Queen Victoria 

Queen Victoria
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Queen Victoria

Catalogue information

LastDodo number
1194395
Area
Stamps
Title
Queen Victoria
Face value
3
Country / area
Canada
Year
1868
Month
Day
Issue group
1868 Queen Victoria
Order Number in Issue group
5
Usage
Postage
Type
Stamp
Basic colour
Brown
Exact colour
Red brown
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
20 x A 20 y A 20 z A
Yvert number
21 21a
Scott number
Stanley Gibbons number
49 58 58a 58b
Unitrade number
Designer/Engraver
Earle, Henry Sr. [1827-1914], Jones, Alfred [1819-1900]
Printing office
BABNC [Canada] (1866)
Perforation type
Number of teeth per 20 mm
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: 20 x A (red, wove paper, perforation L 12) or 20 y A (red, wove laid paper, perforation L 12) or 20 z A (red, thin paper, perforation L 12); Yvert & Tellier: 21 (red, perforation 12) or 21a (red, laid paper, perforation 12); Stanley Gibbons: 49 (red-brown, Ottawa printings, thin rather transparant crispy paper, perforation 12) or 58 (brown-red, Ottawa printings, medium to stout wove paper, perforation 12) or 58a (brown-red, Ottawa printings, medium to stout laid paper, perforation 12) or 58b (brown-red, Ottawa printings, perforation 12, watermarked).