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Contents Articles Woodchip Free Zone: Rod Perry ...................................................6 Local Post Served Holiday Paradise: Christer Brunström .. 14 Stamps in the News: Margo Campbell .................................... 18 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 month follows on from the “Birds� Decimals II period series featured last month. As mentioned, I have prepared a small number of overviews of various sets from the 1975-91 era, and these will appear in due course. Next month, however, the Arthur Gray King George V Mossgreen sale will feature . . . of course. The Marine Life forms an attractive series for a usage study, and some of the species remind me of scuba diving in my youth on the Great Barrier Reef. Figure 1. 3c Jimble Like many Baby boomers, I was inspired by the Sea Hunt series on 1950s TV, starring Lloyd Bridges. That initial televiewing, philately, and a love of underwater life have over time converged to see me living in the region where the rainforest meets the reef, so reminiscent of the best of Australia’s marine life.
Figure 2. 20c Red Handfish 6 - Stamp News
The sub-base rate stamps of the series (2c-25c) are challenging to find other than for make-up purposes. A solo franking, i.e. underpaid item, is probably the optimal item one can seek for an exhibit, but they are rare. Figure 1 is the 3c solo, an Aug 25 1986 use Qld to Melbourne to pay Myers; the sender probably needed to save on postage to pay the bill. Realistically, I speculate that a 33c stamp was intended to also be affixed, with the 3c for the rise in Letter rate from 33c to 36c, which had occurred a few months earlier. Chance survivors, untaxed, such as this are very welcome to exhibitors. Auction estimate: $50. (I have for reasons of space constraint excluded 2c, 5c and 10c (and common 30c and 33c), but confess that for these three denominations I also struggled to find outstanding subjects to present.)
Figure 3. 25c Orange-tipped Cowrie The Letter rate on Sep 25 1987, when Figure 2 was posted locally at Melbourne was 37c. However, when one is using State Govt stamps, hang the expense, and affix 20c x2 and let Aust Post keep the change. The observant will note the “VG� punctures in the stamps
are double. A sought-after item for a usage exhibit, and perhaps more particularly a State Officials specialist. Auction estimate: $40 A striking item for a usage exhibit, and a desirable franking of 25c strip of five, Figure 3 represents 45c
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Figure 5. 45c Textile Cone Shell Intrastate non-standard article + 80c priority paid fee = $1.25, sent Broadway to Castle Hill, Dec 9 1985. Am I alone in finding the Priority timeclocks highly attractive? They do of course form a great basis for a stand alone Postal history pursuit; many are very scarce to rare. Auction estimate: $30 The 40c was for just over a year the surface mail rate
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for letters to Asia/Oceania, and such usages are scarce. For most of its life it served only for make-up, so Figure 4 is a useful item for a usage exhibit. This Oct 8 1986 cover Strathfield to Sydney South bears 40c x7, the aggregate franking of $2.80 being NQR (that is, not quite right). The Priority paid fee was then $1.20, and Certified was $1.00, so the balance of 60c was either an overpay-
ment of Intrastate non-standard to 50gms rate (50c), or underpayment of 50-100gms rate (65c). Either way, it is clearly a commercial usage. Auction estimate: $25
Figure 7. 55c Bennett’s Nudibranch Figure 8. 60c Lionfish
Surface mail articles to overseas countries by the late 1980s became less likely, as the gap between surface and airmail narrowed. For that reason, Figure 5 is a very uncommon solo franking for the 45c, for Sea Mail to 20gms (previously classified by Aust Post as “Surface Mail”) to Asia/Oceania. Sent Mansfield to Japan Nov 20 1987, airmail at the time was just a little dearer at 70c, and of course delivery timeframe was days rather than weeks between the two services. The Japanese “Return to Sender” handstamps and label fragment just add to
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the character. Auction estimate: $40 Each item selected for discussion in this review, and indeed for most of my selections in this column, is less usual; the kind of item which would not be out of place in an exhibit. So it continues with the 50c, where in Figure 6 we have a marginal strip of three, used Beerwah to Brisbane Nov 14 1986, the aggregate $1.50 representing 50c Intrastate non-standard rate to 50gms + $1 Certified fee. Auction estimate: $20 ACSC Decimals II lists no less than seven Figure 9. 65c Stingaree possible solo franking possibilities for the 55c, ranging in degrees of difficulty from very uncommon to next to impossible (e.g. Zone 2 surface air lifted rate!). I’ve opted for something a little different, solos need to be peppered with multiple frankings, so in Figure 7 we
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have an uprate of a pedestrian 30c Stationery envelope with 55c x6 for $3.30 Registration fee. This was sent Blacktown to a competition draw in Coogee Jul 25 1984. An attractive item for an exhibit. Auction estimate: $30
Figure 11. 80c Pineapple Fish A more impressive multiple of the 60c would be difficult to locate than the block of 30 dominating in Figure 8. A Jul 30 1987 use of Application For Redirection/ Holding of Mail form at Trentham, such documents are of course unusual (and unintended) in the market place; they contain time-sensitive information which could be taken advantage of by house breakers. The postal fee for the timespan involved amounted to an aggregate $19.50. I have other Marine Life large multiples on similar forms, and a double-page featuring two would be a treat in an exhibit. Auction estimate: $30 More so than even the 55c, the 65c has many possible solo use possibilities. Few could be more desirable than Figure 9, an Official use (punctured “VG”) Melbourne to N.Z., paying Zone 1 non-standard airmail rate (over 20gms), Mar 20 1987. Auction estimate: $50 Decimals II, as for the 55c, lists seven possible solos
for the 70c. Figure 10 is that for Zone 3 airmail, in this instance from Brooklyn Park to The Philippines, Apr 21 1987. The addressee was not found, and the article was returned to sender, which doubtless contributed to its survival. Zone 3 items in this era are very hard to find. Auction estimate: $40 An unlikely solo franking in Figure 11, where sender has been delivered a rare Aust Post bonus. This Nov 22 1985 article from Yarra Junction to Canberra should have been franked at $5.30, representing $4.50 Security post + 80c Interstate non-standard airmail (50-100gms). Due to inadvertence, just the basic postage rate was paid, and the lack of payment for the very expensive service went unnoticed to destination. One for those who like solo frankings which are unlikely to be owned by any other collector. Auction estimate: $75 I’ve endeavoured to mix ’n mash solo and multiple Stamp News - 11
frankings for this series. I actually prefer multiples, for the stamps are just striking, and the more the merrier! However, a solo it is for the 85c, Figure 12, of a kind which will be difficult to find another example, certainly not one this neat and attractive. A Sep 24 1984 Business Reply Post envelope, used Casterton to St. Columban’s in North Essendon (formerly North Park, one of Marvellous Melbourne’s grand historic Figure 12. 85c Regal Angelfish mansions), under normal circumstances this article would not have required additional stamping. However, special services required did require additional postage, and for certified mail that fee was 85c. Auction estimate: $50 Solo frankings for the 90c, and the $1, are common;
Figure 13. 90c Crab-eyed Goby 12 - Stamp News
they serviced Zones 4 and 5 airmail. I’ve selected in Figure 13 a very unusual 90c pair uprate of pedestrian Stationery 36c envelope, the $1.80 uprate representing Certified ($1.00) + Advice of Delivery (“AR”) fees (latter was 80c). The elusive and attractive triple-oval “MONEY
Figure 14. $1 Crown of Thorns Starfish ORDER TELLER/30 JUN 1987/RANDWICK NSW 2031� would ensure this is a sought-after item, not least by Stationery exhibitors, not to mention Postal historians. Auction estimate: $40 Strange to see one of the natural enemies of the Great Barrier Reef featured on a stamp, given the destruction they bring to bear to coral? Philatelically, however, we will overlook that fact, for Figure 14 is a most attractive usage item featuring the $1. This Apr 6 1987 uprate of another 36c Stationery envelope, Albury to Sydney
South, has the $3 franking uprate representing Priority paid fee ($1.20) + Certified ($1) + Advice of deliver (80c). Auction estimate: $30 It will be noted that this is an inexpensive series subject for a usage exhibit, and even a very modest budget could see the possibility of formation of a very attractive, say, three-frame exhibit within the capability of most collectors with an appetite for something a little out of the ordinary. Patience, and a lust for the thrill of the chase a prerequisite, of course.
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LOCAL POST SERVED HOLIDAY PARADISE The tiny island of Herm has been described by many visitors as the most beautiful of the British Channel Islands. It belongs to the Bailiwick of Guernsey and it is some five kilometres from St. Peter Port. Herm is slightly more than two kilometres long and about one kilometer wide. Hence it is not a particularly large island. Herm has been populated on and off since the Stone Age. Today the island is a holiday haven for tourists. There is a hotel, a camping site, a pub, a shop and a post office. The tourist industry is the backbone of the island’s economy but there are also agricultural activities and an oyster farm. Herm had a GPO post office from 1925 until
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1938 when it was closed as the amount of mail handled was negligent. After World War II much was done to develop the tourist industry on the island. The visitors obviously wanted to send holiday greetings to friends and relatives back home. I suppose this was the main reason why the tenant decided to start a local post between Herm and Guernsey in 1959. During the first years of operation the local post handled some 10,000 items annually. This number later increased to as many as 100,000 letters and picture postcards. When Guernsey established its own independent postal service in 1969 the Herm local post had to close.
Christer Brunström As can be seen from the above the operation was a bona-fide postal service. It certainly filled a void during its 20 years of faithful service both to local residents and the numerous tourists. The first set of four stamps was released in 1949 and they all had the same picture of a sea chart of the Channel Islands. During the following years there were numerous reprints many of which resulted in pronounced shade differences. However, this is quite a specialised field. The next definitive set appeared in 1954. The low values feature Herm’s coat of arms while the 1-shilling larger stamp depicts one of the island’s many attractive sand beaches.
The very same year saw the issue of a set of 12 triangulars featuring flora and fauna. No less than 500.000 sets were printed which was far more than was needed. There is much to suggest that this set was mainly intended for the collector market and these stamps are rarely met with on commercial mail. In 1957 a new set of definitive stamps was issued. The designs were intended to depict life during the Neolithic era. 25.000 complete sets had been printed which corresponded to postal needs and sales to collectors. A map of Herm returned to the definitive lowvalue stamps released in 1959. The three top values
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LOCAL POST SERVED HOLIDAY PARADISE showed the Herm coastline and the mail boat. In 1968 the need arose for additional printings of the low values and they were produced in slightly different designs (smaller numerals, etc). Herm’s final definitive set was released in 1969 just before the local post was about to close. The stamps in this set show various boats and ships associated with the Channel Islands. Exactly why these stamps were ordered is unknown to me. It must have been obvious for quite a while that the local post would be suppressed with the introduction of the Guernsey Postal Service. However, in addition to the definitive sets Herm Island also released a number of special and commemorative stamp sets. Many of these were overprints on contemporary definitive stamps. A most
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attractive stamp set commemorated the late Sir Winston Churchill. All in all Herm Island issued 112 different stamps which is quite reasonable for a period of 20 years. The fact that numerous essays, colour proofs, imperforates and other similar items have reached the philatelic marketplace make Herm Island quite exciting. First Day Covers exist for most issues and it is not impossible to find the odd commercial usage and then mostly in the form of picture postcards mailed by tourists. Those wanting to find out more about this now dead collecting area should procure a copy of Jon Aitchison’s catalogue “Channel Island Locals”. It was published in 2003 and covers not only Herm but also the other small Channel Islands.
The Stamp News Quiz No. 7 by David Keane 1. Who is the postmistress at the Greendale post office in the Postman Pat series? 2. Which European capital city received the first street numbering system in 1653? 3. Issued by Kenya, what has been the highest denomination on a stamp? 4. Which country has produced the biggest postage stamp: a) China, b) Tonga or c) UAE? 5. During Christmas of which year did Australia issue its first ‘maximum card’? 6. What does ‘Correos’ stand for on Spanish stamps? 7. What colour is the top ‘one pound’ seahorse stamp, one of Britain’s finest stamps? 8. Spade, bent, point and round are what used in philately? 9. On what publications were the highly sought after Austrian ‘merker’ stamps used? 10. Which two countries overprinted their stamps ‘ Mafeking Beseiged’ or ‘Siege of Mafeking’? The first six (6) all correct entries drawn will win a prize. Only one entry per household, please. Entries must be received by November 1, 2015 This month the prize will be A pair of Quality Solingen Tweezers and a Perforation Gauge value $20 Please send your entries to Stamp News Quiz November 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! Reinventing the past in Hong Kong Reported at www.scmp.com
Conservationists have reacted strongly to a decision by Hong Kong’s postal service to cover the British royal insignia on historic post boxes, claiming they weren’t consulted. A Hong Kong Post spokeswoman said it was ‘inappropriate’ to display royal insignia on the remaining 59 old post boxes built during the colonial period and that the decision to cover them had been made in March. While most of the post boxes carry the royal insignia of Queen Elizabeth II, the oldest was built during the reign of King George V and has been in use for around 100 years. Peter Li Siu-man of the Conservancy Association is disappointed. “Back in 2010 when they planned to remove the GRV post box on Lamma Island, we wrote to the postal service about the importance of these post boxes,” he said. “Hong Kong Post finally agreed to not remove it and even repaired it.” Li said his association was told about the plan on September 9. Li said the post boxes should be left as they are and Hong Kong Post
had given them no indication when they might begin covering them. Local activist David Webb said the markings were an important part of Hong Kong’s history and didn’t denote any British sovereignty. “We have little enough to offer tourists apart from tax-free shopping, so we ought to try to preserve what’s left of things to look at and talk about,” he said. Webb pointed out that this year Hong Kong Post issued new stamps featuring the British Insignia on the city’s Final Court of Appeal. The Hong Kong Post spokeswoman said old insignias would be covered in a way which wouldn’t damage them and they had consulted with conservation experts in the government. She added that seven old post boxes would be left intact and put on display in their original form for tourists.
Venerating the past in China Reported at http://en.yibada.com
From commemorative stamps and coins to statues and paintings, seasoned collectors and ordinary citizens in China continue to seek Mao memorabilia and other “red articles.” Miscellaneous items associated with the pioneers of communism in the country and with the founding
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of the People’s Republic of China, branded as “red articles,” continue to gather interest. One craft shop in Shaoshan, the birthplace of Mao, annually earns more than 1 million yuan from the sales of Mao-related items, particularly statues. A souvenir shop in the same city enjoys brisk sale of the bronze busts of the revered chairman. Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was the former chairman of the Communist Party of China. Mao served as chairman of the party from 1945 until his death in 1976. The government has issued commemorative coins in celebration of the 70th anniversary of Japan’s defeat in World War II. One buyer found his 6,600 yuan worth of silver and gold commemorative coins purchased in late August were worth 9,000 yuan by mid-September. Commemorative stamps are likewise sought-after items. Note the bottom left corner of the 1984 mini-sheet In two hours, all 890 sets of available stamps were purchased from the post office in Zhongshan in Guangdong Province. “Many people think that only those in the older generation are ‘red article’ fans, but more young people are interested now,” said a spokesman for the China Association of Collectors.
The Age of Aquarius?
Reported at www.skyandtelescope.com Soviet stamp issuing authorities in the mid-1980s grappled with a delicate problem: how to depict Aquarius in the margins of a miniature sheet dedicated to the Soviet Union’s Vega missions to Venus
The 2004 Aquarius Zodiac stamp and Halley’s Comet. As the mini-sheet of one of the three 1984 Vega stamps shows, the Soviet official in charge of approving such stamps forced the artist to add a sort of loincloth to Aquarius presumably to avoid corrupting the morals of the Soviet public. Twenty years later, when the Russians published a series of stamps depicting the 12 signs of the zodiac, no such prudishness is seen. Aquarius is Stamp News - 19
Stamps in the News - Globally! portrayed in all his glory, just as the ancient Greeks might have depicted him. Both designers drew inspiration from the depiction of Aquarius in Johannes Hevelius’ 1690 star atlas.
Protests over withdrawal of Gandhi stamps Reported at www.thehindu.com
In India there has been widespread condemnation the decision of the Narendra Modi government to withdraw postal stamps on Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. “Withdrawing of the postal stamps of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi is a cowardly act by the incumbent government, the two leaders are the real national heroes of this country”, a Congress Party spokeswoman said. She claimed that the action was part of the vendetta by the present government against the Congress leadership - a “sinister attempt to erase the memory of the two martyr Prime Ministers “. “The entire world acknowledges the fact that it was under the leadership of Indira Gandhi India won the 1971 war against Pakistan and created a new country”, she said. She said that the Narendra Modi led government must not waste time on these issues and should devote their time to the poor people. The controversy began when the Philately Advisory Committee (PAC) recommended replacing the
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image of Indira Gandhi with yoga on inland letters. The Communications Minister defended the decision to discontinue the stamps under the definitive series, saying postage stamps should honour leading lights of the nation and not members of one family. He said on the advice of the PAC, it has been decided to issue definitive series of stamps in the honour of Jan Sangh’s founding leaders Shyama Prasad Mukherjee and Deen Dayal Upadhyay, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Shivaji, Maulana Azad, Bhagat Singh, Jayaprakash Narayan, Ram Manohar Lohia, Vivekananda and Maharana Pratap. “In the definitive stamp series, the focus has been on one family, though other names were there. “ “Here the entire definitive series is an inclusive series which seeks to encapsulate the contribution of all the leading lights of the freedom movement.” “We have been most liberal and understanding in giving due recognition to people of different ideology and approaches. All of them have contributed in a very significant way to make modern India,” the minister said.
