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Contents Articles Woodchip Free Zone: Rod Perry ...................................................6 Football and Stamps: Christer Brunström .............................. 14 Stamps in the News: Margo Campbell .................................... 18 Postal Stationery: Ian McMahon ................................................ 26 Looking at New Zealand: Graeme Morriss ............................... 32 Cinderella Corner: Vito Milana .................................................... 48 Introducing the APF: Daryl Fuller .............................................. 52 Market Matters: Glen Stephens .................................................. 56

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I have from time to time mentioned in this column my fondness for commercial commemorative/souvenir covers of Australia. Not to be confused with the better-known Australia Post and Organisational productions, commercial items were generally low print run, regional initiatives. They publicised events of local significance, such as Festivals, Carnivals, Celebrations, Exhibitions, etc. Collectors of Regional Postal history and/or Social Philately often find interest amongst the many subjects and themes featured amongst commercial commem/souvenir covers. Here is a selection: Figure 1 is one of those special items not usually associated with 19th century philately: the convergence of rarity and humour. Issued in Victoria in

November 1881, this stamped-to-order 1d Envelope publicised “Ye Olde Englishe Fayre”, to be conducted at Melbourne Town Hall, December 1317, 1881. The promoter was G.W. Torrance, Irish Composer, who provided the music for the “Fayre”. Very few of these whimsical covers survive, and I have seen them realize up to $2,000. The balance of the items featured have a value generally in the $50/200 range. Not a lot for items of which I have seen just one example, as is the case for more than a few subjects featured. Fair to say, if the stamps have been removed from the covers we would not have much to write about! Another early item, Figure 2 is the only survivor I have noted from the N.S.W. Sheepbreeders Association, publicizing the 1911 Sheep Show and Dog Trials. A low budget production in comparison

Figure 1. Australia’s earliest cover commemorating an event? 6 - Stamp News


Figure 2. 1911 NSW Sheep Show & Dog Trials

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with Figure 1, it was sent at the ½d Printed matter rate to an apparent likely participant, inviting entries for the event. Issued by the curiously named Mate’s Limited, Albury, Figure 3 promotes the Albury Sheep Show, 8-10 July, 1958. The promoters thoughtfully managed to have the stamp cancelled by the dedicated slogan produced for Wool Week. The “lady” featured in the illustration is apparently displaying the preferred manner for dressing for the Show? A Centenary was usually a good excuse to throw a “party”, and many Towns took advantage of the opportunity. Such “Back to” events are rightly popular with Regional Postal history collectors, as would be Figure 4, produced for Clermont Centenary Figure 4. Clermont Centenary Celebrations 1962 Celebrations. Adding to the exhibitability of the cover, enclosed is a celebrate the October 10-16, 1936, “Back to” event. sheet of the colourful matching writing paper. Figure 6 illustrates the two colours I have seen, the Crystal Brook celebrated its Jubilee in 1932, and used example being to The Age newspaper, probably Figure 5 was produced to commemorate the occarequesting publicity of the event. sion. Postmark collectors lament that all their covers Probably produced at Local Government level, can not be this attractive, both in terms of quality Figure 7 is one of the more attractive covers seen of cancellation strike, and with Regional history a for a Centenary, featuring a panorama of Geelong, bonus. “Victoria’s Leading Provincial City”. Donald produced at least two types of cover to Kaniva, “Victoria’s Garden of Eden”, conducted 8 - Stamp News


Figure 5. 1932 “Back to Brook�

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Figure 7. Geelong celebrates Centenary, 1938

prize money. Peterborough Council in 1933 produced Figure 10, for the “Come Back to” celebration, which commenced April 15. A large number of covers appear to have been posted, judging from use of “Paid” cds, rather than stamps. Having said “large number”, this is the only example I’ve noted! Seymour produced a quite striking cover for the 1938 District Centenary Celebrations, shown as Figure 11. This is addressed in the hand of Charlie Fawcett, a well-known cover collector of 1930s

a “Back to” Celebration October 7-14, 1933. Figure 8 is addressed to A.J. Hicks, when a student at Ballarat Grammar School. I auctioned the Hick’s collection in the 1990s. He had resided at Kaniva up until his passing. The organisers of Gladstone Carnival Week, June 5-13, 1948, pulled out all stops to make it a memorable occasion, by all accounts. Figure 9 indicates Boxing, Football, Pigeon Shoots (RSPCA less proactive in those days, apparently), Golfing, Tennis, Hockey, even Races and big Figure 8. Another “Back to”, this time Kaniva in 1933 10 - Stamp News


Figure 9. Gladstone Carnival Week 1948

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Melbourne. He may have had an association with Seymour, or perhaps just got “wind” that a nice cover had been produced, and went to whatever lengths to post an example to himself. Generally speaking, collectors were not aware of a commercial commem/souvenir cover until after the event, Figure 11. Seymour District Centenary 1938 unless they lived 1938 “Back to” event. It’s unusual to see a regisin the relevant region. tered version of a commercial commem/souvenir Moe Council produced Figure 12 for an Easter

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again, under less fortunate circumstances. Many readers will be familiar with the ubiquitous souvenir cover Australia Post produced for the opening of the Sydney Opera House. I must have a hundred of them lying about, unloved. Not so familiar is Figure 14, produced th by N.S.W. State Figure 13. Joint U.S. Australian event for 150 Anniversary Government for the Official Opencover. ing, October 1973. A dedicated meter cancel was Figure 13 was prepared to publicise the “Goodsimultaneously fashioned. will Cruise”, a U.S./Australia initiative involving So ends this overview of commercial commem/ four Naval ships, intended to join in Australia’s souvenir covers. There are many hundreds of dif150th Anniversary celebrations. Few could have ferent types of these to be collected. A fun theme, dreamt that within just a few years U.S. Naval vesindeed. sels would be venturing to our part of the world

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FOOTBALL AND STAMPS

This columnist used to be a teacher. I remember a female student who not only did well at school but who also was a very talented football player. Sadly, when she turned 15, her parents forced her to give up the sport in order to concentrate on her studies. I felt it was a very bad decision and have often wondered what became of her. It has been scientifically proven that regular physical exercise actually improves your academic results. I suppose the girl’s parents were unaware of this fact. Today we frequently hear about the incredible careers of talented footballers who earn millions of dollars just for playing their favourite game. It is thus not surprising that many boys and girls dream about a successful career in football (also known

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as soccer in some countries). However, only a very few have the talent and stamina needed to make it to the top. In many countries all over the world millions of football enthusiasts fill huge stadiums on a weekly basis in support of their favourite team. Others prefer to watch the matches on TV (in fact, some of the major football clubs run their own TV channels). Numerous postal administrations all over the world have released postage stamps devoted to the sport. More than 2,000 years ago the Chinese played a ball game which has many similarities with today’s football. In Europe the sport is documented already in the Middle Ages and there are reports that in Florence in Italy the two competing teams had no


Christer Brunström less than 27 players each. However, it was in the 19th century that the game had its big breakthrough and especially so in Great Britain where it was played at the major public schools. Each school apparently had its very own rules which complicated matches between schools. The Football Association was founded in England in 1863 and one of its first measures was to establish common rules on how to play football. A stamp set from Monaco issued in 1963 to commemorate the centennial of the Football Association includes a block of four stamps featuring the historical development of the sport. It is shown nearby. The Principality of Monaco is one of the world’s smallest countries but it runs a very suc-

cessful football club which competes in the major French football league. Football was introduced in the Olympic Games in 1900. Every fourth year the Football World Cup takes place and it is an event which attracts a huge interest all over the world. In connection with the Olympics and the Football World Cups numerous countries have released stamps featuring the sport. In 1966 England defeated West Germany in the final. The British Post Office celebrated the victory by overprinting a previously released football stamp with the words ENGLAND WINNERS. In 1924 and 1928 the South American nation of Uruguay became Olympic football champions and each time a set of three stamps was released to

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FOOTBALL AND STAMPS mark the triumph. Many prominent football players have figured on postage stamps. The greatest of them all was probably the Brazilian Pelé who helped his team achieve numerous gold medals in international competitions. Uruguay seems to have been the first nation to issue football-related postage stamps in 1924. However, the three stamps did not actually depict the sport but a symbol of victory. In 1925 there was a footballer on a Hungarian stamp. The Netherlands then added another one on a stamp issued in 1928. If there were very few football stamps in the early years it all changed in the second half of the

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20th century. Today the number of football stamps is very large and there certainly is enough material available for anyone wanting to assemble a collection of Football on Stamps. A football is round and some countries have chosen to issue round stamps in connection with various world cups. Depicted nearby is an example from New Caledonia. This writer resides in Sweden where football is a very popular sport during the summer period. Our most famous professional player is Zlatan Ibrahimović (currently one of the stars at Manchester United in England). He was depicted on no less than five different Swedish stamps released in 2014.



Stamps in the News - Globally! Marilyn Monroe stamps feature picture of drag impersonator Reported at www.pinknews.co.uk

A New York artist has threatened to sue an African nation over a commemorative Marilyn Monroe stamp. The Central African Republic has a contract with stamp agency Stamperija, which produced stamps featuring a range of famous people including the late Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe. But New York artist Jimmy James was shocked to discover one of the stamps, issued in 2014, is actually based on a famous picture of him impersonating Marilyn. The photo of ‘Marilyn’ on the stamp is actually from a 1991 advert for the brand L.A. Eyeworks. The artist is now threatening legal action if he is not compensated. James’ attorney stated, “Although the recognition and inclusion of [James] in this collection of stamps is appreciated… the publisher has not only failed to secure [consent] and to compensate him.” The stamp appears to have been produced by stamp agency Stamperija under a contract with the nation. The agency has removed images of the stamps from their website, but archived copies

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remain. It’s not the first time such a mix-up has been made. Jimmy James explained: “I had threats of lawsuits from the Marilyn Monroe estate over the L.A. Eyeworks ad; I was devastated. The iconic image had to be stricken from the records and hidden away so that no one would ever see it… twenty two years later due to the Internet, the image was set free. “Now it’s probably one of the most mistaken identity photos that people think is Marilyn herself.” “People are getting tattoos of it thinking it’s Marilyn – but it’s me! However, that era of impersonating Marilyn is over for me.”

Stamperija strikes again Reported at www.linns.com

There are stamps paying tribute to Donald Trump as president, but they’re not from the U.S. Even before the presidential inauguration on Jan. 20, Donald Trump had already been featued on a handful of stamps, including a few that commemorate him as president of the United States. For example, a souvenir sheet from St. Thomas and Prince Islands offers congratulations on his election, and a souvenir sheet from Liberia contin-


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Disaster in the stroke of a pen Reported at www.dutchnews.nl

ues a series honouring all U.S. presidents. St. Thomas and Prince Islands, a former Portuguese colony and territory located in the Gulf of Guinea, is officially called the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe. Its souvenir sheet with inscriptions in Portuguese that translate to “45th president of the United States” and “congratulations!” was issued Nov. 10, 2016, the day after the presidential election, according to information from Stamperija, the Lithuaniabased worldwide distributor of the stamps. The sheet contains a single stamp showing drawings of Melania and Donald Trump in the foreground, and the White House in the background. The denomination is 120,000 dobras, approximately U.S.$5.25 Above the stamp is Portuguese for “Make America great again!” and below it is an inscription that relates to the 2016 presidential election. Pictured in the selvage surrounding the stamp is the U.S. Capitol, the White House, the Great Seal of the United States, crossed flags, an American bald eagle, and fireworks. The website of Stamperija also shows souvenir sheets from Djibouti and Sierra Leone that commemorate Trump’s election as president. The Liberian President Trump souvenir sheet was issued Dec. 26, 2016, according to the website of

Dutch stamp collectors are furious at PostNL‘s decision to stop stamping the date on stamps and to strike them through with a pen instead. ‘It’s a disaster for stamp collectors,’ said the chairman of the Dutch stamp traders association NVPH. By putting a pen stroke through the stamps they are ‘effectively being ruined. The stamps will no longer have any value. A stamp which has been crossed out with a pen can go straight in the bin,’ he said. Letters have not been stamped by hand in post offices since the beginning of this year but are still machine stamped in sorting offices. Stamp collectors can, however, order handstamped stamps from PostNL’s own collectors club. A spokesman for PostNL said that the change was made to simplify the process. ‘We have stopped using the date stamp,’ he said. ‘We understand the disappointment and are looking at alternatives.’

50 years of Krugerrands

Reported at krugersdorpnews.co.za As part of the 50 year anniversary of the Krugerrand, the South Africa Mint has included stamps in their exclusive Krugerrand products range. The stamp sheet features the original 1967 1 oz Krugerrand, the 2000 1 oz Krugerrand and the 2017 1 oz Krugerrand. South Africa PO has also issued a commemorative first-day cover designed by philatelic artist Rachel-Mari Ackermann and depicting the development of the Krugerrand in three stages, in 1967, 2000 and 2017. The coin designs are relief-emStamp News - 19


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bossed onto gold foiling and black. The stamps are available at SAPO Philatelic Services, on line at virtualpostoffice.co.za. and from SA Mint. The Krugerrand coin was initially referred to as a ‘Trojan’ – a reference to one Troy ounce (oz) of gold content. The public was then invited to suggest a new name for the 1 ounce coin, and the name ‘Krugerrand’ was selected. This was a reference to the president of the former Transvaal Republic, President Paul Kruger, who is featured on the obverse of the coins and the name of the newly introduced currency (introduced in 1961), the ‘rand’. The reverse of the coin features a springbok. The Krugerrand was introduced on 3 July 1967 as a vehicle for private ownership of gold and was first offered to the public at the Rand Easter show in 1970 at a selling price of R27,40. A one-ounce coin today sells for more than R16 000. The SA Mint has also reissued the 1967 1 oz Krugerrand as a legal tender coin.

Stamp sashimi

Reported at www.tokyoreporter.com A clerk at Mizuho Bank stuck together pieces of used stamps to forge fakes so he could exchange them with real stamps he likely swapped for cash, police said Friday. Tokyo Metropolitan Police arrested Takashi Kobayashi, 57, for allegedly exchanging 30 fake stamps denominated at 350 yen each for 21 real stamps with a face value of 500 yen each at a post office in Chiyoda Ward on September 30, 2016, the Asahi Shimbun reports (Jan. 27). 20 - Stamp News

Kobayashi, who has been accused of fraud and violating the Postal Law, admits to the charges, police said, adding he cut postmarks from stamps and spliced them together with pieces of others to give the impression they were unused. Post office officials consulted police in October after a clerk used water to peel off one of Kobayashi’s stamps from paper he stuck them to when it fell apart in pieces. Police seized several thousand used stamps, likely bought through online auctions, from Kobayashi’s home, as well as post office receipts of the stamp exchanges. Kobayashi likely swapped the fraudulently obtained stamps for cash, police said.

Taiwan’s tribal mail box experiment Reported at www.post.gov.tw

To promote the legacy and beauty of aboriginal culture in Taiwan, Chunghwa Post has invited Mr. Lavuras Matilin to paint 16 Aboriginal Culture Post boxes, featuring tribal symbols, totem imagery, and scenic features, for installation in the corresponding tribes’ villages. It is intended that these special post boxes are not just for sending mail; they will also become new tourist attractions. Chunghwa Post is hopeful that people will use this as an excuse to visit every tribal area in Taiwan as well as participating in a series of competitions which involve visiting every special post box to collect a stamp, sending postal cards, and taking a photo and checking in, in hopes of winning the top prize! The competitions goes from Jan 1, 2017 to Nov 30, 2017 and is open to everyone, locals and tourists. For the full competition rules see http://tinyurl. com/hwajmjw The indigenous people of Taiwan number more than 530,000 and constitute nearly 2.3% of the


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island’s population. Recent research suggests their ancestors may have been living on Taiwan for approximately 8,000 years in relative isolation before a major Han immigration began in the 17th century. Taiwanese aborigines are Austronesian peoples, with linguistic and genetic ties to other Austronesian ethnic groups, including those of the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Madagascar.

Prince Leonard’s three daughters — Princess Kay, Princess Diane and Princess Sherryl. Prince Graeme, who turns 60 later this year, says he is quietly excited to steer the principality for-

Prince Leonard calls it a day

Reported at www.businessinsider.com.au Prince Leonard, who founded the Principality of Hutt River almost 47 years ago, is abdicating as head of Australia’s oldest micronation at the age of 91. He will be replaced as sovereign by Prince Graeme, Prince Leonard’s youngest of four sons, a former primary school teacher. The former farmer, Leonard Casley, seceded his property 595km north of Perth from Australia on April 21, 1970, in a dispute over wheat quotas. The internal discussions within the royal family on a new head of state are not known but Prince Leonard’s successor must be approved by the Crown Council consisting of Stamp News - 21


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ward. He had a long career as a primary school teacher in remote areas and since returning home three years ago to the principality, which is 75 square km in area, about the size of Hong Kong if the New Territories are excluded, he has been working full time as minister of state and education. “My vision is to build a small township with a group of diverse people, to encourage a deep sense of community and a more harmonious arrangement with the Australian governments,” he said. The principality is currently in dispute with the Australian Tax Office (ATO) over alleged $2.6 million in unpaid taxes. The principality says the ATO has ruled Hutt River is a ‘non-resident’ for tax purposes. Hutt River is a significant tourist attraction with its own coins and stamps which it offers to collectors worldwide. The principality has an honours list of its own and regularly appoints new knights and dames. Among those honoured is writer Colleen McCullough who was a Baroness of Hutt. The prin22 - Stamp News

cipality stands out among micronations in that its honours are awarded on merit alone and cannot be purchased.

Come back Martin, all is forgiven Reported at www.washingtontimes.com

If you happen to receive a piece of mail from the Vatican this year, don’t be surprised to see the face of Martin Luther. The Vatican Philatelic and Numismatic Office has confirmed that Luther, who broke away from the Catholic Church in a schism 500 years ago, will be celebrated with a postage stamp in 2017. The Vatican regularly issues such memorabilia for special events, including papal trips and holy years. Honouring Luther and the Protestant Reformation is an unlikely choice, trumping other significant events in the Catholic Church such as the 100-year anniversary of the apparition of Our Lady of Fatima and the 300-year anniversary of our Lady of Aparecida, Brazil.


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Usually if individuals are commemorated on stamps they are saints, such as Teresa of Calcutta, John Paul II, and Pope John XXIII, who most recently were honoured with stamps. While the Vatican has in the past collaborated with other national post offices to create stamps that are not of explicitly religious content, such as the fall of the Berlin wall, the Luther stamp has an undeniable religious connotation linked with much hostility to the Catholic Church. In 1517, Martin Luther published his 95 theses against the Catholic Church and began what has been known as the Reformation, leading to a schism in the Church. This was followed by the formation of Protestant denominations that later spilled into other countries, fuelled by others such as John Calvin. The “Thirty year war” that followed, with 10 million deaths was the bloodiest war in Europe until World War I. Luther, an Augustinian monk, was excommunicated in 1521 by Pope Leo X. At age 41, he married

Katharina von Bora, a run-away Cistercian nun of 26 years. Pope Francis has been criticised for attending a commemoration of the Reformation’s 500th anniversary. He held an ecumenical event with Lutherans in the Vatican last year with a statue of Martin Luther displayed. He has also suggested an openness to some Lutherans receiving the Eucharist. A Vatican office under his direction recently referred to Luther as a “witness to the Gospel.”

A boys own stamp story Reported at www.kentlive.news

On a Wednesday afternoon in 1953, just before returning to school after the Easter break, a group of Tunbridge Wells schoolboys got together with an ambitious plan. With sweet rationing finally lifted, that Easter had presumably brought more goodies than usual.

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10th anniversary celebrations in 1963 However, their thoughts that day, as they gathered in 13-year-old Christopher Phillips’ family dining room in Newlands Road, were firmly focused on stamps. Caught up in the national enthusiasm for collecting, the boys had decided to set up their own club and so began an extraordinary group whose influence would reach far beyond the road where they had grown up. The Newlands Road Stamp Club was destined to run for the next 14 years, and to link its members with some of the most influential people in the stamp world. The only junior stamp club in the country run solely by its young members, it proved its mettle at that first meeting by auctioning members’ own stamps to raise a healthy profit of fourpence halfpenny, and would go on to take on the GPO in a series of entrepreneurial ventures and cheeky campaigns. Responding rather wearily to a barrage of letters from members calling for jollier low-value postage

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stamps with pictures – an idea which was debated in both Houses of Parliament – the Assistant Postmaster General explained that it was vital that the Queen’s portrait, which had featured on the very first British postage stamp in 1840, should continue to dominate. The letter ended with an appeal to the determined teenagers “to accept this letter as a reply to his other letters sent direct to the Prime Minister, the Postmaster General and myself”. Undaunted, the youngsters continued to wage war on the Post Office and in time, of course, they succeeded in their campaign to make even the cheapest stamps pictorial. A great thrill for the group was the appearance of First Day Covers -the first set marked the Jubilee Scout Jamboree, the Boy Scout movement’s 50th anniversary. Keen to get in on the act, the Newlands Road club, now boasting some 50 members, decided to is-


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sue their own First Day Covers designed by their art master and printed on a hand-held duplicator. They then discovered that the Post Office issues were to be stamped at the jubilee itself in Sutton Coldfield so one boy decided to cycle the 200 miles from Tunbridge Wells to post the covers there. Arriving two days later, he posted several dozen of the club’s special issue covers in a mobile Post Office set up on the site, then cycled home. By this time, the club had many contacts from the stamp world including the editors of national magazines, stamp sellers and auctioneers, and they received extensive media coverage. In 1963, the groundbreaking club celebrated its 10th anniversary with an exhibition in the Pantiles opened by the Mayor. It would continue for another four years.

