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Notes for publications 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
July 2008
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 The British North America Philatelic Society is pleased to announce that by special arrangement a new book, 'The Postal History of World War II Mail between Canada and Switzerland', by Charles J. LaBlonde and John Tyacke, is available to members through BNAPS and Ian Kimmerly Stamps.
Highlights of this book are WW II postal rates, routes and markings for mail in both directions, extensive new discoveries from the Canadian Archives including the fascinating story of the WW II Canadian Personal Postal Message Scheme, complete information on WW II Canadian Censorship, seven appendices on interesting and related topics including blackout postmarks, POW mail regulations and postage due calculations on wartime mail, a postal rate overview and summary for both countries and a nine page bibliography.
Published by the American Helvetia Philatelic Society, 2008, 8.5x11', spiral bound, 250 Pages. BNAPS Stock number B4h431.0. Price: $Cdn26.95 + GST + shipping and postage.
PLEASE NOTE: as this book was made available at a low price and is not a BNAPS publication, the normal member discount does not apply.
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June 2008
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  The British North America Philatelic Society (BNAPS) Ltd. is pleased to announce the release of two new books in Ken Kershaw's series on plating classic Prince Edward Island stamps.
Plating Studies on Prince Edward Island Stamps IV. The Six Cent Issue
- Scott #15, 2008, Kenneth A Kershaw. Spiral Bound, 158 pages, 8.5 x 11, colour. ISBN: 978-1-897391-29-7. Published by the British North America Philatelic Society (BNAPS). Stock # B4h035.1; $106.00
Plating Studies on Prince Edward Island Stamps V. The Twelve Cent Issue - Scott #16, 2008, Kenneth A. Kershaw. Spiral Bound, 202 pages,
8.5 x 11, colour. ISBN: 978-1-897391-30-3 Published by the British North America Philatelic Society (BNAPS). Stock # B4h036.1; $128.00
Ken Kershaw continues his amazing output of plating information on classic Prince Edward Island stamps with two new books, this time on the Six Cent and Twelve Cent Issues - Scott #15 and #16 respectively.
In the Six Cent book he reviews the 19th century based discussion over whether or not the early stamps of PEI were produced by electrotyping or by lithography, and concludes that the cents values were produced by lithography using much higher quality stone than was used for the pence issues. In the 12-Cent book he concludes that only one die, not three as suggested earlier, was used to produce the plates.
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 modeling 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. |
May 2008
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 Early Express Company Operations in Ontario and Quebec, Competing with the Post Office Department, by Horace W. Harrison. BNAPS Exhibit Series #2 (revised). ISBN: 978-1-897391-22-8 (b&w), 978-1-897391-21-1 (colour). 8.5x11, Spiral Bound, 70 pp. Stock # B4h923.2 (b&w) $27.95, B4h923.2c (colour) $60.00
Horace Harrison was one of the preeminent philatelists in the field of British North America. Over more than 50 years he collected and researched many specialties, writing and exhibiting as his material and knowledge grew. One of the collections he continued to work on right up to his death in 2002 was 'Early Express Company Operations in Ontario and Quebec, Competing with the Post Office Department'. Early Express Mail was a field that intrigued Horace, and became a major passion in his last fifteen years. Unlike the British Columbia express companies, the eastern carriers had not been systematically studied, and no truly comprehensive collection had been developed. Horace went about both the research and the acquisition relentlessly, and very little passed him by. The results speak for themselves, and present an opportunity for interested collectors that simply will not come again.
In the end, it is the research and writing, the information shared, and the material assembled, that define the collector. This volume stands as a true testimonial to Horace's philatelic stature. It is comprehensive, and it is definitive. He had fun getting every piece, and was very pleased to know that others would be able to continue the study.
'Express Company Operations in Ontario and Quebec, Competing with the Post Office Department' 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 the 1997 version of this exhibit. 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.
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April 2008
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 The Dominion of Canada: The Large Queens 1868-1896 by Fred G. Fawn.
ISBN: 978-1-897391-22-8 (b&w), 978-1-897391-21-1 (colour). 8.5x11, Spiral Bound, 172 pp. Stock # B4h923.47 (B&W) $34.95, B4h923.471
(colour) $115.00
Fred Fawn has been a collector and exhibitor of Canadian philately for many years. After his Map stamp collection became the first Canada/BNA single stamp exhibit to receive a Gold award at the Federation Internationale de Philatelie (FIP) World level he went on to study the Large Queen issue. 'The Dominion of Canada: The Large Queens 1868-1896', the 47th volume in the BNAPS Exhibit series, is the result.
