What Is The Most Popular Canada Stamp Collecting Area?

What is the most popular Canada stamp collecting area? Is it the Large Queens, Small Queens, Admirals, George VI, Elizabethan?

small Queens?

I agree with Gilles (always a good bet anyway). They are affordable, readily available, attractive and fun.

POCON cancels!

Personal / personalized / customized stamps.

PRECANCELS in my house.

Having recently returned from the RPSC convention in Halifax, I am surprised at the strength of the Postal History exhibits which seem to be gaining in popularity at every national level show.

By the way --- hats off to the Halifax Stamp Club who, in my opinion, ran one of the best "ROYALs" that I have attended. Thanks everybody - great job well done!

GJP

Postal history seems to be very popular these days, especially for collectors who want to go beyond just filling blank spaces in a stamp album. I remember once overhearing a very well-known postal history dealer commenting that he had sold around 1 million dollars worth of covers at an international stamp show.

Canadian provinces for me.

Terry

GPortch Congrats on the gold award at this year royale. I was wondering if you can post the frame in here?

I read the question as general rather than personal. And the general answer is George VI as near as I can tell.

I have always been under the impression that the most popular area were the Admirals, then followed by the 1967 Centennial series (?)

Just a guess.

Chimo

Bujutsu

For me, the magnificent engraved pictorials (the mountie, Mt Carvell, Bluenose...) are ground zero for my Canadian collection.

I have to agree with Graeden and others who choose the engraved pictorial stamps. Many are still affordable and works of art in their own right. I just paid about $40 (incl. tax and postage) for 2013 pages for my album. The pages were just fine, no problem there, but so many pages are about Superman and hockey stars. Totally wasted for me, so I decided to terminate my active Canada collecting. My basic collection is largely complete from 1930 to 1999 (two full sets of Admirals plus extras). I do not intend to buy any more album pages, so I made my own pages using the Unitrade catalogue and Canada Post archives as guides. The pages hold only those stamps that interest me, such as definitives and some commemoratives. This was a fun project, and I can now focus on other things. I plan to collect Canadian joint issues, plate blocks of issues that I like, and start to chip away at pre-1930s and provincials. I have also taken a liking to some UK stamps and the Syracuse coin definitive stamps of Italy. I have made pages for these, also. For me this is the way to go, and I appreciate all the valuable advice and information given by contributors of this site. Can someone give an example of what is collected as Postal History. Thanks to jogil for suggesting the topic.

I agree with Greaden, The pictorials is a beautiful series with all the detail in each stamps, just like the Peace Issue.

One of my favorite stamps is Canada # 155 since its breathtaking landscape scenery draws me into it.