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1924 ÂŁ1 grey Die IIB left margin MUH block of 12 (3x4) positions L26/27 - 43/45. POSTAG watermark clearly seen in left margin. Well centred with strong, rich colour. Characteristically "yellow" original MUH gum with only one stamp MVLH. This is the left hand block of 12 to Lot 655 in the Arthur Gray sale in 2007 which sold for $25,500. Ex. Abramovich. A spectacular item which is now one of only two largest known multiples in private hands. Stunning. SG 75 ACSC 53a Cat. $20,000
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A closer look at modern Australian stamps: Chris de Haer.. 10 Woodchip Free Zone: Rod Perry ................................................ 16 Market Matters: Glen Stephens .................................................... 24 Revenue Review: Dave Elsmore ................................................. 36 Ireland: the Definitive Issues: Mike Lee ................................... 40 Cinderella Corner: Tony Presgrave ............................................ 44 Introducing the APF, Part 21: John Sadler .............................. 48 Looking at New Zealand: Graeme Morriss ............................. 52 Stamps in the News: Margo Campbell .................................... 56 Beavers for your albums: Christer Brunström ....................... 62
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SPRINGTIME FOR INDIA Grosvenor March 7 & 8 2012 The British Empire & Foreign Countries auction held on March 7th and 8th, first sale of the GROSVENOR SPRING 2012 series of auctions, was one of the company’s most successful ever, achieving a total of £1,035,008, a figure over 40% above the pre-sale estimate. Gratifyingly the strong results were spread over a number of specialised country sections providing a comprehensive confirmation of the strength of the market, particularly for British Empire. It is difficult to select from amongst the many highlights but the highest realisation in the sale, the £67,860 paid for the collection of Canadian PreCancels formed by the late Rev. David Izzett (lot 321) certainly justified the decision to present as a single lot. India is enjoying a very special period of high realisations and auction results have become very difficult to predict. The most exceptional example of this was the ¬£24,570 paid for lot 605, a registered postcard from the 1911 Allahabad first aerial post and £6,084 for an example of the 1948 Gandhi 11/2a. used on O.H.M.S. envelope (lot 600). The strong following enjoyed by the Key Plate stamps, both large and small, and their varieties continues. There was a deservedly enthusiastic response to the section of the sale devoted to the J.A.C. Farmer collection of Leeward Islands result-
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ing in an overall result over 50% above expectation. Among the rarities of the 1897 Diamond Jubilee issue £3,492 was paid for the 5s. with overprint double (lot 713, featured on the front cover of the catalogue) and £5,418 for the 1d. with overprint triple (lot 706). The unique plate number examples of the 1951 £1 with watermark sideways (lot 801) and watermark inverted (lot 802) achieved £5,779 and £5,418 respectively. The Napoleon Collection of Saint Helena Postal History and Covers contained much historical interest and was rewarded by many very pleasing results. The 1816 entire written by Lt. George Dunlop en route to the island to form part of the guard for the Emperor Napoleon and showing the rare PORT BRITISH marking (lot 1248) rose to an impressive £2,649. The exceptional collection of New Zealand Adsons (19th century stamps with printed advertisements on the reverse) formed by brothers Charles and Francis Kiddle generated much interest. Results here were a little patchier but notable prices included £4,816 paid for the block of 54 of S.G. 219f (lot 1108), this being the largest mint block known. Malaya & States featured the Anthony Winner Collection and a proven market again showed its strength. Top price in this section Lot 600
Lot 1108 Lot 801 China prices would appear to be levelling off whilst Foreign Countries in general can sometimes be left in the shade by British Empire successes. Buyers can always be found for interesting country collections, however, as the results for balance lots of France (lot 450, £16,254), Italian States (lot 623, £12,870) and Spain (lot 1526, £17,458) proved once more. This was also shown in the results for the Wheldon family collection of Germany, including lot 514, a collection of the Empire period, which achieved £3,010. The next sales of the season will be those devoted to Specialised Great Britain on April 25th and 26th which is followed by a special auction of the Jim Mullett collection of British Overseas Islands on the afternoon of the 26th. Complimentary copies of these catalogues will be available on request from Grosvenor, 399 – 401 Strand 2nd & 3rd Floor London WC2R OLT Tel: +44 (0)20 7379 8789 Fax: +44 (0)20 7379 9737;Email: awilliams@grosvenorauctions.co.uk. www.grosvenorauctions.com . was £2,574 paid three times in succession for lots 970, 971 and 972, these being three attractive but unadopted Perak essays from 1894. The Warren collection of South Africa featured a number of exceptional items and specialised studies. Among these was a doubly printed example of the 1913-24 1/2d. (lot 1436) that achieved £2,925 and a die proof of the 10s. value that surprised at £1,053. Top price paid in an unusual section of British Levant that included many rare SPECIMEN multiples was £10,836, this for the unique strip of five of the 1893 Constantinople Provisional 40 pa. on 1/2d., the only mint multiple in private hands.
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philatelic news Vale Robin (R. M.) Startup, RDP, FRPSL, FRPSNZ, NZDSM Robin Startup passed away on 16 February aged 78. He was a prolific author, having written or co-authored about 70 books on New Zealand postal history, including Early Days of the New Zealand Post Office and many regional postal histories of New Zealand, Pacific territories and Antarctica. He edited The Mail Coach, the journal of the NZ Postal History Society, from 1964 to 1987. His many awards included, in 1995, the Rhodes Medal which he is shown holding in the adjacent photo. The medal is named for the former Postmaster General, Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, whose stamp collection is held by the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch. Mr Startup grew up on a dairy farm in Taranaki, western North Island but from his teenage years lived in Masterton in the Wairarapa Valley, northeast of Wellington. He worked for 15 years for the Social Security Department and for 25 years as the Director of Administration of Masterton Hospital. He was the archivist of the Royal New Zealand Philatelic Society and also contributed to Wairarapa district archives. Graeme Morriss
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A Closer Look at Modern Australian Stamps
February saw a plethora of stamps issued in a range of different layouts. While it is important to record the different layouts used, collectors need to decide for themselves what they add to their collection, as collecting one of each layout can become quite costly.
Technology – Then and Now (7 February 2012)
Australians are enthusiastic and early adopters of new technology with the images on these stamps showing how much has changed in the last 5060 years. Not only has technology made today’s electrical devices a far cry from their originals, but it has also reduced their cost. For example, The West Australian reported on 22 February 2012 that a Pope 10 cu.ft. fridge in 1962 cost the equivalent of $5,289 in 2012 dollars, whereas the equivalent fridge today costs $599! The five gummed stamps in this set were issued in horizontal strips of five (with a gutter design), and in a miniature sheet containing a unique block of four (the television stamp is separate to the other stamps) (Figure 1). Self-adhesive stamps were also issued in 10 - Stamp News
Figure 1. Miniature sheet containing a unique block of four stamps. booklets of 10 (printed by McKellar Renown) and rolls of 200 (printed by Pemara Labels). As before Pemara’s stamps are a little duller when compared to McKellar Renown’s, and under UV light the phosphor overprints are different. For full technical details, and a checklist of the varieties found in this issue visit my website or write to me at the address below.
Nickelodeon Sheets (8 February 2012)
Following on from the successful Disney Princess sheetlets issued last year, Australia Post released a further five children’s souvenir stamp sheets on the same day featuring characters from Nickelodeon television programs (Figure 2 shows one of the five sheetlets). The five sheetlets are the same A5 size as the Princess sheetlets, and sell for $9.95 each (or $14.95 for the Dora sheetlet pack). The stamps used this time are: • 50c Blue-Ringed Octopus and 50c Box
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Jellyfish from the 2006 Dangerous Australians issue (exists from two different sheetlets) • 50c Saltwater Crocodile and 50c Eastern Brown Snake, again from the 2006 Dangerous Australians issue (exists only from the Diego and Friends sheetlet) • 55c Roma Park, Brisbane and 55c Commonwealth Park, Canberra from the 2009 Parks and Gardens issue (exists from two different sheetlets) The sheetlets include a number of new varieties for specialised collectors. This is the first time these six stamps have been released with tabs (and in a positive move, each stamp exists in equal numbers within the sheetlets, and with a tab on a single side, which will save collectors money); there are new se-
Figure 2. Diego and Friends sheetlet showing the unusual layout of stams and tabs. tenant pairs from each sheet; it is the first time any of these stamps have been issued in a sheetlet format; and it is the first time RA Printing has printed all six stamps. RA Printing has done an excellent job in matching the original stamps, and as with their printing of the Floral Festivals issue it is best to leave the tabs attached to allow for easy identification. The one surprising feature of these sheetlets is the way the stamps have been perforated. As collectors we’re used to having all the tabs in the same column, so the arrangement used on these sheetlets is new, and I wonder whether we it will be used in the future for a regular sheet issue (a similar arrangement was used for the 50th Anniversary of the United Stamp News - 11
A Closer Look at Modern Australian Stamps
Nations issue in 1995 with much narrower tabs). It is relatively easy for Sprintpak, who perforate all Australian stamps, to produce such an arrangement, as they can move (or remove) the columns and rows of perforations in the perforation combs to create any number of different arrangements (which is what occurred with the larger sized Megafauna stamps from 2008). For full technical details, and a checklist of the varieties found in this issue visit my website or write to me at the address below.
International Year of Co-operatives (14 February 2012)
The prepaid envelope shown in Figure 3 celebrates the United Nations declared International Year of Co-operatives. The year acknowledges the impact on the community of businesses owned and run by and for their members. According to the United Nations website (www.2012.coop), ‘co-operatives drive the economy, respond to social change, are resilient to the global economic crisis and are serious, successful businesses creating jobs in all sectors.’ This envelope 12 - Stamp News
Figure 3. International Year of the Co-operatives envelopes, and the first envelope to be printed by A&G Envelopes. is the first one printed by A&G Envelopes, who will also print the upcoming Botanic Gardens prepaid envelopes. As this is a prepaid envelope only one barcode exists on the back.
Capital City Transport (21 February 2012)
This issue was certainly popular with thematic collectors with many post offices and the Philatelic Bureau sold out of items within days of the issue date. Collectors of varieties were also well catered for, with horizontal strips of five (from sheets of 50), two different vertical strips of five (from the sheetlets of 10) (left hand side of Figure 4) and blocks of four of the same stamp from the prestige booklet. The gutter includes a map of the relevant states that makes me wonder why two forms of transport were included from Sydney, but none from the other capitals Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart or Darwin? Again Australia Post provided something extra for
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collectors with a special pack containing a sheetlet of 10 regular gummed stamps, and another sheetlet overprinted with heat sensitive ink (right hand side of Figure 4), covering the modes of transport and some of the marginal inscriptions. While it’s pleasing to see Australia Post sell these packs for 45c above face value (which is the cost of the pack), I wonder why heat sensitive ink chosen for this issue? Heat sensitive ink was used with great effect on the Micro-monsters issue a few years ago to hide the level of magnification, and other countries have also used it to add a surprise element to their stamps (with some using it to show the effect of global warming).
Figure 4. The two sheetlets from the Capital City Transport pack – regular sheetlet of 10 (left) and sheetlet overprinted with heat sensitive ink (right). The five designs also exist as self-adhesive stamps from booklets of 20. Due to the white border around the designs, the design of the self-adhesive stamps is identical to the sheet stamps. Also, as a head’s up, the organisers of the upcoming PSWA 2012 National Exhibition are selling an imperforate version of the Transport prestige booklet. This is sure to be a popular item with both Australian and thematic collectors. For more information on the show and a souvenir order Stamp News - 13
A Closer Look at Modern Australian Stamps form visit http:// www.p-s-w-a.com/ PSWA-2012.htm
Hawkers Bazaar Update
I have now received the generic Hawkers Bazaar sheets, and while the stamps are identical, the same Figure 5. The stamps with tabs from the generic Hawkers Bazaar sheets. cannot be said about the tabs (Figure Nickelodeon write up, Australia Post’s perforation 5). As was done last year, the tabs are printed by combs are not fixed in place, and rows/columns can lithography, and can easily be distinguished by be moved around, as well as being removed, hence the lack of a blue background and glossy finish to explaining the extra column of perforations. Let’s the tab (see my March article for an image of the hope no $3 stamps were perforated in half! actual Personalised Stamps™). It seems odd that Australia Post would produce a separate printing Australia 2013 Update of generic sheets, especially when there would Now just over a year away, the Australia 2013 be left over sheets from the event, but I found out committee is looking for volunteers for the show. at Hawkers Bazaar that they can only print the Volunteering at a national or international show is an Personalised Stamps™ sheets one at a time. If they excellent way of giving something back to our great try to print multiple sheets, the tab image often ends hobby. Full information can be found on the website up being printed onto the stamps. Given each sheet www.australia2013.com.au took about three or four minutes to produce from The website also has a new online shop allowing clicking “Print” on the laptop to checking the sheet, you to buy souvenirs and supporters packs, a you can imagine how long my order of 10 sheets competition to win a 100 Years of the Australian took to print, and how long it would take to print Navy collectable folder, and lots more information the hundreds that would be ordered through the about the show. Philatelic Bureau.
