May 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).
1953: Uncommon Ipswich Tax marking Queensland Tax/Deficient postage markings: Collection of P.O. markings on covers relating to inadequate franking, and other abnormalities, largely 1940s/1990s, (100+)
1967: Fire + Covers: Shock, Horror Misadventures in the Postal System: Collection of unscheduled events, covers/cards, 1950s/1990s, including trauma in transit, inadequate address details, stamp lost in transit, missent articles, etc, (75+) .
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c1985: Australia Post “Koala” Indicium Postage Paid Indicia’s: Collection on intact covers, 1960s/1990s, entirely illustrated types, which required a P.O. permit. Underrated material, (200+)
1969: Special Delivery Albury-Crows Nest FastPost Service covers: Largely 1950s/1990s collection of these popular items, Express, Special Delivery, Messenger Delivery, etc. (100+)
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With two great Australian Colonial/ Commonwealth collections scheduled for next couple of months, Chartwell (Spink) and Besançon Part II (Corinphila), I've provided a "warm-up", which was first featured in Australasian Stamp News, Ja 2011. “Kevin Nelson” Australian covers auction The eagerly awaited auction of The Kevin Nelson Collection, entitled Commonwealth of Australia Postal History 1901-1941, conducted by Prestige Philately, 27 November 2010, was an event I was not about to miss. And disappoint the sale did not. This was the most important collection of Australia to be offered at auction since the Arthur Gray Kangaroos in February, 2007. The Nelson Postal History was not important so much in aggregate value; Kevin’s traditional collection of Kangaroo’s in 2003 realized several times the aggregate of the Postal History. Rather, its importance lies in it being the first international Gold Medal collection of its kind, a pioneering effort. The collection started life more broadly as a Kangaroos on Cover collection; Kevin had retained that section from his traditional collection. The collection gradually, courageously evolved to embrace Commonwealth Postal History for the whole of the period from Federation until the attack on Pearl Harbour, the event which redefined postal services, amongst almost everything else. In his catalogue introduction, Gary Watson of Prestige Philately states “One thing that should amaze you is the estimates: compared to what stamp items of equal importance would command, they are cheap!!” Hear, hear, Gary. Let’s then review some of the results. I’ve attempted to present a balance between the more unexpectedly high realisations, and those I regard as exceptional value for money, Buyer’s premium excluded. My thanks to Prestige Philately, in particular Leo Djuhari, for providing the high quality resolution scans.
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Figure 1. Striking cover which did not grace most of the great Victoria collections Lot 1008 (Figure 1) is the only unsold lot in this review. A unique, particularly attractive Boyd’s Express cover, it was for many years in a Melbourne collection of Australian Locals (Boyd’s produced a novel Local Stamp c1890s), and I bought it at the auction of the philatelic estate in the 1970s. The cover was subsequently featured in an article in The Philatelist, June 1978. I collected Victoria at the time, but was then more interested in earlier material, and sold the cover to Bill Hornadge, founder of Stamp News. The cover realized $440 at the Hornadge sale in 2005, which may have been less than Bill paid me more than 25 years earlier. At the Nelson sale it was passed in at reserve of $380 on a $500 estimate. Frankly, I would not have been surprised if it had sold for $1000+. Puzzling. Figure 2. Attractive, scarce/rare elements, nice
package for the price Lot 1015 (Figure 2) was a compelling solo Official use of 4d Kangaroo. The convergence of a rare stamp (i.e. punctured “T” for Tasmania Govt.), scarce type Hobart registration label, scarce Official registration envelope, and neat cancellation, I would have expected would fetch more than $625 (estimate of $800 was closer to my mark). After all, the same stamp punctured “OS” on cover, of which availability is somewhat greater, has realized up to $500 and more.
Figure 3. Beauty In the Eye of the Beholder Dept. Lot 1021 (Figure 3) was not for the “Buy Only Perfect Quality” School of Philately, yet “perfect’, as an example of its kind, it indeed is. Only two of this “Opened by/Burglars/P.O. Ballarat” handstamp are recorded (this has another strike on reverse, I’m not aware if the other has). The Ballarat West (Vic) P.O. was broken into in April 1920, and an estimated 500/700 postal articles were torn open, in a search for negotiable instruments. What could be salvaged was pieced together by P.O. staff, and a hastily produced handstamp was produced to explain the trauma. Curiously, this example has been repaired utilizing selvedge of KGV Rough paper 1d red! (selvedge salvage?) Although other covers involved in mail robberies are recorded, this appears to be the only instance of a handstruck marking having been employed. Estimated at $2000, it realized $5000. Expensive? Well, more than I would have preferred, but now proudly reposing in one of my collections (“NQR: Misadven-
tures in the Australian Postal System”). Postal History par excellence. [In a remarkable coincidence, on 6 December 2010, the day I submitted this copy, a Melbourne newspaper carried the heading “Armed robbers strike in Ballarat”. Some things never change.]
Figure 4. One of the more attractive State/Kangaroo combination covers Lot 1066 (Figure 4) was ex Arthur Gray, where it realized US$425 (then about AU$525). In my April 2007 column, I commented on this item: “There are at least three factors making it desirable. Firstly, combination State and Kangaroo frankings are sought-after by those in the know, representing as they do a combination use of the stamps of two philatelically separate ‘countries’. Next, 24 Jan 1913, the day the article was serviced at Stock Exchange P.O. (Melbourne), is the earliest recorded commercial use on cover of a 6d Kangaroo; the ‘Philatelic’ cover for the 6d . . . is a day earlier. Finally, the 2½d Victoria was added subsequently to meet the Late fee required for posting a letter to a foreign destination after the advertised closing time for that day’s mail. The use of a Victoria stamp was necessarily reverted to as a 2½d denomination in the Kangaroo series would not be issued until a few days later, in January 1913.” I featured this cover in 2007 as a “bargain”. In Nelson it realized $1700, which suggests I wasn’t wrong. Actually, it still is not expensive. Were it not for the truncation of cover at left, I would happily pay $5000. Figure 5. Large covers not the problem, rather it’s small minds Stamp News - 7
franking of punctured “OS” 3d Airmail (+ KGV 2d), the Type B issue, paying domestic airmail surcharge on WA Official cover. A very nice example of usage of this 3d, of which only a small number are recorded; a snip at $300.
Lot 1080 (Figure 5) is a stunning item, in the Philately as Art league. A quadcolour franking, including rare use of 1st wmk. 1/- (a “dry ink” printing) and 2nd wmk. 2/-, the latter being one of only two recorded postal articles bearing that issue. Of course, one can hardly be choosey where such great rarity is involved, but it is a pity that a philatelic moron has in years past noticeably reduced the length of the cover at both sides. Doubtless, this “fashioning” was effected to make the item “fit” a standard album page. Why couldn’t the ends have been folded back to achieve the same result? At least my trusty book press could overcome that compromise. Or, better still, why couldn’t a double page have been utilized to exhibit the item in its full splendour? Where larger than “standard” size items are involved, smaller than standard size brains can rain on your parade. The item realized $9000 (estimate was $5000), which is justified for such an important franking, despite my gripe.
Figure 6. A lot of cover for the money Lot 1117 (Figure 6) is a sweet cover bearing rare 8 - Stamp News
Figure 7. Fabulous usage item, price trending upwards Lot 1128 (Figure 7) is a favourite of mine. I owned it in 1994, when it was acquired at auction for $440. At Nelson, it realized $3000 (estimate $2000), which is respectable. However, this is the record franking of the 6d optd. “OS”, a very scarce stamp on cover, in any shape or form, and I’ll wager that the next time this appears at auction, the realisation will continue to show an upward trend.
Figure 8. Nice franking, fortunately not compromised by scissor-wielding philatelic terrorist Lot 1137 (Figure 8) was an attractive example of the quintuple “Clipper” rate (5/10d per ½oz. x5) to U.K. via N.Z. and U.S., the franking including a £1 Robes. Fortunately, this larger than standard item has not been reduced in dimensions (as in Figure 5). Just a few years ago, this would have been
expected to realize a sub-$1000 sum. It achieved $2200 (estimate $1500). There are very few nice £1 Robes covers to satisfy the growing demand. Lot 1143 (not illustrated here) included franking of an attractive strip of four of the £1. It made $6250 (estimate $5000), bought by a Trader, for his collection! Now there’s confidence in the cover market for you.
Figure 9. 10/- Kangaroo, readily available mint, not so on cover Lots 1141 (Figure 9), and 1142 (not illustrated here) were 1940 Clipper rate covers, from the same correspondence to U.K., bearing a 10/- Kangaroo, etc. These are rare late commercial usages of this stamp, which had been replaced by the 10/- Robes on 1 April 1938. The Company which sent the items apparently maintained an in-house stock of postage. That practice is not so unusual, although one seldom sees such high denomination stamps “in stock”. The lots sold for $1400 and $1150, respectively (estimates $1250 and $1500). Not a lot for nice 10/- Kangaroo covers, given 10/- Robes covers have sold for up to $500, and they are considerably more readily available. Figure 10. One of the two recorded £2 Kangaroo covers The Arthur Gray £2 Kangaroo cover, which is one of two recorded bearing this stamp (the other being Lot 1144 - Figure 10), sold in 2007 for US$13500 (remember, Buyer’s premium is excluded from realisations in this article); then about AU$17000. At that time I stated, in the April 2007 column: “A good result, to be sure, but an item such as this has a very bright future, and the buyer may rest assured that
time will vindicate his courage in securing this great showpiece.” That buyer has since on sold the Gray cover for a reputed $35000. For those with way too much time on their hands, there is a history of the Gray cover provided in my Stamp News column of June 2004 (in which I quote Arthur Gray as saying his cover should be worth $30000! [who would have reckoned on Arthur being a cover visionary?]). Go to www.rap. com.au and look for “Rod’s columns” in menu at top, scroll down to find the article, entitled “Will covers outperform during the next 50 years?” The Nelson cover, by most counts, is not quite the equal of the Gray cover (the £2 in the former has a rounded corner, for example), yet it realized $21000 (estimate $15000). Why are such items powering along? Simple: used £2 Kangaroos off cover (CofA wmk. as are those on the two covers) are 1000s of times more available than one on cover. Collectors who want to exhibit something very special are unlikely to find it amongst the 1000s of soulless used off cover. Exhibiting is all about one upsmanship, and savvy exhibitors are prepared to pay for the privilege of having best-of-kind material.
Figure 11. Unusual rate item, appreciated for its rarity Lot 1174 (Figure 11) is the first example found of Stamp News - 9
a short-lived 7/1d per ½oz. wartime air mail rate to South America via trans-Pacific route, and a fine example of its kind it is; I’ve seen two immediate postwar covers via this route, when the rate had reduced to 5/1d per ½oz. It realized $1200 (estimate $1000), which is encouraging. Airmail rates and routes is a highly worthy field for specialization; rarities for a song abound.
paid the concessional 9d airmail postcard rate to U.K., and is a rare Canberra Duke of Gloucester Visit card, to boot. $440 against what I regarded as a conservative estimate of $500 is value, indeed. The 1927-40 Commems on commercial articles really are underappreciated by the market at present. The higher denominations are seldom seen on attractive items, such as this subject. Imprint blocks are everywhere, in comparison.
Figure 12. Hard to find would be a more attractive ½d Kangaroo solo Lot 1179 (Figure 12) was an attractive 1913 advertising card for Robur Tea, bearing appropriate ½d Kangaroo franking for Printed matter, which sold at estimate of $400. Not expensive, wouldn’t you agree?
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Figure 14. 1930s fashion: will it ever return? Bondi Beach fans pray never. Lot 1205 (Figure 14) is a rather striking item, if not particularly rare. I was surprised at the estimate of $500, and even more so by a sale price of $440. I couldn’t get the one I had on my website, priced at $75, pulled quickly enough. And mine didn’t have a damaged stamp! Figure 15. Philately as Art, with few peers Lot 1246 (Figure 15) I’ve had in my sights, ever since Richard Juzwin brought it back from the U.K.,
not many years ago. Richard, then, was virtually obligated to first offer the item to Kevin Nelson. When I learnt Kevin was selling, I thought to myself: patience is a virtue. The lot opened at its estimate of $6000, and I had no reason to expect it wouldn’t fall to me shortly thereafter. Sadly, I hadn’t envisaged that one of the great traditional Kangaroo collectors was turning his attention to commercial usage. The lot went for $17000, me the underbidder. I take some degree of solace in knowing that I wasn’t going to get the item, no matter how high I went. Passionate collectors are poetry in motion. For years, some readers may recall, I’ve recommended that a collector or two ought to take up the Kangaroo usage challenge. I should not, therefore, be surprised that my good intentions have come back to bite me! My State/Kangaroo combination usage collection is, may I immodestly suggest, a best-of-kind collection, which I suppose it ought to be after 25 years of aggressive buying. My motto for that collection, and most collections I attempt, takes a leaf out of the line in a Queen tune: I want it all, I want it all, and I want it now. Those words are barely
audible as I pen these words. Why is this item Philately as Art? Interestingly, it is also Kevin Nelson’s pick as “the best item in the collection”. The convergence of the rarity on any postal article of the 1st wmk. 2/- (two usages are recorded), in combination with the Tasmania 10d “Tablet” (a commercial usage item may exist, although I can’t recall seeing one), tied by a superb strike of a rare cancellation, the whole upon a document which is a rare survivor in its own right, the sum of which is irresistible to a philatelic connoisseur, and this philatelic critic. It is also bears the highest denomination State/Kangaroo stamp I’ve recorded (the 2/-). There is not a mint £2 Kangaroo in existence which I would rather own than this subject. Unless there is a mint one with the centre inverted. My hearty congratulations to the purchaser. You, Sir, have a contender for the Mona Lisa of all Australian Commonwealth Postal History. Incidentally, that same lucky purchaser reminded me at the auction that we first met in my original Melbourne office, just on forty years ago. Figure 16. A courageous purchase in the 1990s vindicated
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Lot 1248 (Figure 16) was offered to a friend by the Juzwin’s in the 1990s, for $1400. I was asked “What do you think?”, and I think I said “Don’t let it go”, or words to that effect. Circumstances caused my friend to have to part company with the item, and Kevin Nelson was the subsequent owner, at a very fair return. Both Gentlemen have been vindicated for their faith in this item; it realized $11500 (estimate $5000). This is the only entire postal article bearing the £2 Small Multiple wmk. According to ACSC £2 “imprint pairs can be rated as no more than very scarce, with perhaps as many as 30 surviving”. The imprint pairs, nevertheless, catalogue $15000 (2004), which suggests to me the subject item has considerable blue sky potential, still. I certainly know which of these two types of items I would prefer to own. Figure 17. Another from that lengthy inventory of items I should have retained Lot 1249 (Figure 17) was owned by me and sold in
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a 1990 auction for, duh, $340. In the Nelson sale it fetched $7250 (estimate $6000). I’m a slow learner. I heartily confer with Gary’s comment in the catalogue intro: “Collecting covers is for the more adventurous souls, for those who relish a challenge, and those for whom the appreciation of a postal artefact goes far beyond the stamps affixed to it.” Despite the success of the Kevin Nelson sale, I have a feeling that in not too many years to come, some of us will look back upon the offering as one which contained many an opportunity lost. Rod Perry has been a philatelic trader since 1962 and a Stamp News advertiser since the 1960s . He founded Rodney A Perry Auction Galleries (now Millennium Philatelic Auctions) in 1971. As a collector he has exhibited nationally and internationally. Rod prefers his usedstamps on cover and likens taking a stamp off its original cover toconverting a tree to woodchips. Past editions of this column may be accessed on Rod’s ‘rap.com.au’
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Tasmania 1892 £1 Tablet Queen Victoria o/p REVENUE postally on the *LAST DAY* legal!
Amazing find. These Postal Fiscal £1 Queen Victoria Stamps overprinted “REVENUE” were mostly used for Stamp Duty purposes, and are often found thus, but were of course full legal for POSTAL use up until November 30, 1900, (see SG note after SG F39) hence their full SG listing. A few philatelic singles and covers were created - near all cancelled Hobart - this one was invoiced for $A2,250 in November, see - tinyurl.com/ Tas1900 Not many were done, as of course £1 was well OVER one week’s gross wages then! Clean and fresh VFU, with nice centering. SG F39, £225 - where this price has been literally unchanged for over 20 years insane: show me another for sale globally at ANY price! It is FAR scarcer than the basic QV £1 - SG #225, cat £500. It is Scott #A35, Cat $US350 - a little more reasonable price level. Fine full face “Socked On The Nose” cds cancel of “HOBART - NOV 30 - 00 - TASMANIA” Fresh with gum, deep rich colour as has NEVER been immersed in water. CTO on the very last day of validity - $A325 (Stock 961LR) Also have a Superb Used 2/6d St George and Dragon “REVENUE” with same last day cds. SG F32 £500++ for $A400 (Stock 961LT)
New Zealand Stamp Collection 1935-1995. Retail $A1,750 for just $A450!
In a superb “leather” Lighthouse album & slipcase. A beautiful and clean and impressive album. 1935 to 1995 M+U Collection, 60 years of stamps, near complete, in a real top of the range German made "Lighthouse" hingeless album, and matching slipcase. Deeply padded leather grain covers etc, and large page size. Retail $A130 with no pages, and filled with 88 pages of the super heavyweight 170gsm Lighthouse pages - retail $54.95 a pack 50, or another $90+ = $A220 with NO stamps for the album! (Plus $100 for all the clear mounts!) And extra pages are buyable to expand on the same pages here - a perfect collection to add to. Retail of the 1935 to 1980 is ACS retail $NZ877 (=$A825) lightly pencilled alongside each set in erasable soft 4B pencil. THEN from 1980 on, the FACE value alone is another $318, and retail of that era is 2 or 3 times face average so another $NZ750 (=$A705) or so retail = so $A1,530 or so in the stamps, and over $A220 of album = $A1,750 approx retail. A superb looking collection at a QUARTER retail – how’s that for an Easter Special ex estate?! There is probably $400 FACE here in the decimal era alone! And much darn useful material in the pre-decimal, and all in a superb album/slipcase. Heaps more pix of them here - tinyurl.com/3595NZ $A450 (Stock 526DY)
Australia 1913 1d Kangaroo First Die 1 print, Fresh *MUH* No Monogram Strip 3! What a gem - aged 105 years and all totally MUH, all stamps and all margin and of course guaranteed by me as ORGINAL gum. The No Monogram strips are wildly under-rated. Been 20 years since I had one. The “JBC” and “CA” monograms in this same position were visually far more interesting, and hence far more widely collected, but they are cat near as much as these No Monogram versions, in strips 3, which of course are TEN times scarcer. The 1d Roos were the only 1d value on sale when WWI started, and blank corner strips of stamps were the last thing on anyone’s mind! Anything better from 1913 Roos in genuine MUH is scarce, and most especially any fresh multiple. Fresh *MUH* - Guaranteed OG. ACSC 2z, Cat $4,000 as MUH. Bought well in a large collection (he also had a 5d *MUH* Monogram cheap!) so out it goes at just $A1,600 (Stock 627RV)
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The EARLY YEARS OF BRUNEI STAMPS
In 1929 huge deposits of oil were discovered in the Sultanate of Brunei on the island of Borneo but it took many years before they could be properly exploited. The oil brought prosperity to the country which has been ruled by the same family since the 15th century. Brunei is far from a democracy as the ruling family exercises total control of the country. Much money has been spent on building splendid palaces and huge mosques. Brunei is a mainly Moslem nation but there are also important religious minorities. Despite this fact, the Sultan is planning to introduce a system of sharia laws encompassing the entire population.
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In the early part of the 19th century, Brunei was far from prosperous. The Sultan had serious money problems and a wave of piracy didn’t help to improve the situation. Out of the blue arrived Englishman James Brooke with his armed vessel. Much to the delight of the Sultan, the English adventurer was able to defeat the pirates. As a rather magnificent gesture of thank you for services rendered, the Sultan gave James Brooke a large chunk of Brunei’s territory and Brooke thus became the Raja of Sarawak in 1842. Brooke was an efficient person and commenced a programme of development and improvements in his new state.
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Christer Brunström James Brooke was depicted on Sarawak’s very first stamp issued in 1869 (Fig. 1). Sadly he had passed away the previous year. Sir Charles Brooke, James’s nephew, became the new Raja of Sarawak. In fact, the Brooke family ruled Sarawak all the way until the Japanese occupation of the country during World War II. While all this was going on in neighbouring Sarawak not much happened in Brunei. Hashim Jalil-ul-Alam Akamudin had become sultan in 1885. Whatever mail was posted in the sultanate was taken to the island of Labuan for onward transmission. Labuan (Fig. 2) was a British colony and thus a member of the UPU. In 1888
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Brunei became a British protectorate. A major event of interest to worldwide philatelists took place in 1895 when Brunei released its very first set of stamps (Fig. 3). The set comprised ten denominations from 1 cent to 1 dollar. Most collectors believed that this issue was completely bogus and the editors of worldwide stamp catalogues shared this opinion. Thus the stamps were not listed. In 1933 veteran British stamp auctioneer Robson Lowe discovered original documents testifying to the fact that the stamps were in fact absolutely genuine and released by the Brunei Post Office in 1895 following an 1894 agreement
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The EARLY YEARS OF BRUNEI STAMPS
between the sultan and J. C. Robertson regarding the printing of the stamps. It was carried out by a company in Scotland. Much later a number of completely genuine commercial covers and cards have been found. As Brunei was not a member of the UPU at the time, the stamps were only valid on inland mail and on letters to Sarawak and Labuan. A large quantity of covers had been mailed by Robertson to his associates in Britain. In spite of being entirely philatelic in nature they enjoy a considerable demand today. They are always franked with a variety of Brunei stamps and a Labuan stamp paying the postage to England.
The next stamps from Brunei appeared in 1906 (Fig. 4). The set comprised of 12 stamps with basically the same denominations as the previous issue from 1895. Labuan definitive stamps had been overprinted BRUNEI in red and in some cases a new denomination had been added. In 1907 Brunei saw the arrival of not only a new sultan – Mohamed Jemal-ul-Amal – but also of a new set of definitive stamps (Fig. 5). A design featuring a river scene with a house in the background had been selected. The printing contract had been awarded to De La Rue in England. This design then dominated on almost
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Christer Brunström all of the sultanate’s stamp issues until the early 1950s. The many printings resulted in different colours and watermarks. This might sound quite monotonous but in my view it is quite interesting. In 1924 a new design in a different size was introduced on some values (Fig. 6). It shows a view of Water Town with its rather unique architecture. Starting in the 1960s Brunei’s stamp issues became far more varied than in the past. The portrait of the reigning sultan now became the favourite subject on the country’s definitive stamps. In more recent years Brunei’s stamp output is no different from that of most other nations.
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Preparations are forging ahead for Stockholmia 2019. The 1500-seat auditorium in the Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre will be used for the daily RPSL presentations at 3PM as well as for the opening ceremony. This is also the location for the rarity auction conducted by the Global Philatelic Network on Saturday 1 June 2019. In addition to the large auditorium, there are 15 rooms for society meetings, presentations and philatelic book releases. Both the Philatelic Congress of Great Britain and the Second World Cinderella Congress will take place during the exhibition period. Other notable events include the RDP (Roll of Distinguished Philatelists) ceremony, the Congress of the AIJP (Association Internationale des Journalistes Philatéliques) and a meeting of the AEP (Association des Experts Philatéliques). The International Federation of Stamp Dealer Federations (IFSDA) will also conduct its congress at STOCKHOLMIA. The Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre will undoubtedly be buzzing with philatelic activities from the day the exhibition opens at 10 AM on 29 May 2019 and until it closes at 3 PM on 2 June 2019. The Court of Honour will be devoted to the Society’s Patron Her Majesty the Queen together with other royal collectors of which there have been quite a few over the years. This section will include items from royal collections, documents, pictures, ephemera, etc. The exhibition’s philatelic patron, Gustaf Douglas, will also display his comprehensive Golden Collection of Swedish philately in the Court of Honour. A large section has been set aside for the STOCKHOLMIA Library managed by Wolfgang Maassen, a well-known philatelic journalist and researcher. The Library will feature a selection of RPSL publications and Crawford Medal winners from the Tomas Bjäringer philatelic library. A series of lectures of interest to philatelic writers and publishers are in the planning stage. as eight book presentations each day. Wolfgang Maassen will edit the two 300-page STOCKHOLMIA 2019 catalogues. One will be devoted to the exhibition itself. The second volume was described as the Library Catalogue. Contents will include reviews of all RPSL publications and the Crawford Medal winners from the Tomas Bjäringer library as well as all the competitive literature entries in the exhibition. More information about the exhibition and other related activities can be obtained at the website: www.stockholmia2019.se Stamp News - 17
Stamps in the News - Globally! Australia Post – back in the black but in hot water with one million customers Reported at www.news.com.au
A DAMNING Commonwealth Ombudsman’s report about Australia Post has found it continues to have “persistent delivery issues” so bad that it has received more than one million complaints in a single year. The Ombudsman commented that he suspected the number would have been far higher if it was not for the organisation’s convoluted and complex complaints process. The report gave an example of how the “complaints” page on the Australia Post website didn’t actually give people the option of leaving a complaint. The 64-page review also heard claims staff could often be “defensive”, with one employee refusing to give compensation for a lost parcel because “for all we know, it could have contained rocks”. Another customer was told their complaint was actually “feedback” and so wouldn’t be investigated. One housebound customer found a notification card left for them when it was clear they could not
have left the house. The ombudsman said complaints to Australia Post were only slightly fewer than those received by the UK’s postal operator, despite Britain’s Royal Mail delivering three times as many items annually. The 1.1 million complaints represent a 16 per cent on the previous year Of the complaints about Australia Post received by the ombudsman, 64 per cent were due to items being lost, damaged or concerns with delivery. The perennial bugbear of delivery staff making no or little attempt to deliver a parcel, and instead leaving a card directing people to pick up their parcel from the post office, remained prominent. And when items were lost, customers often had trouble receiving compensation. Compared with overseas post offices, it was found that Australia Post was both reluctant to compensate and offered much lower compensation rates eg maximum $100 for registered items when Royal Mail offers up to the equivalent of $A700. The amount a customer might receive was entirely subjective dependent on the staff member involved. In four out of every five cases the ombudsman investigated relating to compensation, “it was clear
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that the internal complaint-handling process is not effective in resolving these disputes”. The ombudsman recommended Australia Post make it easier for customers to lodge complaints online, make it clearer that delivering parcels to some addresses, like flats, is inherently more difficult and might lead to a card being left, and improve the consistency of advice to customers about compensation. In a letter to the ombudsman, Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate said she recognised and acknowledged the common themes in the report warrant reflection. The company accepted five of the six recommendations and has partially accepted the other.
