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This article first appeared in the December 2009 issue. The comments made are evergreen, and I know that a few readers have adopted forms of the concept during the intervening decade. Perhaps this refresher will encourage more collectors to do so? Such collecting is the perfect remedy for those disillusioned with New issues, and the addictive pursuit of filling gaps in a printed album. I wonder how many readers recall the days when almost every stamp collector took on the World? The days when attempting to fill every page in a “World Stamp Album” was an obsession. Were you one of the many who kept a census of the num- Figure 1. Rather exotic: Danzig to Australia ber of stamps in your album, penciled in on the title page? Unashamalbum, so purposely, I find irresistible to this day. edly, I confess to once being one of those compulsive What then is a truly purposeful way of achieving such obsessives. a seemingly improbable goal? Well may you ask, so Unlike most collectors, who go on to specialize in let’s make my concept of world collecting the subject finite, more achievable (and sensible!) goals in their of this month’s column? collecting pursuits, I never lost the urge for World Let me clarify from the outset, my world collection collecting, however. The nostalgia associated with consists wholly of intact commercial postal artirevisiting the stamps I once hinged in to my world cles: covers, postcards, parcel tags, etc, from any country in the world, provided such are addressed to Australia (and occasionally New Zealand). A further proviso is that at some stage of the journey the given article must have been carried by air. I selected Australia as a destination, for not only is it my birthplace and home, it is the longest haul for mail from most countries, and therefore incurs the highest postage rates. The destination is the common denominator in my collection, setting the sights for an intelligible, purposeful goal for which to aim. Figure 2. Hungary postcard features Art Deco airmail stamps 6 - Stamp News
Here and elsewhere I’ve endeavored to select items which include the then current Air Mail etiquette for the respective origins. From records in the public domain, it’s generally possible to trace the entire journey of items such as Figure 1, the rail, air and surface connections. This is, however, but an introduction to a concept for collecting the world, rather than an exhaustive study of many and varied aspects of the items featured. Postcards sent by airmail during the 1930s (or earlier) are generally uncommon. The air fee was several times the surface rate, which was a disincentive for most correspondents. Figure 2 is a good example of the disparity between the two forms of transmission. The postcard rate for Hungary in 1937 was 20f, and the Figure 3. Even more exotic origin/destination: Albania to Ausairmail surcharge, to Australia, was 1P.40. tralia Therefore, the combined surface/air rate for a postcard to Australia was 1P.60, From this collection, I’ve selected an even dozeight times the basic postcard rate. This 19 Apr 1937 en items to illustrate my concept, before and during item was destined for Perth, and again features airWWII, generally emanating from less likely origins. mail stamps and local Air Mail etiquette, tied by Perth Danzig was a self-governing port on the Baltic arrival datestamp. It was flown on the K.L.M. (Dutch) Sea, from 1920 until 1939, when occupied and anservice to Netherlands East Indies. nexed by Germany. Unsurprisingly, airmail-relatItems such as Figure 3 are an absolute delight ed material from Danzig to Australia is rare. I had to those who specialize in exotic origin/destination recorded but one solitary cover, until a small cache of covers surfaced at a Melbourne auction this year. Figure 1 is from that source, a very early airmail item, 16 Jun 1931, from Zoppot to a Bank in suburban Melbourne. Postage of 4g was adequate for a 30-40gms article, for air so far as the Karachi-Delhi leg (note endorsement to that effect upper left) of Imperial Airways Ltd eastbound service. Surface mail only was available thereafter to Australia. The use of Danzig airmail stamps, and the presence of a German-style Air Mail etiquette (once was “label”) add appropriate finishing touches for an item destined to fly. Figure 4. Exotic stamps, and exotic origin Stamp News - 7
airmail material. A 12 Nov 1938 registered cover from Lloyd Triestino, Tirane Albania, via Greece to a Shipping company in Sydney, the rate of 3Fr 40 represents 25q Surface + 2Fr 75 Air fee + 40q registration. One can imagine just how little pre-war airmail material originating in Albania was destined for Australia. I’ve seen but one other item in over 20 years of searching. The uncommon Air Mail etiquette is tied by the Tirane datestamp, always a nice added touch for the purist. Is it just me, or can others appre- Figure 5. Response to bargain air service was underwhelming ciate just how much more vibrant and exciting stamps appear when service terminating in Australia, thereafter by sea to still bonded to the article which N.Z. The parallel lines partly obliterating British-style originally conveyed them on their journey? Figure 4, Air Mail label were applied to indicate cessation of a fine example of what enthuses me, is a 9 Jan 1935 airmail service. cover from Port Herald, Nyasaland, to Auckland. The The Empire “All-up” Air Scheme (EAMS), insuperb stamp franking, an aggregate of 1/10d, was for troduced in 1938, saw airmail rates to a number of ½oz. combined surface/air fee via Egypt, the airmail British Empire countries reduce to a bargain price, often close to what the surface mail rates were at that time. Zanzibar, for instance, had an airmail rate of 2sh 50 to Australasia prior to 16.2.1938, but from that date the EAMS rate was 20 cents only, less than one-twelfth of the former rate! The advent of WWII soon closed down the EAMS, and it’s surprising how scarce material is carried by that service to Australasia, even from “big” Empire countries, such as India and Malaya. Figure 5, for example, is the only example from Zanzibar I’ve noted. It must be said, however, that prewar airmail from that origin to Australasia is rare in any shape or form. It was sent from Zanzibar to Sydney on 21 Apr 1939. One of the more exotic Air Mail Figure 6. General Gordon visits Australia 8 - Stamp News
specialised collection of Australian Air Mail etiquettes when I bought it). The same could not be said had the stamps been removed from the cover. Fortunately they were not, so we don’t have to grieve. Wonderful origin/destination item, Figure 8, particularly with airmail connection as early as 1929, carried by Imperial Airways on Baghdad-Cairo leg (ie the airmail journey was east-west, rather than seemingly more logical westeast). Sent registered from Baghdad to Tasmania on 11 Jan 1929, Figure 7. Gibraltar to Australia via Portugal and U.S. the British then had a mandate to administer Iraq, under the League of Nations. Four stamps from etiquettes, English/French/Arabic tri-lingual, acthe attractive stamp set issued in 1923, an aggregate companied by Sudan General Gordon series stamps, of 12a, paid 4½a Letter rate (3a 1st 20gms, 1½a 2nd Figure 6 makes for an attractive origin/destination 20gms) + 4½a Airmail fee (1½a per 10gms x3) + 3a item, sent 12 Jan 1935 registered from Khartoum to registration fee. Melbourne, flown by Imperial Airways on their sixth Very little mail from British Guiana before WWII extended U.K.-Brisbane service. Sixth flights, unlikecame even part way by airmail to Australia. Figure 9 ly to become a rival to first flights. is one of but two items I’ve noted which have made A particularly unusual item, Figure 7, sent by an R.A.A.F. Pilot stationed at Gibraltar, bears the Air Mail etiquette of Australian National Airways. The franking of 1/4d is cancelled by “FIELD POST OFFICE/475” datestamp of 8 Apr 1942. It arrived at Lisbon five days later, in time to board the Pan American “Dixie” Clipper bound for New York. The manuscript “Jusqu’a New York” indicates it was paid for air service only to U.S., for which the rate was 1/4d per ¼oz.; the balance of the journey to Sydney was by surface. This is a rare rate item, complemented by multiple Censor interception, by R.A.F. (green handstamp) and British and Australians (sealing tapes), and use of an Australian Air Mail etiquette abroad. An appealing item, which would be a welcome addition to probably half a dozen different appropriate specialised collections (it was in a Figure 8. Iraq, in more stable times, to Tasmania
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the journey, both by air to New York only. Seldom does one encounter such clear directions for the purpose as those conveniently handstamped at Georgetown G.P.O. Sent on 31 May 1938, the rate of 36c paid for airmail service to U.S.; surface mail for balance of journey. A full airmail service at rate of $1.42 was available, but an enclosed letter advises addressee “I missed the Air Line this morning [presumably he was referring to connection for full air service] and this will go by the next boat (?) next week”. Long way from British Guiana to AusFigure 9. Very unusual: British Guiana to Australia via U.S. and Hong tralia, even nowadays. The item Kong went via Hong Kong (16 June) contents, although complete, were a bit the worse for arriving Manly, 29 June. wear due to unsuitable storage. I threw every deThe 1937 Coronation omnibus set catalogues in mounted stamp (there are 202 in the set) in to my “20 S.G. at £180 mint, £250 used. A used set is a chalcent box”, hoping never to see them again. A gentlelenge, of sorts, but mint sets are readily available, man spotted a few of these newly deposited stamps in usually for much less than S.G. figure. Many years the “box”, and painstakingly extracted every one of ago, I recall breaking down one of the special albums those 202 stamps. I heard later that the said gentleman produced for the Coronation series; the mint stamp gave a display at the local Stamp Club soon after that event. The display? 1937 Coronation, complete mint, of course. For a real challenge, try collecting the set of 202 stamps commercially used on cover. I know of at least one brave Philatelist who, to his great credit, is making the attempt, and he willingly acknowledges it’s a lifetime challenge. Figure 10 has a franking which includes the Ceylon 9c from the series, accompanied by KGV 30c x2 from the lovely 1935-36 Pictorials, making for a very pretty franking combination. Sent from Colombo to Melbourne 29 Dec 1937, for which combined surface/airmail rate was 69c per ½oz. North Borneo is one of those Figure 10. Ceylon: Nice combination of stamps of two Kings’ reigns 10 - Stamp News
Figure 11. Handsome beast, handsome set
Philately. Some, I contend, are fine candidates for the Philately as Art movement: that which debates “is it Philately, or is it Art”? Whichever, few with an eye for what is desirable in Philately would disagree that the stamps featured on these, their original projectiles, retain a certain character, vibrancy, an integrity, to a degree to which equivalent loose stamps cannot begin to aspire. I would love to see a number of readers take up the concept of collecting mail to a particular destination, as I’ve done for Australia/New Zealand. Perhaps the country of ancestry? Or a country visited, and of which fondness has developed? Such connections provide a powerful motivation. I collect only material which at some stage of the journey became airborne, but one could readily include mail sent by sea or land. At the very least, you would be providing yourself with “a good excuse for collecting the World”.
