20¢ Combined Reaper and Thresher, Canadian Prairies 1946


20¢ Combined Reaper and Thresher, Canadian Prairies 1946
Added by Alain Martineau
General Description : Picture engraved by Silas Robert Allen
With the exception of the war issues of 1942-43 and certain special commemorative stamps, all pictorial postage stamps issued between 1927 and 1945 have illustrated subjects relating to Canada's history, geography, agriculture, and natural resources. The end of the war provided desirable opportunity to use subjects emphasizing the new industrial importance of Canada. In 1946 the Department decided to replace Canada's wartime pictorial postage stamps with an issue intended to provide a pictorial survey of Canada's primary industries and raw materials. The issue placed emphasis on the reconversion of Canadian industry to a peacetime basis. A combined reaper and thresher drawn by a tractor in use on a Canadian prairie wheatfield. This design illustrates a modern, speedy method of garnering Canada's wheat crop, her principal contribution to the world's food supply. The illustration also emphasizes the importance of grain- growing in Canada's economy.
Face value $0.20 Cents
Catalog code (Michel) CA 238
Catalog code (Scott) CA 271
Catalog code Yvert et Tellier CA 222 Stanley Gibbons CA 404
Stamp colour state black
Stamp use Definitive stamp
Print run 85,450,000
Issue date 16/09/1946
Designer Herman Herbert Schwartz
Print technique recess
Printed by Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited
Perforation 12
Height 26.00 mm
Width 37.00 mm
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