$3 Reef Fish Reprint Update
Last month collectors might remember me noting that the 2 koala $3 Reef Fish reprint has an extra column of perforations in the top selvedge. Australia Post Philatelic has been kind enough to look into this, and the extra perforations occurred when the combs were changed over between the double-sized definitive stamps and smaller definitive stamps. A number of combs were left across the top, hence the extra perforations. As mentioned at the in the 14 - Stamp News
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WorldWide NeW issues PhilliP laW 1912-2010 australia Post issue 6 March 2012
This stamp issue marks the centenary of the birth of Dr Phillip Law AC (1912–2010), one of Australia’s most experienced polar explorers. He was a pivotal figure in developing Australia’s Antarctic science program and in securing a commitment to the region. Law’s association with Antarctica began with the establishment of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) in 1947. A physics academic, Law was appointed to plan and organise ANARE’s scientific program and was involved in founding the subantarctic bases on Heard and Macquarie Islands. In 1949, he was appointed director of ANARE and of the Australian Antarctic Division, positions he held until 1966 and during which he consolidated Australia’s
presence in Antarctica and explored extensive tracts of the Australian Antarctic Territory. Pack-ice was a substantial barrier to expanding Australia’s scientific efforts into continental Antarctica. But on securing the ice-strengthened Kista Dan, Law led the party that established Mawson Station, which opened on 13 February 1954. In 1957, Law established Davis Station on the extensive ice-free area of Princess Elizabeth Land. He then negotiated the transfer of America’s Wilkes Station to Australian administration. On 4 February 1959 this became Australia’s third continental station; in 1969 it was replaced by Casey Station. Law was crucial in establishing Australia as a leader in Antarctic exploration and science, and as one of the 12 original parties to the Antarctic Treaty, which came into effect in 1961. In his 19 years as an Antarctic explorer, Phillip Law took part in 28 expeditions. Under his direction, some 5,000 kilometres of coastline were charted. Of all his achievements, Law considered the fi rst landing at Larsemann Hills to be his greatest. In early 1958, and after days of negotiating ice-free peaks that rose to 500 feet, the ANARE leader led the first party to land at Larsemann Hills. In his honour, the Law Base was established at the site in 1986– 87. Phillip Law died in Melbourne at the age of 97. Stamp News - 15
The sale of the Pericles Australia KGVI at Millennium on 22nd February provided specialists with the largest offering of “Plate nos.” since I sold the Hicks collection in the late ’nineties. I refer to them as “Plate nos.” because in fact this they are not. In a shocking revelation, Geoff Kellow, in the ACCC Bulletin of June 2011, rewrote the “book” in explaining that these numbers are in fact not the numbers by which printers identified the printing plates! “Plate nos.” inscribed on the plates, it transpires, were for the purpose of grouping sheets from the same plate (whichever that may in fact have been) Figure 1. QE 1d green Die II Plate “- 1 -” (Lot 581) for purposes of perforating. I can’t come up with a catchy replacement for the term had a Trade stand (shared with Lionel Evans), I was accepted during the past 75 years or so, and told by the late Max Cohen that the great Australian doubt that anyone can, so let’s just agree to stay with Commonwealth collection formed by Dr Leslie “Plate nos.”? Abramovich (which incidentally Max bought a couple Millennium in the auction catalogue refer to of years later), was particularly strong in KGVI Plate Pericles as “one of the finest students of Australian nos. not by chance. The good Doctor, it appears, Commonwealth philately during the past 50 years”, had a Post Office contact in one of the best possible to which I heartily agree. places to search for such items; at The Distributor of Some information on the existence in collector’s Stamps Office in Sydney, which probably handled hands of many of the Plate nos. contained in the more sheets of stamps than any other P.O. entity. The Pericles collection may be of interest to readers. At contact at that Office may have been Hayward C. ANPEX 70, Sydney, the first exhibition at which I Parish, who also prepared tiny quantities of First Day of Issue covers (FDI in Sydney, at least) for some of the most elusive items, such as perforation and No watermark change varieties of the 1940s/1950s, for which official dates of issue were seldom if ever released in advance. Max sold most of the Abramovich Plate nos. to Charles Zuker, and Pericles was one of the big buyers of that material in the Zuker sales. I was in the room in 1975 when Harmer’s of Sydney presented that material, and I admired how Pericles knew when not to be outbid. The prices paid in the mid-1970s for Plate nos. were modest in comparison Figure 2. Important usage item, discovered only in 2011 with the 2012 results. Pericles, and other 16 - Stamp News
Figure 3. KGVI 2d red Die II Plate “14” (Lot 611)
of such items, other than to admit I find them on the visually challenged side of Philately. Yes, I’m aware that unique is compelling, and Figure 1 is thought to be unique, but at $4,600 (auction prices quoted exclude premium) does this item represent value for money? Therein lays the nature of the debate. By way of cross-comparison with Figure 1 I tender Figure 2: the QE 1d green Die II, that same stamp issue, in a coil strip of three (uniformly large holes) used 18 Jun 1940 Perth to U.S., for 3d Foreign letter, censored at Perth. This is the only commercial use on cover of the coil 1d I’ve seen. What’s it worth? ACSC prices used pairs of the coil issue at $150, so I expect this cover is a $500+ auction item. Interestingly, it actually turned up in an auction only last year, in a shoebox of mixed covers. Stated to be the only recorded example, it’s unfortunate that a little more presence of the Plate no. in Figure 3 was not to be. It still achieved full ACSC catalogue value, $4,000. I don’t have a rare usage item for the KGVI 2d red Die II, other than a solo from coil vending machine which has been literally torn in half by the “gripper”. A visually striking item, but not deployed here as this is not intended to be a coil-emphasis article. Instead, I’ve called upon a rare usage example of the 2d’s “big
informed specialists like him, know such things, and take advantage of comparatively low pricing of underappreciated material while the going’s good. Do Plate nos. at an average realization of $4,375 + premium (the average for the six items featured this month) represent value buying for the new caretaker’s of these items? As an exercise, I thought I would make a series of cross-comparisons of some of the Pericles Plate nos. with the same stamp issues or contemporaries, in rare Usage configurations. “Uncommon use of the common stamp” Dept. stuff, which regular readers will know is a passion of mine. After all, a typical Plate no. format item, say a gutter block of eight, takes up about as much space in an exhibit as does a standard-sized cover. That may be as close to agreement as I get from some Traditional collectors in response to my cross-comparisons! My thanks to Millennium for permission to use catalogue scans. Relevant Lot nos. are given in brackets. Pericles knew more about the rarity of most Plate nos. than did his contemporaries, and was not averse to buying part numbers, particularly when he knew a given item was the only Figure 4. 1/4d “magneto” solo rarity example extant. I won’t go in to the aesthetics
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brother”, the 1/4d magenta. When I was starting in philately, an elderly gentleman in our street encouraged a few of the local kids including me to learn from his modest stamp collection. He showed us an imprint block of the 1/4d, which he referred to as “1/4d magneto”. We kids laughed, thinking he was being humorous, only to feel a little embarrassed later when we realized he was serious about that definition. The 1/4d is rare as a solo franking; I’ve seen three. Figure 4 is one of the best, the only example of its kind amongst the trio. A 21 Mar 1939 registered cover from Coolangatta to Canada, it’s discretely endorsed at left “By Australia – England/AirMail”. The airmail rate to U.K. at the time was in accordance with the attractive Empire Figure 5. ½d Kangaroo No wmk. Plate No. “4” (Lot 682) Air Mail Scheme, which provided for an popular little stamp with budding specialists, such as “All-up” rate of 5d only for ½oz. Curiously, each additional ½oz. was 8d! A very unusual example Geoff Kellow and me. Why? It was one of the few stamps for which we could afford to buy a sheet. of a postal rate rising by increment rather than st I sold my sheet, oh, 50 years ago. (I think Geoff decreasing. We therefore arrive at 1/4d: 5d 1 ½oz. + 8d additional ½oz. + 3d registration. A bottler, and not still has his). Sadly, we didn’t find a Plate no. on our sheets, such as the example in Figure 5, which a visually challenged one. Auction estimate $200. fetched $2,700. The ½d Kangaroo No watermark when it was I have a couple of solo frankings of the ½d No current (up until intro of Decimal Currency) was a watermark, which are rare, but have decided to feature another member of the Zoological series, the 1941 5½d on 5d Ram surcharge. This is very scarce as a solo usage, and amongst the small number of examples in total that I’ve recorded, are no less than four distinct solo types: [1] Domestic combined letter + registration (2d + 3d + ½d War tax), [2] Domestic letter + airmail (2d + 3d air surcharge + ½d War tax), [3] N.Z. airmail (5d + ½d War tax), and [4] Foreign second weight step letter (3d 1st oz. + 2d additional oz. + ½d War tax). I’ve seen just one Figure 6. Rare usage of another member of Zoological family each of [3] and [4], and feature [3] 18 - Stamp News
wrote back home. This example bears a quite different handstamp to the “MAIL OFFICE/R.A.F. MISSION/TO AUST./ AND NEW ZLD./6 OCT 1947” shown on the other. It reads within double oval “U.K./INDIA ELEMENT/ON ACTIVE SERVICE/AIR MAIL CONCESSION RATE/JCOSA [Joint Chiefs of Staff Australia]”. Can I over emphasize the importance of items such as this? Multicountry appeal (Australia/N.Z., India, G.B.), rare rate, Military significance, without even mentioning extremely rare stamp usage. Even an attractive “Christmas Greetings” adhesive tape for Thematic appeal! This item realized Figure 7. KGVI 2d purple No wmk. Plate No. “- 5 -” (Lot 687) US$107.50 on eBay. Value for money? You bet. Part Plate no. Figure 9, realized as Figure 6. Incidentally, although over 3.8 million of the surcharges were printed, it was heavily speculated $5,750. A lot of money for what you get? You be the judge. in at the time, rendering mint of course common. I Again, I can’t provide a rare usage item for the recall when I was a wholesaler in the 1960s it was subject stamp, the 4d Koala No watermark, so I’ll difficult to source quantities of commercially used move up to the next denomination, 4½d! You know, of the stamp, which corroborates low consumption there are times when there’s no justice in Philately. and why covers therefore are so scarce. The subject featured was used from Wahroonga 8 Jan 1942 to Christchurch, censored at Sydney. Auction estimate $250. One of the more attractive examples of a Plate No., and a good example of the often “freakish” causes which produced them, is Figure 7. No visual challenge here; this realized $4,800. I’ve tendered an example of the watermarked issue of the KGVI 2d purple for cross-comparison with Figure 7. Last month I featured a similar item, and mentioned it was the first such usage I’ve countered. Remarkably, a second example (in 23 years I’ve been researching usage) has turned up. And a corker it is. Figure 8 is a 10 Dec 1947 solo use of a 2d by a member of the R.A.F. Mission to Australia/ N.Z. which, as I mentioned last month, Figure 8. Second example of its kind seen in 23 years enjoyed a 2d airmail rate when members Stamp News - 19
20 years ago I alerted the market to the rarity as a solo franking of the KGVI 4½d (via a conduit kindly facilitated by fellow columnist, Glen Stephens). The 4½d was issued primarily for the Foreign postcard rate. Unwisely, I provided this information on rarity prior to obtaining an example for my own reference purposes. When a small number of examples gradually did turn up, I found I was constantly outbid by a newly empowered band of enthusiasts. Figure 9. 4d Koala No wmk. Plate No. “7 -” (Lot 693) I still do not have an example of this stamp solo on a postcard to a foreign if airmail was intended from the outset. This is a late destination! use of a 4½d, the distribution of which to Post Offices What I do have, however, is a rather neat variant of ceased on 31 Jul 1953. Will make a lovely page with that creature. A postcard to Germany bearing a 4½d, a solo franking postcard (when I eventually get one). where it appears the sender subsequently decided Solos on postcards have generally realized around surface mail was going to be too slow, and opted to $300 at auction (highest $725). Figure 10 is the only uprate the postcard for aerial transmission. I make this example of its kind I’ve seen, but I accept it may be claim as the 7½d Coronation, utilized to uprate the too esoteric for most usage aficionados. Let’s then article for airmail, is affixed partly over the 4½d, and suggest a conservative auction estimate of $250? the positioning of the By Air Mail etiquette suggests ACSC states of QE 1½d green Plate No. 5 (Figure sending by airmail was an afterthought. The card was 11) “several examples exist”. This one realized posted at Melbourne 17 Jul 1953, where one would $4,400. reasonably expect a 1/- stamp to have been available, Figure 12. Only example seen of QE 2d green solo
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for airmail to U.K. No QE 1½d green nice usages to show, so I’ll defer to its cousin, the 2d. Figure 12 is a solo use from the N.Z. Forces P.O. in Korea, used 25 Nov 1953 to U.K. (after war ceased). This would appear to be one of the concessions available to British, Australian and N.Z. Forces serving abroad (see Figure 8), when writing to home country. I don’t have further details, but have no doubt this is a commercial use. I would think an auction estimate of, say, $200 would be readily achievable. So ends this exercise in crosscomparisons. Do others agree with me in seeing real value for money
sale provides us with the opportunity to make a comparison of auction prices for £2 imprint blocks then, and now. My 1977 Rarity Sale had the six possible configurations of the Imprint/No imprint and Roller flaws/Retouches. The hammer-price realizations in the two sales are shown below; I haven’t taken in to account the odd mounted unit, suffice to say most stamps were unmounted. £2 Arms: 1977 2012 Imprint block $925 $300 $925 $480 - With flaws Figure 11. QE 1½d green Plate No. “5” (Lot 700)
With retouches $1050
No imprint block - With flaws
$925 $1050
$575 N/A $1050
comparatively in the alternatives selected? - With retouches $975 $1250 I’d like to end this month’s discussion with some not unrelated observations. The 1970s ushered in It will be noted for 2012 that one configuration the Great Boom we had to have, but in reality it matched the 1977 result, and one exceeded it. was a wonderful time for the informed to pick up Aggregate realizations for the five blocks present in bargains, such as Pericles with Plate nos. (and see Pericles are $4,925 (1977) and $3,655 (2012). Given below “Affordable covers don’t necessarily remain the 35 years gap between the respective sales, it does that way”). The material which went “ballistic” in provide an interesting insight in to the madness that the ’seventies was the standard “glamour” material, probably because it lent itself more readily to plotting was the Great Boom. (It also confirms the No imprint configurations are the more challenging.) on graphs to predict future growth, however fanciful. I can’t help speculating “What would a That certainly was the case when a share broking firm was buying in my auctions in the ’seventies; keen they were to participate in the incredible philatelic market. I recommended to them such material as Essays, Proofs, covers, and other material which could find a place in an exhibit. Genuinely scarce material often being its own worst enemy, appearing on the market too infrequently to plot on a graph, my recommendations were deemed unsuitable in an “investment” environment where reassurance of positive growth was essential, if one was to maintain the froth. An example of one of the Figure 12. Only example seen of QE 2d green solo for airmail to “glamour” stamps of The Boom U.K. is the 1950 £2 Arms. The Pericles Stamp News - 21
commercial cover bearing a £2 Arms have fetched in The Boom, assuming one could be found?” Oh, probably a buck, buck-and-a-half. No one, including me, would have thought anything of such an item. Affordable covers don’t necessarily remain that way. Finally, whilst I was scanning through my Harmer’s of Sydney catalogues (reviewing prices Pericles paid for many of his Plate nos.), I stumbled across a couple of interesting lots, which I had long forgotten. In the 23 June 1972 sale, Lots 26 and 27 were described as being Victoria 1850 Half-length 1d 2nd State (SG 5/a) pairs on cover, estimated at $40-50 each. They were in fact Original State 1d’s (SG 1 group), yet still managed $50 and $87 only, respectively (which, incidentally, would also have been a bargain were they 2nd State 1d’s). Geoff Kellow in The Stamps of Victoria mentions of SG 1b (which Harmer’s were) “At least five covers are known”. Lot 27 was acquired by me, and in the Barelli sale
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Market Matters Cold War in the mid-1980s, on stampboards.com that and attracted global media the realisation in December coverage. 2011 for Part 1 of the American hero Kasparov Karpov Collection was just battled scores of draws to under €2,000,000. apparently prevail some Feldman will offer part 2 years later! They were still of the Karpov Collection on battling it out in the 2000s. April 16th-20th, and Part 3 Most will not realise on December 3rd-8th 2012. Karpov formed one of the There were many finest ever collections of wonderful early classics Belgium and Colonies – the offered, one of which the first section of which has 1849 20c blue is shown recently sold for around 2 nearby, and sold for 205,000 MILLION Euro. Euros. Karpov has always been Ex General Gill an avid stamp collector, Collection. The better of the devoting the same two neighbouring blocks relentless dedication to from this collection. The collectibles as he did to his other, had the two lower chess. stamp margins touched at The first stamp in his the bottom. collection was the USSR stamp celebrating 40 Kangaroo Parcel Tags Karpov Classic years of the Red Army in An American member of 1958. But it wasn’t Soviet stampboards this month stamps which really grabbed posted up photos of a half Karpov’s interest. dozen Kangaroo parcel tags, that had apparently Instead, Karpov’s attention was drawn by been sitting unloved in California. colonies of the British Empire, and also stamps It does illustrate that wonderful material still showing animals which could not be seen in exists out there, un-discovered after 75 years. Russia - such as snakes, kangaroos or zebras. They are most unusual frankings on full tags. He went on to collect Chess and Olympic Most of them were Registered, with Registered Games stamps, from the first modern Olympic labels on the reverse. Games in Athens, Greece in 1896. One on coarse linen bagging, from Perth, almost certainly contained gold shipments to the Karpov Sydney Visit USA Federal Reserve. I made him a fair cash offer that he accepted, Anatoly Karpov visited me in Sydney in the 1980s and a good client bought them as a lot for a few and purchased a stack of Australian “Territory” $100 each, that he’ll be truly delighted about in a stamps in Seven Seas hingeless albums. few years. Had he focused his collecting energies and All tags have a £2 Kangaroo at least – which large fortune on this part of the world, imagine these days retail for $675 for average used off what a difference that would have made. piece. Feldman Auctions of Switzerland announced 26 - Stamp News
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Discovered after 75 years And most had 10/- and or £1 as well, which are retail $275 and $375 used respectively. And on tags of course are catalogued in the ACSC, at many times the used prices. The old ACSC states a value of $1,500 EACH for £1 Greys and £2 CofA on tag – there are NINE of them alone, and 5 of the 10/-, cat $1,000 each. Even a 10/- “Robes” on tag is $A350, and the £1 “Robes” is $A650, so they alone are heavy hitters, as there are 3 x £1 here. A nice group – excuse the blurry photo taken quickly before I mailed them off!
