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A Rough Guide to Papers Used I The Newsletter of the Large and Small Queens Study Group I I Number 17 November 2000 A Rough Guide to Papers Used Auction Alert The Horace W. by John Hillson which may vary in thickness, Harrison Canadian Postal and may have gum under- Stationery Collection is in I don't know if you neath which is clearly going the midst of being auction by share my difficulty to differ- to affect the outcome. So it is Robert A. Lee. entiate the various papers best to forget gauges, in my The first two sessions used on Large and Small view, which brings one back were in June and September Queens from photographs of to descriptions. 2000. The next two sessions .their backs. Those in Boggs To simplify matters, are January and May 2001. aren't bad but he shows only one can divide the papers Lee calls this "The finest four, while Duckworth into hard and soft, and thin, Canadian stationery collec- shows some ten used medium and thick. tion eyer offered in four between 1868 to 1872. Dealing with hard public auctions." If it were not from and soft first, the major char- Further information is the excellent descriptions acteristic common to the available from Robert A. Lee accompanying the latter pic- hard paper is that the perfora- Auctions, #203 -1139 tures, could you honestly tell tions are generally cleanly Sutherland Ave., Kelowna, the difference between say cut. That doesn't mean it BC V 1Y N2, phone 1-800- Duckworth's Paper 1, a thin can't have confetti still 755-2437, or e-mail to transparent paper, and adhering, but that is the fault [email protected]. Duckworth's Paper 4, a stout of the perforator, not a char- paper equally transparent, acteristic of the paper. A note to any dealers from the photo. So it really Soft paper, on the in our membership: If you does boil down to description other hand, has more "give", have an auction or sale and that inevitably can lead the result is that the papers' coming up with LQ and SQ to misinterpretation. perforations tend to have a material, let me know (well From time to time I slightly woolly appearance, ahead of time) so I can put have heard of collectors that is the holes tend to have the information out to our checking paper thickness fibres still attached, because members. with a paper gauge. There the perforator has tended to are a number of problems slightly tear through, rather with this. than cut through. First the gauge has to To t.ean example be continually recalibrated to from immediately before the 1 ensure its accuracy. Small Queen period. the laid Secondly, manufac- paper on which the l# and 2$ turers when using mechani- Large Queens were printed is ~ cal gauges - it may be differ- thick soft. The l$ can be I ent with electronic ones - easily spotted in any cata- always measured papers in logue showing it in company stacks and averaged the with other hge Queens answer. because of the appearance of Thirdly, Postage the perforations. stamps have ink on top Continued Page 6 Using the Half- Cent Small Queen Back in one of the very early newsletters, I asked what a half-cent stamp was good for. The answer then was for bulk mailings of advertising cards to every household along the carrier's route. Pictured here are two covers at the other extreme, with hal f-centers paying the full rate. Robert Hasle- wood shares a cover from Montreal to London, England, July 27, 1894, on which 30 half-cent stamps paid the triple letter rate of Is$. Was the sender trying to make a statement or just using up a bunch of scrap postage? Ted Bowen sent in a cover from W. Kelsey Hall, Stamp and Coin broker in Peter- borough Ont. On the front we see 2 half- cent stamps and a ~e~istered-marking. Was Mr. Hall a favored patron of the post office to mail registered letters for a penny? No, the other 7$ is on the reverse, 14more half- cent stamps along with a Richmond, Quebec December 24 postmark, and several faint R.P.O. marlungs . need for the 112e or 6d 1902 members hi^ list of 22 The William Rennie values. This also applies tb names includGs pioneer the Jubilee, Leaf, and dealers G.A. Lowe, E. Correspondence Numeral issues whose covers Marks, and E.Y. Parker. Also A Personal Recollection were frequently destroyed to listed is Captain (Robert) by Richard M. Lamb soak off very fine c.d.s. 6$, Rennie at Adelaide and 7$, and 85 values. Rennie Jarvis Streets, the address of William Rennie Company perfins which the Rennie Seed Company. established the William commenced in 1912 of Robert Rennie enlist- Rennie Seed Company in course missed the Small ed with the Queen's Own 1870. After he retired, his Queen em. Rifles