Two Useful Catalogues, with a 2017 "Unitrade Specialized Catalogue of Canadian Stamps", plus a 2015 "Stanley Gibbons Commonwealth and Empire Stamps 1840-1970". Both gently used and very fine.

Est $ 75

Collection / Accumulation of Canadian Christmas and Other Seals, also with some worldwide. An album shows early (1930s and 1940s) singles and blocks, plus some more modern (1960s and 1970s) sheets, part sheets, from Canada, Denmark, etc. A box contains a good variety of mostly Canadian sheets part sheets, etc, mostly from the 1950s to the 1970s. Also a number of Easter seal envelopes from the 1980s and 1990s with their stamps still inside. Mostly very fine.

Est $ 100

Collection of Juan De Fuca Strike Mail Despatch Labels all different, with complete sets, and all mint never hinged. There are 245 stamps in all, including 30 singles, 18 souvenir sheets of four and 21 souvenir sheets of five. Very fine. (Image)

Est $ 100

Collection of Souvenir Labels, Christmas Stamps, Philatelic Exhibition Stamps, etc. with mostly Canadian and US stamps, including better such as Stamp exhibition issues for 1937 (Toronto), 1936 (New York, International), 1951 (Toronto, International), sets of Golden Jubilee, 1940 Olympic games, 1939 World's Fair (New York), variety of Canadian and US Christmas and other Seals (including sheets) and much more. An interesting lot and mostly very fine. (Image)

Est $ 150

Large Shoebox Full of Christmas and other Seals, with singles, multiples, sheets, etc, from the 1930s to modern, mostly from Canada but US as well. We note two sheets of 1956 Children's Hospital Aid stamps missing all black inscriptions error. Thousands in all, with a good variety of different, overall fine. (Image)

Est $ 100

Collection of Rouletted Winnipeg and Pembina Courier Labels, also called "Local Post Labels", issued by Kasimir Bileski and used by him during Canada Post strikes between 1975 and 1980, as he mailed his letters from Pembina North Dakota. Includes 14 of the 22 stamps listed in Lafrenière in singles, as well as those same 15 stamps in full sheets of 15. These are mint never hinged, and are all of the rouletted stamps issued. He later produced perforated stamps from 1981 to 1984. This lot also includes 14 scarce used covers, all mailed between 1975 and 1979 from the United States, either from Pembina or a few other places. All but two are #8 (small) size. Also included are articles on these labels from The Cinderella Philatelist, The Winnipeg Tribune and Bileski himself.

Est $ 100

Early Christmas Seal Sheets, with Canada 1927 (complete sheet minus one corner stamp, with some hinge reinforcement), 1927 (complete MNH sheet), 1929 (complete MNH sheet). These three Canadian sheets catalogue in Unitrade $600. Also some United States sheets for 1930, 1931, 1973, 1974 and 1983. (Image)

Est $ 100

Lovely Collection of 1c green Edward VII Postal Stationery Cards, all written up on pages, with 280 different cards, each collected and described as per its advertising on back (some on front), all sorted by theme, such as theatre, associations, banks, insurance, government, clubs, military, steamship lines and so much more. Majority have been mailed, a few have not and overall condition is very fine. A very difficult to assemble collection. (Image)

Est $ 200

Collection of Used and Unused Postal Stationery, filling two thick binders with hundreds of items, the unused is a nice selection of mostly all different cards and covers, from QV to modern, with picture postcards (with matching stamps), etc. The used has a wide variety of different items, with many good postmarks, a few are uprated, some have corner cards, with a mix of cards and covers, etc. Very nice quality throughout (only a few small faults) and a better than usual collection of this type.

Est $ 200

Group of 85 "V for Victory" Covers, 1941 to 1943 all have the slogan postmark, from a variety of different towns, canceling (mostly) 3c Mufti stamps. We note many with corner cards, a few censored, etc. Mostly fine to very fine lot. (Image)

Est $ 100

Box of Covers and First Day Covers, with about 1,200 commercial covers (about 500 of those are #8 size) from all over the world (probably at least 2/3 are from Canada) with many addressed to the same person in Ottawa. Includes some Field Post covers from the Admiral era, right up to modern period, with interesting frankings, many registered, some postage due forms, and more. Some have opening faults, still overall fine. Also contains about 250 Canadian First Day Covers (plus others not counted) from the 1940s to the 1980s, and we note some cachet makers such as NR Covers, Rose Craft, ARC, JCR, some home made non-cacheted covers and more. Overall fine or better.

Est $ 150

Box with Several Hundreds of Slogan Covers and Cards, 1920s to 1970s, from all over Canada, and with a good variety of different, including some scarcer ones. We note several business corner cards, some stationery covers and cards, etc. Overall very fine with nice strikes. Worth a close look. (Image)

Est $ 200

Large Valuable Lot of Stationery Items, from Queen Victoria to modern, filling a Banker's Box with thousands of items including used and unused (about 50-50) cards, covers, airgraphs, air mail cards and envelopes, letter cards, uncut pre-stamped post cards, uprated rates, pictorial cards, private printings, reply cards, lots of postmark interest, UPU cards, wrappers, and much more. Overall very fine condition, should be seen to better appreciate the variety and quantity. (Image)

Est $ 500

Collection of 62 Snowbird Flown Covers, 1999-2013, includes covers signed by all 9 Snowbird pilots in 1999, 2003, 2005-2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013. Original cost was $30 each. Also sets of 9 Snowbird covers, each signed by one pilot from 2007-2009 and 2011-2013. Original cost per set was $45 each. Total original cost $510. These covers are scarce and no more have been flown since 2014. Very fine.

