December Quartet A selection of collecting suggestions for adventurous collectors, or to accelerate the scope of an existing collection of the relevant subject. Contact me if you have a particular interest in Australian cover/stationery fields. For individual item offerings, refer to website (www.rap.com.au) and eBay listings (search rap_com_au).
1988: 60c Lionfish pair uprates 37c Letter for $1.20 Certified mail fee Australia 1984-88 Marine Life Covers: Usage selection with good representation of all denominations in series, including nonstandard article rates, and uprates for Special services, (50+)
1980: 28c Rainbow Bird elusive solo franking pays Non-standard article up to 50g Australia 1978-84 Birds Covers: Usage selection, all denominations represented, includes uprates for Special services, (60+)
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1984: 35c Blue Tiger pair uprates 30c PSE for 70c Priority paid service Australia 1983-88 Butterfly Covers: Usage selection, all denominations represented, includes non-standard articles, and Special services uprates, (50+)
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Contents Articles Woodchip Free Zone: Rod Perry ...................................................6 The Stamps of Trinidad & Tobago: Christer Brunström ........... 12 Stamps in the News: Margo Campbell .................................... 18 Postal Stationery: Ian McMahon ................................................ 26 Cinderella Corner: Vito Milana .................................................... 32 Looking at New Zealand: Graeme Morriss ............................... 52 Introducing the APF: Stephanie Bromser ................................... 54 Market Matters: Glen Stephens .................................................. 60
Information News..................................................................................................... 16 Events/Stamp & Coin Fairs ........................................................... 53 Clubs & Societies ....................................................................... ......72 Internet & Email Directory...................................................... ......75 Products & Services Directory............................................... ......76 List of Advertisers .............................................................. ..............82
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This month’s article was inspired by a recent visitor. That collector was on a quest for a few eclectic interests, that required that he, well, search for himself. Collectors need to be encouraged! After a couple of days of sifting through several thousand covers, my guest made the comment: “I should collect covers I like, just for the sake of it”. I could relate to that comment, for it embraced what I’ve been doing for decades. So, this month, I’ve made a varied selection of covers I like, and have once owned, by way of confirmation. All are affordable (<$100). Figure 1. Now that’s an advertising cover It’s hard not to like Figure 1. We and a late commercial use, well in to reign of QEII. all see poor excuses for the claim This is understandable, given a new reign issue for of “advertising cover”, but there is no doubting the this denomination did not appear until November 13 impact this item would have had upon a recipient. 1957. The rate, of course, was Foreign letter rate. As If one collects KGVI Usage and Automobilia (and I do!), this item presents a placement challenge. Firstly, Automobilia, what a sensational concept car for the era! Note RHD configuration, suggesting an Austrait’s an outstanding example of usage for KGVI 7½d,
Figure 2. To Court of Petty Sessions . . . with love? 6 - Stamp News
Figure 3. Fastpost alternative in 1960s more expensive there was Ansett-ANA Air Express. lian origin. The latter may have been superior in terms of time Booklet panes on commercial covers are generally factor, perhaps even same day? Note the endorsevery scarce, perhaps unsurprisingly. They don’t come much more attractive than Figure 2, which has a 1982 ment “Phoned 22/11 11 50” lower left, suggesting Eucalyptus Flowers vending machine $1 Booklet inan exemplary level of service; Air Express label has tact. The article was posted April 13 1984, to Court of “PLEASE PHONE” inscription. Survivors of this serPetty Sessions, Sydney, by which time Letter rate had vice are very hard to source, and on the rare occasion increased to 30c (from the 27c expressed in the pane), and the Priority paid fee was 70c, thereby requiring the whole of the $1 pane. Note the timeclock datestamp is that of Sydney International Airport, raising the potential for speculation that the sender was about to perform a runner? An alternative to Post Office Fastpost service is shown as Figure 3. When this article was despatched, c1962, there was P.O. Special Delivery, or for what I imagine was considerably Figure 4. “Murph” had seen better days Stamp News - 7
one turns up it’s likely to be a very large envelope. WWII handdrawn covers can be fun. Figure 4 is one of the more striking, the casually strolling digger, mandatory smoke in place, uttering “Where’s MURPH”, as a contented python, ominous anatomical outline obvious, follows. This cover emanated from Port Moresby (R.A.A.F./P.O. UNIT No 6 cds confirms). Even the “AIR MAIL” component has been attended to in the artist’s execution. Figure 5. Meters an early form of promotion within the postal system Meter impression collecting will never be brand. Nostalgia-a-plenty. for everyone. Meters do, The Postal Stationery volume of the ACSC series however, have an increasing band of followers (I’m is one of my favourites, and has provided a much-deone), particularly amongst Topical/Thematic collecserved shot in the arm for the collecting of Australian tors, when the subject matter is relevant to fields of Stationery. Enthusiasts in the category of Stationery enthusiasm. Figure 5 is in some ways optimal; it has eagerly seek out uprated articles, particularly uprates an advertising cover combined with related Meter, for Special services. Figure 6 is very desirable, being both extolling the benefits of the Columbia Music an Aerogramme uprated for Overseas Express Delivery. A good example of an extreme rarity, at a modest price. The 33c Aerogramme was originally uprated 3c for the rate rise to 36c (probably by the selling Post Office). To that, the sender forked out an additional $2.25 for the priority service. One wonders if the article got to the recipient, in Israel, any faster than it otherwise would have? 1930s Tourist promoFigure 6. $2.25 wisely spent? 8 - Stamp News
Figure 7. “Warrnambool on Sea”: how very English
dates, secondly one seldom sees “VG” (Victoria Government) punctured stamps of KGV and QE on the one postal article, and finally, this March 29 1939 Official postcard bears a fine strike of the pre-war KEEP / AUSTRALIA / SAFE / ENLIST NOW slogan cancel (featured last month). Quoting from last month, the slogan was in support of “A plan had been hatched to raise 70,000 recruits, in response to Japan’s aggressive expansion in to Asia.” Continuing the affordable theme for this month,
tion/Regional event covers are rightfully sought-after; they are highly relevant and representative mementos of their era. They are also hard to find. I’ve selected Figure 7 from a number of similar possibilities in this collecting category, deliberately for it bears a defective stamp. Truly a case of “who cares”! Another reason for this choice is I recall in 1950s seeing my Aunties dressed in similar attire on our Beach days. Mind you, I don’t recall my Aunts with body surfing apparatus, although I do recall they wore a more generous size swimsuit. I’ve selected Figure 8 for this exercise for a few reasons. Firstly, it demonstrates how modestly valued items can be “I like it” candiFigure 8. The King and Daughter-in-law
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Figure 9 is a good example of the type of item one can occasionally locate in places such as eBay, for modest sums indeed. Addressed “Claremont Nurseries/ Claremont”, the cover went first to Claremont/W.A., thence redirected Claremont/Tas, before finally visiting its intended destination: Claremont Nurseries, Geelong! A bit of fun, for not much money. Post Office informative/ instructional labels are a terrific category for collecting, worldwide. Australia Figure 9. Too many Claremonts has a terrific publication to support the field: The might have been, immediately are elevated once an Official Postal Labels of event takes place affecting the article, and the event Australia (Frazer & Occleshaw). Figure 10 provides is spelled out. In this instance, a cover posted in an example of one such P.O. label. Not often found, Melbourne on November 29 1959 received the P.O. for people seldom omit to enclose the subject of their informative “DAMAGED BY FIRE / IN LETTER mail sending, the “THIS wrapper was received withRECEIVER”. This article must have been in the right out contents . . .” label is one to look out for. place in the “receiver”, for it exhibits no clearly visual Otherwise mundane covers, such as Figure 11 signs of trauma. I would have preferred that it did, but it still fulfils my “I like it” criterion. I sell, and buy on eBay. Highly recommended as a win-win (although I often lose-lose as a seller, I confess). I don’t usually, as a policy, reveal my buying activity (that’s a philatelic equivalent of kiss ‘n’ tell). However, an exception has been made with Figure 12. This pleasant item was a “win” just as I submitted copy for this month. It provides a perfect example Figure 10. Lightweight covers – the Postman’s preference of how “Covers you like” 10 - Stamp News
space, but in a nutshell: I would never consider collecting a category where I could not form a notable collection. But that sort of ambition requires deep pockets, do I hear? Well, in a word, no. This column, during its 16 years, has provided many examples of how frugality in philately, such as in the examples presented this month, can deliver the type of subjects which can form the basis for a stand-out collection. One aspect of collecting for which I can assure readers: I don’t wish to collect someFigure 11. Handstamped informative markings add interest thing “impossible”. More than can be such a pleasurable pursuit. It’s a December a decade and a half since I 17 uprate of G.B. Registered Letter Stationery envesold my auction business, I’m still haunted by words lope, sent airmail to Australia via the London-Karachi such as: “. . . but Mr Perry, my collection is complete, airmail service, which incurred a 6d per oz. surcharge. except for six stamps!” Why on earth people choose The necessary uprate included a Bradbury, Wilkinson a subject completely beyond their means is quite Seahorses 2/6d, which SG catalogues at a minimum beyond me, but then, I’m a philatelist, not a psychol£75. I’ve noted daggy used of that 2/6d priced at up ogist. to £10 online. The eBay price for this very agreeable Best wishes to readers for The Festive Season. cover? Just AU$12. Are you on eBay? Covers provide the opportunity to express one’s interpretation of the concept of Philately as Art. What pleases one may not do so for another. It’s a very individual choice. Traditional stamp collecting does not regularly deliver that opportunity for distinction. To conclude this month, I’m occasionally asked; we know what you like, but what don’t you like? It’s a good question, one that could take up a lot of Figure 12. Good example of quality and value converging Stamp News - 11
The STAMPS OF TRINIDAD & TOBAGO In July 1498, Christopher Columbus discovered a new island just off the coast of Venezuela. The island was inhabited by Carib and Arawak Indians. Columbus named his new discovery Trinidad and then continued his third voyage of discovery in the Caribbean area. As a consequence of the discovery, Trinidad became a Spanish colony (although the island was also held by a number of other European powers for shorter periods of time). In 1898, the Trinidad Post Office celebrated the 400th anniversary of the discovery by issuing a 2 pence stamp depicting the landing of Columbus. Recess printed by De La Rue, it is still an inexpensive stamp and a suitable choice to start a collection of Trinidad & Tobago. The stamp is pictured in Fig. 1. Trinidad was the pioneer in issuing postage stamps among the many British colonies. On 16 April 1847, David Bryce, the owner of the S.S. LADY McLEOD, issued a 5 cent stamp which franked mail which was carried by his vessel between Port
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of Spain and San Fernando, the two main cities on the island. The stamps were either cancelled by pen or by having a corner skimmed off. A sound used copy is currently valued at £10.000. Fortunately Trinidad & Tobago has featured this classic rarity on later stamps one of which is shown nearby in Fig 2. It is interesting to note that this privately issued stamp was issued long before the Trinidad Post Office introduced its first postage stamps in 1851. The early Trinidad stamps depicted Britannia and had no expressed denomination. However, they were sold for a penny and there were several printings in different colours. It was only in 1859 that stamps with different denominations were issued. In the 18th century, many French slave owners left the islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique and settled on Trinidad and Tobago where they established plantations. This explains the large population of Trinidadians and Tobagoans of African descent. When slavery was abolished, workers were imported
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Christer Brunström from the East Indies. Thus a very mixed population developed. In 1797, the British occupied Trinidad which was made a colony in 1802. In the early 1900s, oil was discovered and the petroleum industry soon dominated Trinidad’s economy. In more recent times, manufacturing and tourism have complemented the oil industry. Trinidad is far better off than many of its Caribbean island neighbours. An interesting definitive stamp (Fig. 3) shows Sir Walter Raleigh discovering Lake Asphalt in 1595. Tobago is much smaller than Trinidad. It became a British colony in 1814 and remained a separate entity until the Crown colony of Trinidad & Tobago was created in 1899. Almost 85% of the island’s population is of African origin. Tobago relies more on the tourist industry than the main island which has a more diversified economy. Tobago released its first postage stamps in 1879. Previous to that British postage stamps had been used for a short period. All
Figure 3
Tobago stamps depict Queen Victoria. There was a total of 35 different stamps some of which are quite scarce but it is still possible to assemble a representative showing. A Tobago stamp is shown nearby (Fig. 4). Trinidad & Tobago joined the ranks of independent nations in 1962 becoming a republic in 1976. It is still a member of the British Commonwealth. Trinidad is famous for its annual carnival which attracts lots of visitors. Cricket is by far the most popular sport not only in Trinidad & Tobago but also in all the former British colonies in the West Indies. In 1992, the Philatelic Society of Trinidad & Tobago celebrated its 50th anniversary. The Postal Service (now known as TTPost) released a stamp (Fig. 5) to mark this important event. One of Trinidad’s most curious stamps was postally valid for just one day in 1914. A Red Cross label with a denomination of One Fraction (= ½ penny) was authorised for internal postal use on 18 Septem-
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The STAMPS OF TRINIDAD & TOBAGO ber 1914 to frank circular letters appealing for funds for the Red Cross. Stanley Gibbons lists a mint stamp at ÂŁ27 and the same stamp postmarked on cover is valued at ÂŁ225. Shown here is a block of four (Fig. 6). So far Trinidad & Tobago has released approximately 1,500 different stamps and some 60 souvenir sheets since 1847. This certainly is quite reasonable for a nation of some 1.3 million people. Unlike some of its Caribbean neighbours, Trinidad & Tobago has refrained from releasing unnecessary thematic stamps solely aimed at foreign stamp collectors.
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philatelic news Amazing King George V watermark variety surfaces again after 52 Years.
Well known Melbourne dealer Michael Eastick has just received back from the Expert Committee of the Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria a “good” certificate for a 1½d Black Brown King George V NO WATERMARK. This watermark variety has not been recorded previously even though a certificate had been issued by The Australian Commonwealth Specialists’ Society of Great Britain back in 1966. After exhaustive testing by the RPSV Expert Committee they have assigned it (ACSC) BW 83aa. This puts it in the single Crown Over A watermark printing. Another interesting point is that the stamp measures the same thickness as the listed thin paper variety of that issue. The date is unclear but it has a postmark that shows BARNAW from what is believed to be BARNAWATHA of Victoria, also visible is the number 7 as part of the date line. To add further to its mystique is the fact that the stamp has been plated as 2R27 from the plating study by Bill Fiora, small colour flaw at stem of left wattle, placing the stamp in the middle of the right pane of 16 - Stamp News
Plate 2. Other no-watermark varieties from watermarked printings in the KGV issues come from the edges of miscut sheets so this stamp must come from a fully no-watermarked sheet. The paper is certainly not the same as the no-watermark paper used for the 1d Green and 1½d Red issues of 1924. So even after all these years the KGV Heads are still throwing up exciting new discovery’s for collector
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Stamps in the News - Globally! Postie to the rescue Reported at www.wvlt.tv
A Michigan woman was rescued by a postal worker after she was stuck in a bathtub for five days. Alison Gibson sat down in the tub on Oct. 15 and couldn’t get back up because her handrail was out of reach. She left her cell phone in another room and she lives alone, leaving her no immediate lifeline. So she spent Monday night, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday alone waiting for a rescue. Gibson didn’t have any food to eat during the ordeal and subsisted on drinking bath water. Finally, around 11 a.m. Friday a postal worker became concerned, telling Alison’s neighbours that her mail was starting to pile up.
The neighbours called police who climbed through a window to get into the house. Gibson spent four days in a local hospital, but she was released after doctors found no major health issues. “I don’t want to do it again, that’s for sure,” Gibson said.
Posties under threat in Europe
Reported at https://interestingengineering.com A number of European countries are moving rapidly towards automated postal delivery. In Norway, Posten-Norge is testing a robot to deliver letters and parcels by teaming up with Buddy Mobility, the company supplying the robot (a box 18 - Stamp News
with wheels). “Our robot provides operational cost savings to offset losses from decreasing mail volume,” a Buddy Mobility spokesman said. “At the same time, the robot offers new revenue streams around package and parcel delivery.” In Germany, postal service Deutsche Post has a similar electric delivery robot called PostBot. PostBot has been designed to accompany mail deliverers on their routes facilitating their job and carries up to six post trays. This relieves carriers of their heavy loads. PostBot frees up the deliverers’ hands making it easier for them to distribute letters and parcels. PostBot can carry loads of up to 150 kilograms. Its sensors track the legs of the mail carrier, following behind them automatically throughout the assigned route. It can also navigate around obstacles or stop when needed. Swiss Post also tested the deployment of delivery robots earlier this year. During the testing period, the delivery robots successfully completed approximately 200 runs covering 800 kilometres without experiencing any accidents or collisions.
Post office floats the boat
Reported at https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com If there can be a floating house, floating mosque and floating market, then a floating post office shouldn’t be a surprise. The floating post office is located in Srinagar, Kashmir, amidst picturesque snow-clad mountains on a huge houseboat in Dal Lake and is the only floating post office in India. At a first glance, you might think it’s a normal shikhara boat, a common sight in the city, but if you
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look closely, you’ll notice the official red and yellow logo of Indian Post Office and a sign “Floating Post Office, Dal Lake”. This unique post office has now become an important part of a tourist’s Kashmir itinerary with many visiting to send a postcard to their loved ones. The floating post office was inaugurated back in the year 2011 and isn’t just a tourist attraction – it is actively used by locals and offers internet facility and international phone calls.
Mail crime in the US
Reported at www.nbcnewyork.com In October 2018, multiple parcels housing mail bombs were sent to various Democrats and critics of President Trump, including the Clintons, the Obamas, Joe Biden, George Soros, and actor Robert de Niro. The packages included “explosive devices made from PVC pipe and contained a timer to set off the detonator. The powder contained in the bombs comes from pyrotechnics. X-rays show there was likely shrapnel inside the PVC pipe.” None of the devices detonated, and no one was injured by them. The devices were typically sent in lumpy manila envelopes bearing the return address of ex-Democratic National Committee chair Rep. Debbie Was-
serman Schultz and six postage stamps. The conspiracy-minded quickly seized on that last aspect to sow doubt on the claims that the packages had actually been mailed through the USPS and instead fostered a theory that the bombs were a “false flag” operation intended to influence the upcoming midterm elections. Their evidence? That the stamps seen in news pictures of the packages were uncancelled, demonstrating that the parcels had not in fact gone through the mail system. Four separate officials involved with the investigation have told NBC this week that some packages were not postmarked because the soft packaging could not go through the postal machines. In fact, the U.S. Postal Service’s own website says postmarks aren’t required in all cases. “Postmarks are not required for mailings bearing a permit, meter, or precanceled stamp for postage, nor to pieces with an indicia applied by various postage evidencing systems,” the USPS says on this page. Scott English, from the American Philatelic Society made the following statement: “Many have observed that the delivered packages have stamps but no cancellations, meaning they did not go through the U.S. Postal Service. This is not accurate because many packages are delivered with Stamp News - 19
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uncancelled postage. There are estimates of up to 80 percent of packages delivered through the mail are delivered without cancellations. Most mail is machine-canceled but many packages must be hand-canceled. Those cancellations are either traditional date stamp or a magic marker line drawn over the stamps. There is no uniform standard at local post offices so chandelling postage on package is typically skipped because of workload issues.” On 26 October 2018, 56-year-old Florida resident Cesar Sayoc was arrested on suspicion of having mailed the explosive devices and is facing charges of transporting explosives across state lines, illegally mailing explosives, threatening former presidents and others, threatening interstate communications and assaulting federal officials.
Mail crime in Australia
Reported at www.abc.net.au The Australian Border Force (ABF) has arrested a 34-yearold Darwin man after a postal intercept led to the “gruesome” discovery of exotic and native animal parts at a residential address in Palmerston. In July, Northern Territory Parks, Wildlife and Heritage Officers intercepted a package bound for the US that was found 20 - Stamp News
to contain a red-tailed black cockatoo and a king colobus monkey, the latter of which is native to Africa. A second seizure contained a straw-necked ibis and the skull of an olive-backed baboon. In a search of an address in suburban Darwin more animal parts were recovered. “Officers located skulls, skeletons and other parts belonging to both Australian and non-native animals including ocelots, kangaroos, chipmunks, crocodiles, wombats, hornbills, bearded dragons, reptiles, fish, wedge tail eagles and a number of domestic species including goats, ducks and chickens,” a statement released by the ABF read. Some of the detected species are near threatened or endangered. The maximum penalty for taking or possessing protected wildlife under the Northern Territory legislation is $77,000 or five years’ imprisonment — double if the wildlife is threatened. An ABF spokesman said wildlife is, “one of the three highest illegally traded commodities in the world”. “The taking and possession of illegal wildlife continues to be a threat to native animals,” she said. “The message to everyone is to not go and buy those trinkets; don’t buy those little skulls or anything, unless you know that they’ve actually come from a legal, sustainable source.
Mail crime in the UK
Reported at www.warringtonguardian.co.uk A WOMAN who kept her ‘industrial scale’ theft of almost £200,000 of office supplies hidden from her family and employers has been jailed. Karen Belton of Cheshire, was sentenced for stealing stamps and printer cartridges during a sixyear spell from 2009. The 41-year-old business service manager was ordering staggering quantities of supplies and then selling the majority on eBay – often on her work laptop – and pocketing the money The sentencing judge told Belton: “You are described as a caring, loving mother who would put anyone before herself.” However, he stated that any mitigation brought before the court could not be strong enough to avoid sending her to jail. He added: “You were stealing from your employers. This was a gross abuse of trust.” The prosecution said Belton was working with Multos International and her role as business service manager involved looking after the purchase of office supplies. After the company relocated, a review by auditors picked up on the large amount of stamps and printer cartridges which were ordered by Belton between 2009 and 2015. By looking at Belton’s bank account, from 2009 until she left the company, Belton received
£159,479.90 by selling on the items. Beyond this amount the court said it was hard to say how much more was stolen from the company, but it could be up to £200,000. Since the defendant left the company, it has not spent any money on stamps and they have only spent £815 per year on printer cartridges compared to £6,700 when Belton was working for them. Belton was sentenced to 20 months in custody after pleading guilty to one count of theft. Speaking after the sentence was passed a Police spokesman said: “The audacity and arrogance of Belton is quite simply unbelievable. She stole stamps and printer cartridges on an industrial scale and even had the nerve to operate her eBay account from her work laptop during work hours.”
Burmese days
Reported at www.mmtimes.com Though internet technology is now well established in Burma (and more recently, the freedom to use it), avid Burmese stamp collector, U Kyaw Myint Maung, believes stamps save the past while still having something to teach us. “It’s not just a hobby, it can be lucrative. In 2004, the 4th World Buddhist Summit was commemorated with a stamp in Myanmar, but the event ultimately never took place. The stamps were issued, though. The price of that commemorative stamp skyrocketed.” The collector’s interest in stamps began when he was a youth in Mawlamyaing in the early 1960s when a neighbour who was a keen collector who would share some of his less valuable finds with local boys, encouraging them to cherish, study and trade in stamps as well. U Kyaw Myint Maung was soon engaging in international mail correspondence to access stamps from afar. In 1970, the Burma Stamp Society was formed and U Kyaw Myint Maung immediately became a member. Being a member of the club meant access to the collective knowledge of all the members and a chance to exchange books. In 1979, U Kyaw Myint Maung joined his second collecting club, the Manawatu Philatelic Association, Stamp News - 21
Stamps in the News - Globally!
in New Zealand, where he was working in academia. “When I told them there was only one stamp club for the whole of Burma, they seemed surprised,” he noted. These days, he is working towards re-invigorating the art of collecting by writing books and finding celebrities who share his interest and want to go public. U Kyaw Myint Maung has, to date, published five books about stamp collecting, the first going to print in 2009. That first work, A Handbook for (the) Myanmar Stamp Collector, won a bronze prize at the 2014 World Stamp Exhibition. There is a sixth book in production at the moment.
Manx thanks to ANZACS
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/ article-6296223/Anzacs-honoured-IsleMans-stamps.html As the revamped Anzac memorial in Sydney’s Hyde Park opens, the sacred monument is being commemorated on the other side of the world, on a tiny 22 - Stamp News
island with strong Anzac ties. The Sydney memorial is being featured on postage stamps on the Isle of Man, as the island between Great Britain and Ireland pays tribute to the local sculptor who worked on the Australian monument. Manx-born Rayner Hoff, an ex-British serviceman, moved to Australia in 1923 to work on the Anzac war memorials in Sydney and Adelaide, drawing on his time in the trenches in the First World War. As well as depicting details from the Sydney and Adelaide monuments, the six postage stamps feature the images of six Anzacs who were born on the Isle of Man or who had Manx descendants.
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1918 Scout stamps 10h blue “It’s always exciting to work on a project which shows how successful Manx people have been around the world “ a spokesman said.
Czechs honour their presidents Reported at www.radio.cz
Unlike queens and kings, living presidents usually appear on stamps only in countries with authoritarian regimes. But for obscure reasons, the Czech Republic and Slovakia have developed the tradition of picturing their heads of state on stamps. The first of Czechoslovakia’s presidential stamps, featuring Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, came out in 1920. Since then, a portrait of every single Czechoslovak president has appeared on a stamp, with the exception of Emil Hácha, the wartime president of Nazi-occupied Bohemia and Moravia. When the Protectorate was established, there was no time for the stamp to be issued. The role of the president was taken over by Adolf Hitler, so a stamp with Emil Hácha has never come out. One rarity was the stamp with President Ludvík Svoboda from 1975. The stamp had already been printed, but Svoboda was forced to retire due to ill health, and it was decided that all the stamps bearing his image would be destroyed. Of course some survived and are of great value today. Another interesting situation arose in 1990, when Václav Havel was elected president. There were two artists, Josef Hercík and Miloš Ondrácek, who want-
ed to engrave his stamp. Hercík chose an unofficial picture with the president wearing a sweater. Havel approved it but it was never released and the more traditional one, designed by Ondrácek, was issued. Because they were released in large issues, postage stamps with presidents are usually not sought by collectors – an exception is the Masaryk scouts’ stamps from 1918, printed on the occasion of the foundation of Czechoslovakia: At the time, the postal services were still managed by the Austro-Hungarian authorities, so the Scouts got permission to run the post for a few days. Their stamps had the first note of the new president. Only around 100 examples of this issue have survived and they have an immense value.
Dutch honour their vegetables Reported at www.freshplaza.com
PostNL have recently issued six new stamps. Various vegetables are depicted on the Mijn groententuin (My Vegetable Garden) stamp sheet. They are shown in the most important stages of cultivation. The featured vegetables are oak leaf lettuce, aubergine and fennel (a stem crop). There is radish, sweet potato, and turnip greens. There is also a mini calendar at the edges of each sheet of stamps. It describes which months are most suited for sowing and harvesting. This calendar is for greenhouse as well as full ground cultivation. There is one of these mini calendars for each type of vegeStamp News - 23
Stamps in the News - Globally!
table depicted on the stamp sheet. Vegetable gardens can be found everywhere in the Netherlands. They are planted as part of a garden or as a separate vegetable patch. They can also form part of a community allotment, be a market garden or even a horticultural business.
Santa Claus is coming to town
the only one in the world with the Santa Claus name and receives over 400,000 pieces of mail in December – compared to only 13,000 pieces of mail per month the rest of the year. This special picture postmark has been offered every Christmas season since 1983. Each year, the holiday postmark is designed by a local high school art student as part of an annual contest. “The Santa Claus holiday postmark has become the most popular in the nation over the past two decades,” says Postmaster Marian Balbach. “Postal patrons worldwide request the picture postmark each year and many customers traditionally drive hundreds of miles to personally obtain the famous cancellation on their holiday mail.”
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The Santa Claus Post Office has selected the 2018 special picture postmark for the upcoming holiday season. On December 1, the post office will begin offering the picture postmark to cancel the postage stamps on holiday mail again this year. This famous US small-town post office is
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ITALY - 1889 King Umberto 45c Dull Green MLH, Cat £2,500 for tiny 6% of SG Cat!: Bought cheap, and have several other Mint Italy from this era also cheap, if you have gaps. MLH with guaranteed ORIGINAL gum, and the usual centering for this era. Deep rich original colour, a bargain at a small % of SG. SG #40 £2,500=$A5,000. Decent shape for 128 years old, and bought cheap in Estate, to sell cheap. Just $US215 as I type this: $A300 (Stock 634EK)
GB 1840 “Penny Black” 4 Margin - Rare Plate 10 - No Faults - $A495: Clean and fresh. Free of the toning and thins, tears and creasing etc, that often be-devils this issue. "The World's First Stamp" Even 2 or 3 margin common plate number real roughies these days can cost you $A150, as many 1000's are sold to China each year by Gibbons and others, in a large consumer marketing drive, and prices are up. If your initials are “S.D.” - even better! This 1d Black is 100% Guaranteed as the scarcer Plate 10 – accurately plated and verified by the Stampboards experts here - tinyurl.com/Plate10 Confirmed by the well-developed Stage 2 "O-Flaw", position of corner letter "S", weak frame line at top NW corner, and slight downward extension of frame line bottom right. SG £800=$A1,600 for normal copies. Clean and fresh 4 margin example, with two black Maltese Cross cancels. Portion of left hand stamp frameline also here, as you can see. Absolutely NO usual faults or repairs, or hinge remains, to hide thins and tears and defects etc - GUARANTEED – and only ~$US350 as I type this: $A495 (Stock 682CK)
New Zealand P.O. yearbooks 19841995 (12) Ret $1,100. $A350: NZ yearbooks 1984 (Issue number #1) to 1995 (12 Books) ACS retail $1,100. A TON more pix here – tinyurl.com/POKiwi - Full set of books, looked fresh condition when taking pix.) Heaps of face value - saw $5, $10 and $20 face value stamps in here you are very likely buying well under face! Strips, mini sheets, High values to $20 - a great Estate lot to clear today - a steal at UNDER $A30 per book! $A350 (Stock 242BE)
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Postal Stationery Welcome to the postal stationery column for December 2018. This month’s column looks at a new discovery in King George V PTPO postal stationery and New Zealand’s Auckland Exhibition postcards.
