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Catalogue information
LastDodo number
1194413
Area
Stamps
Title
Queen Victoria
Face value
3
Country / area
Year
1870
Month
Day
Issue
Order Number in Issue
4
Basic colour
Exact colour
Usage
Type
Theme / topic
Geographical theme
Persons theme
Item subject
Michel number
28 cA
Yvert number
30
Scott number
41
Stanley Gibbons number
105
Unitrade number
Designer/Engraver
Printing office
Perforation
Watermark
Luminescence
Printing technique
Paper
Gum
Print run
Dimensions / diameter
20 x 25 mm
Details
This item is known in the catalogues as one of the following numbers:
Michel: 28 aA (copper-red, perforation 12) or 28 aD (copper-red, perforation 12½) or 28 ab A (copper-red or rose-red, perforation 12) or 28 cA (vermillion, perforation 12) or 28 cC (vermillion, perforation 11½:12) or 28 cd A (vermillion or rose-carmine, perforation 12);
Yvert & Tellier: 30 (vermillion, perforation 12) or 30a (red, perforation 12);
Stanley Gibbons:
- Ottawa or Montreal printings, perforation 12:
79 (Indian red, medium to stout wove paper) or 80 (pale rose-red, medium to stout wove paper) or 81 (deep rose-red, medium to stout wove paper or thin, soft, very white paper) or 81a (deep rose-red, thick soft paper) or 82 (dull red, medium to stout wove paper or thin paper of poorer quality) or 83 (orange-red, medium tot stout wove paper or thin paper of poorer quality) or 84 (orange-carmine, thin paper of poorer quality);
- Ottawa or Montreal printings, perforation 12½:
79a (Indian red, medium to stout wove paper);
- Montreal printings, perforation 11½:12 or 11¾:12, medium to stout wove paper:
95 (dull red) or 96 (orange-red);
- Ottawa printing, thinnish often grey or yellow toned paper of poor quality:
105 (bright vermillion).