countries that are blessed with superbly designed Pictorial series’, quite a number of them if one takes in to account the numerous overprinted configurations. I would have gone in to collecting this country, big time, but for one fact. Commercial mail is generally difficult to obtain, and for many stamp issues, particularly higher denominations pre-WWII, commercial material is largely non-existent. Figure 11 features two designs from the attractive 1939 Pictorials, representing the 60c per ½oz. combined surface/airmail rate to Australia. This 29 Oct 1940 cover from Kudat to Sydney, endorsed “B.O.A.C.” (formerly Imperial Airways), has the local Air Mail etiquette tied by scarce North Borneo Censor handstamp. The token Pacific Island item this month, Figure 12, is an attractively franked 18 Aug 1940 cover from Nukualofa, Tonga, to Geelong College, Victoria. Endorsed “By Air Mail/Trans-Tasman/& in Australia”, for which the rate was 9d. Note, again, the tying of distinctive local Air Mail etiquette; very desirable from a collecting viewpoint. The twelve subjects illustrated above provide an insight in to my tastes in Figure 12. Yet more attractive Pictorials, from Tonga
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THE RYUKYU ISLANDS Today probably only somewhat older stamp collectors remember the Ryukyu Islands which was a stamp issuing entity from 1 July 1948 until 15 May 1972. When a country or territory ceases to release postage stamps it tends to be more or less forgotten except by those who take an interest in the “dead” countries in our stamp catalogues. Stretching from the Japanese island of Kyushu in the north to Taiwan in the south there is a chain of 160 larger and smaller islands – the Ryukyu Islands. The main island is called Okinawa and today it is one of Japan’s 47 prefectures. From the 14th century until 1879 it was an independent kingdom thriving on trade with the nations of East and South East Asia. In 1879 the Japanese Empire took over control
of the Ryukyu Islands and the last king was sent to Japan where he was degraded to marquis. Today we seldom talk about the Ryukyu Islands but more about Okinawa which in recent years has become a popular tourist destination. According to the latest information, Okinawa attracts some 9.8 million visitors each year. Foreign visitors amount to 2.9 million. The increased number of visitors is due to the completion of an international airport at Naha, Okinawa’s capital city. Okinawa is also visited by a steady stream of huge cruise ships. Okinawa can offer beautiful natural surroundings and a rather unique culture. Shown nearby is a Ryukyu 1958 stamp (Fig. 1) depicting the Gate of Friendship at Okinawa’s Shurei Palace. Okinawa prefecture currently has a population of
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Christer Brunström 1.7 million people. They not only speak Japanese but also a local language. I suppose most readers will remember Okinawa as the scene of one of the biggest battles in World War II. It took the US forces almost three months in 1945 to completely wipe out the Japanese resistance. It was only in June that the Japanese surrendered Okinawa which the Americans then occupied until 1972. Even today the United States maintains large military bases on the island which is far from appreciated by the local population. During the battle of Okinawa postal communications were severely disrupted. A military postal service was established once the US forces had control of the situation. At first civilian mail was carried free of charge but from the beginning of 1946 letters
Figure 4
received a FEE PAID cancel to indicate that postage had been duly paid. The first stamps for the Ryukyu Islands were issued on 1 July 1948. It is interesting to note that the Americans had chosen to use the name of the old kingdom for its new possession. The first set comprised seven values in Japanese currency (Fig. 2). The first printing on grey paper was carried out in Tokyo while a second printing on white paper was done locally in Naha. Until 1950 these stamps were only valid locally and on mail to Japan and the USA. In 1950 there was a new definitive set featuring local designs from the Ryukyu Islands. There were also three airmails and a stamp for express delivery (Fig. 3) showing a dragon.
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THE RYUKYU ISLANDS During the coming years the Ryukyu Islands released a number of definitive and commemorative stamps. As the islands were a US possession, collector interest was huge. The great rarity in Ryukyu philately was issued in 1952. There was a need for a 100-yen value to pay for the carriage of parcels. The problem was solved rather quickly by surcharging the 2-yen 1950 definitive with the new denomination. Totally some 9,800 stamps were sold and mostly used on parcels. Forgeries exist of this scarce stamp. Shown nearby is the unoverprinted 2-yen stamp depicting a castle (Fig. 4) A major change happened in 1958 when US currency was introduced. A new set of definitive stamps from ½ cent to $1 in a rather simple design was
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printed locally in Naha (Fig. 5). The higher values exist on different kinds of paper. The last stamp with denomination in Japanese currency was issued on 1 July 1958 (Fig. 6) and it commemorated the first ten years of Ryukyu postage stamps. The stamp has a value of 4 yen and it was printed in sheets of ten. It certainly fits nicely into a thematic collection of Stamps on Stamps. During the ensuing years the Ryukyu Postal Service released a host of interesting stamps celebrating the islands’ culture and daily life. Many stamps reflect the flora and fauna of the islands and life in the sea (Fig. 7). Five stamps marking different operas which are popular on the islands (Fig. 8) were issued in 1970. These designs were also released as souvenir sheets,
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Christer Brunström the only souvenir sheets issued by the Ryukyu Islands. The New Year was frequently celebrated with single stamps. The designs were usually based on the moon calendar (Fig. 9). The 1970s saw a lot of speculation in the stamps of Japan and the Ryukyu Islands. Investors in the USA purchased quantities of mostly modern issues in complete sheets making some issues artificially scarce. There were several US dealers who specialised in the Japanese area. When the investors and hoarders began unloading their holdings prices came tumbling down. Today most Ryukyu issues are inexpensive as there is little demand. For those looking for a new area to collect now seems to be a good time to start a Ryukyu col-
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lection. From 1952 until 1971 there was an annual Christmas seal sold for charity (Fig. 10). They exist both perforated and imperforate. They all have very modest catalogue values but finding them might be rather difficult. The Ryukyu Islands can really be recommended for all those who are looking for an interesting sideline area to collect. The stamps portrait a country with a fascinating culture and beautiful natural scenery. Few postal services have displayed their own country in the way the Ryukyu Islands postal service did. Perhaps you should consider Ryukyu stamps the next time you enjoy a drink of awamori, a liquor distilled from rice. It is one of Okinawa’s major exports.
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Stamps in the News - Globally! Safety at stake in Phoenix
Reported at www.businessinsider.com.au A postal worker cooked steak on a postal truck’s dashboard to draw attention to extreme heat — and an Arizona lawmaker wants the post office to take action. A postal worker took photos of a steak that was cooked medium on his mail truck’s dashboard over 2 1/2 hours. The photos were included in his local member’s letter to the US Postal Service’s union. “It has come to my attention that quite a few USPS employees over the past few weeks in the Phoenix area have been sent to the emergency room to deal with heat stroke and heat exhaustion.” “In a few cases, these postal carriers Timed images of the dashboard steak cooking – as tended in evihave been hospitalized for several days dence by the local member. and at least one was disoriented in their mail truck,” she said.
Live in the mail in Australia
Reported at https://www.facebook.com/ australiapost When you think of organ transport, most people would assume this is done by an Ambulance - but our humble posties are quietly helping to save lives behind the scenes. Australia Post helps to transport live organs across the country for life-saving surgeries. In 2018, 1,782 lives were transformed by 554 deceased and 238 living organ donors – many of these live organs were delivered via Australia Post, in particular, via the StarTrack Next Flight team.
Live in the mail in the USA Reported at https://www.mcall.com
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a postal delivery truck, has been spared a prison term. Wlodzimie Lapkiewicz instead was ordered to serve six months of home confinement and four years of probation. Lapkiewicz had pleaded guilty to smuggling wildlife. In July 2015, a group of live scorpions and millipedes escaped from an international express mail parcel originating in Tanzania and addressed to Lapkiewicz at his home. Despite an official warning, he continued to order live insects and invertebrates without proper permits, to July 2018.
ry of the issuance of the first stamp of Sarawak in 1869. Only 22,000 miniature sheets of the series are being produced and they are available at RM5 apiece. The MS features images of past Sarawak stamps including an image of Sarawak’s first stamp printed in gold ink. On 12 January 1869, Sir Charles Brooke, the Second Rajah of Sarawak decided that Sarawak should issue its own stamps both to facilitate commercial activities and to raise revenue. The printer was Maclure, Macdonald & Macgregor and the method of production was lithographic press. Prior to this, stamps of British India were in use
Malaysia commemorates Sarawak stamps sesquicentenary
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Stamps in the News - Globally! in Sarawak. In the period from 1869 to 1941, stamps of Sarawak bore the image of the Rajahs of the Brooke dynasty. On the 1869 stamps, in the corners are the letters “JBRS” (an abbreviation of “James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak”). Charles Brooke was depicted on stamps issued from 1871 to 1917. The last Rajah on the issues of 1918-1941 was Charles Vyner Brooke. Initially, before Sarawak was admitted to the Universal Postal Union in 1897, its stamps were valid only for delivery to Singapore, where additional stamps were affixed for further shipping.
Malaysia Marvel Superhero sell out Reported at https://www.thesundaily.my
The first Marvel Super Hero-themed stamp series by Pos Malaysia is hoped to rekindle interest in stamp collecting especially amongst the younger generation in Malaysia. A spokesman said as the younger generation today prefer to be in touch through social media rather than writing letters, they don’t see the necessity to purchase stamps. “Therefore, it is our hope that the introduction of such stamps would attract the younger population to
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collect stamps and rejuvenate the stamp collecting interest in this modern time.“ In collaboration with Walt Disney Southeast Asia, the stamp series honouring Marvel’s 80th Anniversary this year features several Marvel superheroes including Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Loki, Spider Man and many more.
Woodstock Forever
Reported at https://about.usps.com The U.S. Postal Service has issued Woodstock Forever stamps in observance of the 50th anniversary of the most famous rock festival in history. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was held in the small farming community of Bethel, NY, in August 1969. Approximately 500,000 people gathered to promote peace and love through music. The stamp design features an image of a dove along with the words “3 Days of Peace and Music,” evocative of the original 1969 promotional poster for the festival. In the stamp art, the words are stacked in the background in brilliant colours along with the year 1969, USA and Forever (the value of the stamp). The white dove stands in the foreground. The Bethel Post Office will offer a special com-
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Margo Campbell Donald Trump. The stamps depict the first handshake between Kim and Trump, their signing of a joint agreement following the summit, and the full text of the statement. A month after Kim and Trump met at the inter-Korean truce village of Panmunjeom on June 30 in their third encounter, stamps marking the event are scheduled to be released too. South Korean President Moon Jae In, who accompanied Trump to Panmunjeom, will not be appearing in the stamps. North Korea is believed to want the United States to provide security guarantees to Pyongyang. The two countries remain in a technical state of war, as the 1950-1953 Korean War ended in a cease-fire. Stamps commemorating Kim’s summits with Chinese President Xi Jinping have already been issued.
Zimbabwe stamps with political spin Reported at www.herald.co.zw memorative postmark on Aug. 16 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock music festival.
North Korea comes up Trumps Reported at https://english.kyodonews.net
A set of stamps commemorating the first-ever U.S.North Korea summit in June last year are currently on sale in the North Korean capital, although denuclearization negotiations between the two sides show little sign of moving forward. The set of three stamps was launched on the one-year anniversary of the historic summit in Singapore between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President
Zimbabwean President Mnangagwa recently unveiled commemorative stamps conveying the “Zimbabwe is open for business” message. The stamps were issued by Zimpost last year on July 18, to compliment the President’s call, under the Second Republic, of promoting economic development. In his speech, President commended Zimpost for
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Stamps in the News - Globally! countries, partners and institutions of the world. They help amplify our readiness to end years of isolation and play our part in every sphere of global development.” “We continue to call on those who have closed their doors to us to reconsider their stance by removing the albatross of sanctions.”
Docking in Bermuda supporting Government efforts in disseminating its policy. “The stamps we are unveiling thus aptly capture the spirit of the Second Republic, whose main thrust is to enhance the socio-economic development through engagement and re-engagement with all
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Reported at www.royalgazette. com Visitors to Bermuda, looking out from Spanish Point, will see a large chunk of rusted iron and frames lying on the water a little offshore. Many Bermudians today are not even aware of its significance and see it as an eyesore and an obstacle to
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boats approaching the nearby harbour. This is the remains of the Bermuda Floating Dock and a set of stamps has recently been released to commemorate its 150th anniversary– it was once the largest floating dock in the world. Bermuda’s location as a half-way point between British colonies in the Western Atlantic and Great Britain itself, was considered an important location for a dockyard, and especially a dock capable of lifting large war ships to avoid having to make the journey back to England or to the often ice-bound dockyard at Halifax. The island itself proved unsuitable for such a dockyard so the idea of a floating dock was … floated. The dock took 1,400 workers nearly three years to complete at a shipyard in England. In 1869, HM Floating Dock Bermuda began its 3,985-mile journey to the island, eventually arriving after a month’s sailing. It served the Royal Navy from 1870 until about 1904, by which time it had become too small for a new generation of war ships and was sold to a German company. The dock had been partly dismantled when it broke loose in a squall and ended up at Spanish Point where it has remained rusting away on a reef.
