{"id":139,"date":"2021-05-12T16:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/?p=139"},"modified":"2021-05-20T15:41:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T14:41:47","slug":"canadian-stamps-worth-looking-for-the-2-polar-bear-from-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/canadian-stamps-worth-looking-for-the-2-polar-bear-from-1998\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada’s $2 Polar Bear From 1998 Nice addition To Any Thematic Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canadian Stamps worth looking for. The $2 Polar Bear from 1998 engraved by Swedish artist Martin M\u00f6rck.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

This attractive stamp is part of a two stamp set issued on October 27 1998. It was issued in sheets of 16 as shown and it was in use from 1998 -2003. There are plenty around as around 11,500,000 were printed, however, sheetlets are now quite hard to find and command a premium.<\/p>\n

\"Canadian<\/p>\n

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Wildlife Series of Canadian Stamps<\/h3>\n

There are four high-value stamps in this series and a $1 stamp depicting the Common Loon was issued on the same day. This series also includes the $8 Grizzly Bear & the $5 Moose and together they make a great Wildlife Thematic album page.<\/p>\n

The technical details:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Perforation: 13.5 x 13 printed on unwatermarked paper by the Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited.<\/p>\n

An attractive First Day Cover was issued but for some reason, they only seem to have issued them on separate covers.<\/p>\n

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Related Stamps<\/h3>\n

Canada also issued three other dollar value stamps in this series.\u00a0 These feature the Common Loon<\/a>, Grizzly Bear<\/a> & Moose. If you buy this one you will also want to consider adding tthe rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Canadian Stamps worth looking for. The $2 Polar Bear from 1998 engraved by Swedish artist Martin M\u00f6rck.\u00a0 This attractive stamp is part of a two stamp set issued on October 27 1998. It was issued in sheets of 16 as shown and it was in use from 1998 -2003. There are plenty around as around…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157,"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":[36,41,7],"tags":[44,45,43],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animals-on-stamps","category-canadian-stamps","category-thematic-stamps","tag-animals-on-stamps","tag-bears","tag-canadian-stamps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","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=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}