Newfoundland 86

     On this stamp issued by Newfoundland in 1908 the peninsula of Avalon appears to be separate from Newfoundland proper. Although it is difficult to see the road that connects the two appears as a bridge between them. Walter Klinefelter writes, "...since the same had been done previously by a supposedly reliable cartographer who delineated Newfoundland on a much larger scale, it is apparent that the designer merely copied a mistake." The Carto-Philatelist 2:1(1956)11.