From the Ministry for Silly Dances Reported at https://lichfieldlive.co.uk
Royal Mail has issued new Curious Customs commemorative stamps as part of a series which depicts traditions from communities across the UK. One such stamp illustrates the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance and locals are hopeful that the stamp will lead to a tourist boom in the area. The Horn Dance is unique in Europe. Six men carrying huge reindeer antlers plus characters dressed as Maid Marian, Fool, Hobby Horse and Bowman, celebrate ancient hunting rites. They travel through the Staffordshire parish performing the dance. The design of the costumes and the dance have been preserved for hundreds of years, with the earliest reference to the horns dating from the 1630s, but they have been carbon dated to around 1000 AD. The other customs depicted on the stamps are: • Burning the Clocks, Brighton A folk festival featuring a lantern parade and a beach bonfire • ‘Obby ‘Oss, Padstow Two black hobby horses lead a May Day procession through the town. • World Gurning Championship, Egremont • A highlight of Cumbria’s annual Egremont Crab Fair. Contestants put their heads through a horse Stamp News - 21
Stamps in the News - Globally! collar and distort their faces. • Up Helly Aa, Lerwick A fire festival celebrating Shetland’s Viking heritage. • Cheese Rolling, Cooper’s Hill, Brockworth Hundreds of runners chase a Double Gloucester down a hill. • Halloween, Derry/Londonderry Europe’s biggest Halloween festival takes place over five October days. • Bog Snorkelling, Llanwrtyd Wells Swimmers race through a water-filled trench in a peat bog in Powys. Philip Parker, from the Royal Mail, said: “Communities throughout the UK have been coming together for centuries to share distinctive traditions and mark key dates of the year. “These customs continue to evolve, and our new stamps celebrate their diversity and the communities that maintain them.
Streamlined service or streamlined surveillance? Reported at www.sixthtone.com
China Post plans to replace the country’s postal codes with unique “personal address IDs” to streamline mailing in the country’s growing e-commerce industry. This means every resident in China will have a unique code that serves as a personal geographical locator. The project — a collaboration between the state postal bureau and Beijing University— will allow each resident to register for an individual postal ID using their government-issued identity card and proof of residence. However, it is unclear when the new system will replace the country’s current postal codes, which have been in use since 1980. The new postal codes are intended to be short enough for people to remember them with ease and a high degree of geographical pre22 - Stamp News
cision with each code referring to a point on a virtual grid that in turn identify real-world locations. The idea is that individuals will be able to use their government ID numbers to register for separate codes for different addresses. The codes will allow couriers to identify both the recipient and intended delivery address for any parcel. Experts involved in the project also believe that the new system will prove beneficial to the courier industry amid an ever-increasing number of deliveries, driven in large part by online shopping. Last year, domestic couriers handled over 50 billion parcels, according to the State Post Bureau.
Turkey takes to the sea
Reported at www.dailysabah.com Turkey’s Post and Telegraph Organization (PTT) has launched the “Sea Postal Services,” a revolutionary service developed using specially designed vessels to reach tourist sites experiencing a population surge in the summer months. “The sea postal vessel will enable us to make sure that we reach the hard-to-reach citizens on time,” a spokesman said. The services will be initiated in Istanbul and followed by the southern resort towns of Marmaris and Bodrum as well as islands in various places in the country. The sea postal services will allow people who are unable to reach a PTT outlet on land to carry out all transactions, including cash transactions, postal and logistics services.
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Royal Mail takes to the air Reported at www.ladbible.com
A Royal Mail postal worker has gone above and beyond to prove that perfect aim really isn’t that tricky by managing to lob someone’s parcel through an open upstairs window. Laura Chaisty, came home to find a note from a Royal Mail worker that explained they’d tried to deliver a parcel while she was out. The note read: “Your top window was wide open, I threw it in there.” And, lo and behold, her package was lying on
the bed in a room upstairs, waiting for her. You’ll notice that the parcel was lobbed through an upstairs window, which doesn’t look like an easy shot to make. Laura said “The post woman has contacted me and she got it in the window first try, which is pretty impressive! She even managed to lob it straight onto my bed.” The post soon went viral, and has now racked up 8,000 likes and more than 8,400 shares on Facebook. Thankfully the parcel did not contain anything fragile.
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1924 £1 Roo Third Watermark fresh CTO with gum rare “OS” Perf:
One of the great Rarities of the Kangaroo series. ACSC tells us Archive Records now show only 20 copies were added to Specimen packs, before someone woke up that they all SHOULD have been overprinted “SPECIMEN”. And not perforated OS, and corner cancelled here - as was the policy with the 10/- face values and lower of this Third Watermark. From a nice collection formed in 1960s that I bought recently - this has not been on the market for 50 years. No hinge remains, with original gum, (others I have seen have had gum washed off, losing the lovely facial “sheen”) and has really deep rich colour, and lovely perfs for these - MOST £1 Thirds have Fluffy/Woolly, and/or non-punched out ones. Missing from 99% of ‘’OS’’ collections - this is the ONLY way to secure this value. Also has a nice plate “Accent” flaw above the L of AUSTRALIA, that is larger than the 2 newly listed nearby specks, ACSC 53G/H etc - which are cat double normal! I keep EVERY Australian stamp in stock 1913-1980 and in FIVE grades for each, from Spacefiller to Superb Used, to suit EVERY budget. I have EASILY the world’s largest stock of used Roos, normal and “OS”. I have this exact stamp in stock from $150 to $600 in cost, depending on how fussy or non-fussy you are! Contact me re your Australia USED gaps. Read up on Used Kangaroo Grading here - tinyurl.com/GlenJune19 Almost NEVER seen on the market - at any price, at any time. 105% guaranteed as genuine OS with gum of course, from an original European source. The ACSC value of this - with just 20 copies sold, is absurdly, just a few times more than the price of the non OS CTO used stamp, of which 610,640 stamps were issued. So these “OS” clearly SHOULD be priced 300 times higher than non OS! Near every collection on the planet is missing this £1 Third Wmk in ANY form used - and ALL Roo Perf “OS” collections are missing this rarity for sure! Have not had one in stock for years. With no variety it is - ACSC 53c, $A2,250, and SG 078 £1,000 = $A2,000+, for only about $US950! $A1,400 (Stock 947KA)
GB 1840 2d Pale Blue - FU 4 margin - SG $2,500 for $A700:
This is 179 years old now, and vast numbers have been repaired and tampered with in that time. Clean and fresh, and totally free of gook and gunk and old hinges, very common on these to hide all kinds of faults. Bright colour, and razor-sharp impression as you can see. Totally free of the thins, creases, old hinges, and toning that truly be-devil this issue - which ARE present on most examples. “The World’s First Stamp” and sourcing a nice one from day #1 is wise. Even a 2 margin roughie these days can cost you $300 these days! Lettered “A.E.” with lovely red, and unusually light complete Maltese Cross cancel as you can see - SG lists RED MX at £250 higher than the far more common and less attractive BLACK. Every collector wants a “Penny Black” and “2d Blue” on the frontispiece page of their album, no matter what country they collect - if your initials are “A.E.” - even better! Four great margins - quite massive along top. ANY 2d blue is FIFTY times scarcer than any 1d Black - FACT, despite the weird cat prices. SG #6, and with Red MX cat is £250 extra in SG, so £1,250 = $A2,500 - and bought well to clear at just - $A700 (Stock 483JR)
NSW 1853 8d orange QV Laurete, fault free VFU:
The no watermark blued paper classic. VFU 3½ margins, and totally fault free - a real miracle on these! USUALLY these have thins, creases, repairs and/or foxing/toning - and old hinges to generally hide all the above! NONE of those here, and 105% GUARANTEED by me to be totally free of issues, or faults or repairs - of ANY kind. Very light cancel for these, that often have heavy inked barred KILLERS, and a wonderful superbly sharp early plate impression, and the deepest richest colour you will ever see. From an well-known NSW collection. THIS shade in my experience is TEN times scarer than the yellow, despite SG rating them about the same. One day that will change. This orange shade SHOULD be £1,500 used in SG. SG 81, £650 = $A1,300. Juzwin retail $675 for average grade, way inferior to this. $A475 (Stock 472AJ)
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Postal Stationery Welcome to the postal stationery column for September 2019. This month’s column looks at the aerogrammes issued by Honduras.
Honduras Aerogrammes
Honduras issued its first aerogrammes in 1959 in a set of four; 10c Flag (Figure 1), 12c President Dr Ramon Villeda Morales (Figure 2), President of Honduras from 1957 to 1963, 15c Mayan Ruins (Figure 3) and 25c General Franciso Morazan (Figure 4) who was a President of the Central American Federation which existed from 1824 until 1838 and comprised Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador and who before becoming president was the head of the state of Honduras. The different denominations represented the different aerogramme rates to various parts of the world, for example, 12c was the aerogramme rate to the USA. Honduran currency is the Lempira (L) which is divided into 100 centavos. The 15c aerogramme exists with a printed Christmas scene and Christmas greetings inside the form. No further aerogrammes were issued until 1976 when the 10c flag aerogramme and the 12c Dr Morales aerogrammes were revalued to L 0.16, with an overprint of the new value and two lines cancelling the denomination expressed in words (Figures 5). Commencing in 1993 Honduras issued a series of greeting aerogrammes. The first was an aeroRight top to bottom : Figure 1 10c Flag Aerogramme Figure 2 12c President Dr Ramon Morales Aerogramme Figure 3 15c Mayan Ruins Aerogramme Facing page Left column top to bottom : Figure 4 25c General Franciso Morazan Aerogramme Figure 5 L0.16 on12c Aerogramme Figure 6 Father’s Day Greetings Aerogramme Facing page Right column top to bottom : Figure 7 1993 Mother’s Day Greetings Aerogramme Figure 8 1993Christmas Aerogramme Figure 9 1994 Love and Friendship Day Aerogramme 26 - Stamp News
Ian McMahon
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Postal Stationery gramme for ‘February Month of Love and Friendship’ with a stamp design depicting a stylised hamster was issued in February 1993. The aerogramme was non-denominated being inscribed ‘Porte Pagado’ [Postage Paid]. In Honduras, the Day of Love and Friendship (also known as Saint Valentine’s Day) is celebrated on 14 February. The advantage of the celebration of Saint Valentine’s day in Honduras, is that by calling it ‘Love and Friendship Day’, people without a romantic partner do not feel so marginalized in the celebration, as may happen in other countries such as Australia. In March 1993 an aerogramme for Father’s Day greetings was issued (Figure 6). Also undenominated it featured two stylised birds, presumably father and Son and is inscribed ‘Felicidades en el Dia del Padre’ [Greetings on Father’s Day]’ and was on green paper. Father’s Day in Honduras is on 19 March and not in September as it is in Australia. In June 1993 an aerogramme was issued for Mother’s Day greetings (Figure 7). The aerogramme was denominated L 1.00 and was on pink paper. It shows a boy presenting his mother with a present and is inscribed ‘Felicidades en el Dia de la madre’ [Greetings on Mother’s Day]’. Mother’s Day falls on the second Sunday in May as it does in Australia. A Christmas aerogramme was issued in November 1993 (Figure 8). It was denominated L 1.00 and shows a church and village scene. A Love and Friendship Day aerogramme was issued in February 1994 with a stylised ladybird design (Figure 9). It was denominated L 1.00 and was inscribed ‘Felicidades en el mes de la Amistad y el Amor’ [Congratulations in the month of Friendship and Love]’ In May 1996 a final greetings aerogramme Right top to bottom : Figure 10 1996 Orchid Greeting Aerogramme Figure 11 L0.80 on15c Revalued Aerogramme Figure 12 L2.50 Double Overprint on L0.16/12c Aerogramme 28 - Stamp News
Ian McMahon was issued (Figure 10). Undenominated it depicted an Orchid and the greeting ‘Felicidades en tu dia’ [Greetings on Your Day]. In 1995 due to changes in aerogramme rates, the four 1959 and the two 1976 revalued aerogrammes were all revalued by a handstamp comprising a boxed ‘HONDURAS and the new value to L 0.80 and to L 2.50 resulting in twelve varieties (Figure 11); L 0.80 on 10c Flag, L 2.50 on 10c Flag, L 0.80 on 12c Ramon Morales, L 2.50 on 12c Ramon Morales, L 0.80 on 15c Mayan Ruins, L 2.50 on 15c Mayan Ruins, L 0.80 on 25c General Franciso Morazan, L 2.50 on 25c General Franciso Morazan, L 0.80 on L 0.16 on 10c Flag, L 2.50 on L 0.16 on 10c Flag, L 0.80 on L 0.16 on 12c Ramon Morales, and L 2.50 on L 0.16 on 12c Ramon Morales. A number of varieties of these aerogrammes exist including double overprints (Figure 12) and missing lines (Figure 13) which obliterate the old values on the L 0.80 on L 0.16 on 10c Flag and L 2.50 on L 0.16 on 10c Flag aerogrammes.
