Stamp News Australasia August 2014

STAMP NEWS AUSTRALASIA

AUGUST 2014 EDITION

VOL.61 Number 8

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Contents Articles Woodchip Free Zone: Rod Perry ...................................................6 Cinderella Corner: Tony Presgrave ............................................ 16 An Australian Principality: Christer Brunström ..................... 20 Stamps in the News: Margo Campbell .................................... 24 Looking at New Zealand: Graeme Morriss ............................... 34 Revenue Review: Dave Elsmore ................................................. 42 Introducing the APF: Ian McMahon .......................................... 48 Market Matters: Glen Stephens .................................................... 54

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The Koichi Sato Tasmania, an international Grand Prix and other highest award winning collection, was auctioned by David Feldman in Geneva on June 27.

That same day, Feldman auctioned the John du Pont British Guiana, the results of which were quite remarkable. Fellow columnist, Glen Stephens, will have much to say about that sale in his pages.

The Tasmania results were comparatively subdued, and I suggest in time will be seen as a lost opportunity to step up to international collecting level, at a fraction of the cost of a relatively ordinary Australian Commonwealth exhibition standard collection.

Mr Sato loved his Tasmania, and set his sights on constructing a great collection early in his collecting career. I recall his visit to my Melbourne office in 1996. He and family had just arrived from a tour of Tasmania, which had included a visit to Port Arthur...a day or two before Australia lost its Figure 2. Earliest known usage of 1d Courier

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Figure 1. Interesting to compare price with used Kangaroo monogram?

innocence to Martin Bryant.

To collect Classics, and the modern interpretation of that parameter embraces stamp issues to 1860 only, one needs to be very well informed. A “shopping list” of must have items is a mandatory prequisite the “dare to be great’ collector must compile.

Mr Sato formed his “list”, and I was very pleased to have assisted him in adding a number of those key items to his collection. Classic era Colonial material is a difficult subject for condition perfectionists. The Sato collection, and indeed my Grand Prix Victoria collection, would be somewhat sparse if perfect condition only was demanded. One must be rational, and if “perfect” material doesn’t exist, which is usually the case with the most impressive multiples, covers, etc, then appearance becomes the essential ingredient to target. A thin, crease, concealed tear, etc, in an important item will never deter the enthusiast intent upon forming a great collection. There has never been a “perfect” quality collection which has won highest attainable international awards.

Firstly, I’ve featured nine lots from the Sato collection, primarily a selection of what I regard as good value lots, and round this out for the month with a handful of local auction items.

My thanks to the respective auction houses for use of scans from online facilities.

Tasmania realizations are in Euros, excluding buyer’s premium; the

Figure 3. Unused full marginal inscriptions!

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Figure 4. “Full of character” few would disagree exchange rate on auction day was approximately €1 = AUD$1.45.

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Lot #50011 (Figure 1) in the Sato sale was a first 1d with almost complete Printed by H & C Be[st.] inscription at base, additionally Figure 5. Record multiples usually less than perfect

Figure 6. “Glass half empty” description

described as showing a distinct “kiss-print”. The inscription appears just once in the sheet of 24, and is more often largely or wholly trimmed away.

Estimated at €400, it realized a modest €340.

Lower denomination used Kangaroo monogram singles generally fetch more, so this was particularly good value for the buyer.

Just nine covers bearing 1d Courier multiple frankings of four are recorded; Sato had five of these. #50022 (Figure 2) is one of the more

attractive, and provides the earliest known usage of the stamp, just eight days after issue.

The shade is an unusual greyblue, which struck me on the two occasions I had the privilege of handling this item. The cover was a relatively modern “find”, first being auctioned by Robson Lowe Ltd in 1983. It then realized £6500, and went to the Maxwell Hayes collection, the major portion of which I auctioned in 1989. Mr Sato bought it from me in the 1990s, when the successful bidder at Hayes onsold. Estimated €20000 and sold for €14000, this must be a contender for the best value for money lot in the sale. #50034 (Figure 3) comprised two items which exemplify the “appearance becomes the essential ingredient” comment above. Described in catalogue as “touched at left, both with faults incl. pin holes, thins or small tear”, these items are so rare it is unlikely any other collection contains anything comparable.

Sold at estimate of €600, the buyer was fortunate indeed. The unit from left of sheet was ex Ferrary and Burrus collections.

Despite the bumps and bruises, I particularly liked #50097 (Figure 4).

This is an exhibitor’s exhibit – one can be assured the judge’s eyes will be drawn to it. Not mentioned in description, but it would appear the single at left was once positioned at right, beneath the strip (note the “R” from handstruck stepped “SHIP LETTE[R]”)? I agree with the “attractive and unique multiple franking” comments, but perhaps overestimated at €10000; I thought the realization of €6500 was “about right”.

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Figure 8. Another attractive franking composition for 1/9d rate

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Figure 7. Philately as Art

Figure 10. Postal Stationery gaining in popularity I love record multiples, and was obsessed with acquiring the largest recorded unused and used multiples when I was constructing my Victoria. #50185 (Figure 5) is the equal largest extant multiple of the Chalon imperf. 2d (Sato had the other, a strip of eight). The very nature of multiples generally renders them more vulnerable to faults, and despite these, I find the block of eight a very agreeable item. The realization of €360 (estimate €300) was very good value; imperfect common used Kangaroo £1 Bicolours can sell for more.

Another record multiple, this time of the Chalon imperf. 4d unused, #50194 (Figure 6) again had tolerable faults, although these would not deter a collector intent upon assembling a great collection. Acknowledging the faults, the catalogue description almost apologetically mentions “still Figure 9. Multiples not as appreciated as they deserve Stamp News - 11

Figures 11A and 11B. Instructional markings in need of a devotee?

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Figure 12. Spectacular for both Commonwealth and PNG usage collections very rare”. Conservative indeed given its unique status! Sold for €1500 against an estimate of €2000.

With four of the five stamps then current, on a delightful cover, #50201 (Figure 7) satisfies my interpretation of Philately as Art. Picture these stamps as used singles, removed from the cover? One could not give them a second glance, so we are fortunate indeed that this item remains intact for our permanent appreciation. Estimated at a conservative €1000, the realization of €5000 confirms the popularity of beautiful, multicoloured frankings of the classic era.

A one-frame exhibit of Australian Colonial franking compositions for the 1/9d multiple rate to U.K. via Marseilles would be a stunning subject.

The rate make-up generally consisted of three or more different stamps (no Colony had a 9d denomination stamp during the period of that rate), so a colourful exhibit would be assured. Not a subject for the budget constrained, I hasten to add. #50206 (Figure 8) was estimated the same as for Figure 7, and although not as popular, realized a healthy €1900.

I’ve often commented in this column that the “singles only” mindset of most collectors puzzles me. Why settle for a single, often indistinguishable from those in every other collection, when you could have a block? #50228 (Figure 9) is an attractive and rare block which, although realizing €340 against €200 estimate, was inexpensive.

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Figure 13. First usage item of the Nauru 5/-, amongst thousands of mint seen recent items caught my attention: Phoenix Auctions July 5 sale contained the first serious offering of Commonwealth Stationery since the appearance last year of the ACSC superb volume dedicated to the subject. Prices realized generally corroborated ACSC pricing. Lot #1081 (Figure 10) was one of several standouts, the Letter Card 1924 “THREE/HALFPENCE” on 2d orange, with view “LOG TRAIN/JARRAH FOREST. 14 - Stamp News

W.A.”, of which only two examples are recorded, the other unused. Fortuitously, rarity and fine condition converged, producing a very satisfactory $7250 (excluding premium) against $4000 estimate.

Still not a great deal in comparison with most traditional material of such great rarity, one could argue. It is said only 40 of this item were printed.

I like instructional/informative markings on covers, particularly the unusual types, such as

those in Figures 11A and 11B (Phoenix Lots #723 and 724). These handstruck framed “RECEIVED TORN/AT G.P.O.” types (they differ) are rare, having been applied to mail arriving at G.P.O. in damaged condition, effectively to advise recipient that Post Office “not guilty”. Figure 11A quaintly has been repaired by a Clerk utilizing selvedge from the then current 8d brown on pink stamp issue, superimposed over which is the informative marking. That it went unsold at a very conservative estimate of $150 suggests this field of Postal History is in need of a new devotee or two. Figure 11B was also unloved, even more attractively estimated (at $145!), ex Pack, Forster, Perry Collections. Uber common used Australian stamps (e.g. 5/- Bridge CTO) sell for much more. At the risk of repeating myself: I don’t get it?

Status International had a selection of terrific PNG Postal Charge usage articles in the May 15 sale, Figure 12 being perhaps the most spectacular.

It is special in being both the first solo franking of the Navigator £1 and use of the PNG Postal Charges 3/- (a pair) I’ve noted. The right hand portion of the parcel wrapping is shown, the left hand portion has a P.O. note that the PNG 7/6d franking represents air surcharge. Estimated $1000/2000, it fetched $1800 (excluding premium).

Buyer was friend and long time client, David Edwards of Melbourne, who is enthusiastically assembling outstanding usage collections of Australasia and British Empire. I’m looking forward to that invitation for an inspection!

Coming up in the August 15 Prestige Auctions sale of the Darnell Nauru is Figure 13, a remarkable use of the 5/- Map pair on parcel wrapping portion. In bringing this to my attention, Gary Watson notes it is the first commercial use of this stamp he’s seen; also the case for me. How many mint Nauru 10/- Seahorses have I seen?

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Cinderella Corner

To start with this month a selection of unusual creations that I though might have been the work of Gerald King

South Australia. (Fig. 1).

An Adelaide collector showed me a set of these stamps that have some similarity to the well known Long Stamps issued by South Australia from 1886 until the appearance of the first stamps of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1913. The first group of these appeared as Postage and Revenue stamps that could be used for either postage or payment of stamp duty from 1886 with values from Two shillings and sixpence to Twenty pounds. After Federation in 1901 postage became the responsibility of the new Commonwealth Government and stamp duty and other forms of revenue remained with the

Top Row: Figs 1, 2 & 3 Right: Fig 4

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respective states and the inscription at the top of the stamps had to be altered to Postage. The values issued then were from Three pence to One pound.

The stamps are ungummed and printed on unwatermarked paper, and although attractive, would not fool the experienced collector. I did think that they could be one of the many creations of Gerald King.

Western Australia. (Fig. 2).

One from the same stable as the South Australia, but again it does not really bear any likeness to the real thing.

Tasmania. (Fig. 3).

This one could be a little more dangerous for the

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novice as it certainly has the look of the genuine stamp about it. The main failing will be that it is unwatermarked. There was a mark on the back that indicated an attempt to identify it as a replica.

New South Wales. (Fig. 4).