Princess portrayed on postage Reported at www.ibtimes.co.uk
Nine-year-old Princess Leonor of Spain, the next in line for the throne, has been honoured with her own postage stamp. The Princess of Asturias will be featured in 310,000 stamps celebrating the Princess of Asturias Awards that will be released in Spain on 2 October. The awards are a series of annual prizes awarded in Spain to individuals, entities or organizations from around the world who make notable achievements in the sciences, humanities, and public affairs. The special stamp collection, entitled “Grand Prizes,” will be priced at €1 per stamp, according to Spanish magazine Hola. Each stamp will feature a portrait of the young princess along with an image of the Cam-
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poamor of Oviedo Theatre, where the awards will be held. This will be the first year the awards will be under the name Princess of Asturias, as it was formally under the title of her father, Prince of Asturias, for nearly 35 years. During the last awards, Leonor’s father presented the awards as King Felipe VI of Spain. Leonor’s father was also nine years old when he first appeared on a Spanish stamp, with the title Felipe of Borbón, Prince of Asturias and Basilica of Covadonga in 1977. Young Leonor is set to turn 10 on 31 October.
Three cats worked on probation at the Money Order Office in London, with an allowance of one shilling a week. They were given 6 months by the Secretary of the Post Office to reduce the mouse problem or they would be cut. Luckily the cats did ‘their duty very efficiently’ and in 1873 they were awarded an increase of 6d per week. The official use of cats soon spread to other post offices with the cost of maintaining them varying. Fast forward 80 years to 1952, when there was public outrage at the fact that Post Office cats hadn’t received a raise since 1873! The following year a question was raised in the House of Commons asking the Assistant Postmaster General, Mr L D Gammans, “when the allowance payable for the maintenance of cats in his department was last raised…” Mr Gammans replied that “There is, I am afraid, a certain amount of industrial chaos in The Post Office cat world. Allowances vary in different places, possibly according to the alleged efficiency of the animals and other factors. It has proved impossible to organise any scheme for payment by results or output bonus…there has been a general wage freeze
When cats patrolled the Post Office Reported at https://postalheritage.wordpress.com
For over 100 years felines have been on the Royal Mail payroll, patrolled British post offices ensuring they are rodent-free. Cats were first officially appointed by the Post Office to catch rodents in September 1868 (although there had undoubtedly been cats in post offices before).
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Stamps in the News - Globally! since July 1918, but there have been no complaints!” The most popular cat of all was named Tibs, who was born in November 1950. At his biggest, Tibs weighed 23lbs and lived in the Headquarters’ refreshment club in the basement of the building. He not only kept Post Office Headquarters completely mouse-free during his 14 years’ service, but found time to appear at a ‘cats and film stars’ party and have his portrait included in a 1953 book Cockney Cats. Tibs worked diligently until his death in November 1964. The last Post Office HQ cat, Blackie, died in June 1984, since when there have been no more cats employed at Post Office Headquarters.
Post office workers save the day Reported at http://www.linns.com
Postal workers have often acted heroically — examples include workers who died on the RMS Titanic while trying to preserve the mail and “Snowshoe” Thompson, who delivered mail and other essentials to residents of the High Sierras in the middle of the 19th century (and was never paid by the post office). After the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, postal workers not only saved the mail, they saved the new post office building.
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As San Francisco grew in the late 19th century, buildings were needed for various government organizations. A beautiful beaux arts style building opened Aug. 29, 1905, to house the central post office, federal courts and other agencies. Less than eight months later, on April 18, 1906, the earthquake and fire occurred. Fire spread throughout the building. Ten heroic postal workers ignored Army officers’ orders to evacuate, and put out the fire using canvas mail sacks soaked in water. The interior of the building once again suffered significant damage during the Oct. 17, 1989, Loma Prieta earthquake. The post office moved out of the building after that, and the building was restored to its original glory. It is now the James R. Browning United States Courthouse used by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The building is open to the public when the court is not in session. The post office windows have been preserved, and informational panels describe the history of the building. Free tours are offered periodically.
Customers save the day
Reported at www.theboltonnews.co.uk A Crowdfunding campaign has been set up to help Post Office workers — after raiders blew up a cash machine and escaped with thousands of pounds. The explosion targeted the cash machine in the front wall of Bradshaw Post Office in Harwood, UK, in the early hours recently. Customer Matthew Jones has now started a campaign on JustGiving.com. It aims to raise £1,000 for office manager Musa Patel and sub-postmaster Fayaz Patel in the wake of the raid. Mr Jones said: “I don’t live in Harwood anymore as I moved out about a year ago but we still buy most of our stamps from that Post Office because the customer service is so good. “The gentleman who runs it, Musa, is absolutely lovely. “He’s extremely friendly and is al-
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James Harrison is just an average guy. He loves his daughter and grandchildren, collects stamps, and goes for walks near his home on Australia’s central coast. But it’s what’s under the surface that makes him extraordinary -- specificalThe damage following the raid at Harwood Post Office ly, what’s flowing in his veins. Known as “The ways laughing and joking, and from reading other Man with the Golden Arm,” nearly every week for the past 60 years he has donated blood plasma from people’s comments on Facebook, he goes out of his right arm. his way to help people with pushchairs and with The reasons can be traced back to a serious umbrellas when it’s raining and wraps people’s medical procedure he underwent as a child. “In parcels for them instead of making them buy Sellotape and wrapping paper and helps people fill 1951, I had a chest operation where they removed a lung -- and I was 14,” recalls Harrison, who is now in forms. aged 78. “He goes over and above what is expected.” “When I came out of the operation, or a couple More than £200 has been raised by the appeal days after, my father explained I had received 13 and Bradshaw Post Office is still closed on acunits of blood and my life had been saved by uncount of the damage. Sub-postmaster Fayaz said: “It’s very touching. known people. He was a donor himself, so I said when I’m old enough; I’ll become a blood donor.” “We have had people come in with cards and Soon after Harrison became a donor, doctors flowers and customers saying: I want to help clean called him in. His blood, they said, could be the up the damage. answer to a deadly problem. “Musa’s the office manager and he’s the one “In Australia, up until about 1967, there were liteveryone loves and gets along with and he knows erally thousands of babies dying each year, doctors almost everyone by their first name.” didn’t know why,” explains Jemma Falkenmire, of Contributing to the sum, the Tomlinson family the Australian Red Cross Blood Service. posted: “For the most friendly, helpful gentleman “Women were having numerous miscarriages and his co-workers — may they take comfort from and babies were being born with brain damage as the support shown by local people.” a result of rhesus disease -- a condition where a Another donor, calling herself Princess Anna, wrote: “What a lovely man who works in this Post pregnant woman’s blood attacks her unborn baby’s blood cells.” Office. What a shame that this has happened.” Stamp News - 23
Stamps in the News - Globally! Every batch of Anti-D that has ever been made in Australia has come from James’ blood. “And more than 17% of women in Australia are at risk, so James has helped save a lot of lives.
Smithsonian’s stamp collector extraordinaire
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James Harrison and his golden arm.
Following the credo “every stamp tells a story,” Cheryl Ganz transformed the vision of philately at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum and institutions around the world. Ganz, who earned a Ph.D. in history from the
Harrison was discovered to have an unusual antibody in his blood and in the 1960s he worked with doctors to use the antibodies to develop an injection called Anti-D. It prevents women with rhesus-negative blood from developing RhD antibodies during pregnancy. “Australia was one of the first countries to discover a blood donor with this antibody, so it was quite revolutionary at the time,” says Falkenmire. Harrison’s blood is precious. He and Anti-D are credited with saving the lives of more than 2 million babies. “Every bag of blood is precious, but James’ blood is particularly extraordinary,” says Falkenmire. “His blood is actually used to make a life-saving medication, given to mums whose blood is at risk of attackItem from Ganz’s Fire and Ice exhibit ing their unborn babies. 24 - Stamp News
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College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 2005, recently retired as chief curator of philately at the Smithsonian museum. “Her impact on the hobby has been huge,” says Gordon Morrison, former head of the U.S. Postal Service’s stamp program. “She has demonstrated many times how stamps, well presented, can reach very diverse audiences and make history come alive.” “The customary way museums exhibited their collections was almost like a stamp album or catalog,” Ganz explains. “I wanted to bring more excitement to our exhibits, to use stamps as a way of understanding the larger events that produced them.” During her decade in charge of philatelic content and exhibitions, the museum mounted exhibits where stamps were the centerpieces such as “Fire and Ice,” tales of the giant, ill-fated transports the Hindenburg and the Titanic, and “Delivering Hope,” the story of how President Franklin Roosevelt, a lifelong stamp collector, used stamps to fight the Great Depression. “We brought in more film and interaction for young people, and set up a photo booth where you could turn a photograph of yourself into a vintage line engraving on a stamp,” Ganz says. Her interest in stamps began early. “I was a natural collector,” she says. “My grandfather gave me an old photograph of a zeppelin.” After that, she began accumulating everything having to do with airships. After completing her doctorate in 2005, Ganz interviewed for the chief curator position at the Smithsonian and landed the job. After a decade of inspired leadership, she retired with the seldombestowed title curator of emerita, the only National Postal Museum employee to receive that honour.
The state that almost was
Reported at http://brusselstimes.com Next to where the Belgian, German, and Dutch borders meet, lies a small village whose history is unique. Walking today through the streets of the small Belgian village of Kelmis, you would never believe that this quiet place was at one point the scene of
Moens’ fantasy stamp for Moresnet one of the quirkiest attempts at creating the smallest independent state in the world. It all began with the redrawing of national boundaries following the collapse of Napoleon’s empire and the fact that the only zinc mine on the whole continent is located in Kelmis (then known as Moresnet). “The neighbouring countries all wanted our mine,” said the current Kelmis Burgomaster. “So they granted us a temporary status of neutrality in 1816 to win more time to discuss who would get it. And since they could never agree, we belonged to no country for the following century!” Neutrality had a lot of advantages. There were no taxes on liquors resulting in a tunnel being dug under the road to smuggle duty-free goods and locals were not required to do military service. They adopted their own flag, made of horizontal black, white and blue stripes. There were coins that bore both Belgian and German symbols. Although very beautiful these coins were made by private people and had no validity. A postage stamp of Neutral Moresnet has an even more bizarre story. This fake stamp was made by the author of a stamp-collectors’ magazine in Brussels, J B Moens who was upset that a French
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Stamps in the News - Globally!
Molly’s 1886 Moresnet issues
Mission possible colleague, Mahe, plagiarised everything he wrote. He published a letter about the stamp in the April issue of “Le Timbre-Poste , and called Mahe on it when he blindly copied it without attribution in “Le Timbrophile”. The letter bore German and Latin puns that translate to “April Fool’s Day”. But there were more serious philatelic efforts at independence, and they were all thanks to Neutral Moresnet’s national hero: Dr Wilhelm Molly, the zinc company’s in-house doctor who was also an avid philatelist. In 1886, Molly tried to organise a local postal service with its own stamps. The stamps were in the style of the various local postal services in Prussia. There were 8 stamps, i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 20 and 50 pfennig. This enterprise was quickly thwarted by Belgian intervention. Neutral Moresnet met its end with World War One. After 1918, Belgium was allowed to annex it, along with a few German villages. Today, they all form the German-speaking part of Belgium, and the neutral slice was renamed Kelmis (a local word for zinc). 26 - Stamp News
Reported at www.thelocal.fr Brazen thieves managed to escape with an estimated €1.4 million worth of postage stamps during a heist at a warehouse in the eastern suburbs of Paris. Workers at a warehouse in Seine-et-Marne were no doubt shocked to discover ropes dangling from the ceiling of their building on Monday morning. Realizing they’d been robbed, they alerted police. A total of 75 boxes of postage stamps were reported missing, believed to have been hauled up through the roof by thieves on Sunday night in a ‘Mission Impossible’ style heist. An inventory is still being carried out, but their estimated haul is valued at €1.4 million, a police source told French newspaper L’Express. The source added that CCTV footage from the scene was being examined. The theft marks the second high-profile hit of its kind this year, after thieves almost got away with €20 million worth of stamps in February. Their haul was found by police in an abandoned vehicle by the roadside just hours after the heist.
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reviews As we get closer to the end of the year, we can be sure that more SG catalogues will appear including the 2016 edition of the ‘Commonwealth & British Empire’ catalogue, or the ‘Part 1’ as it is still widely known, which will be published in mid September, and of course, the Flagship multi volume ‘Stamps of the World’. The three new editions we’re looking at this month appeared in July or August. All of these catalogues are published by Stanley Gibbons Ltd, 7 Parkside, Christchurch Rd. Ringwood, Hants BH24 3SH U.K.
2015 Belgium & Luxembourg Paperback, 260 pages 1st edition RRP A $49.50
With this new release we bid a fond farewell to the ‘Benelux’ catalogue and welcome the first edition with just Belgium & Luxembourg, with a further volume containing Netherlands & colonies to be published in the ‘future’ according to the catalogue’s introduction. While this is following in the footsteps of the France catalogue which appeared earlier in the year with the Colonies spun off into a ‘future’
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volume, I can see more of a reason for the break up of the Benelux catalogue. In my experience there are many, many collectors of the Netherlands & Colonies, and far fewer of Belgium and Luxembourg, so in this case it seems like a win/win for publisher & buyer. So what’s awaiting inside? Well first off we have the new issues of course, with Belgium covered up to January 2015 and Luxembourg to May 2015. As the last Benelux catalogue was published in 2010, this represents around 20 pages. Also covered are German Occupation of Belgium, Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi. New for this edition is the inclusion of Specimen stamps for Belgium and the Belgian Congo. Belgian machine labels have been updated, and new varieties have been listed and priced. A most useful catalogue for any collectors of this popular area.
