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Who Does Canadian Stamp Certification

 
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Posted 07/10/2012   5:41 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add irishjack to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Who does Canadian stamp certification.
I know bill weiss does USA stamps at a very reasonable rate and is well recognised through out the community, So I would like to find a Canadian expert that offers some thing similar and also in the same price range. Weiss does a online for $5 and a mailed in for like $25
Which makes it very reasonable for a regular Joe to afford.
Any leads be great
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Posted 07/10/2012   6:03 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add smauggie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The Vincent Graves Green Philatelic Research Foundation is an excellent expertiser of Canadian stamps and they are in Canada.

http://www.greenefoundation.ca/
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Edited by smauggie - 07/10/2012 6:04 pm
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Posted 07/10/2012   6:10 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add irishjack to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks Smauggie That's exactly what I was looking for and there prices are not to bad and Canadian as well.
I will keep them busy for a while
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Posted 07/10/2012   7:04 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add smauggie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
When it comes to postage stamps they are the best in Canada as far as I know.
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Posted 07/11/2012   12:04 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add gportch to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hi Smauggie & Irishjack.
Just a quick qualification statement for this thread. The VGG is a first class expertizing organization (and a member if the A.I.E.P.), but is intentionally limited to expressing opinions on British North America philatelic material. This, of course, includes stamps, pre-production (essays, proofs, etc), and postal history. Rather than a single opinion, the expertizing is done by a committee that generally sits with six or more members. The committee is backed by technology and an extensive research library.
GJP
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Posted 07/11/2012   12:21 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add irishjack to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks gportch I took a look at the web site they have some serious hardware, looks like something from csi. I like that a committee and not a sigle person does the expertizing
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Posted 07/11/2012   11:37 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Bujutsu to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Other members beat me to it, but, I too would have recommended the Vincent Graves Greene Foundation.

Chimo

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Posted 07/12/2012   9:10 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add gportch to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hi Irishjack
The hardware is very serious indeed. The old Crimescope is still close to "state of the art" and is, in fact, the same equipment used on CSI. Our new VSC6000 is an incredible piece of forensic hardware that does everything the old Crimescope did plus much more (plus some things we don't know yet). At present, there are only three of these machines in the world that are being used for philatelic applications: The Royal Philatelic Society of London, The Smithsonian and the Greene Foundation. As I gain more experience with the VSC6000, I hope to be able to contribute some scans and images to illustrate technical discussions in this forum.
GJP
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Posted 07/12/2012   9:20 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add irishjack to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
That be great love to see some of the scans,, Maybe a 12 pence black fingers crossed.
I had a look on the site very impressive, By your user name you must be Garfield .
I have a older friend that's thinking of selling off his collection He has a mint and used, In the spring I was looking at his trade book and my jaw hit the ground. The only stamp he says that he is missing is the 12 black and a cds $4 jubilee, he gave me some of the higher value jubs that were roller cancelled as he said you might find use using them for rolling cigarettes that's all they are worth lol.
A little off topic but he was telling me He met a engraver that work at the mint and in the 1920's you could walk in and buy sheets of the high value jubilees for face . He also said he thinks this went into the 30's, but a sheet of 50x $5 = $250 don't think many had the money to buy a complete sheet
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