Four commemorative Canadian postage stamps of four famous Canadian physicians, including: Jennie K. Trout, Wilder Penfield, Sir Frederick G. Banting, and Harold R. Griffith; stamps are physically connected to each other with two stamps on the top row and two stamps on the bottom row and grouped as …
Four commemorative Canadian postage stamps of four famous Canadian physicians, including: Jennie K. Trout, Wilder Penfield, Sir Frederick G. Banting, and Harold R. Griffith; stamps are physically connected to each other with two stamps on the top row and two stamps on the bottom row and grouped as a right corner block; first stamp from the left on the top row is of physician Jennie K. Trout and she is wearing a red suit with a necklace, her hair tied in a bun, and looking over her left shoulder with a grey building behind her left shoulder; second stamp on the top row is of neurosurgeon Wilfred Penfield and he is wearing a green suit with a blue and gold tie, looking over his right shoulder with a grey building behind his right shoulder; the first stamp from the left on the bottom row is of physician Sir Frederick G. Banting and he waering a grey suit with a blue tie and glasses; he is also shown looking to his left and behind his left shoulder is a red brick building; the second stamp on the bottom row features anaesthesiologist Harold R. Griffith and he is wearing a blue suit, a purple and blue tie, and glasses; his head is facing his right and behind his right shoulder is a brown and white brick building; at the bottom corner of each stamp there is the number 40 and the word Canada; their names are on the opposite side of the stamp to which they are facing and the title of each person's career can be found at the top of each person's respective stamp; there is also a medicine symbol, consisting of a single snake wrapped around a staff, depicted on the right or left shoulder of each doctor.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Belonged to the donor, Dr. Jacalyn Duffin, MD, PhD, a hematologist and historian who held the Hannah Chair of the History of Medicine at Queen's University from1988 to 2017.
On the front of the first stamp: "PHYSICIAN - MEDECIN // JENNIE K. TROUT, 1841-1921 // 40 CANADA"; on the front of the second stamp: "NEUROCHIRURGIEN - NEUROSURGEON // WILFRED PENFIELD, 1891-1976 // CANADA 40; on the front of the third stamp: "PHYSICIAN / RESEARCHER -MEDECIN / CHERCHEUR // SIR FREDERICK G. BANTING, 1891-1941 // 40 CANADA"; on the front of the fourth stamp: "ANESTHESISTE - ANESTHESIOLOGIST // HAROLD R. GRIFFITH, 1894-1985 // CANADA 40"