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Contents Articles Woodchip Free Zone: Rod Perry ...................................................6 Guatemala told on nine stamps: Christer Brunström......... 12 Stamps in the News: Margo Campbell .................................... 16 Postal Stationery: Ian McMahon ................................................ 26 Looking at New Zealand: Graeme Morriss ............................... 32 Introducing the APF: Daryl Fuller .............................................. 48 Cinderella Corner: Vito Milana .................................................... 56 Market Matters: Glen Stephens .................................................. 60

Information News........................................................................................................6 Trading Post....................................................................................... 68 Clubs & Societies ....................................................................... ......70 Calendar.............................................................................................. 73 Products & Services Directory............................................... ......74 Internet & Email Directory...................................................... ......78 List of Advertisers .............................................................. ..............82

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In this column over the years Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made it a feature to introduce what I regard as worthy suggestions to consider as new collecting fields. Invariably, those suggestions relate to covers or Stationery. The hope behind the initiative is that I may just save a collector or two from giving up the Hobby, due to waning interest in more Traditional collecting. This month, I Figure 1. Souvenir covers; great additions to Regional Postal History continue in that vein, revisiting the odd old this will remain an evergreen collecting field. favourite, and providI had discussions with Clarrie Peck, founder of ing some new recommendations. Australian Souvenir and Commemorative cov- the catalogue, in the 1990s when I owned ACSC. The plan was to incorporate APM in to the ACSC ers are very popular; the excellent two-volume Family, but we did not reach agreement. I intendAustralian PictorMarks (APM) (www.OzPictored to expand the scope, to include souvenir/comMarks.com), Woolley & Eury, has ensured that mem covers which did not necessarily carry a special postmark. However, the dedication and commitment demonstrated by Colleen and Janet was perhaps the better outcome. A legacy from my tilt at APM was the stock amassed towards facilitating a rewrite of the Peck original publication. This year, for the first time in several years, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve turned my attention to marketFigure 2. Three collecting possibilities here ing that stock on 6 - Stamp News

Figure 3. Elusive Die II 8d Postage due on cover eBay. It is a tribute to Colleen & Janet, that since their second edition of APM appeared in 2013, the market for this type of material has improved beyond anything I have experienced prior to the appearance of that publication. Figure 1 is featured as an attractive example of the non special postmark type of souvenir cover that I had intended incorporating in to APM. This item, commemorating 1940 Darling Downs Centenary, provides an unusual fusion of several collecting fields: Tourism, Darling Downs Postal and Regional History (notably Toowoomba), and even cancellations, attended to by the uncommon Toowoomba version of the nationwide “AIR MAIL/SAVES TIME” slogan. Local commercial souvenir/commem covers such as this are generally more elusive than those prepared specifically for the national philatelic market. Auction estimate: $100 I rarely have selected an Australian Postage due cover for this column. I like them, so it’s probably just an oversight. Figure 2 hopefully will make up to some degree for the omission. This late use (May 2 1924) of Victoria Official

1d Stationery Envelope, by Education Dept, was underpaid for 1½d Letter rate, and was taxed single deficiency ½d. The Postage due ½d affixed is from the 192230 so-called Third wmk. series, and is particularly difficult solo on cover. Note it is cancelled at Melbourne by Colonial-era “1” Killer, a rare late use of that device. This item would find a place in a collection of (a) Victoria Postal Stationery, (b) Australia Postage dues, (c) Victoria Cancellations. Auction estimate: $300 Incidentally, I rate the relegation of “on cover” pricing to “Price from”, in tabular form, in ACSC Postage Dues (2nd edition), to be a retrograde step. The tables are not nearly as convenient as was the dedicated column for the purpose, and don’t provide the flexibility for pricing on cover the various listed shades for a given issue. Figure 3 is a locally addressed Longford cover, posted by an absent-minded sender on Sep 19 1959, without the requisite 4d stamp. The deficiency was detected and taxed 8d double-deficiency, an unwmkd. 8d Postage due affixed and cancelled Sep 21. This is the Die II issue, which had a useful life of only a few months, before the Letter rate rise to 5d (with consequent need for 10d Postage due for double-deficiency) rendered it largely redundant. I have found this 8d Die II on cover to be as scarce as the more celebrated 5d Die II. Auction estimate: $200 Stamp News - 7

Postage dues on cover are a terrific subject for a diverse origin collection, given plenty of overseas covers were taxed upon arrival. Over decades of servicing Penny Red collectors, I have yet to find one who really likes them on cover. Puzzling to me, particularly as covers generally provide a legible date to determine period of use, and provide a stamp which has not been affected by immersion in liquid. Figure 4. KGV Penny Red collectors generally not enamoured with covers Indeed, stamps on cover exhibit the same qualiterra cotta (“Brick”) shade, punctured “OS” as ties for shade determination as do mint, with that are most seen, used Feb 20 1918 on locally adadded advantage of a date. Phoenix Auctions in dressed Melbourne Official postcard. Accomparecent Sale 47 had Figure 4 (Lot 660), the Pale

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Figure 6. Elusive item for Automobile and Railway enthusiasts nied by Drury Certificate, and catalogued $1000 “on cover” in ACSC, it realised $300 against estimate of $400. I have recorded only three of this shade on intact postal article, and regard this fine example as a very astute purchase. In the same auction, a readily available used Salmon “eosin” shade went for $1250 (both prices minus add-ons). If I collected Penny Reds, I would have jumped upon that “Brick”. On cover/card, the various permutations of this stamp issue are much more desirable than realisations generally would indicate. I highly recommend Penny Reds be more widely collected in such format. An apparent oxymoron, unused FDCs, is my out of left field suggestion for the month. Perhaps surprisingly, there are a fair number to be found for those prepared to search. They usually emanate from unsold Trader stock, or just the odd case of a collector having forgotten to service a cover/s

bought earlier for the purpose. Figure 5 shows covers prepared by noted FDC entrepreneur, Robert Haslem, for the 1938 Die II Queen Elizabeth 1d and KGV 2d (despite featuring the Die I versions!) These two sell for around $10 each, but most unused FDCs can be acquired for a few dollars. The collecting concept could be extended to include unused Souvenir/Commemorative and First Flight covers, which are generally found less often. A sideline for those who prefer to be “different”. I’ve often expressed my interest in Meters, Australia’s most underrated postal markings, where rarities can and usually do sell for 1% or less of the prices sometimes paid for more traditional postmarks. Figure 6 is an attractive example of rarity for a song (or, rather, the price of a bottle of quaffer-quality wine!). I offered this Meter specimen strike on cover on eBay recently, at my signature AU$9.99 start price. Being ideal Stamp News - 9

for an exhibit of Automobile related (Ford Motor Co) or Railways (State of Victoria), added to which it is the only example I’ve seen, I expected it would be well received. Wrong. Despite around 30 views, there was just one bid, and it sold to an overseas bidder at the start price. I find most of the rare Meter cancels I offer sell to collectors abroad. On a daily basis, when Figure 7. Colonial rarity slips through the cracks monitoring auction realisations around on two occasions. The moral? If you are serious the world, I regularly witness what I regard as about your collecting, it pays to never miss monicommon stamps, unworthy of a place in an extoring auction catalogues, or at least those most hibit, sell for four figures. Yet, this attractive and likely to offer the type of material over which you uber rare item struggled to achieve 1% of such enthuse. amount? eBay, of course, is one of those market places Meters will have their day, and I hope to receive where one should never miss trawling for what a “thanks, Rod” from those proactive to my recis of interest. If that interest is Australian comommendation that Meters (on cover) are the best mercial and philatelic covers you will be wise to value for money forms of Australian cancellation. include rap_com_au (moi) as a must search for I could kick myself when I miss something Seller. special in an auction catalogue. It was not until after the event that my attention was drawn to a Rod Perry has been a philatelic trader since 1962 Status International lot, in Sale 325, Figure 7 and a Stamp News advertiser since the 1960s . He (# 1775), one of the rarest stamps on cover of the Australian Colonies. The Victoria 1860s Laureate founded Rodney A Perry Auction Galleries (now 3d lilac has only eight covers recorded. It is rarer Millennium Philatelic Auctions) in 1971. As a colon cover than the more celebrated 8d orange of that stamp series. The vendor of the subject cover lector he has exhibited nationally and internationbrought it to my attention, and explained he had ally. Rod prefers his used stamps on cover and likens bought it on eBay, from one of Europe’s leading taking a stamp off its original cover to converting a Auction houses, for around AU$30! At Status, it realised a more respectable $300, but still repretree to woodchips. Past editions of this column may sented outstanding value for money. I had in fact be accessed on Rod’s ‘rap.com.au’ missed the opportunity to buy this great cover 10 - Stamp News

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Australia Post: 2016 Olympic Gold Medallist series Tom Burton’s gold medal performance has been recognised with the production of his own gold medallist stamp following his victory in the men’s laser at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Burton features on the 67th gold medallist stamp since the program began at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. To continue the tradition, and to celebrate each Australian individual’s or team’s gold medal performance, the Australian gold medallist stamps will be produced in a sheetlet of 10 for each win at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The gold medallist stamps accompany the Road to Rio special issue stamp, released on 2 August 2016, translating the spirit of the host city through vivid colour, rippling ribbons and athletic ﬁgures. “We are extremely proud of the performance of Tom Burton - it is a great honour for him to win a gold medal for his country and fulﬁl his Olympic dreams. Having this incredible moment immortalised on a stamp is a wonderful way for Australia to honour him in return,” said Kitty

Chiller, Chef de Mission, Australian Olympic Team. Tom Burton’s gold medal stamp along with the others in the series will be available through participating Post Ofﬁces, via mail order on 1800 331 794 or online at auspost.com.au/stamps within days of the gold medal presentation, while stocks last. Burton joins fellow Rio 2016 gold-winning Olympians Kim Brennan (women’s single sculls), Mack Horton (men’s 400m freestyle), the women’s 4x100 freestyle relay gold medal winners (Emma McKeon, Brittany Elmslie, Bronte Campbell, Cate Campbell), Catherine Skinner (women’s trap shooting), the Australian women’s rugby sevens team (Nicole Beck, Charlotte Chaslick, Emilee Cherry, Chloe Dalton, Gemma Etheridge, Ellia Green, Shannon Parry, Evania Pelite, Alicia Quirk, Emma Tonegato, Amy Turner, Sharni Williams and Kyle Chalmers (men’s 100m freestyle). The stamp celebrating Chloe Esposito’s win in the Women’s Modern Pentathlon was released too late for inclusion.

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GUATEMALA TOLD ON NINE STAMPS There was a time when postal administrations used their postage stamps to give a comprehensive picture of the country whose name they carry. I am particularly thinking of the long sets of deﬁnitives from a variety of British colonies or stamp sets from nations in Latin America. A study of the designs frequently give us collectors insights into the country’s geography, economy, history and many other aspects. A typical example is a set of airmails released by the Central American nation of Guatemala in 1953. The primary purpose of this issue was to advertise the National Fair starting on 20 October 1953. Fairs or exhibitions were very common in the 1950s; they provided the opportunity for manufacturers and various organisations to showcase their range of products or services. Frequently prizes were awarded to the best product and this was something that the companies could later refer to in their advertising campaigns.

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In this speciﬁc case the Guatemalan postal service had turned to the Wright Bank Note Company in Philadelphia to design and print a set of nine stamps. Wright is mainly known for having printing numerous stamp sets for the West African Republic of Liberia. On the whole Wright did an excellent job. The nine engraved stamps are colourful and they feature exciting and informative designs. Guatemala is a nation of more than 20 ethnic groups whose cultures attract attention from all over the world. The 1c denomination features an Indian dancer from one of the country’s many cultural regions. In this connection I sadly have to add that the Guatemalan ruling classes waged a war against what they considered to be rebellious Indians for a great many years. The Indians were just asking for the same human rights as all other Guatemalan citizens. In 1992, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Rigoberta Menchú who has

Christer Brunström devoted much of her life to the struggle for human rights for the country’s ethnic populations. A rather similar ethnic theme returns on the 5c stamp where a young lady is shown exhibiting typical artisanal products. These are mainly very colourful textiles which are frequently marketed to visiting tourists. A look at the lower right corner of the stamp reveals two men playing the marimba, an instrument which plays a major role in the country’s musical culture. If we look carefully at the 5c stamp we notice that the lady is holding a flower in her hand. Many countries have a national flower and Guatemala is no exception. The flower is called Monja blanca (White nun). This white flower is Guatemala’s national flower and it is the topic of the 4c value. The flower owes its name to the kind of headdress frequently worn by nuns. Guatemala has been and still is home to many intriguing Maya cultures. The Maya built large

cities with houses for the people and temples for various religious activities. Some of these religious cults appear to have been quite violent requiring the sacriﬁce of humans. During the 1800s and early 1900s many of these long forgotten Maya cities in the Guatemalan jungles were rediscovered. These archeological remains have helped us better understand the daily life, culture and religious beliefs of the ancient Maya Indians. This was also something that the postal service wanted to feature on the set. The 20c stamp depicts the impressive ruins of Zakuleu just outside the present-day city of Huehuetenango. Zakuleu existed continuously from about 250 after Christ until it was abandoned and forgotten when the Spanish conquered the area in 1525. Today these Maya ruins are popular tourist destinations. The 30c value has a most interesting design. The intention was to showcase Guatemala’s agri-

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GUATEMALA TOLD ON NINE STAMPS cultural industry. Included in the design is a corncob. Maize is in many ways the staple food of many Guatemalans. Maize tortillas are included in practically all meals. Cattle-farming is an important rural activity and the 1953 fair obviously had a section where bulls had been entered. The 50c stamps shows the bull which obtained the ﬁrst prize in its class. Even today farming plays an important role in Guatemala’s rural regions. Frequently it is a case of subsistence farming but the country also exports large quantities of coffee, sugar and bananas to mention some of the major agricultural products. Many Guatemalans are crazy about sports with football being the major one. However, in our

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set the two sports featured are horse racing and cycle racing. They are featured on the 15 and 65c stamps. The design choice for the top value was the obvious one – a beautiful quetzal. This colourful bird with its extremely long tail feathers is the country’s national bird and also a symbol for Guatemala. It has been featured on numerous stamps. In this connection it interesting to note that the quetzal is also the name of Guatemala’s currency. The last stamp in our set carries a denomination of 1 quetzal. This particular set has been on my wants list for year and when I ﬁnally was able to locate the nine stamps they turned quite an education.

AAT fully IMPERFORATE Miniature Sheets issued by Australia Post!

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

A. Fully imperforate MUH or CTO AAT Mini Sheet - $A60 a sheet. (Stock code 629KE) B. 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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Stamps in the News - Globally! Fabled Mauritius copper plate up for auction

Reported at www.paulfrasercollectibles.com The copper printing plate for the famous 1847 Mauritius “POST OFFICE” 1d and 2d stamps will be auctioned by David Feldman in December this year. Described in 1912 by stamp expert Alexander J Sefi as “the greatest Philatelic Treasure existing”, the plate is expected to sell for a seven figure sum. The Mauritius “POST OFFICE” stamps were the first colonial issues of the British Empire and rank among the world’s greatest rarities. A total of 1,000 of the 1d and 2d stamps were printed, of which only 27 still exist. They are extraordinarily valuable. An 1847 cover displaying one of each sold for $4m in 1993. The printing plate disappeared for many years and was rediscovered in 1912. It was acquired by Maurice Burrus around 1930 and was last displayed at the 1935 Silver Jubilee exhibition of the Royal Philatelic Society in London. It then disappeared from view again and for many years it was feared to have been lost. However, following the death of Odile Burrus, the niece of Maurice, the plate was re-discovered by the Burrus family who have consigned it to auction. The plate was valued at $50,000 in 1913 ‒ a sum equivalent to around $1.2m today. David Feldman comments: “Handling the sale of the great MAURITIUS collection in 1993 belonging to Hiroyuki Kanai was no doubt the summit of my philatelic career, but there was always one missing item from this collection: the famous Post Office printing plate.”

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“What had become of the item and its location was a mystery. It is at last a great honour and privilege to be able to handle this most elusive item!”

Pagans provoked

Reported at http://witchesandpagans.com In 1981 Royal Mail issued a 22p stamp celebrating Lammastide as part of a folklore series. For the uninitiated, Lammas celebrates the ancient first grain harvest where tradition calls for the baking of the first loaf from the newly harvested corn or wheat. It is that loaf that gives the day its name: “Loaf-mass” from the Anglo-Saxon Hlafmass. Traditionally, the baked loaf was brought to some community gathering to celebrate the harvest. Cut to the USA 2016 where images of this 1981 GB stamp have been doing the rounds of social media with the tag line “Postmaster Announces New Pagan Holiday Stamp.” It appears many US pagans have been fooled into thinking this is a new stamp design to be issued by the USPS, causing quite a groundswell of excitement. Unfortunately for the pagans the whole thing has been revealed as a spoof. The internet piece goes on to state “Pagans have been an integral part of this nation since its founding and before,” said Postmaster Tamar Penrose, acting head of the US Postal Service.” Tamar Penrose is the name of the Postmistress in the Thomas Tryon novel Harvest Home, about a small town in Connecticut discovered by a contemporary New York City couple in the 1970s, where they keep the “old ways.” Interestingly the whole online discussion has now veered from demands for a pagan US stamp to despair over the parlous state of US paganism given how few people apparently recognised the spoof’s connection to Harvest Home, considered to be a pagan primer.

