roy
BuckaCover.com - 80,000 covers priced 60c to $1.50 - Easy browsing 300 categories 15 Mar 2015 02:00:56pm | re: circular date cancels
This is a stamp with a CDS.
Such used stamps are actively sought out by collectors, as opposed to the usual inkjet or wavy lines cancels. They are scarce enough on modern Canadian stamps that those who want them find they are in competition with others and have to pay a premium. Such stamps frequently fetch prices of $0.50 to $1.00 each, with some as high as $2. This is in comparison to the same stamp that nobody wants at 10c if it has a wavy-line cancel.
I know dealers who make a specialty of this quality of modern stamp, and they are always busy at the stamp shows. Maintaining a stock of such material is a challenge. Thus the note in the catalogue.
Roy
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Editor, Seal News; contributor, JuicyHeads 16 Mar 2015 09:08:49am
Auctions | re: circular date cancels
Harley,
just to add to the good information already given, CDS are not always rare; in the 19th century, prior to the advent of spray ons and wavy killers, they predominated, both as machine and as hand stamps. The CDS was one part of a two-part machine, with CDS plus a second piece that would include a flag, wavy lines, a slogan, a picture, or.......
Even in the 20th century, CDS are not rare. In the US, they often don't strike the stamp, so for collectors of off-paper stamps, they WERE, but no longer ARE, present on the piece of mail.
The CDS are also valued because they help to ID where and when a stamp originated.
David
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