The Toronto Biscuit & Confectionery Stamp Cover 1894

Beautiful cover promoting  a few of The Toronto Biscuit & Confectionery Co. products. Namely the B.F.P. cough drops and the T.B.&Co. Sodas

You can see an advertisement for the B.F.P. cough drops this Canadian Grocer Magazine from 1896.

Other paper ads tout: "Lots of "between seasons" colds going the rounds soon. Are you prepared for the demand for Cough Drops ? B. F. P. Cough Drops are pleasant to the taste, sooth-ing and effective in all cases of coughs, colds or sore throat. Send for sample".

Can't find any information about the sodas.

Here's the cover:

France 2014 D-Day First Day Covers

I got lucky and manage to grab a few 2014 D-Day first day covers issued by France: 2 silk covers, 1 maximum cards and a few regular FDC. Cancels from Arromanches-les-Bains and Ouistreham. All bear the 0.66 euros Normandy D-Day stamp.

At the time of writing this post (July 5th 2014) I have only 3 left in store (here) and I doubt I'll manage to find more.

The Long Travel of an Ebay Package

This is a package I sent last November to a regular buyer of mine in Ukraine (not a stamp buyer obviously, otherwise I would have used nice stamps!). Anyway, she never received it. In my experience packages don't get lost. They get stolen and if not, they always find a way back to you or the buyer.

 So today, I receive back this package!!! It went all around the world..; but apparently never ever set foot in Ukraine (no single cancel from Ukraine on it). it went somewhere in the middle east (there is a blue stamp on front with some Arabic words), then in December according to the back stamp it has been sitting somewhere in another country (can't quite read it but it's in English). And now it's back in my hand and 6 months later that lovely t-shirt will fit my daughter so I am keeping it.

Here's the front and back of the envelope:

O-Pee-Chee Krackley-Nut Pop Corn Advertising Cover

Better known in Canada for their chewing gums and hockey card packs, O-Pee-Chee also used to produce pop corn and mint tablets. This is an advertising cover from 1935 for their Krackley-Nut pop corn and nuts confection. Back then, 5 cents was enough to buy a box of O-Pee-Chee pop corn!