Unique Australia King George V Sideface PTPO Parcel Label Sold for $16,000
A unique Australian Commonwealth postal stationery item was sold at the 25 October 2018 Status International auction for $16,000. The King George V sideface parcel label (Figure 1) with impressed 3d blue and 2d red-brown stamps, Figure 1 King George V Sideface PTPO Parcel Label is unique having been previously only known For Foy and Gibson as cutouts. The Postal Stationery volume of the Australian Commonwealth Specialists’ Catalogue (ACSC) lists the parcel label as PL1 on the basis of the cut outs. The Catalogue states that they were produced for Foy and Gibson of Melbourne presumable to post out their mail catalogues at the magazine rate of 5d for a magazine weighing 16-20 ounces. The description in the Status International catalogue reads: ‘Parcel Label: 1928 KGV 2d brown & 3d blue, & uprated KGV 1d on gummed label affixed to card. With decorative border of book on a lectern in brown, as illustrated in ACSC for ES11 confirms user as Foy & Gibson Melbourne with ‘Melbourne 3 OC 28’ cds, to Albury. Overall VFU for a parcel label, Figure 2 Queensland 1880s Essay for Reply Postcard sm tear at LL & sl tones of little consequence as
Figure 4 Roma Heroes Avenue Postcard 26 - Stamp News
Figure 3 Beautiful City Adelaide Postcard
Ian McMahon
Figure 5 ½d King Edward VII Postcard for the Auckland Exhibition
Figure 6 1d Dominion Postcard for the Auckland Exhibition
Figure 8 1d Auckland Exhibition Postcard Used to England this is the known example! ACSC PL1 listed & unpriced as previously known only as a cut-out. UNIQUE. Very important item of Australian Postal Stationery’. A similar parcel label cut-out (also thought to have been used by Foy & Gibson) is known with the positioning of the 3d and 2d stamps reversed. Another item of note from the same auction was a Queensland essay for a reply postcard (Figure 2) which sold for $3,400. The essay was described as ‘1880s QV ½d+½d black ESSAY for special single Reply card with 2 stamp imprints & divided front & back for 2 addresses & 2 messages. F-VF UN. Extremely rare with only a couple known.’
Pictorial Stamped Postcards
In the November column I mentioned the Melbourne and Brisbane Beautiful City stamped postcards but forgot to mention the Adelaide postcard (Figure 3). In addition, I now illustrated the Roma Heroes Avenue postcard (Figure 4).
Auckland Exhibition Postcards
Figure 7 ½d Auckland Exhibition Postcard Used Locally in Auckland
In 1913-14, New Zealand held a World Fair at Auckland. The Auckland Industrial, Agricultural and Mining Exhibition was opened on 1 December 1913 by George Elliot, the chairman of the Exhibition in the presence of the New Zealand Prime Minister, William Massey, and Auckland’s mayor. The Exhibition was held in the Auckland Domain and ran until 18 April 1914. Exhibition Stamp News - 27
Postal Stationery buildings included a concert hall, art gallery, machinery court, palace of industries and exhibition tower while the Exhibition’s entertainment area included a water shute, toboggans, a figure 8 railway and a tea room. Earlier New Zealand fairs included a world fair held in 1898 in Auckland and the 1906 Christchurch Exhibition. The Exhibition took place when postcards were a popular means of communication and many unstamped postcards related to the Exhibition were produced by private producers. The New Zealand Post Office issued a series of postcards in conjunction with the Exhibition. Both ½d and 1d postcards were issued stamped with ½d King Edward VII and 1d Dominion stamps respectively and inscribed ‘AUCKLAND EXHIBITION, 191314’. Figure 5 shows the front of a ½d postcard while Figure 6 shows the front of a 1d postcard. The ½d postcard paid the domestic postcard rate (Figure 7 shows a ½d postcard used locally in Auckland) while the 1d postcard was for ‘correspondence throughout the British Dominions’ (Figure 8 shows a 1d postcard used to England). The reverse of the postcards had views of Auckland or the Auckland Exhibition on the reverse. Twenty different views are known: • FISH-PONDS AND ENTRANCE TO THE EXHIBITION • AUCKLAND DOMAIN, SHOWING HOSPITAL • CHIEF POST OFFICE (BUILDING ON LEFT), AUCKLAND • YACHTS ON THE AUCKLAND HARBOUR Figure 9 RANGITOTO, HARBOUR AND CITY FROM EXHIBITION BUILDINGS View on Reverse of ½d Postcard in Black Figure 10 QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND View on Reverse of ½d Postcard in Black Figure 11 THE AQUARIUM AND GOVERNMENT COURT, AUCKLAND EXHIBJTION View on Reverse of 1d Postcard in purple brown 28 - Stamp News
Ian McMahon • CUSTOMS STREET, AUCKLAND • CHIEF POST OFFICE, QUEEN STREET, FROM FERRY BUILDINGS • QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND • AUCKLAND HARBOUR FROM GRAFTON BRIDGE • GENERAL VIEW OF EXHIBITION FROM FISH-PONDS • ALBERT PARK, AUCKLAND, SHOWING GUNS WHICH WERE IN ACTION AT WATERLOO • REMUERA AND AUCKLAND HARBOUR FROM ONE TREE HILL • CORNER OF SHELLEY BEACH, AUCKLAND • THE AQUARIUM AND GOVERNMENT COURT, AUCKLAND EXHIBITION • VICTORIA STREET, LOOKING WEST • MAIN ENTRANCE TO AUCKLAND EXHIBITION • RANGITOTO, HARBOUR AND CITY FROM EXHIBITION BUILDINGS • KIOSK, AUCKLAND EXHIBITION • AUCKLAND HARBOUR • SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW, AUCKLAND • AUCKLAND CITY AND HARBOUR FROM GRAFTON BRIDGE The postcards are believed to have been issued on the first day of the Exhibition, 1 December, 1913. 40,800 ½d postcards and 20,400 1d postcards were available for issue. The views are found in three different colours, black, purple brown, and greenish blue. The ½d postcards normally have the view in black (Figures 9 and 10), while the usual colour for the 1d postcard is purple brown (Figure 11). Both cards can be found with the view in greenish blue (Figure 12), the ½d card can be found with the view in purple brown (the Figure 12 THE AQUARIUM AND GOVERNMENT COURT, normal colour of the 1d postcard) and AUCKLAND EXHIBITION View on Reverse of 1d Postcard in the 1d postcard with the view in black greenish blue (the normal colour of the ½d postcard). Figure 13 specimen IRC with a UPU flag and a barcode on the Some of the Auckland Exhibition reverse including the word SPECIMEN postcards were dispensed from slot maFigure 14 Reverse of Specimen IRC With Barcode On The Reverse chines which had been obtained by the Including The Word SPECIMEN Stamp News - 29
Postal Stationery New Zealand Pot Office in 1910, from Mills Novelty Company, Chicago. At least two of these machines were installed at the Auckland Exhibition, one for ½d postcards, the other for 1d postcards. The cards were sold from vending machines at the face value of the stamps, without any premium for the card itself. Cards sold through the slot machine appear to have been a slightly smaller size than cards sold over the post office counter.
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with the design on the reverse showing the Istanbul IRC. The French Polynesia stand at the Exhibition was Ancient-Medieval-British-Colonial. selling IRCs from France (both commemorative PricesIstanbul from adesign few dollars a few and ‘regular’ IRCs) asto well as the current Frenchthousand Community reply coupon (Figure dollars per item. 15).
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The UPU had a stand at the recent Asian International Exhibition, Macao 2018. At the stand they were selling a small selection of the current Istanbul IRCs from countries that included Burundi, Slovakia (110th anniversary IRC as ANDA MEMBER well as the ‘regular’ issue), Moldova and Luxembourg. In addition, they were selling a specimen IRC with a UPU flag (Figure 13) and a Ph: 08 8165 3446 midday to 6pm EST barcode on the reverse (Figure 14) including the Figure 15 Current French Community Reply Coupon Email: oldcoins@senet.com.au word ‘SPECIMEN’ and an (unstamped) postcard
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Cinderella Corner The Christmas Cinderellas And Collinridge Rivett
Welcome to the Christmas Edition of Cinderella Corner, and the final edition for 2018. The main purpose of this article is to explore some rather nondescript Christmas Cinderellas and their alignment with Christmas First Day Covers (FDCs) serviced by famed philatelic and general artist, Joseph Collinridge Rivett. The brief biographical account of Rivett is drawn from the thorough and seminal article by Geoff Sherrington on the great man and the rich philatelic landscape he helped canvas in Australia and in several other countries, including Papua New Guinea and New Zealand (The Cover Collector: Journal of the Australian Cover Society, No. 25, Autumn, 2011).
Introduction
Joseph Collinridge Rivett was born in New Zealand on 7 January 1923 and died a decade ago in New South Wales on 29 March 2008 at 85 years of age. At the time of his death, he had lived in Australia for nearly 80 years. Rivett, as he was more commonly known, was most famous for his FDCs and souvenir covers that he either handpainted ‘from scratch’, or converted and embellished established ones, many of both which were limited in numbers and hand signed. In addition to covers, Rivett is also known for his hand drawn and coloured cinderella labels, which many were also limited in numbers. These mainly celebrated various milestones in Australia’s philatelic histories, as well as other festivals and anniversaries across the country. These can be found affixed to some of his covers and others, more scarcely, exist not on cover in singles or in blocks. A future 2019 Cinderella Corner article will discuss these label types in more detail. Rivett also adorned some of his highly desirable covers with small cut-outs of pictures, mainly of magazine quality, which served as `makeshift cinderellas`. Often celebrating different aspects of Australia and its features, such as photographs of kangaroos in hop, these were often partially Top to bottom: Figures 1 - 4 32 - Stamp News
Vito Milana Top to bottom: Figures 5, 6 & 7
cancelled on the front of serviced covers.
Christmas Covers And Labels
In addition to producing his own cinderella labels, and creating others from cut-out images, Rivett also affixed, mainly on embellished Christmas FDCs, some Australian Christmas cinderella labels. These appear to fall into two categories: i) Anti-tuberculosis seals covering the period of 1950 to 1970, and ii) Christmas greetings labels with little identifiable points of reference regarding their origin and source. The former lot
are likely well-known to readers and are very common (and are continued to be produced). The latter, perhaps, is not as well known. I have identified seven Royal FDCs embellished by Rivett, all limited in numbers, and each presenting an affixed different Christmas cinderella from the same set. These are illustrated across Figures 1 to 7. FIGURE 1 – The label on this cover presents the text: A MERRY YULETIDE. The cover is limited numbered 28 of 50. FIGURE 2 – The label on this cover presents the text: JOLLY XMAS. The cover is limited numbered 32 of 50. FIGURE 3 – The label on this cover presents the text: Hearty GREETINGS. The cover is limited numbered 34 of 50. FIGURE 4 – The label on this cover presents the text: HAPPY DAYS. The cover is limited numbered 37 of 50. FIGURE 5 – The label on this cover presents the text: GLAD TIDINGS. The cover is limited numbered 48 of 50. FIGURE 6 – The label on this cover presents the text: Hearty GREETINGS. The cover is limited numbered 49 of 50. FIGURE 7 – The label on this cover presents the text: A CHRISTMAS GREETINGS. The cover is limited numbered 50 of 50. While the placement and overlayed cancels of these Christmas cinderellas on Australian FDCs suggest an Australian origin, it is nonetheless possible that their origins are the United States, given the inclusion of often American-linked words Yuletide and Tidings.
Additional Christmas Labels
In addition to the six different Christmas labels (note that the same designed Hearty GREETINGS label is used on the covers illustrated in Figures 3 and 6) highlighted across Figures 1 to 7, an additional three labels have been identified that clearly ‘sit’ within this set of cinderellas. These feature similar pale colour arrangements, festive messages and Christmas motifs, to the other labels. Like the seven explored above, Stamp News - 33
Cinderella Corner they measure 48mm x 38mm and are rouletted 12 on all four sides. Brief details for these additional three labels are presented below: FIGURE 8 – This label presents the text GREETINGS. FIGURE 9 – This label presents the text a MERRY YULETIDE. This label is different from the label illustrated in Figure 1 as the article ‘a’ is written in lowercase. FIGURE 10 – This label presents the text GLAD WISHES. It is possible that additional designs exist in this set of Christmas Cinderella labels, beyond the scope of the nine different ones illustrated in this cinderella piece. Given that Rivett produced 50 Christmas covers for 1958 alone, it is highly probable that other limited numbers in the FDC set also highlight different labels: I welcome further examples from readers who may have these in their collections.
Conclusion
The different Christmas and festive labels offered in this Cinderella Corner edition likely date to the mid1950s. Further details as to their origins, however, are unknown. While nine different types of these labels are presented in this article, there is the possibility that more types exist. I welcome any reader’s knowledge about this, or how these labels were offered (e.g., sheet arrangement; costs). I wish all readers, near and abroad, a safe and festive season ahead.
Revisiting Fameface: RIVPEX 2001
Many thanks to Cinderella Corner reader and Secretary of the Wagga Stamp Club Inc., Mr. Peter Simpfendorfer, for his comments on the Rivpex 2001 FameFace labels discussed in the September 2018 Cinderella Corner issue. Peter offered the following, which has helped further canvass the landscape of these fascinating cinderellas: The Wagga Stamp Club hosts 2 x 2 day Stamp & Coin Fairs each year being held on the 3rd weekend in May and the 4th weekend in November. The labels detailed in the September column were not produced by the Wagga Stamp Club but by member Rod Dooner who designed them and arranged the printing and sale of the labels. RIVPEX 2001 was the title of a proposed National Exhibition proposed for 2001 which did not come to fruition. Rod Dooner was the main enthusiast 34 - Stamp News
Top to bottom: Figure 8, 9 & 10 for this project. Rod tried to interest Australia Post in the bushranger stamps but they declined as the bushrangers were classed as criminals and not suitable to be depicted on Australian stamps.
BUY OR BID SALE DECEMBER 2018 Buy now at the listed price or bid a lower figure. Bids will be considered at Midday 31 December 2018 Orders and Bids accepted by phone, mail or email. Provided the item has not sold at the full price, bids at 75% to 95% will have a good chance of success; 60% - 74% will have a reasonable chance of success. Bids below 60% will have minimal chance of success. Bid for as many alternatives as you wish, but please put a dollar cap on your total spending, and we will allocate lots according to what is available. Orders at full price above $500 are post free within Australia. Layby welcome for orders above $500. Scans or colour photocopies of individual stamps, covers or sets are available on request. Many smaller items, including a lot that are not on this list may be found in our eBay listings. Our store name is 21st-century-auctions Postage and insurance extra, Free Within Australia above $500. We accept all cards and PayPal at no fee. Hours generally 10am – 6pm Mon – Fri, but we will often answer the phone after hours. All of our items carry our 14 day satisfaction guarantee, excepting Collections, Packets & Mixtures. These items are non-returnable unless significantly mis-described and only for credit or exchange not for cash. Cigarette Cards CC1) Wills Cricketers series of 1926, scarce lot of 15 plain back real photograph sepia cards, inc. Both English and Australian County, State and test cricketers. Complete set of 50 cat. at 495 pounds BACKIN THE 1990S! Much better than average condition, well priced at $15 a card. $225 the lot CC2a) Wills Cricketers series of 1928/29, Australian & English test and State/County Cricketers inc. Don Bradman, Real Photographic 23 diff. from a series of 48, cat. 195 pounds back in the 1990s pounds the set. Much better than average condition. Price $189 CC2b) As above, but 37 cards without Don Bradman, price $279 CC2c) Another lot of 23 different cards also with Don Bradman, price $189 Catalogues & Accessories C1) Australia ACSC Booklets 2003 edition $105 C2) Australia ACSC Postage Dues 2014 edition, $125 C3) SG Collect British Stamps 2018, $42.50 C4) SG Brunei Malaysia Singapore 5th Ed. 2017, $57.50 C5) SG Falkland Is. 7th Ed. 2016, $36 C6) SG India 5th Ed. 2018, slightly bent top right corner, was $75 now $59 C7) SG Leeward Is. 3rd Ed. 2017, $65 C8) SG West Africa 2nd Ed. 2012 $57.50 C9) SG Windward Is. & Barbados 3rd Ed. 2015, $72 C10) French Colonies 1st Ed. 2016, $87.50 C11) SG USA 8th Ed. 2015 $99.50 C12) SG Western Europe Simplified 2nd Ed. 2012 $92.50 C13) SG Aircraft 2nd Ed. 2009 $87.50 ALB7) Single cover albums as new, PW Brand, each with 40 – 50 clear pockets. Padded binders in a variety of colours: Red, Brown, Blue, Green. New price around $39 each, price for this lot of 7, $110 ALB8) Brand New Heavy Duty Double Cover Pages, suit 3 or 4 ring binders, x 37 with Black backing sheets. Normal price $24 per 10. Half price offer the lot for $44 ALB9) Davo Australia Albums, 2 vols. Hingeless with slipcases, almost as new 1966 -1996. New price $529. Plus free an additional binder & slipcase with a pack of 20 new blank pages. Very cheap at under a third retail, $175 ALB10) Hagner blue padded binder and slipcase, new price $50. This is new, but old shop stock. Priced to clear $29
ALB11) Lindner T Black Album and slipcase, with approx. 20 hingeless pages. Album as new, slipcase showing a little wear. Retail new $95. Cheap at $49 Collections And Lots Important: Collections and lots are returnable for credit only if significantly mis-described. No cash refunds on these. CNO1) Monaco 1978-84 collection of 300+ stamps & 21 miniature sheets on Hagner sheets, fairly complete for the period with most Europa mini sheets including 1978 & 1979, catalogue value is £740+, lovely fresh MUH lot with much thematic appeal! Price $675 CNO2) Big stack of Hagner pages and album leaves. Weighs 1.3kg. Contains early – modern Worldwide range, mainly postally used. Noted better GB, Fiji, New Zealand Nauru to 5/-, many hundreds. Price $65. CNO3) Egypt, from early Pyramid types to mid 1990’s in medium Brown stockbook. About 300 different, all postally used. Good lot. Price $39 CNO4) Canada, KGV to recent in medium brown stockbook. About 350 different, postally used. Nice clean lot, cheap price $29 CNO5) Poland & Hungary, early to modern mainly cto used in 2 x medium stockbooks, maroon red and blue. About 700 all different. Cheap price, $39 CNO6) Gambia. Fresh Mint Unhinged collection 1979 - 1989 in an as new luxury $40 Green Padded Ka-Be 32 black page stockbook. Appears pretty well complete for the period with 295 stamps & 38 minisheets. Very high retail/catalogue value and heaps of thematic interest here. Price $245 CNO7) Bermuda, mostly Mint Unhinged collection 1930’s - 1994 in an as new luxury $40 Green Padded Ka-Be 32 black page stockbook. Appears pretty well complete from 1977 with 235 stamps & 3 minisheets. Very high retail/catalogue value and heaps of thematic interest here. Price $149 CNO8) Dark Blue, Gold Embossed Stanley Gibbons 19th Century “Improved “ album. Virtually un-added to since about 1910, with masses of 19th century Worldwide. A few pages have been raided, but 1000s of mainly postally used with good pickings in Austria, Belgium, France, Holland, Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, Egypt, USA etc. Good value at $695 CNO9) Brazil 1977 – 1984 mint unhinged, plus a few earlier used in an as new luxury $40 Blue Padded Ka-Be 32 black page stockbook. Appears pretty well complete for the period with 270 stamps & 13 minisheets. Very high retail/catalogue value and heaps of thematic interest here. Price $98 CNO10) Romania 1977 – 1982 mint unhinged collection, in as new luxury $40 Black Padded Ka-Be 32 black page stockbook. Good degree of completion with 213 stamps & 27 minisheets. Very high retail/catalogue value and heaps of thematic interest here. Price $98 CNO11) Small Black Stockbook with USA mint unhinged blocks of 4, many are corner blocks with sheet numbers. Mainly 1940’s – 60’s. Generally very clean and fresh, minor duplication. Values to 25c, inc. Airmail issues. Over 100 blocks, cheap at around 75c a block, $79 CNO12) Germany in small red stockbook. Nice small collection with a few Bavaria, then Inflation issues & Hitler heads mint. Some DDR cto and West Germany postally used. About 300 appear all different. Under 10c a stamp, $29 the lot. CNO13) Worldwide early to modern neatly organised by country by country in 4 large stockbooks, mint & used. Approx. 5000 all different. Great value at under 6c per stamp. $295 CNO14) Great Britain. Two Red Ka-Be Hingeless albums, 1 peg fitting, one springback 1953 – 1998 almost as new, except previous owner has stupidly used black Texta to write “GREAT BRITAIN” neatly on the spines. (Easily fixed with a label over the top if desired) Contains a near complete collection, mixed mint and used to end of 1974, less the phosphors. Then a modest range of later used. Great for expansion. The albums new would be over $500! Priced way under the album cost alone, so the stamps are pretty much free. Price $425 CNO15) USA 1940’s – 70’s mint on album pages in as new $25 Brown Hagner Binder. 281 stamps & 1 mini sheet, appears all different, with se-tenant blocks/strips etc. Cheap lot at $69 CNO16) Venda. 1979 – 1986 mint unhinged collection, in as new luxury $40 Black Padded Ka-Be 32 black page stockbook. Good degree of completion with 207 stamps & 6 minisheets.