$30 very well spent
I am always surprised at how strong a “crossover” there is between stamp and numismatic collectors. About 10 years ago I owned, edited and published the “Coin and Banknote” magazine. (“CAB”) It is a great read each month, and has long been under the safe stewardship of John Mulhall. I am sure if you email him on auscoinbank@ bigpond.com John will be pleased to mail you a recent copy as a sample. Back then, we cross referenced the subscriber names against our stamp magazine subscriber Stamp News - 27
Market Matters names, and the overlap was about 25%.
Large Stampie overlap
Clearly a decent chunk collect both areas. With banknotes in particular, the recess printed notes are VERY akin to recess printed KGV and KGVI stamps etc, hence the ready appeal. Back then I retained Greg McDonald as the editor – as he had been, since he founded that magazine. So that introduction touches on why I have mentioned this new colour NUMISMATIC catalogue, in a STAMP magazine. Now in full colour this is edition 19 of this well respected work - the first being published in 1993, so felt it was long overdue for a mention. Greg kindly lists me in the “Special Thanks” section each edition, and I thought it was time to actually plug his book! “The Pocket Guide to Australian Coins and Banknotes” by Greg McDonald is I guess pocket size ONLY if you have massive sized pockets, as it is now 456 pages thick! Current Australian recommended retail price is A$35, although at least one dealer is selling them under $A30 plus post – check here for one instance - tinyurl.com/CatGreg There are two excellent and long standing, market leading sellers in this market – this volume, and the hard bound Renniks catalogue, which has been published for nearly 50 years, and is edited by Alan Pitt.
Saved from a sticky fate.
Both may have vanished about 10-15 years back, when a few folks on the Numismatic trade body Committee, had ideas to produce its own catalogue, and decide themselves the “retail” values. I have had a lot to do with Alan Pitt, Renniks, and Greg McDonald over the decades. All great people. The Committee back then seems to overlook that 2 excellent, well respected and long standing 28 - Stamp News
Under $A30 post-free books were already out there. Common sense prevailed, and I really do feel the numismatic industry and hobby has stayed strong as a result, as tried and proven “arm’s length” price guides are absolutely essential for stability. I cannot believe for under $30 a copy posted, how few stamp dealers and collectors buy these Coin catalogues. Even if you only buy one each
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Current catalogue value - $295 decade, it is a valuable book to have around. Just one vaguely decent thing turning up somewhere will re-pay it 10 to 100 times over. As a dealer I very often get numismatic product turning up in stamp lots. Often just circulated coins and notes – and more often Royal Mint and Perth Mint “product” bought in the last 30 years. Do not assume this modern material is common, and of little value. This ‘Year 2000’ proof set shown nearby is Cat $295 ... and has only $3.70 of face value coinage in there, and issue price was $64.75. Did you have any idea such very modern issues were so pricey? I sold it on stampboards to a very happy collector.
Can I spend at Woolworths?
The owner had toyed with taking the coins out and using them at Woolworths - from this and several others sets. He assumed as they were “modern”, they’d have little or no collector value!
Some of the quite ordinary looking (non bullion) product from around this era are listed in McDonald for much higher than this figure. This week I found in a box from an estate, a 2001 “Centenary Of Federation” $5 coin that is cat $475 to my enormous delight. Issue price was only $A79.50. If anyone needs one please let me know! I get sold a lot of this material, and job it out as it is not my main field. Even well circulated currency notes are often worth SERIOUS money – even from the relatively modern KGVI era.
10/- KGVI Notes worth $40,000
The very common orange 10/- note design circulated during the entire KGVI reign 19391952 is rated in MID grade “VF” for the VERY cheapest type at $A285. Scarce signature combos go well into 4 figures this mid-grade, and of course “Star” notes go to $A40,000. These prices are all for the 3rd grade of the 6 grades listed – i.e. “typical grade” notes one sees from this era. For crisp uncirculated notes taken from a pay packet etc, similar to the one in the nearby photo, you start at $A1,800 for cheapest possible type, and go to $A215,000. And that is for the lowest face value KGVI note … I will not bore you with detail re the value of KGV notes and higher face values!
$A1,909,000.00 10/- Banknote – sold $A1,909,000.00
They can get into the 7 figure region. There is
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a scarce KGV Australian 10/- note shown on page 9 of this catalogue that sold at auction for $A1,909,000. That is over 1.275 MILLION pounds Sterling. I get dozens of circulated KGVI 10/- notes (and other values) a year buried in stamp collections. Usually popped on a Hagner sheet or stockbook page as a curio etc, and assumed to have only a few dollars value. I just bought a lovely top end grade 10/- I added to my Rarity Page for $700 if anyone yearns to buy some nostalgia – it is illustrated nearby. It was between the pages of an old catalogue, placed there from a pay packet 60 years ago it appeared. The stamp collector’s estate sellers assumed it was near worthless, as it was - ‘no longer valid currency’ they told me. If these folks spent under $A30 on such a book, they would realise their curio is clearly worth 25 times that price outlay! 30 - Stamp News
These are VERY serious dollars.
A $1,800,000 catalogue coin!
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Cost $9.85 – but now cat $360.
“Knowledge Is Power”
“Knowledge Is Power” is the mantra I keep preaching for such things – and have done all my life. As a young kid in the 1950s, my grandmother always mailed me a 10/- or £1 (or sometimes £5!) note with my birthday card. That was a very common thing to do. Indeed the most “common” 10/- KGVI signature combination – 1942 Armitage/ McFarlane has a MINIMUM catalogue value of $1,800 when never circulated. Even Australian coinage can be worth big dollars. A proof copy of the 1930 Penny is catalogued at $A1,800,000. That is around two million $US when this was typed, and about 1.2 million pounds. For a PENNY! The example shown nearby is such a coin, that seems to be on offer for about catalogue value in
recent times from a Melbourne dealer. Anyway a most useful catalogue, and good to see it now is released in colour. At under $A30 post-free you’d be nuts not to have one. I do not know any stamp catalogue that has a colour listing of all the popular “PNC” issues – the Philatelic Numismatic Covers that Australia Post sells. McDonald does of course list, illustrate and price them all. Again I see tons of these turning up in FDC collections. The owners very often have no clue they are valuable.
Lists all the “PNC” items
The 2000 “For Valour” PNC cover shown nearby is cat $A360, yet cost under $A10 to buy from Australia Post. I added one cheaply to my Rarity Page this week, as it turned up without comment in a FDC Stamp News - 31
Market Matters collection. Ditto the 2002 QE2 PNC - cost only $A9.95 and Cat is now $A325. I bet a ton of readers have both bought at issue price, and had no clue these were so valuable? The only drawback I ever have is Greg’s odd decision not to assign ANY catalogue number, ANYWHERE in the book, to non-banknote areas. Given the vast amount of mint coin product being issued, it is near impossible to identify anything with precision. Why on earth Greg does not sit down and give EACH section logical catalogue numbers, that can be used universally by the trade, is one of life’s great mysteries. For instance - why not take the PNC section and give them a “P” prefix from issue 1. Thus the 1999 “Year Of Older Persons” is McP1 - and so on. Proof year sets are McPR1, and a 1911 halfpenny is McH1, a 1911 Florin is
McF1 etc. Anyway, that bugs me every edition - and others too, so hope he can sit down and give each section a logical number system ... soon. The work covers all the 19th Century sovereigns etc, indeed goes back to the 18th Century “Proclamation” coins etc, and the “Holy Dollar” and “Dump” issues. Glen Stephens has written monthly ‘Stamp Tipster’ columns for over 25 years. A vast library of past articles is at: www.glenstephens.com/column.html
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auction news
International rarity auction in Malmö Postiljonen 28 April 2012
On 28 April, in conjunction with the “Malmö 2nd International Philatelic Summit”, Postiljonen will arrange their 200th anniversary auction. The company has organized auctions for more than 40 years and the “The Jubilee Auction #200” will be a small but fantastic rarity sale The auction starts off with an incredible Belgian set of “King Leopold” in mint never hinged condition and in blocks of four. The starting price for these three blocks in denominations of 10, 20 and 40 cents is 40 000 Euro. From Denmark comes a wonderful and extremely rare readdressed cover with mixed franking of 4 RBS Thiele II and 4 RBS Thiele III. The cover was sent to Rønnede where it was delivered and then reposted to Copenhagen with another stamp. The cover has a starting price of 4000 Euro. Two fantastic and extremely rare postal stationery envelopes from Finland will be offered at the
Belgian King Leopold set
auction. One is of the first issue from 1845 with the high value of 20 kopek in red on paper with watermark. Starting price for this envelope is 12 500 Euro. The other, even more exceptional, is of the second issue of postal stationeries from 1850. This issue was produced in three values and printed with the Oval Type in lying shape, which was later used for the first issue of postage stamps. This specific stationery was printed with the highest value, 20 kopek in black. This denomination was not issued as postage stamp and therefore this stamp imprint only exists on this postal stationery. This item is one of the most famous in Finnish philately and the only known in private hands. Starting price is 70 000 Euro. The second part of the “C.A. Møller Collection of Holstein” will be offered at this auction and one of the highlights is the unique “Horst Christmas Cover”. The cover is a wonderful small size cover with 2 Schilling rose cancelled with the extremely rare numeral “15”. The cover has full contents and is addressed to a Dr Muller in Kiel. Rare readdressed cover from Denmark
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1850 Finnish Postal Stationery - 20 kopek
Starting price for this cover is 20 000 Euro. The auction presents a very nice little Iceland section and here you will find an interesting cover with 20 aur dull blue sent from a medical doctor in Reykjavik to a colleague in Belgian Congo. This is one of three covers recorded from this period, addressed to Africa. Starting price 5000 Euro. Modena in Italy is represented by a wonderful four-colour franking cover to USA from 1856 with 1 lire together with 10 c. and pairs of 15 & 25 c. Covers with the highest value are very rare and the starting price is 3000 Euro. The biggest sensation in this auction is of course the “Tama 6 yo” (egg-brown 6). It is a 6 SEN of the Cherry Blossom issue from 1875 in orange brown colour with syllabic (control number) 15 and before this newly
discovered stamp, only six other copies were known. The stamp is legendary in Japan and the catalogue value is in Michel a quarter of a million Euro. The postmark is a negative cross used in Tokyo and the condition is perfect. This particular copy is by some Japanese experts considered the best of the few existing copies, which are all owned by great Japanese collectors. Starting price for this fantastic stamp is 90 000 Euro From the Portuguese Colony of Angola comes a spectacular registered cover from Loanda to Berlin with 10 copies of the 5 reis black on the front and 10 copies on the back. The 5 reis is one of the rarest values on cover of all the Portuguese Colonies Crown issues and this one is the largest multiple of any Crown issue stamp in any Portuguese Colony. Starting price 25 000 Euro. Naturally there is a wonderful section of Sweden at the auction and one of the highlights is a beautiful registered cover with two copies of 8 Skilling Banco, each with a superb cancellation. The left stamp also has the unusual variety “double 8”. Starting price for this cover is 4000 Euro. Catalogues are available at www.postiljonen. com or Postiljonen AB, Box 537, S-201 25 Malmö, Sweden, Tel: +46 (0)40 25 88 50, Fax: +46 (0)40 25 88 59.
Four colour franking cover Modena - USA Stamp News - 35
Revenue Review Last Orders Please
It is interesting to note, that the final nail in the coffin for the use of beer duty stamps was by Proclamation No. 971, published in Gazette No. 41 – page 2373 dated 24.7.1958. The use of beer duty stamps as a means of collecting excise was discontinued as from 1.8.1958. Of further interest is the fact that the Senior Inspector of Excise a Mr W. D. Waterson stated that the stamps have no philatelic value, and for the purposes of the department they may be regarded as purely historical. This last sentence, as we know was not adhered to as sets of redundant Commonwealth beer duty stamps were sold off to collectors from late 1958. Many have stayed in the very sets that were sent out to collectors.
Postal Notes
Several collectors, and even long time dealers will try and tell you that a Postal Note is not a revenue. This of course is plain rubbish, and these people
Fig 1
Fig 2
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need to lift their game if they are to try to educate fellow collectors. Postal Notes are fully recognised by the FIP Revenue world body. A fee or poundage was the revenue payment collected for this service, and was paid by the buyer of the note. A note such as the 15/- in fig 1 attracted 3d revenue. The buyer of the note would pay 15/3d [the 3d being the fee for the service]. A good run of archival information on Postal Notes is available in the National Archives for all to see. I will add a few to this month [figs 2, 3 & 4], and the following few months just to give you an idea how spectacular some revenue stamped paper can be. Of interest figure 2 shows the imprint of Harrison, the Government printer, with figure 3 printed by Ash. This note also shows the incorrect coat of arms that was used for a short period on these notes, these being among the scarcest of the ‘modern’ notes. Figure 4 shows the corrected coat of arms. Ross Pratley of NSW has made it a life long challenge to study these notes. Many years ago Ross
Dave Elsmore accessed the archives and photocopied all there is to be found. Some of Ross’s information was used by me in my publication ‘Queensland Postal Notes’ 2004. [Figures 1-4 courtesy of National Archives. Files of interest NAA: MP341/1, 1938/5286 & MP341/1, 1913/11378].
‘Sen’ Pounds
Figure 5 is a very nice recurring flaw found on the Queensland 1927 seven-pound value Impressed duty. This copy was offered on eBay with the seller breaking up a very large specialised collection of this issue from one penny to one thousand pounds. I do hope you all got a piece of it!
