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Friday, July 29, 2011

The 1898 Canadian Christmas Postage Stamp

Illustrated below is the Canadian Christmas stamp of 1898 issued on the 7th of December. The design was in black with the red of the Empire and colour in the oceans added by typo. There are three variations of the stamp due to a change of colour in the oceans, they were printed in lavender, greenish-blue and blue. The example is of the lavender printing.

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