National park of Virunga, 1975
Virunga National Park (covering an area of 790,000 ha) comprises an outstanding diversity of habitats, ranging from swamps and steppes to the snowfields of Rwenzori at an altitude of over 5,000 m, and from lava plains to the savannahs on the slopes of volcanoes. Mountain gorillas are found in the park, some 20,000 hippopotamuses live in the rivers and birds from Siberia spend the winter there.
Date of issue: 1 November 1975
Expiration date:
Design:
Paper with silk threads
Printer: Hélio
Courvoisier, s.a., La Chaux De Fonds, Switzerland
Perforation: 11.5
Size: 32.5 x 22.5 mm
Sheet: 80 or 100
Marginal inscriptions: on the sides in black: “Impression
Courvoisier S.A., La Chaux-De-Fonds (Suisse)”.
Circulation: 100,000
Two Okapi’s. The background color is indicated
No 875. 1k, blue
No 876. 2k, light green
No 877. 3k, red-brown
No 878. 4k, green
No 879. 5k, yellow
The series:
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The imperforated series is in size and coloring exact the same as above:
Remark: the white border around these stamps is much larger when cut from a side, top, bottom or corner of a sheet.
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There are no variations or curiosities known for any of the above shown material.