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BNAPS Admiral Study Group

Admiral Study Group presentations
Admiral 2 cent green stamp

This page provides links to presentations made by Admiral Study Group members at BNAPEX and virtual meetings. The presentations are listed chronologically, most recent first.

BNAPEX 2026 Valleyfield
PDF - 6.0 MB

  • Marler's collection - sample album pages
  • 2¢ carmine plates 12, 14 flaws
  • 2¢ carmine plates 13-14 re-entries, retouches, coils
  • 3¢ carmine plate 126 "hammer flaw"
  • 5¢ violet printed from 5¢ blue plate
  • 7¢ red brown, 10¢ plum, 20¢ plate flaws
  • 10¢ blue - mint copy on horizontal wove paper
  • Early postmark on 3¢ brown endwise coil and 5¢ violet
  • Third class rate postmarks

VEC 2026
PDF - 5.4 MB

A video of the meeting at VEC 2026 on 31 January is also available. See the list of Admiral Study Group videos. This version of the presentation includes material added after the meeting.

  • 1¢ green - re-entries 12LR35, 133UR69
  • 2¢ carmine - plating re-entries and plate flaws
  • Constant plate varieties on 1¢ green, 8¢, 20¢
  • Early postmarks on Admiral stamps
  • 1¢ green experimental coil and 7¢ red brown on cover
  • Empire rate
  • Canadian military in St. Lucia, WW I

BNAPEX 2025 Vernon
PDF - 7.6 MB

  • Experimental essays
  • 1¢ green - plating the lathework
  • 2¢ carmine - design type O4 re-entries and flaws
  • 3¢ carmine - plates 118-120
  • 3¢ carmine strange guide arrow
  • 20¢ guidelines and guide dots
  • 20¢ retouch
  • Booklet cover varieties
  • Admiral era - when does it begin? End?
  • Early postmarks on Admiral stamps
  • 10-frame postal history exhibit

BNAPS 2025 Virtual Conference
PDF - 4.1 MB

This version of the presentation incorporates feedback received after the Study Group meeting.

  • Design essays
  • 1¢ green 12LR35 re-entry
  • 2¢ carmine re-entries
  • 2¢ carmine booklet stamp with large margins
  • 3¢ brown flaw
  • 3¢ carmine with one-line 2¢ overprint
  • 50¢ flaw
  • Guide dots on French booklet covers
  • Overprint varieties on booklet covers
  • Scarce destinations
  • Tiny covers and oddball postcards

BNAPEX 2024 Kingston
PDF - 5.5 MB

  • Sale of Glen Lundeen Admiral collection
  • Sale of 10-frame postal history collection
  • True purpose of the War Tax stamps
  • 1¢ green variety
  • 2¢ carmine variety
  • 2¢ carmine endwise coil marginal marks
  • 2¢ carmine experimental endwise coil
  • 2¢ green sidewise coil variety
  • 2¢+1¢ carmine sidewise coil marginal marks
  • 3¢ brown sidewise coil variety
  • 3¢ brown endwise coil marginal marks
  • 8¢ First Day Cover
  • 8¢ imperf used single
  • 20¢ variety
  • 50¢ variety
  • Single use on circular bulk prepayment forms
  • Scarce destinations

BNAPEX 2023 Halifax
Revised 2023-11-09 | PDF - 5.3 MB

  • Lathework doubled
  • Hand-engraved guide arrows
  • Coils with marginal markings
  • Admiral constant plate varieties website
  • Miscut 1¢ green booklet pane
  • 2¢ carmine plate flaws
  • 2¢ carmine booklet pane with OTTAWA TOP
  • 2¢ green with type B lathework (major discovery)
  • 50¢ WAR TAX variety
  • 2¢ WAR TAX on money order

CPS 2022 BNAPEX
PDF - 7.3 MB

  • Guide dot varieties
  • Compass arc varieties
  • Booklet covers with guidelines
  • Fake coils
  • 50¢ re-entry
  • Plate imprint re-entries
  • Major retouches to the left crown
  • SPECIMEN overprints
  • Wing margin varieties
  • Scarcest Admiral stamp on cover
  • Letter carrier strikes
  • Birch bark post card

BNAPEX 2021 Virtual
PDF - 2.3 MB

This version of the presentation corrects an error made at the Study Group meeting and incorporates feedback received after the meeting.

  • 1¢ green - 12LR35 major re-entry: four new reports, two on cover
  • 2¢ green - notable plate flaw
  • 2¢ green booklet pane of six - unique variety
  • 3¢ carmine with 2¢ one-line overprint inverted
  • 10¢ blue with lathework D inverted
  • Booklet cover with guideline
  • Admiral bisects on cover
  • Admiral ERDs

BNAPEX 2019 Ottawa, ON
PDF - 0.7 MB

  • 2¢ green re-entry
  • 5¢ blue major plate flaw
  • 10¢ blue re-entry
  • 20¢ scarce precancel
  • 50¢ re-entry
  • Covers with rate problems

BNAPEX 2018 Quebec, QC
PDF - 2.1 MB

  • Lathework type A and B doubled
  • 1¢ green re-entry
  • 1¢ green plate imprint in lathework
  • 5¢ blue re-entry
  • 5¢ blue stitch watermark
  • 7¢ bistre major retouch
  • Booklet covers with guidelines

BNAPEX 2017 Calgary, AB
PDF - 1.3 MB

  • 1¢ yellow with type B lathework
  • 1¢ yellow imperf with type B lathework
  • 1¢ yellow part-perf with type B lathework
  • 1¢ yellow booklet pane
  • 10¢ blue design types
  • Guide arrows

BNAPEX 2016 Fredericton, NB
PDF - 1.4 MB

  • Wet versus dry printing
  • 2¢ carmine sidewise coil
  • 2¢ carmine endwise coil
  • 2¢ green booklet pane
  • 10¢ UPU rate
  • British Empire postcard rate
  • Suspended service cover

BNAPEX 2015 Niagara Falls, ON
PDF - 2.0 MB

  • 1¢ green experimental coil
  • 2¢ carmine booklet pane
  • 2¢ carmine "imperf"
  • 2¢ carmine endwise coil
  • 3¢ brown re-entries
  • Admiral ERDs
  • Mail delivery on holidays

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