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Pluto plaudit

Reported at www.nasa.gov It’s a new world record that’s being broken every second. A 1991 “Pluto Not Yet Explored” stamp was affixed to the New Horizons spacecraft before launch from Cape Canaveral in 2006. On July 19 the stamp was recognized by Guinness World Records for the farthest distance travelled by a postage stamp, going more than 3.2 billion miles to Pluto and beyond. “Our mission is to make the amazing official,” said Jimmy Coggins, official adjudicator for Guinness. The 29-cent “Pluto Not Yet Explored” stamp became a rallying cry for the New Horizons mission team in the 1990s when the U.S. government commissioned 10 illustrations — one for every planet, plus the Moon. Each stamp ran with an image of the spacecraft that explored it. But for the ninth planet, the text simply read, “Pluto: Not yet explored. When the mission was finally launched in 2006 scientists were insistent the “Pluto Not Yet Explored” stamp accompany the spacecraft. The stamp hitched a ride of more than 3.2 billion miles to Pluto, reaching the dwarf planet on July 14, 2015, bringing humanity its first breathtaking closeups of the mysterious world. The “little stamp that could” is continuing its record-setting journey, now 441-million kilometres beyond Pluto, continuously breaking the world record it just set. NASA has approved an extended mission for a Jan. 1, 2019 flyby of a Kuiper Belt

object one billion miles past Pluto. In 2016 USPS recognised the first reconnaissance of Pluto with a souvenir sheet ‘Pluto explored’.

New Horizon team celebrate the successful reconnaissance of Pluto in 2015

USPS 2016 minisheet commemorating Pluto’s new status as ‘explored’

Flight covers Bollywood-style

Conferring of Guinness Book of Records record for most travelled stamp

Reported at timesofindia. com The Special Carried Cover that India Post issued to mark the special aircraft that flew 160 fans from Bengaluru to Chennai for the first-day first-show of Bollywood blockbuster Kabali has been sold out within 48 hours. In a rare branding exercise with a private entity, India Post brought out a limited edition Special CarStamp News - 17

Stamps in the News - Globally! tion. The long awaited-for draft law on the implementation of the official character of Tamazight provides for a set of measures to be adopted, among which is the use of the language in bank notes, postal stamps and other official documents Amazigh High Commissioner delivered by the stamp from Algeria featuring state. Tamazight language

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ried Cover, akin to a first day cover, to mark another first – a special AirAsia aircraft carrying fans to experience the movie in Chennai. The airline had also painted the aircraft with the movie poster. The postal department’s Kabali cover was priced at Rs 100 and was available for sale at selected POs. However, they were sold out within 48 hours. Krishnan, a Bengaluru resident said he drove down to Chennai to watch the film and came back on Saturday. He went to the GPO first thing on Monday morning but had to return disappointed. Only a limited number of such special covers and stamps, brought out to commemorate occasions, are printed by the department and hence considered very valuable by collectors.

Tamazight no longer out of sight in Morocco

Reported at http://unpo.org Five years after the Amazigh people were officially recognized by the Moroccan Constitution, there is still no law in place guaranteeing the minority’s language rights. But a new draft law may end the restrictions on the use of Tamazight, a Berber language, in politics, public administration and educa18 - Stamp News

Reported at http://blog.constitutioncenter.org On July 26, 1775, the Continental Congress created the Post Office, naming Benjamin Franklin as the first Postmaster General. Here are some little known facts about a unique American institution. 1. The Founding Fathers were all for a postal system, especially Franklin. He originally improved the postal delivery system as Joint Postmaster General for the Crown but was fired by the British in 1774 for rebel sympathies. When the new nation needed a postmaster, it turned to Franklin in 1775. 2. Abraham Lincoln was a local postmaster. As a postmaster in New Salem, Illinois from 1833 until 1836, Lincoln would occasionally deliver the mail by stashing it inside his hat. 3. According to the Postal Service’s web site, here are some other famous people who delivered the mail or worked as clerks, or postmasters including Bing Crosby, Walt Disney, William Faulkner, Charles Lindbergh, Richard Wright and Adlai Stevenson. 4. The Postal Service has been a high-tech innovator. The quest to deliver the mail faster and more consistently led to the pioneering uses of steamboats, trains, boats, cars, planes and horses. 5. The Pony Express was a financial failure. The

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Owney, the postal dog, on duty in 1889 privately operated Pony Express that ran in 1860 and 1861. The use of relay horses cut mail-delivery times in half but the service was deeply in debt and ultimately could not compete with the new technology, the telegraph. 6. The Post Office had a dog as a mascot, Owney, who was befriended by workers in Albany in 1888 and soon became a sensation as he rode on the rail cars along with the mail to New York. For the next decade, he was an international postal ambassador until he bit a mail worker. Sadly, he was put down but his co-workers paid to have him stuffed and he’s at the National Postal Museum today on display.

300th years of Spanish Postal Service “Correos” Reported at http://ajuntament.barcelona.cat 2016 sees the commemoration of three centuries of a national postal service in Spain - three centuries that have witnessed such important landmarks as the introduction of the postman (1756), daily postal deliveries (1870) and the invention of the postcode (1981). Granted by Royal Warrant of King Philip V on July 13, 1716, the service was implemented to deliver the King’s orders and diplomatic dispatches, including personal correspondence and government payments. The warrant was a successor to privately organized services run by noble families in Spain. The organization of the national service was completed by 1743, and saw the regulation of a network of post offices and the appointment of a

Correo Mayor, or Postmaster General. The first Spanish postage stamp was used from January 1, 1850, in denominations ranging from six quartos, or 1 ½ centimos, for a simple letter, to 10 reales for heavier dispatches. These stamps carried an image of Queen Isabella II similar to the one used on her coinage introduced in 1851. Another milestone for the Royal Postal Service was the addition of telegraphy services from 1844 to 1855 - by the end of the 19th century, over 1,500 telegraph stations across Spain were open for public use. Correos is celebrating its tercentenary by issuing three souvenir sheets of stamps devoted to three centuries of the state postal and telegraphs service. The first souvenir sheet is devoted to the first 100 years of the service (1716-1816). The main illustration shows the six most important radial postal routes on the Iberian Peninsula, together with allusions to the postal service in this first phase. The main motif on the stamp is a scene set in the 18th century featuring Madrid’s GPO.

Meanwhile in Kenya….

Reported at https://citizentv.co.ke The Kenyan Government has established a 12 member taskforce to revamp the postal corporation and make it an economically viable entity. This comes after years of loss making for Posta and Stamp News - 19

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lack of innovation that has seen the state corporation lose market share to new entrants. The team is expected to come up with recommendations to change Posta’s fortunes by entering the e-commerce space and deepening financial inclusion by taking advantage of its large network. “The taskforce shall recommend the necessary review of policies and strategies aimed at re positioning the postal sector in the country as a major part of the supply chain,” a spokesman said. Posta has been using technology to create direct access to its customers and grow its revenue. In May, it launched a virtual mail box, using technology to appeal to a younger generation. Posta has been increasing the price of postage stamps to boost revenues as the number of mail sent through the post office declined.

Royal Mail uncovers historic postcard

Reported at www.royalmailgroup.com Royal Mail recently announced that it has unearthed one of the first postcards to carry a stamp as part of its Letters of Our Lives campaign. The rare card, which is postmarked 1 September 1894, states ‘This is the first day that a written postcard with a half-penny stamp affixed is allowed to pass through the Post Office. This will be a curiosity one day.’ It is addressed to a Mr Andrew Puer Esq of West London. Before this date, all postcards were issued with pre-printed postage. The postcard, which is postmarked 1 September 1894, was submitted by Christopher Pearce from Leatherhead in Surrey. He purchased the card, from a stall at Esher 20 - Stamp News

Green fair in 1964. He said: “As stamp collecting was one of my hobbies it became one of my prize trophies because I thought that no other postcard like this existed. Thanks to the creativity and foresight of Andrew Puer over 120 years ago this is a fascinating piece of philately history.” Letters of Our Lives, which is part of Royal Mail’s celebrations of 500 years of the postal service, is asking people to look in their attics, garages and sheds for letters or postcards that give a personal account of life in the UK, from centuries ago to present day. The first recorded postcard was sent by writer and practical joker, Theodore Hook, in 1840. It was sold at auction in 2002 for £31,750. Thirty years later, plain postcards were released with a half-penny stamp printed as part of the design. By 1894, these had proved so popular that non-pre-stamped postcards – cards which users could affix a stamp to themselves – were allowed in the post. In the early 1900s, picture postcards began to circulate featuring images of the Boer War and royal events. This led to the creation of the postcard format we recognise today with a picture on the front and the address and message on the back. More than 871 million were being sent every year by 1910. After the First World War, colourful comic images provided the perfect antidote to the pressures

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of battle. Consumers embraced the saucy cartoons – which many regard as the ‘golden age of the picture postcard’ – with sales hitting 16 million a year by the early 1930s. This passion for the colourful, and often bawdyin-nature, postcards gave rise to deltiology – the practice of collecting postcards.

The stamp designed by a Mad man Reported at www.hollywoodreporter.com Jack Davis, a US cartoonist and illustrator best

he broke official postal policy by sneaking a self-portrait into the image, despite the fact that stamps aren’t supposed to include images of living people. The 1989 25¢ Letter Carriers stamp (Scott 2420) features a jaunty cartoon drawing of three smiling U.S. Postal Service workers, each slinging a mail bag over a shoulder. Dressed in a variety of seasonal Davis self-portrait attire, the design emphasizes the motto: Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. Mr. Davis was selected to design the Letter Carriers stamp based on his poster for a 1986 USPS promotional campaign that pictured “a self-confident letter carrier.”

Nostalgia rules – Australia Note the unmistakable similarity with the first letter carrier depicted known for being one of the founders of MAD Magazine, has died at the age of 91. The artist started in the U.S. Navy moving to illustration with early jobs including a Coca-Cola training manual. He went on to produce artwork for MAD for two years following its 1952 launch, as well as a number of similar magazines from MAD creator Harvey Kurtzman. After a break, he returned to MAD in the mid-1960s, where he remained for the rest of his career. When asked to design a stamp for the USPS in 1989,

Reported at www.australiapostcollectables.com.au Play School is Australia‘s most popular and watched children’s television program. To celebrate half a century of this much-loved Australian television program Australia Post has issued two special stamps and bright miniature sheets. Play School is the longest-running children’s

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Stamps in the News - Globally! show in Australia, and the second-longest-running children’s show in the world. An estimated 80% of pre-school children under six watch the program at least once a week. The stamps and minisheet feature three iconic and enduring aspects of the show that all three generations of Australian fans will relate to: the main cast of toys, the Windows and the Play School theme song, “There’s a Bear in There” by Richard Connolly and Dr Rosemary Milne.

Nostalgia rules – Great Britain

Reported at http://www.independent.co.uk Peter Rabbit and Squirrel Nutkin have been put on charming stamps to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter’s birth. Royal Mail’s new set features six characters from the much-loved children’s author’s first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, published in 1902. Potter was born in Kensington, London on 28 July 1866 and first started selling her drawings aged 23. Peter Rabbit was named after her own pet bunny and she began self-publishing the story a few months after he died. Potter was turned down by several publishers before the book was eventually released and went on to sell over 40 million copies. She wrote a further 23 stories about animals with the last, The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots, set to be published in September after being discovered in the Victoria and Albert Museum archive recently.

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Reported at http://www. linns.com Owls are currently dominating avian stamp issues

for 2016 with recent issues from Australia, Switzerland, Aruba, Falkland Islands, Latvia and Canada. Four of the nine species of owls found in Australia are depicted on the new Owls: Guardians of the Night stamps. They show the rufous owl, Eastern grass owl, sooty owl and southern boobook. Christopher Pope created the illustrations and Sharon Rodziewicz designed them. EgoTrade printed them by offset in sheets of 25, in a souvenir sheet with the four designs se-tenant and as self-adhesives in booklets of 10. Switzerland’s recent Nocturnal Animals set includes a tawny owl on the 85-centime denomination. The design by Sonja Burger shows the owl flying on a starry night lit up by the full moon. The tawny owl is the most common owl in Europe with a large wingspan, from 32 to 40 inches. Cartor Security Printing printed the stamps by offset. They are sold in panes of eight with images from all four of the stamps shown in the selvage of each pane. Aruba issued four stamps earlier this year featuring its burrowing owl. The Dutch Caribbean islands are renowned for their rich and unique biodiversity. The Aruban Burrowing, known locally as Shoco, is an endemic sub-species of burrowing owl that occurs only on Aruba. The owl is endangered with only about 200 pairs remaining in the wild. In 2012, it was declared a national symbol of Aurba. Armando Goedgedrag designed the four stamps: 140¢, 200¢, 320¢ and 600¢. Joh. Enschede printed them by offset in sheets of 25. The barn owl and the short-eared owl are featured on 31-penny stamps in the Falkland Islands’ Birds of Prey stamp set.

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The short-eared owl is widely distributed around the world, but the subspecies Asio f. sanfordi is found only on the Falklands. Rather than being completely nocturnal, this owl is considered diurnal and sometimes hunts during the day. Georgina Strange designed the stamps using her own photos. BDT International printed the stamps by offset in sheets of 10. Latvia began a Birds series in 2010, adding two stamps to it every year. The latest stamps, issued in May, show the Eurasian pygmy owl, 0.71; and the great spotted woodpecker, 1.71. Europe’s smallest owl species, this pygmy owl measures about 6 inches in length and weighs a little more than 2 pounds. It is often active during the day, catching birds and mammals its own size. Girts Griva designed these stamps, and Baltijas Banknote printed them by offset in sheets of 10. Canada started a new series of stamps July 12 celebrating the official birds of Canada’s provinces and territories. The great horned owl was adopted as the provincial bird of Alberta in 1977. It is shown in flight on one of the permanent-rate stamps in this Birds of Canada set of five.

nic University (KPU) graphic design instructor Keith Martin. While the complete “Birds of Canada” stamp series will be released over the next two years, the project has already been a long-running one for Martin, who has spent months researching, sketching, digitally drawing and painting birds with as much realism and detail as possible. “The designer in me is really challenged to make the images communicate all of the research and planning in such a small space,” said Martin, who has taught at KPU for 13 years. The five stamps released feature the great horned owl, raven, Atlantic puffin, rock ptarmigan and sharptailed grouse, and join the 24 other stamps Martin has designed for Canada Post. From time to time, Canada Post will reach out to designers and illustrators nation-wide for ideas they wish to contribute to a new series of themed stamps. Martin worked with three other designers on his submission, which contrasted the puffin and the raven in a unique way. “I realized what I needed to do from a design and artistic approach was to represent the bird in an atypical position, with them either taking off or landing,” he said. “The raven is a rebel, black, cult bird; they look at you and the hair on our back stands, whereas the puffin is like a clown, this cute, goofy bird – so to be able to depict the range of these two birds was my strategy.” Martin and his colleagues were selected for the project on the basis of their submission. Over the next two years, Martin will continue work on the remaining 10 stamps as he continues to instruct at KPU. In his classes, Martin frames class projects around producing a stamp, because he says the task “incorporates everything about the field, from doing research, design, to illustration.”

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Postal Stationery This monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s column looks at the stamped postcards issued by Australia Post with Norfolk Island views on the reverse, errors on postal stationery and exhibiting postal stationery.

