Duplicates - A Fun Project For You

At least, I think it is, though it has been dismissed as rather silly by others.

This is something I picked up on from a friend as I was sorting through reams of Canadian kiloware. Many Canadian (and other countries) have stamps which are issued with one or more straight edges, and I am not talking about coils here. The only country that I am aware of that actually has these listed in Scott is Sweden.

With Canadian issues, particularly modern ones, these straight edges are generally looked upon with scorn. It's almost as if they were damaged though, in reality, they are rarer than fully perforated types.

Now, as I was bemoaning the number of these straight edge varieties I was finding, this friend told me of something he attempts to do. That was to mount "miniature sheets" of nine with one fully perforate in the centre and the nine possible straight edges around it. Sometimes impossible because not all varieties have necessarily been created. But amusing and a game I play whenever I am sorting out large batches of material.

Here are a couple of examples in progress.

Nice. Some try to recreate the booklet panes too.

How do you get kiloware of such vintage? Shows you how many of these stamps were actually printed and used and saved.

Here we are now printing and using less stamps and then shredding them.

I think that's a great idea.
There was a small piece about just that idea published in an issue of Canadian Philatelist last year.
I posted it on a thread a few months ago.




Coincidentally, they were using Admirals too.

My one pet peeve with the Unitrade catalogue is their listings of booklet singles and the way they (don't) handle the confusion with straight edges from sheet stamps and straight edges from booklet stamps. I've fussed about this before. Grrr again and grrr still.

https://goscf.com/t/11632&whichpage=2#105428

Ryan

I have been doing this with australian booklet panes
for quite a while.
A side benefit is with the broad view, one can see the varied
use of cancelling devices during a given period.
If one likes cancelled stamps, they can be quite handsome.

I thought I was the only crazy doing this!
The reconstructions add interest to otherwise boring pages of definitives.

Apparently most catalogs do not list the straight edges because they are too simple to fake, accidentally or otherwise.
I think that Sweden issues are listed because that is the only way that they are available.