"02 April 2025 - Club Auction Feature"
Early envelopes were often embossed with the postage. This Collection includes early "cut squares", more recent examples and full envelopes.
The club lot auction(s) are donated and all proceeds benefit the club. It is a good presentation in a Scott 2 Post Album
This album includes a wide variety of examples, including the albino (no ink) and revalued shown above.
Example page of more recent issues.
"Local Stamps"
United States Local stamps were in use along with USPO adhesives until about 1861. The local companies were allowed to provide enhanced delivery and pickup service within cities (for businesses the Post Office usually delivered from post office to post office on intercity mail) and local companies provided the door to door service. There were scores of local delivery companies and hundreds of collectible locals varieties as listed by the Scott specialized catalog. From a Private Collection.
"Private Machine Perforations"
From the private collection of Ron Williams
From the private collection of Ron Williams
"Plate Number Coils"
"A plate number coil (PNC) is a United States postage stamp with the number of the printing plate or plates printed on it. The plate number typically appears as one or more small digits in the margin at the bottom of the stamp.
The plate number may be centered or, on some coil issues, located toward the right. Although most plate numbers are composed of just numbers, both a combination of letter and number may be used.
In the case when a letter is represented in the plate number, an upper case letter usually appears at the beginning or at the end of the sequence with the former serving as a good identifier of the stamp printer.
The plate number is on one stamp out of the number of stamps printed by a single revolution of rotary printing press used to print the stamps. The interval numbers have ranged from 7 to 52.
The first coil stamp was produced in USA with plate numbers printed on periodic stamps was the 18¢ Flag of 1981." From the collection of Ron Williams. Commentary from Wikipedia.
"Leipzig, Germany ~ Fair Stamps"
"Small Queens - Canada 1870 - 1889"
Small Queens of Canada do not include the last two images of the "widow's weeds," aka, "dowager" Queen. The term referred to strict mourning etiquette governing both behavior and dress followed by Queen Victoria following the death of her husband.
"Small Queens - Canada 1870 - 1889"
Small Queens of Canada were printed in Montrael and Ottawa on wove paper, perf 12 by the British American Bank Note Company using the same vignette as for the large Queens Half Cent value.