A very unsavoury tale… Reported at www.thelocal.it

Two people have been arrested in northern Italy for allegedly sending thousands of threatening letters often including toilet paper stained with faeces - to public figures. The bizarre scheme had been going on for two years, with the letters sent to high profile figures

from the worlds of sport, TV, business and politics. The Milan branch of Digos, Italy’s anti-terrorism squad, tracked down the pair and arrested them on Wednesday for threats and defamation. The senders were a 71-year-old former police officer and his partner, aged 51. “The man followed the news closely and was very up-to-date on things,” the officers reported. “He had sent the letters practically everywhere.” They sent threatening messages to the directors of Copenhagen Zoo, teachers accused of child abuse, football clubs and politicians, and many others. Many of the envelopes included toilet paper soiled with their pet dog’s faeces. A notebook found in the couple’s home contained names and addresses of the unlucky recipients along with the reason for targeting them. As shown in a photo of the book shared by police, names were divided into categories, including “murderer” “paedophile” and “corruption”. A raid on the couple’s house reportedly revealed 110 more letters, all addressed, stamped and ready to be sent. Digos officers were able to track down the pair after observing the letters all shared some similar characteristics: black ink, cursive writing, and stamps from foreign countries (most often Azerbaijan, Bhutan and Zaire). The letters were then traced to Milan.

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Postal Stationery This month’s column looks at the literature available on Australian States postal stationery, Queensland 1910 pictorial postcards new Australian stamped postcards and the Postal Stationery Society of Australia meeting at Melbourne 2017 and its recent meetings.

Postal Stationery Literature: Australian States Postal Stationery

While collectors of the postal stationery of the Commonwealth of Australia postal stationery can now refer to the Brusden-White catalogue of pre-decimal postal stationery, collectors of Australian States postal stationery are not so well served. For some states the only listings available are those in the Higgins and Gage catalogue. These listings suffer from having been published over 30 years ago. The listings are in many cases relatively simplified and much new information has come to light since its publication. Victoria is well served by the catalogue, Victoria Postal Stationery, 1869-1917, by Carl Stieg published by Triad Publications (USA) in 2001. This is a specialised catalogue and an essential reference for all collectors of the Figure 1 A Priced Catalogueof Postal Stationery of the postal stationery of Victoria. Australian States: Western Australia A Priced Catalogue of Postal Stationery of the Australian States: Western Australia Higgins and Gage Catalogue. (Figure 1) edited by Brian Pope and published While Tasmanian collectors no doubt still make in 2002 is the most recently published catalogue for use of the Higgins and Gage listings, they should Western Australia and another essential reference. also consult Stamps and Postal History of Tasmania Collectors of New South Wales postal stationery by Walton Tinsley published in 1986 which includes are reliant on the Higgins and Gage listings. They an excellent chapter on Tasmanian Postal Stationery should, however, also consult the articles by John by Owen Ingles. In addition there are recent articles Bell (formerly of Goulbourn in New South Wales), in the Courier, the Journal of the Philatelic Society published in the Sydney Views, Journal of the Australian States Study Group, and elsewhere. John did of Tasmania, and that society’s website which has an introduction to Tasmanian Postal Stationery at http:// considerable research on New South Wales postal www.tps.org.au/references-2/postal-stationery/ as stationery which is documented in these articles. There are people currently working on the writing of well as an on-line forum. Collectors of Queensland postal stationery have a New South Wales postal stationery catalogue and to continue to rely on the Higgins and Gage Catait is hoped that this will be come to fruition in the logue. As already mentioned this catalogue is a simnext couple of years. plified listing but more importantly for Queensland For South Australia, collectors are reliant on the 26 - Stamp News


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Figure 2 Queensland 1910 Pictorial Postcard it is missing many items and in many cases such as the lettercards the listing is misleading. Collectors of Queensland should also consult Queensland Postal Stationery by Phil Collas published in 1979. This handbook suffers greatly from the lack of illustrations but contains more detail than the Higgins and Gage listing and remains useful. It is, however, very much out of date. A listing of the lettercards can be found in Bill Walton’s article, The Letter cards of Queensland published in Philately from Australia in 1989.

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between collectors, the Postal Stationery Collector, the Journal of the Postal Stationery Society of Australia, extended this list to 37 different views following input from many different collectors of Queensland postal stationery. The 37 views are: • A Dairy Herd, West Moreton, South Queensland • A Duck Pond, Botanic Gardens, Brisbane • Alice Street, Brisbane, Southern Australia • At Cleveland, a favourite watering place, South Queensland • Botanic Gardens, Brisbane, from Parliament House Brisbane River, showing shipping at South Brisbane wharves Bundaberg from the water tower, South Queensland Bush House, Botanic Gardens, Rockhampton, Central Queensland Country Road, North Queensland Hauling Timber, Neurum Creek, South

Queensland 1910 Pictorial Postcards In 1910 Queensland issued a set of 1d pictorial postcards. The cards were stamped on the front with a 1d Queen Victoria Stamp (Figure 2) and had a black and white picture (Figure 3) on the reverse depicting scenes of Queensland. Collas in his book Queensland Postal Stationery listed ten different views occurring on these cards. As a good example of collaboration

Figure 3 Alice Street,Brisbane, South Queensland Stamp News - 27


Postal Stationery Queensland • Interior of North Queensland Caves • Irvine Bank: a thriving mining centre, North Queensland (Oxley Library) • Isis Sugar Mills, near Childers, South Queensland • Kamerunga State Nursery, near Cairns, North Queensland • Main Avenue, Queensland University, Brisbane Figure 4 Story Bridge Postcard • Mary River at Maryborough, North Coast Queensland Railway, South Queensland • Scene on the Upper Johnstone River, North • Neil Street, Toowoomba, Darling Downs, Queensland South Queensland • Stoney Creek Falls, Cairns Railway, half flood • On a Queensland Sheep Station • Sugar-cane, near Bundaberg, South • Scene on the Maroochy River, South Queensland

Figure 5 ANZAC Day Program 28 - Stamp News

• Surf Bathing, Emu Park, Central Queensland • View of Gympie, North Coast Railway, South Queensland • View on the Maroochy River, Southern Queensland • Views of Cairns, North Queensland • Views of Maryborough, South Queensland • Views of Townsville, North Queensland • Whitsunday Passage • The Barron Falls in flood (660ft high) • IN THE BOTANIC GARDENS, BRISBANE. • Mount Morgan, Revenue for the last year £901,838; Expenditure £673,622. • Barron Falls -Half Flood. Total height, 800ft. • Horseshoe Bend, Gympie, North Coast Railway, South Queensland • View from Cairns Range, Barron River in Foreground • Hauling Cedar, Atherton- Cairns Railway • Neurum Creek, near Woodford, CabooltureWoodford Railway (The cards showing the views of the Maroochy River while having similar titles show completely different views.)


Ian McMahon The extension of the number of views known on these cards is a good example of the additional information that has become available on Australian states postal stationery since the publication of earlier handbooks and the Higgins and Gage Catalogue.

Bridges and ANZAC Day Program Stamped Postcards

On 7 November 2016 Australia Post issued a ‘prestige booklet’ titled Span, a Tour of World Bridges, which included three postcards; Story Bridge (Figure 4), Tasman Bridge and Gladesville Bridge. The booklet also included a Figure 7 PSSA Meeting, Adelaide Stampex 2016 number of adhesive stamps and sold for $34.95. On 7 November 2016, Australia Post issued a postcard showing a Program Cover from the Queensland ANZAC Day Commemoration in 1916 (Figure 5). The postcard was sold for $249.95 as part of a WWI 1916 Album.

Postal Stationery Exhibit wins the Grand Prix D’Honneur at China 2016

Congratulations to Darryl Fuller who won the Grand Prix D’Honneur (Figure 6) for his exhibit Leeward Islands Postal Stationery at China 2016, 33rd Asian International Stamp Exhibition held in Nanning, China in December 2016. Australians also won three gold medals for postal stationery exhibits: Sweden Postal Stationery 1872-1897 (Ray Todd), Nicaragua Postal Stationery - The Seebeck Era 90 (Glen Stafford) and New Zealand Postal Stationery: Queen Victoria – King George V (Ian McMahon).

Royalpex 2017 24-26 November Hamilton, New Zealand. Figure 6 Darryl Fuller receiving the Grand Prix D'Honneur at China 2016

As Australia will be hosting an Asian Exhibition next year there will be no National postal stationery competition but, due to the accord between the Australian and New Zealand Philatelic Federa-

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Postal Stationery tions, Australian postal stationery exhibitors will be able to enter the New Zealand national exhibition, Royalpex 2017, to be held 24-26 November in Hamilton, New Zealand.

Meetings of the Postal Stationery Society of Australia

Recent meetings of the Society held at Adelaide Stampex 2016, Mandurah 2016 and Hobart One-Frame National Exhibition 2016 focused on the postal stationery of the Australian states including

Figure 8 PSSA Meeting, Mandurah 2016

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reports on research being undertaken on Tasmania and New South Wales and were well attended. The meeting at Adelaide Stampex 2016 (Figure 7) was held on Sunday 9 October 2016 with Michael Blinman presenting a display on American Fleet Postcards and Dingle Smith showing New South Wales ‘Specimen’ overprints. Nineteen people attended the meeting which included a brief report on progress with the NSW Catalogue. There were displays of Western Australian postal stationery and early Fiji from John Dibiase and Ross Duberal respectively at


Ian McMahon

Figure 10 Â Melbourne 2017 Stamped Postcard and Season Ticket the PSSA meeting at Mandurah 2016 (Figure 8) on Friday 4 November. Nineteen people attended the meeting which included brief reports on progress with the NSW Catalogue and the website. The meeting at Hobart 2016 (Figure 9) on 20 November included a report on the research being undertaken by Allen Shatten on Tasmanian postal stationery and a display on Tasmanian PTPO envelopes by Malcolm Groom. Fifteen people attended the meeting including visiting UK judges, Christine Earle and Patrick Reid.

Postal Stationery Society of Australia Meeting Melbourne 2017, Asian International Stamp Exhibition

The Postal Stationery Society of Australia (PSSA) will hold a meeting at Melbourne 2017, an Asian International stamp exhibition to be held 30 March

to 2 April 2017 at the Caulfield racecourse in Melbourne. The PSSA meeting will be held 10.15 am to 12 pm on Saturday 1 April 2017 and will include a seminar on Judging Postal Stationery and a display. Everyone interested in postal stationery is encouraged to attend (please check the time and location of the meeting in the final Exhibition program). Melbourne 2017 will include a strong postal stationery class with many exhibits from Australian exhibitors and of postal stationery from the Asian area representing a great opportunity to see some exciting postal stationery exhibits. Plan now to attend. Further information can be found at http:// melbourne2017.com.au. The entry tickets to Melbourne 2017 are also stamped postcards (Figure 10). Two postcards have been issued, a one-day ticket for $10 and a season ticket for $25. Once you have used the postcards for entry to Melbourne 2017 you can post them to your friends. Stamp News - 31


Looking at New Zealand

1969 Bay of Islands The Bay of Islands is an irregularly–shaped bay on the east coast of Northland 230 kilometres north of Auckland. The Bay covers 260 square kilometres and contains 144 islands and numerous peninsulas and inlets. The small town of Russell, formerly known by its Maori name of Kororareka, was the first permanent European settlement in New Zealand. Sealers, whalers and loggers used the site from the late 18th century, after the Bay was discovered and named by James Cook in 1769. The town, located on a peninsula in the southeast of the Bay, is pictured on the 6 cent stamp issued in 1969. It is best known in New Zealand history as the site of one of the early conflicts between settlers and Maori in 1844 – 45, during which time the local

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Maori chief, Hone Heke, cut down the flag staff on the hill above the town on four separate occasions. The largest town in the Bay is Keri Keri, located


MARCH SALE MARCH SALE - 25% off all items excluding packets and accessories! 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 D, MN, NO, MOC or Oct which are net priced. 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. No discounts on lay-by items. 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 CB1a) Similar to the above, but a slightly weaker strike, may have been cleaned at some time in the past, but still has some original lustre. Fantastic looking coin! Same price $1875 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 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 Stamps and Postal History: D1) Australia Massive lot of Kangaroos ex deceased estate in red Lighthouse stockbook. Unchecked for varieties, postmarks etc. Well over 1000 stamps in better than the average condition you find in these lots, values from 2d – 10/- . Priced very cheaply at under 10% of the minimum catalogue of $20,000 plus and less than $2 per stamp. Price $1950 D2) Southern Rhodesia 1932 Victoria Falls pair, both mint and used, plus 1935 Jubilee & 1937 Coronation, cat 65 pounds plus, cheap lot at $32.50 D3) Australia 1954 Red Cross 3.5d, commercially used with light slogan cancel, showing clear double print of the cross. Not recorded in ACSC. Supplied with normal for comparison. Double prints such as this frequently catalogue around $5000. Price $1950 D4) Australia 1934 MacArthur 2d Dark Hills, in mint unhinged gutter imprint block of 4. Cat $275, a lot scarcer than the catalogue price suggests. my price $239 D5) Australia 1942 6d Kookaburra perf 14.75 x 14 in NO Imprint left corner block of 4. Hinged centrally. Cat as ACSC 203zj at $125. My price $79 D6) Cape of Good Hope 1853 4d deep blue Triangular, SG2, nice example lightly cancelled, no faults with 2.5 good margins. Cat 275 pounds, price under a half $219 D7) Cape of Good Hope 1855 4d deep blue Triangular, lightly cancelled, no faults and

3 big margins. Cat. 170 pounds, price $189D8) Cape of Good Hope 1863 1d red brown Triangular, SG18b, medium cancel, no faults, lovely rich colour, 3 big margins. Cat 350 pounds, price $345 D9) Cape of Good Hope 1863 1/- Bright Emerald Green Triangular, SG21. 3 good margins, medium cancel, cat. 700 pounds. Lovely stamp, missing from most collections. Price $749 D10) New Zealand 1931 Health 2d plus 1d Blue Smiling Boy, Campbell Paterson cat. No. T3b, in nice almost impossible to get Mint Unhinged condition. Cat at NZ$460. Price $325 D10a) As above, the 1d plus 1d red, Campbell Paterson cat. No. T3a mint lightly hinged. Cat NZ$225, Price $89 D11) Tasmania 1853 1d Imperf. Pale Blue Courier SG2, fine used 4 margin example on piece. Lovely stamp cat. 1500 pounds. Tiny scuff to Diadem does not detract from the fine appearance. Price $795 D12) Tasmania 1853 4d Bright Red Orange Imperf Courier, SG 5 cat. 1000 pounds. Brilliant 4 margin example with vivid colour. Cancelled by light barred numeral No. 53. Price $995 D13) Tasmania 1858 1/- Vermilion Imperf. SG41 mng, with 4 clear margins. Cat 800 pounds. Price $649 D14) Tasmania, 1867 1d dull vermilion SG 67, pin perf 13.5 – 14.5, fine used with slightly heavy barred cancel. Hard stamp to find. Cat. 700 pounds, price under a third at $389 D15) Tasmania 1863 2/6d Carmine postal fiscal SG F13, perf 12 lower marginal example, with selvedge at base. Medium barred cancel. Cat. at 160 pounds. Attractive item, price under a third at $89 D16) Tasmania 1870 10d Black, mint part original gum, IMPERF with 4 margins! Lists in Gibbons at 700 pounds for an Imperf Pair at 700 pounds as SG 131a. Priced at only 15% of the pair price at $175 D17) Tasmania 1871 1d Rose used IMPERF single with 4 WIDE MARGINS. Cat as SG 144a for an Imperf Pair at 1300 pounds. Priced at only 15% of the pair price at $325 D17a) Tasmania 1880 Halfpenny Orange SG 159 or 163, mint IMPERF with 4 good margins. Not listed as imperf in Gibbons. Price $175 D18) GB KEVII 1/- Dull Green & Carmine, SG 257 DLR printing, mint lightly hinged, fresh and well centered. Cat $210, my price $109 D19) Tasmania 1880 3d Red Brown, perf 11.5 in Horizontal mint pair, left unit with plate scratch, as illustrated in Gibbons. SG 161b. Cat. At 225 pounds for a single, priced at only as third cat. for the variety stamp, $125 D20) Tasmania 1871 9d Pale Blue mint block of 4,SG 154, perf 12, well centered and full perfs. Diagonal gum crease across 2 stamps, hardly visible from the front. Very attractive piece, cat 220 pounds as singles. Priced at just 25% $89 D20a) Tasmania 1878 8d dull purple-brown in mint block of 4, SG 158, perf 14. With blue Burelle Band on all stamps. Very fine and fresh well centered, lower stamps are superb unhinged. Cat as hinged singles 56 pounds, Price $89 D21) Australia 5/- Arms thin paper Imprint Block of 4, very rare! MLH/MUH. Fine and fresh, ACSC $2500. Price $1750 D22) Tasmania 1909 4d Orange Buff Perf 11, SG 247ba, Perf T, and with full row of double perfs at left, vfu with cds of Gladstone, MR 17 11 (St. Patrick’s Day) Striking item. Price $295 D23) Australia 1915 2/- Pale Brown Kangaroo, 2nd wmk, nice full perfs fine used example with neat partial Stock Exchange cds to right, clear of Kangaroo. Cat $350, my price $179 D24) Australia 1915 5/- Grey Black and Chrome yellow Kangaroo, 3rd wmk, with socked on nose George St. West, NSW cds, 2 DE 18. Cat $225, my price $149 D25) New Zealand/Tasmania. Horizontal pair of 1d Universals each cancelled by cds of Hobart, Tasmania JE 18 1903. Unusual and striking! Price $195

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MARCH SALE D26) Australia KGV Heads, ovpt. OS group mint lightly hinged, complete face different set ex. 2d C of A wmk, retail $105, my price $79 D27) Tasmania 1892 -97 Tablets Ten Shilling and One Pound, SG 224/5s Overprinted “Specimen” mint with part original gum. Cat 130 pounds, price just 30% cat. at $65 D27a) As above, but the 10/- value only $32.50 D28) Tasmania 1892 2/6d Tablet, SG 222 fine used cds, Perf “T”, cat 32 pounds as normal, price $32 D29) Australia 1918 3rd wmk 1/- Emerald Kangaroo, very fine postally full perf example Part cds, Watermark Inverted. Cat $200. Price $110 D30) Victoria 1887 1/- Railways Parcel Stamp, in black on off white paper. Used and signed by sender. Perf 11.75. Not recorded by Elsmore in this perf. With faults at lower left corner, still attractive, price $39 D31) Victoria 1850 1d Queen Victoria Half Length in pale dull red-brown, no frame lines. SG 5a, lovely 3 margin example cancelled by light barred numeral. Cat 450 pounds, price $249 D32) Spain 1930 Charles Lindberg 1pta Green, 2 examples, 1 missing Lindbergs head, and other with inverted head, very striking error! $159 the two. D33) Australia 1913 5d Chestnut Kangaroo, perf large OS, cat $475, this one $239 D34) Australia 1913 3d Olive Kangaroo, perf small OS DIE II, with Perth reg. cancel. Full perfs and centered right. Cat. $350, this one just $115 D35) Victoria 1860, 4d Rose – Pink SG 92, vfu, cancelled by clear lightly struck full barred numeral 2, and grossly misperfed to show all of the central gutter and 2mm of the next stamp at left. Stunning error! Price $195 D36) Australia 1915 2d Grey Kangaroo, 2nd wmk, mlh, well centered with full perfs, Cat $150, price just a half! $75 D37) Victoria 1864 1d pale green Laureates, SG 108 vfu with “Thimble” cds of Geelong OC 25 65. Huge stamp with extra margin as right and bottom to show compartment lines. Nice display piece. Price $159 D38) Australia Kangaroos, simplified set to 5/-, good to fine used with both colours of 6d and 2/- 14 stamps, good starter lot, price $195 D39) As above, but to 2/- only, 13 stamps price $85 D40) Large Red SG Stockbook, plus stocksheets, album leaves etc, with mint & used remnant collection/accumulation pre-decimal Australia, with KGV Head and Kangaroos, to end of KGVI period 1952. Values to 10/-. 250 plus stamps. Condition a bit mixed. Would suit re-seller. Great value at $395 the lot. D41) Victoria 1884 10/- SG 228 Brown on Pink,vfu with light top right corner cds. Very nice looking stamp, except that the pink pigment in the paper appears to have been washed out, as to my eye the paper is white. Or could this be an error? Cat. at 400 pounds, selling at just 25%, price $165 D42) Victoria 1897, Diamond Jubilee Charity issue, SG 353/4, fine mint. price $149 D42a) Another set as above, not quite so fine,price $129 D43) Victoria 1886 4/- Red-Orange, SG 269, cto Melbourne price $49 D43a) Victoria 1901 KEVII One Pound Carmine Rose, SG 399, cto Melbourne with gum. $195 D44) As above, but postally used, slightly heavy Melbourne cds of 12 8 03. Postally used is way scarcer to find than cto Price $225 D45) Victoria 1885 10/- Green Stamp Duty, postally used with slightly heavier Melbourne cds of 5 10 00, cat 70 pounds, price $69 D46) Australia 1913 Kangaroos 1st wmk, Halfpenny to Fourpence, (no 3d) all mint perf small OS, SG Cat. is 1050 pounds. These are all rust affected but look mainly ok from the front. Priced very cheaply at under 15% of catalogue, $259

