Stamp SN | D463 |
Stamp Name | Sp.463 Taiwan Old Train Stations (I) |
Stamp Cat Standard | Special Stamps |
Stamp Cat | Relics, Railway |
Issue date | 2004-06-09 |
Suspersion date | |
Dimension of stamps(mm.) | |
Size of souvenir Sheet (mm.) | |
Printer | China Engraving & Printing Works, R. O. C. |
Drawer | Ben Wang |
Designer | |
Photographer | |
Engraver | |
Creative Director | |
Sheet composition | 20 (5 × 4) |
Print color | Colorful |
Process | Deep etch offset |
Paper | Phosphorescent stamp paper |
Back | |
Perforation | 13 1/2 |
To arouse nostalgia for old train stations and to give people in
The designs of the stamps follow:
(1) Keelung Station (NT$5): Keelung Station was the starting point of the railway built by governor Liou Ming-chuan during the Cing dynasty. The station featured on the stamp is the third-generation station building constructed by the Japanese in 1908 and was known as the “Throat of Taiwan.” The current station building is the fourth-generation building. It was completed in 1967.
(2) Taipei Station (NT$5): The Taipei Station was one of the earliest components of the railway in
(3) Hsinchu Station (NT$15): The first-generation station building, located in the foothills of Mount Jhentou (Mt. Pillow), was built with pounded earth in 1893, much like farmers’ homes back then. The current structure is the fourth-generation station building. Built in 1913, it is the oldest large train station still standing in
(4) Taichung Station (NT$25): Taichung Station was built in 1905 and rebuilt in 1917. Its brick structure is in the late Renaissance style. The white horizontal belt on its red wall made scholars call it the “free classical style.”
(1) First Day Cover in small size to be sold at NT$2.00 apiece
(2) Folder especially prepared for the stamps to be sold at NT$5.00 apiece
(3) Folder with crystal mount for better protection of the stamps to be sold at NT$5.00 apiece
(4) Loose-leaf stamp album page with plastic cover to be sold at NT$8.00 apiece
(5) Pre-cancelled First Day Cover affixed with a
low-valued stamp to be sold at NT$7.00 apiece
(6) Pre-cancelled First Day Cover affixed with a complete set of stamps to be sold at NT$52.00 apiece