Stamp SN | B322 |
Stamp Name | Com.322 100th Anniversary of the Alishan Forest Railway Commemorative Souvenir Sheet |
Stamp Cat Standard | Commemorative Stamps |
Stamp Cat | Railway |
Issue date | 2011-12-25 |
Suspersion date | |
Dimension of stamps(mm.) | |
Size of souvenir Sheet (mm.) | |
Printer | China Color Printing Co., Ltd. |
Drawer | |
Designer | Tseng Kai-chih |
Photographer | |
Engraver | |
Creative Director | |
Sheet composition | |
Print color | Colorful |
Process | Offset |
Paper | Phosphorescent stamp paper |
Back | |
Perforation | 121/2 |
Alishan, with its beautiful natural scenery and rich ecological resources, is a world famous tourist destination. The Beimen to Erwanping section of Alishan Forest Railway officially opened to traffic on December 25, 1912. Along with the mountain’s sacred trees, sunrise, sunset, and sea of clouds, the railway is one of the “Five Wonders of Alishan.” The Alishan Forest Railway was once a very busy train track because of logging on the mountain. With changes to
The souvenir sheet has a bright color scheme with mountains and a route map in the background. Four different trains are featured. One of the two stamps features one train pulled by a No.31 steam engine passing through flowering cherry trees (NT$25); and the other, headed by a diesel engine, is coming out of the No.1 tunnel (NT$5). Elsewhere on the sheet there is a train on the No.13 Bridge over the
A stamp pictorial will go on sale on December 25, 2011, the issuing date of the stamps. The pictorial comprises one souvenir sheet, an NT$5 denominated Alishan stamp of the Personal Greeting Stamps – Travel in
(1) First Day Cover in large size: NT$3 apiece.
(2) Folder: NT$8 apiece
(3) Folder with mount: NT$8 apiece.
(4) Loose-leaf album page: NT$16 apiece.
(5)Pre-cancelled FDC affixed with one souvenir sheet:
NT$33 apiece.
(6)Stamp pictorial: NT$300 a copy.
To purchase the relative philatelic products, please go directly to the post office branches, or order on line at http://stamp.post.gov.tw.