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By: Robin Harris, E-mail: rharris@adminware.ca, Seddons Corner, Manitoba, Canada
Updated: Aug 31, 2010 (10:40am CDT)

Canada...

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Information and pages developed by: Robin Harris, FRPSC.

* Life Member of APS, RPSC, BNAPS
* Unitrade Editor
* RPSC webmaster
* Corgi Times (ESG) Editor

As a longtime collector of Canada, United States, and the Great Britain Machins, particularly studying Canadian definitives for the past 40 years, I provide the following philatelic material authored by myself.

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Canadian Philatelic Headlines
Updated: May 31/10

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Lowe-Martin Serpentine Die Cutting (updated Apr 29/10)

Flower definitive checklists updated: Series I (50c era) | II (51c era) | III (52/93/1.10/1.55 era) | IV (52/96/1.15/1.60 era) [updated Feb 11/09]

Olympic definitive checklist [updated Nov 28/09])

Canada's postal rates (since 1943)

Elizabethan-era Stamp Glossary

Scott number changes (April 2008)

On-Line Canada Tagging Database

Search for any Canadian tagging error (untagged, 1-bar, shifts, double tag, etc.).

The Unitrade Specialized Catalogue of Canadian Stamps

The Unitrade 2011 has gone to the printer and should be shipping in October 2010.
The Unitrade 2010 began shipping about October 28, 2009. [ updates/additions/errata ]
The Unitrade 2009 began shipping October 31, 2008. [ errata ]
The Unitrade 2008 began shipping September 25, 2007. [ errata ]
The Unitrade 2007 was available the first week of October 2006.

Unitrade 2006 details and errata; it won a GOLD award at C7NPLE in October 2006.

Canada Specialized Books & Album Pages
[updated Jun 28, 2008]

I have prepared seven different books and album pages on the Canadian definitives issued since 1952.
Released starting in April 1997 they have won VERMEIL awards at ORAPEX 1997, APS Stampshow 97, and APS Stampshow 01.

Canada definitive specialized checklists

Checklists of Canadian stamps for the discriminating collector [updated Jan 17/10].
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Elizabethan postal rates [updated Jan 9/10]

Study Tips

Canadian Elizabethan Specialized Study Tips [updated May 17, 2008].

Elizabethan II Study Group

A specialized Study Group of the British North America Philatelic Society (BNAPS) exists for the Elizabethan II era.
Click here for information on this study group and its journal, the Corgi Times.

Machins
[updated Aug 31, 2010]
Album pages now available!

I have always had an interest in the on-going Great Britain Machin series of stamps. Click here to enter the Machin portion of this site (over 200 web pages listing over 1,400 varieties).

United States
[FOP updated Apr 12, 2002]
[PNC updated Oct 11, 2004]

My first stamp collection, started in 1966ish, was United States. Here you will find sorting tips for the 32c Flag Over Porch and an extensive site on the Plate Number Coils.