Email Price List - October 9, 2013
Dear Collector Friend,
This list contains some very unusual and desireable material. I would encourage you to look carefully and
enjoy. The list includes early stamp dealer covers, a jigsaw puzzle, a the cover, “a penny for your thoughts”
cosng 4c, Dick Lamb’s favourite cover, a few stamp ephemera items, an illegal loery scam, and a leer carrier Christmas card from Toronto’s first black leer carrier.
The following items are available subject, unsold. Prices are in Canadian funds.
Email bill@longleyaucons.com to place an order.
Item #1. Geral Wellburn’s album page for the Cents issue with an unused #15.
$250
Item #2. 6d Forgery, old Sco #6d, large margins, well printed but not likely to fool anyone. And more amazingly, it is accompanied by a pink Vincent Graves Greene Philatelic Foundaon cerficate #36, a very early
cerficate number and quite likely from the very first meeng ever. A bit of Canadian history.
$250
Item #3. 1867 Grand Trunk Railway envelope with #15 5c Beaver ed by BLUE Belleville duplex (MY 11 67) to
London, CW and manuscript notaon “charge 16” nong the postage was charged to charge box 16. $75
Item #4. 1901 Dominion Philatelic Associaon membership card (creased, adhesion on back) with reproducon
of 12 1/2c Cents issue stamp, signed by President Ernest Wurtele and Secretary Treasurer George Starnaman,
two pioneer names in Canadian philately. Member Robson McCraw of Inglewood Ont.
$100
Item #5. Another philatelic gem. Richard (Dick) Lamb’s favourite cover. He almost always had this under his
glass at shows with a note “Not for Sale”. 16 stamps with 11 bisects ed by London type 1 squared circle (PM
JA 29 96) to Earnie Davenport, London, (stamp dealer) and a carrier mark on the face. How many collectors
remember this gem from over the years at Dick’s table? Yes it is philatelic, but yes it has enough unmulated
postage that the leer was delivered. It must be the most bisects on any cover in Canadian philately. $700
Item #6. 1898 Spadina Avenue Toronto cds (JU 18 98) on 1c Leaf postal card to Mr. Davenport asking if he has
any more sets of the Jubilee stamps. With a manuscript notaon $12.50. A hey profit in the heyday of stamp
speculaon. And here is apiece of that history right here. I’ll sell this card for the price of a Jubilee set, in 1898
prices. Fun!!
$12.50
Item #7 Toronto Leer carrier Christmas Greeng Card, showing 7 main post offices of the major cies in
Canada. The leer carrier signature line has the printed name “A. C. Jackson” in old English script.
$500
Amazingly, this card is from the first known black postman in Toronto.
From the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, Black History Month Feb 1979:
(hp://www.crr.ca/en/programs/186-combang-racism/24520-albert-jackson-toronto-s-first-black-mailmanblack-history-month-poster)
“When Albert Jackson showed up for his first day of work as a mailman, on May 17, 1882, the other leer carriers refused to show him the rounds. The reason: He was black. The postal service gave Jackson to the menial
job of hall porter, hoping to diffuse the situaon. It didn’t.” Toronto’s black community was galvanized into acon and supported Jackson, a former child slave from the United States who had escaped to Canada along the
Underground Railroad. They were determined to see Jackson working his mail route and took their demands to
John A. Macdonald, the prime minister. It was an elecon year, and they were heard.
Wanng to please black voters, Macdonald intervened.”
*On June 2, 1882 Albert Jackson was sent out with one of the
leer carriers to learn his new job. This began his career as
the first known Black postman in Toronto.”
Item #8. 1888 8c registered leer rate Halifax, NS to Lile Compton, Rhode Island, 1c, 2c SQ ed by oval R and
5c RLS (faulty perfs overhanging edge) ed by R as well, enclosed is invoice for stamps including China “new
issues”, with Henry Hechler’s signature. A piece of history.
$100
Item #9. 1884 St. Stephen, NB to Westford, Vermont, with enclosured circuler for
“Royal New Brunswick Cash Distribuon”,
a large circular with rules and prizes, oen
referred to as an “illegal loery” which
were banned, and oen intercepted. The
senders of these leers oen went to great
lengths to mask their identy. This one
with a return address. Circular separaon
along a fold, cover with a tear at upper le.
A con arst’s leer, one of the darker sides
of philately.
$75
Item #9. 1898 Georgetown, Ont squared circle (NO 23 1898) es 1c Jubilee, 1/2c Leaf pair on 3c postal staonery envelope paying 5c UPU leer rate to Rosario de Sta Fe, Argenna with receiver backstamps. Stanley
Anderson handstamp (a stamp dealer) doing internaonal business. Scarce desnaon.
$250
Item #10. 1898 Toronto (Sep 8) orb es 2c Jubilee and 1c Numeral on Old Glory adversing cover to Muscane,
Iowa, with handstamp of “J. H. Lowe 40 Adelaide St East Toronto, Stamps bought and sold”. I inially began
typing this as a JC Wilson patrioc but it doesn’t appear to be one of his, unless unlisted?
