Stamp News Australasia - April 2015

STAMP NEWS AUSTRALASIA

APRIL 2015 EDITION

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Contents Articles Woodchip Free Zone: Rod Perry ...................................................6 Turkey’s Riviera: Christer Brunström ......................................... 14 Stamps in the News: Margo Campbell .................................... 18 Looking at New Zealand: Graeme Morriss ............................... 30 Cinderella Corner: Tony Presgrave ............................................ 36 Revenue Review: Dave Elsmore ................................................. 42 Introducing the APF: Ian McMahon .......................................... 48 Market Matters: Glen Stephens .................................................. 58

Information Reviews: Mike Lee ........................................................................... 29 Trading Post....................................................................................... 68 Clubs & Societies ....................................................................... ......70 Calendar.............................................................................................. 73 Products & Services Directory............................................... ......74 Internet & Email Directory...................................................... ......78 List of Advertisers .............................................................. ..............82

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In February I featured knockout usage covers of G.B., bearing record frankings of iconic PUC £1 and Silver Wedding £1.

Intended for that month’s article, but overlooked is another knockout franking of the Motherland (see Figure 1 below), submitted by uber keen usage aficionado, Dave Edwards of Melbourne. Dave is assembling what I regard as the most exciting holding extant of usage material of Australasia and British Empire. Nothing else remotely compares, aside from a handful of Figure 2. Really unusual 1970 EXPO 20c duo franking more specialised collections of a few countries within the respective groups.

Some say bargains at auction are few and far between. Depending upon what one collects, bargains can be and frequently are found in auctions, particularly amongst commercial intact postal articles. Figure 1 is a very good example, where just £575 bought an Official parcel tag bearing a single and pair of G.B. QV £1 green.

Despite rather high catalogue value, this is not a scarce stamp off “cover”; even mint is not difficult to find. Items on intact postal articles, conversely, are of extreme rarity. This example was used by Foreign Office at London Chief Office on May 29 1900, to “Charge’ d’ Affaires/Tokio”. In my opinion, an item such as this is arguably a £5000+ item. I have suggested to the owner how the folded perforations may be safely restored.

G.B. post-1911 “on cover” (commercial only) is a boom busting to be unleashed. S.G. price “on cover” only to end of reign of KEVII. Just one ingredient is required for an instant boom: S.G. extending the cover pricing to embrace KGV and beyond, I’d suggest to commencement of Decimal era.

The 1970 EXPO 20c is uncommon on commercial cover, unsurprising as it was on Figure 1. Intact postal article of 1900 for about the general sale for little over a fortnight. It’s principal cost of the relevant used stamps uses were (a) registration fee, and (b) airmail rate 6 - Stamp News

Seahorses appear very ordinary in my assessment.

Also at Mossgreen is Figure 4, a PNG 1996 commercial registered cover to Internal Revenue Commission with franking including Butterfly Frama 20t.

Description states “Modern rarity: we have never before Figure 3. Rarer than any Nauru overprinted Seahorses seen a Butterfly Frama on cover”. I to British Asia and South-east Asia (Japan was concur with the rarity included). Figure 2 is a particularly unusual and assessment, and applaud what some may regard at rare usage item, offered at Phoenix Auctions $300 as a brave estimate. Everyday, garden-variety February 7 sale. From Magill to Colombo on May common Traditional items regularly fetch that and 9 1970 we have a pair, paying British Asia 20c much more. airmail + 20c Special Delivery fee. Estimated $100, I featured usage of the 1972 Primary Industries it fetched a respectable $180 (excluding buyer’s set of four, once parochially known as the “Beef” premium). Specialists in Decimal usage don’t miss set, in October 2006. too many once-in-a-blue moon items.

This set was one of the darlings with speculators Mossgreen in the upcoming March auction have during The Great Decimal Boom of the late just the second example of commercial usage of ’seventies/early ‘eighties, retailing at $45 per set 1954 Pictorial 5/- I’ve recorded. I featured the other and more at the boom peak. In 2006 I wrote: “the item, a pair on parcel-wrapping in this column last current retail is $6.00”. A recent Internet review year (at Prestige it realised $719 including premium).

Figure 3 is part of a small group of commercial covers, this extract being a solo franking of 5/- for double 2/6d airmail rate to U.S. Estimated at $500 the group, that figure ought to be well exceeded; such items make overprinted Figure 4. Modern rarity afforded just prominence at auction Stamp News - 7

suggests that price has since halved.

I also wrote at the time: “I can’t imagine during boomtime that anyone so much as gave a thought to trying to find the four stamps in the set used on commercial covers, the very purpose for which they were intended, to simply pay postage.”

Nowadays, finding commercial covers bearing any of the stamps in the set can be quite a challenge. In 2006 I confessed that I could barely locate enough subjects to mount an article. Eight and a half years later the challenge Figure 5. This solo the optimal use for 20c is still real, and I hope I will be forgiven for resorting to by ‘ANZUK F.P.O. 5’ datestamp of 29 Sep 1972, one repeat from the original article! coincidentally the same date as the other featured. I In 2006 I featured a cover similar to Figure incorrectly stated back then that 20c was for Zone 5, which was one of three seen from ANZUK 2 airmail; it was, but of course in this instance 20c Support Group stationed at Singapore, to Army was for 5c Defence Forces airmail rate x4. I also Headquarters in Canberra. This example is tied made the comment: “Will

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a cover such as this one day be worth as much as 100 mint ‘Beef’ sets?

Don’t bet against it”.

Well, that prophecy has been realized, it so happens. One of the other 20c solo covers from this correspondence realized $260 at auction in 2012.

I’m quite certain a set in sheets would be available for less, given retail per set is now south of $3.00.

Who possibly could have seen that coming in the boom of 35 years ago?

Auction estimate: $250.

Figure 7. Generous use of 20c x3 I have mentioned on numerous occasions that the Figure 7 might have used another composition subject stamp issue in a usage exhibit is particularly for the double 30c airmail rate to Zone 4, but welcome when it serves the purpose of uprating the fortunately did not. A multiple of three of the 20c postal article for a specific postal service. Figure is most unusual and rare, this sent on Nov 26 1972 6 is a good example of that discipline, where 20c Adelaide to N.Y. Auction estimate: $180. x2 have been employed to pay the 40c Messenger The 25c was primarily intended to service the Delivery premium for an otherwise 7c Letter rate cover.

Both the cancelling (Merrylands) and “NO ATTENDANCE’ datestamps are dated Sep 7 1972, so the service timeframe was on course, but apparently the attempt at delivery was after hours for the Government department addressee. Sadly, the 40c uprate was to no avail. Auction estimate: $200.

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Zone 3 airmail rate, a less in demand destination group. I’ve noted very few, and as a solo franking it is close behind the 20c in scarcity. Figure 8 was sent Darra to Hong Kong on Nov 2 1972. Auction estimate: $200.

In terms of the number of postal articles seen, the 25c appears to be generally the least encountered of the four denominations in the set. Figure 9 Figure 9. A “winner” from Tattersalls has a pair utilized for 50c registration find that a given item would “fit” equally well for fee for Mar 8 1973 cover Mansfield to Tattersalls either of two denominations. So it is with Figure Melbourne, doubtless originally containing cash for 10, where again we have a pair of 25c paying gaming ticket. Auction estimate: $80. registration fee, but on this occasion, given the It’s often handy when configuring an exhibit to destination of Switzerland, we have the 35c paying the Zone 5 airmail rate.

Sent from Black Rock Feb 25 1972. I have fond memories from the ’fifties of picnics at Black Rock’s Half Moon Bay. Those days when our newly minted European migrants could wade off shore and fill their baskets with mussels.

They probably couldn’t believe their luck, and I imagine were puzzled why we Anglo Saxons just looked on curiously.

Auction estimate: Figure 10. Versatile cover, at home in either of two places in an exhibit $100.

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Figure 11. Essential in an exhibit, but less exciting The least challenging to obtain solo franking in the set is the 30c, the Zone 4 airmail rate. A couple of surviving correspondences turned up on eBay some years ago, ensuring this would be “easier” as a solo than the Zone 5 35c. The solo “degree of

difficulty” sequence for the set therefore, from scarcest down, in my experience, is: 20c, 25c, 35c, 30c.

Figure 11 is from one of the aforementioned correspondences, to New York, this from Coorparoo on Oct 20 1972. Retail would be around $25.

Very few of the eBay finds enriching us with a relative abundance of 30c solos were multiples of the basic airmail rate. Figure 12 is one of a handful of double frankings, from Melbourne Jan 20 1973. Auction estimate: $40.

Figure 13 is that one repeated item from my earlier venture in to usage analysis of this set.

Then I stated: “a rather nice multiple franking of five ‘Fish’ together with a lack-lustre 5c for a total

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$1.55 franking for this 31 Oct 1972 registered airmail Clarence St Sydney to London. This represents $1.05 for 1-1½oz Zone 5 airmail (ie 35c x3) plus 50c registration fee. This is the greatest multiple franking (in terms of the number of stamps used) I’ve come across for any denomination in the set. Value : $50” Nothing I would change, except the valuation. Auction estimate: $125.

The 35c, being for Zone 5 airmail, that reasonably expected to be the most utilized of the five zones, Figure 13. Featured in 2006; still the apparent record franking is not particularly difficult to find, with patience. A This is Penrith to Hamburg Aug 29 1972. Auction preference is to look for a less usual destination, like Germany as in Figure 14. estimate: $45.

I suppose just one in ten 35c covers seen have featured a multiple; I’ve seen two with 35c x3, one of which was featured in 2006 (see Figure 16 for other). Figure 15 has a pair, for double airmail rate to U.K., sent from Manly Nov 21 1972.

Auction estimate: $60.

My thanks to Tim Roger, the owner of the 12 items featured this month. Tim is the proud possessor of the greatest Decimals I (1966-1975) collection of which I am aware. It was the cover Figure 14. Solo of the denomination which provided the parochial moniker for featured as Figure 16, the set 12 - Stamp News

for issue). Mint or used (including on FDC) in comparison are, well . . . rather sterile.

I’m encouraged to observe more and more collectors are rising to the stimulating challenge of forming usage exhibits, focusing upon a given set or series. One-framers (i.e. 16-page exhibits) are justifiably at the forefront of this movement; rightly so as they are accessible to virtually any and every collector, provided the subject chosen Figure 15. Multiple frankings of 35c more challenging is suitable for the discipline. One would for which Tim recently kindly sent me a scan, that be unwise, for instance, inspired me to revisit this series. One could scarcely to attempt a one-frame exhibit of usage of the 1913have come up with a more inspirational cover! Here 14 Engraved series, I would suggest. Material is too we have 35c x3 for triple Zone 5 airmail, to less finite. usual destination of Spain, and Navigator 40c, for In coming months I’ll feature two other Decimal Overseas Express Delivery, from Sydney Jan 18 sets eminently suitable for a one-frame exhibit: 1971 1973. It arrived at destination three days later, not Australasia and 1973 National Development. bad service. This, of course, is also a very desirable cover for a one-frame Navigator exhibit, the 40c paying uprate for a specific postal service.

Auction estimate: $150.

I know I am not alone in enjoying these so quintessentially ’seventies stamps attractively used for the purpose for which they were issued (no, rampant speculation was not a valid reason Figure 16. Gorgeous item for exhibit Stamp News - 13

Turkey’s Riviera We usually associate the word Riviera with the eastern part of France’s Mediterranean coast. It is a narrow strip of land with the Alps reaching almost to the sea. The Riviera boasts a pleasant climate which attracts visitors during all seasons of the year.

In general, the tourists coming to this part of France are well to do people and they usually stay at the more expensive hotels or in rented apartments.

The French Riviera is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful regions in the world and the excellent food of course adds a lot to make a stay very enjoyable.

Now there is another Riviera but this time in the southern part of Turkey. The Turkish Riviera is located east and west of Antalya, a city of more than one million people. As in France there is a narrow

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strip of land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Taurus Mountains. The coastline is very varied with sandy beaches mixed with dramatic cliffs.

In 1955, Turkey released a set of six stamps devoted to the province of Antalya which is home to the Turkish version of the Riviera.

Unlike its French counterpart, the Turkish Riviera tries to attract very large numbers of tourists and a multitude of tourist resorts have been built all along the coastline. They are generally very large walled hotel complexes with swimming pools, shops, spas and everything else which might be of interest to visitors from northern Europe.

Most of these resorts offer all-inclusive packages comprising lodging, all meals and drinks, free access to the pool and beaches and the like. Such

Christer Brunström a package holiday can be surprisingly inexpensive attracting millions of foreign visitors. In fact, some four million Germans visit the Antalya region each year. The same number of Russians also like to spend their holidays there. The Turkish Riviera is also a favourite destination for Scandinavian holiday makers adding about one million people to the total number of yearly visitors.

Most come during the summer period. I went there in late January this year. The weather ranged from glorious sunshine to thunder and rain. Despite it being very much off-season, many of the resorts were filled to capacity.

Antalya is very much a region with much history and culture. The city was founded around 150 B.C. and was added to the Roman Empire in 133 B.C.

It then remained a part of the empire until the 12th century. In downtown Antalya we find the most impressive Hadrian’s Gate (it was the same Roman emperor who built Hadrian’s Wall in Great Britain).

The people of Antalya work in agriculture and tourism. There are many historic sites in the city including ancient mosques and lighthouses. The Düden Waterfalls are quite impressive. It is depicted on the 18 ks stamp. The 50 ks stamp shows Antalya in the spring.

Alanya is located to the east of Antalya and it is a city of some 100,000 people. It developed around a fortress built in the 13th century and today Alanya is a very popular tourist resort. Visitors should not forget to visit the Atatürk’s Home Museum.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938) was the creator

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Turkey’s Riviera of the modern Turkish Republic and he was born in Alanya. He has been depicted on a multitude of Turkish postage stamps. The one shown here was issued in 1931. A harbour scene of Alanya is depicted on the 20 ks stamp.

The town of Side is located on a peninsula between Alanya and Antalya and it is quite a small place with a population of just 11,000 people. It was founded around 600 B.C. and soon prospered due to its good harbour. Side flourished for many years as a commercial centre. It was also famous for its slave market. Many ruins from the Roman times remain including the city wall, several temples, a roman theatre and an aqueduct. The 45 ks stamp features the entrance to the Roman theatre and a typical theatre is shown on the 30 ks value.

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The final stamp in our set is devoted to Demre or Myra in ancient times. This was the home of Santa Claus. In the 4th century, Nicholas was a priest here and he was famous for his generosity. The church which carries his name has been excavated and is shown on the 65 ks stamp. St. Paul visited Myra on his way to Rome. There are numerous archeological remains including a Roman theatre and a cave cemetery.

I certainly enjoyed my visit to the Turkish Riviera as there is so much to see. It should also be noted that Turkish food is excellent. Unfortunately, the coastline has been the subject of excessive commercial development. However, this does not prevent investors and construction companies from building even more tourist resorts.

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Stamps in the News - Globally!

Keeping Afghans posted Reported at www.gulf-times.com

In a city riddled by a constant fear of attacks, anonymity is highly prized. Most walls are high and very few houses have names of tenants on the door.

In Kabul, there are no postal codes. A project to set up such a system by the Afghan Post, a member of the Universal Postal Union since 1928, has been stalled because the city’s streets are still mostly nameless.

Most of the hundreds of thousands of homes have no house numbers either.

At the Barikot Post Office in western Kabul, four people sift through thousands of lettters each month. The site is one of the 25 branch offices of the Afghan Post in Kabul.

The office chief directs three postmen who deliver about 1,300 letters and parcels every day in two districts. One of them is Shah Mohammad, 36, who has delivered the mail every day for the past 16 years, even on his wedding day.

Sometimes it takes him a couple of hours to deliver just one letter.

“The addresses are always vague. They write as if I know all of them personally,” he says.

Navigating the maze of the city is daunting in Kabul, with more than five million residents, a tenfold increase since 2001.

Thousands of buildings have gone up without proper permits, many of them on the land grabbed

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by local strongmen with political ties. Many houses on the hills don’t even have water or electricity supplied yet. A few have the luck to have had their roads paved.

If you ask a Kabul dweller to give their home address, they often describe a landmark, the colour of their gate or wall, and the direction in the lane from the left to the right.

The Barikot Post Office is a small house next to a busy road that often comes under Taliban attacks.

Post-office boxes are available with numbers from 7,000 to 7,090. Some of the locks are broken. A broken signboard lies on the floor, saying: Afghan Post, Fast and Safe.

For postmen like Mohammad, the lack of address makes the city tricky. But the post gets delivered.

Most of the time. He estimates around 30 per cent of the homes have some sort of address, but with his 16 years of experience, he knows every street and most houses in the area.

For some regulars he has developed his own code. Like House 24, a compound with a 5-metrehigh wall and nothing visible from outside. It has no number, but an electricity pole nearby has 24 written on it, that is why the compound has become House 24.

Mohammad says it belongs to a charity, though the addressee on the mail is a pharmaceuticals company. The private armed guards, thick metal doors and radio antennas all suggest it is neither.

The House 24 was his third drop this morning.

The day started with a delivery to an embassy guarded by anxious policemen. The second was a government department, where he was offered tea.

The most important piece of information in the address is the phone number, Shah says.

“You can write just the name of the recipient and Kabul, Afghanistan as the address. But if there is a phone number we will find the house.”

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Each time Mohammad, who has no uniform, goes to deliver the mail, he has to convince the person on the other side of the door that he is harmless. Every day, Mohammad covers around 30 kilometres. He bought his own bicycle so he does not have to walk everywhere.

The cost of phone calls he makes to locate recipients come out of his own pocket and are not reimbursed. His monthly salary is 6,000 afghani (around 105 dollars).

“I like the work, not the pay,” says the father of six daughters. In Kabul, “our lives are in constant danger,” he says. Last month, two staff of the Afghan Post were killed in a Taliban attack in eastern Afghanistan.

Ahmad Wahid, the head of the Afghan Post, says that despite the dangers, letters and parcels will get delivered, even in Taliban-controlled area. Wahid would like the post office to become an independent government institution, instead of being a subordinate of the Ministry of Communications that devours most of the profits.

“We have no money for marketing. That’s why hardly anyone knows that one letter costs only 30 afghani, or about half a dollar, to send abroad, compared to more than US$80 through private courier services,” he says. Wahid adds that a letter from Kabul to Berlin can be delivered within three days now, thanks to a new agreement with the Turkish Airlines.

