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Weekly Feature #160

For the week of July 11th - 18th, 2003

CANADA AT B.E.E.

Sometimes... no, not sometimes it happens often... we buy a collection and it gets put away after a show and remains unseen and unavailable for months or even years. That is what happened with an interesting collection of the British Empire Exhibition of 1924.
This event of 1924-1925 ranks as one of the greatest of all time and for decades those who had the opportunity to visit would recall fond memories.
Great Britain issued its first commemorative stamps for Queen Victoria's Jubilee, but they look like and were used as definitive stamps for about 15 years. Thus the stamps issued for the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 (Scott #185, 186) and re-issued with a change of date in 1925 (Scott #203, 204) are Great Britain's first true commemorative stamps.
The Empire not only participated in the Exhibition, but a number of colonies celebrated in a postal way with special postmarks for the B.E.E. These postmarks can lead to a lifetime of searching.
What we offer this week is a delightful postcard from the B.E.E. which shows Canada's impressive pavilion. The card addressed to Port Hope has a message about the Exhibition and has a lovely lightly cancelled Scott #186 (which as a used single catalogues US $12). The postcard survived the trans-Atlantic journey and the subsequent 79 years in lovely fresh condition.

CDN $30
US $22

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