Stamp News Australasia - June 2017

Australia Post Collectables Centenary of Lions Clubs International Released 7 June 2017

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Contents Articles Woodchip Free Zone: Rod Perry ...................................................6 Rare Australian Decimal Stamp Variations: David Mallen ..... 12 Syran 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 .................................................. 58

Information Reviews: Mike Lee ........................................................................... 11 Trading Post....................................................................................... 68 Clubs & Societies ....................................................................... ......70 Calendar.............................................................................................. 73 Products & Services Directory............................................... ......74 Internet & Email Directory...................................................... ......78 List of Advertisers .............................................................. ..............82

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This month a few recent auction results and miscellany of oddments is all I can muster.

Readers are welcome to make suggestions for topics they would like to have me comment upon; contact me: rod at rap.com. au Phoenix Auctions obtained noteworthy realisations for a couple of Australian Decimal usage items recently, coincidentally both 4c denominations.

The first of the two Phoenix items (Sale 54/1093), Figure 1 has QEII 4c Booklet stamp (287,850,000 issued!) used in 1967 on bilingual Forces Air Letter, by member of Australian Police Element “UNFICYP� in Cyprus, paying 4c concessional rate.

Postal articles were carried in a bag to Australia for posting domestically. This is the first such usage I have encountered, which is not surprising given only 40 Police officers were sent to Cyprus in the 1960s.

Estimated at $250, the item went on to realise $525 (prices include premium). An important item for Decimal usage and Military stationery collections.

Figure 1. Over quarter of a billion issued: this one special

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A Letter rate rise from 4c to 5c on October 1 1967 saw the 4c Gynaecology valid as a solo franking for only eleven days. Nice examples, such as Figure 2, are not easy to find, as the Phoenix result (Sale 51/670) indicates.

Estimated $80, it realised $154. Not many years ago, items such as Figures 1 and 2 would not have been considered worthy of a single lot in a major auction. Usage, justifiably, has increasingly been embraced by collectors looking for more in their Philately than just filling spaces.

I generally find Australian Postage due stamps are over

Figure 2. Knowledge can be handy

significance of these has from the outset been lost on me. Why would a variant in a series of invalid for postage items, produced solely to extract money from stamp collectors, be considered worthy of parting with $20400? That is what the buyer paid (estimate was $6000). For that sum of money, one can assemble an 8-frame exhibit of covers, capable of achieving Gold medal recognition at a National exhibition.

My thanks to Phoenix and Mossgreen for use of the images.

The following five subjects are in the nature of

catalogued, particularly in SG. In comparison, usage of the stamps on cover is underrated. That was not the case for Figure 3, offered at Mossgreen (Feb 2017 Lot 181). This 1904 cover bears a combination of the Blank tablet at base 4d and 8d x4 (very scarce on cover), and the Filled tablet 5d (scarce), paying aggregate deficiency and fines for multiple articles addressed to Tatts.

I owned this cover over 40 years ago; sold for a lot less than the $900 price realised (estimate $600).

Lot 151 in the same Mossgreen sale was the Australia Arms set of three “SPEOIMEN” variants (Figure Figure 3. Respectable Postage due usage result at Mossgreen 4 for £2). The

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suggestions for sideline cover collections.

Last month I featured early Frama usages.

Figure 5 evaded me when preparing that article; it’s a particularly scarce use of Barred Edge No postcode at Alice Springs N.T., denominated for rate increase to 33c. As mentioned last month, when it’s posFigure 5. Scarce use of early Frama at Alice Springs sible to determine where a No postallocated. In the case of Alice Springs, that occurred code Frama was dispensed, and in this instance it with the 1988 Possum Frama series, when A72 was had to have been at Alice Springs P.O., I mount the allocated. cover along with the dedicated cliché issues later Commercial, as distinct from contrived FDCs, have a handful of followers (me amongst them).

These are covers serviced in the normal course of mailing, which just happened to have been posted on the day a given stamp was issued. Figure 6 is a scarce example, where QEII 7½d x2 uprate Stationery 4d Envelope for 1/3d registration fee. This posting took place at Figure 6. FDC with a difference Newcastle West 8 - Stamp News

Figure 7. Fun series, by founder of Stamp News be inexpensive, and fun to assemble. Be prepared to on Nov 13 1957, day of issue of the stamp. Usage and Stationery collectors seek out such items, in ad- be patient, however; they are not easy to find.

I saw an impressive exhibit of NCR (National dition to the FDC aspect.

Most Letter rate stamps from 1930s onwards can Cash Register co.) and related Post Office dockets at Stampshow 2017, so I’m not the only one who be found as commercial FDCs, with some effort. has time for this category of Postal history. The use However, above that rate, the challenge becomes greater. But, hey, isn’t “challenge” what Philately is all about?

Bill Hornadge, founder of Seven Seas Stamps and this magazine, later in life devoted his energies to Review Publications, his publishing arm. In the 1980s, the firm produced a number of humorous advertising covers, Figure 7 one of them. I have seen perhaps 30 different, and there may be many more. A oneframe exhibit would Figure 8. NCR dockets largely unloved Stamp News - 9

Figure 9. When damaged is good of NCR generated dockets for denominating postal charges appears to have been underway in larger PO’s around 1959. Figure 8 shows a use at Bathurst Nov 20 1967, where a docket has been denominated 20c for registration fee. Infinitely scarcer than a registered cover with 20c stamp for that special service.

This example is from the end of a roll, purposely inked in red to alert PO staff to impending exhaustion of roll.

I have a collection entitled “N.Q.R./Misadventures in the Australian Postal System”. Figure 9 is a recent addition, where a PO handstamp clearly explains why the item is eligible for that collection.

At about 2pm on Nov 27 1967, fire broke out at Spencer Street Mail Exchange, Melbourne, and the 4th and 5th floors burned out. Mail sorting equipment on the 3rd floor was damaged. It was found that 4000 bags of mail had been destroyed or damaged. Over the following few days, the damaged mail was dried out, and forwarded to addressee’s. Several different 10 - Stamp News

types of handstamp were used to inform recipients of the reason for the state of their mail.

A couple of years earlier, I worked my school Christmas holidays at that venue. A philatelic tragic from an early age.

Rod Perry has been a philatelic trader since 1962 and a Stamp News advertiser since the 1960s . He founded Rodney A Perry Auction Galleries (now Millennium Philatelic Auctions) in 1971. As a collector he has exhibited nationally and internationally. Rod prefers his used stamps on cover and likens taking a stamp off its original cover to converting a tree to woodchips. Past editions of this column may be accessed on Rod’s ‘rap.com.au’

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Stanley Gibbons Catalogue reviews

Well, it’s been a few months, but we have two new catalogue arrivals to have a look at this month The popular Western Pacific and the first edition of the Netherlands & Colonies ‘stand alone’ catalogue.

Both catalogues are published by Stanley Gibbons Ltd, 7 Parkside, Christchurch Rd. Ringwood, Hants BH24 3SH U.K.

2017 Western Pacific

Paperback, 340 pages 4th edition RRP A $TBA It’s been almost four years since the third edition was published, and I suspect the first thing you’ll notice is that the new edition has grown by nearly 40 pages The majority of the new pages are filled with new issues – some 300 of them! These include Fiji to August 2016, Kiribati to July 2015, Papua New Guinea to August 2015, Solomon Islands to November 2015, Tonga to September 2016 and Vanuatu to May 2016 Apart from the countries already mentioned above, the catalogue also has listings of Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, New Guinea (German New Guinea, Australian Occupation etc), Papua (British New Guinea), Tuvalu, and New Hebrides (British and French issues).

The popular Fiji ‘Bird’ surcharges have been updated with numerous new varieties and errors included. Provisional surcharges and make-up stamps issued by Papua New Guinea in 2014/15 are now listed and the German colonial issues of New Guinea are listed in full, with prices for German stamps used there before the arrival of the overprinted set in 1897.

The editors also tell us that several new varieties have been added since the previous edition.

There’s a lot in this catalogue, and it’s one of the most popular SG volumes ‘Down under’ as it contains many countries popular with Aussie & Kiwi collectors. Another edition that may well fly of the shelves,

2017 Netherlands & Colonies Paperback, 250 pages, 1st edition RRP A $TBA

With the arrival of this volume, and the Belgium & Luxembourg catalogue that was published a couple of years ago, the replacement of the previously combined ‘Benelux’ catalogue is now complete.

As the last Benelux catalogue was published in 2010, as you can imagine, new issues abound!

Netherlands is complete to the June 2016 ‘Tom Poes’ set, Aruba to November 2015, Netherlands Antilles to November 2010 (the different Islands are now issuing separately – see below), Caribisch Nederland to November 2012, Curacao to December 2015, and St. Maarten to November 2014. There are also updated design indexes for the Netherlands & Netherlands Antilles.

If you’re a bit behind the times in Dutch philately (like me), you may be surprised to see ‘Caribisch Nederland’ and ‘St. Maarten’ in the listings and to discover that on the 10th of October 2010 the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved and that since then the two islands above, together with Curacao have been issuing their own stamps (again, like me!) Looks like a great opportunity to get in on the ‘ground floor’ of a new collecting interest!

Apart from all of the new issues & listings covered above, you’ll also find listings for Netherlands – Provincial stamps, Netherlands – International Court of Justice stamps, Netherlands Indies, Japanese Occupation of the Netherlands Indies, Netherlands New Guinea, Netherlands West New Guinea and Suriname.

New for this edition is the inclusion of the UPU Specimen overprints. The editors inform us that ‘Prices have been fully revised with advice from specialist dealers to reflect current market conditions’ and that ‘Lots of new varieties are listed and priced’ Another must have catalogue for all the collectors of this popular European country See you again soon with more new catalogue reviews

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Rare Australian Decimal Stamp Variations Wine Dogs Renamed

In 2012 Susan Elliott and Craig McGill from www. winedogs.com were approached by Australia Post Philatelic to supply photos and details of some Wine Dogs. (Wine Dogs are dogs that live at wineries. Susan and Craig photograph these dogs and have published many books of Wine Dogs they have found all over the world.) 5 dogs were selected for the stamp issue and the details were published in the January February 2013 Stamp Bulletin No.320. The stamp set was renamed “Top Dogs”!

•• ‘Kali’, a Miniature Schnauzer from the Ten Minutes by Tractor winery, Main Ridge, Victoria.

•• ‘Lotte’, a Miniature Dachshund from Henschke Wines, Barossa Valley, South Australia.

•• ‘Pinot’, a Pug from Barratt Wines, Adelaide Hills, South Australia.

•• ‘Lucy’, an Australian Terrier from Hanging Rock

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Winery, Macedon Ranges, Victoria.

•• ‘Jessie’, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel from Chain of Ponds Wines, Angas Plains, South Australia.

The dog’s names and the wineries were not shown in the Stamp Bulletin. The gummed stamp images showed the stamp layout of a se-tenant strip of 5 different stamps in the above order. The (‘as designed’) decorative gutter showing the dog’s names in a colour that matched the background colour of each stamp was not illustrated in the Bulletin but it was shown on the Australia Post Stamp Shop website.

But what you saw was not what you got! When this set of stamps was issued on 19th February 2013 the dogs were in a different order. The names and colours along the gutter remained the same but the order of the last 3 stamps was changed, effectively renaming the dogs! The Spaniel was now ‘Pinot’, the Pug was

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by David Mallen ‘Lucy’ and the Terrier became ‘Jessie’.

Often the gutter strips for the Gutter Packs are produced separately from the sheet of stamps with two panes separated by the ‘genuine’ gutter strip. I wonder if they were different for this stamp set. Have you got a gutter strip ‘as designed’ with the correct dog’s names? Was it from a Gutter Pack or a ‘genuine’ gutter torn from the centre of a sheet?

Jo Mure was the Product Designer and McKellar Renown were the printers for this stamp set. I am sure that whoever signed the Final Artwork Approval didn’t realise they were renaming 3 dogs!

Footnote: I heard this fascinating story when I was in the queue at the recent 2017 Stamp Expo at Caulfield. I was discussing with Deb Collett (a fellow Brighton Philatelic Society member) the Streeton & Nolan ‘pseudo’ Gutter Pack strip that did not match the illustration in

the Stamp Bulletin (see May 2017 Stamp News). She mentioned this had occurred before and sent me a copy of her article that was published in the Enophilatelica magazine in August 2013. This is a publication of The Wine on Stamps Study Unit, an affiliate of the American Philatelic Society, USA. When Deb saw that one of the dog’s names was “Pinot” she suspected that the ‘Top Dogs’ were in fact ‘Wine Dogs’. She had met a dachshund named ‘Lotte’ at Henschke Wines. Could it be the same dog? She began telephoning wineries and eventually contacted Susan and Craig and found out the correct names of the dogs and the wineries.

If you know of any other rare decimal stamps, please let me know.

Australian Stamp Variations Melbourne david@asv.net.au www.asv.net.au issuu.com/asvcat Co-author of the Australian Stamp Variations Catalogue 2011-2015 au.blurb.com/bookstore

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SYRIAN STAMPS REFLECT TURBULENT HISTORY This writer resides in Sweden and in recent years numerous Swedes have got new neighbours who have fled from the civil war in Syria. In fact, there are now more than 150.000 Syrian refugees in Sweden hoping for a better life.

Frequently their journeys to safety in Europe have been extremely difficult and many European nations have been far from welcoming.

However, the vast majority of Syrian refugees have found safe havens in the huge refugee camps established in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. Millions of Syrians are internal refugees in their own country trying to get away from war and religious terror.

What the rest of the world is witnessing is a horrendous civil war where an extremely unpopular régime does its utmost to remain in power. The survival of the government in Damascus is largely due to strong military assistance from Iran, Russia and the Lebanese Hezbollah forces. On the other side of this civil war we find a wide constellation

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of rebel groups receiving support from the states on the Arabian Peninsula and a number of Western powers.

It was in this chaotic situation that the Islamic State (IS) came to prominence attracting fighters from many parts of the world. The IS is known for its use of extreme violence towards all who do not share their religious beliefs. Murder, rape and slavery are some of their favoured methods to subjugate the civilian populations in the areas under their control. They claim to have founded a caliphate but as far as I know it doesn’t have a postal service.

In many ways the civil war in Syria can be seen as a religious conflict. Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, is a Shia Muslim while most of his opponents are Sunni.

The major supporters of the Syrian régime – Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah – are all Shia Muslims. However, the majority of the Syrian population is Sunni Muslim (with the Islamic State practicing an extreme version of the religion).

Christer Brunström It all started with the 2011 “Arab spring” movement.

In the Syrian city of Deraa people held rallies asking for the respect of human rights and more democracy. These very legitimate demands then spread to Damascus and other parts of the country. The government did its utmost to suppress these popular movements. It seems this protest movement was then taken over by a disparate assortment of rebel groups with widely differing agendas.

President Bashar al-Assad succeeded his father in 2000 as the country’s president. The al-Assad family has now ruled Syria since 1971.

Syria is a country with a very long history. Damascus, the capital, is mentioned in the Bible and it is one of the world’s oldest cities.

Until the end of World War I, Syria was a province of the Ottoman Empire. Following the war, French forces occupied Syria and Lebanon. In 1922 Syria was made a French mandated territory and it was only in 1942 that

Syria became a fully independent republic. However, before the French took control of Syria, the country had been proclaimed a kingdom in 1919. Old Ottoman stamps were overprinted with the text “The Arab Government” in Arabic to be used as the kingdom’s postage stamps. One such stamp is shown nearby.

The French rule in Syria was never popular and there were several uprisings. During the first years of the French occupation suitably overprinted French stamps were used.

It was only in 1925 that the first Syrian stamps with local designs were issued. Shown nearby is the lowest value in this set. It depicts a minaret. Many imperforate Syrian stamps were sold to collectors.

The Alawite area in the north-western part of Syria along the Mediterranean coastline was a special case as the population is mainly Shia Muslim. It became a separate state in 1923. The name was changed to Latakia in 1930, the largest city of the autonomous province. French and

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SYRIAN STAMPS REFLECT TURBULENT HISTORY Syrian stamps overprinted ALAOUITES were issued from 1925 to 1929 and with the new country name of LATTAQUIÉ from 1931-1933. In 1937 the Alawite region was reunited with the rest of Syria.

In 1958 Syria decided to join forces with Egypt to form the United Arab Republic (UAR). It only lasted until 1961 as the Syrians felt that the government in Cairo was meddling too much into purely Syrian affairs. Many of the Syrian and Egyptian stamps from this period are identical in design except for the currency used. The Syrian stamps have denominations expressed in P(iastres) while the Egyptian stamps have denominations in M(illièmes). A Syrian 1960 World Refugee Year stamp is shown nearby. Careful inspection of the design will reveal the denomination of 50P. Syria has never been a particularly popular collecting area. Many of the designs from the 1970s onwards can be

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interpreted as propagandistic in nature extolling the virtues of the al-Assad régime.