Remote delivery by remote control Reported at www.telegraph.co.uk

Chinese Amazon-rival Alibaba is currently trialling package deliveries by drone.

Alibaba’s Taobao service will run the trial in small parts of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou and the only product offered will be small, light

packets of ginger tea.

A company spokesperson said “This one-off campaign is an effort to bring unique and innovative shopping experiences to consumers on Alibaba’s e-commerce ecosystem.”

The Alibaba service will use human-controlled drones rather than autonomous devices.

Amazon was the first company to float the possibility of putting millions of delivery drivers globally out of work by delivering small packages by autonomous drones.

Chief executive Jeff Bezos said in 2013 that the service, called “Prime Air” could launch within four or five years. “I know this looks like science fiction.

It’s not. It’s very green, it’s better than driving trucks around,” he said.

Since then a number of companies have made similar announcements, with varying degrees of plausibility.

In August last year Google tested autonomous aircraft that could drop packages in remote locations. Unlike helicopter-like drones, Google’s device flew like an aeroplane, but could also hover vertically and lower items on a string.

It successfully delivered small items, including a first aid kit, candy bars, dog treats, and water to farmers in Queensland, Australia.

In November last year London start-up BIZZBY announced that it was testing delivery via autonomous drones with a secure storage box that could hold up to 500g and fly at altitudes up to 400ft.

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We no longer wish you were here Reported at www.washingtonpost.com

On a recent trip to East Asia, a Washington Post correspondent observed that it was easier to buy a ‘selfie stick’ than a postcard.

For some, sending postcards is more personal than a generalized cyber-posting. Postcards widen the conversation by adding a third element: the image itself, whether tacky or beautiful, generic or informative.

They’re also, in a way, more real. “It’s the actual physical feel of something,” says Nancy Pope, of the National Postal Museum. “When you’re able to actually hold something in your hand, that trumps reading something electronically any day.”

But not for many people. That sales and usage have been slipping in the United States — or across the globe, for that matter — seems self-evident.

The U.S. Postal Service processed 770 million stamped postcards in fiscal 2014, down from 1.2 billion in 2010.

As for the printed postcard business, in 2013 it was “probably half what it used to be,” says

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Matthew Tobin, president of the U.S. Souvenir Wholesale Distributors Association.

Whatever the exact numbers, the disappearance of postcards is apparent just by visiting the places that used to sell them. Locally, postcards have disappeared from newsstands, which are also in the process of vanishing.

In Washington, postcards are available from some, but not all, locations of the drugstore chains CVS, Rite Aid and Walgreens. Hotel gift shops and souvenir stores carry them, if in much narrower variety than a decade ago. Washington’s museum gift shops still sell postcards, although the selection is dwindling.

Should postcards be sent from the site associated with their featured image?

The jury is out.

“You don’t choose a postcard because of the space on the back,” says Pope.“You choose it because of the image on the front. And the connection that has between you and the place, or you and the person you’re sending it to”.

“It’s a personal or an emotional decision you’re making, a connection that you’re making using this third piece, this piece of cardboard — to emphasize, create or establish a memory.”

Other interviewed travellers think a card

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should be mailed from where it was bought, or nearby. “Even if it’s from the airport, we try to do that,” one said.

“You want the postmark to be authentic,” he adds.

One allure of the medium is that they convey not just an image and message, but also a material bit of another place. The coolest Internet-posted snapshot of Angkor Wat or the Patagonian Andes is not as

concrete as a small rectangle of printed cardboard that actually travelled from there to you.

“It’s a warmth you cannot get from electronics, no matter how nice the Instagram picture is,” Pope says. “It’s not the thing that you pull out of your mailbox and pin to the wall.”

A world first for Jersey Post Reported at http://jersey.isle-news.com

A new range of definitive stamps including a worldfirst in stamp print technology was issued by Jersey Post on 18 February 2015. With permission granted to Jersey Post by the Bailiff of Jersey, ten new Definitive stamps depict the Crest of Jersey in a palette of colours chosen to reflect a contemporary representation for the Islanders of today.

They are accompanied by a new £5 Definitive stamp, presenting the Crest of Jersey as a hologram.

It is the first stamp in the world to feature the effect of a hologram which has been embossed.

The hologram stamp was created as a collaboration between the design agency True North and Cartor International Security Printers, working in conjunction with the hologram manufacturer, Kurz in Germany.

The £5 stamp incorporates three different holographic effects and all the stamps in the range include micro-printing. The names of all twelve

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Island parishes are printed in micro text in the background waves on the stamps but you will have to get your magnifying glass out to see them.

The Crest of Jersey is a red shield with three gold leopards facing left, each with a raised paw. The lion is the beast most often found in heraldry and early English heraldry holds that any lion in a walking position is in fact a leopard. The typical heraldic leopard differs from the natural leopard in that it has no spots.

Interestingly, the leopards depicted on the Crest of Jersey have had varying depictions over the centuries, some of which feature spots and some of which don’t.

The design which appears on Jersey Post’s £5 hologram stamp is based on a version of the Crest with spotted leopards as referenced by the Société Jersiaise in an article entitled, ‘The Jersey Leopards: Pictures of Pussycats’ .

A colour holographic effect has been added to the spots on the £5 stamp, making them appear to change colour with movement.

A world first for Macao Post Reported at www.macauhub.com.mo

Macao Post achieved a world first – a series of stamps based on the Magic Squares, a mathematical formula which was created in China and spread to countries around the world.

A magic square means a square with numbers: if you add them on any row, column or diagonal, it equals the same number.

The squares can have

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between three and 11 numbers.

On World Post Day, Macao Post issued 200,000 sets of six stamps, costing from two to nine patacas, and a souvenir sheet costing 12 patacas. It will issue a further three in the series in 2015, costing one, six and eight patacas. The nine stamps together also form a Magic Square.

“No other stamp administration in the world has done a series like this devoted to the Magic Square, including those of different individuals,” said a Macao Post spokesman.

The souvenir sheet, designed by Carlos Gonçalves, has an image of how the squares began – a turtle. The story goes that, in ancient times, there was a terrible flood. Farmers offered sacrifices to the gods of one of the swollen rivers, to try to calm the floods. To their amazement, a turtle emerged from the river with a magic square pattern on his shell.

The shell had nine small quadrangular contours with a series of dots inside, representing the numbers from one to nine; each row, column and main diagonal of the diagram contained 15 dots.

Another animal which bore the dot patterns on his back was a dragon-horse that emerged from the Yellow River; it had 55 dots in five sets.

These two legends are the origin of the Magic Square in Chinese culture. Its influence spread into mathematics, literature, religion and other fields; it was seen as positive and auspicious.

The magic square also appears in India and Arabia. The first appeared in India in the first century, designed by a mathematician named Nagajuna. It was probably the Indians that passed the concept to the Arabs, who conquered large parts of their country in the seventh century.

An encyclopedia published in Baghdad in about 983 AD contained magic squares of five and six.

The Arabs used the squares to help them make astrological calculations and predictions. It is from the Arabs that the squares spread to the West.

In 1300, a Greek Byzantine scholar named Manual Moschopoulos wrote a mathematical treatise on the subject of the squares. He treated them only as a mathematical concept, without the mystical elements the Arabs had added.

In the 1450s, Luca Pacioli of Italy owned a large collection of examples of magic squares.

They began to acquire mythical and philosophical

properties; certain numbers are said to be ‘solar’ or ‘lunar’, bringing with them the characteristics associated with the sun and the moon.

In 1514, a German artist and polymath, Albrecht Dürer made a famous woodcut Melencholia 1, which features a magic square of four on the wall behind the “brooding genius” that became the archetype of this kind of sculpture in later years; the magic sum is 34. This is featured in the four-pataca stamp.

The two-pataca stamp is the Sator Square. It is composed of a Latin palindrome with five words that can be read forwards, backwards, upwards or downwards. The five words are Sator, Arepo, Tenet, Opera and Rotas. The oldest inscription of these words was found in the ruins of Pompeii, destroyed in AD 79 by the eruption of Vesuvius.

The nine-pataca stamp is based on a methodology created by a French mathematician Simon de la Loubère; he learnt it during his time as his country’s ambassador to Siam, now Thailand.

This is one of the most popular methods to create magic squares using odd numbers.

Bread and circuses –American style Reported at www.linns.com

The most controversial United States stamp issue of 2014 has been discovered sporting a dramatic error.

Mystic Stamp Co. reports that it has one full press sheet of the 2014 Circus imperforate souvenir sheets with the gold text and gold ornamentation missing from the red sheet selvage.

The error press sheet contains only 12 of the three-stamp souvenir sheets, with the stamps imperforate as issued.

“The whole office was excited. A Mystic colleague noticed the error,” said Don Sundman, president of the firm.

“We wonder if these are the only 12 sheets,” Sundman added.

The error was discovered Feb. 23, according to Mystic.

The stamp company is planning to offer the sheets to its customers soon.

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Stamps in the News - Globally! souvenir sheet, surrounded by red margins that have gold trim positioned all around the stamp block.

On the normal souvenir sheet, there is also text imprinted in gold reading up along the left edge of the stamp block (“VINTAGE CIRCUS POSTER”) and down along the right edge (“CIRCUS WAGON 1900s”).

That gold text and trim is missing on the error stamps found by Mystic. the normal souvenir sheet The error report is the first involving the Circus souvenir sheet.

The editors of the Scott Specialized Catalogue of United States Stamps and Covers told Linn’s Stamp News that both the normal sheet and the error sheet will receive minor Scott catalogue numbers, but that

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those numbers have not yet been determined.

The Circus issue had been dogged by controversy due to the manner in which it was released.

The U.S. Postal Service announced Aug. 21, 2014, that it would issue a souvenir sheet with a single $1 Clown stamp and two 50¢ Circus Wagon stamps. The souvenir sheet would only be available with the purchase of the annual USPS stamp yearbook.

The Nov. 17, 2014, Linn’s Stamp News reported that in addition to the original yearbook distribution plan, press sheets of the Circus Wagon souvenir sheets would be issued Dec. 10.

However, the souvenir sheets from the press sheets would be imperforate, with no die cuts separating the three stamps in the souvenir sheet, while the souvenir sheet sold with

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the yearbook does have die cuts separating the stamps.

The Postal Service printed 10,000 press sheets, each containing 12 souvenir sheets.

The press sheets could be pre-ordered beginning Nov. 10, but the Postal Service stopped accepting orders Dec. 3 because the issue was sold out, one week before the official issue date.

Bread and circuses- Italian style Reported at www.stampnews.com

Poste Italiane has issued two stamps to mark the most famous carnivals – Sciacca and Putignano Carnivals. The items were released on the 6th of February and are now available for purchasing.

Putignano Carnival is considered one of the main carnivals of Italy, is famous for the spectacular parade of papier-mâché floats. It is also the oldest (dated from 1394) and longest Italian carnival.

It starts the day after Christmas and finishes the day before the Ash Wednesday. There are four Carnival parades.In the last ten years the carnival has become famous thanks to the enormous floats, the original satirical masks and the colourful masked groups.

The origins of Sciacca Carnival date back to the first years of the twelfth century. The festival,

prepared months in advance, represents a moment of amusement and community spirit for the whole town. The construction of the allegorical paper floats begins in the months preceding the feast thanks to the active cooperation of the builders.

Carnival starts on Thursday before Lent with the symbolic delivery of the keys of the city into the hands of the king of Carnival: Peppi Nappa. The masked groups, with their choreographies invite everyone to dance and enjoy the feast.

The feast finishes on late Tuesday night with Peppe Nappa’s burning at the stake. All the whistles and hammers are thrown in the fire and all the euphoria of the previous day’s burns with the king.

Possum magic

Reported at www.abc.net.au A pygmy possum has hitched a ride around southern Yorke Peninsula in South Australia in the bottom of a mail bag.

The mail sorter at Minlaton post office, Jack May, said he thought at first there was a mouse in the bag from Foul Bay, but then noticed large eyes and a curled tail.

“It was hard to know who got the biggest surprise — me or the possum,” he said.

Post office staff called on the team from Natural Resources Yorke and North to arrange a return of the tiny possum to its home, about 90 kilometres from Minlaton.

Deborah Furbank from Natural Resources said many rural properties used empty drums as their mailboxes and these proved to be popular napping spots for native animals.

“The possum was fine, it was very frisky and very curious when we looked in the bag,” she said.

“We gave it flowers with nectar so it had food to eat.”

Ms Furbank said it was important to release the possum back to where it had travelled from.

“They are territorial so it was

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really good that the post office kept the details of which bag it had arrived in so we knew where to let it go,” she said.

“It travelled over 200 kilometres by the time we got it back to its original destination.

“It must have got picked up in the morning and was replaced the following morning, so it must have been about 24 hours.

“It was a classic case of return-to-sender,” she said.

“When I dropped it back near the mailbox it hopped off my hand and scampered into nearby bush without even a wave.”

A Chinese box and its contents Reported at http:// globenewswire.com

An extraordinary find of 35 extremely rare

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19th-century Chinese stamps in the United Kingdom is about to shock the worldwide stamp collecting hobby.

The stamps, which had lain undisturbed for approximately 125 years, were discovered in the attic of a house in the English Cotswolds.

They are known as the China 1882 5-candarin orange yellow Imperial Dragon stamp.

“This is, in fact, the most outstanding find in the history of Chinese philately, and a once in a lifetime opportunity to unveil to the philatelic marketplace one of the greatest jewels of the China specialty,” explains Laurence Gibson, an international authority and dealer in Chinese rare stamps.

Specifically, the stamps were found in an ornate wooden tea caddy as three unused multiples of China Scott Catalogue number 6: a block of 19, a

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A relative of the owner of the Cotswolds house where the stamps were found was a missionary in China who used the 5c Imperial Dragon stamps, among others, for postage.

“The stamps remained in the family, safely tucked into little brown church donation envelopes since the late 1890s, when the missionary returned to the UK,” a spokesman explained.

Postal gouging UK style Reported at http://in.reuters.com

Britain’s Royal Mail postal service has announced a stamp price rise from March 30 as it tries to offset the impact of a steadily falling number of letters to deliver each year.

Royal Mail said the price of first and second class stamps would both increase by 1 pence to 63p and 54p respectively.

The increase comes after a 2p rise for first class stamps and a 3p rise for second class stamps last year.

Royal Mail, whose shares rocketed in the wake of their 2013 privatisation, also said on block of 10 and a block of six. An unused single Friday large letter first class stamps up to 100 of number 6 is valued at $16,000 in the current grams would rise by 2p to 95p with the equivalent Scott Classic Specialized Catalogue of Stamps and second class stamp going up 1p to 74p.

Covers 1840-1940.

The company said second class medium parcel The stamps were sold at a small local auction prices would fall, however, while second class with an estimated value of between £800 and small parcel prices would stay at a cheaper rate used £1,000 described as “A Cigar Box of Early Chinese during a Christmas promotion.

Stamps”. However, they were snapped up for an Royal Mail has seen letter volumes fall steadily astonishing £79,000 by international stamp dealers in recent years and forecasts further drops of 4-6 Allan Grant and Larry Gibson. percent per year as more people use email and They will be offered again to the international social media instead. philatelic marketplace at a Kelleher & Rogers public The trend has pushed the company to modernise auction this coming spring in Hong Kong. its operations in order to better compete in a The block of 19 would go as high as $500,000 -- growing parcels market. while the additional 16 examples of the 5 candarin rarity -- may help the final realization for all 35 stamps in the find climb towards the $1 million Postal gouging Aussie style mark.

Reported at www.smh.com.au The Kelleher firm will refer to the 35 newlyfound 5c Imperial Dragon stamps as “The Lady Australia Post will go through with its plan to Cotswolds Missionary Find” in its publicity for the charge $1 for stamps and increase delivery time

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after the Federal Government took barely a week to buckle to its demands.

Delivery times for general mail will increase by two days and cost $1, unless customers pay a premium to keep the current delivery time – a two speed service similar to what it charges business.

The priority stamps are expected to cost about $1.50 when they are introduced and could rise to $2 before long.

Cabinet has decided it would rather let the monopoly mail carrier charge more and cut services than cover the expected $6.6bn in losses over the next 10 years.

Post chief executive Ahmed Fahour said last week the government would either have to stump up the cash, let Post introduce the changes, or watch the business fail.

“Either we get a massive injection from the government to keep the business going, or they give us the permission to manage the business and therefore no subsidy is required and the business can continue,” he said.

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Fahour says the changes mean the carrier will be able to reduce its letters losses and is aiming to get it back to break-even.

“The letters business won’t make a profit, and that is not our objective.

Our objective is to reduce the losses so that we can support five days a week delivery of mail and secure the future of post offices across the country,” he says.

Australia Post is likely to also cut the number of post boxes, saying it will keep at least 10,000. It currently has 15,805 post boxes and will keep 4400 post offices.

In justifying the government’s acceptance of the proposal, Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull says the Post’s profitable parcel business will come under pressure from overseas competition with Japan Post buying Toll and can’t prop up mail anymore.

“Australia Post cannot be expected to compete for business with multinational logistics companies with one hand tied behind its back, as it loses hundreds of millions of dollars in its letters business,” he wrote in a blog post.

Post’s half year results revealed a $151m loss on its letters business for the past six months – 57 per cent worse than the same period last year. Australia Post lost $328m on letters last year and that is expected to blow out to $350m for FY15.

Letters was expected to lose $12.1bn over the next decade by itself.

reviews mike lee Well it’s been quite a few months since any SG catalogues have arrived for review, but now seven have arrived in the last three weeks! As the saying goes, it’s either feast or famine! Some of the new arrivals were actually published more than six months ago, so we’ll deal with those first.

All of these catalogues are published by Stanley Gibbons Ltd, 7 Parkside, Christchurch Rd. Ringwood, Hants BH24 3SH U.K.

2014 Russia

Paperback, 832 pages 7th edition RRP A $123.00 It’s been six years since the publication of the last edition of this catalogue, and it’s grown by more than 100 pages since the 6th edition. Weighing in at over a kilo, it can only be described as a ‘whopper’!

