Canada Historic Land Vehicles Souvenir Sheets 1993 - 1996

Between 1993 – 1996 Canada issued 5 Souvenir Sheets showing Historic Land Vehicles.

They were all printed offset/litho by the Canadian Bank Note Co.

The 1993 SS was printed on Coated Papers paper while the 1994, 1995 & 1996 SSs were printed on Peterborough Paper.
Finally the Souvenir Pane of 25 also issued in 1996 was printed on Coated Papers not Peterborough Paper as shown in my 2016 Unitrade.
Has this been corrected in any of the subsequent Unitrade editions?

Canada 1993
Scott1490





Canada 1994
Scott 1527




Canada 1995
Scott 1552





Canada 1996
Scott 1604




Canada 1996
Scott 1605

Left side of pane




Right side of pane

Lithograving - This is beautiful ..

Thanks AravindMichigan.
I also like this set and IMO one of the best
modern Canadian stamp issues.
Great subject matter and excellent printing.

Here is the gum side showing together on one scan
the 5 souvenir sheets.

Unitrade catalogue states that Coated Papers gum
has a slight blue green tinge, which is evident in the scan.

For Peterborough Papers it states that the gum is greyish;very shiny
But Scott 1527 & 1552 which are on Peterborough Paper have a greenish tinge.
Scott 1604 on PP paper though does have a blue/greyish colour.

Scott 1605 which was printed on Coated Papers paper but wrongly
attributed to Peterborough Papers in my 2016 Unitrade does show the
CP blue-green tinge characteristic quite clearly.

All in all it confirms what Rein has previously said
about not trusting the gum colour to verify the paper maker.

Martin,

Try to find used stamps and look out for the "grooves" - both at the front and at the back - and compare that to what I showed of the High Technology stamps..... Peterborough should not have them!

Rein

Someone with a large collection of Canada new issues should do an extensive paper study which includes recording marginal inscription paper types.

Besides the different stamp papers these issues over the
3 years had a change in the type of printing.
They were still printed by CBN in offset/litho but
there was a change from standard screening to Stochastic screening

1993
Canada Uni 1490a & 1490c




Notice on the scan below that each of the 2 stamps
on the same SS has different shaped rosettes.
Hopefully Rein can explain this.




1994
Canada Uni 1527f





Still standard screening in 1994




1995
Canada Uni 1552c



Here was a change to Stochastic screening




1996
Canada Uni 1604c




The detail below shows again Stochastic screening
which has continued to the present issues whether CBN or
Lowe-Martin or Colour Innovations

I remember getting these as a gift for buying a Beaver Club membership for CAPEX 1996

Martin,

I do not have these recent stamps but I had noticed that round 1995 stochastic screening was introduced for Canadian stamps in offset-litho.

For the 'rosettes" what counts are the number of printing colours plus the screen gauge - 300dpi or 120 lines/cm? Or more or less?

Rein

I notice a slight difference in the sheet that I have, 1) at the bot. right I have a white tab in the corner 2) on your sheet at the bot. right and left orners, your says "Champion" and "Waterous", on my sheet there is nothing in the bot Right and Left corners. Nothing is mentioned of this in Unitrade. Can't figure out how to put a 'jpg' into this comment to show you.

lithograving

I dont spend a lot of new stamps, but they are very nice.

Robert