Issue III. January (?), 1880.
_One value._ Designed and printed by the British-American Bank Note Co.,
of Montreal, upon medium light buff card. Size, 4⁹⁄₁₀ × 3³⁄₁₀ inches. The
inscription, which is at the top of the card, is in three lines: 1st,
“_Universal Postal Union_,” in a curved line in coloured fancy letters;
2nd, “NEWFOUNDLAND TERRE NEUVE,” in coloured slanting block letters,
also curved; 3rd, “POST CARD,” in white fancy capitals on a coloured
ornamental label, with groundwork composed of horizontal lines. Below
the label there are three dotted lines for the address, each one of
which is shorter than the one above it. The stamp is in the right upper
corner. Design: Three-quarter face portrait of Queen Victoria to left,
in widow’s weeds, resting her head upon her right hand, on ground of
horizontal lines, within a plain circular band, which is filled in with
fine lines. The circle is surrounded by an ornamental frame, principally
filled in with vertical lines. At the bottom there is a straight label of
solid colour, bearing the value, “TWO CENTS,” in white Roman capitals.
The design of the card is completed by a fancy border, measuring 4½ × 2⅘
inches. Inside the frame, at the bottom of the card, in the centre, is
the name of the designers, in small coloured letters. (_Illustration 84._)