APRIL Quartet A selection of collecting suggestions for adventurous collectors, or to accelerate the scope of an existing collection of the relevant subject. Contact me if you have a particular interest in Australian cover/stationery fields. For individual item offerings, refer to my website (www.rap.com.au) and eBay listings (search rap_com_au).
1969: “205 Days Left” Vietnam Defence Forces: Collection of approx. 150 covers/stationery from the various bases, largely commercial, including higher rates.
1974: Punctured “VG” Victoria punctured Officials: Collection of cards utilised for return of Country Roads Board documents, late 1960s/1970s, generally with varying rates/combinations of “VG” punctured postage affixed to both sides (few 100).
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1942: “Not strung high enough” WWII-era illustrated covers: Selection comprising printed/hand illustrated Patriotic, Cartoon, Caricature, etc, subjects.
1989: Greetings from Bundaberg “Greetings from . . .” covers: Largely 1970s/1990s collection of these popular items, Australia-wide, approx. 200 different.
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Spink London conducted two significant Australia sales March 7 2018: Arthur Gray Booklets, the best ever formed, and a reasonable Kangaroos collection. On May 23 Spink have a remarkable sale scheduled: The Chartwell Collection of Australian States and Commonwealth, an unreserved auction for the benefit of the Chartwell Philanthropic Educational Programme. Finally (!), after much speculation from the Trade, we now know who bought the Hardy 1928 imperforate Kookaburra minisheet (for the auction record AU$326,000). Of the two March auctions, the Gray Booklets were truly one of those once in a lifetime auctions. Very few collectors can ever hope to own a single One Pound Booklet. They are amongst the rarest of the rare in Australian Commonwealth Philately, and have realized up to several tens of thousands each.
Figure 1. 1904 £1 Black on red – three recorded
In 1978, I bought at auction in New York the nine One Pound Booklets in the Harriet Work collection. These were intact Booklets, bought by her father in the early 1900s, and were complete, and in mint condition. Until the Gray collection was auctioned, nine One Pound Booklets in one auction was probably the record. However, Arthur Gray specialised in breaking records: he had no less than 28 One Pound Booklets! Unusually, for Arthur, despite rapacious attempts to prise them loose, uncharacteristically he did not succeed in adding the Work One Pound Booklets to his collection. When one reflects upon it, 37 One Pound Booklets, in one collection, would have been bordering on the ridiculous. Booklets are problematic for exhibiting: unless the exhibitor is prepared to “explode” Figure 2. 1904 £1 Red-brown on pink – possibly the unit, removing the original staples (and unique 6 - Stamp News
mine original composition of Booklet contents. It realized £900 ($1,575). I regard this, and the three realizations that follow (the next two, in particular), as representing very good value for money, particularly when compared with other Traditional material of Australia. #505 (Figure 2), 1904 £1 (240 x NSW 1d), Hobart G.P.O. on reverse, again with selvedge indicating NSW stamp original content. Unlisted in ACSC. Not dear at £960 ($1,680) in this opinion. #509 (Figure 3) 1904 £1 (240 x NSW 1d), Perth G.P.O. on reverse, selvedge remnants again indicating NSW stamp original content (“1907” Monogram), unlisted ACSC and probably unique, fetched just £780 ($1,365). The lot contained an otherwise unrelated block of 30 of the NSW 1d showing staple holes, indicating its origin was a One Pound Booklet. #515 (Figure 4) 1909-12 (240 x Victoria 1d), Adelaide G.P.O. on reverse, this contained a Figure 3. 1904 £1 Deep purple-brown on pink – unique? carefully storing, should the contents be required to be reconstituted!), to reveal the covers and contents for exhibiting. Not a practice many warm to exercising. Many Booklets exist only as covers, others with just a small number remnant of the original stamps. Here is but a small selection of the extremely rare One Pound Booklets in the sale. Currency conversion on basis of £1 = AU$1.75, Buyer’s premium (20%) included. My thanks to Spink for use of the images. Lot #501 (Figure 1) is the 1904 £1 (240 x NSW 1d), Melbourne G.P.O. on reverse (ACSC B1(N)B), no stamps remaining, but selvedge remnant confirms contents were once NSW 1d. Detective work is often called upon to deter-
Figure 4. 1909-12 £1 Blue on pink fetches more respectable sum Stamp News - 7
sheet and part sheet of the correct era Victoria 1d, which were not guaranteed original to the Booklet. ACSC B4(V)A, it catalogues $25,000 in this form, so £3,840 ($6,720) was a more reasonable outcome. Arthur Gray was the leading buyer of Australia early Booklets, so the market was expected to fall back from the levels he Figure 5. A piece is a piece created. I believe they during the past decade and a half, and with the “fell back” way too loss of so many of those collectors as vendors, far in the instances of Figures 1 to 3. One must the replacement rate with new collectors has not agree, they are handsome beasts these large quite kept pace. Booklets, are they not? Rather than focus upon the obvious, I am On now to the Kangaroos sale, where buyer’s appeared a bit picky by my assessment. The motivated by the “why is it so” school of thought (Professor Julius Sumner Miller has a auction market has been spoiled for Kangaroos lot to answer for with my generation). I prefer not to dwell upon all of those Monogram/ Imprint items (bar one) that have changed hands multiple times during the recent past (‘churn’ is the buzz term). #39 (Figure 5) is not particularly special; let’s say I’ve selected it for tutorial purposes. This piece contains a First wmk 2/- with 5d and 6d. The 2/- on a Figure 6. Ex-Arthur Gray Kangaroos 8 - Stamp News
Figure 7. Covers generally good value at Spink
Figure 8. Optimal way to collect “OS� punctures Stamp News - 9
Figure 9. Unsold rarity cover, or comparable postal article, catalogues $4,000; it’s extremely rare in that form. Over 25 years ago I wrote the following for ACSC: “Stamps on Cover: Prices are for stamps used during the appropriate period of issue on reasonably clean and intact commercially used covers (i.e. not First Day, Souvenir, Flight or other philatelically motivated covers, such as those bearing deliberately overpaid frankings). For some stamps, in particular values over 6d prior to 1930, the primary uses of such stamps 10 - Stamp News
was not on covers but on parcels, or for strictly non-postal uses such as telegrams. Eligible (for cover price) are Post Office labels, parcel tags, and fragments of parcel wrappings/coverings which incorporate vital information such as addressee details and registration label if applicable.” On Stampboards, and elsewhere, there has been on occasion a tendency to quote “on cover” catalogue value for pieces, such as Figure 5. This is erroneous. The catalogue value for
Figure 12/12a. A tale of two high denomination pairs At Spink it made £27,600 ($48,300). Further evidence that eleven years ago, Arthur Gray timed the pre-GFC peak of the Kangaroo market rather superbly. The latest price reasonably Figure 10. Extraordinary origin/destination corroborates the $75,000 ACSC price for this item item. #86 (Figure 7) was an attractive 1914 uprate this item is not $4,000, it is the used price of the of the Stationery 4d Registered envelope, utilisrespective three stamps (i.e. $250 + $70 + $35 = ing the companion 4d postage stamp, to Nether$355). The item realized £144 ($252). lands East Indies. I thought this was good value #40 (Figure 6) is the solitary Monogram item at £252 ($441). for comment. A First wmk 5/- “JBC” corner #91 (Figure 8) was an attractive usage of strip, it is rather pretty, but a comparison beFirst wmk 2d pair Small “OS” puncture, on untween the Gray price (2007), and this latest sale claimed 1915 Official cover, replete with ancilprice was what piqued my interest. At Gray it lary markings. Inexpensive at £90 ($157). realized US$46,000 (then approx. AU$57,500). #114 (Figure 9) was a surprise unsold. The Stamp News - 11
Second wmk 9d is an extreme rarity on cover (ACSC $2000 ought to be more), and this was particularly attractive. Perhaps it sold postauction? Estimate was £800/1400. There were four covers in #188 (Figure 10 the best); I liked this usage of Third wmk 2d pair + KGV 4d Hobart to Chefoo, an extraordinary destination. Good value at £156 ($273). Figure 11. Did Kangaroo cover collectors miss this sale? Continuing covers at good value, #189 cancelled as was this, particularly in multiple (Figure 11) was an attractive solo use of Third form, yet it went unsold on a reasonable estiwmk 6d violet-blue shade (Die IIB). Real value mate of £300/400. In comparison, the relatively at £60 ($210). ACSC on cover is $600; the com- common CofA wmk £2 in a pair (#238 – Figure paratively common mint mounted has a price of 12a), off-centre at that, sold for £384 ($672)? $400. I know which I would prefer. #243 (Figure 13) was an impressive mulA comparison that has me puzzled. #205 tiple franking of the CofA wmk 5/- (and 2/-). (Figure 12) was an attractive and rare pair of £960 ($1,680) was a fair realization, but a lot of Small multiple wmk 10/, a difficult stamp neatly philately for the money. It had fetched more on a previous occasion. The sprinkling of commercial postal articles in the Spink Kangaroos, modest though they were, exceeded offerings of such material in most of the Kangaroo sales of the past decade and a half. Figure 13. Apparently no £1 stamp in stock? 12 - Stamp News
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Australia & AAT PO packs, 2001 to end 2010 x 184 - $1,500 *UNDER* Retail!: Retail for these packs was
between 45c to $4.50 over face value, as shown on back on each one, so cost ex AP was clearly WAY over $900 of course. Great condition - bought as new issues from AP and were still in original packaging in the WA Estate. I'd guess this will be a complete 10 year run from the Post Office New Issue Bureau is my hunch, but I am not spending 2 hours checking! It took me an hour taking pix. As usual, TOTALLY unpicked by me - what you see is 100% what was in the box! Deceased Owner was in Perth WA, so condition is clean and flat and fresh, as humidity is not known there - NOT often the case from coastal EASTERN Australia - trust me. ANYTHING after 2000 in Australian New Issues, is near impossible to source. Masses of collectors and dealers drew a line in the sand at this time, at that BIG round year figure, and said "that's it". Of course 18 years on, they all regret it, and nearly all want and need those issues. Dealers did not stock them either, so sourcing them is near impossible at any price. All the goodies are here as you can readily see from the photos - totally untouched and unpicked by me as always, for all the superb topicals and thematics etc. COST ex PO was over $A900. Retail would be EASILY $2,500 if you could find a dealer with stock and I honestly doubt you can, for this long run. All the issue formats are here - Mini Sheets, se-tenant blocks, se-tenant pairs and strips, Sheetlets and even the super popular "International" Stamps etc. Totally unpicked by me as usual - ALL the topical/thematic goodies are in here for Australia. Pop them on ebay one by one, and double or treble your money, on a free listing day perhaps? No-one has this era listed up - CHECK it! These Cost over $900 to buy ex the PO. Estate Super Deal at least $1,500 UNDER retail. Heaps more pix of them here - tinyurl.com/2000Pax $A999 (Stock 547PK)
N.Z. 1858 *No Wmk* Chalon, FU, 1/- Blue Green SG #17: £1,800: Fine Used - clean and fresh, and free of hinges and gum and gook, to hide repairs or thins etc -
totally sound. Really thick white paper - nice looker. Light numeral cancel. 100% Guaranteed by me to have no repairs or faults. Bright colour, and with 3 very good margins. SG 17, £1,800. From an extensive NZ Chalon coll I bought this week cheap – see others on my Rarity Page $A500 (Stock 729KR)
1945 6d Blue Canberra War Memorial “Savings Certificate Stamp”: Depicts the “War Memorial and Mt. Ainslie Canberra”. A very attractive
engraved stamp, and was on the then current postage stamp CofA watermarked security paper, with the same 14½ perforation and the ‘By Authority’ marginal imprint of the definitive stamp issues - as you can see. Only THREE imprint pieces are recorded on this rare official issued stamp. More detail here - tinyurl.com/MtAinslie There seemed little interest in immediate post-war Australia in these Saving Certificates, and few of these stamps appear to have been purchased or used. In 40 years as a dealer, I have only once owned even a single example - and that was no gum. For years they would change hands for about $A500 when singles occasionally showed up - often with no gum and poorly centred where Simon Dunkerley sold a bad centred no gum one on ebay, for $A500. A Public Auction by Phoenix in Melbourne smashed that price point! The “Authority” imprint block was publicly auctioned. On a pretty measly estimate of $200, the hinged/unhinged block 4 in link above, was invoiced for an absolutely astounding $A3,200. You can source an imprint block of 4 of the CofA watermark 5/- Kangaroo for that kind of money! Buy this well centred MUH imprint example of this rare issue, for just: $A500 (Stock 782JQ) Order via: tinyurl.com/GlenOrder All Cards accepted with ZERO fee - even Amex! Bank Deposit fine, or Money Orders. PayPal is accepted in ANY major currency, saving you fees - contact me first. LayBys/Layaways always OK with me!
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BIKES ON STAMPS Stamp collectors tend to pick up all kinds of (sometimes completely useless) information when studying the postage stamps they encounter. I recently obtained a 2017 German postage stamp which I found quite interesting. The stamp commemorates the 200th anniversary of the invention of the bicycle by a man called Karl Drais. Karl Drais von Sauerbronn was born into a noble family in Germany in 1785. He trained as a forest official but made a name for himself as an inventor. On 12 June 1817 he made the first trip using his newly built “running machine” covering a distance of 4.3 miles. The early ver-
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sions of his velocipede had no pedals. At the time roads were so bad and uneven that it was difficult to use running machines. However, it seems the sidewalks were in much better shape and they were favoured by the early cyclists. In order the avoid collisions with pedestrians, velocipedes were not allowed on sidewalks in a number of countries including Germany, England and the United States. Karl Drais then went on to make numerous other important inventions including the railway handcar. It is also known as a draisine and obviously named after its inventor. Drais had very liberal political opinions
Christer Brunström which brought him into serious conflicts with the conservative authorities in the Grand Duchy of Baden. For a few years he had to go into exile in Brazil. In 1848 he renounced his noble title becoming just Karl Drais. He died in 1851. His invention has been commemorated twice on German stamps. The latest stamp is shown nearby. The very first 1817 running machine was of course rather primitive and difficult to use. Over the following decades, the velocipedes were continuously modified and developed into the kind of bike we know today. The Penny-farthing was a particularly curious
version. It had a very large front wheel and a tiny rear one. The British stamp nearby gives us a clear picture of what this kind of bike actually looked like. Riding a bicycle became a fast and inexpensive way of travel over shorter distances. Bikes have also been used extensively by postmen delivering mail not only in towns and cities but also in more rural areas. Towards the end of World War II in 1944, the CORALIT (Corrieri Alta Italia) Company in Italy was authorised to carry mail between a number of cities using a relay cycle system over four routes radiating from Venice. This service
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was quite costly as the sender paid the regular postage rate plus a surcharge of 14 lire per ten grams. In 1945 two sets of CORALIT stamps were issued for this service; the stamps either depict the Lion of St. Marco or a cyclist over a map of the region. The latter design fits nicely into a collection of Bikes on Stamps. In 1900 the Boers besieged the town of Mafeking in South Africa which was defended by British troops under the command of Baden Powell. A local postal service issuing its own stamps was in operation while the town was cut off from the rest of the world. A locally
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produced one-penny stamp depicted Sergeant Goodyear on one of his tours delivering mail. As can be seen he used a bike to speed up the service. One of the less known local postal services operated in the Spanish city of Barcelona from 1904 until 1907. Called Postal Express, the service delivered mail in the city using bicycles. Stamps were issued showing pictures of beautiful ladies as well as a delivery boy on his bike. I don’t really know when a bicycle was first depicted on a postage stamp but an 1887 1-pfennig stamp issued by the Drucksachen & Circular
Christer Brunström
Beförderung, a privately operated local post in Frankfurt am Main in Germany, must be a prime contender. The commemorative stamp was released to mark the 4th Congress of the German Bicycle Association. The design leaves a lot to be desired but it shows a “Penny-farthing” bike in front of the Cathedral in Frankfurt. In Sweden bikes were frequently used by delivery boys in the 1940’s. Grocery stores frequently employed teenage boys to deliver the shopping to the homes of people who for one reason or the other were unable to carry it home themselves. The design on the stamp nearby is
the work of famous Swedish artist Lasse Åberg. The stamp was issued in 1994. Bicycle sports are quite popular in most parts of the world. The annual Tour de France is possibly the most famous event for bike fans. Shown nearby is a 1954 stamp from the Soviet Union depicting a bicycle race. Over the years there have been numerous postage stamps featuring bicycles. I have inspected large gold-medal collections of this topic at major stamp shows. It is obviously the ideal subject for stamp collectors who are also keen cyclists.
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Stamps in the News - Globally! When clients bare it posties can’t bear it in the US Reported at http://www.wtma.com
Nudists who live at Eden RV Resort in Hudson, Florida say they are being discriminated against by the US Postal Service. Residents say the regular postman has no problem entering the park, and they receive packages from FedEx and other carriers, but when one female mail carrier fills in – as she does on a regular basis – they don’t receive packages. The park has mailboxes outside its gate, but if boxes don’t fit, residents want them delivered either to their residence or the office at the park. “She marks it undeliverable, whether it fits in the box or it doesn’t, so we don’t get the mail that day,” says Eileen Hudak, who has lived at the park for 10 years and calls it a “family resort.” “It offends me that she does not do her job because if she can’t do her job, then she shouldn’t be having this job,” says Hudak. A USPS spokesman has responded, “Carriers are not required to deliver beyond the centralized delivery units. We can assure all customers that mail is being delivered according to national centralized delivery requirements.” Mail carriers have refused to deliver to locations in the past for other unusual reasons, including territorial turkeys in Ohio, fear of bedbugs at a Detroit apartment building and aggressive pets in Lubbock, Texas.
Posties get short shrift in the UK Reported at http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk While the rest of the UK is grinding to halt in the face of the Beast from the East, a North-East UK postman has been out delivering letters in his shorts. Alistair Beadle, 48, has been turning heads while out on his round in Hurworth-on-Tees. This postie made his rounds in his shorts on February 28, 2018 braving the snow. Father-of-two Alistair, 18 - Stamp News
said: “I don’t know what all the fuss is about – it’s just a lot more comfortable wearing shorts. It really isn’t that cold. If it was windy, I might wear water-proof trousers. In 2013 Royal Mail tried to ban the use of shorts in winter due to WHS concerns about frostbite.
Posties beg for salt in Iceland Reported at https://grapevine.is
As the Beast from the East hits Iceland, the postal service has asked people to clear the way for its postmen. Over the past week, Iceland has had huge snow dumps, coupled with high winds that create formidable snowbanks. City workers can only clear so many sidewalks, and so Iceland Post is asking the public to help clear the way for postmen. “The conditions that have arisen have proven dangerous for postal workers, and there have been examples of these workers injuring themselves by slipping on ice or loose snow,” a spokesman said. To help keep the mail flowing, the public is being asked to shovel out snow leading up to their front doors, to salt the way, or both. Salt is especially advisable; it not only provides traction, but also has the property of melting ice, which mere sand is unable to do. Can’t Fedex your stamps? Try sending a gun.
Reported at www.nydailynews.com
Want to ship your stamp collection? No way, FedEx says. Too much risk. But need a shotgun delivered? No problem — in fact, if you’re a high-profile manufacturer, you’ll even get a discount. You can’t send ashes, lottery tickets, dead bodies, human organs, live animals, cigarettes, used tyres or a host of other potentially hazardous items via FedEx — but you can send a gun. If you’re a regular customer, you’re required to send that gun via Priority Overnight — not the cheaper option of two-day delivery. But, if you’re on a confidential list of 86 companies deemed “exceptions” by FedEx, the regular rules don’t apply taking pressure off profit
Compiled by
Margo Campbell
margins. It also extends the risk of guns being lost or stolen in transit. Shooting victims and their relatives are calling out FedEx for doing business with an industry they say contributes directly to the plague of bloodshed in America. FedEx declined to answer specific questions about the list of 86 companies but claims it follows the same industry practices as its rival, the United Parcel Service.
Going, going, gone: cultural sites at risk from conflict on postage stamps Reported at http://blogs.bl.uk (Blog of the British Library)
Postage stamp designs transcends the aesthetic and can be used to enhance an understanding of current heritage concerns. This is best shown via stamps of Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria depicting heritage sites destroyed, or at risk of destruction from conflicts.
Afghanistan
The 1972 9 afghanis stamp depicts the Graeco-Bactrian Temple amongst the ancient ruins at Ai-Khanoum in Takhar Province. It dates around 280 BCE. French and Russian Archaeologists worked on the site between 1964 and 1978 but the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan forced
Left Ai-Khanoum/ Right Buddhist Stupa at Hadda
Bamiyam Buddhas the work to be abandoned. Ai-Khanoum was heavily looted and much of it destroyed during the ensuing conflict. The 3 afghanis stamp from the same issue depicts the Buddhist Stupa at Hadda, near the Khyber Pass in Kandahar. Over 20,000 Buddhist sculptures fusing Buddhist and Hellenic traditions from the 2nd century BCE were excavated at the site. Much of this site was destroyed in the conflict which followed the Soviet withdrawal. The 1951 20 poul and 1985 10 afghanis stamps both depict the largest of the Bamiyam Buddhas in the Hazarajat region. Part of the silk-road trade route linking India and China, Bamiyan was an important Buddhist holy site. Statues of the Buddha were carved out of the sandstone cliffs in the 6th century. The largest was once known as the tallest Buddhist statue in the world. In March 2001 the Taliban destroyed the Bamiyan Buddhas.
Syria
The Syrian 1968 Ancient Monuments issue also includes stamps depicting heritage sites destroyed or at risk from conflict. The 15p stamp, depicts the Monastery of St. Simeon the Stylite, established in the 5th century near Aleppo. The Monastery is one of the oldest surviving Byzantine Churches in the world and designated a UNESCO world heritage site in 2011. Initial fears for the site’s Stamp News - 19
Stamps in the News - Globally!
Left Monastery of St. Simeon/Right Roman Theatre at Bosra safety were raised during the Syrian conflict whilst it was under the control of Islamic State. Although safely recaptured by Kurdish forces in 2015, the monastery was heavily damaged by an air strike in 2016. The 50p stamp from the same issue depicts the Roman Theatre at Bosra situated in Dar’a in south-western Syria. Carved out of black basalt in the mid 2nd century CE, the theatre has a seating capacity for 15,000 people making it one of the largest and best preserved ancient roman theatres in the world. In March 2015, video footage showed rebel and Syrian Government forces battling amongst the ruins resulting in the destruction of statues and shattering of stone work. The second series of the Syrian 1969 Ancient Monuments Issue are also significant. The 25p stamp depicts the Baal-Shamin Temple in Palmyra which was consecrated in 32AD for worshipers of the Mesopotamian God Baal. Under Byzantine rule the temple was converted into a Christian Church
before being again converted into a Mosque in 1132. The Mosque remained active until the 1920s when FrancoSyrian archaeological missions undertook restoration. The ruins were amongst the best preserved in Palmyra until 2015 when Islamic State forces searching for hidden gold used explosives to demolish the site. The 16p stamp from the issue depicts the Shrine of St John the Baptist housed in the Umayyad Mosque, Damascus. Built on the site of an old Christian Church in 634 CE, the Mosque is one of the oldest and largest in the world, regarded as Islam’s 4th holiest site. It houses the Shrine of St John the Baptist, a religious figure of importance to both Christians and Muslims. The tomb of the great Muslim leader, Saladin adjoins the mosque. For centuries the site has been a place where both Christians and Muslims have worshipped together peacefully. Although it remains undamaged, fears for the site’s safety were raised in November 2013, after a mortar round landed near the mosque.
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Margo Campbell minaret known as the Malwiya Tower survived. The sandstone minaret is a spiralling cone 52 metres high and 33 metres wide with a spiral ramp. During the Iraq War, US troops used the top of the minaret as a lookout position, making the site a military target. Consequently in April 2005 Insurgent activity resulted in the top of the minaret sustaining bomb damage.
Iraq tells the Kurds – no way Reported at http://www.rudaw.net
Postal service officials in the Kurdistan Left Minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri/ Right Minaret of Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq have noticed a sharp drop in the amount of mail Samarra being sent abroad. The Iraqi government The 60p stamp depicts the Khaled ibn al-Walid recently asked the Universal Postal Union Mosque in Homs, Syria. Although the current building not to deal with the KRG postal services. was constructed in the 20th century, the Mosque has Additionally, Baghdad’s grounding of all international been located at this site since 1265 CE. It is dedicated to flights from the Kurdistan Region, following Septemand holds the mausoleum of Khalid ibn al-Walid, a mili- ber’s independence referendum, seems to have had an tary commander who led the Islamic conquest of Syria impact on the quantity of mail. in the 7th century putting an end to Byzantine rule there. “Currently nothing is being sent abroad. Nothing,” During the Syrian Conflict, the mosque was held by anti- said a Kurdish postal official. government rebels and was consequently in 2013 shelled “We worked for our postal service to reach a level on a number of occasions causing significant damage to that made us proud. It reached such a level that citizens the building and tomb. started trusting Kurdistan’s post office. “ Since 2007 goods were sent all over the world bearIraq ing Kurdistan postage stamps, according to officials. The A notable set of stamps depicting cultural sites impacted by the various conflicts in Iraq is the 1967 International Tourist Year Issue. The 15 fils stamp depicts the Minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul. Established in 1172, the mosque has undergone significant development over the centuries and was made famous by its leaning cylindrical minaret nicknamed ‘al-Hadba’ (the hunchback) which was covered with Iranian style brickwork and a white dome. In July 2014 Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi made his first appearance as IS leader at the mosque and announced the establishment of a Caliphate. In July 2017, IS forces used explosives to demolish the site during their retreat from Mosul. The 80 fils stamp depicts the Minaret of Samarra, originally part of the Great Mosque of Samarra constructed between 848 and 851CE. Although the mosque itself was destroyed in 1278 during the Mongol Invasion of Iraq; its outer wall and iconic Stamp News - 21
Stamps in the News - Globally! annual revenue of the KRG’s postal services ran to two billion Iraqi dinars. Baghdad has shown willingness to allow the Kurdistan to send post through its regional airports, so long as it uses Iraqi postage stamps. The KRG said it would not adopt Iraqi stamps. The Iraqi government announced recently it would extend the flight ban on the Kurdistan Region’s airports by another three months.
Grounded in Grand Turk Reported at http://tcweeklynews.com
Residents in Grand Turk have not been able to receive any mail from overseas and other adjacent islands due to outstanding debts to the local airline, reportedly. The leader of the opposition says the territory’s capital is being neglected and people are “frustrated”. He said: “This is yet another example of neglect at unprecedented levels that the people of these Islands are now suffering and there seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel.” “My visit to the Post Office to check for mail proved to be futile as there was still no mail transported from Providenciales, the port of entry and redistribution for international and local mail to Grand Turk Post Office.”