2015 Eastern Pacific
Paperback, 200 pages, 3rd edition RRP A $48.50 This new 3rd edition of the catalogue, the first since early 2011, covers the issues of Cook Is., Aitutaki, Penrhyn Is, Rarotonga, Niue, Pitcairn Is and Samoa. New issues for most countries are included up to early 2015, the exceptions being Rarotonga (Sept 2013) and Niue (Dec 2014) At the very beginning of the Cook Is listings you will find illustrations of the different New Zealand watermarks, together with the 20 or so different New Zealand stamp designs that are found overprinted for use in the appropriate postal administrations covered by this catalogue. This is a great idea as it is very convenient to have them all together on one page for reference purposes – and in full colour too! The Pitcairn Island section starts with a priced listing of the 1920-26 ‘No Stamps Available’ cachets, the cheapest of which is now catalogued at a hefty £1900, followed by a priced listing of New Zealand stamps used at Pitcairn between 1927 and 1940, prior to the island’s issue of it’s own stamps in
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October 1940. Samoa has some useful notes to help you identify the forgeries and reprints of the 1877-80 ‘Express’ stamps, another very helpful feature bearing in mind that 99% of these stamps that you come across ARE forgeries or reprints! And while on Samoa, new for this edition is a full listing of the stamps of the German Post Office in Samoa 1900 to 1914, and prices are given for German stamps used in Apia between 1886 and 1900. There are the usual price movements, and the publishers tell us that ‘valuations for errors and varieties (have been) marked up significantly in many cases’. An essential purchase if your collecting interests include this area of the Pacific
‘Sports in Hong Kong’ issue. Apart from comprehensive listings for both British Colonial and the PRC “Special Administration Region’ issues, the Crowned Circle ‘Paid At’ handstamps in use before the arrival of the first stamps in the Colony are listed and priced, and Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong and British Post Offices in China and Japan, where Hong Kong stamps were used, are also included. New for this edition are new watermark varieties in the Edw VII and KGV issues, and the KGVI listing for the $10 lilac & blue has been expanded to include both the shade and chalk surfaced paper varieties. The above mentioned British PO’s in China has also had more than a dozen listings added. Regarding values, the publishers tell us ‘Prices have been extensively revised. Valuations for classic issues and errors and varieties have been marked up significantly in many cases’ There are comprehensive listings of booklets, postal fiscals, shades, major plate flaws, watermark varieties, errors, and postcard stamps. A must have for the many HK collectors out there! See you again soon with more new catalogue reviews
2015 Hong Kong
Paperback, 128 pages, 5th edition RRP A $39.50 Hong Kong continues to be one of the more popular collecting areas, so it’s good to see a new edition of this popular catalogue after a little over 2 years. New issues are covered right up to the April 2015 Stamp News - 29
Looking at New Zealand
World Rose Convention Day 1971 There are over 100 species of roses and thousands of cultivars (hybrids). The species originated in China and Southeast Asia. They have a very wide variety of colours; the different flower types all consist of multiple layers of petals but vary in shape from tightly-packed buds to loose, flat profiles. Roses are appreciated for their large, showy blooms which make a dramatic display. In 1960, the city of Hamilton, 150 km south of Auckland, set aside two square kilometres of land on the banks of the Waikato River for public gardens. In 1969, the World Federation of Rose Societies chose Hamilton to be the site of the first ever World Rose Convention to be held from 8th to 13th November 1971. It was decided to completely reconstruct the rose garden area of the Hamilton gardens. The mayor of Hamilton at the time, Dr Dennis Rogers, became an ardent rose fancier and today the area is known as the Rogers Rose Garden. It contains more than 4,200 rose plants from approximately 230 cultivars. A photo of the gardens is shown nearby. This year, the 17th World Rose Convention was held in Lyon, France from 27th May to 1st June
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2015. In 1971, the New Zealand Post Office agreed to issue a set of stamps to mark the event. Designs submitted by A G Mitchell showing hybrid tea roses were chosen. The 2 cent design featured the Tiffany, an American scented rose with salmonpink flowers and a golden colour at the inside base of the petals. The Peace or Mme A Meilland rose shown on the 5 cent design has large yellow flowers with pink edging. Another American fragrant rose, the Chrysler Imperial, shown on the 8 cent, has deep crimson flowers that show some blue colour as they age. The printing tender from Courvoisier of Switzerland was chosen from seven tenders received. They printed the stamps in four-colour photogravure on white ‘Granite’ unwatermarked paper which incorporated coloured silk fibres. Each value was printed from plates numbered 1111 in the bottom left
Graeme Morriss
stamps and five hundred thousand of each of the 5 cent and 8 cent stamps was hastily ordered and put on sale at the beginning of December. The stamps were withdrawn from sale on 31st January 1972. A special oval date stamp picturing the outline of a rose was used at the Convention post office on 8th November 1971 and a circular date stamp marked Roseworld 71 – Hamilton NZ was used there from 9th to 13th November. In 1975, the Post Office chose roses as the design features of the 1 cent to 9 cent values of a new definitive series. No doubt the popularity of the 1971 set influenced this choice. margin together with the designer’s and printer’s names. The sheets were of 100 stamps (10 rows of 10) and were comb-perforated 11½. The first printing of one million 2 cent and 8 cent stamps and two million 5 cent stamps was issued on 3rd November 1971 and came close to selling out, so popular were the designs. A second printing of one million 2 cent
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 . Stamp News - 31
Pricefighter Packets, ready made collections KEEP THIS LIST, UPDATES WILL BE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN! UPDATED JUNE 2015, KEEP THIS LIST, UPDATES WILL BE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN! Discounts from this list: Spend .$100 and deduct 10%, $101 to $250 deduct 20%, .... $251 plus deduct 30%
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25 AAT..............................................................$ 3.00 50 AAT ...........................................................$ 25.00 100 AAT .........................................................$ 99.00 25 ADEN ..........................................................$ 6.00 50 ADEN ........................................................$ 12.00 50 ADEN – ......................................................$20.00 100 AFGANISTAN.................................................$ 15 100 AFRICA ......................................................$ 6.00 200 AFRICA ....................................................$ 13.00 50 AITUTAKI ...................................................$ 40.00 150 AITUTAKI ...............................................$ 140.00 200 AITUTAKI ................................................$180.00 100 ALBANIA .................................................$ 24.00 25 ANDORA - SPANISH MINT U/H ...................$ 20.00 50 ANDORRA - SPANISH MINT U/H .................$60.00 25 ANDORRA - FRENCH MINT U/H ..................$ 20.00 50 ANDORRA - FRENCH MINT U/H ..................$ 50.00 25 ANTIGUA .....................................................$ 5.00 50 ANTIGUA BARDUDA ..................................$ 20.00 200 ARAB STATES ..........................................$ 12.00 100 ARGENTINA ...............................................$ 6.00 25 ASCENSION ..............................................$42.00 100 AUST. (DEC MINT U/H) ............................$ 55.00 100 AUST. (PREDEC.MINT U/H) ......................$ 60.00 100 AUSTRALIA ...............................................$ 4.00 200 AUSTRALIA ...............................................$ 6.00 300 AUSTRALIA ...............................................$ 8.00 400 AUSTRALIA .............................................$ 13.50 500 AUSTRALIA .............................................$ 16.50 600 AUSTRALIA .............................................$ 27.50 800 AUSTRALIA .............................................$ 40.00 1000 AUSTRALIA ...........................................$ 65.00 25 AUSTRALIAN STATES .................................$ 16.00 50 AUSTRALIAN STATES .................................$ 56.00 100 AUSTRALIAN STATES ..............................$150.00 200 AUSTRIA .................................................$ 18.00 500 AUSTRIA .................................................$ 45.00 100 AUSTRIA (LRG.COMMEMS) ......................$ 50.00 200 AUSTRIA (LRG.COMMEMS) ....................$ 100.00 1000 AUSTRIA .............................................$ 119.00 1000 AUSTRIA (MINT U/H) ...........................$ 295.00 2000 AUSTRIA .............................................$ 465.00
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100 BAHAMAS ...............................................$ 90.00 25 BAHRAIN ..................................................$ 33.00 50 BAHRAIN ..................................................$ 72.00 100 BANGLADESH ..........................................$ 11.00 25 BARBADOS ................................................$ 12.00 50 BARBADOS ................................................$ 24.00 100 BARBADOS ..............................................$ 70.00 50 BAVARIA ...................................................$ 28.00 100 BAVARIA .................................................$ 84.00 200 BAVARIA ...............................................$ 210.00 100 BELGIAN CONGO ......................................$ 32.00 200 BELGIAN CONGO ....................................$ 100.00 500 BELGIUM .................................................$ 40.00 100 BELGIUM COLONIES .................................$ 13.00 300 BELGIUM COLONIES .................................$ 80.00 25 BERMUDA .................................................$ 15.00 25 BOHEMIA MORAVIA ....................................$ 2.00 50 BOHEMIA MORAVIA ....................................$ 8.00 100 BOHEMIA MORAVIA ................................$ 24.00 150 BOHEMIA MORAVIA ...............................$ 55.00 25 BOLIVIA ......................................................$ 6.00 50 BOLIVIA ....................................................$ 13.00 25 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ..............................$ 20.00 50 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ..............................$ 33.00 150 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ..........................$ 170.00 100 Br. AGENCIES .........................................$ 100.00 25 BR. SOLOMONS .........................................$ 10.00 100 BRAZIL ....................................................$ 17.00 200 BRAZIL ....................................................$ 36.00 1000 BRAZIL ................................................$ 350.00 100 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ........................$ 6.00 200 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ......................$ 10.00 500 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ......................$ 30.00 100 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH (MINT U/H) ...$ 27.00 100 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH KGVI (MINT U/H) .$ 60.00 1000 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH( MINT U/H ) .$ 190.00 50 BRITISH HONDURAS (LRG.COMMEMS) ......$ 40.00 25 HONDURAS AND BELIZE ..............................$ 9.00 25 BRITISH VIRGIN ISL. ..................................$ 22.00 50 BRITISH WEST INDIES ................................$ 10.00 100 BRITISH WEST INDIES ..............................$ 14.00 500 BRITISH WEST INDIES ..............................$ 75.00 200 BULGARIA ...............................................$ 17.00 300 BULGARIA ...............................................$ 22.00 800 BULGARIA ...............................................$ 88.00 1000 BULGARIA ...........................................$ 120.00 100 BURUNDI ................................................$ 20.00
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25 CAMBODIA ................................................$ 10.00
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100 CAMBODIA ............................................$ 115.00 500 CAMBODIA ..............................................$ 65.00 100 CANADA ....................................................$ 6.00 100 CANADA (MINT.COMMS) .........................$ 50.00 25 CAPE VERDE ................................................$ 6.00 25 CAYMAN ISL ..............................................$ 15.00 50 CAYMAN ISL ..............................................$ 36.00 100 CHANNEL ISLANDS ..................................$ 19.00 150 CHANNEL ISLANDS ..................................$ 80.00 300 CHANNEL ISLANDS ................................$ 130.00 200 CHILE ......................................................$ 24.00 500 CHILE ....................................................$ 110.00 100 CHINA .....................................................$ 19.00 200 CHINA .....................................................$ 48.00 325 CHINA ...................................................$ 130.00 500 CHINA P.R.C ...........................................$ 300.00 100 CHINA (LRG, MINT, COMP.SETS)................$ 50.00 25 CHRISTMAS ISLAND ..................................$ 14.00 50 CHRISTMAS ISLAND ..................................$ 33.00 75 CHRISTMAS ISLAND ..................................$ 50.00 100 CHRISTMAS ISLAND ..............................$ 100.00 150 CHRISTMAS ISLAND ..............................$ 150.00 200 CHRISTMAS ISLAND ..............................$ 230.00 500 CONGO ..................................................$ 140.00 25 COCOS ISLAND ............................................$ 8.00 50 COCOS ISLAND ..........................................$ 38.00 75 COCOS ISLAND ..........................................$ 60.00 100 COCOS ISLAND ......................................$ 132.00 300 COLOMBIA ..............................................$ 60.00 900 COLOMBIA ............................................$ 370.00 300 COOK ISLANDS ......................................$ 350.00 400 COOK ISLANDS ......................................$ 560.00 500 COOK ISLANDS ......................................$ 650.00 750 COOK ISLANDS ....................................$ 1280.00 1000 COOK ISLANDS .................................$ 2,000.00 50 CROATIA (PRE WAR) ..................................$ 20.00 300 CUBA ......................................................$ 30.00 200 CUBA (LARGE PICT.) ................................$ 18.00 25 CYPRUS ....................................................$ 12.00 50 CYPRUS ....................................................$ 30.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ......................................$ 3.00 200 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ....................................$ 15.00 500 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ....................................$ 34.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (MINT U/H) .................$ 17.00 200 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (MINT U/H) .................$ 20.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (POST WAR) ................$ 11.00 400 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (MINT U/H) .................$ 30.00 1000 CZECHOSLAVAKIA ..................................$ 85.00
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Pay cents, not $ per stamp! 100 DANZIG ...................................................$ 66.00 100 DENMARK .................................................$ 6.00 300 DENMARK ...............................................$ 20.00 500 DENMARK ...............................................$ 60.00 25 DOMINICA BR. .............................................$ 4.00 50 DOMINICA BR. .............................................$ 6.00 100 DOMINICA BR. .........................................$ 30.00 50 DOMINICA BR. (KGVI & QEII) .....................$ 40.00 50 DOMINICAN REP .......................................$ 18.00 200 DOMINICAN REP. .....................................$ 33.00 300 DOMINICAN REP. .....................................$ 70.00 90 DUTCH EAST INDIES ................................$ 100.00
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300 ECUADOR ................................................$ 77.00 400 ECUADOR ................................................$ 80.00 500 ECUADOR ..............................................$ 110.00 700 ECUADOR ..............................................$ 250.00 100 EGYPT .....................................................$ 10.00 300 EGYPT .....................................................$ 70.00 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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NOVEMBER OFFERS November 2015 LATEST ARRIVALS IN COLLECTIONS, SINGLES, LOTS AND MIXTURES: Oct1) Australia PSE collection in 3 albums, from the beginning to the 50c period, generally one of each mint and First Day Issue, plus the more recent are all mint. About 500 in all 300 or so being mint. Album cost alone around $150, plus $100 or so face in the mint and $75 face in the used, so original cost roughly $325. My price for the lot, just under a half $160. Oct2) Mass of GB, mostly decimal Commems in large red stockbook. Many top vales and complete sets used, with values to 78p. Looks to be around 1500 stamps. Some duplication, great value at around 6.5c per stamp. $99 the lot. Oct3) The History and Heritage of the Commonwealth, FDC collection from 1983 in special album. 54 FDCs all with complete sets. Great value at around $1.50 per set. Album is worth $40 plus to buy new. $87 the lot Oct4) Nice World Collection early to modern in 5 big stockbooks, little or no duplication, some nice pickings. Must be close to 6000 stamps. Well under 6c per stamp. $335 the lot. Oct5) Charles and Diana, Crown Agents Omnibus Mint Unhinged, complete in official album. If you do not have one of these, grab it now, was $95, reduced to just $40! Oct5) Papua and New Guinea, mint and used collection in big red stockbook, 1952 – 190 approx. Nice lot worthy of expansion, must be at least 30 mint unhinged commemorative sets, plus a swag of used. Great value at $66 Oct6) Large brown paper carrier bag, with world accumulation on paper, early to modern. Who knows what lurks in here! We have had several of these from the same source, and all sold very quickly. Weighs 2.2kg. $165 the lot. Oct7) Australia KGV 4d Blue single wmk, from the Cooke Plates with Sydney 10 OC 1923 cds, and the variety Thin Fourpence retouched (late state) ACSC 112C (2) rb. Supplied with Dr. Scott Starling Certificate. Cat $675, price $495 Oct8) Australia 1932 1/- large lyrebird, overprinted OS, in horizontal pair, cds used in the scarcer Yellowish Green shade, supplied with normal for comparison in the deeper shade. Scarce in pairs, and cat. $100 each as singles. $119 the pair. Oct9) Australia 1914 6d Claret Kookaburra, superb example Melbourne cto cancel. Scace so nice. Cat $80, price $66 Oct10) Australia KGV 1/4d Turquoise. C of A wmk, fresh mint lightly hinged, centred right. Cat. $150, this one just a half…$75 Oct11) Australia 1936 SA Centenary 3d solo use on Surface Mail cover to Denmark. Scarce usage. Launceston 21APR37 cds, with slogan “Post Early Each Day” Cheap at $29 (I have lots of other nice commercial covers if interested, ranging in price from $5 to $500) Oct12) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 4d Orange 1st wmk, mint lightly hinged, well centred. Retail $140, my price $110 Oct13) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 5d Chestnut 1st wmk, mint lightly hinged, well centred. Retail $140, my price $110 Oct14) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 9d Violet 1st wmk, mint lightly hinged. Retail $140, my price $110 Oct15) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 1/- Emerald 1st wmk, mint lightly hinged, Retail $140, my price $110 Oct16) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 1d Red Die 1 1st wmk, perf Large OS, mint unhinged, cat $50, my price $37.50 Oct17) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 1d Red Die 1 1st wmk, perf Large OS, well centred mint unhinged, cat $50, my price $37.50 Oct18) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 3d Olive Die 1 1st wmk, perf Large OS, used, well centred, cat $100, my price $59
