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Leaders of the World: Railway locomotives (3rd series)

Set of 4 vertical pairs of stamps

Multiple sets with similar design but different subjects were issued by 17 countries of British Commonwealth.

Each pair shows technical drawings in the upper stamp, and the locomotive at work in the lower one, as described here below.

Issue date: 4th October 1984

  1 c Japanese National Railways 2-8-2 Class 9700 steam locomotive with freight cars, Japan 1897
15 c Paris, Lyons & Mediterranean Railway 4-6-2 Class 231CK steam locomotive with freight and passenger cars, France 1909
30 c Italian States Railway 2-6-0 Class 640 steam locomotive with passenger cars, Italy 1907
$ 1 Paris & Orlean Railway 4-6-2 Class 4500 steam locomotive hauling passenger cars, with passenger car on the left, France 1906

 

Circulation: ???

Perforation: 12½

Catalog No.: M ??? - S 235+237+241+246 - SG 273/80 - YT ???