A government spokesman responded saying that efforts are being made to resolve the issue quickly. Hurricanes Irma and Maria struck Turks & Caicos in September last year devastating the islands. Telecommunication networks are still under repair in much of the area.
Indian identities immortalised internationally
Reported at http://economictimes.indiatimes.com Indian princess Sophia Alexandra Duleep Singh (18761948) was recently featured on one of the UK’s Royal Mail issues honouring the suffragette movement. This has raised some interest in other Indian indentities on foreign stamps –here are a selection: Mahatma Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi has been featured on the stamps of more than 150 countries in the world, including the UK, Iran, Italy, Syria, Morocco, the US, Uganda, and Mauritius. Sachin Tendulkar The Master Blaster has been featured on the stamps of more than five countries, which include the United Kingdom and Togo. Tendulkar got his Indian stamp only after he retired in 2013, but the other countries stamps were issued earlier. Mother Teresa More than 50 countries have issued stamps featuring Mother Teresa. These include Brazil, France, Vatican and Mongolia. All stamps show her wearing her trademark white saree with blue stripes
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Zubin Mehta The music conductor has been featured on the stamps of Austria
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Margo Campbell Bing Crosby, performing Cole Porter’s song “True Love”. This was Grace Kelly’s last film before she became Princess of Monaco and ended her acting career. The other features the poster from Green Fire, an American film directed in 1954 by Andrew Marton. It was not a commercial success, however, it has all the charm of old adventure films and appealed to audiences because of the magnificent Colombian landscapes and the beauty of Grace Kelly.
and Maldives. Mehta, who has travelled the world for his performances, is an honorary member of the Vienna State Opera, which explains an Austrian stamp dedicated to him. Rabindranath Tagore The Indian poet and freedom fighter has been featured on stamps of about 14 nations. Tagore, who is a Nobel Prize winner in literature, has been featured on the stamps of Argentina, Bulgaria, Sri Lanka and Uruguay.
Belgium celebrates diamonds, beer and smurfs
Reported at https://www.linns.com
Diamonds, beer and the Smurfs are featured on three new Belgian issues in January. Antwerp has been considered the diamond capital of the world for over 500 years. Approximately 80 percent of the world’s rough diamonds are traded through the city. The design challenge was to show the evolution from rough to polished, the mapping, cutting, polishing in 5
Monaco celebrates Grace
Reported at www.hellomonaco.com Monaco has issued wo new stamps celebrating the movies of Princess Grace, formerly Grace Kelly. One features the poster from High Society. Directed in 1956 by Charles Walters, “High Society” is a musical remake of an earlier film. One of the most memorable scenes is a duo by Grace Kelly and Stamp News - 23
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stamps. A glossy varnish was added to make the diamonds sparkle. In 2016, the beer culture in Belgium was inscribed on UNESCO’s List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. UNESCO said: “Making and appreciating beer is part of the living heritage of a range of communities throughout Belgium. It plays a role in daily life, as well as festive occasions. The new Belgian pane of five non-denominated stamps for international mail honours this recognition. The logos of UNESCO and Intangible Cultural Heritage are shown in selvage in the lower right. Beer bottles and bubbles from the head of the beer also are depicted in the selvage.
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The stamps represent five facets of the Belgian beer culture: craft, diversity, culture, beer and gastronomy, and the social aspect. Belgian cartoonist Pierre Culliford (1928-92), known as Peyo, created the Smurfs in 1958, drawing his inspiration for these blue characters from trolls of Nordic fairy tales. The Smurfs received their own comic book series the next year and later starred in movies and TV. For the 60th anniversary of the Smurfs, Belgium issued a pane of 10 nondenominated domestic-rate stamps with five different designs featuring drawings by Culliford.
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Roo 1913 2/- Brown Kangaroo FIRST Watermark, super attractive MVLH: A wildly under-rated stamp - 20 times scarcer than the 2/- Brown Third Wmk in MINT, despite their similar retail. ACSC 35a in $650 in cheapest shade. FAR, FAR, Better than usual perfs and centering for this “terror” issue, as you can see - impossible to improve on. Deep rich strong colour, and crisp prooflike impression. SG 13, and most you see are TOTALLY stuffed and terrible centered, with short and/or ripped out perfs etc. Mint super light hinge touch, with no hinge remains - almost MUH. INCREDIBLY fresh and flat and bright for these. A really lovely stamp for what condition one usually sees, yet at $225 UNDER the cat value for average grade! Bought well today, so out it goes - $A425 (Stock 593AJ)
Kangaroo 1929 10/- Small Multiple Wmk, Superb MLH with ACSC Var: A rare stamp, with or WITHOUT any plate variety - SG 112. In my long experience TEN times scarcer than the Third Wmk or CofA Watermark 10/- values. There were in fact only 240,000 of this printed v/s over 1.2 million of the Third Watermark 10/-, yet Cat value is around the same - absurd with a higher than 5:1 ratio. This was the 10/- stamp on national issue all during the Great Depression, and few then were spending a week’s wages on 1 new stamp. Indeed there was the exact same low print number of this, than of the super expensive 1913 £1 & £2 First Watermark Roos - 240,000 on all 3 of those. Excellent perfs and nice colour as you can see for this 89 y.o. issue. Bright vivid original colour and PO sheen, white gum MVLH. “Very Short Spencer Gulf” variety showing clearly. ACSC 49(D)f, $1,650. Only $US695 as I type this! $A875 (Stock 384XE)
Samoa 1962 Independence onwards, MUH coll in 2 x 'Seven Seas': From 1962 Independence to 1990, on hingeless "Seven Seas" pages in 2 x binders. The albums and pages NEW cost $400 alone! Complete sets to $20 face value, mini-sheets and blocks and strips. Not all pictured above by any means - just a few to give you an idea. Looks to be complete MUH on spot checking when taking pix and all the stamps looked FRESH to me Samoa collections often have bad toning of course. Retail will be MILES above this - many of these sets are very few in the marketplace, and a near 30 year complete run for just $13 or $14 a year is insane! LOTSSSSS of stamps and strips and mini sheets etc. Samoa stamps look far better on black pages due to the bright colours - I'd rehouse these all in a Lighthouse stockbook or two, if I owned them. Masses more pix of the highlights of this collection here - tinyurl.com/SamoaColl - $A425 (Stock 854TG)
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Postal Stationery
Welcome to the postal stationery column for April 2018. This month’s column looks at postcards issued by France to commemorate the opening of the Australian Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux, postal stationery issued by New Zealand private postal operators and postcards issued by Australia for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Postcards Issued by France for the Opening of The Australian Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux
On 22 July 1938 France issued a set of ten stamped pictorial postcards to mark the inauguration of the Australian Monument at Villers Bretonneux. The Memorial commemorates the role played by Australian soldiers in the Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux and also serves as the Australian National 26 - Stamp News
Top left: Figure 1 1fr French Postcard Commemorating the Opening of the Australian Monument at Villers Bretonneux with Two Commemorative Postmarks Above: Figure 2 Central Tower and AIF Monument, Australian Monument, Villers Bretonneux Bottom left: Figure 3 Monument and Cemetery, Cross on Right, Australian Monument, Villers Bretonneux Memorial to all the Australians who died during the Western Front of World War I. The Memorial was unveiled on 22 July 1938 by King George VI. This year is the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, one of the last great battles of World War 1. An Australian Division was sent on 24 April 1918 to clear German troops from the town of Villers-Bretonneux. They succeeded in earning the gratitude of France which built the Australian War Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux. The postcards were issued in two denominations, 55 centimes for domestic use and 1 franc for international use, with the same stamp design used for
Ian McMahon Figure 4 General View of the Monument from the Left, Australian Monument, Villers Bretonneux Figure 5 Pavilion at left and stairs, Australian Monument, Villers Bretonneux Figure 6 General View of the Monument from the Entrance, Australian Monument, Villers Bretonneux both. The cards were issued on 22 July 1938 and are often found with postmarks commemorating the inauguration of the monument as is the case with the postcard shown in Figure 1. The five designs on the reverse of the postcards (Figures 2-6) are: Monument and Cemetery (cross on right), General View of the Monument (from the left), Pavilion at left and stairs, Central tower and AIF monument, and General View of the Monument (from the entrance).
Postal Stationery Issued by New Zealand Private Postal Operators The sale and deregulation of Government postal services has occurred in many countries with New Zealand being one of the countries at the forefront of postal deregulation. On 1 April 1998, the New Zealand Post’s monopoly on the carriage of letters was removed with the introduction of the Postal Services Act 1998. This Act allowed any company or individual to carry letters for profit, so long as they were registered as a “postal operator” by Government. Postal operators must be registered and provide samples of a ‘postal identifier’, a name, logo, stamp, postmark or other label or mark which
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Figure 7 Pete’s Post Pre-stamped Envelope from 2002 Figure 8 Pete’s Post Prepaid Postcard Figure 9 New Zealand Mail Pre-stamped Envelope Used 2006 28 - Stamp News
can be as simple as a rubber stamp bearing the name of the postal operator. New Zealand Post retained the right to be New Zealand’s designated UPU postal operator, including the right to issue stamps inscribed ‘New Zealand’ and to exchange international mail. Items other than letters were not regulated in this manner and some of the companies (such as DX Mail) which became postal operators were existing courier companies. A letter is currently defined in the Postal Services Act as “any form of written communication or document or article addressed to a specific person or address. It must not be conveyed by electronic means or by a courier service. This includes envelopes, packets, packages or wrappers for which a charge is made to carry it, take charge of it, or send it. Letters must not exceed 260 mm in height, 385 mm in length, 20 mm in thickness, or 1 kg in weight.” About 16 postal operators are currently registered although at times the number has been over 30. Of these a number are carry large quantities of commercial mail and have issued adhesive stamps and many have issued postal stationery. Pete’s Post was a postal operator from 2001 until 2012, when it was bought out by New Zealand Mail, and developed an extensive postal network. The Company issued a wide range of postal
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Top left: Figure 10 Fastway Post Stamped Envelope Used in 2001 Top right: Figure 11 Fastway Post Postcard to Mark the Commencement of Its Services. Left: Figure 12 DX Mail Envelope Bottom Left:Figure 13 DX Mail International Stamped Envelope Used to Australia
stationery including pre-stamped envelopes (DL, DL window and larger sizes) and a range of prepaid boxes, padded bags and mailing tubes. All of the postal stationery (Figure 7) had an indicium which included the Pete’s Post ‘postal identifier’. Pete’s Post issued a range of prestamped envelopes in various sizes for international use and also allowed the ‘personalisation’ of its stamped envelopes. While it was operating, Pete’s Post developed a philatelic website to sell its stamps and postal stationery to
collectors. For the collector market it issued a range of prepaid postcards (Figure 8). New Zealand Mail issues prestamped envelopes (which they call Postage Included Envelopes) in a range of sizes (Figure 9) and will also customize envelopes with company logos and slogans, including in colour. Fastway Post uses the delivery network of New Zealand Post and sells its prestamped envelopes (Figure 10) and other products through Office Product Depot stores throughout New Zealand. Figure 11 shows a postcard issued to commemorate the beginning of Fastway’s postal service. DX Mail bills itself as New Zealand’s only alternative nationwide mail provider and handle over 50 million items of mail a year. Mail is collected from its conveniently located DX Mail boxes and exchanges or picked up by courier. It is then sorted at Stamp News - 29
Postal Stationery one of DX Mail’s 14 nationwide mail centres. It issues prestamped envelopes (Figure 12) in a range of sizes. It also issues prestamped international envelopes (Figure 13) which are delivered to other countries by a courier company. Figure 14 shows a prestamped envelope from Kiwi Mail, a wholly owned subsidiary of New Zealand Post, which operated as a private mail provider. Stationery companies including Croxley Stationery (Figure 15) and Candida Stationery are also registered postal operators and issue prestamped envelopes which are sold through stationery stores.
Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Prepaid Postcards
Top: Figure 14 Kiwi Mail Stamped Envelope Used in 2001 Middle: Figure 15 Croxley Mail Stamped Envelope Above left: Figure 16 Gold Coast 2018 Borobi Prepaid Postcard Above right: Figure 17 Gold Coast 2018 Logo Prepaid Postcard 30 - Stamp News
Australia Post issued two prepaid postcards for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games on 25 January 2018. The Games are being held from 4-15 April 2018 on the Gold Coast. The postcards feature an image of the Gold Coast 2018 mascot, Borobi, (Figure 16) and the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games logo (Figure 17). At the same time three prepaid postcards were issued showing Queensland views: Townsville Entertainment Centre, Cairns Convention Centre and Coolangatta Beach.
WORLDWIDE NEW ISSUES Royal Mail marks RAF centenary
Royal Mail has revealed the ten stamp images issued to mark the centenary of the Royal Air Force. The iconic aircraft depicted span the Force’s 100-year history and feature original artwork by renowned aviation artist, Michael Turner. Featured on the stamps are the First World War era Sopwith Camel F1, the Hurricane Mk 1 from the Battle of Britain, a Vulcan B2, the Lightning F6, the Nimrod MR2 and Typhoon FGR4. The Red Arrows also feature in images that show the aerobatic display team in full flight during four formations – Flypast, Swan, Syncho and Python. On 1 April 1918, the union of the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Flying Corps formed the world’s first independent air force: the Royal Air Force (RAF). The RAF fought over the Western Front in direct support of ground forces. It played a major role in blunting the German spring 1918 offensive and in the Allies’ final counter-attacks, which led to the surrender of German forces in November 1918. During the Second World War, the RAF played a decisive role defending the United Kingdom, operating worldwide with increasing strength and providing support to the war at sea and on land. The RAF began the Second World War with around 3,550 aircraft, including biplanes and many obsolete models. Five years later, the service had 9,200 aircraft, many of advanced design, including the only jets to be operated by the Allied air forces. By the end of the war, there were 1,079,835 RAF, Dominion and Allied officers and airmen serving, alongside 158,771 women, giving a total RAF strength of 1,238,606, including 193,313 aircrew. Throughout the post-war era, RAF transport aircraft have delivered humanitarian aid worldwide in the wake of natural disasters, be it famine, earthquake or hurricane. The RAF has seen many cultural changes and reorganisations in recent years, including the introduction of women in combat. It remains ready and able to operate around the world across the spectrum of air warfare. Sopwith Camel F1 The Sopwith Camel was a single-seat biplane fighter, which entered service on the Western Front in May 1917. By the end of the First World War, almost 5,500 had been produced, and it had become the most successful Allied fighter, being credited with shooting down 1,294 enemy aircraft. The Camel was also used in the ground attack role. Powered by a single rotary engine, it was extremely manoeuvrable but difficult to handle for inexperienced pilots. It was flown by some of the most famous pilots, including Captain AR Brown of No. 209 Squadron, who was credited with shooting down Baron von Richthofen, the ‘Red Baron’. Hurricane MK1 The single-engine Hawker Hurricane powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine first flew in November 1935.It was to achieve immortal fame during the Battle of Britain, equipping 33 squadrons. It went on to serve as a fighter and a ground-attack aircraft in every theatre of war and with numerous air forces. It was capable of withstanding
extensive battle damage. Hawker Hurricane PZ865 was the last of 14,533 Hurricanes built and named The Last of the Many. It now flies with the RAF’s Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. Lightning F6 The English Electric P1 first flew on 4 August 1954. Development of this prototype led to the Lightning F1, which entered operational squadron service as an all-weather interceptor capable of flying at twice the speed of sound (Mach 2) in July 1960. The Lightning equipped ten squadrons in the United Kingdom, Germany, Cyprus and Singapore. The final version – the F6 – was powered by two Rolls-Royce Avon 310 engines with afterburner. Its spectacular rate of climb and supersonic speed allowed it to intercept aircraft at heights in excess of 50,000 feet (15km), and the aircraft played a key part in policing UK airspace for two decades, frequently intercepting Soviet Air Force bombers. Vulcan B2 The unique delta-wing Avro Vulcan was the second of the RAF’s V-bombers designed to carry a nuclear bomb. It first entered RAF service in 1957, with the more powerful Mk2 following three years later, and eventually equipped nine squadrons. The force formed part of the UK’s independent nuclear deterrent until 1969, when the role was passed to the Royal Navy’s Polaris submarine fleet. Two squadrons served in Cyprus and were assigned to the Central Treaty Organisation. As a conventional bomber, the Vulcan carried up to 21 1,000lb (450kg) bombs. The aircraft’s only operational missions took place during the Falklands War in May 1982, when the Black Buck raids were made against the airfield and radars at Stanley. Typhoon FGR4 The RAF’s latest combat aircraft, the extremely agile single-seat, twin-engine Typhoon first entered squadron service in March 2007 and assumed responsibility for the UK Quick Reaction Alert in June 2007. It was initially operated in the air defence role, but the latest version, the FGR4, has a multi-role capability and has been deployed to the Middle East for operations over Libya, Iraq and Syria. The aircraft’s sophisticated electronics and suite of precision-guided weapons enables it to pinpoint targets with great accuracy. Typhoon squadrons continue to police UK airspace and in recent years have been deployed to Eastern Europe and the Baltic for NATO air defence operations. Nimrod MR2 The Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR2 was modified from the de Havilland Comet 4 airliner. The longrange maritime patrol and anti-submarine Nimrod entered RAF service in 1969. Powered by four Rolls-Royce Spey engines, it had a cavernous bomb bay that could hold a variety of weapons and sensors. With its long range, it could operate well north of Iceland and to mid-Atlantic, and at an even longer range with air-to-air refuelling. Its crew of ten or so had a wide array of sophisticated sensors to track submarines and surface ships. Three aircraft were equipped with special electronic equipment for intelligence-gathering missions. Nimrods played a crucial role in recent conflicts in the Falklands, Iraq and Afghanistan. The MR2 was withdrawn from service in 2010. Stamp News - 31
Looking at New Zealand
Health Stamps, 1931 In 1930, a new Health Stamp design featuring a ‘Smiling Boy’ was prepared but due to shortage of time that design was held over to 1931 and the 1929 design was used again in 1930. The new ‘Smiling Boy’ design was by L C Mitchell. The boy is pictured on a background of lake and mountain New Zealand scenery with two large tree ferns prominent and the stars of the Southern Cross appearing in the border details. The word ‘Health’ is used for the first time and features prominently although ‘charity’ appears in the surcharge value tablet. All later issues used the word ‘Health’. ‘Charity’ was never used again. When expecting that the new design would be used for the 1930 issue, tenders were called from engraving firms for a die and a plate of the 1d + 1d stamp. The winning tender at that time was from Perkins, Bacon & Co and a tender was also received from the Royal Mint, London. The 1930 die prepared by the Royal Mint was sent to New Zealand. The Philatelic Curator at Te Papa, the National Museum of New Zealand, Pat Brownsey, has confirmed that
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this die is still in the archives there. It was used to print a die-proof in red as a souvenir of the 1982 Palmpex exhibition in Palmerston North (although my recollection is that it was publicised at that time as a proof of the Perkins Bacon die – it isn’t). See Figure 2. Recently, I purchased a die-proof taken from the Perkins Bacon 1930 die – but after the die had been defaced with a scratch across the top left corner (!).