The civil war in Syria has been going on for some six years now causing incredible destruction and human suffering. Tens of thousands of people have been killed or maimed for life. The Islamic State has spent a lot of energy trying to destroy all remnants of pre-Islamic cultures including the ruins of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Strangely enough, there is nothing in the Syrian stamp issue programme of the last six years to suggest that the country is going through a period of civil war. In fact, everything indicates a state of normality as testified by the stamp nearby marking the 2016 Mother’s Day. An unveiled mother is spending time with her child. A very peaceful picture which in no way reflects the political, religious and economic turmoil which has been reality for most Syrians for the past six years.

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Kangaroo 1913 6d Blue, First Watermark “SUBSTITUTED CLICHÉ”: DIE 2A, Cat $4,500 - $A1,950:

The rarest Kangaroo Plate variety, and not many GENUINE copies exist. 99% of what you see on ebay etc are NOT the error of course. The variety only occurred at stamp 60 on the pane 60, so is the SW corner copy. Being bottom corner, stamp 60, the two outer watermark lines at right angles should both be present - as it is here. Also has the small WA “Cape Leveque” solid flaw that guarantees any Die 2A. Better centred than most, and this has perfs that are amazing for ANY First Watermark Roo, with bright vivid original colour. The OUTER Frame needs to have an obvious small inner frame break starting opposite the Kangaroo eye. Light NSW cds cancel of: “13 MY 15”. Clean and flat and fresh, and no hinges or gunk – TOTALLY fault free, SG 9b, £1,900. ACSC 17(1)ja, $A4,500. Only 12 used copies recorded in this wmk - see full census here tinyurl.com/Die2A6d As nice as you will ever see offered. $A1,950 (Stock 493TX)

BULGARIA - Superb Postage Dues Coll, Cat over £5,000, for $A950!:

Stockbook with 1884-95 mint set, plus 50st shade, and used set, plus 5st and 50st shades. 1886 Imperf set, mint and used. 1887 Perf 11½ mint set plus 50t shade and used set, plus 5t and 50t shades, 1895 Surcharges mint and used, heaps later sets mint and used. Also the rare 'T' handstamps on various values x 11, including a set on dated piece. Generally very fine condition.

Just a few better pieces in pix here - tinyurl.com/BulgDues With notes as to SG numbers etc, and those in the SG Cat alone come to £4,000+. ALSO the rare 1901 Provisionals SG do not list, but Michel does - Cat 1,410 Euro (£1,200+) - one set of those dated VFU on piece double expertised on each, inc by Paul Kohl the German specialist. VERY nice lot, condition generally looked very nice when taking pix. NEVER seen these before, a few stamps alone in here worth WAY over this: $A950 (Stock 783LQ)

Great Britain 1840 "2d Pale Blue" Scarce Plate 2 - FU:

Clean and fresh. Bright colour, and razor-sharp impression as you can see. Totally free of the thins, creases, old hinges, and toning that truly be-devil this issue - which ARE present on most examples. 177 years old now, and vast numbers have been repaired and tampered with in that time. "The World's First Stamp" Lettered "M.I" with magical crisp light RED Maltese Cross cancel as you can see. ANY 2d blue is FIFTY times scarcer than any 1d Black - FACT, despite the weird cat prices, and most of those have BLACK cancels. The scarcer Plate 2, as evidenced by “Shorn Rays in NE Star” and “Weakness in NW Square”, so SG for Plate 2 with Red MX is Double that of Plate 1 - and is minimum cat £1,750 (SG D1ub - £1750). $A600 (Stock 781PA) Order via: tinyurl.com/GlenOrder All Cards accepted with ZERO fee - even Amex! Bank Deposit fine, or Money Orders.

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Aussie sets Indian philatelic record

Reported at www.hindustantimes.com A set of four rare stamps featuring the portrait of Mahatma Gandhi has been sold for record £500,000 at an auction in the UK - the highest price ever paid for Indian stamps.

Only 13 of the 1948 Gandhi 10-rupee Purple Brown and Lake ‘Service’ stamps are in circulation. The block of four was sold to a private Australian collector for the highest ever price for Indian stamps, said UK-based dealer Stanley Gibbons.

The Indian stamps were particularly rare owing to the fact they were in a set of four.

From the issued sheet, supplied to the governorgeneral’s secretariat, only thirteen single examples are authoritatively recorded, including this strip of four and a block of four in the Royal Philatelic Collection.

The recent sale follows that of another Indian philatelic rarity, the famous ‘Four Annas’, which sold in March this year for almost £110,000 “The market for high-quality Indian rarities has been strong for several years and is supported by the ongoing desire of the wealthy Indian diaspora

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and savvy international clients to own these historic assets,” said managing director of investments at Stanley Gibbons.

Pssst…….want to swap your stamps for a tractor?

Reported at www.odt.co.nz

Stamps are likely to be a cheaper collecting option than tractors.

Once Syd McMann sells his collection of vintage tractors he will be turning his attention to stamps.

With five albums full already and another 5000 stamps yet to be dealt with, New Zealander, Syd (86) is looking forward to further purchases.

Most of the tractor collection was formed after he retired from the Ministry of Works in 1990.

An early acquisition, a McCormick-Deering Farmall, reminded him of the tractor his father bought to replace the sixhorse team used on the family farm … a team he drove when he left school at 13 before moving off the land.

He has enjoyed his vintage machinery interest, picking up tractors from all over the place, including one from Stewart

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Island. He has also exhibited his collection in New Zealand extensively.

All the tractors will come under the auction hammer shortly with the proceeds going to Syd’s new collecting interest.

Fancy stamps: Isle of Man

Reported at www.iomtoday. co.im A set of Manx stamps has been launched to celebrate Freemasonry.

The stamps are filled with symbols and references including a hidden logo visible only under UV light, GPS references to places important to Freemasonry, and a subtle ribbon honouring the 50th year of office of the current Grand Master, the Duke of Kent.

The hidden logo that is used on the stamps is a security ink printed device which is the official logo of the UGLE Tercentenary and has been officially approved for use by the Grand Lodge.

The logo will also become visible through the postal system as items are scanned as well as under UV light.

The collection features architectural elements

from the lodges of England and the Isle of Man as inspiration for the background illustrations.

The main features however are the badges of office of the senior officers within the lodge.

Each stamp also bears a GPS reference to places of significance in Masonry including the Masonic Memorial Garden at the National Memorial Arboretum and the site of the Goose and Gridiron Public House in St. Paul’s Churchyard where the first Grand Lodge was formed 300 years ago.

Fancy stamps: India

Reported at http://news.asiaone.com Coffee-lovers opening their mail in India can now have the delicious scent of a good brew to look forward to without having to pour a cup themselves.

The Coffee Board and India Post have recently launched a coffee-scented stamp.

The Rs100 ($1.55) stamps, featuring beans, a cup of the brew and the word COFFEE, is available via POs and the website.

An ad for the launch posted on Twitter by the Coffee Board states: “Send the aroma of coffee to your loved ones. “ Reportedly, people were already queuing to buy the stamps.

It isn’t the first time India has introduced stamps that smell. A sandalwood-scented stamp was launched in 2006, with rose-fragranced varieties following in 2007.

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tion taking 25 % and Russia at 9%.

A number of coffee chains now operate in India but tea is still hugely popular, with Indians each drinking 176.6 cups per year in 2015, compared to only 16.6 cups of coffee.

Fancy stamps: USA

Reported at www.cnet.com

Not everyone in the US will get to see the August 21 total solar eclipse, which will be visible in portions of only 14 US states. But everyone can make their own eclipse with new heat-sensitive postage stamps coming in June from the United States Postal Service.

The stamp uses two photos, both taken by Arizona astrophysicist Fred Espenak, who’s also known as Mr. Eclipse. The first photo shows a total solar eclipse seen from Jalu, Libya, in 2006. By applying body heat from your thumb or fingers -- when you touch the stamp -- and gently rubbing, a full-moon photo is revealed. As the image cools, it reverts back to the eclipse photo.

The visual trick utilizes the first US stamp application of thermochromic ink. The stamp is being issued as a Forever stamp, meaning it’s always equal in value to the current first-class mail 1-ounce price.

Fancy stamps: The Netherlands Reported at www.postnl.nl

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by issuing a pure silver stamp. This special stamp comes exactly one year after the death of the Dutch football legend, and marks the fifth time that PostNL has issued a silver postage stamp.

PostNL marketing director said “Everyone loved Johan Cruijff. Besides his widely respected great skill on the football field, he was always committed to bringing children together through sports. The Cruyff Foundation has built on this notion and we are proud to support their work by donating part of the proceeds from sales of this silver stamp.”

PostNL has commissioned the Royal Dutch Mint to manufacture the postage stamp, which is made from pure silver. The stamp, in a deluxe storage box, is available for €25 via www.postnl.nl/cruijff.

The stamp has a limited run of 1,400 copies.

The postage stamp has the ‘Registered Mail’ designation, and may be therefore be used to send letters as registered mail. The stamps are valid for an unlimited period.

Mammoth mail mosaic outmatches Malaga Reported at http://blog.norphil.co.uk

At the recent Southern England Stamp Show in Farnborough, Peter Boyd gained the Guinness World Record for the largest Stamp Mosaic, previously set in Malaga, Spain, on 8 November 2014.

The biggest stamp mosaic on the planet was rolled out in Farnborough’s leisure centre, and measured a huge 30 by 9 metres.

Consisting of a whopping 528,220 stamps, it took Peter over ten years to create. It was the first

time he had seen the whole thing put together; as Peter said: “I just thoroughly enjoyed it and once I had finished I just wanted to put it out on display to the public.

The origins of the record attempt began when Peter was taking a close look at a 6½p Machin through a magnifier. He noticed that the image was made up of lots of small dots. As he was also interested in computers he likened these ‘dots’ to pixels in a computer image.

This sparked his curiosity further so he scanned the Machin to the highest magnification possible at the time. He realised that a giant image of this stamp could actually be made, utilising used Machin stamps themselves.

Using a combination of mathematics, rulers and patience he made a mosaic template for a 6½p Machin magnified 300 times and duly started to fill in the spaces – all 110,000 of them! As he worked, Peter found out that the Guinness record for a mosaic of this type was currently held in Spain. This offered him a challenge and he started adding to his existing design with other stamp images.

When the completed mosaic was finally fully displayed, a photographer used a drone to capture images before the event was opened to the public, but the proximity to Heathrow and Gatwick airports meant even getting the drone footage was fraught.

Once the pictures had been taken images were sent to Catton Print of Norwich, who produced a souvenir of the event which was available at the show. Meanwhile, of course, the mosaic was disassembled for the dealers to set up their stands.

The souvenirs are still available via Norvic Philatelics. For more information see http://blog.

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Stamps in the News - Globally!

norphil.co.uk/2017/03/stamp-mosaic-guinnessworld-record-for.html

USPS commemorative fail Reported at www.atlasobscura.com

The early 1970s were a boom time for postage stamps. The U.S. Postal Service cranked up production and was releasing ever more—and ever more

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interesting—designs.

Despite all these riches, there was still one topic you couldn’t collect a stamp about: stamp collecting.

To enthusiasts, this was a disappointment. According to R.R. Higgins, a prominent stamp journalist, philatelists frequently wrote in to the USPS specifically to request a stamp-collecting stamp.

So the USPS announced that a new commemorative stamp would be released to honour stamp collecting in 1972, on the 125th anniversary of the first official U.S. postage stamp.

They hired Frank E. Livia to design it, and it cost eight cents. They even invented a new size for it: “semi-jumbo.”

This news pleased collectors.

“Stamp collecting, the hobby of millions in this country, gets its due recognition,” opined the Associated Press. “The thought occurs to me that it is being issued during Thanksgiving season,” wrote Higgins. “No doubt the USPS is issuing up prayers of Thanksgiving for the money we have poured into their coffers.”

Livia took his assignment quite literally and based his design around the first ever U.S. post-

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age stamp, which featured a portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Franklin served as postmaster general several times and although stamps did not exist during his lifetime, when the U.S. started issuing them, in March 1847, they chose to honour their first postmaster.

Livia placed an exact replica of the 5-cent Franklin Stamp in the middle of his 8-cent Stamp Collecting Stamp. A large black magnifying glass juts into the frame, completely encircling the Franklin stamp (which seems to maintain its original size). On the right side, a white serif font declares the theme: “Stamp Collecting.” The “8c.” is huge and the background colour is a swingin’ ’70s turquoise.

When the stamp was finally released, it was greeted with both confusion and derision. It was widely referred to as a “postal horror.” To make matters worse a strike delayed release for weeks.

But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth a try. As Benjamin Franklin once said, “Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries.” Of the many stamps he appeared on before and since, Franklin might like this one the best.

USPS commemorative win Reported at www.peoplesworld.org

nature preservation, murals in local post offices, and other arts.

The posters were originally created to support the ideals of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal program. Each stamp features one of these posters conceived and printed in workshops across the US under the WPA formed in 1935. The poster production unit was later fully absorbed into the World War II effort.

During the Depression, WPA artists designed and printed some two million posters from approximately 35,000 designs. Most of their work was printed by silkscreen, an economical medium that saw significant innovation at the hands of Poster Division artists.

Themes featured on these stamps include public ownership and management of airports and docks, worker safety, visiting the local zoo and travel to beautiful, unspoiled national parks and other areas of the country.

The stamps were launched at Hyde Park, N.Y., the home of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Bean in the wars

Reported at http://www.smh.com.au A war correspondent who was shot in the leg in Turkey during World War I but refused to stop writing will be honoured in an Australia Post stamp

The U.S. Postal Service has recently released a booklet of 20 stamps of 10 different designs of posters from the Work Projects Administration, striking and utilitarian artworks created

by Depression-era artists employed by the Poster Division of the WPA Federal Art Project. The WPA put people back to work—in public works construction, Stamp News - 23

Stamps in the News - Globally! series commemorating the centenary of the war.

Australian journalist Charles Bean, once a junior reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald, landed at Gallipoli on April 25, 1915, just hours after the dawn attack.

The then 36-year-old quickly won the affection of the Australian troops and, just two weeks after the landing, was recommended for a decoration for his bravery.

Only a few months later, he was shot in the leg but refused to leave the peninsula, staying in Gallipoli throughout the remainder of the campaign and continually filing stories back to Australia.

According to the Australian War Memorial, he filled 226 notebooks by the end of the war.

The stamp design is based on a photograph of Bean taken by Herbet Baldwin in 1917.

In the photograph, Bean is watching the Australian advance through a telescope near Martinpuich in France.

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While overseas, he pushed for systematic record collection during the war and suggested relics and photographs could be displayed in a museum, the birth of the Australian War Memorial.

After the war, he went on to write the multivolume official history of Australia’s part in WWI, a project that took 23 years.

In South Africa stamps will go on Reported at http://northeasterntribune.co.za

Philatelists need not to worry about postage stamps.

Postage stamps should always be available, the South African Post Office says.

Postage stamps are still held in high regard by many South Africans but when stamp shortages or accessibility becomes difficult, users become less reliant on the South African Post Office, a spokesman said.

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Consumers have complained of having to use printouts of postage stamps to send international mail because the post office ran out of stamps. The post offices have promoted sticker printouts instead but they are date stamped and need to be used the same day, or possibly the next.

A postal official said that where individual branches temporarily run out of stamps, they are encouraged to exchange stamps with each other to ensure that they can supply customers with stamps.

“The post office has largely resolved shortages of stamps, which we experienced in the past, and in isolated cases where these shortages occur, they are quickly resolved,” he said.

“We understand that a beautiful stamp is part of the appeal that a letter from another country has.

The post office has no plans to discontinue stamps.

We have, in fact, just announced a brand new set of international postage stamps celebrating the Krugerrand’s 50th anniversary,” he said.

Fargo goes philatelic Reported at www.bustle.com

Angeles in March would definitely catch the eye of any philatelist.

But unfortunately for stamp collectors, they’re not real stamps.

The hit crime drama that plays off the Coen brothers’ 1996 movie of the same name begins its third season April 19. And the plot revolves around the unknown value and future of an inherited stamp.

But this is not the first time the Fargo has dabbled in philately.

A light side plot in the otherwise dark Minnesota-accented film focuses on Norm, the soft-spoken but supportive husband of protagonist police officer Margie Gunderson, and his painting of mallards being submitting for consideration in a duck stamp contest.

The ending of the 1996 film leaves the audience with a quiet moment of American domesticity: after Norm is disappointed that his painting will be featured on the three-cent stamp, Marge, two months pregnant, reassures him that he should be proud because “whenever they raise the postage they need the little stamps.”

Billboards for the FX series Fargo spotted in Los

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Postal Stationery This month’s column looks at the postal stationery exhibits and activities at Melbourne 2017, the 5d POW airmail lettersheet and new postal stationery issues from Australia and Samoa.

Australia 5d POW Airmail Lettersheet

Australia issued two POW airmail lettersheets during World War II (and a 6d airmail postcard). The 1/- lettersheet was intended for use by German and Italian POWs while the 5d lettersheet was intended for use by Japanese POWs. The 5d lettersheet is catalogued by the Australia Commonwealth Specialist Catalogue (ACSC) as ACSC POW3 with a catalogue value of $10,000 and is probably the scarcest of Australia’s airletters/aerogrammes. Use of this aerogramme was minimal because of the Japanese belief that it was a great loss of honour to be captured.

