Canada Picture Postage Stamps

Just a thought about the date - these stamps are 2063 and 2064 issued Oct 8 2004. Is that going to change? that is why I thought beginning with the frame design of 2063 0r 4 would lake sense and make it searchable as well. Half the people selling them don't even include the word picture postage in the description making them easy to miss. BTW how about that Alzheimer's 100 going for $ 15+

Cheers
Murray

rallymanm,
Since these stamps (so far) are not engraved then the resolution and thus file size needed for each stamp picture would be less, probably 200 ppi / dpi ?

I think a bigger picture like the above Xmas collie dog is better, would draw more people in, let people see any details on the small stamp photo area. Not too big but big. And some sellers on ebay do not put a big picture up when they sell the stamp.

Caution, a stamp on SCF here, made by Bee See and another made by me, are not real Picture Postage stamps. They are just Photo-shopped designs showing what might be possible. Mine is the poodle on the wall and lighthouse in background, not real yet. Plan to do it, just haven't got around to it. I forget Bee See's one, or two, or trials sent to Picture Postage and rejected.

Although that would be an interesting subject, the rejections and why.

I bought 2 sheets of stamps - 21 per sheet of 2063 1and 2064 from Birmingham stamps for $ 22.50. By my calculations that is .54 per stamp which is a very good deal with postage going to .59 next Monday. Call me Scottish and happy :)
Murray

Well, I am for the use of the Scott numbers because I am used to them, but I am against using them because not everyone is going to be using them or know what they mean. And they are copyright by Scott.

Bee See and all,
Using the year won't work. There are two versions of the Xmas frame (46c, 47c) and two versions of the gold leaf frame (46c, 47c) issued in 2000.

I like the year as it makes the stamp number understandable to others (and me) but I think we still need the denomination in there.


That was a goodly price that Alzheimer's went for. And a high price paid by that m***d person too I think.

Good deal indeed.

Sometimes I saw a sheet of Picture Postage offered for sale by a European seller on ebay, personalized.

Picture Postage
Scott 2063and 2064 Stanley Gibbons 2294 and 2295
Proposed numbering system:
Eight categories:
1) Animals
2) Architecture
3) Covers
4) Humans
5) Miscellaneous
6) Organizations or Companies
7) Transportation
8) Xx Rejected or Counterfeit

Numbers to start with the Scott # for the design followed by the first two letters of the category followed by consecutive numbering starting at 0001. A comprehensive description or abbreviated description of the subject of the stamp and the reason it was issued. Therefore a counterfeit stamp could have the same number as the real one except the letters would be replaced with XX. If stamps with dual subjects ( human holding cat) would be given 2 numbers these numbers could be selected ( lowest number available in most populated category) so likewise these numbers would be the same except for the 2 letters. The vertical or horizontal nature of the photo is immaterial and ignored.

Example:
Number would be: 2064An0001 Description: Dog Jag52


Number would be: 2063Or0001 Description: Premier Envelope

And so on. Order would be entirely arbitrary by person processing the scans.

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Cheers
Murray
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I do not agree with using Scott numbers as I have heard of them giving legal notice and forcing people to remove their numbers from sites or shut the sites down.

I agree the stamp's orientation could be part of the description and not the 'number'.

Look at Delcampe's list of categories here
http://stamps.delcampe.net/page/cat...r,0-6-1.html

Some would not be used on Picture Postage, like holograms or Olympics (perhaps?) or Universal Expositions (World Fair's) perhaps but there are a lot of stamp clubs and shows making picture postage. I just don't have any yet.

The word people or person is better than human and more commonly used.

Plants or Flora is a main category.

Wow I just lost a bunch of bids but m***d paid $ 100 for 5 stamps. Have you guys got this figured out yet??

I saw that! $22.50 each for 2 of them!

I have been pondering over how to shorten the naming up and considering you abbreviations rallymanm.

how to abbreviate the frames / borders used?

Personally I still like the ca in front of it to designate a Canada stamp but I will bend to the majority on this.

We need either the year of first issue for a particular frame AND the denomination, (using Perm for the non-denominated I think) OR just the denomination.

Just using the denomination and the frame name would shorten the stamp number / name down BUT it would not help those wondering what year these fit into in their cataloging system (Scott, Gibbons, Michel, etc)

The web site is a worldwide thing so perhaps the year should be included.

What was the auction number? I missed that one.

My idea on abbreviating the frame names.

Gold with Leaves = Gold
Roses (Red) = Roses
Silver Metal = Metal
Christmas = Holly
Mahogany Wood = Wood
Baby Announce = Baby
Silver Ribbon = Ribbon
Photo Album = Photo

The Gold leaves could be confused with the Christmas Holly one as there is a small gold frame on the stamp too.

Photo is perhaps not the best choice. Album might be better.

Roses could be confused with the Baby one as the Baby Announcement frame has roses on it also.

But if we go with the colour of the frame only then some would be confused with others also.

Sorry Puzzler but your discussion is going way over my head. I had something far simpler and in house in mind. PS did you ever make a stamp of your Nash Metropolitan?
Cheers

Hi rallymanm,

Sorry I get carried away into the details at times.

If you just want to do the 2063 and 2064 stamps and not include the older and scarcer and not many around ones so most collectors won't even have them kind of stamps that would be a good idea also.

If you are making a list of site of them, a new numbering system for just these stamps, then legally you cannot use the Scott numbering system. That is why I was getting into the names of the frames / borders.

Puzzler, did you see the realizations for recent used Picture Postage?

For those who have not, here is the link:

http://completed.shop.ebay.com/Used...3286.c0.m282

Funny how the Gold frame sold for "only" $2.47. I missed that one and would have gone higher.