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![]() Click here for higher resolution image Click here to see FDC's | First day of issue: November 19, 1984 Width: 123 mm Height: 99 mm Perforation: Perforated 14.00 x 14.00 Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXXIII Stamp ID = 3188 Ice hockey is seen in 3 places in the border design of the souvenir sheet. The 2000 edition of the Stanley Gibbons catalog does not assign a number to the stamps of this "country" but the catalog does list as existing a set of stamps issued in 1980 for the "Olympic Medal Winners, Lake Placid and Moscow". From "Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue Part 1 British Commonwealth, Volume 1", 2000 edition, page 54 REDONDA DEPENDENCY OF ANTIGUA Appendix The following stamps were issued in anticipation of commercial and tourist development, philatelic mail being handled by a bureau in Antigua. Since at the present time the island is uninhabited, we do not list or stock these items. It is understood that the stamps are valid for the prepayment of postage in Antigua. Miniature sheets, imperforate stamps, etc., are excluded from this section. From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page. Redonda (1979-91) Stamp-issuing status: inactive; Population: 0. A steep, guano-covered rock one-half mile square in the eastern Caribbean between Montserrat and Nevis, owned by Antigua. Antiguan stamps overprinted "REDONDA" were introduced in 1979, with purpose-designed issues on a variety of popular topics following later that year. These were postally valid on Antigua, since Redonda has neither postal service nor inhabitants. |