Queen Victoria 

Queen Victoria
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Queen Victoria

Catalogue information

LastDodo number
1194411
Area
Stamps
Title
Queen Victoria
Face value
2
Country / area
Canada
Year
1872
Month
Day
Issue group
1870 Queen Victoria
Order Number in Issue
3
Basic colour
Green
Exact colour
Usage
Postage
Type
Stamp
Theme / topic
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
27 aA 27 aC 27 ab A
Yvert number
29 29a
Scott number
36
Stanley Gibbons number
77 78 94 103 104
Unitrade number
Designer/Engraver
Earle, Henry Sr. (1827-1914), Jones, Alfred (1819-1900)
Printing office
BABNC [Canada] (1866)
Perforation
Watermark
Without 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: 27 aA (green, perforation 12) or 27 aC (green, perforation 11½:12) or 27 ab A (green or bluish green); Yvert & Tellier: 29 (green, perforation 12) or 29a (deep green, perforation 12); Stanley Gibbons: - Ottawa- or Montreal printings, perforation 12: 77 (deep green, medium to stout wove paper or thin, very soft white paper) or 78 (grass-green, thin paper of poor quality); - Montreal printings, perforation 11½:12 or 11¾:12, medium to stout wove paper: 94 (deep green); - Ottawa printigs, thinish often grey or yellow toned paper of poor quality: 103 (dull sea-green) or 104 (blue-green).