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Contents Articles Woodchip Free Zone: Rod Perry ...................................................6 Dubai: Christer Brunström ........................................................... 12 Vale Mr Maximillian Stern: Fred Diamond .............................. 15 Stamps in the News: Margo Campbell .................................... 16 Postal Stationery: Ian McMahon ................................................ 26 Looking at New Zealand: Graeme Morriss ............................... 44 Introducing the APF: Daryl Fuller .............................................. 46 Cinderella Corner: Vito Milana .................................................... 50 Market Matters: Glen Stephens .................................................. 54

Information News..................................................................................................... 23 Trading Post....................................................................................... 68 Clubs & Societies ....................................................................... ......70 Calendar.............................................................................................. 73 Products & Services Directory............................................... ......74 Internet & Email Directory...................................................... ......78 List of Advertisers .............................................................. ..............82

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A bit of this and a bit of that this month, hence the unimaginative title. I’ve been busy the past month with my 99th comeback on eBay (moniker rap_com_au), so hope I’ve contributed something newsworthy in this article. Let’s start at the top, with a recent private sale realisation for one of Australia’s Figure 1. You want rare . . . I’ll show you RARE! most difficult to

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find stamps on cover . . . the enigmatic £2 Arms. Figure 1 is one of just three airmail covers noted by me in my long career. I’ve seen a very small number of parcel tags, aggregate postage Business Reply Permit covers, and other P.O. emphemeral usages bearing the stamp, but airmail covers have remained rarities. Given they need to accommodate a postage rate of around 20 times the overseas 2/- per half oz. airmail rate, invariably they will need to be very large covers which, of course, have the lowest survival rate. This usage from Sydney Jun 14 1957 represents 25 times the 2/- rate to U.S. The “stain” apparent

Figure 3. Big demand for 75c Cook usage item

Not for long. “Special” Figure 2 is not, at least not in this opinion, despite use of “killer” so-named cancel for two stamps. This contrived cover bearing 1932 Bridge set, used ten days after issue, started on eBay at £1.99, fairly described by vendor as “some creasing and tear above the 5/-, which just touches the tip of the perf”, went on to realise a whopping £426 (then AU$792). An optimist, during bidding procession asked vendor the question “Hi there, would you consider an offer of 30 pounds on the cover?” I consider this a $150/200 range cover. The postage rate to UK was just 2d. If you don’t buy on eBay you could be missing out on the fun. For every unjustifiably high sales result, there is the other extreme of the price scale. A word of caution, be more wary of mint/used stamps than you need to be with covers, however, as there are a fair share of shonks operating. Still on eBay, Figure 3, a Jan 2 1974 uprate of Stationery Embossed envelope 7c with 75c Cook for registration fee, suburban Sydney use, recently realised AU$151. Not one of the scarcer usage possibilities for this stamp. The Navigators, however, rightly are very popular on cover.

at base is actually what appears to be a chemical burn? One cannot establish if it occurred during transit, or subsequent. In an exhibit, some might opt to fold that area underneath the cover, or perhaps make a slit in display page and slide that portion in to the slit. I would just leave as is. “Rare” is the most misused word in Philately, but no other word can do justice to this item. It sold for AU$5,000. A lot? Figure 4. Nice usage item goes largely unnoticed

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Figure 5. Off-centre 5d Kangaroo CTO for $2400, anyone? An example of the other extreme on Figure 7 eBay, was the recently offered Figure 4, as nice a use of 1962 Commonwealth Games can hear the late Ed Druce uttering his trademark 2/3d as one could hope for, Mar 23 1963 Mel“So what!” while others are probably thinking bourne-Germany. “How do we know that?”). Reserved at $100, it It realised a lousy US$3.25! (AU$4.25). ACSC on-cover price is $75, and I would consider a retail price of $50 to be very fair for this item. A good example of why you have to be in it to win it. I have previously made my opinion of prices paid for CTO Kangaroos/KGV Heads known to readers, so I’ll make do with a cross-comparison on this occasion (aside from a gratuitous comment or two). Firstly, Figure 5, sold at Status Auctions in January is a “JY 17 1913” date (I Figure 6. My preferred rare cancellation 8 - Stamp News

went close to $2,400 with add-ons. I reckon it ought to be worth $50, half what Status thought, and much the same price as Figure 6, which I would rather own than this 5d. ACSC listing of CTO date batches has made a monster out of these arguably irrelevant stamps. I would go so far as to argue that their listing in the present configuration is beyond the scope of the catalogue. However, the inclusion of CTO dates/ types was implemented to serve the interests of an influential contributor. I would never have agreed. (Was that a sigh of relief from CTO aficionados?) On then to Figures 6/7, which realised $51 on eBay, and which I have already stated I would rather own than an off-centre 5d Kangaroo. Why, well may you ask? For starters, I guarantee you can hold the interest of a non philatelist for, oh, a

Figure 8. More examples of “Santa” P.O. slogan minute or two max with Figure 6, whilst with Figure 5 you might rate a few seconds, focused upon just the price, for non philatelically (and I would say philatelically) the item has nothing intelligent to recommend it. With both items, it’s all about postmarks, so they have that much in common. The Post Office “Santa” slogan was in use for a few decades 1930s/1960s, at larger POs nationwide, each with its own “Santa” depiction (see Figure 8). The red ink was used only for prepaid mail, usually printed matter, such as in the 1932 example under review. These are quite rare, I suspect rarer than that 5d, and highly sought after by international exhibitors Stamp News - 9

for Christmas themed exhibits. Enclosed was the original Art deco style flyer (Figure 7); those smart looking sports shoes would not be out of place with best dressed types today? A nice bonus. Now to the bit about undivided attention from non philatelists. Google Earth the address as it is today: I won’t give too much away, but it has something to do with the former owner saying residing there was “Like living in a shopping centre”, and Australian record house price! The package of a rare and delightful cancellation, attractive original enclosure, and Social history might provide an insight in to why I think more highly of this than I do of a stamp with a x48 price tag. And not a postage stamp in the equation! I have a one-frame exhibit of the “Santa” slogans. The variations in design are remarkable: embracing oriental-featured, black-eyed, cock-eyed, sleazy, and just downright grotesque “Santa’s”, of a type kids wouldn’t want to see coming down their chimney. A fun collection.

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Figure 9. Unloved, but unjustifiably so Fair to say the modern PO receipts used in lieu of stamps are despised by most (even me). They are bland. When such labels were first introduced c1960, however, they were often quite attractive, particularly when used in combination with a stamp/s, such as in Figure 9. They came in various paper stocks, and inks used by the NCR machines (National Cash Register Co) were in various colours (I particularly like magenta). I include a few in my P.O. labels collection, up until the time the attempt to replace them with the attractive CPS (Counter-printed Stamps) types, which surprisingly never really caught on. The featured cover, Nov 15 1967 from an optimist hoping to win a Torana, had a label dated Nov 15 1967 uprating the original 5c Bird franking for registered post. Sold for less than 10 bucks on eBay, which is cheap for either a First decimals usage study, or early NCR labels collector. Lets conclude with a little nostalgia. Within my

aforementioned P.O. labels collection is Figure 10, a section of a Floppy Disc Mailer cardboard container. The sender in Melbourne clearly wanted to get it to Kambah ACT in a hurry, as both Express Courier and Overnight Early Bird services were utilised. The latter, which is rarely seen, was introduced in July 1989. It allowed for a late collection, and delivery by 9.30am next morning intercapital and to selected areas. Supporting the usage of such labels, I endeav-

Figure 9. Unloved, but unjustifiably so

our to include a complete sheet of the featured label, and ephemera related to the service. I find it one of my most interesting and colourful exhibits. Many of these â&#x20AC;&#x153;fastpostâ&#x20AC;? services have come and gone, or undergone buzz name changes over the years. Stamp News - 11

DUBAI Few countries have undergone such rapid changes in recent years as the seven tiny states making up the United Arab Emirates (UAE) founded in 1971. The emirate of Dubai has been in the forefront of these changes and is today one of the most important commercial and communications hubs in the Middle East. Dubai also attracts millions of tourists each year. The emirate was founded in 1833 by the Al Maktoum family and quite early on they promoted shipping and commerce. They were aided by harbour fees introduced by Persia in the early 1900s which resulted in many Persian merchants moving to Dubai. In the 1960s oil was discovered in Dubai and the proﬁts were invested in building new and improved

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harbour facilities, a huge airport and other infrastructure. However, Dubai’s oil resources are very limited and won’t last for very long. The emirate was long part of the Trucial States and Oman, a loosely organised entity under British protection. There was a British post office in Dubai. In 1961 a set of 11 definitive stamps was released for the Trucial States. Despite its name the stamps were only used in Dubai and not in the other emirates. The first stamps inscribed Dubai were issued on 15 June 1963. The set comprised 17 regular stamps, eight airmails and nine postage due stamps. The stamps exist both perforated and imperforate. I believe the stamps were printed in Lebanon and they certainly are rather similar to the issues of several of

Christer Brunström the other emirates featuring sea creatures and local buildings. Also shown on the stamps is the head of Sheik Rashid bin Said al Maktoum who ruled Dubai from 1958 until 1990. When Dubai ceased to be a stampissuing country in 1972 the Sheik had appeared on many of his country’s postage stamps. All in all Dubai released some 429 different stamps and 50 souvenir sheets not counting imperforate varieties. Today Dubai is somewhat of a success story. Dubai City is home to numerous skyscrapers and it looks very much like Manhattan in New York. Some of the world’s largest buildings are located in the city. However, the building boom came to an abrupt end which the world economic crisis in the early 2000s. Already in 1964 the government of Dubai was

looking to New York for inspiration. One of the designs in a set of nine stamps marking the New York 1964/65 World Fair features the skyline of Manhattan to the left and a more moderate building in Dubai to the right. About a month later there was another set of stamps featuring views of Dubai stressing the harbour. Most of the emirates are famous for having issued completely irrelevant stamps. However, Dubai is somewhat of an exception. In addition to stamps honouring the Red Cross or in this case the Red Crescent, President Kennedy and numerous other similar subjects there are also a large amount of postage stamps depicting the rapid development of the emirate. In 1966 there was a set of stamps commemorating the introduction of new and improved telephone

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DUBAI services followed by several stamps marking the beginning of Dubai’s oil exploration activities. Other stamps featured the cooperation between the Gulf states. In fact, from 1966 until 1973, Dubai shared the riyal currency with the State of Qatar. In 1969, a set of eight stamps and a souvenir sheet marked the 60th anniversary of postal services in Dubai. In 1971, there was a new set of deﬁnitive stamps marking many of the important achievements so far including the construction of Dubai’s international airport. In many ways Dubai was a most serious stamp country although there were some excesses at times

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when foreign agencies tended to influence the emirate’s philatelic programme. My advice to prospective collectors of Dubai is to simply avoid adding those stamp issues which they feel are of little relevance to the emirate. Today Dubai is quite popular among stamp collectors. Some of the definitive stamp sets are quite expensive and surprisingly hard to find in UMM condition. Genuine commercial mail is popular. Even First Day Covers can sell for hundreds of dollars each at auction. My Dubai favourite issue are the four rather naïve designs used to celebrate the centenary of the Red Cross in 1963.

VALE MR MAXIMILLIAN STERN When I first started work in 1972, Melbourne was home to many well-known stamp dealers : from the infamous Arnold Wheeler, to the likes of Tom Grimshaw, F.H.Feibes, Orlo-Smith, Mappin & Curran, (amongst others), auction houses like Robson Lowe, P.J.Downie (for whom I started work) and then there was Max Stern & Co in the Port Philip Arcade. As a junior stamp collector and just starting my working career at Downie’s, my lunch breaks were always filled with visits to the stamp shops. But not to Max Stern’s. It was the place to go for accessories, catalogues, new issues and the like but not the place for the serious collector. Little did I know that thirteen and a half years after starting with P.J. Downie, that I would end up working for Max Stern & Co. I first met Mr Stern, officially, way back in 1980. I was visiting my first interstate Philatelic Exhibition, “Sydpex 80” in Sydney on the invite of the then publisher of the Australian Stamp Monthly, Mr Ron Cooper. We met Max and his son-in-law Sam Seigel on an afternoon stroll through King’s Cross. I don’t recall much of the meeting, but the two men (Max and Ron) were to play a pivotal role in the future of my working career. In July 1985 I started work for Mr Stern. After a telephone call to Phil Downie, Max was warned he was taking on a big risk with me. Max replied, “I’ll take that risk”. Thirty years later I am still employed by the firm. The risk payed off. I mention this, because Max was a risk taker. And his risks payed off. He always had a hunch. Whether it was stamps or something philatelic or a business deal or opportunity, his astute eye and feel for something exciting was legendary. He is famous for the success of the “Ampol” stamp giveaways programme, the Sydpex 1970 Captain Cook Miniature Sheet overprints, the joint issue venture with the then Soviet Union and his inroads into the People’s Republic of China philatelic market. His passion was for philately. And he promoted it with gusto. When school children visited the shop, Eva, his late wife, and he delighted in engaging them in the hobby. It was not uncommon for the children to be departing their visit with “free gifts”. “Children are the future of the hobby” he would retort. But it was not only with children he encouraged or enjoyed sharing his passion. On our many attendances at Philatelic Exhibitions, locally and overseas, I never ceased to be amazed at the depth of his contacts and relationships with collectors and dealers alike. Where he found the time to actually do business I don’t know. It was pointless him manning a trade stand – he was always

inundated with friends and visitors. He knew all the dealers, post office officials and many of the collectors. These were his extended family – his philatelic family. And he welcomed them all as if they were long lost siblings. Something that endeared him to many and earned him their respect. He promoted philately widely in Australia. Joining committees, offering assistance, philatelically and monetary, creating trophies and awards etc. He was generous in his philanthropic endeavours to keep the hobby alive and well. His philatelic knowledge wasn’t infallible. But it was extensive, particularly in European philately. He would often come to me with an item and say “What do you think about this? What do you think it is worth?” He had a feeling that the item was of some rarity or great interest. He wasn’t often wrong. Just recently he came across an unusually miniature sheet in an old Russian collection. He showed it to me. “I’ve never seen this before” he stated. I hadn’t either. And on further research it turned out quite valuable. He had a hunch. He was right. Max was not always an easy man to deal with. Especially in the work place. He kept a tight grip on all that was happening in the shop. You had to do it his way or not at all. Unfortunately in this he was not always right, and many times tension would be created between staff and Max. But it was always fleeting. Moments later, all would have been forgotten and life went on. Life was meant to go on for him. He was strong willed and a tower of strength. He was going to live forever. There were too many “unknowns” in the stamp world to discover, too many exciting things to uncover. “I have a feel for these things” he would say, “It (a new find) makes me excited”. And this was when Mr Max Stern was at his best. On the day he passed away, he had been sharing his passion and philatelic knowledge with me over a collection he had recently bought. It excited him and urged him to keep going. Alas, the passion waned and the stamp album closed. Vale Mr Stern. Max Stern is survived by his daughters and son-in-laws Judy and Sam Seigel, Ruth and Pinny Paneth, 6 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.

Fred Diamond

(Fred worked at P J Downie Stamp and Coin Auctions from 1972 to 1985. In this time he also worked alongside John Hawker co-editing the Australian Stamp Monthly. He began working for Max Stern & Co in July 1985, with whom he is still employed.)

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Stamps in the News - Globally! The mail must get through in the UK

“If the Post Office has an award scheme for going above and beyond the call of duty, he should definitely receive recognition,” he added.

A dedicated postmaster embarked on a 300-mile journey to hand-deliver a passport on time. David Shepherd, 26, of Stratton, Cornwall, drove 50 miles and took four trains after realising he had forgotten to get it in the post. The passport had to get to a customer in Rye, Sussex, by 9am the following day so that his planned visit to Amsterdam could go ahead. Mr Shepherd, who has been postmaster at Stratton for 11 months, said: “I knew it was vital he had it. My instinct was to keep the customer happy”. “When I realised the problem, I finished work at 7pm and drove to Exeter to catch the 1am train to London.” Mr Shepherd drove 50 miles to Exeter; caught the train to London Paddington; took the Tube to St Pancras; a further train to Ashford, Kent; and a final train to Rye. He had just 15 minutes to deliver the passport before catching the train straight back, a journey which cost him more than £150. Mr Shepherd said: “I just thought, ‘I know the customer, I know it has to get there’. I didn’t want to let him down.” The customer was beyond delighted. “It shows how dedicated he is. Stratton is a fantastic place and David is a brilliant part of it.” The customer gave Mr Shepherd a bottle of champagne as a thank you for his efforts.

The mail must get through in Canada

Reported at www.bbc.com

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Reported at www.nationalpost.com

Canada Post takes 45 years to deliver letter to Calgary woman living just 215 kilometres away from sender. In 1969, Anne Tingle’s then nine-year-old sister, Esther, mailed her a letter with a six-cent stamp attached. It could have been delivered faster by snail. Literally. A little over a week ago, Calgarian Anne Tingle was surprised to find an “odd-looking package” in her mailbox. Inside a plastic sleeve with Canada Post’s logo were two pieces of brown corrugated cardboard taped together on all four sides and an apology. “Dear customer,” it read, “we sincerely regret that your mail item is damaged. It was found in this condition in the mail stream. We realize your mail is important to you and we are always concerned when mail entrusted to our care is damaged.” Puzzled, Tingle tore apart the two pieces of cardboard. Inside was a yellowed envelope addressed to her with a six-cent stamp and a 1969 postmark. While her name and the street address on the envelope were correct, the house number was wrong and there was no city, province or postal code. The letter was penned by Tingle’s then nine-year-old sister, Esther, offering her thanks for a summer stay at her sister’s house in Calgary. At the time, Esther was living in Lethbridge, which is about 214 kilometres SE of Calgary. Had the letter travelled that route it would have been moving at roughly 0.0005 km/h over its 45-year journey. Snails, in comparison, have been clocked at 0.048 km/h. Granted, the address was incomplete and Tingle has long since moved homes and is taking the incident in good humour — as is

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her sister. “I’m so impressed with them,” she said. “They had to figure out which province and city, my street address and then get it to me … And they did it all for six cents.”.

Your moggie’s in the mail Reported at www.theguardian.com

A pet cat called Cupcake has spent over a week in the post, after apparently falling asleep in a box. Owner Julie Baggott did not spot the animal when she packed up a box of DVDs and sent it off to a customer. Eight days later, the female cat arrived in Worthing, West Sussex, after somehow surviving the 260mile journey from Falmouth in Cornwall. The customer was understandably “somewhat startled”, vets said, when the box of DVDs was opened and Cupcake jumped out. The RSPCA collected the cat and took it to a veterinary hospital in Worthing. Dr Ben Colwell who treated Cupcake, said: “She was quite dehydrated and obviously really quite scared, quite nervous.” After scanning the cat and discovering the microchip, the vets found Baggott’s details and got in touch. The owner had been distraught at the loss of her cat. She and her family had put up posters and

searched around Falmouth for days. “When I realised she was missing, two weeks ago, it was the most horrible, scary feeling,” she said. “We looked everywhere for her. “I feel terrible about what’s happened. It was a miracle she was alive, she’s managed to survive that awful ordeal.” Cupcake required several days of treatment for dehydration but has made a full recovery since being collected by Baggott and taken back to Cornwall. Although the Royal Mail does accept some live insects, bees and earthworms in the post, it does not accept live animals. In 2006, a student was fined £750 after he posted a hamster as a prank. The hamster gnawed through the envelope and was rescued by a postman, who decided to name him First Class.