D47) Australia 1913 2/- Brown Kangaroo 1st wmk, good average used, with oval registered cancel. Cat 85 pounds, price just $79 D48) Australia 1931 KGV 1/4d Turquoise, C of A wmk, fresh mint lightly hinged example, full perfs, centered to right. Very cheap at just $74 D49) GB 1862 1/- Green, SG Spec. J102, SG 91 plate 3, but No. 2 on stamp, wmk. emblems with Dundee duplex obliteration with Royal Philatelic Society London 2014 certificate which states: “is not plate 3, but has had the 1 fraudulently altered to 2” Subitted by Spink London. This stamp is not known used, and only exists as one of the so called abnormals. Cat.as a genuine mint example at 35,000 pounds! Nice curiosity….price $195 D50) Australia 1936 Small Airmail Cover to Germany via. Greece. Bears 2 x 1/- Green South Australia Centenary plus 1d green KGV, being the correct 2/- airmail rate plus 1d late fee. Cancellled by Sydney slogan of 18 AUG 1936 “AIR MAIL SECTION G-P-O and Sydney Airmail cds on the 1d a day later. Greek arrival backstamp. The 1/- cat. alone on cover at $200. Scarce multiple usage. Price $189 D51) Australia 1934 small registered surface mail cover to Sweden, bearing 2d Victoria Centenary perf 11.5, which is in itself very hard to find on cover and is cat. at $50 alone on cover, plus 1d & 3d KGV C of A wmk, all cancelled by cds of Wangaratta 30 OC 34. Attractive piece, price $59 D52) New South Wales 10/- Stamp Duty overprinted POSTAGE in blue, and additionally ovpt. “Specimen” SG 241as, cat 75 pounds. Mint lightly hinged, price $69 D53) New Zealand 1862 6d Brown Imperf. Chalon, SG 42, fine used with cds cancel, margins a bit skinny, but a nice looking stamp. Cat. 130 pounds. Good value at 25%. Price $54 D54) Victoria 1901 1.5d Maroon on Yellow, SG 386 in Post Office fresh mint unhinged block of 4. Cat 48 pounds as hinged singles. Price $79 Stop Press, Collections etc, just purchased, ex Deceased Estate: D55) New Zealand, Blue 64 page Prinz, black page stockbook containing used collection commencing perforated Chalon Heads values to 6d, then QV sidefaces, both 1st & 2nd sets to 6d, good ranges of Officials in KEVII, KGV and KGVI, Dunedin set, 1935 Jubilee set, then QEII pre-decimals near complete and similar in decimals to 2002. Vast retail and around 2500 different stamps . Great basis for expansion, and condition way better than usual for this type of lot. Priced cheaply at 12c a stamp, $295 D56) Great Britain used collection in Red 64 page Prinz, black page stockbook, commencing 1844 1d red-brown. Sparse in earlies, but does have KGV Seahorses to 5/-, then KGVI almost complete, and QEII with most commemorative sets, both pre & post decimal to 2002. Around 1750 stamps, priced very cheaply at 10c per stamp, $175 D57) Austria mint and used collection in Red 4 ring binder, commencing 1850’s imperfs to 2000, with lots of back of book material too. Organised chronologically and with catalogue numbers pencilled below each stamp. Mostly fine postally used, in much better than average condition, plus some mint sets in later issues. Looks to be around 2000 all different stamps. Under 10c a stamp at $195 D58) Egypt, lovely starter collection on Scott printed pages, 1888 to 1993. Many better noted, and most identified by Scott number in pencil below the stamp. I counted 235 stamps, hard country to get in genuinely assembled collections , price $119 D59) New Zealand, collector’s spares in stack of 61 near new Hagner pages now $1.75 each! mostly decimal but some earlies from QV onwards, to around 2000. Many,many high value commems, and defins to $10. Must be 2000 plus here. Great lot for club sheets, ebay etc. Priced cheaply at below the cost of new Hagners only, the stamps are free! Price $105 D60) Stack of 21 near new Hagner pages with British Commonwealth and Pacifics and Asia array, many in complete mint unhinged sets, including Nauru, Pitcairn, Norfolk, Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Is, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong plus a bit of Zimbabwe. From

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MARCH SALE mid 1970‘s to mid 1990’s, around 55 complete sets/mini sheet and some odds, very well priced at $2 a set, $110 D61) Papua New Guinea on a stack of 23 near new Hagners, mostly fine used or cto, small amount of duplication, some in complete mint unhinged sets, ranges from early New Guinea Bird of Paradise issues to 1992. 350 plus stamps including around 25 complete mint unhinged sets for under 30c a stamp, price $98 D62) Thick stack of cover album pages, housing wide range of Norfolk Is. and Papua New Guinea First Day Covers, 1960 – 1991. Many better sets are included in this lot, and even if you do not collect covers this is a great source for fine used sets. Most are official unaddressed covers. Noted N. I. 1960 Overprints, PNG 2/5d Cattle, 1969 Sheels to $2, Large Birds Heads, WWF Butterflies, Ameripex Small Birds etc. A few with a bit of tone spotting on the cover, but stamps are fine. 113 covers, at under $1 each this is a bargain! $110 the lot. D63) Hungary mostly Mint Unhinged all different Collection in two 16 page stockbooks, 1939 – 1971. Counted 225 complete sets/mini sheets, plus many extras and odds, with many scarcer and high catalogue value. This is a great lot, with many good thematics. Add to this a stack of30 plus near new Hagner type sheets with Worldwide thematic sets and singles, included at the price of the empty Hagners only, this is great buying at just $275 the lot. D64) Great Britain Carton lot of used in 3 stockbooks, bundle of album pages and stack of near new Hagner sheets and an album of around 100 First Day Covers 1953 – 1974 containing as follows: Stockbook 1) Used decmal commemoratives inc. many complete sets, 1971 -1992, about 500 different stamps. Stockbook 2) Similar to about 1995 plus Machin heads and Regionals at back. About 650 mostly different to 5 pounds. Stockbook 3) Massive duplicated array of Machin heads and regionals to 75p, about 1750 stamps. HAGNER SHEETS, as new stack of 34 contain basic collection 1902 – 1994 with a good number of complete sets, around 450 stamps. Finally a bundle of album leaves commencing Regionals then printed leaves containing a starter collection of used, including approx 65 complete commemorative sets to 1979. About 350 stamps here. So a total of around 2750 stamps mostly in complete sets. The Hagner sheets alone new are worth near $60. Price for the lot, $245. D65) The Worldwide residue of this estate lot, comprising 5 stockbooks, folder containing ancient packets, unopened in decades, 2 Schoolboy type collections, album of covers and a Scott Minuteman album with printed leaves for USA and United Nations to 1977 containing a beginner collection. Nothing remarkable, but many 100s of stamps, covers and packets for $159 the lot. MN2) Australia 1932 10/- Grey & Pink C of A wmk Kangaroo, nice corner Airmail cds and good perfs. Very fresh looking. Retail $325, price $249 MN3) Victoria 1879 Stamp Duty, the Two Pound Blue, nice Melbourne Duplex used, normal retail $200, this one under a half, $98 MN4) Australia One Pound Grey Kangaroo, C of A wmk, Ovpt. Specimen, mint lightly hinged. Specimen overprint misplaced left and extends well outside the left frame. Lovely variety, $135 MN5) Falkland Is. Dependencies 1956 2.5d & 3d Definitives SG G42/43 on neat small commercial seamail cover to Germany, cancelled by a single clean Port Lockroy, Grahamland cds dated 1 DE 59. Port Lockroy is a natural harbour on the north-western shore of Wiencke Island in Palmer Archipelago in front of Antarctic Peninsula. It was discovered in 1904 and named after Edouard Lockroy, a French politician and Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies, who assisted Jean-Baptiste Charcot in obtaining government support for his French Antarctic Expedition. The harbour was used for whaling between 1911 and 1931. During World War II, the British military Operation Tabarin established the Port Lockroy base (Station A) on tiny Goudier Island in the bay, which continued to operate as a British research station until 1962. This is the first commercial mail I have ever handled or seen from

Grahamland and must be very rare. Price $149 MN6) Victoria 1884/96 10/- Brown on Rose paper, SG240 nice fine used example with light duplex cancel, full perfs. Cat 120 pounds. Very good value at under a third catalogue $59 MN7) Australia 1932 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo, C of A wmk, nice fine used with partial Darwin cds, skilful corner repair at lower left. Only $98 MN8) Australia. Lovely assembly of KGV & KGVI era plate blocks, imprint blocks and blocks of 4, comprising: a) 1929 Air Type A Post Office Fresh left marginal mint unhinged block of 4. b) 1931 3d Kingsford Smith Upper left plate 2 block of 4, Post Office Fresh mint unhinged. c) 1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge 3d Blue, Post Office Fresh mint unhinged block of 16. d) 1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge 2d Red, ovpt. OS in Post Office Fresh Ash Imprint block of 4, lightly hinged on top two stamps only. e) 1934 Vic. Cent. 3d Blue perf 11.5 in Ash mint unhinged gutter imprint block of 4. f) 1935 Anzac 2d Red Plate No. 1 lower left block of 4 and plate No. 2 upper left block of 4, hinged in selvedge only. g) 1940 AIF 6d Brown in Post Office Fresh McCracken Imprint Block of 4, lightly hinged on top 2 stamps only. All of the above, plus 5/- & 10/- Arms Imprint blocks, KGVI 1/4d Magenta Imprint Block, 2d Typo Bridge, 3d Bridge, 2d MacArthur , 3d Perf 11.5 Vic. Centenary and 3d Anzac all in Imprint Pairs nearly all fresh mint unhinged. The lot for $625 MN9) Australia 1st wmk 2.5d Kangaroo, perf small OS, with scarce FEDERAL PARLIAMENT cds. Lovely looking stamp price $249 MN12) As above, but with the variety, retouch behind emu’s neck, ACSC 121d, cat $600, one for the specialist, rarely seen item, under a half, price $295 MN14) Australia 1924 KGV 4d Olive single wmk in Mint Unhinged, Post Office fresh horizontal full perf lower marginal pair. As is often seen for this stamp centred to lower left. Cat. $100 each as singles, under a half at $95. MN15) Victoria 6d Dull Orange Woodblock, 2 margin example SG32a on small entire to London, with clear 1V oval cancel, and Melbourne oval SE 2 1855 on reverse with Red London received marking NO28 1855. Neat little item, and very cheap at $119 MN16) Victoria 1897 15/- Brown Stamp Duty, SG350, well centred full perf. Example with clear circular registered cancel. Cat 85 pounds, price $95 MN17) British Empire King George VI collection of 1000 all different, just the thing to start you on a collection of this vibrant area of collecting! Under 70c a stamp, priced keenly at $695 MN18) As above, but 1000 different Queen Victoria to KGVI, same price $695 (larger collections of British Empire, pre QEII up to 5000 different available, please ask for pricing) MN19) Australia 1927 4.5d KGV Violet, perf 14, fresh mint unhinged, with full Ash Imprint from centre of the sheet. Cat. $90 as a single stamp, imprint block is $400 for hinged. Price $69 MN20) Victoria 6d Dull Orange Woodblock, SG 53a, locally rouletted on one side by counter clerks, excellent well centred example showing clear rouletting at right and with big margins all round. Cancelled by nice strike of Barred Numeral 1 of Melbourne. Cat 60 pounds. Price for this fine example $72 MN21) Australia 1915 One Pound Grey Kangaroo, 3rd wmk, ovpt. Specimen type C, mint hinged. Cat $375, two nibbed perfs at right. Price $195 MN22) As above, type D, centered to lower left and some gum toning, cat $275, just $135 MN23) Queensland SG 1, 1d Carmine Rose IMPERF Chalon wmk Large Star, VFU, 4 nice margins and neat light oval cancel. No faults. Cat 800 pounds, my price a tad over half $675.

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MARCH SALE MN24) GB 1841 QV 2d Blue SG14 Twopenny Blue with clear No. 12 in Maltese Cross MX lettered "DF" VFU. Lovely 3.5 margin example (close at right) cat 550 pounds. Also with very nice Ivory Head on reverse. Priced very reasonably at under 35% cat. $295 MN25) Cardboard Envelope Box, full of mostly complete sets of stamps, mint and cto used, from a worldwide variety of countries mainly 1980’s period. Wealth of thematics, suite ebay trader,m hoarder or dealer. Weighs 2.5kg, must be close to 15,000 stamps here. This really must be seen to be believed, refund if not delighted. Very colourful lot Price $395. Super double sized lot $749 MN26) Box of World on paper, amazing variety, mostly well clipped, and appears all large with much recent. Must be about 4000 here, under 5c a stamp, $195. MN27) WESTERN AUSTRALIA 1861 4D VERMILION SWAN, SG40, PERF 14 very fine used, MISPERFED so that the word Postage appears beneath Fourpence! Usually misperfs of this order are never seen on Western Australia Stamps. A few years ago I sold a similar misperf on a South Australia long type 8d blue at a Prestige Auction for $1000 plus the buyers’ premium. Cat. as normal is 180 pounds. Price for this rarity $795. MN28) New South Wales . **RARE** 1850 SG 11 1d Dull Carmine Sydney View, 4 good margins and with light Sydney barred cancellation. Variety, "Double Print". No Tears, Thins or Bends. Very Rare item. Positive "RPSL" Certificate, submitted by David Feldman Scott cv US$975++ Var. , not listed in Stanley Gibbons. Price $795 MN29) Western Australia, SG 29, Sc# 17; 2d Pale Orange Swan Rouletted, Very Fine Used with part numeral cancel. Roulettes on all sides, Very Rare in this condition, cat 250 pounds. Price $239 MN30) Neat packet of 1000 different British Commonwealth, mint and used included. Very cheap at under 5c per stamp, price $49 MN30a) As above but 2000 different $119 MN31) As above, but Western Europe. Price $69 MN33) Australia High Values, off paper, new mix just arrived, great variety from late 1960’s to quite recent. Many with nice cds cancels. Approx 1250 by weight, less than 10c per stamp 100g for $120. MN33a) As above but selected copies, 100 mixed for $29, Commems. only, 100 for $39, Definitives only 100 for $19. MN34) Wide ranging Australia off paper, with Australian States, Kangaroos, KGV heads, High values, Decimals and Pre-decimals. Approx 12,500 per kg, and a guarantee of 1500 – 2000 different in the mix. There are values to $10 in the decimal and 5/- in pre-decimal, possibly even some $20 and 10/- stamps. This mix is the best we have seen in a while. % wise reckon on roughly 1% each of States, KGV and Kangaroos, 10% predecimal, 5% high values, the remainder will be a very good mix of lower and letter rate values. A great sorting lot! Roughly 2000, under 15c per stamp for $295. MN34a) As above but decimals only, at half the above price, Approx 2000 for $147.50 MN35) Australia 1948 5/- Arms, thin paper, very fine used, retail $100, my price just $75 MN36) Tasmania Halfpenny on 1d Red sideface in imperf plate 1 block of 12, from the reprint sheet on thin card, rare and unusual! $420 MN37) A new lot of Australia unpicked on paper mixture, just arrived, wide variety through to the 70c letter rate period, similar to our old J1 mixture, but even more up to date with some high values, unfranked and maybe a little foreign, all on close clipped single paper, very clean and colourful mixture. Reckon on 4500 – 5000 per kg. Price under 2 cents per stamp, $89 per kg, 2kg for $169 (only 6kg available) MN38) Australia Kangaroo, 5d Chestnut 1st wmk, mint lightly hinged, well centred , normal retail $140, plus premium for the better centering. This one just $98. MN39) New Zealand 1940 Centennial set, mint unhinged, sg 613/25, normally $100, price $59

MN40) The 2010 VST Comprehensive Colour Catalogue Of Australian Stamps - In full colour - case bound edition - in 3 huge volumes (3rd volume is wire bound) with total of 580 pages! This catalogue is the latest edition available, volumes 1 & 2 have now been reprinted and are in a single hardbound edition. Volume 1 Covers: Australian Colonies, Postage Dues, BCOF, Pre-Decimal Australia, and Australian Decimal Issues(1966-1988) and all related First Day Covers, Post Office Packs etc. Volume 2 covers the listing of Australian Decimal Issues (1989-2006) and all related First Day Covers, Post Office Packs etc. Volume 3 is the new 2010 edition - this volume has a complete re-pricing of the Australian Pre-Decimal Issues 1913-1936, plus new Decimal Listings For 2007, 2008 & 2009. This is the complete comprehensive 3 Volume edition - Colour Catalogue Of Australian Stamps. The 3 Volumes are very detailed with COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS throughout. Note that the prices here are pretty much up to date, there having been little price movement in recent years for most issues. Originally priced at over $100, we can now offer the 3 volumes, currently being sold elsewhere for around $45 for just $24.50 bulk buyers special: 5 sets for just $99! MN41) Magnificent Magnifier: Large 110mm Illuminated Magnifier with Stand This magnifier can be used with or without the base. It is suitable for stamp and coin collectors as well as art and craft, artists etc. Magnification: 2.5x, plus 4x Spot. Diameter: 110mm, bigger than the Lighthouse similar product. Battery operated: 2 x AA (not included). Adjustable height up to 200mm and angle to 45 degrees. RRP $36.95. Price each only $15, under 50% retail! $69 per 5 why not give away to friends and relations, or do some trading? MN42) New Zealand, new wide ranging on paper mission mix, all single paper and close clipped with huge range going to fairly recent with the 50c letter rate values. Much better than the mix in our current mixtures list. 6kg only available. 500g for $89, 1kg for $169, 2kg for $319 MN43) Rattlesnake Island, 1989 Owls Triangulars, the last set issued of these interesting Cinderellas from the USA. Complete set of 3, in sheets of 20, mint unhinged. Price $39 MN44) World on paper, 3 grades of World on paper a) Standard mission, mostly larger countries $75, b) Super Mission with huge variety at $125 and c) All large and Commemoratives $249 per kg. MN45) New World Off paper Mix, just received, much better variety than you see in most of these mixes, around 2000 for $39, 5000 for $89, 10,000 for $175 MN46) Australia 1937 late printing 10/- Grey & Analine Pink C of A Wmk Kangaroo. 2nd scarcest of the shades of this stamp and identified as ACSC 50D Well centred and with perfect perfs, very vibrant an vivid colour. Has 2 partial light Melbourne steel cds cancellations. Cat. $750, priced very well at $489 MN47) PNCs (stamp & coin covers) Recently acquired stock, with most at issue price of $14.95, let us know your needs. We can also offer all different lots at under issue price a) 10 Different for $110 b) 25 Different $259 c) 50 Different for $495 MN48) New South Wales, 6d Brown on blue paper Vandyke, Imperf. Nice colour and with light No. 8 barred numeral cancel. Stamp is sound margins as usual for this stamp are a bit skinny. Cat 250 pounds, nice gap filler for someone at $95 MN49) Australia 1918 5/- Grey and Yellow 3rd wmk Kangaroo SG42 Fine Used with Late Fee cds cancel, good perfs and well centred, nice example of postal use. Usual retail around $175 for fine used, this one just $98 MN50) Australia 1929 5/- grey and yellow Kangaroo, perf OS, postally used. Normal price $160, we have four grades to offer: a) Fine used circular date stamp, with clear usage date $129, b) As above but date not clear. $99, c) Light parcel cancel $79, d) Slight seconds with heavier cancels/and or perf faults $39 MN52) New Zealand Specialised collection of 1935 Pictorials Official Overprints on leaves mint and used. Includes Eleven Plate Blocks to 2/- plus other blocks of 4, all identified

