The Canadian 2010 $10 Definitive features the blue whale, the image being the work of master engraver Jorge Peral. This stamp was produced using a combination of two printing techniques: intaglio (for the whale in the foreground) and offset lithography (for the colours in the background). The intaglio process (which was used to produce Canada’s first postage stamp) was recently reinvented using a new, state-of-the-art laser engraving technology. The colour control markings on the left margin of a full sheet of 2 are in the shape of scuba divers.
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05 January 2011
Canada 2010 Blue Whale Full Sheet
The Canadian 2010 $10 Definitive features the blue whale, the image being the work of master engraver Jorge Peral. This stamp was produced using a combination of two printing techniques: intaglio (for the whale in the foreground) and offset lithography (for the colours in the background). The intaglio process (which was used to produce Canada’s first postage stamp) was recently reinvented using a new, state-of-the-art laser engraving technology. The colour control markings on the left margin of a full sheet of 2 are in the shape of scuba divers.
19 December 2009
French Polynesia 2009 Scuba diving
Issued on 11 September 2009, the miniature sheet shows 2 scuba divers: One, near the bottom of the sheet, handling a camera in an underwater housing; the other seemingly caressing an overhead napoleon wrasse. I think the image of the diver caressing the wrasse was photoshopped, since I can't imagine any diver putting a hand near the mouth of such a big fish. There are 3 stamps in the sheet, one repeating the scene on the miniature sheet, the second shows baby turtles and the third a whale.
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