Separate This
Figure 6 is one of the rare private separations found on early Tasmanian issues. Fun to be had here, as they can be found fiscally used for the revenue collector. Figure 6 is from my Tasmania revenue
exhibit. For those of you lucky enough to attend the Western Australia National Stamp Show in a couple of months. The exhibit, which has been extended from 5 to 8 frames, will be on display.
Ticket Tax
A very nice 2d Tattersall’s revenue cut out [fig 7] from a full ticket was offered on eBay and very quickly snapped up by a local Newcastle collector. You do not see many of the lower values coming onto the market these days, with the most common being the 6d.
Perf Check
Philip Commins has sent in a nice looking Victorian 5/- Stamp Statute [fig 8] with the perfs measuring 12.3 x 13.1. This compound perf implies two machines were being used concurrently. You may like to run a perf check on your holdings of this issue. Thanks for sharing Philip.
Fig 3
Fig 4
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Revenue Review Nitty Gritty
Finally this month prior to ‘Perfin Corner’, I have been getting down to the nitty gritty of the 1866 1d Lithographed Stamp Duty of Queensland. This has a fascinating plate layout starting off as a 150 plate [15x10] then decreasing to a 120 plate [10x12]. Three printing stones were used during its life. To give you an insight to the complexity of stone one layout, it consisted of 2 x 40 [2x20 frames 1x40 head] groups 2 x 20 groups being vertically half of the 40 group, a horizontal half group of 20 and a quarter group of 10 of the horizontal 20 group. Hope you are following all this. My fascination with this 1d issue has led me to attempt to reconstruct the full 150 sheet using large blocks and identifying the secondary printing flaws to achieve the make up. All sound too much for you? Well fear not I am only looking for scans of your holdings on this 1866, 1d issue. I am sure every revenue collector would/ should have some. Figure 9 shows a rather nice plate
scratch running through S of STAMP down to E of PENNY. As separate frame & head printed this issue, figure 9 shows the head sitting to the right damaging the base of the letters AMP DU of STAMP DUTY. With this identity it can be plated as Row 2 Stamp 6 from Stone 1. E. Mann wrote a nice paper on this issue in 1942. I could find no later record of any study on this series 1d to 20/-. I look forward to your 300dpi scans, thank you.
Perfin Corner
This month’s ‘Perfin Corner’ is dedicated to Commercial overprints & backprints.
Moreheads on the Front
A rather nice Qld 2/- 1872 Stamp Duty with curved [sideways left] security overprint ‘B. D. Moreheads & Co’ [fig 9] has come to light, can you please check your holding of this issue and report any findings on other values. This is the first copy on purpose
Fig 6
Fig 8 Fig 5 Fig 7
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Dave Elsmore revenue to be found. In 1873 Morehead and A. B. Buchanan founded B. D. Morehead & Co., which had two branches, a mercantile and trading business, and a stock and station agency. By 1877 the company had thirteen stations in the Mitchell District.
Tatts on the Back
Another new find this month. This time it’s the very well known, Tatts backprint found on postage issues but as you can see in figures 10 & 11 is on a revenue stamp. Clearly dated 1924, which sits well with research and is the first revenue to surface with this security backprint. I would like to record it here in ‘Revenue Review’. Again can I ask you go check the reverse side of your holdings of this issue and let me know if you find similar. I can be contacted by mail: P O Box 66 Springwood 4127 Queensland or an Email link from my web site ozrevenues.com
Fig 10
Fig 11
Fig 9
Fig 12
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Ireland: the Definitive Issues. Part 4. Welcome to the and finally the 1981next chapter in the 82 lithographed set. wonderful world of The four designs Irish definitives. This were; a stylised dog month we start on the taken from the detail Gerl series, and I feel of an ancient Irish there is a real sense of brooch from Co. ‘out with the old and Kilkenny, now in the in with the new’ in the National Museum, air! And no, it’s not Dublin. This design that I can’t spell ‘girl’, was initially used for Gerl (pronounced the lowest six values, the same way) is the ½d to 6d. The second Fig 1: The four Gerl designs name of the designer design, used for the of this set of stamps – six middle values, more on that shortly from 7d to 1/9d, featured a stag (also referred to Those readers who have been following this as an elk). This design was based on an early Irish series of articles from the beginning may recall art decoration found on a suspended bowl, which me mentioning in the first article the abundance is in the British Museum. It’s interesting to note of the first issue 1d and 2d stamps that showed up that all of the values to 10d in the first Gerl (pre in mission mixture stamp packets when I was a decimal) set actually have a lower case ‘p’ after youngster, and I have to say that that is also true the figures of value in each design, representing of several values of the Gerl issues also. Despite ‘pingin’, the Irish equivalent of penny, rather than that, or perhaps to some degree, because of it, the more traditional ‘d’, which is derived from these issues have a strong following, and have the Latin ‘denarius’ and was used on the first proven to be one of the most popular of any Irish series Irish definitives, as well as, of course, on stamp issue. But where did it all begin? the pre decimal stamps of Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and most other British Empire/ Commonwealth countries’ stamps. The new designs The first of the larger, high value designs is In 1966, the Irish Post Office’s Stamp Design The Winged Ox, the symbol of St. Luke the Advisory Committee announced an international Evangelist. It is based on an illustration found stamp design competition for new definitive in the Gospel Book of Lichfield, in Lichfield stamp designs to replace the first issue designs Cathedral. This design was used for the 2/6d that had, with only slight variation, been in use and 5/- denominations. Finally we come to the since 1922 for the low values, and since 1937 for 10/- value, which featured the eagle, symbol of the high values. The competition entrants were St. John the Evangelist, taken from an ancient asked to submit designs that were ‘associated Irish manuscript in the library of Corpus Christi with early Irish art which has it’s own distinct College, Cambridge. and original character’. Eleven different artists submitted a total of fifty seven designs. Four designs, all by Munich born artist Heinrich Gerl, were eventually chosen as the basis for the new definitive series Fig 1. The Gerl designs remained in use for 14 years, and can be divided into four distinct groups: The pre decimals, the decimal issues with watermark, then with no watermark, 40 - Stamp News
The pre decimal Gerl series
This first series of Gerls were issued in four groups between October 1968 and June 1969. They were all printed in photogravure on the familiar ‘E’ watermarked paper (sideways on the low values to 1/9d), by the Government
Mike Lee Printers at Dublin never remember Castle. All were which is which), perforated 15. Gum Arabic is When compared shiny and looks to the designs of like, well… the first definitive gum! PVA (Poly issue, it always Vinyl Alcohol) strikes me that gum has a matt the Gerl designs appearance, to are much simpler the point where and uncluttered. it is pretty They also look much invisible, very ‘modern’ to and it’s easy Fig 2: 10/- Eagle colour register cross block me, particularly to mistakenly the lower values – assume that I’m not sure why, stamps with this maybe it’s their more stark and abstract nature. type of gum actually have no gum at all. In all The Gerls are also a bit more colourful than cases, the PVA gum versions of the pre decimal their predecessors. And for the first time as far as Gerls have a higher catalogue value that their Irish definitives are concerned, we find bicoloured Gum Arabic counterparts, but it’s the 2d light and even multicoloured stamps. ochre that takes the cake when we compare the Even though the pre decimal Gerls only had catalogue values in the 2009 Hibernian catalogue. a short life before being replaced by similar The original Gum Ararbic version comes in at 40c decimal stamps in 1971, there are still three MUH, while the PVA version is €140. I’ll wait different papers and two gum types to be found while you all run to your stamp rooms, find your in some values. This, together with the various Ireland albums, and turn your mint 2d Gerls over, sheet markings etc. that can be found, may go just in case…. Good luck. some way to explaining the popularity, and fairly Next we come to sheet markings. First of all high level of study, that collectors have seen fit to we have cylinder numbers. These are usually favour the various Gerl issues with since they first collected in blocks of four (or six for the three appeared some 44 years ago. larger high values) and have a cylinder number for each colour used in the margin. There are also Autotron marks (lines in the sheet margins to help Some more specialised areas for with electronic colour registration during printing) and colour register crosses, which are found on your consideration sheet margins of the bi-colour and multi colour I won’t go into too much detail regarding the values, also used to aid in colour registration Fig many specialised collecting areas that the Gerl 2. This is as good a place as any to include gutter, issues provide us with , rather a quick outline of or interpanneau pairs. Unlike many countries some of the options that are available in the four where the collecting of gutter pairs and larger different Gerl issues to the more adventurous gutter multiples has fallen out of favour to some collectors among us! degree in recent years, these items, particularly Lets start with the gum. All of the original in pair format, still have a fairly strong following printings of the pre decimal Gerls were issued amongst the collectors of Irish stamps. All of the with Gum Arabic. In the second half of 1970, pre decimal Gerl sheet formats include gutters, eight of the values appeared with PVA gum. For and the Hibernian catalogue, which lists these readers unfamiliar with the difference between these two gum types (or if you’re like me, and can (and pretty much every other Irish stamps where Stamp News - 41
Ireland: the Definitive Issues. Part 4. they can exist) in pairs, it may simply be that one shows us that none publication has more up to are particularly ‘over date info than the other), but the top’ price wise, I’ll try to do some philatelic although the 10/- gutter sleuthing to resolve this pair comes in at a hefty mystery! As usual, the starter €180. and end strips from these There are only a coil rolls are very popular couple of constant plate with collectors of today, and (cylinder) varieties to priced rather highly in the be found on the pre Hibernian catalogue. decimal Gerls, both And so we come to the consist of scratches, end of the pre decimal Gerl and are on the 9d and issues, and also this month’s Fig 3: 1969 6/- booklet 5/-. The latest edition article. Of course I haven’t of the SG catalogue touched on the stamps on also lists the 6d value with the watermark facing cover showing usages, rates and other postal right, which is to say, inverted. history aspects, but this is certainly an area worth investigating too, if it takes your fancy!
Booklets & coils
Only one booklet appeared during the time that the pre decimal Gerls were on issue, a 6/- with a deep bluish-green cover, containing 2 panes of 6 of the 6d brown dog design, issued in September 1969 Fig 3. The booklet exists with panes with either Gum Arabic or PVA gum, with the PVA version again being the higher catalogues of the two, and both gum types can be found with inverted watermarks. Three values of the pre decimal set, the 1d, 2d and 3d values, were issued in coil roll format in August 1970 for use in existing vending machines. They were printed in sheet format, with the sheets then cut into strips, with ‘paste up’ or coil joins, every 20 stamps. That may all make it sound like the coils would be very hard to tell apart from the normal sheet stamps, but not so. Fortunately for we collectors, the coils are perforated 14 x 15, rather than 15 all around like the regular sheet stamps. According to the footnote in the latest Stanley Gibbons catalogue, all three coils exist only with PVA gum, but the Specialised coils listing of the 2009 Hibernian catalogue, lists the 2d and 3d coils also existing with Gum Arabic, and are highly catalogued thus. I’m not sure which listing is correct (or 42 - Stamp News
Next month: the beginning of the decimal Gerl issues. Please feel free to contact me with any questions and comments at: mlphilatelic@bigpond.com Until next month, happy (Irish) collecting! Mike
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Cinderella Corner
Balloon Post
An Adelaide reader has sent me these Balloon Post stamps, (fig. 1), with a request for any information I can provide. I have seen them before, and a Google search brought up a website called ballooningstamps.com and they were listed as being issued in 1974 but there was no other information and I don’t know anything else about them either. Can any reader help?
about these labels and an article that was being researched by Eric Frazer. He has now published his findings in the Cinderella Philatelist in a comprehensive article. It is an excellent piece of research and I congratulate him on his work.
Brooklyn Sanitary Fair
I found this little item in the January 1889 issue of the American Journal of Philately. There were a number of other issues included in the article but I New York International Exhibition thought I would just illustrate this one for a start. This very attractive stamp, (fig. 2), was produced These stamps came about after the American Civil by the American Banknote Company and used as War when the ladies of some of the Northern states the souvenir gift with the catalogue for the 1926 organised fairs in different cities to raise money to New York International Philatelic Exhibition. There provide comforts and delicacies for the wounded were four contained in a packet on the advertising soldiers and to care for the widows and orphans of page for the Company in the catalogue. The stamps those who lost their lives. in the set printed in Green, Blue, Red and Violet. This particular stamp, (fig. 3), was issued for the fair held in the Academy of Music, Brooklyn Shop And Post Early This Christmas in 1864 and a feature of the fair was a Post Office Back in the September 2011 column I wrote where letters could be posted to anywhere in the
Clockwise from Left: Figures 1, 2 & 3
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Tony Presgrave
world provided the correct postage was applied along with one of the Fair’s stamps to carry it to the General Post Office. Therefore the stamps did duty as a Local Postage Stamp. The Brooklyn fair netted over $400,000 for the benefit of the cause.
PFT 50
In last month’s column I illustrated a stamp with the comment that I thought it might be from a Scandanavian country. I was searching through my folder of Cinderella reference material and came across an article that I had downloaded from a website called Philatelic Paraphernalia some time ago. The item was in issue 14, dated January 1988. The stamp was the subject of a press release intended to celebrate 50 years of the Norwegian Philatelic Bureau.
Delandre
Some time ago I acquired a batch of patriotic labels and have only just now found time to do a bit of
research into some of them. I have volumes 3 and 4 of the set of books “Images of the Great War” by Charles Kiddle and Walter Schmidt which is a catalogue of the labels produced by Delandre. Volume 3 deals with the Red Cross labels 1914 to 1917, and Volume 4 the labels other than Military and Red Cross 1914 to 1917. It is Volume 4 that I have used as my reference. This label, (fig. 4), is one of a set of eight designed by Fern Besnier that carry quotations from Napoleon and others. From the date on one of the labels they were produced in 1914 and are listed in Chapter 16 of the book as number 406. Another of Delandre’s creations is this label, (fig. 5), which is number 354 and belongs to a block of 24 designs.described in Chapter 13 of the book. Another one, (fig.6), is either 154 or 198 in the book. The colours for number 154, yellow on left side, right side grey, do not quite agree with those on the illustrated example, but then again neither do those of 198 which is described as flesh colour, grey and sky blue.
Figures 4, 5, 6, & 7
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Cinderella Corner
Fig. 7 is another one, unfortunately my copy has a crease, but it is still useful for the record. It is listed as number 156. Fig. 8 is number 453 listed in chapter 20 as ‘Various 1’ which includes labels not listed elsewhere pending further research. All the labels in this chapter are recorded as being on mid thickness paper with brown gum Fig. 9 is number 461 listed in chapter 21 as ‘Various 2’ and again they are listed as pending further research, and are recorded as being on thick paper with thick brown gum. Chapter 8 reveals a further issue, (fig. 10), being part of a block of 8 with the catalogue number 224.
Other Patriotic Labels
The other labels I have illustrated here (figs 11, 12
and 13), came from the same batch, but according to the Delandre catalogue they are not his work. Figures 11 and 13 have a printers imprint at the base of the design which suggests that they probably had some form of official sanction for their issue. Figure 12 has no such imprint.
Cinderella Or Postage?
I have included this stamp, (fig. 14), in the column on the basis that it might be a Cinderella. From the inscription I am guessing it comes from Cambodia, Myanmar, or a country in that general area. My rather elderly (1998) Gibbons Stamps of the World was no help to me at all if it is a postage stamp so any comments will be welcome.
