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Click here for higher resolution image Click here to see FDC's | First day of issue: January 14, 1980 Occasion: 1980 Winter Olympics,1980,Lake Placid,United States Width: 43 mm Height: 25 mm Perforation: Perforated 13.00 x 13.00 Printing method: Lithographed Printer: Format International Security Printers, Ltd., London, England Creative team: John Lister Ltd. Catalog number: Scott 376 Stanley Gibbons 390 Location: Ice Hockey Volume II Stamp ID = 72 The Stanley Gibbons catalog notes that there are two different perforation varieties (13 x 13 and 14.5 x 14.5) but does not assign different catalog numbers to them. The Scott catalog does not mention the perforation differences. This stamp (perforated 13 x 13) was printed in sheets of 40 stamps. From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page. Anguilla (1967-) Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 10,424 (1996). A small island in the Caribbean, formerly attached to St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla. In September 1967, Anguilla declared its independence from both that state and Great Britain. In 1971 direct British control was re-established. |