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 Alain Martineau
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| General Description : | Frame engraved by Silas Robert Allen Portrait engraved by Robert Savage Based on a photograph by Lafayette Portrait Studios Since the regular issue postage stamp designs had not been changed for sixteen years, the Department decided in 1928 to issue a new definite series featuring a contemporary portrait of His Majesty King George V. Accordingly the Post Office Department instructed the Canadian Bank Note Company to prepare a new series of lower denominations with portraits of the sovereign. The harmony of the designs did not prevent showing the denominations in large figures, easy to read. Scroll work replaced the crowns on the design, and the stamps were bilingual with the words "postes" and "post." Portrait of His Majesty King George V taken from a photograph by the studio of Lafayette, London. Originally engraved for the Dominion of Canada dollar note, the portrait was re-engraved in a smaller size for the new issue of postage stamps. In philately the Admirals are a series of definitive stamps issued by three countries of the British Commonwealth which show King George V, King of the Great Britain and the British Dominions. The stamps are referred to as the Admirals because King George is depicted in his Admiral of the Fleet uniform. The stamps were issued by Canada (1911–28) (Scott 104-134), New Zealand (1926) (Scott 182-184), and Rhodesia (1913–24) (Scott 119-138). The second series of the King George V Admirals stamps issued first started to appear in August 1928, as stocks of the first KGV 1915 issues were becoming exhausted. Rather than portraying the King in complete profile this series portrayed the King with his head at quarter turn, to the viewer's left. The series was issued in six denominations of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8 cents, with a different color for each denomination. |
| Face value | 1 Canadian cent |
| Catalog code (Michel) | CA 128A |
| Catalog code (Scott) | CA 149 |
| Catalog code | Yvert et Tellier CA 129 Stanley Gibbons CA 275 |
| Series | admiral series |
| Stamp colour | orange |
| Stamp use | Definitive stamp |
| Print run | 300,861,500 |
| Issue date | 29/10/1928 |
| Designer | Herman Herbert Schwartz |
| Print technique | recess |
| Printed by | Canadian Bank Note Company |
| Perforation | 12,8 vertical |
| Height | 25.00 mm |
| Width | 22.00 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