To Cuba with love

Reported at www.usatoday.com For the first time in more than 50 years, the United States Postal Service is transporting mail directly to Cuba. United States Postal Service announced on March 17 that it has resumed mail service after President Kennedy suspended it in 1963 at the height of the Cold War. The change in mail delivery policy comes after President Barack Obama restored U.S. ties with Cuba late in 2014, and just days before the presidential trip to Havana. “The U.S. Postal Service is pleased to participate in the historic direct transportation of mail service with Cuba,” said Postmaster General Megan Brennan. “Moving letter mail and packages directly will improve service for businesses and consumers.” The first USPS mail dispatch to Cuba includes a letter from Obama to 76-year-old Ileana Yarza, who had written to the president previously and invited him over for coffee. A special “USA-Cuba Direct” postmark dated March 16 was used to hand-cancel the president’s mail. Stamp News - 17

Stamps in the News - Globally! Most mail items are now being accepted for delivery in Cuba with the exception of Global Express Guaranteed and Priority Mail Express International services.

A clean sweep in Indiana

Obama wrote in his letter, “Dear Ileana: “Thank you for your kind words. I appreciate your support over the years, and I hope this note — which will reach you by way of the first direct mail flight between the United States and Cuba in over 50 years — serves as a reminder of a bright new chapter in the relationship between our two nations. “I am looking forward to visiting Havana to foster this relationship and highlight our shared values — and, hopefully, I will have time to enjoy a cup of Cuban coffee. “Sincerely, “Barack Obama.” A White House photo of the president’s letter shows the letter with a large addressed envelope franked with three 2013 Earth global forever stamps with a special cancel. 18 - Stamp News

Reported at http:// fox59.com Jim “the broom guy” Richter is no longer banned from selling his brooms at the Nora post office, Indianapolis. Richter, who is blind and learned to make brooms at the Indianapolis School for the Blind, has been selling his brooms on the north side for 60 years. In February, Richter was banned from selling them at the Nora post office when the post master approached him, telling him the post office had received numerous complaints about him selling

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there. Since then, people in the community have rallied behind him. Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives Brian Bosma is one of them. He worked with U.S. Postal Service officials to allow “the broom guy” to return. “Jim has had a long-standing presence in Indianapolis and his personal story and positive attitude are inspiring. It’s easy to understand why he had the community rallying behind him,” Bosma said. USPS issued the following statement: Following a review of the unique facts, we are pleased to announce that the local Post Office has decided to allow Mr. Richter to return to the Nora Post Office.

Vinyl countdown

Reported at www.getsurrey.co.uk A beloved record shop that has run since 1962 is being forced to close after Royal Mail won an appeal to turn the building into a customer service depot and toilets. Though they admitted it was a “unique” outlet with international standing, Government planning experts claimed Langley Records, in West Molesey, did not genuinely serve a “local need”. The business has been owned and run by Geoff

Langley, 80, since 1962. Mr Langley said: “I think it’s a bloody great joke, I just don’t get it. “We’ve always been here, we get customers coming from around the world.” But after battling for more than a year to save the shop, it is set to close after Royal Mail, which owns the building and leases it to Mr Langley, won its appeal on March 30. The planning adjudication stated: “It has a strong local, national and international standing as an independent shop. However, we could not be persuaded that Langley Records can genuinely be regarded as a shop that strictly serves a local need” and that the loss of retail space would not reduce the community’s “ability to meet its day-to-day needs”. A Royal Mail spokeswoman said: “It is our intention to extend the existing East Molesey delivery office and use this extra space to create a modern customer service. “We also need more secure parking for our delivery vans. We are pleased that planning permission has now been granted on appeal.”

Conservation stamp controversy has government ducking for cover Reported at www.nytimes.com

Is it political correctness, or revamping an 82-year-old federal program? Will it secure more money for wildlife, or wreck one of the better things the US government has going? Changes are mooted for the US duck stamps now costing $25 and each year featuring a different painting of a duck, goose or swan. The stamp must be affixed to every hunter’s state permit with proceeds used to acquire new lands for wildlife Stamp News - 19

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preserves. Now the Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed making the traditional waterfowl share space on the stamps with birds that are not hunted, like herons or hawks. The idea is to drum up more interest in the stamps from birders while preserving the loyalty of hunters. But they have been taken aback by the vociferous opposition. Some duck hunters resent what they see as the downgrading of game birds. The artists who paint the images call the proposal an aesthetic disaster, and even many birders call it a pointless step that could kill the golden goose. The issue is so divisive that it has strained friendships. The American Birding Association won’t even take a stand one way or the other for fear of offending someone. Congress created the stamps in the Dust Bowl year of 1934 to help protect migratory waterfowl. In a brilliant stroke, officials turned the stamps into miniworks of art, featuring a new rendering of a waterfowl species each year. Since 1949, the annual search has been run as a public competition. Everyone seemed to benefit. Hunters were happy to buy duck stamps because they supported prime locations for their migratory prey. Many bird-watchers bought them because the marshes and waterways saved for waterfowl also provide crucial habitat for migrating songbirds and shorebirds. And the stamps became collectors’ items. Still, the vast majority are purchased by the 1.1 million waterfowl hunters who must do so. Annual sales of duck stamps are around 1.5 million, compared with 2 million in the 1970s. “The population of duck hunters, our main customers, is declining and aging,” said a Fish and 20 - Stamp News

Wildlife Service spokesman. “We need to diversify the customer base for the stamp.” In February, the agency proposed that the paintings continue to feature a waterfowl species, but also include, a second species that might be found in the same habitat. Adding the second bird has been pushed by Friends of the Migratory Bird/Duck Stamp, a private organization that sees this as a way to win wider support. “There are 36 to 40 million visitors to the refuge system every year and more of them should be buying stamps,” said the president of the group. “We don’t want to change the tradition of the stamp. We just want to add to it,” he said. However when the proposal was open to public comments a large majority opposed it.

Postcrossing celebrated in Netherlands and Romania Reported at www.postnl.nl

Postcrossing is an international network in which people send postcards to random people all over the world with something about themselves, their city or their country. The idea of the project belongs to Paulo Magalhães and Ana Campos, programmer students from Portugal. In 2005, they created rules to exchange postcards and made a website with Surprise in your mailbox! With 36,000 enthusiastic fans, the Netherlands is taking the lead in the world of Postcrossing which was started ten years ago. PostNL is supporting the Postcrossing initiative, with a stamp sheet featuring ten popular Nether-

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Margo Campbell and the Democratic Republic of the Congo”. Leonie van den Engel (age 34, with 645 postcross cards) has mainly built new international friendships. “Over the past years, postcross friends of mine from places like South Africa, Singapore and America have come to visit me in the Netherlands. I myself have gone to visit several European postcross friends”. Meanwhile in Russia- Postcrossing also enjoys huge popularity with more than 60,000 participants. Rusmarka, the Russian stamp issuing agency has also recently issued a minisheet with a first day cover with cancellation (Moscow) inside celebrating Postcrossing.

120 years of the Chinese Post Office

This year the Chinese Postal Service (CPS) celebrates its 120th anniversary. It was officially launched on March 20, 1896 and has been successfully working till today. To commemorate this occasion, Chunghwa Post in Taiwan has released a souvenir sheet containing two original stamps depicting vintage lands postcard views: the Delta Works, the Wadden Islands, Hoge Veluwe National Park, the Binnenhof , the Dutch cheese market in Alkmaar, the flower bulb fields, Giethoorn, Marken, Zaanse Schans and The Night Watch. Dutch postcrossers have already sent over three million postcards. Postcrossers register the postcards they receive on postcrossing.com and then receive another postcrosser’s address. That way, each postcrosser sends and receives an equal amount of postcards. Each postcrosser has their own motives for participating. Andrea van den Broek (40) has currently sent 1,159 postcross cards. “I’ve received cards from 236 countries and non-independent or officially recognised areas. I have yet to receive a card from Central Africa Stamp News - 21

Stamps in the News - Globally! used by the Germans to send encrypted messages. In 1947, the General Post Office turned the house into a training centre and the mailroom became a sub-post office. After the training centre was closed, Royal Mail allowed the trust to try to save Bletchley Park from demolition to keep the post office.

mailbox and bicycle. The inscriptions are dedicated to celebrating postal service facilities of different eras, putting into focus the past of the mail service, post systems of the modern age, and the vision to stay abreast of the trend.

Bletchley Park bites the dust Reported at www.bbc.com

The former undercover mailroom for World War II UK codebreakers that later became a post office has closed. Bletchley Park Post Office said new management at the Buckinghamshire museum had decided it was no longer “core to the codebreaking story”. It became a post office in 1947 and was the museum’s first gift shop when it opened to the public in 1994, issuing limited edition stamps. “Naturally the volunteers who kept it running since Bletchley Park opened in 1994 are disappointed by the decision, but understand that Bletchley Park Trust wish to focus on the core story of World War II codebreaking,” a museum spokeman said. Bletchley Park was the wartime home of the Government Code and Cypher School. It broke codes generated by the Enigma machine, a device 22 - Stamp News

The museum was completely restored after receiving a £5m Heritage Lottery grant in 2011 and raising £2.4m. Some 200+ limited edition first day covers were issued that helped fund many Bletchley Park activities. Unfortunately, the post office was no longer considered relevant to the new digital age plans for the museum. Its exhibits and artefacts have been acquired by another museum as a non-functioning post office display so production of covers and special stamp issues has been discontinued. The remaining cover stock providing collectors with an opportunity to acquire some rather special pieces, many signed by former code breakers and people connected with Bletchley Park’s history. They are only available through the Bletchley Park Post Office web site before it too closes at http:// www.bletchleycovers.com

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Relay for Life, team captain and Joey Leader, Eltham North.He is also a proud and passionate soccer player, coach, team manager and board member for the Eltham Eagles Soccer Club and has helped develop a soccer club for Sudanese refugee youth. Michael also organised a partnership through the “Hope Through Soccer” program and recently travelled to Western Kenya where he delivered 100 soccer balls and a donation of $6000 to a local orphanage.Michael is an inspirational role model and an innovative fund raiser, pro-active in helping raise more than $20,000 for local projects. Well done indeed, an award well deserved!

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Postal Stationery In the Postal Stationery column in the March 2016 issue of Australasian Stamp News I discussed printed to private order (PTPO) postal stationery. In that column, I briefly mentioned the existence of modern private order postal stationery, that is, postal stationery issued to meet the requirements of large customers and that differs in some way from that issued by Australia Post over post office counters. In this month’s column I have a look at some of these relatively unknown issues. In this column I don’t discuss the Figs. 1 & 2 1999 Aboriginal Art envelope for National Photos. The reservice offered by Australia verse is shown below. Post whereby large purchasers of stamped envelopes can have Australia Post print their envelopes were photo developers who obtained C5 address details and/or logo on the front of envelopes window stamped envelopes from Australia Post. but which otherwise are the same as envelopes sold The regular post office sold C5 stamped envelopes over post office counters. These will be covered in were without a ‘window’. In addition the envelopes a future column. have advertising and address details for the compa-

Private Order Envelopes

One group of major users of private order stamped

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nies and other differences from envelopes sold over post office counters, for example, no address lines on the reverse for the senders address, no instructions or details of the design and no barcode. The C5 envelopes were the perfect size for sending a set of photographs printed from a roll of film and placed in the standard envelopes with space for negatives used by film developers for many years (I hope most of my readers will remember silver-based film which has now been replaced almost entirely by digital photography). Companies using the envelopes included Photosavers (Sydney), National Photos (Southport, Gold Coast Queensland) and Extrafilm (Gold Coast Queensland).

Ian McMahon

The stamped envelopes produced include C5 envelopes from the 1995 Capital Bridges (Tasman Bridge, Derwent River, Hobart), 1997 Aboriginal Art, 1999 Aboriginal Art, 2001 Indigenous Art exchange (Sunset over the Hills), 2003 Torres Strait Art (James Eseli Crocodile dance headdress), 2005 Cityscape (Sydney) and 2007 Heritage Post Offices (Kiama) issues. Some of the envelopes are precancelled with an undated Gold Coast Mail Centre cancel and in some cases there are a number of design variations in the envelopes. Figure 1 shows the 1999 Aboriginal Art envelope for National Photos on the Gold Coast while Figure 2 shows the reverse of the envelope. As mentioned, besides the advertising and address details for National Photos the envelope differs from the regular post office envelope in being a window envelope and in lacking the description of the envelope, the conditions of use of the envelope, lines for the senderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s address and barcode on the reverse of the envelope. In addition the envelope has a printed undated Gold Coast Mail Centre postmark. Figure 3 shows a private order stamped enve-

Fig. 3 Sunset over the Hills on an envelope for Extrafilms lope from the 2001 Indigenous Art Exchange issue showing Sunset over the Hills for Extrafilm while Figure 4 shows an envelope from the 2007 Historic Post Office issues showing the Kiama post office for Extrafilm. Other users of private order envelopes include James Hardie and Co (National Parks issue), ING Direct and Vision Australia. The Vision Australia envelope is similar to the envelope issued on 28 November 2008 to mark 200 Years of Braille but differs in having a printed address for Vision Australia instead of space for the senders address. Figure 5 shows the front of this envelope and Figure 6 shows the reverse of the envelope.

Private Order Express Post Envelopes

Large users of Australia Postâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Express Post service Stamp News - 27

Postal Stationery

Fig. 4 2007 Historic Post Office issues showing the Kiama PO for Extrafilm. Fig. 5 & 6 Vision Australia envelope with 200 years of Braille issue, Reverse shown opposite

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Ian McMahon

Figs 7 & 8 Front and reverse of QANTAS private order envelope Stamp News - 29

Postal Stationery

have also used private order postal stationery. One major user was QANTAS. The DL size express post envelope was the perfect envelope to take airline tickets (I assume that most readers will remember paper airline tickets now almost entirely replaced by electronic tickets). The express post service, with its next day delivery guarantee within the express post network, was also important in ensuring the rapid delivery of the airline tickets at a time when the tickets had to be sent through the mail. The first QANTAS envelopes appeared in about 1996. The DL window envelopes differed from those sold at post offices in that they have a QANTAS address printed on the reverse rather than address lines for the addressee. In addition the barcode on the tab on the front of the envelope begins with ‘QA’ rather than ‘DL’. In the following years a number of different varieties of the QANTAS envelopes were produced with variations in line with the DL envelopes sold by the post office. These included the addition of the Atlanta Olympics logo, new Australia Post logo and a bar code beginning DLQ. Figures 7 and 8 show the front and reverse of a QANTAS private order envelope showing the ‘QA’ numbered barcode on the front and the printed QANTAS address on the reverse. Other reported users of private express post envelopes include American Express and BHP. Figures 30 - Stamp News

Figs 9 & 10 Front and reverse of American Express envelope Fig 11 Westpac window Express Post envelope 9 and 10 show the front and reverse of an envelope for American Express. The envelope differs from those sold in post offices by having no space for the sender’s name and address but rather a printed address for American Express. In 2011 a C5 window express post envelope was reported for Westpac (the C5 envelopes sold over the post office counter were not window envelopes). This envelope is shown in Figure 11. No doubt other private order stamped envelopes and express post envelopes exist. If you know of any please contact me on ian.mcmahon4@bigpond. com.

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In November 2013, Australia Post released 250 x IMPERFORATE panes of 15 mini sheets of stamps. The “1913 Disaster & Isolation” issue, for the Centenary of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) of 1911-14. The AAE left Hobart in December 1911 commanded by Douglas Mawson and returned in February 1914. Mawson was knighted for his achievements, and is regarded as one of the greatest figures of all Antarctic exploration. You needed to phone the PO “800” number, or order online. Cost was well above face value, and the maximum order was ONE sheet a person. Sold out in super-fast time, as you’d expect - within hours I am advised. There will be near none in the secondary market, as collectors who got very lucky, will not be sellers - at any price. I’d guess there are easily 20,000 keen global collectors of AAT, but only 250 of these sheets to go around. If 200 buyers hold on to their sheets for their collections, that leaves just FIFTY to service those 20,000 collectors worldwide. 99% of AAT collectors do not right now realise this IMPERF issue even exists! In the 56 years since AAT first issued stamps in 1957, I can’t recall any other *AAT* imperforates sold by the PO. Each sheet is hand numbered in top left margin, and also comes with a Certificate of Guarantee card from head of AP, confirming that only 250 panes in TOTAL were sold – globally. This is an Official Australia Post Australian Antarctic Territory issue. I am offering these as follows: SUBJECT UNSOLD – please use correct stock code!

A. Fully imperforate MUH or CTO AAT Mini Sheet - $A60 a sheet. (Stock code 629KE) B. An uncut MUH and/or CTO imperf pair of 2 of the Mini Sheets $A80 (Stock code 629KI) C. PAIR of imperf panes from top LH, hand numbered “XXX/250” in margin, AND the matching AP card, $A115 (Stock code 629KM) G. Normal perforated M/S & IMPERF sheet used on 23x32cm air cover to you $A70 post free Global! (Stock Code 629KO) Many more choices, inc. covers, and all photos are here – www.tinyurl.com/imperfsAAT order online: www.tinyurl.com/GlenOrder Cheques, money orders, cash, all credit cards, Amex, PayPal, and bank transfer accepted at ZERO extra fee. Rigidly Packed Post is $A4 in Australia (Add $5 for Registered, if needed), or $A9 Foreign Air (Add $A12 Registered if needed.)