BUY OR BID SALE APRIL 2018 BUY OR BID SALE April 2018 Buy now at the listed price or bid a lower figure. Bids will be considered close of business 30 April 2018 Bids accepted by phone, mail or email. Provided the item has not sold at the full price, bids at 70% to 80% will have a good chance of success; 60% - 69% will have a reasonable chance of success. Bids below 60% will have minimal chance of success. Bid for as many alternatives as you wish, but please put a dollar cap on your total spending, and we will allocate lots according to what is available. Orders at full price above $500 are post free within Australia. Layby welcome for orders above $500. Scans or colour photocopies of individual stamps, covers or sets are available on request. Many smaller items, including a lot that are not on this list may be found in our eBay listings. Our store name is 21st-century-auctions Postage and insurance extra, Free Within Australia above $500. We accept all cards and PayPal at no fee. Hours generally 10am – 6pm Mon – Fri, but we will often answer the phone after hours. All of our items carry our 14 day satisfaction guarantee. Accessories/Albums/Literature ALB8) SG Stamps of the World 2017, 6 huge volumes in full colour almost as new. Our own file copies as the new 2018 edition has now arrived. Selling at HALF PRICE, $312.50 ALB6) Australia 1966 – 2010. Pair of Lighthouse Luxury Red Padded Hingeless Albums, with slipcases, absolutely as new. In fact probably are never used, and still have that new smell about them! Came from a retired dealer stock, so could well be. Retail price today an astounding $1975, my very low price, under 40% of retail, save over $1225 $749. ALB5) Australia Post Black Padded 3 Ring binders as new, each with 50 Hagner or similar stocksheets, ranging from 1 to 5 strips, also as new. New cost around $110, price each only $49, 3 for $135, 5 for $195. ALB4) Lighthouse Brand new “Boga” Mint sheet files, to hold 24 sheets. Normally $44.95 each, two only available at $23.95 each. ALB2) Australia & AAT Davo Hingeless album, as new Dark Blue with Slipcase, 1913 – 1982, plus supplements and extra blank pages to 1996, new price $295, very cheap at $98 ALB3) Australia & AAT Lighthouse Blue Padded Hingeless Album, as new. 1966 – 1987 Cost $295, dirt cheap at $98 ALB1) Stanley Gibbons Old Ideal Fastbound Album with maroon cover, 6th Edition to 1913. Contains spaces for all World stamps A - Z. In good used condition. (Spine has been reinforced with cloth tape. These albums are highly sought after and sell for up to $250 at auction. Price $149 Collections and lots CMR1) West Germany mint unhinged collection 1980 – 2000 in 64 page Dark Green padded stockbook. Small amount of duplication here and there, but looks pretty much complete for the period with extras. 21 years of stamps for just $14 a year $295! CMR2) Vatican & San Marino 1942 - 1979 mint unhinged collection in near new Lighthouse Blue Padded Springback Album, cost $150 new. Is 95% complete and I counted around 80 complete sets, inc. some long definitives sets, plus numerous FDCs & Maximum cards which are not counted in the price. You can buy the whole lot for less than the new price of the album! $149 the lot. CMR3) Well used large red stockbook containing a wide range of Latin America and Carribbean issues, early to modern mainly postally used, with some mint. Good showings of Cuba, Guatemala, El Salvador, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay and others. There is duplication, heavy in places, but a goldmine for those “in the know” 2000 or so stamps at around 3c each, $59 the lot. CMR4) Large old Stockbook with mainly postally used of Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Lebanon etc. Mainly early with a few modern cto. Duplicaton in places, but a good mix. 1100 – 1200 stamps for $89 CMR5) Old Dark Blue “Century” hardbound World Illustrated album. Pretty well filled, 174 pages. Strength in Germany (noted 1951 W. G. Lubeck Church pair, mint SG 1065/66 cat. 270 pounds, partly stuck to page, but with some tlc and stamp lift could be rescued) and Great Britain, plus lots of other countries more or less represented. Not much after about 1952 here. 1000 plus for just $59
CMR6) Australia 1987 – 2002 Dealer’s used stock in Black Padded Leather Bound 64 page stockbook, cost $125 new! Well filled with several 1000’s of stamps inc. many, many top values. Superb re-seller lot, especially as we are asking less than the price of the stockbook alone, $119 the lot! CMR7) Great Britain 1940 – 1998 Used dealer stock in Blue 4 ring binder on 78 as new British Made Hagner Sheets, 5,6 & 7 strip. New cost $1.75 each = $139.50. 1000’s of stamps, many complete sets, values to Ten Pounds also noted swys wmks, graphite lined issues, etc, etc. Huge retail. Great for re-seller. Price for the lot $189 CMR8) Liechtenstein 1920 -1979 in Lighthouse Black Padded Springback Hingeless Album, as new, cost $225. Emphasis on late 1970s, most mint unhinged, with sets, sheetlets etc. Plus a few FDCs of the 1960’s and cto year sets on presentation sheets. Counted approx. 265 complete sets. Most seem to catalogue around 2 pounds per set, so about 530 pounds catalogue = $915 a current exchange rates. Selling cheaply at 30% cat. inc. the $225 album for free! $275 the lot CMR9) Africa early to modern in red 48 page stockbook. Contains just about everything African., from Egypt to the Cape crammed into this stockbook somewhat haphazardly, but arranged by country. Includes British, French, Belgian, Portuguese & Italian Colonies issues. Mostly postally used s has great postmark potential too. Around 50% pre- 1945, there are about 1500 stamps here. Will certainly repay a good sort. Yes there is duplication, sold as received from the estate of an old German dealer. Priced under 10c a stamp, $149 the lot. CMR10) 1981 Charles & Diana Royal Wedding in as new Official Looking German Made Black Multi Ring Album with slipcase as new, cost $150 plus. Contains 90 or so complete mint unhinged issues, including minisheets, plus a few fdcs. Includes a Crown size UK coin as well. Priced under $1.50 a set, this cost a fortune when originally purchased. Price $129, including the very expensive album. CMR11) Pitcairn Islands, 1995 – 1999 modern mint unhinged collection. Housed in an as new black padded 3 ring binder in Hagner pages. 17 complete sets plus 7 minisheets with a total catalogue of over 190 pounds = approx. $340. Very good value at a under a third cat. Price $110 CMR12) Germany 1923 Inflation period. Massive lot of about 4000 stamps, mostly postally used in Brown 32 page stockbook. Includes multiples, private perfins and many legible postmarks. Great lot for the specialist. Values to 20,000,000,000 Marks! Very reasonable at under 4c per stamp, price $159 CMR13) Conquest of Space. Superbly presented German Made black ring binder album and slip case in as new condition (Cost $100 plus) containing professionally described collection of mint unhinged space issues. Contains 58 complete sets & minisheets etc, inc. 5 Imperf Proofs. Very reasonable at under $2 per issue, with the album for free. Price $115 CMR14) Pablo Picasso, 100thanniv. of Birth. Superbly presented German Made black ring binder album and slip case in as new condition (Cost $100 plus) containing professionally described collection of Pablo Picasso Artworks. Contains 38 complete sets & minisheets mint unhinged, plus 1 cto, Very reasonable at under $2 per issue, with the album for free. Price $69 CMR15) “The Commonwealth Collection” Produced in a limited edition for the Commonwealth Heads of Govt. Meeting 1983, and with a foreword by HM the Queen. Superbly presented in a leatherbound dark blue padded peg-fitting album & slipcase this collection contains 58 mint unhinged Br. Commonwealth sets, plus 2 black prints. Slipcase still has the original shrink wrap! Priced at under $2 per set, this is way under half of the issue price from 35 years ago! $115 the lot. CMR16) Australian States in large brown stockbook. About 600 mostly used, with values to 5/- Map NSW. Wide range NSW with OS NSW overprints & perfins. Stamp Duties and Railway stamps to 5/-, WA OS perfins, Vic. 5/- perf OS with Melbourne No. 14 cds of 31 OC 10. Etc, etc. There is duplication, quite heavy in places but excellent potential for perf. & shade varieties, postmarks etc. Price well under $1 per stamp, $495 the lot. CF1) World Wildlife Fund 1983 – 1996 Official Collection in 5 Luxury Black Padded Binders as new with the WWF Panda Logo in White on face and spine. Comprises 60 complete mint unhinged sets and 240 first day covers. Huge original cost, evidenced by sample invoice enclosed at $26 per issue, plus the albums and slipcases at $49 each. Some of the rarer sets are also included here. Total original cost around $1745, my price just 20%, $349! CF2) World Wildlife Fund 1976 -1978 Official FDC Collection in Massive Green Rexine Covered Binder. 105 Unaddressed covers in total. Lovely lot, original cost approx. $350, my price under 20% at around 65c each, $69 the lot CF3) Paintings. Massive collection in 3 large padded Black 4 ring binders with huge stacks of around 70 - 75 Hagner pages in each and a Tan Prinz Royal 60 black Luxury Stockbook with brass corners almost as new. Original cost of these alone around $600! Then there are near to 500 complete sets plus extras & oddments mint unhinged and cto carefully organised alphabetically by country. At a conservative average $2 a set, there is easily $1000 retail here,
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BUY OR BID SALE APRIL 2018 probably a lot more. Owner moving to retirement village needs space, so letting them go for a song. Total value then must exceed $1600. Price for the lot well under half replacement value, $695 the lot! CF6) British Commonwealth fine used & cto 1930s – late 1980s in Australia Post Black Padded Binder on 46 as new Hagner pages. Noted decent ranges of Gilbert & Ellice Is., Christmas Is., Seychelles, Turks & Caicos Is., Norfolk Is., Isle of Man, Guernsey etc. Counted around 200 compete sets/minisheets plus extras including 10 or a dozen long definitive sets with value to $5. Excellent clean lot. Album & Hagner retail $100 plus, and the sets between $1.50 - $20 or more per set. Estimate the total retail here to be in excess of $600, price $249 CF16) Papua New Guinea Dealer Mint Unhinged stock 1952 – 1986 in Blue 32 pages Lighthouse stockbook. Mostly complete sets, and many odds & a few hinged not counted. 460 plus complete sets, with several long definitive sets. Quantities range from 1 to 10 or more of each. Ideal hoarder, re-seller, eBayer etc. Retail form $1 to $15 a set. Very cheap at under $1 per set, $429 the lot! CF18) USA 1996 – 2014 Collection/Accumulation in As New 64 page Red Lighthouse stockbook, cost approx. $60. Massive lot with singles, panes, sheetlets & booklets, much of this is “Forever” stamps, currently selling for 49c at the USPS. Lots of High value Airmails, inc. values to $19.99 (go figure!) This is an impossible period with stamps selling at double face plus. Magnificent clean lot, face is just above US$1390, which translates into AUD$1795 at today’s exchange rate. Retail then must be $3500 plus. Selling at under face and with a near new $60 stockbook thrown in. Price $1750 CF20) Great Britain 2014 – 2017 Mint Unhinged Collection in As New $60 Lighthouse Red 64 page stockbook. This is the impossible era to buy ANYWHERE! Looks complete for the era, inc. some Regionals and Booklets. Face value is over 425 pounds = AUD$720 + on today’s exchange rate. Retail is at least double face. So a retail of $1440 plus a $60 stockbook = $1500. My price $749 the lot. (I also have the companion albums for: 1989 – 99, 2000 – 2007 and 2008 – 2014, please enquire for price) CF24) Mass of Australia Decimal used, 1966 – 2013 in 6 Springback Binders & 9 display folders. Many 100s of complete sets here if not 1000’s and 100s of top value Commemoratives. This is an ex-dealers stock and retail must be in the $1000’s! Suit re-seller, market trader, eBayer etc. I reckon 20,000 plus stamps here. Has to be worth 2 cents each average. Weighs 8.5kg. Price $395 the lot. CF25) Australian States Collection mainly used on Leaves (No Victoria) a) New South Wales, commencing Spacefiller 1d Sydney Views, imperf Laureates to 3d x 15, registered stamp both imperf & perf. Imperf & Perf Diadems to 1/- x 24, 20/- Carrington etc. 175 stamps, price $525 e) Western Australia, with perf. Swans to 1/- x 60, then QV 2/- x 2 different shades, plus 2/6d. 63 stamps, price $249 CD1) Hong Kong, commercial Airmail covers 1995 – 2000 to Australia. Nice clean typed address lot with late British and early Chinese rule period. Some nice high values and themes like Orchids, Olympics, Shipping, Red Cross, Chinese New Year, Framas, Coffee, Trains etc. Also some nice better values to $5. 50 plus covers, great value at $149 the lot. CD2) Nauru 1916 – 1937 Mostly Mint Lightly Hinged complete per Seven Seas, on Seven Seas Hingeless Pages. Comprises KGV Definitives set of 11, Seahorses 2/6d, 5/- (unhinged off centre as usual), 10/- (Fine used) Freighters set to 10/- (Top 3 values are the better Rough Paper), plus unhinged 1935 Jubilee and 1937 Coronation. Very fresh lot. Sydney retail approx $1625. Price $1195 CD3) Nauru from 1954 complete to beginning of 2000, plus a couple of later 2000 sets Mint Unhinged in Seven Seas Dark Blue Album and Slipcase as new. Stamp retail $825 plus Album is around $375 new. Total value here of $1200 for just $675 CD4) The above 2 lots, CD2 & CD3 for $1775, a further saving of $95 CD5) Norfolk Is. 2 volume collection 1947 – 1995 with additional pages to end of 2001 housed in Seven Seas Brown Padded Hingeless Albums. Pretty well complete to 1990, decimals are mint unhinged, some of the pre-decimals are lightly hinged. Retail of the stamps is $950 plus, albums would cost albums would have cost $425 new, so a total value of $1375. Earlier album pages are a bit aged. Very good value at only $595 CD8) Victoria Barred Numerals and Post Offices Postcard Collection. Housed in 2 massive “Nostalgia” padded Tan Leather Look Albums, here we have 224 postcards, mostly of Post Offices plus 24 Covers and 97 Stamps. Each town usually has a Postcard of the Post Office, plus another postcard with a barred numeral and many with a stamp also with barred numeral. Some nice highlights inc. some scarcer inc. Nhill barred numeral on superb Art Nouveau card, a cover with 2 x 2d Imperf & a 4d beaded oval to make 8d double rate. Many real photographic cards which sell for $75 pus each on Ebay. All organised numerically. Just superb, $345 items for $11 each average, price $3795
CD13) Cocos & Christmas Is. Fine used, In red Lion Brand 64 Page stockbook. Nice ranges with duplication, 1958 – recent. Noted around 40 minisheets/sheetlets, plus strips and blocks of 4etc. with many Chinese New Year issues. Many hundreds! Price $329 CD14) Bahamas, 50 different in complete mint unhinged sets. $39 CD15) Boznia Herzegovina, 25 different in complete mint unhinged sets. $49 CD16) Channel Islands, 200 different in complete mint unhinged sets. $99 CD17) China, P.R. 100 different large in complete mint unhinged sets. $59 CD18) Costa Rica, 50 different in complete mint unhinged sets. $19 CD19) Egypt, 50 different in complete mint unhinged sets. $29 CD20) Falkland Is. 20 complete different mint unhinged sets. $90 CD21) Israel, 20 different complete mint unhinged sets. $89 CD22) Penrhyn, 50 different in complete mint unhinged sets. $69 CD23) Tristan da Cunha, 355 complete mint unhinged sets. $99 CD24) USA 1935/84 50 years of stamps complete used $90 CMO2) Australia Post Black Padded 3 Ring binders as new, each with 50 Hagner or similar stocksheets, as new. Each contains a wide array of World material, really could be anything as not checked by us. Cost of album & Hagners to buy new now would be around $110. Selling at the price of the binders and Hagners only, the stamps come free! Price $110, 3 for $315. CS1) Liechtenstein 1912 – 1928 on Minkus leaves, mint & used in excellent condition. Includes the scarce 1925 1.5Fr. Blue mint lightly hinged. 95% complete for the period, cat. a tad under £1000 = $1750 plus, price $449 CS18) World Collections in large stockbooks, A – Z, early to modern. Looks like about 1000 stamps, mainly postally used neatly organised alphabetically in each book. Each book is different but there may be some duplication from book to book. We have sold heaps of these from the same source over several years, and they represent great value for money. Roughly 5c - 6c per stamp, 1 book for $59, 3 for $169, 5 for $265 CS27) Smaller World collections & accumulations, with maybe some Australia, early to modern, wide variety but too small to list individually. Could contain anything, including albums, stockbooks, covers, schoolboy type collections, so be prepared to take the rough with the smooth. Be quick only a few of these lots available, but must clear the decks for new arrivals. 5kg lot, with 5000 World unchecked off paper, probably over 6000 stamps total for a tad over 3c per stamp, price $195 10kg lot, with 10,000 World unchecked off paper, probably 12,000 stamps total for a tad under 3c per stamp, price $349 20kg lot, with over 20,000 World unchecked off paper, around 2.5c per stamp, price $649 CS29) France. Substantial 99% complete used collection to 2001 in 3 Lighthouse Illustrated Hingeless Albums, with slipcases. Huge catalogue/resale value, persons interested in a purchase into 5 figures which could be split into several payments should contact me. Price is negotiable. CS36) Australia WWII Prisoner of War Mail. 39 items from a single correspondence 1941- 44. From Alfred Thomas White, 92568, mainly to his parents in Western Australia. 39 pieces of correspondence (letters and cards) in excellent condition, stored in a photo album by date. Initially at Stalag VIIA, the 1stitem is dated 6.9.41 and moved to Stalag VIIIB in mid. 1943. Last item is dated 6.1.44. Fascinating reading, and very rare to find an original correspondence in this condition. Price $1195 MJL1) Germany Allied Occupation. British, American and German Printings of the 1945 “M” Allied Military Occupation Stamps. Extensive and virtually complete specialised collection, immaculately presented on AMG pages with superb background info. Virtually all Mint Unhinged plus some used. A very difficult assembly . Price in Michel 2016 Specialised catalogue is 3500 Euros plus. Very reasonably priced at only 25% catalogue. $1425 MJL9) Olympics and Sports, 1924 – Modern Collection in Brown Leather-look 32 page stockbook. Includes both mint & used sets, and is a bit disorganised, but I managed to count at least 175 complete sets. Most are Olympics but there are other sports issues and some bits and pieces of other countries/topics which are not counted in the value. Has to be easily worth $1.50 a set across the board. Price $259 MJL13) QEII Coronation Jubilee 1978. Two Thick Volumes. Official Looking Heavy Embossed and Gold Blocked Dark Blue Stanley Gibbons Albums in as new condition, originally close to $400 nearly 40 years ago! Contains a wide range of sets, sheetlets, minisheets and booklets all fresh mint unhinged. Counted 220 complete issues with sets up to 14 values long. Original purchaser states his cost was over $1500 total. My realistic price is a quarter of that. $375 the lot. MJL24) Papua New Guinea mint unhinged stock 1952 – 2002 in 2 x Brown Davo 64 page stock-
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BUY OR BID SALE APRIL 2018 books. Massive lot ideal re-seller, Ebayer or hoarder! Pre-decimals are sparse, but then later sets up to 20 of each. I guestimate there would be 2500 sets total her if not more, with the average retail per set around $5. So that is around $12,500 retail. This is a real steal for someone at ONLY 20% OF RETAIL $2495 FOR THE LOT! MJL25) Papua New Guinea fine used stock 1952 – 1975 in Red Lighthouse 48 page stockbook. Noted 1952 10/- x 3, Pound Fisherman, Malaria x Imprint Blocks 4 plus 4 single sets, 10/- Rabaul with Bulolo cds, dues to 3/- x 20, Butterflies to $2 x 9, Shells to $2 x 3, Panorama to $2 x 3, Large Birds heads x 6 sets plus many, many more. Guestimate around 375 – 400 complete sets. Fine used are actually a lot harder to find than mint. Price $389 the lot. CMAP3) Cyprus. Lovely Mint Unhinged Colln./Accumulation on stockcards Queen Victoria to KGVI. Mostly Very fresh unhinged lot odd minor fault as usual with these lots. Highlights include inc. SG 75, 17 x 4, 19, 46 x 4, 22 x 4, 92 x 2, 130 x 2 and 163. Some plate No. singles, SG 60, 74, 87 plus a good number of blocks of 4, some with sheet Nos. Total SG 2017 Catalogue value, and remember prices for pre. 1937 are for hinged, which are worth at least double, is 2827.50 pounds. Nice lot for research or resale. Current AUD$4800 plus at 10/4/17. Priced at under a third $1595. CO10) Australia Post 2006 Commonwealth Games folder, containing 17 sheetlets and 5 stamps released for the Commonwealth Games. The stamps are selling fine commercially used for around $2.50 each, which gives you a vast retail of $325, and these are mint unhinged. My price for the lot of 130 plus stamps is $195 Packets and Mixtures PM59) Australian Territories on and off paper, inc. Australian Antarctic, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Is. Plus maybe some Nauru. Lovely wide ranging mixture. Price per 75g, approx. 600 – 650 stamps for just $59 PM52) South Africa plus a few Homelands off paper mix, 1940’s – 1990’s. Good mix with wide range of issues, values to 10/-, good for searching postmarks, perfs, varieties etc. About 750 stamps (50g) for $29, 1500 (100g) for $55. PM55) World Mostly Large, on single well-trimmed paper, just in from UK Charity. Super quality lot, great variety with lots of recent. $289 per kg, 500g for $149 PM56) As above, but with bigger % of small & medium, price $149 per kg, 500g for $79 PM57) World off paper, great variety, early to modern most postally used. About 15 – 20,000 per kg. Price $295 per kg, 500g for $154 PM21) Carton lots of World on paper mixture. This is a good mix with roughly 50% large. Earlies to modern, wide range of countries mostly on well-trimmed paper. We can offer 5 sizes: a) Shoebox size lot of around 500 grams $74.50 b) Double lot as above for $139 c) Envelope carton of about 2.5 kg $349 d) Printers box of about 5kg $649 e) Shipping carton of about 10kg Price $1249 SC1) Massive lot of 4300 different Scandinavia, inc. Denmark, Iceland, Norway & Sweden. $695, smaller lot of 2000 for $195 SC2) Denmark 600 diff. $33.50. Iceland 200 diff. $39, 500 diff. $185, 800 diff. $325 SC4) Norway 600 diff. $33.50, 800 diff. $85 SC5) Sweden 600 diff. $85, 1500 diff. $229 BE1) British Empire Queen Victoria 100 different $98 BE2) British Empire KEVII & KGV 100 different $79 BE3) British Empire KGVI 100 different $49 BE4) British Empire Mixed reigns, pre- QEII a) 100 different $75, b) 200 different $149, c) 300 different $225, d) 500 different $495, e) 1000 different $995 PM10) Australia recent on paper mix from a brand new charity source in Canberra . All on single paper, some is clipped, some on torn paper. I would guess around 4000 to the kg. The current mix goes to early 2016 with a smattering of foreign and a fair amount of unfranked seen. Little if any in the way of high values spotted but definitely an unpicked mixture. 40kg currently available, and with a regular source promised. Price per 500g $49, 1kg for $89, 2kg for $169, 5kg for $395, 10kg for $759, 20kg for $1449. Post free on the 10 & 20kg parcels within Australia. PM14) Great Britain Six reigns off paper mix, back in stock, really great variety with plenty of better values. You will not better this mix anywhere for the price. Approx 1000 for $49, 2500 for $115, 5000 for $219, 10,000 for $419
Great Britain 1840 1d Blacks I have more than 60 1d Blacks, the World’s 1stpostage stamp in stock ranging in price from $100 to $895. Every collector ought to have one! PB64) Great Britain 1840 1d Black, near 4 margin example. Unplated, with neat black Maltese Cross cancel. Lettered J-B. 3.75 margins, just touched at lower right corner. Minimum cat. 375 pounds, price $179 PB65) GREAT BRITAIN 1840 1d black QV, plate 2, block of 4, used, SG # 2. check letters QG, QH, RG, RH, used with indistinct Maltese Cross Cancels. Blocks of 4 of the penny black are very rare and catalogue at £25,000. This is a very nice item without creases, thins or other faults. The two left hand stamps are 3 margin, the right hand pair each have 4 large margins. Price $22,500 PB66) GREAT BRITAIN- 1840 1d black QV, plate 6, horizontal strip of 4 on cover SG # 2. Plate 6, horizontal strip of 4, check letters SF to SI on an entire wrapper. The 4d franking was for a 2oz letter, so presumably contained several pages of correspondence, most likely of a legal nature. Has a partial 22 FEB 1841 reverse cancel. The stamps are all 3 margin, close at bottom, and showing parts of 2 other stamps at top. Each cancelled by a neat black Maltese Cross, with a double cancel to the 4th stamp (contrary to regulations) A block of 4 stamps not on cover is catalogued at £25,000. Price $7750 LM146) GB 1840 Mint 1d Black, plate 6, with certificate. lettered C –K (SG Spec. AS 41) Mint with gum, 4 margins. Very attractive stamp, cat. £13,500. With David Brandon Certificate. Price $10,500 PB63) GB 1840 1d black Queen Victoria, plate 7, check letters FG, used 3 large margins cancelled with a lightly applied Red Maltese Cross. – has a small almost imperceptible thin in top margin, otherwise sound. SG Cat. # 2. Cat. £400. Price $159 PB1) GB 1840 1d Black plate 1b, lettered KH, 4 generous margins, showing part of adjoining stamp at top, and a neat Red Maltese Cross. Price $595 PB3) GB 1840 1d Black plate 5, lettered TE, 4 good margins, and a Ruby Maltese Cross which leaves profile clear. Cat. 1200 pounds. Price $665 PB4) GB 1840 1d Black plate 2, lettered KE, 4 good margins, and a neat Red Brown cleanly struck Maltese Cross. Price $595 PB5) GB 1840 1d Black plate 8, lettered BH, 4 good margins, and a lightly struck Red Maltese Cross. Price $595 PB6) GB 1840 1d Black plate 6, lettered AH , 4 decent margins, and a neat Ruby Red cleanly struck Maltese Cross clear of profile. Cat. 1200 pounds. Price $665 PB7) GB 1840 1d Black unplated example lettered AH, 4 margins, showing part of lower stamp, and a neat Ruby Red centrally struck Maltese Cross. Cat 1200 pounds. Price $665 PB8) GB 1840 1d Black unplated example, lettered BF, 3 good margins, just touching at bottom and a neat central Magenta Maltese Cross, cat. 3000 pounds. Price $895 PB10) GB 1840 1d Black plate 8, lettered JB , 4 margins, and a Red Maltese Cross clear of profile. Price a very reasonable $395 PB11) GB 1840 1d Black, SG 2 lettered H-A. Near 4 margin unplated example showing part of RH adjacent stamp. Cancelled by fine complete black Maltese Cross. Cat. £375. Price $365 PB12) GB 1840 1d Black, SG 2 lettered O-F. 4 large margin unplated example, cancelled by nice strike of red maltese cross. Cat. £375. Price $525 PB15) GB 1d 1840 Black SG2, plate 8, lettered J-G. Fault free 4 margin example with neat red maltese cross cancel. Cat. £525. Price $425 PB16) GB 1840 1d Black, SG 2 lettered R-C. Nice 4 margin unplated example, cancelled by complete light strike of red maltese cross. Cat. £525. Price $495 PB18) GB 1840 1d Black SG2. Lovely 4 margin example from plate 7 with neat Black Maltese Cross cancel. Lettered R – I Cat. £400 price $495 PB19) GB 1840 1d Black SG2. Great looking 4 margin example from plate 1 with Full centrally struck Bright Red Maltese Cross cancel. Lettered K – F Cat. £375 price $595 PB20) GB 1840 1d Black SG2. Very nice looking 4 margin example from plate 2 with Full centrally struck Deepish Red Maltese Cross cancel and huge top margin. Lettered A – J Cat. £375 great looking stamp. Neatly filled pin hole above right hand letter square. Price $395 PB21) GB 1840 1d Black SG2. Very good looking 4 margin example from plate 2 with centrally struck Red Maltese Cross cancel. Lettered R – I Cat. £375 price $525 Great Britain other issues GB131) Great Britain 1848 10d brown Embossed Queen Victoria Die 1. Horizontal strip of 3, cut square with generally good margins, plus two horizontal pairs of 1841 imperf. 2d blues,