Neuer Ganzsachen-Katalog Aerogramme Amerika [New Postal Stationery Catalogue – Aerogrammes of the Americas]
Information on the aerogrammes of Central and South American countries can be found in the ‘Neuer Ganzsachen-Katalog Aerogramme Amerika’ [New Postal Stationery Catalogue – Aerogrammes of the Americas] published in 2014 by the Berliner Ganzsachen-Smmler-Vereins Left above : Figure 13 L2.50 Overprint on L0.16/10c Aerogramme With the Original Value in Words Not Obliterated Left below : Figure 14 Catalogue of the Aerogrammes of the Americas Stamp News - 29
Postal Stationery [Berlin Postal Stationery Society] and the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Aerogramme [Aerogramme Society]. The Catalogue (Figure 14) is published in German. The Catalogue also includes the aerogrammes of Canada and the USA as well as those of the countries of the West Indies. While comprehensive catalogues exist in English for the aerogrammes of the USA and Canada, information on the issues of the countries of the West Indies and central and south America can be difficult to find.
3c George V Canada Stamped Envelope ‘SALVED FROM THE SEA’
Collectors of postal stationery can add interest to their collection by including postal stationery which have been used to unusual destinations, used for additional Top: Figure 15 Canada 3c King George VI Envelope ‘SALVED FROM THE SEA’ services such as registration Below : Figure 16 Reverse of Canada 3c King George VI Envelope or air mail or which have interesting postal history submarine, U-48, on 7 June 1940 off the NW Coast markings. of Ireland near Tory Island. The badly damaged Eros An example of the latter is Canada 3c King was taken in tow by HMS Berkeley and the surviGeorge VI stamped envelope shown in Figure 15 vors were picked up by HMS Paynter. The ship was which was sent registered mail from Vancouver beached on Tory Island and was later salvaged and to Dewsbury, England with the additional adherepaired. sive stamp washed off and the cachet ‘SALVED After the war the ship was registered in Canada FROM THE SEA’ and a ‘PASSED BY CENSOR’ for Eros Transport Co (Standard Fruit Co), Halifax handstamp. In addition, it has resealing tape on the and used for transporting bananas. However, in 1963 reverse, a Liverpool receiving postmark and the front it was renamed the Trangie for Rigryth Ltd, Sydney and back of the cover have separated. and was engaged in a ‘pioneering’ (and controversial) The letter had been carried on board SS Eros, a live sheep trade across the Pacific to Mexico with British steam merchant ship owned by Morant SS many of the sheep dying enroute. It was broken up in Co Ltd Belfast, which was torpedoed by the German March 1968 at Kaohsiung, Taiwan. 30 - Stamp News
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Cinderella Corner Welcome to the September edition of Cinderella Corner. This article deals with two rather contrasting themes and considers their presence in Australian cinderella philately: i) Kodak Australia, and ii) pest control. I welcome, as usual, feedback about this article and other examples of labels relevant to these two themes that may exist.
Part I – Kodak
Kodak was, and continues to be, a goliath in the photography landscape. The Eastman Kodak Company, commonly simplified and referred to as ‘Kodak’, was founded in 1888 by Americans George Eastmen (1854 – 1932) and Henry A. Strong (1838 – 1919). With its headquarters in New York, Kodak is best known for its photographic film products. Kodak Australia was formed in Melbourne in 1908 and, in 1920, the company was registered as Kodak (Australasia) Pty. Ltd. The four Kodak labels explored in this Cinderella Corner article all herald from Australia. The cinderella illustrated in Figure 1 measures 42mm x 63mm, is imperforate on all four sides, and is coloured yellow, red, black and cream. It features the text: USE KODAK FILM / Enter the £20,000 KODAK PICTURE COMPETITION The label dates to 1931 when the Kodak Picture Competition ran, with a closing date of 31 May. While primarily targeted to Melbournians, Australia-wide entries were accepted, with smaller monetary prizes offered for these ‘wider entries’. The uniquely shaped cinderella illustrated in Figure
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Figure 1
Figure 2
2 measures 65mm (height) x 52mm (maximum width), is coloured orange, green and white, and features the extensive text: YOUR NEGATIVES ARE ENCLOSED IN A PROTECTIVE ENVELOPE TO PREVENT DAMAGE / DO NOT HANDLE THE NEGATIVES IN THIS ENVELOPE UNDULY / WHEN RE-ORDERING ENTRUST TO THE KODAK PANCHROMATIC SERVICE / DEVELOPING . PRINITNG. ENLARGENING The label likely dates to the late 1930s or 1940s; it has been seen affixed to the reverse of a Melbourne Kodak -printed envelope dated 1940. A colour proof copy of the cinderella also exists and is housed in the Museums Victoria collection, where it has a suggested production date of circa-1930s. It is part of a scrapbook compiled by Kodak Australasia. The multicoloured label illustrated in Figure 3 measures 88mm x 58mm and is imperforate on two sides. It features a sweeping view of Melbourne and
Figure 4
Vito Milana Figure 7 corner of the label. Like the Kodak cinderella illustrated in Figure 1, the label features a deep yellow background, which is often associated with Kodak and its products. Figure 5
Figure 6
the Yarra River, and a small plane is seen in the top left corner. The cinderella also has the text: COME TO MELBOURNE 1934 – 1935 Centenary Celebrations / AND BRING YOUR KODAK TOO The label is one of many produced by various organisations to help promote the many Melbourne 1934-1935 centenary celebrations. While indirectly referring Kodak products, the candid expression ‘AND BRING YOUR KODAK TOO’ suggests a familiarity with Kodak and its capacity to capture celebratory moments through photography. The final Kodak label, illustrated on the cover in Figure 4, measures 65mm x 61mm. It is coloured yellow, red and black, and is imperforate on all sides. The label is a self-addressed one, produced by Kodak for its customers to retain and use when posting negatives, amongst other items, to the company. The address on the label reads: TO G.P.O. BOX 46A / KODAK (AUSTRALASIA) PTY. LTD. / 37 RUNDLE STREET. ADELAIDE The cover also features a 1941 postmark and a manufacturing marker KF 51 in the bottom right hand
Part II – Pest Control
Through a number of approaches, ranging from the production of household sprays to border agricultural control, pest alleviation efforts have been made across Australia for many decades. Several cinderellas have been issued with this theme, and a few are now explored.
Stop Fruit Fly
Figure 5 illustrates a label advocating the prevention of fruit flies. Measuring 31mm x 37mm, multicoloured and rouletted 7 on three sides, the cinderella features the text: STOP FRUIT FLY / DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE VICTORIA This label likely dates to the 1960s. During this time, in 1964, the Victorian Government produced a pamphlet titled You can stop fruit fly: Protect Victoria’s fruit. Figure 6 illustrates a similar label, also likely dated to the 1960s. This cinderella measures 31mm x 38mm, is multicoloured, and is perforated 11 on all four sides. It also features identical text to the label presented in Figure 5. Figure 7 illustrates a block of 20 of this label.
Plant Quarantine
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The text-rich label illustrated in Figure 8 measures 45mm x 63mm, is coloured green and white, and is perforated 11 on three sides. It features the warning: Keep Australia clean – by Plant Quarantine / Prevent Stamp News - 33
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Figure 13
Taylor’s Number 13 DDT Spray was an Australian insecticide product sold throughout Australia, with a peak presence in the 1940s. Of note, it was advertised and sold at Agricultural shows, including those held in Brisbane and Sydney. The label is scarce.
Bad For Blowflies
spread of insect pests and diseases of plants; don’t carry flowers, fruits, vegetables or seedlings when you travel… / ISSUED BY THE COMMONWEALTH DEPARTMEWNT OF HEALTH. The label likely dates to the 1970s.
The three cinderellas illustrated across Figures 11 to 13 each measure 36mm x 39mm. They are also each perforated 11 on all sides, with the following colours arrangements: Figure 11 – light green and red Figure 12 – blue and yellow Figure 13 – red and blue It is likely that other colour varieties exist. Each label features the text: BAD FOR BLOWFLIES / WAY-BLO SHEEP OIL It appears that the product was made popular in the 1940s. WAY-BLO was used as a way to prevent flies from attacking sheep by killing various forms of blowfly-attracting bacteria. During this time, the company had offices in Melbourne and Sydney.
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Conclusion
Figure 14
The label illustrated in Figure 9 is likely a Melbourne production and dates to the early 1950s. Imperforate on all sides and coloured red, blue, white and black, the cinderella measures 33mm x 45mm. It features the text: vSelect a PESPROF D.D.T INSECTICIDE / FOR ORCHARD, FARM & GARDEN PEST CONTROL Of note, DDT, also known as dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, is one of the most controversial chemical compounds in recent history, and while effective as an insecticide, it has reported toxic properties not just limited to insects.
Taylor’s Number 13 D.D.T. Spray
The cinderella illustrated in Figure 10 measures 50mm x 65mm, is multi-coloured and imperforate on all sides. It features the text:vREMEMBER best-seller! / Taylor’s NUMBER 13 D.D.T. SPRAY KEEPS ON KILLING FOR WEEKS / UNLUCKY FOR FLIES / also POWDER & EMULSION 34 - Stamp News
Broadening your cinderella collecting interests beyond commonly explored themes, such as patriotism, Red Cross, and Philatelic Exhibitions, is both rewarding and fascinating. Even areas such as Kodak and photographic practices, or the measures taken to help prevent and remove pests, while elusive, can be enjoyable to explore. There are likely to exist other cinderella examples of these two topics and, as usual, I welcome any readers who have additional scans to share or can offer some further information about the scope of these areas.
The Cinderella Boundary
My friend and Secretary and Life Member of the Wagga Stamp Club, Peter Simpfendorfer, offered the scan illustrated in Figure 14. The Western Australia VASSE RIVER RESORT (Busselton, WA) label, affixed to the right, is represented as a modern adhesive sticker. With this in mind, Peter raised an interesting point: how can one tell that a label / sticker is a cinderella? I am keen to receive some feedback and comments from readers about this.
