SINGAPORE

SINGAPORE / SINGAPURA - 新加坡共和国

Old maps.
The city and the bay by George D. Coleman.
Last stamp in a set of 4, issued on 13.03.1996.
Face value: 2 Singapore dollars.
Printing: Offset lithography.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 794.
- Scott No. 750.
- StampWorld No. 812.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 831.

George Drumgoole Coleman (1795-1844), also known as George Drumgold Coleman, was an Irish civil architect who played an instrumental role in the design and construction of much of the civil infrastructure in early Singapore, after it was founded by Sir Stamford Raffles in 1819. Came to Singapore in June 1822 and was responsible, as advisor to Raffles, of the planning of the center of the town, created roads, and constructed many fine buildings. In 1829 worked as a Topographical Surveyor and surveyed in minute detail the islands that would form the new city's harbor.