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I collect anything that is listed in any of the catalogues. At one time Darnell published a catalogue of Errors. I believe the last catalogue they published covered stamps up up to the end of 1994. This catalogue is still available on eBay & Amazon and elsewhere.
The Unitrade catalogue has fairly extensive listings of the Centennial definitive series as well as many of the printing errors that were fairly common during the 1960 & 1970's. Different paper types are also listed in the Unitrade catalogue.
In my opinion if you are going to collect Canadian stamps you really do need a decent catalogue for reference. The Scott catalogue lists only the barest of information.
My 'beef' now is that the Unitrade Catalogue is so heavy I cannot lift it with one hand. It would make a good weight for exercising.
So Harvey, yes, someone else still bothers with this sort of stuff.
I've never been fortunate enough to acquire a 'printed on gum side' stamp.
Liz
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07:50:08am
I had a few responses and the stuff is already spoken for, now all I have to do is stop procrastinating and send it off. There really isn't anything really special looking about a stamp printed on gum side, except that the image is shinier. I don't have enough nerve to lick it!! It's Canada #460fi and since it only lists for about $35 they must have done many of them!
Edit: I double checked the price of my "printed on gum side" to see if it had changed. Actually it had!!! It's now $25!!! They must have let a great many of them through. I wonder what a used one would be worth. 
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I have a couple printed on gummed side Canadians. One I have just boggles my mind... the 1¢ MacDonald Unitrade, 586d from the Caricature definitives, initially issued on October 17, 1973. Unitrade valued it in the 2020 catalogue at an astounding $1,250 per stamp. WTF????? I don't know what I paid for it years ago, but it was nowhere near that astronomical value.
It is for sale if anyone wants it: only $1,200CDN! *LOL*
Peter
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06:17:09am
" ... My 'beef' now is that the Unitrade Catalogue
is so heavy I cannot lift it with one hand. It
would make a good weight for exercising...."
It is heavy and the worst is when having to extend
the arm to remove it rom a distant shelf.
Solution;
Since I only use the Unitrade or the equally weighty
Brookman for the main listing the rest can be excised
with sharp knife. Then sections that might be wanted
occasionally are stapled together and put in a manila
folder to be added to a cardboard box.
The general listings are heavy enough.
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You could always scan the catalogue & turn it into a PDF! I have piles of PDF's for catalogues. Much easier to manage & store that way.
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Catalogues for everything is my motto! I'm regretting it now as we pack to move
I've had one printed on the gummed side through my hands, GB 1969 1/6d Gandhi Centenary. I found it in a GB collection, got a certificate and sold it for lots.
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07:49:29am
" ... piles of PDF's ..."
I am sure I am not understanding how piles of PDF's are easier
to manage than piles of neatly grouped catalog pages.
I did that to the seven volumes of Scotts when I prepped to
move back from Texas a year or so ago.
For instance the countries of the north tier of Africa;
Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia are all together.
India, Ceylon, Burma and Bangladesh are also in one manila folder.
Scandinavia and the Nordic nations are together.
The UK, Ireland, ( for better or worse.) Isle of Man, and the
Channel Islands also are a convenient group in my mind.
To me, that seems more efficient than what I imagined as creating
a "pile of PDF's."
Countries I care little for remain in Texas in a waste dump.
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Computers are amazing at organizing stuff. I have a folder for all my catalogues buried in my Documents folder, easily accessible from the sidebar. Too easy, and much easier to move!
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25 Aug 2021
06:04:48pm
Back in the 1960's and 1970's my wife and I were into paper varieties, tagging errors, gum types, high brite and dull papers, etc., etc., for Canadian stamps. I've got pages of this stuff sitting around and it really doesn't "do anything" for me anymore. I'm just curious if anyone bothers with this sort of stuff anymore. If I remember right there were collectors who collected nothing else than the Centennial definitive series and there were whole books written on it. I've removed the few items I want, a few of the more interesting items - a few perf. shifts, a "printed on gum side" and some errors that are actually recognized. Is there a serious collector of the rest of this stuff among us? I would be willing to pass it on (free) to someone who collects it and doesn't just want to sell it. Send me a personal E-mail and I'll pass it on, eventually since I procrastinate. Why put something of until tomorrow when you can, just as easily, put it off until the next day?