Nauru Postal Service…..back after 7 years missing in action Reported at http://nauru-news.com
The re-established Nauru Post was opened as a corporate body on the 5th March along with the release of a commemorative coin and pendant as part of the 50th Independence Day anniversary. The coin and pendant are both shaped like Nauru and features the theme and logo of Nauru’s anniversary, “Nauru progresses forward in unity with God.”
A commemorative stamp for the 50th anniversary was also released in late January- the first stamp issued by Nauru for close to 7 years. The Nauru Parliament enacted for the establishment of the Naoero Postal Services Corp in January. At the opening of the new post office, President Waqa said the establishment of the postal corporation will seek to enter into cooperation with other postal services and draw on best practice. “Services are expected to expand to provide the sale of merchandise items, introduction of new stamps, passport photos and ID services, as well as promote Nauru’s traditional handicraft items,” President Waqa said.
Afghan postal services trying to get back on track
Reported at www.tolonews.com The Afghan government have pledged that postal services will radically improve in the near future with standardised services including online insurance, money transactions, water and electricity bill paying. As part of this plan, Afghanistan Telecom Regulatory Authority (ATRA) will invest at least 10 million AFs from the communication development fund to boost Stamp News - 19
Stamps in the News - Globally! the postal services in the country. Complaints are rife about high prices of postal services. Although there are 460 post offices in Afghanistan, the services are acknowledged to be poor. Post office officials however said they have earned more than 900 million AFs in the last two years and that their services are improving.
Ukraine Postal services between a rock and a hard place Reported at www.kyivpost.com
The postal service in Ukraine- Ukrposhta- is a stateowned behemoth employs that 74,000 people and has been one of the slowest of the Soviet-legacy infrastructure companies to modernize. It is notorious for its slow delivery and often rough service and is the subject of endless complaints.
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The CEO prefers to see the complaints as useful signposts. “I accept the criticism. It’s good that people castigate Ukrposhta and call it ineffective. If you don’t know about a problem, you simply can’t fix it.” He says he knew what he was getting into when he took the job 18 months ago. Ukrposhta, established in 1994, was simply too cumbersome to be turned into a competitive business quickly. His ambition is to turn Ukrposhta into a top-notch postal service and courier company, perhaps even offering banking services. Ukrposhta has long lost its dominance to agile private delivery companies, such as Nova Poshta. For example, Ukrposhta transports 22 million parcels a year, while Nova Poshta handles 140 million. Unlike private companies, Ukrposhta can’t close or move any of their 12,000 departments: The company is legally obliged to maintain all of their ex-
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isting branches in order to continue servicing every area in Ukraine. It does receive some government rental subsidies. Nova Poshta doesn’t think that’s fair, however: It filed a claim against Ukrposhta in December, accusing it of illegal competition practices. The Ukrposhta CEO refutes this. “Many postal services around the world are subsidized by governments to keep working in remote areas and maintain otherwise unprofitable premises.” Apart from that, Ukrposhta can’t make cutbacks to its workforce of 74,000 employees due to government commitments made 18 months ago. One ray of hope is that Ukrposhta has been made a public joint stock company with the Ministry as single shareholder rather than a government department. This has freed the company from some excessive government control.
New Zealand Post finds the hard place Reported at www.stuff.co.nz
A parcel sent to a New Zealand couple “Kay and Philip”—and addressed only to “a farm, situated up
a long driveway with cows, opposite a pub or thereabouts”—reached its proper destination after help from social media. The letter was received by a service centre in New Zealand’s rural village of Cust which services 450 residents. While it’s customary to return improperly addressed mail to the sender, manager Tammie McGrath decided to try finding the parcel’s rightful recipients by posting an image to Facebook. “I could tell it had been written by an older person and I just thought, well, I’ll hang on to it for a couple of days before I send it back and see if I can find who it belongs to,” she said. “A couple of hours after I posted it on Facebook, a man came in and said, ‘I think we own this parcel.’ He gave me his details and said his name was Philip. He isn’t actually on Facebook, but people who know him who are on Facebook showed the post to him.” The sender was Irene Meekings, a woman in her 70s that visited Kay and Philip’s home with her daughter-in-law for dinner. The parcel contained a handmade tea-towel and apron as thank-you gifts. Mrs Meek is almost blind so wouldn’t have seen where she was going when she visited.
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Stamps in the News - Globally! No noose is good noose Reported at www.ktnv.com
A Las Vegas postal worker says her bosses didn’t do enough to address her concerns about a noose hanging in front of a house on her route. Nicole Brown says she is assigned to a route that includes the home once a week and after noticing the noose, she stopped delivering to the home. “The first day I saw it, I immediately let the supervisor know,” Brown said. “I told her I felt threatened for my safety because you never know.” Brown said when she delivered on the route she just skipped the street altogether because the home was the only one there, but then the homeowner called the office asking where the mail was. That’s when she became concerned. “If you want to put racist stuff on your property, okay fine, but anybody that is delivering shouldn’t be subjected to that.” In the interim homeowner was made aware of the issue – he claims the post office never told him the reason for the delayed mail deliveries until he contacted them. He said the noose had been there for 20 years as
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part of the western theme featuring an old wooden wagon and other structures but has subsequently removed it.
United States Postal ServiceAmazon’s Delivery Boy? Reported at www.afr.com
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has been dragged into President Trump’s current stoush with the online sales giant, Amazon. The President tweeted “Amazon must pay real costs (and taxes) now!” and went on to claim the USPS “will lose $1.50 on average for each package it delivers for Amazon.” Amazon has said the postal service makes money on its deliveries. A Trump spokesman has hinted that the administration may act to raise Amazon’s postal costs. “Once the market figures out that a single @usps rule change will crush @amazon’s bottom line we will see.” Amazon regularly uses the USPS to complete what’s called the “last mile” of delivery, with letter car-
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riers dropping off packages at some 150 million residences and businesses daily. It has a network of more than 20 “sort centres” where customer packages are sorted by zip code, stacked on pallets and delivered to post offices for the final leg of delivery. While full details of the agreement between Amazon and the U.S. Postal Service are unknown it is estimated that Amazon pays the USPS $2 per package- about half what it would pay UPS or FedEx. It is estimated a sudden increase in postal rates would cost Amazon about $2.6 billion a year and likely lead to price hikes from UPS and FedEx. “The Postal Regulatory Commission has consistently found that Amazon’s contracts with the USPS are profitable,” the company said in the statement. “Amazon has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in a network of more than 20 sort facilities that inject directly into the USPS last mile network bypassing most of USPS network.” The president’s tweet also assumes that Amazon would be forced to pay if the Postal Service increased its rates for packages. But Amazon has been setting up its own shipping operations in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world to minimise costs.
Fiji gives peace a chance Reported at http://fijisun.com.fj
The United States Peace Corps – which arrived in Fiji 50 years ago – is being honoured with a commemorative stamp set. A government spokesman paid tribute to the first group of Peace Corps Volunteers who arrived in Fiji in early 1968, beginning a long and meaningful history of friendship, cooperation and learning between the US and Fiji. “Over the past half-century, Peace Corps Volunteers have shared their skills in agriculture, forestry, education, health and sanitation, vocational training, business development and other subjects,” he said. “In the course of their training and service, they
learned to speak Fijian and often specialising in particular dialects and grew to be familiar with the diverse cultures of their host communities and to their Fijian friends they showed by example, the best face of the US,” he added. Today, he said Peace Corps Volunteers live and work in 13 Fijian Provinces and work hand-in-hand with local communities. The stamps will be in circulation for the next two years and refocus attention on the Peace Corps enduring vision of service in the cause of peace and understanding.
Lebanon fêtes fashion favourite
LibanPost has issued new stamps to honour the acclaimed Lebanese fashion designer Elie Saab. Elie Saab is celebrated as a symbol of hope in his home country of Lebanon. Featuring a portrait of the Lebanese couturier, the stamp was created by LibanPost to recognise the renowned designer’s accomplishments and meteoric success and commitment to Lebanon. Elie Saab is a self-taught fashion designer. Since launching his namesake brand in 1997, hundreds of celebrities and royalty have looked to the House of Elie Saab to dress them, including HM Queen Rania of Jordan, Beyoncé, Sherihan, Countess Stéphanie de Lannoy, and many more. The Elie Saab company continues to flourish year after year, introducing a fragrance in 2011, bridal Stamp News - 23
Stamps in the News - Globally! line in 2016, and opening flagship stores in international cities including New York, London, Dubai, and Hong Kong. In the past, LibanPost issued a stamp honouring Lebanese businessman Carlos Ghosn as well as the country’s Independence heroes.
Australia gets money for jam Reported at https://startsat60.com
Australia Post is paying homage to one of the first locally manufactured foods in its latest stamp issue: good ol’ Aussie jam. The nostalgic stamps will feature four popular vintage Aussie jam labels from the late-19th century until the mid-20th century and they’re sure to bring memories flooding back for many Boomers across the country. The vibrant designs have a nostalgic feel that will appeal to many, especially as vintage jam labels are a highly collectable form of ephemera. Australia’s primary production industries expanded at a rapid rate at the beginning of the 20th century, leading Australia to become a major exporter of food, including fresh fruit and tinned jam. Peacock, which is considered the first factory-scale site for commercial jam manufacturing in Australia, was founded by George Peacock in 1861 in Hobart. Peacock has since expanded his business into Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and New Zealand. The label Kingurli, produced by gardener-turned-entrepreneur George McEwin, was founded in 1862, to make use of excess fruit. Grocery chain, Melray was founded in 1932 in Melbourne, and is one of several grocers that sold 24 - Stamp News
jam under their own brand names. Melray now has branches across Australia. Alva was one of the smaller jam manufacturers operating in the early 20th century. It was first established by W H Johnson’s Jams Pty Ltd of Melbourne in the 1930’s and was a well-advertised brand in the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s, however it was bought out in the ’70s.
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abacus auctions: the old new kids in town 28th March 2018: Well-known Melbourne dealer Torsten Weller recently announced his acquisition of the assets of the Stamp & Coin Department of the failed Mossgreen Auctions. With Gary Watson (former owner of Prestige Philately) and Nick Anning, Torsten has formed Abacus Auctions, with the somewhat cheesy but appropriate motto “You Can Count On Us!” “People will quickly see,” said Torsten, “that we are returning to the successful and highly respected business model that made Prestige Philately a world leader in this industry. We stand for integrity and the highest professional standards, coupled with respect for all our clients and their material. Collecting stamps and coins should be fun and we want people to enjoy all their dealings with Abacus.”
First Auction
The first Abacus auction will be held at the firm’s premises, conveniently located at 19A Hampshire Road, Glen Waverley on Saturday 19th May. The sale includes an exceptional array of ‘OS’ punctures and overprints; Australian FDCs in profusion; Australian postal history, especially military and censor mail; interesting offerings from all the Australian Colonies; and the first part of Max Watson’s renowned collection of Victorian Barred Numerals. Overseas sections include exceptional European material of “European quality”; a fascinating array of New Zealand Revenues; and strong Pacific Islands, especially New Guinea and Papua. Picture Postcard collectors will
also find numerous meaty lots under both “Australia” and “Rest of the World” A feature of the sale is the large number of collections and accumulations offered intact: ideal for expansion, research, or resale.
Benefits Galore
The popular, user-friendly Prestige website, including all the key resources, is being revitalised. Spectacular catalogues will be a hallmark of the firm. Conservative estimates are the order-of-the-day and 5% bidding increments will be reintroduced. Credit card fees will be kept to a minimum. More than 1000 lots will be sold in one afternoon. And everyone who attends will be offered an enticing afternoon tea, free of charge.
Secured Vendor Payments
To bolster the confidence of vendors, Abacus has set up a segregated “Vendors’ Account” that is completely separate from our operating account, and payment in full will be made 45 days after each auction. This will be converted into a formal trust account a soon as possible, but currently these are only available for regulated industries such as real estate agents. The Auctioneers & Valuers Association of Australia (AVAA) is investigating how to assist in establishing a “Trust Account”, which will in turn allow Abacus to become an AVAA member. For your complimentary catalogue, contact Abacus by phone on (03) 8513 0595, email to info@abacusauctions.com.au or write to Abacus, PO Box 296, Mount Waverley VIC 3149. Stamp News - 25
Postal Stationery Welcome to the postal stationery column for May 2018. This month’s column looks at some recent new issues from Australia Post as well as a brief look at aerogrammes.
2018 ANZAC Biscuit Tins Postcards
Two stamped postcards were included in the 2018 ANZAC Biscuits Tins sold by Australia Post during March 2018. The design of the first postcard was similar to the biscuit tin commemorating 100 years of the last year of WWI (Figure 1) while the second postcard shows the Historic Arch of Victoria Ballarat (Figure 2). The postcards were sold for $14.95 Figure 1 Pre-paid Postcard Commemorating the 100th (including the biscuits and tin). Anniversary of the Last Year of World War I
Fellowship of the First Fleeters stamped Envelope
A stamped envelope (Figure 3) was issued on 8 March 2018 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Fellowship of First Fleeters which was formed in March 1968. The Fellowship includes descendants of those who arrived in New South Wales, in January 1788, on the eleven ships of the First Fleet. The envelope sold for $1.25 and was designed by John White.
Lucy Osburn stamped envelope The 150th anniversary of the arrival of Lucy Osburn in Sydney on 5 March 1868 and her pivotal role in reforming local nursing was marked by a pre-stamped envelope (Figure 4) issued on 5 March 2018. Lucy Osburn headed a team of six nurses sent on the recommendation of Florence Nightingale, and at the request of Henry Parkes, ColoFigure 3 50th Anniversary of the Fellowship of First Fleeters Pre-Stamped Envelope 26 - Stamp News
Figure 2 Historic Arch of Victoria Pre-Paid Postcard
Ian McMahon nial Secretary of New South Wales. Lucy Osburn and her team were expected to reform nursing at the Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary (later called Sydney Hospital) and to found a nursing school there. The nurses they trained would spread the system of “Nightingale nursing” throughout hospitals in the colony. Lucy Osburn’s 16 years in Sydney were marked by controversy, but she eventually reformed nursing, making it a highly esteemed occupation for lay women. At the same time, her Figure 4 Lucy Osburn Pre-stamped Envelope insistence on the Nightingale principle of patient-centred care profoundly and permanently improved medical outcomes. Lucy Osburn is accordingly honoured as the founder of modern nursing in Australia. The envelope was designed by John White based on photographs supplied by the State Library of NSW and the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences. The stamp design was based on Figure 5 Reverse of Mint Lucy Osburn Pre-stamped Envelope with Barcode a photograph by Ian McMahon. It was printed by Lithography ending in ‘035’. on 100 gsm Postspeed paper by printer EGO and sold for $1.25. The mint envelope (Figure 5) and the FDI envelope (Figure 6) had different barcodes.
Postal Stationery Society of Australia Meeting at Canberra Stampshow 2018 Figure 6 Reverse of Lucy Osburn Pre-stamped Envelope Cancelled FDI with Barcode ending in ‘042’.
The Postal Stationery Society of Australia meeting (Figures 7 and 8) on 18 March 2018
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Postal Stationery at the Canberra Stampshow 2018 included displays by Gary Brown of South Africa WWII Jewish and Comforts airletters, John Moore of South African pictorial postcards and Philip Levine of Cape of Good Hope postcards.
Aerogrammes
Aerogrammes are light weight airmail lettersheets which have often been carried at a discount air mail rate. The first aerogramme, known at the time as an ‘air mail lettercard’ was issued by Iraq in 1933 when Major Douglas Gumbley was Director of Figure 7 Postal Stationery Society of Australia Meeting at Canberra the Iraqi Post Office (Figure 9). The Stampshow 2018 popularity of aerogrammes, known at the time as air letters, increased dramatically during World War II, when countries sought to find ways of improving letter communication between military forces overseas and the population back home at a time when sea mail was slow and dangerous and the space on aircraft was extremely limited. For example, Canada introduced an air letter service from Canada to members of the armed forces overseas on 15 June 1942 with a postage rate of 10c (Figure 10). These forms were produced by either Le Comptoir National, Montreal and were also Figure 8 Members viewing the Display at the Postal Stationery provided to members of the armed Society of Australia Meeting at Canberra Stampshow 2018 forces overseas to write back to Canada in October 1942. In addition, Initially the carriage of aerogrammes at discount forms (Figure 11) were printed by No 1 Printing and air mail rates was based on agreements between Stationery Detachment, Canadian Army based in the individual countries but the use of aerogrammes was United Kingdom. They were made available for use formalised at the UPU Congress in Brussels in 1952 from 1 October 1942 at a postage rate of 6d. For which made use of the name ‘aerogramme’ compulChristmas 1944 air letter forms with free postage sory. Figure 14 shows the first Canadian aerogramme were distributed to Canadian forces overseas (Figure inscribed ‘Aerogramme’ which was issued on 11 Au12). The first stamped Canadian aerogramme was gust 1953 to conform with the new UPU regulations. issued on 29 August 1947 and were imprinted with a The UPU Letter Mail regulations allow every 10c King George VI stamp (Figure 13). designated operator may admit priority items and 28 - Stamp News
Ian McMahon airmail items consisting of a sheet of paper suitably folded and gummed on all sides. Such items shall be called “aerogrammes”. “Aerogrammes” shall be considered as being similar to airmail letters in the classification system based on contents. The regulations set the size of aerogrammes as between 110 x 220 and 90 x 140 mm with the the length being at least 1.4 times the width and under the Regulations aerogrammes must be rectangular and be so made that they do not hamper the handling of the mail. The front of the aerogramme shall be reserved for the address, the prepayment and service notes or labels. It shall bear the printed indication “Aerogramme” and may also bear an equivalent indication in the language of the country of origin. An aerogramme shall not contain any enclosure. It may be registered if the regulations of the country of origin so permit. Each member country or designated operator shall fix, within the limits defined [above], the conditions of issue, manufacture and sale of aerogrammes. Interestingly, the regulations provide an exemption for aerogrammes from Afghanistan and Japan to allow pictures or slips of paper to be enclosed in or attached to aerogrammes. The use of aerogrammes has greatly declined in recent years due to use of email and the decline in mail volumes. Many countries no longer issue them, alFigure 10 Canada Air Letter for Use to and From Canadian Forces Overseas Figure 11 Canada Air Letter Produced by the Canadian Army for Use by Canadian Forces Overseas Figure 12 Canada Air Letter with Free Postage for Distribution to Armed Forces for Christmas 1944.
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Figure 13 Canadian King George VI aerogramme issued 1947. though Australia still does. Canada issued its last aerogramme on 9 January 1996. In Canada, the air mail letter rate and the aerogramme rate had been the same since 1 July 1971 so that aerogrammes did not represent a cheaper means of sending email to foreign destinations.
Aerogramme Challenge and National Postal Stationery Class Newcastle Stamp & Coin Expo 2018
11am on Sunday 27 May. For further information about Newcastle 2018 visit the Newcastle Philatelic Society website http://www.newcastlephilatelicsociety.org.au.
The Postal Stationery Society of Australia (PSSA) sponsored aerogramme challenge at the Newcastle Stamp & Coin Expo 2018 will include 10 entries of aerogrammes including six exhibits of Australian aerogrammes as well as exhibits of aerogrammes from Canada, Burma, Belgium, Fiji and Ethiopia. The Postal Stationery Society of Australia will hold a meeting at the Newcastle Stamp & Coin Expo 2018, 25-27 May Figure 14 First Canadian Aerogramme inscribed ‘Aerogramme’ issued 2018. The meeting is planned for in 1953 30 - Stamp News
BUY OR BID SALE MAY 2018 Buy now at the listed price or bid a lower figure. Bids will be considered close of business 31 May 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 many 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 & Publications AP1) Magnificent stockbook offer! We have a great new item: Ka - Be, one of the most respected German manufacturers now has a 64 black page padded binder stockbook, with double linen hinging. These retail at $66 each, my price $55 each or $249 for a carton of 5. Colours available are Black, Dark Blue, Dark Green or Maroon AP2) 7 Double cover albums, with padded covers, various colours as new, each complete with 25 pages to hold 100 covers or banknotes. Pack of 10 pages cost $24.50, and the album cover $25, so retail $85 plus each. Price just $29 each or take the lot for $175 PZM1) Prinz Mounts, clear, mixed sizes, as they come, big bag of 500g, elsewhere $89, my price $69…will keep you going for ages! AMMY2) As new Stocksheets, some never used. Mix of brands like Hagner, Prinz & Eureka. Now at UNDER HALF NEW PRICE OF $175 per 100 your choice of sizes. Single sided sizes available 1 - 8 strips $72.50 per 100. Double sided available in 1 – 5 strips, $137.50 per 100. AMMY4) SG Part One, Commonwealth 1840 – 1970 Catalogue 2013 edition, small fault at top of spine otherwise as new. Published at $175, price just $49. ACC1) Australia Comprehensive Catalogue Hard Bound Edition, with Spiral Bound Update. This is the most recent edition with most prices still being current. Prices for all Australia, Australian States and AAT in semi-specialised listings, every stamp illustrated in full colour. Contains issues to 2010. Originally sold via Bookshops and Newsagencies at $99, clear-out price of less than 25%, and $24 per set. Re-sellers special….5 sets for $99! MN41) Magnificent Magnifier: Large 110mm Illuminated Magnifier with Stand This magnifier can be used with or without the base. It is suitable for stamp and coin collectors as well as art and craft, artists etc. Magnification: 2.5x, plus 4x Spot. Diameter: 110mm, bigger than the Lighthouse similar product. Battery operated: 2 x AA (not included). Adjustable height up to 200mm and angle to 45 degrees. RRP $36.95. Price each only $15, under 50% retail! $69 per 5 why not give away to friends and relations, or do some trading? AAP7) Schaubek Drying Books, A4 with 12 drying sheets, just arrived. We only have 10 of these. On EBay at $27.99 plus $5 postage, my price $30 post free, two for $55.
AAP8) Great Britain Stanley Gibbons One Country Album, 2 volumes, 1840 – 1970 and 1971 – 1987 absolutely as new. Housed in 2 luxury padded deep red 4 ring binders. Pre-Decimal is standard, and decimal is hingeless. New price $269.60, but now at less than 50% , price $119 AAP9) Lighthouse Australia Hingeless Albums (2) 1966 - 2000, including AAT. Superb Two Volume set on heavy duty leaves and in Black Padded Leather Grain Binders. Virtually as new, original cost $825. Priced well under a half $395.
