Started My Newfoundland Collection Yesterday - Need Help

Thanks smauggie. It's makes more difficult to differentiate between a watermarked issue and an unwatermarked issue. Example Pictorial issue No.2 and Pictorial issue No. 3.

What it means, I suspect is that you (and I) will have to pay very close attention to the margins of our Newfie stamps for the slightest hint of watermark.

So the rose shades 62-63 would be the only ones watermarked with "Stacey Wise" and not any others with that specific mark. Not that there were no others with different watermarks.
Another thing I noticed was very few prices in Unitrade for re-entries so that makes me curious as to rarities with them as well. For better close ups of the re-entries
http://www.re-entries.com/listings.html#prov

Congratulations.

Its a great country to collect

Do you have any other questions?

Well it's not really a country. In fact, it's not a country at all.

Newfoundland is a great province to collect. Though now part of Canada, I find the Newfoundland stamps are distinctly different in design from Canadian issues. The Newfoundland designs reflect the unique culture and history of their region that is still evident today.

I find the Newfoundland watermarks are somewhat easy to detect. I have discovered a number of them by simply looking at the back of the stamps through a bright light.

With respect, I would disagree with Minesweeper in his statement that Newfoundland is not a country at all.

Clearly, today it is not and part of Canada.

But as this is a stamp community and within that context ALL the stamps of Newfoundland being collected were so issued when Newfoundland was a separate country until 1949. Technically, it was a self governing dominion of the British Empire from 1907 to 1949; prior to that a Colony from 1583 to 1907. So, yes for this community, it is a country.

my opinion of course based on these facts.

with respect

Newfoundland is not a country to a political scientist, or even a geographer (no offense to geographers), but to us stamp collectors, it is just a form of shorthand to refer to it as a country. We do the same for New Zealand, which, during the classic era, was not a country, either.

Here is the statement from the 1926 Imperial Conference on the status of the dominions:




Saseno, Castellorizo and Long Island aren't countries, either, except they are, to us.

My 2d.

Minesweeper,

My take on the above thread on watermarks. Leaving aside the mechanics of viewing watermarks to fluid or bright lights (I use the latter), your question on how to tell the watermarks of Newfoundland is too broad. It depends on each issue and varies quite widely. For example, the 1861 stamps made by Bacon Perkins on their paper does have some Stacey Wise watermarks on SOME stamps. but not all. and the 1862 stamps made on Stacey Wise paper by them had some watermarks of "Stacey" and "Wise" and some with both. And all the other stamps from 1865 to 1949 also have wide types or not of watermarks.

So unless you have a specific stamp to post and ask about I would highly recommend you get the Newfoundland Specialized Stamp Catalogue which SMAUGGIE recommended above and posted a link because this book has the specifics you will need on watermarks. For example, it would answer Sylain's question about which position in a sheet was watermarked (but for EACH issuance). It's the old Chinese proverb "Give a hungry man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a hungry man how to fish, and feed him for life". The book is not cheap but you will be set for life

my opinion anyways...

One thing I have found since starting my Newfoundland collection is that it is going to take more money than I thought it would. It is hard to find good material at a decent discount to scott or unitrade.