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BUY OR BID SALE APRIL 2018 4 margin plate 3. from the top left hand row of the same sheet check letters AA-AD. Used on cover, part back is missing. Each with ‘107’ numeral cancel of Bradford, Yorkshire 1 MR 1849 to Frankfurt am Main. Has been endorsed at the top in pen (below the stamps) “via Ostend” and “Contains only Patterns.” (In German) Has a German Aus England per Aachen franco boxed cancel. The 38d (= 3s/2d) franking was the rate for an item under ¾oz in weight sent to the German States via Belgium. SG Cat. # 14 + 57 (Specialised Cat. Nos. ES11 + H2(1)) Reverse bears an unframed Bradford cds in Blue of MR 1 1849 plus a red arrival cds dated MR 2 1846! Clearly the year date slug is an error. 1849 A single 10d Embossed is cat. £3200 on cover, however the 1stand 3rd10d both appear Part Double Impression, cat. £20,000 each off cover. Attractive and rare, price $27,500 GB2) GB 1847, 1/- Pale Green Embossed. SG 54. Fine 3 good margin example, 4th just touched at the top. Cancelled by Barred Numeral 41 (2 strikes) Cat. 1000 pounds. Well priced at under 15% cat. $249 GB81) GB 1865 – 73, 4d Vermilion, plate 12 SG 94 Mint unhinged, lettered C – G / G - C. Cat. £575 for hinged. Superb fresh premium quality stamp, price $675 GB83) GB 1867 – 80, 1/- Green plate 5 fresh mint lightly hinged. SG 117, lettered G - E / E - G. Cat. £800. Well centred stamp of fine appearance, just a couple of pulled perfs at top. Price $279 GB82) GB 1872/3, 6d Pale Buff plate 12, fresh mint hinged. Some very minor toning on a couple of perfs. at top. Lettered C - R / R - C. Very rare stamp to find n such fine condition. Full perf. example. SG 123 cat. £3400, price $1895 GB9) GB 1872, 6d Pale Buff, SG 123, wmk. Spray of Rose. Plate 11, lettered B – K / K - B, cancelled by centrally struck Dublin steel cds of JU 12 73. Lovely looking stamp with full perfs. Cat. £125, price $119 GB52) GB 1873 – 80, 1/- Green Plate 13 fresh mint lightly hinged, well centred god perfs. example Lettered E – N / N – E. SG 150 cat. £650. Price $429 GB4) GB 1876 5/- Rose, Telegraphs. Maltese Cross wmk, lettered D H from Plate 1. Cancelled with cds of Dundee FE 3 80. Well centred and with good perfs. Cat 110 pounds. Nice looking stamp. Price $89 GB53) GB 1880 -83, 2.5d Blue plate 23. Mint very lightly hinged. SG 157, lettered L – H/H – L. Cat. £450. Very fresh with great colour and full perfs., centred left. Price £229 GB54) GB 1880 – 83, 3d Rose plate 21. Mint lightly hinged. SG 158 lettered K – B / B – K. Cat. £500. Fresh well centred with full perfs. Price $329 GB60) GB 1880 – 83 3d on 3d & 6d on 6d Overprints. SG 159 & 162, mint hinged, the 3d being extremely fine. Lettered A – N / N – A and D – L /L – D respectively. Both full perfs. With reasonable centring for these. Cat. £1325. Price $659 GB55) GB 1880 – 83, 4d Grey Brown plate 17, mint light hinge. SG 160, lettered J – H / H – J. Cat. £475. Fresh full perf. example, centred to lower left. Price $310 GB57) GB 1880 – 81 Halfpenny, penny and penny halfpenny SG 165/167 mint, the 1d being unhinged. Good centring and perfs., cat.£340, price $135 GB56) GB 1880 – 8, 2d Pale Rose SG 168, mint lightly hinged. Fresh full perf. example centred right. Cat. £340, price $239 GB126) GB 1882 £5 orange Queen Victoria POSTAGE, large anchor watermark, blued paper, overprinted SPECIMEN (type 9), unused – without gum, Perfect centring with full perfs. no thins, tears or bends. SG Cat. # 133s (Specialised = J128s) Cat. from £3500, price $3150 GB65) GB 1883 5/- Rose SG 180, mint hinged. Lovely example, well centred with good colour and full perfs. Cat. £1100. Price $595 GB66) GB 1883 10/- Ultramarine, SG 183, mint hinged. Lovely example, well centred with good colour and full perfs. Cat. £2250. Price $1475 GB63) GB 1884 6d Dull Green SG 194 Fresh mint lightly hinged. Lettered M – J / J – M. Good colour full perf. example centred left. Has minor gum bend not visible from face. Cat. £625, price $285 GB64) GB 64 1/- Dull Green SG 196. Fresh mint lightly hinged. Lettered J - N / N – J. Good colour full perf. example centred to top left. Small amount of paper adherence at top from album page, not visible from face. Cat. £1600, price $685 GB67) GB 1891 £1 Green Queen Victoria SG 121, mint lightly hinged. Stunning well centred full perf. example with fresh colour and gum. Once lightly hinged, this is almost impossible to find better! Some very minor gum creasing does not detract Cat. £4000 Price $3695. GB74) GB 1902 – 11 Chalky paper set of 9 to 1/-, fresh mint lightly hinged, Cat. between SG 223 – 259. Price $315 GB71) 1905 2/6d KEVII Pale Dull Purple SG261. Magnificent lightly hinged example, with fresh white gum, full perfs. and perfect centring. Cat. £350 Price $295
GB70) 1905 2/6d KEVII Dull Purple SG262. Lightly hinged example, full perfs. and perfect centring.. £350, Price $275 GB72) 1905 5/- KEVII Deep Bright Carmine SG264. Magnificent lightly hinged example, with fresh white gum, full perfs. And perfect centring. Impossible to find better! perfect centring. Impossible to find better! Cat. £450 Price $415 GB86) GB 1914 Royal Cypher set of 15, SG 351-396, fresh mint lightly hinged. Cat. £250, price $149 GB78) GB 1915 DLR Seahorses set of 3, fresh mint lightly hinged. Lovely set to 10/-, between SG 408 – 413, the 2/6d being the Seal Brown. Way above average for these. Cat. £4,375. Price $3375 GB13a) GB 1915 5/- Pale Rose Seahorse SG410. DLR printing, fine used cds example, well centred and with full perfs. Cat. £500. Nice looking example, and hard to find in this condition. Priced at just 30% cat. Price $249 GB79) GB 1918 Bradbury Seahorses set of 3, fresh mint lightly hinged. Lovely set to 10/-, between SG 414 – 417, the 2/6d being the Chocolate shade. Confirming dot in top margin on all three stamps. Way above average for these. Cat. £960. Price $749 GB80) GB 1918 Bradbury Seahorses set of 3, fresh mint lightly hinged. Lovely set to 10/-, between SG 414 – 417, the 2/6d being the Chocolate shade. No dot in top margin of all three stamps. Way above average for these. Cat. £960. Price $749 GB89) GB 1929 PUC set of 4, mint lightly hinged, SG 434/8. Cat. £765. The One Pound is particularly nice, once hinged with full perfs, well centred and no gum crackling. Price $859 GB90) GB 1934 Photogravure set of 11, SG 439 – 449, mint lightly hinged. Cat. £50, price $29GB91) GB 1939-48 “Square” High Values, mint unhinged. Very fine set, the 10/- Dark Blue being a top marginal example. SG 476 – 478c, cat. £425, price $415 GB11) GB 1948 Silver Wedding Pair SG493/4. Nice used pair, cat. £40, price $35 GB11A) As above, mint unhinged, price $39 GB93) GB 1955 St. Edwards Crown Wmk. Wildings set of 18, mint unhinged, SG 515/31. Nice fresh mint unhinged set cat. £160, price $139 GB96) GB 1959 Phosphor Graphite Wildings set of 8, mint unhinged. SG 599/609 cat. £100, price $76.50 Australian States CF25) Australian States Collection mainly used on Leaves (No Victoria) a) New South Wales, commencing Spacefiller 1d Sydney Views, imperf Laureates to 3d x 15, registered stamp both imperf & perf. Imperf & Perf Diadems to 1/- x 24, 20/- Carrington etc. 175 stamps, price $525 b) South Australia with Chalons Imperf, rouletted & perf x 25, Long Toms to 2/6d x 35 & OS Ovpts. x 27 etc. 142 stamps, price $425 c) Queensland with Perf. Chalons to 2/- x 23, plus large 10/- Brown Chalon postally used. 106 stamps, price $295 d) Tasmania, with Imperf Chalons to 1/- x 14, perf. x 13, Sidefaces to 5/- x 41, tablets to 2/6d, Stamp duties to 1/- Platypus. Scenes various printings inc. a complete set and 2 additional 6d values. 96 stamps, price $285 e) Western Australia, with perf. Swans to 1/- x 60, then QV 2/- x 2 different shades, plus 2/6d. 63 stamps, price $249 f) The whole collection CF25a – e as one lot, priced at $1779 for $1695 New South Wales DB102) NSW 1850 1d Reddish – Rose, no clouds, SG3. Decent looking 2 margin example, cancelled by barred numeral 63. Cat. £475 well priced at $249 NSW12) NSW 1850 2d Dull Blue Sydney view, later impression, SG17 4 large margins used. Great looking 4 margin example, but has small closed tear at lower left. Cheap buy at $98 DB99) NSW 1852 6d Van – dyke Brown SG73 with Plate Scratch. Nice 3 margin example with prominent plate scratch diagonally across Queen’s face. Cancelled by indistinct barred numeral. Very attractive specialist item. Cat. £250 as normal. Price $279 LM87) NSW 1855 small entire Sydney – Maitland NSW, bearing 2d Dark Blue Laureate, SG 54. Tied by barred cancel of Sydney the stamp has a huge margin at top coming from the top of the sheet. Left and lower margins are full, but torn away at top right. Reverse bears Sydney Circular Handstamp of JA 17 1855 and Maitland unframed Oval Handstamp of the following day. Scarce survivor. Price $110
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BUY OR BID SALE APRIL 2018 NSW5) New South Wales 1859 small cover Sydney – Auckland. Bears 4 margin 6d Grey Brown Diadem, error of watermark (8 instead of 6) SG 96a (cat. £110 off cover) Stamp has been removed and re-affixed with a hinge to easily display the wmk. Variety. Exceedingly scarce on cover. Cancelled by Sydney cds of OC 13 59, and with Auckland arrival cds on face of OC 28 1859. Neat clean cover, minor tear centre top has been neatly repaired internally with a hinge. Price $525 DB105) NSW 1890 2.5d Ultramarine Monogram block of 8 mint/mint unhinged. Rare block, with CP, GPO NSW & 1890 Monograms. Fresh mint, with only 2 stamps lightly hinged at top. Some minor staining in selvedge, and perf separation to top left hand stamp hardly detract from fine appearance. SG 265, individually stamps cat. £128 as hinged unhinged would be at least double. Price $549 APH2) New South Wales, 1908 A SUPERB condition advertising cover from Donald Ross & Co. noted seller of horse Castrator equipment - To Jas Hatrick & Co in London who also sold Surgical Veterinary equipment - This is a COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA cover, as we Federated in 1901. A HIGHLY sought after era these days. And covers from over 100 years back are scarce from here. Clear "London May 16 – 08” arrival cancel on back. Also a brilliant cover for anyone collecting HORSES and related areas. The ½d used on any foreign cover is unusual, as the 2½d stamp was issued for this purpose. These are the scarce FINAL watermark 1907 issue stamps SG 353/354 Cat “From £125 on cover” Price $179 South Australia LM92) South Australia 1862 small cover to UK, bearing 6d Slate Blue Rouletted, SG 17. Cancelled by Adelaide GPO cds of AP26 1862 and with arrival “thimble” cds of Wantage JU 16 62. Cat. Minimum £60 x 3 on cover. Bice clean cover, stamp is a little aged. Price $149 SA5) South Australia 1904 1d Scarlet SG 179a, wrong perf! Fresh mint unhinged example, perf 12 all around instead of 12 x 11.5. This perf. not recorded by SG. Price $149 SA6) South Australia 1906 2d Bright Violet Queen Victoria, ACSC 9A. Stunning fresh mint unhinged top marginal block of 4, showing double perfs. on all units. Unrecorded error, not listed in ACSC. Price $995 LM137) Album page of Reprinted Imperf., Rouletted and perforated Chalon Heads. Values 1d to 1/-, all fresh with original gum. 20 stamps. Price $495 Tasmania LM155) Tasmania 1853 4d Courier, SG 5, Bright Red Orange. Superb 4 margin example with full lightly applied Barred Numeral 59 of Launceston. Cat. £1000. Stunning example which cannot be bettered. Price $1195 T8) Tasmania 1858 1/- Vermilion Chalon head, imperf, SG 41. 3.5 margin example, correctly pen cancelled by Postmaster’s initials. Cat. . £80, price $54 T12) Tasmania 1/- Vermilion Chalon Head, Misperf Pair. SG 77b, variation. Perf 12, Pen cancelled. Has a complete horizontal row of double perfs 1/3rdup the stamp, plus vertical double perfs going to about 2/3rdup from bottom, then imperf vertically to top, which is also imperf. SIMPLY STUNNING! Imperf between pair cat. by SG as 77b at £275 for pen cancel, £3250 as normal. Price $395 T13) Tasmania 1863 – 80 10/- Orange Stamp Duty, SG F16. Fine used example with central cds of Hobart of FE 2 8? (Year unclear) Cat. £225, hard to find as nice as this. Price $195 Victoria LM13) Victoria 1854 6d Dull Orange Imperf Woodblock on cover, SG 32a. Neat small cover Melbourne to Dublin via ship Colombia. Nice 4 margin stamp affixed inverted, possibly to warn of bad news. Cancelled by barred numeral 1, and with arrival stamp MR 16 1858. Price $395 V23) Victoria 1854 1d Rose Half Length SG 23a. Superb 4 margin example of this scarce Melbourne printing, cancelled by light duplex. Expertised twice on reverse. Cat. £750, price $995 DB56) Victoria 1864 2d Violet SG 109 Imperforate! Not listed in SG, definitely big enough margins to be imperf. Nicely used with barred Numeral cancel. Imperf between vertical pair of the 1/- from this issue is Cat. at £6500. Price $495 V31) Victoria 1895 Halfpenny Yellow/Orange wrapper used to London. Cancelled by Duplex 327 Tarnagulla JE 28 95. Fine and scarce, price $69 V40) Victoria 1884 – 96 Ten Pound Lilac SG 279, cto Melbourne. Nice clean example cto Melbourne NO 20 00. Perfs a little fluffy. Cat. £250, price $285 V49) Victoria 1886 4/- red-orange STAMP DUTY, perf. 12.5, sideways V crown watermark, fine
postally used by Melbourne cds JU 10 98 without gum. Centred high with one short perf at top no thins, tears or bends. Fresh bright colour. SG Cat. #269. Price $29 V47) Victoria 1897 1d (1/-) blue + 2.5d (2/6) red-brown Diamond Jubilee / Hospital Charity Fund, cancelled to order OC 25 97 - without gum, no thins, tears or bends. SG 353/ 354. Price $225 V41) Victoria 1897 Diamond Jubilee 2/6d Red Brown Hospital Charity stamp, cto Melbourne OC 25 97, 3 days after issue. Clean stamp with gum full perfs. And expertisation mark on reverse. Price $195 V42) Victoria 1897 Diamond Jubilee 2/6d Red Brown Hospital Charity stamp, cto Melbourne AU 24 06, late usage. Clean well centred stamp without gum and full perfs. Price $210 V37) Victoria 1896 1d Brownish Orange SG 332a Double Perfs. Nice fine used example, cancelled Melbourne duplex. Complete row of double perfs at left. Price $69 V38) Victoria 1896 2d Lilac SG 334 Double Perfs. Nice fine used example, cancelled Melbourne cds of NO 5 96. Complete row of double perfs at left. Price $69 V39) Victoria 1896 2d Lilac SG 334 Double Perfs. Nice fine used example, cancelled Melbourne cds of FE 16 97. Complete row of double perfs at top, imperf at base. Price $89 V35) Victoria 1901 1d Rose SG 385 Double Perfs. Nice fine used example, cancelled Launceston Tas cds of JE 14 1902. Complete row of double perfs at right. Unusual! Price $89 V19) Victoria Stamp Duties. 1914 5/6d Pale Blue Sands & McDougall design, Barefoot No. 121. No gum example cancelled by Fountain pen 16/3/? . Wmk Crown over V upright. Scarce, price $25 V17) Victoria Revenues 1930 2/6d Orange Rouletted, with gum lightly hinged. Wmk. V over Crown. Cancelled by Fountain pen and initialled 25/8/33 A H. Fine and Scarce, not listed Barefoot or H & G. Price $45 V18) Victoria Revenues 1934 1/8d Yellow & Black Tax Instalment Rouletted stamp with gum in unhinged horizontal pair. Wmk V over Crown. Cancelled by Fountain Pen manuscript 26-1-40 and 2-2-40 respectively . Fine and scarce, price $95 Western Australia WA38) Western Australia 1855 1/- pale brown Swan, imperforate with swan watermark, fine used with light Perth No. 1 barred numeral – has tiny shallow thins in 3 corners where has been removed from display. SG Cat. # 4c, cat. £325.Cheap at $159 WA37) Western Australia 1861 - 79 1d – 1/- Early Swans groups of 5 with Commissariat punctures. Difficult to assemble. $295 the lot. WA24) Western Australia 1861 1d Rose perf 14, SG 38. Nice fine used example with light duplex cancel Cat. £65 price $49 WA26) Western Australia 1885 – 93, Halfpenny Green/Yellow Green SG98/98a. 34 examples on 2 album pages, inc. 2 Fresh Mint Blocks of 9. 1 from left hand side of sheet with Guide Cross in margin. The other is a lower left corner plate 1 block. 6 units on each are unhinged. Then used block of 4, 3 pairs and 6 singles. Mostly very fine. Price $629 WA27) Western Australia 1885 – 93, 1d Carmine, SG 95. 32 examples on 2 album pages, inc. 3 Fresh Mint Blocks of 4. 2 only are hinged on each block, plus a mint pair, 2 used blocks of 4, 3 used pairs and 4 used singles. Very fine group. Price $499 WA28) Western Australia 1885 – 93, 2d Bluish Grey/ Grey, SG 96/96a. 32 examples on 2 album pages, inc. 4 Fresh Mint Blocks of 4. 2 only are hinged on each block, plus 3 used pairs and 10 used singles. Very fine group. Price $375 WA29) Western Australia 1885 – 93, 2.5d Deep Blue/Blue, SG 97/97a. 26 examples on 2 album pages, inc. a block of 4 Fresh Mint, 2 only are hinged, plus 3 mint pairs and a single and 4 used pairs and 7 singles. Very fine group. Price $365 WA30) Western Australia 1885 – 93, 4d Chestnut, SG 98. 27 examples on 2 album pages, inc. a block of 4 Fresh Mint, 2 only are hinged, plus 2 mint pairs, 2 used pairs and 15 singles. Very fine group. Price $175 WA31) Western Australia 1885 – 93, 5d Bistre, SG 99. 31 examples on 2 album pages, inc. a Plate 1 right hand block of 4 Fresh Mint, 2 only are hinged, plus 2 other mint blocks, again each with 2 only hinged, a mint pair and 2 mint singles, a used pair and 14 singles. Very fine group. Price $559 WA32) Western Australia 1885 – 93, 6d Bright Violet, SG 100. 34 examples on 2 album pages, inc. a block of 6 and 2 blocks of 4 Fresh Mint, 2 only are hinged on each, plus a mint pair and 4 mint singles and 14 used singles. Very fine group. Price $569
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BUY OR BID SALE APRIL 2018 WA14) Western Australia 1894 small cover addressed locally to timber yard from Perth. Bears Solo Use of 2d Long Type Postal Fiscal, SG F12, cancelled by neat complete Perth Duplex of FE 21 1894. Very rare usage, the first I have ever encountered. Cat. Minimum £80 x 10 on cover, but this is so clean and neat has to be worth a premium. Priced at full catalogue and worth every penny! $1440 WA15) Western Australia 1905 undivided back Sepia Picture Postcard of Barrack Street Perth incorrectly addressed to Niagara Falls. Bears Halfpenny Green and 1d Carmine Swans, tied by cds of Town Hall Fremantle JU 30 06, and Niagara Falls arrival machine cancel, plus cds of AUG 6 1905 and similar return cds of the following day. No indication of its final resting place as it bears no sender’s address. Scarce and attractive, price $179 WA34) Western Australia 1911 real photographic postcard “Greetings from Fremantle” to St. Louis, USA. Bears Halfpenny Green and 1d Rose Pink SG 138/9. Cat £12.25 and from x 12 on cover. Neat & clean, price $175 Australia Kangaroos All of my Kangaroo stamps are accurately described and fairly priced according to condition, you may order with confidence that there are no hidden faults. K343) Australia 1913 Penny Red Kangaroo used x 36 on annotated album pages. Noted "Rostage" x 2, Coil / Booklet Stamps x 2, + varieties not listed for this value, inc. "Missing Inner Frame Top Left" and "Shading Line Over One Penny Missing". Condition generally good to fine used. Minimum Cat. $847. Price: $539 K147) Australia 1913 1stwmk Kangaroos, good/fine used set to 2/- perf. Large OS. Includes the scarce 2.5d. Price on Melbourne dealers list $798. Odd fault here but very presentable, price $395 K86) Australia 1913 1st wmk. 2d Grey Kangaroo. Nice mint unhinged example with good perfs, centred right, cat. $300, price $120 K148) Australia 1913 1st wmk. 2.5d Indigo Kangaroo. Superb lower marginal cto example with gum, perfectly centred and full perfs. Melbourne cds of DE 3 13. They honestly do not come better than this! Price $125 K192) Australia 1913 1st wmk. 2.5d Indigo Kangaroo. Very lightly hinged, fresh mint, perf. large OS. Perfectly centred and full perfs! Cat. $550. Premium stamp, best you will find. Premium quality stamp. Unashamedly asking full catalogue. Price $550. K196) Australia 1913 1st wmk. 2.5d Indigo Kangaroo. Very fine used, perf. small OS. Well centred and good perfs. Cancelled by nice Melbourne Federal Parliament cds. Cat. $350, price $249 K146) Australia 1913 1st wmk. 2.5d Indigo Kangaroo. Very fine used, perf. small OS. Well centred and with just one pulled perf at right. Cancelled by nice Warrnambool cds of 14 JA 2? Cat. $350, very well priced at $149 DB826) Australia 1913 3d Olive Kangaroo, Die I. Nice mint lightly hinged example with good perfs. Has light gum bend not visible from front. Cat. $250, price $119 K194) Australia 1913 1st wmk. 3d Yellow Olive Kangaroo. Die II, perf. Large OS Wmk. Cancelled by Queensland Stock Exchange cds, lightly socked on nose, 3- APR 14 good centring and perfs. A very fine premium quality stamp, cat. $500. Price $449 K63) Australia 1913 4d Analine Orange Kangaroo. ACSC 15B Mint Unhinged. Lovely example, fresh gum, good centring and perfs. Cat $2750. Rarely offered. Price $1650 K88) Australia 1913 4d Analine Orange Kangaroo. ACSC 15B Mint lightly hinged. Lovely fresh example, centring to top right. Rare shade. Cat $2000. Rarely offered. Price $595 K150) Australia 1913 4d Orange Analine ACSC 15B. Fine used example with Esperance Western Australia cds of 27 MAY 14, well centred with just two pulled perfs at base. Cat. $275, price $79 K123) Australia 1913 4d Orange Kangaroo. ACSC 15Awb, cto without gum. Well centred, with just a couple of shortish perfs at top. Cat. Minimum $100, price $49 K89) Australia 1913 5d Chestnut Kangaroo mint unhinged. Well centred and fresh with a few shortish perfs at base. Cat. $650, very well priced at just $189 LM12) Australia 1913 5d Chestnut Kangaroo, “Kissprint”. Nice well centred example with full perfs, fresh mint very lightly hinged. Coastline appears doubled almost all around. Cat $250 as normal. Price $495 K90) Australia 1913 1st wmk. 6d Ultramarine Kangaroo, ACSC 17A. Superb mint unhinged example with good centring and perfs. One very slightly nibbed perf at lower left. Otherwise a perfect stamp. Cat. $875, price $550 K376) Australia 1913 9d Deep Violet 1stwmk Kangaroo. Lovely example “socked on nose” with Murrumburrah NSW cds dated 4-AP-14. Reasonable centring and perfs. Scarcer shade, ACSC 24C
cat $100. Well priced at $39 DB777) Australia 1913 2/- Brown Kangaroo 1st wmk SG 12. Nice used example with corner cds. Good perfs centred a little to lower left. ACSC 35A Cat $250. Keenly priced at $119 K122) Australia 1913 2/- Brown Kangaroo 1st wmk SG 12. Nice good used example with 2 partial cds cancels. Few ragged perfs to top, centred a little to left. ACSC 35A Cat $250. Keenly priced at $74 K197) Australia 1913 2/- Brown Kangaroo 1st wmk SG 12. Perf. sml. OS. Nice fine used example with light partial cds cancels. Well centred and good perfs. Cat $400. Priced well at $195 K346) Australia 1913 5/- grey/chrome Kangaroo, 1st watermark, cancelled to order 3 De 13– without gum, full perfs. no thins, tears or bends. BW(ACSC) Cat. # 42Awb. Cat. $300, price $249 K347) Australia 1913 5/- grey/yellow Kangaroo, 1st watermark, fine postally used . Cancelled by cds of Albany W.A. JA 7 year not visible – centred a little high, with good perfs. no thins, tears or bends. BW(ACSC) Cat. # 42B. SG Cat. # 13. Very rare postal use, at least 20 x scarcer than cto. Price $395 K198) Australia 1915 9d Violet 2nd wmk. Kangaroo perf OS, ACSC 25ba. Extra fine used example with Melbourne Public Offices cds of JE 1 16. Well centred, with good perfs. Cat. $350, price $249 K372) Australia 1/- Bright Blue Green Kangaroo, 2ndwmk, Socked on Nose. Nice scarcer shade, socked on nose by Spencer St. Melbourne cds of 19AU15. Well centred with good perfs. Cat. $150, price $110 K204) Australia 1915 1/- Green Kangaroo 2ndwmk. Perf. OS. Good/fine used with 2 partial cds’s of Perth. Well centred, some short perfs at base. Has skipped perf at lower left. ACSC 31Aba, cat. $475, well priced at $89. K137) Australia 1915 2/- Light Brown 2nd wmk. Kangaroo, ACSC 36ba. Nice good used example with lightish parcel cancel. Well centred, with one short perf at left, otherwise good. Cat. $400, priced to sell at $98 K205) Australia 1915 2/- Light Brown 2nd wmk. Kangaroo, perf. OS. ACSC 36Aba. Nice fine used example with light central cds cancel. Well centred with good perfs. Cat. $400, priced very well at $195 K140) Australia 1915 5/- Deep Grey & Chrome 2nd wmk. Kangaroo, ACSC43Bb. Nice used example with partial Melbourne circular cancels. Centred, left with better than average perfs. for this issue Cat. $875 minimum for this better shade. local retail for the cheaper shade $300 this one $245 K92) Australia 1918 2d Grey 3rdwmk. Kangaroo Die IIA, mint unhinged, small amount of gum disturbance at top otherwise fresh. Nice centring with good perfs. Cat. $225, price $65 K93) Australia 1915 3d Yellow Olive Kangaroo Die II, mint unhinged, full perf example, centred left, minor overall gum toning. Cat. $1000, missing from most dealers’ lists. Cheap price $225. K373) Australia 1915 3d Deep Olive, Die II 3rdwmk. Kangaroo. Lovely “socked on nose” example with Registered cds of 27JY21 (Ballimore NSW?) Well centred and with good perfs. Cat. $250, price $175 K141) Australia 1915 6d Milky Greyish Blue Kangaroo, 3rdwmk. ACSC 19G Harrison Printing. Fine used with Condobolin NSW cds of SP 21 19. Well centred and with good perfs, this stamp shows the undocumented variety “Broken/Missing ears” very striking! The bite out of leg of this issue catalogues $2250, and sells for around $1500. Price $995 DB796) Australia 1918 6d Pale Greyish Violet Dull Blue Kangaroo Subs. Cliché. 3rdwmk SG 38ba (shade) , ACSC 19Gja, Nicely centred and with good perfs and 2 x partial Sydney cds cancels. cat $3750. Hard stamp to find, price $1950 K94) Australia 1923 6d Chestnut Kangaroo 3rd wmk, ACSC 21A. Nice mint unhinged example well centred and with good perfs. Has skipped perfs. at top creating a larger than usual stamp. Cat. $250, priced at just a half catalogue. $125 K149) Australia 1923 6d Chestnut Kangaroo 3rd wmk, ACSC 21Aba. Superb mint unhinged block of 4, perf OS. Extremely well centred and with perfect perfs. Post Office fresh Gum. Impossible to better! Cat. $600 as singles, block are rare, particularly as nice as this. Price $575 K200) ) Australia 1916 9d Violet Kangaroo, 3rd wmk Inverted Die II. Cooke Printing. Nicely centred full perf example, cancelled by partial Bowen, Qld. Cds. ACSC 26Aa, Cat. $325, price $239 K201) Australia 1918 9d Violet Kangaroo, 3rd wmk Inverted Die IIb. Harrison Printing. Nicely centred mostly good perf example, cancelled Armadale NSW cds. ACSC 27Aa, Cat. $275, price $195 K54) Australia 1918 9d Violet Kangaroo, 3rdwmk Die IIb. Nice mint lightly hinged example with perfect perfs, centred a tad high. Has light overall gum toning and one toned perf. at left, not visible from front. Cat. $125, cheap at $37.50 K132) Australia 1918 9d Deep Violet Kangaroo, ACSC 26Ca 3rd wmk Die II, Inverted. Nice fine used example, well centred, with a few ragged perfs. Cancelled by circular Brisbane Registered handstamp. Cat. Indication for this scarce shade $2000, price $995.
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BUY OR BID SALE APRIL 2018 K371) Australia 1916 1/- Grey Green Kangaroo 3rdwmk fine cds used. Centred low, with light cds cancel to upper right and with good perfs. Nice example of this scarcer shade, listed as ACSC 32G. Cat. $125. Priced at 30% $37.50 K142) Australia 1918 1/- Blue Green Kangaroo, 3rd wmk Die IIb. Vfu example with Sideways Wmk. Well Centred with full perfs., neat corner cancel. Does not appear to be cto. Cat. $500, Priced well at $345 K367) Australia 1916 2/- Greyish Brown Kangaroo, 3rdwmk. Perf OS. Scarce shade, listed as ACSC 37Hba. Indicative cat. $700. The normal OS used being $125, 3.5 times the used regular stamp, and the shade cat. at $200. This stamp is well centred with mostly good perfs, a couple at base are nibbed. Cancelled by 2 x Melbourne slightly heavier cds cancels. A nice stamp for the shades collector. Well Priced at 30%, $210 K202) Australia 1916 2/- 3rdwmk. Inverted Brown Kangaroo, ACSC 37Aa, Cooke Printing. Well centred good perf example cancelled by cds of 9 JA 1917. Cat. $1500, very well priced at a half, $750 K95) Australia 1924 2/- Maroon Kangaroo 3rdwmk. Nicely centred full perf. mint hinged example, cat. $300. Well priced at under as half. $149 DB325) Australia 1918 10/- Grey & Deep Analine Pink “Kissprint”. Harrison printing mint with light hinge, nice fresh gum. Has prominent “Kissprint” of frame clearly visible on map, at top, to right of Kangaroo and clear doubling of shading to left of Kangaroo’s head. Centred to the lower right, and with some short perfs at base. This is believed unique, and is only recorded in ACSC as Perf. OS used. (ACSC 48Bc) at $3000. I did sell a mint OS example through auction as couple of years ago in Melbourne for $3750 plus buyers’ premium. This example has been submitted to the ACSC for future listing. Price $3950 LM66) AUSTRALIA 1919 Kangaroo £1 Light Brown (Bistre) & pale blue. 3rd pale blue. Fine used well centred and full perf. example with full “socked on nose” Adelaide 12 JA 23 cds. SG 44b cat £1800. ACSC 52D cat $2500. Price $2475 K345) Australia 1923 6d chestnut Kangaroo, 3rd watermark, top marginal block of 4 with the variety 'broken leg on Kangaroo' [position = 3L6], used – there is perf. separation in the middle of the block, no thins, tears or bends. BW(ACSC) Cat. # 21A(3)d. SG Cat. # 73a. Cancelled by cds of Newcombe (current spelling Newcomb) Vic. 17 JY 25 Cat. $200 as a single used stamp. Very rare commercial usage. Price $375 LM153) Australia 1924 3rdwmk £1 Grey Kangaroo SG 75 cto with gum unhinged. BW 53w, cat $750, unhinged though is very scarce, price $895 LM152) Australia 1924 3rd wmk £1 Grey Kangaroo SG 75S, ovpt. Specimen Type C2. Early state of shaved P. Fresh mint unhinged well centred and with full gum. BW 53xf not catalogued as unhinged, but using the same formula as the normal type C should be $2275. Price $1495 LM15) Australia 1929 Sml. Multi. Wmk., 6d Chestnut “Kissprint “of left frame MUH. Super Post Office Fresh left marginal example, well centred and full perfs. Unrecorded variety. Price $249 DB499) Australia 1929 Small Multiple Wmk. 5/- Greyish- Black & Yellow Orange Kangaroo. Perf OS ACSC 45Bba. Lovely commercially used example. Good strong colour with good perfs. and well centred. Cancelled by partial Perth cds. Postally used examples are much scarcer than cto. Cat. $250, price $185 K296) Australia 1929 Grey & Yellow Orange small multi wmk. Kangaroo. Perf. OS. cto with gum, perfect perfs. Centring to top right. Cat. $250, price $139 K379) Australia 1929 5/- & 10/- Kangaroos smw, used. Good average used pair with no major faults. 5/- is well centred, cds cancel with good colour and perfs, just a couple at lower left are nibbed. 10/- centred lower left with good colour & perfs. Slightly heavier cds cancel to left of stamp. Good for those collectors not wanting to pay a fortune. Cat. $975, priced very reasonably at around 30% cat. $295 K2) Australia 1929 Small Multiple Wmk. 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo, fine used dated Melbourne cds 4NO31, and with variety “Very short Spencer’s Gulf” ACSC49 (D) f, cat $1100, price $695 K37) Australia 1929 Small Multiple Wmk. 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo, mint unhinged. Centred lower left and has a couple of nibbed perfs. Facially quite attractive, but gum is toned. Cat $3000, price just $695 K74) As above but Perf through side margin, couple of minor tone spots, price $39 K36) Australia 1932 5/- C of A Wmk. Grey & Yellow - Orange Kangaroo, Mint Unhinged. Lovely well centred, full perf example, Cat. $1500. Some minor gum skips do not detract. Price $749 K349) Australia 1932 10/- grey/rose-crimson Kangaroo, CofA watermark, very fine used – Centred a little left with good perfs, no thins, tears or bends. Small part lower right corner lightly applied registered oval date stamp. SG Cat. # 136. ACSC Cat. #50B. As nice as they come! Price $249 K300) Australia 1934 Two Pound Black & Rose Crimson Specimen Overprint type D, C of A wmk.
