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Contents Articles Woodchip Free Zone: Rod Perry ...................................................6 World Heritage Sites: Christer Brunström............................... 14 Stamps in the News: Margo Campbell .................................... 20 Looking at New Zealand: Graeme Morriss ............................... 30 Revenue Review: Dave Elsmore ................................................. 44 Introducing the APF: Ian McMahon .......................................... 48 Cinderella Corner: Tony Presgrave ............................................ 54 Market Matters: Glen Stephens .................................................. 58
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This may be my last article dedicated to Decimals I (that 1966-75 section of ACSC). My reference collection of the subject was sold earlier this year. The 1972 Pioneer Series it is, and a wonderful usage study does it make. Encompassing the rampant inflation years as the series did, this was a volatile era for rate fluctuations; Figure 1. Unplanned collectable from Planning Institute generally not in the consumer’s favour. An exhibit of up Generally with a given usage series there to 8-frames should not be beyond a dedicated is a particular standout denomination which is collector. elusive as a solo franking. For the Pioneer series
Figure 2. Snoopy = added value 6 - Stamp News
that title goes to the lowest denomination, the 5c. There was a specific rate for this (see Figure 2), which is quite uncommon. Figure 1 is a more unusual solo, being a May 15 1973 Melbourne local use underpaid for 7c Letter rate, untaxed. I have mentioned previously my interest in underfranked
Figure 3. Same day service Canberra to Parkville? and untaxed covers, for they have been accepted officially for payment in full of the postal service provided. Most such usages of sub-base rate stamps are scarce (save for Printed matter rates); this in fact is the only such use of the 5c I’ve noted. Auction estimate $100 Figure 2 is the specific rate available for the 5c, for airmail to Australia by Defence Forces in S.E. Asia, where the “FIELD POST OFFICE/258” datestamp originated. It travelled on Apr 4 1974 to West Footscay. This rate Figure 4. “Pairs ain’t pairs”
is very hard to find, and is seldom more desirable than when the novel “Snoopy” airmail handstamp was applied. Auction estimate $150 Amongst the most difficult items for a usage collection are non-standard articles; they’re hard to find, and when they infrequently do turn up they are generally “too big” for most tastes. I like them, as they can add structure, and visual impact to an exhibit. Figure 3 was for Non-standard airmail over 20 up to 50gms 20c, franked by 10c pair, used Feb 14 1974 Canberra-Parkville.
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The arrival marking suggests the article, which was cancelled at Canberra 3.45pm, arrived the same day. Impressive if true, but more likely to be a case of receiving datestamp not having been changed from day prior. Auction estimate $40 Another pair of 10c, Figure 4 invokes for me fond memories of that 1970s clever advertising line “Oils ain’t oils, Sol”. On this occasion the pair pays a rare quadruple of the Defence Forces 5c rate, Figure 5. Official use of 15c solo cancelled by “ANZUK F.P.O./5” datestamp on Sep 12 1973. Auction “VG” 15c, for domestic over 20 up to 50gms estimate $120 rate, Melbourne-Parkville Nov 30 1973. Auction Figure 5 is an unusual solo use of punctured estimate $40 Other than for when it became the Zone 4 airmail rate (Sep 1 1975), the 40c as a solo franking was more generally found for non-standard articles. Figure 6 is a particularly desirable solo, being a standard envelope of Oct 18 1974 paying Letter rate 10c + Certified fee 30c, Seymour SouthPuckapunyal. Much in demand with usage specialists. Figure 6. 40c unusual solo frankings a challenge 8 - Stamp News
Australia's 1972 Pioneer Series: Usage
Figure 7. 40c solos don’t come much scarcer Auction estimate $75 An unlikely, but very welcome 40c solo is Figure 7. This Dec 12 1978 cover Young-Hong Kong likely contained a Christmas card, the rate for a Zone 3 Greetings card weighing 3040gms being 40c. Auction estimate $125 Figure 8 provides an unusual usage for the 50c, for Priority paid all-inclusive over 20 up to 50gms rate, sent Mar 2 1975 Avalon Beach-Launceston. Adding to its interest, it was apparently posted in regular mail
facility, rather than being handed in at P.O. for special treatment. Intercepted at Sydney where “RECEIVED OUT OF COURSE/ SHIP SECTION MAIL EXCHANGE SYDNEY” was applied. This was to indicate to addressee that next day delivery, the Priority paid mantra, could not be effected. Auction estimate $75 For a collector intent on just an example of the 50c solo, Figure 9 would be a target. This is the most likely solo usage possibility encountered
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Figure 9. Less exotic 50c solo for the 50c, paying Zone 4 double rate Jul 9 1974, St.Marys-NY. A $20 retail item. Figure 10 is one of those items coveted by
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specialists: something few if any other collector is likely to have. Other than for Zone 5 double airmail rate (Oct 1 1973-Sep 30 1974), the 60c
Australia's 1972 Pioneer Series: Usage
Figure 11. Your more standard 60c solo solo is very scarce. This cracker is a Non-standard article by air 10c (up to 20gms) + Messenger
Below: Figure 12. 80c solo also no slouch Delivery 50c; Rockhampton-Sydney Aug 15 1974. The item featured in this column precisely
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Figure 13. 80c multiple imminently suited to exhibit three years ago, when I valued it at $150. Today I know of at least two senior collectors constructing serious usage collections of this series, and I believe my revised figure would not be a discouragement for an “only one seen”. Auction estimate $200 Figure 11 is that Zone 5 double airmail rate, to U.K. Feb 7 1974. Auction estimate $35 The 80c solo is not easy to find, generally turning up as double rate for Zone 4 (mentioned under Figure 6). Figure 12 is a very special solo, a Dec 26 1974 usage Alexandria-Seven Hills, where 80c represents Letter rate 10c + Certified fee 30c + A.R. fee 40c. A signature could not be obtained from addressee after two attempts, acknowledged by the two types of P.O. handstamp. The estimate would be $125+ was it not for stamp creases. Auction estimate $100 A visual item in an exhibit would be Figure 13, a scarce strip of three of 80c, paying Non12 - Stamp News
standard article 40c (over 50 up to 100gms) + Registration fee $2, sent July 10 1978 Armadale (WA)-Canberra. Auction estimate $75
Rod Perry has been a philatelic trader since 1962 and a Stamp News advertiser since the 1960s . He founded Rodney A Perry Auction Galleries (now Millennium Philatelic Auctions) in 1971. As a collector he has exhibited nationally and internationally. Rod prefers his used stamps on cover and likens taking a stamp off its original cover to converting a tree to woodchips. Past editions of this column may be accessed on Rod’s ‘rap.com.au’
WORLDWIDE NEW ISSUES HM Queen Elizabeth II: Britain’s Longest Reigning Monarch On 9th September 2015, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II becomes the longest reigning Monarch in British history, surpassing the reign of her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria. To celebrate this extraordinary milestone The British Antarctic Territory is proud to release this special new issue as part of a series together with Ascension Island, Bahamas, Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and Tristan da Cunha. Queen Victoria came to the throne aged 18 and died in 1901 when she was 81, an incredible reign of 63 years and 216 days (23,226 days, 16 hours and 23 minutes) that defined an era and a people. In her journal Victoria recorded that “Today is the day I have reigned longer, by a day, than any English sovereign”. The Victorians responded enthusiastically to her historic milestone yet, like our current Queen, Victoria did not encourage any celebrations ahead of the day. Yet for Queen Elizabeth II to become the longest reigning of the forty-one kings and queens of England since the Norman Conquest is without doubt an historic achievement. Like Victoria, Elizabeth II is much loved and during a lifetime of service has provided a reassuring and enduring source of stability in a fast and ever changing world. Elizabeth’s reign has seen more developments, achievements and records than any other. According to Guinness World Records she holds the world record for the most currencies featuring the same individual. Her Diamond Jubilee river pageant in 2012 set a new world record for the number of boats in a parade. She was the
first British monarch to have sent an email, to have a message placed on the moon, to have conducted a royal ‘walkabout’ and to have held a public concert in her back garden. This series of postage stamps depict Her Majesty since her coronation with many familiar and iconic images from her reign. 66p Her Majesty is shown against coronation publications from 1953. The portrait of Her Majesty is from the cover of the Italian weekly magazine Epoca 31 May 1953. (Photo by Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images). 76p The discovery of the annual depletion of ozone above the Antarctic was first announced in a paper by Joe Farman, Brian Gardiner and Jonathan Shanklin of the British Antarctic Survey which appeared in Nature in May 1985. Later, NASA scientists re-analysed their satellite data and found that the whole of the Antarctic was affected. The portrait of Her Majesty was taken in March 1985 when she visited St Julian’s School in Carcavelos Portugal. (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images). £1.01 RRS James Clark Ross (named after Admiral Sir James Clark Ross, R.N.) is operated by the British Antarctic Survey. It was built by Swan Hunter Shipbuilders, Wallsend, UK and launched by H.M. The Queen on 1 December 1990. The vessel can steam at a steady two knots through level sea ice one metre thick. To assist passage through heavy pack ice a compressed air system rolls the ship from side to side freeing the passage. The portrait of Her Majesty was taken in July of that year when she visited Portsmouth and the QE2 ship named after her. (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images). £1.22 Queen Elizabeth Land is a portion of mainland Antarctica named for the monarch in 2012 and forming part of the British Antarctic Territory, which is the largest of the 14 British Overseas Territories. The then Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, William Hague, said that the naming was “a fitting tribute at the end of Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee year”. The portrait of Her Majesty was taken as she embarked on the first part of the Diamond Jubilee River Pageant in London on June 3, 2012. (Photo by Eddie Mulholland/AFP/GettyImages).
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DESTRUCTION OF WORLD HERITAGE SITES Whenever we hear about the depressing events in the Middle Eas, we tend to forget that some of the earliest civilisations developed in the area around the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in what is today Iraq and Syria. This is where some of the very first written languages were created and where science and culture flourished. During the course of many millennia, the peoples living in this region practised a variety of religions and worshipped many different deities. Many ancient buildings and other remains remind us of these old civilisations. Many were used for worship of deities which have long been forgotten. These archeological remains and the many ancient artifacts preserved in the region’s museums help us better understand our past history. UNESCO is a UN agency established to preserve and document our heritage wherever it
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can be found. Many ancient remains have been added to a list of World Heritage Sites which we want to preserve for future generations to study and enjoy. Many of these sites are located in countries like Iraq and Syria and many have been featured on postage stamps. There are many cases in history where political and religious groups have wanted to get rid of whatever they felt didn’t fit into their picture of the world. The Nazis even tried to annihilate an entire people and they burnt both books and synagogues. The destruction of our common cultural heritage by Islamic extremists is a fairly recent occurrence (not counting the early years of Islam’s expansion in the Middle East and North Africa). The Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan is home to numerous buildings and monuments from
Christer Brunström the country’s pre-Islamic past when Buddhism was the major religion. All these important monuments date from the 1st to the 13th centuries. A number of very large Buddha statues are considered to be of particular importance. In March 2001, the Taliban shocked an entire world when they spread pictures of how they blew up two of the huge 6th century Buddha statues. They have now been lost forever. In 1932, Afghanistan issued a set of new definitive stamps. The 3-afghani value depicted the famous Bamiyan Buddha statue. In 1951, a new set of definitive stamps was ordered from England. The 20-pul value once again showed a Buddha statue. The country’s Islamic clergy objected to the design and the stamp was never issued. Apparently most of the printing was burnt. At this point it might be a good idea to devote
a few lines to Islam, one of the world’s great monotheistic religions. Islam has its roots in Christianity and the Bible. The founder was the prophet Mohammad who began preaching the new religion In Mecca. He and his followers were forced to leave Mecca for Medina in 622. This marks the beginning of time in the Muslim world. The Koran is the Muslims’ holy book. Islam is based on five pillars: 1. Confession (“There is no God but Allah and Mohammad is his prophet”), 2. Prayers (five times a day), 3. Fasting (during the holy month of Ramadan), 4. Charity (helping the poor) and 5. Pilgrimage (Hajj to Mecca). Shown nearby is the Kaba in Mecca which is visited by millions of Muslims during the annual hajj to the holy sites in Saudi Arabia. There are two major schools of Islam – Sunni and Shiite Muslims. The struggle between these
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DESTRUCTION OF WORLD HERITAGE SITES two religious currents is currently causing havoc in the Middle East. Some Muslims believe that Islam should rule both public and private life. This certainly explains why we have Islamic republics in countries like Iran, Mauritania and Pakistan. The historic city of Samarra in Iraq is home to the Mosque with the golden dome (Al-Askari). The mosque was completed in 944 and it was depicted on two Iraqi high values issued in 1941. Today Samarra has a mainly Sunni Muslim population but it is home to some of holiest places for the Shiites. Shia pilgrims ock to Samarra each year for religious celebrations in the Al-Askari Mosque. It was almost completely destroyed in a bomb blast on 22 February 2006. What little remained has later been destroyed in new attacks. Al-Quaida is believed to be behind
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these bombings. What is the reasoning behind this senseless destruction of world heritage sites? In the case of the Al-Askari mosque in Samarra, alQuaida obviously wanted to create chaos in the country by targeting the Shiite mosque. They apparently feel that Shiites are not real Muslims. In Afghanistan the Taliban claim that they have a sacred right to destroy everything that they consider to be a form of idolatry. The Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria claim they have similar heavenly rights. They have destroyed and sacked world heritage sites on an industrial scope. Using heavy machinery, they have reduced several sites to piles of rubble. Everything has been documented and presented on Facebook and Twitter. Hafra, Nimrud and Mosul are some of the Iraqi cities which have
Christer Brunström suffered a lot from the IS destruction of historic sites. Ancient art objects have been pilfered from museums and sold on the black market in order to finance the IS campaign of terror in the Middle East and North Africa. In mid May 2015, the IS took of control of Palmyra (Tadmor in Arabic). According to legend, this ancient city was founded by King Solomon. It is an oasis city located in the Syrian Desert some 215 kilometres North-East of Damascus. Many impressive monuments remain from Roman times. So far, the IS has documented the destruction of the “Lion from al-Lat” but what will happen with the other remains is not known when this is being written. Shown nearby a Syrian 1931 airmail stamp
depicting the Roman temple ruins of Palmyra. The African nation of Mali is home to the city of Timbuktu where there are a number of historic mausoleums from pre-Islamic times. In 2012, Islamic terrorists destroyed several of these ancient buildings. Fortunately the UNESCO has since been able to rebuild many of the mausoleums as the situation in the area has improved. It should be stressed that the vast majority of Moslems do not share the perverse opinions of the IS and other Islamic extremists. For them, Islam is a religion of love and peace. It should also be noted that most of the victims of the Islamic terror are other Muslims and mosques are favourite targets for their suicide attacks. Fortunately many of the world heritage sites and other archaeological remains have been documented on postage stamps.
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The Stamp News Quiz No. 5 by David Keane 1. The first country to produce ‘octagonal stamps’ was Great Britain, True or False ? 2. What was the ‘second animal’ depicted on an Australian Commonwealth stamp? 3. What do Columbia, Victoria, Spain and some German States have in common? a) Produce the world’s smallest stamps, b) Round stamps or c) Stamps issued in imperforated blocks of four 4. Which country uses their native name ‘Suomi’ on stamps ? 5. Arriving on the Third Fleet, what ‘First’ does convict Isaac Nichols hold in Australian postal history ? 6. What was the theme for Australian stamps which began in 1957 and has been issued every year since ? 7. Which Baltic country, in 1919 made their stamps from paper destined to be used for cigarettes ? 8. What was the second country to issue postage stamps, after Great Britain in 1843 ? 9. Who played Bernadette Bassinger in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ? 10. How were stamps printed in Uganda (Scott 1 - 53): a) on a typewriter, b) from wooden blocks or c) using imprints etched on yams ? The first six (6) all correct entry drawn will win a prize. Entries must be received by October 1, 2015 This month the prize will be 1000 different all World stamps Please send your entries to Stamp News Quiz September 2015 PO Box PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic, 3158, Australia Don’t forget to include your name & address!
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Stamps in the News - Globally! The stamp that launched a space mission……
Reported in www.astronomy.com How much does shipping cost to Pluto? Apparently, if you go via the U.S. Postal Service, it’s just 29c. The 1991 stamp designed by longtime Astronomy magazine contributor Ron Miller is among the nine earthly mementos New Horizons space mission carries in its Plutobound cargo. And, strangely, the stamp helped get New Horizons started by irking some of the very scientists it was meant to honour. On the heels of Voyager’s final flyby at Neptune, the U.S. government commissioned Miller for 10 illustrations — one for every planet, plus the Moon. Each stamp ran with an image of the spacecraft that explored it. But for the ninth planet, the text simply read, “Pluto: Not yet explored.” In 1991 the stamps were unveiled in a ceremony at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, where many of the exploration efforts were centred. JPL’s Robert Staehle says that after the ceremony, he and other JPL scientists discussed what they’d do about the “Not yet explored” travesty. Their work would soon merge with the efforts of others already well underway and spawn the Pluto 350 project. The Pluto project head decided to highlight
this juxtaposition as NASA conquered the last unexplored planet. “It was my idea to send it. For many years, people had waved that stamp around as sort of a call to arms — as a motivating graphic — ‘Not yet explored,’” he said. “That stamp had been in so many presentations by that point, I knew it would please people to have it go along.” After his team won the competition and built New Horizons, he says he knew they had to “send the cancelled stamp to Pluto.” The team hope the U.S. Postal Service will issue a new commemorative stamp once Pluto is officially explored in July and have even started a petition encouraging them to do so. Ron Miller who designed the 1991 stamp is chuffed that his stamp will be flying past Pluto: “ I’ve certainly never had any of my artwork travel so far from the Earth!” “I’ve only seen a photo of the stamp on the spacecraft, but I believe it is in some sort of protective sleeve.” Also on board the piano-sized spacecraft is a small amount of the ashes of American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered the planet in 1930 when he was only 24. Tombaugh, who grew up on a farm in Kansas, was working at Lowell Observatory in Arizona. Previously an amateur astronomer, he had been hired to help find a planet beyond Neptune. His work involved thousands of Location of the stamp and Clyde Tombaugh’s ashes on the hours spent pouring over millions spacecraft interior upper deck. of images of stars, according to 20 - Stamp News
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Joan Aldrin with the insurance covers the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which is managing the New Horizons mission for NASA. Tombaugh died in 1997. He was 90. Nine years later, in 2006, New Horizons began its epic voyage.
Apollo 11 ‘insurance’ covers.
Reported at https://uk.news.yahoo.com The recent appearance of an Apollo 11 ‘insurance’ cover at auction is a reminder of this interesting philatelic byway. The Apollo missions were considered so dangerous that it was impossible for the astronauts to find anyone that would give them life insurance. In an effort to provide some financial support for the families of astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, ‘Insurance Covers’ were produced. Created in conjunction with the Manned Spacecraft Center Stamp Club in Houston, Texas, the covers were not officially recorded by NASA but were signed by Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins with the intention of selling them off to collectors. The seller of the cover said: “Basically, the astronauts couldn’t get life insurance, so they gave their families signed covers, in case the mission failed.” Apollo 11 insurance covers were affixed with
the Scott 1371 six-cent postage stamp, which depicts the Apollo 8 Earthrise and the words ‘In the beginning God’. There were three types of cover for the Apollo 11 mission, which were postmarked at different stages, and 500 covers were made for each astronaut. Astronaut and Apollo 10 commander Tom Stafford had possession of the Apollo 11 covers when the crew launched. He arranged for some of them to be cancelled on launch day at Kennedy Space Center and then carried all of them back to Houston. He then arranged for the remainder to be postmarked in Houston on the day of the moon landing. The covers were then distributed to the three ‘Apollo 11′ families. In 2002, Peachstate Historical Society purchased about 40 Apollo 11 crew signed insurance covers from Joan Aldrin following her divorce from Buzz and they were put on the market. These covers have impeccable provenance however anyone collecting in this area should be wary of fakes. Joan Archer Aldrin died on 31st July this year. Stamp News - 21
Stamps in the News - Globally! Inverted Jenny delight
Reported at www.cbsnews.com Captain David Robinson not only loves piloting his tour boat down the waterways of Richmond. He also loves all things American -- especially his stamps. He first started collecting at the age of 10. And what made him stick with it? “Girls,” he laughed. “I found that I could make money buying and selling stamps. And the having of money translated into the geeky kid being able to get the girl.” He’s been collecting ever since, and recently he made his biggest find ever. In 2013 the U.S. Postal Service decided to commemorate its most famous mistake, purposely issuing a new upside-down Jenny stamp. And then the Postal Service did something really tricky: “They announced they printed 100 with the airplane right-side up,” said Robinson. “All of a sudden the stamp collecting world was shaken upside-down.” Those became the ones to have -- and Robinson wanted one, badly. He ended up spending almost $41,000 on 3,400 sheets, which come in sealed packets. He opened the plastic envelopes slowly, to savour the experience. He savoured that experience 2,900 times before finally striking gold -- finding a sheet of right side-up Jennys. And he sold it at auction for $45,000 to an anonymous buyer. “I beat the odds,” he said.
