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Blanding’s Turtle - Emydoidea Blandingii

Endangered Turtles

Stamp Info

Name Value
Date of Issue May 23, 2019
Year 2019
Quantity 1,075,000
Denomination
PERMANENT™ (P).
Current monetary value: $0.92.
Perforation or Dimension 34.87 mm x 34.11 mm
Series Endangered Turtles
Series Time Span 2019
Postal Administration Canada

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M-NH-VF
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Layouts

Booklet of 10 Stamps

Quantity Produced - 200,000
Current Purchase Price: Only available to paid users
Original Purchase Price: $9.00
Perforation: Simulated perforation
Dimension: 32 mm x 32 mm
Printer: Canadian Bank Note
Printing Process: Lithography in 4 colours
Gum Type: Pressure sensitive
Tagging: General tagging, four sides
Paper: Tullis Russell
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Souvenir Sheet

Quantity Produced - 75,000
Current Purchase Price: Only available to paid users
Original Purchase Price: $1.80
Perforation: Simulated perforation
Dimension: 82 mm x 85 mm
Printer: Canadian Bank Note
Printing Process: Lithography in 4 colours
Gum Type: Pressure sensitive
Tagging: General tagging, four sides
Paper: Tullis Russell
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Official First Day Cover

Quantity Produced - 7,000
Current Purchase Price: Only available to paid users
Original Purchase Price: $2.80
Cancellation Location: Maitland Bridge NS
Dimension: 190 mm x 112 mm
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About Stamp

In Canada, Blanding’s turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) live in the centre of southwestern Nova Scotia and around the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence region of Ontario and Quebec. Able to survive and reproduce well into their 80s, Blanding’s turtles are among the longest lived of their freshwater kin. However, encroaching development of their freshwater habitat, which includes ponds, marshes and the shorelines of shallow lakes and streams, puts their existence at significant risk.

About Stamp Series

With spring in full swing – and camping, canoeing and cottage life just around the corner – you might soon encounter one of Canada’s eight freshwater turtle species. These stamps showcase two species that have been assessed as endangered by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC).

Creatively presented by designer Adrian Horvath and illustrator Sarah Still, the images on these stamps blend beauty and accuracy – qualities that Still argues go hand in hand. “I’ve always enjoyed realism and highly detailed work. I believe nature already provides us with beautiful subjects. It’s my pleasure to help others see them as I do,” she says.

“I wanted these turtles to pop off the stamp,” says Horvath. The real challenge, he added, was finding a way to break the subjects out of the stamp frame in a way that worked in every application – as 10 stamps in a booklet, as a single stamp on a letter, and as a bound (se-tenant) duo on the Official First Day Cover and souvenir sheet.

According to COSEWIC, habitat loss, road mortality and illegal collection are among the biggest threats to the two species featured on these stamps. Since turtles are exceptionally long-living creatures that breed as slowly as they move, the loss of even a single adult is devastating.

“I want people to be in awe of these beautiful creatures – and to enjoy the playfulness of the stamps,” says Horvath. “I hope this stamp issue inspires people to find out what they can to help these species flourish and to preserve their habitat.”

Creators

Design: Adrian Horvath Illustration: Sarah Still

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Reference

Canada Post Corporation. Canada's Stamp Details, April - June 2019, Volume XXVIII NO 4

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