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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 BASUTOLAND/ LESOTO ...............................$40.00 50 BAVARIA ...................................................$ 28.00 100 BAVARIA .................................................$ 84.00 200 BAVARIA ...............................................$ 210.00 200 BELGIAN CONGO ....................................$ 100.00 200 BELGIUM ..................................................$15.00 300 BELGIUM .................................................$ 24.00 500 BELGIUM .................................................$ 40.00 100 BELGIUM COLONIES .................................$ 13.00 300 BELGIUM COLONIES .................................$ 80.00 100 BERMUDA ...............................................$ 90.00 100 BHUTAN ...................................................$30.00 50 BOHEMIA MORAVIA ....................................$ 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.P.O. AGENCIES ...................................$ 100.00 25 BR. SOLOMONS .........................................$ 10.00 100 BRAZIL ....................................................$ 17.00 200 BRAZIL ....................................................$ 36.00 100 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ........................$ 6.00 200 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ......................$ 10.00 500 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ......................$ 30.00 1000 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ....................$ 78.00 100 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 25 BRUNEI .....................................................$ 27.00 50 BRUNEI ......................................................$66.00 200 BULGARIA ...............................................$ 17.00 300 BULGARIA ...............................................$ 22.00 800 BULGARIA ...............................................$ 88.00 1000 BULGARIA ...........................................$ 120.00 100 BURUNDI ................................................$ 20.00

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25 CAMBODIA ................................................$ 10.00 100 CAMBODIA ............................................$ 115.00 500 CAMBODIA ..............................................$ 65.00 100 CANADA ....................................................$ 6.00 200 CANADA ................................................$ 258.00 1000 CANADA ...............................................$100.00 1800CANADA ..............................................$ 179.00 100 CANADA (MINT.COMMS) .........................$ 50.00 25 CAPE VERDE ................................................$ 6.00 25 CAYMAN ISL ..............................................$ 15.00 50 CAYMAN ISL ..............................................$ 36.00 100 CHANNEL ISLANDS ..................................$ 19.00 300 CHANNEL ISLANDS ................................$ 130.00 100 CHILE ......................................................$ 12.00 200 CHILE ......................................................$ 24.00 500 CHILE ....................................................$ 110.00 100 CHINA .....................................................$ 19.00 200 CHINA .....................................................$ 48.00 325 CHINA ...................................................$ 130.00 500 CHINA P.R.C ...........................................$ 350.00 100 CHINA (LRG, MINT, COMP.SETS)................$ 60.00 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 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) ..................................$ 20.00 100 CUBA .......................................................$09.00 300 CUBA ......................................................$ 30.00 200 CUBA (LARGE PICT.) ................................$ 18.00 25 CYPRUS ....................................................$ 12.00 50 CYPRUS ....................................................$ 30.00 100 CYPRUS ..................................................$ 60.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ......................................$ 3.00 200 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ....................................$ 15.00 500 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ....................................$ 34.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (MINT U/H)..................$ 17.00 200 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (MINT U/H)..................$ 20.00 400 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (MINT U/H)..................$ 30.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (POST WAR).................$ 11.00 1000 CZECHOSLAVAKIA ..................................$ 85.00

Pay cents, not $ per stamp! D

50 DANZIG .....................................................$ 29.00 100 DANZIG ...................................................$ 66.00 100 DENMARK .................................................$ 6.00 300 DENMARK ...............................................$ 20.00 50 DOMINICA BR. .............................................$ 6.00 100 DOMINICA BR. .........................................$ 30.00 50 DOMINICA BR. (KGVI & QEII) .....................$ 40.00 50 DOMINICAN REP .......................................$ 18.00 100 DOMINICAN REP. .....................................$ 39.00 300 DOMINICAN REP. .....................................$ 70.00 90 DUTCH EAST INDIES ................................$ 100.00

300 ECUADOR ................................................$ 77.00 400 ECUADOR ................................................$ 80.00 500 ECUADOR ..............................................$ 110.00 700 ECUADOR ..............................................$ 250.00 100 EGYPT .....................................................$ 10.00 200 EGYPT .....................................................$ 56.00 300 EGYPT .....................................................$ 70.00 50 EGYPT (MINT/UH, COMPL. SETS)................$ 30.00 50 EGYPT + 4 M/S .........................................$ 30.00 25 EQUATORIAL GUINEA (M/SHEET CTO) ........$ 11.00 50 ESTONIA ....................................................$ 66.00 1000 EUROPE ...............................................$ 50 .00

20 FALKLAND ISL. COMPL. MINT SETS...........$ 100.00 25 FALKLAND ISLAND ....................................$ 18.00 50 FAROE ISLAND ..........................................$ 60.00 100 FAROE 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 .................................................$ 18.00 200 FINLAND .................................................$ 40.00 400 FINLAND .................................................$ 80.00 500 FINLAND ...............................................$ 140.00 10 FIUME .........................................................$ 7.00 100 FRANCE .....................................................$ 6.00 300 FRANCE ...................................................$ 30.00 100 FRENCH COLONIES .....................................$ 7.50 200 FRENCH COLONIES ...................................$ 20.00 500 FRENCH COLONIES ....................................$70.00 100 FRENCH COLONIES (PRE INDEPENDENCE) $ 28.00 100 FRENCH. MORROCO .................................$ 25.00 50 FRENCH POLYNESIA ...................................$ 50.00

50 GERMANY 3RD REICH ................................$ 13.00

100 GERMANY .................................................$ 7.00 300 GERMANY ...............................................$ 18.00 500 GERMANY ................................................$37.50 1000 GERMANY .............................................$ 50.00 500 GERMANY EAST ......................................$ 40.00 50 GERMANY INFLATION (MINT U/H ).............$ 10.00 100 GERMANY INFLATION (MINT U/H)............$ 20.00 100 GERMANY WEST(LRG.COMMEMS) ............$20.00 50 GHANA .....................................................$ 50.00 100 GHANA ...................................................$ 70.00 200 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 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 ...................................................$ 24.00 200 GREECE ...................................................$ 50.00 300 GREECE ...................................................$ 70.00 100 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

100 HONG KONG ............................................$ 20.00 200 HONG KONG ..........................................$ 100.00 500 HUNGARY ...............................................$ 20.00 2000 HUNGARY ...........................................$ 150.00 3000 HUNGARY ...........................................$ 440.00 200 HUNGRY ( LARGE PICT) ...........................$ 18.00 300 HUNGARY (LARGE PICT.) .........................$ 24.00 1000 HUNGARY (LARGE PICT.) .......................$ 88.00

25 ICELAND ...................................................$ 20.00 50 ICELAND ...................................................$ 40.00 100 ICELAND .................................................$ 60.00 25 INDO - CHINA ..............................................$ 8.00 50 INDO - CHINA ............................................$ 30.00 200 INDONESIA ..............................................$ 24.00 300 INDONESIA ..............................................$ 56.00 100 INDONESIAN ...........................................$ 33.00 50 IRAN ............................................................$6.00 300 IRAN .......................................................$ 30.00 500 IRAN .......................................................$ 60.00 50 IRELAND .....................................................$ 9.00 100 IRELAND .................................................$ 18.00 350 IRELAND ...............................................$ 120.00 400 IRELAND ...............................................$ 194.00 500 IRELAND ...............................................$ 250.00 600 IRELAND ...............................................$ 360.00 100 ISRAEL .....................................................$13.00 200 ISRAEL ....................................................$ 36.00 500 ISRAEL .....................................................$90.00 850 ISRAREL ................................................$ 180.00 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

50 HAITI ........................................................$ 18.00 100 HAITI ......................................................$ 30.00 200 HAITI ......................................................$ 55.00 100 HOLLAND ..................................................$ 7.00 200 HOLLAND ................................................$ 14.00 300 HOLLAND ................................................$ 30.00 400 HOLLAND ................................................$ 40.00 500 HOLLAND ................................................$ 50.00 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 JAMAICA .................................................$ 50.00 200 JAMAICA ...............................................$ 130.00 200 JAPAN ......................................................$30.00 100 JAPAN (MINT U/H) ..................................$ 70.00 100 JAPAN LARGE ..........................................$ 20.00 200 JAPAN LARGE ..........................................$ 50.00 50 JERSEY ......................................................$ 13.00

50 KOREA NORTH (LARGE PICT.) .......................$ 6.00 100 KOREA NORTH (LARGE PICT.)....................$ 10.00 500 KOREA NORTH .........................................$ 80.00 50 KOREA NORTH M/S ...................................$ 20.00 50 KOREA SOUTH ...........................................$ 14.00

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Pricefighter Packets, ready made collections L

50 MACAU .....................................................$ 60.00 300 MALAYA AND SINGAPORE .......................$ 66.00 500 MALAYA AND SINGAPORE .......................$ 96.00 1000 MALAYA AND SINGAPORE ...................$ 400.00 100 MALDIVES ...............................................$ 24.00 100 MALTA ....................................................$ 10.00 500 MALTA ..................................................$ 140.00 650 MALTA ..................................................$ 270.00 50 MAURITIUS ...............................................$ 24.00 100 MAURITIUS .............................................$ 60.00 100 MEXICO ....................................................$24.00 200 MEXICO ...................................................$ 60.00 500 MEXICO .................................................$ 110.00 25 MONACO .....................................................$ 6.00 50 MONACO ...................................................$ 18.00 100 MONACO .................................................$ 10.00 500 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 NEPAL .........................................................$ 8.00 100 NEPAL .....................................................$ 16.00 25 NETHERLANDS ANTILLES ..........................$ 20.00 50 NEW CALEDONIA ......................................$ 36.00 100 NEW CALEDONIA ..................................$ 150.00 10 NEWFOUNDLAND .......................................$ 8.00 25 NEWFOUNDLAND .....................................$ 16.00 50 NEWFOUNDLAND .....................................$ 44.00 100 NEWFOUNDLAND .................................$ 190.00 50 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .........................$ 40.00 100 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .......................$ 90.00 200 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .....................$ 260.00 300 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .....................$ 440.00 400 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .....................$ 600.00 150 NEW ZEALAND ..........................................$ 6.00 200 NEW ZEALAND ........................................$ 14.00 300 NEW ZEALAND ........................................$ 28.00 500 NEW ZEALAND ........................................$ 90.00 1000 NEW ZEALAND .....................................$145.00 25 NICARAGUA ................................................$ 2.00 50 NICARAGUA ................................................$ 5.00 100 NICARAGUA ..............................................$ 8.00 200 NICARAGUA .............................................$24.00 500 NICARAGUA ............................................$ 70.00 300 NICARAGUA ............................................$ 40.00 100 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. ........................................$ 270.00 100 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH.................$ 190.00 120 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH.................$ 200.00 150 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH.................$ 240.00 200 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH.................$ 360.00 250 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH.................$ 460.00 300 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH.................$ 700.00 100 NORWAY ...................................................$ 9.00 200 NORWAY .................................................$ 20.00 500 NORWAY .................................................$ 80.00 600 NORWAY ...............................................$ 100.00 800 NORWAY ...............................................$ 135.00 25 NYASALAND ..............................................$ 50.00

50 LAOS ...........................................................$ 7.00 500 LAOS .......................................................$ 70.00 20 LAOS PRE WAR ............................................$ 6.00 100 LATIN AMERICA .......................................$ 10.00 300 LATIN AMERICA .......................................$ 50.00 50 LATVIA ......................................................$ 44.00 200 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

25 NAURU ......................................................$ 11.00 50 NAURU ......................................................$ 33.00 100 NAURU ....................................................$ 93.00 150 NAURU ..................................................$ 134.00 200 NAURU ..................................................$ 160.00

50 PACIFIC IS (BR) ............................................$ 8.00 100 PACIFIC IS. (BR) ........................................$16.00 200 PACIFIC IS. (BR) .......................................$ 56.00 600 PACIFIC ISLANDS ...................................$ 250.00 100 PAKISTAN .................................................$12.00

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50 PANAMA ...................................................$ 13.00 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 ...........................$ 1900.00 300 PARAGUAY ..............................................$ 60.00 100 PARAGUAY (MINT U/H)) ..........................$ 20.00 150 PENRHYN ..............................................$ 184.00 500 PERU .....................................................$ 170.00 600 PERU .....................................................$ 250.00 700 PERU .....................................................$ 470.00 100 PHILIPPINES ...........................................$ 18.00 300 PHILIPPINES ...........................................$ 70.00 800 PHILIPPINES .........................................$ 250.00 900 PHILIPPINES .........................................$ 330.00 1200 PHILIPPINES .......................................$ 500.00 1500 PHILIPPINES .......................................$ 700.00 50 PITCAIRN ISLAND ......................................$ 50.00 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)................$ 324.00 300 POLAND ..................................................$ 12.00 500 POLAND ..................................................$ 30.00 1000 POLAND ................................................$ 60.00 150 PORT AZORES ........................................$ 190.00 100 PORTUGAL ..............................................$ 18.00 50 PORTUGAL COLONIES ..................................$ 6.00 100 PORTUGAL COLONIES ..............................$ 40.00 200 PORTUGAL COLONIES ..............................$ 40.00

50 RHODESIA .................................................$ 16.00 200 RHODESIA .............................................$ 140.00 300 RHODESIA .............................................$ 240.00 400 RHODESIA .............................................$ 400.00 500 ROMANIA ................................................$ 31.00 1000 ROMANIA ............................................$ 100.00 100 ROMANIA (LARGE PICT.) ............................$ 6.00 200 ROMANIA (LARGE PICT.) ..........................$ 11.00 300 ROMANIA (LARGE PICT.) ..........................$ 18.00 200 RUSSIA ...................................................$ 14.00 300 RUSSIA ...................................................$ 24.00 500 RUSSIA ...................................................$ 50.00 1000 RUSSIA .................................................$ 90.00 100 RUSSIA (MINT SHORT SETS) ....................$ 11.00 100 RUSSIAN INDP.STATES (MINT U/H)...........$ 33.00

50 SAAR ........................................................$ 33.00 50 SALVADOR ................................................$ 40.00

Pay cents, not $ per stamp! 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 50 SAN MARINO ............................................$ 11.00 100 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 25 SIERRA LEONE ......................................... $ 24.00] 50 SIERRA LEONE ...........................................$ 50.00 50 SINGAPORE ...............................................$ 12.00 100 SINGAPORE .............................................$ 30.00 200 SINGAPORE ...........................................$ 100.00 75 SLOVAKIA ..................................................$ 17.00 100 SLOVAKIA ................................................$ 22.00 50 SOLOMON ISL. ...........................................$ 20.00 100 SOLOMON ISL. .........................................$ 60.00 150 SOLOMON ISL. .......................................$ 100.00 200 SOLOMON ISL. .......................................$ 160.00 300 SOLOMON ISL. .......................................$ 300.00 400 SOLOMON ISL. .......................................$ 520.00 500 SOLOMON ISL. .......................................$ 700.00 100 SOUTH AFRICA ........................................$ 12.00 200 SOUTH AFRICA ........................................$ 30.00 200 SPAIN ......................................................$ 24.00 300 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 .................................................$ 40.00 50 ST. THOMAS ................................................$ 8.00 100 ST. THOMAS ............................................$ 14.00 50 ST. VINCENT ..............................................$ 18.00 100 ST. VINCENT ............................................$ 30.00 25 SUDAN ......................................................$ 12.00 100 SURINAME ..............................................$ 56.00 50 SWAZILAND ..............................................$ 20.00 100 SWAZILAND ............................................$ 60.00 500 SWEDEN .................................................$ 70.00 200 SWEDEN ..................................................$16.00

100 SWITZERLAND ........................................$ 15.00 500 SWITZERLAND .......................................$120.00 800 SWITZERLAND ......................................$ 150.00 1200 SWITZERLAND ....................................$ 600.00 1300 SWITZERLAND ....................................$ 900.00 1500 SWITZERLAND ..................................$ 1600.00

100 THAILAND ...............................................$ 40.00 200 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 75 TOKELAU ....................................................$80.00 25 TONGA ......................................................$ 16.00 50 TONGA ......................................................$ 36.00 100 TONGA ..................................................$ 110.00 100 TRINIDAD & TOBAGO ...............................$ 76.00 10 TRISTAN DA CUNHA ...................................$ 10.00 50 TRISTAN DA CUNHA ..................................$ 60.00 100 TRISTAN DA CUNHA ...............................$ 170.00 35 COMPLETE SETS TRISTAN DA CUNHA .............$110 50 TUNISIA ....................................................$ 12.00 100 TUNISIA ..................................................$ 36.00 100 TURKEY .....................................................$ 5.00 200 TURKEY ...................................................$ 14.00 300 TURKEY ...................................................$ 18.00 25 TURKS & CAICOS .........................................$ 6.00 100 TURKS & CAICOS (MINT U/H) ...................$ 70.00

100 U.N.O ......................................................$ 24.00 300 U.N.O ....................................................$ 110.00 400 U.N.O ....................................................$ 170.00 100 URUGUAY ................................................$ 20.00 200 URUGUAY ................................................$ 36.00 200 USA ..........................................................$ 8.00 500 USA ........................................................$ 60.00 1000 USA ......................................................$ 80.00 300 USA (COMMEMS) ....................................$ 14.00 100 USA (MINT COMMEMS) ...........................$ 50.00 200 USA (MINT COMMEMS) .........................$ 100.00 1031 USA COMPLETE SETS 1935-1984 ..............$ 100

25 VATICAN ......................................................$ 6.00 50 VATICAN ....................................................$ 30.00 200 VATICAN ..................................................$ 90.00 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 ...............................................$ 17.00 100 VENEZUELA .............................................$ 40.00 700 VENEZUELA ...........................................$ 250.00 800 VENEZUELA ...........................................$ 350.00 100 VIETNAM .................................................$ 30.00

25 WALLIS & FUTUNA ......................................$ 6.00 50 WALLIS & FUTUNA ....................................$ 20.00 100 WALLIS & FUTUNA ................................$ 130.00 200 WALLIS & FUTUNA ................................$ 300.00 300 WORLD ....................................................$10.00 25 WURTTEMBERG ........................................$ 16.00 50 WURTTEMBERG ........................................$ 60.00

100 YUGOSLAVIA $ 9.00 200 YUGOSLAVIA ...........................................$ 17.00 300 YUGOSLAVIA ...........................................$ 20.00 500 YUGOSLAVIA ...........................................$ 80.00

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

World Packets

1000 WORLD .......................................................$35 2000 WORLD..................................................... $100 5000 WORLD .....................................................$300 10,000 WORLD ..................................................$800

Thematics

500 ANIMALS .................................................$60.00 500 BIRDS .....................................................$ 80.00 300 BUTTERFLIES//MOTHS ............................$ 45.00 500 CATS & DOGS ...........................................$80.00 200DISNEY ....................................................$ 49.00 500 FISH ........................................................$ 90.00 500 FLOWERS ................................................$ 70.00 200 HORSES ...................................................$ 30.00 500 PAINTINGS ...............................................$60.00 300 SHIPS ......................................................$ 40.00 300 SPORTS ...................................................$ 30.00 500 SPACE .....................................................$ 78.00 500 TRAINS .....................................................$90.00 500 TRANSPORT ............................................$ 90.00

Other thematic packets available, please ask. Postage and insurance is extra. For orders up to $50 add $4.00, $51 to $100 add $7.50 $101 plus add $15.