$200
Item #11 1897 St. Catharines, Ont cds (OC 28) es 1c SQ (3) and 5c Jubilee on R.G. Widdicombe stamp dealer
cc cover to Cleveland Ohio, USA paying 8c registered leer rate, numerous bs and transit hs.
$100
Item #12. 1910 1c Edward on postcard from Windsor, Ont (Mar 25) to USA with two typographic view labels
(ed) showing car ferry and Presbyterian church. Oddball.
$25
Item #13. 1908 1c
Edward ed by Hagersville, Ont grid (DE 1)
on Christmas postcard
to Hawkestone, three
typograph view labels
on front and three on
reverse. (Hagersville
train staon, bank and
main street, plus Bapst,
Methodist and Presbyterian churches.
$25
Item #14. 1910ca 2c Edward ed by
cork cancel on Naonal Snuff Company sample envelope with clasp
closure from Monteal to local address. The printed noce authorizes
the postmaster to pass the package
along if undeliverable. The package
is readdressed to a different person.
Very peculiar because the postmaster then seems to act as an agent for
the company, deciding who might
like a free sample, or perhaps the
postmaster just readdressed many
packages to the same person, or
friend. Very odd.
$50
Item #15. 1909 1c Edward ed by Grimsby, Ont duplex (Jul 8) on postcard with 1c coin aachment “A Penny
for your thoughts”, As a postcard with an aachment, the postcard was properly rated as a leer, short paid
2c with “Insufficinetly prepaid” hs and “More to Pay”, a large “2”, a London machine cancel receiver and a 2c
(J2) postage due es, apparently quite violently. Perhaps the recipeint was not pleased having to pay 2c for the
penny? I’ve only ever seen a few postcards like this, and only two properly treated as postage due.
$100
Item #16. Minnehaha Bay Muskoka steamer view ed (literally !!) by string to a birch bark postcard with a 1c
Edward cancelled by grid (ny scuff LL) and addressed to Toronto, message datelined “July 27 09”. Should have
been leer rated, but avoided capture and postage due. Anque coage cra at its finest.
$75
Item #17. 1907 Victoria, BC duplex (DFE 20) es 2c Edward on wooden (birch-bark-like) envelope to London
England. Leer wrien about RMS Empress fo China. The wood may in fact be Japanese in origin, returned to
Canada by a passenger about the ship.
$150
Item #18. 1918 Keswick, Ont cds (AU 8) es 2c Admiral on die cut postcard to Mormer’s Place, Muskoka,
redirected. The postcard is die cut in the shape of a travel tag, with a hole punched where a string would be
aached. A most unusual format., which would not have challenged the cancelling machines too much and
therefore allowed to pass.
$35
Item #19. Die cut postal informaon
booklet, 1929, in the form of a parcel with
Admiral stamps (facsimilie) and an Insured
handstamp. Booklet full of useful informaon for the postal patron (and modern
day postal historian).
$50
Item #20. 1914 Parcel post rate card,
with instrucons, form # “250,000-2210-1914x No 2. P.P.”
If you want to see the rates in the
table, you will just have to buy the
card.
$25
Item #21. 1c Arch precancel “4530” on Brocks Bird Seed jigsaw puzzle envelope with staple closure, sent as
printed maer, from Toronto to London, Ont. The enclosed jigsaw was a form of adversing, quite ingenious.
If you want to see the finished puzzle, scroll to the end of this price list. (two pieces missing sadly)
$40
Item #22. 1959 Cornwall machine cancel (21 XII ) es 2c Widling on local leer, returned as not found. The reverse has a Cornwall machine cancel (Dec 28) but most peculiar is the bar coding. I have never seen this before
but would hazard a guess that it is an early experiment of postal sorng. Perhaps it was employed in an automated system of Advance mail for Christmas cards? OKay maybe I’m crazy but I’ve never seen another. $75
Item #23.1977 Montreal to local address, 12c meter, Bilingual “Found and Delayed Following The ”.
$15
Item #24. June 25, 1985 machine cancel es 32c stamp ONE DAY aer rate increase to 34c and hilarious message from sender shortpaying rate, “I was unable to find a post office that could sell me a 2c stamp. So you can
just post this at 32c and sit and think about what went wrong!”. I remember this period. People lining up for 1
penny or 2c stamp, causing line-ups. Eventually the post office invented the “P” stamps.
$10
Item #25. Jan 14, 1988 36c stamp shortpays 37c rate but get a note “1c not available from post office”. $10
Item #26. 1999 45c stamp AND an actual real penny taped and ed by machine cancel and jet spray paying the
“new 46c rate. A determined postal patron who probably couldn’t find a penny stamp either.
$15
Item #27 1988 Montreal $6.65
first class, to St. Luc, Que with
COD label and notaon $6.65”
due.
$15
Item #28. Newfoundland stamp reproduced on Wilcox & Tower stamp dealer card (Chicago, ILL), circa 1890s
to 1910 period. Scarce.
$30
So this is what the puzzle looks like. Two pieces missing, but not bad for an 80 year old puzzle.
“A sweet singing canary will cheer your home. Feed him Brocks”