Threepenny Beaver Post Letterbox Hybrid

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Hidden : 1/5/2011
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:


Welcome to the Island's third Letterbox Hybrid cache, the Threepenny Beaver Post (see also, (GC1JCWC) Spud Island Post and (GC2J57A) Ice Boat Post).

For details on letterboxing click here.

Please make sure you do not take items from the zip lock baggy as trade items -- they are meant to stay in the cache!

The cache is an ammo can. In a separate zip lock baggy inside the cache there is a rubber stamp, ink pad and logbook. If you have your own personalized stamp, use it when signing the letterbox logbook. Then use the cache's unique stamp in your own letterboxing logbook.

Province of Canada Stamps

The Province of Canada began issuing stamps in 1851. The first were in the values of 3d, 6d, and 12d. Designed by Sandford Fleming, the Threepenny Beaver depicted a beaver in an oval frame, and is considered the first Canadian postage stamp. In fact was the first official postage stamp anywhere to picture an animal. The 6d was a portrait of Prince Albert and the 12d (1 shilling) a portrait of Queen Victoria.

In the late 1850s, the postal service came out with new values: ½d, 7½d, and 10d, the first two depicting Victoria, and the 10d featuring a portrait of Jacques Cartier. The 7½d was unusual in that it was also denominated "6 Pence Sterling". In 1858 stamps began to be perforated.

In 1859 the province standardized on a single decimal monetary system, which also meant new stamps would be needed. In general the existing designs were used, resulting in a series of five stamps of values from 1¢ to 17¢, plus a 2¢ value issued in 1864.

Prince Edward Island Stamps

Prince Edward Island's first stamps were in pence, issued during the years 1860 to 1871, and the decimal system of postage was used in 1872 and 1873, later than the other stamp issuing provinces. Following the Island’s joining Confederation in 1873, PEI used Canadian postage, though the use of the former PEI stamps remained legal.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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