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Contents Articles Woodchip Free Zone: Rod Perry ...................................................6 IPSA: Christer Brunström .............................................................. 12 Stamps in the News: Margo Campbell .................................... 16 Postal Stationery: Ian McMahon ................................................ 26 Looking at New Zealand: Graeme Morriss ............................... 32 Introducing the APF: Daryl Fuller .............................................. 48 Cinderella Corner: Vito Milana .................................................... 52 Market Matters: Glen Stephens .................................................. 56

Information Trading Post....................................................................................... 68 Clubs & Societies ....................................................................... ......70 Calendar.............................................................................................. 73 Products & Services Directory............................................... ......74 Internet & Email Directory...................................................... ......78 List of Advertisers .............................................................. ..............82 The cover this month is the British Antarctic Territory miniature sheet depicting the the four Ocean Zones. This is due for release in mid-November.

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I’ve been promising to provide a Usage overview of the enigmatic 1988-92 Living Together Series for some years. Given the series has been obsolete for nearly 25 years, it’s probably time I made the effort. A full blown account of the lengthy series (all 26 denominations) would consume a succession of no less than three separate month’s Figure 1. 1c stamp solo, worth a motza columns, particularly if I provided more than one “sleepers”, unrecognised by most at this stage. Sufusage example for given denominations, so this will fice to conclude: a great subject for those who like hopefully be an interesting overview of half of the to get in early. series. I haven’t said much on market values, and gener1c to 5c: ally one would expect to pay less than $20 from The 1c-5c denominations were for make-up purposa Philatelic Trader, or on eBay, for items such as es. My stock typically has them used as follows: those featured. Although Living Together series us1c: make-up for Letter rate increases age has an encouraging number of devotees, with up 36c/37c, 37c/39c, 39c/41c, 41c/43c, to a dozen or more distinct possible solo usages for 43c/45c some denominations, clearly it is a field with many 2c: make up for Letter rate increases 37c/39c, 39c/41c, 41c/43c, 43c/45c 3c: make-up for Letter rate increase 36c/39c 4c: make-up for Letter rate increases 37c/41c, 39c/43c, 41c/45c 5c: make-up for Letter rate increase 36c/41c, and less often for 38c “Christmas card” stamps to make 43c rate Specialists would attempt to include examples of some of these usages, devotees would want one of each posFigure 2. 25c specific uprate 6 - Stamp News

Figure 2. 25c specific uprate sibility. Of course, solo franking’s of these five denominations are very sought-after, and can command high prices; they are scarce/rare. For example, Figure 1, 1c solo use Jul 24 1990 St. Marys to East Melbourne, when Letter rate was 41c, is the only example I’ve noted. Taxed 95c (40c deficiency + Underpaid articles fee of 55c), it is unlikely the receiving Melbourne Cricket Club would have been asked to pay the fee. When I had an auction business, we often received underpaid and taxed articles, but the fee was never demanded. This key item for an exhibit would be expected to realise in the $100/200 range at auction.

solo franking’s, which are scarce/rare. The 15c is occasionally seen x3 for the 45c Letter rate.

25c and 30c:

Much the same comment as for 10c-20c, making the next two examples very welcome: Figure 2 is a Sep 26 1995 use (this denomina-

10c to 20c:

Again, make-up denominations, it is difficult to locate purposeful and interesting usage articles bearing these, aside from Figure 4. 53c: One of several unusual denominations in the series Stamp News - 7

tion lasted until 1997) of 25c (Pakenham region – town name unclear) on otherwise postage free cover to Brighton. The uprate was due to the article being overweight, placing it at 70c rather than the 45c Letter rate limit for which the Reply paid permit was issued. Figure 3 provides Figure 5. 55c strip: when near enough is good enough an unusual composifor make-up. Space constraints have precluded this group in the overview, but make no mistake; there are plenty of less usual items to be found by those who relish the thrill of the chase.

53c to 70c:

Figure 6. Nice convergence of two denominations, for specific purposes tion for $1.50 Priority paid fee, in the form of a strip of five of 30c. Used at Burwood (Vic) Mar 21 1991 to AMEX Sydney, it likely contained Merchant’s card credits from retail sales, which the sender wanted credited . . . in a hurry.

37c to 50c:

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Figure 7. 65c: Elusive use

This denomination range includes some “sleepers”, and I’ve featured some of them. Figure 4 is a May 30 1988 solo use of 53c Toukley to Cadbury Share the Reward competition, Ermington. This is the first of three

Figure 8. 68c: Cadbury again to the rescue

skerrick, and deliver to my storage facility. Years later, when I finally got around to processing the massive accumulation, I freaked out when I found a rat’s nest in one of the cartons (fortunately sans the architect). Storing chocolate wrappers within covers, with all those tempting “crumbs”, I probably would not repeat. But, hey, I preserved for future philatelists a wonderful source of unusual usage items! Forgive that off-topic recollection, the subject under review is for the solitary primary use of this denomination, for Intrastate surface rate non-standard articles. Without Cadbury, this would be an elusive rate indeed. Figure 5 has a strip of three 55c attractively used Feb 3 1989 Echuca to Melbourne. $1.65 actually overpays (by 1c) the relevant Letter rate (39c) + Priority paid fee ($1.25). However, there can be no doubt the article is commercial in nature. A good example of where common sense, as well as science, occasionally needs to be applied

featured subjects from this competition, which involved sending Cadbury chocolate wrappers; apparently the more you sent the better you were rewarded if your entry was selected. This was a memorable “hoard”, notably philatelically, for it provided the mother load of multiple rate step articles for the early days of the Living Together series. It also provided an early insight in to my inaugural foray in to accumulating material for my journey in to usage study. Then employee, and now Old Guard mate, Mark Knothe, justifiably thought I had “lost it” when we went, armed with my 7’ x 5’ trailer, to take delivery of the hoard. It required two unsafely packed trailer loads to remove every last Figure 9. 70c: Most elusive on purely denominational rating

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to usage/postal history assessment. In an exhibit, notably in this case, a Living Together exhibit, it’s a pleasure to encounter a convergence of two denominations on the one article, as we have with Figure 6. This Jun 2 1988 use has the 63c for the solitary purpose given in ACSC: Air mail rate for non-standard articles within Australia (up to Oct 1 1988). To add a little Figure 10. 75c solo for less usual purpose spice, we have a pair of 60c uprating for $1.20 Priority state surface rate 2nd weight step for non-standard paid service. articles, according to ACSC. Figure 8 is one such ACSC, whilst on occasions recognising a mulexample, sent May 11 1988 Toowoomba to Cadtitude of potential usage possibilities, is not always bury competition in Ermington. Would be almost exhaustive. For instance, the 63c was also for the unobtainable were it not for the survival of this Air mail postcard/Greetings card rate to Zone 5. hoard. Remember, competition entries were seldom ACSC recognises nine possible solo uses for the requiring of more than base Letter rate. 65c. Good luck attempting to locate an example of Of the 26 denominations in the Living Together each in a lifetime! series, I’ve found the 70c on a usage basis to be the Figure 7 is one of the several elusive possibilimost difficult in aggregate. Figure 9 is the first of ties: Aug 15 1989 Miranda –Collingwood, reprethe seven solo possibilities given in ACSC for the senting Non-standard articles up to 50g by Air mail; denomination. This Aug 26 1988 use Yanco to Hong Unclaimed handstamp adds to the charm. Kong, where unclaimed, was for the Zone 3 Air The unusually denominated 68c was for Intramail rate. One would be hard pressed to find one of these for less than the under $20 “general” price range I’ve given earlier.

75c to $1:

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ACSC does a great job in listing possible solo usages. As I’ve mentioned earlier, it is not exhaustive, and although there are ten possibilities for the 75c, Figure 10 is not

Figure 12. 95c solo, desirable Postpak edition

relatively short-lived. Never let it be said that good does not emanate from ATO (Australian Taxation Office, for our overseas readers). Figure 13 has the $1 paying Certified mail fee, from Kingaroy, with the unusual oval datestamp, to Brisbane office. A belated opportunity also to show the 37c denomination “squeezedout” of this overview. What a wonderful series in design, in colour, and in usage diversity. Little wonder it is one of our most popular series’ for a usage study. I didn’t touch upon the various Printers’ involved in this series; they are identifiable, and accordingly are listed in ACSC. Introduce that aspect to your study, and the prospective subjects at your disposal multiply. For the less adventurous in that pursuit, look out for Koalas and other marginal indicators. They do exist commercially, but take some finding. I’m looking forward to inspecting the first National 8-frame exclusively Usage exhibit!

amongst them. This is a Mar 13 1990 Large letter intrastate 2nd weight step (50-125gms), Kingston to Sydney. The 80c has been left out, so we move on to 90c. Figure 11 has 90c x2, used Australian National University to Broadway, Feb 6 1989, representing rate for Non-standard Intrastate article (up to 50g) 55c + Priority paid service $1.25 = $1.80. Try finding one in a hurry. There can be few more desirable examples of solo usage of the 95c than Figure 12. For starters, the 1988 Bicentenary Postpak featured, unlike 99% of other Australia Post products of the era, is very scarce and sought-after. Added to this we have an elusive rate, Non-standardarticles 2nd weight step (50-100g) by Air mail, used Apr 3 1988, Karringyup to Ermington, the final of the trio of celebrated Cadbury articles. This is the “(a)” usage Figure 13. $1 specific purpose use, to ATO referred to in ACSC, which was

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IPSA - Independent Postal Service OF AMERICA Today not much seems to be known about a company called Independent Postal System of America or IPSA for short. The company was established in Oklahoma City in 1968 delivering mostly bulk mail (3rd and 4th class mail) and parcels. It was founded by a man with great visions called Thomas M. Murray. Not much is known about Mr. Murray apart from the fact that he was born in 1927 and passed away in 2003. The kind of mail items that his company handled included pricelists and catalogues for which there was no US Post Ofﬁce monopoly. IPSA obviously was able to deliver this kind of mail at a cost lower than that charged by the US Post Ofﬁce. Also it seems that the USPO was experiencing lots of problems with 3rd and 4th class mail at the time. According to available reports the company

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grew rapidly and by 1971 IPSA operated in 31 US states as well as internationally in Canada and Great Britain. The company had a staff of some 18.000 people and the mailmen wore uniforms rather similar to those of the USPO (today’s USPS). Thus it seems it was an enterprise of considerable size. It was also in 1971 that Murray decided to release postage stamps. The set included a 5c stamp intended for the delivery of Christmas cards. This led to immediate reactions from the USPO and the postal workers’ trade unions. They all felt that this was an infringement on the USPO monopoly on first-class mail. Murray contended that Christmas cards were not really first class mail items. There were a number of court cases where the USPO accused IPSA of handling first class

Christer Brunström mail items. It all ended in 1974 when Congress decided that private companies were allowed to handle 2nd, 3rd and 4th class mail but NOT 1st class mail which remained a USPO monopoly. Mr. Murray continued his campaign for access to all categories of mail including ﬁrst class. In 1976 he even released a zero cent stamp which allowed his customers to send petitions to their congress representatives free of charge. However, Mr. Murray’s campaign was not successful and a lot of money was wasted on legal procedures. The company went bankrupt in the late 1970s and all that remain from this private initiative to compete with the USPO are a number of postage stamps. The stamps in mint condition are frequently met with but genuinely used or on commercial

covers they are very scarce. When researching this story I noticed that a US dealer specialising in “Cinderella” stamps asked $5 for a mint set of the ﬁrst issue. All in all IPSA released three sets totalling 17 different stamps. As they are not listed in any of the major stamp catalogues I thought it might be a good idea to end this article with a listing of all 17 stamps. In 1971 there were four large-sized stamps featuring the IPSA acronym. The denominations are 1 cent (or possibly dollar), 10c, 25c and 50c. There was also a 5c stamp intended for Christmas cards. It features the IPSA logo and the complete company name. The ﬁfth anniversary of the founding of IPSA was marked in 1973 with six different stamps. First there are two se-tenant 4c stamps featuring former presidents Harry S. Truman

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IPSA - Independent Postal Service OF AMERICA and Lyndon B. Johnson. The 5c value appears to celebrate peace by showing two doves. The 20c stamp depicts the US ﬂag and is devoted to free enterprise. The 25c value honours Martin Luther King, Jr. Finally there is a 75c “IPSAgram” stamp which possibly was used for some kind of special delivery service. Then there was a ﬁnal issue in 1976. The six stamps were printed by Thomas De La Rue & Co. Ltd. in England and feature famous people. It is quite an attractive set of stamps starting off with the above-mentioned 0-cent stamp with a portrait of IPSA founder Thomas Murray. The 5c stamp shows Elihu

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Burritt and cheap ocean postage. The 10c features Reuter’s News Agency and the 15c Galileo Galilei and Freedom of Thought. Universal Suffrage and Susan B. Anthony are depicted on the 25c stamp and the top value of 50c is devoted to Charles L. Lindbergh, one of the pioneers in the delivery of mail by airplane. These 17 stamps are basically all that remain of Mr. Murray’s attempt to compete with the USPO. I suppose a lot of research needs to be done to ﬁnd out the exact history of this privately operated mail company which only existed for some ten years.

AAT fully IMPERFORATE Miniature Sheets issued by Australia Post!

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

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Stamps in the News - Globally! Something fishy from the Faroes Reported at http://en.stamps.fo

Faroe Islands latest stamp is fabricated from ….. would you believe, cod skin! So how does a fish skin stamp work? They were in principle designed as ordinary stamps with texts, values and a small shaded drawing by master engraver Martin Mörck. But the similarity stops right there. Each stamp has a square piece of tanned cod skin glued onto it. It is not at all grey and dullish - but incredibly beautiful and patterned with almost metallic colour tones, which change depending on the angle it is viewed from. And each one is unique. The stamps are made with skin of cod caught in Faroese waters, tanned by Atlantic Leather in Iceland and printed by Cartor in France. The Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) is usually about one metre in length, but can grow to 2 metres and weigh up to 96 kilos. It live to 25 years and is

found on both sides of the Atlantic. Cod is generally sandy brown, its back and sides are yellowish-green, with grey or brown spots and a white lateral stripe running along its sides. The belly is white or greyish-white. However, it can have other colour variations depending on habitat. Tanning of fish skin an ancient art although it has not been common in the post-war period. The quality of fish leather will of course vary, but properly treated skin of cod, salmon and lumpfish is often stronger than ordinary cowhide. The size of fish skins have made them especially well-suited for producing smaller items, such as shoes, bags, purses and watchbands. Sewn together, they can also be used in the garment industry and to upholster furniture. Today’s designers are getting more and more aware of fish skins‘ practicality and beauty - and their use is growing.

Something for sleuths from the UK Reported at www.theguardian.com

Agatha Christie collectors will need to make room for a delightful set of new stamps issued by the Royal Mail in celebration of the author’s 126th birthday. Each of the six new stamps commemorate a classic Agatha Christie mystery, including “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd,” “Murder on the Orient Express,” “The Mysterious Affair at Styles,” “And Then There Were None,” “A Murder is Announced,” and “The Body in the Library.” Not only are the stamps stylish: each stamp features clues to help amateur sleuths solve the mystery. The stamps include microtext, UV ink, and thermochromic ink, requiring a viewer to utilize a magnifying glass, UV light, and body heat to find the clues. “I am delighted that, 100 years after she wrote her first detective novel, my grandmother’s works are being celebrated in such a unique way by Royal 16 - Stamp News

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Mail,” said Christie’s grandson Mathew Prichard in a statement. “The ingenuity of her mysteries is cleverly represented in these distinctive designs, with the use of cutting edge technology - a welcome alliance of the traditional and the modern - adding to the delight. I am certain that ... mystery lovers will relish the puzzles that each stamp presents.”

Vatican fallibility

Reported at www.heraldmalaysia.com The Vatican Philatelic and Numismatic Office has printed a picture of an Angican cathedral in the commemorative Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Rosary Kolkata stamp issued to mark the canonisation of Mother Teresa, Matters India reports. late to correct the mistake and recall the prints, they The picture of the cathedral used are harping on ecumenism of Mother Teresa,” the in the stamp is that of the Church of North India’s sources added. (Anglican) iconic St Paul’s Cathedral, situated near The 95-cent (Euro) stamp features a wrinkled but Kolkata maidan and Victoria memorial, instead radiant Mother Teresa smiling in her blue-trimmed, of the Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Rosary just across Brabourne Road, on Portuguese Street, com- white sari. Overlaid on the design by Patrizio Danmonly known as Murgihata established in 1799, the iele is another image of her holding the hand of a small child. paper says. When the faux pas was brought to the attention of the Vatican, officials came up with “an absolutely lame excuse, saying it is to highlight Mother Teresa’s ecumenical aspect,” sources told Matters India. “They clearly mistook St Paul’s Cathedral for the Catholic Holy Rosary Cathedral and now as it is too

St Pauls Anglican Cathedral Kolkata

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Stamps in the News - Globally! “Frail but equally determined in her vocation, Mother Teresa loved God and the Church with great strength, simplicity and extraordinary humility, glorifying with her life the dignity of a most humble service,” says the brochure announcing the stamp’s release.

One stamp to rule them all

Reported at https://stamps.nzpost.co.nz New Zealand is famous around the world as the home of Middle-Earth – thanks to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings film trilogies. The legacy of these films lives on through New Zealand Post’s commemorative stamps – which are available together for the first time in one publication. For the first time, each miniature sheet produced by New Zealand Post for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogies (37 miniature sheets) is now available in a crafted book, inspired by the journal written by Hobbits Bilbo Baggins and his heir Frodo Baggins in both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It comes with an embossed leatherette cover, fastened with a button modelled from the waistcoat of Bilbo Baggins. Each book also comes with a certifi-

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cate of authenticity. The book also includes a new miniature sheet featuring the ‘One Ring’ embossed in 22 carat gold foil. The ‘One Ring’ is at the heart of both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and features on its own New Zealand stamp for the first time. The round $10 stamp sits within a miniature sheet featuring the iconic map of Middle-earth, and each miniature sheet is individually numbered. This unique book is limited to only 2,000 worldwide. Note: Unnumbered versions of this miniature sheet are available individually in limited quantities. There is no first day cover for this issue.

Prized booby to celebrate a philatelic first

Reported at https://shop.auspost.com.au Australia Post has issued its first stamps with the “Norfolk Island” inscription following the cessation of the independent Norfolk Island postal service on July 1 2016 when Norfolk Island became a regional council of New South Wales. The stamps feature 2 seabirds, the Masked Booby and the Red-tailed Tropicbird, with the inscription on the stamps matches the colours of their bills. The Masked Booby (Sula dactylatra fullagari) is named for the small black mask around its large yellow or yellowish-green beak. The smaller islands of Nepean and Phillip and the smaller islets off the Norfolk coastline are important breeding habitats for most of Norfolk Island’s seabirds. The spectacular Red-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda roseotincta) has two bright scarlet tail quills and performs acrobatic aerial courtship dis-

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Margo Campbell four of the judges’ picks to make up the seven new stamps. The winning stamps will be presented in November, and released in May 2017. One of the images that made it to the final 20 was Fredrik Thomasson holding his sleeping son, Charlie. “I was sitting watching TV and drinking my coffee when they were doing an interview with Postnord about the competition. That picture came to mind straight away because it means a lot for me. I sent it in for fun and apparently more people than just me like it,” he told The Local. “Charlie has already decided that if we get to be on a stamp he wants to send the fee we’ll get to sick kids so they can be happy and perhaps healthy. So it’ll go to the Barncancerfonden (Child Cancer Fund),” he explained. The rest of the top 20 can be viewed on Postnord’s website for the competition. This is the first time that the general public will compete to be on one of Sweden’s stamps, but the country has a history for getting creative with its postage.

plays. The sub-species found on Norfolk Island has plumage suffused with pink.

Social Media win: Swedish selfie stamp competition Reported at www.thelocal.se

Swedes could soon be using a selfie to post their letters after one made it to the final 20 of a competition to become a new postage stamp. Other entrants in the crop include a cheeky elk, and a dad with his sleeping son. Over 20,000 images were sent in to SwedishDanish postal service Postnord’s competition through Instagram, before a jury cut them down to 20 finalists. The general public will now vote for their three favourites until October 20th, where the trio with the highest number of votes will be combined with

Social Media fail: New Zealand Post deletes post Reported at www.stuff.co.nz

Using social media for marketing can be fraught with problems as New Zealand Post discovered recently. NZ Post deleted a tweet about its latest promotion after social media users began referring to drug use and family violence.

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Stamps in the News - Globally! comments were, saying “that’s the whole reason we took it down”.

Another side to Syria

Reported at http://newsweekme.com

Tweets from the deleted twitter feed On Monday, the state-owned company asked Twitter users for help with their latest stamp promotion - ‘It’s a Kiwi Thing’. The new stamps have classic Kiwi-isms on them, and New Zealand Post wanted to know if they had missed any. The list - so far - includes “always blow on the pie”, the jandal blowout, just a simple flat white with extra foam, almond milk and a chocolate fish. However, some Twitter users started replying with darker suggestions. As a result, the original tweet was deleted, a fact New Zealand Post also announced. “Some of the responses to our ‘It’s a Kiwi Thing’ stamps were getting a little out of hand, so we’ve deleted the original tweet.” The original post was “meant to be a bit of fun” a spokeswoman for New Zealand Post said. “But some comments were getting a bit heavy.” She refused to say what some of the 20 - Stamp News

What started at the age of 12 as a hobby quickly turned into an obsession, and today, Jamil Murad is the number one collector of Syrian stamps and banknotes in Syria. The 37-year-old, originally from Sednaya, Syria, has dedicated his life to documenting the rise and growth of the Syrian state. The collection itself is fascinating as it reflects periods of occupation, wars, and refugees in Syria, much like what is happening today. If anything, Murad’s collection is a testament to history repeating itself. His living room is home to dozens of heavy albums holding thousands of stamps, banknotes, coins and historical documents, and he specializes in the period of the Syrian Republic. One of the very first stamps issued in Syria, which he owns, dates back to 1919. “The collection begins when Syria began,” he says. Holding up the

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stamp, he points out, “These are French stamps with an over-print on them reading T.E.O., which stands for ‘Territory of Enemy Occupation.’” Holding up a series of stamps from 1925, it is possible to read “secours aux refugee” printed across them. “This was when the Armenian refugees came to Syria, fleeing the Turkish genocide,” Murad explains. “The Syrian state created a special tax in order to raise money for the Armenians.” Much like what is happening today, Syria was subject to attempts of dividing it. At one point, the French attempted to separate Syria into several states or ‘autonomous regions,’ which lasted for two years. In 1936 Syria signed the Independence Treaty, and again new stamps were issued. Other stamps in his collection highlight the significant dates within Syria’s history. In 1938, for example, when Turkey’s founding father Kamal Ataturk died, stamps in Syria were printed with a black border, to mark his passing. Today, it is doubted that Syria would do the same if a Turkish official died, given the turbulent and severed relations between both countries. “I’ve gotten to the point now where I challenge myself in my collection, to see if I can beat what I currently have,” he says, at one point holding up an envelope of a letter sent from Damascus to Baghdad with both British and French seals. “These seals indicate both British and French intelligence intercepted and opened the envelope.” But his obsession with collecting snapshots of history does not stop with stamps. Murad has one of the most expansive collection of Syrian banknotes in the country’s history. One of the rare notes in his collection is a 100 Lira note, the equivalent of what 1.5 million Liras would be today.

But the rarest note in his collection is the 1939 250 Lebanese Lira. “The note itself was worth around $16,000 back then, as there are only four known to exist,” he says proudly. Jamil Murad, currently vice-president of The Damascus History Foundation, is the foremost expert and collector of Syrian paper money, coins, medals, and stamps. He is also a major collector of old scrolls, correspondences, and bureaucratic records (military, court, education) from the late Ottoman era until 1963. Murad is a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) and a columnist in Arab newspapers. He currently heads the Education and Youth Department at the SSNP in Damascus. Jamil Murad studied business administration at the Lebanese University and obtained his advanced education in the UK.

Another side to Switzerland Reported at www.swissinfo.ch

The Swiss Post has dedicated a stamp to victims of Switzerland’s forced institutionalisation policies and “discarded children” who were taken from their families as part of a harsh foster care system. The stamp has a market value of CHF1 ($1.03)

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Stamps in the News - Globally! and a surcharge of CHF0.50. All of the additional income will go towards the emergency aid fund for people who were victims before 1981. Until now, surcharges on stamps were reserved for Pro Juventute and Pro Patria, Swiss charities for young people and cultural and social projects respectively. “With this special stamp the state is expressing its appreciation and respect for those people who until a few years ago were subjected to unimaginable wrongs,” said a spokesman. Forced institutionalisation policies existed in Switzerland until 1981. Tens of thousands of so-called discarded children were taken from their families, a practice which evolved from a rural custom of taking on poor children as servants and labourers. In addition, women and girls were subject to forced sterilisation and locked up under the “administrative care” legal provision. Some were removed from society for being unmarried and pregnant, many were put under pressure to give up their babies for adoption. Other women and men were deprived of their liberty for “licentiousness”, “drunkenness” or for being “work shy” In addition, the story of the Swiss gypsy people, known as the Jenisch, exposed a calculated policy of Nazi-style eugenics carried out behind closed doors

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with the help of Pro Juventute well into the 1970s. There have been a number of official government apologies since 2009 but the issue f compensaton remains unresolved.

