STAMP NEWS AUSTRALASIA
APRIL 2014 EDITION
VOL.61 Number 4
WORLDWIDE NEW ISSUES
Centenary of Australia’s polar expedition celebrated by Australia Post
Australia Post is releasing the final stamp issue in a four-year series commemorating the centenary of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) of 1911–14. This Australian Antarctic Territory stamp issue comprises three domestic base-rate (60 cent) stamps and two large letter-rate ($1.20) stamps. Australia Post Philatelic Manager, Michael Zsolt said Australia Post was proud to mark the extraordinary expedition that made Antarctic history. “This remarkable human achievement took immense courage, skill and determination and Australia Post is pleased to recognise the centenary of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition with this release.” The AAE left Hobart in December 1911 under the command of Douglas Mawson and returned to Adelaide in February 1914. Mawson was knighted for his expedition achievements and is regarded as one of the greatest figures of Antarctic exploration. The AAE extensively explored the Antarctic coast and conducted scientific and meteorological observations. This final issue focuses on the ac4 - Stamp News
tivities of the members of the Expedition and their triumphant return to Adelaide in February 1914. The photographs used for this issue feature: Mawson on motor launch at Cape Denison, official photographer Frank Hurley with cinema camera, Mawson holding a large circular net, the returning expedition party and a portrait of Douglas Mawson. The Centenary of the AAE stamp issue is designed by Melbournebased company Andrew Hogg Design, which has designed the whole series. A special feature of this stamp issue is the Australian Antarctic Expedition sheetlet collection comprising a 20-stamp sheetlet showing all the stamps released across the program in three different formats. Other associated products in this issue include a miniature sheet, first day cover, stamp pack and a set of five maxicards. The Centenary of the AAE stamp issue is available from 18 February 2014 at participating Australia Post retail outlets, via mail order on 1800 331 794 and online at auspost.com.au/stamps while stocks last.
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The troops depart: mail from the 1st AIF convoy: Richard Breckon ................................7 Woodchip Free Zone: Rod Perry ................................................ 10 Cinderella Corner: Tony Presgrave ............................................ 16 Newspaper printed postage stamps: Christer Brunström .... 20 Stamps in the News: Margo Campbell .................................... 24 Philatelic Adventures: Albert-Friedrich Gruene .................... 34 Revenue Review: Dave Elsmore ................................................. 42 Looking at New Zealand: Graeme Morriss ............................. 46 Introducing the APF: Ian McMahon .......................................... 50 Market Matters: Glen Stephens .................................................... 56
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Information New Issues .....................................................................................4, 48 Reviews: Mike Lee ........................................................................... 33 News..................................................................................................... 40 Trading Post....................................................................................... 66 Clubs & Societies ....................................................................... ......70 Calendar.............................................................................................. 73 Products & Services Directory............................................... ......74 Internet & Email Directory...................................................... ......78 List of Advertisers .............................................................. ..............82
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The Troops depart: mail from the 1st AIF Convoy, 1914 Just prior to the outbreak of war in August 1914, the Australian government offered to send an expeditionary force “to any destination desired by the Home (i.e. British) Government.” The offer was immediately accepted and merchant ships were rapidly converted to serve as troopships. The volunteer army, called the “Australian Imperial Force” (AIF), initially comprised three infantry brigades and a light horse brigade. By midSeptember 1914, the convoy commenced sailing from Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide to assemble at Albany, WA. Patriotic postcard featuring the name of a popular song of 1915. After being joined Postcard is held in a private collection. by the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Mail from the troopships was handed over to the convoy departed the Post Office in Albany for transport to Perth. Albany on 1 November 1914. The 28 Australian Interestingly, the mail was held back in Perth until ships carried 21,529 troops and 7,822 horses, and 16 November before being released for onward another 10 ships carried the New Zealand forces. The troopships of the convoy were protected by four transmission. This ensured the convoy had moved well away from Australia. There was no censorship warships. of the mail, as it had been written when the convoy During the voyage to Albany, soldiers wrote was still in Australian waters, and the troops were letters home that were posted on board ship. Most not aware of the final destination. of the soldiers preferred to send postcards. Because It is interesting to note the actions of postmen stamps were not sold on the ships, soldiers usually who delivered the (unstamped) letters and postcards wrote across the front of their postcards and to families and friends of the soldiers. For the most envelopes, “On Active Service” and “No stamps available”. The postage for letters and postcards was part, the postmen did not collect the 1d postage owing. By ignoring the rule, they delivered a 1d. A postal rule required the addressee to pay the patriotic gesture. postage on delivery, if it was not possible for the As the convoy sailed across the Indian Ocean sender to affix stamps.
by Richard Breckon
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The Troops depart: mail from the 1st AIF by Richard Breckon Convoy, 1914 towards Ceylon, the soldiers’ mail was bagged on board the troopships, after being subjected to censorship. The censors applied their hand-stamp, “AIF Passed by Censor” to the face of envelopes and postcards. On its return to Australia, the bags were opened and the mail postmarked in Sydney or Melbourne on dates that were about four or five weeks after the mail bags were handed over in Colombo and Aden. All mail posted on board ship was free of postage. Only a few of those travelling in the convoy had the privilege of shore leave at Colombo and Aden. Generally, officers and senior NCOs were allowed ashore but other ranks had to remain on board ship. Of course, those who went ashore could write letters home through the normal postal service, but the mail
had to be prepaid at the appropriate rates of postage. This avoided the convoy’s censors, but the mail was subject to censorship on arrival in Australia. When the convoy reached the Red Sea, the British War Office gave orders to proceed to Alexandria, Egypt, for disembarkation, instead of travelling to the United Kingdom, as originally planned. Here the Australians and New Zealanders established their training camps in sight of the Pyramids. Further Reading: Emery, Bob: Australian Imperial Forces Postal History 1914–1918 (1984) and Supplement (1988). Lee, Ron: Australians at War, Stamp News, April 1991, July 1991 & December 1991.
Message from the 1st convoy’s passage through the Suez Canal describing the digging of trenches in expectation of a Turkish attack. Postcard is held in a private collection. 8 - Stamp News
Kevin Morgan Stamps and Coins Are Buying! We urgently require stamp and coin collections of all types, in addition we will pay top prices for the following:
STAMPS Australia pre-decimals in sheets and large blocks MUH, paying 4 cents per stamp Australia Decimals Mint with gum, may be hinged or damaged, paying 40% face value Australia recent (2010-2012) close clipped kiloware on single paper with good variety, commemoratives pay $10 per kg, mission mix with no less than 50% commems pay $5 per kg, definitives only pay $2.50 per kg. Values above 60c pay $6 per 100g World unpicked recent on paper close clipped, pay $30 per kg
COINS Australia RAM Coin sets in original undamaged packaging, year sets, baby sets or proof sets, collections and accumulations with good spreads of years paying $10 per set, individual years, prices on request. Australia Single 1oz or 2 oz silver coins pay $20 per ounce Australia pre- decimal silver coins, 3d to florins, pre 1946 pay 40 times face value, 1946 – 1965 pay 20 x face value Australia 1966 50c round coins pay $9.00 each Australia $100 or $150 gold coins pay 4 x face, $200 gold coins pay 2 x face, Sovereigns of any country pay $350, Krugerands pay $1450. All other Royal Australia Mint and Perth Mint product required, please offer
MEDALS Australian, British and German war medals required, please offer. Pay minimum $10 each for the most common types, World War I Trios pay $50, pairs pay $40, World War II Pacific Star pay $50, Aircrew Europe Star pay $150, pay 20% extra if in groups.
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Last month I featured South Australia “observations”, and was considering doing the same for Tasmania this month. Mossgreen Auctions in Melbourne, with whom Charles Leski Auctions merged last year, offered Tasmania from the Sir Henry Somerset collection on February 18. This was a fine collection, with some items ex Burrus and Amundsen. However, the Koichi Sato collection of Tasmania, the most outstanding formed since Maxwell Hayes, and possibly ever, is to be offered at auction in Switzerland next June. My former firm auctioned a large portion of Hayes in 1989, followed by some private treaty sales directly to Sato in 1990s. It will be interesting to monitor the June results in comparison with known prices paid previously. Therefore, a truncated Tasmania selection, and one Commonwealth item, is featured this month. My thanks to Mossgreen for use of the images; prices
realized include Buyer’s premium (22%). Commencing with that Commonwealth item, Lot #94 (Figure 1), I found this N.S.W. Interstate Parcel Post label most attractive to my eyes; black on pink stationery and pastel shades of stamps quite irresistible. This is what I reckon a visual hobby ought to focus more upon, rather than so much of the minutiae which seems to dominate this hobby, I believe to the detriment of recruiting newcomers to the pursuit. Ignore the creases, a couple of leisurely days spent in my Victoria era book press would have the label looking as flat as the day it was affixed to the parcel it conveyed. We know the article was posted at Temora on May 25 1921, and we even know the sender’s name. It matters little that we don’t know the destination; it had to be interstate to warrant use of “Interstate” edition label, and the postage rate of 2/8d the scales
Figure 1. Items like this make me wish I would have been more pro active in forming a Parcel Post label collection 10 - Stamp News
Figure 2 (from Lot #288) is an unusual inclusion for this column. Firstly, it is an extract from a grouped composition (comprising 169 stamps), and secondly it’s a fragment from a cover. The lot was estimated $2000/2500, and realized $1830. Auction houses throughout the ages have loved to feature high realizations in relation to estimate for grouped/collection/ accumulation lots. In reality, such fanfare is futile. By way of example, I once bid a mixed group of covers at auction to a factor of 60 times the printed catalogue estimate. Why? Because it still represented good value for money. Needless to add, the auction house sought to make advertising capital out of the result. I confess to doing the same when I conducted auctions, but the practice can backfire. On one occasion, a journalist from a well known paper, looking for something philatelically newsworthy for his column, rang me after one of my auctions. Yes, I did have something he might like to feature: a group lot estimated at $750/1000 had been knocked-down at $18000 + premium. The journalist duly wrote up the story, deflating with his conclusion, which translated along the lines of: “The result gives the indication that the auctioneer didn’t have much idea about what he was selling”. These are one of my least favourite philatelic items; just one rung above a used stamp off piece, I would argue. The item on piece featured, however, provides Figure 2. The source of the majority of unused imperfs one a useful tutorial; it shows us how most of sees the unused stamps in the early years of stamp collecting (pre early 1860s birth of the New Issue service) came about. They tell us could only be for an interstate parcel weighing st between 4-5 lbs. (8d for 1 lb., 6d per additional lbs., simply missed the postmark: the majority of unused (i.e. without gum) stamps, particularly those in the or 8d + 6d x4 = 2/8d). imperforate era, are in fact used! A more accurate The Kangaroo 2/- brown is rare on intact postal terminology for such stamps would be uncancelled, article; I priced such at $1500 in current ACSC. rather than unused. Yes, you say, but who cares . . . At a realization of $610 (conservation estimate: to which I heartily agree. $300/500), this was a very astute purchase. Stamp News - 11
Figure 3. Difficult not to be impressed by Classic large multiples The stamp shown on piece could be skillfully removed to retain a fair degree of its original gum, and would make a rather attractive addition to a collection, despite outer frameline being touched
Figure 4. Delightful early promotional souvenir cover 12 - Stamp News
when separated all those years ago. It serves no purpose on that piece, and at the very least the new owner could demonstrate it is not a cleaned pen cancel (as are many “unused� Tasmania stamps of
Great Britain Genuine Six Reigns Mix Off Paper the era). I would retain a pre-removal scan of the item as a record. Single stamps can appear rather pedestrian when compared with knock-out multiples such as Figure 3 (Lot #288). Described as “dull vermilion”, from where I sit it appears to be the carmine printing, SG 70 rather than 69. Not that it matters greatly, this is a most impressive multiple, possibly the record holder, and from a great collection: Burrus. The item is probably from the amazing “Mayfair Find”, which surfaced in the 1920s. A merchant firm in London apparently took postage stamps in settlement of small accounts from British Colonial outposts. The subject appears in a book The Mayfair find of Rare Stamps, H R Harmer, 1925, by the prolific early philatelic author, Fred J Melville. Estimated $3500/4000, the realization of $4575 represents excellent value in my opinion. I see socalled rare “blue chip” stamps, which I regard as uber common (my term if they’re offered in every second auction catalogue I open) sell for more. This item is not a remainder from a New Issue service; it survives by chance rather than by design, a very important distinction in my philatelic world. One of my many sideline collections is souvenir/ commemorative covers commercially used. I don’t recall having seen any item of that nature dated earlier than Figure 4 (Lot #382), a Jan 9 1866 use from Launceston to Swansea of inscribed envelope promoting the upcoming Launceston Champion Cup, scheduled for Feb 6. Estimated very conservatively at $300/400, the realization of $732 was my interpretation of good value, for a possibly unique item. Rod Perry has been a philatelic trader since 1962 and a Stamp News advertiser since the 1960s . He founded Rodney A Perry Auction Galleries (now Millennium Philatelic Auctions) in 1971. As a collector he has exhibited nationally and internationally. Rod prefers his used stamps on cover and likens taking a stamp off its original cover to converting a tree to woodchips. Past editions of this column may be accessed on Rod’s ‘rap.com.au’
A new lot which has just come our way, with excellent variety thoughout, mostly used, but with a few pre-decimal mint noticed. Also the odd minisheet. Many higher and better values and scarcer items…this is a genuine unpicked mix! We have broken down into convenient sized parcels, by weight, and there should be around 16,000 stamps to the kg. Each lot has extra free items added as listed below in case you are uncertain about the value the average cost per stamp is around 6 cents. GBG1) About 1000 stamps, or 60 grams in weight, includes a free 1841 1d imperf. Cat value 30 pounds. Price $65 GBG2) About 2500 stamps, or 150 grams weight, includes a free 1841 2d Blue Cat value 100 pounds. Price $149 GBG3) About 5000 stamps, includes both of the free stamps above plus a 2/6d and 5/- KGV Seahorse minimum cat for these 4 free gifts 255 pounds. Price $289 GBG4) About 10,000 stamps, includes all of the gifts above, plus a 2/6d and 5/King Edward VII or Queen Victoria, minimum catalogue value for all the gifts in this parcel 600 pounds! Price $549 GBG5) About 16,000 stamps, a whole Kilo of this magnificent mixture with all of the free gifts as above, plus a nice genuine 1840 1d black with Maltese cross cancel, total of all the gifts in this lot $950! Price $829.
