POR LM 1914 MiNr0118 mt B002 - public domain postal stamp scan

Stamp of Lourenço Marques (Portuguese Mozambique); 1914; definitive stamp of the issue "Ceres - colonial issues"; stamp postmarked

Stamp: Michel: No. 118; Yvert et Tellier: No. 118

Color: black / black on "reaper-coated" paper

(Note: In the anglophone literature is sometime used the term "reaper-coated" as description for the paper of these stamps without to amplify this. Probably, it's about an early process of paper coating by using of polymeric carbohydrate on basis of starch obtained from staple-food plants ("reaper plants").)

Watermark: none

Nominal value: ½ C. (Centavo)

Postage validity: from 1914 until 1926 date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1914-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1926-00-00T00:00:00Z/9

Stamp picture size (printed area without signature line): 17.5 x 25.0 mm

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1914

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