Stamp SN | D145 |
Stamp Name | Special 145 Taiwan Butterflies Postage Stamps (Issue of 1978) |
Stamp Cat Standard | Special Stamps |
Stamp Cat | Insects |
Issue date | 1978-09-20 |
Suspersion date | |
Dimension of stamps(mm.) | |
Size of souvenir Sheet (mm.) | |
Printer | China Engraving & Printing Works, R.O.C. |
Drawer | |
Designer | |
Photographer | Chen We-so |
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 | 13 1/2 |
To support the Butterflies Protection Movement and to develop sightseeing resources, a set of 〝Taiwan Butterflies Postage Stamps (Issue of 1978)〞 was released.
The four species of butterflies used as the main designs of this set of stamps are as follows:
2.00 Ixias pyrene insignis Butler
4.00 Euploea sylvestor swinhoei Wallace
6.00 Cyrestis thyodamas formosana Fruhstorfer
10.00 Byase polyeuctes termessus Fruhstorfer