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By Bret Evans

Here at Canadian Stamp News, we get as much fun, if not more, looking

at our mail as we do reading the con-tents.

Our mail probably has a much higher concentration of old and commemora-tive stamps than most businesses, as well as a wide selection of attractive hand cancels. Because our readers often use stamps rather than meter labels, we also have a frightful assembly of DIY

pen and marker cancels, sometimes shared by our loyal readers.

After a summer of setting aside inter-esting mail, we have the fall edition of memorable mail, a half-dozen covers that bring out the best and the worst of collecting.

The goodTwo covers stand out as exceptional.First off is a wonderful handmade

cover from Harvey Shuter.We’ve written about Shuter in the past,

and most Toronto collectors have proba-bly seen his work.

In this case he mailed us a letter from the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada’s annual convention, held last May in Hal-ifax. The delightful piece combined pic-ture postage from the Toronto Stamp Club, and while the permanent-rate was valid, the cover includes an example of the monarch butterfly 22-cent stamp in-troduced to bring older-rate stamps up to the current 85-cent domestic rate.

The two are nicely cancelled by one of the convention cancels, but Canada Post felt compelled to run it through an ink jet machine on June 3. Perhaps someone took exception to the cachet, with an im-age of someone picking up mail at a community mail box, the ground littered by unwanted flyers, and the headline “Canada Post: Coming soon to a side-walk near you.” The thick black border is

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A philatelic landmark has disappeared from the nation’s capital, with the clos-ing of Ian Kimmerly’s Ottawa stamp shop.

For Kimmerly, the closing is both posi-tive and negative.

While he will miss the chance to deal with customers, he will also enjoy being able to focus more of his time on stamps.

“The store is in part a victim of its own success,” he said. “The staff has done a great job of working with customers, but it came to the point where I was dealing with all sorts of stuff, and I wasn’t get-ting to work with stamps. It became more of a chore and less of a passion.

“I have barely worked on my stamp collection for five years, and I haven’t ex-hibited in probably that long as well,” he added.

That doesn’t mean Kimmerly will be vanishing from the stamp scene. He plans to continue as president of Sparks Auctions, also based in Ottawa; he will continue to attend Ottawa’s annual Orax-pex show and sale; and, he will be get-ting active in the local stamp scene in his new home of Victoria, B.C.

“Victoria has a great philatelic com-munity,” he said, “I’d say as good as Halifax or Toronto.”

Another bonus is that he will no lon-ger have to deal with Ottawa winters, notorious for snow and ice.

“I could sum it up in one word, actu-ally just three characters, I-C-E,” he said.

Slowing down will be a new experi-ence for Kimmerly, who has been a full time dealer since around 1977, and opened his first store in 1984.

At that time he started small, not open-ing his most recent location on Ottawa’s Sparks Street Mall, until just a few years ago.

His advice to upcoming dealers is start small and build up their business.

“I would not have been successful if I had started with a huge overhead and staff,” he said. “I was successful because of the apprenticeship of hard knocks and the experience I gained. I was so proud when I hired my first employee, but I would not have been as successful if I had tried to start with staff.”

During his nearly 40 years in the stamp business, Kimmerly has seen a few changes.

One thing he has noticed is that while there may be fewer collectors than in the 1980s, modern collectors have more knowledge and an increased apprecia-tion of quality.

Kimmerly closes Ottawa store, but remains in the hobby

elizabeth and Ian Kimmerly spent much of Sept. 27 meeting with old customers.

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One of the most famous Canadian images of the Second World War, Wait for Me Daddy, has been selected for a Canadian postage stamp.

The picture was taken on Oct. 1, 1940, as the men of the British Columbia Regiment, Duke of Connaught’s Own Rifles, prepared to move overseas, to an undisclosed destination. It shows War-ren “Whitey” Bernard, running to his father Jack, his mother Bernice trying to catch him back.

The move was big news in New Westminister, where the Regiment had been concentrated for training after be-ing mobilized for service in the Fourth Canadian Infantry Division. The photo-graph, which looks staged, was actually a random shot by Claude Dettloff, a photographer for the Vancouver Prov-ince.

The photograph appeared in the Province the next day, and was picked

up by newspapers and magazines around the world. The young lad be-came a celebrity, and spent six weeks touring British Columbia, appearing in bond drives.

Life Magazine named it one of the 10 best photographs of the 1940s.

Five years later, Jack Bernard, now a sergeant who had commanded a tank from Normandy to Holland, returned to British Columbia. He was met at the train station by his wife Bernice, and son Whitey, now 10 years old.

Dettloff was there to document the re-union, but it wasn’t a storybook ending.

Jack Bernard was 34 years old when he went to war and Bernice was preg-nant. He was older than most soldiers, old enough to have been exempt from any call-up.

His wife was angry at Jack for vol-unteering. This plus the loss of the

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Today, we take it for granted that stamps are supposed to be rele-

vant to Canadian society.We even spend a fair amount of

time thinking about relevance. While it often boils down to a personal opin-ion about what is relative, there are certain subjects which are pretty much guaranteed because they touch on our Canadian identity.

Some of those subjects are easy. Na-ture, wild animals, the flag, national or provincial symbols are all pretty much beyond discussion. Modern Canadian celebrities are another easy choice, we’re all happy to claim great athletes and popular entertainers.

When it comes to history things start to become a bit greyer. For in-stance the events leading up to Con-federation are worthy of commemor-ating, but events of the First and Second World Wars, perhaps not so much. Granted the two wars stand out in the history of the 20th century, and were seminal moments in de-veloping Canadian identity, but they were also times of terrible suffering

and sacrifice. It was also a time of in-credible injustice. In both wars Can-adian citizens were treated as crimin-als, simply because they were differ-ent.

So far, Canada Post has done a great job of creating stamps that show the good and the positive in our past in an honest, non-judgemental man-ner.

They have also managed to touch on all sorts of Canadian icons and symbols.

What makes all of this so interest-ing is that this sort of diversity was unthinkable 100 years ago.

Back then, while commemorative stamps were being made, they were comparatively scarce. For most Can-adians, stamps were purely func-tional.

A handful of definitive stamps existed, and for the most part the same design was used for the entire range of values. All stamps looked the same. The same portrait of the monarch, with just different colours for different values.

Even 50 years ago that landscape was still familiar. Most stamps were the same, such as a young Queen Elizabeth II, but in different colours for various values.

Stamps weren’t ugly. In fact they were often great portraits skillfully en-graved. But they were routine, predict-able, and functional.

Now before you start writing in, I know that there were special issues, the Jubilees, Quebec Tercentenary, and the 1938 pictorial come to mind. But most working stamps were definitives.

I really doubt a collector of a genera-tion or two ago, would have wasted much time even thinking about the cul-tural relevance of the Canadian stamps, let alone discuss any stamp in particu-lar.

Today, with new commemorative stamps coming out every few weeks, and Canada Post using picture postage for commemorative envelopes, the issue of relevance is often brought up, usually to mean the stamps we like are relevant, while the ones we don’t like are spurious.

Personally, I have to wonder about some stamp subjects, and I don’t al-ways agree with some designs, but then I’m also often unimpressed at art gal-leries and museums. What I do like is that collectors and Canadians are now interested in talking about the relevance of stamps.

It means that our collecting is more than just passively gathering stamps. It also means that we are also assessing, and involved with our stamps.

To me that’s a good thing. Of course it may also explain why many of my friends think I’m a bit weird. W

Modern collectors are not just hunters and gatherers

still familiar. Most stamps were the same, such as a young Queen Elizabeth II, but in different colours for various values.

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Stamp to honour famous Wait for Me Daddy imageClaude dettloff’s famous image has stood the test of time.

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A familiar sight to residents of the Okanagan Valley and especially those residing in the Penticton area is the pad-dle steamer SS Sicamous, which plied the waters of Okanagan Lake in British Columbia for many years.

The now fully restored sternwheeler commemorated its 100th birthday this year.

Built in Port Arthur, Ont., the Sicamous was shipped by rail to British Columbia in sections. Arriving in Vernon, the com-ponents were then moved to Okanagan Landing, where it was assembled and launched on the lake May 19, 1914.

Built as a steel-hulled, shallow draught vessel, it has an overall length of 61.1 metres and was claimed to be one of three luxury ships built by the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Described as the “Lady of Okanagan Lake” in a Summerland Museum dis-play of lake traffic over the years, the ship was also known as the “Queen of Okanagan Lake,” according to Wikipedia.

The stern-wheeler connected the ma-jor centres of Vernon, Kelowna and Penticton until about 1936, providing a lifeline to the many small communities along the lake, many without road or rail service. In addition to regular pas-senger service, it delivered freight and supplies and a regular mail service. During those years it became the first leg of the journey to markets across the country for the famous Okanagan Val-ley fruit.

Grounded and retired to the Penticton waterfront in 1951, the ship became the

main focus of the Penticton marine park, serving as a museum until 1965, before conversion to a restaurant. The vessel was accepted as a historic site in 1988 and has since been regularly used for special events and educational displays.

A Penticton committee launched Steamfest, an 18-month-long celebration recognizing the importance of steam traffic to the small towns surrounding the lake, and within the valley. The fes-tivities began with the 100th anniver-sary of the Sicamous on May 19, and will conclude with a 100-year celebration of rail service to Penticton. The railroad connection was completed in 1915, just one year later after the arrival of the steamship.

