How are these Canadian issues described

Yes, those would be from the edge (or corner) of the sheet, which for stamps like that issue - were printed without selvedge. Thus the corner ones would be least common, only 4 per sheet.

Unitrade Catalogue 2020 makes not mention of varieties without perfs. Printed in panes of 50.  I think I found an explanation.

Scott # 484

see text that is in the current catalogue.




 There May be other stamps out there like this.

David

To the original question, I simply describe them as you've suggested already, 'straight edged'.

Funny you're bringing this topic up today, just last night I were actually creating custom pages for housing straight edged 'varieties'. I'm doing this for the definitives only though, starting from the Admiral's and planning to stop at the Centennials.

Worth noting that some of the earlier definitives were also issued in booklets, which were also 'straight edged'. Because of this, the regular straight edged stamps might easily be confused for being the more sought after booklet singles. Supposedly they can be separated by looking at the cleaniness of the straight edge. Booklet singles will have clean-cut edges (like imperf stamps), whilst the regular stamps will have more rough edges as the result of the panes being separated by a rather coarse/worn guillotine. This was rather easy to identify for the Admiral's but can't say for later issues yet. Hope this is the case for later issues as well. (?)

I include spaces on my pages for the booklet singles (4 different) and 'regular' straight edged versions (8 different) side by side.

I read somewhere that the straight edged admirals were in the centre of the sheet 400 stamps which divided the sheet into 4 parts of 100 blaamand

nikhil - thanks, that same website have been extensively visited already - valuable reference

Excellent - there are some weird collectors that can take care of those orphans, just send them to me and they will be loved 

BTW..This is a Scott 484 and your posts are 484...Neat eh..??

Haha, I like your humour philatelia! 

...and I agree with you all    I'm keeping only fully-perf copies in my 'basic' collection, as they are obviously nicer. Just find it interesting to take care of the 'orphans' as well, so keeping them as a side-collection.

Haha, sorry Rene, you know I am terrible at Messenger....will send you pm

I kind of like the Canadian straight-edge stamps, also view them as "varieties". Never thought of collecting them, an intriguing idea for Canada issues, something I might take up - perhaps when done with upgrading my MH to MNH for Canada post-1900.

Way to go! Once you get going, it will easily be more than a page or two, I have 6 pages for the Admiral's only - and love it! Good luck

if you look at my thread Wanted More Dead Than Alive under Canada you will find my ten year(so far) mission to collect these crazy straight edge admiral stamps.The two straight edge corner stamps are very elusive and while years ago I would have rejected them today I realize how unique they truly are and I guess you'd say rare.Think about the fact that out of every 400 stamp sheet only one of each corner appears.