We only have 3 kilos of this mixture available in total, so please hurry! GB Catalogues available: Collect British Stamps 2013 $25.90 Great Britain Concise 2012 $53.95 Victoria Specialised $71.90 Four Kings Specialised $71.90 QEII Pre- decimal $71.90 QEII Decimal Machin Definitives $79.50
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Exercise some common cents! First time ever offered, newly arrived off paper mix from overseas, at from just ONE CENT PER STAMP! Lowest price we have ever offered for this type of mixture. This is an all world mix, 99% postally used material from the 19th century up to quite recent; quite mind boggling at this price, and with minimal duplication. Pick the best for your own collection and trade the rest at 5c to 50c or even more per stamp! We simply weigh it out into unsorted lots. This is not all small definitives or “head” stamps - a good proportion will be large pictorial, commemoratives and thematics. With about 15-16,000 stamps to the kg, and at 1 cent per stamp you just cannot go wrong, especially as we offer a 14 day money back guarantee if this lot is not as described. OK here goes! Send in today, do not delay supplies necessarily limited, this mix is full of the “F” Factor. Tell us how many of the letter F you in the following paragraph you find and we will send you a special free gift if you are correct! Fun and frivolity for all with many fantastic finds to be found. Be sure to fone or fax us with details of fine finds that you find; failing that focus on finding fakes or forgeries if any that may be in this lot, anything is possible! This is an all world lot, though you may request Australia only if you prefer, this option will necessarily contain more duplication.
F1) 150 grams, or approx 2500 stamps $31 plus $5 postage F2) 300 grams, or approx 5000 stamps $59 plus $10 postage F3) 600 grams, or approx 10,000 stamps $115 plus $15 postage F4) 1200 grams, or approx 20,000 stamps $219 plus $20 postage F5) 3 kilograms, or approx 50,000 stamps $525 Postage FREE F6) 6 kilograms, or approx 100,000 stamps $999 Postage FREE Registration and insurance included in all prices for this offer. Do not forget our guarantee, full refund if returned within full days if you find that these lots are misdescribed. Super special, order 1 lot of Australia and 1 of World and get an additional 10% discount.
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AAT fully IMPERFORATE Miniature Sheets issued by Australia Post!
In November 2013, Australia Post released 250 x IMPERFORATE panes of 15 mini sheets of stamps. The “1913 Disaster & Isolation” issue, for the Centenary of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) of 1911-14. The AAE left Hobart in December 1911 commanded by Douglas Mawson and returned in February 1914. Mawson was knighted for his achievements, and is regarded as one of the greatest figures of all Antarctic exploration. You needed to phone the PO “800” number, or order online. Cost was well above face value, and the maximum order was ONE sheet a person. Sold out in super-fast time, as you’d expect - within hours I am advised. There will be near none in the secondary market, as collectors who got very lucky, will not be sellers - at any price. I’d guess there are easily 20,000 keen global collectors of AAT, but only 250 of these sheets to go around. If 200 buyers hold on to their sheets for their collections, that leaves just FIFTY to service those 20,000 collectors worldwide. 99% of AAT collectors do not right now realise this IMPERF issue even exists! In the 56 years since AAT first issued stamps in 1957, I can’t recall any other *AAT* imperforates sold by the PO. Each sheet is hand numbered in top left margin, and also comes with a Certificate of Guarantee card from head of AP, confirming that only 250 panes in TOTAL were sold – globally. This is an Official Australia Post Australian Antarctic Territory issue. I am offering these as follows: SUBJECT UNSOLD – please use correct stock code!
A. Fully imperforate MUH or CTO AAT Mini Sheet - $A40 a sheet. (Stock code 629KE) B. An uncut MUH and/or CTO imperf pair of 2 of the Mini Sheets $A70 (Stock code 629KI) C. PAIR of imperf panes from top LH, hand numbered “XXX/250” in margin, AND the matching AP card, $A100 (Stock code 629KM) D. A block of FOUR imperforate mini sheets MUH or VFU, or a mix. $A130 (Stock code 629KN) E. Full uncut MUH press sheet of 15 imperf sheets, with hand done edition number, and matching numbered cert. Mailed in a secure mailing tube for safe transit and easy storage, with heavy duty PO black cardboard sheeting inside. $A295 (Stock code 629KP) F. TWO sheets of 15. One to keep flat for the future, and one to cut up into singles or pairs etc. $A550. (Stock code 629KT) G. Normal perforated M/S & IMPERF sheet used on 23x32cm air cover to you $A60 post free Global! (Stock Code 629KO) Many more choices, inc. covers, and all photos are here – www.tinyurl.com/AATimperf order online: www.tinyurl.com/GlenOrder Cheques, money orders, cash, all credit cards, Amex, PayPal, and bank transfer accepted at ZERO extra fee. Rigidly Packed Post is $A4 in Australia (Add $5 for Registered, if needed), or $A9 Foreign Air (Add $A12 Registered if needed.)
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Cinderella Corner
Photographic Stamps
These photographic stamps, (fig 1, 2 and 3), were first seen in Australia on an advertisement from Anson Brothers, photographers in Hobart, for “Fairy Photographs” in the Federal Australian Philatelist. The Federal Australian Philatelist was published for two years in 1890 – 91 by A.F. Bassett Hull. The advertisement only appeared once and that was in Volume 1 number 4. Each copy of the journal that I have seen has a different portrait and I have illustrated all of those I have been able to gather although I know there are more in the hands of collectors with large philatelic libraries. It seems that a Mr. Hyatt took a patent on photographic stamps in 1887 and some were produced in the United Kingdom in 1889.There is an inscription below the portrait “PATD JULY 12
Top Row: Figs 1 & 2 Right: Fig 3
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1887”. Little else is known about them and with so few surviving it will be difficult to find much more information.
Motion Picture Industry Benevolent Fund
I know I am encroaching on Dave Elsmore’s territory with this one, but since I started it I might as well keep going. Dave has shown me a stamp from the Queensland fund, (fig. 4), which is identical to the one that I think is from New South Wales, and that I illustrated as figure 1 in the February column. Only the inscription has been changed.
Murray Steam Navigation Company
There is an excellent article in the March 2014 issue of Philately from Australia, journal of the Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria, by Richard
Tony Presgrave
Breckon. Richard has drawn together details of all of the articles written on these stamps over the years along with details of the recent “Brussels Find” and presented them in an in depth article that makes very interesting reading.
Olympic Games
I had a note from Noel Almeida recently regarding Olympic Games Cinderellas. His comment was that just when he thought he has seen everything related to the Melbourne Games in 1956, another item has turned up. This one, (fig. 5), is advertising Philips Living Sound ‘as installed at the Olympic Games Melbourne 1956’. This must have been the latest in sound reproduction at the time. If any reader can provide more details about the system I will be pleased to run it in the column.
Helicopter Mail
This item, (fig. 6), came to light recently from among an accumulation of covers I was sorting through. The cover was a souvenir item from the 1993 Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix in Adelaide. It was carried by parachutist Tony Smith to a landing on the Australian Formula One Grand Prix Circuit. The aircraft used was a Bell 212 Helicopter owned by Lloyd Helicopters and he jumped from 4000 feet.
British Sailors Society
Another of those odd items the turn up at times, this label from the British Sailors Society (fig. 7), led me to a search of the web and as usual the Wiki provided the following information. The Society was formed on 18 March 1818, as the Port of London Society. Following mergers with two
Top Row: Figs 4 & 5 Left: Fig 6
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Cinderella Corner
other societies, the name was changed to The British & Foreign Sailors’ Society. In 1925 it was changed to The British Sailors’ Society. In 1995 the name was changed to The British & International Sailors’ Society. The most recent name change took place on 1 December 2007 when the present name was adopted. The Society is an interdenominational charity and has close links with many of the mainstream Protestant Churches in the United Kingdom. The Society is also international and in addition to its presence in the UK it operates in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Curaçao, Ghana, Réunion, Russia, India, Indonesia, Madagascar, the Philippines and Ukraine.
Flight Re-Enactment
I found this cover with the two labels, (fig. 8 and 9), attached, one on the front and the other on the back. The cover is dated 1992 and commemorates the 60th anniversary of Mrs. Lores Bonney’s round Australia flight in 1932. The cover is signed by Mrs. Bonney who was 94 years of age at the time, she died in 1994 aged 96.
American Tobacco Company
Although this is not really a Cinderella stamp, (fig. 10, 11), I thought it would make an interesting item for the column. It is a bonus certificate that entitled the holder to a benefit from the company. The certificate is about the size of a small cigarette card.
Top row: Figs 7, 8 & 9 Below: Figs 10
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Tony Presgrave
Queen Victoria Jubilee
In 1897 a London firm had a series of seven commemorative stamps printed in several designs portraying members of the Royal Family to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria’s accession to the throne. The stamps are lithographed in colour on white paper and perforated. Although not postage stamps they are in various denominations. The stamp illustrated here, (fig. 12), is the top value and features the then future King George V and Queen Mary. Fred Melville describes the stamps in detail in his book Phantom Philately with the note that they were sold by the London street hawkers and some stamp dealers. There is also a brief mention of the stamps in the book Cinderella Stamps by L.N. & M Williams.
Leipzig
People’s Solidarity offers volunteers the opportunity to accompany the elderly to worship, to the library or while walking, and regular visits and assistance in the little things of everyday life. These are all possible fields in which volunteer helpers now as part of the project “retired as an everyday companion” are active. Seniors who do not receive benefits from the statutory long-term care, have the opportunity of this offer to receive a free appropriate support. However, the daily companion accepts no nursing or household activities. A web search revealed the above detail which appears to relate to this label, (fig. 13), that is a publicity item from the service.
Top Row: Figs 11 & 12 Right: Fig 13
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NEWSPAPER PRINTED POSTAGE STAMPS Guernsey is one of the Channel Islands located off the coast of Normandy in France. Since the Norman Conquest in 1066 it has been part of the British realm. Guernsey (with several smaller surrounding islands) is more or less independent but with a very special relationship to Great Britain. During World War II the island was occupied by German forces from 1940 until the liberation in 1945. It certainly was a most difficult period for the islanders. British postage stamps had been used in Guernsey since they were first introduced in 1840. However, following the German occupation the island was cut off from further stamp deliveries
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from England. Towards the end of 1940 the shortage of one-penny-stamps became acute. To solve the immediate problem it was decided to allow British 2d stamps to be bisected diagonally to be used as 1d stamps. On 27 December 1940 the first letters thus stamped were posted. However, there was a need for new postage stamps and E.W. Vaudin was commissioned to design the new provisional Guernsey stamps. His design included the Guernsey coat of arms. The 1-penny stamp was issued on 18 February 1941. It had been printed by the Guernsey Press Co. Ltd. which also printed the local newspaper. The issue of this new stamp led to a frenzy
Christer Brunström of activity among Guernsey’s stamp collecting community. They rushed to the post office to create all sorts of strange first day covers. Shown nearby is a cover franked with 3d which was intended to cover the rate for a registered letter to Jersey, another of the Channel Islands. The sender used the new 1d stamp along with two bisected stamps! This is indeed a very strange franking and totally philatelic in nature. There is nothing to suggest that the cover was ever carried to the addressee in Jersey. In April 1941 there was a ½d value and in April 1944 a 2½d denomination was added to the set. All these denominations were printed on white paper
of various qualities. It was difficult to locate suitable paper for the printing of the stamps. During the spring of 1942, the printers had to use bluish French banknote paper for the ½ and 1d values. All in all there were five different major stamp types issued during the occupation and I suppose that most collectors settle for this very affordable set. However, there is much more if you are good at determining colour shades. A Channel Islands stamp dealer lists no less than 27 different varieties. The stamps were reprinted on numerous occasions and each time the result was a new shade. Most of these shades are affordable but
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NEWSPAPER PRINTED POSTAGE STAMPS there is one which is quite expensive. Specialized catalogues also list imperforate or partly imperforate stamps. These varieties are all very scarce. Covers are of course available but the vast majority that I have seen are very much philatelic creations. Last year the Guernsey Press newspaper celebrated its bicentennial. During the past 200 years the newspaper has been published using different names. In 1813 it was known as The Star. Later the name was changed to the Evening Press and today it is the Guernsey Press. To mark this important anniversary Guernsey Post released a set of six stamps on 29 July 2013. The 55p value is devoted to the German occupation and the printing of the Guernsey
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wartime provisional postage stamps. Thus it is an interesting addition to all collections of Stamps on Stamps. It is in many ways an unusual set as it shows selected ďŹ rst pages of the newspaper from 1813 until more recent times. The 79p value depicts the ďŹ rst page of the edition marking the liberation of Guernsey. The six stamps were released in small sheets of ten with explanatory text in the top margin. The Guernsey wartime issues are the perfect area for those looking for a sideline collection. At a recent stamp exhibition I inspected a one-frame exhibit devoted to the Guernsey World War II stamps. It obviously also included several items of postal history.
