Found On Old Envelope, 1953 10 Cent With Tepee?

Found on old legal size envelope, with what looks like a 1953 date stamp (or could be 1919 as I don't know how to determine age)

Worth anything?

Hi Puffer,

Welcome to the Stamp Community Family (SCF).

I cannot make out the postal date from your scan, however this stamp was issued on October 2, 1950 (Scott #301) and has minimal value in a used condition. Just a couple of cents!

- stamporator -

I believe this is the stamp to which you refer. It's Canada #301 - supposed to be depicting Fur Drying - issued in 1950. Unfortunately, it's common so the used value is only at catalog minimum (less on the secondary market):

Thanks stamporator and wt1. Much appreciated. I always get excited when I find old 'stuff' when I'm cleaning up my filling cabinets.

Welcome puffer....keep looking and keep posting....

Puffer - as a general rule - covers, stamps and correspondence (yes, all are of value) are not of great interest unless they are WW II years or earlier.

Modern envelopes, 1973 to now for POCON numbered postmarks, or pictorial postmarks, or even any other, depending on the value of the stamp and/or cancel to the collector (or accumulater ! ), can be worth something also, perhaps $1 and up (or less ) for nice cancels (I'm a cancel colector.).

The $10 whale stamp, currently available (2014), is getting about $8 used or so by itself on ebay now. With a nicely placed, readable, legible, cancel on envelope (cover) it would probably be $10 to $14.

Aesthetics (how things look) are always important.

If the stamp is in good shape (condition) then that is worth something also of course.

That common-to-you cancel may be rare to the world of marcophily (cancel collecting). The airmail label is collected, any other postal label is collected. Cancels on the back of envelope are important.

By the way puffer, welcome to Stamp Community!