{"id":138,"date":"2021-05-12T12:05:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T11:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/?p=138"},"modified":"2021-05-12T15:45:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T14:45:04","slug":"iconic-canada-stamps-1997-grizzly-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/iconic-canada-stamps-1997-grizzly-bear\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Stamps To Look For Canada&#8217;s $8 Grizzly Bear From 1997"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iconic Canada Stamps\u00a0 &#8211; The $8 Grizzly Bear From 1997. This modern classic was issued on 15th October 1997. They originally came in sheetlets of 4 stamps as shown below but are hard (and expensive) to obtain as such.\u00a0 Whatever they are a great addition to any Wildlife or Mammals based thematic collection and worth a place in any general hoard.<\/p>\n<h2>1997 $8 Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis or Ours Brun)<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-152\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2021\/05\/Block-Canada-Grizzly-Bear-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Canada Stamps Grizzly Bear Sheet\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2021\/05\/Block-Canada-Grizzly-Bear-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2021\/05\/Block-Canada-Grizzly-Bear-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2021\/05\/Block-Canada-Grizzly-Bear-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2021\/05\/Block-Canada-Grizzly-Bear-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2021\/05\/Block-Canada-Grizzly-Bear-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2021\/05\/Block-Canada-Grizzly-Bear.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For those who like to know the technical details, they are Perforation: 12\u00bd x 13 and printed on unwatermarked paper. The Stanley Gibbons Catalogue number is 1762b and they are 1647 on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stampworld.com\/\">Stamp World.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>First Day Covers are available, although like the blocks they are quite hard to find and priced accordingly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-151\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2021\/05\/Canada-Grizzly-Bedar-FDC-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"Canada Grizzly Bear FDC\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2021\/05\/Canada-Grizzly-Bedar-FDC-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2021\/05\/Canada-Grizzly-Bedar-FDC-1024x624.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2021\/05\/Canada-Grizzly-Bedar-FDC-768x468.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2021\/05\/Canada-Grizzly-Bedar-FDC-640x390.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2021\/05\/Canada-Grizzly-Bedar-FDC-600x366.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2021\/05\/Canada-Grizzly-Bedar-FDC.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Adding One To Your Canada Stamps Collection<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-154\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2021\/05\/Canada-Grizzly-Bear-Used-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"Canada Grizzly Bear Stamp Used\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2021\/05\/Canada-Grizzly-Bear-Used-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2021\/05\/Canada-Grizzly-Bear-Used-768x596.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2021\/05\/Canada-Grizzly-Bear-Used-618x480.jpg 618w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2021\/05\/Canada-Grizzly-Bear-Used-600x466.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2021\/05\/Canada-Grizzly-Bear-Used.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Used examples are cheap and easy to obtain so if you are on a budget this is the way to go.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Related Stamps<\/h3>\n<p>Canada also issued three other dollar value stamps in this series.\u00a0 These feature the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/canada-stamps-to-collect-1998-birds\/\">Common Loon<\/a>, Polar Bear &amp; Moose. If you buy one of these you will also want to consider adding them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iconic Canada Stamps\u00a0 &#8211; The $8 Grizzly Bear From 1997. This modern classic was issued on 15th October 1997. They originally came in sheetlets of 4 stamps as shown below but are hard (and expensive) to obtain as such.\u00a0 Whatever they are a great addition to any Wildlife or Mammals based thematic collection and worth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,41,6],"tags":[44,43],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animals-on-stamps","category-canadian-stamps","category-iconic-stamps","tag-animals-on-stamps","tag-canadian-stamps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}