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Inverted Jenny dismay
Reported at www.nhregister.com The U.S Postal Service did something unprecedented when it tried to boost stamp sales and kick-start public excitement about collecting: It reprinted the most famous stamp error in history, known as the Inverted Jenny. Now the agency’s watchdog has called the instant, manufactured stamp rarity issued in 2013 a huge mistake that broke the agency’s own rules, which prohibit postal officials from intentionally creating a rare stamp just to make money. “The Postal Service created and improperly distributed a philatelic rarity,” a management alert issued last week by Inspector General David Williams said. Postal officials “strongly and inappropriately influenced the secondary [stamp] market by creating the rarity.” Just 20 of the 100 mini-sheets of six stamps designed as a twist on what became one of the world’s most famous and valuable stamps have been registered as sold, investigators found. The upright Jenny was one of the first stamps to commemorate the start of air mail. It was issued at 24 cents in 1918 to commemorate the first mail carried on an experimental air service between Washington and New York. It showed a Curtiss JN-4 biplane, or “Jenny” — but in its haste to print the stamp, the Postal Service accidentally sold one sheet of 100 stamps with the airplane in the centre of the image upside down. The Jennies became instant collectors’ items. Only one sheet of the inverts was ever found. A single stamp sold at auction in 2007 for $977,500. Inside the Postal Service, reprinting the stamps seemed like a smart move as the marketing office tried to enhance the visibility of new stamps to engage collectors and lure entice new, younger ones. The marketing staff came up with a modern twist on the error: A run of 2.2 million stamps with the airplane face down, but just 100 sheets with
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the plane face up. But the intentional Jenny misprint, which have a face value of $2 for six stamps — infuriated collectors. They called it a gimmick, because the chance they would stumble on the new sheets was tiny. Still, one upright Jenny Invert pane sold for $51,750 and another for $55,000 in 2014, the inspector general noted. The report noted that while USPS stamp policy is “vague,” it clearly states that “Postal Service employees should refrain from intentionally creating philatelic rarities. In this case, the Postal Service’s governing board were aware of the plan to reissue the rare stamp. The plan to distribute it was not approved by the legal department, and that plan got into trouble, investigators found. Each stamp sheet is individually wrapped, so no one can see the stamps before they are bought. A note is included with the right-side-up rarities, alerting buyers that they’ve hit a philatelic goldmine. The Postal Service hoped to sell all 2.2 million stamp sheets in the first 60 days, bringing in $26.4 million in revenue, the report said. But as of four months ago, sales had raised only $13 million. Postal officials gave 70 upright panes to post offices to distribute randomly to buyers. The 30 remaining panes were sent to the agency’s stamp fulfilment services office in Kansas City, Mo., to ship to customers who ordered the Jennies by mail.
But in Kansas City, officials “forgot” about their distribution plan for the newly created rare stamps, investigators found. They shipped just one pane between March 2014 and December 2014. As a result, 23 upright panes remain in Kansas City, where management has not decided what to do with the stamps, the report said. The inspector general urged postal officials to “develop a formal process” for stamp promotions that’s legal and transparent. Postal Service management “generally agreed” with the advice, the report said. What will happen to the Jennies sitting in storage in Missouri is unknown.
HooDoo to do
Reported at www.huffingtonpost.ca Canada Post is in damage control after recently issuing an Alberta stamp that featured the wrong image. The image used to depict hoodoos in Dinosaur Provincial Park was, in fact, taken near the town of Drumheller, approximately 200 kilometres away. Alberta’s hoodoos are large rock columns formed by erosion, and are a popular attraction for tourists and photographers to the Badlands region. Canada Post spokeswoman Anick Losier says the stamps, which were part of a pack of five, were issued on the 3d July and meant to celebrate the country’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Almost immediately, Canada Post received feedback that it had made a mistake and once this was confirmed, the stamps were pulled from Canada Post’s website and mail orders. The agency is currently recalling the product from about 6,000 post offices across the country. Once the incorrect stamps are collected, they will be destroyed. Canada Post buys images from photographers or hires them to shoot a series. It also works with a stamp advisory committee and organizations like Parks Canada to source the right photos. “Somehow in the process we missed the piece Stamp News - 23
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that led to this unfortunate mistake”, Loiser says. “That part of the process we’ve reviewed and have fixed to make sure this doesn’t happen again”. Canada Post is currently working with Parks Canada and Dinosaur Provincial Park to reissue the stamp as soon as possible. Mistakes on postage stamps are rare but not completely unheard of. Emil Hakim of Century Stamps and Coins in Mississauga says the value of an erroneous stamp depends on how many are snapped up by private collectors. The market sets the price after about a year, when it’s established exactly how many of the stamps were bought. Hakim says in 1995, a stamp was issued as part of a migrated wildlife set, which featured the word “fawn” without the “f”. Since a high number of those were released, the corrected version is worth more than the wrong one. Over 4.5 million were released, and when the mistake was discovered, 800,000 were corrected and put back into circulation. Another factor that determines the market value is how many were actually placed on letters 24 - Stamp News
and mailed, says John Sheffield, executive director of the Canadian Stamp Dealers’ Association. “My hunch is the market value will not be as great as some other printing errors that have happened in the past”, he says. “It could take years for the number in circulation to be known and a value to be determined”. He says it’s now known that there were only 400 copies of the 1959 St. Lawrence Seaway five-cent stamp with the centre inverted that made it into public hands. Unused copies of this stamp have a catalogue value of US$10,000 and used ones are US$8,000. Canada Post could not confirm the number of erroneous Dinosaur Park stamps in circulation.
Brontosaurus: what’s in a name?
Reported at www.abc.net.au In the 1870s two similar dinosaurs were discovered and named the Brontosaurus and Apatosaurus. However, in the early 20th century, ‘Brontosaurus’ was eliminated as a proper Linnaean term and replaced with Apatosaurus.
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But nobody told United States Postal Service. In 1989, they released a stamp with the word ‘Brontosaurus’ proudly emblazoned upon it. The fact that the stamp was officially launched at Disney World didn’t help them with a scientific stamp of approval. There was a huge uproar. Surprisingly, there was a much bigger ‘mistake’ in this stamp release that the media didn’t comment on. There were four stamps issued in this dinosaur series. One of the stamps was of the flying reptile known as a Pteranodon. But Pteranodon is a flying reptile — it is not even a dinosaur! Maybe the furore demonstrated the secret affection that people had for the name Brontosaurus. Interestingly the USPS has now been vindicated as recent research has resurrected the separate identity of the Brontosaurus and indeed identified a further species under the Apatosaurus terminology. Dr Tschopp, the lead author of the paper later said: “I didn’t start out trying to resurrect Brontosaurus.” But accidentally, that’s what he did.
Strubels decoded
Reported at www.swiss-philately.co.uk Any collector of Switzerland is familiar with the ‘strubels’- Switzerland’s beautiful Seated Helvetia imperforate stamps issued between 1854 and 1863. The Swiss Federal Constitution of 1848 transferred operation of the postal service from the Cantons to the Federal Government, and in doing so identified the need for a stamp design that would symbolize the newly formed constitutional State. Director of the Federal Mint, Dr. Kuster, visited Paris and London to investigate methods of stamp production. While at the Perkins Bacon plant it is believed he gained inspiration for the design of the new stamp from the allegorical figure of ‘Britannia’ on the first official stamps of Barbados, Mauritius and Trinidad. Britannia is depicted as a seated woman holding a spear in her right arm and resting her left elbow on a shield. The pose is remarkably similar to that found in the design of the Strubel. When the design was finally approved and produced, in many cases, the new stamps were not cleanly and clearly printed, so the crown of laurels on Helvetia’s head often appeared unrecognizable,
Barbados Britannia, Strubel proof, Struwel Peter looking more like a tousled hairstyle. It is the laurel wreath on the head, giving the mistaken impression that ‘Helvetia’ is pictured with unkempt hair, that gave these stamps the nickname “Strubel”. In 1845 a children’s book “Der Struwwelpeter” (or Shockheaded Peter) by Heinrich Hoffmann was published and quickly became a classic. The character of the title was Peter, a boy whose wild hair was the disastrous consequence of his naughty behaviour. It was her laurel wreath that gave the impression that Helvetia herself had wild untidy hair that led to the nickname “Strubel”, from “Struwel Peter”. In later years, people began to criticise the design of the once beloved ‘Strubel’, considering it to be inartistic. The windswept hair of Mother Helvetia was likened to icicles - or even horns! She was devoid of expression - a blank face without eyes, and the suggestion was made that she should appear more in profile, as on the coins of the time. A new design, again featuring Helvetia, was introduced on the 1st October 1862, but this time the stamps were perforated.
Botswana celebrated world heritage listing
Reported at http://en.starafrica.com The Ministry of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism and Botswana Post have launched a stamp issue to celebrate the recent listing of the Okavango Delta World Heritage Site. “One year on after the Okavango Delta was listed as the 1,000th World Heritage Site by the World Heritage Committee, Botswana still prides herself Stamp News - 25
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at this great achievement and wants to share the beauty of the Okavango Delta with the rest of the world,” said a spokesman. The stamps are intended to promote the habitat of the Okavango Delta World Heritage Site which was one of the reasons for the listing.
Ryuku celebrates the Iriomote
Reported at http://english.ryukyushimpo.jp On July 17, the Japan Post Network Okinawa Branch released sets of Iriomote wild cat original
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stamps. The launch of the new stamps onto the market commemorates the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the animal, a special national treasure, which is found only on Iriomote Island, Taketomi Town. Part of the profit from sales will be donated to the Iriomote Wildlife Protection Fund. Seventeen post offices, including those in Yaeyama, Naha, and Chinen, plan to sell 1,500 sets of stamps. The captivating photographs of the wild cat were provided by the Ministry of Environment’s Iriomote Wildlife Protection Center. At the presentation ceremony held in Taketomi Town Office, a ranger from the Wildlife Protection Center, Yuri Sagamihara remarked, “I will be happy if many people learn more about the rare wildcat through these stamps. I hope the coming year contributes to its protection.”
Czech Republic honours the British Schindler
Reported at http://calvertjournal.com Czech Post will pay tribute to Sir Nicholas Winton with a special edition stamp. Sir Nicholas George Winton MBE (born Nicholas George Wertheim; 19 May 1909 – 1 July 2015) was a British humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport (German for “children transportation”). Often dubbed the “British Schindler”, Sir Nicholas arranged for the safe passage of 669 unaccompanied children, mostly Jewish, from Nazioccupied Czechoslovakia to safety in the UK before
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the outbreak of the Second World War. Winton found homes for the children and arranged for their safe passage to Britain. The world found out about his work only in 1988. The British press dubbed him the “British Schindler”. On 28 October 2014, he was awarded the highest honour of the Czech Republic, the Order of the White Lion (1st class), by Czech President Miloš Zeman. The stamps, in honour of Sir Nicholas’ death on 1 July this year at the age of 106, will go on sale on 2 September. 750,000 will be available.
Nuie celebrates its flora
Reported at https://stamps.nzpost.co.nz Niue Post has issued new stamps featuring flora as utilized in Niuean culture, both for creating practical tools for everyday life and for decorative purposes. Each stamp includes a stylized illustration of the flora, the Niuean name and the scientific name. Owing to a warm climate and high levels of rainfall, flowers and trees suited to a tropical climate grow well in Niue. 30c – Fou (Hibiscus tiliaceus) The bark of the fou contains strong fibres, making it ideal for creating cordage and fashioning into ceremonial clothing. The wood of the fou is used in various aspects of creating canoes. $1.40 – Pua (Fagraea berteroana) The flower has a sweet scent, making it popular as a hair accessory for women. The pua’s timber is highly valued for making tools and furnishings. $2.00 – Toi (Alphitonia zizyphoides) Its wood is highly valued for use in furnishings because of its attractive grain. The bark and bark sap are used in
traditional medicines for various diseases. $4.00 – Si (Cordyline fruticosa) The leaves of the si were traditionally used to fashion skirts and kilts.
Suffering for his hobby
Reported at http://thediplomat.com Willem van der Bijl had an office in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, until in 2011 he was declared persona non grata. After twenty-four visits to the country, the North Korean government placed him in solitary confinement. He was interrogated for 15 hours a day for two weeks before eventually being expelled from the country. Van der Bijl’s fascination with printed material began when he was six years old. He collected post stamps from all over the world and by the age of 21 had started his own stamp shop in Utrecht. On one of his visits to a stamp exhibition in 1998 he met the director of the North-Korean stamp cooperation. This resulted in his first trip to North Korea. Shortly after his return to the Netherlands Van der Bijl starts making new plans to go to North Korea. “In a way, the country gets under your skin.” In the end, he went back 23 times. Van der Bijl is not only interested in North Korean stamps. The propaganda posters he sees in the communist country fascinate him: “You see them in train stations and in the streets. They communicate a message from the regime.” The posters are printed in limited editions, because they are used as propaganda material. When the regime wants to send another message to the people, they change the posters. “So I started asking around where I could buy the old posters.” With that, the largest North Korean propaganda poster collection in the world began. The biggest problem was how to export them to the Netherlands. This required extensive bribery and setting up a local office in Pyongyang. On every visit to North Korea Van der Bijl was Stamp News - 27
Stamps in the News - Globally! is the biggest collection of North Korean propaganda posters in the world. The collection spans 1952 to 2011 and is being digitised to make it accessible to international scholars.
followed by the secret service and his calls tapped. “They knew what I was doing. Some felt that I was exposing things to the outside world that were meant to stay in North Korea.” On the last day of a visit in 2011, Van der Bijl was arrested and kept in solitary confinement for two weeks. The interrogations were tough: “I was never told the reason for my arrest.” After two weeks in prison, he was given an offer: confess guilt and ask for leniency. He took the offer immediately. That confession was the only path to freedom. “The downside is that I will never be able to visit North Korea. But if the regime collapses, I will be one of the first to visit the country.” In all his 24 visits Van der Bijl collected more than a thousand North Korean posters. It 28 - Stamp News
Margo’s note: Postscript to the story on the new Elvis stamp last month Postmaster General Megan Brennan and Elvis’ former wife Priscilla Presley will dedicate the new Elvis stamp at Graceland, Elvis’ former mansion, during the annual Elvis Week celebration. The stamps, which feature a 1955 black-and-white shot by photographer William Speer, cost 49 cents. As a “forever” stamp, the product will be usable for letters in the future, even if stamp prices increase. The stamp is also a new milestone for the rock and rock legend. With the issuance of the stamp, Elvis becomes the first artist to be featured in two different collections of stamps. Elvis was featured on postal service stamps in 1993, which was the most popular edition of stamps in the USPS history. In collaboration with Sony Music’s RCA/Legacy Recordings, the Postal Service will also release a CD called “Elvis Forever,” which includes 18 of Presley’s songs. The CD features a previously unreleased version of “If I Can Dream.”
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1971 Satellite Earth Station In 1971 New Zealand’s first earth-based satellite station was opened at Warkworth, 50km north of Auckland. The station exchanged signals with the Pacific Satellite. For the first time television newscasts could feature extensive overseas footage, and in turn, New Zealand sent footage – including of the 1974 Christchurch Commonwealth Games – overseas. The 1971 newspaper photo nearby shows the newly-opened earth station. The two stamps issued on 14 July 1971 were designed by Mark Cleverley. The 8 cent showed the receiving dish and the 10 cent the Pacific
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Satellite. The coloured dots (orange on the 8c and blue on the 10c) represented the satellite’s other receiving stations in the Pacific with the white dot representing the New Zealand station. The background colours represented the night sky. Courvoisier of Switzerland printed the stamps in three-colour photogravure on their own ‘Granite’ unwatermarked paper which incorporated coloured silk fibres. The plate numbers 111, the designer’s name and the printer’s imprint all appeared in the bottom of the right selvedge. The perforations gauged 11½. The 8 cent rate
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paid for inland letters and British Commonwealth surface mail letters up to 4 ounces and for surface mail to other countries up to 1 ounce. It also paid the aerogramme rate to Canada and the USA.
The 10c stamp did not match any specific inland or surface-mail rates but paid aerogrammes and second-class airmail to Britain and Europe and airmailed postcards to Canada and the USA. Postage rates increased in October 1971 – these stamps were withdrawn from sale on 7th September 1971. References: Catalogue of New Zealand Stamps, Auckland, Campbell Paterson, 1952 –. The Postage Stamps of New Zealand, vol. 6, Wellington, RPSNZ, 1975. Graeme can be contacted through his website, www. stampsmw.top1.com.au .
