Port Hood Provisional

The Port Hood Provisionals were bisects (and trisects?) issued in the Nova Scotian post office of the same name.

With the announcement of a first class rate reduction from 3c to 2c to be instituted four days later on 1 January 1899, many Canadian post offices were caught short of 2c stamps. In the case of Port Hood, supplies of low values ran out by January 5. 3c Queen Victoria Maple Leaves stamps of the time were split ⅓ and ⅔, to be used as 1c and 2c stamps respectively. The old values on the bisects were also surcharged "1" in greenish blue or "2" in violet.

Covers only exist from January 5. Mint stamps also exist.

Naturally, forgeries exist as well. 



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