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TOPICS Vol. II, No. 2 Februa ry, 1948 Whole No. 5e

• CONTENTS • Lettere to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Pre·Adheeive Poetal Hietory and Poetal Marklnge ef Newfoundland. By WlUlam S. & Daniel c. lleycuon . • . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . • • • . • . 24

Looking Here ... Looking There. By R u .. ell Alla on ..•...........••.... • ••• S2

Bringing Newe About .People & Stampe. By Rev. Jobn B. Ba.ln .•• • .• . .••.. 14

Report of the Secretary. Report of the Librarian ............... .... ... IS

Sketchee of BNAPS.re. By V. G. Greene . .. .. .. .. .. • . .. • . • .. • .. . . . .. • .. • • • •

Trail of the Caribou. By Frere~ Meyerson . . . .. .. . . .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. . .. .r Tho Early Georgian Stampe. By ll. W . Cryclerman . . . . . . • . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . 18

Varioue & Sundry. By ~o. E. Foeter • .•... • . •••.•• . .....•• •• • . • ••.••.• . ••• 41

Newfoundland No. 273-le It Etched? By Stephen G. Rich .....•. • . • •• .• •. 41

Index to Canadian Philatelic Magaai-. By R. J. Duncan 42

Rovie-"Canada Ope Poetaeoole." By Gordoo P . Lew a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

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' Canadian Covers

Just putchued a. very large e.ccumula.tlon, dating ba.ck to 1870'1· 1880'41 and through 1930'-' (a few stamplese). Postmarkw galore, var­Ious cancellations, euch as slogans, etc., .somP coils, !llhadee, army cov­ers--few commernol'fi,Uves. Try a. hundred or 110 and enjoy the fun. To clea.r at $1 .00 per 100, po.stage p&ld.

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LETTRRS TO THE EDITOR

Reprint. Win

Dear Sir: In a recent number of BNA TOPICS

(Dec., 1947) our Librarian, llfr. D un­can, .suggested that "Toptcso" should repr int some of the articles on aspects of B. N. A. philately which have ap­peared In other publications In the past, and to this suggestion I would append my vociferous applause.

For Instance, Mr. Duncan ha_, beP.n running a series of Indexes to Canad­ian ma terial in early Canadian stamp publications, which simply whets an a ppetite that o.nly a few literature col­leclol'll such as Duncan, J amieson, and McCready ·ca.n aa.tlsfy. Even today, ar­ticles are being p ublished In f oreign magazines· that the majority of our memberahlp will never aee.

An article printed In a. general mag­a zine Is soon lost whereas B. N. A . collectors presumably save and bind their copies of BNA TOPIC.S so that, whereas ·the original articles are but a faint memory, their reprin tS> In BNA TOPICS will ensure permanency.

T here are just a few "rules" that should be followed. Giving credit t.o th e original sources Is obvious; t he da.te of the orig-Inal source should !Ike­wise be Indicated. The t act -that an ar­ticle may not reflect current Informa­tion and knowledg'e should not Jleces­sarllY be a deterrent to Its republi: a­Uon, but It should be clear that Jt wasn't written yesterday.

Try, though, to .have such articles 'brought up to date, either by the au­thor , It available, or by aomeone com­petent to do the Job. It the article 1s revised, a footnote to that effect should be added to the reprint; In general it would probably be preferable to pub­llsh the original article verbatim, and make amendments by postscript---this rule .should alway<s be followed where the amendments are not the work of the author.

T he Important point 18 that BNA T OPICS could well undertake to save the material ot the past t ha t w ould otherwise be lost.

F. Walter Pollook Tea.neck. N. J .

D ear Sir: I am keenly Interested In the eug­

gestlon that worthwhile articles on B. N. A. be reprinted In BNA TOPICS, and, I want to add m)' "voice" In tav­our of lt.

We have today on the market many excellent digests, I doubt I t anyone takes all the stamp papers and maga­zines published or M>uld wa'llt to do so. Our c lub wO'I'ks within a definite limit, B. N. A. I consider It would In­deed be worthwhile for BNA TOPICS to act In the way of a "digest" ot H. N. A. articles. H spa.ce does not ·1r would not permit the reprint ot them all or In comJ?Iete Corm, then on occa­sion an actual digest could be made ot .some.

Lloyd W. ' sharpe Hamuton, Ont.

EO-You win! As Mr. Sharpe observes. If space permi·ts, I shall obe very pleas­ed to present reprints of articles on B. N. A. (past and present) and, thanks to our Librarian and the pro­ponent of thi·s progr am, Mr. Duncan, I can promise the first "reprint" wlll be the article by Mr. Fred Aitchison referred to by M:r. R. W. T. Lees-

. Jones In his article in the N ovembe1· 1948 BNA T OPICS, " .... whlcb to me was my Bible on Canada-. Later I got a copy of Howes but still the Aitchison article was my guide."

P raise f or our Librar ian

Dear .Sir: Please let me take this opp or tunity

t o publicly pro: la Lm the very evcellen t work of Mr. R. J. Duncan, Librarian, of our Society.

During the past two years Mr. Dun­can has gone out of his way to supply literature on Prince Edward Island In the ma,Jor referen·ces and In addition ·has dug up m any contemporary per­iodicals. Work like t his should be brought to JlgM and given its just reward.

I think during this new y ear that all members should avail themselves o! t he prlvllege of using the Library which CoL R . A.. K imball, Edit or of

T he American P hi latelist describes as being "very fine."

Mr. R. J. Duncan of Armstrong, B. C., deserves .a "Twelve penny black" for ·his untiring efforts to make our ·Society a bigger and better organiza­tion.

Mervyn V. Q uarles Chicago, Ill.

17c N. B. genu inely used

Dear Sir: I think the following might interest

readers of BNA TOPICS. In the Robson Lowe, Inc. sale of the

Langstroth colleiction, held October 23, 1948, in Philadelphia, there was this New Brunswick item which merits . more than just paiSSing attention be­cause of its postal significance. Lot S47 was described as follows: "lc to 17c compl. on 5 covers. lOc cover torn along top. Others fine (6-10, 12)." Ac­tually, the lot consisted. of the follow­lng: (1) the lOc on registered covl!r, 1867; (2) the 12;2c, 1867 St. John to London; the 17c on a cover from St. John to London nicely tied, dates Sept. 14, 1866, and bearing a manuscript "via New York" and the London red "Paid" receiving mark; and, (4) a pair of the 2c orange and 1c lilac making a flve­·cent rate, Memramcook to St. John, Jan. 4, 1868.

In some twenty years of collecting, the writer ·had never seen the 17c gen­uinely used as a single, but this cover was "it"! 'l'he cover con!lrms the fact that bhe 17c was intended .for use on letters bY packet out of New York, as was the 17>c blue Canada. T.he great difference between the Canada 17c and the New Brunswick 17e Is that, In the case of the former, mall s ervice !J.•om New York was more expedient than during t-he wJnter months when the St. Lawrenc·e was frozen. On the othe,r hand, letters from New Brunswick poi.nts would be forwarded overland via New York only when there wa;s ·positive i.nformatlon that delays In pa,cket sailings out of Hallfax would

make the New York route a quicker one. This would occur only 'under ex­ceptional conditjons. A good many covers with a com·b·inatlon of t;he 17c, .2c an:d 1c have lieen seen, but, with one possible exception, , these were all spurious ma.nufactures that .. should · deceive no one but a tyro .•

The 2·c ·also js llttle known on cover, elther as a single , or 'in combination. The presently discussed cover appear­ed perfectly genuine ana' lts date or use was well before t-he Dominion stamp.s were issued on April 1, !868.

I am. sending you · a much longer ar­ticle tha.t I have written on Prince Ed­ward cover valuations.

W. W . Chadbourne Wilmington. DeJa.

ED- Mr. Chad·bourne's article on P. E. I. cover va.Juation.s will be publis hed soon. Watch for lt. . .

Newfoundland Dead-Letter Stam'P

Dear Sir:

Back in February 194&, John Siverte in an article. (p. 17) drew our atten­tion to the f,a,ct that h'ls copy of this stamp showed part of a . watermark which he could not define. As soon as the "Topics" with this lnform·at!on arrived I let a good lunch go cold

· whilst I examined mine and was grat­ified to find tl;lat this copy also show­-ed part of two letters faintly water­marked. I couldn't make them out but passed the stamp on, through a good friend of m1ne, to a philatelist who :s busy with the compilation of a list of paperm-a.kers watermark;s which show on stamps and his verdict is that the part showing is a portion of the words "OLD LIKEN." .A;s this stamp has al­ways been .looked upon as without watermark, 'this probably showed on a comparatively ~mall number · of stamps and It Is therefore of particu­lar Interest.