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MARCH SALE with Campbell Paterson numbers. Total catalogue is around NZ$7000, with more than half of the value in plate blocks. A lovely lot! 147 stamps. Price $1950 MN53) Iceland, lovely collection of 400 different postally used. 100 different is on our packets list at $60, so this which includes a fair number of better/scarcer stamps is excellent value at $179 MN54) Norway, from the same supplier as our Iceland collections a very fine lot of 500 different. On our packets list at $80, but we have a few surplus so out they go at $59 MN56) Finland, lovely lot of 500 different, all large, includes Red Cross and Anti TB charity issues. Regular large and small is on our packets list at $140, this one just $98! MN57) New Zealand 2/- Blue Admiral overprinted Official, on parcel piece along with 1d Field Marshal, 3d Brown & 1/- Vermilion KGV Heads. All cancelled with clear strike of Welling ton Parcels 15 JAN 1931. This is a very scarce piece, the Official 2/- not having been recorded on cover. As used it is cat. At NZ$500 in Campbell Paterson as KO20b, but only 130 pounds in Gibbons as SG 0112, go figure! Anyhow all that being said, I reckon it has to be worth $250 as a parcel piece. MN59) Australia 1928 3d Kookaburra Minisheet, from the bottom right of the sheet, with clear central Red Exhibition Cancel of 1 NO 1928. Fine and rare n this condition. Regular retail for this quality $295, save $50, my price $245 MN60) Australia 1929 Small Multiple Watermark Kangaroos, full set of 7 values to Two Pounds, nice fine used with cds cancels. The Two Pound has a few shortish perfs at base, but this does not detract from the fine appearance of this group. The 10/- is really nice. Retail as a group would be around $1750, my price just $1295 MN60) As above, the 5/- value, light corner cto cancel. Retail up to $225 in this condition. My price $169 MN61) Hong Kong 1982 QE II DEFINITIVES Complete SET of 17 to $50 SG 415/87 mint unhinged in Post Office Pack. Price $95 MN62) Nice World collection A – Z on thick stack of 200 album pages early to modern, mainly postally used. No Australia or GB. Must be close to 6000 stamps all different. Got to be worth 3c a stamp. $179 the lot. MN63) Australia Seven Seas Hingeless Albums, in two padded binders with slipcases 1966 – 1991 complete almost as new. Vol. 1 is in Green and Vol. 2 in Blue for easy identification. Retail new approx.. $375. Under a half, Price $179 MN64) Samoa mint collection in blue 3 ring binder, 1967 – 1984. Appears pretty well complete with all definitives, minisheets and commemorative sets. Very nice lot, sold regardless of retail or catalogue value. 101 sets/minsheets inc. 4 definitive sets. Price below $1.50 a set $149 MN66) Papua and New Guinea collection/accumulation mint & used on a stack of 26 Hagner pages, retail $1.75 each = $45, commencing New Guinea Huts and Birds of Paradise, plus Papua Lakatois to 4d, then 1952 Definitives to One Pound fine used. Pre-decimal looks virtually complete, then a wide range of sets to 1997. Looks to be approx. 125 complete sets with extras, inc. 5 definitive sets. Very good value at under $2 a set, price $249 NO1) Papua New Guinea Mint Unhinged Collection in Blue padded Seven Seas Hingeless Illustrated album. 1986-2001 Virtually complete - no 1994 Provisional Overprints or Queen Mother 100th birthday. Very minor toning on a few earlier pages but stamps are all fine. Retail of stamps $780 plus and album is worth $265 new. A total of $1045, my price is under a half at $519 NO2) AAT Mint Collection 1957 – 2011. On Scott leaves Hinged to 1987, then unhinged. Mostly complete retail is $545 counting the hinged as used. My price is just 42% at $229 NO3) Large green SCOTT Speciality Album as new with Christmas Island mint collection 1958-2011. Hinged to 1990 then unhinged. High level of completion and all very clean with some extra gutter blocks and PSE’s etc in back. Retail of stamps alone, counting the

hinged as used = $1425, Album cost around $350 so a total value of $1775 for under 40% just $695 NO4) Large green SCOTT Speciality Album as new with Cocos Keeling Islands Mint Hinged & MUH Collection 1963-2011 Very high level of completion but no Provisional Overprints. Some extras in back such as aerogrammes. Retail counting hinged ass used is close to $1100, plus album retail around $295, a total retail of $1395 for 42.5% = $595 NO6) Australia 1934 Two Pound Kangaroo C of A Watermark Fine Used - BW58(D)p, two light partial cds cancels which do not overlap and leave kangaroo’s head clear, well centered with good perfs. Has variety, broken coast in bight also undocumented “extra island” SW of WA. Cat $1500. Price $975. NO7) New Zealand 2001 QEII 80c Imperf sheet of 25, these were issued as NZ Post loyalty products and were not available for direct purchase and are very scarce as one needed to part with a considerable sum in order to receive one. In Hagner with well know NSW dealer description and priced at $400. Could find none of these on eBay. My price $295 NO8) Australia 1914/1915 2/- Brown 2nd wmk Kangaroo. A lovely well centered full perf. example, with slightly heavy partial Sale, Victoria cds. Cat $350, my price under a half…$169 NO10)AAT decimal definitive mint unhinged, SG 8 – 18, advertised retail $65, my price under a third $21 (2 available) NO11) As above, the top value $1 Mock Sun in bottom right corner single. Retail $30, my price $15. NO12) Australia 5/- Roo Acsc 43Ab, SG037 2nd Wmk deep grey & yellow *punctured os* well centred VFU with indistinct cds cancel. Current 2013 BW ROO CV $700. This stamp comes with certificate. Nice and fresh. Price $469 NO13) Australia 1918 5/- 3rd wmk Kangaroo SG42 Fine Used well centered and full perfs with slightly heavy cds cancel SG Cat. £110 = approx. $175, advertised retail for fu $175, my price for this one just $115 NO14) Australia 1913 2/- Brown Kangaroo, 1st wmk with “socked on nose” Parkville Victoria cds of SE 22 14. Lovely cancel, stamp has full perfs, brilliant colour. Centered to lower left. Cat. $250. Price $149 NO15) Australia 1913 5d Chestnut Kangaroo, perf Large OS, mint unhinged, perfectly centred with full perfs, looks great! Just some very minor toning on reverse. Cat $800, very cheap at under a third…$265 NO16) As above, small OS, mint lightly hinged, again well centred and full perfs, suntanned gum. Cat $550, again under a third, price $179 NO18) GB 1858 1d Red Plates Collection Plates 71 - 218 Complete Used, less the impossible to find plate 77 of course. 144 stamps, all in much better than average condition. Plates 206 and 209 are mint. Similar to Oct5 in my last list which I sold for $525. Cat approx. 1030 pounds = $1650. Same price, less than one third. $525 NO19) Australia 1915 2/- Brown Kangaroo, 3rd wmk, perf OS, well centred and with good perfs, mint lightly hinged, gum a little toned. Cat. $1250! Price under a third, $395 NO20) Australia, real photographic postcard circa. 1910 of a Renault motor car taken at Albury NSW. Unused and in fine condition. Cheapest item on my list, but just beautiful! $15 NO21) GB, rare cover and letter on Buckingham Palace stationery, bearing 4d 1951 Festival of Britain stamped and cancelled with Balmoral Castle cds of 8 SP 51, surface mail to Germany. Letter reads “Dear Sir, Princess Margaret desires me to thank you for your kind message of congratulations. It gives her Royal Highness great happiness to know that the thoughts and good wishes of so many people are with her on the occasion of her 21st birthday. Yours truly Olivia Mulholland, Lady in Waiting.” Price $159 NO22) Papua, solo use of 1932 3d on small surface mail cover to Washington, Mo. U.S.A cancelled by neat Port Moresby 30 AP 34 cds. Scarce and attractive. Price $39

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MARCH SALE NO23) Australia 1934 small airmail Advertising cover form Vaughan Pate, Unley, S.A. to Perth W.A. Bearing 2 x 2d MacArthur Light Hills and 1d green C of A wmk KGV Head. Unusual combination, franked by Adelaide Airmail slogan of 30 NO 1934. Scarce and attractive. Price $95 NO24) Australia 1958 8d Blue Kingsford Smith on double rate South Australia cover Cockaleechie to Port Pirie, cancelled by part Cockaleechie cds. Scarce usage for this stamp. Price $49 NO25) Australia 1952 small registered cover, Leongatha VIC to Goulburn NSW bearing 5.5d Peace, 3.5d Gloucester, 2.5d Mitchell and 1d Brown QE to make correct 1/- & Halfpenny rate. Unusual and scarce franking, price $22 NO26) AUSTRALIA 1935 Airmail ADVERTISING COVER FROM LENROC Ltd, Adelaide to Excelsior Motorcycle Company, UK. Bears 1/6d no wmk. Hermes, cancelled by Adelaide “Post Early” slogan of 25 MAR 1935. Via. Singapore to London, thence to Wolverhampton by road. Very attractive item, price $49 NO27) GB 1840 1d Intense Black, SG 1, plate 5, lettered MB, cat 525 pounds, = $840. Nice 4 margin example with heavyish black Maltese cross cancel. No faults. Bargain at under 40% cat. Price $335 NO29) SG Commonwealth & Empire Part One catalogue 2013 edition. Current 2017 edition is $229. This is nice condition for only $75 NO30) Australia 1966 7c Humbug Fish on commercial surface mail cover to South Africa cancelled by Melbourne slogan “Australia food produces champions”, bilingually in English and French, clearly a reference to the 1968 Olympics. Dated 12 NOV 1968 and with violet handstamp “House vacant” bilingually in English and Afrikaans. So a tri-lingual cover! and with manuscript “House vacant” and “RTS” notation in pencil. Received cds’s on reverse of Parkview Depot Johannesburg 4 XII 68 and 23 XII 68. Scarce and attractive piece, price $49 NO31) Australia 1927 3rd wmk Kangaroo Die IIb 1/- Emerald with sideways wmk, postally used Melbourne cds, cat $500. As usual for this stamp it is centered to top left. One of the most difficult kangaroos to find postally used. Price $375 NO32) Australia 1916 1/- Kangaroo Die II, 3rd wmk, nice lightly hinged mint, centred left. Cat $90, my price $59 NO33) Australia 1931 One pound Grey Kangaroo, C of A wmk, nicely used, with two partial cds cancels of Melbourne Ship Mailroom. Well centered and with good perfs. Cat $420. This one just $269 NO34) Australia 2/- Brown 2nd wmk, horizontal pair perf OS-ACSC-36ba-SG-O36-fine used and very well centered. Each with registered cds of 12 Jan 22 (Late usage) Very, very scarce in multiples. Cat $700 as singles. Price $649 NO35) GB 1841 1d Red Brown with lovely clear strike of No. 4 in Maltese Cross. This is the scarcest of all the numbers in cross and catalogued at 600 pounds = approx. $960. This example has 3.5 very big margins. Priced at 40% cat, only $385 this is indeed a bargain! NO36) Australia 1923 6d Chestnut 3rd wmk. Kangaroo, on small registered 1925 cover Footscray Vic. to Chicago with Red Reg. label No. 3290. Cancelled by Footscray cds of 6 JA 25 and Melbourne Registered backstamp of the following day plus USA arrival cds’s of 14th, 17th and 18th February 1925. Scarce and attractive cover, the stamp being cat. At $150 for solo use. Priced very reasonably at $119 NO38) fantastic collection/accumulation of well over 3,000 Australia used. This lot has Kangaroos simplified set to 10/-, plus a complete set of 1932 Harbour Bridges to 5/- there are at least 1500 different, so only light duplication. Price for the lot $749. (Under 25c per stamp!) NO40) Australia 1915 5/- Grey & Yellow, 2nd wmk Kangaroo, perf OS, good/fine used with circular cancel and well centred. Really hard to find in nice condition. Cat $700, this one just $449 NO41) Australia 1913 1st wmk 2/- Brown Kangaroo, mint lightly hinged, and well centred with full perfs, very scarce thus. Cat $650, price $525

NO44) Australia 1964 Two Pound Navigator, very fine used, retail $80, my price just $69 NO47) Australia 1920 KGV 1/4d Turquoise single wmk, mint lightly hinged, well centred and with full perfs. Retail $200, my price just $149 NO48a) Queensland 1864/5 6d Orange/Yellow Chalon Registered Stamp in a paler shade and without gum., couple of minor tone spots on reverse. Cheap stamp at only $95 NO49) GB 1883 5/- Rose Pink QV, SG 180, lovely well centered mint light hinge example with fresh white gum. Cat $2350, my price just $795 NO51) Australia £2 BLACK AND ROSE SG 138 C of A watermark, a very well centred stamp with good perforations, cds postmark a little heavy but nice Melbourne Ship Mail cancel, and very well priced at $549 NO53) Australia 1932 1/- Lyrebird ovpt. OS SG0136, in a superb mint unhinged block of four with bottom selvedge, well centred, stunning perfect block cat $500 as singles, and very scarce in multiples. (Imprint block is cat. $1000, and perf pip block is $2250!) Just $459 NO55) NEWFOUNDLAND. Magnificent collection on Scott illustrated album pages covering the period 1857-1943. One of the finest and freshest lots I have had the pleasure to offer. More than £4,200 SG Cat. Value (Aus. $6,720) includes a stunning SG 11, 3 margins example 3d Green mint lightly hinged £110, SG 13 £140, SG 15 mint £350, SG 25 mint £170, SG 40-43 Roulette mixed mint 1c others fine used £115, 1897 SG 66-69 Discovery and QV Diamond Jubilee, a stunning mint set £325, SG 83-90 mint £150, 1911 SG 117-27 mint £250, no rust or toning, more than 155 different stamps, various listed shades etc. A bargain as most of the early material normally sells well at half catalogue due to its rarity, as a collection this is available for just under 40% of cat. $2685 NO57) Australia 1913 5/- Grey & Yellow 1st wmk. Kangaroo, cto, mng Melbourne Dec 3 1913, this fine example is very well centred and with full perfs. Lovely colour too! Has ACSC vignette variety ”n” broken foot and pointy tail, Cat. $700, price $459 NO59) Massive Worldwide Postcards Collection 19th Century to quite recent, apparently all different (approx.. 1200 items), many postally Used to Australia inc. Cook Islands, Croatia, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Mexico, Poland, Slovenia, Russia, Turkey, Vatican & Vietnam. Wide range of views & scenes inc. many Tourist Attractions. Also group of 100 GB/Ireland 1950s cards, mixed Unused /Used. Good overall condition. (1200+) Suit collector, hoarder, re-seller or Ebayer! Just see what this stuff sells for online! Under $1 each! Price $1175 MOC5) Australia 1913 9d Violet Kangaroo 1st Wmk, superb well centred and unhinged, cat $850, my price just $625 MOC7) Australia 1929 9d Violet Kangaroo, multiple wmk, fresh mint lightly hinged, cat $125, this one just $89 MOC26) Printing, amazing collection mint and used covering the history of printing and publishing, in 5 Lindner Maroon Ring Binders, as new (These worth $350 retail) plus hundreds of covers, mostly commercial. Massive lot which took the original owner 30 years to accumulate. Price $1549 the lot, great value at this! MOC30) Australia 1915 2/- Brown Kangaroo, 3rd wmk, mint unhinged, full perfs. Nicest example I have owned in a while. Cat now $2500! Price $1695 MOC36) Australia 1929 5/- Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, multiple wmk, with superb socked on nose “PP Postal Hall”, Melbourne cds. (date unclear) very attractive full perf nicely centred example. Cat $225, price $165 MOC46) Australia 1913 3d Olive 1st wmk Kangaroo, Die II, cto, cat $500. Attractive nicely centred stamp, very scarce. $329 MOC49) Australia 1915 9d Violet 1st wmk Kangaroo, mint lightly hinged, full perfs, well centred Cat $175, lovely! $129 Oct1) New Zealand, prestige booklets in as new Lighthouse Dark Blue Classic Album. 16

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MARCH SALE 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 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. 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 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, 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 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 10 books for $475 MSP3) As new Ka – Be multi ring padded album and slipcase in black, retail $108.50, cheap at $49 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 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 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! 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,

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MARCH SALE 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 SE32) Australia 1937 10/- Robes thick paper mint unhinged retail $35, my price just a half! $17.50

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 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 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. 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) 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 MAU8a) Australia 1909 10/- Green & Red Postage Due, SG D72, lovely mint example retail $470, my price $365. 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 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.

KEVIN MORGAN STAMPS & COINS Postal: PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158 Tel: 0425 795 693


Pricefighter Packets, ready made collections Pricefighter Packets, ready made collections, pay cents, not $ per stamp! UPDATED JANUARY 2017, KEEP THIS LIST, UPDATES WILL BE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN! Discounts from this list: Spend $100 and deduct 5%, $101 to $250 deduct 10%, $251 plus deduct 15% All different in each packet

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25 AAT ......................................................$ 3.00 50 AAT ................................................... $ 25.00 100 AAT ................................................. $ 99.00 50 ADEN ................................................ $ 12.00 100 AFGHANISTAN .................................. $ 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 ANDORRA - FRENCH MINT U/H .......... $ 20.00 50 ANDORRA - FRENCH MINT U/H .......... $ 50.00 25 ANDORA - SPANISH MINT U/H ........... $ 20.00 50 ANDORRA - SPANISH MINT U/H ......... $ 60.00 25 ANGUILLA ...........................................$18.00 25 ANTIGUA ..............................................$ 5.00 50 ANTIGUA BARBUDA............................ $ 20.00 200 ARAB STATES ................................... $ 12.00 100 ARGENTINA .......................................$ 6.00 200 ARGENTINA ..................................... $ 15.00 300 ARGENTINA.......................................$28.00 25 ASCENSION .......................................$42.00 100 AUST. (DEC MINT U/H) ..................... $ 55.00 100 AUST. (PRE-DEC.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 .................................... $ 65.00 250 AUSTRALIA CTO PACK (MODERN).......$60.00 300 AUSTRALIA CTO PACK (MODERN) ......$70.00 25 AUSTRALIAN STATES .......................... $ 16.00 50 AUSTRALIAN STATES .......................... $ 96.00 10 AUSTRALIAN STATES – NSW ...............$16.00 10 AUSTRALIAN STATES – QLD.................$20.00 10 AUSTRALIAN STATES – SA....................$20.00 10 AUSTRALIAN STATES – TASMANIA .......$20.00 10 AUSTRALIAN STATES – VICTORIA .........$10.00 10 AUSTRALIAN STATES – WA...................$30.00 100 AUSTRIA ............................................$ 7.00 200 AUSTRIA .......................................... $ 18.00 500 AUSTRIA ........................................ $ 130.00 100 AUSTRIA (LRG.COMMEMS) .............. $ 50.00

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100 BAHAMAS ....................................... $ 90.00

50 BAHAMAS (MINT SETS)........................$42.00 25 BAHRAIN ........................................... $ 33.00 50 BAHRAIN ........................................... $ 72.00 100 BANGLADESH ................................... $ 11.00 25 BARBADOS ........................................ $ 12.00 50 BARBADOS ........................................ $ 40.00 100 BARBADOS ...................................... $ 70.00 50 BASUTOLAND/ LESOTHO ....................$40.00 50 BAVARIA ........................................... $ 28.00 100 BELGIAN CONGO ................................$32.00 200 BELGIAN CONGO ............................ $ 100.00 100 BELGIUM .............................................$6.00 200 BELGIUM ..........................................$15.00 300 BELGIUM ......................................... $ 24.00 100 BELGIAN COLONIES ........................... $ 13.00 300 BELGIAN COLONIES .......................... $ 80.00 500 BELGIAN COLONIES .........................$166.00 25 BERMUDA ...........................................$24.00 100 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 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ....................... $ 33.00 150 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ................... $ 170.00 25 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA (MUH IN SETS) $50.00 100 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 .............. $ 30.00 100 BRITISH C'WEALTH (MINT U/H) ........ $ 27.00 100 BRITISH C'WEALTH KGVI (MINT U/H) $ 60.00 500 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH MINT ....$100.00 1000 BRITISH C'WEALTH LRG (COMMEMS190.00 50 BRIT. HONDURAS (LRG.COMMEMS) .... $ 40.00 25 HONDURAS AND BELIZE .......................$ 9.00 25 BRITISH VIRGIN ISL............................. $ 22.00 100 BRITISH WEST INDIES ....................... $ 14.00 25 BRUNEI .............................................. $ 30.00 50 BRUNEI ...............................................$66.00 200 BULGARIA ........................................ $ 17.00 100 BURUNDI ......................................... $ 20.00