BUY OR BID SALE SEPTEMBER 2019 Buy now at the listed price or bid a lower figure. Bids will be considered until 30th September 2019 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; 65% - 74% will have a reasonable chance of success. Bids 50% to 64% will have minimal chance of success, but still worth a try. Bids below 50% are respectfully declined. 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 list price above $500 are post free within Australia. Layby welcome for orders above $500. Scans or colour photocopies of individual stamps, covers or sets are available on request. Many smaller items, including many that are not on this list may be found in our eBay listings. Our store name is 21st-century-auctions Postage and insurance extra, Free within Australia above $500 for items purchased at full price. 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 (Excluding packets, mixtures, collections and items with certificates, these items are not returnable unless significantly mis-described and then only for credit or exchange, not for refund) Accessories & Publications Stockbook spectacular! Mix and match for the deal that suits you best, way cheaper than eBay! All famous German made brands. SSP1) Lighthouse LUXURY METALLIC FINISH GOLD, SILVER OR BRONZE 64 black page padded stockbooks RRP $90 each, price on eBay $88.95 post paid, price here $77.50 each SSP2) Ka - Be, one of the most respected German manufacturers now has a 64 black page padded binder stockbook, with double linen hinging. Price on eBay $69.50 post paid, my price $55 each Colours available are Black, Blue, Green or Maroon SSP3) Prinz 64 black page hard cover stockbooks RRP $81.75 each, price on eBay $87.50 post paid, price here $73 each, Black, Brown Blue, Green or Maroon SSP4) Prinz 32 black page hard cover stockbooks, price on eBay $49.50 post paid, price here $35 each, Black, Brown Blue, Green or Maroon. SSP5) Mix and match any three stockbooks from the above list and save $5 from each stockbook SSP6) Mix and match any five stockbooks from the above list and save $7.50 from each stockbook SSP7) Mix and match any ten stockbooks from the above list and save $10 from each stockbook Other Accessories And Publications ACC17) VST Pre-Decimal Coin Album, post type with spaces for all Australian coins 3d to Crown 1910 – 1964. Available in Black, Blue, Brown, Green or Burgundy. Price on eBay $54.50, price here $39.95 ACC16) 1896- 1897 Gibbons Stamp Monthly! 12 editions from January – June 1896 and July – December 1897. Fantastic mine of information for collectors of 19th Century. These are in very good condition for their age. Other editions may also be available. Step back into your Grandparent’s day, over 120 years old! Less than $20 each, $239 the lot!
ACC15) Pre-owned empty stockbooks in decent condition. Good brands, no oriental rubbish! Mix of sizes and brands. Cheap storage! 5kg lot for $99, 10kg for $195 ACC14) Ka-Be red padded multi ring album and slipcase, decent condition. New price $125, just $39 ACC13) Schaubek padded springback binders in good condition, new price $79 each. 2 blue, 1 red, 1 green. Price $79 the four ACC12) Springback binders x 5 large plus 1 medium, in reasonable condition, various colours. New price $59 each! $89 the lot. YB1) Australia Post Yearbooks, 2000 – 2012 minus the stamps. In original plastic sleeves and slipcases, as new. A mine of information here. Leave as is or fill up at your leisure. $65 the lot. ACC11) Tekraft Magnifying Aid with Adjustable Stand Dies Cast Metal Base (100mm Lens 2.5x Mag) Price $39.50 (1 only) ACC12) Stamp Tweezers – Pouched. VST Brand Solingen Stainless Steel, 150mm Pointed End. Listed retail $18.70, price under a half….One pair for $9.50, 2 for $17.50 Dealer special, 5 pairs for $40, 10 pairs for $75 ACC9) Super Clip-on Eye Glass Magnifier - with Protective Pouch - 2x Magnification, Clear acrylic Optical clarity for every day usage Distortion free Shatterproof price $17 ACC7) Lighthouse - Mini UV Lamp model L75. Long wave. Operates on 2 x AA Batteries (not supplied) Price $17 ACC6) Lumagny - 6x Illuminated Magnifying Glass - 1.25inch Diameter. Compact High power For artists, engineers, hobbyists, photographers, scientists, stamp collectors and students Takes two AA Batteries (not supplied) Price $18 ACC10) 75mm Diameter 5x Magnification Stand Loupe Prefocused dual Handsfree observation Clear acrylic base permits ambient light to illuminate subject for clear, bright, viewing. Price $35. Also available 7 x Magnification 50mm diameter for $29, 10 x Magnification 30mm diameter for $25 ACC1) Prinz Guillotine 7004 - 170mm. The Cutting Machine with many advantages: *High precision cutting *Simple handling *Solid construction *Self-sharpening stainless steel blade. Price $75 ACC2) Prinz Guillotine 7001 - 100mm. PRINZ cutting tools are an indispensable tool for all collectors who want to cut their Prinz strips themselves. The encapsulated measuring scale and the movable stop angle allow precise, quick cutting to any desired size. The blade made of special stainless steel sharpens automatically at the edge of hardened steel with every cut. The sturdy stand and the even stronger cutting lever. Max. 100 mm cutting width. Price $47 ACC3) Hands-Free Magnifier - Bi-Focal Lens - 110mm. Comes with adjustable around the neck cord for a comfortable fit. Magnification is 1.5X with 4.25X bifocal segment for fine detail. Price $25 AAP15) Seven Seas Hingeless Album 1914 – 1987 complete, inc. Dues, Framas etc. in Deep Green Padded Binder, near new, cost $299. Lacks pages only for Kangaroos & KGV Heads. Bargain price only $149 AAP16) Australian Antarctic Territory 1957 – 2007 Seven Seas Hingeless Album in Brown Padded binder with slipcase, as new. Cost price approx. $149. Price under a half $69 AAP17) PW Postcard Album, brand new. Burgundy padded 4 ring binder with gold blocking. Spaces for 60 postcards to view both sides, and 120 single sides. Listed price $69, only $39 to clear. AP13) Ka-Be Stockbooks. Clearing our shelves of almost as new (some may just be old stock that got a little shop soiled) 64 white page padded cover, available in Black, Green or Blue. Retail $64. Half price, $32 each, carton of 5 for $155
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BUY OR BID SALE SEPTEMBER 2019 AAP11) Scott Specialty Album for AAT & Christmas Island 1957 – 2011 near new. Regular for earlier years, then Hingeless from 1990. Supplied in Heavy Duty Dark Green Binder. Current retail around $295, price $149 PZM1) Prinz Mounts, clear, mixed sizes, as they come, big bag of 500g, elsewhere $89, my price $69…will keep you going for ages! AMMY2) As new Stocksheets, some never used. Mix of brands like Hagner, Prinz & Eureka. Now at UNDER HALF NEW PRICE OF $175 per 100 our choice of sizes. Single sided sizes available 1 - 3 strips, $72.50 per 100. Double sided available in 1 – 5 strips, $137.50 per 100. ACC1) Australia Comprehensive Catalogue Hard Bound Edition, with Spiral Bound Update. This is the most recent edition with most prices still being current. Prices for all Australia, Australian States and AAT in semi-specialised listings, every stamp illustrated in full colour. Contains issues to 2010. Originally sold via Bookshops and Newsagencies at $99, clear-out price of less than 25%, and $24 per set. Re-sellers special….5 sets for $99! MN41) Magnificent Magnifier: Large 110mm Illuminated Magnifier with Stand This magnifier can be used with or without the base. It is suitable for stamp and coin collectors as well as art and craft, artists etc. Magnification: 2.5x, plus 4x Spot. Diameter: 110mm, bigger than the Lighthouse similar product. Battery operated: 2 x AA (not included). Adjustable height up to 200mm and angle to 45 degrees. RRP $36.95. Price each only $15, under 50% retail! $69 per 5 why not gives away to friends and relations, or does some trading? AAP7) Schaubek Drying Books, A4 with 12 drying sheets, just arrived. We only have 10 of these. On eBay at $27.99 plus $5 postage, my price $30 post free, two for $55. Cinderellas and Revenues T80) Tasmania, Independent Order of Oddfellows National Bank of Australia Illustrated cheque in red of 26 AUG 1906 in the sum of £19/9s/8d. Bears Tasmania 1s Blue Stamp Duty cancelled by date in red manuscript. Rare survivor! Price $249 T77) Tasmania, Tatlow’s Royal Mail Coaches Illustrated photo in blue of Coach & Horses outside Post Office. 1905 National Bank of Tasmania Cheque of 6th March for £1/1/- Fine condition and scarce. Bears Tasmania 1d Blue Stamp Duty manuscript cancelled with date. Price $89 T75) Tasmania, Tatlow’s Royal Mail Coaches Illustrated photo in blue of Coach & Horses outside Post Office on 14th March 1905 National Bank of Tasmania Cheque of 14th March for £6/13/- Fine condition and scarce. Bears Tasmania 1d Blue Stamp Duty manuscript cancelled with date. Price $89 T76) Tasmania, Tatlow’s Royal Mail Coaches Illustrated photo in blue of Coach & Horses outside Post Office. 1905 National Bank of Tasmania Cheque of 17th March for £10 Fine condition and scarce. Bears Tasmania 1d Blue Stamp Duty manuscript cancelled with date. Price $89 T78) Tasmania, Tatlow’s Royal Mail Coaches Illustrated photo in blue of Coach & Horses outside Post Office. 1905 National Bank of Tasmania Cheque of 2nd Oct. for £11 Fine condition and scarce. Bears Tasmania 1d Blue Stamp Duty manuscript cancelled with date. Price $89 T74) Tasmania, Tatlow’s Royal Mail Coaches Illustrated photo in blue of Coach & Horses outside Post Office. 1907 National Bank of Tasmania Cheque of 7th Jan. for £1/17s/3d Fine condition and scarce. Has Impressed Tasmania 1d Stamp Duty. Price $89 T73) Tasmania, Tatlow’s Royal Mail Coaches Illustrated photo in blue of Coach & Horses outside Post Office. 1913 National Bank of Tasmania Numbered Cheque of 4th Sep. for £20/7s/9d Fine condition and scarce. Has Impressed Tasmania 1d Stamp Duty. Price $89
CN8) Collection of 22 DIFFERENT Pristine, mint unhinged minisheets and sheetlets of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway 1992 - 2000. All are illustrated and detailed below. The stamps have a 2008 Catalogue Value of Over 260 Euros, around AUD$350 (Phillips British Locals Philatelic Agency, Vol. 3). The North Yorkshire Moors Railway Letter Stamps set a new standard for Railway Stamps in the UK, producing high quality perforated stamps using commissioned photography and artwork, professional publishing and design studios, and internationally recognised stamp printers such as Walsall Security Printers. The North Yorkshire Moors Railway (formerly the Whitby and Pickering Railway) was reopened to the public on 22nd April 1973. The line runs from Whitby to Pickering, serving Grosmont, Goathland, Newtondale Halt and Levisham. The NYMR signed the agreement for the Railway Letter Service in August 1976, but didn’t introduce the Service until April 1981. Price for the lot, under $10 each, $210 CN8) Australia 1934 Melbourne Centenary labels complete Flora & Fauna sheet of 20 fresh mint, hinged only in corners. Minor gum toning to 2. Features Lyrebird, Koala, Crimson Rosella, Platypus, Kangaroo, Kookaburra, Australian Magpie, Wattle, Tree Fern, Eucalypt Gum Tree, Flowering Gum & Fuchsia. Scarce is such fine condition. Single labels are listed on eBay at $10 each. Price $195 CN10) Australia 1934 Christmas Scouts Jamboree edition of Melbourne Centenary labels complete Flora & Fauna sheet of 20 fresh mint, hinged only in corners. Features Lyrebird, Koala, Crimson Rosella, Platypus, Kangaroo, Kookaburra, Australian Magpie, Wattle, Tree Fern, Eucalypt Gum Tree, Flowering Gum & Fuchsia. Scarce is such fine condition. This Jamboree sheet is very rare! Price $395 CN11) Australia 1934 