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Indians of Canada, Indians of the Plains (4 stamps in set).
Stamp: Artifacts
Edition type: regular issues
Denomination: 8 (c.)
Date of issue: 1972 Jul. 6
Depiction: The artifacts are, from left to right, a club, a feather headdress, a woman's saddle, a beaded saddle bag, a moccasin, a decorated bison skull, a parfleche bag and a calumet or pipe
Colour: multicolored
Paper: ordinary or fluorescent coated paper
Designer: Georges Beaupré
Photograph: Ray Webber
Perforation: comb. 12:12,5
Printing process: lithograph
Size of a stamp (mm): 37×31
Size of a sheet (mm):
Sheet composition: 50 (5×10) stamps
Printing run: 15 000 000
Stamp issuing authority: Canada Post Corporation
Printer: Ashton-Potter Limited
  Standard cancellation of first day (ink - black) and art envelope were used in first day of issue.
 
  Stamp "Artifacts" and stamp "Buffalo Chase" were printed chequerwise in same sheet of 50.
 
Themes: Bison (Bison bison), Indians
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