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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 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 ..........$ 100.00 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 ........................................................$ 300.00 100 FINLAND .................................................$ 18.00 400 FINLAND .................................................$ 80.00 500 FINLAND ...............................................$ 140.00 10 FIUME ....................................................... $ 7.00 100 FRANCE .....................................................$ 6.00 200 FRANCE ...................................................$ 16.00 100 FRENCH COLONIES .....................................$ 7.50 300 FRENCH COLONIES ...................................$ 30.00 50 FRENCH COLONIES (PRE INDEPENDENCE) ..$ 12.00 100 FRENCH. MORROCO .................................$ 25.00 50 FRENCH POLYNESIA ...................................$ 50.00
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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) .............................$ 22.00 500 GERMANY EAST ......................................$ 40.00 50 GERMANY INFLATION (MINT U/H ) ............$ 10.00 100 GERMANY INFLATION (MINT U/H) ...........$ 20.00 500 GERMANY WEST ......................................$ 50.00 100 GERMANY WEST(LRG.COMMEMS) ............$20.00 100 GHANA ...................................................$ 50.00 200 GHANA .................................................$ 120.00 25 GIBRALTAR ................................................$ 17.00 50 GIBRALTAR ................................................$ 45.00 25 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .........................$ 12.00 50 GILBERT, KIRIBATI,TUVALU .........................$30.00 150 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .......................$ 90.00 200 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .....................$ 100.00 300 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .....................$ 150.00 360 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .....................$ 190.00 400 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .....................$ 225.00 500 GILBERT, KIRIBATI, TUVALU ...................$ 270.00 25 GREAT BRITAIN ............................................$ 2.00 50 GREAT BRITAIN ............................................$ 7.00 100 GREAT BRITAIN ..........................................$ 9.00 1000 GREAT BRITAIN ....................................$ 176.00 1200 GREAT BRITAIN ....................................$ 230.00 100 GREAT BTITAIN (LARGE COMMEMS) ........$ 12.00 200 GREAT BRITAIN (LARGE COMMEMS).........$ 20.00 100 GREECE ...................................................$ 14.00 200 GREECE ...................................................$ 30.00 100 GREENLAND ..........................................$ 100.00 50 GRENADA ....................................................$ 8.00 100 GRENADA (MINT U/H) .............................$ 10.00 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
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500 HOLLAND ................................................$ 50.00 1000 HOLLAND ............................................$ 120.00 50 HONDURAS ................................................$30.00 100 HONDURAS .............................................$ 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 ...................................................$ 2.00 500 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
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200 INDIA .......................................................$16.00 300 INDIA ......................................................$ 24.00 25 INDO - CHINA ..............................................$ 8.00 50 INDO - CHINA ............................................$ 30.00 100 INDONESIA ................................................$ 6.00 300 INDONESIA ..............................................$ 56.00 300 IRAN .......................................................$ 30.00 50 IRAN ............................................................$6.00 500 IRAN .......................................................$ 30.00 500 IRAQ .......................................................$ 60.00 50 IRELAND .....................................................$ 9.00 100 IRELAND .................................................$ 18.00 350 IRELAND ...............................................$ 120.00 400 IRELAND ...............................................$ 194.00 500 IRELAND ...............................................$ 250.00 600 IRELAND ...............................................$ 360.00 200 ISRAEL ....................................................$ 36.00 25 ITALIAN COLONIES .....................................$ 15.00 50 ITALIAN COLONIES .....................................$ 24.00 100 ITALIAN COLONIES ...................................$ 75.00 200 ITALIAN COLONIES .................................$ 160.00 100 ITALY .........................................................$ 6.00 200 ITALY .......................................................$ 16.00 500 ITALY .......................................................$ 80.00
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100 HAITI ......................................................$ 30.00 200 HAITI ......................................................$ 55.00 100 HOLLAND ..................................................$ 7.00 200 HOLLAND ................................................$ 14.00 300 HOLLAND ................................................$ 30.00 400 HOLLAND ................................................$ 40.00
100 JAMAICA ..................................................$50.00 200 JAMAICA ...............................................$ 130.00 50 JAPAN .........................................................$ 4.00 1000 JAPAN .................................................$ 140.00 100 JAPAN (MINT U/H) ..................................$ 60.00 50 JERSEY ......................................................$ 13.00
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50 KOREA NORTH (LARGE PICT.) .......................$ 6.00 100 KOREA NORTH (LARGE PICT.)....................$ 10.00 500 KOREA NORTH .........................................$ 80.00 50 KOREA SOUTH ...........................................$ 14.00
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25 LAOS ...........................................................$ 4.00 50 LAOS ...........................................................$ 7.00 500 LAOS .......................................................$ 70.00 20 LAOS PRE WAR ............................................$ 6.00 300 LATIN AMERICA .......................................$ 19.00 50 LATVIA ......................................................$ 22.00 200 LATVIA ..................................................$ 170.00 75 LATVIA (Pre War) ....................................$ 100.00 100 LEBANON ................................................$ 40.00 200 LEBANON ..............................................$ 100.00 50 LIBERIA .......................................................$ 9.00 200 LIBERIA ...................................................$ 35.00 300 LIBERIA ...................................................$ 70.00 25 LIECHTENSTEIN .........................................$ 10.00 50 LIECHTENSTEIN .........................................$ 30.00 25 LITHUANIA ................................................$ 10.00 50 LITHUANIA ................................................$ 30.00 100 LITHUANIA ............................................$ 100.00 50 LUXEMBOURG .............................................$ 8.00 100 LUXEMBOURG .........................................$ 21.00 2000 LUXEMBOURG .......................................$ 50.00
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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 ...............................................$ 24.00 100 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 .................................................$ 40.00 500 MONGOLIA ..............................................$ 65.00 25 MONTENEGRO ...........................................$ 20.00 50 MONTENEGRO ...........................................$ 50.00 100 MONTSERRAT ........................................$ 114.00 50 MOZAMBIQUE ...........................................$ 10.00
200 MOZAMBIQUE .........................................$ 55.00 400 MOZAMBIQUE .......................................$ 270.00 500 MOZAMBIQUE .......................................$ 300.00 50 MYANMAR ................................................$ 20.00
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25 NAURU ......................................................$ 11.00 50 NAURU ......................................................$ 33.00 100 NAURU ....................................................$ 93.00 150 NAURU ..................................................$ 134.00 200 NAURU ..................................................$ 160.00 50 NEPAL .........................................................$ 8.00 100 NEPAL .....................................................$ 16.00 25 NETHERLANDS ANTILLES ..........................$ 20.00 500 NEVIS (MINT U/H) .................................$ 260.00 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 1000 NEW ZEALAND ....................................$ 105.00 25 NICARAGUA ................................................$ 2.00 50 NICARAGUA ................................................$ 5.00 100 NICARAGUA ..............................................$ 8.00 500 NICARAGUA ............................................$ 70.00 25 NIGERIA ......................................................$ 6.00 100 NIGERIA ..................................................$ 60.00 25 NIUE .........................................................$ 20.00 50 NIUE .........................................................$ 40.00 100 NIUE .......................................................$ 88.00 150 NIUE .....................................................$ 140.00 200 NIUE .....................................................$ 200.00 25 NORFOLK ISL. ............................................$ 11.00 50 NORFOLK ISL. ............................................$ 26.00 100 NORFOLK ISL. ..........................................$ 90.00 200 NORFOLK ISL. ........................................$ 150.00 300 NORFOLK ISL. ........................................$ 270.00 50 NORTH BORNEO ........................................$ 50.00 100 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH ................$ 190.00 120 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH ................$ 200.00
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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 ...................................................$ 9.00 500 NORWAY .................................................$ 80.00 25 NYASALAND ..............................................$ 50.00
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50 PACIFIC IS (BR) ............................................$ 8.00 100 PACIFIC IS. (BR) ........................................$16.00 200 PACIFIC IS. (BR) .......................................$ 56.00 600 PACIFIC ISLANDS ...................................$ 250.00 50 PANAMA ...................................................$ 13.00 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 ...............................$ 88.00 500 PAPUA NEW GUINEA .............................$ 400.00 600 PAPUA NEW GUINEA .............................$ 750.00 800 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...........................$ 1900.00 100 PARAGUAY (MINT U/H)) ..........................$ 20.00 150 PENRHYN ..............................................$ 184.00 500 PERU .....................................................$ 170.00 600 PERU .....................................................$ 250.00 700 PERU .....................................................$ 470.00 100 PHILIPPINES ...........................................$ 17.00 800 PHILIPPINES .........................................$ 250.00 900 PHILIPPINES .........................................$ 330.00 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 ................................................$ 60.00 150 PORT AZORES ........................................$ 190.00 200 PORTUGAL ..............................................$ 39.00 50 PORTUGAL COLONIES ..................................$ 6.00 200 PORTUGAL COLONIES ..............................$ 40.00
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50 RHODESIA .................................................$ 16.00 200 RHODESIA .............................................$ 140.00 300 RHODESIA .............................................$ 240.00 400 RHODESIA .............................................$ 400.00
Pay cents, not $ per stamp! 50 ROMANIA ....................................................$ 2.00 100 ROMANIA ..................................................$ 3.00 200 ROMANIA ..................................................$ 5.00 500 ROMANIA ................................................$ 31.00 1000 ROMANIA ..............................................$ 73.00 100 ROMANIA (LARGE PICT.) ............................$ 6.00 200 ROMANIA (LARGE PICT.) ..........................$ 11.00 300 ROMANIA (LARGE PICT.) ..........................$ 18.00 100 RUSSIA .....................................................$ 7.00 300 RUSSIA ...................................................$ 20.00 1000 RUSSIA .................................................$ 90.00 500 RUSSIA (LARGE) ......................................$ 40.00 100 RUSSIA (MINT SHORT SETS) ....................$ 11.00 100 RUSSIAN INDP.STATES (MINT U/H)...........$ 33.00
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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 .............................................$ 200.00 500 SCANDINAVIA ..........................................$40.00 50 SERBIA ......................................................$ 40.00 25 SEYCHELLES ..............................................$ 40.00 100 SEYCHELLES ............................................$ 90.00 50 SINGAPORE ...............................................$ 12.00 100 SINGAPORE .............................................$ 30.00 200 SINGAPORE ...........................................$ 100.00 75 SLOVAKIA ..................................................$ 17.00 150 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 25 SOUTHERN RHODESIA .................................$ 6.00 150 SOUTHERN RHODESIA .............................$ 70.00 300 SPAIN ......................................................$ 30.00 500 SPAIN ......................................................$ 66.00 1000 SPAIN ..................................................$ 135.00 1500 SPAIN ..................................................$ 275.00
50 SPANISH COLONIES ...................................$16.00 100 SPANISH COLONIES .................................$ 35.00 200 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 50 ST. VINCENT ..............................................$ 18.00 100 ST. VINCENT ............................................$ 30.00 25 SURINAME ................................................$ 12.00 100 SURINAME ..............................................$ 56.00 50 SWAZILAND ..............................................$ 20.00 100 SWAZILAND ............................................$ 60.00 500 SWEDEN .................................................$ 70.00 200 SWEDEN ..................................................$16.00 100 SWITZERLAND ........................................$ 15.00 300 SWITZERLAND ........................................$ 44.00 800 SWITZERLAND ......................................$ 150.00 1200 SWITZERLAND ....................................$ 600.00 1300 SWITZERLAND ....................................$ 900.00 1500 SWITZERLAND ..................................$ 1600.00 50 SYRIA ..........................................................$ 9.00
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200 THAILAND ...............................................$ 70.00 300 THAILAND .............................................$ 130.00 400 THAILAND .............................................$ 180.00 600 THAILAND .............................................$ 370.00 800 THAILAND .............................................$ 800.00 100 TOGO ..........................................................$7.00 50 TOKELAU ...................................................$ 60.00 25 TONGA ......................................................$ 16.00 50 TONGA ......................................................$ 36.00 100 TONGA ..................................................$ 110.00 10 TRISTAN DA CUNHA ...................................$ 10.00 50 TRISTAN DA CUNHA ..................................$ 60.00 100 TRISTAN DA CUNHA ...............................$ 170.00 35 COMPLETE SETS TRISTAN DA CUNHA .............$110 25 TUNISIA ......................................................$ 4.00 50 TUNISIA ....................................................$ 12.00 100 TUNISIA ..................................................$ 36.00 100 TURKEY .....................................................$ 5.00 300 TURKEY ...................................................$ 18.00 25 TURKS & CAICOS .........................................$ 6.00 50 TURKS & CAICOS .......................................$ 20.00 100 TURKS & CAICOS (MINT U/H) ...................$ 70.00
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100 U.N.O ......................................................$ 24.00
300 U.N.O ....................................................$ 110.00 400 U.N.O ....................................................$ 170.00 200 URUGUAY ................................................$ 36.00 100 USA ..........................................................$ 4.00 200 USA ..........................................................$ 8.00 1000 USA ......................................................$ 80.00 300 USA (COMMEMS) ....................................$ 14.00 100 USA (MINT COMMEMS) ...........................$ 50.00 200 USA (MINT COMMEMS) .........................$ 100.00
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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 50 VENEZUELA ...............................................$ 17.00 700 VENEZUELA ...........................................$ 250.00 800 VENEZUELA ...........................................$ 350.00 100 VIETNAM .................................................$ 30.00
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25 WALLIS & FUTUNA ......................................$ 6.00 50 WALLIS & FUTUNA ....................................$ 20.00 200 WALLIS & FUTUNA ................................$ 300.00 300 WORLD .........................................................$10 1000 WORLD .......................................................$35 2000 WORLD .....................................................$100 5000 WORLD .....................................................$300 10,000 WORLD ..................................................$800 25 WURTTEMBERG ........................................$ 16.00
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100 YUGOSLAVIA .............................................$ 9.00 200 YUGOSLAVIA ...........................................$ 17.00 300 YUGOSLAVIA ...........................................$ 20.00 500 YUGOSLAVIA ...........................................$ 80.00
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50 ZANZIBAR .................................................$ 76.00
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500 BIRDS .....................................................$ 80.00 500 CATS & DOGS ................................................$80 500 PAINTINGS ....................................................$37 300 SHIPS ......................................................$ 40.00 500 TRANSPORT ............................................$ 90.00
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SEPTEMBER OFFERS September offers: Do not forget we can accept Laybys for larger purchases $500 upwards over 3 or 6 months.
AU14) Similar to the above, but unplated, lettered CI – CJ, this pair both with 4 margins. Price $1100.
Prices valid to end September 2015 or until sold out.
AU15) Final of these pairs of 1d blacks, these in the scarcer Grey Black shade, and with Black Maltese Crosses. Lettered EC – ED, both are 4 margin examples, close at bottom. Price $1175
LATEST ARRIVALS IN COLLECTIONS, SINGLES, LOTS AND MIXTURES: 0AU1) Scott Speciality Albums, for British Africa, 3 massive albums, finished in Dark Green Rexine, with Gold Titles on Spine. From 1840’s – 1971. In great condition generally, the oldest of the binders just needs a little TLC. New cost would be many 100s of Dollars. Very cheap at $189 0AU2) Czechoslovakia collection in 4 volumes, 1918 to 1980, a Minkus printed album and 3 springbacks all in nice condition. Lovely lot, mostly postally used or mint, some of the later issues are cto. Very many complete sets and minisheets, with a high degree of completeness. Many 100s of stamps, very cheap at $279 0AU3) Fiji, in Seven Seas Hingeless album 1953 to 1988, and on Hagner style pages, Queen Victoria onwards, many complete sets, mint and used, about 250 stamps. Cheap at under 50c a stamp, $119. 0AU4) Australia Territories and Pacifics in large stockbook and 2 ring binders on Seven Seas Hingeless Pages also in packets, vast quantity majority Mint Unhinged with some hinged in the earlier, from Norfolk Is, Samoa, Pitcairn, Nauru, Papua New Guinea and Christmas Is. Value is in the Norfolk Is., which appears complete, 1966 – 1989. 100s of complete sets and minisheets, and a huge retail value, $595 the lot
AU16) Australia 1920 3rd Wmk 1/- Blue-Green, SIDEWAYS WATERMARK, lovely block of 4, top tow very lightly hinged, lower two are unhinged. Centrered a little high, as is usual for this stamp. Cat. $200 each for hinged, and unpriced for unhinged, but other items in this periods are normally near 3 times the price, so around $1600. Never seen a block so nice before! Price $975 AU17) Australia 1913 2/- Brown 1st Wmk. Kangaroo, lovely postally used, with partical cds at base. Centred low, but such a nice stamp! Cat $250, my price just a half, $125 AU18) Australia 1916 2/- Brown 2nd Wmk. Kangaroo, “socked on nose” cds with Sydney 16 MY 16 cds, perfect centering and perfs, a premium stamp! Cat. $350, my price for this one $189 AU19) Australia 1913 6d Engraved Kookaburra, lovely cto example. Cat $80, this one just $65 AU20) Australia 1908 5/- Green Postage Due, with stroke. SGD59, Cat. $95. Lovely well centred, ful perfs and “socked on nose” with scarce Perth Poste Restante cds, 7 AUG 09. Price $72
AU5) Large carton of Australia in 4 stockbooks and Seven Seas Album 1966 – 1989, mostly used, and quantity of Decimal First Day Covers, in albums and loose in opackets and bundles. Massive Bulk lot. Two Available at $289 each or $495 the two.
AU21) Australia 1964 10/- Navigator, overprinted 15.5mm Specimen, on cream paper mint unhinged. OVERPRINT MASSIVELY MISPLACED INTO PERFS AT LHS. Never seen this before and is not catalogued. Stamp is perfectly centred. STRIKING ERROR! Cat. $1500 as normal, Unashamedly asking $3000.
AU6) Stockcard of KGV Heads with noted varieties, including Dot on Emu, Run N, RA Joined, Halepence, plus others, and a pair of 3d Blue types A & B, etc, etc. Priced to sell at over $500. (20 stamps) Selling at UNDER ONE THIRD of retail $165 the lot.
AU22) Australia 1964 One Pound Navigator, cream paper, overprinted Specimen mint unhinged. Well centered with good perfs. Cat $150, price $119
AU8) Great Britain in 2 Springback Windsor Albums, 1840 – 1980. Highlights include KEVII 2/6d & 5/- x 2 of each, and a reasonable 10/-, this stamp alone cat. at $1000 - $1200 depending which printing, also Seahorses to 10/-, one exceptionally nice fine used reengraved, cat $160, 1948 Silver Wedding One Pound fine used, KGVI and QEII Pre-decimals with a large degree of completeness to 1980, with a few mint sets, but mostly a nice used collection, very worthy of expansion. Very good value at $495.
AU24) GB 1840 1d Black, nice 4 margins, approaching the Intense Black shade, unplated, lettered CB, and bearing TWO Red Maltese Crosses, contrary to regulations! Price $895
AU9) Australia Decimal Collection pretty much complete used collection 1966 – 2006, in ring binder on album leaves, plus some useful AAT and Christmas Is. Around 2000 stamps, look to be all different. Lovely lot. Under 10c a stamp $195 AU10) Nice little cheapy lot of New Zealand mint unhinged Decimal sets, 24 different approx 1973 – 1988 in binder on 10 new Hagner style pages, face value NZ$60, and priced to sell at AUD$75. Just $45 the lot. AU11) The Numeral Cancellations of NSW, on CD Rom, by Hugh Freeman, the Hardback Book is out of print, and sold out. Origianl price for the bookwas $225, and 2nd hand copies are non-exisitent. I have just 2 copies of this, price $49 each. Invaluable!
AU23) GB 1955 Waterlow Castles 2/6d to One Pound, mint lightly hinged and well centered. Retail $125, my price $75!
AU25) Australia 1948 5/- Arms, thin paper horizontal strip of 3 POSTALLY USED! Never ever seen a multiple of this in 50 years of stamp dealing, must be a very rare usage. Left hand stamp thinned at top, otherwise fine. Cat $125 each as singles. Must be worth full catalogue. Supplied with normal for comparison. $375 AU26) Australia 1948 5/- Robes, thin tinted paper Imprint Block of 4, mint unhinged, cat $150. Price $110 AU27 World Wildlife Fund, Animals of the World Album. One not seen by us before. A big green peg fitting album, leather grain with gold Panda logo on front. Contains 108 Illustrated cards in full colour, with informative text in reverse, plus a mint unhinged stamp depicting the animal described. Must have been hard to assemble. Very attractively produced album. Less than $150 each, $159
AU12) Australia 1913 1d Red Kangaroo, Die IIA, fresh used example, with large part original gum, and Strong Offset on reverse under the gum. Cat $600 for mint, unpriced used. Lovely item. Price $495
AU28) Australia 1948 10/- and One Pound Arms, mint unhinged. Cat $90, asking just a half, cheap at $45
AU13) Great Britain 1840 1d Black, plate 4, in horizontal pair, (Pairs are scarce!) cancelled with nicely struck Red Maltese Crosses. Lettered NG – NH. NG has 4 huge margins, NG has 3 decent margins, but just into at top right. Cat $2400. Lovely piece. $850
AU30) Australia KGV 4d Purple, single wmk, perf OS, MUH, cat $375, with what appears to be a vertical doctor blade line in gum. My price $195
AU29) Australia KGV 4d Orange, Inverted wmk, MLH, Cat $80, cheap at $45
AU31) As above, but MLH. Cat. $200, my price under a half, $98
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SEPTEMBER OFFERS AU32) Australia KGV 3d Blue single wmk, MUH, type A, cat $75, price $45 AU33) Australia KGV, 4d Orange, perf OS, MLH, minor gum toning. Cat $250, under a half at $119 AU34) Australia KGV, 1d Red single wmk, rough paper, perf OS, MLH. Cat $50, price $39 AU35) Australia KGV, 1d Green C of A wmk, Overprinted OS, in a mint unhinged left marginal block of 8. Centered low, with appearance of almost imperf between the vertical rows. Nice fresh appearance. Cat $160. Price $119 AU36) Australia KGV 1d Red single wmk smooth paper, plate 4 with part Harrison 2 line imprint, MUH with variety RA joined. Cat $75, price $49
from local charity appears unsorted, could be anything in here. Many 1000s. Weighs 2kg Another cheap lot $149 MJY7) Another lot, as above but heavier and mainly decimal, in 8 large stockbooks and Seven Seas Album to 1990. Album alone retails $125 new. Weighs 16kg. Price $225 MJY8) British Commonwealth off paper newly received mixture, this is much better than the average with stamps from Queen Victoria to quite recent. Must be 15 - 20,000 to the kg. Lovely lot at under 4c per stamp, appears unpicked. Around 1500 – 2000 stamps, 100g for $69, 250g $159, 500g $295 Few lots only. MJY9) Old Tyme Oddments lot, loose, on and off paper, on part album leaves, contents of a small shoebox, with items from 19th Century to 1950’s it appears. Strength in Europe and Br. Empire, looks like there would be a couple of 1000 here. $129 the lot.
