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Catalogue information
LastDodo number
1194353
Area
Stamps
Title
North American Beaver
Face value
3
Country / area
Year
1851
Month
Day
Issue group
Order Number in Issue
2
Basic colour
Exact colour
Usage
Type
Geographical theme
Persons theme
Item subject
Castor canadensis
Michel number
2 w 2 x 2 y 2 z
Yvert number
5 5b
Scott number
Stanley Gibbons number
1 1a 5 6 7 8 18 22
Unitrade number
Designer/Engraver
Printing office
Perforation
Watermark
Luminescence
Printing technique
Paper
Gum
Print run
Dimensions / diameter
Details
This item is known in the catalogues as one of the following numbers:
Michel: 2 w (horizontally laid wove paper) or 2 x (wove paper) or 2 y (thin paper) or 2 z (horizontally ribbed wove paper);
Yvert & Tellier: 5 (wove paper) or 5b (ribbed paper);
Stanley Gibbons:
- laid paper: 1 (red) or 1a (orange-vermillion);
- handmade wove paper varying in thickness: 5 (red) or 6 (deep red) or 7 (scarlet-vermillion) or 8 (brown-red);
- machine-made medium to thick wove paper: 18 (red);
- thin soft horizontally ribbed paper: 22 (red).