$10 Blue Whale

Question:

Why are these Press sheets so popular ? And are all Canada Press sheets sell-outs ?

Great Britain issued a very special Press sheet in limited quantities for the London 2010 Festival of Stamps in Tete-Beche and it never sold well. one can still but it from Royal Mail.
Just trying to make a comparison.

Thoughts anyone?

Londonbus1

Well this particular one was a limited edition signed and numbered. Only 1000 where made.

As for the other press sheets, some of the are also still availlable with Canada Post.

Was was the quantity issued on the GB press sheet you're talking of?

The quantity of the London 2010 Accession Tete-Beche Press sheet was 2010 !
It is the first T-B Press sheet ever issued by Royal Mail. Indeed, very few Tete-Beche issues of any kind have ever been issued in Great Britain. Which is why I was quite surprised it was not popular.

https://goscf.com/t/8381&SearchTerm...al,of,stamps

Londonbus1....Oh! The memories

My Blue Whale is still feeding on the red krill
but the diver must be nearly out of air by now.

What a treasure for my special collection
is my beautiful Blue Whale.

Well, first page priced at 485$ did not sell.

I had mine CTO'd, with a very nice Fort William strike.

CANADA's Blue Whale stamp
2010-10-04 [FDC Oct. 4, 2010]

The $10 blue whale stamp, Scott™ #2405, (detail below, from a postally registered, used first-day cover) is currently Canada's biggest definitive, in value and size, of any stamp ever issued by Canada Post.

Previously, Canada's $8 grizzly bear issue [1997] held that distinction. The $10 blue whale stamp is double the length of the grizzly bear stamp.

The blue whale stamp was produced using intaglio and silkscreen for the whale and offset lithography for the colours in the background. At the time (2010) the intaglio process was recently reinvented using a new, state-of-the-art laser engraving technology. Master engraver, Jorge Peral, is credited for having engraved the image of the whale for Canada Post. Well done.