Canadian Philately - The Stamps and Postal History of Canada 1851 to Present by Brixton Chrome

Today's post will be the first of the New Year, and will deal with the last three integral booklets that were printed by the British American Bank Note Company, for this issue, being the 25c, 50c and $1 booklets that contained the 8c slate Parliamentary Library together with various quantities of the 6c transportation and 1c Northern Lights and Dog team. This combination of stamps allowed the user to make up the 8c domestic rate, the 6c third class rate, the 10c U.S rate, and 15c airmail rate. These later two rates would have been the main use for the 1c stamps that were included in each booklet. The experiment conducted in Toronto with the 50c booklets was a clear success, and so it was decided to make 50c booklets a permanent addition to Canada Post's repertoire.

The main reason why I chose to deal with these booklets in one post is their complexity. In addition to the usual complications arising from paper fluorescence, cover fluorescence and counting marks, there are four…

Today's post will be my last post for 2017, as I need to take a few days off over Christmas and spend some time doing something other than studying stamps! However, I will try to make it a fairly meaty post, to give you lots of material to consider over the holidays. Today's post will examine all of the remaining booklets other than those containing the 8c Parliamentary Library stamp. Those will be covered in my first post of the New Year. Unfortunately, there is one booklet that I will discuss today that I do not have an illustration of: the 6c black booklet pane of 25, perf. 12.5 x 12. I had ordered one last week, specifically so that I would have it to scan and include an image of here today, but it hasn't arrived yet. However, I will update this post with an image, as soon as it does.

The booklets to be examined today will fall into two groups:


The OPAL booklet, produced by the Canadian Bank Note Company in October 1970 and, The booklets produced by the BABNC that were…