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Stamp Info

Name Value
Date of Issue September 21, 1928
Year 1928
Quantity 5,050,000
Denomination
Perforation or Dimension 12
Printer Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited.
Postal Administration Canada

Stamp Price Values

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Condition Name Avg Value
M-NH-VF
Mint - Never Hinged - Very Fine View price
M-NH-F
Mint - Never Hinged - Fine View price
M-NH-VG
Mint - Never Hinged - Very Good View price
M-H-VF
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M-H-F
Mint - Hinged - Fine View price
M-H-VG
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U-VF
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U-F
Used - Fine View price
U-VG
Used - Very Good View price
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About Stamp

In conjunction with the regular sovereign and pictorial issue of 1928, the Department issued Canada's first airmail stamp. The inauguration of official airmail services and the necessity of providing a means of readily identifying airmail made this step necessary. This first officially issued airmail stamp of Canada was symbolic and pictorial in character. It was released at a time of intensive activity in Canadian airmail development when service was reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and into the far northern regions.

Air Mail

An allegory of flight, from a drawing by a staff artist of the Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited. Two winged figures, symbolic of flight, are poised against a globe representing the northern half of the western hemisphere, on which is indicated in shaded outline a map of Canada. The subject is classical and has been treated with a geographical background.

Creators

Picture engraved by Silas Robert Allen. Designed by Herman Herbert Schwartz.

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Reference

Patrick, Douglas and Mary Patrick. Canada's Postage Stamps. Toronto, McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1964, p. 131.

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