Beneficial Insects (2007-)
Updated Dec 26/08
 Background
Checklist
Varieties
Vertical or Horizontal?
Press sheet
Background
For the second time, Canada Post released low-value definitives that had the
design pass through the perforations. Since the stamps are not tagged, this
allowed the design to cover the entire stamp.
Another first for Canadian low-value definitives: a souvenir sheet containing
the five values.
And another first: panes of 50 stamps instead of 100.
And yet another: all values appeared together on the same press sheet.
Checklist
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Sheet |
| |
LM |
| |
13.0x13.4 |
| Value |
Coated |
| 1c Convergent Lady Beetle |
Oct 12/07 |
| 3c Golden-eyed Lacewing |
Oct 12/07 |
| 5c Northern Bumblebee |
Oct 12/07 |
| 10c Canada Darner
(dragonfly) |
Oct 12/07 |
| 25c Cecropia Moth |
Oct 12/07 |
Varieties
The most prominent variety to be found on these stamps is actually an error of design. On the 3c value, four of the stamps from
the pane of 50 have an inscription placement error. The normal stamp has a
space between after Canada; the error stamps have no space after Canada.
The four error stamps are found in the second row:
Vertical vs. Horizontal
Should these stamps be oriented in a vertical format (as illustrated above) or in a horizontal format (as illustrated below)?
These stamps were purposely designed to be oriented either way. The souvenir
sheet, uncut press sheet and Canada Post illustrations place the stamps
vertically, with the denomination on the right side reading up (as illustrated
above).
Press sheet
The press sheet contains panes of all values with multiples of the 1c and 10c.
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