Canada Picture Postage Stamps

There's a guy on E-bay has the Purdy's Chocolate covers on sale for $ 25.00. He has 6 of them it seems.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...TRK:MEWNX:IT
Cheers
Murray

Hi all: In 2006 Canada Post lists the following envelopes as issued but
shows no pictures. Were any of these issued with Picture Postage stamps or was Purdy's Chocolates in Feb. 2007 the first one
I searched E-bay on all of them and came up blank.
2006 Commemorative Envelopes

* May: Benjamin Franklin
* Oct 12: Hungarian Immigration: 50th anniversary
* Oct 16: Canada Post Corporation: 25th anniversary

Cheers
Murray

Murray! You must have missed it on my website:

http://brcstamps.com/picturepostage...tage_11.html

Click on the images and the full envelope shows.

I get it - so your list is complete - there was no Ben Franklin in Feb of 2006. Great - I did a lot of research to see what is on your website - but don't worry - the work was good for me
Cheers

Some nice cancels on Picture Postage just in.









I was changing all my mint into used (I like them better that way, what can I say?) and mailed a bunch together. It took a week and a half to get back to me and they all had either these nice CDS cancels on them or (see below) two with roller cancels, but applied sparingly and lightly. Why a week and a half? I don't know. The back was phosphor-cancelled Jan 19 and the cancels on front Jan 31, I received on Feb 4. Did they run out of ink or did a machine break down or were these all chuted off to be examined by some inspector of some sort? ??

The roller cancels


And, I am sorry Bee See, Jag got penned and rollered. I haven't seen the pen monkey (son of marker monkey) operate at Halifax before now. I received no other mail from Halifax with stamps on during this time so cannot compare others to see if this was wide spread.



You can see that the roller was applied very nicely. Maybe the pen was applied by the delivery lady when sorting her mail? Not sure.

No prob Puzzler, jag was a big tough (but friendly) dog

I just got a limited supply of these 2 in Mint condition so don't go and buy any OK.Cheers
Murray




And another Cover cause Puzzler likes them

Hey guys - that bunch that is on E-bay - I put a bid one the ones I don't have. I don't know why nobody bids till the end but.... So if you want to go for the others you wont be against me. And if there is something you really fancy let me know and I will back off. Email me with instructions OK.

Thanks for the heads up. I was saving a bit for the stamp club meeting tomorrow night. We will see if I have any left after that. Some of those are nice.

Howdy all:I got the St Thomas University cover in the mail from Canada Post today - it is pretty nice as you can see here.
Cheers
Murray

So what is the scoop on these 6 older 1853 Picture Postage pn E-bay. What are they worth and are you 2 going to bid?
Cheers

Side note: If you look outside of this thread in the list of topics then you will see that this topic had had over 4000 visitors so far. I think this is great as it displays the variety of Picture Postage available to the collector today, plus the difficulties in obtaining some.

The older Picture Postage (before 2004) are much rarer and thus harder to obtain or even find. I only have one or two myself, mostly from lack of funding I must admit). They are a study in themselves.

You will find that certain subjects always come up, babies and people. Usually these are not the most exciting of topics to collect, at least for me that is. There are the exceptions, the really happy photos, the ones which are composed well, the colors are striking, etc, etc.

These will appeal to everyone so thus making the stamps more sought after and thus worth more, if listed at a time when many are watching and in a buying mood and described correctly so that buyers can find them.

Many factors.

The above stamps do not seem to have a wide appeal other than the collector of one of everything type (me and a lot of others I would think).

Some do not even bother all the time with the older types, they are happy with an example of each type.

can I have a prize or trophy that have start it ? lollll

Where is the check ?

lol