Kangaroo ACSC 58Ax, mint lightly hinged, centred to lower left, with good perfs. Price $119 K377) Australia 1932-4 C of A wmk High Value Specimens type D Kangaroos. 10/- - Two Pounds, superb fresh mint unhinged. Way better than average for these with full perfs. and better than average centring. Cat. $485, price $375 K378) Australia 1932 10/- Grey & Pink C of A wmk Kangaroo Specimen Type D Block of 4. Superb fresh mint unhinged block of 4. 1stwe have owned, these are RARE! Cat. $1250 for hinged, not priced unhinged. Indicative cat. price for unhinged would be $1950 plus based on the difference in price for the single stamp hinged versus unhinged. A superb piece, price $1450 K348) K300) Australia 1934 Two Pound Black & Rose Crimson Specimen with variety type D. C of A wmk. Kangaroo ACSC 58Ax(V)i, mint unhinged, with variety “Notch in Kangaroo’s snout” nicely centred, one nibbed perf at base. Normal cat. $7500 for hinged, which would be $22,500 for unhinged! As a Specimen it would actually be scarcer than the normal stamp. Price $345 LM150) Australia 1935 £1 Grey C of A wmk Kangaroo, SG 137S, BW 54x. Vertical pair Mint Unhinged, ovpt. Specimen type D. Multiples are rare and a block of 4 is cat. $1500 for hinged. This pair is very fresh unhinged, with full perfs. and well centred. Using the formula for a mint unhinged single the block of 4 should cat. at $2250 for unhinged. As a pair it is worth approx. 40% of the block price = $900. Price $765…the same price that the late Simon Dunkerley paid me for a similar pair in 2005. LM148) Australia 1934 £2 Grey – Black and Rose Crimson C of A wmk, SG 138S. Mint unhinged with variety “Collar on Roo” BW 58Vr. Nice mint unhinged full perf example, centred left. The normal stamp in mint unhinged cat. $15000, and with this variety an extra 50% = $22,500. The Specimen Mint unhinged is $225, and logically the variety adds 50% to around $350. Cheap buy at $315 Australia KGV Heads Breaking superb KGV Collection, starting here with the 1d Red Shades, mainly mint with certificate GG2) Australia 1917 1d Orange Red Mint Unhinged. ACSC 71P (G24.5) Fresh Well centred with good perfs, a little fluffy as usual. Supplied with Drury 2014 Certificate. Cat. $600, price $449 GG4) Australia 1918 1d Rosine Mint Lightly Unhinged. ACSC 72 l (G68) Fresh centred to right with good perfs. Supplied with Drury 2015 Certificate. Cat. $700, price $525 GG5) Australia 1918 1d Plum Mint Unhinged, perf. OS. ACSC 72Lbb (G71) Fresh, centred left with full perfs. Supplied with Drury 2015 Certificate. Cat. $4125, price $2995 GG6) Australia 1918 1d Rosine Mint Unhinged, perf. OS. ACSC 72ibb (G68) Fresh, centred lower left with full perfs. Supplied with Starling 2014 Certificate. Cat. $875, price $649 GG7) Australia 1918 1d Carmine Pink, Cooke Printing LMWM. Mint Unhinged. ACSC 73A (G101) Fresh, centred left with full perfs. Supplied with Drury 2015 Certificate. Cat. $1250, price $925 GS1) Australia 1914 1d Bright Red (Analine) Die II KGV, MLH. Fresh well centred full perf example, ACSC 71B(1)i. (G11) Very scarce shade supplied with 2 certificates, Brandon 1991 & Starling 2013. Cat. $1250, price $995 GS5) Australia 1914 1d Carmine Rose Die II KGV, Post Office Fresh Mint Unhinged! Centred right, couple of nibbed perfs. ACSC 71V(1)i. (G30) Supplied with Starling 2013 Certificate Cat. $750 hinged, x 3 for Mint Unhinged = $2250, price $1795 GS16) Australia 1917 1d Rose Red Rough Paper KGV. Fresh mint very lightly hinged, nicely centred with full perfs. ACSC 72E (G64) Cat. $600, very hard stamp, Supplied with Drury 2005 Certificate. Price $475 GS23) Australia 1917 1d Orange Red KGV. Post Office fresh Mint Unhinged. Nice full perf example, centred left. ACSC71P, (G24.5) Cat. $600. Supplied with Drury 2004 certificate. Price $475 GS24) Australia 1917 1d Pale Terra Cotta (Brick) KGV Perf. OS. Superb Post Office Fresh mint unhinged example. Full even perfs, centred slightly right. ASCS 71Q (G25) Cat. $800 for hinged, unhinged at least double = $1600. Supplied with Drury 2004 certificate. price $1275 GS25) Australia 1918 1d Pink KGV. Post Office fresh Mint Unhinged. Nice full perf example, centred right. ACSC71T, (G28) Cat. $600. Supplied with Starling 2013 certificate. Rare shade, price $475 G229) Australia 1918 1d Pink KGV, very fine used. Socked on nose with Dandenong Vic. Unframed cds of JL 10 15. Nice well centred example . ACSC71T, (G28) Cat. $75. Rare shade, price $56 GS26) Australia 1918 1d Lilac Pink KGV. Mint Unhinged. Nice full perf example, well centred. Has a couple of tiny natural inclusion and toning to one perf not visible from front. ACSC71T, (G28) Cat. $600. Supplied with Drury 2014 certificate, top selvedge removed. Nice shade, price $449 GS17) Australia 1918 1d Rose Pink Rough Paper KGV. Post Office Fresh mint unhinged, nicely centred with full perfs. ACSC 72H (G67) Cat. $1500, very rare stamp, Supplied with Drury and
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BUY OR BID SALE APRIL 2018 Bozic 2011 Certificates. Price $1195 G232) Australia 1918 1d Rose Pink Rough Paper KGV perf OS. Fine used example centred right with good perfs. Cancelled by Melbourne Ship Mail Room cds of 22MY20. ACSC 72H (G67) Cat. $250, rarer shade, price $149 GS18) Australia 1918 1d Rosine Rough Paper KGV. Post Office Fresh mint hinged, centred left with full perfs. ACSC 72 l (G68) Cat. $700, scarce shade. Price $550 GS19) Australia 1918 1d Rosine Rough Paper KGV. Perf OS. Mint unhinged. Nice centring with full perfs. ACSC 72 lbb (G68) Cat. $350 as hinged. Price $495 GS20) Australia 1918 1d Damson Rough Paper KGV. Mint lightly hinged. Centred right with full perfs. ACSC 72K (G70.5) Cat. $900. Supplied with Drury 2010 Certificate. Price $725 GS8) Australia 1916 – 18 1d Carmine Rose Die II Rough Paper KGV mint lightly hinged, well centred & full perfs. ACSC 72Q(1)i (G74) Supplied with Starling 2013 Certificate. Cat. $750, price $595 GS10) Australia 1918 1d Maroon Rough Paper KGV. Mint hinged, perfect centring, and good perfs. ACSC 72R(G77) Supplied with 2005 Drury Certificate. Cat. $750, price $595 GS11) Australia 1918 1d Carmine Pink Large Multi Wmk, Cooke printing KGV. Fresh mint lightly hinged. Perfectly centred, with full perfs. ACSC 73A (G101) Supplied with 2004 Drury Certificate. Cat. $500, premium quality stamp, price $395 G210) Australia 1916 4d Lime Yellow and Lemon Yellow, one of each fine used dated examples. Lime Yellow is cancelled by cds of North Melbourne MY 24 16. Lemon Yellow is cancelled by cds of Bairnsdale Vic. of OC 7 16. ACSC 110d & 110c respectively. Cat. $635, price $475 G200) Australia 1916 4d Lemon Yellow fine used dated example. Nice cds used example cancelled Kelso W.A. 10NO16. ACSC 110c, cat. $35, price $29 G127) Australia 1915 4d Orange KGV, perf OS Mint Lightly Hinged. Well centred example with just a couple of nibbed perfs at right, cat $250, price $125 G136) Australia 1915 4d Yellow Orange Analine KGV, Inverted wmk. Mint left mint marginal block of 6, 5 are unhinged. Also with blind perf at top between stamps 1 & 2. Gum with even light toning. Cat. $950 plus as cheapest shade, price $575 G2) Australia 1918 5d Chestnut KGV Single wmk. Inverted. Mint light hinge, with good perfs. Gum is toned and with a couple of minor gum thins. Nevertheless a scarce stamp. ACSC 123a cat. $1000. Cheaply priced at $295 DB491) Australia 1920 1/4d Turquoise KGV Single wmk. Mint unhinged Block of 4 perf OS, with variety “Thick 1 at right” and grossly misperfed showing parts of additional stamps at right. Cat $1500. Lovely fresh condition. Supplied with certificate. Price $1150 G19) Australia 1920 1/4d Turquoise KGV Single wmk. Mint unhinged, centred lower right. Fresh full perf example, advertised retail $650, my price just $295 G21) Australia 1926 1.5d Pale Red Slurred Print on Translucent Paper. Small Multi. Wmk perf 14 KGV Head, ACSC 91Daac. Mint unhinged example. Has full perfs. Centred right. A very fine example of both varieties on the one stamp. Price $149 G133) Australia 1926 1.5d Rose Red on translucent paper. Plate 1a top right block of 4, with plate dot. Fresh Mint unhinged, with some gum disturbance to lower right unit. Centred to left. Rare! Cat. $1000 as hinged on normal paper. Translucent paper ought to be 5 x that. ACSC 91aa (1a) z. Price $2495 G73) Australia 1926 3d Blue Die 1a KGV Single wmk. ACSC 105C in mint lower left block of 4, 3 unhinged. All with spectacular Dry Ink and with blind perf between each pair at the same point. Cat. $250 each mint unhinged, $200 hinged. Price $765 G70) Australia 1927 3d Dull Blue KGV smw. Perf. 13.5 x 12.5 die 1a. Mint unhinged gutter block of 4, 2 x vertical pairs of type A & B. ACSC 107c, cat. $1150 as two pairs. Very scarce, price $725 G14) Australia 1927 4d Olive KGV Sml. Multi. Wmk perf. 14, SG 91 fresh mint unhinged. Centred left with good perfs. Advertised retail $300, price only $149 G9) Australia 1927 5d Brown KGV Sml. Multi. Wmk perf. 13.5 x 12.5, SG 103a, mint unhinged. Centred to upper right, with good perfs. Fresh gum with very light overall toning. Advertised retail $110, price $54. G5) Australia 1932 1/4d Turquoise KGV, C of A wmk. Mint unhinged. Full perf. fresh gum example centred left. Small crease at top left corner. Advertised retail $400, price for this one just $129 Australia Pre- Decimal issues DB774) Australia 1928 3d Blue Engraved Kookaburra, reprint of the Imperf Minisheet ACSC 133MSb. Cat. $350,000. On thin card, un-numbered. Price $29
BD438) Australia 1931 1/- Large Lyrebird, mint unhinged. Nice example with full perfs gum a little toned, price $49 LM11) Australia 1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge 5/- Green, SG 143 Mint Unhinged. Well centred and with full perfs, price on these is tightening now, and the SG catalogue price has risen again. Most dealers are now quoting around $1450 to $1500. Price $1350,now reduced to $1250 APD67) Australia 1935 Silver Jubilee 2/- ANALINE VIOLET FINE USED. ACSC 168B, this scarce shade is very hard to find. Cancelled by cds of 10 AU 35. Centred a little left with full perfs. This is only the 2ndof these I have handled in over 50 years! Cat. $325, price $239 APD65) Australia 1941 3d Brown KGVI fine cds used, with large paper crease at right causing a 1mm vertical void down the whole stamp in the printing at right. Rare to see such paper creases in this period. Price $175 APD66) Australia 1951 3d Dark Green KGVI Sideface, Massive misperf! Used example with part slogan cancel. Misperfed to lower left and showing large part adjoining stamp to the right. Not previously recorded. The No wmk 4d Kookaburra (ACSC199) was discovered about 10 years ago with a similar misperf in a half sheet, which I handled at the time and sold for $75 each to another major dealer . These are now catalogued at $150. This is way scarcer, and may be unique. Price $295 DC71) Australia 1962 Commonwealth Games 5d SG 346 mint unhinged block of 4 with major colour shift of green downwards into margin. Affects all 4 stamps. Normal supplied for comparison Ex. Simon Dunkerley. Rare, price $395 DC72) Australia 1962 Commonwealth Games 5d SG 346 mint unhinged block of 4 with major colour shift of red upwards affecting all stamps. Ex. Simon Dunkerley. Rare, price $295 APD28) Australia 1963/64 Navigators set of 8, 4/- - £2, inc. White papers. Very fine used set all with neat cds cancels. Melbourne retail $165, my price $129 Australia Decimals DC69) Australia 1970 Royal Visit 5c right hand marginal horizontal pair mint unhinged. Right unit shows striking upwards colour shift of black into top margin. Scarce, ex Simon Dunkerley, price $69 AD58) Australia 1970 Cook Minisheet Overprinted ANPEX, together with normal mint unhinged. Regular price $34.95, now under a half, $15.95 (4 available) AD59) Australia 1970 Cook minisheet Mint unhinged. Regular price $9.95, now under a half, $4.95 (4 available) AD60) Australia 1971 Christmas Block of 25, mint unhinged. Cream paper, $49 ML475) As above, cto on day of issue…scarcer than mint, $59 ML474) As above, but White paper cto on day of issue…very scarce, price $89 ML474a) The 2 lots above both white and cream papers for $139 DC75) Australia 1975 18c Wildflower SG 608 mint unhinged block of 4 with major shift of yellow downwards into margin. Affects all units. Rare, ex. Simon Dunkerley. Price $395 DC74) Australia 1975 45c Flower SG 609 mint unhinged left marginal block of 4. Shows vertical green rippling water effect across all stamps. Rare, ex Simon Dunkerley. Price $395 DC73) Australia 1977 30c Performing Arts SG 642 mint unhinged block of 4. Shows striking colour shift of Black to the left, affecting all units. Ex. Simon Dunkerley. Rare, price $395 ML484) Australia 2001 ANDA Gold Overprint on Wild babies minisheets (2) Price $39 Australia First Day Covers LM86) Australia 1930 Sturt pair on small plain typewritten fdcs. Each with neat Stones Corner Qld. Cds of 2JE30. Very clean and fresh. Cat $200, Price $139 APH107) As above, on a single cover from Geelong Vic. To a local address, cds of Geelong 2 JE 30. Price $149 AFD186) Australia 1941 Surcharges set of 3 on small plain fdc to Canada. Cancelled by Sydney 4 line slogan of 10 DEC 1941 “AUSTRALIAN/PRODUCTS/ARE/EXCELLENT” And with red tape “Opened by Censor 1241” at left. Very neat and clean. Ultra-scarce to overseas destinations. Cat. $375, price $279 AFDS402) Australia 1945 Duke of Gloucester small registered official PMG’s dept. Hermes Envelope to NZ. Bears full set Gloucester plus additional 5.5d, cancelled by Melbourne Registered cds of 21MY45, and with reg’n label No. 8332 of Stamp Section GPO Melbourne. Reverse bears the following on flap: “CARELESS CHATTER CAN CAUSE CASUALTIES” Neat and attractive cover. Price $42 AFD403) Australia 1945 Duke of Gloucester small registered Medawer FDC to UK. Cancelled by
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BUY OR BID SALE APRIL 2018 GPO Sydney cds of 19FE45. Scarce and attractive, price $39 AFD187) Australia 1966 1c - $4 Decimal Definitives, (no coils) QEII Heads, Fish, Birds & Navigators complete set of 22 in blocks of 4 on 22 Wesley First Day Covers, cancelled by Cocos (Keeling) Is. cds of 14FE1966, and with neat small label to J Gower, the cover producer, except the 1c which is a neat typed address. Cat. as Australian use singles in ACSC 15 year old 2002 edition at $305. Exceedingly scarce, possibly even unique! Sets of singles on 2 or 3 covers routinely sell retail for $125 - $175. Price $895 APH111) Australia 1959 small airmail cover TANTANGARA NSW to Switzerland. Bears 2 x 8d Blue Kingsford Smith, plus 9d Platypus and 2 x 1d 1959 QEII paying the correct rate of 2/3d. Cancelled by cds of Tantangara 21 MR 59. Tantangara PO opened 7/10/1958; closed 10/3/1961. Commenced in 1958 and completed in 1960, the Tantangara Dam is located on the Murrumbidgee River, approximately 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) downstream of its confluence with Gurrangorambla Creek and is wholly within the Kosciuszko National Park. Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Kent visited the dam in 1959, during its construction. Surviving covers to overseas destinations are rare. Price $79 “Accidental” First Day Covers, Commercially Used On Day Of Issue. These Have Become Very Popular In Recent Years. Australian States Stamps & Postal History LM13) Victoria 1854 6d Dull Orange Imperf Woodblock on cover, SG 32a. Neat small cover Melbourne to Dublin via ship Colombia. Nice 4 margin stamp affixed inverted, possibly to warn of bad news. Cancelled by barred numeral 1, and with arrival stamp MR 16 1858. Price $395 BD515) Victoria 1857 small cover bearing 6d Dull Orange Woodblock 4 margin example, tied by barred Numeral 4 of SANDHURST (renamed BENDIGO) and Red cds “Paid 5 SP 1857” to Essex, UK. Fine and attractive, flap torn on opening. Price $195 ML487) Victoria 1854 1/- blue imperf, close to touching margins Fine Used SG 25. Price $49 ML489) ML489) Victoria 1854 imperf Woodblocks 2/- dull bluish green SG35, three good margins Nice Used, price $199 ML486) Victoria 1854-57 3d deep blue half length, three good margins Fine Used. Just into on 4thmargin bottom left. SG48c, price $59 ML498) Victoria 1859 Woodblock 2/- dull bluish-green perf 12, SG 82 FU. Price $40 ML497) Victoria 1861 Woodblock 6d black SG 102 FU with prominent scratch below Queen's chin, stunning variety, price $125 V58) Victoria 1905 small envelope bearing 4d Brownish Bistre ACSC V85D to Hobart. Cancelled by Yea Victoria 1905 168 Duplex of OC 19 05. Backstamps with Hobart cds of OC21 1905. Nice Commonwealth period cover, cat. in 2004 ACSC at $60. Price $48 LM92) South Australia 1862 small cover to UK, bearing 6d Slate Blue Rouletted, SG 17. Cancelled by Adelaide GPO cds of AP26 1862 and with arrival “thimble” cds of Wantage JU 16 62. Cat. Minimum £60 x 3 on cover. Bice clean cover, stamp is a little aged. Price $149 ML505) Western Australia 1893 1d Internal Revenue postal fiscal, fresh mint unhinged. Has corner and diagonal crease. Advertised retail $75, price $30 WA14) Western Australia 1894 small cover addressed locally to timber yard from Perth. Bears Solo Use of 2d Long Type Postal Fiscal, SG F12, cancelled by neat complete Perth Duplex of FE 21 1894. Very rare usage, the first I have ever encountered. Cat. Minimum £80 x 10 on cover, but this is so clean and neat has to be worth a premium. Priced at full catalogue and worth every penny! $1440 WA15) Western Australia 1905 undivided back Sepia Picture Postcard of Barrack Street Perth incorrectly addressed to Niagara Falls. Bears Halfpenny Green and 1d Carmine Swans, tied by cds of Town Hall Fremantle JU 30 06, and Niagara Falls arrival machine cancel, plus cds of AUG 6 1905 and similar return cds of the following day. No indication of its final resting place as it bears no sender’s address. Scarce and attractive, price $179 APH2) New South Wales, 1908 A SUPERB condition advertising cover from Donald Ross & Co. noted seller of horse Castrator equipment - To Jas Hatrick & Co in London who also sold Surgical Veterinary equipment - This is a COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA cover, as we Federated in 1901. A HIGHLY sought after era these days. And covers from over 100 years back are scarce from here. Clear "London May 16 – 08” arrival cancel on back. Also a brilliant cover for anyone collecting HORSES and related areas. The ½d used on any foreign cover is unusual, as the 2½d stamp was issued for this purpose. These are the scarce FINAL watermark 1907 issue stamps SG 353/354 Cat “From £125 on cover” Price $179
Australia Postal History LM123) Australia 1915 Prisoner of War mail. Small envelope addressed to Red Cross Geneva Bearing 1d Red KGV, SG 21 tied by Melbourne cds of 23 MR 15 and with Red Censor tape at top and left. Underpaid by 1.5d and with Hexagonal T10c on face. Has arrival datestamp of Geneva on reverse of 27 IV 15. Scarce item in great condition, price $355 APH151) Australia 1915 small cover to Paris, France NOT CENSORED. Bears 2.5d 1stwmk Indigo Kangaroo cancelled by cds of Mosman NSW 6AU15. Quite late use for this, the 2ndwmk. being issued in July 1915. Clean attractive cover cat. $150, price $110 LM124) Australia 1915 Prisoner of War Mail small envelope to Red Cross Geneva. Bears SG20 halfpenny green & 2 x SG 21 1d Red KGV in differing shades. All tied by cds cancels of Maryborough Vic. Of 25 SE 15 and with Red London WC Official Paid cds of 3 NO 15. Also oval double ring “PRISONERS OF WAR INFORMATION BUREAU” cachet with KGV Crown at centre in black. Also Opened by Censor label in red at left and London WC NO 2 15 arrival machine cancel on reverse. Very clean and attractive. Price $345 APH152) Australia 1916 small cover to Film Co. Los Angeles, USA. Bears 2.5d Indigo 2ndwmk Kangaroo, cancelled by Melbourne Ship Mail Room cds of 4MR16. Additional “Passed” (by censor) in violet. Small opening tear at op does not affect the stamp. Nice clean cover. Cat. $180, price $129 LM94) Australia 1922 small Orient Line cover bearing 2d Red KGV Single Wmk, cancelled by Paquebot machine cancel of Toulon 22 IV 22, addressed to Cambridge UK. Reverse bears the logo of “Orient Line of Royal Mail Steamships. Clean, attractive and rare! Price $110 APH112) Australia 1925 2 x 1½d red KGV Head single watermark and 3d pale dull violet blue KGV Head, single watermark, die I on a registered cover (Red Reg. label 649) from WAGGA WAGGA 12 MY 1925, cancelled unusually by Wagga Parcel Post cds. Melbourne registered cds on reverse of the following day, to Fenneberg bei Waltershausen, Germany. The cover has been opened along the flap and the 1½d stamps are slightly damaged from being too close to the edge of the envelope. The back-stamps show an interesting journey, the letter landed in the northern Italian port of Genoa (Genova)15.6.25, then continued north across country to Milan, 16.6.25 and into Switzerland via Chiasso and finally to its central German destination the next day. BW(ACSC) Cat. # 89D, 104B. Scarce and unusual. Price $85 APH106) Australia 1925 small cover to Cairo, Egypt bearing 3d Violet Blue single wmk. KGV Head. Cancelled by cds of Port Adelaide of 17 MR 25 (St. Patrick’ Day) and with arrival cds of Cairo in reverse, 13.IV.25 Remarkable delivery speed for those days! Rare destination. Neat and clean, price $129 LM136) Australia 1926 Small Registered cover, Sydney to Grenoble, France. Bears horizontal pair of 3d Blue KGV Single wmk. Die 1a type A, ACSC 105C. Cancelled by Registered Sydney cds of 17-NO-26 and has “Rats Tail R” Sydney NSW Red Reg. Label No. A (handstamp in violet) 1033. Reverse bears arrival cds of Grenoble 19 – 12- 26. Single stamp on cover cat. $180. Rare survivor in nice condition. Two insignificant tears at top mentioned only for accuracy. Correct rate of 3d Postage and 3d Registered applied. Price $215 APH115) Australia 1930 FIVE PENCE on 4½d violet KGV, small multiple watermark, perf. 13½:12½ used on a small cover from ARTARMON NSW 2 APR 1962 to Lakemba. Cancelled by Artarmon 3 liner slogan “CHECK ADDRESS/IF INCOMPLETE/ ADVISE WRITER” Has been taxed at 1d and a 1d postage due (no watermark, die II) affixed and pen cancelled. It seems that the letter was incorrectly considered as only being franked at 4½d instead of the required 5d, so was taxed at double the deficiency. The envelope has been opened slightly roughly on two sides, the stamps are sound. BW(ACSC) Cat. # 125 Late usage, but apparently commercial. Cat. $200 on cover. Rare! Price $185 LM133) Australia 1931 small Commercial Airmail Registered First Flight Cover to Holland, bearing 3d Green Airmail, 3d Blue Kingsford Smith, 1/4d Turquoise KGV sml. Multi. wmk perf 13.5 x 12.5 and 2/- Maroon Kangaroo same wmk. The 1/4d & 2/- cat. $1500 and $300 respectively on cover. All cancelled by Camberwell Vic. Cds of 21 MY 31 and with Camberwell Reg. Label No. 7051. Reverse bears the oval Violet Melbourne to Batavia Cachet, plus Melbourne reg. cds. Also of 21 MY 31 and the same of Sydney for the following day. Arrival cds of Heerenhoek, Zeeland on 6.VI.31. Correct franking for this, with 3/7d Airmail postage plus 3d Registered. First Flight AAMC cat. No. 205. Price $995 LM2) Australia 1932 small airmail cover to “British Dental Journal”. 8d Airmail rate bearing 2d Red KGV and 6d Chestnut Kangaroo sml. Multi. Wmk. Neat clean cover. Price $165 APH105) Australia 1933 small PTPO cover to London. KGV 2d red Oval PTPO cover for S. Cooke Pty. Ltd. Uprated to double airmail rate by 1/4d KGV C of A wmk & 1/6d Hermes. 1/4d is rare on cover and cat. $375 alone. Cancelled by Melbourne 2 line Slogan of 20AUG33 “Always buy Australian Products” Cover has been folded twice horizontally, but still highly desirable. Price $225 APH150) Australia 1934 1stFlightl Cover on official Royal Dutch Airways Airmail Envelope TO Hol-
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BUY OR BID SALE APRIL 2018 land. Bears 1d Green overinked KGV plus 2d Victoria Centenary perf. 11.5 cancelled by Sydney 3 line Slogan of 6 NOV 1934 “USE/AUSTRALIAN/PRODUCTS” Reverse bears Royal Dutch Airlines Oval double ring handstamp of 24-10-34. This cover is listed in AAMC as No. 444, Official Mail from the MacRobertson Air Race carried stampless on the KLM Douglas DC@ “UIVER” and then re-mailed back to Holland. Scarce survivor! Price $115 APH154) Australia 1946 small cover with surface mail use of 3.5d Blue Peace to USA Cancelled by 9 JUL 1946 Adelaide 4 line slogan “ADDRESS MAIL TO/PRIVATE BOX NO./IT EXPEDITES/DELIVERY” Price $29 APH155) Australia 1946 surface mail use of 3.5d Blue Mitchell to USA. Cancelled by Melbourne 17 DEC 1946 3 line Slogan with Star image “POST EARLY/FOR/CHRISTMAS” (Doubt this one arrived in time, in fact why were they using this slogan so late?” Price $29 APH160) Australia 1948 small Govt. Printing Office surface mail cover to USA. Bears 3.5d Blue Newcastle, cancelled by Adelaide 3 line slogan of 4MCH 1948 “SEND MONEY/BY POSTAL NOTE/ OR MONEY ORDER” Neat and attractive, price $39 APH6) Australian Antarctic Territory, 1948 small seamail registered commercial cover from MacQuarie Island to Waterloo, Iowa, USA. Bearing 3.5d Newcastle and vertical strip of 3 1d Princess Elizabeth, to make 6.5d. Cancelled by cds of MacQuarie Is.7 MR 48, and with Registered Label No. 2793. A very scarce cover indeed. Price $135 APH153) Australia 1953 small airmail cover to USA. Bears 2/- Coronation cancelled by cds of Terrey Hills NSW 30JY53 to New Jersey USA. Year Date slug is inverted! Odd error. Cat. at $30 for solo use. Price $39 APH165) Australia 1953 small airmail Triple Rate cover to City of London. Bears 2/- Coronation in vertical strip of 3 cancelled by cds of GPO Perth WA 19AU5? Cat. $30 for solo use. Scarce usage. Price $49 APH158) Australia 1953 small airmail cover to Singapore. Bear 1/0.5d Grey Blue KGVI plus 2 x 1d Princess & 3.5d Tasmania Sesqui (Paterson) to make 1/6d rate. Cancelled by scarce Adelaide 2 line slogan of 13 NOV 1953 “HELP ERADICATE T.B./USE CHRISTMAS SEALS” Price $39 APH157) Australia 1960 Airmail Greeting Card size Double rate cover to UK. Bears 1d QEII plus 2/- & 2/5d Flowers to make 4/6d rate. Each is cancelled by Toowoomba Qld cds of 6MY 60 (1d black day!) Price $39 APH163) Australia 1960 small airmail advertising cover Sydney – London. Logo and address of Goldberg Advertising on face, cover bears horiz. Pair of 1/- Green Platypus plus 3d Turquoise QEII cancelled by Sydney machine cancel of 30 SEP 1960 to make 2/3d rate. Neat and attractive with typed address. Small opening tear at top does not detract. Price $29 APH26) Australia 1960 small Airmail commercial use 5d Turquoise QEII pre-stamp envelope uprated by 1/6d Christmas Bells and COIL PAIR of 2d Green QM, SG 237a to Malvern UK. Cancelled by Woomera S.A. cds. Correctly paying the 2/3d Airmail rate. Woomera Village initially operated as a "closed town" between 1947 and 1982, when the facility supported the operations of the Woomera Rocket Range during the Anglo-Australia Project. Only Australian Government personnel (mostly Defence) and contractors to the Commonwealth are able to live at Woomera on a permanent basis. The current permanent population of the town is 136 (2015).The Woomera Range was first established in 1947 as a Department of Defence rocket testing range. Since its construction over 1947–53, Woomera Village has essentially operated under a specialised Commonwealth/Defence township management model rather than a local government (council) model. This is very late usage for the QM Coil pair, which is unpriced on cover by the ACSC, and an extremely scarce combination franking. Price $265 APH159) Australia 1961 Airmail Cover to Switzerland. Bears 2/6d Aborigine No Watermark cancelled by Sydney Machine Cancel of 2 FEB 1961. Reverse bears arrival cds of Sierre 6.II.61 (Roman 2, so Feb. Not Nov.) Attractive typewritten business size envelope. Overpays the 2/3d rate by 3d. Price $39 APH164) Australia 1965 small airmail cover to UK. Bears solo use 2/3d ICY cancelled by Salisbury SA cds of 5OC65. Very rare solo usage, cat $75, price $69 APH161) Australia 1969 untaxed small surface mail cover to Germany. Bear 3c & 5c QEII coils, overpaying 7c rate by 1c. Cancelled by Mt. Kosciusko Pictorial Handstamp of 26MAR69. Hard to find the 3c QE2 coil stamp on cover. Price $39 APH103) Australia 1970 Coloured Postcard of the Sydney – Hobart Yacht Race to Jersey Channel is. Bears 1969 7c Timber, cancelled by Manly cds of 1stJan. 1969…oops, someone forgot to change the date slug! Stamp was not issued until 17 Sept. 1969. Card has manuscript date of 1stJan 1970, just to remove all doubt. This is a very scarce stamp on cover, let alone Postcard. Covers sell up to $125 depending upon destination. This is also a very scarce destination. Lovely piece all round and has to be worth $149