Victorian Centenary labels sheet of 25, mint with gum. Shows scenes such as The Shrine of Remembrance, Exhibition Buildings, Royal Melbourne Show, Horseracing, Gold Panning etc. 25 different labels. These sell for $10 each on eBay. Minor faults, and some gum toning not visible form front. Has been split into a panes of 15 and 10. Could easily be re-joined with hinges. Price $225 CN1) Australia Pals Labels Minisheet. Reprinted set of 6 labels. Emu, Kangaroo, Koala, Platypus, Lyrebird & Kookaburra. Price $29 CN2) Australia 1934 Victoria Centenary reprinted 1st set of 25 labels. Platypus, Rosella, Koala, Lyrebird Kookaburra, Magpie, Kangaroo etc. Price $29 CN3) Australia 1934 Victoria Centenary reprinted 2nd set of 25 labels. Plane, Wheat, Vineyard, Gold Panning etc. Price $29 CN4) Australia Commonwealth Beer Duty Labels, complete reprinted set of 26, 2 gallons to 400 gallons, Rouletted. Price $39 CN5) Australia set of 12 full colour Unadopted Essay sheetlets. Produced some years back in a limited edition of 2500. We have just 4 sets available at $69 per set. HR1/6) Hutt River Province 1986 Australian Wildflowers Original Artwork of the 6 accepted designs in full colour. Each measures 130 x 185. Unique! Price $1750 SPECIAL OFFERS of Papua New Guinea If you collect this territory we have excellent stocks of both mint and used. I reckon our prices to be at least 20% cheaper than other major dealers, so please let us have your wants lists. In the meantime here are some specials! PNG5) PNG 1990 Year set mint unhinged, 7 complete issues plus set of 3 Framas, price $23.50 PNG14) PNG 2003 Anniv. Of Powered Flight. Minisheet & sheetlet, SG 987/88 mint unhinged cat. £11, price $9.95 PNG13) PNG 2003 Tree Kangaroo sheetlet of 4 sets, SG 989/92, cat. £28, stunning price $7.95
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BUY OR BID SALE SEPTEMBER 2019 PNG10) PNG 2004 Dolphin surcharges blocks of 4 mint unhinged, price $4.95 PNG12) PNG 2005 Mushrooms minisheet SG MS 1090 mint unhinged, cat. £5.50, price $4.95 PNG21) PNG 2007 Orchids, 1st personalised stamps. 3.35K in sheet of 20 with Orchid in Tab, SG 1179, cat. £75, so cheap at only $23.95 PNG17) PNG 2007 Orchids, 1st personalised stamps. 5.35K in sheet of 20 with Orchid in Tab, SG 1180, cat. £120, so cheap at only $23.95 PNG18) as above, but with Port Moresby Waterfront in Tab, price $23.95 PNG7) PNG 2007 Contemporary Art Minisheet SG MS 1220, cat. £12.20 mint unhinged, price $8.95 PNG11) PNG 2008 World Aids Day 10K Minisheet, SG MS 1285 mint unhinged. Cat. £14, price $7.95 Collections & Lots IMPORTANT! When buying collections and lots you are buying at a fraction of retail for the individual stamps. There are times when some stamps may not be perfect; we simply do not have time to check every item. We regret that we are not able to accept individual stamps or sets for return from these lots. Our 14 day guarantee covers return of complete lots for credit only against future purchases, not for a refund. CAU1) Massive lots of Australia KGV to modern-ish ex deceased estates. On Hagners, in stockbooks, albums, pages, loose off paper etc, must be over 20,000 stamps, mostly used but some mint. No stamps on paper! Noted KGV to 1/4d, Kangaroos to 10/-, Decimals to $10 etc. Condition very mixed, but will repay sorting…weeks of fun here! Weighs 20kg! Great value at $595. (Half lot for $325 with Kangaroos to 5/- at $325) CAU2) Similar to the above but Worldwide as above (no Australia) 20kg for $595, 10kg for $325. CAU3) GB Modest used collection on leaves and in glassine envelope 1841 – 1953. Commences 1841 2d Red Brown imperf. Lettered R A, nice 4 margin example, also 2/6d & 5/- Seahorses, duplicated KGVI Square High Values inc. 10/- Dark Blue & £1 Brown x 3, 1948 Silver Wedding £1 plus 1951 Festival £ x 3. Nice little lot for $59. CAU4) Our own incoming mail, from the past 6 months. Australia Only. Wide variety of stamps and postmarkings, including a lot of new issues. This always sells well. 1kg for $85, 1 lot only available. CAU5) As above, but Worldwide. 1 lot of 500g only available $49 CAU6) Fiji Collection from 1953-2000. the retail value is over $1800. It is on Seven Seas pages, MUH, in 2 padded slipcases & binder. Albums alone cost $100s! Clean & with a high level of completion. Price $1275 CAU8) Norfolk Island Collection 1947-2000. It is on Seven Seas pages, MUH, in 2 padded slipcases & binders. Albums alone cost $100s! Clean & with a high level of completion. Price $1049 CAU9) Nauru Collection 1916-2000. It is on Seven Seas pages, MUH, in slipcase & binder. Album alone cost $100s! Clean & with a high level of completion. (Missing Seahorses.) Price $975 CAU10) Cocos Keeling Islands. 1963-2001. It is on Seven Seas pages, MUH, in padded slipcase & binder. Clean & with a high level of completion. Album alone cost $100s! Includes the $5 overprinted Airmail & full set of 1990-1 Postage paid provisional overprints. Price $975
CAU11) Samoa: 1962-Feb 2000. It is on Seven Seas pages, MUH, in 2 padded slipcases & binders. Albums alone cost $100s! Clean & with a high level of completion, price $1125 CAU12) Pitcairn Islands 1940-2000. It is on Seven Seas pages, MUH, in padded slipcase & binder. Album alone cost $100s! Clean & with a high level of completion, price $1169 CAU13) Christmas Island 1958-2001. It is on Seven Seas pages, MUH, in padded slipcase & binder. Album alone cost $100s! Clean & with a high level of completion, $659 CJU1) Iceland new collection of 300 different mint unhinged, just arrived. Wide range of issues covering many years, mainly large pictorials. Price $98 CJU2) Iceland new collection of 100 mint unhinged blocks of 4. Wide range of issues, covering many years. Hard to repeat, price $98 CJU3) Greenland, 300 different, very wide ranging. Seen on another dealer’s list from the UK for $745 Save $500! Our price just $245 CJU4) Greenland 200 different Mint Unhinged. Great starter collection, price $145 CJU5) As above, but 100 different, price $69.50 CJU8) The 1983 Commonwealth Collection. As new Sumptuous Dark Blue & Gold Blocked Leather bound album with slipcase, for-word by HM Queen Elizabeth II. Contains full mint unhinged sets from 57 countries, plus Black Prints from Cana and Falkland Islands. Originally marketed at $625 in the 1st ever TV promotion of a stamp collection Worldwide. Price just 20% of the original price! $125 (2 available) CJU9) British Empire mint & used 1800’s to 1953 in two old Blue Springback Albums. Appears unpicked with many better. Condition mostly very nice for this type of collection. Noted nice arrays of Canada, Hong Kong, GB, India, Malaya, Malta, Singapore, South Africa etc, plus many from the smaller islands. Upwards of 2000 mostly different here, heaps of good pickings. Well worth 15c a stamp. Price $295 CJU10) India on pages Queen Victoria to 1949. About 140 mostly different mint & used, inc. the Scarce Ghandi complete set to 10R (Cat. £140), KGVI to 25R used, plus other values mint to 12as. Condition a little mixed. About 200 mostly different with a total cat. of over £300. Price $249 CJU11) Netherlands New Guinea complete, mint lightly hinged 1949 – 1962 plus postage dues on pages. Cat. approx. £350. Good value at under 30% cat. $195 CJU13) West Berlin in Dark Blue as new Lighthouse padded springback album and slipcase 1971 – 1990. 99.5% complete, mint unhinged except for a few specialised definitives, and with the added bonus of 2 booklets, some Framas & a Cars minisheet. The album & slipcase alone cost near $350 Stamps retail around $200, so a total value here of $550 for under 40%, just $219 CJU15) Norfolk Is. cto used collection on stocksheets, 1947 – 1990. Appears complete except for 1947 Ball Bay white papers & 1974 UPU minisheets. A few of the minisheets are mint unhinged. Nice clean lot. Cto of Norfolk Is. Is not easy to find, especially in collection form. Retail approx. $865, price $625 CJU16) Australia Pre-Decimal mint unhinged collection in Seven Seas Green Padded Album & Slipcase as new. Commences 1914 6d Kookaburra and is NEAR complete (less Kangaroos & KGV Heads & perf OS issues) to 1965 ICY. Missing only 3d KGVI Die 1a & KGVI £1 Robes thin paper. 3 stamps have faults, the 6d Kookaburra and 3d Kookaburra Minisheet are creased. The Kookaburra minisheet is hinged in the margin and the 5/- Harbour Bridge is lightly hinged, with some light gum toning. The Kingsford Smith OS Overprints are cto. Other than that, here we have a very nice clean collection. The as new binder & slipcase retail at $50 and the Sydney Retail for the Stamps is $3925. So a total retail value here excluding the Album Leaves, which are little aged in places is $3975, Price $2625 CJU17) Norfolk Is. Decimals 1966-2002 compete mint unhinged, housed in as
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BUY OR BID SALE SEPTEMBER 2019 new Seven Seas Hingeless Album, with pages 1947 – 2002. Album new cost approx. $425. Stamps retail at $1695. Total value $2120. Price $1275 CJU18) West Germany 1950 – 1974 in as new Lighthouse Hingeless Album with Slipcase. Would be 95% complete, either postally used or mint unhinged with just the odd gap from 1954, and all mint unhinged from 1969. 1949 – 1953 is 75% complete used. A very nice lot. Album alone retails at $400 plus the stamps cat. very high. So we figure it at $575, that is around $15 a year for the stamps and half price for the nearly new album. $575 the lot CJU19) Norfolk Is. First Day Covers 2006 – 2010, 50 different official FDC’s inc. 2007 $5 Queen Victoria Scholarship and 2009 $10 Self Govt. Hard to find period! Price $249 CJU20) Similar above, but 2002 – 2006, price $229 CJU23) New Zealand 2000 Olympics Special Edition Folder and slipcase. Contains special numbered sheetlet of the issued circular stamps, plus progressive colour proofs, the regular set and FDC. Near new, except slipcase has a few scuffs at base from being pulled in and out of bookcase. Price $125 CJU25) BMA Malaya 1945 on album page, complete set fine used to $5 ex. SG 12 & 16, cheap & easy stamps to replace. In addition a horiz. Strip of 3 of the $1, SG 15. 23 stamps, cat. circa £170. Price $195 CJU26) Australia Pre-decimal FDC’s. Nice lot of 48 covers from 1956 – 1965, from a variety of cover producers. Most are neat typed address, 14 are un-addressed. These are single stamp issue covers, from Parade, Royal, Wesley & Sigma. Small amount of duplication and a few are a little aged. Price under $3.50 each. $165 CJU27) Western Australia 1882 - 1897 Internal revenue stamps, nice lot of mint & postally used on album pages. Comprises various printings inc. 1d x 7 used, 3 mint, 3d x 7 used, 6d x 2 used & 1/- x 1 MNG. 20 stamps in total cat. £492 = $925. Price $595 CJU28) Pitcairn Is. Near new Seven Seas Brown Hingeless padded album, 1940 – 1988 containing a modest mint unhinged collection with 35 complete sets/ minisheets 1973 – 1988. Includes 2 long definitive sets. Great starter lot. The album retails at approx $475 new. Stamps retail $250 plus. A total retail price of $725 for under 40% just, $289 CJU29) Australia West-East Air Service 1929 - 1931. Range of 11 flight covers priced to sell at $860. Includes inwards mail from UK, with airmail advert. from booklet pane, Germany 1R Red Zeppelin on cover to Adelaide etc. Very clean lot extensively written up. Price $675 CJU30) Cocos (Keeling) Is. 50 different unaddressed official FDC’s issued between 1987 – 2004. Great source for fine used sets if you do not collect covers. Price well under $2 each. $89 CJU31) Similar to above, but ranging from 1988 – 2013, price $95 CMAP1) Fiji, 25 different complete mint unhinged sets just $49 CMAP2) Papua New Guinea, 25 different complete mint unhinged sets just $49 CMAP3) Western Samoa, 25 different complete mint unhinged sets & minisheets, price $49 CMAP4) Nauru, 25 different complete mint unhinged sets & minisheets, price $49 CMAP5) Norfolk Is. 25 different complete mint unhinged sets & minisheets, price $49 CMAP6) 125 different complete mint unhinged sets as above only $225, save $20 CMAP7) 250 different complete mint unhinged sets from the countries above, also including some Pitcairn Island. Normally $99, now save $50, Price $449 CMAP11) As new Prinz $55 black 48 black pages padded stockbook. Contains varied world collection early to modern. Noted Papua New Guinea mint unhinged sets, inc. Australia 1999 Sailing Ships minisheets & Philex France set x 3. Decent range of Scandinavia used, early Japan, good range of Czechoslovakia
