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Post by jamesw on Aug 1, 2013 2:22:13 GMT
Picked up a pile of these at an estate auction last night. No one else was interested, my gain! In a First Day Cover album were about 48 UX14 postal cards, 9 UX16s, 1 UX17 and 2 UX33d's. All were replay cards, a couple preprinted, to the Globe newspaper (now the Globe and Mail) either ordering or canceling subscriptions. I figure someone must have worked there and hung on to these. A nice mix of post marks...circle squares, small towns, and a few unfortunately very unclear RPOs. I love finding stuff like this! Here's a couple of examples.   |
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Post by jamesw on May 14, 2015 2:42:16 GMT
This has had a lot of views, but no replies, so I'd like to revisit these. Some of you may remember, I won these handily at an estate auction almost two years ago. An album with a goodly number of these cards. Some of you may have bought a few off me. The remaining 29 cards that I kept, I rediscover in one of those boxes of covers the other day. So I decided, in my own nerdy, anal way, to put them in my album. But I was too lazy to print up individual pages so I thought the best solution was vario pages with some description. Turned it into a little Globe (& Mail) Newspaper history lesson, courtesy of our friends as Wikipedia. There are 10 pages (5 2 sided vario pages), but I'll only show you the first four. I've added dates and cancel info and small scans of the backs.     A nice variety of split ring, squared circle, circle date, machine and fancy cancels. The fancy cancels on the two Streetsville cards on page 3 are listed in a book I've got called 'Fancy Cancels on Canadian Stamps 1855 to 1950' by D.M. Lacelle, published by BNAPS in 2000. The cancel was used from September 1897 to March 1898, so these both being canceled on September 1, 1897, I guess these could be considered very early usage. Also the book lists R. Graydon as the postmaster. Robert Graydon has signed the back of the second card as the local agent for the Globe. Brushes with greatness! I gotta get out more! |
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Post by jamesw on May 14, 2015 2:47:35 GMT
I used to have an 1858 edition of the Globe framed and hanging on my wall. A lovely piece of history, talking about Canada's Fathers of Confederation as if they were just around the corner (which I guess they were!). Gave it away in one of our moves, in an attempt to downsize. Well the downsize didn't work, and I regret parting with it. Whatta ya gonna do?
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Post by jamesw on Jan 30, 2016 15:59:54 GMT
Let me also point out that the post mark from the top card on the last page shown above, Almonte Ont. is the birthplace of Dr. James Naismith, the creator of the game of basketball. Just in time for NBA All Star Week!
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