Lot 99 Canada #BK36cEvar 1942-1947 War Issue, A Complete 25c English Booklet, A Pane Of 6 4c Dark Carmine, Front Cover IIi, Type IA, Surcharged 7c & 6c Rate Page, 14mm Staple, 24,114,000 Issued, Unlisted in Unitrade and McCann

A complete 25c English booklet from the 1942-1947 War Issue, with a pane of 6 4c dark carmine. Front cover IIi, type Ia. Surcharged 7c & 6c rate page. 14mm staple. 24,114,000 issued. Minor traces of opening marks on front cover. Unitrade values this booklet at $13.10 for a standard 17 mm steel staple. McCann assigns a 100% premium to most BK34's and BK36's that have a 14 mm staple. Therefore our estimate of the value is $25.

The booklet offered here grades 79 as follows:

Centering/Margins: 50/70

Cover Freshness: 10/10

Condition of Cover Edges: 5/5

Freshness of the Panes: 5/5

Absence of Visible Cover Flaws or Stains: 4/5

Condition of Interleaving and Contents: 5/5

For the booklets from this issue, the quantities issued refer to the total number of booklets issued for all rate page types, all staple sizes and all Harris front and back cover types for a particular denomination of booklet in English or French. They come from the McCann catalogue, which does not break the quantity down into the individual varieties. Consequently, depending on how many listed types there are, many of these booklets are much, much scarcer than the overall issue quantities would suggest. For example, according to McCann, there were 699,000 English 25c booklets containing four panes of 6 1c green stamps issued. However, there were seven different basic rate-page and cover type combinations, not counting the Harris sub-types. If they were more or less evenly distributed among these types, that is just under 100,000 of each type, and then this gets broken down further into between 2 and 8 Harris sub-types each. So, this places these issue quantities into a more accurate perspective.