Top: Figures 8, 9, 10 & 11 Below: Figures 12, 13 & 14
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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Part 22 It would be most unusual for a collector not to have some questions regarding the advancement of his/her collection. All collectors aim to either improve their collection, or gain a better understanding of it, or in many cases, both objectives are pursued. * What do I have to do to join a Stamp Club? * Where can I get more stamps for my collection? * How do I get started with exhibiting? * Can I get help with my research? * In addition, potential collectors will have many questions, even non-collectors. * Where can I found out about stamp collecting? * What do I do with the stamp collection that I have inherited? All of the above questions, and many others, can be answered by reference to the Australian Philatelic Federation (APF) website. This sentence sounds like one of the old time TV ads, but in this case it is true. This website contains a wealth of information, and even the links page alone makes very interesting reading, and can lead you to some great adventures in philately.
The Collector Series Brochures
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7. How can I identify and value my stamps? 8. An Introduction to Exhibiting – Part 1. 9. An Introduction to Exhibiting – Part 2. 10. An Introduction to Stamp Collecting. The address for direct access to these brochures is www.apf.org.au/collecting/brochures.
The APF Website’s “Links” Page
But it is the Links Page of the website that could be a web-surfer’s paradise. These links are shown in the following groups: * Australasia – Stamp Dealers, Philatelic Auction Houses & Trade Associations * Australasia – Other Philatelic Related Organisations * World – Philatelic Trader Associations, Dealers and Auction Houses * Philatelic Exhibiting – General * Philatelic Exhibiting – FIP Commissions * World – Philatelic Bodies and General Interest Sites – • Postal, Philatelic & Other Bodies • Magazines and Journals • Philatelic Exhibitions, Dealer Shows and Philatelic Events • Research & General Interest Sites. The address for direct access to these links is www.apf.org.au/links. The Australasian dealer links appear a bit sparse, but clicking on the trade association links will give access to many of Australia’s dealers and auction houses. To locate the dealer listings after accessing the dealer association website, click on “Dealer Search” for APTA, “Members” for SCDAA, and “Find a Dealer” for ANDA. The ANDA list of members is not shown in alphabetical order. Each dealer listing contains a number of contact options, including their websites where they exist, and access to additional information if required. New links to other Australasian philatelic related organisations are progressively being
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Philatelic Development Officer, APF added. This latter area currently includes Australia Post. Details of all Australia Post stamp issues from 11th January 2011 onwards can be accessed from the Home page. The World philatelic traders group can give you access to stamp dealers all around the world. If you are having difficulty finding what you want in Australia, or if you collect other than Australia, then these links will provide very many alternatives. However, with so many choices, allow yourself plenty of time. Once you start drilling down though all these options, time will generally pass very quickly. The section Research & General Interest Sites covers a wide range of philatelic information, including – * * * * *
The ultimate guide to stamp collecting Philatelic terms and meanings Guide to perforation types and terms World Postal Authorities Railway and Revenue stamps of Australia.
Many of these sites allow you to drill down, and again, allow yourself plenty of time.
Exhibitors
Both current and potential exhibitors are very well catered for – * The Collector Series Brochures 8a and 8b provide a concise introduction (see above); * The rules and judging guidelines are available for both FIP and APF classes; * The FIP Class Commissions provide more information than that shown in the rules, etc.; * Some of my Stamp News articles contain more detailed non technical descriptions of classes; * The Contacts page includes a list of collectors within Australia who are prepared to assist with the class you have chosen. This information is also shown at the foot of the Exhibition Classes page.
* The Exhibiting Section provides details of what is coming up, results of past exhibitions, reports on Australian National exhibitions, exhibitor information, etc.; * Assistance with your research is offered; * Assistance with improving your exhibit is offered through the “One Up Club”. * Try to visit the various National Exhibitions as often as is practical. Not only is there a wide range of high level philatelic material on display, but in the frames there is also brief non-technical descriptions of each of the exhibition classes. The location of this information should be shown within the exhibits listing in the catalogue and also the APF advertisement in the catalogue. For the class rules and guidelines: * On the APF Home page select “Exhibiting”, then “Classes” from the drop-down menu; * Select the required class. Further down the “Classes” page are the FIP Commissions. Clicking on the Class Names will access these sites, containing more detailed information about the classes, questions and answers, and current considerations. Not all of the FIP classes are supported by a Commission. To find if any of the Stamp News articles can help you, on the Home page, select “Publications & Events”, then “Stamp News Articles” from the drop-down menu. For direct access the address is www.apf.org/stampnews. If you need more detailed information about a class than is shown elsewhere, the “Contacts” page provides access to specialized collectors who can assist. Scroll down to the section headed “FIP Commission Delegates”. Clicking on the name will generate an email to that person. For the Non-FIP classes, scroll down further to “APF Experimental Classes”. Alternatively, simply scroll down the Exhibition Classes page. Stamp News - 49
Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Part 22 To find out what exhibitions have been announced click on “Exhibiting”, then “Timetable” then “Exhibitions”. Take some time to scroll through all the subsections of the “Exhibiting” heading to familiarise yourself with the range of matters involved with exhibiting. Some of the topics shown are only related to international exhibiting, i.e., Cultural Heritage and Customs Assistance. Some of the sections under “Exhibiting” are still being developed. If the information you need is not there yet, keep looking, it shouldn’t be too far away. Two websites well worthwhile having a look at are Exponet and the American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors, both of which are available through the Links page. Exponet is a Virtual International Philatelic Exhibition, with 763 online exhibits from 50 different countries. This site demonstrates many different ways of preparing your pages, and giving examples of the types of material shown as well as the text information provided. The American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors also has a section containing online exhibits that can be viewed. This site also contains a wide range of exhibiting information. Having trouble finding out about your material? If you have explored all avenues without any success, you could direct an enquiry to the APF Research Officer. On the APF Home page, click on “Support Services”, then “Research Assistance” on the drop-down menu. Would you like assistance in improving your exhibit? The APF One Up Club may be the answer. To find out more, click on “Support Services” on the Home page, then “One Up Club”
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on the drop-down menu.
The Research and General Interest Links
If you are not yet totally exhausted, spend some time going though these links. The headings in this section are reasonably self explanatory. If you are unsure, open the link and have a look – you may be pleasantly surprised as many of these links can be expanded.
Stamp Collecting - General
For a brief introduction to Stamp Collecting, read the Collector Series Brochure No 10 – see above. For budding collectors, two other websites worth a visit are The American Philatelic Society, http:// stamps.org/Home, and Stamps2.com, www. stamp2.com. Both of these sites are slanted towards the American scene, but can provide a different perspective on you thinking thus allowing you to be different. And isn’t being different something that we are all aspire to? If you would prefer an inexpensive introduction to stamp collecting, why not try one or more of our downloadable stamp albums? There are currently three albums available in either colour or black and white, depending upon your printer, and can be accessed at www.apf.org.au/youth/stampalbums. Should you have a subject that is either interesting, difficult to understand, or one which you would like to have explained, or if there is a particular topic on which you would like more information, please let me know by emailing jpsadler@bigpond.com.au
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Harmers Of London
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11, 111 Power Road, London W4 5PY , UK www.harmers.com auctions@harmers.demon.co.uk Tel: 0011 44 208 747 6100 Fax: 0011 44 208 996 0649 Next sale: see website for details
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John Mowbray International
PO Box 2076, Ellenbrook, WA, 6069 www.acestampauctions.com stampdealer@iinet.net Tel (08) 9297 3040 Forthcoming sales: 14/15 April 2012
Private Bag 63000, Wellington 6140, New Zealand www.mowbrays.co.nz john.mowbray@xtra.co.nz Tel: 0011 64 6 364 8252 Fax: 0011 64 6 364 8270 Next sale: see website for details
Auction house Christoph G채rtner
Millennium Philatelic Auctions
74321 Bietigheim-bissingen, Germany www.auktionen-gaertner.de info@auktionen-gaertner.de Tel 0011 49 7142 789 400 Fax 0011 49 7142 789 410 Forthcoming sales: 8-12 May 2012
Suite 25, 89-97 Jones Street, Ultimo, NSW 2007 www.millenniumauctions.com info@millenniumauctions.com Tel: (02) 9281 4797 Fax: (02) 9281 4677 Next sale: see website for details
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Velvet Collectables Group (formerly Mowbrays Australia)
5 Mosley Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 1YE, UK www.corbitts.com collectors@corbitts.com Tel: 0011 44 191 232 7268 Fax: 0011 44 191 261 4130 Next sale: see website for details
Craig Chappell PO Box 521, Clayfield, Qld. 4011 craigchappell@bigpond.com.au Tel: (07) 3262 8810 Fax:(07) 3262 8816 Please contact for details of forthcoming sales.
Cygnet Philatelics 8 Clevedon Way, Karringyup, WA 6018 Tel: (08) 9325 4542 Next sale: see ad for details
Suite 401, Level 4, 64-76 Kippax Street Surry Hills NSW 2100 mowbraysaustralia@bigpond.com Tel: (02) 9280 0086 Fax: (02) 9281 4053 Next sale: Call or email for details
Robin Linke Stamp Dealer 181 Jersey Street, Wembley, 6014, Western Australia www.robinlinke.com.au robin@robinlinke.com.au Tel (08) 9387 5327 Fax (08) 9387 1646 Next sale: See website for details
Spink www.spink.com Tel: 0011 44 20 7563 4000 Fax: 0011 44 20 7563 4066 Next sale: 11/12/13/19/24/25 April 2012
Looking at New Zealand
Centennial of New Zealand’s First Postage Stamps From the earliest days, letters from “home” in Britain were of great importance to colonists all over the Empire, as shown in the famous sketch of settlers collecting mail from Auckland Post Office published in the Illustrated London News in 1864 (Figure 1). In 1855 New Zealand issued its first postage stamps, the imperforate 1d, 2d and 1/- “FullFace Queen” design based on the portrait of the young Queen Victoria by A. E. Chalon RA. A later 6d stamp of this design is pictured (Figure 2). The selection of designs for a stamp issue to mark the centennial of the first stamps was the subject Figure 3
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Figure 2
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Graeme Morriss Figure 1
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Maori mail carrier pictured on the 2d stamp was not given European features and that the 3d stamp resembled as closely as possible the original “Full-Face Queen” design. The set is shown in Figure 3. De La Rue printed the stamps on “Royal Cypher” (wood-pulp based) grade paper watermarked “NZ & star”. The 2d was printed in sheets of 120 in two panes of 60 (6 rows of 10); the plate numbers were in the left bottom corner of each pane; the perforations gauged 14. The design, by R. M. Conly of Dunedin Figure 4 showed a Maori mail carrier beside Auckland of discussion by a committee of Post Office officials harbour with Rangitoto Island in the background. and philatelists for several years. The committee ran This island was formed by volcanic eruptions 550 to a public competition calling for stamp designs but 600 years ago and is the most recent of Auckland’s was not completely satisfied with any of the entries. many volcanic features. It is visible from many The three designs finally chosen were sent back parts of Auckland city. to the artists for considerable modification before The 3d, showing a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II being accepted. Die proofs from the printers, De La in a frame similar to the 1855 issue, was designed Rue, were also subject to requests for amendment. by James Berry. It was printed on one plate The committee were particularly concerned that the
Looking at New Zealand
Above: Figure 8 Left: Figure 7 Opposite: Figure 9
comprising two panes of 160 then guillotined into separate panes (16 rows of 10). The plate number was at the bottom left and the printer’s imprint in the bottom centre of each pane; the perforations gauged 14 x 14½. The 4d was printed in sheets of 120 in two panes of 60 (12 rows of 5) with plate markings in similar positions to the 2d the perforations gauged 13. The design of an aircraft in flight, by A. G. Mitchell, was 54 - Stamp News
intended to contrast modern mail transport with the colonial method portrayed on the 2d stamp. The plate markings are shown in figures 4 – 7. An International Philatelic Exhibition was held in the Auckland Town Hall from Saturday 16th July to Friday 22nd. On the first day of issue, Monday 18th July, the Exhibition Post Office used a special canceller based on nineteenth-century designs (figures 8 & 9). A modern style of canceller was used for the following days of the Exhibition. The Post Office commissioned De La Rue to print an illustrated booklet about stamps. It was available at the Exhibition and distributed to schools. I will illustrate it in a future column, when I can get my hands on one. References: Catalogue of New Zealand Stamps, Auckland, Campbell Paterson, 1952 – . The Postage Stamps of New Zealand, vol. 4, Wellington, RPSNZ, 1964. Graeme can be contacted through his website, www.stampsmw.top1.com.au .
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Stamps in the News - Globally! Let them eat stamps…
Reported in http://www.dailymail.co.uk Royal Mail came under fire yesterday over a plan to sell cheaper stamps to five million customers on benefits. Since the Penny Black was introduced in 1840, there has been a uniform price for letter deliveries anywhere in the UK. But embattled CEO, Moya Greene said Royal Mail planned to break with tradition and make cheaper stamps available for ‘the most vulnerable members of society’ this Christmas, the peak lettersending season. The move comes at a controversial time, with Royal Mail on the brink of revealing huge increases in stamp prices and the UK postal regulator wanting to scrap the cap on Royal Mail charges. Royal Mail CEO still insists current stamp prices offered ‘incredible’ value.
Canada Post salutes the Titanic Reported in http://www.thegoldenstar.net
The RMS Titanic sank on April 14, 1912 and to commemorate the centenary of the tragedy, Canada Post will be issuing five stamps. Two “permanent rate” stamps will show the forward bow of the ship and highlight Halifax, from where rescue vessels departed, and where 150 of the lost are buried. One grave in Halifax has come to represent the character portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the blockbuster movie. J. Dawson was interred May 8, 1912. Even today, flowers and mementos are left for “Jack” at grave #227. Like the character in the movie, he was poor and worked as a coal trimmer in the engine room. As
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he left the ship, he placed his union card was in his pocket so his body could be identified. Canada Post will also issue a second pair of stamps showing the propellers of the ship. They are black and white with the red White Star Line flag below. All four stamps will be issued together in a souvenir sheet. A $1.80, extra-long, international-rate stamp will also be printed. It shows a side view of the luxury liner, as well as Cape Race, Newfoundland, the only land-based location that received the distress call.
Israeli Post under fire
Reported in http://www.jpost.com In 2004, the international Chabad-Lubavitch movement opposed the issue of an Israeli postage stamp to memorialize the last Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, out of concern that licking the back of it would be “disrespectful.” The movement approved the issue of a stamp depicting his red-brick Brooklyn house instead of the proposed portrait. Recently the government approved the issue of the stamp to mark 200 years since the death of the founder of Lubavitch hassidism, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi. To overcome the ‘licking’ issue, his visage appears on a new first-day cover but the stamp depicts an open copy of Zalman’s main work published in 1797.
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A Postal official commented, “the drawing of Zalman is presented on the envelope as an out of focus portrait. Thus, there is no “danger” that it could be licked, as there is no glue on the opposite side, but only on the back of the perforated stamp showing the book.” Reported in http://www.jpost.com An unusual binational stamp issued by Israel and Gibraltar – already printed and due to appear in June of last year – was cancelled at the last minute when the British government balked at the image of the David Citadel in Jerusalem. After British authorities insisted that the illustration be replaced with a Tel Aviv landmark, the Israel Philatelic Service decided to call off the whole project.