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BUY OR BID SALE DECEMBER 2018 Very high retail/catalogue value and heaps of thematic interest here. Price $79 CMN4) Christmas Island First Day Covers all official unaddressed covering the period approx. 1970 – 2000. 50 different for $89 CMN6) Nauru First Day Covers all official unaddressed covering the period approx. 1970 – 2000. 50 different for $89 CMN8) Papua New Guinea First Day Covers all official unaddressed covering the period approx. 1967 – 2000. 50 different for $89 CNO17) Cocos (Keeling) Is. 50 different official unaddressed FDC’s 1989 – 2011, commencing Sydney/Emden Gutter strip and minisheet. Great value and huge retail value. Price $125 CNO18) Cocos (Keeling) Is. 50 different official unaddressed FDC’s 1981 – 1988, Inc. Coconut Minisheet. Great value and huge retail value. Price $99 CNO20) Christmas Is. 50 different official unaddressed FDC’s 1996 – 2010, Inc. Chinese new year issues & minisheets. Great value and huge retail value. Price $125 CNO21) Christmas Is. 50 different official unaddressed FDC’s 1983 – 2006, Inc. Chinese new year issues & minisheets. Great value and huge retail value. Price $119 CNO22) Norfolk Is. 50 different official unaddressed FDC’s 1982 – 1994, Inc. Battle of Midway. Huge retail value. Price $99 CNO23) Norfolk Is. 50 different official unaddressed FDC’s 1967 – 1994, huge retail value. Price $89 CNO24) Ghana 1957 – 1988 in as new $40 Black Ka-Be luxury 32 black page stockbook. Mostly mint unhinged, with a few used and hinged in a few earlier items. 1977 onwards is unhinged and appears complete to 1988. 315 stamps & 38 minisheets. High retail/catalogue value and many good thematic sets here. Priced cheaply at $136.50 CNO25) Tuvalu appears complete 1987 – 1997 mint unhinged collection in as new $40 Black Ka-Be luxury32 black page stockbook. 217 stamps & 37 minisheets. High retail/catalogue value and many good thematic sets here. Priced cheaply at $110 CNO26) Uganda appears complete 1978 – 1985 mint unhinged collection plus a few earlier used not counted. Housed in as new $40 Black Ka-Be luxury 32 black page stockbook. 236 stamps & 30 minisheets. High retail/catalogue value and many good thematic sets here. Priced cheaply at $110 CNO27) Tonga appears complete 1982 – 1994 mostly mint unhinged collection plus a few used. Housed in as new $40 Green Ka-Be luxury 32 black page stockbook. 461 stamps & 18 minisheets. High retail/catalogue value and many good thematic sets here. Includes progressive proofs of 1988 Marine Life set. Priced cheaply at $165 CNO28) Niue appears complete 1978 – 1987 mostly mint unhinged collection plus a few used. Housed in as new $40 Green Ka-Be luxury 32 black page stockbook. 370 stamps & 55 minisheets. High retail/catalogue value and many good thematic sets here. Priced cheaply at $165 CNO29) St. Lucia appears complete 1976 – 1989 mint unhinged collection plus a few used. Housed in as new $40 Green Ka-Be luxury 32 black page stockbook. 372 stamps & 27 minisheets. High retail/catalogue value and many good thematic sets here. Priced cheaply at $139 CNO30) Philippines appears complete 1987 – 1989 mint unhinged collection. Housed in as new $40 Blue Ka-Be luxury 32 black page stockbook. 128 stamps & 1 minisheets. High retail/ catalogue value and many good thematic sets here. Priced cheaply at $55 CNO31) 1981 Royal Wedding, Prince Charles and Diana. The most extensive single volume collection we have ever handled! Housed in $150 luxury as new padded Royal Blue and Gold Album, and on heavy quality illustrated page this collection contains not only the British Commonwealth Issues, but much of the rest of the World too. All fresh mint unhinged, Could almost have been printed yesterday! In total sets from 82 countries, plus 129 minisheets and 18 booklets. Original owner states cost around $1800 37 years ago. Price today less than 25% of that, only $445! CNO32) British Commonwealth 1937 – 1995 approx. Deceased dealer stock in Brown Padded 48 page Lighthouse divided page stockbook. Mint & used sets and singles, much unhinged. Good range of issues and countries, and priced up very cheaply to around $1025. Around 1000 stamps with little duplication. Cheap at under a third. $325 CNO33) Canada Jan. 2009 – Mar. 2014 Mint unhinged, complete except for a very few booklet stamps. Housed in 94 brand new Lighthouse Illustrated pages retail $500 plus! (Binders
and slipcases (2 required) could be supplied at additional cost) Also some extra stamps in 5 Hagner pages. Stamps retail approx $1500, so a total $2000 value here for just $1150. CNO34) Papua New Guinea 1979 - 1984 mint unhinged sets in imprint blocks of 4. Housed in near new $50 luxury Lighthouse brown padded block stockbook. 25 sets x 4 inc. Corals to 3K plus 5K Bird of paradise. 100 complete sets for just under $2.50 a set, the valuable stockbook comes free! Price $245. CNO35) Architecture, mint & used thematic collection in blue ring binder, on album pages. Includes Belgium Railway stamps showing Stations. About 400 stamps mostly in sets. Nice lot, price $49 CNO36) Worldwide thematic sets 1970’s – 80’s in as new $25 Brown Padded Seven Seas Binder. Mainly cto used, about 80 sets. Cheap at $49 the lot. CNO37) Papua New Guinea, fresh mint unhinged collection 1978 – 1984 in large green stockbook. Approx 60 complete sets, inc. Butterflies, Shells, Panorama, Headdresses and Corals long definitive sets. Great value at under $2.50 per set. Price $145 CNO38) South Korea 1968 mint & used , starter collection in large green stockbook. Many complete sets. 150 plus stamps, price $39 CNO39) Great Britain 1840 – 1978 mint & used in near new Gibbons Green Simplex Album, value $95. Includes a near 4 margin 1d Black in the scarcer intense shade from plate 8, lettered H.D., cancelled by a full, central heavyish Black Maltese Cross, value close to $200 alone. Rest of earlies are sparse, but then has KGV Seahorses to 5/-. QEII used to £1 Castles, then most pre-decimal commems. are present, either mint or used on a simplified basis. Good range of used decimal Machins at back. Mint decimal has been removed (not by us). Very clean lot and well worth $295, (you could easily pay this for the 1d black & album alone) CNO40) Transport through the ages, worldwide collection in 3 volumes. Volume 1 is Shipping, then Balloons and Aircraft, volume 3 contains land vehicles including Coach & Horses, Bicycles, Motor Cycles, Cars, Trains, Trucks, Buses & Trams. A mixture of mint, postally used and cto, all different. Just under 1400 stamps total. Very good value at $135 CNO41) France. 1946 – 1960 Complete fresh mint unhinged. On as new Safe Dual pages. (Excludes the 1960 “back of book item” Council of Europe set). Cat. £3000 plus. Pages cost $250. Priced very cheaply at under 40% cat. $2195 CNO42) Australia 1950’s – 90’s sorted into glassine envelopes of 25 alike. Huge variety, 400 plus packets = 10,000 stamps. Great for packet maker. Very cheap at $59 the lot. CNO43) Stanley Gibbons “History of the Olympics” collection as new in Dark Blue & Gold ring binder. Excellent presentation with details of each event together with a mint unhinged stamp for that event. Produced in 1983. We have a few of these over the years and they always sell well. Price just $29 Mystery Packages Not to be confused with Mystery Parcels, these are better value lots with stamps on stockcards, including sets, minisheets etc, mint & used, complete sets in Glassine envelopes, covers, post office packs, year packs, booklets, album pages of stamps, club sheets etc, any or all of the above may be included. All at about a half of our original price to clear MP1) Australia only small lot $49, medium lot $95, large lot $189, extra large lot $359 MP3) Australia Kangaroos only, values ½d to 2/- used on stockcards. Prices as above. MP4) Australia KGV Heads used, values ½d to 1/4d used. Prices as above. MP5) Australia Pre-Decimal only, prices as above. MP6) British Commonwealth/Empire, no Australia, prices as above. MP7) Western Europe, prices as above. MP9) Worldwide, prices as above. CMS4) British Commonwealth 1983 Commonwealth Day set of FDC’s in as new large blue padded album. 53 covers each with the full set of stamps, country coats of arms and coloured drawings of each parliament Building. Very clean impressive lot that cost the original purchaser about $500. Price just $69 CMS5) North Korea in as new Blue Padded Seven Seas Binder, cost today $25. Contains 33 complete thematic sets cto used issued 1964 – 1976 on album pages. Some slight aging to the 1st
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BUY OR BID SALE DECEMBER 2018 page, otherwise a nice clean lot. Priced very cheaply at under $1.50 per set, the binder is free! $49 CMS6) Two Brown Padded Seven Seas binder containing 100 complete cto thematic sets issued 1961 – 1979 from various countries inc. Many of these sets have 8 or 9 values and there is a long birds set of 24 from Burundi. Priced very reasonably at well under $2 a set, the binders are free. A few stamps have come loose from the pages and so we have included at no charge a packet of 500 Stanley Gibbons Hinges, Price $149 CMS7) 1978/79 United Nations 25th Anniv. FDC collection in light blue padded album with Silver UN Logo. 62 covers from a range of countries. Nice clean lot, as new. Album cost $40, and covers $6.95 each, so a new cost of around $470. Selling at under $1 per cover, the album is free. Price $59 CMS11) Japan large collection in 4 large Green Stockbooks. Only light duplication here in this lot of mainly postally used, the many minisheets are mint unhinged. From very early to modern going up to 2008. Roughly 4000 stamps here and would likely yield at least 3000 different. Lovely clean lot, priced very cheaply at under 20c per stamp, price $795. CMS13) South Africa earlies to 1994, mainly mint unhinged in large green stockbook. Odd stamp with some toning, but 99.5% are fresh mint unhinged. About 75 mint unhinged sets inc. Framas and several long definitive sets, plus 22 minisheets and 4 booklets. A lovely lot. Priced very reasonably at $195 CMS14) Cuba collection of full sets, 1962 – 1982 mainly mint unhinged. A few earlier sets are cto. 80 plus sets and 12 minisheets housed in a large black stockbook. Many good thematic sets here. Very cheap at under $1 per set/minisheet. Price $89 CMS15) Hungary, mint unhinged collection 1977 – 1982 in large green stockbook. 40 complete sets and 34 minisheet, mostly good thematics. Very cheap at under $1.50 per set/ minisheet. Price $110 CMS16) Great Britain 1981 – 1984 Benham Silk covers in huge Dark Blue Ring Binder, alone worth $75 new. 160 different covers plus some extras. These sell at $4 - $5 each on Ebay. A huge Ebay value here of $700 plus the album…nice lot, possibly suitable for re-sellers. My price under a half, $349 CMS17) Indonesia Collection, 1950’s to 1980 in large green stockbook. 54 complete sets and 11 minisheets, used to 1977 then mint unhinged. Priced very competitively at $1.50 per set/ minisheet. Price $98 CMS18) Thailand, lovely early to modern collection in large green stockbook. Most are postally used, with the minisheets being mint unhinged. Roughly 800 pretty well all different with many complete sets and minisheets. Hard to find nice Thai. collections like this, price $295. CMS19) Fiji 1970 – 1999 mint unhinged collection in as new Lighthouse brown padded hingeless album. 130 complete sets/minisheets with a retail value of $895, plus a few extras, plus the album which cost approx $300. $1195 value here for way under half price….$549 the lot. CMS20) Singapore, 2 volume collection housed in large green stockbooks 1948 – 2007. Looks to be 95% complete, missing only the most expensive items. Commences KGVI defins. to $5, then most QEII issues all fine postally used to 1982. After this date there is a mixture of mint unhinged and used. Around 1500 mostly different mainly full sets and minisheets. Hard country to find decent collections of. Price $775 CA1) Great Britain 1841 – 1964. Blue Posthorn stockbook, dealer type with divided leaves. Part-time dealer’s stock commencing 1841 1d Red Brown. Earlies are sparse, but a few better surface printed noted. Queen Victoria 10/- Ultramarine spacefiller grade. KEVII to 1/- with some mint and KGV similar with Seahorses to 5/-. 1935 Jubilees x 4 sets mint. KGV 1937 dark colour definitives mixed mint unhinged/mint x 3 compete sets and 1939 – 48 square high values with some mint and inc. 10/- Dark Blue x 3. KGVI 1948 Silver Wedding £1 x 2 Mint Unhinged and Festival £1 x 7 used. QEII Wildings 1st issue Tudor Crown complete mint/mint unhinged to 1/6d x 2 plus extras and 1st De la Rue Castles to 10/- Mint lightly hinge. 1957 1st graphites x 6 sets MUH, 1958 Graphites mint set plus extras and phosphor graphites to 4d also mint. Most QEII Commems are present both mint and used with duplication. Too many others to mention. All are identified by SG No. in central stockbook margin. Great value at $449 CA2) Gibraltar mint unhinged (some of the earlier are light hinged) priced up stock 1965 – 2001 on Hagner sheets in black binder. Has been priced to sell by recently deceased parttime dealer at $1100 plus. A little duplication, no more than 2 of anything. Very clean. Suit collector/dealer/re-seller. Bargain at under a third of the priced up value, $359
CA5a) British Commonwealth Dealer Stock in 3 x 64 page good brand stockbooks. 2 x Lighthouse, 1 x Ka-Be. Wide range with little duplication. At an educated guess must price up to between $5500 - $6000 possibly more. A good clean lot all ready for re-sale, with little duplication. Mostly mint unhinged QEII, but with some used and earlier. Date range approx 1936 – 2006. 1000 eBay lots right here! Very good value at under a third of the marked prices $1895 CA9) Ausipex 1984 Souvenirs in black binder. Includes souvenir sheets, die proof cards, postcards, covers, exhibition labels in full sheet of 20, souvenir folder with stamps bearing special cancels from 37 postal authorities, also Aeropex 88 labels complete sheet of 15 and souvenir sheet. Plus a complete sheet of 12 x 1950 Anpex Labels. Great lot, some in mixed condition. About 30 items in all. Cheap lot at $75 CA10) Australia 1914 – 1965 Complete Mint Unhinged Pre-Decimal Collection (No KGV Heads of Kangaroos) excepting the 5/- Harbour Bridge which is lightly hinged. (Unhinged could be supplied at an additional cost) Housed in as new Seven Seas Deep Red Padded Hingeless Album, with pages also for the KGV and Kangaroos, value $165. Retail value of the stamps is $4835, plus the value of the album, a total of $5000. Includes 3d Kookaburra Minisheet, all high value definitives Robes thick and thin paper, 5/- Cattle White Paper, Navigators set of 8, etc, etc. Excellent value at $2995 the lot. CA11) Singapore. Excellent collection mint and used KGVI – 2009 with a very high degree of completeness. KGVI has SG 1-15 and 16 -30 mint and used, 1948 Wedding pair mint, 1949 UPU mint & used etc., from QEII appears mint unhinged plus used of each in most cases. A great lot housed in around 75 as new Hagners and Black Padded Binder with Slipcase. Retail of these alone is $175! Just the better items have been catalogued, and these come to £1520, plus there are heaps not added into the total. Retail would be very high, in the order of $1650 - $1750. These lots rarely come along…great value at $995 the lot. CA12) Norway 1855 – 1995 Used Collection in Davo Illustrated Album. Good range of Officials, Dues etc. SG Cat. in 2014 was £3500 plus. Includes a passable SG1 and is near complete 1938 – 1993. Norway collections are rarely available here in Australia. Album cost would be around $300 new. Very well priced at below 25% cat. Price $1549 CMJ10) China, Peoples Republic. 500 different, inc. many complete mint unhinged sets. Very reasonably priced at $245 CMJ11) USA 1851 – 2000. Massive Semi-Specialised Collection in 3 as new Lion Brand 64 black page stockbooks, alone worth $60 each new. All annotated and organised by Scott Number. Noted 1892 Columbus to 50c, Trans – Mississippi to 50c. Mostly complete after that except for the High value Zeppelins. Mainly Used to 1920 then mint/mint unhinged with some extras in used. Also a 4th Volume of mainly used commemoratives. Massive lot, hard to count, but I would think easily 3000 stamps. Very high retail/face value. Price $1895 CMJ16) France 1849 – 1989 Collection in 2 x Davo Hingeless Albums in very good condition. Albums alone cost $600 new. Used from 1849 – 1935, then mostly mint unhinged from 1950. Best stamp is SG 4, 15c Ceres, near 4 margins cat. £1,200. Very clean lot. Collection is around 95% complete and Gibbons Cat. Around £7800. This is a steal for someone at 25%. $3450 CMJ17) Great Britain 1841 – 2000 collection in 2 as new Lion Brand 64 Black page stockbooks, cost $60 each. Commences 1841 1d Imperfs. (25 plus inc. 2 nice Ivory heads) Then a quantity of 1854 1d Stars, all with different check letters in order (about 50) Queen Victoria Surface printed to 5/- nice fine used, plus some extras on leaves and stockcards. KGV with Seahorses to 10/- (11 total) KGVI £1 1948 Silver Wedding mint lightly hinged. A run of QEII pre-decimal commemorative sets mint unhinged, less phosphor banded issues, appears complete to 1970. Pre-decimal Machin heads in mint unhinged blocks of 4, decimal Machins inc. the scarce halfpenny Side Band Phosphor from the £1 Wedgwood Booklet appear complete to 1982. Decimal Commemoratives complete 1971 – 2000 either mint unhinged or used. A very good lot! Price $749 CMJ18) Australia Collection of 1500 different used, plus 125 different pre-decimal used, plus pair of quality tweezers and perf. gauge, and a brand new 64 black page padded Ka-Be stockbook. All for $189! CMJ19) 1940 – 1995 Jersey, Guernsey & Isle of Man collections plus some Ireland in 2 as new Lion Brand 64 black page stockbooks, cost $60 each. Collections are a mix of mint unhinged and used, but with many complete sets, and it is on the basis of these alone that we have priced this lot. Values to £5 noted. The used oddments are free bonuses. This is a very good buy at $295
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BUY OR BID SALE DECEMBER 2018 CMJ22) Luscious leftovers! Stuff we do not know what to do with. May contain any or all of the following: Small collections not large enough to offer individually, packets and loose both on and off paper, complete sets and minisheets mint unhinged, covers both philatelic and commercial, some from our own incoming mail, Post Office Packs, stockbooks of stamps early to modern. Ask for Australia only or all World. 5kg for $139, 10kg for $259, 20kg for $495 CMY6) Churchill 1966 Omnibus, complete mint unhinged Crown Agents sets x 22 inc. many scarcer and better countries like Falklands, Hong Kong, Pitcairn, plus UK, USA Canada, NZ etc. then around 10 Kennedy sets MUH or CTO, plus 4 pages of UNO mint & used. All housed in old black stockbook. Very high retail. Price $229 CMY10) Norfolk Island, breaking dealers mint unhinged stock into bite sized portions! The larger lots include many better and mini sheets 25 complete sets 1960’s on for $49, 50 different $119 CMY13) Worldwide carton with stuff from several sources, mostly estate lots. Stamps in packets, envelopes, loose on and off paper. About 50% of this is Australia. NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED! Many hours, days, weeks, months even of sorting here, depending how bored you are! I reckon about 40,000 stamps in this lot. Clearly there is duplication and the price reflects that, but it is truly unsorted. Weight including the carton is close to 9kg. Less than 1.5c a stamp! Price $599 CMY15) Papua New Guinea, breaking dealers mint unhinged stock into bite sized portions! The larger lots include many better and mini sheets 25 complete sets 1960’s on for $49, 50 different $119 CMY16) Nauru, breaking dealers mint unhinged stock into bite sized portions! The larger lots include many better and mini sheets 25 complete sets 1960’s on for $49, 50 different $119 CMY18) Australia First day Covers, Maximum Cards and PSE’s mint & used. Huge lot of about 500 items housed in 5 as new PW Brand double padded cover albums retail $49 each. Amazing lot of all different it seems with FDC’s to $20 Painting. Also some signed items. Price for the lot less than $1 per cover and the albums come free! $425 CMY18a) 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) Samoa, breaking dealers mint unhinged stock into bite sized portions! The larger lots include many better and mini sheets 25 complete sets 1960’s on for $49, 50 different $119 CMY21) Wholesale parcels of Australia pre-decimals, made up to order at approx. half current retail. 1913 – 1965. These lots will contain some duplication. State whether you require mint unhinged, mint hinged or used or a mixture of all three. Lots from $50 to $5000 MM1) Worldwide carton lot, with Albums, Covers, Post Office Packs etc. Literally could be anything here, weighs 16kg. Contains 100s of Worldwide covers, commercial & first day, old fast bound Illustrated albums, Seven Seas Albums etc. etc plus some loose stamps. A REAL SORTERS PARADISE! Price $749 CMM2) Worldwide collection accumulation, mint & used in 425 plus near new Hagner Pages contained in 5 Lever Arch Files. Cost of Hagners alone $1.75 each = over $740. Noted very good Great Britain with nice lot of Line Engraved, inc. 1841 Imperf 1d Red Brown x 26, 2d Blue x 2, later perforated 1d & 2d with another 11 x 2d Blue. KGV Seahorses to 5/- etc. Also a nice Jersey Mint & used collection. Also good ranges of Ireland, Malta, Hong Kong mint & used with KGV to $1, KGVI to $10, QEII to $20, Malaya & Malaysia, Brunei, Labuan, North Borneo & Singapore. Next comes Spain & Colonies, then very good New Zealand, Canada & Sth. Africa. Final book is B.W.I. with nice Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Br. Guiana, Br. Honduras, Virgin Is., Cayman Is. & Dominica. Reckoning about 10,000 stamps here with many full sets, and way better than the average World Collection. Weighs over 14kg. Remember the Hagners alone cost near $750. $1749 the lot. CMM3) Another Worldwide carton lot, this one weighing in at 11.5kg. Albums, stockbooks etc. Some well filled, others sparse. Noted some very good areas inc. Australian States, Australia pre-Decimal First Day covers, Czechoslovakia in 2 large stockbooks, France & Netherlands in binders on album leaves, plus some nice Fiji. Would have to be 3000 – 4000 stamps here. Price $495 CMM4) France 1949 – 1959 near complete Mint Unhinged on as new Safe “Dual” hingeless pages. All appear “Post Office Fresh” Has all of the expensive Airs to 1000 francs, etc. Current Gibbons catalogue £3035. Missing only 6 cheap stamps to complete. This is a quality lot! Price $2725 CMM5) Germany massive lot on 32 as new Hagners and on album page, in large 3 ring binder.
Early to modern with all areas/periods to quite modern. Noted States, Germanias, Inflation period, 3rd Reich, Occupation issues, Frama types, etc. Must be 1500 – 2000 stamps easily, with much better here. Price $375 CMM13) Persia Collection on stockcards and leaves, mint and used 1879 – 1920. Many good sets and singles noted inc 1881 25c SG 61a mint cat £200, plus 1912 Officials set fine used cat. £145. The better items alone cat. total £885 plus reminders on album leaves not counted. Lovely lot, 150 to 200 stamps. Price $475 CF10) Australia or Worldwide, your choice. 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 CF38) GB 1840’s top recent mint 2 used in Green Lighthouse Stockbook and on Hagners in blue binder. Early stuff is priced somewhat optimistically by part – time dealer, but includes useful. 1840 1d Imperfs, Includes 6d QV no corner letters, 3d & 6d QV Overprints, mint KGV to 4d, KGVI Square High Values set of 6 complete used, Duplicated QEII High Values to 10 pounds, recent High Value Commems, etc. Duplication in places, some quite heavy, but a very worthwhile lot. 2000 plus stamps for $249 CMD21) Falkland Is. & Dependencies. About 90 complete fine used (cto) sets 1935 – 1990’s on a stack of near new Hagner pages. Commences 1935 Jubilee, then 1949 UPU plus most sets complete with several long definitive sets. Huge retail/catalogue value. Priced to clear at under $4 a set. $359 the lot. Packets and mixtures Important: Packets and mixtures are not returnable for any reason. Our mixtures are sold as received and unchecked by us. Expect Duplication, unless stated as all different. 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 $89, 1kg for $159, 2kg for $295, 5kg for $729 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 PM21) Ireland, latest mission mix on paper to arrive here in Australia. 500g $49, 1kg $89. 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 PM30) Older Australia off paper lot sold as received. This is an all new lot, sold as received by us, and totally unchecked for watermarks, perforations, shades, varieties etc. Pack A) 50 Kangaroos, 75 KGV Heads, 75 Australian States, values to 5/- Price under $1 per stamp $195 Pack B) 200 Kangaroos values to 10/-, under $2 per stamp price $395 Pack C) 200 KGV Heads, values to 1/4d, well under $1 per stamp, price $179 Pack D) 200 Australian States, values to 9d or 1/-, well under $1 per stamp, price $179 Pack E) One of each of packs B, C & D, special price $675 PM31) Australia magnificent off paper mixture, all periods included with some very modern, but mainly decimal. 1500 – 2000 different represented in this entire mixture. There may be a few Kangaroos, KGV Heads and States stamps here too. Guaranteed 10% are better values and High Value Commemoratives, denominations up to $10 or $20. Priced at around only 2c per stamp, roughly 12,500 – 15,000 to the kilogram. 100g for $29.50, 250g for $69, 500g for $129, 1kg for $249
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BUY OR BID SALE DECEMBER 2018 PM32) Similar to the above, but High Values Only, mainly decimal, Commems. And Defins. All above letter rate at time of issue. Very good value at around 10c each. 100g for $149, 250g for $349. Very limited supply. PM40) Just arrived from retired collector/hoarder. Mass of World off paper, better than usual mixture. This man belonged to several clubs and used to produce circuit sheets. This is his remaining material which he had not gotten around to putting on sheets. Really could be anything in here, early to modern, just about every country represented. We have just 5kg of this mix, and there would be 15 – 20,000 stamps per kg. Sample lot of 100g for $39, 250g for $89, 500g for $169, 1kg for $295. PM41) Spain off paper mix, mostly Franco & King Carlos definitives going back to the 1930s. Nice lot for the postmark or variety seeker, and very cheap. 15 – 20,000 to the kg. 100g for $19.95, 250g for $44, 500g for $79, 1kg for $149. Superb Commonwealth of Australia Postmaster General’s Dept. UPU Presentation Folders. We have a number of different ones of these, here is the description for one of them BD771) Green Booklet, issued 1932 with ranges of KGV Heads, Kangaroos & Definitives cto, plus Specimen C of A Kangaroos mint unhinged. Highlights include 5/- Harbour Bridge, 6d Engraved Kookaburra, 10/- Analine 3rd wmk Kangaroo, perf OS, etc, etc. All fresh never hinged. 65 stamps. Price $2950 Australia Kangaroos K565) Australia 1913 – 48 Kangaroos perf. OS NSW. Mixed set of 1st & 3rd wmks. 13 stamps, ½d – 2/- inc. both colours of 6d & 2/-. Selected examples from our stock, mostly circular cancels, scarce assembly. Price $459 K490) Australia 1913 1st wmk Kangaroos set to 1/- nice fine used all circular cancels and several dated examples, inc. 3d Die II. Melbourne retail $440 +, 11 stamps, price $310 K492) Australia 1913 1st wmk Kangaroos set to 1/- nice fine used all circular cancels and some are dated examples, Melbourne retail $195, 10 stamps, price $135 K493) Another as above, same price $135 K425) Australia 1913 2d 1st wmk grey Kangaroo used on Thursday Island. Marginal example from centre of sheet showing part gutter at left. Well centred stamp cancelled by full cds of Thursday Is. 1913, full date unclear. Also 1932 9d C of A wmk, similarly cancelled dated 6 JE 38. Price for the 2, $200 PM30F) 100 mixed Kangaroos, unpicked for watermarks, postmarks, varieties or shades. Values to 2/-, great value at under $2 per stamp. Not all are perfect but you will find some nice stamps. Price $195 PM30G) As above but 200 stamps, values to 5/-, price $395 PM30H) As above but 400 stamps values to 10/-, price $895 AU12) Australia 1913 1d Red Kangaroo, Die IIA, fresh used example, with large part original gum, and Strong Offset on reverse under the gum. Cat $600 for mint, unpriced used. Lovely item. $495 K248) Australia 1913 1d Red Kangaroo Die II, Prominent KISSPRINT. Fine used perf OS with light machine cancel. Supplied with normal for comparison for. The Double print (Kissprint) is only listed as Die IIA at $6500 for used in ACSC. Price $2950 K86) Australia 1913 2d Grey 1st wmk Kangaroo Fresh Mint Unhinged, Centred to right, good perfs. Cat. $300, price. $119 K571) Australia 1913 2d Grey 1st wmk. Kangaroo, DOUBLE PERFS. Used parcel cancelled example with double perfs. at left and right. ACSC 5b, cat. $400. Has horizontal crease, not visible from front. Price $100 DB826) Australia 1913 3d Olive Kangaroo, Die I. Nice mint lightly hinged example with good perfs. Has light gum bend not visible from front. Cat. $250, price $119 K369) Australia 1913 3d olive die II Kangaroo ACSC 12B, cat $400 blue Brisbane cds, FU. Price $199 ML533) Australia 1913 First watermark 3d pale olive green die I, CTO with gum, indistinct corner CDS centred top right, one slightly nibbed perf at top. ACSC 12E, Cat. Min. $50, price $29 MOC46) Australia 1913 3d Olive 1st wmk Kangaroo, Die II, cto, cat $500. Attractive nicely centred stamp, very scarce. $329
