Description: This crisp, uncancelled block of four 8-cent stamps was issued by Canada Post to honor the 100th anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell's initial conception of the telephone. The graphic art design seamlessly arranges three distinct generations of communication hardware against a soft, neutral studio backdrop. Displayed on the left is an antique 1897 black pedestal "candlestick" desktop telephone, which transitions into the center wooden-framed 1875 "Gallows" prototype structure constructed during Bell's early laboratory experiments. Completing the horizontal timeline on the right is a modern, light-blue 1970s push-button Contempra telephone equipped with a coiled handset cord, symbolizing the industrial heights of Canadian electronic manufacturing.
Circa: 1974
Condition: MNH intact block of 4
Notes:
Alexander Graham Bell actually conceived the fundamental scientific mechanics of speech transmission during the summer of 1874 while relaxing at his family’s historic homestead in Tutela Heights near Brantford, Ontario.