Trying to catalog this stamp using Scott. There are two colors listed. Black and Brown. Also, this is either a trimmed stamp or maybe imperf. I do not have another one to compare it to.
This stamp is blue. Even more so than the later issue:
Is the earlier stamp known in this color and imperf?
It's fun to note that the first stamp shows some impressive claws on the seal. This is because the designers in American Bank Note Company in New York had never seen the animal, and were told (allegedly) that it was like a sea lion. They had never seen one of those either, so they gave it claws. The error was corrected on the later issue.
The original engraving was based on a real seal, possibly the ringed seal or the grey seal, both of which do indeed have claws and are native to parts of Newfoundland. Ring seal:
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Posted 01/28/2019 02:50 am
I should have gone to bed earlier. I missed it. I was busy looking for a listing for imperf
