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Canpex Grand winner offers ‘very aesthetic experience’
Overall, nine exhibits – about a third of the competitive entries at Canpex – earned large golds, the highest medal level, with 90 or more points.
Ontario philatelist Stuart Reddington took home the Grand Award at Canpex for his eight-frame exhibit on Canada’s Small Queen stamps, the country’s longest-running series, which spanned more than 25 years in the late 1800s. The exhibit, entitled “Canada Small Queens, 1870-1897,” earned 97 points to top the field of 30 competitive exhibits at the Oct.... Continue reading →
Yuichi Tada Collection offers Nova Scotia Pence, Cents
An 1860 cover, one of only four recorded Nova Scotia Pence covers mailed to France, features a three-stamp franking. It’s expected to bring at least $20,000 as Lot 57 of the Yuichi Tada Collection, a single-session sale coming on Nov. 17.
A highly touted collection of colonial Nova Scotian stamps and postal history will cross the block in New Brunswick this fall. Eastern Auctions will offer the 135-lot Yuichi Tada Collection, centring on the former British colony’s 1851-67 Pence and Cents issues, on Nov. 17. It features proofs, stamps, multiples and postal history spanning the colonial... Continue reading →