St anley C. Ca lder Cheshire, England

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Pre-Adhesive Postal History and Postal Markings of Newfoundland

By W ill iam S. &. Daniel C. Meye,..on

(All rlg'hts reserved by Wtlllam S. &, Daniel C. Meyerson)

A monograph on the pre-adhesive covef\8 of a country mu.at of necessitY concern Itself with the Postal History, Postal Rates, and Postal Markings of that country since these subjects are all so closely allled that they cannot be c..onsldered Individually.

Notwithstanding t'he popularity of Newfoundland stamps among presen~ day collectoNI, very little has been written of the early postal 'hl&tory ot thl.s cok>ny. The major contributors to date have been Bertram ,V, H. Poole In his article "Postage .Stamps of Newfoundland," Arnold M. Strange with his articles on "The Postal History of Newfoundland" and "The Internal Postal Routes of Nev.'f.ooundland," •both published In the R egent Stamp Company'& Philat eli1t In November and ~::ember 1940, Winthrop s. Boggs In hl.s book "The Postage Stamps and Postal History of Newfoundland," and the R ev. H. Kirby who de­livered a lecture l>etore the Newfoundland Historical Society on May 5, 1941, on .t'he subjoot of the "Inland Postal History Of Newfoundland"; this last being a.n entirely original researc-h.

Rooently Harry Konwiser and Frank W. Campbell complied "The Canada 1~nd Newfoundland Stampless· Cover Catalog." '.rhl.s catalog,. while It provides a fine coverag-e or Canadian matters, does not offer too much to a student of .the early Postal Hl.story and Boetal Markings of Newfoundland since It only records a few ot the markings.

Thle monograph Is being written beoo.use there are some new fact8 to pre­aent, corrections and additions to be made, and also In t'he hope that It will stimulate Interest and correspondence so that eventually we may present a more rounded and complete picture of this very engra.sslng subject. In the courae of the article we will a-ttempt to combine everything that has been writ­ten to date Into a cohesive unit and we will Include a great deal o! new data D.nd Information, Illustrated by photographs of covers In our own collection and In the oollectlons of various philatell.st18 who have colla;borated to the fullest by !ending their material for .study and examination. It will be remarkably com­vlete as the reference collection Is rather comprehensive.

It iS> not an easy matter to write an autohorlta.tlve piece on the subject as 1-reclous little ot!lcial data Is available. partially ·because Inadequate 1·ecords were kept, but primarily ·because those thlllt were recorded were dispersed o.r went up In !lames during the .succession of fires that swept St. John's during the late Uth century. But for the fortunate accumulation of a ~rubstantlal group of early correspondence whlcb has recently been purcha.sed by us, It Is doubttul whether or not Newfoundland'& pre-adhesive history could have been author itatively r econstructed. ·we m ust be thankful that the envelope as we know It today wa.s not In use In those day.fl, as most of them would surely not have s u rvived to the present day. The letter sbeet then In use wa.s kept for Its contents and has served to supply us with the poeta.l markings and ra,teos that form the ba.sls of this study.

In the .course of t'hls article, pre-adhesive covers are considered as those used prior to Jan. 1, 1857, a nd they oan be :broken down Into four categories.

1. Covers used prior to April 18, 1805, at which time Francis Freellng Esq., Seoret.ary to the General Post Office, London, at the r equest of the Governor, Sir Erasmus Gower, approved the appointment of Simon Solomon as Postmaster of St. John's.

2. Covers used from Apr .. 18. 1805 t o 11WO. at which time the New!oundland Post Office was Incorporated Into tbe Imperial Postal SY8tem with Wllllam Lemon S'Oiomon, son of Simon Solomon, a.s the Postmaater General.

a. Covers uaed !rom 1840 to Oct. 15, 1851, a.t wh ich time "The Act tor the

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Establishment and Regulation of Inland Posts In this Colony,'' prev­Iously passed by the Legislature .on May 31, 1851, went Into effect.

4. C.overs u.sed from Oct. 15, 1851 to Jan. 1, 1857, at which time the fi.r.st adhesive stamps were placed on sale at St. John's and other P ost Of­flees.

HATES and POSTAL MARKINGS PRIOR TO APRIL 18, 1805 Letters are known from Newfoundland as early as •the beginning of the 18th

•.ontury, but they have no ld·cntlfylng m arks other than the s.uper.scrlptlon on the letter .showing that ·the place of origin was at a town in Xewfoundland. Letters to foreign pot·ts w~rc carried between Newfoundland and the addressee out.slde of the Colony hy the simple expedient of handing the letter to the shlp­mast~r of an outward bound vessel scheduled to call at t'he port to which the letter was addt·essed. The cu.stomary foo fot· this service was 1/ payable di­rectly to the shipmaster upon delivery.

Robson Lowe In h is "Hand.struck Postage Stamps of the Empire" does re­cord a cover dated 1764, bearing a handstaroped number "4" and a manuscript 'Paid" In bla<'k. But otber than this one exception the r e.st of the covers seen

and r ecorded from Newfoundland .and used J)rior to April 18, 1805, are all with­o.mt any identifying marks whatsoever.

POSTAL HISTORY 1805·1840 1806 however marks the beginning of the Post Office sy.stem In Newfound­

land, slruce early In that yeu.t· Gov. Sir Erasmus Gower r equested of ];rancls i"reellng, EsQ., Secretary to the Genera! Post Office, L.ondon, that a. Post Office be opened at St. Jo'hn's and also advised him that he had appointed Simon Sol· omon u.s the Postma.ste r. In a letter dated Apr. 18, 180·5, Frcellng approved the appointment of .Simon Solomon as Postmaster but advised at the same time that he could not as yet include ::-rewfoundland Into the British P ostal System. However, the Lond·on General Post Office did agree to provide a bag for letters addre&sed to Newfoundland and send It to Ila.lifa.x, N. S., by reg ular mail pa.ck­t;t. It would then be forwarded to St. J ohn's by the first sa.lling vessel plying between those two ports.

FOREIGN RATES 1805 At this time the otflclal rates for mailing between L ondon and St. John's

wet'e 1/3 when sen t by packe t to Halifax and 8d when sent by private vessel. Very little mall was handled In either manner as the people sending the mall preferred to hand their letters dlre<:tly to the Captain of a sb!p that had St. John'.s as one .of his ports-of-call . The Captains were only too g lad to co­operate as they collected one or two pence from the addresllee for every letter ~ey delivered.

LOCAL RATES 1807 At this time virtually the entire economy of tho Island was confined t.o flsh ­

:ng and as a result all of the sett1em1mts were established on tbe Coasts or Bays. Therefore, It became n ecessary to provide some means of exchanging letters between .St. J ohn's and the settleml'nts on Conception Bay such as Brigus, Car­~noor, Harbor Grace, etc. (see Map). Boggs states that by 1807, one could fo nvard le tters to these setllements by local ~Sailing vessels at the rate of 1/ per letter. At the same time 'he dt'lllws the Interesting commentary that It was <.:heaper to send a letter from St. John's to H a lifax than It was to the outports sin . e the rate to Ha!lrax was 9d per single Letter as compared to 1/ to one of the seltlcments on Conception Bay.

l<'lrst mention anywhere of any r ('munet\'l.tlon for :\ir. Solomon Is made in e letter wlrtten ·by J ohn U ollowa.y, Esq., VIce-Admiral of the Red, Governor .md Commander-in-Chief over tbe Taland of Newfoundland and 1ts Dependen­cies, on Oct. 24, 1809, from Fort Townsend, St. John's. In this letter he writes, ''I do hereby authorize Mr. Solomon to pay at the rate or one penny p er letter

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to the master or other pers<m of any vessel who may bring letters to this island and deJiv.er t'hem to his care rut the Post ·Office, St. John's, and I also authorize ltlm to ·demand two pence for every letter he delfvers from his office for his own tr-ouble."

Fortunately for ::v.Ir. Solomon he wa,s a watchmaker and jeweller by trade .and wasn't required to subsist on his meagre postal earnings. As a ma-tter of l'aot, it was not until 1826 that the revenue received by him for his duties as Postmaster was ,s ufficient to enable him to give up his dual role and devote himself exclusively to the pos,tal affaire of the country.