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MAY OFFERS If you wish to view any item we can send a scan by email, or colour photocopy by mail. Post and insurance is free within Australia on all orders above $500 from this list. Also please remember that any order above $500 can be put on layby for up to 6 months, and that all of our items carry our 14 day satisfaction guarantee. AP1) New magnificent stockbook offer! Many of you will be unaware that Windmill and Importa the famous Dutch firm of Album and Accessory Manufacturers has ceased to exist. This means that the VST brand of stockbooks which were sourced form that firm will no longer be available. Other German manufacturers are now having stockbooks made in Hungary, and in our opinion quality has suffered. We do however have a great new item: Ka Be, one of the most respected German manufacturers now has a 64 black page padded binder stockbook, with double linen hinging. These retail at $66 each, however as an introductory offer we can supply at $55 each or $249 for a carton of 5. Colours available are Black, Dark Blue, Dark Green or Maroon. We only have an initial supply of 40 stockbooks so please be quick! AP2) India, Collection/Accumulation of mainly postally used in Red Favourite Springback Album and in packets.Commencing 1855 and mostly pre- 1970 with good representation of the Colonial period. Included are a good number of many complete sets. A good original lot of 2000plus stamps. Price $179 AP6) Croatia, modern collection in near new 16 black page stockbook, looks virtually complete for the period 1994 – 2003, with both mint and used stamps. Around 250 stamps cat close to $400. A very clean lot, price $149. AP8) Japan, very nice Commemorative Kiloware mix on single paper, very colourful and wide-ranging with excellent variety. Covers from mid 1970’s to around 2011 by the look of it. This is hard to come by, high count, around 4000 to the kg, and excellent value at $54 per 100g, 250g for $129, 500g for $245. AP10) GB off paper, wide ranging QEII mix, Wildings to quite recent inc. Regionals. 1kg only of this available, price $30 per 100g, $69 per 250g, $136 per 500g. AP11) Animals, lovely collection of 500 all different, mostly large. Price $49 AP12) AIF WW1 Military Mails: 3 amazing covers to and from a Sgt. In the AIF 14th Field Ambulance: a) YMCA cover, NO 5 16 censored cover to Mrs. B. R. Rainsford at Wahroonga NSW. b) 20.1.16 Red cross Cover, to Sergeant B Rainsford, at Gezira, Cairo, from Paris c) 20.1.18 Censored Cover Australian Field Ambulance AIF France 1918, addressed to Bruce Rainsford, Sergent Fournier, 14th Australian Field Ambulance, Armee Australienne, en campagne, (in the field) As 2 are dated Jan. 20 are we to assume that was or was close to his birthday? Magnificent grouping, price $269 the lot. AP15) Victoria 1879 £1 Orange George and Dragon STAMP DUTY with oval date stamp in black OFFICE OF TITLES 22.DEC.85. Price $29 AP16) Aircraft & aviation, collection of 300 different, colourful and mainly large, price $69 AP17) Nice little starter collection of 50 different Australian States. On our list at $56, special price $49. AP18) 1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge set of 4, nice postally used, all have cds cancels, 5/- is “socked on nose” with Sydney 18MR32 datestamp. (4 days after issue and the day before the Bridge was officially opened) Price $449 AP19) Australia 1932 10/- Grey & Pink C of A Kangaroo, superb used, with light cds cancel across top right third of the stamp. Good perfs, centering and colour, cat $300, you will not better this for $265.

AP20) GB 1841 Queen Victoria Imperf. 2d Blue with town cancel No. 21, 3 good margins, close at top, and large at right showing part inscription. Cat $200. Very attractively priced at $49 AP21) GB 1847 1/- Green Embossed, asttractive near 4 margin example, close at bottom, clean attractive stamp with no faults, cat $2000, very cheap at $329 AP22) Australia 1935 Anzac. Lovely illustrated FDC with both 1/- plus a pair of the 2d, to make 1/4d seamail rate to USA. Highly under rated, and missing from 99,.99% of all collections, in fact the1st I have handled in over 40 years of dealing! Another dealer has a plain FDC on his website at $420. This one $398 AP23) Australia 1935 C of A wmk One Pound Grey Kangaroo, lovely used example, with cds cancel leaving ‘roo clear and with good centering and perfs. Very fine stamp, cast $420 for just $298 AP24) Another as above, with Tirrikiba, NSW cds of 5JE37, well centered and with full perfs, sadly a small thin at top left. Budget priced stamp $98 AP25) Australia 1932 10/- Grey& Pink Kangaroo, C of A wmk, very fresh, mere trace of a hinge, good perfs and nicely centered. Very attractive stamp cat $700, this one $629 and worth every penny! AP28) GB 1840 1d Grey Black, SG 3 superb 4 large margined example with lightly struck red Maltese Cross cancel, from Die 1a, lettered F L , a better example you will not easily find. Cat $100, price $549 AP29) GB 1840 1d Intense Black, SG1, superior quality 4 margin example, with lovely centrally struck red Maltese Cross cancel. Unplated, but most likely from one of the later plates. Lettered H I, Minimum catalogue $1050. Price $398 AP30) GB 1840 1d Black, SG 2, budget priced stamp, very attractive, no faults, with 2.5 margins, neat black Maltese Cross cancel, unlettered, but most probably from an early plate. Lettered A L, Minimum catalogue $750. Price $169 AP31) GB 1840 2d Blue,SG5 nice 4 margin (close at left) with clean strike of black Maltese Cross cancel. Lettered BL. Min. Catalogue $1800, price $649 AP33) Australia 1917 3rd wmk 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo oveprinted Specimen mng, type.B , Perfect centering and perfs, great colour. Cat $600, price $349 AP34) Australia 1924 3rd wmk One Pound Grey overprinted Specimen mng, type. C, nice centering and perfs, good colour. Cat $375, price $149 AP35) GB 1884 9d & 1/- Queen Victoria Dull Green, nice cds used. Cat a massive $1550. 1/- is correct colour, 9d just slightly faded. VERY CHEAP Price $175 AP36) New Zealand High Values, with recent and values to $2.50 on close trimmed single paper, we only have 100g of this., Price $125 AP37) Australia Green Certified labels, in mint unhinged block of 25 (5 x 5) very rare to see these! Numbered U 5055 to U 5071 in reverse as issued. Price $29 AP38) Victoria 1858 6d Orange Woodblock on cover to Ireland. Nice clean 2 margin example franked by barred numeral 1 of Melbourne to Mallow, Co. Cork, via Dublin with arrival cds of AU 16 1858. Scarce and attractive, price $195 AP39) Western Australia 1960’s 2/- brown swan revenue in fiscally used block of 18 (6 x 3) Unusual. Price $39 AP40) Western Australia 1d on 2d Yellow SG 172 in mint unhinged block of 9. Minor toning on reverse does not detract from fine facial appearance. Price $39 AP41) Australia 1928 3d Kookaburra minisheet, mint lightly hinged, fresh and well centered from the centre of the sheet. Price $175 AP42) Australia KGV 5d single wmk on reg’d cover with red registered label, Preston, Vic. 1 SEP 1923 to St. Kilda, with 3 boxed instructional markings: Not known by postmen St. Kilda, Not know by letter carriers Caulfield and Unclaimed St. Kilda. Everntually

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MAY OFFERS ending up at the Melbourne Dead letter office eon 12 SP 23. Lovely! Price $119 AP43) 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 AP44) 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. AP45) 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. AP46) Australia 1913 10/- Grey and Pink 1st wmk, cto with neat Melbourne corner cds from the UPU distribution, only 400 issued. Centred a bit high, but a very attractive stamp in a deeper pink shade. Cat. Minimum $1700. My price $1250 AP47) Australia 1937 KGVI 3d Die I, mint unhinged, retail $75, my price $56. Ap48) Australia 1915 3d Olive Green Kangaroo, DieII, fine used with Melbourne cds, 23 JY 23 cancel. Very scarce stamp. Retail $120, my price $89. Ap49) Australia 1913 1st wmk 3d Yellow Olive Kangaroo, Die I, perf small OS, neat cds cancel. Cat. $100, my price $75. Ap50) As above but 3rd wmk, Die IIb, with partial Federal Parliament cds, Cat. $60, my price $49. Ap51) GB 1902 DLR Printing KEVII 5/-, SG 263, fine used with rubber circular cancel. cat $440 Cheap at 20% cat. $88. AP52) 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. AP53) Australia KGV 4d Lemon, mint unhinged, retail $600, but gum has sadly been sweated, nice budget buy at under 20% retail. $119. AP54) Australia 1.5d Red KGV, no watermark in block of 4, two unhinged. Cat $75, has minor gum wrinkles, but otherwise fresh. Price $49. AP55) 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. AP56) 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. AP57) As above, but nice unhinged single, Cat. $150, my price $110. AP58) 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. AP59) 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! AP60) 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. AP61) 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. AP62) 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 AP63) GB 1840 1d Black, four margin, unplated, and just a little close-ish on the margins, but still very nice stamps. Letters available are : SG (Stanley Gibbons!) or KI Cat $750. Price $399 each AP64) GB 1d Blacks with Black Maltese Cross, 4 margins and lettered NE or SF Price $399 each AP63) GB 1d Black A superior example, with 4 nice even margins, unplated, lettered OK! Price $449 AP65) GB 1d Blacks. Now we come to the three margin examples, Intense Black, lettered FK, unplated and with centrally struck Black Maltese Cross, Cat. $1050. Price $295 AP66) A further 3 margin example as above, with red Maltese Cross, Cat $750 lettered RB. Price $329 each AP67) Again as above, 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 AP68) 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 AP69) Twopence Halfpenny 1st wmk Kangaroo, superb used, full perfs, colour and well centred with clear Rialto Vic cds of AP 17 14. Price $26 AP70) Nauru, GB 5/- Seahorse, ovpt. Nauru, superb well centred lightly hinged example with full rich colour . Retail $165, my price $119 AP71) 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. MM8) TASMANIA 1935 SMALL AIRMAIL COVER bearing 1934 3d & 9d MACARTHUR, plus strip of 3 x 2d Anzac making 1/6d rate to ENGLAND, cancelled by 9 AP 35 Devonport cds, neat clean cover. 9d alone catalogues at $400 on cover. Price $329 MM9) VICTORIA Sg 17b; 1851 2d Dull-brown Half-length. Ham Printing 4th State “Vertical Drapes” . VFU with No Faults. Fine 4 margin example, cancelled by clean complete strike of No. 1 (Melbourne) Butterfly cancel. Just superb! $249 MM10) Western Australia Sg 1, Sc# 1; 1d Black Swan Superb VFU 4 margins with neat numeral cancel 1 of Perth cv $500++ Nicest you will find! $350 MM11) Denmark, 700 different, back in stock again, price $79 (1 only available) MM12) Ireland, 500 all different , lovely new collection just arrived, very hard to find, price $245 (under 50c per stamp) MM16) Australia 1932 5/- Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, C of A wmk, cto with variety, “Spencers Gulf, Short and Thick” ACSC 46 (D)i, Cat $150, price $110 MM17) Australia 1932 5/- Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, C of A wmk, cto with gum, and variety, “Spencers Gulf Spencers Gulf elongated and curved and break in coast” ACSC 46 (D) q, Cat $250, price $189 MM18) Australia 1927 small registered cover, bearing 6d Chestnut 3rd wmk. Kangaroo to Coogee to San Diego USA, cancelled by full clear strike of Coogee cds, 24 AUG 27. Arrival cds of Sep 19 1927. Fine and attractive with red Reg. label No. 2495. Cat $150. Price $97.50

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MAY OFFERS MM19) Australia 1937 3d KGVI Die II thick paper, mint unhinged, fine and fresh. Cat $75, price $55 MM20) Australia pre- decimal commercial mail, range of frankings, mainly single usage definitives and commemoratives, 1930’s – 1965. Will contain postmark interest and some better items. Around 100 covers, condition variable. Price $299 MM22) Australia 1943 Censored Red Cross message service Airmail Cover to Geneva bearing 5/- Robes and 9d Platypus, cancelled by square duplex type cancel of Melbourne 8 MCH 1943. With red print “3 OPENED BY CENSOR” tape and violet diamond “3/PASSED/ BY/CENSOR/250” Scarce and attractive item, price $96 MM23) World Mission on paper, from a new source, early to modern with most on single close clipped paper, well worth a look at around 2.5c per stamp, approx. 5000 to the kg, price per 250g $35, per 500g $65, per kg $125, 5kg for $595, 10kg for $1125 MM24) Similar to above, but with some off paper and some on torn rather than clipped paper, same prices as above. MM25) TASMANIA 1900 Set of 6 MINT LETTERCARDS, 2d Pictorial on pale blue stock with a different view on the reverse of each. Believed less than 300 sets produced, this is a nice clean set in fine condition, just a little toning around edges in places, all that I have ever seen have this. These are on eBay as single cards at $125 each, sets normally get a lot more. My price, as I bought them quite well just $595 the set! MM26) Australia 1946 small registered Airmail cover, Rockhampton to Ohio, bearing vertical pair 1/4d Magenta KGVI, 4 x 3.5d Peace and a 5.5d Peace, to make rate of 4/3.5d Atttractive cover with Rockhampton Registered cds of 1 AP 46 and arrival backstamp of APR 11 1946. Lovely item, just $39 MM27) Tasmania, 1853 1d Blue Courier SG 2, fine 4 Margin VFU, nicest I have seen in a very long time! Cancelled by neat barred numeral 68 of Hobart. Cat $2600. This is way more attractive and superior in every way to an SG1 on another dealers website at $1900. Price $1650 MM28) New South Wales, NSW 1854 8d DIADEM IMPERF, SG97 Golden Yellow, FINE USED with 3 Huge Margins, and showing part of adjoining stamp at the top, proving this is not a cut down perforated stamp, as so many of these are. Cancelled by oval rings NSW handstamp. Scarce and attractive, cat $2800. Price $1495 MM29) Australia KGVI 3.5d Red postal stationary envelope, ACSC EP48, uprated by 2 x Halfpenny orange Kangaroo, 2 x 3.5d Scouts and 1d Princess, to make correct 1/0.5d registered rate, cancelled Elizabeth Str. Melbourne 10.30am, 21/11/52 to Prahran, and delivered the same day! The 3.5d Scout being the 1st issue of QEII reign. Scarce and attractive 6 stamp franking. Those were the days! Price $39 MM31) Budget offer For Booklet collectors. 1927 Canberra Booklet of 16 x 1.5d Canberra, one stamp removed. Cover and stamps as usual have some tone spots. Retail if finer $140, this one just $39 MM32) As above but containing only 3 stamps, price $29 MM33) Australia 1952 small neat typed address surface mail cover bearing 5d on 4.5d Violet KGV, plus 3d Red sideface KGVI to make 8d rate to USA. Has been neatly opened at top. Scarce dual reign commercial cover, cancelled by a clean single GPO Sydney cds of 27 FE 52 the 5d alone being cat at $200 on cover. Price $149 MM34) Australia 1929 cover (June) with May Newsletter re the search for the “SOUTHERN CROSS”“ON AIRWAYS SERVICE” cover from 35 A.M.P. Buildings Perth W.A. to Messrs. Andrews Bros. P/L Adelaide S.A. enclosing the two page “AIRWAYS BULLETIN” May 1929 and noting statistics to May 31st. 1929 and “… AFTER THE THREE D.H.50 MACHINES WERE RELEASED FROM THE SEARCH FOR THE “SOUTHERN

CROSS”... and “THE NEW AUSTRALIAN AIR STAMPS ISSUED TO THE PUBLIC ON MAY 20TH...” with the cover being affixed with two of these 3d green Air Mail Service stamps and one 1d green KGV and cancelled “PERTH/1 JUN/1929/12:45AM” and slogan “AIR MAIL/IMAGE PLANE/SAVES TIME” Scarce and historic! $79 MM35) Australia 1945 (Mar) OHMS Dept of Air Redirected Cover to RAAF HQ Prahran. From Group 10 Darwin to Officer In Charge Records RAAF Headquarters Prahran Vic then cancelled and inscribed D. Manning with 5½d indigo Duke and Duchess of Gloucester with CDS “”AIR FORCE P.O./8MR45/NO. 20” and 3 x indistinct CDS “AUSTRALIA/??” with reverse inscribed “PEACE 1945” and “2½ SURCHARGE” Nice military/aviation item. Price $79 MM36) Australia 1931 Airmail Cover, Carnarvon, WA to Yalbalgo Station Carnarvon. These covers are highly sought after. Yalbalgo is one of the largest sheep stations in WA, and the mail must have been delivered by aircraft. This cover bears 6d & 1/- Kangaroos, plus 3d KGV all with small multiple wmk, Perf 13.5 x 12.5. The 1/is cat. $250 on cover, and the 6d at $150. Nice clean, fresh item. We sold a similar cover recently for $395, this one is just as nice, price $349 MM37) Great Britain 1840 2d Pale Blue SG6 , lovely 4 margin example with light black Maltese Cross cancel. Lettered PL. As nice as they come! Cat $2000. Great value at less than 40% price $795 MM38) Australia 1928 part parcel label, bearing 6d Tasmania Tablet and 3d Blue Kookaburra, canclelled by cds of 9 DE 28 in Violet, believed to be Hobart Parcels Branch, but rather indistinct. Very scarce combination usage of State and Federal stamps. Price $149 MM39) Stack of 13 uncirculated club sheets from deceased estate. Assembled decades ago! Noted Papua Lakatois to 2/6d x 2 (30 in all) Kangaroos to 2/- (27) KGV Heads to 1/4d x 2 both cto C of A wmk, (56 in all) GB 1934 10/- Seahorse, South Australia with Long Types to 2/6d (20) WA Swans x 43, plus many many others. Must bew close to 400 stamps here, got to be worth $1.50 each. Price $575. MM40) Victoria 1854 Imperf 6d Dull Orange Woodblock, SG32a. Almost 4 margin mint example without gum, just touching at left hand side. Very fresh looking, tiny scuff at top left does not detract from appearance. Cat $1000. Attrasctive and scarce, price $295 MM41) Victoria 1854 Woodblock, 1/- Red & Blue registered stamp, 4 margins used, with clean strike of V oval handstamp. Budget priced at $149 MM44) Victoria 1884 – 1901 1/- Stamp Duty, pale blue on pale yellow, fine mint lightly hinged. Retail $200, my price $149 MM45) Australia 1918 1/- 3rd wmk Turquoise Kangaroo, fresh mint unhinged, cat $275. Couple of nibbed perfs at top and a bit of a gum bend, hardly visible form the front make this a great budget buy at $98 MM47) Australia 1918 3rd wmk 3d Yellow Olive Kangaroo, Die II, mint unhinged, cat $800. Light overall gum toning. Nice budget price stamp at $259 MM48) Australia 1918 2d & 2.5d 3rd wmk Kangaroos, both mint unhinged. Cat $150, nice budget pair with only very minor imperfections, price $79 MM49) Australia 1964/5 5d QEII Green and Red, both in Booklet Panes of 6, mint unhinged, cat $80, price $59 MM50) Australia 1930/31 5d Chestnut KGV Heads, Smalll Multi Wmk and C of A wmk mint unhinged, in very differing shades. Cat $190, price $139 M1) Lighthouse Dark Green leather look Padded 3 ring binder as new, with gold blocking Australia and Kangaroo on face and spine. Contains 28 x double sided White Vario de-luxe sheets 5 and 6 strip. Some of these are a little aged, but mostly fine. Retail when new $140 plus. My price just $42 M2) Seven Seas Australia Brown Padded hingeless album, 1966 – 1989, in good condi-

