The postage stamps, envelopes, wrappers and post cards of the North American colonies of Great Britain
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The postage stamps, envelopes, wrappers and post cards of the North American colonies of Great Britain
Postage stamps -- Canada; Postal stationery -- Canada
_Varieties._—(A) Divided in two, diagonally, and used for half
the value.
3d. (half 6d.), yellow-green.
4½d. (half 9d.), lilac.
(B) _Imperforate, horizontally._
3d., dark blue.
(C) _Imperforate, vertically._
9d., lilac.
(D) _Imperforate._
1d., orange-yellow.
2d., dark rose.
3d., dark blue.
6d., bluish-green.
9d., lilac.
_Remarks._—The Two Pence, rouletted, is unknown to the Society. The
variety is described in _The Halifax Philatelist_ for November, 1888,
page 129. The writer says the specimen seen was used, and on part of the
original envelope “it has a fine wide margin, and shows the roulette cuts
plainly.”
The imperforate stamps are believed to be proofs, and not to have been
issued in this state. A paper on the minor varieties found in these
stamps was published in _The Halifax Philatelist_ for September, 1888.
The author is Mr. David Lang, and the article a very interesting one. The
following is a reproduction of it:
“VARIETIES OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND STAMPS.
“This province has the reputation of issuing the worst-looking
series of stamps in design and execution of any of the British
North American provinces. On examining them closely there are a
number of varieties in the stamps of which I propose to give a
short list of the most conspicuous. In the
=“One Penny, printed in sheets of thirty; six rows of five
stamps each.=
“_Second row, fifth stamp_: White line above ‘N’ in ‘ISLAND’
broken, filled with solid colour for about one-eighth inch.
“_Second row, second stamp_: Full stop above ‘L’ in ‘ISLAND.’
“_Sixth row, fifth stamp_: No cross-bar to ‘A’ in ‘ISLAND.’
=“Three Pence, printed in sheets of thirty; six rows of five
stamps in each.=
“_First row, second stamp_: White circle and coloured dot in
centre before ‘P’ in ‘PRINCE.’
“_Second row, fifth stamp_: Full stop between ‘E’ and ‘D’ in
‘EDWARD.’
“_Third row, second stamp_: ‘I’ in ‘ISLAND’ with white dash
at top, making it look like inverted L.
“_Same stamp_: Full stop at the top bar of the last ‘E’ in
‘THREE PENCE.’
“_Fourth row, fourth stamp_: Full stop after ‘EDWARD,’ it
being in a line with top of ‘D.’
“_Fifth row, third stamp_: Full stop between ‘P’ and ‘O’ in
‘POSTAGE.’
=“Nine Pence, printed in sheets of thirty; six rows of five
stamps in each.=
“_Second row, fourth stamp_: Two full stops, one above the
other, after ‘STG.’
“_Second row, fifth stamp_: Full stop before ‘S’ in ‘STG.,’
apparently put there instead of after ‘STG.,’ which has none.
=“Two Pence, printed in sheets of one hundred; ten rows of
ten stamps in each.=
“_Third row, tenth stamp_: Part of ‘T’ in ‘TWO’ off, making
it look like inverted I. Full stop before ‘T’ in ‘TWO.’
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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