The Admiral Stamps of Canada

Two Cents Carmine - Coil

Date of Issue: October 1912
Quantity: 171,174,500 (Horiz), 14,290,000 (Vert Perf 12 Horiz), 4,005,000 (Vert Perf 8 - Horiz)
Method of Printing: Wet process on vertical wove paper

Introduction

The two-cents carmine coils were issued in both vertical and horizontal formats. As vertical, or endwise, coils, they were supplied in rolls of 1000 subjects and were perforated 8 or 12 horizontally. As horizontal, or sidewise, coils, they were provided in rolls of 500 and were perforated 8 vertically. See Summary for information pertaining to the plates.

TWO CENT HORIZONTAL COIL
Perf 8

TWO CENT VERTICAL COIL
Perf 8		 TWO CENT VERTICAL COIL
Perf 12

Shades

Shades vary from dull rose in the earlier printings to carmine and scarlet in the later printings.

Retouches and Re-entries

Marler reports that the only retouches that he found in either the horizontal or vertical coils were to the vertical line in the right numeral box.

Lathework

Type B on Plates 11 and 12 of the horizontal format. (See Lathework for an explanation of the types.)

Updated: 14 Oct 97