There has never been a clearance quite like this* We did run something similar about two or three years ago when we liquidated a UK wholesaler’s stock of mainly mint Worldwide. This time we have a massive stock of Worldwide virtually all postally used to clear, it literally does run to well over a million stamps and many date from 100 years ago or more. The entire stock weighs in excess of 100 kilograms, and with an average of 12500 to the kilo, that is 1.25 million. You will certainly find OLD CLASSICS, MODERN THEMATICS, HIGHLY CATALOGUED ITEMS, PERFORATION VARIETIES, INTERESTING POSTMARKS and also the possibility of some scarce ERRORS or VARIETIES. Whatever you find is only going to cost you a tiny fraction of catalogue value as each of these stamps is sold at the flat knock down price of under 5 cents each! Not only that but we are including a SPECIAL FREE GIFT, of BRITISH COMMONWEALTH HIGH VALUES FINE POSTALLY USED dating from the 1930’s and with a catalogue value of 55 pounds = AUD$95 currently, basically what we are asking for the entire parcel! PLUS….A recent Australia PNC (Stamp and coin cover) Retail value $25. AND….A 1970 Captain Cook Minisheet mint unhinged Retail value $17. FINALLY… A British Commonwealth Complete ANIMALS definitive set of 18 values, mint unhinged, worth $15. So here it is, around 2000 stamps, all guaranteed totally unsorted, every stamp yours to keep for a tiny fraction of catalogue value, postage, packing and insurance Australia Wide a flat $5 (overseas add $20 to cover Airmail and Insurance)
$95 the lot! Two lots for $179 Five lots for $419 Ten lots for $795
Really, what are you waiting for …..?
*that we know of!
Kevin Morgan Stamps and Coins PO Box 1290, Upwey Vic 3158 Callers strictly by appointment. Tel: 0425 795 693 Fax: 03 9758 7506 email: kevinmorgan2@live.com
Stamps in the News - Globally! Philatelic drama at Walmart Reported at http://journalstar.com
relatives in the city. The collection has connections to their grandfather’s military service in Pearl Harbor in World War II, among other family mementos. “Thank God that there’s honest people out there,” the daughter said. The other box did not fare so well. “Apparently someone hit it, because there were pieces of the box everywhere,” she said. “Of course, there were papers everywhere but happily, all that happened was the tax paperwork was run over.”
Stumps on stamps?
In last month’s Stamps in the News, I reported on Australia Post’s new Ashes Victory issue. Cricket stamps are in the news elsewhere this month…..
Whoever found a crate in the Walmart parking lot, Lincoln Nebraska, couldn’t possibly have known what it meant to a Colorado family -- or that it contained $40,000 worth of stamps. After finding that his collection of stamp covers had rolled out of his SUV around 11 p.m. Thursday, a 70-year-old man called Lincoln Police to tell them what he’d lost. “It was actually a miraculous, crazy story,” the man’s daughter said Friday night. As it turned out, two different crates had fallen out of the man’s car, one in the Walmart parking lot at 4700 N. 27th St. containing the stamp covers. A second crate containing financial records had fallen out as the man, in Lincoln for the Linpex stamp convention, drove away from his hotel. The crate with the stamp covers was found by an unknown person in the parking lot and turned in to the Sam’s Club next door. An employee sifting through the crate found the Colorado man’s business card and called him. The collector then came and picked up his collection, ending the anxious saga. The stamp collection is irreplaceable to the family, which is from Lincoln originally and still has 24 - Stamp News
Middlesex’s 150th Anniversary Reported at www.cricketworld.com Royal Mail have released a commemorative sheet featuring 10 of Middlesex’s most famous players
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issued to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Middlesex County Cricket Club (Middlesex CCC). The sheet features some of the club’s most famous and recognised players. They are Sir Pelham ‘Plum’ Warner, George ‘Gubby’ Allen, Denis Compton, Fred Titmus, Mike Gatting, Patsy Hendren, Robert Walter Robins, John Edrich, Michael Brearley and Andrew Strauss. The club was founded in 1864 when it was formally constituted by a gathering of ‘Gentlemen of Middlesex’ and its first match was played on 6th and 7th June 1864 against Sussex. They won by an innings and 52 runs, and over the last 150 years have become one of England’s most successful teams, winning the County Championship 10 times, claiming six one-day titles and the Twenty20 Cup in 2008. Gatting, one of the players featured on the stamps, led Middlesex during a golden period during the 1980s. Between 1983 and 1992, they won the County Championship three times, the NatWest Trophy twice, the Benson & Hedges cup twice and the Sunday League. They also have a rich tradition of nurturing England, and latterly Ireland, players who go on to compete at the highest level. Strauss captained England to the top of the ICC Test rankings in 2011 while Eoin Morgan, who has represented both Ireland and England, was recently named as England’s vice-captain for the upcoming ICC World Twenty20. “Middlesex CCC is one of the most successful and renowned cricket clubs in our country, and across the world,” Royal Mail spokesperson Philip Parker said. The numbered edition collectable stamp sheets are priced at £14.95 and can be purchased from the Middlesex online store now at http://www.
middlesexcccshop.com/shop Middlesex County Cricket Club will also be releasing a number of limited edition stamp sheets, signed by the three surviving legends, Mike Brearley, Mike Gatting and Andrew Strauss, which are available to pre-order now for £30.00 (these Limited Edition sheets are not expected to be available for despatch until May 2014 but are available to pre-order now).
Tendulkar breaks another record Reported at http://daily.bhaskar.com In a document filed by activist Subhash Aggarwal, it was revealed that the commemorative stamp on Sachin Tendulkar that was issued on November 14, 2013 was rushed through bypassing the postal rules. As per the postal rules for passing the commemorative postage stamps, it takes more than 20 days to approve the stamp. Sachin Tendulkar played his last innings in Mumbai on November 14 and 15 against West Indies. According to Rule 13 for issue of Commemorative postage stamps, it takes more than 20 days to design as well as approve the release of the stamp. The commemorative stamps issued in honour of Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar are worth Rs. 20 each. Also, the stamps are not available Stamp News - 25
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throughout the country yet. In Delhi, the colourful commemorative Sachin stamps are available only at head post office at Sansad Marg. Indian postal laws state: “No stamp will be issued on a living personality. The personalities on whom commemorative postage stamp may be issued should be of national or international importance. The occasion to be commemorated must be the birth centenary or 10th/25th /50th /100th death anniversary. Stamps can be issued no sooner than ten years after an individual’s death. Exception in this regard will however be considered to be made for a personality from the field of Art, Culture and Music.
Would you like some fries with those stamps? Reported at www.stamfordmercury.co.uk A UK village post office has reopened – in a cafe. The Corby Glen branch is believed to be the first in the area where customers can stop for soups and snacks while buying stamps and savings bonds. The Pantry in Market Place, owned by Miranda Bainbridge, is the new home of the village post office. The previous post office in the village closed when postmistress Helen Dunn retired. Ms Bainbridge said “Many post offices have 26 - Stamp News
closed in villages and villages are dying. I didn’t want that to happen in Corby Glen.” With the nearest branch 10 miles away in Bourne, Ms Bainbridge said she had been very busy since the opening on Valentine’s Day. She added: “We have no banks here, so people come in to pay in cheques or withdraw cash. It’s like a mini bank which is very helpful for pensioners. And they can also stop for coffee and a chat.” A Post Office spokesman said: “We understand how important having a post office is to residents in Corby Glen and we are confident that its opening in The Pantry will be popular with the local community.” The Pantry sells fresh bread, meat and wine and the cafe provides coffee, cakes and pastries as well as light lunches. The post office’s spokesman said that a branch in a cafe was “quite unusual” as most were in convenience stores or newsagents. Other unusual venues with post offices include pubs, pharmacies, petrol stations, libraries, churches and even a toy shop.
Who said Kiwis are flightless? Reported at www.stuff.co.nz Celebrations of Timaru’s role as the birthplace of airmail in New Zealand are taking off. Timaru Philatelic Society president Ray Bennett said a commemorative stamp will be released on March 6 - the 100th anniversary of the first attempted airmail delivery in New Zealand. These
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stage a re-enactment of Mr Scotland’s flight on March 6. The history of aviation in New Zealand dates from sometime between 1900 and 1904 when Richard Pearce, of the Waitohi Valley near Timaru, built and flew a high-wing monoplane, but it was not until March 1914 that a lengthy flight was successfully accomplished from Timaru to Christchurch. In 1918 the question of utilising aircraft for the conveyance of mail in New Zealand was considered and an Timaru Philatelic Society president Ray Bennett shows off some of Air Board was set up to assist the new stamps that will be issued as part of the 100th anniversary the Postal Department and trial celebrations of airmail in New Zealand. flights were approved. The first official airmail flight was issues are CALs (customised advertising labels conducted between Auckland and Dargaville in produced with the endorsement of New Zealand December 1919. Post). The stamps will feature an illustration of Will For enquiries about his issue contact Timaru Scotland’s flight, as well as a picture of Temuka’s Philatelic Society Inc., P.O. Box 237, Timaru, New Catholic Church, which acted as the drop-off point Zealand 7940 for the country’s first air-delivered package. For more information on CALs see http://preview. Mr Bennett said Mr Scotland’s original flight in a tinyurl.com/nzcals Caudron biplane was “somewhat inauspicious”. “His take-off point was at Fraser Park, but Canadian businesses seek a reprieve he ended up having to land in Quarry Rd before taking off again . . . before he finally landed in Reported at www.canadianbusiness.com Orari, he dropped off a parcel from the plane by the Temuka Catholic church. The parcel included a note An industry group representing companies reliant on mail delivery is asking Canada Post to revisit its requesting someone post the carburettor book to decision to raise stamp prices. Christchurch so he could pick it up the next day. So as you can see, it wasn’t a smooth journey, but it was The Canadian Consumers for Paper Options (CCPO) says it has lined up several meetings next week a historically significant one,” he said. with Ottawa officials, including federal Transport Mr Bennett said little was known about why Mr Minister Lisa Raitt, to ask for the increase in stamp Scotland decided to attempt the flight. prices to be put on hold. “Apparently a lot of people were worried about The group, which has about 20 members ranging him. The plane was a pretty dinky-looking thing,” he from paper producers to businesses that provide said. large-volume mail services, says it was not consulted “He had taken the plane from Gore to Timaru by train. Which sounds impressive until you see the size about the new stamp prices, which go into effect on March 31. of the thing.” In December, as part of a major cost-cutting Mr Bennett said local man Jack Mehlhopt would Stamp News - 27
Stamps in the News - Globally! postal service to all Canadians and not become a drain on taxpayers.” The federal Crown corporation has said it hopes to realize up to $900 million a year under the plan to replace home delivery with community mail boxes, raising postal rates and cutting thousands of jobs.
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initiative, Canada Post announced the cost of stamps, now 63 cents, will rise to 85 cents as of March 31 when purchased in a booklet, or $1 if bought individually. Businesses will see their costs go up anywhere from to 69 to 75 cents per mailing — representing an increase of between 14.75 to 19 per cent. “This rate increase is not going to solve the problems in the long term,” said Laura Artibello, a business owner and president of CCPO. Artibello said the industry budgeted for a promised increase of three per cent this year, which means that many businesses will have to find savings elsewhere or lay off staff. “Three months notice is not a reasonable time to budget for such a large increase,” she said. A spokesman for Canada Post called the price increases a “difficult but necessary decision” that will help the organization protect itself in the digital age. “We understand this will represent an increased cost for those organizations who still value the mail,” said spokesman Jon Hamilton in an email. “With mail declining by one billion pieces per year in 2012 compared to 2006, we needed to take steps, including pricing, to ensure we could provide 28 - Stamp News
Reported at www.fenlandcitizen.co.uk A brand new local postal service for the Wisbech area of the UK has been launched this week by local family-run newspaper delivery firm Webbs of Leverington. Webbs Postal Service guarantees next day delivery to 19 villages as far afield as Tydd Four Gotes, Walsoken and Gorefield and all for the price of just 30p per item. Initially the service is only available to Webbs newspaper and magazine delivery customers. Brian Webb, who runs Webbs of Leverington, said: “We’ve been delivering people’s newspapers and magazines for 50 years now we can deliver their post too.” Mr Webb said the postal service, which is half the price of Royal Mail and operates seven days a week, will complement the newspaper and magazine deliveries. “We operate 12 vans with 16 members of staff taking people’s newspaper and magazine orders out every day including Sundays to 19 villages, and so it is no hardship to take a few letters and cards out to those places at the same time,” said Brian. “As long as people are a customer of ours then they can use the postal service, even if they only have one paper or magazine a week. We think it is an extra service and we hope people will make use of
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it,” said Brian. This is only the second service of its kind in the country, the first being in the Somerset town of Wellington.
