1965 International Co-operation Year Omnibus

About the Omnibus issue

Key facts

Designer/Engraver: Victor Whitely
Printers: Harrison & Sons Ltd
Process: Lithography
Perforation: 14½
Watermark: Multiple St Edward’s Crown Block CA
Release Date: 25th October 1965

Issuing territories: 31 common design and 16 local designs
Number of stamps: 64 common design. Total of 107 stamps and 2 souvenir sheets

The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 1965 to be the International Cooperation Year. The goal was to increase awareness, understanding, and the importance of cooperation in the world community to facilitate the peaceful resolution of major international conflicts.

Standard issue – list of issuing territories

1. Antigua
2. Ascension
3. Bahamas
4. Basutoland
5. Bechuanaland Protectorate
6. Bermuda
7. British Guiana
8. British Honduras
9. British Solomon Islands
10. Brunei
11. Cayman Islands
12. Dominica
13. Falkland Islands
14. Fiji
15. Gibraltar
16. Gilbert & Ellice Islands
17. Grenada
18. Hong Kong
19. Mauritius
20. Montserrat
21. New Hebrides Condominium (2 sets English and French)
22. Pitcairn Islands
23. St Helena
24. St Kitts Nevis
25. St Lucia
26. Seychelles and ZES
27. South Arabia
28. Swaziland
29. Tristan da Cunha
30. Turks and Caicos Islands
31. Virgin Islands

Local design – list of issuing territories

1. Canada (1)
2. Ceylon (2)
3. Cyprus (2)
4. Ghana (souvenir sheet 4 stamps)
5. Great Britain (2)
6. Kenya Uganda Tanzania (4)
7. Maldive Islands (souvenir sheet 3 stamps)
8. New Zealand (1)
9. Nigeria (2)
10. Various others