)
Design Richard Granger Barrett (1908-?)
Printer somewhere in England (predecessor of Format)
Printing technique Photogravure
Perforation Comb perforation, K 14¾ : 14¼
MICHEL Nr. Guyana (GY), Nr. 269
SCOTT Nr. Guyana (GY); No. 28

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