of Canada as a rifle- sons Thomas, John, and The Rennie find fills man in 1881. He was com- Robert (later to become a gap between the Cmwn missioned a second lieuten- Major General Rennie) con- Lands correspondence and ant in 1887, was a captain in ducted the business in part- the Evans, Bruce, Pearce, 1902 or earlier, and became a nership with Thomas as pres- and Tyler finds. It lacks the lieutenant colonel in 1911. ident. scarce early shades and fancy In France, as Brig- In the early 1890s the cancels but is notable for a adier General in 1915 he firm was located at 136 huge number of registered commanded the 4th Adelaide Street East at Jarvis and small town envelopes all Canadian Brigade which in Toronto in a neat three neatly opened with a sharp comprised four infantry bat- story building which it occu- kmfe and then stored under talions. They were the 18th pied until the early 1950s. ideal conditions in wooden (London), 19th (Toronto), Envelopes which boxes. 20th (1st Central Ontario have survived are mainly There are some nice regiment), and the 21st 1894-1900 so that the Small advertising covers including (Kingston). Queens represent only a four fairs, exhibitions, agricultural Serving at that time year period. They are mainly corner cards, manufacturers, in the 1st Central Ontario from nual customers in the and town promotionals. Regiment was none other richest arable farming areas Squared circles were just than Lt. Vinnie Greene, later of Canada, namely southern attracting interest and the to become one of Canada's Ontario and the Prairie 1954 Whitehead illustrates greatest philatelists. He was Provinces. I WILLIAM RENNIE, 1 Seedsman, uTORO.NTO,CANADA. four of them. The 1893 rari- chairman of the first three The small ret'urn ties like Foothill and CAPEX exhibitions. He envelopes with bold type left Coleman were too early for formed a marvelous collec- little space for stamps on this find but 1894 tion of BNA and judged registered mail. Those cus- Waterdown and Kingsville internationally. tomers with l$ and 3$ Small could have embellished In 1975 the Vincent Queen values often used two Rennie covers. G. Greene Philatelic of each for the 8$ rate. Let me now refer to Research Foundation was Others having a 3$ the History of the Toronto established and now has new value on hand bought a 59?, Stamp Collectors Club 1892- premises in Toronto housing otherwise it was a single 8$ 1992 by Gary Scrimgeour a library, meeting room and franking. The 2$ values (153 pages, hardbound, provides an expertization mostly arrived on drop letters 1994) which should be in service. from Toronto businesses. every philatelic library. The Continued Page 4 Few customers would have a The Rennie 1926. ' " had the covers selected, lib- Correspondence I have a few com- erated, and declared govern- Continued from Page 3 ments regarding this amazing ment surplus in a matter of story. Apart from his 1902 minutes. I cannot find It is not known if TSCC membership and a auction lots in either the Vinnie and General Rennie registered handwritten envel- Jarrett or Greene sales which were friends before or during ope in 1924 from Rennie match the covers in question. the war but they were cer- Seeds to a stamp dealer in Neither can I find any refer- tainly well acquainted in New Y ork, possibly from the ence to a personal collection later years. The next mention General, I have no clues as to being sold on behalf of of General Rennie is found his philatelic knowledge, General rennie or his estate. in the minutes of the TSCC collecting interes ts, or activi- Major General reporting on Anecdote Night, ties. Rennie, CB 1918, CMG and I quote: It is unclear why, 1917, DSO 1915, MVO "Fred Jarrett showed with an eight-year accumula- 1915, served in France 1915- a collection of Canadian tion of covers in hls business 1918 and participated in the stampless covers on March premises, the C3eneral would Second Battle of Ypres and 19, 1959. While the covers raid the Crown Larids files. fought at Vimy Ridge, Hill were being passed around, In 1926 Fred Jarrett 70, and Amiens, winning the Vinnie Greene (chairman for might have been in the Croix de Guerre. He was the evening) 'started a chain Archives making tracings for mentioned in dispatches on reaction on anecdotes by his illustrations in his 1929 seven different occasions. bringing up the story of how Stamps of British North After surviving four Gen. Rennie raided the America. He could have years of carnage in the First Archives at Queen's Park spotted items of interest and World War, General Rennie and how Fred successfully advised the General.
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