Queen Victoria 

Queen Victoria
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Queen Victoria

Catalogue information

LastDodo number
1194393
Area
Stamps
Title
Queen Victoria
Face value
2
Country / area
Canada
Year
1868
Month
Day
Issue group
1868 Queen Victoria
Order Number in Issue
4
Basic colour
Green
Exact colour
Usage
Postage
Type
Stamp
Theme / topic
Engravers, Heads of State, Queens
Geographical theme
Persons theme
Jeens, Charles Henry (1827-1879), Victoria of the United Kingdom (1819-1901) (Alexandrina Victoria van Hannover)
Item subject
Michel number
19 x A 19 y A 19 z A
Yvert number
20 20a
Scott number
24 32 24b
Stanley Gibbons number
48 57 57a 57ac 57d 57da
Unitrade number
Designer/Engraver
Earle, Henry Sr. (1827-1914), Jones, Alfred (1819-1900)
Printing office
BABNC [Canada] (1866)
Perforation
Watermark
Luminescence
None
Printing technique
Steel engraving
Paper
Gum
Print run
Dimensions / diameter
Details
This item is known in the catalogues as one of the following numbers: Michel: 19 x A (deep green, wove paper, perforation L 12) or 19 y A (deep green, wove laid paper, perforation L 12) or 19 z A (deep green, thin paper, perforation L 12); Yvert & Tellier: 20 (green, perforation 12) or 20a (green, laid paper, perforation 12); Stanley Gibbons: 48 (grass-green, Ottawa printings, thin rather transparant crispy paper, perforation 12) or 57 (deep green, Ottawa printings, medium to stout wove paper, perforation 12) or 57a (pale emerald-green, Ottawa printings, medium to stout paper, perforation 12) or 57ac (pale emerald-green, Ottawa printings, medium to stout laid paper, perforation 12) or 57d (bluish green, Ottawa printings, medium to stout wove paper) or 57da (bluish green, Ottawa printings, perforation 12, watermarked).