stanley64
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Post by stanley64 on Jun 24, 2023 7:40:51 GMT
It would be interesting to know what the D&S is. I tried search a number of ways with no luck. Strictly curiosity
For the curious, "D&S" references Kenneth M. Day and Evelyn Arthur Smythies for their efforts - Canadian Fancy Cancellations of the 19th Century, a British North America Philatelic Society (BNAPS) handbook.
If the curiousity remains strong, further searching the library may provide the necessary information...
Have fun and happy collecting!
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hdm1950
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What I collect: I collect world wide up to 1965 with several specialty albums added due to volume of material I have acquired. At this point I am focused on Canada and British America. I am always on the lookout for stamps and covers with postmarks from communities in Queens County, Nova Scotia. I do list various goods including stamps occasionally on eBay as hdm50
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Post by hdm1950 on Jun 24, 2023 10:18:36 GMT
It would be interesting to know what the D&S is. I tried search a number of ways with no luck. Strictly curiosity
For the curious, "D&S" references Kenneth M. Day and Evelyn Arthur Smythies for their efforts - Canadian Fancy Cancellations of the 19th Century, a British North America Philatelic Society (BNAPS) handbook.
If the curiousity remains strong, further searching the library may provide the necessary information...
Have fun and happy collecting! Thanks for your input Vince ( stanley64 ). The cover was mailed from Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, a town in the neighbouring county to where Caledonia is. People from North Queens, even to this day, have closer ties to Bridgewater than to Liverpool as it was a bigger market town and about equal travel distance. I bought the cover from Maresch and not surprising they would be using initials for important publications. As you probably know, they deal in the higher end Canadian material.
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renden
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Post by renden on Jul 18, 2023 16:24:03 GMT
A nice series on Cover
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hdm1950
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What I collect: I collect world wide up to 1965 with several specialty albums added due to volume of material I have acquired. At this point I am focused on Canada and British America. I am always on the lookout for stamps and covers with postmarks from communities in Queens County, Nova Scotia. I do list various goods including stamps occasionally on eBay as hdm50
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Post by hdm1950 on Aug 16, 2023 19:36:47 GMT
These 2 covers are recent additions to my Queens County, Nova Scotia covers. I am thankful to Vince ( stanley64) for leading me to these when he saw one of them on a Canadian auction site I was not familiar with. They feature the 1898 Imperial Postage stamps (Unitrade 86). The top one has a very faint North Brookfield April 2, 1899 cancel. The lower one has a better Caledonia Corners September 26, 1899 cancel. I already have examples of both these postmarks but these two are upgrades for sure due to the stamp used.
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stanley64
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What I collect: Canada, USA, Netherlands, Portugal & Colonies, Antarctic Territories and anything that catches my eye...
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Post by stanley64 on Aug 18, 2023 7:17:20 GMT
Nice to see the two covers found a good home and you now have a new auctioneer to follow :-)
If you would like, please send me higher resolution images of the stamps and I would be happy to plate them...
Have fun and happy collecting!
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hdm1950
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Posts: 1,607
What I collect: I collect world wide up to 1965 with several specialty albums added due to volume of material I have acquired. At this point I am focused on Canada and British America. I am always on the lookout for stamps and covers with postmarks from communities in Queens County, Nova Scotia. I do list various goods including stamps occasionally on eBay as hdm50
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Post by hdm1950 on Aug 23, 2023 23:15:05 GMT
I spent a bit of time today putting my covers from Queens County, Nova Scotia in some kind of order and came across this one bought at an in person auction in 2002. This was before I started only buying postal history related to my home county. West La Havre-Ferry is in the neighbouring county. I try to keep reference material on covers I buy at auction and I am glad I did on this one. While reading the description I had left in the envelope I realized that the 1 cent stamp was missing. The good news is that a few months back I saw a 1 cent stamp laying on the floor and placed it in my duplicates book. When I got it out it appeared pretty obvious that it was the one that had fallen off. I saw no harm in gluing it back in place. Huestis is a name that appears in Halifax and St. Paul's Building probably refers to St. Paul's Anglican Church that survived the 1917 Halifax Explosion. It passed through the larger near by town of Bridgewater before arriving in Halifax. The estimate was a bit high and I have the receipt and see I got it for well under. I know I would have bought the cover because of where it was mailed from but the higher estimate was probably due to the noted variant in the middle 2 cent stamp. My 2000 Unitrade does not list a variety with a dot in the upper curve of the 2 on the right but on close inspection it is there in the middle stamp. Possibly newer listings have assigned a number to it.
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hdm1950
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What I collect: I collect world wide up to 1965 with several specialty albums added due to volume of material I have acquired. At this point I am focused on Canada and British America. I am always on the lookout for stamps and covers with postmarks from communities in Queens County, Nova Scotia. I do list various goods including stamps occasionally on eBay as hdm50
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Post by hdm1950 on Sept 5, 2023 17:59:05 GMT
This cover attracted me because of the multiple postmarks. By todays standards it would just be a 15 minute drive but in 1912 I am sure it took a little longer. It left the small village of Port Joli on July 23, 1912 and then stopped at Central Port Mouton that day before heading down to Port Mouton. I presently have better individual covers from each place but it would be rare to find all three on one cover or postcard. Today a text message would have done the trick. The actual postcard is rather generic and typical of the era.
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renden
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Post by renden on Sept 16, 2023 20:55:46 GMT
I bought this one simply for the penmanship. A local piece from the INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY of CANADA to the famous manufacturing company, the RECORD FOUNDRY and MACHINE CO. of Moncton, New Brunswick. The CDS isn't very clear but I'm guessing it's from the 1902-1905 era when they were prospering.
