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December 2007
King Edward VII Issue 1902-1912 by Alan Selby. ISBN: 978-1-897391-18-1 (b&w), 978-1-897391-17-4 (colour). 8.5x11, Spiral Bound, 168 pp. Stock # B4h923.4 (B&W) $36.95, B4h923.451 (colour) $110.00 Alan Selby's award winning 'ASTOC' exhibit, King Edward VII Issue 1902-1912, has received many Gold awards for its fine and detailed coverage of the subject. The exhibit follows the classic treatment of a classic issue – trade samples, essays, die proofs, plate inscriptions, experimental coils, postal stationery and, of course, the famous Edward imperforates are beautifully covered in eight frames, followed by two frames of selected covers. This volume has been printed, as have been all Exhibit Series books produced since October 2002, from computer scanned originals instead of from the black and white photocopies used to produce earlier exhibit series volumes. Digital scanning provides better defined images and allows the exhibits to be reproduced in colour or black and white. It also ensures that a lasting copy of the original is on file for later use in a variety of formats.
November 2007 The British North America Philatelic Society (BNAPS) Ltd. is pleased to
announce the release of Ken Kershaw's latest works, two volumes on the
plating of the Five Cent Beaver stamp of 1859.
Ken Kershaw continues his amazing output of plating information on the
stamps of Canada and Prince Edward Island Pence with two new books on
Canada's Five Cent Beaver stamp of 1859. In these volumes Ken has used
today's technology to take the previous plating work of J. A. Calder and
Geoffrey Whitworth to an entirely new level, showing in highly magnified
colour both previously known and many newly discovered varieties and
re-entries. In 'The Five Cent Beaver I. The Plate Proofs of States 10-11'
the author goes through the 100 stamps in each of States 10 and 11 of the
plate one by one, showing all the re-entries and individual engraving flaws
for each stamp, including many missed by previous platers because they
either did not have access to State 10 and 11 material or their optical
equipment was not as powerful as that available today. In 'The Five Cent
Beaver II. Plating the More Notable Varieties and Re-entries', Ken
effectively re-plates the 5¢ Beaver, showing all the key known re-entries
and the more serious flaws in each of the 100 positions in the plate, on a
stamp by stamp basis, for all states (1-12) of the plate.
September 2007
ISBN: 978-1-897391-14-3 (b&w), 978-1-897391-13-6 (colour). 8.5x11, Spiral Bound, 116 pp. Stock # B4h031.1 (B&W) $32.95, B4h031.11 (colour) C$82.00 The late Elsie Drury, a long time member of BNAPS
who attended many conventions and also served as Sales Circuit Manager, was
an avid collector of the first set of Postage Due stamps issued by Canada in
1906. Using the draft of a paper prepared by Elsie as a starting point, well
known dealer and collector Stan Lum (aka 'The Yellow Peril') has applied his
extensive knowledge to ensure that Elsie's work would be included in the
literature of BNA philately. August 2007  Canada
1897 Diamond Jubilees, 2007 by Herbert McNaughtISBN: 978-1-897391-11-2 (b&w), 978-1-897391-10-5 (colour) BNAPS Exhibit Series #44. 8.5x11, Spiral Bound, 186 pp. Stock # B4h923.44 (B&W) C$34.95, B4h923.441 (colour) C$120.00 The sixteen stamps of the 1897 Queen Victoria Jubilee set, up to that time the most ambitious and definitely most expensive on a face-value basis adhesives ever issued by Canada, were released on 19 June 1897. Although the lower values were replaced relatively quickly by the stamps of the Maple Leaf set, the 'Jubes' have given many collectors much pleasure over the intervening 110 years. A number of very good exhibits have been prepared on specific values, notably the three-cent, as have several more extensive and ambitious exhibits that cover the main philatelic aspects of all sixteen values. One of these, Herb McNaught's award winning Canada 1897 Diamond Jubilees, has received many Gold awards and other honours for its extensive coverage of the subject. In the stamp section of Canada 1897 Diamond Jubilees the viewer/reader will find a visual feast of proofs and die proofs, specimens, singles and blocks of four as well as plate blocks and pairs. In the postal history area are perfins, precancels, bisects, forgeries, cancellations of all types including Squared Circles and particularly Jubilee and other flag type machine cancels and Jubilee postal stationery, not to mention rate, patriotic and advertising covers to many destinations, including foreign countries. The stamps and many of the covers show how things were done at what was perhaps the peak of the British Empire. This volume is definitely one to peruse in a quiet, comfortable chair with a cup of coffee or other libation.Herb McNaught has been collecting stamps since 1934. After World War II, while working as a Vice-Principal in Kingston Schools, he became active in the local stamp club. A new assignment to the Ontario Department of Education took him to Toronto, where he joined the North York stamp club and became a regular exhibitor at their annual exhibitions. Richard Lamb, a well-known stamp dealer from Kitchener, Ontario, encouraged Herb to specialize in the Half-Cent Small Queen. That Gold Medal collection was published in 2002 as BNAPS Exhibit Series #27. Since then Herb has concentrated on his exhibits of the 1897 Diamond Jubilee and 1908 Quebec Tercentenary issues.