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SHOw AND BOURSE Check out the shows

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Volume 39 • Number 13

October 21 to November 3, 2014

Century-old steamship inspires stamp

BaT STamPSSuperman’s buddy, and Justice

League partner, Batman, now has his own set of stamps. The United States Postal Service (USPS) has unveiled a set of four non-denominated forever domestic stamps showing four dif-ferent periods in the evolution of the hero. There are also four round stamps showing the different inter-pretations of the famous bat signal. As press time there was no indica-tion if Canada Post, who brought us a plethora of Superman stamps last year, will be selling the U.S. Batman stamps.

exhIBITIng journal The American Association of Phila-

telic Exhibitors has issued its third quarter edition of The Philatelic Exhib-itor. The edition includes Patricia Still-well Walker’s Q & A column; Steve Zwillinger’s discussion of the “polit-ical” issues arising from some exhibit subjects; details of the recent AAPE Youth Champion of Champions com-petition held in Minnesota; and part one of an article on less collected postal stationery. For more information go to www.aape.org.

BrITS announCed 2015 Program

Britain’s Royal Mail has unveiled its 2015 stamp program. Along with the usual are plans to honour Alice in Wonderland, inventive Britain, bridges, comedy greats, the Magna Carta, bees, Christmas and the Rugby World Cup. Military subjects include the First World War, Battle of Waterloo, and Battle of Britain. Stamp collectors will be excited to know that on May 6 a stamp will be unveiled commemorat-ing the anniversary of the famous penny black.

WIlT The STIlT To geT STamPMeanwhile the USPS has announced

that basketball legend Wilt Chamber-lain will be featured on a stamp being issued in December. The announcement

is the result of a grassroots campaign that started in 2008 and eventually saw a petition with 55,000 names being sent to the Citizen’s Stamp Advisory Com-mittee. The holder of numerous NBA records, Chamberlain died in 1999 at the age of 63. He will be the first basket-ball player ever to be the subject of a United States postage stamp.

Free STamPS SoFTen The BloWThe postal authority of Singapore

SingPost is giving each address in the country six free stamps. The stamps are meant to encourage people to use mail, and to soften the blow of the first postal increase in eight years. On Oct. 1, domestic postage went up from 16 to 20 cents. The organization will also be providing free stamps to nonprofit homes for the elderly, young, or dis-abled.

meerKaT larCenyA British postal worker has been

given a suspended sentence after ad-mitting to stealing scores of collectible Aleksandr the Meerkat toys being mailed out by a British insurance com-pany. After stealing the toys, the postie sold them online. Then, to add insult to injury, he delivered them by mail, and paid the postage with used post-age stamps. The high-tech investiga-tion saw postal inspectors tagging packages with electronic devices.

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dId you KnoW?When Canada entered the

Second World War, so did its stamps.

While most collectors are fa-miliar with King George VI in uniforms of the three armed ser-vices, and the-high value stamps showing tanks and warships, few realize that the war im-pacted stamp production.

The demand for quality steel, and other wartime metals, meant that the printing industry got second-best. The poor quality of the metal on the printing dates means that not only were more plates than usual used for reach value, but plate flaws were com-paratively common.

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Penticton ambassador Camelia Vokey, left, and Penticton & district Stamp Club representative nigel Skermer, right, assist artist randy manuel at the unveiling of the SS Sicamous picture postage stamp.

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In the world of Canadian arts, Felix Eugene Leclerc was a

master performer.Featured on a commemora-

tive in the 1999-2000 Millen-nium series, the singer, guitar-ist, poet, playwright, novelist, actor and strong Quebec na-tionalist was born 100 years ago last Aug. 2 at La Tuque, now a city of more than 11,000 on the Saint-Maurice River, between Trois-Rivières and Chambord.

The sixth of 11 children for lumber and grain dealer Léoni-das Leclerc and his wife, Fabi-ola Parrot, Leclerc grew up sur-rounded with classical music, influenced by his mother and a sister’s piano playing.

After taking classes at the Ju-niorat du Sacré-Coeur in Ot-tawa, the 18-year-old enrolled in the University of Ottawa, studying literature and rheto-ric.

While there, he completed his first of 138 songs, Notre sen-tier, which translates as “Our Trail,” or “Our Path.”

Forced to postpone his edu-cation four years after the De-pression began in 1929, Leclerc honed outdoor skills on a Sainte-Marthe-du-Cap farm near Trois-Rivières, then worked as a mortuary embalm-er’s assistant. According to the Canadian Encyclopedia, the hard work influenced several of his songs.

In 1934, he signed on as an announcer and scriptwriter at the CHRC Radio station in Quebec City, before joining a Trois-Rivières station three years later, then Radio-Canada in Montreal in 1939.

Leclerc began studying gui-tar chords and methods with radio colleagues while in the provincial capital.

Several scripts he wrote for the CBC attracted audiences and attention for the young writer and baritone singer. His stories, fables and poems were later published with separate titles, Adagio, Allegro and An-dante.

He began acting in the Radio-Canada drama series Un Homme et son péché – “A Man and His Sin” – by Claude-Henri Grignon, and Vie de famille – “Family Life” – by Henry Dey-glun, and for three years during the Second World War, was on stage with Compagnons de Saint-Laurent.

By the time he was 34, Leclerc and two friends had presented the author’s plays Le P’tit Bonheur – “The Small Hap-piness” – and La P’tite Misère –

“Tough Times” – throughout Quebec.

By the late 1940s, he had his own Radio-Canada program, honing skills as a “chansonier,” which combines songs about societies, using poetic expres-sion, comedy and political sat-ire.

When Jacques Canetti heard his performance in Montreal in 1950, the influential Paris en-tertainer, artistic director of Philips Records, and his Euro-pean agent starting in 1965, in-vited him to the capital of France.

Canetti was particularly im-pressed by the Quebecois sing-er’s Le train du nord, “The North-bound Train.”

Leclerc debuted on Dec. 28, 1950 at the Théatre de l’ABC, a large Paris music hall.

Anticipating a one-weekend stand, he instead emerged as a rising star.

Considered an immediate success, Leclerc began record-ing some of his 30 songs and touring in a Quebec-style lum-berjack coat while singing, whistling and playing guitar

throughout France, Belgium and Switzerland, most often in cultural centres.

He was also a frequent guest on top radio programs in France.

In Europe, Leclerc signed a contract with Polydor Records, earning a living with his record-ings for the first time.

In the following year, he re-ceived the Grand prix du disque de l’Académie Charles-Cros in Paris for his song, Moi, mes souliers, “Me, my shoes.”

Leclerc went on to receive that coveted award again in 1958 and 1973.

Billboards advertising his performances, often at variety theatres, were fittingly labelled “Le Canadien.”

dIVIded TIme BeTWeen Canada and euroPeIn the online Encyclopedia of

French Cultural Heritage in North America, André Gaulin wrote: “The French Canadian literary establishment saw no inherent value in the poetic character of Leclerc’s few early musical texts.

“For the literary pundits of the time, such songs could at best be considered in the same category as French music hall ditties, a genre they considered frivolous, or else folk music, which they looked down on.”

Some of the negative senti-ment, he added, was expressed by clergymen, who regarded French songs as “evil and de-praved.”

It was Leclerc’s positive re-ception in France that estab-lished him there and in Quebec as a poet with a voice, a pioneer of “songs with content, Gaulin, professor emeritus at the Uni-versit Laval, wrote.

The singer’s reception in Eu-rope prompted him to divide

Quebec songwriter part of Millennium album

By Ian Robertson

LookingBack


Felix leclerc’s 1975 album Le tour de l’ile was one of more than a dozen he recorded between 1951 and 1979.

Quebec singer, songwriter, actor and broadcaster Felix leclerc’c honours included being named an officer of the order of Canada. as an actor, leclerc spent three years on stage with the Compagnons de Saint-laurent in the 1940s.

his time there and back home, where he staged major perfor-mances in Western Canada, Montreal, Ottawa, France, Bel-gium and Switzerland over the next 30 years.

“What we now understand in retrospect is that Felix Leclerc launched a song style or genre of which he himself was almost unconscious, his one driving ambition at the start of his pro-fessional life having been to be-come a novelist and playwright, not an artist giving voice to po-etry,” Gaulin wrote.

With more liberal attitudes prevailing in Quebec more than 60 years ago, Leclerc was soon regarded as a cultural icon in his home province.

Although his plays had been well-received, it was his songs that generated the majority of interest.

Writing in 1948 in Le Devoir, columnist Jean Vincent lauded Leclerc for creating “the kind of new musical genre French Can-ada so desperately needs.”

Leclerc sang about every-day people, increasingly add-ing moral tones: A homeless man in the song Bozo; love pangs; gulls flying over a tide-bound shore; singing about La fille de l’île – “The Girl on the Is-land” – Le roi et le laboureur – “The King and the Plowman”; providing historical reminis-cences with Chanson des co-lons – “Song of the Settlers”; plus advice for ambitious Quebec youth in Tu te lèveras tôt, “Get Yourself up Early.”

In the decade after 1960, during the intellectual “Quiet Revolution” in Quebec, he wrote 44 songs that resonated with struggles about his iden-tity, feelings of rebellion, find-ing new love, major changes in social values and societies, while calling for new ideas in J’inviterai l’enfance, “I Will Call Out to Other Children.”

After settling on Île d’Orléans in 1970, his songs began to ex-press strong Quebec nationalist

sentiments, often including criticism and “caustic irony as his primary weapon,” Historica Canada adds.

He later returned to France for a farewell tour, expressed in a two-record album.

Four years after a major Leclerc concert, before an audi-ence of 200,000 on the Plains of Abraham outside Quebec City, his final album, completed in 1978, was Mon Fils (“My Son”).

Following the father-of-three’s death while asleep six days after his 74th birthday on Aug. 8, 1988, in Saint-Pierre-de-l’Île-d’Orléans, the French government’s condolences were among many sent from around the world.

Leclerc’s funeral was modest, but thousands of fans gathered in Quebec City and Montreal to mourn his loss.

“Felix gave Quebec its own identity and an international presence that none of us has since equalled in such a bril-liant and subtle way,” Carol Néron wrote in the daily news-paper, Quotidien de Chicoutimi.

