Wow, this Whale beached itself in my mailbox yesterday, but thankfully I was able to resuscitate it and managed to get it in the house where it will find a new home in my album.
Mike
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re: Whale of a stamp! Canadian $10
That is indeed a nice stamp!
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -Edmund Burke"
Hi---to add to the last post the $10 Blue Whale is the highest denominated stamp ever issued by Canada Post--the previous high denomination was the $8 Grizzly Bear issued in 1997.The large size 128mmX 49mm (for those who think in metric) was is, as previously mentioned the largest size stamp ever issued by Canada Post--they felt that the large size was fitting for a stamp depicting the King of the animal Kingdom (thier words)
Extra security features were incorporated into the stamp to prevent fraud.Take a look at the stamp under UV light--this introducesa whole new dimensionto the design.
Harold
MNH is fine but I have all the three big size Canadians in used sheets - the $8 Grizzly and the $5 Moose. These came as postage on the Unitrade catalogs that I ordered from FvH Stamps of Canada - well worth half the price of the catalog.
The $10 Whales used sheet I bought here at auctions, see below:
Now I am looking for used $2 Polar Bear if it was issued in sheets of 4, the Horse and Flacon sheet of 4. There were some earlier high denominations issued in panes of 8 that I'm missing, the $1 and $2 Olympic issues (Sc. #656-657) both varieties on normal and dull paper. Also #687-688 panes of 8 on normal and Fluorescent papers. Maybe I will get them here at SOR auctions!
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re: Whale of a stamp! Canadian $10
Wiggy,
Use your photo editor to reduce your image to no more than 900 pixels wide and 96 dpi, should upload fine after that.
-Bobby-
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -Edmund Burke"
Wow, this Whale beached itself in my mailbox yesterday, but thankfully I was able to resuscitate it and managed to get it in the house where it will find a new home in my album.
