[First Day Cover] Atomic Energy Peaceful Uses Stamp, 5c, 1966
Name/Title
[First Day Cover] "Atomic Energy Peaceful Uses" Stamp, 5c, 1966Entry/Object ID
2024.2.1Tags
1960s, Nuclear, Atomic, Stamp, Postal Stamp, First Day Cover, Canada, Blue, First Day Issue, Ottawa, Post-WWII, Postwar, Paper, Paper Ephemera, Alternative Energy, Peace, Science, Douglas Point, Nuclear Power Plant, DoveDescription
A First Day Cover/Issue for Canada's 1966 5¢ "Peaceful Uses" postage stamp. Features: A small white envelope, with a black print design on the left-portion and four of the stamps attached to the top-right corner. The black printed design consists of the following and has embossing beneath some elements: the stylised text "First Day of Issue [left]; Jour d'Emission [right]" along the top (embossed); between and slightly below the text is a grey maple leaf shape with a fine black border embossed), in side of which is a stylised atomic diagram in black lines (embossed); below and layered partially underneath is a greyscale photograph of the Douglas Point Nuclear Plant with a fine black border (embossed); below the photograph in small text reads "Nuclear Power Plant at Douglas Point" (embossed); below is a text design (embossed) with the text "CANADA EMPHASIZES" (small italicized, upper-left), "ATOMIC ENERGY" (block text, separated by a horizontal 'lightening' design), and "FOR PEACEFUL USES" (small italicized, lower-right); in the bottom-left corner is also a logo for Rose Craft (embossed). The design of the stamp is thus: a dark navy-blue background and white border; the white text "PEACEFUL USES - UTILISATIONS PACIFIQUES" along the top; a white silhouette of a dove holding an olive branch in the top-left below the word "PEACEFUL"; a medium navy-blue illustration of a nuclear power plant to the middle-right; a medium navy-blue silhouette of a microscope in the bottom-left corner; a white stylised atomic diagram overlaid across the left-side of the stamp; the white block text "CANADA" in the right-of-middle bottom edge; and a large white "5" in the bottom-right corner. There are four of these stamps adhered to the top-right corner of the envelope in a 2-by-2 arrangement. Rubber stamped over the postage stamps in black reads "DAY OF ISSUE; POUR D'EMISSION" with a wavy line above, below, annd between the words. Rubber stamped in the upper middle of the envelope is a circle with the text "OTTAWA ONTARIO CANADA" running around the interior of the circle, and the text "10 AM; 27 VII; 1966" at the centre of the circle. At the bottom of the envelope, to the right-of-centre is an aderved rectangular white label breading the black type-written text "T.C.Mackie, Box 94; North Bay, Ont." Inside the envelope is a credit slip on cream-coloured card stock, which cannot be removed due to the envelope flap's gum sticking to the card.Collection
CEM CollectionCataloged By
Danielle P. LaneCategory
Postal Stamps
Paper Ephemera