File:ATG 1956 MiNr0101 mt B002.jpg

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Stamp of Antigua (British crown colony); 1956; definitive stamp of the issue "Local scenes and landscapes"; stamp drawing of a view of the seaward outer wall with cannons of Fort James (located in the Northwest of the island of Antigua (in the capital Saint John) and a side portrait of the British Queen Elizabeth II in oval with view to right; mint stamp
Note: This stamp marks the change of the form of government for the Antigua island. The former British "Federal Colony of the Leeward Islands" was dissolved and the new British crown colony "Antigua" was formed on .
Stamp: Michel: No. 101; Yvert et Tellier: No. 103A; Scott: No. 107
Color: red brown
Watermark: Antigua No. 5 (St.Edward's crown over convoluted characters "CA")
Nominal value: ½ Cents (¢)

Postage validity: from 3 July 1956 until 31 October 1981
date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1956-07-03T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1981-10-31T00:00:00Z/11

Stamp picture size (printed area): 28.0 x 23.5 mm
Date (first issue day of the stamp)
Source scan of original
Author Royal Mail of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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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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Public domain This work was first published in Antigua and Barbuda and is now in the public domain because its copyright protection has expired by virtue of the Copyright Act, enacted 2003 (details). The work meets one of the following criteria:
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Other versions
- re-issue of this stamp 1965: same drawing and value, brown color with lesser red parts, other watermark (Antigua No. 6), stamp catalogization: Michel: No. 130 from , Scott: No. 136
Picture description Drawing of a view of the seaward outer wall with cannons of Fort James (located in the Northwest of the island of Antigua (in the capital Saint John) and a side portrait of the British Queen Elizabeth II in oval with view to right
First day of issue
Publisher Royal Mail of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Design Unknown authorUnknown author
Printer "Waterlow & Sons Limited, London"
Printing technique Recess printing
Circulation ?
Perforation Comb perforation, K 13 : 13½
MICHEL Nr. Antigua, Nr. 101
SCOTT Nr. Antigua, No. 107

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