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MAY OFFERS tion, a few mounts strips will need replacing at beginning. Retail if new around $250, very cheap at 25%, just $62.50 M3) Australia 1930 Magnificent Airmail Cover Perth – Yalbalgo Station, Carnarvon, with cds of Perth 4NO30 bearing strip of 3 x 5d KGV Small Multi Wmk, and 2 x halfpenny orange to make 1/4d Airmail rate. Very scarce cover, we sold a similar item recently for $395. This one $349 M4) Another cover to Yalbalgo Station, from Perth with cds 2JE37, bearing 3d Blue SA Centenary and 2 x 1d Green Queen Elizabeth Die 1. This one far more modestly priced at $45 M5) Australia 1946 small airmail cover, Wahroonga, WA cds 31MY46 bearing marginal horiz. Strip of 3 1/4d Magenta KGVI, to Washington DC, USA. Rate form Mar. 1946 for Airmail all the way was 4/-, so thisd 2d overpaid. Scarce and attractive, price $120 M6) Australia 1937 KGVI 3d Blue “White Wattles” on small airmail cover, Brisbane 19/8/1937 cds – Perth, together with 2d red KGV to make 5d rate. Rare dual reign cover, the 3d being cat. $500 on cover. Price $375 M7) Australia 2000 Olympics Athletics PNC. Very scarce, and cat. $120. Price $95 M8) Luxembourg. Lovely collection of semi-postal issues virtually compete from 1921 to 1991. Well over 400 different stamps with a CV of over £3,000 = $6000 plus. The used are generally all very fine used/CTO. Postally used of many of these are almost non-existent & CTO is the only realistic way to collect them. Virtually all complete sets. The mint Pre-1939 are mixed hinged & unhinged. Generally the hinging is pretty light. 1945-1954 are mixed hinged & unhinged, any stamps displayed inverted are hinged. Generally the hinging is light, with just one of the late 1940’s sets being heavily mounted. 1955-1991 are all mint unhinged. A chance to buy at under one third of catalogue for this superb lot, price $1950. M9) Australia 1913 1st Wmk Kangaroos, 4d, 5d & 6d, all superb Mint Unhinged, post office fresh with white gum. The 5d is particularly well centred and a premium stamp. Cat. $2150. A rare opportunity to buy these in a group. Price $1595 M10) Australia 1924 6d Chestnut 3rd wmk Kangaroo, mint unhinged, cat $75. My price $55 M11) Australia 1915 2/- Brown 3rd wmk Kangaroo, with “S” Flaw, very scarce stamp, lightish parcel used, cat $450. Price $335 M12) Australia 1932 9d Violet C of A wmk Kangaroo fresh Mint Unhinged, well centred for this most are way off! Cat $125, price $95 M13) Australia 1932 Two Pound C of A Kangaroo Specimen type D, mint lightly hinged, cat $100, price $75 M14) As above, set 10/-, One Pound and Two Pound. Cat $270, price $175 M16) Australia KGV 4d Orange Single wmk, fresh mint unhinged, cat $125, price $95 M17) Australia KGV 4d Yellow - Orange Single wmk, fresh mint lightly hinged, cat $80, price $59 M18) Australia KGV Single wmk, 4d Blue, fresh mint unhinged, cat. $150, price $110 M19) Australia KGV C of A wmk, 4d Olive, fresh mint unhinged, cat. $50, price $39 M20) Australia KGV C of A wmk, 4.5d Violet, fresh mint unhinged, cat. $100, centered a bit high, price $65 M21) Australia KGV C of A wmk, 1/4d Turquoise, fresh mint lightly hinged, well centred, cat. $150, price $119 M22) Australia 1914 6d Claret Kookaburra, cto. Centered high, cat $80, cheap stamp at $39 M23) Australia 1932 5/- Harbour Bridge, mint lightly hinged, gum a little aged. Cat $550. Cheap price $395 M24) Another 5/- Bridge, but fresh mint unhinged, Cat $1500, price $1125

M25) Australia 1934 Vic. Centenary perf 11.5 set, mint unhinged, cat $150, price $110 M26) As above, 3d value in Ash mint unhinged gutter block of 4, inc. “Flag” variety on lower two stamps. ACSC 155za, Cat $225 price $169 M27) Australia 1935 Silver Jubilee set, fresh mint unhinged, Cat $115, price $89 M28) Australia 1935 Anzac Pair, fresh mint unhinged, cat $100. Price $76 M29) Australia 1936 S.A. Centenary set, fresh mint unhinged, cat $45, price $33 M30) Australia 1937 1/- Lyrebird, perf 13.5 x 14 in imprint block of 4, centre of sheet. Mint hinged, cat $400, price $275 M31) Australia 1937 Robes 5/- Thick paper imprint block of 4, **/* hinged on top two stamps only, cat $90, price $65 M32) Australia 1937 Robes 10/- Thick paper imprint block of 4, **/* hinged on top two stamps only, facially fine, but some minor toning affecting 2 left hand stamps cat $150, price $75 M33) Australia 1937 Robes One Pound Thick paper imprint block of 4, **/* hinged on top two stamps only, cat $500, price $375 M34) Australia 1937 Robes set 5/- to One Pound mint unhinged set, minor probs. with the one pound cat $200, budget price $99! M35) Australia 1948 Robes 5/- Thin White paper imprint block of 4, **/* hinged on Top two stamps only, cat $75, price $55 M36) Australia 1940 AIF set mint unhinged, cat $60, price $44 M37) Australia 1940 KGVI 3d blue, die III, mint unhinged, cat $60, price $44 M38) Australia 1948 Arms High Values 5/- to Two Pounds, fresh mint unhinged, cat $325, price $249 M39) Australia 1963 Navigators 4/- to Two Pounds mint unhinged, at $210, price $159 M40) BCOF 1946 set to 5/- thick paper mint hinged, cat $235, price $165 M41) GB 1840 2d Blue SG 5a, with variety, double corner letters, 4 margins, close in places lettered O A . Cat $2300. Very scarce stamp, under 20% catalogue, $495 M42) 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 M43) Australia 1913 1st wmk Twopence Halfpenny Indigo Kangaroo, mlh, retail $70, this one centred low, half price, just $35 M44) Australia 1913 1st wmk 3d Olive, Die 1, perf small OS, mlh, retail $250, this one centered high, just half price $125 M45) Australia 1929 Small multiple wmk 5/- Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, perf OS cto with gum, very attractive stamp. Retail $225. My price $169. M46) Australia 1913 Halfpenny Green 1st wmk Kangaroo, in mint unhinged strip of 5, superb! retail $125, my price just $85. M47) Australia 1913 6d Blue 1st wmk Kangaroo, mint lightly hinged, retail $130, my price just $85. M48) Australia 1915 Twopence Halfpenny Indigo 3rd wmk Roo, mint unhinged, retail $70, my price just $49 M49) ) Australia 1915 6d Ultramarine 3rd wmk Kangaroo perf OS, mint hinged, retail $120, my price under half just $59. M50) Green real leather Elbe Ambassador album, with gold trim. Includes hand produced album pages for New Guinea and Papua 1884 – 1953. Superb presentation, cost $350, just $98 M51) Australia Seven Seas Album in brown padded binder, with pages 1981 – 88. New Cost $85, just $39

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MAY OFFERS MF3) All new World Mission mix 20kg just arrived, on close clipped paper, very high count with about 7000 to the kg. Plenty of higher values and smaller countries like Finland and Vanuatu noted. Mixture spans over 40 years and is the widest variety I have ever seen in such a mix. Got to easily be worth 3c to 4c a stamp, so here goes: 100g for $26.50, 250g for $62.50, 500g for $118, 1kg for $225, 5kg for $1069, 10kg for $1995. MF4) Solomon Islands, Mint Unhinged starter collection of 100 different, mainly in complete sets and minisheets, 1980’s & 1990’s, great thematics here inc. Military, planes, ships, yachts, royalty, Olympics, sports, UPU, birds etc. 12 minisheets and approx. 60 stamps you will never see again at this price, $49 the lot. (5 lots available) MF5) 100 different Christmas Island, on my packets list for $100, 1 lot only for $69 MF6) 1500 different Australia, back in stock again, only 5 available. New content, price $109 MF7) 125 Different Australia pre- decimal, lovely lot, only $8.50 per packet. MF9) Massive green folder weighting 2.25kg, with mostly Australia Commercial mails, 1980’s period, mainly to Dept. of Defence, Canberra. Wide variety of frankings/postmarks, plus some uprated PSE’s. Also some advertising covers. Approx 275 covers, go to be worth 50c a cover or thereabouts. Price $129. MF10) Spain 1500 different, back in stock again, price $179 MF15) Victoria mixture of around 220 off paper, mixed condition, values to One Shilling, nice variety, unchecked for perfs, shades, varieties etc. Price $132 MF16) As above, Queensland, approx. 150 for $129 MF17) As above New South Wales, approx. 300 for $179 MF18) Australia Collection in Green Binder on Seven Seas Pages, contain lovely used collection, with many cto from Official folder. Noted, simplified Kangaroos to 5/-, 3d & 6d Kookaburras cto, KGV 4.5d Die II cto, Kingsford Smith pair ovpt. OS and nearly all KGV Commem period cto (No 5/- Bridge) Robes sets both thick and thin paper, Navigators set of 8 inc. white papers, then virtually complete to end 1975, all cto or very fine used. A great lot. Price $1425 MF20) Victoria 1857 6d orange Roulette 7-9 Raymonds Machine (4 sides) exceptionally rare! Roulette by Calvert on all four sides, the roulette type, very fine points, are identical to the Raymond Machine. It is believed that Calvert perforated only a few such ‘experimental’ sheets. Extremely rare with only a small number recorded or seen. This copy has four full and generous margins, is ‘full bloom” colour and nicely cancelled with barred numeral 1 of Melbourne. This roulette type is exceptionally rare and not even catalogued. The stamp has been plated and is position number 41 on the plate of 5- (25 x 25) This stamp has no thins, no creases and is in perfect condition. Price $495 MF21) Victoria 1857 small cover to London, bearing 2d & 6d Woodblocks, with 3rd adhesive sadly removed. “Per Colombian” V1 cancel of Melbourne, and oval JY 22 on reverse, vermillion arrival paid cds on face 25 SEP 1857. Attractive and rare early cover. Price $169 MF22 ) Victoria 1879 – 1900 Stamp Duties Melbourne Printing Perf. 13. Postally used 3/Olive – Drab, with Shepparton cds of AUG 3 98, also 5/- Claret on Yellow with Sandhurst cds, and 10/- Brown on Rose with indistinct cancel. Possibly fiscal, together with 2/Blue, postal use but trimmed down one side and 3 different shades of the 1d. All on a well written up album page. PrIce $79 MF25) Australia JL 3 1920 3d 3rd wmk Kangaroo Die I on small cover Sydney to Sweden, with “The Swedish Chamber of Commerce for Australia and South Sea Islands Sydney” cachet on flap, arrival handstamp for Nybro, 31 8 20. Clean and attractive cover. Cat $100 on cover, price $69 MF26) Australia 4 OC 1928 Registered cover, with manuscript “Seacliff S.A. 473” to Chicago bearing 9d 3rd wmk Kangaroo Die II. Arrival stamps on reverse NOV 14 28. Clean

attractive cover, cat $350. Price $210 MF27) Australia 31 JAN 1930 cover Sydney – Chicago, bearing 3d Blue KGV SMW perf 13.5 x 12.5, perf OS, Type A. Cat $150 on cover. Price $110 MF28) Australia small Airmail cover July 1931 Onslow W.A. to Perth bearing 5d Chestnut KGV SM wmk P13.5 x 12.5 Scarce single usage on domestic cover, very clean item. Price $69 MF30) 1935 Anzac 2d pair with KGV 1d Green on neat small local Airmail cover to Collins St. Melbourne, cancelled by Melbourne 9MY35 cds. Anzac 2d on cover is quite scarce, pairs even more so. $37.50 MF31) Australia 1913 1st wmk 2/- Brown Kangaroo superb used, with full perfs, perfectly centered and with small part of cds cancel to lower left. As good as they come! Premium quality, cat $250 for “ordinary” fine used. Price $219 MF32) 1929 Small Multiple wmk 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo fine commercially used with clear 12 AU 31 Collins St. Melbourne cds. Centered a little left, but a very scarce stamp in commercial used, cat $700, price $575 MF33) Australia1934 Victorian Centenary, fine used sets of both perfs (6) Retail $70, PRICE $49 MF34) Australia 1934 Victorian Centenary 3d blue, both perfs, each in mint unhinged marginal block of 4, retail $80 as singles, price $59 MF35) Australia 1949 Halfpenny Orange no watermark Kangaroo corner Imprint Block mint unhinged with Coil Perf. Very scarce, cat $100. Price $69 MF36) Australia 1958 Memorial Pair, lower marginal block of 4 (2 pairs) together with 2d Green Queen Elizabeth (QM) to make 2/- Airmail rate to UK, on small Airmail cover to Portswood, Southampton UK, with Melbourne Boxed machine cancel of 18 MAR 1958. A pair is rare on cover, this is almost certainly a unique combination usage. Price $249 MF39) GB 1925 Wembley 1d used on front of picture postcard “A typical bungalow in the colony Sierra Leone” posted at the exhibition with special Wembley slogan to Onehunga, New Zealand. Rare usage. $96 MF40) GB 1933 West Country Air Services 3d Blue and Orange Imperf Plate Proof, in mini sheetr format on ungummed paper. Very scarce piece for Cinderella, Revenue or Aviation collector. $59 MF41) GB 1948 Channel Islands Liberation set of 2 on neat printed Dealer first day cover. Very scarce to find in such fine condition. Price $37.50 each MF43 ) South West Africa, 1937 Coronation set of 16 in Bi-lingual pairs, on illustrated registered FDC Windhoek – Johannesburg. AS FRESH AS THE DAY IT WAS PRODUCED! Magnificent addition to any Royalty Collection. A less attractive similar cover with damaged corner appears on eBay at $51, my price $49. (5 available) MF44) Seven Seas Pitcairn Is. Hingeless Album 1940 - 1981 in red padded binder, in nice almost as new condition, includes a few sets mint unhinged for free from 1979 – 81. New price around $295, this one under a third….$95 MF46)) Seven Seas Papua New Guineas Hingeless Album in cream padded binder, 1952 – 1981, in nice almost new condition, includes mint unhinged sets 1980 – 1981 near complete, plus a few mint unhinged sets for free in the last couple of years. Retail for the album alone would be $295, price $95 FE2) QUEENSLAND - 1860: a most collectable example of a 2 mgn, lightly used 1d carmine-rose QV Chalon SG1 - huge mgn at right - c.v. £800 = $1750. Price below 15% cat. Just $249 FE3) TASMANIA - 1892: complete MNH pane of 60x ½d orange/mauve QV Key Plate issue SG 216 - some minor imperfections include a few gum spots, some perf. separation on the bottom selvedge and a hint of creasing in the same are

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MAY OFFERS (please view largest image). Overall condition and appearance is still excellent total c.v. is £125+ = $275. Priced well at 40% cat. $110 FE9) Great Britain 1924 KGV Block Cypher definitives set of 12. 3d, 4d, 5d, 6d & 1/- and mint hinged, other values including the key 10d are mint unhinged. Attractive set, retail $250. Price $185 FE10) Great Britain 1934 KGV Photogravure definitives set of 11. Mostly lightly hinged, top value 1/- is mint unhinged, retail $85, price $59 FE11) Great Britain 1939 – 48 Square High Values set of 6. Both 2/6d values are mint unhinged, also the 10/- light blue and one pound. 5/- & 10/- dark blue are lightly hinged. Retail $450, price $329 FE12) Great Britain 1951 Festival High Values, set of 4. 2/6d & 5/- are light hinge, 10/- & One Pound mint unhinged. Retail $90 Price $69 FE13) GB 1959 One Pound Windsor Castle. 2nd DLR printing. Mint lightly hinged. Retail $80, price $59 FE14) Great Britain 1971 1/2p Machin, left phosphor band, ex One Pound Wedgwood Booklet, with perfect perfs, (not trimmed as most of these are) Mint Unhinged, SG X842, retail $55, price $42 FE16) Worldwide mostly modern Christmas Collection on 30 plus 7 strip as new Hagners, mostly postally used plus some nice mint unhinged sets. Small amount of duplication, would be close to 1000 stamps if not more. Hagners alone retail $40 plus. Price for the lot $89 FE18) Australia, 1975 – 2002, cto almost complete collection in 40 Hagners, price $89 FE19) Two x Royal Mail super quality padded postcard albums, in Olive Green, as new, each with 50 brand new 2 division double sided Hagner style sheets. Space for up to 400 Postcards or Covers. Retail value for new albums, plus the Hagners would be $315, price under a half $149 FE20) Approx 400 Cuba, mostly large MOSTLY IN COMPLETE SETS, CTO. Great lot, price $39 FE21) Rwanda 1963 – 1983 Mint Unhinged collection mostly in complete sets, very colourful lot. Looks like 200 or so different. Price $39 FE22) Pitcairn Is. 1983 – 1994 Approx. Mint Unhinged collection in quality near new black page stockbook alone worth $30, looks like 75 complete sets. Included Fish and Ships definitive sets. Retail over $400, price under a half $195, be quick! FE23) Australia Decimal cto collection, 1992 – 1989 approx, lovely clean lot with many top values and complete sets, in padded green binder with 24 near new Hagner pages retail $30 plus. Appears virtually complete for the period plus a few extras. Approx 500 stamps. Price $84 FE26) South Australia. Two early Postcards, with undivided back with views of The Exhibition Buildings Adelaide (Sadly demolished 1962 to make way for University Buildings) and The Congregational Church North Adelaide (Thankfully still standing!) Both used to London from Adelaide (different addressees) each bearing 1d Queen Victoria and Halfpenny light green definitive. Superb condition for postally used! Price $54 the two. FE27) Australia 1928 3d Kookaburra minisheet, on First Day Cover, cancelled by two strikes of the red exhibition cancel with clear 29OC28 cancels to Nyngan NSW. Small clean attractive cover, sheet has a little surface gum seepage. Cat. $1000, good buy at $695 FE29) P.R. China 2003 Prestige Booklet Launch of 1st manned Chinese spacecraft Snenzhou.Very scarce, the only ones of these I have ever owned! 1 only left price $37.50. FE30) Australia Seven Seas Hingeless album as new in dark green padded binder for the years 1969 – 1990 normal retail around $295, at under one third retail $95 FE33) GB Selection on stockcards, commencing 1935 Silver Jubilee, then KEVIII set

of 4, KGVI Dark Colours, 1940 Centenary, 1948 Silver Wedding, 1946 Victory, 1948 Olympics and 1949 UPU. The QEII 1963 Crowns wmk Castles, 1967 No Wmk Castles and 1969 2/6 – One Pound Machins. Some of this is hinged others unhinged. Price as hinged retail approx $110. Very cheap at $69 FE34) Great Britain Commemoratives 1953 – 65appears complete mint lightly hinged. (3d Nature week is fine used) Retail approx $70, price $49 FE36) Great Britain Decimal Commemoratives on hagner pages, mint unhinged 1971 – 1979 near complete plus a couple of extras. 60 plus complete sets. Retail $75 plus, price $49 FE37) Australia 1937 5/- Robes on thin white paper, imprint block of 4 mint unhinged, cat $100, price $69 FE38) Australia 1958 5/- Stockman in bottom left corner marginal block of 4, mint unhinged. Retail $100 as singles, piece. Price $69 FE39) Australia 1936 Submarine Cable pair in mint unhinged imprint gutter blocks, low value hinged in gutter and just touched on one stamp. Very fresh. Cat. $120, price $89 FE41) WESTERN AUSTRALIA 1879 Queen Victoria 6d TELEGRAPH 6d fine postally used with light barred P.O. in circle postmark. Dealers retail from 5 years ago $475. Very scarce indeed and the first we have ever handled in such nice condition. Australia leading dealers rarely have this in stock. Price $425 FE42) Australia 1936 Small Airmail Cover with “THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE” insignia on reverse, addressed to Redhall, Beeston, Leeds, England and with 3d blue KGV, 6d grey-brown Air Mail Service Kingsford Smith, 3d green DH66 Air Mail 2d red KGV and 4d olive KGV cancelled ADELAIDE/4/12:30P16MR36/STH.AUST.” with Air Mail etiquette. All together making up the 1/6d Airmail rate. Lovely item price $110 FE45) Australia 1934 MacArthur set of 3 on Registered Illustrated 1934 Victorian Centenary Philatelic fdc to Timaru NZ, with registered Public Offices Victoria C2 Label No. 264. Also Public Offices cds 1st Nov. 1934. Scarce and attractive. Cat $550. Price $395 FE46) Australia 1937, 3d Blue KGVI Die I, 6d Kookaburra & 1/- Lyrebird on small plain registered FDC, Enmore NSW to Christchurch NZ. No toning as usually seen on these covers! Retail in this condition $200 plus. My price just $125 FE47) VICTORIA ASC F25 1 Pound Orange George and Dragon Stamp Duty postally used. Usually these are only seen fiscally used or cto. With socked on nose Octagonal DOWNTRAIN VICTORIA JA 12 04 Cancel, VERY FINE USED. Unashamedly asking double the cto price of $160 for this one, probably 100 times scarcer! $319 FE48) Syria, in the news and hopefully soon in your collection! Nice packet of 100 different, with many earlier. 3 lots only available price $57.50 FE49) USA, 3c Purple THOMAS JEFFERSON – Scott #807 Full sheet of 100 Mint unhinged Double Perf Shift Error.. in two directions. Very impressive. Image shifted up and left, resulting in dramatic double (vertical and horizontal) perf errors on all stamps. Hard to find this error in full, fault-free sheets as the stamps are usually broken up into blocks or pairs. This mint never hinged sheet has full original gum with no perf. separations nor missing selvedge. Block of 4 currently on sale on Ebay for up to $225! Offered at One Third the price of this block, the complete sheet for $1875. Blocks of 4 available if the sheet does not sell at $95 per block, please enquire. FE51) Fabulous Canada packets, 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 FE52) Canada off paper mixture, nice lot with little duplication (no more than 3 of any stamp) approx 3000 for $225