Gandhi revered and collected Reported at www.thehindu.com

October 2, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, is celebrated with nationalistic pride all over India. But for K. Karthikeyan, a part-time engineering student, nearly every day provides a moment to remember the Father of the Nation. An avid collector of stamps and currency commemorating the Mahatma, Karthikeyan got started on his hobby by interacting with the foreign tourists. “I soon realised that India had a wealth of collectible stamps and currency, more interesting than those of foreign countries, so I switched my focus.” Among the rare pieces in his collection of 5,000 Mahatma Gandhi stamps is the set of four issued in 1948. The philatelic tribute (Rs.10, 12 annas, 3.5 annas and 1.5 annas), issued on August 15, 1948, as part of Independence Day celebrations, made Gandhiji the first Indian to be depicted on the country’s stamps. What increases their rarity is their high denomination, and the fact that they were printed by Helio Courvoisier, Sa. LaChaux De Fonds of Switzerland instead of the India Security Press. “One of my collector-friends, who is no more, gifted me this set,” said Karthikeyan, who is a member of the Tiruchirappalli Philatelic Club. Online research suggests that the individual worth of this stamp may be in the range of Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 14,000. Karthikeyan said it was important for newcomers to philately to join a certified club, to minimise chances of collecting counterfeits, and also to choose a theme before getting started. “I’m concentrating on Gandhiji and Thanjavur culture for now. When you start researching your theme, you pick up lots of background history about the subject,” he said.

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Slovaks celebrate beauty Reported at http://spectator.sme.sk

The new post stamp named “Beauties of our country: Herlany Geyser” was recently issued by The Slovak Post with a value of 0,80 €. The post stamp, with dimensions of 27.2 × 44.4 mm comes out in the form of a modified printing sheet with 10 stamps. It was printed by steel printing from a flat plate in combination with an offset Poštovní tiskárna cenin Praha, a. s. The Herlany Geyser is situated in the area of a former spa, Herlany-Rankovce. It is a cold water geyser, which was created when a borehole was made for a new well to increase the yield of mineral springs in the then spa. In contrast to hot water geysers, the temperature of the water in Herlany Geyser ranges from 14 to 18 °C. That is also the reason why it is called a “false geyser”. Drilling works started in 1870 and the first eruption spouted up about four to five meters when the borehole hit 172 metres in 1872. The geyser now erupts between 32 to 36 hours, the height of the eruption reaching 7 to 15 metres for a period of 26 minutes with a flow of 25 to 30 dm3/s.

Dutch celebrate beauty

Reported at www.i4u.com The Netherland Post office has released a set of stamps featuring former Victoria’s Secret Angel Doutzen Kroes. The Doutzen Kroes stamps are likely the sexiest stamps in the world. “So honoured to be asked for this project - very proud of my own set of stamps for Post NL! Thank you Anton Corbijn for the amazing pictures,” the model said about her stamp series. Dutch photographer created a series of 10 stamps showing the model in different styles including topless. PostNL sells the set of 10 Doutzen Kroes stamps for 7.30 Euro. The stamp value is 1, which is good for letters weighing 20g within the Netherlands. The Doutzen Kroes stamps only ship within the Netherlands. Doutzen Kroes became a Victoria’s Secret Angel in 2008 and left in 2014. The 31-year-old model has just recently signed with another lingerie label. She also has been a brand ambassador and spokesperson for L’Oréal Paris for over 5 years. The model has been in the top 5 earning super models in her successful career. She is married since 2010 to Sunnery James Gorré. The couple have two children.

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Postal Stationery This month’s column looks at the centenary of the Australian Commonwealth’s first embossed stamped envelopes, a new ‘biscuit tin stamped postcard and Hong Kong Lunar New Year lettercards. In addition, I continue the article on exhibiting postal stationery, this month looking at how postal stationery exhibits are judged.

Centenary of the First Commonwealth Embossed Envelopes

Figure 1 1d King George V 'Star' Embossed Stamped Envelope This year marks the centenary of the issue of the ‘star’ or the envelopes was unwatermarked. Furthermore ‘octagonal’ King George V embossed stamped enthe Post Office provided a service whereby private velopes which were first issued in May 1916. The uses could have their own stationery imprinted with envelopes were the first embossed stamped envestamps meaning that the imprinted stamps could lopes issued by the Commonwealth and replaced appear on a wide range of paper types making the the King George V sideface stamped envelopes. detection of forgeries more difficult. Many other They are also known as the ‘Wilby’ envelopes after countries including New Zealand and the United the designer, J E Wilby of the Kingdom used embossed Victorian Government Printstamps on their envelopes ing Office. and Cooke proposed that While some of the AustraAustralia follow suite. lian states had used embossed Although there was some stamps on their stamped resistance due to cost, conenvelopes, the first Commoncern at finding a suitable wealth issues had Kangaroo engraver in Australia and and Map stamps printed on discussion about the design, the envelopes. These were the first embossed stamped followed by the King George envelopes appeared in May V sideface stamped enve1916 using the ‘star’ delopes. sign shown in Figure 1. The Following the discovery original design did not have of forged Kangaroo and Map ‘POSTAGE’ in the design, stamps, the stamp printer, but this was added in 1921 Cooke, was concerned about (Figure 2). The ‘star’ design the security of the envelope was replaced by a design of stamps and felt that the use the portrait of King George V of embossed stamps on in an oval (Figure 3) in 1928. envelopes was essential to The ‘Star’ envelopes are Figure 2 2d King George V protect against forger. Unlike a popular collecting area of 'Star' Stamp With 'POSTAGE' the adhesive stamps the paper used for 26 - Stamp News

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Figure 3 Cut-out with King George V 'Star' Stamps 1d With 'POSTAGE' + 2d orange Without 'POSTAGE' Australian postal stationery due to changes of value and colour of the stamps, changes in design and the range of interesting official and PTPO postal stationery. The story of the development of these envelopes, including the involvement of the stamp

printer Cooke and the note printer Harrison, can be found in an article by Mark Diserio with appears in the November issue of the Postal Stationery Collector, the Journal of the Postal Stationery Society of Australia.

Figure 4 1d King George V 'Oval' Stamped Envelope PTPO for the Hobart Savings Bank Stamp News - 27

Postal Stationery Exhibiting Postal Stationery - How stationery exhibits are judged.

Postal Stationery exhibits are judges using the following points breakdown: • Treatment (20) and Philatelic Importance (10) 30 • Philatelic and related Knowledge, Personal Study 35 and Research • Condition (10) and Rarity (20) 30 • Presentation 5 • Total 100 Treatment of the exhibit reflects the degree to which the exhibitor is able to create a balanced exhibit characteristic of the chosen subject. A logical progression that is easy to follow and a clear concise write up will help the jurors (Figure 4) to appreciate the exhibit. In assessing treatment jurors will check that the statements made in the introduction and plan are adequately represented in the display. The exhibit is evaluated on whether: • The completeness of the material shown in relation to the scope of the exhibit • The subject has been chosen to enable a properly balanced exhibit to be shown in the space available • The primary focus is the stationery itself and secondarily the usage • The content reflects the title, purpose, scope and plan • There is a logical flow in the exhibit • The headlines of each page support the understanding of the treatment • There is a good balance between the different parts of the exhibit • There is a natural start and ending point of the exhibit • There is no duplicated material (For instance: Two similar items postmarked in two different cities are in a postal stationery exhibit duplication) The Introduction Page is evaluated on whether it: • Introduces the purpose of the exhibit • Defines the scope of the exhibit • Explains the structure of the exhibit • Has a plan of the exhibit • Mentions the most important literature/references The selection of material for a postal stationery 28 - Stamp News

exhibit involves a compromise between the many pages of material the exhibitor may wish to show and the number of pages that will fit in the frames allotted by the exhibition management. This selection is an important factor not only in assessing treatment, but also knowledge. Providing a clear indication is given, the exhibitor may omit material that is of lesser significance. In general, the common items of an issue may be represented by a token showing, while the better material of the same issue should be shown in depth. The judges will appreciate that this treatment shows the exhibitor’s knowledge of the material. The “importance” of an exhibit is determined by both the significance of the actual exhibit in relation to the subject chosen and the overall significance of that subject. In assessing the importance of the exhibit consideration is given to: • How difficult is the selected area? • What is the significance of the selected area relative to world philately? • What is the significance of the selected area relative to the national philately of the country? • What is the significance of the material shown in the exhibit relative to the selected area? Philatelic and related knowledge is demonstrated by the items chosen for display and their related comments. Philatelic and related knowledge is demonstrated by the choice of items that reflects knowledge of the chosen area, whether the exhibit demonstrates a full and accurate appreciation of the subject chosen, whether the existing literature within the area has been used and whether items are well described. Personal study is demonstrated by the proper analysis of the items chosen for display. Personal research is presentation of new facts related to the chosen subject. Personal study is demonstrated by the inclusion of descriptions of: • The postal stationery type, name and location of printer, issuing date, earliest recorded use and numbers printed (where known) • Watermarks, paper, perforations etc. of the postal stationery • Postal stationery printings and varieties • Rates and usage • Rarer added stamps to a postal stationery item

Ian McMahon previously published information. Where the exhibitor has extended such information a reference can be placed either in the introductory statement or on the exhibition page to which the research refers. It is unrealistic to require a collector to develop new findings in a heavily studied and researched area. For this reason, such exhibits will not be penalised for a lack of personal research, but will be given additional consideration if, in spite of previous research that has taken place, the exhibitor has managed to come up with new findings. The proper evaluation of philatelic and related knowledge, personal study, and research will be based on the relevant description of each philatelic object shown. A well thought-out plan may avoid otherwise lengthy descriptions later in the exhibit. If rarity statements (“One of X recorded”) are used it is important to mention the source of this recording. Do not use expressions like “Unique” or “Very rare”. Only the knowledge, study and research documented by the items in the exhibit can be judged. Furthermore exhibitors should bear in mind that the information given should not overwhelm the philatelic material shown. The postal stationery items should be in the best possible condition. The condition of the items is evaluated as if they were stamps: No tears, no missing corners, no bends, no stains, no missing perforation (if present) etc. Exhibitors are encouraged to show unique or very Figure 5 Postal Stationery Judges at Work, Thailand 2016 rare material that does not occur in fine • Scarce destinations and unusual routes condition, but are cautioned from includ• Distinctive cancellations and/or added markings ing other items in a condition that may reduce the affecting the rate and those not affecting the rate perceived overall condition of the exhibit. The conPersonal research includes research carried out dition of common material should be impeccable. by the exhibitor. Research and new discoveries It is important to remember that the actual conshould be given full coverage in accordance with dition obtainable will vary according to the country their importance. Where appropriate, references and period. Commercially used items are to be should be given to the exhibitor’s own or other preferred to philatelic produced ones. Additional

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Postal Stationery

Figure 6 Holden Stamped Postcard franking should also be in best possible quality and postmarks should be as clear as possible with all essential wording complete. If an item has been restored or manipulated it must be described as such. Unless a postal stationery item is of extreme rarity, is unknown as entire, or the exhibit is primarily concerned with variations in the stamp impression only, only entires be shown, that is, cut-outs of postal stationery stamps should not normally be included. Rarity is directly related to the philatelic items shown and to the relative scarcity of this material (however, not the value). The jurors will primarily be looking for: • The rarities (postal stationery types) within the area • Essays, proofs (approved and rejected) and specimens • Unused items, items used at intended rate and with additional franking (express, registered etc) • The difficulty of obtaining relevant and inter-

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esting postal stationery material for the exhibit. • How easy it will be to duplicate the exhibit • If there is philatelic produced material in the exhibit The jurors will also be looking for scarce stamps used as additional franking on a postal stationery item and scarce postmarks, markings, rates, routes and destinations. The method of presentation should show the material to the best effect and in a balanced way. With postal stationery, it is important to avoid unduly uniform arrangements, and variation in mounting is therefore preferred. The exhibit is evaluated on: • Good balance in the frames and the individual pages • Good use of the page - with not too much white space on the pages • The write-up is clear, concise and relevant to the material shown and to the subject chosen for the exhibit • Sufficient write up - but not too much text

Ian McMahon Year of the Monkey Lettercards

The Lunar New Year is a popular theme for post offices issuing postal stationery with countries like Australia and China producing Lunar New Year postal stationery every year. Lettercards, once a popular form of postal stationery, are now issued by only a very few countries. Hong Kong, however, is still issuing lettercards with a set of four lettercards being issued for the Year of Figure 7 Front of Hong Kong Year of the Monkey Lettercard The Monkey (Figures 6 and 7). The letter• Illustrations are not too dominating. Any photocards, described by the Hong Kong Post as ‘Postcopies must be a minimum of 25% different in age Prepaid Lunar New Year Greeting Cards’, were size from the original issued on 16 January 2016. Hong Kong has issued • Careful mounting stamped lettercards for the Lunar New Year each Overlapping of items is accepted but obscuring year since 2008. important features should be avoided. No advantage or disadvantage is applied as to whether the text is handwritten, typewritten or printed. Brightly coloured inks and coloured album pages should be avoided.

Holden ‘Biscuit Tin’ Postcard

Australia Post has issued a ‘Holden’ stamped postcard (Figure 5). The postcard is sold as part of a Holden gift pack with a tin of shortbread biscuits in a ‘collectible’ Holden-themed tin with a mug selling for $24.95. The gift pack is similar to that issued earlier in the year which was sold with World War I stamped postcards.

Figure 8 Back of Hong Kong Year of the Monkey Lettercard Stamp News - 31

Looking at New Zealand

1974 Commonwealth Games, Christchurch The 10th British Commonwealth Games were held in Christchurch from 24th January to 2nd February 1974. New sports facilities, the Queen Elizabeth II Park, were built in the suburb of North New Brighton to the east of central Christchurch. This area near the coast, including the stadium, was badly affected by the ground liquefying in the earthquake of 2011. The set of stamps marking this event were issued on 9th January and withdrawn from Post Offices on 31st March but available from the philatelic Bureau until 30th April. The 5 cent stamp in the set marked the 4th British Paraplegic Games, held in Dunedin after the Christchurch Games. The designs of the four stamps commemorating the main Games incorporated the Games’ logo as well as the featured sport. This logo, designed by Colin Simon of Wellington, cleverly manipulated the straight lines of the letters ‘NZ’ coloured red and blue to resemble the

British Union Jack. In later years it has been used as a symbol of other New Zealand-associated activities and is protected as a national emblem by an Act of Parliament. Because it consists solely of straight lines, it was also possible to incorporate it in a slogan cancellation which was used at eighteen post offices. This was New Zealand’s first pictorial slogan cancellation.

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

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

100 BAHAMAS ...............................................$ 90.00 25 BAHRAIN ..................................................$ 33.00 50 BAHRAIN ..................................................$ 72.00 100 BANGLADESH ..........................................$ 11.00 25 BARBADOS ................................................$ 12.00 50 BARBADOS ................................................$ 24.00 100 BARBADOS ..............................................$ 70.00 50 BASUTOLAND/ LESOTO ...............................$40.00 50 BAVARIA ...................................................$ 28.00 100 BAVARIA .................................................$ 84.00 200 BAVARIA ...............................................$ 210.00 200 BELGIAN CONGO ....................................$ 100.00 200 BELGIUM ..................................................$15.00 300 BELGIUM .................................................$ 24.00 500 BELGIUM .................................................$ 40.00 100 BELGIUM COLONIES .................................$ 13.00 300 BELGIUM COLONIES .................................$ 80.00 100 BERMUDA ...............................................$ 90.00 100 BHUTAN ...................................................$30.00 50 BOHEMIA MORAVIA ....................................$ 8.00 100 BOHEMIA MORAVIA ................................$ 24.00 150 BOHEMIA MORAVIA ................................$ 55.00 25 BOLIVIA ......................................................$ 6.00 50 BOLIVIA ....................................................$ 13.00 25 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ..............................$ 20.00 50 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ..............................$ 33.00 150 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ..........................$ 170.00 100 Br.P.O. AGENCIES ...................................$ 100.00 25 BR. SOLOMONS .........................................$ 10.00 100 BRAZIL ....................................................$ 17.00 200 BRAZIL ....................................................$ 36.00 100 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ........................$ 6.00 200 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ......................$ 10.00 500 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ......................$ 30.00 1000 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ....................$ 78.00 100 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH (MINT U/H) ...$ 27.00 100 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH KGVI (MINT U/H) ...$ 60.00 1000 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH( MINT U/H ) .. $ 190.00 50 BRITISH HONDURAS (LRG.COMMEMS) ......$ 40.00 25 HONDURAS AND BELIZE ..............................$ 9.00 25 BRITISH VIRGIN ISL. ..................................$ 22.00 50 BRITISH WEST INDIES ................................$ 10.00 100 BRITISH WEST INDIES ..............................$ 14.00 500 BRITISH WEST INDIES ..............................$ 75.00 25 BRUNEI .....................................................$ 27.00 50 BRUNEI ......................................................$66.00 200 BULGARIA ...............................................$ 17.00 300 BULGARIA ...............................................$ 22.00 800 BULGARIA ...............................................$ 88.00 1000 BULGARIA ...........................................$ 120.00 100 BURUNDI ................................................$ 20.00

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25 CAMBODIA ................................................$ 10.00 100 CAMBODIA ............................................$ 115.00 500 CAMBODIA ..............................................$ 65.00 100 CANADA ....................................................$ 6.00 200 CANADA ................................................$ 258.00 1000 CANADA ...............................................$100.00 1800CANADA ..............................................$ 179.00 100 CANADA (MINT.COMMS) .........................$ 50.00 25 CAPE VERDE ................................................$ 6.00 25 CAYMAN ISL ..............................................$ 15.00 50 CAYMAN ISL ..............................................$ 36.00 100 CHANNEL ISLANDS ..................................$ 19.00 300 CHANNEL ISLANDS ................................$ 130.00 100 CHILE ......................................................$ 12.00 200 CHILE ......................................................$ 24.00 500 CHILE ....................................................$ 110.00 100 CHINA .....................................................$ 19.00 200 CHINA .....................................................$ 48.00 325 CHINA ...................................................$ 130.00 500 CHINA P.R.C ...........................................$ 350.00 100 CHINA (LRG, MINT, COMP.SETS)................$ 60.00 25 CHRISTMAS ISLAND ..................................$ 14.00 50 CHRISTMAS ISLAND ..................................$ 33.00 75 CHRISTMAS ISLAND ..................................$ 50.00 100 CHRISTMAS ISLAND ..............................$ 100.00 150 CHRISTMAS ISLAND ..............................$ 150.00 200 CHRISTMAS ISLAND ..............................$ 230.00 25 COCOS ISLAND ............................................$ 8.00 50 COCOS ISLAND ..........................................$ 38.00 75 COCOS ISLAND ..........................................$ 60.00 100 COCOS ISLAND ......................................$ 132.00 300 COLOMBIA ..............................................$ 60.00 900 COLOMBIA ............................................$ 370.00 300 COOK ISLANDS ......................................$ 350.00 400 COOK ISLANDS ......................................$ 560.00 500 COOK ISLANDS ......................................$ 650.00 750 COOK ISLANDS ....................................$ 1280.00 1000 COOK ISLANDS .................................$ 2,000.00 50 CROATIA (PRE WAR) ..................................$ 20.00 100 CUBA .......................................................$09.00 300 CUBA ......................................................$ 30.00 200 CUBA (LARGE PICT.) ................................$ 18.00 25 CYPRUS ....................................................$ 12.00 50 CYPRUS ....................................................$ 30.00 100 CYPRUS ..................................................$ 60.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ......................................$ 3.00 200 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ....................................$ 15.00 500 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ....................................$ 34.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (MINT U/H)..................$ 17.00 200 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (MINT U/H)..................$ 20.00 400 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (MINT U/H)..................$ 30.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (POST WAR).................$ 11.00 1000 CZECHOSLAVAKIA ..................................$ 85.00

Pricefighter Packets, ready made collections D

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

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

20 FALKLAND ISL. COMPL. MINT SETS...........$ 100.00 25 FALKLAND ISLAND ....................................$ 18.00 50 FAROE ISLAND ..........................................$ 60.00 100 FAROE ISLAND .......................................$ 130.00 50 FIJI ............................................................$ 18.00 100 FIJI ..........................................................$ 50.00 150 FIJI ..........................................................$ 70.00 200 FIJI ..........................................................$ 80.00 250 FIJI ........................................................$ 140.00 400 FIJI ........................................................$ 300.00 100 FINLAND .................................................$ 18.00 200 FINLAND .................................................$ 40.00 400 FINLAND .................................................$ 80.00 500 FINLAND ...............................................$ 140.00 10 FIUME .........................................................$ 7.00 100 FRANCE .....................................................$ 6.00 300 FRANCE ...................................................$ 30.00 100 FRENCH COLONIES .....................................$ 7.50 200 FRENCH COLONIES ...................................$ 20.00 500 FRENCH COLONIES ....................................$70.00 100 FRENCH COLONIES (PRE INDEPENDENCE) $ 28.00 100 FRENCH. MORROCO .................................$ 25.00 50 FRENCH POLYNESIA ...................................$ 50.00

50 GERMANY 3RD REICH ................................$ 13.00 100 GERMANY .................................................$ 7.00 300 GERMANY ...............................................$ 18.00 500 GERMANY ................................................$37.50 1000 GERMANY .............................................$ 50.00 500 GERMANY EAST ......................................$ 40.00 50 GERMANY INFLATION (MINT U/H ).............$ 10.00 100 GERMANY INFLATION (MINT U/H)............$ 20.00 100 GERMANY WEST(LRG.COMMEMS) ............$20.00 50 GHANA .....................................................$ 50.00 100 GHANA ...................................................$ 70.00 200 GHANA .................................................$ 120.00 25 GIBRALTAR ................................................$ 17.00 50 GIBRALTAR ................................................$ 45.00 25 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .........................$ 12.00 50 GILBERT, KIRIBATI,TUVALU .........................$30.00 150 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .......................$ 90.00 200 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .....................$ 100.00 300 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .....................$ 150.00 360 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .....................$ 190.00 400 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .....................$ 225.00 500 GILBERT, KIRIBATI, TUVALU ...................$ 270.00 50 GREAT BRITAIN ............................................$ 7.00 100 GREAT BRITAIN ..........................................$ 9.00 1000 GREAT BRITAIN ....................................$ 176.00 1200 GREAT BRITAIN ....................................$ 230.00 100 GREAT BTITAIN (LARGE COMMEMS) ........$ 12.00 200 GREAT BRITAIN (LARGE COMMEMS).........$ 20.00 100 GREECE ...................................................$ 24.00 200 GREECE ...................................................$ 50.00 300 GREECE ...................................................$ 70.00 100 GREENLAND ..........................................$ 100.00 50 GRENADA ....................................................$ 8.00 100 GRENADA (MINT U/H) .............................$ 10.00 50 GUATEMALA .............................................$ 14.00 100 GUATEMALA ...........................................$ 32.00 300 GUATEMALA .........................................$ 150.00 25 GUINEA M/S ..............................................$ 10.00 50 GUINEA REP. ................................................$ 6.00 100 GUINEA REP. (LARGE PICT.) ......................$ 10.00

50 HAITI ........................................................$ 18.00 100 HAITI ......................................................$ 30.00 200 HAITI ......................................................$ 55.00 100 HOLLAND ..................................................$ 7.00 200 HOLLAND ................................................$ 14.00 300 HOLLAND ................................................$ 30.00 400 HOLLAND ................................................$ 40.00 500 HOLLAND ................................................$ 50.00 50 HONDURAS ................................................$30.00 100 HONDURAS .............................................$ 50.00 200 HONDURAS .............................................$ 80.00 400 HONDURAS ...........................................$ 140.00 25 HONG KONG ................................................$ 6.00

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50 HONG KONG ..............................................$ 12.00 100 HONG KONG ............................................$ 20.00 200 HONG KONG ..........................................$ 100.00 500 HUNGARY ...............................................$ 20.00 2000 HUNGARY ...........................................$ 150.00 3000 HUNGARY ...........................................$ 440.00 200 HUNGRY ( LARGE PICT) ...........................$ 18.00 300 HUNGARY (LARGE PICT.) .........................$ 24.00 1000 HUNGARY (LARGE PICT.) .......................$ 88.00

25 ICELAND ...................................................$ 20.00 50 ICELAND ...................................................$ 40.00 100 ICELAND .................................................$ 60.00 25 INDO - CHINA ..............................................$ 8.00 50 INDO - CHINA ............................................$ 30.00 200 INDONESIA ..............................................$ 24.00 300 INDONESIA ..............................................$ 56.00 100 INDONESIAN ...........................................$ 33.00 50 IRAN ............................................................$6.00 300 IRAN .......................................................$ 30.00 500 IRAN .......................................................$ 60.00 50 IRELAND .....................................................$ 9.00 100 IRELAND .................................................$ 18.00 350 IRELAND ...............................................$ 120.00 400 IRELAND ...............................................$ 194.00 500 IRELAND ...............................................$ 250.00 600 IRELAND ...............................................$ 360.00 100 ISRAEL .....................................................$13.00 200 ISRAEL ....................................................$ 36.00 500 ISRAEL .....................................................$90.00 850 ISRAREL ................................................$ 180.00 25 ITALIAN COLONIES .....................................$ 15.00 50 ITALIAN COLONIES .....................................$ 24.00 100 ITALIAN COLONIES ...................................$ 75.00 200 ITALIAN COLONIES .................................$ 160.00 100 ITALY .........................................................$ 6.00 200 ITALY .......................................................$ 16.00 500 ITALY .......................................................$ 80.00