AP49) Australia 1913 1st wmk 3d Yellow Olive Kangaroo, Die I, perf small OS, neat cds cancel. Cat. $100, my price $75 D34) Australia 1913 3d Olive Kangaroo, perf small OS DIE II, with Perth reg. cancel. Full perfs and centered right. Cat. $350, this one just $115 K88) Australia 1913 4d Analine Orange Kangaroo, mint very fresh light hinge, almost imperceptible. Centred to top right with good perfs. ACSC 15B, cat $2000 excellent price $595 AU29) Australia 1913 KGV 4d Orange, Inverted wmk, MLH, Cat $80, cheap at $45 K380) Australia 1913 5d Chestnut 1st wmk Kangaroo. Superb Post Office fresh Unhinged left marginal block of 4. Perfect centring and perfs, fresh white gum. Has “AUSTRA” in margin at left. SG8, ACSC16A. Premium Exhibition Piece. There was no Mint Unhinged block of 4 in the Arthur Gray Collection! Price $3250 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 LM12) Australia 1913 5d Chestnut Kangaroo, “Kissprint”. Nice well centred example with full perfs, fresh mint very lightly hinged. Coastline appears doubled almost all around. Cat $250 as normal. Price $495 K90) Australia 1913 6d Ultramarine Kangaroo 1st Wmk. Superb fault free well centred full perf. example. Cat. $875, price $549 ML538) Australia 1913 6d ultramarine CTO with indistinct corner cds, the letter ‘S’ is just visible, indicating it may be a Brisbane CTO, attractive stamp! $99 K16) Australia 1913 6d Ultramarine Kangaroo 1st Wmk. Inverted. PERF SMALL OS. Superb fault free cds example well centred. Cat. $1500, price $1250 K352) Australia 1913 9d Deep Violet Kangaroo 1st wmk. Post Office Fresh MUH. Superb shade, lovely stamp nicely centred with good perf. ACSC 24C. Supplied with Drury 2017 Cert. Cat. $1500, price $1195. Oct14) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 9d Violet 1st wmk, mint lightly hinged. Retail $140, my price $110 K320) Australia 1913 9d Pale Violet Kangaroo 1st Wmk. PERF SMALL OS. Superb fault free MINT UNHINGED example well centred and good perfs., with doubling of perfin on one hole between 1 & 2 o’clock on the O of OS. ACSC 24Bbb, Cat. $1500 as the cheaper Violet shade, price $1250 Oct25) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 1/- Emerald 1st wmk, perf Small OS, mint lightly hinged, cat $600, my price $345 K356) Australia 1913 2/- Dark Brown 1st wmk Kangaroo. Attractive postally used example with good perfs. Centred to top left. Better shade, ACSC 35B cat. $300. Price $129 K334) Australia 1913 2/- Brown 1st wmk Kangaroo cto. Attractive well centred example with full perfs. Melbourne cto DE 3 13. ACSC 35wb cat. $300. Price $225 D47) Australia 1913 2/- Brown Kangaroo 1st wmk, good average used, with oval registered cancel. Cat 85 pounds, price just $79 DB777) Australia 1913 2/- Brown Kangaroo 1st wmk SG 12. Nice used example with corner cds. Good perfs centred a little to lower left. ACSC 35A Cat $250. Keenly priced at $119 NO14) Australia 1913 2/- Brown Kangaroo, 1st wmk with “socked on nose” Parkville Victoria cds of SE 22 14. Lovely cancel, stamp has full perfs, brilliant colour. Centered to lower left. Cat. $250. Price $149 SE29) Australia 1913 2/- Brown 1st wmk. Kangaroo superb postally used, with centrally struck “Socked on nose” Perth cds, 5 FEB 15, well centered and with full perfs, a premium stamp. Cat. $300, price $249 MY43) Australia 1913 1st wmk 2/- Brown Kangaroo, perf small OS postally used with 28 MY 15 cds of Melbourne. Well centered and with good perfs. Cat $500. Price $345 K335) Australia 1913 5/- Grey & Yellow 1st wmk. Kangaroo cto. Nice example with gum, cancelled Melbourne cto 3 DE 13. Full perfs. Centred lower right. Cat. $300, price $225 K18) Australia 1913 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo 1st wmk. Handstamped Specimen. Nice looking stamp. Couple of perf faults at lower left side, and gum a little aged. Cat. $750. Well priced at $465 K570) Australia 1915 2nd wmk. Kangaroos, complete set 2d – 5/- all perf OS, good to fine used. Advertised retail for fine used $1000 plus. Well priced at $495
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BUY OR BID SALE DECEMBER 2018 ML534) Australia 1915 2d grey Kangaroo 2nd wmk centred high Mint, light HR, advertised retail $175 for well centred, price $89 ML418) Australia 1915 Second watermark 1/- Emerald well centred nice used, price $25 K319) Australia 1915 2/- Light Brown Kangaroo 2nd wmk perf. OS. Cancelled by cds of Rialto, Melbourne, centred a little high, and with full perfs, difficult to find as nice as this. ACSC35ba, cat. $400, price $295 MD36) Australia 1916 2/- Brown Kangaroo, 2nd wmk, lovely used example with Registered 8 DE 15 cds. Good perfs, centered a little right. Cat. $400, price under a half at $195 MMY28) Australia 1916 2nd wmk 2/- Brown Kangaroo, good – fine used with 2 partial cds cancels, well centered and with good perfs. Cat $350, price $195 NO8) Australia 1915 2/- Brown 2nd wmk Kangaroo. A lovely well centered full perf. example, with slightly heavy partial Sale, Victoria cds. Cat $350, my price under a half…$169 K322) Australia 1915 Light Brown Kangaroo 2nd wmk MINT UNHINGED. Very attractive well centred full perf example. Gum is a little aged. ACSC 36 cat. $8500. Price $3375 K172) Australia 1915 5/- Deep Grey & Yellow Kangaroo 2nd wmk perf OS. Very fine well centred light cds used. Very well centred and full perfs, try to find better! ACSC 43Ab, cat. $700, price $495 ML531) Australia 1915 2d grey Kangaroo, 3rd wmk. Die I punctured ‘OS’ two faintly toned perfs Mint unhinged. Centred to top right with good perfs. ACSC 7Aba, cat. $225 price $69 DB686) Australia 1915 3d Olive Kangaroo 3rd wmk, Die II. Fine postally used with cds of Moonee Ponds, Vic. July 1918. Cat $200, price $119 MMY45) Australia, absolutely magnificent, best I have ever seen! 1915 3rd wmk 3d Olive Die II Kangaroo, with perfect centring and perfs. With light cds cancel. Cat $200. Price $149 M11) Australia 1915 2/- Brown 3rd wmk Kangaroo, with “S” Flaw, very scarce stamp, lightish parcel used, cat $450. Price $335 K422) Australia 1917 2.5d Indigo (Analine) 3rd Wmk. Kangaroo, Inverted wmk. Fine fresh mint lightly hinged, nicely centred with full perfs. Analine is not recorded for this stamp, however its nearest relative in Analine, the 1/- rates a 10 x premium over the normal stamp. This would therefore give this stamp a catalogue value of $3250. Supplied with a 2018 Drury certificate. Price $2500 K93) Australia 1918 3d Yellow Olive 3rd wmk Kangaroo Die II, Mint Unhinged. Centred left with full perfs, has light overall gum toning. Cat. $1000, bargain at $225 MM45) Australia 1918 1/- 3rd wmk Turquoise Kangaroo, fresh mint unhinged, cat $275. Couple of nibbed perfs at top and a bit of a gum bend, hardly visible form the front make this a great budget buy at $98 D29) Australia 1918 3rd wmk 1/- Emerald Kangaroo, very fine postally full perf example Part cds, Watermark Inverted. Cat $200. Price $110 K324) Australia 1918 10/- Grey & Intense Deep Analine Pink 3rd wmk. Kangaroo. ACSC 48D. Fine used with 2 partial cds cancels. Well centred example with full perfs. Cat. $600, price $449 K23) Australia 1918 5/- Grey-Black and Chrome Kangaroo 3rd wmk. Perf OS, indicative Well centred cto stamp. Few ragged perfs at top left side. No gum. Attractive looking. ACSC 44wa Cat. $300, price $149 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 K156) Another, as above, mint lightly hinged, centred slightly high, couple of nibbed perfs along top. Cat. $600 Price $450 K326) Australia 1917 £1 Chocolate & Dull Blue 3rd wmk. Kangaroo, fine used. Cancelled by Melbourne Ship Mail Room cds. Attractive example well centred with mostly good perfs, just a couple nibbed at lower left. ACSC 52A. Price $1795 K327) Australia 1917 £1 Chestnut and Blue 3rd wmk. Kangaroo, fine used. Socked on nose with Hassall Grove NSW cds of 10 AP 18. Attractive example well centred with full perfs. ACSC 52B. Price $2250 ML419) Australia 1924 Third watermark 2/- maroon well centred FU, cancelled partial cds of
Maryborough Vic. 6FE28. Price $30 K323) Australia 1924 £1 Grey 3rd wmk. Kangaroo Mint Unhinged. Attractive example with full perfs, centred a little to right. Has some very minor gum toning. ACSC 53, Cat. $3750, priced very well at $1875 K157) Australia 1924 £1 Grey 3rd wmk. Kangaroo Ovpt. Specimen type C. Fresh mint unhinged example with full perfs, centred a little to lower right. Cat. $850, price $650 K158) Australia 1924 £1 Grey 3rd wmk. Kangaroo Ovpt. Specimen type C. Fresh mint lightly hinged example, perfectly centred with full perfs. Has unrecorded variety, damaged top horizontal to E. price $495 K321) Australia 1924 £1 Grey 3rd wmk. Kangaroo Ovpt. Specimen type D. Fresh mint unhinged example with full perfs, beautifully centred! Cat. $850, price $650 K424) Australia 1919 £2 Purple Black & Rose 3rd wmk. Kangaroo, ACSC 56C(D)h. Attractive used example with no faults. Cancelled by Port Pirie S.A. cds of 7OC31. Centred to top with full perfs. Has variety “Broken Coast in Bight” Cat. $5500, price $3600 K489) Australia 1929 6d Pale Chestnut Kangaroo, sml. Multi. wmk. Perf OS Mint Block of 4. Top two stamps are lightly hinged, lower two are fresh unhinged. Centred to lower left and with a few nibbed perfs. Still an attractive block, cat. $370 as singles. ACSC 22Bb. Has unrecorded variety: “Break in lower right frame on stamp 1, Priced very well at $159 ML537) Australia 1929 9d Violet Kangaroo smw. Fresh mint very lightly hinged, centred a little left. ACSC 28A cat. $175, price under a half $69 K488) Australia 1929 9d Pale Violet Kangaroo smw. Fresh mint hinged, centred left and with a few uneven perfs. This is a Die II Substitution from plate 4. ACSC 28B (4) cat. $300, priced well under a half $139 K564) Australia 1929 1/- Blue – Green SMW Kangaroo, mint unhinged. Well centred full perf. stamp, cat. $300. ACSC34A Price $200 GG16K381) Australia 1929 10/- Grey & Pale Pink sml. Multi. wmk. Kangaroo. A Post Office Fresh perfectly centred and with full perfs example, very lightly hinged. A premium stamp. ACSC 49, cat. $1100, price $995 K382) Australia 1929 £2 Purple Grey & Rose Crimson smw. Kangaroo, Ovpt. “SPECIMEN” . ACSC 57x. Lovely looking fault free stamp perfectly centred and with full perfs. lightly hinged. Cat. $900. A premium example. Price $795 K385) Australia 1932 6d Chestnut Kangaroo Ovpt. OS. Mint unhinged top marginal block of 4. Fine and Post Office fresh with full perfs, centred to top. ACSC 23A, cat $500 as singles, blocks are scarce. Price $419 K383) Australia 1932 9d Violet Kangaroo, C of A wmk. Well centred mint block of 4. Lovely fresh looking block. Top two stamps have the merest touch of a hinge, lower two have been twice hinged. Blocks are scarce, especially so well centred. Price $349 K415) Australia 1932 Grey & Pink C of A wmk Kangaroos. Well centred very fine & fresh mint unhinged hinged imprint pair, perfectly centred with full perfs. Includes the variety va, Open Mouthed Kangaroo. A very RARE Exhibition Piece. The pair is not priced unhinged, but at $3750 for hinged. The Imprint adds a big premium. There was no such pair or block in the Arthur Gray Collection. Figuring this logically, the Imprint pair for the normal Grey & Pink printing catalogues $3750 for hinged and do sell close to this price, 5 x the mint stamp and the premium for mint unhinged is x 2.5. This gives us a value of $9375. Price for this stunning piece $7500 K423) Australia 1932 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo C of A wmk ACSC50A. A fine fresh and well centred full perf. example lightly hinged. Supplied with a 2018 Drury certificate. Cat. $750, however this is a premium stamp. The catalogue is certainly out of whack on this item. Price $895 BD11) Australia 1932 10/- Grey & Pale Rose Crimson (Analine) 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 K332) Australia 1932 10/- Grey & Analine Pink C of A wmk Kangaroo. Lovely shade, ACSC 50D, cat. $750. Centred low, with good perfs, cancelled by slightly smudgy cds. Hard shade to find. Price. $395 K245) Australia 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo, type C Specimen. Fine and fresh well centred
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BUY OR BID SALE DECEMBER 2018 example with good perfs. Only 1200 produced of this rare C type specimen. ACSC 50A Cat. $850. This is an exceptionally fine example, price $795 KK253) Australia 1931-36 5/- - One Pound C of A Kangaroos, fine cds used set of 3 . Good perfs all round, centring varies. Cat. $785, price $469 K333) Australia 1935 £1 Grey C of A wmk. Kangaroo VFU. Attractive example well centred with full perfs, cancelled by small part WA cds to top right. ACSC 54, Cat. $450, they do not come much better than this. Price $375 K354) Australia 2007 Kangaroos High Values Proof Card, produced as pre-publicity for the Arthur Gray sale. One of these sold for US$187.50 on eBay a few years ago! Price $29 (10 available) Australia KGV Heads For Queensland Provisional Registration Label Covers, see Queensland under Australian States PM30J) 100 mixed KGV Heads, unpicked for watermarks, postmarks, varieties or shades. Values to 5d, great value at under $1 per stamp. Not all are perfect but you will find some nice stamps. Price $95 PM30K) As above but 200 stamps, values to 1/4d-, price $195 PM30L) As above but 400 stamps values to 1/4d, price $389 G196) Australia 1913 KGV Engraved 1d pale red horiz. pair ACSC 59A MUH. Price $24.50 G154) Australia 1915 KGV ½d yellow-green single wmk ACSC 63G MUH. Price $29 G259) Australia 1913 1d Rose Red Engraved Marginal part imprint block of 6 (3 x 2) Mint Unhinged. Attractive well centred block with full perfs, gum very slightly aged. Block of 8 ACSC 59Bzc cat. $475 for hinged. This block does not have the listed variety, nevertheless scarce. Price $175 G191) Australia 1914 1d Bright Red Die II KGV. Fine used light slogan cancel. Well centred and good perfs. ACSC 71B (G11) Cat. $100, price $72 G35) Australia 1914 1d Carmine Red KGV, ACSC 71A, smooth paper in horizontal Die I, Die II pair, perf OS mint lightly hinged. Centred left. Cat. $1250, price $595 G250) Australia 1915 KGV 1d dull red G16 single wmk ACSC 71E VLHM. Price $49 G271) Australia 1915 KGV 1d deep scarlet rough paper block of 4 punctured ‘OS’ var inverted wmk, ACSC 72Aa/bb centred to top MUH. Price $425 G197) Australia 1917 KGV 1d carmine-pink LM wmk Cooke printing ACSC 73A centred to left, Good Used. Price $169 G282) Australia 1917 KGV rough ppr 1d carmine G62 block of 4, ACSC 72C, centred to right, HR Mint. Price $149 G251) Australia 1917 KGV rough ppr 1d carmine (pale) G62 ACSC 72C, centred to top, Mint. Price $37.50 G117) Australia 1918 KGV rough paper 1d rosine ACSC 72I (G68) cat $150, centred to right, FU. Price $79 G231) Australia 1918 KGV rough paper 1d rosine punctured ‘OS’ ACSC 72Ibb (G68), cat $100, centred to left, FU. Price $49 G227) Australia 1918 1d KGV Carmine Red KGV Die 1 & 2 Pair Fresh Mint Unhinged. Stunning looking, full perfs centred to tope left. ACSC 71Y(1)ia, G31. Supplied with2017 Drury certificate. Cat. $1500 Price $1195 G266) Australia 1918 KGV 1½d black-brown LM wmk ‘Very thin paper’ ACSC 84aa, cat $125, corner example, centred to lower left, MUH. Price $49 G305) Australia 1924 KGV 3d blue single watermark variety ‘Dry ink’ ACSC 104Bc, fine mint lightly hinged. Price $79 G239) Australia 1915 KGV 4d orange punctured ‘OS’ var inverted wmk ACSC 110b cat $150, centred to right FU. Price $79 G204) Australia 1916 4d KGV Orange (Aniline). Is a 4d Orange, single watermark with watermark inverted, a fine example. Cancelled to order, no gum. ACSC 110Aa + w. Supplied with 2017 Starling certificate. Price: $149 DB792) Australia 1916 4d KGV Pale Orange Yellow, ACSC 110E, fine mint lightly hinged, full perfs, centred left. Cat. $350. Hard shade to find. Price $195 G108) Australia 1916 KGV 4d pale orange-yellow Single wmk ACSC 110E, cat $350, most
attractive shade MLH. Price $179 G230) Australia 1919 KGV 1d carmine-rose LM wmk punctured ‘OS’ ACSC 74Ab, cat $175, unusually well centred FU G270) Australia 1919 KGV 1d carmine-rose LM wmk block of 4, some gum suntanning stripes, ACSC 74A MUH. Price $129 GG10) Australia 1918 1d KGV Maroon (cert says Deep Carmine-Red). Perforated OS, a fine example of a rare shade, FU. ACSC 72Rbb (G77). Supplied with 2016 Starling certificate. Cat. $250. Price: $189 GG14) Australia 1d 1918 KGV Rosine. A fine example of a rare shade, FU. ACSC 72I (G68). Supplied with 2017 Starling certificate. Cat. $150. Price: $119 G157) Australia 1918 1d Carmine Rose KGV, substituted cliché Die II. Fine used cds full perf example centred low. Cancelled by Machine cancel. ACSC 72Q (2) ja. Supplied with Drury certificate. Price $95 G177) Australia 1919 1.5d Brown Die I KGV, Cracked Electro Bottom right corner Block of 6. ACSC 85U unlocated. evident on 4 stamps in right value tablet, plus large solid brown area to right of crown stamp 6. Some perf separation, and natural inclusion on one stamp. Fresh mint unhinged, (hinged in selvedge) Price $1995 G215) Australia 1920 KGV 2d orange single wmk punctured ‘OS’ var ‘Watermark inverted’ centred to top, FU. Price $49 G324) Australia 1920 5d KGV Pale Bright Chestnut 5d Brown, Single watermark, line perforated on rough paper, perforated OS ACSC 124. Cancelled by Perth oval registered dated 18 MY 23, late use for this. Also shows misplaced watermark with part of sheet edge to the left. $250, price $195 G207) Australia 1920 5d KGV Deep Bright Chestnut. Is a 5d Brown, Single watermark, line perforated on rough paper, perforated OS with the variety ‘damaged NW corner [state III]’, used has a corner bend. ACSC 124qb. Supplied with 2015 Starling certificate. Cat. $750. Price: $565 G228) Australia 1920 1/4d Turquoise Blue Single watermark, Dry Ink. Mint lightly hinged. Full perfs, centred right. ACSC 128Ac. Supplied with Drury 2017 Cert. Cat. $400, price $295 G219) Australia 1920 1/4d Turquoise Blue Single watermark, perf OS “DRY INK” Mint unhinged, full perfs, centred low, with Watermark misplaced. Cat. $600. Price $449 G67) Australia 1924 KGV 1d Pale Green Single wmk. mint block of 4. Lightly hinged on top 2 only. Very fresh showing “Dry Ink” ACSC 77Ac, and undocumented variety “Emu Laying Egg” on top left stamp. Spectacular! Cat. $500 as single stamps without the variety. Price $399 G139) Australia 1924 KGV 1d Green No Wmk, Top marginal mint block of 4 lightly hinged. Showing Spectacular double and misperfs in margin! Double perfs. Listed only as used for this, ACSC 79b Cat. $250 for a single stamp, this stretches across the whole top margin over 2 stamps. $500 as single stamps used, Price $399 G233) Australia 1924 KGV 1d green no wmk punctured ‘OS’ ACSC 79ba, quite well centred FU. Price $79 G72) Australia 1924 3d KGV Pale dull violet blue, single wmk Die 1 ACSC 104B. Mint block of 4, lightly hinged on 3. Light overall gum toning, centred left. Cat. $195, price $135 G77) Australia KGV 1924 3d blue Single wmk corner block of 4, lower left unit variety ‘Retouched SE corner’ BW104q, lower units including the variety are MUH. Price: $295 G234) Australia 1926 1d green KGV SM wmk P13½ x 12½ vertical pair variety ‘Inverted wmk’ ACSC 81a, advertised retail $200, Good used. Price $129 G235) Australia 1926 KGV 1d green die II SM wmk P13½ ACSC 81(1)i commercially FU. Price $49 ML454) Australia 1926 Small multiple wmk P14 1½d red Mullett imprint pair, R/H unit with variety ‘ST of Postage joined’ ACSC91(4)za (pair) Mint hinged, price $39 ML455) Australia 1926 1.5d Rose Red KGV SMW Perf 14 ACSC 91, 4 top right singles (One missing R/H selvedge) showing plates dots 1,2,3 7 4. Fresh mint unhinged. ACSC 91. Price $100 ML466) Australia 1926 Small multiple wmk P14 1½d red plate 2 dots block of 4, ACSC 91(2)z, upper units MUH, side selvedge re-attached with hinges, price $60 ML452) Australia 1926 3d Blue KGV Perf 14 smw, type B. Mint unhinged lower marginal with part Mullet imprint. Light gum bend does not detract. ACSC 106B Cat. $125, price $59 ML444) Australia 1927 Small multiple wmk Perf 14 1d green part Mullett imprint block of 4
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BUY OR BID SALE DECEMBER 2018 with varieties ‘RA joined’ & ‘Ferns’ ACSC 80A (4) ia & j, the two r/h units with two small faint gum tone spots, otherwise fresh MUH. Catalogued $200+ for hinged, double this for MUH. Well centred with good perfs, price $149 ML431) Australia 1927 KGV Small Mult watermark P14 2d brown Ash imprint pair faked ‘OS’ puncture, mint lightly hinged. If genuine cat. $1000 as single stamps. Price $50 G71) Australia 1926 3d KGV Blue, sml. Multi wmk. Perf 14, Die 1a. ACSC 106A. Top right mint lightly hinged marginal block of 4, horiz. pairs are types B – A , A – A. Centred high with good perfs. Cat. $325, price $225 G264) Australia 1927 1/4d Turquoise KGV smw. SG 93 Perf. 14 Mullett Imprint Pair. Stamps are fresh mint unhinged, with light hinge mark in selvedge only. Very fresh with full perfs. Imprint block of 4 cat. $4000 for hinged, unhinged stamps cat. $1250 each. Price $2350 G119) Australia 1927 1/4d Turquoise KGV smw. SG 93 Perf. 14 cto. Full perf. example without gum, centred left. Cat. $300. Price $145 G160) Australia 1926 KGV 1d green SM wmk P13½ pair punctured ‘OS’ r/h unit with unlisted variety ‘White dot between P and E of Penny’ ACSC 81ba (var) MLH. Price $19 G237) Australia 1928 KGV 1d green die II SM wmk P13½ x 12½ ACSC 81(1)i, centred to upper left, commercially FU. Price $39 G167) Australia 1929 KGV 3d blue die II SM P13.5 x 12.5 Ash imprint pair Mint. Price: $100 ML461) Australia 1929 Small multiple wmk P13½ x 12½ 4d olive Ash imprint pair ACSC 116(3) z (pair), some areas of flat gum and toning, but appears mint unhinged. Block of 4 hinged cat. $300, price $50 G45) Australia 1930 KGV 2d golden scarlet die III SM P13.5 x 12.5 imprint strip of 4, hinged in gutter only Price: $75 ML432) Australia 1930 KGV Small Multiple watermark P13½ 1½d red-brown Ash imprint pair mint hinged, price $30 G265) Australia 1928 1/4d Turquoise KGV smw. Perf. 13.5 x 12.5 Ash Imprint Pair. Stamps are fresh mint unhinged, with light hinge mark in selvedge only. Selvedge gum is toned, stamps only mildly affected. Facially attractive with full perfs. Imprint block of 4 cat. $3250 for hinged, unhinged stamps cat. $875 each. Priced cheaply at $595. G221) Australia 1928 1/4d Turquoise KGV smw cto. Nice full perf example without gum, centred right. Cat. $100, price $59 G113) Australia 1931-32 KGV ½d orange to 3d blue C of A wmk MLH, mostly well centred. Price $34.50 G192) Australia 1932 KGV 1d green Ash imprint block C of A wmk ACSC 82z MLH. Price $39 G146) Australia 1931 KGV 1d Green C of A Wmk, mint unhinged block of 12 (3 x 4) with varieties “Dents in Bottom Frame” stamps 1/22, 28, 24 & 30. (Centre row of this block) ACSC82(1) da, db, dc & dd. Cat. $50 each as hinged, indicative pricing as unhinged block with these varieties is $600. Price $449 G147) Australia 1931 KGV 1d Green C of An INVERTED WMK, overprinted OS. Good used example centred top left, and with one natural perf. fault to right. Cancelled by light wavy line machine canceller. Cat. $2000, very rare, 1st I have owned or seen! Price $975 G238) Australia 1931 KGV 1d green C of A wmk punctured ‘OS’ wider setting from the ‘OS/ NSW’ perforating head with ‘NSW’ removed, scarce VFU. Price $49 G252) Australia 1931 KGV 2d Red, overprinted OS. Fine used cds example with unrecorded variety “Overprint misplaced to left” the O being well outside the frame at left. Similar misplacements on the 1d cat. $250 for mint hinged. This is thus far the only one found. Price $495 G109) Australia 1933 KGV 4d greenish-olive C of A wmk ACSC 117B, centred to the left, MUH. Price $37.50 G220) Australia 1932 1/4d Turquoise Blue, defective top frame and cross. Fresh mint unhinged, centred left. ACSC 131Bd. Indicative cat $1200. ($600 for the shade, and double for the variety) Very scarce stamp. Price $899 G208) Australia 1932 1/4d Turquoise KGV C of A wmk. Mint Unhinged. Post Office Fresh example with full perfs, centred right. ACSC 131A, cat. $375. Price $249 ML541) Australia 1932 1/4d Turquoise KGV C of A wmk. Mint Lightly Hinged. Full perfs, centred left. Has 2 slightly toned perfs at base. ACSC 131A, cat. $150. Priced very well at $39
G131) Australia 1933 4d olive pair, left unit with var ‘Roos tongue out’ BW117(4)e variety is MUH, Cat $90 as hinged, centred to left. Price: $100 Australia Pre-Decimal ML421) Australia 1914 6d engraved kookaburra centred high CTO without gum, price $36 APD64) Australia 1931 – 36 OS Overprints, complete set of all definitives and commemoratives, mostly cto. Includes the scarce Yellow Green of the 1/- Large Lyrebird. 16 stamps, nearly all cto examples. Price $449 BD782) Australia 1928 Kookaburra Minisheet, lower left corner example fresh mint very light hinge with nice variety, showing perfs not completely punched through along top. Price $295 APD147) Australia 1932 5/- Harbour Bridge, fine cto used. Price $265 ML436) 1932 1/- Lyrebird overprinted ‘OS’ horizontal pair good used with Perth GPO cds’s of 4AUG34. Price $60 ML437) Similar to above, slightly heavier cancellations, price $50 BD304) Australia 1934 MacArthur 2d Dark Hills 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 APD210) Australia 1934 MacArthur vertical block of six, each cancelled with central strike of Kolan South, Qld. Cds. of 20NOV34. Tiny tear at base of lower left stamp. Price $49 BD306/307) Australia 1934 – 40 Victoria Centenary P. 10.5, Sth. Australia Centenary & 1940 AIF all in mint unhinged complete sets. (9) Retail $190, my price $115 the lot. APD53) Australia 1934 1/6d Hermes, mint unhinged, part imprint example. Post Office Fresh, and with full perfs. Hard to better. ACSC 161, cat. $125, price $110 APD207) Australia 1935 2d Red Anzac, fresh mint unhinged Gutter Pair, with double offset! Unlisted As such in ACSC. Price $395 APD196) Australia 1937 3d Greyish – Blue WHITE WATTLES mint unhinged block of 4. Shows a very high level of ink stripping, greater than usually seen. The inner frame breaks usually associated with this issue are not present. Cat. $1600 as single stamps, price $1125 DB310) Australia 1937 2d Red NSW Sesqui, Man with Tail variety, commercially used. SG 19a cat. £140. Price $129 APD154) AUSTRALIA 1938 Australia KGVI 2d Red stamp “MEDALLION” FLAW” nice commercially used, with normal for comparison. Cat $250, cheap at $75 APD188) Australia 1938 3d Blue Die II Thick paper Ash Imprint Block. Fresh mint unhinged, (light hinge in left selvedge only. Well centred with full perfs. Cat. $375, price $265 APD194) Australia 1938 3d Blue Die II Thick paper Ash Imprint Block. Mint lightly hinged, centred high with full perfs. Cat. $225, price $125 APD185) As above, but centre left. Price $125 APD192) Australia 1938 3d Blue Die II Thin paper Ash Imprint Block. Mint lightly hinged, well centred and full perfs. Has perf pip at base. Cat. $275, price $189 APD37) Australia 1941 – 44 2d Mauve KGVI Coil Join Strip with weak print/ink stripping. Mint unhinged coil strip of 4 showing weak print/ink stripping to 2nd stamp at base. ACSC 109bd (pair) Price $149 APD224) Australia 1942 ½d orange kangaroo, coil join strip of 4. Centre two units are unhinged. Price $49 APD208) Australia 1942 1½d Green Queen Elizabeth Massive Misperf gutter marginal example, fresh mint unhinged. Has wide left margin and then the full gutter selvedge and showing portion of the stamp adjoin gutter at left. Not the same as the similar item listed at $325 as ACSC 226bb. Possibly unique, price $450 APD145) Australia 1948 Robes Thin paper set 5/- - £1 fresh mint unhinged. 10/- is top right corner marginal. Melbourne retail $235, price $195 APD58) Australia 1949 Arms High Values 5/- - Two Pounds, fresh mint unhinged. Post Office Fresh, mint unhinged, Well centred set with full perfs usual retail $250, Price $189 APD221) Australia 1949 Arms High Values 10/- - Two Pounds overprinted Specimen. Fresh
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BUY OR BID SALE DECEMBER 2018 mint lightly hinged, with severely under-inked overprint to top of £2. Well centred set with full perfs. Nice variety, price $325 ML544) Australia 1959 QEII 5d blue coil perf block of 4 CTO without gum, advertised retail $125, price $79 Australia pre-decimal Full Sheets etc. AFS2) Australia 1937 1d Green QE Die 1 ACSC 181A, Gutter block of 100 with 23mm gutter, fresh mint unhinged. Yields Gutter Imprint block of 4, plus 8 gutter pairs. Min. cat. $360, price $179 AFS2a) As above 2d Red KGVI ACSC 187A. For some reason ACSC does not price Gutter pairs as per the 1d above or the Gutter Imprint! Cat. ought to be exactly as above. Price $179 AFS2b) As above, both blocks $349 AFS7) Australia 1947 1d Slate Purple Princess Elizabeth. ACSC 245A. Complete FLUSH PERF sheet of 160. The flush perf at right comes only from sheets issued in the 1st Month, and is RARE! Yields Gutter Imprint block of 8, plus 5 x flush perf blocks of 4 at right of sheet, plus perf. pip gutter block of 8 at left of sheet. Also flush perf Imprint block at right bottom corner. Cat. $1100 plus, price $825 AFS6) Australia 1953 Produce Food 3d Green. ACSC 287/8/9. Complete fresh mint unhinged sheet of 100. Has varieties 287d) retouch in front of roped leg of 2nd cow, 287f ) White spot after Australia. 289b, perf pip gutter block of 4 and 289y) White flaw in Tablet left of 3d. Sheet yields 6 x blocks of 9 plus 6 x horizontal strips of 3. Cat. price = approx. $340. Price $249 AFS6a) As above 3.5d Red sheet, ACSC 290/1/2. Shows all retouches 290 Types 1 – 12, also 292d, colour spur at top of “B” of Beef. Min. Also Perf pip gutter block at right. Cat. Approx. $730, price $549 AFS6b) As above, both sheets, price $759. Save $39 APD206) Australia 1954 3½d Red Cross. Vertical lower corner strip of 3 with misplaced cross on all units misplaced into blue area. ACSC 312c Cat. $150 per stamp for mint or used. This item is MNG. Price $225 AFS4) Australia 1957 10d Grey Blue QEII. Complete fresh Mint Unhinged sheet of 160, less bottom right block of 4. Includes perf. pip block 8 at top, plus variety e, upper portion of inner left frame recut, right pane R1/1. Minimum cat. $216, price $159 AFS5a) As above, but right sheet, without varieties. Has Autotron block top left. Minimum cat. $179, price $135 AFS5b) As above both sheets L & R. Price $310, save $20 Australian Cinderellas C6) 1919 Ross Smith reproduction blue on cream sheetlet of 4, this style previously unseen by us MUH. Price $100 Exhibition sheets etc. APD74) WAPEX 1954 centenary exhibition card bearing reproductions of the 1st 3 WA stamps in original colours. Cancelled by Green Exhibition cancel of 6 AU. 1954. Attractive item. Price $19.95 (9 available) APD75) As above but uncancelled, price $9.50 Postage Dues Australia Decimal AD16) Australia 1966 Decimal Specimens Pack, 1c - $4. Values to 50c being cto with unhinged gum plus Navigators 75c - $4 Ovpt. “Specimen” mint unhinged. The 75c & $1 being the rarer 15mm overprint. These two cat. Cat. $330 alone. Supplied in APO Folder as issued. Superb quality Price $295 AD13) Australia 1966 Decimal Navigators Ovpt. “Specimen” mint unhinged. The 75c & $1 being the rarer 15mm overprint. Cat. $330. Superb quality perfectly centred and perfect perfs! Price $265 AD3) Australia 1966 4c Red QEII. Mint unhinged top right block of 10 with spectacular preprinting paper crease to corner block of 4. Price $325 AD9) Australia 1966 50c Dampier, plate 2 block of 4. Fresh mint unhinged, plate No.at right.
