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 Alain Martineau
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| General Description : | Portrait engraved by Carl Theodore Arlt Based on a photograph by Lafayette Portrait Studios From 1st April, 1930, the contract for the manufacture of Canadian postage stamps and postal stationery was awarded to the British North American Bank Note Company, Limited, Ottawa. This is an old- established firm which had not manufactured Canadian postage stamps since March, 1897. This change of contract necessitated the issue of completely new, regular series of stamps with the identical portraits of King George V on all the lower denominations. Portrait of His Majesty King George V by Carl Arlt. To replace the 3-cent provisional stamps of 24th June, 1931, two new regular-issue stamps were needed. The former 2-cent red-colour stamp could no longer be reprinted in the same colour since the Universal Postal Union agreements required a red-coloured stamp to pay the first-class rate on one-ounce letters. |
| Face value | 2 Cents |
| Catalog code (Michel) | CA 143IIA |
| Catalog code (Scott) | CA 166 |
| Catalog code | Stanley Gibbons CA 292b |
| Series | Monarchy, King George V |
| Stamp colour | deep brown |
| Stamp use | Definitive stamp |
| Print run | 356.000.000 |
| Issue date | 04/07/1931 |
| Designer | Herman Herbert Schwartz |
| Print technique | recess |
| Printed by | British American Bank Note Company |
| Perforation | 11, 8.5 vertical |
| Height | 25.00 mm |
| Width | 21.00 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