100 JAMAICA .................................................$ 50.00 200 JAMAICA ...............................................$ 130.00 200 JAPAN ......................................................$30.00 100 JAPAN (MINT U/H) ..................................$ 70.00 100 JAPAN LARGE ..........................................$ 20.00 200 JAPAN LARGE ..........................................$ 50.00 50 JERSEY ......................................................$ 13.00

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

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

50 LAOS ...........................................................$ 7.00 500 LAOS .......................................................$ 70.00 20 LAOS PRE WAR ............................................$ 6.00 100 LATIN AMERICA .......................................$ 10.00 300 LATIN AMERICA .......................................$ 50.00 50 LATVIA ......................................................$ 44.00 200 LATVIA ..................................................$ 170.00 75 LATVIA (Pre War) ....................................$ 100.00 100 LEBANON ................................................$ 40.00 200 LEBANON ..............................................$ 100.00 50 LIBERIA .......................................................$ 9.00 200 LIBERIA ...................................................$ 35.00 300 LIBERIA ...................................................$ 70.00 25 LIECHTENSTEIN .........................................$ 10.00 50 LIECHTENSTEIN .........................................$ 30.00 25 LITHUANIA ................................................$ 10.00 50 LITHUANIA ................................................$ 30.00 100 LITHUANIA ............................................$ 100.00 50 LUXEMBOURG .............................................$ 8.00 100 LUXEMBOURG .........................................$ 21.00

50 MACAU .....................................................$ 60.00 300 MALAYA AND SINGAPORE .......................$ 66.00 500 MALAYA AND SINGAPORE .......................$ 96.00 1000 MALAYA AND SINGAPORE ...................$ 400.00 100 MALDIVES ...............................................$ 24.00 100 MALTA ....................................................$ 10.00 500 MALTA ..................................................$ 140.00 650 MALTA ..................................................$ 270.00 50 MAURITIUS ...............................................$ 24.00 100 MAURITIUS .............................................$ 60.00 100 MEXICO ....................................................$24.00 200 MEXICO ...................................................$ 60.00 500 MEXICO .................................................$ 110.00 25 MONACO .....................................................$ 6.00 50 MONACO ...................................................$ 18.00 100 MONACO .................................................$ 10.00 500 MONGOLIA ..............................................$ 65.00 25 MONTENEGRO ...........................................$ 20.00 50 MONTENEGRO ...........................................$ 50.00 100 MONTSERRAT ........................................$ 114.00 50 MOZAMBIQUE ...........................................$ 10.00 200 MOZAMBIQUE .........................................$ 55.00 400 MOZAMBIQUE .......................................$ 270.00 500 MOZAMBIQUE .......................................$ 300.00

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

200 NAURU ..................................................$ 160.00 50 NEPAL .........................................................$ 8.00 100 NEPAL .....................................................$ 16.00 25 NETHERLANDS ANTILLES ..........................$ 20.00 50 NEW CALEDONIA ......................................$ 36.00 100 NEW CALEDONIA ..................................$ 150.00 10 NEWFOUNDLAND .......................................$ 8.00 25 NEWFOUNDLAND .....................................$ 16.00 50 NEWFOUNDLAND .....................................$ 44.00 100 NEWFOUNDLAND .................................$ 190.00 50 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .........................$ 40.00 100 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .......................$ 90.00 200 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .....................$ 260.00 300 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .....................$ 440.00 400 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .....................$ 600.00 150 NEW ZEALAND ..........................................$ 6.00 200 NEW ZEALAND ........................................$ 14.00 300 NEW ZEALAND ........................................$ 28.00 500 NEW ZEALAND ........................................$ 90.00 1000 NEW ZEALAND .....................................$145.00 25 NICARAGUA ................................................$ 2.00 50 NICARAGUA ................................................$ 5.00 100 NICARAGUA ..............................................$ 8.00 200 NICARAGUA .............................................$24.00 500 NICARAGUA ............................................$ 70.00 300 NICARAGUA ............................................$ 40.00 100 NIGERIA ..................................................$ 60.00 25 NIUE .........................................................$ 20.00 50 NIUE .........................................................$ 40.00 100 NIUE .......................................................$ 88.00 150 NIUE .....................................................$ 140.00 200 NIUE .....................................................$ 200.00 25 NORFOLK ISL. ............................................$ 11.00 50 NORFOLK ISL. ............................................$ 26.00 100 NORFOLK ISL. ..........................................$ 90.00 200 NORFOLK ISL. ........................................$ 150.00 300 NORFOLK ISL. ........................................$ 270.00 100 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH.................$ 190.00 120 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH.................$ 200.00 150 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH.................$ 240.00 200 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH.................$ 360.00 250 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH.................$ 460.00 300 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH.................$ 700.00 100 NORWAY ...................................................$ 9.00 200 NORWAY .................................................$ 20.00 500 NORWAY .................................................$ 80.00 600 NORWAY ...............................................$ 100.00 800 NORWAY ...............................................$ 135.00 25 NYASALAND ..............................................$ 50.00

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

100 PAKISTAN .................................................$12.00 50 PANAMA ...................................................$ 13.00 50 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...................................$ 7.00 100 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...............................$ 26.00 150 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...............................$ 62.00 200 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...............................$ 88.00 500 PAPUA NEW GUINEA .............................$ 400.00 600 PAPUA NEW GUINEA .............................$ 750.00 800 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...........................$ 1900.00 300 PARAGUAY ..............................................$ 60.00 100 PARAGUAY (MINT U/H)) ..........................$ 20.00 150 PENRHYN ..............................................$ 184.00 500 PERU .....................................................$ 170.00 600 PERU .....................................................$ 250.00 700 PERU .....................................................$ 470.00 100 PHILIPPINES ...........................................$ 18.00 300 PHILIPPINES ...........................................$ 70.00 800 PHILIPPINES .........................................$ 250.00 900 PHILIPPINES .........................................$ 330.00 1200 PHILIPPINES .......................................$ 500.00 1500 PHILIPPINES .......................................$ 700.00 50 PITCAIRN ISLAND ......................................$ 50.00 25 PITCAIRN ISLAND (MINT U/H) ...................$ 20.00 100 PITCAIRN ISLAND (MINT U/H)................$ 150.00 150 PITCAIRN ISLAND (MINT U/H)................$ 170.00 200 PITCAIRN ISLAND (MINT U/H)................$ 324.00 300 POLAND ..................................................$ 12.00 500 POLAND ..................................................$ 30.00 1000 POLAND ................................................$ 60.00 150 PORT AZORES ........................................$ 190.00 100 PORTUGAL ..............................................$ 18.00 50 PORTUGAL COLONIES ..................................$ 6.00 100 PORTUGAL COLONIES ..............................$ 40.00 200 PORTUGAL COLONIES ..............................$ 40.00

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

50 SAAR ........................................................$ 33.00

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Pricefighter Packets, ready made collections 50 SALVADOR ................................................$ 40.00 100 SALVADOR ..............................................$ 80.00 25 SAMOA .......................................................$ 7.00 50 SAMOA .....................................................$ 26.00 100 SAMOA ...................................................$ 66.00 400 SAMOA .................................................$ 272.00 500 SAMOA .................................................$ 380.00 600 SAMOA .................................................$ 780.00 25 SAN MARINO ..............................................$ 6.00 50 SAN MARINO ............................................$ 11.00 100 SAN MARINO ..........................................$ 30.00 50 SARAWAK .................................................$ 45.00 100 SARAWAK .............................................$ 200.00 500 SCANDINAVIA ..........................................$40.00 50 SERBIA ......................................................$ 40.00 25 SEYCHELLES ..............................................$ 40.00 100 SEYCHELLES ............................................$ 90.00 25 SIERRA LEONE ......................................... $ 24.00] 50 SIERRA LEONE ...........................................$ 50.00 50 SINGAPORE ...............................................$ 12.00 100 SINGAPORE .............................................$ 30.00 200 SINGAPORE ...........................................$ 100.00 75 SLOVAKIA ..................................................$ 17.00 100 SLOVAKIA ................................................$ 22.00 50 SOLOMON ISL. ...........................................$ 20.00 100 SOLOMON ISL. .........................................$ 60.00 150 SOLOMON ISL. .......................................$ 100.00 200 SOLOMON ISL. .......................................$ 160.00 300 SOLOMON ISL. .......................................$ 300.00 400 SOLOMON ISL. .......................................$ 520.00 500 SOLOMON ISL. .......................................$ 700.00 100 SOUTH AFRICA ........................................$ 12.00 200 SOUTH AFRICA ........................................$ 30.00 200 SPAIN ......................................................$ 24.00 300 SPAIN ......................................................$ 30.00 500 SPAIN ......................................................$ 66.00 1000 SPAIN ..................................................$ 135.00 1500 SPAIN ..................................................$ 275.00 50 SPANISH COLONIES ...................................$16.00 100 SPANISH COLONIES .................................$ 35.00 200 SRI LANKA ..............................................$ 30.00 10 ST. HELENA .................................................$ 9.00 50 ST. KITTS ...................................................$ 26.00 75 ST. KITTS ...................................................$ 36.00 100 ST. KITTS .................................................$ 54.00 100 ST. LUCIA .................................................$ 40.00 50 ST. THOMAS ................................................$ 8.00 100 ST. THOMAS ............................................$ 14.00 50 ST. VINCENT ..............................................$ 18.00 100 ST. VINCENT ............................................$ 30.00 25 SUDAN ......................................................$ 12.00 100 SURINAME ..............................................$ 56.00 50 SWAZILAND ..............................................$ 20.00 100 SWAZILAND ............................................$ 60.00 500 SWEDEN .................................................$ 70.00

200 SWEDEN ..................................................$16.00 100 SWITZERLAND ........................................$ 15.00 500 SWITZERLAND .......................................$120.00 800 SWITZERLAND ......................................$ 150.00 1200 SWITZERLAND ....................................$ 600.00 1300 SWITZERLAND ....................................$ 900.00 1500 SWITZERLAND ..................................$ 1600.00

100 THAILAND ...............................................$ 40.00 200 THAILAND ...............................................$ 70.00 300 THAILAND .............................................$ 130.00 400 THAILAND .............................................$ 180.00 600 THAILAND .............................................$ 370.00 800 THAILAND .............................................$ 800.00 100 TOGO ..........................................................$7.00 50 TOKELAU ...................................................$ 60.00 75 TOKELAU ....................................................$80.00 25 TONGA ......................................................$ 16.00 50 TONGA ......................................................$ 36.00 100 TONGA ..................................................$ 110.00 100 TRINIDAD & TOBAGO ...............................$ 76.00 10 TRISTAN DA CUNHA ...................................$ 10.00 50 TRISTAN DA CUNHA ..................................$ 60.00 100 TRISTAN DA CUNHA ...............................$ 170.00 35 COMPLETE SETS TRISTAN DA CUNHA .............$110 50 TUNISIA ....................................................$ 12.00 100 TUNISIA ..................................................$ 36.00 100 TURKEY .....................................................$ 5.00 200 TURKEY ...................................................$ 14.00 300 TURKEY ...................................................$ 18.00 25 TURKS & CAICOS .........................................$ 6.00 100 TURKS & CAICOS (MINT U/H) ...................$ 70.00

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

25 VATICAN ......................................................$ 6.00 50 VATICAN ....................................................$ 30.00 200 VATICAN ..................................................$ 90.00 25 VATICAN (M.U.H. ) .....................................$ 16.00 50 VATICAN (M.U.H. ) .....................................$ 40.00

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100 VATICAN (M.U.H. ) ...................................$ 80.00 200 VATICAN (M.U.H. ) .................................$ 180.00 50 VENEZUELA ...............................................$ 17.00 100 VENEZUELA .............................................$ 40.00 700 VENEZUELA ...........................................$ 250.00 800 VENEZUELA ...........................................$ 350.00 100 VIETNAM .................................................$ 30.00

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

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

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

World Packets

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

Thematics

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

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

NOVEMBER SALE Prices valid to November 30, 2016, BE QUICK! Email or phone reservations highly advised. If you wish to view any item we can send a scan by email, or colour photocopy by mail. Discount deals: Discounts on all items from this list, excluding items prefixed Oct or MSP. Up to $100, strictly net, $101 to $150 less 5%, $151 - $250 less 10%, $251- $500 LESS 15%, $501 - $1000 less 20%, $1000 and above less 25% Also please remember that any order above $500 can be put on layby for up to 6 months, and that all of our items carry our 14 day satisfaction guarantee. New lower postage rates for smaller parcels Australia Wide, And postage & Insurance are free for orders above $500 within Australia. Up to 500g $7.50 , 501g – 3kg $13.50, 3.01kg – 5kg $17.50

Coins and Banknotes: CB1) Australia 1923 Halfpenny, in lovely fine plus condition 6 pearls clearly visible, reverse would be VF. Nice clean coin, cat $2250 plus. Price $1875 CB2) Australia 1938 Crown in nice EF condition. This coin has nice original patina and has not been cleaned as most of these have been. Cat. $265 by Renniks. Price $195 CB3) Australia 1933 -38 KGV One Pound Note, S/N N23 894333. Riddle Sheehan. Completely original note, never cleaned, pressed or trimmed as many of these have been. In very nice VF condition cat $550 by Renniks (EF is $1750!) Price $395 CB4) Australia 1912 Penny, great coin in EF (Extremely fine) condition, 8 pearls and centre diamond with some original lustre. Cat $125, price $98 CB6) Australia 1966 1st decimals uncirculated in Royal Australian Mint card of issue, includes the Silver 50c Round. In far better condition than most of these you see around these days, but does show signs of wear after 50 years. Cat $100, price $79 CB7) Australia, Royal Australian Mint uncirculated sets in plastic wallets as issued for 1980, 81 & 82. (3 sets total) Price $59 CB8) Australia, Royal Australian Mint uncirculated sets in plastic wallets as issued for 1980 x 3, bulk special deal, price $45 CB11) Australia Silver 3d starter collection, all KGV 10 different dates for $29 CB12) Australia 1921M 3d, in AUNC Condition, cat $175, price $115 CB13) Australia 1928 3d, in AUNC condition, cat $175, price $115 CB16) Australia Halfpennies, starter collection 20 different dates price $39 CB17) Australia Baby Coin Set, 1997 mint condition as issued. Thje scarcest of All the baby sets. Cat $410, price $295

Stamps and Postal History: Oct1) New Zealand, prestige booklets in as new Lighthouse Dark Blue Classic Album. 16 items to around 2014, much Anzac related material here. All stamps inside have been neatly cto first day of issue. Very cheap at under $5 a booklet, price $79 Oct2) New Zealand, near complete Decimal Collection, 1967 – 2012 with all minisheets and overprinted minisheets etc. Very little needed to complete this fine collection, stored in 3 x as new Davo printed albums with slipcases, and on Hagner sheet sin binder, these alone cost in excess of $1000. The stamps for the most part are neat corner cto cancels. Plus many extras included free of charge. Way, way under retail Price $1495 Oct3) Norfolk Island, 1960 Surcharges in blocks of 4, both mint and cto, hinged on top 2 of each block, plus mint unhinged pairs of 1967 Ships and 1973 Buildings definitive, on Hagner pages. Nice fresh lot, cat $180, very cheap at $69 Oct4) Norfolk Is. Accumulation mint and cto in red binder on Hagner sheets, commences 1947 Ball Bay, with some white paper issues mint, plus many later issues in duplicate to around 1980, but most are 1960s, with many nice blocks etc. Values to 10/-, and many, many complete sets. Near 600 stamps here, got to be cheap at under 50c a stamp, price $279

Oct5) GB 1858 1d red Plate Number Collection on album leaves. 138 stamps with plate numbers 71 – 222 represented so not much needed to complete! Way better condition than most lots like this that I see, with many selected quality examples seen. Cat. 904 pounds, = $1582 at today’s exchange rate (28/9/16) My price is under a third catalogue $525 Oct6) Large brown paper carrier bag, with world accumulation on paper, early to modern. Who knows what lurks in here! We have had several of these from the same source, and all sold very quickly. Weighs 2.2kg. $165 the lot. Oct7) Australia unused 1950’s blank cacheted fdc envelopes, Royal, Wide World and other types, some scarce. Nice little hoard of around 65 with duplication just found, 1951 – 1959 issues. Got to be worth $19.50 to someone! Oct8) Australia 1932 1/- large lyrebird, overprinted OS, in horizontal pair, cds used in the scarcer Yellowish Green shade, supplied with normal for comparison in the deeper shade. Scarce in pairs, and cat. $100 each as singles. $119 the pair. Oct9) Australia overprinted OS issues, inc. 1/- Lyre in both shades postally used, 3d Kingsford Smith cto, 2d Bridge cto and 6d Brown Airmail postally used. Neat little group cat. $239, price $129 Oct10) Australia KGV 1/4d Turquoise. C of A wmk, fresh mint lightly hinged, centred right. Cat. $150, this one just a half…$75 Oct11) Australia 1936 SA Centenary 3d solo use on Surface Mail cover to Denmark. Scarce usage. Launceston 21APR37 cds, with slogan “Post Early Each Day” Cheap at $29 (I have lots of other nice commercial covers if interested, ranging in price from $5 to $500) Oct12) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 4d Orange 1st wmk, mint lightly hinged, well centred. Retail $140, my price $110 Oct13) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 5d Chestnut 1st wmk, mint lightly hinged, well centred. Retail $140, my price $110 Oct14) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 9d Violet 1st wmk, mint lightly hinged. Retail $140, my price $110 Oct15) Australia KGV Commemorative issues, 1934 Vic. Cent. Set of 3 Perf 11.5, 1934 MacArthur set of 4 and 1935 Jubilee set of 3. The Macarthur set other than the 2d dark Hills are cto, others are fine postally used. Nice little grouping, cat. $169, price $89 Oct16) Egypt to New Zealand. Until 8 March 1940, mail from New Zealand troops was handled by the British Army Post Office, but after that they were handled by the New Zealand Army Base PO. Censored cover bearing New Zealand stamps 1d KGVI plus 2 x 2d and 1 x 4d 1935 Pictorials, and post marked with a circular cancel “Egypt” at the top of the circle and “Prepaid” at the bottom. The center of the cancel between the 2 bars is the date which appears to read 28 Jul 42 (maybe) cannot quite make out the year. So a NZ solider mailing back home using Kiwi stamps, which must have been permitted for them .. don’t think that was OK for ozzies. 9d seems a very high troop concession rate to me. There is also a red box Military censor handstamp “PASSED BY UNIT CENSOR” and initialed by an officer. Quite a scarce item I imagine. Price $69 Oct17) Something similar to the above. This one is a YMCA New Zealand Patriotic Fund Board advertising cover, bearing a 2d 1935 Pictorial cancelled by NZ Air Force cds 10 AP 42 to Officer in Charge, Hawaiian Brigades. Also with manuscript “13 BPO”, straight line “Checked by off/loc” and square unclaimed handstamp No record BPO 15” Has cds backstamps “Airforce Post Office No. 253 21DE45”“Directory Service given at APO 502 APR 17 1945” and “Wellington NZ Returned letter service 7 FE 46” So nearly 4 years in the postal system! Price $69 Oct18) Brunei SG#1 to 1990. Nice Collection SG value £1,100 = ~$A1,925. Lovely collection on stack of Hagner sheets. From 1949 UPU onwards on look to be all superb fresh MUH. Seldom seen like that out here. Formed in the UK, to condition above average. Earlier a mix of mint and used, with normal gum Arabic. Catalogue prices are rising:

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NOVEMBER SALE 1952 Defins set 14 for instance were £38 in 2008, and £52.80 in 2010, and are now £65, up over 20% on just 1 set. Brunei is popular and as can be seen prices rise SOLIDLY. Priced at under 60% catalogue at $1149 Oct19) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 4d Orange 1st wmk, perf Large OS mint lightly hinged, Cat $500, my price $285 Oct20) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 9d Violet 1st wmk, perf Large OS mint lightly hinged, Cat $550, my price $315 Oct21) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 1/- Emerald 1st wmk, perf Large OS mint lightly hinged, Cat $600, my price $345 Oct22) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 3d Olive Die 1 1st wmk, perf Small OS, mint lightly hinged, cat $400, my price $225 Oct23) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 6d Blue 1st wmk, perf Small OS, mint lightly hinged, cat $425, my price $255 Oct24) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 9d Violet 1st wmk, perf Small OS, mint lightly hinged, cat $600, my price $345 Oct25) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 1/- Emerald 1st wmk, perf Small OS, mint lightly hinged, cat $600, my price $345 Oct26) Australia 1915 Kangaroo 2d Grey 2nd wmk, mint lightly hinged, retail $140, this one just $105 Oct27) Australia 1915 Kangaroo 2.5d Deep Blue 2nd wmk, mint lightly hinged, retail $90, this one just $72 Oct28) Australia 1966 – 1970 Post office Training Stamps. A lot of people do not know that these exist, they were used pre- issue in Post offices up and down the country to train staff for the advent of decimalisation and were supposed to have been destroyed. A few however did leak out and I can offer these as follows, some with very minor imperfections : 1966 Definitives, handstamped “Cancelled - Specimen only” or “Specimen only” in Purple, Blue or Red, with full unmounted gum. a) 1c Brown Queen block of 4 $39, or strip of 4 $39 b) 2c Green Queen block of 4 $39, or strip of 5 $49 c ) 3c Slate Blue Queen block of 4 $39, strip of 4 $39 d) 4c red Queen block of 4 $39 e) 5c Blue Queen block of 4 $39 f) 6c Bird block of 4 $39, horiz. Pair $39, single $10 g) 15c Galah strip of 4 $39, horiz. Pair for $19.50 h) 20c Golden Whistler block of 4 or strip of 4, showing full overprint $39 i) 6c Kangaroo Paw block of 4 $39, vert. pair for $19.50 j) 20c Sturt’s Desert Pea, block of 4 $39, vertical or horizontal pair for $19.50. single for $10 k) 20c Wheat, (very scarce) Horiz. Pair $49 l) 7c Fish, vert. Block of 4 $39, Strip of 3, creased only $15 (looks fine from front) Singles $10 m) 9c Fish, block of 4 $39, single $10 n) 10c Fish block of 4 $49, vert. or horiz. Pair $19.50 Oct33) Australia 1915 Kangaroo, 10/- Grey & Analine Pink, 3rd wmk, perf OS, mint lightly hinged, cat $2000. Suspect this may have been reperfed, so very cheap at under a quarter cat. Price $495 Oct34) Australia 1915 Kangaroo, One Pound Grey, 3rd wmk, perf OS, COMMERCIALLY USED, cat $750 as cto, this one used with heavy cds, but amazingly scarce stamp, thought for a long time not to exist. This has been repaired at some time in the past, but looks fine from the front. Very cheap example of a rarity, price $595

Oct35) Australia 1929 Kangaroo 2/- Maroon small multiple wmk, mint unhinged, cat $850, this one off centre, so only $495 Oct46) Australia 2nd wmk 2.5d Kangaroo, well centred lovely block of 4, with 2 mint unhinged, two lightly hinged, retail as singles $780. Magnificent piece. $585 MSP1) Around once a month an old man (well to be honest he probably is not much older than I am) turns up on my door with a box of stockbooks, which he has lovingly filled with stamps, organized by country usually 10 or a dozen books each month. Now these are large books, each holding 1200 or so stamps, with no duplication that I can see, with stuff from all over the World , early to modern and pretty well all postally used. They sell very quickly I can tell you. But this month he brought around a double lot, so I have a few to offer our regular clients via this list. You can order more than one with confidence as each has different contents. I do not know how he sources so many different stamps! Anyhow here we go, one book for $59, 3 books for $149 or take the lot, 10 books for $475 MSP2) Christmas Island, virtually complete mint unhinged collection in Illustrated Hingeless Ka-Be album 1958 – 2010 plus additional pages for 2011 in blue padded binder with slipcase, as new. Only items missing are the 1990 Transport Definitives, the 1991 Birdpex Ovpt. Minisheet, the 1996 Year of the Rat mainsheet ovpt. Melbourne, and the 2004 Year of the Monkey mainsheet. Ovpt. Hong Hong. These can be obtained for you at extra cost. The album alone retails around $395 and the stamps at over $1060, a total value of over $1450 for just $995 MSP3) As new Ka – Be multi ring padded album and slipcase in black, retail $108.50, cheap at $49 MSP4) French Colonies, lovely lot of old pre- independence on printed leaves, stockcards, in club book etc. Much postally used here, plus some mint. Huge catalogue value of $2000 plus plus and mostly in nice condition. 400 plus stamps here, includes much better with strength in Andorra, plus nice Guadelouoe & New Caledonia plus much much more. Price $395 MSP5) Papua New Guinea 1959 commercial usage of 1/7d Cattle in combination with a pair of 2.5d Bird of Paradise, to make the 2/- Airmail rate to USA. Small neat cover cancelled by cds of Rabaul 30 DEC 59 to New York. The first cover bearing the 1/7d I have owned, and only the 2nd I have sighted in 50 years! Price $295 MSP6) Worldwide collection early to modern mint and used, apparently all different, in 9 large stockbooks. Better quality than the average you see of these types of collections, with some nice surprises! The books are by no means full, but I reckon There would be around 5000 stamps total. Less than 5c per stamp, price $249 MSP7) 4 heavy duty Ka – Be padded albums, with slipcases, almost as new each containing 32 quality double sided, linen hinged stockleaves of 2 divisions. Ideal for covers, minisheets or blocks of stamps. New cost for the binders and slipcases only is $108.50 each, and the stockleaves $3 each, so a total cost of over $800 new. We have one of each Red, Green, Blue and Brown. Price $195 the lot. MSP8) Australia 1969 Tourism Cover of Caloundra, Queensland, commercially used Moorabbin Victoria 21 NOV 69 to Switzerland franked 15c Timber and the 1969 set of 3 x 5c Flight as singles. All of these stamps are scarce on cover, we recently sold a solo use of the 15c Timber for $119. Price $129 MSP9) Australia 1955 1/6d no wmk Hermes, in a muh block of 4, retail $80, my price $59 MSP23) Australia Seven Seas Green Padded hingeless album in as new condition, with pages for 1953 – 1987. New cost $280, my price well under a half, $119 MSP28) NZ Seven Seas Hingeless pages1983 - 93 in binder with some extras standard pages, mainly the Health Minisheets, not counted $59. MSP29) Czechoslovakia, mint unhinged collection of 200 different, mostly large commemoratives, on our packets list at $20, (only 6 left) at $14.95 each. Great value!

