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{{Stamp
|image=
|country=Isle of Man
|country-code=[[wikipedia:en:Isle of Man|IM]]
|catalogue=[[wikipedia:en:Stanley Gibbons catalogue|Stanley Gibbons]]
|catalogue-number=20
|variant=
|issue-title=Pictorial definitives
|issue-date=8 January 1975
|withdrawn-date=31 December 1978 (general withdrawal from sale)
|year=1975
|face-value=4½p
|subject=[[wikipedia:en:Tynwald Hill|Tynwald Hill]]
|stamp-type=[[wikipedia:en:Definitive stamp|Definitive]]
|stamp-subtype=[[wikipedia:en:Definitive stamp|Country pictorial]]
|format=[[wikipedia:en:Postage stamp|Stamp]]
|designer=J. Nicholson
|printer=Courvoisier
|printing-process=[[wikipedia:en:Photogravure|Photogravure]]
|colour=Multicoloured
|dimensions=
|perforation=11½
|watermark=No watermark
|paper-gum=Granite paper; matt, almost invisible gum
|other-catalogues=
|fdc-pages=[[Isle of Man – Pictorial definitives – 4½p and 8p – 1975]]
|notes=Confirmed from the Stanley Gibbons catalogue, pages 197–198. Printing letters identify printings and are not catalogue-number suffixes.
}}

'''SG 20''' is the 4½p [[wikipedia:en:Tynwald Hill|Tynwald Hill]] stamp in the Isle of Man pictorial definitive series, first issued on 8 January 1975.<ref name="SG2022">{{Cite Catalogue
|author=Stanley Gibbons
|title=Channel Islands and Isle of Man 2022 Edition Stamp Catalogue
|edition=31st combined edition
|publisher=Stanley Gibbons
|year=2022
|section=Isle of Man — Independent postal administration
|pages=197–198
|catalogue=Stanley Gibbons
|catalogue-number=20
|isbn=978-1-911304-89-0
|notes=Place of publication: Ringwood.
}}</ref>

The design is credited to J. Nicholson. Courvoisier printed the stamp by [[wikipedia:en:Photogravure|photogravure]] in multiple colours on granite paper without a watermark. Perforation is 11½, and sheets contain 50 stamps (5 × 10).<ref name="SG2022" />

== Catalogue printing ==

The catalogue records the following printing.<ref name="SG2022" />

{| class="wikitable"
! Catalogue printing
! Date
! Gum
! Inscribed year
|-
| (f)
| 8 January 1975
| Matt, almost invisible gum
| 1975
|}

== Withdrawal ==

The catalogue records general withdrawal of the issue on 31 December 1978. These are withdrawal-from-sale dates; the cited entry does not give a date of postal invalidation.<ref name="SG2022" />

== Related stamps ==

* [[IM-SG-16]] — 2½p Tynwald Hill

== References ==

<references />

IM-SG-20 - Revision history