Can Someone Help Indentify This Canadian Stamp Please

I came across this one. Can't seem to figure out what it is? Cheers. Marc

Best example that I can find: http://www.canadarevenuestamps.com/...1.0296000242

Interesting stamp -- this is a whole new topic that I knew nothing about (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_tax_stamp)

Thanks Gaff. At least now I know it is not something with a lot of value. But I looked under war/tax stamps in Scott and didn't find any examples with a big X on it like that.

marc.. Unless you have a Canada specialized botb, I doubt you will find it in scott.
Scott seems to list some regular botb stamps but not with a lot of varieties.

I think you would need a catalogue of Canadian revenues to i.d. this stamp. It is definitely not going to be in Scott, and I don't think it is listed in Unitrade, either, but that's a guess. The catalogue by van Dam is the standard reference, I believe.

Hi Marc

The stamp you have scanned is listed in the Van Dam Canadian Revenue catalogue and is #FWT7f. This is the variety with the 'up-side-down "X". The "FWT" means "Federal War Tax".

The most current catalogue value is $3.00 mint and $1.50 used.

Hope this information helps you out.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Thank you Bujutsu. It is an interesting stamp. The X is very outstanding.

I am attaching another Canadian stamp question please. This one is the A24 series Scott catalog #37 from 1868. According to Scott there were 4 color variations on this one. So you have 37, 37a, 37b, and 37c. The question is which one do I have. Very hard to tell and the scan came out much deeper orange than the stamp itself. The standard color of 37 is orange red, but mine doesn't look orange red to my eye so I was wondering if I have one of the other varieties. Again, very hard to tell.

It's quite a bit more likely that you have Scott #41, not Scott #37. It can be quite difficult to tell some of the various Small Queen stamps apart from one another, unfortunately. A direct quote from "Canada's Three Cent Small Queen" by Ronald I. Ribler: "Virtually all collectors of this stamp have, at some time, experienced difficulty in determining with any confidence which variety of the stamp was at hand."

90% of the copies of Scott #37 have a tiny guide dot below the lower left value tablet, and that appears to be missing from your copy. Also, #41 is a far more common stamp, and the considerably lower catalogue value is tied to that.

These scans (rather wobbly, sorry) provide a clue on how involved it can be to try to figure out which stamp is which, when you start dealing with shades and perforation variations. The Kiusalas gauge is a precision gauge which measures perforations based on thousandths of an inch between pins.

A good introductory article dealing with Small Queens is found at the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada's website, although it can be a bit tricky to navigate your way through all of the pages.

http://www.rpsc.org/Library/SmallQu...l_Queens.htm

Ryan

Thanks for such a great detailed explanation Ryan. I looked at Scott again at #41 and I think you are right. That is probably what I have. And considering this is my only A24 series stamp as far as I know, I probably wont spend too much more time studying this one. Cheers and thanks for giving such good feedback. Marc

markbkk


see enlarged corner showing the printing dot.

I hope this helps
David

I couldn't have answered your last query better myself and the charts that Ryan has provided sure hit the mark.

One can do a life-time hobby just from the "Small Queen's" stamps alone.

Chimo

Bujutsu

I couldn't have answered your last query better myself and the charts that Ryan has provided sure hit the mark.

One can do a life-time hobby just from the "Small Queen's" stamps alone.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Do you know if the Kiusalas perforation gauge measurements from the above two charts match with those for the same stamps on the Kiusalas chart in "The Unitrade Specialized Catalogue of Canadian Stamps"?

WHAT I BELIEVE YOU HAVE IS AN:
Inland Canada War Tax: FWT29 (3rd series) April, circa 1915.