Leclerc’s legacy includes ap-pearances in five films between 1959 and 1994, and the annual Felix Awards for Quebec’s re-cording and performing artists.

In addition to his repertoire of songs and poems, he is cred-ited with influencing the rise of Quebec poetry-in-song during the 1950s.

His first guitar is in the Vau-dreuil-Soulanges Regional Mu-seum.

Leclerc wrote two books, the 1984 Rêves à vendre – “Dreams for Sale” – and Derniers calepins - “Last Notebooks,” which was released posthumously.

His many honours included being appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada; the Award of Merit of the Canadian Con-ference of the Arts; the Quebec government’s Denise Pelletier prize for a lifetime of achieve-ments; and appointment as a Grand Officier of the Ordre na-tional du Québec.

He became a Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur in 1986.

A sculpture in Lafontaine park in Montreal has honoured Leclerc since it was unveiled in 1990.

Three museums in his home province have sections dedi-cated to him. Several parks, roads and schools were also named after Felix Leclerc.

1999 FelIx leClerC

STamPOn Sept. 15, 1999, Canada

Post released its Millennium Collection, a hardbound book containing sixty-eight 46-cent commemoratives celebrating achievements by Canadians during the previous century.

Postal officials said they yielded to public pressure to re-release the stamps at face value, starting on Dec. 17, and con-tinuing into the new year.

Slightly larger copyright dates on the upper-left mar-gins of the book versions, when compared with those on 17 se-tenant mini-sheets of four, resulted in collectors re-garding them as different ver-sions, hence a total of 136 stamps.

Among the first mini-sheets released was one honouring “Extraordinary Entertainers,” including “Felix Leclerc: Fa-ther of Quebec’s New Song,” the title printed on the sheet-let’s outer margin, beside the stamp (Scott #1820d).

Designed by Yvon Laroche, based on a photograph by Jean-Louis Frund of Leclerc in middle-age, it divides his por-trait into four colours – or-ange, red, green and blue – with a line drawing of a 12-string guitar placed over his face.

Ashton-Potter Canada Lim-ited used four lithographic transfer colours plus varnish to print one million of each sheetlet. Production of the al-bum versions, which were printed two per page, was limited to 200,000.

As wi th a l l se - tenant stamps, finding ones with small, round non-first day cover postmarks bearing dates close to the issue date can be a challenge. Most of those used on mail received slogan can-cels or square parcel cancels.

The Unitrade Specialized Cat-alogue of Canadian Stamps does not list any varieties for the Leclerc stamp.

mIllennIum STamPS From SPeCIal alBumArticles have recently been

published in several philatelic journals about efforts by col-lectors to produce covers franked with stamps from the limited edition Millennium

Collection album and can-celled with “business strike” postmarks.

The authors illustrated their articles with commemoratives showing margins from the book sheets, which were kept intact to prove their origins.

The album, in which the to-tal face value of the 68 stamps was $31.28, sold at first for $59.99. Some post offices of-fered them at discount prices several months later.

Following a long-standing tradition of not recognizing stamps sold by post offices for higher prices than their face value, the catalogue editors refer to the Millennium Col-lection stamps as a side note, with the souvenir sheet ver-sions given Scott numbers and listed as the issued commemoratives.

Some collectors and dealers had stamps on the album sheets postmarked in 1999, but complete books with cancelled stamps intact are rare.

At least one dealer I know broke up pages from albums and sold the separated stamps at premium prices, some with coveted circular “business strike” cancels applied by helpful posties.

Those stamps, like the previ-ously mentioned covers, are far from common.

As for value, that’s hard to say. I prefer to think of them as interesting additions to a col-lection.

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Singer-songwriter leclerc makes an appearance on the TV program Abitibi in 1957 (Photo courtesy national Film Board of Canada/library and archives Canada).

baby and five years of separa-tion killed the marriage.

Bernice and Jack both re-married. Whitey, now retired,

eventually moved to Tofino, on Vancouver Island, where he opened a marine fuel busi-ness and entered local pol-itics.

He became a machinist in Vancouver in the 1950s, mov-ing to Tofino on Vancouver Island in 1962. He divorced;

met his present wife; opened a marine hardware and fuel business; and raised four chil-dren. He became an alderman in the 1960s and Mayor of To-fino in the 1980s then went back as a Councillor. Now 78 years old, he’s helping his son run the business.

The City of New Westmin-ster has commissioned a sculpture of the three figures, unveiled on Oct. 4.

On the same day, Canada Post also unveiled a perma-nent-rate domestic stamp based on the photograph.

Designed by Susan Mavor and packaged in booklets of 10 self-adhesive stamps and in panes of five water acti-vated stamps.

The official first-day cover, also designed by Mavor, shows a portrait of the father and son reunion in 1945. It has a New Westminster, B.C. can-cel, dated Oct. 4, in the form of a poppy.

In addition to the sculpture and stamp, a new $2 coin also based on the photograph, was launched by the Royal Can-adian Mint. W

The Stanley Gibbons Great Britain Concise Catalogue for

2014 is the 29th edition of this popular listing. What will add excitement for collectors of Britain and especially those whose focus is on the Machin stamps as well as the Post & Go stamps is a new feature in the catalogue.

In the usual press release ac-companying the Concise, the Stanley Gibbons publicist says “there is little doubt that the two fields which are most ex-citing Great Britain collectors at the moment are Post & Go stamps and Machin date- and source-codes – and after a bit over five years, both are devel-oping into subjects of consider-able complexity.”

I will not go into the com-plexity. That, after all, is the field of the specialist, but I will welcome the decision of edi-tors Hugh Jefferies and Vince Cordell of the Concise to in-clude “handy reference tables to help identify the various date- and source-code combi-nations that exist and also the special inscription Post & Go stamps and the machines that produce them.”

For those tables, the editors chose none other than John Deering, who has been writing about the Machin stamps for

more than 30 years and whose interest in Post & Go items is very high. Deering writes a regular column in Gibbons Stamp Monthly, and his effort in the August 2014 issue fo-cuses on “Post & Go, the Post Office and the self-service rev-olution,” which is a most inter-esting and informative essay. Jefferies and Cordell recognize the significance of the Deering tables, so “collectors of these popular fields will be able to see at a glance exactly what ex-ists and what they still need.”

That being said, this ap-proach is a new direction for the Concise because when the catalogue was “launched back in 1986 ... fairly tight limits were set on what fell within the listing criteria.” In other words the Concise was in-tended to be just that without being “too complicated.” Nonetheless, this review sup-ports the addition of the Deer-ing tables because the techno-logical evolution practically demands it.

It is also important to note other additions to the Concise that expand it usefulness. New plate and cylinder flaws have been added, including a num-ber of Wilding varieties, and booklet panes are now listed up to 1952. The editors in-

cluded a major change for 2013, which was the renumber-ing of the Y series Machins “for the benefit of anyone who missed it last year.”

The Concise continues to in-clude the usual items relating to philately, pricing, altered catalogue numbers, the com-memorative design index, and, of course, all issues from the penny black of 1840 to last March 26. And, don’t forget, the lay-flat binding is still an important feature for ease of use.

A catalogue cannot rest on its laurels, but must keep pace with new developments, new ideas, and progress. Stanley Gibbons is accepting that re-sponsibility with a fine edito-rial team at work. Having just read, moreover, that the Scott Catalogue is now offering ebook versions of entire volumes or selected countries, will Stanley Gibbons be next?

The Stanley Gibbons Great Britain Concise Catalogue is available from your dealer or

from the Canadian representa-tive Unitrade Associates, 99 Floral Parkway, Toronto, Ont. M6L 2C4. The published price is £34.95.

WITh The journalS By continuing my effort to

credit the journals as the first line of philatelic literature, I have several items that empha-size that theory.

Grand News, the official jour-nal of the Grand River Valley Philatelic Association, contin-ues to impress me with its de-tails about stamp collecting activity in southwestern On-tario. The September-October issue lists numerous stamp shows for the fall and the as-sociation clubs (I count 16) have a synopsis of activity. There is also a schedule of meetings from September through mid-November.

Although each issue is soon out of date because of the im-mediacy of the information, I am sure Ken Magee, 39967 Din-sley Terr., RR 5, Clinton, ON. N0M 1L0 would gladly supply a newer version if someone from outside the region has plans to visit any of the clubs within the association.

Philatelic Literature Review continues to inform on a wide variety of literature issues in its third-quarter issue. Among the significant notices is from

the American Topical Associa-tion whose journal, Topical Time, I have long supported. The ATA has released a com-plete digital archive of all Topi-cal Time issues from 1949 through 2013. It contains 382 issues of the thematic journal totaling 34,272 pages in an electronically searchable for-mat. This archive is housed in a 16-gigabyte flash drive and plugs into USB ports in both PC and Apple computing de-vices. It is available from ATA, PO Box 8, Carterville, Ill. 62918-0008 for $99 US, post-paid.

Among the informative items in this issue of the Review is “John K. Tiffany and the Sup-pantschitsch Index of 1892-94” by Brian Birch. Tiffany was the first to compile a bibliography of philatelic literature (1874) in the United States, but John Ed-ward Gray did so in England as early as 1862. Victor Sup-pantschitsch did so in Germany in 1892. Among Birch’s com-ments: “by the mid-1880s the number of periodicals devoted to the hobby had outstripped all other forms of publication.” That statement illustrates how the history of philately and its literature had a prominent place in society well over 100 years ago.

Philatelic Literature Review is available from the American Philatelic Research Library, 100 Match Factory Place, Belle-fonte, PA 16823, USA.