The copy of this lettersheet postmarked in Adelaide on 21 June 1945 that is illustrated in the ACSC is being offered by Mossgreen in its auction at the end of June. The lettersheet was sent bu the Japanese POW Furusato from No 14c Camp 4th Military District, South Australia. Figure 1 shows the front of the lettersheet while Figures 2 and 3 show the reverse and the letter from the Japanese POW. Figure 1 , 2 & 3 5d POW Airmail Lettersheet 26 - Stamp News

Ian McMahon and provided visitors with the opportunity to see some great postal stationery exhibits. Two exhibits were included in the Championship Class, Steve Schumann’s New Zealand Postal Stationery 1876-1940 and John Sinfield’s Panama Republic Postal Stationery till 1940 with the Panama exhibit being one of the nominations for the Grand Prix. Michael Blinman received a Large Gold medal for his exhibit of New South Wales Postal Stationery and Mark Diserio received a Gold medal for Australian Registered Letter Envelopes 1912-1962. There were also strong exhibits showing postal stationery from Japan, Figure 4 Postal Stationery Jury Critique, Melbourne 2017 Sweden (Raymond Todd), China, Honduras, Indonesia, Nepal Melbourne 2017 Asian International and German Post Offices in China. The exhibit Stamp Exhibition Republic Indonesia - Java Postal Cards 1945-1949 Melbourne 2017 was held 30 March - 2 April 2017 included elements from the original printing plates.

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Postal Stationery Figure 4 shows a postal stationery jury critique at Melbourne 2017.

Postal Stationery activities at Melbourne 2017 included a FIP Postal Stationery Seminar (Figure 5) presented

by Ian McMahon (Secretary of the FIP Postal Stationery Commission) and a meeting of the Postal Stationery Society of Australia.

A stamped postcard depicting the Caulfield Racecourse was available from Figure 6 Reverse of Caulfield Racecourse Postcard the Australia Post stand at the Exhibition. An unstamped version of this postcard overNew Zealand Postal Stationery printed with the Melbourne 2017 logo (Figure 6) was available from the Melbourne 2017 Committee. Rarities If you attended Melbourne 2017 you would have had the opportunity to see what is currently the best exhibit of New Zealand Postal Stationery displayed

by Steve Schumann from the USA. The Exhibit was entered in the Championship Class and has previously received Large Gold medals at international exhibitions. The Exhibit includes many of the rarities of New Zealand postal stationery including many of the PTPO envelopes and postcards and the die proofs of the various issues. Figure 7 shows a PTPO postcard for the Figure 7 1d King George VI PTPO Postcard for the New Zealand New Zealand Federation of Federation of Health Camps 28 - Stamp News

Ian McMahon and frame and the others 1d values (Figure 8) as well as die proofs of the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II postal stationery. Steve was present at the Exhibition and spoke at the meeting of the Postal Stationery Society of Australia on New Zealand PTPO postal stationery and Ceylon aerogrammes (Figure 9).

Figure 8 New Zealand King Edward VIII Postal Stationery Essays Health Camps. New Zealand did not issue postal stationery depicting King Edward VIII but dies for the proposed postal stationery were prepared. The exhibit included three essays of the King Edward VIII design, one from the master die of the head

Postal Stationery Literature: Recent Articles

The May issue of the Postal Stationery Collector included articles on new discoveries of Australian Commonwealth postal stationery since the publication of the ACSC, wrappers of Victoria, and a listing of new issues of Australian NonDenominated Postal Stationery as well as a round-

Figure 9 Steve Schumann Speaking at the Postal Stationery Society of Australia Meeting, Melbourne 2017 Stamp News - 29

Postal Stationery up of recent articles on postal stationery.

The February issue of the [UK] Stationery Society Journal included articles on the UK Illustrated and advertising postal stationery from the reigns of KGV and KGVI and on postal stationery issued for German and Italian POWs in Australia during World War II while the JanuaryFebruary issue of Postal Stationery, Journal of the United Postal Stationery Society [USA], included articles on the 1918-1921 Panama and Canal Zone Registration Envelopes, Bahamas Stationery and Registration Envelope Varieties, Biafra Airmail Envelope and British 1840 Official Envelopes.

Figure 10 & 11 Pre-paid Chocolate Box with Collage of Modern Stamps

Pre-Paid Chocolate Boxes

One surprise at Melbourne 2017 was a set of six chocolate boxes (Figure 10) which were sold for $8.99 each.

The boxes are prepaid for postage within Australia and were sold with a bar of chocolate.

The boxes each have a hole cut in the box to allow the expiry date Figure 12 2nd Light Horse Brigade Pre-paid Postcard

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Ian McMahon ANZAC Biscuit Tin Postcards 2017

As in recent years Australia Post have included postcards in an ANZAC biscuit tin gift pack which sold for $24.99. The postcards included this year were two copies of the 2nd Light Horse Brigade at Esdud (Figure 12) despite a picture of a postcard showing the Western Front Belgium on the packaging.

Samoa Postcards

Samoa issued three postcards on 9 December 2016 depicting butterflies (Figure 13). Each is comprised of two butterfly stamp images (including the value) that were previously used as adhesive stamps (Figure 14). The value of each postcard equals one of the three overseas postcard rates.

70c Aerogramme with Doubled Black Printing

Figure 13 & 14 Samoa $2.60 Butterfly Stamped Postcard of the chocolate to be seen. The six boxes are: •• Milk Chocolate Collage of Modern Stamps (Figure 11) •• A Girl’s Best Friend •• Love Blooms •• Milk Chocolate Kangaroo & Map Stamps •• You had me at chocolate •• Milk Chocolate Perf … ection

Illustrated in Figure 15 is the front of a 70c aerogramme with a clear double printing of the dark blue inscriptions. The 70c aerogramme showing a river frontage was one of a set of four issued in 1992. The inscriptions “SENDER’S NAME AND ADDRESS”, “BY AIR MAIL PAR AVION”, “AEROGRAMME” and “AUSTRALIA 70c” are clearly doubled.

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Looking at New Zealand 1969 25th Anniversary of CORSO I can remember, growing up in New Zealand in the 1950s and 1960s, the annual fund-raising appeal for CORSO – the Council of Organisations for Relief Services Overseas.

CORSO was founded on 16 August 1944 by three organisations – the National Council of Churches, Society of Friends and the Red Cross (NZ). Throughout the world at that time there was widespread awareness of the plight of the millions of people displaced by World War II and the public was supportive of efforts to help them. CORSO served as a wholly New Zealand-based umbrella organisation for charities collecting aid (both cash and donated materials such as used clothing) and provided channels to distribute the aid overseas. It relied heavily on volunteers, the majority of whom were women, to collect donations and to pack materials for sending overseas (see the photo nearby). By the early 1970s there were about sixty charitable organisations affiliated to CORSO. The stable society of the 1950s and 1960s was evolving by the 1970s. With more women joining the paid workforce there were fewer volunteers available. Eventually, the collection of materials

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JUNE SALE June offers 2017. Orders above $500 are post free within Australia.

Layby welcome for orders above $500. Scans or colour photocopies of individual stamps, covers or sets are available on request.

Free Gifts and Discounts for May! We have a few items to give away this month, simply spend $100 or more from this list to receive the gift/gifts of your choice, 1 gift per $100 spent up to $500, above $500 you get all 5 gifts, plus a discount on your total purchases of 10% (Purchase value after discount needs to be $500 to qualify for Free Postage) Gift 1) 1951 First Flight Cover Melbourne – Christchurch NZ Gift 2) 1951 Round Australia Flight Canberra to Melbourne, with arrival cds on reverse for all State and Territory Capitals, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Darwin, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra and Hobart.

Gift 3) Fine quality German Made Stainless Steel Tweezers 150mm long, pointed type, those that dealers prefer, plus a Lion Brand Perf. Gauge.

Gift 4) St. Helena 1991 Royal Birthdays Booklet, containing Gutter Block of 4 Queen and Prince Philip stamps Gift 5) 12 different Mint Unhinged British Commonwealth Minisheets.

Do not forget to nominate which gift/s you would like. (We will substitute in the case of your chosen item not being available) Most smaller lots are also available on Ebay, post free to Australia. Our store is 21st-century-auctions.

Coins CB32) Australia 1916 One Shilling in Very Fine condition, 6 pearls clearly visible. Cat $28, only $18 CB33) Australia 1922 One Shilling in Extremely Fine condition, 6 pearls and centre diamond clearly visible. Nicely toned and with some original lustre. Cat $280, price $185 CB34) Australia 1926 One Shilling in Extremely Fine + condition, 8 pearls and centre diamond clearly visible. Nice original lustre coin. Cat $135, price $98 CB35) Australia 1931 One Shilling in Extremely Fine condition, 8 pearls visible. Nice coin with some original lustre. Cat $120, price $79 CB36) Australia 1932 Florin in Fine + condition. Scarcest date of all florins, in better than usually seen condition for this coin. 4 pearls visible.

Cat $375 +, price $359 CB37) Australia 1934 Florin in Uncirculated condition. Nicely toned and with original lustre. Lovely coin. Cat. $1250. Price $995 CB38) Australia 1936 Florin in Extremely Fine condition. Last of the KGV Reign. 8 pearls and centre diamond easily visible. Cat $65, price $39 Cinderellas BD324) Australia 1915 Pals Label, deep greenish blue WING- COM-

MANDER GOBLE. Scarcest of all these labels and highly sought after.

Clean well centred full perf. Example. Price $179 Collections & Lots CMY1) Great Britain, 1840’s to 1998 mint and used in Black KEK 48 black page stockbook in nice condition. Noted Queen Victoria & KEVII nice ranges to 2/6d (both), then KGV with Seahorses to 5/-.KGVI appears almost complete with high values to One Pound (2), ex. The 1948 Silver Wedding. QEII pretty much complete pre-decimals on a simplified basis, plus some better phosphor issues, inc. Lifeboat, Red Cross, Cable, NPY, Botanical etc. all mint. Decimal sets mint unhinged counted around 115 complete sets 1971 – 1998, plus many mint Machin Definitives both mint unhinged and used with values to Ten Pounds. Very fine lot, and well priced at $345 CMY2) Great Britain mint/mint unhinged in big green stockbook.1st 2 pages contain small amount of Gibraltar, then commences KGV/ VI (sparce) and QEII pre-decimals with about 20 pre-decimal commem. Sets plus Wildings and pre-decimal Machins to 1/9d. Decimals commence 1971 and there are approx. 30 complete sets to 1980. Last few pages are regionals and Channel Islands. A nice lot, condition a bit mixed, but good value at $119 CMY3) Great Britain Packs and FDCs in Red Pioneer Album. Covers are mainly Machin Definitives to £1.30 then a nice range of post office packs. Includes large format Machin high values, Machin and Regional Definitives, both pre and post decimal. Includes some much scarcer packs retailing at up to and above £20. 44 items, and a steal at just $88 CMY4) Australia dealer’s decimal mostly fine used stock in Blue 32 page Lion Stockbook. Ordered by denomination from 1c to $20, with many high values in multiples of up to 20. This book is literally bulging and must have 5000 - 6000 if not more stamps here. An outright bargain at around 3c per stamp, price $179.

CMY5) The Commonwealth Collection. 1983 Sumptuous Leather Bound Album with foreword by HM The Queen, and containing the 1983 Commonwealth Day Stamps in complete mint unhinged sets from57 countries. Issued at a staggering $299, I am able to offer at just below 25% of this, and at under $1.50 per set. Price $74.

CMY6) British Commonwealth in 32 page Green Lighthouse Stockbook.

Commences Queen Victoria through to early 1980’s. A nice largely unduplicated collection with good ranges mint and used of Fiji to 10/-, Solomon Is., Tristan da Cunha, Aden with Dhows to 1R mint (cat. £60) plus Falklands, Bermuda, Ascension, Dominica, Gambia, Gold Coast and many others in smaller quantities. Around 600 to 650 stamps. A very good lot. Price $345 CMY7) Hungary. 1956 – 1980’s First Day Cover collection in blue ring binder. Includes many covers to Australia most of which are Registered

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JUNE SALE and/or Express Mail. A total of 64 covers. At $1.50 each you cannot go wrong. Price $96 CMY8) New Zealand. Lovely collection in Deep red Seven Seas Album.

Commences Queen Victoria with 1882 2nd Sidefaces to 1/-, good ranges of Officials from 1907 on, 2/- KGV Admirals x 2. KGVI mostly complete and with 1940 Centennial Officials complete used. QEII has complete set of Queen on Horseback to 10/- used, Geyser £1, and decimals with $2 Multicoloured Geyser nice fine used. This collection is mostly fine used to mid-1973, then mainly mint or mint unhinged to end of 1979. Back of book has some Ross Dependency and Lighthouse issues. A good lot, about 80% complete for the period covered. Price $329 CMY9) British Commonwealth Omnibus Issues, on Hagners in Blue Padded ring binder. Comprises 1937 Coronation in mint horizontal pairs (One only of the Newfoundland long set of 11). 1946 Victory in mint singles, and 1953 Coronation mainly mint unhinged. Appears very nearly complete. Cat. Approx. £600. Very good value at $295 CMY10) Great Britain Regionals and Channel Islands plus some British locals such as Lundy, Staffa and the Summer Isles on stack of about 40 near new Hagner Pages (NEW PRICE $1.75 each = $70) in as new White Vinyl covered 4 ring Binder. A mixture of mint and used, I counted near 1200 stamps with many, many complete sets either fine used or mint unhinged. Very good value at just under 20c per stamp, price $239.

CMY11) United Nations 25th & 50th Anniversary Worldwide sets in Green 32 black pages stockbook. 63 complete mint unhinged sets plus 27 fdcs.

Very nice lot for $285.

CMY13) Germany, Massive mint/used stock in Burgundy 32 page stockbook. Commences Germanias but the focus here is on 3rd Reich and Occupation issues. Much mint unhinged, plus plenty of fine used and many, many Hitler heads and Birthday issues. Also some 1945 – 48 allied occupied zone issues. Seems to be near 3000 stamps. Bargain at about 10c each. Price $295.

CMY14) World Wildlife Fund, official proof edition collection 1984 2002 in 9 as new Black Leathergrain slipcase and binder, with official embossed WWF Panda Emblem. Around 90 mint unhinged sets/minisheets and 360 First Day Covers together with informative and well illustrated text. This collection contains many scarcer issues rarely seen.

Subscribers were paying $20 per issue plus $44 per binder and slipcase.

Total original cost of around $2200, Very well priced at a half $1100.

CMY15) Netherlands Indies & Indonesia, mostly fine used collection plus some mint unhinged 1870 – mid 1990’s. On stack of 18 near new Hagner sheets in green ring binder, plus 18 First day covers, unaddressed official issues 1956 – 1972. Many better noted. Approx. 500 stamps plus 18 fdc. Very cheap at $75 CMY16) Massive carton lot of Australia Covers in 9 near new albums, alone worth $450 plus. Dating from the 1950’s to 1998 this collection includes First Day Covers, PSE’s, Aerogrammes, Frama and commercial

covers. The emphasis is on decimal first day covers which are clean and unaddressed. Many minisheets and strips of 5, blocks of 4 included. 800 plus items, very well priced at $1195 the lot.

CMY17) Austria earlier collection to 1920 lot on album leaves, mainly postally used with a few mint. Condition on the really early stuff a bit mixed. About 150 stamps. Price $42 CMY18) New Zealand 1981 – 1998 in 2 x 22 padded ring albums, a stack of Album Pages, and in a blue ring binder plus Lighthouse 48 page green stockbook. Mostly a mint unhinged and used set of each. Many Hundreds of sets! Huge retail/Catalogue value. Price $779.

CMY19) Australia in Bulging Padded Seven Seas Album containing mostly used collection 1913 – 1984 commencing Kangaroos x 30 with values to 5/- (2) & 10/- (1) Then KGV x 80 plus to 1/4d, (3) KGV Commems. Mainly complete, less Kookaburra minisheet and 5/- Bridge.

KGVI with Robes to one Pound, Arms to Two Pounds. QEII to 10/- Navigator, both papers. Decimals are 75 – 80% complete. Nice lot, well worth $675 CMY20) Germany in Dark Blue padded 64 black page stockbook, almost as new. Magnificent lot ion mostly fine condition. Has been catalogued up at £2101 plus in Gibbons. Would be much higher in Michel German catalogue. Stamps are identified by SG number and with catalogue price. Beginning with 3rd Reich appears near complete mainly used with minisheets to 1939,then mostly mint from 1939. Then from 1945 has occupation issues from all zones, mix of mint and used plus a German Occupation to 1945 section and 1919 – 23 Old Germany. All in all a great lot. Must be 1500 – 2000 stamps. Priced at around 25% cat. $875 CMY21) Norfolk Island Collection 1947 - 1989, mainly mint unhinged in New Seven Seas Green Padded Binder and Slipcase. Album alone cost $275. Pre-decimals are sparce, but then complete decimals to 1982, missing a few sets 1983/4, then complete 1985- 89. Stamps retail approx. $500, plus album at $275, a $775 value for just under 50%, $385 CMY22) Papua New Guinea modest collection of mint/mint unhinged on Seven Seas Pages, 1952 – 1981. Commences 1964 Birds Definitives complete mint lightly hinged, then unhinged with about 50% completeness to 1981. Good lot to add to. Total of around 30 complete sets, of which 3 are long definitive sets. Leaves alone worth $50 plus. The lot for under $2 a set, $59.