I know there are many collectors of Russia out there, so I’m sure this new edition will be greeted with delight. A quick look at the contents page reveals just how comprehensive this catalogue is. There are no less than 21 main areas covered, with, for example, the main heading of Russia having more than 30 listings under it alone. Much of this expansion is, of course due to the 1991 break-up of the USSR and the subsequent forming of the Russian Federation and the other separate stamp issuing countries. As usual, there is a paragraph or two at the beginning of each country providing information on history, early stamp issues and currency changes.

So what’s new for this edition? New issues for the current sixteen stamp issuing countries are included, mostly up to late 2013. There is a new design index for Lithuania, and the index for Mongolia has been updated. For the first time there is a page providing history and details of the Cyrillic alphabet, including a simplified Cyrillic table with English equivalents (most useful!).

Prices have also been thoroughly revised for this new edition.

An excellent, although at 830+ pages, slightly large and unwieldy, catalogue!

2014 East Africa with Egypt & Sudan

Paperback, 232 pages, 3rd edition RRP A $45.00 This catalogue crams a lot of listings into it’s 232 pages!

Included are British Occupation of Italian Colonies, Egypt (to 1922), Egyptian PO’s Abroad, British Forces in Egypt (1932-9), Suez Canal Co., Kenya, Kenya Uganda & Tanganyika, Kenya & Uganda, Kenya Uganda & Tanzania, British East Africa, East Africa and Uganda Protectorates, Somaliland Protectorate, Sudan (to 1954), Tanzania, German East Africa, Mafia Island & Nyasaland-Rhodesian Force, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Uganda and Zanzibar, with new issues for Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda – phew!

New for this edition are a number of new watermark and plate flaws, and the continuing listing of Telegraph stamps, in this volume Sudan, Uganda & Egyptian Military Telegraphs.

Prices have also been extensively revised, with quite a few jumps, the standout being the Kenya and Uganda 1925 £100 going from £95,000 to £120,000 mint. As usual, booklets,

postage dues and officials are all included.

If your collecting interests include this part of the world then this catalogue is a must have!

2014 Austria & Hungary

Paperback, 424 pages 8th edition RRP A $81.00 Covering the two countries in the title, as well as United Nations (Vienna Centre), this catalogue includes new issues for the four years since the 7th edition, with Austria to June 2014, Hungary to April 2014, and UN Vienna to Feb 2013. But wait, there’s more!

Also included are Lombardy & Venetia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Austro-Hungarian Military Post and PO’s in the Turkish Empire, Austrian territories acquired by Italy, Danube Steam Navigation Company, and for the first time in this volume, Fiume.

Austrian machine labels are listed for the first time, all three design indexes have been updated, and a revised version of then International Philatelic Glossary in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian is included.

While all later illustrations are full colour and of excellent quality, I was a little surprised to find that Austrian issues as late as 1933 were illustrated in black and white.

This minor issue aside, this is an excellent catalogue, and highly recommended.

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Hutt River 45th Anniversary

Postage Stamp Issue – 21/04/2015

Once in a generation, or; perhaps a lifetime, a person comes along whereby their different thinking enables mankind’s knowledge and understandings to make a leap forward. The PHR Royal College of Advanced Research has been involved in research of the pure basic energy of nature for many years, and that has involved great perspective concepts that reach into the area of energy fields which many mathematicians, physicists and philosophers failed to achieve; including Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and many others. There can be no doubt that Prince Leonard’s findings in the spiritual is the beginning of a sphere of new knowledge and understanding by mankind of both nature and spiritual. These 3 stamps issued to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the Principality, are the first in a series of stamps to be issued that will all show the Spirit Code of the item featured on each stamp.

ISSUE DATE —— 21/04/2015

Tiger The Stone of Light Heron

Se-Tenant Set of 3

$1.95 $0.70 $2.75 $5.40

FDC (set of se-Tenant 3 Stamps) $8.00

each (DL Envelope) Full Sheet = 30 Stamps (10 x Sets of 3) $54.00 All prices in PHR/AU$ plus P/H

A link to a complete on-line PHR philatelic catalogue may be found by visiting www.principality-hutt-river.com/phronline For purchases/enquiries email phr.online@principality-hutt-river.com PHR Philatelic Dept, Principality of Hutt River, Via Western Australia 6535

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Commemorating ANZAC Part 11 : This Century

Fig 1:One stamp from the 2012 Australian issue featuring historical varieties of the Rising Sun hat badge was used on the stamp-and-coin cover marking ANZAC Day And so we arrive at April 2015, one hundred years since the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey.

As the centenaries of World War I events and the 70th anniversaries of World War II events approached the Australian and New Zealand postal authorities issued quite a number of stamps on Fig 2 : New Zealand mini-sheet issued for the Pacific Explorer international stamp exhibition in Sydney in 2005 30 - Stamp News

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military subjects. Not all of these related to the 1915 Gallipoli campaign by any means but there were some that did. Also, there was some conflating of general military subjects with ANZAC. For example, one stamp from the 2012 Australian issue featuring historical varieties of the Rising Sun hat badge was used on the stamp-and-coin cover marking ANZAC Day (figure 1). In the ANZAC spirit of Australian and NZ collaboration, the New Zealand mini-sheet issued for the Pacific

Fig 3 : The 2008 Australian Lest We Forget set Explorer international stamp exhibition in Sydney in 2005 featured soldiers from both countries and specifically mentioned the 90th anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign (figure 2).

The observing of ANZAC Day (25th April) Fig 4 : 2008 New Zealand ANZAC set

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Fig 4 & 5 : 2009 (above) & 2010 (below) New Zealand ANZAC set the main day for honouring the casualties of war in Australasia, has become a tradition worth commemorating in its own right. The 2008 Australian Lest we Forget set features activities of

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the day from veterans marching to young people visiting ANZAC Cove (figure 3). New Zealand issued an ANZAC Series of three sets over three years from 2008 to 2010 (figures 4 to 6) with the first two sets marking NZ forces’ participation in a number of twentieth century conflicts and the 2010 set showing ANZAC Day activities. The Australian

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Top, Figs 7 & 8 Left, Figs 10 & 9 Below, Fig 11

Remembrance Day stamps of 2011 (figure 7) marked the day on which the formal end of World War I occurred at 11.00 am on 11th November 1918. Unlike ANZAC Day, this is not a public holiday in Australasia.

Also in 2011, New Zealand honoured its 22 Victoria Cross recipients, including Cyril Bassett (1892 – 1983) the only New Zealander to win the VC at Gallipoli (figure 8). As a signaler he was

responsible for laying telephone lines to the Chunuk Bair ridge while under heavy fire. The ridge had been captured by the New Zealanders during a three-day assault in August 1915. The Turks subsequently recaptured the position with a massive attack commanded by Kemal Ataturk, inflicting large casualties on the British troops who had relieved the New Zealanders.

In 2014, Australia marked the centenary of World War I with five stamps, one of which showed the ANZAC’s training camp at Mena in Egypt (figure 9). Another 2014 issue showed the Australian submarine AE2, which was the first submarine to successfully penetrate the Dardenelles waterway and Stamp News - 33

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enter the Sea of Marmara (figure 10). With orders to “run amok” inside Turkish territory, AE2 operated for five days before mechanical faults forced her to the surface, where she was damaged by the torpedo boat Sultanhisar. The submarine was scuttled by her crew, all of whom were captured.

This month’s centenary of the Gallipoli landing is being appropriately commemorated with a sheetlet of 10 Spirit of ANZAC stamps from New Zealand issued on 23rd March (figure 11). The stamps’ subjects, all specific to Gallipoli, include the famous painting of Dick Henderson and his donkey (see my article in the December 2014 Stamp News Australasia) and the cover illustration of The ANZAC Book published by Gallipoli veterans on leave in London in 1916. April 7th sees a joint

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issue from the two countries showing the solemn commemoration of ANZAC Day at ANZAC Cove (figure 12) and on April 14th an Australian set of 5 based on original photographs of the Gallipoli campaign including a photo of John Simpson Kirkpatrick and his donkey (figure 13).

Graeme can be contacted through his website, www.stampsmw.top1.com.au .

Don’t forget this month’s national stamp exhibition, Sydney Stamp Expo 2015 at the Johnny Warren Indoor Sports Stadium, Hurstville, from 16th to 19th April. It features special exhibits of original ANZAC mail.

Above, Fig12; Below Fig 13

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2014 Cyprus, Gibraltar & Malta

Paperback, 230 pages, 4th edition RRP A $42.50 The Empire/Commonwealth countries in Europe are quite a popular collecting field, and this new edition, which replaces the three year old 3rd edition, has quite a bit of new information packed in to it’s 230 pages.

First off we have the new issues for the three countries mentioned in the title, as well as Turkish Cypriot Posts. These are all complete up to mid/late 2014. There are also listings for British PO’s in Crete (1898-99), Heligoland & Ionian Islands.

You’ll also find Great Britain stamps used in Cyprus, Gibraltar and Malta prior to them issuing their own stamps, as well as the ‘Crowned Circle’ markings of the Ionian Islands.

The illustrations of the postmarks found on British stamps have been extended or improved, and some new varieties have been added to the listings, particularly those of Malta. As you would expect, booklets, postage dues & officials are all included. Oddly, there is only a design index for the stamps of Gibraltar. Perhaps design indexes for the other countries will appear in the next edition.

In regard to catalogue values, the publishers advise the following: ‘Prices have been extensively revised throughout the catalogue with increases in most periods, notably among errors and varieties’.

An essential catalogue if this is your area of philatelic interest.

2014 Southern & Central Africa

Paperback, 375 pages, 2nd edition RRP A $73.00 While this new edition may not have the highest number of pages of any catalogue reviewed this month, I’m certain that it’s right up there with the Russia catalogue as far as having the longest and most extensive Contents page is concerned!

There are 11 main headings with no less than 40 different stamp issuing entities listed under them. The issues of Malawi, Namibia, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and South Africa take up the lion’s share (pun intended – sorry) of the listings, but there are a lot of other countries etc in here too, from Botswana to Swaziland.

It’s been three years since the first edition, so there are quite a few pages of new issues covering Botswana (to Jan 2011), Lesotho (April 2010), Malawi (July 2013), Mozambique (Feb 2011), Namibia (June 2013), South Africa (Dec 2013), Swaziland (April 2012), Zambia (Nov 2010) and Zimbabwe (July 2013).

As with the East Africa catalogue, Telegraph stamps for Natal, Orange Free State, and Transvaal are included for the first time, together with British military telegraphs used in Bechuanaland and South Africa and the Reuter’s Telegraph Service stamps of Matabeleland. Also new for this edition is a fully priced listing of the South African ‘Interprovincials’ – the stamps of Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Orange River Colony and Transvaal used in their own province or in any of the other three

between the establishment of the Union in 1910 to the issue of it’s first stamps in 1913. It’s also worth noting that several new varieties have been added since the first edition.

This is an excellent catalogue, just brimming with information.

2014 Germany

Paperback, 424 pages 11th edition RRP A $TBA With this being the third new edition in less than 4 years, it’s fairly obvious that the popularity and demand for German and German area stamps is continuing unabated. In fact the publishers note that the previous edition sold out very quickly.

This new edition contains everything the collector of Germany could need from the early German States and Colonies through to the June 2014 issues of modern Germany, together with other territories, occupation areas etc. An updated design index for German issues is also included.

Also included in this edition for the first time are Occupation issues on German stamps – British occupation of Cameroon and Tanganyika (Mafia Is.), the Australian occupation issues of New Guinea, New Zealand occupation of Samoa, and the British and French occupation issues of Togo. Also new are the WWII German occupation of Guernsey bisects. A quick check of page iv shows that more than two dozen new catalogue numbers have been added for this edition, as well as a couple of number changes.

Another essential catalogue, and considering the last edition sold out, grab one as soon as you can!

2015 Collect British Stamps

Paperback, 324 pages 66th edition RRP A $34.00 There’s not really a lot to say about this catalogue that hasn’t already been said! If you’re one of those collectors who have already chosen to heed the title of the catalogue, and ‘collect British stamps’, then I would imagine one or more earlier versions of this catalogue already graces your philatelic library and you’re already familiar with the straightforward layout, the excellent colour illustrations of every stamp in each set (with the odd exception in some of the earlier issues), and the great value for money this catalogue represents.

If you don’t have one, or haven’t updated for a few years, then I’ll reiterate what I said in the review of the 2014 edition, grab one of these now! Why? Well last year’s edition saw the complete renumbering of the Machin definitive stamps with elliptical perforations (the ‘Y’ series) and the emblem regionals.

So if you don’t have last years edition, grab one of these asap, or else your catalogue numbers for all of the Machin head issues since 1993 will be out of date!

Apart from the listings being complete up to the Christmas 2014 issues, there are a couple of other new items: The Post & Go listings have been extensively revised to take account of recent developments in these issues, and the is a new quick reference listing of all Prestige booklets, 1969 to 2014.

A must have for GB collectors!

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Cinderella Corner

Shortly after this column appears the Sydney Stamp Exhibition will be getting underway. I believe there will be something like 630 or so frames of exhibits covering all classes available for National exhibitions in Australia.

I will be at the show for the duration and I have an entry in the Cinderella class. I hope that it will not be the only one. The Cinderella class has been very poorly supported at recent exhibitions, so I am hoping there will be more support at this show, given that nearly all of the Committee members of the Cinderella Stamp Club of Australasia are based in Sydney.

or only a part sheet as there are only margins on 2 sides. There are five views, Sturt Street and Town Hall, The Post Office, The Flight From Pompeii statue, The Eureka Stockade and finally Lake Wendouree and each view is in three colours Blue, Red and Olive Green. The October 2006 edition of Cinderella Philatelist has all the details.

Back To Ballarat.

An Adelaide collector has shown me this stamp and asked me for more information. There were three stamps he showed me, all One Farthing and in Purple, Blue and Violet. A check of the web turned

The Back to Ballarat labels listed in Jackson as A87 and A88 have been recorded in a block of 15 which may possibly be either the full sheet format

Patriotic Labels.

Dave Elsmore has added a selection of these labels to his Revenues website. More will be added as time and information permits.

King Edward National Memorial (Fig. 1).

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Fig. 3

Fig. 2

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up a reference to them and I found ten colours and some more information. The stamps were issued in 1910 to raise funds for a memorial that in the end was never built. The scene on the stamps is of Sydenham where the Crystal Palace was relocated after the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park. The other colours were Black, Light Blue, Green, Red, Orange, Magenta and Yellow.

Queen Mary Mail. (Fig. 2).

I found this label in one of the exchange books that circulate to clubs around South Australia and elsewhere. It appears to be a cutout from a larger document, but I have no further information.

Canberra 1988. (Fig. 3).

This stamp was issued by the Committee of the Fifth National Philatelic Convention as the early

exhibitions in Canberra were titled. The exhibition ran from 19 to 21 March 1988 and there was a detailed write up in the Cinderella Philatelist of October 1988. The stamps were printed in sheets of 6, (two rows of three). The designer was Ingrid Slaymer, a graphic artist based in Canberra at the time. The stamps were attached to a souvenir mail carried by Hot Air Balloon. The mail consisted of 750 covers that were divided between 35 hot air balloons. The mail was to be dropped at a designated point, but only 706 covers survived the drop.

Bedford Seals. (Fig. 4 And 9)

There were four different designs in the 1985 issue of these seals. The sheet size was 35, 5 rows of 7.

This is one issue that I don’t have so I took this image from Green’s Catalogue of TB seals, I know

Fig. 4

Fig. 5

Fig. 9

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it is small but it does show the four designs in the issue.

Perspex. (Fig. 5).

A nice advertising poster stamp, most likely Australian and probably dating from the 1970s

Exide Batteries. (Fig. 6).

Again, another nice item, but it looks to be from a slightly earlier period, maybe the late 1950s.

Red Cross. (Fig. 7).

This Red Cross stamp showing a hand placing money in the Red Cross money box is of Australian origin and was issued in 1953. In Mosbaugh’s Catalogue of Red Cross Seals or the World it is shown as number 23 under the Australian listing.

The illustration in the catalogue is not very clear and

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I nearly missed it when I went looking for it.

Lions Christmas Seals. (Fig. 8).

Unlike the other states of Australia where Christmas seals focus on Tuberculosis, in Queensland the Lions Club seems to dominate the Christmas Seal business.

From other issues I have seen they are usually produced in sheets of 25 different designs. This one from 1995 could well be in the same configuration, but so far it is the only 1995 one I have seen.

Adelaide University Union. (Fig. 10).

This item was offered recently on eBay and it aroused my interest. It appears to be a credit voucher for some purpose, possibly purchase of items from the University Union. The description indicates an issue period of 1960s and pre decimal, from a pane of 6 and issued in booklets.

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Latest arrivals in collections, singles, lots and mixtures: Fe1) the 2010 vst comprehensive colour catalogue of australian stamps - in full colour - case bound edition - in 3 huge volumes (3rd volume is wire bound) with total of 580 pages! This catalogue is the latest edition available, volumes 1 & 2 have now been reprinted and are in a single hardbound edition.

Volume 1 covers: australian colonies, postage dues, bcof, pre-decimal australia, and australian decimal issues(1966-1988) and all related first day covers, post office packs etc.

Volume 2 covers the listing of australian decimal issues (1989-2006) and all related first day covers, post office packs etc.

Volume 3 is the new 2010 edition - this volume has a complete re-pricing of the australian pre-decimal issues 1913-1936, plus new decimal listings for 2007, 2008 & 2009. This is the complete comprehensive 3 volume edition - colour catalogue of australian stamps. The 3 volumes are very detailed with colour illustrations throughout. Note that the prices here are pretty much up to date, there having been little price movement in recent years for most issues.

Originally priced at over $100, we can now offer the 3 volumes, currently being sold elsewhere for around $45 for just $24.50 Bulk buyers special: 5 sets for just $99!

Fe2) magnificent magnifier: large 110mm illuminated magnifier with stand. This magnifier can be used with or without the base. It is suitable for stamp and coin collectors as well as art and craft, artists etc. Magnification: 2.5X, plus 4x spot.

Diameter: 110mm, bigger than the lighthouse similar product. Battery operated: 2 x aa (not included). Adjustable height up to 200mm and angle to 45 degrees. Rrp $36.95. Price each only $15, under 50% retail! $69 Per 5 why not give away to friends and relations, or do some trading?