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25 CAMBODIA ........................................ $ 10.00 100 CAMBODIA .................................... $ 115.00 100 CANADA ............................................$ 6.00 1000 CANADA .......................................$100.00 100 CANADA (MINT.COMMEMS) ............ $ 50.00 25 CAYMAN ISL ...................................... $ 15.00 50 CAYMAN ISL ...................................... $ 36.00 100 CHANNEL ISLANDS .......................... $ 19.00 150 CHANNEL ISLANDS(MINT).................$90.00 200 CHANNEL ISLANDS, MINT SETS ...... $ 110.00 100 CHILE .............................................. $ 12.00 200 CHILE .............................................. $ 24.00 100 CHINA ............................................. $ 39.00

300 CHINA ........................................... $ 130.00 500 CHINA ........................................... $ 350.00 50 CHINA & TAIWAN ................................$16.00 200 CHINA & TAIWAN ..............................$60.00 300 CHINA & TAIWAN ............................$130.00 500 CHINA & TAIWAN ............................$260.00 100 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 ....................................... $ 60.00 300 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 COSTA RICA (MINT SETS) .....................$20.00 50 CROATIA (PRE WAR) ........................... $ 20.00 50 CROATIA (POST WAR, MINT) ................$40.00 100 CUBA ................................................$ 9.00 200 CUBA (LARGE PICT.)...........................$18.00 300 CUBA ............................................... $ 30.00 25 CYPRUS.............................................. $ 12.00 50 CYPRUS............................................. $ 30.00 100 CYPRUS............................................ $ 60.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ...............................$ 3.00 200 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ............................. $ 15.00 500 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ............................. $ 17.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (MINT U/H)........... $ 17.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (POST WAR).......... $ 11.00 400 CZECHOSLOVAKIA MINT.....................$30.00

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50 DANZIG .............................................. $ 29.00 100 DANZIG ............................................ $ 66.00 100 DENMARK .........................................$ 6.00 200 DENMARK .........................................$12.00 500 DENMARK .........................................$60.00 25 DOMINICA BR........................................$4.00 50 DOMINICA BR. ......................................$ 6.00 100 DOMINICA BR. .................................. $ 30.00 50 DOMINICA BR. (KGVI & QEII) .............. $ 40.00 50 DOMINICAN REP ................................ $ 18.00 100 DOMINICAN REP. ............................. $ 39.00

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200 ECUADOR ......................................... $ 96.00 400 ECUADOR ....................................... $ 120.00 500 ECUADOR ...................................... $ 150.00 100 EGYPT .............................................. $ 10.00 200 EGYPT .............................................. $ 56.00 300 EGYPT .............................................. $ 70.00 50 EGYPT (MINT/UH IN COMPL. SETS) ..... $ 30.00

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Pricefighter Packets, ready made collections 50 EGYPT + 4 M/S .................................. $ 30.00 25 EQUATORIAL GUINEA (M/SHEET CTO) .$ 11.00 50 ESTONIA ............................................ $ 66.00

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20 FALKLAND ISL. COMPL. MINT SETS.... $ 100.00 25 FALKLAND ISLAND ............................. $ 24.00 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 ......................................... $ 18.00 300 FINLAND ......................................... $ 60.00 10 FIUME ..................................................$ 7.00 300 FRANCE ............................................ $ 30.00 500 FRANCE .............................................$70.00 100 FRENCH COLONIES .............................$ 6.00 200 FRENCH COLONIES ............................ $ 20.00 500 FRENCH COLONIES .............................$70.00 100 FRENCH COLONIES (PRE IND) ............ $ 28.00 100 FRENCH. MOROCCO .......................... $ 25.00 50 FRENCH POLYNESIA ............................ $ 50.00

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50 GERMANY 3RD REICH ......................... $ 13.00 25 GERMANY..............................................$5.00 100 GERMANY .........................................$ 7.00 300 GERMANY ........................................ $ 18.00 1000 GERMANY ...................................... $ 70.00 100 GERMANY (PRE WAR)........................$24.00 500 GERMANY EAST................................ $ 40.00 50 GERMANY INFLATION (MINT U/H ) ..... $ 10.00 100 GERMANY INFLATION (MINT U/H)..... $ 20.00 500 GERMANY WEST ................................$60.00 100 GERMANY WEST (LARGE COMMEMS).$20.00 50 GHANA .............................................. $ 50.00 100 GHANA ............................................ $ 70.00 200 GHANA .......................................... $ 120.00 25 GIBRALTAR ......................................... $ 17.00 50 GIBRALTAR ......................................... $ 45.00 500 GILBERT, KIRIBATI, TUVALU .............$270.00 25 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU ................. $ 12.00 50 GILBERT, KIRIBATI,TUVALU .................$30.00 150 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU ................ $ 90.00 200 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .............. $ 100.00 360 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .............. $ 190.00 400 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .............. $ 225.00 50 GREAT BRITAIN .....................................$ 7.00 100 GREAT BRITAIN ...................................$ 9.00 1000 GREAT BRITAIN ............................. $ 176.00 1200 GREAT BRITAIN ............................. $ 230.00 100 GREAT BRITAIN (LARGE COMMEMS) ..$12.00 200 GREAT BRITAIN (LARGE COMMEMS).. $ 20.00 500 GREAT BRITAIN (LARGE COMMEMS) ..$70.00 100 GREECE ............................................ $ 24.00 200 GREECE ............................................ $ 50.00

300 GREECE ............................................ $ 70.00 100 GREENLAND ................................... $ 100.00 100 GRENADA MINT................................ $ 24.00 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

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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 50 HONDURAS .........................................$30.00 100 HONDURAS ...................................... $ 50.00 200 HONDURAS ...................................... $ 80.00 400 HONDURAS ................................... $ 140.00 100 HONDURAS REP. ................................$60.00 25 HONG KONG .........................................$ 6.00 50 HONG KONG ...................................... $ 12.00 200 HONG KONG ................................... $ 100.00 500 HUNGARY ........................................ $ 30.00 2000 HUNGARY ................................... $ 150.00 3000 HUNGARY ................................... $ 440.00 200 HUNGRY ( LARGE PICT) .................... $ 18.00 300 HUNGARY (LARGE PICT.) ................. $ 24.00

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25 ICELAND ............................................ $ 20.00 50 ICELAND ............................................ $ 40.00 100 INDIA ..................................................$6.00 200 INDIA ................................................$16.00 25 INDO - CHINA ......................................$ 8.00 50 INDO - CHINA ..................................... $ 30.00 200 INDONESIA ...................................... $ 24.00 100 INDONESIAN (RECENT COMMEMS).... $ 33.00 100 IRAN .................................................$14.00 300 IRAN ............................................... $ 30.00 50 IRELAND ..............................................$ 9.00 100 IRELAND ......................................... $ 18.00 300 IRELAND ........................................ $ 210.00 400 IRELAND ........................................ $ 240.00 500 IRELAND ........................................ $ 280.00 100 ISRAEL ..............................................$13.00 20 ISRAEL COMPLETE MINT SETS ............ $ 90.00 25 ITALIAN COLONIES ............................. $ 15.00 100 ITALIAN COLONIES ............................ $ 75.00 200 ITALIAN COLONIES .......................... $ 160.00 100 ITALY ..................................................$ 6.00 200 ITALY ............................................... $ 16.00 300 ITALY .................................................$36.00 500 ITALY ............................................... $ 80.00

J

100 JAMAICA ......................................... $ 50.00 50 JAPAN ...................................................$4.00

KEVIN MORGAN STAMPS & COINS Postal: PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158 Tel: 0425 795 693

200 JAPAN ...............................................$30.00 100 JAPAN (ALL MINT) ........................... $ 70.00 100 JAPAN (COMMEMS) ......................... $ 20.00 200 JAPAN (COMMEMS) ......................... $ 50.00 50 JERSEY ............................................... $ 13.00

K

50 KOREA NORTH (LARGE PICT.) ................ $ 6.00 100 KOREA NORTH (LARGE PICT.)............. $ 10.00 50 KOREA NORTH (M/SHEET) .................. $ 20.00 50 KOREA SOUTH .................................... $ 24.00

L

25 LAOS......................................................$4.00 50 LAOS ....................................................$ 7.00 20 LAOS PRE WAR .....................................$ 6.00 100 LATIN AMERICA ................................ $ 10.00 300 LATIN AMERICA ................................ $ 50.00 50 LATVIA ............................................... $ 44.00 75 LATVIA (Pre War) ............................. $ 100.00 100 LEBANON ......................................... $ 40.00 200 LEBANON ...................................... $ 100.00 50 LIBERIA ...............................................$ 9.00 100 LIBERIA .............................................$25.00 200 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 .................................. $ 21.00 200 LUXEMBOURG....................................$50.00 300 LUXEMBOURG ...................................$70.00

M

50 MACAU .............................................. $ 60.00 300 MALAYA AND SINGAPORE ................ $ 66.00 1000 MALAYA AND SINGAPORE ........... $ 400.00 100 MALDIVES ........................................ $ 24.00 100 MALAYSIA .........................................$13.00 100 MALDIVES .........................................$24.00 100 MALTA ............................................. $ 10.00 500 MALTA ........................................... $ 140.00 100 MAURITIUS ...................................... $ 60.00 100 MEXICO .............................................$24.00 200 MEXICO ............................................ $ 60.00 50 MONACO ............................................ $ 18.00 100 MONACO ......................................... $ 40.00 100 MONGOLIA ........................................$10.00 25 MONTENEGRO ................................... $ 20.00 50 MONTENEGRO ................................... $ 50.00 100 MONTSERRAT ................................ $ 114.00 25 MOROCCO AGENCIES .............................$8.00 50 MOZAMBIQUE ................................... $ 10.00 200 MOZAMBIQUE .................................. $ 55.00 400 MOZAMBIQUE ................................ $ 270.00 500 MOZAMBIQUE ................................ $ 300.00 50 MYANMAR (BURMA) ...........................$30.00


Pay cents, not $ per stamp! N

25 NAURU ............................................... $ 11.00 50 NAURU ............................................... $ 33.00 100 NAURU ............................................ $ 93.00 150 NAURU ........................................... $ 134.00 200 NAURU ........................................... $ 160.00 100 NEPAL .............................................. $ 16.00 25 NETHERLANDS ANTILLES ................... $ 20.00 100 NEW CALEDONIA .......................... $ 150.00 10 NEWFOUNDLAND ................................$ 8.00 25 NEWFOUNDLAND .............................. $ 16.00 100 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU ............... $ 90.00 200 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .............. $ 260.00 300 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .............. $ 440.00 400 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .............. $ 600.00 100 NEW ZEALAND ....................................$5.00 150 NEW ZEALAND ...................................$ 6.00 200 NEW ZEALAND ................................ $ 14.00 300 NEW ZEALAND ................................ $ 28.00 500 NEW ZEALAND ................................ $ 90.00 25 NICARAGUA .........................................$ 2.00 100 NICARAGUA .................................... $ 12.00 200 NICARAGUA ......................................$24.00 300 NICARAGUA ......................................$40.00 500 NICARAGUA ..................................... $ 70.00 300 NICARAGUA ..................................... $ 40.00 50 NIGERIA ............................................. $ 36.00 100 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 ......................................... $ 90.00 25 NYASALAND ...................................... $ 50.00

P

50 PACIFIC IS (BR) .....................................$ 8.00 100 PACIFIC IS. (BR) ................................$16.00 200 PACIFIC IS. (BR) ................................ $ 56.00 100 PAKISTAN .........................................$12.00 200 PAKISTAN ..........................................$30.00 50 PANAMA ............................................ $ 13.00 25 PAPUA NEW GUINEA .............................$5.00 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 50 PENRHYN (MINT SETS) ...................... $ 70.00 100 PERU.................................................$30.00 300 PERU .................................................$50.00 500 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 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 50 PITCAIRN ISLAND (MOSTLY MINT) ...... $ 50.00 100 POLAND .............................................$ 4.00 300 POLAND ........................................... $ 12.00 500 POLAND ........................................... $ 30.00 1000 POLAND ......................................... $ 60.00 100 PORTUGAL ...................................... $ 18.00 200 PORTUGAL ...................................... $ 40.00 100 PORTUGAL COLONIES ....................... $ 40.00 300 PORTUGAL COLONIES .................... $ 130.00

Q

50 QATAR .................................................$40.00

R

50 RHODESIA ......................................... $ 16.00 200 RHODESIA ...................................... $ 140.00 300 RHODESIA ...................................... $ 240.00 400 RHODESIA ...................................... $ 400.00 100 ROMANIA ............................................$3.00 200 ROMANIA ............................................$5.00 500 ROMANIA ......................................... $ 31.00 1000 ROMANIA ..................................... $ 100.00 200 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 18 RUSSIA COMP. MINT SETS ....................$30.00 100 RUSSIAN INDP.STATES (MINT U/H).... $ 33.00

S

50 SAAR.................................................. $ 33.00 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 1000 SCANDINAVIA .................................$90.00 50 SERBIA ............................................... $ 50.00 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 (NEW REPUBLIC) .............. $ 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 ................................ $ 30.00 100 SOUTH WEST AFRICA ........................$80.00 100 SOUTHERN RHODESIA .........................60.00 100 SPAIN .................................................$ 8.00 200 SPAIN ............................................... $ 24.00 300 SPAIN ............................................... $ 30.00 100 SPANISH COLONIES .......................... $ 36.00 200 SRI LANKA ....................................... $ 30.00 100 SRI LANKA / CEYLON ........................ $ 24.00 10 ST. HELENA ..........................................$ 9.00 50 ST. KITTS ............................................ $ 26.00 75 ST. KITTS ............................................ $ 36.00 100 ST. KITTS ......................................... $ 54.00 100 ST. LUCIA ......................................... $ 60.00 50 ST. THOMAS .........................................$ 8.00 100 ST. THOMAS ..................................... $ 14.00 20 ST. THOMAS (MS) .............................. $ 11.00 50 ST. VINCENT ...................................... $ 18.00 100 ST. VINCENT ..................................... $ 30.00 25 SUDAN ............................................... $ 12.00 100 SURINAME ...................................... $ 90.00 50 SWAZILAND ...................................... $ 20.00 100 SWAZILAND ..................................... $ 60.00 100 SWEDEN ............................................$ 8.00 500 SWEDEN .......................................... $ 70.00 100 SWITZERLAND ................................. $ 20.00 200 SWITZERLAND ................................. $ 40.00 500 SWITZERLAND ................................$120.00 800 SWITZERLAND ............................... $ 150.00 1200 SWITZERLAND ............................. $ 600.00 1300 SWITZERLAND ............................. $ 900.00

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Pricefighter Packets, ready made collections 1500 SWITZERLAND ........................... $ 1600.00 50 SYRIA .................................................$16.00

T

100 THAILAND ........................................ $ 40.00 300 THAILAND ...................................... $ 130.00 400 THAILAND ...................................... $ 180.00 600 THAILAND ...................................... $ 370.00 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 TRISTAN DA CUNHA COMPL. SETS ......$110.00 50 TUNISIA ............................................. $ 12.00 100 TUNISIA ........................................... $ 30.00 100 TURKEY ..............................................$ 6.00 200 TURKEY ............................................ $ 14.00 300 TURKEY ............................................ $ 20.00 25 TURKS & CAICOS...................................$ 6.00 100 TURKS & CAICOS (MINT U/H) ........... $ 70.00

U

100 U.N.O ............................................... $ 24.00 300 U.N.O ............................................ $ 120.00 100 URUGUAY ......................................... $ 20.00 100 USA ...................................................$ 4.00 200 USA ...................................................$ 8.00 500 USA.................................................. $ 60.00 1000 USA............................................... $ 80.00 1031 USA (1935/84 50 YEARS USED SETS) ... $100.00 300 USA (COMMEMS) ............................. $ 14.00 100 USA (MINT COMMEMS) .................... $ 50.00 200 USA (MINT COMMEMS) ................. $ 100.00

V

25 VATICAN ...............................................$ 6.00 50 VATICAN ............................................ $ 30.00 100 VATICAN ........................................... $ 70.00 200 VATICAN ........................................... $ 90.00 25 VATICAN (M.U.H. ) ............................. $ 16.00 50 VATICAN (M.U.H. ) ............................. $ 30.00 100 VATICAN (M.U.H. ) ............................ $ 70.00 200 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

W

100 WALLIS & FUTUNA ......................... $ 130.00 200 WALLIS & FUTUNA ......................... $ 300.00 25 WURTTEMBERG ................................. $ 16.00

50 WURTTEMBERG ................................. $ 60.00

Y

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

Z

50 ZANZIBAR ......................................... $ 80.00

THEMATICS

50 AIRCRAFT ............................................$6.00 100 AIRCRAFT ..........................................$12.00 50 ANIMALS..............................................$6.00 100 ANIMALS...........................................$13.00 300 ANIMALS...........................................$40.00 500 ANIMALS ..........................................$60.00 100 ANIMALS (WINDOW DISPLAY)...........$13.00 200 ANIMALS (WINDOW DISPLAY)...........$30.00 50 BICYCLES..............................................$9.00 100 BYCYCLES..........................................$13.00 100 BIKES AND CARS................................$13.00 50 BIRDS ..................................................$7.00 100 BIRDS................................................$13.00 200 BIRDS................................................$20.00 500 BIRDS............................................... $ 80.00 50 BIRDS (WINDOW DISPLAY)..................$8.00 100 BIRDS (WINDOW DISPLAY)................$15.00 200 BIRDS (WINDOW DISPLAY)................$30.00 100 BUTTERFLIES .................................... $ 14.00 300 BUTTERFLIES .....................................$50.00 100 BUTTERFLIES (WINDOW DISPLAY) ....$15.00 200 BUTTERFLIES (WINDOW DISPLAY) ....$30.00 50 CARS....................................................$8.00 100 CARS .................................................$14.00 200 CARS .................................................$30.00 100 CARS ALL MINT..................................$24.00 50 CATS...................................................$10.00 100 CATS..................................................$20.00 50 CATS & DOGS........................................$6.00 100 CATS & DOGS.....................................$10.00 200 CATS & DOGS.....................................$30.00 300 CATS & DOGS.....................................$50.00 500 CATS & DOGS .....................................$80.00 50 COSTUMES...........................................$5.00 100 COSTUMES ........................................$10.00 200 DISNEY ............................................ $ 49.00 50 DOGS...................................................$9.00 100 DOGS ................................................$18.00 100 DOMESTIC ANIMALS (WINDOW DISPLAY) ... $15.00 100 FISH...................................................$12.00 500 FISH ................................................. $ 90.00 50 FISH & SEA LIFE (WINDOW DISPLAY)....$8.00 200 FISH & SEA LIFE (WINDOW DISPLAY).$30.00 100 FISH (WINDOW DISPLAY)..................$15.00 200 FISH...................................................$21.00 100 FLAGS................................................$12.00 50 FLOWERS.............................................$6.00 100 FLOWERS ..........................................$13.00

KEVIN MORGAN STAMPS & COINS Postal: PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158 Tel: 0425 795 693

500 FLOWERS ......................................... $ 70.00 50 FLOWERS (WINDOW DISPLAY) ............$8.00 100 FLOWERS (WINDOW DISPLAY) ..........$15.00 200 FLOWERS (WINDOW DISPLAY)...........$30.00 50 FOOTBALL .........................................$10.00 100 FOOTBALL..........................................$12.00 50 HORSES................................................$6.00 100 HORSES .............................................$13.00 200 HORSES .............................................$30.00 100 INSECTS............................................$12.00 50 MUSHROOMS (WINDOW DISPLAY).......$8.00 50 MUSIC (WINDOW DISPLAY)..................$8.00 50 PAINTINGS ...........................................$8.00 100 PAINTINGS.........................................$10.00 50 PAINTINGS (WINDOW DISPLAY) ..........$8.00 100 PAINTINGS (WINDOW DISPLAY) ........$15.00 100 REPTILES .............................................$6.50 50 ROSES ................................................$8.00 100 ROSES ...............................................$13.00 100 SCOUTS .............................................$16.00 25 SHELLS ...............................................$4.00 50 SHELLS.................................................$6.00 100 SHELLS .............................................$20.00 50 SHIPS...................................................$8.00 100 SHIPS.................................................$12.00 300 SHIPS................................................ $ 40.00 50 SOCCER (WINDOW DISPLAY) .............. $ 8.00 50 SPACE..................................................$ 6.00 300 SPACE..................................................$9.50 500 SPACE .............................................. $ 66.00 50 SPACE (WINDOW DISPLAY)................. $ 8.00 100 SPACE (WINDOW DISPLAY) .............. $ 13.00 50 SPORT ................................................$ 6.00 100 SPORT................................................$11.00 50 SPORT (WINDOW DISPLAY)................. $ 8.00 100 SPORT (WINDOW DISPLAY) .............. $ 13.00 200 SPORTS............................................. $ 13.00 300 SPORTS............................................. $ 30.00 100 STAMPS ON STAMPS......................... $ 11.00 500 TRAINS ..............................................$90.00 100 TRAINS (WINDOW DISPLAY)..............$15.00 200 TRAINS (WINDOW DISPLAY)..............$30.00 100 TRANSPORT ...................................... $ 6.00 10 TRIANGLES........................................ $ 10.00 50 TRIANGLES........................................ $ 16.00 64 UN FLAGS...........................................$60.00 100 UNIFORMS.........................................$13.00