CONCEPTION BAY PACKETS &. COURIERS 1822-1840 Very little Is known of the, early packet services which served the Concep­

tion Bay a,rea. .The usual proceedure was to send ·the mall overland from St. · John's to Portugal Cove from whence it was carried across the bay to the set­~lements on the Western Shore by whatever means available. Kirby advises that on Nov. 13, 1822, James ::\eary at Portugal Cove advertised the packet boat "Lively" bi-weekly from Portugal Cove to Hu rbor Grace. The cost of carrying a let•ter ·On the packet was 9d. Kirby states that ~the most famous Hax>bor Grace packet was the "Express," commanded by Capt. Robert Oke, which started service about Aug. 25, 1825, and was finally lost in a storm at Portugal Cove on Jan. 11, 1842. The "Express" was rebuilt, or a new boat cany!ng the sa.me name was put into service, as we have seen numerous oovers carried bY the "Express" pacl{et used du·rlng the lart.e 1840's. In ad'<lltion, we have reoo.rd of at least three other packets:

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Fig. 1 the "Zephyr" (Fig. 1) , commanded by Capt. George Volsey, ft'O!J1 which we have :s.een three letter .sheets dated July 26,, 1832, Aug. 3, 1832, and Aug. 16, 18'32.

::h e "Dolphin" (Fig. 2), from which we have also sMn three letter sheets, two of which were dated Sept. 12, 18·32 and Nov. 7, 1832 respectively, the· tliir{i com­pletes the story of the Ill-fated "Dolphin" whlch came to an untimely end on .Apr. 28, 1833, as per letter sheet (Fig. 3).

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Fig. 3 ·that bears the manuscriJ>t notation "Received t he 17th May, 18•33 with 12 Proc­lamations wet. These papers picked up from the cutter 'Dolphin' ln Portugal Cove. Said cutter lost 23rd April 1833."

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All these sheets, Including those carried by the "Express" ( Fig. 5), bear no Identifying marke other than the manuscript notations put on by the addreasee up on receipt ot the letter sheets.

The earliest record of any mn.ll carried by a packet boat that we •ha.ve seen Is a letter s heet written J an. s. 1826 and reeelved Jan. 18, U26 ( Fig. !1). Kirby goes on to say that a.e a rule these packets were laid up during the winter months and smaller boats were used In the service. Apparently Shep­pard owned a smaller boat and was engaged to carry the mall wohen the

larger ships wl're unable to make the passage a.s ls Indicated by the receiving notation on the letter sheet dated Mar. 24, 1884 ( F ig. 7).

Fig. 7 H1s postman was evidently Mr. Hatcher. When conditione were too bad

for even such small boats as Sheppar-d's, recourse was had to delivery by cour­:er overland as shown by lllustre.ted letter sheet dated Mar. 9, 1838 ( Fig. 8) .

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There was evidently a service between St. John's and Carbonear on at least one occasion during March 1837 as we have two lett-er sheets dated Moar. 13 ·and Mar. 15, 1837,. that bear the manuscript notation, "Reed 22nd Mar 1837 per Carbr postman" (Fig. 11).

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Fig. 11 One can only assume !rom the shred of evidence offered that t'he letter,g

leaving St. John's and addressed to Harbor Grace were taken overland to Por­tugal Cove, placed on the packet to Carbones.r and .finally brought to Harbor Grace by the Ca.rbonear postman. Another possibility may be that the letter was carried entirely overland around Conception Bay to Canbonear with lnter­medlrute st<Jps at Brtgus and Harbor Grace.

ln addition to the aforementioned, we lllustra.te other letter sheets th-at In­dicate that frequently the malls were sent through the medium or Special Mes­&en{!'ers or private Individua ls such as Curtis ( F ig. 12), Honol'!l.ble J udge des Ba.rres ( F ig, 13) , Je.mes McDonald ( F ig. 14), and Capt. Drledale ( F ig. 15) .

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It is possible that these men whom we term Special Messengers might con-15eivably have been the Captains or owners of some of the packets such as the ''Express,'' "Dolphin," "Zephyr" or "Dispatch," •and that upon occasion their names were used Interchangeably with those of the packets that they owned or p!lcned.

(to be continued)

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Russell Allison

·Philately, Journal of the British Fllllatelic Association, Ltd., Is published every two months at 3 Berner& Street, London W. 1. The November-December issue contains an article describing a dangerous Canadian Forgery of the $a Diamond Jubilee stamp together with illustrations. This forgery was detected l.Jy means of a new photographic process using electrons which filters out the cancel. This picture was originally produced without the medium of a camera; the finished print appearing directly on the specially prepared paper by a pro­cess of electrical bomJbardment of electron particles. This is the only magazine that uses this process and the second time this process was used by Philate ly.

The P hilatelic J ournal of Great Britain for July-September reports ·two new ·varieties in Canada. A water.marked copy of the 'he 1868- 72 issue is reportedly without t·he "Bothwell Clutha l\:11lls" or the "Pirie & Sons" watermark. The other variety is a re-entry on the 15c of the 1868-72 issue. The re-entry con­flists of a doubling of the line over the letters "POS" of POSTAGE. The stamp is of the dull red-purple shade. The position on the plate is reportedly #1. This journal is published by P. L. Pemberton & Sons Ltd., Corn Exchange Bldg., Leominster, Great Britain.

The Postal Cancellation Society's official organ Cancellations has a -check Hst of cancellations and slogans from 1946-48 in their December issue. Mention .s also made of the discontinuance of the 8c and the 17c special delivery Air­mail because of small public demand. Information about the Society may be .Hecured from the editor, Hershel E. Rankin, 92.7 N. Highland .St.,. Memphis 12, Tenn.

Excerpts from the "FIOST OFFICE WEEKLY BULLETIN" issued weekly by the Canadian Post Office Department. NEW POST OFFICES:

Ansnorvelt, Ontario, 13th December Briggar Ridge, New Brunswick, 13th December (reopened) Legresley, New Brunswick, 26th Novein-ber River Hills, Manitoba, 6th December

Similarity in pos.t of!!ces names: .St. Paschal Bayton, Ontati.o and Paschal Bayton, Quebec.

W>Oodhouse, Ontari.o, Is now served by R. P. 0. No. 2 Simcoe, Ontario, now no longer a post oftlce.

The po,st office bulletins also Jist schedules of ocean mall service with ports of departure and destination, along with the vessel's name. Unfortunately, the schedules are not listed far enough in advance to be of any value when this magazine is distributed.

The Pottstown Stamp Club will hold i·ts 11th Annua,J Philatelic Exhibition m the Odd Fellows Building, Pottstown, Pa., on April 1, 2 & &rd. A copy of tbe prospe~ctus may be obtained from the exhibition secreta-ry, Mr. Chester Math .. -ws, 58 Beech St., Pottstown, Pa. In the past this ,Society has been represented­will we be this year?

The International London Stamp Exhibition will be held May 13th, 19i>O. 'l'h!s will be the first exhibition held in London in twenty-seven years. It will be held in ·the Grear Hall at Grosvenor House, Park Lane. The main exhibits will feature only 1,100 frames and the Court of Honor another 100. This wm 11u0 .w nearly 20,000 album pages to be exhibited. The distance that a visitor

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will walk to make a . "once around" tour of the exhibition will be nearly a m!le. Already an overflow of dealer reservations ha ve been received bY the committee.

Don'•t forget your loved ones around Valentine time. Send your cards from Valentine, Nebraska. Each year the postmaster has a red heart-sh·ape cachet tllat is applied to each envelope. The only requirements are that the cards bea.r no postage so thM the postmaster receives credit. Just send a postal note to cover cost of postage. Remember yours :by .sending ca.rds from Valentine, Nebraska.

Mr. Clement Ernst Is ba.ck with aP arti: le on "Canadian First Fllghts" In the January 8th Weekly Philatelic Gossip. This article IS' prompted by a former article on fl·r..st fllghts of the VIctoria-Vancouver airmail flight. He then goes on to relate some historical a nd geographical facts about Canada. ln .thLs same !ssue, E. R. Vanderhoof has llsted some varieties of the Law Stamps o! 18•64. 'l'he periods in the s'hields are in different places. 'Several positions are men­tioned.

Before I f<>xget I'd bet.ter mention that the Imperf Map stamps mentioned .last month a.re the scarce lavender shade and ncn. the common blue sha.de.

In last m onth's BNA 'l'OPICS, there was mention of the series of artlclee in the Philatelist entitled, "Notes on Postal History of Canada from 1760 to Con­federation In 1867." Be sure to write Mr. R. J. Duncan, our Society Librarian, and ask him to send the October, November, and December issues. Much o~ the Informati-on .contained In this series o.f. articles is original and never been published in any other .stamp periodical.

Our Society Library is "loaded" wltb articles and books relating to a ny collecta:ble group of BNA. All these books and articles are available for the ·COSt of forwarding and <retur n postage. Do yourself a favo.r and write to Mr. Duncan TODAY. · This Is ·your Library- you're helping build f.t, so why not u10e it.