Keep reading. Historically, the literature of this hobby has a firm foundation which is cer-tain to continue. W

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Both stamp and cover, avail-able for purchase on that day, were designed and created by local Penticton artist Randy Manuel, who was on hand for the signing,

A unique feature of the stamp, as mentioned by Manuel during the unveiling ceremony, was the depiction of the fully restored tugboat Naramata, from the same era, on the stamp. During over-haul and maintenance periods on the Sicamous’ steam engine

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As part of my naval officer training many years ago, I was required to

attend French language courses at the College militaire royal de Saint-Jean in Quebec. One of the instructors at the college had just arrived from France and during his first lecture he discussed his recently completed compulsory service in the French army.

When we asked what he thought of mandatory military service, which even in wartime can be a hot-button issue in Canada, he said something that loosely translates to: “A man who’s good for the army is good for the girls.”

Leave it to the French to have an ex-pression for the romantic image that young soldiers project to all the young ladies out there. The English-language equivalent, I suppose, would be, “There’s something about a man in uni-form.” Since the “soldier and his girl” was a common theme on many of the patriotic postcards issued during the First World War, I’m going to present some of my favourites in this CSN issue. All were made in Britain.

The postcard shown in Figure 1 was published by M.S. Brodie of Folkestone, England and has a drawing of a soldier from the 92nd Toronto Highland Battal-ion “holding his own.” Although I have several handbooks on British First World

War postcard publishers, Brodie isn’t mentioned in any of them, so I must as-sume he was a minor player.

The card was signed “Tupp.,” which is probably an abbreviation for Tupper. Although it looks like it could be part of a larger set or series, I have not seen any more cards like it by the publisher, or signed by the same artist for that mat-ter.

For the record, the only other Brodie postcards I’ve seen are sepia-toned, sea-side views of Folkestone published sev-eral years before the war.

The Figure 2 postcard has British art-ist Arthur Butcher’s signature and was published by E. Mack of London, Eng-land. Butcher specialized in drawing pretty girls for postcard publishers and in this example, a pretty nurse is doing her bit to improve the morale of a young Canadian soldier. E. Mack, by the way, published an excellent series of artist-signed postcards with First World War themes and many make reference to Ca-nadian battalions.

I have recorded at least 40 Canadian-themed E. Mack cards myself and I’m fairly certain there are more to discover. The lucky soldier in the Figure 2 post-card is from the 47th Vancouver Battal-ion, and I’ve seen the same card with British units and Lord Kitchener’s name written in the caption.

The postcard shown in Figure 3 is another example from the E. Mack se-ries mentioned above. In this card, a young soldier from the 3rd Canadian Mounted Rifles is “holding the line” for an attractive gal rewinding a ball of yarn. The fact that there’s no other knitting paraphernalia in the scene be-sides the ball of yarn makes no sense, but it doesn’t really matter.

The image was created for the sake of the “holding the line” pun. It’s a shame that there’s no artist’s signature on the card but unfortunately this is the rule, not the exception, with most of the postcards in this E. Mack se-ries.

Note that in addition to Arthur Butcher’s artwork, this E. Mack series also has cards with paintings, illustra-tions and cartoons from British artists Reg Carter, Laurence Colborne, F.G. Lewin and C.T. Howard. One of the most prolific and thus collected artists in the group is Howard, as his Cana-dian-themed patriotic postcards are very attractive and a sample of his work is shown as the last image in this article.

At one time my favourite Canadian-themed First World War postcard was the one shown in Figure 2 with the Arthur Butcher painting. I liked the card so much in fact that I put it on the cover of my first patriotic postcard handbook. Today, I have a new favourite. Although it didn’t make the cover of my latest patriotic postcard

tome (it got bumped by a Canadian-made card), the postcard shown in Figure 4 is an absolute delight. Pub-lished by J. Salmon of Sevenoaks, Eng-land, its classic Howard artwork and clever pun have made it my new “fave.” Is there a chance there’s an even better card out there in this won-derful hobby? You betcha! W

Canucks held their humour during the First World WarCanucks held their humour during the First World War

By Mike Smith

deltiology

Figure 1. m.S. Brodie of Folkestone, england published this First World War card with a Canadian soldier ‘holding his own.’

Figure 2. e. mack of london, england published this terrific postcard with a Canadian soldier receiving ‘medical attention’ from his nurse.

Figure 3. a Canadian soldier is seen ‘holding the line’ in this unsigned card published by e. mack.

Figure 4. This gem is signed by talented artist C. T. howard and has one of the best puns ever written on a Canadian-themed First World War postcard.


“That appreciation was evi-dent then, but now it’s all per-vasive. When a collector may have been tempted to choose a less expensive stamp back then, now they usually want XF or better.”

The market for lower-value stamps is still there but it has moved away from stamp shops and into the world of online sales.

“The internet gives us lots of information, but it also contains platforms such as eBay,” he said. “That has been both good and bad for the hobby. Good because it brings people in, but bad for dealers because it makes it diffi-cult to offer relatively common stamps.”

Kimmerly adds: “Essentially those stamps can be bought cheaper online because the seller may just be trying to get their money back. There may be con-

cerns about quality, but because of the lower price, buyers are more inclined to use that market because common stamps can be bought cheaper.

“It should make dealers bet-ter, and motivate them to pro-vide more personalized service,” he said. “If you do that, it doesn’t have to hurt you financially.

“We have regular customers who have been treated well for years. There’s no magic bullet, you just try to be fair to every-body and give good service,” says Kimmerly.

“It does mean that dealers end up with a large number of com-mon stamps, which come their way through purchases, but of-ten don’t sell fast.”

“If you want a million bucks catalogue value in stamps, it isn’t that hard to accumulate.”

One of his favourite collecting stories was not as a dealer, but as a collector.

Kimmerly said he bought a large lot about five years ago. There was one item which was

about half the value of the lot, but he just thought it looked too good.

“I was convinced it was a fake, for one thing it looked too good. I worked out my limit of what I would pay, valuing the fake at zero.

“I went right to the top but I got it. Then when I got a close look at it I realized it wasn’t a fake at all. So I got a bonus.”

Sometimes, he said, it doesn’t work out that way, and some-thing you thought was good turns out to be a fake.

“You have to philosophical,” he said. “If it is misrepresented you may be able to take it back, but usually you just put it in the reference collection. The good news is that now there are many more collectors of forgeries, so there is often interest.”

Most of the time, it boils down to that most valuable commodity – knowledge.

“If you buy quality, and what is scarce, assuming you have the knowledge, you’re not go-ing to get stuck with that,” he said.

Kimmerly also believes deal-ers need to contribute back to organized stamp collecting.

“You owe it to help the hobby, and I tried,” he said.

“If you help the hobby, it will help you out. People will come back and sell you the collection that you helped them build.”

During this interview, con-ducted as the last stamps were being packed up and furniture shipped away, Kimmerly re-members the good and the bad.

“One thing I will miss the most is the interaction with cus-tomers that I have daily,” he said,

“But I won’t miss the distrac-tions. Sometimes it can take me an hour to get from end of the store to the other, and when I get there, I forget what I wanted to do.” W

Kimmerly...Continued from page 1

Ian Kimmerly produced a small number of covers for his last day in ottawa.

reminiscent of a Victorian mourning cover.

The second piece also has a dual cancel, both dated May 20, from Toronto’s Station K.

In this case Owen White used an example of one of last year’s Superman stamps, with a beau-tiful circular cancel across the bottom and an ink jet monstros-ity. It is one of the few examples we’ve seen of a postally used Superman stamp. However, we suspect the second cancel was the result of the cover passing through automated sorting ma-chines.

The BadOf course not all mail is can-

celled twice.We received an oversize letter

from C. Leigh Hogg, of Water-loo, with $1.80 in postage paid with a dozen 15-cent stamps.

Ten of them are a single strip of Christmas stamps, the 1974 Laurentian Village scene by

Clarence Gagnon, the other two being a pair of gold royal visit stamps from 1973, still joined with a large piece of selvedge showing the British American Bank Note imprint and plate number.

Such large pieces don’t go through mail sorting equip-ment, and in this case the entire cover just passed through the system without any cancels whatsoever.

Even more inattention was required for a cover shown to us by local collector Stuart Kee-ley.

In this case, the mailer used a single pre-cancelled five-cent Richard Bennett character de-finitive from 1973. While the use of pre-cancels for regular mail may not be exactly permit-ted, the sender went one step further and made up the rest of the domestic rate with a selec-tion of six postage due stamps of varying denominations.

All seven stamps passed through without any further cancel, and nobody asked for the 80 cents in clearly-marked postage dues.

The uglyNot so lucky were our two

final selections.A letter addressed to Mr.

Hogg from B.C. had a familiar look to most collectors.

The oversized piece had its $1.80 rate made up with a dol-lar ’s worth of five-cent Sea-way’s, a block of four of the five-cent Jean Talon, and a sec-ond block of four 15-cent RCMP stamps.

We’re not sure if it happened at the sorting plant, or by the carrier, but rather than use a conventional cancel, the entire batch was cancelled by five black marker lines, snaking across the cover.

As ugly as that is, a cover mailed to Nick Semeniuk of Montreal, takes the prize as ugliest cover of the season.

Mailed from the United States, this oversized piece started out as a collector ’s dream.

The rate is made up of a se-lection of more than a score of U.S. stamps of various values: some forever-rate flowers, a pair of Johnny Cash, classic cars, a 20-cent Jim Thorpe and even a pair of 41-cent encour-aging me to do my jury duty with pride.

Apparently that wasn’t enough, because the lower cor-ner has a further $2.01 postage paid sticker, and an airmail la-bel. We can be sure it was sent to a collector, because the cus-

toms declaration states it con-tains about a pound and a half of stamps and philatelic maga-zines.

Each and every stamp is cancelled with a bright red cir-cular cancel, and it took about eight as they are all carefully placed to cancel the stamps without obliterating the de-sign.

It would have been wonder-ful, except for one thing.

