Canada Stamp #4 - Beaver (1852) 3d

Gorgeous fresh beaver on the scarce ribbed soft wove paper with very prominent horizontal lines (especially on the back), easily one of the strongest example of this paper variety we have seen! Also with a light four-ring cancellation #21 (Montreal, L.C.)!

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.

Very beautiful three pence beaver! It is on thin paper (0.002"), like the #4d or #4xi, but with a deep red shade, similar to the #4i (#4d is orange red, #4xi is scarlet vermilion)... an unlisted combination!

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

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.

Close to four margins with a discrete cancellation and the beautiful scarlet vermilion shade!

Almost four margins with a neat cancellation!

True red shade on wove paper (#4), four big margins, clean socked-on-the-nose seven-ring target cancellation, light diagonal crease on the right.