Authorities in Gibraltar – a tiny British overseas territory with a long Jewish history – compensated the Philatelic Service for its printing costs. The unpleasant diplomatic incident was just uncovered in the January issue of Shovel, the Hebrew-language philatelic magazine.
Shedding light on stamp collecting passion Reported in http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn
Saigon-based philatelist, Nguyen Huy Khanh has a passion for lighthouses. Khanh, who used to work as a technician for the Southern Viet Nam Maritime Safety Corporation, claims to have set foot on nearly 80 lighthouses in Viet Nam and dozens of others abroad. “I collect lighthouse stamps because I just love the sea and the light that illuminates the way for
ships in the dark,” Khanh says. However, despite the extent of his huge collection, there are only a few stamps of lighthouses in Viet Nam. “There are nearly one hundred lighthouses in Viet Nam, but the post office has only published four stamps of the lighthouses in Long Chau, Cu Lao Xanh, Vung Tau and Can Gio. “ Khanh’s passion doesn’t end with simply collecting stamps, he also insists on mailing letters and postcards to himself from exotic locations. Furthermore, once he sticks a lighthouse stamp on an envelope, he asks the lighthouse keeper to sign the outside.
“One time, after designing an envelope with a print of Cu Lao Xanh and sticking the lighthouse stamp on it, which was published in 1992, I went to the island to send it to myself,” he says. “I wanted to ask for the mark of the post office, unfortunately, the only officer working there had already left. Therefore, I had to starve myself waiting hours at the post office until she came back. “ “I have had a strong attachment to lighthouses for many years. Now that I have retired, these stamps are such a vivid diary of my career and life.”
Antarctic research stamp…from Malaysia? Reported in http://thestar.com.my
Pos Malaysia will be issuing commemorative stamps and philatelic items with the theme of the Stamp News - 57
Stamps in the News - Globally!
Malaysian Antarctica Research Programme in March. The stamps will be issued with the cooperation of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation in conjunction with the working visit of the Sultan of Terengganu, Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin to Antarctica last November.
Local hero sold out
Reported in http://www.dartmouth-today.co.uk Organisers of this year’s Newcomen 300 celebrations in Dartmouth had been looking at ways to raise the profile of the inventor, Thomas Newcomen, who effectively started the industrial revolution with his invention of the atmospheric steam engine in 1712. But they only found out about that Royal Mail had issued a Newcomen stamp as latest Britons of Distinction issue– when a member of the events committee went into the town’s post office and spotted one. They snapped up as many as they could but the post office quickly ran out and since then the town has been unable to buy a stamp honouring their
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home grown hero. Ray Bridges, chairman of the Newcomen 300 committee said ‘You would imagine that when Royal Mail comes to market stamps such as these they would check to see if there are special situations which would create a greater demand and adjust the supply accordingly. It would have been a nice, professional touch to have sent out committee letters with these commemorative stamps on.’ Royal Mail has since made amended and now another 100 of the special stamps have been sent to the Newcomen 300 committee so it can send out letters bearing the national recognition of the inventor.
Mission controversy
Reported in http://www.morganhilltimes.com Tourists find the centuries-old Spanish mission in Carmel-by-the-Sea is picturesque but for Louise Ramirez and Valentin Lopez , representatives of local indigenous groups – the landscape is far from romantic. An adobe archway marks a portal to a mass grave filled with thousands of their ancestors. Most are buried in unmarked sites; more remains have been found scattered about the property. The cemetery archway is the first thing Ramirez and Lopez, see when they study the Carmel Mission Express Mail stamp recently unveiled by the U.S. Postal Service in “honor of nearly 250 years of California history”. The mission served as headquarters for Father Junipero Serra, who was buried beneath the chapel’s floor when he died in 1784. The U.S.
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Postal Service’s release of a stamp 26 years ago honouring Father Serra, was also source of outrage for Native Americans, Lopez noted. “That’s why I was surprised to see this,” he said. “I thought they would have learned from (Serra’s) stamp.” Though the USPS did go ahead with the launch of the stamp, indigenous representative were invited to offer a blessing and prayer for their ancestors, followed by a speech in remembrance of their people.
Vale Robin Startup
Reported in http://www.times-age.co.nz New Zealand’s “Mr Postal History” passed away last week after a long battle with cancer.
Robin Startup, 78, died at Wairarapa Hospital but left an abundance of postal history research behind. His sister, Nancy Startup, said Mr Startup was known “world-wide” for his research in stamps and postal history. He had had an interest in stamp collecting and the history of New Zealand post offices since he was young and was given a bag of stamps. Over his lifetime he wrote 70 books about the postal history of New Zealand as well as being editor of the The Mail-Coach - a monthly publication by the Postal History Society. One of his most recognised awards was the New Zealand 1990 Commonwealth Medal, which he received in 2008. Mr Startup was also added to the roll of distinguished philatelists by the New Zealand Philatelic Society.
Indigenous artist inspired by a stamp
Reported in http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au Ask American what they know about Australian art and their thoughts often turn to dot paintings but Aboriginal artist Reko Rennie aims to challenge that stereotype when he exhibits his work at a prestigious New York art fair this month. One of his works, titled Aborigine and created through stencilling, was inspired by a stamp from the 1950s that depicted a traditional Aboriginal man. About 100 million of these stamps were circulated around the world at a time when Aborigines were not recognised as citizens of
Australia nor allowed to vote, he says. “It’s such a beautiful image which was exported around the world, advertising this kitschy Australia with its Aboriginal people, but at the same time we did not have citizenship,” he said. “I’m an authentic Aboriginal but I’m not drawing dots. It’s been really amazing to share my connection to the country, community and family through imagery and iconography.”
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STAMPS ADVERTISE NATIONAL PARKS In all my philatelic collections I always look for very limited areas. This minimalist approach to collecting makes me select a particular stamp issue or a very limited period of a country’s total stamp output. One such very limited collection is the 1934 US National Parks issue. The aim of most of my collections is to house everything on one single album page but this is not always possible. As the following will show, the US National Parks issue has many interesting varieties which deserve to be included in a collection. The National Parks set was issued during
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James A. Farley’s tenure as Post Master General. He came up with many novel ideas for stamp issues. Perhaps he was supported in this respect by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) who was an enthusiastic stamp collector. James A. Farley (1888-1976) was the very first Catholic to reach the highest echelons of the Democratic Party. He became Post Master General following Franklin D. Roosevelt’s victory in the 1933 presidential elections. Farley then held this position until he retired in 1940 to become president of Coca Cola International. Roosevelt was a strong supporter of a set of
Christer BrunstrÜm stamps featuring some of the country’s most famous national parks. The idea was of course to attract even more visitors to the parks. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing printed the ten stamps. The actual designs were the work of artists working at the Bureau. The designs were all based on photographs taken by staff members at the different parks. The designs of the values ranging from 1 cent to 9 cents were the work of Victor S. McCloskey. The 10c top value was designed by Esther S. Richards. President Roosevelt was also involved in the preparation of the new set; it is believed that
he selected the colours. The Bureau printed the stamps in large sheets of 200 stamps. Before delivery to the post offices these large sheets were cut into panes of fifty. The 3-cent stamp had the largest printing of 95 million copies. Only 15.288.500 copies were sold of the 8c value which also gives us the number of possible complete sets. The stamps were perforated 11. It can also be mentioned that the ten stamps were released on different dates from July until October 1934 thus giving us ten different first day covers. The National Parks set was issued during
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STAMPS ADVERTISE NATIONAL PARKS the depression which certainly affected sales negatively. The set has always been very popular among US and worldwide collectors in view of the attractive designs. In the US a mint never hinged set can be had for some $10. Many US collectors also enjoy adding plate number blocks to their collections. These numbers can be found in the corner margins of the sheets and the blocks are usually collected as four or six stamps. In the case of the National Parks set the plate number blocks have six stamps each. These blocks are still quite affordable and interesting additions to any collection. There are a number of very expensive varieties
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where the Bureau missed a row of perforations in the sheet. These varieties are collected as pairs. Partly imperforate pairs are known of the 1-cent, 2c, 3c, 4c, 5c and 7c denominations. Let’s now take a closer look at the ten different designs! Shown on the 1c is El Capitån in Yosemite (California), 2c Grand Canyon (Arizona), 3c Mount Rainier and Mirror Lake (Washington), 4c Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde Park (Colorado), 5c Old Faithful, Yellowstone (Wyoming), 6c Crater Lake (Oregon), 7c Great Head, Acadia Park (Maine), 8c Great White Throne, Zion Park (Utah), 9c Great Smoky Mountains (North Carolina) and 10c Mount Rockwell and Two Medicine Lake, Glacier
Christer Brunstrรถm National Park (Montana). As can be seen from the above most of the parks are located in the central and western parts of the country. Later on some of the designs were reused for other purposes. On 26 August 1934, the 3c design was issued as a six-stamp imperforate souvenir sheet to mark the American Philatelic Society exhibition in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The souvenir sheets have descriptive texts including the name of PMG Farley. They were printed in large sheets comprising 20 souvenir sheets. On 10 October 1934, a similar sheet was issued in connection with a stamp show in Omaha, Nebraska. Once again James A. Farley has his name on the sheet. For this sheet the 1 cent stamp
had been selected. Many years later the 10c stamp in green was used as a one-stamp souvenir sheet issued on 26 August 1937 to mark the Congress of the Society of Philatelic Americans in Asheville, North Carolina. Incidentally this was the last souvenir sheet authorized by PMG James A. Farley. Farley made a habit of handing out complete large imperforate sheets of many of the new stamp issues to a select group of dignitaries. This policy was severely criticised by the collectors of the day. He then decided to have a large number of ungummed and imperforate sheets printed to be made available to collectors at face value. The National Parks set and the 1934 souvenir sheets
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STAMPS ADVERTISE NATIONAL PARKS were included among these special printings which went on sale on 15 March 1935. Some 1.6 million sets were sold and these imperforate National Parks sets sell for about the same price as the perforated varieties. At a later stage collectors could hand in their imperforate sheets to have them gummed for free. The two souvenir sheets of 1934 were also reprinted and can only be differentiated from the original souvenir sheets in imperforate pairs of stamps from two souvenir sheets or two attached souvenir sheets. This is the only way to prove that they come from the special printings. Was it right of Farley to have these special printings produced to meet the demand from collectors? This question is still being hotly debated by US philatelists. However, it is still quite popular to collect the Farley special
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printings. Some philatelists prefer the term “Farley’s Follies� when they discuss these special (and totally unnecessary) printings. There is enough material available to turn the National Parks issues into an extensive specialized thematic exhibit. A most interesting project would be to assemble a complete set of commercial covers with single frankings of the ten different stamps. This certainly would be far more difficult than obtaining the stamps in unmounted mint condition but many collectors tend to appreciate this kind of almost impossible challenges. On a personal note I am quite satisfied with the basic stamp sets and the souvenir sheets. I only wonder if I will ever be able to visit some of the National Parks depicted on the stamps.
