that the Canadian authorities propose to issue stamps in
imperforate sheets in the manner that has been employed by the
United States. Without doubt, the sheet under notice was regularly
prepared for issue in the accepted way, and it is the belief from
information at hand that a sheet of four hundred of the stamps was
printed and reached the public.

This announcement excited much interest among collectors of Canadian
stamps and enquiry regarding the seeming irregularity was made of the
postal authorities at Ottawa. The Post Office Department were convinced
that no irregularity could have occurred, but finally made an enquiry,
and were, of course, compelled to believe the evidence of the existence
of imperforate specimens. In the issue of the WEEKLY for February 20th,
1909, a more complete story of the find is related, viz.:--

The sheet as found was not of 400 stamps, but of over 200 stamps,
as the right-hand half of the sheet on which our report was based
and which was not before us when we wrote, contained a pane of 100
stamps, plate number 14 and an irregularly torn part of plate
number 13, showing about fifteen whole stamps and parts of others.
Assuming that the lower pane in the left half was torn
approximately in the manner of the right lower pane, or plate
number 13, the find consisted originally of 230 stamps, more or
less. This reckoning agrees, we believe, with the recollection of
the person who rescued the imperforates from oblivion, in a
philatelic sense. The plate numbers on the sheet that gave
authority for the chronicling of the stamps by the WEEKLY are 13
and 14, and not 18, as first printed.

A. N. Lemieux of Chicago is the man who found the stamps. While in
Ottawa five years ago or so (this was later corrected to June,
1906), when he was in business in that city, he saw the stamps just
within the iron fence that has been described as surrounding the
establishment of the bank note company that prints the Canadian
stamps. The day was a rainy one and the sheet had evidently been
blown out of the window. Mr. Lemieux apparently attached no value
to the sheet of over 200 stamps, which was in a wet, crumpled
condition, and without gum. Mr. Lemieux was under the impression,
no doubt, that gum had been on the sheet but had been washed off by
the rain.

Mr. Se