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

Today's post is the last to deal with the 1c value from this series, and will look at the booklet stamps that were printed by the BABN between 1971 and 1973, and perforated 12.5 x 12.

There were 6 booklets issued during this period that are listed in both Unitrade and McCann, which contained 1c stamps:


BK66, which was a 25c booklet that contained three 7c stamps. The single 1c stamp included in this booklet was located at the top right of the booklet pane. Consequently, it always has a straight edge on the right side. All of these booklet panes had PVA gum only. This booklet was issued on June 30, 1971.BK67, which was a $1 booklet that contained twelve 7c stamps, four 3c stamps and four 1c stamps to make up the $1. It was also issued on June 30, 1971, but curiously it was issued with dextrose gum only. So all stamps from this booklet have dextrose gum and they are the only booklet stamps with this perforation to have dextrose gum. The four 1c stamps were located at the top of the …

Today, I am going to look at the booklet stamps printed by BABN that were comb perforated 10 x 10, that were issued starting in September 1968, as well as the booklet stamps that were printed by CBN and line perforated 11.85, 11.95 and compound. These were made available concurrently with the sheet stamps, starting on February 8, 1967.

The CBN Booklet Stamps

The 1c booklet stamps printed by CBN were only issued as part of the 25c red and white booklets that were issued between February 8, 1967 when the set was first released and September 1968 when the next 25c booklet containing 4c and 1c stamps replaced it. Consequently, all of the booklet stamps exist only with dextrose gum. Since the stamps were only printed between 1967 and 1968, they would all have been printed from plate 1 and 2.

Papers

The papers employed to print these stamps is similar to that used for the sheet stamps, with some differences:


On nearly all of the panes and singles that I examined, I could see a very thin surfa…

I am compelled to write a post today after an exchange that occurred on Facebook, that left me so angry I just have to speak out. It happened after I commented on a post in a stamp collecting Facebook group. A collector had written about how disheartened he was with the hobby because he couldn't get reasonable offers from dealers or collectors for scarce stamps that he had. He gave examples: a US #1 he said he couldn't get $90 for, a complete set of NH mint 1897 Diamond Jubilee stamps from Canada - nobody was willing to give him more than $400. Sure, he didn't specify what the condition of the stamps was, but a VG set of the Jubilees in NH mint still catalogues at least $4,500 and is worth at a minimum of $1,000-$1,500. So I don't blame him.

What enraged me was the steady din of well meaning but ignorant comments from collectors and dealers alike who were trotting out the same tired lie: catalogue values are meaningless and the real market value of stamps is only 10-3…