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NOVEMBER SALE MSP31) New South Wales, 1/- Red Diadems Imperf. With 4 good margins and light cancel, retail is $100 for 3 margin examples. My price for this just MSP34) Handy A4 size 8 page stockbooks, with glassine strips and interleaving. Normally $12.95 each, now just $7.95 each (12 available) SE1) Great Britain, magnificent mint unhinged collection in two as new red Safe “Dual” Hingeless Albums, complete with original cartons. These alone retail around $600 and with extra pages to end of 1992, these worth $50, plus almost complete stamps for the 1st 20 years of GB decimals, both definitive and commemoratives, pristine mint unhinged, only a few gaps to fill. Retail of stamps is around $975, so around $1625 total. My price for this lot under half…$795 SE2) Schaubek Australia hingeless padded maroon album for pre-decimals, including Kangaroos & KGV through to 1965, plus AAT to 1988. Retail $295 when new. This is in very fine condition and includes the original card slipcover. Do not spend $295 on an inferior product, when you can get this for just $89! SE3) Western Australia hoard of Commonwealth Period Swans. Various shades of 1d Red/ Pink, 2d Yellow & 2d Grey, most off paper, some on. Great for research, postmarks etc. Never seen a hoard like this in my 30 years in Australia, totally unchecked by me and likely some good finds here. I simply counted them out in packets of 100, as they come. Under $1 a stamp, $98 for 100, 200 for $185, 500 for $440, 1,000 for $840, or take the lot, approx. 2500 for $1895. SE4) Australian States, unpicked mixed packs of all States off paper. Who knows what might be here! 100 for $98, 200 for $179 SE5) As above, Australian States, cheaper mixture, with mostly the more common types. 250 for $79, 500 for $149 SE6) Western Australia 1857. Simply the most stunning 6d Black Bronze Imperf. SG 18 I have ever seen or owned! 4 huge even margins, great colour and no visible faults. Light barred numeral cancel. Cat at 650 pounds. As good as they come! Price $1049 SE8) Australia 1932 1/- Large Lyrebird. Mint unhinged. Usual price $90, my price $59 SE9) Australia 1913 1st wmk 5d Chestnut Kangaroo, lovely fresh mint unhinged, well centred top marginal example, cat $550. Nicest I have owned, $475 SE10) Sweden, collection of 1500 different, most if not all nice postally used. Price on my packets list for 500 is $70, and 1500 would normally be around $275. Just two to offer here at half price: $137.50 each. SE11) Australia 1915 3rd wmk 2/- Brown Kangaroo, perf OS, lovely postally used example, Inverted Wmk, with Melbourne cds. Again the nicest I have ever seen. Cat $1500, price $1125 SE12) Australia 1913 1/- wmk Kangaroo. Postally used, with inverted watermark. Neatly cancelled by 2 partial “English Mail T.P.O. OUT 5 FE 14” Very well centred and good perfs, one at top just a little nibbed. Cat $500. Price $325 SE13) Australia 1927 Harrison printing of the 5/- Grey Black and Orange 3rd wmk Kangaroo, with partial cds of 5 JL 29 This is the 2nd scarcest shade of this wmk, cat $275. Fine used well centred and with full perfs. Price $185 SE14) Australia 1928 3d Blue Kookaburra, strip of 3 Minisheets, from the top of the sheet. Mint unhinged,except for a single hinge mark in the selvedge of the right hand sheet. Multiples of these ar scarce, I have only once in 30 years owned a complete pane of 15 Minisheets.which I sold at an ANDA Sydney show in around 2004. Price for these a very reasonable $725 SE15) Australia, Military. WWI 1917 registered censored cover AIF FPO 5 to France, with cds of 27 JY 17 tying GB KGV 2d Orange. With pink ‘Australian Imperial Force/FPO C5’ (5th Australian Brigade HQ) registration label, backstamped Amiens Station, Somme two

days later. signed by C.O. L Redgrave, to Burberrys Ltd, Paris. scarce & attractive cover, price $225 SE16) Australia 1935 Anzac Pair, 2d & 1/-, mlh, cat. $52, price $39 SE17) Australia 1915 2nd wmk, 6d Blue Kangaroo, perf OS, mint unhinged. Cat $1750, and missing from 99% of all Australia collections. Nice looking stamp, but does have a diagonal crease, hardly visible from the front, hence below 20% catalogue. Price $349 SE18) Australia 1963 solo use of 1/2d Thylacine on Airmail Postcard to London, with RP View of Belvedere, Sydney. Cancelled by machine type of Sydney 12 JNE 1963. Price $29 SE19) Australia 1921 3rd wmk die IIB 6d Pale Ultramarine Kangaroo, from the Harrison Printing, mint unhinged, perf OS. Centered high. Nice looking stamp, with great colour, nice white gum and full perfs. Under 60% cat. Price $249 SE20) Australian Air League 1d postal stationery cover to Boorowa NSW, marked “Unknown, return to A. Air league” unusually cancelled on return leg by Boorowa cds of 27 JL 1940, arrival backstamp of 26 JL 1940. Usually these items are not seen postmarked. Very scarce indeed! Price $295 SE22) Similar to above, with neat corner cds cancel. Not quite so well centered. Price $39 SE24) Australia 1913 3d Olive Green Kangaroo, Die I, inverted wmk, nice well centered example, with cds cancel. Odd minor perf fault, but very attractive example. Cat $225. Price under half $99 SE26) Australia 1936 Business sized envelope, trimmed at left, bearing 1/4d & 1d KGV C of A wmk, cancelled by clean cds Ship Mail Room Melbourne, 9 SE 36, typewritten address to radio station in NewYork. The 1/4d cat. $300 on cover. Price $98 SE28) Australia 1927 1/4d Turquoise KGV sml. Multi wmk. Perf 14,fine mint lightly hinged, cat $375, price $249 SE29) Australia 1913 2/- Brown 1st wmk. Kangaroo superb postally used, with centrally struck “Socked on nose” Perth cds, 5 FEB 15, well centered and with full perfs, a premium stamp. Cat. $300, price $249 SE30) GB 1859, small neat entire, bearing 6d deep lilac, no corner letters, SG 69, tied by neat London EC duplex of DE 21 59 to Andalucia, Spain. Arrival cds on reverse of Cadiz. Fascinating contents re the purchase of 20 butts of Cod Liver Oil @ 45 pounds per butt., to be shipped to Gibraltar. The butt was a measure of liquid volume equaling two hogsheads. This equated to 108 imperial gallons (490 l) for ale or 126 imperial gallons (570 litres) In today’s terms around 15 cents a litre. The stamp cat. 225 pounds on cover. Price $149 SE31) Australia 1934 MacArthur set of 4 inc. 2d Dark Hills, mint unhinged, retail $125, my price $95 SE32) Australia 1937 10/- Robes thick paper mint unhinged retail $35, my price just a half! $17.50 SE34) Australia, 1941 neat small Airmail advertising, for John Bisset, Orchid Specialist, Abbotsford NSW. With Red Opened By Censor sticker and diamond censor cachet in Purple. Bears 2 x 1/6d Double Globe Hermes, 2/- Marron Kangaroo and 2 x 5d Merino, to make 5/10d which would appear to be 3/- double rate Airmail plus 2/10d insurance fee. Sent to Orchid Importers in Yorkshire. Scarce and attractive price $119 SE37) As above but in mint hinged block of 8 from Electro 8. Cat $75 as block of 4. Price $59 SE39) Western Australia 1860 -64, 6d Sage Green Imperf, SG28, Local Printing, 3 margins, postally used. Cat. $800, rare stamp, but with repaired tear at top where hinge has been carelessly removed. Nice looker. My price $159 SE40) Australia, Thursday Is. 1951 Airmail cover to Trinidad from Bowden Pearling Co, Thursday Is., to a Yacht, “Seven Seas II” c/o the US Consul in Port of Spain. Bears 2 x 9d Platypus & a 4d Koala, making 1/10d, possibly 1d overpaid? Cancelled by Thursday Is. Cds 24 AP 51, and with arrival SLOGAN “Save Precious Water” and cds on reverse, Port of

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NOVEMBER SALE Spain 14 MAY 1951 and company name and address on flap. There is a fascinating book “Life on the Water” depicting the life of a Pearl Fisherman in the Torres Straights who worked for the Bowden Pearling Co. More info here: http://aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/ files/products/book/life-blong-sample.pdf A scarce and attractive cover, price $159 SE41) St. Lucia KEVII 5/- , as SG 76, but in Grey and Carmine instead of Green & Carmine, mint lightly hinged. Not a colour changeling, but most likely a colour trial proof, on watermarked. Cat $170 as normal. Unusual. Price $98 SE42) Finland, wonderful packet of 600 different, very hard to assemble. 500 Finland is on our packets list for $140, so this is very good value at $129 SE43) Denmark, 700 different, lovely lot, 300 different is on our packets list at $20, 700 is way more difficult to assemble. Very cheap price for this at $39 SE44) Netherlands 1940 Queen Wilhelmina Imperfs. Printed (but not perforated) just before the Germans invaded in 1940. In 1946 the issue was brought out of the vaults, perforated and placed on sale. Sometime between 1940 and 1946 a small quantity of the imperf sheets were “leaked” (i.e. stolen) from the State Printing Works. These imperfs are now quite scarce. Set of 4 in horizontal pairs Mint Unhinged $29, blocks of 4, $59, corner blocks of 4 $69. SE45) India off paper mixture, wide range inc. higher values from Queen Victoria to quite recent. We only have a few lots of this available, nearly 20,000 to the kg. 100g for $59, 250g for $139, 500g for $259 SE46) Australia 1/4d KGV small multi wmk perf 13.5 x 12.5 horiz. Pair on parcel piece, along with 1/- Kangaroo and 3d Airmail making 3/11d, with Use The Airmail slogan cancel. Single 1/4d stamp on cover cat. $400. Attractive piece for rates collector too. Price $249 SE47) World Collection in 10 large stockbooks, with a wide variety organized alphabetically. Roughly 12,000 stamps total Mostly postally used. Early to modern with plenty of nice pickings here, price under 5c a stamp, $595 SE48) British Empire off paper mixture, Queen Victoria to KGVI, includes many mint unhinged as well as postally used, plus some blocks of 4 etc. Little in or GB, there are some Australian States here and there, plus noted British West Indies, Gilbert & Ellice Is. Palestine. Canada, New Zealand, Cyprus, Fiji, Ascension, Canada, Burma, etc. We have one lot only of around 2500 stamps, selling per 500 at $110, per 1000 $195. SE50) Australia 1938 1d Green Queen Die II, in coil strip of 3, central stamp is mint unhinged, others have been lightly hinged. Well centered and with full perfs. Cat $150 as a hinged pair. My price for this, just $119 SE51) Australia 1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge, superb cto example, well centered and good perfs with light corner cds. Seen retailing elsewhere in this quality now at around $325, and cat $450. Price $289 ( I can supply lesser quality at a lower price from $249) SE52) Australia 1928 Kookaburra Miniature sheet, Mint unhinged and fresh from bottom right of the pane. Seen elsewhere at up to $375, my price $322.50 SE53) Another as above, from the bottom centre, same price $322.50 SE54) Another with light hinge, again from the bottom right corner, price $169 MAU4) Czechoslovakia, Bohemia & Moravia plus a few UNO in black padded Australia Post binder with 32 Hagner type sheets. Around 1000 mostly used, little duplication. Hagner pages are now $1.75 each new, and the binders are $20 plus, so $75 value here alone. Stamps come virtually free! Price $59 MAU6) Green Premier Premier Globe printed World album, nicely filled with maybe 2000 of what at first glance looks to be a stock standard schoolboy collection, but there are A few gems hidden away in here, 19th Century to late 1960’s mint and used. Under 6c a stamp, $119 the lot. MAU8a) Australia 1909 10/- Green & Red Postage Due, SG D72, lovely mint example retail $470, my price $365.

MAU11) Australia, mainly decimal, but some earlier in 17 large and 1 medium stockbooks, duplicated ranges inc some High Values, organised by thematic interest. Many, many thousands. Very good value at $269 MAU15) Large blue stockbook of Hungary, neatly arranged with earlies to modern, all used with the modern being mostly cto. Big lot of about 1000, good value here at under 5c a stamp, $49 MAU15a) Massive lot of Cigarette and trade Cards, Around 1200 in albums, in bundles and loose. Many complete sets, including early Victoria Football League and Australian Cricket cards. Noted Don Bradman. I know next to nothing about cigarette cards, except that many of these popular themes sell for 100s of dollars per set, and up to $50 for a single card. In much better than average condition generally, and got to be very good value at under $1.25 per card. $1485 the lot MAU16) New South Wales, 1867 4d Red Brown Imperf Plate Proof horizontal pair on ungummed watermarked paper, from left hand edge of the sheet. Attractive and scarce piece. $295. MAU17) South Australia 1860 – 69 4d (Gibbons type 3) Imperf plate proof pair, on ungummed, unwatermarked paper in the rose-carmine colour of the 2/-. A pair in black and a block of 4 as per this example was estimated $300 and sold for $650 at a Prestige auction. Horizontal crease, but still an attractive pair. Price $195. MAU24) Romania collection, haphazardly arranged in Giant Stockbook. Wide variety, early to modern the later material are mostly cto, but the earlies are postally used. Approx 1,000 mostly all different for $69. A very good lot. MAU25) Similar lot to MAU24 above, this one containing Hungary collection. Price $59 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. AU1) Australia 1924 One Pound Grey Kangaroo, 3rd wmk, ovpt. Specimen Type C, mint very lightly hinged. Centered right, fresh white gum, cat. $375, price $279 AU2) Australia 1918-29 3rd wmk Kangaroos set of 9, inc., both 6d & 2/- colours 2d – 5/in good average used condition, 2d inv wmk. Retail as fine used $300, this set all with circular cancels, nicely centered, Price $129 AU3) Australia 1924 One Pound Grey 3rd wmk Kangaroo, good spacefiller, with circular cancel. Retail $425 for fine used, lised at $240 on my “Wounded Roos” page, this one just $195 AU4) Pitcairn Is. Commercial Mails. We have acquired a nice lot of genuine Pitcairn Is. Commercial covers (NOT Tourist Mail) Mostly small envelopes, some registered, and some wrappers, plus parcel pieces with values to $10! A total of 35 items, which would make a nice single frame exhibition. Island families represented among the senders are Christian, Brown, Warren,Warren – Peu, Young and McCoy. Price required is $2400, plus I will throw in for free 8 Tourist Covers, including a solo use of the 2/6d KGVI to NZ. Average retail for a very ordinary Pitcairn commercial cover is $75, this lot works out at around $68 per item and includes some very interesting and scarce usages, and the period covered is from the 1940’s to 2008. As I said an immediate display for you. Contact me for further details. Price $2400 AU6) Papua New Guinea,1952-58 Pictorial Definitives Series Set Of 16 Mint Unhinged, nice Post Office fresh. Retail $250, my price just $189 AU7) Australia. Bulging green Trafalgar 32 page Olde Tyme stockbook, containing mostly decimal accumulation. Strength from 1980 with birds series in multiples to $1, similar in Reptiels and Butterflies, various commem. sets complete in multiples to 1986. Probably around 3000 styamps or so, so at around 2.5c each must be good value! $69 the lot! AU12) Australia 1913 1d Red Kangaroo, Die IIA, fresh used example, with large part

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NOVEMBER SALE original gum, and Strong Offset on reverse under the gum. Cat $600 for mint, unpriced used. Lovely item. $495 AU14) Great Britain 1840 1d Black, plate 4, in horizontal pair, (Pairs are scarce!) cancelled with nicely struck Red Maltese Crosses, AU14) unplated, lettered CI – CJ, this pair both with 4 margins. Price $1100. AU15) Final of these pairs of 1d blacks, this in the scarcer Grey Black shade, and with Black Maltese Crosses. Lettered EC – ED, both are 4 margin examples, close at bottom. Price $1175. AU16) Australia 1920 3rd Wmk 1/- Blue-Green, SIDEWAYS WATERMARK, lovely block of 4, top row very lightly hinged, lower two are unhinged. Centered a little high, as is usual for this stamp. Cat. $200 each for hinged, and unpriced for unhinged, but other items in this periods are normally near 3 times the price, so around $1600. Never seen a block so nice before! Price $975. AU18) Papua New Guinea 1952 – 1978 collection on Seven Seas Pages, mostly complete mint unhinged from 1963, with a few used. Nice lot, pages would have cost $100 or so. Stamps retail $230 plus plus. Any incomplete sets have not been counted in the retail. Price $149 AU20) Australia 1908 5/- Green Postage Due, with stroke. SGD59, Cat. $95. Lovely well centered, ful perfs and “socked on nose” with scarce Perth Poste Restante cds, 7 AUG 09. Price $72 AU21) Australia 1964 10/- Navigator, overprinted 15.5mm Specimen, on cream paper mint unhinged. OVERPRINT MASSIVELY MISPLACED INTO PERFS AT LHS. Never seen this before and is not catalogued. Stamp is perfectly centered. STRIKING ERROR! Cat. $1500 as normal, Unashamedly asking $3000. AU24) Australia 1928 1/4d KGV Turquoise small multi wmk perf 13.5 x 12.5 in a horizontal strip of 3 on large linen backed parcel piece, with additional horiz pair of the 3d, and a vertical pair of the 1.5d Swan. Total franking of 4/9d. The 1/4d on cover is cat at $400 in the ACSC. A scarce piece cancelled by Ship Mail Room Melbourne 7OC 9 (29, the 2 being missing from the date slug!) A few wrinkles, but a very scarce piece. Price $295 AU25) Australia 1948 5/- Arms, thin paper horizontal strip of 3 POSTALLY USED! Never ever seen a multiple of this in 50 years of stamp dealing, must be a very rare usage. Left hand stamp thinned at top, otherwise fine. Cat $125 each as singles. Must be worth full catalogue. Supplied with normal for comparison. $375. AU26) South Africa Collection in Maroon Lighthouse Springback illustrated Album, 1910 – 1973 postally used. Has been haphazardly put together, with some duplication, plus some covers. Worthy however of expansion. Album cost $295 years ago! 200 plus stamps, selling at the secondhand value of the album, the stamps are free! Price $139 AU28) Australia 1913 1st wmk 5/- Grey & Yellow Kangaroo postally used with cds cancel, indistinct but PM 4.30 NO 3 can be discerned. Faint red registered crayon mark does not affect fine appearance, Well centered with fresh colour. Few nibbed perfs at lower left. Has the variety “Break in Bight” ACSC 42 (D) t, cat $700. Price $349 AU29) Australia KGV 4d Orange, Inverted wmk, MLH, Cat $80, cheap at $45 AU30) Australia 1913 2/- Brown Kangaroo, postally used with slightly smudged cds, but with clear date of 24 JA 14 and full perfs. Cat $250. Nice budget stamp, price $69 AU31) Australia 1929 small multi wmk 5/- Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, nicely used, well centered and full perfs, two partial cds cancels. Kangaroo slightly misplaced upwards with “Wet Ears” variety. Retail for fine used is $175, this one $135 AU32) Australia 1999 Navigators Minisheets (2) mint unhinged, Perfin. A99, cat $100 in Comprehensive Cat. My price just $29 the pair, 5 pairs for $129 AU33) Norfolk Is. 1960 Local Govt. 2/8d, SG 40, in mint block of 4, hinged on top 2 stamps only. Retail $100, price $69 AU33a) As above, but cto with gum, retail $88, price $59

AU35) Australia KGV, 1d Green C of A wmk, Overprinted OS, in a mint unhinged left marginal block of 8. Centered low, with appearance of almost imperf between the vertical rows. Nice fresh appearance. Cat $160. Price $119. AU37) GB 1940 Airmail censored cover to Sydney, re-addressed to Grafton, bearing 2/6d Brown KGVI plus horizontal pair of 1/- Bistre. Cancelled by cds of Gillingham, Kent, 24 OCT 40, and arrival cds of Penrith, NSW 14 NO 40. Attractive cover. Price $75 AU38) Western Australia 2d Orange rouletted, SG30, mint with original gum. Oxidised, but still a scarce stamp, cat 700 pounds in 2013 part one. My price under 20% cat, $259 AU40) Australia Kangaroos. 170+ mixed kangaroos. Mostly 3rd & Small Multiple watermarks, some 1st also. Mixed Condition, some with faults, most not. Values to 5/-, incredible value at under $2 per stamp! Price $329 AU42) Australian States, mixed bag of around 500 of mostly letter rate values of the larger states. Last time I had these they sold out in record time! Good for postmark, shade, perforation and variety hunters. Less than 30c a stamp, $149 the lot, double lot for $269 AU45) EAST GERMANY, HUGE Collection: 1949-1990 collection in three near new top quality red padded peg fitting Schaubek illustrated albums, these alone cost near $900 to buy. Largely complete to 1970 mint or used, then apparently complete mint including Minisheets to 1989, a few used and the odd empty space in 1990. High thematic content & massive CV with approx 3000 stamps here.... this is a great opportunity to obtain a near complete collections and the albums in one fell swoop! The catalogue value 20 odd years ago was around 1750 pounds = approx. $3150 today’s exchange rate (29/7/16) So adding up the cost of the albums and the catalogue value of the stamps you get to over $4000…I am asking a bit over new cost of the albums, the stamps you get for next to nothing! $995 the lot! AU47) Australia 1931 KGV 1d Green C of A watermark, in 2 distinctly different Ash Imprint Gutter Blocks. The first with Jubilee Lines and the text in a bold type. The second without Jubilee Lines and a much lighter typeface, and a slightly different font. Both hinged only in gutter, stamps are fresh mint unhinged. Unusual! Price $129 the two. AU48) New Zealand high values on paper. It is several months since we had any of this… we used toi get 1-200g per month. This time it is only 50g. One lot only Price $64 AU49) Australia 4d Red Embossed QEII small Postal Stationery Enelope uprated and registered by 2 x 10d Slate QEII, with cds of Semaphore S.A. to make 2/- total franking. Dated 5 MR 57, which is the first day of issue of the 10d stamp. Has been slit open at top. Possible accidental FDC, price $29 AU50) Australia 1966 Navigators Specimen Overprints, the Scarce 75c & $1 smaller 15mm overprints, mint lightly unhinged, retail $175, just $89 MJL2) British Commonwealth, vast accumulation of complete sets and minisheets, in complete sheets, blocks of 4 etc. Mostly mint unhinged, with a few cto, 1980’s period. Must be 1000 - 1250 sets or so here, good variety, great for the re-seller at under 25c per set! Weighs around 1kg $249 the lot. MJL3) Similar to the above, but Foreign countries only, same price $249 MJL6) Australia 23 AP 31 Experimental Airmail cover Registered Melbourne to Westmorland UK. Bear full set of Kingsford Smith, plus 3d Airmail and 1/4d Turquoise KGV smw perf 13.5 x 12.5. The 1/4d cat $400 on cover. Neat and clean with nice vignettes and cachet. Cheap price $179. MJL8) Australia 1928 small registered surface mail cover Rockhampton Qld, to Madison Square Station, New York, bearing KGV 4.5d Violet and 1.5d Red smw Perf 14. Cancelled by cds of Rockhampton 216 MY 28 and arrival stamps of New York 6.26.1928, and Madison Sq. Station of the same date. 4.5d cat $100 on cover, price $85 MJL14) St. Helena 1991 Royal Birthdays Booklet, containing Gutter Block of 4 of the stamps commemorating the 65th Birthday of HM The Queen and the 70th Birthday