Cat. $275 in 2002. Price $249 (2 available) AD2) Australia 1967 5c Blue QEII, plate 3 block of 20 from base of sheet (10 x 2) Hinged only in selvedge. Also with Plate Pip at left. Very fresh and well centred. Cat. $1000 for a block of 4, in 2002 ACSC. Rare as a large block, price $895 AD5) Australia 1970 7c Coil, Sturt’s Desert Pea strip of 4 mint unhinged with Missing Buff colour. SG 468b, bb. Cat. £900 (£225 each) ACSC 535 ce, cat $300 each in 2002. Rare multiple, ex Simon Dunkerley, supplied with RSPS Victoria Certificate, signed Geoff Kellow. Price $1100 AD1) Australia 1971 7c Purple QEII Spectacular Misperf Block of 40, from sheet D, left of sheet, with selvedges. Nicely written up on album page. Perfs misplaced dramatically to top left so that it appears imperf. horizontally and almost so vertically. Each stamp, apart from the bottom 4 showing part of the stamp below. Lightly hinged in selvedge only. Has 5 varieties, annotated on the album page, all of which appear unrecorded. Details on request. misperfs of this magnitude are rare, and usually catalogue in the order of $150 per stamp, as per. The 1956 4d No Wmk Koala. Would easily break down for re-sale into 10 blocks of 4 and could sell for $400 a block, possibly more for those with varieties. Estimated catalogue value $6000, price $1995 AD8) Australia 1973 7c Sydney Harbour Bridge. Lower left block of 25 mint unhinged. Has numerous background flaws with varying degrees of registration shift and areas of missing colour. This results in a colour shift of the light blue to the right and doubling of lettering at base on all stamps. Listed as misplaced light blue as ACSC 653cb. Could be broken down into smaller blocks for re-sale. Supplied with normal for comparison. Cat. $100 per stamp in 2002 = $2500, price $1495 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 AD4) Australia 1981 24c Thylacine, stunning misperf block of 30 from left hand corner of sheet (3 x 10) Affects lower 2 rows, as illustrated in ACSC decimals vol. 2 page 9/566. ACSC 902bb, type 1. Fresh mint unhinged. Cat. $500 in 2002. Price $475 AD85) Australia 2014 Banjo Paterson, Bush Ballads special Imperf. booklet with 6 different imperf. blocks/minisheets. No. 250 of 250 overprinted in Gold “2014 National Exhibitions”. The Imperfs. were only issued thus, so only 250 of each can exist. Price $200 Australia Postal History, Inc. 1st Day and Exhibition Covers For Queensland Provisional Registration Label Covers, see Queensland under Australian States DB477) Australia 1914 small cover bearing 2.5d Indigo Kangaroo 1st wmk, franked by machine cancel cds of Sydney DE22 1914 to Beverley, Mass. USA. Neat & clean typed address cover. Price $110 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 APH596) Australia 1915 KGV 1d carmine punctured ‘OS’ ACSC 71bb on Customs ‘OHMS’ postcard, central horizontal bend. Price $24.50 APH594) Australia 1915 KGV 1d carmine punctured ‘OS’ on 1916 blue Customs ‘OHMS’ cover. Price $34.50 APH595) Australia 1915 KGV 1d carmine punctured ‘OS’ on Customs ‘OHMS’ postcard. Price $34.50 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 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 APH593) Australia 1920 KGV 2d orange punctured ‘OS’ on ‘Commonwealth of Australia/Customs and Excise, Melbourne’ 1921 postcard. Price $49
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BUY OR BID SALE DECEMBER 2018 APH91) Australia 1922 Registered Cover Sydney – Longueville MSE. Bears 4d Blue Cooke Printing & 1d Violet KGV. Cancelled by Sydney cds of 8 JY 22, and with red Sydney registered “Rat’s tail” label No. 7735. Opened roughly at left, and light vertical filing crease does not affect the adhesives. Clean and attractive with typed address. Price $115 NO36) Australia 1923 6d Chestnut 3rd wmk. Kangaroo, on small registered 1925 cover Footscray Vic. to Chicago with Red Reg. label No. 3290. Cancelled by Footscray cds of 6 JA 25 and Melbourne Registered backstamp of the following day plus USA arrival cds’s of 14th, 17th and 18th February 1925. Scarce and attractive cover, the stamp being cat. At $150 for solo use. Priced very reasonably at $119 APH428) Australia 1925 OHMS Postcard with 1d green No wmk KGV perf. OS. Cancelled by Melbourne cds of 21MY 1925 from the Secretary to the Dept. of Public Health to the Shire of Minhamite ( The Shire of Minhamite was a local government area located about 270 kilometres (168 mi) west of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of 1,365.62 square kilometres (527.3 sq mi), and existed from 1871 until 1994.) card is in pristine condition. Stamp catalogues as a single on cover at $400, but this is pretty academic since very few are in existence. Price $645 APH561) Australia 1929 3d Kookaburra Horizontal Pair on small Airmail cover to Orange, N.J. USA. Cancelled by Brisbane Machine Cancel of 16 APR 1929 and endorsed by red manuscript “via Charleville” and with Charleville cds of the following day on reverse. This cover was flown on the inaugural Qantas Brisbane – Charleville flight, and then onwards to the USA. These covers are rare without the Vignette, and any non-internal destinations are rare. Multiples of the 3d Kookaburra on cover are equally rare. Cat. in the AAMC as 133aa from $200. Price $179 M3) Australia 1930 Magnificent Airmail Cover Perth – Yalbalgo Station, Carnarvon, with cds of Perth 4NO30 bearing strip of 3 x 5d KGV Small Multi Wmk, and 2 x halfpenny orange to make 1/4d Airmail rate. Very scarce cover, we sold a similar item recently for $395. This one $349 APH598) Australia 1931 Registered Long Airmail Canberra – San Francisco. Bears 2 x 9d SMW Kangaroos plus 3d Green Airmail one 9d & the 3d cancelled by cds’s of Canberra F.C.T. 25 MR 31 and with Blue Canberra N.S.W. reg’n label No. 940. A further 9d was added later to increase to the Airmail rate on top of the Red Crayon Line and is cancelled by a Sydney registered cds of the following day. Reverse has Sydney Reg’d cds of the following day and San Francisco Violet Reg’d cds of APR 16 1931. A long time for Airmail even in those days, presumably awaiting a flight, or sent Surface. Odd toned perf. and 3d has a blunt lower right corner. The 9d is cat. $350 alone on cover. Neat typewritten cover. Rare! Price $395. APH438) Australia 1931 Bushells Fremantle small advertising window envelope. Bears 1d green KGV smw. Perf. 13.5 x 12.5. Cancelled by Perth 3 wavy line slogan of 6 NOV 1931 “ADDRESS MAIL TO/P.O. BOX No./IT EXPEDITES DELIVERY” Price $29 MJL6) Australia 23 AP 31 Experimental Airmail cover Registered Melbourne to Westmorland UK. Bear full set of Kingsford Smith, plus 3d Airmail and 1/4d Turquoise KGV smw perf 13.5 x 12.5. The 1/4d cat $400 on cover. Neat and clean with nice vignettes and cachet. Cheap price $179 APH102) Australia 1931 Kingsford Smith set on small plain FDC to India, addressed to Rev. H. Westropp, East India Railways, Jamalpore and re-addressed to Jhapha (Jhapha is a Village in Bochahan Block in Muzaffarpur District of Bihar State, India) Cancelled by Sydney cds of 19MR31 and with arrival cds of Jhapha 7 APR 31. Small tape repair at right and very minor tear at top, not affecting stamps. Rare survivor! Price $279 MM36) Australia 1931 Airmail Cover, Carnarvon, WA to Yalbalgo Station Carnarvon. These covers are highly sought after. Yalbalgo is one of the largest sheep stations in WA, and the mail must have been delivered by aircraft. This cover bears 6d & 1/- Kangaroos, plus 3d KGV all with small multiple wmk, Perf 13.5 x 12.5. The 1/- is cat. $250 on cover, and the 6d at $150. Nice clean, fresh item. We sold a similar cover recently for $395, this one is just as nice, price $349 APH227) Australia small registered surface mail cover to Czechoslovakia. Bears 1d Green C of A wmk KGV plus 2d & 3d Vic. Centenary perf 11.5 to make correct registered rate of 6d. Cancelled by Sydney registered cds’s of 24OC34 and with Prague arrival cds’s of 25.XI.34. Scarce destination and usage. Price $85 APH31) Australia 1934 small airmail envelope bearing 2d Light Hills & 9d MacArthur to Burnley, Lancashire. Cancelled by Melbourne 3 line Slogan of 16 NOV 1934 “VICTORIA AND - CITY OF MELBOURNE - CENTENARY 1934 – 5” Appears to underpay the airmail 1/6d rate by 7d. No reverse markings. 9d MacArthur alone on cover is cat. $400. Price $279
APH243) Australia 1935 small airmail/seamail advertising cover for Swift & Co. Sydney, to Glasgow. Bears 3d MacArthur plus 1d Green & 2d KGV C of A. Cancelled by Airmail cds’s of Sydney 7FE35. Typed address and also endorsed “ Per Adelaide – Perth Air Mail to connect with/R.M.S. “ORMONDE” At Fremantle” Reverse has the address of Swift & Company Ltd. In bold black type on reverse. No arrival markings. Unusual. Price $75 APH226) Australia 1935 small airmail cover to Czechoslovakia via Athens. Bears 1/6d Hermes No Wmk. & 3d 1935 Jubilee. Cancelled by Melbourne Ship Mailroom cds of 10SE35 and arrival cds’s of Athens 21 IX 35 and Prague 24.IX.35. Clean and neat with typed address. Scarce destination. Price $120 APH228) Australia 1935 small airmail hand addressed cover to Czechoslovakia via Athens. Bears 1/6d no wmk. Hermes and 3d Blue Vict. Centenary perf. 10.5. Cancelled by cds’s of Air Mail Brisbane 12SE35. Revers has arrival cds’s of Athens 21.IX.35 and Prague 1.X.35. Scarce destination. Price $75 SE26) Australia 1936 Business sized envelope, trimmed at left, bearing 1/4d & 1d KGV C of A wmk, cancelled by clean cds Ship Mail Room Melbourne, 9 SE 36, typewritten address to radio station in New York. The 1/4d cat. $300 on cover. Price $98 APH601) Australia 1936 long Airmail Tait Bros. cover to Germany. Bears irregular (1 x 3) block of 4 1/4d KGV Turquoise – Blue C of A wmk, plus 3d Blue KGV. The 1/4d cat. $300 alone on cover. Rare triple rate cover via Italy to Germany, travelled on QANTAS flight IW424 (left Brisbane March 4) was delayed Mar 9-10 with engine trouble at Akyab India. Neat typed addressed cover, very minor aging. Price $1150 APH224) Australia 1936 small typed address airmail cover to Germany, via Italy. Bears 1/6d no wmk. Hermes and 3d Blue Cable. Cancelled by cds’s of Sydney Airmail 19JE36. Neat and clean apart from 2 small pieces of adhesive tape remnants top and bottom. Price $45 APH248) Australia 1936 Small commercial airmail cover to Oxford UK, re-addressed to Wimbledon. Bears range of 6 stamps to make 1/7d to cover 1/6d Airmail & 1d late fee. Stamps are: KGV Halfpenny Orange, 1.5d Brown, 5d Chestnut, 6d 1932 Kookaburra, 3d Cable & 3d SA Centenary. All cancelled by Sydney Airmail cds’s of 4SE36. Attractive item, price $89 APH637) Australia 1939 Real Photograph Sepia Postcard of Koala, Milson’s Point NSW – East Malvern Vic. Bears 1½d Red-Brown KGVI cancelled by cds of Milson’s Point 22FE39. Neat & clean, scarce. Price $39 APH638) Australia 1939 Real Photograph Sepia Postcard of the Floral Clock at Taronga Zoo. Sydney – E. Malvern Vic. Bears 1½d Red-Brown KGVI cancelled by Sydney Slogan of 30 JUN 1939 “POST EARLY/EACH DAY”. Neat & clean, scarce. Price $39 MAP40) Australia 1939 Dual Reign small Airmail cover bearing 1/4d Turquoise KGV And 3d Blue Die II thick paper KGVI. Scarce combination to New York via England overpaid by 1d, cancelled by neat cds of WATSONS BAY NSW AUST 3AU39 stamps appear hurriedly applied and envelope a bit roughly opened, but a very scarce item indeed. 1/4d cat. on cover at $300 as the cheapest wmk (C of A) Price $249 JL73) Australia 1942 1.5d Green Queen Elizabeth on plain “Accidental” first day cover, Melbourne Machine cancel of 1 Dec 1942 to Burwood E.13. Vic. On small commercial envelope. Cat $800! Price $595 MM35) Australia 1945 (Mar) OHMS Dept. of Air Redirected Cover to RAAF HQ Prahran. From Group 10 Darwin to Officer In Charge Records RAAF Headquarters Prahran Vic then cancelled and inscribed D. Manning with 5½d indigo Duke and Duchess of Gloucester with CDS “”AIR FORCE P.O./8MR45/NO. 20” and 3 x indistinct CDS “AUSTRALIA/??” with reverse inscribed “PEACE 1945” and “2½ SURCHARGE” Nice military/aviation item. Price $79 SE40) Australia, Thursday Is. 1951 Airmail cover to Trinidad from Bowden Pearling Co, Thursday Is., to a Yacht, “Seven Seas II” c/o the US Consul in Port of Spain. Bears 2 x 9d Platypus & a 4d Koala, making 1/10d, possibly 1d overpaid? Cancelled by Thursday Is. Cds 24 AP 51, and with arrival SLOGAN “Save Precious Water” and cds on reverse, Port of Spain 14 MAY 1951 and company name and address on flap. There is a fascinating book “Life on the Water” depicting the life of a Pearl Fisherman in the Torres Straights who worked for the Bowden Pearling Co. More info here: http://aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/files/products/book/life-blong HYPERLINK “http://kevinmorgan.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ef5592b552f2cd8f06c2fa7a5&id =7537b443ae&e=5d20335325”-sample.pdf A scarce and attractive cover, price $159
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BUY OR BID SALE DECEMBER 2018 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 APH186) Australia 1952. Pictorial view folder of Tasmania, sent Hobart – Camperdown NSW. Bears 5½d Emu & 3½d Sideface KGVI cancelled by slightly smudged cds of Hobart 9JU52. Pays the 9d ½oz to 1oz letter rate. Nice combination, price $29 APH599) Australia 1955 long airmail Taxed cover, Sydney – Wanganella. Bears 3d & 3½d QEII cancelled by Sydney 2 line slogan “VISIT YOUR SCHOOLS/EDUCATION WEEK” of 5 AG 1955, ALSO WITH VIOLET BOXED 1/5d TAX, and block of 6 (3 x 2) and a pair of 2d plus 1d Redrawn C of A Dues, cancelled cds’s of Wanganella 10 AU 55. Attractive cover, part flap removed. Not priced in ACSC on cover. Worth an absolute fortune if wmk. Inverted! Price $149 APH148) Australia 1956 Olympics on Christmas card size Airmail cover to Jersey. Underpaid by 1/-, and cancelled by cds of Enquiry Counter Launceston, Tas. 28NO56. (They should have known better!) Superb Exhibition item for usage or Olympics theme. Price $265 APH192) Australia 1957 small surface mail cover, Parramatta, NSW to Miami Beach, Florida USA. Bears 7½d Blue KGVI cancelled by slogan of Parramatta “SEND MONEY/BY POSTAL NOTE/ OR MONEY ORDER” dated 9 JAN 1957. Neat & clean with typewritten address. Very late use for this stamp. Price $29 APH191) Australia 1958 Certified Mail cover, Melbourne – Tighe’s Hill NSW. Bears 7½d QEII, plus ½d no wmk orange Kangaroo & Horiz. Pr. 1d QEII to make 3½d letter rate & 6½d Certified fee. Bears red certified label No. 978402 which is type 2, A Picket Style 1956. Rated R2. Neat typed address label. Interesting make up rate. Price $39 APH518) Australia 1965 small surface mail cover to Sweden. Bears solo use of 8d Tiger Cat cancelled by Sydney 5 line slogan of 25 NOV 1965 “PLEASE POST/EARLY/BEFORE LUNCH &/ BEFORE /FOUR O’CLOCK” Scarce destination, and the 8d surface rate is little seen after about 1963. Price $29 APH164) Australia 1965 small airmail cover to UK. Bears solo use 2/3d ICY cancelled by Salisbury SA cds of 5OC65. Very rare solo usage, cat $75, price $69 AFD700) Australia 1966 4c Red QEII booklet pane “Registered Post is Safest for your Gifts” complete with top selvedge on Wesley FDC, addressed by small label to cover producer J. M. Gower. Presumably he did not produce booklet panes himself, and this was by arrangement with Wesley Cover Service. Cancelled by Cocos (Keeling) Is. Cds’s of 14FE66. Rare item, never previously seen by us. Price $295 APH600) Australia 1966 small well - travelled Christmas card with letter in small Airmail envelope to Canada. Bears 20c Golden Whistler cancelled by Sydney 4 line slogan of 18 DEC 1966 CHRISTMAS GREETINGS/FROM THE AUSTRALIAN/POST OFFICE. Has RTS finger is black, plus Sydney DLO Oval in Pink of 8MAR 1967, and again Sydney DLO, RTS finger in pink. Reverse has “Montreal slogan bilingually French& English “SPEED DELIVERY/USE APT. NUMBER” DATE NOT VISIBLE, but still 1966 at that point. Then undeliverable mail cds of Montreal dated JAN 16 (No Year!) and similar of Vancouver dated Feb 1 1967. Nice item! Price $59 APH189) Australia 1967 Greetings size envelope Sydney – Chiavari, Italy. Bears solo use of 50c Navigator cancelled by Sydney machine cancel of 15 DEC 1967, to pay double the 25c Airmail rate. A little aged and battle scarred, but quite attractive and a scarce rate. Price $29 MSP8) Australia 1969 Tourism Cover of Caloundra, Queensland, commercially used Moorabbin Victoria 21 NOV 69 to Switzerland franked 15c Timber and the 1969 set of 3 x 5c Flight as singles. All of these stamps are scarce on cover, we recently sold a solo use of the 15c Timber for $119. Price $129 APH168) Australia 1970 Small airmail cover to Switzerland. Bears 50c Navigator plus 7c Sugar and 3c QEII Coil to make 60c double rate. The first 2 stamps cancelled Perth 5 line slogan of 23FEB 1970 “SENDERS ADDRESS/ON BACK OF ENVELOPE/ENSURES/PROMPT RETURN OF/UNDELIVERABLE ARTICLES” (You don’t say! ) Coil stamp was uncancelled and has been cancelled by GPO Sydney cds, date unclear. All 3 of these stamps are scarce on commercial cover, to find them together is remarkable. Price $129 APH167) Australia 1970 small airmail cover to Switzerland. Bears 20c Expo & horiz. Pair of 5c
Royal Visit to make correct 30c rate, perhaps they ran out of the 30c Royal Visit 3 days after issue! Cancelled by Royal Visit slogan of Perth 2 APR 1970. 20c Expo is rare on commercial cover. Price $129 APH515) Australia 1970 AMAZING SPECIAL DELIVERY COVER. Commercial Airmail Special Delivery Cover, Pyrmont NSW – Finland. Kauko Australia Advertising cover to Parent Company in Helsinki. Bears 30c Cook, plus 2 x 20c Expo & 10c Anenome Fish for correct Special Delivery rate. Cancelled by cds’s of Pyrmont 20MY70 and with Helsinki receiving cds on reverse of 25-5.70. Also bears red rectangular Special Delivery Labels both back & front. Rare cover, price $149 APH84) Australia 1970 20c Expo on small cover to Ireland, with 10c Anenome Fish to make correct rate of 30c. Cancelled by 5 line Adelaide slogan of 3 JULY 1970 “ SENDERS ADDRESS/ ON BACK OF ENVELOPE/ENSURES/PROMPT RETURN OF/UNDELIVERABLE ARTICLES” (You don’t say! ) The 20c is virtually impossible to find on commercial cover. Price $129 APH610) Australia 1971 small airmail Rotary advertising cover to USA. Bears 24c RSPCA plus 5c Ports and Harbours and 1c QEII to make correct 30c rate, cancelled by Alderley Qld. Cds’s of 24NO71. Rotary Club of Brisbane North advertising cover to Rotary International at Evanston, Illinois. Scarce. Make up rate, the 24c being rare on cover. Price $95 APH642) Australia 1972 small airmail cover to Portugal, to passenger aboard SS Fairstar. Bears 35c solo use of 35c Aboriginal art, grave posts cancelled by Melbourne slogan cancel of 10 APR 1972 (Slogan unclear) Original correspondence enclosed, proving commercial usage. Clean and neat. Rare destination, Price $33 APH640) Australia 1972 small Airmail cover to the UK. Bears solo use of the 35c Beef, cancelled by Blackburn Vic. Slogan of 20 JUN 1972 “PLEASE POST/ Early/BEFORE LUNCH/ AND BEFORE/FOUR O’CLOCK” original correspondence enclosed, proving commercial usage. Opened a little roughly at top with part of flap missing. Rare solo use. Price $33 APH644) Australia 1972 small Airmail cover to the UK. Bears solo use of the 35c Beef, cancelled by North Brighton Vic. cds of 25 JY 1972 original correspondence enclosed, proving commercial usage. Opened a little roughly at top. Rare solo use. Price $39 APH646) Australia 1972 small Airmail cover to the UK. Bears solo use of the 30c Fish, underpaying the airmail rate by 5c. Untaxed and Cancelled by Perth machine cancel, date illegible but original correspondence enclosed dated 11 Nov. 72, proving commercial usage. Clean and neatly opened at top. Rare solo use. Price $89 APH639) Australia 1972 small Airmail cover to the UK. Bears 30C Fish and 5c Pioneer Life to make 35c airmail rate, Cancelled by Camberwell Vic. Slogan of 16 DEC 1972 1972 “PLEASE POST/ Early/BEFORE LUNCH/AND BEFORE/FOUR O’CLOCK” original correspondence enclosed, proving commercial usage. Net and clean. Scarce combination, Price $33 APH643) Australia 1972 small Airmail cover to the UK. Bears 20c Fruit plus 15c Pioneer Life to make 35c airmail rate, cancelled by Brighton Vic. Slogan “CHECK ADDRESS/IF INCORRECT/ ADVISE WRITER” of 24 NOV 1972. Original correspondence enclosed proving commercial usage. Roughly opened at top and a few tone spots to left, stamps unaffected. Scarce usage of the 20c Fruit. Price $63 APH423) Australia 1972 Returned to sender Airmail cover Melbourne – Paris. Bears 2 x 15c & 5c Pioneer life to make up correct 35c Airmail rate. Addressed to a hotel, and the guest had clearly already checked out. Scarce frankings, the 5c cat. $15 and the 15c $10 each on cover in the now 16 year old ACSC. Cancelled by Melbourne slogan 19 DEC 1972, plus a cds of the following day on the otherwise unfranked 5c. Bears boxed instructional marking and manuscript “Retour a l’envoyeur” (Return to the sender) Very attractive cover, price $75 MY38) Australia Northern Territory. Darwin to Finland Registered letter MR 6 73 serviced with $1.21 via an NCR label in red. These are becoming quite popular as they are rare to find. See Rod Perry’s column in May Stamp News. Price $42 APH641) Australia 1973 small Airmail cover to the UK. Bears solo use of the 35c Olympics. Cancelled by South Yarra Vic. Slogan “HAPPINESS IS/SUPPORT FOR/St. VINCENT’S” of 28 JNE 1973. Original correspondence enclosed proving commercial usage. Clean and neatly opened at top. Rare solo use. Price $79 APH488) Australia OVERSEAS AIRMAIL EXPRESS DELIVERY ILLUSTRATED ADVERTISING COVER FOR STANWELL BRIAR PIPES. Bears pair of 20c & 35c Aboriginal Art cancelled by Sydney cds of 13.7.73 to Denmark. Copenhagen receiving cds of 19.7.73 on reverse. Also bears red rectangular Overseas Express Delivery Labels both back & front. Both are scarce stamps on cover. Price $69
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BUY OR BID SALE DECEMBER 2018 APH645) Australia 1973 small Airmail cover to the UK. Bears solo use of the 35c National Development, cancelled by Melbourne Slogan “CORRECT ADDRESSING/SAVES US/GUESSING” of 21 AUG 1973. Original correspondence enclosed proving commercial usage. Clean and neatly opened at top. Rare solo use. Price $89 APH268) Australia 1974 Small Messenger Delivery cover Harbord NSW – Parkville Vic. Bears 7c Gemstone & 50c Pioneer Life cancelled by cds of Harbord 7MR74 and rectangular orange Messenger Delivery Label. Contains original correspondence. Roughly opened at back. Price $29 APH511) Australia 1974 Commercial Airmail Overseas Express Special Delivery Cover, Sydney – Finland. From Kauko Australia to Parent Company in Kilo. Bears $1 Navigator plus 10c & 60c Pioneer life for correct Express Special Delivery rate. Cancelled by cds’s of GPO Sydney 7JE74 and with Helsinki receiving cds on reverse of 13-6.74 and Kilo of the same day. Also bears red rectangular Overseas Express Delivery Labels both back & front. All are scarce stamps on cover. cover, price $119 APH465) Australia 1975? Messenger delivery Advertising Airmail Cover, Qld – Vic. Bears $1 1974 Painting solo use cancelled by heavier cds of Alderley Qld. 13MR7(5?) to Mordialloc Vic. Solo usage of the $1 on domestic mail is scarce. Price $79 APH169) Australia 1976? Small advertising cover for “The Australian Wine Research Institute” Glen Osmond SA to Cowandilla SA. Remarkable franking of 1c, 2c & 5 cx 3c Crabs to make 18c rate. Cancelled by Adelaide machine cancel of 6 APR, year not visible, but assumed 1976. Envelope has been folded centrally and affects the 2c and 1 x 3c stamps. Rare survivor. Price $39 CLB231) Australia 1976 small cover to Bendigo Vic. Bears National Stamp Week single 18c stamp, ACSC 754c ex minisheet. Very rare commercial use, cancelled by ineptly worded 5 line slogan of Ashburton Vic. 5 NOV 1976 “PLEASE POST/EARLY/BEFORE LUNCH &/BEFORE FOUR O’CLOCK” (Must be one of those stamp dealer types they are aiming at, as I often do not lunch before 4pm!) Cat. $20 on cover in 16 year old ACSC Decimals cat. Price $29 CLB8) Australia 1976 small cover to East Oil, Essendon Vic. Bears National Stamp Week single 18c stamp, ACSC 754ca ex minisheet. Very rare commercial use, cancelled by 3 line slogan of Blackburn Vic. 31 OCT 1976 “POSTING QUANTITY/ OF MAIL? USE A /POSTAGE IMPRINT” Cat. $20 on cover in 16 year old ACSC Decimals cat. Price $29 APH422) Australia 1980 Waltzing Matilda Strip of 5 Commercial Airmail cover to UK. Cancelled by Janalli NSW cds’s of 2JE80. The strip is not listed by ACSC on cover, but the now 16 year old cover lists domestically used singles at $5 each. This is incredibly scarce. Price $75 APH481) Australia 1983 Small airmail cover to Finland. Bears 1c Living Together, 39c Australian National Gallery and 70c Australia Cricket. Cancelled by CDS of Kingsgrove NSW 17 MR 83. Scarce destination. Price: $29 APH179) Australia 1986 Security Post Cover, Broadway Qld – National Australia Bank Perth. Bears $5 Mentone & 5c Angler Fish cancelled by cds of Broadway 28 JAN 1986 and with Stafford Qld. Mail Centre h/stamp in Violet on reverse. Also GPO Perth receiving cds of 30 JAN. Price $29 APH83) Australia 1987 Small Airmail Cover to Belgium. Bears 80c Wildflowers booklet pane, plus 20c Bird, Little Grebe. Neat and rare commercial usage of this booklet pane. Price $54 APH145) Australia 1987 $10 Tom Roberts painting used on Aust. Post parcel tag. Cancelled by Ocean Grove Victoria cds of 28FE87. Solo usage of this stamp on cover is non-existent, so this is the only way you are going to have a chance of finding it. A must for usage collectors, price $249 APH517) Australia 1988 Airmail cover to Finland. Bears solo use 63c Living Together (Police) cancelled by Brisbane Slogan for Expo 88 of 8 APR 1988. Overpays the 60c Airmail rate by 3c. Rare usage for this stamp. Price $59 APH92) Australia 1988 Small Security Post Cover Wamuran Qld. – Preston Vic. Bears 2 x strips of 3 $1 1988 plus 5c & 10c Living Together on reverse. Cancelled by cds’s of Wamuran 2 NO88 and Stafford Mail Centre in Violet on reverse of the same date. Preston Mail Centre receiving cds on reverse of the following day. Would have contained stamps as is from dealer Jerry Blair, nevertheless a commercial mailing. Price $29 APH463) Australia 1991(?) Small Economy Air Cover to Denmark. Bears 43c Siege of Tobruk & Women’s Wartime Service plus 4c Living Together to make the Zone 5 90c Economy Air Rate. Cancelled by cds of Greensborough Vic, date unclear. The Economy Air letter service was hardly used, and covers are scarce. Price $49
APH462) Australia 1991 Economy Air Hallmark Greeting Card Cover to Denmark. Bears solo use 80c Living Together Cancelled by Bendigo North Circular Handstamp of 25 NOV 1991. The Economy Air service was very underused, and this is underpaying the correct Zone 5 rate by 10c. Very scarce usage for this stamp, price $59 M7) Australia 2000 Olympics Athletics PNC. Very scarce, and cat. $120. Price $95 Inwards Mail APH67) Netherlands Indies 1934 First Flight Cover to Royal Netherlands Airlines, Sydney. Bears 15c Blue Wilhelmina & 30c on 40c Red Airmail tied by Batavia cds of 20.10.34 and Abel Tasman special Diamond cancel of 22 OCT 1934 tying Blue Triangular Airmail 30c. Sydney Airmail Section arrival machine cancel of 26 OCT 1934 on reverse flap. Also Melbourne 19 Handstamp of 24.OC.34 and Royal Dutch Airways Oval in Blue of the same stamp. Carried as part of the official mail on the MacRobertson Air Race. Listed as AAMC 446. Price $79 Australian States PM30M) 100 mixed Australian States, unpicked for watermarks, postmarks, varieties or shades. Values to 6d, great value at under $1 per stamp. Not all are perfect but you will find some nice stamps. Price $95 PM30N) As above but 200 stamps, values to 9d, price $195 PM30P) As above but 400 stamps values to 1/-, price $389 New South Wales NSW17) New South Wales UPU presentation cto set of 23 values Halfpenny Grey to One pound Blue Carrington. All with typical NSW oval cancel, mint without gum, as is usually found. Very attractive lot. Price $795 NSW5) New South Wales 1850 3d Yellow Green Sydney Views SG 39. Very fine used example with 3 huge margins, just into at top left. Fresh bright colour, lightish barred cancel. Cat. £325, price $389 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 NSW3) New South Wales 1885 Queen Victoria 1d Scarlet OS Official SG034 on OHMS Cover. Dept. of lands cover Sydney to Molong cancelled by Sydney NSW Duplex of MR 2 85, plus Yullundry NSW cds (Scarce) of the same date on face. Reverse has Molong NSW cds of MR 3 1885. Stamp cat. £7.50 from x 20 on cover. Top corners have been slightly trimmed diagonally. Price $149 NSW45) NSW 1888 Centenary 1d mauve perf 11 x 12 overprinted ‘OS’ SG O39b, gutter corner block of 36 with ‘Postage – One Penny’’ marginal inscription, most stamps are MUH. Fresh, very attractive multiple. Price $480 NSW44) NSW 1888 Centenary 2d Prussian blue perf 12 overprinted ‘OS’ SG O40a, gutter corner block of 18 with Monograms & ‘GPO NSW’ marginal inscriptions, very lightly hinged on four units in the top row, others MUH, some usual minor gum wrinkles, another very attractive multiple. Price $775 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 SA9) S.A. 1906-12 6d blue-green ‘Long Tom’ punctured ‘SA’ on 1943 piece with KGV SM wmk P13½ x 12½ 1½d red, tied by 1943 ‘STOCK EXCHANGE ADELAIDE’ cds, very late usage for both stamps, scarce and unusual. Price $29
