Philatelic Specialists Society of Canada: New Canadian Air Mail Catalogue

The Air Mails of Canada and Newfoundland is both a comprehensive listing of Pioneer, Semi-official, Post Office and Airline flight covers, and a guide to many other aspects of Canadian airmail such as rates, aerograms, and Air Mail endorsements. The first edition published in 1997, was 560 pages in length.…

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Philatelic Specialists Society of Canada: New Zealand Underprinted Advertising Stamps

In the 1890s the New Zealand postal authorities called for tenders for the right to put advertising messages on the backs of nine denominations of the postage and revenue stamps known as “Second Sidefaces”, featuring the portrait of Queen Victoria. This would become known as “underprinting”. The idea was to…

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