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Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/canadianstampnews Follow us on Twitter @trajanpublisher STAMP NEWS Follow us on Instagram @trajan_csn Volume 44 • Number 16 November 26 - December 9, 2019 $4.50 Calgary club tops 2019 CSN Cover Contest After a month of voting, the second annual CSN Cover Con- test has come to a close with the Calgary Philatelic Society (CPS) taking top honours in the club category. One of seven clubs to mail a Toronto collector Derwin Mak created a first-day cover for one cover to CSN to mark October’s of Canada Post’s 2019 holiday stamps, which were issued Nov. National Stamp Collecting 4. The cachet to the left of the cover features a photograph of Month, the CPS was an- Mak (left), his friend Theresa (centre) and Karen Kain (right), nounced as the winner on Nov. artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada. 1. The club’s cover, which earned 112 votes, celebrates National Stamp Collecting The results are in: the Calgary Philatelic Society Private cachet-makers Month alongside the club’s an- wins the first-place prize in the club category of the nual fall show – Caltapex – 2019 CSN Cover Contest. stymied in early 1970s which is also held in October. “The CPS is proud and By Jesse Robitaille only began selling cacheted – happy to have won the con- voting at the club’s monthly RPO” postmark dated Sept. 23, oday, first-day covers are is- or illustrated – first-day covers test,” says CPS member and meeting this September, mem- 2019. sued alongside stamps by in the early 2000s. cover designer Dave Bartlet. bers chose one photograph for For taking the top spot in the Tmany postal services around “In fact, it took decades be- “All hobbies these days often the stamp while two runners- club category, the CPS wins the world, including in Can- fore the U.S. Postal Service need to promote what they do up were chosen for the cachet. $100 from CSN. ada, where the “official first- (USPS) would sell a first-day as there is a lot of competition “We felt the theme of pandas “We were late in the game to day cover” (OFDC) signalled cover,” said collector and for the attention of people in for the show was something create our cover this year since the demise of private cachet- award-winning exhibitor Der- the market.” that is attractive to all genera- our show was not until the making in that country. win Mak, of Toronto. Inspired by the Calgary tions, young collectors and third week of October, but see- While Canada’s Post Office “For decades, the way to get Zoo’s ongoing panda exhibit, older collectors alike,” adds ing your promotion in the elec- Department issued its first a first-day cover in the U.S. was CPS members decided to frank Bartlet. tronic Canadian Stamp News and OFDC nearly 50 years ago, in to get the stamp, put it on your their cover with a customized The cover’s stamp is also remembering last year when 1971, its American counterpart own envelope, send it to the Picture Postage stamp. After cancelled by an “Airways Continued on page 19 city of the first day of issue and Publications RegistrationMail No. 09136 Agreement No. 40069699 get the postmaster there to cancel it and send it back to you,” added Mak, who’s a member Holiday, Hanukkah stamps of the American First Day Cover Society (AFDCS). round out 2019 stamp issues “You just could not walk into the post office and buy a first- By Jesse Robitaille This year, the Crown corpo- mas stamp focusing on the day cover.” Three sets, five stamps ration continued the tradi- Magi plus a “shiny-and- While the USPS has since dress up festive holiday mail tion with two sets issued on bright” secular holiday trio. started offering first-day cov- Nov. 4. The festive designs “Wishing you the best of ers, they generally lack a cachet A pair of holiday sets issued include a traditional Christ- the holidays, and happy col- – something that differs from in early November lecting in the new Canada’s OFDCs. plus a separate Ha- year,” writes Jim Phil- “That’s because the U.S. has nukkah set released lips, director of stamp a strong first-day cover indus- later that month are services, in the Novem- try, which has a strong lobby among the final issues ber issue of Canada group with the USPS,” said of this year’s stamp Post’s Details magazine. Mak, who’s also a member of program. the North Toronto Stamp Club, For 55 years, Can- CHRISTMAS STAMP Royal Philatelic Society of Can- ada Post has issued Available in booklets ada and invite-only Philatelic themed stamps to of 12 stamps, this year’s Specialists Society of Canada. adorn holiday mail. Continued on page 17 Continued on page 11 Guide us to thy perfect light The Magi This stamp issue celebrates the Christmas season with a design featuring the Magi – also known as the Three Kings or Wise Men – from the Nativity story. Simple and elegant, the stamp depicts the Magi, guided by the star of Bethlehem, travelling on their camels to pay homage to the infant Jesus. They offered him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh – symbols of kingship, divinity and mortality.

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November 26, 2019 • CANADIAN STAMP NEWS • www.canadianstampnews.ca 3 free into an upcoming issue of CSN CANADIAN and Canadian Coin News. Guest With 18 decades of collecting, re- STAMP searching, writing, exhibiting, forming COMMENTARY clubs and hosting massive shows under NEWS its belt, the hobby today is looking as PUBLISHER / EDITOR: By Jesse Robitaille fresh as ever. Mike Walsh (Ext. 228) [email protected] CONSULTING EDITOR: Ian S. Robertson But similar to those living in the Victo- CONTRIBUTORS: John Conrad, Gary Dickinson, Robin Harris, rian era, we, too, are in a time of swift Randy Heimpel, Richard Logan, Peter Mosiondz, Chad Neighbor, change. Hans Niedermair, Everett Parker, David Piercey, Tony Shaman, Hobby feeling fresh Mike Smith, Lewis E. Tauber Looking back on philately in 2019, ADVERTISING: [email protected] Mike Walsh (Ext. 228), there’s much to be excited about. Be- Jim Szeplaki (Ext. 223) tween the compelling embrace of tech- CIRCULATION: [email protected] entering 180th year (Ext. 225) nology at Stockholmia this spring COMPOSITION & DESIGN: [email protected] ext year marks the 180th anni- If there are two main types of (“Stockholmia praised for Disney-like Production Co-ordinator – Jim Szeplaki (Ext. 223) versary of the world’s first approach ‘we can learn so much from,” Mary-Anne Luzba - [email protected] N stamp collectors – solitary and social OFFICE: [email protected] stamp, Britain’s “Penny Black,” – then shows serve as the doorway CSN Vol. 44 #12); the exciting evolution Accounts Receivable (Ext. 230) which was issued in May 1840. for the former to become the latter of postal history (“Parcels paving new PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS: GST #10638 6139 RT Canada: $47.99 for one year (26 issues) plus applicable tax; Its well-known portrait of Queen (and as a personal anecdote, few peo- ways for today’s postal services,” CSN $89.99 for two years (52 issues) plus applicable tax; Vol. 44 #5); or the ever-growing “Young $118.99 for three year (78 issues) plus applicable tax; Victoria harks back to a far-off time ple are able to combat the compelling U.S.A.: $59.99 for one year (U.S. funds); whose technological, industrial and camaraderie of a stamp show once Collectors” auction series (“Young Col- Foreign: $249.00 for one year (Canadian funds). lectors turn up in full force at Trajan’s DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTIONS: GST #10638 6139 RT cultural legacies have long since they walk onto the bourse and finally $34.99 one year (26 issues) plus applicable tax - Canada only; been replaced. Every day, we witness sit down with a like-minded collec- National Show,” CSN Vol. 44 #1), there’s Add digital to print subscription for only $5.99 extra for one year (26 issues) the often-disruptive uprooting of old a lot happening in the hobby. CANADIAN POSTMASTER tor). Send address changes to Canadian Stamp News, models – whether it’s email’s domi- Looking ahead to 2020, there are Another highlight for us at CSN has PO Box 25009 Rose City RO, Welland, ON L3B 5V0 Publications Mail Agreement No. 40069699 neering dance with the post or digi- stamp shows slated for every month been the overwhelming response to our Registration No. 09136, Postage paid at St. Catharines, ON. tal currency overcoming cash – but of the year in Canada – nearly 90 alto- 2019 Cover Contest. Return postage guaranteed. some things, thankfully, will never gether, including 16 in April and a In our second annual competition, Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: Circulation Dept., PO Box 25009 Rose City RO, Welland, ON L3B 5V0, change. dozen in September. which concluded Nov. 1 (see “Calgary e-mail: [email protected] While opportunities abound for Even if you do all your business on- club tops 2019 CSN Cover Contest” on We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada. collectors to grow and learn about line and have no memberships in any page one of this issue), nearly 400 people Funded by the Government of Canada their collections online, it pales in clubs or societies, you might be sur- voted on 10 covers submitted by collec- comparison to the face-to-face affairs prised to see how attending a show tors and clubs from across the country. EDITORIAL POLICY: Canadian Stamp News is a hobby magazine endeavouring to bring worldwide philatelic news and views to its readers with the major emphasis of a stamp show. It could be jovial can boost your hobby. We’re hoping to see even more covers on Canadian philately. Opinions expressed in signed columns, stories, and letters are next year for our third annual CSN not necessarily those of Canadian Stamp News. jabber with a fellow collector or a ma- You can start planning ahead soon: Auction and sales reports: CSN staff or assigned contributors write pre- and jor transaction with a dealer, but the next year’s shows will be listed in our Cover Contest. More details will be an- post-sale articles. Writers conduct interviews as needed and use information provided by the auction house as source material. As with all news articles, story physical space of a show offers effi- 2020 Canadian Coin & Stamp Show nounced in the new year – so keep an selection, which sales to cover, and final placement in the magazine are news decisions made by the editor(s). Statements regarding sales are verified against ciency, geniality and unambiguity. Planner, which will be inserted for eye out, and happy collecting. W prices realized. Lots that fail to meet reserve, or are bought by the consignor or their agent, are considered non-sales for the purpose of reporting. From time to time, CSN staff may request a copy of the invoice covering the auction transaction. Due to the public nature of auction transactions, this should not be needed often, but will be required in private treaty sales. Any information other than the price will Management changes at Toronto’s Greene Foundation be kept in confidence. Attributions and values: Items attributed or values in CSN editorial content are offered as a service to our readers. In no way should they be construed to be an The Toronto-based Vincent Graves Harry Sutherland in 2006. He joined the to Canada and the world, built an ex- endorsement or official opinion on a specific item. Readers looking for definitive answers should seek the services of a professional philatelist. While we strive for Greene Philatelic Research Foundation board of directors on April 28, 1998, and ceptional British North America phila- accuracy, errors or mistakes can occur. As a matter of policy such errors or mis- announced the retirement of its long- served as vice-chair from 2002-06. Over telic library and introduced technology takes, when discovered, will be corrected in the next available edition. time chairman and president Ted the years, he has also served as trea- and mechanization to both the library LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Canadian Stamp News welcomes letters to the editor. Letters must be signed and include the author’s address and phone number for pos- Nixon, plus the election of a new execu- surer and secretary. and the expert committee,” said Charles sible verification. CSN reserves the right to edit letters. tive, effective Oct. 30. “During his tenure, the Greene Foun- Verge, the Greene Foundation’s longest- REPRINT RIGHTS: Canadian Stamp News assumes that letters to any department and all unsolicited material submitted are contributed gratis and are for publication unless Ted Nixon has been at the helm of the dation has become a world-class organi- serving director. otherwise stated. Solicited material will be deemed accepted upon publication. 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The Arabic as here mentioned is Canadian Stamp News (ISSN 0702 3154) is published bi-weekly by Trajan Publishing cels growth slows in Q2,” CSN Vol. ). Corp., 202-103 Lakeshore Rd, St. Catharines ON, L2N 2T6. Periodicals postage Post Office, short-paid clerks were em- an alphabet since the language of the paid at Tonawanda NY and additional mailing offices. Known Office of Publication: What it should be doing is listening to ployed to return or tax letters that were Maldives is Maldivian, which is in the 145 Gruner Rd., Cheektowaga, NY 14227. Send address changes to Canadian Stamp News, PO Box 59, Buffalo NY, 14205-0059. Publication Mail Agreement the workers that drive their business. short as little as 10 cents. Indo-Iranian group of languages. Mal- #40069699. Return undeliverable US addresses to Canadian Stamp News, PO Box 59, Buffalo NY, 14205-0059, email [email protected] (GST 10638 6139) When I was a postal worker in the old Canada Post really should do some divian uses the two-line Arabic charac- Canadian Stamp News is indexed in the Canadian Magazine Index parcel plant in Richmond, it was clear navel-gazing and change how they deal ters sequence shown on the handstamps, by Micromedia Ltd. ISSN: 0702-3154 that quite often the public (especially with input from employees that could but the numerals are Modern Roman. It Canadian Stamp News is owned and published by businesses) were short-changing Canada potentially save millions. would have been better to say “in Eng- Post when it came to using meter impres- – David Johnson, of Vancouver, B.C. lish and Maldivian.” sions or stamps for postage. I was about Other languages that use the Arabic the only employee who regularly noticed ARABIC A LANGUAGE alphabet are Farsi (Iran) and Urdu (Paki- 459 Prince Charles Drive South, Unit 2 Welland, Ontario CANADA L3B 5X1 these short-paid parcels and returned AND AN ALPHABET stan), among others. WWW.TRAJAN.CA them to sender (i.e., the customers were Arabic is a language, which belongs to TELEPHONE: (905) 646-7744 FAX: (905) 646-0995 In the excellent story about the 1990 TOLL FREE: 1-800-408-0352 using letter rates when they should have Maldives cover (CSN Vol. 44 #10), which the semitic group of languages and is been using parcel rates). Canada Post shows “a handsome cachet in English spoken in the Arab world. Arabic, there- was constantly being ripped off but se- and Arabic,” there needs to be a differen- fore, is both a language and an alphabet. nior management just did not care. We tiation made between a language and an – Denis Doren, of Coe Hill, Ont.