CMY23) Vatican. Tremendous collection in Blue Padded Springback Album on Lindner Illustrated Pages. 1929 – 1972. Good degree of completeness, and mostly mint unhinged, with a few used. Cat. 1800 Euros plus in Michel. Gibbons would be similar. Only a few gaps, must be 95% complete or more. This has to be great value at well under 25% cat. Price $595 CMM1) West Germany 1949 – 1980, fine postally used collection in Green Lighthouse luxury padded Hingeless Album. Virtually complete, and almost impossible to replicate. Album in very good condition, with

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JUNE SALE just a little spotting on the bottom right corners of some pages. All early sets are there with semi-postals complete. The odd missing stamp is usually a later issue of a definitive. Cat. £2950 plus in latest Gibbons.

Album cost around $295 new, but not valuing that at all. Price around a third catalogue $1650.

CMM2) West Germany1949 – 1990 Mint collection in Brown Padded Hagner Album, on Hagner pages. Contains virtually all the important early sets, apart from the Posthorns. Early part to 1965 is mostly mint lightly hinged, then mainly unhinged. Good degree of completeness and a great opportunity to buy at a fraction of catalogue price. Cat. . £3950 plus in latest Gibbons. Priced at only 25%, $1650 CMM7) Great Britain KGV – QEII Accumulation in Red Lighthouse 32 page stockbook and large brown stockbook. Much duplication of HVs, inc. 2/6d Seahorse x 27, 5/- Seahorse x 11, 10/- Seahorse x 2, KGVI 2/6 Brown x 25, 10/- Blue x 28, 10/- Dk. Blue x 3, £1 brown x 3, . £1 Festival x 5, QEII pre-decimal castles to £1 x 36, HV Decimals to £10 x hundreds, counted £5 x 125 plus, various printings plus lots of £2 & £3. Includes many blocks and pairs. Condition is as usual mixed for these type of lots, but vast resale potential! Just counting the above listed at average $1.50 each = nearly $400. My price $379.

CF2) Ireland, 1930 - 1965 nice batch of 15 pre - decimal commercial covers to USA. Includes Airmails, registered items, advertising covers, censored etc. Values to 1/3d. Neat little lot, price $110 CF7) Huge batch of Australia Pre- Decimal Commercial covers, KGV & KGVI reign, including many highly catalogued 2d & 2.5d surcharged overprint stamps of both reigns, advertising covers, censor covers and the like. There must be interesting postmarks and varieties to be found too. Sold as purchased, weighs approx. 1.9 kg. Total number of covers is around 350 - 400. Gold mine for the enthusiast at around $2 each, price $749 CF10) Australia & Worldwide Mishmash of stamps, covers, post office packs, recent incoming mail from overseas etc, booklets, complete mint unhinged sets, minisheets etc. You name it, it may well be here! 1kg lot for $95, 2kg for $179, 5kg for $425, 10kg for $795. Massive 20kg lot for $1495 Packets and mixtures CF16) South Africa Mission Mix on single well trimmed paper. Latest shipment from our suppliers overseas. Very cheap as mixes go these days, 500g for $49, 1kg for $89, and 2kg for $159 CF17) Latest World on paper mixes to arrive in our office. Mostly on close clipped single paper, with wide variety early to modern, and with very high count. a) Mission Mix, as donated to a UK TV Appeal 500g for $69, 1kg for $129, 2kg for $245, 5kg for $579

b) Super Mission, with 50% of the regular stuff and 50% large only.

500g for $98, 1kg for $195, 2kg for $369, 5kg for $879 c) Virtually all Large, great mix from near & far, you will love this! We do not get much of this mix. 500g for $144, 1kg for $274, 2kg for $519 PM16) Turkey, massive lot of 1000 Different with many scarcer and higher values, price $189 PM17) Denmark, 1000 different many better and larger types. $69 PM21) Ireland, latest mission mix on paper to arrive here in Australia.

500g $49, 1kg $89.

PM22) Channel Is & Isle of Man, lovely close clipped on single paper mix. Mostly large and very colourful modern lot. 250g for $49, 500g $93, 1kg $176.

PM23) 1000 Different Austria, covering all periods. Lovely collection of pretty well all postally used. 500 different is on my packets list at $130, so this lot which has many more higher values and variety is good value at $259 PM24) Australia, with recent and latest, values to $1 Commems/Large on single close clipped paper. Very held around 5000 to the kg. Price $17.50 per 100g, $41.50 per 250g, $79 per 500g, $149 per kg, and 2kg for $289 Australia Pre-decimal, Roos, Georges etc.

K11) Australia 1913 3d Olive Kangaroo,1st wmk. perf small OS. Fine used cds example. Couple of minor perf faults at top right hand side, otherwise nice. Cat. $125, price $59 K12) Australia 1913 4d Orange Kangaroo, perf small OS. Fine used registered cancel example. Nice fine used with good perfs. Centred top right. Cat. $200, price $109 K13) Australia 1913 4d Orange Kangaroo, cto example with gum. Well centred. Few ragged perfs at right. Minimum Cat $100, price $66 K14) Australia 1913 5d Chestnut Kangaroo, superb mint unhinged.

Well centred and good perfs. Brilliant stamp hard to better! From top of sheet and showing borderline above watermark. Cat. $650. Price $595 K15) Australia 1913 6d Ultramarine Kangaroo 1st Wmk. Inverted. Superb fault free cds example centred just a little to the right. Cat. $1000, price $875 K16) Australia 1913 6d Ultramarine Kangaroo 1st Wmk. Inverted. PERF SMALL OS. Superb fault free cds example well centred. Cat. $1500, price $1250 K17) Australia 1913 5/- Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, perfectly centred and full perfs. Cto Melbourne with small lower right corner cds. Brilliant stamp, cannot be bettered! Price $500 K18) Australia 1913 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo 1st wmk. Handstamped Specimen. Nice looking stamp. Couple of perf faults at lower left side,

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JUNE SALE and gum a little aged. Cat. $750. Well priced at $465 K19) Australia 1913 £2 Black & Rose Kangaroo 1st wmk. Handstamped Specimen. Great looking stamp. Well centred and full perfs. Gum a little aged. Cat. $850. Very well priced at $700 K21) Australia 1923 6d Chestnut Kangaroo 3rd wmk, with variety “Broken Leg” superb used example with central cds of Burwood NSW dated 9 AP 2?. Centred a little to the right and with 1 nibbed perf at lower right.

ACSC 21(3)d, cat. $200. Price $129 K22) Australia 1918 5/- Grey-Black and Chrome Kangaroo 3rd wmk. Well centred stamp with full perfs and slightly heavier cds of Melbourne dated 24.11.20 Cat. $225, price $96 K23) Australia 1918 5/- Grey-Black and Chrome Kangaroo 3rd wmk. Perf OS. Well centred cto stamp. Few ragged perfs at top left side. No gum.

Attractive looking. ACSC 44wa Cat. $300, price $149 K24) Australia 1916 10/- Grey and Pink Kangaroo 3rd wmk. Perf OS. Cto stamp centred high. Full perfs with gum Few ragged perfs at top left side. Nice looker. ACSC 48Awa Cat. $200, price $125 K25) Australia 1916 10/- Grey and Deep Analine Pink Kangaroo 3rd wmk. Perf OS. Cto stamp centred left. Good perfs, no gum Great Colour.

ACSC 48Bwa Cat. $200, price $125 K26) Australia 1916 10/- Grey and Deep Analine Pink Kangaroo 3rd wmk. Ovpt. SPECIMEN type B. Perfect centring and perfs, MINT UNHINGED. Post Office fresh and stunning colour. ACSC 48Bx Cat. $3000 without overprint, indicative Cat. price for this would be $2400 based on scarcity. Price $1795 K27) Australia 1929 5/- Grey & Orange Yellow Kangaroo. Small Multiple wmk. Nice used example with heavier Collingwood Vic. Cds of 21 MY 30.

Good perfs and centred a tad high. Cat. $250. Price $96 BD11) Australia 1932 10/- Grey & Pale Rose Crimson Kangaroo, C of A wmk. Scarcest shade of this stamp, ACSC 50C. Cancelled by Sydney cds, and with MISPLACED KANGAROO, not listed for this stamp. The Kangaroo is shifted approx. 5m to the right leaving the tail 3mm outside the map. Misplacements such as this are usually cat. Around the $5000 level. Visually very attractive. Price $2950 BD10) Australia 1916 4d Lemon KGV Head, ACSC 110Cb, perf OS. Cancelled by socked on nose Sydney Late fee cds of 27AP.17, highly attractive. Price $119 DB792) Australia 1916 4d KGV Pale Orange Yellow, ACSC 110E, fine mint lightly hinged, full perfs, centered left. Cat. $350. Hard shade to find.

Price $195 LM16) Australia KGV 1d Green Single wmk. Perf OS, with massive perf shift. This stamp is centred very low and to the left and showing part of the stamp above. Great variety. Nice cds example with good perfs. $69 DB500) Australia 1927 KGV 1.5d Red, small multi. Wmk. Perf. 13.5 x 12.5 mng. Complete double horizontal row of perfs. right through

centre of the stamp just under the King’s nose! Stunning variety, never seen by us before. $195 DB479) Australia 1932 6d Brown Typo. Kooka Ash Imprint blk. of 8.

Hinged on top stamps, rare to find in this format. Gum evenly toned.

Well centered and with full perfs. Price $195 BD300) Australia 1934 MacArthur 2d Dark Hills, gutter block of 6, unfolded. Lovely fresh mint block, lightly hinged on one stamp only.

Very hard to find in this format. Cat. $210, price $139 BD304) As above, part imprint vertical strip of 4, mint unhinged. Cat $140 as singles. Price $95 BD301) as above, bottom right corner, mint unhinged vertical strip of 3. Cat $105 as singles, price $69.50 BD327) As above, mint unhinged single, cat. $35, price $23.50 BD308) Australia 1935 2/- Violet Jubilee superb used lower left corner horizontal strip of 3. Superb used multiple bearing cds of Campbell Town, Tasmania of 8MY35. Price $98 BD303/306/307) Australia 1934 – 40 Victorian Centenary P. 10.5, Sth. Australia Centenary & 1940 AIF all in mint unhinged complete sets. (9) Retail $190, my price $115 the lot.

DB310) Australia 1937 2d Red NSW Sesqui, Man with Tail variety, commercially used. SG 19a cat. £140. Price $129 DB498) Australia 1963 5d Green Royal Visit, Misperf Vertically Mint unhinged vertical pair. This is very unusual and not the same as the listed variety in the specialised catalogue, which is misperf vertically and horizontally. Stunning Error! Price $195 BD336) Australia 1966 20c Golden Whistler (Bird) in complete mint unhinged sheet of 100. Overprinted with Post Office Training “SPECIMEN ONLY” handstamp in Violet. Large multiples are rare. Price $995 BD337) Australia 1966 30c Straw-Necked Ibis (Bird) in complete mint unhinged half sheet sheet of 50. Overprinted with Post Office Training “SPECIMEN ONLY” handstamp in Violet. Large multiples are rare. Price $495 BD338) Australia 1978 15c Christmas block of 16 ( 8 x 2) mint unhinged, with Massive pre-printing paper crease across upper 8 stamps.

Spectacular and stunning piece! Price $325 Australia Postal History DB475) Australia 1913 small Censor cover to New York, bearing 2.5d Indigo Kangaroo 1st wmk. Franked by Melbourne machine cancel cds of 15FE13. Additionally with violet "PASSED" handstamp. Flap has printed H.V. McKay, SUNSHINE. Scarce very early use cover. Neat and clean, price $159 DB477) Australia 1914 small cover bearing 2.5d Indigo Kangaroo 1st wmk, franked by machine cancel cds of Sydney DE22 1914 to Beverley,

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JUNE SALE Mass. USA. Neat & clean typed address cover. Price $110 DB484) Australia 1915 small Censored advertising cover for the Australian Journal of Pharmacy, bearing 2d Grey 2nd wmk Kangaroo. Untaxed cover, underpaid a halfpenny to Detroit, USA. Cancelled by machine cancel of Melbourne 29MY15, additionally with violet "PASSED" handstamp on front. Scarce stamp on early advertising cover, cat. $400 if used correctly to the British Empire. Price $329 DB481) Australia 1915 small Censored cover, bearing 2.5d Indigo 2nd wmk Kangaroo. Franked by Melbourne machine cancel cds of 10.SEP.15. additionally with violet "PASSED" handstamp on front. Neat typewritten address to Taunton, Mass. USA. Cat. $180 on cover. Price $110 DB489) Australia 1916 OHMS long printed cover, with 1d KGV & 2d 1st wmk Roo BOTH PERF "T" . Very scarce cover cancelled by Hobart machine cds of 21.JAN.16 to Constable Brown at Police Station Kempton.

Opened a little raggedly at right, but does not affect stamps. Price $219 DB474) Australia 1917 small Double Rate cover, bearing 2d Grey & 3d Olive both Die I 3rd wmk Kangaroos. Franked by cds of Sydney 21MR17.

To Standard Bank of South Africa, New York, and with embossed oval Australian Bank of Commerce imprint on flap. Almost undiscernible facial tear does not detract from the fine appearance. Scarce piece, price $119 BD381) Australia 1917 Kangaroo UNIQUE FIRST DAY COVER? Censored cover to Sweden bears Horizontal Pair (double rate) of 2.5d Indigo 3rd wmk. Kangaroos, cancelled by Ship Mail Room cds of Melbourne dated 3 JL 17, and confirmed by Gothenburg receiving cds on reverse of 21.9.17. Reverse flap has logo of C. STEAKMEST, 26 Market Street, Melbourne, and with “PASSED” handstamp in violet on face. Kangaroo First Day Covers are very rare and this is dated 2 months earlier than the previously recorded date in ACSC. Catalogue No. ACSC 9A. There is virtually no possibility that an earlier cover than this exists. All Kangaroo First day Covers are priced in the ACSC catalogue at $15,000 each. Price $9950 BD332) Australia 1931 Kingsford Smith set on OFFICIAL FIRST FLIGHT SIGNED FIRST DAY COVER. Superb fresh registered cover Melbourne – Sydney. Catalogued as AAMC 181. Cancelled by Registered Elizabeth Street Melbourne cds of 19MR31 and with arrival cds of Sydney the same day. Nicest of these I have seen. Cat. $350, price $295 DB487) Australia 1932 small registered cover to Hawaii. Bears 6d Chestnut Kangaroo SG 107. Cancelled by Adelaide Railway cds of 25FE32 and with Reg'd label No. 4783 with "Ratstail" R. Reverse bears Melbourne Registered cds of 27FE32 and Honolulu registered arrival cds of MAR 18 1932. Scarce destination, price $179 BD333) Australia 1938 Long Advertising Airmail Cover of Tait Bros., Comedy Theatre Melbourne to Germany. Bears 5/- Grey & Yellow C

of A Kangaroo, plus 1/6d double globe Hermes and 4d Olive Yellow KGV Head. All cancelled by Melbourne Late Fee cds of 19JA38 to make Quintuple rate of 6/8d plus 2d late fee. Has manuscript “Air Mail” on face.Clean cover with typewritten address. Price $595 BD330) Australia 1951 small envelope bearing Coil Strip of 6, Halfpenny Orange No Wmk. Kangaroo. Melbourne to Hobart. Cancelled by Melbourne Slogan cancel “SEND MONEY BY POSTAL OR MONEY ORDER” Also Ship Mail Room cds both dated 18 FE 51. Very rare, and top pair are a coil join! Price $495 DB488) Australia Kookaburras on cover. Wide range of destinations, with covers from 1935 - 1958, solo usage and in combinations, some with 2/- Kangaroos. Includes registered items, double and triple rate covers, censored covers, used in Papua New Guinea, overpaid, first flight and much more interesting stuff, including an early coloured Sydney lettercard. Fascinating stuff, and ideal for expansion into a nice display. 19 items. Price $695 Australian States New South Wales DB109) NSW 1854 5d Dull Green Imperf Diadems SG 88. 2 margin example with good colour and slightly heavy NSW ringed oval cancel. Has two tiny pinholes and small nick at top. Nice looking stamp. Cat. £650, good spacefiller at only 10% cat. price $110 GB114) Another as above, but in a much deeper shade. 2 margins, and cut into at right. Cheap at $125 DB115) NSW 1855 8d Golden Yellow Imperf, SG 97. Fine used 4 margin brilliant colour example, with neat rays cancel No. 60. Cat. £1400. Price $885 DB116) NSW 1855 8d Dull Yellow Orange Imperf, SG 98. Fine used 4 large margins brilliant colour example, with neat NSW duplex of 1860.

Cat. £1300. Price $975 DB111) NSW 1856 Vermilion & Prussian Blue 6d Registered Stamp, Imperf. SG 102. Lovely very fine 4 margin example, with light cancel.