Fe3) west berlin, complete collection Mint Unhinged 1960 – 1990 30 years of stamps and minisheets. Bargain! $275 FE4) Worldwide carton of 11 stockbooks/albums. Very wide ranging, with some nice China, French Colonies etc. Many thousands, weighs 17.5kg. Super lot, condition a bit mixed but many nice pickings throughout. $285 FE5) World El Cheapo on paper mixture! Plenty from the bigger countries, Germany, South Africa, USA etc, plus other bits and pieces tossed in from ends of ranges etc.

As always you get what you pay for, but around 4500 – 5000 stamps to the kg, if you want bulk then this is it! Per kg $45, around 1c per stamp.(If you want better quality we have 3 better grades of World on paper at $75, $125 and $295 per kg. Call them FE5a, FE5b and FE5c) FE6) Australia El Cheapo Mission on paper, just bought 200kg of this, wide ranging and mostly on single well trimmed paper, great variety going up to 2009 or so…only $22.50 per kg. Or if you want better grade FE6a is a more recent mix with stamps up to around 2013, $49 a kg. ASK ABOUT BULK BUYS FOR BOTH OF THSE MIXES, PRICES WILL BE CHEAP AS WE NEED TO SHIFT IT! FE7) Papua New Guinea, packet of 150 different, currently on our list at $62, this one includes some nice mint unhinged too…special price $49 FE8) British West Indies, packet of 350 different, with many mint unhinged, plus earlies goiung back to Queen Victoria. Brilliant lot if you want to start collecting this area. $49 FE9) New World Off paper Mix, just received, much better variety than you see in

most of these mixes, around 2000 for $39, 5000 for $89, 10,000 for $175 FE9) Australia very wide ranging off paper mix, from the same source as above, lots of better values, have noted values to 10/- in the pre-decimal, and $10 in the decimal, going very nearly up to date with recent 70c letter rate values spotted here and there.

FE10) Deep discounts on World and Australia Packets, just arrived. Mostly postally used with many better values, not your usual packets, these are quite a lot better.

FE10a 1000 different World, normally $24.50, now $16.50 FE10b 500 different World, normally $12, now $7.25 FE10c 250 different World, normally $5.50, now $3.95 FE10d 750 different Australia, normally $33.50, now $23.50 FE10e 500 different Australia, normally $16.50, now $11.50 FE10f 250 different Australia, normally $6.95, now $4.95 Quantity and wholesale enquiries for all of the above packets are welcomed.

FE11) British Commonwealth Collection in 2 big stockbooks, arranged alphabetically and chronologically. Looks to be around 2000 all different, with plenty of early material from Queen Victoria onwards, no Australia. Many many high values and better items seen. Largely postaly used with some mint. Great value at under 15c per stamp! $295 FE12) As above, smaller lot, around 1000 different under 10c each $95 FE13) Kabe Australia Hingeless pre-decimal album, 1934 – 1965. Plus heaps of spare blank pages at back. Near new, Retail $149, only $49 FE14) World and Australia in 64 page King, red padded stockbook. Looks like around 3500 stamps, all organised by country, in near chronological order, and A –Z with Australia at the end. Massive lot, neatly organised, and virtually all postally used. You will love this! Under 10c per stamp $349 FE15) Big World Lot in 2 old stockbooks, organised A – Z and in Chronological order, no Australia. Around 2500 stamps it looks like, again under 10c per stamp $249 FE16) As above, in a single stockbook, around 1500, only $149 FE17) Australia Collection, looks like 1000 stamps or so, all different postally used in an old stockbook, commencing Australian States, no Roos or Georges, but good ranges to 10/- in pre-decimal, right up to around 2013. Nice lot, at under 7c per stamp, only $69.

FE18) PNCs (stamp & coin covers) We have a brand new stock, with most at issue price of $14.95, let us know your needs. We can also offer all different lots at under issue price a) 10 Different for $110 b) 25 Different $259 c) 50 Different for $495 d) Our complete range, 56 different for $529 (under $9.50 each!)

FE19) Dream Mix on paper of Australian & New Zealand Territories and Pacifics.

All on close clipped paper, from KGVI issues to very recent (2014) Many, many high values, much from an accountants office. Sensibly a lot have a complete circular dated postmark. Included are Papua New Guinea, Christmas Island, Fiji, Samoa, Pitcairn Is., Vanuatu, Palau, Solomon Is., Cocos (Keeling) Is., and maybe small amounts of Norfolk Island, AAT, Kiribati and Tonga. Believe me this mix is RARE! All postally used, not from FDC clips. I agree it is not cheap, but many of these stamps sell for $2, $3 each or more!

One lot only of 110 grams, be quick! $169 FE20) Similar to the above, but Fiji only not quite as recent as the above, but with plenty of KGVI values to 1/- and $5 seen floating around in this mix, we have around 300g. 100g for $159, 50g for $85 FE21) Papua New Guinea in Green Stockbook, mainly Mint Unhinged to 1990, most in

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Best Sellers This Month complete sets, some toning mostly on earlier. Very nice collection of 390 different here. $119 FE22) Canada, QEII collection to about 1990 in Warwick 22 ring album, mainly Mint Unhinged with some used. Nice lot! $149 FE23) Vatican in Minkus printed album, lovely mint and used colln., mostly complete sets, 1929 – 1991, with a few dubious Papal States issues. Mostly complete from 1960. $198 FE24) New Zealand, 1981 – 1998 in 3 Warwick 22 ring albums, plus Green 48 page Lighthouse stockbook. Mostly mint unhinged and fine used of each issue, virtually compete for the period, with a little duplication. Great Lot! $785 FE25) Untidy average used Australian Collection, commencing States, then a few Roos and Georges, through to about 2006 in near new Blue Hagner Binder with slipcase.

Plus around 50 hagners, some double sided. New cost $130 plus. The stamps are free!

Just $65 FE26) Malaya/Malaysia 900 different used collection in Stock Album. Plenty from the KGV, KGVI era, values to $1. many complete sets. Great buying at $295 FE27) Malaya/Malaysia all different in packets: 50 different $5, 200 different $29, 500 different $79 FE28) Papua New Guinea, 200 plus all different on pages, mostly fine used, with some mint. Mostly complete sets, 1952 – 1994. Clean lot. $79 FE29) Old 1920’s Chemistry Exercise book, with students notes at front. At back is a nice array of mainly GB, with 1858 1d red plates x 400 Plus mostly arranged into plate numbers up to 218. Then around 20 halfpenny plates. Plus untidy ranges of Egypt, France, Germany etc. Condition mixed, but good value at $210, (50 cents a stamp for the GB) FE30) 1984 Auspex Official Album, with Mint Unhinged sets from a wide range of countries, A – S. 54 mint sets and minisheets. Under $2.25 a set $119 FE31) 1981 Charles and Diana Royal Wedding, in two Stanley Gibbons printed albums.

Looks pretty well complete Mint sets and minisheets unhinged for Commonwealth Countries, plus 8 prestige style booklets. Rarely offered these days, a must for the Royalty fan. Very clean lot $295 FE32) Stanley Gibbons printed album, History of the Olympics, with some invaluable info. About athletes, plus a range of mint unhinged stamps, as new. Cheap and cheerful lot. $29 FE33) Ascension, in two Stanley Gibbons printed albums, with slipcases, in almost new condition, these alone cost many 100s of dollars! Pages for all stamps from 1922, this collection commences 1963 and is near complete to 1984. 70 plus sets nearly all Mint Unhinged, few are fine used. Huge catalogue value. My price under $5 per set, the albums are free! $349 FE34) Norfolk Is. Mint unhinged collection in Hagner Binder, appears pretty well complete, 1970 Birds Definitives to 1990. Some in blocks of 4. Lovely clean lot, with high face value. Just $195 FE35) Benham “The Royal Golden Wedding Collection” in padded binder, with Covers and Coin Covers from Great Britain, many signed, including: Princess Alexandra, Lady Pamela Mountbatten, Patricia Mountbatten of Burma, etc, etc. Many of these are scarce and valuable signatures. 17 items including 4 Crown size coins. Great value at under $20 each. $329 FE36) Set of Stanley Gibbons New Imperial Albums, no longer in print, and cost $795 new when last re-printed. This is an original 1936 set in good condition, with spaces for all British Empire Stamps, 1840 to the end of KGV reign. Not many stamps, but

these regular go for $400 plus at auction empty! Probably your only chance to buy a 2 volume set of these under that figure! $369 FE37) The Official Presentation sets of the International Society of Postmasters.

Features a First Day Cover, mint unhinged stamp, and sterling silver replica of the stamp, form 36 countries. Huge volume, and very attractive, produced in 1981. Silver value alone must be at least $150! My price $169 the lot.

FE38) Victoria, the 1901 Queen Victoria Federation Definitives series to Five Shillings, in nice fresh mint condition on Seven Seas Album Page. Very hard to assemble these days.

Out of date 2013 catalogue states 290 pounds = $575. Melbourne retail in 2012 was $395. Under half catalogue for this scarce set $279 FE39) Lakatois Collection, mainly mint in lovely old green genuine leather padded album in great condition, alone would have cost a few 100 dollars! Covers all issues to 1932, with mostly only the very scarce items missing. A great opportunity to get all of these at once! Odd stamp tones as is the norm for these issues, and does not detract from the overall desirability of this collection. Also has a couple of postal stationery items and covers, Cooke Monogram etc. Cannot be assembled today for this price….$2595 the lot.

FE40) New Zealand pre- decimal Collection in 64 page blue stockbook. Commences Perforated Chalon Heads, to 1/-, plus a pair of the 2d imperf Hausberg reprints. 2nd sidefaces to 1/-, then good ranges of the 1900 definitives to 6d, with shade and perf varieties, 2/- Admiral used, 1935 Definitives to 2/- mint unhinged, then later issues mostly complete. Nice back of the book section with Dues, Officials, and long type Queen Victoria Postal Fiscals and Arms to 10/- and One Pound. Nice lot worthy of expansion. $525 FE41) New Zealand 1967 $1 Glacier, top left corner marginal, mint unhinged, with double perfs, Campbell Paterson Catalogue NZ$450. Nice striking error! Under half catalogue $195 FE42) Austria, early – modern, mint and used. Partially duplicated lot on album pages and in Hagners. Noted some nice used blocks of 4, complete sets, etc. Many 100s, cheap and cheerful lot! $79 FE43) New Zealand Dependencies, Cook Is., Aitutaki, Niue and Penrhyn in Scott Specialty Album. Value is in the earlies, which is considerable, since these are nearly complete mint 1892 to 1950, with many mint unhinged and later issues to 1977, not included in the catalogue value. Queen Victoria Long Types to One Pound and Arms to Five Pounds, including both of the scarce Three Pound arms stamps. Catalogue in 2013 was 6325 pounds, = around $12,000 today. My price is under 40% catalogue for the earlier issues only, the modern is thrown in Gratis! $3950.

MMJ6) New Zealand Collection in Seven Seas Album, commencing 1971 decimal definitives to 1985, mostly complete mint unhinged sets, and a good degree of completeness. Worthy of expansion. Cheap at less than $10 per year, $135 MMJ8) Iran, lovely collection in “Modern World” album, from earlies to 1980’s mint and used. Excellent lot for expansion. Several hundreds. Excellent value at $89 the lot MMJ10) Three thick old stockbooks, each filled with World array with plenty of earlier stuff here, seemingly all different, each contains 1000 plus stamps, so about 3000 here for a few cents per stamp $159.

MMJ11) Another lot similar to the above, $159 or buy both for $299!

MMJ13) AAT 1966 Decimals set Mint Unhinged, nice set, usual retail $65, just one at this price…$35 MMJ14) Australia Robes, thin papers, superb mint unhinged, AND well centred, a real scarcity for this issue! Normal price $225, plus premium for better centred. Cheap price $179

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Best Sellers This Month MMJ16) CHINA, Peoples Republic. 1992 Complete Year set, mint unhinged, 49 stamps and 2 minisheets. Bear in mind that year sets from the 1970’s and ‘80s are now selling at $350 - $650 US Dollars! 2 only available. $49 each. BE QUICK! MMJ17) CHINA, Peoples Republic. 100 mint unhinged stamps in complete sets. All recent issues from the past 20 years or so, up to 2013. $49 few only!

MMJ20) Australia 1929 5/- grey and yellow Kangaroo, perf OS, postally used. Normal price $160, we have four grades to offer: a) Fine used circular date stamp, with clear usage date $129 b) As above but date not clear. $99 c) Light parcel cancel $79 d) Slight seconds with heavier cancels/and or perf faults $39 MMJ22) A above, but a fine CTO example with gum, quite well centred, odd perf fault. $189 MMJ27) Hong Kong 1973 QEII Definitive set, SG283/96 complete MUH to $20. Cat. 100 pounds = approx. $180. Under half catalogue $85 MMJ28) Great Britain 1840 2d Blue, Spacefiller. Lettered CH with partial black Maltese Cross cancel. Pretty scruffy but under 5% catalogue! $75 MMJ29) All different packets clearance, all of the following reduced heavily in price: a) 600 different World Large $16 b) 500 Birds $49 c) 500 Hungary $24, 800 $33 d) 500 Romania $24 e) 500 Cambodia $35 f) 300 Haiti $52 g) 1000 Egypt $93 h) 1000 Austria Mint Unhinged $165 i) 500 Greece $24 j) 2500 World Thematics $84 k) 500 Olympics $34 l) 1500 Spain $119 m) 500 Russia Mint Unhinged $28 n) 500 Transport $34 o) 500 Sport $19 p) 500 Israel $54 q) 500 Trains $59 r) 300 Luxembourg $33 s) 800 Worldwide Minisheets $189 t) 1000 New Zealand $63 u) 1000 Japan $89 v) West Berlin complete Mint Unhinged 1960 -1990 $275 MMJ30) Finland, new lot of 470 different, just arrived. Lovely lot with early to modern plus high values. Under 20c per stamp $89 MMJ31) Bulk World Coins, much of it holiday change…we regularly sell this at $37.50 a kg but are a little overstocked just now, so out they go! Around 150 coins to the kg, so under 20c each. Heaps of variety and some spendables from USA, UK, NZ Switzerland etc. 1kg for $29.50, 5kg for $139, 10kg for $259 JA1) Australia 1913 5/- 1st wmk. cto with gum, normally $250 plus, this one with minor perf defects, just $169 JA2) Papua New Guinea 1952 One Pound Brown Fisherman, superb Mint Unhinged, normally $125, this one just $75, Bargain!

JA3) 1946 BCOF set of 7 to 5/- Robes, super quality mint lightly hinged set, usually $200, this one just $149, be quick!

JA4) Australia 1940 AIF set in mint Imprint Blocks of 4, great facial appearance, but some gum toning. Normally $100, under half price, just $49 JA5) Australia KGVI Robes Thin paper set 5/- to one pound, Mint Unhinged, normally $225, pound value off centre, so this one goes out at $$165!

JA6) Australia Navigators, 1964 mint lightly hinged pre-decimal set of 8, inc. White papers, normally $200, this set just $169. Fine used also available at $125.

JA7) Australia 1948 Arms set to Two Pounds, mint lightly hinged, usually $125, two sets only to clear at $99 each JA8) Austria, collection of 1000, all mint unhinged, earlies to quite recent. Magnificent lot! Under 25c per stamp, $249 JA9) Superb Iceland collections, just arrived from Icelandic Mission, one of each only:

a) 200 Different $49, b) 275 Different $65, c) 300 Different $75, d) 400 different $125, e) 625 different $249 f) 200 Diff. Mint Unhinged $59, 300 Diff. Mint Unhinged $95 JA10) 500 Diff. Greece, mostly large, $36 DE7) Great Britain, duplicated ranges of used in stockbook and on leaves, with many high values to One Pound, both KGVI and QEII pre-dec. Castles various printings, plus a mint unhinged and used collection of Commems. To around 1977. Nice traders lot! $165, now reduced to $129 DE9) Great Britain 1952 Wildings, Tudor Crown Wmk set Mint Unhinged, retail $85, my price $57.50, reduced, now only $46.50 DE10) As above, but 1955 Edward Crown Watermark, retail $175, my price $115, reduced to $92 DE11) As above, 1957 Graphite, 1958 Multiple Crowns, plus swys and inverted wmks.

Also Crowns Phosphor with upright and swys. Wmk sets Retail $235, my price $149, now selling at just $119 DE12) Great Britain QEII Commems. 1953 – 1967 complete, plus pre-decimal Machins to one pound, and Castles High Value Definitives, both crowns and no wmk. Sets. Al Mint Unhinged, retail $300, my price $195, now only $159 DE13) GB Phosphor Commems, Mint Unhinged, complete 1963 – 1967. Retail $265, my price $175, final price $130 NO1) Australia KGV Heads collection, fine used on printed pages, inc. the two engraved 1d issues. Complete set of 75 stamps, including OS overprints. Retail if purchased singly would be around $1275. These are selected fine used examples with mainly light corner cancels. Save $300 on retail. Price $975. Now reduced to $775, save $200! Final reduction $650. You will not buy this quality cheaper!

NO5) Ireland Mission on paper nice mix 500g $40, 1kg for $70 SA1) Minisheets by weight, 1st time we have been able to offer these in quite a few years, used to be one of our best sellers! Mixture of mint and cto used, all different in every lot, 150 plus sheets in each 100 grams. $99 per lot, 5 lots available, all are completely different. REDUCED IN PRICE TO $79 PER LOT! Final reduction, now just $62.50!

SA13) Pitcairn Is. 1966 World Cup, illustrated First Day Cover, un-addressed. Hard to find! Other dealers list at $55, my price just a half! $27.50 Now reduced to just $19.50! final clearance price, now only $15.

AA2) Worldwide mainly complete sets, mostly cto used but with some mint unhinged, plus some minisheets. Ex Fair Dealers Stock, mainly in multiples of 5. Ideal for re-sale on Ebay or through club sheets etc. Fantastic variety, and mainly the more popular thematics. We have three lots of this, sold by weight 2.25kg in each lot, but each lot estimate to contain around 2500 sets. Sell at 50c to $2 or more per set. Each lot for $750 (That is 30c per set) LAST TWO LOTS NOW, REDUCED TO $600 EACH. FINAL CLEARANCE NOW, $495 FOR THE LAST LOT LEFT, UNDER 20C PER SET! AA4) Great Britain 1924 Wembley set in Mint Unhinged blocks of 4, very fresh. Cat. Price is 100 pounds for hinged. Unhinged usually at least double, so around $375, cheap at 30% catalogue: Price $115, sale price now only $99! Final clearance price, now just $89 AA5) Amazing lot of 800 different Worldwide Minisheets, a variety of mint and cto used from a Wide range of countries. Great to have as a collection or re-sell at $1 to $3 each.

