Canada Picture Postage Stamps

puff puff again eh puzzler?

Hi spock! I puff a lot, eh? I should get an exercise bicycle that I could do stamps on and access the computer with, lol. Best of both worlds.

Here are a few more dog stamps I have:




Note in all of these stamps that a close-up works better than a far away shot, unless the photo/design is relatively uncluttered.

I do like the above posted OES BC/Yukon stamp because it is well organized and puts a lot of detail into the stamp. Hard to do with the small space you have to work with.

I think it would be neat to have a type of drawing similar to the old engraved stamps on some of these personalized stamps also. Of course, the engravers / designers are due the credit for the nice older stamps.

Other creatures beside man and cats and dogs.
Butterfly by Bee See at top.


I like the two opposite facing turtles (not by Bee See.). Kind of makes bookends or a start and ending of a set or something. Neat effect.

Humans, birds, turtles and an elephant. Bee See did the two turtles, notice the great arrangement of the lettering and the inclusion of the current (at the time) domestic letter rate of postage on the stamp. This dates the stamp, more or less. Neat idea.

The stamps have been out for almost 6 years now (2004-2010) and it is usually hard to tell when they were printed exactly.



The elephant is mine. Photo supplied by a lady in Germany who visited Nepal, pen-pal friends with a friend's sister here in Canada. The lady's brother now has some nice mint Canada elephant stamps for his collection as a Thank You.

It is kind of hard to see the Canadian beaver on this stamp. He is located behind the elephant, laid back on the river bank with designer sunglasses on sipping on an iced tea.

Now that is a neat idea. Include the beaver animal somewhere on every stamp made. Or something. A cat waving a Canada Flag or something.

I don't collect them, since I only have 1.
(You have to have 2 of anything before you are a collector)

Here is a used copy of the St Lawrence Invert
(vastly more valuable than mint )

And a marine booklet with plate number?

Nice Rod. That is another Bee See creation, the Seaway Invert anniversary. Cool idea. (I don't have it yet.)

The Blue 2 is known as a cylinder number, terminology from Canada Post and Sweden post, who printed those Marine Life stamps as a joint issue with Canada in 2010.

First I've seen of the marine Life with number on used. Keeping it that way would be better I think, even with the roller cancel and a bit smeared ink-jet printed cancel. Very nice. Only about 10% of the booklet panes had a 2 and 10% had a 1 on them.

There has also been some speculation on the varying widths of the selvedge, which I haven't delved into as of yet (soon).

Thanks for sharing!

I don't collect them Puzzler,
email me with an appropriate address,
and I'll pop 'em on the next Qantas Jumbo for you.

Email sent, thanks.

I have liked that name QUANTAS since I first encountered it years ago. QUeensland And Northern Territory Air Service. Neat.

Bee See,
by the way, if you want this stamp(s) that Rod is winging my way, please say so and I will boomerang it back across Canada towards British Columbia for you.

An older one on envelope, posted in Montreal area, with a flowery border and a baby shoes (I think) center label.

2007 Balloon Festival in Dorval, Quebec, Canada:

I am back from Montreal now. No Puzzler, you keep that! That looks like part of the envelope I sent some items to Rod in before I went to Montreal. Too bad they did not do such a great cancel.

Puzzler, I though you already had a copy of my St. Lawrence Seaway invert. If you want a mint one, let me know.

Bee See, I thought about it afterwards and looked and I do have a mint one from you. Just placed not where I expected it to be.

The cancel on the cover was used at Lakeshore 2007, the annual stamp show of the Lakeshore Stamp Club, held every spring in Dorval, QC. Canada Post has a different cancel every year for the show. Perhaps the stamp club produced the Picture Postage stamp.

I was a member of the Lakeshore Stamp Club up until moving to Vancouver in 1989.

Canada Post has also issued some commemorative envelopes with what they call Picture Postage on them. Note the missing stamp word. This is not a stamp but actually part of the envelope.

When I got my first one of these issues I was so disappointed that it wasn't a real stamp. Now, years later, I suppose that the commemmoration of special event warrants a whole envelope.

This is for the Hungarian refugees that came to Canada in 1956 and 1957. Below is the back of the envelope, designed similarily to Canada Post's modern official first day covers where the design continues over on to the back, describing the event and envelope in English, French and Hungarian (Magyar?).

Bee See,
That is neat. Do you have one of these? I have a note with it saying I traded for it from ebay seller modcanjim, who was one of the first fellows on ebay selling Picture Postage.

H O M E !