| 1959a Canada's Stamp Place | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Canada's Best Varity Is the St. Lawrence Seaway with the picture inverted there is approx.400 in collectors hands and in only 14 covers and cards you would have to WIN a lottery just to have one or like me and have a fake copy?.( I think) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Canadain Bluenose | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In this picture the Bluenose leads the U.S.A's Cloumbia in a race off Halifax . It too is one of collectors most thought after stamp to put in there collection . also there's a varity in this one called "The Man on the Mast" | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| The World's First Stamp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Simple postal systems have existed for thousands of years.Public use of the mail,however was unheard of before the 1500's.England's king Henry VIII appoint the first " Master of Post".Rowland Hill,a promnent British educator,can be called the "Father of the postage stamp" he called for an inexpensive,standard rate for letters regardless os distance involved.Public support for Hill's idea over came bureaucratic resistance and on May6,1840 the Penny Black was born. |
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