Well at Gorda - 10 franc

Well at Gorda - 10 franc

Year
1949
Face Value
10
Mint Value
-
Used Value
-
Print Run
-
Themes
Sites and landscapes

Catalogs References

Michel
FR-FZ 38
Yvert & Tellier
FR-FZ 48
Stanley Gibbons
FR-FZ 45

Technical Details

Colors
brown
Perforation
13
Printing
Photogravure
Designer
A. Boutet
Printers
Atelier de Fabrication des Timbres-Poste, Paris
This definitive stamp celebrates the traditional desert engineering and vital water resource management of southern Libya under the post-war French military administration ("Territoire Militaire du Fezzan").The illustration features a detailed architectural view of a traditional balance-beam well at Gorda ("Puits à Gorda"), displaying the rustic wooden scaffolding, pulleys, and skin buckets used by native populations to draw water from the arid Saharan soil.