Issue I. May, 1875, to end 1881.
_One value._ On light buff and yellowish-white wove unwatermarked paper.
The stamp is impressed at the right side of the wrapper, about two and a
half inches from the top. Design: Diademed profile of Queen Victoria to
right upon a background of horizontal lines, enclosed within an oval band
of solid colour contained between two white lines, the inner one of which
has ornaments running round the central oval. The band is inscribed in
Roman capitals “CANADA POSTAGE” above, and “ONE CENT” below. At either
side, between the two inscriptions, are small circles containing a fancy
Arabic numeral of value. Above and below the circles are conventional
ornaments, and beneath the bottom ones a small Maltese cross. Shape of
stamp, an upright oval. The wrappers are gummed at the reverse side in a
straight line along the top. The gum used is brown or white in colour,
and the quantity employed varies greatly in different specimens. Two
sizes of the wrappers are known. (_Illustration 41._)
_Size A._ 9³⁄₁₀ × 5 _inches_.