4 November 26, 2019 • CANADIAN STAMP NEWS • www.canadianstampnews.ca Canada Post now has 12 months to fix view this exhibit, visit bnaps.org/ WHAT’S SIGNED its domain names and “ensure the ac- ore/Moore-NfldMeter/Moore-Nfld- tive offer of bilingual service is taken Meter.htm. Also, an article by Dave SEALED into account in all institutional deci- Schurman – “Federal and Quebec INSIDE sions affecting electronic media,” Thé- Revenues: A (very) brief overview” DELIVERED berge ruled. – illustrates revenue stamps and Volume 44 • Number 16 their use on documents. To read Sch- TORONTO EXHIBITOR EARNS PACKAGE DELIVERED urman’s article, visit bnaps.org/ore/ TOUTED SAPPHIRE AWARD AFTER 18 YEARS Schurman-Revenues/Schurman- November 26 to Toronto philatelist and award-win- A parcel mailed in December 2001 Revenues-rx.pdf. December 9, 2019 ning exhibitor Sam Chiu recently be- from Vancouver to an address in came the first Canadian – and only the Oakville has arrived at its destination BRIT JAILED fourth person ever – to receive the Sap- after nearly two decades in transit. FOR ‘WASHING’ STAMPS phire Award from the Oakville resident Khalid Nasir told A 43-year-old man in Birmingham, Features American Associa- CTV News Toronto he recently re- England, was recently arrested and tion of Philatelic ceived the parcel, which is ad- sentenced to more than two years in Private cachet-makers Exhibitors dressed to someone at his ad- jail for “washing” used stamps sold stymied in early 1970s...... Page 1 (AAPE). Chiu re- dress and includes a Dec. 19, by charities and fraudulently re-sell- Calgary club tops 2019 ceived the honour, 2001-dated postmark. Covered in ing them as new. Mubashir Khan’s CSN Cover Contest...... Page 1 which is granted to holiday wrapping paper, the parcel scam was uncovered after he began exhibitors who have is believed to be a long-lost Christmas using the washed stamps on his own Holiday, Hanukkah stamps entered a multi-frame present; however, neither he nor postal parcels – but not before profiting round out 2019 stamp issues...... Page 1 exhibit in 20 different officials are entirely sure how the po- more than £100,000 (about $170,000 national-level shows tential gift made its 18-year journey. Cdn.) between about October 2016 Management changes within 10 years, from “I would never open it because it is and October 2018. This October, the at Toronto’s Green Foundation...... Page 4 AAPE President not my property,” Nasir told CTV court heard Kahn used “a chemical Mike Ley this Au- News. I am a very civic-minded in- process” to remove cancellations and Stamp, OFDC mark Red River gust during Stamp- dividual. I just want it to end up in other postmarks – plus the glue from sesquicentennial...... Page 22 Show 2019, where this year’s “Cham- the hands of who it was really des- the back – before drying the stamps to pion of Champions” competition was tined for.” A Canada Post official told create an unused appearance. Kahn held. Chiu, who said he’s “thankful” CTV News the parcel might have been sold the stamps – primarily on eBay – for the recognition, added it’s impor- found when the Crown corporation for significant discounts of up to 50 Regulars tant for exhibitors to support shows. “It moved from an older depot to a new per cent of their face value. After an CSN MARKETPLACE is harder and harder for shows to get facility in Burlington, Ont., this Sep- investigation by Britain’s Royal Mail, Are you buying or selling?...... Page 20 exhibits, and without exhibits, we don’t tember. Postal officials are now retriev- Kahn was arrested by police on Oct. have have a show. I strongly support ing the parcel to return it to the origi- 30. Officers found washing chemicals SHOW AND BOURSE shows in our hobby and want shows to nal sender. plus 60 kilograms of stamps, some of continue; hence, I exhibit.” which were currently being washed, Check out the shows Since Chiu was awarded with the EXHIBIT, ARTICLE ADDED at his residence. in your area...... Page 23 honour, another two exhibitors have TO BNAPS ‘ORE’ received the Sapphire Award, bring- An exhibit on Newfoundland ing the total number of recipients to postage meters and an article on Ca- six. nadian revenue stamps are now Columns available for free on GUEST COMMENTARY the British North America Philatelic Hobby feeling fresh Society’s (BNAPS) WEITZMAN ADDS MARK entering 180th year...... Page 4 “Online Resources TO ONE-CENT MAGENTA and Exhibits” Stuart Weitzman, the current LOOKING BACK (ORE). Produced owner of the world’s most expensive Prince Albert – Queen Victoria’s by Robin Moore, stamp – the unique British Guiana husband – born 200 years ago.....Page 6 the exhibit – “New- one-cent magenta – left his mark on FRANCOPHONE RIGHTS foundland Postage Meters 1928- the 163-year-old stamp this October. PHILATELIC BOOKSHELF VIOLATED BY CANADA POST 1949” – presents a study of the four Weitzman, who acquired the stamp Specialized collectors will A recent ruling from Canada’s Com- types of postage meters used by for nearly $9.5 million US in 2014, appreciate Gibbons’ catalogue...... Page 8 missioner of Official Languages found Newfoundland businesses before joined some of the stamp’s previous Canada Post violated francophones’ entering Confederation on April 1, eight owners in signing the iconic DELTIOLOGY linguistic rights by using an English- 1949. It includes information on and piece of postage. A renowned shoe Stedman treats abound at only domain name. After New Bruns- images of the meter machines with designer and philanthropist, Golden Horseshoe show...... Page 10 wick resident Chantal Carey filed a their denomination values and rates. Weitzman added his “SW” initials There are also imprints of every complaint last December, Commis- plus a line drawing of a stiletto to STAMPING GROUNDS sioner Raymond Théberge determined known meter number in use. To the back of the stamp on Oct. 19, francophones’ rights were violated be- during a ceremony at the U.S.- Art on stamps, including cause Canada Post’s French-language based National Postal Museum. Leonardo da Vinci and web address – postescanada.ca – auto- Other markings on the back of Mona Lisa’s smile...... Page 14 matically re-directs to the English ad- the stamp were made by former dress, canadapost.ca, which is the owners Philipp von Ferrary; STAMPNET main domain name. Théberge reiter- Arthur Hind (and later his ex- Vancouver’s All Nations offers ated federal entities are responsible for wife Ann, who won the stamp something for all collectors...... Page 16 ensuring both their web addresses and in a divorce settlement); Freder- domains are in both of Canada’s offi- ick Small; Finbar Kenny; Irwin NEW ISSUES cial languages (or in the same lan- Weinberg and associates; and From around the world...... Page 18 guage as the content of the web page). John du Pont.

November 26, 2019 • CANADIAN STAMP NEWS • www.canadianstampnews.ca 5 Prince Albert – Queen Victoria’s husband – born 200 years ago

Looking BACK

By Ian Robertson

tamps were issued this year Guernsey, a British island in for the 200th anniversary of the English Channel, featured SQueen Victoria’s birth. him on four of six A British set included a com- commemoratives issued this memorative showing the Queen year for the 200th anniversary and Prince Albert, her much- of the birth of Queen Victoria loved, much-mourned husband. and her husband. Set in a gold locket, his photo- The fact Princess Alexand- graph was reproduced on a four- rina Victoria of Kent was born stamp prestige booklet pane fea- in 1819 is obvious – but so was A pane from a British prestige booklet issued this year for the 200th anniversary of Queen turing old-style images of key Francis Albert Augustus Victoria’s birth shows her husband Prince Albert alongside key royal buildings, including royal buildings in the U.K., in- Charles Emmanuel. Royal Albert Hall theatre in London. cluding the Royal Albert Hall, a Princess Victoria, of Saxe-Co- circular concert hall in London. burg-Saalfeld, Germany, wife of After she proposed to Prince the Province of Canada – a pre- In January 1859, perforated Another pane with those stamps Prince Edward, Duke of Kent Albert on Oct. 15, 1839, the cou- Confederation political union of three-pence Beaver and six- has a portrait titled “The Legacy and Strathearn, gave birth to the ple was married on Feb. 10, 1840, Upper Canada and Lower Can- pence Albert definitives were of Prince Albert.” future queen on May 24 in at the Chapel Royal in St James’s ada consisting of the future prov- produced, along with a half- Kensington Palace, London, Palace. inces of Ontario and Quebec. pence Queen Victoria featuring a England. The world’s first postage Based on a drawing by Wil- left-facing portrait adapted from The future Queen Victoria’s stamp, which Britain issued al- liam Drummond, with the vi- an imperf version released in cousin and father of their nine most three months later, features gnette engraved by Alfred Jones, 1857. children was born in Germany the Queen. Prince Albert’s full-face portrait Printed with brown violet or 94 days later, on Aug. 26, at An engraving of her husband was used on 100,000 six-pence grey violet ink, Unitrade lists the Rosenau Palace in Coburg in the was adapted into a similar (Scott #2) stamps. His wife’s en- six-pence, of which 70,000 were Saxon duchy of Saxe-Coburg- “Penny Black” design and graved front-facing portrait was ordered, at $4,000-$30,000 mint Saalfeld. printed as an essay, but it was featured on the 12-pence, known and $2,500-$10,000 used. Covers never issued as a stamp. as the “12-Penny Black” (SC #3). with the stamp cut in half diago- Prince Albert is shown in The couple was featured sepa- The 2019 Unitrade Specialized nally – for use to pay the three- an 1840 portrait by John rately in the first set of imperfo- Catalogue of Canadian Stamps lists pence rate – are each priced at Partridge. rate definitives issued in 1851 by a mint six-pence, printed with $30,000. slate violet or greyish-purple ink, at $10,000-$60,000 (and $500- $2,000 used). Both imperforate royalty definitives, along with the 3-pence (SC #1) showing a beaver on a dam, were printed on laid paper by Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson in New York city. The firm produced imperf three-and six-pence stamps the following year on finer wove paper. Produced in March 1855 using Albert, the ‘Prince Consort,’ slate grey ink, and with 2,850,000 is shown on an unissued ordered, Unitrade prices the sec- engraved British essay ond six-pence (SC #5) at $7,500- based on the 1840 Queen $30,000 in mint condition and Victoria ‘Penny Black’ $400-$1,600 used. Grey violet ver- definitive. sions printed on thick hard paper are priced at $10,000-$45,000 mint and $750-$4,000 used. Well-centred examples are Press run with reddish-purple “extremely rare,” with most hav- ink on very thick, fibrous soft ing perfs through outer frame wove paper in 1857, a third im- lines, Unitrade notes. perforate version (SC #10) is When decimal currency was listed at $6,000-$40,000 mint and adopted, the Beaver, Prince Al- $1,500-$9,000 used. bert and Queen Victoria designs Victoria’s portrait was reused were re-used for perforated 1858 on an imperf green seven-and-a- and 1859 stamps. Four addi- half-pence 1857 definitive (SC tional definitives in the “cents” #9). set have different images.

