<![CDATA[Kingston Stamp Club Community Forum - Worldwide -- anything else that doesn't fit]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/ Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:42:41 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[AI Bringing Stamps to Life!]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=340 Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:20:02 +0000 Barb]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=340 resurface and evoke emotions. 
Well now, stamps can come "to life" using AI! 

These are two stamps:
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that were turned into living stamps please click on the links to view.

First the 1929 Scott 158 Bluenose I: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1317166853534908

And the second 1973 Turkish Angora Cat: https://www.facebook.com/reel/795583683573891

Amazing!]]> resurface and evoke emotions. 
Well now, stamps can come "to life" using AI! 

These are two stamps:
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that were turned into living stamps please click on the links to view.

First the 1929 Scott 158 Bluenose I: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1317166853534908

And the second 1973 Turkish Angora Cat: https://www.facebook.com/reel/795583683573891

Amazing!]]> <![CDATA[Embroidered Stamps]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=332 Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:42:40 +0000 Barb]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=332 But these are not stamps printed on paper, they are stamps that are embroidered.

Please click on the link below for the story: 
United for Peace "Stitch by Stitch"

https://unstamps.org/united-for-peace-video/

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Please click on the link below for the story: 
United for Peace "Stitch by Stitch"

https://unstamps.org/united-for-peace-video/

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]]> <![CDATA[Tuberculosis Awareness]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=328 Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:09:27 +0000 Janet MacD]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=328
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I don’t have a huge collection of these stamps yet, and it is always exciting to find an intact sheet! These are my first from South Africa, and Roy made them highly affordable.

Then Tony gave me a bag of slogan cancels, because he remembers me talking about them. It was a lovely selection that included these:

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And then I was gifted a cover for Valentines, with this lovely fellow on the back:

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That is Adam Beck. His daughter suffered from tuberculosis and he and his wife invested considerable time into fundraising to build the Queen Alexandra Sanatorium, which opened in London, Ontario in 1910. In 1949 it was renamed the Beck Memorial Sanatorium. 

Christmas seals were and are used to raise funds for charity, but they are not semi-postal stamps, which also raise funds for charity. The difference is the issuer - semi-postals are issued by the post office for use as postage and Christmas seals are not. Christmas seals are called Cinderella stamps. I don’t know if this Google explanation is accurate, but I do like it very much. “They are called “Cinderellas” because they are the “stepchildren” of philately - beautiful and similar to postage stamps, but not allowed to “attend the ball” (i.e., not listed in standard postage catalogues like Scott).”

The first Christmas seal appeared in Denmark in 1904, suggested by a postman. They were issued in the US in 1907 and Canada in 1908. The original Christmas seals were used to raise funds to build special hospitals for patients with tuberculosis. At the time, only the wealthy could afford treatment, but a disproportionate number of working class people were ill. In Canada, 61 hospitals had been built by 1938. After streptomycin was discovered in 1944 and provided free of charge across Canada, treatment changed. The last Canadian sanitorium closed in the 1970s. 

You can read more about the history of Christmas seals in Canada at www.lung.ca .

The definitive reference for Cinderella stamps in Canada is The Field Guide to the Cinderella Stamps of Canada by Ronald G. Lafrenière, Bird Bear Press. The author passed away before completing the third edition, but his widow has promised the work will be finished. The third and final edition is expected to be published this year.

And if you’d like to know the difference between Sanitorium and Sanitarium - because historically, there is a difference - ask Google.]]>
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I don’t have a huge collection of these stamps yet, and it is always exciting to find an intact sheet! These are my first from South Africa, and Roy made them highly affordable.

Then Tony gave me a bag of slogan cancels, because he remembers me talking about them. It was a lovely selection that included these:

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And then I was gifted a cover for Valentines, with this lovely fellow on the back:

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That is Adam Beck. His daughter suffered from tuberculosis and he and his wife invested considerable time into fundraising to build the Queen Alexandra Sanatorium, which opened in London, Ontario in 1910. In 1949 it was renamed the Beck Memorial Sanatorium. 

Christmas seals were and are used to raise funds for charity, but they are not semi-postal stamps, which also raise funds for charity. The difference is the issuer - semi-postals are issued by the post office for use as postage and Christmas seals are not. Christmas seals are called Cinderella stamps. I don’t know if this Google explanation is accurate, but I do like it very much. “They are called “Cinderellas” because they are the “stepchildren” of philately - beautiful and similar to postage stamps, but not allowed to “attend the ball” (i.e., not listed in standard postage catalogues like Scott).”