Again, not much like anything issued by New South Wales, but I will record it here for future reference.

Postage Due. (Fig. 5).

The only stamp of the lot marked as a replica and as with the Tasmanian one could be a trap for the beginner although it is unwatermarked.

New Zealand. (Fig. 6).

One of two “odd� ones among the Australian

Colonial items in this lot is this New Zealand One penny stamp. Again not likely to fool anyone as the colour is way off the original shade and not watermarked as the original would have been.

Mauritius. (Fig. 7).

Not the Post Office Mauritius, only the Post Paid issue and not likely to deceive anyone.

Adelaide Stampex 2014.

The entries for this exhibition have closed and I am very disappointed with the response from Cinderella collectors. NOT ONE ENTRY!. I have been using this column to promote the class in the exhibition as Cinderellas tend to be just that, overlooked and this exhibition was a great opportunity to put on a good

Top Row: Figs 5 & 6 Left: Fig 7

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showing. The representation of the class a t the last few exhibitions has been miserable to say the least and it makes me wonder whether it is worthwhile even continuing to have Cinderellas as a class at exhibitions.

though they could be worthy of a mention in this column. There were five of them printed on ungummed paper in different colours. They are rather poor copies of the originals and don’t really pose a problem to anyone as the originals have the value expressed as 10 Cents.

Tanks And Ships. (Fig. 8 and 9).

These poster stamps come from a sheet of 64 stamps, one half of the sheet devoted to the Tanks of the Allies and the other half to Britain’s Royal Navy ships. There are eight tanks and eight ships illustrated in blocks of eight repeated four times in each half of the sheet tanks on one pane of 32 and ships on the other pane.

Confederate States Of America. (Fig. 10).

I found some of these in a club circuit book and

U.S. Poster Stamps.

A collector friend lent me two books of Poster Stamps and these next three stamps are from the set Combat Insignia Stamps of the United States Army and Navy Air Corps.

Fig. 11 is the insignia of Scouting Squadron 72 and was number 2 in the series of 50 issued on February 10 1942.

Fig 12 is the insignia of the 23rd Pursuit Squadron and was number 13 in the set issued on

Above: Figures 8 & 9 Left: Figure 10

Facing page: Top: Figures 11, 12 & 13 Bottom: Figures 14 & 15

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Tony Presgrave

February 20 1942.

Fig. 13 is the insignia of Scouting Squadron 41 and was number 19 in the set issued on February 20 1942.

The stamps come with an album that has provision for all 50 stamps along with a background story for each of the stamp designs and the preamble at the front of the album indicates that the issue is limited to 350,000 sets. The space for each stamp has the number of the stamp to be attached and the date of issue of the particular stamp with issues being made every 10 days from February 10 to March 22 1942. The stamps are gummed and perforated 12Âź.

Advertising Label. (Fig. 14).

Not sure where this label comes from and it does

not have much to give it away. At first glance I thought there was an eagle as part of the image, but on closer inspection it is an angel. I am going to guess that it is of American origin and probably dating from the 1960s.

City Carrying Company. (Fig. 15).

This stamp has been around for a good number of years, and occasionally turns up in mixed lots of Cinderellas. When it was first noticed it was thought to be a 3 cent denomination stamp, but research by Maxwell Hayes back in the 1980s established it as the logo of the City Carrying Company, based in Adelaide. The illustrated stamp is only part of the whole item which includes an address label with this portion being detatched as a receipt. I have the stamp printed in blue on white, red, green and blue.

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AN AUSTRALIAN PRINCIPALITY In early 1970, feelings were running very high in Australia’s farming community. The government had introduced drastic reductions in the wheat quota. Leonard Casley owned a very large farm some 370 miles north of Perth in Western Australia. When he was informed about the quota awarded to his farm he immediately went through the roof. He felt that he could no longer operate his farm profitably unless changes were made.

Mr. Casley decided to secede from the State of Western Australia and a new state saw the light of day on 21 April 1970. The farm is really very

large containing 18.500 acres of land. He likes to compare it with Hong Kong (without the New Territories). The area is described as undulating farm land with a wealth of Australian shrubs and glorious wild flowers.

Mr. Casley crowned himself Prince and Ruler of the new state which he named Principality of Hutt River Province. Other members of his family were given titles of nobility and ministerial posts in the principality’s government.

The Prince’s declaration of independence aroused a lot of interest in the Australian media and

Above: First stamps released on 15 November 1973 Left: 1974 stamp featuring Prince Leonard

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Christer Brunström many curious people wanted to find out more about this rather unusual occurrence. In fact, coach tours to Hutt River Province were organised.

The local infrastructure was developed to accommodate the influx of visitors. A café was established in addition to a motel. A chapel was also built.

An independent state obviously needs a functional postal service and a post office was built in time for the issue of the principality’s very first postage stamps released on 15 November 1973.

The five se-tenant stamps depict flowers which are

commonly found in the area.

In 2013, the principality celebrated 40 years of postage stamps by releasing basically the same flowers but in slightly different designs and with new and higher face values. Today the word “Province” is no longer included in the name of the principality.

When the first stamps were released in 1973, the principality applied for membership of the Universal Postal Union (UPU). Now more than 40 years later the UPU still hasn’t accepted the Principality of Hutt River as a member.

Above: left: Princess Sherryl’s artwork on 1976 issue.

Above: 1981 Year of the Disabled Left: 2013 stamp commemorating Princess Shirley

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AN AUSTRALIAN PRINCIPALITY The mail from Hutt River is carried to the Australian Post facility at Northampton where it enters the regular mailstream. The covers receive a Postage Paid cancel. The Hutt River stamps are affixed to the back of covers.

Prince Leonard doesn’t seem to be the typical Australian farmer. His main interests appear to include art in all its forms and he also seems to take a great interest in the preservation of the environment. Parts of the principality has been given new names such as Lake Beginning, Mount Secession and Wild Boar Gorge.

In 1974, the principality celebrated four years

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of independence by featuring Prince Leonard on a postage stamp.

At first Prince Leonard had endless problems with the local authorities. In his book Local Stamps of Australia (Dubbo 1982), Bill Hornadge describes the prince as a typical “Bush Lawyer”. In his many court appearances he almost always left victorious.

Australia Post was also making problems for the prince and his state. However, they soon discovered that the principality produced an impressive volume of mail. The principality used exactly the same rates as Australia Post. Thus the mail from Hutt River to Northampton was carried basically

Christer Brunström free of charge which the late Bill Hornadge pointed out to the prince. Bill also suggested that the Hutt River stamps ought to be classified as local postage stamps but this certainly didn’t meet with princely approval.

The Casley family appears to be deeply religious. Soon after independence the Chapel of Nain was built. Over the past 40+ years there have been numerous stamp issues with Christian designs. Frequently new stamps have been issued in time for the Christmas mail.

In 1976, a set of eight values marked the sixth anniversary of independence. The stamps depict Australian birds and they were based on paintings

by Princess Sherryl. At the time she was 17 years old.

There have been occasions when the Hutt River Post Office has felt the need to mark important international events with special postage stamps.

The International Year of Disabled Persons was celebrated in 1981 and Hutt River issued an attractive set of four stamps. One of the stamps depicts a man using his mouth to paint a picture.

In 2011, the heads of government of the British Commonwealth had a three-day meeting in Perth to discuss important matters. I very much doubt that Prince Leonard had been invited but this did not prevent him from issuing a miniature sheet of four stamps marking the meeting. The sheet features a map of Western Australia and the Principality of Hutt River. Also included on each stamp are profile portraits of the Prince and Princess of Hutt River.

Princess Shirley passed away on 7 July 2013 and a memorial postage stamp was issued later that year. She was born in 1928 and during her long life she saw her fairy-tale elevation from a farmer’s wife in the Australian outback to a princess of an independent principality. I suppose she was a strong supporter of her husband’s struggle against bureaucrats and politicians in Western Australia.

Many Hutt River issues have been produced in se-tenant strips of five or more stamps. I suppose this was done in an effort to reduce the cost of printing. Strips of five stamps might look good but they are rather inconvenient as they don’t fit

on a normal album page. Also at the Hutt River post office it must be rather complicated to have as many as five different denominations in the same sheet.

Bill Hornadge tells us that thousands of visitors came to the principality each year and many of them obviously wanted to send postcards to friends and relatives back home. Thus the main need was for stamps having the current Australian first class letter rate.

The Principality of Hutt River has now existed for some 44 years and there are no indications that the Casley family intends to rejoin the State of Western Australia. I guess that the main 1970 problem involving the wheat quota must have been solved by now.

At regular intervals new stamp issues remind us of the never-ending battle between the Casleys and the government of Western Australia. Using a Biblical metaphor, it could be compared with the struggle between David and Goliath with Prince Leonard and Hutt River being David. Some battles have apparently been won but Australia (and the rest of the world) still doesn’t recognize the independence of the Principality of Hutt River.

There are quite a few similar “states” in other parts of the world. They have been established for a variety of reasons including tourist publicity.

However, the Principality of Hutt River shows a longevity and perseverance which is quite unusual.

So far Hutt River has issued more than 220 different postage stamps which makes for quite a sizable collection. A complete listing can be found at the Principality’s home page on the Internet (www.hutt-river-province.com). Many of the stamps are still available but some of the early ones have sold out.

I tend to agree with Bill Hornadge when he describes the Hutt River issues as private local postage stamps. It is also rather amusing to consider the consequences of reducing the wheat quotas for the farmers in Western Australia.

Fortunately only one of them seceded from the state and established his own principality with its own postage stamps. However, the action certainly created a lot of attention.

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Stamps in the News - Globally!

No smoke without fire

Reported at www.mailing-stuff.com An e-cigarette charger that had been shipped to the Healdsburg Post Office in California caught fire in its box last month, prompting an evacuation of the post office.

Emergency dispatchers received a call around 10:37 am about a fire at the post office. The Healdsburg Police Department responded, as well as several fire departments.

They found smoke coming from a cabinet holding international mail packages, said Healdsburg Fire Marshal Linda Collister.

Firefighters set up a decontamination station in case the package contained hazardous materials, she said. They found three packages burned, one more seriously than the others.

That one contained the e-cigarette charger, from Singapore.

“It was an interesting call,” Collister said. “The Postal Service will be investigating the incident.”

Viewing the assembled fire engines, a bystander commented “50 years ago, an employee would have kicked the box outside and used a soda fire extinguisher on it.”

Interestingly, the Healdsburg Post Office was previously gutted by a fire in 2010. No cause was found for that fire.

Breakable stamps?

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porcelain.

Sounds a bit risky but apparently it is unbreakable. Viennese porcelain manufacturer, Augarten, have screen printed the design on porcelain which has been baked to 960 degrees Celcius for 24 hours then glazed and hardened to make it unbreakable.

