Good Reference Websites?

I recently acquired a fairly good sized lot of common Canadian stamps. Does any have any advice about a good website to help in identifying these? Thanks!

The Canadian postal archives is a good site.

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/...11703_e.html

Try your local library for a stamp catalogue.

Unitrade Specialized Catalogue of Canadian Stamps that is.

Also, look on ebay. Sounds simple and then cpomplex, but for listed varieties and errors and non-listed also, ebay, BidStart, Delcampe sites are the best. Beats buying all the specialized catlogues and books.

You learn fast when you have to do some work yourself. Mark stuff down, numbers and stuff. Scott is US and Canada based catalogue. Stanley Gibbons (SG) is Breat Britain / Unuited Kingdom) based, with different numbers.

Also look at the them or subject of the stamp to help in searching. For older stamps, search by reigning monarch, KGV means King George the 5th, QEII, Queen Elizabeth the 2nd, and so on.


For nice info also look at the Stamp Of The World site:
http://www.stampsoftheworld.co.uk/w...of_the_World

If you get really confused ask on Stamp Community.

Canada definitive stamps sites are
BRC Online (Bee See on Stamp Community)
http://brcstamps.com/index.html

and
Adminware Philatelic Resources
By Robin Harris, editor of Unitrade Catalogue.
http://www.adminware.ca/stamps.htm

Second site also has a Canada tagging error database / list and the Lowe-Martin Serpentine Die Cutting monograph available for download.


A new site to me (just found it) is
Armstrong On Stamps:
http://www.armstrongsstamps.ca/page...rieties.html

Thanks for the help everyone!