A complete 25c Bilingual booklet from the 1953 Karsh Issue, with 1c violet brown, 3c carmine rose, 4c violet, 3 panes of 3. Front cover VIj, back cover Lx, type II cover. No rate page. Unitrade values this booklet at $20.
The booklet offered here grades 75 as follows:
Centering/Margins: 45/70
Cover Freshness: 10/10
Condition of Cover Edges: 5/5
Freshness of the Panes: 5/5
Absence of Visible Cover Flaws or Stains: 5/5
Condition of Interleaving and Contents: 5/5
BK47 was the third and final booklet to be issued as part of the Karsh issue, and it is both the most complex booklet in the issue, as well as being the last chewing gum booklet to ever be issued. As in the past issues, this booklet was issued in both English and bilingual versions, with 305,550 English booklets and 154,050 bilingual booklets being printed. The English booklets were distributed among 16 different front and back cover combinations (4 different front covers and four back covers. The bilingual versions were distributed amoung a possible 225 different booklets, with 15 different types of each cover being possible, though many have still never been reported. The scarcity of these individual types becomes immediately apparent, as 154,050 divided by 225 gives less than 1,000 booklets per type on average.
On the English booklets we have found two constant varieties, consisting of a break in the scroll below "d" of Canada, and another in which there are multiple breaks in the shield and in the left text bos on the front cover.