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MAY OFFERS FE53) 400 Different Sports, all large, one lot only $22.50 FE54) 500 Different Chile, on my list at $110, one only, $99 FE55) New South Africa Mission Mix, on close clipped single paper just arrived. 250g for $25, 500g for $45, 1kg for $80 FE56) 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 $325FE57) 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. FE59) 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 FE61) Really superb and guaranteed unpicked off paper mixtures just received, you will be extremely pleased you purchased these, from under 2c per stamp. Supplies are very limited. Worldwide. Approx 1000 for $24.95, 2500 for $59.50, 5000 for $110, 10,000 for $199, 15,000 for $295. FE62) Amazing lot of old British Empire, mint unhinged, in blocks of 4. Just surfaced after major dealer’s retirement, this lot is all 65 years old or more, all issued from the 1920’s to around 1950. Absolutely No India, Pakistan, Great Britain or Australia. This lot will include smaller islands, complete sets, and some semi-postals. Countries like Cyprus, Mauritius, Seychelles, NZ, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Tonga, Gilbert and Ellice Islands. Values to 1/- and priced from under $2 per block, you could easily pay $5 to $10 per block for many of these if purchased singly. My clearance price, and we only have a few lots is as follows, the larger lots will have better values and scarcer stamps included.: a) Sample lot of 25 different blocks, $49, b) 50 different blocks $99. FE63) Australia 1934 MacArthur, mint unhinged set of 3 (no dark hills 2d) usually $120, now just $89, or the set of 4 with dark hills usually $145 for $109 FE64) Australia 1929 6d Small Multi. Wmk Kangaroo, perf OS, Mint Unhinged, normally $75, now just $55. FE65) Australia KGV 5d C of A wmk, Ovpt. OS, mint unhinged, usually $75, now just $55. FE66) Australia 1934 Victoria Centenary, 1/- perf 11.5, mint unhinged marginal block of 8, some faults, 5 stamps are fine, two have minor toning, and one with an ink spot. Normal price $120 per stamp. Very cheap at $450. FE67) Australia 1931 Brown 6d Airmail, ovpt. OS, mint unhinged, normally $50, now $35 each (2 only at this price) FE68) Queensland, attractive collection of postal stationery comprising Postcards (14) Lettercards (9) Reply Cards (2) and the scarce 4 corners reply card, H & G 6a (unpriced in the catalogue) Clean and fresh original lot all mint, 26 items. $795, now reduced to $635. FE69) Bulk lot of mainly Australian stamps, covers, albums etc, decimal and pre-decimal as cleared ex deceased house recently. Nothing spectacular noted but heaps of fun especially if you love stuff in bulk to sort! This is quite an amazing varied lot. We are parceling out in 3 sizes: a) 5kg lot $129, b) 10kg lot $237.50, c) 20kg lot $449 FE70) A similar lot to the above, but all World: a) 5kg lot $129, b) 10kg lot $237.50, c) 20kg lot $449 FE71) Bulk Prinz mounts, buy at big discounts. Each pack contains a variety of sizes at around ONE THIRD of what it would cost to buy individual packs. Please note that this offer is for CLEAR MOUNTS. A 500 Gram Pack contains around the same amount of mounts as in 15 regular packs of strips. Elsewhere these are selling at up to $89, my price

500 grams just $74, 250 grams $39, 1kg for $159. (I do carry a full range of Prinz Mounts both clear and black so just let me know what sizes you want if you prefer to buy in individual packs) FE72) Tweezers, famous Solingen German Manufacture, the one dealers prefer, 150mm pointed ends supplied in protective sheath. RRP $16.50 per pair, my price NEAR HALF at $8.50, or two pairs for $15. (Dealer special 10 pairs for $62.50) FE73) French Colonies, old packet of 100 different, mostly if not all pre-independence. Made up near 50 years ago! Usual retail around $12, my price just $7.50 per pack, or two for $12! FE74) Old tyme dealers packet stock, mostly single sets in Glassines priced to sell at up to $1.50 each some 30 odd years ago. These are Worldwide mainly thematic sets, in cto condition. A chance to buy at a HUGE DISCOUNT, there will be some duplication in these lots. 100 packets mixed, $150 retail for $49, Triple sized lot, $450 retail for $99. FE75) Victoria 6d Woodblock, 4 margins on 1858 small neat cover Melbourne to Dublin, tied by Barred Numeral 1. Melbourne oval departure cds Jan 6 1858 and Dublin arrival cds MR 16 1858 on reverse. Sent “Per Colombian” Stamp has been affixed inverted, which would probably be to alert the addressee of bad news. We had a similar cover on last month’s list which I could have sold 3 times over, this one is nicer, as is to a way scarcer destination. $395, now reduced, just $295. FE76) GB 1955 Waterlow HV Castles, MLH cat 225 pounds, price $125. FE77) GB 1951 Festival HVs set of 4, SG 509/12 MLH, cat 100 pounds, price $57.50. FE78) Australia & Victoria Postal Stationery collection, 104 items, mainly postally used in album. Highlight is 1d Red octagonal envelope uprated to Celebes, Dutch Indies, (addressees name deleted. Nevertheless very scarce) Most of this is KGV, with some nice uprates to Holland. Terrific value at under $20 per item, $1950. FE88) Australia 1960 Girl Guides 5d, with offset, ACSC 377c, From a possibly unique block of 48 mint unhinged. Cat. $75 per stamp. I have seen a block of 4 on eBay recently offered by a well known Sydney firm for $175. Blocks of 4 at $149 or singles at $39. FE93) Western Australia 1861 4d Vermilion, cds dated SP 27 1867. SG40, retail $350. My price $198. FE95) Papua 1/- Lakatoi, airmail overprint in dark carmine, scarce. Mint lightly hinged, $89. FE96) Brunei, 1942-44 Japanese occupation overprint (SG.J9) 8c grey-black, with overprint in blue fine used. Cat. $1700. Quarter catalogue Price $425. FE100) World on paper, our popular mix of mainly large, as received from overseas. We only get around 2kg of this each month. Close clipped single paper in the main. Count will be about 4000 – 5000 to the kg. 100g for $29.50, 500g for $129, 1kg for $250 FE101) New Zealand 1925 Dunedin set, MUH, Retail $135, my price just $98. FE103) GB 1883 1/- Dull Green, correct colour, with fine RANDWICK GATE EDINBURGH cds. SG 196, cat $650, nice lightly cancelled example worth a 100% premium according to Gibbons, but from me just 15% $195. MJN1) P R China, 1997 Year Set in Official open out folder. 98 stamps and 4 minisheets all mint unhinged. Price $121.50 (3 available) MJN2) P R China, 1998 Year Book, officially sealed shrink wrapped. Contains 75 stamps and 1 minisheet. Price $121.50 (3 available) MJN15) P R China 1992 Complete year set, MUH, 49 stamps and 2 minisheets, price $59.50 MJN15a) P R China 1993 Complete year set, MUH, 49 stamps and 3 minisheets, price $88 MJN20) Australia 1924 2/- Maroon 3rd wmk Kangaroo, mint unhinged. Very well

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MAY OFFERS centred and with good perfs, retail with usual centering on Melbourne dealers list at $650. Mild overall gum toning, does not detract form superb facial appearance. Good value at $495. MJN33) Australia 1937 1/- Lyrebird, perf 13.5 x 14, Imprint block of 4, with the longer 42.5mm imprint. Hinged on top two stamps only. Retail $450, price $335 MJN34) Australia 1948 Arms high values, complete set of 4 to two pounds, in Imprint Block of 4, mint unhinged, some gum creasing, largely invisible from the front. Very attractive group, cat $1800, price $1395 MJN36) Australia 1963 – 5 Sterling Navigators, Set of 6 in matching lower corner blocks of 4, mint unhinged. Retail $750, price $649 MJN37) Australia 1929 3d Air type 1, top corner plate 4 block of 4, mint unhinged and Post Office Fresh! Cat $125, price $95 MJN38) Australia 1932 1/- Large Lyre, scarcer yellow green shade in imprint block of 4. hinged on top two stamps. Gum a little aged. Retail $525, price $395 MJN39) Australia 1934 Victoria Centenary set, perf 10.5 in mint unhinged gutter imprint blocks of 4. Cat $660. Price $495 MJN40) Australia 1935 2/- Silver Jubilee in top right plate 1 block of 4. Huinged only in selvedge. Cat $550, price $395 MJN42) Australia 1914 6d Kookaburra in part imprint horizontal pair, fresh mint unhinged, retail $500 as singles, price $375 MJN43) As above, but hinged (these are from a separated block of 4) Retail $95 each, price for the pair $139 MJN44) Australia 1936 SA Centenary set in fresh mint unhinged gutter imprint blocks. Cat $270, price $199 MJN45) Australia 1934 Macarthur 9d in fresh mint unhinged gutter imprint block, caT $575. Few nibbled perfs at top. Attractive piece. Price $429 MJN46) Australia 1936 NSW Sesqui. Set in mint unhinged blocks of 4, the 3d being a gutter imprint block. Cat $195, price $145 MJN47) Australia 1942 1/6d double globe Hermes, thick paper in McCracken scarcer 38mm imprint block of 4, mint unhinged. Cat $175, price $129 MJN48) Australia 1935 1/- Anzac in Gutter imprint block of 4, MNG. Cat $475 as mint hinged. Cheap at $159 MJN49) Australia 1932 6d Kookaburra in mint unhinged gutter block of 4 (hinged in central gutter only) Cat $200, price $149 MJN50) 1937 10/- Robes in mint unhinged imprint block of 4, Cat $250. some very minor tone spots. Price under a half $124 J1) Australia Super Quality Mission Mix, just received from a New Charity Source. This mix is clearly unpicked, wide ranging and goes to end of 2013, with many 60c and 70c commems. To be seen. Also lots of unfranked, high values and some foreign noted. Mostly on single paper, with variable trim, some on torn paper. This is a genuine lot, sold exactly as donated. We have less than 20kg of this available. Count will be high, maybe up to 5000 per kg. price per 500g $49, 1kg $89, 2.5kg $209, 5kg $399, 10kg $749 J2) Massive Australia mint and used Collection/accumulation in 10 large and 3 smaller stockbooks, commencing States then 1913 kangaroos and KGV Heads. Unchecked by is for watermarks etc, KGV with 4d Lemon and 2 x 1/4d, around 100 Kangaroos with HVs, 5/- x 3 and One Pound Grey fine used, but nibbed corner perf, and 5/- Harbour Bridge, thinned, but ok from the front. Also KGV & VI fairly complete with 2/- Jubilee, 1/- Anzac, Robes and Arms sets etc., QEII to 1996. Huge lot with great potential. Maybe up to 10,000 stamps in this. $1495 the lot. J3) Romania, lovely collection of 1000 different, mainly large, appears mostly used with

much cto. On our packets list at $73, one only at $54.50 J6) Australia 1913 10/- Deep Pink and Grey 10/- 1st wmk Kangaroo, socked on nose by slightly heavy Melbourne 19JE18 cds, late usage, scarce and attractive, full perfs, centered a bit low. Much deeper shade than is usually seen. Cat. $1100, cheap at below 75% cat. $795. J7) Western Australia One Pound Orange Brown, SG128, cat $400. neat Kalgoorlie cds of MY 12 03, well centered and with full perfs. Price $295 J8) Western Australia 2d Orange Swan Imperf, SG 25, lovely mint (no gum) Block of 4 with 4 margins. Blocks are very rare. Cat $1100, price $749 J9) Western Australia 2d Yellow Swan, SG 77. Mint unhinged top right corner marginal block of 4, very fresh. Cat $350 as hinged. Unhinged are worth 3 x the price! Price $449 J10) New South Wales 1856 6d Registered Stamp, Orange and Blue, SG 105, superb 4 margin example very fresh with vignette perfectly centered (uncommon!) with lovely clear Rays cancel No. 26 of Shoalhaven. Cat $450, price $345 J11) Australia 1937 Robes One Pound in vertical fine used strip of 4, with cds cancels. Well centred, and with very minor faults to top two stamps. Scarce! $89 J12) Australia 1913 Absolutely Superb 3d Olive Kangaroo 1st wmk, horizontal strip of 3, Die 1/1/II with neat cds cancels of Hamilton, Tasmania NO 24 13. Full perfs all around. Exhibition piece! Cat $900 as a die1 die 2 pair, unashamedly asking near full catalogue for this, Price $875 J16) Australia 1929 5/- Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, multiple wmk perf OS, corner cto, full perfs and well centered. Lovely! Cat $225, price $175 J17) Australia 1930 neat small registered Sydney, local cover to Darlinghurst bearing 5d Overprint KGV, Market Street cds, 3 SE 30. Very rare single usage, cat $200. Price $149 J18) Australia, Mutual Life and Citizens Assurance Company Limited advertising covers, 1940’s to 60s vintage, Seven long covers, all overweight and taxed with various postage dues, all tied by cds cancels. Values to 1/-. Rare assembly! $239 the lot J22) Western Australia 1860 6d sage green, Rouletted. Very fine used with small part blue duplex cancel, clear roulettes on 3 sides, imperf at top. SG32, cat $1350, one of the nicest examples I have seen. Very minor faults do not detract. Price $1125 J24) Victoria 1880’s Stamp Duties, postally used, comprising 6d Blue, 3/- Grey, 5/- Purple, 5/- Red, Two Pounds Blue. Lovely group. Retail $325, my price $289 J26) Postal stationery Newspaper wrapper: c1953 PTPO 2½d blue QEII for Sydney Stock Exchange uprated with 2½d QEII stamp, used. These PTPO wrappers in blue were only used by the Sydney Stock exchange, ACSC cat $200 for normal wrapper + premium for being uprated – scarce. Price $210 J27) NSW Government Tramways 6d Packet stamp on pre printed Sydney Morning Herald cover to Circular Quay cancelled/tied by Newtown newsagent hand stamp. These ‘URGENT’ envelopes were used for sending advertising copy for inclusion in the SMH, roughly opened at base, a rare cover. Price $210 J29) Victoria 1870 5/- Blue Long Type Stamp Statute, pen cancel 26/8/78. Very fine condition. Price $89 J30) As above, 2/6d orange yellow on piece, with Purple oval handstamp, Registrar Generals Office 5 MAR 1879. Rare! Price $210 J31) Victoria 1889 5 pounds Maroon and Blue stamp duty, cto Melbourne FE 28 01. Centered top right. Fine and scarce. $249 J32) Australia 1924 2/- Maroon 3rd wmk Kangaroo, perfect Mint Unhinged, fresh with full perfs. and perfectly centered. Melbourne retail for premium centering $850. My price $649

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Looking at New Zealand 1940 Centennial, Part 5: 2½d Treaty of Waitangi On 6th February 1840, the Treaty of Waitangi was signed by Captain William Hobson RN on behalf of the British Crown and by over 40 Maori tribal chiefs from the North Island. A marquee erected in the grounds of Waitangi House in the Bay of Islands was used for the signing. Waitangi House (pictured) had been erected in 1833-34 from pre-fabricated sections built in Australia from Australian hardwoods. It was the residence of James Busby, the British Resident (a consular position). In subsequent months, copies of the Treaty were taken around New Zealand and signed by about 530 to 540 Maori, at least 13 of them women. As most of the chiefs could not write English they signed with an ‘X’ or drew part of their moko (face tattoo). Hobson took up his commission as Lieutenant Governor under the Governor of New South Wales and in May 1841 became the fully-credentialed Governor of New Zealand until his death in September 1842. No official draft of a treaty had been provided to Hobson and he, his secretary James Freeman and James Busby drafted the document in the few days before the signing. The Maori translation was compiled by the missionary Henry Williams and his son Edward Marsh Williams. The Treaty resulted in the declaration of British sovereignty over New Zealand. It recognised Māori ownership of their lands, forests and other properties, and gave the Māori the rights of British Subjects. The government was given the sole right to purchase land in an attempt to avoid exploitation of the Maori by settlers wanting to purchase land. Because there were no exact Maori words for

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concepts like ‘sovereignty’ and ‘ownership’, misunderstandings arose leading to the land wars of the 1860s. In later years, the Treaty came to be regarded as a historical document with no modern relevance but by the 1970s Maori grievances about loss of their lands and rights in breach of the Treaty led to the establishment of the Waitangi Tribunal in 1975. While findings of the Tribunal have no legal standing they are often used as the basis for the resolution of disputes between Maori and government. The 2½d stamp in the 1940 Centennial series was designed by James Berry and featured an image from a bas-relief on the side of the pedestal of Queen Victoria’s monument erected in Wellington in 1905. The statue, by Alfred Drury, was a copy of his memorial statue erected in Portsmouth, England, in 1903 following Victoria’s death in 1901. It was the first major public sculpture erected in Wellington. The bas-relief shows an idealised image of the signing of the Treaty with Captain Hobson at the table and Henry Williams in the background shaking hands with a chief said to be Waka Nene. The chief

Graeme Morriss signing is said to be Kawhiti. In the background is Lieutenant Shortland and a chief said to be Patuone. A similar image was used on the 10/- note in circulation from the 1940s to 1967. On 6th February 1940 (the actual centenary of the signing of the Treaty) a special event was held in the grounds of Waitangi House. Souvenir covers were cancelled with a relief postmark. During the day, the postmark became damaged and the first ‘i’ of ‘Waitangi’ fell off. Later covers were cancelled ‘Wa tangi’ (figs. 5 & 6). Bradbury, Wilkinson printed the stamp in sheets of 160 (10 horizontal rows of 16) on esparto-based paper watermarked ‘NZ & star’ using a centre plate marked ‘A’ and a frame plate numbered 1. Perforations gauged 14 x 13½. References: Catalogue of New Zealand Stamps, Auckland, Campbell Paterson, 1952 – . The Postage Stamps of New Zealand, vol. 2, Wellington, RPSNZ, 1952.