The design is based on Augarten’s Viennese Rose pattern which was introduced in 1924. Augarten is the second oldest porcelain manufacturer in Europe, having been established in 1718.

The stamp has the value of €5.70 and 150,000 have been produced.

Philatelic book with an extra dimension Reported at www.digitaljournal.com

Holograms on postage stamps have become a new topical subject in philately, and there has been a growing interest among philatelists in collecting such items for many years now.

Holographic stamps have been issued in approximately 80 countries, and the total number of different postal items containing holograms is estimated at 450 pieces. In his book, “Holography and Philately,” author Hans I. Bjelkhagen provides information on stamps issued worldwide since 1988.

Compiled by

Margo Campbell quality colour illustrations throughout the book.

Holography and Philately by Hans I. Bjelkhagen Publication Date: February 6, 2014 Picture Book; £119.26; 362 pages; 9781493130498 e-book; £3.99; 9781493130511 For more information see XlibrisPublishing.co.uk

Spectral stamps

Reported at www.theguardian.pe.ca

“Holography and Philately” places emphasis on different types of hologram postage stamps and images, their producers and the story behind the stamps. Bjelkhagen provides the details for each issue, such as size, identification numbers, denomination, perforation and edition at the end of the book. In addition, official and special first day covers (FDCs) with cachet holograms are presented and described.

Many of these holographic issues are spacerelated, including planets, satellites, space crafts, space stations, gamma radiation and cosmonaut images. Some hologram images are two-channel or animated types of images. A few of the stamp images of the animated type are quite unique, but philatelists are often unaware of this quality.

“Holography and Philately” is perfect for philatelists who are interested in topical postage stamps, companies producing security holograms and hologram collectors.

No other philatelic or holographic publication provides such extensive information on hologram stamps, accompanied by an abundance of high-

Canada Post has launched a stamp in June which depicts the legendary tale of a three-masted schooner ablaze in the Northumberland Strait more than 200 years ago.

Tales of the phantom ship, from truck to keel in flames; She sails the wide Northumberland Strait, No one knows her name.

Tales of the phantom ship, it’s a ship of fire they cry; Hard against the wind she sails, No one can say why.

- From Lennie Gallant’s song, Tales of the Phantom Ship.

Wilma MacKinnon of Point Prim is certainly a believer in those words.

In the early dawn hours of a crisp, clear morning in 1981, MacKinnon looked out her front yard and saw what appeared to be a three-masted schooner on

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Stamps in the News - Globally! fire in the Northumberland Strait.

She could see it clear as day. It was a story she had heard tales of many times in the past, a story that has become legendary since the late 1700s in Prince Edward Island.

“It just looked like something burning on the water,’’ MacKinnon told The Guardian.

“I’ve heard lots of stories about it from the old fellows. There have been people who have said they could see people on the ship. You could see the mast and burning and the people on it.’’

Canada Post thinks so much of this particular ghost story that it has launched a postage stamp depicting that very ship this month.

Canada Post has created five haunted Canada themed stamps - Fiery Ships of the Northumberland Strait, Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac’s Ghostly Governor Louis de Buade, Niagara-on-the-Lake’s haunted Fort George, the St. Louis Light Phantom Train and the Ghost Bride of the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel.

New Zealand Post supports our Dick Reported at http://www.nzpost.co.nz

New Zealand Post will work alongside Dick Smith to support the electronics retail chain’s growth in Australasia, the companies announced recently.

The New Zealand Post Group will take over distribution of Dick Smith’s products to its 61 stores nationwide and support its e-commerce initiatives selling products online direct to customers.

New Zealand Post will run Dick Smith’s warehouse operation in South Auckland and the 21 people working at the site will become employees.

“The agreement is significant for New Zealand Post, and we are very pleased to be able to secure the jobs of 21 Dick Smith staff at the site,” said a spokesman.

“The staff are experienced in servicing an electronic logistics supply chain and will add to the mix of expertise New Zealand Post brings to supply chain management.”

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New Zealand Post.

“As we announced in our new strategy late last year, growing our parcels and e-commerce businesses is a core part of New Zealand Post’s future direction.”

The agreement is possible due to the strategic alignment between New Zealand Post and Australia Post (Star Track), formed in 2013. It also sets the groundwork for similar agreements with other retail companies across Australasia.

Poste Italiane in a sticky situation Reported at http://e-filatelia.poste.it

In May, Italy issued a stamp devoted to Nutella, the hazelnut spread that is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.

The Nutella stamp is part of a series with the theme of the excellence in commercial enterprise.

The design features a jar of Nutella with the year “1964” above it and “2014” below.

The Italian confectionery company Ferrero began

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marketing Nutella in 1964, but it had its beginnings two decades earlier.

Nutella® spread, in its earliest form, was created in the 1940s

by Mr. Pietro Ferrero, a pastry maker and founder of the Ferrero company. At the time, there was very little chocolate because cocoa was in short supply due to World War II rationing.

Mr. Ferrero used hazelnuts, which are plentiful in the Piedmont region of Italy to extend the chocolate supply.

According to a press release from Ferrero announcing the 50th anniversary, today Nutella is available in more than 100 countries with a total sales volume of 365 thousand tons. Nutella also has 25 million followers on Facebook.

Italy’s government printing office printed the selfadhesive Nutella stamp by rotogravure in sheets of 11. The printing quantity was 2.7 million stamps.

The postal trees of Botswana Reported at www.dailynews.gov.bw

BotswanaPost have taken moves to preserve an historic postal relic - the Mothata/ Mopenweeng tree which was used as a ‘post office’ to the Kweneng Tribal Administration.

The Mopenweeng tree according to Chief Kgosi played an important role during the Second World War and the migrant labour period. It provided a means of communication connecting the soldiers and miners with their families.

The current postman dispatches mail to all villagers and he read letters on behalf of those who could not read and write. The tree has been declared a monument and is protected under the Monuments Relics Act as part of Botswana heritage.

The Director of the National Museum applauded

the postal sector for its contribution to the country’s development and preservation of the postal heritage.

He encouraged the community to find ways to promote the tree and other heritage sites in Molepolole to share the history of the area.

Developments at the site include paving, rest area and information panels on the history of the tree.

On behalf of the community Kgosi pledged to take care of the monument and thanked the post office for involvement in community development.

The tree was referred to as Box 1 and continued to be used by locals who could not afford renting postal boxes at Mathubantwa Post Office to receive their mail.

Another postal tree in the region made the news last year – the tall motswere near the Lotsane River Bridge in Palapye.

Although the age of the tree is not known, oral traditions suggest that the tree was already big when the railway line was under construction in the 1950s, thus the tree is estimated to be around 200 years old.

According to Kgosi Ntebele this is the tree that was used as a post office during the colonial era.

Being along the railway, railway mail was delivered at the tree from as far as South Africa and Southern Rhodesia, present day Zimbabwe.

After Bangwato capital moved from Old Palapye, post men came riding oxen from Serowe to deliver and collect mail sent by their relatives working in the South African mines.

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This is why Kgosi Ntebele objected when the company that was engaged to construct the Lotsane River Bridge, suggested that the tree be felled to pave way for construction.

This tree is also associated with several mythic stories deriving from a mishap with one construction company, which built the new bridge on the Lotsane River over the tarred road.

The contractors accidentally cut a branch off the tree during the construction of the bridge resulting in total malfunction of all construction machinery.

The machinery stayed that way for three days until they asked the local chief to intervene.

Kgosi Ntebele says he informed them to carry on with their job and to their surprise all the machines became functional.

Ntebele would like to see the Palapye community giving the tree the respect it was accorded in the olden days.

Mona Lisa to Mao

Reported at http://www.scmp.com There is a wry sense of irony in Siu Leung-hing’s artworks - mosaics created using hundreds of stamps.

Look closely at the striking portrait of Mao Zedong and you can see he is made out of stamps bearing the head of Queen Elizabeth.

A brightly coloured Mona Lisa is fashioned out of stamps paying homage to the rather sombre-hued original in the Louvre.

Siu, a 58-year-old police clerk living in Hong Kong, has also created a cartoon image of a policeman out of some 1,000 used postage stamps depicting Chinese chess and the Hong Kong landmarks - representing the strategic task of policing the city.

Siu, who has been collecting stamps since he was a boy, began creating his mosaics after the handover of Hong Kong in 1997 as a way of using up stamps bearing the British queen’s head which were no 28 - Stamp News

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longer valid and were not part of collectible sets.

He said: “The subject of the image is really up to and limited by the colour schemes available in my stamp collection. Portraits are the hardest to construct.”

Siu is not interested in making money from his art. He does not plan on staging any exhibitions, nor does he warm to the idea of taking private commissions. “Exhibitions are costly and private commissions take too much time,” he said.

The tools of Siu’s trade are basic: tooth picks, glue and scissors. “Patience and discipline are the most important requirements when it comes to this activity,” he added.

Philippines postscript…..

Reported at http://newsinfo.inquirer.net Australasian Stamp News readers may recall a report last month on a controversial PHLPost issue of postage stamps marking the 100th founding anniversary of Iglesia ni Cristo.

In an update to this story, a taxpayer has taken legal action against the Philippine Postal Corp this issue, saying that public funds should not be used to benefit a religious group.

Renato Peralta of Las Piñas City filed for injunction last week to stop PHLPost, a governmentowned corporation, from paying for the printing of the INC centennial postage stamps and to stop their distribution.

“Coming up with the commemorative stamp of the INC is tantamount to sponsorship of a religious activity” which is prohibited by the Constitution, Peralta said.

Peralta is a court employee and a member of a Christian group. He said the issue was the

use of public funds when “there is no legitimate government activity.”

There will be a hearing on July 4 at Branch 33 of the Manila Regional Trial Court, he said.

The INC will mark its 100th year of registration in the Philippines on July 27. The postage stamp shows the INC Central Temple and a portrait of the late Felix Manalo, founder and first executive minister.

PHLPost is set to issue 1.2 million pieces of the INC stamp, more than twice what it usually prints for a single design, and bigger-sized than regular postage stamps. Postmaster General Josefina dela Cruz is reported to have said that the issuance of the commemorative postage stamp passed through certification by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines.

“The disbursement of public funds by Philpost for the INC occasion is illegal,” Peralta told the court.

“The postmaster general and all officers involved in the INC commemorative stamps must be restrained from proceeding with the issuance and distribution of the stamps all over the country on or before July 27, or thereafter.”

INC wields substantial political influence through its practice of bloc-voting during elections.

Sought for comment, Dela Cruz said in a text message, “We stand by our position that the INC commemorative stamps are not unconstitutional.”

