Let's See Your Classic Stamps on Cover 1851-1951

JeffS there is a slight gap that I saw on the eBay posting. The seller thought I was seeing things and then messaged back that I was correct. He had had the cover in his collection for years and never noticed it. I bought it first for the franking and secondly as a conversation piece. It has certainly become the second. 😁 I am on the
@wert team. It was done so precisely that it appears it was done on purpose. Like Robert says, we will never know why.

An 1899 advertising cover with the 2 cent Imperial Post issue (Scott #86).  A nice flag cancel to boot!  Unfortunately the remains of a red adhesive label (red with zigzag edges) detract a bit, but the couple red numeral markings and the scratched-out pencil-mark "10" kind of pique the curiosity.  



A lot of early Canada material to wade through from an auction lot I've just begun to sort....

My comment since we have many on your covers:
Very nice hdm1950 , for me, since I live in a neighbour Province, New Brunswick.....keep them coming 
Thanks !
René
I wish my dad was still alive -he enjoyed those covers (mostly stampless) so much, for "history" !!

Here's another



The Admiral Beatty Hotel was Saint John's first luxury hotel, located on King Square in the heart of the City's "uptown".  It was built in 1925 and quickly became the hub of business and cultural activities in the City.  It is now a heritage site and has been converted to a seniors residence.  It is next door to the restored Imperial Theatre, one of Canada's finest performing arts centres.

I do not own this cover. It came up on one of my eBay daily email search results. It made me smile. So often we get impressed with the fine cursive writing we find on old covers but there is also the other side of the scale. It is amazing how some of these ever made it to the receiving party. I did a bit of a Google search and came across an orphanage referred to as a sheltering home with a Mrs. Birt operating it at this time. sca-archives.liverpool.ac.uk/Record/131484

The last of my purchases from 2022 arrived in the mail with this little 1939 cover from a small fishing community in my home county of Queens County, Nova Scotia. I was sitting on the beach in Mexico when I learned I had won this one. This area today probably has a population of less than 100 with some that are still working fishermen. Most of my postmarks from these little villages are on postcards because people tend to keep them. I do have a rather plain 'Congratulations' postcard from Eagle Head with a 1908 postmark. When possible I prefer a cover and this one is a bit newer than I like but who knows if an older cover will ever show up for sale. The post office was probably in a private home or a tiny village store. The first post office opened on August 1, 1887 and the last one was closed on July 31, 1959. 





This cover passed through my home town of Liverpool on it's way to Toronto. 



There is a little beach at Eagle Head if one can brave the cold North Atlantic water. This painting of the beach is by Gordon Eastcott Payne, a recognized Canadian artist, who had an ocean front home for several years in the county. I used to sit and watch him paint as a kid because his place in Hunt's Point was on the same beach as my grand parents cottage. I have 2 of his paintings including this one. I still hope to get one of his of our beach.