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In case you don’t collect Canada, these particular Large Queens are known as the “Widow’s Weeds” because they show Queen Victoria wearing her mourning dress. The Queen wore that dress for 40 years — ! — following the death of her husband, Prince Albert (1819-1861), until her own death in 1901.
I like these particular copies of the two high-value stamps because they are in pairs, have reasonably nice CDS cancellations, and the 50-cent value is deliciously uncentered! (For whatever reason, I prefer stamps that in some way are different than the run-of-the-mill copies that end up in most stamp albums. I suppose that the 50-cent stamps should be considered to be EFOs — Errors, a Freaks, or Oddities — but to me that just makes them interesting.
Also, I once had VF, fresh, single, used copies of these stamps, both with Sock-on-the-Nose (SON) cancellations. I sold them in that brief period when I fancied myself an approval dealer. One of my clients, a young man collecting Canadian stamps, was thrilled to have them. I’ve always regretted selling them. But now I have replaced them with equally nice stamps (in my opinion).
Queen Victoria is, to me, an endlessly fascinating person. Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about her:
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days—which was longer than those of any of her predecessors—constituted the Victorian era. It was a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. In 1876, the British Parliament voted to grant her the additional title of Empress of India.
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Among my reasons (rationales?) for collecting stamps is that they allow me to be me, which means my collection will be unique. For example, I am the only one of more than 8,000,000,000 earthlings who has these stamps, with their particular cancellations, centring (or lack of centring), and general condition:
In case you don’t collect Canada, these particular Large Queens are known as the “Widow’s Weeds” because they show Queen Victoria wearing her mourning dress. The Queen wore that dress for 40 years — ! — following the death of her husband, Prince Albert (1819-1861), until her own death in 1901.
I like these particular copies of the two high-value stamps because they are in pairs, have reasonably nice CDS cancellations, and the 50-cent value is deliciously uncentered! (For whatever reason, I prefer stamps that in some way are different than the run-of-the-mill copies that end up in most stamp albums. I suppose that the 50-cent stamps should be considered to be EFOs — Errors, a Freaks, or Oddities — but to me that just makes them interesting.
Also, I once had VF, fresh, single, used copies of these stamps, both with Sock-on-the-Nose (SON) cancellations. I sold them in that brief period when I fancied myself an approval dealer. One of my clients, a young man collecting Canadian stamps, was thrilled to have them. I’ve always regretted selling them. But now I have replaced them with equally nice stamps (in my opinion).
Queen Victoria is, to me, an endlessly fascinating person. Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about her:
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days—which was longer than those of any of her predecessors—constituted the Victorian era. It was a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. In 1876, the British Parliament voted to grant her the additional title of Empress of India.
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