I have notices of three auctions this month whicb contain BNA material. Feb. 7- Equitable ,Stamp Co.,. 505 5th Ave., N. Y. 18, N. Y. •Feb. 10, 11, 1-4, 15-Edson Fifield, 500 5th Ave., N. Y. 17, N . Y. Feb. 15, 16, 17~Max Pool, 41 West 86th St., N. Y. 24, N. Y.

Prices realized on BN'A stamps: .i.'tobson Lowe-December 11th-Canada 1932, 6 on 5.c triple surcharge, mint

block of 4- $170.00. November 24th-British Columbia 1863, a cover franked with blue POST

OFFICE-VIOTORIA, U. I., handstamp with Coat of Axm.s In c.entell'--­$66.00

Vahan Mozian-December 18-1'6th-Canada, pair #133 mint coil- $7 .50. Newfoundland 1929, #161, 3 on 6c gray-black, type I, o.g., very tlne­$107.00. Gilberts, 1-32c, o.g., v.f.-$1'6.

Harmer, Ro<>ke-December 15-16th- Canada 1927 Confedere.tlon, l -12c Special De'livery, Imperf pairs, mlnt-$70.00. 1929, 1c-1.00 !mperf horizontal palrs-$140.{)0.

Complete lists of prlce..s realized in the above mentioned sales can be ob­~ ta.lned (rom me. Return postage appreciated.

!Ken. Mlnuse reports that Winthrop ·S. Boggs as guest speaker at the J a n. ~(}th meeting of -the N. Y. Group provided a very Interesting evening with an 11-lustrated lecture exi>laining the methods used by ·the EXl)ert Committee o! the Philatelic Foundation to examine stamps for opinion. Mr. Boggs then favored the meeting with a dLszusslon of British Columbia stamps by means of an al­bum of these stamps w1tich showed va,rious numeral cancellations, postmarks a.nd rates on .covers. A "superb" showing.

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BRINGING NfWS ABOUT PfOPLf & STAMPS By REV. JOHN S. BAlN

'!'he current Canadian coil stamp~:~ with the new perforation 9% were de­livered to the Postage Stamp Division. Ottawa, on the following dates during 1948:

1c preca.ncelled . . . . . . April 1 1e ........... . ....... July 13 2c . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . October 1 3e ........•...... ..... July 2 4e •••••••••••••••••• July 22

Tbe manufacture ot per! 8 coils has been discontinued, and the p ert 9¥.! made to facilitate' separation ln stamp veuding machines. Coli stamps aro manu!a.ctured ln rolls ot 500. The roll is then examined for defective stamp3, which aro removed, and the roll past­ed together by hand to make a full roll of 500. Note that this makes paste- up Pairs still possible to obtain.

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BNAPSer Walter Bayley, and Pres­Ident of tho Toronto .Stamp Club, does It again with his unique phllatellc Christmas cards. For 1948 he sent out a reproduction ot a 1889-90 T oronto Letter Carriers greeting eard. In those days each pos tman lett a greeting card at eac·h place to which they (1e .. llvl!red mall, and these eards earrled their Christmas and New Year's greet­ings. On t he inside. p ostal Informa­tion was given. BNAPSor Bayley haa a complete collection ot these cardg from 1885-1892. H would ·be pleasell t~ hear from other collectors who have I!Uoh cards In order tha.t a com plete J,stlng may be made. I trust that Bay­ley will favour TOPICS with an ar­ticle on these cards, together with re­-productions.

BNAPS The grape-vine gives forth som e ru­

mours from Ottawa regarding the NeWfoundland commemoration set. This set wm have four or five values. Because of the debate of the Canada­Newfoundland Confederation In the Canadian and British Parliaments, It Ia possible that details of any new stamps will not be announced until early March, which does not leave m o1ch Ume for arrangements for Firat

Day covers from St. John's. It would not be surpr:lslng to s ee the lower three values have in some way the popular designs of Newfoundland stamps, such as the cod-flsh, seal or caribou, and the top values coat-of-arms, or New­foundland added to a confederation map similar to Canada, Scott #146. We'll see.

BNAPS ·w ·hlle this item Is not B. N. A., 1t

Is too good to pass np. Going thrOU6h some old correspondcnce, I came across a letterhead of the Centennial Inter­national Rhilatellc Exhibition, 19 17, held in New York, and this phrase nf the letter caught my eye, "Hanging Committee, Ellllot Perry, deputy." I thought, more truth than poetry. There are pbllatellc executions you know, In more ways than one.

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Here are some Items I E.'njoy re­porting. Member E. L .' Hill or VIctoria. B. C., celebrated (and this Is some­thing to celebrate) his 85th birthday last fal l! You celebrate them, Mr. Hill. and 1'11 report them.

Lucky Dan Meyerson was recently married to a most charming woman. Congratulations. May your married life be as happy as your philatelic writings a1·e good.

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I've been informed that a Supel·in­tendant or the Postage Stamp Division of the Canadian Post Office has been confirmed to fill the V'acancy cau-sad 'bY the death of the late A. Stanley Deavllle. I may have more detailed Information to present next month.

11AMBALO" ALBUM 36 lb. 50% rag content pages. Complete $5. 00, plus postage.

Write for further details.

THE AMBAI.O CO. 209 E. Court Ka.nka.kee, Ill.

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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY NEW MEMBERS

540 Davis, Bernard, 1520· Spruce Street, Philadelphia 2, Pa. o4l Foy·e, Arthur S ., 159 R!verbend Street, Athol, :VIass. 542 Shimp, Morton M., 432 E. Tulpehocken Street, Philadelphia 44, Pa.

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543 \Vwt.son, Maj. Robert M., 4451 W·estern Avenue, Westmount, Que., Canada

APPLICATLOXS FO·R MEMiBERSiHIP Calder, J. A., 71 Roxborough Apts., Laurier Av., Ottawa., Ont., Canada (C) CAN,

NIFD, N . s.,. N. B.- 19th & 2.(}th centu:ry m int & used postage and blocks. R. R., flag, 2 & 4 ring numeral cancellations. Proposed by R. J. Duncan, No.

, 3'7 . . Seconded ,by W. F. B. Martin, No. 155. Chambers, Joseph, 116 Vernon St., Nelson, B. c., Canada (DC) Proposed by R.

J. Duncan, No. 37. Eggertson, 'l'homas R., Box 247, "VVynyard, Sask., Canada (CX) CAN, NF'I5--19th

& 20th century used pos·tage. lst day & 1st flight co·ver.s. Used booklet panes and coli pairs. l..ise'CI airmails. Proposed by R. A. Allison, No. 520.

Meschter, Daniel Y., Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H. (C) CA:-l, NFD, PRE­Mint & used postage. ProP9sed by E. Mcschter, Jr., No. 437.

Nielson, Paul A., 1 Park Ave., :\l.a.nh!tsset, :-r. Y. (CX) C'AN, NF·D- 19th & 20th century mint & used postage a nd mint blocl<s. P.roposed by J. Levine, No. 1.

CHANGE OF ADDRESS ' Campbell, Frank ·w., 1112 Pinehurst, Royal Oak, Mich. Lamson, Roger W., 39 Gould St., Stoneham, Mass•. Quarles, M-ervyn V., 8200 S. Ellis, Chicago 19, Ill. Smith, K. M., 337 McDougal .St., Fostoria, Ohio (from W. Alexander, Pa.)

RESIGNAT'!ONS RECEIVED 347· Cerat, AdoJphe, 59)(} DeKo·rmandville, Montreal, Que., Canada 505 Keen, J. F., 6446. Churchill St., Vancouver, B. C., Can·ada 123 Mlller, :VIichae l,. 26 S. Calvert St., BaHimo!fe, Md. 174 MacDowell, Norah J., 354 Co~e St. Antoine Rd., ·westmount, Que., Canada 425 VanBwskirk, Dr. L. H., 683 E. Broad St., C:olumbus, Ohio 459 Weddup, Arthur, .Sicamous, B. C., Ganada 4~6 Weyrauch, Paul H., 341 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor, Mich.

RESIGNATIONS ACCEPTED Banyai, Arpad, Parkwood ::.Vfanor B-'302, Bywood, P.a. Gurry, J. F., 40 St. Michel St., Quebec, Que., Canada Kearns, '\VI!ft•id :\f., 196 \~'!!shire Rd., R-ocbester, N. Y. ::\'eedham, Richard M ., P. 0. Box 181, Pataskala, Ohio Williams, Richard F., 218 Inwood Ave., Upper Montclair, N. J.

REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN I am pleas-ed to r eport that 155 members made loans from the Library dur­

ing 1948-an ln•orease of 33 users over tohe previous year. '!' his Is very gratify­mg. I invite .all members .to enjoy ·the advantages provided ·by the wide scope ( f material available to them from the Library.

