Stamp SN | D138 |
Stamp Name | Special 138 New Year’s Greeting Postage Stamps (Issue of 1977) |
Stamp Cat Standard | Special Stamps |
Stamp Cat | Lunar New Year, Zodiac |
Issue date | 1977-12-01 |
Suspersion date | |
Dimension of stamps(mm.) | |
Size of souvenir Sheet (mm.) | |
Printer | China Engraving & Printing Works, R.O.C. |
Drawer | |
Designer | |
Photographer | Huang Po-hsiung |
Engraver | |
Creative Director | |
Sheet composition | 10×10 |
Print color | |
Process | Deep etch offset |
Paper | Locally-made mat finished, watermarked stamp paper with gum |
Back | |
Perforation | 12 1/2 |
In the Chinese lunar calendar, 1978 is the year of the Horse. The stamps use horses as the main subject. The designs are of two close-up views chosen from Lang Shih-ning's painting 〝One Hundred Horses,〞 which is now being kept in the National Palace Museum.