Cat. £170, price $169 DB117) NSW 1860 6d Mauve SG 164. Mint part OG example, with good centering and perfs. Cat. £200, price $110 DB107) NSW 1860 - 72, 6d Analine Mauve, SG 167, vfu well centered and with full perfs. NSW ringed oval cancel. Cat. £140, price $139 DB120) NSW 1890 20/- Carrington, Perf 11 x 12, SG 264cb with centrally struck cancel, big stamp with extra perf at base. Price $98 BD325) NSW 1890 20/- Carrington, Perf 11, SG 264c with centrally struck cds of Broken Hill dated MY 5 1903, very attractive stamp. Price $110 BD302) NSW 1897 1/- Brown and Grey Consumptives Home SG 280. Top

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JUNE SALE right hand corner block of 4 mint unhinged. Scarce multiple. Price$295 South Australia DB404) South Australia 1859 1d Yellow Green, SG 13 Mis-roulette. Nice used example with 1859 cds cancel. Has been completely mis-rouletted in two directions so that "One Penny" appears at top instead of the base and part of adjoining stamp is shown at left. Not seen by us before.

Some years ago I sold an 8d long type similarly mis-perfed at a Prestige auction for $1000 plus buyers’ premium! Price $895 BD299) South Australia 1890 3d Olive De la Rue Imperf Plate Proofs.

Mint unhinged block of 18 (6 x 3 ) on gummed paper. Rare large multiple. Price $960 Queensland DB322) Queensland One Pound Green Chalon Head. SG 165, corner cto without gum. Full perfs, centred a little left. Cat. £100. Price $89 Victoria BD310) VICTORIA 1879-1900 STAMP DUTY Arms 3/- Drab, cto with gum, full perfs and well centred. price $52.50 BD318) VICTORIA 1879-1900 STAMP DUTY Arms 5/- Rosine, cto without gum, full perfs and well centred. price $45 BD319) VICTORIA 1879-1900 STAMP DUTY Arms 6/- Apple Green, cto with gum, full perfs and well centred. price $58.50 BD317) VICTORIA 1879-1900 STAMP DUTY Arms 10/- Green cto without gum, full perfs and well centred. Some ink residue on face. Price $29 BD309) VICTORIA 1879-1900 STAMP DUTY Arms 15/- Brown cto without gum, full perfs, centred a little left. Price $85 BD315) VICTORIA 1879-1900 STAMP DUTY Arms One Pound Orange intense Analine cto without gum, full perfs, well centred. Price $149 BD311) As above, paler shade with gum, centred left. Price $125 BD312) VICTORIA 1879-1900 STAMP DUTY Arms 45/- Lilac cto without gum, full perfs, centred top left. Price $295 BD313) VICTORIA 1879-1900 STAMP DUTY Arms Ten Pounds Mauve cto without gum, full perfs slightly fluffy, centred to top. Price $329 BD316) Victoria 1884-92 2/6d Yellow, SG 292a, cto with gum, unhinged.

Fresh full perf stamp, centred a little left. Price $49 LM25) Victoria 1892 Taxed 1d Postal Stationery Envelope error of colour.

Erroneously printed in Carmine Pink. Used Melbourne to Geelong with duplex cancel of OC 15 92 and small thimble cds of Geelong on front of NO 18 92. Also rectangle instructional markings "NOT KNOWN BY LETTER CARRIERS" and "UNCLAIMED GEELONG" also with red crayon manuscript "T 2d" Reverse bears arrival cds of Geelong OC15 92 and purple

Melbourne dead letter office cds of NO 21 92. Additionally blue crayon manuscript "Not known as addressed" Fascinating item. Price $210 BD320) Victoria 1901-12 £1 KEVII Bright Rose, perf. 11. Perfin. OS sideways cto with gum. ACSC 126Aba. Nice full perf. stamp centred left.

Cat. $350, price $295 BD314) Victoria 1901-12 6d green, cto without gum, and overprinted “Ultramar” for the 1906 UPU Congress Rome. Very scarce item, price $210 Australia Postal Stationery Letter Cards DB7) 1d Overprinted in Blue 1.5d, 1918 Lettercard. ACSC LC36 perf 12.5 with view of Government House Perth (ACSC 56E) Postally used

by Sydney Machine cancel of NO29 1918. Contents blank and selvedge removed. Nevertheless this is a very scarce card, cat $400 mint, unrecorded used. Price $695 DB338) 1.5d KGV Brown card uprated with halfpenny green ACSC LC42.

With view of Hawkesbury River (ACSC 62) Used Sydney to Toogoolawah Queensland and cancelled by Sydney cds of 21FE21. Selvedge removed for ease of reading. Late use, the rate was raised to 2d on 1 Oct 1920.

Cat. $100, price $69 DB337) As above to same addressee but ACSC L44. Used 21 MR 21. Price $69 DB339) As above to same addressee, ACSC L44 with view of the GPO Hobart (ACSC 58A) Used by indistinct cds of Queensland. Price $59 Military DB332) 1917 1d Red KGV Military Envelope ACSC ME5A. Nice fresh mint envelope unsealed, with just a little aging at left and right edges. Very scarce in this condition. Cat. $300, price $225 Registration Envelopes DB336) 4d Orange KGV ACSC RE8, uprated to 5.5d to cover with 1.5d Red Brown, being the new rate of 5d from October 1920 plus the Halfpenny war tax. The 5d RE10 envelope was introduced in the same month, and so this is quite late usage. Cancelled by Melbourne registered cds of 18OCT20 and with Bulk Reg'n. Melb. red registration label No. 6142. Addressed to The Police Station, Prahran and believed to have contained 10/- and 20/- money orders, numbers of which are recorded on the face upon receipt on 19.10.20, presumably to pay a fine. Received cds of Windsor on reverse of 19OC20. Scarce and unusual.

Price $149 DB334) 5d Chestnut KGV ACSC RE13, with early Registration Label. Nice Used example with Yass, NSW cds of 14MR23 and red NSW reg. label No.

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JUNE SALE 63. Clearly the date slug at Yass was wrong since it also bears a Registered cds of Murrumbateman of 14MY23 both front and reverse and a Registered Sydney cds on front of the next day. Fascinating! Price $149 DB476) 5d on 4.5d KGV ACSC RE23, very late use uprated for War Tax. This is a very rare envelope and this example even more so, possibly the latest recorded use. Uprated by a halfpenny orange Kangaroo to take account of the War Tax introduced 10 December 1941 and cancelled by a large blue oval handstamp of Caulfield South 18 NOV 1944, plus reg'n. label No. 5968. This was a Saturday, Reverse bears Melbourne registered cds of Monday 20NO44. Also partial received cds of Ulverstone Tasmania. A choice rarity, price $995 Great Britain 1d Blacks PB28) Great Britain 1840 1d Black plate 4, SG2. Lovely 4 margin example with neat Red Maltese Cross cancel, lettered K-I. Cat. £375, price $495 PB29) Great Britain 1840 1d Black plate 5, SG2. Lovely 4 large margin example with neat Red Maltese Cross cancel, lettered K-I. Cat. £375, price $595 PB30) Great Britain 1840 1d Black plate 5, SG2. Decent 4 margin example with neat centrally struck Red Maltese Cross cancel, lettered C-I. Cat. £375, price $595 PB31) Great Britain 1840 1d Black plate 5, SG2. Tidy 4 margin example with Red Maltese Cross cancel, lettered D-D. Cat. £375, price $495 PB32) Great Britain 1840 1d Intense Black plate 5, SG1. 4 good even margined example with Exceptional Nice Red Maltese Cross cancel, lettered I-E. Cat. £525, price $695 PB33) Great Britain 1840 1d Black plate 5, SG2. 4 margin example with Black Maltese Cross cancel, lettered I- E. Cat. £375, price $395 PB34) Great Britain 1840 1d Black plate 6, SG2. Nice 4 margin example with neat lightly struck Red Maltese Cross cancel, lettered C-I. Cat. £375, price $495 PB35) Great Britain 1840 1d Black plate 7, SG2. Attractive 4 margin example with neat Red Maltese Cross cancel leaving profile clear, lettered F-E. Cat. £400, price $495 PB36) Great Britain 1840 1d Intense Black plate 8, SG1. Exceptional 4 margin example from a scarcer plate with big even margins and Red Maltese Cross cancel, lettered L-K. Cat. £525, price $695 PB37) Great Britain 1840 1d Black plate 3, SG2. Nice looking 4 margin example with neat Bright Red Maltese Cross cancel, from this more difficult plate. Lettered Q-E. Cat. £500, price $625 PB38) Great Britain 1840 1d Black plate 3, SG2. 4 margin example, a bit close at bottom, with neat centrally struck Red Maltese Cross cancel tied to small piece, lettered O-F. Cat. £500, price $425

PB39) Great Britain 1840 1d Black plate 1b, SG2. 4 margin example, 3 are very large, with Red Maltese Cross cancel, lettered J-J. Cat. £375, price $425 PB40) Great Britain 1840 1d Black plate 5, SG2. Lovely 4 even margin example with neat Vermilion Maltese Cross cancel, lettered K-B. Cat. £3000, price $2495 PB41) Great Britain 1840 1d Black plate 3, SG2. Lovely 4 large margin example from a better plate with neat Red Centrally Struck Maltese Cross cancel, lettered K-I. Cat. £500, price $625 PB42) Great Britain 1840 1d Black plate 6, SG2. 4 margin example with neat centrally struck Back Maltese Cross cancel, lettered L-I. Close at top Cat. £375, price $395 PB48) GB 1840 1d black, unplated example, with 2 generous margins, plus part margin on other sides, and neat ruby red Maltese cross cancel of Aberdeen, lettered A - L. Nice example with minor faults at base. Min. Cat. £1200. Attractive used example at 10% cat. $195 PB49) GB 1840 1d Grey black SG3, unplated example, with 4 good margins, and neat ruby red Maltese cross cancel of Aberdeen, lettered O - C. Lovely example with minor faults at base. Cat. £1200. Price $395 PB53) GB 1840 1d black, unplated example, with 4 margins, (2 are close) Nice red Maltese cross cancel, lettered F - I. Nice looking stamp, min. Cat. £375. Price only 40% of cat. $245 Great Britain other items BD323) Great Britain 1887 10d Jubilee Dull Purple & Carmine SG 210.

Top marginal example, mint unhinged, post office fresh. Well centred and full perfs. Magnificent example. Price $169 Australian Territories Norfolk Is. BD12) Norfolk Is. 1956 2d Ball Bay, white paper, SG 4a. vfu corner cds full perf. example, cat. £160. Price $129 Nauru BD321) NWPI Ovpt. Type B on Australia 2/- Brown Kangaroo 3rd wmk.

Inverted, SG 115. Cancelled by cds of NAURU. Inverted wmk. not cat. By Gibbons. Price $295 Papua New Guinea BD296) Papua New Guinea, Australia used in. 2/- C of A wmk. Kangaroo redrawn, Imprint block of 4 from centre of the sheet, cto by central cds of MADANG dated 1 – NOV 47. Rare and unusual, unhinged gum. Price $125

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JUNE SALE BD298) Papua New Guinea, Australia used in. Halfpenny Orange Kangaroo, 2d Mauve KGVI & 2.5d Red KGVI, Imprint blocks of 4, each cto by central cds of MADANG dated 1 – NOV 47. Rare and unusual, unhinged gum. Price $89 BD297, as above but the 2d & 2.5d values only, price $59 BD305) Papua New Guinea 1952 Definitives SG 1/15 mint unhinged.

Top value centred low. Price $145 P18) 1957 Papua New Guinea, small airmail cover Goroka to British Solomon is. Bears 2 x 1d, 3d & 7d Surcharge Definitives to make correct 1/- Airmail rate, tied by cds of Goroka 20 JE 57. Inter-Island mail from this period is very scarce, as little has survived. Price $119 British Empire and Commonwealth Brunei DB464) Brunei 1910 $25 Black on Red, SG 48. Used with Telegraph Puncture nicely centered example but with vertical crease. Cat. £1300 in SG, £125 as fiscally used by Barefoot. Good spacefiller, price $69 DB463) Brunei 1916 3c Scarlet Die II, SG 38. Mint lightly hinged example, centered right. Cat. £130, price $72 DB466) Brunei 1947 $1 Black and Scarlet, SG 90 Doctor Blade Flaw. Top marginal mint unhinged example with red doctor blade flaw running vertically through stamp. Nice variety, price $59 DB78) South West Africa 1957 Registered covers, to University of Witwatersrand. Bearing a variety of frankings from the 1954 Definitive series, 1d - 6d, inc. a Postal Stationery Reg'd 6d envelope along with an unregistered cover bearing 3d Blue SG 127. 6 items, price $89 DB86) Rhodesia & Nyasaland. Similarly addressed lot to the above, 14 items, inc. 3 uprated official postal stationery 4d Reg'd envelopes, with a late use of the KGVI. 13 items, price $195 DB92) K.U.T. batch of postal history, various destinations worldwide inc. UK, Australia, USA, Morocco & India, but mostly to Jo'burg. KGV to early QEII to around 1955, inc. Censored, Registered, Taxed items, etc.

Fascinating lot, with KGV (9), KGVI (10) & QEII (16) Would make a nice display! 35 covers, Price $695 BD326) New Zealand 1931 “Smiling Boys” superb lightly hinged pair with full perfs, well centred. Price $195 Palestine BD334) Palestine 1918 definitives SG 5/15 Presentation Set of 11 plus extra shade of 2m each cancelled by double ring cds of Jerusalem 19 JY 19 on plain sheet of paper. Scarce and unusual. Price $96

Straits Settlements DB327) Straits Settlements 1883 12 Brown - Purple SG 67. Nice mint lightly hinged well centered example, very fresh and with full perfs.

Cat. £85. Price $79 DB440) Straits Settlements 1887 32c Orange - Vermilion, SG 70w.

Fresh lightly hinged full perf. example with inverted wmk. Cat. £100.

Price $98 DB326) Straits Settlements 1888 96c Olive - Grey SG 71. Nice fresh mint example, well centered and full perfs. Cat. £75, price $69 DB441) Straits Settlements 1902 30c Grey & Carmine SG 134a. Lovely fresh mint lightly hinged example, well centered and full perfs. Cat. £60 Price $59 DB442) As above, another similar example. Minor perf faults at top right. Price $49 DB438) Straits Settlements 1904 8c Purple on Blue, SG 126. Mint hinged example with small faults. Cat. £50. Cheap buy at $15 DB435) Straits Settlements 1918 $5 Green & Red on Green, SG 212b.

Fresh mint very lightly hinged example, centered right and with good perfs. Cat. £225, price $185 DB415) Straits Settlements 1937 - 41 KGVI Defins., SG 278 - 290. Nice set to $1, mint hinged. Few stamps have mottled gum. Cat. £273 as single MUH stamps. Price $110 SWAZILAND DB85) Swaziland, 1941. Rare bilingual Censor tape cover. Small readdressed advertising cover for Church of the Nazarene to the USA. Bears horiz. Pr. Of 1.5d blue KGVI tied by cds of 13.VI.41. Attractive and unusual. $69 DB82) Swaziland 1954 small Registered cover, Hlatikulu to Jo’burg.

Bears horiz. Pr. Of KGVI 4d Orange tied by double ring cds of 24.DEC.1954. Very neat cover. $69 DB83) Swaziland 1955 small registered cover, Piggs Peak to Jo’burg.

Bears 4 x 2d Brown tied by double ring cds of 24.DEC.55 (Christmas Eve.) Some toning at top of cover and one stamp torn. Nevertheless a scarce piece. Price $49 DB84) Swaziland 1956 small commercial registered cover Mbabane to Jo’burg. Bears vertical pair of 4d Orange KGVI tied by double ring cds of Mbabane dated 22.IV.56 Price $69 DB77) Swaziland 1957 long registered cover Emlembe to Jo’burg.

Bears 1.5d Blue KGVI and vertical strip of three of the QEII 3d Black and Red. Tied by double ring cds of 4.12.57. Some toning along top of cover not affecting stamps. Rare dual reign cover showing additional franking of 2.5d (for weight?) Price $89

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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

B

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

C

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

D

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

E

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

F

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

G

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

H

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

I

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

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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

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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

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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 such as used clothing ceased as the cost of sending them overseas became prohibitive and there was a lack of volunteers to pack them. International organisations including UN agencies like UNICEF were opening branches in New Zealand and their resources for advertising fund-raising activities were greater than those of the locally-based CORSO. To administer the large organisation that CORSO had become by the 1960s it had created six executive sub-committees in 1969 and this led to there being more individual office-bearers. Some officebearers tried to take the organisation in different directions from others. The decline of CORSO from the 1970s is the subject of a case study by researchers at Victoria University of Wellington (see references below) and this article draws heavily on that Working Paper.

The main attitudinal change in the 1970s was the growing awareness that just sending aid would not fix the underlying causes of poverty in under-developed countries. CORSO, under new leaders who had risen through the executive committees, placed increased emphasis on funding development projects and in educating the public on the need for social and political change to achieve greater fairness in communities. This awareness extended to the place of the Maori in New Zealand society and CORSO became an advocate for social justice in New Zealand. In 1977 the organisation changed its name to ‘New Zealand Justice and Development Organisation’ though it retained the ‘brand’ of CORSO. The number of affiliated charities gradually declined.

