Canada Stamp #4 - Beaver (1852) 3d

Very scarce unused three pence beaver with almost four margins and a fresh orange red shade. We sell it conservatively as no gum, but the gum on the back looks like it might be genuine (cv. $3,250). A very high quality mint copy worthy of the best collections!

Beautiful deep brown red shade (#4a) with four even margins, a socked-on-the-nose target cancellation and a very nice envelope from 1854 from which the stamp (reportedly) came from!

Orange red three pence beaver with a remarkably oily paper! The paper is also very thin and transparent. We have scarcely seen a #4iv that has a paper so similar to a #1 on laid paper.

#4a Brown-red

Very fresh orange red colour with four margins on thin oily paper!

#4iv thin oily paper.

Four margins

Big margins, but slightly into design at lower left, nice pen cancellation, very light pressed out crease at upper right corner, adjacent stamp slightly visible at bottom.

On hard wove paper with prominent ribbed horizontal lines (especially visible on the back), a pretty scarce paper variety! Also with four margins, jumbo on the right, a deep fresh red colour and a cleanly struck socked-on-the-nose seven-ring target cancellation!