Norfolk Island Stamped Postcards

On 1 July 2016 Australia Post took over the running of the Norfolk Island Post Office. Australia Post plans to issue adhesive stamps for Norfolk Figure 1 Quality Row, Norfolk Island Island with a similar (Keeling) Island with the new stamps for Norfolk arrangement to that Island also being valid for use in Australia. At the which applies for Christmas Island and the Cocos time of writing the first adhesive stamps under the new arrangements had not been issued. However, Australia Post has issued a set of four stamped postcards depicting Norfolk Island Views. The six postcards which sell for $2.20 prepaying postage anywhere in the world. The views on the reverse of the postcards (Figure 1) are based on photographs taken by Brett Kytola and show Cemetery Bay, Emily Bay, Kingston, Quality Row, Royal Engineers Office and St Barnabas Chapel. Figure 2 West Island, Cocos(Keeling) Islands 26 - Stamp News

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Figure 4 Canada 30c aerogramme with missing blue colour

Figure 3 Bosunbird [Golden TropicBird], Christmas Island

Figure 5 Reverse of Canada 30c aerogramme with missing blue colour

Similar postcards have been issued previously for Cocos (Keeling) Islands in 2014 and Christmas Island in 2013. The Cocos (Keeling) Island postcard views (Figure 2) are; Malay Jukong, Prison Island, Nek Angklik Island and West Island Crab. The Christmas Island views are: Golden Bosunbird, Great Frigatebird, Pink Anemonefish, Christmas Island Reef Crab, Christmas Island Reef, Crab near a waterfall, Christmas Island Red Crabs, Ethel Beach and the Migration of Christmas Island Crabs. Some of the Christmas Island postcards were later issued with the overprint Greetings From Christmas Island (Figure 3). Above Right: Figure 6 Normal Canada 30c aerogramme Right: Figure 7 Reverse of Normal Canada 30c aerogramme Stamp News - 27

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Figure 8 New Zealand 80c Kowhai stamped envelope

Figure 9 80c Kowhai stamped envelope with missing black, blue and yellow.

include errors associated with the manufacture of the stationery itself. Collectors of Postal Stationery, like collectors of Colour errors on stationery can be quite specadhesive stamps, collect errors. Errors on postal tacular. The Canadian 1978 30c aerogramme stationery can include missing colours that are also found on adhesive stamps, but in addition can shown in Figure 4 (front) and Figure 5 (reverse) has the blue colour omitted. The resulting aerogramme is missing ‘Canada 30’ and the address lines while on the reverse the illustration of Quebec farmland is very red compared with the normal aerogramme (Figures 6 and 7). In 1999 New Zealand issued an 80c stamped envelope showing the Kowhai flower (Figure 8). Figure 9 shows the stamp with missing black, blue and yellow. One of the Figure 10 New Zealand 1d King GeorgeV ‘albino’ stamped envelope

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Ian McMahon Exhibiting Postal Stationery

Figure 11 New Zealand 1d King GeorgeV offset

Because of the unique and colourful character of much Postal Stationery, it often attracts more attention in stamp exhibits than other philatelic material. Exhibitors have the pleasure of showing their collections to an interested audience, as well as matching their skill in the selection, mounting, and explanations of their material with other collectors. Exhibiting introduces rules that govern and guide what you display and how it should be done. These rules are necessary to ensure that all exhibitors are on the same playing field, and to guide the judges so that all similar exhibits are judged equally. These rules govern the types of material which may be included, how it is to be presented, how it is to be judged, and the conduct of the judges in the judging process. Exhibiting is competitive, but it is not a case of selecting first, second and third. Each exhibit is judged on its own merits and the person you are competing against is yourself. There are additional benefits arising from exhibiting such as receiving constructive criticism about your exhibit from other collectors, meeting other exhibitors with similar collecting interests, requiring you to

common errors of embossed envelopes is an ‘albino’ where the stamp impression is embossed but the printed image is missing. An example of a 1d New Zealand King George V envelope postally used is shown in Figure 10. The envelope has a manuscript notation ‘sold in error’. Figure 11 shows an offset of a 1d George V New Zealand embossed stamp while a horizontal partial print of a similar stamp on the reverse of the embossed stamp impression is shown in Figure 12. A New Zealand 3d/2d embossed envelope with an inverted stamp (and overprint) in the lower left hand corner is shown in Figure 13. These envelopes were embossed on the envelopes after the envelope had been manufactured, as evidenced by the embossing showing on the flap on the reverse of the envelope, Figure 14, (this may be hard to see on the illustration). Figure 12 New Zealand 1d King GeorgeV partial print of stamp on reverse of 1d stamp

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Postal Stationery tion of Postal Stationery in an exhibit presents special problems; but these offer an interesting challenge, and they are by no means insurmountable. The art of mounting stationery, with its larger pieces than adhesives, and of writing it up is one that can be learned only by practice, and by studying Figure 12 New Zealand 1d King GeorgeV partial print of stamp on reverse of 1d stamp exhibits of other collectors. research and study your material, and identifying Before exhibiting it can be helpful to have a weaknesses in the exhibit where additional or relook at other peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exhibits to give yourself placement material is needed. Personally, I have ideas as to how you might prepare your own found the discipline of exhibiting has encouraged exhibit. Take a look at the layout of the material me to study my material and very much added to and the first page of each exhibit which usually my enjoyment of collecting postal stationery. describes what the exhibitor is aiming to do in the It is by no means necessary to have a collection of rare and unusual items to have a winning exhibit. While rarity is one factor with the judges in most shows, there are many other things which are equally important, such as: skill in presentation, clarity of explanations, and ingenuity in the conception and organization of the exhibit. The presenta- Figure 14 Reverse of New Zealand3d/2d King George VI envelope 30 - Stamp News

Ian McMahon exhibit and how they have organised the display. The exhibits can give you ideas as to how to present material, ideas on what can be included in your exhibit and ideas on your exhibiting topic. You can find exhibits at stamp exhibitions which are held each year in Australia. There are now a number of websites which have exhibits which can be viewed on-line. One is called Exponet, Virtual Philatelic Exhibition, which can be found at http://www.exponet.info . This site has over 1,000 exhibits on many philatelic topics. Almost a hundred of these exhibits are of postal stationery. A collector may collect what they likes and is free to set their own goals and limitations. However, when it comes to exhibiting competitively, like any other competition, certain rules and regulations have to be framed for the guidance of exhibitors as well as to provide a uniform base for comparative assessment of the exhibits. The rules used at Australian Exhibitions are those that have been developed by the Federation lnternationale

de Philatelie (FIP). These regulations with the appropriate modifications and moderations are also used for our State and National level exhibitions. If you are planning to exhibit postal stationery you should familiarise yourself and follow these regulations and guidelines which can be found at www. apf.org.au . Once you begin exhibiting you will be continually improving your exhibit with your exhibit changing many times. These changes will generally occur over a period of a few years. You must also be prepared to be disappointed and criticised. When you prepare an exhibit your expectations are generally high. It is somewhat deflating when a judge identifies weaknesses in your exhibit, and then proceeds to point out many ways in which it can be improved. To be successful these circumstances must be accepted and used as stepping stones in the development of your exhibit. In a future column I will look at the rules of exhibiting postal stationery at national exhibitions.

Three Puffins on Lundy London Cancel The World Cinderella Congress will be held in London 16-18 September 2016 at the Royal Philatelic Society. The Lundy Postal Service has been in existence since 1929 and it is the world’s oldest privately operated local post linking the island in the Bristol Channel with the British mainland. During the Congress, the Lundy Postal Service will have a mailing facility available for visitors. The cards and covers will be taken from London to Lundy where they will be serviced by the local postmaster before be-

ing sent to the mainland and the Royal Mail for delivery. Current issues of Lundy stamps will be available at the Congress and a special cancel will be used on all mail. The postmark features three puffins. It is believed that the island’s name of Lundy is old Norse which can be translated as “Puffin Island.” On September 18th the Lundy Collectors’ Society will hold an afternoon meeting as part of the Congress. Christer Brunström

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Looking at New Zealand

1940 Centennial, Part 9: Gold Mining

Gold mining in the mid-nineteenth century gave a major boost to the development of New Zealand. First, the discovery of gold in Australia, with the large boost to immigration that occurred there, led to major increases in the export of food from New Zealand to Australia. The two countries are close neighbours and there were regular shipping services. New Zealand agriculture was able to de-

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velop at a time of good prices for farm produce. In 1852, gold discoveries were made in the Coromandel area of the North Islandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s east coast but the major discoveries were in Otago in the South Island from 1861 (see discussion on the Otago town of Cromwell in Stamp News Australasia, Dec. 2011). This led to a boom in the South Islandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy while North Island development was held back

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25 AAT .............................................................$ 3.00 50 AAT ...........................................................$ 25.00 100 AAT .........................................................$ 99.00 25 ADEN ..........................................................$ 6.00 50 ADEN ........................................................$ 12.00 100 AFGANISTAN............................................$ 15.00 100 AFRICA ......................................................$ 6.00 200 AFRICA....................................................$ 13.00 50 AITUTAKI ...................................................$ 40.00 150 AITUTAKI ...............................................$ 140.00 200 AITUTAKI ................................................$180.00 50 ALBANIA ....................................................$14.00 100 ALBANIA .................................................$ 24.00 50 ALGERIA .....................................................$11.00 25 ANDORA - SPANISH MINT U/H ...................$ 20.00 50 ANDORRA - SPANISH MINT U/H .................$60.00 25 ANDORRA - FRENCH MINT U/H ..................$ 20.00 50 ANDORRA - FRENCH MINT U/H ..................$ 50.00 25 ANGUILLA ..................................................$18.00 25 ANTIGUA .....................................................$ 5.00 50 ANTIGUA BARBUDA ..................................$ 20.00 200 ARAB STATES ..........................................$ 12.00 100 ARGENTINA ...............................................$ 6.00 200 ARGENTINA .............................................$ 15.00 25 ASCENSION ..............................................$42.00 100 AUST. (DEC MINT U/H) ............................$ 55.00 100 AUST. (PREDEC.MINT U/H) $ .......................60.00 100 AUSTRALIA ...............................................$ 4.00 200 AUSTRALIA ...............................................$ 6.00 300 AUSTRALIA ...............................................$ 8.00 400 AUSTRALIA .............................................$ 13.50 500 AUSTRALIA .............................................$ 16.50 600 AUSTRALIA .............................................$ 27.50 800 AUSTRALIA .............................................$ 40.00 1000 AUSTRALIA ...........................................$ 65.00 1500 AUSTRALIA ..........................................$100.00 25 AUSTRALIAN STATES .................................$ 16.00 50 AUSTRALIAN STATES .................................$ 56.00 100 AUSTRALIAN STATES ..............................$150.00 100AUSTRIA ....................................................$ 7.00 200 AUSTRIA .................................................$ 18.00 500 AUSTRIA .................................................$ 45.00 100 AUSTRIA (LRG.COMMEMS) ......................$ 50.00 200 AUSTRIA (LRG.COMMEMS) ....................$ 100.00

1000 AUSTRIA .............................................$ 119.00 1000 AUSTRIA (MINT U/H) ...........................$ 295.00

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

Pricefighter Packets, ready made collections 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

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

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50 HONG KONG ..............................................$ 12.00 100 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

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

Pay cents, not $ per stamp! 50 KOREA SOUTH ...........................................$ 14.00

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

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

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

200 NAURU ..................................................$ 160.00 50 NEPAL .........................................................$ 8.00 100 NEPAL .....................................................$ 16.00 25 NETHERLANDS ANTILLES ..........................$ 20.00 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 PACIFIC IS (BR) ............................................$ 8.00 100 PACIFIC IS. (BR) ........................................$16.00 200 PACIFIC IS. (BR) .......................................$ 56.00 600 PACIFIC ISLANDS ...................................$ 250.00

100 PAKISTAN .................................................$12.00 50 PANAMA ...................................................$ 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

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Pricefighter Packets, ready made collections 50 SALVADOR ................................................$ 40.00 100 SALVADOR ..............................................$ 80.00 25 SAMOA .......................................................$ 7.00 50 SAMOA .....................................................$ 26.00 100 SAMOA ...................................................$ 66.00 400 SAMOA .................................................$ 272.00 500 SAMOA .................................................$ 380.00 600 SAMOA .................................................$ 780.00 25 SAN MARINO ..............................................$ 6.00 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

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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.

SEPTEMBER SALE Prices valid to 30 September 2016, BE QUICK! Email or phone reservations highly advised. If you wish to view any item we can send a scan by email, or colour photocopy by mail. 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. New lower postage rates for smaller parcels Australia Wide: Up to 500g $7.50; 501g – 3kg $13.50; 3.01kg – 5kg $17.50. Coins and Banknotes: CB1) Australia 1923 Halfpenny, in lovely fine plus condition 6 pearls clearly visible, reverse would be VF. Nice clean coin, cat $2250 plus. Price $1875 CB3) Australia 1946 1d, nice VF (very fine) condition with traces of original lustre. Cat $150, price $98 CB4) Australia 1912 Penny, great coin in EF (Extremely fine) condition, 8 pearls and centre diamond with some original lustre. Cat $125, price $98 CB5a) Australia Five 1954 10 pound Commonwealth Bank Coombs/Wilson prefix WA20, nice flat note in Very Fine condition. Cat $375, price $249 CB11) Australia Silver 3d starter collection, all KGV 10 different dates for $29 CB12) Australia 1921M 3d, in AUNC Condition, cat $175, price $115 CB13) Australia 1928 3d, in AUNC condition, cat $175, price $115 CB16) Australia Halfpennies, starter collection 20 different dates price $39 CB17) Australia Baby Coin Set, 1997 mint condition as issued. Thje scarcest of All the baby sets. Cat $410, price $295 Stamps and Postal History: AU1) Australia 1924 One Pound Grey Kangaroo, 3rd wmk, ovpt. Specimen Type C, mint very lightly hinged. Centered right, fresh white gum, cat. $375, price $279 AU2) Australia 1918-29 3rd wmk Kangaroos set of 9, inc., both 6d & 2/- colours 2d – 5/in good average used condition. Retail as fine used $300, this set all with circular cancels, nicely centered, Price $129 AU3) Australia 1924 One Pound Grey 3rd wmk Kangaroo, good spacefiller, with circular cancel. Retail $425 for fine used, lised at $240 on my “Wounded Roos” page, this one just $195 AU4) Pitcairn Is. Commercial Mails. We have acquired a nice lot of genuine Pitcairn Is. Commercial covers (NOT Tourist Mail) Mostly small envelopes, some registered, and some wrappers, plus parcel pieces with values to $10! A total of 35 items, which would make a nice single frame exhibition. Island families represented among the senders are Christian, Brown, Warren,Warren – Peu, Young and McCoy. Price required is $2400, plus I will throw in for free 8 Tourist Covers, including a solo use of the 2/6d KGVI to NZ. Average retail for a very ordinary Pitcairn commercial cover is $75, this lot works out at around $68 per item and includes some very interesting and scarce usages, and the period covered is from the 1940’s to 2008. As I said an immediate display for you. Contact me for further details. Price $2400 AU5) Australia 1962. Solo use of 2/3d Commonwealth Games on small airmail letter to Germany. Cancelled by Sydney Christmas Slogan of 12 DEC 1962. Cat. $75 on cover. Price $49 AU6) Papua New Guinea,1952-58 Pictorial Definitives Series Set Of 16 Mint Unhinged, nice Post Office fresh. Retail $250, my price just $189 AU7) Australia. Bulging green Trafalgar 32 page Olde Tyme stockbook, containing mostly decimal accumulation. Strength from 1980 with birds series in multiples to $1, similar in Reptiels and Butterflies, various commem. sets complete in multiples to 1986. Probably around 3000 styamps or so, so at around 2.5c each must be good value! $69 the lot! AU8) Great Britain, bulging FDC album, with first day and special event covers from 1970 – 1978, most with better cancels and cachets, such as Windsor for Royalty covers, Lords on Cricket, Houses of Parliament on Parl. Conference, etc. Very high catalogue value. 70 plus items, under $2 per cover, price $139 AU9) Big Red Stockbook, with mint unhinged collection (odd cto not counted) of Hungary fairly hard to find 1958 – 1971 period. Very clean and attractive lot, mostly good thematics. Looks pretty extensive for the period. Catalogue value must be vast, rarely seen Mint

Unhinged. Counted 85 plus sets/minisheets, I see this stuff retail elsewhere at $7 to $8 a set! under $2 per set, price $169 AU10) Canada in Ancient (1930’s/40’s) very sturdy Ring Binder, containing basic collections of Canada, India and Papua New Guinea form Queen Victoria to around mid 1970’s. Few 100 stamps. Cheap and cheerful lot, price $39 AU11) Australia simplified used Collection in VST Album, commencing basic Kangaroos to 5/- , KGV Heads to 1/4d, then most KGV period complete ex. 5/- Harbour Bridge. KGVI is complete inc. 3d White Wattles, Robes and Arms sets, as is QEII Pre-decimal excepting the Navigators 1 & 2 pounds. Decimals are virtually complete 1966 – 1986. Some AAT on Hagners at back. A great starter collection at a very reasonable price. $269 AU12) Australia 1913 1d Red Kangaroo, Die IIA, fresh used example, with large part original gum, and Strong Offset on reverse under the gum. Cat $600 for mint, unpriced used. Lovely item. $495 AU13) New Zealand, used collection on stack of Hagners in Maroon Binder. Commences perforated QV Chalons, with 2 x 6d, then 2nd sidefaces to 1/- , 1920 Victory set plus Admirals both shades of the 2/- blue plus the 3/- Violet, then a fairly complete run through to 1991 with Christmas, Healths and Lighthouse issues at the back plus other revenues inc. QV to One Pound Pink, and Arms series to One Pound Salmon. Also a few decimal Arms with multiples of the $10. A very interesting lot with huge retail value! Many 100s. Price $189 AU14) Great Britain 1840 1d Black, plate 4, in horizontal pair, (Pairs are scarce!) cancelled with nicely struck Red Maltese Crosses, AU14) unplated, lettered CI – CJ, this pair both with 4 margins. Price $1100. AU15) Final of these pairs of 1d blacks, this in the scarcer Grey Black shade, and with Black Maltese Crosses. Lettered EC – ED, both are 4 margin examples, close at bottom. Price $1175. AU16) Australia 1920 3rd Wmk 1/- Blue-Green, SIDEWAYS WATERMARK, lovely block of 4, top row very lightly hinged, lower two are unhinged. Centered a little high, as is usual for this stamp. Cat. $200 each for hinged, and unpriced for unhinged, but other items in this periods are normally near 3 times the price, so around $1600. Never seen a block so nice before! Price $975. AU17) Christmas Island, Mint Unhinged Collection on Seven Seas pages. Virtually complete 1958 – 1978 Coronation issue, less a couple of cheap Christmas sets. RetaiI $170 plus. Price $115 AU18) Papua New Guinea 1952 – 1978 collection on Seven Seas Pages, mostly complete mint unhinged from 1963, with a few used. Nice lot, pages would have cost $100 or so. Stamps retail $230 plus plus. Any incomplete sets have not been counted in the retail. Price $149 AU19) Norfolk Is. 1947 – 1978 Collection mostly mint unhinged on Seven Seas pages. Mainly complete but with a few gaps, good for expansion. I have only counted the full sets in the retail of $280 plus. My price $189 AU20) Australia 1908 5/- Green Postage Due, with stroke. SGD59, Cat. $95. Lovely well centered, ful perfs and “socked on nose” with scarce Perth Poste Restante cds, 7 AUG 09. Price $72 AU21) Australia 1964 10/- Navigator, overprinted 15.5mm Specimen, on cream paper mint unhinged. OVERPRINT MASSIVELY MISPLACED INTO PERFS AT LHS. Never seen this before and is not catalogued. Stamp is perfectly centered. STRIKING ERROR! Cat. $1500 as normal, Unashamedly asking $3000. AU22) Nauru Collection on Seven Seas Pages 1924 – 1978. Virtually complete mint unhinged 1954 – 1978. Retail is $220 plus plus, my price $149 AU23) Australia 1918 Two Pound Purple Black and Crimson Kangaroo, 3rd wmk, Overprinted Specimen Type B, mint lightly hinged, centered high. With Shaved C on curvature, not recorded in the ACSC catalogue. Cat $500 as normal. The damaged C for type C Specimen is cat. At $1000. Price $595 AU24) Australia 1928 1/4d KGV Turquoise small multi wmk perf 13.5 x 12.5 in a horizontal strip of 3 on large linen backed parcel piece, with additional horiz pair of the 3d, and a vertical pair of the 1.5d Swan. Total franking of 4/9d. The 1/4d on cover is cat at $400 in the ACSC. A scarce piece cancelled by Ship Mail Room Melbourne 7OC 9 (29, the 2 being missing from the date slug!) A few wrinkles, but a very scarce piece. Price $295