Lessons in the lost art of letterwriting
social” on Saturday. Anyone wishing to learn the nearly lost art can stop in and learn how to write a letter by pen and paper or on a typewriter. Envelopes, paper and stamps will be provided. Librarian Chris Hosler says letter writing is becoming rarer as the digital age advances - many young people have never written a letter on paper and many older people have lost the habit as it’s been replaced by emails, texting and Tweeting.
Libya celebrates historic victory Reported at www.libyaherald.com Barely two and a half years after the ousting of the notorious Colonel Gaddafi, Libyans have something
Reported at www. therepublic.com Bloomington library in Indiana is offering to teach Tweeters, texters the lost art of writing letters People can learn how to replace or supplement their email with oldfashioned letters at an upcoming event in Bloomington. The Monroe County Public Library will host a “letter writing Stamp News - 29
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else to celebrate …and have done so with a stamp. New stamps are to be issued honouring the triumph of the Libyan national football team in their recent African Nations Championship victory. The three stamps showing different pictures of the team after their victory and the Africa Nations’ Cup were unveiled to football fans at a ceremony held by the Ministry of Communication at Tripoli’s Mahari Radisson Blu Hotel. The Minister of Communications Osama Siala said at the event that he had personally been overjoyed by the victory which he called historic. He added that the football team had showed Libyans how to innovate and rise to a challenge.
Portrait of a philatelist Reported at www.timesofoman.com Muscat, Oman: Philatelist Raman Shah is a passionate collector. Despite having a collection of over 50,000 carefully preserved stamps, he is never satisfied. At 75, he likes adding not only to his stamp albums but also to his impressive collection of currency notes and coins. The bulk of Shah’s collection is stamps from Oman - not surprising since he has spent nearly 58 30 - Stamp News
years in the country. A member of the Oman Philately Association and several other associations of such hobbyists around the world, Shah started collecting stamps in 1970. Since then he has been sorting his collection by themes and has meticulously labelled albums for each of them. In fact, his home is lined with cupboards stored with stamps, collection of currency notes and coins. “I frankly don’t know the value of the unique collection of things I have,” he says. A government authorised collector, for a long time Shah has been the only expatriate to represent Oman in philatelic competitions in the GCC. “Being a member of the Oman’s philatelic department, the postal department keeps me informed and updated on the issues of new postal stamps,” he says. He has also attended most of the philatelic exhibitions in the GCC. “The ones I can’t I attend, I pursue with the rest of the Omani Philatelic Society,” he says. Shah has First Day Covers of almost all of Oman’s stamps issued as of date. His collection includes the commemorative stamp issued on the occasion of the nomination of “Sultan Qaboos Rose” depicting a portrait of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said with the photo of the specific roses titled after his name. Shah usually decides on a theme and then hunts for stamps in that category. For instance, he has an entire collection on birds, animals, marine shells and butterflies of Oman and other parts of the world. “But I’m fortunate to be in position where I share my hobby with my wife.
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His wife, Kamlatha Shah, is a keen partner in her enthusiasm for stamp collection and even travels with him to all the philatelic exhibitions.”I can tell you about all his collections,” she says with a smile. Raman Shah has justly received many citations and awards for his collection. Ask him which one is his favourite, and he says, “I have some attachment or the other associated with each stamp. It is never easy for a philatelist to choose.”
To celebrate the stamp’s debut, a special all-star unveiling event and concert will be held at Butler Park in Austin, Texas, in conjunction with the South by Southwest music festival. The showcase, dubbed A Jimi Hendrix Celebration, will include performances by The Doors‘ Robby Krieger, Slash, longtime Paul McCartney guitarist Rusty Anderson, Dave and Phil Alvin of The Blasters, Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell and his wife Etty, King’s X singer/bassist Doug Pinnick and founding MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer. Janis Joplin is also to be honoured with a stamp in 2014 in the music icons series. Meanwhile, The Washington Post has published a “top secret” list of future U.S. stamps, with designs celebrating several music-related subjects lined up
Musos rule @ USPS Reported at www.rollingstone.com On Thursday, March 13, the United States Postal Service (USPS) will unveil a new stamp paying tribute to Jimi Hendrix as the latest instalment of its Music Icons series. The stamp will feature a colourful original painting of the late guitar legend performing that was created by artist Rudy Guttierez. The stamp sheet, which also features art by Guttierez, is designed to resemble a 45 rpm single sleeve and includes a painting of Hendrix’s face surrounded by images that represent his lyrics and aspects of his life story. Stamp News - 31
Stamps in the News - Globally! for the next few years. 2015 is set to see the release of a James Brown stamp and the re-issue of the USPS best-selling ever stamp of Elvis Presley from 1993 which is likely to reignite the longstanding dispute about whether the young or older version of the King should be commemorated. The document also names a number of people and characters who will be honoured with stamps sometime in the future. Among them are general music-related stamps honouring guitars and hip-hop, as well as several new entries in the USPS’s Music Icons series, including John Lennon, Bill Monroe, Jim Morrison, Sam Cooke, Tammy Wynette, “Fats” Waller, Freddie Fender, Roy Orbison, Sarah Vaughan and Willie Dixon. Michael Jackson will also be getting his own stamp that is not part of the Icons series. A USPS representative told the Washington Post that stamp subjects may change at any time. The
Postal Service is looking to attract younger stamp collectors with some of these new additions; because some of these proposed stamps contravene previous stamp guidelines (such as the subject being American, in the case of John Lennon), this new direction has become controversial among older philatelists.
Margo Campbell is a Librarian, and a founder and Moderator on www.stampboards.com Each month she assembles a global selection of quirky media snippets that relate to stamps and philately. Please contact her with any interesting news pieces you may see or read to - margoz. stampboards@gmail.com
Airmail re-enactment
In July 1914 French aviator flew from Flemington, Melbourne to Moore Park, Sydney, carrying Australia’s first air mail, 1785 numbered postcards. This July, a re-enactment flight will occur. It is attracting a lot of interest from the aviation community as well as philatelists, and will be a big event. The main philatelic product will be 1785 numbered postcards, modelled on the originals: the word ‘Inauguration’ on the card is replaced by ‘Re-enactment’ and a few other minor changes have been made to wording. Original numbered cards sell from $450 upwards. Four owners of original cards have been able to secure the same number on their 2014 card. On July 1 Australia Post is issuing two stamps to commemorate the flight - denominations 60c and $2.60 unless prices rise. Any postages price rises will be absorbed in the current price of the cards. All copies of the numbered cards must be purchased in advance, and the issue is restricted to 1785 cards. A full-colour Certificate of Purchase designed by aviation artist Juanita Franzi of Aero Illustrations is mailed to each purchaser as soon as practicable. The cards themselves will be carried on the re-enactment flight in an Australian-designed, Australian-built Jabiru aircraft. They will have an original postmark from Flemington, the imprint of a commemorative rubber stamp, and be backstamped on July 18, the exact centenary of Guillaux’ arrival in Sydney in his Bleriot XI monoplane. They will then be mailed by registered post to their purchasers. The original journey took 2 days, 5 hours and 43 minutes, and the re-enactment is spread over three days 12-14 July, with commemorations at each of the nine stopping places. Purchase from www.australiasfirstairmail.com or though Mike Hill of Bexley Stamps, (02) 9920 5057, cost $30 for cards with lowerdenomination stamp, $35 for cards with both stamps.
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reviews Stanley Gibbons Catalogue reviews This month we’ll have a look at four new editions of catalogues that were published in November/ December 2013 We’ll start with a couple of catalogues for the GB collector, then move on to one with a more Continental flavour, and finish up with Brunei, Malaysia & Singapore. All of these catalogues are published by Stanley Gibbons Ltd, 7 Parkside, Christchurch Rd. Ringwood, Hants BH24 3SH U.K.
2014 Collect British Stamps Paperback, 294 pages 65th edition RRP A $29.50
mike lee a recent edition of the British Philatelic Bulletin, it is ‘The UK collector’s best friend’. So, apart from all of the usual listings that we’re all familiar with, including the listing of issues up to the 2013 Christmas set, why is the 2014 edition a ‘must have’? I’ll let the publishers explain: ‘One of the key features of this new edition is the renumbering of the Machin definitive stamps with elliptical perforations (the ‘Y’ series) and the emblem regionals’. Yes, that’s right, those two sections have been completely renumbered! To help avoid confusion, there is a two page listing of the altered catalogue numbers, cross referencing the old and new numbers. This is under ‘Catalogue Numbers Altered’ on page xl. I mention this as I had a little trouble finding it! There is also a rewritten section covering the security Machins continued on page 39
No real need to introduce this catalogue at all, as it’s pretty much a certainty that if you collect the stamps of Great Britain, you’ll have an edition of this catalogue! As Royal Mail described it in
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Philatelic adventures in the South Atlantic Albert-Friedrich Gruene In March 2009 I was on a cruise ship round South America. Early in the morning of the 8th March 2009 we circumnavigated Cape Horn in very moderate weather conditions (force 6 – 7 on the Beaufort scale) with almost clear skies and were on our way to the Falklands which was our scheduled call on the next day. I had collected Falkland Island stamps already for more than forty years and was very interested to see the Islands now in their beauty. After we had passed Staten Island later in the day I decided to go to the internet café on board to surf a bit on the internet. Soon I spotted a classic Falkland cover on eBay which would be very suitable for my Falkland postal history collection. The bidding price was around US$300 at that time. The Queen Victoria 1d stationery cover was sent in 1901 to “Herrn Apotheker (pharmacist) A. Rieder, Kenzingen i. Baden, Germany” by registered mail and was franked additionally with five 1d and three 2d Victorian stamps (see picture). 34 - Stamp News
The neat handwriting of Hugo Schlottfeldt could easily be identified. Hugo Schlottfeldt was from 1886 to 1900 the agent of the “Deutsche Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft – Kosmos” in Stanley. The well-known Kosmos Steam Shipping Company of Hamburg had the contract to carry mail between Britain and the Falkland Islands for 20 years from 1880 till the end of June 1900. That period is still considered to be the most reliable period of the mail service of the islands before the introduction of a regular air mail service. Hugo Schlottfeldt lived in one of the so-called Jubilee Villas in Stanley (pictured, with the German Imperial Flag) , built in 1887 at the time of Queen Victoria´s Diamond Jubilee. He was appointed Consul of the German Empire by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 29th September 1900 and had the permission to deal with Falkland Islands stamps. I knew the addressee already very well, because I had few dozen other postal history items relating to some of my other collecting areas (e.g. New
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The Queen Victoria 1d stationery cover was sent in 1901 to “Herrn Apotheker (pharmacist) A. Rieder, Kenzingen i. Baden, Germany” by registered mail and was franked additionally with five 1d and three 2d Victorian stamps Zealand) originated by Herr Rieder already in my collection. The cover was cancelled by the F4F (Heijtz catalogue) canceller on 6th March 1901 and was back stamped in the small town of “Kenzingen” in the south of Germany on 1st April 1901 (the speed of the mail service has not really increased in the last 100 years). London back stamps were missing, so it was probably sorted out on board and left on the continent when the ship called a European port. A German (auxiliary) registration label “Vom Auslande über Bp. 10 über Verviers-Köln” (from abroad via the railway connection #10 Verviers (Belgium) to Cologne (Germany) was affixed on the cover in the travelling post office on the train to help the
postal clerks in Germany with the identification of foreign registered letters. I think the Falkland registration stamp with the crown did not meet the standards required by the Universal Postal Union for registered letters at that time. While I was starting to consider this cover to be a nice souvenir in connection with our visit to the Falklands (purchases have be justified somehow), the price of the cover had reached US$560 without a bid from myself! A closer examination of the cancellation showed that the canceller identification letter “C” was in the wrong position. It was open to the top, a nice occasional variety. The cover overall looked very clean and the color of the stamps was very fresh, Stamp News - 35
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obviously the cover was kept carefully for decades in a single collection and was maybe never on the market before (which could be verified later). Meanwhile the price had jumped further to US$666. I had never placed a bid on eBay by satellite communication from a cruise ship before, which sometimes can be slow or partially or totally (depending on the position of the satellite and the cruise ship) unavailable. To be on the safe side I thought it made sense not to bid in the last few seconds. So I placed a bid approximately 20 seconds before the end of the auction and then confirmed it. At which point the worst possible happened: the satellite communication was suddenly interrupted and came to a complete standstill. I could still my confirmation on the screen but nothing moved any further and after less than half a minute the auction time closed. I had given up hope to win the “Rieder cover”, my wife sitting next to me, watching the disaster, said 36 - Stamp News
“that´s it”. Then after further half a minute the unexpected happened: the system moved again and I could see that I had won the cover for a very acceptable US$1036 in a fierce competition with another eBayer from Eastern Europe as I later found out. I immediately made a screen shot and a printout of the cover. In the evening of that day we had a formal dinner on board and I sat next to a gentleman called Peter Wehrle, President of Indaco Manufacturing, Canada, and we talked about my “prey of the day”. He was also a stamp collector as a youngster and interested in the cover. I still had the printout with me and showed it to him. “It´s addressed to Kenzingen” he said “this is where my mother lives in Germany”. Suddenly the cover became even more interesting for him and for me, because Kenzingen had been his boyhood home town, before he went to Canada. “I will be in Kenzingen in three weeks from now
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to celebrate my mothers 93rd birthday” and I replied immediately “then you have to do some research for me on Apotheker A. Rieder” and which he enthusiastically promised to do so. Time is permitting I like to research individual postal history items and I know from previous experience that in maybe 40% of cases there will be an outcome that brings the item to life (at least a bit) again. This cover looked promising right from the beginning. When we left the Falklands in March 2009 on board of the cruise ship Star Princess the next port of call was Montevideo. Having bought a lot of books I thought it would be a good idea to mail them home from the Central Post Office there and not pay excess baggage on the plane. I had already bad experiences from the past. While the postal clerks were discussing the peculiarities of my parcel I had time to look around the post office and saw a sort of philatelic counter. I realized from the display of recently issued stamps that Uruguay had just issued a se-tenant set of four showing cruise liners including the ship I was on with its
distinctive “pyramid”. I thought “what a nice souvenir” and bought a complete sheet but that evening on board again, looking at my purchase in more detail, saw it was the Zuiderman. Or rather it wasn´t since that ship does not exist! What I had discovered was a major double error; every philatelist´s dream not only was the Star Princess wrongly captioned Zuiderman and vice versa but also the latter ship was mis spelt (it should be Zuiderdam). This was published later in Scott Stamp Monthly´s “To Err is Divine” column which earned me a fee of US$25, which almost covered the postage for the books. Four weeks after we had a wonderful warm and sunny stay in the Falklands and returned home via Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro I got an e-mail from Peter, summarizing his research efforts in the Baden town of Kenzingen: He first went through the local phone book and called a few persons with the name “Rieder” but nobody knew Herr Alfred Rieder. Then he talked to the Lord Mayor of the City again without results. From the cover we Stamp News - 37
Philatelic adventures in the South Atlantic knew his profession “Apotheker” (pharmacist) and since there were only two pharmacies in Kenzingen, Peter visited both and was impressed when the second pharmacy turned out to be the old “Riedersche Apotheke” but has changed its name and ownership in recent decades to “Stadtapotheke Kenzingen” (city pharmacy). Herr Alfred Rieder was the fifth generation of his family to be a pharmacist and had managed the pharmacy (founded in 1788) from 1891 until 1938 (he died without having children in 1942). Peter managed even some photos of Alfred Rieder and his wife from the Walter family, which are the current owners of the pharmacy. From other Rieder covers in my collection I can conclude that he had excellent contacts with other famous German collectors of his time like Julius Kinze (Radebeul close to Dresden) and Paul Kiderlen (Ulm), which helped him to build up his collection and were exchange partners with him. Attractive covers from the merchant Julius Kinze and from Paul Kiderlen are offered from time to time at international auctions. All three collectors at the turn of 1900 had a particular interest in covers franked with multiple stamps from exotic foreign places (samples pictured). Peter heard from the current owner of the 38 - Stamp News
pharmacy that Alfred Rieder was more interested in stamp collecting than in his pharmacy. A distant family member sold his collection or parts of the collection at an auction in 2008 where the stamp dealers the brothers Büchel from Bonn, Germany, bought what was on offer and sold them via eBay worldwide (including the South Atlantic!). They told me that less than a dozen Falkland Rieder covers and stationery items were sold by them in 2009 so other collectors might also have bought from this source in the first quarter of 2009. Always when I see the Falkland Rieder in my collection it seems to appeal to me to travel to distant places on the globe.