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NOVEMBER SALE of the Duke of Edinburgh. Cover is cancelled by OC 7 91 cds of St. Helena, presumably to prove sale over the counter and prevent pilfering, much as Australia Post cancel stationery items today. Stamps are mint. Neat Royalty item which I have not seen before. Cheap price $10, I have a few so $19 for 2, $39 for 5, might suit re-seller. MJL17) Nauru. 1960 Registered cover to Melbourne, from Nauru Co-op. Soc. Bearing pair of 1/- purple definitive SG54, and 5d Freighter SG33A, 1st issue. Very scarce combination in commercial usage. $119 JL9) USA Silk FDC Collection in dark blue Cumberland padded ring album. Covers the period 1982 – 84 and appears complete. 105 unaddressed Colorano silk covers, values to $9.35 Airmail issue. Lovely lot, a little mild toning on a very few covers. Huge retail, my price under $1.50 each, $149 JL15) Cocos (Keeling) Islands collection mainly mint unhinged in Red Lighthouse padded album, as new, retail for this near $250 alone! Appears complete 1963 – end 1992 with a few later. Odd toning in first two pages, but otherwise a very fresh and clean lot. Have only counted the retail of stamps from 1976, which is $1000 plus! So with the album a total retail of around $1250….my price under 50% includes the 1990 provisional set of 7, retail alone $325....$595 the lot. JL16) Australia Mission Mix, an older lot, to the 45c period with good variety, most on single well trimmed paper. As much aas we can cram into an Australia Post 3kg satchell! Very Cheap Price $59, 5kg Satchell for $95 JL18) Australia 1928 3d Kookaburra minisheet, lightly hinged on top two stamps and in selvedge only, this is from the centre of the complete sheet, and therefore has perfs all around the margins. Only one in 15 can be in this format. Unlike so many of these, this one has fresh white gum, no toning! Price elsewhere up to $225, this one $165. JL19) Queensland 1860 1d Carmine Rose SG 4, perf 14 -16. MNG. Cat 2500 pounds in 2013 (AUD$5000) Missing from 99.99% of all collections! Tiny closed tear at base, if you can spot it! Great spacefiller at under 5% cat. Price $249 JL21) Australian States mint & used collection in Seven Seas Album. Condition is mixed and appears to be put together on budget. Commences Sydney Views, set of 3, spacefiller quality, then NSW perforated issues about 50% complete, inc. some ovpt. OS. Queensland commences like NSW with the trio of Chalon Imperfs spacefillers, then Chalon Heads to 2/- Blue (MNG) Cat $250, large Chalons complete set to One Pound, 5/- is mint, balance largely complete used. South Australia commences with 1d Chalon Imperf, again spacefiller quality, then a fair showing of later issues, with many Ovpt. OS. (No Long Types) Tasmania and Victoria continue along similar lines with many good pickings inc. Vic. 1/- Registered stamp plus 1884 definitives complete to 2/6d. WA mint and used ranges to 1902 5/-. A very good lot at the price, approx. 375 stamps, under $2 a stamp, price $749 JL26) Australia 1936 small Airmail advertising cover for the Bank of New South Wales, franked by 6d Large Kooka and 3d C of A wmk KGV. To Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, and re-addressed via Chartered Bank of I. A. & C. (India Asia & China) printed label, to Mallacca. Cancelled by Sydney Airmail Section GPO Slogan, 28 JL 1936. Price $110 JL28) Early lot of Space, seems to be 500 odd stamps here give or take, with many complete sets and minisheets, mostly form the 1960’s & 70’s. Some mint, most cto. Many stamps I have not seen before. Price $129 JL29) Hong Kong KEVII Ovpt. Specimen group, 1c, 2c, 4c & 8c 1903, plus 4c & 10c 1907., all mint lightly hinged, cat 150 pounds each, $1800. My price just under 25% of cat. $449

GREAT BRITAIN POSTAL HISTORY: The next 11 lots are all small neat covers in fine clean condition. JL31) GB 1857 4d Rose Carmine, wmk large garter, no corner letters SG66 on entire with

Barred numeral 27, London to Marseilles 24 MAR 1859, with arrival datestamps Calais and Paris both 25 Mars 59 and Marseilles, date unclear. Cat 210 pounds = $420 on cover, price $139 JL32) GB 1867 3d Rose, SG 102 wmk spray plate 8 lettered TG on small entire London to Lyon with oval advertising cachet “ Louis Descrand & Co. London” cancelled by clean strike of duplex 88 of JU 25 72. Arrival stamps of Paris 26 Juin 72 and Lyon 27 Juin 72. Cat 110 pounds on cover = $220, price $69 JL33) GB 1876 2.5d Rosy Mauve SG 141 wmk orb, plate 15 lettered NB on small envelope London duplex DE 29 79 to Vienna with arrival cds JOSEFSTADT 31 12 79. Cat 110 pounds on cover = $220, price $69 JL35) GB 1873 3d Rose SG 143 wmk spray plate 15 lettered HB on small mourning envelope cancelled by London Duplex No. 1 of 26 SP 74 to Paris, with arrival cds of Calais 27 SEPT 74 and Paris on the same day. Neat and clean, cat 75 pounds on cover = $150, price $49 JL37) As above, but lettered LB, from London EC, with duplex FE 10 82, and arrival cds of FE 12 82. No cachet. Price $32 JL40) Australia 1938 5/- Robes thick paper mint unhinged Commonwealth Imprint Block of 4, left margin missing, cat $150, or $80 as single stamps, price $59 JL41) Victoria 1861 small cover bearing 4d perforated beaded oval SG 95 cancelled by indistinct barred numeral backstamp arrival cds in red Melbourne OC 5 61. To Major General Sir. Thomas Pratt, Sir Thomas Simson Pratt (1797 – 2 February 1879) was a British Army general. He served in the First Anglo-Chinese War (1839–1841), in India from 1843 to 1855 where he was deputy adjutant-general at Madras, and was Commander of the British Forces in Australia from 1856 to 1861. He was promoted to LieutenantGeneral on 31 May 1865, and to full general eight years later. He was Commander of the British Forces in New Zealand from 1860 to 1861, and was on the Executive Council. He commanded during the First Taranaki War, but as he realised the doubtful validity of the Waitara Purchase (the main cause of the war), he disagreed with Governor Gore Browne, and his military action was ridiculed by the local settlers. He was created K.C.B. for his services in New Zealand by the British Government. He returned to Australia as Commander of the British Forces in Victoria, and in 1862 was appointed Colonel of the 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot, which he held until he retired in 1877. Great piece of military postal history, price $159 JL43) Queensland 1860 6d Dark green Chalon, perf 14-16, wmk Large Star, SG6, nice used example, cat 70 pounds = $140. Price $89 JL58) Papua New Guinea, clean mint unhinged collection in near new Blue Lighthouse 64 black page stockbook retail approx. $65. Commencing 1962 Malaria set is a bit sparce to 1972 then a good degree of completeness (approx 75%) to 2000, with some scarce overprints noted. Retail of the stamps is $900 + +, My price very cheap at $395 the lot! JL59) Norfolk Is. Mint unhinged collection in green padded Seven Seas Album, 1947 – 1987. Complete per Seven Seas catalogue. Lovely clean lot, with album alone retailing around $275 and stamps at $950 plus, a total retail value of over $1200 for just $489 JL60) Australia 1913 10/- Grey & Pink 1st. wmk Kangaroo, superb mint lightly hinged, well centred and fresh, with variety “Broken Coast near Sydney”, ACSC 47(D) d, cat $2750. Finest you will see. Price $2149 JL64) South Australia, 1865 1/- Lake Brown, SG42, mis-cut, rouletted, so that “Postage” appears both at top and bottom of the stamp. Stunning variety, I sold something similar years ago through Prestige Auctions for $1000! This may well be the top half of an imperf between pair, cat at $3000 used. Price $295 JL65) Australia 1931 Kingsford Smith 2d & 3d Overprinted OS, mint lightly hinged. Cat $575, retail $475, my price $359

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NOVEMBER SALE JL66) Australia 1916 5/- 2nd wmk Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, inverted wmk, with repaired Telegraph Puncture, also pre-printing horizontal paper crease. Cat at $750 for Inv. Wmk, cheap at $279 JL73) Australia 1942 1.5d Green Queen Elizabeth on plain “Accidental” first day cover, Melbourne Machine cancel of 1 Dec 1942 to Burwood E.13. Vic. On small commercial envelope. Cat $800! Price $595 JL74) Australia 1929 5/- Small Multiple Kangaroo in combination with 1d green KGV Head and 6d Purple Kingsford Smith, on Commercial 1931 First Flight Cover to Portland Cement Co. London, with official Cachet for Experimental Airmail 24/4/31. 5/- very rare on cover, cat $1200. Price $1139 EJ4) Australia 1923 Halfpenny Orange Single wmk marginal block of 8, mint unhinged with Inverted wmk. One stamp with minor toning. Cat $200, price $115 EJ6) Australia 1930 Sturt 1.5d in complete set of 8 Plate Number blocks plus imprint block of 4, very fresh, lightly hinged on just 1 stamp per block. Cat $135, price $98 EJ9) Australia 1931 Kingsford Smith 2d in complete set of 8 Plate Number blocks and 3d plate 2 block, all superb Mint Unhinged cat $290, price $215 EJ12) Australia 1926 1.5d Red Small multi wmk perf 14, lower right corner mint unhinged horizontal pair from plate 1A, on translucent paper, cat $300. Price $225 EJ16) Australia 1927 1.5d Red Small multi wmk perf 13.5 x 12.5, top right plate dot blocks of 4, for all plates 1 – 4, mint unhinged, very minor faults, cat $220 as hinged. Priced very reasonably at $189 EJ17) Australia 1924 4.5d Pale Violet, dry ink, in Mullet Imprint Block of 4, mint no gum. Dry ink catalogues only as used, at $250 per stamp. The imprint block of 4 cat $475 for hinged mint. Ice item, very cheap at $295 EJ20) Australia 1918 Halfpenny Yellowish Green KGV Large Multiple Wmk, in top marginal gutter strip of 14, unhinged except for perf reinforcement on 3 stamps. Cat approx $500. Price $349 EJ21) Australia 1923 KGV Halfpenny Orange, single wmk in Harrison imprint pair mint lightly hinged, from Electro 9, with variety “Break in top frame left of crown” cat $1275 as block of 4. Price $45 EJ21) Australia 1924 1.5d Red KGV single wmk in Harrison two line Imprint strip of 7, 5 stamps are unhinged. Cat $500 as imprint block of 4. Has perf reinforcement at left. Attractive piece. Very cheap at $125 EJ22) Australia 1926 1.5d Red KGV single wmk in Mullett imprint pair, mint unhinged. Left stamp with blunt top right corner perf. Cat $375 as a block of 4. Price $75 EJ25) Australia 1926 1d green KGV single wmk in Mullett Imprint pair mint unhinged from plate 4, with variety “RA Joined” Cat $175 as hinged block of 4. Small Tone Spot on non-variety stamp. Price $49 EJ27) Australia 1920 1/- Kangaroo 3rd wmk, sideways. Mint unhinged right marginal example, centered left. Cat $200 as hinged, unpriced for unhinged. Very good value at $179 MMY1) Great Britain 1958 1st De la Rue Castles high values set, SG 536a-539a, superb and perfect mint unhinged top marginal examples, beautifully fresh and well centred with good perfs, the best I have ever seen! Premium quality. Very rare and most likely the only set available for sale in Australia right now. Cat. $1200 plus, price $795 MMY2) Great Britain 1963 & 1967 Bradbury Wilkinson Castles High Values set, both watermarked and unwatermarked, the two sets, 8 stamps cat. $60 mint unhinged for just $29! MMY6) Australia 1958 8d Kingsford Smith, on plain surface mail cover to the USA opened at top, with Qld. cds of 27 AU 1958. Correct usage rate to the USA and a fine example of an accidental FDC. Price $29 MMY7) North Borneo, collection on leaves, 1888 – 1984 cat 800 pounds = $1600 plus,

handy ranges of all periods especially KGVI where half of the catalogue value is and includes the scarce 4c Postage Due, SAG D86 fine cds used. Any remaindered items are correctly accounted for in the catalogue price. This is a well sought after area. Around 150 stamps, price $795 MMY8) Australia 1939 small airmail advertising cover for George Pizzey & Son, Melbourne to USA, bearing 3d Die 2 & 1/4d KGVI definitives, overpaying the 1/6d airmail rate by 1d and with “Airmail Saves Time” slogan of Melbourne 17 JNE 1939. Nice combination usage, the 1/4d on cover cat. At $40. Price $29 MMY10) New South Wales 1850 2d Sydney View, later impression, SG18, with 4 huge margins! Used with indistinct barred numeral cancel (39?) Cat 170 pounds, price $275 MMY14) VICTORIA Sg 31b; 1854-57 3d BLUE HALF LENGTH CAMPELL/FERGUSSON printing SUPERB very fine used, with clean strike of Butterfly cancel, 4 big margins. They do not come any better than this! Price $149 MMY15) Victoria 1857 Entire in very fine condition, bearing 4d Imperf emblems SG43 - Early OHMS cover to Paymaster of Police Melbourne from Police Officer Horsham 6/4/57 with partial Horsham cancel on reverse, ands indistinct barred numeral tying the adhesive. Scarce and unusual, price $149 MMY16) Victoria, Registered Tattersall’s cover to Tasmania, bearing 2d and 5d Victoria Commonwealth period SG 387 & 391 with cds of Flemington FE 25 01. Neat small cover. Price $29 MMY17) Australia 1959 Small Registered cover Ballarat to Melbourne, bearing 1d & 3d QEII Defins, plus 1/- Platypus to make 1/7d registered rate with Ballarat cds of 10 SEP 59. Nice tri-colour combination. Price $29 MMY19) Australia 1913 1st wmk One Pound Brown and Blue Kangaroo, nice cds used example, well centered with cds of Gaffney’s Creek, Vic. 13 OC 14? A rare postmark for this High Value Stamp. Price $2650 MMY20)Australia 1918 3rd wmk One Pound Light Brown and Dull Blue, fine well centered full perf example with cds of 6 MR 19 Sth. Australia (town unclear) Price $1750 MMY22) Australia 1924 3rd wmk One Pound Grey Kangaroo, well centered and good perfs, cancelled by 2 partial cds. Price for fine used around $425, this one just $275 MMY23) Australia 1931 – 36 C of A wmk Kangaroos, complete set of 7 values, 6d to Two Pounds, nice used set, the two pound is particularly attractive. Just a few minor faults make this a very affordable budget priced set, usual retail for fine used $1450, this set just a half, $725 MMY24) Australia 1929 10/- multi wmk Grey & Pink Kangaroo, nice well centered used stamp with full colour. Just a couple of very minor perf faults make this a good budget priced stamp. Cat $700, this one under a half at $349 MMY27) Australia 1918 10/- 3rd wmk Grey& Pink Kangaroo, nice used example with two partial cds cancels of Gympie, Qld. Centred right. Cat $500, price $249 MMY28) Australia 1916 2nd wmk 2/- Brown, good – fine used with 2 partial cds cancels, well centered and with good perfs. Cat $350, price $195 MMY30) Australia 1953 Produce Food set of 6 in mint unhinged part sheets of 76, being the top half, the central gutter and a block of 16. May yield some varieties. Could break up to produce 6 blocks of 9 and 4 strips of 3, retail is huge at $400 plus, my price just $249 MMY39) Australia 1913 4d Yellow Orange, ACSC 15F, nice well centered stamp with partial Qld. Cds at top. Couple of ragged perfs at the bottom. Cat $150, price $69 MMY40) Australia 1916 2nd wmk Kangaroos, set of 5 to 1/- all nice fine used, cds cancels. Retail $195, very reasonable at $139 MMY42) Australia 1913 1st wmk 2/- Brown Kangaroo, decent used example with cds cancel, Cat $250, under half at $119

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NOVEMBER SALE MMY45) Australia, absolutely magnificent, best I have ever seen! 1915 3rd wmk 3d Die II Kangaroo, with perfect centering and perfs. With light cds cancel. Cat $200. Price $149 MMY48) Australia used collection 1927 – 1946, fine used and nicely written up on album leaves in vintage “Jackey” peg fitting album. Priced to sell at $380 plus with some items unpriced. Includes most KGV & KGVI Commemoratives and definitive with 1934 Vic. Centenary in both perfs, 1934 MacArthur, 1935 Anzac, 1935 Jubilee, 1936 S.A. Centenary,1937 NSW Sesqui, 1937 Robes set to One Pound, 1940 AIF etc. A very good lot. Priced very well at $225 MY1) NSW 1894, magnificent small cover, with “copper plate” handwriting bearing 2.5d Ultramarine SG265, cancelled by Sydney cds of OC 19 94 to Boston, USA via RMS Miawera. Nice clean cover price $35 MY7) Australia 1947 local advertising cover for Jack & Jill florists, Railway Station Adelaide, bearing 1.5d green Queen Elizabeth, tied by Adelaide slogan “Send money by postal note or money order” with cds of 3 DEC 1947. Price $22 MY9) Australia 1932 Advertising window cover for Yalumba Vineyards, bearing 1d Green KGV Head tied by cds of Angaston 26 OC 32 and with received stamp on reverse of 27 OCT 1932. Price $42 MY10) Australia 1933 small advertising cover for The Goulburn Seed & Nursery Company bearing 1d green KGV Head tied by Gouldburn 11 SE 33 cds to Vaucluse. Very attractive, price $25 MY12) Guernsey 1944 WWII German occupation 2.5d Blue on FDC SG#3 - cat £15 for the used stamp. Top value of the set on clean small typed address cover. Price $37.50 MY13) GB an accumulation including many blocks & multiples mint never hinged from 1950s to 1970s ( 1000 or so) inc. many complete sets both decimal and pre-decimal inc. better like 1963 Red Cross and FFH plus another 100 assorted used in fine clean ROYAL MAIL Stockbook and super quality mint sheet file, plus a couple of 5 pound prestige booklets for the Financial Times and Royal Mail. Price for the lot $289 MY17) Holland. Unaddressed FDCs, all with full sets nice lot, goes around 1980, 35 different covers for $39 MY19) Australia 1913 5d Chestnut 1st wmk Kangaroo, superb Mint Unhinged, lower marginal example, clean white gum well centered and full perfs. I challenge you to find a better example! ACTUALLY BETTER THAN MY ITEM SE9, which you can buy at $475 less the discount of 25% = $356.25. But for this one cat at $550 I can sell at $479 MY20) Western Australia 6d sage green, rouletted. Lovely used example with light barred cancel in blue. SG32 cat 650 pounds. SG is way too cheap on these rouletted stamps.This is in a lighter shade and a bigger stamp than our item J22 which is priced at $1125.This one is better….price $1249 MY23) Australia 1915 5/- 2nd wmk Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, perf OS, used by Melbourne cds. Well centered, with fluffy perfs, as this issue often is. Chopped tail. Cat $700 my price $295 MY24) Australia 1917 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo, perf OS and cto, with full mint unhinged gum. Fresh with good perfs, centered high. Cat $200, this one $149 MY31) Pitcairn Islands mint/unhinged collection on Seven Seas pages 1940-1967 complete. 1940 Definitives and sets to 1963 are lightly hinged, except the 1948 Silver Wedding which is superb mint unhinged. Retail is $370 counting the hinged at half price. A great lot for just $149 MY34) Victoria 6d Orange- Yellow Woodblock, Rouletted all four sides, SG 57, lovely example with No. 1 Barred Numeral. Cat. 95 pounds. Price $139 MY35) Queensland 1d carmine-rose, SG1. Super 4 large margin example with light oval ring cancel., cat 800 pounds. Price $1275 MY38) Australia Northern Territory. Darwin to Finland Registered letter MR 6 73 serviced with $1.21 via an NCR label in red. These are becoming quite popular as they are rare to

find. See Rod Perry’s column in May Stamp News. Price $42 MY40) Australia 1915 2/- Brown 2nd wmk Kangaroo, superior used example with corner cds. Nice centering and good perfs. Cat. $350. Price just a half, $175 MY41) France. 1935 Delightful Sepia Real Photographic Postcard used to Melbourne, Australia 12 x 1935 bearing 90c Le Pu yen Velay & 30c Green definitive. Nice! Price $29 MY42) Australia 1988 80c Living Together, Missing Orange (Sand and Juggling Balls) postally used. Uncatalogued and believed unique. Supplied with certificate of authenticity and normal for comparison. Price $1450 MY43) Australia 1913 1st wmk 2/- Brown Kangaroo, perf small OS postally used with 28 MY 15 cds of Melbourne. WEell centered and with good perfs. Cat $500. Price $345 MAP2) Australia 1932 10/- C of A wmk 10/- Grey & Pink, postally used with two partial STEEL cds CANCELS of 22 DE 36. Well centred and good perfs, cat $300, price $229 MAP3) Australia 1932 10/- C of A wmk 10/- Grey & Pink, postally used with socked on nose with rubber Canberra cds of 4 JE 35. Lovely colour and good perfs, cat $300, price $239 MAP4) Australia 1932 10/- C of A wmk 10/- Grey & Pink, postally used with two partial Sydney cds cancels of 1937. Lovely colour, well centered and good perfs, cat $300, price $249 MAP5) Australia 1932 10/- C of A wmk 10/- Grey & Pink, postally used with two partial Sydney 1937 cds cancels of 3 NO 36 Lovely well centered example, cat $300, price $254 MAP6) Australia 1932 10/- C of A wmk 10/- Grey & Pink, postally used with two partial Sydney cds cancels of 1937. Good well centered example with bright colour, cat $300, price $259 MAP6a) 5 x 10/- Kangaroos as above, MAP2 – MAP 6, priced to sell at $1200, save $100, $1100 for all 5 stamps. MAP8) Great Britain 1840 1d Black in the intense shade, with black Maltese cross postmark and 3 big margins. Unplated example, lettered KA and with nice pre-printing paper crease, unusual. Price $259 MAP10) As new Box File crammed, yes I mean crammed! With approx. 1.5kg of World on paper quality charity mix, just received, all on close clipped single paper, early to recent, totally unpicked as received and with great variety. I estimate 6000 + + stamps per kg, so anything up to 10,000 stamps in this lot. Magnificent value at under 2 cents per stamp, price $179 MAP11) Another box file as above, containing only Australia with maybe a smattering of foreign with mostly modern issues to 2015, good ranges of definitive and commemoratives. Noted unfranked and some better values. Count must be 5000 plus per kg, so around 7500 stamps for under 2c per stamp just $129 MAP12) Australia 1935 2d red Jubilee in mint unhinged imprint block of four from plate 2, with variety ea, retouch between IA of Australia. Cat. $375. KGV Jubilee issues are widely sought after. Price $149 MAP14) NZ Health Fdcs, 1936 & 1937 plus ANZAC 1937 pair also on fdc, very scarce. Lifebuoy stamp sadly has a missing left lower corner, but still very rare on fdc. Nice lot, price $49 MAP16) 1913 Halfpenny Green Kangaroo in mint block of 6, (3 x 2) with 4 stamps unhinged. Some gum bends but a scarce and attractive block, looks very nice from the front. Price $119 MAP19) Large shoebox with very nice World off paper mixture old and new, small and large. As donated to leading charity. Weighs 2.15kg inc. the box, must be 25,000 stamps with a great variety here. Has to be worth 2 cents a stamp, price $495 MAP20) Worldwide Cinderellas, Revenues, Reprints, Bogus issues, amazing lot of around 500 most if not all different, ranging from the 1940’s to quite recent. Priced under 20c per stamp, $98 per lot, half lot for $49.

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Graeme Morriss

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Looking at New Zealand

Other countries to issue stamps for the Games were the Cook Islands, Fiji and Samoa. Tonga overprinted stamps from four earlier issues of ‘bottle tops’. The New Zealand stamps were designed by Mark Cleverley and lithographprinted by Harrison & Sons on chalk-surfaced unwatermarked paper in sheets of 100 (10 rows of 10). The four colour plates were in pairs numbered 1A1A1A1A and 1B1B1B1B. The printer’s imprint was in the left of the bottom margin with the plate numbers adjacent in the bottom margin for the 4c, 5c and 10c and in the left margin for the 18c and 23c. The perforations gauged 13½ x 14. References: Catalogue of New Zealand Stamps, Auckland, Campbell Paterson, 1952 – . The Postage Stamps of New Zealand, vol. 6, Wellington, RPSNZ, 1975. Graeme can be contacted through his website, www.stampsmw.top1. com.au .