“There has already been a Supreme Court ruling before pertaining to the issuance of stamps related to Manila’s hosting of the Eucharistic Assembly. The SC said it wasn’t a violation of the (separation) of church and state,” she said.

“And INC is not the only church-related stamps that we have produced. We have issued special stamps for Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII, all heads of the Catholic Church, and

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And finally……..Football fever

While the eye of the world is on Brazil and football dramas it seemed timely to review some of the stamps issued this year to commemorate the 2014 World Cup. Enjoy this World Cup stamp gallery!

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Great Britain Genuine Six Reigns Mix Off Paper 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 items‌this 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

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

Looking at New Zealand

Commemorating ANZAC Part 3: New Zealand 1936

In November 1934, the Australian returned servicemen’s league (RSILLA) informed the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association (RSA) that it had received approval for Australian stamps to be issued in April 1935 to mark the 20th anniversary of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) landing at Gallipoli. The RSA approached the NZ Post Office for a similar issue but was told that there was not enough time left before April to produce a design worthy of the event.

In later discussions it was agreed to issue stamps for the 21st anniversary in 1936. A surcharge equal to the postage value (½d and 1d) would be applied to the stamps to support the RSA’s work alleviating the problems of returned servicemen. This type of charity surcharge had been applied to the annual Children’s Health Stamps since 1929. It was used again for the Red Cross issue of 1959 but has not otherwise been used on NZ stamps. A leaflet distributed by the RSA promoting use of the stamps 34 - Stamp News

as a fund-raiser is shown nearby.

Stamp designs were sought from the RSA’s branches but when none of these was deemed suitable a design by L C Mitchell was chosen. Mitchell’s design showed ANZAC Cove in the background with a soldier wearing the 1915 uniform in the foreground.

Mitchell drew the soldier based on a photograph taken by a Post Office employee, S. Hall. A copy of Hall’s photograph and another photo of Mitchell’s drawing are shown nearby.

These photos were presumably sold to collectors in 1936. I purchased them quite cheaply at auction in the 1980s but until recently I had not seen or heard of another set.

The soldier in the photograph used as the basis for the stamp design was apparently not publicly identified until 1988 when Dave Ellis reported in the Christchurch Philatelic Society’s newsletter Captain Coqk that he had obtained a set of the stamps (pictured nearby) “stated … on the album page … to be autographed by the model, S. Catchpole, R.N.Z.A.” [Royal New Zealand Artillery]. Mr Ellis then quoted the description from the Postage Stamps of New Zealand, vol. 1, that the stamp design was based on a photo taken at Trentham Army Base (in the Hutt Valley, near Wellington). In a later edition of the newsletter, S. R. McKeon wrote: “I was told a few years ago that the model was Sel Catchpole, a regular army officer who retired about 1960 in Wellington with the rank of Major. He was a pre-war regular soldier and was photographed at Fort Dorset, Wellington, on the hill above the camp overlooking Breaker Bay”.

Fort Dorset was located on the west side of the entrance to Wellington Harbour in the suburb of

Graeme Morriss Seatoun. It had a coastal artillery battery there from 1912. Breaker Bay faces south towards Cook Strait.

The Fort was closed in 1991. Today, Wellington Airport is located between Seatoun and Wellington city. As an Artillery base, Fort Dorset seems a more likely site for the photo of an artillery man than Trentham.

Mr McKeon offered to provide the name of his informant upon request, “a retired RNZA officer who is a keen stamp collector”. It seems probable that it was this “keen stamp collector” and artillery officer who asked Sel Catchpole to autograph the stamps. Unfortunately, I have been unable to find anyone who followed-up the offer to identify him.

Lieutenant-Colonel McKeon passed away in Napier in October 2012. I would very much like to know the original collector’s identity to establish the provenance of the autographs.

Selwyn Catchpole (7/2/1914 – 3/10/1992) enlisted in the army in February 1935. After training, he was sent to Fort Dorset as a gunner (private). It would have been at this time that he posed for the photo wearing the 1915 uniform. In 1938, Catchpole was promoted to Lance Bombardier and transferred to the Permanent Staff in Wellington. During 1939 he received promotions to Corporal and Sergeant and, after a course at the Army School, to Warrant Officer II. With this rank he transferred from the regular forces to the 2nd NZ Expeditionary Force in February 1940. He served in Britain, Egypt, Italy, Greece and Crete receiving wartime (temporary) promotions to 2nd Lieutenant and Lieutenant. He returned to New Zealand in December 1941. He served in Egypt again from April 1945 before serving with the occupation forces in Japan until September 1946

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Looking at New Zealand heard.

The stamp designs were sent to the Australian Note and Stamp Printer in Melbourne in December 1935. According to the printer’s records, the die was made by T C (Trevor) Duffell. The die proofs were approved in February 1936. The stamps were printed on Wiggins Teape rag paper watermarked ‘NZ and star’. The printing plates had 192 impressions in four panes of 48 (6 rows of 8). The large sheets had the number 1 in each corner so the counter sheets, after guillotining, had the plate number in any one of the corners. The line perforation gauged 11.

According to the printer’s records, enough paper was drawn to print 2,400,000 of the ½d and 3,168,000 of the 1d (including wastage).

The Postage Stamps of New Zealand quotes NZ Post Office records of the receipt of 2,224,848 of the ½d and 3,030,448 of the 1d.

The stamps were on issue from 27 April to 20 June1936. The surcharge raised £8,491/19/2d for the RSA.

with the rank of Lieutenant. He returned to New Zealand and the regular army with the substantive rank of Staff Sergeant. From October 1946 he was a Lieutenant and Quartermaster and from September 1948 Captain. During the 1950s he was mainly involved with school cadet training. He was promoted to Major in 1955 and commanded the Base Camp at Fort Dorset from September 1955 to April 1957. He retired from the army in July 1961.

A copy of his signature from the records is nearby for comparison with that on the stamps. There is also a photograph of Major Catchpole from 1957.

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Thanks to: Joan Bottle, genealogist, Winton Public Library, NZ Julia Fink, Personnel Archives Enquiry Officer, NZDF Archives Judith-Ann Wilkinson (Major Catchpole’s daughter) Dave Ellis, Christchurch Geoff Kellow (for his research in the printer’s records) References: Captain Coqk, newsletter of the Christchurch Philatelic Society, vol.16 nos 1 & 7 (1988) The Postage Stamps of New Zealand, vol.1, Wellington, RPSNZ, 1938 Catalogue of New Zealand Stamps, Auckland, Campbell Paterson, 1951Graeme can be contacted through his website, www. stampsmw.top1.com.au

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 - $A60 a sheet. (Stock code 629KE) B. Single imperforate sheet, with MASSIVE wide top or base sheet margin. $A80 (Stock code 629KF) C. PAIR of imperf panes from top LH, hand numbered “XXX/250” in margin, AND the matching AP card, $A170 (Stock code 629KM) G. Normal perforated M/S & IMPERF sheet used on 23x32cm air cover to you $A70 post free Global! (Stock Code 629KO) Many more choices, inc. covers, and all photos are here – www.tinyurl.com/imperfsAAT 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.)

GLEN STEPHENS

PO Box 4007, Castlecrag, NSW, 2068, Australia. - Phone (02) 9958 1333 e-mail me: glen@glenstephens.com - www.glenstephens.com/rarity.html Life Member: American Stamp Dealers Association (New York.) Philatelic Trader’s Society. (London.)

Best Sellers This Month Worldwide mint unhinged complete sets and minisheets.

We just bought a pile of this stuff, mainly one of each in stockbooks, most sell between $3 to $10 a set, so an average of around $6.50 These date from the 1980’s to very modern (even a few 2013 issues!)

Guaranteed great value, our choice of sets, from under $2 each, return if not delighted!

WM1) 25 different sets/minisheets $49 WM2) 50 different sets/minisheets $99 WM3) 100 different sets/minisheets $215 One only of these, phone to reserve, the CURRENT 2014 massive 6 volume set of Stanley Gibbons stamps of the World, weighs around 15kg total! Regular price $495, This last one for $395, PLUS POSTAGE. Order Ref. SOW2104 We can get more in from overseas, so if you are unlucky with the one above we can supply at $450 plus post, but it will be about a 6 week delivery time.

MIXTURES FROM UNDER 1C PER STAMP, YES ONE CENT! What are you waiting for?

M1) South Africa, wide ranging mix on single close trimmed paper, with material from the 1950’s and earlier up to quite recent. Tremendous count, approx 6250 per kilogram.

Under 1c per stamp: $29.50 Per 500g, $57.50 per kg M2) World Cheap Mission, mostly close clipped single paper, count approx 5000 to the kilo. Nice mix of countries with about 10% each of Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Australia.Under 1 cent per stamp Price $24.50 per 500g, $47.50 per kg.

M3) Australia Unpicked mission, mostly recent, noted unfranked, a few high values. On single well trimmed paper, approx 6000 per kg. Under 1.5c per stamp, $44 per 500g, $89 per kg.

M3a) Australia Older mission, heavier paper, $22 per 500g, $44.50 per kg

M4) World Mission, wide variety of mostly modern, on close clipped, single paper. Approx 5000 per kg. Under 2c per stamp, $49.50 per 500g, $95 per kg M5) World Superior Mission, close clipped with about 50% large by weight. About 4500 per kg. Well Below 5c per stamp. $89 per 500g, $172.50 per kg.

M6) World mostly large and commemoratives, close clipped, single paper. Great variety.

Around 4000 per kg. Around 6c per stamp. 250g for $69, 500g for $129, 1kg for $249 M7) British Commonwealth off paper. Without doubt the best such mix we have offered in many years, mostly postally used with the odd mint. Many modern, and some going back to pre WWII. Roughly 16,500 per kg. Fantastic variety. 250g for $125, 500g for $235, 1kg for $445. Under 3c per stamp.

M8) World off paper, very wide ranging mix, much postally used, with a few mint and some cto. Approx 15000 per kg. Under 2.5c per stamp. 250g for $105, 500g for $195, 1kg for $375.

M9) Australia all Decimal commemoratives off paper, lovely lot with wide variety of letter rate stamps covering approx 35 years. About 15000 per kg. Under 2c per stamp.

250g for $74, 500g for $139, 1kg for $269 M10) Australia unpicked off paper, includes higher values and pre-decimals. Under 2c per stamp, 250g for $74, 500g for $139, 1kg for $269 M11) Australia Pre-decimal off paper, as received form local charities etc, values to 2/- or 2/6d. Under 2c per stamp 250g for $74, 500g for $139, 1kg for $269 We could just not hold the prices anymore!

Over the past 5 or so years we have been offering packets of Kangaroos, King George V Heads and Australian States at very low prices.

We recently ran out of stock, and are busily in the process of buying more…but it is not that easy,…maybe we underestimated demand or the price, or perhaps both but it is clear that prices have moved up a bit.