You guessed it. Some postal vigilante took a dark purple marker and made sure each and every stamp was obliter-ated, sparing only the rather ugly and unattractive post of-fice label in the lower right corner.

There is no indication of which side of the border this happened on, or what pos-sessed a postal worker to re-cancel some 23 cancelled stamps.

Canadian Stamp News recog-nizes that postal authorities have the right to cancel stamps any way they please, including the use of markers, but the stamps still have the appearance of being violated, rather than in-validated, and we have to won-der about the sense or need to cancel stamps repeatedly.

One thing we do know, with the holiday season coming up fast, the next few months prom-ise more examples of good, bad, and ugly mail. W

It was a great cover, till it got scribbled on by a postie.

a total of 80-cents postage due, and a pre-cancel for lettermail.

Mailbag...Continued from page 1


The recent discovery of one of the two Royal Navy

ships that sank after John Franklin and his crew of 128 became trapped in heavy ice while searching for the North-west Passage nearly 170 years ago made news around the world.

“I am delighted to announce that this year’s Victoria Strait expedition has solved one of Canada’s greatest mysteries,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a statement after the most recent government search produced clear visual images of the wreck.

“Finding the first vessel will no doubt provide the momen-tum – or wind in our sails – necessary to locate its sister ship and find out even more about what happened to the Franklin Expedition’s crew.”

Using sonar, the relic was lo-cated west of O’Reilly Island, in the eastern portion of Queen Maud Gulf. It was then photo-graphed from a remotely oper-ated Parks Canada underwater vehicle.

Comparisons with well-doc-umented descriptions and en-gravings of the two Franklin vessels determined the wreck is either HMS Erebus or HMS Ter-ror, which sailed from England in 1845.

Victoria Strait Expedition members dived down to the sunken ship, but details of what they saw were not released. With winter fast approaching, future underwater exploration was postponed until next year.

The steam- and sail-powered warship sits only 11 metres be-neath the surface, with its three masts shorn off by floating ice floes, officials said.

They hoped that the captain’s logbook – which could have

been kept for safekeeping in a traditional metal box – may have survived and will reveal details about the ill-fated expe-dition that have whetted histo-rians’ interest since Franklin and his crew vanished.

A note found in 1859 in an Arctic cairn on King William Is-land during one of several 19th-century searches noted the ex-plorer’s death 12 years earlier and his men’s attempts to sur-vive the harsh winter and reach a Hudson’s Bay post.

Examinations of amazingly well-preserved frozen bodies found in the 1980s showed many died after continually eating food in tins that were sealed with lead solvent, which was a common practice at the time. Evidence of cannibalism was also determined during fo-rensic investigation of bone fragments.

When a Scottish explorer re-peated a story told to him by Inuit hunters in 1854 about sur-vivors resorting to eating hu-man flesh, it “caused outrage” in London, Philip Sherwell wrote in the Daily Telegraph.

Legends of white men living on ice floes after their ships be-came trapped, then one seen drifting, were repeatedly dis-missed, but officials say the re-cent historic finds support what storytellers passed on to future generations.

“This is truly a historic mo-ment for Canada,” Harper said while visiting Parks Canada’s laboratories in Ottawa on Sept. 9. “Franklin’s ships are an im-portant part of Canadian his-tory given that his expeditions, which took place nearly 200 years ago, laid the foundations of Canada’s Arctic sover-eignty.”

The first recent clues were pieces of old ship equipment

found on Sept. 1 on Hat Island in the Queen Maud Gulf near King Wi l l iam Is land in Nunavut.

They consisted of part of an iron boat-launching davit which bears two broad arrows used to mark Royal Navy prop-erty, plus what could be a wooden plug for a deck hawse, “the iron pipe through which the ship’s chain cable would descend into the chain locker below, was also discovered,” the Nunavut government said in a press release.

The davit “is certainly from one of the Franklin shipwrecks” and this is “the first discovery of its kind in the area in mod-ern times,” the release said.

The Franklin crew’s cairn, amazingly preserved bodies of several buried sailors and arti-facts kept by the Inuit were far away from Hat Island.

Captain Franklin, a veteran Royal Navy officer and 1829-36 governor of Tasmania – a southern Australian island state called Van Diemen’s Land until 1856 – whose teams mapped more than 4,800 kilometres of northern Cana-da’s coastline from 1818 to 1827, was 59 when he set sail on his fourth voyage to dis-cover an east-west passage through Arctic waters.

For centuries, explorers had sought a sailable link between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans that would eliminate lengthy voyages around the bottom of South America.

When Franklin and his crew failed to return, rewards were posted and would-be rescuers repeatedly searched the archi-pelago between 1848 and 1859, with the Admiralty and widowed Jane Franklin bank-rolling several expeditions. The first buried bodies, those of three crewmen, were found in 1850.

Six years ago in Ottawa, fed-eral officials ordered the first of six new Parks Canada searches by divers and archeologists.

Searchers said conflicting legends from local tribal com-munities about the location of the sunken ships made it neces-sary for them to explore large, mostly inaccessible sites.

The 2008 expedition was launched after Harper an-nounced a need for Canada to establish its rights over disputed Northwest Passage waters.

“It ultimately isn’t just about the story of discovery and mystery and all these things,” Harper told reporters during a tour of northern re-gions in August. “It also really is laying the basis for what’s, in the longer term, Canadian sovereignty.”

The first ship to sail through the Northwest Passage was a 40-tonne fishing vessel, the Gjøa, commanded between 1903 and 1908 by Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen.

The Norwegian polar re-gions explorer, five French companions and their plane vanished during a search for members of an airship crew in the Arctic in mid-1928, shortly before he would have turned 56. A fuel tank from the rescu-ers’ float plane was found, but their bodies were never lo-cated.

Gjøa was returned to Norway on a bulk carrier that sailed from San Francisco in 1972.

The shallow-hulled vessel is on display outside the Fram Museum in Oslo.

Canada restricted shipping through the Northwest Passage until 2009, by which time it had become more navigable due to melting polar ice.

In 1989, Canada issued a 38-cent commemorative that fea-tures the route of Franklin’s ill-fated voyage, plus paintings of ice-trapped crewmen and relics the Inuit showed searchers in the 1850s.

Seychelles issued a 2009 com-memorative featuring his por-trait, as did Djibouti in 2010.

Rwanda used a different por-trait for a 2009 Franklin com-memorative.

Australia used his portrait on a £5 note for 11 years, starting in 1955.

In addition to Norway and France, numerous small coun-tries have issued stamps featur-ing Amundsen.

The most prolific output were commemoratives released in 2011 for the 100th anniver-sary of him reaching the South Pole.

Malawi issued one in 2006 for the centennial of his North-west Passage success.

One of two Franklin Expedition ships foundOne of two Franklin Expedition ships found

By Ian Robertson

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a 1989 commemorative features the route of the ill-fated Franklin voyage, paintings of an ice-trapped crew and relics searchers were shown by the Inuit.

a 1955-66 australia £5 note features john Franklin, former governor of Tasmania.

a sea floor scan reveals one of the missing ships from the Franklin expedition in an image released in ottawa on Sept. 9, 2014.

heel of the davit. British royal navy broad arrows and the number 12 are visible near the base

duCheSS oF CamBrIdge exPeCTIng SeCond BaBe

Prince William’s wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, is ex-pecting her second baby.

The outgoing and popular lovely lass’ condition was con-firmed in early September, af-ter she had to cancel an official visit to Oxford, England due to unusually severe morning sickness.

“The Queen and members of both families are delighted with the news,” Clarence House, the office for the royal couple, said in a statement.

“Thrilled” after learning of his wife’s pregnancy, her hus-band told reporters “it’s great news. But I’m hoping things settle down and she feels bet-ter.”

The baby will be fourth in line to the throne, after grand-father Prince Charles, Prince William and first-born brother, Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge, who was born on July 22, 2013.

Former Catherine “Kate” Middleton and Prince William were featured on three 2011 Canadian commemoratives, two to commemorate the young couple’s April 29 wed-ding, then one to mark their official visit to this country that June.

Canada Post broke with tra-dition two years later when it issued a “P” for Permanent Postage first-class letter rate stamp on Oct. 22, featuring

Prince William, his wife Kath-arine, the Duchess of Cam-bridge, and their son Prince George one day before his of-ficial christening.

It was Canada’s first royal baby stamp.

SCoTS VoTe To STay In u.K.

The St. Andrew’s flag will remain on the Union Jack of Britain.

On Sept. 18, with 84 per cent of registered voters cast-ing ballots across Scotland, 2,001,926 voted to remain in the U.K., with 1,617,989 voting for independence.

Although some regions were weighted on either side, the overall tally was 55.3 per-cent choosing “no” and 44.7 preferring the split.

Some Scots drowned their sorrows in local pubs while others breathed sighs of relief.

Scotland has been part of the U.K. for 307 years.

Prime Minister David Cam-eron stated: “There can be no disputes, no reruns; we have heard the settled will of the Scottish people.”

Cameron said constitutional re forms would proceed throughout Britain after the next general election, with in-put from all sectors of the population.

“It is time for our United Kingdom to come together

and to move forward,” he said. “A vital part of that will be a balanced settlement, fair to people in Scotland and im-portantly to everyone in Eng-land, Wales and Northern Ire-land as well.”

The government will strive to avoid what happened in Québec, where referendum votes were held in 1980 and 1995, each time resulting in a narrow decision to remain part of Canada.

A government official in Scotland told me in 1980 that former premier Rene Levesque went there before the first Quebec referendum, to dis-cuss “devolution” tactics that might be used in his prov-ince.

Shortly before resigning as leader of the Scottish National Party, Scotland’s first minister, Alex Salmond called the vote result a “triumph for demo-cratic politics,” the Guardian newspaper reported.

