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Alfred Lemay First Day Cover Collection [philatelic record]

Hierarchical level:

Collection

Date:

1954-1974.

Reference:

R15570-0-4-E

Type of material:

Stamps and stamp products

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4846344

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Alfred Lemay First Day Cover Collection
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Collection includes:

4 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1954-1974.

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Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

686 postal covers.

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, French

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This collection consists of privately printed first day postal covers for Canadian stamp issues between 1954 and 1974. These first day covers and their cachet images were designed and printed by private companies in response to demand from philatelic collectors at a time when the Post Office Department (later Canada Post) did not offer cacheted official first day of issue covers, which were only introduced in 1971 for the Maple in Spring issue (Scott # 535). Gathered in this collection is an extensive, although not complete, selection of covers from companies that include Rosecraft (1957-1974), H&E (1955-1972), Caneco (Canadian Envelope Company, 1954-1973), and Ginn (1959-1966). Within this collection there are also variant editions of some first day covers and generic cachets. Most of the postage stamps were cancelled in Ottawa, while a few have other local cancellations as noted in item level descriptions.

Provenance:

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Lemay, Alfred

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Custodial history:

The material in the collection was donated by collector Alfred Lemay to Library and Archvies Canada.

Arrangement note:

The collection is arranged into 4 series, based on the companies and catalogues created by Alfred Lemay: Rosecraft; H&E; Caneco and Ginn.

Source:

Private

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2015-01382-2
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Copyright: copyright for Canadian stamps is held by Canada Post Corporation. Copyright for first day covers is held by the respective companies.
Credit: Library and Archives Canada.

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