Oct19) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 4d Orange 1st wmk, perf Large OS mint lightly hinged, Cat $500, my price $285 Oct20) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 9d Violet 1st wmk, perf Large OS mint lightly hinged, Cat $550, my price $315 Oct21) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 1/- Emerald 1st wmk, perf Large OS mint lightly hinged, Cat $600, my price $345 Oct22) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 3d Olive Die 1 1st wmk, perf Small OS, mint lightly hinged, cat $400, my price $225 Oct23) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 6d Blue 1st wmk, perf Small OS, mint lightly hinged, cat $425, my price $255 Oct24) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 9d Violet 1st wmk, perf Small OS, mint lightly hinged, cat $600, my price $345 Oct25) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 1/- Emerald 1st wmk, perf Small OS, mint lightly hinged, cat $600, my price $345 Oct26) Australia 1915 Kangaroo 2d Grey 2nd wmk, mint lightly hinged, retail $140, this one just $105 Oct27) Australia 1915 Kangaroo 2.5 Deep Blue 2nd wmk, mint lightly hinged, retail $90, this one just $72 Oct27) Australia 1915 Kangaroo 2.5 Deep Blue 2nd wmk, mint lightly hinged, retail $90, this one just $72 Oct28) Australia 1915 Kangaroo 1/- Emerald, perf OS fine used, well centred, retail $160, my price $125 Oct29) Australia 1915 Kangaroo, 6d Brown, 3rd wmk mint unhinged, marginal example, very fresh, retail $50, this one $45 and well worth it! Oct30) Australia 1915 Kangaroo, 2/- Brown, 3rd wmk mint unhinged, very fresh, cat. $2500, my price $1950…a gem! Oct31) Australia 1915 Kangaroo, 2/- Maroon, 3rd wmk mint lightly hinged, retail $175, my price $139 Oct32) Australia 1915 Kangaroo, 5/- Grey & Yellow, 3rd wmk, perf OS, fine used with “Special” cds, 21DE27. retail $130, my price $105 Oct33) Australia 1915 Kangaroo, 10/- Grey & Analine Pink, 3rd wmk, perf OS, mint lightly hinged, cat $2000. Suspect this may have been reperfed, so very cheap at under a quarter cat. Price $495 Oct34) Oct33) Australia 1915 Kangaroo, One Pound Grey, 3rd wmk, perf OS, COMMERCIALLY USED, cat $750 as cto, this one used with heavy cds, but amazingly scarce stamp, thought for a long time not to exist. This has been repaired at some time in the past, but looks fine from the front. Very cheap example of a rarity, price $595 Oct35) Australia 1929 Kangaroo 2/- Maroon small multiple wmk, mint unhinged, cat $850, this one off centre, so only $495 Oct36) Australia 1929 Kangaroo 6d Brown, small multiple wmk, overprinted OS, fine used with 25AU32 cds of Kandos NSW cat $75, price $49 Oct37) Australia 1929 Kangaroo 5/- Grey and Yellow perf OS, small multiple wmk, cto used, cat $225. Centred lower left, under a half… price $105 Oct38) Australia 1932 One Pound Grey Kangaroo, C of A wmk, superb well centred used, with cds 11MR38 Late Fee Melbourne. Nicest you will see, retail in this quality $475 - $525, my price only $375 Oct40) New South Wales, 1/- Red Diadems imperf, lovely fine used 4 margin example, two are huge! Price $75 Oct41) Australia 1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge, fine used cto with good perfs and well centred, they do not come better than this! $285
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NOVEMBER OFFERS Oct42) BCOF 1947 Ovpt. On 5/- Robes Thock Paper, mint unhinged, retail $225, my price $187.50 Oct43) Australia 1914 6d Claret Kookaburra, mint lightly hinged and well centred, retail $95, my price $72 Oct44) Australia 1964 Navigators, complete set of 8 with white papers good/fine used, retail $165, my price $99 Oct45) Australia 1928 3d Kookaburra Minisheet mint unhinged, retail $325, my price $240. Oct46) Australia 2nd wmk 2.5d Kangaroo, well centred lovely block of 4, with 2 mint unhinged, two lightly hinged, retail as singles $780. Magnificent piece. $585 MSP9) Australia 1955 1/6d no wmk Hermes, in a muh block of 4, retail $80, my price $59 MSP10) Australia 1949 10/- Arms, in a bottom right corner marginal block of4, muh. Very fresh, retail is $120 as singles, my price just $89 MSP12) 1949 Robes Thin Paper set, 5/- to One Pound, nice used. Retail $125, my price just $95 MSP15) Australia pre-decimal mint collection/accumulation in big green stockbook. Includes many, many imprint blocks (approx 40) , blocks of 4 etc, mainly mint unhinged, including 2/3d Commems x 24, 2/5d bird cream paper x 9, etc. etc. Some in earlier pages affected by rust, but most are fine. Few pages of muh decimals not counted in price included at back. Was priced at $290, special deal now only $215 MSP16) Lovely Australia mostly used Collection/accumulation in black padded binder and housed in 44 as new 5 and 6 strip Hagners, retail value of these alone is $60 plus. Noted Kangaroos to 2/-, KGV Heads to 1/4d, KGV Commems to 1/- , 1948 Arms HVs complete set to two pounds, good degree of completeness to 2000, then a packet of 1500 different Australia, which retails alone at around $150. Condition is a bit mixed, but still great value at $395 the lot. MSP19) Massive, yes MASSIVE Australia accumulation in 8 binders and on around 400 as new Hagner sheets, retail alone $560, commencing with a few Australian States and Kangaroos, through to around 2000. Many 1000s of stamps with some nicer higher values, which we are giving away as the price is way under the cost of the Hagners alone. $495 the lot…BE QUICK! MSP20) From the same source as above, but Worldwide collection/accumulation with some very good pickings, housed in 16 binders and on about 700 as new Hagner sheets, this lot must have near 15,000 stamps. Retail of the Hagners alone is near $1000, and my price means that the stamps come free! Price for the lot $929. MSP22) Dark Blue padded as new Seven Seas Binder, with standard pages for 1983 – 2000. New price $195, my price under one third! $59 the lot. MSP23) Australia Seven Seas Green Padded hingeless album in as new condition, with pages for 1953 – 1987. New cost $280, my price well under a half, $119 MSP27) Stanley Gibbons GB dark red padded 4 ring binder, brand new in original box, retails $44.50, one only available, $24.50 MSP28) NZ Seven Seas Hingeless pages1983 - 93 in binder with some extras standard pages, mainly the Health Minisheets, not counted $59. MSP29) Czechoslovakia, mint unhinged collecti0on of 200 different, mostly large commemoratives, on our packets list at $20, (only 6 left) at $14.95 each. Great value! MSP30) New packet collection of 1500 different Australia, including many top values and complete sets, retail elsewhere $150 plus, my price just $89 (6 available) MSP31) New South Wales, 1/- Red Diadems Imperf. With 4 good margins and light cancel, retail is $100 for 3 margin examples. My price for this just MSP33) Prinz Imperial Stockbooks, top of the range 64 white pages, padded cover, brand new shrink wrapped, in Red or Dark Blue, (only 2 of each available) Usual retail
$79 each price just $49 each MSP34) Handy A4 size 8 page stockbooks, with glassine strips and interleaving. Normally $12.95 each, now just $7.95 each (28 available) MSP35) New packet of 125 different Australia Pre-decimal, nice lot. Only $8.95 (17 available) MSP36) Nice packet of 500 different Australia, on our packets list for $16.50, a few surplus to clear at $9.95 (20 available) MSP37) Lucky dip packets, made up by a local part time dealer soon to retire to Queensland, lucky bloke! Each contains a different assortment, comes with a free postcard or maximum card, these are sold unopened as received and is priced at $14.95 per pack, 5 packs for $69, 10 packs for $135, 15 packs for $189 Choose from: a) 25 different worldwide minisheets mint and used, b) 50 grams Animals thematics off paper, c) 50 grams World off paper, d) 50 grams USA off paper, e) 50 grams Australia off paper, f) 50g World on and off paper inc fdc clippings, g) 50g Australia inc. sets clipped from fdcs, h) 50g Europe off paper, i) 35 grams Space Thematics off paper, j) 35 grams Africa off paper, k) 35 grams Middle East & Arab States off paper, l) 30 grams Russia off paper, m) 50 grams Europe off paper, n) 40g GB appears mostly large, off paper, o) 50 grams Czech. Off paper, p) 40 grams Asia off paper. MSP38) Australia 1d Red large multiple wmk, perf OS, mint unhinged, well centered and fresh, cat $400. My price $295 MSP39) Australia Decimals, mostly recent cto with gum, lovely lot of 300 different, inc blocks and strips as issued, plus Internationals. Very hard to assemble, great value at under 20c per stamp, price $59 (6 available) MSP41) Australia 1966 – 1987 mainly complete and mostly cto in Seven Seas Hingeless Album, 140 plus complete sets, plus the album, has to be worth $149! SE1) Australia Decimal dealer stock, 1966 – 2015 mostly fine used in 4 64 page stockbooks, massive lot, with many 1000s of stamps, and 100s of complete sets and top values. Already priced to sell at very reasonable prices. Many of the elusive and better items included. plenty of intact strips of 5, and minisheets too. Usually 5 to 10 of a stamp, must be close to 20,000 stamps. Priced at well under 10c a stamp, price $1725 SE2) Seven Seas Australia Hingeless Album, in 2 padded binders, 1913 – 1990 complete, from KGV Heads except for the Kangaroo pages. Very good condition, most pages being as new. New cost would be $436.50, my price, under one third at $139. SE3) Renniks Coin Albums, brand new, complete with pages and backing sheets to fit all Australian coin sizes, spaces for 227 coins. Retail is $32.50 each, One lot of 10 only at Half Price $162.50 the lot. SE4) Lindner 22 Ring Padded Binders and Slipcases, almost as new, will take standard 22 ring pages. Retail $90 each, One lot of 6 only, under a third of retail, price $175 SE6) Australia 1931 6d Brown Airmail, Overprinted OS, on First Day Cover, 1st Flight Airmail to England, this is the only way you will normally find this FDC, and is extremely scarce, cat. $1500. Missing form 99.999% of all Australia FDC collections! The first I have handled, indeed the first I have seen in over 40 years. Frank Pauer the well known Melbourne FDC collector agrees. With additional franking of a 3d green airmail, two normal 6d Airmails, plus 2 x Halfpenny Orange, 1 x 1d Green & 1 x 3d Blue KGV Head. The cover, an official printed one, is a bit World Weary, however the important stamp is intact with a clear Ship Mailroom Melbourne CDS Cancel, of 17 NO 31. Probably your only chance to secure one of these….Cat. $1500, price would be full catalogue if in a little better condition, this one just a half $750. SE7) Australia 1949 Lovely 10/- Arms on neat clean small typed address First Day Cover, with neat GPO Sydney 9-A3 - OC 49 cds cancel, not obscuring design. A very scarce cover, cat. $450, my price $329
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NOVEMBER OFFERS SE8) Australia 1949 5/- & 10/- Arms on similar neat covers as above, each with clean Burwood NSW cds of 11 OC 56, Cat $185 if commercially used, but assuming these are philatelic. $49 the pair. SE9) Australia 1913 1st wmk 5d Chestnut Kangaroo, lovely fresh mint unhinged, well centred top marginal example, cat $550. Nicest I have owned, $475 SE10) Australia 1913 1st wmk 1/- Blue Green Kangaroo, superb postally used example, with Inverted wmk. Socked on nose with Melbourne dated cds of 29 JA 14. Usually these come with faults, or perfs missing. This is the best I have ever seen. Cat $500. Price $450 SE11) Australia 1915 3rd wmk 2/- Brown Kangaroo, perf OS, lovely postally used example, Inverted Wmk, with Melbourne cds. Again the nicest I have ever seen. Cat $1500, price $1125 SE12) Australia 1931 3rd wmk One Pound Grey Kangaroo, nice attractive postally used with light cds cancel, minor perf fault at bottom. Cat $420, my price well under half $189 SE13) Australia 1914 6d Kookaburra, beautiful well centred Melbourne cto example, cat $80, my price just $59 SE16) Australia 1935 Anzac Pair, 2d & 1/-, mlh, cat. $52, price $39 (3 available) SE17) Australia 1915 2nd wmk, 6d Blue Kangaroo, perf OS, mint unhinged. Cat $1750, and missing form 99% of all Australia collections. Nice looking stamp, but does have a diagonal crease, hardly visible from the front, hence below 20% catalogue. Price $349 SE18) Similar to the above, but hinged, well centred. Cat $750, price $149 SE19) Australia 1921 3rd wmk die IIB 6d Pale Ultramarine Kangaroo, from the Harrison Printing, mint unhinged, perf OS. Centrered high. Nice looking stamp, with great colour, nice white gum and full perfs. Under 60% cat. Price $249 SE21) Australia 1918 2d Grey 3rd wmk Kangaroo, Die I, Inverted wmk, nice attractive cds used example, perfect centering and perfs, wmk from the top left cornet of the sheet (bottom right if not inverted) Cat $60, price $49 SE22) Similar to above, with neat corner cds cancel. Not quite so well centered. Price $39 SE23) Australia 1913 3d Olive Green Kangaroo, Die II, perf small OS, nice well centred example, with cds cancel. Cat $350. Price $249 SE24) Australia 1913 3d Olive Green Kangaroo, Die I, inverted wmk, nice well centred example, with cds cancel. Odd minor perf fault, but very attractive example. Cat $225. Price under half $99 SE25) Australia 1918 3d 3rd wmk, Yellow Olive Kangaroo, Die I, mint unhinged. Lovely fresh well centred, full perf. Example. Hard to better! Cat $125, price $99 SE26) Falkland Is. 1d Brown, SG1, reasonable 2nd grade copy, good spacefiller at under 10% catalogue. Cat $900, price $89 SE27) Australia 1915 3rd wmk, 9d Purple Kangaroo, fine used with inverted wmk. Braidwood 4 JL 20 Cancel. Retail $250, my price $185 SE28) Australia 1914 6d Engraved Kookaburra, nice postally used example with Cairns 12 OC 14 cds. Retail $60, my price $45 SE31) Australia 1934 MacArthur set of 4 inc. 2d Dark Hills, mint unhinged, retail $125, my price $95 SE32) Australia 1937 10/- Robes thick paper mint unhinged retail $35, my price just a half! $17.50 SE33) Australia 1937 Robes thick paper set, 5/- to One Pound fine used, retail $60, my price just a half! $30 SE34) Australia 1937 Robes One Pound Thick Paper, used with Wedge Shaped Telegraph Puncture, have never seen this before! Few perfs missing at top, but unusual item, price $45 SE35) Australia 1946 BCOF overprint on 1d Queen, overprint double. Not recorded on
this value. The 3d value catalogues at $2500. Fine used with slightly blunt top right corner perf. Very rare item, price $1495. SE38) Western Australia 1861 4d Vermillion, with Perth cds, SP 27 1867 cleanly struck cds, SG40 retail $350, minor perf faults, but a scarce stamp. My price $198 SE39) Western Australia 1860 -64, 6d Sage Green Imperf, SG28, Local Printing, 3 margins, postally used. Cat. $800, rare stamp, but with repaired tear at top where hinge has been carelessly removed. Nice looker. My price $159 SE40) Western Australia 1902 -1912 2d Yellow, in fine used cds block of 4, Kalgoorlie, 19 JE 09. With clear KALGOORLIF error in canceller on all 4 strikes. Fine and scarce, price $198 SE41) St. Lucia KEVII 5/- , as SG 76, but in Grey and Carmine instead of Green & Carmine, mint lightly hinged. Not a colour changeling, but most likely a colour trial proof, on watermarked. Cat $170 as normal. Unusual. Price $98 SE43) Norfolk Is. pre-loved Seven Seas pages in near new binder 1947 – 1988, same price $29 SE45) Australia 1914 6d Engraved Kookaburra, and 1d Red Die 1, KGV fine used on piece, very unusual to find. 6d Kooka on cover is almost impossible and cat. $2500, selling this at 5% of the cover price, $125 SE46) Australia 1/4d KGV small multi wmk perf 13.5 x 12.5 horiz. Pair on parcel piece, along with 1/- Kangaroo and 3d Airmail making 3/11d, with Use The Airmail slogan cancel. Single 1/4d stamp on cover cat. $400. Attractive piece for rates collector too. Price $49 SE47) Australia 1948 Arms, 5/-, One Pound and Two Pound, cds used on parcel piece, making a 65/- rate. Attractive and scarce, the two higher values cat at $350 and $1250 respectively. Priced at just 5% of the on cover price. Nice piece for the rates collector. Price $80. SE48) Australia 1937 3d Die I, mint unhinged, well centered and with good perfs. Retail $75, this one with ever so slightly toned gum, half price….$37.50 SE50) Australia 1938 1d Green Queen Die II, in coil strip of 3, central stamp is mint unhinged, others have been lightly hinged. Well centered and with full perfs. Cat $150 as a hinged pair. My price for this, just $119 MAU2) USA, great lot of Charity Mix, just received on single paper, very wide variety covering many decades, 1940’s to quite recent. Best mix we have seen out of the USA in quite a while. 250g for $22, 500g for $39, 1kg for $74.50. Be quick and take the lot! around 10kg for $695 MAU3) English Speaking Countries on paper mix, comprises Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, South Africa, Canada, USA, Ireland. 250g for $22, 500g for $39, 1kg for $74.50, 5kg for $349, 10kg for $695 MAU4) As above, but without the USA, same price MAU6) Australia 1931 10/- Grey & Pink C of A wmk Kangaroo, lovely postally used example with Mount Magnet W.A. cds. Nice full perf example, centered a bit to the left. Cat. $300, very cheap at $165 MAU8) Australia 1909 10/- Green & Red Postage Due, SG D72, lovely mint example retail $470, my price $365 MAU9) New South Wales Queen Victoria 10/- Mauve and Claret Long Type, SG 241c perf 12 x 11, superb used with neat central cds strike of Hurstville 19 MR 1900. Full perfs and fresh, a lovely stamp. Unpriced in Gibbons! $95 MAU10) New South Wales 20/- Ultramarine Carrington, SG 264c, Magnificent fine used example with Broken Hill cds of DE 31 1900. Nicest you will find! $139 MAU11) Stanley Gibbons “The Philatelic” album. This is the Rolls Royce of stamp albums, a magnificently leather bound peg fitting binder, plus slipcase in Green and Black Leather, with Gold blocking on the spine. Comes with 50 leaves, which have
