TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS |
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Catalog # | Denom. | Date | Turtle | Description | Comment | |||||||||
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SC | 98 | 2sh | 14 Dec 48 | Unidentified Sea Turtles | Two tiny turtles near bottom. | |||||||||
SC | 99 | 5sh | 14 Dec 48 | Unidentified Sea Turtles | Two tiny turtles near bottom. | |||||||||
SC | 100 | 10sh | 14 Dec 48 | Unidentified Sea Turtles | Two tiny turtles near bottom. | |||||||||
SC | 381 | 20c | 17 May 79 | Chelonia mydas | Date also reported as 29 May 79. | |||||||||
SC | 385 | $2 | 17 May 79 | Unidentified Sea Turtle | s/s w/ turtle in margin. | Date also reported as 29 May 79. | ||||||||
SC | 402 | 2c | 02 Nov 79 | Cartoon Sea Turtle | Walt Disney's Goofy wearing cowboy boots and hat, riding a sea turtle underwater. | |||||||||
SC | 1120 | 50c | 23 Jan 95 | Archelon sp. | Pane of 12 se-tenant stamps forming a unified design. Archelon appears on one, and Henodus, a turtle look-alike, appears on another (See Appendix III). | Issued for PhilaKorea 94. Archelon was a huge, prehistoric sea turtle. | ||||||||
SC | 1120 | d | 50c | 1995 | Archelon sp. | Single stamp w/ Archelon from Turks and Caicios Scott 1120. | Issued for PhilaKorea 94. Archelon was a huge, prehistoric sea turtle. | |||||||
SC | 1194 | 60c | 13 May 96 | Ship: "Land Tortoise" | Discovery of the sunken ship "Land Tortoise", scuttled in 1758 in Lake George, NY. | Sheet of nine stamps; "Land Tortoise" on one stamp only. | ||||||||
SC | 1194 | h | 60c | 13 May 96 | Ship: Land Tortoise | Discovery of the sunken ship "Land Tortoise", scuttled in 1758 in Lake George, NY. | Single stamp from Scott Turks & Caicos 1194. | |||||||
SC | 1334 | 50c | 21 May 01 | Unidentified Sea Turtle | Pane 1 of two panes of six se-tenant 50c stamps each, issued this date, all depicting whales. This pane has a juvenile sea turtle overlapping two of the stamps and the bottom selvedge. | Stamp in "e" position has turtle's head, stamp in "f" position has carapace. | ||||||||
SC | 1334 | e | 50c | 21 May 01 | Unidentified Sea Turtle | Head of juvenile turtle on one stamp from Scott Turks & Caicos #1334. | ||||||||
SC | 1334 | f | 50c | 21 May 01 | Unidentified Sea Turtle | Carapace of juvenile turtle on one stamp from Scott Turks & Caicos #1334. | ||||||||
SC | 1372 | 60c | 15 Jul 02 | Chelonia mydas | Year of Eco-Tourism sheet of six 60c values. | Turtle on one stamp only. | ||||||||
SC | 1372 | f | 60c | 15 Jul 02 | Chelonia mydas | Single stamp w/ turtle from Scott Turks and Caicos #1372. | ||||||||
SC | 1449 | 60c | 01 Jun 06 | Chelonia mydas | Photo of sea turtle on stamp from set of five. Inscribed "3rd Place - Mr. Mike Nebel - Sea Turtle". | Similar to Scott Turks and Caicos #1452c but w/ a thin "shadow" frame at bottom of stamp. | ||||||||
SC | 1452 | Various | 01 Jun 06 | Chelonia mydas | S/S of five stamps w/ turtle on one. Images from underwater photography contest. | Upper selvedge inscribed "Underwater World" in large blue letters. | ||||||||
SC | 1452 | c | 60c | 01 Jun 06 | Chelonia mydas | Single stamp w/ turtle from Scott Turks and Caicos #1452. | Stamp inscribed "3rd Place - Mr. Mike Nebel, 'Sea Turtle'. Similar to Scott Turks and Caicos #1449 but w/ thick "shadow" frame at bottom of stamp. | |||||||
SG | SB | 5 | 20c | 01 Dec 81 | Unidentified Sea Turtle | Booklet of twenty 20c stamps (two each of SC 506 a thru j) w/ various objects on the booklet cover, including a sea turtle. | No turtles on stamps inside booklet. | |||||||
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