The Large Queen stamps were the first adhesives to be issued by Canada after Confederation in 1867. 'The Dominion of Canada: The Large Queens 1868-1896' shows the development of the stamps through the essay and proof stages. It then looks at all the stamps in the set, including varieties where they occurred as well as a special study of the colour variations of the 15¢ value, and into the postal history of each value. In recent years Fred has branched out into the field of single frame exhibiting. In a separate section this book includes his two exhibits in that category, one on the 15¢ value and the second on the postal history of the Large Queens. |
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 The Admiral Issue of Canada by Richard M. Morris.
ISBN: 978-1-897391-24-2 (b&w), 978-1-897391-23-5 (colour). BNAPS Exhibit Series #48. 8.5x11, Spiral Bound, 176 pp. Stock # B4h923.48 (B&W) $34.95, B4h923.481 (colour) $115.00
Richard Morris' 'The Admiral Issue of Canada' exhibit is aimed at both the beginner and the specialist; for the beginner to clarify terms used by Marler and to make his book less daunting; and for the specialist to take the study of the Admiral Issue beyond Marler to new discoveries. There are new re-entries, new earliest dates of cancellation, hanging chads caught in the process of a relief break and many findings that Marler either did not see or did not report.
The purpose of the 'file markings' on the Three Cents Brown is studied and illustrated in depth. The experiment of using multiple reliefs on a transfer roll reveals the difficulties the siderographers had in its application. The color shades of each of the denominations of the Admirals are also illustrated.
Richard M. Morris of Norfolk, Massachusetts returned to stamp collecting after retirement as a priest of the Episcopal Church. A challenge by a stamp dealer led to a deep interest in the color and shades of stamps. Ultimately, under the publishing name Pittsboro Philatelics, Richard produced color guides for U.S. and Canadian stamps using Munsell color chips. A new interest in the process of intaglio printing led to his reading the Hon. George C. Marler's 'The Admiral Issue of Canada' and ultimately to this exhibit, which received a Gold award at ROYAL 2007 ROYALE in Toronto. Richard continues to study the Admirals as a member of the Admiral Study Group of the British North America Philatelic Society (BNAPS), working closely with Leo Beaudet, editor of the Admiral's Log, and Sandy Mackie of Aberdeen, Scotland. Richard has served on the Board of Directors of BNAPS. He is also a member of the Philatelic Specialists Society of Canada, Royal Philatelic Society of Canada, Canadian Philatelic Society of Great Britain and the American Philatelic Society. He has twice won the APS Research Award as an exhibitor. |
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February 2008
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 Mrs. Brown The Canada Ten Cent 1898 Numeral Issue by Peter Spencer, 2008. Spiral Bound, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11, colour.
ISBN:
978-1-897391-25-9. Published by the British North America Philatelic Society (BNAPS). Stock # B4h034.1; C$89.00
'Mrs. Brown The Canada Ten Cent 1898 Numeral Issue' is the fourth volume in Peter Spencer's series on the plating of Canada's Queen Victoria era Numeral Issue. Using today's technology to produce scans of vivid clarity, the author has closely examined the Ten Cent value to advise readers how to determine the plate of individual copies of this popular stamp. Mrs. Brown is a companion to the author's previous Numeral volumes, the Two Cent (2005), the One Cent (2006) and the Five Cent (2007).
As with the earlier books in the series, Mrs. Brown is the first major plating study of the ten-cent value. It will form an excellent basis for further studies of this stamp and possible discoveries which readers may make as they examine their holdings. Calling the Ten Cent value 'Retouch Incorporated', in his introduction Peter states that it is "One of the most pleasureable Canadian stamps 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. |
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 The British North America Philatelic Society (BNAPS) Ltd. is pleased to announce the publication of:
Canada 19th Century Nonletter Mail by Victor L. Willson.
ISBN:
978-1-897391-20-4 (b&w), 978-1-897391-19-8 (colour). 8.5x11, Spiral Bound, 140 pp.
Stock # B4h923.46 (B&W) $33.95, B4h923.461 (colour) $94.00
Since 2004 BNAPS has, with the exhibitor's permission, printed the Grand and Reserve Grand award winning exhibits from the annual BNAPEX convention show as part of the Exhibit Series. This year we are very pleased to offer Victor L. Willson's 'Canada 19th Century Nonletter Mail', an amazing treatment of second, third, fourth and fifth class mail originating in Canada in the 1840-1901 period, which received the Grand Award at Calgary in September 2007. Although newspapers, circulars, parcel wrappers and book post items have appeared in isolation as part of exhibits on stamp issues such as the Pence, Cents, Large and Small Queens and later Victorian issues, what Vic has accomplished is to gather the key pieces from all these areas into one comprehensive collection, a task that has taken more than 20 years of research and acquisition to accomplish.
'Canada 19th Century Nonletter Mail' 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. |
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