Cinderella Issues HR1/6) Hutt River Province 1986 Australian Wildflowers Original Artwork of the 6 accepted designs in full colour. Each measures 130 x 185. Unique! Price $1750 SPECIAL OFFERS of Papua New Guinea If you collect this territory we have excellent stocks of both mint and used. I reckon our prices to be at least 20% cheaper than other major dealers, so please let us have your wants lists. In the meantime here are some specials! PNG5) PNG 1990 Year set mint unhinged, 7 complete issues plus set of 3 Framas, price $23.50 PNG4) PNG 1997 Year Pack, Post Office fresh as issued. Complete year set of 4 sets and 3 minisheets for just $9.95 PNG14) PNG 2003 Anniv. of Powered Flight. Minisheet & sheetlet, SG 987/88 mint unhinged cat. £11, price $9.95 PNG13) PNG 2003 Tree Kangaroo sheetlet of 4 sets, SG 989/92, cat. £28, stunning price $7.95 PNG10) PNG 2004 Dolphin surcharges blocks of 4 mint unhinged, price $4.95 PNG15) PNG 2004 Athens Olympics set of 4, mint unhinged SG 1034/7 in blocks of 4, cat. £19. Price $7.95 PNG6) PNG 2005 Frangipanis, SG 1074/9 set of 6 mint unhinged, blocks of 4 cat. £42, only $19 PNG12) PNG 2005 Mushrooms minisheet SG MS 1090 mint unhinged, cat. £5.50, price $4.95 PNG21) PNG 2007 Orchids, 1st personalised stamps. 3.35K in sheet of 20 with Orchid in Tab, SG 1179, cat. £75, so cheap at only $23.95 PNG20) As above, but with Benchback Wildlife –Western Province view with bird in tab, price $23.95 PNG17) PNG 2007 Orchids, 1st personalised stamps. 5.35K in sheet of 20 with Orchid in Tab, SG 1180, cat. £120, so cheap at only $23.95 PNG18) As above, but with Port Moresby Waterfront in Tab, price $23.95 PNG19) As above, but with Lakatoi in tab, price $23.95 PNG7) PNG 2007 Contemporary Art Minisheet SG MS 1220, cat. £12.20 mint unhinged, price $8.95 PNG11) PNG 2008 World Aids Day 10K Minisheet, SG MS 1285 mint unhinged. Cat. £14, price $7.95
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BUY OR BID SALE MAY 2018 CAP1) Old Green Scott Imperial Album, sparsely filled with World A – Z with some useful stuff seen. Nothing after World War 1, and mostly 19th Century. States to have 522 stamps (pencilled on inside cover) Stamps are mainly stuck down, so would advise leaving as is, or soaking the lot. Did notice GB Mint 1897 Large Charity pair 1/- Blue & 2/6d Vermilion plus interesting early Belgium Railway stamps, China, Cape of Good Hope Revenues etc. Price $179 CAP2) Papua New Guinea, 25 different complete mint unhinged sets just $49 CAP2a) As above, in blocks of 4, $189 CAP3) Western Samoa, 25 different complete mint unhinged sets & minisheets, price $49 CAP3a) As above I blocks of 4, $189 CAP4) Nauru, 25 different complete mint unhinged sets & minisheets, price $49 CAP5) Norfolk Is. 25 different complete mint unhinged sets & minisheets, price $49 CAP6) Great Britain 1st Day Cover collection, plus mint unhinged and used minisheets and complete sets on piece 1967 – 2007. Housed in Blue padded luxury $60 plus album, comprising 41 FDCs, 1 x QEII 70th Birthday Crown PNC, 11 x 2006/2007 complete commem. sets & 7 x minisheets (3 Mint) and other oddments vfu on piece, all in all a very attractive lot. $135 the lot. CAP7) Middle East & Asia, early to modern, mint & used in Blue 32 black page stockbook. Comprises Iran, Iraq, Israel, Afghanistan, India, Ceylon, Pakistan, Bhutan, plus some Arab states. About 1000, with some duplication. $89 the lot CAP8) Germany Occupation Issues 1946 – 1948. Postally Used Duplicated lot with some multiples and on piece, in near new expensive German Made Red Padded Leather Look stockbook. Comprises British, French & American Zones. Heaps of Postmark & Variety Potential. Looks like well over 1000 here. Price $97.50 CAP9) South East Asia, in old German Made Caltex stockbook. Comprises early to modern mostly postally used, and with some duplication: Malayan States, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand & Indonesia. 450 – 500. Cheap lot at $39 CAP10) Australia & World in 3 large stockbooks, mostly postally used. Early to modern lot with duplication in the Australia. Many high value commems. noted in Australia, plus a not far off complete collection 1953 to 1986. $119 the lot. ML515) Norfolk Is. 1998 Year book complete ex. Cats set MUH advertised retail as individual issues $99, cheap at $59 (Can get you the cats set if you really need it!) ML521) Solomon Is. 1970’s - 80’s collection on Hagners with 35 sets, 14 mini sheets, 1984 Olympics booklet etc, lots of colourful thematic sets, FU/CTO, price $79 ML517) Ascension: 1934-87 colln. of 140+ on Hagners with 1971 Space Travel, 1976 Birds, 1981 Flowers & 1986 Ships definitive sets, 6 mini sheets, commem sets etc FU/CTO, see 9 scans, SG cat £175+, price $149 ML519) British Indian Ocean Territory 1968 Marine Life & 1975 Birds (ex 20c) definitive sets + 1976 Wildlife set FU/CTO, on Hagners SG cat £115+, price $79 ML520) British Antarctic Territory, 1973 vals. to £1, 1977 Whales, 1984 Marine life sets + 10 other sets FU/CTO, on Hagners. SG cat £65+, price $49 CMF1) World Collections in 4 large stockbooks. Mostly postally used early to modern. 2 are well filled, the 3rd less so and the 4th sparsely filled. Probably around 3000 stamps mostly different it seems. Cheap at $179 the lot CMF2) World Collections/Accumulations in 26 smaller stockbooks, some well filled, some sparse. Early to modern, quite literally could be anything in here. Most are postally used. Expect some duplication. Guessing about 6000 – 7000 stamps here for the cheap price of $295 CMF5) Great Britain 1957 – 1965 Commemorative sets in fresh mint unhinged
blocks of 4. Commences 1957 Scouts and includes scarcer sets such as Lifeboat, Botanical, Red Cross also ITU Phosphor. Missing the odd low value, which are easy to pick up. 14 sets with a total catalogue of 173 pounds. Price under a half cat. $149 CMF9) Christmas Is., 1958 – 2002 with pages to 2003. Mint Unhinged collection in as new Seven Seas Hingeless Burgundy Album in Padded Red Binder and Slipcase. Odd fault in a few earlies pre-decimal but generally all fresh mint unhinged. Album alone cost $175 plus and the stamps which are 99% complete, retail at $1015, a total value of $1190 for just 50%, only $595 CMF11) Papua New Guinea MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION in 3 Ka – Be Hingeless Albums with Slipcases. 1990 – 2011 virtually complete, with 1995 Emergency Overprints set of 11 both mint & used etc. This is essentially a Mint Unhinged collection, plus some extras in fine used. The albums alone would have cost around $1200 plus the stamps retail value conservatively is $4600, so a total value of near $6000 for $3295. CMF12) Great Britain QEII 1952 – 1980 in Blue Padded Lighthouse 32 black page stockbook, mint & used. Noted Phosphor Commemoratives, inc. Lifeboat, Red Cross , FFH, Cable etc. Wilding Definitives inc. Graphites with Inv. Wmks. Commem. Sets from 1953 Coronation with most sets represented in Mint & used, then HV Castles and pre-decimal Wildings mint & used sets to One Pound (approx.. 20 sets total) then Machin Definitives to 5 pounds & Britannia 10 pound x 5. Also Jersey War Time issues, Regionals, Locals of Lundy, Herm & Alderney etc. A great lot! Must be 1500 plus stamps. Price $595 CJ1) USA Collection of Mint unhinged sheetlets and se-tenant strips, 1976 – 2007 approx in Dark Blue Ring Binder housed in 68 as new Hagner pages 1 & 2 strip, new price $1.75 each. 90 items with values to $5, lots of nice thematics here and a face value of about US$400. Retail would be double that. Exchange rate at time of writing US$1 = AUD$1.29. So a retail of about $1030 plus the value of the Hagners another $120. Total retail value around $1150 for just a half. $575 the lot. CJ7) Papua New Guinea 1950’s – 2009 mostly mint unhinged with some used sets and odds in big red stockbook plus mint sheet file. Priced by now deceased part-time dealer very conservatively at over $500, plus some is not priced. Realistic retail would probably be at least $850. There are 250 – 300 complete hundreds of sets here at a rough guess. Some minor faults but largely fresh & clean lot. Price for the lot $349 CJ10C) Similar to above, but Blue binder. $119 CJ12) USA sheetlets 1992 - 2010, on FDCs in Bulging Australia Post black padded album on 36 single strip as new Hagners. Retail approx $350 - $400, plus cost of Hagners and binders of around $85. Well under half retail at $159! CJ14) West Germany 1949 – 1970 absolutely Complete collection in Lindner Hingeless album. It is a mix of Mint and fine postally used, with much unmounted. Cat. at 1250 pounds plus yonks ago = over $2000 on today’s exchange rate. Opportunity to buy at under 25% cat. and the album thrown in free! Price $495 CJ17) Hungary collection in 2 near new Lighthouse Blue 48 page stockbooks, worth $90 to buy today. Well organised lot, earlies are sparse, then fair ranges with a good degree of completion from 1950 onwards, cto to 1980, then mint unhinged to 1999. Lovely clean collection. About 1500 all different. Price $195 CJ18) Poland in as new Lighthouse Red 64 page stockbook, cost $60. Good ranges early to modern organised Chronologically. Postally used to 1960, then cto to about 1986. Mint unhinged to 1996. Lovely clean collection all different. Hard to assemble, price $195 CJ19) World Letter A in near new $60 Lighthouse Brown 64 page stockbook. Aden to Azerbaijan. Good ranges of Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Antigua, Argentina etc. Mix of mint & used, looks to be 2500 or so, all different. Lovely clean lot, 10c per
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BUY OR BID SALE MAY 2018 stamp and the stockbook for free. Price $249 CJ20) World Letter C in as new Ka-be 64 page brown padded stockbook, with original protective slipcase, worth $55. Contains good ranges of Colombia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia etc., mint & used. Would have to be around 3000 all different mint & used. Stockbook comes free, 10c each for the stamps, $295 the lot. CO1) Worldwide collection, earlies to 1990s in 6 quality Springback Albums. A very good lot. Noted good Australia, China, Denmark, France, Germany, GB, Hungary, Ireland, India, Romania, Russia etc. Must be close to 20,000 different mostly postally used. Albums alone cost around $100 each new. Price $1495. CMA10) Norfolk Island, 25 different Mint Unhinged Sets $49 CMA11) Nauru, 25 different Mint Unhinged Sets $49 CMA12) Papua New Guinea, 25 different Mint Unhinged Sets $49 CMA21) Vast lot of World and Australia! From Deceased Estates and other sources such as charities and auctions, also private purchases. We have 12 big shipping cartons which we are breaking down into smaller lots of 10 kg. Each will contain 15 – 20,000 stamps unchecked off paper plus albums, stocksheets, stockbooks, covers, minisheets etc. Virtually all is postally used with some mint, early to modern. There really is no telling what you might find in these lots. Price per 10kg lot, inc. Post and Insurance Australia Wide, around 3c per stamp $695. Supersized double lot for $1295 (post-paid) Half lot for $375 (post extra) Remember to choose World or Australia, or a mixture of both. CJL2) France. Mint (much unhinged) & fine used collection 1849 Imperfs – 1989 on Hagners & Hingeless pages in black binder. All items described and priced per Gibbons 2016 Stamps of the World, and with a total catalogue value of £3095, plus some first day covers not included in the pricing. Good general overall condition with some very minor duplication in places. Excellent lot for 25% of catalogue value, price $1389 CJL19) Great Britain. Massive used collection/accumulation 1840 – 2007 in as new Lion Brand Dark Blue 64 page stockbook (cost $65) Bulging with around 5000 stamps from Line Engraved to present day. Very well organised chronologically. Noted Queen Victoria to 1/-, KEVI to 5/- (Both printings) KGV to 10/- (2) KGVI to 10/(7) QEII Wildings organised by printing, then a wide range of Machin Definitives and Commemoratives, with literally hundreds of complete sets and values to £10. This really is a great lot, well worth an average of 20c per stamp. Price $1000 CMMY2) Germany 1936 – 1954 on Hagners. Commences 1936 Brown Ribbon minisheets, mint x 7 with original interleaving. 1937 Hitler minisheet rouletted mint unhinged, Michel 648. 1948/9 British and American Zone issues used to 75 pfg, the West Berlin views to 5DM used, red & black Berlin Overprints mint & used to 84pfg. Then Berlin 1949 UPU used, Stamp Ex. Set of 3 mint, Bell with clapper central complete used etc, etc. W. Germany Heuss defins Mint Unhinged and fine used to 3DM. All in all a lovely lot. Some duplication. SG Cat. £2250. Good value at under 20% cat. Price $749 CMMY5) Australia 1913 – 1979 nice used collection in Dark Blue Errimar Apollo Springback Album. Commences 1913 Kangaroos x 23, values to 2/- Brown, then KGV x 4, values to 5d all wmks. & Perfs. represented. Most KGV General issues are there Including 5/- Harbour Bridge and 6d Claret Engraved Kookaburra (both Spacefillers) Vic. Cent., Macarthur set of 4, Anzac pair, 1935 Jubilee set, 1936 SA Centenary etc. KGVI near complete with 3d Blues, all dies, Robes set and all commems. QEII predecimals are 95% complete, then decimals 80% complete. Most are nice fine used. About 1000. Price $750. (For another $250 could replace the 5/- Bridge &
Kookaburra with decent cto examples) NO55) NEWFOUNDLAND. Magnificent collection on Scott illustrated album pages covering the period 1857-1943. One of the finest and freshest lots I have had the pleasure to offer. More than £4,200 SG Cat. Value (Aus. $6,720) includes a stunning SG 11, 3 margins example 3d Green mint lightly hinged £110, SG 13 £140, SG 15 mint £350, SG 25 mint £170, SG 40-43 Roulette mixed mint 1c others fine used £115, 1897 SG 66-69 Discovery and QV Diamond Jubilee, a stunning mint set £325, SG 83-90 mint £150, 1911 SG 117-27 mint £250, no rust or toning, more than 155 different stamps, various listed shades etc. A bargain as most of the early material normally sells well at half catalogue due to its rarity, as a collection this is available for just under 40% of cat. $2685
Packets and Mixtures PM69) Australia decimals, cto with gum, mid 1990’s – 2011. Nice clean lot all with corner Melbourne cto cancels. Includes high values, Internationals, a few territories, se-tenant strips and blocks etc. Good variety. Under 10c a stamp, approx 1000 for $98, 500 for $55 (4 lots available) PM62) Ireland, 500 different, 1 only was on our packets list at $280, price to clear $210 PM63) Fish, 500 different, normally $90, one only available $79 PM64) British Commonwealth, 1000 different, mixture of mint & used. Cheap lot and a good starter collection. Price for 500 on our packets list is $30, so this is good value at $59 PM66) Australian Territories recently collected on paper mix, well-trimmed single paper. Mostly Christmas & Cocos Islands, a little AAT. Spotted values to $2. Price per 50g $55, 100g $99, 250g (1 only) $249 PM67) Australia International stamps used on/off paper. 100 mixed for $49 PM49) World mixture on mostly single well clipped paper. Latest lot to arrive from major charity in the UK. Could be anything from older to recent. 500g for $82.50 1kg for $157.50. PM50) Ireland, latest arrived mission mix from a new source in the “Emerald Isle” Better clip than usually seen from this popular country. Lots of stuff we have never seen before inc. a lot of Wildlife issues, plus high values to 1.25 Euros. 500g for $49, 1kg for $89 PM51) South Africa Mission mix on close clipped single paper. Sold as received. Cheaper than previous lot, was $79 per kg, now only $33 for 500g, $63 per kg. PM42) Australia 1913 1d Red Kangaroos, bulk lot off paper, unchecked for Dies, Varieties, Postmarks etc. 100 for $59, 250 for $139, 500 for $265, 1000 for $495 PM43) Western Australia bulk lot of letter rate Swans 1d & 2d values. Unchecked for shades, perfs, varieties, postmarks etc. Mainly off paper, a few on piece. 100 for $59, 250 for $139, 500 for $265, 1000 for $495 PM45) Papua New Guinea off paper mixture, mostly 1960’s – 1980’s but some more recent. Good for postmark hunters! Price per 50g $62.50, per 100g $119 PM47) Australia WIDE RANGE BUDGET ON PAPER MIX. As received from Churches & Charities around Australia. Covers a wide period mainly from 2000 to recent. Also a few Foreign may be present. Our top selling recent mixture is selling well at $89 per kg, but if you want better variety at a cheaper price this is the lot. Under 1 cent per stamp! 1kg for $44.50, 2.5kg for $99, 5kg for $195, 10kg for $379, 20kg for $695 PM25) Australia, off paper. Contents of a shoebox ex deceased estate. Must be close to 15,000 stamps here dating from 1913 with a few Kangaroos and KGV to quite recent with many higher values, Internationals etc. noted. Huge variety here and at about 2c per stamp. Price $295.
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BUY OR BID SALE MAY 2018 PM26) Similar lot to the above, but Worldwide, same price $295 PM27) Contents of a Brown Paper carrier Bag of World on paper, overall weight 2.15kg. Looks like a decent mix, early to modern. Brought in by Catholic Charity. Price $249 PM33) Australia unpicked charity mix, modern lot on close clipped paper with issues to end of 2015. A few high values noted here and there, and Commems. to 70c. We were selling this at $89 per kg, but just have around 10kg to clear at half price. Price per kg $44.50, 2.5kg for $99, 5kg for $195 or take the lot for $379 MAP10) Worldwide contents of a Box File. A super quality lot of World on Paper, early to recent, from Deceased estate, could be anything here, good variety with some better values. Around 1.5kg, must be 6000 stamps for $179 MAP11) As above, but mainly Australia. Price $129
Great Britain 1840 1d Blacks PB67) Great Britain 1840 4 margins 1d Black plate 2, lettered P-A, with doubled P tied to large piece by red brown maltese Cross and dated 31 May 1840. “Lighthouse return” from Calf of Man, with accompanying letter and Brandon 2001 Certificate. May dates are exceedlingly scarce, and Lighthouse ephemera is in high demand. Price $1350 PB22) GB 1840 1d Intense Black SG1, plate 1b. Nice 4 margin example with neat red Maltese Cross cancel. Lettered J-K. Bright fresh looking stamp. Cat. £525. Price $649 PB23) GB 1840 1d Black SG2, plate 1b. Nice 4 large margin example with red Maltese Cross cancel. Lettered M-C. Nice looking stamp. Cat. £375. Price $469 PB24) GB 1840 1d Intense Black SG1, plate 2. Nice 4 large margin example with tidy red Maltese Cross cancel. Lettered P-A. Also with variety “P doubled” Very fresh looking stamp. Cat. £525. Price $649 PB27) GB 1840 1d Black SG2, plate 4. Nice deep colour, tending towards Intense Black. 4 margin example with red Maltese Cross cancel. Lettered K-E. Attractive stamp. Cat. £375. Price $469
Other Great Britain BD222) Great Britain 1855 4d Small Garter, white paper, SG62b Fine Used. Rare stamp, and under-catalogued at £1100. Bargain Price $445 BD329) Great Britain 1855 4d Small Garter, white paper, SG62b Very Fine Used, cancelled by clean strike of barred numeral 88. Rare stamp, and under-catalogued at £1100. Bargain Price $695 BD339) Great Britain 1874 5/- Rose, plate 2, SG 127 On piece. Lovely looking stamp on small piece cancelled by clean strike of EC 2 Barred number. Possibly a closed tear at top. Nevertheless a nice looking piece, cat. £675. Selling as is at under 10% cat. Price $110 BD340) Great Britain 1880 1/- Orange Brown, SG 151 plate 13. Fine used example cancelled by clearly struck cds barred numeral 105. Lettered H- J, J – H. Well centred with full perfs. Premium stamp! Cat GB SG62b 4d Small garter white paper1400 inc. 100% premium for lightly cancelled well centred. Well priced at around 20% cat. $479 BD349) Great Britain 1881 6d Surcharge SG 162a. Variety “Dots slanting down to right” Cancelled by barred Numeral 42. Lettered J – S, S – J. cat. Tiny closed tear at top. £450. Priced cheaply at only 10% cat. $77.50 BD403) Great Britain 1883 2/6d Lilac on Blued Paper, SG 175. Lovely well centred, full perf example lettered H – K, K – H. Late usage, cancelled by Continental Night Mail cds of AU 21 96. Much nicer than most of these that you see, no creases, thins, rubbing or crayon marks! Cat. £1500, plus 50% premium for well centred, lightly used. Price $825
GB112) As above, another as above, with double ring cds, date unclear. Lettered C- F, F – C. Price $775 GB128) Great Britain 1883 10/- Ultramarine on Blued paper, SG 177. Lovely well centred example lettered G – H., Well centred and with good perfs. Cancelled by oval registered cancel to top left. Much nicer than most of these that you see, no creases, thins, rubbing or crayon marks! Cat. £8250, plus 50% premium for well centred, lightly used. Dealer expertisation mark on reverse. A great price, only $1695 GB113) Great Britain 1883 10/- Ultramarine on Blued paper, SG 177. Lovely well centred example lettered G – G. , perfs slightly ragged at top and trimmed at lower left. Cancelled by neat corner Frampton squared circle of SP 25 87. 96. Much nicer than most of these that you see, no creases, thins, rubbing or crayon marks. Cat. £8250, plus 50% premium for well centred, lightly used. A great price, only 5% cat. $745 GB114) As above, this one centred high, lettered G – H, H – G. Cancelled by barred cancel “L.S. 6”. Perfs slightly trimmed at base. Cheap at only 7.5% cat. $1100 GB109) Great Britain 1883 9d Dull Green, SG 195 Vertical Pair Used in Ireland! Cancelled by Duplex of Armagh dated AU 19 84. A stunning and rare piece, never seen by us before. Multiples of this stamp are rare, used in Ireland are impossible! Full perfs, good colour, minor stain & wrinkle to top left in no way detracts. Cat. £480 for a single stamp, £2250 for a block of 4. Price $1725 BD221) Great Britain 1902 5/- both De la Rue Shades in nice used condition with circular cancels. SG 263 & 264 Bright Carmine and Deep Bright Carmine. Nice for comparison. Both well centred with full perfs. Cat. £440. Price $149 the two. GB133) Great Britain1949 UPU set on Registered BPA/PTS First day Cover and with Exeter 9 Reg’n Label No. 2411. Neatly addressed by “West of England Stamp Auctions” small rectangular handstamp. Clean attractive and scarce cover. Price $119 MMY1) Great Britain 1958 1st DLR Set of 4 Values Sg 536a-9a MINT UNHINGED top marginal examples. Superb and perfect beautifully fresh, well centred and with good perfs. Premium quality. Cat. £600. Price $795 DB684) GB 1996 Christmas 43p, Missing Gold used on piece. Found in Kiloware, with normal for comparison. Entirely genuine, with no tampering or evidence that the gold was ever there. Previously unrecorded. Magnificent error. Price $1665
Australian States New South Wales NSW16) Spectacular piece, with 2 of the scarcest face different NSW Imperfs, *AND* a rare postmark: 1852 6d Yellow Brown Laurete 4 large margins, SG 74 - also being a very clear *DOUBLE PRINT*. Alongside an 1853 8d Orange Yellow, SG 80, superb 4 margin. Both tied by “55” Barred numeral of Newcastle scarce Type 1Bv (6mm x 10mm) rated “RRRR” by Freeman in new handbook. Quite Superb condition, ex Clayton and the late Mark Dankin, who formed THE finest NSW collection post-war over half a century, and who ONLY bought the very finest, fault free material. His NSW Collection won FIP Large Gold medals at Belgica 2001, Washington 2006 and España 2006. Clean and fresh and with no foxing or thins or creases. Two essential face different imperfs, missing from 99% of collections. No perforated versions were issued of either so these are globally sought. Melbourne Retail $1,000 as average used OFF piece. With a double print AND a rare “RRRR” cancel it is a gem in top condition. SG £875 for average which figure is insane - 5 years ago these were HIGHER, and all NSW around them have risen in price - often many fold. The Besancon collection sold NSW imperfs late 2017 for MULTIPLES of full SG catalogue for quality examples, and the new SG will reflect that. Details of that sale here - Tinyurl.com/ Besancons For the astute buyer, who recognises and appreciates top quality with THE finest provenance - a totally UNIQUE piece - $3450
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BUY OR BID SALE MAY 2018 NSW15) New South Wales 1867 Queen Victoria 10d Lilac, striking Imperforate pair: Watermark “10” in single lined figures, SG watermark number 35. Fresh attractive unused pair, with no thins, creases or hinge remains. From an Estate. SG 205a, cat £3,000 for imperf between pair. Probably from same error sheet. Nice rich colour, and most attractive for something 150 years old now! $3250 NSW4) NSW 1875 small re-addressed cover to Aldershot Camp. Bears 6d QV Bright Mauve, SG 216 Endorsed “via. San Francisco” in Manuscript and tied by Sydney Duplex of JA 15 75, and with arrival cds on face of Farnborough (Hants) Station MR 8 75. Also reverse cds of Aldershot Camp of the same date, and of Chatham Kent the following day. Addressed to Colonel Jfy. Kent of 77th Reg’t at Aldershot Camp and re-addressed to Exeter Devon. The 77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot was a line regiment of the British Army, raised in 1787. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 57th Regiment of Foot to form the Duke of Cambridge’s Own in 1881. Nice scarce military item. Price $179
