Garcelon stamps was one of the main approval companies i purchased stamps from in the 1950s. I always thought it was an American company since the stamps were mailed from Calais,Maine. The actual company was in St. Stephen, N.B. i guess its curtains for Garcelon as Eastern Auctions will sell the final inventory at auction February 25. So if anyone is interested in buying stamps in bulk...here you go !
Dave, the article was in the February 7-20 edition of Canadian Stamp News...see if this helps www.Canadianstampnews.ca or www.Easternauctions.com but be careful, if you are like me...we should try to get rid of existing stock !
I have been thinking about starting a thread to share our collective memories of dealers we have interacted with in our distant collecting past. Something like 'Dealers I have Known.'
I sometimes recall people I did business with since my early collecting days back in 1962. It might be fun to see if any others remember them. Does this sound of interest?
Not too long ago we had a discussion relating to that. I have bumped it back up in case anyone want to read the thread and let others know of their early experiences.
I stopped receiving stamps from them in the 1960s. They never sent me stamps like that, but then I couldn't afford them even back then. They liked, along with others like Harris, Kenmore, Jamestown and Mystic, to send incomplete sets that fit into the beginner and intermediate albums. When I got older, and started to look at catalogs and moved to the Scott International albums, I wasn't happy that I had so many incomplete sets. After that, when I requested approvals from a dealer, I always stated that I wanted complete sets.
I just thought, if my memory is still intact on this, didn't Garcelon Stamp Company send out a small flier with all new requests for approvals that had a picture of and a short story about the British Guiana #13? (I know that one of the older approval dealers did sent that.)
