2026

The Jan.-Mar. 2026 issue of the Newfoundland Study Group newsletter, No. 202, is online.

Jack Brandt and Paul Guilfoyle filed reports on several Newfoundland RPO cancels in the RPO Study Group newsletter. The reports are reproduced in the Newfoundland Study Group newsletter for the benefit of members who don't belong to the RPO Study Group.

Pursuant to his article in the previous newsletter, Malcolm Back delves further into the watermark varieties found on the 1931 15¢ airmail stamp issued in 1933 with the Land & Sea Post overprint.

Steve Bonowski describes why he chose to collect Newfoundland stamps.

Klaus Wehlt contributes three articles on diverse subjects:

1. An 1862 stampless cover from Harbour Grace to Newbury Port, Mass. USA
2. Two Christmas telegram forms from the Anglo-American Telegraph Company
3. A cover franked with the 1932 6¢ Princess Elizabeth stamp from the First Resources issue. A difficult stamp to find on cover.

Blair Ashford illustrates a 1919 letter of introduction for Captain Alcock that he found on eBay.

Richard Judge documents the results of his research on the inks used to print the 1897 Royal Family issue using X-Ray Fluorescence spectroscopy, Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Infrared spectroscopy and Resolved Laser Induced Emission (Emission) spectroscopy.

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21 newsletters from five study groups were posted recently. The year of publication, study group, and number of issues are listed below:

► 2020 Canadian Military Mail - 5 issues
► 2020 Large and Small Queens - 5 issues
► 2023 Postal Stationery - 3 issues
► 2024 Railway Post Office - 4 issues
► 2020 Revenue - 4 issues

The Canadian Military Mail, Large and Small Queens, and Revenue study groups request a delay of five years between publication of their newsletters and posting on the website. The Postal Stationery Study Group requests a delay of two years and the Railway Post Office Study Group requests a delay of one year +.

Several study groups have no delay period. Their newsletters were posted immediately upon publication in 2025. The study groups include:

► Air Mail - 2 issues
► British Columbia Postal History - 4 issues
► Fancy Cancel and Miscellaneous Markings - 1 issue
► Map Stamp - 2 issues
► Newfoundland - 4 issues (newsletter); 9 issues (news bulletin)
► Pence-Cents Era - 4 issues
► Perfin - 3 issues
► Re-entries and Constant Plate Varieties - 4 issues
► Squared Circle Cancels - 6 issues

Last year, the Elizabethan II Study Group decided to post its newsletters on the BNAPS website. The newsletters were posted in July 2025. The Study Group also decided to do away with the five-year delay between publication and posting. All 201 issues of the newsletter are now on the website, including the six published in 2025.

These newsletters are an invaluable resource, especially for those collecting the subjects covered by the study groups. Consider joining the study groups catering to your collecting interests and contributing to their newsletters.

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Canada Post introduced illustrated indicia for permit mail in 2006. 2014 saw an explosion in the number of illustrated permits as bulk mailers adopted the concept, and with the explosion came increased collector interest in the stamp-like colourful indicia.

Earle Covert compiled a list of these illustrated permits for many years. When he passed away in 2025, Cindy Esau volunteered to keep the listing current by adding to it newly reported permits and publishing periodic updates. Her first update, in December 2025, has 896 bulk mailers and 4,987 illustrated permits.

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Congratulations to the nine BNAPS members who became Emeritus members on 1 January 2026, having been with BNAPS for the past 40 consecutive years.

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