Show Us Your Classic Canada Stamps!

Thanks... it gives us an idea... congrat, you finally get it!

Wow Chipg. Can anyone say "Boardwalk margins". Nice items.
The middle 10c Consort is a beauty too. Really hard to find these with nice margins.

a few more:

Scott/Unitrade 1a: 3d orange red (vermilion)laid paper:


Scott/Unitrade 4ii: 3d orange red wove paper:


Scott/Unitrade 7: 10d blue:


edited to improve the scans.

as long as I had the scanner out, thought I'd scan the backs of the laid paper copies. I did play with the brightness and contrast to try to bring out the laid lines, which are visible in person on each of them:

In order -
Scott/Unitrade 1 - weak horizontal laid lines
Scott/Unitrace 1a- strong horizontal laid lines
Scott/Unitrace 2 - weak vertical laid lines
Scott/Unitrace 33- 3c Large Queen - strong horizontal laid lines

Chipg:

Hubba Hubba. Those are sweet and thanks for sharing the backs too.

Gilles:

Those 3 are solid beauties and on your comment about paying 70%+ of CV: I sort of concur with paying up for premium stamps given scarcity and missed opportunities. I recently posted for example two early Newfoundland airmail varieties (C2e and C3j) of which there are only 400 or 600 of each known to exist. Like you, I had missed many chances and just wasnt going to this time--so I went very high as a % of Catalog. So I was interested to see your commentary and my feeling is that prices in some areas (older, quality, scarce) have been increasing dramatically in the last 2-3 years. I'm probably fooling myself, and probably subjecting myself to critique from this community, but I believe that such investments like yours will be a solid long term investment, not unlike stock mutual funds or other asset classes. or at least not lose value in the long run. and its fun.

Thanks for sharing the photos though--that much is free!

Here are images of Album page one of my collection. All are properly identified and many have certificates. Enjoy:

w'mark:
Very nice set.
the 6d perforated is probably the hardest of the set to find well-centered.
I've been looking a long time for one.
C.

I recently added two more to the collection.

First, a Mint, heavily hinged 94 with XF/superb centering that I paid only ~15% of Unitrade cat value for





Second, is the BEST 116 I have ever seen - with Superb/Jumbo margins. It's a shame it's hinged, else it would be an investment grade stamp. Still, I paid a mere 20% of the VF cat value listed in Unitrade. I could not be more excited!



It's a great week!

One more addition to my collection - a 20c QV "Numeral", Scott # 84 in VF. I now have the whole set mint!!

Forgive me while I selfishly slip in some tags so that I can find these beautiful well-centred stamps again:
Canada Scott#84 20c 1900_queen victoria; Canada Scott#94 20c 1904 ke7; Canada Scott#116 10c 1912 kg5 admiral plum savage engraver.

I've had this classic cover with a Nova Scotia bi-sect stamp on it from the mid-nineteenth century. Since the stamp is cut in half I only had partial information on it. I've looked up the period stamps for two-cent classic Nova Scotia Victorian stamps and the colour of a two-cent (somewhat purple) clearly does not match the light greenish colour of the one bi-sect on the cover. Therefore, can someone help me identify my bi-sect stamp (pictured in detail below) and explain why it is not the colour shown in the website referred to as the following:- [http://frmfoundation.org/NovaScotia...d3/index.php].