Viewing my Canadian Stamp Collection: An Informal Walkthrough
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- čas přidán 25. 02. 2024
- We take an informal walk through my Canadian stamps--very little history or technical depth in this one.
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And thank you to Lee for sending me some wonderful Japanese stamps.
Hey there Ken it’s been a while for me to comment. Spent Saturday and Sunday at the San Diego Stamp Show and it didn’t disappoint me. Speaking of Canadian stamps, I picked up the Blue Nose (158) mint , light hinged and the New Foundland Blue Moose (119) mint, light hinged. Purchased @ 25 new stamps for my First Editions Album. What great weekend for me and met alot of nice stamp collectors. Wish you were there. Take care and as always Happy Collecting the other Ken
Great to hear from you -- A blue nose, what a nice thing to get. Beautiful stamp. One of these days, I'd like to see your first editions. Oh, and I love San Diego.
Lovely video once again. Love seeing how you organise your collection and your narrative. The stamp at 14:08 is beautiful with that cancellation. 14:54, beautiful stamps. Interesting what you said that ‘you’d rather have a stamp in your collection then not’ when you mentioned the stamp that was damaged. I didn’t want placeholders, as I think it gives me a wrong impression what I have and what I don’t. Whatever is in my collection should be right. But as I progressed in my stamp collecting, I tend to agree with you. Because some stamps are harder to get and I was both happy and sad to have a stamp that was not easy to get. I love that it has changed my perspective in ‘what my rules’ are. Anyway, hope that made sense and thanks for this video!
That SOTN cancel is nice and clean.
There is a strong school of thought to not put damaged stamps into a collection. That belief can be strongly held. That's okay. There don't seem to be any official stamp collecting police. I do worry sometimes that I have a stamp that looks perfect in the mount with damage that is hard to see. I try to mark those when I put them in. The damage I hate the most is when a used stamp hasn't been cancelled. It looks mint in the album, but isn't.
Hi Ken. What fun! I enjoy Canadian stamps, but I'm biased, being Canadian. 🙂 I quite like modern definitive sets like the handicrafts but they're so small, and cancels often so dark, that the design gets lost.
Regarding the early issues, it may help to think of the early "provinces" as British colonies, since that's what they were in the 1850's. Like your "13 colonies" that became US states, in 1867 several colonies federated into the Dominion of Canada (a country) and became provinces in the new country. We call that Confederation.
It's more complicated in a way because the "Province of Canada" was the big colony and split into Ontario (English, upper Canada, or Canada West) and Quebec (French, lower Canada, Canada East) -- upper and lower refer to the St. Lawrence River, upstream and downstream. Names and configurations kept changing prior to Confederation. If stamps came along in the 1820's you might see Upper Canada and Lower Canada stamps! The French and English settlements changed a lot in colonial times - the history of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia is rife with these conflicts (the Acadian expulsion was a big one, which has connections with Louisiana)
Anyway, PEI decided to go it alone and didn't join in 1867. They joined later. BC and Vancouver Island also joined later. Newfoundland remained a colony until 1949 when they voted to join (at the time, there was a great debate whether to continue to be independent, join Canada or join the US!)
There is a Canadian catalogue (Darnell) that starts numbering Canadian stamps with the Large Queens, and puts the Province of Canada stamps in the back of the book with the other colonial stamps. So you might have a #1 after all! 😊
Wow, so helpful. Thank you
Lovely video Ken! Super organized approach, great guide for many of us following you.
I appreciate that!
Again a great video, Ken. Thanks! Nice to see your collection and it gives a good overview of some Canadian stamps through time periods. I like the Queen bicolour stamps at 22:01, and naturally for me, I really like the fauna and flora stamps. Best wishes!🙂
Thanks Charnie -- I like those flora and fauna stamps too.
I love collecting stamps. Those are some nice nice stamps.
Thanks for watching
Thanks for sharing your collection - always fun to learn about the varieties of these beautiful small Canadian stamps! I love all of the animals on stamps especially the late 1990s/early 2000s wildlife series - I managed to find nice used copies of the grizley and polar bears in local kiloware clippings and got the blue whale during my last visit to Vancouver.
I love big lots. Glad you enjoyed
Yea I also just recently acquired the 10$ whale and absolutely love it! On the selvage it has small scuba divers. Got lucky with that it being used. Great video Ken!
Nice stamp. Thanks
I love old Canada and Canada states stamps 🥰
The designs are great
At around 15:45 you have a KGVI page but the red and orange 4¢ stamps are of KEVIII, who abdicated. They need their own page.
As much as I'd like to find more KEVIII stamps, I just double checked my catalog and it lists these as a color variant of the KGVI stamp. KEVIII needs more stamps for sure!
Interesting and informative as always Ken!
Rightly or wrongly, I think of Stanley Gibbons as specialists in GB philately, Michel as the experts in German postal history, and Scott as the specialist in US stamps. Does Canada have an equivalent publisher?
Thanks again Ken!
Looks like the catalog for Canada is published by Unitrade Associates.
@@KensStampCollection Thanks Ken!
Very informative, thanks for sharing. So you don´t collect Canadian commemorative stamps ?! Greets from GER, U.
Well, no -- I used to collect all stamps, but then found the number of issues overwhelming. I focused down to US regular issues, but when I decided to expand my collection again, I moved on to regular issues from all countries. That pushed all those stamp-abusive countries out of my collection. Now, I'm slowly expanding to early commemoratives from countries that I get a fair amount of. Not Canada quite yet.
I have them
Nice stamps, enjoy!
Showing what you don't have isn't very interesting
I was worried some of that went to slowly. Thank you. I am hopeful that others will feel better about the state of their collections by seeing the gaps in mine.