Because of CORSO’s greater involvement in political lobbying and public advocacy, government grants were withdrawn and public support turned to more ‘crisis relief’ oriented charities. In 1991, key staff resigned to become founding workers at the newly-formed New Zealand branch of Oxfam and the remnant CORSO organization became essentially an advocacy group. Today it advocates on behalf of indigenous peoples in New Zealand and the Pacific.

On 18 November 1969, while CORSO still enjoyed government and public support, its 25th anniversary was marked by a set of two stamps.

They were designed by L. C. Mitchell and printed

by the Japan Government Printing Bureau in fourcolour photogravure in sheets of 50. The plate numbers were in the bottom of the left selvedge and the printer’s imprint toward the left of the bottom selvedge. The chalk-surfaced unwatermarked paper was deliberately less glossy than the previous print job from Japan - the 1968 Human Rights and Universal Suffrage issue. That issue had had problems with postmarks smudging on the glossy surface. The perforations gauged 13. The stamps were withdrawn from sale on 31 January 1970.

References: Paying the Price of the Failure to retain Legitimacy in a National Charity: the CORSO Story, by David Sutton, Carolyn Cordery and Rachel Baskerville.

Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, Working Paper no. 47, 2007. http://www. victoria.ac.nz/sacl/centres-and-institutes/cagtr/working-papers/WP47.pdf Catalogue of New Zealand Stamps, Auckland, Campbell Paterson, 1952 – .

The Postage Stamps of New Zealand, vol. 6, Wellington, RPSNZ, 1977.

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Australia 2016 "CHINA" Koala Stamp Miniature Sheet with WRONG Date and WRONG perf - just $A3 each! : 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. The 2004 $1 Koala stamp design was resurrected from the Archives for the attractive sheet shown above and in ERROR the “2004” micro Date was not excised off the printing plate! The Australia Post booth had long lines each day, and was MOBBED with collectors, with Security Guards on hand etc! Lots more photos of those Sheets, and the show here - tinyurl.com/Chhina1 I bought a parcel of these in December (it sold out that week!) as it was obvious to me they'd been overlooked, and basically no-one it seems, had noticed the "2004" Micro Print or different perforation error! 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 it exists. On that basis alone, it is certainly worth quite a few bucks as it was near universally overlooked before selling out. It might well become a $20 or $50, or higher piece in short order - being so quirky and attractive, and seeing the Jewel Beetle sheets from the show have gone absolute gangbusters, at $A1,750 a set 5! I discovered the new version is a TOTALLY different perforation to the original - no-one realised that until well after they were totally sold out! My prices are as follows, subject to change with NO notice are: 1. 20 x MUH Koala sheets - $A120 (Stock 284TU) 2. 50 x MUH Koala sheets $A250 (Stock 284TV) 3. 100 x MUH Koala sheets $A400 (Stock 284TW) 4. 200 x MUH Koala sheets $A600 (Stock 284TX) If you want part or all of this order cancelled very neatly - no extra cost. CLEARLY specify it though. i.e. "284TV - 25 mint and 25 CTO" - no problems at all. Indeed used M/S will be 100 times scarcer than mint - some on eBay already at $299 EACH!

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Cinderella Corner Ackland to Trouchet: Stamp Dealers and Australian Cinderellas

Welcome to the June issue of Cinderella Corner. The reader may remember nearly 12 months ago, to last year’s July piece. With the expert assistance of Rod Perry, it harboured its focus on cinderella advertising material produced by some of Australia’s early stamp dealers and traders.

Figure 1 This issue, the first for Australia’s winter, briefly continues this narrative, focusing of one stamp dealer and his use of war labels on correspondences.

William Ackland was a pioneer and a highly revered and respected Victorian philatelist. He operated across two different Melbourne locations, commencing his practice in 1892, and dealing for over 50 years. On the other side of the continent,

Figure 2 48 - Stamp News

Western Australian local (and Mauritius born) Alex Trouchet, primarily a chemist by trade, operated as a philatelic dealer from his Wellington Street pharmacy in Perth. While lesser known in philatelic circles than Ackland, his contributions to philately were equally significant.

It is clear that both dealers corresponded with each other during their years of operation. Of note, and with intrigue to the cinderella collector and enthusiast, three envelopes have surfaced addressed to Trouchet, each with a clear example of Ackland’s handstamp as the return address. On all three items, the same example of a Liberty Loan cinderella label is affixed. Details of these three pieces, as per provided illustrations, are as follows: •• In Figure 1, the handwritten address to Trouchet is: Mr. A Trouchet – Barrack

Vito Milana

Figure 3 & Wellington Sts. Perth West Aust. This is accompanied by the written addition: per 1st Overland Mail Oct 20th 1917 Melbourne to Perth. Two Tasmanian colonial stamps adorn the front of the cover, with postmarked details: 20th October 1917, Elizabeth St., Melbourne. In the top left corner of the envelope is an affixed cinderella label with the written text: For all they mean to you – Subscribe to the LIBERTY LOAN. The label is also postmarked. The reverse of the cover displays a clear example of Ackland’s purple and boxed handstamp: WM. ACKLAND – FOREIGN STAMP IMPORTER, 267 Collins Street Melbourne.

•• Figure 2 illustrates a cover that is near identical to Figure 1, sharing the same address, return handstamp, postmarks, and cancelled cinderella label. One key difference in the single postage stamp used on the front. It is therefore possible that Ackland posted similar covers on that day to Trouchet and/or others.

•• The item highlighted across Figures 3 and 4 (front and reverse, respectively) also shares similarities with the previously two explored covers, mainly because it is addressed to

Trouchet, and was also sent as part of the 1st Overland Mail service from Melbourne to Perth. The piece itself, however, is larger in size than the items illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 and carries several Colonial stamps cancelled on the front. Ackland’s handstamp also features on the front (top left corner), rather than the reverse. And, conversely, the cinderella label that features on the front of the envelopes presented in Figures 1 and 2 is affixed to the reverse of this third one (Figure 4), with faint remains of a part cancel strike towards the base of it.

The cinderella labels presented across all three items are part of 13 differently designed ones that have been elsewhere documented in philatelic catalogues and articles, most notably in Jackson’s 1987 text FIRST WORLD WAR PATRIOTIC LABELS OF AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND. Many of this cinderellas shared a patriotic UK motif, and they were all issued by the Australian Commonwealth Government. They were available, free of charge, from different branches of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. The labels were issued from the latter part of 1917 and production stopped some time before 1918 when T. S. Harrison was appointed as the Commonwealth Note and Stamp Printer.

One of the earliest points of reference regarding details about the released labels dates to October 26, 1917 where a newspaper article titled PosterStamps and the Liberty Loan discusses the cinderellas. The century-old vignette attributes the release to the then Federal Treasurer Sir John Forrest as a means of popularising the War Loan, raising needed funds and equipping the public with patriotism.

Guidelines were also issued at the time to only affix the labels on letters or on the reverse of corresponStamp News - 49

Cinderella Corner dence envelopes.

In Jackson’s wellregarded catalogue, the label featured on the three covers is references as A7b, distinguishable from its counterpart A7a by the black outlining around the letters LIBERTY LOAN. A7b is significantly scarcer (and more valuable) than A7a; the latter is one of the more common of the 13 basic design styles that exist across the Liberty Loan labels, whereas A7b is one of rarest of the varieties that can be found amongst them.

An example of label A7a is illustrated in Figure 5.

Furthermore, when canFigure 4 celled on cover, the scarcity of any of these Liberty Loan cinderella labels increases several fold. The three covers therefore present as an interesting and valuable set with rare WWI-era Australian cinderellas,

Figure 5 50 - Stamp News

especially given that two of them, illustrated in Figures 1 and 2, effectively violate the guidelines that Ackland would have likely have been familiar with, as he affixed them to the front of the envelopes rather than to the reverse. This arguably adds an overall attraction to the covers and helps isolate their patriotic message more clearly.

A question remains regarding Ackland’s relationship with cinderella labels. Perhaps he shared an affinity with the,, along with a firm allegiance to Australia’s war efforts, and, in attaching them when corresponding to fellow trader Trouchet on at least three separate occasions on the same day, helped highlight their questionable validity in philately during this time. This is heightened by the fact that they were attached to the face of significant pieces celebrating the first Overland Mail service from Melbourne to Perth. Regardless of the motivation behind Ackland’s items, the envelopes are desirable pieces and broaden both the scope of information relating to Australian cinderella philately and the information already gathered on the philatelic patterns that define some of our early Australian traders and dealers. Any further information about Australian dealers and their use of cinderella labels is most welcomed.

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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Trends In Aerophilatelic Collecting And Exhibiting

Many of my recent articles have revolved around exhibitions so I thought it was about time to get back to a more philatelic article about collecting. This month I am looking at aerophilately as there have been significant changes to the regulations and guidelines on exhibiting aerophilately. While not everyone is interesting in exhibiting aerophilately, there has also been a trend to look at aerophilatelic material from a postal history viewpoint. I would like to discuss this trend as well.

Why the strong link between the development of air routes and the mail? In the early days the development of air routes was driven by the need to speed up mail delivery for commercial reasons. Yes, there were telephones and telegraphs but they were (relatively) expensive and were not convenient to send long documents. Aeroplanes could hold few passengers so only the rich travelled and this was not a sufficient source of funding to keep new air services viable. However, what could be sent was the mail. It is these early mail contracts that made airlines viable. Indeed, the loss of a mail contract could mean the end of an airline. The US Government used mail contracts to ensure that Pan American Airlines (PAA) remained viable in the Americas and stopped other airlines from developing in the region.

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Air cargo became more important as the size of aircraft increased. An exception to the need for mail contracts to keep an airline viable was in New Guinea and Papua in the 1930s. In the 1930s airlines carried vast quantities of mining equipment to the gold mines and mail was carried but was of secondary importance, although most gold was mailed out. This is the reason that the New Guinea £2 and £5 Bulolo Goldfield stamps of 1935 are more common used than might be expected for such high value stamps – they were actually used for postage. However, try to find one on an original gold parcel tag, as the majority were soaked off for collectors and surviving tags are a rarity.

Aerophilately

The FIP in a booklet on exhibiting classes states, “Aerophilately represents the study of the development of air mail services and a collection of documents pertaining to such development. Or expressed another way, Aerophilately is a postal and philatelic mirror of the history of aviation and the airplane’s influence on the world’s communication system … The very large volume of mail transported by air forms the basis of a fascinating and complex collecting area.”

Aerophilately has always a popular field, but was especially so in the 1920s and 1930s. Stamp collecting was also very popular in this period and collecting covers that were flown, by often quite famous aviators, was a very popular sideline. Indeed, some aviators used the covers to help fund their actual flights. I believe that the covers were so popular because you were holding a piece of history. This is particularly true of the great

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Daryl Fuller

Philatelic Development Officer, APF pioneering flights prior to the 1920s where flying was dangerous and many aviators died. This partially explains why the 1919 Ross Smith vignette is so valuable and it is only a label NOT a stamp.

Aerophilately’s basis has always been around first flight covers and associated vignettes, stamps and other documents. There are considered to be three periods of aerophilately. The pioneering period to 1918, although I would argue that about 1920 is a better cut-off as Ross Smith didn’t do his England – Australia flight until 1919 and this was certainly a pioneering flight. The ultimate example of an Australian pioneering period item is shown in Figure 1 (ex Frommer). It is the very first item of mail carried by aeroplane in Australia. On the 9th of June 1914 M. Guillaux carried a letter from the Mayor of Bendigo to the Mayor of Ballarat which survives to this day. Australia’s first official airmail was flown from Melbourne to Sydney by Maurice Guillaux between 16 and 18 July 1914 with a special (and well known) post card produced as a souvenir which were flown. Also known are two letters carried on this flight as shown in Figure 2 (ex Frommer). It should also be remembered that if you include balloon mail then airmail of course pre-dates the development of the aeroplane.

The development period of airmail is considered to be between 1918 and 1945 and comprises the bulk of the commonly collected and exhibit aerophilatelic exhibits.

Figure 3 illustrates a typical first flight cover from this period. It is a first flight cover from the first regular airmail service from Bermuda to the USA on 15 June 1937.

It was flown on the US FAM 17 (Foreign Airmail Route) and is one of 11,000 covers estimated on this flight. It has a handstamped cachet and typed notation typical of such covers.

There is also the modern period for airmail after

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1945. This is less commonly collected but is also very relevant to the development of airmail. After all, many smaller islands didn’t get airports until the 1950s and 1960s as tourism increased I do not intend to go into the basics of aerophilatelic exhibiting but refer you to the regulations and guidelines that can be found on the Aerophilately Commission website www.fipaero.org. What is more important are the changes that relate to airmail stamps. What I mean by an airmail stamp is one issued to pay a specific airmail fee for service. Sometimes these stamps could only be used for airmail and at other times were allowed for any mail payment. Figure 4 illustrates a cover from Venezuela which has 85 centimos in postage of which the 5c, 15c and 25c are all airmail stamps used to pay the airmail fee to the USA. The 40c almost certainly paid the basic surface mail rate to Germany. In the past examples of these stamps (and proofs etc) could be included in an airmail exhibit, but could not overwhelm the exhibit.

This caused problems in that some exhibits with a lot of stamps etc were transferred to Traditional Philately where they did not always do any better because they were written up as Aerophilately. This caused problems over the years because it was hard to get the right balance of stamps to covers, together with a write-up that focussed on aerophilately.

New Aerophilatelic Subclass

What the Aerophilately Commission did was get new guidelines approved to allow exhibits with larger numbers stamps and essays in them to remain in Aerophilately rather than traditional. The revised guidelines are as follows: 3.1.2 Stamps and Essays A. Adhesive stamps issued or overprinted specifically

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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation for use on airmail are part of aerophilately, even when used for other postal purposes.

B. Postal stationery, including aerogrammes and airmail postcards, issued specifically for airmail use is aerophilatelic material.

C. An exhibit may also include related material, such: - Essays and proofs - A study of printing methods or reconstruction of printing or overprinting plates - A study of paper varieties, watermarks, perforations, etc., or printing/overprinting errors.

D. While both a traditional and an aerophilatelic exhibit may contain the Fig. 5 material in “C” above, it is the treatment of the covers that will determine whether the exhibit will be judged by a traditional or by an aerophilatelic team. To be judged as Aerophilately the covers must be organised to show the development of airmail services. In other words, there must be a recognized aerophilatelic theme. If the covers are arranged to show uses of the stamps in a traditional way, then the exhibit should be judged as a traditional exhibit.

I have highlighted the important section of these guidelines. The covers must be written up in an aerophil-

atelic context. If they are written up purely as rates or other aspects of the cover then it should be shown in traditional. I believe that exhibitors are still coming to grips with these changes but a number are adopting this approach especially for those countries that issued a significant number of airmail stamps, many of which are in South America. I believe these changes are a very positive move for aerophilately. It will allow an exhibitor to write an exhibit up as either a traditional exhibit or as aerophilately and also, to try out both methods for those that are not sure of which approach they prefer. It may also mean that a few more geographical collecting areas become amenable to exhibiting as the inclusion of stamps allows a small area of specialisation to be ‘rounded out’ to a full 5-frame exhibit with the inclusion of stamps. I commend the Commission for taking this approach, to enlarge the exhibiting field rather than remove stamps and make the collecting of aerophilatelic covers too specialised.

Aerophilately Versus Postal History

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In the past Aerophilatelic exhibits were about first flight covers, with exhibits concentrating on early material and those with few flights

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Philatelic Development Officer, APF

Fig. 7 flown. As we have read above, this has been expanded to include stamps. However, there is another aspect of flown covers that is being used more and more – commercial airmail covers as opposed to first flights. For some countries it is possible to have several good airmail exhibits of the same period, or have enough flights to

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allow specialisation. For others, there is sometimes only enough available first flight material to allow one really good exhibit of a country. This sometimes frustrates potential exhibitors (many of which like to collect material of their own country) so they have looked at ways of expanding their own exhibits. To do this, more and more exhibitors are adding commercial covers to their aerophilately exhibits to expand the scope of the exhibit.

This makes sense because after all the majority of first flights were aimed at developing airmail (and passenger and cargo) services. It is easy enough to do and adds to the development of the story. Indeed, many commercial airmail covers are harder to find than first flight covers (the major-

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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation ity of which were kept by collectors).

As airmail was expensive the commercial covers became useful sources of fine used higher value stamps, hence my comments earlier about the Bulolo Goldfield high values and the rarity of gold tags.

I know of an aerophilatelic exhibit of Iraqi airmails that was turned into an airmail postal history exhibit. Figures 5 and 6 illustrate a cover from the IraqEgypt service operated by the Royal Air Force starting in 1921. First flight covers from this service are quite expensive but of course the service continued for several years and undertook many flights.

This cover is dated 9 June 1922 and it is possible, with the right literature, to determine which flight number it went on.