I w ish to gratefulJy acl<nowledge a nd thank the following members for thek C::onations of material to the Library during 1948:

J. R. Barraclough. K. B!leski, B. C. Binks, N. S. Bond, F. Bricker, F. W. Oampbell, R. .J. Duncan, V. G. Greene, J. H. Harrison, J. LeVine, K. Min.use, H. L. Paine, :F. vV. Pollock, M. V. Quarles and R. R. Sm!.th.

Statement-January 1, 1948 to December 31, 1948 Cred it

Debit Balance Jan. 1, 1948 ..................... . ......... . lte()eived from 'l'reasury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . $4(}. oo· Oash Donations . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .. 2. 00 Rentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1. 75 Purchases - Books, magazines, etc. . ...... . ................... . Supplies, Printing, etc. . ... . . . . . .. . ..... . ................ . . ......... . .Postage ......................................................... .

Credit Balance Dec. 31, 1948 R. J. Duncan, Librarian $43.75

Deb it $6.36

9.00 10 .. 00 15.24 3.15

$43.75

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SKETCHES of

BNAPSers By V. G. Greene

JACK L EVINE

The subject or this sketch, Mr. Jack Levine, wM born In Brooklyn, N . Y., on March 19, 1908. He was married ln 1930 and has a daughter of seventeen who Is equally as attractive and charming as her mother. A manufac­turer of ladles wearing apparel, 'le st111 lives In the town In w h ich he was born.

Mr. Levine Is the founder of the British ~orth America Philatelic So­dety and Is our member number One. In l-943 he realized · there was no .So­ciety In the U. S. devoted entirely to the study of B. N. A. stamps so wi th characteristic energy, he went about forming one. The early years · were "tough" and without his help, finan­cial and otherwise, th e Society mlg!lt have foundered before It really got started. Happily, those days are long since passed and the B. N. A. P. S. Is now well establlshed on a tlrm toot­Ing.

Atter concentrating on a world-wide eollectlon, Mr. Levine converted his Interests entirely to Canada, a lways a favourite with <him. He has an out­standing Canadian Revenue and Pre­cancel collection and believes 1.hat these two branches of Canadian phil­ately h ave been overlooked by the av­erage B. N. A. collector. He points out that some of the revenue stamps arc the most beautiful ever engraved In Canada and are r un or pbllatellc In­terest tor the speclallst. His study of the First Issue Alberta. Law Stamps

appeared In an early Issue of B:SA TOPICS.

Mr. Levine is a member Of the Roy­al Philatelic Society of London, the Canadian Philatelic Society and the American Philatelic Society. One of his ambitions Is to see the B. N. A. P. ,S. with a membership of one thous­and, and If we all possessed the ener­gy our secretary has, t he goal would soon be reached!

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FLASH ! We have just been advised that no Newfoundland will be sold at the Office of the Trade Commis­sioner for Newfoundland after Feb. 2gth. No additional supplies are ex­pected, and all material on hand will be sold, first come first served, until that date. It is our 'belief that the present smaH sup.ply wm be sold out before the 18th, •so It behooves you to order your material In a hur:ry. T.he addre88 is &20 Fifth Ave., N. Y., N. Y.

We welcome correspondence on mat­ters concerning Newfoundland even more now than we did in the past. About 8 months ago we received a letter from England from Major Jr. w. Staff, BNAPS #899, concerning a marking on a N ew!oundland stamp­less cover In his possession. Although Maj. Staff had seen a considerable number of Newfoundland pre-stamp and stampless covers (having hand!.;d the "Hunt" correspondence) he wlshed to khow about a handstruck ·black 1/ mark on a cover sent from St. John's to Montreal and dated Nov. 11, 1858. We wrote we had never seen a hand­.struck black 1/ mark although we . hii.d seen several In manuscript form. When Maj. Staff replied to our letter commenting on the evident scarcity of this hanctstruck marking, we bestirred ourselves and looked through the "Ga­den" corresP'OOldence that we had pur­chased several years ag6. Sure enough, In going through what we had ihoug'?:tt were manuscript ma·rkings, we found a perfect example of the handstrick 1/ mark, but ours was in red a'S it was a prepaid letter. The cover bears the red St. John's-Newfoundland-Pald circular strike and a black Harbor Grace circular postmark, botii dated May 13, 1862. We are indebted to Maj. ,Staff for stimulating us Into finding an item among our duplicates that we probably would have disposed of un­wittingly but for his letter.

BNAPSer Ken. M'muse, # •67, writes to Inquire when ·reg-istered ma.:ll was first used in Newfoundland. R~tered mall wa.s b881lll Apr. 1,

18<58, and the Instructions iesued to the Postmasters were as follows: 8d currency local letters, 6d sterl!ng Un­Ited Kingdom or British Colonies. Let­ters for British possessions or forel·sn countries passing through the United Kingdom liable to a further charge. The Postmaste-r General did not guar­antee safe delivery but held Poatma.s­ters responsible for the mall and re­quired· anyone In neglect of duty on this point to make good: any los·s that wa-s sustained thereby.

TABLE OF FINES

Omission to enter on letter blll a registered Jetter • . . . . . . . . . • • 10/

Omission to enclose a registered letter Jn a green cover . . . . . . • &/

Misdirection of a green cover en­closing a registered lette:r . . . 2/6.

To each missending of a registered letter . . . . . . . . . . . . • • . . . . . . . . . . %/8

We owe an asalst to Re'il'. Kirby on this subject. We found the answer to Minuse's question among some mater­ia l s ent us in the past by the good Reverand.

BNAPSer Geo. s. John.son, #218, asks us to thr·ow some light on the perforations of certain Newfoundland stamps reterring specifically to the Gilbert issue and the 2c Guy lnue .

Scott refers to two perforations In the Gilberts, 13lh and 14. From the way they are listed one would assume the entire set is found in both perfs but such is not the ca.se. After more than 6 years of assiduous checking we can report that although tbe entire set is found comb perf 13~, only the 7, 9, 10, 14, 20, 24 and 82c values are found line perf 14. Several other col­lectors who have worked on these per­foratrons independently have all comG to the .same conclusion so It appears quite definite that only the values listed wlll be found perf 14. The pert 14 Is also the rarer of the two perfs and .should be collected in blockll whe!rever possible to show that It Ia line perf.

The 2c Gut issue of 1910 Is l!sted bY Scott as· existing Jn two perfs, 12 and 12x14. In addition Winthrop s. Boggs in his book on Newfoundland 'lists s. tblrd perforation. 12x lllh. The Jast variety Is by far the scarocest.

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The Early Georgian Stamps By M. W. Cryderman

Ed'W'IU'd VII died on May G. 1910, but the Canadian Poll!lt Of'flce Department did not Immediately arrange for a new Issue of stamps bearing the portrait of the new King. This was due to the Impending explra.tlon of the contract with the American Bank Note Co. In 1912 as It was felt that a more advanta.g.eous contract could be obtained ·by wa.itlng for a. while. Some modltlcatlon In the rate was obtained, ·a reduction !rom 9c to 8.7c per thousand for the 1 and 2> cent values, and from 20c to 18c for the postage dues. The other rates r emained un­changed. The fll'st stamp of the new Issue was released on Dec. 22, 1911.

T.he design shows George V In the uniform or an Admiral of the Fleet, rae­log left, with the words CANADA POSTAGE In the oval band above, and a crown In each upper spandrel. The lower corners contain the tib"Ur~ of value m colour on a whtte background with the denomination In capitals between the numeral boxes.

The die was engraved by Robert Savage, one of the great engravers of the Ume. The American Bank Note Co., which became the Canadian Bank Note Co. In 19·23, printed the stamps !rom plates of hardened steel, 100, 200 or 400 &ubjects to the plate, though a.il sheets were divided into post ottlce size of 100 stamps.