AU37) As above, on 1d Green. Cat $40, price $25 AU38) As above, but on 1d Violet, in horizontal pair with normal at left. $39 AU39) Great Britain, 1958 Wildings 2nd Graphites, inverted wmk, set of 5, MUH, retail $120, price $89 AU40) Great Britain 1960 Wildings Phosphor, inverted wmk, set of 9 (exludes 3d sideband at left) Mint unhinged, retail $300, my price $225 AU41) Great Britain 1960 Wildings Phosphor. 2.5d Red, 1 band, type 1. Scarest of this series, retail $65, price $45 AU42) USA Collectors Duplicates in shoeboxe, sorted in envelopes by SG number, who know what may lie herein! SG1 -4439, plus some back of the book issues. Must be 1000s. The lot for $149 AU43) As above, but South Africa, plus some loose in packets with earlies, between SG3 – 834. Also some Zimbabwe. $69 the lot. AU44) As above, but Philippines, noted Japanese Occupation, some officials etc, $49 the lot. AU45) As above, Canada, some on album pages, $49 the lot AU46) As above, Malaysia, Singapore and Fiji, tightly packed into small shoebox, price $49 AU47) Carton of Philatelic and other Literature, includes: History of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Americas Story as told in Postage Stamps, US 19th Century Fancy Cancels, Paper Ambassadors (the politics of stamps), Dietz Confederate States catalog and handbook 1959, The Blue Mauritius, Billigs Philatelic Handbook, vol 33: 19th Century US Fancy Cancels. Essay – Proof Journal 1944, A Historical Catalog of US Essay and Proof, the 1847 Issue, plus many others. 15 items, fascinating and educationsal lot for the avid reader…you can put down your Harry Potter! price $149.
MJY10) Argentina, early to modern off paper, sorted into envelopes by SG number. Weighs 1.8kg, could be anything, have not looked. Cheap lot $49 MJY11) Silk Cigarette Cards, in ancient album, features dogs, coats of arms, Military Crests, Flags etc. approx 95, must be worth $1 each…album is free. $95 MJY12) 1000 different Finland, have never been able to offer this size packet before, and mostly circular cancels! 500 diff. is on our list at $140, so these are a bargain at $185, two only, be quick! MJY13) Australia 1929 3d Airmail Type B, in Commercially used block of 6, which is extremely rare. Melbourne 17 SE 34 cds cancels, price $96 MJY14) Australia 1916 5/- Pale Yellow and Grey Kangaroo, 3rd wmk, perf OS, cds used, Sydney Rly Stn, Late Fee, 28 OC 21. With Kangaroo Misplaced downwards, in exactly the same position as the known 10/- of this issue, though not recorded for this value. The 10/cat. Price is $5000. This one $2950 MJY15) Australia 1915 5/- Grey and Yellow Kangaroo, 2nd wmk, mint lightly hinged, showing Albino Kangaroo on reverse, and also Double Perfs at left, which is unrecorded for this stamp. Lower left corner a little blunt, mentioned for accuracy only, as this is due to the double perforation. Catalogue price for a normal mint example is $1500. Price ofr this $1250. MJY16) Australia 1929 5/- Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, multiple wmk, lovely cto example with bottom left corner cds. Retail $225, this one $179 MJY17) Australia 1913 10/- Grey and Pink 1st wmk, cto with neat Melbourne corner cds. Centred a bit high, but a very attractive stamp in a deeper pink shade. Cat. Minimum $1700. My price $1250
AU48) Poster Stamps Australia 150th Anniversary 1788 - 1938 superb MUH complete set of 49 in fresh, flat unfolded sheet. Individual stamps sell for $3 each. My price for the lot, seldom seen in this condition, $98
MJY18) Australia 1932 10/- Grey and Pink 10/- Kangaroo C of A wmk, fine used, well centered and full perfs, with Airmail 29 JE 37 cds. Lovely looking stamp. Cat. $300. My price $249
AU50) Australia 1966 Navigators Specimen Overprints, the Scarce 75c & $1 smaller 15mm overprints, mint unhinged, retail $350, my price just a half $175. (I also have the same in MLH if required for $89)
MJY19) Australia Simplified Kangaroo used set, all fine used with circular cancels, Halfpenny – 10/-, with both colours in 6d and 2/- values. 15 stamps, usual retail $500 plus, this set $395
MJY1) Mostly mint unhinged, collection/accumulation of Norfolk Island 1960’s to 1990 approx mainly in pairs, counted over 100 complete sets and minisheets including 4 definitive sets to $3, plus ranges of other British Commonwealth countries in big green stockbook. Many 100s, great value at $375
MJY21) Australia 1937 KGVI 3d Die I, mint unhinged, retail $75, my price $56 MJY23) Australia 1915 3d Olive Green Kangaroo, DieII, fine used with Melbourne cds, 23 JY 23 cancel. Very scarce stamp. Retail $120, my price $89
MJY4) Carton of GB stamps, 1953 to quite recent sorted in envelopes by SG number, 100s of stamps! Few mint noted, weighs 7.5kg, $149 the lot. MJY5) Part Contents of huge shipping carton, with mass of World on paper, just as received
MJY24) Great Britain 1951 One Pound Brown Arms, in used block of 4, with circular cancels. Attractive piece, cat $145 as singles, cheap at one third, $49 MJY25) Australia 1913 5/- Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, perf Large OS, parcel used, as is normal for this stamp. Missing from 99% of all collections! Cat. $2000, this one $1250.
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SEPTEMBER OFFERS MJY26) Australia Kangaroos cto selection, all at Half Catalogue Price. a) 3rd wmk 6d Brown $12.50, b) 3rd wmk 1/- Blue-green Die IIb, perf OS $20, c) 9d multiple wmk, perf OS $25, d) 1/- multiple wmk perf OS $22.50, e) 2/- multiple wmk perf OS $ 50, f) 6d C of A Overprinted OS $50 g) 9d C of A wmk $10
MJY49) Australia KGV, 1d Green, no wmk, perf OS, Mint Unhinged. Retail $195, my price under half $95
MJY28) Australia KGV Heads and Commems. collection, used on Hingeless pages, noted 1913 1d engraved deep shade cto, 6d Kingsford Smith and 6d Brown Airmail also cto 63 of a possible 90 basic stamps for this period. Cheap lot at around $1.50 per stamp $95
Never seen by us before, and in a strict limited Australia Post edition of 1000 sets!
MJY29) Australia 1927 small multiple wmk, perf 14 1/4d Turquoise, SG 93, fresh mint example, cat $375. Priced rather optimistically by Melbourne dealer at $415. My price, . $279 MJY30) Australia 1935 Jubilee set of 3, lovely mint unhinged, retail $90, my price $69 MJY31) Australia 1913 1st wmk 3d Yellow Olive Kangaroo, Die I, perf small OS, neat cds cancel. Cat. $100, my price $75 MJY32) As above but 3rd wmk, Die IIb, with partial Federal Parliament cds, Cat. $60, my price $49 MJY33) Australia 1916 5/- 2nd wmk Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, inverted wmk, with repaired small Telegraph Puncture. Hard stamp to find, cat $750 as normal wmk inv. Also has what appears to be pre-printing paper horizontal paper crease. Cheap at $279 MJY34) GB 1902 DLR Prining KEVII 5/-, SG 263, fine used with rubber circular cancel. cat $440 Cheap at 20% cat. $88 MJY35) Victoria 1879 – 1900 One Pound Orange St. George and Dragon stamp duty, fine mint without gum, retail $600, very cheap at under 15% retail, $89 MJY36) Australia KGV 1d Green, perf 13.5 x 12.5, mint horizontal bottom marginal pair, with double perfs through Jubilee Line at base. Gum slightly aged. Priced by another dealer at $100, and Cat. $150, my price $78 MJY37) Australia KGV 4d Orange, vfu, with Socked on Nose Yarraville, Vic. 7 MY 18 cds, and variety “Line through Fourpence” Lovely stamp! Cat $175, my price $149 and well worth it! MJY38) Australia KGV 4d Lemon, mint unhinged, retail $600, but gum has sadly been sweated, nice budget buy at under 20% retail. $119 MJY39) Australia 1.5d Red KGV, no watermark in block of 4, two unhinged. Cat $75, has minor gum wrinkles, but otherwise fresh. Price $49 MJY40) Austrlia KGV 3d Blue, perf 13.5 x 12.5, mint unhinged, perf OS and with inverted wmk, from bottom of sheet and with part imprint, type B. Cat $575 plus 50% premium for mint unhinged = $862.50. My price under half! $395 MJY41) As above, but type A, no imprint, mint hinged. Cat $400. Ideal for comparison with the above, has a couple of missing perfs at right so only $79 MJY43) Australia 1932 1/- Green Large Lyrebird, mint unhinged, retail $100, my price $74 MJY44) As above, overprinted OS, retail $110, my price $79 MJY45) Australia 1941 2d Purple KGVI positional block of 4 with Medallion flaw on bottom right stamp. Variety stamp is Mint unhinged. Gum is toned. Cat $150, cheap at $59 MJY46) As above, but nice unhinged single, Cat. $150, my price $l10 MJY47) Australia KGVI 3d Die Ia, cto with full gum, not listed as such. Never seen one before! Guess it has to be worth $49. MJY48) Australia KGV 4d Violet single wmk, mint unhinged, retail $40, my price $29
MJY50) Australia 1948 Two Pound Arms, mint hinged, cat $90, my price well under half $39 AUSTRALIA OLYMPIC VICTORY PNC STAMP AND COIN COVERS Compare this with the 2000 Victoria Cross PNC, now selling at well over $200, and catalogued at $350 48,830 issued, or the 2002 QEII Accession PNC, also selling at $200 plus and issued in the quantity of 32,102 and you will see how this offer compares, each of these 7 covers is TENS OF THOUSANDS OF TIMES SCARCER THAN EITHER OF THE ABOVE TWO COVERS! Olympics is one of the most popular themes, collected by countless thousands Worldwide. Yet only 1000 of these collectors can ever hope to own one of these superb collections. I have managed to secure just a small number of these folders, and I urge you to act now to avoid disappointment as I am sure I am going to be oversubscribed. AUSTRALIA POST OLYMPICS VICTORY PNC GOLD MEDALLIST COLLECTION 7 DIFFERENT PNC COVERS IN FOLDER ONE PNC COVER FOR EACH GOLD MEDALLIST An official memento of the 2012 Olympic Games, forming a lasting celebration of Australia’s ‘Golden Moments’ in London. I am delighted to offer the Official Australia Post Olympics Victory Gold Medallist PNC Collection. An extremely exclusive limited edition. Australia Post issued only 1,000 sets. This spectacular release features seven individually numbered PNCs presented in an album. All of the 7 PNCs are all individually numbered from 1 to 1000, the same number on each cover in the set. Celebrating all of the seven Australian athletes to win a gold medal in London. Each PNC features a Gold Medallist 60 cent stamp and an Australian legal tender Australian Olympic Team Uncirculated $1 coin, which was not released into general circulation. The issue price of each set was $159.50, yet we are proud to offer these to you at BELOW ISSUE PRICED AT $149 PER SET! Maximum of two sets per customer. ORDER REF: OLY1 FOR ONE SET OR OLY2 FOR 2 SETS. Extra special offer…. Subscribe to Stamp News Magazine for 5 years for $329, either a new or add on subscription and we will supply one of these superb sets at HALF ISSUE PRICE, just $79.75. See handy subscription form enclosed (Not available with any other offer) JY3) Papua New Guinea, 1952 plus a few earlier to mid 1990s in near new 64 page stockbook, this is an ex dealer stock, with 3 – 5 of most sets mint unhinged, plus some hinged and used. Noted One Pound Fisherman Specimen, MNG, looks like around 1250 – 1500 stamps probably 300 – 400 sets. vals. To 5 Kina (several of those) Very clean lot, and great value at about $1.50 a set across the board. $495 the lot. JY5) I just have 2 packets left of 500 different China, all eras, mint and used. Great starter collection and supplied with a new 32 black page stockbook. To celar these last 3 at $250 each, 50c per stamp for China all different, WOW! and a free stockbook to boot. JY7) Greece off paper mix, very wide ranging with early to modern small and large. Massive variety, I have never before been able to offer a Greece off paper mix before! 100 grams, roughly 1500 stamps for $49, 250g for $115, 500g for $219, 1 lot only of 1kg for $425 JY8) Sweden off paper, back in stock, nice ranges of defins and commems might be the odd Norway or Denmark floating around too.100g, about 1500 stamps for $37.50, 250g for $89. Be quick I only have a small amount of this mix. JY10) World Coins, inc a lot of holiday change, with spendable currency from countries like UK, USA, NZ plus plenty of Europe and Asia in here too. Around 150 coins to the kg, these sell in dealers shops for 50c to $1 or more per coin. My price to clear the last 20kg, $29.50
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SEPTEMBER OFFERS per kg, 5kg for $139, 10 kg for $265
JY33) Superb 4 even, margin example in the scarce Intense Black shade, from the more scarce plate 8, lettered KJ (My initials!) with centrally struck bright red Maltese Cross, stunning example, with no faults. Cat. $1050 + +, amazing quality stamp, hard to find better. $639
JY11) GB used collection on leaves, commences 1902 KEVII with set to 5/- nicely used, KGV with 1924 Wembleys and 5/- Seahorse, KGVI 1939 HVs set of 6 complete, plus 1948 Silver Wedding One Pound and 1951 Festoival HVs complete, then QEII appears mostly complete to 1967 with HVs to One Pound (3) Nice lot for expansion, great value at $149
JY34) Another very nice quality 4 margin example, this one from plate 7 another better plate, and in the normal black shade. Also with red Maltese Cross, lettered RI. Cat $750 plus. Price $449
JY12) Australian States on leaves, nice starter collection, identified by SG catalogue, all States represented, except Victoria. Very nice clean lot with values to 1/-, approx 250, wonderful value at less than 75c per stamp. $185 the lot
JY35) Similar examples, unplated, and just a little closer on the margins, but still very nice stamps. Letters available are : SG (Stanley Gibbons!) or KI Cat $750. Price $399 each
JY14) Collection of 500 different Finland, with new 32 black page stockbook, worth $32.50. The 500 Finland on my packets list is $140 alone, so at $129 this is a great deal! JY19) New Zealand Dealer stock in 2 Green 64 page stockbooks, organised by SG number and priced. Duplication with around 5 or 6 of some stamps. Strength in KGV period onwards, goes to around 2008. Many 1000s, with values to $10. Excellent lot for re-seller, hoarder or researcher! $675 JY20) Germany, dealers stock from SG1 through to 1945 in Green 64 black page stockbook. Magnificent lot, all organised by SG and priced. Many 100s of complete sets, mint and used, 1000s of stamps and lots of items rarely encountered these days. A valuable lot! $995
JY27) Canada, mostly used dealer stock in binder of 37 Hagner type pages and some album leaves, commencing Queen Victoria and going to around 2006, plus 1979 UPU Delegates book of Mint Unhinged, very high retail lot and many 100s of stamps, good value at $249 JY28) DDR (East Germany) dealer stock in 3 x 64 page and 2 smaller stockbooks. Organised by SG number and priced up, starting with SG1, through to the end of the era. Mostly fine used, with much postally used, which is quite uncommon to see, usually we just get the cto. Many, many 1000s of stamps and 100s of complete sets, minisheets etc. Magnificent lot! $1100
JY30) New Zealand Charity, an older mixture on close cut single paper with issues covering the period 1975 – 1995 approx, plenty to interest here in postmarks etc. Normally $90 per kg, now $60 per kg, 500g for $35, 250g for $20
JY38) These next two are all with Black Maltese Cross, 4 margins and lettered NE or SF Price $399 each JY39) A superior example, with 4 nice even margins, unplated, lettered OK! Price $449
JY41) In Grey Black, with bright red Maltese Cross, stunning looker from plate 6, but with minor faults not visible from the front. Cat $1000, price $249
JY23) Great Britain dealer stock in 2 x 64 page, 1 x 48 page and two smaller stockbooks, commencing reasonable examples of 1840 1d black and 2d blue, then Queen Victoria 1d reds, most issues represented from KEVII except for the high values. KGV with values to 2/6d and 5/- Seahorses, 16 in total, then QEII to 2000. One volume is mint unhinged, the rest mainly fine used. Many 100s of sets and 1000s of stamps. Very, very good value at $1750, or without the 1d back and 2d blue, $1350.
JY29) World off paper, normally $300 per kg, vast variety here and about 15,000 to the kg. So well under 2c per stamp, $199 per kg, 500g for $109, 250g for $59
JY37) Another example in the scarce Intense Black shade, with red Maltese Cross, unplated and lettered JD, Cat $1050 price $449
JY40) Now we come to the three margin examples, Intense Black, lettered FK, unplated and with centrally struck Black Maltese Cross, Cat. $1050. Price $295
JY21) West Germany dealer stock in 64 page and 48 page stockbook. Organised by SG and priced. Commences Posthorns with most issues present right through to 2005, many in multiples. This is a very valuable stock , most being fine used with circular cancels. Many, many 100s of stamps and 100s of complete sets here! $649 the lot.
All of the following mixtures are at approx 30% to one third off our normal prices:
JY36) Similar to the above but this one identified as being from plate, and in the Grey Black shade. Lettered BE, Cat. $1000. Price $439
JY42) Two further 3 margin examples, each with red Maltese Cross, Cat $750 lettered JB or RB. Price $329 each JY43) We have 3 other examples, which have minor faults, not visible from the face, if you just want a nice looking stamp to fill a gap. Lettered AA (Top left corner of the sheet), EA or IC, these priced very modestly at $149 ea. JY44) Australia 1915 10/- Grey & Pink 3rd wmk perf OS, cto used. Now Cat $200, my price for reasonable examples $119 each JY45) 1915 5/- Grey & Yellow 3rd wmk Kangaroo, perfect centering and full perfs, cancelled with rubber Hobart cds. Attractive stamp, retail $175, this one just $119 JY46) Twopence Halfpenny 1st wmk Kangaroo, superb used, full perfs, colour and well centred with clear Rialto Vic cds of AP 17 14. Price $26 JY47) 6d 1st wmk Kangaroo, superb used, full perfs, colour and well centred with clear Yarram Yarram Vic cds of 6 NO 14. Price $24 JY48) 1/- small multi wmk Kangaroo, superb used, full perfs, colour and well centred with clear Bridgetown WA cds of 6 – OCT 31. Price $32 JY49) Nauru, GB 5/- Seahorse, ovpt. Nauru, superb well centred lightly hinged example with full rich colour . Retail $165, my price $119 JY50) Great Britain, 1918 5/- Bradbury printing Seahorse, well centred and full perfs with nice partial cds cancel. Cat $270, my price just one third, $90
JY31) Ireland Charity, a mainly recent lot from our friends in a Co. Cork convent. As usual is on heavier paper. Normally $70 per kg, now only $49 per kg, $30 per 500g, $20 per 250g
MJ5) World collection, 1000s of mainly different in 5 big stockbooks. Early to modern, well presented lot, just $295
JY32) South Africa genuine mission mix, on close cut single paper, very high count per kg, with mostly recent issues, but odd nice surprise from earlier times to be found here and there, very colourful mix. Usually $70 per kg, now $49 per kg, $30 per 500g, $20 per 250g.
MJ6) Australian States mixture, mostly off paper, all States represented, few hundreds, noted better values and some S. A. long types. Unpicked, $179 the lot.
Great Britain 1840 1d Blacks, just uncovered a nice little hoard of these, did you know the Chinese are buying these up like crazy?