Queensland Q1) Queensland 1860 1d Carmine Rose Imperf Chalon Head, SG1. Near 4 margin fine used example, just into at left. Cat. £800, price $395
Tasmania T21) Tasmania 1871 5/- Purple Perf 11.5, SG149. Light Manuscript Cancel. Price $19 T22) Tasmania 1878 4d Ochre SG 147a, Fresh Mint Lightly Hinged. Cat. £95, price $119 T20) Tasmania 1892 10/- Mauve & Brown Tablet type SG 224. Very fine used cds cancel of 1898, well centred with full perfs. cat. £120, price $82.50
Victoria V57) Victoria 1884 2/6d Orange, perf 12, SG 232 Mint Unhinged! On unglazed paper, cat. £1600 for hinged. Fresh example with usual brownish gum. Centred to top right with good perfs. Has 3 small pinholes. No evidence of a fiscal cancel ever having been applied under strong UV lamp. Generally what happened was that the stamp was stapled onto a document, then onto a filing spike. All the mint better values I have seen of Victoria are like this. The only way you are likely to find a genuine mint example. Price $695 V56) Victoria 1884 35/- Grey- Violet and Two Pounds Blue fine fiscally used on Document Piece. The 35/- is very rare having never seen postal use, and cat. at £375 as fiscal use. This is only the 3rd example I have handled in over 50 years and never ever seen one as nice as this, and on proving piece. Both neatly pen cancelled with the initials N.C.N. Superb Exhibition piece. Price $695 V21) Victoria 1893 small cover to House of Commons, London. Bears 2 x 1d QV SG 332a, cancelled by Melbourne duplexes of JE 13 93, and with arrival cds on reverse of London S.W. JY 17 93. Addressed to James Hogan MP. James Francis Hogan MP (29 December 1855 – 9 November 1924) was an Irish history professor at University College Cork, author and Member of Parliament for Mid Tipperary between 1893–1900. Born in County Tipperary in 1855, to Rody and Mary Hogan, he had one sister, Margaret. The family emigrated to Melbourne in 1856, when he was at the age of 1, and lived in Geelong, attending St. Mary’s Catholic School there, before a year at St Patrick’s College, Melbourne. He graduated and began to teach in 1872. He began writing in local newspapers on Catholic topics, before later editing the Victorian Review. Joining the Victorian Catholic Young Men’s Society in 1884 he admired the legacy of Daniel O’Connell and campaigned to erect a memorial to him. He published works on the Irish colonisation of Australia, including “The Gladstone Colony: An Unwritten Chapter of Australian History and The Irish in Australia” in the late 1880s. He then returned to England, and in 1893 was elected unopposed to the
House of Commons as MP for Mid Tipperary. He served as secretary of the Colonial Party under Sir Charles Dilke. Following retirement as an MP in 1900, he moved to Ireland to teach at the University College, Cork. There, he became associated with the Blueshirt movement, advocating a Christian democracy which clashed with the more right-wing aims of their leader Eoin O’Duffy. He remained unmarried at his death, and was survived by his sister. Great historical piece, $249
Western Australia WA12) Western Australia 1902 2d Slate Blue, deepish shade Lettercard, text on reverse, H & G LC 3 cancelled to order by UPU 4 ring cancel. Fine and fresh, price $100 DB497) Western Australia 1902 2/- Bright Red on Yellow, perf 11, SG 134. Nice fine used example with partial SEP 03 cds cancel. Centred slightly low, with good perfs. Cat. £180, price $119 WA47) Western Australia 1906 Christmas Postcard to Subiaco WA, with horiz. Pr. Halfpenny Green, SG94a priced from x 40 on cover! Cancelled by cds’s of Fremantle 19DE06. Price $89 WA6) Western Australia 1907 2d Ultramarine Lettercard, text on reverse used Perth Sweden and cancelled by Perth cds of 1 AU 07. H & G LC4. Selvedge intact. Fine and scarce, price $195 WA46) Western Australia 1908 coloured picture postcard to Sweden “Log hauling on Timber Station W.A.” (Crease to lower right corner) Bears Halfpenny & Penny swans, SG 138/9, cat. from x 12 on cover. Cancelled by Bridgetown WA cds’s of 6-AUG08 and with arrival cds of Stockholm 7 9 08. Price $129
Australia Postal History APH171) Australia 1913 1d Engraved KGV, Rose Red plate 1 on small commercial use cover to UK. Cancelled by Sydney Machin Cancel of DE 13 1913, just 4 days after issue date, with arrival cds of West Norwood also cancelling stamp of JA 16 14 and with manuscript “New Stamp Just out” at top. 2 arrival cds’s on reverse. Stamp has coloured flaw to top right corner, which was later corrected by a retouch. Cover has a light central fold. ACSC 59B Cat. $750 on cover. Price $675 BD234) Australia 1914 small neat cover bearing 2.5d 1st wmk Kangaroo, Perth to USA. Franked by Machine canceller of 2 JUL 14. Cat. $150 on cover, this is way nicer than usually seen. Price $129 LM134) Australia 1915 small OHMS cover for Government Railways NSW to Somerset House London. Bears 1d Red Kangaroo…DRY INK…not recorded in ACSC and perf. OS NSW. Cancelled by Redfern NSW cds of 3 AP 15. Fine and rare, price $295 LM121) Australia 1916 small censored re-addressed cover to Germany, Via Switzerland. Mail for Germany from Australia & other countries was routed via Switzerland on a fee for service basis. Generally the letter was enclosed with the fee of 10/- or so for onwards consignment under new cover. Bears 2nd wmk 2.5d Indigo Kangaroo, tied by Smithfield NSW cds of OC 5 1916, and with St. Moritz arrival cds of 23.XI.16 on front and reverse, together with Ruvigliana receiving cds on the next day for the re-direction. Black print “Opened By Censor” tape at left. A very rare survivor. Price $210 DB526) Australia 1922 small Taxed cover to USA. Bears 1d Violet & 2d red single wmk. KGV tied by cds of Watersleigh NSW 15DE22 to Washington USA. Additionally T2d in Blue Crayon, with NSW T30 in Shield shape handstamp and with two line “U.S. CHARGE TO COLLECT 6 cents” Attractive and scarce, price $159 LM98) Australia 1923 late fee cover Tasmania – USA. Bears 4d Dull Blue KGV Head, ACSC 112C (3d Postage & 1d Late Fee) Cancelled by Launceston machine cancel of 24MAR23. Some minor damage to LH corners. Scarce stamp on cover. Price $129 BD677) Australia 1924, superb small commercial (NOT 1st flight) Aerial Mail cover
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BUY OR BID SALE MAY 2018 to W. D . & H. O . Wills Ltd. (Tobacco & Cigarette Company) Perth, W. A. Bears 4.5d Violet Single Wmk KGV Head, tied by cds of Carnarvon, W. A. 30 MR 24, and with incorrectly dated received stamp in violet of 1 APR 1925. (Some April foolery?) “AERIAL MAIL” straight line handstamp on front. Neat clean hand addressed cover , with “Copperplate” handwriting. (Cover has been opened on 3 sides) Carnarvon is some 900 km from Perth, so 2 days delivery time from posting is quite remarkable for the period. A scarce and attractive item. Price $389 LM130) Australia 1923 small cover to USA bearing 2d Pink, UNSURFACED PAPER, ACSC 96E and horizontal pair Halfpenny Orange KGV Heads. Cancelled BY CDS OF Albury 27? DE 23. The unsurfaced paper is a scarce stamp, catalogued at $150 used, unlisted on cover. Nice clean cover, flap is missing. Price $495 APS5) Australia 1925 4.5d Violet Registered Envelope used to UK, no Cross to Crown ACSC RE19a. Uprated by 1.5d red KGV and with Kilmore Vic. Cds’s of 17 AP 25 and Kilmore red Reg’n label No. 97. Reverse bears a Melbourne registered cds of the following day. Scarce and attractive usage, price $65 APH172) Australia 1929 small surface mail cover to USA. Bears KGV Halfpenny Orange, 1d Green & 1.5d Red Small Multi. Wmk. Perf 13.5 x 12.5 to make correct 3d rate. Cancelled by Sydney 3 line slogan of 1 SEP 1929 “ADDRESS MAIL TO/PRIVATE BOX NO/IT EXPEDITES DELIVERY” Nice tri-colour franking cover, price $45 DB543) Australia 1929 Small Registered Cover to Yugoslavia. Bears KGV Halfpenny Orange single wmk x 3, plus 1d, 1.5d & 2d Brown Small Multi. Wmk. Perf 13.5 x 12.5 to make correct registered rate of 6d. All are tied by cds of Cumborah NSW 24SE29, and with red Cumborah Reg’d label No. 552. Reverse bears arrival markings of Sydney Registered cds 25SE29 and of Ljubljana in red, date not legible. A very rare destination, with equally rare franking. Price $465 APH11) Australia 1929 Long OHMS Registered Cover Stamp Duties Office Melbourne to Colac Vic. Bears solo use 4.5d Violet single wmk KGV Head perf. OS cancelled by Elizabeth St. Melbourne cds of 31 AU 29 plus Red Reg’d label type R6 of Elizabeth St. No. 3832. Reverse has Melbourne Registered cds of 2 SE 29 and arrival cds of Colac of the same date. Cover is fine, has been opened 3 sides for display. Scarce stamp on cover, cat. $400, price $239 APH99) Australia 1930 small airmailed Sturt FDC, Darwin – Melbourne. Sturt pair cancelled by Darwin cds 3JE30 being the 1st day of issue in the Northern Territory. Arrival cds on reverse of Postal Hall Melbourne 12JE30. Clean neat typed address. Rare! Price $195 APH199) Australia 1930 4.5d Violet Registered postal stationery cover, uprated by 5d on 4.5d Violet KGV. Cancelled by Tooraweenah, NSW cds of 14OC30, plus Violet Gilgandra double ring Violet cds of the following day, also Sydney registered cds of the 16th. Reverse has registered violet arrival cds’s of Seattle Term Station NOV 7 1930 and Berkeley, Ca. on the 9th. Also bears Tooraweenah Blue “Rat’s Tail” Reg’n. label No. 459. Tooraweenah is a small village just off the Newell Highway about 44 km north east of Gilgandra in the central west of New South Wales, Australia. This is a very rare item! Price $449 DB506) Australia 1931 small cover surface mail to India, accidental FDC! Bears 2d & Horizontal pair of 3d Kingsford Smiths, to pay 8d rate. Slit open at left. Tied by SHIP MAIL ROOM, MELBOURNE cds of 19MR31, and with Bombay arrival cds on reverse of 5APR31. Superb example of an accidental first day cover. Price $210 APH102) Australia 1931 Kingsford Smith set on small plain FDC to India, addressed to Rev. H. Westropp, East India Railways, Jamalpore and re-addressed to Jhapha (Jhapha is a Village in Bochahan Block in Muzaffarpur District of Bihar State, India) Cancelled by Sydney cds of 19MR31 and with arrival cds of Jhapha 7 APR 31. Small tape repair at right and very minor tear at top, not affecting stamps. Rare survivor! Price $279
APH197) 1931 Francis Chichester Flight Cover AAMC 212 No. 571 of 872, originating in Sydney, he progressed to Thursday Is. Qld, then from Manila. Addressed to Alaska. The flight was aborted after crashing at Katsuura, Japan. Many covers were destroyed in the crash. Cat. $325, price $295 APH196) As above, No. 9. Price $295 APH195)1931 Francis Chichester Flight Cover AAMC 212 No. 486 of 872 originating in Sydney, he progressed to Thursday Is. Qld, then on to Manila for Japan. Addressed to Petropaulovski, USSR, this destination not previously recorded. The flight was aborted after crashing at Katsuura, Japan. Many covers were destroyed in the crash. Cat. $325, price $295 APH196) As above, cover No. 9. Price $295 APH197) 1931 Francis Chichester Flight Cover AAMC 212 No. 571 of 872, originating in Sydney, he progressed to Thursday Is. Qld, then on to Manila for Japan. Addressed to Alaska, the flight was aborted after crashing at Katsuura, Japan. Many covers were destroyed in the crash. Cat. $325, price $275 APS2) Australia 1932 small domestic commercial Airmail cover bearing 6d Airmail Ovpt. OS. Uprated use of 2d Red oval Postal Stationery envelope Fremantle to Melbourne with additional 6d Brown OS Airmail and 3d Green Airmail. Cancelled by cds’s of Fremantle of 12JA32. Rare usage. Price $259 APH198) Australia 1933 long Taxed cover Undera Vic. to Melbourne, with contents. Bears 2d Red Golden Scarlet smw. perf. 13.5 KGV, cancelled by cds of Undera 8 MR 33 and 4d C of A wmk. Postage Due cancelled GPO Melbourne cds of the following day. Also Oval T4d and manuscript “Over 1oz” Envelope opened 3 sides and interior has details of Lambs Shorn Sept. –Oct. 1932 with details of exports etc. Has 2 filing punch holes which do not detract. Price $39 APH173) Australia 1933 small advertising cover from J.C. Goodwin & Co. Ltd., Glass Merchants, Chippendale NSW to the The Station Master, Darling Harbour, easy walking distance! Bears 2d Red KGV C of A INVERTED wmk, not priced on cover by ACSC. tied by Sydney 3 line slogan of 29 SEP 1933 “ADDRESS MAIL TO/PRIVATE BOX NUMBER/IT EXPEDITES DELIVERY” Nice clean cover, window section is a bit aged/ cracked. Price $39 APH174) Australia 1933 small advertising window envelope from The N.S.W. Fresh Food & Ice Co. Ltd. he Station Master, Darling Harbour, easy walking distance! Bear 2d Red KGV C of A wmk, tied by Sydney 4 line slogan of 22 JUN 1933 “MINIMUM LETTER RATE/TO U.S.A. 3D/ADDRESSEE PAYS/ DOUBLE DEFICIENCY” Nice typewritten cover, a few small light tone spots to the left. Price $429 APH100) Australia 1935 Legal Size cover bearing solo usage of 9d MacArthur to New York. Cancelled by Sydney No. 5 machine cancel of M R 5 1935 and endorsed “S.S. Maripooa” Company received handstamp of MAR 27 1935, not a bad trip for those days, 3 weeks to New York by Steamer! Very rare on commercial cover. Price $549 APH97) Australia 1938 Airmail Advertising cover with 5/- Kangaroo. Tait Bros. Comedy Theatre Melbourne Contract Envelope to Berlin, bearing 5/- Grey & Yellow Orange C of A wmk Kangaroo plus 1/6d Hermes and 4d Olive KGV making the 2oz Airmail letter rate plus 1d late fee. Cancelled by single Melbourne Late fee cds of 22MR38. Neat typed address. Some toning at top affecting the 5/- & 4d stamps. Very scarce usage. Price $329 APH185) Australia 1942 small Censored surface mail cover to USA with set of 3 surcharges. Unusual usage, franked with 11.5d. The set of surcharges on cover as singles cat. At $138 on cover and the FDC at $375. This is cancelled by cds’s of Canberra City 5JA42 and has red censor tape to the left. Appears commercial use. Unusual. Price $89 TS1112) Australia 1954 Postage Due 1954 long cover with 3½d Red Cross + 1948 5d
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BUY OR BID SALE MAY 2018 due, should have been double rate cover. ‘INSUFFICIENTLY PRE PAID’ and ‘T5d’ due markings. Attractive piece, price $29 APH180) Australia 1955 small airmail cover to Austria. Bears 4 x 6.5d Orange QEII no wmk, overpaying the 2/- rate by 2d. This stamp is scarce as a solo usage on any domestic cover, and incredibly rare to find in multiple use on overseas mail. Cancelled by a Sydney Two Line Slogan of 15 JLY 1955 “ENLIST IN THE/ REGULAR ARMY” This is a slogan I have not seen previously. Reverse bears an arrival cds of Lustenau of 21 7 55. In 1951, during the Korean War, national service was introduced under the National Service Act (1951). All Australian males aged 18 had to register for 176 days training (ninety-nine days full-time) and two years in the CMF. Later the obligation was 140 days of training (seventy-seven days full-time) and three years of service in the CMF. The regular military forces were kept as voluntary. Fine and rare neat typed address cover, price $149 APH182) Australia 1958 small surface mail cover to Denmark. Bears set of 1958 Christmas to make correct 8d rate tied by Sydney 4 line slogan of 30 NOV 1958 “ADDRESS MAIL TO/PRIVATE BOX NO/IT EXPEDITES/DELIVERY” Addressed to: The Postmaster, Post Office, Copenhagen, Denmark. Arrival cds on face of Copenhagen 16.1.59 . Neat attractive cover with interesting franking and scarcer destination. Price $29 APH183) Australia 1966 small Commercial Airmail cover to Darlington UK. Bears 2 x 6.5d Green KGVI Sideface and 1/2d Thylacine Scarce very late dual reign franking. Cancelled by Beverley Hills NSW 5 line slogan of 7 JAN 1966 “PLEASE POST/EARLY/ BEFORE LUNCH/OR BEFORE /FOUR O’CLOCK” I see thousands of covers a year, and this is the first such I have witnessed. Price $195 APH178) Australia 1970 30 Cook solo use small Airmail cover to Hungary, returned to sender. Cancelled by Parramatta cds of 1 Aug 1970 and with Hungarian arrival cds on face of 1970 AUG 11. Scarce survivor and rare franking to unusual destination. Solo use cat. at $25 16 years ago. Price $59 APH184) Australia 1970 30 Cook solo use small Airmail cover to UK. Cancelled by GPO Melbourne cds of 27OC70, and with arrival cds on reverse of Upton, Wirral, Cheshire of 30 OCT 1970. Solo use cat. at $25 16 years ago. Price $36 APH181) Australia 1982 small underpaid cover South Wagga Wagga to Sydney. Bears pairs of the 2c & 10c Flower coils (Late use) to registrar of Births Marriages and deaths, cancelled by 3 line slogan of 5 JUL 1982 “POST EARLY/AND SOEEO/YOUR MAIL” Whatever that may mean! Postage rate was increased to 27c on 19th April 1982 and so this is underpaid 3c. Bears a 3 line violet handstamp “UNDERPAID/Postage/Collected from Sender” with 23 in manuscript. Atttractive item, price $49 APH176) Australia 1985 Tourism greetings envelope, Toormina to Tamworth. Bears strips of 3 each of the 1971 flower coil stamps, plus 2 x 2c & 1 x 5c additional to make 30c correct domestic rate. Very late commercial usage of this issue. Cancelled by cds of Sawtell NSW 25 JA 85. Price $39 APH175) Australia 1989 Koala Greetings Envelope used Kingsgrove NSW to Glenelg SA. Bears solo usage of 53c Living together, which was the Interstate Surface rate for non-standard articles to 1 OCT 1988.This stamp was rendered obsolete on that date and was replaced by the 55c of the same series. Unusual 2c underpaid cover not taxed. Canceled by Kingsgrove 3 line slogan of 4 JAN 1989 “POST EARLY/AND SOEEO/ YOUR MAIL” WHATEVER THAT MEANS? Scarce and unusual commercial item, price $49
Inwards Mail DB333) Johore - Melbourne, 1941 Small Salvation Army printed and inscribed with Red Shield and Map of Australia, “RED SHIELD HUTS for Australian Troops” Military Censor cover. Bears 2 x 1c, 4 x 2c & 3 x 5c (25c total) definitives of Johore franked with AIF Field P.O. 19 cds of 13SE41. Also Violet Triangular Censor Cachet No. 501, signed. Addressee is at State Taxation Office, Melbourne and sender details on re-
verse reads “VX 31751 Pte. R.J. Hughes, HQ Coy. 2/9 Field Ambulance, AIF. MALAYA. Clean and attractive, 1 x 5c stamp has damaged corner, mentioned for accuracy only and does not detract from fine appearance. Price $129 LM8) Bahamas - Sydney 1948 Long Registered OHMS envelope, sent by airmail. Bears 2d & 2.5d definitives of KGVI franked by cds of Nassau 19MAR48, and with blue Nassau Reg’d Label No. 0678. with cachet at left “WAR ECONOMY RE-USE OF ENVELOPES - Open by slitting along flap edge” Neat typed address and with arrival cds’s of Miami MAR 23 1948, San Francisco MAR 27 1948, Sydney 28 MY 48 and Edgecliff 29MY48. Not a bad turnaround time for those days and probably started its journey by Flying Boat. Very attractive piece, price $129
Australia Kangaroos K302) Australia 1913 1d Red Kangaroo Die II “Extra Island off Tasmania”. Well centred good perf. example cancelled by July 1913 cds of Melbourne. ACSC3(E)d. Cat. $400, price $295 K191) Australia 1913 1d Deep Red Kangaroo, Swys wmk. Very fine used example, nicely centred with full perfs. Cancelled by partial Queensland cds . This is from Die 2 with crown pointing right when viewed from the front of the stamp. ACSC 3Daa, cat. $500. Very nice example, price $349 K414) Australia 1913 2d Grey Kangaroo 1st wmk. Strong Offset, unlisted! Mint example with faults, but very strong offset on reverse. Not catalogued as such. Offset on the 1d red Die II perf large OS is listed at $750. Price $395 K386) Australia 1913 2.5d Indigo Kangaroo in superb top left corner mint unhinged block of 15. Fresh white gum, pretty much “Post Office Fresh” hinged only in selvedge. Includes the variety on stamp 1/2, “Break in inner frame over R of Australia” Large blocks of this stamp are exceedingly rare, and there were none in the Arthur Gray collection. Cat. $325 each as normals, plus the variety stamp would be at least double. Superb exhibition piece! Price $3895 K366) Australia 1913 3d Olive Kangaroo Die. 1 cto. Nice example with gum, good perfs, centred top right. Also has the flat top 3. Price $49 K306) Australia 1913 3d Olive 1st wmk Kangaroo Die II. Attractive used example well centred. A few ragged perfs at top otherwise fine. Cancelled by partial cds to left. Cat. $400, price $195 K222) Australia 1913 4d Orange Analine Kangaroo perf. large OS. Neat steel cds of 1915 to right. Nicely centred with good perfs. ACSC 15B Cat. $275 as normal, large OS is x 2. Price $385 K223) Australia 1913 4d Orange Yellow Kangaroo perf. large OS. Neat cds of Queensland to left. Nicely centred with good perfs. ACSC 15E Cat. $250 as normal, large OS is x 2. Price $349 K131) Australia 1913 1st wmk. Kangaroos fine used set to 1/-Retail $220, my price $169 K308) Australia 1913 2d Grey 1st wmk. Kangaroo THIN PAPER. Well centred and cancelled Launceston Tas. Cds of 22SE14. Has a few nibbed perfs, but almost unavoidable given the softness of the paper. Cat. $200 as mint, no used price list. Price $149 DB516) Australia 1913 6d Ultramarine 1st wmk Die IIa Kangaroo “Substituted Cliché”. CDS used example with dated Spencer Street, Melbourne Late Fee cancel of 1 DE 14. ACSC 17(1) ja, cat. $4500. Well centred, with fluffy perfs. Listed by Gibbons as SG 9b. A nice dated stamp from the November 1913 printing. Price $3450 K364) Australia 1913 1/- Green (Analine) Kangaroo 1st wmk. ACSC 30B. Nice fine used example of this scarce shade cancelled by 2 partial cds. Centred high, with good perfs. Cat. $750, price $495 K256) Australia 1913 2/- Brown 1st wmk Kangaroo. Well centred cto with generally
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BUY OR BID SALE MAY 2018 good perfs. 1` slightly nibbed at base. Cancelled by Melbourne 3 DE 13 cds. Cat. $300 Price $179 K115) Australia 1913 Grey & Yellow 5/- 1st wmk Kangaroo, postally used. Some perf faults at left, but well centred and neat Stock Exchange cds. Cat. $350, price $169 K401) Australia 1913 Grey & Yellow 5/- 1st wmk Kangaroo, ACSC42B postally used. Rounded lower left corner, cancelled by indistinct central cds. Cat. $350, good spacefiller, price $125 K394) Australia 1913 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo 1st wmk. Atrractive used example, nicely centred and with good perfs. Cancelled by 2 partial Western Australia cds’s of April 1917. Good colour and fine appearance. ACSC 47, cat. $1100, price $795 K208) Australia 1915-16 2nd wmk. Kangaroos set to 2/- (6) Very Fine Used, cds. Cat. $645 in ACSC. Other dealers’ retail for regular fine used $390, Premium examples.. My price $365 K209) Australia 1915-16 2nd wmk. Kangaroos set to 2/- (6) Good to Fine Used. Cat. in ACSC $645, My price $195 K360) Australia 1915 6d Deep Ultramarine Kangaroo, 2nd wmk perf. OS. Very fie dated example with Registered Elizabeth St. Melbourne cds of 7AU17. Good perfs and centring. Hard shade to fine OS, price $225 K307) Australia 1915 1/- Analine Green 2nd wmk. Kangaroo. Fine used example of this rare shade Cancelled by partial cds to right. Centred reasonably well, a little to the right. Has jumped perf at base making this a larger than usual stamp. ACSC 31E Cat. $500, price $375 K398) Australia 1915 2/- Light Brown 2nd wmk. Kangaroo, mint lightly hinged. Lovely full perf. Example nicely centred and of fresh appearance. ACSC 36A.Cat. $1500, price $950 K340) Australia 1915 2/- Light Brown 2nd wmk. Kangaroo. Fine used, well centred and full perfs. Cancelled by blue Brisbane cds. Cat. $350, price $175 K305) Australia 1915 2/- Light Brown 2nd wmk. Kangaroo. Fine used, well centred and generally good perfs. Couple nibbed at base. Cancelled by cds. of St. Kilda, Vic. Cat. $350, price $149 K362) Australia 1919 2.5d Intense Indigo 3rd wmk. Kangaroo. Well centred example of this difficult shade, cancelled by proving Melbourne cds of 12NO19. A few short perfs, but a hard stamp to find. ACSC 11D Cat. $275, price $139 K361) Another as above, cancelled by Wandin Vic. Cds, same price $139 K213) Australia 1915 3d Olive Kangaroo Die I, 3rd wmk. Inverted, perf OS. Good perf. example with cds cancel centred low. ACSC Cat. $450 ($150 x 3 for OS) Retail $360, Price $275 K310) Australia 1915 3d Yellow Olive Kangaroo 3rd wmk, Die II pair with variety. Fine postally used horizontal pair with Reg’d cds of Sydney 8MR17. Well centred and mostly good perfs, scarce in multiples. Left stamp has the variety “White flaw over T of 3” ACSC 13B (1)d Cat $450 & $200, price $429 DB686) Australia 1915 3d Olive Kangaroo 3rd wmk, Die II. Fine postally used with cds of Moonee Ponds, Vic. July 1918. Cat $200, price $119 ML417) Australia 1915 6d Die II Ultramarine 3rd wmk. Kangaroo. Mint hinged with lightly toned gum, centred to upper right. Has full perfs. Cat. $225, price $69 K238) Australia 1921 6d Pale Ultramarine 3rd wmk. Kangaroo Die 2B with variety “Dry Ink” ACSC 20Aca. Fresh mint lightly hinged. Centred right with full perfs. Cat. $400, price $279 K363) Australia 1916 1/- Bright Blue Green Kangaroo, 3rd wmk Die. II. Brilliant mint lightly hinged example, perfectly centred and with full perfs. ACSC 32B, cat. $125.
