Canadian Provinces - Prince Edward Island

My new first page with the addition of #1,#2,and #3.Still alot of minor numbers to look for.(sigh)

How 'bout a couple P.E.I. imperfs?

How about 'em, indeed!  Wow, Frog, that is some seriously cool material right there.  Like David (dgdecker), I have also never seen these before, and never really looked closely enough at the catalogue listings to notice that these stamps existed imperforate.

So, just out of curiosity, I took a look in my 2008 Scott Classic Specialized Catalogue, and these PEI imperfs, listed and valued mostly as pairs, are not inexpensive items (CV around $100 for each pair).  I like the fact that you got margin copies to boot, which sort of adds to their authenticity as imperforate.

Anyway, I realize that this is mainly just an "ooh-and-ahh" post by me, but I am just really glad to see a great post from you to brighten the day for all of us, and just wanted to say so!

Prince Edward Island Mini-Collection

Inspired by firstfrog2013, Londonbus1, and BC, I have decided to post my meager PEI holdings.  In relative terms, I suppose that the good news is that I was able to add a few of these stamps from my acquisitions here in Aix, from the 19th Century album pages that I bought.

I have combined those recent acquisitions with what I already had to give the resulting group below.  These are Scott #4-10, 13, 15-16.  It's a bit of a motley crew, but I like these issues quite well, so I am planning to upgrade and improve the overall group, and I will post new images when I do.

BG very important to measure perfs on those.  See the other posts in the thread.  I've become intensely interested in acquiring the plate proofs.  I passed on a nice lot of six and haven't seen such a lot offered again.

Bravo to Frog firstfrog2013 - a fine set of PEI proofs - I envy you - René

Now I note the somewhat notorious Mr Bileski , (whom I recall from the 1970s  purveying puffed up treasures from the king Farouk collection of private errors & varieties, and genuine but very common stamps from the FDR collection with certs to greatly inflate the purchase price) is careful to describe these as “reprints”.

So purely in the interests of curiosity can 1940s reprints, albeit from an original die , be called “proofs” ?

A proof is surely an impression pulled before printing so that errors or unsatisfactory details can be checked and amended before the final print. The Scandinavians describe later printings such as these as Nytryk , new prints or after prints.

Whatever, they are interesting and attractive Cinderella’s.

Some will recall the multi coloured Penny reds of GB which were also printed around 1940 for Red Cross funds in Shelley’s with tower bridge. These often appear on eBay cut from the sheets and described as colour trials or even sometimes “proofs”.

I'll trade with you .......joking !
René

Lots of eye appeal. They really "pop."

Oh dear , I do hate to have come across as a party pooper. I do not disparage these items nor your purchase.
That was not my intention firstfrog2013 . Of course you were justified in buying these. They have a provenance and a place in any PEI collection. Late pulls in a range of colours from an original die lost for years, they have a history , they are attractive and come with a story , so congrats on having and thanks for showing.

WERT , in no way do I knock proofs such as you display. These are most attractive and very important items in a collection telling as they do an vital stage in stamp production. I have one or two in my collection though not as nice as yours. proofs from the production stage are scarce ( they were never intended to get out into the public domain at the time and security was paramount until the postal service was discontinued or the printer sold his archive years later) As such they add immense importance to any specialist collection.

My original post was intended only to make two comments
1. we should not call these “proofs” ( but maybe I am pedantic) “reprints from an original die”
and 2. Bileski had his own unique marketing agenda ( I have had my fingers singed if not burned in the past)

Separate scan of proofs:....I have deleted them - just one left - sorry !!

New Brunswick

Mine (those 2) are clean, Robert WERT

Rene

My wish for X-Mas is to have PEI proofs 

Rene