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NOVEMBER OFFERS previously been used to house postcards, so the photo corners are still in place. This album retails at an astounding $775 new, this one is in great condition, for under 25% of the price. $189 MAU12) Real mish mash of leftovers, from deceased estate. Albums, stockbooks, binders, some with slipcases, with and without stamps/covers, plus loose stamps in packets/envelopes/boxes/tins etc. Mostly Australia but other World oddments to be seen here and there. Great if you need a bit of extra storage for your stamps, and the thrill of the hunt for something different or unusual. 10kg box for $125, 20kg for $239. MAU13) Similar to above, but contents of an old suitcase, weighs 40kg plus! Sent in 2 cartons. Price $395 MAU14) WWI Cinderellas on Hagner. Inc. full colour military types, Loyal North Lancs, Third Dragoon Guards, The Queen’s Own, Prince of Wales Royal Lancers, Royal Fusiliers, The King’s Own Malta Regiment of Militia and The Royal Garrison Artillery, plus 3 different large War Savings Certificate types, and 3 French military types. (13) Nice lot. We had a similar lot a few months ago which were snapped up very quickly by a dealer! $89 the lot. MAU15) Massive lot of Cigarette and trade Cards, in albums, in bundles and loose. Many complete sets, including early Victoria Football League and Australian Cricket cards. Noted Don Bradman. I know next to nothing about cigarette cards, except that many of these popular themes sell for 100s of dollars per set, and up to $50 for a single card. In much better than average condition generally, and got to be very good value at under $1.50 per card. $1650 the lot. MAU16) New South Wales, 1867 4d Red Brown Imperf Plate Proof horizontal pair on ungummed watermarked paper, from left hand edge of the sheet. Attractive and scarce piece. $295. MAU17) South Australia 1860 – 69 4d (Gibbons type 3) Imperf plate proof pair, on ungummed, unwatermarked paper in the rose-carmine colour of the 2/-. A pair in black and a block of 4 as per this example was estimated $300 and sold for $650 at a Prestige auction. Horizontal crease, but still an attractive pair. Price $195. MAU18) Switzerland, lovely postal history collection, well written up on album leaves, dating from 1832 – 1944. 30 items including many scarce, inc. some 1st flights, interesting markings such as “DETAINED IN FRANCE DURING GERMAN OCCUPATION” Also includes seated Helvetias on cover both perf an imperf. A really fascinating lot. Very cheap at average $20 per item. $600 MAU19) Australia, valuable stock of pre-decimal mainly mint unhinged pre-decimal in hagners, noted Sturt Pair in blocks of 16, Robes 5/- Imprint Blocks (4) 1940 AIF set imprint blocks, many, many other imprint blocks and masses of complete sets, inc. many in blocks of 4. Priced to sell at $1750 plus, this lot is great for an Ebayer or re-seller. Price $695 MAU20) Great Britain Military Postal History, 1864 – 1978 approx. Marvellous lot with many regimental markings, handstamps etc. Mostly on OHMS envelopes. The earliest from the Commander in Chief’s Office, Horesguards. Other markings include Scottish Command, Military and Air Attache Oslo, 2nd East Anglian Regiment, Royal Army Chaplains Dept., Royal Artillery Range Hebrides, APO1 Tientsin China, Commander in Chief Far East, eytc, etc, etc. absolutely fascinating! 89 items, two items are priced alone at $75 and $90 each. I do not know much at all about this, except that it is extremely popular! Under $10- an item. Price $795. LOVELY LOT OF KANGAROOS JUST ARRIVED: 1st Wmk. MAU21) 2/- perf large OS, cds used, centered lower right. cat $500, price $395 MAU22) 5/- perf large OS, very scarce stamp and as usual for this issue is parcel used, nice stamp with a couple of nibbed perfs at right and centered low. Cat $2000, price
$1250 MAU23) 2/- perf small OS, well centred and with medium cds. few nibbed perfs. Cat $350, price $225 MAU24) 5/- Postally used, well centred and with good perfs, and centrally struck Sydney GPO cds, this stamp cannot be bettered! Cat at only $350, which will be for parcel cancel stamps. Premium stamp and unashamedly asking $425 MAU25) 10/- Postally used, with 2 indistinct partial cds cancels. Nice colour. Centered low, cat $1100, price $975 MAU26) One pound Brown and Blue, nice looking stamp, with indistinct cds cancel, centered high, and with a few missing/nibbed perfs at right. Cat $3000, cheap stamp at $1500 2nd Wmk. MAU27) 5/- in the Pale Grey and Pale Yellow shade, not listed and a scarce shade, normal cat $675. Well centered with good perfs, parcel cancel, but only affect top 25% of the stamp mainly in right corner. Price $625 MAU28) 5/- Perf OS, lightish parcel cancel, centered right. Has some minor staining on reverse. Cat $700, cheap stamp at $375 MAU29) 9d, inverted wmk, well centred and good perfs and light Brisbane Telephone Accounts Section partial cds to left hand side. Very atttractive. Cat $3250. Only about 24 examples known from a single sheet believed printed 12 of which bear this cancellation. Price $2250 MAU30) 5/- Superb used with light cnr. Vic. cds. Perfs, centering and colour cannot be bettered. A premium stamp, cat. $675, unashamedly asking $850 MAU31) 1/- perf OS, nice clean stamp with medium cds, very hard to find in nice condition, full perfs and well centred, cat $375, price $275 MAU32) 2/-, perf OS, nice well centered full perf stamp with socked on nose Market Street 14 SE 15 cds cancel, very fine and hard to find thus. Cat $350. Price $325 3rd Wmk. MAU33) 2/- Red Brown, analine ink, very scarce stamp. Well centered and good perfs, with Perth registered July 1917 oval cancel, plus partial additional slightly smudged cancel at base. cat $2000, price $1250 MAU34) Absolutely superb 5/- Inverted Wmk, full perfs and well centered, with corner light steel cds top right. Cat $2000. This is a premium stamp, normally selling at 40% to 50% over catalogue and could not be bettered. Price $2250 MAU35) 10/- Grey and Deep Analine Pink, the scarcest shade, with Inverted Wmk., fine postally used with cds cancel, nicest I have seen, one nibbed perf at top right does not detract. Cat $3500, unashamedly asking $3950 MAU36) Two Pound SG45a Grey and Crimson, lovely full perf example centered a bit to the right, and with socked on nose Melbourne Vic cds, 8 JE 22 cancel. Cat $4000, But for the centering this would be a full catalogue price stamp. Price $3250 MAU37) Two Pound in the Black and Rose shade, SG45. Another nice stamp, centered low, but good perfs and crisp cds strike, Vic. (town not visible) dated 6 MR 24. Cat. $4000, price $2750 MAU38) One Pound Brown and Blue, in the scarcer olive brown shade. Nice clean stamp with light indistinct cds, centered low, cat $3750, price $2500 MAU39) One Pound Brown and Blue, in the light brown shade, nice corner cds cancel, centered a bit to the right, couple of shortish perfs at top right. Nice stamp, cat $2250 for $1750 Multi wmk. MAU40) 10/- postally used, with top left corner cds cancel, well centered and with full perfs, cat $700, price $625
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NOVEMBER OFFERS C of A Wmk. MAU41) One Pound Grey, nice postally used with two partial cds cancels, centered a bit to the right. Cat $420, price $350 MAU42) Two Pound Grey Black and Rose Crimson, nice fine used with partial cds top right. Nicely centred and good perfs. Cat $750, price $725 Will also price in groups at a slightly reduced price as follows if you wish to buy in this way: 1st Wmk, 6 stamps priced at $4,770, as a group $4,650 2nd Wmk, 6 stamps priced at $4,700, as a group $4600 3rd Wmk, 7 stamps priced at $17,700, as a group $17,250 Multi Wmk and C of A, 3 stamps priced at $1,700, as a group $1650 The whole consignment of Kangaroos above, priced at $28,870 is available for $28,000 could be paid over 2, 3 or 4 months, or another period nominated by you. MAU43) Pitcairn Is. 1940 KGVI Definitives in Imprint/Plate number blocks of 6 or 8, of the values 1d to 1/-, less the 4d and 8d which were issued later. Generally 3 unhinged in each block. Cat as single stamps = $150. Very cheap at $49 the lot. MAU46) As above, the set of plate/imprint blocks in strips of 10 from the bottom of sheets, hinged/unhinged, includes both plates of the 3d and 4 plates of the 6d, one of these only being in a block of 6. Possibly Unique. Cat $675 as single stamps. Price $395. MAU47) Pitcairn Is. 1953 Coronation, imprint/plate number strips of ten, hinged/unhinged, for both plates. (20 stamps) Cat $80 as single stamps, price $49 MAU48) Pitcairn Island, 1963 Red Cross, plate/imprint blocks of ten for both plates of each value, hinged/unhinged (40 stamps) Cat. $120 as single stamps, price $59. MAU49) Pitcairn Island, 1964 Return set, in sheet number top right blocks of 4, as issued on the Island. Hinged/unhinged. Plus 1965 ITU 8 pairs in corner blocks of 4, Cheap lot, $29) MAU50) Australia 1929 Long Airmail Envelope bearing Small Multiple Wmk perf 13.5 x 12.5 2d, 4.5d and 1/4d, all tied by Perth 10 DE 29 cds cancels, to Yalbalgo Station. Yalbalgo Station is a sheep and goat farm in Carnarvon of 86,499.00ha (213,743.69 acres) (approx) Scarce tri-colour cover, price $395 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. 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! 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. $495 AU14) Great Britain 1840 1d Black, plate 4, in horizontal pair, (Pairs are scarce!) cancelled with nicely struck Red Maltese Crosses, AU14) unplated, lettered CI – CJ, this pair both with 4 margins. Price $1100. AU15) Final of these pairs of 1d blacks, this in the scarcer Grey Black shade, and with Black Maltese Crosses. Lettered EC – ED, both are 4 margin examples, close at bottom. Price $1175 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 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 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. AU23) GB 1955 Waterlow Castles 2/6d to One Pound, mint lightly hinged and well centered. Retail $125, my price $75! 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 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 AU28) Australia 1948 10/- and One Pound Arms, mint unhinged. Cat $90, asking just a half, cheap at $45 AU29) Australia KGV 4d Orange, Inverted wmk, MLH, Cat $80, cheap at $45 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 AU31) As above, but MLH. Cat. $200, my price under a half, $98 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 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 AU43) As above, but South Africa, plus some loose in packets with earlies, between SG3 – 834. Also some Zimbabwe. $69 the lot. AU45) As above, Canada, some on album pages, $49 the lot 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. 14 items, fascinating and educationsal lot for the avid reader…you can put down your Harry Potter! price $129. 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
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NOVEMBER OFFERS the lot, seldom seen in this condition, $98 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) 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, NOW REDUCED TO $295 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. NOW REDUCED TO $119 MJY5) Part Contents of huge shipping carton, with mass of World on paper, just as received from local charity appears unsorted, could be anything in here. Many 1000s. Weighs 2kg Another cheap lot $149 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. 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, NOW REDUCED TO $76 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 in Commercially used block of 6, which is extremely rare. Melbourne 17 SE 34 cds cancels, price $96. NOW REDUCED TO $77 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. NOW REDUCED TO $2350 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 for this $1250. NOW REDUCED TO $995 MJY16) Australia 1929 5/- Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, multiple wmk, lovely cto example with bottom left corner cds. Retail $225, this one $179, NOW REDUCED TO $143 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 NOW REDUCED TO $995, 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, NOW REDUCED TO $199 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, NOW REDUCED TO $315 MJY21) Australia 1937 KGVI 3d Die I, mint unhinged, retail $75, my price $56, NOW REDUCED TO $45 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, NOW REDUCED TO $69 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, NOW REDUCED
TO $39 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 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 NOW REDUCED TO $76, MJY31) Australia 1913 1st wmk 3d Yellow Olive Kangaroo, Die I, perf small OS, neat cds cancel. Cat. $100, my price $75, NOW REDUCED TO $59 MJY32) As above but 3rd wmk, Die IIb, with partial Federal Parliament cds, Cat. $60, my price $49, NOW REDUCED TO $39 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, NOW REDUCED TO $223 MJY34) GB 1902 DLR Printing KEVII 5/-, SG 263, fine used with rubber circular cancel. cat $440 Cheap at 20% cat. $88, NOW REDUCED TO $69 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, NOW REDUCED TO $69 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, NOW REDUCED TO $95 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, NOW REDUCED TO $39 MJY40) Austrlaia 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, NOW REDUCED TO $315 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, NOW REDUCED TO $63 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, NOW REDUCED TO $47 MJY46) As above, but nice unhinged single, Cat. $150, my price $110 NOW REDUCED TO $88, MJY49) Australia KGV, 1d Green, no wmk, perf OS, Mint Unhinged. Retail $195, my price under half $95, NOW REDUCED TO $76 MJY50) Australia 1948 Two Pound Arms, mint hinged, cat $90, my price well under half $39 AUSTRALIA OLYMPIC VICTORY PNC STAMP AND COIN COVERS Few only left now, 80% of stock has been sold…be quick. Never seen by us before, and in a strict limited Australia Post edition of 1000 sets!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
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NOVEMBER OFFERS 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. (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. NOW REDUCED TO $395 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 clear 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 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 per kg, 5kg for $139, 10 kg for $265 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, NOW REDUCED TO $539 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, NOW REDUCED TO $795 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, NOW REDUCED TO $1395 or without the 1d back and 2d blue, $1350. NOW REDUCED TO $1100 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, NOW REDUCED TO $199 All of the following mixtures are at approx 30% to one third off our normal prices: 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 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 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 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. Great Britain 1840 1d Blacks, just uncovered a nice little hoard of these, did you know the Chinese are buying these up like crazy? 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 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 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 JY37) Another example in the scarce Intense Black shade, with red Maltese Cross, unplated and lettered JD, Cat $1050 price $449 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 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 JY42) Two further 3 margin examples, each with red Maltese Cross, Cat $750 lettered JB or RB. Price $329 each JY43) We have 1 other example, which has minor faults, not visible from the face, if you just want a nice looking stamp to fill a gap. Lettered EA, this priced very modestly at $149 JY44) Australia 1915 10/- Grey & Pink 3rd wmk perf OS, cto used. Now Cat $200, my price for reasonable examples $119 each, NOW REDUCED TO $95 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, NOW REDUCED TO $95 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 JY49) Nauru, GB 5/- Seahorse, ovpt. Nauru, superb well centred lightly hinged example
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NOVEMBER OFFERS 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, NOW REDUCED TO $72 MJ5) World collection, 1000s of mainly different in 5 big stockbooks. Early to modern, well presented lot, just $295 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. 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) NOW REDUCED TO $749 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 MJ20) Papua New Guinea, 1952 Definitive set complete to 10/- mint lightly hinged, just $39 MJ27) Australia 1913 1st wmk Twopence Halfpenny Indigo Kangaroo, mlh, retail $70, this one centred low, half price, just $35 MJ29) Australia 1913 1st wmk 3d Olive, Die 1, perf small OS, mlh, retail $250, this one centred high, just half price $125, NOW REDUCED TO $99 MJ32) Australia 1915 3rd wmk Grey and Pink 10/- Kangaroo, good colour and perfs with Telegraph puncture, retail minimum $800 without puncture, this one $159, NOW REDUCED TO $125 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, NOW REDUCED TO $119 MJ35) Australia 1915 3rd wmk Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, perf OS and cto Melbourne, with gum. Retail $200 Price $149, NOW REDUCED TO $135 MJ37) Australia 1929 Small multiple wmk 5/- Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, perf OS cto with gum, very attractive stamp. Retail $225. My price $169, NOW REDUCED TO $149 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 NOW REDUCED TO $595, JN6) Australia 1913 Halfpenny Green 1st wmk Kangaroo, in mint unhinged strip of 5, superb! retail $125, my price just $85, NOW REDUCED TO $69 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, NOW REDUCED TO $64 JN8) Australia 1913 6d Blue 1st wmk Kangaroo, mint lightly hinged, retail $130, my price just $85, NOW REDUCED TO $69 JN10) Australia 1915 3rd wmk Kangaroos set, 2d to 1/-, mint hinged, retail $390, my price under half $189, NOW REDUCED TO $149 JN11) Australia 1915 Twopence Halfpenny Indigo 3rd wmk Kangaroo, mint unhinged, retail $70, my price just $49 JN14) ) Australia 1915 6d Ultramarine 3rd wmk Kangaroo perf OS, mint hinged, retail $120, my price under half just $59, NOW REDUCED TO $49 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 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 NOW REDUCED TO $69, 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 d) Seven Seas dark blue padded hingeless albums (2), with pages for Australia predecimal, 1927 – 1982. No Kangaroos or Georges. Retail $290, just $115 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 d) 2000 different one only available, contains two thirds of all Canadian Stamps $259 MMY4) Canada off paper mixture, nice lot with little duplication (no more than 3 of any stamp) approx 3000 for $225 MMY5) 400 Different Sports, all large, one lot only $22.50 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 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 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. 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) 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
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Revenue Review Winging It Left
Its always nice to record something new and figure 1 is this month’s pick! Imperf at left, on a 2d numeral from Victoria. This was found after 61 years on a full document [fig 2] dated 3 August 1954. I have said many times Victoria has been researched to death but obviously not in the case of revenues. Much information is still to be gleaned from new finds. Please keep your eyes peeled for the unusual.
Winging It Right
Although recorded, figure 3 recently turned up in auction and was promptly snapped up. I think this
qualifies as an imperf at right albeit only just. Imperf wing margin copies from Western Australia are hard to find, cataloged at $250.00 it’s a snip at this price.
