BNAPS Map Stamp Study Group
From | To | Editor |
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1982 | 1990 | Whitney. L. Bradley |
From | To | Editor |
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2000 | 2000 | Bill Pekonen |
2001 | 2004 | John T. Anders |
2005 | 2008 | Orville F. Osborne |
From | To | Editor |
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2021 | Scott Robinson, editor; Rick Friesen, co-editor |
The issues are in PDF format. File sizes vary from 1.4 to 14.1 MB. When you click on an issue number, it will be displayed in a new window. Closing the window returns you to this page.
Here are two ways of searching the newsletters:
1. Index to the newsletters - First series
An index to the 21 issues in the first series, all edited by Whitney Bradley, along with a brief
history of the Study Group was published in the last issue of the newsletter in the second series,
No. 26 (Spring/Fall 2008).
2. Google search - all three series of newsletters
To constrain the search results to just the three series of newsletters, paste the text:
site:bnaps.org/studygroups/Map/newsletters
in the Google search box followed by the phrase you wish to search for. In the image reproduced
below, the search phrase is "muddy".
1982 No 1 |
1983 No 2 No 3 No 4 |
1984 No 5 No 6 No 7 |
1985 No 8 No 9 No 10 |
1986 No 11 No 12 No 13 |
1987 No 14 No 15 No 16 |
1988 No 17 No 18 |
1989 No 19 No 20 |
1990 No 21 |
For the first three issues, the name of the newsletter was The 1898 Christmas Stamp Newsletter
2000 No 1 No 2 No 3 |
2001 No 4 No 5 No 6 No 7 |
2002 No 8 No 9 No 10 |
2003 No 11 No 12 No 13 No 14 |
2004
No 15
No 16
No 17
No 18
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2005 No 19 No 20 No 21 No 22 |
2006 No 23 No 24 |
2007 No 25 |
2008 No 26 |
The following issues were mis-numbered:
2021 Vol 1 No 1 Vol 1 No 2 Vol 1 No 3 Vol 1 No 4 |
2022 Vol 2 No 1 Vol 2 No 2 Vol 2 No 3 |
2023 Vol 3 No 1 |
2024 Vol 4 No 1 |
Click on the title. The census will be displayed in a new window. Closing the window returns you to this page.
Rick Friesen has compiled four censuses of postmarks on the Map Stamp:
Railway Post Office (RPO) Postmarks of Canada on the
1898 Canadian 2¢ Imperial Penny Postage Issue
(The ‘Map Stamp’):
A Cover Census and a Roster of Off-Cover Cancellations (5.5 MB)
Rick Friesen
About 250 Map Stamp covers postmarked with RPO hammer strikes are listed. The listing for each cover includes an illustration (if an image is available), RPO cancel identification, origin (if known), destination, and provenance. The census also updates the 1987 Lew Ludlow roster of RPO cancellations on off-cover Map stamps.
Barred Circle Postmarks of Canada on the 1898 Canadian 2¢ Imperial Penny
Postage Issue (The ‘Map Stamp’):
A Cover Census (1.8 MB)
Rick Friesen
This is a census of Map Stamp covers with Barred Circle postmarks, often referred to as precursors of Squared Circle postmarks. The hammers, introduced in 1892, were issued to nine towns in Canada (Halifax, Hamilton, London, Montreal, Ottawa, St. John, Seaforth, Toronto, and Winnipeg) and St. John’s, Newfoundland. The census currently documents 72 covers with Montreal strikes and one with a St. John’s, Newfoundland, strike.
Squared Circle Postmarks of Canada on the 1898 Canadian 2¢ Imperial Penny
Postage Issue (The ‘Map Stamp’):
A Census of Off-Cover Cancellations (6.8 MB)
Rick Friesen
This census of 3,461 postmarks on off-cover Map stamps is compiled from numerous sources. They include over 58 years of public auction listings, three Internet auction sources (such as eBay), philatelic literature (including books and journals), exhibits, dealer stocks, personal communications from Squared Circle collectors, and the author's collection.
Squared Circle Postmarks of Canada on the 1898 Canadian 2¢ Imperial Penny
Postage Issue (The ‘Map Stamp’):
A Cover Census and Analysis (18.1 MB)
Rick Friesen
Lists over 1,100 covers franked with the 1898 2¢ Map Stamp and postmarked with Squared Circle hammer strikes. If an image is available, the cover is illustrated. The previous census, compiled in 2001, listed 620 covers. The data for this census comes from auction catalogues dating back to 1960, Internet auctions such as eBay, philatelic literature, exhibits, dealer stocks, personal communications from fellow collectors, and the author's collection.
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