☉ Jubilee Fever -- The Most Beautiful Issue Ever

By the way, I'm still looking to meet used Jubilee affectionados like myself..get in touch!

To address an earlier comment about color variation of Jubes, here's an interesting threesome of the #51.

Cool to see a PEI cancel on the left--I looked up "Mill River" (now Alberton?) on Google maps. How pretty. Guess the place just never grew.

This is why I love used&dated ; every stamp tells a story!

To me, the stamp on the left looks like it could use a peroxide dip to bring back the orange. I'm not sure if Canada had the same issue but it looks similar to what happens to the orange US stamps of the era.

here is a different color on the 1c.

vfstamp - Se-tenant means there are stamps with different designs together. What you have there are multiples. For Jubillees, I hate to say, the multiples are only more desirable if they are in blocks or have selvedge or have part of the Printer's Imprint. Strips of three are collectable on the Small Queens, though, so you might have something. Nice postmarks on that strip of three 2c Jubillees.

I agree that that 1st 1c is oxidized. If you clean it with the right Hydrogen Peroxide 3% mixture from the Pharmacy (don't use the hair color stuff) it will revert back to the normal color.

Am I wrong but the Tercentenary issue is better than jubilee.. The#103 is beautiful

The Jubilees appear to be the first American Bank Note Company (ABNC) postage stamp issue that was printed in Canada (Ottawa, Ontario) while those printed before by ABNC were from the U.S. (New York, New York). Also, from 1897 on wards until 1972, the ABNC and later the Canadian Bank Note Company (CBNC) mostly only used line perforation 12 for their regular sheet and booklet stamps.

jogil, I'm not sure about that. The Large Queen Issue released on April 1, 1868 were printed by the British American Banknote Company located in Montreal and Ottawa. The Small Queen Issue from 1870 were all printed in Montreal and Ottawa as well.

Here's a link to a Small Queen page with Printer's imprints to confirm:

http://www.dglphilatelics.com/sq_2c.html

jimjung: It was about the ABNC's first Canadian printed postage stamps rather than the first Canadian printed postage stamps.

The last issue printed in NewYork was the 1859-67 Issue.

To get the contract (back) for printing Canadian postage stamps (away from the British American Bank Note Company), the American Bank Note Company had to print their postage stamps in Canada so that they printed their postage stamps in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada starting first with the 1897 Jubilee postage stamps.

jogil,

I stand corrected. Thanks for the information. That's quite interesting to me and the Unitrade catalog does list the Jubillee (and subsequent) stamps as being printed by the American Bank Note Company. It's quite noticeable the difference in the Printer's Imprints between the British American Bank Note Company and the American Bank Note Company. This should've been a big clue. These later issues don't have the Company Name/Location on the Printer's Imprint so this information has to come from a book.

British American Bank Note Company Imprint on Large Queen stamps (There was more than one type)


American Bank Note Company Imprint on Jubillee Stamps


American Bank Note Company Imprint on 1859 Issue stamps

here is a small queen with imprint (BABN)

for more info on the ABN, see http://data4.collectionscanada.ca/n...=MIKA&p=1&u=http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/02012302_e.html&r=1&f=G

With a Railroad cancel

Thanks Jim for the clarification. I assumed a literal translation of the french. "Multiples" sounds like it could mean anything. I think I prefer 'pair' or 'strip.'

In terms of valuing, I totally agree with you for Mint stamps. But with used, one can imagine a certain cachet for a nice trio like my 2c strip..there would seem to be a rarity factor because usually, a 6c would be used. The higher the denomination, the more rare.

Imagine a 'trio' of $1 Jubilees (#61) with nice CDS cancels. Wouldn't you agree that such an item (if it even exists) would fetch a handsome sum at auction? Surely a desirable showpiece of any collection...