Diefenbaker : Artifact : UPU Canadian Postage Stamp Collection Album 1957 [80.5.2226a-b]

UPU Canadian Postage Stamp Collection Album 1957

Artifact

Accession Number:

80.5.2226a-b

Date

1957

Materials

Vinyl, suede, paper, tissue, metal

Measurements

20.7cm (width) 15.5cm (length) 1cm (height)
21cm (width) 16.2cm (length)

Description

(a) Postage stamp album book. From the Congress of Universal Postal Union in Ottawa, Canada 1957. Covers are red vinyl with light brown suede leather. Crest of Canada on the front in gold along with UPU emblem in gold and black. Inside covers are red vinyl. Coiled notebook style, 14 pages with tissue paper in-between pages to protect mounted stamps. Text on pages in red. Stamps of various subjects and themes.

(b) - Rectangular cardboard slip case for holding (a). Covered in red matte vinyl. Triangular divest on open side for ease of access. Crest of Canada stamped on front of (b).

Marks/Labels

(a)
Inside cover:
"Quatorzieme XIV^e Fourteen
Congres de
L'Union Postale
Universelle

Congress of
the Universal
Postal Union

1957
Ottawa
Canada"

"Ministere
Des Postes
CANADA
Post Office
Deparment"

Accession number in pencil on back inside cover of (a). Accession number in black on back of (b).