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What fun that was!
- Watching mini-bidding wars ( 
), and even finally benefiting myself, although I had sworn up and down I wouldn't do it, but hey, how DOES one stop oneself from bidding on a $4 GB lot?! It called to me, ya know? 
- OOH, and I brought home some GB new stamp issue packets for review from Roy over the next couple of weeks!
- And thanks to Richard for the unexpected Belgium stamps he found and gave me... what a Mentor! 
- Finally, I spoke to Bob about some stamp stuff going on with a friend of mine and her sadly-unwell parents (because it's above my pay grade), and he offered to email her and let her know what steps she could take. THANKS Bob! I'll get that info to ya! She's very grateful.
This club rocks!
The UN has recently issued the last stamp of a joint issue set.
But these are not stamps printed on paper, they are stamps that are embroidered.
Please click on the link below for the story:
United for Peace "Stitch by Stitch"
https://unstamps.org/united-for-peace-video/
Session 3 of Stamps and Their Stories (SATS) started today, in the Friendship Room / Library at St Andrew’s on the Lake United Church. There were six participants - three new faces and three KSC members. This is the very first time that every participant is a collector, so we are looking forward to some exciting show and tell and good discussions.
Hugh MacDonald provided an introduction to philately and postal history that was very well received. We have a list of topics the group would like to see presented in future sessions, so please be prepared to say YES with enthusiasm if we come your way at this week’s meeting!
The Kingston Stamp Club is delighted to announce the 2026 Eastern Ontario Spring Stamp Festival, taking place on Saturday, April 18, 2026, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Crossroads United Church, 690 Sir John A. MacDonald Boulevard, Kingston, Ontario. The venue is wheelchair accessible and offers ample free parking for all attendees.
This year’s festival will feature several local stamp dealers and over 20 tables presenting an extensive range of definitive and commemorative postage stamps, revenue, Cinderella, and topical stamps, postal stationery, postcards, postmarks, and first day covers, as well as, catalogues, and collecting supplies will be available to purchase. The event provides experienced philatelists, postal historians, and newcomers to the hobby with an excellent opportunity to enhance or begin their collections while exploring the ways in which stamps reflect history, culture, art, and nature in miniature form.
Hope to see you there!
17-02-2026, 04:09 PM
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This thread starts with our last club meeting. Lloyd takes home bags of stock books from Roy to puruse at home. He noticed something in one book that he thought I would like:
I don’t have a huge collection of these stamps yet, and it is always exciting to find an intact sheet! These are my first from South Africa, and Roy made them highly affordable.
Then Tony gave me a bag of slogan cancels, because he remembers me talking about them. It was a lovely selection that included these:
And then I was gifted a cover for Valentines, with this lovely fellow on the back:
That is Adam Beck. His daughter suffered from tuberculosis and he and his wife invested considerable time into fundraising to build the Queen Alexandra Sanatorium, which opened in London, Ontario in 1910. In 1949 it was renamed the Beck Memorial Sanatorium.
Christmas seals were and are used to raise funds for charity, but they are not semi-postal stamps, which also raise funds for charity. The difference is the issuer - semi-postals are issued by the post office for use as postage and Christmas seals are not. Christmas seals are called Cinderella stamps. I don’t know if this Google explanation is accurate, but I do like it very much. “They are called “Cinderellas” because they are the “stepchildren” of philately - beautiful and similar to postage stamps, but not allowed to “attend the ball” (i.e., not listed in standard postage catalogues like Scott).”
The first Christmas seal appeared in Denmark in 1904, suggested by a postman. They were issued in the US in 1907 and Canada in 1908. The original Christmas seals were used to raise funds to build special hospitals for patients with tuberculosis. At the time, only the wealthy could afford treatment, but a disproportionate number of working class people were ill. In Canada, 61 hospitals had been built by 1938. After streptomycin was discovered in 1944 and provided free of charge across Canada, treatment changed. The last Canadian sanitorium closed in the 1970s.
You can read more about the history of Christmas seals in Canada at www.lung.ca .
The definitive reference for Cinderella stamps in Canada is The Field Guide to the Cinderella Stamps of Canada by Ronald G. Lafrenière, Bird Bear Press. The author passed away before completing the third edition, but his widow has promised the work will be finished. The third and final edition is expected to be published this year.
And if you’d like to know the difference between Sanitorium and Sanitarium - because historically, there is a difference - ask Google.
To celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year I share this beautiful Year of the Horse stamp with you!
Issued January 3, 2002, Scott #1934
Scott #1933
Of special interest please see the detail below:
Scott #1934i
(from https://postagestampguide.com/canada/stamps/17376)
See the thread at the top of this Forum for what's going on!
These are the participation gifts available leading up to the meeting for February 26.
Make your post, reply or comment in the proper forum and then come here and "Reply" to this post, say where you posted and claim one of the following gifts for delivery at the club on February 26, 2026. Webmaster (Roy) will put it aside with your name on it. Pick it up at the club. If you miss the meeting, so sorry, gift goes back into the pool. (We want you at the meetings too!)
More than one of each of these is available, but supplies of each are limited. Webmaster may not get to posting "This Gift is gone" in time, so it is possible you may be asked to pick an alternate.
#1
Ireland Complete Booklet
#2
Canada Youth Exhibition souvenir sheet FDC
#3
US 1978 CAPEX souvenir sheet - animals
#4
Rhodesia Trade Conference FDC
#5
1981 BNAPS Convention Souvenir Cover
#6
Bermuda Map Maximum Card
Roy
There are no longer Tariffs on Philatelic Materials and Revenue stamps and documents Being sent to The U.S. We still have to use the app Zonos Prepay. After you send picture it comes back Zero Tariffs.Thanks to the APS.
Scott 279A on cover with APS cert Registered as only one to date to be registered very fine condition asking $25,000. email me if interested in making an offer.