Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
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For excellent bang for the buck, join the APS and then ask the American Philatelic Research Library to send you copies of relevant documents in their collection. They've never let me down, and their service is EXCELLENT! There really is no other way to get access to the majority of philatelic publications about every subject you can imagine, and some you can't.
Bob
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"There really is no other way to get access to the majority of philatelic publications about every subject you can imagine, and some you can't."
If you have University affiliations, you can file for an Inter-Library Loan (ILL) request which are processed briskly. Shipping from library to library is free. Even several (all?) public libraries offer ILL facilities, but they are slower. I know most (all?) US Universities are part of the system; cannot be sure about the rest of the world though.
My point: Joining APS for the library is perhaps not a great idea. The best library for philatelic resources in North America is the Smithsonian (National Postal Museum Library) who, it appears, are part of ILL.
"Still trying at the library"
You should check World Catalog, if you haven't already. A cursory search for "Squared Circle Postmarks Canada" provides several resources, many in Canada as can be expected.
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The Unitrade Canadian catalog has a three page listing of known Canadian squared circle cancels.They show the type,location and provide a rarity factor.They state that this is not a "specialized list" but it is a good starting point.
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Thankyou guys I will check out the unitrade catalogue as well as the library....Cheryl...I FOUND WHAT I NEEDED!!! Thankyou Bailey.....
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Unitrade also mentions the need to check Hansen and Moffatt's "The Squared Circle Postmarks of Canada", a 485 page handbook that is available at your local dealer.
Mike
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Thankyou Mike will do...Cheryl
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One can become a member of the American Philatelic Research Library w/o joining APS. However, APS membership also provides the American Philatelist and access to the StampStore and the stamp sales circuits. Highly recommended.
Roger
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Roger said, "One can become a member of the American Philatelic Research Library w/o joining APS."
As Jon Stuart says, "I did not know that!" All the more reason to join the APRL. I have to admit that I don't often feel I get much benefit, as a Canadian, from belonging to the APS. Few issues of the journal (The American Philatelist), and last year decided to save some money by accepting digital copies of the journal to read on my iPad. But most magazines and journals haven't yet "come of digital age"; it's mostly irritating to even try to read them. Developers have to figure out that a dead-tree magazine or journal is a different sort of creature than the same publications in digital format. The problem is mainly one of size: if an entire page is displayed on the iPad, the print is too small to read comfortably, and scrolling up and down and side to side is a royal pain.
Another downside of being in Canada is that I can't receive the circuit books, or easily benefit from any of the workshops they offer.
Bob
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09:02:50am
Does anyone have a tentative list or an article on the Canadian squared circle cancels? I haven`t been able to access a copy of the Handbook by W.G, Moffatt & Glenn or the article by Alfred Whitehead...Any help would be appreciated...Still trying at the library...Cheryl
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For excellent bang for the buck, join the APS and then ask the American Philatelic Research Library to send you copies of relevant documents in their collection. They've never let me down, and their service is EXCELLENT! There really is no other way to get access to the majority of philatelic publications about every subject you can imagine, and some you can't.
Bob
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02:29:58pm
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"There really is no other way to get access to the majority of philatelic publications about every subject you can imagine, and some you can't."
If you have University affiliations, you can file for an Inter-Library Loan (ILL) request which are processed briskly. Shipping from library to library is free. Even several (all?) public libraries offer ILL facilities, but they are slower. I know most (all?) US Universities are part of the system; cannot be sure about the rest of the world though.
My point: Joining APS for the library is perhaps not a great idea. The best library for philatelic resources in North America is the Smithsonian (National Postal Museum Library) who, it appears, are part of ILL.
"Still trying at the library"
You should check World Catalog, if you haven't already. A cursory search for "Squared Circle Postmarks Canada" provides several resources, many in Canada as can be expected.
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04:02:38pm
re: squared circle cancels
The Unitrade Canadian catalog has a three page listing of known Canadian squared circle cancels.They show the type,location and provide a rarity factor.They state that this is not a "specialized list" but it is a good starting point.
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06:18:28pm
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Thankyou guys I will check out the unitrade catalogue as well as the library....Cheryl...I FOUND WHAT I NEEDED!!! Thankyou Bailey.....
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Unitrade also mentions the need to check Hansen and Moffatt's "The Squared Circle Postmarks of Canada", a 485 page handbook that is available at your local dealer.
Mike
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09:25:51pm
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Thankyou Mike will do...Cheryl
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One can become a member of the American Philatelic Research Library w/o joining APS. However, APS membership also provides the American Philatelist and access to the StampStore and the stamp sales circuits. Highly recommended.
Roger
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re: squared circle cancels
Roger said, "One can become a member of the American Philatelic Research Library w/o joining APS."
As Jon Stuart says, "I did not know that!" All the more reason to join the APRL. I have to admit that I don't often feel I get much benefit, as a Canadian, from belonging to the APS. Few issues of the journal (The American Philatelist), and last year decided to save some money by accepting digital copies of the journal to read on my iPad. But most magazines and journals haven't yet "come of digital age"; it's mostly irritating to even try to read them. Developers have to figure out that a dead-tree magazine or journal is a different sort of creature than the same publications in digital format. The problem is mainly one of size: if an entire page is displayed on the iPad, the print is too small to read comfortably, and scrolling up and down and side to side is a royal pain.
Another downside of being in Canada is that I can't receive the circuit books, or easily benefit from any of the workshops they offer.
Bob
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