Anyone With Thoughts On This One?

Canada #109 Bell Telephone private perf.Appears to be a paste up deal with strange Montreal marking.[/img]

Interesting, I don't know about paste up with only one straight edge. But anything is possible. First thing I thought of was a paper fold. Is the pic original or reversed to show Montreal. Also what does the front look like.

I'd post front but pointless looks like any one of a million other Admirals.Fold was my thought but not the case so the mystery is full circle.I vaguely remember seeing the Montreal mark before but that must have been many years ago as I can't recall the facts.Whatever it be it's a keeper.Stamp is mounted in perfin collection I prefer not to handle it further than necessary now.

The maple leaf and Montreal markings are probably due to wetting the reverse of the stamp which picked up the preprinted image that was on the envelope.

The one straight edge would be the right edge of the extra piece of paper attached to the original paper. The left edge would appear on another stamp.

Blackjag, if it was from the envelope, the image would be mirrored.

The "strange Montreal marking" is part of a slogan cancel promoting the "Third Canadian Philatelic Exhibition" that took place in Montreal on 5 - 9 Oct. 1925. Here is an example of the complete postmark. The slogan cancel is relatively common.



The first exhibition was in Yorkton, SK, in 1923, and the second was in Winnipeg, MB, in 1924. Special slogan cancels were prepared for these philatelic exhibitions as well. The Winnipeg one is almost as easy to find as the Montreal one, but the Yorkton cancel is difficult.

To complete AdmCol's explanation, the clean third of the back of the stamp was properly affixed to the cover, and the stamp folded, and Bob's your uncle.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Well a strange one at any rate and still strange form of paste up I've not found before.Just an aside wouldn't the face show some evidence of being folded so precisely to get that slogan postmark? I see no sign of crease so I can't figure that it's as simple as all that.Not that it matters I will preserve it for the future heirs.

BeeSee, I agree with your observation of my previous comment. Thanks.

If it was a paste up, would it not have come apart, when it was originally soaked?

Nope paste up coil stamps seem to take the soak quite well. Also Blackjack that was why I wanted to see the front of the stamp to see where the fold/crease was on the front. Interesting none the least.

Thank you all for your thoughts.I harbor many strange examples in my pages.Must be something in my genetic make up.The hunt goes on.