Issue I. June (?), 1871.
_One value._—Designed and printed by the British-American Bank Note
Company upon light buff card; size, 4½ × 3 inches. At the top are two
lines of inscription. First, “CANADA POST CARD,” in Roman capitals;
second, “THE ADDRESS ONLY TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE,” in block letters.
Lower down are three ruled lines, diminishing in length, and the first is
headed by the word “TO” in fancy script type. Between the last line and
the frame at the bottom of the card, in the centre, is “British-American
Bank Note Co., Montreal and Ottawa,” in small type. The stamp is in
the right upper corner. Design: Diademed head of Queen Victoria to
right, upon ground of horizontal lines, within a dotted circle, which
is surrounded by an ornamental frame. The corners are filled in with
horizontal lines, and in the centre of each is a small trilobed figure
with three balls within a circle. At the bottom of the stamp is a
straight label of solid colour, with rounded ends, inscribed “ONE CENT,”
in Roman capitals. The card is completed by an engine-turned frame; size,
4⅓ × 2½ inches. The inscription and the label of value at the bottom of
the stamp are in darker colour than the rest of the design. The cards are
separated on the sheet by thin coloured lines running the whole length of
the cards. (_Illustration 44._)