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{{Stamp
|image=IM-SG-70.jpg
|country=Isle of Man
|country-code=[[wikipedia:en:Isle of Man|IM]]
|catalogue=[[wikipedia:en:Stanley Gibbons catalogue|Stanley Gibbons]]
|catalogue-number=70
|variant=
|issue-title=50th Death Anniversary of Sir George Goldie
|issue-date=9 September 1975
|withdrawn-date=8 September 1976 (withdrawn from sale)
|quantity-sold=439843
|sold-out=
|year=1975
|face-value=12p
|subject=River scene on the [[wikipedia:en:Niger River|River Niger]]; [[wikipedia:en:George Taubman Goldie|Sir George Goldie]]
|stamp-type=[[wikipedia:en:Commemorative stamp|Commemorative stamp]]
|stamp-subtype=Anniversary
|format=[[wikipedia:en:Postage stamp|Stamp]]
|designer=G. V. H. Kneale (information sheet); G. Kneale (catalogue)
|printer=Helio Courvoisier (information sheet); Courvoisier (catalogue)
|printing-process=[[wikipedia:en:Photogravure|Photogravure]]
|colour=Multicoloured; 4 colours (information sheet)
|dimensions=25.73 × 35.96 mm (as printed in the information sheet)
|perforation=11½ (catalogue); 11½ × 11¾ (information sheet — discrepancy noted below)
|watermark=
|paper-gum=Granite paper (catalogue); official white paper with coloured silk fibres and special gumming for tropical climates (information sheet)
|other-catalogues=
|fdc-pages=[[Isle of Man – 50th Death Anniversary of Sir George Goldie – Official cover – 1975]]<br>[[Isle of Man – 50th Death Anniversary of Sir George Goldie – Cotswold cover – 1975]]<br>[[Isle of Man – 50th Death Anniversary of Sir George Goldie – Mercury cover – 1975]]
|notes=Sheets of 50 (5 × 10). The image is a cancelled detail from the owned official cover.
}}

'''SG70''' is the 12p stamp in the Isle of Man '''50th Death Anniversary of Sir George Goldie''' issue, released on '''9 September 1975'''.<ref name="SG2022-Goldie">{{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
|page=201
|catalogue=Stanley Gibbons
|catalogue-number=70
|isbn=978-1-911304-89-0
|notes=Place of publication: Ringwood. Details transcribed from the catalogue by the collector.
}}</ref>

== Design ==

The horizontal design shows a trading hulk, canoe and stern-wheel steamer on the River Niger, with a portrait of Goldie. The information sheet identifies the Royal Niger Company flag on the hulk and its badge on the steamer’s funnel. It explains that stern-wheel vessels were used for river trading and towing barges.<ref name="Goldie-sheet">{{Cite
|title=COMMEMORATING SIR GEORGE GOLDIE—FOUNDER OF NIGERIA
|type=Information sheet
|publisher=Isle of Man Post Office Authority
|reference=[[:File:IM-50th-Death-Anniversary-of-Sir-George-Goldie-1975-information-sheet.jpg|Front]] and [[:File:IM-50th-Death-Anniversary-of-Sir-George-Goldie-1975-information-sheet-back.jpg|reverse]] of the sheet held with the collector’s [[Isle of Man – 50th Death Anniversary of Sir George Goldie – Official cover – 1975]].
|notes=The front gives the issue date as 9 September 1975 and biographical background; the reverse describes the designs and technical specifications.
}}</ref>

The illustration is a cancelled detail from the collector’s [[Isle of Man – 50th Death Anniversary of Sir George Goldie – Official cover – 1975]].<ref name="Goldie-stamp">{{Cite
|title=IM-SG-70
|type=Stamp scan
|reference=[[:File:IM-SG-70.jpg|Cancelled stamp detail]] supplied by the collector.
|notes=The stamp image is from the owned official first day cover.
}}</ref>

== Production ==

The catalogue credits G. Kneale as designer and Courvoisier as printer. It describes multicoloured stamps printed by [[wikipedia:en:Photogravure|photogravure]] on granite paper.<ref name="SG2022-Goldie" />

The official information sheet supplies the fuller names G. V. H. Kneale and Helio Courvoisier. It specifies four colours for the 5½p and 12p values, and five for the 7p and 10p values. Its paper description is official white paper with coloured silk fibres and special gumming for tropical climates. Stamp size is printed as 25.73 × 35.96 mm; this order is retained without assigning width and height labels to the differently oriented designs.<ref name="Goldie-sheet" />

The catalogue records sheets of 50, arranged 10 × 5 for the 7p and 10p stamps and 5 × 10 for the other two values. The information sheet confirms sheets of 50.<ref name="SG2022-Goldie" /><ref name="Goldie-sheet" />

This denomination uses 4 colours and sheets of 50 arranged 5 × 10.<ref name="Goldie-sheet" /><ref name="SG2022-Goldie" />

== Perforation discrepancy ==

The catalogue gives perforation 11½. The official information sheet prints 11½ × 11¾. Both source descriptions are recorded; the difference has not been resolved by measuring these stamps.<ref name="SG2022-Goldie" /><ref name="Goldie-sheet" />

== Sales and withdrawal ==

The catalogue records 439,843 stamps sold for this denomination, with withdrawal from sale on 8 September 1976. These are stamp-sales figures and dates, not first day cover sales or postal-invalidation information.<ref name="SG2022-Goldie" />

== Related stamps ==

* [[IM-SG-67]] — 5½p; [[wikipedia:en:George Taubman Goldie|Sir George Goldie]] and [[wikipedia:en:The Nunnery, Douglas|The Nunnery]]
* [[IM-SG-68]] — 7p; [[wikipedia:en:George Taubman Goldie|Sir George Goldie]] and a map of Africa
* [[IM-SG-69]] — 10p; [[wikipedia:en:George Taubman Goldie|Sir George Goldie]] as President of the [[wikipedia:en:Royal Geographical Society|Royal Geographical Society]]

== References ==

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