ISSUE 178 - October 3, 2025 - Stamp News Online Magazine
The Stamp Specialist:
Victorian Canada, Part 8 – Leafs, Numerals
by Ed Richardson
(From the Stamp Specialist Volume 12, The Maroon Book)
For nearly twenty-eight years (January 1870 - November 1897), the design of the basic Canadian series stamps remained unchanged, and Small Cents issues with the portrait of the young Queen continued to use. Shortly after the Jubilee issue however, the first of a new series appeared,— "The Maple Leaf."
Neither the "Widow Weeds" portrait used in the series of 1893, nor the Von Angeli painting used for the Jubilee issue, were chosen for . . .
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