Nickel, Discovery at Sudbury, 1883
October 29th, 2007
Design: John Capon
Client: Canada Post Corporation
Date: 1983
© Canada Post Corporation {1983}. Reproduced with Permission
Sudbury is a city in Northern Ontario, nicknamed ‘the Nickel City’.
High concentrations of nickel-copper ore were discovered in Sudbury in 1883 during the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The text in the stamp is comprised of a silver foil to represent the shiny metal nickel found in the Murray Mine at the edge of the Sudbury Basin .
-Josh Kaplan
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1. v.fay | April 2nd, 2010 at 20:27
What would be the value of one of these stamps with a misprint?
The last ‘L’ is missing.
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3. Philatelic Friday: Nickel&hellip | March 25th, 2011 at 12:03
[...] an extra layer to my appreciation of the design. I was able to find out more about the stamp on The Canadian Design Resource, which looks like a pretty awesome site documenting all sorts of Canadian [...]
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