Can Pigs Fly
One of the exotic revenues of Queensland was Swine duty. This was a compensation fund set up in 1962 to provide funds for owners of destroyed swine to prevent the spread of disease. Looking at the highest decimal value available, the $10 [fig 4], had a total print run of 250 sheets of 120 stamps 12x10, with 249 sheets being sent to Dept. Primary Industries. 1 sheet was spoilt and destroyed. Of the 249 sheets, it appears 39 of these sheets [the remain-
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Dave Elsmore der on hand at July 1970] were sent after the Act to use adhesive stamps was finalized. So a total of 210 sheets were sent with probably 80% used within the time of the ‘Act’ January 1966 to 27 October 1969 giving a total approx. use of 20,000 $10 stamps only. It is unknown if and when Dept. Primary Industries destroyed the remaindered stamps. My research into the whereabouts of these remainders has uncovered nothing! Regarding the rare blue [fig 5] $10. Few have survived, and are keenly sought by collectors. Alas the record books do not give any clues as to the colour of the print runs, but it is thought to have been the very last printing as late 1969 dates con-
firm this, and most probable was an error of colour. Swine Duty rates were 1c in every $5 of sale’s, making the use of a $10 value to pay Swine duty a sale of $5,000.00 was needed. Figure 6 is from an invoice showing a massive $151.51c in Swine Duty paid [note the document says ‘Swine Fever Tax’] representing a sale of $79,755.00, considering your average pig was sold in 1967 from under $10 up to $18.00 each, even with an average of $15 figure 6 equates to an approximate sale of 5,300 pigs, now that’s a lot of pigs!
Over the Ditch
Over the ditch to New Zealand for a quick look at the 1867 1d die 1 Stamp Duty with a rather nice
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Revenue Review variety showing a short left lower leg to the N in One [fig 7 & 8]. I can find no specialist writings on the plating of this issue, so if you have been working on or know of any writings on plating the varieties of the 1d can you please let me know, the plate position of this flaw so I can share it with the other readers here in Revenue Review, thank you.
6 to 8
Collecting cheques and bank ephemera can be a life long passion in itself. There are some spectacular looking company cheques out there to collect and some are very basic looking, some have crazy prices, but most dealers appear to be fair with their pricing. Occasionally you come across something different and figure 9 is one of those items worth a second look.
As you are reading this, I can presume you have an interest in revenues and cheques carry a fun group of various size and shape stamp duty markings to collect. Back to figure 9 and as you can see this was a New South Wales cheque with an oval 6c duty preprinted. Rather than throw away stocks of these remainders after a duty price rise of 2c they were sent off to be surcharged, but this time with a boxed 8c. Within my collection of cheques I have one from the Brisbane City Council paying itself ÂŁ3,000,000, yes 3 million pounds! Can you top this for the highest value cheque recorded in private hands?
Perfin Corner
Brisbane City Council is known for using the Perfin BCC up to 1940, and continued with its security of
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Dave Elsmore duty stamps by overprinting them BCC in various colours of violet, green and red [fig 10]. Eventually sheets were preprinted BCC in black going into the decimal period. It can be quite a challenge to collect a run of colours and values with the 1d figure 10 being one of the harder to find early overprints as 98% of the BCC overprints found are above the 1d value. Good luck with assembling a few, and if you have any 1d values can you please let me know.
Warehousemen
Figure 11 is the second WG&Co.a perfin to surface on a NSW railway 6d. A rare item indeed, and nice to find. William Gardiner and Co were warehousemen, with their headquarters in a substantial building in York Street, Sydney. The building had 8 floors
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with large internal lifts and two street frontages. The company also held an adjoining property in Clarence Street. In addition they had a buying office in London, and offices and representatives in Brisbane, Newcastle, West Maitland and the Pacific Islands. In December 1926 they amalgamated with fellow soft goods company, and perfin user, Sargood Brothers to form Sargoods Gardiner Pty. Ltd. The 71 York Street property was sold and the new company moved into a building that Sargoods had constructed at 24–26 York Street.
I can be contacted by mail: P O Box 66 Springwood 4127 Queensland or an Email link from my web site ozrevenues.com or perfins.com.au
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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation This month I look at the recent APF Annual General Meeting (AGM) and State Forum as well as advice for people who have inherited a stamp collection.
Australian Philatelic Federation AGM.
The APF held its annual general meeting in August in Melbourne. At the meeting Glen Stafford was elected as the new President of the APF. For readers of this column an important change has been the election of Darryl Fuller as the Philatelic Development Officer. As a consequence, Darryl will be taking over the writing of this column from the December 2015 issue and this will, therefore, be my last column of Introducing the APF. Michael Zsolt, Philatelic Manager, Australia Post, presenting the APF’s On the evening of the Research Award to Ken Scudder AGM the APF held an awards dinner in Melbourne to award the APF Research •• National Frame fees Award to Ken Scudder (de•• Organizing Exhibitions – a review tails of the award were in the October 2015 issue of •• Sharing expertise with journal publication and Australasian Stamp News) and to present Malcolm website management Groom with his award of Fellow of the Australian •• Journal production in the future? Hard copy, Philatelic Order. This award was announced in soft copy, or both? 2014 but was unable to be presented at the 2014 •• Revised Picture Postcard Judging Criteria for AGM. In addition, Arthur Gray award as an HonorAdults & Youth ary Fellow of the Australian Philatelic Order was •• The benefits or otherwise of ‘Single Class Napresented to his widow, Nancy. tional Exhibitions’ to coincide with specific On the day after the AGM, there was a State events and anniversaries e.g. Watson CenteForum chaired by David Collyer, an opportunity for nary (to be held in Mt. Gambier) delegates from each of the seven member Councils •• How do we arrest the decline in numbers of of the APF to discuss challenges to the hobby and stamp clubs? share their ideas for the future. Some of the topics •• How to attract 45 year olds and over into/back discussed were: into the hobby. •• Picture Postcard Challenge 2016 and beyond 48 - Stamp News
Ian McMahon
Philatelic Development Officer, APF one of the world’s most popular hobbies, satisfying our collector instincts as well as providing an insight into the history, geography and culture of the countries whose stamps we collect. Many people also consider it therapeutic and a relief for stress. Alternatively one of their relatives may be interested in stamp collecting. Assuming that this is not the case and they don’t wish to take up stamp collecting the next step is to determine the value of the collection. Most collectors collect stamps because of the Philatelic Manager, Australia Post, presenting Arthur Gray’s Honorary enjoyment of the hobby. Fellowship award to Nancy Gray. Most are built up from stamps from the mail and Inheriting a Stamp Collection will usually be the most Earlier this year I helped with a stand for a phila- common values. As a result most collections are not telic society at a community organisation open day. worth a fortune. Many people overvalue the stamps While a number of people who were stamp collectors in their possession. You should remember that just approached the stand and we were able to discuss the because a stamp is old does not mean that it is valubenefits of joining a stamp club, the vast bulk of en- able as many old stamps were issued in very large quires came from people who had inherited a stamp quantities. collection from their parents, grandparents, uncle or The value of a stamp is determined by both supaunt and were seeking advice on what to do with the ply and demand and its condition. A stamp which collection. In most cases the person inheriting the was printed in large numbers will rarely have much collection has no idea of the value of the collection or value. Similarly a stamp which is very rare is of little what to do with it. As a stamp collector what advice value if there are few people wishing to buy it. would you give them? Many people are aware of stamp catalogues. In The APF produces a series of brochures to help valuing stamps from stamp catalogues, it needs to be people in this, or similar, situations. These brochures remembered that a dealer needs to make a profit on are available for downloading from the APF web- a purchase and will normally only buy a stamp for a site http://www.apf.org.au/collecting/brochures.htm. fraction of the catalogue price which is most comOne such brochure is I Have Just Inherited a Stamp monly a dealers’ selling price. Collection. Where Do I Go From Here? Some of You also need to be aware that the condition of the advice in the brochure is summarised below. a stamp is very important in determining its value. One option may be that they could take up stamp Damaged stamps, for example, are usually of no valcollecting themselves, after all stamp collecting is ue unless the stamp is exceedingly rare.
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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation
Malcolm Groom with APF President Glen Stafford at the APF Awards Dinner
On the other hand many valuable collections have been disposed of by relatives who were not aware of their value. There have been occasions where valuable stamps have been destroyed because collectors have told their spouses that their collection is of ‘no value’ in order to avoid criticism of the money they have spent on their hobby. The best way not to have to worry about disposing of a stamp collection is to encourage any relative who collects stamps to leave guidance on their disposal in their will. The only way to be sure of the real value of your collection is to have it properly valued. The best way to have the collection valued is to have a valuation done by a stamp dealer. Most people will find that 50 - Stamp News
there is a local stamp dealer to whom the collection can be taken for a valuation. Members of the Australasian Stamp Dealers Association (ASDA) agree to abide by a code of ethics and will provide you with a realistic idea of what your collection is worth. Details of ASDA members can be found on their website http://www.apta.com.au/ or alternatively you could visit the dealers at a stamp fair or philatelic exhibition. When bringing a collection to be valued you should never remove stamps from an envelope or postcard. Many stamps, especially older stamps such as those issued for each of the Australia states, are worth significantly more on cover than as single stamps. You should bring the stamps in the albums,
Ian McMahon
Philatelic Development Officer, APF
Award night, Singapore 2015 books or boxes in which they are housed. Look after your stamps. Stamps are easily damaged by water, mould or insects. Do not for example leave your stamps in a damp garage or basement. After you have determined the value of the collection, your options for dealing with the collection include selling the collection; or giving the collection away. If the collection is of little monetary value you should consider giving the collection to a young collector or donating the collection to a junior club in your area. If the collection has a reasonable monetary value you may wish to sell it. The major ways of doing this include: •• direct sale to a dealer •• consigning the stamps to an auction house
•• direct sale to a collector •• sale on on-line auction sites such as Ebay or Delcampe. •• sale through the exchange books of a stamp club For most people, direct sale to a dealer is the most convenient method of selling stamps. If the dealer is interested in the collection, a member of ASDA will make you a fair offer for your stamps or direct you to another dealer who may be interested. It is worthwhile obtaining at least two offers. Remember though that dealers are in business and may not be interested in buying material for which they have no potential buyers or of which they are overstocked. If the collection is of significant value the best method of disposal is by auction. It is advisable to Stamp News - 51
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Jan Berg from Sweden receiving the Grand Prix International from FIP President Tay Peng Hian, Singapore 2015 always use a specialised stamp auction firm when selling stamps. General auction houses seldom sell stamps to their best advantage. ASDA will advise you of the names of reputable philatelic auction houses who will be able to sell your material on commission. Auction houses have a worldwide clientele, so you will obtain the best market value. However, the commission may be as high as 25%. Sale on on-line auction sites such as Ebay or Delcampe eBay may also be an option but it pays to seek advice from an experienced collector or local club before selling stamps this way. Selling on-line requires time, experience and good selling skills. If your collection consists mainly of lower value material it may be better to sell the material through a local stamp club. Most clubs have exchange books through which members can sell stamps on 52 - Stamp News
the payment of a small commission. Your local club will advise you on the details of this method of selling your stamps. For details of clubs near you please contact your state philatelic council (details can be found on the APF website http://www.apf. org.au/). If your collection comprises boxes of stamps on paper of little value, they may still be of interest to a charity. Many collect stamps in bulk and then sell them per kilogram to collectors and dealers.
Singapore 2015 World Stamp Exhibition
Australia had 19 entries at Singapore 2015 World Stamp Exhibition held in August 2015 with exhibits from Russell Boylan, St Vincent - The De La Rue Period, and Arthur Gray, Stamp Booklets of Australia 1904 – 1935 in the Championship Class. Four entries won Gold medals including the literature entry, Queensland Postage Stamps 1879 to 1912.
Future articles
As mentioned earlier in this article this is my last column as the Philatelic Development Officer (PDO) of the APF and future columns will be written by Darryl Fuller, the incoming PDO. I hope that you will make Darryl welcome.
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Cinderella Corner
This month’s column is the penultimate one for me, I will cease writing the column after the December issue. My thanks to those readers who have provided items and queries over the years and with some of them, given me the challenge of finding information about them. I am still quite prepared to assist collectors with any queries, but I just don’t want the task of having to write a monthly column hanging over my head any longer. I can be reached through the APF Research service which is listed on the APF website.
Western Australia Centenary. (Fig 1).
I ran this item in the first column I wrote back in May 2001 and commented that I thought it could have been produced in at least pairs or possibly a larger block. The note ended with a request for more information regarding the production of the stamp,
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but nothing has been forthcoming. Maybe the last word on these has been written, but I doubt it.
Back To Pinnaroo. (Fig. 2)
The Back to Pinnaroo celebration was an event held as part of nationwide celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Commonwealth of Australia. The events took many forms and one in particular commemorated Charles Sturt’s voyage of discovery down the Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers. I remember that all school chilfren were given a medallion on a red white and blue ribbon as part of the commemoration and I still have mine.
Duck Stamps. (Fig. 3).
These stamps have been around for many years now. This one was attached to a 1990 ticket for
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Kakadu National Park in Northern Territory. It is one that has been surcharged with the new rate, having been changed from $5 to $8. I had not seen this before, but then I must admit that I have not been very observant with these stamps.
Buy Goods. (Fig. 4).
I have written about these stamps a couple of times before, interestingly each time in different colours, and again here is another colour. A previous item was in the October 2010 column where I recorded one in blue and commented that I had seen one, albeit a poor copy in two colours, red and blue. This time I am recording one printed in red. I have taken a brief history from the Chamber’s Records held in the State Library of South Australia as SRG 112. The Chamber was established in 1869 and merged with the Adelaide Chamber of Commerce
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in 1972 to form the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, South Australia Incorporated. A further amalgamation occurred later with the South Australian Employers’ Federation to form the South Australian Employers’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry Incorporated. With the title of this stamp being from the original Chamber it obviously comes from the pre 1972 period, but exactly when I don’t know as I don’t have any date of issue or printing details and the records at the State Library do not reveal anything either.
Experiment Farm Cottage. (Fig 5).
Experiment Farm Cottage, in Harris Park, New South Wales, is one of Australia’s oldest standing residences. It is located at the site of Experiment Farm, Australia’s first European farmstead, which was itself created by Australia’s first land grant.
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Cinderella Corner
In 1789, James Ruse was chosen by Governor Arthur Phillip to run an experiment to see how long it would take a man to support himself. Ruse was granted one and a half cleared acres of land, as well as assistance for clearing an additional five acres. He was also provided with two sows and six hens. He was fed and clothed from the public store for 15 months, after which time he had become successfully self-sufficient and was granted an additional 30 acres. In October 1793, Ruse sold his farm to surgeon John Harris, builder of the substantial colonial cottage which exists today. Doctor Harris was a prominent citizen in the rapidly emerging colony. The stamp with this design was issued by
the Community Health and Anti-Tuberculosis Association in 1975 and is listed in Green’s Catalogue at number 91. It was issued in booklets of 5 panes of 9 stamps, 3x3, but there is no indication of who the printer was.
Crippled Children Society. (Fig. 6).
I wrote a brief note about this stamp in the November 2012 column but didn’t pursue it any further. A search of the www provided this information. The New South Wales Society for Crippled Children was a charitable organisation that was founded by Rotary in 1929 to support children who suffered polio and tuberculosis. It ran the Margaret Reid Home and the Beverley Park Estate, as well as special schools and other residential
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facilities. The author May Gibbs gave a large part of her estate to this society. In 1995 the Society changed its name to Northcott Disability Services, which has been known simply as Northcott since 2012. Since the Society changed its name in 1995, the stamp obviously dates from before that event and I suspect it is from the 1960s. Nothing relating to the stamp is noted in the information on the web and I don’t have any details about the printing of the stamps.
Haselgrove & Co. (Fig. 7).
Charles Frederick Haselgrove came to Adelaide and founded what is now the Haselgrove hardware business. It was located in Gouger Street, there
is still a building that has Haselgrove in the brickwork. And from there the family went on with the hardware firm and went into the shopping centres around Adelaide. The family is still involved in the hardware business, but no longer in Gouger Street. This is a small extract from a transcription of a recorded interview held in the State Library of South Australia Family History collection and I have used it to introduce the subject of this label. The label appears to be of the gummed type or possibly self adhesive type, but I suspect the business moved from Gouger Street in about the 1970s as most businesses in the eastern end of the street are now restaurants and cafès although as the interview states the name is still in the brickwork of the building.
