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00:00World Stamps
00:10Blue Nose Stamp
00:13The Blue Nose is the nickname for a 50 cent definitive postage stamp
00:19issued by the Canadian Post Office on January 8, 1929
00:25as part of the King George V scroll issue.
00:29The stamp depicts the fishing schooner Blue Nose
00:33and the design by the Canadian Banknote Company, Ottawa
00:37is a montage of two different images of a vessel racing off Halifax Harbour.
00:43Blue Nose was a fishing and racing gaff rig schooner
00:47built in 1921 in Nova Scotia, Canada.
00:51A celebrated racing ship and fishing vessel, Blue Nose,
00:55under the command of Angus Walters, became a provincial icon for Nova Scotia
01:01and an important Canadian symbol in the 1930s,
01:05serving as a working vessel until she was wrecked in 1946.
01:11Nicknamed the Queen of the North Atlantic, she was later commemorated by a replica Blue Nose 2,
01:17Blue Nose 2, built in 1963.
01:21The name Blue Nose originated as a nickname for Nova Scotians from as early as late 18th century.
01:29The stamp is considered a classic even though it was issued after 1900.
01:35It has been called Canada's finest stamp and is a favourite among collectors.
01:41Three printing plates were made.
01:43Plate 1 of 200 impressions was never used because of defects found,
01:49but Plate 2 and 3 of 100 impressions were used to print 1,044,900 copies of the stamp.
02:00The photographs for the engraved stamp were taken by W.R. Macaskill in 1922
02:08and the vignette was engraved by the American Banknote Company, New York City.
02:14In 2001, a Blue Nose first day cover sold for $3,650 Canadian dollars.
02:22Stamps issued in 1982 and 1999 show all or part of the original Blue Nose stamp in their designs.
02:32The 1982 stamp is a stamp-on-stamp design,
02:36while the 1998 issue was in commemoration of the naval designer William James Rowe of the original schooner.
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