What’s the colour shade of that stamp? Victoria Stamp Club member Jack Penfold has published an “Article of Distinction” in the journal of the American Philatelic Society. It explains the steps he uses to analyze postage stamp colours, one of the trickiest elements of philatelic study. “How many times have you gone to look up […]
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The presentation on this series covers the late Colonial period to the end of what is philatelically called the Early Federal Period up to the end of 1912. During this time the denominations which were not represented by the Pictorials were available from the 1892 “Tablets” and even the 8d and 9d “sidefaces” which go
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This cover is paying the 25¢ airmail rate from Vancouver, BC to Christmas Island (Kiritimati) in the Central South Pacific. Dated November 4, 1957, it was mailed to an officer in the Royal Engineers and is backstamped November 7th, just three days later! The addressee would have been there as part of the contingent that
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Trans-Pacific postal history for the year 1941 is fascinating. I have a collection of covers to and from Canada sent during this critical year. Most of the mail late in 1941 is inbound because much outbound mail was not being sent, the Post Office Department having suspended delivery to many trans-Pacific countries. After December 7th,
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