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Stamp of Canada; 1970; definitive stamp of the issue "Queen Elizabeth II- Transports“; issue of the so-called „Centennial Definitives“.; Depicted is the stamp CAN Michel No. 0447IAx (black, 6 Cent, 4-sites perforated; plate I) with a half-side portrait of the British queen Elisabeth II with look to left.; Meant is the British Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and 68 further states (this number varied).; She is Queen since 2 February 1952, although the official coronation took place firstly at 2 June 1953 in Westminster Abbey in London.; It was the first coronation of a monarch which was broadcasted in the TV.; It exist to this stamp a print plate I and II (re-engraving by Yves Basil with clearer depiction of the queen).; The stamp is showing as central motive a locomotive with train for interurban use, before an airplane on the sky (aircraft as „inter-city jet aircraft“) and a ship in the backgrond and in the left area segment of the stamp a truck and a bus symbolizing a road transport.; The stamp shall illustrate the jubilee „100 years of Canada“.; Additionally is depicted before the ship a microwaves tower as illustration of the communications sector in Canada’s economy.; Generally it’s the same central motive and the same size as the 1968-stamp only in an other color.; The black color is because of better optical qualities of the black color for instance at a detectance by electronic systems.; postmarked stamp
Stamp: Michel: No. 0447IAx; Yvert & Tellier: No. 382Bd; Scott: No. 460
Color: black
Watermark: none
Nominal value: 6 (Cent)