Canada #908, 908iii A (30c) Bright Red Maple Leaf Coil, 1982-1987 Artifacts and National Parks Issue, Three VFNH Start and End Strips of 4 on Different Abitibi Papers

Three well centered and very fine NH start and end coil strips of 4 of the 30c bright red maple leaf from the 1982-1987 Artifacts and National Parks issue, printed on different versions of Abitibi paper as follows:

• DF start strip on vertical wove paper.
• LF-fl start strip on horizontal wove paper.
• DF end strip on horizontal wove paper.

Only the LF paper is listed in Unitrade, though the other varieties are also quite distinct.

Unitrade lists normal strips at $18 in the grade of VF. The strips offered here grade 75 and 80 as follows:

Margins/centering: 50/70 and 45/70

Paper freshness: 5/5

Colour: 5/5

Impression: 5/5

Absence of visible paper flaws: 5/5

Perforations: 10/10