''£he "Admiral Type" Issue was current from Dec. 22, 1911 till the Scroll Is­sue was released in 1928. Various dltflcultles, due> to wartime crises and ma.ke­shltte, reeuJted In complications. A master dle without the numerals and word11 of value was engraved. From this seven working dies were taken by means of a transfer roll. To each of these working dies the numerals a nd words of value of the respective denominations were added. 'Vhen needed, ad­dl:tlonal working dies, or new dies for new values, were made. Transfer rolls were ·then made from ea.ch of the working dies. These transfer rolls were u sed to lay down the plates. Proof of t'he use of a master die Is shown by the con­stant distance of the crowns in the upper spandrels trom the vertical lines of the spandrels. The lett crown t<>uchetl the line In all cases whUe the right one ts well clear of the line. New dies were made for the 1c and 3c In 1924. Die I, the original of 1911, can be dl&ttngulsbed quite readily from Die II in a number or way.s. In tbe case of the lc, the numerals of value have very slight serifs out in D1e II are rather strongly serlfed. In Die I the letter ONE or THREE of the denomination of value Ia well clear of the medallion above but In Die II there is very little clelll!'ance. The letterlng of Die I Is sllg,htly smaller than that of Die ll The word CENT or CENTS is closer to the bottom frame line In Die Jl than It is In D ie I. The differences are constant and cannot be expla.ined by the vagaries of Inking, plate wear, ch'l'omlum plating and paper shrln·kiage. The dies of the 2c and 20.C were worked over and new t'l'ansf&r rolls were made from the new diet!. In the 2c, the new Die l b Is easily distinguished from the original Die Ia by •a position do-t near the left hand corner opposite the numeral 2, and by a slight extension of the bottom frame line In the lower right corner. .Die Ib ts round in the 2c green only. The re-worked die of the 20c can be dlsttng­uished by the strengthening vertical border lines of the uppe'l' spandrels. There is a definite strengthentng of the vertical lines bounding the horizontal lines of the upper spandrels In certain positions of the 6c blue and violet, and or the 7c olive b!stre. H has not been ascertained whether this Is due to retouching the die before laying down new r eliefs on the transfer roll or possibly to tam­pering wtth the tran8'!er roll Itself.

The Imprint on these sheetle consisted of OTTAWA NO . ...... , and' varied :n position and type. The other letter.s found there llll'e the private marks or <'odM or the Cana dian Bank Not.e Co. and have no phllateJ1c significance.

On the bottom of some of the plates a band of engine turning was entered to belp the pressman In the detection of plate wear. Since the plates were ellg;htly curved and this part of the plate came Into contact with the paper first and hardest, it was here that the signs of wear were first apparent, Thua the

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plate was discarded before the wear actually spread to the first row or eta.mpe. W-Ith the Introduction of chrome plating In 1927, this method of detecting plate wear became obsolete, partly because the hardness or the chrome prevented wear and partly because the chrome plating would flake or chip before it became worn, and: would be replated.

Re-entries are remark8ibly few. T hose that exist were due to er>ror s made In laying down the plate, since It would be far simpler and more economlce.J to make a new plate than to soften the old one, then straighten, burnish, re-enter, re-curve and harden ll. A doubling of the lower part of the lc gr een and a dash of colour In the right numeral tablet of the 3c carmine have been reported. Halrllnes are found on the tc and 2c values. These are due to min ute craclal that appeared in the plato while It was being curved. When used, •these cracks would fill with ink and would be printed on the paper along with the design. They are always horizontal as would be expected If due to the stt·ess of bein g curved to fit Into t·he p;rees. On the whole It 181 r ema r kable that so few pl&te varieties exist when one considers the number of plates used for this issue a nd the enormous quamtltles of stamps printed from them.

In 19<23 stamps began to make their appearance in a clearer cut style, In which the Ink was deeper and more glossy. This was found to be the case with both wet and dry printing and It took place several years before the Introduc ­tion of chrome plating of the plate. InveaUgatlon Indicated that either the 'Plates or the dies bad •been etched to deepen badly cut or worn Jines. It Is more roasonable to assume that thfs was done to the plates as t he dlo could have been CO<l'lvo.niently retouched as was done In the case of the· 2c and 20c,, and perha ps others, o.r a new die could have been made a.s with the lc and 3c. Moreover when a defective entering on the plate was obtained because of tine linea on Lhe transfer roll breaking oft, It was the practl~e of the Bank Note Co. to deepen tho defective lines by cutting or etching the plate. Further, comparison of the 1923 stamps with stamps definitely known to have been produced !rom etched platCtJ, Indicates a strong possibility that etching was resorted to In this "Case. To accomplish this the p.rlnters would apply a varnish to the surface that they wished to protect and use acid to eat at the lines they wished to deepen. In the Cl\.lle o! the 5c, 7c and perhaps the lOc, differences difficult to reconcile with the theory 'Of one master die could be due to the etching of the plates.

On Aug. 24, U27, chrome plating was aPPlied, to plate& 224, 226, and 226 of the 2c and subsequently to others. The object was to further harden the pla tes .. !nee chrome Is one of the hardest metals known. Thls was done by the electro­lytle method. The plating was 3/10,000 of an inch thick. T his exceptionally hard surface did not wear but occasionally would crack or chip, When observed, 'the chrome plating would ·be removed bY reversing the electrolytic process and 1 e-applled. Theoretically the application of the chrome plating would narrow the width of t he recesses In the plate ·SO thwt less Ink would be applied to the 4tamp, which would •therefore be of a lighter shade than f·ormerly. All t he plates we.re destroyed Nov. 14, 1928.

The printing was done with flat plates, so-called to distinguish them trom rotary pr8.86 plates. ActuaJly they were slightly curved.

The paper used was a m edium ·thick, white wove. Early printings were on ~lightly moist paper. This was the cause of slight variation In the dimensions vf the early printings. In the paper making process, there Is a tenden~y of the rtbre.e to •align themselves with the flow of the pulp. T hen when the paper Is moistened before printing, the fibres expand. The longitudinal expansion of the fibres Is practically nil. !Such expansion as ther e is, Is laterally. Th us the alignment of the fibr611 or the gra.ln of the papeT determines whether there w ill l'e an appreciable expansion of the paper and In W·hat direction. The Impression of the design is received in this expanded condition. When the paper dries and shrinks, either the height ()!' the width of the design will be smaller than the de­sign on the plate. This Is due to the shrinking of the paper. U the paper was fed Into the press so that the grain was parallel to the vertical lines of the de­sign, 'the stamp would be narrow. It It was fed Into the press so that the grain wa.s at right angles to ·the vertical lines of the design, the stamp would be s hor t .

In December 19'22 the u11e of dry, pre-gummed paper was introduced to compete with the ,Stickney Rotary Preas being used by the United S'ta!telil' Bureau of- En­grl\v:ing & Printing, which could turn out stamps much more quickly, The dry paper was first used for the ·ac ·brown and gradually extended to all denomln!l-­tlons. By January 19•26, the use of the moist paper metnod had been completely e.bandioned. T he 2.c green and 5c violet are found; on thin paper. TJlls was not an eJtPerlmen>tal printing. It was due to the accidental use of paper not up to specificat-Ion. TJte 1c green has been reported on tnin, hard, greyish paper, evidently from one sheet, as all are postmarked Swifl Current or cab>ri, Sask., within a period of t wo or three months. ·

The gum varies in colour and texture until 19-26 when the wet paper method Qf prlnt!n.g was abanqpnoo.. After the use of pre-gummed paper was adopted, the gum became un>lform, smooth, even and yellowish.

The 1c ·stamps were found In shades of green, yellow green and blue green,. a.nd after June 7, 1922, In shades of yellow and orange yellow. The ·2c varle>d from light carmine to dark carmine and! shades of rose Ted and cherry red. After 1922 It was seen In green shades. The SIC stamp appeared In shades of •brown and, after 19~2. In s'hades of carmine. T he colour of the 4c varied from llght olive through olive yellow to golden yellow. Previous to 19·22· the 6c stamp wa.s printed in three shades, pale blue, blue and Indigo, and In violet thereafter. The shades of the 7c were numerous, running from pale olive yellow to yeJ.low ochre and blstre. In 1824 rt appe;,wed in a rich, red brown. The 8c came out In 1925 and was in blue. The lOc stamp appeared first In plum or brown purple and h!as been reported In reddish purple. In 1922 the colour was changed to blue and In 1925 when the 8c appeared In blue, the colour of the 10c was changed tp bl:stre brown of which there were many shades. The &hades of the 20c ran frQJll deep olive green and olive tP,rough olive green and pale olive green. First printings <lf the SOle rv·.ere in bla ek. The wet paper method produced denser &hades than the dry paper method. Later p r intings were tinged with brown or eepia.. The $1. 00 w.Iue was in orange and deep orange. The· 1922 colour chang­es were maJd·e to conform to the regulations of thE} Universal POIS>tal Union. These Tequire that the stamp for domestic postage sJtall be red ·and that the stamp prepaying the rate to other countries in the U. P. U. shall be blue. After the confusion of the 2c plus l ,c tax period, it was decided tha;t the domestic rate of postage would be 3c and t;he 3c stamp was accordingly printed· In red. The 10oc s~amp was changed to blue ..since .that was the rate to other countt'lles In ·the U. P. U. W-hen the rate was lowered to lk In 1925<, the 8c stamp was print­ed In blue and the lOc in blstre brown.