So here are out popular packets, revised prices, but a bit extra value added where we can.

KGV1) 100 mixed KGV Heads, values to 4d $69 KGV2) 200 mixed KGV Heads,values to 5d $129

KEVIN MORGAN STAMPS & COINS Postal: PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158 Tel: 0425 795 693 Fax: 03 9758 7506

Best Sellers This Month KGV3) 300 mixed KGV Heads, values to 1/4d $199 Roos1) 100 Mixed Roos values to 2/- $160 Roos2) 200 Mixed Roos values to 5/- $319 Roos3) 300 mixed Roos values to 10/- $549 States1) 100 mixed Australian States, values to 6d $62.50 States 2) 200 mixed Australian States, values to 1/- $119 States 3) 300 mixed Australian States, values to 2/- $189 Choose any 3 packets from the above and deduct 5% from the total HIGH VALUE WOUNDED ROOS! We have been selling these for many years, not a single lot returned!

Prices revised, to reflect the quality of the items, in many cases the faults are very slight, perf faults, heavier postmarks etc. All at a fraction of normal prices. Usual prices indicated are for fine used.

WR1) 5/- to One Pound, C of A watermark set of 3, usual retail $700 for just $279 WR2) 5/- to Two Pounds, as above set of 4, usual retail $1425 for just $569 WR3) 5/- to Two Pounds, Multiple watermark, set of 3, usual retail $1750 for $695 WR4) 5/- to Two Pounds, 3rd Watermark, set of 4, inc. One Pound Grey, usual retail $4850 for $2190 WR5) 5/- to Two Pounds, 1st Watermark, set of 4, usual retail $9000 for $3995 Bonuses: Buy any two lots from the above and get a 10/- 3rd wmk, perf OS cto for free worth $95 Buy any three lots and get a cto 1st Watermark 2/- Brown for free worth $175 Buy any 4 lots and get a cto Sydney Harbour 5/- for free worth $295 Buy all 5 lots and get all three bonuses as above for free worth $565!

Recently we advertised our amazing clearance offer – Your response has been astounding! Thank you! – We sold out of the stock we had, and have had to order more from the stock in the UK. If you are still awaiting your order for this material, please be patient, it is on route!

We can now offer a further two options for this clearance sale.

WCA) AUSTRALIA only.

WCB) BRITISH COMMONWEALTH only.

Plus the original offer: WC) WORLD WIDE. All at the same ridiculous prices, see the offer below for full details.

There has never been a clearance quite like this that we know of.

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. 2 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 50 pounds = AUD$90 currently, basically what we are asking for the entire parcel!

PLUS….A recent Australia PNC (Stamp and coin cover) Retail value $25. AND….A 1999 Pair of Imperforate Navigators Minisheets mint unhinged advertised retail value up to $40.

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 per lot (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 …..? Order today

Email: kevinmorgan2@live.com Web: www.kevinmorgan.com.au www.21stcenturyauctions.com.au www.stampnews.com.au

Revenue Review T.G. RYS

Starting off with figure one this month, is a 1d rouletted Tasmanian Government Railway. “Nothing special” I hear you say, except it is missing the Accountants circular handstamp, which is found on all these issues. It has a manuscript CANCELLED and what looks like initials of the canceller. Keep an eye out for any more of these, as they must be rare to have taken so long to surface.

GSB of WA

‘The one must have’ Western Australian revenue in your collection is the ‘Government Savings Bank Duty Revenue’. Figure 2 is a rather nice used example, which showed up in auction. I have seen a few proofs and mint but used copies are hard to find.

If you do see one, dig deep to fill that gap.

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Swan Halves

Staying with Western Australia, figure 3 is new to me, [ok I know that rhymes]. It is what appears to be a split transfer going vertically up and splitting the swan in half. Maybe you have similar in your collection and if so please share them here.

Rare Rail

Victorian Railway early parcel stamp issues appear to always sell at high prices and figure 4 is no exception. This 1879 3/- with security grill background was up on eBay, with a ‘buy it now’ for a few hundred dollars. Needless to say it never saw an hours exposure and was snapped up.

Make your Mind Up

Back to Tasmania and Ross Ewington has sent me some scans [figs 5&6] of a couple of unrecorded

Fig 3

Fig 4

Dave Elsmore Tasmanian beer duties. These crackers will be auctioned off in one of Tasmania Stamp Auctions next sales. Figure 5 being a provisional, 1/3 [manuscript] on 1/8 on 1/3, this paying the 8 October 1901 3d per gallon rate. Figure 6 is the issued 1/3 on 1/8 on 1/3. Typical Government printer, using up old stock but making it fun for collectors of this material.

UK

Some time ago I showed figure 7 as a photograph, and have since been able to get hold of a much better scan of these rare 1899 New South Wales imperf Colour Proofs of the Clearance seals. The right vertical two were the issued colour red for Port of Sydney and Purple for the Port of Newcastle.

The other 4 being colour trials. They were printed in Sydney by the New South Wales Government

Printer, by a single brass embossing die with woodcut background blue-green, and can be found used [fig8] which rarely turn up. Also found with SPECIMEN overprint on. Their job was as per the description on them, to seal packages coming into and going out of the said ports. Had these been inscribed say 2/6d then they would have been looked at closer by early students, but as they were blank of value, the interest was just not there. If you see one grab it at any cost!

Club Page

A couple of months ago I gave the Cinderella Club of Australasia a plug and thought I would give you a look at a sample page [fig 9] from one of their ‘club books’. These are members spares and go onto the internet for sale. All you pay is the price of the stamp and postage, it’s that simple. As you can

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Revenue Review see by figure 9 you can get quite a mix of Revenue Railways & Cinderellas.

Emergency Ration

For those of us who collect ration material from the wars figure 11 is a rather nice addition. These Rare Cancel Emergency Petrol Ration tickets never turn up and Many of you reading this collect cancels. If not when they do like they are keenly sought. A 2, 5 & railway numerals on railway stamps then other 10 gallon turned up on eBay selling for around the delightful and sometimes quite spectacular cancels, $250 each! Maybe you have the 100 gallon in your figure 10 is no different it is an embossed cancel with collection, if so please share a picture here. a central hole to ‘tie’ it to a document. This is the Woodford first from the ‘Insurance Office of Australia’ to show I think I showed a copy of the rare 15c New South up and is rare. These holey embossed cancels appear Wales railway issue some years ago. Another turned to be generic Queensland issues. I can only think that up [fig 12] in the UK. I am yet to see a used copy of a company went around offering its services. Unlike this 15c issue and if you have one in your collection say Victoria, that had many spectacular hole punch can you please make contact with me. devices in several shapes, but not being accompanied by the embossed oval. Keep your eyes peeled for Steam Ferry one of these beauties but be prepared to dig deep to As a keen collector of passenger tickets I have in my acquire one.

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Dave Elsmore collection figure 13 which I acquired 20 odd years ago and am yet to see another. Passenger tickets fit into the ephemera line of train & toll tickets etc.

Several rare survivors have come to light in the past 30yrs and have been ferreted away. It would be nice to see a few more come onto the market to allow new collectors to have a chance to buy and add to their collection. I would love to see any you may have.

Thank You

I would like to take this opportunity to thank one of my readers who sent me two small home made books that he had put together in the 1940’s as a child which were packed with New South Wales railway stamps. He asked that I not even give acknowledgment for them, and if of no interest to ‘throw in the bin’! As it happens, I was able to find

60 different station names within, some of which made it into my collection.

Perfin Corner

It’s always nice to add to my Revenue Perfin collection and when figure 14 was pulled from a bulk lot that I had bought, was very pleasing indeed. Listed as NZ/ IC.e in the free on line book of Revenue Perfins [found on Perfins.com.au]. This NZ.IC.e is the first from the Qld Edward series to turn up. Where there’s one there must be more, keep your eyes peeled.

I can be contacted by mail: P O Box 66 Springwood 4127 Queensland or an Email link from my web site ozrevenues.com or perfins.com.au

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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation This month I look at a proposal for the APF to introduce a Subject Philately Class at national exhibitions, Adelaide Stampex 2014, a publication on the APF replica cards, the second in the Abandoned Stamp Card series and the second part of an outline of the role of an Australian Commissioner to an international exhibition.

Topical philately

The APF has been discussing the introduction of a Topical or Subject Class at National level.

While there is a well established Thematic Philately Class available at National and International levels, there is a group of collectors who collect by subject and for whom the Thematic Philately Class does not provide a way for them to exhibit which matches their collecting interests.

While the two classes may sound similar, they are in many ways quite different. Exhibitors in the Thematic Philately Class must develop a detailed theme while exhibitors in the Subject Class would be able to concentrate on stamps showing a particular topic.

Exhibitors in Thematic Philately must arrange their stamps with a detailed theme which will often involve showing stamps not showing their topic.

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For, example, a thematic exhibit on cars might include chapters on car makers and designers, environmental impact, fuel and manufacturing and include stamps and philatelic material illustrating these chapters and not showing cars. A thematic exhibit on birds might include chapters on bird evolution, bird adaptations, man and birds, bird habitats, food and predators and again include philatelic material not showing birds.

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Emu shown on a New South Wales stationery to a collector of subject or topic philately. For example, a collector of bird stamps would be able to display their stamps in taxonomic order ie showing stamps organised by the various groups of birds such as penguins, albatross, herons etc. A display of cars could be arranged by car maker, by model or by year of production.

The APF discussion paper on the proposed new class gives the intent of the class as ‘to provide collectors the opportunity to exhibit material which in itself, or when grouped together, would not be suited to either the Traditional or Thematic classes’. Subject philately is distinguished from Thematic philately as follows: Subject: A “branch of knowledge” or “course of study” as chosen by the exhibitor; Thematic: An elaborate “story book” approach from start to finish, which expands upon and develops beyond the initial “branch of knowledge” or “course of study”. In a subject exhibit, the connection between the items in the exhibit will be by subject shown and not a thematic theme or Traditional Country. There must be a

connection between the items in the exhibit.

The subject exhibit must include philatelic material only. [Exhibits wishing to include nonphilatelic material should consider the Open Class as the avenue to exhibit. Exhibits wishing to include private First Day Covers (FDCs) need to consider the First Day Cover Class as the avenue to exhibit].

The marking system would be as follows: Treatment 25, Philatelic Knowledge 20, Subject Knowledge 20, Condition 10, Rarity - Difficulty of Acquisition 20, Presentation 5.