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BUY OR BID SALE DECEMBER 2018 Queensland Q3) Queensland 1860 1d Carmine-Rose, Imperf. SG 1. Fine 4 margin example showing part of adjoining stamp at right. Cancelled by Qld. Oval Handstamp. Supplied with Brandon Certificate. As nice as you will see. Cat. £800, price $995 Q6) Queensland 1871 20/- Rose Chalon Head wmk Crown over Q, SG F23, postally used. Fault free stamp misperfed to left and showing part of adjoining stamp at right. Cancelled by cds of JA 15 80, town not visible. Cat £600, price $749 Q13) Queensland 1907 QV large Chalons 10/- brown litho perf 12 2004 ACSC Q60A, cat $150, with ‘Socked on the nose’ Brisbane? cds, most attractive, FU. Price $99 Q12) Queensland 1905 QV large Chalons £1 deep green litho perf 12½, 13 2004 ACSC Q63, cat $250, with ‘Socked on the nose’ Brisbane? cds, most attractive, FU. Price $179 APH118) Australia 1931 (Oct) Registered Cover Rockmount Helidon (Scarce) Qld to Ipswich. Registered Cover with red crayon cross front and back and Provisional Registration Label “R.6/R/NO. 47” with “ROCKMOUNT” in pen in blank space and addressed to Messrs Cribb & Foote, Ipswich Queensland (Department Store) with one 1d green and pair 2d red King George V sideface stamps with cancellation “HELIDON/29OC31?/ QUEENSLAND” front and rear and “IPSWICH/6-P29OC31/ QUEENSLAND” (Note: No CDS for “ROCKMOUNT”) “HELIDON” SCARCE POST MARK. Price: $89.50 APH125) Australia 1931 (Jul) Registered Cover Dappil Qld (Rated 2R) to Ipswich. Registered Cover with partial red pencil cross front and rear and blue and black on white Provisional Registration Label “R.6/R/NO. 359” and mauve pencil manuscript “DAPPIL” in blank space provided and addressed to Cribb & Foote Ipswich Qld (Department Store) with three 2d red King George V stamps cancelled very faintly “D???/???/QUEENSLAND” then over-cancelled “IPSWICH/-2JL31/QUEENSLAND” and backstamped “DAPPILL-1JL31/QUEENSLAND”, “T.P.O. NO. ? S&W.R/UP2JL 31/QUEENSLAND”, “MARYBOROUGH/1JL31/QUEENSLAND” and “IPSWICH/10-A 2JY31/QUEENSLAND”. “DAPPIL” rated “2R” Dell & Price 2014. Flap torn open. Price: $89.50 APH126) Australia 1931 (Jul) Registered Cover Dareel Qld (Rated 3R Smithies) to Ipswich. Registered Cover with red pencil cross front and rear and blue and black on white Provisional Registration Label “R.6./R/NO. 146” and pencil manuscript (faint) DAREEL) addressed to Cribb & Foote (Department Store) Ipswich Qld with one orange ½d, one green 1d and two red 2d King George V stamps cancelled “DAREEL/-8 JL 31/QUEENSLAND” and backstamped “TOOWOOMBA/9-A-9JL31/QUEENSLAND” and “IPSWICH/6-P 9JY31/QUEENSLAND”. “DAREEL” rated “3R” by Smithies. Price: $89.50 APH129) Australia 1931 (Feb) Registered Cover Maclagan Qld (Rated SCARCE) to Ipswich. Registered Cover with red crayon cross front and rear and blue and black on white Provisional Registration Label “R.6/R/NO. 426” and black CDS “MACLAGAN” in blank space addressed to Cribb & Foote Ipswich with one 1d green and two 2d red King George V stamps cancelled “MACLAGAN/26FE31/QUEENSLAND” on front and backstamped “JONDARYN/26FE31/ QUEENSLAND”, “TOOWOOMBA/5-P27FE31/QUEENSLAND” and “IPSWICH/12-P28FE31/ QUEENSLAND”. “MACLAGAN” rated “SCARCE”. Price: $89.50 APH135) Australia 1931 (Jul) Registered Cover Iveragh Qld (Scarce) to Ipswich Qld. Registered Cover Without Red or Blue Cross with blue and black on white Provisional Registration Label “R.6/R/ NO. 325” and pencil manuscript “IVERAGH” in blank space and one 5d chestnut King George V stamp cancelled “IVERAGH/6JL31/QUEENSLAND” (Rated SCARCE) and addressed to Cribb & Foote (Department Store) Ipswich Qld. with backstamps “T.P.O. NO. 7 S.&W R/UP-7-JY?31/QUEENSLAND” (7b Rated SCARCE), “GLADSTONE/-6JL31/QUEENSLAND”, “REGISTERED/7 A 7JY31/BRISBANE” and “IPSWICH/10-A 7 JY31/QUEENSLAND”. Stamp torn at top missing SW. Price: $89.50 APH136) Australia 1931 (Feb) Registered Cover Leyburn Qld to Ipswich Qld. Registered Cover with red pencil cross front and rear and blue and black on white Provisional Registration Label “R.6/R/NO 438” and pen manuscript “LEYBURN” in blank space and addressed to Cribb & Foote, Universal Providers Ipswich Qld with one 3d blue and one 2d red King George V stamps cancelled “LEYBURN/6FE31/QUEENSLAND” on front and rear and backstamps “CLIFTON/7FE31/QUEENSLAND” and “IPSWICH/6-P 7FE31/QUEENSLAND”. Flap torn. Price: $89.50 APH138) Australia 1931 (Oct) Registered Cover Kulpi (Rated “S”) Qld to Ipswich Qld. Registered Cover with red pencil cross front and rear and blue and black on white Provisional Registration Label “R.6/R/NO. 52” and pencil manuscript “KULPI” in blank space provided and addressed to Cribb & Foote, Universal Providers, Ipswich with one blue 3d and 0ne red
2d King George V stamps cancelled “KULPI/26OC31/QUEENSLAND front and rear and backstamped “TOOWOOMBA/1-P26OC31/QUEENSLAND” and “IPSWICH/6-P26OC31/QUEENSLAND”. “KULPI” rated “SCARCE” Dell & Price 2014. 3d blue stamp part SE corner missing. Price: $89.50 APH143) Australia 1931 (Apr) Registered Cover Gradule Qld (Rated “S”) to Ipswich. Registered Cover with red pencil cross front and rear and blue and black on white Provisional Registration Label “R.6/R/NO. 106” and blank space - No “GRADULE” - and addressed to Cribb & Foote Merchants Ipswich with one 2d rose-red Kingsford Smith and one 3d blue King George V stamps cancelled “GRADULE/8 AP 31/QUEENSLAND” and backstamped “REGISTERED BRISBANE/230P-9AP31/QUEENSLAND” and “IPSWICH/6-P 9AP31/QUEENSLAND”. SE corner of 3d stamp missing. Price: $89.50 APH119) Australia 1932 (Feb) Registered Cover Lowmead Queensland to Ipswich VARIETY. Registered Cover with red crayon cross front and rear and blue on white Provisional Registration Label “R.6/R/NO. 65” and pencil manuscript “LOWMEAD” in blank space and addressed to Cribb & Foote (Department Store) Ipswich Queensland with one 1d green and joined pair 2d red King George V stamps cancelled “LOWMEAD/-1 FE 32/QUEENSLAND” front and rear (multiple) and additional backstamps “IPSWICH/3-P 3FE32/QUEENSLAND” and “REGISTERED BRISBANE/10 A-3FE32/QUEENSLAND”. Possible unlisted VARIETY - 1d green KGV Cut In Roo`s Tail” Some marks. Price: $89.50 APH123) Australia 1932 (Feb) Registered Cover Mt Colliery Tannymorel Qld to Ipswich. Registered Cover with red pencil cross front and rear and with blue and black on white Provisional Registration Label “R.6/R/NO. 144” and red pen manuscript “MT COLLIERY” in bland space and addressed to Cribb & Foote Ipswich (Department Store) with two 2d red (right stamp missing NE corner) and one 1d green King George V stamps cancelled “TANNYMOREL/16.FEB 32/QUEENSLAND” on front and rear with backstamp “IPSWICH/6-P17FE32/QUEENSLAND”. No “MT. COLLIERY” CDS. Repaired tears some marks. Price: $89.50 APH139) Australia 1932 (Feb) Near Toowoomba Qld to Ipswich. Registered Cover with red pencil cross front and rear and blue and black on white Provisional Registration Label “R.6/R/NO. 286” with pencil manuscript “RISAL????” (Indistinct) and addressed to Cribbe & Foot (Department Store) Ipswich Queensland with one 2d red and one 3d blue King George stamps cancelled “TOOWOOMBA/1-P 10FE32/QUEENSLAND” front and rear with backstamp “IPSWICH/8-P10FE32/QUEENSLAND”. Minor marks front and rear. Price: $89.50 APH124) Australia 1935 (Aug) Registered Cover Mt. Gravatt Qld to Brisbane. Registered Cover with red pencil cross front and rear and blue on white Provisional Registration Label “R.6/R/ NO. 190” and pen manuscript “MT GRAVATT” in blank space provided and addressed to The Commissioner Of Taxation, Brisbane” with one 1d green and one 4d lemon King George V stamps cancelled “MOUNT GRAVATT/19AU35/QUEENSLAND” front and rear and backstamp “REGISTERED/1 30P19AU35/BRISBANE” with remnants of black was seal. Price: $89.50 APH142) Australia 1935 (Jun) Registered Cover Grandchester Qld to Brisbane. Registered Cover with red pencil cross front and rear and blue on white Provisional Registration Label “R.6/R/NO. 84” with pencil manuscript “GRANDCHESTER/Q” in blank space provided and addressed to The Commissioner of Taxes, Brisbane with one 5d chestnut King George V stamp cancelled “GRANDCHESTER/10JE35/QUEENSLAND” front and rear and backstamped “REGISTERED/830P10JU35/BRISBANE”. Price: $89.50 APH121) Australia 1936 (Sep) Registered Cover Mount Ossa (Scarce) to Brisbane. Registered Cover (NO REGISTRATION LABEL) with red crayon/pencil cross front and rear and red manuscript “R.30” with pen manuscript “MOUNT OSSA” addressed to Mr. H. Magee, Commissioner of Taxes, Taxation Department George & Elizabeth Sts., Brisbane with 5d chestnut King George V stamp cancelled “MT. OSSA/30 SE 36/QLD” front and rear and backstamps “MACKAY/30 SEP 36/QUEENSLAND” and “REGISTERED BRISBANE/7 30A - 2 OC 36/QUEENSLAND”. “MT OSSA” Postmark rated SCARCE. Opened two sides minor marks tears. Price: $89.50 APH130) Australia 1936 (Mar) Registered Cover Maroon Qld (Rated “R”) to Brisbane. Pre-printed Addressed Cover with red pencil cross front and rear and blue on white Provisional Registration Label “R.6/R/NO. 57” and pen manuscript “MAROON” with pre-printed T. W. Griffiths Lucky Golden Casket Agent Brisbane and one green 1d and two red 2d King George V stamps cancelled “MAROON/5MR36/QUEENSLAND front and rear and backstamped “BOONAH/-5MR36/ QUEENSLAND” and “REGISTERED BRISBANE/830P?-5MR36/QUEENSLAND”. “MAROON” Rated “R” Dell & Price 2014. Two tears on front left and right of stamps. Price: $89.50
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BUY OR BID SALE DECEMBER 2018 APH131) Australia 1936 (Dec) Registered Cover Kogan Qld to Brisbane. Cover with red pencil cross front and rear and blue on white Provisional Registration Label “R.6/R/NO. 054” and pen manuscript “KOGAN/QLD” in blank space provided and addressed to Lambs (Drapers) Brisbane with one 5d chestnut King George V stamp cancelled “KOGAN/26DE36/QUEENSLAND” front and rear with backstamp “REGISTERED/830P28DE36/BRISBANE”. Price: $89.50 APH140) Australia 1936 (Aug) Registered Cover Woodstock (Rated SCARCE) Qld to Brisbane. Registered Cover with red pen cross front and rear along with two colour blue on white incomplete Provisional Registration Label “R.6/R/NO. 31” without Town Name and addressed to Commissioner of Taxes, Brisbane with one 1d green King George V stamp and pair 2d red Silver Jubilee stamps cancelled “WOODSTOCK/31 AU 1935/QUEENSLAND” (“WOODSTOCK” Rated SCARCE - Dell & Price 2014) and backstamps “REGISTERED/31 AUG 35/TOWNSVILLE” and “REGISTERED/730A-3SE35/BRISBANE”. Cover torn and repaired. Price: $89.50 APH128) Australia 1938 (May) Registered Cover Whitewood (Rated SCARCE) to Brisbane. Registered Cover with red pencil cross front and rear and blue on pink Provisional Registration Label “R.6/R/255” and pencil manuscript “WHITEWOOD” in blank space provided addressed to Spurgins Tobacconist Brisbane with 5d chestnut King George V stamp cancelled “WHITEWOOD/30AP38” front and rear and backstamped “REGISTERED/3-MAY 38/TOWNSVILLE” and “REGISTERED BRISBANE/730A-5MY38/QUEENSLAND”. “WHITEWOOD” rated SCARCE Dell & Price 2014. Minor stains marks. Price: $89.50 APH133) Australia 1938 (Oct) Registered Cover North Arm (Scarce) Queensland to Brisbane. Registered Cover with red pencil cross front and back and with Provisional Registration Label “R.6/R/NO. 269” and pen manuscript “NORTH ARM” in blank space and addressed to Edwards & Lamb, Drapers Etc (sic), Queen Street Brisbane with 5d brown King George V stamp cancelled “NORTH ARM/16?OC38/QUEENSLAND” and backstamped “REGISTERED/8 30P26OC38/ BRISBANE”. Slight foxing minor marks. SCARCE POST MARK. Price: $89.50 APH134) Australia 1939 (Mar) Registered Cover Kyoomba (2R) Qld to Brisbane VARIETY. Registered Cover with red pencil cross front and rear and blue on white Provisional Registration Label “R.6/R/NO. 084” and pen manuscript, “KYOOMBA” written above border with cover addressed to Messrs Lambs Pty, Queen St., Brisbane (Drapery Store) with 5d chestnut King George V stamp (Unlisted VARIETY - Broken frame behind roo) cancelled “KYOOMBA/15MR39/ QUEENSLAND” front and rear and backstamped “REGISTERED/8 30 A 16 MR 39/BRISBANE”. “KYOOMBA” rated 2R. Price: $89.50 Tasmania T38) Tasmania 1853 1d Blue Courier SG2. 4 margin example early printing with all lines distinct. Cancelled by light barred numeral 68 of Perth, Tasmania. Tiny thin has at some stage been carefully repaired. Cat. £1500, cheap at $695 T51) Tasmania 1853 1d blue Courier thin hard white paper SG4, four margins, upper right corner missing, large part OG with hinge remains, cat £11,000 for sound. Price $999 T46) Tasmania 1853 4d orange second state of plate SG 8, three margins, touching at top, shows part of printers imprint at base FU. Price $395 T52) Tasmania 1853 4d orange second state of plate SG 8, cut to shape on small piece tied by barred numeral ‘60’ of Hobart, used. Price $69 T48) Tasmania 1853 4d pale orange second state of plate SG 9, four margins, three large, close at top, overall soiling and some oxidisation, good used. Price $179 T49) Tasmania 1853 4d pale orange second state of plate SG 9, four margins, close at top, small nick at base FU. Price $179 T47) Tasmania 1853 4d pale orange second state of plate SG 9, four margins, close at top and left, good used. Price $395 T45) Tasmania 1853 4d orange course engraving SG 10, three margins, touching at left, barred numeral ‘64’ of Hobart, unusually vibrant colour FU. Price $395 T50) Tasmania 1853 4d orange second state of plate but showing less wear than usual, SG 8, horizontal pair, four margins, small fault in central margin at top, scarce and attractive multiple with two strikes of an unclear barred numeral cancel which appears to be 56 of Spring Bay (R) , cat £900 as singles, used. Price $795 T19) TASMANIA 1853 QV Courier 4d Plate 1 on Folded Letter RARE! 1853 QV Courier 4d Bright
Brownish - Orange, plate 1 Early State (pos 8), on folded letter with contents, tied by barred numeral “59” pmk, with “Launceston 21 NO 1853” cds & crown “15 FE 15” b/s. VF, stamp cut square with near 4 margins (just touched at top) SG 6 cat £1300 & “from x 5” on cover. Very attractive & rare early usage in month of issue. Price $7950 T71) Tasmania 1857 4d Bright Blue Imperf. Chalon, OFFSET SG38. Not believed to be the rare SG38a (printed both sides) but a complete and strong offset of the design. Good 3 margin example cancelled by barred numeral 60 of Launceston. Price $495 T70) Tasmania 1871 1d Rose SG 144, mint original gum, MISPERF. Fresh mint hinged with 4mm misperf. at top, showing “ONE PENNY” both at top and bottom of stamp, resulting in a much larger stamp than normal. Misperfs. To this extent are rare. Price $149 T33) Tasmania 1963-80 10/- Salmon George & Dragon postal fiscal SG 17, postally used. Cancelled by cds of West ? JY 3 00. Full perfs, centred top right. Cat. £180, price $225 T25) Tasmania 1894 Registered Postal Stationery Envelope to Württemberg Germany. Uprated by 2.5d on 9d Pale Blue Sideface, SG168. Cat. £4.25, for used, and from X 15 on cover. Has Hobart Rectangular registered h/stamp No. 0911 in Violet, and is cancelled by Hobart Duplex of AP 4 94, and with transit cds of Bologna 11 MAG 94 (May) and arrival at ULM Bahnhof (Station) the following day. Scarce and fine attractive cover. Price $235 MAP39) Tasmania pair of KEVII Newspaper wrappers in denominations Halfpenny Green and penny Salmon unaddressed and each cto Hobart 29 JAN 06 for the UPU distribution. Fine and scarce Commonwealth period items. Maximum 400 produced. Price $235 T23) Tasmania 1910 small Union Bank of Australia cover to Boston USA. Bears 2d Dull Bluish Violet, line perf. 12.4 (ACSC 36A), cancelled by cds of Launceston dated 4- NO.10. Also bears 2c Deep Red USA Postage Due cancelled by oval double ring BOSTON USA h/stamp together with straight line “DUE 2 CENTS’, T h/stamp, & manuscript T10c. Reverse flap bears the colourless embossed Britannia with Wheatsheaf & Kangaroo, the logo of the Union Bank. Nice item worthy of further research. Price $49 Victoria LM73) Victoria 1857 small cover to London, bearing 6d Dull Orange Woodblock SG 32a. Cancelled by barred numeral 1 of Melbourne and with red paid cds of 9 MY 1857. Reverse bears oval Melbourne Handstamp of MY 14 1857. Sent “per European via Suez” Stamp is fine 4 margin with tiny fault at top left. Reverse has oval imprint on flap “Sladen & Martin, Geelong, Solicitors” Clean and attractive, price $179 LM85) Victoria 1857 small entire to Manchester UK, bearing 6d Dull Orange Woodblock SG 32a. Cancelled by barred numeral 1 of Melbourne and with red paid Liverpool “Tombstone” handstamp of JU 6 1857. Reverse bears oval Melbourne Handstamp of JA 30 1857, and square LIVERPOOL SHIP arrival handstamp of JU 6 1857, plus Manchester arrival cds of the same date. Sent “per South Carolina” Stamp is fine 4 margin. Reverse has oval imprint on flap “Sladen & Martin, Geelong, Solicitors” Neat, clean and attractive, price $189 BD311) Arms VICTORIA 1879-1900 STAMP DUTY One Pound Orange, pale shade cto with gum, centred left. Price $125 V60) Victoria 1884 – 96 4/- Orange Stamp Duty perf. 12, SG 238a. Complete row of double perfs at base, and wmk. inverted instead of sideways! Fresh mint lightly hinged, minor perf faults at base. Cat. £170 as normal. Price $295 V81) Victoria 1887 – 1902 Six Large Square Stamp Duties inc. Violet Penalty Paid, Carmine on Yellow Instrument Duly Stamped, Blue- Grey on Yellow Instrument Not Chargeable, Collector of Imposts Blue on Pink and Carmine on Pink plus Registrar of Titles Red on Yellow. All neat manuscript cancels and with small pinholes as is usual. Scarce assembly rarely seen as a lot. Elsmore cat. $900, price $725 V82) Victoria 1887 £5 - £9 Long Type Stamp Duties set of 5 neat manuscript used with small pinholes as usual. Elsmore Cat. $1250, price $875 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
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BUY OR BID SALE DECEMBER 2018 cds of NO 21 92. Additionally blue crayon manuscript “Not known as addressed” Fascinating item. Price $210 V69) Victoria 1897 Charity pair, SG 353/4, Fresh Light hinge. Price $175 V70) Victoria 1897 Charity pair, SG 353/4, Fresh Mint Unhinged. Hinged mint sells for $175, price $295 V53) Victoria 1897 Charity pair, SG 353/4, fine used. Each cancelled by neat unframed Skipton cds of MR 29 11. Nice late usage. Price $210 V55) Victoria 1897 Charity 1d Blue, SG 353, cto with gum, Melbourne NO 16 97. Fresh well centred with full perfs. Price $47.50 V100) Victoria 1901-12 5/- red & blue, watermark V over Crown perf 12½ and watermark Crown over A perf 11, fine cds used example of each. Price $39 V59) Victoria 1909 Sands & McDougall design 5/- Moss Green stamp duty in fresh mint unhinged block of 4. Few minor gum wrinkles, but still in exceptional condition. Rare block, price $329 MMY15) Victoria 1857 Entire in very fine condition, bearing 4d Imperf emblems - SG43 Early OHMS cover to Paymaster of Police Melbourne from Police Officer Horsham 6/4/57 with partial Horsham cancel on reverse, ands indistinct barred numeral tying the adhesive. Scarce and unusual, price $149 JL41) Victoria 1861 small cover bearing 4d perforated beaded oval SG 95 cancelled by indistinct barred numeral backstamp arrival cds in red Melbourne OC 5 61. To Major General Sir. Thomas Pratt, Sir Thomas Simson Pratt (1797 – 2 February 1879) was a British Army general. He served in the First Anglo-Chinese War (1839–1841), in India from 1843 to 1855 where he was deputy adjutant-general at Madras, and was Commander of the British Forces in Australia from 1856 to 1861. He was promoted to Lieutenant-General on 31 May 1865, and to full general eight years later. He was Commander of the British Forces in New Zealand from 1860 to 1861, and was on the Executive Council. He commanded during the First Taranaki War, but as he realised the doubtful validity of the Waitara Purchase (the main cause of the war), he disagreed with Governor Gore Browne, and his military action was ridiculed by the local settlers. He was created K.C.B. for his services in New Zealand by the British Government. He returned to Australia as Commander of the British Forces in Victoria, and in 1862 was appointed Colonel of the 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot, which he held until he retired in 1877. Great piece of military postal history, price $159 Western Australia WA76) Western Australia small selection of 14 with first design perf issues to 6d, 1885-1912 1/-, 1902-12 9d (2) & 2/-, 1906-12 1/- etc, all good to FU. Price $99 WA75) Western Australia small selection of 7 mint issues with 1872 3d, 1900 2½d, 1902-12 9d & 10d orange, 1906-12 6d, odd tone spot, mainly fresh. Price $79 WA74) Western Australia Postal Fiscals 1880 3d & 6d fine postally used. Price $39 WA77) Western Australia 1909. Two coloured picture postcards of the Avon and Swan rivers. Each bears 1d Carmine Swan, SG139b in slightly different shades, both cancelled by Perth machine cancel of JAN 1 1909, to different persons at the same address in Albert Park Vic. SG states this stamp from x 12 on cover. Price $96 the pair WA42) Western Australia 1912 usage of 2.5d Blue SG 114 on Advertising envelope for the German Club Fremantle, with German Eagle Coat of Arms on face, to Germany. Cancelled Fremantle machine cancel of 30.DEC.12. rare on cover, this is superb late use. Price $389 WA16) Western Australia 1909 2d Yellow Small Postal stationery envelope cancelled by Busselton cds of 6 – NOV 09 to Dr. Barnado’s Homes, London. London N.E. receiving cds on reverse of DE 6 09. Neat and clean, with central fold. Price $149 Australia Postal Stationery Envelopes APS1) 2d KGV violet star embossed cover commercially used to London UK. Rare and Probably Unique Vic cds. ACSC EP12. The Postal Stationery Catalogue page 196 states ‘the whole printing was cancelled-to-order with a Melbourne cds numbered 23 and dated 3 July 1916. The quantity required for UPU distribution was 378.’ And it also points out that ‘a single printing of 390 envelopes was delivered into stock on 29 June 1916 for purposes of distribution
to UPU members.’ So that leaves 12 envelopes unaccounted. This has to be one of those 12 covers. So, this is the only known postal use of this envelope. Did an office person just grab one from stock as it covered the postal rate of 1.5d to the UK ( plus late fee cost?) This is not CTO! Cancelled with Spencer St. Melbourne Late Fee cds of July 6 1916, 3 days later than the cto stock. The catalogue value for a CTO used is $300. A Printed to Private Order version of this envelope does exist - see ACSC Postal Stationery Catalogue page 268. Used price is $500. Price for this rarity $1650 APS36) Australia Postal stationery 1913-14 1d brownish-red Kangaroo die I lettercard ‘National Park NSW’ (unframed) ACSC LC14(92D). Price $49 APS37) Australia Postal stationery 1913 1d red Kangaroo wrapper ACSC W2, cat $150, some folds and general ageing. Price $99 APS39) Australia Postal stationery 1914 1d red Kangaroo die I on buff post card with Hobart cds ACSC P25. Price $37.50 APS34) Australia Postal stationery 1920 1½d red-brown KGV postcard on buff ACSC P52, some creasing at upper right. Price $29 Letter Cards 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. 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 Australian Territories BCOF11) 1947 BCOF set on plain FDC to Australian Infantry Sgt. In Japan. The 5/- is Thick Paper. ACSC J7y Cat. $1500, as opposed to the thin paper at $750. Neat typed address cover, just some very minor aging to a few perf. tips of 3 values. Price $695 ML442) Cocos (Keeling) Is. 1963 definitive set of 6 Mint/MUH (2/3d is MUH) Price $25 NI6) Norfolk Is. 3c QEII Coil, with strong offset on reverse, mint unhinged. Unlisted and rarely seen. Price $49 ML606) Norfolk Island 1995-2000 4 different Local Post booklets MUH ML606 Price $25 Great Britain 1d Blacks PB79) Great Britain 1840 1d Black on neat entire letter dated 21st July 1841. Sent to Whithorn, Scotland (Whithorn is a former royal burgh in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, about ten
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BUY OR BID SALE DECEMBER 2018 miles south of Wigtown) Lettered R-A and with 4 margins cancelled by a black Maltese Cross leaving the Queen’s profile clear. This is from plate 5, and shows confirming horiz. Guideline through the letters of value and the A square. Contains correspondence of a political nature. Cat. from £750 on cover. Price $895 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 me- 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 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 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 PB56) Great Britain 1840 1d Black exceptionally nice 4 margin example lettered S – A, from plate 2. Huge margin at top showing part of stamp above. Cancelled by neat Red Maltese Cross. Cat. £375. Price $595 PB57) Great Britain 1840 1d Black nice 4 even margin example lettered C – K, from plate 4. Cancelled by neat Red Maltese Cross. Cat. £375. Price $495 PB58) Great Britain 1840 1d Black nice 4 margin example (close a top right) lettered N – J, from plate 5. Cancelled by neat Red Maltese Cross. Cat. £375. Price $449 PB59) Great Britain 1840 1d Black nice 4 margin unplated example lettered C – C. Close at base. Cancelled by neat Red Maltese Cross. Cat. £375. Price $395 PB60) Great Britain 1840 1d Black nice 4 generous margined unplated example lettered M – G. Cancelled by neat central Black Maltese Cross. Cat. £375. Price $595 PB61) Great Britain 1840 1d Black nice 3 margin unplated example lettered K – B. Wide at right, just into at left. Cancelled by neat central Black Maltese Cross. Cat. £375. Price $295 PB62) GB 1840 Penny Black superb 4 margin unplated example on large envelope piece lettered B - K. Cancelled by neat full Red Maltese Cross. Additionally with “Godalmin” (Old spelling of Godalming) cds of DE 20 1840, and small red cds “F” of the following day. Highly attractive piece. Price $795
Great Britain other items GB123) Great Britain 1840 2d Deep Full Blue, SG 4. Attractive example with Black Maltese Cross Cancel. No margins and thinned, but still a great spacefiller of this rare shade. Lettered T – F. Cat. £1100, priced at only 5% of cat. $93.50 JL31) GB 1857 4d Rose Carmine, wmk large garter, no corner letters SG66 on entire with Barred numeral 27, London to Marseilles 24 MAR 1859, with arrival datestamps Calais and Paris both 25 Mars 59 and Marseilles, date unclear. Cat 210 pounds = $420 on cover, price $139 GB140) Great Britain 1858 1d Red Plate 104 in Horizontal Strip of 4 used on Piece lettered EN –NE to HN – NH. Nice multiple with light Duplex cancels. Price $49 JL32) GB 1867 3d Rose, SG 102 wmk spray plate 8 lettered TG on small entire London to Lyon with oval advertising cachet “ Louis Descrand & Co. London” cancelled by clean strike of duplex 88 of JU 25 72. Arrival stamps of Paris 26 Juin 72 and Lyon 27 Juin 72. Cat 110 pounds on cover = $220, price $69 GB163) Great Britain 1870 small folded cover London – Teignmouth, Devon. Bears 2d Blue plate 13, lettered FG – GF. Cancelled by London WC duplex of NO23 70. Light central fold. Cat. £75 price $45 JL37) GB 1873 3d Rose SG 143 wmk spray plate 15 lettered LB, from London EC, with duplex FE 10 82, and arrival cds of FE 12 82. No cachet. Price $32 JL35) GB 1873 3d Rose SG 143 wmk spray plate 15 lettered HB on small mourning envelope cancelled by London Duplex No. 1 of 26 SP 74 to Paris, with arrival cds of Calais 27 SEPT 74 and Paris on the same day. Neat and clean, cat 75 pounds on cover = $150, price $49 GB127) GB 1877 10/- Grey Green Telegraph Stamp, ovpt. “SPECIMEN” Fresh full perf. example without gum, centred low. Lettered E H. SG Spec. L235s. Type 9. Prepared for UPU presentation sets. Cat. “from . £360” Price $395 GB104) Great Britain 1883 2/6d Lilac on Blued Paper, SG 175, fresh mint cat. £6750. Beautiful well centred full perf. example. Lettered A – K, K – A. Price $2495 GB105) Great Britain 1883 10/- Ultramarine on Blued Paper, lettered H – I, I - HSG 177 average used. Good centring. One nibbed perf at right. Cat. £8250. Cheap at $1775 GB100) Great Britain 1883 5/- Rose on White Paper, SG 180, very fine used with nice London T.P.O. cds of JA 25 89. Cat. £250. Beautiful well centred full perf example lettered E – N, N – E. Price $129 GB99) Great Britain 1883 10/- Pale Ultramarine on White Paper, lettered C – I, I – C. SG 183a average used. Good centring and perfs. Cat. £550. Cheap at $92.50 GB138) Great Britain 1887 Jubilee 9d Purple & Blue SG 209. Post Office fresh mint unhinged, well centred & full perfs. Price $98 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 GB132) Great Britain 1912 – 1924 KGV Definitive control Nos. Singles and strips of 3, mint and used, both watermarks. Values to 5d on 2 Hagner pages. Attractive lot of 34 items. Price $149 MF41) GB 1948 Channel Islands Liberation set of 2 on neat printed Dealer first day cover. Very scarce to find in such fine condition. Price $37.50 NO21) GB 1951 rare cover and letter on Buckingham Palace stationery, bearing 4d 1951 Festival of Britain stamped and cancelled with Balmoral Castle cds of 8 SP 51, surface mail to Germany. Letter reads “Dear Sir, Princess Margaret desires me to thank you for your kind message of congratulations. It gives her Royal Highness great happiness to know that the thoughts and good wishes of so many people are with her on the occasion of her 21st birthday. Yours truly Olivia Mulholland, Lady in Waiting.” Price $159 GB155) Great Britain 1962 – 65 Commemorative Phosphor sets mint unhinged. Comprises NPY Lifeboat, Red Cross, Cable, FFH, Geographical, Lister, Salvation Army & ITU. SG Cat. £234. Very cheap at under a quarter cat. price. $92.50 British Empire and Commonwealth BC129) Bahamas 1954 Definitives SG 201/16, fresh Mint Unhinged. The £1 being top marginal example. Cat. £100, price $95 BC17) British Bechuanaland 1887 6d Reddish Purple SG 7. Overprint on Cape of Good Hope. Mint Hinged, full perfs. Centred low. Cat. £200, price $110
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Looking at New Zealand Royal Health Stamps 1950 & 1952 Princess Elizabeth gave birth to her first child, Prince Charles, in November 1948. The suggestion that the two of them be featured on a Health stamp came from Mr R S Phillips of Rangiora (a town in Canterbury, north of Christchurch). Permission was obtained from King George VI and James Berry was commissioned to design the stamp, based on Mr Phillips’ sketch. Various photographs were considered for use in the design but any existing photo would have shown Prince Charles as much younger than his actual age by the time the stamps were issued. Princess Elizabeth was therefore asked to sit for new photographs to be taken as late as possible before the stamp design was finalised. The photographs were taken by Marcus Adams Ltd. It was decided that photogravure would be the most suitable printing method to show the portraits to advantage and the contract was given to Harrison & Sons. The two stamps were printed from a single cylinder each with the cylinder number 1 being placed horizontally in the bottom selvedge. The sheets had 120 impressions in six rows of 20. Protective bumper bars on the leading edge
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of the cylinders printed a line running the length of the right selvedge. The sheet values were in the top right corner margin and arrows were printed in the centre of the top and bottom selvedges to assist in breaking up sheets. Each sheet was numbered in black in the bottom selvedge. A better grade of paper with 65% esparto replaced the coarse ‘Royal Cypher’ paper which had been used during the war years. The watermark was ‘NZ & star’. Some sheets of the first printing had been damaged by grit falling on the cylinders during reconstruction of the printing works. A small second printing was done to replace the damaged sheets. The paper of the second printing appears slightly thinner and some sheets had the watermark inverted when a reel of paper was incorrectly joined to the preceding reel. The perforations gauged 14 x 15. By 1951 a tour of Commonwealth countries, including New Zealand, by Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh had been planned for 1952. The Federation of Health Camps had been dedicated as a memorial to King George V following his death in 1936. For these two reasons it was considered appropriate that the designs of the 1952 Health stamps should feature Prince Charles and also Princess Anne, who had been born in August 1950. Photographs were again obtained from Marcus Adams Ltd and Harrison & Sons were again chosen to print the stamps by photogravure. Harrison also designed
Graeme Morriss the stamps since only standard inscriptions were required in addition to the portraits. In 1945 Health stamps had been approved for use to pay stamp duty on receipts and from 1947 to 1951 the stamps had been marked ‘Revenue’ as well as ‘Postage’. However, the stamps’ format was really too large for use on receipts so ‘Revenue’ was dropped from 1952. The sheet markings were the same as those on the 1950 issue, except that the cylinders were numbered 1 and 2 instead of both being numbered 1. In addition, three small round holes were punched in each of the top and bottom selvedges to fit over studs on the perforating machine, thus ensuring correct alignment of the perforations, which gauged 14 x 14¾. References: Catalogue of New Zealand Stamps, Auckland, Campbell Paterson, 1952 – . The Postage Stamps of New Zealand, vol. 4, Wellington, RPSNZ, 1964.