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SEPTEMBER SALE AU25) Australia 1948 5/- Arms, thin paper horizontal strip of 3 POSTALLY USED! Never ever seen a multiple of this in 50 years of stamp dealing, must be a very rare usage. Left hand stamp thinned at top, otherwise fine. Cat $125 each as singles. Must be worth full catalogue. Supplied with normal for comparison. $375. AU26) South Africa Collection in Maroon Lighthouse Springback illustrated Album, 1910 – 1973 postally used. Has been haphazardly put together, with some duplication, plus some covers. Worthy however of expansion. Album cost $295 years ago! 200 plus stamps, selling at the secondhand value of the album, the stamps are free! Price $139 AU27) Australia 1929 Parcel piece, bearing 6 x 6d Chestnut 3rd wmk Kangaroo in vertical pairs plus 1d Green small multi. Wmk. The 6d as a single cat $150 on cover, and $15 each as single stamps. Cancelled by Sydney late fee cds of 13 NO 29. Clean and attractive, price $98 AU28) Australia 1913 1st wmk 5/- Grey & Yellow Kangaroo postally used with cds cancel, indistinct but PM 4.30 NO 3 can be discerned. Faint red registered crayon mark does not affect fine appearance, Well centered with fresh colour. Few nibbed perfs at lower left. Has the variety “Break in Bight” ACSC 42 (D) t, cat $700. Price $349 AU29) Australia KGV 4d Orange, Inverted wmk, MLH, Cat $80, cheap at $45 AU30) Australia 1913 2/- Brown Kangaroo, postally used with slightly smudged cds, but with clear date of 24 JA 14 and full perfs. Cat $250. Nice budget stamp, price $69 AU31) Australia 1929 small multi wmk 5/- Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, nicely used, well centered and full perfs, two partial cds cancels. Kangaroo slightly misplaced upwards with “Wet Ears” variety. Retail for fine used is $175, this one $135 AU32) Australia 1999 Navigators Minisheets (2) mint unhinged, Perfin. A99, cat $100 in Comprehensive Cat. My price just $29 the pair, 5 pairs for $129 AU33) Norfolk Is. 1960 Local Govt. 2/8d, SG 40, in mint block of 4, hinged on top 2 stamps only. Retail $100, price $69 AU33a) As above, but cto with gum, retail $88, price $59 AU35) Australia KGV, 1d Green C of A wmk, Overprinted OS, in a mint unhinged left marginal block of 8. Centered low, with appearance of almost imperf between the vertical rows. Nice fresh appearance. Cat $160. Price $119. AU36) Norfolk Is. 1970 Birds definitives, SG 103/17, in mint unhinged Horizontal Pairs, nice! Retail $100, price $69 AU37) GB 1940 Airmail censored cover to Sydney, re-addressed to Grafton, bearing 2/6d Brown KGVI plus horizontal pair of 1/- Bistre. Cancelled by cds of Gillingham, Kent, 24 OCT 40, and arrival cds of Penrith, NSW 14 NO 40. Attractive cover. Price $75 AU38) Western Australia 2d Orange rouletted, SG30, mint with original gum. Oxidised, but still a scarce stamp, cat 700 pounds in 2013 part one. My price under 20% cat, $259 AU39) Victoria, 1854 1/- Red & Blue registered, vfu 4 big even margins with barred numeral cancel. Cat 190 pounds in 2013, and retails at $160 for 3 margin examples. This one $165 AU40) Australia Kangaroos. 170+ mixed kangaroos. Mostly 3rd & Small Multiple watermarks, some 1st also. Mixed Condition, some with faults, most not. Values to 5/-, incredible value at under $2 per stamp! Price $329 AU41) Australia 1913 2/- Brown Kangaroo, 1st wmk, perf small OS, mint lightly hinged, well centered and good perfs. Couple of tone spots on reverse, very faint on face. Cat $1500, very cheap at $295 AU42) Australian States, mixed bag of around 500 of mostly letter rate values of the larger states. Last time I had these they sold out in record time! Good for postmark, shade, perforation and variety hunters. Less than 30c a stamp, $149 the lot, double lot for $269 AU43) Australia 1d Green KGV Single wmk, perf OS in unused block of 25. Retail for mint hinged is $14 each = $350, Unchecked for varieties. My price just $79 AU44) Australia 1929 KGV 4d Greenish Olive, Ash Imprint Pair, mint lightly hinged, from Plate 3. Block of 4 cat $300. Price $59 AU45) EAST GERMANY, HUGE Collection: 1949-1990 collection in three near new top quality red padded peg fitting Schaubek illustrated albums, these alone cost near $900 to buy. Largely complete to 1970 mint or used, then apparently complete mint including Minisheets

to 1989, a few used and the odd empty space in 1990. High thematic content & massive CV with approx 3000 stamps here.... this is a great opportunity to obtain a near complete collections and the albums in one fell swoop! The catalogue value 20 odd years ago was around 1750 pounds = approx. $3150 today’s exchange rate (29/7/16) So adding up the cost of the albums and the catalogue value of the stamps you get to over $4000…I am asking a bit over new cost of the albums, the stamps you get for next to nothing! $995 the lot! AU46) Netherlands Mint Unhinged Collection 1946-1995 in quality Davo Album and on a pile of Hagner sheets. Valuable collection with correct SG Cat of £1,505 = $A2700 at today’s exchange rate 29/7/16 in a $200+ when new Davo Hingeless album, in hard slipcase. Stamps mostly look fine and fresh. A great start at a near complete Post War Dutch collection at a GREAT price. near $A3,000 Cat of stamps, and a decent $200 album - all for just $A795 AU47) Australia 1931 KGV 1d Green C of A watermark, in 2 distinctly different Ash Imprint Gutter Blocks. The first with Jubilee Lines and the text in a bold type. The second without Jubilee Lines and a much lighter typeface, and a slightly different font. Both hinged only in gutter, stamps are fresh mint unhinged. Unusual! Price $129 the two. AU48) New Zealand high values on paper. It is several months since we had any of this… we used toi get 1-200g per month. This time it is only 50g. One lot only Price $64 AU49) Australia 4d Red Embossed QEII small Postal Stationery Enelope uprated and registered by 2 x 10d Slate QEII, with cds of Semaphore S.A. to make 2/- total franking. Dated 5 MR 57, which is the first day of issue of the 10d stamp. Has been slit open at top. Possible accidental FDC, price $29 AU50) Australia 1966 Navigators Specimen Overprints, the Scarce 75c & $1 smaller 15mm overprints, mint lightly unhinged, retail $175, just $89 JL3) Germany, collection of all periods on album leaves1800’s to around 1990, with Greater Germany, West Germany and East Germany all well represented. About 800 stamps, mostly used with some nice complete sets. Very good value at $49 JL7) Norfolk Is. on Hagner pages in padded Australia Post red ring binder. Commencing 1947 Ball Bays with sets to 1/- both mint and used. Wide array of later issues to 2005 with some light duplication and many mint sets, with values to $5. Counted 60 plus complete sets here, good value at $129 JL9) USA Silk first day cover collection in dark blue Cumberland padded ring album. Covers the period 1982 – 1984 and appears complete. 105 unaddressed Colorano silk covers, values to $9.35 Airmail. Lovely lot, a little toning on a very few covers. Huge retail, my price well under $1.50 each, $149 JL11) Norfolk Is. Collection on Minkus leaves complete except white paper ball bays, 1947 – 1986 mostly mint, with a few used. Then some 1987 issues on Seven Seas hingeless leaves. 90 plus complete sets, with all definitive sets and minisheets included Price under $1.50 per set, great buying at $129 JL12) Christmas Is. Collection on Minkus leaves, virtually complete mint or fine used from 1958 SG1 to 1986, with some later issues on Seven Seas hingeless pages. All definitive issues and minisheets are also there. Total of 40 plus complete sets, under $1.50 per set, price $59 JL13) Lighthouse Green 64 page stockbook, containing collection of Pacifics, with Fiji, Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Christmas Is., Solomon Is., Gilbert & Ellice Is., new Hebrides, Vanuatu, Penrhyn, Tuvalu, Pitcairn, Aitutaki, Cook Is., Samoa etc. Mostly mint unhinged, with a few hinged or used. A few toning issues in first couple of pages, otherwise fresh and clean, covers the period 1937 to approx. 1986. Noted imperf and double overprint errors. A host of material here, counted 200 plus complete sets and minisheets, including many long definitive sets. Magnificent lot for a reseller all at under $2 per set average. Price $395 JL15) Cocos (Keeling) Islands collection mainly mint unhinged in Red Lighthouse padded album, as new, retail for this near $250 alone! Appears complete 1963 – end 1992 with a few later. Odd toning in first two pages, but otherwise a very fresh and clean lot. Have only counted the retail of stamps from 1976, which is $1000 plus! So with the album a total retail of around $1250….my price under 50% includes the 1990 provisional set of 7, retail alone $325....$595! JL16) Australia Mission Mix, an older lot, to the 45c period with good variety, most on

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SEPTEMBER SALE single well trimmed paper. As much as we can cram into an Australia Post 3kg satchell! Very Cheap Price $59, 5kg Satchell for $95 JL18) Australia 1928 3d Kookaburra minisheet, lightly hinged on top two stamps and in selvedge only, this is from the centre of the complete sheet, and therefore has perfs all around the margins. Only one in 15 can be in this format. Unlike so many of these, this one has fresh white gum, no toning! Price elsewhere up to $225, this one $165. JL19) Queensland 1860 1d Carmine Rose SG 4, perf 14 -16. MNG. Cat 2500 pounds in 2013 (AUD$5000) Missing from 99.99% of all collections! Tiny closed tear at base, if you can spot it! Great spacefiller at under 5% cat. Price $249 JL21) Australian States mint & used collection in Seven Seas Album. Condition is mixed and appears to be put together on budget. Commences Sydney Views, set of 3, spacefiller quality, then NSW perforated issues about 50% complete, inc. some ovpt. OS. Queensland commences like NSW with the trio of Chalon Imperfs spacefillers, then Chalon Heads to 2/Blue (MNG) Cat $250, large Chalons complete set to One Pound, 5/- is mint, balance largely complete used. South Australia commences with 1d Chalon Imperf, again spacefiller quality, then a fair showing of later issues, with many Ovpt. OS. (No Long Types) Tasmania and Victoria continue along similar lines with many good pickings inc. Vic. 1/- Registered stamp plus 1884 definitives complete to 2/6d. WA mint and used ranges to 1902 5/-. A very good lot at the price, approx. 375 stamps, under $2 a stamp, price $749 JL22) Australia 1913 4d Orange yellow Kangaroo, fine used and well centered, Hobart cds of 13 MAR 15, and unusually perfin T. (Tasmania Official Use) Retail $75 as normal. Price $110 JL25) Australia Censored 1942 Italian Prisoner of War entire letter on official stationery, from an Italian Soldier to his mother, begins “Carissima mamma” dated 24 Nov. 1942, franked by 1/- small Lyrebird and cancelled “Australia Military P.O. Myrtleford” and rubber stamped in purple with “Services of Prisoners of War”, Approved for Transmission by Camp Commander” and “No. 5 P.W. Group MYRTLEFORD” Rare survivor as little would have found it’s way back to Australia. Price $165 JL26) Australia 1936 small Airmail advertising cover for the Bank of New South Wales, franked by 6d Large Kooka and 3d C of A wmk KGV. To Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, and readdressed via Chartered Bank of I. A. & C. (India Asia & China) printed label, to Mallacca. Cancelled by Sydney Airmail Section GPO Slogan, 28 JL 1936. Price $110 JL28) Early lot of Space, seems to be 500 odd stamps here give or take, with many complete sets and minisheets, mostly form the 1960’s & 70’s. Some mint, most cto. Many stamps I have not seen before. Price $129 JL29) Hong Kong KEVII Ovpt. Specimen group, 1c, 2c, 4c & 8c 1903, plus 4c & 10c 1907., all mint lightly hinged, cat 150 pounds each, $1800. My price just under 25% of cat. $449 GREAT BRITAIN POSTAL HISTORY: The next 11 lots are all small neat covers in fine clean condition. JL31) GB 1857 4d Rose Carmine, wmk large garter, no corner letters SG66 on entire with Barred numeral 27, London to Marseilles 24 MAR 1859, with arrival datestamps Calais and Paris both 25 Mars 59 and Marseilles, date unclear. Cat 210 pounds = $420 on cover, price $139 JL32) GB 1867 3d Rose, SG 102 wmk spray plate 8 lettered TG on small entire London to Lyon with oval advertising cachet “ Louis Descrand & Co. London” cancelled by clean strike of duplex 88 of JU 25 72. Arrival stamps of Paris 26 Juin 72 and Lyon 27 Juin 72. Cat 110 pounds on cover = $220, price $69 JL33) GB 1876 2.5d Rosy Mauve SG 141 wmk orb, plate 15 lettered NB on small envelope London duplex DE 29 79 to Vienna with arrival cds JOSEFSTADT 31 12 79. Cat 110 pounds on cover = $220, price $69 JL34) GB 1873 3d Rose SG 143 wmk spray plate 14 lettered MH on small envelope Glasgow – Berlin, cancelled by Glasgow Duplex 159, JY 30 74 and with arrival cds of Aug 2. Reverse has embossed oval “Arthur & Comrie 78 Queen Street Glasgow “ Minor tear at top and part flap missing. Cat 75 pounds on cover = $150, price $37.50 JL35) GB 1873 3d Rose SG 143 wmk spray plate 15 lettered HB on small mourning envelope cancelled by London Duplex No. 1 of 26 SP 74 to Paris, with arrival cds of Calais 27 SEPT 74

and Paris on the same day. Neat and clean, cat 75 pounds on cover = $150, price $49 JL36) GB 1882 small entire, Charing Cross , London – Paris, bearing 2.5d Blue QV SG 157, Plate 23, lettered GI, cancelled by Charing Cross Squared Circle of JU 10 82, and with oval cachet “Forwarded by Coutts & Co.” Arrival cds of Paris on reverse 11 Juin 82. Fine and clean, cat 55 pounds on cover = $110, price $35 JL37) As above, but lettered LB, from London EC, with duplex FE 10 82, and arrival cds of FE 12 82. No cachet. Price $32 JL38) GB 1868 Small envelope bearing 6d Lilac, plate No. not visible SG 104/7, cancelled by duplex 890 OF Windsor DE 12 68. To Princess Henriette of Schleswig Holstein, Castle Primkenau, Silesia. The reverse with sealing wax royal coat of arms in red, with embossed crown in black above. Believed to bear the handwriting of Princess Alexandra of Shleswig Holstein, later Queen Consort to King Edward VII who had married him as Prince of Wales 5 years earlier and lived at Windsor Castle . Scarce piece of Royal Postal History. Stamp cat. 190 pounds on cover = $380. Price $325 JL39) Australia 1932 6d Typo Kookaburra in Ash Imprint Gutter block of 4, hinged in selvedge and on one stamp only. Cat $200, price $149 JL40) Australia 1938 5/- Robes thick paper mint unhinged Commonwealth Imprint Block of 4, left margin missing, cat $150, or $80 as single stamps, price $59 JL41) Victoria 1861 small cover bearing 4d perforated beaded oval SG 95 cancelled by indistinct barred numeral backstamp arrivasl cds in red Melbourne OC 5 61. To Major General Sir. Thomas Pratt, Sir Thomas Simson Pratt (1797 – 2 February 1879) was a British Army general. He served in the First Anglo-Chinese War (1839–1841), in India from 1843 to 1855 where he was deputy adjutant-general at Madras, and was Commander of the British Forces in Australia from 1856 to 1861. He was promoted to Lieutenant-General on 31 May 1865, and to full general eight years later. He was Commander of the British Forces in New Zealand from 1860 to 1861, and was on the Executive Council. He commanded during the First Taranaki War, but as he realised the doubtful validity of the Waitara Purchase (the main cause of the war), he disagreed with Governor Gore Browne, and his military action was ridiculed by the local settlers. He was created K.C.B. for his services in New Zealand by the British Government. He returned to Australia as Commander of the British Forces in Victoria, and in 1862 was appointed Colonel of the 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot, which he held until he retired in 1877. Great piece of military postal history, price $159 JL43) Queensland 1860 6d Dark green Chalon, perf 14-16, wmk Large Star, SG6, nice used example, cat 70 pounds = $140. Price $89 JL45) Queensland 1860 1d Carmine Rose & 6d Yellow Green Chalon, perf 14-16, wmk small star, SG12 & 18 nice used examples cat 75 pounds = $150, price $98 JL46) Australian States accumulation mint & used on Hagner sheets, unchecked for perfs/wmks etc, many pickings inc. Qld Chalons, 20 to 1/-, WA to 2/- & Tasmania to 5/-. About 165 stamps, great value at well under $2 per stamp, price $295 JL53) As above, in imprint blocks of 4, lower left, generally hinged on top two stamps per block. Odd fault, and minor thins to 2d & 3d values. These retail unhinged at $160 so very cheap indeed at $34.50 JL58) Papua New Guinea, clean mint unhinged collection in near new Blue Lighthouse 64 black page stockbook retail approx. $65. Commencing 1962 Malaria set is a bit sparce to 1972 then a good degree of completeness (approx 75%) to 2000, with some scarce overprints noted. Retail of the stamps is $900 + +, My price very cheap at $395 the lot! JL59) Norfolk Is. Mint unhinged collection in green padded Seven Seas Album, 1947 – 1987. Complete per Seven Seas catalogue. Lovely clean lot, with album alone retailing around $275 and stamps at $950 plus, a total retail value of over $1200 for just $489 JL60) Australia 1913 10/- Grey & Pink 1st. wmk Kangaroo, superb mint lightly hinged, well centred and fresh, with variety “Broken Coast near Sydney”, ACSC 47(D) d, cat $2750. Finest you will see. Price $2149 JL62) AAT. Australian Antarctic Territory Bulk -- 1957-2014- a 3 volume AAT collection, loveingly acquired over a lifetime of collecting. Contains mint, fine used, fdc’s, gutters. Predecimals some in blocks, pre-decimal covers, Registered covers etc. nice lot. The decimals include stamp packs, gutter strips, commercial covers, base covers, a real mixed bag. The