APH156) Australia 1971 small airmail cover 30c Qantas to City of London. Cancelled by Ermington NSW 8 JAN 1971 4 boxed line slogan “ADDRESS MAIL TO/PRIVATE BOX NO./IT EXPEDITES/ DELIVERY” Neat typewritten cover. Price $29 Australia Inwards Mail GER1) Germany Inflation Period. Small 1923 Advertising cover, Leipzig – Melbourne Law Courts, bearing 20 x 3000 mk. Brown Michel No. 254. Cancelled by Leipzig cds of 27 8 23. Scarce survivor, price $125 GER2) Germany Inflation Period. Long censored 1923 Advertising cover, Registered FRAUENWALD – Melbourne bearing 25 x 400 mk. Brown, 5 x 7,000 mk on 400 mk Green and 1 x 15,000 mk on 400 mk Green Michel No. 250, 287 & 279 respectively. Cancelled by FRAUENWALD cds of 12.9.23 and of Frankfurt 2 days later. The addressee firm, H B Selby which specialised in the manufacture, import and supply of scientific instruments, laboratory apparatus, chemicals and industrial and process control equipment, was founded in Melbourne around 1889 by Carl de Beer and traded under the name of his brother Ernest de Beer and Company. Herbert B Silberberg joined the de Beer partnership in 1903 and, later in the same year, bought the de Beers’ shares in the business. Silberberg carried on as de Beer, Silberberg & Company for four months, after which he changed the name to H B Silberberg & Company. In 1912, with the company operating successfully in Melbourne, H B Silberberg and his family established a new business of the same name in Sydney. During the Great War, 1914-18, the German-sounding name ‘Silberberg’ became a liability. The family changed its name to Selby and by 1917 both Sydney and Melbourne businesses were trading as H B Selby & Company. Esmond Selby joined the Sydney business in 1929 and later became its Managing Director. Benn Selby joined the Melbourne business in 1936 and became its Managing Director. Although brought under the ownership of a holding company (H B Selby Australia Limited) in 1949, H B Selby & Company Pty Ltd, Melbourne and Sydney, continued to operate as distinct entities until July 1974 when they became subsidiaries of a new holding company, Selbys Scientific Limited. In 1982-83 H B Selby Australia Ltd (and subsidiaries Selbys Scientific Ltd and Analite Pty Ltd) succumbed to a triple takeover, firstly by Warburton O’Donnell, then by Comeng Holdings Ltd and, lastly, by Australian National Industries (ANI). The Selby name continued through further changes of ownership until 2002, when, as part of the Biolab Group, it was finally dropped. Very Scarce survivor, price $179 Australian Commonwealth Postal Stationery LM26) 1916 1d KGV Sideface. Australia - Postal Stationery - Letter Cards in blue, ASC # L9a, "2nd A.I.F. EMBARKING" FU Oct 1916 letter card from Flemington to Northcote. Price $245 LM29) 1922 2d red. Australia - Postal Stationery - Letter Cards, grey stock inside & out, ASC #LC18, view 'PINEAPPLES QUEENSLAND' unused, fresh. Price $190 LM28) 1943 Lettercard KGVI. Australia - Postal Stationery - Letter Cards. 2.5d red, text on front T base 'DO NOT NEGLECT. . ...', ASC #L44, unused. Price $55 LM24) 1943 Lettercard KGVI. Australia - Postal Stationery - Letter Cards. 2.5d red, text on front at base 'DO NOT NEGLECT. . ...', ASC #L44, unused. Price $55 LM36) 1949 Lettercard KGVI. Australia - Postal Stationery - Letter Cards. 2.5d red, Arms at upper left, 127mm between perforations, text on front in red panel at base 'DO NOT NEGLECT . . ...', ASC #47, small mark at lower left, unused. Price $35 LM35) 1949 Lettercard KGVI. Australia - Postal Stationery - Letter Cards. 2.5d red, Arms at upper left, 134mm between vertical perforations, text on front in red panel at base 'DO NOT NEGLECT . . ...', ASC #L47a, uprated to 3.5d postage with 1d violet QEII (some toned perforations), unused. Price $50 LM34) 1949 Lettercard KGVI. Australia - Postal Stationery - Letter Cards. 2.5d red, Arms at upper left, 127mm between perforations, text on front in red panel at base 'DO NOT NEGLECT . . ...', ASC #47, unused. Price $40 LM43) 1951 Lettercard KGVI. Australia - Postal Stationery - Letter Cards. 3.5d red, ASC #L49,unused. Price $25 LM45) 1951 Lettercard KGVI. Australia - Postal Stationery - Letter Cards. 3d red, ASC #L48, unused. Price $35 LM44) 1953 (October) Lettercard QEII. Australia - Postal Stationery - Letter Cards. 3.5d red Die I (base of neck unshaded), Arms at upper left, text on front & back in red panel at base 'DO NOT NEGLECT . . ...', ASC #L51, unused. Price $55 LM42) 1953 (October) Lettercard QEII. Australia - Postal Stationery - Letter Cards. 3.5d red Die I (base of neck unshaded), Arms at upper left, text on front & back in red panel at base 'DO NOT
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BUY OR BID SALE APRIL 2018 NEGLECT . . ...', ASC #L51, unused. Price $55 LM37) 1954 (March) Lettercard QEII. Australia - Postal Stationery - Letter Cards. 3.5d red Die I (base of neck unshaded), Arms at upper left, text on front & back no longer in red panel at base 'DO NOT NEGLECT . . ...', ASC #L52, unused. Price $35 APH55) Australia 1956 Olympics Aerogramme, ACSC A9y. Cancelled by Illustrated Olympic Exhibition handstamp, on First Day of Issue 12 NOV 1956 in Vermilion. Addressed locally to Prahran. Fine & fresh, price $33 LM23) 1956 Lettercard QEII. Australia - Postal Stationery - Letter Cards. 3.5d red Die ll (base of neck solid colour), Arms at upper left, text on front & back no longer in red panel at base 'DO NOT NEGLECT . . ...', Sender's Address & three lines added to back, ASC #L54, unused. Price $70 LM38) 1956 Lettercard QEII. Australia - Postal Stationery - Letter Cards. 3.5 red Die II (base of neck solid colour), Arms at upper left, text on front & back no longer in red panel at base 'DO NOT NEGLECT . . ...', Sender's Address & three lines added to back, ASC #L54, unused, edge wear at top. Price $40 LM39) 1957 Lettercard QEII. Australia - Postal Stationery - Letter Cards. 4d red Die I (base of neck unshaded), Price and Arms at upper left, text on front & back no longer in panel at base 'DO NOT NEGLECT . . ...', Sender's Address & three lines on reverse, ASC #L56,unused. Price $25 LM22) 1958 Lettercard QEII. Australia - Postal Stationery - Letter Cards. 4d red Die l (base of neck unshaded), Price removed, Arms at upper left, text on front & back no longer in red panel at base 'DO NOT NEGLECT . . ...', Sender's Address & and three lines on reverse, ASC #57, variety Misplaced perforations through admonition legend. Price $55 LM40) 1959 Lettercard QEII. Australia - Postal Stationery- Letter Cards. 5d-and-bars on 4d red Die I (base of neck unshaded), Price removed, Arms at upper left, text on front & back no longer in red panel at base 'DO NOT NEGLECT . . ...', Sender's Address with three lines, obliteration of the legend on reverse, ASC #L8, unused. Price $20 LM21) 1960 Lettercards QEII facing right. Australia - Postal Stationery - Letter Cards. 5d blue, yellow within, ASC #59, variety partial offset of outer cover blue legend within normal for comparison, both unused. Price $145 LM33) 1965 Lettercard QEII facing right. Australia - Postal Stationery - Letter Cards. 5d red, pale yellow within, ASC #L60a, unused, Light bend at lower right. Price $25 LM32) 1965 Lettercard QEII facing right. Australia - Postal Stationery - Letter Cards. 5d red , pale yellow within, ASC #l60a, unused. Price $35 LM20) 1966 Lettercards QEII. Australia - Postal Stationery - Letter Cards. 4c red, pale yellow within & grey within, ASC #61,61a, unused. Price $70 LM19) 1966 Lettercards QEII. Australia - Postal Stationery - Letter Cards. 4c red, both types, pale yellow within & grey within, ASC #L61,61a, unused, (A- condition). Price $55 Australian Territories Nauru/NWPI/New Guinea/Papua/PNG/BCOF LM112) BCOF 1948 unaddressed philatelic official cover with BCOF Crown logo in Blue on reverse, bearing 1d, 3d & 6d BCOF overprints, but with misplaced overprint on 6d Kookaburra showing the dot after F in margin. Unlisted variety. Price $98 ML483) Christmas Is. 2009 Zodiac Sheetlet with tabs for Hong Kong Exhibition. Mint unhinged, price $29 N2) Nauru 1916 – 23 Seahorses, 2/6d – 10/- (deeper shade SG23d) mint lightly hinged. 10/centred top right, others are well centred, all with good perfs. Cat. £670, price $519 N5) Nauru 1918 registered cover to Wm. Ackland, bearing KGV set to 1/- SG 1 - 12, less 1.5d which was issued later. Price $495 N6) Nauru 1937 Freighters Smooth Paper set, SG 26B/39B, plus 26ac, cancelled to order without gum, cds of Nauru. Price $145 N4) Nauru 1937 Freighters smooth Paper set, SG 26B/39B, mint lightly hinged. Cat. £200, price $145 N7) Nauru 1937 Freighters smooth Paper set, SG 26B/39B, fresh mint unhinged. (The two top values are the better rough paper) Cat. approx. £300, price $329 DB799) New Guinea NWPI 1919 – 23 2.5d Indigo Kangaroo. 3rd wmk perf. OS. Very fine used with good perfs. and cantering, neat top right corner cds cancel. Cat. £425. Seen elsewhere at $625. My price $549 DB399) New Guinea, NWPI 1919 10/- Grey & Bright Pink Kangaroo. 3rdwmk SG 117, Type A. Vfu example, well centred and good perfs. with light full cds cancel. List retail $275, price $219 ML479) Norfolk Is. 2003 50c Scenes sheetlet of 5 sets personalised with Max Stern labels MUH Price $29
LM139) PNG 1952 One Pound Fisherman on Parcel Piece, with other values. Cancelled by Port Moresby parcels office cancel of 29 AU 1962 This stamp unrecorded on commercial cover. (FDC's are plentiful) Price $225. British Empire/Commonwealth DB181) Antigua 183 6d Green, SG 8a. Wmk upright fine used with barred numeral 02, full perfs and good colour. Cat. £195, price $195 DC65) Bahamas 1963 Freedom From Hunger 8d, “value and Bahamas omitted. “ Superb mint unhinged with normal for comparison. SG 223a, cat. £1200. Very rare, a few only known. Price $1595 BC55) Bahawalpur 1945 Officials complete to 1 Rupee, SG 01 - 06. Mint lightly hinged set, highly sought after. Cat. £110 price $115 BC56) Bahawalpur 1948 Definitives complete to 10 Rupee, SG 19 -32. Fresh mint unhinged set, highly sought after set, selling way above catalogue currently. Sighted on Ebay at up to $300! price $175 DB189) Bermuda 1866 2d Dull Blue, SG 3. Mint lightly hinged, with small part remainder, fresh full perf example, centred left, Cat. £475, price $379 DB193) Bermuda 1918 10/- Green & Carmine on pale bluish green, SG54. Superb postally used with light steel cds 1923 cancel of Hamilton, well centred and with full perfs. Cat. £350, price $420 BC5) British Antarctic Territory 1971 Ships definitives, decimal ovpts. vfu, SG 24 – 37, cat. £80, price $54 DB194) Cayman Is. 1921 5/- Deep Green on pale yellow, SG 64a. Lovely looking fresh mint, well centred example with good perfs. Cat. £100, price $98 DC2) Ceylon 1857 2d Green Imperf, SG3. Fine used near 4 margin example. Cat. £90, price $52.50 DC1) Ceylon 1857 6d Brown Imperf, SG6. Fine used 3 margin example. Cat. £140, price $74 DB195) Ceylon 1859 6d Brown, imperf. SG6a. Nearly 4 margins, just touched at both sides of lower left corner. Postally used with lightish barred cancel. Cat. £550, price $269 DB196) Ceylon 1857 1d Blue on blued paper, imperf. SG2b. 3 good margins, postally used with light barred cancel. Cat. £225, price $110 DB197) Ceylon 1857 2d Green, imperf. SG3. 4 good margins, postally used with lightish barred cancel. Cat. £65, price $69 DB198) Ceylon 1862 1d Dull Blue, SG44. Fine used with barred cancel. Straight edge at top and with partial offset on reverse. Cat. £130, price $119 DB199) Ceylon 1861 9d Olive - Sepia, SG33b. Good used example with heavier cancel. Cat. £85, price $39 DB200) Ceylon 1857 10d Dull Vermilion, imperf. SG9. 2 margin postally used example, lightish barred cancel, with paper hinge remainder which should easily wash off. Looks great from the front. Cat. £325, priced well at $138 DB201) Ceylon 1866 5d Yellow - Olive SG54b. Used example with light indistinct cancel. Cat. £275, price $115 DB202) Ceylon 1858 Halfpenny Dull Mauve, imperf. SG17. Fresh mint original gum, with hinge remainder, 4 big margins, small nick in margin at base. Cat. £190, price $95 DB203) Ceylon 1863 Halfpenny Mauve, SG 48c. Fresh looking well centred, full perf. mint example, with traces of original gum. Cat. £55, price $29 DB207) Another example as above, but with some minor gum toning, price $55 DB208) Cyprus 1880 1d Red ovpt. on GB Plate 218, SG2. Fine used with light cds cancel, full perf. example. Cat. £65, price $59 DB209) Cyprus 1880 4d Sage Green ovpt. on GB Plate 16, SG4. MNG, full perf. example centred high. cat. £140 mint £225 used, price $69 DB210) As above, but used with medium barred numeral 975. Cat. £225, price $169 DB211) Cyprus 1881 Halfpenny on 1d Red GB Ovpt. Plate 174, SG 7. Fresh Original Gum full perf. example, centred left. Cat. £375, price $159 DB213) Cyprus 1882 30 Paras on 1p Rose, SG 24. Nice fine used example, with light squared circle cancel at right, leaving profile clear. Well centred and with full perfs. Cat. £110, price $119 DB214) Cyprus 1894 6p Olive - Grey, SG36. Mint original gum example, well centred and with full perfs. Tiny insignificant minor scuff top left corner mentioned only for accuracy. Cat. £250, price $195 DB157) Falkland Is. 1882 4d Pale Grey-Black, SG 6. Nice fine used example with cork cancel. Full
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BUY OR BID SALE APRIL 2018 perfs and good cantering. Straight edge at top. Cat. £95, price $89 BC7) Falkland Is. 1952 KGVI Definitives vfu, SG 172/85, cat £75, price $49 BC9) Falkland Is. 1968 Flowers Definitives vfu, SG 232/45, cat £48, price $32.50 BC10) Falkland Is. Dependencies 1954 Ships Definitives vfu, SG G26/40, cat £130, price $89 DB162) Gambia 1880 1/- Green, SG19B. VFU, cancelled by light red cds of JY 25 85, full perf example. Cat. £150, price $149 DB165) Gibraltar 1907 2/- Green & Blue, SG 62a. Very fine used cds example with full perfs and good cantering. Cat. £150, price $149 DB169) Heligoland 1873 Quarter Sch. Error of colour, (Colours reversed, background in Rose instead of Green) SG 5a. Genuine example fresh mint unhinged, short perfs at base, cat. £190, price $98 LM54) Hong Kong 1926 $3 Green & Dull Purple SG 131. Superb well centred vfu example with full perfs and cds cancel of 11 MR 37. This value was not replaced in the KGVI set of 1938. Cat. £70. A better example you will not find! Price $85 LM53) Hong Kong 1935 Jubilee set, SG 133/136. Fresh well centred mint lightly hinged set cat. £65, price $59 LM48) Hong Kong 1949 UPU set SG 173/6. Fresh mint lightly hinged set, cat. £65. Price $39 LM46) Hong Kong 1966 UNESCO set, SG 239/241. Fresh mint unhinged, well centred and with good perfs. Cat. £35, price $32.50 DB171) Jamaica 1884 1d Blue, SG 17. Mint hinged example, centred left with good perfs. Some minor gum toning. Cat. £325. Good value at 25% cat., $138 BC102) Jamaica 1944 New Constitution set complete to 10/- in horizontal pairs. All fresh mint unhinged and with Plate No. or Imprint, excluding the 4.5d. Cheap lot, $29 DB178) K.U.T., 1935 10/- Purple & Blue, SG122. Used with light indistinct cancel. Well centred and with good perfs. Cat. £130, price $89 DB179) K.U.T., 1937 £1 Black & Red, SG 150. Fine cds used example, good perfs and cantering. Cat. £160, price $159 DB180) Kuwait 1923 4a Olive Ovpt. on India Airmail, SG 33. Nice fine used example with corner cds cancel, well centred and with full perfs. Cat. £225, price $219 DB222) Malta 1878 Halfpenny Yellow Buff, SG 16. Fresh mint, lightly hinged example with good cantering and perfs. Cat. £200, price $224 LM69) Malta 1928 2/- Black & Purple, SG 188. Nice postally used example with cds cancel. Cat. £70, price $45 DB153) Mauritius 1858 - 60, 6d Vermilion on blued paper, SG 28. Lovely 4 margin used example with indistinct cancel. Cat. £120, price $115 LM68) Nauru 1923 2d orange Die II Central Ovpt. On KGV SG 5. Well centred vfu cds example with full perfs. Cat. £80, price $79 DB246) Lagos, 1876 4d Carmine, wmk swys. SG 14a. Nice used example, with lightish barred "L" cancel. Well centred and full perfs. Cat. £130, price $110 DB245) Lagos 1884 - 1886 1d Rose, inv. wmk. SG 22w. Fine used example with light barred cancel, well centred and good perfs, cat. £120, price $98 DB242) Northern Nigeria, 1911 10/- Green Red on Green, SG39. Vfu with light steel cds of 1912. Nicely centred with good perfs, cat. £48, price $45 DB241) Southern Nigeria, 1903 2/6d Grey & Black, SG 17. Fine used example, with part registered oval cancel, & feint blue crayon mark. Nice perfs & cantering, cat. £75, price $49 DB240) Nigeria, 1938 4d Orange, SG 54. Nicely centred, mint hinged example, cat. £50, price $24 Malayan States DB427) Johore 1912 10c Dark Purple & Black SG 84, mint unhinged. Fresh gum and full perfs. Centred right. Cat. £60 Price $59 DB425) Johore 1918 $1 Green & Mauve SG 87, fine mint Good centring and full perfs. Top value of set, cat. £120 Price $89 DB424) Johore 1940 12c Ultramarine fine mint, SG 114. Cat. £55, price $19 DB416) Johore 1938 Postage Dues, SG D1 – 5, fine mint. Cat. £200, price $69 North Borneo DB447) North Borneo 1894 12c Crocodile Blue & Ultramarine. SG 76 mint hinged, well centred example with full perfs. cat. £50, price $21.50
DB445) North Borneo 1897 3c Green & Rosy Mauve SG 96a perf. 14.5 x 15 fine used dated cds of 6 SEP 97, well centred example with good perfs. cat. £55, dated examples are hard to find. Price $37.50 DB444) North Borneo 1897 8c Black & Brown SG 102a perf. 16. Fresh Mint Unhinged example, centred right with good perfs. Mint unhinged is difficult to find and rates a premium over catalogue. Cat. £110, Price $93.50 DB443) North Borneo 1897 24c Blue & Lake, SG 111b. perf 14.5 – 15. Mint hinged example, centred left. A few short perfs at top. Cat. £60, price $22.50perf 14.5 – 15. Mint hinged example, centred left. A few short perfs at top. Cat. £60, price $22.50 DB471) North Borneo 1899 4c on $10 Brown, SG 124. Well centred with good perfs, nice clean MNG example. Cat. £130. Price $55 DB470) North Borneo 1901 $1 Scarlet with red overprint. SG 141. Fine used with indistinct cancel. Well centred example with good perfs. Cat. £65, price $44 DB469) North Borneo 1904, 4c on $5 Bright Purple SG 156. Vfu dated example with cds of Sandakan 11 AUG 1904. Possibly cancelled per favour. Dated examples are hard to find. Well centred and good perfs, cat. £48. Price $49 DB468) North Borneo 1904, 4c on $10 Brown SG 157. Vfu dated example with cds of Sandakan 11 AUG 1904. Possibly cancelled per favour. Dated examples are hard to find. Well centred and good perfs, cat. £48. Price $49 DB462) North Borneo 1925/28 24c Violet & Black Ostrich. Mint lightly hinged. Well centred and full perfs. Cat. £80, price $54 DB251) Nyasaland 1938 10/- Emerald & Red on Green, SG 142. Superb looking mint unhinged example, well centred and with good perfs. Gum a little aged. Cat. £55, price $48 BC1) Pitcairn Is. 1953 Coronation unaddressed, illustrated FDC. Fine and fresh as new. Price $49 BC2) Another as above, with lower marginal stamp, cover not quite so fresh. Price $39 DB255) St. Helena 1856 6d Blue SG 1. Decent looking almost 3 margin example with indistinct cancel. Cat. £180, priced very reasonably at $75 DB256) St. Helena 1861 6d Blue SG 2a. Clean postally used stamp with lightish bar cancel. Cat. £130, price $110 DB257) St. Helena 1880 1d Lake SG 27. Very clean and fresh mng example with full perfs. Cat. £120, price $89 DB258) St. Helena 1894 1/- Yellow - Green SG 45. A very fine fresh mint lightly hinged example with good cantering and perfs. Small natural paper inclusion on Queen's neck does not detract. Cat. £65, price $55 LM3) St. Helena 1895 cover front to UK with 7 x QV stamps. The "HALFPENNY" surcharges are the scarcer long version of 17mm, printed in 1885 on 6d Green, rather than the common 14½mm – so we have FIVE x VFU copies of SG 35 Cat £105 as used stamps off cover. Also 2 of the TWOPENCE" surcharge is SG 39 cat £8 each used. All stamps with the normal cork cancels used by St. Helena at this time on adhesives, and the normal dated cds of “St. Helena OC 26 – 95”. SG has this series valued on cover at x 15 – so £1,500+ using that yardstick. As front should be worth at least 20% of that. Price $525 DB259) St. Helena 1903 2/- Black & Violet, SG 60. Lovely vfu with small part cds cancel at base. Full perfs, centred to the lower right. Cat. £95, price $79 DB261) St. Helena Black & Blue on Blue, SG 80. Very fine used with neat cds of SEP 24 20. Good colour and well centred, just one nibbed perf at top left. Cat. £100, price $85 DB262) St. Vincent 1869 1/- Brown SG14. Nice used with indistinct oval registered cancel. A few short perfs at base. Cat. £160, good value at $49 DB263) Seychelles 1938 139/41 defins. MLH. 12c Violet, 20c Blue & 25c Ochre, £145, priced very well at under 30% cat. Price $72 DB264) Seychelles 1938 1 Rupee Yellow – Green, SG 146. Nice mint lightly hinged example Well centred. Just one nibbed perf at top. Cat. £150, just 25%, price $64 DB473) Singapore 1953 QE II $100 Pink and Blue Revenue Imperforate Colour Trial on cream paper. Very scarce. Price $295 DB411) Singapore 1969 Foundation set SG 121/6 Mint Unhinged, price $95 DB265) Somaliland 1953 2/- - 10/- SG 146/8 MLH. Nice trio of the top 3 values for this set. Cat. £95. Price under a third, $59
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See Figure 3. Why and when was this defaced proof created? I asked the library of the Royal Philatelic Society, London, if they could put me in touch with anyone willing to research this question for me (for money). They passed my request to the British Society of New Zealand Philatelists but I have had no response. Any offers? The characteristics of the different dies were described in detail by Mark Stocker in the article referenced below. Mark points out that the 1930 Perkins Bacon die has unshaded sky and the boy’s smile is slightly ‘shark-like’, to use Mark’s words. The 1930 Royal Mint die has shaded sky and a more natural smile. Comparing Figures 2 and 3 shows these differences clearly. Because the new design was not used in 1930, the tenders lapsed. In 1931, the tender was accepted from the Royal Mint. They prepared a new 1931 die and sent the plate to New Zealand for the Government Printer to print the 1d + 1d stamps. On 26 June 1931, the standard letter rate was increased from 1d to 2d in an attempt to maintain government revenues in the midst of the Great Depression. The printing plate received from the Royal Mint was for a stamp that no longer paid the standard letter rate. W R (William Rose) Bock, who had been involved in the printing of New Zealand stamps since the 1890s, made an etched line die based on the Royal Mint 1d + 1d plate; removed the 1d figures
from the value and surcharge tablets and replaced them with new figures for 2d + 1d. By comparing the figures used in the 1d and the 2d stamps, particularly the figure ‘D’, the differences between the Royal Mint die and Bock’s etched line die can be clearly seen. The stamps were surface printed by the NZ Government Printer on Cowan thick chalk-surfaced paper watermarked ‘NZ & star’. Perforations gauged 14½ x 14. In the Great Depression money was scarce. For most people, paying the charity surcharge in addition to the postage was unaffordable. For this reason, the 1931 issue is the scarcest of the regular Health Stamps (the 1996 ‘Teddy Bear’ design error is the scarcest variety). 74,802 of the 1d value and 111,929 of the 2d were sold. Within a few years, collectors became aware of the scarcity (and thus the increased value) of these stamps and later Health and commemorative issues were bought up in quantity – ironically making New Zealand stamps from the late 1930s through the 1950s incredibly cheap. References: Stocker, Mark, The ‘Smiling Boy’ Health stamps of 1931, in Tuhinga vol. 24. Journal of the Te Papa Museum, 2013. https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/sites/ default/files/tuhinga.24.2013.pt7_.p139-158.stocker. pdf Catalogue of New Zealand Stamps, Auckland, Campbell Paterson, 1951The Postage Stamps of New Zealand, vol.1, Wellington, RPSNZ, 1938. Stamp News - 45
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Cinderella Corner Back To…Part 1 Of 2 (1918 – 1946)
Welcome to the April edition of Cinderella Corner. This piece continues the narrative from the March edition, exploring some more of the Back to cinderella labels that have helped celebrate the actions and milestones of an array of towns throughout Australia. Unlike last month’s piece, this article is more image rich and less ‘text heavy’ and covers labels from 1918 to 1946. I welcome any feedback about the Back to labels and look forward to seeing different types of them emerge.
