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Catalogue information
LastDodo number
1194403
Area
Stamps
Title
Queen Victoria
Face value
15
Country / area
Year
1868
Month
Day
Issue group
Order Number in Issue
9
Basic colour
Exact colour
Usage
Type
Theme / topic
Geographical theme
Persons theme
Item subject
Michel number
24 Aa x 24 Aa y 24 Ab x 24 Ac z 24 Ad x 24 Ca x 24 Cb x
Yvert number
25 25a 26
Scott number
Stanley Gibbons number
52 61 61a 61ab 61b 61ba 61c 64 65 65a 65b 66 67 68 69 70
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: 24 Aa x (red-lilac, wove paper, perforation L 12) or 24 Aa y (red-lilac, thin paper, perforation L12) or 24 Ab x (blue-slate, wove paper, perforation L 12) or 24 Ac z (deep violet, thick paper, perforation L 12) or 24 Ad x (grey-violet, wove paper, perforation L 12) or 24 Ca x (grey-violet, wove paper, perforation 11½: 12) or 24 Cb x (blue-slate, wove paper, perforation 11½: 12);
Yvert & Tellier: 25 (grey-violet, perforation 12) or 25a (blue-grey, perforation 12) or 26 (lilac-brown, perforation 12);
Stanley Gibbons:
- Ottawa printings, thin rather transparent crisp paper, perforation 12:
52 (deep reddish purple)
- Ottawa printings, medium to stout wave paper, perforation 12:
61 (deep reddish purple) or 61a (pale reddish purple) or 61ab (pale reddish purple, watermarked) or 61b (dull violet-grey) or 61ba (dull violet-grey, watermarked) or 61c (dull grey-purple);
- Montreal printings, medium to stout wove paper, perforation 11½: 12 or 11¾: 12:
64 (dull grey-purple) or 65 (lilac-grey) or 65a (lilac-grey, watermarked) or 65b (lilac-grey, watermarked “BOTHWELL”) or 66 (slate)
- Montreal printings, thick paper, perforation 12:
67 (bright deep violet);
- Montreal printings, medium to stout wove paper, perforation 12:
68 (deep slate) or 69 (slaty blue) or 70 (slate-purple).