The Introduction Page would be evaluated on whether if it: • Introduces the purpose of the exhibit • Defines the scope of the exhibit • Explains the structure of the exhibit • Has a plan of the exhibit • Mentions the most important literature/ references The Treatment in Subject philately embraces all elements of philately as outlined below: • All philatelic elements acceptable in other Stamp News - 49

Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation FIP classes; and • All elements initiated, introduced, or approved by a bona fide postal service that otherwise would not be acceptable in any FIP class (eg. Cinderellas, presentation folders, publicity material, FDCs).

The exhibit must be developed according to a logical plan leading through the exhibit. It may include aspects of the subject of the stamp such as the way from the essays via proofs to the issued stamp with its printing phases and all kinds of varieties including FDCs. The subject needs to be shown on each item throughout the exhibit. The structure of Subject based exhibits will typically be classified by one of the following: • Scientific or Systematic (eg. species of bird, paintings by an artist, areas of discovery) • Organisational (eg. Red Cross) • Repetitive Events (eg.

Olympics) • Time Related (eg. historical/ Proposed stamp design for a 5/- Sturt stamp chronological mapping of the subject but without a • The written explanations should be concise. connecting storyline eg.

• The usage means the showing of need for Voyages of Captain Cook). A time related value by way of commercial material. classification could also have components Philatelic Knowledge: The exhibit should show of a Scientific or Systematic classification knowledge of material and various types of philatelic within the relevant divisions. material such as stamps, usage, postal stationery and • There is no requirement for a thematic story FDC showing the subject chosen. Revenue stamps linking the divisions of the plan. and Meter material depicting the subject can be • The plan may consist of divisions and included. subdivisions that are unacceptable in • Commercial mail with explanation of rate of Thematics, namely: stamp/s used.

• Date of issue, issuing country, type of • Postal Stationery with image of subject, with material, or purpose of issue. examples of usage. Postal stationery should • There is no requirement to balance the not be cut or windowed, other than to show a relevant divisions of the Plan.

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are shown. Covers should show clear dates.

Rarity and Difficulty of Acquisition: Rarity is directly related to the philatelic items shown and to the relative scarcity of this material (however, not the value). For example usage of material can be inexpensive but difficult to obtain.

Presentation: The criterion of “Presentation” requires an evaluation of the clarity of display, the text as well as the overall aesthetic balance of the exhibit.

• Good use of the page with not too much white space on the pages.

• The write up is clear, concise and relevant to the material shown and to the subject chosen for the exhibit.

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• FDCs should include information of release date and postal rates for the stamps.

• Subject Knowledge: • A good balance of information of the subject shown on each page is required.

The exhibitor should display their depth of knowledge of the subject, rather than just a collection of items.

• The written word and other aspects are a secondary part of the exhibit and should not overpower philatelic material on each page of the exhibit.

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The Drill Hall, venue for Adelaide Stampex 2014 • Sufficient write up but not too much text. • Illustrations are not too dominating. Any photocopies must be a minimum of 25%

different in size from the original.

If the APF proposal goes ahead it will firstly be introduced at One Frame level at Newcastle in 2015 and then hopefully at multi-frame level in 2016. This is to allow as much feedback as possible. If you would like to comment on this paper please reply to: garyjohn951@optusnet. com.au. If the class proceeds and you are interested in collecting by topic please try and exhibit. It will be a great way of combing stamp collecting with your interests.

Publication on APF Replica cards

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For many years Australia Post has produced Replica Cards to support Australian national exhibitions.

The replica cards contained an impression from the die of an issued Australian stamp printed in intaglio. The

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Philatelic Development Officer, APF final card depicting the 2/3 ANZAC stamp is due to be released at Sydney Stampshow 2015.

A book listing all of the replica cards, including the black prints and overprinted cards, has been prepared by Martin Walker and is expected to be published at Adelaide Stampex 2014.

Abandoned Stamp Card No 2

The second in the series of Abandoned Stamp Cards will be released in conjunction with Adelaide Stampshow 2014. The design of the card will feature a Charles Sturt design which was prepared by the Note Printing Branch in about 1943, as part of a high value definitive series featuring Famous Australians intended to replace the high value Robes stamps.

Adelaide Stampex 2014

Adelaide Stampex 2014, the second half-national exhibition in 2014, will be held 10-12 October 2014 at the Drill Hall, Torrens Parade Ground, Adelaide.

Stampex 2014 will include national classes in Traditional, Postal Stationery, Revenues, Polar & Picture Postcards. A highlight of the exhibition will be the Postcard Challenge comprising teams of four participants (2 x 1 frame and 2 x 5 frame entries) from around Australia.

Adelaide Stampex will also include dealers and meetings and will be a wonderful venue to meet your philatelic friends. Plan now to attend.

Being a Commissioner to an International Exhibition: Part 2 Before the Exhibition Opens In the first part of this article I looked at the role of being an Australian commissioner before an exhibition. In this second part of the article I cover some of the responsibilities of the Commissioner while they are attending the exhibition.

On arrival at the airport in the city of the exhibition the Commissioner’s first job is to collect the trunk containing the exhibits and pass through customs. As the trunks are carried in checked baggage there is an anxious wait for the trunks to appear at baggage claim and relief when it does.

The Commissioner will have completed all of the custom documentation and requirements provided by the Exhibition. They will now follow the customs

instructions provided by the Exhibition. These will vary for each country and for each exhibition. Often the exhibits will now be taken into custom bond and transferred under bond to the exhibition where there may be a customs office responsible for releasing the exhibits at the Exhibition. In other cases the exhibits will be cleared for entry by customs.

The Commissioner will normally be met by representatives of the Exhibition organising committee (or in some cases by Post Office staff) and transported to either their hotel or (especially if they are still carrying exhibits) to the exhibition.

If the exhibits have been placed under bond, the commission will go to the exhibition and collect the exhibits from the customs office or the customs agent.

With the exhibits the Commissioner with go to the bin room where they will hand the exhibitions over to the exhibition organizers. This requires that every page in every exhibit is checked jointly by the Commissioner and a representative of the exhibition and checked against the inventory form. Given that there are 80-128 sheets in each exhibit and the commission might have 15 exhibits or more this can take a considerable time. Remember also that there will be another 60 commissioners also waiting to hand over their exhibits. Under these circumstances it is not surprising that the whole process can take a considerable time and commissioners must be patient. Indeed at one exhibition I can remember the whole process taking most of the afternoon and evening, with commissioners finally returning to their hotels after midnight. If any problems arise, such as missing pages or stamps which have fallen from the page, the Commissioner is responsible for dealing with the problem.

Once the exhibits have been past to the exhibition organizers, the next task for the Commissioner is to check the exhibits once they have been mounted in the frames. Have all the pages been mounted?

Are they in the correct order and up the right way?

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Market Matters: British Guiana Stamps go CRAZY!

All readers know by now I feel sure, of the massive price the 1856 1¢ British Guiana Black on Magenta unique stamp obtained. It was auctioned by Sothebys New York, June 17, 2014.

The record price actually paid, after the outrageous 20% auction house “Buyer Fee” added, was $US9.48 million, which on day of the sale was $A10,154,536.

FAR less publicity has been given the small BALANCE of the duPont British Guiana that sold for near as much!

The price the 1¢ Invoiced for over $A10 MILLION. stamp realised was VERY impressive, as it last stamp hobby. This sale yielded superb and positive auctioned at less than $US1 million. And even that global publicity for stamps, and is most welcome. was greeted with global media razzamatazz – and “The world’s most valuable object by weight” etc. disbelief!

This price is about TEN times what duPont That really speaks volumes for the health of the purchased it for in 1980. Many at that time said the price was absurd, and the buyer would certainly lose money on it.

In fact, duPont paid 3 or 4 times what Weinberg paid only 10 years earlier. Weinburg paid 5 or 6 times what Australian Frederick Small paid. Which in turn was more than Arthur Hind paid etc!

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Sold for FIFTY times estimate! amazing in a USA economy, where annual interest rates have been negligible.

Global and very positive Media.

Mainstream and POSITIVE media for stamps is very scarce these days. I had many media calls, and this long interview was on National primetime ABC radio here - tinyurl.com/GlenBG Stampboards.com was literally the FIRST outlet on earth to publish the price, and had several members in the room with a smartphone and video, and they added a posted commentary, and video tinyurl.com/1856BG1c Feldman offered the interesting balance of the duPont award winning British Guiana classics collection in Geneva Switzerland, on June 27.

The superb Koichi Sato “Grand Prix d’Honneur” collection of TASMANIA was also offered by Feldman earlier on the same day.

One pretty piece from that sale was the 1853 1d

Courier strip 4 shown nearby on internal state cover, that was invoiced for 33,600 Euro - or near $A50,000.

Whilst watching the Feldman Guiana auction live by computer, I had an email from the SG Catalogue Editor thanking me for some info and pix he had requested.

I suggested he drop everything and tune into the Feldman feed, as it meant he’d need to reprice the entire country 19th Century, and after he watched 15 minutes of it he replied - “That’s extraordinary!

Hugh”.

The 130 early British Guiana lots were invoiced for €6,481,380 (plus Swiss GST if not exported.) That base figure on the day was $US8,844,360 - not very far short of what the unique 1¢ realised! EVERY lot sold, and to intense bidding - I listened to the sale live.

Ricky Verra is a describer at Feldman Switzerland, and a regular on stampboards.com and posted this first hand summary “It was absolutely crazy. David has never seen anything like it. Not even the Kanai Mauritius sale we had in 1993 can compare apparently. We had about 30 people in the room, and about the same on the internet who had logged in to bid.”

“One client in the room basically bought every single lot. And was underbid by 2 different guys on the phone to these crazy prices. It was completely unexpected. He turned up 15 minutes before the sale was to begin. Pre-sale estimate was €1.1m. Final invoices were €6.481m!”

“The craziest thing was the client who bought near every lot didn’t even know the 1¢ was sold by Sotheby’s a week ago ... so we’re still no closer to knowing who bought that” - Verra concluded.

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Market Matters I understand this buyer later attempted to buy the 4 lots he did not secure in the room by offering the buyer a profit over what he paid. Incredible story.

Illustrated nearby is Lot 84, the 1856 4¢ standard issue SG 25, Cat £17,000.

Very similar looking to the unique 1¢, but many examples of this 4¢ are recorded, indeed several were in this sale.

Estimated at a sensible 3,000 Euro, it was invoiced for 156,000 Euro. Over FIFTY times estimate. Astounding.

The other 4¢ reds of duPont got similar massive prices.

Sloppy Cert, sloppy description.

It has a 2014 BPA Cert which states it has “thins”. Feldman cat made no mention of thins. The BPA were also sloppy, as I can see obvious creases to both NW and SE corners, and they do not mention them.

Indeed I’ll bet the paper is cut into at many points from the steel nibbed pen used to initial it - also not mentioned anywhere, by anyone. Pretty poor really, for a stamp worth what a new Ferrari costs.

