Two winged figures, symbolic of flight, are poised against a globe representing the northern half of the western hemisphere, on which is indicated in shaded outline a map of Canada. An allegory of flight, from a drawing by a staff artist of the Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited. The surcharge, fully legible, did not obscure the postage stamp design, although it obliterated the original denomination numerals. “The Post Office Department supplied the British American Bank Note Company with the necessary number of panes of 100 subjects, as manufactured by the Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited, Ottawa. The 1928 stamps had not been used so rapidly as had been expected, since a new regulation permitted the public to use ordinary postage stamps on airmail.” “No assurance existed that the new airmail rate would remain in effect for any great length of time, and the use of 5-cent stamps appeared possible at a later date. “The Post Office Department had on hand the remainder of the 5-cent airmail stamps of the 1928 issue, and the advisability of overprinting at least a portion of these was taken into consideration,” reads the release. But since 5-cent was the then airmail postage rate.
was raised from 5 cent to 6 cents, the Post Office simply decided to have the large. Although both stamps in this series feature airplanes, they were regular postage stamps, not airmail stamps. 4, 1930.Īccording to promotional material issued by the post office in 1932, a change in the rate of airmail postage required the use of a six-cent airmail stamp. 1928 that the first Official Special Delivery Stamp was issued.
The stamp depicts two victories pointing to a map of Canada on the globe beneath them while a monoplane flies above.Īnother five-cent airmail stamp (SC #C2) was issued on Dec. Icelands first airmail stamp, in 1928, was based on the 1920 10-eyrir King Christian X stamp, adding a black overprint of an airplane zooming downward to the. Printed by the Canadian Bank Note Company, the 1932 issue included a one-cent surcharge overprinted on a five-cent airmail stamp (SC #C1) – Canada’s first – which was issued on Sept. On today’s date in 1932, Canada’s Post Office Department (now Canada Post) issued a six-cent airmail stamp (Scott #C3), its third since 1928.