1932 6c on 5c Air Mail with Double Surcharge, mint never hinged, fresh and fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 725

1932 6c on 5c Air Mail Surcharge with "Swollen Breast" Variety, in a mint never hinged upper right plate 2 block of eight, very fine. Rsv. $180. (Image)

Unitrade $ 560

Collection of Private Perfins, From 1914 to 1970s, consisting of approximately 380 stamps in Vario style stock pages or mounted on quadrille pages, housed in one binder. A good variety of issues including a mixture of commemoratives and definitives. We noted a few blocks of four, a good variety of corporations or organizations with duplication up to 25 of each for some. Clean lot overall fine to very fine. See scans for a glimpse of the collection. (Image)

Est $ 100

Group of Easter and Christmas Seals and Other Cinderellas, mostly all on Manila stock pages and in page protectors, includes Christmas and Easter seals (1950s to 1990s, many in sheets, but also blocks, multiples and singles), noting some items in their original T.B. Christmas seal packaging (early 1950s), progressive plate proof, a few sheets containing imperforate stamps, also with seals (Canadian or Foreign) from Boy Scouts, Boys Town, Lung Association, etc. Overall very fine, scans only show a small portion. (Image)

Est $ 150

1998 46c Flag Over Iceberg Complete Booklet with Omitted Die Cut between the entire second and third rows, creating 10 imperforate pairs. Very fine and catalogue value is for 10 imperforate pairs only. Rsv. $220. (Image)

Unitrade $ 4,000

Group of Modern Booklet Errors, with BK236c (cover printed on gum side, $350) and 7 copies of BK302Ab (cover printed on gum side, $100 each). (Image)

Unitrade $ 1,050

2005 51c Flag Over... Booklet with Die Cutting Omitted, mint, with a few light scrapes on front, else very fine. Rsv. $325. (Image)

Unitrade $ 2,000

Electric Light Effigy Large Die Proof in Deep Blue Grey, sunk-in on card measuring 150 x 227 mm, with "B1 CANADA / American bank Note Co. N.Y." imprint under the image. Very fine and scarce. Rsv. $160. (Image)

Est $ 250

King George V Large Die Proof in Black, sunk-in on card measuring 132 x 178 mm, with no imprint under the image but with pencil notation at bottom reading "Canada A17 Do not give out unfinished?". The image is very similar to that used for federal revenues such as Electricity and Gas Inspection, Weights and Measures, etc. Very fine and scarce. Rsv. $110. (Image)

Est $ 200

Large Lot of Federal Excise Tax Revenue Meters, in four envelope boxes containing a total of over 8,000 (conservatively counted) early 1950s cheques from "Canada Life Assurance", the vast majority franked with van Dam listed (page 119) 3c red type "H" meters (meter #149007). The 2017 catalogue values these at $10 and up, so total catalogue value is about $80,000 for the lot. These are the first we have handled, and may possibly be the only such holding around, so would be a perfect lot for the collector or dealer. (Image)

van Dam $ 80,000

Large Group of Cancelled Cheques To and From the Daniel Martin Company, roughly from 1915 to 1926, with 1,200 cheques incoming to the company and a further 1,500 (approximately) cheques outgoing from them. A very interesting group for many reasons, such as some are illustrated and most have stamps affixed to them. Majority are Admiral postage stamps (mostly 2c green and 2c carmine), but also Admiral War Tax revenues, Admiral War Tax postage stamps and Excise stamps, with many different denominations, frankings, etc. Scans show only a sampling. (Image)

Est $ 200

Collection of Federal and Provincial Revenue Stamps, with about 187 stamps and 16 booklets. Predominantly from 1864-1939 with emphasis on Victoria to George V, and includes a wide variety of different issues, including from Newfoundland. Overall fine or better, see scans for an idea. (Image)

van Dam $ 2,025

Extensive Collection and Stock of Federal and Provincial Revenues, on about 50 stock pages or album pages filling a binder. We note a wide variety of material such as tobacco and cigar stamps, the usual federal revenue stamps including many pages of used and mint singles, pairs and strips of the electricity and gas inspection issues, two pages of unemployment insurance issues, several pages of war tax issues, WWII gasoline coupons and coupon booklets, Québec registration issues, law stamps, stock transfer as well as many other federal and provincial issues. The collection also includes a page of duck stamps and a number of documents with revenue stamps, including a number of Robin Hood Flour with meter revenues. We estimate about 1,300 stamps plus another 70 documents. See scans for a small glimpse only of this varied collection. (Image)