It quoted him striking a de-fiant note at a “downbeat party rally in Edinburgh,” saying he accepted Scotland had not “at this stage” de-cided to vote for indepen-dence.

Salmond also warned lead-ers of the country’s three main parties “to make good on their promises of enhanced devolu-tion for Scotland,” the news-paper added.

Scottish symbols appeared on regional U.K. stamps be-side portraits of Queen Eliza-beth starting in 1958.

In 1999, a series of distinc-tive regional definitives fea-turing Scottish images – St. Andrew’s Cross, the Scottish Lion, a thistle and a tartan – were introduced. They were also printed 10 years later on a souvenir sheet, along with two commemoratives mark-ing the 250th birth anniver-

sary of famed Scots poet Rob-ert “Robbie” Burns.

The Scottish Lion and St. Andrew’s definitives were in-cluded on a Celebrating Scot-land souvenir sheet released in 2006. Commemoratives showing Edinburgh Castle and St. Andrew were available only on the mini-sheets.

The Union Jack – which since 1801 has consisted of the St. George flag, a horizontal and vertical red cross adopted for England’s crusade in 1188; Scotland’s national flag, the Saltire of Saint Andrew, a white X-shaped cross on a


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With the onset of a new school year comes new oppor-tunities. This applies not only to classroom adventures, but also to the many extra-curricu-lar activities beginning in ele-mentary schools across the continent. Imagine how many of these schools have a bur-geoning Stamp Club!?

Sadly, the number is very low. In fact, a lengthy Internet search turned up information on less than 10, and many of those references are older than five years.

And if you asked the average passer-by, she would say that that is not at all surprising since 95 per cent of the letters coming to any home have no stamps on them. Many kids don’t even know what stamps are, let alone how to use and collect them. This does not bode well for the hobby of philately.

In an attempt to halt this de-cline, we have been printing a series of articles during 2014 about starting children’s stamp clubs at schools. We even printed one lengthy description of how to operate a half-day Stamp Camp which, with a bit

of help, could be run at any-one’s home.

The philosophy here is sim-ply this: if you arrange it, they will come. Children are always seeking new pursuits. With a few dedicated collectors taking some time and energy and common stamps, a gathering can be formed to get kids col-lecting stamps.

And why schools, you might ask? Simply because that is where kids gather daily and parents know that they are safe. Having a discussion with the administration and staff, it is possible to arrange to have an enthusiastic group of kids meet you regularly throughout the school year. At the very least, it is possible to have a one- to two-hour session inside indi-vidual classrooms. Teachers al-ways welcome guests with worthwhile presentations.

Of course, if the thought of working in this environment, or with these people, is uncom-fortable for you, recall that there are many other places to meet young people with paren-tal approval. Scouts and Guides and all their affiliates still flour-ish, as do 4-H Clubs. These or-ganizations are always looking for presenters. Some even give collecting awards.

Another place to arrange for kids to gather is at adult stamp club meetings. While some clubs have a youth component, many do not. Having a special night in which members must bring a child and her/his par-ent could encourage some new blood. And to allay the com-mon fear that philately is ex-pensive, show the new guests that there are millions of worldwide stamps, some very old, that cost almost nothing. Ensure members all donate generously so visitors walk out with a big bundle of stamps and the accompanying feeling of responsibility for their care.

In fact, it probably behooves all dealers and collectors to se-riously work to acquaint the general population that philat-ely need NOT be expensive. Ignorance is not an excuse, but where can the average person learn about the joys of the hobby? People need to learn that it also has very good in-vestment potent ia l , jus t like art.

Having run a children’s stamp club for many years in the past, I keep returning to the notion that catching the atten-

tion of seven-, eight-, and nine-year-olds will plant seeds that stay for a lifetime. And like it or not, stamp dealers are really the people with the best oppor-tunity to begin to affect change. “You gotta have stamps to give away!”

If you ARE one of our read-ers who has made an attempt to start one or several new col-lectors at a school, please know that throughout the forthcom-ing school year we will be shar-ing ideas and activities in this series to help you amuse, enter-t a i n a n d e d u c a t e y o u r young people.

For the first meeting this year, try to build enthusiasm

by announcing an optional stamp show for December. In-sist that kids use computer de-signs for stamp display sheets. Arrange so that there are some showy prizes for the partici-pants. These might have to come from a supportive dealer – there are many out there – or maybe come from an auction site, i.e. you.

Unfortunately schools have no extra cash, but the parent advisory councils might be able to help. There is no doubt that your club will work better

if you have some funds to help run it. One guaranteed way to raise money is to hold a sale at the school. It can be a bake sale, junk sale or book sale. Usually the Librarian holds a book sale every year, but if you offer to help run it, you can probably get a percentage of the profits.

There are organizations look-ing for a chance to set up at a school, such as Scholastic Inc. (www.scholastic.ca/book-fairs). If the school already has a book fair in October, seek per-mission to hold a second one in, say, March. Then offer the parent council and the library each 25 per cent of the profits – for doing nothing except offer-ing their enthusiastic support, and some space. It is not un-common for a three-day book fair to yield $1,000 profit. Half of that would allow you to buy 16-page stock books for every member and have some very nice stamp show prizes.

And always remember to have faith in moms and dads. I always found that the parents of the kids who go to stamp clubs expect some small ex-penses, and investing in a good stock book as a minimum re-quirement (the $12 to $14 ones) was affordable for almost ev-eryone. All you can do is ask.

Are you excited about an-other year of watching the eyes of young people sparkle with delight at receiving some new stamps? Well, it shows when you are, and it is infectious in the best way! Stay tuned; it’s time to plan your next gather-ing. W

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SouTh georgIaSouth Georgia will release 12 stamps on Nov. 5 to

commemorate heroes of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, considered by some as the last major ex-pedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration. Although the expedition failed to accomplish its ob-jective it became recognized instead as an epic feat of endurance.

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands have chosen to mark the centenary of the arrival of the ex-pedition at Grytviken Whaling Station with the release of three issues focusing on three of the heroes of the expedition.

Frank Hurley (1885-1962) was an Australian photog-rapher and adventurer who participated in a number of expeditions. The four stamps show: Hurley and Al-exander Macklin “at home” on the Endurance (65p); the nightwatchman’s story in the wardroom (or Ritz) of the Endurance (75p); midwinter dinner aboard the Endurance, 22 June 1915 (£1); Dr. Leonard Hussey and Hurley playing chess on board the Endurance (£1.20).

Frank Worsley (1872–1943) was a New Zealand sailor and explorer who served on Ernest Shackleton’s Impe-rial Trans-Antarctic Expedition Weddell Sea party of 1914-1916, as captain of the Endurance. The stamps show: portrait of Captain Worsley (65p); Worsley and Reginald James observing stars during winter below the stern of the ice trapped Endurance (75p); Worsley and Lionel Greenstreet looking across King Edward Cove with the Endurance below (£1); Shackleton instructs Worsley to abandon the Endurance with the three lifeboats, dogs, sledges and a month’s supply of food (£1.20).

Tom Crean, (1877–1938) ran away from poverty at the age of 15 and enlisted in the Royal Navy. By 1901 he was aboard HMS Ringarooma. The four stamps show: Portrait of Crean by Hurley (65p); Crean duties included taking charge of one of the dog teams. He was later involved in the care and nurture of the pups born to one of his dogs, Sally, early in the expedition

(75p); The James Caird is launched from Elephant Island watched by Hurley and 21 other expedition members hoping for eventual rescue (£1); the crew of the Endur-ance taken on the bow of the ship. Crean is second from the left in the first standing row (£1.20).

greaT BrITaInGreat Britain released eight stamps on Oct. 14 fea-

turing prime ministers from the past 200 years. The prime minister is the head of the British government, with the official title of “First Lord of the Treasury.” It was around 200 years ago that the term “prime minis-ter” was first used.

The first-class stamps show Margaret Thatcher, Har-old Wilson, Clement Attlee, and Winston Churchill. The 97p stamps show William Gladstone, Robert Peel, Charles Grey and William Pitt the Younger.

BrITISh VIrgIn ISlandSThe Christening of Prince George was featured on a

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The 50-cent stamp shows the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) pictured with their daughter (later, Queen Elizabeth II) as she sleeps.

The 75-cent stamp shows Prince Charles, christened in Buckingham Palace Dec. 15, 1948, with his mother looking on.

The $2 stamp shows Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother (1900-2002), holding baby Prince William after his christening at Buckingham Palace on Aug. 4, 1982.

The $2.50 stamp shows the official portrait for the christening of Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge, photographed in the Morning Room at Clarence House in London on Oct. 23, 2013. Pictured: Four generations: Queen Elizabeth II, Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge, carrying Prince George.

FalKland ISlandSThe centenary of the Battle of the Falkland Islands

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The four stamps show: SMS Scharnhorst (30p), HMS Invincible (75p), Flanders’ poppies’ (£1), and “Resting on Arms, Reversed” (£1.20).

BahamaSBahamas is issuing a set of four stamps on Oct. 27

commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Ministry of Tourism. The ministry was created in 1964 by the Promotion of Tourism Act, replacing the organization known as the Development Board.

Two of the stamps represent hotels in the Outer Islands and two honour the two giants in the Baha-mas’ hotel industry (Bahamas Princess Resort and Casino, Peace N’ Plenty Hotel, Atlantis Hotel, Baha Mar).

auSTralIaThings that sting is the topic of six stamps issued by

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Canada is going to get another set of “jubilees,” a set of six stamps being brought out next year to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s 60 years as monarch.

The stamps are part of 2012’s stamp program, unveiled May 16 by Rob Merrifield, Minister of State (Trans-port) and minister responsible for Canada Post.

Deepak Chopra, head of Canada Post, said the program appeals to Can-adian culture and history. “The stamp program consists of approximately 20 broad subjects or themes covering some 60 stamps,” he said.

