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Wonderful Canadian Cinderella Stamps - Janet MacD - 12-07-2026
In 2023 I wrote a short item for the newsletter about finding an interesting stamp in a box I had purchased from Don Mann when he was Dealer For a Day.
I kept looking for information about these stamps, and for a copy of the out of print catalogue of Canadian Cinderella stamps. Not a hugely active search, just Google follow-ups on a quarterly basis …
In 2025, I discovered that the third edition of the catalogue was almost finished. I was able to add my name to the publisher’s waiting list. In May 2026, it arrived!
There was an excellent summary about the stamps:
I missed a club meeting in June. Hugh told me Roy had shown him a binder of these stamps, but they were of no interest to him. Hugh SHOULD have told Roy “the woman who has stuck by my side since 1969 and feigned interest in most of my incessant lectures on a wide range of increasingly dull topics would love to see these.” But at least he mentioned it to me …
Thankfully Roy reads his email promptly and the binder was set aside for me to peruse in July.
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And now I feel a bit like Gollum as I hold the book in a close embrace and say “my precious …”
I love the spirit and passion these stamps represent. The government rejects your request for a stamp to honour your history - not once, but twice - so you create your own stamps …
How can anyone think philately is boring???
RE: Wonderful Canadian Cinderella Stamps - Carmen - 13-07-2026
Very, very cool, Janet! Yeah, what never ceases to amaze me in philately is the depth of expertise we can find around the world, which leads to great publications like the above Field Guide to the Cinderella Stamps of Canada, thus allowing us to gain greater expertise within our own collections.
Now all I need to do is to write "The Field Guide to Sorting-Random-Boxes-of-the-All-Too-Many-Stamps-I've-Been-Tempted-By-And-Bought-Whether-Or-Not_I-Needed-Them"...
Anyone else want to be on the pre-publication order list for that?! COME ON, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!
