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Colour Innovations ‘not a regular printer’
Since 2015, Colour Innovations has been providing start-to-finish security printing services to print Canadian stamps.
This year, the Toronto-based security printer Colour Innovations will mark its 35th anniversary, including nearly a decade bidding on Canadian stamp-printing contracts. The firm previously supplied prepress services to Canada Post before serving as a subcontractor to one of the Crown corporation’s main printers beginning in 2003. More recently, in 2015, Colour Innovations began offering... Continue reading →
Exploring Stamps with ‘extreme philately’
Exploring Stamps podcast host Graham Beck (right), of New Jersey, accepts an honourary membership for the North Toronto Stamp Club from the group’s membership chair Les Selby at CAPEX 22 last June in Toronto.
With nearly 40,000 followers across his social media accounts, one philatelic influencer has propelled the hobby into the 21st century with an “extreme” take on collecting stamps. Graham Beck grew up in South Africa, where he collected new issues with his childhood friends, before moving to the United States, where he now lives in New Jersey.... Continue reading →
Brigham Collection ‘out of this world’
Late philatelist Ron Brigham, who died in August, provided Canada Post with the original black die proof for the 1851 three-pence ‘Beaver’ stamp when the Crown corporation designed a replica issue for the stamp’s 150th anniversary in 2001. The proof sold for $62,500 on a $35,000 estimate as Lot 2.
The first of four sales of Ron Brigham’s international Grand Prix-winning Province of Canada collection, the last material held by the late philatelist before his death last August, rewrote the record books in the days leading up to spring. The March 17 sale offered 163 lots centring on the three-pence and five-cent “Beaver” issues (Scott #1... Continue reading →