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SEPTEMBER SALE retail value of the decimals mint is more than $1750 alone, plus the value of the albums plus there are loads of full used sets, gutter pairs, blocks, miniature sheets used as a bonus and loads of FDC’s. My price a very low $1559 JL63) Australia 1948/49 5/- - One Pound Robes Thin paper set, mint unhinged. Cat $265, retail $235 one set only, my price just $165 JL64) South Australia, 1865 1/- Lake Brown, SG42, mis-cut, rouletted, so that “Postage” appears both at top and bottom of the stamp. Stunning variety, I sold something similar years ago through Prestige Auctions for $1000! This may well be the top half of an imperf between pair, cat at $3000 used. Price $295 JL65) Australia 1931 Kingsford Smith 2d & 3d Overprinted OS, mint lightly hinged. Cat $575, retail $475, my price $359 JL66) Australia 1916 5/- 2nd wmk Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, inverted wmk, with repaired Telegraph Puncture, also pre-printing horizontal paper crease. Cat at $750 for Inv. Wmk, cheap at $279 JL73) Australia 1942 1.5d Green Queen Elizabeth on plain “Accidental” first day cover, Melbourne Machine cancel of 1 Dec 1942 to Burwood E.13. Vic. On small commercial envelope. Cat $800! Price $595 JL74) Australia 1929 5/- Small Multiple Kangaroo in combination with 1d green KGV Head and 6d Purple Kingsford Smith, on Commercial 1931 First Flight Cover to Portland Cement Co. London, with official Cachet for Experimental Airmail 24/4/31. 5/- very rare on cover, cat $1200. Price $1139 JL75) Australia 1934 1/- Vict. Cent. Perf 11.5 on small Airmail cover to England in combination with 6d Typo. Kookaburra to make 1/6d Airmail rate, tied by Sydney Airmail cds of 14 JA 36. Very scarce commercial use, the 1/- cat. $350 on cover, price $259 EJ4) Australia 1923 Halfpenny Orange Single wmk marginal block of 8, mint unhinged with Inverted wmk. One stamp with minor toning. Cat $200, price $115 EJ5) Australia 1929 1.5d Swan, in mint unhinged imprint block of 6, with variety “reentry to swan’s neck and T of Australia. Cat $175 for variety alone. Price $129 EJ6) Australia 1930 Sturt 1.5d in complete set of 8 Plate Number blocks plus imprint block of 4, very fresh, lightly hinged on just 1 stamp per block. Cat $135, price $98 EJ9) Australia 1931 Kingsford Smith 2d in complete set of 8 Plate Number blocks and 3d plate 2 block, all superb Mint Unhinged cat $290, price $215 EJ10) Australia 1931 Kingsford Smith 2d Red in superb mint unhinged half sheet of 40, Cat $200, price under a half $98 EJ12) Australia 1926 1.5d Red Small multi wmk perf 14, lower right corner mint unhinged horizontal pair from plate 1A, on translucent paper, cat $300. Price $225 EJ16) Australia 1927 1.5d Red Small multi wmk perf 13.5 x 12.5, top right plate dot blocks of 4, for all plates 1 – 4, mint unhinged, very minor faults, cat $220 as hinged. Priced very reasonably at $189 EJ17) Australia 1924 4.5d Pale Violet, dry ink, in Mullet Imprint Block of 4, mint no gum. Dry ink catalogues only as used, at $250 per stamp. The imprint block of 4 cat $475 for hinged mint. Ice item, very cheap at $295 EJ19) Australia 1924 1.5d Red KGV, in No Imprint gutter pair, mint lightly hinged. Block of 4 cat $400. Price $129 EJ20) Australia 1918 Halfpenny Yellowish Green KGV Large Multiple Wmk, in top marginal gutter strip of 14, unhinged except for perf reinforcement on 3 stamps. Cat approx $500. Price $349 EJ21) Australia 1923 KGV Halfpenny Orange, single wmk in Harrison imprint pair mint lightly hinged, from Electro 9, with variety “Break in top frame left of crown” cat $1275 as block of 4. Price $45 EJ21) Australia 1924 1.5d Red KGV single wmk in Harrison two line Imprint strip of 7, 5 stamps are unhinged. Cat $500 as imprint block of 4. Has perf reinforcement at left. Attractive piece. Very cheap at $125 EJ22) Australia 1926 1.5d Red KGV single wmk in Mullett imprint pair, mint unhinged. Left

stamp with blunt top right corner perf. Cat $375 as a block of 4. Price $75 EJ25) Australia 1926 1d green KGV single wmk in Mullett Imprint pair mint unhinged from plate 4, with variety “RA Joined” Cat $175 as hinged block of 4. Small Tone Spot on non-variety stamp. Price $49 EJ27) Australia 1920 1/- Kangaroo 3rd wmk, sideways. Mint unhinged right marginal example, centered left. Cat $200 as hinged, unpriced for unhinged. Very good value at $179 MMY1) Great Britain 1958 1st De la Rue Castles high values set, SG 536a-539a, superb and perfect mint unhinged top marginal examples, beautifully fresh and well centred with good perfs, the best I have ever seen! Premium quality. Very rare and most likely the only set available for sale in Australia right now. Cat. $1200 plus, price $795 MMY2) Great Britain 1963 & 1967 Bradbury Wilkinson Castles High Values set, both watermarked and unwatermarked, the two sets, 8 stamps cat. $60 mint unhinged for just $29! MMY6) Australia 1958 8d Kingsford Smith, on plain surface mail cover to the USA opened at top, with Qld. cds of 27 AU 1958. Correct usage rate to the USA and a fine example of an accidental FDC. Price $29 MMY7) North Borneo, collection on leaves, 1888 – 1984 cat 800 pounds = $1600 plus, handy ranges of all periods especially KGVI where half of the catalogue value is and includes the scarce 4c Postage Due, SAG D86 fine cds used. Any remaindered items are correctly accounted for in the catalogue price. This is a well sought after area. Around 150 stamps, price $795 MMY8) Australia 1939 small airmail advertising cover for George Pizzey & Son, Melbourne to USA, bearing 3d Die 2 & 1/4d KGVI definitives, overpaying the 1/6d airmail rate by 1d and with “Airmail Saves Time” slogan of Melbourne 17 JNE 1939. Nice combination usage, the 1/4d on cover cat. At $40. Price $29 MMY10) New South Wales 1850 2d Sydney View, later impression, SG18, with 4 huge margins! Used with indistinct barred numeral cancel (39?) Cat 170 pounds, price $275 MMY14) VICTORIA Sg 31b; 1854-57 3d BLUE HALF LENGTH CAMPELL/FERGUSSON printing SUPERB very fine used, with clean strike of Butterfly cancel, 4 big margins. They do not come any better than this! Price $149 MMY15) Victoria 1857 Entire in very fine condition, bearing 4d Imperf emblems - SG43 - Early OHMS cover to Paymaster of Police Melbourne from Police Officer Horsham 6/4/57 with partial Horsham cancel on reverse, ands indistinct barred numeral tying the adhesive. Scarce and unusual, price $149 MMY16) Victoria, Registered Tattersall’s cover to Tasmania, bearing 2d and 5d Victoria Commonwealth period SG 387 & 391 with cds of Flemington FE 25 01. Neat small cover. Price $29 MMY17) Australia 1959 Small Registered cover Ballarat to Melbourne, bearing 1d & 3d QEII Defins, plus 1/- Platypus to make 1/7d registered rate with Ballarat cds of 10 SEP 59. Nice tri-colour combination. Price $29 MMY19) Australia 1913 1st wmk One Pound Brown and Blue Kangaroo, nice cds used example, well centered with cds of Gaffney’s Creek, Vic. 13 OC 14? A rare postmark for this High Value Stamp. Price $2650 MMY20)Australia 1918 3rd wmk One Pound Light Brown and Dull Blue, fine well centered full perf example with cds of 6 MR 19 Sth. Australia (town unclear) Price $1750 MMY22) Australia 1924 3rd wmk One Pound Grey Kangaroo, well centered and good perfs, cancelled by 2 partial cds. Price for fine used around $425, this one just $275 MMY23) Australia 1931 – 36 C of A wmk Kangaroos, complete set of 7 values, 6d to Two Pounds, nice used set, the two pound is particularly attractive. Just a few minor faults make this a very affordable budget priced set, usual retail for fine used $1450, this set just a half, $725 MMY24) Australia 1929 10/- multi wmk Grey & Pink Kangaroo, nice well centered used stamp with full colour. Just a couple of very minor perf faults make this a good budget priced stamp. Cat $700, this one under a half at $349 MMY26) Australia 1918 10/- 3rd wmk Grey & Deep Analine Pink Kangaroo, fine used light cds and well centered, with fluffy perfs as is often the case with this wmk, and minor corner thin spot. Cat. $375, bargain at $125. MMY27) Australia 1918 10/- 3rd wmk Grey& Pink Kangaroo, nice used example with two

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SEPTEMBER SALE partial cds cancels of Gympie, Qld. Centred right. Cat $500, price $249 MMY28) Australia 1916 2nd wmk 2/- Brown, good – fine used with 2 partial cds cancels, well centered and with good perfs. Cat $350, price $195 MMY30) Australia 1953 Produce Food set of 6 in mint unhinged part sheets of 76, being the top half, the central gutter and a block of 16. May yield some varieties. Could break up to produce 6 blocks of 9 and 4 strips of 3, retail is huge at $400 plus, my price just $249 MMY34) Australia 1953 Tasmania Stamp Cent. 3d in mint complete unhinged sheet of 120, noted perf pips at right. Cat $140, price just $69 MMY39) Australia 1913 4d Yellow Orange, ACSC 15F, nice well centered stamp with partial Qld. Cds at top. Couple of ragged perfs at the bottom. Cat $150, price $69 MMY40) Australia 1916 2nd wmk Kangaroos, set of 5 to 1/- all nice fine used, cds cancels. Retail $195, very reasonable at $139 MMY42) Australia 1913 1st wmk 2/- Brown Kangaroo, decent used example with cds cancel, Cat $250, under half at $119 MMY43) Australia 1914 6d Claret Kookaburra, lovely well centered with gum cto example, retail $80, my price just $59 MMY45) Australia, absolutely magnificent, best I have ever seen! 1915 3rd wmk 3d Die II Kangaroo, with perfect centering and perfs. With light cds cancel. Cat $200. Price $149 MMY48) Australia used collection 1927 – 1946, fine used and nicely written up on album leaves in vintage “Jackey” peg fitting album. Priced to sell at $380 plus with some items unpriced. Includes most KGV & KGVI Commemoratives and definitive with 1934 Vic. Centenary in both perfs, 1934 MacArthur, 1935 Anzac, 1935 Jubilee, 1936 S.A. Centenary,1937 NSW Sesqui, 1937 Robes set to One Pound, 1940 AIF etc. A very good lot. Priced very well at $225 MY1) NSW 1894, magnificent small cover, with “copper plate” handwriting bearing 2.5d Ultramarine SG265, cancelled by Sydney cds of OC 19 94 to Boston, USA via RMS Miawera. Nice clean cover price $35 MY5) Cocos Keeling used in Australia. Small cover to Maine, USA with neat typed address bearing 4 x 6d small Kookaburra, no wmk. Tied by machine cancel of Melbourne 15 JAN 1957 via Airmail to Orlando, Florida. Correct 2/- rate. Highly attractive, price $29 MY6) Australia, Bowls thematic. Scarce Henshall & Son, manufacturer of Henselite Bowls small pictorial advertising cover, bearing 4 x 6d small Kookaburra, no wmk. Tied by machine cancel of Melbourne 15 JAN 1957 via Airmail to Orlando, Florida. Correct 2/- rate. Highly attractive, price $35 MY7) Australia 1947 local advertising cover for Jack & Jill florists, Railway Station Adelaide, bearing 1.5d green Queen Elizabeth, tied by Adelaide slogan “Send money by postal note or money order” with cds of 3 DEC 1947. Price $22 MY8) Australia Military, WWII dual censored small cover bearing 3d Blue Die II tied by AIF Field PO 15 to New York. Very attractive. Price $45 MY9) Australia 1932 Advertising window cover for Yalumba Vineyards, bearing 1d Green KGV Head tied by cds of Angaston 26 OC 32 and with received stamp on reverse of 27 OCT 1932. Price $42 MY10) Australia 1933 small advertising cover for The Goulburn Seed & Nursery Company bearing 1d green KGV Head tied by Gouldburn 11 SE 33 cds to Vaucluse. Very attractive, price $25 MY12) Guernsey 1944 WWII German occupation 2.5d Blue on FDC SG#3 - cat £15 for the used stamp. Top value of the set on clean small typed address cover. Price $37.50 MY13) GB an accumulation including many blocks & multiples mint never hinged from 1950s to 1970s ( 1000 or so) inc. many complete sets both decimal and pre-decimal inc. better like 1963 Red Cross and FFH plus another 100 assorted used in fine clean ROYAL MAIL Stockbook and super quality mint sheet file, plus a couple of 5 pound prestige booklets for the Financial Times and Royal Mail. Price for the lot $289 MY14) Australia: Three albums of AUSIPEX 1984 stamps and related material and issues. AUSIPEX 84 was a MONSTER show, At the absolute height of the stamp boom globally and every stamp issuing entity was there. Sydney Dealer Manfred Junge had the clever idea of making a set of superb albums to house these. He commissioned nice Gold Blocked

Burgundy ring albums and has superb heavyweight parchment colour pages with the attractive “AUSIPEX 84” logo at top. Then he sourced all the gazillion of different stamp issues ,and proofs and stationary etc, made for the show. Some of it was made in small numbers and have always been elusive. There are things here like the Hungary perf AND imperf numbered sheets. Die Proofs, overprints and special issues. Pricey NUMBER sheets and covers. The always short supply issues like Lesotho Set of 5 sheetlets, Tonga, and all sorts of exotic places like Albania Cuba and Mongolia issues etc. All fresh MUH. Also much special stationary etc. Ex Deceased estate and the owner had receipts in there for $850 for these items, plus the albums cost close to $200. So a total cost 30 odd years ago of $1050 for just some of this lot. About 150 pages of goodies it looks like, so my price around a very reasonable $4 a page…. $595 MY17) Holland. Unaddressed FDCs, all with full sets nice lot, goes around 1980, 40 different covers for $49 MY18) Australia Commercial covers, 4kg in weight, around 1000 covers I would guess bearing a wide range of commems and defins from the 33c to 50c period. Postmark possibilities abound! Mostly clean and slit open at top. A lot are from competition mail Nestle, Maggi etc. Selling at around 20c each… $195 the lot. MY19) Australia 1913 5d Chestnut 1st wmk Kangaroo, superb Mint Unhinged, lower marginal example, clean white gum well centered and full perfs. I challenge you to find a better example! ACTUALLY BETTER THAN MY ITEM SE9, which you can buy at $475 less the discount of 25% = $356.25. But for this one cat at $550 I can sell at $479 MY20) Western Australia 6d sage green, rouletted. Lovely used example with light barred cancel in blue. SG32 cat 650 pounds. SG is way too cheap on these rouletted stamps.This is in a lighter shade and a bigger stamp than our item J22 which is priced at $1125.This one is better….price $1249 MY23) Australia 1915 5/- 2nd wmk Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, perf OS, used by Melbourne cds. Well centered, with fluffy perfs, as this issue often is. Chopped tail. Cat $700 my price $295 MY24) Australia 1917 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo, perf OS and cto, with full mint unhinged gum. Fresh with good perfs, centered high. Cat $200, this one $149 MY31) Pitcairn Islands mint/unhinged collection on Seven Seas pages 1940-1967 complete. 1940 Definitives and sets to 1963 are lightly hinged, except the 1948 Silver Wedding which is superb mint unhinged. Retail is $370 counting the hinged at half price. A great lot for just $149 MY32) Territories & Pacifics 2000 – 2003 Mint Unhinged starter collections in Seven Seas Hingeless Album. Comprises Norfolk Is., Nauru, Samoa, Papua New Guinea. Retail of stamps alone $200 plus plus. Bargain at just $119 MY34) Victoria 6d Orange- Yellow Woodblock, Rouletted all four sides, SG 57, lovely example with No. 1 Barred Numeral. Cat. 95 pounds. Price $139 MY35) Queensland 1d carmine-rose, SG1. Super 4 large margin example with light oval ring cancel., cat 800 pounds. Price $1275 MY38) Australia Northern Territory. Darwin to Finland Registered letter MR 6 73 serviced with $1.21 via an NCR label in red. These are becoming quite popular as they are rare to find. See Rod Perry’s column in May Stamp News. Price $42 MY39) Germany, Saxony. RARE c. 1863 ish? Sachsen Entire ties 2 NGr Blue Coat of Arms stamp with Meissen 19 OCT cds cancels on front, sent to Lauenstein Germany. Receiving cds on reverse. No contents. Lovely! Price $59 MY40) Australia 1915 2/- Brown 2nd wmk Kangaroo, superior used example with corner cds. Nice centering and good perfs. Cat. $350. Price just a half, $175 MY41) France. 1935 Delightful Sepia Real Photographic Postcard used to Melbourne, Australia 12 x 1935 bearing 90c Le Pu yen Velay & 30c Green definitive. Nice! Price $29 MY42) Australia 1988 80c Living Together, Missing Orange (Sand and Juggling Balls) postally used. Uncatalogued and believed unique. Supplied with certificate of authenticity and normal for comparison. Price $1450 MY43) Australia 1913 1st wmk 2/- Brown Kangaroo, perf small OS postally used with 28 MY

