15/06/2021

SOUTH AFRICA


SOUTH AFRICA / SUID-AFRIKA.

Beaches.
Plattenbergbaai / Plattenberg Bay.
First stamp in a set of 4, issued on 12.10.1983.
Face value: 10 cents of South African rand.
Design: A. H. Barrett.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 48 x 31.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 638.
- Scott No. 622.
- South African Stamp Collection No. 553.
- StampWorld No. 676.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 549.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 543.

Plettenberg Bay, nicknamed Plet or Plett, is the primary town of the Bitou Local Municipality in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. As of the census of 2001, there were 29,149 population. It was originally named Bahia Formosa (“beautiful bay”) by early Portuguese explorers. Between 1960 and 1990, the Plettenberg Bay holiday complex was greatly expanded and numerous second-home developments were established there.

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Thanks to Dragan Buškulić for his contribution (https://worldofstamp2.wordpress.com/).

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