reviews continued from page 33 with self adhesive gum, ‘U’shaped slits and the iridescent ROYAL MAIL overprints. So, as I said earlier, this edition is an absolute must have for all GB collectors.
Collect British Postmarks
Paperback, 423 pages, 9th edition RRP A TBA It only seems like yesterday that I reviewed the 8th edition of this catalogue, the first to be published by Stanley Gibbons, but it was in fact published in November 2011. How time flies! The first thing you’ll notice about this new 9th edition is that it’s a full 50 pages larger than the 8th edition! The publishers tell us that ‘Thanks to the work of a number of specialist collectors and dealers, a substantial amount of new material was available to be added to the (new) volume’. Completely
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new sections include chapters covering Scots local cancellations, Smart Stamps, Horizon and Post & Go labels. The chapter on early Irish postmarks has been greatly expanded (woo-hoo! Sorry, couldn’t help it). Prices have also been completely updated. There are many other fascinating inclusions in this excellent volume, such as maps showing the location of the Scottish Islands, and a complete listing of postal rates from 1638 to the present day! Yet another ‘must have’ for the collector of Great Britain
Italy & Switzerland
Paperback, 550 pages 8th edition RRP A $TBA This new edition, the first since early 2010 is a big catalogue! Apart from the two main countries continued on page 55
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philatelic news Scarce & Unusual The first British Emprire & Foreign Countries sale of Spring 2014 held at Grosvenor on 5th and 6th March achieved a total realisation of £437,158. This auction featured the Stewart R. Murray North Borneo, an outstanding collection that included an 1884 combination envelope from the ‘Locke’ correspondence to Surrey bearing the 1883 2c. brown used with Straits Settlements 1882 8c. orange and 1883-91 2c. pale rose (lot 995). In spite of some foreshortening and imperfections this attractive item, featured on the front cover of the sale catalogue, achieved a price of £9,520. Among other notable prices, the 1899 4c. on 12c. imperforate between pair (lot 913, S.G. 115a) reached £665, the 1922 “MALAYA-BORNEO/EXHIBITION” 1c. overprinted in blue (lot 956, S.G. 253g) rose to £1,048, whilst the unlisted imperforate between variety of the 1894 Pictorial 3c. (lot 894, S.G. 70 var.) soared to £895.
1899 6d. dull rose with printed both sides variety (lot 436) The sale was otherwise notable for the presence of a number of sections of material rarely presented in significant numbers or quality in major auctions. The ‘Saisunee’ collection of Gilbert & Ellice Islands offered a range of covers showing scarce island cancellations and unusual destinations. An undated envelope from Abaiang to the Government interpreter on Ocean Island (lot 545) with Vernon type 9
An 1884 combination envelope from the ‘Locke’ correspondence to Surrey bearing the 1883 2c. brown used with Straits Settlements 1882 8c. orange and 1883-91 2c. pale rose (lot 995) 40 - Stamp News
Above: 1899 4c. on 12c. imperforate between pair (lot 913) Above Right: 1865 1/2a blue type Z1 cancellations (lot 1398)
on the HMS Waterwitch at Hong Kong (redirected to the HMS Hawke) and showing the “NADARIVATU” straight line cancellation. The exceptional collection of Trieste formed handstamp was a popular item at £491. Another from by the late Dr Ronnie Shiers, presented mainly as Arorae to the Samoan Hospital in Pago Pago, Ameri- a series of interesting groups of material, was less popular overall whilst still achieving strong prices can Samoa with the scarce type 11 handstamp (lot on individual lots. A collection of early entires from 553) achieved £430. 1767 to 1856 (lot 1288, estimate £150-200) realised A strong section of lots from Fiji was well sup£500. ported by international bidding. The total of £921 The auction was brought to an inspiring conclupaid for the 1899 6d. dull rose with printed both sion by the fine collection of India used in Zanzibar sides variety (lot 436) was perhaps predictable but formed by Jeremy Lea of the East Africa Study other prices were strong and reassuring, including Circle. High levels in relation to catalogue values the £430 paid for the 1912 Government House enwere achieved for many lots, with two shades of the velope (lot 457) addressed to Lieutenant T.H. White 1867-73 “Service” overprint 2a. orange cancelled by the type Z3 duplex (lot 1421, S.G. Z35, cat. value £700) reached £571 in spite of a few pulled perforations, and a pair of the 1865 1/2a. blue with type Z1 cancellations (lot 1398, cat. value £550) rose to £738. Prices quoted include buyer’s premium and taxes. Full listings of prices realised at each auction may be downloaded from the Grosvenor website An undated envelope from Abaiang to the Government interpreter on Ocean www.grosvenorauctions. Island (lot 545) with Vernon type 9 handstamp com. Stamp News - 41
Revenue Review Heads Up
First up this month is a selection of revenues [figs 1-5], which will be up for grabs in May from Prestige Philately in Melbourne. Owner Gary Watson, tells me he will be auctioning off a fine revenue collection with material from all states including a nice selection of beer duty issues. Better items include, the first issue beers from Western Australia and South Australia. The Revenues include some better items from WA [fig 5] and Queensland colour trials of the Edward issues with one presentation copy of the £500 Edward in Blue [fig 3] on unwatermarked paper with the large printed on black ring cancel [yes printed on not handstamped] especially done for inclusion in presentation packs. Queensland Archives has a selection of the £500
all perfed in blue. As we know the issue colour for the £500 was red with just a single used copy surviving to date. I’m sure it is only a matter of time before others turn up. The Edward stamp duty colour trials [fig 4] were prepared in horizontal rows, with one of each value within. Once the Commissioner had picked the value colours more horizontal ‘strips’ were prepared, but this time each value was in its chosen colour.
Dated
One of the problems with collecting embossed issues from all the Australian States is the fact that unrecorded values keep turning up! It can be frustrating to keep adding to the checklists and catalogues, but nonetheless it has to be done to keep on top of it. Figure 6 is no exception, not only is it
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Dave Elsmore the rare dated die but it is also an unrecorded 13/value. Keep your eyes peeled for these dated copies as they can be easily missed.
Big
Remainder sheets of I. R. issues on the 3d unissued from Western Australia were cancelled with the Perth canceller and sold off. Figure 7 is one of the largest I have recorded and as I write this, is up on eBay with a $50 start price. I have a block of 9 3x3 with the same canceller. Does any reader have blocks of this issue, particularly in other values? If so please share them here.
Bigger
Last month I showed a nice part cover covered in Customs Duty revenues, with the seller stating it was
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a world record. Figure 7 was sent to me squashing last months claim. Can you beat this?
Cinderella Club Books
Figure 9 from South Australia was found in the latest Cinderella Club book. Don’t be fooled into thinking the Cinderella Stamp Club just deals in Cinderella’s. It encompasses Revenues including Railway Parcel stamps, Bus tickets, ephemera etc. At present I run the Club Books on behalf of the Cinderella Club of Australasia. Generally books are sent in from members, then scanned page by page and placed on the Internet with a bulk email to the page links sent out to club members who have registered. Then it’s a first reply first served basis. This practice is now in its 3rd year. I do send a heads up email the day before so keen members, if
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Revenue Review quick, can grab the bargains. The books are usually the small schoolbooks with 20 pages filled and priced. All you pay is the price of the stamp plus postage. In the past these books have been posted around to members with one member posting them onto the next and so on. These Internet books save massive postage costs, not to mention saving the possibility of them going astray in the mail. Prices can be from a few cents to over $100 per item. Figure 9 was priced at $2 and could have been sold multiple times! Books are made up from member’s spares. So if you are missing out and would like more information on this “not to be missed” event the club can be accessed from ozrevenues.com where I host its home page.
Cheap Bets
Some of you may have seen Betting Tax tickets from the Northern Territory before, but how many of you
have seen the early 1966 one with the 2c [fig 10] Stamp Duty? 99.9% of copies that have survived have the 5c stamp duty printed onto the ticket. Furthermore figure 10 has a different layout to the security printing under the numbers, with the left side showing every other line indented. Maybe this is just from the left side of the sheet of tickets prior to separating. Either way this is new to me. I show another 2c Betting Tax in my free online Commonwealth catalogue [accessed free from ozrevenues.com] if you wish to compare.
Guinness is Good
Figure 11 is one of those cracking items that turn up every 5 years. The one in figure 12 is an unusually clean copy. Most have much wear on them, as they are now 60 years old. Within the advertising booklet is much hype about Guinness. As with all of the copies that have survived, they carry the ½d import
Above: Fig 10 Fig 11
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Left Top: Fig 8 Left: Fig 9
Dave Elsmore duty on advertising in the form of a Customs Duty stamp. This ensures the advertised mail is delivered.
Tickets Please
As with most Railway & Tramways, in the early days they offered specials, like Picnic excursions. Souvenir tickets were produced as keep sakes. Figure 12 is one such 2d souvenir ticket from ‘The Electric Supply Coy of Victoria Ltd Bendigo Tramways’, to attend a Railway Picnic. Judging by the high 3384 number on the ticket you would think these would have high survival but alas not, this is the first I have seen from this tramway. This ticket is actually dual use as the reverse is a post card. I have seen a postally used 2d souvenir ticket from the Ballarat Tramway Co of the same era. Can you add any souvenir tickets or other values from other tramways or railways to the scant listing?
Perfin Corner
Figure 13 is one of those rare Perfins on a railways stamp from Western Australia. Until this 1/- value showed up it remained unrecorded on this value. In reverse you can read ‘GDCo’ for Goode, Durrant & Co who were local merchants in William St Perth. You can read all about this fascinating company in the free on line book of Revenue Perfins, accessed from Perfins.com.au. This 1/- turned up in Germany of all places, and one can only wonder just how do these items get so far from home.
