Queen Victoria 

Queen Victoria
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Queen Victoria

Catalogue information

LastDodo number
1194351
Area
Stamps
Title
Queen Victoria
Face value
½
Country / area
Canada
Year
1857
Month
08
Day
01
Issue group
1851 Various Subjects
Order Number in Issue group
1
Basic colour
Pink
Exact colour
Usage
Postage
Type
Stamp
Theme / topic
Engravers, Heads of State, Queens
Geographical theme
Persons theme
Victoria of the United Kingdom [1819-1901] (Alexandrina Victoria van Hannover), Wyon, William [1795-1851]
Item subject
Michel number
1 x 1 y 1 z
Yvert number
4
Scott number
Stanley Gibbons number
17 21 21a
Unitrade number
Designer/Engraver
Griffin, William Henry [1812-1900]
Printing office
Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson [New York, 1842-1858]
Perforation
Imperforate
Watermark
Luminescence
None
Printing technique
Steel engraving
Paper
Gum
Print run
2.600.520
Dimensions / diameter
Details
This item is known in the catalogues as one of the following numbers: Michel: 1 x ( wove paper) or 1 y (vertically ribbed thin paper) or 1 z (horizontally ribbed thin paper; Yvert & Tellier: 4 (wove paper); Stanley Gibbons: 17 (machine-made medium to thick wove paper) or 21 (thin soft horizontally ribbed paper) or 21a (thin soft vertically ribbed paper).