Another set of stamps will com-memorate the 100th anniversary of sinking of the Titanic, or more specific-ally, Canada’s role in the tragedy. Many of the bodies were recovered by the Halifax-based vessel CS Mackay-Bennett and 328 of the 333 bodies re-covered were retrieved by Canadian

ships. The bodies were taken to Hali-fax, where relatives went to identify and claim them. Almost half were bur-ied in Halifax.

The Marine Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax has a display of wreckage recovered at the same time.

Two other centennials are to be commemorated. A set of stamps will showcase the teams of the Canadian Football League and the 100th Grey Cup game. Two stamps will be issued to mark the centennial of the Calgary Stampede.

A single stamp will be issued for the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games, the second issue in the Baby Wildlife definitive series will be launched, and the 2012 flower stamp will be the daylily. There will also be a set of five permanent-rate defin-itive stamps with images of the Can-adian flag.

Jubilee, Titanic, CFL teams lead lineup of 2012 stamps

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Dorval, Que., a small town in a big city, played host to Canada’s na-

tional stamp show May 13-15 when the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada held its annual convention.

John Cooper, president of the Lakeshore Stamp Club, the host club of the event, served as master of cere-monies for the official opening.

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As usual there was a stamp unveil-ing, in this case the se-tenant pair on

the theme of methods of delivery. One stamp of the two, which shows a dog-sled team, had been unveiled earlier. The second stamp shows a barrel that had been rigged with a sail and rudder and cast adrift by residents of Magdalen Island.

“It’s often said that ‘necessity is the mother of invention,’ and that was certainly true in the winter of 1910, when a snapped telegraph pole sev-ered communications between the Magdalen Islands and the mainland. Ingenious community leaders rigged a large molasses barrel, known as a ponchon, with a rudder and a sail,

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The Royal Mail has unveiled the third and final series of stamps for the 2012 London Summer Olympic and Paralym-pic games.

They are to be officially launched July 27, exactly one year to the day before the opening ceremonies.

The 10 stamps in the final series bring the total number of stamps being issued for the Games to 30, the largest single British stamp program since the millen-nium series.

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Canada is going to get another set of “jubilees,” a set of six stamps being brought out next year to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s 60 years as monarch.

The stamps are part of 2012’s stamp program, unveiled May 16 by Rob Merrifield, Minister of State (Trans-port) and minister responsible for Canada Post.

Deepak Chopra, head of Canada Post, said the program appeals to Can-adian culture and history. “The stamp program consists of approximately 20 broad subjects or themes covering some 60 stamps,” he said.

Another set of stamps will com-memorate the 100th anniversary of sinking of the Titanic, or more specific-ally, Canada’s role in the tragedy. Many of the bodies were recovered by the Halifax-based vessel CS Mackay-Bennett and 328 of the 333 bodies re-covered were retrieved by Canadian

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The Marine Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax has a display of wreckage recovered at the same time.

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A single stamp will be issued for the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games, the second issue in the Baby Wildlife definitive series will be launched, and the 2012 flower stamp will be the daylily. There will also be a set of five permanent-rate defin-itive stamps with images of the Can-adian flag.

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Dorval, Que., a small town in a big city, played host to Canada’s na-

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John Cooper, president of the Lakeshore Stamp Club, the host club of the event, served as master of cere-monies for the official opening.

Other participants included Francis Scarpaleggia, MP for Lac-Saint-Louis; local mayor Edgar Rouleu, society pres-ident George Peppall, and Canada Post representative Genevieve Latour.

As usual there was a stamp unveil-ing, in this case the se-tenant pair on

the theme of methods of delivery. One stamp of the two, which shows a dog-sled team, had been unveiled earlier. The second stamp shows a barrel that had been rigged with a sail and rudder and cast adrift by residents of Magdalen Island.

“It’s often said that ‘necessity is the mother of invention,’ and that was certainly true in the winter of 1910, when a snapped telegraph pole sev-ered communications between the Magdalen Islands and the mainland. Ingenious community leaders rigged a large molasses barrel, known as a ponchon, with a rudder and a sail,

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Kevin O’Reilly had the covers used on the Methods of Delivery stamp, on display in the Court of Honour.



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The Royal Mail has unveiled the third and final series of stamps for the 2012 London Summer Olympic and Paralym-pic games.

They are to be officially launched July 27, exactly one year to the day before the opening ceremonies.

The 10 stamps in the final series bring the total number of stamps being issued for the Games to 30, the largest single British stamp program since the millen-nium series.

The stamps are printed in two se-ten-ant strips of five first-class stamps. The sports being honoured are Paralympic sailing, high jump, volleyball, wheel-chair rugby, wrestling, wheelchair ten-nis, fencing, gymnastics, triathlon, and handball. All were designed by Studio David Hillman using illustrations by various artists. The square format stamps will be printed by Cartor Secur-ity Printing in sheets of 25 and 50 with

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The unlikely sport of wheelchair rugby is featured on one stamp, and appears in a booklet The other stamps are shown on page 11.




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Financing of the 1976 Mon-treal Olympics was a major

undertaking that required new approaches to fundraising. One route that was taken was to seek revenues through the sale of lottery tickets, as well as commemorative stamps and coins.

The original intention was to raise $10 million through the sale of stamps, which was only about three per cent of the total sought through the combina-tion of lotteries, coins, and stamps, but enabling legislation was needed before any fund-raising ventures could be put in place. This was accomplished in mid-1972 when the federal government passed the Olym-pic (1976) Act.

Under the terms of this Act, the Postmaster General was permitted to cause the manu-facture and distribution of spe-cial postage stamps and postal-related products from 1973-76. Stamps could be sold at a price equal to the amount of postage indicated on them, as well as with an additional amount designated to provide financial assistance to the Olympic Games. Net proceeds, or gross sales less production and mar-keting costs, were to be trans-ferred into an Olympic account rather than being treated as postal revenue.

Postmaster General Andre Ouellet described the overall stamp program to the Sep-tember 1973 meeting of the British North America Phila-telic Society. He noted that the “philatelic profit” from the sa le of commemorat ive stamps, as well as the sur-charge on stamps with an additional surcharge, would go to the Olympic Organizing Committee.

Ouellet characterized this as “a convenient way, we think, to make a tiny contribution to the great event.” He also antici-pated and defended against the criticism he knew would follow that too many stamps were be-ing issued by his department. And indeed, criticism did fol-low.

The launching of the sur-charged stamps took place with the first set of three issued on April 17, 1974. Termed “Olym-pic Action Stamps,” these were the first semi-postals issued by Canada. Ouellet made it a point to differentiate between phila-

telic and non-philatelic sales. For philatelic sales, the total revenue less production and sales costs would be contrib-uted to the Olympics. For non-philatelic sales, only the rev-enue produced by the sur-charge, less promotion costs, would be designated for the Games.

The Olympic Action Stamps did not prove to be a highly suc-cessful method of raising funds to support the Games. Although financial details are not avail-able, the final official report sub-mitted in 1978 indicated that, “In spite of all the promotion, the Olympic stamp program did not quite produce the expected yield of $10 million.”

The number of stamps issued per set decreased steadily over the four release dates, from 119 million for Scott #B1-B3 to 38 million for SC #B10-B12. It may be that the new stamps became less popular over time as the number of issues continued to increase and a collector fatigue set in.

Philatelist John Burnett de-scribed the Olympic Action Stamps as “Canada’s greatest philatelic fiasco” because “most folks in Canada didn’t take kindly to the idea of under-writing the city of Montreal’s cost of hosting the Olympics.” Few of the semi-postal stamps were actually used in the postal system for non-philatelic mail, and even fewer were used cor-rectly to pay the relevant rate on first-day covers (FDC). “Philatelic” usage appears to have been the norm rather than the exception for the dozen Olympic Action Stamps, and especially so in the case of FDCs.

This was most frequently noted with FDCs where all three stamps in a set were often affixed to domestic mail. For all but the final set, the total amount paid would total 45 cents, made up of 33 cents post-age and 12 cents surcharge for a domestic letter, or surface mail to the U.S., for which the regu-lar rate was eight cents. The

Olympic semi-postals used infrequently as postageOlympic semi-postals used infrequently as postage

By Gary Dickinson

First-Daycovers

Figure 1. This is the W.C. Thorne hand-made, self-addressed cachet for SC #B1-B3.

Figure 2. here is a Brickley jones cachet for SC #B4-B6 addressed to a Victoria resident.

Figure 3. This late-use general purpose Cole cachet for SC #B7-B9 was addressed to an ohio resident.

Figure 4. This FdC from markerville to edmonton, alta., has the correct postage for the eight-cent domestic rate.


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Oct. 25 – 26, SaSkatOOn, SkThe Saskatoon Coin & Stamp Show, Ramada Hotel, 806 Idylwyld Dr. N. Hours: Sat. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sun. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission $4 adults, children 12 and under free. Sponsor/Affiliate: Saskatoon Coin & Stamp Clubs. For more information contact Saskatoon Coin Club, PO Box 1674, Saskatoon, SK S7K 3R8.

Oct. 25, nOrth Bay, OnStamp and Coin Show, Voyager Inn, 123 Delaware Ave. Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free admission and parking, youth table, exhibits, displays. Sponsor/Affiliate: North Bay & District Stamp Club. For more information contact John Burns, email [email protected], telephone 705-490-0042.

Oct. 25, kingStOn, OnKingston Stamp Festival, Edith Rankin Memorial Church, 4080 Bath Rd. Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free admission, door prizes, 10 dealers, youth booth, and a food concession. Sponsor/Affiliate: Kingston Stamp Club. For more information contact Richard Weigand, club president, email [email protected], telephone 613-352-8775.