I've included a photo of some of their products that I found online. Rob
Rob this is great - I am not putting my 1894 small Queen 1¢ Moncton cancel cover (shown elsewhere) to tease you/ or compete !!.........but it is so clear (from my late father's collection) - Regards René
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hdm1950
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Posts: 1,607
What I collect: I collect world wide up to 1965 with several specialty albums added due to volume of material I have acquired. At this point I am focused on Canada and British America. I am always on the lookout for stamps and covers with postmarks from communities in Queens County, Nova Scotia. I do list various goods including stamps occasionally on eBay as hdm50
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Post by hdm1950 on Oct 6, 2023 18:04:45 GMT
New to me today is this commercial cover from Maple Leaf Stamp Company of Port Medway, Queens County, Nova Scotia. It was mailed on October 27, 1934 from Port Medway with a Unitrade 197 (possibly 197c Die II) from the 1932 definitive King George V 'Medallion' Issue. Templeville is a small community around the Maryland/Delaware border. It was named after the Temple family. It would appear the recipient was from that family. A few weeks back I shared this incoming cover to Maple Leaf Stamp Company from the Philippines. The search is still on for more information of the owner of the company. I miss my dad at times like this because he would probably have known the company as a young collector in the 1930's.
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hdm1950
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Posts: 1,607
What I collect: I collect world wide up to 1965 with several specialty albums added due to volume of material I have acquired. At this point I am focused on Canada and British America. I am always on the lookout for stamps and covers with postmarks from communities in Queens County, Nova Scotia. I do list various goods including stamps occasionally on eBay as hdm50
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Post by hdm1950 on Dec 21, 2023 23:36:54 GMT
A new addition to my Queens County, Nova Scotia postal history collection arrived. Unitrade 37 3 cent small Queen covers are pretty common but this one is interesting due to the redirection. It was mailed from Halifax September 24, 1874 to Captain William Mortimer, a prominent business man and ship owner in Port Medway. It was forwarded to John N.S. Marshall in Liverpool on September 28, 1874. The philatelic world is indebted to Mr. Marshall because he kept all his envelopes. This makes 8 covers addressed to him I have now. He was also a collector and possibly a part time dealer. The reason for forwarding to a lawyer becomes sadly obvious when I learned that Captain Mortimer had died on March 16, 1874 at the age of 86. Probably Mr. Marshall was the executor or lawyer of the estate. He is buried in the Old Port Medway Cemetery that has a historic site designation now. Hopefully he is still there. Due to ocean erosion several graves fell into the sea in the 1990's. A retaining wall has been added and some graves have been moved. The Captain immigrated from Exeter, England around 1806. One of his clipper ships was called Exeter. He maintained a strong loyalty to England and was a vocal in his stand against Nova Scotia joining confederation. He chaired a committee that petitioned England and Queen Victoria in 1866. This copy was found on line: To the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. THE petition of the people of Queen’s county, in the Province of Nova Scotia, Humbly showeth,— THAT Queen’s county contains a population of 12,000, principally engaged in lumbering, fishing, and navigation; can equip three regiments of enrolled militia, and owns about 15,000 tons of shipping, bearing the flag of England. That the county has sent representatives to the Provincial Parliament for upwards of a century, and its people for more than 25 years have enjoyed the blessings of civil and religious liberty, personal security, and temporal prosperity, under a system of responsible Government, which, modelled after that of England, leaves them nothing to desire but its undisturbed continuance. That they have witnessed with apprehension and regret the efforts of a small party in this Province to unsettle a condition of things which has worked so satisfactorily, by sweeping away their free Constitution, by subjecting this people, their revenues, resources, and independence, to the virtual domination of another Colony, and to the doubtful issue of an experiment known as the “Quebec Scheme of Confederation.” That even were the proposed as likely to be beneficial, as in the judgment of Your Majesty’s petitioners it is certain to be injurious to the best interests of the Maritime Provinces, the means employed to force it upon the country without an appeal to the people, and with full knowledge of their intense dislike of the measure, ought to insure its rejection at the hands of a Sovereign whose ambition it is to live in the affections of her dutiful subjects. The prayer of the people of Queen’s county therefore is, that Your Majesty will be graciously pleased to withhold your Royal Assent from any measure affecting the relations of this Province to the sister Colonies until, by means of a general election, the sentiments of the people of Nova Scotia in reference to this most important subject may be truly reflected in their Legislature. WILLIAM MORTIMER, Chairman. The feelings against joining Canada in Queens County were strong enough that the first person elected to the government of Canada in 1867 was a representative of the Anti-Confederation Party. This person was re-elected in 1871 but as a Liberal so it would appear that those against Canada had accepted the reality that Canada was here to stay.
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hdm1950
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What I collect: I collect world wide up to 1965 with several specialty albums added due to volume of material I have acquired. At this point I am focused on Canada and British America. I am always on the lookout for stamps and covers with postmarks from communities in Queens County, Nova Scotia. I do list various goods including stamps occasionally on eBay as hdm50
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Post by hdm1950 on Mar 20, 2024 18:20:56 GMT
Today's mail brought 2 covers I bid on and won while in Thailand. They are rather ordinary but as a collector of postmarks of Queens County, Nova Scotia they are a happy addition for me. They are both addressed to the same lady with an unusual surname I have not figured out. The first was mailed from Brookfield on June 30, 1922. The Brookfield post office name was changed to South Brookfield on August 1, 1923. The second letter was mailed on September 20, 2023 so not too long after the change. Both appear to have been written by the same person. The 1922 one included a rather long and readable letter from a man that appears to be her boyfriend. The most interesting information was about a family member arriving at the farm with a radio set that was something new to most. Both have a .03 Admiral with the 1922 appearing to be a Unitrade 108ii dark brown wet printing and the 1923 a regular Unitrade 108 brown wet printing.
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