Vimy Memorials

I have a few covers and postal cards that were prepaired for the Canadian Memorial at Vimy Ridge, so, I thought I would show a few.

Chimo

Bujutsu





Marking on the back of the cover.

Now I like that cover Bujutsu...Anything to do with war...Did you know that the monument was built on land given to Canada...That little piece of land belongs to the Canadian Government.

Yes wert, I was aware of that. It is ironic too when you think that barely three years would pass and the start of WW II would begin.

There were different sets with different images of the memorial and different face values.

I have a partial set with 9 of 10 different designs. I bought the partial set in an antique store and the owner sold it cheap because it was incomplete. I have scanned the designs, the cover and face value. The face value was the same for any given set apparently.

Will post images later because, for some reason, the images are not loading.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Another try at the scans

Chimo

Bujutsu

Very nice pictures (covers) Bujutsu....I don't always post comments when you post covers, but I always look at them...You must have tons of covers, by the way keep up the good work and by all means keep posting...

Bujutsu: A timely post. A great uncle of mine was killed in France on this date (Nov 5) in 1918.

My Grand dad was there, but thank goodness he made it back, or I would not be here... still have all his medals and war paraphernalia.

And my Dad's from WWII.

Thanks all for your comments.

It is always sad to hear of those who gave the greatest scarifice and I don't forget them.

As I find these special covers / cards etc, I will definately post them. True, I have many covers and the specialty ones are being mounted in albums. I usually try to post them before I mount them.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Let's revive this one, especially in light of the recent commemorations at Vimy Ridge.
Acquired this cover recently, which is the same as the cachet'd envelope Bujutsu showed back in 2012, with the same commemorative roller cancel shown on his postcard of the same post. My cover sports the French 1936 stamp showing the memorial.



Inside the envelope were two newspaper clippings, which are no doubt contributing to the envelopes condition. This smaller clipping appears to be from a contemporary news report about the stamp, from a Canadian newspaper.



The other was a full page 1982 Toronto Star article about Ypres.

Was able to track down the recipient quite easily on google. Col. F. (Frederick) C. Curry was a prominent Brockville Ont. historian. Doesn't say if he was a stamp collector, but I think we can assume

Very nice cover jamesw, plus, the information on the addressee is always a plus as well. Hope to see you at the Barrie show this year. Too bad we missed you at the last one.

All the best

Chimo

Bujutsu

Cheers Bujutsu. I'll be there, if life doesn't get in the way again.

Re Col F C Curry, Curry's Drug Store was in a prominent location on Brockville's King Street ( Brockville, Ontario, is currently my home town but I am planning to move to Prince Edward Island later this summer) until the late 1960s.