None of this very poor condition detail was in the Feldman sale cat, or on the web, and yet it STILL got 7½ times full SG catalogue price - unheard of for very badly damaged old imperfs!

“Concise” near 450 pages thick.

“In 40 years as auctioneer, I have never had the experience where every prices. single lot was underbid to an astonishing Hugh Jefferies and co-editors of this huge full multiple of the original estimate, leaving no lot colour opus should be very proud, as it is now nearly unsold!”, said David Feldman at the end of this 450 pages thick. historic auction.

Australia RRP is very similar to the UK retail of £35, so the local price is most attractive, as they are SG 2014 GB “Concise” Catalogue. heavy to ship here.

The new Gibbons 2014 GB ‘Concise’ catalogue has On a quick look through, the 1840 Mulready just been released. lettersheet and envelopes are all up in price, in used If you collect or stock pre-war GB you MUST condition. get a copy, or you will be way behind the market on Likewise the 1840 1d Black and 2d Blues are 56 - Stamp News

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both up Mint and used, and there has been fine tuning where needed on GB prices all through.

This catalogue of course lists and prices all FDCs and PO packs and PHQ cards and that is a huge plus.

I was looking up some late 1990s FDC’s which were up 15% etc over last edition - not bad as I was working with a book of them!

Also just listing up a clean 1902 £1 green KEVII top value Fine Used. Last year it was £800 and now it is £825. My retail remains at $A500, but buyers are happy to pay 30% cat for key values.

High values often up too. between. I love Canada, and have been there very many times over the past 40 years, and have visited all Provinces in the past.

This column was written on a side trip to the curious little French country of Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, surrounded by Canada.

Canada Post and Drugs.

I spent July travelling Canada. From about the furthest west city you can visit, in Whitehorse Yukon Territory, to THE furthest East point in North America - Cape Spear in Newfoundland.

And many places in Condoms with your Cancels!

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Market Matters Whilst travelling around, I needed to mail various things to clients, and found it rather less common to see Post Offices around the countryside and the suburbs.

I asked a group of a dozen stampboards. com members there, that we had dinner with in Toronto, where all the POs were located these days.

Post Offices in Drug Stores!

The answer surprised me - more and more Post Offices are now WITHIN large Collect mail and buy gasoline Drug stores across Canada, and the more SHOPPERS DRUG, as PO clients need to walk ‘traditional’ Post through the store past racks of cosmetics, biscuits, Offices in those areas are generally closed down. drinks, confectionery and other goodies, to mail or The massive national “Shoppers Drug Mart” are the main national chain with about 1,250 stores. The collect their letter or parcel etc.

Canada Post has also been in recent years larger ones are pretty huge, stocking the products of a normal supermarket, other than just pharmacy type aggressively pushing to spread “Community Mail Boxes” to many more households in city areas. Let’s goods that we see in Australia. hope Australia Post never follows suit.

A high percentage of those stores contain within I saw the bunch pictured nearby outside an inner them now, a fully-fledged Canada Post outlet. The city gas station - what a strange place to go and one in photo nearby I took interior photo of was on collect your mail! the outskirts of St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Why do it? As it saves them huge money. One A large store, the Post Office section as can be central drop point, and not dozens or hundreds in a seen, was surrounded by pallets of mineral water on special, and 10 packs Kleenex toilet tissue at $9.99 at small area.

To your door in the city costs them $C283 p.a. far left were stacked up next to the wall of PO boxes. .. to an ugly bunch of metal boxes somewhere near The PO counter was surrounded by condoms, your door is only $C127 an address - annually. suntan lotion, burn cream, Listerine, baby food and 5,094,694 people get door to door delivery in elbow and knee braces etc. Seemed pretty bizarre.

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Thank You, Canada Post.

CBC News in Canada reported the following breakdown, in mid-December 2013. Door to door mail delivery service - now offered to about 33% of Canadians, costs them $C283 per address to fulfil.

A centralised delivery point, such as an apartment block lobby lock box is used by about 25% of Canadians - cost of these is $C127 per address to the PO.

Saves PO a fortune.

Office Box is now about 12% of Canadians - and costs the PO $C59 per address.

“Rural Mailbox” covers just 5% of Canadians, and costs the Post Office about $C179 per address.

The Community boxes come in various modules each typically of 15 small boxes per module as can be seen nearby in photo I took this week in Whitehorse Yukon.

Unloved and surrounded by weeds.

From a small group of 100 or so boxes like the ones from Whitehorse, to far larger groups of many 100s like the other one illustrated nearby, in suburban Toronto.

The larger modules can generate vast amounts of litter, as all the junk mail and unwanted material is lazily tossed away on the ground, as can be seen on

The one Canada Post likes best is the Group/ Community mailbox (CMB) now inflicted on about 25% of Canadians and growing fast.

Costing the PO just $C108 per address - and is set to grow fast.

The “Collect In Person” Delivery facility such as a Post A Canadian urban eyesore!

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the photo nearby.

A strong wind and this rubbish would spread everywhere. Canada Post provides no rubbish receptacles around the boxes. The boxes are a favourite target for graffiti artists too. Thieves target them to steal credit cards, passwords, bank account details, and other data they can fake your ID from.

A goldmine for thieves.

The fronts of the boxes open in one master-key movement for the Contractor to add mail quickly, and thieves just crowbar that door open at night etc.

Odd thing for hotel lobby!

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Near all population of the country!

The stampboards thread has news stories and Police photos of large quantities of stolen mail that thieves were caught with. tinyurl.com/CanadaCMB is a heated 150 post discussion on stampboards of the CMB spread, and recent large postal rate increase there. “This change will provide significant savings to Canada Post and will have no impact on the two thirds of Canadian households that already receive their mail and parcels through community

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J. J. Tillard: world SPM expert mailboxes, grouped or lobby mailboxes or rural mailboxes” Canada Post claimed.

I think these blocks of boxes look ugly and weird, but they certainly were widespread, and are becoming even more so as time goes on.

No idea why the population of large Canadian cities have meekly accepted them, but they appear to have done so. Saw dozens driving about in Newfoundland today, and they looked terrible.

Stamp Serendipity.

Travelling around the world a lot as I do, there is often an unexpected stamp connection along the way.

This month I flew to the tiny French “colony” of Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, surrounded by Canada.

Not often do you travel to a country with NO traffic lights - even tiny Nauru has some of those!

The photo above shows nearly the entire population of this little place

The tiny little Air Saint-Pierre plane landed back in Newfoundland, whilst gale force winds from Hurricane Arthur were beating down, and I really thought the plane would flip on landing.

When checking into my tiny little 12 room hotel in Saint-Pierre (about the largest on the island!) I saw several large and impressive hard-bound books on stamps in the lobby, for guests to peruse.

I asked the owner who fortunately spoke some English (unlike most on the island) what was the story on those thick and impressive philatelic books.

He seemed to respond the author was a local born resident, and the stamps inside were from his collection of the stamps of Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, and would I like to meet him?

Naturally I was very keen to do that, and we met up the next day. What a small world we live in!

Stamp world is very small!

The author was Jean-Jacques Tillard, and reading the credits it was clear his Saint-Pierre collections had won him an amazing bevy of a dozen or so Gold Medals or better recently - including one at the huge Melbourne 2013 EXPO. His English was very good, and we had an interesting chat over coffee. The lavish books he does in numbered editions of about 500 copies each, and it seems most sell.

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Market Matters overprints of which some are unique, to the complex wartime 1941 and 1942 France Libre issue overprint errors etc.

In WW2, Charles deGaulle dispatched vessels to seize the archipelago on behalf of the Free French from the Vichy Government, on Xmas Day 1941.

This secretly planned assault breached the Monroe Doctrine, and apparently infuriated the Americans, creating lasting mistrust between Roosevelt and deGaulle.

Tillard is the world’s foremost expert on this country, and he issues Expert Certificates on all aspects of that country’s stamp issues.

Until I leafed through these volumes, I had NO idea the issues of Saint-Pierre et Miquelon were so long-lived, so complex, Dozen or so Gold Medals and so attractive.

Tillard is very enthusiastic about his passion, and has even persuaded the FIAF to stage an exhibition there September 2428. Most of the official Judges will stay in our 12 room hotel.

Judging will be by an internationally-accredited panel using the standards of the International Federation of Philately (FIP), and eight levels of medal will be awarded.

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New SA & NT Cancel Books

The South Australian Study Group has after 30 years of work and collaboration, issued this huge 3 volume opus work on cancels.

“The hand-held Postmarks of South Australia and the Northern Territory” is the full title and the set of books really fills a carton, I can tell you as I’ve mailed out quite a few!

The Committee kindly gave me an advanced

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Owns all major SPM rarities. “nearly final” review set at the Canberra National stamp show earlier this year, and two of the authors Neville Solly and Tony Presgrave are shown nearby with their new “baby”!

The other main local contributor, Martin Walker was also in a group shot, but I sadly lost that image on my computer here in Canada!

It lists all Post Offices in South Australia and the Northern Territory and their numeral cancels and date-stamps (including each type illustrated and rated for rarity) along with opening and closing dates, and ancillary illustrations.

The set was on display at the stampboards.com stand, and dozens of folks who were specialised in all kinds of others areas perused it with great interest, so their timing was superb.

Near 1000 large pages.

This is a huge set - near 1000 pages, and the retail price of $A175 for such a set is well justified, as locating just one scarcer cancel, or earliest or latest date will repay many times over.

The detail inside is quite enormous, and is well outside the scope of a monthly magazine review, but suffice to say if you collect or are interested in this area you must secure a set.

The nice strike overleaf of the Squared Circle “EVELEEN SA” cancel sold at Australian Prestige auction in September 2011 for $A4,140 when all fees were added.

The estimate was just $A750, and the stamp is worth about 20¢ without the postmark. Would you have known it was a $A4,000+ piece?

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Market Matters Other SA “Squared Circle” postmarks can get massive prices too, and if you own this book set, you may well stumble across some. tinyurl.com/SC-SthA is the near 1,600 post discussion on South Australia “Squared Circle” postmarks, started on stampboards.com by Stamp News columnist Tony Presgrave.

If you have an interest in this area, it contains a ton of data recorded New SA/NT cancel books nowhere else, and maybe you can add some new info to the database, and update any new strikes recorded? shown above, and has a huge stamp den packed to the ceiling with other SA/NT and other state cancels, and many scarce Australian “usage” covers as well.

Canada Cancel Treasure Trove!

Along with fellow Torontonian, Greg Ioannou, Whilst in Canada we attended a large dinner at his they between them have probably the finest collection home kindly organised by David Hopper, a long-time of these cancels in the world - all 10,000 miles from client, and active member of stampboards.com Adelaide! They are in the photo nearby.