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Above: Fig 13 Left Top: Fig 11 Left: Fig 12
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Looking at New Zealand
University of Otago Centenary 1969
The Scottish Presbyterian settlers who founded the province of Otago, based on the city of Dunedin in the southern part of New Zealand’s South Island, gave a high value to education. The long-established University of Edinburgh in Scotland was famous for its scholarship and particularly for its Medical School. Like its Scottish model, the University of Otago’s Medical School has achieved an international reputation. New Zealand’s first university was founded by the Otago Provincial Council in 1869 and opened for teaching in July 1871. After considerable debate and controversy, the national government passed legislation to create the University of New Zealand in 1870. The various provincial universities then became Colleges of the University of New Zealand 46 - Stamp News
until 1961 when they again became autonomous institutions. Otago affiliated to the national University in 1874. After a few years holding classes in the Post Office building, the University moved to the Clocktower Building, designed by William Mason in the Gothicrevival style. This building is still the prominent feature of the campus. The University fosters the wider experience of student life. Over the years it has bought older-style cottages in the inner-city area adjacent to campus. The cottages are leased as student flats. This preserves the traditional “town and gown” feel of a university city that has been lost to modern re-development in most other places. The Post Office commissioned stamp designs from R M Conly and B Cleavin and the designs by
Graeme Morriss Apparently, both panels were originally numbered 1A1A1A1A and the As of one panel were scraped off before printing. Slight traces of the excised letters can be seen on the 3d sheets. The perforating comb gauged 13 x 13½ for the 3 cent and 13½ x 13 for the 10 cent. A flaw known as ‘an extra chimney pot’ appears above the left end of the roof on the 3 cent in row 2 number 9. The stamps were issued on 3 June 1969; withdrawn from post offices on 31 August and from the Philatelic Sales Sections on 1 March 1970. References: Catalogue of New Zealand Stamps, Auckland, Campbell Paterson, 1952 –. The Postage Stamps of New Zealand, vol. 6, Wellington, RPSNZ, 1975. Graeme can be contacted through his website, www.stampsmw.top1.com. au . Conly were preferred. He was asked to include the University’s mace in the graduation ceremony design and it was specially photographed for him to copy. Bradbury Wilkinson printed the stamps by fourcolour offset lithography on unwatermarked chalksurfaced paper. The plates had two panels of 100 impressions (10 x 10) numbered 1111 and 1A1A1A1A in the left of the bottom margin. Stamp News - 47
WORLDWIDE NEW ISSUES
Falkland Islands: King Penguins Predators & Prey Penguins, Predators and Prey is a series of stamp issues featuring each of the familiar Falkland penguins, together with some of their respective predators and prey. This issue features the King Penguin. The King Penguin is the largest of the five species which breed in the Falkland Islands. They grow to one metre in height and weigh up to 16 kg. There are two subspecies: A. p. patagonicus breeds on South Georgia and the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. A. p. halli breeds on Kerguelen, Crozet, Prince Edward, Heard, McDonald, and Macquarie Islands. The world population is estimated to be 2.23 million pairs. King Penguins were one of many species encountered during James Cook’s second voyage around the world (1772-75) in HMS Resolution. Johann Reinhold Forster was the expedition’s naturalist with his eldest son, Johann Georg, as assistant and artist. Georg’s illustrations included one of a large penguin with distinctive yellow markings, which they had seen on South Georgia in 1775. At first this bird was referred to as Forster’s Penguin but later it became known as the King Penguin. King Penguins were once heavily plundered for their eggs, oil and fancy feathers. The few that lived in the Falklands were exterminated during Queen Victoria’s reign. During World War 2, they once again began to breed at Volunteer Point in East Falkland. Seven decades later the Falkland’s population has grown to around 700 pairs. Most of these breed at Volunteer Point although there are now also a number of fledgling colonies appearing around the islands. 30p King Penguin Aptenodytes p patagonicus feeding chick The King Penguin feeds its chicks by regurgitating partially-digested fish into the youngster’s mouth in response to begging. In the illustration the chick 48 - Stamp News
is fully grown and about to lose it’s down prior to going to sea. At this stage they are known as “Oakum Boys”. They were thus named by early sealers because their down resembled the oakum which was used to fill gaps between the deck timbers of sailing ships King Penguins do not make a nest, instead, laying a single pear-shaped white egg weighing 300 gm which sits on their feet. It is sheltered by a pouch formed by a flap of abdominal skin. The eggs are brooded by both parents who swop guard duties every 6 to 18 days. Chicks are hatched out naked after 55 days and remain, warm and safe, on their parent’s feet for the following 30 - 40 days while they develop a downy covering. Growing chicks later begin to hang together in groups or “crèches”. This allows both adults to go to sea on prolonged feeding trips. Adults returning from the ocean must be able to recognize their own chick so they know which one to feed. They are able to recognize the distinct individual call, and possibly also smell, of their own young. Fledging takes place during the following spring. Because of their large size, King Penguins take 14–16 months to complete their breeding cycle. Therefore, they can only produce a maximum of 2 chicks in every 3 years. This is the longest breeding cycle in the avian world. 75p Gaptooth Lanternfish Protomyctophum choriodon Over 80% of the prey caught by Falkland King Penguins during the summer consists of Gaptooth Lanternfish (Cherel, Putz, and Hobson 2001). Lanternfish are small mesopelagic fish of the large family Myctophidae. They are found in oceans worldwide and are among the most widely distributed, populous, and diverse of all vertebrates. They are aptly named after their conspicuous use of bioluminescence. In all but one species, a number of light-producing organs called photophores are found in ventrolateral rows on the body and head.
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The photophores are arranged in species-specific patterns. Lanternfish are well known for their diel vertical migrations. During daylight hours most remain in the gloom below 300 metres but at night the fish rise closer to the surface. They are thought to be both avoiding predators and also following the diel vertical migrations of zooplankton, upon which they feed. During daytime foraging trips in pursuit of lanternfish, King Penguins repeatedly dive to over 100 metres and are able to reach depths exceeding 300 metres. Night-time dives tend to be shallower and mostly under 30 metres depth. The average time for a dive is around 5 minutes. £1 Southern (South American) Sea Lion Otaria flavescens Otaria flavescens regularly predates upon all the different penguin species which breed in the Falkland Islands. In general it hunts along the shoreline, grabbing its victim in the surf or emerging from the waves to run it down on shore. The Sea Lion will then return to the water and shake its prey violently to remove the skin and tear it apart prior to eating. King Penguins are particularly vulnerable to this sort of attack as they are amongst the slowest of the penguins on land.
The Southern Sea Lion is the most sexually dimorphic of all sea lion species. Adult males (bulls) can grow to over 2.73 metres long and weigh up to 350 kg. Adult females (cows) grow up to 2 metres long and weigh around 150 kg. In general it is only the bulls which predate on penguins. Otaria flavescens inhabits South American coastlines from Rio de Janeiro, on the Atlantic Ocean, southwards to the tip of South America, then northwards, along the Pacific seaboard as far as Peru. The Falklands’ population of Southern Sea Lions declined by 97% between 1938 (80,000 pups born) and 1995 (2000 pups born). The reasons for this extraordinary decline remain unclear but there is evidence to suggest that the population is now increasing. £1.20 King Penguin Aptenodytes p patagonicus performing “trumpet” display Breeding King Penguins are often seen stretching skyward and calling in what is termed the “trumpet” display. Males will perform this in the spring to attract a mate. Once paired up, a male and female will often perform the display simultaneously to strengthen the bond between them. The most complex displays and calls in penguins are those between two paired mating adults. These “display calls” convey territorial, sexual and identification information. Male penguins trumpet, bow and swing their brightly-coloured heads to communicate possession of a particular nesting site. Paired penguins perform similar mutual vocalizations to communicate their pairing, both to each other and also to the rest of the colony. These displays continue throughout the breeding season. The trumpeting pair of Kings in the illustration are pictured at Volunteer Point, East Falkland. The artist who also wrote this text, wishes to acknowledge the help of Joost Pompert of the Falkland Islands Fisheries Department during the production of this issue. Stamp News - 49
Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Part 44 This month I look at the exhibiting in the Open Philately class.
Open Philately
Over the years many exhibitors have been frustrated by the rules associated with exhibiting and in particular the rules which limit the material which can be shown in an exhibit to purely philatelic items. In putting together their collection, whether it be a traditional collection of stamps or a collection by theme, many collectors also acquire non-philatelic items related to their collection. These items can include photos, documents, letters, tickets, maps, picture postcards, medals, and coins to name but a few. Most exhibiting classes either prohibit the inclusion of these items in an exhibit or limit their use to a very few items or to the front page of the exhibit. If you are one of these exhibitors perhaps the answer is the Open Philately class which allows, and indeed encourages you, to include non-philatelic items in your exhibit provided that the overall exhibit is still philatelic. Open Philately seeks to broaden the range of exhibiting and to allow philatelists to include objects from other collecting fields in support of the philatelic material shown. It provides an opportunity to present an exhibit which shows the
Medal from the Queensland Intercontinental Exhibition 1876
philatelic material in its cultural, social, industrial, commercial, or other context and to show wider and deeper knowledge of the topic. By allowing an extended range of material, Open Philately also seeks to bring new collectors to the skill and enjoyment of exhibiting and demonstrate its attractiveness as a hobby. Some of the Open Philately exhibits shown at recent exhibitions have included ANARE The First 30 Years 1947-1977, Cocos (Keeling) Islands 1955-1994, The International Council of Nurses, No War Anymore, The Coach is Coming, Clear the Way!, Medicine - Its History and Development, Maoritanga of New Zealand - The Culture of a Proud Race, Saluting the Women Nurses in Service, Aspects of the Camel, The Allure of Diamonds through History, Denmark: Conscience, Conflict and Camps, 1932-1949, The Wounded Soldier’s Story, Friendly Societies in Australasia and Singer - Sewing Machine of Social Passbook from the Queensland Government Savings Bank 50 - Stamp News
Ian McMahon
Philatelic Development Officer, APF
Queensland Railway ‘Drover’s Ticket’
The Open Philately rules limit the non-philatelic material to 50% of the items shown. While it is not a requirement that the non-philatelic material comprises half of the exhibit, but the variety of the non-philatelic material will influence the judging. Exhibitors new to Open Philately sometimes show an exhibit which is essentially a traditional postal history or thematic exhibit to which they have added a few picture postcards, photos or newspaper clippings. Such exhibits suffer from the narrow range of non-philatelic material used and would benefit from the exhibitor including a wider range of non-philatelic material. Non-philatelic material of all types can be included in the exhibit provided that it can fit in the exhibition frames. For example, an open exhibit on cricket might include membership cards for a cricket club, medals, badges and pins, photographs, newspaper clippings, Cinderella stamps, letters from (or too) famous cricketers, autographs, medals,
Change. As you can see the topic for an Open Philately class is limited only by your imagination (and what can fit in the exhibition frames). Open Philately exhibits show both philatelic and non-philatelic material and the exhibit must develop the chosen subject in an imaginative and creative manner.
Philatelic Material
Open exhibits should include a wide range of philatelic material. This can include adhesive stamps, postal stationery, revenue stamps and covers, postmarks, booklets and meters. The philatelic material shown must be relevant to the chosen subject. The philatelic material must be at least 50% of the exhibit.
Non-Philatelic Material
In Open Philately, the exhibitor should try and include a broad range of non-philatelic material throughout the exhibit. The non-philatelic material should complement and not overwhelm the philatelic material and must be clearly related to the story or topic that the exhibitor is exhibiting.
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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Part 44 more than a postage stamp also require special mounting techniques (including thicker pages) to ensure that they can be mounted safely without the item falling from the page or bending the page and possibly causing damage to the item or other items being shown. Items which may be dangerous or prohibited should not be included. If exhibiting outside of Australia (including New Zealand), Invoice from the Gilson Manufacturing Co for a ‘Gilson Pipe Furnace’ exhibitors should refrain from including plant or animal products such as advertising pamphlets, and advertising covers as seeds or feathers. Such items have been previously well as many other items. A full sized cricket ball included in exhibits (eg on agriculture or birds) and or cricket bat though will not fit into the frames. may cause concerns at customs or quarantine on The range is endless and will test the exhibitor’s entry to a country. imagination and acquisition skills. In an Open Philately exhibit, covers can be All non-philatelic items must be relevant to the included for the illustrated design on the cover, for chosen subject and serve to illustrate it. As in all the stamp, for the postmark or even for the address. exhibits, exhibitors should resist the temptation to include a wonderful item which doesn’t fit the theme or topic of the exhibit simply because they happen to Developing the Exhibit An open philately exhibit should be a coherent have the item. exhibit which is easily understood by the viewer Material shown must be originals and not (and the judge). Care should be taken in choosing photocopies. Photocopies can be used to show, the title of the exhibit and all Open Philately exhibits for example, the reverse of an item but should be must contain an Introductory or Title Page to show reduced in size to at least 75% of the size of the the aim of the exhibit, information on the subject original. being developed in the exhibit and a plan explaining The size of some items will preclude them from the development of the exhibit. The plan should not being included as will the thickness, for example, include an extensive text, but a logical division of some medals may be too thick (more than 5 mm) the topic in sections to provide idea of the contents to be included. Large items which don’t fit on an of the exhibit for the jury and the public. The Title exhibition page will require innovative display Page should also include an indication of personal techniques by the exhibitor including the use of research undertaken relating to the exhibit and a double or even larger pages to achieve a more bibliography. A well thought out introductory page attractive presentation. will assist both the exhibitor, the judges, fellow Items such as medals which weigh considerable 52 - Stamp News
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Philatelic Development Officer, APF but sufficient text.
Condition and Rarity
As in all philatelic exhibits, condition and rarity are important considerations. The condition of both the philatelic and non-philatelic material should be the best available and the points awarded for condition cover both types of material. The rarity of both philatelic and non-philatelic items is taken into account in judging the exhibit and exhibits are enhanced by including scarce material of both types, remembering though that the material needs to fit into the topic being shown.
