Canada Picture Postage Stamps

Rod222,

Received the envelope and nice Aussie stamp on stamps block, thank you.

I am glad you sent the whole envelope as when you look at the phosphorescent cancels that Canada Post and Australia Post puts on the envelopes as they go through the sorting plants, Canada has a double day printed on from postal code V. Haven't seen that before now.

Orange bars are Australia Post, Red plus date and postal code is Canada, both on the reverse on bottom. Australia also puts one of these on the top front.

Thanks for broadcasting receipt.
Sorry I had to fold the cover.
Australia post has small, med,med,med, HUGE envelopes.
US and Canada envelopes are so big they wont fit inside
anything we have.
I thought A4 was a universal size paper.

Folding is OK for this one Rod. I wish we had A4 paper and envelopes here.

Those #10 big long envelopes we use are not fitting well into FDC albums or Vario pages. They are made to take an 8-1/2" x 11" or 8-1/2" x 14" legal-sized paper folded in three or four folds across.

I like the A4 folded in 4 fits an A4 envelope very nicely. No messing with did I fold the darn thing correctly.

I wish the US would hurry up and change to metric like the rest of the world. I guess we will just have to go down there and make them all part Canadian or something.

I think the A4 envelopes are great for making envelopes or FDCs.

I was thinking earlier I would investigate the stationary supply store to see if there are any A4 metric sized paper things here. Should be, must be businesses that do business abroad. They would need them.

#10's are not good for stamp collectors.

Some recent arrivals purchased on Delcampe.

Red flower / Business sign / advertisement


Ever-present baby stamp / Kincardine Scottish Pipe Band Founder Wm. Young 1908


Scottish doggy? Scotty? / Nice flowers by archway, kind of out of focus but nice.

A nice cover I picked up at the Stamp Club meeting (where I just joined up also - woo hoo, finally) (The fellow has some more of these and the following set also)

Excellent cover Puzzler - if he has extras for sale, I am interested.

My great great great great grandfather, William Wright was a Loyalist, and arrived at Shelburne (from Westchester county in New York) in August 1783. He went to prince Edward Island shortly after in 1784.

I would love to get one!


Added with edit:
Email me Puzzler - I have been working on the family tree and maybe the producers of the cover have some information.

Bee See, we are probably related three uncles and aunts twice removed or something. I had a great-grandfather John Wright in NS. Woo hoo, I will be over for supper, bringing the refreshments of course and we can talk stamps.

Here are some other covers I got at the Nova Scotia Stamp Club meeting last night, made by the same fellow.

He is more into the Canada Post Pictorial Postmarks or Cancels. These are all in a small area of the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia and are about the New England Planters who settled here. Folks who were escaping the troubles in the new United States and the British New England colonies.

This cancel has a tree (apple tree?) and a horse-drawn plow in the little picture inside the cancel.

Covers are hand-made (using a bone knife and other secret as yet unrevealed to me methods, on 65 lb. paper with a Picture Postage stamp of a tree on the Port Williams dyke, also with two crossing jet contrails in the sky overhead. (I thought before I looked more closely it might be a rainbow over the tree, I like trees.)

Stamps have only been made in a quantity that allows for the making of 5 covers x 8 sets = sheet of 40 stamps, so no extra loose stamps, darn.

Unless you have walked or driven along the bottom of a dyke behind which is mega tons of water you just don't realize the amazing work that a dyke is, and the constant maintenance it requires.





Arranged in no particular order they are Kentville, Port Williams, Wolfville, Canning and Newport, NS.






A scan of a cover back, darkened to show the way the envelope is made, with the nice rounded corners! I haven't been able to round corners (yet! ) It is the size of a #6-3/4 envelope.


The fellow has a couple of sets of these left also. The first set of 40 are sold.

http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/starrspt.html

Link showing the full Planter's Monument and a nice map of some of the towns, positions of the dykes and the Dominion Atlantic Railway (changed to Canadian Pacific then ripped up). Kentville is off to the left at bottom at the end of the Cornwallis River.

I have shown a Covered Bridge Picture Postage stamp here, hoping to find where it is located.

https://goscf.com/t/1121#97495

This seems close. Older (1915) but note the trees in the background, the slanted pier under the bridge, the brush growth in the stream bed, the windows along the bridges 2 lengths, the road curves the correct way. This is near Wakefield, Quebec. Perhaps yours is a later version of this?

From this site: http://www.bytown.net/gatineau.htm

Thanks Puzzler, but it is not Wakefield, I saw that one in colour on the internet. I actually saw that one "live" many moons ago...

Edit:
Puzzler, you were RIGHT! It was the rebuilt version of that bridge. I did not know it had been destroyed by fire in 1987.

https://goscf.com/t/1121&whichpage=2#97681

Just received these with a nice St Jacques, NB Pictorial cancel for their Botanical Gardens.


Three of a set of five (2 to come) of Canada's first women pilots.

Put out by the Canadian 99's, (at this address http://www.canadian99s.org/ ) , which is part of a worldwide aviation-interest group of pilots.

A really nice quote from their pages:
"For once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return." (Leonardo da Vinci)

Puzzler, I snagged the three from the internet at a price that seems lower than production cost. Excellent subjects.

Missed your last post somehow Bee See. Yes, he was/is selling them below cost I think. I do not know if he knows it. Learning the hard way I think.

Perhaps the next two will be a different story.

New stamp created by Bee See just in.
The Valois train station in Point Clare, Quebec, Canada.
Nice upside down cancel, reminiscent of the old days of upside down cancels. Nice.