MJ8) Australia KGV Heads, Kangaroos and pre-decimal sale Discounts from 10% to 40% off normal prices, send for our list, or supply your own wants list. The more you spend, the
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SEPTEMBER OFFERS bigger the discount! MJ9) Great Britain. Magnificent Postal Stationery collection, KEVII and KGV with many uprated and double imprint types, some are very scarce. Includes Military cancels, unusual destinations etc. plus a range of rarely seen mint items. Would make a great addition to any collection GB, or a nice sideline collection. 96 items in all, great value at $950. (Under $10 per item) MJ12) Great Britain1840 Queen Victoria 2d Deep Full Blue, SG 4, fine used 3 margin example with black Maltese Cross cancellation, lettered R C . Cat. $2200. Under 20% catalogue at $425 MJ13) As above, but SG 5a, with variety, double corner letters, 4 margins, close in places lettered O A . Cat $2300. Very scarce stamp, under 20% catalogue, $495 MJ15) Great Britain 1847 1/- Green Embossed, SG 55, cat. $2000. Nice 3 margin example cancelled with clean barred numeral. Under 20% catalogue at $395 MJ16 Great Britain Queen Victoria 1891 One Pound Green SG 212, fine well centred registered used with full colour, unusually with private perfin “DB” Cat $1600 for used. Very cheap at $470 MJ17 Great Britain 1902 KEVII One Pound Green, SG 266, fine used with FE 11 07 cds cancels of Hull. Well centre with full perfs and good colour. Cat $1600, well under 40% catalogue at $595 MJ18) Great Britain 1919 5/- Rose Red Seahorse, SG 426, a brilliant perfectly centred fresh example with full perfs, lightly hinged. Cat $900, a steal at this price under one third catalogue! $295
attractive stamp with very minor perf faults. Retail for fine used $225. This one under half, $98 MJ37) Australia 1929 Small multiple wmk 5/- Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, perf OS cto with gum, very attractive stamp. Retail $225. My price $169 MJ41) Australia 1964 Navigators 4/- to Two Pounds, mint unhinged set of 6, usual retail $175, my price just $129 JN1) GB QV 1848 Embossed 10d. Brown ON COVER TO YORK Die 2 Cat. £3000 SG 57. Lovely example of local usage on solictors letter. Cat near $6000. My price under 12.5% catalogue $749 JN6) Australia 1913 Halfpenny Green 1st wmk Kangaroo, in mint unhinged strip of 5, superb! retail $125, my price just $85 JN7) Australia 1913 Halfpenny to Twopence Halfpenny, 1st wmk Kangaroo, in mint lightly hinged group of 4, 1d is Die IIa. Retail $165, my price under half just $80 JN8) Australia 1913 6d Blue 1st wmk Kangaroo, mint lightly hinged, retail $130, my price just $85 JN10) Australia 1915 3rd wmk Kangaroos set, 2d to 1/-, mint hinged, retail $390, my price under half $189 JN11) Australia 1915 Twopence Halfpenny Indigo 3rd wmk Kangaroo, mint unhinged, retail $70, my price just $49 JN12) Australia 1932 6d Brown C of A wmk Kangaroo, mint unhinged, retail $50, my price just $35
MJ19) Great Britain 1934 10/- Indigo Re-engraved Seahorse. SG 452, fine used well centred and full perf example with cds cancels. Cat. $160, my price under 25% cat. just $39
JN14) ) Australia 1915 6d Ultramarine 3rd wmk Kangaroo perf OS, mint hinged, retail $120, my price under half just $59
MJ20) Papua New Guinea, 1952 Definitive set complete to 10/- mint lightly hinged, just $39
JN16) GB 1925 Wembley set, fresh mint unhinged. Retail $75, my price $60
MJ21) As above, the top value, One Pound Fisherman, mint unhinged, only $99
JN18) New Zealand, High Values, mainly Commems, on paper, we get very little of this. Attractive and scarce mix on single close clipped paper, count is approx 400 per 100g. Price under 30c per stamp. 50g for $69, 100g for $119
MJ27) Australia 1913 1st wmk Twopence Halfpenny Indigo Kangaroo, mlh, retail $70, this one centred low, half price, just $35 MJ28) Australia 1913 1st wmk 3d Olive, Die 1, perf large OS, well centred example with full perfs, unusally with partial registered cds cancel in red! Retail as normal $60, this one just $49 MJ29) Australia 1913 1st wmk 3d Olive, Die 1, perf small OS, mlh, retail $250, this one centred high, just half price $125 MJ30) Australia 1913 1st wmk 5d Chestnut perf large OS, very fine used, well centred and with full perfs, and with centrally struck (socked on nose) Melbourne Registered cds of 1913. Additionally with unlisted G for C in Postage. Lovely! $125 MJ32) Australia 1913 1st wmk Grey and Pink 10/- Kangaroo, good colour and perfs with Telegraph puncture, retail minimum $800 without puncture, this one $159 MJ33) Australia 1915 1/- Emerald 3rd wmk SIDEWAYS Kangaroo, mint lightly hinged, and with better perfs/centering than is usual for this stamp. Retail $110 +, this one $99 MJ34) Australia 1915 3rd wmk 5/- Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, with variety “White faced Roo” not listed as such in the ACSC. Fine used with good perfs and corner cds of Ararat. Retail $225 + Price $169 MJ35) Australia 1915 3rd wmk Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, perf OS and cto Melbourne, with gum. Retail $200 Price $149 MJ36) Australia 1929 Small multiple wmk 5/- Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, very lightly used,
JN20) World Wildlife Fund, officlal collection in Black Padded Binder/slipcase with Panda Logo for 1998. Includes a wealth of information plus 36 first day covers and 9 complete sets of Mint Unhinged stamps. Price $79 JN21) More secondhand albums, most of the last lot sold really quickly. These are all in good serviceable condition, many are almost as new. b) Green real Leather Elbe Ambassador album, with gold trim. Includes hand produced hingeless pages for New Guinea and Papua 1884 – 1953. Superb presentation, cost $350. Just $98 c) Lindner GB brown padded hingeless album, with illustrations in colour 1987 – 1990, with some spare pages and space to expand. Really nice quality album, new price $169, just $79 d) Seven Seas dark blue padded hingeless albums (2), with pages for Australia pre-decimal, 1927 – 1982. No Kangaroos or Georges. Retail $290, just $115 e) Ka-Be Red padded peg fitting binder, with large all polymer pages for banknotes, covers etc. in configurations of 1 to 4 strips, spaces for 124 items. Real luxury item. Cost $149 new, this one just $69 f) Australia Seven Seas Hingeless Album with Brown Padded Binder and pages for 1981 – 1988. New cost $85, just $39 MMY3) Fabulous Canada packets just arrived, all different collections: a) 1000 Different, my normal list price is $100, just $75 only 2 available at this price b) 1200 Different one only available $105 c) 1800 different one only available $159
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SEPTEMBER OFFERS d) 2000 different one only available, contains two thirds of all Canadian Stamps $259
now just $89, or the set of 4 with dark hills usually $145 for $109
MMY4) Canada off paper mixture, nice lot with little duplication (no more than 3 of any stamp) approx 3000 for $225
MAY7) Australia 1929 6d Small Multi. Wmk, perf OS, Mint Unhinged, normally $75, now just $55, final price $49
MMY5) 400 Different Sports, all large, one lot only $22.50
MAY8) Australia 5d C of A wmk, Ovpt. OS, mint unhinged, usually $75, now just $55, final price $49
MMY6) 500 Different Chile, on my list at $110, one only, $99 MMY7) New South Africa Mission Mix, on close clipped single paper just arrived. 250g for $25, 500g for $40, 1kg for $70
MAY9) Australia 1934 Victoria Centenary, 1/- perf 11.5, mint unhinged marginal block of 8, some faults, 5 stamps are fine, two have minor toning, and one with an ink spot. Normal price $120 per stamp. Very cheap at $450, final price $395
MMY8) Ireland, Commems and large on paper, from our “other” source, guaranteed unpicked, but is on heavier paper. We only have 1kg of this, be quick! 250g for $90, 500g for $170, or take the lot for $325
MAY15) Australia 1931 Brown 6d Airmail, ovpt. OS, mint unhinged, normally $50, now $35 each (2 only at this price)
MMY9) Channel Is. / Isle of Man on paper, nice close trimmed, single paper, mostly large. Once again we only have 1kg of this. 250g for $49, 500g for $85, or take the lot for $165.
MAY19) Queensland, attractive collection of postal stationery comprising Postcards (14) Lettercards (9) Reply Cards (2) and the scarce 4 corners reply card, H & G 6a (unpriced in the catalogue) Clean and fresh original lot all mint, 26 items. $795, now reduced to $635
MMY10) PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA, just arrived, and we could only get 5 of these, 500 different mostly used, a few mint unhinged. Last time we sold out of these in double quick time. Supplied with brand new 32 black page European Quality stockbook in which to house them plus FREE 100 recent mint unhinged in complete sets, total price $295
MAY22) Bulk lot of mainly Australian stamps, covers, albums etc, decimal and predecimal as cleared ex deceased house recently. Nothing spectacular noted but heaps of fun especially if you love stuff in bulk to sort! This is quite an amazing varied lot. We are parceling out in 3 sizes: a) 5kg lot $129, b) 10kg lot $237.50, c) 20kg lot $449
MMY11) Albums, mostly nearly as new, or brand new simply just been on the shelf to long! Prices to clear: f) SG Favourite Spring Back Binder in Green, almost as new, retail $58.50, under half $29 (2 available) g) SG Senator Spring Back Binder in Black with 50 pages, almost as new, retail $58.50 for the binder alone under half $29 j) Schaubek Australia Hingelesss Album, in Maroon, complete 1913 – 1976 with Dues and AAT, still with dustcover and cardboard slipcase, retails approx. $260, this one $125
MAY23) A similar lot to the above, but all World: a) 5kg lot $129, b) 10kg lot $237.50, c) 20kg lot $449
MMY14) Western Europe, all large and commemoratives superb off paper mixture. Just received we only have 2 kg of this, and the only consignment of this we have had in the past 2 years. Very wide ranging, and at about 12,000 to the kg works out at about 6c per stamp, 100g for $79, 250g $187.50, 500g $372.50, 1kg $740
MAY27) Great Britain collection of KEVII and KGV postal stationery. Very clean and fresh lot in glassine envelopes, 62 items in all, many uprated. Comprises 62 items. Some have military usage, including 1st Bn. Durham Light Infantry registered letter to Lloyds Bank, with oval regimental rubber stamp and Army Post Office Reg’d label. Another reg. envelope to 1st Royal Irish Fusiliers, Br. Exp. Force France, 1918, another to 18th King’s Royal Rifle Corps. 41st Divisional Signal School, BEF France 1918. Other destinations include Guernsey, Germany, Switzerland, Saxony, Austria. 50 items used, 12 mint, all in superb condition. Under $9.50 each $575 the lot. Now reduced to $459
MMY15) New Zealand starter collection of 200 different, our list price, $14, price $10, two only at this price
MAY36) GB, 1952 QEII Wilding Definitives, Tudor Crown wmk set, mint unhinged. retail $100, very cheap at $59, now under half retail, $49
MAY1) Really superb and guaranteed unpicked off paper mixtures just received, you will be extremely pleased you purchased these, from under 2c per stamp. Supplies are very limited. a) Australia, b) Worldwide Approx 1000 for $24.95, 2500 for $59.50, 5000 for $110, 10,000 for $199, 15,000 for $295.
AP2) Bulk Prinz mounts, buy at big discounts. Each pack contains a variety of sizes at around ONE THIRD of what it would cost to buy individual packs. Please note that this offer is for CLEAR MOUNTS. A 500 Gram Pack contains around the same amount of mounts as in 15 regular packs of strips. Elsewhere these are selling at up to $89, my price 500 grams just $74, 250 grams $39, 1kg for $159. (I do carry a full range of Prinz Mounts both clear and black so just let me know what sizes you want if you prefer to buy in individual packs)
MAY2) Amazing lot of old British Empire, mint unhinged, in blocks of 4. Just surfaced after major dealer’s retirement, this lot is all 65 years old or more, all issued from the 1920’s to around 1950. Absolutely No India, Pakistan, Great Britain or Australia. This lot will include smaller islands, complete sets, and some semi-postals. Countries like Cyprus, Mauritius, Seychelles, NZ, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Tonga, Gilbert and Ellice Islands. Values to 1/- and priced from under $2 per block, you could easily pay $5 to $10 per block for many of these if purchased singly. My clearance price, and we only have a few lots is as follows, the larger lots will have better values and scarcer stamps included.: a) Sample lot of 25 different blocks, $49, b) 50 different blocks $99, c) 75 different blocks $159, d) 100 different blocks $219 and finally we have one lot only of e) 120 different blocks for $279. MAY4) Australia 3d Harbour Bridge, overprinted OS, mint unhinged, usually $30, only $15. MAY5) Australia 1934 MacArthur, mint unhinged set of 3 (no dark hills 2d) usually $120,
AP3) Tweezers, famous Solingen German Manufacture, the one dealers prefer, 150mm pointed ends supplied in protective sheath. RRP $16.50 per pair, my price NEAR HALF at $8.50, or two pairs for $15. (Dealer special 10 pairs for $62.50) AP4) French Colonies, old packet of 100 different, mostly if not all pre-independence. Made up near 50 years ago! Usual retail around $12, my price just $7.50 per pack, or two for $12! AP5) Old tyme dealers packet stock, mostly single sets in Glassines priced to sell at up to $1.50 each some 30 odd years ago. These are Worldwide mainly thematic sets, in cto condition. A chance to buy at a HUGE DISCOUNT, there will be some duplication in these lots. 100 packets mixed, $150 retail for $49, Triple sized lot, $450 retail for $99. AP6) Victoria 6d Woodblock, 4 margins on 1858 small neat cover Melbourne to Dublin, tied by Barred Numeral 1. Melbourne oval departure cds Jan 6 1858 and Dublin arrival cds MR 16 1858 on reverse. Sent “Per Colombian” Stamp has been affixed inverted, which would
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SEPTEMBER OFFERS probably be to alert the addressee of bad news. We had a similar cover on last month’s list which I could have sold 3 times over, this one is nicer, as is to a way scarcer destination. $395, now reduced, just $295
page stockbook is slightly wedge shaped, with the spine being a little larger than usual to allow for expansion. A magnificent innovative idea, at around the same price as normal stockbooks! Price $32.50 each, 5 for $159, 10 for $279
AP8) Bulk Australian States, ideal for searching postmarks, shades and varieties. We can now offer by State. In mixed packets of 100. Smaller States will contain more duplication. a) NSW b) Queensland c) South Australia e) Victoria Price per 100 mixed $69, will include some Tas and WA take different 3 packets for $189
MM2) Lion Stockbooks, Made in Holland, 64 black page, just a few available, RRP $65, unchanged since 2012, when the Australian Dollar was a lot stronger, newly imported stock will be at least $75. My very special price, 1 for $59.95, 3 for $169, 5 for $269
AP11) Range of British Commonwealth Omnibus stamps for 1949 UPU, in a range of imprint and plate No. blocks of 4, and corner pairs mostly hinged on top two stamps, pairs are MUH. A total of 68 blocks and 43 pairs. Price $179. Price reduction, now just $149…buy now! AP12) As above, but for 1948 Silver Wedding, the low values only. 59 Plate blocks of 4, price $118, reduced to $95 AP13) Bahamas 1948 Tercentenary set of 18 to One Pound, SG 178/93 MLH Cat 75 pounds. Price $49, reduced to $39 AP14) Malta, 1948 Self Government original set of 15 MLH cat 85 pounds, price $59, reduced to $49 AP16) Gambia 1922 set to 1/- fine used, inc. both 4d. Between SG 118-134, Min cat 80 pounds, price $49, new low price $39 AP17) New Guinea 1939 Airs to 2/- (11v) MLH, min cat is 360 pounds. Price $239 AP19) Jamaica 1921 -29 SG 94/106, complete to 10/- plus extra shades, 20v total, minimum Cat. 175 pounds. MLH, price $115,. Price slashed to $89 AP20) Papua 1932 Pictorials fine used set to 2/6d, SG 130 – 142, min Cat. 95 pounds, price $63. Ultra cheap now just $52 AP23) Antigua 1932 Tercentenary set to 1/-, SG 81-88 MLH, Cat. Min 50 pounds Price $33, bargain price now just $25 AP24) Norfolk Is. 1947 Ball Bays, complete set of 12 to 2/- in MLH Blocks of 4. Cat min 80 pounds price $49, so cheap now, just $39 AP25) 1953 Coronation Omnibus, complete with extras MLH, Cat 140 pounds, price $93, absolute gift now at $75
AUSTRALIA KANGAROOS: MM7) Two Shilling Brown. 2nd wmk, well centred lightly hinged example on THIN PAPER. Cat $4500. My price, well under half. $1950 NOW ONLY $1750, look here, buy now at only $1399 absolute final price. MM16) 9d Violet, small multi wmk, Mint Unhinged, perf OS. Minor gum toning, Cat $450, this one $249 NOW ONLY $225. Final reduction $179 MM18) Twopence Halfpenny Indigo 1st wmk, mint hinged, cat $100, my price just $49, these now only $39 (2 available) each, or nice lightly hinged fresh example for $79 NOW ONLY $69. At rockbottom now, $54 Australia KGV Heads: MM26) 4d Ultramarine single wmk, mint unhinged, perf OS, gum evenly toned. Retail $180, my price $135 NOW ONLY $119, final reduction $99 MM30) C of A, ovpt. OS set Halfpenny to 5d, mint lightly hinged, retail $75, my price $59 NOW ONLY $52, must go, $42 MM37) 4d Olive Green, small multi perf 14, perf OS, mint unhinged, centred low, as is usual for this issue. Retail $550, this one just $219, NOW ONLY $197, final offer $159 MM38) 2d Orange single wmk, perf OS, mint unhinged, centred left as is usual for this issue. Retail $125, my price just $89, NOW ONLY $79, got to be good at this price…$64 MM39) 4d Purple, single wmk, perf OS mint light hinge, centred to left as is usual for this issue. Retail $125, price $89, NOW ONLY $79, ok final deal $64 MM43) 4d Olive, small multi wmk, perf 13.5 x 12.5, mint unhinged, centred top left. Retail $275, this one just $119, NOW ONLY $109, just $89 now..wow!
AP26) GB 1955 Waterlow HV Castles, MLH cat 225 pounds, price $125, new stupid price $99
MM45) 1/4d Turquoise single wmk lightly hinged mint perf OS. Retail value $175, centred lower left as is usual for this issue. Price $79. Now only $69, now final price at $54
AP27) GB 1951 Festival HVs set of 4, SG 509/12 MLH, cat 100 pounds, price $57.50, equally stupid, just pay $45
KGVI and QEII Period:
AP29) GB Phosphor issues 1962 NPY, 1963 Freedom from Hunger, 1963 Cable, 1963 Nature, 1964 Forth Road Bridge, 1965 Churchill, Parliament Salvation Army and Battle of Britain in blocks 4 (4d in block of 6) , generally 2 in each block are MUH. Price $195, under half retail now at $149 AP30) Australia & Victoria Postal Stationery collection, 104 items, mainly postally used in album. Highlight is 1d Red octagonal envelope uprated to Celebes, Dutch Indies, (addressees name deleted. Nevertheless very scarce) Most of this is KGV, with some nice uprates to Holland. Terrific value at under $20 per item, $1950. So cheap now, reduced to $1495 AP31) Heavy binder with Collections MUH of Fiji, Nauru & Norfolk Is. 1947 to 1998 stored in around 100 new double sided Hagners, retail of these alone $225. Absolutely huge retail! $1350, already a steal, but hey, I have to turn things over, give me $1099 MM1) No more bulges! If you like to fill your stockbooks to the utmost, then these are great! Just developed and manufactured in Germany by Prinz, this new design 32 black
MM59) 1964 Navigators, 4/- to Two Pounds, set of 6, fine used, retail $135, my price $95, NOW JUST $85, try this for price, $79, if you find cheaper elsewhere I will match it. MM64) 1960 Girl Guides 5d, with offset, ACSC 377c, From a possibly unique block of 48 mint unhinged. Cat. $75 per stamp. I have seen a block of 4 on eBay recently offered by a well known Sydney firm for $175. Blocks of 4 at $149 or singles at $39. Australian States: MM65) New South Wales: REPRINTS: De La Rue 1/- black block of 24 (12x2) from the top of the sheet with Current Number ‘7’, Plate Number ‘1’ & the sheet number, each unit overprinted ‘REPRINT’ in red, full unmounted o.g., superb! $595, NOW ONLY $535. Final price, over another $100 off $425. MM67) Tasmania: Halfpenny on 1d red sideface, plate No. 1, in block of 12 on thin card, overprinted REPRINT from bottom left of sheet. Clean and fresh, superb! $359, NOW ONLY $325. Final price $259 MM68) Queensland Queen Victoria Chalon Head 1/- Grey, SG 29, mint hinged. Cat $650.