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Glen Stephens Rarity Offers For 20 years, my ’Stamp Rarity Page’ has been a “must visit” place for many collectors and dealers, globally - tinyurl.com/GlenRare Large clear photos, and lots of detail, and FIXED NETT PRICES. “Philatelic Porn” as one client jokingly described it as! No 20% “Buyer Fees” to add on top etc. All credit cards accepted - even Amex, and with NO insulting extra fees to you either! Each month I’ll add here, a couple of items from that page, for the possible interest of readers. Choice material, and special collection offers etc, from all over the globe. Material on that page often sells FAST - within hours of being listed up, and it changes often - weekly mostly, so do bookmark this page, and check often - tinyurl.com/GlenRare

Western Australia 1860 4d Deep Blue Swan, with opened out pre-printing paper fold:

Probably the most spectacular WA Swan paper variety you will ever see! These pre-print folds occurred on a few of the Swans, and are always offered at very high prices. This 6d one is $900 - tinyurl.com/WAUST6d and my 4d is even more striking. As the 4d is on blue faced paper, the opened out white fold looks even more visually striking, as you can see. Clean and fresh and flat, and free of hinges and the gook and gunk and creases/thins, usually found on this 156 year old era. SG 27 £325 = $A650 for normal unused stamp, plus 100%-200% for the Error. A STUNNER, totally UNIQUE, a brilliant showpiece for a WA or BIRD collector, and Dirt Cheap at: $A550 (Stock 713KR)

Ceylon KGVI 3¢ Green KGVI Rare Perf 13 x 13½, well centred Margin pair. SG £550 – Just $A350: The key stamp to this very popular Definitive set. The scarce initial

low print, 1938 perf 13 x 13½. Near all offered on clueless amateur dreamer sites like ebay are the common perf 13 SG 387b cat £6½. Most of these cowboys do not own a perforation gauge, much less know how to USE one! They see a high cat value stamp, and decide they MUST own that one. The difference between 13.1 and 13.5 is tiny. GUARANTEED 100% genuine by me. Bright and MOST attractive for 80 years old - perfect perfs and centering. With the usual honeyed Gum Arabic original gum on all early 1938 emissions - top stamp has light hinge touch only, and lower stamp totally MUH original gum. LH margin pair with printed “target” guide marks in selvedge. SG 387a, £550 = $A1,100. Priced to clear this month at only $US265 $A350 (Stock 726RC)

PNG: 1984 British New Guinea Proclamation Centenary - Spectacular Block 10 with massive misperf!: One of the most

striking modern errors I have seen from this era. FIVE fresh MUH se-tenant pairs, from the 1 small sheet known. This is the se-tenant pair depicting the famous heavily armed Cruiser - “HMS Nelson”. Flagship of the Imperial Squadron, in Port Moresby harbour, next to a modern sailing boat with colour spinnaker, and both next to the PNG flag. Wildly mis-perforated to right, and also a lesser misperf top to bottom, as you can see, on all units. Was tempted to break this into 5 pairs at $250 a pair, ($A1,250) but too busy now and someone else can do that is they wish! The top and corner pairs are marginal 2 sides, with all the colour plate number and Autotron registration dots etc. Just $A100, or $US75 a pair! A superb deal for someone - an ebay re-seller for sure! If this were an AUSTRALIAN block of 5 freak pairs, you could treble this price. NEVER been on the market before: $A500 (Stock 371RT)

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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation 2016 Australian Philatelic Order Awards Australian Philatelic Federation AGM The APF held its AGM at SAPHIL House in Adelaide on the weekend of 17-18 September and was attended by representatives from the State Councils. The executive was re-elected and is shown in Figure 1, looking resplendent in their black tie. The back row, from left to right, comprises Philip Levine (Immediate Past President), Glen Stafford (President), Darryl Fuller (Philatelic Development Officer) and Ian McMahon (Secretary). The front row has Bernard Beston (Vice President FIP), Gary Brown (International Officer) and David Figg (Treasurer). In addition to the usual mundane business of an AGM, the APF likes to take advantage of having the State representatives together to discuss a range of topics. The ideas discussed come from the various States. The actual event is known as the (Sunday) Soviet and is ably run by David Collyer from NSW with his scribe Lionel Savins. The discussion can get quite lively at times and the reason it is known as the Sunday Soviet is that the State representatives get together on the Sunday morning to discuss any issues raised with the APF executive. Some of the topics discussed this year included State judging (as it varies from State to State) and the reciprocal recognition of State judges by State Councils. The use of word processing for written critiques at exhibitions. Virtual exhibitions â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the first of which was tried in South Africa this year. Whether States can afford to run large scale national exhibitions. Frequency of exhibitions (particularly of relevance this year). The new APF website which is due soon and may be up and running by the time you read this. Updating the exhibitions handbook. There was also discussion of team-based exhibitions. This would not be the State-based teams as used in the Australasian challenge but groups of individuals. I believe that this has been tried in the USA already and I think could be some fun. We would need to look at what was involved but perhaps we could aim for 2018. 2016 Australian Philatelic Order Awards The 2016 Australian Philatelic Order (APO) dinner was held in Adelaide in conjunction with the AGM. The APO award system was developed in the early 1990s as way of recognising those individuals who have put in many years of service to philately in a range of areas. These areas are broken up into three main criteria â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Services to organised philately, Distinguished philatelic study and research including judging; and Promotion of philately and public dissemination including teaching. There are a number of sub criteria under each category where points 48 - Stamp News

Figure 1 are awarded depending on level of achievement or length of time in positions. In order to become a member of the Australian Philatelic Order you need at least 50 points, and for a Fellow some 75 points. It is quite difficult to become a Fellow as it involves a lot of philatelic activity in many areas over many years and anyone who achieves this distinction has given a lot to Australian Philately. It is possible for a member to be upgraded to a fellow but this involves the person undertaking significant new activity in a range of areas, not just continued activity in the same areas where they received their original award. The awarding of APO awards is undertaken by a committee of three comprising the current APF president and two current fellows, undertaken on a rotation basis. Nominations are made by State Councils and all deliberations are done in camera. The APF executive only knows who is successful, not who is nominated and does not see the pointing of the nominations. It should also be noted that no one who is currently on the executive of the APF is eligible for nomination. Not everyone in philately is likely to achieve an APO award but the APF does recognise that individuals do sometimes do a lot for philately, albeit in only one area. Thus the APO Research Awards were developed in 1997 to recognise those people who undertook distinguished philatelic research, but did not meet the other criteria for an award. The research award is not limited to Australians. For an Australian to win the award they need to have undertaken significant philatelic research in any area of philately worldwide, and published it either as books and/or articles. For anyone else worldwide the research undertaken must be on Australian Philately. Finally, for those Australians who provide significant services to philately at the national level, usually in a single area of expertise we have the SPAN awards. SPAN

Daryl Fuller

Philatelic Development Officer, APF ely, helping the future generations to become involved in this wonderful hobby. Charles Bromser is a complete and all-round excellent Philatelist, well-deserving in becoming a Member of the Australian Philatelic Order. Figure 2 shows Charles Bromser responding to his award.

Figure 2 awards are not part of the APO system but are awarded by the APF. This year Geoff Trinidad from Western Australia will receive a SPAN award for services relating to the refurbishment of the APF frames in the lead up to Australia 2013. In 2016 we had the rare treble of member, fellow and honorary fellow awards being made. Whilst there have been three upgrades from member to fellow made in the last 12 years, our new Fellow, Ross Wood, is the first new direct election of a Fellow since Bernard Doherty in 2004. The other two awards were to Charles Bromser from Victoria as a member, and well known dealer Tony Shields who became an Honorary Fellow, another rarely offered award. Citation for Charles Bromser – Member of the Australian Philatelic Order (MAP) Charles has been involved with Organised Philately since the 1970’s. He has been a member and served on the committees of many local and national societies and organisations. Charles was the Secretary of the Australian Philatelic Federation for four years and has served internationally in the Astrophilately and Thematic fields as delegate and bureau member with the FIP. He has also served on the committees of numerous state and national Stamp Exhibitions, including the upcoming Melbourne FIAP 2017 Show. Charles is the author of many philatelic articles and edited Philatelic Journals, both nationally and internationally, including being a Webmaster. He has formed and exhibited excellent philatelic exhibits, achieving some of the highest awards. Charles is a National, FIAP and FIP judge, and has presented Seminars at exhibitions, as well as serving as an International Commissioner. He has been involved at school level with Philat-

Citation for Tony Shields – Honorary Fellow Australian Philatelic Order (FAP) Tony Shields has been intimately involved with Philately for most of his life. He was at first a collector of stamps, and then gradually became more involved in the Stamp Trade, working for various dealers, including the late Max Stern. Tony opened his first shop at Greensborough, Victoria in 1979, and indeed continues to trade in the same area. He soon became involved in Organised Philately, being a delegate to the Victorian Stamp Council, and then to the Australian Philatelic Federation. Tony has been involved for decades with the Australasian Philatelic Traders Association (formerly the Australian Stamp Dealers Association), spending many years as President. Tony has been very innovative with his ideas, including organising APTA into a more sociable and enjoyable organisation, as well as the overprinting of stamp booklets (and, by extension, miniature sheets) with exhibition logos, thus making fund-raising much for profitable for National Exhibitions to this day. He has also advised Australia Post on innovative ideas, which are still current. Tony has served on Organising Committees of National Stamp Shows, as well as being a guiding light on the last four International Shows held in Australia. It was his idea to consider holding Australia 2013, that

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Figure 4 extremely successful FIP Exhibition that we all so much enjoyed three years ago. Tony and his firm have taken trade stands at countless Shows in Australia and Overseas over the years. He has always supported Stamp Exhibitions and has always been ready with (free) advice to one and all at these Shows. He has deservedly won awards from National and International Dealers’ bodies. Tony is a published Philatelic author and a radiobroadcaster (usually late-night) for 25 years on stamps in Melbourne. He is a genuinely nice guy and is tremendously supportive of and passionate about Philately. Tony Shields is a very-deserved recipient of an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Philatelic Order. Figure 3 shows Tony listening as the APF President Glen Stafford reads Tony’s citation.

Ross is a prolific exhibitor at philatelic exhibitions, often achieving very good results. He has edited journals, and is a National and International Philatelic judge. He has run successful workshops for advanced and beginning collectors, as well as having had involvement in Youth Philately promotion. Ross has given excellent Seminars on Aerophilately at FIP exhibitions. He has deservedly been awarded on a number of occasions by his State, including its highest award. Ross Wood is a very well- deserved recipient of the Fellow of the Australian Philatelic Order award. It could not have gone to a nicer person! Figure 4 shows Ross receiving his medal from the APF president. Figure 5 shows all three recipients relaxing after the awards ceremony. It was a great night with an excellent dinner and much friendship shown. I have been privileged to know all three recipients for many years and even worked briefly for Tony back in 1985. It is likely to be some years before we see a similar grouping at an APO awards dinner, which each recipient well deserving of the award as each has given a lot to philately in Australia. Australian Commonwealth Collectors Club This month’s society is the Australian Commonwealth Collectors Club (ACCC), one of the pre-eminent Australian specialist societies. It was formed in 1940 and if you are interested in specialised Australian stamps it is the society for you. It has specialised groups including a Kangaroo Group, KGV Research Group and a Modern Philately Group. Most of the great philatelists have been members over the years and the late Arthur Gray was the Immediate Past President. The ACCC’s journal is known simply as the Bulletin (Figure 6). It is produced four times a year in March, June, September and

Citation for Ross Wood – Fellow Australian Philatelic Order (FAP) Ross Wood has been involved in all levels of Philately for close on four decades. He is a well-known and well-liked Philatelist at a local, state, national and international level. Western Australian Philately would be incomplete with Ross Wood. Ross is a Past-President of the Australian Philatelic Federation, serving in other Executive positions too. He continues to run the Showman programme for all National Exhibitions. Ross is a central figure in the West Australian Philatelic Council, and has put in many years of service at a local club level too. He has been Chairperson at national exhibitions as well as serving on exhibition committees, both state and national. Ross is the current Chair of the FIP Aerophilately Commission, and was the Australian Delegate to that Commission before that. He has also been intimately involved with Figure 4 the Federation of Aero and Astro Philately. 50 - Stamp News

Daryl Fuller

Philatelic Development Officer, APF December. The issue shown included articles on the KGV 4d Blue Variety ‘Thick 4 at Right’; The Story of One mailing House; KGV ½d – Different Electros, Similar Mechanism?; A New NCR Variety; KGV 1½d Die 1 – New Discoveries, Platings and Descriptions; What is the Earliest Known Impression from an Australian Universal Midget Franking Machine; and 1d KGV Plate V Varieties and Compartment Markings. As you can see quite specialised articles but I can assure you that they are not all about KGV heads. Articles have included postal stationery and of course, more modern stamps. Membership is $40 a year for Australia and Oceania and $85 a year for the rest of the world. For further information either contact the Secretary, Mr Scott Starling at GPO Box 227, Darlinghurst, NSW 1300 or see www. philas.org.au and look under clubs. Melbourne 2017 With five months to go the great news is that all the dealer stands have been sold and we are trying to find space for a couple more. Why is that stamp dealers don’t want to go to an exhibition until they know everyone else is going? Given the strong interest from dealers I suggest you start looking at accommodation and travel. Melbourne always puts on a great show and with such a wide range of dealers you should be able to find something of interest. Also, if Australia Post continues its trend of producing limited issue philatelic items then this will be the only way to get them. It may be the only exhibition in Australia next year so start planning. Auction – Despite the great response from dealers, the exhibition is still looking to raise money to pay for the many expenses associated with an exhibition. For example, moving the frames to Melbourne and back will cost at least $25,000. It would be great if we could raise this money and to this effect we are seeking donations of philatelic items for an auction next year. A few collectors have already been kind enough to send material for auction and we even have an item ex the Arthur Gray

collection. In addition, Australia Post has promised a five figure item for the auction. All donors will be acknowledged on the website and at the exhibition. Whilst we are hoping for items that would make a single auction lot we would also be grateful for items that we combine into larger lots if needed. So please contact me if you anything to spare (and don’t we all – just ask your spouse!) or send it to me at PO Box 47, Jamison Centre ACT 2614, and don’t forget to include your contact details. (See http://melbourne2017.com.au for further details on the exhibition.) If you need any further information see www.apf.org. au or contact me at Darryl.fuller@home.netspeed.com.au.

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Cinderella Corner Welcome to the November edition of Cinderella Corner. With summer approaching and the 2016-17 cricket season about to start, it is an appropriate time to remind readers what the national summer game has to offer for cinderella collectors. This special issue explores a number of Australian cricket labels spanning several decades from the height of the Great War to the 1980s. Feedback is, as usual, welcomed.

Patriotic Carnival 1917

Figure 1 illustrates what is often revered as the scarcest Figure 2 (and one of the earliest) of the Australian cricket cinderellas. It is unmistakably patriotic with its message, which bears the text: To help our returned men. M. C. C. Patriotic Carnival on the M. C. C. Ground Oct. 20 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 27. The label was issued as part of the 1917 Patriotic Carnival on the Melbourne Cricket Ground from October 20 to November 3, 1917, and aimed to raise funds for Australian soldiers. The Melbourne Cricket Club was founded on 15 November 1838 and describes this round label as a publicity sticker. It measures 50mm in diameter in the Club

colours of blue and red. The label is seldom sighted but when offered is in rather poor condition, occasionally damaged and torn and stuck to paper. Nonetheless, in any condition, it is very scarce and a desirable addition to cricket poster stamp enthusiasts and the wider cinderella collector.

Melbourne Centenary 1934

The 1934 Centenary of Melbourne was met with state-wide celebrations. These included many private companies and organisations issuing posters, badges and various promotional cinderellas to help commemorate the event. These poster stamps mainly illustrated buildings across Melbourne and were usually issued in only one colour. One of these labels is illustrated in Figure 2. It shows the Victorian Cricket Association (VCA) House in the Melbourne CBD. The logo of the VCA is at top right. The building was built by the VCA in 1924 and served as its head office for over 60 years until 1988. Two sizes of the cinderella have been identified (both illustrated in Figure 2): 33mm x 42mm and 33mm x 46mm. Both of the labels are perforated 12.

South Australia Centenary 1936

Figure 1 52 - Stamp News

Similar to the Melbourne Centenary a few years earlier, celebrations were held throughout the state to recognise the 1936 South Australia Centenary. These also saw the release of a number of different

Vito Milana Figure 3. It is one of a set of nine different ones, issued in a strip of three, showing the legendary Don Bradman. The label measures 35mm x 50mm and is perforated 11 ½.

Melbourne Radio 3AW And Hamilton 3HA

Figure 3

Figure 4

cinderella labels, including the one illustrated in

Figure 4, printed in blue on buff colour paper, is a cinderella label that bears the text: TEST CRICKET Broadcasts – 3AW3HA BALL-TO-BALL BIG PRIZES! It illustrates the involvement of Melbourne Radio 3AW and Hamilton 3HA for the 1954/55 Series in Australia where England retained the Ashes. It is a scarce label, often overlooked and ignored by virtue of its simplicity, and measures 28mm x 43mm in size.

Ashes Series 1954/55

Figure 5

The collector of cricket cinderellas will be familiar with the items illustrated across Figures 5 and 6 for both their scarcity and portrait appeal. The single example (Figure 5 – in red) and full sheet (Figure 6 – in purple) represent an attempt to promote the 1954-55 Ashes Series. They were issued in red, purple and green by Seven Seas Stamps Dubbo in sheetlets of 18 showing the touring party from England. Australia never made it on a stamp presumably because the whole project was a marketing flop, as stated by Bill Hornadge. The purple sheet in Figure 6 bears the following detailed text in the top margin: SOUVENIR TEST CRICKET STAMPS – Can be pasted in autograph albums, in school project work books or affixed to the back of envelopes bearing letters to friends overseas. Each label then presents the image of a different player. The single example in Figure 5 shows Frank ‘Typhoon’ Tyson, a legStamp News - 53

Cinderella Corner end of that Ashes Series. Monty Wedd of Sydney was the designer of these cinderellas with letterpress printing completed in Dubbo. The sheetlet is 227 mm x 190mm and sold for 9d. Singles are 34mm x 52mm in size and are perforated 11½.

Figure 8 sizes are 52mm x 27mm and 53mm x 28mm, with ten self-adhesive labels to a sheet.

BOAC & QANTAS

Figure 6 presents a BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) & QANTAS (Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services) publicity label released in the 1950s. Full-size travel posters with exactly this design indicate that it is from the early 1950s. This could, however, be a BOAC production and thus from Great Britain. It is a scarce label and measures 37mm x 39mm in size. Further information about this cinderella is most welcomed.

Airmail Labels

While airmail labels have their own dedicated following, both within Australia and overseas, many collectors incorporate them into their cinderella collections. Figure 7 shows two slightly different airmail labels with cricket motifs, first produced in 1985 by Noel Almeida for use on his letters. The

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Registration Labels

The previous remarks on airmail labels also apply to registration labels. To mark the 1977 Centenary Test Match in March, Australia Post issued a set of six stamps and a commemorative postmark. The postmarker was used at the Melbourne Cricket Ground from March 9 to 17, 1977, at a temporary post office. Official records show that 101,332 articles received the postmark. Of these only 56 items were registered using the special printed “Centenary Test Melbourne” label, as illustrated in Figure 8 (No. 0031). Auction realisations for a single cover bearing the Label have been in the thousands of dollars in the last ten years. The registration fee at the time was just $2 but few knew about the production of this special registration label because Australia Post

Figure 6

Vito Milana

Figure 9 did not announce its availability.

AUSIPEX 1984

Leigh-Mardon of Melbourne was the principal printer at the time of the stamps of Australia. The perforated souvenir sheet illustrated in Figure 9, measuring 125mm x 95mm, was given away at Ausipex from their stand at the Show. It is rather common but illustrates three greats of cricket (Greg Chappell, Dennis Lillee and Rod Marsh). Some of the Sheets were overprinted by different organisations to help celebrate different events, and many of these are rather scarce.

Amalgamated Press London

Figure 10 Member, Cricket Philatelic Society, London.

References:

1. Cricket Philatelic Society, Wickets, the quarterly journal of the Society, London. 2. Almeida, Noel, Australian Cricket Stamps, Cricket Local Post, Dandenong, Vic, 1991.

While Figure 10 illustrates a label that is certainly of UK origin, it has nonetheless a close connection to Australian cricket. It is the final item in this set of cricket cinderellas and heralds from Amalgamated Press London. It was part of a 1935 set of 64 poster stamps titled â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Champion Record Breakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; with portraits of champions and their associated machines. Three cricketers are honoured in the set: two Englishmen and our Don Bradman. The size of the label measures 32mm x 42mm, perforated 11. It is a scarce item. All images shown in this article are from the collection of Noel Almeida, Honorary Life

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Market Matters Gibbons “Part One” released.

For me the “event” of this month was the arrival of an air freight copy of the new 2017 Stanley Gibbons “Commonwealth & British Empire Stamps 18401970” catalogue. The 119th Edition in fact. I get a tad jaded with many things in this business, but am NOT jaded about receiving this monster each year! This volume is universally known to old-timers and the trade as the “Gibbons Part One” - as once, the other Volumes were numbered, and were “Americas” and “Asia” etc. It is the absolute “Bible” globally for British Commonwealth stamps. Forget Scott etc - they are meaningless for Commonwealth. The average collector buys a new major catalogue only once every few years, as they are expensive. For many dealers and collectors, being a few years out of date is no big deal. THIS is definitely the year to update, if you have not done so for a while! Lots of changes and updates in here. Printed on a nice crisp fresh white paper stock. Cheery and «alive» compared to my already VERY yellowed early 2000’s SG pages, with sad grey illustrations. Colour illustrations right through, very many of them on each page. And many new New 2017 Gibbons “Part 1” Catalogue. varieties and listings are added this year. Near 700 huge pages now. headings are in RED - a very simple thing to do, A nice crisp clean sans serif font has been used and they really stand out. The small things like that for the last few editions, and makes it so much are often overlooked for years! easier to read. And in recent editions the country

Colourful and vibrant SG.

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Lots of constant plate flaws, and booklets are now listed. And lots of inverted watermarks - for the UK all inverted and sideways watermarks are now listed for the FIRST time in here. Find just a really medium one from a country like Australia or UK, and the entire book will be readily paid for MANY times! Often stamps cat 10p each used are cat many £1,000s each with inverted watermark. Throughout the book there are new and improved illustrations, helpful new notes on subjects as diverse as the early lithographs of British Guiana, and the 1962 Emancipation overprints of Tonga. There are several new watermark varieties, newly

Glen Stephens £700 mint and £140 used. I found 2 used copies in a kid’s collection - those 2 alone will literally pay for this catalogue. A very, very, popular variety, and it is VERY easy to spot with the naked eye - see photo nearby.

Ever seen “Green Mist Retouch”?

”Top Hat” to £1,300 from £550 listed plate flaws and ‘used abroads’ and many stamps, previously listed without a price, are now given a valuation, for the first time. Major plate flaws are being added and priced all the time, as is shown in the page close up nearby. New varieties appear for this first time in this edition, some of which I suggested, such as the 1929 3d Airmail “Long Wing To Plane”. At £250 mint and £150 used, find just one of EITHER, in a junk lot or club circuit book, and this catalogue is easily paid for - INSTANTLY! Did you know the “Top Hat” flaw on the 6d Kookaburra is now cat £1,300 mint - up from £550 only 2 years before? A scarce and very popular flaw, and very seldom offered. Buy off someone foolishly using last year’s cat, or better still, the year before, and YOU win by £750! Or the “Man with Tail” on 1937 2d NSW is now

Were you aware a ½d Orange Kangaroo Coil Block of 4 is now Cat in SG at £950 mint? Or the “Green Mist Retouch” on the 1/- Lyrebird is up both mint and used to £4,250/£3000 etc. “Knowledge Is Power” - as I have typed here 1000 times! Did you know the 1941 1/- Lyrebird with inverted watermark is Cat £5,000 mint, and £4,000 used - but just 10p in normal used etc? And the equally common 4d green Koala with inverted watermark is exactly the same figure. Check your duplicates! Many are still out there to be found. Material from other Commonwealth countries is where this huge book comes into its own. Where else would you look up prices for KGVI Ceylon, or KEVII Bahamas, or a 1940 Pitcairn stamp booklet? They are ALL very valuable, as I will show you below, and all might be easily overlooked if you do not own this new book. The Ceylon 3¢ KGVI MUH pair shown nearby, I found in a junk lot last week, not noted as being other than a $5 pair of the lowest value of a defini-

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Market Matters tive set, as it appeared to be. I listed it on my Rarity Page today for $A350, and it will sell fast, as it is cat £550. If you looked this up in the simplified “Stamps Of The World” you’d only see 2 cheap stamps. It does not have a plate variety, design flaw, or printing flaw of any kind. Nor a watermark error or omission etc, or any kind of shade variety. So WHY it is listed in SG at £550 you may be asking yourself? Well unless you own this new “2017 Part 1” catalogue you will never know! There are legions of things listed in the “Part 1” that you will never, ever recognise as being of any value unless you own it. The Bahamas 6d brown KEVII illustrated nearby is a good example. Most of us would not look twice at it on a page of Bahamas, this being a lower face value of minimal value.

Most would not look twice!

