CANADA 1868-1896

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1868 Queen Victoria facing the right, so-called 'Large Queens'

  1/2 c black
  1 c brown
  2 c green
  3 c red
  6 c brown
  12 1/2 c blue
  15 c lilac

All values exist with perforation 12. The values 1/2 c and 15 c also exist with perforation 11 1/2 x 12.

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

Cancels, example:

Duplex cancel '5' of Hamilton

(Numeral cancel '8' of Ottawa, specialist distinghuish at least 7 different types of this cancel)

(Numeral cork cancel '9' of Kingston)

I've also seen the four-ring numeral cancel on these stamps.

Two-ring numeral cancels:

Two-ring numeral cancel '6'

Number and townname for the two-ring cancels:
1: Montreal
2: Toronto
3: Quebec
4: Halifax
5: Hamilton
6: London
7: St.John
8: Ottawa
9: Kingston
10: Sydney
11: Fredericton
12: St.Catharines
13: Belleville
14: Guelph
15: Brantford
16: Brockville
18: Yarmouth
19: Peterborough
20: Unknown
21: Goderich
22: Galt
23: Woodstock
24: Stratford
25: New Glasgow
26: Windsor
27: Ingersoll
28: Sarnia
29: Cobourg
30: Picton
32: Barrie
33: Sherbrooke
34: Chatham
35: Lindsay
36: St.Johns
37: Amherst
38: Bowmanville
39: Whitby
40: Cornwall
41: St.Mary's
42: Actonvale
43: Windsor
44: Owen
45: Perth
46: Dundas
47: Napanee
48: Simcoe
49: Prescott
50: St.Andrews
51: Picton
52: St. Hyacinth
53: Three Rivers
54: Truro
55: Berlin
56: Brampton
57: Paris
58: St. Thomas
59: Clinton
60: Newmarket

Some forgeries, apparently made by the same forger:

(Forgeries)

1870 Queen Victoria facing the left, so called 'Small Queens', smaller size

  1/2 c black (1882)
  1 c yellow
  2 c green
  3 c red
  5 c green
  5 c grey (different type)
  6 c brown
  8 c violet (1882 Victoria facing the left)
  10 c red

These stamps are perforated 12, but some of them also exist with perforation 11 1/2 x 12.

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

Special cancels, an Ottawa crown cancel:

Other mute cancels exist in the shape of maple-leafs, flowers, crosses, stars etc, examples:

(Cork cancels)

(Hawksville 'Star' Cork cancel)

(Victoria Crown-cancel)

A duplex cancel of Montreal.

Forgeries:

2 c in wrong color, red, with a very strange cancel.

A bogus '1' surcharge with two horizontal lines on the old value.

A 'Hechler bisect'; these were not allowed by the authorities, but somehow Hechler managed to 'get them through the post'. They have a Halifax cancel (the hometown of Hechler).

1893 Queen Victoria facing the left, large size 'Widow weeds'

  20 c red
  50 c blue

These stamps were used on parcels.

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

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