Alexander Graham Bell - 4 cents 1947 - Canadian stamp
Specifications
- Quantity: 25 050 000
- Issue date: March 3, 1947
- Printer: Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited
- Scott: #274
Alexander Graham Bell - 4 cents 1947 prices and values
The value of a Alexander Graham Bell - 4 cents 1947 stamp depends on several factors such as quality and wear, supply and demand, rarity, finish and more. Values in the section are based on the market, trends, auctions and recognized books, publications and catalogs. This section also includes information on errors and varieties and characteristics.
- Used
- Mint
- Never hinged
VG | F | VF | FDC | |
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Alexander Graham Bell - 4 cents 1947 | $0.06 | $0.12 | $0.15 | $2.00 |
VG | F | VF | |
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Alexander Graham Bell - 4 cents 1947 | $0.06 | $0.11 | $0.17 |
VG | F | VF | |
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Alexander Graham Bell - 4 cents 1947 | $0.07 | $0.14 | $0.21 |
Description
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, a native of Edinburgh and inventor of the telephone, was born in 1847. After studying at the universities of Edinburgh and London he emigrated to Canada with his father, who like himself had studied speech and the methods of treating vocal defects. He settled at Paris, Ontario and later at "Tutela Heights," a community near Brantford, Ontario. During a visit to his parents' homestead in "Tutela Heights" in 1874 he invented the telephone. The first telephone was manufactured in 1875 in Boston, Mass., but Dr. Bell gave his first successful demonstration of transmitting speech (one way) over a telegraph wire between Brantford and Paris, Ont. In Boston Dr. Bell opened a school for teachers of the deaf and became Professor at the University.
The stamp depicts a winged figure of Fame crowning the effigy of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell. The symbolic figure and the portrait of Dr. Bell surmount a representation of the Western Hemisphere, indicating the main theatre of his activities. Dr. Bell's invention of the telephone is suggested by the poles with wires in background.
Creators
Picture engraved by Silas Robert Allen
Designed by Herman Herbert Schwartz
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