Back To Ararat
Figure 1 illustrates a Back to Ararat label. It is a rather attractive piece, with an image of Noah’s Ark and the returning dove at its centre, along with the Latin Biblical reference Gaudium Adfero (I bring joy). With this label, natives were encouraged to return to their hometown to help celebrate its Diamond Jubilee anniversary; 60 years since its British settlement in 1858. The celebrations were held towards the end of 1918, from 24 to 31 December. The cinderella measures 48mm by 35mm and is perforated 11.5 on two sides. As further illustrated in Figure 2, a similar design of the cinderella label is featured on a cover dated 1932. It too helped celebrate Back to Ararat festivities, but this time for the town’s 75th anniversary in 1932/1933.
Figure 2 48 - Stamp News
Figure 1 Back To Shepparton
To help celebrate its centenary in 1938, the Shepparton Council, along with members of the Melbourne ladles’ committee of the Back to Shepparton celebrations, helped organise a number of festivities, held from 19 to 30 October. Five different cinderella labels were also produced for this event and collectively feature in Figure 3. The labels present the following: - S.P.C. LIGHT THE WAY. SEE THE WORLD FAMED CANNERY - 3SR HEART OF VICTORIA CALLS YOU TO SHEPPARTON CENTENARY FUNCTIONS THROUGHOUT 1938 - CENTENARY of SHEPPARTON 1838 - 1838 – 1938 PAGEANT - CENTENARY OF SHEPPARTON. THE MAGIC OF 100 YEARS The labels are bright and vibrant. Figure 4 highlights how they were joined, in two separate strips, but further information about the cinderellas’ arrangement on a sheet is not known. Each label measures 35mm
Vito Milana
Above: Figure 3 Right: Figure 4 by 52mm and is rouletted 10 on all sides. Some of the Shepparton labels have been found on the reverse of specially produced covers to also help celebrate the town’s centenary. These covers were carried by Pack Horse across Victoria. An example of the front of such a cover, postmarked during the celebratory period on October 22, is illustrated in Figure 5. The reverse of this cover, with two different examples of the Shepparton centenary labels affixed to it, is illustrated in Figure 6.
Back To Terang
Figure 7
Shortly after the
Shepparton celebrations, the town of Terang issued a label encouraging natives of the town to return. An example of the label is illustrated in Figure 7. The text on this cinderella reads: TERANG CALLS YOU BACK (1839 – 1939) APRIL 7th – APRIL 15th. EASTER, 1939 CARNIVAL AND FESTIVTY. H. R. HESKETH, Hon. Sec. Phone: Terang 26. The label is rather large and measures 61mm by 90mm and is imperforate on all sides.
Back To Maitland
In 1935, the town of Maitland in the Lower Hunter Valley region of New South Wales celebrated 60 years through a Diamond Jubilee Show and Gala Week. The latter ran from 25 February to 2 March, 1935. A label was produced to help celebrate this event, as illustrated in Figure 8. Coloured red, blue Stamp News - 49
Cinderella Corner and white, it measures 62mm by 41mm and is imperforate on all sides.
Back To Maryborough
The same year that Maitland celebrated its centenary, the town of Maryborough, in Victoria, held Easter festivities to help celebrate the State’s centenary. A number of events were held, including a cricket match between ‘comebacks’ and locals, a sacred concert, and a planting of trees activity. A label was issued to help commemorate the occasion and an example is illustrated in Figure 9. It measures 38mm by 25mm and is imperforate on three sides. The inclusion of ‘VIC’ on the cinderella helped differentiate the town from Maryborough in the Fraser Coast Region of Queensland.
Back To Bowral
Top: Figure 5
Bottom: Figure 6
Bowral is the largest town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. In late 1926, the town ran some fundraising events, and a label was issued to help promote it, as illustrated in Figure 10. This cinderella measures 61mm by 42mm and is imperforated on all sides. It features a boomerang ‘in flight’ and the text BACK TO BOWRAL OCT. 4 – 5 – 6 “I Will Return”.
Back To Armidale
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The New South Wales town of Armidale celebrated its centenary in 1939, and a cinderella label was pro-
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ing (but not limited to): Back to Back to Wodonga (1951), Back to Warracknabeal (1957), Back to Sale (1957), Back to Macchus Marsh (1957), and Back to Merebin (1959). These cinderellas will feature in a future edition of Cinderella Corner with, hopefully, other examples of similar labels that readers may have and be willing to share information about. duced to welcome home natives and join in festivities that the town ran for one week. This cinderella, illustrated in Figure 11, measures 56mm by 40mm and is imperforate on all sides. It features a ram and two sheep, with a backdrop of trees. The Back to festivities were announced in 1938 and were reported to have been a success.
Back To Tamworth
Tamworth, located in the New England area of New South Wales, organised a number of events in 1946 to encourage natives to return home, and to also fundraise for returning World War II soldiers. One of the recorded events during the week-long celebrations was a bathing beauty contest where French swim suits were declared as offensive and banned. A label to help celebrate the Tamworth events is illustrated in Figure 12. It measures 46mm by 23mm and is imperforate on three sides. It bears the text: FOR YOUR HOLIDAY! TAMWORTH. Back to Tamworth Week 14 – 19 October, 1946. There are several other ‘Back to’ cinderella labels that exist from the 1950s onwards, includ-
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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Finding Out More About Your Stamps and Covers Previously I have written about looking after your collection, so this month I thought it appropriate to discuss how to find out more about your stamps and covers. I covered books on basic collecting in a previous article. It is now time to look at ways of researching what you have – whether it is just basic catalogue information, or a detailed analysis of the postal history of a cover. Catalogues There are many catalogues available for stamp collectors, from ones which are just a basic listing of stamps and values, to highly specialised catalogues like the Brusden & White Australian catalogues. If you are just starting stamp collecting then basic catalogues are fine to give you an idea of what stamps have been issued. If you have wide interests, then the best ‘basic’ catalogue is Stanley Gibbons Stamps of the World or SOTW as it is often abbreviated. SOTW comes in six volumes and is not cheap, but you can often pick up second hand copies at reasonable prices. However, in this article I am talking about going beyond the basics. Therefore, you need to look for more specialised catalogues. A number of companies have catalogues which cover the world, and these include Stanley Gibbons in the UK, Scott in the USA and Michel in Germany. Your sphere of interest will determine which is best for you. You can’t go past Stanley Gibbons for British Commonwealth, although
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their other catalogues covering individual countries are not bad either. If the Americas are your field of interest then Scott is what you want and for Europe, Michel. Figure 1 illustrates the well-known Stanley Gibbons red catalogue, covering British Commonwealth issues to 1970. This catalogue has improved significantly over the years and includes shades, perforation varieties, errors, specimens, some postmark information, booklets, postal fiscals, postage dues, and usage on cover. It is the starting point for British Commonwealth countries. As you become more specialised in your collecting you will generally find that each country has their own specialised catalogue for that country. It is worth buying the relevant catalogue. Australia has, in my opinion, the best series of specialised catalogues of any country. The Brusden & White catalogues (Figure 2) are the most indepth catalogues for single issues that I have seen. If you collect the kangaroo and map stamps, for instance, then you will need the B&W catalogue. All you need to do is to find one good variety and the cost of the catalogue is covered. One could write a lot about which is the best catalogue for each country, but it is best to find out what is out there, and if you are unsure ask a fellow philatelist their opinion. One point I would make is that you need to keep your catalogue up to date. This is not so much for pricing, although that can change significantly, but because most catalogues include new information when republished. You don’t necessarily need to buy a catalogue every year, as they can be expensive, but every 2-5 years will do depending on your budget. You will notice the Gibbons red catalogue above is 2013 and it is about time I updated it.
Figure 2
Specialised Monographs There is probably no hobby on Earth that has had more written about it than stamp! Hundreds of new books are put out each year and have become more prolific because so many authors now self-publish. This can be an issue because some books lack an editor and have numerous errors. If you can, it pays to read a review of a book before purchasing. You are likely to need to access specialised books
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Figure 3 particularly once you go beyond stamps. Postal history, aerophilately, revenues, and postal stationery tend to have more specialised monographs than catalogues. However, these areas of collecting do have some catalogues available. A good example of a one country (or area) monograph is shown in Figure 3. This book on the Leeward Islands has background on the Islands, postal arrangements from 1840, Thomas De La Rue (an excellent overview of these stamp printers), the stamps, the stationery, postmarks, postal rates and maritime shipping services. It is a lifetime’s work by Michael Oliver and if every small country had a book like this, it would very useful to philatelists. Fortunately more and more books like this are appearing and are a boon to research. There are many specialised monographs out there relating to postal history. Looking at my bookshelf I see ones on paquebot markings, the KGVI postmarks of the West Indies and my latest purchase – ‘Jusqu’á Hand Stamps and other Route Indications (2nd and Revised Edition)’ by Jan ter Welle (Figure 4). It is an airmail book that covers the world and lists the known handstamps for airmail carried part way by air, or the different routes they took. It is a must for anyone who collects airmails that go beyond one country. It belongs in major philatelic libraries (see below).
Figure 4 Another type of monograph are ones covering a very specialised area such as the book shown in Figure 5. It is a book on the censor markings of Brazil and while produced in Germany has translations of the text into Portuguese and English as well. It is a highly specialised book and there are unlikely to be many copies in Australia, and in fairness, few needed. I bought it because of my interest in wartime airmails of the Caribbean and Central and South America. I buy books like these at exhibitions to save postage and in many cases if you don’t buy them when you see them, you may find it difficult later. It is another piece of advice I would emphasise, buy any specialised book you need when you see it (or when it is published). They can be very difficult to buy at a later date. A very good example is Picirilli’s book on France and Colonies airmail rates. It was published around 2012 by the Stuart Rossiter Trust, in relatively large quantities (for a philatelic monograph) but there are no copies for sale anywhere on the web. I made the mistake of not buying one and now can’t, although through my philatelic network I managed to find someone who had a copy. Auction Catalogues Auction catalogues are often the only record of a collection and are very useful research tools. When a Stamp News - 53
Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation specialised collection is auctioned, the auction house often has a separate catalogue for a major collection. These are highly sought after, and often sell for high prices after the sale. A good example is the Arthur Gray Kangaroo auction catalogue (Figure 6) which was hard bound and now sells for a few hundred dollars. Such major catalogues are as useful for what is not in them, as to what is in them. If Arthur didn’t have an example of a major item in his collection, then chances are it is a very rare item. It pays to hunt out auction catalogues for specialised collections as they are great research tools. In addition, it may pay to subscribe to auction houses that specialise in selling material of interest. This can be expensive but thanks to the internet most auction catalogues are on-line and can be viewed that way. Most auction houses will also put you on their email list to notify you when a new auction catalogue is put up. This saves them money and keeps potential clients in contact. Good philatelic libraries also often have good runs of auction catalogues, or at least single country or owner catalogues. Specialised Societies I have spoken of the benefits of joining specialist philatelic societies in earlier articles but put simply they give you access to specialised articles, often specialised
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Figure 5 society auctions and most importantly likeminded collectors, who often have a great depth of expertise. Ask a question and someone will usually have the answer or know where to find it. One of the positives of joining a society is that you get access to old copies of the journal. These may be in the form of a disk (Figure 7), which has the first 25 volumes of the UK Revenue Society on it and was given free to members. Many societies have their journal on-line, and a number have all but, say, the last 5 years available free to anyone. The British West Indies Study Circle is like this, but you need to join to get access to recent volumes. Old journals can be a great read and if you get to a good philatelic library, take a look and you will soon be engrossed. They are often the starting point for research. Another piece of advice I will give relates to assuming that a modern monograph will be correct and have the details of all the old journal information in them. Sometimes mistakes are made early on with a piece of information and it is perpetuated through subsequent publication. A good example of this relates to printings of QV Hong Kong stamps and their use. Richard Gurevitch began researching these and thought that some of the information in Webb’s seminal work on Hong Kong
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Figure 7 may not be correct. This had relied on earlier published information which turned out to be incorrect. It wasn’t until he went back and looked at contemporary reports in Stanley Gibbons magazine in the late 1800s, that the possible errors came to light. Cotemporary information can be quite important which is why we all need to publish modern research. I know from collecting revenue stamps that it is almost impossible to go back in many cases and find out relevant information. As to the Internet, always be cautious, but it can be a useful starting point. A good example I have was a Jamaican airmail cover that claimed to be a first flight (in pencil on reverse). I did some research on the Internet and ended up in the archives of the Gleaner newspaper (a Jamaican paper going back to the 1850s). It cost me small amount of money but I found out what I needed to know and proved the cover was what it said it was. In Australia we are lucky in having Trove at the National Library which can be searched on-line and searches all Australia’s newspapers (and more) that have been scanned. Take a look it can be fun, for family histories as well as philately. Philatelic Libraries There are a number of philatelic libraries in Australia, the two largest being the PHILAS library in New South Wales and the Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria’s. Other important philatelic libraries are also to be found in the other States with the Philatelic Councils in WA,
SA and Queensland all having libraries. In addition, the Philatelic Society of Canberra has an excellent library in its clubroom, and I am sure many other clubs have libraries, albeit they may be small. None of these libraries are open all the time as none has the volunteers or money to do this. However, each library is open, at least once a month and you will need to contact the relevant organisation to get access or help. These libraries have much more than catalogues. They will have many monographs or specialised catalogues, runs of journals and auction catalogues. Most will also have someone in charge of the library who can assist with any specialised queries. While the libraries are likely to have a focus on Australia and States plus British Commonwealth, there will be books on other parts of the world. There are also likely to copies of reference works which cut across many countries, as discussed above. An example is shown in Figure 8. It is a book on Civil Censorship Devices that covers the British West Indies and Falkland Islands. It covers 17 countries and is the type of book that many people might want to access, but not everyone wants to buy, especially if you just want to look up one cover. Good philatelic libraries seek out books like this, due to their wide coverage, and the likelihood that they will be of interest. In addition to Australian philatelic libraries there are many philatelic libraries overseas. The two most important are those of the American Philatelic Society and the Royal Philatelic Society of London. These libraries are huge and very important for researchers. Their catalogues are on-line and include listings of journal articles. They are searchable by author, topic etc and are highly recommended. However, you need to be a member to access these libraries, and you can get copies of journal articles for a photocopy fee. If you serious about philatelic research I recommend you join one or both. If you have a single query I suggest you find a fellow philatelist who is a member of one of these organisations, then ask them to look for you. APF Research Assistance Service The APF has had a research service for a number of years, which is used by collectors when they are stumped by a particular question or do not have access to the resources needed to answer a question. The current Research Assistance Coordinator is David Collyer from New South Wales. Each State and the ACT has a research officer to whom questions should be sent, preferably a written request including photocopies or scans of the item/s in question. The coordinator becomes involved Stamp News - 55
Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation if further advice is required. The contact details for the State research officers are on the APF website. Each person has been chosen because they have access to one of the major philatelic libraries in Australia. The service is generally not used for stamp identifications which are best done with your local club or the State Philatelic Council. Also, valuations are definitely NOT part of the service, and such queries should be put to the Australian Philatelic Trader’s Association (APTA). The following are some of the queries Figure 9 raised in 2017: • Mackay Aerial Survey of CenFigure 8 tral Australia 1935-1936 • Canberra 1927 commemorative- flaw lists • Revenues of Indian Native States • Introduction of Australian Post “Priority” service • NZ 1959 forgery of 2½d on 1½d stars surcharge If you have a particularly difficult question, or even • Niue 20th Century postal rates - were they linked to just one where you cannot access the relevant literature, those of New Zealand? then take advantage of this service. Not only do the indi• Australian Forces in Russia 1918-1919 (Forces Postal viduals have access to the major State philatelic libraries, History) but they can often seek information from individuals • Pre-WWII postal rates from Bohemia Moravia to with private libraries, often with even more specialised United Kingdom (March-end of August 1939) literature. • Postal Markings of Thurn Taxis • Proposed Bourke to Adelaide airmail service December Stampboards 1934 The on-line stamp discussion site, Stampboards, run by • Introduction on OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Glen Stephens is another source of information where mail sorting in Australia 1990’s questions, of all calibres, are answered. If joining the • The history of Australian Airmail society’s pre-WWII site, please make sure you follow the rules, such as • Postal rates on letter mail from Germany to France in introducing yourself and any other things you need to the 1930’s do before asking a question. It is a useful site for stamp • Postal Markings of Aitape, Morobe and Manus 1915identification, or those tricky postal markings you may 1925 be wondering about. It has a worldwide community of • Tristan da Cunha KGV Silver Jubilee overprint philatelists and someone can usually answer your ques• Postal Markings of the Mandated Territory of New tion. Many of the stamps that collectors have trouble Guinea identifying turn out to be revenue stamps and someone • Airmail services out of French Indo China in 1940 will usually steer you in the right direction. It is also a • Background on the 1847 Post Office Mauritius useful forum to start discussions on an area that interests • Journal literature search on NWPI overprints you, and a way to meet fellow philatelists with similar • AIF postal facilities during the campaign in Greece interest. Take a look at www.stampboards.com 1941 • Background to US-NZ FAM 14 services 1940 to 1941 The Newcastle Stamp and Coin Expo – 25-27 May • Radio telegram services to Australian Sub-Antarctic A reminder about the Newcastle Stamp and Coin Expo islands 1947-1949 56 - Stamp News
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Philatelic Development Officer, APF organised by the Newcastle Philatelic Society as part of their 100th Anniversary celebrations. The exhibition will be held in the Newcastle Showground Exhibition Centre which is located on the Newcastle Showground complex. There has been an excellent response to exhibits with over 320 frames filled and a strong demand from dealers with most stands sold (25+). As shown last month an interesting range of souvenirs is being prepared and are available from the Newcastle Philatelic Society (see below). This is shaping up to be an excellent exhibition, with that (relatively) small town feel. I urge you to attend. The next unadopted stamp design card from the APF, which is to be released in Newcastle, features the 1928 Trans-Tasman 1st Airmail overprint. A tiny quantity of an overprinted 1½d George V stamp was prepared for the first attempts by aviators to carry official air mails between Australia and New Zealand. Originally, the stamp was intended for the ill-fated flight by New Zealanders, John Moncrieff and George Hood, on 10 January 1928. In the event, no airmail was carried, and
the plane was lost. The next flight on 10 September 1928 by Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm was successful, although an official airmail was not carried. Just 240 overprinted 1½d stamps were intended to be affixed to mail addressed to each New Zealand Member of Parliament. However, at a later point, the plan was thought undesirable, if the public could not buy the stamp. Since all examples of the overprinted stamp were destroyed, the reproduced image is an artist’s impression as shown in Figure 9. The cards will be available by mail and at the exhibition for $10 each and are limited to 250 numbered copies. For more details about the exhibition, souvenirs and exhibitor entry details go to http://newcastlephilatelicsociety.org.au/ or email John Moore at moore.john@ optusnet.com.au or write to the Exhibition Secretary, PO Box 34, JESMOND NSW 2299. If you need any further information about stamp collecting see www.apf.org.au or contact me for information pertaining to this article at Darryl.fuller@home.netspeed. com.au.
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Market Matters New ACSC “Postal Stationery” Catalogue
This welcome new edition updates the first edition of five years back (2013), incorporating a number of corrections and new discoveries. In particular, the Postal Cards up to 1936 have been extensively revised, and there are many additions to the listing of Lettercards. The decimal postal stationery produced by the Note Printing Branch is included for the first time. All prices have been fully updated. In full colour, 484 x A4 pages, and perfect bound. Should have been hard Cat $7,500 - would YOU know? cover at this size, and I passed on that view, to the deaf ears of publisher! The front cover 1d Lettercard is Cat $5,000 - there If you only buy one catalogue each decade, are 5 different views recorded on these, all $5,000 whether you are dealer or a collector or Auction, you although Elephants stacking timber in Adelaide defies MUST have this. The most common innocuous look- the imagination, as to why it was ever designed! ing thing on your desk might well be valued at ten This is the EXACT sort of thing an overseas seller times the purchase price of this catalogue. would list on eBay or their website at $50 or so, and pray someone ordered it. All the “PTPO” (Printed To Private Order) issues are listed in great detail, and many run many $1,000s each - did YOU know that? The 1d Red one shown nearby, no overseas dealer would price more than $10 or so I’d bet. It is cat $7,500 in this new ACSC - indeed it sold for more than that at public auction. There are HUNDREDS of items in here listed at between $5,000 and $15,000 EACH. Even common looking window face types of these envelopes can get many $1000s. The one shown nearby from 1924 was sold as a “T” lot by the same Prestige Philately Auction house, and a local would have paid $A4,300 for it. EVERY item is illustrated in colour (reduced in size of course) - a GODSEND for many of the earlier Registration envelopes etc. (Only about 4 pieces in the entire book they were unable to get copies of to scan!) Very coolly, all down the outer spine is colour coded: to go to Wrappers go right to BLUE tagged edges. For postcards, go to PURPLE tags etc. A breeze to use quickly, as I need to do nearly every day, to sort ACSC “Stationery” - First edition for 5 years. 58 - Stamp News
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Cost a whopping $4,300 at Public Auction. and identify new stock.
