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and the margin around the head will be considerably less. We cannot see how this can be done without spoiling the beauty of the stamp. As to whether they are to retain the same colors we are unable to say." The 1869 issue of the United States was in use at that time and though this series is now generally popular

t or notice, nor does the reduction in the size of the labels seem to have been consi

ed owing to wear, but it appears very probable that the dies for the 1c, 2c, 3c, 6c and 10c denominations were all engraved at the same period and, as r

some time in January, 1870. The Stamp Collector's Magazine for

microscopic lettering, and in lieu of the full denomination-THREE CENTS-in the lower margin, the word CENTS alone appears, flanked by the figure on each side. The cause of the change is not to be sought in any desire to economise paper; it lies in the simple fact that the smaller size is found the more convenient. The design certainly is not improved by it, and we might call upon these little stamps to "hide their

ubt on sale some time in March, 1869. In design it is similar to the 3c, the main difference being in the inscription at base. The denominati

tamp Collector's Magazine for February, 1872, we read:-"We have received by the last mail specimens of a new 6 cents brown of the small size. It is printed of a wa

reen." The design differs from the 3c and 6c chiefly in the direction of the curve of the w

of the 2c but at the same time illustrates a new departure, inasmuch as the numerals of value are repeated in the upper corners in a smaller form. For

s. Though the portrait is the same as that on the other values the frame is of a distinctly different style and CENTS is in much larger letters than before, showin

and was recorded in the Philatelic Record f

to have struck the Canadian authorities that their idea of fourteen years ago was a happy one, and the ?c has been proportionately cut down. The general arrangements of the design remain the same, but the ornamentation is simpler. The head and circle containing it are miniatures of the former, and the result is what the ladies would

y little used, and can now be bought at the post-office for 12 cents." But some three years later the American Journal of Philately asserted that "Canada will shortly issue the 12?c and 15c values of postals in small size, to correspond with the others of the series." These stamps, however, never materialised though that dies and plates were made and

heets of 200, arranged in two panes of 100 each, placed side by side. A space of about 11 mm. separated the two panels and these large sheets were cut into halves before leaving the printing establishment, thus making "pos

e transfers. In the few stamps at our disposal we have found but one of any prominence. This occurs on the 3c denomination the top portion

those denominations which were generally used. At different times different marginal imprints or arrangements of the imprints were used, and given sufficient material a study of

ions, "ONE CENT", etc., were in large shaded Roman capitals 4 mm. high. In the centre of each of the four margins is the manufacturer's imprint, BRITISH AMERICAN BANK NOTE CO. MONTREAL & OTTAWA, in colorless Roman capitals on a n

but the imprint is different, being like that found on the sheets of the large 5c stamp, i.e. "British American Bank Note Co. Montreal", in capitals a

, though this is highly probable. The 6c and 10c values of this series have large numerals, "6" or "10" as the case may be, above the second stamp in the top row, while above the ninth stamp of the same row is "SIX" or "TEN" in shaded Roman capitals. The numerals are very thick and 6

Roman capitals above the first two stamps of the top row, while the 1c is recorded

white Roman capitals on a strip of solid color measuring 40 mm. long by 1? mm. wide. This, it will be noted, is like the first type of imprint but with the words "MONTREAL &" removed. On the 2c this is known 49 mm. long

eneath stamps 15 and 16. There are no imprints at the sides. The denomination appears in the top margin at both right and left and in a new style of lettering on these la

ove and below each pane, at the right of the right hand pane, and at the left of the left hand pane-so that there were three imprints on each of the "post-office" sheets of 100 stamps. In addition, to q

the original intention of the printers to keep the colors of the small stamps as nearly like those of the large ones they superseded as possible, and while many shades match the colors of the ear

on of specimens of the current three cents, printed in bright

om bronze-green to greenish grey." More than a year later (July, 1889) the same journal says "the 2 cents stamp is now blue-green;" in D

to later on. The catalogues are equally at variance in their choice of color names and while Gibbons' gives four shades for each of the 1c and 3c values, Scott gives but two for the 1c and of the four given for the 3c not one agrees with any of the names given by Gibbons'. The only point on which both catalogues agree is that a general change of colors took place during the period of 1888-90, i.e., after the pr

as the Philatelic Journal of America for May, 1889, says that "the carmine color recently adopted has been dropped, and the stamps are printed in colors similar to the ones in use before the change was made." The 5, 6, and 10 cent stamps, however, made permanent changes, but only such as might readily be traceable to a new mixing of the inks in the case of the first two. Th

ed paper." This latter like the ribbed varieties in the earlier issues, is evidently due to nothing more than some eccentricity of printing and is, consequently, of doubtful philatelic importance. The classification of the series into thick and thin papers seems to have more to be said in its favor if the statement made in Gibbons' cata

cember, 1882. Writing in the London Philatelist in 1907 Mr. M. H. Horsley says with regard to these varieties:-"Imperforated copies of various values were sold over the Post-office counter in Montreal about the years 1891-3 at their face value, and have been good for postage whenever people cared to use them." Writing a little later on the same subject Mr. C. L. Pack also vouches for them, viz.:-"I quite agree with Mr. Horsl

e ?c as existing in a horizo

ally and used for 3c. But as the "Canadian Postal Guide" declares that "a mutilated stamp, or a stamp cut in half, is not recognised in pa

ligatory and imposing a fine of double the deficiency on all insufficiently prepaid letters.

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st within the Dominion, from 12? cents per 8 oz. of weight to 6 cents per 4 oz. Under this change small

of the 12?c value and made it practically useless. Hence the rea

t the same time increased the postal rate on local or drop letters from 1c to 2c, though a weight of 1 oz.

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