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                                                        CHARLES DARWIN (1809-1882)

                               FINE & SCARCE NEVER HINGED (UNMOUNTED) MINT GUTTER PAIRS 

                                                  Sc.#686-689, S.G. 784-787, Mi.#779-782

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 The gutter pair set is in pristine condition, with no blemishes. It was issued  on 24 June 2009. The images show Darwin and H.M.S. Beagle (50c pair), a Galapagos Giant Tortoise and land Iguana (($1 pair), the beaks of Galapagos finches ($2 pair), and Darwin's book "Origins of the Species" and a gorilla ($3.50 pair).

CHARLES DARWIN was the greatest Naturalist in history.  He never visited Pitcairn Island.  The closest he came to Pitcairn was the Galapagos Islands (3020 miles away), and Tahiti in late1835. This was the first of the five Pitcairn "Famous People" issues, the others being Charles Dickens (issued 2012), President John F. Kennedy (2013), Nelson Mandela (2014), and William Shakespeare (2016).

Darwin undertook a 5-year round-the-world voyage of exploration on H.M.S. BEAGLE from 1831 to 1836, amassing many notes, diaries, drawings and specimens.  From 1837 to 1839, he started to develop his theories, but it took another 20 years for his book, "On the Origins of Species by Natural Selection" to be published, which caused a worldwide sensation.

                                                       SCARCE GUTTER PAIRS - NOT OFFERED ELSEWHERE

NOTE ON COLORS IN IMAGE: My scanner distorts and picks up YELLOW/LEMON colors. The color of the BOTTOM stamp of each pair is accurate.

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