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SEPTEMBER SALE 15 cds of Melbourne. WEell centered and with good perfs. Cat $500. Price $345 MY48) Massive World Collection in 7 large stockbooks each organized alphabetically, and appears all different in each book. 1000 plus in each book. Some nice pickings, early to modern. 7000 plus stamps at say 6c per stamp, $420 the lot. MY49) Victoria on stockcard comprising full length Queen on Throne 1d green imperf x 2, 6d blue x 5 imperf and 5 rouletted, plus 4d Orange woodblock imperf, and 1d Apple Green Commonwealth period and 2/- Blue on blue duplex used, cto. 15 stamps in all. Condition a bit mixed, but got to be worth $10 a stamp. $149 the lot. MAP2) Australia 1932 10/- C of A wmk 10/- Grey & Pink, postally used with two partial STEEL cds CANCELS of 22 DE 36. Well centred and good perfs, cat $300, price $229 MAP3) Australia 1932 10/- C of A wmk 10/- Grey & Pink, postally used with socked on nose with rubber Canberra cds of 4 JE 35. Lovely colour and good perfs, cat $300, price $239 MAP4) Australia 1932 10/- C of A wmk 10/- Grey & Pink, postally used with two partial Sydney cds cancels of 1937. Lovely colour, well centered and good perfs, cat $300, price $249 MAP5) Australia 1932 10/- C of A wmk 10/- Grey & Pink, postally used with two partial Sydney 1937 cds cancels of 3 NO 36 Lovely well centered example, cat $300, price $254 MAP6) Australia 1932 10/- C of A wmk 10/- Grey & Pink, postally used with two partial Sydney cds cancels of 1937. Good well centered example with bright colour, cat $300, price $259 MAP6a) 5 x 10/- Kangaroos as above, MAP2 – MAP 6, priced to sell at $1200, save $100, $1100 for all 5 stamps. MAP7) Queenland Imperf Die Proof of 1864 6d Chalon Registered stamp SG 48 in issued deep green colour on cream unwatermarked paper. Very fine and fresh. Price $395 MAP8) Great Britain 1840 1d Black in the intense shade, with black Maltese cross postmark and 3 big margins. Unplated example, lettered KA and with nice pre-printing paper crease, unusual. Price $259 MAP10) As new Box File crammed, yes I mean crammed! With approx. 1.5kg of World on paper quality charity mix, just received, all on close clipped single paper, early to recent, totally unpicked as received and with great variety. I estimate 6000 + + stamps per kg, so anything up to 10,000 stamps in this lot. Magnificent value at under 2 cents per stamp, price $179 MAP11) Another box file as above, containing only Australia with maybe a smattering of foreign with mostly modern issues to 2015, good ranges of definitive and commemoratives. Noted unfranked and some better values. Count must be 5000 plus per kg, so around 7500 stamps for under 2c per stamp just $129 MAP12) Australia 1935 2d red Jubilee in mint unhinged imprint block of four from plate 2, with variety ea, retouch between IA of Australia. Cat. $375. KGV Jubilee issues are widely sought after. Price $149 MAP14) NZ Health Fdcs, 1936 & 1937 plus ANZAC 1937 pair also on fdc, very scarce. Lifebuoy stamp sadly has a missing left lower corner, but still very rare on fdc. Nice lot, price $49 MAP16) 1913 Halfpenny Green Kangaroo in mint block of 6, (3 x 2) with 4 stamps unhinged. Some gum bends but a scarce and attractive block, looks very nice from the front. Price $119 MAP19) Large shoebox with very nice World off paper mixture old and new, small and large. As donated to leading charity. Weighs 2.15kg inc. the box, must be 25,000 stamps with a great variety here. Has to be worth 2 cents a stamp, price $495 MAP20) Worldwide Cinderellas, Revenues, Reprints, Bogus issues, amazing lot of around 500 most if not all different, ranging from the 1940’s to quite recent. Priced under 20c per stamp, $98 per lot, half lot for $49. GB 1883 1/- Dull Green. SG 196, vfu in correct colour. Cat 300 pounds, nice socked on nose cds, price $149 MAP34) Australia, magnificent lot of cto Commems ex PO presentation folders. Includes 1914 6d Claret Kookaburra, 3d Air type B, Sturt pair, 6d Brown Airmail normal and ovpt. OS, 1/- Yellow Green Lyre, 3d Vic. Cent. Perf 10.5, 1/- Vic. Cent perf 11.5, 2/- Jubilee, 2d

& 1/- S.A., then perf OS….Canberra, 3d Kookaburra, 3d Airmails both types, 1.5d Swan and Sturt pair. A magnificent group, retail approx. $525, my price $349 MAP39) Tasmania pair of KEVII Newspaper wrappers in denominations Halfpenny Green and penny Salmon unaddressed and each cto Hobart 29 JAN 06 for the UPU distribution. Fine and scarce Commonwealth period items. Maximum 400 produced. Price $235 MAP40) Australia 1939 Dual Reign small Airmail cover bearing 1/4d Turqoise KGV And 3d Blue Die II thick paper KGVI. Scarce combination to New York via England overpaid by 1d, cancelled by neat cds of WATSONS BAY NSW AUST 3AU39 stamps appear hurridly applied and envelope a bit roughly opened, but a very scarce item indeed. 1/4d cat. on cover at $300 as the cheapest wmk (C of A) Price $249 MAP45) Australia Mining Ephemera. Comprising ancient map reproduction of Eureka Street Ballarat (Vic) and two large original 1880’s official Notices “Application for a Gold Mining Lease” and “Forfeiture of a Gold Mining Lease” the 1st printed by Robt. S. Brain (Gov’t printer) and the 2nd by John Ferres: John Ferres (1818-1898), government printer, was born 1 October 1818 at Bath, England, the second son of Robert Ferres (d.1820), printer. Read more here: http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ferres-john-3513 Fascinating historical documents. Price $149 MAP47) Br. Commonwealth off paper mixture, mostly QEII period but with some earlier and from the larger nations, a good mix of large and small with close to 15,000 per kg. 100 grams for $39, 250g $89, 500g $175 or 1kg for $329 MAP48) Malta off paper mixture. Fairly recent mix, with values to M2 pounds. Round 12,500 to the kg. Recommend you buy in 50g lots, as quite heavy duplication 50g for $39 MAP49) British Empire, pre QEII with a decent range of issues mostly postally used, but some mint unhinged spotted. This is a very scarce mix, with roughly 15,000 to the kg. Values to One Shilling. Does contain some Australia and GB. Price per 25 grams (350 – 400 stamps) $59, 50g $110, 100g $195. MAP50) Australia Commemoratives only on close clipped single paper. Approx 4000 per kg. Wide range of issues to 2014. Very scarce now as few people are still actively clipping mail Price per 500g = $79, 1kg = $149, 2.5kg = $349 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! 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. 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 11.SEP. 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.

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SEPTEMBER SALE 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. 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 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 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 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. Eventually ending up at the Melbourne Dead letter office eon 12 SP 23. Lovely! Price $119 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. Ap49) Australia 1913 1st wmk 3d Yellow Olive Kangaroo, Die I, perf small OS, neat cds cancel. Cat. $100, my price $75. 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. 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. 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 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) 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 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

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SEPTEMBER SALE 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! 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, however there is a small expertly repaired hole at the centre, where a hinge has been carelessly removed. Price would have been $1650, now just $649 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 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 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 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 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 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 condition, 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, NSW 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 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 M16) Australia KGV 4d Orange Single wmk, fresh mint unhinged, cat $125, price $95 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

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Graeme Morriss

by war between settlers and Maori over land use. Gold was also discovered on the South Island’s West Coast. The gold was alluvial, washed down from the mountains by rivers, and the source lode has never been found. “Shantytown” is a historical reconstruction and tourist attraction 10 km south of the West Coast town of Greymouth. It is shown nearby. Original nineteenth century buildings and artefacts have been relocated there. Visitors can pan for gold and view authentic miners’ equipment and kit. James Berry’s design for the 9d shows alluvial miners from the period, based on illustrations from books and the

Illustrated London Times. The design also included a contemporary 1940s gold dredge, copied from the dredge on Lake Kanieri on the West Coast (pictured). It was printed by Bradbury, Wilkinson using a plate numbered 1 for the main design in orange and two plates, A and B for the dredge in olive-green. The plate number ‘1’ in the bottom selvedge became worn over time and was re-cut for later printings. The illustrations show Plate A with the worn ‘1’ overprinted Official and Plate B with the re-cut ‘1’. The perforation gauged 13½. References: Catalogue of New Zealand Stamps, Auckland, Campbell Paterson, 1952 – . The Postage Stamps of New Zealand, vol. 2, Wellington, RPSNZ, 1952. Graeme can be contacted through his website, www. stampsmw.top1.com.au .

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Spink: The John Clemente Collection of Tasmania Postal History SPINK LONDON: This September, as the nights are drawing in and the weather begins to turn, Spink have an auction guaranteed to excite and thrill all collectors of Tasmanian postal history. Many of the finest collections pass through Spink’s auction room, however this one is without doubt a peerless testimony to a passionate collector’s life’s work. The John Clemente Collection of Tasmania Postal History will take place on the 20th September 2016 in Spink’s London auction room. John Clemente was born in Bari, Italy, in 1926 and graduated in medicine and surgery from the Universities of Bari and Padua in 1948, having commenced his tertiary studies at the tender age of 15. After requalifying in medicine at the University of Queensland in 1950, he took a position at the Launceston General Hospital and, after posts as Tasmanian Government Medical Officer in Scottsdale and Cygnet, he moved to Hobart and a private practice at the end of 1955. He was not born into a family of philatelists, but he was a natural collector and had a great love of history. From the very beginning, he was a “primary source” man. No endless visits to stamp dealers for him: he’d find caches of early Australian used stamps and soak the GV penny reds off en masse, dry them and then search them meticulously for flaws – roo’s tongue out, saddle on emu, substituted cliche and so on! In amongst a great deal of high-value rarities and various important pieces of postal history, lies lot 194, a curious piece with a fantastic story. It is a June 1908 U.S. 2c. stationery envelope from New York to Queenstown, showing a fine strike of the rare “DAMAGED IN SHIPWRECK “AEON”” with San Francisco transit d.s. and “V. (Arms) R./ FOUND OPEN/..../OFFICIALLY SEALED” label. The markings on this envelope describe its official

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and planned route, and yet its journey was so much more exciting and fortuitous than that! The letter was to be delivered by a ship that sunk. The ship was wrecked near the south-east point of Christmas Island, Gilbert Islands. The passengers escaped to an uninhabited island where a month later the Captain and three officers tried to reach Fanning Island in an improvised motorboat made from a lifeboat. Due to the engine breaking down just short of their goal they were cast back to Christmas Island. A month later they tried again to reach Fanning Island which was achieved on 18 September. “Manuka” then rescued the stranded party and took on board the mail and the lifeboat which was taken back to Christmas Island but when launched from “Manuka” was driven ashore and became a total wreck. Mail for Australia reach Sydney by the “Manuka” on 8 October after its remarkable journey.Lot 194, estimated: £600 – 800 His son states that: “His interest in Tasmanian postal history started with a collection of pictorial post marks in the late 1960s: my mother tells the story of a discussion with another collector who was telling him how many years he had taken to assemble a complete collection of all Tasmanian Post Office CDSs on pictorials. “I’ll do it in a year”, said my father. And indeed he did, although Glazier’s Bay type 2 is still missing, together with one or two others”. He published the result of his researches in many articles in the London Philatelist and the AmericanPhilatelist in the 1970s and 1980s and was made a Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society, a rare honour. He also wrote a book, The Free Mail of Tasmania, in which he has attempted a complete list of all the frank stamps and officers with the authority to frank mail in Tasmania, and which sadly has remained unpublished for many years. The book will be published later this year.

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New Zealand 1971 18c Maori Club MISSING BLACK – superb MUH Cat $850 - $A350: One of the most spectacular Missing

Colour errors you will EVER see. The Entire country name is absent as you can see! CPC – 14X $850. Will sell fast at $US260 or just $A350 (Stock 452TG)

GB 1865 1/- Green QV fresh unused. SG Cat $5,700, for just $850: Very

Fresh unused, with deep vivid original colour - over 150 years of issue. Entirely free of the hinges, gook and gunk that one usually encounters on stamps of this advanced age. Clean and flat, crisp bright impression, and no usual thins or creases or toning etc. SG 101, Plate 4 Cat £2,850 = $A5,700. Just 15% of Gibbons! Only ~$US630. $A850 (Stock 492EK)

Bermuda 1920 2/- KGV, VFU with *WATERMARKED REVERSED*, Cat £2,500 for just $A1,400: One of

the highest catalogued 20th Century Bermuda stamps - a true Classic from this super popular collecting area. The reversed CA watermark shows perfectly and clearly and centrally on the reverse - image on website. Most reversed watermarks you need to peer and squint at, and still not be at all certain. Fine used and fresh - free of hinges, toning, thins and gunk, and beautifully centred. With lightest face-free Parcel Post cds, and bright and attractive colour. Be impossible to improve on this one methinks - for quality, appearance, or for price! About one THIRD Cat. SG 51bx, £2,500 = $A5,000. Just over $US1,000: $A1,400 (Stock 638HX)

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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Beyond Your Local Stamp Club – Specialist Philatelic Societies (Part 2) This month I am continuing my overview of specialist philatelic societies from the July 2016 article. This month I would like to look at some societies that are based on the different collecting areas such as postal stationery, revenues and other areas as well as a couple of societies with an interest in Australia and a one country society. Aerophilately There are a number of Aerophilatelic societies in the world and they have an overarching body, the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés Aérophilatéliques or FISA which has a website at www.fisa-web. com that lists their 17 members. FISA also covers Astrophilately or space related philately. I will concentrate my discussion on the Australian and the American societies as these are the two I am most familiar with. My actual interest is in the airmails of the Caribbean which is partly covered by the American Airmail Society due to the influence of Pan Am. If you would like more information about aerophilately then go to the FIP Aerophilately website, www.fipaero. org. The Australian Airmail Society – This society was founded in 1968, I assume

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by the well-known aerophilatelist Nelson Eustis and is based in Adelaide. It has been a FISA member since 1970. The society has a focus on Australian and related airmails and produces a quarterly journal. Unfortunately, the Society had stopped producing the journal for a while but started again in 2015 under the editorship of Ross Wood, who

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Philatelic Development Officer, APF is the current Chairman of the FIP Aerophilately Commission. Journal number 108 contained articles on the Charles Ulm New Zealand to Australia flight of 17 February 1934; a discussion on the truth about an Australian first flight cover from 1943 and most interestingly an article on Operation Sinbad. The latter was a flight by an RAAF Catalina to Macquarie Island on 4 August 1948 which was sent down to replace an engineer who had died and also undertook the only delivery/pickup of airmail ever made to/from the island by a plane which landed on the ocean. An image of the cover from issue 108 is shown in Figure 1. Membership of the society is only $20 a year for Australia and $25 a year overseas. All enquiries should be sent to the Treasurer, David Figg at david. figg@internode.on.net. If you have an interest in Australian airmails this society is a must. The American Air Mail Society – The AAMS was started in 1923 and is the second oldest aerophilatelic society in the world and is also a FISA member. It has over 1,000 members worldwide. The society produces the Aipost Journal which is published monthly (see Figure 2). Whilst the journal has a focus on US-related airmails there are articles on many other airmails worldwide. For example, a 2015 issue I opened at random had an article on a flight from Africa to South America by catapult ship; a first flight of the US hydro-aeroplane service; an unreported crash cover; the first airmail flight in South Jersey

and part 3 of an article on the ‘LATI Substitute’ service of Pan American Airways. In any year there is sure to be an article or two of interest. In addition, the Society produces the seven volume Catalogue of American Air Mails plus a catalogue of the Airmails of Canada and Newfoundland. They also have a series of Aerophilatelic CDs which are PowerPoint presentations with verbal Stamp News - 49

Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation commentaries. Members receive a discount on the cost. Membership, outside of North America, is $US60 a year. For more information see www. americanairmailsociety.org. Revenues The collection, study and exhibition of revenue stamps and associated materials is gaining in popularity worldwide. This is in part due to the possibility of making new finds, something that is much harder with postage stamps. The FIP Revenue Commission lists ten revenue societies plus a

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few more general societies that have an interest in revenues. Details of these societies can be found at www.fip-revenue.org. I have a strong interest in revenue stamps and I am a member of the following two societies. The Revenue Society – A UK-based society that has a strong focus on British Commonwealth revenues, but also includes articles on revenues from around the world. It is a relative newcomer and was formed in England in 1990. It has over 300 members across 40 countries. It was founded to promote the research and display of revenue stamps and associated documents. For many years it had a slightly eccentric but extremely knowledgeable editor who died a few years ago, and is sadly missed. Unlike many other societies that have been around for relatively long periods, research remains a strong part of this society. New finds are regularly published and it does a great service to revenue collecting on this basis alone. The Revenue Journal is produced quarterly in full colour (Figure 3). The June 2016 issue had articles on the handwritten “Consular” overprint stamps of BCA and Nyasaland; an update on New Zealand high values; part 3 of a series on Jodpur Fiscals; New Revenue finds; the Queen Victoria revenues of Gibraltar and even the revenues of South Sudan the world’s newest country. Each issue really is a smorgasbord of information. The Society also has a number of books for purchase including definitive works on the Indian Government Fiscal and Judicial Stamps. Membership costs £25 a year to receive a hard copy of the journal and only £10 a year for an electronic membership. Such

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memberships are a bargain in my opinion and give you the opportunity to save a lot of money on society memberships. For further information see www.revenuesociety.org.uk. The American Revenue Society â&#x20AC;&#x201C; As you will have guessed this society is based in the USA and was started in 1947. It is an affiliate of the American Philatelic Society, as are most US-based

Specialist Philatelic Societies societies. This society has a very strong focus on the revenues of the USA. It should be noted that there are a huge range of revenues in the USA and they are a very popular collecting area. Unlike most countries a significant number of revenues are actually catalogued in the Scott catalogues. The American Revenuer is the name of their journal and is produced quarterly (Figure 4). In addition to some quite specialised articles on US revenues a recent issue also had information on the Kenya Hospital Insurance Stamps. If you have an interest in US revenue stamps, then this society is a must but it also has articles on a range of other countries which are always interesting to read. Membership costs $US22.50 a year plus an extra $US20 a year for postage on the journal. There is also an internet only option for $US21.50 a year. As with most societies it has a range of books for sale, in this case all of them are about various US revenue stamps. For further information see www.revenue.org. Postal Stationery Australia has strong history in postal stationery

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collecting and exhibiting, due in part I believe to the late Ed Druce and my fellow columnist Ian McMahon who started the Postal Stationery Society of Australia, plus a range of very active Australian collectors. The FIP Postal Stationery Commission is a very strong and proactive commission due to some excellent leadership over the past few years. It has a regular newsletter and has 52 - Stamp News

been quite active in promoting exhibiting. There are a number of postal stationery societies worldwide and their details can be found at www.postalstationery.org. The Postal Stationery Society of Australia â&#x20AC;&#x201C; This society was started in 1995 and is very much focussed on Australian postal stationery. Being Australian-based it tries to have a meeting at Australian national exhibitions wherever possible. The journal, called the Postal Stationery Collector (Figure 5) is produced quarterly and is a full colour journal. Most articles are about Australian or Australian States stationery but it also has the odd article on other areas. However, the most important part of the journal, in my opinion, is the listing of new Australian stationery. Much stationery is produced by Australia Post that is never publicised and it is through the efforts of the editor and many Australian collectors that such items are listed in the journal. This includes all known non-denominated stationery. Without such contemporary listings it would be impossible in the future to know what has been issued. Just ask any revenue collector. Importantly, all back issues of the journal are available for purchase and back issues are being placed on-line. This is a work in progress. Membership is $50 a year for Australians, $60 a year for New Zealand and $70 for all other overseas members. For

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further information see www.postalstationeryaustralia.com. Societies with a Focus on Australia There is strong interest in Australian philately around the world and I will just detail two societies in this issue, as I happened to have copies of

their journals or newsletters. In future articles I will detail others such as the Australian Commonwealth Collectors Club or ACCC. The Australian Philatelic Society – This society is based in Victoria and meets every second month (from February onward each year) at the RSL Canterbury Memorial Homes. The society produces the Australian Journal of Philately which incorporates The Date Stamp and Australian Journal of Postal History (Figure 6). While the displays put on at society meetings cover a range of topics and countries, I believe the strength of the society relates to the date stamp and postal history aspects of the journal. In the issue I looked at there were some interesting short postal history articles but also articles on the Camp ”D” Federal Capital Territory Date Stamp; two on NSW Hand Parcel Roller Cancels; Tasmanian Hand Parcel Roller Cancels; and a listing of Hand Held Date Stamps mainly of Victoria. Again it is this contemporary information that is so important in my opinion. The annual subscription cost is $35 for Australia with four mail outs. For further information see the website www.aps.org.au. Society of Australasian Specialists/Oceania – SAS has a worldwide membership that is interested in the postal history and stamps of the Stamp News - 53

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countries, colonies and territories, past and present of Australasia and Oceania. It is based in the USA and was established in 1936. Like many worldwide societies they have an annual meeting in conjunction with a major philatelic show. Such a society has very wide scope and will be sure to have information that will be of interest to many collectors. One of its important roles is in research, as over the last 80 years it has accumulated a library of over 2,500 items. These materials are available to be borrowed or photocopies 54 - Stamp News

made of relevant articles. There is also the all-important network of members who are likely to have the information you seek. The journal is called The Informer (Figure 7) and a recent issue had articles on the Bridge Stamps of Australia (a recent issue), Tin Can Mail from Tonga and the recent Emergency Printing of 30 cent Counter-Printed stamps. I have known many people who have been members over the years and it remains an important source of both contemporary and older information. Membership outside of North America is $US30 a year. The current president is Steve Zirinsky who is a dealer in very modern postal history. For further information see www.sasoceania.org. Other One Country Societies There are many one country societies but this month I will use one that I am a member of to illustrate what such societies undertake. Society of Israel Philatelists â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Despite the name, SIP as it is known, is actually based in the United States. The society was started in 1948 when Israel was formed but covers all Holyland philately, not just Israel. It has Chapters across the USA that hold meetings and it has an annual meeting at an exhibition in the USA. At its peak it had over 1,700 members but this has dropped off over time. The fields covered by the Society range from forerunner material in Turkey through

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Philatelic Development Officer, APF year to receive the journal and an internet only option costs $US30. There is a newly revamped website and further information can be obtained from www.israelstamps.com. Other Societies – If you would like to promote your specialist society please send me details and I will include them in a future column. If possible please send a current sample journal to me at PO Box 47, Jamison Centre ACT 2614. I will include other Australian clubs and societies in future columns.

to Judaica. My own interest is in the Revenue stamps of Israel. The Society journal is The Israel Philatelist (Figure 8) which is now a full colour journal that comes out four times a year. In the last issue were articles on the Interim period (as Israel was being formed), the Mandate period, the Holocaust, Judaica, the Jewish National Fund and of course, Israel. Like all one country specialist societies if you have an ongoing interest in that country then you cannot afford not to be a member. Rest of the world membership is $US60 a

Melbourne 2017 This FIAP exhibition, to be held at the Caulfield Racecourse from 30 March to 2 April now has a fully functioning website (www.melbourne2017. com.au). You can find information about the first release of souvenir items including the Patron’s and Supporter’s Clubs. These both offer a wide range of benefits and there are only 150 Patron’s memberships available, so get in quick as they are selling fast. There is also the prospectus and entry form available for exhibitors. This is shaping up to be a popular exhibition with very strong dealer support. Put this into your diary because it will the philatelic event of 2017 in Australia. If you need any further information see www. apf.org.au or contact me at Darryl.fuller@home. netspeed.com.au. Stamp News - 55

Cinderella Corner Spring has finally arrived, and what better way to spend a fresh afternoon than rugged up exploring all things philately. In this September issue of Cinderella Corner, I continue to explore some of the Australian and British car-related labels and still encourage readers to email me scans and information about different types of them (both Australian and worldwide). I also discuss a camping and caravan label issued at the start of World War II and complete this edition by exploring one of Australia’s philatelic exhibition labels from the 1930s.

Car Tax

This uber-fluro orange coloured label depicts a gigantic nail impaling a car to the ground. Its political and foreshadowing message is clear in its presented text: CAR TAX – The last nail!

which surrounds the vehicle. It measures 51mm x 33mm and dates to the late 1990s in the lead-up to the Luxury Car Tax, which was passed 17 years ago in 1999. While more modern cinderella labels of this nature are often overlooked or discarded by collectors, this one is a must for car-related philatelic collections and vehicle enthusiasts. It deviates from the more common product-advertising purposes commonly affiliated with automobile cinderella labels and, rather, deals with targeting a governmental initiative. An example of this label is offered in Image 1.

Ford For ‘49

In late 1948, Ford debuted its 1949 model at a gala in New York City. It was a significant development as it was the first all-new automobile design that was developed and introduced by one of the big three automotive companies (namely Chrysler, Ford and General Motors) since the outbreak of World War II nearly a decade earlier in 1939. This model of the Ford sedan was exceptionally successful and was manufactured in many parts of the world, including Australia. The label illustrated in Image 2 is distinctly Australian and features the slogan: The World’s Newest Car – Ford for ’49. Australian posters issued in February of 1949 show the same design as the label in yellow, black and red colouring. The label itself measures 50mm by 34mm and 56 - Stamp News

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is perforated 11 on all sides. It has also been cited attached to some 1940s Ford-related invoices and official receipts.

Nubo Garage Tools

The label illustrated in Image 3 is a rather curious one. It measures 47mm by 37mm and is imperforated on all sides. It bears the text: Nubo accelerates repairs â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Send us your Nubo orders garage tools and accessories. Originally the label was self-categorised as Australian but upon some closer research on Nubo and its products, it was discovered that it is, in fact, of British origin, even though Nubo products, including a range of spanners and washers, were sold in some Australian stores prior to World War II. The label itself dates to the 1930s and I welcome some further information about it and about the company it advertises.

Car Hire And Tourism

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Cinderella Corner in Image 4 documents this practice nearly 90 years ago in Sydney. The cinderella, coloured in simple light green and white and measuring 44mm by 38mm, bears the text: Dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Motor Tourist Service Ltd. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Cars Daily Booked at 14A Market Place (Pitt St. Corner) Sydney. Around the circular interior are four different vehicles; one for each corner of the seal. Along with car hire, the company, which ran from 1926 until the late 1930s, also offered a number of tourism services including scenic sightseeing of the Blue Mountains in NSW, trips to Tasmania and drives across Queensland. The label presents a colourful snapshot and reminder of the travel and tourism industries in Australia during the 1920s and 1930s.

Camping & Caravan Exhibition

The label depicted in Image 5 advertises the 1939 Camping and Caravan Exhibition and is rather detailed in its illustrations and text. Within its 67mm by 42mm size, the cinderella bears the following script: Visit the N.R.M.A. Camping and Caravan

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Exhibition – October 16th to 21st – Admission Free – At The Exhibition Building – Prince Alfred Park – Rear of Central Railway Station. Held across 6 days in Sydney, the event was sponsored by the National Roads and Motorists’ Association. A number of products and features were showcased during the week, including a range of tents, options for tent lighting, luxury caravans, outboard motors, and fishing equipment. It appears that the event was a success and that a significant crowd arrived for the final day, held on a Saturday. Image 6 illustrates another one of these labels, this time affixed to a cover addressed to Tasmania and postmarked, from Sydney, on the 1st May, 1940. The Camping and Caravan Exhibition label is uncommon and an unusual advertising piece; it clearly falls into the scarce category.

The label is often found affixed to covers designed to commemorate the exhibition, along with specially created registration labels. Of more interest, however, is the strikingly similar cinderella illustrated in Image 8 that advertises the Third International Philatelic Exhibition. This American label bears the text: Third International Exhibition – New York Grand Central Palace – May 9th to 17th 1936. There are only a few notable differences between the two labels, namely variations in the: • Width of red and blue lines, as separated by the white spacing • Font • Size of central oval • Shade of blue The New York label also appears to be slightly smaller than the Australian one. After speaking to a Melbourne-based cinderella and revenue enthusiast, who has more than five decades of collecting experience, I was informed that the New York exhibition cinderella was designed and produced following an unauthorised adoption of the design of the Australian one and, in the 1930s, this caused some concern. However, the dates printed on the New York label are nearly 6 months earlier than the Australian one. The earliest example I have on the Australian label tied to a cover is August 3rd, 1936, nearly three months prior to the event. A pertinent question therefore remains: which label was produced first? Any help on this mystery would be greatly appreciated.

Seventh Australasian Philatelic Exhibition

Unlike the scarcity status inherent in the labels discussed in Images 5 and 6, the one presented in Image 7 is common by comparison. Measuring 46mm by 32mm and imperforate on all four sides, it bears the text: Seventh Australasian Philatelic Exhibition – Adelaide Public Library Rooms – Oct. 20th to 23rd 1936. This label advertises the Seventh Australasian Philatelic Exhibition, with many attending the event, as forecast a few months prior to the launch. It also appears that Postal Stationery items sold over the four days were rather popular with collectors and attendees. Stamp News - 59

Market Matters Vale Martyn Greive, A-One Stamps

I report with much sadness, the recent passing of Martyn Greive, who many readers will have dealt with via his 50 year old business of A-One Stamps in Sydney. His speciality was Australian covers, and earlier FDC, and commemorative cancels in particular. Martyn passed away peacefully in mid-July, A smiling Martyn Greive. aged 90. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been over to his amazing Darling Point panoramic home One story Martyn â&#x20AC;&#x153;dined out onâ&#x20AC;?, and delighted not long before, to share a drink or three for his in re-telling, was when he wrote off his car after 90th birthday, and to talk stamps, and he was in collecting stamps from me a few years back. My 3 very good spirits then. levels of stamp mess is basically built on the side of a steep harbourside cliff. Lots of stairs. Martyn dropped by to do some business, and drove down my driveway on his way home, as he had done 100 times before. He somehow managed to roll his car onto its roof and side, with him trapped inside. I was watching him drive off at 10kph waving goodbye, and it was like a scene from some bad movie unfolding.

Trapped Inside car.

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His nice car was a total and complete write off. Both sides, front, bonnet, and roof, and most glass. Marty was

Glen Stephens fine, suffering just a few cuts and lacerations from climbing out all over the glass from the smashed driver’s window and windscreen, whilst trapped upside down for 10 minutes. Very lucky the car stopped exactly where it did. There is a straight 10ft drop onto a concrete road, right to the side it stopped at. No fences or barriers. Had it slid a foot further, I’d have needed to phone emergency services, and not a tow truck and his son, to come take him home. Pretty terrifying stuff for any 85 year old, and in typical stoic style, when he emerged more or less unscathed, Marty said: “well I won’t be driving THAT anywhere now, so no harm in a small Scotch to steady my nerves, I think!” I knew and dealt with Marty for about 40 years, and he was a real “old-school” gentleman. I asked him once why he chose the trading name “A-One Stamps” and he replied: “because I got to be the very first dealer listed the Yellow Pages each year that way!” Martyn was a WW2 veteran, and had a Castlereagh Street Sydney retail shop for some time. That was later bought by Kevin Duffy as I recall, who then sold it to Robert Kennedy. He was State Secretary of the Stamp Dealer body ASDA/APTA here, and was well known and liked in the trade. His father Louis was a Day #1 Anzac Cove Gallipoli veteran, where he was highly decorated for Bravery, rescuing wounded comrades whilst under withering Turkish fire. He was later on in WWI captured by the Germans, and spent time in a German Concentration camp. Survived by wife Ann, their 3 children, and the grandchildren, Martyn Greive will be greatly missed by all who knew him or dealt with him, locally and overseas. Rest In Peace.

Stamp Dealers have great longevity.

Martyn was active in dealing right to the very end, and it really shows a huge strength of this hobby - collectors and dealers can engage in it actively, even when well into their 90s. Few if any other hobbies or interests allow that, if you think on it.

Legendary Sydney dealer Ken Baker was still interested well after he passed the age of 100. Ken hosted several dealers to a family dinner for his “Queen’s Telegram” party, and regaled all there with stories of his life in stamps. Ken passed earlier this year, just days before his 104th Birthday. For whatever reason, longevity seems to be a side benefit of stamp dealing. Max Stern AM, passed away earlier this year, just days short of his 95th Birthday. To the surprise of no-one, Max had been active all that day in his Melbourne shops on the day he passed. I recall being told legendary Wesley Arcade Sydney dealer, (Max) M.C.Cohen, was found by staff at his city shop desk, and had passed away peacefully whilst writing advertising copy for his regular page ad in “Stamp News”. I’d like to think we’d all want to go out like that - doing what we love. Martyn Greive lived in the affluent eastern suburbs of Sydney, and bought some pretty amazing things over his time as a dealer. At one point he lived in a mansion in Bellevue Hill with his next door neighbour being multi billionaire Kerry Packer. Some great stamps passed through his hands.