Improvement over ring binder Mark #1.
Stationery material, WW2 Food Parcel labels (one is cat $10,000, and another $7,500), and even all the myriad of different views on the initial 1911 “Coronation” set. All priced separately. The highest price I sighted in here was $15,000 for a KGV low face value reply card, that I bet a lot of overseas (even local!) sellers would price at $20 retail, and cross their fingers! This is a really huge and heavy stamp catalogue - near 500 large A4 pages, on quality grade paper, in full colour - all proudly printed and produced here in Sydney Australia. It lists and prices all stationery from the first 1911 Australia issue “The Coronation Series” postcards which are very numerous, complex, and highly collected, right up until the last QE2 pre-decimal stationary issues for Australia and all the “Territories”.
I HATED using the initial huge ring binder edition as time went on, as the printer punched the holes way too small in my view. Making finding any given section was a time consuming juggling act, always New research all through this book. slightly damaging all earlier pages each time. This Edited by Dr. Geoff Kellow, the usual super high one is a BREEZE to use. standard of original research work, and fine attenFor instance ALL the “View” Lettercards are now all illustrated and priced SEPARATELY - some 170 different! Some of these are worth a fortune, and dealers and collectors without this book have not got a CLUE as to what is scarce, and what is not. You will easily pay for this book with the first vaguely scarce view you pick up on eBay etc. There are pretty boring looking things illustrated nearby, that sell for many THOUSANDS that you might well find in overseas dealer $5 boxes etc, as none of them bother buying detailed books like this. There are also all the Aerograms illustrated - many quite valuable, plus all the wide range of Military Colour coded outer edges this Edition.
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Market Matters tion to detail has taken place here. Geoff told me much of his original research on numbers printed of the early issues has never been published, before the ACSC did these. Not only Australia is covered, but the “Territories” are all included in here, and that includes all the “Formular” Aerograms and airletters etc. And all the Papua early issues, and “GRI” material, and PNG and Cocos and Christmas Islands etc. All listed and priced within. These are HEAVY - over 2 kilos (near 5 lbs) when packed up, so you are getting “Bang for Your Buck” for sure! A lot of updates to the initial Edition, so well worth updating or buying for the first time. Just Fabulous depth in the cat listings. ONE truly medium find, just once in your life, and it is paid for. I even all time, is the USA Scott #292 - the 1898 $1 Transhave a few Editor signed copies on hand. Mississippi Exposition, which was held in Omaha Nebraska of all places. Issue date of these stamps was June 17, 1898, and Prettiest Stamp Design Ever? the number issued to Post Offices was only 56,900 All readers of this article have their own personal - and of that truly tiny number, (WAY less than the 5/views of the most attractive stamp designs. Oddly, Sydney Harbour Bridge) an unknown quantity were most polls I have read on that topic have voted on later officially destroyed by USPS as unsolds. pre-war steel engraved recess printed stamps etc - I These truly superb looking stamps were printed by do not recall any offset printed modern stamps ever the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and supbeing among them! plied to PO’s in sheets of 100 subjects, trimmed flat One stamp that routinely scores well in any colon all sides, with the usual double-line watermark lector polls, of the most attractive stamp design of “USPS”, and all were perforated 12. This $1 Trans-Mississippi Exposition commemorative stamp pictures a rugged bull leading a herd of cattle through a snowstorm. Although the series was intended to portray scenes from the American West, the design is based on a painting by Scottish artist James MacWhirter, entitled “The Vanguard.” That original painting is shown nearby. It was painted in a small farmhouse near the Scottish town of Callendar, (not “Calender” as American sources incorrectly refer to it as) so the scene is actually of Scottish cattle in the central Highlands of Scotland. So much for being iconic cowboy AmeriScottish cattle, NOT American Cattle! 60 - Stamp News
Glen Stephens name of the photograph or (alleged!) painting upon which the design is based. Stamp collectors weren’t concerned with the accuracy of the design. “Western Cattle in Storm” is often referred to as the most beautiful stamp ever issued by the USA. In addition to being visually appealing, the stamp is also quite expensive of course, and mint or used copies cost quite serious money. Painted North SCOTLAND, not North Dakota!
Spanish War meant monocolour used.
can, “Yankee Doodle” open plains cattle! The Trans-Mississippi The work of art had been used in advertisements commemorative stamps were printed by the Bureau for an American cattle company, who used it widely of Engraving and Printing. The original plans called without permission. After the stamp was printed, for the full series to be printed in bi-color. A red USPS officials learned the painting was the property frame, with a black vignette (i.e. central design) was of British Lord Blythswood. An official apology was planned for the $1 “Western Cattle in Storm” stamp. issued through the offices of the British Ambassador, However, the Spanish-American War strained the who it appears was satisfied with the outcome. resources of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, The $1 Trans-Mississippi stamp was designed by which was overburdened by the demand for revenue Raymond Ostrander Smith, the Bureau of Engravstamps to fund the war. The Trans-Mississippi coming and Printing’s chief staff designer, who also was memoratives were hence printed in a single color, responsible for the equally pretty 1901 Pan American with the $1 denomination printed in black ink. set 6, and superb Newfoundland John Cabot set 14 of 1897. The $1 stamp features the same outer border as the rest of the values of the set. Unlike the 1893 Columbian series, the TransMississippi Exposition commemorative stamps didn’t include the name or dates of the event. Instead, each stamp features a caption with the “USS MAINE” Revenues strained resources.
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Market Matters After the tumultuous Civil War, the US was nearly broke. To provide funding for the Spanish-American War, Congress authorized a tax on a wide range of goods and services. Including various alcohol and tobacco products, tea and other amusements. Also on various legal and business transactions - such as Stock Certificates, bills of lading, manifests, and marine insurance etc. The sunken “USS Maine” then at the bottom of Havana Harbour, featured on 12 of these stamps, in different colours and values, to raise the War Tax basically, and I am certain every kid’s stamp album on this planet had at least one these Maine stamps proudly affixed inside! To pay these tax duties, the revenue tax stamps were purchased and affixed to the taxable item, or a respective certificate. There are 12 stamps in this “1898 USS Maine” ship issue, which occur in denominations ranging from ½c to 80c, and printed on double lined watermarked paper. Two types of perforations were used - rouletted, and ‘hyphen’ shaped perforations. The entire printing run of the $1 Omaha lasted only three days from June 1-3, 1898. There are no significant plate varieties or shades. Fully 20% of all the stamps sold featured one or more straight edges, (most now re-perforated!) leaving a maximum 45,520 copies sold with original perforations on all four sides. Indeed far less, since we know many unsold stamps were destroyed. The 1898 “Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition” was held to further the progress and development of natural resources west of the Missis-
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sippi River. Held in Omaha, Nebraska, the exposition opened on June 1, 1898, and ran for four months. The Expo was not a financial success overall, but it did revitalize Omaha Nebraska, a city that had been devastated by drought and depression. Over 2.6 million people attended the Omaha Expo. Re-enactments at this log Expo, of the explosion of the battleship Maine of that year 1898, in Havana Harbour also fuelled patriotism, and gathered further support for the Spanish-American War. The result was the 1898 Treaty Of Paris, negotiated on terms very favourable to the USA which allowed it temporary Military Government in Cuba (see stamp nearby!), and totally ceded ownership of Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines from Spain to the USA. Spain’s Empire was gone. “Remember the Maine - To Hell with Spain!” became a popular chant in the USA in 1898. Mainly due to a few media barons actively suggesting the Spanish mined her. It now seems clear that the bituminous coal used to power Maine was known for releasing firedamp, a gas that is prone to spontaneous explosions. So, it seems the Maine’s gases ignited the ammunition magazine internally, and it self-destructed.
Cuba still an issue of course.
The “USS Maine” sank in Havana Harbour in Cuba, and as outlined above, that largely led to Spain losing control of the island of Cuba. 120 years on, the relations are still strained despite President Obama vowing to “normalise” relations, and no surprise to see Donald Trump reneging on all that tide of common sense. US Foreign Policy in 2018 seems to vary each day, based on how much Fox News Trump watches each morning, and who he has left on staff that week to consult with, and to Tweet out the new version, until it is back flipped or reneged on by Press Office, or totally denied days later! As I type, it seems that countries like Sudan, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Burma etc, are still on the current “WE NO LIKEY” list. “What does any of this have to do with stamp collecting?” I can hear some asking. Well when the USA decides one of these places is on the “NO LIKEY” list, it makes their stamps harder
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Even these cause issues with Paypal!
America No Like Persia Stamp. to buy for many. The 1882 Shah of Persia stamp shown nearby is one of many truly superb stamps issued by Persia in the good old days. It is 135 years old, is genuine, and sells for about $A30. If you advertised it for sale on eBay it would be removed, and you would get a warning your account will be closed, if you persist in such unpatriotic activity. If I advertised it on stampboards or my own website - totally away from eBay, and someone pays for it via paypal the transaction would be flagged, voided, we would both we warned of account suspension, and both reported to the American Feds more than likely. Don’t laugh - it is for REAL! tinyurl.com/IranStamp Is the long stampboards discussion on these nutty policies re offering stamps 100+ years old and being clobbered. That chat covers several years, and it is murkier now than it EVER was! One UK chap there has offered a 19th Century Persia lot 3 or 4 times for a few $$, and had it removed every time. I am a Life Member of the ASDA in New York, and just got this email below, which reads like fiction, but sadly it is true. A USA dealer advertised an old stamp on his own website and got reported to the American Feds for that unpatriotic action! I kid you not – It started off - “A member of the ASDA had been
reported to OFAC (US State Department, Office of Foreign Assets Control) for selling stamps from North Korea on their own website and offering PayPal as a payment option. So we thought that it might be a good idea to remind our members of PayPal and eBay policies on embargoed countries, as well as the email from PayPal on the consequences of doing so. While we realize that eBay does have listings of stamps on their site from some of these countries and if you are able to list them on eBay, you might run into similar problems if accepting PayPal as a form of payment. etc.” So it really does happen, and occurs a TON more than most are aware of. Sometimes used are OK, sometimes not. Mint almost never are. If you advertise 100+ year old CUBA mint stamps, eBay/paypal will almost certainly remove them. If you use common sense, and say those stamps have been in Australia for 100 years eBay LITERALLY say this “We don’t permit the sale of items that claim to be pre-embargo, because we cannot determine when an item was removed from a specific country.” That was precisely what the ASDA dealer was told, along with: “As a result of the violation, details of your account, and the transaction have been reported to OFAC.”
North Korea stamps forbidden as well.
North Korea of course have issued lots of pretty topical stamps over the decades, that are politically harmless, but are just as illegal to sell or own mint, according to eBay and paypal, just as much as totally over the top stuff like this quartet shown nearby. I am not really sure if any of these stamps circuStamp News - 63
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2018 sees Missiles as subject matter.
NOT a way to make friends in the USA! late in North Korea on real mail, but they certainly belong in any collection of Propaganda Stamps! This is a family magazine - I have seen even more gruesome and gory stamps they issued, a bit too graphic for here, and as you can see these provocative stamps date back 50 years, so various nutto dictators have had the same views. tinyurl.com/NKstamps is the stampboards discussion on these stamps, and Rodney Perry noted there he was a keen buyer of genuine COMMERCIAL covers bearing such modern issues, and the response to him by those who collect the area, is that such things are near unknown. It was stated that the Philatelic Bureau there, if asked nicely, will backdate handstamps and “manufacture” old looking covers for sale outside the country, either direct or via agents, so care is needed as to your sources, if one is keen on such apparent ‘commercial’ mail. The current Rocket Man dictator, Kim Jung-Un as
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all realise, is very keen on his missiles, and MANY stamps in recent years depict them, and that includes the 2 stamps from 2018 shown nearby. Sourcing new stamp issues from North Korea seems incredibly difficult, even for those not living under US sanctions and rules. No obvious supply source that I can see. As far as I could glean, most NK new issues are printed in China, so maybe most never enter the country? I suppose if made and sold out of China it sidesteps UN import sanctions to the country, as they mostly never enter North Korea in such a scenario. China agent ships to whomever stocks this stuff in bulk, and everyone has a smile.
ScamBay lives up to its nickname!
Don’t get me wrong - online portals have been great for stamps, and for those chasing inexpensive topicals, missing values from sets, and commercial covers, elusive literature, and such things, that a local stamp shop may well not have in stock, but someone in France or Canada or Japan does. Used wisely, that is all well and good, but eBay is SCAM CENTRAL as well, and every cunning
Glen Stephens
A $US1 Million eBay scam exposed.
16 fake eBay IDS on just one account. conman who has ever roamed the planet is active on there, as regular users will know. This scamming is two-fold. Many will sell and deliver you what you see in the photo. The fact those pieces might be regummed, reperfed, repaired, and/or with forged overprints and perfins, or all of the above, many of the pretty clueless buyers do not realise at all. They leave glowing feedback, and cheerfully add this “Baaahgin” junk to their collections. Try getting a refund off “billybob586437” a year later, when a real dealer points out your dud and misdescribed pieces. The account is long closed. All your fiddled pieces are worth a fraction of what you paid, and had you bought real stamps from real established sources, you’d have no such refund or quality issues. eBay does not give TWO HOOTS about all the forged garbage being sold, as they and paypal make 15% off it ALL. They allow these spivs to change user names at will - see scan nearby, run “PRIVATE” auctions, and set PRIVATE feedback even, where bidder even buyer IDs can’t be seen, so they use an army of “shill” bidder accounts to ramp you up. eBay loves it all.
This week yet another version of the popular ScamBay dodge occurred where a ton of superb booking material was listed up for sale - all starting at 99p no reserve. Dream stuff for many. The Baaahgin Hunta Bunnies went nuts over it all as always CHEAP IS CHEAP - right? Wrong. In life there is “no such thing as a free lunch”. Most savvy folks understand this reality, but 1000s of eBay dreamers roam the earth, who do not yet have the wisdom to realise that. A superb 5/- Bridge costs what it does. They never sell for half that. Ditto £2 Roos, or mint 1d Blacks, or USA Zeppelin sets etc. Such things are like an ounce of Gold Bullion there is a pretty much set in cement market level. Globally. Start an ounce of gold at a Phoenix Auction at $1 estimate, or a MUH 5/- Bridge at $1, and both will bring the true current price level. It is that simple. An ounce of gold coin or bar will invoice at around $US1,325 today. ANYWHERE. Not $200. Not $650. NEVER happens. EVER. But on eBay that truism in life does not sink in - it is the land of the perpetual dreamers. Which is what we saw this week when some clown copied 4,200 images from the Stanley Gibbons website, and stole every word of their descriptions on those 4,200 lots. Only on eBay.
4200 lots stolen off Stanley Gibbons.
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Market Matters stamps, and he listed it all up on eBay UK. 4,200 lots in all to start, starting them all at 99p, and off went the Bunnies bidding madly on £5 Oranges, £1 PUC, high value QV, Edwards and KGV and unique proofs and essays etc, etc. Over TEN MILLION POUNDS of top end material he did not own. tinyurl.com/Scambay saw Stampboards as usual, being first globally to report this new scam, when a UK member who works in the real stamp action business there, started a warning discussion that it was occuring. For days eBay were advised of this massive scam unfolding. Stanley Gibbons told them it was their stamps being listed up, and not by them. The PTS got involved, and 100s of stampboards members and others, reported the fake auctions to ebay via reports and phone calls, and email. Scambay ignored it all of course - even though THEY and paypal were of course standing to lose huge sums via goods paid for, and not received. The first tranche of non-existent lots completed on March 11, and took in just over £150,000 from these clueless “bidders”. The other lots were due to complete in next days, and finally lumbering old ebay woke up from their coma, and wiped the seller. HOWEVER by allowing the sales to complete, this spiv was given by eBay many 100s of buyer full emails, full addresses, full names, and phone numbers. Seller gets all that data when any sale completes. Under ANY country privacy laws, that is forbidden for a scammer, but eBay did it, despite all and sundry banging them around the head, alerting them this million dollar scam was unfolding in front of their eyes.
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£200,000 rarity in the REAL world. And yes it was OVER a million $US of material that had bids.
eBay hands scammer your personal data.
What this shows, is many things. 1. eBay Bunnies are more numerous than ever. 2. eBay care less and less about massive scams (or user privacy) even when they end up holding the can, as they nearly did here. 3. Rare stamps get appalling prices on eBay. Witness £1,270 versus £200,000 for the exact same stamp scan, exact same description. Hence no genuine seller of really fine and rare material would ever dream of listing it on eBay, and getting such stupidly low prices for it. So the higher priced material of higher price offered there via “Auction” is often of second or third or fourth grade, masquerading as better quality, and praying for eBay Bunnies. The 9d Straw QV stamp shown nearby is a perfect example of what Bunny Bait is constantly dangled on ScamBay. Offered mid March by 5000 feedback UK “PowerSeller” (sic) stampsu-like who described it laughingly as ”Looks nicer than it does in the picture”
Glen Stephens - I kid you not. “stocktaking” it all, despite clear patinyurl.com/9dStraw was a perwork being in place as of Decemstampboards discussion where a ber. This absurdly padded stocktake member asked if the stamp might figure is then being charged to credibe “reperforated at base”. Collectors, who did not ask or approve it to tors are seldom adept at picking reoccur, at any time. perfs for some strange reason, even One unfortunate consignor screamingly appalling ones like has it seems been invoiced about this. This is the biggest photo this $129,000 for 350+ lots, with a marseller offered - always a giveaway ket value of only about $40,000, something is being hidden. to get them back, or they will be stamps-u-like now has £92 regarded as abandoned goods, and from some clueless Bunny in the lost forever to that vendor. BDO bank. He might have got double would legally(!) sell them, and ”Looks nicer than it does in the that - unlucky I guess. Rod Perry doubtless the proceeds of all that picture” and I concurred it is crudely rewould end in their own pockets perforated on all FOUR sides, has largely. a probable tear or repair top left, repaired along base, The “Financial Review” claims that ASIC is lookis washed and faded, and probably regummed. Bear ing into this sorry mess, and a Federal Court Judge is in mind this is eBay, so no scan of the reverse offered to make a ruling April 5 on whether these outrageous - we are just using experience. Ransom Charges are reasonable, and payable in any way. The public can submit their thoughts - you do NOT need to be a vendor, and all the detail on how to Mossgreen mess continues. do that are on the link above. Do it NOW if you are Following up on my recent articles - the scandal concerned about this lop-sided issue. at mossgreen auctions drags on, where the Vulture BDO also advised consignors that they are not Administrator BDO is trying to get vendors who had allowing selective forfeiture of lots. You take evunsold material at the auction house, to pay him milerything, or take nothing. No picking out your lions in Ransom from THEIR pockets, simply to get most valuable lots, and surrendering the rest. Pay their own goods back. tinyurl.com/MGmesss outlines the latest twists and us $129,000 to get back your own material valued at only $40,000, or you never see it again. Vendors turns, and it proves forever, that consigning anything to any Auctions that do NOT have a fully audited and were told in writing by BDO their material could be collected mid-January, and that is what they verified Trust Account is a mug’s game. A cheery SHOULD have adhered to. promise - “we WILL keep all your money put aside” - is just that, unverified words. Once these blood sucking Administrators descend Glen Stephens has written monthly ‘Stamp Tipster’ and siphon off MILLIONS as they have done here, Columns for over 30 years - globally. A vast library of in a very short time frame, there is nothing whatever his past articles and photos are found at – left for the long-suffering vendors and consigners and www.glenstephens.com/column.html creditors. Their outrageous hourly fees, and those of their associates, and legal fees etc, is mind boggling to read over. Rather than allow unsold material to be collected 4 The Tor Walk, Castlecrag, NSW, 2068 Ph: 02 9958 1333 as all consignors were told was to occur in January, email: glen@glenstephens.com the Administrator (BDO) has spent around $1 Million Website: www.glenstephens.com
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philatelic clubs & societies new south wales Armidale Circle RSPC: Mtg 2nd Wed Australian Cmwlth Collectors Club of NSW: Mtg 3rd Mon 7.45pm, 1st flr. Philas House, 17 Brisbane St, Darlinghurst, Sydney 2001. Ph 02 9264 8301 Australian Numismatic Society, NSW Branch: Mtg 3rd Monday, Philas House Australian 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 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 Burwood District SC: Mtg 4th Wed 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: Produces “Cinderellas Australia” and monographs; PO Box 889, Chatswood, NSW 2057 Club WIlloughby Philatelic Section : Mtg 4th Thursday Earlwood and District SC: Mtg 1st Wed Eastwood-Epping PS: Mtg 1st Tuesday 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, Tuncurry Enq: Ph 02 6555 5664 Gosford PS: Afternoon Mtg 1st Mon Hawkesbury Valley PS (Richmond Stamp Club): Mtg 2nd Thurs (ex Jan) PO Box 28 Richmond 2753 Illawarra PS: Mtg 3rd Wednesday, Room 2, Illawarra Master Builders Club, 61 Church St, Wollongong 7.00 pm. Lord Howe Island Postal History Society: Mtg by arrangement. Contact Pres: Dr William Mayo, 02 9918 6825 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) Mudgee Coin Note & Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Sunday Ph 02 63735324 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
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NSW Postcard Collectors Soc: Mtg 1st Wed 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301 Northern Suburbs PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs, 7.45pm, Naremburn Library, Central St, Naremburn off Slade St Orange Coin and Stamp Club: Mtg Last Tuesday, Orange Community Info Centre, 79-81 Kite St, Orange 7.30pm Parramatta PS: Mtg 1st Friday Penrith and District PS: Mtg 1st Thursdays, 8pm, J3A Bldg. Castlereash St. New PO Box: 252 Kingswood 2750. Ph: 02 4733 3062 Piallaway PS: PO Box 12, Werris Creek PHILAS Stamp Auctions: Mtg 2nd Sat Mar,Jul, Nov Ph 02 9264 8301 PS of Australia: Mtg 3rd Wed (exDec) PS of NSW: Mtg 4th Sat (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. 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 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 PS: 2nd Sat. even months 9.30-2.30 North Rocks Community Church132 North Rocks Road North Rocks 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 Toronto SC: Mtg 1st Wed Turramurra SC: Mtg 2nd Monday, 7.45pm. Twin Towns Stamp Club Inc.: Mtg 1st Monday, 7.30p, Masonic Centre, 8 Boyd St, 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 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 Mandurah PS PO Box 625 Mandurah WA 6210 2nd Tues 4.45 - 6.30pm Bortolo Park Pavilion Cnr. Bortolo and Murdoch Drives 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 9305 3130.
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: 3rd Tues. 7.30pm Leagues Club 99 Anderson St. Cairns. Ph 07 4055 1302 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 Citizens’s Hall, Gatton. Kerri Martin, Sec. Ph: 07 5465 3390 Email: lvsc@bigpond.com Logan City SC: Meetings 2nd Thurs, Presbyterian Church, Barry St, Slacks Creek, 6pm. Ph: 07 3805 9226.
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
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 Red Cross Rms, Price St., Nambour 07 5445 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 & 3rd Sat 1.30pm; Uniting Church Hall, Carlton St. Highgate. c/- 9 Moore St., Tranmere, SA 5073 08 8398 2475 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 St Arnaud SC: Mtg 3rd Mon (excl. Jan & Dec) 03 54951371 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
April 1 - (Easter Sunday), Stamp Fair, Ulladulla Civic
April 1 - (1st Sun) Western Suburbs Stamp, Coin &
Centre, Princes Hwy, 10am - 10pm 02 4455 5214
Banknote Fair, Strathmore Bowling Club, 40 Loeman
April 7 - (1st Sat) 9am to 4pm Orange Stamp Fair,
St, Strathmore. Enq: Chris. 0413355716.
Quinn’s Arcade, Summer St, Orange. Ph: Norm 02 63623754. April 7 - (1st Sat) Northside Stamp Fair. 1st Floor, Car park Building, Manly-Warringah Leagues Club,
April 14 - (2nd Sat) Salvation Army Stamp Fair, Ferntree Gully. For details see full page ad April 15 - (3rd Sun) Stamp, Card - Phone Card Fair,
cnr Federal Parade/Pittwater Rd, Brookvale, NSW.
Bentleigh-McKinnon Youth Centre, Higgins Rd,
April 7 - (1st Sat) Katoomba Stamp & Coin Fair, 9am
Bentleigh. Dealers plus huge range activities. Ph:
- 4pm, Masonic Hall, Cnr Station & Civic Sts, Katoom- 0418 322 315. ba. Ph. 0417 802 754
April 29 - (last Sun ex Dec) Stamp, Coin & Phonecard
April 7 - (1st Sat) Sutherland Shire Stamp & Coin
Fair, Jaycees Hall, Silver Grove, Nunawading. 9am-3pm.
Collectors Fair, Gymea Anglican Church Hall, 131
queensland
Gymea Bay Rd, Gymea. April 15 - (3rd Sun) Stamp & Coin Fair, 10am - 3pm, Pioneers Hall, Cowper St, Wallsend. 8 Dealers. 4971 3483 April 22 - (4th Sun) Epping Stamp & Coin Fair, Community Hall, 9 Oxford St, Epping. 10am - 4pm. Free Entry, 6 Dealers, Buy/Sell.
TBA - QStamp Fair, Southside, Mt Gravatt Showgrounds, Memorial Hall, Logan Rd. Free Entry 8.30am - 2pm April 9 - (2nd Mon) - Gold Coast PS Sale, Rm 1, Southport Comm. Centre, Lawson St, Southport. 11.30am - 2.30pm Brisbane Table Tennis Association Centre
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WE ARE ALWAYS BUYING, CONTACT US BEFORE OFFERING ELSWHERE! We want to buy collections, accumulations, dealer stocks, etc, etc. Australia and States, Kangaroos, King George V Heads, Pre-decimal, Decimal, Covers, Great Britain, British Commonwealth, Foreign. Here are some examples of the prices we can pay: Australia C of A wmk Kangaroo High Values 10/- -Two Pounds, 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 39c we pay 35% face value, 40c to 98c we pay 40% face value, $1 & above we pay 60%. Must be sorted by value in packets/envelopes and supplied with a concise list. We reserve the right to counter off er on messy lots. Post Office Packs and Year Books with stamps in place we pay 30% face value, year books with stamps in original stocksheets we pay 45% face value. Mint PSE’s 20c - 70c we pay 30% face value, $1 pay 50% 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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