610-D Appears to be Imperial Tobacco.
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Paste-up Stamps - Starting with Series "A", paste-ups of strip-stamps (RP) can be found with cancellations of Imperial Tobacco (6-10D and 1-23D). It is conjectured that Imperial was forming sheets of stamps into rolls for use in its stamping machines.
The contracts with the stamp printers (BABN and CBN) specified only sheet-formats for tobacco stamps. However, the following statement was appended to the specifications given in the 1935 and 1950 contracts with BABN :
https://sites.google.com/site/canad...baccostamps/"Note: The [Revenue] Department may at any time require stamps for Cut Tobacco and Cigarettes to be printed on continuous strips, without splicing or joining [i.e., paste-ups] and to be delivered in rolls."
It is not known if such rolls were ever produced. Due to the means by which these paste-up stamps appear to have been created privately by Imperial Tobacco, they will not be listed as varieties.