World Packets

10,000 WORLD (IN 10 ALBUMS) ............$900.00 100 WORLD (IN GLASSINE BAG) ................$4.00 300 WORLD (IN GLASSINE BAG)...............$10.00 5000 WORLD (IN GLASSINE BAG) ...........$300.00 100 WORLD (WINDOW DISPLAY) ..............$4.00 500 WORLD (WINDOW DISPLAY) ...........$18.00 1000 WORLD (WINDOW DISPLAY) ...........$35.00 2000 WORLD (WINDOW DISPLAY) ........$100.00 3000 WORLD (WINDOW DISPLAY) ........$150.00 5000 WORLD (WINDOW DISPLAY) ........ $310.00


Graeme Morriss

on an inlet at the northwest. It was here that the Rev. Samuel Marsden, chaplain to the convict settlement in Sydney, bought land for a Mission in 1814. The Mission was established in 1819. New Zealand’s Christmas stamp of 1964 showed Rev. Marsden preaching on the beach at Rangihoua Bay opposite the Keri Keri inlet in 1814. The Bay of Islands stamp set of 1969 marked the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Mission. The Mission House, built by later missionaries in 1822, is the oldest wooden structure still standing in New Zealand. The oldest stone–built structure in New Zealand is the missionaries’ ‘Stone Store’, the construction of which began in 1832. The store was built of stone for security and to protect supplies from vermin and fire. The 4 cent stamp of 1969 shows the shore at Keri Keri with the Stone Store on the left, the Mission House on the right and the missionaries’ church, St James, on the hill above. As an aside, at the time

of the Baypex national stamp exhibition at Whangarei, 80 kilometres south of the Bay of Islands, at the end of March 2007, Northland was experiencing heavy rain and flooding. On the day before the exhibition opened the Whangarei city centre was closed and evacuated in case the river flooded. A unique collection of Northland postal history had to be rescued from a car stuck in flood waters north of Whangarei. Its owner carried the collection above his head as he waded out of the waters. It reached the exhibition safely. The historic Stone Store at Keri Keri was flooded and had to be closed for cleaning and restoring the artefacts it contained. Even by the following week the roads into Keri Keri were still closed and access was prohibited. The 1969 Bay of Islands set was designed by the Publicity Section of the New Zealand Post Office. It was printed by De La Rue using their ‘Delacryl’ method – an enhanced offset-lithographic process. The sheets were of 100 stamps (10 x 10) with the four cylinder numbers in the bottom margin at the

Stamp News - 45


Looking at New Zealand

Keri Keri 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 left and the printer’s imprint further to the right. The paper was chalk-surfaced with watermark ‘NZ & star’ sideways; the perforations gauged 13¼ x 13¾. The stamps were issued on 18 August and withdrawn on 30 September. The major cities’ GPOs and the post office at Keri Keri had special first-day postmarks. References: Catalogue of New Zealand Stamps, Auckland,

Bay of Islands 46 - Stamp News


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

Germany 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, 2 Mark complete Booklet - PRISTINE!: Michel #42.2, red cover, with a Deep Maroon sash diagonally across the front cover. Containing two x fresh unmounted MUH se-tenant panes of 10, comprising 3pf Gymnastics x 4, and 12pf Torch Relay x 4. And 4pf Diving x 4 and 6pf Soccer x 4, all in MUH se-tenant pairs for each value in each pane. Michel Cat €1,000 = $A1,500 for average books. This one in Pristine condition - as if printed and assembled yesterday - apparently been in Germany near all its life. Impossible to improve on grade. Even the metal staples are pristine - an extraordinary grade for 81 years old. Razor sharp corners, and original interleaving sheet, and postal rates both inner covers. A very rarely offered booklet in any condition, much less this fine, and essential for all GERMANY collectors, AND of course the legions of Olympic/Sports Collectors. Near a QUARTER Michel, and only $US440 as I type this - $A600 (Stock 936LT)

Australia RAM Proof Coin sets 1999-2006 Retail $1,825, for just $A699:

All in original outer colourful packing boxes from Royal Australia Mint. (RAM) And inside each box, are in the special sealed wallets etc, with the highly frosted mirror surface proof coins for each year. The deceased had them in the original shipping boxes from RAM, and had not even opened those! Buy at well about $1,100 off retail, as a Bargain for someone - These are POPULAR. The 2000 set alone is $100s. Note - in the 1980s to mid-1990s, a LOT more folks bought these, and 1980s sets are pretty cheap. FAR more about. Then in 1999 RAM upped the purchase cost of the sets to $65 each, and many tossed in the towel. Guess what - that year sold badly! The lowest sales for the past 20 years. Then the price was hiked to $80 a set in 2004, and that of course turned off MANY new issue buyers. NOW many have drifted back to seeking what they missed of course. Bit like PO Year Books for this era. SOMEONE will be paying LESS THAN $100 a set for these. All nice and fresh and mailed in a well packed carton. Only $US530 right now. $A699 (Stock 832HJ)

Western Australia TELEGRAPHS 1886 6d Violet QV Superb U, Cat $650 for $365:

Nearly Western Australia’s scarcest face different stamp, and it has been more than TEN years since I have owned one, and that was grotty. The few I have seen were in rough shape, faded, rough perfs, and bad cancels etc. This one is pretty much as good as it gets! Superb light GPO Perth barred oval grid, and clean and fresh, with no hinge remains, and good perfs and centering and appearance - as you can see. SG T2. Juzwin retail $475 for average used. Renniks T2 Cat $575. Top shelf example - show me another for sale ANYWHERE, at ANY price! $A365 (Stock 297PQ)

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Cinderella Corner Forthcoming Cinderella Auction

Stamp News Australasia are planning a Cinderella Auction, maximum 100 lots total, alternate months, which we shall advertise here, and to the various Cinderella Clubs across the Globe. We welcome consignments of all forms of Cinderella labels (from coupons and seals, to patriotic stamps and vignettes) plus Revenues. Lots should have a minimum estimated value of $20, we reserve the right to combine lots of lower value. Commission will be a flat $5.50 per lot submitted inc. GST sold or unsold. Unsolds will be re-run in future sales with no additional fee at a reduced price, unless their return is requested by the vendor. Queries may be addressed to our Cinderella Corner author, Vito Milana – vitomilana@hotmail.com

Buy Goods Made In Australia – Part I (1906)

Welcome to the March edition of Cinderella Corner. With the Australian summer behind us, it is now time to embrace the cooler autumn winds and unearth those cinderellas embedded amongst our prized philatelic collections. In this piece, I explore some early Australian patriotic Buy Goods items, a couple which have featured, some years back, in Cinderella Corner issues. In doing so, I will broaden the scope of research on them in order to include

Figure 1 48 - Stamp News

some newly observed varieties and differences. Over two issues (March and May), a narrative will be developed that details these labels, commencing with their beginnings in the early years of the 20th century. Collectively, these Buy Goods cinderellas benchmark some early advertising attempts to encourage the production and purchase of Australian goods to thereby strengthen trade and local industries. The Protectionist Association (established in 1894) networked closely with several commerce and trade organisations across the country. Just over a decade after its formation, in the middle of 1906, it issued a gummed label, as illustrated in Figure 1. The rather colourful cinderella, decorated in red, blue, black, white and yellow, measures 20mm by 24mm and is perforated 11 on all sides. It bears the text BUY GOODS OF AUSTRALIAN MANUFACTURE encircling a centrally-placed flag of Australia. It was designed with the purpose to be affixed to envelopes and was supplied at a low price at the office of the administration. In addition to the flag and text, this Protectionist Association label bears two other important elements: •• Below the Australian flag is a miniature, bare-

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Vito Milana ly definable, version of the 1869 established South Australian Chamber of Manufacturers (SACM) Coat of Arms (including illustrated corners, prominent cross, several stars). •• The images central to the Coat of Arms’ four quadrants have then been replicated in the corners of the cinderella. These are: ▪▪ A prized pig, tied with a large bow ▪▪ A ship in sail ▪▪ A shovel and a pick (crossed) ▪▪ A tree Further details regarding these four motifs, which collectively represent different Australian trade and commerce areas, and broader elements inherent in the SACM Coat of Arms, are discussed later on in this piece. Not long after, in July of that same year, the SACM reported that the release of the issued Protectionist Association labels, as per illustrated in Figure 1, served as an opportunity for them to design and distribute their own labels. The SACM was founded in 1869, and was the first Chamber of Manufacturers to be established throughout Australia. It held several aims, including the promoting of Australian unity and federation. It then formally

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ceased, in 1971, after more than a century of operation. Figures 2 to 5 illustrate the two Australian patriotic cinderella labels (and varieties) issued by the SACM, which, like the Protectionist Australian one, aimed at supporting Australian industries by encouraging members of the community to purchase Australian-made goods. Figures 2 and 3, each coloured in red and white, present the text: BUY GOODS MADE IN OUR COUNTRY. The centre of the label also illustrates the text SOUTH AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER OF MANUFACTURES INCORPORATED 1869 encircling the organisation’s Coat of Arms. This emblem is a far more detailed (and prominent) example of the one illustrated in Figure 1. In addition to the four motifs, several other images representing Australian industry and trade are also present. These include: farming and agriculture, painting, music, and education. Figures 4 and 5 are identical to the cinderellas represented in Figure 2 and 3 except for their blue and white colours, rather than red and white. Figures 2 (red and white) and 4 (blue and white) represent Type I of the label, whereas Figures 3 (red and white) and 5 (blue and white) represent Type II. The prominent differences in the two types can be summarised as follows: TYPE I - Size: 31mm by 36mm (both issued colours) - Perforation: red and white – 12 ½ (all sides); blue and white – 11 (all sides) - Coarse dots and lines defined in the space between the Coat of Arms and the inner circle - Lighter and more poorly defined outline of objects within, and just outside, the Coat of Arms - Less defined outline of text SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MANUFACTURERS INCORPORATED 1869 - Shorter text (height of letters): GUY GOODS MADE IN OUR OWN COUNTRY TYPE II - Size: 31mm by 32mm (both issued colours) - Perforation: red and white – 11 (all sides); blue and white – 11 (all sides) - Smooth lines defined in the space between the Coat of Arms and the inner circle - Clearer outline of objects within, and just outStamp News - 49


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Figure 4 side, the Coat of Arms - Defined outline of text SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MANUFACTURERS INCORPORATED 1869 - Taller text (height of letters): GUY GOODS MADE IN OUR OWN COUNTRY It is unclear whether these differences reflect second printings or later issues of the labels. It is clear, however, that blue/white and red/white were the only colours that were issued by the SACM, some 37 years after the Chamber’s formation. This is noted in at least two separate 1906 newspaper sources. It is also interesting to note that two perforation differences have been identified in Type I between the two colours, whereas no perforation differences have been noted in Type II. I welcome any further information (or identified varieties) about these two SACM label Types. In late July 1906, an order of 250,000 of the gummed cinderella labels was placed. The SACM Committee had decided upon a simple design submitted by the Adelaide-based (and 1870s established) Frearson’s Printing House, amongst several others. Of the order, samples were sent to each member of the Chamber, and it was decided that the 50 - Stamp News

Figure 5 labels would be sold at a nominal cost. Businesses also had the opportunity to purchase 1,000 of the labels (red/white or blue/white) for a cost of 1 shilling per 1,000. This was noted, by then SACM Secretary Mr. P. H. Evans, as well below cost. The labels were advertised as “patriotic stamps” and were encouraged to be affixed to envelopes, statements and parcels to help support Australian industries and associated productions. The patriotic stamp movement initiated by the SACM was successful, with some reports from South Australia noting a strong demand for them. They occasionally surface in collections but are, unfortunately, often overlooked, given the rather simplistic colour scheme that they present. They are nonetheless an important part of pre-WWI Australian cinderella collections. Any further information about these labels is welcomed. The May edition of Cinderella Corner will continue to explore early Buy Goods patriotic labels, starting with some initiatives driven by companies to privately overprint the SACM ones. It will then move on to explore federal efforts to promote the cause, in the latter part of 1906. Similar efforts in WWI are then finally considered.


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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Melbourne 2017

Well the time has finally come for the biggest philatelic event in Australia since Australia 2013. Between March 30 and 2 April, Melbourne is hosting the 34th FIAP international stamp exhibition. This is only the second time Australia has hosted a FIAP exhibition, the last being in 1986 in Adelaide. The Victorians decided to hold a FIAP exhibition, rather than a National exhibition simply because of the difficulty in getting a suitable venue at a reasonable cost to host a National exhibition. It may seem strange but Melbourne has few, if any, cost-effective venues for a 600-800 frame National exhibition. As with all stamp exhibitions, floor space is what is needed but large venues are usually quite expensive because they are geared up for exhibitions, trade shows etc that have greater funding than the average stamp exhibition. Therefore, the decision was made to go for a larger exhibition, not a FIP show as it was just too soon but a FIAP. FIAP shows are limited to FIAP member countries entering and having spoken with a number of people in Asia last year they are all looking forward to the exhibition and many are planning to attend.

Venue

The venue for the exhibition is the grandstand at Caulfield Racecourse. It is a large venue with significantly more space available than the Randwick Racecourse, which was used for the national exhibition in 2011. All of the dealers and postal

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administrations will be located on the ground floor and all 65 stands have been sold. Australia Post is building their own stand. The exhibits are all located on the first floor which can be accessed by escalator and lift. The jury room, bin room and meeting room/s are all located on this floor as well. There will be food and drink available at the venue for the four days.

Getting There

There is a train station just outside the racecourse and it is a short walk to the venue. The Frankston/ Cranbourne and Dandenong/Pakenham train lines all service Caulfield station and there are trains approximately every 5 minutes from Southern Cross station on Platform 12. The direct trip takes about 20 minutes but some weekend services may involve a transfer at Flinders Street station. The number 3 tram also services Caulfield racecourse and takes about 25 minutes plus a short walk to the venue.

Entry

A daily ticket will cost $10 and $25 for a season pass. These can be booked in advance from TryBooking and the details are on the exhibition website. As with 2013 Australia Post has printed special souvenir tickets which are actual postal stationery and valid for posting to anywhere in the world. Figure 1 illustrates the daily ticket. Any bookings made through TryBooking will involve you printing off a B-code ticket which you then exchange at the ticket office at the racecourse for the souvenir ticket, no tickets will be posted out. As far as I am aware this use of postal stationery as entry tickets is unique. The only vaguely similar issue I can recall are early Israeli stamp exhibitions where the ticket actually had a revenue stamp on it to pay the tax on the entry ticket price. Opening times are Thurs-


Daryl Fuller

Philatelic Development Officer, APF day 30 March and Friday 31 March 10am to 6pm; Saturday 1 April 10am to 5pm; and Sunday 2 April 10am to 4pm.

Exhibits

The exhibition paid an extra fee (much of which was kindly donated by an anonymous donor) to get what is known as Auspices from the FIP for the exhibition. This fee means that any 5-frame exhibit which gets a large vermeil medal is then eligible for 8 frames at any FIP (or FIAP) exhibition. This is a big plus for any exhibitor trying to get the extra frames they need. In the case of Melbourne it made the exhibition that much more attractive to enter and it was oversubscribed. This tends to raise the overall quality of exhibits. The other aspect of Auspices is that more of the judges need to be FIP qualified rather than just FIAP qualified, which is good as it raises the judging standard overall. International exhibitions held in Australia tend to attract more Australian-themed exhibits than National exhibitions, so they are always worth attending if your interest is Australia. However, there will be a wide range of exhibits from around the region including of course excellent Australia and New Zealand, strong China and Japan, and I even saw an exhibit of Afghanistan listed. All of the FIP classes are covered including modern and I noted two Astrophilately exhibits which are rarely seen in Australia. This is an excellent chance to see material rarely displayed in Australia with exhibits from across the world. You could spend four days just looking at exhibits but save some time for the dealers!

Philatelic Society of Victoria. The occasion marks the Society’s 125th Anniversary and continues a traditional of non-competitive exhibits for the RPSV’s centenary (1992) and 75th anniversary (1967). Given the breadth of areas collected by members of the Royal there will be some interesting displays.

Dealers and Postal Administrations

All the dealer stands sold out last November including the three superbooths. As well as building its own large stand Australia Post has a number of other stands for Sprintpak, Postmarking and Designers, and Merchandising Displays. The list of booth holders is as follows. They are not in any particular order and some stands have more than one dealer. This is an excellent cross section of national and international dealers, auction houses, coin and banknote dealers, postal administrations and a couple of commercial companies looking for trade from postal administrations. It is the best dealer listing I have seen at a FIAP exhibition. It will be the place to be buying and selling, or consigning stamps to auction. I am sure a number of the postal administrations will have special souvenir items for the exhibition. The United Nations had a special miniature sheet for China 2016 which proved very popular with queues each day to get it until it sold

Royalpex 125

A Special feature of MELBOURNE 2017, is a non-competitive exhibition involving at least 200 frames for members of the Royal

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out. They will have one also for Melbourne and is shown in Figure 2.

Australia Post Offerings at the Exhibition

The Australia Post theme for the exhibition is gemstones or “Rare Beauties”. There will be daily Miniature Sheets and Medallion Covers from the Rare Beauties stamp issue amongst some of the special show offerings. There will also be designer signings, postmarking and a “Build your own Collectable” area, and of course, a fully operational post office with a full range of Philatelic product. As with most recent

exhibitions, where Australia Post has attended, some of the products will only be available at the exhibition and will have quite limited daily quantities. It is important to note that the Miniature Sheets on the Daily Medallion Covers (see Figures 3 & 4) are different to the ones that we will be offering on the Daily Miniature Sheets. Special printing will be on the daily sheets with some printing techniques not previously seen on Australian Stamps. Australia Post have recently used different printing techniques on both the New York 2016 Butterfly miniature sheets and the 2016 China Beetles miniature sheets. Both these sets of limited issue miniature sheets have reached four figure prices at auctions in the last six months. They are likely to be worth the price of admission in themselves.

Exhibition Souvenirs, Supporter’s and Patron’s Packs

Organising committees always need to raise money to pay for exhibitions and Melbourne 2017 is no exception. A limited number of souvenir items have been released for sale with most having sold out. At the time of writing only the Norfolk Island Birds miniature sheet (Figure 5) and the special P-stamp sheet is available for sale (see the website for online ordering).

Supporter’s Pack – This pack

has a special numbered season pass plus one other; exhibition catalogue; exclusive miniature sheet and exclusive PNC. This represents excellent value as the two season tickets are worth $50 alone, not counting the value of the numbered postal stationery entry ticket. The two souvenir items are ONLY available in this pack. With a limit of only 200 packs available they will sell fast at only $100. 54 - Stamp News


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Philatelic Development Officer, APF Patron’s Pack – For those of you

who like to have somewhere special to be at an exhibition this is the pack for you. It has a special numbered season pass plus another, and four daily passes for family members; exhibition catalogue; two exclusive miniature sheets; an exclusive prestige booklet; a separate Patron’s lounge plus guest pass to the lounge; and tea/coffee vouchers. This is limited to 150 packs and is the way to go for that little bit of peace and quiet at the exhibition. Membership is only $250. All of the above are available on the website and can be ordered online including using PayPal.

2017 Auction of Donated Items

I have been seeking philatelic items to be donated to Melbourne 2017 so that they could be auctioned with the money supporting the exhibition. The donated lots will be auctioned as part of Phoenix Auctions sale the day before the exhibition starts (29 March). A number of Australian philatelists have donated items and I would like to thank them for their support. Their names can be found on the website. In addition to these donations Australia Post has also donated a major items for sale. I had hoped to have an image for this issue but the choice of the item has run up against the publication deadline. As you can imagine access to such material is hard to orga-

nise but it is likely to be a bi-coloured Kangaroo monogram single or a nice MUH block of four of the two pound Kangaroo CofA watermark. Either would be greatly appreciated and will certainly assist the exhibition. Australia Post is to be applauded for this generous one-off donation.

