Stamp SN | D098 |
Stamp Name | Special 98 New Year’s Greeting Postage Stamps (Issue of 1973) |
Stamp Cat Standard | Special Stamps |
Stamp Cat | Lunar New Year, Zodiac |
Issue date | 1973-12-01 |
Suspersion date | |
Dimension of stamps(mm.) | |
Size of souvenir Sheet (mm.) | |
Printer | China Engraving & Printing Works, R.O.C. |
Drawer | |
Designer | Wen Hsueh-ju |
Photographer | |
Engraver | |
Creative Director | |
Sheet composition | 10×10 |
Print color | |
Process | Deep etch offset |
Paper | 86 g/m2 watermarked draft paper |
Back | |
Perforation | 12 1/2 |
1974 is the year of 〝ChiaYin〞 and the symbol of the year is the tiger. To facilitate the prepaying of postage for the yuletide and New Year mails, aset of the 1974 New Year's Greeting Postage Stamps, each with the same design of a tiger, was issued to celebrate the year of the tiger.