Another interesting example of aerophilately versus postal history is the cover in Figure 7. It is cover with the franking Fig. 9 of two countries, the USA and Colombia. In the early 1920s SCADTA ( Sociedad Colombo-Alemana de Transportes Aéreos) a joint German Colombian company started what is considered the first commercial air service in the world. The Colombian stamp was available in New York and was purchased and put on the envelope to pay for postage within Colombia. It is overprinted E.U. (Etats Unis for United States).

A number of countries had these stamps with appropriate country initials available. They were done this way as the money from the sale went to the company, not the post office. It is a fascinating collecting area and quite popular as one can collect it as aerophilately or postal history. It is also possible to collect just the airmail from a particular country. The very first Colombian airmail stamps are quite rare and very expensive, particularly on cover. Covers such as the one shown in Figure 7 are generally not rare.

However, this cover is a genuine scarce to rare item.

Prior to 1929 most such covers would have gone by ship from New York to Colombia and were then flown within Colombia and to Ecuador. After September 1929 when Pan American Airlines opened up its Caribbean service to South America, it could have flown all the way. For a short period in 1929 just after SCADTA had extended its air service to the Canal Zone it was possible to have a cover flown within the USA (New York to Miami) and then by ship to Cristobal to meetup with SCADTA to fly to Ecuador. So, what might appear to be a common cover 56 - Stamp News

is actually a nice piece of postal history.

One of the challenges of airmail covers is working out their routes and rates. There has been, up and until recently, more known about 18th and 19th century rates and routes than airmail ones. This is changing and in the last 20 years there has been much literature produced attempting to fill in these gaps. One of the important aspects of airmail, certainly up until the end of WWII was that it often didn’t travel all the way by air. Covers often have an indication that this is to happen or that the airmail section has been completed and these are known as Jusqu’à markings (French for ‘as far as’). Figure 8 is an Australian cover posted in 1938 to Sweden that flew to London where the well known London red bars were applied to indicate that the airmail was completed. There are over 70 different bars known! Figure 9 is a cover posted from Saigon in Indochina to Switzerland. The Saïgon – Marseille handstamp is both a type of jusqu’à marking and a route marking indicating the route and how far it is to fly. It would have gone by train from Marseille to Berne.

There are some classic works on these markings by Ian McQueen which involved some great pioneering work but are a little cumbersome to follow. A lot of McQueens work has been updated by Jan C. ter Welle in a book on jusqu’à marking and route markings, the cover of which is shown in Figure 10.

The other fascinating area of airmails was caused by

Daryl Fuller

Philatelic Development Officer, APF classes evolve over time. I believe that aerophilately, as in first flight covers, will remain an exhibition class. After all many first flight covers are not postal history, either because they have incorrect postage rates or were one-offs that did not lead to new airmail routes. However, I do believe that the postal history aspects of airmail covers will become more and more a part of aerophilatelic exhibits.

Airmail postal history collections and exhibits are becoming much more common and it may be that in the long run Aerophilately has three sections. A traditional section covering first flights (as originated formed as a class), one with stamps as has been currently extended, and eventually one with a section for airmail postal history. Whatever happens airmail covers are becoming more popular and it is largely because of the postal history aspect which, particularly during WWII, became quite complicated.

If you need any further information about stamp collecting see www.apf.org.au or contact me for information pertaining to this article at Darryl.fuller@home.netspeed. com.au.

Fig. 10 all the troubles of WWII. This caused routes to change, to be cancelled and often the detail to be hidden. Indeed after 1942 it becomes very difficult to find out airmail rates and especially routes in a number of areas. There is a very large book published by the American Airmail Society called “Airmail Operations During WWII” by Thomas H. Boyle Jr which is no longer available but can be found for sale occasionally. Another interesting book by Hans E. Aitink and Egbert Hovenkamp called “Bridging the Continents in Wartime: Important Airmail Routes 19391945” is shown in Figure 11. It has a slight Dutch focus but does cover the world and it is possible to work out in the early part of the War what flight an item of mail likely travelled on. There are also more books on airmail postal rates appearing and this is assisting the deciphering of airmail covers., making (relatively) modern airmail postal history a lot of fun.

This move to look at airmail covers as postal history is becoming more common and changing aerophilately. This is not necessarily a bad thing as all exhibition

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Market Matters German “Unissued” Christmas Stamp Soars!

On November 2, the German PO was about to issue the annual 2016 Christmas Bells “Weihnachtsmarke” stamp. Germany only issues 1 value a year - not sets of 3 or 4 stamps like other countries. Just before being issued, this 70¢ stamp was noticed to have a few real bloopers, that the usual German Teutonic efficiency had overlooked.

The Dutch word “Kerstfest” was spelt totally wrong - it should have been be “Vrolijk kerstfeest” (Dutch words in combo like this, always

German 2016 “Kerstfest” stamp error.

German “Weihnachtsmarke” error with Cert.

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grammatically use a lower case k) but far more importantly they used the wrong “fest” spelling.

And “Glædelig Jul” is always typed by the Danish for some reason with lower case jul i.e.”Glædelig jul”, so that was another bad Boo Boo as well. Both words are large and prominent on the stamp design, and were easily seen.

The PO in panic, cancelled the release of the stamp until they were re-printed, and officially declared that NO error stamps were issued or sold.

Clearly - a few did somehow leak out, and have turned up in the months afterwards in charity kiloware. Check yours!

Six months on, only a dozen or so used are recorded, with several different German cancels, and I secured a few of those, as I acted VERY quickly! I have priced them as low as ~$A1,000 under the only public auction level, so expect they will sell pretty fast. All of them are fine used on piece - including a unique pair.

One of these error stamps is illustrated nearby, with a quite superb upright cds (Frankfurt) “BRIEFZENTRUM 60 - 11/11/16” - clearly weeks BEFORE the “official” issue date of November 30, and just a week after the initial issue date. Other examples I have seen are cancelled December and January, 2017.

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$A272,000 - “I’d have paid more” These kiloware discoveries clearly point to some at least legitimately being on sale at Post Offices, and not recalled as the PO claimed. That is the earliest known to me date, and shows both the spelling errors clearly, and a perfectly upright dated cds, that German collectors love.

They are EASY to spot and remember. If the “K” and “J” are in capital letters as you see nearby, you have hit the jackpot! Germany uses vast numbers of Christmas stamps. So far after 6 months of searching, only 10 or so used have been found. Today’s price levels of about $A2,000 for used might well end up at many times that, when news spreads globally, as Germany has millions of collectors.

Check your recent German Kiloware!

These 70¢ errors are already listed in Michel, and several of them are Expertised by Schlegel of Berlin etc, and other leading “prufers”. A stampboards. com member Wolfgang works with a large charity that gathers stamps and covers from business houses, and he sent out an “SOS” to fellow volunteers to watch out for the “Kerstfeest” error.

Wolfgang urged they NOT snip off the envelope corner if any were found. After scouring endless

1000s of pieces of business mail bearing these stamps, they found one full standard size cover from Volkswagen, with Volkswagen logo top left, and Gartner will auction that shortly.

Prices have gone nuts of course. The only Public Auction appearance of these so far, mid-May in Essen by Felzmann, saw a used copy invoiced for double estimate at 1,800 Euro ($A2,675) and a mint sheet of 10, get 5 times estimate - 33,000 Euro ($A48,750.) Another sheet of 10 reportedly sold to a dealer there at the show for 100,000 Euro.

These are basically identical in nature to the German Audrey Hepburn “cigarette smoking” stamps of 2001, photo nearby, that also were allegedly “withdrawn”

by German PO before official issue date, but a few used copies were, like these, later discovered in office kiloware.

Those have sold for 169,000 Euro - then $A272,000 apiece - indeed each new one turning up was getting a much HIGHER price than the others! Defying the usual supply/demand rules. Full details and photos of all those stamps here - tinyurl. com/Glen9-10 Mint of those are cat higher than used in Michel.

That unissued Hepburn is Michel Cat “XIX” and this 2016 Xmas error is Michel “XX”. The “unissued” Hepburn stamps (Auction price $272,000 each!) are an absolutely perfect comparison. A small number of used copies of both turned up in Kiloware, and a few mint also reached the market.

At the last minute, one of Hepburn’s two sons, Sean Ferrer objected to the 2001 stamp design, and refused to grant copyright approval. Deutsche Post had strangely not sought family permission to use her image it seems. Ferrer is an active campaigner against alcohol and tobacco addiction, and abuse.

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Market Matters It appears the first he knew of the impending issue, was when Deutsche Post mailed him a single mint stamp, and a pane showing their next issue. That pane of 10 is what was sold. All proceeds went to UNICEF - Hepburn’s favourite charity. The other 14 million stamps allegedly were destroyed.

Audrey Hepburn died of cancer in 1993.

The stamp design as you can see, shows her smoking a cigaHepburn stamps sell 430,000 Euro! rette, taken from the famous “Breakfast At Tiffany’s” movie. The employ staff, pay taxes, and rent buildings, collect Mint sheet was auctioned for 430,000 Euro - about 10% GST, take advertising, and add to the economy. $A640,000 today. It went surprisingly cheap - a They can’t do so much of that, when the public dealer broke it into singles. has been legally buying planeloads of sub $1,000 small physical size purchases on the web, and dodgeBay to block sales to Aust? ing tax entirely in this country. It makes zero sense The Australia Federal Government a year back, anto anyone with any grey matter. nounced that from July 1 2017, all goods imported of less than $1,000 value must have GST paid on Government makes ZERO on these them at the full rate of 10%. This is a deviation imports. from the current arrangement in place for recent The Apple iPhone 7 costs under a little under years, where goods costing less than $A1,000 can $A1,000 landed in Australia, and shipping is cheap. arrive free of GST or taxes.

However the Government misses out on the $100 of The current policy was absurd for Government, GST, and a retailer somewhere in Australia misses as BILLIONS in income has been lost in recent out on an sale. It makes no financial sense to me. years. Consumers buying a new iPhone, Camera, Why on EARTH was the import cap ever raised to Perfume, expensive watches/jewellery, computer $1,000?? How does that help our budget deficit? tablets, perfumes, or stamps etc from overseas, now The Rule was capped at $400 tax free until pay ZERO tax to Australia - either GST or anything recent years, when some genius in Government for else. no reason whatever, RAISED it to $1,000. Instead Retailers like Harvey Norman, JB HiFi or David of using some brains, and reducing it to $100 or Jones etc, make zero on that iPhone or Camera etc if $200 maximum. That level seems fair enough, and consumers buy it direct from Asia or USA etc. They targets only higher value merchandise.

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Glen Stephens

eBay may simply pull the plug.

Even if they chose that $A100 level, it would be wildly generous compared to Canada, UK, Europe and Scandinavia etc. In Canada and Europe and NZ anything over $A25 imported gets taxed (usually their VAT/GST is 20%), AND a “collection/processing fee” is added on top.

That savvy policy creates no incentive there to buy from overseas. A camera or iPhone or perfume that is 20% cheaper overseas is not cheaper at all, if you get clobbered 20% inward tax on it, so they simply do not bother, and buy it locally. A local retailer then makes some money, pays taxes, employs staff, and supports the economy, and YOU pay the same - or less. No-brainer.

So our brilliant Government would have easily collected BILLIONS of extra dollars in the past 3 years if they changed nothing. POs are fully set up to collect this tax on package arrival - they did it when limit was $400, and they still do it now when it is over $1,000. Zero extra work or systems needed, to collect via PO’s. LPOs get a small slice of what is collected via a flat fee, so they are vigilant.

Invoices or declared value on outers are noted by staff in mail centres. The Gold and Green “Charges to Pay” sticker is affixed, sum assessed written on it, and packet continues on its way. One minute’s work to make $100 on that iPhone. Australia Post

makes a tiny slice for collecting it, via a simple and time proven, and fully in place working system. Happy Government, happy postmasters.

There is the answer, if they want to get taxes on what fancy consumer goods the public import, and choose not to buy locally. Incredibly, the dullards who changed it from $400 maximum have cost this country a Billion or more in lost revenue in recent years. Much more discussion here on stampboards - tinyurl.com/eBaysGST So INSTEAD of this system above that does work, and WILL work, some genius dreamed up a system where all sellers of goods to Australia that exceed more than $A75,000 in a year in turnover, need to register for Australian GST, charge it on the invoice and rebate that ALL to the ATO!! Durrhhh.

These clueless Bureaucrats are planning to move us from near the world’s most generous system on personal imports, to the world’s most draconian at the stroke of a pen. From $1000 of goods - no tax, to a $5 stamp – you now pay TAX!

Fawlty Towers Regulations.

It is like Fawlty Towers at work. As IF most foreign sellers will bother - and what possible penalty can OUR government invoke, to penalise a Chinese, Hong Kong, Russian or Canadian etc seller of anything, for not becoming an unpaid tax collector for Australia!

The idea sounds like yet another idle thought bubble of a clueless bureaucrat, with zero concept of how global business works. There is NO way to force a foreign national to collect Australian tax on retail sales, and lodge boxes of GST/BAS paStamp News - 61

Market Matters perwork a year in the process. That tax needs to be collected HERE upon entry.

This below is the super rubbery official Government thought bubble outline of the “new deal” that is scheduled to take effect from July 1st, 2017- this Government seems to have no tax raising options that ever work or are remotely thought through “The Government has announced that from 1 July 2017, GST will apply to imported low value goods. This includes all physical goods sold to consumers and imported into Australia, that have a value equal to or less than A$1,000. These goods are currently exempt from GST. “Under this measure, you may need to register and pay GST if you are a non-resident supplier who sells low value goods to consumers, and import the goods into Australia, and meet the registration turnover threshold of A$75,000.”

Furthermore, the Government dunderheads formulating this wacko policy, have decided to hit the 2 biggest online platforms first - Amazon and eBay, to demand THEY rebate the 10% GST direct, so that the Feds get every cent of it, for ALL imports, with no effort on their part.

CEO at Australia Senate enquiry.

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Government bureaucrats are never chosen for their IQs or knowledge of the real world, and the simple response from eBay in national media here late April was their likely reaction was that all sales, of all goods to Australia, would simply be banned, from their overseas sellers!

eBay threatens to boycott Aust.

Australia is truly a pimple on an Elephant as far as eBay or Amazon are concerned, and they clearly would prefer just to ban all sales to here, than be forced into being an unpaid and unwilling Tax collector. The “Sydney Morning Herald” carried this report mid-April with a strong response from eBay "eBay says it will likely block Australian shoppers from buying goods from overseas, if the Government pushes ahead with plans to apply GST on all goods sold through the online marketplace.

Goods bought from overseas sellers and imported to Australia worth less than $1,000 are currently GST exempt, but Treasurer Scott Morrison wants to apply the 10 per cent tax to all sales from July 1 this year.

"Regrettably, the Government’s legislation may force eBay to prevent Australians from buying from foreign sellers,” eBay Australia and New Zealand Vice President, Joo Man Park wrote in a submission to a Senate inquiry into the so-called ‘Amazon Tax’. “This appears to be the most likely outcome at present.

“No tax would then be paid to Australia, and none would be owed. It would raise no revenue, deny Australians access to choice, and

Glen Stephens

1915 Second Watermark 9d Roo lessen price competition.” The proposed tax treats online sales platforms like eBay and Amazon as the supplier, meaning they would be responsible for applying the tax. "eBay said that it did not own, hold or distribute goods, nor handle payments. eBay said blocking overseas sellers was “the most likely outcome at present”.

“In reality, buyers use the eBay search engine to find goods and choose which seller to transact with,” Mr Park continued. “Deeming eBay to be a seller, is a fiction designed by the Australian Government to give the impression of raising revenue.”

Meanwhile no-one has a clue how and when foreign sellers need to be registered, and start collecting this wacko tax and complete BAS/GST reports.

The Bureaucratic Bungling drags on, and another $ BILLION in inward taxation will not be collected, as no clear rules or policy have been confirmed for

a tax SUPPOSED to be fully in place as you read this. Funding cost of a couple Hospitals, gone forever.

If passed, Australia would be the first country in the WORLD to require foreign sellers and marketplaces to collect and remit GST on any item, no matter how small. The massive online retail giants Amazon, eBay, Etsy and Alibaba all oppose the measure. “The Sydney Morning Herald” ran this piece in latter April - tinyurl. com/OzGST Alibaba is the most dominant retailer in the world, generating more gross merchandise volume (GMV) than Amazon.com and eBay combined. Its online sales & profits surpassed all US retailers (including Walmart, Amazon and eBay) combined.

Alibaba CEO for Australia and New Zealand, Mr John O’Loghlen (in photo nearby, at Senate enquiry into this nonsense) said: “foreign small businesses are particularly disadvantaged on compliance on this rule, because of the $75,000 GST turnover threshold.

“A Chinese merchant selling into Australia through AliExpress will see GST will be applied to every single sale, even if this Chinese seller’s entire Australian sales revenue is just a couple of hundred dollars for the relevant year” Mr O’Loghlen continued.

WHAT Kangaroos to buy?

I often get asked what used Kangaroo stamp is worth perusing to pop away “for a rainy day” or to try to seek an extra copy of etc. I see more Kangaroo stamps than near any other dealer on earth, both mint and used, and have done for near 40 years, so I have plenty of first-hand experience.

