The Peace Issue of 1946-1952
This issue was intended to replace the high value War Issue stamps in 1946. Thus a complete set of definitives technically consists of either these stamps, plus the printings of the 1c through 5c War Issue stamps from 1946 through 1949; or these stamps, plus the Postes-Postage low values from 1949-1952, depending on what year you are talking about. The designer of the series was, once again, Herman Herbert Schwartz. The stamps were engraved by four different engravers as follows: The 8c was engraved by Warrell Hauck. The 7c, 10c, 10c secial delivery, 17c, 20c and $1 were engraved by Silas Robert Allen. The 14c was engraved by Arthur C Vogel. The 50c was engraved by Joseph Keller. The stamps were printed by the Canadian Bank Note Company in sheets of 200, which were then guillotined into four post office panes of 50 stamps each. This was the second issue to feature airmail special delivery stamps. However, their use was not continued after this issue. I gathe...