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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Who Organises Stamp Exhibitions

As I write this Canberra Stampshow 2016, the 19th consecutive biennial stamp exhibition held in the ACT, has just finished and the final few accounts are being paid. Rather than just give an overview of the exhibition, which was another successful exhibition, I thought it would be interesting to give you an idea on what is involved organising an exhibition and the many people who are involved. Firstly, who runs stamp exhibitions in Australia? International exhibitions are now run by the Australian Philatelic Federation, usually through a separate incorporated body, although in the past they were run by Australia Post with some collector involvement through the APF. Individual clubs or State Philatelic Councils, largely depending on what has happened in the past, may run full national, half-national, one-frame and State level exhibitions. Further, these exhibitions may be run in conjunction with the Australian Philatelic Traders Association (APTA). Exhibitions such as Canberra are run entirely by the Philatelic Society of Canberra, whereas exhibitions such as the Sydney 2015 Stamp Expo are joint undertakings with APTA. APTA looks after the dealer side and the exhibitor/judges side is looked after by the Philatelic Development Council of New South Wales. Both approaches appear to work well. Who decides who runs an exhibition and when it

occurs? The APF seeks expressions of interest from groups to run exhibitions. In some ways the biennial Canberra shows act as an anchor, as the exhibition has become both well entrenched and popular with collectors and dealers alike. What Canberra has is either a half national or runs the Australasian Challenge together with possibly one or more National classes plus all State classes. With the Canberra exhibition in March, a second half national is sought in the latter part of the year. These are often in Adelaide but are sometimes in other States such as Western Australia or Queensland. In the odd years, either Melbourne or Sydney run a full national exhibition so that they have them four years apart in each State. As to national one-frame exhibitions, the APF has a strong preference to have these in provincial cities or towns. For example Newcastle in 2015 and Hobart (considered provincial because of the smaller collector base) this year. To put this in perspective, Sydney had a full national in 2015. In 2016 Canberra and Mandurah in WA have half nationals where we split the exhibiting classes, Hobart has the one-frame exhibition and Adelaide the Australasian Challenge, which occurs every second year. This would mean that Melbourne has a full national in 2017, however, they have decided to convert this to a FIAP exhibition and it is now an international exhibition. There is a great deal of work and expense in running such an exhibition so please support the Melbourne exhibition. The committee undertaking the organisation of an exhibition will usually supply a draft budget to the APF and have their prospectus approved. An APF coordinator (one of the APF executive) is also assigned to the exhibition. The coordinator receives copies of the minutes and is available to discuss any issues of concern. They rarely attend exhibition meetings but may if the opporFigure 1

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Philatelic Development Officer, APF tunity arises. The organising committee also seeks approval for a Jury Chair and Secretary. The APF tries to ensure that the Chair and Secretary are from different States and that if there is a first time chair or secretary that the other is experienced. Finally, the jury itself involves a discussion between the Jury Chair, Secretary, Organising Committee and APF, with the APF signing off on the final makeup. In part, because of the relatively large number of jurors available in Australia, and for financial reasons, most jurors are chosen from the State where the exhibition is being held. Added to this will always be a New Zealand judge (for multi-frame exhibitions) and one or more accord judges. The balance of judges are chosen from across Australia depending on the classes, to hopefully use a judge from each State (assists with exhibit transport) and to ensure that judges get a chance to judge. A good example of this was in Sydney in 2015 where a very busy committee member was also a judge and should have judged in Sydney. However, it was not practical so the APF ensured that that person judged in Canberra. As an aside, to increase your chances of judging it pays to be qualified in a number of disciplines which should include one of the major classes (Traditional or Postal History) and hopefully one or more of the other classes. The other two legs of an exhibition are the dealers and Australia Post. What an organising committee tries to do is get an APTA dealer representative on the organising committee. This doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always happen but where it does it is a useful link that sorts out problems if they arise. It is, obviously, especially important for those exhibitions which are joint ventures between an organising committee and APTA. Australia Post assists exhibitions by coming to the exhibition, where possible, and arranging the overprinting of souvenir items. This is now done through the Philatelic Group in Melbourne rather than

through State-based philatelic officers. This is usually done through an APF executive member (but not always) as one is almost always on the organising committee and it reduces the number of people that the Australia Post Philatelic Group must deal with. The above gives an overview on how a stamp exhibition gets approval and the level of organisation involved. As to the hard work on actually organising an exhibition I will leave that for another article. However, one aspect I will mention is the cost of an exhibition. A half-national such as Canberra has a budget of around $50,000 so it is important that it runs well and on budget.

Canberra Stampshow 2016

Canberra Stampshow 2016 was very successful and after running 19 in a row you would hope that we had learned how to run a good exhibition. However, a misplaced exhibit at the end of the exhibition shows you that no matter how experienced you are, mistakes can happen. Luckily we had a happy outcome and the exhibit was eventually found but will lead to changes in how we operate our bin room. The exhibition was commemorating both the 50th Anniversary of Decimal Currency and the links between Malta and Australia over the last 100 years. The exhibition was opened by Dr Pirotta, the Deputy High Commissioner of Malta, who gave an excellent and well timed speech. He then took time

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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Figure 3 to look over the exhibition. We are privileged in Canberra to have a great venue for a stamp exhibition as it nicely fits the 32 dealer stands and 330 frames of exhibits. The Hellenic Club of Canberra is very supportive and we have now run eight in a row. The biggest plus is not so much the air-conditioned and carpeted venue but the choice of refreshments available. This year another plus was having Australia Post, not only having a stand, but also releasing products that were only available at the exhibition. The PNCs proved very popular and sold out very quickly. Figure 1 shows the line snaking toward the Australia Post stand. Not all the collectors were there for Australia Post and whilst I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t talk to all the dealers, most of those I did had a good exhibition. It is important to remember that we get dealers from across Australia and overseas (New Zealand, USA, UK and

South Africa). The dealers at the exhibition had everything from accessories through basic Australia to high-end exhibition quality covers. One dealer I spoke with, who sells basic Australian and Territories covered his budget on the first day. So despite the doomsayers I think collecting is still popular in Australia at all levels. Figure 2 illustrates the steady crowds that were at the dealers across the three days. Another aspect of the exhibition, which was commented on by a number of people, was the quality of the exhibits, remembering that this was not an Australasian Challenge where you expect more high-end exhibits. There was everything from a first time First Day Cover exhibit to worldclass postal history exhibits. Another big plus was the number of youth exhibits, with six from New Zealand and four from Australia. This is the most we have had in many years in a national exhibition. The two top awards were won by exhibits from the Figure 4

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Philatelic Development Officer, APF USA, with Ross Duberal from Western Australia the winner of the Great Australian Stationery Challenge (GASC). This was a reprise of the first ever philatelic challenge originated by the late Ed Druce back in the 1990s. The other prizes were spread across Australia, New Zealand and the UAE. Figure 3 shows the well-known auctioneer Gary Watson receiving a prize from Martin Walker the jury chair, not for his own exhibit of the Aerogrammes of Eastern Arabia, but on behalf of Mossgreen - who won the best literature prize for the Arthur Gray KGV auction catalogue. Overall I would consider the exhibition a great success that continues to show that philately is alive and well in Australia. It is exhibitions like this that attract the general public and I know the Philatelic Society of Canberra does its best to attract new members through the exhibition. We are hoping that the door prize winner, Simon Porgazian, who won a

fine used 5/- Sydney Harbour Bridge stamp (donated by Andrew Kimonides) will be one of those. At the awards dinner of the exhibition a rather special award was made to Canberra stamp dealer Ed Cummings. The Shakespeare Award was given to Ed for over 40 years of support to philately in the ACT. This has been as a member of the ACT Philatelic Council, exhibition committees and direct support of exhibitions often by financial support. The award is named after the Shakespeare family who both started the Canberra Times newspaper, and started the Philatelic Society of Canberra in 1932. It is a rarely given award of the ACT Philatelic Council but Ed was a most worthy recipient. He is shown in Figure 4 receiving the award from Ian McMahon, the President of the ACT Philatelic Council. If you need any further information see www. apf.org.au or contact me at Darryl.fuller@home. netspeed.com.au.

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Cinderella Corner Australia

Welcome to the May issue of Cinderella Corner, the final before Winter arrives. During the past month, I have been busy researching past issues of Cinderella Corner, since its inception in 1977, to help ensure that a wide variety of labels continues to be discussed. This edition of Cinderella Corner covers a number of different labels and, like the previously explored Essex vignettes, furthers its focus on Australian poster stamps advertising motor cars and products. It also continues to explore labels produced outside of Australia that carry Australian themes. I welcome requests to illustrate different label types, including more about cars and motor vehicle products, so please feel free to let me know. Many thanks to Stamp News reader and regular contributor, Christer BrunstrĂśm, for his assistance regarding the Tasmanien advertising label illustrated and discussed in Cinderella Cornerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s February 2016 issue. Christer notes that the text featured on the label is actually written in Danish, and he further informs me that the Danes are still very keen on poster stamps and using them mainly for advertising purposes. More information on this label is welcomed, especially if

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anyone knows how many different ones exist in the set (the Tasmanien one is clearly numbered 36).

USA Photo Labels

My friend Mr. Ron Lee from Euroa in Victoria has been collecting cinderellas for over 60 years. His collection of labels and cinderella-related literature is most impressive. Recently, Ron sent me a coloured copy of the front of two extraordinary covers with examples of some curious labels affixed to their top right hand corners. On the envelopes themselves, heraldic Coat of Arms, along with aligning flags belonging to Oldenburg, are evident. Oldenburg is an independent city in the state of Lower Saxony, Germany. The labels on the covers, as illustrated in Images 1 and 2, bear some striking resemblance to the War Souvenir Stamps produced in Melbourne by travelling photographers during the World War I era. Similar ones have also been cited in different countries, including New Zealand. It would be great to receive some more information about these cinderellas and covers. For example: when were they produced? Do other types exist?

Vito Milana

Hudson Super Six

In this year’s January issue of Cinderella Corner, I illustrated four Australian poster stamps advertising Essex motor vehicles with a suggested date of 1922. Since that time, I have found another three labels with identical proportions to the Essex poster stamps that

advertise Hudson Super Six vehicles. The three labels illustrated across Images 3 to 5 bear the following text: Hudson Days Are Brighter Days – Hudson Super Six Easy to Drive – Hudson Super Six Closed-Car Perfection – Hudson Super Six With a reported peak in sales in 1926, Hudson Super Six vehicles date similar to the Essex vehicles and the labels are therefore likely dated to the 1920s. The key question that remains is if they are Australian: unlike the Essex label which bears the logo Australia’s Rising Sun, there are no markers on these three labels that directly link them to Australia. The vehicles Stamp News - 51

Cinderella Corner red and white advertising label measures 37mm by 26mm and is perforated 11 on all sides. It also illustrates a motorcar and carriage. In terms of scarcity, the label is very rare and seldom seen. A ‘tattered’ copy was sold some years back for over $100.

Considering Foreign Labels With Australian Themes

themselves, however, like the Essex motor cars, were also sold outside of the United States including Australia. I welcome any further information about these colourful items.

T. Craine’s Motor Car And Carriage Works

Cinderellas relating to automobile themes are popular amongst worldwide collectors. These include those that advertise different cars (such as those featured in this issue), motor shows, tyres, oil and other lubrication products. Image 6 features an extraordinary label dating to the early 1910s that bears the text: T. Craine’s Motor Car and Carriage Works. 50 – 52 City Road over Princes Bridge. The mentioned company was most prominent prior to 1910 and held a fairly successful Melbournebased business. An article placed in a 1906 edition of the Australasian heralds Craine’s as one the oldest and most successful Victorian carriage, buggy and motor car builder. The black, 52 - Stamp News

Following on from February’s issue, I now offer a second part in a series of cinderella write-ups exploring the vast array of non-Australia labels with Australian ties and themes. If readers have any other examples of some labels in their collections, or can offer further clarity to the ones already explored in Cinderella Corner issues, please let me know. Auszeichnung This German label, illustrated in Image 7, is a rather curious one. Tall and measuring 49mm by 35mm, it is perforated 11 on all sides and has a striking or-

Vito Milana ange centre with blue, black and white surrounds. It appears to date to the 1940s but could be earlier, and I welcome clarification from readers. The label celebrates an award given to Wilhelm Benkenstein from the Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft. This is the German Agricultural Society, formed in 1885 and still running strong. The company is foremost involved in promoting technical progress and scientific advancements in the field of agriculture. This labels celebrates the efforts of Wilhelm for his role in successfully transporting food with a long shelf life to Australia and back. ALFA Image 8 illustrates another great label from Germany. This one advertises Alfa, a Swedish company founded in 1883, that provided products for the separation of solutions. This cinderella, headed with Australien, illustrates its Bester Milchentrahmer, or best cream separators. Other labels have also been cited with the same text and slightly variant images with Australie replaced with other countries and continents, including Asie. It is unsure how many exist in the Alfa poster stamp range.

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Market Matters Stamp Storage Tips

Stamp dealers are like doctors. We generally get to tell you about your serious problem only when it is too late to rectify anything. The NUMBER ONE problem for stamp collectors (and dealers) in this part of the world, is our climate. Probably 90% of Australian stamp collectors live in the coastal strip from Melbourne to Cairns. These areas suffer from sustained high humidity over the long Australian summer months from about November to March. Humidity is moisture in the air. Stamps, stamp albums, stockbooks and Hagner sheets - all being paper - absorb this humidity in varying degrees.

And then stay very slightly damp for weeks indeed generally for many months. Damp paper in our warm climate gets slightly mouldy. Or VERY mouldy! The less you “air” and ventilate your albums - and many collectors do not, the faster this mould will grow and spread. This gives rise to small (soon to become much bigger!) brown spots etc. Stamp Collecting was initially a Northern Hemisphere hobby. In Scotland, Scandinavia, Hamburg, Boston, Chicago or Toronto etc, etc, they have no idea how much humidity we get in the Pacific region, each and every Summer. Cartons of old correspondence in the attic of a

Stamp slipcases WORK!

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Glen Stephens Glasgow Solicitor etc generally looks superb when found cleaning up old file boxes. Even if 200 years old, in the pre-stamp era. Large caches of this material appear all the time, and condition is incredibly fresh. HERE it would be rotted to dust! Most stamps here are stored in poorly ventilated rooms. Often in closed boxes that do not “breathe”, in dark wardrobes, storage cupboards, attics, and garages etc. Damp paper with no exposure to sunlight is a disaster waiting to happen in this climate.

BAD news for stamps.

Dealers and collectors have varying names

for this phenomenon: “spotting”, “toning”, “rust”, “foxing”, “aging”, “tropicalisation” etc. Whatever term you choose to use, it spells BAD NEWS for your stamp collection - or your stock, if a dealer. If you live near the sea (and near all Australians do), the high humidity is also mixed with small (or not so small) amounts of salt laden air. This quickly makes a really nasty brown-orange sodium rust “cocktail” that eventually eats, and ruins your stamps. How can I prove that slipcases have any bearing in preventing the amount of “rust” your collection will get without slipcases? Simple. I

Slipcases protect it all.

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Market Matters

Do YOU have slipcases? often buy collections of Australia Post year books along with that same collector’s usual stamp album/stockbooks. All the PO year books as we know are issued in slipcases as a matter of course. Amount of rust or foxing found on stamps in the Year Albums - usually none. Amount of foxing found in the NON-SLIPCASED albums and stockbooks stored around them - or right next to them in most cases? Well, you already know the answer I think! Over my 35 years as a dealer, I have purchased and valued literally 1000s of collections from within Australia. The condition of many is appalling. A mint £2 CofA watermark Kangaroo with bad tone spots is basically worth ~$400 as ultimately “fine used”, instead of ~$4,000 as fresh mint. All directly due to careless storage.

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You MUST have Slipcases.

Most collectors store part or all of their collection in Hagner sheets. These have been widely available now for about 50 years, and most (if not all) readers of this column have some (or many) in their stamp den. Inexpensive and very flexible stamp storage. How many readers have those Hagners and binders are stored in a slipcase? Almost NONE is my experienced guess. In Australia I often buy 20 or so Hagner binders from Estates. Each one when opened up shows the TOP row or two of stamps have the worst toning/rust/foxing. Why? Airborne dust settles there, and then when combined with the humid (often salt bearing) air, which also goes down only a row or two, you have a deadly mixture. Slipcases combat this

Glen Stephens order as many slipcases, as you have Hagner binders containing stamps! A $20 slipcase can prevent a potential loss of $10,000s in extreme cases, and all dealers can tell you of such examples. I sell endless boxes of the black “Leather Look” matched sets shown nearby, and they are very “cheap insurance”. And look classy too. I have never seen a blue or green cow, so why some folks buy “Leather” albums in those garish colours mystifies me. A NSW client built in an entire wall of his lounge room in classy wood shelving to store his binders. As this design has been unchanged for 20 years, he has expanded it to several 100 volumes as he collects widely. He says visitors comment the classy gold highlighted spines looks like a Barrister’s Library!