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philatelic clubs & societies new south wales Armidale Circle RSPC: Mtg 2nd Wed Australian Cmwlth Collectors Club of NSW: Mtg 3rd Mon 7.45pm, 1st flr. Philas House, 17 Brisbane St, Darlinghurst, Sydney 2001. Ph 02 9267 8301; Fax: 02 9264 4741. GPO Box 1971, Sydney NSW 2000 Ph: 02 9264 8301 Aust. States Study Circle: Mtg 4th Wed 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301 Bathurst Stamp Coin and Collectables Club: Mtg 1st Mon 7.30pm, Old Eglinton fire shed, Park St, Elington PO Box 151, Bathurst NSW 2795 Bega Phil. & Numismatic Society: Mtg 3rd Friday 8.00pm. Mthly Newsletter. PO Box 370, Bega NSW Blue Mountains Stamp Club: Mtg 4th Friday (ex Dec) 8.00pm Katoomba Public School; PO Box 76, Blackheath Boambee East PS: Mtg 1st Tues (ex. Jan) 6pm Boambee East Comm. Centre, Bruce King Dr. Ph: 02 66581385 Campbelltown District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm (ex Jan - 4th Wed); @ Catholic Hall Acacia St, Ruse. Inquiries: mystampclub@yahoo.com.au; PO Box 478, Campbelltown 2560 Castle Hill SC Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm, Hills District Bowling Club, Jenner Street, Baulkham Hills; PO Box 151 Castle Hill NSW 1765 China Study Group of PSNSW: Mtg 4th Mon 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301 Cinderella SC: Mtg 2nd Friday, even months; Produces “Cinderellas Australia” and monographs; PO Box 889, Chatswood, NSW 2057 Coffs Harbour SC: Mtg 2nd Wed Earlwood and District SC:Mtg 1st Wed Grafton SC: Mtg 2nd Wed (ex. Dec) Grafton Stampers & Everything Philatelic: Mtg 1st Sun 2pm (ex School Hols). Grafton Baptist Church Hall, Cnr Queen & Oliver Sts. Ph 02 6642 1363. email gbchurch@bigpond.com. Great Lakes SC: Mtg1st Sat 9.30am , Workshop & Market 1st Sat 9-12, Great Lakes Campus Annexe, Taree St, Tuncurry Enq: Ph 02 6554 9776 Gosford PS: Afternoon Mtg 1st Mon; Evening Mtg 2nd Thurs Hawkesbury Valley PS (Richmond Stamp Club): Mtg 2nd Thurs (ex Jan) PO Box 28 Richmond 2753 Illawarra PS: Mtg 3rd Thursday (ex. Jan) Wollongong Master Build. Club Ltd, Oasis Room, 7.30pm. All welcome. Tel. (02) 42252011. Kempsey RSL PS: Mtg 2nd Wed Lake Macquarie Stamp Club:: Mtg 2nd Sat 9am; Combined Pensioners & Community Care Services 130 Josephson St, Swansea. Enq: 02 4392 5211 Lord Howe Island Postal History Society: Mtg by arrangement. Contact Pres: Dr William Mayo, 02 9918 6825 Lower Clarence PS: Mtg 4th Tues Macquarie Valley PS: Mtg 2nd Tues Maitland SC: Mtg 2nd Mon ex Jan. ‘Show & Tell’ every mtg E. Maitland Bowling Club, Bank St. Pres. Mark Saxby; Sec. David Carratt; Ph: 02 4932 4045 Email: carrotspatch@tpg.com.au Manly-Warringah PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs St David’s Church Hall, Dee Why. Sec. Graeme Morriss Ph: 02 9905 3255 email: stampsmw@bizland.com.au Manly-Warringah Rugby Leagues SC: Mtg 4th Tues cnr. Pittwater Rd & Federal Pde, Brookvale. Sec. Graeme Morriss Ph: 02 9905 3255 email: stampsmw@bizland.com.au Milton-Ulladulla SC: Mtg 7pm on 4th Mon (ex Dec); Milton-Ulladulla Bowling Club Mtg Room, St Vincent St, Ulladulla, Sec. PO Box 670, Ulladulla, NSW, 2539 Morisset Uniting Church SC: Mtg 4th Sat 10am (ex Dec) Enq: 4977 2525 (Jenny)
act Canberra, Philatelic Society of: 1st Thursday: General Meeting,3rd Thursday: Afternoon Meeting (IF REQUIRED),3rd Thursday: (Evening) Exchange Night, 2nd Tuesday: Postcard Group, 4th Monday: Machin Collectors Group. All meetings 7:45pm, Griffin Centre, Genge Street, Canberra City Postal Address:PO Box 1840,Canberra ACT 2601,Email:psc@netspeed.com.au www.canberrastamps.org
western australia Armadale-Kelmscott PS: Mtg 4th Tues; Ph: 08 9397 6525 email: fit.kanga@bigpond.com Bridgetown-Manjimup SC: Mtg 1st Thurs 7.30pm Masonic Hall, Hampton St, BridgetownPh 08 9761 4638 or 08 9761 2005 Busselton SC: Mtg 2nd Mon; Ph: 08 9752 4449, 0400 646 282 email witches1@westnet.com.au Canning SC: Mtg 1st Wed; Ph: 08 9457 7565 Daytime SC: Mtg 1st Thurs; 08 9341 3576 Eastern Goldfields: Mtg 3rd Thurs ; Ph: 0412 156 351 Eaton SC: Mtg 3rd Thurs, 7pm Ph. 08 9795 7744, email: scrapbit@tpg.com Ellenbrook SC: Mtg 3rd Wed; Ph: 08 9296 9306 Fremantle and District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed, Tennis Club House, Parry St, Fremantle at 8pm; Ph: 08 6363 6415 Kalamunda SC: Mtg 3rd Wed; Ph: 08 9291 8484 Mandurah PS PO Box 625 Mandurah WA 6210 2nd Tues 4.45 - 6.30pm Bortolo Park Pavilion Cnr. Bortolo and
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NSW club information:The Philatelic Association of NSW, PO Box220, Darlinghurst, NSW, 1300 Phone: 02 9264 8301
Mudgee Coin Note & Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Sunday Ph 02 63735324 Nambucca River PS: Mtg 1st Sunday Newcastle PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs, 7.30pm Mayfield Ex-Services Club; 10am 3rd Wed, 48 Mackie Ave, New Lambton, Juniors 11am 3rd Sun, Wallsend Pioneers Hall NSW Postcard Collectors Soc: Mtg 1st Wed 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301 Northern Suburbs PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs, 7.45pm, Naremburn Library, Central St, Naremburn off Slade St; Ph: 02 9419 7354 Orange Coin and Stamp Club: Mtg Last Tuesday, Orange Community Info Centre, 79-81 Kite St, Orange 7.30pm Ph: 02 6362 3754. Orchid Stamp Club: Mtg 3rd Sat. (Jan and each 2nd mth) Parramatta PS: Mtg 1st Friday Penrith and District PS: Mtg 1st Thursdays, 8pm, CWA rooms, Baby Health Ctr, Tindale St PO Box 393, Kingswood NSW 2747 PHILAS Stamp Auctions: Mtg 2nd Sat Mar,Jul, Nov Ph 02 9264 8301 PS of Australia: Mtg 3rd Wed (exDec); Ph 02 9399 7556 PS of NSW: Mtg 1st Tues (Philas House), 3rd Tues (Chatswood); Ph: 02 9264 8301 Richmond River (Lismore) PS: Mtg 4th Thursday Royal Sydney Philatelic Club: Mtg 2nd Tues. (ex Jan); Ph: 02 9264 8301 Sapphire Coast Stamp & Coin Club: Mtg Enq 02 6495 7308. Mail to PO Box 285, Pambula, NSW 2549 St. George PS: Mtg 1st Mon Shoalhaven PS: Mtg 2nd Monday (Ex Jan) PO Box 4047, East Nowra 2541. Ph 02 44472976 Smithfield SC: Mtg 2nd Mon Society for Polar Philately: 2012 meetings: 2nd Wednesday of February, March, May, July, Sept and November held at Ryde Ex-Services Club 724-730 Victoria Rd, Ryde, NSW Tel: 9807 3344 (in Mackinnon room) starting at 8pm.Enq 0407 277 223 or email penviews@hotmail.com Strathfield-Burwood PS: Mtg 4th Wed Sussex Inlet and District: Mtg 3rd Mon Sutherland Shire PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. , 7:30pm, Sutherland Uniting Services Club, 7 East Pde, Sutherland. Information Secretary, PO Box 339, Sutherland, NSW 1499 Sydney Anglican Stamp Society: Mtg 2nd Sat, even months 9.30am - 2.30pm, St Paul’s, Carlingford. Details: www.philas.org.au/sysdneyanglicanstampsociety Tamworth PS: Mtg 1st Mon ex. Jan. Tamworth Bridge Club, 7 Hilton St, Tamworth Sec. Graeme Mitchell. PO Box 678, Tamworth NSW 2340 Ph. 02 67664853 Taree RSL Club Ltd SC: Mtg 3rd Mon Thematic Society of Australia: Mtg 3rd Wed Toronto SC: Mtg 1st Wed Tuggerah SC: Mtg 4th Sun (ex Dec.) Turramurra SC: Mtg 2nd Monday, 7.45pm. Ph: 9144 4225 Twin Towns Stamp Club Inc.: Mtg 1st Monday, 7.30p, Home & Comm. Centre, Tweed Heads Wagga SC: Mtg 1st Wed (ex Jan) ARCC Building, Tarcutta St, 7.30pm. Secretary: Peter Simpfendorfer Ph:02 6922 3393 Willoughby Legion Philatelic Section: Mtg 4th Tues Wyong PS: Mtg 3rd Tues, 7.30m. Jim Spence, Sec. Ph 02 4392 7536
northern territory Alice Springs SC: Meet Informally; PO Box 1529, Alice Springs, NT, 0871. Ph 08 8953 3054 Darwin Philatelic Circle: 1st Sun. 10am - 2pm. 53 Flametree Crt, Rosebery; Ph:(08) 8931 2898; PO Box 1624, Palmerston, NT, 0831; Email: Nadine.Tinsley@nt.gov.au-. WA club information: WA Philatelic Council, GPO Box 9800, Perth, WA, 6001 Murdoch Drives Greenfields WA 6210 08 9581 1083 keithmich@bigpond.com Northern Districts SC: Mtg 2nd Mon; Ph: 08 9329 0117 Philatelic Forum: Mtg 1st Mon (ex Jan); Ph: 08 9294 4277 Rockingham & Kwinana (PS of): Mtg 3rd Tues (NB 2nd in Dec) Pres. Malcolm Brown; Sec. Terry Boyd; PRO Lucie Schokker Ph. 08 9419 1604; email: malcolm.b@iinet.net.au PS of WA: Mtg 3rd Tues; Ph: 08 9294 4277 Stirling PS: Mtg 4th Wed (ex Dec); Clubrooms, Charles Riley Reserve, Wendling Rd, North Beach, Ph: 08 9447 7256 The Postmark Circle (WA): Mtg 2nd Mon; Ph: 08 9294 4277 Victoria Park SC: Mtg 1st Wed; Ph: 08 9472 8072 or 08 9450 5280 WA Study Group: Mtg 4th Thurs (ex Dec) 08 9384 1050 Wanneroo SC: Mtg 3rd Mon; Ph: 08 6106 0874.
philatelic clubs & societies new zealand Air Mail Society of NZ: Mtg 3rd Mon (ex. Jan). Ph: 03 358 4838 Auckland PS: Mtg 1st and 3rd Tues (except Jan); Email bruce.chadderton @fitec. org.nz Add Ph 09 9853212 www.aps.gen.nz Christchurch PS: Mtg 2nd Tues, Library night 3rd Tuesday; Email: gftyson@inet.net. nz Ph 03 3541064 Dunedin PS: Mtg 4th Thurs (except Nov and Dec). Ph 03 4557643; Email paul@ classiekrealestate.co.nz Hastings Stamp Collectors Club: Mtg 3rd Wed (except Jan and 2nd Wed Dec). Ph 06 8706710; Email jan-dave@clear.net.nz Hawkes Bay PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex. Jan); Ph: 06 843 9433 Email dennmarg@paradise. net.nz Horowhenua PS: Mtg 2nd Mon. Ph: 06 368 6202 Email michael.Christensen@xtra. co.nz Hutt Valley PS: Mtg 1st Tues (ex. Jan); Ph: 04 568 4892; Email: richards@nec.co.nz Kapiti PS: Mtg 3rd Tues (ex Dec); Ph: 04 297 1197 Manaia PS: Mtg (Hawera) 1st Sun. Ph 06 2784292, email: peter.Williams @xtra. co.nz Manawatu PS: Mtg 1st Wed, daytime meeting 3rd Tues. Ph 06 3289 895; Email patricia.Larsen@xtra.co.nz Marlborough Stamp Collectors Club: Mtg 3rd Mon (except Jan and 2nd Mon Dec). Ph 03 5776166; Email lousv8@yahoo.com Morrinsville Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd Wed Ph 07 8896251 Nelson PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 03 5477516 NZ Stamp Collectors Club Christchurch: Mtg 4th Wed ; Ph 03 3596758; www.nzeal. com/philately/nzscc.htm North Shore PS: Mtg 2nd (except Jan) and 4th Wed (except Jan and Dec). Ph: 09 4141044; Email: nsps@xtra.co.nz www.northshoreps.com Postal History Soc of NZ: Auckland 1st Mon (except Jan). Ph: 09 522 0311 Chapter meetings held Invercargill, Nelson, New Plymouth and Wellington. Ph: 07 3476428
queensland Arana Hills SC: Meeting 2nd Tues; 07 3851 0213; email: petermccloskey@bigpond. com Bayside Afternoon SC: Meeting last Wed; Ph: 07 3206 6281. Bribie Island SC: Meeting 4th Wed; Ph: 07 3408 2238 Bundaberg PS: Mtg 2nd Mon, The Family Centre, Kensington St (in the Show Grounds); Ph: 07 4152 2403 or 07 4151 3062 Caboolture & District SC: Mtg 3rd Sat. Ph: 07 5498 6504 Cairns SC: Mtg 3rd Wed. 7.30pm Star Services, 115 Lyons St, Bungalow Ph: 07 4055 1302 Sec: Ross Bottomer, email:rbottomer@y7mail.com, web:www.cairnsstampclub. asn.au Caloundra SC: Mtg 4th Thurs 1.30pm Ph: 07 5494 7233 City Daytime SC: Mtg 2nd Thurs. Ph: 07 3206 6281 City of Brisbane PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs; Ph: 07 3263 8573 (ah); email: desley@mycelebrant.com COLLECTORS CLUB QUEENSLAND: Mtg 2nd Thurs 1.00 pm BCC Library, Garden City Shopping Centre, Upper Mt.Gravatt. Contact 32068507 or stampman5@ bigpond.com Deception Bay SC: Mtg 1st Sat. Ph: 07 3204 6095 Enoggera SC: Mtg 1st and 3rd Mon. Ph: 07 3264 4157 Gladstone and District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed (Ex. Jan) & 4th Wed (Ex.Dec). Ph. Sec: 07 4978 1155 Ian Rippingale, Gold Coast PS: Mtg 2nd Mon, 11.30am, Southport Community Centre, Lawson St, Southport. Ph: 07 5546 3801 Gympie SC: Mtg - 3rd Mon. Ph: 07 5482 5698 Hervey Bay Afternoon Club: Mtg 3rd Wed. Ph: 07 4124 1138 Ipswich SC: Mtg 1st Thurs (ex. Jan). Ph: 07 3282 2983
Further information can be obtained from the NZ Philatelic Federation, PO Box 58139, Whitby, Porirua, 5245, NZ. E-mail: secretary@nzpf.org.nz Pukekohe Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Sunday Ph: 09 2357737 Email: pukekohestampclub@gmail.com Royal PS of NZ: Mtg 2nd Tues (ex Jan); Ph: 04 472 2590; Email office@rpsnz.org.nz and; Website www.rpsnz.org.nz South Auckland PS:Mtg last Sat (except Dec), Papatoetoe, day time mtgs 3rd Fri(ex Dec); Ph: 09 5366708 ; Email: panross@xtra.co.nz Southland PS: Mtg 1st Thurs (except Jan). Ph 03 2158177 Email antqgevi@es.co. nz Taranaki PS: Mtg 1st Mon except Jan. Ph: 06 758 6233; Email: sheryllb@xtra.co.nz Tauranga & District Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd (except Jan) and 4th Mon (except Dec); Ph: 07 5765210; Email: beducker@hotmail.com Thames Valley PS: Mtg 1st Mon(except Jan). Ph: 07 8689190; Email: apberry@ wave.co.nz Thematic Association of NZ: Ph: 04 234 7218; Email: bob@gibsonz.com Timaru PS: Mtg 1st Wed. Ph: 03 6888829 Upper Hutt PS: Mtg 3rd Mon (except 2nd Mon Dec).04 5284123 ; Email km_Isaac@ paradise.net.nz Waikato PS: Mtg 1st (except Jan) and 3rd Wed (except Dec). Ph 07 8556572 Email c.cameron@agresearch.co.nz Wakatipu PS: Ph: 03 442 8865 Wanganui PS: Mtg 2nd Wed. (Ex. Jan) Ph 06 3448009 Warkworth & Districts Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Thu 1:00pm Ph 09 4258791 Wellesley PS: Mtg 2nd and 4th Mon (ex public holidays). Ph: 09 8271240 Wellington PS: Mtg 4th Mon (except 2nd Mon Dec); daytime meeting 3rd Thurs. Ph: 04 234 7218; Email: bob@gibsonz.com Whakatane PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Thurs Ph: 07 3071016 Whangarei PS: Mtg 2nd Meeting: 2nd Tues (Ex. Jan) 09-4348000 Email johnmonica@xtra.co.nz QLD Philatelic Council, 18 Coolcrest St, Wynnum, Qld, 4178. Ph: 07 3396 0846 Fax: 07 3396 0842. Email: QPC-stamps@acenet.net.au Web: www.qpc.asn.au
Junction Park SC: Mtg 1st Tues, 7.30pm, Annerley Baptist Hall, Lambton St. Contact: 07 3272 8304. PO Box 177, Annerley, 4103, lopatich@bigpond.net.au Lockyer Valley SC: Mtg 4th Sun, 1.30pm, Senior Citizens’s Hall, Gatton. Kerri Martin, Sec. Ph: 07 5465 3390 Email: lvsc@bigpond.com Logan City SC: Meetings 2nd Thurs, Presbyterian Church, Barry St, Slacks Creek, 6pm. Ph: 07 3805 9226. Mackay and District PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 07 4942 5433; Maryborough and Wide Bay PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex. Jan). Salvation Army Youth 7 Comm. Hall. Bazaar St Maryborough. Ph: 07 41224708 (see also Hervey Bay) Nanango SC: Mtg 4th Thurs. Ph: 07 4162 2945 Philatelic Society of Qld: Mtg 4th Wed 7.30pm,18 Coolcrest St, Wynnum. Ph: 07 3245 5222 Queensland Study Group: Sunday bi-monthly 1.00pm meets QPS house. Contact Ph: 07 3396 0846 email: QPC-stamps@acenet.net.au Redcliffe SC: Mtg 2nd Sat. Ph: 07 3204 6095 Rockhampton SC: Mtg 1st Tues. Ph: 07 4926 3336 Sherwood Afternoon SC: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 07 3372 6096 Southport Afternoon SC: Mtg 2nd Sat; Ph: 07 55630384 Southside PS: Mtg 3rd Tuesday & 3rd Wednesay (9am) Ph: 07 3848 2304 (ah) email: david.appleton@mailbox.uq.edu.au Sunshine Coast SC (formerly Nambour SC): Mtg 1st Wed, 7.15pm at C.W.A. Hall, Short St. Nambour. Ph: 075445 3647 Thematics Queensland: Mtg bi-monthly 9.30am. Ph: 07 3262 5605 email: j.crowsley@uq.net.au Toowoomba SC: Mtg 2nd Sat 2pm; Pres. Bob Littlehales; Phone 07 46355623; email: bob.benny@bigpond.com Twin Towns SC: Mtg 1st Mon; Ph: 07 5598 7629 Waterloo Bay SC: Mtg 1st Thurs (afternoon); 4th Thurs (evening); Ph 07 3207 3121.