The first Christmas seal appeared in Denmark in 1904, suggested by a postman. They were issued in the US in 1907 and Canada in 1908. The original Christmas seals were used to raise funds to build special hospitals for patients with tuberculosis. At the time, only the wealthy could afford treatment, but a disproportionate number of working class people were ill. In Canada, 61 hospitals had been built by 1938. After streptomycin was discovered in 1944 and provided free of charge across Canada, treatment changed. The last Canadian sanitorium closed in the 1970s. 

You can read more about the history of Christmas seals in Canada at www.lung.ca .

The definitive reference for Cinderella stamps in Canada is The Field Guide to the Cinderella Stamps of Canada by Ronald G. Lafrenière, Bird Bear Press. The author passed away before completing the third edition, but his widow has promised the work will be finished. The third and final edition is expected to be published this year.

And if you’d like to know the difference between Sanitorium and Sanitarium - because historically, there is a difference - ask Google.]]> <![CDATA[England 1930s Cigarette Cards with Safety Tips]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=304 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 03:56:03 +0000 Janet MacD]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=304
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]]> <![CDATA[Terminology: FDC vs Cover]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=288 Wed, 03 Dec 2025 11:14:48 +0000 Carmen]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=288
  • A FDC is usually issued by an official postal authority, like Canada Post
  • A Cover can be a First Day of Issue type of thing, but usually done by a private company or person (i.e. like the Roger Tory Peterson cachets I'm currently cataloguing).
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  • A FDC is usually issued by an official postal authority, like Canada Post
  • A Cover can be a First Day of Issue type of thing, but usually done by a private company or person (i.e. like the Roger Tory Peterson cachets I'm currently cataloguing).
Yes? No? Huh]]> <![CDATA[New Stamps for Christmas]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=281 Thu, 13 Nov 2025 05:30:54 +0000 RICHARD]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=281
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]]> <![CDATA[Born on this Day]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=253 Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:44:13 +0000 Hugh]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=253
One of his landscape paintings, Bylot Island, was featured on one of the stamps in Canada's 1967 Centennial Series.

Stamp: Canada
Centennial Definitives - High Value
Bylot Island
Issued on December 9, 1969
15c, Dull purple, W2B Tagging
Sc. 463p

Cancel: CDS
Based on the S on the bottom strike, with what seems to be P.[Q.] and the last four letters DEON on the top one, I'm assuming this is from St. Gédéon, PQ ... written in capital letters without accents. Happy to be corrected. I can't find anything else that fits.

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One of his landscape paintings, Bylot Island, was featured on one of the stamps in Canada's 1967 Centennial Series.

Stamp: Canada
Centennial Definitives - High Value
Bylot Island
Issued on December 9, 1969
15c, Dull purple, W2B Tagging
Sc. 463p

Cancel: CDS
Based on the S on the bottom strike, with what seems to be P.[Q.] and the last four letters DEON on the top one, I'm assuming this is from St. Gédéon, PQ ... written in capital letters without accents. Happy to be corrected. I can't find anything else that fits.

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As time goes by ... add to this thread other stamps for other days and other people.]]> <![CDATA[Steel Postmarking and Canceling Stamps]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=233 Sun, 19 Oct 2025 01:31:16 +0000 RICHARD]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=233
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]]> <![CDATA[The New Haven Beehive]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=232 Sun, 19 Oct 2025 01:13:17 +0000 RICHARD]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=232
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]]> <![CDATA[Lines another way to collect]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=206 Sun, 12 Oct 2025 14:44:12 +0000 RICHARD]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=206
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]]> <![CDATA[Stamp dealer covers]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=204 Sun, 12 Oct 2025 14:09:48 +0000 RICHARD]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=204
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]]> <![CDATA[Fancy Cancels Put yours world wide]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=200 Sat, 11 Oct 2025 03:57:36 +0000 RICHARD]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=200
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]]> <![CDATA[Postal Rates 1792]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=195 Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:12:26 +0000 RICHARD]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=195
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]]> <![CDATA[Rutlan Rail Road Company U. S Revenue Act of 1917]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=158 Tue, 07 Oct 2025 05:10:20 +0000 RICHARD]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=158
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]]> <![CDATA[Study of 1 cent U.S. stamp]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=157 Tue, 07 Oct 2025 04:34:08 +0000 RICHARD]]> https://kingstonstampclub.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=157
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