2¢ King George V 1931


2¢ King George V 1931
Added by Alain Martineau
General Description : Portrait engraved by Carl Theodore Arlt
Based on a photograph by Lafayette Portrait Studios
From 1st April, 1930, the contract for the manufacture of Canadian postage stamps and postal stationery was awarded to the British North American Bank Note Company, Limited, Ottawa. This is an old- established firm which had not manufactured Canadian postage stamps since March, 1897. This change of contract necessitated the issue of completely new, regular series of stamps with the identical portraits of King George V on all the lower denominations. Portrait of His Majesty King George V by Carl Arlt. To replace the 3-cent provisional stamps of 24th June, 1931, two new regular-issue stamps were needed. The former 2-cent red-colour stamp could no longer be reprinted in the same colour since the Universal Postal Union agreements required a red-coloured stamp to pay the first-class rate on one-ounce letters.
Face value 2 Cents
Catalog code (Michel) CA 143IIA
Catalog code (Scott) CA 166
Catalog code Stanley Gibbons CA 292b
Series Monarchy, King George V
Stamp colour deep brown
Stamp use Definitive stamp
Print run 356.000.000
Issue date 04/07/1931
Designer Herman Herbert Schwartz
Print technique recess
Printed by British American Bank Note Company
Perforation 11, 8.5 vertical
Height 25.00 mm
Width 21.00 mm
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