COMMEMORATIVE POSTAL EMISSION
100th Anniversary of the South Orkney Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory
and creation of the Post Office named Orcadas del Sud ("South Orkney")
In the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the South Orkney Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory and creation of the Post Office named Orcadas del Sud ("South Orkney"), the Correo Argentino (Argentinean National Mail) has made a commemorative postal emission, integrated by a postal stamp and a souvenir sheet. Details and characteristics:
Postage Stamp:
- Denomination - 75 c : Design = View of the Argentine Orcadas Base and Sea King helicopter (Argentine Navy - Antarctica)
- Edition: 104,000 copies
- Illustration: Carlos A. Garcia
- Size: 44 x 34 mm
- Sheets of: 20 stamps
- "First day covers": 3,000
(45 K)
Postage Stamp
Souvenir Sheet:
- Denomination - 75 c : Design = Liberty with crest, 5 c, cancelled with post office
- Denomination - 75 c : Design = Cancelling stamp named Orcadas del Sud ("South Orkney") -type A- February 1904. Hugo A Acuña. Overcoats and cabins of the South Orkney Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory, 1904 (National Weather Service). Weathercock used in the Observatory located in Laurie Island since 1905 (Dr. Benjamín Apthorp Gould National Meteorogical Museum).
- Edition: 104,000 copies
- Stamp size: 40 x 30 mm
- Sheet size: 150 x 100 mm
- "First day covers": 3,000
(43 K)
Souvenir Sheet
- Design: Magdalena Pérez del Cerro
- Perforation: 14
- Color: Four colors plus metallized ink
- Paper: Without watermark, without phosphorescence
- Printing process: Offset
- Printed in: Letra Viva S.A., Buenos Aires
FIRST DAY OF ISSUE: FEBRUARY 21st , 2004
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