Stamps featuring Native Philippine Orchids VI
The Philippine Postal Corporation will issue a set of two (2) high denominated definitives featuring some 19th century European old prints of indigenous Philippine orchids.
| Kind of Issue: | Definitive |
| Denomination and Quantities: | P50.00 – – – – – 150,000 P75.00 – – – – – 150,000 |
| Date of Issue: | P50.00 – September 9, 2003 P75.00 – September 9, 2003 |
| Sheet Composition: | 50 (10 x 5) |
| Size of Stamp: | 30mm x 40mm |
| Perforation: | 14 |
| Printing Process: | Litho-Offset ( 4 colors) |
| Paper: | Imported Unwatermarked |
| Printer: | Amstar Company, Inc. |
| Design Coordinator: | Anton D.A. Claro |
| Layout Artist: | Alfonso V. Divina |
| Graphic Artist: | Edgar P. Patricio |
| Design: | Old prints from the Orchid Album of Robert Wagner and Benjamin Samuel Williams, Paxton’s Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants, and the Botanical Magazine illustrated by Walter Hood Fitch. All the orchid prints were done in the 19th century and some are by John Nugent Fitch, a nephew of Walter Hood Fitch. |
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