Queen Victoria 

Queen Victoria
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Queen Victoria

Catalogue information

LastDodo number
7778557
Area
Stamps
Title
Queen Victoria
Face value
½
Country / area
Canada
Year
1873
Month
Day
Issue group
1868 Queen Victoria
Order Number in Issue group
1
Usage
Postage
Type
Stamp
Basic colour
Black
Exact colour
Black
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
16 x A 16 x C 16 y A
Yvert number
17A
Scott number
21 21a 21c
Stanley Gibbons number
62
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
11½ : 12
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: 16 x A (black, wove paper, perforation L 12) or 16 x C (black, wove paper, perforation 11½: 12) or 16 y A (black, thin paper, perforation L 12); Yvert & Tellier: 17A (black, perforation 12); Stanley Gibbons: 46 (black, Ottawa printings, thin rather transparent crispy paper, perforation 12) or 53 (black, Ottawa printings, medium to stout wove paper, perforation 12) or 54 (grey-black, Ottawa printings, medium to stout wove paper, perforation 12) or 62 (black, Montreal printings, medium to stout wove paper, perforation 11½: 12 or 11¼: 12 ).