Canada Company lease for land in Ontario, Canada exhibitors and the public in understanding and appreciating the exhibit. An Open Philately exhibit must show the development of the chosen subject in an imaginative and creative manner. The philatelic items must be described in the proper philatelic terms, as they would have been in a traditional, postal history, thematic or any other exhibit. The non-philatelic items must be described and be relevant and assist the development of the exhibit. Exhibits may be planned chronologically, geographically or any other way that the exhibitor may feel appropriate to employ. Text should be included to provide background information for the chosen subject. However, all text must be concise and clear, and the non-philatelic material must improve the understanding of the open philately subject and the attractiveness of the exhibit.
Knowledge and Research
An Open Philately exhibit will demonstrate the exhibitor’s philatelic knowledge as well as their knowledge of the subject matter and the nonphilatelic material. This knowledge is documented through the choice of material and the use of brief
One-Frame Exhibits
Besides the multi-frame competition, Open Philately exhibits can also be entered into the One-Frame competition. In entering the one-frame competition, exhibitors should choose a topic which is suited to only one-frame and not a topic for which much material is available and which would be better shown in many frames.
Conclusion
Since its introduction Open Philately has proved extremely popular with exhibitors appreciating greater freedom and the ability to us their imagination and include a wide range of collectibles in their exhibits. Many choose topics related to their personal non-philatelic interests. If the idea of Open Philately appeals to you why not take the next step and give it a try. To get an idea of how other collectors exhibit their material, visit the Open Philately class at a stamp exhibition. The next opportunity to enter a multi-frame Open exhibit in Australia will be at the Anzac Sydney Exhibition 2015 in April 2015. The FIP rules for Open Philately can be found at http://www.f-i-p.ch/ . Stamp News - 53
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reviews continued from page 39 in the title, the cover also indicates that the issues of Lichtenstein, San Marino, International Organizations, UN (Geneva) & Vatican City are also included. But it doesn’t stop there. A quick check of the index shows us that almost 50 different stamp issuing entities are covered. Big and comprehensive! Italian new issues are listed up to May 2013, Lichtenstein to September 2012, San Marino to February 2013, Switzerland to November 2012, and Vatican City to 2013. All of these countries also have up to date design listings, with the Vatican City listing appearing for the first time in this edition. New listings for this edition include the Italian occupation of Cephalonia and Ithica, Corfu and Paxos, Fiume and the Kupa zones and Saseno, and also the stamps issued by the British administrations in former Italian colonies during and after World War II. A number of new errors and shade varieties have also been included for the first time, and a full list of these new additions is provided. Prices have been revised throughout, with the publishers telling us that ‘there are a great many changes, with several areas showing increases over the previous edition’ Another excellent catalogue in all respects. Highly recommended.
mike lee
The modern issues of Malaysia are a very popular collecting area, and in light of this the listing of these issues has been considerably expanded, with many new watermark and perforation varieties listed for the first time. The Sarawak Telegraph overprints are now also listed. The publishers advise ‘There are a great many price increases since the previous edition, some of them very substantial, as well as a few reductions’ Even if you only have a passing interest in this collecting area, my advice it grab one of these asap, I suspect they may disappear quickly! Until next month, when we’ll be looking at the new editions of Falkland Islands and Western Pacific, happy collecting, and happy Catalogue purchasing! Mike
Brunei, Malaysia & Singapore Paperback, 268 pages, 4th edition RRP A $TBA
Last cab off the rank this month is the 4th edition of Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore, a very popular collecting area indeed. Malaysia & Singapore listings are up to August 2013, and Brunei to December 2012. As well as the current stamp issuing countries there are full listings for the British PO’s in Bangkok, the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States, Labuan, North Borneo and Sarawak. There are also detailed price listings for Indian stamps used in the Straits Settlement and Thai stamps used in the Malayan states of Kedah and Kelantan. Stamp News - 55
Market Matters: Canada’s priciest stamp
Canada’s most valuable stamp is not the famed “12d Black” - but the innocuous looking 2¢ green stamp shown nearby. Two of the 3 known examples will be auctioned in 2014. One was sold Feb 22, 2014 for $C546,000 by Brighams in Toronto. The firm is owned by Ron Brigham, the seller of this 2¢ stamp, and is part of his extensive and valuable Canada stamp collection being sold this year. The auction house terms Record price for Canada stamp state that Canada Province and GST and HST taxes apply to sale - “The stamp was hammered at $C546,000 with their auctions, and it is unknown what sum that adds buyers premium. Taxes have not been established on. yet”. As I type this the $C is near exactly on par with Invoiced for $C546,000 the $A, so that is around $A550,000 plus the State/ Charles Verge, the Auction CEO told me after the Federal taxes - if any. That appears to be a little higher than the invoice price of the 1851 “12d Black” MUH example sold in 2011 for $US489,000, by Spink/Shreve in New York. So for the time being, I think we can say this 2¢ green Large Queen holds the record price for any Canadian philatelic item. At the time, I typed that was a bargain price for a pristine, verified MUH 12¢ example, with massive margins like that, and I concluded my auction report with “In my view it was a bargain, and if I had the money I’d have bought it in a heartbeat. Someone will do VERY nicely out of this next time it is sold.” Someone clearly agreed - that stamp is now offered for 50% more than that 2011 Auction price, at about $US750,000. More details here - tinyurl.com/ Black12d The 2¢ Large Queen on laid paper was printed in 1868, but not first discovered by Philately until 1925, On offer for $US750,000 56 - Stamp News
Glen Stephens American Philatelic Society sales book, for less than $5.
Purchased for under $5.
Bought for $5 - worth $600,000 and so far only three have been found, all used.
More may exist – check!
Many more could exist, as at least one sheet must have been printed, and probably many sheets. Other examples may lie unrecognised in stamp collections. Or circuit books! The basic stamp is fairly common, and is printed on wove fibre paper, the type of paper used for most stamps in this period. A small printing was done on the “horizontally laid paper” meant for postal stationary, and these are the scarce ones. SG 57ac, £130,000. Until last year only 2 copies were recorded. Then a third example was bought from an
Sales or Circuit Books are where owners place an asking price on their surplus stamps, and the books are passed or mailed around within clubs etc. That new find has a 2013 Vincent Greene Expert Committee Certificate as genuine in all respects. It has small defects, as did the Brigham example, and bears a very pretty “March 17, 1870 Hamilton C W” (Canada West) SON cancel. This new example will be offered for sale at auction by Gary Lyon in Canada in October 2014. It has noticeably better perfs, centreing and cancel than the Brigham example, and has a current Cert, so I’d guess it will eclipse the realisaton of that example. The Greene Certificate working papers for this stamp runs to TEN detailed pages. A MUST for all readers to take a look at: tinyurl. com/Green2c – other expertisers eat your hearts out. This is only the third known copy of this stamp, and the first copy seen since the two other copies were expertised in 1935 by the Royal Philatelic Society, London
TREEmendous Result!
Take a close look at the 40c stamp on cover shown
Would YOU prize this? Stamp News - 57
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nearby, and see if it looks scarce to you. The 1978 Tree was used as intended, for the second class card airmail rate to the UK – or any other country in Zone 5 which included Europe etc. AirMail label foolishly taped on with cellotape, that is now yellowing and will get worse. Creased corner and flap torn. Common roller cancel. It was invoiced for $A268 by Phoenix in February. Estimate $180. A stampboards member was seller, as was the buyer - more Trees chat here tinyurl.com/78Tree Now call me old fashioned, but until recently if I bought Decimal Australia covers in an estate that were franked with generally common stamps, I ignored them. 58 - Stamp News
Sold for a pittance
Ignored in past decades.
Single use of Xmas stamps, or the common 1980s “Bird” Definitives etc that are worth 5c a stamp when used, simply did not raise any interest from me. Indeed only a while back I sold an entire garage full of such covers in about 28 cartons plus other containers, for just a few $100 the lot. One box is shown nearby. This had cartons of Registered, Certified, Express, Priority, unpaid, Return To Sender, and taxed covers etc, going back to about 1980.
Glen Stephens
They all came from News Limited, and the seller was Rupert Murdoch’s driver at the time, so he seems to have had first pick of their inwards mail! Even over that short period of time, I would now gladly BUY it all back at more than QUADRUPLE that figure! Why? As collecting common looking commercial mail COVERS has gone nuts in this country in the past few years. “Stamp News” columnist Rod Perry has been pointing out the real scarcity of many of these real commercial uses for some time. Consequently a small but very keen band of collectors has taken on this challenge of collecting real usages.
Forsake the Moët Rod!
Sadly Rod’s wonderful on-line article archive website does not work anymore, as Rod let his server hosting lapse - a serious loss to collectors of this field. All for the cost of a bottle a Moët a year!
Try finding a set of 7 Stampboards.com has a large number of discussions with endless photos, of the many real mail uses of the different series of Decimal stamps. The 1966 Fish, Birds and Navigators, the 1971 Christmas singles, the 1980s “Bird” Definitives etc, etc. Senior collectors love these things! There are other keen contributors from Germany, Canada, USA, UK, Austria and NZ …. there is now a truly global following for this material. It really seems this is an interesting, and challenging field, that folks from all collecting backgrounds enjoy. And one that as yet is not too expensive - and great finds are very possible.
A modern rarity
Even things that SHOULD be incredibly common like singles of the 1971 x 7c Christmas stamps are most elusive – used on COVER. It seems a full set of the 7 single stamps on Stamp News - 59
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7 commercial covers is a VERY hard group to assemble. Stampboards member “fromdownunder” researched the stamp numbers issued of this stamp. There were 110 million of these 7c stamps sold altogether - 99.2 million on cream paper, and 10.7 million on the “white” KP5D paper. The usage singly on Christmas cards would have been near the only rate these fulfilled. Quantities for each of the seven also differed considerably, because of the bizarre format of 7 identical designs but in different colours, that made up each Post Office sheet of 100. For 5 of the stamp colour combos, there were 16 of each, per sheet of 100. For one there were 12 per sheet, and for the seventh, there were 8 stamps per PO sheet. Actual quantities issued for each would have 60 - Stamp News
110 MILLION stamps sold been: for 5 of the colour types - 17.6 million each, 1 scarcer design - 13.2 million, and the most “scarce” design - 8.8 million. With the smallest number being near 9 million used, and most of them being used in 17.6 million runs, you’d imagine that finding the set of 7 on covers would be a cinch.
Try finding all 7 on cover!
I’d bet I could get $100 a set very readily for a clean set of 7 covers used to mail greeting cards. However over the years I must have neglected even looking at, much less removing for stock, the many 100s that were in mixed junk lots and Estates I have handled.
Glen Stephens kind of things in dealer 50c and $1 boxes, or junk lots etc, or at shows - that in a few years’ time might be worth many $100s each. Remember the ACSC Cat lists and price EVERY Australian decimal stamp on cover, and their pricing is done with the aid of experts, and is quite accurate.
Private Perfins
Create some perfin history! Disclaimer ... I have NO sets of these Xmas stamps, nor 40c Trees etc on cover – so please do not ask me. I am simply pointing out these are a fast emerging new collecting field, that really seems to be catching on very widely – on a global level. Many senior collectors I am surprised to have discovered, find these very interesting and challenging, and are flocking to this field. I must stress the absolute key here is them paying the CORRECT postage rate, to a non-philatelic recipient, using stamps franked in the CORRECT period of their issue. Philatelic use a decade later is not counted! Lots of dealers use up old issues for mail, and these are not regarded as ‘valid in period use’. Right now there ARE chances of finding these
I received the stamps illustrated nearby on a large envelope recently, paying the exact $1.80 large letter rate. The perfin says – “PC/NZA” in two lines as can be seen in the image nearby. Perfins are used on all mailings. This lettering stands for the “Perfin Club Of New Zealand And Australia” (PCNZA) It contained their 4 times a year colour A4 journal “South Pacific Perfin Bulletin” which I found a most interesting read. They had a story on a new private perfin on a 5/Harbour Bridge being reported, from Vacuum Oil Company. A recent Bulletin is here: tinyurl.com/OzPerf - sign up details and contacts are there for those interested here - mention this column please if responding! Australia and NZ members pay only $A10 a year, and foreign $A15, so is the surely the best club value out there, for a thick newsletter. Members can mail in mint stamps from OZ or Stamp News - 61
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NZ to get the perfin applied on them for use on mail. (See link above to Bulletin for guidelines and address.)
Personalise your mail.
So if you mail in a sheet/s of the new issue 70c stamps, all your mail will carry those stamps - and those stamps perfinned will likely be UNIQUE! Pretty neat idea to use on your collector mail – makes it really stand out, and saved by your recipients. They need to be stamps issued AFTER February 1998, which is when the perforator was approved by AP. My cover snipping has 2 stamps issued before 1998, that as can be seen are NOT perfinned. Anyway, it got me wondering does ANYONE else use private perfins on stamps in Australia? Or overseas? Please drop me an email if you know of any other instances.
PNG ups Reg’d 38 Fold!
We all see some petty absurd decisions flowing from Bureaucracy at all levels, in all countries. 62 - Stamp News
“Due to economic reasons ..” The Papua New Guinea Philatelic Bureau takes the cake I think, with their mastermind decision to hike Registered rates by 38 times! Nearby is part of a letter sent to standing orders client by the Bureau in latter 2013. Only part of the wonderfully quaint and twisted verbiage is shown – the NUMBERS are what caught most collector’s eyes. A Registered sending rises from 5 Kina to 190 Kina for Europe and Americas - and indeed to much of the world. 190 Kina is about $A85 as I typed this (+ all credit card conversion rip-offs) – for a small 10 gram envelope containing stamp new issues! Signed by PNG Bureau Manager, Mr Banian Masiboda it was posted on stampboards, and it initially was thought to be a silly joke of some kind, or a fake letter. Sadly it was neither. The Bureau was quoted soon after saying response had been negative and it might be reviewed, but in the PNG way of things, nothing more was heard.