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philatelic clubs & societies south australia
Information about clubs in SA can be obtained from the SA Philatelic Council, GPO Box 9800, Adelaide, SA 5001. Daytime Ph: 08 8212 3557 or 8223 4435
Australian Airmail Society: 1st Wed. 7.45pm 22 Gray Court, Adelaide. PO Box 395, Edwardstown 5039. Ph: 08 8276 3969 Barossa SC: Mtg 1st Tue 7.30 Greenock Luth Church Hall, Bevan St, Greenock; PO Box Greenock 5360; email: Jamil49@bigpond.com; Ph: (08) 8562 8386 Blackwood PC: Mtg 2nd Wed ex Jan; Uniting Church, Main Rd, Blackwood; Ph: 08 8278 1629; PO Box 581, Blackwood 5051; email: teepee@teegee.com.au Bordertown & Districts PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs; Bordertown PSchool; Ph: 08 8752 1297 Community PS: Mtg 1st & 3rd Fri - 7.30pm. Marion Bowling Club, off Sturt Rd. PO Box 75 Edwardstown, 5039; Auctions, circuit books. Ph: 0408806894 City of Noarlunga PS: Mtg alternate thurs,-- Community Health Centre, Grand Boulevard, Seaford, Contact 08 85566371 or PO Box 272, Port Noarlunga 5167 Eastern Districts PS: 2nd Thurs (ex. Jan), 7.30pm Senior citizens Hall, 47 Reid Ave. Hectorville; PO Box 240, Magill, 5072; Ph: 0400 156 796 Elizabeth PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Fridays, 7.30pm, RSL Hall, Cnr of Halseys/Midway Rds;PO Box 701, Elizabeth 5112; Ph: 08 8255 0608 Encounter Bay SC: Mtg 1st Wed, 7.30pm; School Hall, Woolworths Centre, Victor Harbour; PO Box 317, Goolwa 5214; aydepe@bigpond.com; Ph: 08 8555 3311 ETSA Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Mon (ex. Jan); Canteen, 1 Anzac Highway, Keswick; PO Box 2079, Magill North, 5072; Ph: 08 8278 7163 Frama Club: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm, members homes; For collectors of CPS, Framas. Newsletter and Auctions. PO Box 62 Campbelltown 5074. Gawler SC: Mtg 4th Mon 7.30pm; Evanston Primary School, Para Rd, Evanston. PO Box 2, Willaston 5118; Ph: 08 8522 2335 Email: jo.trev@bigpond.com German Philatelic Club: Mtg 2nd & 4th Mon 8pm; German Club, 223 Flinders St, Adelaide 5000; Ph: 08 8260 2251 Glenside PS: 1st Wed 7.30pm& 3rd Sat 1.30pm; Uniting Church Hall, Carlton St. Highgate. PO Box 29, Glenside 5063. Ph: (08) 8353 8683 Lower Murray PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs,7.30pm, 2nd Sat, 10am; Murray Bridge Showgrounds. PO Box 810, Murray Bridge; Ph: 08 85704074 purjohn@activ8.net.au Mount Gambier PS: Mtg 3rd Tues; Reidy Park Corn Centre. 8pm. Also1st Sunday (ex. Jan) 1.30pm - 4pm. PO Box 2261,Mt Gambier.Ph: 08 8724 9474 Para Hills PS: Mtg 1st Sun; Community Hall Wilkinson Rd, Para Hills. PO Box 64, Para Hills; Ph: 08 8522 4345
victoria Australian PS: Bi-monthly meetings on 3rd Monday in February, April, June, August, October and December at RSL Homes, 152 Canterbury Road [cnr Keats Street] Canterbury. Secretary, PO Box 7014, Hawthorn, Vic, 3122 Bairnsdale SC: Mtg 3rd Thurs Ballarat PS:Mtg 3rd & 5th Mon Balwyn PS: Mtg 3rd Friday; Daytime 1st Friday Bendigo PS: Mtg 1st Tues Berwick SC:Mtg 2nd Sun (ex Jan); Ph: 03 5942 7626 Blackburn Baptist SC: Mtg 3rd Thurs Brighton PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Tues; Daytime 3rd Tues Camperdown SC: Mtg 1st Tues Castlemaine SC: Mtg 3rd Tues (ex Dec) Colac PC: Mtg 4th Mon (ex. Dec), Colac Community College, Bromfield St, Colac. Ph:52314746 Corner Inlet SC: Mtg 4th Thurs, Foster, Ph: 03 56881100 Dandenong PS: Mtg 4th Wed (ex Dec) Diamond Valley PS: Mtg 3rd Mon Essendon-Broadmeadows PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs; St Johns Uniting Church Hall, Cnr Mt Alexander Rd & Buckley St, Essendon; Murray Gorham, Ph 9306 7480 Footscray PS: Mtg 1st Mon (2nd in Jan); Footscray Senior Citizens Room, 130 Buckley St, Footscray Frankston & District SC: Mtg 3rd Tues (2nd in Dec) Seaford Community Centre, Broughton St Seaford. Ph: 5996 3745 Geelong PS: Mtgs 1st Sat 7.00pm, 3rd Mon 1pm (ex Jan) Sat - Diversitat Community Centre, 9-15 Clarence St, Geelong West. Mon - Belmont Library, High St, Belmont Ph: 0438578591 (Sec); PO Box 342, Belmont 3216 Hamilton PS: Mtg 2nd Monday Hungarian PS: Mtg 2nd Wed Italian PS: Mtg 2nd Mon (ex Jan), 7.30pm, Veneto Club, 191 Bulleen Rd Bullen. (PO Box 166, Niddrie, 3042)
tasmania Derwent Valley PS: Mtg 4th Mon Devonport Junior SC: Mtg 1st & 3rd Mon Devonport Stamp Group: Mtg 4th Fri, Public Library Mtg Rms, 7.30pm Ph. 03 6424 3449 Glenorchy SC: Mtg 1st Tues Hobart Junior Group: Mtg 1st Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224
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Phillumeny SC: U3/26-28 Crozier Av, Modbury 5092. Ph: 08 8337 6533 Email: www.users.or.net/ figg/amccs Port Pirie PS: Mtg 4th Mon; PO Box532, Pt Pirie 5540; Ph: 08 8632 1105 Printed Collectables Club (SAPC): Mtg last Tues, Julia Farr Cent. Canteen, Ground Floor, Fisher St. Ph: 08 8265 7395; PO Box 657, Enfield Plaza 5085 PS of South Australia:1st & 3rdTues; 22 Gray Ct. GPO Box 1937, Adelaide 5001; Ph: 08 8555 3311 PS of South Aust. (Aus. Com. Spect.Grp.): Mtg 4th Tues 7.30pm;22 Gray Ct. Ph: 08 8373 3756 PS of South Australia (Daytime SC):Mtg 1st & 3rd Thurs; 22 Gray Ct.Ph: 08 8373 3756 PS of South Australia (Study Group):Mtg 4th Tues 7.30pm; 22 Gray Ct. Ph: 08 8522 4345 Postal Stat & Postal Hist Soc: Mtg 2nd Tues; SAPHIL House, 22 Gray Ct, Adelaide. email: psandph@arcom.com.au; Ph: 08 8260 3352 Riverland PS: Mtg 3rd Fri, 10am ;Whitmore Hall, Barmera Village; Ph: 08 8595 3023 SA Junior Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd Sun 1pm - 3pm;Anyone over 5years, parents welcome. 22 Grey St, Adelaide. 08 8250 0484 Salisbury PS: Mtg 1st & 3rd Mon;StJohns Church Hall. PO Box 336 Salisbury 5108; Ph: 08 8252 2392 Stirling PS: Mtg 4th Fri 7.45pm, Old Railway Station (now Community Services Bldng.); Ph: 08 8370 2680 Strathalbyn PS: Mtg 2nd Mon; Reg Sissons Day Car Centre, 41 High St, Strathalbyn; C/- Post Office, Strathalbyn 5255; Ph: 08 8536 2770 Ukrainian Collectibles Club: Mtg Wed as per syllabus; PO Box 466, Woodville 5011; Ph: 08 8345 4033 Yorke Peninsula Collectors Club: Senior Citizens Club. Taylor St, Kardina. Mtg 3rd Wed ex. Jan; PO Box 178, Bute 5560; Ph: 08 8821 2906 Club Information: Victorian Philatelic Council, GPO Box 9800, Melbourne, Vic, 3001 Latrobe Valley PS: Mtg Last Wed ex Dec 7.30pm, St Lukes Uniting Church Hall, Princes Way, Morwell; Chris Zarb, Sec. ph. 03 5174 3394 Maryborough Stamp Club:Mtg mthly ex Jan 2nd Tues of month 8pm, St Augustine’s Hall, Maryborough. PO Box 295, Maryborough, 3465; Ph: 03 5464 2400. maryboroughsc@eudoramail.com. maryboroughsc.web1000.com Mildura PS: Mtg Last Thurs (ex Dec)Carnegie Building 74 Deakin Ave Ph: 03 5023 8789 Mooroolbark PS: Mtg 1st Tues; Ph: 03 9723 3304 Oakleigh PS: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm (ex Jan) Oakleigh Public Library, Drummond St, Oakleigh Ocean Grove SC: Mtg 4th Wed. 10am. Ocean Grove Senior Citizens Clubrooms Melways: 234 A. Ph. 03 5255 1372 Peninsula SC: Mtg 3rd Wed, 7.30pm Uniting Church Hall, Murray Anderson Rd, Rosebud. Ph: 03 5974 1950 Polish PS: Mtg 3rd Tues (2nd in Dec) Prahran PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex Jan) Ringwood PS: Gen Mtg 1st Thurs; Daytime 3rd Mon Ph: 03 9551 2235 Royal PS of Victoria:Mtg 3rd & 5th Thurs; Daytime 1st Tues Sale SC: Mtg 1st Mon (ex Jan) Shepparton PS: Mtg 2nd Tues, Mechanics Institute, Shepparton. Ph. 0419 560 813 Sherbrooke PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs ex Jan Upwey Fire Brigade Hall, 8pm; Bob Cook Ph: 03 9758 3465 Upper Yarra SC: Mtg 3rd Tues Warragul PS: Mtg 2nd Fri Warrnambool PS: Mtg 3rd Wed 7.45pm St Joseph’s Primary School, Botanic Road;Ph: 03 5561 1470 Waverley PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs 7.30pm, Mt Waverley Community Centre, 47 Miller Cres, Mt Waverley; Daytime mtg the following Friday, 9.30am, Uniting Church Hall, 482 High St, Mt Waverley. Ph. 03 9898 4102 Obtain Tasmanian clubs information from: Tasmanian Stamp Council, GPO Box 9800, Hobart, TAS, 7001. Ph: 03 6278 7084 Kingston Junior Group: Mtg 2nd Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224 Launceston PS: Mtg 1st Thurs (ex. Jan) & 3rd Sat (ex. Dec), Max Fry Hall, Trevallyn 7.30pm; Ph: 6344 3676 Mersey-Leven PS: Contact: 03 6425 3603 Rosny Junior Group: Mtg Last Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224 Tasmanian PS: Mtg Last Monday (ex. Dec); www.tps.org.au, Legacy House, 159 Macquarie St Hobart
stamp & coin fairs & events new south wales April 1 - (1st Sun) Bankstown Stamp & Coin Fair, Bankstown Masonic Hall, Cnr Greenfields & Restwell Sts, Bankstown. 9am - 3pm. 7 Dealers. April 7 - (1st Sat) 9am to 4pm Orange Stamp Fair, Quinn’s Arcade, Summer St, Orange. Ph: Norm 02 63623754. April 7 - (1st Sat) Northside Stamp Fair. 1st Floor, Car park Building, Manly-Warringah Leagues Club, cnr Federal Parade/Pittwater Rd, Brookvale, NSW. April 7 - (1st Sat) Katoomba Stamp & Coin Fair, 9am 4pm, Masonic Hall, Cnr Station & Civic Sts, Katoomba. Ph. 0417 802 754 April 7 - (1st Sat) Sutherland Shire Stamp & Coin Collectors Fair, Gymea Anglican Church Hall, 131 Gymea Bay Rd, Gymea. April 8 - Ulladulla Annual Stamp Fair, Ulladulla Civic Centre, off the Harbour. 10am-4pm. Admission free, Dealers, Auction, Children’s showbags. Enq: 02 4454 5411 April 15 - (3rd Sun) Stamp & Coin Fair, 10am - 3pm, Pioneers Hall, Cowper St, Wallsend. 8 Dealers. 4971 3483 April 21 - Richmond Stamp & Coin Show. 9am-3pm, St Monica’s Church Hall, Cnr Windsor & Bourke Sts, Richmond, NSW. Dealer & Club tables, Souvenirs, Auction, Exhibit. Enq: 02 4576 5031
new south wales April 22 - (4th Sun) Epping Stamp & Coin Fair, Community Hall, 9 Oxford St, Epping. 10am - 4pm. Free Entry, 6 Dealers, Buy/Sell
victoria April 1 - (1st Sun) Stamp, Coin & Phone Card Fair, Ukrainian Hall, Russell St, Essendon. April 15 - (3rd Sun) Stamp, Card - Phone Card Fair, Bentleigh-McKinnon Youth Centre, Higgins Rd, Bentleigh. Dealers plus huge range activities. Ph: John Thomas 0418 322 315. April 29 - (last Sun ex Dec) Stamp, Coin & Phonecard Fair, Jaycees Hall, Silver Grove, Nunawading. 9am3.30pm.
queensland April 9 - (2nd Mon) - Gold Coast PS Sale, Rm 1, Southport Comm. Centre, Lawson St, Southport. 11.30am - 2.30pm April 15 - QStamp Fair, Southside, Mt Gravatt Showgrounds, Memorial Hall, Logan Rd. Free Entry 8.30am - 2pm
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