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SEPTEMBER OFFERS Very rare mint, unpriced on most dealer lists. Retail $525, my price $329, NOW ONLY $295. Now an absolute giveaway at $245
1980’s to about 2012. Mainly large Commems, scarce lot, but it is on heavier paper. 100 grams for $29.50
MM70) Victoria, neat small cover, bearing 2d Lilac Laureates, with barred numeral 49 and unframed cds of Heathcote AP13 68 to Clerk of Court Heathcote. Very attractive. $99, NOW ONLY $89, reduced now to $74
MA7) World on paper, our popular mix of mainly large, as received form overseas. We only get around 2kg of this each month. Close clipped single paper in the main. Count will be about 4000 – 5000 to the kg. 100g for $29.50, 500g for $129, 1kg for $250
MM81) Western Australia 1861 4d Vermilion, cds dated SP 27 1867. SG40, retail $350. My price $198, NOW ONLY $178, final offer $144
MA21) New Zealand 1925 Dunedin set, MUH, Retail $135, my price just $98, final price $88 MA22) GB 10/- Seahorse, SG417, nice mint example, cat 475 pounds = $950. My price just $360. Now only $289. Final price $180
MM82) Western Australia 1909 One Pound Orange, SG 128a Cat $650. Fine postally used, with dated cds of Kalgoorlie, JUL 12 05. Superb! $399, NOW ONLY $359, cannot go any lower!
MA24) GB 1854 10d Brown Embossed, the hardest of this set. Clean stamp, not cut to shape as many of this issue are. Cat $3000, lovely stamp at just 15% cat. Value. $450. Reduced, now only $359, final reduction $325
Australia pre-decimal mint unhinged lots, many in blocks of 4:
MA25) GB 1883 1/- Dull Green, correct colour, with fine RANDWICK GATE EDINBURGH cds. SG 196, cat $650, nice lightly cancelled example worth a 100% premium according to Gibbons, but from me just 15% $195, now discounted to $155, final price $149
MM83) Approx 250 mixed stamps, values to One Shilling, $49. MM84) As above, approx 500 stamps values to 1/6d, $92 MM85) As above approx 1000 stamps values to 2/3d or 2/6d price $179
MMF16) Australia 1914 6d Blue War Savings stamp, mint unhinged, but creased, these usually sell for $240 or thereabouts, this one just $95, now just $75, final price $69
REST OF THE WORLD (Not in any particular order)
MMF17) Australia 1931 Kingsford Smith 2d & 3d Overprinted OS, cto used. Usualy retail $95, my price just $46, under half!
MM87) New Guinea Bulolo Two Pound and Five Pound Airmails, superb postally used. (Often seen cto) Lovely pair, Cat $1180 and retail $900 plus in this condition. My price $795, reduced to $695, last chance, cannot go any lower, $625
MMF18) Australia 1948 5/- Arms, thin paper, very fine used, retail $100, my price just $75, l;ast two now, reduced to $69, final price $59
MM89) Papua 1/- Lakatoi, airmail overprint in dark carmine, scarce. Mint lightly hinged, $89, reduced to $79, final price $69
MMF26) Tasmanaia Halfpenny on 1d Red sideface in imperf plate 1 block of 12, from the reprint sheet on thin card, rare and unusual! $420, now only $359, final price $329
MM90) Zeppelin Cover. Germany 7 OKT 28 Airmail cover bearing 4RM brown Zeppelin, carried by LZ127 to New York. Excellent example. $169, reduced to $149, final offer $119
MMF27) Australia Kangaroos: b) 9d Purple 2nd wmk, fine used, normally $65 each, now just $59, final reduction, few left only $49 c) 5d Chestnut 1st wmk, mint lightly hinged, well centred , normal retail $140, plus premium for the better centring. This one just $98, reduced now to $79
MM91) Brunei, 1942-44 Japanese occupation overprint (SG.J9) 8c grey-black, with overprint in blue fine used. Cat. $1700. Quarter catalogue Price $425, reduced now only $379, last offer $295 MM92) Sarawak, 1942 Japanese occupation overprints (SG.J11 & J16) 8c Carmine & 15c Blue with overprints in violet, FU on piece with Japanese cds. Cat $580, quarter catalogue $145, reduced now only $129, final reduction $105
MMF30) Hong Kong, 1973 QEII Wilding Head definitives, SG283/96 Mint Unhinged, cat 100 pounds = $200, cheap at under a half catalogue, $98, last two of these to clear $79 each. Final price $69
MM93) Great Britain SG126, 5/- Rose, plate 1, used. Nice example for the price, Cat $1350, just 15% cat. $199, reduced now only $159. Final reduction $129
MMF33) New Zealand 1940 Centennial set, mint unhinged, sg 613/25, normal retail $100, my price $59. Now under half retail, wow! $49
MM94) Great Britain 1883 Lilac and Green set, SG 187-95, cat. $2800 plus! Nice clean set, but green colours as usual are a bit washed. Priced as spacefillers at 5% catalogue, just $139, now only $129. Last offer $99 MM97) Great Britain 1959 Castles High Values, 2nd De la Rue printing, mint unhinged SG 595/8, cat $390, my price just half, $195, now only $185, last offer $166 MM100) New Zealand 4c Moth, SG 919ba, Green (wing veins) omitted, in imprint lower left block of 20, with 3 stamps showing colour completely missing, and 5 others with varying degrees of partial missing colour. Possibly unique piece, cat $500 per stamp. Excellent value 25% catalogue, $375, reduced $329, last offer $264 MA1) China Peoples Republic, nice colln. Of 300 diff. inc. MUH and Postally used. A very few are cto. Very hard to assemble, and prices are quickly rising. $165, one lot only. Now reduced to $129, final price $119 MA5) USA off paper mixture, very wide ranging from 1940’s to 1980’s. Around 1000 for $24.50, 2500 for $57, 5000 for $110, one lot only of 10,000 for $199 MA6) China, Peoples Republic, mainly larger envelope pieces dating from around the mid
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Revenue Review Spell THREE
Surprisingly another rare reversed E in THREE [fig 1] on the USA use of the 2d overprinted THREE / PENCE Commonwealth Custom Duty Revenue has turned up unidentified in an auction lot. Total now is 3. Two are clean, one has a Brisbane arrival date stamp. I would like to believe the used one with the cancel over the spelling error is the choice pick of the three That is not to say the two clean ones could not be genuine, its just nice to have errors like this with a clear cancel over the top.
Another London Bus
Last month I mentioned the WA £5 Financial Emergency Tax turning up like a London bus. None for years, then a batch of them all at once. This
Fig 1
has since flushed out another example selling on eBay for a healthy $850.00. Obviously not from the ‘Dzelme’ hoard of Government file clippings, and well worth the money.
Staple
Figure 2 has done a few rounds on eBay without selling, which has surprised me somewhat as it is a very clean pair of 2/6d dragons with a horizontal double perf at top with a lovely HART & S / PATENT staple affixing the stamp to the document. This is the first patented stamp I have recorded.
Misperf
Further perforation errors can be found in figure 4. This block from a probable full sheet of miss-
Imperf between pair
Fig 2
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Dave Elsmore perfs. I have several of these on NSW duty stamps including a few full sheets. So does this tell you the NSW Government Printer had little, or no pride in his printing and perforating of duty stamps? Or was this in fact purpose errors? We may never know. All very collectable of course and a few blocks of these in your collection will add to the fun of collecting revenues, as errors like these can be picked up for a fraction of the cost compared to the same error on a postage stamp.
Don’t Be Fooled
Have a good look at figure 5. It was described in auction as ‘exploded envelope for exhibiting’ giving the impression it was a ‘railway letter’ being used through the railway system. When in fact it is nothing more than a common newspaper wrapper
sent a couple of miles up the line. The realization price reflected the lack of knowledge of the buyer who paid nearly $200 for this item, when 10% of that price should have pulled it up.
Ring Ring!
Every now and again something turns up that may have one scratching one’s head. Figure 6, a group of Qld revenues that included a FULL set of the exceedingly rare full ring CTO cancels with full gum on first issue first wmk. As most of you would be aware, these ring cancels are usually placed in the corner so as one cancel would deface 4 stamps at a time. So how can these exist? The simple answer is this issue was prepared singularly by the Queensland Government Printer for inclusion in Parliamentary Privilege packs, or a special issue
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Fig 6
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Revenue Review for a visiting dignitary. They were not prepared in full sheets for general public sale in collector sets making them and any issue with full rings exceedingly rare, and would be a super inclusion to and Queensland Revenue Collection.
Exotic
Exotic revenues from several Australian States are collected by some as ‘one offs’ that is I know of a few collectors who just collect Banana revenues. Others Beer Duties like figure 7, which recently showed up in Germany of all places. Highly collectable but with most of these exotic duties you have to dig a little deeper in your pocket to add one to your passion.
SA Rails CTO
A CTO full gum set of unrecorded last LSD issues from the South Australian railway numeral series
Foiled Again
As a keen railway collector in the UK continues to clean out his cupboards and sell off bits and bobs as he comes across them turned up a very clean 9d foil parcel stamp from Victoria [fig 9]. This would be welcome in any revenue collecting, as it is very clean and somewhat rare. Selling for around $85.00
Fig 8
Fig 7
Fig 9
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has turned up in the UK, and are being sold off by a full time eBay revenue dealer. Figure 8 was the highest in the set found so far with the CTO cancel selling for around $180.00. Adding up all the sales from this group brings them in well over $500.00, which is a lot of money for numeral railway issues. Surprisingly this 10/- and several other lower values never went to a purpose railway parcel stamp collector, more of a speculator, which could tell us that some the love affair with SA rails is on the decline.
Fig 9
Dave Elsmore added bonus of the B&W. / PtyLtd. Perfin. Worth $300.00 of anybody’s money. B&W, [Ball & Welch Pty Ltd.] became a prominent Department store in Melbourne from 1899 until the 1970s. This company was founded as a drapery business in the 1850’s by Charles Ball [born Frome, Somerset, Idiots England] and his nephew W H Welch. The company’s Yes, more idiots at work, this time bidding up figure first stores opened on The Goldfields at Forest Creek, 10, which was listed with a value of $1000. A classic at Vaughan Springs (near Castlemaine, Victoria) in ‘fool and his money’ not researching prior to bidding 1861 and later opened another store at Castlemaine and a classic ‘know your stuff’. It sold for around in 1882. In 1874 they opened a large store in the $70.00, which would make this the most expensive Melbourne inner suburb of Carlton. The large envelope back flap cut out in history! three-storied premises had frontages to Faraday, Drummond and Swanston streets. tells me these have not gone up in price, as my auction records from 35yrs ago show a clean 9d similar selling for $50.00 + buyers commission to be added to this. Either way, do not let this put you off, dig deep and fill those gaps.
Perfin Corner
As this issue of Revenue Review appears to have turned out with the balance tipping in favor of railway stamps, I thought I would record here, not only a very rare 10d 1917 wing issue but with the
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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation This month I look at NORPEX 2015, the forthcoming national one-frame exhibition to be held in Newcastle in October, and at state, national, international organised philately.
NORPEX 2015
This year’s national one-frame exhibition is NORPEX 2015 National One Frame Exhibition will be held at Wallsend Pioneer Hall, Cowper Street, Wallsend from 31 October 2015 to 1 November 2015. The Exhibition will include one-frame exhibits from all philatelic classes (including FIAP 40th anniversary birthday cake, 2014 postcards but not literature). One-frame exhibits at NORPEX 2015 will also include stamp dealers and a 15 will comprise 15 exhibit pages. Philatelic range of activities. Plan now for a weekend in Souvenirs commemorating the centenary of Newcastle. ANZAC will be issued to support the Exhibition The Exhibition is being organised by the including the ANZAC booklet and Victoria Cross Newcastle Philatelic Society, one of Australia’s mini sheet overprinted with the Exhibition logo in oldest stamp clubs which was formed almost either gold or silver. In addition the APF Replica 100 years ago in 1918. The Society promotes the Card No 21 featuring the 1935 2d and 1/- Anzac enjoyment of the hobby of Stamp Collecting for stamps issued for the 20th Anniversary of the all in the Newcastle area, whether a junior, adult ANZAC Landing at Gallipoli will be overprinted beginner or an advanced collector. Benefits of and available as part of the Exhibition’s ‘50 Club joining the Society include: Package’. • Displays of collections with commentaries Further information can be found at http:// • Opportunities from time to time to view newcastlephilatelicsociety.org.au/NORPEXhighlights from some of Australia’s leading 2015-exhibition/ or by contacting the Secretary, stamp collections. Newcastle Philatelic Society Inc., P.O. Box 34, • Opportunities for members to display JESMOND, NSW 2299 or email to moore.john@ portions of their own collections and build up optusnet.com.au. experience at displaying Besides a good range of exhibits NORPEX • Advancement of members philatelic 48 - Stamp News
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Philatelic Development Officer, APF knowledge • Fellowship of other collectors • Special auction and swap and sale nights • A Newsletter that is published four times per year • Access to the Philas Library
State, National and International Organised Philately
I thought it would be useful to provide an overview of ‘organised philately’.Most readers of Stamp News will be aware of the existence of the State Philatelic Councils and the Australian Philatelic Federation but may not be aware of the roles of these bodies and
the contributions they make to philately. In this article I seek to give a brief outline of the roles of collectors’ organization at the state, national and international levels. State Councils: Each state in Australia, as well as the ACT, has a state philatelic council. The seven Councils are: • ACT Philatelic Council • Philatelic Association of New South Wales (PHILAS), through the NSW Philatelic Development Council • Queensland Philatelic Council • South Australian Philatelic Council • Western Australian Philatelic Council • Tasmanian Stamp Council • Victorian Philatelic Council
In front of the frames at a FIP exhibition
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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation The state councils are the ‘peak’ bodies for philately in their state. They have as their members the clubs and societies in their states. In the larger states there may be 20-40 clubs which are members of the state council. The state councils seek to promote philately, in all its forms, in their state. Their activities may include: • Supporting youth philately; • Supporting and encouraging the formation and development of stamp clubs and philatelic societies in their states; • Representing the mutual interests of stamp collectors Passing of the FIP flag from Brasiliana 2013 to PhilaKorea 2014 and the stamp trade; The Australian Philatelic Federation: The • Accredit, promote Australian Philatelic Federation is a national body and hold philatelic exhibitions; representing philatelists. It has as its members the • Co-operate with Australia Post and other State Philatelic (or Stamp) Councils. The APF organisations involved in the promotion of seeks to promote philately, in all its forms, at the philately; national level in Australia. • Represent the state in the Australian Its activities include: Philatelic Federation (APF); and • Supporting youth philately; • train and accredit judges for state exhibitions • Supporting the development of adult and maintain a State Judges Register. collectors; • Representing the mutual interests of stamp The executive of the state councils usually collectors; include representatives from the clubs and • Accrediting philatelic exhibitions; societies in the state, representatives of the stamp • Co-operating with Australia Post, APTA trade and an observer from Australia Post. and other organisations involved in the 50 - Stamp News
Ian McMahon
Philatelic Development Officer, APF
FIAP 40th Anniversary Postcard
promotion of philately; • Representing Australia as a member of Federation Internationale de Philatelie (FIP) • Training and accrediting judges for national exhibitions and maintaining a National Judges Register It seeks to promote philately in Australia through: • Regular communication with Australia Post. • Promotion of the hobby in the Australian philatelic media. • Holding a State Council Forum • Close liaison with APTA (Australasian Philatelic Traders Association). • Supporting National Philatelic Exhibitions • Facilitating international exhibitions in Australia • Maintaining the APF website.
• Publishing APF News. • The Australian Philatelic Order and SPAN [Services to Philately at a National Level Award The APF has an Adult Development Program which seeks to increase the level of informed, skilled and satisfied collectors. This program includes: • Reinforcing structures to develop ‘best practice’ philatelists • Publication of ‘classic collections’ • Publication of brochures on collecting. • A ‘One-Up’ program designed to provide international exhibitors with guidance aimed at achieving an improved medal level. • Providing support for new philatelic journals • Providing Research Grants Stamp News - 51
Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation
FIAP 40th anniversary postcard
• Encouraging membership of philatelic societies It is active in promoting Youth Philately including: • Developing and producing resources for youth-leaders and clubs. • Providing training and promoting youth philatelic exhibiting. • Conducting State Youth officers’ and leaders conference and training. • Publishing the APF Youth Magazine • A mentoring scheme for young collectors • The Youth site on the APF’s web site. The APF maintains the National Judges register, conducts Judges’ training courses on a biennial basis to maintain a broad and extensive 52 - Stamp News
pool of qualified national judges, ensures the quality of judging through an assessment scheme and refresher courses and conducts commissioner courses. Its international activities include: • Maintaining representation on FIP Commissions (see below) • Nominating Australians to serve on FIP and FIAP committees, exhibition juries and as commissioners to international exhibitions. • Encouraging Australian exhibitors to participate in international exhibitions • Accords with New Zealand, US, Canada, South Africa and UK Further information about the APF and its activities is available from http://www.apf.org.au/. Continental Philatelic Federations: There are three ‘continental federations’ representing
Ian McMahon
Philatelic Development Officer, APF the philatelists of the countries of Europe (Federation of European Philatelic Associations, FEPA), the Americas (Federación InterAmericana de Filatelia, FIAF) and Asia (Federation of Inter-Asian Philately, FIAP). Australia is a member of FIAP which has as its members the philatelic federations of countries in Asia and Australasia, as well as South Africa (there is no African federation). FIAP was formed in the early 1970s with Australia being represented by the late John Gartner and currently has thirty one members. FIAP encourages and develops organised philately in its member countries and has been very successful in developing the standing of Asia in international philately. FIAP provides accreditation for Asian judges and auspices for Asian International exhibitions. For example, Hong Kong 2015, the 31st Asian Internationl Stamp Exhibition, will be held on 20-23 November 2015 in Hong Kong. Australia is usually well-represented at FIAP exhibitions, for example, Stephen Browne winning the Grand Prix d’Honneur at Taipei 2015 for his exhibit of the Postal History of New South Wales. More information on FIAP can be found at http://www. asiaphilately.com/ . Federation Internationale de Philatelic (FIP): The international body of philatelists is the Federation Internationale de Philatelic (FIP) which was founded in Paris in 1926. It has a secretariat based in Switzerland and: • Promotes philately and stamp collecting, in all its aspects, on the international level. • Maintains close co operation among philatelists and stamp collectors throughout the world, with the aim of promoting peace and friendship among all people. • Promulgates regulations governing its various activities. • Maintain close contact with partners in the philatelic field and with national and international organisations. • Support philatelic events of all kinds organised by its Members Membership
of FIP is open to country federations or national philatelic clubs (eg the American Philatelic Society). Australia is represented by the Australian Philatelic Federation. FIP also has close ties with the three ‘continental federations’ representing the countries of Europe, the Americas and Asia. FIP holds a Congress every two years, usually at a World exhibition, which approves its activities including changes to exhibiting regulations. The next Congress will be held in Taipei next year. It has a Board of Directors comprising a President, three Vice Presidents and three Directors (Bernie Beston from Australia is a member of the FIP Board). FIP accredits world philatelic exhibitions, maintains an international judges register and develops the guidelines for conducting world exhibitions and the regulations for judging exhibits at the world level. The most recent World Exhibition in Australia was Australia 2013 held in Melbourne. The judging of exhibits is based on the General Regulations of the FIP for the Evaluation of Competitive Exhibits at FIP Exhibitions (GREV) and the Special Regulations (SREV s) for the Evaluation of Exhibits of the various exhibition classes (Traditional, Thematic, Postal History, Youth, Postal Stationery, Aerophilately, Astrophilately, Literature, Maximaphily and Revenues). The SREVs are developed by the technical committees of the FIP known as the Commissions which meet at the time of the FIP Congress. The ongoing work of the Commissions is conducted by the Commission Bureau, the members of which are elected at the Congress. (Australia is well represented on a number of the Bureau, for example, Ross Wood is currently Chairman of the Aerophilately Bureau and Gary Brown, Linda Lee and Ian McMahon are secretaries of the Literature, Youth and Postal Stationery Bureaus respectively.). Further information on FIP is available from its web site http://www.fi-p.ch/ Stamp News - 53
Cinderella Corner
A mixed bag this month and only three months to go before the demise of this column. I have found it impossible to continue writing the column, so have reluctantly decided to finish at the end of this year.
