Most poignant photo taken by C.P. Dettloff in Vancouver, Canada on October 1, 1940, when a young 5 year old boy escaped his mother’s grasp and raced to his father, “creating what would become the most famous Canadian photograph of the Second World War and one of the most recognized of all war photos”. This stamp was issued in 2014 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of this photo
Hard to
believe that this tiny piece of printed paper has lasted 169 years so far. How
many people over generations kept this beautiful old stamp in such a condition.
Intriguing to find the list of owners over the years. Enjoy.
Going through a United Nations Collection found this beautiful minisheet of 1967 United Nations Art - Chagall's Memorial Window in U.N. Secretariat Building. "Artist: Marc Chagall (born Moiche Zakharovitch Chagalov 6 July, 1887 - 28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin."
Since 1935 Canadian stamps have a hidden date (year of issue) printed on the stamp which is sometimes hard to find. Here are some examples. By using a 20X magnifier they become quite visible.If you have Canadian stamps in your collection try to identify the the hidden date for fun. Please note that there are a few exceptions where they were not printed for some reason.
What to do during isolation due to Covid-19? Well if you have a stamp collection it is time to do a cleanup, sort, identify and catalogue your stamps and maybe take pictures of the stamps and present them. Here is a presentation of the stamps of locomotives issued by canada Post between 1983 and 1986.
Inherited from my godfather a stamp collection that he collected from the 1950’s to 1970’s. Decided to set up the stamps from France in Le...
