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Canada Joint Issues - Hugh - 22-01-2026

A 2002 joint issue between Canada and Hong Kong, China ... 

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RE: Canada Joint Issues - Barb - 26-01-2026

I'd like to add another joint issue, this one between Canada and Australia:

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Sailing Ship Marco Polo Souvenir Sheet, released 1999-03-19, Scott #1799a
Features the stamp titled The Marco Polo Under Full Sail  (Scott #1799b) 
 

RE: Canada Joint Issues - Hugh - 26-01-2026

Nice one ... let's keep it going. 

Here's another joint issue ... Canada and Italy, 1997. 

Commemorating the voyage of John Cabot in 1497 to the shores of Newfoundland (or, Cape Breton, Nova Soctia -- maybe). John Cabot was born in Italy (nobody is quite sure where) and was sailing under the sponsorhip of Henry VII of England. It's been suggested that when he arrived, Basque fisherman were already working the Grand Banks off Newfoundland. A secret fishing spot they had known about for years (smile). There are the ruins of a Basque whaling station at Red Bay on the south shore of Labrador. It (only) dates back to 1530. I visited it about 25 years ago. In 2013 it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site - but that's another story.

Stamps:
Canada: 500th Anniversary of John Cabot's Voyage to (what is today) Canada
John Cabot's Ship Mathew with Map and Globe
45c 6 Colour Lithography, Fluorescent coated paper + GT4 tagging (all edges)
Issued on June 24, 1997
Unitrade 1649

Italy - Il Viaggio de Caboto
Sc. 2162

Joint FDC Canada and Italy

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RE: Canada Joint Issues - Carmen - 27-01-2026

Thanks for posting Hugh and Barb. 

I thought to myself, "Hey how come I've never seen these?" Ahhhhhh... because they're part of the mint Canada stamps I order on approval from Arpin (anything prior to 2003) so I simply have not received them yet. I look forward to adding those to my collection at some point! I'll have to go see if I have them Used though, but none really rings a bell.

RE: Canada Joint Issues - Hugh - 27-01-2026

Hi Carmen ... Canada has produced more than thirty joint issue stamps .... around the world thousands of such stamps exist. 

Here is a list of some joint issue stamps ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_issue

It's a popular topical (or thematic) collecting area. I know you're on TSF. If you search for the 'Joint Issue' thread you'll send hundreds of examples.

This is the kind of stamp that you really need to go looking for. Even if you see a single joint issue stamp in some kiloware or on an approval card you may not recognize that it's a joint issue stamp.  Many of the more modern joint issues are sold together on a souvenir sheet. But many others, especially the older ones, are just sold individually as stamps. If they're on a First Day Cover, that helps. 

Here, for example is a joint issue stamp (well, stamps ... as in this case the two countries issued a joined pair of srtamps) 

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If you found one stamp, or even one pair, in a box would you know they were joint stamps? You've probably seen many joint issue stamps over the years without realizing it. (smile)

Here is a pair on an FDC .... if you collect covers, it is often easier to see the two countries stamps, used, at the same time. 

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Another example, this time a souvenir sheet. 

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There are a lot of interesting aspects to this collecting area. For example, sometime joint issues are produced not by two countries but by three ... or more. This is often done in Europe. And, some colonial stamps were issued as Omnibus Issues ... so called because a country, say the United Kingdom, issued the same stamp (only the country name and currency was changed) for all of their colonies at the same time. This was done several times by the UK, by France, by Portugal. 

Just one example is this set of stamps issued by the UK to celebrate the end of WW2. 

Here's just part of the set. 

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I had been assembling this particular series stamp-by-stamp for several years. Then, at a club meeting, I found the full set already mounted on Lindner pages in one of Roy's boxes. I bought it and completed the entire set in one go. Happy Day!

Anyway, if you're interested in collecting joint issue stamps ... you might want to start with the list I posted above and then start looking for some of the stamps you want. 

And, while Arpin is a good company (I buy lighthouse binders from them) sometimes the best way to find stamps (quickly and without postage) is to talk to some of the club dealers. If you know what you're looking for Roy's 10 cent binders can be a real help. 

Have fun!

PS - Sometimes, not always, Scott or Unitrade catalgoues will write, under a stamp's description something like ... "see Germany Sc. XXX". That usually means, it's a joint issue stamp.

RE: Canada Joint Issues - Carmen - 28-01-2026

Hey thanks for the info, Hugh... yeah it's not necessarily anything I'd set out to collect specifically (after all I AM trying to STOP bringing All The Stamps into my house, LOL!), but it's certainly interesting, so I will keep an eye out! Certainly as I figure out that it's a Canada-with-someone-else joint issue, I'll go looking for the other country's issue as well.

RE: Canada Joint Issues - Barb - 28-01-2026

On a snowy day what's better than spending time putting away newly procured stamps? As I am doing this, I found another Joint Issue Souvenir Sheet between Canada and China, titled Big Cats, issued on October 13, 2005, Scott #2123b:

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Featuring a Cougar (Felis concolor) and an Amur Leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis).

I bet these big cats have a big purr!

RE: Canada Joint Issues - Hugh - 28-01-2026

Nice one Barb .... and that's a cool joint issue for another reason too. It was the first time Canada Post included a shaped perforation on a Canadian stamp. 

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Notice the Maple Leaf worked into the perforations on the Canadian se-tenant pair.

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Canada - Big Cats
50c
Issued on October 13, 2005
Unitrade 2123a - Se-tenant Pair (2122, 2123), Cougar and Amur Leopard
Joint FDC with People's Republic of China

China
Sc. 3458 and 3459

RE: Canada Joint Issues - Carmen - 29-01-2026

Yeah I noticed that as well Hugh and thought how pretty that is. One of my other favourite stamps is the Canada Literacy one which, although not a joint issue, included the perforation of a puzzle piece. Creative, ya know?

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