Glen Stephens
And these crazy folks wonder why collectors often drop ordering new issues, on a standing order basis? There is no good reason at all that Bureaus do not mail the new issues for FREE. It is near all pure profit for them, and losing buyers is DUMB!
Stamps as Art
Don’t you really envy those folks with an artistic bent? I have zero ability to sing, paint, sculpt, carve, dance or play music, but enjoying greatly witnessing the talents of those who CAN! I saw a clever newspaper ad recently that depicted the CEO of Australia Post, Ahmed Fahour.
Incredibly skilful work The ad was largely a “portrait” of Fahour but was made entirely of Australian stamps as you can see nearby. Mint stamps, used stamps, old stamps, new stamps. Right back to the 1931 3d blue Kingsford Smith, and 1935 2d red KGV Jubilee. I understand the creator of this innovative artwork was Ian Wright – a very clever guy I must say. Not sure how large I can get the close up on this page, but in high rez to look at the eye area etc, it is impossible for me to conceive how such clever arranging of the stamps was possible! Stamp News - 63
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A brilliant art concept.
Part stamps, back of stamps, sections of other stamps, all of them work superbly in the final artwork when you see it from a distance. I hope Mr Fahour secured the work, and had it framed - a very fine reminder of his stint at Australia Post when he moves on - and these guys always do. And he will leave VERY wealthy. Mr Fahour gets paid over TEN times what the USA Postmaster General gets! True.
Paid $A4.8 Million in 2103
Despite working for a public utility, Fahour was paid an unprecedented $A4.8 million in 2013, including a whopping $A1.9 million base salary, and more than 64 - Stamp News
Ahmed Fahour, CEO Australia Post $A2 million in incentive pay. To fully understand the enormity of Fahour’s remuneration, it needs to be compared with other well-paid bosses. Fahour was paid more than the heads of Woolworths, Woodside Petroleum, Village Roadshow, Seven Network, Fairfax, David Jones and JB Hi-Fi received last year. Those executives run highly profitable, publicly listed companies and have to answer to shareholders, while Fahour is in charge of a largely protected monopoly, and is paid by taxpayers. Fahour’s remuneration is even more remarkable
Glen Stephens
Letters up 17% this week when compared to his international peers: the United States Postmaster General earned “just” $US384,229 in 2012. Moya Greene, the head of Royal Mail in the UK, was paid 1.47 million pounds last year. Canada Post boss Deepak Chopra was paid a base salary of only $C497,100 with the possibility of a 33% bonus. While Fahour has become one of Australia’s highest-paid executives, he appears to show far less generosity to his fellow Australia Post employees.
Boss up 66%. Workers up 1½%
Australia Post workers received a pay rise of 1.5% in 2013. Fahour, already one of Australia’s highest-paid executives, received a pay increase of 66%. Users of the mail system - like most reading this will realise the rates for parcels, overseas, Registered, PO Box rental have gone insane under
his leadership. None of those rates need Government approval as the letter rate does, and they are hiked savagely every 6 months now. The CHEAPEST way to send a heavy parcel to Darwin by slow road post will be about $140. CHEAPEST option. On March 31 a heavy box to Alice Springs will also cost about $A140 Registered. Slow ROAD mail. Obscene. I can FLY to Alice Springs each day from Sydney for $A118. Pay the airline a modest fee to check in carton, and I get a holiday for somewhat LESS than mail costs. And the flown box arrives same day, not 3 weeks later as the slow surface mail does, more importantly. The standard letter rate here increases 17% from 60¢ to 70¢ on March 31, 2014. Some have wryly commented making it April 1 would have been too much a butt for jokes.
Glen Stephens has written monthly ‘Stamp Tipster’ Columns for over 30 years - globally. A vast library of his past articles and photos are found at – www.glenstephens.com/column.html
Glen Stephens 4 The Tor Walk, Castlecrag, NSW, 2068 Ph: 02 9958 1333 email: glen@glenstephens.com Website: www.glenstephens.com
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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: Meeting 1pm on 4th Monday of each month (ex Dec.) Milton Ulladulla Bowling Club, St. Vincent Street, Ulladulla Sec. POBox 670, Ulladulla, NSW 2539 Tel. Barbara Smith 0244555214 Morisset Uniting Church SC: Mtg 4th Sat 10am (ex Dec) Enq: 4977 2525 (Jenny) 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
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 The Airmail Circle of WA: Mtg 5th Monday “Wellington Fair” Unit 18, 40 Lord St. East Perth Tel: 08 9294 3356 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, Bridgetown Ph 08 9761 4638 or 08 9761 2005 Busselton SC: Mtg 1st Mon, 5pm 7th Day Adv. Church, Alpha St; 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 Denmark SC: Mtg 1st Weds Lions Lair Rivermouth Inlet Drive, Denmark. Tel: 08 9848 3325 email: fishneil@westnet.com.au Eastern Goldfields: Mtg 3rd Thurs ; Ph: 0412 156 351 Eaton SC: Mtg 3rd Thurs, 7pm Ph. 08 9795 7744, email: scrapbit@tpg.com Fremantle and District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed, Tennis Club House, Parry St, Fremantle at 8pm; Ph: 08 6363 6415 Have a go SC: Mtg Last Thurs. 137 Edward St, East Perth. Tel: 08 9305 2073 email: nigan@iinet.net.au 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 Murdoch Drives
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NSW club information:The Philatelic Association of NSW, PO Box220, Darlinghurst, NSW, 1300 Phone: 02 9264 8301
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 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: Ph: 03 3584838; Email: alant@snap.net Auckland PS: Mtg 1st and 3rd Tues (except Jan). Ph 09 9853212; Email kiwibrooce@ yahoo.com; Website: www.aps.gen.nz Christchurch PS: Mtg 2nd Tues, Library night 3rd Tues; GB Machin 3rd Fri odd months; Postal History 1st Mon; Postcard 3rd Tues even months. Email: secretary@ cps.gen.nz; Website: www.cps.gen.nz Dunedin PS: Mtg 4th Thurs (except Nov and Dec). Ph: 03 4557643; Email: davidallison2009@gmail.com; Website: www.dunedinstampclub.org.nz Hastings Stamp Collectors Club: Mtg 3rd Wed (except Jan and 2nd Wed Dec). Ph: 06 8765911; Email: clairemole@xtra.co.nz Hawkes Bay PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex. Jan). Ph: 06 8439433; Email: dennmarg@paradise. net.nz Horowhenua PS: Mtg 2nd Mon. Ph: 06 3689881; Email: michael.christensen@xtra. co.nz Hutt Valley PS: Mtg 1st Tues (ex. Jan). Ph: 04 5697439; Email: richards@nec.co.nz Kapiti PS: Mtg 3rd Tues (ex Dec). Ph: 04 2971197; Email: ian.burttt@yahoo.co.nz 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 3584565; Email: mps@inspire.net.nz Marlborough Stamp Collectors Club: Mtg 3rd Mon (except Jan and 2nd Mon Dec). Morrinsville Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd Wed. Ph: 07 8893199 Nelson PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 03 5469092; Email: paula.hucklesby@clear.net.nz North Shore PS: Mtg 2nd (except Jan) and 4th Wed (except Jan and Dec). Email: nsps@xtra.co.nz; Website: www.northshoreps.com NZ Stamp Collectors Club Christchurch: Mtg 4th Wed. Ph 03 3895511; Email: steve@ philatelic.org.nz; Website: www.nzeal.com/philately/nzscc.htm NZ Postcard Society: Ph: 03 3848463; Email: jenny-long@clear.net.nz; Website: www. postcard.org.nz
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. Catholic Church Hall, Edmund St. 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 Sunday each month 9am to 1pm - RSL Hall, 58 Arnold St, Holland Park. Contact 0409 130 266 or ccqueensland@gmail.com 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. 2nd Sun. Jessie Witham Centre 1 - 3pm Ph. 07 5483 9188 email: sandandan@bigpond.com Hervey Bay Afternoon Club: Mtg 3rd Wed. Ph: 07 4124 1138 Ipswich SC: Mtg 1st Thurs (ex. Jan). Ph: 07 3282 2983 Junction Park SC: Mtg 1st Tues, 7.30pm, Annerley Baptist Hall, Lambton St. Contact: 07 3277 6724. PO Box 177, Annerley, 4103, righteo274@bigpond.com
Further information can be obtained from the NZ Philatelic Federation, PO Box 58139, Whitby, Porirua, 5245, NZ. E-mail: secretary@nzpf.org.nz Postal History Soc of NZ: Auckland 1st Mon (except Jan). Ph: 09 5220311. Chapter meetings held Invercargill, Nelson, New Plymouth and Wellington. Pukekohe Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Sun. Ph: 09 2357737; Email: pukekohestampclub@ gmail.com Royal PS of NZ: Mtg 2nd Wed (ex Jan). Ph: 04 5899530; Email: office@rpsnz.org.nz; Website www.rpsnz.org.nz South Auckland PS: Mtg last Sat (except Dec), Papatoetoe, day time mtgs 3rd Fri (ex Dec and Jan). Ph: 09 2682245; Email: elowera@orcon.net.nz Southland PS: Mtg 1st Thurs (except Jan), 3rd Tue (daytime) (except Jan). Email: antqgevi@es.co.nz Taranaki PS: Mtg 1st Mon except Jan. Ph: 06 7546212; Email: murray-grimwood@ hotmail.com 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. Thematic Association of NZ: Ph: 04 2347218; Email: bob@gibsonz.com Timaru PS: Mtg 1st Wed. Ph: 03 6880343 Upper Hutt PS: Mtg 3rd Mon (except 2nd Mon Dec). Ph: 04 5284123; Email: teme. isaac@clear.net.nz Waikato PS: Mtg 1st (except Jan) and 3rd Wed (except Jan and Dec). Email: c.cameron@agresearch.co.nz Wakatipu PS: Ph: 03 4428865 Wanganui PS: Mtg 2nd Wed. Ph: 06 3427894; Email: g.p.phillips@xtra.co.nz Wellesley PS: Mtg 2nd and 4th Mon (ex public holidays). Ph: 9 8271240 Wellington PS: Mtg 4th Mon (except Dec); Ph: 042347218; Email: bob@gibsonz.com Whakatane PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Thurs (except Jan) Ph: 07 3222054 or 07 3086193 Whangarei PS: Mtg 2nd Meeting: 2nd Tues (Ex.Jan) Ph 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
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 Redland Bay Coin and Stamp Club, 4th Thurs. Monthly. John Hardman 07 3206 9996 or 07 3822 6987 Rockhampton SC: Mtg 1st Tues. Ph: 07 4926 3336. email: rockystampclub@gmail.com 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 SA Power Networks 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
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); Maribyrnong Comm. Centre, 54 Raleigh Rd, Maribyrnong. PO Box 2477 Taylors Lakes 3038. PH. 0438 901 144. email: footscraystamps@gmail 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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Whether you are an existing subscriber, or brand new, you just cannot go past these free gifts either for your collection or to re-sell. The value could easily cover most of your subscription cost! For each year of your new subscription you may choose 4 gifts from the list below, simply circle the item numbers and return this page or a photocopy with your subscription form. You may also email us with your choices. For a lifetime subscription you will receive two of each of all 20 free gifts. If a particular item is out of stock, we reserve the right to substitute. All gifts chosen must be different, strictly one of each gift per customer. Since stocks are necessarily limited, this offer may be discontinued at any time at the discretion of the publisher. We will however make all efforts to ensure that sufficient stock is available for expected demand. The unavailability of free gifts shall not render the subscription application void. You are agreeing to accept this condition when returning this form. 1) Mauritius 1967 10 Rupee bird, fine used Cat. 38 pounds. 2) Australia 1999 pair of Imperf Miniature Sheets retail up to $40 3) Australia 2005 Imperf Rotary sheetlet retail up to $50 4) Australia $10 Wetland miniature sheet, overprinted Pacific ’97 MUH retail $50 5) Pacific Is. 2006 mini omnibus set of 24 Dinosaurs stamps MUH retail $45 6) 20 different Australia FDC’s unaddressed, retail $50 7) 10 Different Norfolk Island FDC’s unaddressed, retail $40 8) 40 different Thematic sets of 5 or 6 values, retail $40 9) Mint unhinged Australia sets, retail $40 10) Set of 5 Lundy Is. Maximum cards, retail $40 11) Australia 1995 Cinema Booklet, Ovpt. Qld Show Retail $32 12) New Zealand Duck Stamps, Imperf sheetlet MUH, Ovpt. Hong Kong 1994, face NZ$60 13) Australia 2004 Tasmania Cent. minisheet MUH, ovpt. Paris, retail $35 14) As above but overprinted China, retail $35 15) 20 x Australia 1913 1d red kangaroos, unchecked for varieties etc. Retail $40 16) Australia 1999 Small Pond minisheet MUH, ovpt. In Black for Adelaide Stampex. Retail $28 17) Australia 1995 Disabilities in MUH gutter strip of 10, retail $55 18) 10 unsorted Australia kangaroos, values to 2/-. Value $40 19) 3000 Prinz Brand folded hinges 20) A recent Australia PNC, our choice. Retail $25
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