(to be continued)

ED-Next mon•th'e Installment of Mr. Cryderman's series will consider the coll stamp, the controversial w·ar Tax stamps, the lmperlorate 1, 2 & 3c &tamps, and the part-perfp.rated 1, 2 & 3c stamps.

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I have been .searching around re­cently to see what I could find out about the "no denomination'• Canada Weights and Measures revenue stamp. ·Putting a question to Mr. Nelson Bond, I received a very fine and cour­teous letter from that gentleman, and with h!SI permission, am quot:lng a couple of paragraphs.

"The problem of the vermillion, no denomination Weights and Measures stamp Is a ve~atious one without .... a wholly satisfactory solution.

"To begin with, no used copy of this 'stamp• has even been ooen by me, nor have inquiries of many scores 'Jf Interested collectors of revenues en­abled me to find one who had ev3r seen a used copy. On the other band, copies found In albums carry the blue .controls of the 1895 reissue, and seem in all other ways to be valid em!s­.slons of the government •... albeit a careful scansion of the arcbiv~s de­tec:ts no reason why there should have existed a need for a special stamp with no denomination, the presumal)le pul'JX).Se of whi-ch should have been ·o dispose of 'odd cents' items In ;;he rate scale."

Wh~ the Province of New Bruns­wick was erected, Wllllam Franklin, the son of Benjamin, was a seeker for the appointment as Govennor. W!lllam was the last royal governor of New Jersey and remained a loyalist ad! of his life. When he wa.s forced from the governorship of New .Tersey by the revolution, the British gave him a pension of £800 per year.

!Speaking of governoi'lB, J. H. Man­ners Sutton, t'he governor of New Brunswick at the time of the Connell <ruckus, left New Brunswick In 1864 to assume the go've~nor.sh!p of Trini­dad.

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Newfoundland No. 273: The 10c 1937 Is It Etched?

Examining the Newfoundland 1937 pictorials, a rather striking difference .between the character of the work on the l·()c-the long dusky brown "Sal­mon" stamp-and the other values o~

the series was- apparent, showing on several eoples, used and •UnUBed, ob­tained from different sources. Every oopy of the lOc showed thu:s: none of the other value& did.

T'he general "rough" appearance ot the stamp is conspicuous, a.s compa.red with the other values.

Under the magnifying glaBS, t'he lines of the design show none of tbe smoothness C'haracterlstic of line-en­graving. They fall equally to show the characteristic string-of-beads ef­fect typical of all forms of lithography, nor the uniform thickness of typo­graphed: stamps.

'£here are two .possibilitieS> left. 'l'hls .stamp may be done by rotogra­

vure. Ro.to without screening, as used for the ls Union of South Africa 1932. produced a somewhat similar effect.

It may be from a die mad·e byetcb­lng, from which transfers were made and a plate laid: down: by usual slde­rog.raphic processes.

The latter hypothesis ooems more reasonable. Characteristic etched-line features show everywhere (see Eaaay­·Proof J ourna l, July 1946, p. 155). We do not know of the firm ot Dlokln.son, producers of these stamllS, as user.s of rotogravure.

Can any rea.der turnlffh definite !n­foJ·ma.tlon?

Stephon G. Rich

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Index to Canadian Philatelic Magazines By R. J . Duncan

ST A MP COLLECTOR'S EX~HANGE CLU B MAGAZINE

Volume I, No. 1 to Volume V, Ko. 5 publtshed by N. C. Ca rmlchaeJ a t Sea­forth and Sarnla, Ont. Volume VI, No. 6 to current pu•b lished a t Toron to by J . K . Ma.oRor y, P ublished six times a yerur. 6x9, colour ed paper wrappers.

Vol. I, No. 1 April 19<35. Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Vol. II , No. 1 April -May 1936. Nos. 2, 8, 4, 5, 6. Vol. Ill, No. 1 April-May 1937. Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Vol. IV, No. 1 April-May 1938. No.s. 2, 8, 4, 5, 6. Vol. V, N o. 1 J''llly-Augu•st 1939. Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Vol. VI, No. 1 .Tan.-·Feb. 1941. Nos. 2, 8, 4, 5, 6. Vol. V II , No. 1 :F'eb. -J\.Iarch 1942. Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Vol. V III, No. 1 May-June 1943. Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Vol. IX, No. 1 May-June 1944. Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Vol. X, No. 1 May-June 1945. Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

1 Vol. XI, No. 1 May-J'Une 1946. NOIS. 2. 3,. 4, 5, 6.

Each number contains a list of new members of t he Stamp Collector's Ex~ ch ange Club. For a short period, the magazine was t he officia l organ of the Cana dian P.hilatelic .Society. Vol. I, No. 1 Incor por ated the Philatelic Bulleti n of Seaforth, Ont.

BNA CONTENT S Canada's Rarest Stamp Vol. I, No. 2. Canadian T ips (R. A. Bond) Vol. I, Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Vol. II, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

Vol. III,. Nos. 1 -6. Vol. IV, Nos. 1; 2, 3, 4. Vol. IX, No. 6. Canadia n Small Cents Issue (R. S. Mason) Vol. I, N os. 4, 5. Quant ities of Canad ian Stamps Vol. 1. No. 4. Vol. IX, No. 5. T he W eeping Princess (R. S. Mason) Vol. I, N o. 6. Canadian P recancels (P. A. Landry) Vo·l. I, No. 6. Vol. II, Nos. 1- 6. Vol. III,

Nos. 1-6. Vol. IV, No. 1. Vol. IX, No. 5. Our F irst Issue (R. ,s. Mason) Vol. II, Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Canadian Stamp&-Odd ly Perforated Vol. II, No. 1. T he Victorian J ubilee Issue (R. s. Mason) Vol. I II, No. 1. Revenue Dept. Vol. II, No. 6. VQl. III, Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6. Vol. liV, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4. T he Maple Leaf Issue 1897 (R. S. Mason) Vol. III, No·. 2. T he Numeral Issue 1898 (R. S. Mason) Vol. I II, Nos. 3, 4. Canada for the Specia list (R. S . MasQn) Vol. I ll, Nos. 5, 6. Vol. IV, Nos. 1- 6.

Vol. VI, Nos. 1-6. Vol. VII, Nos. 1-6. Vol. VIII, Nos. 1, 2, 3. Vol. IX, Nos. 5, 6. Vol. X , N os . 1, 2, 3.

Canad ian Air Mail Rar ity (Belanger) Vol. IV, No. 5. The Blonde Flyer (Belanger ) Vol. IV , N o. 6. Canadian Postal Stationery (R. A. O'Dell) Vol. III, N o. 5. Vol. IV, Nos. 1, 6. Heckler's Overprint Vol. I V, No. 6. Canadian Stamps in Warti me (R. S. Mason) Vol. V, N o. 6. Canadian 'Phi la t elic Jourhalism Vol. V, No. 6. r he Canadian P late Varieties Vol. VI, N os. 1, 2, 3. Canadian P recancels (E. Goodale) Vol. VI, N o. 2. Canada 0. H. M. S . (Belanger) Vol. VI, N o. 6. Vol. IX, No . . 5. Changes in Newfoundland 2c and 3c (Hiscock) Vol. VI, No. 6. Bluenose Vol. VIII, N o. 3. P oatmarks (R. S. Mason ) Vol. VIII, N os. 4, 5, 6. Vol. IX, Nos. 1, 2. Revenues (Bill Stamp) Vol. Vlll, N o. 4. Canadian Excise Stamps (C. Armstrong) Vol. IX, No. 3. Newfoundland Iss ue (Belanger) Vol. IX, No. 4. Canada &. Newfoundland (R. Dufort) Vol. IX, No. 5. Canada 1930-31 D ie I &. Die II (Belanger) Vol. IX, N o. 5. Hamilton Pr ecancels (H. G. Woalburn) Vol. IX, No. 5. • I

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Hairline Variety on 14 cent War Stamp Vol. IX. No. 6. The Re .. on Why (Belanger) Vol. IX, No. 6. Vol. X, ~os. 1, 2, 6. Know Your Airmai ls (L. A. Papointe) Vol. IX. No. 6. Auction of J. Watson Yuile Canada Vol. IX, No. 6. 1852 Poat Office Data (F. W. Campbell) Vol. X, No. 1. Canada P recancels (King Tut) Vol. X. No. 2. Pioneer ·Poatmarks (R. S. Mason) Vol. X, Nos. 4, 5. Prince Edward laland Notes (M. W. Cr·ydcrmlliil) Vol. X, Nos. 4, 5. Canada P recancels (G. H . \'Valburn) Vol. X, Nos. 5, 6. Vol. XI, Nos. 1-6. Maps (R. S. Mason) Vol. X, No. G. Vol. XI, Nos. 1, 2>, The Connell Stamp (M. W. Cryderman) Vol. X, No. 6. Canadian Varieties Vol. X, No. 6. T he Canadian Reve nooer Vol. XI, Nos. 1, 2, 6. The Royal William Vol. XI, No. 1. Early Newfou ndland not Demonetized (H. Clark) Vol. XI, No. 1. The Maple Leaf Issue 1897 Vol. XI, Xo. 1. The Canadian Twelve Pence Black (M. W. Cryderman) Vol. XI, No. 2. The Riel Essay (.M. W. Cryderman) Vol. XI, No. 3. The Labrador Labels (:\f. W. Cryderman) Vol. XI, No. 4. Twelve Pence Black Vol. XI, No. 4. Error in Canada 17c Special Delivery Vol. XI, No. 4. Canada'• 1897 Jubilee Stamps (1\1. \'V. Cryderman) Vol. XI, No. 5. Exciae Tobacco Revenues (C. Armstrong) Vol. XI, No. 6. Canadian Semi -Official Airs (M. vV'. Cryderm9Jil) Vol. XI, No. 6.

