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Bidboard #
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1949
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Lot #
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256
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Catalogue Value or Estimate:
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$423.04
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Current Bid:
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$130
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Canada Covers
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# 1815/1968
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Part 1 of a 21st century matched plate block First Day Covers collection. Post Office fresh collection with approximately 200 Canada Post cacheted standard-sized covers 1999-2002 mounted in two-pocket "Vario" brand stocksheets in two matching Uni-safe brand 3-ring albums (with slipcases). These volumes run from the Millennium issue to the end of 2002 and are fairly complete for matched sets, with the occasional missing cover or two. In addition to the matched sets are a number of issues represented as single covers when there were no plate blocks (e.g. souvenir sheets, coils, booklets), in which case one example is included. Larger-sized covers for bigger souvenir sheets (e.g. hockey) were not part of this collection. Given the high face values of modern issues, matched plate blocks aren’t seen very often and not to this degree of completeness. Unitrade doesn’t price them, but the owner’s original cost for this section would have approached $700.00 as the blue padded Uni-Safe three-ring binders in matching slipcase and the black stockpages retails about $150.00 plus the Post Office cost of the FDC. Conservativel counted as face value of the stamps only ("P" values at the cost at the time of sale). Total face value =
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