The stamps were as usual line engraved on steel, and printed on the same stout white wove paper that was employed for the Jubilee issue, as well as on a thinner and more brittle quality. The 5 cent, for the first time in Canadian philatelic history, appeared on a colored paper, the stock having a decidedly bluish tint. The perforation was the regulation gauge 12. But one irregularity seems to be known, and that is the 5 cents imperforate, a block of four of which we are able to illustrate as No. 112 on Plate X. The sheet arrangement was intended to be the usual block of 100 impressions, ten by ten, but the Ottawa correspondent of the _Weekly Philatelic Era_ tells us that in the case of the 1/2 cent stamp the first plate was twice this size. By some misunderstanding the contractors, the American Bank Note Co., set the sheet up with 200 stamps, and the first five hundred sheets were so printed. The sheets were afterwards cut in two through the imprint, and we have these half sheets with a close imperforated margin on either the left or right edge. Afterwards sheets of 100 stamps were issued, all the stamps perforated on all four sides. Plate number collectors will find the earliest sheets difficult to obtain. Both sheets bear the plate number 1.[144] [144] =Weekly Philatelic Era=, XII: 132. The imprint on the sheets was the same as that on the Jubilee sheets, OTTAWA--No--1, etc., but instead of numbering the plates all consecutively, each denomination began its own series with "No 1." The imprint is placed in the top margin only, over the middle two stamps (5 and 6) of the top row. In the case of the 14 cent stamps each style of the first two plates was numbered "1". The plate of 200 impressions was arranged in ten horizontal rows of twenty stamps each, thus bringing the imprint over stamps 10 and 11 of the top row, and as it was between these that the large sheets were severed, the imprint was cut in two in the process. All the other values were made up in sheets of 100 only. For the information of plate number collectors we give a list of such numbers as we have been able to ascertain. 1/2 cent, No. 1 (2 plates). 1 " Nos. 1, 2. 2 " Nos. 1, 2, 3. 3 " Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 5 " No. 1,. 6 " No. 1. 8 " No. 1. 10 " No. 1. The quantity of each value issued before they were replaced by the stamps with numerals is stated to have been as follows:[145]-- 1/2 cent 2,000,000 1 " 34,000,000 2 " 12,000,000 3 " 44,000,000 5 " 3,500,000 6 " 500,000 8 " 1,400,000 10 " 500,000 [145] =Metropolitan Philatelist=, X: 117.