The issue took place in May, 1875, and consisted of a wrapper of light buff wove paper measuring 9-1/2 inches in height by 5 inches in width (235 × 127 mm.), with the stamp impressed at the right side, about 2-1/2 inches from the top. The sheet is cut square and gummed along the top on the back side. The stamp is typographed, and consists of an upright oval containing the head of Queen Victoria copied from that on the adhesive stamps, CANADA POSTAGE above, ONE CENT below, and the figure 1 in a circle at each side. In this first type of the wrapper stamp these circles containing the numerals are surrounded by foliations of acanthus pattern, and each has a little quatrefoil ornament in the label beneath it. There is also a thin, colored, wavy line which follows the border of the inner oval, giving a scalloped effect, and serves as the distinguishing feature of the first type. The impression is in dark blue. The stamp accounts give the receipts from the manufacturers as 554,000 during 1875, and 918,000 during 1876. No further supplies were received until 1879 so these figures doubtless represent the total supply printed on the buff paper, as the small supply received in 1879 is probably otherwise accounted for.[219] [219] See page 270. In its issue for June 1, 1878, the _Philatelic Monthly_ states that "We have received specimens of the newspaper wrappers with the stamp on the left and half way from the top." M. Moens lists it in his catalogue, where he gives the dimensions as 290 × 165 mm., or about 11-1/2 × 6-1/2 inches. This is somewhat larger than the previous size and we have been unable to confirm it by a specimen, but the accuracy of M. Moens' observations is seldom to be questioned. The London Society's work states that this wrapper is unknown to the members of the Society, but a cancelled copy, used by a business firm, is recorded in the _Monthly Journal_ in 1892.[220] Evidently this variety was an error in the cutting of the sheet. [220] =Monthly Journal=, III: 3. In the _Philatelic Record_ for December, 1881,[221] a change is noted in the wrapper itself, the paper being described as white instead of buff; but in Moens' catalogue it is listed as "very pale buff" and in fact is what we might call "cream toned", being more correctly described later in the _Philatelic Record_ as "almost white".[222] The wrapper was also cut to a new size, 11 × 5 inches or 280 × 127 mm. It is very probable that this wrapper comes from the lot of 197,000 received according to the stamp accounts for 1880--the first since 1876, barring the small lot in 1879.[223] [221] =Philatelic Record=, III: 205; corrected, III: 227. [222] =ibid=., IV: 142. [223] See page 270. [Illustration]