Assisting the Exhibition

There are many ways to support the exhibition. Just turn up and support the dealers and postal administrations; buy some souvenirs; become a supporter or a patron; spread the word to you friends who may not know it’s on; or you can volunteer to help at the exhibition. Depending on the level of help given volunteers will get a free daily pass and some a season’s pass. If you can assist, please see the News Page on the website for a list of tasks and a volunteer form to complete. All assistance would be greatly appreciated. If you need any further information about the Melbourne Exhibition go to WWW.MELBOURNE2017. COM.AU If you need any further information about stamp collecting see www.apf.org.au or contact me at Darryl.fuller@home.netspeed.com. au. Stamp News - 55


Market Matters Unissued Royal Visit stamp Auctioned.

more than others, indeed 2 of them have missing pieces. I am not so sure about In 1949 a proposed Royal that old ”furnace” story. The Tour to Australia and New “Vanguard” stamp was apZealand was cancelled, owing parently totally unknown until to the poor health of King about 1979. The first was George VI. The Royal Party sold in NZ for $NZ14,000 was to travel on Battleship in 1979, and I believe that is “HMS Vanguard”, as they the one I have seen an image had previously done in 1947 Ship Ahoy! Auction March 9 of, with a LARGE piece of on their tour to South Africa. the stamp missing at top left. I understand that the “VanNow we have SEVEN it seems. guard” was the last ever Battleship built for the Stamp 2 to appear was offered by Harmer’s Of Royal Navy. WW2 was over as she was rolled out, Sydney, on June 21, 1979, on front cover of their and indeed I’ve seen it reported that she was the 1979 “McNess” sale catalogue of superb Australia. last ever Battleship built worldwide, which sounds That is the very SAME stamp now being offered by strange, as I assumed they were still being made? Mowbrays on March 2017. Harmers mention the A set of 4 commemorative stamps were printed initial example sale in NZ that year. See their lot for the New Zealand Post Office by Waterlow & text nearby. Sons of London. In a total run of 39 million stamps I attended that Harmers sale, and was a major of 2d, 3d, 5d and 6d values. When news that the buyer - I still have a wad of mint KGV head blocks tour was cancelled was received, the stamps were still in Harmers lot cards, near 40 years on! I doubt ordered to be destroyed. the “Vanguard” on front cover of that sale was Allegedly about 7 stamps were caught in the ex McNess - I do not think he even collected NZ. door of the destruction furnace, and were salvaged However, whomever owned it, saw it go unsold at by a naughty workman: the rest being consigned to $A14,000. the flames. All are creased and damaged, some far This aborted 3d “HMS Vanguard” stamp issue is mentioned in a footnote by Stanley Gibbons in catalogues after SG 697. The better looking stamp shown nearby will be included in Mowbray Collectables March 11 public stamp auction in NZ, with an estimate of NZ$25,000. The Mowbrays website is truly of appalling 1990s super clunky standard, no search option, and no photos of anything when I looked today, but the “Vanguard” listing is indeed buried in there SOMEWHERE I am told by David What a way to do a Royal Tour! 56 - Stamp News


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Unsold Harmer Sydney, in June 1979. Smitham, despite 10 minutes of searching, and not locating it! A really badly abused example of the stamp allegedly sold in quite recent times, for about $NZ30,000 (amazingly) which was scrubbed, bleached, stained, badly creased, no gum, and crudely pressed, to vainly try and disguise the heavy creasing and marks and perf faults etc.

Roughie allegedly sells $30,000

for my records? Another example, this one mint with gum, and a full gum OFFSET, was offered by Paul Fraser Auctions of London with a £15,000 estimate a couple of years back - there appears to be no reports of it selling. A chunk of the base was missing. But with a strong gum OFFSET, I am smelling “printer’s waste” origin with all the 7 known copies being of that reject grade appearance. In a November 2009 Mowbray’s sale in New Zealand, a mint 3d “HMS Vanguard” was invoiced for $NZ31,455 to a Hong Kong buyer, on an estimate of $NZ25,000. That stamp was in inferior condition to the one offered now, but far better than the scrubbed one, AND the 2 examples with pieces missing! In that same 2009 Mowbrays sale, I bought some superb and unique Waterlow gummed plate proofs of the unissued Royal Visit stamps for New Zealand. That was 8 years ago, and now and again I see the stockcard appear, and it vanishes in to the rubble again here, but I must dig them out one day!

It was a truly ugly dog as you can see. The artificially brightened scan shown nearby was a feeble attempt to visually minimise most of the creasing Australia’s most under-rated stamp? and stains and scrubbing etc. Whatever Bunny I was scanning the nearby 5/- into stock this week, paid $30,000 I hope keeps an eye on what this FAR and it occurred to me it must take the prize for superior example with gum, fetches at Mowbrays in THE most undervalued and under-rated stamp this a couple of weeks! country has issued. The I do recall another exAustralia 1908, 5/- “With ample was offered at the Stroke” Postage Due is a Stanley Gibbons Australia very overlooked stamp, and Auction in March 1999, at yet I sold this for near half the massive “Australia 99” what the current Australia Stamp Expo International. Post Year Book costs! It has an estimate of just This 5/- is probably Aus$A10,000, but I do not have tralia’s most over-looked a record of what it sold for, stamp issue. Released with if indeed it sold - someone ZERO advice or fanfare, may be able to advise me Doctored and fiddled beyond belief. and sent to WA and NSW

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Market Matters ONLY - all other states used only Licking on a 2/- and charging 2d the original “5” Monocolour, and to the recipient was a very costly this 5/- “Stroke” was replaced mess. in less than a year by the 5/- BiThey PO foolishly issued a 1d Colour in 1909. and 1/-, a 5d and 5/-, a 2d and 2/-, *NO* UPU CTOs or Speciand 10d and 10/- etc in the set, mens of this trio was ever made that all looked pretty much identi- near unique among early Auscal to each other on a glance. As tralia stamps of this era. So used can readily be seen from the photo examples are the ONLY affordnearby, with the 2d and 2/- values able way to collect this 5/- stamp placed alongside each other. - mint are many times scarcer, and Ten PENCE and Ten SHILeven they are not very pricey. LINGS was a vast difference in The 20/- in this same “with revenue, if mixed up at a Post stroke” series is SG Cat £50,000 Office counter. Near a week’s Very scarce, but a pittance! used, and the 10/- “with stroke” wages for a working man, and middle value is also very rare. must have been a nightmare to This 5/- SHOULD really be square away the books, if used in $1,000++. SG are just WRONG on this stamp. I error, as I am sure many were. see one each TEN years. And then, they are usually Remember we are talking 1902 here. There was in rough shape. generally no widespread electric light in all cities Clean and superb used, with crisp “POSTE here until about WWI, so the small dark post ofRESTANTE PERTH - 7 AUG 09 - WESTERN fices were generally poorly lit, and try sorting these AUSTRALIA” cds - the month before the 5/- bistamps apart when in a hurry in late afternoon half colour Due was issued. Show me another at ANY light - it would have been very easy to mix them up, price, in ANY condition for sale, anywhere - they as you can imagine. are really are not plentiful, despite the modest cataWe must also remember that the Definitive logue value. stamps of the era all were in totally different deAs I reported last month, the earlier 1902 green signs, and all in different colours, and were a cinch monocolour issue of exact same general design, to sort apart by clerks. But a set of a dozen different had the figure of value up HUGE in centre of each Dues, all in the exact same green, and with the same stamp, so that the big single numeral valPence and Shilling ues in the centre, were values could be very a nightmare to sort. easily mixed up by PO staff, as you can see Very readily nearby. confused. The 2d Postage Due All just had a large value was of course “2” and “10” in centre very heavily used, beetc, and nothing else ing double the 1d defiexcept tiny letters saycient rate, so any letter ing PENCE or SHILor postcard without LINGS underneath. a stamp was rated 2d So in 1908/1909 they Postage Dues owing. VERY similar design types. 58 - Stamp News


Glen Stephens needed to re-issue the 1/- to 20/this clown’s salary is “Too High” values “With Diagonal Stroke” to and said he had asked the Board save confusion, and the obvious to trim his package back. Austrarevenue loss. lia Post is majority owned by The That early Australia 1902 Federal Government - i.e. TAXoriginal green design in turn was PAYERS. of course using the same plates In News Limited papers Februof the NSW 1891 Postage Due ary 11, PM Turnbull stated Fahour series. And what is little known was paid “way too much” and is, that NSW totally stole that de“he should volunteer for a pay sign from the USA Postage Dues cut.” Turnbull called such packof the same era, as you can see on ages “the cult of excessive executhe photo nearby of a USA stamp. tive CEO remuneration” so let us So from 1891 to the 1909 Biwatch and see what develops. My Colours, all these Postage Dues guess is this type of carpetbagDesign stolen from USA! we sold, were stolen slavishly ger will not offer even one CENT from the USA claret design for back to taxpayers and PO users. those 18 years. Very few realise that - the Statute Fahour’s wages and bonus last year, that he of Limitation for Design Theft have now expired I desperately tried to have declared confidential, was hope. $A5.4 MILLION. This is TEN times what our The set was quietly issued with no announcePrime Minister gets paid - indeed it is FIFTEEN ment. The ACSC “Postage Dues” volume outlines times what the Postmaster General of the USA gets that this late 1909 issue had just “a few months” paid. limited use before the 1909 Bi-Colours were reThe previous year he oversaw the first LOSS in leased latter year, when all the monocolour values PO history, and the tiny on paper “profit” from last were withdrawn, the ACSC also confirms. year was apparently from very secretly spinning off So the auction this month of the third known 20/- the valuable leases of all GPOs around the country. will be occurring as you read this, and doubtless Selling off the farm to ensure his bonus - some brilwill be invoiced at $30,000 or so. For those with liant BandAid “management” style. less deep pockets, do not overlook the humble 5/- of The national Fairfax media reported it thus on this exact series. Don’t ask me for any – the one February 9 – above sold in hours, but it is a VERY worthwhile “Given Australia Post is a government-owned stamp to chase down. FU or clean mint. entity, maybe we should compare it with the US Postal Service, which generated revenue of more than $US70.4 billion ($A92.3 billion) last year, and Ahmed Fahour MUST go. The CEO of Australia Post was all over the national has 493,381 employees. The USPS boss, Megan Brennan - the first womMedia mid-February, when his frantic attempts to an in history to hold the job - gets a base salary of hide his obscene salary, and those of his mega-paid $US276,840 ($A363,103)” henchmen, were rejected by our Parliament - who It would be like the CEO of Coca Cola Australia, after all, PAY him. They directed that all the salaries getting 15 times what the CEO of Coca Cola Atlanbe made public. Well done. ta HQ is paid. That is NEVER going to occur in the Even the Prime Minister, Malcom Turnbull real business world, outside of the loopy Australian believed by some to head a near Billionaire level dynasty himself, was on national TV News agreeing Government. There is a message there for Canberra. Get RID of him. Stamp News - 59


Market Matters Many are asking how this carpetbagger ever got the top job. ZERO experience in any Postal Administration - it seems his main talent is extracting obscene contracts for himself, and hypnotising someone into signing them! Since Fahour took the helm, the service of AP has fallen to Zimbabwe levels, but prices have soared to Norway levels. Even Pauline Hanson, our Wacksville politician here, that like Donald Trump somehow got elected, has the same view - the first time ever I can recall agreeing with her general thoughts! That is a worry. But this man seems to have the cool knack of getting everyone in this country disliking him! “I’m absolutely seething over this, to think that the head of Australia Post - the CEO - is getting paid $5.6 million. Last year, he donated $2.6 million of his wages to an Islamic museum.” Hanson said she also agreed with Malcolm Turnbull, after the Prime Minister said he believed the salary was “too high”.

AP - to Hell in a Handbasket.

I send and receive often a HUNDRED or more tracked mail pieces a week. And have done for decades. The service from Australia Post used to be excellent - next day delivery for most things, even parcels, and often parcels to next state got there in a day or two. I know that folks who mail seven Xmas cards a year at 65c, which all arrive OK, often think AP is just brilliant, but those of us in the REAL world of postal commerce, can tell them the system is STUFFED, and Fahour has stuffed it, due to his idiotic new ideas, that meddle with perfectly good and time proven existing systems. I do not really care if he is Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist or Communist or Agnostic, Fahour has been an obscenely overpaid destructive WRECKING BALL during his tenure at AP. Messing with systems that worked perfectly well before. Can readers please take a careful look at this standard size, standard weight, Sydney-Melbourne cover shown nearby, and tell me how THEY would feel if they were sender or recipient??? It took TEN 60 - Stamp News

$10,000 contents : took 10 weeks. weeks to go nowhere, and to this day, PO has no idea where it is. It contained stamps the buyer had paid me $10,000 for, and was sent Registered Mail. It was neatly addressed - with carefully written correct Ivanhoe postcode “3079” placed in the correct position lower right as all can see, and franked with the correct $1 domestic postage. It was mailed expensive Registered Mail, NOVEMBER 23, SYD-MEL, a simple route that for 150 years was 1 or 2 days in transit. Even in the horse and buggy days. It has the “SWLF” (Sydney LeightonField sorting centre) inkjet cancel on face of 9.11am next day after I mailed it, November 24. Agree? As all can see from tracking, it first arrived in Melbourne THREE weeks later - December 13.


Glen Stephens 6 weeks? Why no transit tracking in either Melbourne and Sydney since then, and why no signature here in Sydney being sought and obtained upon delivery to me, really infuriates. Lucky I am honest. Does this letter appear REGISTERED to others?? It could not be more clearly marked. How on EARTH could it go zipping about, in those vast humanless Mail Centres run by non-functioning machines, without being scanned and tracked and accounted for, between Dec 13 and end of January??

Lost in AP Black Hole 3 months.

“IT’S COMING TODAY” - forever. That in itself is APPALLING. Even 100 years back, trains got mail between these two cities same day literally. And for one penny! In Melbourne, at Ivanhoe Post Office, it gets marked as “R.T.S.” - Return to Sender for some reason. My sender address on back flap is a crystal clear rubber stamp - the “2068” postcode is crisp and unmistakable. It SHOULD have reached me back December 15. It did not, and a phone enquiry was lodged with Australia Post, as can be seen, on December 15. As usual the Drones on there simply say - “It is now on its way back to Sender Sir, you have a nice day”. The barely functioning PO tracking site has for the past 8 weeks told me each day “It’s coming today” as you can see. You could go input the number yourself 499778687016 - but the PO naughtily scrolls them off after 3 months. Always take screen captures as I did. These folks are SNEAKY. The white elephant Post Office tracking site STILL says as this is typed mid-February “It’s coming today” despite the letter being unceremoniously dumped in my street letter box, on Friday January 27. No signature sought here, on a $10,000 envelope that these idiots had lost for TEN weeks. No tracking events anywhere showing WHERE it has been, since December 13 in Ivanhoe. NADA. Where does a REGISTERED standard size PO approved envelope just VANISH to, for

My $10,000 Buyer has been most patient. Bless you George! And had he not been, he’d have just disputed the charge on his credit card, thus tying the seller up in a paperwork mess for hours. He paid me $10,000 in NOVEMBER. I mailed it in NOVEMBER. As I type this mid FEBRUARY, the re-sent Registered letter to him is ALSO lost in the PO mess. The re-sent $10,000 stamp back to George was lodged in January, and as I type this mid-February, not a trace of it - just the Castlecrag lodgement tracking is showing. MAYBE it will arrive this month - meaning he gets it THREE MONTHS after it was first mailed, and paid for. Let’s play his waiting game - look it up on the White Elephant PO “Tracking” disaster - tinyurl.com/trackAPO Tell me how YOU would be feeling if your REGISTERED letter with $10,000 of goods had simply vanished off the face of the earth for THREE MONTHS, for what should be a next day journey? This has wasted endless hours of my time, and the buyer’s time. And still has me worried we are $10,000 in the hole, due to this Monty Python barely functioning Post Office still not delivering it. I frankly assumed it had been stolen or lost. Inexcusably the quite hopeless and farcical Post Office Registration label fee compensation has been UNCHANGED for over half a century, literally at $100 Maximum. Despite the Registered Mail fee being literally hiked TWENTY fold during that time. Much more on that here - tinyurl.com/GlenFeb

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Market Matters As I have typed before - that compensation limit needs to be immediately raised to $1,000 maximum, as part of the ever increasing $3.90 Registered label cost - to go to $4 next rise. One still needs to prove the content cost price, and prove the item was lost or damaged, and one can’t fake that, as PO tracking will not support that.

Registered Compo MUST increase to $1000.

In New Zealand you can mail THREE Kilos anywhere in the country for $NZ5.90 ($A5½) with full tracking, and compensation to $250. To do that from here to Darwin by ROAD costs about $40, and takes 2 weeks, but I digress. Our $100 cover for domestic Registered is appalling, and to get the PO to pay even one cent, no matter how at fault they have been, is an hour paperwork battle. Overseas Registered is archaic. The only way to mail anything Registered is via the pre-paid red/white/blue envelopes. They come in a large ($A24.60) and small size, and the small size shown nearby costs about $A16 - and of course both have the same paltry $100 MAXIMUM compensation. The PO in their wisdom changed the designs totally early 2017, and the new style has silly little boxes to write in, on LH side. These overseas Registereds are a joke. Lodge one at your PO and there is ZERO tracking that you can see at any time. The seller can’t see the item was even lodged, or when, on the archaic PO tracking site. “No Events Found”. So if you mail some-

ZERO tracking on these things. 62 - Stamp News

thing February 1 and buyer overseas has not got it March 1, you can only say: “I mailed it Registered a month back - TRUST ME”. In this age of buyers - Americans especially, expecting mailings “yesterday, if not far sooner please” this is appalling. They dispute the charge with their credit card, and are of course refunded as seller CANNOT offer a shred of proof the item was ever mailed. If you are an ebay seller, PayPal will immediately refund the buyer for goods, AND the $16 Reg’d cost, even if the item duly arrives next week. Fahour has some Fat Cat buddy on a mere Million a year I am sure, heading up the Registered Mail Division of the Fahour Empire, and if he could please remove his head from his Facebook page, and bring their systems into the 21st Century, that would be mightily appreciated by the CLIENTS paying these salaries, and $24.60 per envelope.

SYDNEY-DARWIN 8 times.

The PO system is broken - and getting WORSE. I had a parcel to NSW late 2016 to a client go Sydney-Darwin EIGHT times over 2 months. Like a demented Yo-Yo. 32,000 Kms literally - Sydney to London and back distance nearly. The barely functioning PO laser parcel scanning systems just do not work much of the time. Again they scroll off all the evidence after 3 months. See my earlier article. WHY? As “Genius CEO” Fahour approved spending $A500 MILLION on parcel sorting machines that do NOT work, buying them as kit sets from Holland, then stupidly bolting on 5 different software system that were never designed for it, and they all became vast White Elephants that barely function - even today. THIS is why parcel and overseas rates have gone through the roof since Fahour took the helm. Several increases EACH year. He needs no government approval for any of them. The senders of a few Xmas cards at 65¢ simply have no idea. Fahour has ZERO idea how a Post Office should work, as he had NEVER worked in


Glen Stephens one. Fancy that. Putting someone who was a good dentist, or airline executive, or Hotel Manager, or restaurant owner in charge of a national POST OFFICE does not necessarily work As Fahour has proven in spades. Track record is everything in that field. He is losing money, and is obscenely overpaid at $5½ Million a year, and clearly has no idea what he is doing, and should have been sacked a year or two back. NOT getting ever higher wages, and an Order Of Australia, for being consistently and monumentally incompetent.

Near Universally Reviled.

tors like Derryn Hinch, Pauline Hanson, Cory Bernardi, Nick Xenophon and The Greens etc, also send emails to them suggesting this Fahour should be drop kicked back to where he came from, and a REAL CEO appointed with EXPERIENCE, which might just get some action.

Norfolk Aerogram sells for $5,600.

I meant to mention this in a past column but forgot! Anyway, as a “scratch your head curio data point” this not very exciting looking Norfolk aerogram was invoiced for $5,600 at a large Public Auction in 2016. Be honest - if you saw this rather ratty, cellotape stained 1954 Aerogram in a dealer’s $5 box, would you have even looked twice, much less BOUGHT it? A common 10d definitive stamp worth probably a dollar or so, soaked off the piece. I am sure 99% of those reading being HONEST, would not bother looking twice at it. It had an estimate of $1,000, and was invoiced for near 6 times that. It was one of many mail pieces that survived the 1954 BOAC mail plane crash in Singapore. I’ve sold nicely charred covers from here to Scotland for under $100. However is this case, a Norfolk Island Aerogram collector was very keen to secure it, and fought off a clearly very keen under-bidder. So as I often type

Fahour seems near universally REVILED by all I speak to. Post Offices, drivers, staffers, mail users etc. People at dinner parties even. Have never heard a single positive or friendly thing said about him, and you CANNOT head any large Corporation, if those working in it despise you, and this gentleman seems to have achieved that distinction sadly. Fahour thinks he is: “AMAZZN”. “The Australian Financial Review” reported our Post Supremo bought a brand new Maserati with part of his obscene wage, and I kid you not - adorned it with personalised number plates of “AMAZZN”. Almost impossible to believe, but it is true, and our RevHead’s new Maserati chariot in his Taxpayer funded Hawthorn Mansion garage also includes a Ferrari, Aston Martin, and Mercedes Gull Wing. Hooning about in them no doubt is more fun, than sorting out why my Registered letter SYD-MEL takes 10 weeks. Minister for Communication and Arts is Senator Mitch Fifield – minister@communications.gov.au and senator.fifield@ aph.gov.au - contact him. If you are Victorian, he is YOUR Senator. The recent pay headlines are one thing - appalling service is another - tell Fifield your own experiences. Send them a direct link to this piece - tinyurl.com/Glen3-17 Seeing the Senate is now controlled by a Would YOU have paid $A5,600 for this?! rag-tag bunch of non-mainstream Sena-

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Market Matters - “Knowledge Is Power” - see anything unusual from NORFOLK Island - and take another very long hard look at it! A bunch of serious well-heeled collectors, and little material.

