Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal StationeryHowes, Clifton A. (Clifton Armstrong)
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Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery
Howes, Clifton A. (Clifton Armstrong)
Postage stamps -- Canada; Postal stationery -- Canada
12-1/2 cents, light yellow green, deep yellow green, green,
blue green.
_imperforate_, blue green.
_ribbed paper_, light yellow green.
17 cents, deep blue, Prussian blue.
_imperforate_, Prussian blue.
_ribbed paper_, Prussian blue.
1864, Aug. 1.
2 cents, rose red, dull red.
_imperforate_, rose red, dull red.
_ribbed paper_, rose red.
DOMINION OF CANADA
3rd. SERIES. LARGE STAMPS. Engraved and printed by the British American
Bank Note Co., Montreal & Ottawa. Perforated 12, Wove paper.
1868, April 1.
1/2 cent, gray black, black.
_horizontal pair, imperforate between._
_very thin paper._
1 cent, brown red, deep brown red.
_watermarked_, brown red.
_laid paper_, brown red, deep brown red.
_very thin paper_, deep brown red.
2 cents, pale yellow green, pale green, green,
deep yellow green, deep blue green.
_watermarked_, green.
_very thin paper_, deep yellow green.
3 cents, vermilion, bright red, deep red, brown red.
_watermarked_, brown red, red.
_laid paper_, vermilion, bright red.
_very thin paper_, deep red.
_very thick paper_, brown red.
6 cents, pale brown, brown, deep brown, gray brown,
pale yellow brown, deep yellow brown.
_watermarked_, deep brown.
_very thin paper_, deep brown.
_diagonal half_ used for 3c., deep brown.
12-1/2 cents, dull blue, deep blue, pale blue.
_watermarked_, deep blue.
_very thin paper_, dull blue.
15 cents, mauve, deep mauve, lilac gray, gray violet,
deep gray violet, blue gray, slate blue,
greenish blue.
_watermarked_, lilac gray, gray violet.
_thin laid paper_, mauve.
_ribbed paper_, lilac gray.
_very thick paper_, mauve, slate blue, purple.
_imperforate_, brown violet.
1869, Jan.
1 cent, yellow, pale orange, orange yellow, orange.
_imperforate_, yellow.
1875, Oct. 1.
5 cents, light olive gray, dark olive gray.
4th SERIES. SMALL STAMPS. Engraved and printed by the British American
Bank Note Company, Montreal & Ottawa. Perforated 12. Thin to thick wove
paper.
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