Review: CANADA OP POSTZEGELS, by M. J. Van H eerdt-Kolrf, F.R.P.S.L. (48 pp.)

"Canada op P ostzegels" (Canada on Postage Stamps) is a protusely-lllus­trated 48-page booklet printed in Dutch and published during the past year by M. J. Van Heerdt-'Koltf, of Baam, Holland. In the foreword to his Interesting treatise Mr·. Van H eerdt-Kolft points out that previous to World War II Can­ada was a land of which the people of the Netherlands knew little. But they became inJCreas1ngly aware of the existence of this far-of,f country In the New World when Princess Juliana and her chlldren aoug'ht refuge In Canad'a.'s cap­Ital olty of O-ttawa during the wat\ and even more so when Cana.<flan troops played such an outstanding role In the llberatlon of their country rrom the Nazl·s towaords the end of the war. In fact, the author has dedlcMed hie book to "our Canadian liberators."

The subject matter of the book traces the histor y and geography or Can­ada from the time of iis dlscovet·y by Eric the Red and his son. Lelf Ericson, the ha.rdy Xorse explorc't's of the lOth Century, Mr . Van Heerdt-Kol(t borrowing several etampe o! Iceland to lllustrate this part or his narrative. He continues .h!s ~:Ptudy or Canada on postage stamps bY chapters on the following subjects: Colonization o! the 'Country, end o! French rule and the beginning or British rule. Cnnadlnn political figures, conts-o!-arms o! the country and provinces, the development of the country through !arming, flsll:erles, forestry and mining resources, and the growth of manu!actur·lng as a factor ·In tho young nation. Other chapters deal with the stamps of the Canadian provinces, tho growth or the postal ae-rvlce In the colony, momber'IS of the RoY'al F a mily pictured on Canadian stamps, and closes with references to the Royal Canadian Mounted Pollee, and the part played by the Canadian war effort in the liberation of the NetherlandJs.

The book contains no less than 95 Illustrations of stamps, Including four or leeJa,nd, four or Newfoundland and one or <the French colony or .St. Pierre at Mlquelon which the author uses to convey to readers ln his own language the colorful history shown on the stamps of Canada.

-Gordon 'P. Lewia

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WIANTED-N~U'ND'LWD ON­LY. Wholesale sources of supply, <tlso good singles on 20 day approval. Ken­neth Mlnuse, 1236 Grand Concourse, Ne'w York 56, N. Y.

WANTEJD - Newfoundland 5c Blue, rouletted Seal, S-cott #40. Used pairs, strips or blocks. Dan C. Meyerson, 765 Eastern P·arkway, Brooklyn 13, N. Y.

CANA·DIAN PIJA.TE BLO'CKS-elnce 1912>7. Wante-d to buy or exchange.- T. B. Higginson, p.tnch, Ont., Canada. ·(10)

I collect Canad•a only-'For s ·ale or Ex­change-Stationery; B. C. Laws; Plate Nos; Flag Cancels. C. B. D. Garrett. Box 512, Cranbrook, B. C.

WANTED- Very fine used copies­NEWjFOUN!DLAND # ·2·5- CANADA #1, #8, #12, #20. Paul A. Nielson, 1 Park Ave., Manhaaset, N. Y.

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1928 FINE CANADA 1928 SC ROLL AND PICT ORIAL · P·late Unused

149 1c orange ................. . Block Block Single

(8) ' .7•5 $ .24 $ .o.& 160 2c gree-n .................• (8) .851 .12 .03 161 3c carmine ..•........•.... (8) 5.00 1.60 .40 :5% 4-c blatre .................. . (8) 1.75 .6~ .15 !53 5c deep violet ............. . (8) 1.00 .32 .08 154 8c blue ...•...••..•...•.... (8) 2. 5~ • 80' • 20 161 lOc Mt. Hurd • •...•.• , .•••• (8) 1 .15 .60 .15 158 12c Quebec Bridge ..•.••..• (6) 2.25 1.00 .25 167 20c Reaper ...........••... (6) 2 . 50 1.~ .30 168 50c Bluenose .............. . (6) 3~ . 00 17.00 4.25 169 $1 Parliament ..•.......... (6) 100.00 46.00 11.5~

149·69 1c·$1, complete ........... . 150.00 86.00 16.50 1928 COILS

Joint Pal.r Pair 161> 161

lc orange . . • . . . . . • . . • . . . . . • . . . . . • . 60' • 5& 2c green .. . . .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. . .. . .50 .40

1930 LEAF AND PICTORIAL 182 1c orange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 .12' 162a 1c re-ent'l'y In right "1" . . . . • . . . . . 1.50 163 1c green, d·le T.I • .. .. • .. .. • .. .. .. • .40 .24 163b lc green, die I • .. .. .. . .. .. • .. . .. . .40 . 24 163d lc re-entry In right "1" . . . . . . . . . . 1.50 163e 1c pale yellow green . . . . . . . . . . • . . 2.00 164 2c green . .. .. . .. .. .. . .. .. . • .. .. . .. .20 .12 161) 2c red, die n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 .12 1668. 2c red, die I • • .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. • . • Z6 .16 166 2c brown, die II .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .35 .16 166b 2c brown, die I .................. 1.00 .80 166e 2c pale yellow brown .. .. . .. .. .. . 6. 00 4 . 00 167 3<: deep red .. .. .. . .. .. .. . .. . .. • .. • .40 .20 1'68 4c hlstre .. . .. . .. . .. .. . • .. .. • .. . .. 1.00' .60 169 5c violet flat plate .. .. • .. . .. • .. • .. .50 .82. 169$. 5c violet rota.'l'y .. .. . .. .. .. .. . . . . .. .50 .32 170 6oc dull blue .. .. . .. .. .. . .. . . .. .. .. . 500 .32 17·0a. 5c milky blue ..................... 1.35. 1.00 171 8c dark b-lue ...................... 1.60 1.00 172 8c ora.nge . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . • • • • . . . . • 1. oo . 48 173 10c Library .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1.%5 .60 17 4 12c Quebec CltaJdel .. .. .. . . .. .. .. . . 1. 00 . 72 175 20c lfarveater .............•....•. 2.75 1.80 :76 50c Grand Pre .................... 55.00 44.00 177 $1 Mt. Cavell .................... 2-6.001 17.00 162·71 1c·•1, 16 val'. oomplete . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . • 84.00

1930 COILS, Perf. 8 Vel't. Line Pair Pa.lr

178 1c orange . .. .. . .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .... .12 .08 179 1c goreen • .. • .. .. .. .. • .. .. • .. . • .. .. .15 .10 180 2c dull green . .. • .. .. .. .. . . .. . . .. . .15 .10 180& · 2c "Cockeyed King" .............. 2.50 181 2c deep red . . . . . . . . • • • • • . • • • . • • . • . • 21 .u 181& 2c "Cockeyed King" • . • • • . . • • . • . • 3. 00 182 21c brown • ... . . • • . • • • • . • • • . . • • • • • . • • • :11 .14 182& 2c "Cockeyed King" . . . . • • • • • . • • . 1.60'

·Single .%5 .20

.03 1.25

.0'6

.06 1.25

.50

.08

.03

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.05

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.25 :zs .12 .15 .18 .45

11.00 4.25

11.00

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1.26

1930 Used

Block Single $ .08 $ .02

.08 .oz 1.00' .25 .ao .01 .16 .(14 .4() .09 .zo .oa .55 . 13 .601 .14

4.50' .90 12.501 2.00 18.50 3 .50

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