Unreservedly asking full catalogue for this! Price $125 DB503) Australia 1920 1/- Bright Blue Green Kangaroo Die IIB, OS Imprint Pair. Wonderfully fresh looking pair of this scarce shade. The stamps are fresh, well centred and with full perfs., hinged only in the central gutter. Also has unrecorded retouch to shading around “ONE” on right hand stamp. Cat. For a single unhinged stamp is $450, plus the value of the imprint. Price $750 K416)Australia 1920 1/- Bright Blue Green Kangaroo Die IIB, OS lower marginal block of 6 vfu cds of Swan Hill, Vic. 16MY32, very late use. The stamps are fresh, well centred and with full perfs. cat. $240 as singles, large multiples are scarce. Price $175 K357) Australia 1916 2/- Brown Kangaroo 3rd wmk. Superb Fresh Mint unhinged. Impossible to better in my opinion, with full perfs and perfectly centred. ACSC 37A Cat. $2500, price $1875 K260) Australia 1916 2/- Greyish Brown 3rd wmk. Kangaroo. Attractive well centred example of this scarce shade with full perfs and cds cancel. ACSC 37H Cat. $200, price $149 K83) Australia 1918 5/- Grey Black & Pale Yellow, 3rd wmk. Fine postally used example from right of sheet with neat Williamstown, Vic. Partial cds to left. Full perf. well centred, with slightly fluffy perfs. Cat. $225, Price $129 K173) Australia 1918 5/- Grey & Chrome Kangaroo 3rd wmk. ACSC 44A, fine used. Well centred and with good perfs, cancelled by cds of Geelong Vic. 18NO19. Nice misplaced wmk. variety with part at top and part at bottom of stamp. Cat. $225, price $159 K174) Australia 1918 5/- Grey Black & Yellow-Orange Kangaroo 3rd wmk. ACSC 44B, fine used. Well centred and with generally good perfs couple at base are nibbed. cancelled by partial cds of Exchange? Vic. 2nd Hardest of all shades for this wmk. Cat. $275, price $175 K176) Australia 1918 5/- Grey & Pale Yellow Kangaroo 3rd wmk. ACSC 44D, fine used. Centred high, cancelled by central cds (socked on nose)of Abbotsford Vic. A few nibbed perfs. Cat. $225, price $125 K83) Australia 1918 5/- Grey Black & Pale Yellow, 3rd wmk Kangaroo. Fine postally used example from right of sheet with neat Williamstown, Vic. Partial cds to left. Full perf. well centred, with slightly fluffy perfs. Cat. $225, Price $129 K177) Australia 1917 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo, ACSC 48A, fine used. Well centred and good perfs. Cancelled by registered cds of Sydney. Cat. $500, price $349 K178) Australia 1917 10/- Grey & Deep Analine Pink 3rd wmk. Kangaroo, ACSC 48B, fine used. Centred low and a couple of nibbed perfs. From base of sheet. Cancelled by partial cds top left. Cat. $375, price $225 K411) Australia 1917 10/- Grey & Pink 3rd wmk, perf OS postally used. ACSC48Aba. Nice well centred stamp with good perfs, a little fluffy at base, which is usual for this printing. Cancelled by partial cds to top left of 1937. Some minor perf. toning at top does not detract. Cat. $500, price $295 K410) 1917 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo 3rd wmk, perf. OS. Lovely cto example with fresh colours and full perfs. Fresh lightly hinged mint., centred a little to the left. Cat. $200, price $139 K359) 1917 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo 3rd wmk, perf. OS. Lovely cto example with fresh colours and full perfs. No gum, centred to lower left. Cat. $200, price $125 K387) As above, centred right. Price $125 K400) Australia 1916 3rd wmk. £1 Chocolate & Dull Blue Kangaroo ACSC 52A. Well centred full perf. example cancelled by Brisbane Accounts Branch oval handstamp of 3-FEB 191(?), and with large Telegraph Puncture to lower left, leaving Kangaroo clear. Cat. $2500 as normal. Price $390
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BUY OR BID SALE MAY 2018 K120) Australia 1924 £1 Grey Kangaroo 3rd wmk. Fine used. Centred a little high, with reasonably good perfs. Cancelled by partial cds of Spencer Street, Melbourne. Cat. $500, price $295 K417) Australia 1924 £1 Grey Kangaroo 3rd wmk. Specimen type D. Mint lightly hinged example, well centred and with full perfs. ACSC 53Axg Cat. $375, price $225 K358) Australia 1918 £2 Black & Rose Kangaroo “Specimen” 3rd wmk type B. Mint lightly hinged, fresh and well centred with full perfs, hard to improve on. Ex. PMG Specimen pack. ACSC 56x, Cat. $600, price $449 K341) Australia 1918 £2 Purple – Black & Crimson Kangaroo 3rd wmk. Mint Unhinged “Specimen” Type C with shaved P. ACSC 56Cxf. Fresh mint unhinged with full perfs, centred left. Indicative cat. for MUH $2600, price $1950 K129) Australia 1915 – 24 10/- - Two Pounds Specimen Ovpts. 10/- is type B, superb fresh well centred and full perfs, no gum. One Pound is type C centred to top left, good perfs. Light overall gum toning. Two pound is type C centred a little low with good perfs, overall even gum toning. Normally $790, price $619 K392) Australia 1929 1/- Blue Green sml. Multi. Wmk Mint unhinged Bock of 4. Well centred full perf block of 4. Right hand pair with lovely fresh gum, left two are “suntanned” visually very striking piece. Cat. $1200 as singles, price $595 K81) Australia 1929 5/- Grey & Yellow Orange Kangaroo, small multiple wmk. Perf OS cto. Has broken coast near Sydney, and elongated Spencer Gulf. ACSC 44(D)f, full perfs, centred to top left. Cat. $450, nice fresh looking stamp. Price $269 K181) Australia 1929 5/- Grey & Yellow Orange sml. multi. wmk. Kangaroo perf. OS cto with gum. Lovely example, full perfs. centred high. Small corner cto cds at upper right. ACSC 45Awb Cat. $250 Price $135 K397) Australia 1929 Grey & Rose Crimson £2 smw Kangaroo, Ovpt. “Specimen” Lovely POST OFFICE FRESH mint unhinged, full perf. example, centred left. Cat. $1750, price $975 K418) Australia 1929 Grey & Rose Crimson £2 smw Kangaroo, Ovpt. “Specimen” Fresh mint lightly hinged, full perf. example, well centred. Kangaroo slightly misplaced downwards. Cat. $900, price $549 K409) Australia 1929 Grey & Rose Crimson £2 smw Kangaroo, Ovpt. “Specimen” Lovely well centred, full perf. mng example, with unrecorded variety “Red flaw in value tablet” ACSC 57xa cat. $900, price $720 K275) Australia 1935 2/- Maroon C of A wmk Kangaroo cto without gum. Fresh example with full perfs, centred top left. Cat. $25, price $15 K413) Australia 1935 2/- Maroon C of A wmk Kangaroo used on Branch Parcels Office Sydney parcel post Label. Label has been repaired at top. Complete labels are Rare! price $35 K406) Australia 1932 Grey & Yellow Orange Kangaroo ACSC 46A. Superb used with Parliament House Canberra cds of 1MY36. Well centred and with full perfs, will make nice exhibition piece. Price $60 K408) Australia 1932 Grey & Yellow Orange Kangaroo ACSC 46A. Superb cto Melbourne used without gum. Nicely centred and with full perfs, cat. $60, price $49 K412) Australia 1932 10/- Grey Black & Pink Kangaroo C of A wmk, ACSC 50A. Well centred very fine lightly hinged mint example with good perfs. Cat. $750, price $649 K415) Australia 1932 10/- Grey & Analine Pink Kangaroo C of A wmk, ACSC 50Dzc. Well centred very fine & fresh mint unhinged hinged imprint pair, perfectly centred with full perfs. Includes the variety va, Open Mouthed Kangaroo. This is believed from the last printing made in December 1937. Most of the stocks were destroyed following the issue of the Robes 10/- in November 1938. A very RARE Exhibition Piece. The hinged stamp ACSC 50C is not priced unhinged, but at $1750 for hinged.
The Imprint adds a big premium. This could be the last surviving Imprint from this printing. There was no such pair or block in the Arthur Gray Collection. Figuring this logically, the Imprint pair for the normal Grey & Pink printing catalogues $3750 for hinged and do sell close to this price, 5 x the mint stamp and the premium for mint unhinged is x 2.5. This gives us a value of around $22,000. Price for this stunning piece $19,950 K113) Australia 1932 10/- Grey Black & Pale Rose Crimson Kangaroo C of A wmk, ACSC 50C cat $450. Well centred very fine used full perf example with partial cds at lower left. Price $275 K388) Australia 1932 10/- Grey Black & Pale Rose Crimson Kangaroo C of A wmk, ACSC 50C cat $450. Well centred very fine used full perf example with small part cds at lower right. Premium stamp, except for tiny brown paper inclusion. Price $195 K116) Australia 1932 10/- Grey Black & Analine Pink Kangaroo C of A wmk, ACSC 50D cat $750. Centred to left, with a couple of missing perfs at top. Cancelled by BENDIGO Vic. Cds. Colour suffuses strongly through to the back. Rare shade. Price $249 K389) Australia 1932 10/- Grey & Pink C of A wmk Kangaroo. Mint lightly hinged, ovpt. Specimen type C. Full perf example, centred high . ACSC 50Ax, scarce stamp, cat. $850 price $675 K395) Australia 1932 10/- Grey & Pink C of A wmk Kangaroo. Superb Post Office Fresh mint unhinged, ovpt. Specimen type D. Perfectly centred full perf example. ACSC 50Axe, premium stamp, price $195 K402) Australia 1932 10/- Grey & Pink C of A wmk Kangaroo. Post Office Fresh mint unhinged, ovpt. Specimen type D. Centred to right, full perf example. ACSC 50Axe, cat. $140, price $119 K186) Australia 1932 10/- Grey & Pink C of A wmk Kangaroo. ACSC 50C cat $450. Well centred very fine used full perf example with light central cds. Price $275 K405) Australia 1935 £1 Grey Kangaroo C of A wmk. Ovpt. Specimen type D. Well centred full perf, mint unhinged example, way better than average. ACSC 54x. Cat. $120, price $89 K403) Australia 1935 £1 Grey Kangaroo C of A wmk. Ovpt. Specimen type D. Nicely centred full perf, mng example. ACSC 54x. Cat. $80, price $49 K393) Australia 1934 £2 Grey and Rose Crimson C of A wmk Kangaroo. Very fine used top marginal example with full perfs. centred to upper right Cancelled by part clean steel cds top base. Shows the variety “Broken coast in Bight” ACSC 58(D)p, cat. $1300. Price $995 K396) Australia 1934 £2 Grey Black and Rose Crimson C of A wmk Kangaroo. Superb very fine used well centred full perf example. Cancelled by part JA 39 cds at lower right. ACSC 58B, price $749 K390) Australia 1934 £2 Grey Black and Rose Crimson C of A wmk Kangaroo. Ovpt. Specimen Type D, with variety “Broken Coast in Bight” ACSC 58x(D) centred upper right full perf mng example. Cat. $7500 as normal hinged mint. Price $195
Australia KGV Heads We currently have a wide range of KGV Shades, Varieties and Imprint Blocks. Please let us know your interests G23) Australia 1913 KGV 1d Engraved with nice Kiss Print. Not catalogued as used, priced at $1000 for mint and we recently achieved full catalogue for an unhinged one. Cancelled by cds of NSW 1 AP 14, Town unclear. ACSC 59ca Price $795 G112) Australia 1913 – 26 KGV heads single wmk set fresh mint. Includes one of each value and colour to 1/4d. 20 stamps, normal retail $725, price $569 G87) Australia 1914 KGV 1d Carmine Red ACSC 71A Plate 1 (i) Pane 2, position 56.
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BUY OR BID SALE MAY 2018 Die II mint hinged, cat $750, well centred with good perfs. Price $410 G102) Australia 1914 KGV 1d Carmine Red ACSC 71Aka Plate 2 substituted cliché fine used, centred to right, with Tasmanian machine cancel, one nibbed perf to tope left. Cat $150, $110 G135) Australia 1915 KGV 4d Buff Orange, wmk. inv. Horiz. Pair. One stamp lightly hinged, the other unhinged. Fresh gum, with a few wrinkles on the unhinged stamp. Full perfs. Centred high. ACSC 110Fa. Indicative cat. price is $560, Price $279 G50) Australia 1918 KGV Halfpenny Yellowish Green, ACSC 65E (5)zd. Large Multiple Wmk. From Electro 5. CA Monogram substituted for JBC right hand corner strip of 3. Fresh mint unhinged well centred and full perfs, except has right hand selvedge reinforced with hinge. Cat $900 as hinged. Price $895 TS832) Australia 1918 KGV Large Mult. Wmk. ½d dull green irregular block of 11 MUH, some perf separation & 2 units with minor gum marks. Price $69 G118) Australia 1920 1/4d Greyish Blue KGV perf OS Mint Lightly Hinged. Centred left and with some small paper adhesion to reverse. Fresh looking and full perfs. ACSC 128E. Scarce shade. Usual retail for regular shade $175, price $85 G96) Australia 1920 1/4d Greenish Blue, ASCS 128Bn, with variety. Mint light hinge and centred to left, good perfs. Thick 1 at right, cat. $400, price $199 G97) Australia 1920 1/4d Greenish Blue, ASCS 130n, with variety thick 1 at right, cat. $600,. Mint light hinge and centred to left, good perfs. Price $189 G95) Australia 1921 KGV 4d Violet perf. OS Fine Used “retouched thin 4d” Nice clean example of this variety, with partial Ship Mail Room cds. Cat. $400 plus 50% for OS. Good perfs and well centred for this. ACSC 111 (2) ra Price $449 G106) Australia 1922 1s Deep Violet Analine, ACSC 76G. Fine used example with partial Melbourne cds, centred to lower left with good perfs. Supplied with Dr. Scott Starting certificate. Cat. $300. Price $225 G104) Australia 1923 KGV 4d Dull Ultramarine, Inverted Wmk, used. Harrison Print ACSC 113Baa. UV Reaction bright blue. Centred low with full perfs, has a horizontal crease towards base. Cancelled by indistinct parcel cancel. Supplied with Dr. Scott Starling certificate. Cat. $1000. Reasonably priced example of a rare stamp, missing from most collections. Price $249 G68/69) Australia 1924 1d Green Single wmk. 2 x blocks of 4, mint hinged lightly only top pairs of stamps. Shades Pale green and Green, ACSC 77A/77B. Each showing the varieties Ferns and RA joined, positions VII, 54 and 60. Minimum cat. $400, price $200 G170) Australia 1924 1d Green Single Wmk, perf. error strip of 3. Top marginal strip **/* with spectacular diagonal misperf in top selvedge. Price $275 G172) Australia 1924 1d Green No Wmk. Plate 3 top left corner block of 12, mint unhinged (hinged in selvedge only) Shows the varieties “Indentation in left frame”, “Angular notch in left frame”, Top right corner of crown blunt” and Crown top slopes downwards from left to right” Positions V/1, V7,V10,V12. Nice exhibition piece. Price $295 G93) Australia 1924 4.5d Violet Single wmk. Mint unhinged horizontal pair positions 1R1 & 1R2, with gutter & top margins. LH Stamp with variety 118o, Broken SE Corner. RH stamp showing varieties “Damaged upper frame, top to crown and white line under E of Postage. ACSC 118p. Scarce pair, indicative cat. $450 as single stamps hinged. Centred to top left, corner gum bend to RH stamp. Price $275 G181) Australia 1924 4.5d Violet Single wmk. Fresh block of 4, top two mint lightly hinged, lower two are unhinged. Stamp 2 has variety “White Flaw in right value tablet” ACSC 118g. Cat. $330, price $229 G121) Australia 1917 5d Yellow Brown Single wmk ACSC 123B. Nice fine used example of this scarce shade cancelled by cds of Geelong, Vic. Centred left and with full perfs. Cat. $150, price $115
G216) Australia 1927 KGV Small Multi. Wmk. Very fine used complete set to 1/4d, inc both shades of the 1.5d. Most including the 1/4d are cto. Cat $500 plus, price $375 G89) Australia 1926 KGV 1d Green sml. multi. wmk. perf. 13.5 x 12.5. Lightly hinged vertical pair showing varieties ACSC 81 (4) ia and 81 (4) ja Ferns, and Ferns retouched. Positions VII 54 and VII 60. Well centred and with good perfs, cat. $325 plus 50% well centred premium. A very scarce pair, especially so well centred. Price $365 G76) Australia 1926 KGV 3d Deep Blue type A & B pair. Mint unhinged marginal horizontal pair ACSC 105Aac, centred to left. Cat. $250, price $189 ML430) As above, but Ash N over N imprint pair, hinged only in margin, price $249 G43) Australia 1927 KGV Halfpenny Orange, small multi. Wmk. Perf 14 Mullet Imprint Block of 4 from Electro 9, fresh mint unhinged (hinged only in selvedge at top) Printing to Imprint quite faint (dry ink?) Has variety i “Break in top frame left of crown” ACSC 67 (9) z. Cat $250 as hinged. Price $189 G61) Australia 1927 KGV 1.5d Golden Scarlet sml. Multi. perf 14. Fresh mint lower left corner block of 6, **/* showing dramatic diagonal perf. error at base in selvedge. 3 stamps unhinged. Price $210 G132) Australia 1927 KGV 1.5d Red sml. multi. wmk perf 14. Fresh mint unhinged corner plate dot singles Nos. 1 -4 . Shades vary. Price $149 G82) As above, plate 4 plate dot block of 4, hinged in selvedge only. ACSC91(4) z. Price $149 G134) As above, plate 2, ACSC91(2)z, price $125 G94) Australia 1927 4.5d Violet sml. multi. wmk. Perf. 14, Ash gutter imprint pair. Fresh mint unhinged (mounted on central selvedge) Part ACSC 119za showing Deformed left bottom frame & white flaw from left wattles to oval, state II broken left frame. Position 1R55. Indicative cat. Value for MUH Block of 4 is $1200. Price $449 G151) Australia 1927 4.5d Reddish Violet sml. multi. wmk. Perf. 14 block of 4. ACSC119B well centred fresh mint hinged and full perfs, with plate scratches in lower margin of right hand stamps. Price $149 G98) Australia 1927 4.5d Pale Violet sml. multi. wmk. Perf. 14, Semi- surfaced paper, also appears dry ink. ACSC119Aa fine used with PARTIAL cds of ….KWOOD TASMANIA MR 13 28. Not priced as used in ACSC, cat. $275 for mint unhinged, $175 for hinged. Centred to left with full perfs. Nice shade. Price $165 G240) Australia 1927 1/4d Deep Turquoise SMW Perf. 14, ACSC 129B Fine used with certificate. Cancelled by Herberton, Qld. Cds of 21AP28. Centred left (as most of these are) with full perfs. Supplied with Starling2015 Certificate. Cat. $2750, price $2495 ML511) Australia 1928 Small multiple watermark P13½ x 12½ ½d Ash imprint pair with variety Mint unhinged. Lower end of left fraction thickened’ BW 68(8)z (pair) Cat. $75 as a hinged block of 4, price $40 G62) Australia 1927 SM wmk P13½ x 12½ 1½d Red Mullet Imprint strip of 4 (2nd line guillotined off) Mint lightly hinged and showing the variety Void Corner. ACSC 92B(2)g position 2L/59. Price $125 ML512) Australia 1927 SM wmk P13½ x 12½ 1½d golden scarlet Ash imprint pair with variety mint unhinged. ‘Notch in right frame retouched’ BW 92H(4)ja, No evidence of the ST of Postage joined or the retouch in position 4R55. Cat. as hinged block of 4 at $125, price $59 ML429) Australia 1927 KGV Small multiple watermark P13½ 1½d Red N over A Ash imprint pair MUH stamp, hinged in selvedge, price $39 G168) Australia 1928 KGV 3d smw perf. 13.5 x 12.5 Type B- A Pair. Fresh Mint Unhinged top marginal pair. Type B has white flaw back of King’s head ACSC 107g. Cat. $175 for hinged. Normal A – B Pair cat. $575 as ACSC 107c. Price $425
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BUY OR BID SALE MAY 2018 G46) Australia 1930 KGV 1.5d Red Brown sml. Multi. Wmk. Perf. 13.5 x 12.5, in Gutter Imprint Block. Fresh mint unhinged. Unusually the perfs. do not extend into the lower margin. Price $179 G180) Australia 1930 KGV 2d Scarlet smw. Ash Imprint N over A Gutter Block 12 perf. 13.5 x 12.5 hinged only on 2 stamps. Imprint block of 4 is unhinged and cat. $125 for hinged. Good perfs, with overall gum toning. Centring better than usual for large multiples. Cat. $300 minimum. Price $225 G198) Australia 1930 5d Orange Brown sml. Multi. Wmk. Perf. 13.5 x 12.5, fresh mint unhinged. Centred high with full perfs. ACSC 126 cat $125, price $82.50 G53) Australia 1927 KGV 1/4d Pale Turquoise Blue sml. Multi. Wmk. Perf. 13.5 x 12.5, in Gutter Imprint Pair. Fresh mint very light hinge with variety “Dry Ink” and with very faint printing to imprint text. Not listed as such in ACSC. Imp. Block of 4 cat. $3000. Price $1195 G111) Australia 1932 1/4d Turquoise Blue KGV C of A wmk. Fresh mint lightly hinged, centred left and with 1 nibbed perf at right. Usual retail $150, this one just $75
Australia Pre-Decimal APD91) Australia 1914 6d Engraved Kookaburra, Lower Imprint Strip of 4, 2 outer stamps are unhinged, plus there is light offset. Block of 8 hinged cat. $2250, price $795 APD78) Australia 1927 Canberra Booklet SG SB22. Complete and in exceptionally fine condition “Choice” Staple hardly rusted. Price $169 APD90) Australia 1928 Kookaburra minisheet with both red & green cancels from the right of the sheet. Cancelled on the last day of the exhibition, 1NO28, this sheet has full original unhinged gum. Rare thus. Price $467.50 BD872) Australia 1931 Kingsford Smith 2d & 3d Overprinted OS, mint lightly hinged. 3d is a marginal example. Cat. $575. Price elsewhere, $475, my price $359 APD80) Australia 1931 3d Blue Kingsford Smith “Plane Dropping Mailbag”. Famous variety in positional fresh mint unhinged top left corner Plate No. 3 block of 6. Price $195 APD79) As above, some thinning in selvedge, price $175 BD857) Australia 1932 5/- Harbour Bridge, lovely cto without gum. Nice example price $225 APD14) Australia 1935 1/- Black Anzac, cto without gum. Well centred with good perfs. Top left corner cds. Cat. $60, scarcer than the catalogue would suggest, so well-priced at $42 APD71) Australia 1940 3d Deep Blue KGVI Die III imprint block, commercially used. Very rare used piece, albeit missing it’s left hand selvedge. Well centred with good perfs, cancelled by 3 indistinct cds. ACSC 195z, cat. $300 as unhinged mint. Top right hand stamp has diagonal crease not visible from front. Price $69 BD743) Australia 1945 Duke of Gloucester 2.5d Red in Mint Light Hinge Block of 4, showing uncatalogued large blue blob on Duke’s Nose, top left stamp, visible parts of Moustache also are over inked. Unusual. Price $49 DB689) Australia 1948 2/- Aboriginal Art Crocodile in NO IMPRINT lower left corner block of 4. Mint light hinge. ACSC 263ze. Cat $100, price $59 APD89) Australia 1949 £1 Robes Thin Paper Imprint Block of 4, mint unhinged. Post Office Fresh block, with full perfs. Has unlisted extra two vertical rows of perfs. in lower selvedge which are not aligned with those of the stamps. Centred to top right. Cat. $800 as normal imprint block. ACSC 2127z. Price $995 APD82) Australia 1949 Halfpenny “Mellow-Yellow” Kangaroo No Wmk coil perf block. Fresh mint unhinged left marginal block of 4 from rows 7 & 8. Supplied with Brusden White Certificate. Shows the distinctive ink seepage in margin. This is from the only discovered sheet. ACSC 180C, cat $200 each as singles, $1500 for an imprint
block. Price $795 APD81) Australia 1949 Arms 5/- - £2 complete in very fine postally used blocks of 4, rarer than mint! Price $179 APD85) Australia 1949 Arms £2 Vertical pair, both with Roller Flaw late state heavy impression, very fine used. Rare in multiples. ACSC 271d, cat. $650 as singles. Price $495 APD84) Australia 1949 Arms £2 with Roller Flaw early state, light impression, ACSC 271d, cat. $325. Price $239 APD10) Australia 1949 Arms 5/- Carmine Thin Paper superb used. Light corner cds cancel well centred and full perfs. Measured at 0.08mm on Digital Micrometer. ACSC 268a, not priced as used. Mint unhinged listed at $225. Supplied with normal for comparison. Price $95 APD72) Australia 1949 Arms Two Pounds Green “Specimen” ERROR! Fresh mint unhinged with overprint grossly misplaced to the lower left. Uncatalogued and the 1st I have seen. Other varieties in the Specimen overprints catalogue at $4000 for mint unhinged. Keenly priced at under a half of those, $1995 APD83) Australia 1950 KGVI 2.5d Scarlet DOUBLE PRINT! Fresh mint lightly hinged showing clear doubling of design, and into the selvedge. Unlisted and previously unknown. Supplied with normal for comparison. An example of the 3d appeared on eBay and was sold to the late Melbourne Dealer Simon Dunkerley for $2250 around 10 years ago. Price $1995 APD87) Australia 1954 Red Cross Misplaced vertical pair. Fresh mint unhinged showing cross misplaced to the left and touching frameline. ACSC 312c, cat $150 each. Total cat. $300, price $195 APD88) Australia 1954 Red Cross Misplaced vertical pair. Fresh mint unhinged showing cross misplaced upwards and into the blue section below A of Australia. ACSC 312c, cat $150 each. Total cat. $300, price $195 APD76) Australia 1954 Red Cross Misplaced bottom right corner block of 4. Fresh mint unhinged showing cross misplaced down and to the left and into the blue area. ACSC 312c, cat $150 each. Total cat. $600, price $390 APD77) As above but top marginal block of 6, total cat. $900 price $589 APD86) Australia 1964 10/- Navigator ovpt. Specimen “Misplaced”. Well centred mint unhinged cream paper with the overprint misplaced 3mm left with the letter S extending into the left margin. 3mm is the usual standard employed when judging misplacements. Price $995
