Canada / Sweden 2010 Marine Life Booklet Varieties

I have not heard back from Sweden Post. Although I haven't checked my span. . . . checking . . .Nope.

Maybe I asked too many questions or they only type Swedish? I will try again, short and sweet this time. Maybe I have to subscribe to their stamps to get their bulletin or newsletter?

I think Moonbird may be right - that 000001 would be quite a showpiece, considering the issue appears to have created the greatest commemorative philatelic chase in Canadian history.

Other numbers to watch for would be 100, 1000, 10000, and 888 (for the Chinese).

Interesting Bee See.

Possibly an interesting booklet to have would be one with a birth date or other important-to-the-collector date found in the numbers, using only one or two digits for the day or month or even year perhaps.

Issue date of the stamps was May 13, 2010 so 2010 5 13 (010513), 5 13 2010 (051310) or 13 5 2010 (013510) depending on how you read your dates, North American, European or other.

Prime numbers are another, perhaps too convoluted, idea:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_numbers

Fibonacci numbers 011235 in which each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number

A number (if I am understanding the wiki article correctly) that is derived from Fibonacci numbers is 1.6180339887 . . . (016180) or the Golden Ratio (or darn close to it) found in flowers and nature and copied by advertising in the ratio of certain reply cards printed and possibly stamp size ratios ?? (Unknown by me, haven't actually measure and calculated any). Appealing to the human brain anyway.

Or, the number of stamps scanned so far by Rod, or the number of stamps in the pile at Philb's house. (Unknown numbers still being calculated by mathematicians).

A used booklet pane on the Netherlands ebay www.ebay.nl

This is Not able to be searched for or viewed on www.ebay.com/b/260/" >ebay dot com or dot ca .

You will have to go to www.ebay.nl and search for part of the title (or all). The seller only takes bank transfers I think. Which I don't have access to from my bank. Must email him.

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www.ebay.com/b/260/" >ebay seller: dedichter84
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If only you could make out the cancel on it. Looks like the rectangular one.

Yes, I have tried to fiddle with the exposure but either it was an under-inked canceller or was washed off a bit also. Or very lightly cancelled.

I am not sure why that pic doesn't load on here. I will try again.

So far 396 have replied to this discussion and a total of 7238 have read it.

Is there a record on the forum for hottest topic ever? R we close?

You know, I noticed that and thought that is probably me coming back to fix mistakes I make or to update the list of numbers or something.

Might be a lot of visitors looking at the list and other info too I suppose. There seems to be a lot of interest on ebay and Canada-wide with these stamps.

I myself am still studying them off and on as I want to compare all the colour shifts and maybe, perhaps, on a good day, get into the dots and plating or mapping or whatever it would be called for these stamps.

We all come back Puzzler. It is the greatest commemorative philatelic chase in Canadian History and you started it here

Kind of ironic though that it's about stamps printed in Sweden.
Or maybe Canada Post planned it that way to sell more stamps.

I can see more Canada - Sweden joint issue booklets with serial numbers all over the place, including the cover.

I T ' S ALIVE !

Att: BeeSee and Puzzler
Lurker Alert!

I have the following 19 booklets which were bought in Campbell River, Courtenay and Union Bay, BC, Sussex and Rothesay, New Brunswick:

blank
024846
024762
6x#1 only
#1/013364
#2/007713
#2 only with very light counter smudge on cover
#2/089469 with light single line number mark on cover
#2/089470 with very faint single line number mark on cover
#2/091771 with very faint single line number mark on cover
#2 with very faint single line number mark on cover
024845
#2/092837
#2/092836 with very faint number mark on cover



I haven't taken the time to look for colour shifts, dots and other fly-specks and seriously don't think I will have the patience to do so.

I hope this helps with documenting the booklets.

My initial search for the booklets began the day of issue when I bought a booklet to make my own FDC and one for just the booklet.

I noticed the #1 in one of the booklets.

The CP people let me search their supplies at the BC post offices and a relative picked up some in New Brunswick.

I didn't keep the BC and NB booklets separate at the time; so, I don't know which came from where.

This variety led to a search on Google for anybody discovering similar markings; and, that's how I found this forum.

Wow, thanks XNBer, great to have the info.

Nice that you took the time to list it all.

Great story too.

I first got hooked on them by reading the Adminware site's News feature where Robin mentions things of interest that come to his attention.

The fly-specking in my list (for now ha) is just on the booklets with a Blue #1. Whether the stamp in position 2 has 2 extra little black / dark blue (?) dots in the wave spiral above the mother otter. Just that. So just on your 013364 booklet.

Other than that, whether the high-numbered booklet have their left hand selvage wider than the lower numbered ones? 8.2 mm compared to 6.4 mm. You can tell by just holding one booklet up to another, no measuring necessary.

I haven't been recording the 'Ghost Marks' (cdn-booklets term, I like it) but perhaps I should have. Just the full marks, medium or dark, so I will not (for now) put those in my list.

I do keep all this data in a Word file so can reference back to it, and also any pics I get info from off of SCF or ebay or wherever.

Thanks again, may take me a few days to get the list updated, Bee See also.

The list keeps growing! And an "up" booklet sold for just over $100 on ebay!

I believe the upper really should have gone for more, but on ebay you never know! I would like to investigate the ghost counters more. One I got from ebay last week had an extremely weak front ghost (like others I have) but also had a weak back which is not what my other ghosts have. The thing about the ghosts is that they are in the same places as you see the counters. They may just be a result of an overinked counter from the booklet above in the pile though....