The John Cabot, Royal Family & Map Stamp Issue Papers 1897-1908
| Paper Type | Characteristics |
| ABNN-A | Soft, porous horizontal wove paper with fine mesh, which appears coarse in backlight. The felt side is smooth and non-porous. |
| ABNN-B | Stout, transparent oily horizontal wove paper with no clear mesh, even in backlight. |
| ABNN-C | Soft, translucent vertical wove paper, with fine mesh that appears coarse in backlighting. Somewhat rough, semi-porous felt side. Gum is cream with a semi-gloss sheen. |
| ABNN-D | As ABNN-A, but vertical wove. |
| ABNN-E | As ABNN-C, but mesh is coarse without backlighting. |
| ABNN-F | As ABNN-E, but mesh is horizontal rather than vertical. |
| ABNN-G | Very soft, and fully porous horizontal wove paper. Rough texture on felt and wire sides, with loose fibres visible under magnification. |
| ABNN-H | Crisp, stout opaque yellowish horizontal wove paper, with fine horizontal mesh, which disappears in backlighting. Semi-porous felt side. |
| ABNN-I | As ABNN-A, but rose-tinted. This paper resulted from a maritime loss at sea of a shipment that was subsequently salvaged. The sheets were shipped in between sheets of red tinted paper to prevent the sheets from sticking together. In getting wet the red dye ran and discoloured the sheets of stamps. The stamps therefore only exist with either disturbed gum, or no gum at all. |
| ABNN-J | Crisp, semi-translucent horizontal wove paper with fine mesh that disappears in backlighting. Smooth, non-porous felt side |
| ABNN-K | Medium stout opaque vertical wove paper, with no visible mesh until held up to backlighting when coarse mesh can be seen. The felt side is semi-porous and the gum is deep yellowish cream with a satin sheen. |
| ABNN-L | Medium translucent yellowish toned horizontal wove, with a rough, porous felt side. Gum is deep cream with a semi-gloss sheen. This is the paper commonly described in Unitrade as the thin bluish paper. As far as I know it is a wartime paper that was used to make emergency printings of the 3c when the then current stamps were in short supply. |
| ABNN-M | Crisp transparent horizontal wove paper, with no visible mesh until viewed in backlighting when coarse horizontal mesh is visible. |
This table is a work-in-progress in its infancy, as I have only just begun meticulously documenting papers on this issue, as I come across more stamps.