6 November 26, 2019 • CANADIAN STAMP NEWS • www.canadianstampnews.ca Formed by an amalgamation stamp was in 1978, when four Indeed, Prime Minister Wil- ruled insane, Oxford spent al- of U.S. security printing firms, “Stamp-on-Stamp” liam Lamb, the 2nd Viscount most 30 years in an asylum and a the American Bank Note Com- commemoratives were issued to Melbourne, lobbied Queen Vic- hospital, where he was regarded pany (ABNC) printed them in coincide with the Capex Interna- toria to not have him declared as a model prisoner while study- New York. tional Stamp Exhibition in To- her King Consort. ing languages and painting. De- The 10-cent Albert had 27 ronto. Though “not the master in the clared sane, he settled in Austra- printings on panes of 100 The $1.25 stamp (SC #756) re- house,” which was managed by lia, became a house painter and stamps. produced a pair of imperforate the Queen’s former governess, churchwarden, married a widow Unitrade prices the first issue, six-pence 1851 definitives. It and the Baroness Lehzen – who he and wrote socially-conscious ar- for which black brown or choco- two other commemoratives that called the “House Dragon” – ticles for a newspaper. late brown ink was used (SC #16 reproduced pairs of 1850s Prince Albert wrote he was oth- Lauded for his courage and and 16i), each at $4,000-$20,000 definitives were also on a souve- erwise “very happy and con- calmness during the shooting, mint and $1,250-$8,500 used. nir sheet, which reproduced the tented.” Prince Albert began taking on With 26 printings, totalling 5.7 Capex 78 logo and the Universal Considered a “weak-willed public roles, including becoming million stamps, using three dis- Postal Union logo above “CAN- A 10-cent Prince Albert youth who took no interest in president of the Society for the tinctly different perforation lay- ADA” 1878-1978, signifying this definitive was issued by politics and never read a news- Extinction of Slavery. outs, the subsequent 10-cent is country’s 100th anniversary with Newfoundland in 1865. paper,” Strachey wrote the He also helped his wife with priced at $250-$1,600 mint and the international co-operative prince developed an admirable her government paperwork, in $40-$240 used for red lilac or mail organization. intelligent, but keen for practical feistiness and became “a man of private, Weintraub wrote. brown ink examples (SC #17 and East of Canada, Newfound- jokes plus mimicry – was added unbending determination, The prince also played a key 17b); $300-$2,000 mint and $50- land featured Prince Albert on to a list of princely suitors. whose tireless energies were in- role in raising their nine children, $300 used for violet ink exam- an 1865 stamp printed by the Victoria, who recorded her cessantly concentrated upon the including removing Baroness ples (SC #17a); and $1,200-$4,000 ABNC. thoughts in diaries throughout laborious business of govern- Lehzen from controlling the mint and $225-$1,200 for deep Issued with seven other 1865- her life, keenly described the ment and the highest questions nursery before she left Britain red purple ink versions (SC # 94 definitives, including two de- young German prince as “ex- of State.” plus recommending educational 17e). picting Queen Victoria, his por- tremely handsome. When faced by opposition to subjects. trait was adopted for the 10-cent “His hair is about the same him being awarded a peerage, Following an election in 1841, stamp after being used on two- colour as mine,” the princess Prince Albert wrote: “it would Sir Robert Peel, the new prime and five-cent engraved essays. wrote. “His eyes are large and almost be a step downwards, for minister, appointed their father Printed in black (SC 27), blue, and he has a beautiful nose as a Duke of Saxony, I feel myself to head the Royal Commission in Unitrade lists it at $200-$500 in and a very sweet mouth with much higher than a Duke of charge of redecorating the fire- mint condition and $40-$80 fine teeth; but the charm of his York or Kent.” damaged Palace of Westminster. used. Those printed on thin, yel- countenance is his expression, Take that, chaps! A patron of the arts, Prince Al- lowish paper, are priced at $225- which is most delightful.” About four months after the bert bought several important $600 mint, $75-$150 used. A letter she wrote King Leop- wedding, a teenager fired two works by early German and Ital- A bisected 10-cent Prince Al- old thanked him “for the pros- pistols at the royal couple in ian artists. bert is listed at $5,000 on cover. pect of great happiness you have their open horse-drawn carriage Then, in May 1842, the royal Singles from position eight on a contributed to give me, in the near Buckingham Palace. It was couple were shot at again. Like pane, with a major re-entry in person of dear Albert,” Wein- the first of several assassination before, they were unhurt. The “FOUND” of Newfoundland, traub wrote. “He possesses ev- attempts on the monarch. second would-be assassin was An 1859 Canadian 10-cent are cited at $500 mint and $125 ery quality that could be desired definitive features the used. to render me perfectly happy.” portrait of Prince Albert, Despite no formal engage- husband of Queen Victoria. PART OF ment, those in the know pre- EUROPEAN ROYALTY dicted wedded bliss would soon He was the second son of Er- ensue. The catalogue lists numerous nest III, Duke of Saxe-Coburg- When Albert travelled to the varieties, including ink shades, Saalfeld, and his first wife, Lou- U.K. in October 1839 to visit the with re-entry engraving, and ise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. young Queen, he wanted an an- some stamps with stitch water- They had ties to many Euro- swer. marks. pean royal families. “She rode with him, danced Those with a “string of pearls” The couple’s marriage ended with him, talked with him, and variety – three white dots within when Albert and Ernest were it was all perfection,” Lytton a distinct curved line above boys. Their mother died of can- Strachey wrote in his 1998 biog- “POST” – are priced at $2,000- cer when she was 30 and their raphy, Queen Victoria. $5,000 used for one from the first father married his niece. Her intention to marry was printing (SC #16iii) and $1,500- The brothers were educated in formally declared to the Privy $4,000 mint or $250-$1,000 used various country houses owned Council on Nov. 23. for one from the second printing by their father, after which Al- Before their marriage just Guernsey, a British island in the English Channel, featured (SC #17iv). bert studied law, political econ- over seven weeks later, Albert Prince Albert on four of six 2019 commemoratives marking the Those with the “double epau- omy, philosophy and art history was naturalized by an Act of 200th anniversary of birth of Queen Victoria and her husband. lette” variety on the prince’s left at the University of Bonn, while Parliament with the title of shoulder are priced at $2,000- playing music and enjoying Royal Highness by an Order in $5,000 used (SC #16iv) and sports. Council. Pregnant with their first child, condemned to death, but his sen- $1,500-$4,000 mint or $250- In 1836, their uncle, King Leo- her namesake Princess Victoria, tence was later reprieved. $1,000 used (SC #17v). pold of Belgium, brother of Prin- UNPOPULAR the Queen was uninjured (as was Based on Prince Albert’s man- A diagonal half black-brown cess Victoria’s mother and Al- WITH PUBLIC AT FIRST her husband). agement of royal finances, they 10-cent on cover, which was bert’s father, suggested the teen- At a time of anti-Germany Unemployed 18-year-old bar- bought Osborne House on the used to pay the five-cent rate, is agers meet. sentiment, the British public was tender Edward Oxford (1822- Isle of Wight. Remodelled in Ital- priced at $18,000. Half a red-lilac King William IV of Great Brit- not keen, regarding her husband 1900) claimed his guns were un- ianate-village style from designs version on cover is listed at ain, however, was not keen on as a member of a small foreign loaded and he merely sought at- by him and master builder $10,000. any union with the Coburgs. family who lacked money and tention. Thomas Cubitt, it became the The only other time Prince Al- Nonetheless, Albert – consid- had little right to such a grand Acquitted of treason and at- family’s private residence. bert was depicted on a Canadian ered often serious, discreet and social standing. tempted regicide after being Continued on page 23

November 26, 2019 • CANADIAN STAMP NEWS • www.canadianstampnews.ca 7 Specialized collectors will appreciate Gibbons’ catalogue Stanley Gibbons’ recently released Falkland Islands and Dependencies Stamp Philatelic Catalogue (eighth edition) lists and prices the stamps of the Falkland Islands BOOKSHELF and its dependencies, South Georgia, the British By David Piercey Antarctic Territory plus he eighth edition of the Falklands Islands War of 1982 South Georgia and the popular Falkland Islands all contribute to making this a South Sandwich Islands. andT Dependencies Stamp popular area of collecting. Catalogue has recently been released and continues in its CATALOGUE PRICING South Shetland or South Or- extensive coverage of the Like all of Gibbons’ Com- kneys. Although these territo- stamp issues of not only the monwealth catalogues, pric- ries had their own lower Falkland Islands but also its ing is provided for mint and value definitives, they were dependencies, South Georgia used examples, with “mint” also permitted to use higher- and the South Sandwich Is- indicating a stamp in Fine value Falklands definitives as lands and the British Antarc- condition; “never hinged” be- needed. With such territorial tic Territory. ginning in the reign of Ed- cancels on these higher value Issues are current to this ward VIII; and “used” being definitives, very high cata- August, when the catalogue a stamp in at least fine logue values are indicated. was published. Released ev- postally used condition with The catalogue provides list- ery two years since 2002, the a clear postmark. ings for the first period of catalogue provides an entry The catalogue’s “Informa- Falkland Islands Dependen- point for collectors wishing to tion and Guidelines” section cies issues and catalogues collect this British overseas should make this all appar- separately, for example, both territory’s stamp issues. It ent. It includes illustrations the 1946 “thick lines map” provides a more comprehen- for how to identify the grade and the 1948 “thin lines” sive listing of the various va- of any stamp. Collectors George VI definitive set rieties found on many issues should also note for certain (something not otherwise in- than can be referenced in the George VI issues (e.g., partic- dividually catalogued in Scott Scott catalogue. ularly the first definitive set catalogues). Eagerly and widely col- of 1938), never hinged exam- there are some real rarities shade varieties – and the real Even the few stamp book- lected, Falkland Islands ples are scarce, so one may within its catalogue of list- collecting challenges, lets of the Falklands – and of stamps are a popular special- expect to pay a high propor- ings. Most all issues up whether mint or used. the British Antarctic Territory ized collecting area. Although tion of the prices quoted to through George V have One will also quickly dis- plus South Georgia and the the island has barely 3,500 in- secure mounted mint exam- higher catalogue values, and cover varieties abound even South Sandwich Islands – are habitants, its convoluted his- ples. any watermark variety com- for many common issues of separately catalogued. tory of French, Spanish and While the territory only be- mands a substantial pre- the 1970s; particularly, re- Collectors should also note British involvement in the ar- gan to issue postage stamps mium. One needs only to in- versed “watermark to the left this catalogue’s listings to chipelago; its location in the in 1878 (and has been one of spect the Victorian issues of of CA” varieties command 1970 have been extracted southern Atlantic for trans- the Crown Agents stamp en- 1891-1902 or the Edwardian substantial premiums from Gibbons’ 2020 Common- shipment during various Ant- tities with a consequent issues of 1904 to appreciate amounting to hundreds of wealth and British Empire arctic expeditions; and the steady supply of new issues), the various watermark and pounds. It never hurts to Stamp Catalogue 1840-1970, check one’s holdings for such with post-1970 issues up- varieties, though watermark dated and repriced for this identification is often trouble- edition. some among these later is- There have been other cata- Check This Value! sues. logues and handbooks previ- ously produced on the Falk- Bi-monthly issues of The Canadian Philatelist, At the beginning of each territory’s listing, there’s also land Islands. The Specialized our international award-winning magazine. a brief table of prices for Catalogue of the Falkland Is- Sales Circuits – A great opportunity to both buy stamps on cover. It serves to lands and Dependencies and sell. 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Stanley Gibbons firm, stan- application, send $5 (deductible from your ﬁ rst year membership) to: One should also inspect the leygibbons.com, for £18.95 listings for Falkland Islands (plus postage and handling). The Royal Philatelic Society of Canada, P.O. Box 69080, St. Clair Post Ofﬁ ce, George VI definitive stamps It may also be available soon Toronto, ON M4T 3A1, Canada, or visit our website at www.rpsc.org. with cancellations from Gra- from a variety of Canadian ham Land, South Georgia, dealers. W 8 November 26, 2019 • CANADIAN STAMP NEWS • www.canadianstampnews.ca issued by the Greene Foundation The RPSC and Royal Philatelic Outgoing chairman and Foundation... on Oct. 31. Society London (RPSL); and president Ted Nixon, who served at the helm of the Continued from page 4 “Additionally, it is planned • Corporate Secretary and Trea- that the expert committee will surer Ingo Nessel, who’s also the Greene Foundation since A Fellow of The Royal Phila- make public some of its impor- current president of the Phila- 2006, has been named telic Society of Canada (RPSC), tant findings and work closely telic Specialists Society of Can- chairman emeritus. He’s Nixon was appointed as chair- with catalogue editors to adjust ada and a Fellow of both The only the second person to man emeritus by the Greene catalogue listings based on the RPSC and RPSL. hold this position since the Foundation’s board of directors committee’s discoveries.” “The board feels that the time Greene Foundation was this October. He’s only the sec- has come for the Greene Founda- formed in 1975. ond person to hold this position A NEW EXECUTIVE tion to have a more formal struc- since the foundation was formed On Oct. 30, the Greene Foun- ture that will allow us to better in 1975. dation’s board of directors met plan the long-term growth and The Greene Foundation’s pri- Nixon will also continue in his to elect a new executive, whose future of the Greene Founda- mary mandates are providing role as chairman of the expert members include: tion,” said Portch. expert services, maintaining a committee. • Chair and President Garfield This October, the board also comprehensive library and ar- He will update and streamline Portch, who’s a Fellow of The appointed Lee Ann Stewart as chives and publishing mono- the committee’s processes so it RPSC; recording secretary and execu- graphs and studies on British sibility of promoting the hobby can better serve its collector and • Vice-Chair and Vice-President tive assistant and reappointed North American philately. 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November 26, 2019 • CANADIAN STAMP NEWS • www.canadianstampnews.ca 9 Stedman treats abound at Golden Horseshoe show

