Christmas Seals - Muskoka Free Hospital

Here is a puzzling little Item. I do not know whether this is a forerunner of Christmas Seals or TB Seals or just what. It's very early date (1912) and theme are more than a bit puzzling. The Hospital itself appears to have been a TB Hospital but what is the story behinf the seal itself?

Check this out backroads

http://www.on.lung.ca/page.aspx?pid=488

You'll want to check "Green's Catalog of Canadian Local & Provincial Tuberculosis Seals (revised 2007) for more info on these. I believe it is available from http://www.christmasseals.net/

It's one of several Christmas Seal references I consult regularly.

I will purloin that address! thanks petermac.

You could also go to search a couple of back threads on both Xmas stamps and Seals... we had quite a bit of back and forth on the subject. : Nice pictures too.

Thank you for all the information. From your timeline, I now know that the Hospital did produce seals as a fund raiser and I have asked our local Public Library if they can get a copy of the Green's catalog on Inter-Library Loan. Just have to search for those earlier threads you mentioned.

That, by the way, is an excellent way of getting to see and use some of the rarer reference material that you would only use for a specific project and not necessarily want to buy.

Hi Backroads

This TB seal is right in my own backyard - almost literally. The hospital itself was located only 14 miles (25KM) south of me in Gravenhurst.

In the url here, http://www.waome.ca/sanitarium.htm you will find an article I once wrote for a society I belonged to. It not only shows the seals but also the postal history in general of this facility.

The seals from this hospital are one of my collecting interests.

Chimo

Bujutsu

What a fantastic article, Bujitsu!! And beautifully illustrated as well. It certainly answers all the questions I had about the seal. Thank you.

Very interesting, Bujutsu! I never really paid much attention to the local seals until I picked up an auction lot. A 1912 Muskoka was included and it caught my interest. I'd be interested if you had any spares for trade or sale.

Bujutsu: I was wondering when you would show up for this. Your post was worth my waiting. Thanks

Thank you all for your kind comments.

I seldom get duplicates, but it does happen on occasion.

What is also interesting about this hospital is that it was located right next door the the POW Camp during WW 2 on what was known as the Calydor Esteates. This was Camp 20, formerly known as Camp "C".

What is really hard to get, is a censored cover / card that was sent from the hospital. I have only one in my collection that is censored and I have been collecting the Muskoka Free Hospital for a number of years now.

I have seen some pages from the Green Catalogue but have never had the catalogue as a whole. For anyone interested in these seals in general, the catalogue is a good mine from what I have been told.

Happy collecting

Chimo

Bujutsu

No lists but here is an interesting Early One. If you want some history, try my earlier topic titled Christmas Seals - Muskoka Free Hospital.

Just won this some time ago and it will make a good addition to my collection. I can't be sure if I posted this image in here in the past or not? If it has been, I'll delete.

The scan shows some of the perfs trimmed, but, in fact, they are all intact. It is a MNH block.

Chimo

Bujutsu

The artist responsible for the concerned and kindly Santa face on these Christmas seals captured the Christmas spirit.

Agreed stampfan9

I believe that there were similar designs for the Hamilton and Toronto hospitals as well.

I know that there were slogan cancellations promoting these hospitals

Chimo

Bujutsu

I believe this is one of the cancels you were referring to, Bujutsu?