Show Us Your Classic Canada Stamps!

A beauty !

I just managed to fill all these holes in my Canada album and thought I would share a pic. There is a mix of used and mint, but all-in-all not a bad group...for me.




This is my first attempt at embedding an image. Hope it works!

Not sure what the green cancel on the 4-cent is about - any ideas?

Al

Excellent set of Admirals BreefmackUSA! I am striving to accomplish what you have done myself. Congratulations, they are beauties!

Thanks fjrosetti!

Here's a blow-up of that #110:




I'm going to try retroReveal on it when I get a chance and see if that will bring up the readability at all.

Al

Very nice 4 cent Admiral Breefmack! Great cancel!

The cancel is upside down... On the last line (first when turned over), it is written "CANCELL?"... but I cannot read the rest, to fuzzy. Could it be a revenue usage???

I still haven't been able to figure it out either Pepere_jack! I ran it through retroReveal and got these images, but I still can't make it out. I think I see an "E" at the end the first line - like "CANCELLE" and I think I see the word "With" on the third line. You're right though it is upside-down. I rotated these 160-degrees to the right:









I don't think I have any other Canadian stamps with a text-only cancellation - or in greenish-blue for that matter.

Al

My guess is that it's a fiscal (revenue) cancel as mentioned. Someone may have an answer, or have something similar. The coloured ink also makes me think is revenue cancelled.

This is what I get by playing with HUE and SATURATION starting from the first picture you gave.



The result is pretty fuzzy as the original picture was fuzzy also.

Wow.
That's probably about as good as anybody would be able to get, but I'm still drawing a blank - just too much pressure and smear to ever know for sure I guess unless somebody else has something similar. I liked the centering on this stamp, but if it is a revenue usage maybe I will keep my eyes open for a mint copy to replace it with.

Thanks for the effort anyhow - great job!

Al

...and now for something completely different:

I picked this one up not too long ago and when it came in and I scanned it, I got a little concerned with the perfs.




Is it me?

Al

Nice stamp ! Top and bottom perfs look fine but yeah, both sides raise questions.

Nice ink pull on the 4 cent admiral !

Thanks Coriandre!

Yes, the upper-left and lower-right look like there was some cutting done and the sides are just beat-up - but its mine and I guess I'll just keep it for now!

Al

Don't know if these are classified as "Classics", per-se, but how about some Special Delivery?




E1:


E2:


E3 (my favorite):


E4:


E5:


E6:


E7:


E8:


E9:


E10:


E11:


These are all NH except for E1 & E4 (glad I don't need them today!).

Al

Love those stamps Breefmack, I'm still hunting an E1 MNH... someday!