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06:40:51am
re: Is anyone into this sort of "stuff" anymore?
I collect anything that is listed in any of the catalogues. At one time Darnell published a catalogue of Errors. I believe the last catalogue they published covered stamps up up to the end of 1994. This catalogue is still available on eBay & Amazon and elsewhere.
The Unitrade catalogue has fairly extensive listings of the Centennial definitive series as well as many of the printing errors that were fairly common during the 1960 & 1970's. Different paper types are also listed in the Unitrade catalogue.
In my opinion if you are going to collect Canadian stamps you really do need a decent catalogue for reference. The Scott catalogue lists only the barest of information.
My 'beef' now is that the Unitrade Catalogue is so heavy I cannot lift it with one hand. It would make a good weight for exercising.
So Harvey, yes, someone else still bothers with this sort of stuff.
I've never been fortunate enough to acquire a 'printed on gum side' stamp.
Liz
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This is my diabetic cat OBI! I think, therefore I am - I think! Descartes, sort of!
26 Aug 2021
07:50:08am
re: Is anyone into this sort of "stuff" anymore?
I had a few responses and the stuff is already spoken for, now all I have to do is stop procrastinating and send it off. There really isn't anything really special looking about a stamp printed on gum side, except that the image is shinier. I don't have enough nerve to lick it!! It's Canada #460fi and since it only lists for about $35 they must have done many of them!
Edit: I double checked the price of my "printed on gum side" to see if it had changed. Actually it had!!! It's now $25!!! They must have let a great many of them through. I wonder what a used one would be worth.
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re: Is anyone into this sort of "stuff" anymore?
I have a couple printed on gummed side Canadians. One I have just boggles my mind... the 1¢ MacDonald Unitrade, 586d from the Caricature definitives, initially issued on October 17, 1973. Unitrade valued it in the 2020 catalogue at an astounding $1,250 per stamp. WTF????? I don't know what I paid for it years ago, but it was nowhere near that astronomical value.
It is for sale if anyone wants it: only $1,200CDN! *LOL*
Peter
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07 Feb 2022
06:17:09am
re: Is anyone into this sort of "stuff" anymore?
" ... My 'beef' now is that the Unitrade Catalogue
is so heavy I cannot lift it with one hand. It
would make a good weight for exercising...."
It is heavy and the worst is when having to extend
the arm to remove it rom a distant shelf.
Solution;
Since I only use the Unitrade or the equally weighty
Brookman for the main listing the rest can be excised
with sharp knife. Then sections that might be wanted
occasionally are stapled together and put in a manila
folder to be added to a cardboard box.
The general listings are heavy enough.
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re: Is anyone into this sort of "stuff" anymore?
You could always scan the catalogue & turn it into a PDF! I have piles of PDF's for catalogues. Much easier to manage & store that way.
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re: Is anyone into this sort of "stuff" anymore?
Catalogues for everything is my motto! I'm regretting it now as we pack to move
I've had one printed on the gummed side through my hands, GB 1969 1/6d Gandhi Centenary. I found it in a GB collection, got a certificate and sold it for lots.
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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
07 Feb 2022
07:49:29am
re: Is anyone into this sort of "stuff" anymore?
" ... piles of PDF's ..."
I am sure I am not understanding how piles of PDF's are easier
to manage than piles of neatly grouped catalog pages.
I did that to the seven volumes of Scotts when I prepped to
move back from Texas a year or so ago.
For instance the countries of the north tier of Africa;
Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia are all together.
India, Ceylon, Burma and Bangladesh are also in one manila folder.
Scandinavia and the Nordic nations are together.
The UK, Ireland, ( for better or worse.) Isle of Man, and the
Channel Islands also are a convenient group in my mind.
To me, that seems more efficient than what I imagined as creating
a "pile of PDF's."
Countries I care little for remain in Texas in a waste dump.
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re: Is anyone into this sort of "stuff" anymore?
Computers are amazing at organizing stuff. I have a folder for all my catalogues buried in my Documents folder, easily accessible from the sidebar. Too easy, and much easier to move!
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