Under 75c each…$585 the lot, only two lots available. Last lot now, only $465, MY FINAL OFFER PRICE JUST $399 NOW…UNDER 50C EACH! AA27) West Germany complete collection, Mint Unhinged, 1970 – 1979. $329. Reduced to $265. final price $239 Last One!

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Revenue Review No Ears

First up this month is a rather poor quality forgery [fig 1], which sold by a UK dealer as genuine describing it as a ‘dolls house’ stamp.

I made several enquiries but am yet to get a reply. It sold for $170.00 to some unsuspecting collector. What to look out for: apart from the obvious, the colour, which should be pink. The problem is, this forgery is also well known in pink! So your next step is to look for a full right ear. As you can see in figure 1 the Queens hair covers her ear, making this the best giveaway that it is forged.

A Nice Pair

A rather nice pair of blue SPECIMEN

overprints [fig 2] on a 7/- New South Wales stamp duty was up for grabs. These are particularly rare in singles let alone a pair. If any are offered to you snap them up at any price as you may be waiting a long time before you see another nice pair!

Another Half

Queensland railway Halfpennies appear hard to find, and when they do show up they are usually from large, close to Brisbane stations.

So it was nice to see one from Dalby [fig 3], which is about 200kms west of Brisbane. It still fascinates me that some other States railways issued a farthing stamp, as there was no farthing in the Australian coinage of the time. You

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Dave Elsmore Railways including Perfins and the WWI & WWII Cinderella issues. I have just added to the WWII book, all the recorded Petrol Ration coupons or ‘Motor Spirit Ration Ticket’ as per figure 5. Some of these coupons are just as Moo, Oink!

Figure 4 turned up in Israel of all places! A great plentiful as 1d & 2d duty stamps, but some like figure 5 are rare as hen’s teeth. The Emergency selection of mint Swine & Cattle remainders from Victoria. You rarely see these issues in any Rationing of Petrol in 1943 brought about the printing and issue of ‘Emergency Ration quantity show up. If your like me, you would have a selection of used but very few mint. The Tickets’. Issued by post offices and dated with the postal cancellers, these have become pick of the bunch here would undoubtedly be very collectable. Steve Hamilton of ‘Ham For the SWINE overprints.

Stamps’ has a ‘one gallon’ emergency on his Ration web site for a cool $500.00. I did show some After the release of my latest additions to my of these last year that a Sydney dealer sold FREE online publications on Revenues and off. Again if you see one, grab it as you will would have had to buy 2 of them! Gee makes you wonder how they were able to legally get money out of the public.

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Revenue Review be waiting a long time to see another. It goes without saying, the early dates are even rarer.

Third Sister

A few years ago I showed a rare beer duty issue, which had turned up in a USA auction. This was the sister copy to one I owned. Low and behold the same scenario happened recently when figure 6 was sold off by a collector in Germany. As it happened, I own the earlier of the two numbers [fig 7]. Both displaying the same date and signature. Lucky for me mine is not damaged. As things happen in three’s I will await the third sister to come along.

Received With Thanks

It was nice to see figure 8, a security pre cancel from Macdonald Hamilton & Co. In the early

years of the 1900’s Macdonald was instrumental in the formation of the ‘Collins pool’, which was an agreement between the major coastal shipping companies. In particular AUSN and their rival the Adelaide Steamship Co. This allowed the building of a larger Australian coastal fleet. The surviving copies are generally 1d & 2d receipt stamps, so to add a 6d to the FREE online catalogue was a bonus!

HB

Another security pre cancel that recently came to light is figure 9. A rather tatty looking 1d from the New South Wales railway’s, handstamped ‘H.B. / & CO.’ Probably from Henry Berry & Co General Merchants of Kent St, Sydney. Another possibility is Hardy Bros, of Hunter St, Sydney. My only problem with the

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Dave Elsmore latter company is, that they were Jeweller’s, and I can see little use for railway parcels being sent by this company. Maybe you know? If so please let me know your thoughts.

said it may be from a larger ‘cancelling’ device and is only part of the actual cancel. A search of Trove leaves answers very thin but did yield a ‘James Lilly’ who was a Manager working in shipping at the time this was used. Again maybe you the reader can help here? If you Auction have anything remotely similar I would like to A couple of nice auctions full of revenue, hear from you, in the mean time I would like to railway and Cinderella’s are about to hit the place this ‘unknown’ Perfin on record, here in auction scene. Keep a lookout and if you do bid, ‘Revenue Review’ make it low as I will be biding!!!

Perfin Corner

This month I have a little gem to share with you. Figure 10 is dated 1884, which is very early for a Perfin. It appears to be punched with the letters ‘J.L’. To date,s all the Perfin guys cannot put a user to these initials. It has been

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AAT fully IMPERFORATE Miniature Sheets issued by Australia Post!

In November 2013, Australia Post released 250 x IMPERFORATE panes of 15 mini sheets of stamps. The “1913 Disaster & Isolation” issue, for the Centenary of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) of 1911-14. The AAE left Hobart in December 1911 commanded by Douglas Mawson and returned in February 1914. Mawson was knighted for his achievements, and is regarded as one of the greatest figures of all Antarctic exploration.

You needed to phone the PO “800” number, or order online. Cost was well above face value, and the maximum order was ONE sheet a person. Sold out in super-fast time, as you’d expect - within hours I am advised. There will be near none in the secondary market, as collectors who got very lucky, will not be sellers - at any price. I’d guess there are easily 20,000 keen global collectors of AAT, but only 250 of these sheets to go around.

If 200 buyers hold on to their sheets for their collections, that leaves just FIFTY to service those 20,000 collectors worldwide. 99% of AAT collectors do not right now realise this IMPERF issue even exists! In the 56 years since AAT first issued stamps in 1957, I can’t recall any other *AAT* imperforates sold by the PO. Each sheet is hand numbered in top left margin, and also comes with a Certificate of Guarantee card from head of AP, confirming that only 250 panes in TOTAL were sold – globally. This is an Official Australia Post Australian Antarctic Territory issue.

I am offering these as follows: SUBJECT UNSOLD – please use correct stock code!

A. Fully imperforate MUH or CTO AAT Mini Sheet - $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.)

Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation This month I look at Sydney Stamp Expo 2015, the last in the long-running series of APF replica cards and the national Postcard Class.

Sydney Stamp Expo 2015

The Australian philatelic event of 2015 takes place this month. Sydney Stamp Expo 2015 ANZAC Centenary will be held from Thursday April 16 until Sunday April 19 2015 at the Johnny Warren Sports Centre in Penshurst Park David Figg, Postcard Judge, signing the APF Judges Register Hurstville to commemorate the Centenary of the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli in 1915.

Post will be present at the Exhibition. You will also This philatelic feast will provide you with access to have the opportunity to view over 600 frames of dealers from around Australia and overseas enabling exhibits enabling you to see material you would you to find new gems for your collection as well as never otherwise see and obtain ideas to enhance the opportunity to sell your duplicates. Australia your own collecting

and exhibiting. The Exhibition will also include a program of society meetings and other events and, best of all, the Exhibition will provide the opportunity to catch up with your stamp collecting friends from around the country and the opportunity to make new contacts. For further details see http://www. sydneystampexpo2015. org.au/ .

Sandgate - The Brighton of Queensland, Queensland Intelligence and Tourist Bureau Postcard for Panama-Pacific International Exhibition 1915 48 - Stamp News

ANZAC Replica Card

For many years Australia

Ian McMahon

Philatelic Development Officer, APF

Spine billed Honey Eater [Eastern Spinebill] and Native Rose postcard (J M Cantle artist) Post has produced Replica Cards to support Australian national exhibitions. The replica cards contain an impression from the die of an issued Australian stamp printed in intaglio. Due to the increasing difficulty in sourcing printers who are able to produce the cards, the series will cease with Replica Card number 50 which will mark the Centenary of ANZAC. The final card depicting the 8d ANZAC stamp is due to be released at Sydney Stamp Expo 2015.

A book, Australia’s Stamp Replica Cards, listing all of the replica cards, including the black prints and overprinted cards, has been prepared by Martin Walker and is also expected to be available at Sydney Stamp Expo 2015. It is the fully illustrated

Australian memorial Villers-Bretonneux history of the 50 Stamp Replica Cards which have been produced over their 21 year life. The book is A4 in size with 100 + pages and will be available from the APF stand at the exhibition. A black print ANZAC replica card will be included in the book.

Picture Postcards

Picture postcard exhibits have been a feature at Australian national philatelic exhibitions now for many years. Postcard exhibits have added a new dimension to philatelic exhibitions as postcard displays attract considerable public interest with many of the displays being attractive, colourful and of general interest.

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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Until now, although Postcards has been an APF national class, it has been judged at exhibitions by a separate postcard jury using judges accredited outside of the APF philatelic judging accreditation processes.

In 2014 the APF decided to make postcard judges officially APF accredited judges and at future national exhibitions to include the postcard judges within the philatelic jury.

The currently accredited postcard judges have now been included on the APF Judges’ Register and future postcard judges will qualify through the same APF accreditation process used for other classes. The existing postcard judges who were not already philatelic judges signed the APF Judges’ Register at a ceremony in Adelaide in 2014. While there is no postcard class at FIP or FIAP exhibitions, a number of other countries such as USA and New Zealand include postcards in their philatelic exhibitions.

The APF is conducting a Judges’ refresher course prior to Sydney Stamp Expo 2015. To help ANZAC Replica Card existing philatelic judges understand the postcard exhibits (the point breakdown for one-frame class, the course will postcard exhibits is slightly different): include a focus on the postcard class.

The Postcard class is judged according to the • Treatment & Coverage 20 following categories and points for multi-frame 50 - Stamp News

Ian McMahon

Philatelic Development Officer, APF

• • • • • • •

Front Page 25 Subject Knowledge & Research 15 Card Knowledge & Research 15 Rarity 10 Condition 20 Presentation 10 Appeal 5

Travelling School Dental Clinic, Queensland Department of Public Instruction postcard

should stimulate the viewer to study the subject themselves.

The exhibitor is also expected to show a The first page (or the beginning of the exhibit) technical knowledge of the production of the cards, should have a plan or outline of the exhibit, which namely the printer, photographer, date of issue, explains the logical progression through the exhibit number in the set, reprints, method of production, as given by the title with a concise and easy to read plate size, distribution etc. All of these technical write-up without being too lengthy or overpowering. details are not expected in every exhibit, but some For multi-frame an assessment of the overall knowledge relevant to the overall production of the structure of the exhibit is also made with originality cards should be evident. being rewarded.

There should be an attempt to assess the rarity of Exhibitors should show a clear understanding cards relative to the frequency of their survival, as of the subject, significantly beyond the expected well as the difficulty of acquisition particularly in average viewer’s perspective, with research into comparison with their relative popularity amongst the subject using appropriate cards to illustrate card collectors. throughout. Ideally the material and information Stamp News - 51

Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation

Sydney Stamp Expo 2011 If the perfect card is as produced by the printer, then the determination of condition will be by evidence of handling and usage measured against a reasonable time frame. Modern cards must be perfect. Cards should not be penalised for postal usage or writing on the cards unless the defacement seriously detracts from the subject being shown.

In assessing Presentation and appeal, tidiness, cleanliness, clarity, balance i.e. an overall viewing in the frame, innovation of presentation, etc, will be taken into account. It is here that the exhibitor may well find that the standard 4 x 4 (16 pages) can be modified by using larger sheets that nevertheless fit into the standard one square metre frame.

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It is permissible in postcard exhibits to show other material to complement the display e.g. photographs, newspaper cuttings, menus etc but they shall be neither numerically nor in area more than 25% of the postcards shown.

In developing a postcard exhibit, exhibitors can classify their cards in a number of ways: • Topographical: A study of a place or places within a geographical framework.

There also may be a time aspect whereby variation through the years can be shown.

• Thematic: Using cards to tell a story about a subject, theme or concept. There may well be a mixture of cards from any country, printer, photographer etc.

• Social: Using cards to illustrate some aspect of a social subject, be it the story of a place, people or theme illustrated primarily with postcards but allowing other material to complement the display e.g. photographs, newspaper cuttings, menus etc but not numerically more than 25% of the items shown.

• Classification: A study of an artist, producer, photographer etc over a period of time or geographical area.

• Modern: An exhibit of picture postcards post 1945; may be any of the 4 classifications above.

Postcard exhibits have proved popular for exhibitors and visitors alike. Why not have a look at the postcard exhibits at Sydney Stamp Expo 2015 and consider exhibiting at further exhibitions.

APF Website

Users of the APF website will have noticed that the site was not updated for a period late last year and early this year. The APF regrets this period of inactivity which was due to circumstances beyond its control. The site is now active again and I hope you will keep on visiting the site.

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A-One Stamps - M Greive

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Gold Coast Stamp Traders Glyn Fairbairn PO Box 275, Currumbin, QLD 4223 Ph: 07 5533 9582 www.goldcoststamptraders.com.au sales@goldcoastsamptraders.com.au

Stephen Joe

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Peter Barrett

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PO Box 5, Dover, UK CT16 1YQ Ph: 013 0482 9827 pjbchelse@aol.com www.stamo-centre.co.uk

Bexley Stamps - M. Hill PO Box 92 Doonside, NSW 2767 Ph: 02 9920 5057 sales@bexleystamps.com.au www.bexleystamps.com.au

Blue Owls Stamps - Jude Koch

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PO Box 16, Northcote, VIC 3020 Ph: 03 9480 2193

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Dr William L. Mayo (Booklets)

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Maree Nieuwenhuizen PO BOX 457, Bayswater, VIC 3153 Ph: 03 9762 1848 maree@mpnstamps.com

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Ray Pinniger PO Box 9008, Scoresby, VIC 3179 Ph: 03 9753 3520 bevvyc@optusnet.com.au

Chris Snelling Stamps PO Box 121, Kotara Fair, NSW 2289 Ph: 02 4952 8205 orcstamp@bigpond.net.au www.orchidstamps.com

Glen Stephens 4 The Tor Walk, Castlecrag, NSW 2068 PH: 02 9958 1333 glen@glenstephens.com www.glenstephens.com

Sydney Philatelics Graeme Fudge PO Box 122, Milton, NSW 2538 Ph: 02 4455 4011 info@sydphil.com www.stampsaustralia.com.au

Lyndsay Tooley PO Box 441, Norfolk Is. NSW 2899 Ph: 06 7232 3778 stamps@ninet.nf

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ACTS

PO Box 1290 Upwey, VIC 3158

Pricefighter Packets, ready made collections KEEP THIS LIST, UPDATES WILL BE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN! Discounts from this list: Spend $100 and deduct 10%, $101 to $250 deduct 20%, $251 plus deduct 30% All different in each packet

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25 AAT .............................................................$ 3.00 50 AAT ...........................................................$ 25.00 25 ADEN ..........................................................$ 6.00 50 ADEN ........................................................$ 12.00 50 ADEN – MINT U/H ......................................$20.00 100 AFRICA ......................................................$ 6.00 500 AFRICA ....................................................$ 39.00 50 AITUTAKI ...................................................$ 40.00 200 AITUTAKI ................................................$180.00 100 ALBANIA .................................................$ 24.00 50 ALGERIA $ ......................................................7.00 500 ALGERIA ......................................................$300 25 ANDORA - SPANISH MINT U/H ...................$ 20.00 50 ANDORRA - SPANISH MINT U/H .................$60.00 25 ANDORRA - FRENCH MINT U/H ..................$ 20.00 50 ANDORRA - FRENCH MINT U/H ....................$ 5.00 50 ANDORRA - SPANISH MINT U/H ..................$ 6.00 25 ANTIGUA .....................................................$ 5.00 500 ANTIGUA ...............................................$ 260.00 50 ANTIGUA BARDUDA ..................................$ 12.00 200 ARAB STATES ..........................................$ 24.00 200 ARGENTINA ..............................................$15.00 300 ARGENTINA .............................................$ 28.00 500 ARGENTINA .............................................$ 50.00 25 ASCENSION ..............................................$42.00 100 AUST. (DEC MINT U/H) ............................$ 55.00 100 AUST. (PREDEC.MINT U/H) ......................$ 55.00 100 AUSTRALIA ...............................................$ 4.00 200 AUSTRALIA ...............................................$ 6.00 300 AUSTRALIA ...............................................$ 8.00 400 AUSTRALIA .............................................$ 13.50 500 AUSTRALIA .............................................$ 16.50 600 AUSTRALIA .............................................$ 27.50 800 AUSTRALIA .............................................$ 40.00 1000 AUSTRALIA ...........................................$ 65.00 25 AUSTRALIAN STATES .................................$ 10.00 50 AUSTRALIAN STATES .................................$ 36.00 100 AUSTRALIAN STATES ..............................$120.00 100 AUSTRIA ...................................................$ 7.00 200 AUSTRIA .................................................$ 18.00 500 AUSTRIA .................................................$ 45.00 800 AUSTRIA ..................................................$79.50 100 AUSTRIA (LRG.COMMEMS) ......................$ 50.00 200 AUSTRIA (LRG.COMMEMS).....................$ 100.00 1000 AUSTRIA .............................................$ 119.00 1000 AUSTRIA (MINT U/H) ...........................$ 295.00 2000 AUSTRIA .............................................$ 465.00

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100 BAHAMAS ...............................................$ 45.00