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Market Matters Australia Post loses the plot
Australia Post have just ONE core purpose in life TO DELIVER MAIL. As speedily and cost efficiently as possible. Very simple mission statement. They have recorded a massive FAIL score in the past year or two on both accounts. As a business that sends and receives a heap of mail, I am here to advise that Australia Post has totally lost the plot - in recent months in particular. Every mailing is now some kind of weird lottery. It gets very depressing, and it is getting WORSE. Letters and parcels are taking SIX weeks to arrive domestically. Things I mail even to the next suburb from me are going to WA and QLD, and the PO of course is not accountable. They just yawn, and crank up the rates even more, and hand out bigger than ever obscene bonuses. No compensation is paid to users for these selfinflicted PO messes, and the HOURS of wasted time businesses now need each week to expend emailing and speaking to understandably annoyed buyers, is also not compensated. We are getting Zimbabwe Level speed and efficiency of service, but are being charged Scandinavian level fees to get it. Things must change, and the mail users are the ones who can do that. The system is broken. A normal letter is set to increase to $1.50 if their carpetbagger front man Mr Fahour manages to
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hoodwink the ACCC, as he did to then Minister for Communications Mr Turnbull, that stamps are “only” increasing to $1. They REALLY are going up to $1.50.
Things have NEVER been worse.
I am a large sender and receiver of letters and parcels domestically, and have been for my 35 years as a dealer. I am speaking below from long experience. Things have NEVER been as bad as they are now in Australia Post. We do not see this on the TV News, or in the daily papers, as the average person is unaware of what a mess they are now in. Please forward a link to this article to anyone in the media you can think of - tinyurl.com/SN1015 - it is NOT too late to nip this in the bud. Ten or 20 years ago, I’d happily mail or order a carton with no tracking, and be 99.99% sure it would be there next day, to/from anywhere in a 100km radius. And only a day or so later to/from Melbourne or Brisbane or Adelaide etc. They all arrived. Maybe one parcel a decade might go AWOL. An amazing record, and AP should be proud they ONCE did a good job. Yes it is pretty hard to lose a CARTON I agree, and so it always was. They all arrived. Mostly within a week. In recent years all that has charged. Sadly. A bunch of fat cats at AP, paid wages in the Bill Gates league, have dragged the service standard back to levels never seen before. And yet doubled the cost to users - and think and pray we will not
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Glen Stephens notice. Australia Post keeps hiking up parcel and International rates 2 or 3 times EACH year, I kid you not. WAY in advance of the CPI and Inflation rate. If a private company doled out price rises on this consistent scale, the ACCC would be fining them! Why? As AP do NOT need any Government approval for parcel and overseas mail price hikes, and hence charge whatever juicy figure comes into their head, when they need some more money for machines that do not work, or Top Brass who do not work either.
Flying cheaper than parcel post.
A large parcel by slowwww road to Darwin or WA very often costs well over $100 now, and can take a month. You can sometimes FLY there, and check the box as baggage, for less than the cost of mailing your snail mail road parcel. I mailed a set of the Stanley Gibbons “Stamps Of The World” catalogues to New Zealand this week, and the very CHEAPEST shipping method was near $A200. Insane. You CAN fly there for less. I use superb VFU stamps on cartons, so receivers do not overly care, but most senders use a worthless white label for parcels. All these price hikes are bad enough, but some geniuses in there, drawing mega million salaries, have also now decided that humans handling parcels are not really necessary, in this Brave New Fantasy World they live in. They found MACHINES that allegedly do it just as well, and with almost no “staff costs”. Well no wages paid, but these shiny new machines cost $A500 MILLION it is reported. They seem to have overlooked that. That is a lot of wage hours for once very efficient sorters.
Machines demand no holiday pay.
Do these monsters work? NO. I often have Registered parcels across Sydney taking up to 2 or 3 weeks. I am not kidding. They get to the massive Chullora Mail Centre, and then sit there for a week, or two weeks at times. How do I know this? As I
3 weeks to a nearby suburb. send nearly everything tracked mail. The Post Office’s own tracking data shows me that my box often arrives at Chullora on October 1, and does not emerge for a week or two. It is like a bad Monty Python script, but is happening more and more. A parcel post “Black Hole”. The Fats Cats appear to have decided all capital cities will “centralise” parcel mail - a disaster in practice of course, but a genius move on the whiteboard in the Boardroom. Time to have another cigar and Port and celebrate “Genius Mail Management 2015”. The online parcel tracking shown nearby, sent to a stamp dealer only a few miles away from me in Sydney, is a typical example as you can clearly see, and it is very common these days - very sadly. Almost normal. I mailed a small box on September 19 to a stampboards member here in Sydney. He is in French’s Forest ... just a few kms away, basically a nearby suburb. A 5 minute drive. The address and postcode was VERY clearly written - he emailed me a photo of it.
Vanished into “Parcel Black Hole”.
He did not get it after a week or so. Only $65 of albums, so not sent registered, hence zero compensation payable to either of us, had it vanished entirely.
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8,000 kms - to go next door. Annoying, but it WAS to a street address which are riskier and riskier to use. I assumed it had been stolen from his street address, when he was not home. We both wasted much time on email over this. You are helpless, as these pieces just vanish into a huge faceless AP Black Hole. TEN days later it shows up via the free on-line parcel tracking as now being in Welshpool, Perth, Western Australia. A WEEK after that, it ends up with my client in French’s Forest. Road mail across the continent both ways, for NO reason. So what used to be delivered next working day, is often now taking 3 weeks, and wasting a TON of his time, and my time. And raised blood pressure all round. I need to be apologising for these clowns at AP endless times EVERY week. Box turns up THREE weeks later after a journey to Perth ….. 8,000 kms, or 80 HOURS of road transport, for a carton clearly addressed to a nearby suburb to me, at HUGE real cost to them and the environment. Had I PAID for WA shipping for a box this size the cost would be $40 each way = $80. Money AP have cost themselves of course due to incompetence. I highlighted one case recently that crossed the Nullabor 5 times. The item got smashed, and PO refused compensation.
Like a Monty Python Script!
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Posted Aug 27. Vanished for 3 weeks. ings, they crank up rates to customers to cover THEIR defective sorting machinery AND give themselves millions in bonuses as well. It is like a bad movie script. Last week I mailed a box to a client in Wollongong .. a short drive south of Sydney. Posted on Wednesday am and client drove to his PO in heavy traffic Friday afternoon to collect it before the long weekend. Looked at the tracking, and THAT box was in Queensland. Insane. Sometimes things just vanish for 6 weeks with nothing to show buyer or seller what is going on. They are the worst ones. Totally vanished from sight. Pay $4 for Registered Fee and get near zero service. I mailed a standard size business envelope on August 27 to a PO Box in Kingston, Hobart. The letter was cancelled front and back at Castlecrag on August 27. It was clearly marked “Registered” and SHOULD have been scanned all along the trip. Address was neat and clear and correct. Backflap and sides were taped down with wide cellotape, as I generally do with Registered letters, and red Pentel pen signed over the tape, and ask they be back-stamped too when staff are not busy. So as secure as a $550 order can be.
Nauru Seahorses go missing.
Weeks later, client had not received it. It contained $550 of a set of Nauru “Seahorse” stamps he pur-
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Returned to me SIX weeks later. chased, and he understandably was getting anxious. I gave him my usual advice - “The PO folks are pretty hopeless lately, but it WILL turn up. Relax!” He had opted NOT to insure it, so had the item not turned up, his MAXIMUM pay out would be the PO figure of $100 which has literally been unchanged for FIFTY years - from before decimal currency even, despite the “Registered Fee” increasing near 20 fold in that time from 20¢ to $3.70. Collectors are funny with “All Risk” Insurance. $10 would have fully covered this for the full $550 if lost, and buyer would not have fussed. AFTER something goes wrong, it is always MY problem oddly! Despite me clearly setting this out on my order page - Only YOU know if your street address is secure - a large packet covered in pretty stamps left outside, just might tempt passers-by? Only YOU know that, I do not. Mail contractors these days are often lazy, and leave packets on top of mailboxes etc in view of public, and out in wet weather etc. PO Boxes are FAR safer. “All Risk” Insurance is always possible if required as well, at $A2 per $100 covered - again it must be specified on order form. It is like Travel Insurance - decline that when booking your ticket, and THEN tell Qantas you really meant to take it 3 weeks back, and you now need to cancel your ticket for no penalty, and see how you go with THAT one!” After 5 weeks and some aggro from buyer, I phoned AP call centre about it – “no, we have no record, apart from being lodged”. I phoned the Kingston (Hobart) LPO about it (getting a real
Stolen in Mail? Value $2,200 phone number for a PO took me a half hour) “No, we have just checked, and it is not sitting here Sir.” Letter oddly turned up BACK in my PO Box a few days after my calls. SIX WEEKS LATER, with no transit postmarks, or tracking events other than the one upon lodging it in August. As you can see on the close up nearby, the stamp has a (Leightonfield Mail Centre) “SWLF AUG 27” ink jet cancel. The reverse had the orange sorting spray jet bars, top and base. My hunch is some idiot and/ or machine in AP has decided the sticker sender address on reverse is the RECIPIENT, and after 6 weeks, sent it back to NSW, 2068. WHY that took 6 weeks, who knows?
We don’t know - OR care.
WHERE the envelope was between August 27 and October 8 - SIX weeks - I will probably never know. The PO cannot tell me, there is no apology, no explanation, and no compensation. Pay these guys $3.70 + 70¢ for Registered, and the piece often enters the Twilight Zone. And comes back to you. I asked the client if he wanted me to re-send stamps again, and he said they “appeared jinxed” and could I please refund him the $550. So end result a most annoyed client, loss of HOURS of my time chasing it all up and emailing, a loss of a $550 sale to me, all directly caused by a PO who does not CARE. Registered letters seem to be getting more and Stamp News - 61
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2015 definition of “Progress”.
more affected. I mailed another client a similar small standard envelope October 1, containing $2,500 in 2 sets of stamps he had bought. The pair shown above cost him $2,200 - if anyone sees them offered for sale, let me know! As this is typed October 18, zero sign of the envelope on PO tracking website since my lodging it. Nothing, NADA. Just totally vanished, like the one to Kingston Tasmania. To a Melbourne suburb ONCE, this would have taken 2 days, in 99% of cases, to arrive.
The Marie Celeste Envelope.
The Registered number is 499734702012 if readers want to play my usual waiting game, and check the AP on-line tracking. As you can see in image below, it has been in a PO Black Hole “somewhere” for 2½ weeks so far. PO mail van drivers that collect parcels at my Castlecrag PO take them to the massive St. Leonards Mail Centre. ONCE, when things were efficiently run, they’d sort them there, into huge parcel bins for applicable regions, and next day they’d arrive in most instances. I arranged a stamp dealer official guided visit there one evening, by the Duty Manager, and it was a hive of activity. HUNDREDS of staff, forklifts and huge bins zipping about, and giant machines,
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This is called “Progress” I think, when top staff are paid millions a year to engineer such wonderful “steps forward” from the comfort of the Boardroom. Delivering mail fast and efficiently is far too uncool in 2015 to all these MBAs. The Geniuses spent $500 million on machines from Holland, bolted on 5 different after-market software systems that were not all compatible, and proceeded to decimate the once working efficiently Australian Parcel Post system. If I mail a parcel at Castlecrag PO to Kevin Duffy, also living in Castlecrag, it goes to St Leonards Mail Centre, THEN right across the Sydney metro area to Chullora. Then it all comes back here sometime in the next week or two. Maybe. On the AP website there is a video of parcel mail zipping around a huge centre, in huge clear Perspex type tubes with conveyor belts in them. All with laser beam type scanners shooting beams onto all sides, searching for the tracking labels, and the postcode. Not a human in sight. Once that scanning is secured, the parcels allegedly are all sorted and sent on their way. And a box addressed to “2068” will go to ANY other 4 numeral destination the laser beams might ‘see’ first on a box. My sender PO Box 4007 address sticker might get read as to Hamilton QLD, even if real address was 5047 Adelaide. Humans are smarter than machines. So a parcel marked “Dandenong Vic 3175” does not get sent to Western Australia by humans. Not even once usually, and certainly not repeatedly. Machines do not care. They do not have a BRAIN.
Glen Stephens signature was expert verified, it would be worth more like $1,500 Noel advises me, which does not surprise me one bit, the way top end cricket stuff sells. The signed and framed photo was securely packed and mailed correctly from WA to Sunshine Vic, by Registered Post. Delivery times in days of old, when CEOs were not paid $A4½ million a year, and when humans sorted parcel mail, was Paid $395 – all ruined by AP. generally a few days later. The parcel went back and forth the 3,400 Kms across this vast country FIVE 20% of parcels messed up. “ABC News” reported that fully 20% of the nation’s times. 175 HOURS of highway driving. It finally arrived with Noel - nearly one MONTH later. Acparcels are being screwed up by these brilliant new tual COST to AP - some $100s probably. White Elephant machines - tinyurl.com/Nullabor No fault of the sender or Almeida - just these that is about 40,000 parcels a day being messed up alleged “high tech” $500 Million sorting machines, they claim. deciding themselves on arrival at each end, it need“The machines, which Australia Post has deed to go back right across the country once again. scribed as “state-of-the-art”, cannot read some FIVE times. They confused sender postcode with barcodes and sometimes confuse a parcel’s “to” and “from” addresses. Australia Post declined to be addressee, when they laser beam the parcels. This is about 17,000 Kms of travel - near all of it interviewed” ABC News website reported. totally needlessly. That is Sydney to New York dis“Staff and casuals are doing so much overtime tance. And you guessed it - all this stupid yo-yoing (to fix the mess) they are referring to the new sortnot only wasted time and resources, and annoyed ing systems as “mortgage machines” because they the buyer, it ensured the glass in the frame broke, use the extra income to pay off their debts. and the sharp shards sliced and destroyed the signed Ms Doyle said the machines were manufactured in the Netherlands and constructed in Australia, but photo. rely on five different add-on IT systems, which do not function well together” ABC concluded.
Sir Donald would be furious.
This kind of madness is now occurring regularly sadly. I reported this case earlier and it bears repeating. Witness the beautiful old sepia photos nearby of Sir Donald Bradman, signed at left of batting pad knee roll. In the frame, and out of the frame. It was purchased earlier this year by Melbourne cricket collector Noel Almeida for $A395. If the
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Market Matters The heartbreak a true Cricket devotee collector like Noel clearly had, upon seeing this mess after waiting a month for it to finally arrive, you cannot begin to place a monetary value upon. It is incompetence on a Grand scale, and AP do NOT care. So in such a case you’d imagine the PO would apologise, and stump up the $395 cost price of the item they ruined - possibly the $1,500 retail value of it - right? The parcel was Registered of course. Their own tracking shows the month delay, and bizarre national transit yo-yo. No such chance. The Post Office response was that the glass cracked, as it was not packed correctly, and ZERO compensation was forthcoming from them! I am a fastidious packer as clients know, and use fibreglass filament tape, and the best packing material I can source. But no-one packs for 175 hours of road transit over 17,000 Kms, via a dozen mail centres. No domestic sender takes that much care - as in the real world of mail order, you should not have to! All detail here on above - tinyurl.com/Nullabor
Parcel travels 17,000 Kilometres
Sadly $100 maximum is all the PO usually stump up, for a lost or damaged Registered item. IF they agree it was in fact lost or damaged by them, and that takes some proving often, as we can see from their response to the Bradman smashed frame. AFTER you complete long forms, and wait a while for the claim to grind through their often slow system. Which in this case is quite absurd. For overseas mail that can take very many months. A Registered label today cost $3.70, and a first class letter stamp costs 70¢, (to be hiked up to $1.50 soon it seems) so a Registered first class letter will then be $3.70 plus $1.50 = $5.20 - maybe more, if the Registered Fee increases too, as it has several times a year under Mr Fahour’s AP Regime.
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Class” service (i.e. exactly same speed as present it seems) for $1.50. It was another official Abbott Government hasty decision, made with no consultation whatever with those it will most impact, it seems very clear, and hopefully it can be overturned like their last 50 bad decisions were. For those who suspect this will not bother them: “I have lots of old stamps or Concession stamps I can use up” you of course are not thinking too laterally, or very deeply, as I will show here. The headline cost of a 70c letter going to $1 for “Second Class” delivery service (2 days slower than now) is only the tip of the iceberg, as $1.50 will be the chosen option for many - more than DOUBLING. What the clever AP Press Releases omit to tell us is, that heaps of other mail prices AUTOMATICALLY increase to very major amounts, when the “standard” letter rate goes up. “Large Letters” are the slippery slope here things not regarded as parcels, but are “large letters” - i.e. not standard size small letter items. Items like your A4 type stamp club journals, and magazines, and mailed brochures, and so on, that we ALL receive all year.
EVERYONE will incur increases.
I get regular newsletters from the ACCC, Perfin Society, FDC Association etc, etc, all of which are large A4 format journals, and these are charged at exactly 2 or 3 and 5 times the prevailing LETTER rate. And that has been the formula for 10 years or so. Their current cost of these letters and journals is $1.40, $2.10 or $3.50 - hence the rather pretty Definitive stamps issued at all times to cover these heavily used rates. These stamps shown here are on sale at EVERY Post Office in this country, and get used heavily each day for “Large Letter” use, depending on the weight.