& Romania, Austria, some mint unhinged 3rd Reich etc, etc. 1800 – 2000 stamps here, mostly all different. Have to be worth 10c each, and the very nice $55 stockbook comes free! Price $189 CMAP17) Commercial Mails from all over the World. Most if not all Airmailed Covers. All Very nice range of covers 1980’s to recent that sell for up to $3 each. Price per lot of 100 all different covers $98 CMAP18) Worldwide First Day Covers, all in nice clean condition. Many of these sell for up to $4 each. Price for lot of 100 all different $98 CM3) South West Africa early – modern on 6 Hagners, mint /mint unhinged & used in black binder. Ex part time dealer stock, priced up to sell years ago at around $150, inc. 1973 Definitives cancelled FDI in official folder and 2001 Universal Suffrage overprints in corner blocks of nine. 130 plus stamps. Price $115 CM6) Australia pre-decimal collection in as new Seven Seas Green Padded Hingeless Album with Slipcase. No Kangaroos but KGV heads about 50% complete mix of mint & used then 95% complete to 1965. Noted 6d Engraved Kookaburra nice postally used with Sep 8 1914 circular cancel. KGV Period commems. virtually compete mint or used, plus some cto. Inc. Kingsford Smith OS ovpts cto, Vic. Cent both perfs. cto, MacArthur set with 3d & 9d cto, missing only 3d & 5/- Harbour Bridge. KGVI inc. both papers of Robes to £1 nice used, Arms set used, then pretty much complete 1946 – 1965 mint unhinged or fine used. 5/- white paper cattle is lightly hinged mint, Navigators set of 8 inc. white paper is fine used set. Finally BCOF to 1/- fine used. A very nice lot, price $775 CM10) Japan approx 500 different all large with $30 Blue German made 32 Page stockbook, as new. Nice lot, price $98 CM13) Prinz “Princess” red 64 black page padded stockbook near new. Retail $65, housing Hungary early to modern used collection neatly laid out in chronological order. Roughly 1150 – 1250 stamps all different. Very nice lot. Cheapest we could find for 1200 a different packet on eBay/dealers lists was $110. Our price including the very nice stockbook $105 CM18) Soccer, mostly if not all World Cup 1978 - 2002 in Brand New 32 Page stockbook worth $30. Nice all different mint unhinged & used collection of 140 stamps & 17 minisheets/sheetlets. Nice clean lot, odd toning on a very small number of stamps. Price $89 CM19) Worldwide earlies to about 1990 in 4 large heavy stockbooks, near 7 kg in weight. Contains World collection organised alphabetically. Most are postally used, condition a bit mixed here & there, and appear mostly all different. About 2500 stamps at an educated guess, price $235. CMF5) Great Britain 1957 – 1965 Commemorative sets in fresh mint unhinged blocks of 4. Commences 1957 Scouts and includes scarcer sets such as Lifeboat, Botanical, Red Cross also ITU Phosphor. Missing the odd low value, which are easy to pick up. 14 sets with a total catalogue of 173 pounds. Price under a half cat. $149 CMF12) Great Britain QEII 1952 – 1980 in Blue Padded Lighthouse 32 black page stockbook, mint & used. Noted Phosphor Commemoratives, inc. Lifeboat, Red Cross, FFH, Cable etc. Wilding Definitives inc. Graphites with Inv. Wmks. Commem. Sets from 1953 Coronation with most sets represented in Mint & used, then HV Castles and pre-decimal Wildings mint & used sets to One Pound (approx. 20 sets total) then Machin Definitives to 5 pounds & Britannia 10 pound x 5. Also Jersey War Time issues, Regionals, Locals of Lundy, Herm & Alderney etc. A great lot! Must be 1500 plus stamps. Price $595 CJ8) Europa 1981 – 1986 complete mint unhinged collection on Lighthouse Hingeless pages. Includes sheetlets. Cat. £1735 plus = $3050 at time of writing. Very cheap at less than 25%. $749
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BUY OR BID SALE SEPTEMBER 2019 CJ9) Sweden Booklet Collection 1978 – 1988, plus panes and single booklet stamps. Most mint unhinged, a few of the single stamps are used. Counted 36 complete booklets plus many panes and singles. High retail. Housed in as new $40 Ka-Be Brown Leather Look 32 black page stockbook. $245 CJ12) Australia 1950 – 2009 Dealer’s fine used stock in 14 x 16 page plus 4 x 32 page near new Lighthouse German Made black page stockbooks. Stockbooks alone new cost near $500! Appears all selected examples mostly with cds cancels, all neatly organised from 1 to 10 of each with many complete sets, top values, se-tenant strips etc. Must be close to 20,000 stamps. Ideal re-seller, immediate Stamp Show or eBay stock! Noted pre-decimal Navigators to £1 both papers with several each of the 10/-, also $4 decimal Navigator x 10. Assume the stockbooks are free and the stamps at 5c each, then it is well worth $995 CJ16) GB Soccer. 28 x Official FA, EUFA & League Cup illustrated covers 1981 – 1988, plus Edinburgh Tattoo covers & a few other FDC’s Inc. Trains, Birds etc. All contained in as new $50 Brown Padded FDC album. 39 covers in all. Have to be worth $1.50 each, price $59 CJ21) World carton lot, in 15 smaller stockbooks/albums. Mint/used/early/modern. Many thousands of stamps, nearly all different it seems. Great sorting lot, weighs near 8kg. Noted some decent India & Japan. $295 the lot. CJ35) GB & Br. Commonwealth useful mostly used early – modern in large green stockbook. Noted GB KGVI Square HV’s with 10/- Dark Blue and £1 Brown, good ranges Machin heads and Commemorative sets with some mint unhinged, values to £5. Also Br. Commonwealth with good range of countries, mainly KGVI – QEII. About 1000 mostly all different. Well worth 10c a stamp. Price $98 CJ36) Czechoslovakia mainly used collection 1918 – 1976 with some mint & minisheets in older pale blue post fitting album. Appears 75% complete. Useful lot with 750 – 800 different stamps. Post 1955 is mainly cto. Price $65 CJ39) Very nice Russia 1858 - 1980 mint & used collection in thick Red Gibbons “Philatelic” springback album. New cost $125. Earlies are sparse, but largely complete from 1957. Looks like 200 or so pages. Noted much better and useful minisheets, complete mint sets etc. Roughly 2000 all different. Good value at under 10c a stamp. Price $195 CJ42) Australia Packet maker’s stock 1927 – 2005. Sorted neatly in envelopes, way better than the average similar lot. Weighs 14.3kg overall. Guestimate close to 150,000 stamps here, with many hundreds of high values spotted. No Kangaroos or KGV Heads. Must go at around 1c per stamp! Big opportunity here for someone. $1495 the lot. CJ43) Australia on paper Kiloware 1940’s – 1990’s, sorted into packets of the same type. Reasonable variety. Weighs 5kg. Cheap at $98 the lot. CJ44) Australia PNC Covers 195 - 2018. Magnificent collection of 119 different inc. stamp values to $10, and coins to $5. Cost price from Australia Post from $14.95 $29.95 each. Includes ANDA Show and numbered limited editions. At a minimum the original cost must have been well over $2000, and with a retail/catalogue value of around double that. So around $4000 retail value here, under 25%, just $995. A similar smaller lot to the above with less variety 53 PNC’s for $475 Another smaller lot, this time 24 PNC’s for $215 And yet another lot of 17 PNC’s for $149 CJ45) Papua New Guinea Year Books, 1985, 86, 87. In pristine as new condition. Sydney retail $156. Less than half, $75 the 3. CJ46) Papua New Guinea mostly fine used plus some mint dealer stock 1952 – 1995 in 1 x 32 page and 3 x 16 page German Lighthouse manufactured
Dark Blue, black page stockbooks as new. Cost $110. Noted definitives: 1952 set to £1 Fisherman x 3, 1/7d cattle x 3, £1 QEII x 5, Birds set to 10/- x 3, 2/3d Anzac x 13, Butterflies to $2 x 8, Shells to $2 x 5, Panorama to $2 x 8 etc. Plus many hundreds of complete commem. sets and extra oddments. Great lot for re-seller/eBayer/Packet maker. Good coverage to mid. 1980’s a bit sparse later on. Duplication from 1 – 15 plus of a stamp. Roughly 2800 stamps. Very cheap at under 15c a stamp and the $110 worth of albums come free. Price $419 CJ47) Hungary 1898 – 1980 Used collection on 200 leaves in Norman Black Springback album. Weighs over 2kg. Earlies are sparse but overall appears about 75% compete for the period with around 1500 different stamps. Good value at under 6c a stamp, price $89 CMN2) Finland 1970 - 1998, not far off complete mint unhinged for the period 1980 - 1998 in as new Ka-Be Hingeless Illustrated pages. Lovely lot, retail approx $700, plus the pages must have cost near $150. $850 retail value here, only $349 CMN9) West Germany mint unhinged collection 1977 – 1989 in $40 Luxury Red Padded Ka-Be 32 black page stockbook as new. Has a few earlier used at front but then appears pretty well complete for the period. 600 + stamps, 1 booklet & 9 minisheets. Very reasonably priced at $189 CMN10) Malawi. $40 Black Padded Ka-Be Deluxe 32 black pages stockbook, as new containing neatly organised mint unhinged Malawi Collection 1975 -1989. Appears pretty well complete for the period. Highly thematic content with approx. 220 stamps, inc. 3 long definitive sets & 18 minisheets. Lovely clean lot priced cheaply at only $95 CMN11) Dominica. $40 Black Padded Ka-Be Deluxe 32 black pages stockbook, as new containing neatly organised mint unhinged Malta Collection 1977 -1989. Appears pretty well complete for the period. Highly thematic content with approx. 115 stamp & 24 minisheets. Lovely clean lot priced cheaply at only $75 COCT1) Amazing carton lot of mainly Australia Slogans on piece, 1929-1967, plus some Meter marks. Frankings range from 1d Green KGV – 5c Blue QEII. Also some USA and a few GB Metermarks/Slogans. Must be 4000 – 5000 total with a huge variety of slogans and postmarks. Has to be worth 10c and item. Price $449 COCT8) Australia Decimal very fine corner used cto quality collection 95% complete 1966-1988 in Blue Padded near new Seven Seas Hingeless Album, currently $209 on their website. Includes Navigators to $4, 1971 Christmas Block of 7, and pretty well most other stamps. (Excludes booklet panes & Gutter Pairs) Very cheap at $7 per year for album and stamps, price $154. COCT10) Norfolk Is. 1953 – 2002 90% plus complete in near new $65 Lighthouse green padded 64 black page stockbook. Around $1200 retail for the stamps alone. Odd earlier stamp is a little aged, otherwise Post Office Fresh. Norfolk Is. In in great demand right now. Great price, $695 the lot. CMA1) Vast lot of World and Australia! From Deceased Estates and other sources such as charities and auctions, also private purchases. We have 12 big shipping cartons which we are breaking down into smaller lots of 10 kg. Each will contain 15 – 20,000 stamps unchecked off paper plus albums, stocksheets, stockbooks, covers, minisheets etc. Virtually all is postally used with some mint, early to modern. There really is no telling what you might find in these lots. Price per 10kg lot, inc. Post and Insurance Australia Wide, around 3c per stamp $695. Supersized double lot for $1295 (post-paid) Half lot for $375 (post extra) Remember to choose World or Australia, or a mixture of both. CMA3) Jersey Complete mint unhinged 1941-2017. Supplied in 5 Top quality German LINDNER T albums in matching slipcases. SG catalogue value £4,068 (=$A7,500) for stamps alone and albums are another $2000. Great condition
