IM-SG-57

Stamp details

Stamp image
Identifier	IM-SG-57
Country	Isle of Man
Country code	IM
Catalogue	Stanley Gibbons
Catalogue number	57
Variant
Issue title	Birth Centenary of Sir Winston Churchill
Date of issue	22 November 1974
Withdrawal or invalidation date	21 November 1975 (withdrawn from sale)
Quantity sold	429,586
Face value	20p
Subject or design	Churchill as Freeman of Douglas
Stamp type	Commemorative stamp
Stamp subtype	Anniversary
Format	Stamp
Designer or artist	G. V. H. Kneale
Printer	Helio Courvoisier
Printing process	Photogravure
Colour	Multicoloured; three colours for the separately issued stamp (information leaflet)
Dimensions
Perforation	11½
Watermark
Paper or gum	White paper with coloured silk fibres (granite paper), 105 g/m²; special gumming for tropical climates
Other catalogue references
Associated FDC or issue pages	Isle of Man – Birth Centenary of Sir Winston Churchill – Official miniature sheet cover – 1974 Isle of Man – Birth Centenary of Sir Winston Churchill – Official stamp set cover – 1974 Isle of Man – Birth Centenary of Sir Winston Churchill – Mercury miniature sheet cover – 1974 Isle of Man – Birth Centenary of Sir Winston Churchill – Mercury stamp set cover – 1974 Isle of Man – Birth Centenary of Sir Winston Churchill – Cotswold miniature sheet cover – 1974 Isle of Man – Birth Centenary of Sir Winston Churchill – Cotswold stamp set cover – 1974 Isle of Man – Birth Centenary of Sir Winston Churchill – Fleetwood SG57 cover – 1974 Isle of Man – Birth Centenary of Sir Winston Churchill – Manx coat of arms stamp set cover – 1974 Isle of Man – Birth Centenary of Sir Winston Churchill – Photographic stamp set cover – 1974 Isle of Man – Birth Centenary of Sir Winston Churchill – Strasbourg miniature sheet cover – 1974
Notes	Issued in sheets of 25 (5 × 5). The design is also included in miniature sheet MS58. The image is a detail of a cancelled stamp within the intact miniature sheet on the owned official cover.

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SG57 is the 20p stamp from the Isle of Man's Birth Centenary of Sir Winston Churchill issue, released on 22 November 1974. It depicts Churchill as Freeman of Douglas.

Design and production

G. Kneale designed the stamp. Courvoisier printed it by photogravure on granite paper. It is multicoloured and perforated 11½. Sheets contain 25 stamps, arranged in five columns and five rows.

The design also appears in IM-SG-MS58, the four-stamp miniature sheet issued with the set.

Sales and withdrawal

Stanley Gibbons records a quantity sold of 429,586 for the 20p stamp and withdrawal from sale on 21 November 1975. The miniature sheet has a separate catalogue sales figure.

First day covers

A first day cover is listed in the catalogue. The associated cover records include Official, Mercury and Cotswold covers bearing either the four separate stamps or the miniature sheet, and a Fleetwood cover bearing SG57 alone.

Related stamps

• IM-SG-54 — 3½p; Churchill and Bugler Dunne at Colenso, 1899
• IM-SG-55 — 4½p; Churchill and Government Buildings, Douglas
• IM-SG-56 — 8p; Churchill and a Manx anti-aircraft gun crew
• IM-SG-MS58 — miniature sheet containing all four designs

The information leaflet accompanying the owned official miniature sheet cover gives the designer’s full credit as G. V. H. Kneale and names the printer as Helio Courvoisier. It specifies photogravure, an individual stamp size of 29 × 48.2 mm including perforations, and white paper with coloured silk fibres and special gumming for tropical climates. The separately issued stamps use 105 g/m² paper: four colours for the 3½p and 4½p values, and three for the 8p and 20p values. The miniature sheet uses 120 g/m² paper and seven colours, with dimensions of 120.5 × 91 mm.