Classic Canada Questions???

That stuck me funny!!! Maybe that's the answer if I can find it in print I can have it!!! I'm off to find pictures of BIGGGGG dogs.But, honey, I found the book.

I have also seen the #104 1¢ green Admiral in the same shade of blue as that War Tax issue.  It is in a friends collection so I don't have access to scan it.  Must have been a small batch of die that changed colour because as far as I can tell they aren't that common.  

Frog also sent me a #24 2¢ large queen, supposed to be green, that is blue.  When I took the 2¢ queen to a dealer I have known for a while he immediately started comparing it to the 12.5¢ blues.  I had to point out to him that it was the 2¢ value.  He wasn't sure what to make of it and had never seen a 2¢ that colour before.  However, another dealer I have shown it too was pretty confident it was a changeling.  I will continue to show the stamp around and gather some more opinions on it.  Whether it's valuable or not is moot to me, it has certainly become an interesting conversation piece in my small circle of collectors.

Has anyone had luck with ez-perf?/ I downloaded demo and couldn't get it to take any images.not going to spend money on software that doesn't work or is too hard to use.My old eyes are failing, reading a perf gauge only lasts for one or two stamps at a time,now.

I have not purchased my copy as yet, Froggie.
I had a free copy when part of the testing, and found it reasonably easy to use,  albeit I was scanning at 600dpi
I believe it has been upgraded since then.
Check youtube

Anyone know why Canadian coils and booklet singles are seemingly so over valued in comparison to straight definetives?

Although it's been couple decades since I played with modern U.S. seems I remember most were priced equally with regular issues.Yes??Was the difference large U.S. companies used the coil rolls while Canadian counter parts used mainly sheets??

What would a fair price be for a single Unitrade *67a ??I just paid$4 with shipping along with dozen others of same era.

When it arrives I will post picture.I have found some nice things hiding in common collections that most just pass over.I try to look closely at all pictures provided and have been doing pretty good.

Thanks I did figure it out and posted scan of the blue re-drawn in thread wanted more dead than alive.Blue one cv $100

Addressing the question, not the rant  

Catalogue editors have an extremely difficult task, to offer you, the collector,
a suitable hiearchy of identification from a source, that quite often, didn't know what they were doing themselves
especially in the distant past.
Once a number is allocated, it become lingua franca amongst collectors, if the publishers changed the numbering,
there would be hell to play.

My pet irritation, is when catalogue "describers" choose to become the authority when describing a stamp
changing the name of (in general) flora and fauna,  from that which adorns the stamp which aids identification, and should be the prime focus of a catalogue.

Overall, I reckon catalogue producers do a bang up job, and are to be congratulated.

As I see it,
There exist no "authority" for any collecting discipline,
the specialist takes any group to its farthest extent, but room always exists for improvement and knowledge learnt.
Things are being discovered constantly.

Different numbering systems begin with different companies promoting and selling their work
Each company decides what their numbering hiearchy shall cover.

Scott numbers have prevailed because  number of users employing the catalog worldwide,  
ease of use (great font),     pointers to other stamps in the series  eg "See numbers ...etc etc"
Great catalogue handling format (try and use a doorstep Gibbons on a middle sized desk)

A lot of thought and experience has gone into Scott,  Gibbons on the other hand is a rag tag jumble
of patched together countries.
Gibbons saving grace is their authority with Commonwealth countries, and the specialists that have spent time in this area.

Any catalogue really, is there to assist collectors to generally place issues in some semblance of order, and offer some gradient pricing.
It is up to the collector to diverge and specialise as they see fit.




 

Okay looking for support here.I have been seriously considering rearranging ALL my Canada in the order of their release.I have already bucked the norm by including cindys and back of the book in this format, but my thinking now is to go one step further and include all the Van Damn issues as well.I have thought on this awhile now and believe it makes sense to put everything in order.My thoughts today is to include for the sake of completeness postal stationery as well.I know you'll probably say do it my way but a honest opinion if this makes sense to you would be good. just what I need another project....

Can anyone post a link for early pre-cancel types? Not an area I've studied before but the learning process continues.I have quite a few small queen pre cancels and they are different types,now I'd like to classify them by type.Another universe in the stamp galaxy.

If the links provided by smauggie don't give you what you need, you might try this site -- it appears to have alot of good information.