For the monocolour values, the key by MILES is the 1915 Second Watermark 9d Violet. Issued in the midst of WWI - when most stamp collectors, being men, were fighting and training overseas etc.

As this was simply a watermark change from the 9d 1913 First Watermark, very few noticed, and even fewer cared!

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Market Matters Gibbons list this stamp as SG 27 at £45 under HALF what it should be in SG. ACSC is $90 for the cheapest shade, and that is more like the retail level of anything half decent. Track down some nice examples where you can, but be CERTAIN the seller is not “dreaming” with the watermark ID - as they mostly are, sadly.

WWI emergency expediency printing.

This SG 27 was an Emergency Printing on the Crown over A watermarked paper made for the far wider sized KGV head stamps. Why? As the regular paper could not be sourced from Europe - due to merchant shipping to here being sunk by the Germans etc. Same story with consistent colour printing inks from Europe during WWI. The rather common 9d Third Watermark was issued less than one year later, on new paper made for the Roo sized stamps. Hence the Second Watermark paper had a VERY short life, and only 1 printing was made. Things were in crisis during WWI, and few were buying or saving stamps with minor print changes.

Issued with no philatelic fanfare or prior advice (no FDC exist of course of ANY values 9d Inverted Watermark cat $5,000. of this watermark) in July 1915 - just after the Gallipoli Landing, and carnage in Europe, folks very scarce, but I do like it, and have owned and had FAR more on their minds in life than a stamp watermark change. TOP used examples I sell sold nearly all the known copies over the past decades, as they are very popular. rapidly at $150, and very nice ones are in the $100 Even my dog-eared 1979 ACSC has the 6d Invert region. at $175, and this 9d at $550 - priced over 3 times One 9d I scanned from stock is illustrated nearby. higher. Logically, using historical relativity, this 9d Light crisp Kalgoorlie “thimble” cds, they do not stamp should be worth the current $55,000 of the come much better looking than this postally used, 6d, plus 300% = $A165,000. for a stamp used primarily to mail small parcels However oddly, it is only priced $5,000 today. check YOUR copy, and see how it compares!

Only a few used are known, most are faulty, and There are NO Post Office “CTO” copies of this ACSC says fully half of those are non-postal canstamp possible, so the only way to get a nice one is celled. The few known postal used copies all have search - and search. And MOST are pretty rough.

Mint are 4 times used, so no-one adds vague corner Queensland cds postmarks of April or May 1917 cancels to heavy hinged mint etc, as occurs on many - as does this, a neat “MUTTABURRA - 10 MY 17 - QUEENSLAND”. (Population of the entire tiny other values, such as 6d CofA normal, and “OS” farming AREA was 106 last Census!) overprint etc.

Be mindful that probably HALF of what I see in One highly sought after variety on this 1915 9d stamp albums in the “Second Watermark” spaces Kangaroo, is the “Inverted Watermark”. They are 64 - Stamp News

Glen Stephens What Bi-Colour Roo to chase?

Moving along to the higher values in the Roo series, the Bi-Colour Kangaroos have one standout contender in my view, as the most under-rated value, and that prize goes to the 1913 10/- First Watermark, SG 14. This stamp had a rather short life, near all of it during WWI. It was quietly replaced during WWI by the Third Watermark version in the same colours, which then stayed on sale for 11 years, and if the major catalogues want us to believe this First Watermark is only worth twice a Third Watermark version, they are wildly wrong, and do not sell these for a living, as I do!

Indeed, 5½ times more were sold of the latter, and that roughly reflects my stockholding at any time over 40 years - 5 or 10 to one. Today I have 5 of the 1913 in stock used, and 30 of the 1917. Yet SG price is only double, and they are plain WRONG. The 1913 10/- literally had LESS copies sold than the 1913 £1 and £2 Roos, and postally USED are about equally scarce.

Grab any NICE used you see. are NOT, so be super careful where you source them from. On places like eBay where sellers are generally clueless rank amateurs, they cheerfully decide the sole 9d in their Kid’s collection must of course be the most expensive watermark.

As the First, Second and Third watermark stamps all have very similar looking Crown over A, experienced eyes are needed to sort them apart. Especially in USED, where hinge remains and gunk often cover a good deal of the reverse.

The same rule applies for the other Second Watermark stamps of course, except the 3 low values which are readily sourced at modest cost. The 9d, 1/-, 2/- and 5/- are all worth MUCH less in the fairly common Third Watermark equivalents, so remember always, that wonderful old saying - “a LITTLE Knowledge Is Dangerous”! On the 2/- or 5/- you can be stiffed $100s a stamp on eBay etc.

Most destroyed after PO Audit.

We must remember that MOST of these 10/were used on Telegrams, and were destroyed by PO after audit. Some Postmasters furtively leaked out the audited copies to dealers, which exhibit the large circular auditor punch holes. They are sold as “space fillers” for about 20% the price of unpunched examples.

But a nice postal used copy is a RARE beast. I sold the one illustrated nearby recently for $A995, and it is about as nice as you can source these postal used. Indeed now I am loading the scan, I’d buy it back for that, as it really was a top shelf example, and I was rather underweight on my price, now I look at it. A grade seldom encountered, on this stamp, that was used on a very heavy parcel. .

The majority of “used” SG 14 out there are CTO copies from presentation packs - which cost more than postal used, oddly. Many collectors eschew those Specimens, for POSTALLY used, which are Stamp News - 65

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Earliest known use - by TWO months! near non-existent. I DEFY you to show me a nicer looking Postal Used example for sale - GLOBALLY - at any price!

Usually perfs and centering are terrible on all these 1913 issues, as the paper choice was poor for stamps, with long very tough fibres, that ripped out perfs readily when separated. It was never used again after this series, as it caused so many complaints at Post Offices. So finding a clean and fresh copy, with no repairs, and nice perfs and centering and colour, is a task that will take you years to achieve.

About $A1,000 is where you will be starting at for fairly decent ones, and a few $100 more for the elusive premium examples like the one above, 66 - Stamp News

so happy hunting! A really average used example will still set you back around $500, as SG cat is £700. Still worth tracking down, if you like a challenge! Aim for QUALITY, if buying with an eye to re-sale.

New finds always possible.

As I constantly type - “Knowledge Is Power”. That phrase never goes out of fashion. A month back I saw this envelope in a large Public Auction, offered for an absolute song. After parting with the cost of a pizza or 2, I listed if for sale for very many $100s the next week, and a dealer bought it, who passed it on to a client.

Glen Stephens Totally commercial use.

“Proving” arrival cds in GOTEBORG. WIN-WIN all round I suppose, but by FAR the largest winner was the writer! Why? As I had noticed that this cover was very clearly cancelled “SHIP MAIL ROOM - 3.30P - 3 JUL 17 - MELBOURNE”. Fully TWO months earlier than any recorded use or date so far!

ACSC tells us that the earliest recorded date of this stamp is September 1917. So this 1917 2½d Third Watermark Kangaroo on Censored cover to Sweden, was used 2 MONTHS before this stamp had been recorded before! No-one else had noticed the clear cds dates. I’ve passed this on to Editors of SG and ACSC. Back-stamped in Sweden “GOTEBORG, 21-917” as you can see in photo nearby. 10 weeks by sea was typical, so clearly the JULY cancel in Melbourne was accurate, and not a “date slug month error”, as might be suspected if just a cancel, on an off paper piece were all we were working on.

Sent from a large Business house in Melbourne - a totally commercial double weight cover to Gothenburg Sweden. Most attractive and unusually clean after a Century, for something that went 10,000 miles by sea-mail.

Bit of side edge wear, as it was double weight, clearly containing many sheets of contents.

A pair of 2½d Roos is most unusual, as the 5d Roo, or 5d KGV issued 1915 for this rate was the logical stamp to use on a double weight, double rate letter, as this was. Remember this higher 2½d rate applied only to NON Commonwealth countries, so near all 2½d covers seen are to USA. ANY mail a Century back OzSweden is VERY scarce, as both had tiny populations, and there was negligible migration in either direction to engender mail. DEFINITELY Third Watermark - seen clearly with torch backlight, and the perfs and colour of 2½d are distinctive on the earliest watermarks of course.

Earliest Known Usage (“EKU”) has a strong following here. Arthur Gray’s defective 6d Blue Roo pair OFF cover “earliest known use” that I sold him 30 years back, was invoiced for $A450 at his Roo Auction (Lot 491) so this one on backstamped cover is a GEM, and the end owner has a very desirable piece. Well bought.

Glen Stephens has written monthly ‘Stamp Tipster’ Columns for over 30 years - globally. A vast library of his past articles and photos are found at – www.glenstephens.com/column.html

Glen Stephens 4 The Tor Walk, Castlecrag, NSW, 2068 Ph: 02 9958 1333 email: glen@glenstephens.com Website: www.glenstephens.com Stamp News - 67

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

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

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

Banknote Fair, Strathmore Bowling Club, 40 Loeman

63623754.

St, Strathmore. Enq: Chris. 0413355716.

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

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

Car park Building, Manly-Warringah Leagues Club, Bentleigh-McKinnon Youth Centre, Higgins Rd, cnr Federal Parade/Pittwater Rd, Brookvale, NSW.

Bentleigh. Dealers plus huge range activities. Ph:

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0418 322 315.

- 4pm, Masonic Hall, Cnr Station & Civic Sts, Katoom- June 25 - (last Sun ex Dec) Stamp, Coin & Phonecard ba. Ph. 0417 802 754

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

June 3 - (1st Sat) Sutherland Shire Stamp & Coin

3pm.

queensland

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

June 18 - (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 June 12 - (2nd Mon) - Gold Coast PS Sale, Rm 1,

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

Southport Comm. Centre, Lawson St, Southport.

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

11.30am - 2.30pm Brisbane Table Tennis Association

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Contributor & Advertiser Deadlines July 2017 Issue 1 June 2017 August 2017 Issue 1 July 2017 We reserve the right to repeat advertising from a previous issue if material is not received in time.

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POSTAL BID SALES

A couple of examples from our stocks -

We produce regular Postal Bid Sales featuring a varied assortment of Australian and British Commonwealth stamps, priced to suit all budgets - Lots are estimated from as $1 upwards.

Our sales are run fairly in accordance with best industry practices.

CONTACT US TODAY TO RECEIVE OUR CURRENT SALE LISTING – ABSOLUTELY FREE!

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Mention you saw us in Stamp News!

Internet & Email Directory The following is an extensive listing of Stamp Dealer and Internet Website contact addresses worldwide.

Millions of dollars of stock is priced up ready to sell on these sites. All Dealers may list their contact details here for a very affordable $175 per year fee, prepaid annually or only $17.50 a month.

Contact the Advertising Manager on Ph: 0425 795 693, or email: kevinmorgan2@live.com www.brusden-white.com Publishers of Australia’s Gold Medal catalogue series - The Australian Commonwealth Specialists’ Catalogue. Order all volumes on line. Special offers also available. info@brusden-white.com

www.gabrieles.com.au Hundreds of new items added to our site each month. Add your email address to our “early bird” notice list, so when new material is added to the site, you get first choice! We also post out a printed copy of our monthly offers, for those who do not use the internet, this service is also free. Our printed, 36 paged price list is also available, just phone write or email today for a free copy today. gabriele@gabrieles.com.au

www.premierpostal.com PPA holds it’s auctions on the 3rd Sunday of the Month with around 4000 lots per auction. Our auctions include stamps, postal history, postal stationary, postmarks,postcards etc from around the world. We also provide a searchable Post Office reference database for Australia and several other counties. david@premierpostal.com

www.richardjuzwin.com The leading specialist dealers in Australasian stamps and the largest private dealer (non Auction) company in Australia. info@richardjuzwin.com.au

www.varisell.com Worldwide stamps, covers, errors, proofs, specimens, postal stationery, philatelic literature, postcards, paper money, signed FDC-s and more in our easy to use online store. Prompt, courteous service from America.

Varisell@aol.com

www.rap.com.au The website for Australia, Australian Territories, commercial and philatelic covers, and informative articles on the subjects. rap@rap.com.au

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www.stampsale.com New Zealand and worldwide in our Ashford Stamps postal auctions. Ask for a catalogue, or view the website. Also ask for direct sales list of NZ Chalons. ashford@stampsale.com

www.sutherlandphilatelics.com.au Long-established mail order dealer comprehensively covering British Isles, Europe, Scandinavia, North America, Australasia and Japan.

Prompt courteous service and an extensive user-friendly website. sutherlandphil@bigpond.com

www.stampsaustralia.com.au Sydney Philatelics - Largest On-Line Shop in Australia ! – User-Friendly – 10,000 and more Philatelic Items – Just a mouse click away ! Over 100 Pages of Australasia, British Commonwealth, Booklets, Accessories.etc. Always Buying ! Est 27 Years. info@stampsaustralia.com.au

www.zirinskystamps.com Interested in a interesting monthly electronic stamp newsletter from New York?

Take a look at www.zirinskystamps.com/Newsletter

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

www.glenstephens.com Largest and most visited Stamp Dealer website in the Southern Hemisphere. 250 different pages of stamp bargains and archives! $4,000 prize always on offer. glen@glenstephens.com

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

WE ARE ALWAYS BUYING, CONTACT US BEFORE OFFERING ELSWHERE! We want to buy collections, accumulations, dealer stocks, etc, etc.

Australia and States, Kangaroos, King George V Heads, Pre-decimal, Decimal, Covers, Great Britain, British Commonwealth, Foreign. Here are some examples of the prices we can pay: Australia C of A wmk Kangaroo High Values 10/- -Two Pounds, Specimen overprints, mint lightly hinged $120 Australia 5/- Harbour Bridge, MUH $795, MLH $295, Fine postally used $225, cto used with gum $150, without gum $135, slightly second grade (no bits missing please but may have minor thins, heavier cancel, short perfs etc) $65 Mint unhinged, pre-decimals in singles, blocks or sheets.

Definitives 1d to 1/7d we pay 4c per stamp, Low value Commemoratives, 2d to 1/- we pay 5c per stamp, High value definitives 2/- to 4/- we pay 10c per stamp, High value Commemoratives 2/- or 2/3d we pay 40c per stamp.

Decimals for postage including AAT, and postally valid issues from Cocos and Christmas Islands may be torn or damaged (no bits missing please) but must have gum.

Values 1c to 68c we pay 40% face value, 70c to $20 we pay 50% face value, must be sorted by value in packets/envelopes and supplied with a concise list. We reserve the right to counter offer on messy lots.

Post Office Packs and Year Books with stamps in place we pay 30% face value, year books with stamps in original stocksheets we pay 45% face value Mint PSE’s 20c - 60c we pay 30% face value, 70c pay 40% face value, no stuck down flaps please Recent Commemorative Bundleware, 55c values and above we pay $1 per bundle.

Small or Large format High value Definitives fine used 1989 to date with circular cancels $1 to $3 we pay 5% face value, $3 to $20 we pay 10% face value.

High value commemoratives, values $1 and above as above again from 1989 onwards, we pay 10% face value.

Coins, Medals, Banknotes We buy Australian coins, loose or in sets, decimal and pre-decimal, including Perth Mint and Royal Australian Mint Product. Also buying Worldwide Gold and Silver coins.

Pre-decimal and Decimal Banknotes also required in all grades, also military medal groups.

Our minimum purchase value is $200, smaller lots respectfully declined, please confirm all lots via phone or email before sending and send via registered/ insured mail, or contact us for an appointment, all transactions carried out in strictest confidence. WE PAY ENHANCED PRICES TO GST REGISTERED DEALERS WHO PROVIDE A TAX INVOICE.

Kevin Morgan Stamps and Coins, PO Box 1290, Upwey, Victoria 3158 Tel: 0425 795 693 email: kevinmorgan2@live.com Stamp News - 79

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In 2017 we are making these new subscription offers to make your subscription even more affordable: For each 12 months of your new subscription you may choose 1 of the following: 1) 2 recent Australia PNC covers, our choice retail value $45‌or ask for a list of those available.

2) Approx 1250 Australian Stamps, unsorted, off paper, retail value $30 3) 110mm Illuminated Magnifier on stand, RRP $35 4) Approx 1250 World Stamps, unsorted off paper, retail value $30 5) 30 Eureka stocksheets, made in Australia on a Hagner machine, our choice of strip sizes, retail value $37.50 6) Australian Comprehensive Catalogue, 3 volumes complete, latest edition, RRP $99 7) A mixed selection of Prinz black or clear mounts (state which) retail value $45 8) A pair of European Made stainless steel 150mm pointed tweezers, in safety wallet, plus a perforation gauge RRP $20.00 9) Approx 1250 British Commonwealth stamps unsorted off paper, retail value $30 10) 500 Different Australian stamps, retail value $25 For a lifetime subscription you will receive all 10 gifts.

In the event of your chosen gifts being unavailable, we reserve the right to substitute.

Please circle the gifts required and return with your completed subscription form on the facing page together with and payment to: Stamp News Subscriptions, PO Box 1290, Upwey Vic. 3158 Australia. Email and telephone subscriptions always welcome.

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