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 Alain Martineau
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| General Description : | The Canadian North is harsh and forbidding as it is beautiful and sustaining. The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a bear native largely within the Arctic Circle encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses. It is the world's largest land carnivore and also the largest bear, together with the omnivorous Kodiak Bear, which is approximately the same size. |
| Face value | 25 Cents |
| Catalog code (Michel) | CA 509AyI |
| Catalog code (Scott) | CA 597iii |
| Catalog code | Yvert et Tellier CA 474a Stanley Gibbons CA 705p |
| Series | Carricature and Landscape defenitive stamps |
| Stamp colour | multicolor |
| Stamp use | Definitive stamp |
| Issue date | 08/09/1972 |
| Designer | Reinhard Derreth |
| Paper type | Non-Flourescent Vertically Ribbed with Two Phosphor Bars (W2B) |
| Print technique | photogravure and recess |
| Printed by | British American Bank Note Co. |
| Perforation | comb 12½ x 12 |
| Height | 30.00 mm |
| Width | 24.00 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
