Queen Victoria 

Queen Victoria
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Queen Victoria

Catalogue information

LastDodo number
1194401
Area
Stamps
Title
Queen Victoria
Face value
12½
Country / area
Canada
Year
1868
Month
Day
Issue group
1868 Queen Victoria
Order Number in Issue
8
Basic colour
Blue
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
23 x A 23 y A
Yvert number
24
Scott number
Stanley Gibbons number
51 60 60b 60c
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: 23 x A (blue, wove paper, perforation L 12) or 23 y A (blue, thin paper, perforation L 12); Yvert & Tellier: 24 (blue, perforation 12); Stanley Gibbons: 51 (bright blue, Ottawa printings, thin rather transparant crispy paper, perforation 12) or 60 (bright blue, Ottawa printings, medium to stout wove paper, perforation 12) or 60b (bright blue, Ottawa printings, medium to stout wove paper, perforation 12, watermarked) or 60c (pale dull blue, milky, Ottawa printings, medium to stout wove paper, perforation 12).