Canada Picture Postage Stamps

A Nash Metropolitan, to be exact.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_Metropolitan

Puzzler, I notice a large number of your used stamps have been soaked off cover, even the older two-part stamps with the separate little personalized insert. Is the adhesive on the back of the insert different from the frame? I have never yet tried soaking any of these, I've been worried that the adhesive is the same which would result in the inserts floating off. I could glue them back on, I suppose - that's necessary on the Dutch versions of these things, as that adhesive has deteriorated to the point where the stamps can easily be peeled off the cover (and the inserts can be peeled off the frames).

Ryan

I was looking around on ebay from European sellers the other year (?) and came across this sheet being sold. The Pope!


From ebay.

Bee See,

The dogs are probably resting out in front of the snowmobile, having to pull both.


Here is a link to a site about J. Armand Bombardier, the big snowmobile maker in Canada.

http://www.fjab.qc.ca/en/content/ja...939_1945.htm

The stamp looks like the Mark 1 version.

And here, the unlikely combination of two of Puzzler's images, the military snowmobile and the Nash Metropolitan ...



Tracked vehicles are somewhat common in Scandinavia - I was trying to find a photo of a tracked car I saw in a museum in Norway, with tracks for the rear tires and skis for the front. The best I could do was this huge 10-passenger Snow Cat from Quebec and a Norwegian snow motorcycle. But then I found the Nash - they're so small that it's just a converted snowmobile.

Ryan

Ryan,

I haven't actually tried to soak any off paper myself. The dog pictures are taken from the internet years ago.

I do have a couple of these older types but they were received already off paper.

I truly do not know. I have a red-border one on cover but do not want to remove it.

I did not make any of these when they were first out. I have just made the newer silver ribbon and photo album frame ones.

Another one I received, the label part seems stuck on OK, I can't see any traces of white glue or other adhesive seeping out from around it. Although, since the cancel is over everything, tying the label to the stamp, it seems OK to me.


From the Puzzler Collection.

Dirty rotten.

I have just noticed, once I get my stamp zoomed up on the screen and posted, (aren't computers wonderful!) that the cancellation on the label and the stamp do not match entirely.

Close enough I suppose, but still. Actually it is a good example of what can happen and what to watch out for. Still a nice stamp to me.

Yes, that is correct, they do often float off the Canadian stamps. The same happens to the "winged" greetings stamps with the circular label of the 1990's.

I mentioned that here:
https://goscf.com/t/8219#70508

Great pics Ryan! I love that motorcycle.

Here are some more Picture Postage issues:

On that mismatched stamp and label, maybe someone soaked off a few of these and stuck the wrong label back on to the wrong stamp afterwards in an attempt to remedy matters.

And Bee See made those too. I think they are some of the best I have seen regards composition and photography.

I particularly like the Sea Turtle one. The info around the picture, the colours blending in to the stamp's borders. Excellent, if I may say so.

I just got this Picture Postage through a trade with someone in Quebec.

It features the 300 year old windmill of Pointe Claire, Quebec, my hometown. I very nice find. It is a winter scene. I remember as a kid skating on the river nearby.

Excellent Bee See. I have snagged the pic. What an impressive stamp.

Was that Andre by chance? I was just emailing with him about some but I was slow at it (as usual).

Jopie here collects windmills, she would love to have one I bet. Did he have any more?

Puzzler, yes that was Andre. I don't know if he has any more - he did not produce them though, and I am trying to get a mint copy.

The Royal Philatelic Society of Canada issued two different Picture Postage stamps for Royal 2010, held in Windsor, ON on May 28-30, 2010.

One features Ambassador Bridge, connecting Windsor ON with Detroit MI, the other featurs the logo of the show.

Special post cards were also issued, shown below with the stamps postmarked with the show cancel.