25 BAHRAIN ..................................................$ 16.50 50 BAHRAIN ..................................................$ 36.00 100 BANGLADESH ............................................$ 5.50 500 BANGLADESH....................................... $ 110.00 25 BARBADOS ..................................................$ 6.00 50 BARBADOS ................................................$ 12.00 100 BARBADOS ..............................................$ 35.00 50 BAVARIA ...................................................$ 14.00 100 BAVARIA .................................................$ 42.00 200 BAVARIA ...............................................$ 105.00 200 BELGIAN CONGO ......................................$ 50.00 200 BELGIUM ...................................................$ 7.50 500 BELGIUM .................................................$ 40.00 100 BELGIUM COLONIES .................................$ 13.00 300 BELGIUM COLONIES .................................$ 80.00 500 BELGUIM COLONIES ...............................$ 176.00 1000 BELGIUM .............................................$ 185.00 500 BENIN ...................................................$ 140.00 25 BERMUDA .................................................$ 15.00 25 BOHEMIA MORAVIA ....................................$ 2.00 50 BOHEMIA MORAVIA ....................................$ 8.00 100 BOHEMIA MORAVIA ................................$ 24.00 150 BOHEMIA MORAVIA ................................$ 55.00 25 BOLIVIA ......................................................$ 6.00 50 BOLIVIA ....................................................$ 13.00 25 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ..............................$ 11.00 50 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ..............................$ 33.00 150 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ..........................$ 170.00 100 Br. AGENCIES .........................................$ 100.00 25 BR. SOLOMONS .........................................$ 10.00 100 BRAZIL (LARGE COMMEMS) ....................$ 17.00 400 BRAZIL ....................................................$ 59.00 1000 BRAZIL ................................................$ 350.00 100 BRAZIL (MINT U/H) ...............................$ 370.00 100 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ........................$ 6.00 200 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ......................$ 10.00 500 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ......................$ 39.00 100 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH (MINT U/H) ...$ 27.00 100 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH KGVI (MINT U/H) ...$ 60.00 1000 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH( MINT U/H ) ....$ 190.00 50 BRITISH HONDURAS (LRG.COMMEMS) ......$ 40.00 25 HONDURAS AND BELIZE ..............................$ 9.00 25 BRITISH VIRGIN ISL. ..................................$ 22.00 50 BRITISH WEST INDIES ................................$ 10.00 100 BRITISH WEST INDIES ..............................$ 14.00 500 BRITISH WEST INDIES ..............................$ 75.00 100 BULGARIA .................................................$ 7.00 300 BULGARIA ...............................................$ 22.00 500 BULGARIA ...............................................$ 50.00 800 BULGARIA ...............................................$ 88.00 1000 BULGARIA ...........................................$ 120.00 300 BULGARIA (LARGE PICS) ..........................$ 22.00 100 BURUNDI ................................................$ 20.00

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25 CAMBODIA ................................................$ 10.00 100 CAMBODIA ............................................$ 115.00 500 CAMBODIA ..............................................$ 65.00 700 CANADA ..................................................$ 69.00

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

1000 CANADA ..............................................$ 100.00 100 CANADA (MINT.COMMS) .........................$ 50.00 25 CAYMAN ISL ..............................................$ 15.00 50 CAYMAN ISL ..............................................$ 36.00 500 CENTRAL AMERICA ..................................$ 60.00 450 CEYLON/SRI LANKA .................................$ 99.00 100 CHANNEL ISLANDS ..................................$ 19.00 150 CHANNEL ISLANDS ..................................$ 80.00 300 CHANNEL ISLANDS $ 130.00 100 CHILE $ 12.00 200 CHILE ......................................................$ 24.00 500 CHILE ....................................................$ 110.00 100 CHINA .....................................................$ 19.00 200 CHINA .....................................................$ 48.00 250 CHINA .....................................................$ 70.00 325 CHINA ...................................................$ 130.00 500 CHINA (INC. TAIWAN) ............................$ 149.00 500 CHINA P.R.C ...........................................$ 300.00 100 CHINA (LRG, MINT, COMP.SETS)................$ 30.00 25 CHRISTMAS ISLAND...................................$ 14.00 50 CHRISTMAS ISLAND.................................. $ 33.00 75 CHRISTMAS ISLAND ..................................$ 50.00 100 CHRISTMAS ISLAND ..............................$ 100.00 150 CHRISTMAS ISLAND ..............................$ 150.00 200 CHRISTMAS ISLAND ..............................$ 230.00 500 CONGO ..................................................$ 140.00 25 COCOS ISLAND ............................................$ 8.00 50 COCOS ISLAND ..........................................$ 38.00 75 COCOS ISLAND ..........................................$ 60.00 100 COCOS ISLAND ......................................$ 132.00 900 COLOMBIA ............................................$ 370.00 300 COOK ISLANDS ......................................$ 350.00 400 COOK ISLANDS ......................................$ 280.00 500 COOK ISLANDS ......................................$ 325.00 750 COOK ISLANDS ....................................$ 1280.00 1000 COOK ISLANDS .................................$ 2,000.00 50 COSTA RICA ...............................................$ 13.00 500 COSTA RICA ...........................................$ 225.00 50 CROATIA (PRE WAR) ..................................$ 20.00 100 CUBA ........................................................$ 5.00 500 CUBA ......................................................$ 60.00 1000 CUBA ....................................................$ 85.00 300 CUBA ......................................................$ 30.00 200 CUBA (LARGE PICT.) ................................$ 14.00 25 CYPRUS ....................................................$ 12.00 50 CYPRUS ....................................................$ 30.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ......................................$ 3.00 200 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ....................................$ 15.00 500 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ....................................$ 17.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (MINT U/H) .................$ 17.00 200 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (MINT U/H)..................$ 20.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (POST WAR).................$ 11.00 400 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (MINT U/H)..................$ 30.00 1000 CZECHOSLAVAKIA ..................................$ 85.00

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50 DANZIG .....................................................$ 58.00 100 DANZIG ...................................................$ 66.00 100 DENMARK .................................................$ 5.00

Pay cents, not $ per stamp!

300 DENMARK ...............................................$ 20.00 500 DENMARK ...............................................$ 60.00 500 DENMARK( LARGE PICT.) .......................$ 120.00 25 DOMINICA BR. .............................................$ 4.00 50 DOMINICA BR. .............................................$ 6.00 100 DOMINICA BR. .........................................$ 30.00 50 DOMINICA BR. (KGVI & QEII) .....................$ 40.00 500 DOMINICA BR. .......................................$ 260.00 200 DOMINICAN REP. .....................................$ 33.00 300 DOMINICAN REP. .....................................$ 70.00 90 DUTCH EAST INDIES ................................$ 100.00

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300 ECUADOR ................................................$ 77.00 400 ECUADOR ................................................$ 80.00 500 ECUADOR ..............................................$ 110.00 700 ECUADOR ..............................................$ 250.00 100 EGYPT .....................................................$ 10.00 300 EGYPT .....................................................$ 70.00 500 EGYPT .....................................................$ 55.00 1000 EGYPT .................................................$ 155.00 50 EGYPT (MINT/UH, COMPL. SETS)................$ 30.00 50 EGYPT + 4 M/S .........................................$ 30.00 50 ESTONIA ....................................................$ 66.00 25 EQUATORIAL GUINEA (M/SHEET CTO) ........$ 11.00 1000 EUROPE ...............................................$ 50 .00

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20 FALKLAND ISL. COMPL. MINT SETS...........$ 120.00 25 FALKLAND ISLAND ....................................$ 18.00 50 FAROS ISLAND ..........................................$ 60.00 100 FAROS ISLAND ......................................$ 130.00 50 FIJI ............................................................$ 18.00 100 FIJI ..........................................................$ 50.00 150 FIJI ..........................................................$ 70.00 200 FIJI ..........................................................$ 80.00 250 FIJI ........................................................$ 140.00 400 FIJI ........................................................$ 300.00 500 FIJI ........................................................$ 440.00 300 FINLAND .................................................$ 60.00 400 FINLAND .................................................$ 80.00 500 FINLAND ...............................................$ 140.00 10 FIUME ........................................................$ 7.00 300 FRANCE ...................................................$ 30.00 500 FRANCE ...................................................$ 50.00 100 FRENCH COLONIES .....................................$ 6.00 500 FRENCH COLONIES ...................................$ 70.00 50 FRENCH COLONIES (PRE INDEPENDENCE) ..$ 12.00 500 FRENCH COLONIES (PRE INDEPENDENCE) ...$ 185.00 50 FRENCH POLYNESIA ...................................$ 50.00

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500 GAMBIA (MINT U/H) .............................$ 500.00 50 GERMANY 3RD REICH ................................$ 13.00 25 GERMANY ...................................................$ 5.00 100 GERMANY .................................................$ 7.00 300 GERMANY ...............................................$ 18.00 1000 GERMANY .............................................$ 50.00

50 GERMANY (PRE WAR) ...............................$ 11.00 100 GERMANY (PRE WAR) .............................$ 22.00 100 GERMANY EAST ....................................$ 119.00 500 GERMANY EAST ......................................$ 40.00 50 GERMANY INFLATION (MINT U/H ).............$ 10.00 100 GERMANY INFLATION (MINT U/H)............$ 20.00 500 GERMANY WEST ......................................$ 50.00 1200 GERMANY WEST ..................................$ 260.00 100 GERMANY WEST(LRG.COMMEMS) ............$20.00 100 GHANA ...................................................$ 50.00 200 GHANA .................................................$ 120.00 500 GHANA .................................................$ 149.00 25 GIBRALTAR ................................................$ 17.00 50 GIBRALTAR ................................................$ 45.00 500 GILBERT, KIRIBATI, TUVALU ...................$ 270.00 25 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .........................$ 12.00 150 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .......................$ 90.00 200 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .....................$ 100.00 300 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .....................$ 150.00 360 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .....................$ 190.00 400 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .....................$ 225.00 25 GREAT BRITAIN ............................................$ 2.00 50 GREAT BRITAIN ............................................$ 7.00 100 GREAT BRITAIN ..........................................$ 9.00 500 G\GREAT BRITAIN ....................................$ 25.00 1000 GREAT BRITAIN ....................................$ 176.00 1200 GREAT BRITAIN ....................................$ 230.00 100 GREAT BTITAIN (LARGE COMMEMS) ........$ 12.00 200 GREAT BRITAIN (LARGE COMMEMS).........$ 20.00 50 GREECE .......................................................$ 5.00 100 GREECE ...................................................$ 14.00 200 GREECE ...................................................$ 30.00 1000 GREECE ...............................................$ 165.00 100 GREENLAND ..........................................$ 100.00 50 GRENADA ....................................................$ 8.00 100 GRENADA (MINT U/H) .............................$ 10.00 25 GUATEMALA ...............................................$ 6.00 50 GUATEMALA .............................................$ 14.00 100 GUATEMALA ...........................................$ 32.00 300 GUATEMALA .........................................$ 150.00 25 GUINEA M/S............................................. $ 10.00 50 GUINEA REP. ................................................$ 6.00 100 GUINEA REP. (LARGE PICT.) ......................$ 10.00

H

50 HAITI ........................................................$ 12.00 100 HAITI ......................................................$ 30.00 200 HAITI ......................................................$ 55.00 100 HOLLAND ..................................................$ 7.00 200 HOLLAND ................................................$ 14.00 300 HOLLAND ................................................$ 30.00 400 HOLLAND ................................................$ 40.00 500 HOLLAND ................................................$ 50.00 1000 HOLLAND ............................................$ 120.00 100 HONDURAS..............................................$ 50.00 200 HONDURAS .............................................$ 80.00 400 HONDURAS ...........................................$ 140.00 25 HONG KONG ................................................$ 6.00 50 HONG KONG ..............................................$ 12.00

100 HONG KONG ............................................$ 20.00 200 HONG KONG ..........................................$ 100.00 50 HUNGARY ...................................................$ 2.00 100 HUNGARY .................................................$ 3.00 500 HUNGARY ...............................................$ 20.00 1000 HUNGARY .............................................$ 65.00 2000 HUNGARY ...........................................$ 150.00 3000 HUNGARY ...........................................$ 440.00 300 HUNGARY (LARGE PICT.) .........................$ 24.00 1000 HUNGARY (LARGE PICT.) .......................$ 85.00

I

25 ICELAND (MINT U/H) .................................$ 20.00 50 ICELAND (MINT U/H) .................................$ 40.00 500 ICELAND .................................................$ 89.00 300 INDIA ......................................................$ 24.00 700 INDIA....................................................... $99.00 1000 INDIA ..................................................$ 200.00 25 INDO - CHINA ..............................................$ 8.00 50 INDO - CHINA ............................................$ 20.00 100 INDONESIA ................................................$ 6.00 300 INDONESIA ..............................................$ 56.00 300 IRAN .......................................................$ 30.00 500 IRAN .......................................................$ 60.00 500 IRAQ .....................................................$ 230.00 1000 IRAQ ...................................................$ 270.00 350 IRELAND .................................................$ 60.00 400 IRELAND ...............................................$ 194.00 500 IRELAND ...............................................$ 250.00 600 IRELAND ...............................................$ 360.00 300 ISRAEL ....................................................$ 45.00 500 ISRAEL ....................................................$ 90.00 25 ITALIAN COLONIES .....................................$ 10.00 50 ITALIAN COLONIES .....................................$ 24.00 100 ITALIAN COLONIES ...................................$ 75.00 200 ITALIAN COLONIES ...................................$ 80.00 500 ITALY .......................................................$ 80.00

J

200 JAMAICA ...............................................$ 130.00 50 JAPAN .........................................................$ 4.00 200 JAPAN .....................................................$ 21.00 500 JAPAN .....................................................$ 60.00 1000 JAPAN .................................................$ 140.00 100 JAPAN (MINT U/H) ..................................$ 60.00 50 JERSEY ......................................................$ 13.00

K

50 KOREA NORTH (LARGE PICT.) .......................$ 6.00 100 KOREA NORTH (LARGE PICT.)....................$ 10.00 500 KOREA NORTH .........................................$ 80.00 50 KOREA SOUTH ...........................................$ 14.00

L

25 LAOS ...........................................................$ 4.00 50 LAOS ...........................................................$ 7.00 500 LAOS .......................................................$ 70.00

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Pricefighter Packets, ready made collections 20 LAOS PRE WAR ............................................$ 6.00 100 LATIN AMERICA .........................................$ 3.00 300 LATIN AMERICA .......................................$ 19.00 500 LATIN AMERICA .......................................$ 36.00 50 LATVIA ......................................................$ 22.00 200 LATVIA ..................................................$ 170.00 75 LATVIA (Pre War) ....................................$ 100.00 100 LEBANON ................................................$ 40.00 200 LEBANON ..............................................$ 100.00 100 LIBERIA ...................................................$ 15.00 300 LIBERIA ...................................................$ 70.00 25 LIECHTENSTEIN .........................................$ 10.00 50 LIECHTENSTEIN .........................................$ 30.00 500 LIECHTHENSTEIN ........................................$ 320 25 LITHUANIA ................................................$ 10.00 50 LITHUANIA ................................................$ 30.00 100 LITHUANIA ............................................$ 100.00 50 LUXEMBOURG .............................................$ 8.00 100 LUXEMBOURG .........................................$ 21.00 300 LUXEMBOURG .........................................$ 55.00

M

50 MACAU .....................................................$ 60.00 200 MALAYA AND SINGAPORE .......................$ 20.00 500 MALAYA AND SINGAPORE .......................$ 96.00 1000 MALAYA AND SINGAPORE ...................$ 400.00 25 MALAYSIA ...................................................$ 2.00 100 MALAYSIA ...............................................$ 13.00 100 MALDIVES ...............................................$ 19.00 100 MALTA ....................................................$ 10.00 500 MALTA ..................................................$ 140.00 650 MALTA ..................................................$ 270.00 50 MAURITIUS ...............................................$ 24.00 100 MAURITIUS .............................................$ 30.00 200 MEXICO ...................................................$ 54.00 500 MEXICO .................................................$ 110.00 25 MONACO .....................................................$ 6.00 100 MONACO .................................................$ 40.00 100 MONGOLIA ..............................................$ 10.00 500 MONGOLIA ..............................................$ 65.00 25 MONTENEGRO ...........................................$ 20.00 50 MONTENEGRO ...........................................$ 50.00 100 MONTSERRAT ........................................$ 114.00 25 MOROCCO AGENCIES ...................................$ 7.60 100 MOZAMBIQUE .........................................$ 22.00 200 MOZAMBIQUE .........................................$ 55.00 400 MOZAMBIQUE .......................................$ 270.00 500 MOZAMBIQUE .......................................$ 300.00 50 MYANMAR ................................................$ 20.00

N

25 NAURU ......................................................$ 11.00 50 NAURU ......................................................$ 33.00 100 NAURU................................................... $ 93.00 150 NAURU ..................................................$ 134.00 200 NAURU ..................................................$ 160.00 50 NEPAL .........................................................$ 4.00 100 NEPAL .......................................................$ 8.00 400 NEPAL ...................................................$ 100.00

500 NEVIS (MINT U/H) .................................$ 260.00 25 NETHERLANDS ANTILLES ..........................$ 20.00 50 NEW CALEDONIA ......................................$ 36.00 100 NEW CALEDONIA ..................................$ 150.00 10 NEWFOUNDLAND .......................................$ 8.00 25 NEWFOUNDLAND .....................................$ 16.00 50 NEWFOUNDLAND .....................................$ 44.00 100 NEWFOUNDLAND .................................$ 190.00 50 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .........................$ 40.00 100 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .......................$ 90.00 200 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .....................$ 260.00 300 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .....................$ 440.00 400 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .....................$ 600.00 100 NEW ZEALAND ..........................................$ 5.00 150 NEW ZEALAND ..........................................$ 6.00 200 NEW ZEALAND ........................................$ 14.00 300 NEW ZEALAND ........................................$ 28.00 400 NEW ZEALAND ........................................$ 33.00 100 NEW ZEALAND ......................................$ 105.00 25 NICARAGUA ................................................$ 2.00 50 NICARAGUA ................................................$ 5.00 100 NICARAGUA ..............................................$ 8.00 500 NICARAGUA ............................................$ 70.00 25 NIGERIA ......................................................$ 5.40 100 NIGERIA ..................................................$ 60.00 50 NIUE .........................................................$ 40.00 100 NIUE .......................................................$ 88.00 25 NORFOLK ISL. ............................................$ 10.00 50 NORFOLK ISL. ............................................$ 26.00 100 NORFOLK ISL. ..........................................$ 90.00 200 NORFOLK ISL. ........................................$ 150.00 300 NORFOLK ISL. ........................................$ 270.00 50 NORTH BORNEO ........................................$ 50.00 50 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH .....................$ 30.00 100 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH ................$ 190.00 120 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH ................$ 200.00 150 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH .................$ 240.00 200 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH .................$ 360.00 250 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH .................$ 460.00 300 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH .................$ 700.00 100 NORWAY ...................................................$ 8.00 500 NORWAY .................................................$ 80.00 25 NYASALAND ..............................................$ 50.00