 Just
Perfect: The Patents and Postal Markings of Machines Invented by Joseph
O. Lamoureux and Omer Francois Lefebvre 1912-19802007 by Reg Morris and Robert J. Payne. 8.5x11, Spiral Bound, 260pp. ISBN 978-1-897391-12-9. Stock # B4h030.1 C$49.95 The latest BNAPS handbook, Just Perfect, is different from any other handbook BNAPS has published before in that it is largely a narrative telling the story of two inventors who developed postal cancelling machines in early twentieth century Canada, how they fared, and how their efforts came to take a now recognized place in the postal history of Canada. In the 1980s collectors of Canadian machine cancellations noticed a number of postmarks that looked like roller cancellations, but something didn't fit. By 1998 research had identified the cancellations as having been made by a machine created by Montreal inventor Joseph Omer Lamoureux, who for close to 20 years tried to develop a rapid cancelling machine that he could sell to the Canada Post Office. On the edge of success, failure. A production order of 25 Lamoureux machines failed to meet the Post Office's expectations and was rejected. Enter a new player, Omer Levebvre, also a Montreal based inventor. In 1927 a machine of Levebvre's design was rushed into production to fill the still open order for the 25 Lamoureux machines.The Levebvre offering was accepted by the Post Office and, as the 'Perfect' machine, continued in use in diminishing numbers in Canadian Post Offices until at least 1980. Just Perfect tells the story of Lamoureux and Lefebvre, with many diagrams of the machines and mechanisms required to move letters and cards through the cancelling process. The nine distinct types of Lamoureux cancellations – one discovered only in May 2007 - are illustrated and described, as well as being listed with known quantities in a summary table. During their many years of service Perfect machines took part in some interesting events that are covered in Just Perfect including the Royal Visit of 1939 and the Advance Posting Service years, when at Christmastime letters mailed ahead of time were cancelled in red ink and delivered one or two days before the holiday.The reduction of numbers of Perfect machines in service is followed through the years, again with more information about the people and activities involved. The last chapter is a massive compilation of data in table form. Two tables cover the installation of removal machines across the country over time, and two more tables give Earliest Known Use (EKU) and Latest Known Use (LKU) dates of known Perfect cancellations. Both sets of tables are sorted first by machine number and then alphabetically by city/town of use. Recognizing that slogan cancellations have been well covered in other philatelic books, individual slogan use is not tabulated. With such diverse information as personalities, design, development, use and to some extent, serendipity, Just Perfect is not just a handbook, it is a 'good read'.Reg Morris and the late Bob Payne joined forces and began writing on machine cancels in the mid-1970s. By 1988 they had co-authored The Barry Story, three volumes on the life, times, machines & postal markings of William Barry. In addition to books and articles written alone or in conjunction with other writers, Bob and Reg co-authored over twenty books on most of the inventors and manufacturers of cancelling machines in America. In 2003 Bob wrote a three part monograph, The Imperial Mail Marking Machines of the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Bob played an active role in the writing of Just Perfect, but did not live to see it in print. It is dedicated to his memory.