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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Lanzhou 2018 All-China Specialised Exhibition, 15-17 September The Lanzhou 2018 All-China Specialised Exhibition on Astrophilately was held from September 15 - 17 at Gansu Science and Technology Museum. This was the first national space philatelic exhibition held in China. Lanzhou is the capital and largest city of the Gansu Province in Northwest China. Located on the banks of the Yellow River, it is a key regional transportation hub, connecting areas further west by rail to the eastern half of the country. Historically, it was a major link on the Northern Silk Road. The Lanzhou Institute of Physics is the westernmost aerospace research facility in China and has contributed greatly to the development of China’s fast-growing aerospace industry. It was established in 1962 and is mainly engaged in providing satellite parts and products such as electric propulsion systems and space pressure vessels. The Institute also participates in developing new type of space payloads for use in satellites. The specialised national exhibition had exhibits from both Astrophilately and Thematics classes. There were 111 exhibits, shown in 453 frames. The exhibition was hosted by the All-China Philatelic Federation, the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China Gansu Provincial Committee, the China Philatelic Corporation, the Gansu Provincial Postal Administration, the China Post Group Corporation Gansu Branch and the Gansu Provincial Philatelic Association. Charles Bromser, the Chairperson of the FIP Astrophilately Section and Peter Suhadolc, the Chairperson of the FIP Thematic Philately Commission, were both invited to attend the exhibition. I was lucky enough to go along. (Figure 1) The opening ceremony on the morning of September 15
Figure 1 - Charles Bromser and Peter Suhadolc joined dignitaries including Yang Limin, president of All-China National Philatelic Federation, Li Peixing, deputy governor of Gansu, Li Yuzheng, deputy general manager of China Post Group Corporation, Xu Jianzhou, executive vice president of China National Philatelic Federation and representatives of various provincial and national philatelic associations on the stage for the opening.
Figure 2 - Dancers at the opening ceremony
Figure 3 - Commemorative postal card - 80 fen for domestic postage 54 - Stamp News
featured a wonderful performance of dancing and singing to music played on a Dunhuang Yun (a Chinese zither). The lyrics were from a poem “A Thousand Years of Flight”. The colourful dance expressed the essence of the old Chinese music and the Dunhuang murals, music and poetry. It reproduced the grandeur and splendour of ancient Chinese culture. (Figure 2)
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Figure 4 – 1st day Meter cancellation with exhibition logo
Figure 5 - The seminar room
Figure 6 - Australia Post booth in Macau
The exhibition was very well attended and enjoyed by the visitors. The aero-space industry in China is thriving with an average of thirty-five rocket launches each year. Since 2003, when they had their first manned space launch, the China Aero-Space Philatelic Network membership has grown to almost fifteen hundred. Most of the Astrophilately exhibits were naturally about the Chinese Space Programs. Their first astronaut, Yang Liwei, featured heavily. Some of this material can be seen in my article in the following pages. The topics of the Thematic exhibits were broader. The best exhibits that received a gold medal were: • From the beginning of space exploration to space mail • China Manned Space and Deep Space Exploration • China Space Mail • From the Natural to the Extraordinary - I am feather • Railway Track Special • Documentary Feature for a Wooden Sailboat On the opening day the China Post Group Corporation commemorated the exhibition with a postal card incorporating a space launch and Lanzhou City’s satellite and landmark buildings (Figure 3) and a special meter cancellation (Figure 4). In the afternoon of September 16, Charles Bromser and Peter Suhadolc gave seminars on current and proposed future exhibiting guidelines and exhibiting issues in Astrophilately and Thematics respectively. (Figure 5) Macao, 35th Asian International Stamp Exhibition. 2124th, September This was the first time that Macao has held an Asian International Stamp Exhibition. The exhibition was held at the Macao Venetian Convention and Exhibition Centre from 21st to 24th, September. Exhibits were restricted to traditional philately, postal history, postal stationery, thematic philately, youth philately, literature, one frame and modern philately. It was a successful exhibition with a large Australian participation. Australia had 1 Championship Class exhibit,13 multi-frame exhibits, 5 one frame exhibits and 5 literature entries. There was also 1 exhibit in the Grand Prix Class. We received two gold, seven large vermeil, three vermeil and one large silver medal. Our Champion Class exhibit was nominated for the Grand Prix d’Honneur. There were very good crowds at the exhibition every day. They looked at the exhibits and spent time at the 42 booths for foreign postal administrations, stamp dealers and local cultural / creative industries. The Post and Stamp News - 55
Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Telecommunications Bureau issued three unique stamp sets on the themes of authentic food, festivals, famous streets and landmarks. The three stamp designers, Leong Chi Hang, Lio Man Cheong and Ao Kuan Kin held autograph sessions for the public. Australia Post had a double-sized booth at the show. (Figure 6.) They had 4 reef-themed minisheets on sale and had special perforating machine (Figure 7), on which customers could perforate their own Barrier Reef sheetlet. (Figure 8.) The Awards Ceremony was held at the JW Marriott Macao. The winners of three prizes were announced as follows: Grand Prix d’ Honneur to Cheong Too Choi of Hong Kong for his exhibit Pre-Adhesive Postal History of Macau 1797 - 1864 (Figure 9.) The Grand Prix International was awarded to Vincent Ong of Singapore and the Grand Prix National to Jinsong Ding of China. The Flag Handover Ceremony for Singpex2019, the 36th Asian International Stamp Exhibition to be held in Singapore from July 31 – August 4, 2019, was conducted. (Figure 10.) The agreement for NZ 2020, a FIAP International Stamp Exhibition to be held in Auckland, New Zealand, from 19-22 March 2020 was signed. (Figure 11). China’s Manned Space Programme (Shenzhou) Astrophilately documents space flights and space related events with philatelic material. An important component is space mail flown aboard spacecraft into space and/or carried to space stations. Chinese manned space flight is a popular collecting area in Asia. The Chinese Postal Administration participates by producing commemorative items. It places some of these items the space craft prior to the launch. Chinese space mail usually has a few cancellations; the front of the cover shows the date that the mail was paced on board the craft by the China Postal Administration and the back
Figure 9 - Lau Wai Meng, the chairman of Macao 2018 Organizing Committee, and Tay Peng Hian, President of Federation Internationale de Philatelie, present the Grand Prix d’ Honneur to Cheong Too Choi 56 - Stamp News
Figure 7 - Australia Post perforating machine
Figure 8 - Australia Post Barrier reef sheetlet before perforation show the date when the mail was retrieved from the capsule. The launch and recovery date cancellations may also be shown. The Chinese National Space Bureau was formed in Beijing in June 1993. It developed a spacecraft called Shenzhou (Divine Craft), which relied on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft design. Like Soyuz, Shenzhou consists of three modules: • cylindrical rear service module contains instrumentation and the propulsion system • bell-shaped middle re-entry module carries the crew during launch and landing • cylindrical forward orbital module that carries scientific and military experiments Unlike Soyuz, the orbital module is capable of
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Figure 10 - Handover Ceremony for Singpex2019
Figure 12 - Shenzhou-5 - Space Mail. Front: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre 2003.10.6: Back: Beijing Aerospace City 2003.10.18
Figure 11 - Gary Brown (FIAP co-ordinator) and Stephen Chivers (President of the New Zealand Philatelic Federation) sign the NZ 2020 agreement independent flight, and on several Shenzhou missions the orbital module remained in orbit for several months after its separation from the re-entry module. The first four Shenzhou missions were unmanned test flights, launched over a three-year period, 1999–2002. On October 15, 2003, Shenzhou 5 carried the first Chinese astronaut, pilot Yang Liwei, 38, a lieutenant colonel in the People’s Liberation Army, on a 21-hour spaceflight. The spacecraft was atop a Long March 2F rocket blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the north western province of Gansu at about 9 a.m. local time. The flight made China the third nation to launch a manned spacecraft after Russia and the United States. When the Shenzhou capsule had carried Yang around Earth 14 times the capsule’s re-entry module was separated from the orbital module and re-entered the atmosphere where it floated down under a
parachute. It landed on the grasslands of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of north China at 6:23 a.m. October 16. The Shenzhou orbital module remained in space for six months to carry out automated research. Shenzhou-5 also carried 4,107 philatelic items that had been placed in the re-entry module before the flight on September 6 and October 6 at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre. They were removed, on October 18, 3 days after the landing, at Beijing Aerospace City. On October. 16, China National Post Administration issued a set of stamps entitled China’s First Manned Space Flight Succeeded. The 2 stamps with a face value of 0.8 and 2 yuan respectively, were named “Heroic Bearing” and “Successful Return”. (Figures 12 and 13) China launched its second manned spacecraft, Shenzhou 6 on October 12, 2005, from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre by CZ-2F rocket. The flight lasted five days and carried two astronauts, Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng. The mission aimed to master technology relating to a “multiperson and multi-day” orbital flight, as well as to carry out manned space-related scientific experiments and medical experiments. It returned on October 17, 2005 and landed in Inner Mongolia, Dorbod Qi. A total of 5,223 philatelic items were flown. Mail was placed on board on September 9, 2005 and retrieved on October 19, 2005. (Figure 14) Shenzhou-7 was launched on September 25, 2008, and carried three astronauts; commander Zhai Zhigang, Liu Stamp News - 57
Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Top left: Figure 13 - Shenzhou-5 - Space Mail. Front: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre 2003.9.6: Back: Beijing Aerospace City 2003.10.18 2nd Row Left: Figure 14 - Shenzhou-6 - Space Mail. Front: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre 2005.9.9: Back: Beijing Aerospace City 2005.10.19 2nd Row Right: Figure 15 - Shenzhou-7 - Space Mail. Front: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre 2008.9.22: Back: Beijing Aerospace City 2005.10.1 3rd Row Left: Figure 16 - Tiangong - Space Mail. Front: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre 2011.07.28: Back: Beijing Aerospace City 2013.06.28 3rd Row Right: Figure 17 - Shenzhou-8 - Space Mail. Front: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre 2011.10.02, 2011.11.01, 2011.11.02 and 2011.11.03: Back: Beijing Aerospace City 2011.11.17 and 2011.11:21
Boming and Jing Haipeng. Zhai and Lui made the first Chinese spacewalks. The re-entry module returned on September 28, 2008 and landed in Inner Mongolia, Dorbod Qi. 3,618 mail items were placed on board on September 22 and removed on October 1, 2008. (Figure 15) China launched the Tiangong 1 space station on September 29, 2011. The unmanned space station also carried 14,940 pieces of mail, which had been placed on board on July 28, 2011 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre. The mail was returned to Earth on board Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10. Mail was removed from the capsules on July 1, 2012 and June 28, 2013 respectively at Beijing Aerospace City. (Figure 16) An unmanned Shenzhou8 spacecraft was launched on November 1, 2011 from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre by CZ-2F rocket. It automatically docked with Tiangong 1 on November 3, 2011. Shenzhou-8 returned to Earth on November 17, 2011. It landed in Inner Mongolia, Dorbod Qi. Flown items were put into the cabin on October 2, 2011 at Jiuquan 58 - Stamp News
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Figure 18 - Shenzhou-9 - Space Mail. Front: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre 2012.6.6, 2012.6.16 and 2012.6.26: Back: Beijing Aerospace City 2012.6.29 and 2012.7.1 Figure 19 - Shenzhou-10 - Space Mail. Front: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre 2013.06.01 and 2013.6.21: Back: Beijing Aerospace City 2013.6.11, 2013.6.26 and 2013.06.28 Figure 20 - Shenzhou-11 - Space Mail. Front: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre 2016.10.10, 2016.10.17 and 2016.11.3: Back: Beijing Aerospace City 2016.11.18 and 2016.11.22 Satellite Launch Centre and removed November 21, 2011 at Beijing Aerospace City. A total of 66,666 items were flown. (Figure 17) The first manned mission to Tiangong 1 space station was Shenzhou-9, launched on June 16, 2012, and returned to Earth on June 29, 2012. The crew were: Jing Haipeng, commander, Liu Wang and Liu Yang, China’s first woman astronaut. They docked with the station on June 24 and undocked on June 28. On June 26 the three crew members received a call from China’s President, Hu Jintao from the Beijing Aerospace Control Centre. It carried 2,913 pieces of mail which had been put into the spacecraft on June 6, 2012 and removed from the capsule on July 1, 2012. (Figure 18) Shenzhou-10 launched on June 11, 2013 had a crew of three; Nie Haisheng, Zhang Xiaoguang and Wang Yaping. The mission carried out medical experiments and technical tests. On June 21 Wang Yaping delivered China’s first space lecture to students on Earth, about basic physics principles. The capsule returned on June 26, 2013. Shenzhou-10 was the final mission to Tiangong-1. The capsule was loaded up with 5,620 pieces of mail on June 1, 2013 and it was removed on June 28, 2013. (Figure 19) Shenzhou 11 was launched October 17, 2016. It was the 6th manned space mission, it docked with Tiangong-2 space lab, which had been launched on September 15, 2016. With a two-man crew: Jing Haipen and Chen Dong,
the spacecraft docked on October 18. The crew successfully landed after the 33-day mission on November 18, after undocking on November 17. It was the longest-ever space mission in the country. (Figure 20)Plans for the Shenzhou program include the assembly of a much larger space station, named Tianhe-1, around 2019. For more information about Astrophilately refer to https://astrophilately.club If you need any further information about the APF go to www.apf.org.au
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Market Matters How badly centred is BAD?! The funny thing about philately is that well centred stamps command a premium, and poor centred ones sell at a large discount. HOWEVER - quite appalling centering often sells for many times the well centred ones. Try explaining all that to a non-collector! I recently had a person drive over and sell me some very nice material. Some of the album pages were marked on back as belonging to “F. V. Thompson” in his own hand. One and the same Lieut-Colonel F.V. Thompson, of Sydney collector fame, in the pre-war era. None of this material had been on the market for 40 years at least, and contained some real gems. Among it was a wonderful page of South Australia stamps, with totally spectacular misperfs. It included the one shown in detail nearby, the very finest misperf example I have EVER seen from here. Superb condition 2d orange QV, with a neat central cds of “GAWL“Almost mathematically perfect centering!” ER - AU 31 : 82 - SA”. They had been on this one page for a half century at least, probably much longer, and I er he offers it intact, or breaks it down I am not decided it was a real shame to split them up. A sure, but some very striking material there, and Kangaroo stamp looking like this, would be a with impeccable provenance like “ex SladeFOUR figure piece. Slade” will make some lovely additions to future Indeed, I have NEVER seen an Australian collections I feel sure. one perforated this badly, with portions of all 4 stamps showing. The strip of 3 was also a crackNEW “Barred Numeral Cancellations Of er. Condition of the error stamps were very nice Victoria” it seemed on a spot check. A superb NEW edition of this brilliant Hugh Rod Perry saw it on stampboards.com, and Freeman work was released in November 2017, mentioned the SA page was in the distinctive and for the first time - in full colour! This huge copperplate handwriting of E.R. (“Ric”) Slade new book totally updates the opus original 421 Slade of Sydney, who had his outstanding Auspage work published by the Royal Philatelic Sotralia States collections offered in separate Harm- ciety of Victoria - fully 17 years back. er Catalogues in the late 1970s, that I bought That original venture was a ground-breaking much from, 40 years back. handbook, a really brilliant reference work, and “Stamp News” publisher Kevin Morgan I personally sold about a dozen cartons of that quickly bought the SA misperfs page, and wheth60 - Stamp News
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globally, and it has been sold out for quite some time now at RPSV, so the timing of this totally updated work is most opportune. The quite bizarre front cover design is a sketch of the unrecorded “121” numeral of Omeo, on a 1d “Half Length” drawn by collector Max
Melville. Why on earth a rough imaginary drawing, of a cancel no-one has ever seen was selected, instead of an existing rare cancel, is anyone’s guess! When images of lovely strikes of rare cancels - sometimes on cover were available, a very strange choice. The superb “607” numeral of Preston Vale on cover would fetch a pretty penny if it ever appeared on the market, as the numeral is rated “RRRRR” and may well be the only strike recorded. A fine front cover candidate! This new edition by Hugh Freeman, APR, published by Brusden White, updates the earlier work published by The Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria in 2001, and of course contains details of all the new discoveries made since, and with totally updated Victorian numeral cancel rarity ratings. Stamp News - 61
Market Matters Hugh’s herculean effort, via his global contacts, has succeeded in managing to illustrate actual strikes of near every different numeral obliterator, resulting in over 98% of all Victoria numeral cancels being shown in colour. The result is an indispensable reference for all collectors of this popular area. Near 500 large pages now. Quality hardbound, with Dust Jacket, this huge work comes in at near 500 pages in colour, on high quality Hi-Brite acid free archival grade paper stock - a 20% increase on the 420 pages of the inaugural Edition, showing just how many new illustrations have been added in the ensuing 17 years. This edition also has images of many of the vintage Post Offices Brand new Freeman “Victoria Cancels”, casebound. that used these cancels. Dr. Geoff Kellow is credited by Hugh in Many are sepia picassisting greatly with the images and layout, and ture postcards of these tiny offices with horses my thanks to Geoff also, for furnishing images and carts out the front of some etc! Very cool. Stampboards.com has long discussions and tables of most of the numeral cancels shown here. The originals submitted to him were often not of of all the State numeral postmarks at - tinyurl. high-resolution clarity, but they are all of actual com/VicNum 62 - Stamp News
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Some “RRRRR” strikes exist on cover.
strikes of course. That original book was issued at $A150 in 2001, when the cost of a First Class stamp was just 45¢, (now $1.50) so today’s $A190 retail is DARN good value, and unlike other sellers, I use SUPERB CTO franking protected under plastic, meaning shipping is “Free” essentially - handy to know, as heavy books are not cheap to mail Many VERY common Victoria 1d stamps have cancels that sell for many $100s - indeed $1,000s. The “1432” Victoria numeral of Glenmaggie Railway Station shown nearby was invoiced for over $2,000 at the Phoenix Auction late 2011. Another common 1d stamp with scarce cancel sold for $1,500 in the same sale. Just ONE find like those, once in your lifetime, and you could buy an entire suitcase of these books! Value of either of those 2 stamps without those cancels - about 2¢ apiece! The sort of thing you might find in any junk lot, or kiddies album, sitting un-noticed. IF you own this book, you hit the jackpot.
Victoria Postmark Catalogue This is a massive and very heavy hardbound book, weighing in at about 2 kilos, or 4.4 pounds for our American readers! Near 500 large size A4 pages. It is without doubt in my mind THE most comprehensive, and easy to follow book on any of the Australian State postmarks. For any reader looking for an exciting new challenge to embark upon, this is one to take a close look at. These postmarks are found in 99% of cases, on dirt cheap letter rate stamps. To this day, un-
Victoria numeral cancels can fetch $2,000+ Stamp News - 63
Market Matters checked bundles of 100 are offered by dealers and auctions. Numerals are widely found on Australian Kangaroo and KGV stamps up until 1917, when the PO reprimanded Postmasters (again) for still using them, but many disobeyed - they were in fact used right up until 1934 by Creswick. There is a very detailed listing in this “740” of Rosebrook on 1d KGV - “RRRRR” book of all the known Victoria numerals on high rarity rating tables, so keep your eyes peeled Australia Kangaroo and for them, and naturally there are very serious KGV heads stamps, and many of these are in the bucks involved for many of them.
Newly reported “RRRRR” Victoria cancel. 64 - Stamp News
Many found on Kangaroos & KGV heads. The “740” of Rosebrook shown nearby on a KGV 1d Red is rated “RRRRR” in this bold numeral style, and clearly is worth big money. The tall thin earlier numerals are only “R”. Both types are illustrated in the handbook. Note this is not a “Duplex” style cancel, where the “cds” section was joined to the numeral in one “hammer” implement. As can be seen, the cds and the numeral are un-aligned, and were struck separately for some reason on this piece. Many common 1d stamps have cancels that sell for $1,000s. Victoria issued 2100 numeral postmarkers, between #1 (Melbourne) and #2100 (King Valley - issued November 1906). Of these 2100 numbers - despite an army of collectors scouring the earth over several generations - 51 of them have NEVER been sighted. One of the Number Never Seen - “NNS” in last edition was numeral “1616” of Wills Street
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Helps to read the old Roman Numerals!
