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Tuvalu
1st January 1976
↓ - Niutao and other island issues
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Oceania | 13, 13a |  |
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| 1976 Sc1-15 | xxx |
perf 14, litho
| Description | Scott | SG | Mi | Y&T | ||
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| Gilbert & Ellice Islands overprints | ||||||
| 1 cent | 1 | 5-27 † | ||||
| other values 2c to $s | 2-15 | |||||
† Gibbons lists a dedicated Tuvalu set of three as the first issue and numbers the overprints differently, presumably by issue date.
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| 1976 Sc16 SG1 |
Formerly the Ellice part of the GB colony, Gilbert & Ellice Islands. It separated into the Gilbert Islands and Tuvalu in 1976.
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Niutao |
| 1985 Sc1 SG- |
Niutao
To paraphrase Linn's World Stamp Almanac [1], this is one of the nine small islands of Tuvalu.
"Like the other Tuvalu islands [Funafuti, Nanumaga, Nanumea, Nui, Nukufetau, Nukulaelae and Vaitupu], Niutao issued a flurry of stamps depicting such diverse subjects as cars, locomotives, cricket players and the British royal family in the mid-1980s".
Scott numbers many of the issues for all the islands the Gibbons only lists the subjects and denominations. Niutao's first issue depicted cars in se-tenant pairs, beginning with a 15 cents 1930s Bentley, probably the stamp shown.