DELTIOLOGY

By Mike Smith

he summer postcard Dalton, Dave Moore and Jon drought is a distant mem- Soyka each brought over a Tory now as two great Septem- small batch of “approvals.” ber postcard shows have Suffice to say the cards I pur- come and gone. chased from these guys made As usual, mid-September’s my day. Eastern Ontario Postcard In this article, I’ll showcase Club Show in Merrickville four of my favourites. and end-September’s Golden Horseshoe Post Card Club in FELT PENNANT Dundas yielded their annual The postcard shown as Fig- bounty of postcard treats. ure 1 is from a lengthy Sted- The Dundas Show was es- man Bros. novelty series pecially important to me this called “Felt Pennant Greetings This heavily embossed and airbrush-coloured Valentine greeting is another little gem year as it was the venue I with Small View.” from Stedman Bros. vast repertoire. chose to launch my new Sted- Each card in the series has a man Bros. postcard hand- miniature real photo view of a book. It was certainly touch main street, park, etc., along Prince Edward Island (this is One of the interesting ville in Alberta; Lang, Sask.; and go for the launch as the with an add-on felt pennant a challenge for collectors of things about the tiny views on and Reston, Man. Why none book was only ready for overprinted with the name of that province to find me these cards is some exist as have surfaced yet with town pickup at my printer in Lon- the Canadian city or town some). For several of the full-size real photo postcards names from other provinces is don two days before the shown in the view. larger cities in Ontario such as while others were reproduced a mystery to me. show. as full-size printed cards. A PERSONAL FAVOURITE For the record, if you’re a Needless to say, there’s some- passionate collector (like me), thing for everyone in this very The postcard shown as Fig- the downside to having a collectible Stedman Bros. se- ure 3 is from one of my book table at any postcard ries. favourite Stedman Bros. post- show is there are limited op- card series. TOO BUSY TO WRITE portunities to wander around While compiling the latest looking for cards. And this is The Figure 2 postcard is list of what I used to call “em- exactly what happened to me from a newly-discovered se- bossed greetings” for the new in Dundas. There were 17 ries of Stedman Bros. novelty Stedman Bros. handbook, I dealers manning 20 tables postcards coined “Too Busy to learned the correct name for loaded with goodies, and I Write” or “TBTW” by dealer this type of postcard was “air- was literally too busy to check Dave Moore. brush” or “airbrushed.” The them out. On the upside, this The cards in this series were term refers to the fact these meant my book launch went printed in a checklist-style heavily embossed postcards very well. format, where all one had to were hand coloured with an On the downside, however, ‘Greetings from Reston,’ located in Manitoba, is the caption do was tick one or more of the airbrush. towards the end of the day I on this checklist-style novelty card from Stedman Bros. greetings or salutations on the Many publishers here and realized I would probably front before mailing. abroad produced this type of leave the show with nothing Interestingly, only four card during the golden age to add to my collection. The series is very attractive Hamilton and Toronto, there cards of this type by Stedman (1900-14), but it goes without Well, like a cavalry rescuing and cards from every prov- are multiple cards with differ- Bros. have turned up so far, saying I prefer those by Cana- a stagecoach, during the last ince in Canada have been re- ent scenes and pennant and all are greetings from the dian publishers. hour of the show dealers John corded with the exception of colours. Prairies – Airdrie and Vegre- Continued on next page

A miniature real photo view of the Sauble River Falls at Tara, Ont., is affixed to this Stedman Bros. felt pennant postcard. 

Santa Claus is the theme on this airbrushed beauty published by Stedman Bros. and printed by the Illustrated Post Card Co., New York. 

10 November 26, 2019 • CANADIAN STAMP NEWS • www.canadianstampnews.ca “I suspect that the USPS is The Transcamster Bog using the business-envelope Post Office issued a stamp Stymied... and first-day cover to size for its cacheted covers so as Continued from page 1 not to compete with the first- commemorate its Laird “Unlike other countries, the day cover producers,” added Derwin Mak’s visit to Ireland U.S. has a very strong first-day Mak, who said private produc- this August. cover collecting subculture ers “tend to prefer” the “6-3/4” within stamp collecting; Ameri- size. The transition is also detailed cans just love first-day covers. “Some fear that we are on a by Kerry Barrow, collection cat- They like hand-drawn covers, slippery slope towards the aloguer for the House of Com- they like one-of-a-kind covers, USPS getting into the business mons Heritage Collection, they like silk cachets and they of cachetmaking and special which includes more than 750 even do things like buy unca- cancels full time,” wrote AF- first-day covers either collected cheted or unillustrated first-day DCS President Lloyd de Vries or created by the House of Com- is their penchant for produc- stamps – the $1.27 U.S.-rate covers from the past and add in a 2005 issue of Linn’s Stamp mons Postal Services from 1967- ing covers, Mak said. stamp issued Nov. 4 as part of their own illustrations onto News, which also reported the 94. “I notice Canadians and the “Shiny and Bright” set – to them afterwards.” USPS had “no intention of get- As OFDCs became more Brits aren’t so much into the create a first-day cover with a ting into the first-day-of-issue available – and desirable – to do-it-yourself philately. They ballet theme. THE AFDCS cachet cover business.” collectors, “local production by like to collect things from the “The photo has a history,” Mak also referenced the AF- “I know that’s kind of the smaller independent merchants post office and mount them said Mak, who was leaving To- DCS, which is not only devoted agreement that we’ve always drastically decreased and virtu- and research them, but the ronto’s Nota Bene restaurant to collecting first-day covers but had with the cover community, ally ceased,” wrote Barrow in a U.S. has this subculture to it.” after a dinner date three years also illustrating and designing that we would not get into 2015 collection profile for the Inspired by these creative ago when he noticed Karen them. that,” David Failor, then execu- House of Commons website. collecting practices, Mak is- Kain, artistic director of the Na- The USPS has shied away tive director of stamp services According to Perkins, the sues local stamps and first-day tional Ballet of Canada. from making its own cachets for the USPS, told Linn’s in 2005. transition is “best exemplified” covers as the owner of two “When we went to get our due to the AFDCS and other Last year, the USPS once by Rosecraft Covers, which was non-contiguous plots of land, coats, we saw Karen Kain get- first-day cover producers’ “wor- again ignited the concerns of Canada’s “dominant cachet- each holding one square foot ting her coat too,” Mak said, ries that official first-day covers cachetmakers when it offered maker” before its 1974 depar- of peat bog in Caithness, Scot- adding he was seeing the pe- would put cover producers out its own cacheted first-day cov- ture “marked the end of an al- land. rennial Christmas classic The of business,” Mak said. ers at some day-of-issue cere- most 30-year era of cachetmak- After naming his two Nutcracker later that evening. The USPS, however, is still in monies. ing.” square feet of Scottish land “We asked if we could get the mix: the postal service often Even earlier, however, Rose- “Transcamster Bog” – mean- our photo with her, and she offers uncacheted first-day cov- A CANADIAN craft’s two main competitors – ing one must cross Camster, in graciously agreed. I had read in ers franked with new stamps, COMPARISON Cole and H&E Covers – stopped northern Scotland, to go from Toronto Life magazine that which are tied by a special post- The emergence of OFDCs in production less than a year after one plot to the other – Mak is- Karen Kain took the National mark, and has sold blank white Canada is described as “the de- the Post Office Department sued his first stamp in 2016. It Ballet of Canada’s largest do- covers with first-day cancels fining moment” of Canadian launched its first OFDC. depicts a sheep alongside one nors/patrons to lunch and din- since 2005. first-day cover collecting by In fact, of all the major Cana- of the Grey Cairns of Camster, ner at Nota Bene. I hadn’t imag- More recently, the USPS has Bruce Perkins, an honorary dian cachetmakets, Rosecraft a pair of 5,000-year-old Neo- ined that we would actually see even started selling cacheted member of the British North was the only active company by lithic stone tombs. her there.” first-day covers of some – but America Philatelic Society’s 1972, Perkins said. Under the name “Transcam- Closed at the end of last year, not all – of its issues. First Day Cover Study Group. “Today, very little Canadian ster Bog Local Post,” Mak has Nota Bene has since been trans- “These are always on #10 “This was followed in short FDC action occurs beyond the issued several stamps each formed by its owner David Lee business-size envelopes,” said order by the rapid decline of the realm of the official post office year since 2016. into a vegetarian and vegan res- Mak, “not the traditional ‘6-3/4’ private cachetmaker as a Cana- covers.” taurant called Planta. envelope size.” dian philatelic institution,” BALLET Kain is slated to retire as the The uncacheted covers, how- wrote Perkins in a July 2001 is- AN ISSUING ENTITY FIRST-DAY COVER artistic director of the National ever, are issued in the “6-3/4” sue of First Days, the AFDCS’ Another difference between Most recently, Mak used one Ballet of Canada in January envelope size. bimonthly magazine. Canadian and U.S. collectors of Canada Post’s new holiday 2021. W

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November 26, 2019 • CANADIAN STAMP NEWS • www.canadianstampnews.ca 11 SUPER SPECIALS LXII CANADIAN COIL STAMPS CANADA PLATE BLOCK BONANZA Canada Post started issuing coil stamps in the early days of the Admiral era, and they conti nue to the present day. Coils are printed in rolls rather than sheets. There were initi ally 500 stamps to a roll. This conti nued to the late 1960s when rolls of 100 fi rst appeared during the Centennial Issue. Coils were oft en overlooked by dealers and collectors, with the result that most are a lot more valuable today than the normal sheet stamps. Here are twenty special off ers to improve your collecti on of coils. SUPER SPECIAL #CS5003 All of the stamps off ered below are in fresh mint never hinged conditi on. Several are off ered in two grades of centering for your convenience. Quanti ti es are limited, parti cularly in the earlier issues, so please order today for best selecti on. Installment terms are available should you need to spread out the payments a bit.

OFFER #CS1361 OFFER #CS1366 OFFER #CS1371 OFFER #CS1376 Admiral Issue 1912-1924 King George VI 1937 King George VI 1949-1951 Queen Elizabeth II Wilding Issue 1954

This scarce litt le set of six (Scott #125-130) is always hard The ﬁ nal coil stamps to appear during the reign of King George to keep in stock. List price for all six in F-VF NH mint I also have #238-240 in stock in F-VF NH mint conditi on. VI showed the King in civilian dress. The ﬁ rst two (#295-296) Here is the same set of three in F-VF NH mint conditi on conditi on is $470.00. List price for the set is $24.50. omitt ed the words POSTAGE and POSTES from the design. This (#345-348). List price is $5.75. Price $199.95 (Pairs $395.00) Price $9.95 (Pairs $19.95) was corrected in the set of four that followed (#297-300) and Price $2.75 (Pairs $5.50, Strips of four $11.00) also in the two colour changes that appeared later (#309-310). List price for all eight in VF NH conditi on is $42.10. OFFER #CS1362 OFFER #CS1367 Price $19.95 (Pairs $39.50) OFFER #CS1377 Admiral Issue 1915-1924 War Issue 1942-1943 OFFER #CS1372 Queen Elizabeth II Cameo Issue 1962-1963 King George VI 1949-1951

At the same ti me the above issue was being used, another One of the oddest looking regular issues ever produced A new set of coil stamps appeared during World War II, issue was also in service (#131-134). This set is unusual in by Canada is the Cameo Issue. The set of four coils (#406- showing the King in uniforms of the army, navy and air If you prefer, I also have the previous set in F-VF NH condi- that it is one of the very few verti cal format coils. The straight 409) is one of the hardest to get with decent centering. force (#263-267). List price for a VF NH mint set ti on (#295-300, 309-310). List price is $32.00+. edges are at the sides as a result, rather than at the top and List price for a VF NH set is $24.00 of ﬁ ve is $33.00. Price $14.95 (Pairs $29.50, Strips of four $49.95.) bott om. List price for a F-VF NH mint set is $340.00. Price $14.50 (Pairs $28.00, Strips of four $55.00) Price $16.95 (Pairs $32.95, Strips of four $59.95) Price $195.00 OFFER #CS1373 Queen Elizabeth II Karsh Issue 1953 OFFER #CS1363 OFFER #CS1368 OFFER #CS1378 King George V 1935 War Issue 1942-1943 Queen Elizabeth II Cameo Issue 1962-1963

In 1953 the ﬁ rst coil stamps depicti ng the new Queen ap- The last coil set released during the reign of King George V Here are the Cameo Coils (#406-409) in F-VF NH mint Here are the War Issue coils (#263-267) in F-VF NH mint peared (#331-333). The design was aft er a photograph by appeared late in 1935 (#228-230). The King was to die the fol- famed Canadian Yousuf Karsh. List price for a VF NH mint conditi on. List price is $20.00. lowing year and the set had but a short life. List price for a VF conditi on. List price is $23.00. Price $9.95 (Pairs $19.50, Strips of four $37.50) Price $12.95 (Pairs $24.95, Strips of four $49.50) set of three is $8.50. NH mint set of three is $97.50. Price $4.95 (Pairs $9.50, Strips of four $18.00) Price $59.95 (Pairs $119.50, Strips of four $195.00) OFFER #CS1369 OFFER #CS1379 Recently I decided it was ti me to clean up our excess stock of Canadian plate blocks. OFFER #CS1364 OFFER #CS1374 War Issue New Perf 1948 Queen Elizabeth II Karsh Issue 1953 Queen Elizabeth II Centennial Issue 1967-1971 Someti mes we accumulate more material than we have ti me to properly process. King George V 1935 This was certainly the case here. Plate block collecti ng is extremely popular and over the years I have aggressively bought whatever collecti ons and dealer stocks came our way.