Queensland. (Fig. 1).
This small label appears to be some kind of tourist promotion but I have no idea who produced it or when it appeared, a wild guess would be 1970s.
men in their vocation to the Franciscan Order, and to serve God by helping the Franciscans in every field of apostolic work. For more than 85 years, Guild members have helped educate generations of friars through their generosity. The Franciscans, today, with the help of St. Anthony’s Guild, work among the poor, alienated and homeless, helping in parishes, urban service churches, schools and serving as chaplains in hospitals and other ministries.
Abadie. (Fig. 3).
St Anthony Guild. (Fig. 2).
An item with the same initials was written up in this column in November 2007 so I expect that this is related. St. Anthony’s Guild is a religious association guided by the Franciscan friars. Its mission is to promote the spiritual well-being of its members, to aid the education of young
This stamp appears to relate to one Jean Baptiste Marie Jules Abadie (1876 – 1953), a Frenchman who started his career as a surgeon in 1901 and later researcher in Gastric Surgery and Emergency War Surgery. I am guessing that this image refers to him because images similar to the one on this stamp appear on a website in his name.
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Cameras. (Fig 4 And 5).
Two advertising labels for cameras, Foca and Hanimex. The Wikipedia has the following history recorded. The Foca camera was a Frenchbuilt brand of rangefinder cameras made by Optique & Précision de Levallois. The camera was designed in 1938, but the Second World War prevented its release, which finally occurred in 1945. The first Foca models were named “PF” (for petit format, “small format”) and distinguished by the number of stars. They had focal plane shutter and interchangeable lenses on a screw mounting. The company also made 35 mm models for amateur market: The production ceased in 1965. Hanimex Corporation was founded in 1947 by Jack Hannes. Hanimex is an abbreviation for Hannes Import Export. On 22 April, 2004 Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. acquired Hanimex
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Australasia Pty Ltd. Fuji discontinued use of the Hanimex name at that time, but still owns the rights. The labels appear to be of 1950s vintage.
Ranleigh Ware. (Fig 6 and 7).
Remember those bright and elegant shiny stainless steel trays and, as they say in their advertisements, tea wagons. Here’s a poster stamp advertising just that, and also another one advertising the streamlined caster covers for the traymobile (sounds much better than tea wagon). Ranleigh had a factory in the Adelaide suburb of Edwardstown and their trademark was registered in October 1936 and removed from the register in June 2005. but sold at least part of their property in 1995. Again I think these stamps belong to the 1950s.
Royal Visit. (Fig. 8).
This label dates from the 1954 Royal Visit, the
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first by a reigning monarch. The Myer department store in Adelaide got on the bandwagon as well. I have not seen one of these before either.
Blockade of Berlin in an effort to force the British, American and French out of West Berlin after World War II.
Berlin Airlift. (Fig. 9).
I have had this one in among my stock of items to write about for a while. It is listed in Mosbaugh’s Catalogue of Red Cross Seals under Australia as Number 22 issued in 1953.
Red Cross. (Fig. 10).
This stamp was given to me by an Adelaide collector. I did a search of the web and after wading through several different sites I found a number of them listed on ebay including one lot that gave me pretty well all the answers. The stamp was issued by Royal Mail in 1999 as a tab celebrating the 50th anniversary of the airlift in a booklet of 1st class postage stamps. The booklet container 4 stamps with this commemorative stamp as the tab. The story of the Berlin Airlift is an amazing story of ingenuity and resourcefulness to circumvent the Russian
Fort At No. 4. (Fig 11).
This stamp was the free gift in the Cinderella Philatelist for October 1983 and there is an interesting story attached to the Fort that I will repeat here. It is taken from the official history of the fort as found on the website for it. “The history of The Fort at No. 4 in Charlestown, New Hampshire in many ways reflects the
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larger growth and development of the English colonies. This area in western New Hampshire was settled by pioneers who were characterised by their determination, work-ethic and emerging industrial skills. As the English colonies grew throughout the 18th century and immigration from England continued at a rapid pace, the need for more farmland and economic opportunity drove settlers west. The “west� in colonial New England included the vast tracts of land beyond the established towns. The original buyers of plantation No. 4 purchased their grant in 1735 yet did not settle the area themselves. It was not until 1740 that several families purchased grants from the original land speculators and made the arduous trek from their home towns.� The Fort fell into disuse after 1761. There is much more
detail on the website, but this will suffice for the column. The stamp appears to have been issued as an advertising poster stamp publicising the 20th Century restoration of the 18th Century Fort. The stamps were printed in sheets of 50 (5 across by 10 down) and rouletted although depending on the position in the sheet one or two sides could be imperforate.
QANTAS. (Fig 12, 13 and 14).
A bit of vintage Qantas to finish the column this month. Two advertising labels for India and Pakistan on the Kangaroo Route and a commemorative airmail label issued to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Qantas as Royal Air Mail carriers.
Top Figs 11 & 12 Below Figs 13 & 14
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Market Matters World Record Price.
I promised I’d report back on the result of the Australia 2d Red KEVIII stamp auctioned by Phoenix Auctions in Melbourne on July 17, which took place just past last month’s column deadline. I’m pleased to report it obtained a world record price for a single stamp from the Commonwealth of Australia - yet another record, in a year of huge prices being set. Historically low interest rates here, overheated real estate and stock markets, and a weak dollar, have seen better stamps moving out of dealer hands faster than they can buy them in lately. Even at that kind of price I think it will prove a nice long term hold and I was close to buying it myself. At $145,000 plus 19.25% “fees” it cost someone $A172,912.50 on invoice. The most valuable SINGLE stamp even sold from the Commonwealth of Australia I feel sure, after some checking around. From the auction catalogue wording - “Note: Of the remaining five units, the vendor has advised that a block of 4 will be bestowed to an institution, with the vendor retaining the remaining single.”
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Stamp invoiced for $A172,912.
Block of 4 “Bestowed”.
The alleged “bestowing” of the block 4 is an unexplained mystery so far, to me and others. And if that actually transpires, it changes the equation from 6 in private hands, to 2 in private hands, hence my interest in buying it. (Memo to those reading this - never use SCISSORS to separate rare stamp blocks, as some goose clearly did here down the left side in 1938!) The block of 6 stamps appeared first on the stamp market in October 2014 in London, with the sale of the impressive “Vestey Collection” of Australian stamps by Spink, and garnered a then world record price for any Australian piece. To this day I understand nothing remains in the Australia Post Archive collection. No stamps, and no proofs. And even stranger, NOTHING from this issue resides in the Royal Collection of Her Majesty The Queen. For 60 years the existence of this block was unknown. The person to whom then State of Victoria Governor Huntingfield mailed the 6 stamps to in
Glen Stephens “BURN EVERYTHING”
Governors make their own Rules! 1936, is known to us now as none other than Sam Vestey’s great-grandfather, Sir William Vestey - the First Baron Vestey.
Abdication came days too soon.
History tells us that King Edward VIII abdicated only days before this new stamp issue was to be released here. It was all printed and ready to sell. Only the UK ever issued stamps depicting this successor to King George V. At Fort Belvedere, on 10 December 1936, Edward signed his written Abdication notices. The following day, it was given legislative form by special Act of Parliament: “His Majesty’s Declaration of Abdication Act 1936”. Edward’s abdication required the consent of each Commonwealth state, which was duly given. By the Parliament of Australia, which was at the time in session, and by the Governments of the other Dominions, whose Parliaments were in recess. Upon this Abdication Act of December 11 passing, The Australian Post Office was caught on the hop, as a large number of these 2d red letter rate definitive stamps had been printed, starting in late September, and were just about to be issued.
Memos flew around everywhere here, and the edict went out that EVERYTHING connected to these stamps was to be totally destroyed “by smelting or burning”. Plates, artwork, proofs and all stamps etc. All this to be done under the supervision and signed certificate of the Auditor General of the Commonwealth of Australia - very heavy duty high level supervision. John Ash frantically wrote again the Victoria Governor’s Private secretary December 16, urgently asking that the freebie sheet of stamps he was given be returned, so they could be destroyed to comply with this new order. The Australian Government at high level demanded the printer destroy all copies, proofs and plates of this stamp after the abdication, but clearly Governor Huntingfield did not try very hard (if at all) to obtain the stamps back. The block 6 fetched about half what some VERY experienced observers had predicted, but still was invoiced for £260,000 - around $A500,000 at that time, as the dollar had sunk badly. And has sunk a great deal more since then! I spoke to the 2d red KEVIII block 6 buyer after the auction - well known Victorian dealer Mark Knothe, who has been prominent in the stamp trade for many decades. Mark was happy to be named as being the buyer, acting on behalf of an expatriate Australian, now living overseas. Knothe flew over to London for the Vestey sale.
Swanning Around!
The Vestey Collection had a ton of great material, much of it not having been on the market for generations. All collectible markets love “fresh Stamp News - 59
Market Matters stock” and it generally gets very solid prices. To demonstrate that point, a good used, 3 margin Western Australia 1854 4d Blue Swan “Inverted Frame” stamp sold earlier this year from that collection for around $A250,000. The Swan stamp sold for £122,400 at the Spink Lord Vestey sale of May 19, 2015 around $A250,000 at the time. More than DOUBLE their top estimate of £50,000£60,000. My checking reveals that was a world record price for ANY single stamp from Australasia, from 1850, to the present day. Pretty amazing, and is WAY over full Gibbons catalogue of £90,000 for SG number 3H. It was however, not a “Commonwealth” stamp. That stamp I understand was secured via Sold for around $A250,000. phone bid by retired Hong Kong physician, Dr Arthur Woo, adding this example to his includes the “forged” example sold in 1980s by absolute fistful of these stamps. He now owns Christies in the “Isleham” collection for £31,000. near all the few examples of this classic “Bird” Some opinion now seems to lean to it NOT being rarity NOT in Institutions or Museums etc. forged. And the damaged strip of 3 x 4d used Woo’s tally, among many other examples now, stamps, showing part of an inverted frame on one! So the single 2d KEVII stamp, despite getting less in dollars, still sets the price record for an Australian Commonwealth single stamp. An unlikely contender, but that is how the cards have fallen. The highest total figure paid from this region was the KEVIII Block 6, which is turn trumped the $A326,000 invoiced for the 1928 Kookaburra imperforate miniature sheet of 4, sold by Phoenix Auctions in Melbourne, December 2012. That sheet had not been on the market for 44 years, since Hardy purchased it in December 1968, from the Ameer of Bahawalpur’s Collection in London, when auctioned by Stanley Gibbons. Hardy paid only £210 at that SG auction. Can an accountant work out and let me know what annual % increase one gets starting with £210 ($A420) and ending up with ~$A326,000 in 2012? Who said there was “no money in stamps”? It is accepted that KGV was given the imperforate sheet of 15 Mini Sheets of 4 when he Sold by Phoenix for $A326,000 60 - Stamp News
Glen Stephens The three miniature sheets sold off by the Palace were from positions 5, 10 and 15 in the full sheet of 15 sheets. The “Hardy” corner copy was position 5 in the master sheet, from top right hand corner, as can be seen. Miniature Sheet position 10 was offered by Harmer’s of Sydney in March 1975, in the famous Charles Zuker sale. Estimated at $2000/2500, it sold to Ron Hyeronimus for $A3,200.
Stolen and dumped in a creek?
A $4 Million piece?! opened the 1928 Melbourne Exhibition - that he was the Patron of. So it was never a PO “printer error” as such, and is a miracle it even got Gibbons listed really.
Sadly, the wonderful Hyeronimus collection was stolen in 1984, and is widely believed was thrown in a creek by non-philatelic burglars, and many great treasures of Commonwealth Philately were lost forever. Corner sheet 15, was offered by Harmer’s Of Sydney, in the Jill Nette sale of August 1971, when it sold to P.J. Downie
Palace quietly sells sheets.
The large sheet he was given was too long for the King’s album page it is understood, and The Keeper, Sir John Wilson tore off (not neatly cut off!) the three right hand mini-sheets. Positions 5 (Hardy), 10 and 15. These 3 imperforate Miniature sheets were quietly sold by the Palace in 1953 to finance other pieces for the Royal Collection. They were not known to exist singly, until the first one appeared in a London Auction in 1953. Like many other readers I was pleased to be able to view the REST of the sheet of 12 imperf units in the Royal Collection section of the “Australia 2013” International in Melbourne. A stampboards member took the photo of the sheet through the glass and plastic covering the page, and that fuzzy pic is shown nearby. Apologies for murky shot. It states “Complete Sheet” but of course 3 units had been torn off and sold.
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Market Matters for $2,500, and reappeared in his December 1971 auction. There it was estimated at $2,600, and sold for $A2,700 to Alan Munro of Melbourne. Some eight years later, around 1978, Munro sold it to Melbourne collector Ray Chapman for an undisclosed amount. Chapman as most know, sold his Australia collection to Australia Post for a then massive sum, so the “Hardy” example is the only one in private hands, hence the large price. As one single imperf mini sheet sold for $A326,000, a block of 12 would be nominally valued at about $A4 MILLION of course! There is a way to raise some funds for the Queen - sell off 3 more! The Arthur Gray Imprint block 4 of the £1 Brown and Blue Kangaroo shown nearby was invoiced at $US207,00 - then $A265,000 in 2007, but again is 4 stamps, and not one. At the time of that sale, it held the record price for a single item from the Australasian region.
Mossgreen auctions Arthur Gray “KGV”.
Some more huge prices are expected when Arthur Gray’s “KGV” Large Gold Medal Exhibit collection comes under the hammer this October at Mossgreen auctions in Melbourne - a merger of Charles Leski and Prestige essentially. Arthur passed away on May 22, and this sale was in the pipeline well before that. A huge loss to the Stamp World globally, and a summary of his stamp achievements and funeral is at - tinyurl.com/ ArthurRIP Sadly the staff heavy Mossgreen Empire do not have the dexterity that Prestige Auctions once had, and a request for scans and info on column deadline day, to a couple of senior stamp staffers got absolutely zero response. So their loss, and I’ll cover more key pieces next month hopefully, if space allows. The Asian and London lot viewings will be all completed by then sadly. Mossgreen will have printed catalogues out soon, but again my question as to cost of those etc was not responded to, so stay 62 - Stamp News
Unique in private hands Swan tuned next month. The Auction catalogues are hard cover “leather” look, much like the Shreves “Arthur Gray Kangaroos”, and I think I heard they were to be sold at about $A100 or so? I’ll get a few in, as they like the “Kangaroos”, will be stand-alone reference works for decades. There are enough “consultants” and staff listed on the Mossgreen website, to run a Public Service department! I have no idea of the pre-sale estimate totals either, but assume it is a few million dollars. It will be a big sale, and an essential reference catalogue to have. I saw a final PDF proof copy of it, and I assisted with supplying some photos of Arthur that are used inside the catalogue, and caught one “clanger” caption, just as it was at the printers! Fortunately, Arthur’s good friend Geoff Kellow sent me some good scans of key pieces 5 months back, and a few of these are shown here, to give readers a tiny taste of the wonders of his
Glen Stephens focus on the major and readily visible and spectacular printing errors, and perf freaks, and liked them in positional blocks where possible. 1914 1/- Swan Colour trial. The ACSC now regard this as not an “unissued stamp” but a plate proof of a colour trial. Nonetheless it has an estimate of $A125,000. The 6d KGV of the same status is the previous lot in the sale with an estimate of $75,000. Mossgreen assume the “Bird” will get a $50,000 higher bid than the KGV head design, despite identical ACSC values! There is thematic or topical demand for you. They might have a keen “Bird” collector in mind somewhere as a buyer you never know. Woo Hoo!
Alerting all “Bird” Buyers!
$2,250 to $60,000! International Large Gold collection before the Auction and the global viewing roadshow is upon us. Kellow has penned a scholarly 11 page story with photos of the complicated and complex story of KGV head issue, Printer Politics, and a potted history of all the legendary collectors in Australia a really wonderful read in its own right, in the Gray catalogue. tinyurl.com/GrayKGV is the detailed ongoing discussion on stampboards of this sale from March, and was the first report anywhere on this major event. Many of the other stamp photos from Geoff are on that link for those interested. The sale contains not only the KGV heads in huge depth, but all the KGV era Commemoratives, the 5/- Harbour Bridge in full sheet etc, many 1927 Canberra imperfs and corner Plate Numbers and retouches, and re-entries, and Officials etc. Arthur did not like “fly speck” varieties, or commercial covers (both like me!) and tended to
These 2 colour trials will be offered separately and then together to see if they obtain a higher bid when offered jointly thus. They are unique in private hands, and will be keenly sought. The Royal Collection has a full mint sheet of each design! Rodney Perry suggested on stampboards that the Royal Collection might well have torn off 4 or 6 pairs of those, and sold them to fund the purchase of the 2d KEVIII Block of which they possess nothing at all. They were sold together as the front cover lot at the Harmers Of Sydney “H.F.McNess” sale in June 1979, where I was the under-bidder, at a FRACTION of today’s estimate. I was a VERY large buyer at that sale, and it hardly seems 36 years ago! I still have Harmer stockcards of 1/4d KGV head imprint blocks I’ve never touched. Always liked the “Thick 1” flaw! McNess from WA was near THE biggest collector of Australia at that time, second only to the legendary Dr Les Ambromovich from Sydney. In the McNess sale this pair sold for $20,500.
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Market Matters Today it will fetch about 10 times that. Major auctions then somehow managed to get by wonderfully with a 10% Buyer Fee, and still pay city rent, staff, ads, overheads, printed catalogues etc. Fast forward to 2015, and the Buyer Fees are more like 20%, to cover the exact same overheads - on FAR higher realisations! I was thumbing Very pretty KGV Die Proofs. through that McNess catalogue tonight, and noticed an AWFUL lot of the Gray material was sourced from there. Another piece that has done very nicely is the 1d Violet imperforate 3 sides. Which sold for well under estimate at $2,250 in 1979. It was described then as: “thin spots in selvedge, slightly soiled”. Neither blemish appears to warrant mention in 2015, and the estimate is now $60,000. It is shown nearby. As SG Cat is £50,000, and ACSC is $100,000, that appears to around the correct mark. $2,250 to ~$60,000 in 36 years is not too shabby! The KGV heads Die Proofs are very strongly represented of course, as Gray had chased down most on the open market. Like many things, Arthur was buying scarce things when they were not terribly popular, and not very expensive by today’s standards. Indeed of all the Die Proofs of the KGV era Commemoratives, about 90% that exist in private hands are in this collection, Geoff Kellow’s preface advises.