Est $ 100

1936 Hamilton to Southern Rhodesia, mailed Hamilton (DEC.3.1936 machine cancel) and addressed to Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), with JAN.7.1936 receiver on front, franked with a single 5c blue KGV. There is a PARTI / GONE AWAY boxed handstamp as well as another reading UNDELIVERED...., plus a return machine cancel on back (very light and therefore date unreadable) with red crayon arrows pointing to the return address on back. Very fine. (Image)

Est $ 50

Group of Two Registered and Censored Covers from China to Canada, first is from Shanghai to Ottawa, received on APR.1.1941 and endorsed "per Pres. Pierce", censor tape C.286, and franked with six Chinese stamps totalling 100s. Second was mailed from Peking to Ottawa, through Vancouver MAR.17.1941, arrived MAR.21.1941. Franked with a single 1.00 sen stamp and censor tape C.277. Both covers have large labels on back reading "The Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China". Very fine. (Image)

Est $ 200

Collection of Interesting Covers, 1860s to 1940s, with 84 in all, mostly all from Ontario and Québec, but includes 5 stampless from GB and US. A wide variety of types of covers, with registered, destinations, postmarks, stampless, rates, Small Queens, advertizing, instructional handstamps, a few Admiral AR cards, events and more. Condition is overall very fine (a few faults on the stampless material and noted one front) and inspection is recommended to better appreciate the variety of material here. (Image)

Est $ 200

Interesting Collection of Postal History,with a wide assortment of various covers, from the 1880s to modern, with about 750 in all. We note such items as first flights, air mail, special delivery, registered, postage due, OHMS free-franks, WWI field post covers, DLO, many Small Queen covers, hand drawn cachets, FDC, Forces Air Letters, CFPOs, instructional markings, illustrated advertizing covers, change of address cards, and much more. We note a binder full of 1976 Peterborough KAPEX machine flags, with inverts, double strikes, and other varieties. There is also a good variety of postmarks, from early broken circles, to slogan machines, etc. Some faults on the earlier material but overall fine or better, and a nice lot, showing evidence that the collector had an eye for unusual items. (Image)

Est $ 300

Commercial Cover Accumulation in Two Large Containers, 1907 to 1990s, includes four #10 envelope boxes full of Saskatchewan cancels, including Klusendorfs covers and other machine cancels. Also a binder of George VI pre-cancelled covers and advertizing material. A loose assortment of odds and ends that includes postcards, first flights, postal stationery, etc. Early material mixed condition, rest is fine or better. (Image)

Est $ 100

Collection and Study of Maritime RPO Cancels, all neatly displayed and sorted onto about 80 album pages, with about a half dozen covers and mostly all on stamps or pieces, with several hundreds, from Small Queens to the 1950s, including many better items such as Québec Tercentenary blocks, etc. A wide variety of different hammers, all identified and sometimes showing varieties, etc. A most advanced collection, mostly all very fine strikes and ex. Lewis Ludlow. Must be seen to be appreciated. (Image)

Est $ 350

Collection of Mostly Used Postal Stationery Cards and Covers, 1880s to 1960s, with 87 items in all, including 18 from the US (1870s to 1920s). A nice assortment, with many types of postmarks noted (mostly Ontario, with a few PQ), note a 1948 Calgary Stampede cachet cover, 1948 Saskatoon Philatelic Exhibition cachet cover, and more. Overall very fine. (Image)

Est $ 100

Group of 52 QV Numeral Covers, 1898 to 1903. With a variety of postmarks, ranging from c.d.s., duplex, Bickerdike machines and broken circles from all over Canada, including some territorial Saskatchewan. We note one registered, some with illustrated corner cards, many are sleeved and ex Steinhart stock, with his prices ranging from $10 to $35. Overall fine or better lot. (Image)

Est $ 100

1945 War Issue Air Mail Censored Cover to Cyprus, mailed Montreal on JAN.18.1945 (duplex cancels) and addressed to Larnaca, Cyprus (arrived FEB.23.1945), franked with a 10c, a 50c and three $1 War issues, paying $3.60. Postmark on back appears to be Egyptian and there is a censor tape plus two censor postmarks. Vertical creases and roughly opened at left, still a rare war time destination and franking. (Image)

Est $ 100

One Wreck Cover and Three Picture Post Cards, the cover was mailed on MAY.6.1914 (Annapolis Royal NS to London England) and handstamped in purple "Recovered by divers from the wreck of the S.S. Empress of Ireland" plus an oval Ottawa DLO on back (SEP.25). Very fine. Also three different colour picture post cards, one mailed in 1907 (this with small stain and thinned spot), one endorsed 1913 on back, one unused. Two very fine, third is fine. (Image)

Est $ 300

One Wreck Cover and Three Picture Post Cards, the cover was mailed on MAY.25.1914 (Peterboro to London England) and handstamped in green "Recovered by divers from the wreck of the S.S. Empress of Ireland" plus part of an oval Ottawa DLO in green on back (OCT.13). Wrinkles and missing backflap, still fine. Also three different picture post cards, one mailed in 1914 (picturing the accident), this card with horizontal crease, a colour card mailed 1909 (trimmed down at top) and another unused depicting The Empress of Ireland and the Lady Grey at Québec carrying ashore the dead. Also a modern photographic reproduction of the ship. Overall fine to very fine. (Image)

Est $ 200