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Post by ncbucki on Dec 30, 2013 16:27:05 GMT
Amongst the material of covers in a lot I received several months ago were 13 postal cards of the 1973 Royal Canadian Mounted Police 1973 Centennial. There are 3 different images, different sizes, and some cards have scalloped edges. Each is mailed from a different post. I have found quite a few cacheted envelopes on the internet, but not the post cards. Questions arise - were these "official" post cards or private? Why the variation? How many different posts were represented? Regardless, I think the 1973 RCMP Centennial makes for an interesting side topical collection for my Canadian material. I have my new all-in-one printer (Christmas present to myself  and will post some example images when I get it set up. |
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Post by I.L.S. on Dec 30, 2013 16:37:10 GMT
Amongst the material of covers in a lot I received several months ago were 13 postal cards of the 1973 Royal Canadian Mounted Police 1973 Centennial. There are 3 different images, different sizes, and some cards have scalloped edges. Each is mailed from a different post. I have found quite a few cacheted envelopes on the internet, but not the post cards. Questions arise - were these "official" post cards or private? Why the variation? How many different posts were represented? Regardless, I think the 1973 RCMP Centennial makes for an interesting side topical collection for my Canadian material. I have my new all-in-one printer (Christmas present to myself and will post some example images when I get it set up. They sound pretty interesting. What do the postmarks read? |
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Post by firstfrog2013 on Dec 30, 2013 16:45:38 GMT
would love to see them.Often thought about specialist collection of Mounted Police as the horse is past it's day.I think it's a hold over from childhood Saturdays Sgt. Preston was on.
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Post by I.L.S. on Dec 30, 2013 17:01:06 GMT
would love to see them.Often thought about specialist collection of Mounted Police as the horse is past it's day.I think it's a hold over from childhood Saturdays Sgt. Preston was on. Or Dudley doright! lol Long story and I'll tell you sometime but I was accosted by a Mountie once and in her office she had a bobble head of -you guessed it! -Dudley DoRight...She knew I was an American/US Citizen and kept looking at that bobblehead like she knew I was going to comment on it...I did not. I knew it was a cleverly disguised trap..lol anyway I went free with no other hassles but I'll never forget that...  I have nothing bad to say about the RCMP in fact I think they they are fine outfit! |
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Post by ncbucki on Dec 31, 2013 14:30:06 GMT
Here are some images and comments. I’ll add these in several posts. There are 5 different images in 3 sizes, A - 3-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches B - 4-2/16 x 5-14/16 inches C - 4-2/16 x 5/15/16 inches IMAGE 1 - 4 Cards      Size A Traveltime Product nbr SS-432A On reverse, states “Photo Courtesy RCMP” IMAGE 2 - 1 Card   Size A Traveltime Product nbr SS-424 |
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Post by ncbucki on Dec 31, 2013 15:19:34 GMT
IMAGE POST 2 IMAGE 3 - 2 Cardas    Size B Traveltime Product nbr KSS-4011B IMAGE 4 - 1 Card   Size C Travel time Product nbr KSS-4011 Compare image 3 and image 4 -  Difference is at the top - also notice (on reverse) that image 4 is nbr KSS-4011 whereas image 3 is nbr KSS-4011B, so image 4 (larger format) came first. Is there also a nbr KSS-4011A for this image?Also notice that image 4 was printed in Vancouver whereas image 3 was printed in Scarborough. So the slight size difference is probably based on where the cards were printed. Attachments:
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Post by ncbucki on Dec 31, 2013 15:51:13 GMT
IMAGE POST 3 IMAGE 5    Size B Traveltime Product nbr KSS-3746A IMAGE 6   Size C Traveltime Product nbr KSS-3746 Notice again that image 6 (slightly larger) was printed in Vancouver whereas image 5 was printed in Scarborough. I think this pretty well confirms that the cards printed in Vancouver are just a hair larger than those printed in Scarborough. |
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Post by ncbucki on Dec 31, 2013 15:53:17 GMT
Or Dudley doright! lol Long story and I'll tell you sometime but I was accosted by a Mountie once and in her office she had a bobble head of -you guessed it! -Dudley DoRight...
I.L.S. - was her name Bullwinkle?
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Post by ncbucki on Dec 31, 2013 18:53:04 GMT
I don't know if the following are part of the 1973 Centennial, they were created at that time. What is interesting are the cancellations - a mix of Cardinal and Roman numerals for the date. Month is Roman numeral whereas the day and year are Cardinal. I am not sure what the numbers "690449" and "690516" represent in the cancellation represent.  |
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Post by jamesw on Jan 1, 2014 1:19:15 GMT
Can't go wrong with Doright!
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Post by I.L.S. on Jan 1, 2014 10:41:50 GMT
Or Dudley doright! lol Long story and I'll tell you sometime but I was accosted by a Mountie once and in her office she had a bobble head of -you guessed it! -Dudley DoRight... I.L.S. - was her name Bullwinkle? No Her Name was Captain Harmer? (Something like that?) She was very intimidating. This happened in 1991 at the peace bridge boarder crossing. ... |
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and will post some example images when I get it set up.
