STAMP ISSUES RELATED TO ICAO (1984-1985)

 

Anguilla: 40th Anniversary of ICAO

 

Issue date: 03/12/1984

 

 

Icarus in flight (by Hans Erni).

 

Solar Princess (by Sadiou Diouf).

 

ICAO 40th anniversary emblem.

 

 

Upper-right corner stamps with margins.

 

Miniature sheet: Map of air routes serving Anguilla (Caribbean See).

Monochrome imperf photo proofs.

 

 

Chromalin Proofs Imperforated by Ueberreuter, i.e. printing company of this issue.

 

 

Official First Day Cover (FDC) with the 3 stamps of this issue. 350 copies were issued.

 

Background: Anguilla used the three postage stamp designs proposed by ICAO for the 40th anniversary (see details at the following link: The 40th Anniversary).

Designed by Richard Granger Barrett; printed by Ueberreuter. No watermark.

Granger Barrett was a well-known stamp designer and poster artist.

Ueberreuter is an Austrian publishing house. Founded as Carl Ueberreuter Verlag in 1946 by Thomas Franz Wilhelm Salzer, today the company is Austria's biggest publisher of non-fiction literature.