The perforati on gauge on the War Issue coils was changed The fi rst of the Centennial Issue appeared early in 1967 and I have taken these plate blocks and put together a few parcels for off er here. This off er is for the same set (#228-230) but in F-VF NH from 8 to 9.5 in 1948. The new perforati on made the Here is the Karsh Issue in F-VF NH mint conditi on conti nued in use into the 1970s. The coil stamps were print- So what will you fi nd? Well believe it or not you’ll fi nd over 700 plate blocks in each parcel. mint conditi on. List price is $75.00 stamps easier to separate. The set of four (#278-281) lists (#331-333). List price is $8.50. ed by both Canadian Bank Note and later by Briti sh American They are mainly from the 1940s to 1970s. Most are in very fi ne conditi on either never hinged Price $39.95 (Pairs $79.50) at $90.00 in VF NH conditi on. Price $3.69 (Pairs $6.95, Strips of four $12.95) Bank Note (#466-468B, 549-550). List price is $11.50. Price $39.95 (Pairs $79.50, Strips of four $149.95) Price $6.95 (Pairs $12.50) or hinged. You’ll fi nd bett er numbers such as good commemorati ves like #492, back of the book OFFER #CS1365 OFFER #CS1375 like #CE1 and E11, higher values like #294, 301, 316, 320, 321, 334, 343, 351, 362 and 363. King George VI 1937 OFFER #CS1370 Queen Elizabeth II Wilding Issue 1954 You’ll also fi nd many plate blocks from the 1950s King George VI period plus the Queen Elizabeth II War Issue New Perf 1948 OFFER #CS1380 Karsh and Wilding issues. Commemorati ve issues are here as well. Other nice surprises Queen Elizabeth II Centennial Issue 1967-1971 are present as well including good offi cial overprinted blocks.

The approximate catalogue value of each lot is $2,000.00. My price is just $396.00 Aft er the abdicati on of King Edward VIII and the Another coil set appeared only a year later in 1954, this subsequent Coronati on of King George VI a new coil set ti me using a photo by Briti sh photographer Dorothy Wild- (or four monthly payments of $99.00 each). These lots are great fun and perfect appeared in 1937 (#238-240). List price for a I also have some nice sets of #278-281 in F-VF NH mint ing. The set of three (#345-348) has a list price of $5.75 Finally, here are the Centennial Coils in F-VF NH conditi on either to ﬁ ll in missing spots in your collecti on or for resale. VF NH mint set of three is $36.00 conditi on. List price is $62.00+. in VF NH quality. (#466-468B, 549-550). List price is $11.50. Price $19.95 (Pairs $39.50, Strips of four $69.95) Price $24.95 (Pairs $49.50, Strips of four $95.00) Price $3.75 (Pairs $7.50, Strips of four $15.00) Price $4.95 (Pairs $9.50, Strips of four $17.50)

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By Ian Robertson Four 2019 Gibraltar commemoratives were issued for the 500th anniversary of Leonardo t is enough to make Mona Inspired by a description of da Vinci’s death and include one with a scene from The Last Supper and another with his Lisa smile a bit wider. human body proportions by Vit- world-famous Mona Lisa portrait of Italian noblewoman. IIf only she could. And if only ruvius, an ancient Roman archi- she was there. tect, it was shipped from the Until Feb. 24, visitors to the Gallerie dell’Accademia after a Siret added. “Shining infrared painting otherwise invisible to The Mona Lisa has been fea- famed Louvre Museum in court rejected a culture and heri- light on some of his most famous the naked eye,” Siret quoted of- tured on numerous Paris, France, can admire about tage group’s bid to prevent the artworks has revealed a number ficials as saying. commemoratives issued by 160 original paintings and loan. Italia Nostra claimed the of secrets, with multiple layers of postal agencies around the drawings at an exhibition dedi- rarely-displayed drawing was drawings discovered beneath LADY WITH world, including on a single- cated to Leonardo di ser Piero too fragile to be removed from the artist’s finished pieces.” ENIGMATIC SMILE stamp 2012 Mozambique souve- da Vinci. the gallery and should remain in Visitors first see Christ and The original half-length oil- nir sheet that depicts Da Vinci at Opened on Oct. 24, the exhi- its climate-controlled vault. Saint Thomas, a large bronze on-poplar portrait’s subject was work on the portrait. bition includes works owned “Leonardo envisaged the statue by Da Vinci’s teacher, An- confirmed in 2005 to have been Since this year’s renovations by the world’s largest art mu- great picture chart of the human drea del Verrocchio. Italian Renaissance noblewoman were completed, Louvre visitors seum and others on loan from body he had produced through The last piece of art on dis- Lisa Gherardini (1479-1542), who must wait in line before being al- other institutions plus “dozens his anatomical drawings,” the play is a portrait of “elderly, is sitting with her hands crossed lowed about 30 seconds to view of studies and scientific Encyclopaedia Britannica states. bearded and benignly careworn in her lap. The background fea- the famous painting from no sketches, and pieces by other “He believed the workings of Leonardo, made in the last years tures a lake and trees. closer than three meters before artists in Da Vinci’s orbit,” As- the human body to be an anal- of the master’s life” by one of Francesco del Giocondo (1459- another queue group gets its sociated Press reporter Claire ogy for the workings of the uni- his most talented and devoted 1538), a middle-class cloth and turn, Henry Samuel reported in Parker wrote. verse.” pupils, Francesco Melzi, silk merchant in Florence, Italy, The Telegraph on Oct. 7. Organized to mark the 500th The Washington Post reported. commissioned Da Vinci around anniversary of the renowned One oil painting the Louvre 1503 to paint a portrait of his Italian artist’s death, the exhibi- requested on loan, but was un- wife, which whom he had five tion devoted to his scientific, en- able to get, the Salvator Mundi – children. Mona is a polite form gineering, archaeology and mil- “Savior of the World” – shows of address in Italian, roughly itary advisory pursuits is ex- Jesus Christ making the sign of translating as “Ma’am,” pected to attract 500,000 visitors. the cross. “Madam” or “My Lady” in Eng- More than a decade in the It was sold for a record-setting lish. making and with 220,000 online $450.3 million at an auction in Scholars determined the artist reserve tickets sold by opening New York in 2017. The anony- was not paid and completed the day, “it tries to sketch out as mous buyer of the only Da Vinci painting many years later while complete a picture of the artist work in private hands is report- living in France. and thinker as possible,” Parker Guinea Bissau’s 2007 stamp edly a Saudi prince, The New Acquired by King Francis I, it added. shows Leonardo da Vinci’s York Times reported. is owned by the French Repub- West Germany’s five- “A Leonardo Da Vinci exhibit drawing, Vitruvian Man. Considered the world’s most lic. After the 1789-99 French Rev- pfennig 1952 stamp is very difficult to do, since Da famous painting, Da Vinci’s olution, Emperor Napoleon I featuring part of the iconic Vinci has become a symbol,” The court’s decision referred Mona Lisa is also not included briefly kept the painting, after Mona Lisa painting was Louvre curator Vincent De- to “the exceptional global rele- but is nearby, in a protected which it was permanently issued to commemorate the lieuvin was quoted as saying, vance of the (Louvre) exhibition room above the special display loaned to the Louvre. 500th anniversary of artist calling it “natural” that some and (Italy’s) desire to maximize hall. The museum has just over 10 Leonardo da Vinci’s birth. museums are reluctant to lend its heritage potential.” The exhibition features it in a million visitors each year and es- pieces from their collections.” Until the culture ministers of virtual-reality presentation that timates 80 per cent are attracted Various sources cite only 15- Italy and France signed a recent “incorporates scientific research to the Mona Lisa. Widely copied and the subject 20 paintings have been authen- accord, the previous Italian gov- to reveal details within the Stolen in 1911 by an employee of much speculation, including ticated as his creations. Many ernment had objected to Da and recovered when he tried to by a British group that claims to others have been disputed. Vinci works being loaned for the sell it two years later, it was re- own an unfinished original, the Da Vinci’s Benois Madonna exhibition, Angela Giuffrida returned in 1914. Vandals have at- Mona Lisa has appeared in hun- was loaned for the 500th anni- ported in The Guardian. tacked the portrait for various dreds of advertisements around versary exhibition by the Her- From England, Queen Eliza- reasons, and while minor dam- the world. mitage in St. Petersburg, Russia, beth II provided 24 exhibits age occurred on two occasions, It has also been featured on and the unfinished Saint Jerome from her private collection at anti-reflecting bulletproof glass stamps issued by many coun- was submitted by the Vatican in Windsor Castle, including Study protects the painting. tries, including Aden, Ajman, Rome. of Hands and the Head of Leda, Albania, Bulgaria, Chad, The most controversial work, mythological mother of Helen of Requested but not France, Gambia, Germany, Gi- Vitruvian Man, a pen-and-ink Troy, the BBC’s Mal Siret re- received for the new braltar, Great Britain, Guinea, sketch of a perfectly propor- ported. Louvre exhibition devoted Guinea Bissau, Guyana, Hun- tioned man in two superim- The Louvre seeks “to provide to Leonardo da Vinci, his gary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, posed positions with his arms a deeper understanding of the painting of Jesus Christ, Madagascar, Maldives, Mali, and legs spread apart, arrived artist’s working methods using Salvator Mundi, sold for Moldova, Nevis, Niger, Sierra from Venice, Italy, shortly be- his notebooks, infrared imaging $450 million to a private Leone, Solomon Islands and fore the exhibition opened. technology and virtual reality,” buyer in 2017. South Arabia.

