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Title
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Miniature Sheets
Description
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A miniature sheet or souvenir sheet is a small group of postage stamps still attached to the sheet on which they were printed. They may be either regular issues that happen to be printed in small groups, or special issues often commemorating some event.
Still Image
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Title
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Miniature Sheet - Antigua and Barbuda - 2000
Type
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Miniature Sheet
Coverage
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Antigua and Barbuda
Date Issued
Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource.
2000-08-21
Description
An account of the resource
<p>This miniature sheet was issued to commemorate the turn of the millennium in general and achievements and events of the second half of the 13th century in particular. The sheet features seventeen stamps and seventeen events with a short description of each along the left side. The stamps are captioned as follows:</p>
<ul><li>"1250– Expansion of the Inquisition"</li>
<li>"1260– Chartres Cathedral"</li>
<li>"1260– Naumburg sculptures"</li>
<li>"1261– First English Parliament"</li>
<li>"1270– <em>Maestà</em> by Cimabue"</li>
<li>"1271– Marco Polo"</li>
<li>"1271– Divine Wind"</li>
<li>"1274– Death of Thomas Aquinas"</li>
<li>"1277– Arezzo Cathedral"</li>
<li>"1286– 'The Maid' of Norway, Queen of Scotland"</li>
<li>"1290– Jewish exodus from England"</li>
<li>"1291– Acre is taken over by Muslims"</li>
<li>"1291– Moshe de Leon incorporates his work in the text of <em>The Zohar</em>"</li>
<li>"1292–98 – German Civil War"</li>
<li>"1294– Death of Kublai Khan"</li>
<li>[Stamp not captioned; caption from description: "1295 Dante (Florence, 1265) writes <em>La Vita Nuova</em>, dedicated to Beatrice. Albeit impossible, his love remained alive forever, immortalized in one of the masterpieces of Western literature."</li>
<li>"1296– 'Autumn Colors on the Quiao and Hua Mountains' by Zhan Mengfu"</li>
</ul><p>All of the stamps have a denomination of 60¢ (0.60 XCD).</p>
Extent
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230 × 158 mm
Bibliographic Citation
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Michel no. 3233–3249
Scott no. 2385
Language
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English
2000
Antigua and Barbuda
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Dublin Core
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Title
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Postage Stamps
Description
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A postage stamp is evidence of a fee paid for postal services. Usually a small piece of adhesive rectangular paper attached to an envelope, the postage stamp signifies the person sending it has fully or partly paid for delivery.
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
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Title
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Postage Stamp - Antigua and Barbuda - 2000
Type
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Postage Stamp
Coverage
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Antigua and Barbuda
Date Issued
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2000-08-21
Description
An account of the resource
Issued as part of a series to commemorate the turn of the millennium, this postage stamp portrays Dante's lifelong love and muse, Beatrice Portinari, against an Italian landscape with a quotation in English from the <em>Vita nuova</em> (19:11): "So Cupid speaks of her: / How can something mortal / be so beautiful and pure? / Then again he looks at / her, and decides that God / meant to create / something new.". In the top right corner of the stamp is "MILLENNIUM 2000", in the lower left corner is "ANTIGUA & / BARBUDA", and in the lower right corner is "60¢".
Denomination: 60¢ (0.60 XCD)
Perforation: 12 ½ (comb)
Printing process: Offset lithography
Extent
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40 × 60 mm
Bibliographic Citation
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Michel no. 3248
Scott no. 2385p
Language
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English
2000
Antigua and Barbuda
Offset lithography