Est $ 400

1864 5c Blue First Bill Issue, an unused (no gum) block of 20, from top of sheet, showing a complete "FIVE CENTS" counter, noting a few minor varieties here and there, plus the "G" for "C" variety on the lower right stamp, which is unfortunately damaged. Reinforced in a few places, still overall fine. (Image)

Est $ 100

Four Different Complete Sheets of 100 of the 1868 Third Bill Issue, for the 1c brown (perf 12.1), 3c green (perf. 12.1), 6c green (perf. 11¾ x 12.1) and 9c green (perf 11¾ x 12.1 with pre-perforation fold upper right corner). Each of the sheets has full original streaky gum, never hinged, with four imprints reading "British American Bank Note Co. Montréal & Ottawa", plus a denomination counter at top, a centering cross at top and bottom centre, etc. There is a little separation here and there (the 3c sheet is in two parts), still quite fresh and rarely offered. (Image)

Est $ 300

Group of 106 Complete 1925 Cheques with Embossed Cheque Stamps, all from the Bank of Nova Scotia, and all with a red 2c oval embossed stamp at lower edge of cheque. 26 of the cheques are also franked with various blue Excise tax stamps (two leaf) including some high frankings described by van Dam as being rare. Catalogue value for these comes to $1,060. The lot also contains 26 cheques franked with 2 and 3 leaf Excise coil stamps (described by van Dam as scarce on documents) including two with 6c coils, rare on document. (Image)

Est $ 100

Group of Three Admiral War Tax Blocks with Lathework, with van Dam # FX1 (UL corner block with light lathework D, hinged in margin only), FX2 (UL corner block with strong lathework D, lightly hinged on a few stamps) and FX4 (block from left of sheet with strong lathework B, never hinged). Overall fine-very fine group. (Image)

Est $ 250

Large Group of Cancelled Cheques, 1930s to 1950s, from the Canada Life Insurance Company, filling a banker's box. We counted approximately 7,500 cheques, with the majority of them featuring the cancelled Two Leafs 2c (FX36), 4c (FX39), 8c (FX41), and the Three Leaf 3c (FX64), federal excise tax stamps. Lot is clean and overall very fine. (Image)

Est $ 100

1914 Black Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Frank, two horizontal pairs (once a pane of four) affixed to a piece of paper, with one or more sides possibly trimmed, fine. Rsv. $220. (Image)

van Dam $ 1,400

1916 Black Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Frank, a pane of four, affixed to paper and possibly trimmed on one or more side, fine. Rsv. $250. (Image)

van Dam $ 1,800

One Eighth Pound Tobacco Die Proof in Back, sunk-in on card measuring 231 x 92 mm, with die "X - G - 214" at top, very fine. Rsv. $85. (Image)

Est $ 100

Two Fifteenths Pound Tobacco Die Proof in Back, pasted on sunk-in card measuring 230 x 90 mm, very fine. Rsv. $85. (Image)

Est $ 100

Collection of 22 Different Large Cigar Strips, with singles, multiples and complete panes of Brandom #s G200 to G291TP, including plate numbers and some duplication, still a rarely offered group of these lovely engraved works of art, and overall fine or better, with the usual small faults here and there. All items are attractively retail priced and there is a complete inventory included. (Image)

Retail $ 2,958

Collection of 31 Different Large Tobacco Strips, with singles, multiples and complete panes of Brandom #s P252a to P985, including plate numbers and some duplication, still a rarely offered group of these lovely engraved works of art, and overall fine or better, with the usual small faults here and there. All items are attractively retail priced and there is a complete inventory included. (Image)

Retail $ 3,805

Collection of 14 Different Large Snuff and Chewing Tobacco Strips, with singles, multiples and complete panes of Brandom #s S109 to S140 and S181 to S187, including plate numbers and some duplication, still a rarely offered group of these lovely engraved works of art, and overall fine or better, with the usual small faults here and there. All items are attractively retail priced and there is a complete inventory included. (Image)

Retail $ 2,265