14 November 26, 2019 • CANADIAN STAMP NEWS • www.canadianstampnews.ca Although I have visited Paris paintings reproduced on nato in Scopeto in Florence. Un- It was there Da Vinci’s health Many Da Vinci notes were twice briefly, alas, I never set foot commemoratives and definitives, finished when the artist left in began to fail, suffering what re- later stored by De Melzi’s son, a in the Louvre, although I did at- collectors of a country’s issues 1482, The Adoration of the Magi searchers believe were several lawyer, who researchers con- tend an exhibition in another lo- have at least a few art-based has been in the Uffizi Gallery in strokes. cluded did not realize the value cal art museum in 1980. stamps in their albums. Florence since 1670. Hired by Francis I of France, of the original works. They were But four years earlier, while Some commemoratives repro- For 17 years, Da Vinci worked after the king’s forces captured sold after his death, Ritchie on holiday in Italy, friends and I duce entire paintings while oth- in Milan, where his commis- Milan, he moved into the Châ- Calder wrote in his 1970 book, visited the Santa Maria delle ers focus on portions. sioned paintings included The teau du Clos Lucé house near Leonardo & the Age of the Eye. Grazie church in Milan in order One of the most unusual re- Last Supper. the royal residence in the Centre- Several countries have issued to admire Da Vinci’s famous mu- lated stamps in my British collec- Later, in Hungary, he contin- Val de Loire region of his host’s stamps featuring the great artist. ral painting, The Last Supper. tion is a 1991 first-class letter rate ued painting and helped prepare country. They are sometimes accompa- Absolutely breathtaking, the stamp featuring the famous wooden models, floats and pag- The aging and well-paid artist nied by images based on his masterpiece depicting the scene Mona Lisa smile. eants for special events. drew up plans for a large castle paintings and inventions. of the Last Supper of Jesus with Instead of the full painting, Hosted by a monastery in town and built a mechanical lion his apostles covers an entire only the lower part of her face is Venice, Da Vinci created a full- that walked towards the mon- INNUMERABLE LEGACIES wall. Damaged over the centu- shown, representing hundreds size drawing on sturdy paper of arch during a pageant. Known for his kindness, pow- ries by humidity, floods and anti- of years during which admirers The Virgin and Child with St Anne After being bed-ridden for ers of invention and keen obser- religious vandals, several at- have puzzled over her famous and St John the Baptist. several months, Da Vinci died on vation, Leonardo da Vinci had tempts were made to restore the enigmatic almost-smile. many friends but treasured his mural. privacy, historians have written. It miraculously survived the DA VINCI BORN IN ITALY Now recognized for incredi- building being almost destroyed Born in April 1452 near Vinci, ble scientific and inventive abili- by bombs during the Sec- a hill town in the Republic of ties, for more than four centuries ond World War. Florence, Da Vinci was the son of it was paintings by an artist de- The 460-centimetre-by- a wealthy notary official and his scribed in the late 1400s as “Di- 880-centimetre painting was mistress. vine” that were most recog- painstakingly restored between At first living with his mother, nized. 1978 and 1999. he later joined his father and Studied by visual and more Several days before driving grandparents after his father recent electronic technology, his into Milan, my friends and I vis- married a 16-year-old girl. She genius is revealed by the layer- ited an art museum in Florence, was reportedly devoted to the ing of paints and knowledge of which displays many of the mas- lad but died when he was 13. anatomy, light and shade, plants ter’s works, including drawings Raised by his father and a and geology. of his inventions. Da Vinci’s third wife, with whom he had “Although he brought rela- technological ingenuity led to several children, Leonardo stud- tively few works to completion, designs for flying machines, a ied Latin, geometry and mathe- and even fewer have survived, military tank, solar power, an matics and had a reputation for Leonardo was responsible for adding machine and a double- inquisitiveness. some of the most influential im- hull boat (although few were After the family moved to ages in the history of built due to limited scientific Florence around 1466, he was art,” the Grove Art-Oxford Art technology). apprenticed to Verrocchio. Online website notes. Begun in 1481 by Leonardo da Vinci, The Adoration of At stamp shows over subse- Guided by the local painter “When the extent of his writ- the Magi was left unfinished and remains in a gallery in quent decades, I enjoyed several and sculptor over seven years, ings on many branches of sci- Florence, Italy. “Art on Stamp” exhibits with the lad learned drawing, paint- ence became increasingly appar- many commemoratives featuring, sculpture, modelling, draft- ent during the 19th century, he ing Da Vinci paintings, including ing, chemistry, metal working, It was so admired, “men and May 2, 1519, at the age of 67. appeared to epitomize the idea the Mona Lisa, plus miniaturized plaster casting, leather tooling women, young and old” flocked At the subsequent funeral, 60 of the universal genius and was reproductions of other artist’s and worked with various to see it “as if they were attend- candle-carrying beggars fol- hailed as one of the prophets of works. woods. ing a great festival,” artist and lowed the casket, as set out in his the modern era.” Such stamps provide an op- Despite his father financing a biographer Giorgio Vasari (1511- will. Da Vinci’s works were an ex- portunity to enjoy art from studio, at 20, Da Vinci remained 1574) wrote in The Lives of the The artist’s remains were in- tension of “his deeper interest in around the world without hav- devoted to Verrocchio and con- Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, terred in the Collegiate Church the material world,” art and ar- ing to travel great distances. tinued to work and collaborate and Architects. of Saint Florentin at the Château chitecture critic Philip Kennicott For those who appreciate such with him. Da Vinci’s next assignment d’Amboise, in the Loire Valley. wrote in The Washington Post on creativity, our hobby even offers Researchers determined the was as a military architect and De Melzi, his pupil, friend and Oct. 18. ownership for far less than the future master’s earliest-known engineer for the son of Pope Al- executor, who accompanied him “He thought through the vi- enormous sums of money re- dated work as a pen-and-ink exander VI, specializing in a new to Milan, Rome and France, car- sual world by analogy, looking quired to own an original paint- drawing of the Arno valley in concept – map-making, a strat- ing for him and scribing the for affinities between the way ing. 1473. egy resource – before returning maestro’s Codex Trivulzianus hair curled and water eddied, The opportunity to treasure a Almost five years later, he was to Florence, where he began the manuscript, inherited the bulk of between human anatomy and few examples is also not limited commissioned to paint an altar- Mona Lisa. Da Vinci’s estate. The legacy in- the life of trees and animals, and to topical collecting. piece for a church chapel fol- Summoned to Milan in 1506 cluded money, manuscripts, per- the structure of the Earth and Since most postal agencies, in- lowed by a commission from the by its acting governor sonal affects, the library, draw- heavens. cluding Canada’s, have had Augustinian monks of San Do- from France, the artist worked ings, workshop materials and “But as he became increas- on portraits and prepared a wax machines. ingly preoccupied with scientific model for an equestrian sculp- From thousands of pages of questions, he got lost in the pro- France issued ture. notes plus sketches, De Melzi cess of looking into the world,” a 30-franc Seven years later, he settled in completed several unfinished Kennicott wrote. stamp in 1952 to Rome, associating with other paintings and compiled the Co- Despite the passage of five commemorate leading artists, including Michel- dex Urbinas, which translates as centuries since the maestro’s the 500th angelo di Lodovico Buonarroti “On Painting.” Proclaiming art death, that legacy is still being anniversary of Simon and Raffaello Sanzio da as a science, it was first pub- admired and studied, with se- Leonardo da Urbino, better known as Ra- lished in 1632, then as “A Trea- crets revealed in recent years by Vinci’s birth. phael. tise on Painting.” modern scientific methods. 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November 26, 2019 • CANADIAN STAMP NEWS • www.canadianstampnews.ca 15 Vancouver’s All Nations offers something for all collectors

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W 16 November 26, 2019 • CANADIAN STAMP NEWS • www.canadianstampnews.ca viced with a Val-Brilliant, Some of the first-quarter is- • Canadian radio history; Christmas... Qué. cancel to reflect the set’s sues of next year’s stamp pro- • the 100th anniversary of the Continued from page 1 theme. gram, which was covered in Group of Seven; CSN Vol. 44 #12 (Oct. 1-14), • two legends of Canadian Christmas stamp explores the HANUKKAH STAMP include: ballet; story of the Magi, the wise Issued Nov. 14, the final is- • the third set of the “From • the history, culture and con- men who are said to have fol- sue of 2019 celebrates Canada’s Far and Wide” series; tributions of Canada’s First lowed a brilliant star to Beth- rich cultural diversity through • the 12th and final issue of Nations, Inuit and Métis; lehem bringing gifts for a the Jewish festival of Hanuk- the second “Lunar New Year” • vintage travel posters; newborn king. kah. series, with a “Rat’s Wedding” • medical groundbreakers; The Gospel According to Mat- This year, the annual eight- theme; • First World War artist Mary thew, the first book of the day “Festival of Lights” takes • a Black History Month set Riter Hamilton; New Testament, recounts the place from nightfall on Dec. 22 commemorating the “Colored • the Canada Post Commu- arrival of the Magi in Bethle- Influenced by festive cards to nightfall on Dec. 30. Begin- Hockey Championship” based nity Foundation semi-postal hem after they followed a star of years gone by, the stamps’ ning on the 25th day of Kislev in the Maritimes; and issue; heralding the birth of a king. designs depict classic holiday in the Hebrew calendar, Ha- • a continuation of the “Flow- • Eid, Diwali and Hanukkah; Designed by Vancouver’s images of a reindeer (Perma- nukkah commemorates the re- ers” series with a set featuring and Subplot Design, the stamp nent domestic rate), dancers dedication of the Temple in Je- dahlias. • Christmas and holiday is- celebrates the Magi’s long (U.S. rate) and a partridge in rusalem following the Macca- Other themes coming to the sues featuring traditional journey; their discovery of a pear tree (international bees’ triumphant fight for reli- 2020 stamp program include: scenes of the Nativity plus the the infant Jesus; their offer- rate). gious freedom. • the 75th anniversary of V-E colourful folk art of Nova Sco- ings of gold, frankincense Lewis’ inspiration for the Day and the Canadians who tia’s Maud Lewis. and myrrh; and their deep luminous set came from fond contributed to the Allied vic- For more information, visit belief in the importance of his childhood memories of open- tory in Europe; canadapost.ca. 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November 26, 2019 • CANADIAN STAMP NEWS • www.canadianstampnews.ca 17 What makes the concept of World Heritage excep- kawa,” “harakeke,” “ti kouka” and “karaka.” A beauti- tional is its universal application. World Heritage sites ful “kereru” – New Zealand wood pigeon – also makes New belong to all the peoples of the world, irrespective of an appearance on the miniature sheet. the territory on which they are located. UNESCO seeks Mary and baby Jesus appear with a New Zealand ISSUES to encourage the identification, protection and preser- fern frond and koru. Along with a fresh green back- Around the World with Robin Harris vation of cultural and natural heritage around the ground, the koru represent unfurling life and new be- world considered to be of outstanding value to hu- ginnings. manity. This is embodied in an international treaty Over a backdrop of pohutukawa, New Zealand’s called the Convention concerning the Protection of the native Christmas tree, whose flowers appear for a World Cultural and Natural Heritage, adopted by short period over summer, Joseph looks down on baby UNESCO in 1972. Jesus on a $1.30 stamp. A 55-cent stamp depicts Morro Castle, part of Cu- The shepherd on a $2.60 stamp plays a flute over a ba’s oldest UNESCO site. Called Old Havana and its background of harakeke – New Zealand flax – which BRITISH ANTARCTIC TERRITORY fortifications, it was inscribed on the World Heritage in Maori tradition is used for food, medicine and The 200th anniversary of the discovery of Antarctica list in 1982. weaving. is commemorated on a three-stamp set issued by the A $1.15 stamp features Vinales Valley, which was The three wise men on a $3.30 stamp are accompa- British Antarctic Territory this November. inscribed on the World Heritage list in 1999. nied by ti kouka – cabbage trees – reminiscent of the Since its discovery, Antarctica has had a checkered The design of a one-franc stamp represents Trinidad tall palms from the eastern lands they may have trav- past. Once news of these new lands was known, ex- and the Valley de los Ingenios, added to the World elled from. ploitation of its abundant seal population began al- Heritage list in 1988. This site in central Cuba includes Accompanying the 2019 Christmas angel on a $4 most immediately. Later, it was whalers who exploited the colonial town of Trinidad, founded in the early stamp, karaka – New Zealand laurel – is a fruiting tree the Antarctic environment. 16th century, and three surrounding valleys where whose berries are feasted on by many native birds. While the wildlife of the Southern Ocean was devas- sugar was produced in the 18th and 19th centuries. tated by profit seekers, others were drawn to the chal- A 1.50-franc stamp honours another colonial town, lenge of exploring the great white continent and con- Cienfuegos. Located on the southern coast of Cuba, quering its imposing interior. Cienfuegos was settled by people of French origin, in- During the 20th century, the focus of human activity cluding some from Louisiana, and became a trading in Antarctica shifted to a new form of exploration as centre for sugar cane, tobacco and coffee. scientists began to study the continent and steps were The historic centre of Camaguey, which was in- taken to protect the Antarctic’s biodiversity. scribed on the list in 2008, is highlighted on a 90-cent Today, as people continue to understand more about stamp. The €1.80 stamp commemorates Castillo de the global importance of this near-pristine environ- San Pedro de la Roca, a 17th-century fortress built to ment, they’re redoubling their efforts to protect it for protect the port of Santiago de Cuba, now the coun- AUSTRALIA future generations. try’s second largest city. Oct. 8 saw the release of three stamps from Australia Feb. 19, 1819, marked the first sighting of land south highlighting seed banking. of 60-degrees latitude. The British Master Mariner Wil- Australia’s wild and cultivated plant species are es- liam Smith sighted what’s known today as the South sential to human existence, providing oxygen, food, Shetland Islands. shelter, medicines and more. Threats to plant species The exploits of Smith and fellow explorer Edward come from climate change, salinity, over-exploitation, Bransfield were also the catalyst for a wave of explora- invasive weeds, pests and disease and the fragmenta- tion, with British expeditions led by James Weddell tion of natural landscapes. and James Clark Ross. The “Heroic age” of Antarctic Seed banking is an essential insurance policy against exploration is considered to have begun in 1895. a species’ extinction and is a source of quality seed for During the 1940s and 1950s, Antarctica was the sub- aiding species recovery and restoration of depleted ject of international tension. This was due to overlap- plant communities and habitats. It’s also a boon to sci- ping sovereignty claims and tensions of the Cold War. entific research. To address this, the Antarctic Treaty was signed in Australia’s several state and territory seed banks Washington on Dec. 1, 1959, and preserves the Antarc- collaborate as part of the Australian Seed Bank Part- tic continent for peaceful and scientific use. nership. They have conserved seed of more than half of Australia’s native flora species, including nearly 50 per cent of those recognized as at risk under state, territory and commonwealth threatened species legisla- tion. As well as collecting and storing seeds, the seed banks undertake important research. The stamps feature the seeds of three native species, which together represent regional, type and habitat diversity.

GERMANY Germany issued a single Christmas stamp on Nov. 2. During the pre- Christmas Advent season – character- ized in many places by decorations and the smell of NEW ZEALAND freshly baked cookies, gingerbread and mulled wine – New Zealand released its Christmas stamps on Nov. many people enjoy spending time with friends to UNITED NATIONS 6, when four self-adhesive and five gummed stamps share Christmas with them. Oct. 24 saw the United Nations Postal Administra- were issued in sheet, booklet and miniature-sheet for- In German-speaking countries, people sit together tion issue six more stamps in its “World Heritage” se- mats. under Christmas trees decorated with candles or ries, which features sites designated by the United Na- Featuring native New Zealand flora and fauna lights, figurines, glass balls and tinsel; eat traditional tions Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization alongside the traditional nativity story, the stamps in- Christmas dishes; sing or make music together; tell (UNESCO). clude illustrations of fern fronds and “koru,” “pohutu- Christmas stories; and make presents for each other.

