ISSUE 179 - November 7, 2025 - Stamp News Online Magazine
The Stamp Specialist:
Victorian Canada, Part 9 – Imperial Penny Postage
by Ed Richardson
(From the Stamp Specialist Volume 12, The Maroon Book)
(As with prior issues, given the brevity of this section of the original article, I am also including our relevant “Map Stamp” Classic Canada sections:
Parts 49, 50, 51, 52, and 53.)
Imperial Penny Postage Issue
Commemorating the inauguration of the penny postage rate to most parts of the British Empire, on christmas day, 1898, this stamp became the first postal multi-colored issue of Canada. It is also the only Canadian Postage stamp produced by the use of lithography. At least it is believed that this process was used in the printing of the . . .
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