 Fancy
Cancels on Canadian Stamps 1855 to 1950 – Second Edition, 2007 by D.M.
(Dave) Lacelle. 8.5x11, Spiral Bound, 220pp. ISBN 978-1-897391-09-9. Stock #
B4h333.1 C$ 39.95The continuing interest and input from the BNAPS Fancy Cancel and Miscellaneous Markings Study Group has resulted in the Second Edition of Dave Lacelle's Fancy Cancels on Canadian Stamps 1855 to 1950. This area of stamp collecting remains very popular for many reasons, not the least of which is the personal touch of the former Postmasters who actually hand carved the fancy cancels. Lacelle writes, "Fancy cancels can be considered as something that exists between graffiti and folk art." The Second Edition has several improvements over the first. The 2000 version was prepared over a 15 year period, bringing the original 1960s Day and Smythies Fancy Cancel listings right up to date at that time. Preparation of the Second Edition took about eight months, making it much more consistent in terms of style; while the numbering sequence and (most) illustrations were retained, all individual cancel descriptions have been retyped. Over 60 previously non-located fancy cancels have now been attributed to specific Post Offices, almost 100 have had their dates of use expanded, over 20 new fancy cancels have been added and the 'Deletions and Miscellaneous' section has over 60 new entries.There are three major additions in the new volume. The first is a 'rate factor' for each cancel which allows comparison of relative value between different fancy cancels. A very helpful appendix lists Day and Smythies numbers and corresponding Lacelle catalogue numbers. Finally, each illustration page in the second edition has a five cm scale bar to give some indication of scale change due to the printing process. It is hoped that these additions will add to the book's utility in terms of pricing and cross referencing. Dave Lacelle has been collecting Fancy Cancels for more than thirty years. After a career in the federal Government in Ottawa he retired and moved with his wife to Vancouver Island, where they enjoy the climate and natural surroundings. Dave makes an annual cross-country trip to visit friends and relatives from coast to coast.
June 2007 The British North America Philatelic Society (BNAPS) Ltd. is pleased to announce the release of three new books, all on the subject of plating classic BNA and Canadian stamps.
Ken Kershaw continues his amazing output of plating information on Prince Edward Island Pence stamps with two new books, this time on the Three Pence and Four Pence Issues - Scott #6 and #9 respectively. In the Three Pence book he reveals a most interesting discovery relating to the very structure of the plate material and how this affects the stamps printed from the plates. In the second book he shows how this structural element is in some ways more pronounced in the white and yellow paper printings of the Four Pence issue. Ken Kershaw was born in England and became fascinated by plants at an early age. He graduated from Manchester University with a B.Sc. degree in Botany in 1952. After military service he went on to a Ph. D. degree working on pattern in vegetation, and was appointed lecturer in Plant Ecology at Imperial College London in 1957. He was seconded to Ahmadu Bello University in northern Nigeria for two years. On his return to Imperial College he became involved with lichen ecology, particularly in alpine and arctic areas, in addition to his work on computer modelling and data analysis. He obtained his D.Sc. in 1965 and was appointed Professor at McMaster University, Hamilton in 1969. His research was then devoted heavily to the ecology of the Canadian low arctic and northern boreal forest areas, and in 1982 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of several university texts. Ken’s passion for wild plants has been transferred to Canadian philately. He sees his plating work simply as the “taxonomy of bits of paper” and after a lifetime of plant taxonomy finds it a fairly straightforward and fascinating hobby.