P

50 PACIFIC IS (BR) ............................................$ 8.00 100 PACIFIC IS. (BR) ........................................$16.00 200 PACIFIC IS. (BR) .......................................$ 56.00 600 PACIFIC ISLANDS ...................................$ 250.00 100 PAKISTAN ..................................................$ 7.00 500 PAKISTAN ..............................................$ 120.00 50 PANAMA ...................................................$ 12.00 25 PAPUA NEW GUINEA....................................$ 5.00 50 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...................................$ 7.00 100 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...............................$ 26.00 150 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...............................$ 62.00 200 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...............................$ 88.00 250 PAPUA NEW GUINEA .............................$ 100.00 500 PAPUA NEW GUINEA .............................$ 400.00

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600 PAPUA NEW GUINEA .............................$ 750.00 800 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...........................$ 1900.00 100 PARAGUAY (MINT U/H)) ..........................$ 20.00 50 PENRHYN ..................................................$ 46.00 150 PENRHYN ..............................................$ 184.00 50 PERU ...........................................................$ 5.00 500 PERU .....................................................$ 170.00 600 PERU .....................................................$ 250.00 700 PERU .....................................................$ 470.00 100 PHILIPPINES ...........................................$ 12.00 800 PHILIPPINES......................................... $ 250.00 900 PHILIPPINES .........................................$ 330.00 1000 PLILIPPINES .............................................$ 420 1200 PHILIPPINES .......................................$ 500.00 1500 PHILIPPINES .......................................$ 700.00 25 PITCAIRN ISLAND (MINT U/H)................... $ 20.00 100 PITCAIRN ISLAND (MINT U/H) ...............$ 150.00 150 PITCAIRN ISLAND (MINT U/H) ...............$ 170.00 200 PITCAIRN ISLAND (MINT U/H)................$ 324.00 50 POLAND ......................................................$ 2.00 100 POLAND ....................................................$ 4.00 300 POLAND ..................................................$ 12.00 500 POLAND.................................................. $ 30.00 1000 POLAND ................................................$ 60.00 200 POLAND (PICTORIALS) ..............................$ 8.00 150 PORT AZORES ........................................$ 190.00 100 PORTUGAL ..............................................$ 12.00 200 PORTUGAL ..............................................$ 39.00 500 PORTUGAL ............................................$ 125.00 50 PORTUGAL COLONIES ..................................$ 6.00 200 PORTUGAL COLONIES ..............................$ 40.00

Q

50 QATAR .......................................................$ 20.00

R

50 RHODESIA .................................................$ 16.00 200 RHODESIA ...............................................$ 70.00 300 RHODESIA .............................................$ 140.00 400 RHODESIA .............................................$ 400.00 50 ROMANIA ....................................................$ 2.00 100 ROMANIA ..................................................$ 3.00 200 ROMANIA ..................................................$ 5.00 500 ROMANIA ................................................$ 31.00 1000 ROMANIA ..............................................$ 73.00 1500 ROMANIA ............................................$ 225.00 100 ROMANIA (LARGE PICT.) ............................$ 6.00 200 ROMANIA (LARGE PICT.) ..........................$ 11.00 300 ROMANIA (LARGE PICT.) ..........................$ 18.00 100 RUSSIA .....................................................$ 7.00 200 RUSSIA ...................................................$ 10.00 300 RUSSIA ...................................................$ 20.00 1600 RUSSIA ...............................................$ 199.00 2000 RUSSIA ...............................................$ 225.00 500 RUSSIA (LARGE) ......................................$ 40.00 1000 RUSSIA (LARGE) ....................................$ 70.00 1000 RUSSIA (MINT U/H) .............................$ 149.00 100 RUSSIA (MINT SHORT SETS) ....................$ 11.00 100 RUSSIAN INDP.STATES (MINT U/H)...........$ 33.00

Pay cents, not $ per stamp!

500 RUANDA ...............................................$ 125.00

S

50 SAAR ........................................................$ 33.00 50 SALVADOR ................................................$ 20.00 100 SALVADOR ..............................................$ 80.00 25 SAMOA .......................................................$ 7.00 50 SAMOA .....................................................$ 26.00 100 SAMOA ...................................................$ 66.00 400 SAMOA .................................................$ 272.00 500 SAMOA .................................................$ 380.00 600 SAMOA .................................................$ 780.00 25 SAN MARINO ..............................................$ 6.00 100 SAN MARINO.......................................... $ 30.00 50 SARAWAK .................................................$ 45.00 100 SARAWAK .............................................$ 200.00 50 SERBIA ......................................................$ 40.00 25 SEYCHELLES ..............................................$ 40.00 100 SEYCHELLES ............................................$ 90.00 25 SIERRA LEONE .............................................$ 8.00 50 SIERRA LEONE ...........................................$ 30.00 500 SIERA LEONE(MINT U/H) .......................$ 330.00 50 SINGAPORE ...............................................$ 12.00 100 SINGAPORE .............................................$ 30.00 200 SINGAPORE ...........................................$ 100.00 300 SINGAPORE ...........................................$ 150.00 50 SLOVAKIA ....................................................$ 7.00 75 SLOVAKIA ..................................................$ 17.00 100 SLOVAKIA ................................................$ 22.00 150 SLOVAKIA ................................................$ 30.00 50 SOLOMON ISL. ...........................................$ 20.00 100 SOLOMON ISL. .........................................$ 60.00 150 SOLOMON ISL....................................... $ 100.00 200 SOLOMON ISL. .......................................$ 160.00 300 SOLOMON ISL. .......................................$ 300.00 400 SOLOMON ISL. .......................................$ 520.00 500 SOLOMON ISL....................................... $ 700.00 100 SOUTH AFRICA ..........................................$ 7.00 1000 SOUTH AFRICA ....................................$ 400.00 1000 SOUTH AMERICA .................................$ 120.00 25 SOUTHERN RHODESIA .................................$ 6.00 150 SOUTHERN RHODESIA .............................$ 70.00 1500 SCANDINAVIA .....................................$ 130.00 100 SPAIN ........................................................$ 8.00 200 SPAIN ......................................................$ 20.00 300 SPAIN ......................................................$ 30.00 500 SPAIN ......................................................$ 66.00 1000 SPAIN ..................................................$ 135.00 1500 SPAIN ..................................................$ 275.00 100 SPANISH COLONIES .................................$ 20.00 100 SRI LANKA / CEYLON ...............................$ 11.00 200 SRI LANKA ..............................................$ 30.00 10 ST. HELENA .................................................$ 9.00 50 ST. KITTS ...................................................$ 26.00 75 ST. KITTS ...................................................$ 36.00 100 ST. KITTS .................................................$ 54.00 100 ST. LUCIA .................................................$ 30.00 50 ST. THOMAS ................................................$ 8.00 100 ST. THOMAS ............................................$ 14.00

25 ST. VINCENT ................................................$ 7.00 50 ST. VINCENT ..............................................$ 18.00 100 ST. VINCENT ............................................$ 30.00 25 SURINAME ................................................$ 12.00 100 SURINAME ..............................................$ 56.00 500 SURINAME............................................ $ 190.00 25 SWAZILAND ................................................$ 6.00 50 SWAZILAND ..............................................$ 20.00 100 SWAZILAND............................................ $ 60.00 500 SWEDEN .................................................$ 70.00 1000 SWEDEN ...............................................$ 90.00 100 SWITZERLAND........................................ $ 15.00 300 SWITZERLAND ........................................$ 44.00 500 SWITZERLAND ........................................$ 65.00 800 SWITZERLAND ......................................$ 150.00 1000 SWITZERLAND ....................................$ 220.00 1200 SWITZERLAND ....................................$ 600.00 1300 SWITZERLAND ....................................$ 900.00 1500 SWITZERLAND ..................................$ 1600.00 50 SYRIA ..........................................................$ 7.00

T

500 TAIWAN ................................................$ 170.00 200 THAILAND ...............................................$ 70.00 300 THAILAND .............................................$ 130.00 400 THAILAND .............................................$ 180.00 600 THAILAND .............................................$ 370.00 800 THAILAND .............................................$ 800.00 500 TOGO .....................................................$ 100.00 1000 TOGO ...................................................$ 460.00 50 TOKELAU ...................................................$ 60.00 25 TONGA ......................................................$ 16.00 50 TONGA ......................................................$ 36.00 100 TONGA ..................................................$ 110.00 10 TRISTAN DA CUNHA ...................................$ 10.00 50 TRISTAN DA CUNHA ................................$ 120.00 100 TRISTAN DA CUNHA ...............................$ 170.00 25 TUNISIA ......................................................$ 4.00 50 TUNISIA ....................................................$ 12.00 100 TUNISIA ..................................................$ 36.00 500 TUNISIA ................................................$ 190.00 100 TURKEY..................................................... $ 5.00 300 TURKEY ...................................................$ 18.00 500 TURKEY ...................................................$ 55.00 25 TURKS & CAICOS .........................................$ 6.00 50 TURKS & CAICOS .......................................$ 20.00 100 TURKS & CAICOS (MINT U/H) ...................$ 70.00 500 TURK AND CAICOS (MINT U/H)...............$ 500.00

U

100 U.N.O ......................................................$ 24.00 300 U.N.O ....................................................$ 110.00 400 U.N.O ....................................................$ 170.00 100 URUGUAY ................................................$ 16.00 200 URUGUAY ................................................$ 36.00 1000 URUGUAY ............................................$ 185.00 100 USA ..........................................................$ 4.00 200 USA ..........................................................$ 8.00 500 USA ........................................................$ 45.00

1000 USA ......................................................$ 80.00 300 USA (COMMEMS) ....................................$ 14.00 100 USA (MINT COMMEMS) ...........................$ 50.00 200 USA (MINT COMMEMS) .........................$ 100.00

V

25 VATICAN ......................................................$ 6.00 200 VATICAN ..................................................$ 90.00 300 VATICAN ................................................$ 132.00 25 VATICAN (M.U.H. ) .....................................$ 16.00 50 VATICAN (M.U.H. ) .....................................$ 40.00 100 VATICAN (M.U.H. ) ...................................$ 80.00 200 VATICAN (M.U.H. ) .................................$ 180.00 500 VATICAN(MINT U/H) ..............................$ 270.00 100 VENEZUELA .............................................$ 34.00 700 VENEZUELA ...........................................$ 250.00 800 VENEZUELA ...........................................$ 300.00 100 VIETNAM .................................................$ 30.00

W

25 WALLIS & FUTUNA ......................................$ 6.00 50 WALLIS & FUTUNA ....................................$ 20.00 200 WALLIS & FUTUNA ................................$ 300.00 100 WESTERN EUROPE ...................................$ 30.00 25 WURTTEMBERG ........................................$ 16.00 50 WURTTEMBERG ........................................$ 33.00 600 WORLD LARGE ........................................$ 39.00

Y

100 YUGOSLAVIA .............................................$ 6.00 200 YUGOSLAVIA ...........................................$ 17.00 300 YUGOSLAVIA ...........................................$ 20.00 500 YUGOSLAVIA ...........................................$ 80.00

Z

50 ZANZIBAR .................................................$ 76.00

THEMATICS

500 ATHLETICS/ ATHLETES ...........................$ 105.00 800 ART .........................................................$ 49.00 800 ANIMALS ................................................$ 49.00 500 AUTOMOBILES ........................................$ 59.00 500 AVIATIN ...................................................$ 65.00 500 BIRDS .....................................................$ 60.00 1000 BIRDS ..................................................$ 135.00 500 DOGS ....................................................$ 120.00 500 FISH/MARINE LIFE ...................................$ 50.00 500 FLOWERS (INCLUD. PLANTS/TREES) .........$ 60.00 500 HORSES .................................................$ 100.00 500 OLYMPICS ...............................................$ 49.00 250 REPTILES .................................................$ 39.00 500 SHIPS ......................................................$ 80.00 500 SPACE .....................................................$ 49.00 500 TRAINS ..................................................$ 100.00 500 TRANSPORT ............................................$ 90.00

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Market Matters Arthur Gray KGVs to go!

Mossgreen Auctions announced the auction of The Arthur Gray Collection of Australia King George V Issues on March 6. It was reported by stampboards. com in an exclusive.

The Arthur Gray Collection of Australia “King George V” is the finest, most extensive and most valuable ever formed of the issue.

The outstanding multi “Grand Prix” Award Medal winner collection is to be offered at public auction by Mossgreen Melbourne, in October 2015.

It comprises not only the super popular KGV Sideface design shown nearby, rich in proofs and essays and major flaws + imprints etc, but all the KGV era Commemorative stamps, covering up to near WW2.

“Mossgreen” is a name some readers may not be familiar with. Broadly the long established stamp auction houses of Charles Leski and Prestige Philately are now effectively merged under that name umbrella. The company runs art and other collectible auctions.

Inverted “OS” ACSC $A60,000.

Most of the major KGV catalogue varieties are here, even recent discoveries like the 1918 ½d $A5 MILLION expected.

Green with sideways watermark. Gray has both The Gray “KGV” collection is expected to be known copies - each with the watermark in different invoiced at around $A5 million. An international directions. promotional tour with stops in Singapore, London, The one shown nearby was purchased at Phoenix New York and Sydney is planned, before the auction Auctions in June 2012, for more than $A60,000. at Mossgreen HQ in Melbourne.

Arthur Gray, who lives on Sydney’s North Shore, The often sloppily edited new ACSC catalogue still has them absurdly catalogued at $40,000 each is a former executive with BHP, a merchant banker unchanged from old 8 year old edition. with Kleinwort Benson, and Managing Director SG is far more on the ball, at £30,000 = of Russell’s Health Foods. He was also an original $A60,000 each. The vendor at Phoenix found it in a owner of Millennium Philatelic Auctions. box of junk, so was very pleased with the $60,000+ Gary Watson, Mossgreen’s new Head of result! Value $1 or so with NORMAL watermark.

Philately, said “We are delighted to have the I had a very long phone call with Arthur Gray opportunity to prepare this magnificent collection today, and he seems very upbeat on this sale, and for sale to our global clientele of discerning feels local KGV collectors will be delighted with his buyers.” decision to auction the material here in Australia.

Responding, Arthur Gray commented, “I have And not via Spink London, or via Charles Shreve collected stamps for more than 70 years so it is a who now works for Robert Siegel New York - both wrench to part with my ‘Heads’. However, I have of whom made very strong and professional pitches known Gary Watson and Charles Leski for many for the collection, he says, and the final decision decades, and am confident that they will do the was a close call. collection justice.”

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Glen Stephens

Junk lot find gets $A60,000+.

Arthur told me the weak and unsettled Australian dollar when planning an auction for 7 months away, and nasty 3% exchange rate “surcharges” by credit cards on foreign spends, were obvious downsides and would cost keen KGV collectors far more than if offered locally.

Also the reality the Federal 10% GST is levied on incoming sendings of goods over $A1,000 here.

It is added on top of the foreign Auction fees, and even UK VAT in the case of Spink, and both companies declare goods externally for full value of mailed sendings.

and the local collectors will be able to view it in Melbourne and Sydney, which sadly was not able to be done with my “Kangaroos” material. Plus it will be taken on a Global road trip for viewing as well, including London and New York.”

One item sure to get a huge price is the perforated pair of the 1914 “Unissued” Engraved pair. Only one pair is in collector hands, and those are both in the Gray Collections. (As well as the unique Die Proof of the 6d!)

Collectors know the designs, from the popular “Ausipex 84” Replica Card sunken Die Proof print shown nearby. ACSC for the Gray pair is $A125,000, and I suspect they will be the star of the show, money wise.

I asked Arthur today where he got them, and he did not recall, other than to say he’d “owned them for decades”. He will get VERY many times what he paid, I feel sure. Truly rare pieces go up strongly long term, no doubt about it.

Bought in 1979.

I ventured he bought them from Harmers Sydney in the McNess sale in June 1979, that I was a major buyer at, but were above my pay scale then, and after some thought, he agreed that was likely the source.

“KGV will sell best here.”

Gray told me today - “I think the KGV will do best offered here in Australia,

Gray originals are cat $125,000.

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Market Matters The 1/- Swan would have made a stunning issued stamp. The 2d Die was adapted for the 6d and 2/6d War Savings stamp. A fresh MUH example of that 2/6d is shown nearby, a stampboards member also found in a junk box!

I like these stamps - they have the same Single Crown watermark as the KGV heads, and were printed at the Treasury, as were the 1913 1d and 6d Engraved. This 2/6d is a TON harder to locate than current modest prices indicate.

Arthur is still actively collecting, and his new focus is leaning Another Junk Box discovery! more and more to Australian Commonwealth Postal Stationary in detail, and is still keen on Australian “CTO” and Specimen material of all eras.

Kangaroos invoiced for $7,158,974 And he still has all his Award Winning That sale grossed $US5,584,000 including the 15% collections of KGVI and QEII material, and the best buyer premium, which on the sale day converted to collection of Australia stamp booklets in existence, $A7,158,974.00. An amazing result - about 50% going back to the original States issues. higher than estimate.

The Arthur Gray “Kangaroos” were sold in New It was a very exciting sale to be part of over the 2 York a few years back by Shreves Auctions - a very days, and many hours of wining and dining until the detailed summary is here, with many pix - tinyurl. wee hours with Arthur and the other dealers there com/GrayRoo each evening.

“Gum Leaf Mafia” in New York.

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Glen Stephens Woodbine, Paul Fletcher (Publisher ACSC) Glen Stephens, Gary Watson (Prestige/Mossgreen) the late Simon Dunkerley, Richard Juzwin.

Over dinner there one night, it was discovered Stewart Wright, Glen Stephens, Gary Watson, and Andy and Richard Juzwin were all born in Ballarat, which was a pretty amazing co-incidence.

So KGV Australia collectors - start saving your pennies for the Gray KGV sales later this year! Gary Watson told me today there will likely be THREE auctions of it in October.

This sold for over $A1,100

Malaya Madness!

Now and again I see prices paid for things that are quite bizarre.

The Air Letter with 25c of KGVI Malaya stamps, mailed from Singapore and shown nearby, is one such item.

Sent from Malaya to Switzerland, it was taxed on arrival and 100 cents in Swiss postage dues affixed.

The stamps and the Dues are of only VERY minor value.

That still remains the largest dollar end result for any “single stamp issue” collection ever auctioned - from any country, from any vendor, at any time, I understand.