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Kathy Hartley (librarian of the Harry Sutherland Philatelic Li- brary) asked why we didn’t do an entry got me to rush this into production,” adds Bartlet, who aimed to create “a cover FREE GIFT WITH EVERY ORDER! that put out the right message for the month in combination with our show.” “We will be more aware to do something similar next year for the promotion. It is the local clubs that are the grassroots The third-place cover in the club category was and need to do the footwork submitted by the Kelowna and District Stamp for Stamp Collecting Month.” Club, which won last year’s inaugural Cover Contest. SECOND PLACE The second-place prize mark from Kelowna, B.C.’s the first-place prize and takes – worth $50 – was won by the Town Centre Post Office. The home $50. Waterloo Region Stamp Club, commemorative cancel, which Shuter’s cover celebrates whose cover earned 61 votes in is also dated Sept. 17, refer- National Stamp Collecting the club category. ences National Stamp Collect- Month by encouraging people to not only collect stamps but also join a stamp club – both noble endeavours also en- dorsed by CSN. The cover is franked with a customized Picture Postage stamp featuring a local post office. It’s cancelled by a Stamp Collecting Month postmark dated Oct. 1, 2019, while a stylized stamp design is featured to the left of the cachet. The third an- The second-place cover in the club category was nual CSN Cover Contest will submitted by the Waterloo Region Stamp Club. return next October, with details to be announced earlier It’s franked by Canada ing Month and covers the im- in the year. Post’s 2019 West Montrose age of the “stamp-on-a-stamp” “A special thank you to all Covered Bridge stamp. To the version. the clubs and individuals who left, the cover depicts an old The cover’s cachet also in- participated in this year’s con- colour postcard featuring St. cludes an image of the 2019 test,” said CSN Publisher Andrew’s Presbyterian Church “stamp-on-a-stamp” version Mike Walsh. “Your commit- on 54 Queen St. N., in nearby alongside the club’s first Ogo- ment to promoting philately, Kitchener, Ont. pogo stamp, which was especially during National The club’s logo is also printed 29 years ago. Stamp Collection Month, is re- shown at the top of the cover, ally appreciated.” which includes a Waterloo INDIVIDUAL COVER For more information, visit Post Office postmark dated In the individual category, canadianstampnews. Sept. 25, 2019. Toronto’s Harvey Shuter won com/2019covercontest. W THIRD PLACE The third-place prize, which is worth $25, went to the Kelowna and District Stamp Club, whose cover earned 52 votes in the club category. It includes a new “stamp-on- a-stamp” version of the club’s Ogopogo-themed Picture Post- age stamp. The original Ogop- ogo stamp was franked on the club’s submission in last year’s inaugural CSN Cover Contest, which it won. Toronto collector Harvey Shuter wins the first- On this year’s cover, the place prize in the individual category of the stamp is cancelled with a Sept. 2019 CSN Cover Contest. 17, 2019-dated Ogopogo post-

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November 26, 2019 • CANADIAN STAMP NEWS • www.canadianstampnews.ca 21 Stamp, OFDC mark Red River sesquicentennial By Jesse Robitaille Under the leadership of their Despite the setbacks, the on- A single stamp and official 25-year-old leader, the majority going negotiations between the first-day cover (OFDC) issued Métis population of the Red Métis’ provisional government by Canada Post this November River Settlement established a and the feds resulted in a “list of commemorate Louis Riel’s de- provisional government in De- rights,” which eventually be- fence of Métis rights and its im- cember 1869 to negotiate with came the Manitoba Act, bringing petus for Manitoba’s entry into the Canadian government. the first western province into Confederation. But while his provisional gov- Confederation in May 1870. Issued Nov. 6, the stamp – ernment was negotiating with “Central to this agreement, available in booklets of 10 the feds, Riel was vilified in the federal government agreed – and OFDC commemorate the other parts of Canada for allow- to reserve 1.4 million acres 150th anniversary of the Red ing Thomas Scott, an active “Or- (566,560 hectares) for the chil- River Resistance of 1869-70. angeman” – a member of North- dren of Métis residents of Mani- Also known as the Red River ern Ireland’s Protestant fraternal toba and ensured that the prov- Rebellion, it asserted Métis order – to be killed. ince would be officially bilin- An official first-day cover was also serviced with a rights during the turbulent Scott was among nearly 50 gual,” noted The Canadian Ency- Winnipeg cancel as part of the Riel issue. The postmark events leading up to the cre- armed Canadian troops who clopedia. is inspired by the infinity symbol, which holds special ation of the province of Mani- gathered at Portage la Prairie to That summer, when the feds significance to the Métis people. toba. enlist support for disbanding sent a military force to Red River “We’re thrilled Canada Post the provisional government. His as a so-called “errand of peace,” 1885, Riel was found guilty of is issuing a stamp to mark this March 1870 execution by firing Riel fled to the U.S. and “The stamp artwork is a high treason and hanged in Re- important anniversary,” said squad “led to outrage among wouldn’t return until the follow- faithful illustration of a histori- gina on Nov. 16, 1885. Clément Chartier, president of many in the Protestant commu- ing May (and often in hiding). cal photograph combined with Today, Manitobans celebrate the Métis National Council, nity,” wrote Dimitry Anastakis In the years that followed, an adaptation of a lithograph of Riel on the third Monday of which offered “close consulta- in his 2015 book, Death in the Riel was elected to Canadian Fort Garry from that period,” February each year – a provin- tion” for the stamp’s design. Peaceable Kingdom. Parliament three times but was said Gagnon. “By respectfully cially recognized holiday. “By defending Métis expelled from his seat. using archive documents, we Across Canada, people also rights, Riel and the provi- wanted to create a strong sym- bolic link to this important mo- honour Riel on Nov. 16, the day sional government Métis leader Louis Riel, ment in Canadian history.” he gave his life for the Metis changed the course of Ca- who’s commemorated The design is based on an Nation. nadian history.” on a Permanent 1848 lithograph of Fort Garry This year also marks the 175h In March 1869, the Hud- domestic-rate stamp by Henry James Warre plus an anniversary of Riel’s birth. son’s Bay Company – unissued by Canada Post 1870 photograph of Louis Riel der pressure from the Brit- Nov. 6, established a and his provisional government 1970 RIEL ISSUE ish Empire – sold to the provisional government councillors. In 1970, Canada’s Post Office young Dominion of Can- in Manitoba 150 years A total of 130,000 booklets of Department – a precursor to ada an area known as Ru- ago. It led to the first 10 stamps, each measuring 38 Canada Post, a Crown corpora- pert’s Land, which com- western province joining millimetres by 38 millimetres, tion created in 1981 – featured prises a quarter of the con- Canadian Confederation were printed by Lowe-Martin Riel on a six-cent stamp (Scott tinent and served as the in May 1870. company’s exclusive com- using five-colour lithography. #515). mercial domain since 1670. Serviced with a Winnipeg Printed by the British Ameri- The area included modern “Scott himself became a mar- Convicted of Scott’s murder cancellation, 7,000 OFDCs were can Bank Note Company, a total Manitoba, where Indigenous tyr – and Riel a target for re- and sentenced to death, Riel also issued. The day-of-issue of 37,000,000 commemoratives communities like the Métis venge. In the early 1870s, the eventually received amnesty cancel is inspired by the infinity marked “the 100th anniversary feared the loss of land and cul- province witnessed protests, on the condition he remain ex- symbol, which holds special of the year in which he reached tural rights. ‘indignation meetings,’ and iled from “Her Majesty’s Do- significance to the Métis people. the apex of his career,” notes the An August 1869 land survey newspapers such as The Nation minions” for five years. “The Métis Nation is one of OFDC issued along with the by the Canadian government declaring their hatred for Riel the founders of Manitoba,” said single stamp on June 19, 1970. eventually pushed Riel, who as Scott’s ‘murdered,’ vowing STAMP DESIGN David Chartrand, president of The stamp’s image of Riel is emerged as the Métis leader vengeance. Out of this rage The Riel stamp was de- the Manitoba Métis Federation. based on a photograph by Wil- only two months later, into ac- emerged a ‘Canada First’ signed at Montréal’s Paprika “In partnership with Canada liam James Topley. W tion. He formed a militia, movement that pushed a white, by Raymond Lanctot with art Post, we are pleased that we turned back surveyors and English and Protestant form of direction by Louis Gagnon can all commemorate our his- took possession of Upper Fort nationalism, one based on a and illustration by Gérard Du- tory.” Garry to begin the rebellion. thinly disguised racism.” Bois. ANOTHER REBELLION In the mid-1880s, Riel was DID YOU KNOW? again asked to negotiate for the • The current decade (2011-20) has been declared the “Decade of the Métis Nation.” Métis – this time in Saskatche- • In Manitoba, the third Monday of every February is a provincial holiday known as Louis Riel Day. wan – but after the Canadian • According to the 2016 census, the Métis population in Canada includes more than 587,000 government sent armed militia people. Métis Nation citizens, originally of mixed Indigenous and European ancestry, emerged rather than negotiators, the sec- as a distinct Indigenous nation in the northwest in the 18th and 19th centuries. Today, the Métis ond resistance was defeated. Nation Homeland encompasses the Prairie Provinces and a contiguous part of British Columbia, After surrendering during Ontario, the Northwest Territories and Northwestern U.S. the Battle of Batoche in May • The earliest recorded use of the Métis flag was on June 19, 1816, at the Battle of Seven Oaks. • The multi-use “ceinture flechée” worn by the voyageurs during the fur trade era evolved into the now-iconic garment of the Métis Nation, whose history and identity are expressed through Riel was also each pattern and colourful strand. Featured on this coin, Riel’s sash is a Coventry sash, a popu- commemorated on a stamp lar style that was mass-produced on a loom in Coventry, England. issued by the Post Office Department in 1970.