It is in fact SG 66a, King Edward VII, the “Deformed E” variety with a neat cds “NASSAU – AUG 09” and is cat £300. A sharp eyed Stampboards member fond it un-noted in a general collection and sold it to me, and it too is listed on my Rarity Page for $A275. There are many HUNDREDS of such small, but constant, flaws listed in this catalogue. Again I point out the screamingly obvious, that a single find of just ONE stamp like this, just ONCE in your lifetime, pays for this catalogue several times over. It is as simple as that. They VERY often are catalogued at £100s, if not £1,000s apiece, and many are overlooked by owners. Then there are the things that you see at times that look a bit interesting, but you have no idea of value. The Pitcairn Island stamp booklet illustrated nearby is a case in point. If you found one of these in an old lot, it is self-evident it has some good value - but WHAT value? WHERE do you look these weird things up - in the SG “Part 1” of course! For many years in the early 1980s, I ran facing full page ads in “Stamp News” and headed them as “The Pitcairn King”. I had more Pitcairn Island stamp material than anyone on earth. I handled all the rarities - but NEVER this booklet, of which 58 - Stamp News

Cat £300 - how good are YOUR eyes? only a few exist globally. I bought my first one in 35 years of dealing this month. It is Pitcairn Island 1940 KGVI 4/8d, SG #SB1, with black on deep green cover. Original 17mm staple intact, containing the original 1940 KGVI Definitive set of 8 to 2/6d (SG #1-8) with waxed interleaving between each stamp ‘pane’.

Sold via a rowed longboat!

The Pitcairn Island Postmaster Roy Clark offered these to the 2 or 3 times a year cruise boats that would anchor in deep water offshore, as souvenirs to bored tourists - so most were lost over time as they were very fragile, and later tossed away over the ensuing 75 years. Issued during WW2, they got no philatelic publicity, only 500 were made, and totally sold out before WW2 ended. Remote Pitcairn Island (pop 60!) had no harbour, so a longboat was rowed out selling souvenirs - mostly large, hand painted soap tree leaves etc, or stamp FDC. These 2 books sold for $A6,500 apiece 9 years back at Spink USA – tinyurl.com/ PitBks In the new cat, it is SG SB1, Cat £3,250 and my price is half that, so a nice book to stumble

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500 made, but only a few survive. across! Collectors are famously tight fisted with catalogues, but a strong and profitable SG catalogue division is ESSENTIAL for a strong and balanced world stamp market. Many totally forget that, so do your bit, and add to their sales volume. I have a “Free Global Freight” special promo on these catalogues this month! A great effort from editor Hugh Jefferies MBE and his Catalogue team - how they get the vast swag of SG Catalogues out each year, sure beats me! A never ending process, and juggling, logging, and tracking all the New Issues etc, must be an absolute nightmare.

better. A Boy Scout troop could I feel get these to work better than the AP techies have. Australia Post have just ONE core purpose in life - TO DELIVER MAIL. As speedily and cost efficiently as possible. A VERY simple Mission Statement. They have recorded a massive FAIL score in the past couple of years under the Fahour Regime, on both counts. They posted their first EVER loss recently. As a business that sends and receives a heap of mail, I am here to advise that Australia Post has totally lost the plot - during the past 18 months in particular. Near every mailing is now some kind of weird lottery. It gets very depressing, and it is getting WORSE. Buyers get annoyed at the SENDERS, and abuse us. Letters and parcels can often take SIX weeks to arrive domestically. Even within the same state. Things I mail even to the next suburb from me are going to WA and QLD and Darwin, and the PO of course is not accountable. They just yawn, mouth pre-worded excuses, and crank up the rates even more, and hand out bigger than ever obscene bonuses.

Australia Post parcels a nightmare.

Australia Post’s barely functioning parcel sorting system is getting WORSE this year - if indeed that was possible. The IKEA kit form White Elephant machinery, purchased and approved by Ahmed “Chainsaw” Fahour, is an ongoing $500 million national disaster, and total disgrace. New equipment takes time to bed in - we all accept that, but this mad Dutch made Meccano Set, with all kinds of aftermarket software bolted on, that does not “talk” to each other, has been installed for a year or two now, but gets WORSE not

16,000 kms: and still not delivered. Stamp News - 59

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No compensation is generally paid to users for these self-inflicted PO messes, and the HOURS of wasted time that businesses now need to expend each month - the constant emailing, and speaking to understandably annoyed buyers, and chasing up this inefficient Post Office is also not compensated in any way.

Postage Rates near doubled overnight.

Western Australia or Darwin by humans. Not even once usually, and certainly not repeatedly, as we see time and time again now. Machines do not care. They do not have a BRAIN. I heard this week Fahour is keen to privatise Australia Post - the same way Telstra and Medicare Zimbabwe Efficiency at Norway Prices. Private were spun off. The CEOs, AP big shots, and all their lawyer and banker and stockbroker mates We are getting Zimbabwe Level speed and efficienin such floats often end up with $20 million or so in cy of service, but are being charged Scandinavian “success” bonuses and/or share placements and/or level fees to get it. Things must change, and the bonus shares etc, and ex Banker Fahour will be lickmail users are the ones who can do that. The system ing his chops at the thought of that. is broken and has been for years. Contact the ComOur cash strapped Government, run by another munications Minster - this Fahour CEO is central to ex-Banker, will sadly salivate at any opportunity ALL the hare-brained policies and decisions. that gives them a short, sharp, ~$50 BILLION cash On the AP website there is a video of parcel mail injection to our massive deficit. A deficit that is zipping around a huge mail centre, in huge clear spiralling out of control now the mining boom has Perspex type tubes with conveyor belts in them. All ended, and Government is hamstrung in the Senate with laser beam type scanners shooting beams onto to pass any meaningful fund raising measures. all sides, searching for the tracking labels, and the postcode. Not a human being in sight. THAT is the Post Office to be sold off? issue. Until 1975 The Postmasters General Department Once that scanning is done, the parcels allegedly (“PMG”) ran both mail and phone services nationare all sorted and sent on their way. And a box adally. Then it was split into Telstra and Australia Post dressed to “2068” will go to ANY other 4 numeral - we had the 2 x 10c stamps shown nearby issued to destination the laser beams might “see” first on a box. My sender PO Box 4007 address sticker might celebrate this, on July 1, 1975. The NEXT MONTH all hell broke loose, and a local letter near doubled get read as to Hamilton QLD, even if real address from 10¢ to 18¢ in August 1975, and the ubiquitous was to 5047 Adelaide etc. 18¢ Wildflower was rush issued to cope. Humans are smarter than machines. So a parcel The Telstra spin off was massively profitable marked “Dandenong Vic 3175” does not get sent to 60 - Stamp News

Glen Stephens to Government. ‘T1’ raised $14 BILLION and the far larger ‘T2’ and ‘T3’ share offerings raised far more. In ‘T1’ in 1997, the Federal Government sold one third of its shares in Telstra for $A14 Billion, and publicly listed the company on the Australian Stock Exchange. In 1999, a further 16% of Telstra shares were sold to the public, leaving the Australian government with 51% ownership. In 2006, ‘T3’ was announced by the government and was the largest of the three public releases, reducing the government’s ownership of Telstra to 17%. Fahour the “AMAZZN” Maserati Revhead. Selling off Australia Post is short personalised number plates of “AMAZZN”. sighted of course, but today our GovI am not kidding. The cartoon nearby from the ernments focus only on each elected term, or the “AFR” lampoons those childish yobbo plates, and next Opinion Poll, and almost never on the future, highlights what this man has done to rural Australia. or the long term good of the country. Marginalising and closing down lots of Post Offices, $50 Billion or whatever cash inflow in THIS that in rural Communities are often really the central Parliament is all that is focused on - forget about social hub of the area, for all kind of things – bankthe long term harm a Post Office majority owned ing, billpay, passports, mail etc. by DHL, or Japan Post, or Fedex, or China etc will Australia’s highest-paid public servant, cause. Ahmed Fahour, also plans to spend $4.5 million “Selling off the Farm” leaves nothing for future - the value of a most sizeable prestige home anygenerations, but no-one seems to take that view. where in this country - just on extending his masFahour has VERY quietly hived off the leasehold sive mansion in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn. of all the capital city GPOs. Did you know that, This to me has overtones of - “Nero Fiddles, Whilst or read about it in the Media? Of course not - a Rome Burns.” one-off cash hit made the overall AP losses in there Fahour bought the “Invergowrie” Manor three look less worse, but they are Blue Chip assets gone years ago for just over $A20 million, reported the forever, that can NEVER be sold again. Sad. Domain property tracking website. A few year’s pay, bonuses, and the inevitable massive payout The “AMAZZN” Ahmed when he is sacked/flicked or AP is floated off, will Fahour pockets $4 or $5 MILLION a year to “man- have paid for it pretty much it seems. Nice work if age” this loss making disaster (10 times what USA you can get it. Postmaster General is paid), and recently purchased As well as a new pool and landscaped garden, the a new Maserati. I know many will think I am Australia Post CEO has applied to expand the intermaking this next bit up, but I swear it is true. “The nal area of the colonial gothic-style riverside homeAustralian Financial Review” reported our Lebastead, which was built in 1846 for James Palmer, the nese Muslim Post Supremo bought a new Maserati first Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Council. with part of his obscene wage, and adorned it with $4½ MILLION buys a few nice upgrades. Stamp News - 61

Market Matters It reminds me of that alleged Queen Marie Antoinette phrase - “Let Them Eat Cake” when the poor people of France complained the cost of bread was getting too expensive. We can all learn from history, and Mr Fahour might do well to read up on what happened to Marie Antoinette! WE are all paying for this mansion of course. Mr Fahour this year succeeded in hoodwinking the Government to approve the cost of a normal first class letter to more than DOUBLE, from 70¢ to $1.50 from January Massive AP salary buys Mansion. 4 this year, and obfuscated the media so cunningly, that it was barely reportTen or 20 years ago, I’d happily mail or order ed, as the entire country is on holiday at that time. a carton with no tracking, and be 99.99% sure it would be there next day, to/from anywhere in a 100km radius. And only a day or so later to/from Things have NEVER been worse. Melbourne or Brisbane or Adelaide etc. You could I am a large sender and receiver of letters and parbet the house of it - a fast, efficient, and very affordcels domestically, and have been for my 35 years able system. as a dealer. I am speaking below from long experiThey all arrived. Maybe one parcel a decade ence. Things have NEVER been as bad as they are might go AWOL. An amazing record, and AP now in Australia Post re massive delays, lost mail should be proud they ONCE did a good job. Yes and inexplicable diverting of Parcel Post. it is pretty hard to lose a CARTON I agree, and so We do not see this on the TV News, or in the it always was. They all arrived. Mostly within a daily papers, as the average person is unaware of week. NOW a box mailed 50 miles away is likely what a mess they are now in. Please forward a link to detour via a mail centre 3000 miles away. to this article to anyone in the media you can think In recent years all that efficient service system of tinyurl.com/Glen11-16 : it is NOT too late to has charged. Sadly. A bunch of fat cats at AP, paid turn this mess around. wages in the Bill Gates league, have dragged the service standard back down to levels never seen before. And yet doubled or trebled the costs to users and somehow arrogantly think and pray we will not notice. Australia Post keeps hiking up parcel and International rates a couple of times EACH year, I kid you not. WAY in advance of the CPI and Inflation rate. If a private company doled out price rises on this consistent scale, the ACCC would be fining them! Did you know it Chullora Mail Centre Bottleneck cost $A2.95 to send a POSTCARD to 62 - Stamp News

Glen Stephens

5 weeks in limbo : and counting. Europe or the Americas from October 3? They tell no-one. Why? As AP do NOT need any Government approval for parcel and overseas mail price hikes, and hence charge whatever juicy figure comes into their head, when they need some more money for machines that do not work, or to pay vast sums of money in wages and bonuses to Top Brass who do not work either. All these price hikes are bad enough, but some geniuses in there, drawing mega million salaries, have also now decided that humans handling parcels are not really necessary, in this Brave New Fantasy World they live in. They found MACHINES that allegedly do it just as well, and with almost no “staff costs”. Well no wages are paid, but these shiny new machines cost $A500 MILLION it is reported. They seem to have overlooked that. That is a lot of wage hours of once very efficient sorters.

Machines demand no holiday pay.

Do these monsters work? NO. I often have Regis-

tered parcels across Sydney taking up to 2 or 3 weeks. I am not kidding. They get to the massive Chullora Mail Centre, and then sit there for a week, or two weeks at times. How do I know this? As I send nearly everything tracked mail. The Post Office’s own tracking data shows me that my box often arrives at Chullora on October 1, and then does not emerge for a week or two. It is like a bad Monty Python script, but is happening more and more. A parcel post “Black Hole”. The AP “Unhelp Line” cannot tell me WHY they sit around for a week or so at Chullora. The Fats Cats at Australia Post appear to have decided all capital cities will “centralise” parcel mail - a disaster in practice of course, but a genius move on the whiteboard in the Boardroom. “No Staff Needed”. Time to have another cigar and Port and celebrate “Genius Mail Management 2016”. The online parcel tracking shown nearby, sent to a client within NSW, is a typical example as you can clearly see, and it is very common these days - very sadly. Almost normal. If it did not involve $500 of stamps, it would be something I’d laugh about. Zimbabwe service levels - for $25. I mailed a small box on Monday September 12 to a stampboards member in NSW. The red mail van collected it at 5.15pm and as you can see it was scanned through the massive Chullora Mail centre at 9.13 pm on same day, September 12. The address and postcode was VERY clearly written. My client is in Northern NSW, and this box has driven past his door FOUR times already on PO trucks.

Vanished into “Parcel Black Hole”.

He did not get it after 2 weeks so phoned. Many $100s of albums and stamps, and was sent Registered - do check the PO website and see for yourself WHEN it ever arrived - the tracking number is 499778492016. $100 is the MAXIMUM compensation payable to either of us, if it has vanished entirely, or got wet, or damaged, on all this mad Stamp News - 63

Market Matters national travel. His order was $500, so WHO wears the loss? We both wasted much time on email over this. You are helpless, as these pieces just vanish into a huge faceless AP Black Hole. He phoned me, annoyed of course, and all I could do was assure him the box was mailed Registered. He phoned the PO “Unhelp Line” on September 27, a fortnight after my mailing, and of course they can do nothing. As you can see from the tracking shown nearby, the box went to Queensland, then to Winnellie Mail Centre, in DARWIN NT! Then it for some reason goes from Darwin to Queensland, and back to Chullora in Sydney on September 27. Then a week later it arrives back in Darwin - 4,000 kms again by road, on October 6, and 4,000 kms more road travel later and it is BACK in Sydney on October 11. Parcel has done this FOUR times: so far. It is around 4,000 Kms by shortest road method from Sydney to Darwin, and is 44 hours This madness did not used to happen, and now it of driving each trip, I kid you not - look it up on the Google map shown nearby! This box so far has happens all the time, and it MUST stop. All readers made that trip FOUR times, or 16,000 kms, and we can do their bit to get this AP rev-head kicked out still have no idea where it is now. Take a look your- the door, and some experienced managers appointed, that have actually worked in the Postal Service self, I am not making this up! - 499778492016 in the past. Years overdue sadly, but “better late I am typing this on October 15, near 5 weeks since than never”. mailing the box, and have no idea WHERE the Fahour seems universally REVILED by all I Magic Parcel will turn up next. Australia Post does speak to. Post Offices, drivers, staffers, and mail not know or care, and so far they have sent a $25 users etc. People at dinner parties even. Have never paid parcel some 16,000 Kms that I know about. heard a single positive or friendly thing said about The actual COST to these idiots to do that, is probably 5 times what I paid them in postage. And they him, and you CANNOT head any large Corporation, if all those working in it despise you, and this wonder WHY they are losing money??!! gentleman seems to have achieved that distinction sadly. Sadly, he thinks he is: “AMAZZN”. Five Weeks to travel the country. Minister for Communication and Arts is SenaMy poor client is still sitting in NSW having been tor Mitch Fifield – minister@communications.gov. charged for the goods FIVE weeks back, and neiau and senator.fifield@aph.gov.au – contact him. ther of us have the slightest clue WHERE the box Seeing the Senate is now controlled by a rag-tag is now, and where it is headed next week, or next bunch of non-mainstream Senators like Derryn month. These people are accountable to no-one. Hinch, Pauline Hanson and Nick Xenophon and They shrug it off as “bad luck buddy” and will hike The Greens etc, also send emails to them suggestthe rates even further in a few months, with zero ing this Fahour should be drop kicked back to where Government approval being needed. he came from, and a REAL CEO appointed, which 64 - Stamp News

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Unchanged Compo for 50+ years. might just get some action. Had I PAID for NT shipping for a box this size, the cost would be about $75 each way = $300 so far. Money AP have cost themselves of course due to incompetence. I highlighted one case recently here that crossed the Nullabor 5 times. The framed glass, signed Don Bradman photo contents got smashed and cut up during all that madness - and PO refused to pay even one cent in compensation.

Like a Monty Python Script!

And these geniuses at Australia Post wonder WHY they lose money? So to cover their own shortcomings, they crank up rates to customers to cover THEIR defective sorting machinery, AND give themselves millions in bonuses as well, for new Maserati’s and $20m mansions. It is like a bad movie script. Sometimes things just vanish for 6 weeks with nothing to show buyer or seller what is going on. They are the worst ones. Totally vanished from sight. Pay $4 for Registered Fee, and huge parcel cost on top of that, and get near zero service. Buyer gets annoyed, and sender wastes hours checking the tracking. That Rego $100 max for $4 is a compensation level unchanged for OVER 50 YEARS of course,

since BEFORE Decimal currency in 1966, where £50 compo became $100 max. Despite the cost of registered fee being cranked up 20 fold since then. Maximum needs to be lifted to $1,000, or a more sensible $2000. You need to PROVE the loss of course, so can’t make fake claims. The photo nearby is of a 24¢ Registered pre-paid envelope from stock, that shows the very top £50 or $100 compensation payable, for loss or damage by the PO, all in the small type on face. Indeed even in the pre-Decimal era, the exact same £50 ($100) figure was payable - OVER HALF A CENTURY back. I offer “all risk” Marine Transit insurance for more valuable goods now, as in the event of any claim, is far quicker than dealing with Australia Post. For the cost of a Pizza, a $1,000 sending is fully covered for loss or damage, and is VERY cheap peace of mind. When parcels travel by road 16,000 kms as per above, a WISE move.

Mint stamps & water don’t mix!

Oddly many folks decline to do that, and WHEN the goods arrive soaked, having been somewhere wet in transit (never wise for mint stamps!) damaged, bent in two, or lost entirely etc, it suddenly becomes MY problem to sort and replace it free - trust me, that is the response near every time. WRONG. It is like booking a flight with an airline or a rental car and declining up front, the small cost insurance cover they all offer. Decline that, and later tell Qantas you missing the plane is their fault, or telling Avis you hitting the power pole or a BMW is their fault, and let me know how you fare! Registered mail DOES eventually arrive domestically, no argument there, but packets getting wet or damp in transit is of zero concern to Australia Post. A MUH 5/- CofA Roo is $1,000 retail, and a no gum one is $50 as “VFU” - and that is exactly what you have if it gets wet, and sticks to the stockcard. Stamp News - 65

Market Matters Transit Insurance for your pricier stamp purchases is just that. It gives peace of mind for a really tiny cost. It really should NOT be necessary, and decades back it really was not needed locally, but in 2016 it IS wise, until enough folks lobby AP to raise the $100 Reg’d compo to $1,000 or $2,000. Go for it!

“STAMPEX ADELAIDE” 2016

I flew down to Adelaide during October for the Annual STAMPEX show there. Great exhibits as always, and a wide selection of dealers, both local and interstate were in attendance, Melbourne and Sydney Dealers at STAMPEX. and all I spoke to were state totally without power for a day or two, the happy with the results of the week before, due to cyclonic storms that totally 3 day event. destroyed the power network. And created heavy Shown nearby is a photo I took of the Juzwin flooding in many parts of the state for days thereafBrothers at left, Tony Shields at centre at back, (all ter. from Melbourne) and John Pearson from Pittwater Stamps in Sydney at right, who had QUITE a drive, to get his usual mountain of stock across to South Australia! The show is held in a very central city location - the Torrens Parade Ground Drill Hall, with lovely solid Jarrah Floors, right opposite the Adelaide Oval, and Festival Theatre. Has easy free parking right out the front which is a pleasant surprise from some interstate venues these days. Admission is free, which is always a large plus. South Australia had the entire

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Glen Stephens bition, that seems certain. Details on APF website. A curious sidebar to STAMPEX was in the official show souvenirs. I supported the show as a Patron, both personally and on behalf of stampboards.com and the special numbered “STAMPEX 2016” Mini Sheets for the show were of a Above & facing page: Ozzie Show – NZ Sheets overprinted! NEW ZEALAND recent set, and not SA state totally without power. an Australian one. STAMPEX President Martin Walker lives out in Has never occurred before, as far as I know. Gawler, and that was badly affected by rising river The Patron packs had a bunch of quite superb matelevels. He told me he had a knock on door from rial - numbered postcard sets, MUH overprinted emergency Servies at 3am or whatever a couple of Cinderella sheet of 10, a special numbered and overdays before the show warning he might need to be printed cover with special ‘P’ stamps. Also a special evacuated from his home. Mint-marked PNC with Mint Certificate saying only He was madly tidying up final detail on STAM50 were done. The whole lot for a fairly modest PEX, coping with a very sick pet, and completing price, and a good cause, so contact me if you seek his SA Revenues exhibit - which got the top award them. I understand. He was also badly short staffed at An enjoyable show, and one I enjoy attending, and work, so was a mad week for him and many others look forward to the next one! Onward to “MELdown there it seems. Great to see things all went off BOURNE 2017” which will be here before we without a hitch. know it! Bumped into Tim R, an old client of mine from Mildura, who had been enticed by Stampboards Glen Stephens has written monthly ‘Stamp Tipster’ members, especially Rod Perry, to try his hand at competitive exhibiting for the first time. His comColumns for over 30 years - globally. A vast library mercial used 1966 Definitives on cover and parcel of his past articles and photos are found at – pieces etc, wowed the Judges, and he was only 3 www.glenstephens.com/column.html points short of a debut Gold Medal. New exhibitors like that are the future of the hobby, and Tim is now inspired to add to the ex4 The Tor Walk, Castlecrag, NSW, 2068 hibit, and try his luck at the huge Melbourne 2017. Ph: 02 9958 1333 President of that show Gary Brown told me in Ademail: glen@glenstephens.com elaide that all dealer stands for the 2017 show had Website: www.glenstephens.com already sold out, so it will be a boomer of an Exhi-

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philatelic clubs & societies new south wales Armidale Circle RSPC: Mtg 2nd Wed Australian Cmwlth Collectors Club of NSW: Mtg 3rd Mon 7.45pm, 1st flr. Philas House, 17 Brisbane St, Darlinghurst, Sydney 2001. Ph 02 9267 8301; Fax: 02 9264 4741. GPO Box 1971, Sydney NSW 2000 Ph: 02 9264 8301 Aust. States Study Circle: Mtg 4th Wed 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301 Bathurst Stamp Coin and Collectables Club: Mtg 1st Mon 7.30pm, Old Eglinton fire shed, Park St, Elington PO Box 151, Bathurst NSW 2795 Bega Phil. & Numismatic Society: Mtg 3rd Friday 8.00pm. Mthly Newsletter. PO Box 370, Bega NSW Blue Mountains Stamp Club: Mtg 4th Friday (ex Dec) 8.00pm Katoomba Public School; PO Box 76, Blackheath Boambee East PS: Mtg 1st Tues (ex. Jan) 6pm Boambee East Comm. Centre, Bruce King Dr. Ph: 02 66581385 Campbelltown District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm (ex Jan - 4th Wed); @ Catholic Hall Acacia St, Ruse. Inquiries: mystampclub@yahoo.com.au; PO Box 478, Campbelltown 2560 Castle Hill SC Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm, Hills District Bowling Club, Jenner Street, Baulkham Hills; PO Box 151 Castle Hill NSW 1765 China Study Group of PSNSW: Mtg 4th Mon 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301 Cinderella SC: Mtg 2nd Friday, even months; Produces “Cinderellas Australia” and monographs; PO Box 889, Chatswood, NSW 2057 Coffs Harbour SC: Mtg 2nd Wed Earlwood and District SC:Mtg 1st Wed Grafton SC: Mtg 2nd Wed (ex. Dec) Grafton Stampers & Everything Philatelic: Mtg 1st Sun 2pm (ex School Hols). Grafton Baptist Church Hall, Cnr Queen & Oliver Sts. Ph 02 6642 1363. email gbchurch@bigpond.com. Great Lakes SC: Mtg1st Sat 9.30am , Workshop & Market 1st Sat 9-12, Great Lakes Campus Annexe, Taree St, Tuncurry Enq: Ph 02 6554 9776 Gosford PS: Afternoon Mtg 1st Mon; Evening Mtg 2nd Thurs Hawkesbury Valley PS (Richmond Stamp Club): Mtg 2nd Thurs (ex Jan) PO Box 28 Richmond 2753 Illawarra PS: Mtg 3rd Thursday (ex. Jan) Wollongong Master Build. Club Ltd, Oasis Room, 7.30pm. All welcome. Tel. (02) 42252011. Kempsey RSL PS: Mtg 2nd Wed Lake Macquarie Stamp Club:: Mtg 2nd Sat 9am; Combined Pensioners & Community Care Services 130 Josephson St, Swansea. Enq: 02 4392 5211 Lord Howe Island Postal History Society: Mtg by arrangement. Contact Pres: Dr William Mayo, 02 9918 6825 Lower Clarence PS: Mtg 4th Tues Macquarie Valley PS: Mtg 2nd Tues Maitland SC: Mtg 2nd Mon ex Jan. ‘Show & Tell’ every mtg E. Maitland Bowling Club, Bank St. Pres. Mark Saxby; Sec. David Carratt; Ph: 02 4932 4045 Email: carrotspatch@tpg.com.au Manly-Warringah Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd Tues, cnr. Pittwater Rd & Federal Pde, Brookvale. Sec. Graeme Morriss Ph: 02 9905 3255 email: stampsmw@bizland.com.au Milton-Ulladulla SC: Meeting 1pm on 4th Monday of each month (ex Dec.) Milton Ulladulla Bowling Club, St. Vincent Street, Ulladulla Sec. POBox 670, Ulladulla, NSW 2539 Tel. Barbara Smith 0244555214 Morisset Uniting Church SC: Mtg 4th Sat 10am (ex Dec) Enq: 4977 2525 (Jenny) Mudgee Coin Note & Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Sunday Ph 02 63735324 Nambucca River PS: Mtg 1st Sunday Newcastle PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs, 7.30pm Mayfield Ex-Services Club; 10am 3rd Wed, 48 Mackie Ave, New Lambton, Juniors 11am 3rd Sun, Wallsend Pioneers Hall NSW Postcard Collectors Soc: Mtg 1st Wed 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301