Koala Stamp Surprise.

There has recently been much global excitement with the China show “Jewel Beetle” sets of 5 Sheets selling for $A1,750 a set on ebay from the huge CHINA Expo in December 2016. A pretty set, and little wonder global interest is high. Jewel Beetle Stamps sell for $A1750. See one of those illustrated nearby. Link to that ebay sale here - tinyurl.com/ and I trust it is strongly supported. SSBeetle - sold by a stampboarder memAlong with the “Beetles”, the 2004 $1 Koala ber TO another stampboarder on ebay! The set cost stamp design was resurrected from the Archives for the buyer over $A1,750 at that time. Lots of more the attractive Mini Sheet shown nearby. They sold photos of those Sheets, and the China show here well, as PO learnt long ago that 5 Yuan ($A1) is the tinyurl.com/Chhina1 PERFECT price point for Chinese show buyers, If you missed out on that set, Gary Brown, APF as there is a small denomination banknote for that Judge, and Vice-President of “Melbourne 2017” exact value. in March, announced on stampboards.com he had If you make the design of something topical, and managed to secure another full set. He will be ofquirky and cool to Chinese, and super Australian fering it at the Phoenix Auction in March, with the proceeds to support the show. A wonderful gesture, like a Koala Bear, it is a fast impulse buy, and you sell HEAPS. The Australia Post booth had long lines, and was MOBBED with collectors, with Security Guards on hand etc! Stampboards members posted up

“2004” Micro Date on 2016 issue. 64 - Stamp News


Glen Stephens images of this on link nearby. So these $1 sheets sold well, and near all will never enter the Australian market, being bought one at a time by Chinese show visitors as cheap souvenirs. I bought a parcel of these in December, as it was obvious to me they’d been overlooked, and basically noone it seems, had noticed the “2004” Micro Print error. Australia Post had only a small number on sale for a couple of weeks after the show, and they sold fast, and are long gone. As far as I am aware, collectors with PO standing orders will NOT get this sheet in their mailing this year, nor will it be in the Annual Albums. So demand will be strong when word gets out that it exists. And here is one neat thing overlooked by $1 Koala perforation variety discovery near everyone until now. The PO issued it in December 2016, but with a “2004” issue new in their catalogues, is that it be sold at FACE date micro printed in error above the $1 sign VALUE, and that no artificial restrictions be placed as can be seen above. Why? As the original $1 on supply. The Australia Post “Bulletin” of Novemstamp was issued back then, and possibly someone lazy in the PO Art Department did not digitally alter ber 2016 clearly announced this issue in advance it to read “2016” as is normal strict policy at Austra- - see screen shot of that nearby. Anyone could have bought them in late 2016. lia Post. Most folks went GA-GA over the “Jewel Beetles” sheets which have sold for $1,750 a set on Totally different Perforations. ebay, and overlooked this poor little Koala MiniaFar more important, a collector told me mid-Febture Sheet, as no-one had any idea it was a differruary he believed this $1 stamp was a totally DIFent perforation to the original, until I reported it on FERENT perforation to the original 2004 issued stampboards this week. $1 of the exact same design. So I went and got the As can be seen, PO very clearly stated in adoriginal $1 Koala stamp from stock - SG 2399. SG vance of issue, they would be on sale Mint or CTO states that is perforated 14 x 14½. I measured it via mail order, via Post Offices nationally, and via with my SG “INSTANTA”, and that is 100% corthe PO website. And of course were freely on sale rect and accurate. at the China show from December 2, at face value. I measured the new version, which is 14 x 13½ exactly. Perf 13½ is a very LARGE difference to Freely on sale at $1 each for months. 14½. I’ll pass this surprising new discovery on to These were certainly on sale for a time on the PO the Stanley Gibbons Catalogue Editor and others for website at $1 each, as a client pointed them out to their information, and suggest they consider listme in early December, who had ordered some. They ing these as SG 2399b - perf 14 x 13½. Pricing as have not been on the website for a month or two always, is in their hands. now, as large numbers are generally not printed for The main criterion SG have for listing anything overseas shows, and they sell out fast. Stamp News - 65


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Clearly announced in November 2016. Those who collect FDC could have had them ser- and the scarcer perf variety is 14.8. A TINY variaviced December 2 in the usual fashion. Even neatly tion, and half as much variance as this one. affixing a December 2 CTO mini sheet onto a blank Where these will end up I have no idea. I offered cover becomes a FDC of course, as December 2 mine for a few dollars apiece as a bit of a curio, and cancel is generally placed wholly on the sheet. at way less than a cup of coffee they might not be The “Bulletin” of course did not mention the dif- the worst stamp buy that folks will make in 2017. ferent perforation (I only found that out this week) Nothing I’ll get very rich from, but new and excitnor the error with the “2004” micro date being left ing things like this keeps interest high. on the plate - indeed I am sure they had no idea of Many bought a few off me to use on local mail either, to be honest! to stamp penfriends etc, and to mail small ebay I took both $1 stamps, and scanned them from sales out to good buyers, as they look very cool on a the back, as the perfs show clearly on back, and letter, as you can see nearby, and POSTALLY used as can be seen, they start off matching perfectly at like this at correct rate on cover, in period of issue, top and base, and then deviate sharply soon after, are worth many times the mint price of course! being totally different gauges. They line up again about half way down the stamp, and the teeth start falling out of kilter soon after, as you can see. Lots of folks globally collect significant perforation variations. The $1 Navigator stamp from Australia has a far smaller perforation variance, but remains keenly sought. SG 401 is cat £1.50, but SG 401c is cat £80. One is perforated 14.3, Cool way to pay local postage! 66 - Stamp News


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Cricket Philatelic Society (President, A. Melville-Brown) email: mel.cricket.100@googlemail.com

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

act Canberra, Philatelic Society of: 1st Thursday: General Meeting,3rd Thursday: Afternoon Meeting (IF REQUIRED),3rd Thursday: (Evening) Exchange Night, 2nd Tuesday: Postcard Group, 4th Monday: Machin Collectors Group. All meetings 7:45pm, Griffin Centre, Genge Street, Canberra City Postal Address:PO Box 1840,Canberra ACT 2601,Email:psc@netspeed.com.au www.canberrastamps.org

western australia The Airmail Circle of WA: Mtg 5th Monday “Wellington Fair” Unit 18, 40 Lord St. East Perth Tel: 08 9294 3356 Armadale-Kelmscott PS: Mtg 4th Tues; Ph: 08 9397 6525 email: fit.kanga@bigpond.com Bridgetown-Manjimup SC: Mtg 1st Thurs 4.30pm Bridgetown Library Ph 08 9761 4638 or 08 9761 2005 Busselton SC: Mtg 1st Mon, 5pm 7th Day Adv. Church, Alpha St; Ph: 08 9752 4449, 0400 646 282 email witches1@westnet.com.au Canning SC: Mtg 1st Wed; Ph: 08 9457 7565 Daytime SC: Mtg 1st Thurs; 08 9341 3576 Denmark SC: Mtg 1st Weds Lions Lair Rivermouth Inlet Drive, Denmark. Tel: 08 9848 3325 email: fishneil@westnet.com.au Eastern Goldfields: Mtg 3rd Thurs ; Ph: 0412 156 351 Eaton SC: Mtg 3rd Thurs, 7pm Ph. 08 9795 7744, email: scrapbit@tpg.com Fremantle and District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed, St. Peter’s Church Hall, 4 Hammad St., Palmyra. Circuit books 7pm, meeting 8pm Ph: 08 9284 7125 Have a go SC: Mtg Last Thurs. 137 Edward St, East Perth. Tel: 08 9305 2073 email: nigan@iinet.net.au Kalamunda SC: Mtg 3rd Wed; Ph: 08 9291 8484

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NSW club information:The Philatelic Association of NSW, PO Box220, Darlinghurst, NSW, 1300 Phone: 02 9264 8301

Northern Suburbs PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs, 7.45pm, Naremburn Library, Central St, Naremburn off Slade St; Ph: 02 9419 7354 Orange Coin and Stamp Club: Mtg Last Tuesday, Orange Community Info Centre, 79-81 Kite St, Orange 7.30pm Ph: 02 6362 3754. Orchid Stamp Club: Mtg 3rd Sat. (Jan and each 2nd mth) Parramatta PS: Mtg 1st Friday Penrith and District PS: Mtg 1st Thursdays, 8pm, Unit 3A Castlereagh St. 02 4733 3062 PHILAS Stamp Auctions: Mtg 2nd Sat Mar,Jul, Nov Ph 02 9264 8301 PS of Australia: Mtg 3rd Wed (exDec); Ph 02 9399 7556 PS of NSW: Mtg 1st Tues (Philas House), 3rd Tues (Chatswood); Ph: 02 9264 8301 Richmond River (Lismore) PS: Mtg 4th Thursday Royal Sydney Philatelic Club: Mtg 2nd Tues. (ex Jan); Ph: 02 9264 8301 Sapphire Coast Stamp & Coin Club: Mtg Enq 02 6495 7308. Mail to PO Box 285, Pambula, NSW 2549 St. George PS: Mtg 1st Mon Shoalhaven PS: Mtg 2nd Monday (Ex Jan) PO Box 4047, East Nowra 2541. Ph 02 44472976 Smithfield SC: Mtg 2nd Mon Society for Polar Philately: 2012 meetings: 2nd Wednesday of February, March, May, July, Sept and November held at Ryde Ex-Services Club 724-730 Victoria Rd, Ryde, NSW Tel: 9807 3344 (in Mackinnon room) starting at 8pm.Enq 0407 277 223 or email penviews@hotmail.com Strathfield-Burwood PS: Mtg 4th Wed Sussex Inlet and District: Mtg 3rd Mon Sutherland Shire PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. , 7:30pm, Sutherland Uniting Services Club, 7 East Pde, Sutherland. Information Secretary, PO Box 339, Sutherland, NSW 1499 Sydney Anglican Stamp Society: Mtg 2nd Sat, even months 9.30am - 2.30pm, St Paul’s, Carlingford. www.sass.asn.au Tamworth PS: Mtg 1st Mon ex. Jan. Tamworth Bridge Club, 7 Hilton St, Tamworth Sec. Graeme Mitchell. PO Box 678, Tamworth NSW 2340 Ph. 02 67664853 Taree RSL Club Ltd SC: Mtg 3rd Mon Thematic Society of Australia: Mtg 3rd Wed Toronto SC: Mtg 1st Wed Tuggerah SC: Mtg 4th Sun (ex Dec.) Turramurra SC: Mtg 2nd Monday, 7.45pm. Ph: 9144 4225 Twin Towns Stamp Club Inc.: Mtg 1st Monday, 7.30p, Masonic Centre, 8 Boyd St, Tweed Heads, 07 5535 3168 Wagga SC: Mtg 1st Wed (ex Jan) ARCC Building, Tarcutta St, 7.30pm. Secretary: Peter Simpfendorfer Ph:02 6922 3393 Willoughby Legion Philatelic Section: Mtg 4th Tues Wyong PS: Mtgs: 3rd Tues 7.30pm, daytime meetings 1st Weds, KGV Heads group 4th Weds. Jim Spence Sec. 02 4392 3610 email: dandasonter6@bigpond.com

northern territory Alice Springs SC: Meet Informally; PO Box 1529, Alice Springs, NT, 0871. Ph 08 8953 3054 Darwin Philatelic Circle: 1st Sun. 10am - 2pm. 53 Flametree Crt, Rosebery; Ph:(08) 8931 2898; PO Box 1624, Palmerston, NT, 0831; Email: Nadine.Tinsley@nt.gov.au-. WA club information: WA Philatelic Council, GPO Box 9800, Perth, WA, 6001 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 Citizens’s Hall, Gatton. Kerri Martin, Sec. Ph: 07 5465 3390 Email: lvsc@bigpond.com Logan City SC: Meetings 2nd Thurs, Presbyterian Church, Barry St, Slacks Creek, 6pm. Ph: 07 3805 9226.

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

Mackay and District PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 07 4942 5433; Maryborough and Wide Bay PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex. Jan). Salvation Army Youth 7 Comm. Hall. Bazaar St Maryborough. Ph: 07 41224708 (see also Hervey Bay) Nanango SC: Mtg 2nd Sat, 10:00am, Nanango RSL. Contact Ph: 07 3103 8938 or ema il: bowtell_harris@activ8.net.au Philatelic Society of Qld: Mtg 4th Wed 7.30pm,18 Coolcrest St, Wynnum. Ph: 07 3245 5222 Queensland Study Group: Sunday bi-monthly 1.00pm meets QPS house. Contact Ph: 07 3396 0846 email: QPC-stamps@acenet.net.au Redland Bay Coin and Stamp Club, 4th Thurs. Monthly. John Hardman 07 3206 9996 or 07 3822 6987 Rockhampton SC: Mtg 1st Tues. Ph: 07 4926 3336. email: rockystampclub@gmail.com Sherwood Afternoon SC: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 07 3372 6096 Southport Afternoon SC: Mtg 2nd Sat; Ph: 07 55630384 Southside PS: Mtg 3rd Tuesday & 3rd Wednesay (9am) Ph: 07 3848 2304 (ah) email: david. appleton@mailbox.uq.edu.au Sunshine Coast SC (formerly Nambour SC): Mtg 1st Wed, 7.15pm Red Cross Rms, Price St., Nambour 07 5445 3647 Thematics Queensland: Mtg bi-monthly 9.30am. Ph: 07 3262 5605 email: j.crowsley@ uq.net.au Toowoomba SC: Mtg. 2nd Sat 1pm, Salvation Army Hall, Cnr. West St. 7 Anzac Ave. Ph. 07 4635 5623 Email: bob.benny@bigpond.com Twin Towns SC: Mtg 1st Mon; Ph: 07 5535 3168 Waterloo Bay SC: Mtg. 1st Thurs. 1pm & 4th Mon. 7pm. Redlands Multi SportsClub, Birkdale Ph: 07 3206 0815

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philatelic clubs & societies south australia

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

Australian Airmail Society: 1st Wed. 7.45pm 22 Gray Court, Adelaide. PO Box 395, Edwardstown 5039. Ph: 08 8276 3969 Barossa SC: Mtg 1st Tue 7.30 Greenock Luth Church Hall, Bevan St, Greenock; 19 Evans Street Ancaston 5353; email: ptomely1939@gmail.com; Ph: (08) 8562 8386 Blackwood PC: Mtg 2nd Wed ex Jan; Uniting Church, Main Rd, Blackwood; Ph: 08 8278 1629; PO Box 581, Blackwood 5051; email: teepee@teegee.com.au Bordertown & Districts PS: Mtg: 3rd Thurs. Bordertown PS Contact: K. Grey Tel: 08 8752 0446 or email cdhuntmundulla@yahoo.com.au Community PS: Mtg 1st & 3rd Fri - 7.30pm. Marion Bowling Club, off Sturt Rd. PO Box 75 Edwardstown, 5039; Auctions, circuit books. Ph: 0408806894 City of Noarlunga PS: Mtg alternate thurs,-- Community Health Centre, Grand Boulevard, Seaford, Contact 08 85566371 or PO Box 272, Port Noarlunga 5167 Eastern Districts PS: 2nd Thurs (ex. Jan), 7.30pm Senior citizens Hall, 47 Reid Ave. Hectorville; PO Box 240, Magill, 5072; Ph: 0400 156 796 Elizabeth PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Fridays, 7.30pm, RSL Hall, Cnr of Halseys/Midway Rds;PO Box 701, Elizabeth 5112; Ph: 08 8255 0608 Encounter Bay SC: Mtg 1st Wed, 7.30pm; School Hall, Woolworths Centre, Victor Harbour; PO Box 317, Goolwa 5214; aydepe@bigpond.com; Ph: 08 8555 3311 SA Power Networks Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Mon (ex. Jan); Canteen, 1 Anzac Highway, Keswick; PO Box 2079, Magill North, 5072; Ph: 08 8278 7163 Frama Club: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm, members homes; For collectors of CPS, Framas. Newsletter and Auctions. PO Box 62 Campbelltown 5074. Gawler SC: Mtg 4th Mon 7.30pm; Evanston Primary School, Para Rd, Evanston. PO Box 2, Willaston 5118; Ph: 08 8522 2335 Email: jo.trev@bigpond.com German Philatelic Club: Mtg 2nd & 4th Mon 8pm; German Club, 223 Flinders St, Adelaide 5000; Ph: 08 8260 2251 Glenside PS: 1st 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 St Arnaud SC: Mtg 3rd Mon (excl. Jan & Dec) 03 54951371 Warragul PS: Mtg 2nd Fri Warrnambool PS: Mtg 3rd Wed 7.45pm St Joseph’s Primary School, Botanic Road;Ph: 03 5561 1470 Waverley PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs 7.30pm, Mt Waverley Community Centre, 47 Miller Cres, Mt Waverley; Daytime mtg the following Friday, 9.30am, Uniting Church Hall, 482 High St, Mt Waverley. Ph. 03 9898 4102 Obtain Tasmanian clubs information from: Tasmanian Stamp Council, GPO Box 9800, Hobart, TAS, 7001. Ph: 03 6278 7084 Hobart Junior Group: Mtg 1st Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224 Kingston Junior Group: Mtg 2nd Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224 Launceston PS: 1st Thurs. & 3rd Sat. ex. Jan. 6.30 pm, Max Fry Hall,TrevallynLauncestonTel: 03 6331 2580 (A/H) Mersey-Leven PS: Contact: 03 6425 3603 Rosny Junior Group: Mtg Last Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224 Tasmanian PS: Mtg Last Monday (ex. Dec); www.tps.org.au, Legacy House, 159 Macquarie St Hobart


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victoria

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

March 5 - (1st Sun) Western Suburbs Stamp, Coin &

Quinn’s Arcade, Summer St, Orange. Ph: Norm 02

Banknote Fair, Strathmore Bowling Club, 40 Loeman St,

63623754.

Strathmore. Enq: Chris. 0413355716.

March 4 - (1st Sat) Northside Stamp Fair. 1st Floor, Car

March 19 - (3rd Sun) Stamp, Card - Phone Card Fair,

park Building, Manly-Warringah Leagues Club, cnr Fed-

Bentleigh-McKinnon Youth Centre, Higgins Rd, Bentleigh.

eral Parade/Pittwater Rd, Brookvale, NSW.

Dealers plus huge range activities. Ph: 0418 322 315.

March 4 - (1st Sat) Katoomba Stamp & Coin Fair, 9am -

March 26 - (last Sun ex Dec) Stamp, Coin & Phonecard

4pm, Masonic Hall, Cnr Station & Civic Sts, Katoomba. Ph.

Fair, Jaycees Hall, Silver Grove, Nunawading. 9am-3pm.

0417 802 754

queensland

March 4 - (1st Sat) Sutherland Shire Stamp & Coin Collectors Fair, Gymea Anglican Church Hall, 131 Gymea Bay Rd, Gymea. March 19 - (3rd Sun) Stamp & Coin Fair, 10am - 3pm, Pioneers Hall, Cowper St, Wallsend. 8 Dealers. 4971 3483

TBA - QStamp Fair, Southside, Mt Gravatt Showgrounds, Memorial Hall, Logan Rd. Free Entry 8.30am - 2pm March 13 - (2nd Mon) - Gold Coast PS Sale, Rm 1, Southport Comm. Centre, Lawson St, Southport. 11.30am 2.30pm Brisbane Table Tennis Association Centre

March 26 - (4th Sun) Epping Stamp & Coin Fair, Commu-

March 26/27 - Gladstone Stamp Show, Foyer, Central Qld.

nity Hall, 9 Oxford St, Epping. 10am - 4pm. Free Entry, 6

Univ., Marina Campus, Gladstone. 07 4978 1155 email:

Dealers, Buy/Sell.

secretary@gdps.org.au

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Special Auction - 29th March 2017

2nd Wmk Block of 4, MUH. Ex Kilfoyle.

2nd Wmk Block of 4, MUH.

Single Wmk Harrison Imprint Block of 4.

Caymans 1907 5/Dented Frame.

Canada 1959 5c Centre Inverted.

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2d Duty ‘PENOE’ for ‘PENCE’ Printed Twice

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