Australia First Day Covers AFD13) Australia 1938 2 designs featuring QEII and KGVI, Green + Red cachet Haslem FDCs. Bearing: 1d Green QEII and 2d Red KGVI Die II. Cancelled in Hobart, TAS, 1 AU 38, hand addressed covers. Price: $125 the pair AFD29) Australia 1945 Commemorating the Appointment of H.R.H. The Duke of Gloucester as Governor General of Australia Dark Blue cachet FDC. Bearing: Duke of Gloucester set. Cancelled by CDS of Pagewood, NSW, 19 FE 45, hand addressed cover. Price: $75 AFD67) Australia 1947 150th Anniversary of Newcastle Photographed cachet Hunter FDC. Bearing: 150th Anniversary of Newcastle set. Cancelled by CDS of Newcastle, NSW, 8 SE 47, typed address registered airmail cover. Price: $35 AFD9) Australia 1951 Australia Dark Blue cachet Taylor Generic FDC. Bearing: 3d Red KGVI. Cancelled by CDS of Vic, 28 FE 51, hand addressed cover. Price: $50 AFD10) Australia 1951 Australia Dark Blue cachet Taylor Generic FDC. Bearing: 6.5d Green KGVI. Cancelled by CDS of Carlton South, Vic, 9 AP 52, hand addressed cover. Price: $50 AFD397) Australia 1953 Young Farmers Clubs ARTHUR BERGEN FDC. Unaddressed
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BUY OR BID SALE MAY 2018 and cancelled by Pennington S.A. cds of 3 – SE53. Signed and dated on reverse in fountain pen “Arthur D Bergen” Price $59 AFD398) As above, signed, not dated. Small water stain to top right. Price $49 AFD58) Australia 1953 Commonwealth of Australia Tasmania Sesquicentenary Green cachet Standard Stamp Co, (QLD Stamp Mart) FDC. Bearing: 150th Anniversary of Settlement in Tasmania set. Cancelled by CDS of Brisbane, QLD, 23 SE 53, hand addressed cover. Price: $60 AFD35) Australia 1954 Commonwealth of Australia Standard Stamp Co, (QLD Stamp Mart) FDC’s, with Red and Blue, Dark Blue and Yellow cachet. Set of 2 covers. Bearing: 2.5d Dark Blue QEII pair and 6.5d Yellow QEII. Cancelled by CDS of Brisbane, QLD, 23 JE 54, hand addressed novel covers. Price: $40 the pair AFD57) Australia 1954 Commonwealth of Australia QEII Red, White and Blue cachet Standard Stamp Co, (QLD Stamp Mart) FDC. Bearing: 6.5d Yellow QEII. Cancelled by CDS of Brisbane, QLD, 23 JE 54, hand addressed cover. Price: $15 AFD60) Australia 1966 Australia and Territories Change to Decimal Currency 1966 Multicolour cachet WCS FDC. 2 different designs set of covers. Bearing: Navigators set. Cancelled by CDS of Perth, WA, 14 FE 66, typed address registered cover. Price: $150 the pair AFD404) Australia 2000 – 2003 $3.30, $5 & $20 on separate unaddressed Alpha covers. An attractive lot, price $29
Australia Postage Dues PDA1) Australia 1925 1.5d Carmine & Pale Yellow Green Postage Due. Third wmk. Single line perf. 14. Mullet Imprint Block (Light hinge in selvedge) Fresh mint unhinged with good perfs. Centred a little to the right. ACSC D107Aza, cat $275 as hinged. Price $165 PDA3) Australia 1925 1.5d Carmine & Bright Yellow Green Postage Due. Third wmk. Single line perf. 14. Unfolded Gutter Block of 8. Fresh mint unhinged with good perfs. Variable centring as is usual for this issue. ACSC D107C, cat $96 as single. Price $75 PDA4) Australia 1925 1.5d Carmine & Bright Yellow Green Postage Due. Third wmk. Single line perf. 14. Ash Gutter Imprint Block of 4. Fresh mint unhinged with good perfs, a bit fluffy and with variable centring as is usual for this issue. ACSC D107C, cat $275 as hinged. Price $219 PDA5) Australia 1938 3d Carmine & Yellow Green C of A wmk. Comb Perf. Ash Imprint Gutter Block of 4, fresh mint unhinged. Well centred and good perfs. ACSC D125Bz, cat. $450, price $339 PDA6) Australia 1938 6d Carmine & Yellow Green C of A wmk. Comb Perf. Ash Imprint Gutter Block of 4 no dot, fresh mint unhinged. Well centred and good perfs. Natural perf. fault to top left stamp. ACSC D127Bz, cat. $800, price $595 PDA7) Australia 1938 1/- Carmine & Yellow Green cove A wmk. Comb Perf. Ash Imprint Gutter Block of 4 no dot, fresh mint unhinged. Well centred and good perfs. Natural perf. fault to top left stamp. ACSC D128Bz, cat. $700, price $525 Australia Varieties/errors BD398) Australia 1954 Red Cross Misplaced block of 6. Lovely mint unhinged marginal block of 6 showing cross misplaced to the left and touching frame line. ACSC 312c, cat $150 each. Total cat. $900, price $589 DB673) Australia 1977 18c Jubilee offset. Mint unhinged with strong offset of blue and black. Listed and illustrated in ACSC as 765c. Cat in 15 year old catalogue at $250. Got to be worth $195 today.
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CI1) Christmas Island 1987 Wildlife Definitives sheetlet in Post Office Pack, fresh mint unhinged. Advertised retail $75, price $59 DB527) New Guinea 1948 Official mail. Small re-addressed envelope to USA bearing undated Birds 1d, 1.5d 7 5d Ovpt. OS. Stamps on cover cat. A minimum of £560. Price under a half $465 P20) Papua 1907 SG 34 Halfpenny Green & Black THICK PAPER small Papua overprint on Br. New Guinea. Mint lightly hinged, well centred and full perfs. Measures 0.07mm on Digital Micrometer. Regular thin paper measures between 0.04mm and 0.05mm. Not priced in Gibbons either mint or used. The 2.5d catalogues at £2000 for mint. Price $4950 (or near offer) DB540) As above, Imprint block of 9, price $59 DB535) PAPUA NEW GUINEA 1994 21T ON 80T LAND SHELL OVERPRINT Imprint Block of 4, mint unhinged. Retail $40 each, plus value of imprint. Price $119 DB534) Papua New Guinea 2001 50T/25T Olympics error triple Overprint MUH, with Certificate. Mi. 906DDD, SG903 (Var.) Only one sheet believed to exist. Price $495
British Empire/Commonwealth BC48) Ceylon 1857 6d Purple Brown on Blued paper, SG 1. Nice lightly used 4 margin example, cat. £450. Very rare stamp, under-catalogued. Price $569 BC42) Ceylon 1857 1d Blue Imperf. SG 2a. Nice 3 margin lightly used example, cat. £80. Budget priced, $25 BC52) Nauru 1923 2d Orange KGV Die II SG 5. Fresh mint lightly hinged example centred left with full perfs. Cat. £70, price $59.50 BD680) Newfoundland 1937 Coronation long set of 11, fresh mint lightly hinged. (15c is fine used) SG 57/67, Cat. £60, price $35 DB691) New Zealand 1907 Officials. 3d, 6d & 1/- mint lightly hinged. SG 063/065. Cat. £385. Cheap at $195 ML416) New Zealand 1931 2d Smiling Boy, cds used. Tiny thin at base, good spacefiller. Price $50 ML510) New Zealand 1953-59 QEII set of 15 to 10/- (ex 1/9d) Mint lightly hinged, advertised retail A $90 for set of 16 BC32) Oil Rivers Protectorate 1892 SG 1/6, mixed mint & used set. 2d 7 5d are fine used, others mint lightly hinged. 1/- is particularly fresh. Cat. £130, price $110 BC51) Palestine 1918 1P Blue, SG 1b, mint lightly hinged. Cat. £160, price $119 MAU46) Pitcairn Is. 1949 UPU, the set of plate/imprint blocks in strips of 10 from the bottom of sheets, hinged/unhinged, includes both plates of the 3d and 4 plates of the 6d, one of these only being in a block of 6. Possibly Unique. Cat $675 as single stamps. Price $395. BC36) Rhodesia & Nyasaland 1954 Definitives, SG 1/15. Lovely fresh mint unhinged set with additional shades for the 2 low values. Cat. £125, Price $79.50 BC34) St. Helena 6d Blue SG1, fine used 3 margin example. Cat. £180, price $59.50 BC38) St. Lucia 1860 1d Rose red, SG 1. Fine lightly hinged original gum example, cat. £100, price $98 BC41) St. Vincent 1861 1d Rose Red SG 1 Double Perfs. at top! Mint with small part original gum. Price $149 BD910) Singapore 1948 nice cover to Perak. Bearing: KGVI 6 values 1c to 10c. Cancelled by CDS of Singapore, 1 SEP 48. Price: $45 BC43) Sudan 1897 SG 1- 9 fine used. Cat. £100, scarce set, price $110 BC47) Sudan 1897 SG 1a Inverted Overprint. Fine used example, only priced as mint
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BUY OR BID SALE MAY 2018 in SG at £225. Price $249 BC46) Zanzibar 1895 Definitives, overprints on India. SG 3/21 Fine used. £500, Scarce set, price $495
1935 Silver Jubilee Issues Varieties DB361) Ascension 1935 Jubilee 1.5d deep blue & scarlet SG 31 with variety. MH angled blue line, left of left Battlement. Price $49 DB347) Barbados 1935 Jubilee 1d deep blue & scarlet SG241 with variety. Fine used cds, numerous spikes & extensions to building line at left. Price $49 DB359) Bermuda 1935 Jubilee 1.5d ultramarine & grey SG 95m with variety. Used with “bird” by turret. Cat . £275, price $269 DB358) British Guiana 1935 Jubilee 2c ultramarine & grey SG 301h with variety. MH with Dot by flagstaff. Cat. £130, price $125 DB364) Cayman Islands 1935 Jubilee halfpenny black and green SG 108 with variety. MH with black line near bushes at right. Price $49 DB378) Ceylon 1935 Jubilee 6c ultramarine & grey SG 379 with variety. Used with part of the top left inner frame missing. Price $49 DB356) Ceylon 1935 Jubilee 6c ultramarine & grey SG 379 with variety. Fine used cds, with spot above “ST” castle. Price $49 DB343) Ceylon 1935 Jubilee 6c ultramarine & grey SG 379 with variety. Used with short horizontal line that extends out from left side of left of twin towers at right. Price $49 DB342) Ceylon 1935 Jubilee 6c ultramarine & grey SG 379 with varieties. MH with broken flagstaff and line over “5” between top frames. Price $49 DB345) Ceylon 1935 Jubilee 6c ultramarine & grey SG 379 with variety. Fine used cds on piece. Possible extra flagstaff on turret right of main turret. Price $49 DB344) Ceylon 1935 Jubilee 9c green & indigo SG 380 with varieties. Used. Broken flagstaff and missing areas of right frame. Price $49 DB362) Ceylon 1935 Jubilee 50c slate & purple SG 382 with variety. Fine used cds. Purple line North East of Ceylon. Price $49 DB360) Gambia 1935 Jubilee 6d light blue & olive - green SG 145b with variety. MH with short extra flagstaff. Price $349 DB385) Gilbert & Ellice Islands 1935 Jubilee 1d ultramarine & grey-black SG 36 with variety. MH with low vignette. Price $49 DB370) Grenada 1935 Jubilee 1/- slate & purple SG 148 with variety. MNG with sky and water devoid of many shade lines. Price $49 DB380) Hong Kong 1935 Jubilee 5c green & indigo SG 134 with variety. MH with vertical green line through most of stamp just right of main flagstaff. Price $49 DB369) Hong Kong 1935 Jubilee 5c green & indigo SG 134 with variety. MH with large green inking flaw extending from left turret. Price $49 DB381) Hong Kong 1935 Jubilee 10c brown & deep blue SG 135 with variety. MH with 2 vertical blue lines through design into unprinted areas. Price $49 DB384) Hong Kong 1935 Jubilee 10c brown & deep blue SG 135 with variety. Fine used cds with various vertical blue lines through design. Price $49 DB383) Hong Kong 1935 Jubilee 10c brown & deep blue SG 135 with variety. Fine used cds with vertical blue line. Price $49 DB382) Hong Kong 1935 Jubilee 10c brown & deep blue SG 135 with variety. Fine used heavy-ish cds with vertical blue line through design at left. Price $49 DB395) Jamaica 1935 Jubilee 1d deep blue & scarlet SG 114 with variety. Fine used
cds with vertical red hair line through design. Price $49 DB392) Kenya Uganda Tanganyika 1935 Jubilee 20c light blue & olive green SG 124 with variety. MH with broken flagstaff. Price $49 DB365) Kenya Uganda Tanganyika 1935 Jubilee 20c light blue & olive green SG 124 with variety. MH with high vignette & some doubling of 3D imaging around country name. Price $49 DB390) Kenya Uganda Tanganyika 1935 Jubilee 65c green & indigo SG 126 with variety. Fine used cds with green line north east of right building. Price $49 DB355) Mauritius 1935 Jubilee 5c ultramarine & grey SG 245 with variety. Fine used cds with “man” on left turret. Price $49 DB379) Montserrat 1935 Jubilee 1d deep blue & scarlet SG 94 with varieties. Fine used cds with “man on battlement” lower left of flagstaff and broken top to battlement lower right of flagstaff. Price $49 DB349) Montserrat 1935 Jubilee 1d deep blue & scarlet SG 94 with variety. MH with horizontal line from left side of left of 2 pointed turrets to right. Price $49 DB367) Newfoundland 1935 Jubilee 24c olive - green SG 253 with variety. MH with hairline before left turret. Price $49 DB374) Northern Rhodesia 1935 Jubilee 2d green & indigo SG 19 with varieties. MH with: 1. No top / mast to right building. 2. Rooftop to left of 5 “chimneys” downstrike at right is short. 3. Left turret - 2 downstrikes of higher small central turret are joined by horizontal line. Price $98 DB372) St. Christopher and Nevis 1935 Jubilee 1d deep blue & scarlet SG 61 with variety. MH with blue line and dot North West of left turret. Price $49 DB354) St. Christopher and Nevis 1935 Jubilee 1d deep blue & scarlet SG 61 with variety. MH with colour flaw below “Nevis”. Price $49 DB352) St. Christopher and Nevis 1935 Jubilee 1d deep blue & scarlet SG 61 with variety. MH with large “apostrophe” colour flaw above right pointed roof. Price $49 DB377) St. Christopher and Nevis 1935 Jubilee 1.5d ultramarine & grey SG 62 with varieties. MH with extra “grey” in vignette on turret and in trees below castle plus line in water and vignette misplaced lower. Price $49 DB373) St. Christopher and Nevis 1935 Jubilee 1.5d ultramarine & grey SG 62 with variety. MH with very low vignette. Price $98 DB388) St. Helena 1935 Jubilee 1.5d deep blue & scarlet SG 124 with variety. MH with upper left to right of left value tablet is missing part of upper outline. Price $49 DB387) St. Helena 1935 Jubilee 1.5d deep blue & scarlet SG 124 with variety. MH with lack of shading etc. to left side of smaller flagstaff turret. Price $49 DB386) St. Helena 1935 Jubilee 6d green & indigo SG 126 with varieties. MH with: 1. Faint flagstaff. 2. Broken vertical line at mid-point large right building. 3. “Flagstaff” on right pointed building is a fine not thick line. Price $98 DB368) St. Lucia 1935 Jubilee halfpenny black & green SG 109 with variety. MH with minor colour top left of left turret. Price $49 DB346) St. Lucia 1935 Jubilee halfpenny black & green SG 109 with variety. MH with weakish printing of right buildings. Price $49 DB366) St. Lucia 1935 Jubilee 2d ultramarine & grey SG 110 with variety. MH with line by flagstaff. Price $49 DB350) St. Vincent 1935 Jubilee 1d deep blue & scarlet SG 142 with variety. Fine used cds with blue spot on left turret. Price $49 DB351) Somaliland Protectorate 1935 Jubilee 1a deep blue & scarlet SG 86 with variety. MH with heavy shade lines right of flagstaff. Price $49
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BUY OR BID SALE MAY 2018 DB394) Straits Settlements 1935 Jubilee 5c ultramarine & grey SG 256 with varieties. MH with horizontal line at left frame opposite left turret. “cannon” on small turret at left of flagstaff turret. Price $49 DB357) Straits Settlements 1935 Jubilee 8c green & indigo SG 257 with variety. MH with horizontal lines left of left turret. Price $49 DB348) Straits Settlements 1935 Jubilee 8c green & indigo SG 257 with variety. MH with green dot off top of right pointed roof top. Price $49 DB393) Turks & Caicos Islands 1935 Jubilee halfpenny black & green SG 187 with varieties. MH with: 1. 2 black angle lines join at top of building. 2. Right of main turret “Major” 3. Broken green line below leaves at right of value tablet. 4. 2 large breaks to shade lines etc. below right of revenue. Price $98 DB389) Turks & Caicos Islands 1935 Jubilee halfpenny black & green SG 187 with varieties. MH with minor green line within “E” in “Revenue”. Point of top “serif” is a square block of colour rather than a point as design should be. Price $49 DB391) Turks & Caicos Islands 1935 Jubilee 1/- slate & purple SG 190 with varieties. MH with Horse shoes line. Colour flaw from top of far right pointed steeple. Price $49 DB353) Virgin Islands 1935 Jubilee 1d deep blue & scarlet SG 103 with variety. MH with vertical line extending down into water from central building. Price $49
Rest of the World GNG27) German New Guinea 1900 small cover to “Post Master General, General Post Office, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Bears 20pfg blue Mi. 4 Germany Arms type ovpt. “Deutsch – Neu – Guinea” cancelled by cds of Herbertshohe, and Sydney arrival duplex on reverse of MY 2 00. Some tone spotting, which may have pre-existed on the envelope before posting, otherwise very fine. Ultra-scarce early cover. Price $995 GNG25) German New Guinea 1901 small cover re-addressed from Rhiune to Westereappiln, Germany. Bears 10pfg Red Yacht type Mi. 9 cancelled by cds of Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen (Now Madang) of 15/10 01, and with arrival cds on reverse of a) Rhiune? 18.12.01 and Westereappiln of the same date. Fine 7 scarce, price $245 GNG26) German New Guinea 1906 clean small cover to Essen, Germany bearing 10pfg red Yacht Type Mi. 9 cancelled by cds of Herbertshohe 4.12.05 and with Essen arrival cds of 12.1.06 on reverse. Price $285 GNG3) German New Guinea 1910 clean “Bantam” cover to Weimar. Bears 3pfg brown Yacht type Mi. 7 cancelled by cds of Herbertshohe 3 6 10 Lovely little cover. Price $225 GNG19) German New Guinea 1910 clean small cover to USA via Hong Kong. Bears 20pfg blue Yacht type Mi. 10 cancelled by cds of Rabaul 27 6 10 and with Hong Kong transit cds on reverse dated 26 JY 10. Rare scarce survivor. Price $575 GNG1) German New Guinea 1913 clean “Bantam” cover to Hien, Netherlands bearing 2 x 3pfg brown Yacht Type Mi. 7 cancelled by cds of Herbertshohe 4.11.13. Price $275 GNG14) German New Guinea 1913 clean small cover to Frankfurt Germany bearing 10pfg red Yacht Type Mi. 9 cancelled by cds of Rabaul 24.11.13. Price $245 GER25) Germany 1942/5 4 unstamped Feldpost Covers, 2 with letters “from the front” on official stationery, 1 official” Feldpost Osten envelope Krakau to Vienna, and another small envelope 1942 addressed to Stalingrad (Russian front) with the addressee struck through in blue crayon. A lot of official Swastika and Eagle Cancels here. Price $195 the lot. ROW13) Philippines - San Francisco 1935 1st Flight Cover with official Cachet, intermediate cover addressed to Guam. Scarce. Price $95
Collectables CB355) Napoleon Bonaparte. Superb replicas in miniature of the Coronation Crowns
of Napoleon and Josephine, together with the Papal Tiara of Pope Pius VII who conducted the ceremony. The coronation of Napoleon as Emperor of the French took place on Sunday December 2, 1804 at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. This superb set in solid brass, gilded, be-jewelled and enameled are displayed in a polished rosewood look case, with a hinged clear acrylic lid. Great display piece or present for a loved one, these were produced in a limited edition in Melbourne to celebrate the 200th anniversary of this historical event. Price $119. (3 available)
Coins & Banknotes - Gold & Gold Bullion CB215) Australia/Kiribati 2014 QEII 60th Anniv. Royal Visit. Kiribati $10 Silver Australia $2 Gold Proof. In 2014, we celebrated the 60th Anniversary of HM Queen Elizabeth II’s first visit to Australia. Queen Elizabeth II was the first reigning monarch of Australia to set foot on Australian soil, coming ashore on the 3 February 1954 at Farm Cove, Sydney. A fitting tribute to this landmark event in Australian history, 2014 marks the release of the 2014 “Queen’s First Visit to Australia 60th Anniversary” Silver Coin. This limited edition coin has a denomination of $10 and is official legal tender of Kiribati. Having been officially approved by Buckingham Palace, the 2014 “Queen’s First Visit to Australia 60th Anniversary” Silver Coin features a portrait of the young Queen Elizabeth II in all her regal beauty. Also captured on the reverse side is a highly detailed depiction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Queen’s Royal Yacht, SS Gothic, sailing majestically into Sydney Harbour in 1954 - a truly memorable moment for all Australians. The perfect complement to the silver coin is the prestigious 2014 “Australia’s Queen’ Gold Commemorative. Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s first tour of Australia, this superb commemorative is crafted from lustrous gold to faultless Proof quality. Depicting key elements of her 19,000 kilometre journey across Australia, this gold commemorative forms an exclusive tribute to the Queen’s first Royal Tour - Price: $149, 1 only available CB269) Australia 1908S Sydney Mint KEVII Gold Half Sovereign. Would be VF but for scratch to neck. Good for mounting in ring or on pendant. Price $279 CB268) Australia 1909P Perth Mint KEVII Gold Half Sovereign. Lovely EF condition and the 3rd scarcest date of this reign. Nice original lustred coin without faults, cat. $1700, price $1275 CB270) Australia 1910S Sydney Gold Half Sovereign, Nice VF condition price $398 CB275) 1980 Proof $200 Australia Gold Coin, superb uncirculated in original box, complete with Royal Australian Mint Seal. Contains 10 grams of 22c t Gold. Price $695 CB278) 1987 Governor Phillip Australia $200 gold coin, superb uncirculated in original packaging. Contains 10 grams of 22ct Gold, price $695 CB266) Great Britain 1869 QV Young Head Shield Back Gold Half Sovereign, good fine to near VF condition. Price $429 CB273) Great Britain 1898 Half Sovereign, Old Head Queen Victoria, fine condition. Price $349 CB267) Great Britain 1911 KGV Gold Sovereign, near uncirculated with some nice original lustre. Price $565 CB267) Great Britain 1911 KGV Gold Sovereign, near uncirculated with some nice original lustre. Price $565 CB272) Guyana 1976. REPUBLIC OF GUYANA 100 DOLLARS PROOF GOLD COIN, IN ORIGINAL Blue Velvet Box. 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE. Beautiful, superbly-struck gold coin. Pristine and in the original mint packaging, mounted on 9ct gold mount, just add a chain wear as a pendant. and Fantastic sharp detail. Mint lustred beautiful coin. 50% fine gold. 6.72 grams. Minted June 14, 1976 and 25.25mm in Diameter. Weight of mount around is 1.5 grams. Price $419 CB271) Netherlands 1912 Queen Wilhelmina 10 Guilden Gold Coin. Virtually uncirculated, with original lustre. Price $399
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BUY OR BID SALE MAY 2018 GDB1) Turkey 1967 10 gram Gold Bar – Nadir Istanbul Gold Refinery (In Assay card) The front of this Gold bar has Nadir Gold Rafineri with a logo. Just below is “10 g” and “GOLD 995.0” with a unique serial number A030052 at the base on the credit card style packaging. The reverse of the bar has “NADiR” The bar comes in a beautiful, blue assay card with attractive gold lettering and a matching unique serial number on the side of the card. The back of the assay card restates the weight and purity and displays the LBMA logo. Price $649 GDB3) Matthey Garrett & Philatelic Assn. of NSW joined forces to produce 18ct Gold replicas of the 1st Victoria & Queensland stamps. Presented here with certificate in original plush box and numbered 0106, these are rarely offered. Weight of each approx. 10 grams. Superb! Price $1495 CB460) Great Britain 1907 KEVII Sovereign, nice EF condition. Price $579 CB459) South Africa 1928 Pretoria Sovereign. Amazing Mis-strike on Reverse with St. George’s and Horse’s stomachs largely missing, also top of horses rear left leg. Otherwise the coin is Choice Lustred Uncirculated. Weak strikes do sometimes occur in Branch Mints, due to worn dies during the period 1871 - 1932. Even so, the weakness here is far greater than is normally seen. Price $1475 CB461) South Africa 1929 Pretoria Sovereign, Choice Uncirculated. Lovely coin with original lustre. Price $749