Melbourne. Between editions, one example has surfaced, on a 1d Orange, and it is illustrated nearby, and of course is now rated “RRRRR”. Even partial numbers pricey. Not a complete numeral is showing here, as can be seen, but it cannot be anything other than 1616 - the advantage of all cancels being illustrated here, AND noting the style of numbers used. A four figure find, and so far unique. Many numbers of course exist in a myriad of styles, variants, designs and sub-types. All are clearly illustrated, and rarity rated in this book. Even some from Melbourne number “1” that most of us would regard as “common as muck” are rated “RRRR” simply as they are unusual designs, or subtypes. To complicate matters, not all the numerAnother “RRRRR” - 848 of Doma Mungi. Stamp News - 65
Market Matters als were as simple to decipher as reading just “1616” etc. For a few 100 numbers, some genius decided to partly use the 2000 year old Roman numeral system so the “MCCC/47” shown nearby is “1347” of Bagshot, open for 10 years until 1893 - rated RRRRR. Then, the “M2” numeral of Kalkee also shown nearby, supposedly is “1002”. When I went to school, 1002 was written as “MII” in Roman numerals, but who knows what was normal in the 1890s when this was made! Anyway it is another “RRRRR” super rare numeral, no matter how it is written. Hugh Freeman certainly has had a mass of material to sift through in his lifetime long search. I first met him 40 years back when he ran Status Stamp Auctions along New Tasmania Cancels book out too. with Barry Cooper they Plenty of stamp experience! started in 1977. He had owned Auctions in SydHe then ran The Penny Black Auctions, first ney well before that time as well - indeed worked from Lindfield, and then from high profile Martin for Kevin Duffy Auctions from 1969 to 1971. Place, Sydney. Hugh later went on to manage 66 - Stamp News
Glen Stephens Stanley Gibbons Auctions in Australia for many years. His stamp collections won national Gold Medals, and he was an accredited National Philatelic Judge. Despite handling probably many millions of stamps from Victoria, the fact remains more than 50 Numerals still are unseen to Hugh Freeman and other specialists, and this offers a real challenge to all readers of this article. Hugh used to run large ads in overseas magazines advertising to 5¢ stamp sold for $A3,600 at Auction. buy the elusive numerals he still sought. I recall seeing his display ads ing they are reasonably to very common. in Stanley Gibbons “Part 1” catalogues for this EVERY dealer and Auction in the world material, “Paying £50 each for these numerals” should own this book, and it goes without saying followed by a listing, and I am sure it paid off ALL collectors of Victoria need to have one too. well! Stumble across even one half decent cancel, just There is no real obvious pattern to numeral once in your lifetime, and it is more than paid for. Rarity. 847 and 849 are both very common with Possibly ten or more times than the book costs, these thin numbers, and the one in between, on just one good numeral postmarks find. “848” of Doma Mungi is unique, and rated “RRRRR”. The handbook helpfully tells us Doma More than 50 numbers NEVER recorded. Mungi was “275 miles NW of the GPO, near I have sold a lot of these huge books already, Chiltern.” as the work has been in progress for some time, This book illustrates over 2,000 actual cancels and the number of collectors in this field is large, on stamps and covers in full colour - not drawand very enthusiastic. The fact over 50 numerals ings as some other state handbooks have used. STILL have never been sighted - but were issued, Reproduction quality of illustrations is generally is an exciting challenge. very good, and the detail and background to the As coincidence has it, the long-awaited new listings is exhaustive. All cancels are rated in 8 work on all Tasmania cancels was also recentspecific rarity classes - or are “non-rated” mean- ly published, so a great year for collectors of Stamp News - 67
Market Matters States cancels! This new book lists every known hand-held datestamp from 1823 to 2000, with rarity ratings, early/late dates, every datestamp type, every post office opening and closing, plus extensive related information. That work is “Tasmanian Postal History - The Post Office and their Datestamps” Handbook by John Hardinge of Tasmania, and took him literally 30 years to compile and research. A superb, and YEARS overdue new opus work. Only 250 printed GLOBALLY! I am a huge believer in philatelic publishing, and often heavily financially support those who do so. “Knowledge Is Power”. They are each hand numbered, author hand signed, hard case-bound, with Every library needs one of these. dust jacket, and will NOT be reprinted I am assured by all concerned. at auctions like the TEEPOOKANA nearby, so tinyurl.com/TasPmk has a lot more detail on another handy book for any serious philatelic lithat one, and I’ll do a detailed review of it next month. Scarce cds cancels on very common Tas- brary. I ordered cartons of that one before it sold out at TPS. mania stamps have fetched up to $3,600 apiece 68 - Stamp News
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“Knowledge Is Power” again! There are many things out there, that few readers would give a second glance to, I feel sure, if offered in a club circuit book etc for $20, but are actually more valuable than a MUH £2 Kangaroo! One such curious piece is shown in the photo nearby. It was auctioned by Status Auctions in Sydney on October 25, 2018 and was invoiced for about $A19,500 - or more than twice the auction estimate, despite a fairly large tear lower left (and a creased corner top left not mentioned) and some tone spots. Definitely a few bidders it seems. The ACSC “Postal Stationery” catalogue tells us this is PL1, Cat $500 for a cut-out, and is a gummed label used by large Melbourne Department store Foy and Gibson to mail their merchandise catalogues. Pre-printed with 2d and 3d KGV impressions, to which a 1d green KGV stamp was also added here. This pre-printed parcel label was addressed to Albury NSW, and it has a Melbourne cds of ‘3 OC 28’, and seems to be the only full one recorded (2 cut-outs are known) despite Foy and Gibson being a very major store, that would have used 1,000s of these mailing out sale catalogues. So, “Knowledge Is Power”.ACSC “Postal Stationery” book is an essential Library piece to own, and owning it, might see YOU picking up a $19,500 piece cheap, as others had no absolutely idea what it was! Detailed review of that wonderful work is here - tinyurl.com/GlenAP18 Stamp News - 69
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Kangaroo 10/- CofA Dark Gray and ANILINE Pink - Superb Used: The final Emergency printing of the 10/- Roo, as the 10/- “Robes” should have been issued then, but production “teething” issues with the new Chalk Faced paper they were using on that was holding up its release. Dr. Kellow notes in ACSC these Roos were destroyed when the Robes were issued. So a small run of 10/- Roos were printed, which in this case used the wrong ANILINE pink ink. Which “glows like a Volcano” under UV light! ACSC 50a, Cat $1,250 for average used. THIS one is as good as these come. Perfect centred, superb perfs for these, super light cancel for a parcel high value, and clean and flat and fresh, and free of all usual old hinges and gook and gunk etc. Estate bargain purchase - Cat $1,250++ - $A550 (Stock 783LP)
“Aust TERRITORIES” Very First Stamp YEAR BOOK x 29, Ret $1,450 for $A500!: Amazing hoard from estate today. Owner bought these at
$40 each when first issued in 1994 = $1,160. 24 years back. Being the FIRST of anything is usually HOT stuff in future. These come out each year in Deluxe Folder with all the relevant pages of stamps of Hangers, and are super popular. FACE of contents is $23.50 each - $681.50 plus the packaging cost. He has passed, and I paid his Estate just $400 and selling for fast turnover for just $500 the lot. Multi fold jackets and all encased in outer cello slip jacket. Clean flat condition. $17.24 or so per album insane price. WAY under cost - an Ebay re-seller DREAM lot - double your money, and clear up some space on my desk here. Australia Territories AP collection 1994 x 29 - retail is $50 apiece, see - tinyurl. com/Territ94 - i.e. retail $1,450 - $A500 (Stock 372FC)
Great Britain 1847/54 EMBOSSED Imperfs, Complete Set of 3 under 10% of SG!: More attractive than usual trio set, bought in an old Estate today. These stamps were crudely produced, as most know, by using a hand held embossing crimp and creating EACH impression in each separate hand movement. A tedious process and few were done or sold. ZERO care was given to placement, and as multiples show us, the margins very often overlapped - often by several mm, which look terrible. The 10d and 1/- had 2 vertical very thick silk/cotton threads embedded into the paper on the stamps. These often split the stamps into 3 sections. Also, PO clerks with much idle time hanging on their hands in deserted offices, very often cut them totally to shape, snipping off the corners to even them up - as evidenced by the many covers bearing those. Lastly early collectors often did the same as the printed albums of the time show the design only so snipping the corners off fitted the album. So, many on the market are split in 3 and crudely re-joined by hinges, or far more often are cut to shape copies made over the past 150 years, that were glued onto a square of yellowed paper that look vaguely like 4 margins copies, and of course they sell for peanuts. These 3 are all SOUND USED copies – especially for 160 years old. No thins, no silk threads splits, no added corners! A very decent set to fill 3 gaps in albums near always empty. Corner crease on 1/- and all with nice crisp embossing. SG 56 £1,000, SG 57 £1,500, SG 60 £1,000, = £3,500 = $A6,500 - Estate special to clear at WAY under 10% of SG - just $A550 (Stock 391JA) Order via: tinyurl.com/GlenOrder All Cards accepted with ZERO fee - even Amex! Bank Deposit fine, or Money Orders. PayPal is accepted in ANY major currency, saving you fees - contact me first. LayBys/Layaways always OK with me!
GLEN STEPHENS
PO Box 4007, Castlecrag, NSW, 2068, Australia. - Phone (02) 9958 1333 e-mail me: glen@glenstephens.com - www.glenstephens.com/rarity.html Life Member: American Stamp Dealers Association (New York.) Philatelic Trader’s Society. (London.)
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Bexley Stamps & Coin Accessories Ken Pullen PO Box 36, KURMOND, NSW 2757 02 4573 1332 sales@bexleystamps.com.au www.bexleystamps.com.au
Blue Owls Stamps - Jude Koch 9 Yarra Street, Suite 1207 (12th Floor, Suite 07) South Yarra Vic 3141 Ph: 03 9826 1202 jude@blueowlsstamps.com.au www.blueowlsstamps.com.au
Grant Carter PO Box 16, Northcote, VIC 3020 Ph: 03 9480 2193
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Kennedy Stamps P/L Suite 706a, 250 Pitt St, Sydney NSW 2000 Tel: + 61 2 92646168 Fax: + 61 2 92645969 stamps@kennedystamps.com. www.kennedystamps.com.au
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Ken Cowden PO Box 108, Bateman’s Bay, NSW 2536 Ph: 02 4472 5231 Kenbetty@bordernet.com.au
Edenzac Stamps: Tim Papadopoulos Ph: 03 9791 7733 edenzac@optushome.com.au
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philatelic clubs & societies new south wales Armidale Circle RSPC: Mtg 2nd Wed Australian Cmwlth Collectors Club of NSW: Mtg 3rd Mon 7.45pm, 1st flr. Philas House, 17 Brisbane St, Darlinghurst, Sydney 2001. Ph 02 9264 8301 Australian Numismatic Society, NSW Branch: Mtg 3rd Monday, Philas House Australian States Study Circle: Mtg 4th Wed 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301 Bathurst Stamp Coin and Collectables Club: Mtg 1st Mon 7.30pm, Old Eglinton fire shed, Park St, Elington Blue Mountains Stamp Club: Mtg 4th Friday (ex Dec) 8.00pm Katoomba Public School; PO Box 76, Blackheath Boambee East PS: Mtg 1st Tues (ex. Jan) 6pm Boambee East Comm. Centre, Bruce King Dr. Ph: 02 66581385 Burwood District SC: Mtg 4th Wed Campbelltown District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm (ex Jan - 4th Wed); @ Catholic Hall Acacia St, Ruse. Inquiries: mystampclub@yahoo.com.au; PO Box 478, Campbelltown 2560 Castle Hill SC Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm, Hills District Bowling Club, Jenner Street, Baulkham Hills; PO Box 151 Castle Hill NSW 1765 China Study Group of PSNSW: Mtg 4th Mon 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301 Cinderella SC: Produces “Cinderellas Australia” and monographs; PO Box 889, Chatswood, NSW 2057 Club WIlloughby Philatelic Section : Mtg 4th Thursday Earlwood and District SC: Mtg 1st Wed Eastwood-Epping PS: Mtg 1st Tuesday Grafton Stampers & Everything Philatelic: Mtg 1st Sun 2pm (ex School Hols). Grafton Baptist Church Hall, Cnr Queen & Oliver Sts. Ph 02 6642 1363. email gbchurch@bigpond.com. Great Lakes SC: Mtg1st Sat 9.30am , Workshop & Market 1st Sat 9-12, Tuncurry Enq: Ph 02 6555 5664 Gosford PS: Afternoon Mtg 1st Mon Hawkesbury Valley PS (Richmond Stamp Club): Mtg 2nd Thurs (ex Jan) PO Box 28 Richmond 2753 Illawarra PS: Mtg 3rd Wednesday, Room 2, Illawarra Master Builders Club, 61 Church St, Wollongong 7.00 pm. Lord Howe Island Postal History Society: Mtg by arrangement. Contact Pres: Dr William Mayo, 02 9918 6825 Maitland SC: Mtg 2nd Mon ex Jan. ‘Show & Tell’ every mtg E. Maitland Bowling Club, Bank St. Pres. Mark Saxby; Sec. David Carratt; Ph: 02 4932 4045 Email: carrotspatch@tpg.com.au Manly-Warringah Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd Tues, cnr. Pittwater Rd & Federal Pde, Brookvale. Sec. Graeme Morriss Ph: 02 9905 3255 email: stampsmw@bizland.com.au Milton-Ulladulla SC: Meeting 1pm on 4th Monday of each month (ex Dec.) Milton Ulladulla Bowling Club, St. Vincent Street, Ulladulla Sec. POBox 670, Ulladulla, NSW 2539 Tel. Barbara Smith 0244555214 Morisset Uniting Church SC: Mtg 4th Sat 10am (ex Dec) Mudgee Coin Note & Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Sunday Ph 02 63735324 Newcastle PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs, 7.30pm Mayfield Ex-Services Club; 10am 3rd Wed, 48 Mackie Ave, New Lambton, Juniors 11am 3rd Sun, Wallsend Pioneers Hall
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 4th Monday Wilson Community Hall, Braibrise Rd Wilson. 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
NSW Postcard Collectors Soc: Mtg 1st Wed 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301 Northern Suburbs PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs, 7.45pm, Naremburn Library, Central St, Naremburn off Slade St Orange Coin and Stamp Club: Mtg Last Tuesday, Orange Community Info Centre, 79-81 Kite St, Orange 7.30pm Parramatta PS: Mtg 1st Friday Penrith and District PS: Mtg 1st Thursdays, 8pm, J3A Bldg. Castlereash St. New PO Box: 252 Kingswood 2750. Ph: 02 4733 3062 Piallaway PS: PO Box 12, Werris Creek PHILAS Stamp Auctions: Mtg 2nd Sat Mar,Jul, Nov Ph 02 9264 8301 PS of Australia: Mtg 3rd Wed (exDec) PS of NSW: Mtg 4th Sat (Philas House), 3rd Tues (Chatswood); Ph: 02 9264 8301 Richmond River (Lismore) PS: Mtg 4th Thursday Royal Sydney Philatelic Club: Mtg 2nd Tues. (ex Jan); Ph: 02 9264 8301 Sapphire Coast Stamp & Coin Club: Mtg Enq 02 6495 7308. Mail to PO Box 285, Pambula, NSW 2549 St. George PS: Mtg 1st Mon Shoalhaven PS: Mtg 2nd Monday (Ex Jan) PO Box 4047, East Nowra 2541. Smithfield SC: Mtg 2nd Mon Society for Polar Philately: 2012 meetings: 2nd Wednesday of February, March, May, July, Sept and November held at Ryde Ex-Services Club 724-730 Victoria Rd, Ryde, NSW Tel: 9807 3344 (in Mackinnon room) starting at 8pm.Enq 0407 277 223 or email penviews@ hotmail.com Sussex Inlet and District: Mtg 3rd Mon Sutherland Shire PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. , 7:30pm, Sutherland Uniting Services Club, 7 East Pde, Sutherland. Information Secretary, PO Box 339, Sutherland, NSW 1499 Sydney Anglican PS: 2nd Sat. even months 9.30-2.30 North Rocks Community Church132 North Rocks Road North Rocks Tamworth PS: Mtg 1st Mon ex. Jan. Tamworth Bridge Club, 7 Hilton St, Tamworth Sec. Graeme Mitchell. PO Box 678, Tamworth NSW 2340 Ph. 02 67664853 Taree RSL Club Ltd SC: Mtg 3rd Mon Toronto SC: Mtg 1st Wed Turramurra SC: Mtg 2nd Monday, 7.45pm. Twin Towns Stamp Club Inc.: Mtg 1st Monday, 7.30p, Masonic Centre, 8 Boyd St, Tweed Heads, 07 5535 3168 Wagga SC: Mtg 1st Wed (ex Jan) ARCC Building, Tarcutta St, 7.30pm. Secretary: Peter Simpfendorfer Ph:02 6922 3393 Wyong PS: Mtgs: 3rd Tues 7.30pm, daytime meetings 1st Weds, KGV Heads group 4th Weds. Jim Spence Sec. 02 4392 3610 email: dandasonter6@bigpond.com
northern territory Alice Springs SC: Meet Informally; PO Box 1529, Alice Springs, NT, 0871. Ph 08 8953 3054 Darwin Philatelic Circle: 1st Sun. 10am - 2pm. 53 Flametree Crt, Rosebery; Ph:(08) 8931 2898; PO Box 1624, Palmerston, NT, 0831; Email: Nadine.Tinsley@nt.gov.au-. WA club information: WA Philatelic Council, GPO Box 9800, Perth, WA, 6001 Mandurah PS PO Box 625 Mandurah WA 6210 2nd Tues 4.45 - 6.30pm Bortolo Park Pavilion Cnr. Bortolo and Murdoch Drives Greenfields WA 6210 08 9581 1083 keithmich@bigpond.com Northern Districts SC: Mtg 2nd Mon; Ph: 08 9329 0117 Philatelic Forum: Mtg 1st Mon (ex Jan); Ph: 08 9294 4277 Rockingham & Kwinana (PS of): Mtg 3rd Tues (NB 2nd in Dec) Pres. Malcolm Brown; Sec. Terry Boyd; PRO Lucie Schokker Ph. 08 9419 1604; email: malcolm.b@iinet.net.au PS of WA: Mtg 3rd Tues; Ph: 08 9294 4277 Stirling PS: Mtg 4th Wed (ex Dec); Clubrooms, Charles Riley Reserve, Wendling Rd, North Beach, Ph: 08 9447 7256 The Postmark Circle (WA): Mtg 2nd Mon; Ph: 08 9294 4277 Victoria Park SC: Mtg 1st Wed; Ph: 08 9472 8072 or 08 9450 5280 WA Study Group: Mtg 4th Thurs (ex Dec) 08 9384 1050 Wanneroo SC: Mtg 3rd Mon; Ph: 08 9305 3130.
philatelic clubs & societies new zealand Air Mail Society of NZ: Ph: 03 3584838; Email: alant@snap.net Auckland PS: Mtg 1st and 3rd Tues (except Jan). Ph 09 9853212; Email kiwibrooce@ yahoo.com; Website: www.aps.gen.nz Christchurch PS: Mtg 2nd Tues, Library night 3rd Tues; GB Machin 3rd Fri odd months; Postal History 1st Mon; Postcard 3rd Tues even months. Email: secretary@ cps.gen.nz; Website: www.cps.gen.nz Dunedin PS: Mtg 4th Thurs (except Nov and Dec). Ph: 03 4557643; Email: davidallison2009@gmail.com; Website: www.dunedinstampclub.org.nz Hastings Stamp Collectors Club: Mtg 3rd Wed (except Jan and 2nd Wed Dec). Ph: 06 8765911; Email: clairemole@xtra.co.nz Hawkes Bay PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex. Jan). Ph: 06 8439433; Email: dennmarg@paradise. net.nz Horowhenua PS: Mtg 2nd Mon. Ph: 06 3689881; Email: michael.christensen@xtra. co.nz Hutt Valley PS: Mtg 1st Tues (ex. Jan). Ph: 04 5697439; Email: richards@nec.co.nz Kapiti PS: Mtg 3rd Tues (ex Dec). Ph: 04 2971197; Email: ian.burttt@yahoo.co.nz Manaia PS: Mtg (Hawera) 1st Sun. Ph: 06 2784292; Email: peter.williams@xtra.co.nz Manawatu PS: Mtg 1st Wed, daytime meeting 3rd Tues. Ph: 06 3584565; Email: mps@inspire.net.nz Marlborough Stamp Collectors Club: Mtg 3rd Mon (except Jan and 2nd Mon Dec). Morrinsville Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd Wed. Ph: 07 8893199 Nelson PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 03 5469092; Email: paula.hucklesby@clear.net.nz North Shore PS: Mtg 2nd (except Jan) and 4th Wed (except Jan and Dec). Email: nsps@xtra.co.nz; Website: www.northshoreps.com NZ Stamp Collectors Club Christchurch: Mtg 4th Wed. Ph 03 3895511; Email: steve@ philatelic.org.nz; Website: www.nzeal.com/philately/nzscc.htm NZ Postcard Society: Ph: 03 3848463; Email: jenny-long@clear.net.nz; Website: www. postcard.org.nz
queensland Arana Hills SC: Meeting 2nd Tues; 07 3851 0213; email: petermccloskey@bigpond.com Bayside Afternoon SC: Meeting last Wed; Ph: 07 3206 6281. Bundaberg PS: Mtg 2nd Mon 7pm, The Family Centre, Kensington St (in the Show Grounds); Ph: 07 4152 2403 or 07 4151 3062 Caboolture & District SC: Mtg 3rd Sat. Ph: 07 5498 6504 Cairns SC: 4th Tues. 7.30pm Comm. Hall, 15 Kamerunga Rd., Stratford 07 4033 2211 Caloundra SC: Mtg. 4th Thurs. Catholic Church Hall, Edmund St. 1.30pm. Ph: 07 5494 7233 City Daytime SC: Mtg 2nd Thurs. Ph: 07 3206 6281 City of Brisbane PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs; Ph: 07 3263 8573 (ah); email: desley@mycelebrant.com Collectors Club Queensland: Mtg 2nd Sunday each month 9am to 1pm - RSL Hall, 58 Arnold St, Holland Park. Contact 0409 130 266 or ccqueensland@gmail.com Enoggera SC: Mtg 1st and 3rd Mon. Ph: 07 3264 4157 Gladstone and District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed (Ex. Jan) & 4th Wed (Ex.Dec). Ph. Sec: 07 4978 1155 Ian Rippingale, Gold Coast PS: Mtg 2nd Mon, 11.30am, Southport Community Centre, Lawson St, Southport. Ph: 07 5546 3801 Gympie SC: Mtg. 2nd Sun. Jessie Witham Centre 1 - 3pm Ph. 07 5483 9188 email: sandandan@bigpond.com Hervey Bay Afternoon Club: Mtg 3rd Wed. Ph: 07 4124 1138 Ipswich SC: Mtg 1st Thurs (ex. Jan). Ph: 07 3282 2983 Junction Park SC: Mtg 1st Tues, 7.30pm, Annerley Baptist Hall, Lambton St. Contact: 07 3277 6724. PO Box 177, Annerley, 4103, righteo274@bigpond.com Lockyer Valley SC: Mtg 4th Sun, 1.30pm, Senior Citizensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hall, Gatton. Kerri Martin, Sec. Ph: 07 5465 3390 Email: lvsc@bigpond.com Logan City SC: Meetings 2nd Thurs, Presbyterian Church, Barry St, Slacks Creek, 6pm. Ph: 07 3805 9226. Mackay and District PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 07 4942 5433;
Further information can be obtained from the NZ Philatelic Federation, PO Box 58139, Whitby, Porirua, 5245, NZ. E-mail: secretary@nzpf.org.nz Postal History Soc of NZ: Auckland 1st Mon (except Jan). Ph: 09 5220311. Chapter meetings held Invercargill, Nelson, New Plymouth and Wellington. Pukekohe Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Sun. John Mounce, President 649-291-9381 johnmounce@ihug.co.nz Royal PS of NZ: Mtg 2nd Wed (ex Jan). Ph: 04 5899530; Email: office@rpsnz.org.nz; Website www.rpsnz.org.nz South Auckland PS: Mtg last Sat (except Dec), Papatoetoe, day time mtgs 3rd Fri (ex Dec and Jan). Ph: 09 2682245; Email: elowera@orcon.net.nz Southland PS: Mtg 1st Thurs (except Jan), 3rd Tue (daytime) (except Jan). Email: antqgevi@es.co.nz Taranaki PS: Mtg 1st Mon except Jan. Ph: 06 7546212; Email: murray-grimwood@ hotmail.com Tauranga & District Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd (except Jan) and 4th Mon (except Dec). Ph: 07 5765210; Email: beducker@hotmail.com Thames Valley PS: Mtg 1st Mon (except Jan). Ph: 07 8689190. Thematic Association of NZ: Ph: 04 2347218; Email: bob@gibsonz.com Timaru PS: Mtg 1st Wed. Ph: 03 6880343 Upper Hutt PS: Mtg 3rd Mon (except 2nd Mon Dec). Ph: 04 5284123; Email: teme. isaac@clear.net.nz Waikato PS: Mtg 1st (except Jan) and 3rd Wed (except Jan and Dec). Email: c.cameron@agresearch.co.nz Wakatipu PS: Ph: 03 4428865 Wanganui PS: Mtg 2nd Wed. Ph: 06 3427894; Email: g.p.phillips@xtra.co.nz Wellesley PS: Mtg 2nd and 4th Mon (ex public holidays). Ph: 9 8271240 Wellington PS: Mtg 4th Mon (except Dec); Ph: 042347218; Email: bob@gibsonz.com Whakatane PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Thurs (except Jan) Ph: 07 3222054 or 07 3086193 Whangarei PS: Mtg 2nd Meeting: 2nd Tues (Ex.Jan) Ph 09 4348000; Email john-monica@xtra.co.nz QLD Philatelic Council, 18 Coolcrest St, Wynnum, Qld, 4178. Ph: 07 3396 0846 Fax: 07 3396 0842. Email: QPC-stamps@acenet.net.au Web: www.qpc.asn.au
Maryborough and Wide Bay PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex. Jan). Salvation Army Youth 7 Comm. Hall. Bazaar St Maryborough. Ph: 07 41224708 (see also Hervey Bay) Nanango SC: Mtg 2nd Sat, 10:00am, Nanango RSL. Contact Ph: 07 3103 8938 or ema il: bowtell_harris@activ8.net.au Philatelic Society of Qld: Mtg 4th Wed 7.30pm,18 Coolcrest St, Wynnum. Ph: 07 3245 5222 Queensland Study Group: Sunday bi-monthly 1.00pm meets QPS house. Contact Ph: 07 3396 0846 email: QPC-stamps@acenet.net.au Redland Bay Coin and Stamp Club, 4th Thurs. Monthly. John Hardman 07 3206 9996 or 07 3822 6987 Rockhampton SC: Mtg 1st Tues. Ph: 07 4926 3336. email: rockystampclub@gmail.com Sherwood Afternoon SC: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 07 3372 6096 Southport Afternoon SC: Mtg 2nd Sat; Ph: 07 55630384 Southside PS: Mtg 3rd Tuesday & 3rd Wednesay (9am) Ph: 07 3848 2304 (ah) email: david. appleton@mailbox.uq.edu.au Sunshine Coast SC (formerly Nambour SC): Mtg 1st Wed, 7.15pm Red Cross Rms, Price St., Nambour 07 5445 3647 Thematics Queensland: Mtg bi-monthly 9.30am. Ph: 07 3262 5605 email: j.crowsley@ uq.net.au Toowoomba SC: Mtg. 2nd Sat 1pm, Salvation Army Hall, Cnr. West St. 7 Anzac Ave. Ph. 07 4635 5623 Email: bob.benny@bigpond.com Twin Towns SC: Mtg 1st Mon; Ph: 07 5535 3168 Waterloo Bay SC: Mtg. 1st Thurs. 1pm & 4th Mon. 7pm. Redlands Multi SportsClub, Birkdale Ph: 07 3206 0815
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philatelic clubs & societies south australia
Information about clubs in SA can be obtained from the SA Philatelic Council, GPO Box 9800, Adelaide, SA 5001. Daytime Ph: 08 8212 3557 or 8223 4435
Australian Airmail Society: 1st Wed. 7.45pm 22 Gray Court, Adelaide. PO Box 395, Edwardstown 5039. Ph: 08 8276 3969 Barossa SC: Mtg 1st Tue 7.30 Greenock Luth Church Hall, Bevan St, Greenock; 19 Evans Street Ancaston 5353; email: ptomely1939@gmail.com; Ph: (08) 8562 8386 Blackwood PC: Mtg 2nd Wed ex Jan; Uniting Church, Main Rd, Blackwood; Ph: 08 8278 1629; PO Box 581, Blackwood 5051; email: teepee@teegee.com.au Bordertown & Districts PS: Mtg: 3rd Thurs. Bordertown PS Contact: K. Grey Tel: 08 8752 0446 or email cdhuntmundulla@yahoo.com.au Community PS: Mtg 1st & 3rd Fri - 7.30pm. Marion Bowling Club, off Sturt Rd. PO Box 75 Edwardstown, 5039; Auctions, circuit books. Ph: 0408806894 City of Noarlunga PS: Mtg alternate thurs,-- Community Health Centre, Grand Boulevard, Seaford, Contact 08 85566371 or PO Box 272, Port Noarlunga 5167 Eastern Districts PS: 2nd Thurs (ex. Jan), 7.30pm Senior citizens Hall, 47 Reid Ave. Hectorville; PO Box 240, Magill, 5072; Ph: 0400 156 796 Elizabeth PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Fridays, 7.30pm, RSL Hall, Cnr of Halseys/Midway Rds;PO Box 701, Elizabeth 5112; Ph: 08 8255 0608 Encounter Bay SC: Mtg 1st Wed, 7.30pm; School Hall, Woolworths Centre, Victor Harbour; PO Box 317, Goolwa 5214; aydepe@bigpond.com; Ph: 08 8555 3311 SA Power Networks Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Mon (ex. Jan); Canteen, 1 Anzac Highway, Keswick; PO Box 2079, Magill North, 5072; Ph: 08 8278 7163 Frama Club: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm, members homes; For collectors of CPS, Framas. Newsletter and Auctions. PO Box 62 Campbelltown 5074. Gawler SC: Mtg 4th Mon 7.30pm; Evanston Primary School, Para Rd, Evanston. PO Box 2, Willaston 5118; Ph: 08 8522 2335 Email: jo.trev@bigpond.com German Philatelic Club: Mtg 2nd & 4th Mon 8pm; German Club, 223 Flinders St, Adelaide 5000; Ph: 08 8260 2251 Glenside PS: 1st & 3rd Sat 1.30pm; Uniting Church Hall, Carlton St. Highgate. c/- 9 Moore St., Tranmere, SA 5073 08 8398 2475 Lower Murray PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs,7.30pm, 2nd Sat, 10am; The Lions Den, Murray Bridge. PO Box 810, Murray Bridge; Ph: 08 85704074 lmphilsocsec@gmail.com Mount Gambier PS: Mtg 3rd Tues; Reidy Park Corn Centre. 8pm. Also1st Sunday (ex. Jan)
victoria Australian PS: Bi-monthly meetings on 3rd Monday in February, April, June, August, October and December at RSL Homes, 152 Canterbury Road [cnr Keats Street] Canterbury. Secretary, PO Box 156 Balwyn Vic. 3103 Bairnsdale SC: Mtg 3rd Thurs Ballarat PS:Mtg 3rd & 5th Mon Balwyn PS: Mtg 3rd Friday; Daytime 1st Friday Bendigo PS: Mtg 1st Tues Berwick SC:Mtg 2nd Sun (ex Jan); Ph: 03 5942 7626 Blackburn Baptist SC: Mtg 3rd Thurs Brighton PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Tues; Daytime 3rd Tues Bulleen PS Mtg 2nd Mon (ex Jan) 7.30 pm Veneto Club Upstairs 191 Bulleen Rd Bulleen (PO Box 166, Niddrie VIC 3042)Contact Secretary: Frank 0438830645 Treasurer: Joe 0408560601 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
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 Hamilton PS: Mtg 2nd Monday 7.30 pm ex. Jan. Guide Hall, Foster St. 0407 659664 Hungarian PS: Mtg 2nd Wed 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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