Recherche dans la collection - Specimen sheets as ready for issue and as cancelled of Jubilee stamps 1897 [philatelic record]

Accession consists of 29 plate proof sheets from the defaced plates prepared for the Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee (1897) issue, on card, and arranged in denominational order. These cards were mounted in a half-leather bound book stamped in gilt lettering, "Specimen sheets as ready for issue and as cancelled of Jubilee stamps 1897". Pages 1 through 29 have been so numbered.
The sheets "as ready for issue" were not to be found and a note on the inside cover reads: "Note: Uncancelled specimen sheets were not received it having eventually been thought unnecessary to get such. [Signed] E.P.S."
These defaced plate proof sheets represent all denominations issued, and all plates created, for this series. The plates themselves were defaced using either a dot or single line, and the proofs were then taken from them. The plates, die, and transfer rolls were destroyed on 10 September 1897.
Includes all issued denominations for the series.

The volume was originally prepared by the American Bank Note Company (Ottawa), and delivered to the Post Office Department. It was later transferred to the National Postal Museum and then to the Canadian Postal Archives in 1988 as Accession 1989-565.

29 sheets of postage stamps.

Canada : 3 cents and other denominations.