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 Alain Martineau
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| General Description : | Bottle Gentian, Gentiana andrewsii Engraved by Yves Baril Definitive stamps must portray an image of Canada for a wide variety of people inside and outside the nation. Canadian wildflowers are just the subjects to do this. The flowers reflect the magnificent beauty of our country. The 1¢ definitive shows the closed or bottle gentian, a perennial herb between one and two feet high. This rather rare flower grows from Quebec to Manitoba in damp meadows and thickets, even on overgrown roadsides. The plant generally blooms sometime in late summer or early autumn. Heather Cooper, Toronto artist and designer, is a partner in the firm of Burns, Cooper, Donoahue, Fleming & Company Limited, internationally known for their fine work in the graphic arts. Her design for this definitive and her accurate rendering of that flower convey the grace and beauty of the subject within the confines of a small stamp size. The Latin designation for the flower appears in the plate-block inscriptions. This issue of definitive stamp use Cartier typeface, first cut by the Canadian typographer, the late Carl Dair. This modified version was specially prepared for the Canada Post Office for use on postage stamps. |
| Face value | 1 Cent |
| Catalog code (Michel) | CA 651IA |
| Catalog code (Scott) | CA 705 |
| Catalog code | Yvert et Tellier CA 625 Stanley Gibbons CA 856 |
| Series | Wildflowers of Canada |
| Stamp colour | multicolor |
| Stamp use | Definitive stamp |
| Print run | 73.900.000 |
| Issue date | 22/04/1977 |
| Designer | Heather J. Cooper |
| Paper type | Non-Fluorescent with two fluorescent bands |
| Print technique | Offset lithography and Recess |
| Printed by | Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited & British American Bank Note Company |
| Perforation | 12 X 12.5 & 13 X 13.5 |
| Height | 24.00 mm |
| Width | 20.00 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
