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Queen Victoria

Stamp Info

Name Value
Date of Issue July 1, 1859
Year 1859
Quantity 26,725,450
Denomination
Perforation or Dimension 11.75, 12 x 11.75, 12
Printer American Bank Note Company, New York.
Postal Administration Canada

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Stamp Price Values

Condition Name Avg Value
M-NH-VF
Mint - Never Hinged - Very Fine Only available to paid users
M-NH-F
Mint - Never Hinged - Fine Only available to paid users
M-NH-VG
Mint - Never Hinged - Very Good Only available to paid users
M-H-VF
Mint - Hinged - Very Fine Only available to paid users
M-H-F
Mint - Hinged - Fine Only available to paid users
M-H-VG
Mint - Hinged - Very Good Only available to paid users
M-NG-VF
Mint - No Gum - Very Fine Only available to paid users
M-NG-F
Mint - No Gum - Fine Only available to paid users
U-VF
Used - Very Fine Only available to paid users
U-F
Used - Fine Only available to paid users
U-VG
Used - Very Good Only available to paid users
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About Stamp

Two events were taking place at the same time. Canada was undergoing a change in money from sterling to dollar decimal currency, while in the United States, the security printers, Rawdon, Wright, Hatch and Edson were merging with other engravers to form a company under the name of the American Bank Note Company. While these changes were in the process of completion, the needs for canadian postage stamps continued. In March, 1859, Mr. Griffin wrote to the printers in New York and stated that the Postmaster General wished to procure postage stamps expressed in cents instead of pence. On the 16th March, the Department placed an order for 1-cent, 5-cent, 10-cent, 12 ½-cent, and 17-cent denominations of similar designs to those used in the past issues. Special instructions went with this order to maintain the values expressed in sterling: sixpence on the 10-cent denomination and eightpence on the 17-cent stamps. The American Bank Note Company of New York designed all the postage stamps for the Province of Canada from 1859 until confederation in 1867. Portrait of Queen Victoria from a contemporary postage stamp design of Great Britain.

Creators

Based on a sketch by William Henry Griffin.

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Reference

Patrick, Douglas and Mary Patrick. Canada's Postage Stamps. Toronto, McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1964, p. 11, 19.

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