Full Sheets Of Used Stamps?

Ok, so it sounds like there is general agreement as to the source of these large sheets. Are these considered lesser forms of used stamps or philatelic junk?

I'm trying to build a respectable used collection; these seem like a cool addition but not if they are generally scoffed at by collectors. Like those nice mint stamps I had from Republik Malaku Selatan...

Actually I stuck the sheet below on a package to my grandfather back in 1974.

Back in the late fall of 1974 just like all previous years I would go with my father to help mail Christmas parcels to relatives.

Usually we went downtown to Toronto's main post office at Front St,
long gone and now the Air Canada Center where the the Toronto Raptors and Maple Leafs play.

Since my grandfather was a stamp collector (he got me started when I was about 6 years old)
and I wanted to please him I went to the Philatelic counter there and bought this sheet of 50 and stuck it on the parcel.
It appears they used a roller cancel which states
TORONTO STN. A .ONT., no date.

When my grandfather passed away a few years later I inherited his collection.
I don't know what happened to the selvage whether I tore it off to make room on the parcel or whether it was torn and my grandfather removed it while soaking it off.

But all in all it is in very good condition and served the purpose
for what is was intended for.

http://s413.photobucket.com/user/li...986.jpg.html

For some reason I can't show the image here from Photobucket,
maybe the file is too big.

Thanks to lorddenning's lithograving's post and link mentioned above, here is a cropped image of part of the sheet, reduced in size to post here.

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Oops, corrected. Thank you.

Thanks Puzzler, that's a nice sheet with a great story, makes it very special and cool.

I'm still wondering if these sheets are considered philatelic "junk" or "substandard" when used for paying postage due etc? Frankly I don't see why they would, since how would you tell the difference between Puzzler's sheet and one used for payment of PD?

The Canadian PO never did CTO to my knowledge.
Any cancelled sheets, whether cancelled to pay off an account, or put on a package should be fine in a collection as legitimate postal use. IMO

3Dadea you are right, CPO never did CTO (at least to my knowledge), I was just using that term as an example of "philatelic junk."

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Thx lorddenning, I had forgotten about those. Reminded me of another McDonalds one I had:

At one time when the post office sent the postage due bill to large companies it was in the form of full sheets of stamps usually cancelled. I have a few hundred sheets of J20 cancelled during a few months before they changed to a paper invoice.

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nice!