Collectable Silver Rounds SB36) US 1974 Universaro Silver Dollar One Troy Ounce Fine Silver Coin. Price: $38.50 SB37) US 1984 Life Liberty Happiness Silver Dollar One Troy Ounce Fine Silver Coin. Price: $55 SB38) US 1985 The American Prospector Silver Dollar One Troy Ounce Fine Silver Coin. Price: $47 SB43) US 1985 Life Liberty Happiness Silver Dollar One Troy Ounce Fine Silver Coin. Price: $36 SB39) US 1986 Liberty Mint Silver Dollar One Troy Ounce Fine Silver Coin. Price: $38 SB19) 1999 Coloured US Walking Liberty Silver Dollar One Troy Ounce Fine Silver Coin. Price: $36 SB20) 1999 Coloured US Walking Liberty Silver Dollar One Troy Ounce Fine Silver Coin. Price: $36 SB21) 2000 Coloured American Eagle Walking Liberty Fine Silver Dollar 1 Troy Ounce coin. Price: $36 SB22) 2000 Coloured American Eagle Walking Liberty Fine Silver Dollar 1 Troy Ounce coin. Price: $36 SB23) 2000 Coloured American Eagle Walking Liberty Fine Silver Dollar 1 Troy Ounce coin. Price: $36 SB24) 2001 Coloured American Eagle Walking Liberty Fine Silver Dollar 1 Troy Ounce coin. Price: $37 SB25) 2001 Coloured U.S. American Silver Eagle Dollar - God Bless America. Price: $36 SB26) 2001 Coloured U.S. American Silver Eagle Dollar - Santa Claus - Peace on Earth. Price: $61.50 SB27) 1 oz. Scottsdale Omnia silver round .999 fine silver. Price: $36 SB28) US 2008 Walking Liberty Silver Dollar One Troy Ounce Fine Silver Coin. Price: $47 SB29) US 2009 Walking Liberty Silver Dollar One Troy Ounce Fine Silver Coin. Price: $41 SB30) US 2010 Walking Liberty Silver Dollar One Troy Ounce Fine Silver Coin. Price: $44.50 SB31) US 2011 Walking Liberty Silver Dollar One Troy Ounce Fine Silver Coin. Price: $36
SB32) US 2012 Walking Liberty Silver Dollar One Troy Ounce Fine Silver Coin. Price: $36 SB33) US 2013 Walking Liberty Silver Dollar One Troy Ounce Fine Silver Coin. Price: $43 SB34) US 2015 Walking Liberty Silver Dollar One Troy Ounce Fine Silver Coin. Price: $36 SB41) Lot of 3 US International Universal Trade Unit 1 Troy oz .999 Fine Silver Rounds. Each with a different eagle and scale (balancer) design. Price: $119 SB42) US Liberty One Troy ounce Fine Silver Round. Undated. Price: $39 SB44) US Liberty Eagle Medallion 1 Troy oz .999 Fine Silver Round. Reverse side is blank, perfect for engraving. Price: $36 SB40) Austria 2012 Wiener Philharmoniker Anniv. Silver Dollar One Troy Ounce Fine Silver Coin. Price: $36
Copper & Silver Order with confidence, we pride ourselves on accurate grading for coins. If for any reason you are unhappy, return within 14 days of receipt for a full refund. We will also refund in full within 12 months to the original purchaser if an Australian PCGS grading seriously contradicts our own. CB464) Australia 1910 – 1936 Silver 3d set complete ex. the overdates. Included are the two obverse coins for KEVII & KGV. Scarce assembly. Price $175 CB203) Australia 1916 Halfpenny superb lustred choice uncirculated. Brilliant coin, cat. $900, price $675 CB59) Australia 1925 Penny EF condition with 8 pearls and full centre diamond, cat. $1500, nice chocolate colour coin. Price $895 CB344 Australia 1925 Penny EF condition with 8 pearls and full centre diamond, cat. $1500. top coin without faults. Price $1350 CB97) Australia 1925 Penny, lovely original lustre coin. Good VF / EF. Cat $400 $1500. Price $665 CB348) Australia 1927 3d, GEM uncirculated. Magnificent coin with full lustre and bloom. Will not be bettered. Price $795 CB55) Australia 1927 Florin in Uncirculated Condition, with original lustre. Cat. $1400, price $1050 CB58) Australia 1927 Florin in nice VF condition, price $28 CB286) Australia 1927 Canberra Florin “GEM” uncirculated. Superb coin that is near impossible to fault. Lovely genuine toning, a beauty! Cat. $800, price $595 CB291) Australia 1931 Halfpenny nice EF Condition. 8 pearls and centre diamond easily visible. Lovely chocolate coloured coin, cat. $120, price $89 CB204) Australia 1933 Halfpenny, choice uncirculated lustred coin. Hard to better. Cat. $675, price $495 CB292) Australia 1934 Halfpenny lovely Good EF Coin. 6 pearls and centre diamond easily visible other 2 pearls nearly there. Lovely chocolate coloured coin, AUNC cat. $120, price $75 CB288) Australia 1934 6d, superb Choice Unc. With great original lustre and mint bloom. Hard to fault this one. Cat. $2000, price $1495 CB457) Australia 1933 shilling excellent VF condition. 6 pearls and centre diamond easily visible. Nice coin and rare date. Cat. $500, price $459 CB54) Australia 1934 Florin in Choice Uncirculated Condition. Superb coin with original lustre and bloom. Cat. $3000, price $2250 CB98) Australia 1934/35 Victoria Centenary Florin in Choice Uncirculated Condition with Foy’s bag, cat. $1450 plus $350 for the bag = $1800, price $1495 CB104) Another as above, with Foy’s Bag in better condition. This one with slightly
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BUY OR BID SALE MAY 2018 weak strike of reverse, price $1495 CB56) Australia 1934/35 Victoria Centenary Florin, Proof - Like, type2. Choice Uncirculated with original lustre and bloom, cat. $3500, price $2625 CB458) Australia 1934/35 Victoria Centenary Florin Choice Uncirculated with original toning. Genuine uncleaned coin. $1450, price $1100 CB202) Australia 1936 Halfpenny, choice uncirculated. Nice fault free original lustre with some nice chocolate tones. Cat. $475, price $395 CB349) Australia 1936 3d Super quality uncirculated. Renniks Catalogue is out of whack on this coin, with a catalogue of only $165 for unc. Full lustre and bloom, not quite choice. Price $185 CB307) Australia 1938 Threepence 3d Gem Uncirculated. Superb coin with full lustre & bloom ex mint roll. Cat. $325, price $295 CB287) Australia 1939 6d, lovely uncirculated coin. Has original lustre and bloom. Cat. $450, price $325 CB345) Australia 1940 Halfpenny, GEM uncirculated. Superb coin with nice original lustre Cat. $1250, price $935 CB347) Australia 1943M Melbourne Halfpenny, Choice Uncirculated. Superb Red Lustre & Bloom, cat $120, price $89 CB308) Australia 1943D Denver USA Mint 3d GEM uncirculated. Superb original full lustre & bloom coin ex mint roll. Cat $200, price $139 CB329) Australia 1943S San Francisco USA mint 6d GEM uncirculated. Superb lustred and bloom coin, ex mint roll. Cat. $400, price $295 CB346) Australia 1944 Halfpenny, uncirculated full lustre. Terrific coin, scarce date. Cat. $425, price $319 CB309) Australia 1944S San Francisco USA Mint 3d GEM uncirculated. Superb original full lustre & bloom coin ex mint roll. Cat $150, price $115 CB294) Australia 1948M Melbourne Penny 1d Gem Uncirculated. Beautiful full lustre Coin, cat. $250, price $195 CB293) Australia 1948M Melbourne Penny 1d Choice Uncirculated. Beautiful lustred Coin, cat. $120, price $95 CB313) Australia 1948M Melbourne 3d GEM uncirculated. Beautiful lustred Coin ex mint roll, cat. $150, RARE con in this condition and catalogue is too low. Price $169 CB314) Another as above, price $169 CB295) Australia 1950M Melbourne Penny Choice Uncirculated. Lovely Red Brown Coin with original lustre & bloom. Cat. $225, price $169 CB296) As above, another slightly better, price $189 CB334) Australia 1951 Federation Florin, nice Uncirculated full lustred coin. Cat. $45, price $33 CB298) Australia 1952M Melbourne Penny Uncirculated. Lovely Coin with original lustre & bloom. Has a few spots to obverse, hardly noticeable with the naked eye. Price $69 CB297) Australia 1952P Perth Penny, superb choice uncirculated, with nice toning starting to show. Very hard coin to find in this condition. Price $110 CB299) Australia 1954 Perth Halfpenny, choice uncirculated. Tougher coin in this condition than the catalogue would indicate. Cat. $100, price $80 CB304) Australia 1955 Halfpenny, choice uncirculated. Lovely lustred fault free coin with some nice toning beginning to develop. Cat. $100, price $79 CB300) Australia 1959 Halfpenny GEM uncirculated. Magnificent lustred coin, some nice toning just starting to develop. Cat. $175, price $129 CB350) Australia 1959 Shilling. Choice uncirculated. Full mint lustre and bloom,
superior coin. Cat. $125, price $75 CB343) Australia 1959 Florin Choice Uncirculated. Full lustre & Bloom ex mint roll. Cat. $135, price $92 CB351) Australia 1960 Shilling, Choice Uncirculated. Cat. $70, price $49 CB283) Australia 1963 Silver 3d PROOF. The last of the pre-decimal proofs issued. Superb FDC condition. Price $159 CB284) As above but the 6d, price $159 CB290) As above but the 1/-, price $159 CB289) As above but the Florin, price $219 CB283a) Special offer, the above 4 items, the complete set of Silver Proof 1963 coins, price $649 (Save $47) CB462) Australia 1966 50c Round. Amazing hoard of over 500 of these just discovered, many are Uncirculated or Choice from mint rolls. Price per 1 (selected) $16.25, per 10 (as they come) $159, per 25 $390, per 50 $775, per 100 $1525, per 200 $3750 CB180) Australia 1986 King Edward VIII 50th Anniversary of the abdication Proof Crown Patterns Mintage only 250, struck in Great Britain 1986. Consists of 2 pieces, one in Silver plate one in Bronze plate. Both contained in Official Royal Mint Display Case. Price $125 CB361) Australia 1995 Waltzing Matilda $1 mintmark “M” in presentation card as issued, 2 available. Price $8.95 CB213) Australia 2001 Australia the silver millennium coin 1oz. Price: $77.50 CB354) Australia 2002 RAM Masterpieces in Silver. Supplied in original packaging and case. Contains 4 x 40g fine silver coins. Issue price $165, price $177.50 CB172) Australia 2004 Royal Visit 50th Anniversary Florin. Price: $58 CB171) Australia 2005 HRH Prince Henry of Wales 21st Birthday One Dollar Coin $1. Price: $54 CB357) Australia 2007 $1 75th Anniv. Sydney Harbour Bridge, mintmark “M” in presentation card as issued. Price $3.95 (7 available) CB358) Australia 2008 $1 Coat of Arms 100th Anniv, mintmark “C” price $5.25 in presentation card as issued (8 available) CB166) Australia 2008 H.R.H Prince of Wales 60th Birthday -1oz Coloured $1 Proof Coin. Price: $89 CB221) Australia 2014 ANZAC Centenary Bradford Exchange Gold Crowns. Layered 24ct Gold. For the pair $35 CB217) Australia 2014 Penny Memories Apr. - Jul. 1914 Australia In The Great War Price: $26 CB218) Australia 2014 Silver Proof Commemorative Collection First World War. Price: $485 CB216) Australia 2016 Bradford Exchange 5 gold crowns Layered 24ct Gold. Price: $89 CB181) Great Britain 1986 King Edward VIII 50th Anniversary of the abdication Proof Crown Patterns Mintage only 250, struck in 1986. Consists of 2 pieces, one in Silver plate one in Bronze plate. Both contained in Official Royal Mint Display Case. Price $125
Banknotes CB83) Australia 1941 KGVI FIVE POUND NOTE Renniks No. R46 Armitage/McFarlane. Very nice EF condition. Lovely crisp note, tiny 3mm nick centre top, hardly visible. Cat $800, price $659
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New Stamp & Coin Fair in Melbourne commencing January 2018
Salvation Army Stamp & Coin Fair to be held 2nd Saturday of each month, 9am – 2pm At Ferntree Gully Salvation Army 37 Wattletree Road, Ferntree Gully, 3158
(Parking At Rear, Entry By Side Door) Admission Free, Tea & Coffee Available All proceeds from Dealers’ Tables to The Salvation Army. Dealer enquiries welcome. Also donations of Stamps & Coins gratefully received at the Fair, which will be offered to dealers present on the day. Proceeds to the Salvation Army. Bulky lots may be able to be collected within 50k radius, or can be mailed to us. Telephone contact: 0425 795 693
Please note that this is a Smoke Free Event.
Looking at New Zealand 1932 Health Stamp The 1932 Health stamp was jointly designed by R E Tripe and W J (William) Cooch (1898 – 1950). Cooch worked for the Government Architect and because of his calligraphy skills also designed certificates for the Waitangi Treaty House and the Disabled Servicemen’s Training Centre in Riccarton, Christchurch. Examples of his linocut and woodcut artworks are held by public galleries in New Zealand. The stamp design featured a symbolic female figure, Hygeia, the Goddess of Health, raising a cup to salute the sun. The cup and the serpent entwining her right arm are symbols traditionally associated with the health Fig. 1 Pale carmine & carmine shades from the 2 plates professions. The word ‘charity’, which had been used on previous Health stamps, was not used from this issue onwards. The design caused some controversy at the time of issue, being said to depict ‘a flapper returning home at dawn from a late night out’. The die and plates were prepared by H T Peat of Wellington for recess-engraved printing. Printing plates of this type had never previously been prepared in New Zealand but it was considered that this Fig. 2 Row 6 no. 7 shows a break in the frame line of the right-hand value tablet & a white patch below the drapery to the left of the pedestal
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method would give the clearest impressions of the design. The die was not used to make a transfer roller for impressing the plate. Instead, 60 images were printed from the die onto a card which was then photographed, the photographic negative being laid over a copper plate which was then etched. Two plates were made by this method, the second plate being more deeply etched and thus producing stamps in a deeper shade of carmine. The first print run of 1500 sheets was made with both plates mounted in the press – 750 sheets were printed from each plate. All later printings were made from the first, less-deeply etched plate only. Because the shallow etching produced pale prints,
Graeme Morriss particularly in the bottom right corner of the plate, Peat retouched the images of stamps 8, 9 and 10 in rows 5 and 6. As the plate wore with use a considerable number of retouches were made throughout the plate. The stamps were printed at the Government Printing Office on Cowan esparto unsurfaced paper watermarked ‘NZ & star’ and line-perforated 14. They were issued on 18 November 1932 and withdrawn on 28 February 1933. Principle post offices used a slogan cancel reading BUY HEALTH STAMPS FOR HEALTH CAMPS and business firms were given promotional stickers to use on mail. 237,504 of the stamps were sold raising £990 for the Health Camps, £200 more than in 1931.
References: Catalogue of New Zealand Stamps, Auckland, Campbell Paterson, 1951The Postage Stamps of New Zealand, vol.1, Wellington, RPSNZ, 1938.
upcoming stamp & coin fairs & events victoria new south wales May 5 - (1st Sat) 9am to 4pm Orange Stamp Fair, Quinn’s Arcade, Summer St, Orange. Ph: Norm 02 63623754. May 5 - (1st Sat) Northside Stamp Fair. 1st Floor, Car park Building, Manly-Warringah Leagues Club, cnr Federal Parade/Pittwater Rd, Brookvale, NSW. May 5 - (1st Sat) Katoomba Stamp & Coin Fair, 9am - 4pm, Masonic Hall, Cnr Station & Civic Sts, Katoomba. Ph. 0417 802 754 May 5 - (1st Sat) Sutherland Shire Stamp & Coin Collectors Fair, Gymea Anglican Church Hall, 131 Gymea Bay Rd, Gymea. May 20 - (3rd Sun) Stamp & Coin Fair, 10am 3pm, Pioneers Hall, Cowper St, Wallsend. 8 Dealers. 4971 3483 May 27 - (4th Sun) Epping Stamp & Coin Fair, Community Hall, 9 Oxford St, Epping. 10am - 4pm. Free Entry, 6 Dealers, Buy/Sell.
May 6 - (1st Sun) Western Suburbs Stamp, Coin & Banknote Fair, Strathmore Bowling Club, 40 Loeman St, Strathmore. Enq: Chris. 0413355716. May 12 - (2nd Sat) Salvation Army Stamp Fair, Ferntree Gully. For details see full page ad May 20 - (3rd Sun) Stamp, Card - Phone Card Fair, Bentleigh-McKinnon Youth Centre, Higgins Rd, Bentleigh. Dealers plus huge range activities. Ph: 0418 322 315. May 27 - (last Sun ex Dec) Stamp, Coin & Phonecard Fair, Jaycees Hall, Silver Grove, Nunawading. 9am3pm.
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Cinderella Corner Kangaroo Island’s Lighthouses – Part I Welcome to the May edition of Cinderella Corner. I hope that you, the reader, has been able to find topics of interest over past issues. This fifth piece for 2018 explores, in some detail, the Kangaroo Island Lighthouses’ minisheet of cinderella labels issued by the Advance Kingscote Association (AKA) nearly 30 years ago in 1990. They are, hopefully, items that are familiar to the collector, as they do occasionally surface online and in various auction Lots. This article is not ‘image heavy’, and rather examines the many stages and processes involved in producing a more modern series of Australian cinderellas in a local and national context. Next month’s Cinderella Corner continues and concludes this exploration of these four fascinating South Australian labels. As usual, I
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Figure 1 welcome feedback about these two articles and what they explored. Kangaroo Island: A Brief History Kangaroo Island is Australia’s third largest island and is located close to the city of Adelaide, South Australia. Regardless of its size, it remained rather isolated up to the 1950s, and, at present, it has just over 4,000 inhabitants. It is also home to the state’s largest national park and offers many unique flora and fauna. Kingscote, Kangaroo Island’s capital, become the first official settlement in South Australia on 27 July 1836. Since the 1950s, Kangaroo Island’s depressed economy is largely tourist based and, in the late 1980s, this was part of the motivation for the AKA to form and commence discussions towards producing the cinderella miniature sheet.
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Figure 3 Inception The newly formed AKA, headed by the organisation’s then President, Howard Houck, presented a detailed proposal to the then Minister for Transport and Communication Support, Mr. Peter Morris MP, in the latter part of 1988 regarding the designing, printing and selling of Kangaroo Island ‘postage stamps.’ The proposed stamps were suggested to help boost the tourist industry, as they would be foremost sold to tourists and collectors, and would also have flow-on benefits to all of Australia. The following month, the AKA received a reply from Australia Post, responding on behalf of the Minister, advising that Kangaroo Island issuing their own postage stamps would lead to legal impediments. Further discussions led to Australia Post stating that, under the Postal Services Act, it was not
possible to issue anything that may resemble an official postage stamp. In September that same year, the AKA discussed ‘three points’ to help address the Australia Post concerns: • Ensuring that the word “postage” did not appear on the proposed stamps • Printing a denomination that was below the Australia Post cost of sending a domestic letter at the time • Entertaining the idea of producing a stamp that was a shape other than the traditional rectangular one (e.g., triangular). After some further points of correspondence, the AKA began to pursue the designing and production of ‘cinderella stamps’, in the form of a miniature sheet, in late 1988. Preparing The Minisheets And Moving Towards Production The AKA had decided to produce a miniature sheet
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Cinderella Corner compromising of four cinderella labels, each illustrating four Kangaroo Island lighthouses. They were impressed by the printing and overall quality of the first miniature sheet (titled Miniature Sheet No. 1) of the Puffing Billy Railway stamps, distributed through Mad on Stamps of Roseville, NSW. A copy of an early advertisement (Stamp News Australasia, July 1988) promoting the sale of these miniature cinderella sheets is presented in Figure 1. The AKA contacted the Secretary of Puffing Billy Railway for some further information, and then wrote to several printers in the country, asking for a quote for a similarly styled miniature sheet, with a total amount resting between 10,000 and 25,000. Companies that were contacted included: CPE Australia Ltd., Mercury Walch Printers, Rodenprint Pty. Ltd., and Leigh-Mardon. One response dated 23 November 1988, from Leigh-Mardon, quoted a final price of $9,700 for 10,000 miniature sheets.
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Figure 5 After contacting well-known Philatelic Dealer Ron Madden from Mad on Stamps for some further information, a detailed letter, dated 30 November 1988, was sent to the AKA. In this, Ron informed the AKA that significant sales for the proposed labels may prove difficult, and he cited the underwhelming sales of the then recently produced miniature sheet for the Goulburn Tourism area, as illustrated in Figure 2. He also noted that, unlike the Puffing Billy Railway miniature sheets, the thematic appeal of Lighthouses was not as popular amongst collectors. Ron had also forwarded details of Scancolor Australia, who were responsible for producing the sheet. The AKA contacted Scancolor for a quote, settling on 10,000 units, and suggested that they would provide photographs of images to be used on the proposed miniature sheet to help offset costs (Howard Houck was also an established photographer at
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Figure 7 the time). A quote of $10,680 for 10,000 miniature sheets was provided, which the AKA decided was a reasonable price, given the high quality of the Puffing Billy labels. After deciding that the forthcoming sheets of 4 labels would be sold for $4.00 each, and therefore total projected sales would yield $40,000, the AKA applied for a community grant, in February 1989, for the full cost amount of $10.680 through the State Bank of South Australia. By the middle of 1989, Australia Post had responded to a query regarding the applying of currency symbols on cinderella labels, informing the AKA that these could be used on the design. At this time, a draft copy of the miniature sheet, along with a backing card containing information about the four photographed lighthouses, were complete. A reduced total price of $8,755.20 was also
negotiated with Scancolor, provided that the Kangaroo Island issue ran co-currently with a similar project requiring the same type of paper and printing. An agreement was then made with Ron Madden, of Mad on Stamps, to share the process, as he was preparing a stamp series of the Don River Railway in Tasmania. Then, on 25 August 1989, the community grant application was accepted, for a total of $8,800 to be awarded during an official presentation held in February 1990. Some of the original artwork and design for the miniature sheet is illustrated in Figures 3 and 4, along with the original photographs taken that capture the island’s four landmark lighthouses (Figures 5 to 8). Next month’s June edition of Cinderella Corner will complete this two-part special featuring the Kangaroo Island miniature sheet of cinderella labels.