David owns the unique $4,140 “Eveleen” cancel

Thirty years in the making.

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Glen Stephens All new books of this nature will see a ton of info and updates and corrections. And advice of new finds and dates and codes and types etc.

Stampboards has special thread set aside for such amendments to the data base, and please record them there, so the SASG can amend the discs - tinyurl. com/SASGbook Been a busy period for new states literature. Bernie Manning has just Best collections of these in Canada! totally re-done his huge 2 volume QUEENSLAND cancel books, and I’ll review them soon. I have a carton of those ready to mail to clients, and they are very easy to follow books and rarity rate 1000s of Queensland cancels, numeral and town datestamps.

I was mailed an interesting one on Western Australian postmarks too I’ll take a look at in due course. Along with Hugh Freeman’s opus “NSW”, the postmarks fiends are very served well in the past year!

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 $A4,140 for a cancel!

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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 7pm, 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 1pm, Salvation Army Hall, Cnr. West St. 7 Anzac Ave. Ph. 07 4635 5623 Email: bob.benny@bigpond.com Twin Towns SC: Mtg 1st Mon; Ph: 07 5598 7629 Waterloo Bay SC: Mtg. 1st Thurs. 1pm & 4th Mon. 7pm. Redlands Multi SportsClub, Birkdale Ph: 07 3206 0815

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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 SC: 4th Fri, except Dec. 3rd Fri. 7.30pm, Oldaker Christian Centre, Oldaker St, Devonport, 03 6424 3449 devstampclub.org Devonport Stamp Group: Mtg 4th Fri, Public Library Mtg Rms, 7.30pm Ph. 03 6424 3449 Glenorchy SC: Mtg 1st Tues

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Para Hills PS: Mtg 1st Sun; Community Hall Wilkinson Rd, Para Hills. PO Box 64, Para Hills; Ph: 08 8522 4345 Phillumeny SC: U3/26-28 Crozier Av, Modbury 5092. Ph: 08 8337 6533 Email: www.users.or.net/ figg/amccs Port Pirie PS: Mtg 4th Mon; PO Box532, Pt Pirie 5540; Ph: 08 8632 1105 Printed Collectables Club (SAPC): Mtg last Tues, Julia Farr Cent. Canteen, Ground Floor, Fisher St. Ph: 08 8265 7395; PO Box 657, Enfield Plaza 5085 PS of South Australia:1st & 3rdTues; 22 Gray Ct. GPO Box 1937, Adelaide 5001; Ph: 08 8555 3311 PS of South Aust. (Aus. Com. Spect.Grp.): Mtg 4th Tues 7.30pm;22 Gray Ct. Ph: 08 8555 3311 PS of South Australia (Daytime SC):Mtg 1st & 3rd Thurs; 22 Gray Ct.Ph: 08 8555 3311 PS of South Australia (Study Group):Mtg 4th Tues 7.30pm; 22 Gray Ct. Ph: 08 8522 4345 Postal Stat & Postal Hist Soc: Mtg 2nd Tues; SAPHIL House, 22 Gray Ct, Adelaide. email: psandph@arcom.com.au; Ph: 08 8260 3352 Riverland PS: Mtg 3rd Fri, 10am ;Whitmore Hall, Barmera Village; Ph: 08 8595 3023 SA Junior Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd Sun 1pm - 3pm;Anyone over 5years, parents welcome. 22 Grey St, Adelaide. 08 8250 0484 Salisbury PS: Mtg 1st & 3rd Mon;StJohns Church Hall. PO Box 336 Salisbury 5108; Ph: 08 8252 2392 Stirling PS: Mtg 4th Fri 7.45pm, Old Railway Station (now Community Services Bldng.); Ph: 08 8370 2680 Strathalbyn PS: Mtg 2nd Mon, 8pm; Rosa Hoare Room, Lutheran Church Complex Corner, Commercial Rd/North Pde; C/- Post Office, Strathalbyn 5255; Ph: 0429 693 747 Ukrainian Collectibles Club: Mtg Wed as per syllabus; PO Box 466, Woodville 5011; Ph: 08 8345 4033 Yorke Peninsula Collectors Club: Senior Citizens Club. Taylor St, Kardina. Mtg 3rd Wed ex. Jan; PO Box 178, Bute 5560; Ph: 08 8821 2906 Club Information: Victorian Philatelic Council, GPO Box 9800, Melbourne, Vic, 3001 Latrobe Valley PS: Mtg Last Wed ex Dec 7.30pm, St Lukes Uniting Church Hall, Princes Way, Morwell; Chris Zarb, Sec. ph. 03 5174 3394 Maryborough Stamp Club:Mtg mthly ex Jan 2nd Tues of month 8pm, St Augustine’s Hall, Maryborough. PO Box 295, Maryborough, 3465; Ph: 03 5464 2400. maryboroughsc@eudoramail.com. maryboroughsc.web1000.com Mildura PS: Mtg Last Thurs (ex Dec)Carnegie Building 74 Deakin Ave Ph: 03 5023 8789 Mooroolbark PS: Mtg 1st Tues; Ph: 03 9723 3304 Oakleigh PS: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm (ex Jan) Oakleigh Public Library, Drummond St, Oakleigh Ocean Grove SC: Mtg 4th Wed. 10am. Ocean Grove Senior Citizens Clubrooms Melways: 234 A. Ph. 03 5255 1372 Peninsula SC: Mtg 3rd Wed, 7.30pm Uniting Church Hall, Murray Anderson Rd, Rosebud. Ph: 03 5974 1950 Polish PS: Mtg 3rd Tues (2nd in Dec) Prahran PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex Jan) Ringwood PS: Gen Mtg 1st Thurs; Daytime 3rd Mon Ph: 03 9725 0514 email hanszomer@bigpond.com Royal PS of Victoria:Mtg 3rd & 5th Thurs; Daytime 1st Tues Sale SC: Mtg 1st Mon (ex Jan) Shepparton PS: Mtg 2nd Tues, Mechanics Institute, Shepparton. Ph. 0419 560 813 Sherbrooke PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs ex Jan Upwey Fire Brigade Hall, 8pm; Bob Cook Ph: 03 9758 3465 Upper Yarra SC: Mtg 3rd Tues Warragul PS: Mtg 2nd Fri Warrnambool PS: Mtg 3rd Wed 7.45pm St Joseph’s Primary School, Botanic Road;Ph: 03 5561 1470 Waverley PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs 7.30pm, Mt Waverley Community Centre, 47 Miller Cres, Mt Waverley; Daytime mtg the following Friday, 9.30am, Uniting Church Hall, 482 High St, Mt Waverley. Ph. 03 9898 4102 Obtain Tasmanian clubs information from: Tasmanian Stamp Council, GPO Box 9800, Hobart, TAS, 7001. Ph: 03 6278 7084 Hobart Junior Group: Mtg 1st Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224 Kingston Junior Group: Mtg 2nd Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224 Launceston PS: Mtg 1st Thurs (ex. Jan) & 3rd Sat (ex. Dec), Max Fry Hall, Trevallyn 7.30pm; Ph: 6344 3676 Mersey-Leven PS: Contact: 03 6425 3603 Rosny Junior Group: Mtg Last Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224 Tasmanian PS: Mtg Last Monday (ex. Dec); www.tps.org.au, Legacy House, 159 Macquarie St Hobart

stamp & coin fairs & events new south wales Aug 2 - (1st Sat) 9am to 4pm Orange Stamp Fair, Quinn’s Arcade, Summer St, Orange. Ph: Norm 02 63623754.

Aug 2 - (1st Sat) Northside Stamp Fair. 1st Floor, Car park Building, Manly-Warringah Leagues Club, cnr Federal Parade/Pittwater Rd, Brookvale, NSW. Aug 2 - (1st Sat) Katoomba Stamp & Coin Fair, 9am 4pm, Masonic Hall, Cnr Station & Civic Sts, Katoomba.

Ph. 0417 802 754 Aug 2 - (1st Sat) Sutherland Shire Stamp & Coin Collectors Fair, Gymea Anglican Church Hall, 131 Gymea Bay Rd, Gymea.

Aug 3 - (1st Sun) Bankstown Stamp & Coin Fair, Bankstown Masonic Hall, Cnr Greenfields & Restwell Sts, Bankstown. 9am - 3pm. 7 Dealers.

Aug 16 - Shoalhaven PS Stamp and Coin Fair, 9.30am3pm Wesley Centre (opp. Spotlight) Berry St. Nowra Aug 17 - (3rd Sun) Stamp & Coin Fair, 10am - 3pm, Pioneers Hall, Cowper St, Wallsend. 8 Dealers. 4971 3483 Aug 24 - (4th Sun) Epping Stamp & Coin Fair, Community Hall, 9 Oxford St, Epping. 10am - 4pm. Free Entry, 6 Dealers, Buy/Sell

western australia Aug 1-3 Great War Centennial Stamp & Postcard Exhibition, a National One Frame Exhibition Albany WA Tel: 08 9581 1083 Email: rossvwood81@yahoo.com

victoria Aug 3 - (1st Sun) Stamp, Coin & Phone Card Fair, Ukrainian Hall, Russell St, Essendon. 9am-3pm Aug 9 - Bendigo Stamp & Coin Fair, St. 10am - 4pm St. Andrew’s Church Hall, 24 Myers St. Bendigo, FREE ADMISSION Tel: 03 5447 8610 Aug 17 - (3rd Sun) Stamp, Card - Phone Card Fair, BentleighMcKinnon Youth Centre, Higgins Rd, Bentleigh. Dealers plus huge range activities. Ph: 0418 322 315.

Aug 31 - (last Sun ex Dec) Stamp, Coin & Phonecard Fair, Jaycees Hall, Silver Grove, Nunawading. 9am-3pm.

queensland TBA - Queensland Stamp & Coin Fairs, 8:00am -1:00pm, Contract Bridge Club, 67 Ipswich Road,Woolloongabba. Check ‘Weekend Shopper’ to confirm or contact 0428 450 616 day only.

Aug 2 - Coin & Stamp Fair, Cleveland Lions Club House, Shore St. East Cleveland, (200m past Grand View Hotel) Tel: 07 3207 2518 Aug 3 - QStamp Fair, Southside, Mt Gravatt Showgrounds, Memorial Hall, Logan Rd. Free Entry 8.30am -2pm Aug 11- (2nd Mon) - Gold Coast PS Sale, Rm 1, Southport Comm. Centre, Lawson St, Southport. 11.30am - 2.30pm Brisbane Table Tennis Association Centre Aug 24 - Caloundra SC, Stamp Fair, 8.30am - 3.30pm Beerwah Community Hall, 25 Peachester Rd. Beerwah (opp Woolworths)

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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.

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