Blue Opaline - The Exceptional Plate One of the Canada Five Cent 1898 Numeral Issue follows closely on the 2006 release of The Wearing of the Green: Plates and States of the Canada 1898 One Cent Numeral Issue and the 2005 release of Pretty in Pink: The Plates and States of the Canada 1898 Two Cent Numeral Issue. Again using today's technology to great advantage, in this volume the author has closely examined the Five-cent value of the popular Queen Victoria Numeral Issue to advise readers how to determine the position of individual copies from the first plate printings. As with the earlier books, Blue Opaline is the first major plating study of the five-cent value and should form an excellent basis for further studies of this stamp and possible discoveries which readers may make as they examine their holdings. In his introduction Peter states that “The author believes this plate illustrates one of the major siderographic catastrophes of the classic era.” Peter Spencer began stamp collecting in the 1950s. After schooling in his native Alberta, he received Physics degrees from Queen’s University at Kingston and the University of Waterloo. He taught Physics for a third of a century and was privileged to be the Head of Science at Leacock Collegiate in Agincourt, Ontario during the years when it was one of the top twenty Science schools in North America. He was co-author of a physics text which, in one of its editions, was used in the majority of the high schools in Ontario. On retirement Peter quietly metamorphosed into a full-time philatelist with the world as his interest, preferably used, pre-1900, engraved, colourful, or odd and unusual - preferably all five together. His interests have touched on a wide range from Afghanistan to the Bomba Heads of Sicily to Zaire. In 2003, he co-taught the ‘Detecting Fakes and Forgeries’ APS Summer Seminar in State College, Pennsylvania with Bill Dixon. April 2007
The Canadian Permit Postage Stamp Catalogue, Third Edition, is a tremendous improvement over the second edition issued in 1996. Continuous updating of computer hardware and software over the last 10 years (and a lot of work) provided the author with the opportunity to completely revise the layout and image illustrations, making the new catalogue much easier to read. Illustrations have been enlarged and many more have been added, enough so the number of pages in the catalogue has increased by half. While the 1996 catalogue illustrated about 400 indicia images, there are over 1000, including several complete covers, in the new catalogue. Although care was taken to fill empty spaces with illustrations or more information, the amount of new information that has come to light since 1996 has resulted in the number of pages increasing from 118 in the second edition to 178 in the third. The best new features are the fully illustrated 'Bulk Mailing Permit Indicia Main Type Identifier' and 'Business Reply Permit Indicia Main Type Identifier', which make it much easier to identify the variety of main types of permits before going to the detailed listings. Since the last edition was printed many new permit indicia have been reported and new issues added to the listing. The history section has been expanded and the table of permit indicia improved, while explanations and regulations are much more detailed and all spelling errors inside the permit indicia are underlined for easier identification. New regulations introduced in 1989 required the 'Canada Post Corporation - Société canadienne des postes' text to be printed inside each permit indicia, which made listing all the many errors and varieties very difficult. This has also been solved in the best possible way in the new catalogue, but renumbering of some of the permits could not be avoided. As before, all main permit types have been priced and most valuations have increased. All information obtained in dealer stock and auctions has been considered. Earlier items on complete cover or card are extremely scarce. In addition to the permit indicia many old envelopes, cards and catalogue covers have advertising illustrations and/or text and are thus of increased interest to postal history collectors. Valuations for these items had to be increased considerably. Many more improvements, too numerous to mention, have been made to the third edition of the Canadian Permit Postage Stamp Catalogue. After immigrating to Canada from Germany and settling down, Dick Staecker resumed his childhood hobby of stamp collecting. While looking over some postal stationery at a stamp show, a dealer gave him a box of Canadian permit mail for free, saying he could not sell 'this junk'. The 'junk' looked quite interesting since it was properly used through the mail with postage paid, the denomination in the indicia and old advertising on the covers. Finding that there was no detailed listing of permit indicia, Dick decided to do the job himself. By 1987 he was able to publish his first Canadian Permit Postage Stamp Catalogue, 84 pages of information essentially new to Canadian philately. The second issue of the Canadian Permit Postage Stamp Catalogue in 1996 brought a lot of improvements in design, layout and additions. For the third edition Dick credits the experience he obtained being the Editor, since 2000, of the BNAPS Postal Stationery Study Group newsletter. January - February 2007 BNAPS is pleased to announce the publication of new editions of two books in the Exhibit series, Steven Luciuk's 'Internment Mail in Canada 1914-1919 & 1939-1946' and Kevin O'Reilly's 'A Postal History Of Labrador Before Confederation'.