Oct. 31 – nOv. 2, mOntreal, QcNuphilex, Holiday Inn Midtown, 420 Sherbrooke St. West. Hours: Fri. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sun. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Daily admission: $3 Friday and Saturday, Sunday Free. Early bird admission Friday 8 a.m., early bird admission $25 (to be donated to Quebec Autism Society and Miram House). For more informa-tion, email [email protected], telephone 514-842-4411. Website: http://www.nuphilex.com

nOv. 1 – 2, ann arBOr, miAAPEX2014, Ann Arbor Stamp Show, Morris Lawrence Building, Washtenaw Community College, 4800 E. Huron River Dr., Ann Arbor Stamp Show features 28 dealers from 8 US states, exhibits, food sales, US Postal Service and UN Postal Administration, cachet mak-ers Saturday, Peninsular States Philatelic Society meeting Saturday 2 p.m. For more information, email [email protected], telephone 734-761-5859. Website: www.annarborstampclub.org.

ShoW organIZerS: How to list: Simply fill out the form found at www.canadianstampnews.ca or mail, fax or email your information to Trajan Publishing (S&B), P.O. Box 28103, Lakeport P.O., 600 Ontario St., St. Catharines, ON L2N 7P8, fax (905) 646-0995, email [email protected]. Please include: date of show; site of event, street, city, prov.; official name of event; organization sponsoring or affiliated with the event; hours; admission charge; if exhibits are present (display or competitive), contact person’s name, address, postal code, telephone number. If you wish 50 copies free and you pay shipping and handling only, please include complete address for shipping (not a box #). Two show dates per year will be listed for free (subsequent show dates will cost $15 per listing).

first three examples shown here are all of the overpaid type.

Figure 1 shows an example of this use of the semi-postal stamps on a hand-made cachet for the first semi-postal set (SC #B1-B3) prepared by William C. Thorne, a West Vancouver, B.C. resident who made and distributed many FDCs for his contacts.

Brickley Jones of Victoria, B.C. published the cachet shown in Figure 2 for SC #B4-B6, which depicts the same water sports featured on the stamp designs. As with most of his FDCs, this one was post-marked at Victoria and it was addressed to a local resident.

Cole Covers, based in Ot-tawa, went out of the cacheted FDC business in 1971, but their general purpose cachet lingered on and was used, probably by a

third party, for SC #B7-B9, as shown in Figure 3. The day of issue was Aug. 6, 1975 and the cover was sent from St. Wil-liams, Ont., to Wooster, Ohio.

Covers with only the correct rate paid are relatively scarce, and especially for day of issue postings. Two such examples are shown here. The first, shown in Figure 4, has the in-itial semi-postal stamp, SC #B1, on a cover posted at Marker-ville, Atla., and addressed to Edmonton. There is no cachet or mention that it is a FDC, and no special post office first-day cancellation.

Figure 5 shows a cacheted FDC from NR Covers that illustrates the team sports de-picted on SC #B10-B12. It has the correct eight-cent postage for surface mail to Washing-ton State. W

Figure 5. This FdC for SC #B10 includes the correct surface mail rate to the united States.

blue field that dates back to 1542 in David Lyndsay of the Mount’s Register of Scottish Arms; and the X-shaped red Saltire of St. Patrick adopted in 1801 for Northern Ireland – has been featured on British stamps in recent years.

Also known as the “Union Flag,” it appeared on Canada’s 1979 Newfoundland flag com-memorative, since it was the official flag of “The Rock” from 1931 to 1980.

The Union Jack is on the up-per left corner of the provincial flags of Ontario and Manitoba, and was on the upper left flag of the country’s national flag, the Red Ensign, until 1965,

when the Maple Leaf flag was introduced.

Shortly before the indepen-dence vote in Scotland, a ver-sion of the Union Flag with the St. Andrew’s Cross re-moved, was widely publi-cized as a possible option for Britain if the “Yes” side had won. W

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a 1979 Canadian stamp features the union Flag flag of Britain, which was newfoundland’s official flag from 1931 to 1980.

Proposed union flag without St. andrew’s Cross, if Scotland became independent.

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SPECIAL OFFER #15,810Here’s an unusual offer you will not want to miss. Included are fi ve different used postal cards (#UX3, 7, 9, 11 and 13). Condi-tion is F-VF or better and list price is $120.00. At just $59.95 they won’t last long.

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Many years ago cigarette packs were sealed with actual stamps. Canadian ex-amples are often seen, but Newfoundland stamps rarely surface. Here is a rouletted example from 1928 (Walsh #TB32a). These will have faults as they had to be removed from the packages. List price is $35.00. My price is $19.95.


The Military Canteen in New-foundland had its own stamp to apply to cigarette packages (Walsh #50b). The image exists in two slightly different sizes,

best collected in a pair as shown. Condition is VF and ungummed as issued. List price is $115.00. My price is just $69.95.

SPECIAL OFFER #15,813Here is another scarce revenue stamp – Walsh #TB51. It was issued for im-portation of cigarettes. A F-VF pair (un-gummed as issued) lists at $20.00. My price is $12.95. A block of four is $22.95.

SPECIAL OFFER #15,814Newfoundland inland revenue stamps were primarily used on legal documents such as mortgages or power of attorney. They are beautifully engraved and most are very scarce. The fi rst issue was in 1898 and depict-

ed Queen Victoria. First here is the 10¢ brown (#NFR2). List price for a used single is $110.00. My price in F-VF condition is $69.95.

SPECIAL OFFER #15,815A used example of the 25¢ blue (#NFR3) lists at $30.00. My price for a F-VF single is just $14.95.


The 50¢ orange (#NFR4) is an elusive value and lists at $75.00. My price for a F-VF single is just $49.00

SPECIAL OFFER #15,817One of the scarcest revenue stamps is the $5 Lilac King Edward (#NFR13). A fi ne used single catalogues at $375.00. My price is just $239.00 while they last.

SPECIAL OFFER #15,818Shortly after the death of King Edward VII a new issue portraying King George V was re-leased. Let’s start with the $5 value (#NFR21). A F-VF used single lists at $35.00. My price is $19.95.

SPECIAL OFFER #15,819The perforation of the $5 value changed from 12 to 11 sometime in the 1920s. The perf 11 variety (#NFR21a) is scarcer and lists at $75.00. My price is $47.50.


Two of the values that were most heavily used were the 50¢ and $1 values. These were re-issued in a similar design but without the bank note company imprint at foot

(#NFR24-25). List price for the pair is $47.50. My price for a F-VF used single of each is $29.95.


After the death of King George V a de-cision was made to adopt a theme closer to home, and the fi rst Caribou issue appeared in 1938. These stamps have a more fi nely detailed impression than later issues, and are perforated 14. Here is a short set from the 5¢ to the $5 value (seven stamps) in very fi ne used condition. List price (NFR26-32) is $188.00. My price is $119.00.

SPECIAL OFFER #15,822This special features the 10¢ blue war savings stamp (#NFW3). These were sold as a means of savings, and mounted in special booklets that were cashed in when complete. As a re-sult mint examples are scarce. Van Dam cata-logue for this is $50.00. Condition on these is VF NH mint and my price is just $24.95. Block of four is $95.00.

SPECIAL OFFER #15,823A while back I purchased a nice hoard of the scarce Labrador labels. I am pleased to offer a fi nal few that are left in stock. This set never gained offi cial status but is widely collected today. First here is the attractive 5¢ value; the design features a harp seal. Condition is

VF NH mint and price is just $69.95. I also have a rare block of four at just $269.95. This stamp is rarely found in such choice condition.

SPECIAL OFFER #15,824Here’s an interesting item that turned up recently. It is a label picturing the Canada Goose, a forerunner of duck stamps if you like. It was prepared by the I.O.D.E. for cancer prevention fund raising. I can supply a F-VF NH block of four at $14.95, or a pair at $7.95.

SPECIAL OFFER #15,825Here’s one you almost never see – a Newfoundland Christmas Seal. This is the scarce 1946 issue, the only one ever issued! I have a few in VF NH mint condition. I can supply a mint block of four at $19.95 or a single at $7.95. I also have a seldom seen full sheet of 100 at $495.00.

SPECIAL OFFER #15,826Here’s a very attractive label that was re-leased to coincide with the 50th anniver-sary of the fl ight of the Silver Dart air-plane in Cape Breton. A VF NH example is just $6.95. I also have a block of four available at $26.95.

SPECIAL OFFER #15,827Here’s one you may not have seen – the scarce 1914 Prince Edward Island label for the 50th anniversary of the Charlottetown conference in 1864. It is printed in red, blue and black with surrounding borders in gold. Price for a F-VF mint single is $9.95. A block of four is $39.50.


Here is something a little different – a nice collection of eighteen mint blocks of four (be-tween 1933 and 1943) of U.S.A. Lutheran Christ-mas Seal Issues. These were done for the Sanitarium is Wheat Ridge, Colorado. Scarce imperforate and progressive colour items are included. Price for the whole collection in VF NH mint condition is just $49.95.


Here’s one not to miss! It’s a lovely miscut error on the 47¢ Flag booklet pane of ten BK236 (#1707a). The horizontal separation is drastically misplaced. Instead of being between the stamps it runs right through the stems of the maple leaves along the top row of stamps. The error results in mini-stamps in the top row and long gutter stamps in the bottom row. Only a few of this remarkable error were found. Regular price for a VF NH pane of this error is $195.00. Take one now for $99.95.

SPECIAL OFFER #15,830In 2004 Canada Post released a short-lived special issue of four different items. Each design was nicely packaged in a pane of two and sold along with a prepaid phone card. Here is the complete set all four de-signs (#2045i-2048i) in VF NH mint con-dition. The (Butterfl y and Flower) design is the scarcest and is keenly sought after these days. List price is $120.00. My price is just $69.95 while they last.

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