Stamp SN | C006 |
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Stamp Name | Air 6 Shanghai Print Air Mail Stamp (1946) |
Stamp Cat Standard | Air Mail Stamps |
Stamp Cat | Scenic Spots, Aviation |
Issue date | 1946-09-10 |
Suspersion date | |
Dimension of stamps(mm.) | 36×22 |
Size of souvenir Sheet (mm.) | |
Printer | Shanghai Printing Press of the Dah Tung Book Co. |
Drawer | |
Designer | |
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Creative Director | |
Sheet composition | 5×20 |
Print color | |
Process | Offset |
Paper | |
Back | Gumless |
Perforation | 14 |
With the revision of domestic air mail postage to $30 per unit of weight in May 1946, the air mail stamps newly altered to the value of $23, $53, $73, etc., became no longer suitable for franking air mails. Immediate steps were taken for the printing of a new denomination of air mail stamps at the value of $27 in order to match the said surcharged stamps for sale to the public. The design is a 4-engine plane soaring above the Purple Mountain in Nanking with a bird's-eye view of the Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Mausoleum.