The Stamps of Canada

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s to a change in the rates of postage on single letters sent abroad and also mention

en sent in the closed mails through the United States, and from 1s sterling to 6d when sent from a provincial port-Quebec and Halifax. Should no further changes be likely soon to take place in the

in the following year, the above recommendation was ado

the United Kingdom at the new rate, postage stamps of the value of 10d

Wright & Co., Making Stamps, ￡42-18-6," appears. According to another list compiled from official sources the stamps did not reach Canada until January 2nd, 1855, and though we know of no official document bearing on the actual date of issue, or o

in support of his theory points out that the quantities delivered in the first supply (100,080) and second supply (72,120) are exactly divisible by 120 into 834 and 601 full sheets respectively, whereas neither of these numbers is divisible by 100 into an even number of complete sheets. In view of the absence of positive evidence in the shape of an entire sheet or full horizontal ro

the same as all the existing portraits of Jacques Cartier, and totally unlike those existing of Sebastian Cabot. The style of dress and the way the beard is worn is that of the sixteenth century, instead of the fifteenth. There is a very rare and old print of Sebastian Cabot, taken from the original painting in the possession of Charles Jost Harford, Esq., in the Legislative Library at Halifax, and

very, touching at Newfoundland, and discovering New Brunswick. In a second voyage (1535-6) he explored the St. Lawrence, and

right and three maple leaves at the left. In the lower corners are the numerals "10" followed by "cy" f

2,200 stamps. When the decimal currency was introduced there was a balance on hand of 31,200

this denomination is descri

roller having been set a little too high at first and a very slight impression made on the plate. The stamp has not been seen in a pair to pro

uing to both the Department and the public by the increased use of postage stamps in the

th letters on which the postage is collected in money, as well as a manifest gain to the public, in the increased f

does the hope that it may be found practicable and expedient ere long to make prepayment by stamp the prevai

t exceeding 4 oz. in weight, between Canada and the Un

anadian steamers, a new stamp bearing value of 6 pence sterling, or 7? pence cu

he value of one halfpenny to serve as the

aining the Canadian Postage Stamps in sheets perforated in the dividing lines, in the manner adopted in

to be no official record bearing on the date the new value was placed on sale to the public. The volume dealing with the postage stamps of British North Ameri

om for dividing ornaments of any kind. In the upper and lower left hand corners is "6d stg." and in the right hand corners "7?d cy." is shown. A word of explanation regarding the use of the word PACKET in the inscription is necessary. This does not refer to any parcel post (indeed, there was no parcel post at th

rs eight times on the margins as in the case of the values issued previous to 1857. Only one consignment, consisting of 834 sheets (100,800 stamps) was received, and

Canada-as shown by several rates it was impossible to prepay in stamps without them-it was not until 1857 t

ewspapers an

fice De

18th Ju

ust, 1857, Newspapers printed and published in Canada, and mailed di

us and to General Education, to Agriculture, or Temperance, or to any branch of

ass by Post if prepaid by Postage stamp-one halfpenny

ces (including all Money Order Offices), with a discount of 5 per cent. upon purchases of not less than twe

Postmaste

1857-as the date of issue of the new stamp but, as Mr. Howes observes "it is more

ued, until more definite information regarding the date of issue of the 7?d can be procu

ritish Empire, within an oval band inscribed CANADA POSTAGE, at the top, and ONE HALF PENNY, at the bottom. There are no numerals or inscriptions in the corners but merely a plain

statement in the same report that "the Department has been led to take measures for obtaining ... sheets perforated" it would appear that the above quantity comprised all the imperforate stamps of this denomination. On the oth

rs exercised a nicer discrimination in their choice of paper. Most of the stamps seem to have been printed on a hard wove paper, varying a little in thickness; the 10d is found on a very thin paper; and the ?d is recorded on ribbed paper, though whether this is a true "ribbed"

ations of this character in stamps printed from line-engraved plates were long ago conclusively proved to be due to nothing more exciting than paper shrinkage it is hardly worth while wearying our readers with a resurr

ence

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