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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation The Newcastle Stamp and Coin Expo – 25-27 May A reminder about the Newcastle Stamp and Coin Expo organsied 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, Brown Road, Broadmeadows (adjacent to the Newcastle Entertainment Centre). The expo is open 10am to 5pm on Friday and Saturday, and 10am to 3pm on Sunday. Entry is free with free parking and all facilities are located within the venue including a cafeteria. The organisers are even giving every visitor a free bag of stamps and an Australian penny, the latter courtesy of Rennicks. There are 310 frames of exhibits, non-competitive displays and demonstrations on working Morse code apparatus. There are 28 local and interstate dealers covering stamps, coins, postcards and accessories. They will be buying and selling. Australia Post will have a great range of special souvenirs including some only available at the exhibition. These are always popular as witnessed at Canberra in March this
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Figure 1 year. The organising committee also has a great range of innovative souvenirs based on the 1945 Australian Centenary of Newcastle stamp issue. These are selling fast so get in early if you want them. Figure 1 illustrates one of the P-stamps produced and Figure 2 shows one of the booklets. Take a look on the website for the complete range of items. The next unadopted stamp design card from the APF, to be released in Newcastle, was to feature 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. However, there has been a late change to the design. The exhibition includes an aerogramme challenge amongst exhibitors. There are exhibits of aerogrammes from a number of countries, including six of Australian aerogrammes. Instead of the overprinted KGV stamp, a trial aerogramme from c1961 is to be used on the card. It is certainly an interesting design and quite colourful as shown in Figure 3. I think it will popular so get in early to get one of the 250 copies of the card issued by the APF. These cards are designed by Australia Post. For more details about the exhibition and souvenirs details go to http://newcas-
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Philatelic Development Officer, APF
Figure 3 tlephilatelicsociety.org.au/ or email John Moore at moore.john@optusnet.com.au or contact the Exhibition Secretary at PO Box 34, JESMOND NSW 2299 or glaidler@bigpond.com. Australian Philatelic Federation Fund Raising Miniature Sheets The APF releases an overprinted miniature sheet for each National exhibition. Only 100 sheets are overprinted for each exhibition. The money raised is used to offset some of the costs that the APF has in relation to each exhibition. These costs include financial support for the exhibition, the supply of APF medals for use by the exhibition (if wanted), and the big one – the transport of the frames. This is an expensive undertaking and although the executive has looked at ways of reducing this, we have not been able to significantly lower the cost of transport. However, with Canberra and Newcastle being close together we did manage to arrange for the Canberra frames
to be transported to Newcastle, stored until needed and then they will make their way back to South Australia. This probably saved close to $3,000 overall. The miniature sheet produced for Canberra is illustrated in Figure 4, and copies are still available through the APF store at $15 each. For Newcastle, the very attractive AAT Crabeater Seal miniature sheet will be overprinted and sold. It will be available at the exhibition for $15 and also available after the exhibition through the store, unless sold out. AAT miniature sheets are always very popular. Canberra Stampshow 2018 Canberra Stampshow was a great exhibition with good exhibits, wonderful dealers and the best venue for a small national exhibition in Australia. As Chair of the organising committee I would like to thank all those who helped make this a great exhibition. This includes my committee, the judges, all the many volunteers, exhibitors, dealers, Australia
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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Post and the Hellenic Club. Attendance at exhibitions is always an issue and thanks to Australia Post we had queues at the opening each day (Figure 5), as collectors (and eBay sellers) were after the limited issue souvenirs. As to actual attendance, the Friday was the best day I can remember for a number of exhibitions with good numbers through most of the day. Saturday was a little disappointing as I was expecting more interstate visitors and Sunday had lower figures, partly due to hot weather and a dust storm in Canberra! However, I must thank the Wagga Stamp Club for bringing down a small busload of members on Sunday. Looking at the door prize tickets made me realise that more people from around the region (as opposed to just the ACT) visited this time. This was a direct result of the flyer put into the Stamp Bulletin for all those bulletins going to the ACT and region (as far as
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Figure 5 Albury-Wodonga), I believe – so thank you Australia Post. Most of the dealers I spoke to said they had a good show, but strangely a number said their best day was the Sunday, which I thought was quiet. The main theme for the exhibition was 150 years of Florence Nightingale Nursing in Australia. We had Adjunct Professor Kylie Ward FACN, CEO of the Australian College of Nursing open the exhibition (Figure 6 on right with one of the nurses on the PSE on the left), and she gave a very interesting opening speech. Sometimes I feel it is worthwhile getting a non-philatelist and non-government official to open an exhibition. We have had a range of people over the years including ambassadors. Our other themes were the Villers-Bretonneux
Daryl Fuller
Philatelic Development Officer, APF
Figure 7 Memorial and 50 years of Cultural Exchange with Mauritius., with excellent postmarks produced by Australia Post for each day. The great news for the
exhibition was that virtually all the souvenir items produced for the exhibition have sold out. Just in case you are interested the only items left are a few sheets of the P-stamp (Figure 7), a postcard produced featuring Canberra Hospital and three nurses (from c1920), the overprinted Lucy Osburn PSE, and a few postmarked covers. Contact Bruce Parker if you are interested (bruceandjudy.parker@bigpond. com). There was also a mistake with the overprinting of the imperforate miniature sheets (Figure 8) which should have had the exhibition logo instead of the Canberra Stampshow logo. As only 250 imperforate Banksia miniature sheets had been left aside, it was not possible to rectify this, and they were distributed as is. Also, the Lucy Osburn PSE was overprinted with the APF logo in error. There were many excellent exhibits at the show with entries from across Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The best in show award was a contest between Frank Pauer’s Australian “Official Post Office” First
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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation
Figure 9 Day Covers to 1970 and Gary Diffen’s “Preparation for War and the Australian Light Horse Campaign from Egypt to Syria 1914-1918”. The winner was Gary Diffen but it was great to see a First Day Cover exhibit in the running for the best in show. There was a Gold Challenge, for exhibits that had been awarded between 85 and 89 points at a previous National or International exhibition. The prize was a 1918 Gold Sovereign and it was won by Bernie Beston who is pictured in Figure 9 (on the right) with UK judge Simon Richards. The best National exhibit went to Nancy Gray (Figure 10) for “Specimen, Presentation and Cancelled-to-Order Stamps 1901-1966” who received the NZ Philatelic Federation prize from current President Stephen Chivers. Monica Comrie from New Zealand won the Ed Druce memorial prize for best Open for her exhibit “Honey” (Figure 11). The awards dinner was attended by almost 100 exhibitors, dealers, philatelists and their other halves and it was a most enjoyable night. 50 Years of Mauritius Independence Mauritius became an independent country on 12 March 1968, so this year has seen major celebrations for the country around the world. Australia has had 58 - Stamp News
excellent links with Mauritius for over 150 years, and earlier. Matthew Flinders was unlucky enough to have been imprisoned there on his way back to England, for several years. Mauritius was also important to the development of the sugar cane industry in Queensland. The Philatelic Society of Canberra (who run the Canberra Stampshows) have had an excellent relationship with the Mauritian High Commission since 2016, when we put on a philatelic display at a High Commission Open Day which Figure 10 was part of an event called Windows on the World. This event had numerous High Commissions and Embassies with open days on the same weekend. Following this, the High Commission asked us to put on a philatelic display at their celebration of 50 years of independence in Canberra on 21 March. It was most enjoyable evening and Figure 12 shows Jenni Creagh (a member of the Philatelic Society) in front of her Mauritius display. My reason for mentioning this local event is that by looking further afield it is possible for stamp clubs to expand their audience. If every club in Australia took the opportunity to put on displays at non-philatelic events, then the hobby has a much larger audience. It is obvious to me, from the many exhibitions that I attend, that there many collectors out there who are not members of clubs. I understand that many will not want to be members of organised philately, but there is a percentage who are happy to become involved and we should make the effort to get these collectors on board. I have mentioned before that the Philatelic Society of Canberra always offers a very low membership special at our biennial exhibitions, and we attract between 10 and 20 new members typically. We follow this up with a special new members
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Philatelic Development Officer, APF but it does attract people wanting an outlet to sell their collections, which helps our club auctions.
Figure 11 night to introduce them to the benefits of being a club member. Over time, we do not keep them all but we keep a percentage who add new blood to the Society. Perhaps even more importantly, a number of these new members have become committee members. This has helped keep the club relatively vibrant, so I urge all clubs to make the most of any publicity opportunity, and have a membership drive. The ACT also has one-day event each year where clubs are given space to promote themselves to others in the ACT. We use this opportunity to promote philately. It tends not to attract new members,
Stamp Exhibition Calendar [correction] My sincere apologies to our New Zealand cousins but I had a brain fade in March and put their FIP exhibition in Christchurch. The correct details are as follows: New Zealand 2020 (FIAP) Auckland, NZ 19-22 March The good news is that this is the weekend after Canberra 2020 is planned (not ratified with the APF yet) which will attract a good range of international dealers to Canberra who will then travel to Auckland. It will be good for both exhibitions. Next month I will discuss collecting modern Australia and why you should consider this. It is not an easy task, especially stamps on cover correctly used. Till then enjoy your hobby. 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 Are your stamps INSURED?
I am always amazed at how many otherwise very savvy collectors mention in conversation they have ZERO formal insurance documents covering their stamps. Often for 6 figure collections. The USA seems rather lenient on stamp insurance paperwork. In Australia Insurance companies are (understandably) very hard-nosed and tough. I do many Insurance valuations and claims matters every month, and have flown to all states to do this. Not just for insurance, but for divorce, and inherYou MUST get stamps insured. itance and probate matters etc, as outlined here in detail Penny Pinching brings $100,000 loss. - tinyurl.com/GlenIns These days there is no One local client had about $100,000 real world stamp shop in the entire city of Sydney, so those value of mainly Kangaroo stamps etc, purchased in country areas have NO hope of a local dealer over the decades, from dealers, fairs, and on-line doing it! etc. He asked me what it would cost for a formal In Australia, in short - if your stamps are typed valuation, and told him the typical cost was stolen, burnt, water damaged etc, you generally a few $100 to cover my time. Mr.Genius snorted have **ZERO** chance of getting a cent, unless derisively, said that was far too high, as he had an you can furnish insurer with a detailed, dated, and Excel document listing them all in great detail, signed assessment. They ask that it be done by a along with catalogue values etc, so felt happy his qualified, independent stamp valuer, whom they detailed inventory was adequate. recognise as such. A scribbled note from your He was burgled a few months later, and cheermate at a stamp club etc, they will simply NOT fully emailed his inventory to Insurers after the accept, as many assume AFTER the event will be theft, and they basically laughed, and said he the case! might well have typed that up a few hours back, 60 - Stamp News
Glen Stephens bodies. I get regular advices from PTS/ ASDA/IFSDA listing stolen material, and stamp dealers are a small group, that communicate very well, and we can often help recover the goods. A common mistake is not to specify the replacement costs of your albums and pages and catalogues etc. The 4 x “Lighthouse” albums shown nearby I sold to a client with Australia hingeless pages in them. Cost him $A1,800 alone. In his case, my written valuation had $42,500 for stamps, You need to specify cost of ALBUMS. and $5,000 to replace the Hagners, albums, and paid him zero, and declined the claim entireslipcases, catalogues and reference books. Many ly. My Dad used to call that logic “Penny Wise, dealers lazily fail to list those, or to value them. Pound Foolish” and this fellow’s “saving” of a For all written valuations I do, I mail the client couple $100, for a professional written valuation, TWO copies on letterhead. One copy I urge colcost him $100,000 more or less. The stamps are lectors to keep filed safely, the other copy I suggone forever. gest they mail Registered Post to their insurer to Anything less than that kind of detailed valuaattach to their files. THEN if your formal valuation, all dated and lodged with insurer in advance, tion dated August 2, 2017 is on their file, and your being a copy of the original documentation, and house is burgled, flooded or burnt down etc in you have no chance in general of being paid out. November 2018, and the Police/Fire Department Often there is a modest nominal sum covered for ”general household goods” stolen or damaged, but reports confirms that event, they tend to accept that stamp loss as real and legitimate, and they pay nothing like the full amount of stamp collections. up on it pretty fast. (Here in Australia anyway, I can’t speak for overMany large Insurers in Australia have a “new seas countries.) for old” policy when covering household con tents. This is terrific news for stamp collectors. Useful for Police & Dealer tracking. ALL stockbooks and Hagner sheets MUST be The good thing about a detailed written valuareplaced every 20 years or so, as they start to age, tion, is that it can be handed to Police to assist and that can damage the stamps. So if you have them, and also circulated globally to stamp dealer Stamp News - 61
Market Matters a claim, all your 20 year old books and sheets are replaced with NEW ones! One client got ~$50,000 back recently, based solely on my very detailed valuation letter of about a year earlier, which outlined the replacement value of his stamps, hingeless pages, and reference books, and catalogues, and the extensive set of quality albums he had them all stored in. Some serious Tibet altitude here!
Breathless in Tibet!
As you read this I am in Tibet. Lhasa alone has a higher altitude, at 12,000’, than near all readers have ever experienced, and I visit many far higher altitude cities and places here. Trip Insurance is just a couple $100, and no-one SANE would go on trips to places like this, with no travel insurance - yet the same folks cheerfully often do NOT bother with stamp insurance! The first time I flew into El Alto Airport, in La Paz Bolivia, (the world’s highest - altitude 4,061 metres=13,325’) I felt sure the air was quite “normal”. Hence I ran around taking photos, and moving heavy luggage, and ignoring all advice to take things SUPER easy for a few days to acclimatise. (Australia’s highest point Mount Kosciuszko, is about HALF that altitude!) Huge mistake of course - went down that night for 3 days, with a raging fever, high temperature “both ends burning” - with vomiting and diarrhoea etc. Missed all the sightseeing, and also my outward flight, incurring high costs to use alternate means. Worse still was un-insured for it - so 62 - Stamp News
all my own fault! Clearly, insurance DOES pay. Being young and foolish, I soon learned that the hard way. Quite a few popular tourist destinations are high altitude, and most visitors are fine IF you slowly get used to it for few days. I’ve visited Cuzco in Peru, and Lake Titicaca Bolivia a few times, and the latter is somewhat higher than Lhasa even. So getting back to the stamp relevance - do not for a moment assume your stamp collection will be paid out by your insurance company in case of theft, or fire or flood etc, if you do not have a DETAILED independent valuation of it lodged with them in advance. Your own notes and spreadsheets are not of interest to them in my experience.
Under Face Postage Stamps.
Everyone likes to save money on postage costs human nature! In Australia, ALL Decimal currency stamps with gum, issued in the past half century+ are fully valid for mailing letters and parcels, both locally and overseas. If you can buy it for
Glen Stephens own country on hand. Common courtesy to NOT use worthless labels, or “FOREVER” or “1st” Machins etc.
Buying it via eBay is Wild West stuff.
Nicer used on mail than LABELS!
So folks who mail a lot, can buy off established stamp dealers, who will be there next month, indeed next year - OR buy from eBay - or Scambay, as it is often referred to lately! Then you are trading in true Wild West conditions. Much stolen material, totally forged mint stamps, 100% illegal to use material, or simply non-existent goods very
well less than face, you make a very good legal saving. Most dealers sell it - I offer packs of $500, and $1,000 of mint full gum postage - the latter costs $750, and many small businesses and eBay sellers are pleased to save $250 totally legally. As I often sell them full runs in PO packs, or blocks 4 etc, the receivers far prefer valuable stamps even when used, over a worthless PO meter imprint. WIN-WIN all round. A little bit of juggling and sorting values and fiddling about, but for many it is well worth it, given the huge ongoing savings. All outlined here - tinyurl.com/ PostGlen Certainly EVERY reader should have a stash of valid mint stamps of your These are not “MINT” stamps, you spiv. Stamp News - 63
Market Matters re-cycled no gum stamps and calling them “MINT”. And even more cheekily using Australia Post images from $1 New Issues to do it. You do NOT get $1 + $2 stamps as shown, but 1,000 x cleanskin 50c! Look what the wacko Bunnies paid to break the law - tinyurl.com/Face500 - report him. The same Bunnies do not realise The Crimes Act of Australia offence of re-using stamps, or using cleaned off cancel stamps, falls entirely upon the END USER of the illegal material, NOT the supplier. Drop your 1,000 envelopes into a red mail box, and you will likely have the Federal Police at your door with a Search Warrant, days later. Guaranteed. I kid you not - Mail Centre sorting machines are pretty clever now, and prison terms have been meted out in extreme cases. Dodgy Brothers Stolen from printer : offered on Scambay often. Many spivs soak uncancelled stamps off office kiloware, and have a 10 year old kid glue those now illegal stamps onto 1000 cheap envelopes, and offer them on Ebay as “1000 x $1 stamped envelopes - ready to mail $775”. The Bunnies crawl all over such “wonder deals”. I saw this one shown nearby as I was typing this. A seller called australian_antiques in Adelaide is offering a $500 bunch of 64 - Stamp News
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You CANNOT buy these from POs! venues like eBay and Gumtree are also of course where the folks who STEAL material from Australia Post, dump it onto the clueless. Hoping noone notices. Folks DO notice of course. Stampboards this month highlighted some crooks who were listing up $10,000 face of mint $1 peel and stick stamps for $7,000. Discussion here - tinyurl.com/TheftPO Sounds like a great deal right - even LPOs pay much more than that for $1 stamps. The eBay sellers noted were ddldr2185 and jessicnas-1 and there were others “Hi, I am selling left over office supplies. I have 10,000 x $1 Auspost stamps, they are brand new still on the roll - face value $10,000 - selling for $7,000. Need them gone asap, pick up only from Melbourne. Any reasonable offer will be considered.” Yeah right. Both these sellers were offering stamps stolen from the stamp printers. How do
we know that? As these morons used in their eBay descriptions, photos of large uncut wallpaper sized rolls of the $1 stamps! See them nearby. Eleven stamps wide, in long rolls of 10,000 units. Seeing Australia Post only sells them in rolls of 100 or 200, all just 1 stamp wide, these were clearly STOLEN from the printer.
eBay Seller arrested by Police.
What an idiot seller duo - sell stolen stamps, and then add photos of them in a format that CLEARLY has been nicked from the printer. The stampboards thread updates us that one seller was arrested by Police, and I presume the Bunny Buyers were also getting Federal Police visitors as well - hopefully confiscating their $7,000 “eBay BAAAHRGIN”. Natually eBay/Paypal LOVE all this illegal stuff, as they make the same 15% commision on Stamp News - 65
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Stolen off the Gärtner Auction site. STOLEN stamps, as they do on the legitimate material shown nearby. Did they cancel either eBay account for selling $10,000s of stamps stolen from the Federal Governent? Of course not - Scambay would go broke if everyone stuck to offering kosher material.
More tranches of non existent stuff on eBay.
On that same tack, mid April saw yet another scammer “treasurycollectors” offering 100s of lots of rare stamps all starting as 99c auctions. Cool deal right? Wrong. Exactly like last month’s $US1 MILLION scam reported in detail here last month, using Stanley Gibbons material tinyurl.com/Scambay, this spiv also owned NONE of the stamps offered. 66 - Stamp News
eBay never learn. tinyurl.com/Scambay2 is where Stampboards reported this latest scam to the globe once again, and the detective members there quickly deduced most if not all of the images were being lifted off the massive Christoph Gärtner Auctions site in Germany. Many of the stamps were still on hand there to be sold. Then comes the usual farce of getting SCAMBAY to close the auctions. Endless reports and emails and phone calls, reaching out to usual array of clueless robots who are never empowered to do a thing. Gärtner allocated the task to a staff member for a day or so, who I am sure got many grey hairs in the process. eBay have proven in all these recent cases, they really do not want to know, as it is PayPal that is scammed out of the money - and not them. And
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The more Fraud reports the better. for the PayPal trained robots sadly, it is all above their pay scale in Bangladesh or wherever, and they can’t do anything either. So both blame each other, and the auctions plough onwards.
eBay clearly disinterested in frauds.
Poor old Bernd, the Gärtner staffer in Germany who outlined his brick wall battles with these drones on stampboards - tinyurl.com/Scambay2 The idiots were making him PROVE beyond doubt that each and EVERY image was stolen, before they would remove each of these non-existent stamps from sale! And mostly they did not care. This is the kind of nonsense reason he was given - “The seller is registered in the US on eBay. Objectively there are no reasons for deleting the offers. Also, due to the location of the seller, such an operation is unjustifiable. You can forward
offers that you consider ineligible to us via the reporting function on each offer page, and we will then check them for you.” So the Bunnies kept on bidding, and eBay seemed disinterested in doing a thing about it same as the $US1 Million scam last month - tinyurl.com/Scambay where auctions completed, and eBay/paypal handed over names, addresses, and real emails of the idiot “buyers” to the scammers. All like some weird movie, and in the stamp division, it is occuring globally on a large scale now. Do eBay ever care when the scammers are pointed out to them 100 times globally, and uncovered, and exposed? Absolutely NOT. “treasurycollectors” still has an active account on eBay as I type, and can do it all again next week, and next month. Buyers on Scambay have preStamp News - 67
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“Legal fight not good for my health.� cious few protections these days against this stuff, as eBay clearly do not care. Global boards like stampboards.com do assist is focusing attention in one spot on such Frauds and Scams, as clearly eBay themselves do not care. All they see are $$s in fees being removed from stamp collectors, and do not have the brains to nip these large scale scams in the bud. REPORT all you see. A bunch of reports, and a drone SOMEWHERE might awaken from their slumbers.
Mossgreen madness gets to Court.
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mossgreen Auctions in Melbourne keeps dragging on. The winners as always, are Lawyers and Administrators. This week however the greedy blood sucking vultures at BDO Australia were slapped solidly in the face, for one outrageous cash grab attempt. Administrators BDO had arrogantly and cheekily decided all vendors needed to pay them $353 PER unsold or consigned lot, in order to get their own goods back. No part returns, no cherry picking. Pay the Ransom in full, or we treat YOUR property as abandoned goods, and we do what we
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Cancer sufferer hit with $104,000 Ransom. want with it. This insanity largely arose as BDO decided to do a “stocktake” of goods, despite the very detailed mossgreen records that showed who owned
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Market Matters everyone else pay for it! This was despite earlier promising vendors in writing that goods could be collected at no fee from January. This naked ransom extortion attempt did not go down well, and a number of the vendors contacted the Corporate Regulator ASIC, and BDO were forced to get the Federal Court to approve their Ransom - or not. On April 9 in the Federal Court in Sydney, Justice Perram essentially told BDO to go and suck eggs. They never had any authority or approval to conduct their insanely expensive 7 figure “stocktake”, and vendors would not need to pay one cent for it, she ruled, and were to be given their own goods back promptly, at no fee. National media ran strongly on this result, including large articles in “The Australian” and the ABC National News etc. Those articles, and Justice Perram’s detailed judgment is outlined on stampboards - tinyurl.com/BDOslapped and good to see the Federal Court used common sense to put these pirates firmly in their place. I hope it not only means the entire ~$1.2 Million “stocktake” is now entirely at BDO’s own cost, but hopefully all the legal bills of the many parties who opposed it, will be awarded against them as well, as the ransom demand appears to have had no legal basis at all. Justice Perram outlined in her summary, instances like Melbourne man Neil Robertson (shown nearby) who she named specifically, whose personal goods were estimated to sell for about $50,000 at mossgreen, yet BDO demanded $104,000 to hand them back. Robertson is on chemo, suffering from cancer, and has only a year or so to live. 600 other vendors were also subject to this same $353 per lot ransom, and many of these briefed legal counsel to vigorously fight this outrageous impost. BDO, to make their case even weaker, admitted that they had handed back some lots and charged those vendors ZERO ransom!
me, the ransom as it were, is considerably more than they estimate the goods being worth,” Mr. Robertson told the ABC. “It’s very hard for me because this is constantly in my mind. I’m not a very angry person, but I must say I’ve boiled with rage over this on a number of evenings when I’ve been trying to go to sleep. I don’t think it’s very good for me.” The former head of Open Gardens Australia, Mr Robertson decided to sell hundreds of antiques through the mossgreen after he was diagnosed with advanced bowel cancer, and given a year to live. He was going to use the money to help fund a move from country Victoria to Melbourne, to be closer to treatment, and to travel in his final months. Corporate thuggery is nothing new, but what BDO Australia deliberately did to Mr. Robertson, and many 100s of others, reached a new low in my eyes, and those of many others. I can only imagine if this was my father, worrying and fretting about such unfair matters in his very final months of life - I’d be furious with BDO. WHO would VOLUNTARILY engage any such company in the future here, if our business had issues? The clearly aggressive and unsympathetic James White and BDO Australia hopefully have received a giant rocket from World HQ about this ongoing fiasco, that one assumes has badly damaged that brand name - and all entirely of their own making. BDO appealed the decision, to a Federal Court Tribunal.
BDO Australia loses out BIG time.
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NSW club information:The Philatelic Association of NSW, PO Box220, Darlinghurst, NSW, 1300 Phone: 02 9264 8301
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 john-monica@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
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