Canada Post Annual Albums... Any Varieties Found?

Does anyone buy the annual Canada Post albums? If so have you opened them and have you found any varieties or errors in them?

Don't collect but have several for sale - sans stamps.

In the 1988 album I found a coil pair of the very rare 37c parliament on Roland paper, Unitrade 1194i. As far as I know, all known copies originated from the album, but not all albums have it. Some have 1194, the common version on Peterborough paper.

Beesee
Thanks for your response. How do you tell the difference between the 2 paper types?

I have two (2) 1988 Souvenir Collections. One is opened with the stamps inserted into their respective mounts and the other is still in shrink wrap. I am now tempted to open the sealed one to check for the Roland Paper version. But like Alberta Stamper, I am not 100% confident in determining which is Roland paper and which is Peterborough paper. How can you tell?

When I get home I will scan and post them.

I haven't checked my other Collection Albums, yet; but, while using an extra 2006 version (sans stamps) for used stamps, I was disappointed to discover the stories about each stamp were NOT in chronological order of issue.
Also, it appears some of the stamps (eg 1691 & 1692 {falcon & pony} as well as 2135-9 {flag over scenery}) were actually issued in Dec 2005 (according to Unitrade Catalog).
They may have been re-issued in 2006, but I couldn't find a reference to that.
Has anybody else found a similar situation with other years?

Here are the scans of the 37c Parliament coil paper varieties.

Unitrade 1194 on Peterborough Paper (green tint), front and back.


Unitrade 1194i on Rolland Paper (white), front and back.


From the front the two are hard to distinguish, but from the back, the differences are obvious.

Unitrade 2013 lists a single of 1194i at $125.00. Oddly, pairs are not listed for any of the coils in this series, though coil pairs of of earlier stamps are priced out. Perhaps this was an oversight as most collectors collect the coils in pairs.

BC, one way I found easy to identify is checking against a common mammals series Killer whales, 57c. It is in the 1988 collection, and because the Harrison version only started in late Sept 88, probabilities of what is in the album is high that it is on Rolland paper. The 43c Lynx from that series only came in "Harisson " paper, so the difference are obvious

Thanks for those great scans BC, just shows again that one pic is
worth a 1000 words.

BTW did you specifically use light bluish background to show
up the different papers instead of black ?

I actually used a white background. It just came out light blue. I originally did it on black, and the differences were less obvious.

I agree in that a black background for some
reason sometimes does not bring out the correct
colour in the scan.

In some cases I use a creamy beige coloured paper for background.

Thanks for the pictures and info. 1988 is one of a few that I am missing.