ISSUE 168 - December 6, 2024 - Stamp News Online Magazine
The Stamp Specialist:
Victorian Canada Part 1, The Prestamp Period
by Ed Richardson
(From the Stamp Specialist Volume 12, The Maroon Book)
The Pre-Stamp Period
No collection of Canadian Postal History items of the Victorian period would be truly representative without at least a few examples of the many interesting postal markings which can be found on Canadain stampless covers of the Pre-Stamp period. "The Long Reign" of Queen victoria began in 1837, and it was not until fourteen years later that the first Canadian adhesive stamps appeared.—the 1851 laid paper, pence issues. Thru the neglect of . . .
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