NEW CANADIAN STAMPS
The now issne of Canadian one-cent stamp. s , with King George's head, is as beautiful, well designed, and clearly printed as the first issue of British Georgian stamps is unsatisfactory, says the "Daily Mail." In Iho place of the awkwardly truncated head on the British stamp, the Canadian issue shows a bust portrait of the King in admiral's uniform, beautifully engraved, with a light profile against a dark background. The shading is exquisitely delicate, and gives full plastic roundness to the head. The oval in which the portrait is enclosed is framed by a border of maple leavps. and the inscription "Canada Postage" in white letters on. a dark ground. - A crown is placed in each of the top corners, and the figure 1, dark on white ground, in the two bottom corners. Instead of the watery, faded colour of the British Jd. -stamp's, a deep rich green is used, which throws up the sharply-engraved lettering. If it is possible to improve upon the design by greater simplicity, the technical execution is beyond reproach.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1367, 19 February 1912, Page 6
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177NEW CANADIAN STAMPS Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1367, 19 February 1912, Page 6
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