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Stamp of Bhutan; 1968; commemorative stamp of the series "Indigenous birds"; Depicted as stamp motive are two birds (female and male) of the species "Harpactes wardi" sitting on a branch (English name of the bird species: "Ward's Trogon", German: "Rosenschwanztrogon"). These birds are a species of the family of the "Tragonidae" and are domiciled in Northestern of the Indian subcontinent in the Estern Himalaya region to Western China and to North Vietman (and bordering areas).; mint stamp
Stamp: Michel: No. 249A; Yvert & Tellier: No. 199; Scott: No. 99A
Color: multicolored
Watermark: None
Nominal value: 3 CH (Chentrum)

Postage validity: from 7 December 1968
date QS:P,+1968-12-07T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1968-12-07T00:00:00Z/11

Stamp size (printed area of s singlgle stamp): 28.5 x 42.0 mm
Date (first issue date of the stamp)
Source scan of original
Author "Bhutan Stamp Agency" (existed 1962-1974 as official Bhutan Postal Organisation of the young Bhutanese officer Lam Penjor under supervision of India (Dr.K.Ramamurti))
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Public domain This work was first published in Bhutan and is now in the public domain because its copyright protection has expired by virtue of the Copyright Act of the Kingdom of Bhutan, enacted 2001 (details). The work meets one of the following criteria:
  • It is a collective work, anonymous work or pseudonymous work and 50 years have passed since the date of its creation
  • It is an audiovisual or collective work and 50 years have passed since the date of its publication (or creation, whatever date is the latest)
  • It is a work of applied art and 25 years have passed since the date of its creation
  • It is another kind of work, and 50 years have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author)
  • It is "official text of a legislative, administrative or legal nature, as well as any official translation thereof"
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Picture description Bird-Species "Haroactes wardi" in Bhutan
First day of issue
Publisher "Bhutan Stamp Agency" (existed 1962-1974 as official Bhutan Postal Organisation of the young Bhutanese officer Lam Penjor under supervision of India (Dr.K.Ramamurti))
Printer (1966-1980)

"Format Internationl Security Printers", London (United Kingdom)
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"Heraclio Fornier", Burgos (Spain) (other source)
(1965-1966: India Govenment Press, Nasik (India))

Printing technique Photogravure
Perforation Comb perforation, K 12½
MICHEL Nr. Bhutan (BT), Nr. 249A
SCOTT Nr. Bhutan (BT). No. 99A

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