A Die Proof on India
Plate proofs printed on card not on India.
Lilac shades printed in Montreal
Red Brown plate proof printed on card. From a later Ottawa printing.
Only one plate was used to print the 10c value for the entire period of use 1874-1897.
It was a plate with only a single 10x10 pane.
It had single imprints at top, bottom, and both sides, and counters at top left and right.
Names for the various shades are from the Color System Guide by Richard Morris.
Color reproduction is of course not perfect.
Montreal printings 1874-1888.
The earliest printing are perfed 11.6x11.9 or 11.9x11.9
Later printings are perfed 12.0x12.0
A few examples can be found perfed 12.0x12.2,
and a very few examples are known perfed 12.3x12.3
Pale Magenta perfed 11.6x11.9
Pale Magenta perfed 12.0x12.0
Bright Lilac Rose perfed 12.0x12.0
Second Ottawa printings 1889-97.
These printings can be found perfed 12.0x12.0 or 12.0x12.2
Rose Carmine perfed 12.0x12.0
Dull Rose perfed 12.0x12.0
Bottom imprint strip, Salmon shade, perfed 12.0x12.0.
Block in Rose Pink, perfed 12.0x12.2.
Strip in Pink, perfed 12.0x12.2.
Strip in Brown Red, perfed 12.0x12.2.
Imperforate stamps printed on regular stamp paper were probably printed as favours.
Imperforate top strip of 10 with imprint and counters.
Imperforate left and right imprints
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