Canada

Canada Collection in six Lighthouse hingeless albums for issues to 2001, including a volume for booklets from 1930s onwards. Main strength in mint with many MNH plate blocks and multiples from 19th century onwards. Provinces include New Brunswick 1860-63 to 17cts incl. shades and 5cts unused block of four with earring flaw, Nova Scotia 5cts blue mint (SG.24, cat. £550), Newfoundland 1876 5cts blue rouletted mint, 1931 pictorial set mint, etc. Then Dominion of Canada incl. large and small queens in mixed condition, Jubilee 8cts MNH and 20cts used, 1897 widow-head 2cts MNH block of nine and 5cts MNH plate block of eight, 1898 map shades in mint blocks, 1908 Quebec 1ct MNH block of four especially well-centred (ex Barton and Steinberg), KGV imperf blocks of four SG.259/261 mint/MNH, 1928-29 defin set MNH (SG.275/285), 1930-31 series of eleven values to $1 in mint blocks of four (incl. SG.299/303), 1937-38 set in plate blocks, perfin officials 1939 13cts to $1 mint (SG.O127/O130), 1942-43 set mint (O137/O152), 1949 OHMS ovpt set mint with $1 plate blocks in three positions, and many further plate blocks MNH in this first volume and on later issues filling most of another album.