NEWFOUNDLAND

                            PHILATELIC COVERS FEATURING
                            THE NEWFOUNDLAND DOG 

                                    REGULAR ISSUES OF 1887 - 1898

                        Cover mailed from St. John's East to Harbour Grace      
          
               The six stamps, totaling three cents postage, paid the 1870 rate
                           for 1/2 once letters mailed within Newfoundland.

                 Cover mailed from St. John's, Nfld. to Halifax, Nova Scotia            
          
                    This cover was franked using two different printings of the  
               half cent stamp, the 1896 (orange-red) and the 1898 (gray-black).
      

     
                         ADVERTISING COVER - T. & M. WINTER 1932

 
    A Newf's head in the advertising cachet for Manitoba Wheat

           
1932 - FIRST RESOURCE ISSUE
Perkins Bacon Printing

      
Registered Official Mail (On His Majesty's Service) Cover 
from Newfoundland to Ontario, Canada

  Newfoundland to the United States
This envelope was used to mail Newfoundland postage stamps to an 
American collector.  The contents were declared with a purple hand stamp.
Even though U.S. Customs passed the envelope thru duty free, they charged
the recipient ten cents to process the envelope and its contents.  They used
two five cents post due stamps to facilitate collecting this fee

        

                             1937 CORONATION ISSUE

                    NEWFOUNDLAND STAMPS USED IN LABRADOR     
            
        This registered cover is postmarked with a St. Mary's River, Labrador
        cancellation , the fifteen cents postage paid the Empire rate to England

1942 - 49 SECOND RESOURCE ISSUE
Waterlow Printing


Registered letter from Sandy Point, Nfld. to Portsmouth, Va.,
April 5, 1946

COMMEMORATING NEWFOUNDLAND CONFEDERATION

LAST DAY OF NEWFOUNDLAND INDEPENDENCE 
MARCH 31, 1949

This commemorative cover was addressed to England's wartime
Prime Minister - Sir Winston Churchill

     
  FIRST DAY OF CONFEDERATION WITH CANADA
APRIL 1, 1949

Cover autographed by Joseph R. Smallwood (1900 - 1991),
'The Father of  Newfoundland Confederation'

         
POST CONFEDERATION USAGE APRIL 19, 1949
STAMPS USED IN DURING THE GRACE PERIOD
During the grace period Newfoundland stamps were permitted  
within Canada and Newfoundland

Newfoundland stamps are still valid for postage in Canada
 

CANADA GAMES - 1977
PICTORIAL COVER WITH SPECIAL CANCELLATION

Close-up of the Special Cancellation


NEWFOUNDLAND STAMP EXHIBITION - 1979


     


CANADA 1988 - CENTENNIAL CANADIAN KENNEL CLUB
 HARBOUR GRACE, NEWFOUNDLAND

 
    The cancel pictures the silhouette of a Newfoundland

FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF CONFEDERATION
APRIL 1, 1999

THE NEW MILLENNIUM
JANUARY 1, 2000
 
Newfoundland time is one half hour earlier than any other time zone
in the America's.