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

Today's post will deal with the remaining aspects of this issue that were not covered in my first two detailed posts. Postal Stationery The postal stationery products available for this issue are reasonably extensive for an issue that saw less than 5 years use, and includes: Pre-stamped envelopes. Special order envelopes. Post bands. Air Letters Post Cards I will briefly discuss each of these in more detail. Pre-Stamped Envelopes During the life of this issue, both #8 and #10 sized envelopes were available that came pre-stamped with either a 3c purple, 4c red or 5c blue image of the basic stamp design. However, there were differences both in the appearance of the Queen's hair, as well as the size of the stamp design. The very first printings of these from 1963 to 1966 had the hair showing as a series of dots. There appears at the present time, to be only one size of stamp design for the 3c and 5c values, but the 4c value is found with both 24mm x 21...

Today's post continues my discussion of the Cameo issue, and will explore the following aspects of this issue: Plate blocks. Booklet panes and complete booklets. Cello paqs and miniature panes. Coil stamps. Official stamps. Plate Blocks Inscription Blocks This is the first issue printed by the Canadian Bank Note Company in many years for which no order numbers appear on any block, nor do any position dots appear on any of the plate blocks that I have seen. However, I have come across blank blocks of the 5c that occasionally show a position dot in the lower selvage. I haven't seen any, but it is possible that some of the blocks may exist with re-entries in the inscriptions themselves. As for the layout and placement of the inscriptions themselves, the inscriptions consist of "Canadian Bank Note Co. Limited" and "Ottawa No. 1" in two lines of text that are centered with respect to one another. On the 1c through 5c, the inscriptions appe...