Nasty “Chinese” Stockbooks

NEVER “Power” anything philatelic. perfectly. Any dust or gunk sits on TOP of the slipcase, and rubbing a finger over it each year or two will show you how MUCH gook would have gone right down into your stamps otherwise. Slipcases work on a very simple principle. You slide in the Hagner binder, and the TOP of the pages, and the stamps on top rows are then NOT exposed to all that moisture, airborne dust, salt, insects or humidity etc, etc. Pure common sense. Please repeat after me - “Slipcases are THE most cost effective rust prevention accessory available to stamp collectors”. Say it five more times. THEN contact your regular dealer and

I did an insurance valuation here for $90,000 in value, of pre-war Australia stamps, with many Roos, that were literally housed in four of those horrid $5 “Chinese” stockbooks. The pages as usual, had all buckled and warped and twisted due to the cheap clear plastic strips shrinking over time. What an ugly mess to house pricey stamps. Naturally I berated the owner about the lunacy of that. The highly acidic and unbleached cardboard used on those appalling books, and the clear thin strips of a nasty PVC that shrinks, is like storing stamps in a weak acid bath in this climate! Needless to say they are now all in Hagner binders and slipcases! I sell far more Hagner sheets than any dealer in Australia, as my price is near half retail - tinyurl. com/GlenHags Very often in boxes of 600 or 800 sheets etc. Google “Hagner Sheets” and I am generally match #1 globally. I ONLY stock the Stamp News - 57

Market Matters genuine British made sheets. A locally made “copycat” version always gave me headache issues re poor quality a decade back, with many sheets literally falling apart due to guillotining issues, and the strips falling off due to bad gluing and so on. The long term properties of the board I have no data on. Fortunately perhaps, these sheets are no longer made here. A few binder/slipcase sets are shown above, and it really is a very classy product. “Leather” look deeply grained black covers, and gold bands on the spine. At just $36 a binder/slipcase set in a carton buy, they are also surprisingly cheap, and truly essential in this humid climate. Each set holds about 50 “Hagner” style sheets as it has the very LARGE size “D” rings, and I sell 1000s a year due to their modest cost. Well worth thinking about. After about 10 years the “D” rings on your current binders have usually started to rust, and the very thin chromium coating will start to flake off, and get into your stamps. Toss those away and upgrade.

Do NOT “Powder” stamps!

There are quite a few mad myths regarding wise stamp storage. In Queensland especially, the widely believed and widely acted upon oldwives-tale of pouring talcum powder over your stamps “to stop rust” is to be avoided at ALL costs. And the same goes for “powdering” with the very slimy, slightly less destructive “French Chalk”. These products both make a horrible, messy, oily WRECK of your collection (and Set 6 sold for $7,900! albums) in most cases.

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Most talcum/baby powder has an oil component, and that being smeared all over your stamps is total madness. This slippery gunk NEVER gets off the face of the stamps or covers, and indeed in engraved/ recess printed issues, such as KGV/KGVI/Early QE2 Definitives from nearly all countries, it lodges between the fine recess ink lines. No amount of huffing, puffing, and blowing and wiping EVER gets it off. I’ve bought collections where entire containers of yukky white baby powder have been upended into the storage boxes - “to stop rust, whilst being stored”. So if anyone in your local club advises this totally loopy practice - please take them outside and beat them mercilessly with a cricket bat! It is madness, pure and simple, and yet to this day, many still do it.

“Adelaide 2016” set 6 sells $7900.

For $A7,900 I can sell you a nice set of Mint Kangaroos to £2. It can also buy you a set of 6 stamps that were sold in Adelaide 3 months back

Glen Stephens the earlier run. It is complex - all outlined here for the tech heads tinyurl.com/rare30c Many of the sets I sold earlier on were of this “Albino” variety. In fact only AFTER I’d mailed all but 1 set did I notice it, and report it with pix, and others expanded on the tech reasons how it could exist. A set of 6 I think I sold for $250, appeared on eBay recently and sold for $A7,900! tinyurl.com/Set7900 – check for yourself – 39 bids. A single stamp with no variety on kiloware piece sold for over $2,000 on eBay and the list of other amazing results is all outlined here - tinyurl.com/rare30c It is a REAL modern Rarity set, and catalogue listing for them has now been confirmed, and interest in these will continue globally for some years.

Arthur Gray KGV “Extras”

Part of Gray KGV #2 cover. for $1.80 as POs! The “Adelaide 2016 30c” stamp juggernaut is stronger than ever. This postal “Emergency” issue I outlined 2 months back in much detail - tinyurl.com/Glen316 and I sell mint sets of 6 for $A1,950 as this is typed. There are 2 different stamp design types “Type A” and “Type B”, and a set of 6 each is $A4,000. There were also some rather interesting errors on them that stampboards member have dubbed the “Inverted Ghost Albino Prints”. If you look at the stamp shown nearby you can see where that name derives from. “30c Adelaide” wording is albino printed inverted along base. The stamps were produced quickly by the thermal print CPS process, using a long ribbon. If this is inserted in haste into a machine, the new printed letters partly showed portions of

I read on stampboards just as this column went to press midApril, that Mossgreen Auctions in Melbourne plan to auction the “remains” of the Arthur Gray “KGV heads and Commemoratives” stamp collection on May 23. The main auction of the Gray Gold Medal collection on October 30 2015, I flew down for, and it was invoiced out for more than $A3 million - a record for any Australian based stamp auction. (Gray’s “Kangaroos” of course sold for $A7.15 million in 2007, but they were offered in New York, and not Australia.) Very interesting timing for this May 23 auction, as I like many in Australia will be flying across to New York for the massive “World Stamp Expo” which commences May 28. We are flying across via Korea, so it takes nearly 2 days of travel to arrive, and then get jet-lag adjusted, so sadly can’t be in MEL on the 23rd. I have no photos of stamps from this auction, Stamp News - 59

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See you there in a month! which will be taking place soon after you read this. The Mossgreen website does not have the online sale loaded yet, just the clunky “flip book” that photos cannot be removed from, so this small size screen capture nearby of part of the front cover, is the best I can offer here, very unfortunately. Arthur’s “extras” were of course more extensive and valuable than most serious collectors accumulate in their lifetime, and I am sure there will be a lot of KGV specialists keen to chase this material. All of it will have the provenance of “ex Gray” and that is impossible to better for this era!

around the world. Visit their superb website (run by Michael Eastick in Melbourne!) for far more details - www.ny2016.org The Exhibits Selection Committee received

New York Expo May 28-June 4.

The highly anticipated “World Stamp Show-NY 2016” will be the first international show in the USA since the very successful “Washington 2006” show 10 years earlier. The show will include international exhibits, with some of the world’s top philatelic rarities on display - many from Australia. More than 200 dealers (Australians included) are booked to take stands at the show, including the U.S. Postal Service with a huge presence of course, and some 50 postal bureaux from 60 - Stamp News

Million Dollar Scissor Cut!

Glen Stephens applications (6500!) for many more frames than were initially available. In fact, the initial allocation of 3,800 competitive frames was increased to 4,125, to meet some of the global demand. I have decided to fly over for a few days for the show, and then Sir Ron Brierley paid £550,000. drive around the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee and Kentucky, and come back home via a few days in Japan. For anyone reading this, and wants to catch up for a stampboards group dinner there June 1, please chime in here - tinyurl.com/ Expo2016 My personal view is this will be LAST of the true global Mega Shows in our lifetime, so if you get a chance, book a ticket to experience it first hand, as you will likely never see anything this huge again. Cost of venues, gigantic security costs for the exhibits, and PO funding etc are massive issues for these week long shows. See you there!

“Glooed On Da Numbahs”

Million Dollar Straight edge!

Collectors do not like “Straight Edge” stamps. They do not look attractive, and generally get a fraction of what the same stamp otherwise sells for. This has been the case for over a century. In some countries like the USA, Post Office sheets of 100 of many stamps had straight edges on all 4 outer edges, guillotined thus by the stamp printer, from far larger master sheets. This was common late 19th Century to early 20th Century. All the higher value 1892 Omaha and 1893 Columbian stamps were printed thus as I recall. The GB 1867 1d Red was not issued with straight edges by the Post Office - indeed I can’t think of one regular issue UK postage stamp that used this policy in regular issue stamp sheets. Nor from Australia - the only way these stamps can have a straight edge here is from some booklet panes or coils etc. So the stamp above had the lower perforations trimmed by someone wielding a pair of scissors over-zealously it seems. So that destroys the value - right? WRONG! Stanley Gibbons sold it last month for £495,000, which at the time Stamp News - 61

Market Matters was over one Million Australian Dollars.

Gibbons sell TWO copies!

Total Backflip Certificate.

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“This is one of the most desirable and iconic of British stamps for collectors worldwide, highly sought after for more than 100 years,” said Keith Heddle, Managing Director of investments at Stanley Gibbons, the UK dealer that facilitated the sale. “It is testament to the strength of the market for rare stamps and also Stanley Gibbons global standing that we have managed to sell not just one, but two Plate 77 Penny Reds in the last four years. “This is one of the most desirable and iconic of British stamps for collectors worldwide, highly sought after for more than 100 years. With the last one having been sold to a client in Australia, I’m delighted this one has found a home in Britain.” Heddle concluded. (The local Sydney buyer was Sir Ron Brierley for a

Glen Stephens similar sum - his copy is FAR more attractive!) The stamp is so rare because the printing plate, which was created in 1863, was faulty and the perforations were out of sync. It is likely that only one sheet was printed before the plate was destroyed. The Plate 77 Penny Red was never issued, but some stamps found their way into circulation. Mint and used are recorded. “With a stamp of this magnitude you invariably get people popping out of the woodwork and you need to figure out whether they’re serious buyers or just kicking the tyres,” Mr Heddle said. The buyer put down the 10% deposit for the stamp within 48 hours, Gibbons advised. While there are only a few known examples of the stamp in existence, Mr Heddle said that 1 or 2 more - including one that is believed to have disappeared in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 - could still re-emerge. New finds are ALWAYS possible in stamps!

cover. It is most certainly a 7 figure piece, based on the SG recent sales of £550,000 for a single off centred example, and the recent £495,000 paid to Gibbons for the scissor mutilated stamp shown nearby. Catalogue value of a used single is now £600,000. Stampboards has many 100s of detailed colour photos, and charts and graphs, large microscope blow ups, forensic reports, and outlining the whereabouts of the other known existing plate “77’ examples. All added to and discussed, by members all over the globe.

Amateur Hour in STEREO!

The RPSL laughably claimed that all 6 x new 7s had all been “glued on”, and the Philatelic Foundation in NYC initially claimed the 7s

£1 Million Victor Hugo Cover

One story I have followed with great interest in recent years, is the discovery of a part cover bearing 3 x SG 1d Plate “77” stamps. The discovery was of a 1865 part cover from Guernsey Channel Islands, to Brussels Belgium. It was found in an old collection job lot in Europe, where the scarce plate number had not been recognised. The part cover was prepaid with 3 x 1d Red stamps, all dreadfully centred, with the Guernsey “324” barred numeral obliterator. One of those is very badly scuffed, and one is creased/torn. A rather ugly piece, value in normal circumstances - a dollar or so on a good day. However all stamps are showing Plate “77” on both sides as you can see nearby - making this literally a £1 million rarity. No others exist on

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Market Matters were all newly painted in, and both gave it a “faked” Certificate. Talk about Amateur Hour in STEREO! Both utter nonsensical views it seems to me, and to many others who have studied the matter and the cover! And both were totally discredited on all counts, in a detailed report by a global leading forensic document and ink examiner victorhugocover.com - a fascinating read. The Philatelic Foundation in New York after fully reviewing the real world barrage of science the owner provided on this cover, did a total backflip, and tore up the first absurd “painted in and faked” Certificate, and issued one as genuine in all respects, see photo nearby. Full credit to them for finally getting it right. The American Philatelic Society Expert Committee, and Sergio Sismondo Expert Committee also later issued certificates as genuine “77” stamps and cover, leaving the “Royal” in London looking sillier than ever with their “He Glooed On Da Numbahs” nonsense view, that a 12 year old could debunk with a fingernail test and/or a $5 UV light!

The Swedes did the same!

The Swedish Philatelic “Establishment” as recently as the 1970s, totally and publicly debunked the unique “Tre Skilling Yellow” as a total fake and fabrication. A large Committee of the leading Philatelists there made all sorts of wacky and loopy claims, and science in that case too, later proved them all totally wrong. It later has changed hands for Millions at Auction. tinyurl.com/plate77 caries the complete discussion on this Plate 77 cover, which to date has some 3,000 different messages, with near 170,000 page views thus far. Recently the owner, via neat detective work, discovered the cover was hand addressed by Victor Hugo - the famous French novelist etc, who wrote “Les Misérables” and ”The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”. Hugo was the most famous resident ever of Guernsey, and the cover was addressed in Hugo’s

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hand to his publisher in Brussels. Publisher Lacroix Verboekhoven’s offices were at Impasse du Parc, Rue Royal, Brussels. Exactly as shown on the cover.

Stolen Jenny appears after 61 years.

In 1955, a block of four rare USA 1918 24c “Inverted Jenny” postage stamps was stolen from a display case at an APS Exhibition in Norfolk, Virginia. Over the ensuing decades, two of them were recovered, but there were no signs of the 2 others - until now. Six decades after the theft, one of the stolen “Inverted Jenny” stamps has surfaced at a New York auction house. “It’s one of the most notorious crimes in philatelic history, and there’s a piece of the puzzle now that’s in place,” said Scott English, the administrator of the American Philatelic Research Library (who own the stamp) according to The Associated Press. (AP) There are other known “Inverted Jenny” stamps from that sheet of 100, but this newly discovered stamp is from the stolen block of four. “After careful expert examination, the rarity was determined to be position 76 in the pane of 100 subjects” the Spink USA auction house said in a press release dated April 15th. After the theft, the block was broken into four singles, and each copy was altered to disguise its appearance. Position 76 recovered by Spink had been re-perforated at right, and most of the gum was removed, so the pencil position numbers written on the gummed side had been lost, making identification a challenge.

“My most prized possession.”

The collector who owned the stamps when they were stolen in 1955 was a woman named Ethel McCoy, and the press release says they were her “most prized possession.” Though one of the four stamps surfaced in her lifetime, she was unable to get that one back. She later willed the legal right to the 4 stamps to the APS. The recent copy was submitted to auctioneer

Glen Stephens

Curtiss Jenny Flies Home! Spink USA by a 20 year old man from the United Kingdom, who had inherited it from his grandfather, who said he didn’t know much about it, said George Eveleth, head of the Spink USA philatelic department. “This is one of the most exciting events in my 38 year career in the stamp auction business” George Eveleth was quoted as saying in the Spink New York press release dated April . The legal owner of all the 4 stamps, the APS Philatelic Library, is now working with Spink USA, and USA Federal authorities, to reclaim the stamp. The FBI didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from Associated Press. These stamps have sold for near $US1 million apiece in headier days. George Eveleth from Spink said authorities had

told the auctioneers not to release the name of the young British consigner. Two other stolen and altered “Jenny” stamps from the Block 4 were recovered in 1958 and 1982. The whereabouts of the fourth stamp is still unknown. While it is unclear whether the wouldbe consigner can shed any light on the long-cold trail to the thieves, the stamp was accompanied by an intriguing item. A 1965 letter about a monetary loan from a noted stamp dealer to a wellknown auctioneer, both now dead, Eveleth said. The letter isn’t necessarily connected to this stamp, however.

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

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Aussie WWI hero gone, but no longer forgotten Australia Post will honour one of the country’s unsung war heroes, Matron Grace Wilson of the Australian Army Nursing Service, as part of the anticipated 2016 World War I commemorative stamp issue out this week. Referred to as Australia’s very own Florence Nightingale, Matron Wilson features in the new stamp release that marks the centenary of the war and honours the efforts of Australians overseas and at home during 1916. Australia Post Managing Director and Group CEO Ahmed Fahour said it was an easy choice to honour Matron Wilson for her dedication to improving the health and conditions of others as well as her efforts as an inspirational leader during a time where women were underrepresented. “Never before has the discussion of equality in our community been more poignant, so it’s a great pleasure to immortalise the considerable achievements of Matron Wilson,” Mr Fahour said. “Our stamp releases offer a pictorial account of Australia’s heritage and culture, and it is only fitting for a talented trail-blazer like Matron Wilson to be recognised.” Long-time supporter, author and historian Susanna De Vries said she was delighted that the hard working heroine was getting the recognition she deserved. “Grace was a loved and respected nurse known for her compassion, leadership and resourcefulness – known for sleeping rough under the stars and

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turning petticoats into makeshift bandages when a supply ship was delayed for three weeks,” Ms De Vries said. Becoming one of Australia’s highly decorated wartime figures, in 1916 Grace was one of six individuals throughout the Commonwealth that year to receive the Royal Red Cross, First Class for “distinguished service in the field. “Few people know that Grace was distinguished in war and in peace. On her return to Australia, she was appointed Matron-in-Chief at Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital and then a very popular Head Matron at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital before returning to service in World War II. She was a real hero.” Grace will appear alongside images relating to the 1916 debate on conscription, the Somme offensive, trench action, and soldiers’ mail from the Western Front. Products associated with this stamp issue comprise a minisheet, stamp pack, first day cover, maxicard set, postal and numismatic cover, booklet of 10 x $1.00 self-adhesive stamps, stamp medal, medallion cover, medallion cover box set (five medallion covers), prestige cover, and prestige booklet. The WWI commemorative stamps and associated products are on sale now at participating Post Offices, via mail order on 1800 331 794 and online at auspost.com.au/ stamps while stocks last.

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The 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II celebrated by Australia Post To mark the 90th birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Australia Post is releasing two commemorative stamps depicting the Queen and her Golden Wattle diamond brooch. Australia Post Philatelic Manager, Michael Zsolt said: “Australia Post has issued Queen’s Birthday stamps since 1980, and they remain an important and popular tradition with collectors and followers of royal events,” he said. Born on 21 April 1926 and christened Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, The Queen is the first child of The Duke and Duchess of York - who later became King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The Monarch’s birthday is celebrated officially every year in June, with the exception of Queensland and Western Australia where it occurs in late September or early October. To honour the Queen’s birthday in Australia an annual ceremony is held at the Royal Military College at Duntroon in the Australian Capital Territory. The $1 stamp features a photograph taken of Her Majesty attending a garden party for the Not Forgotten Association (NFA), which is held annually to honour the contribution of the armed forces. The $2.75 stamp depicts the Queen’s Golden Wattle diamond brooch worn by Her Majesty at the

NFA garden party. The brooch was presented as a gift from the people and government of Australia during the Queen’s inaugural tour of Australia in 1954. The brooch comprises 150 white and yellow diamonds arranged to resemble a spray of Golden Wattle, Australia’s national floral emblem, together with mimosa leaves and tea-tree blossoms. The photograph in the stamp design is used with permission from Her Majesty and the Royal Collection Trust. The designer of the stamps is Sharon Rodziewicz of the Australia Post Design Studio. The products associated with this stamp issue include a minisheet, first day cover, stamp pack, sheetlet of five $2.75 self-adhesive stamps, postal and numismatic cover, and a set of two maxicards. The Queen’s Birthday stamps and associated products are available from 5 April 2016 at participating Post Offices, via mail order on 1800 331 794 and online at auspost.com.au/stamps while stocks last. Visit the Australia Post Collectables website www. australiapostcollectables.com.au for a special article on the 90th birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The Australia Post Collectables website is a central resource for stamp collectors and philatelic enthusiasts across the globe Stamp News - 67

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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 4.30pm Bridgetown Library 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. www.sass.asn.au 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, 07 5535 3168 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. 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 Lockyer Valley SC: Mtg 4th Sun, 1.30pm, Senior Citizensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hall, Gat-

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

ton. 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 2nd Sat; Ph: 07 4169 0256 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 5535 3168 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 PS Contact: K. Grey Tel: 08 8752 0446 or email cdhuntmundulla@yahoo.com.au 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)

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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1.30pm - 4pm. PO Box 2261,Mt Gambier.Ph: 08 8724 9474 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 9800, 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

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May 7 - (1st Sat) 9am to 4pm Orange Stamp Fair,

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