Smorgasbord of Kangaroos.

I recall him once showing me a tatty looking brown paper parcel piece with no less than ELEVEN x £1 grey Third watermark Kangaroos on it, including a block of 6, and also THREE x £2 Small Multiple watermark Kangaroos. It was a new discovery Martyn had literally found that week in a box of junky material someone in the Eastern Suburbs had bought over. From the estate of a man who threw nothing out - even parcel wrappers. Domestic franking yet cost was a massive £17/1/4d. Remarkably this piece was literally lining the bottom of the estate carton! Just flying flat, with albums and stockbooks and tins stuffed on top. This £17, back in the height of the Great Depression was an absolute fortune - more on that later. This piece was used in 1933 from Sydney to

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The Roo piece as discovered. Newcastle Waters, Northern Territory, on an urgent 32 lbs car parts air shipment. It was to UK car rally driver Donald Harkness - an ex RAF WWI fighter ace, who has taken to racing rally cars in the Depression era. Martyn showed it to client Arthur Gray, who offered him $1,000 for it, stating the piece and stamps were “totally and completely stuffed”. Arthur was not keen on covers or parcel labels etc, and his $A7.15 million Roo collection was of course near bereft of that material. Martyn Greive declined that not very generous offer, and ran it to Auction at Prestige Melbourne soon afterwards, where an Adelaide collector very astutely bought it for a few $1,000, as he recognised the great significance of it.

Used Block 6 x £1 Roos Unique

OK, it is tatty and creased, and could well have (and should have) borne a block of 8 x £2 Small Multiple if the clerk had that many in his stamp drawer. Indeed delightfully, it might have had a block of 9 x £2, if it were overpaid just a tad! The block of 6 of the £1 is 100% unique postally used. 62 - Stamp News

That collector kindly gave me the precise posting rating details on it, working and deciphering those from the helpful postal clerk pen notes scrawled at outer edge of the tatty parcel piece shown nearby, and the rate is very interesting. The second owner told me the endorsement: “Accept’d Weight 32lbs” suggests the item did not fit on a PO scale. It may have been on odd shape car part like an axle being shipped etc, which for rally driving in outback Australia unsealed roads, seems VERY likely! He kindly worked out how this massive rate was computed, as follows - 32lbs (14.55 Kg) exceeded the limit for the Parcel Post, so it was charged at letter rate, which was calculated in 1 ounce increments. 32 lbs = 512 ounces x 2d per ounce = 1024d = £4/5/4d. The airmail fee was an additional 3d per ½oz. i.e. an extra 512 ounces at 3d per ½oz = 3,072d = £12/16/0d. Total postage paid £17/1/4d. At this time the gross weekly wage of any working male who had a job was around £4 a week so this parcel was over a MONTH’S wages. Rather like a $4,000 domestic parcel today.

Serbian Lawyers Briefed!

Rod Perry bet me his house one night, that no such domestic Kangaroo franking could possibly exist, and my “No Fee, No Pay” Serbian lawyers are busily working on it, as I always thought a spacious home in the Daintree would be rather nice! Rod later decided it did exist, and the auction buyer swapped it with him, for a nice 1919 Ross Smith personal cover to Adelaide that Rod Perry owned, and both were very happy. Each obtaining something of great interest to them - the perfect deal all around.

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After the Plastic Surgery. He had the piece restored substantially, adding corners and pieces of stamps, and other repairs, and removing the bad cellotape stains, and heavily pressing and re-backing it all etc. It is the largest Roo franking known, and will always be a talking point, despite the repairs. “WIN-WIN” all round - all 3 sellers were pleased with their deal, as Martyn Grieve found it free, lining a box of junk stamps. The Adelaide chap now has a unique Ross Smith piece he loves, and Rod had the restored piece listed on ebay for $A155,000 “Buy It Now” when I looked a few months back, and he may well have sold it now. So it has come a VERY long way, since Martyn Greive found it unloved 10 or 15 years ago, lining the base of a carton of junky Estate material! Marty

always greatly enjoyed re-telling that unusual story, and following its later history, and it is a nice memento to close this on. R.I.P. old friend.

GOLD In Rio!

Australia Post continued in the 2016 Olympics in Rio Brazil, its traditional issue of stamp sheetlets of 10 x $1 stamps for when each Olympic Gold Medal was issued. They globally pioneered this “instant stamp” technique in Sydney 2000. A very popular campaign, and an idea some other countries around the world have followed. The Japan ones are pretty. New Zealand started issuing sheets of $1 stamps this year for ANY kind of medal colour - Gold, Silver or Bronze. Australian collectors can breathe a sigh of relief AP did not take that path! The Rio Olympic Games are in full swing as this column was submitted to the printer, so I do Stamp News - 63

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Very pretty $1 Rio Stamp

Bring on the Per Capita Count!

Australia Rio Gold Medal stamps not have the exact number of Gold stamps we had issued. We were up to six Gold as I type, and our tally was eight Gold in London 2012, with 35 medals in total.

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I’d love to see a Gold Medal chart showing PER CAPITA medal results in a separate column at right. China and the USA etc would not look so hot then. Jamaica and Cuba etc would dwarf them! The next day Gold Medal stamps accompanied the “Road to Rio” $1 special issue stamp, released on 2 August 2016, “translating the spirit of the host city through vivid colour, rippling ribbons, and athletic figures” according to Australia Post. Australia Post had special Gold Medal postmarkers made for 14 locations across the country. Covers submitted will be cancelled for ONE MONTH from date of issue of the stamps, so all reading this still have time to submit or lodge covers for a “First Day” cancel. The eight Post Offices available in NSW, Queensland and South Australia to have been issued with these cancels are shown on the photo nearby and the Australia Post website has the others listed. Australia Post will as usual

Glen Stephens be offering the full set of Gold Medal sheetlets of 10 in a special album when the Games are completed. The full sets from the last 2 Olympics in particular are hard to get, and have proven to have been good buys. A great Olympics, and as someone lucky to work from home saw more of it than many. Those swims of Michael Phelps were just mind-boggling, and the Usain Bolt performances on the track to win the 100 metres in 3 consecutive Olympics, was a privilege for us all to see.

All of these cancels STOLEN

The cancel nearby sold at auction mid-July to intense bidding for £2,850 - or then about $A5,000. Why? Because it is worded “Cricket Ground Sheffield - JY 4 : 02”. The stamp had no Certificate, but was certainly 100% genuine I’d suggest. A stamp otherwise worth possibly ten bucks on a VERY good day! ALL these CRICKET GROUND cancel stamps were all in fact stolen property from the Post Office, being from the GB Telegraphic Offices CDS’s used at Cricket Grounds.

These stamps were affixed to telegram forms, mainly used by newspaper reporters to send back regular match updates to their papers. Remember no phones, or texts, or emails back then! And, as we know, none should have escaped Royal Mail shredders at that time etc. Those few copies seen, are on higher face value stamps of 6d and above, as used on Telegrams, and perhaps the postal clerks thought it was a chance to surreptitiously obtain these high value stamps, and onsell quietly to the nearest stamp dealer?

Cricket Cancel Craziness

Anyway, the few that do trade in the marketplace get amazing 4 figure sums. I recently added one to stock, that had a clear RPSL Certificate. At $A1,500 it sold fast, as many others have sold for over treble that, and it proves that “cricket on stamps” is a red hot topical. The GB 1/- KEVII stamp illustrated nearby, is an example of the type of cancel you might well discover offered for peanuts in a club circuit book, or old album etc, and overlook it as a $10 stamp, not a $5,000 one! It was offered on ebay by a UK dealer with zero description, and the cruddy and fuzzy photo shown nearby, for which I apologise re the poor quality of - it is ebay after all. Despite lack of any detail, or Certificate, and starting at 99p, it sold for £2,850 after 20 bids.

World’s Priciest BIRD stamp?

A $5,000 Cricket Cancel!

A stampboards.com member asked this month what was the world’s scarcest BIRD related stamp, and the query attracted a great deal of input and suggestions, many of them I’d never thought about - more here - tinyurl.com/BirdBucks My suggestion was, the Australian piece that was invoiced for $A326,000 by Phoenix Auctions in Melbourne for the 1928 Kookaburra Imperforate miniature-sheet ex Stuart Hardy, auctioned by them in November 2012. It was bought by long-lived Sydney dealer Ken Baker mentioned above, for £105 in 1961, Lot 518.

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Market Matters Real Estate. As I reported in detail last year - a good used, 3 margin, Western Australia, 1854 4d Blue Swan “Inverted Frame” stamp just sold for around $A250,000. The stamp sold for £122,400 at the Spink Lord Vestey sale of May 19 2015 - around $A250,000. More than DOUBLE their top estimate of £50,000-£60,000. My checking reveals that was a world record price for ANY single stamp from Australasia, from 1850 to the present day. Pretty amazing, and it was then WAY over the then full Gibbons catalogue of £90,000 for SG #3h. This famous stamp I understand was secured via phone bid by retired Hong Kong physician, Dr Arthur Woo, adding this example to his absolute fistful of these stamps. He now owns near all the few examples of this classic “Bird” rarity not in Institutions and Museums etc. A $326,000 Bird Block. It not been on the market for 44 years since Hardy purchased it in 1968, from the Ameer of Bahawalpur’s Collection in London.

Dr Woo owns a fistful.

Dr. Woo’s tally, along with many other examples now, includes the “forged” example sold in 1980s by Christies in the “Isleham” collection for £31,000. Some opinion now seems to

“No money in stamps”?

Baker paid only £105 at that SG auction - his invoice is nearby. Can an accountant work out what annual % increase one gets starting with £105 ($A210) and ending up with ~$A326,000? Who said there is: “no money in stamps”?! 1961 was only 5 years before we went to decimal currency. I just did some research - the median suburban house in Sydney cost was literally £3,940 then = $A7,880, as the country was in a credit squeeze. Check the facts yourself! In 2012 when this was sold, the average Sydney house price was a little under $A600,000. Or 75 times the 1961 average price. This stamp went up 1,552 times. So very roughly, this stamp had performed more than 20 times better than even Sydney 66 - Stamp News

“Inverted Frame” sold for $A250,000.

Glen Stephens lean to it NOT being forged. And the damaged strip of 3 x 4d used stamps, showing part of an “Inverted Frame” on one! But as the stampboards discussion shows us clearly, NEITHER of these 2 gems takes the prize for the world’s PRICIEST stamp depicting a Bird. The left field contender is from the USA of all places! The American 1869 30¢ Eagle, Shield and Flags, inverted centre, in mint condition. In October 2013, Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries in New York invoiced this stamp shown nearly for $US690,000, or somewhat higher than $A900,000. Higher still if you lived if the tri-state area due to state tax laws - or in the UK, Canada or NZ or Australia etc where Federal GST/VAT would also be levied upon arrival! I had never thought of it as a “Bird” stamp, but yes it must be, and at well over $A900,000 invoice, it must surely take the prize of the world’s most expensive Bird stamp. The stamp only has a trace of gum, but it does look pretty I’ll grant you that!

From $210 to $326,000.

Bird stamp sells for $A900,000.

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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. John Mounce, President 649-291-9381 johnmounce@ihug.co.nz 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, 10:00am, Nanango RSL. Contact Ph: 07 3103 8938 or ema il: bowtell_harris@activ8.net.au 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: 1st Thurs. & 3rd Sat. ex. Jan. 6.30 pm, Max Fry Hall,TrevallynLauncestonTel: 03 6331 2580 (A/H) Mersey-Leven PS: Contact: 03 6425 3603 Rosny Junior Group: Mtg Last Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224 Tasmanian PS: Mtg Last Monday (ex. Dec); www.tps.org.au, Legacy House, 159 Macquarie St Hobart

stamp & coin fairs & events new south wales

victoria

Sept 3 - (1st Sat) 9am to 4pm Orange Stamp Fair,

Sept 4 - (1st Sun) Western Suburbs Stamp, Coin &

Quinnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Arcade, Summer St, Orange. Ph: Norm 02

Banknote Fair, Strathmore Bowling Club, 40 Loeman

63623754.

St, Strathmore. Enq: Chris. 0413355716.

Sept 3 - (1st Sat) Northside Stamp Fair. 1st Floor,

Sept 18 - (3rd Sun) Stamp, Card - Phone Card Fair,

Car park Building, Manly-Warringah Leagues Club,

Bentleigh-McKinnon Youth Centre, Higgins Rd,

cnr Federal Parade/Pittwater Rd, Brookvale, NSW.

Bentleigh. Dealers plus huge range activities. Ph: 0418

Sept 3 - (1st Sat) Katoomba Stamp & Coin Fair, 9am 4pm, Masonic Hall, Cnr Station & Civic Sts, Katoomba. Ph. 0417 802 754 Sept 3 - (1st Sat) Sutherland Shire Stamp & Coin Col-

322 315. Sept 25 - (last Sun ex Dec) Stamp, Coin & Phonecard Fair, Jaycees Hall, Silver Grove, Nunawading. 9am-3pm.

queensland

lectors Fair, Gymea Anglican Church Hall, 131 Gymea Bay Rd, Gymea.

Sept 11 - QStamp Fair, Southside, Mt Gravatt Show-

Sept 18 - (3rd Sun) Stamp & Coin Fair, 10am - 3pm,

grounds, Memorial Hall, Logan Rd. Free Entry 8.30am

Pioneers Hall, Cowper St, Wallsend. 8 Dealers. 4971

- 2pm

3483

Sept 12 - (2nd Mon) - Gold Coast PS Sale, Rm 1,

Sept 25 - (4th Sun) Epping Stamp & Coin Fair, Com-

Southport Comm. Centre, Lawson St, Southport.

munity Hall, 9 Oxford St, Epping. 10am - 4pm. Free

11.30am - 2.30pm Brisbane Table Tennis Association

Entry, 6 Dealers, Buy/Sell

Centre

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www.sevenseas.com.au Search our website for full listing of stamps and Seven Seas albums and pages and other accessories. We look forward to serving you. stamps@sevenseas.com.au

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BILBY STAMPS & COVERS _______ www.bilbystamps.com.au ann@bilbystamps.com.au HALLMARK STAMPS ______ hallmark@senet.com.au www.philatelyunlimited.com.au KENNEDY STAMPS P/L _ www.kennedystamps.com.au stamps@kennedystamps.com.au KEVIN MORGAN STAMPS AND COINS _ www.kevinmorgan.com.aukevinmorgan2@live.com PACIFIC STAMPS ___________ www.pacificstamps.com.au info@pacificstamps.com.au STAMP NEWS AUSTRALASIA ____ www.stampnews.net.au stampnewsaus@gmail.com STANLEY GIBBONS UK _______www.stanleygibbons.com sales@stanleygibbons.co.uk STATUS INTERNATIONAL _______________www.statusint.com auction@statusint.com

WE ARE ALWAYS BUYING, CONTACT US BEFORE OFFERING ELSWHERE! We want to buy collections, accumulations, dealer stocks, etc, etc. Australia and States, Kangaroos, King George V Heads, Pre-decimal, Decimal, Covers, Great Britain, British Commonwealth, Foreign. Here are some examples of the prices we can pay: Australia C of A wmk Kangaroo High Values 10/- -Two Pounds, Specimen overprints, mint lightly hinged $120 Australia 5/- Harbour Bridge, MUH $795, MLH $295, Fine postally used $225, cto used with gum $150, without gum $135, slightly second grade (no bits missing please but may have minor thins, heavier cancel, short perfs etc) $65 Mint unhinged, pre-decimals in singles, blocks or sheets. Definitives 1d to 1/7d we pay 4c per stamp, Low value Commemoratives, 2d to 1/- we pay 5c per stamp, High value definitives 2/- to 4/- we pay 10c per stamp, High value Commemoratives 2/- or 2/3d we pay 40c per stamp. Decimals for postage including AAT, and postally valid issues from Cocos and Christmas Islands may be torn or damaged (no bits missing please) but must have gum. Values 1c to 68c we pay 40% face value, 70c to $20 we pay 50% face value, must be sorted by value in packets/envelopes and supplied with a concise list. We reserve the right to counter offer on messy lots. Post Office Packs and Year Books with stamps in place we pay 30% face value, year books with stamps in original stocksheets we pay 45% face value Mint PSEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 20c - 60c we pay 30% face value, 70c pay 40% face value, no stuck down flaps please Recent Commemorative Bundleware, 55c values and above we pay $1 per bundle. Small or Large format High value Definitives fine used 1989 to date with circular cancels $1 to $3 we pay 5% face value, $3 to $20 we pay 10% face value. High value commemoratives, values $1 and above as above again from 1989 onwards, we pay 10% face value. Coins, Medals, Banknotes We buy Australian coins, loose or in sets, decimal and pre-decimal, including Perth Mint and Royal Australian Mint Product. Also buying Worldwide Gold and Silver coins. Pre-decimal and Decimal Banknotes also required in all grades, also military medal groups. Our minimum purchase value is $200, smaller lots respectfully declined, please confirm all lots via phone or email before sending and send via registered/ insured mail, or contact us for an appointment, all transactions carried out in strictest confidence. WE PAY ENHANCED PRICES TO GST REGISTERED DEALERS WHO PROVIDE A TAX INVOICE.

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September 2016 Public Auction Dr William Mayo Booklets

China 1917 SB1 Cat £20,000

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