22 November 26, 2019 • CANADIAN STAMP NEWS • www.canadianstampnews.ca terminded a plan to defeat Rus- sia by promoting a siege on the Edward... city of Sevastopol by British, Continued from page 7 French and Ottoman allied SHOW & Bourse The prince also had other forces. The conflict ended with Visit www.canadianstampnews.com/events for the full list of shows posted to date royal holdings improved, in- a treaty. NOV. 15 – 17, MONTREAL, QC club circuit books (five and 10 cents) plus individually priced cluding the development of a Fall 2019 Nuphilex, McGill New Residence Hall, 3625 Parc Ave. items from as many as four dealers. Admission and parking are model farm at Windsor and PRINCE DIED AT AGE 42 **NEW LOCATION** Admission $5 Friday and Saturday, free Sunday, free. New dealer inquiries are welcome. For more information, later, Balmoral Castle, a large early bird admission $25, beginning Friday 8 a.m. Hours: Fri. and email [email protected], telephone 416-460-3970. Ill with chronic stomach ail- Sat. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sun. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information estate house in Scotland, which ments, Prince Albert was 42 contact Emmanuel, email [email protected], tele- DEC. 14, MONCTON, NB was bought with a legacy the when he died of typhoid fever phone 514-889-7740. Website: www.nuphilex.com. Moncton Stamp Fair, Royal Canadian Legion, 100 War Veterans Ave. The Moncton Stamp Fair is held each month from October to Queen inherited. on Dec. 14, 1861. NOV. 16, MONCTON, NB May. Hosted by the Fundy Stamp Collectors Club, the show runs He also lobbied to increase Heralded for his liberalism, he Moncton Stamp Fair, Royal Canadian Legion, 100 War Veterans from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free admission, free parking and silent the ages of workers at a time was considered a kind and lov- Ave. The Moncton Stamp Fair is held each month from October to auction. There are usually between four and six dealers, and a live when child labour was in vogue May. Hosted by the Fundy Stamp Collectors Club, the show runs auction starts at 1 p.m. For more information, email bourqup@ ing father but was often em- from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free admission, free parking and silent umoncton.ca, telephone 506-875-2684. with many landowners. broiled in disciplinary measures auction. There are usually between four and six dealers, and a live Though opposed in some po- with his eldest son Edward, the auction starts at 1 p.m. For more information, email bourqup@ DEC. 21, ST. CATHARINES, ON litical circles, Prince Albert was umoncton.ca, telephone 506-875-2684. Best Western Stamp Show, Best Western Hotel (Niagara Room), 2 Prince of Wales – the future King North Service Rd. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free parking, free supported by the prime minis- Edward VII – who rebelled NOV. 16, TORONTO, ON admission and free appraisals. Sponsored by Roy’s Stamps, spe- ter and his public role became against studying. North Toronto Stamp Club Winter Bourse, Yorkminster Park Baptist cializing in the stamps and covers of Canada and the British more and more noticed. In ad- Church, 1585 Yonge St. Hours 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Easy subway Commonwealth. For more information, email [email protected], For the second time in less access at St. Clair subway station, free admission, 22 dealers, telephone 905-934-8377. dition to drafting the Queen’s than a year, Queen Victoria was more than 100 sales circuit books including recent issues, over correspondence, he joined her overcome with grief. Her mother 100 ten cents books, members table, door prizes (first prize one JAN. 4, 2020, SCARBOROUGH, ON during meetings with her min- kilo of stamps) snack bar, wheelchair access, parking at the Scarborough Stamp Club Show, Cedarbrook Community Centre, died on March 16, 1861. Church and on nearby streets, families and children welcome. For 91 Eastpark Blvd. The Scarborough Stamp Club Show features isters and sometimes acted on Donning black dresses for the more information, email [email protected], tele- club circuit books (five and 10 cents) plus individually priced her behalf when she was ab- last 50 years of her life, she for- phone 647-990-4073. Website: www.northtorontostampclub.ca. items from as many as four dealers. Admission and parking are sent. free. New dealer inquiries are welcome. For more information, ever mourned Prince Albert. NOV. 17, DARTMOUTH, NS email [email protected]., telephone 416-460-3970. Regarded as “king to all in- While absent from public life Nova Scotia Stamp Club Fall Fair, The East Dartmouth tents and purposes” by Charles during a long period of mourn- Community Centre, 50 Caledonia Rd. The fair will be hosted by JAN. 11, 2020, BRANTFORD, ON Greville, Clerk of the Privy the Nova Scotia Stamp Club, and runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Brantford Stamp Club Annual Show & Bourse, Branlyn Community ing, some of his monarchal re- with free admission, free parking and a club auction. There will Centre, 238 Brantwood Park Rd. The Brantford Stamp Club Annual Council, the prince was elected forms – including that the Royal likely be to 6 to 10 dealers and the live auction will start at 1:30 Show and Bourse features a 15-dealer bourse, silent auctions, Chancellor of the University of Family not be involved in poli- p.m. For more information, email [email protected]. club circuit books, door prizes, stamp exhibits and a lunch coun- Cambridge in 1847. Website: www.nsstampclub.ca. ter with refreshments. With free admission and parking, the show tics – began to fade. is also wheelchair accessible. For more information, email pam- He began working to reform Urged by her uncle, King Leo- NOV. 22 – 23, MONTRÉAL, QC [email protected], telephone 519-751-3513. Website: its curriculum, promoting mod- pold, to return to public life, the International Stamp Show of Montreal / EXUP 47, Maison du www.brantfordstampclub.com. ern history and natural sci- Citoyen, 7501, Rue François-Perreault Fri. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sat. Queen gradually left her self- 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 15 dealers to complete your collection. Canada JAN. 11, 2020, MONCTON, NB ences, Roger Fulford wrote in imposed isolation and in 1866 Post Draw! For more information contact Patrick, email tim- Moncton Stamp Fair, Royal Canadian Legion, 100 War Veterans his 1949 book, The Prince Con- even attended the State Opening [email protected], telephone 1-450-223-0082. Website: Ave. The Moncton Stamp Fair is held each month from October to sort. www.timbratheque.com. May. Hosted by the Fundy Stamp Collectors Club, the show runs of Parliament. from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free admission, free parking and silent The following year, after rev- As the years passed, she en- NOV. 23, SCARBOROUGH, ON auction. There are usually between four and six dealers, and a live olutions in Europe left several joyed a new wave of popularity Scarborough Stamp Club Show, Cedarbrook Community Centre, auction starts at 1 p.m. For more information, email bourqup@ 91 Eastpark Blvd. The Scarborough Stamp Club Show features umoncton.ca, telephone 506-875-2684. of his relatives deposed, the as the British Empire grew. club circuit books (five and 10 cents) plus individually priced royal couple spent time away Several monuments to her items from as many as four dealers. Admission and parking are JAN. 18 – 19, 2020, LONGUEUIL, QC from London, where demon- husband were created and his free. New dealer inquiries are welcome. For more information, International Stamp Show of Longueuil, SandMan Hotel, 999 rue email [email protected], telephone 416-460-3970. strators had raised fears for name was widely adopted, in- Sérigny The annual International Stamp Show of Longueuil will be open to the public Sat. from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sun. from 10 NOV. 23, BURNABY, BC their safety. cluding in Prince Albert, Sask., a.m. to 4 p.m. There will be upwards of 15 dealers on the bourse Coins, Stamps & Collectibles Show, Nikkei Centre, 6688 Southoaks Recognized for leading re- to help collectors complete their collections plus a Canada Post Lake Albert in Africa and for Cres. Hosted by the North Shore Numismatic Society, the show is draw. For more information, email [email protected], forms in university education, four British Army regiments. open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be 40 tables of coins, stamps, telephone 450-223-0082. Website: www.timbratheque.com. welfare, royal finances, slavery Several biographies were pub- banknotes, tokens, medals, postcards, art, pins and more. Admission plus promotion of science and lished soon after his death, fol- is $2 (free for children age 16 and under if accompanied by an JAN. 25 – 26, 2020, BOUCHERVILLE, QC adult). Free underground parking. Japanese restaurant at location. ANPB Coin and Stamp Show, École Secondaire De Mortagne, 955 art in manufacturing, Prince Al- lowed in the 20th century by For more information, email [email protected], telephone 604- bert gained further public sup- Boulevard de Montarville The biannual Coin and Stamp Show several more. 299-3673. Website: www.northshorenumismaticsociety.org. hosted by the Association des Numismates et des Philatelistes de port when he called in a speech A granite sarcophagus in NOV. 23, WATERLOO, ONTARIO Boucherville is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days, with about for the upper classes to help Frogmore Mausoleum at Stampfun 2019, Royal Canadian Legion, 316 Marsland Dr. Held 35 dealers plus club information and food service. Admission and “less fortunate” workers, “who between 9:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Enjoy 10 dealers, a silent auc- parking are free. For more information, email [email protected], Windsor Great Park eventually telephone 514-592-7288. Website: www.anpb.net. have most of the toil and fewest contained both his and widow’s tion, circuit books, and door prizes. Free admission and free parking. Coffee in the morning and lunch can be purchased from JAN. 25, 2020, SCARBOROUGH, ON of the enjoyments of this remains. the Legion kitchen. 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November 26, 2019 • CANADIAN STAMP NEWS • www.canadianstampnews.ca 23 OLD TIME BARGAINS #973 In the spotlight this week are early Canadian unused singles at great prices, Centennial Issue items and modern errors as well. Select those you need and order today by phone, fax, mail or email. There are no additional charges for shipping or sales taxes and installment terms are available if needed. We have the new 2019 Unitrade catalogue in stock at $54.95 postpaid. The latest Scott catalogues are also in stock. Have something nice for sale? If you do, please get in touch. We pay the highest prices for specialized collections and individual rarities of not only Canada and Provinces, but U.S.A., British and Foreign material as well.

SPECIAL OFFER #18,604 SPECIAL SPECIAL OFFER Well here’s one you seldom see, especially un- #18,619 used. It is Scott #9a -- the deep green shade of the OFFER #18,614 Continuing with the varieties 7½p Queen Victoria issue of 1857. I have a rare Here’s one of the very theme here is another misper- example in stock, with a small invisible repair, scarcest Centennial Is- foration error, this time on the but with nice colour and Fine appearance. It is sue varieties – the 25¢ ‘A’ stamp (#907ii). This was the fi rst unused single that we have had in a very Winnipeg tagged on the fi rst ever non-denominated long time. List price is $7,500.00. My price is $2,495.00. Install- hibrite paper (#465pi). Canadian stamp. Check out this VF NH mint sheet margin pair ment payments are available. There are not many around and in my opin- showing a super misperforation error. Price is just $139.00. SPECIAL OFFER #18,605 ion it is underpriced From Canada’s fi rst decimal currency issue in the catalogues, especially when it comes to corner blocks. List comes this elusive 2¢ Queen Victoria (Scott #20). price for a VF NH matched set is $1,000.00. My price is $395.00. A SPECIAL OFFER #18,620 A fi ne unused example lists at $300.00. My price single corner is $99.00. is $149.00. SPECIAL SPECIAL OFFER #18,606 The fi rst set of stamps in Canada after Confed- OFFER #18,615 eration was the Large Queen Issue, issued in Here is a matched 1868. It had a short life, with the subsequent set of plate blocks of Small Queen Issue already beginning to ap- the 50¢ Centennial, pear by 1870. Here is the 1¢ brown red (Scott a later printing with Here is a very interesting item. Included are imperforate pairs #22) in F-VF unused condition. List price is PVA gum (#465Aiv). of the one cent through six cent values of the popular Wildfl ow- $700.00. My price is just $279.00. List price for this in ers issue (Scott #1349-1353). These are photographic essays done VF NH condition is in black and white, which would have been prepared before the $150.00. My price is actual issue of the stamps. It is believed that one such sheet of SPECIAL OFFER #18,607 $49.50. Next here is the 2¢ green Large Queen issue each was produced. Price for all fi ve blocks in VF condition is just (Scott #24). I have a couple of fi ne unused ex- $149.00. These will add luster to any collection of modern Canada. amples in stock. List price is $600.00. My price is $195.00. SPECIAL OFFER #18,616 Still with the Cen- SPECIAL OFFER tennial Issue here is a scarce matched set #18,621 SPECIAL OFFER #18,608 of the $1.00 Wild- Here’s an error you have likely One of the high values of the Large Queens is cat, again, a later never seen and one I highly recom- the 12½¢ blue (Scott #28). List price for a fi ne PVA gum printing mend. It is a new discovery and un- mint hinged single is $1,200.00. My price is (#465Biii). List price listed in the catalogues. Featured in $279.00 only. for a VF NH set is a mint block of six of the 45¢ Queen $250.00. My price is Elizabeth II defi nitive issue (#1360), low at just $79.95. showing a lovely perforation error. SPECIAL OFFER #18,609 Condition is VF NH mint and price The other high value of the Large Queen se- is just $395.00 (or fi ve monthly pay- ries is the 15¢. Scott #29 is the purple shade. I ments of $79.00 each). have a few F-VF mint hinged singles in stock. List price is $160.00. My price is $69.00 while SPECIAL OFFER they last. #18,617 SPECIAL OFFER #18,610 Here is an interesting item relat- SPECIAL OFFER #18,622 The King Edward VII issue of Canada is always ed to Centennial Issue booklets Here is an interesting error on the $1 a hard one to complete. Two specials follow. by the British American Bank Yorkton (#1375). The imprint ‘Canada First is the 5¢ value (Scott #91). List price for Note Company. It was used as a 1” is completely missing as the result a Very Fine mint hinged single is $400.00. My model for developing the print- of a major shift of colour. Price for price is $139.00. ing and layout of the issued a VF NH single is just $595.00 (or 5 booklet panes, which were the monthly payments of $119.00 each). fi rst in Canada to have stamps of SPECIAL OFFER #18,611 different values and different colours. I labeled this trial stamp the ‘baby sisters’ design many years ago; it is now listed in some special- The 20¢ olive-green King Edward VII (Scott ized catalogues. Here is a tete-beche gutter block of four in bright SPECIAL OFFER #18,623 #94) is scarce indeed. A F-VF mint hinged sin- yellow green. It is in VF NH condition A nice mate to the previous special gle lists at $825.00. My price is just $239.00. and priced at just $119.00. I also have a is this missing colour error on the $2 tete-beche pair available at $59.95. Truro (#1376a). List price for a VF NH mint single is $1,500.00. My price is a SPECIAL OFFER #18,612 steal at just $795.00 (or 5 monthly pay- Six special offers featuring the popular 1967 ments of $159.00 each). Centennial Issue follow. Here’s one that I of- SPECIAL OFFER #18,618 ten run short of -- the 6¢ orange on hibrite pa- I remember when this one was fi rst per (#459biv). List price for a F-VF NH mint discovered -- one of the scarcer print- single is $35.00. My price is $16.95. ing errors from the 1970s. The bird on SPECIAL OFFER the totem pole is completely missing SPECIAL OFFER #18,613 (#572ii). It occurred on just one stamp #18,624 Next here is the 15¢ Centennial on the in every few sheets printed. By the time The high values of Cana- scarce hibrite paper (#463ii). A VF NH collectors recognized the error most of da’s fi rst offi cial issue the mint single lists at $20.00. My price is the issue had already been used. List set are scarce. In fact, only just $6.95. Or make it $24.95 for a nice price for a VF NH mint block is $225.00. 30,000 of the 50¢ value were printed. A VF NH set (Scott #O6- block of four. My price is low at just $99.95. O10) lists at $501.00. My price is $249.00 while they last.

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