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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 6106 0874.

philatelic clubs & societies new zealand Air Mail Society of NZ: Ph: 03 3584838; Email: alant@snap.net Auckland PS: Mtg 1st and 3rd Tues (except Jan). Ph 09 9853212; Email kiwibrooce@ yahoo.com; Website: www.aps.gen.nz Christchurch PS: Mtg 2nd Tues, Library night 3rd Tues; GB Machin 3rd Fri odd months; Postal History 1st Mon; Postcard 3rd Tues even months. Email: secretary@ cps.gen.nz; Website: www.cps.gen.nz Dunedin PS: Mtg 4th Thurs (except Nov and Dec). Ph: 03 4557643; Email: davidallison2009@gmail.com; Website: www.dunedinstampclub.org.nz Hastings Stamp Collectors Club: Mtg 3rd Wed (except Jan and 2nd Wed Dec). Ph: 06 8765911; Email: clairemole@xtra.co.nz Hawkes Bay PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex. Jan). Ph: 06 8439433; Email: dennmarg@paradise. net.nz Horowhenua PS: Mtg 2nd Mon. Ph: 06 3689881; Email: michael.christensen@xtra. co.nz Hutt Valley PS: Mtg 1st Tues (ex. Jan). Ph: 04 5697439; Email: richards@nec.co.nz Kapiti PS: Mtg 3rd Tues (ex Dec). Ph: 04 2971197; Email: ian.burttt@yahoo.co.nz Manaia PS: Mtg (Hawera) 1st Sun. Ph: 06 2784292; Email: peter.williams@xtra.co.nz Manawatu PS: Mtg 1st Wed, daytime meeting 3rd Tues. Ph: 06 3584565; Email: mps@inspire.net.nz Marlborough Stamp Collectors Club: Mtg 3rd Mon (except Jan and 2nd Mon Dec). Morrinsville Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd Wed. Ph: 07 8893199 Nelson PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 03 5469092; Email: paula.hucklesby@clear.net.nz North Shore PS: Mtg 2nd (except Jan) and 4th Wed (except Jan and Dec). Email: nsps@xtra.co.nz; Website: www.northshoreps.com NZ Stamp Collectors Club Christchurch: Mtg 4th Wed. Ph 03 3895511; Email: steve@ philatelic.org.nz; Website: www.nzeal.com/philately/nzscc.htm NZ Postcard Society: Ph: 03 3848463; Email: jenny-long@clear.net.nz; Website: www. postcard.org.nz

queensland Arana Hills SC: Meeting 2nd Tues; 07 3851 0213; email: petermccloskey@bigpond.com Bayside Afternoon SC: Meeting last Wed; Ph: 07 3206 6281. Bundaberg PS: Mtg 2nd Mon 7pm, The Family Centre, Kensington St (in the Show Grounds); Ph: 07 4152 2403 or 07 4151 3062 Caboolture & District SC: Mtg 3rd Sat. Ph: 07 5498 6504 Cairns SC: Mtg 3rd Wed. 7.30pm Brothers Leagues Club, 99 Anderson St. Ph: 07 4055 1302 Sec: Ross Bottomer, email:rbottomer@y7mail.com, web:www.cairnsstampclub.asn.au Caloundra SC: Mtg. 4th Thurs. Catholic Church Hall, Edmund St. 1.30pm. Ph: 07 5494 7233 City Daytime SC: Mtg 2nd Thurs. Ph: 07 3206 6281 City of Brisbane PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs; Ph: 07 3263 8573 (ah); email: desley@mycelebrant.com Collectors Club Queensland: Mtg 2nd Sunday each month 9am to 1pm - RSL Hall, 58 Arnold St, Holland Park. Contact 0409 130 266 or ccqueensland@gmail.com Enoggera SC: Mtg 1st and 3rd Mon. Ph: 07 3264 4157 Gladstone and District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed (Ex. Jan) & 4th Wed (Ex.Dec). Ph. Sec: 07 4978 1155 Ian Rippingale, Gold Coast PS: Mtg 2nd Mon, 11.30am, Southport Community Centre, Lawson St, Southport. Ph: 07 5546 3801 Gympie SC: Mtg. 2nd Sun. Jessie Witham Centre 1 - 3pm Ph. 07 5483 9188 email: sandandan@bigpond.com Hervey Bay Afternoon Club: Mtg 3rd Wed. Ph: 07 4124 1138 Ipswich SC: Mtg 1st Thurs (ex. Jan). Ph: 07 3282 2983 Junction Park SC: Mtg 1st Tues, 7.30pm, Annerley Baptist Hall, Lambton St. Contact: 07 3277 6724. PO Box 177, Annerley, 4103, righteo274@bigpond.com Lockyer Valley SC: Mtg 4th Sun, 1.30pm, Senior Citizensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hall, Gatton. Kerri Martin, Sec. Ph: 07 5465 3390 Email: lvsc@bigpond.com Logan City SC: Meetings 2nd Thurs, Presbyterian Church, Barry St, Slacks Creek, 6pm. Ph: 07 3805 9226.

Further information can be obtained from the NZ Philatelic Federation, PO Box 58139, Whitby, Porirua, 5245, NZ. E-mail: secretary@nzpf.org.nz Postal History Soc of NZ: Auckland 1st Mon (except Jan). Ph: 09 5220311. Chapter meetings held Invercargill, Nelson, New Plymouth and Wellington. Pukekohe Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Sun. John Mounce, President 649-291-9381 johnmounce@ihug.co.nz Royal PS of NZ: Mtg 2nd Wed (ex Jan). Ph: 04 5899530; Email: office@rpsnz.org.nz; Website www.rpsnz.org.nz South Auckland PS: Mtg last Sat (except Dec), Papatoetoe, day time mtgs 3rd Fri (ex Dec and Jan). Ph: 09 2682245; Email: elowera@orcon.net.nz Southland PS: Mtg 1st Thurs (except Jan), 3rd Tue (daytime) (except Jan). Email: antqgevi@es.co.nz Taranaki PS: Mtg 1st Mon except Jan. Ph: 06 7546212; Email: murray-grimwood@ hotmail.com Tauranga & District Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd (except Jan) and 4th Mon (except Dec). Ph: 07 5765210; Email: beducker@hotmail.com Thames Valley PS: Mtg 1st Mon (except Jan). Ph: 07 8689190. Thematic Association of NZ: Ph: 04 2347218; Email: bob@gibsonz.com Timaru PS: Mtg 1st Wed. Ph: 03 6880343 Upper Hutt PS: Mtg 3rd Mon (except 2nd Mon Dec). Ph: 04 5284123; Email: teme. isaac@clear.net.nz Waikato PS: Mtg 1st (except Jan) and 3rd Wed (except Jan and Dec). Email: c.cameron@agresearch.co.nz Wakatipu PS: Ph: 03 4428865 Wanganui PS: Mtg 2nd Wed. Ph: 06 3427894; Email: g.p.phillips@xtra.co.nz Wellesley PS: Mtg 2nd and 4th Mon (ex public holidays). Ph: 9 8271240 Wellington PS: Mtg 4th Mon (except Dec); Ph: 042347218; Email: bob@gibsonz.com Whakatane PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Thurs (except Jan) Ph: 07 3222054 or 07 3086193 Whangarei PS: Mtg 2nd Meeting: 2nd Tues (Ex.Jan) Ph 09 4348000; Email johnmonica@xtra.co.nz QLD Philatelic Council, 18 Coolcrest St, Wynnum, Qld, 4178. Ph: 07 3396 0846 Fax: 07 3396 0842. Email: QPC-stamps@acenet.net.au Web: www.qpc.asn.au

Mackay and District PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 07 4942 5433; Maryborough and Wide Bay PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex. Jan). Salvation Army Youth 7 Comm. Hall. Bazaar St Maryborough. Ph: 07 41224708 (see also Hervey Bay) Nanango SC: Mtg 2nd Sat, 10:00am, Nanango RSL. Contact Ph: 07 3103 8938 or ema il: bowtell_harris@activ8.net.au Philatelic Society of Qld: Mtg 4th Wed 7.30pm,18 Coolcrest St, Wynnum. Ph: 07 3245 5222 Queensland Study Group: Sunday bi-monthly 1.00pm meets QPS house. Contact Ph: 07 3396 0846 email: QPC-stamps@acenet.net.au Redland Bay Coin and Stamp Club, 4th Thurs. Monthly. John Hardman 07 3206 9996 or 07 3822 6987 Rockhampton SC: Mtg 1st Tues. Ph: 07 4926 3336. email: rockystampclub@gmail.com Sherwood Afternoon SC: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 07 3372 6096 Southport Afternoon SC: Mtg 2nd Sat; Ph: 07 55630384 Southside PS: Mtg 3rd Tuesday & 3rd Wednesay (9am) Ph: 07 3848 2304 (ah) email: david. appleton@mailbox.uq.edu.au Sunshine Coast SC (formerly Nambour SC): Mtg 1st Wed, 7.15pm at C.W.A. Hall, Short St. Nambour. Ph: 075445 3647 Thematics Queensland: Mtg bi-monthly 9.30am. Ph: 07 3262 5605 email: j.crowsley@ uq.net.au Toowoomba SC: Mtg. 2nd Sat 1pm, Salvation Army Hall, Cnr. West St. 7 Anzac Ave. Ph. 07 4635 5623 Email: bob.benny@bigpond.com Twin Towns SC: Mtg 1st Mon; Ph: 07 5535 3168 Waterloo Bay SC: Mtg. 1st Thurs. 1pm & 4th Mon. 7pm. Redlands Multi SportsClub, Birkdale Ph: 07 3206 0815

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philatelic clubs & societies south australia

Information about clubs in SA can be obtained from the SA Philatelic Council, GPO Box 9800, Adelaide, SA 5001. Daytime Ph: 08 8212 3557 or 8223 4435

Australian Airmail Society: 1st Wed. 7.45pm 22 Gray Court, Adelaide. PO Box 395, Edwardstown 5039. Ph: 08 8276 3969 Barossa SC: Mtg 1st Tue 7.30 Greenock Luth Church Hall, Bevan St, Greenock; 19 Evans Street Ancaston 5353; email: ptomely1939@gmail.com; Ph: (08) 8562 8386 Blackwood PC: Mtg 2nd Wed ex Jan; Uniting Church, Main Rd, Blackwood; Ph: 08 8278 1629; PO Box 581, Blackwood 5051; email: teepee@teegee.com.au Bordertown & Districts PS: Mtg: 3rd Thurs. Bordertown PS Contact: K. Grey Tel: 08 8752 0446 or email cdhuntmundulla@yahoo.com.au Community PS: Mtg 1st & 3rd Fri - 7.30pm. Marion Bowling Club, off Sturt Rd. PO Box 75 Edwardstown, 5039; Auctions, circuit books. Ph: 0408806894 City of Noarlunga PS: Mtg alternate thurs,-- Community Health Centre, Grand Boulevard, Seaford, Contact 08 85566371 or PO Box 272, Port Noarlunga 5167 Eastern Districts PS: 2nd Thurs (ex. Jan), 7.30pm Senior citizens Hall, 47 Reid Ave. Hectorville; PO Box 240, Magill, 5072; Ph: 0400 156 796 Elizabeth PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Fridays, 7.30pm, RSL Hall, Cnr of Halseys/Midway Rds;PO Box 701, Elizabeth 5112; Ph: 08 8255 0608 Encounter Bay SC: Mtg 1st Wed, 7.30pm; School Hall, Woolworths Centre, Victor Harbour; PO Box 317, Goolwa 5214; aydepe@bigpond.com; Ph: 08 8555 3311 SA Power Networks Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Mon (ex. Jan); Canteen, 1 Anzac Highway, Keswick; PO Box 2079, Magill North, 5072; Ph: 08 8278 7163 Frama Club: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm, members homes; For collectors of CPS, Framas. Newsletter and Auctions. PO Box 62 Campbelltown 5074. Gawler SC: Mtg 4th Mon 7.30pm; Evanston Primary School, Para Rd, Evanston. PO Box 2, Willaston 5118; Ph: 08 8522 2335 Email: jo.trev@bigpond.com German Philatelic Club: Mtg 2nd & 4th Mon 8pm; German Club, 223 Flinders St, Adelaide 5000; Ph: 08 8260 2251 Glenside PS: 1st Wed 7.30pm& 3rd Sat 1.30pm; Uniting Church Hall, Carlton St. Highgate. PO Box 29, Glenside 5063. Ph: (08) 8353 8683 Lower Murray PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs,7.30pm, 2nd Sat, 10am; The Lions Den, Murray Bridge. PO Box 810, Murray Bridge; Ph: 08 85704074 lmphilsocsec@gmail.com Mount Gambier PS: Mtg 3rd Tues; Reidy Park Corn Centre. 8pm. Also1st Sunday (ex. Jan)

victoria Australian PS: Bi-monthly meetings on 3rd Monday in February, April, June, August, October and December at RSL Homes, 152 Canterbury Road [cnr Keats Street] Canterbury. Secretary, PO Box 156 Balwyn Vic. 3103 Bairnsdale SC: Mtg 3rd Thurs Ballarat PS:Mtg 3rd & 5th Mon Balwyn PS: Mtg 3rd Friday; Daytime 1st Friday Bendigo PS: Mtg 1st Tues Berwick SC:Mtg 2nd Sun (ex Jan); Ph: 03 5942 7626 Blackburn Baptist SC: Mtg 3rd Thurs Brighton PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Tues; Daytime 3rd Tues Camperdown SC: Mtg 1st Tues Castlemaine SC: Mtg 3rd Tues (ex Dec) Colac PC: Mtg 4th Mon (ex. Dec), Colac Community College, Bromfield St, Colac. Ph:52314746 Corner Inlet SC: Mtg 4th Thurs, Foster, Ph: 03 56881100 Dandenong PS: 4th Thurs. ex Dec. 7.30pm, Meeting Room, Church of Christ, David St., Dandenong 03 5996 9501 Diamond Valley PS: Mtg 3rd Mon Essendon-Broadmeadows PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs; St Johns Uniting Church Hall, Cnr Mt Alexander Rd & Buckley St, Essendon; Murray Gorham, Ph 9306 7480 Footscray PS: Mtg 1st Mon (2nd in Jan); Maribyrnong Comm. Centre, 54 Raleigh Rd, Maribyrnong. PO Box 2477 Taylors Lakes 3038. PH. 0438 901 144. email: footscraystamps@gmail Frankston & District SC: Mtg 3rd Tues (2nd in Dec) Seaford Community Centre, Broughton St Seaford. Ph: 5996 3745 Geelong PS: Mtgs 1st Sat 7.00pm, 3rd Mon 1pm (ex Jan) Sat - Diversitat Community Centre, 9-15 Clarence St, Geelong West. Mon - Belmont Library, High St, Belmont Ph: 0438578591 (Sec); PO Box 342, Belmont 3216 Hamilton PS: Mtg 2nd Monday Hungarian PS: Mtg 2nd Wed

tasmania Derwent Valley PS: Mtg 4th Mon Devonport Junior SC: Mtg 1st & 3rd Mon Devonport SC: 4th Fri, except Dec. 3rd Fri. 7.30pm, Oldaker Christian Centre, Oldaker St, Devonport, 03 6424 3449 devstampclub.org Devonport Stamp Group: Mtg 4th Fri, Public Library Mtg Rms, 7.30pm Ph. 03 6424 3449 Glenorchy SC: Mtg 1st Tues

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1.30pm - 4pm. PO Box 2261,Mt Gambier.Ph: 08 8724 9474 Para Hills PS: Mtg 1st Sun; Community Hall Wilkinson Rd, Para Hills. PO Box 64, Para Hills; Ph: 08 8522 4345 Phillumeny SC: U3/26-28 Crozier Av, Modbury 5092. Ph: 08 8337 6533 Email: www.users.or.net/ figg/amccs Port Pirie PS: Mtg 4th Mon; PO Box532, Pt Pirie 5540; Ph: 08 8632 1105 Printed Collectables Club (SAPC): Mtg last Tues, Julia Farr Cent. Canteen, Ground Floor, Fisher St. Ph: 08 8265 7395; PO Box 657, Enfield Plaza 5085 PS of South Australia:1st & 3rdTues; 22 Gray Ct. GPO Box 9800, Adelaide 5001; Ph: 08 8555 3311 PS of South Aust. (Aus. Com. Spect.Grp.): Mtg 4th Tues 7.30pm;22 Gray Ct. Ph: 08 8555 3311 PS of South Australia (Daytime SC):Mtg 1st & 3rd Thurs; 22 Gray Ct.Ph: 08 8555 3311 PS of South Australia (Study Group):Mtg 4th Tues 7.30pm; 22 Gray Ct. Ph: 08 8522 4345 Postal Stat & Postal Hist Soc: Mtg 2nd Tues; SAPHIL House, 22 Gray Ct, Adelaide. email: psandph@arcom.com.au; Ph: 08 8260 3352 Riverland PS: Mtg 3rd Fri, 10am ;Whitmore Hall, Barmera Village; Ph: 08 8595 3023 SA Junior Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd Sun 1pm - 3pm;Anyone over 5years, parents welcome. 22 Grey St, Adelaide. 08 8250 0484 Salisbury PS: Mtg 1st & 3rd Mon;StJohns Church Hall. PO Box 336 Salisbury 5108; Ph: 08 8252 2392 Stirling PS: Mtg 4th Fri 7.45pm, Old Railway Station (now Community Services Bldng.); Ph: 08 8370 2680 Strathalbyn PS: Mtg 2nd Mon, 8pm; Rosa Hoare Room, Lutheran Church Complex Corner, Commercial Rd/North Pde; C/- Post Office, Strathalbyn 5255; Ph: 0429 693 747 Ukrainian Collectibles Club: Mtg Wed as per syllabus; PO Box 466, Woodville 5011; Ph: 08 8345 4033 Yorke Peninsula Collectors Club: Senior Citizens Club. Taylor St, Kardina. Mtg 3rd Wed ex. Jan; PO Box 178, Bute 5560; Ph: 08 8821 2906 Club Information: Victorian Philatelic Council, GPO Box 9800, Melbourne, Vic, 3001 Italian PS: Mtg 2nd Mon (ex Jan), 7.30pm, Veneto Club, 191 Bulleen Rd Bullen. (PO Box 166, Niddrie, 3042) Latrobe Valley PS: Mtg Last Wed ex Dec 7.30pm, St Lukes Uniting Church Hall, Princes Way, Morwell; Chris Zarb, Sec. ph. 03 5174 3394 Maryborough Stamp Club:Mtg mthly ex Jan 2nd Tues of month 8pm, St Augustine’s Hall, Maryborough. PO Box 295, Maryborough, 3465; Ph: 03 5464 2400. maryboroughsc@eudoramail.com. maryboroughsc.web1000.com Mildura PS: Mtg Last Thurs (ex Dec)Carnegie Building 74 Deakin Ave Ph: 03 5023 8789 Mooroolbark PS: Mtg 1st Tues; Ph: 03 9723 3304 Oakleigh PS: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm (ex Jan) Oakleigh Public Library, Drummond St, Oakleigh Ocean Grove SC: Mtg 4th Wed. 10am. Ocean Grove Senior Citizens Clubrooms Melways: 234 A. Ph. 03 5255 1372 Peninsula SC: Mtg 3rd Wed, 7.30pm Uniting Church Hall, Murray Anderson Rd, Rosebud. Ph: 03 5975 0574 Polish PS: Mtg 3rd Tues (2nd in Dec) Prahran PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex Jan) Ringwood PS: Gen Mtg 1st Thurs; Daytime 3rd Mon Ph: 03 9725 0514 email hanszomer@bigpond.com Royal PS of Victoria:Mtg 3rd & 5th Thurs; Daytime 1st Tues Sale SC: Mtg 1st Mon (ex Jan) Shepparton PS: Mtg 2nd Tues, Mechanics Institute, Shepparton. Ph. 0419 560 813 Sherbrooke PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs ex Jan Upwey Fire Brigade Hall, 8pm; Bob Cook Ph: 03 9758 3465 Upper Yarra SC: Mtg 3rd Tues Warragul PS: Mtg 2nd Fri Warrnambool PS: Mtg 3rd Wed 7.45pm St Joseph’s Primary School, Botanic Road;Ph: 03 5561 1470 Waverley PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs 7.30pm, Mt Waverley Community Centre, 47 Miller Cres, Mt Waverley; Daytime mtg the following Friday, 9.30am, Uniting Church Hall, 482 High St, Mt Waverley. Ph. 03 9898 4102 Obtain Tasmanian clubs information from: Tasmanian Stamp Council, GPO Box 9800, Hobart, TAS, 7001. Ph: 03 6278 7084 Hobart Junior Group: Mtg 1st Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224 Kingston Junior Group: Mtg 2nd Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224 Launceston PS: 1st Thurs. & 3rd Sat. ex. Jan. 6.30 pm, Max Fry Hall,TrevallynLauncestonTel: 03 6331 2580 (A/H) Mersey-Leven PS: Contact: 03 6425 3603 Rosny Junior Group: Mtg Last Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224 Tasmanian PS: Mtg Last Monday (ex. Dec); www.tps.org.au, Legacy House, 159 Macquarie St Hobart

stamp & coin fairs & events new south wales Nov 5 - (1st Sat) 9am to 4pm Orange Stamp Fair, Quinnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Arcade, Summer St, Orange. Ph: Norm 02 63623754. Nov 5 - (1st Sat) Northside Stamp Fair. 1st Floor, Car park Building, Manly-Warringah Leagues Club, cnr Federal Parade/Pittwater Rd, Brookvale, NSW. Nov 5 - (1st Sat) Katoomba Stamp & Coin Fair, 9am - 4pm, Masonic Hall, Cnr Station & Civic Sts, Katoomba. Ph. 0417 802 754 Nov 5 - (1st Sat) Sutherland Shire Stamp & Coin Collectors Fair, Gymea Anglican Church Hall, 131 Gymea Bay Rd, Gymea. Nov 20 - (3rd Sun) Stamp & Coin Fair, 10am - 3pm, Pioneers Hall, Cowper St, Wallsend. 8 Dealers. 4971 3483 Nov 27 - (4th Sun) Epping Stamp & Coin Fair, Community Hall, 9 Oxford St, Epping. 10am - 4pm. Free Entry, 6 Dealers, Buy/Sell

western australia Nov 3-5 - Mandurah W.A. Stamp, Coin, Banknote & Postcard Fair, Mandurah & Peel Convention & Exhibition Centre (Formerly The Australian Sailing Museum) Ormsby Tce. Mandurah www.peelnumis.org

victoria Nov 6 - (1st Sun) Western Suburbs Stamp, Coin & Banknote Fair, Strathmore Bowling Club, 40 Loeman St, Strathmore. Enq: Chris. 0413355716. Nov 20 - (3rd Sun) Stamp, Card - Phone Card Fair, Bentleigh-McKinnon Youth Centre, Higgins Rd, Bentleigh. Dealers plus huge range activities. Ph: 0418 322 315. Nov 27 - (last Sun ex Dec) Stamp, Coin & Phonecard Fair, Jaycees Hall, Silver Grove, Nunawading. 9am3pm.

queensland Nov 6 - QStamp Fair, Southside, Mt Gravatt Showgrounds, Memorial Hall, Logan Rd. Free Entry 8.30am - 2pm Nov 6 - Brisbane Coin Fairs, Colossus Club, 71 Jane St, West End. 9am - 3pm. 18 dealers, $2 entry. Free parking.Enq : 07 3216 8711 Nov 14 - (2nd Mon) - Gold Coast PS Sale, Rm 1, Southport Comm. Centre, Lawson St, Southport. 11.30am - 2.30pm Brisbane Table Tennis Association Centre

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