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printer marginal monogram pieces was astute vision. Whilst the Lemmings were all buying Decimal PSEs and FDCs etc in the 1980s, Arthur was socking away WWI era Monogram stamps and Proofs and Booklets for “peanuts”! I really like the unique DUAL stamp State 2 proof, in red and black on glazed paper shown nearby - estimated $20,000. I would not be surprised to see that go somewhat higher, as no other TWIN proofs are recorded. In the issued stamps, all 1d Red collectors will salivate over the block of 6 of the “Rusted” or “Pre-Substituted Clichés”. The only mint block in private hands, and estimated at $A85,000. Geoff Kellow regards it as “The greatest 1d Red item in private hands.” Even single mint copies are rare, as the error was not noticed by the stamp fraternity for YEARS after being issued, the ACSC tells us. Most Australian men in early 1917 when these were issued, were overseas fighting Germans in the midst of World War 1. The defacement of a steel cliché that was in storage was not noticed before the plate was put to press, possibly again due to the more experienced
Glen Stephens for sure, and hopefully I will be able to add some more highlights next month. The text above focuses mainly on pricey pieces, but there are many $100 type lots in the sale.
Stamp Grading Craziness.
Unique Pre-Substituted Cliché Block. printers also serving overseas in the War. Only a small print run was made from these left plates late in 1916.
Printer Plate chewed by RATS?
The reason for the patches of “rust” on 2 stamps have never been known for sure. Some reports are that rats chewed at the protective grease on the stored left plate, and the exposed metal got some surface rust. Other versions are that it was caused by rat urine! Anyway, whatever the cause, the corroded (white) sections of 2 stamps show readily to the naked eye, as you can see on the photo nearby on units 4 and 5. Even USED they are scarce. The used pair in this collection I sold Arthur a few years back, as it was better than the ones he had. Anyway a great “Arthur Gray KGV” sale in the offing in October, with material to suit all budgets
True great collectors like Arthur Gray focused on STAMPS, and not bits of accompanying paper. In his entire $7¼ million “Kangaroos” collection, there was hardly a Certificate to be seen, and certainly no numerical grading! And the “KGV” collection was not too different either. Any Certificates he had, came with the stamp when he bought them generally. His knowledge was the “Certificate”. And “Ex Gray” will be a rock-solid provenance that will last for generations. In fact, Arthur was not terribly condition conscious. If he did not have it he’d buy it - after fearsome negotiating of course, all dealers will wryly concede that, but he simply wanted one of everything he did not own. Centering did not overly bother him, nor light foxing, short or fuzzy perfs, and other small blemishes etc. As long as he did not have it, and it was a serious piece, he’d work hard to secure it. Mention “MUH” to him and expect an expletive laden banter reply! Despite this, he was without a doubt THE foremost collector of Australian stamps in our 100 years of issuing them. If he saw a better copy than what he had, he’d generally try and buy it. Stamp News - 65
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Can YOU see much difference here?? A true collector, and was the top of his tree, as he collected stamps, and not the written opinions of others. Which brings me conveniently to our next stamp story! Our dear cousins the Americans have this total obsession with stamp CENTERING. An absolute manic obsession. One that has reached insane heights in recent years. The Scott “Specialised” catalogue goes so far as to “help” the novice, and publishes a chart to show all the great unwashed what it all means. Gawd help a newbie trying to get their head around it! Part of that chart is shown nearby. The idea is, you mail your stamp in to get a numerical grade. You pay $A50 or so and some whizzkid on a 66 - Stamp News
computer measures it all, and gives it a number grade out of 100. 100 is perfect and 50 is pretty bad centred. That bit I can follow. But then they obsess over whether they have an “80” or a “90” etc. And trust me the prices between an 85 and a 100 can be 3 or 4 or more times higher. Take a close look at this photo from Scott shown nearby - can you see ANY real difference between a lowly “85” and “98”? Honestly, can you see any huge improvement? Only the Americans could give 4 totally different grades to the NEAR exact same looking stamps. All 4 of these I’d gladly call “well centered” and price them all about the same if they were Roos.
Glen Stephens were asked to place them on a stockcard in strict order of centering, left to right, most would not end up with this order, showing the stupidity of these numbers. Well centred is well centred. Collectors all know that. They’ve known that for 150 years. No-one needs a $50 American number grade sheet of paper to tell them that. They really need to find a new hobby if they do! My “Stamp News” colleague Rod Perry posted on the stampboards discussion on this today: tinyurl. com/VFgrade “That Scott page may become the text book classic for How not to recruit budding new philatelists. In an era when Philately could and should be a haven for those seeking an escape from the complications of everyday life, who needs this unnecessarily complex introduction to minutiae?”
Not a big hit with Americans! I posted up the photo nearby of a nice £1 Grey Roo I’d sold that day off my Rarity Page. I described it as “attractive and well centred”, and had several orders in a day. NO “grading number”! An American sniffily declared it was not even close to perfect centering! Surely only a fool would pay 5 times more for stamp 1 than stamp 4 on this table, assuming the reverses were identical on all 4? Yet another nutty American fad, like Hula Hoops, Yo Yos, and striped Bubble gum etc. I pray that disease never spreads here. Indeed if all 4 stamps were given to 100 professional dealers globally, who
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exchange Send 100-1000 Australia and World Stamps for my same # US stamps. Tom Harkins, 7 Quaker R, New Fairfield, CT 06812, USA. Email harkins.tom@gmail.com
Germany Third Reich. For Germany Third Reich and other World War II material please visit www.ww2historical.com
Collector needs collectors in Canada, China, Great Britain to exchange used or
Magnificent selections on approval from Africa, Pacifics, Nth. & Sth. America, Asia, Europe, Mediterranean, Iceland, Greenland, Venezuela.P & D Nicholls, PO Box 426, Glenbrook, NSW 2773
mint stamps, please. Fair exchange only. Chris Jewell-Smith, PO Box 5124, Broulee, NSW, Australia 2537 Penfriend Wanted - For exchange, fauna, flora, mushrooms, lighthouses, mountains, stamps on stamps, Christmas, Olympics, world cup, music, trains, airplanes from Aust, NZ & Pacific. Exchange value Yvert, Michel, Scott. Speaks
accessories ALBUMS, CATALOGUES, AND EQUIPMENT for stamps, coins, & banknotes at mail order discount prices. Enquiries or quotes write to: SAPPHIRE COAST PHILATELIC SUPPLIES, PO Box 285, Pambula, NSW 2549, or Phone/Fax (02) 6495 7382.
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Spanish/English. Antonio Creo Reyes, PO Box 2222 Habana 2, Cuba 10200 Exchange: Send 200 - 800 World stamps, exchange for World/Australia. Brian Clark, 57 Mawson Pde, Chifley , NSW 2036
for sale For Sale; BOOKLETS Scarce Cocos SB3 Cat. 100 pounds, $130, Xmas Is. Booklet SB1 cat 160 pounds, $160, Xmas Is. 1st Postmaster provisional booklet, rare $300. Cocos Booklets 1 & 2 $80 each. All early Commonwealth booklets wanted to buy. Visa accepted. Dr. W. L. Mayo. email mayoinavalon@yahoo. com.au Tel: 02 9918 6825 (09/15)
Buying Australia and World Kiloware. We urgently wish to buy quantities of modern Australia and World Kiloware. Regular supplies needed. All mixtures to be close clipped single paper, and will pay as follows, all prices per kg. (a) Australia Commemoratives only to 2012 $7, 2013 $10, 2014 $15 (b) Australia Mission modern inc..2013/14, not less than 50% commems. by weight $4 (c) Australia Territories, inc. Cocos, AAT, Christmas Is. Norfolk Is. etc. $25 (d) Australia Higher values, 53c upwards inc. Commems. $60, defins only $20 (e) Worldwide, modern mix unpicked. $30. Minimum sending $100 please. Single country mixtures also required, please enquire. Phone Kevin Morgan 0425 795 693 Wanted : Sheets or panes of 5½d Emu stamps. Contact Ted on tedg@gj.com.au
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Australia, N.Zealand, West Europe, Better earlies at bargain prices. VFU only, some in quantity. Phone 0419 680 824, PO Box 93, Bexley South, 2207 Half Price stamp Sale. Loads of stamps from 5 cents. Israel, Russia, Germany. Antarctic, Malta, Falklands, Sth. Africa, Ireland & much more. Dealer enquiries welcome. Send your wants list to: John Cornelius, PO Box 23 Magill SA 5072 Phone: 0407 615 240 Collection surplus Stamps from Canada, Channel Islands, Falklands & Dependencies, Fr. Antarctic, Gibraltar, GB, Ireland, Malta, Namibia, NZ, South Africa and USA. MUH mint and used. Trade Enquiries OK. Send your wants lists to: John Cornelius, PO Box 23, Magill, 5072.
European stamps on approval, including all different packets, Guernsey, Austria, France, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Greece, Italy, Russia, Spain etc, etc. Return unwanted. P & D Nicholls PO Box 426 Glenbrook NSW 2773 Buying Australian Kiloware 55c Or 60c Values, Commemoratives and Definitives and current year kiloware too, 60c bundles wanted too, for more details email: postagestampsonpaper@gmail.com.
thematics Animals - Birds - Aeroplanes - Automobiles - Sports - Flowers Including Packets on approvalP&D Nicholls P.O.Box 426, Glenbrook NSW 2773
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BRIGHTON PS Inc. Meets 8.00pm 2nd and 4th Tuesday and 10.30am 3rd Tuesday each month. 80 Gardenvale Road, Gardenvale, Vic, 3185. Visitors/new members welcome. www.brightonps.org.au
AUSTRALIAN PS meets 3rd Monday monthly. RSL Homes, 152 Canterbury Rd (cnr Keats GLADSTONE AND DISTRICT PS Inc. Meets on the 2nd Wednesday each month at St) Canterbury. All visitors most welcome. Contact: PO Box 156 Balwyn Vic. 3103 for 7.30pm. Venue: Neighbourhood Centre, 10 Toolooa St, Gladstone. Postal: PO Box 1089, Gladstone, Qld, 4680. Ph: (07) 4978 1155. advice. The IPDA Inc - Internet Philatelic Dealers Association - dealers & prt time sellers who believe there is a need for a global organisation to represent them as accredited internet sellers. Join the IPDA. Go to www.ipdaonline.org for details.
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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 Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd 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 Lambton, Juniors 11am 3rd Sun, Wallsend Pioneers Hall NSW Postcard Collectors Soc: Mtg 1st Wed 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301
act Canberra, Philatelic Society of: 1st Thursday: General Meeting,3rd Thursday: Afternoon Meeting (IF REQUIRED),3rd Thursday: (Evening) Exchange Night, 2nd Tuesday: Postcard Group, 4th Monday: Machin Collectors Group. All meetings 7:45pm, Griffin Centre, Genge Street, Canberra City Postal Address:PO Box 1840,Canberra ACT 2601,Email:psc@netspeed.com.au www.canberrastamps.org
western australia The Airmail Circle of WA: Mtg 5th Monday “Wellington Fair” Unit 18, 40 Lord St. East Perth Tel: 08 9294 3356 Armadale-Kelmscott PS: Mtg 4th Tues; Ph: 08 9397 6525 email: fit.kanga@bigpond.com Bridgetown-Manjimup SC: Mtg 1st Thurs 7.30pm Masonic Hall, Hampton St, Bridgetown Ph 08 9761 4638 or 08 9761 2005 Busselton SC: Mtg 1st Mon, 5pm 7th Day Adv. Church, Alpha St; Ph: 08 9752 4449, 0400 646 282 email witches1@westnet.com.au Canning SC: Mtg 1st Wed; Ph: 08 9457 7565 Daytime SC: Mtg 1st Thurs; 08 9341 3576 Denmark SC: Mtg 1st Weds Lions Lair Rivermouth Inlet Drive, Denmark. Tel: 08 9848 3325 email: fishneil@westnet.com.au Eastern Goldfields: Mtg 3rd Thurs ; Ph: 0412 156 351 Eaton SC: Mtg 3rd Thurs, 7pm Ph. 08 9795 7744, email: scrapbit@tpg.com Fremantle and District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed, Tennis Club House, Parry St, Fremantle at 8pm; Ph: 08 6363 6415 Have a go SC: Mtg Last Thurs. 137 Edward St, East Perth. Tel: 08 9305 2073 email: nigan@iinet.net.au Kalamunda SC: Mtg 3rd Wed; Ph: 08 9291 8484 Mandurah PS PO Box 625 Mandurah WA 6210 2nd Tues 4.45 - 6.30pm Bortolo Park Pavilion Cnr. Bortolo and Murdoch Drives
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NSW club information:The Philatelic Association of NSW, PO Box220, Darlinghurst, NSW, 1300 Phone: 02 9264 8301
Northern Suburbs PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs, 7.45pm, Naremburn Library, Central St, Naremburn off Slade St; Ph: 02 9419 7354 Orange Coin and Stamp Club: Mtg Last Tuesday, Orange Community Info Centre, 79-81 Kite St, Orange 7.30pm Ph: 02 6362 3754. Orchid Stamp Club: Mtg 3rd Sat. (Jan and each 2nd mth) Parramatta PS: Mtg 1st Friday Penrith and District PS: Mtg 1st Thursdays, 8pm, CWA rooms, Baby Health Ctr, Tindale St PO Box 393, Kingswood NSW 2747 PHILAS Stamp Auctions: Mtg 2nd Sat Mar,Jul, Nov Ph 02 9264 8301 PS of Australia: Mtg 3rd Wed (exDec); Ph 02 9399 7556 PS of NSW: Mtg 1st Tues (Philas House), 3rd Tues (Chatswood); Ph: 02 9264 8301 Richmond River (Lismore) PS: Mtg 4th Thursday Royal Sydney Philatelic Club: Mtg 2nd Tues. (ex Jan); Ph: 02 9264 8301 Sapphire Coast Stamp & Coin Club: Mtg Enq 02 6495 7308. Mail to PO Box 285, Pambula, NSW 2549 St. George PS: Mtg 1st Mon Shoalhaven PS: Mtg 2nd Monday (Ex Jan) PO Box 4047, East Nowra 2541. Ph 02 44472976 Smithfield SC: Mtg 2nd Mon Society for Polar Philately: 2012 meetings: 2nd Wednesday of February, March, May, July, Sept and November held at Ryde Ex-Services Club 724-730 Victoria Rd, Ryde, NSW Tel: 9807 3344 (in Mackinnon room) starting at 8pm.Enq 0407 277 223 or email penviews@hotmail.com Strathfield-Burwood PS: Mtg 4th Wed Sussex Inlet and District: Mtg 3rd Mon Sutherland Shire PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. , 7:30pm, Sutherland Uniting Services Club, 7 East Pde, Sutherland. Information Secretary, PO Box 339, Sutherland, NSW 1499 Sydney Anglican Stamp Society: Mtg 2nd Sat, even months 9.30am - 2.30pm, St Paul’s, Carlingford. Details: www.philas.org.au/sysdneyanglicanstampsociety Tamworth PS: Mtg 1st Mon ex. Jan. Tamworth Bridge Club, 7 Hilton St, Tamworth Sec. Graeme Mitchell. PO Box 678, Tamworth NSW 2340 Ph. 02 67664853 Taree RSL Club Ltd SC: Mtg 3rd Mon Thematic Society of Australia: Mtg 3rd Wed Toronto SC: Mtg 1st Wed Tuggerah SC: Mtg 4th Sun (ex Dec.) Turramurra SC: Mtg 2nd Monday, 7.45pm. Ph: 9144 4225 Twin Towns Stamp Club Inc.: Mtg 1st Monday, 7.30p, Home & Comm. Centre, Tweed Heads Wagga SC: Mtg 1st Wed (ex Jan) ARCC Building, Tarcutta St, 7.30pm. Secretary: Peter Simpfendorfer Ph:02 6922 3393 Willoughby Legion Philatelic Section: Mtg 4th Tues Wyong PS: Mtgs: 3rd Tues 7.30pm, daytime meetings 1st Weds, KGV Heads group 4th Weds. Jim Spence Sec. 02 4392 3610 email: dandasonter6@bigpond.com
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 156 Balwyn Vic. 3103 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 5975 0574 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 Sept 5 - (1st Sat) 9am to 4pm Orange Stamp Fair, Quinn’s Arcade, Summer St, Orange. Ph: Norm 02 63623754. Sept 5 - (1st Sat) Northside Stamp Fair. 1st Floor, Car park Building, Manly-Warringah Leagues Club, cnr Federal Parade/Pittwater Rd, Brookvale, NSW. Sept 5 - (1st Sat) Katoomba Stamp & Coin Fair, 9am -
victoria Sept 6 - (1st Sun) Western Suburbs Stamp, Coin & Banknote Fair, Strathmore Bowling Club, 40 Loeman St, Strathmore. Enq: Chris. 0413355716. Sept 20 - (3rd Sun) Stamp, Card - Phone Card Fair, Bentleigh-McKinnon Youth Centre, Higgins Rd, Bentleigh. Dealers plus huge range activities. Ph: 0418 322 315. Sept 27 - (last Sun ex Dec) Stamp, Coin & Phonecard Fair, Jaycees Hall, Silver Grove, Nunawading. 9am-3pm.
queensland
4pm, Masonic Hall, Cnr Station & Civic Sts, Katoomba. Ph. 0417 802 754 Sept 5 - (1st Sat) Sutherland Shire Stamp & Coin Collectors Fair, Gymea Anglican Church Hall, 131 Gymea Bay Rd, Gymea.
TBA - Queensland Stamp & Coin Fairs, 8:00am -1:00pm,
Contract Bridge Club, 67 Ipswich Road,Woolloongabba. Check ‘Weekend Shopper’ to confirm or contact 0428 450 616 day only.
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Sept 6 - QStamp Fair, Southside, Mt Gravatt Show-
Pioneers Hall, Cowper St, Wallsend. 8 Dealers. 4971
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WE ARE ALWAYS BUYING, CONTACT US BEFORE OFFERING ELSWHERE! We want to buy collections, accumulations, dealer stocks, etc, etc. Australia and States, Kangaroos, King George V Heads, Pre-decimal, Decimal, Covers, Great Britain, British Commonwealth, Foreign. Here are some examples of the prices we can pay: Australia C of A wmk Kangaroo High Values 10/- -Two Pounds, mint lightly hinged $120 Australia 5/- Harbour Bridge, MUH $795, MLH $295, Fine postally used $225, cto used with gum $150, without gum $135, slightly second grade (no bits missing please but may have minor thins, heavier cancel, short perfs etc) $65 Mint unhinged, pre-decimals in singles, blocks or sheets. Definitives 1d to 1/7d we pay 4c per stamp, Low value Commemoratives, 2d to 1/- we pay 5c per stamp, High value definitives 2/- to 4/- we pay 10c per stamp, High value Commemoratives 2/- or 2/3d we pay 40c per stamp. Decimals for postage including AAT, and postally valid issues from Cocos and Christmas Islands may be torn or damaged (no bits missing please) but must have gum. Values 1c to 68c we pay 40% face value, 70c to $20 we pay 50% face value, must be sorted by value in packets/envelopes and supplied with a concise list. We reserve the right to counter offer on messy lots. Post Office Packs and Year Books with stamps in place we pay 30% face value, year books with stamps in original stocksheets we pay 45% face value Mint PSE’s 20c - 60c we pay 30% face value, 70c pay 40% face value, no stuck down flaps please Recent Commemorative Bundleware, 55c values and above we pay $1 per bundle. Small or Large format High value Definitives fine used 1989 to date with circular cancels $1 to $3 we pay 5% face value, $3 to $20 we pay 10% face value. High value commemoratives, values $1 and above as above again from 1989 onwards, we pay 10% face value. Coins, Medals, Banknotes We buy Australian coins, loose or in sets, decimal and pre-decimal, including Perth Mint and Royal Australian Mint Product. Also buying Worldwide Gold and Silver coins. Pre-decimal and Decimal Banknotes also required in all grades, also military medal groups. Our minimum purchase value is $200, smaller lots respectfully declined, please confirm all lots via phone or email before sending and send via registered/ insured mail, or contact us for an appointment, all transactions carried out in strictest confidence. WE PAY ENHANCED PRICES TO GST REGISTERED DEALERS WHO PROVIDE A TAX INVOICE.
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