Sao Tome & Principe | |
![]() Click here for higher resolution image | First day of issue: May 19, 2018 Width: 45 mm Height: 31 mm Perforation: Perforated 13.50 x 13.25 Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXXVIII Stamp ID = 5582 Stamp shows Nikita Gusev (On some French language stamps you might see the name spelled Goussev.) From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page. Sao Tome and Principe (1975-) Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 147,865 (1997 estimate). The Portuguese colony of St. Thomas and Prince became the independent Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe on July 12, 1975. It now issues large numbers of topically oriented stamps primarily intended for stamp collectors. |