The Admiral Stamps of Canada

Three Cents Carmine - Coils

Date of Issue: 1924
Quantity: 47,585,000
Method of Printing: Wet and Dry processes

Introduction

The coil version of the three-cents brown value was issued in rolls of 500 which were imperforate horizontally and perforated 8 vertically. (See Summary for details of the plates.)

Three Cents Carmine Coil

Types

The three-cents carmine coils were printed from both Die I (Plates 11 and 12), using the Wet process, and Die II (Plates 13 to 14), using the Dry. The only shade variations stem from different printing processes, with those printed by the Dry method being lighter.

Part Perforate Coils

Sometime in 1924, three-cent carmine coils were issued in sheets of 100 and 200, imperforate horizonatally, and perforated 8 vertically. Lathework did not appear on the upper panes of the sheet due to the narrowness of the margin in that part of the sheet. Type D Lathework did appear on the lower panes, however. (See Lathework for an explanation of lathework types.)

The 2,200 copies of this form that were issues are of the Die I type, and were printed using the Wet process. This extraordinarily low number of printings has naturally stimulated attempts to fake it by using part perforate samples. As they were printed using different methods, however, the fakes are easy to detect, Wet printed copies being narrower than Dry printed ones.

Updated: 13 Oct 97