Only a few entire country offerings have ever exceeded this figure anywhere - which nearly all comprised 19th Century “classic” stamps.

The Arthur Gray “Kangaroo and Map” design stamps as all readers realise, are “modern” 20th Century issues, printed between 1913 and 1936.

The key members of the Australian trade flew over in force for that sale, which was brilliantly conducted

by Shreves. The “Gum Leaf Mafia” is shown here in New York with Arthur Gray.

Left to Right: Stewart Wright (owner Status Auctions) Arthur Gray, G. 36 bids on this Air Letter.

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Market Matters The contents were of no consequence, but despite all that, it someone how was bid up to over $A1,100 on Jan 31 on eBay. The Air Letter started at £4 and to be honest if it were owned by me, I’d have priced it at about $A50 and sold it, and moved on with a huge smile on my face!

The winning bidder started at 10% of what he finally paid, after 36 bids. Really weird price, and someone on stampboards pointed this item out as he had been under-bidder.

There is no catalogue on these kind of strange things, and the price paid is purely dependant of how badly someone wants the piece! Seller “newby101” must be been delighted.

Dead Letter Delight!

The fascinating envelope shown nearby is a wonderful testament “25 Station Street” ANYONE??!! to how HARD the Post Offices tried to deliver it says - “Posted 3/12/36 and Dead Letter Office in those pre-war days. cancelled 14/1/37.”

Even for a common 2d letter.

So in just 5 weeks (including the Xmas/New It sold at an auction today after intense bidding Year holiday breaks no less) it managed to circulate for $A260. The buyer was a rather curious around to all those 25 Post Offices, over a vast area, stampboards member, who purchases all kinds of be checked for a resident, then forwarded on to the strange things on impulse, often for silly figures, DLO at the end. that he knows zero about.

As you can see it was addressed to a person at 25 The typed note from the original owner with 62 - Stamp News

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Now THIS is customer service!

Station Street, Clyde (a Sydney suburb) - however he was not known there.

So someone at Clyde Post Office drew up a list of the 25 “Station Streets” he could locate in the Sydney Metro area suburbs, noted them all on face of letter, and tried them all!

Living in Sydney, I can assure non locals that Hornsby to Sutherland to Artarmon to Parramatta to Kogarah etc is covering truly vast distances - all points of the compass!

I am amazed there were not more than 25 “Station Streets” actually, as it seems every train stop had one, but 25 is a pretty good effort.

To contrast that - I mailed 2 heavy insured parcels to the USA last month containing 26 x PO Year Books, 13 or so in each. Neatly addressed to “3 Latourelle Lane, Pittsburgh PA 15215-1829 USA” and on the other I miswrote Zipcode as 15212-1829.

overseas insured. Mail Cost was about $90 each.

USPS Tracking shows both arrived in Pittsburgh same day. One was delivered, and most year books inside had been blatantly stolen by USPS en route.

Tracking shows the other was “undeliverable” and was being returned to me, so I am out the $90 postage as some lazy schmuck in Pittsburgh could not be bothered to use a brain cell, and re-check Zipcode of local “3 Latourelle Lane” - which will

Stolen by USPS from Insured Parcel.

Both were heavily packing taped up on all sides, as I always do for

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The $3.50 becomes $5 soon. be UNIQUE, unlike “Railway Street.”

We are talking heavy expensive Insured parcels here, and the recipient and I will now need to waste hours wrestling with POs over this, and both be out of pocket, when their fathers in the PO would simply have used common sense, and delivered it with no fanfare.

Australia Letters to be $1.50

The Federal Government approved on March 2 a price increase soon for standard letters to $1 from the current 70c, and a faster “First Class” service (i.e. same speed as present it seems) for $1.50.

The UK has of course had ‘1st’ and ‘2nd’ inscribed Class stamps, and the same segregated service, for decades, so the broad concept is nothing new. More than DOUBLING the stamp price to do it here, is what is outraging people.

I know you are reading this before April 1, but I stress this is no early April Fool’s Day Joke. It is another official Abbott Government hasty decision, made with no consultation whatever to those it will impact, and hopefully it can be overturned like the last 50 were.

For those who suspect this will not bother them: “I have lots of old stamps or Concession stamps I can use up” you of course are not thinking too laterally or very deeply, as I will show here.

The headline cost of a 70c letter going to $1 for “Second Class” delivery service (2 days slower than now) is only the tip of the iceberg, as $1.50 64 - Stamp News

will be the chosen option for many - more than DOUBLING. What the clever Government Press Releases omit to tell us is, that heaps of other mail prices AUTOMATICALLY increase to very major amounts, when the standard letter rate goes up.

To be honest they probably are not even vaguely aware of the national flow-on effect of upping the base letter price.

“Large Letters” are the slippery slope here things not regarded as parcels, but are “large letters” - i.e. not standard size small letter items.

Items like your A4 type stamp club journals, and magazines, and mailed brochures, and so on, that we ALL receive all year.

EVERYONE will incur increases.

I get regular newsletters from the ACCC, Perfin Society, FDC Association etc, etc, all of which are large A4 format journals, and these are charged at exactly 2 or 3 and 5 times the prevailing LETTER rate. And that has been the formula for 10 years or so.

Their current cost is $1.40, $2.10 or $3.50 hence the rather pretty Definitive stamps issued at all times to cover these heavily used rates.

These stamps shown here are on sale at EVERY Post Office in this country, and get used heavily each day for “Large Letter” use, depending on the weight.

With this new approved Government plan, these

Glen Stephens Magazine Subscriptions to rise.

Now only good for a large letter.

4 will be replaced by $1, $1.50, $3 and $5 values, in whatever new stamp design is chosen.

So a stamp going up a disingenuous “just 30c” is the bare tip of the iceberg - a 260 gram “Stamp News” type mailing would go up by $1.50 - Mr Turnbull and Mr Fahour have not mentioned that little gem.

When you get a Philas Auction catalogue, or a Phoenix or Status or Mossgreen catalogue etc, they will pay these new higher rates.

Many collectors subscribe to Stamp News magazine and similar publications. Postage is borne

by YOU as part of any subscription. When you renew, it will go up in full or in large part, if this new increase occurs.

If it now costs $3.50 to mail a 260 gram magazine or bundle of papers each month (5 times the letter rate) and that will increase to $5 in one hit, unless the Senate demands “Large Letter” rates are not touched.

That would be $1.50 extra a copy, to mail each of the 12 issues, or $A18 MORE a year than it does now, if they all were 250 grams+ and that is just a 90 page magazine etc, not large.

I notice Minister Turnbull is not saying: “Each of your subscription magazines will cost you around $18 more due to my clever idea today.”

Who do you think is going to pay for that - YOU ARE! Same with stamp societies - renewal rates will go up, and ditto stamp auction house subscription rates, and all other Hobby/ Church/Social groups who mail you journals. None of those get special rates, as their volume is too small.

These costs will of course be passed on direct to YOU, and for many readers, this will be $50 or $100 or more EXTRA a year.

Many reading of this get eBay sendings.

Typically sellers charge around $1 local post for a sending that costs them 70c plus envelope. That will go up to more like $1.50 a sending. To YOU. Buy just 2 lots a week from a dealer or eBay sellers locally etc, and you are $50 p.a. worse off.

Indeed given the eBay fixation on speed, many sellers will opt for the $1.50 “First Class” letters, more than doubling their current cost, meaning the BUYER will be paying that, so YOU will be another $50 worse off there too.

So even a modest recipient of eBay lots and a few magazines and journals and catalogues, will be $100++ a year worse off, before they even LOOK at what their outward costs will be.

The $5 stamp shown nearby was issued not too far back in time, and then literally covered the cost of a huge 20 KILO parcel, anywhere within 50 kms of the sending office.

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Senate can disallow all this.

It is not being voted on by the Senate as I understand it, as the Minister has approved it, and the ACCC will rarity it of course, but the Senate CAN however move to disallow it.

The “Sydney Morning Herald” on March 3 stated: “The new regulations do not require changes to legislation, but can be disallowed by the Senate.”

Many stamp collectors are pensioners of some kind, and do you think for one moment you will get a $100 a year pension rise to cover Australia Post’s inefficiencies flowing on to you??

Fahour: the $4½ Million lossmaker Australia Post needs to do as we all do in business - be more cost savvy than they now are. Mr Fahour and his top layer of Execs are paid MANY times what they are worth - cut that back. $A4½ Million p.a. to top dog Fahour is just absurd, for a guy who has near driven AP into the red, and alienated the entire national network of Licensed Post Offices at the same time.

That figure is literally TEN times what the Postmaster General of the USA gets paid. It is far higher than CEO’s of large public companies here, that DO make good profits get paid.

The crazy idea last year or so to offer to offer FREE national tracking on all domestic parcels was totally money??? insane, and was only as eBay heavied them I understand.

Cancel Free Parcel Tracking.

That totally un-necessary brain snap costs AP Free Parcel Tracking chews up vast amounts of literally $100s millions a year to provide and track, client time in lining up to lodge items to be labelled and they earn ZERO extra from it. Superb business and scanned, and receipts given. idea, and they wonder WHY they are losing 66 - Stamp News

Glen Stephens You want tracking - pay for it!

The Senate can disallow this increase, and precious little of this Government’s badly thought through ideas have survived the hostile Senate this past year. THIS one affects all reading this.

Write or email your Senators.

And so it goes on, in all the downstream mail centres, and delivery drivers, posties, and destination Post Offices. To earn them ZERO revenue.

The PO worked well for 175 years CHARGING for Registered and Insured and Certified Mail services, and all other mail took its chances in the mailstream. Bring those back, and all other mail is transmitted at risk of sender unless they pay for it.

A pre-paid Registered label costs $A3.70 and is incredibly profitable, as Compensation is only $A100 maximum. It was the same £50 ($100) FIFTY years back, when Registered Fee cost only 2/- or 20c.

Profit to AP to cancel the free parcel tracking on 100 MILLIONS of parcels a year will drag them back into the black in a few months. Sell 100 million Reg’d labels, and you have $370 million more than you did last year.

If enough folks here email or write your Federal Senators, AND better still the powerful cross benchers, asking for this silly idea to be disallowed, it may well be. Please pass the word on this to whom you can. Doubling the stamp price is NOT a vote winner.

Senator email addresses are oddly not on the Canberra official website, as being bothered by voters is apparently rather onerous, but they are HERE - tinyurl.com/OzSenate If you want to avoid $100 or so EXTRA a year of a normal mail recipient locally of large letters - even if you send nothing at all, these new rates WILL be costing you.

Glen Stephens has written monthly ‘Stamp Tipster’ Columns for over 30 years - globally. A vast library of his past articles and photos are found at – www.glenstephens.com/column.html

Glen Stephens 4 The Tor Walk, Castlecrag, NSW, 2068 Ph: 02 9958 1333 email: glen@glenstephens.com Website: www.glenstephens.com

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philatelic clubs & societies new south wales Armidale Circle RSPC: Mtg 2nd Wed Australian Cmwlth Collectors Club of NSW: Mtg 3rd Mon 7.45pm, 1st flr. Philas House, 17 Brisbane St, Darlinghurst, Sydney 2001. Ph 02 9267 8301; Fax: 02 9264 4741. GPO Box 1971, Sydney NSW 2000 Ph: 02 9264 8301 Aust. States Study Circle: Mtg 4th Wed 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301 Bathurst Stamp Coin and Collectables Club: Mtg 1st Mon 7.30pm, Old Eglinton fire shed, Park St, Elington PO Box 151, Bathurst NSW 2795 Bega Phil. & Numismatic Society: Mtg 3rd Friday 8.00pm. Mthly Newsletter. PO Box 370, Bega NSW Blue Mountains Stamp Club: Mtg 4th Friday (ex Dec) 8.00pm Katoomba Public School; PO Box 76, Blackheath Boambee East PS: Mtg 1st Tues (ex. Jan) 6pm Boambee East Comm. Centre, Bruce King Dr. Ph: 02 66581385 Campbelltown District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm (ex Jan - 4th Wed); @ Catholic Hall Acacia St, Ruse.

Inquiries: mystampclub@yahoo.com.au; PO Box 478, Campbelltown 2560 Castle Hill SC Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm, Hills District Bowling Club, Jenner Street, Baulkham Hills; PO Box 151 Castle Hill NSW 1765 China Study Group of PSNSW: Mtg 4th Mon 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301 Cinderella SC: Mtg 2nd Friday, even months; Produces “Cinderellas Australia” and monographs; PO Box 889, Chatswood, NSW 2057 Coffs Harbour SC: Mtg 2nd Wed Earlwood and District SC:Mtg 1st Wed Grafton SC: Mtg 2nd Wed (ex. Dec) Grafton Stampers & Everything Philatelic: Mtg 1st Sun 2pm (ex School Hols). Grafton Baptist Church Hall, Cnr Queen & Oliver Sts. Ph 02 6642 1363. email gbchurch@bigpond.com.

Great Lakes SC: Mtg1st Sat 9.30am , Workshop & Market 1st Sat 9-12, Great Lakes Campus Annexe, Taree St, Tuncurry Enq: Ph 02 6554 9776 Gosford PS: Afternoon Mtg 1st Mon; Evening Mtg 2nd Thurs Hawkesbury Valley PS (Richmond Stamp Club): Mtg 2nd Thurs (ex Jan) PO Box 28 Richmond 2753 Illawarra PS: Mtg 3rd Thursday (ex. Jan) Wollongong Master Build. Club Ltd, Oasis Room, 7.30pm. All welcome. Tel. (02) 42252011.

Kempsey RSL PS: Mtg 2nd Wed Lake Macquarie Stamp Club:: Mtg 2nd Sat 9am; Combined Pensioners & Community Care Services 130 Josephson St, Swansea. Enq: 02 4392 5211 Lord Howe Island Postal History Society: Mtg by arrangement. Contact Pres: Dr William Mayo, 02 9918 6825 Lower Clarence PS: Mtg 4th Tues Macquarie Valley PS: Mtg 2nd Tues Maitland SC: Mtg 2nd Mon ex Jan. ‘Show & Tell’ every mtg E. Maitland Bowling Club, Bank St. Pres.

Mark Saxby; Sec. David Carratt; Ph: 02 4932 4045 Email: carrotspatch@tpg.com.au Manly-Warringah PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs St David’s Church Hall, Dee Why. Sec. Graeme Morriss Ph: 02 9905 3255 email: stampsmw@bizland.com.au Manly-Warringah Rugby Leagues SC: Mtg 4th Tues, cnr. Pittwater Rd & Federal Pde, Brookvale. Sec. Graeme Morriss Ph: 02 9905 3255 email: stampsmw@bizland.com.au Milton-Ulladulla SC: Meeting 1pm on 4th Monday of each month (ex Dec.) Milton Ulladulla Bowling Club, St. Vincent Street, Ulladulla Sec. POBox 670, Ulladulla, NSW 2539 Tel. Barbara Smith 0244555214 Morisset Uniting Church SC: Mtg 4th Sat 10am (ex Dec) Enq: 4977 2525 (Jenny) Mudgee Coin Note & Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Sunday Ph 02 63735324 Nambucca River PS: Mtg 1st Sunday Newcastle PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs, 7.30pm Mayfield Ex-Services Club; 10am 3rd Wed, 48 Mackie Ave, New

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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.

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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 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; 19 Evans Street Ancaston 5353; email: ptomely1939@gmail.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; The Lions Den, Murray Bridge. PO Box 810, Murray Bridge; Ph: 08 85704074 lmphilsocsec@gmail.com 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: 4th Thurs. ex Dec. 7.30pm, Meeting Room, Church of Christ, David St., Dandenong 03 5996 9501 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

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 Italian PS: Mtg 2nd Mon (ex Jan), 7.30pm, Veneto Club, 191 Bulleen Rd Bullen. (PO Box 166, Niddrie, 3042) 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 April 4 - (1st Sat) 9am to 4pm Orange Stamp Fair, Quinn’s Arcade, Summer St, Orange. Ph: Norm 02 63623754.

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

Ph. 0417 802 754 April 4 - (1st Sat) Sutherland Shire Stamp & Coin Collectors Fair, Gymea Anglican Church Hall, 131 Gymea Bay Rd, Gymea.

April 5 - Milton Ulladulla Stamp & Coin Fair, Ulladulla Civic Centre Opp. Harbour, Princes Hwy. Ulladulla, 10am - 4pm, Free admission. Dealers tables plus Auction. Enq: 02 4455 5214 April 19 - (3rd Sun) Stamp & Coin Fair, 10am - 3pm, Pioneers Hall, Cowper St, Wallsend. 8 Dealers. 4971 3483 April 26 - (4th Sun) Epping Stamp & Coin Fair, Community Hall, 9 Oxford St, Epping. 10am - 4pm. Free Entry, 6 Dealers, Buy/Sell

victoria April 5 - (1st Sun) Stamp, Coin & Phone Card Fair, Ukrainian Hall, Russell St, Essendon. 9am-3pm April 19 - (3rd Sun) Stamp, Card - Phone Card Fair, Bentleigh-McKinnon Youth Centre, Higgins Rd, Bentleigh.

Dealers plus huge range activities. Ph: 0418 322 315.

April 26 - (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,

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April 13 - (2nd Mon) - Gold Coast PS Sale, Rm 1, Southport Comm. Centre, Lawson St, Southport. 11.30am 2.30pm Brisbane Table Tennis Association Centre April 26 - QStamp Fair, Southside, Mt Gravatt Showgrounds, Memorial Hall, Logan Rd. Free Entry 8.30am - 2pm

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The society has a regular program of meetings, with displays, exchanges and discussion nights, and welcomes visitors to Canberra.

It has a flourishing exchange branch, which circulates to small stamp clubs in the south region, as well as in the Canberra area. It publishes, quarterly, a newsletter and a research journal ‘Capital Philately’. Enquiries about membership or about separate subscriptions to the journal should be directed to: Secretary: Tony Luckhurst Ph: 02 6241 1963 e-mail: tony_luckhurst@bigpound.com

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Fax: 08 9447 8004 Ace Stamp Auctions, PO Box 2076, Ellenbrook, WA, 6069. Ph: 08 08 9297 3040 email: stampdealer@iinet.net.au There are also about 4950 newsagencies in Australia, and most of the major stores carry a number of copies, alternatively you can arrange with your local newsagent to put one by for you each month.

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