IM-SG-30

Stamp details

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Identifier	IM-SG-30
Country	Isle of Man
Country code	IM
Catalogue	Stanley Gibbons
Catalogue number	30
Variant
Issue title	Pictorial definitives
Date of issue	29 October 1975
Withdrawal or invalidation date	31 December 1978 (general withdrawal from sale)
Face value	13p
Subject or design	Derbyhaven
Stamp type	Definitive
Stamp subtype	Country pictorial
Format	Stamp
Designer or artist	J. Nicholson
Printer	Courvoisier
Printing process	Photogravure
Colour	Multicoloured
Dimensions
Perforation	11½
Watermark	No watermark
Paper or gum	Granite paper; thick shiny gum
Other catalogue references
Associated FDC or issue pages	Isle of Man – Pictorial definitives – 11p and 13p – 1975
Notes	Confirmed from the Stanley Gibbons catalogue, pages 197–198. Printing letters identify printings and are not catalogue-number suffixes.

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SG 30 is the 13p Derbyhaven stamp in the Isle of Man pictorial definitive series, first issued on 29 October 1975.

The design is credited to J. Nicholson. Courvoisier printed the stamp by photogravure in multiple colours on granite paper without a watermark. Perforation is 11½, and sheets contain 50 stamps (5 × 10).

Catalogue printing

The catalogue records the following printing.

Catalogue printing	Date	Gum	Inscribed year
(i)	29 October 1975	Thick shiny 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.