The $3.50 value becomes $7.50 soon?
With this new approved Government plan, these 4
Glen Stephens attractive stamps will be replaced by $1.50, $3.00, $4.50 and $7.50 values it seems very likely, in whatever new stamp design is chosen. So a stamp going up a disingenuous “just 30c” is the bare tip of the iceberg - a 260 gram “Stamp News” type mailing would go up by $4 - Mr Turnbull and Mr Fahour never mentioned that sneaky little gem. When you get a Philas Auction catalogue, or a Phoenix, or Status, or Mossgreen catalogue etc, they will pay these new higher rates. More cost to them = more cost to YOU in some way. Many collectors subscribe to “Stamp News” magazine and similar publications. Postage is borne by YOU as part of any subscription. When you renew, it will go up in full or in large part, if this new increase occurs. If it now costs $3.50 to mail a 260 gram magazine or bundle of papers each month (5 times the letter rate) that will increase to $7.50 in one hit, unless the Senate and/or ACCC demands that “Large Letter” rates are not touched. That would be $4 extra a copy, to mail each of the 12 issues of “Stamp News”, or $A48 MORE than it does now, if they all were 260 grams and that is just a 90 page magazine etc, not large.
Magazine Subscriptions to rise.
I notice Minister Turnbull was not saying: “Many of your subscription magazines will cost you around $48 more each, due to my sooper dooper very clever idea today.” Who do you think is going to pay for that - YOU ARE! Same with stamp societies - renewal rates will go up, and ditto stamp auction house subscription rates, and all other Hobby/Church/Social groups who mail you journals. None of those outfits get special discount rates, as their volume is far too small. These costs will of course be passed on direct to YOU, and for many readers, this will be a few $100 EXTRA a year. All of which can be stopped, if you take a half hour to contact your Senators and ACCC. Many reading of this get ebay sendings. Typi-
cally sellers charge around $1 local post for a sending that costs them 70c plus envelope. That will hence go up to more like $2 a sending. Extra cost to YOU. Buy just 2 lots a week from a dealer or ebay sellers locally etc, and you are $100 p.a. worse off. On top of 20 other mail related cost areas that you have probably never thought of. Indeed given the ebay fixation on speed, most sellers will opt for the $1.50 “First Class” letters, more than doubling their current cost, meaning the BUYER will be paying that more than 100% increase over their current shipping cost. So even a modest recipient of ebay lots, and a few magazines and journals and catalogues, will be many $100s a year worse off, before they even LOOK at what their extra outward costs will be.
67% the cost of magazine mailing.
The $5 stamp shown nearby was issued not too far back in time, and then covered the cost of a huge 20 KILO parcel, anywhere within 50 kms of the sending office. Very soon it may only cover 67% of the cost of a 260 gram “Stamp News” type magazine being mailed locally, unless this “Malcolm’s Choice” brain snap idea is rejected or scaled back by the ACCC - the powerful Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
Senate/ACCC can disallow this.
It is now being considered by the ACCC as this is Stamp News - 65
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FREE national tracking on all domestic parcels was totally insane, and was only as ebay heavied them to bring it in I understand, to save THEM time and hassle in sorting lost items. That totally un-necessary brain snap costs AP literally $100s millions a year to provide and track, and they earn ZERO extra from it. Superb business idea, and they wonder WHY they are now losing money???
Fahour: Overpaid by $4½ Million.
Want tracking? Pay for it!
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Cancel Free Parcel Tracking.
Free Parcel Tracking chews up vast amounts of client time, in lining up to lodge items to be labelled and scanned, and receipts duly printed and given, and then offering full tracking on them all down the system - even if that means 5 times across the country! And so it goes on, in all the downstream mail centres, and delivery drivers, posties, and destination Post Offices. To earn them ZERO revenue. No idea which million dollar fat cat dreamed it up, but they should go. The PO worked well for 175 years CHARGING for Registered and Insured and Certified Mail services, and all other mail took its chances in the
Glen Stephens mailstream. Bring those basics back, and all other mail is transmitted at risk of sender, unless they pay for it. A pre-paid Registered label costs $A3.70 and is incredibly profitable, as Compensation is only $A100 maximum. It was the same £50 ($100) FIFTY years back, when Registered Fee cost only 2/- or 20c. Profit to AP to cancel the free parcel tracking on 100 MILLIONS of parcels a year will drag them back into the black in a few months. Sell 100 million Registered labels, and you have $370 million more than you did last year. Their recent profit shortfall. Durrhh. The Senate and/or the ACCC can disallow this increase, and precious little of this Government’s badly thought through ideas have survived the hostile Senate this past year. THIS one affects all reading this.
Contact ACCC and your Senators.
If enough folks here email or write the ACCC and your Federal Senators, asking for this silly idea to be disallowed, it may well be. Please pass the word on this to whom you can - tinyurl.com/SN1015 Doubling the stamp price is NOT a vote winner. Senator email addresses are oddly not on the Canberra official website, as being bothered by voters is apparently rather onerous, but they are HERE tinyurl.com/OzSenate If you want to avoid $100 or so EXTRA a year of a normal mail recipient locally of large letters - even if you send nothing at all, these new rates WILL be costing you.
Gibbons “Part One” released.
For me the “event” of this month was the arrival of an air freight copy of the new 2016 Stanley Gibbons “Commonwealth & British Empire Stamps 18401970” catalogue. I get a tad jaded with many things, but NOT receiving this each year! This volume is universally known to old-timers and the trade as the “Gibbons Part One” - as once, the other Volumes were numbered, and were
New 2016 Gibbons Catalogue. “Americas” and “Asia” etc. It is the absolute “Bible” globally for British Commonwealth stamps. The average collector buys a new major catalogue only once every few years, as they are expensive. For many dealers and collectors, being a few years out of date is no big deal. THIS is definitely the year to update, if you have not done so for a while! Printed on a nice crisp fresh white paper stock. Cheery and “alive” compared to my already VERY yellowed early 2000’s SG pages, with sad grey illustrations. Colour illustrations right through, very many of them on each page. A nice crisp clean sans serif font has been used for the last few editions, and makes it so much easier to read. This year the country headings are in RED - a very simple thing to do, and they reStamp News - 67
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Colourful and vibrant SG.
stockcards for the new upward SG prices.
Australasian Prices UP
Lots of constant plate flaws, and I studied the prices for the Ausbooklets are now listed. And lots tralasian stamp listings for an hour of inverted watermarks - find just a or so today in this new catalogue. really medium one from a country My general impression is that there like Australia, and the entire book were many increases right across will be readily paid for MANY the board, versus the 2015 Edition. times! Often stamps cat 10p each Many new flaws have been added. used are cat many £1,000s each with inverted watermark. As I predicted here several Did you know the “Top Hat” months back, many of WA prices flaw on the 6d Kookaburra is now have skyrocketed based on the cat £1,200 mint - up from £1000 frantic bidding on the “Vestey” ”Top Hat” to £1,200 from last year, and just £550 the year collection of WA by Spink. Even £550. before? A very rare flaw, and very basic items like mint 1854 1d Black seldom offered. Buy off someone Swans are up. foolishly using last year’s cat, or better still a 2014 Some huge rises in the 1854 4d blues, with some one, and YOU win by £650! of the listed transfer varieties going up £13,000 Or the “Man with Tail” on 1937 2d NSW is now used like SG 3f “Piece”. The well known 4d “In£700 mint and £140 used. I found 2 used copies verted Frame” leaps up £50,000 from £90,000 for recently in a kid’s collection - those 2 alone will lit- £140,000. Who said there was no money in good erally pay for this catalogue. A very, very, popular stamps!? variety, as it is VERY easy to spot with the naked The WA 1902 high value used go up, and so they eye - see photo nearby. should - the £1 Orange at £350 is still under-rated. Were you aware a ½d Orange Kangaroo Coil Ditto the 10/- QV - a WILDLY under-rated stamp. A Block of 4 is now Cat in SG at £950 mint? Or the long term tip of mine, the 1879 6d Telegraph stamp “Green Mist Retouch” on the 1/- Lyrebird is up is up again to £500 and £225. Just try finding a both mint and used to £4,000/£2,750 etc. “KnowlDECENT grade copy. They fade readily. edge Is Power” - as I have typed here 1000 times! Did you know the 1941 1/- Lyrebird with invertHigh Value Roos Hop Along! ed watermark is Cat £5,000 mint, and £4,000 used As I have been typing for years, the high value early - but just 10p in normal used etc? And the equally Kangaroos are STILL good buying, and SG cranks common 4d green Koala with inverted watermark up values yet again. The 1913 £1 Brown and Blue is exactly the same figure. Check your duplicates! mint are now £3,000 apiece, and I sold 2 decent Many are still out there to be found. copies within days this week, when listed on my GB is never quiet, and there are price rises Rarity page. The USED 1913 £2 goes to £4,000 spread across the listings in here starting at 1840, used and for a POSTALLY used, you’ll spend years with 1d blacks on cover up. 1841 2d blue imperfs trying to locate one, at ANY price. used increase, and indeed heaps of QV surface The equally scarce 1915 £2 Third Watermark printed on cover increase this year. Ditto for the Kangaroo is also up both mint and used, and again British Commonwealth - had to adjust many 100s of the retail of these is strong, and gets stronger each 68 - Stamp News
Glen Stephens year. With the very weak $A in recent months, 70% of better Roos I sell leave the country, where they still look “cheap” if priced in $A. The weaker dollar of course makes imported catalogues dearer than last year, and they are now over $A200 here RRP, but for 638 large pages is only 30c a page or so! Local dealers have stock as you read this. Just one really medium item found unidentified by a local dealer etc, or on ebay etc for pennies, will pay the cost of the book back in one find. For example, I found a Ceylon 1937 Rupee 2.70c stamp booklet in an Estate junk box here. Fair dreary looking thing, black on Khaki cover. I did not give it a second glance. On a hunch looked it up in the new cat, and see it is Cat £1,300! Just listed it up on my Rarity page, and it will pay for a BOX of these catalogues! Quite simply, an ESSENTIAL volume to sit on the desk of every collector, every auction, and every dealer who ever handles British Commonwealth stamps. You’ll do well to invest in one. It was a good compromise idea taking the catalogue listings up to 1970. It can be price updated each year, and yet not greatly affect the overall book size. An 1840 to 2015 detailed set would easily run 4 or 5 volumes, and essentially no-one could afford to buy it. Personally if I ever need to look up modern Guyana (and I never have!) I’ll do that via the massive 6 volume SG “Stamps Of The World.” Most serious collectors wil be happy with this coverage up to 1970 only.
Now 638 large pages.
Seamail stock from England has just arrived in Australia as you read this, and all major dealers will stock it - I had very good pre-orders. Many collectors only buy a “Part 1” each 5 or 10 years, and the cost then amortised annually, runs into only what a Pizza will cost you! Collectors are famously tight fisted with catalogues, but a strong and profitable SG catalogue division is ESSENTIAL for a strong and balanced world market. Many totally forget that, so do your
SG Editor is awarded an MBE bit, and add to their sales volume. A great effort from editor Hugh Jefferies and his team - how they get the vast swag of SG Catalogues out beats me! A never ending process, and juggling, logging, and tracking all the New Issues etc, must be a nightmare. Editor Hugh Jefferies was this year awarded with an MBE. The official wording in the June 12, 2015, Queen’s Birthday Honours List was: Member Of The British Empire (MBE) - Mr Anthony Hugh Mostyn Jefferies - Editor, Gibbons Stamp Monthly and Stamp Catalogues. For services to Philately. tinyurl.com/HughMBE is a discussion on this award for those interested, with several anecdotes from those who have also worked and consulted with him. Hugh told me today he will be given the award on December 8 at Windsor Castle. The Queen often still does that personally - I hope for his sake she does this year! Having a very steady, savvy, and experienced hand at the tiller for such important resources, is a stabilising and secure outcome, and do not EVER underestimate the value of that, for an ordered stamp market. Globally.
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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
victoria
Nov 7 - (1st Sat) 9am to 4pm Orange Stamp Fair,
Nov 1 - (1st Sun) Western Suburbs Stamp, Coin & Bank-
Quinn’s Arcade, Summer St, Orange. Ph: Norm 02
note Fair, Strathmore Bowling Club, 40 Loeman St,
63623754.
Strathmore. Enq: Chris. 0413355716.
Nov 7 - (1st Sat) Northside Stamp Fair. 1st Floor, Car Nov 15 - (3rd Sun) Stamp, Card - Phone Card Fair, park Building, Manly-Warringah Leagues Club, cnr
Bentleigh-McKinnon Youth Centre, Higgins Rd, Bentleigh.
Federal Parade/Pittwater Rd, Brookvale, NSW.
Dealers plus huge range activities. Ph: 0418 322 315.
Nov 7 - (1st Sat) Katoomba Stamp & Coin Fair, 9am -
Nov 29 - (last Sun ex Dec) Stamp, Coin & Phonecard Fair,
4pm, Masonic Hall, Cnr Station & Civic Sts, Katoomba.
Jaycees Hall, Silver Grove, Nunawading. 9am-3pm.
queensland
Ph. 0417 802 754 Nov 7 - (1st Sat) Sutherland Shire Stamp & Coin Collectors Fair, Gymea Anglican Church Hall, 131 Gymea
TBA - Queensland Stamp & Coin Fairs, 8:00am -1:00pm,
Contract Bridge Club, 67 Ipswich Road,Woolloongabba.
Bay Rd, Gymea. Nov 15 - (3rd Sun) Stamp & Coin Fair, 10am - 3pm, Pioneers Hall, Cowper St, Wallsend. 8 Dealers. 4971
Check ‘Weekend Shopper’ to confirm or contact 0428 450 616 day only. Nov 1 - QStamp Fair, Southside, Mt Gravatt Showgrounds,
3483
Memorial Hall, Logan Rd. Free Entry 8.30am - 2pm
Nov 22 - (4th Sun) Epping Stamp & Coin Fair, Commu-
Nov 9 - (2nd Mon) - Gold Coast PS Sale, Rm 1, Southport
nity Hall, 9 Oxford St, Epping. 10am - 4pm. Free Entry,
Comm. Centre, Lawson St, Southport. 11.30am - 2.30pm
6 Dealers, Buy/Sell
Brisbane Table Tennis Association Centre
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www.varisell.com Worldwide stamps, covers, errors, proofs, specimens, postal stationery, philatelic literature, postcards, paper money, signed FDC-s and more in our easy to use online store. Prompt, courteous service from America. Varisell@aol.com
www.rap.com.au The website for Australia, Australian Territories, commercial and philatelic covers, and informative articles on the subjects. rap@rap.com.au
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www.stampsale.com New Zealand and worldwide in our Ashford Stamps postal auctions. Ask for a catalogue, or view the website. Also ask for direct sales list of NZ Chalons. ashford@stampsale.com
www.sutherlandphilatelics.com.au Long-established mail order dealer comprehensively covering British Isles, Europe, Scandinavia, North America, Australasia and Japan. Prompt courteous service and an extensive user-friendly website. sutherlandphil@bigpond.com
www.stampsaustralia.com.au Sydney Philatelics - Largest On-Line Shop in Australia ! – User-Friendly – 10,000 and more Philatelic Items – Just a mouse click away ! Over 100 Pages of Australasia, British Commonwealth, Booklets, Accessories.etc. Always Buying ! Est 27 Years. info@stampsaustralia.com.au
www.zirinskystamps.com Interested in a interesting monthly electronic stamp newsletter from New York? Take a look at www.zirinskystamps.com/Newsletter
www.sevenseas.com.au Search our website for full listing of stamps and Seven Seas albums and pages and other accessories. We look forward to serving you. stamps@sevenseas.com.au
www.glenstephens.com Largest and most visited Stamp Dealer website in the Southern Hemisphere. 250 different pages of stamp bargains and archives! $4,000 prize always on offer. glen@glenstephens.com
BILBY STAMPS & COVERS _______ www.bilbystamps.com.au ann@bilbystamps.com.au HALLMARK STAMPS ______ hallmark@senet.com.au www.philatelyunlimited.com.au KENNEDY STAMPS P/L _ www.kennedystamps.com.au stamps@kennedystamps.com.au KEVIN MORGAN STAMPS AND COINS _ www.kevinmorgan.com.aukevinmorgan2@live.com VELVET COLLECTABLES ___________ Melbourne: mowbraysaustralia@ozemail.com.au Sydney: mowbraysaustralia@bigpond.com NORFOLK ISLAND PHILATELIC BUREAU _______________________ info@stamps.gov.nf PACIFIC STAMPS ___________ www.pacificstamps.com.au info@pacificstamps.com.au STAMP NEWS AUSTRALASIA ____ www.stampnews.net.au stampnewsaus@gmail.com STANLEY GIBBONS UK _______www.stanleygibbons.com sales@stanleygibbons.co.uk STATUS INTERNATIONAL _______________www.statusint.com auction@statusint.com
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, Specimen overprints, 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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