Steve Luciuk's interest in Prisoner of War/Internee material began at an Edmonton stamp show when he was browsing through one of Allan Steinhart's military boxes and came across a cover from Camp "N" in Sherbrooke, Quebec. The name of the addressee had been carefully removed, but the cover had interesting markings, thereby combining Steve's interest in Canadian history with postal history. A few other POW covers were purchased, and thus started a long quest for similar material. The five frame exhibit illustrated in this book includes many of the items acquired over approximately two decades. 'Internment Mail in Canada, 1914 1919 & 1939 – 1946' illustrates the rich variety of markings associated with POW mail from the two world wars. The exhibit received a vermeil award at Royal Caltapex 1997 in Calgary. At its last showing, at BNAPEX 1999 in Vernon, BC, it was awarded a vermeil with felicitations. The first two frames show material to and from some of the 8,000 men, mostly civilians, interned in Canada during Word War I. Mail to and from some of the approximately 38,000 World War II internees is shown in the last three frames. An additional 30 pages of supplementary material, including scarce YMCA cards given to POWs, rounds out the exhibit. After taking early retirement from teaching, Steve began a second career as a researcher with the Western Development Museum. It has branches in four Saskatchewan cities along with a Curatorial Centre, the museum's headquarters, in Saskatoon. Steve worked out of the Curatorial Centre. This interesting position made it possible to spend more time on postal history because, unlike teaching, he did not have to bring home seemingly never ending mounds of exams and essays to grade. This also provided an opportunity to join major philatelic societies and attend some philatelic conventions and national stamp shows.
A POSTAL HISTORY OF LABRADOR BEFORE CONFEDERATION by Kevin O'Reilly. 8.5x11 Spiral Bound, 108pp. BNAPS Exhibit Series #6. ISBN 978-1-897391-03-7 (B&W), 978-1-897391-02-0 (Colour). Stock # B4h923.6 (B&W) C$32.95, B4h923.61 (Colour) C$80.00 Kevin O'Reilly started collecting stamps of the world when he was introduced to the hobby by his mother. He first collected Canada, then focused on the Centennial Definitives. Some self-addressed covers sent to northern post offices in 1972 proved to be a turning point as he quickly began to specialize in the postal history of the Northwest Territories, Nunavut (as well as the Eastern Arctic Patrol), Yukon and Labrador. Sidelines include United States Army/Air Force Post Offices (APOs) in Canada and Newfoundland, the International Grenfell Association, and W Force in Newfoundland and Labrador. Commercial mail to and from Labrador before Confederation is scarce. The permanent population of Labrador in 1949 was only 6,000 people, with many more during the summer fishing season. Registered mail often did not receive transit or receipt markings until it went to St. John's or even outside of Newfoundland. Much of the mail originating from Labrador bears Travelling Post Office (TPO) date stamps rather than town cancels. 'A Postal History of Labrador before Confederation' shows only material that can be traced to specific locations. The exhibit, been expanded by almost 50% over what was illustrated in the original Exhibit Series book, received both the Allan L. Steinhart Reserve Grand and Meyerson Newfoundland Awards at BNAPEX 2005 in Edmonton, and the Reserve Grand award at Royal 2006 in Calgary. Kevin O'Reilly has resided in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada since 1985, working for a variety of Aboriginal and public government agencies, and non-governmental organizations. He has had extensive involvement in the environmental assessment and regulation of resource development in the Northwest Territories. He served on Yellowknife City Council from 1997 to 2006. Kevin holds a Bachelor's in Environmental Studies in Environmental Studies and a Master's in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Waterloo. He has published on northern Canada topics in many philatelic journals. His 1987 book, 'Northwest Territories Postal Cancellations 1907-1986', won the Postal History Society of Canada's Frank W. Campbell award and continues to serve as the standard reference for the field.
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BNAPS
is pleased to announce the publication of 'Canadian Permit Postage Stamp
Catalogue, Third Edition, 2007' by Dieter (Dick) Staecker. 
INTERNMENT
MAIL IN CANADA 1914-1919 & 1939-1946, by Steven C. Luciuk. 