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BUY OR BID SALE SEPTEMBER 2019 - formed in Europe, so no rust. Books and stamps look almost as new. Appears 100% complete. The top quality German Lindner Albums with matching slipcases have mega thick quality pages, all stamps illustrated, and onto which is affixed a clear overlay (like a Vario sheet) with applicable pockets, into which you add the mint stamps and on the printed paper page underneath, you can then hinge on USED stamps if you want, of the same issue. i.e. the albums can house a mint AND used collection if you wish. Each book is lightly annotated in erasable soft 4B pencil with SG value alongside each set (took a full day to do it!) and we have – 1941 to 1990 SG value £385 1991 to 2002 SG value £629 2003 to 2008 SG value £827 2009 to 2013 SG value £1,092 2014 to 2017 SG value £1,133 SG total catalogue value £4,068. MASSIVE face/retail, lots of £5 stamps in here too. ANYTHING post 1990 is very tough for Jersey, and post 2000 near impossible. At 40% of cat. for the stamps and with $2000 worth of albums thrown in, this is remarkable value at just $2995 CMA10) Australia 1970 -1993 Official Post Office First Day Cover collection house in 5 x Luxury Gold Blocked Deep Blue PW First Day Cover Albums as new, with extra pages for later issues these alone cost $750. Appears complete for the period except for the small Cook cover. All are as purchased from the Post Office, brand spanking new and unaddressed, except 1. Commences 1970 Expo and has all the early scarce covers, miniature sheets, peel and sticks, Framas and counter printed stamps. etc. 380 covers in all with values to $20, must have cost $1250 to $1500 to buy as new issues. So around $2000 total original cost here. An opportunity to buy a virtually complete collection that can be built on for under $2 a cover, the $750 worth of albums are free! Just $749. CJL5) Papua New Guinea 1990 - 1998 50 different Official First Day Covers, all clean unaddressed. Very cheap at $99 CJL6) As above, but 1990 – 2001, price $110 CJL13) China, People’s Republic. Wide ranging lot of 500 different mostly used, with brand new 64 black page padded German Made stockbook. Price $295 CMMY1) Worldwide in Albums & Stockbooks, early – modern. Mainly used. As received from Estates. Honestly could be anything in here, as we only give each lot a cursory glance. There will be a % of Australia in these lots. 5kg lot for $129, 10kg for $249, 20kg for $495 as above but AUSTRALIA only, same prices. as above but 50% Australia and World, same prices. CMMY2) Germany 1936 – 1954 on Hagners. Commences 1936 Brown Ribbon minisheets, mint x 7 with original interleaving. 1937 Hitler minisheet rouletted mint unhinged, Michel 648. 1948/9 British and American Zone issues used to 75 pfg, the West Berlin views to 5DM used, red & black Berlin Overprints mint & used to 84pfg. Then Berlin 1949 UPU used, Stamp Ex. Set of 3 mint, Bell with clapper central complete used etc, etc. W. Germany Heuss defins Mint Unhinged and fine used to 3DM. All in all a lovely lot. Some duplication. SG Cat. £2250. Good value at under 20% cat. Price $749 CMMY7) Australia KGV Heads in red 16 page Lighthouse Stockbook. All 1.5d Red and Brown values, sorted by watermark. Must be some postmark interest etc. here. All good examples it looks like. Not checked by us for varieties, postmarks or shades. 1079 stamps. Price $649
CMMY10) Australia 1975 – 95 Australia Post un-addressed First Day covers, massive clearance. 100 different for $89, 250 mixed for $169, 500 mixed for $325, 1000 mixed for $595. Massive lot of 2000 mixed for $1100. (Duplication will be kept to a minimum in the mixed lots, depending upon stocks) CMMY11) British Commonwealth, 1953 Coronation Covers, many with additional stamps & markings. Amazing lot of 65 small seamail covers virtually all to Melbourne. Wide variety of usages and cancels inc. Interbank mail, Official Mail, Registered Mail, Postage Dues, Taxed Covers, Meter Frankings, Perfins, etc. Mainly not FDCs, with a variety of cancels through 1953/54. Many better countries represented inc. Singapore, Hong Kong, North Borneo, Sarawak, Falkland Is., Gibraltar, Cayman Is., St. Helena, Tristan da Cunha, Ascension, Cyprus etc. Most are neat typed address. A superb addition to any Royalty or British Commonwealth Collection. Priced well under $6 a cover, $375 the lot. A similar lot to the above, these all on Artcraft Cacheted covers, mostly light pencilled address to Brooklyn, USA. Included GB Set of 4, plus the sets of 4 for Kuwait, Bahrein, Muscat and Tangier. Includes re-addressed and registered items. 36 covers in all again at less than $6 per cover, price $198 CMMY13) New Zealand 2001 – 2014 Collection in $60 64 Page as New Red Lighthouse Stockbook. Mostly one of each Mint Unhinged and very fine used with Circular cancel, appears complete for period. About 250 complete sets with a retail of around $3500. Priced very reasonably at 40% retail, price $1395 CMMY14) Great Britain 1999 - 2007. Extensive mint unhinged collection in as new Lighthouse Red 64 page stockbook value $50. Appears pretty well complete for the period, with some extras in used, which are not counted. Incudes Commemoratives, Definitives, Regionals, Booklets and Minisheets. Two minisheets are there only in used, with special cancels, otherwise all fresh mint unhinged. Retail approx. $1975, price $1185. CMMY13) New Zealand 2001 – 2014 Collection in $60 64 Page as New Red Lighthouse Stockbook. Mostly one of each Mint Unhinged and very fine used with Circular cancel, appears complete for period. About 250 complete sets with a retail of around $3500. Priced very reasonably at 40% retail, price $1395 CMMY14) Great Britain 1999 - 2007. Extensive mint unhinged collection in as new Lighthouse Red 64 page stockbook value $50. Appears pretty well complete for the period, with some extras in used, which are not counted. Incudes Commemoratives, Definitives, Regionals, Booklets and Minisheets. Two minisheets are there only in used, with special cancels, otherwise all fresh mint unhinged. Retail approx. $1975, price $1185. 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. PM100) Double sized lot of Australia on paper mixture, wide span covering 50 plus years to near up to date. Unpicked by us, as supplied by church group. Price $45, 3 lots for $125 PM99) Big bag of World genuine unpicked on close clipped paper. A really nice mixture of about 1250 stamps for $45, 3 bags for $125. PM98) New Zealand off paper. It is a very long time since we had any of this. This is a very nice lot, ideal for postmark/variety hunters. A good range covering at least 70 years, 1935 – 2005 approx with a few earlier. Noted pre-decimal values to 5/-, decimal to $1. Price per 100g, approx 1500 stamps for under 4c per stamp. $59 Double lot for $110
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BUY OR BID SALE SEPTEMBER 2019 PM99) Singapore & Malaysia, 1950’s -1960’s Kiloware. Now a very scarce on paper mixture. Lots of nice thematics, Birds, fish, orchids, costumes etc. Values to $1 seen. We have just 200g of this. Price per 100g, about 400 – 450 stamps for $35 PM92) Worldwide early-modern on and off paper in Blue Zip Seal Wallet. Very varied mix, looks like 2500 – 3000 stamps. Could be anything in here, ex. Estate. Cheap at around 3c per stamp. Price $95 Similar to above, but all off paper. Must be around 7000 stamps here. Again at about 3c each, Price $225 1 of each lot PM92 & PM 92a as above, save $25 price $295 Similar lot to above with duplication 1 to 4 of each. Good for re-seller. 60 items in total, price $110 PM91) Australian International Stamps, selected used examples, off paper. Maybe some cto. Some nice higher values included. Hard to source, 100 mixed for $49 PM90) Australian Antarctic Territory off paper mix pre-decimal to 1990’s mostly postally used, maybe some cto. Inevitably a fair bit of duplication. About 12,500 to 15,000 to the kg. Around 4c per stamp, 100g for $59 (Only 2 lots available) PM89) British Commonwealth off paper, large & small, early to modern but mainly QEII. A good mix, about 12,500 to 15,000 to the kg. Under 3c per stamp, 100g for $39 PM88) Straits Settlements, Malayan States, Malaysia, Singapore & Hong Kong. Off paper mixture, Queen Victoria to modern. We only have a few lots of this weighing 50 grams. Around 600 stamps. Very good lot for $89 PM86) China Peoples Republic, 500 different, new lot just arrived. Great lot! Price $245 PM79) Australia latest received Mission Mix on paper with recent and latest. Absolutely unpicked, includes a small amount of foreign high values etc. Trim varies as is from a variety of sources. about 4500 stamps per kg. 100g for $12, 250g for $26.50, 450g for $45, 1kg for $89, 2.5kg for $210. Very small quantity available, be quick! PM78) Australia KGV period, values to 1/6d. No heads, but a wide variety of Commems. and Definitives. Great for postmark/variety hunters. 100g, about 1250 stamps for under 5c each, $59 PM77) World Minisheets by Weight! Many years since we first offered these. Approx 1100 sheets per kg. Great mixture of mint unhinged and cto from both British Commonwealth and Foreign Countries. We keep duplication here to a minimum, depending upon our stocks at the time of ordering. High catalogue/ retail value. 100g for $33, 250g for $79. PM76) New lower price! Was $295 per kg. World off paper, latest arrivals gathered together from various sources and simply mixed into the very best available mixture. Completely unchecked by us and representing well over a century of stamps here. Roughly 12,500 stamps to the kg, cheapest way to build your World collection at around 2c per stamp. Price per kg $249, 500g for $129, 250g for $69, 100g for $35 PM75) World mostly large and commemoratives mainly on single well-trimmed paper. Very colourful lot with many better values. Latest arrivals from various sources around the world. 1kg for $325, 500g for $169, 250g for $89, 100g for $45 PM74) Channel Islands charity mix on paper, just received, great variety, gathered from various sources, the Guernsey mostly on single well-trimmed paper. The Jersey on single torn paper. Jersey only $195 per kg, $110 per 500g, $59 per 250g, $29 per 100g Guernsey only $235 per kg, $129 per 500g, $69 per 250g, $34.50 per 100g A mixture of both islands $215 per kg, $115 per 500g, $64 per 250g, $32.50 per 100g.
PM71) Australia & Territories decimal mint lots, as pulled from collections, stockbooks etc. Mostly mint unhinged, and will include Singles & Blocks of 4 (The odd few may be hinged as we do not have time to check all of this) You may also find complete sets and minisheets etc, whatever we have to hand. Will cover the period 1966 – 1986 Approx. Will include Australia, AAT, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Is.. We can also add some Papua New Guinea, Norfolk Island & Nauru if required. Price per lot of 1000 mixed $110, half lot of 500 for $60. PM69) Australia decimals, cto with gum, mid 1990’s – 2011. Nice clean lot all with corner Melbourne cto cancels. Includes high values, Internationals, a few territories, se-tenant strips and blocks etc. Good variety, but expect duplication. Under 10c a stamp, approx 1000 for $98, 500 for $55 (4 lots available) PM62) Ireland, 500 different, 1 only was on our packets list at $280, price to clear $210 PM67) Australia International stamps used on/off paper. Many good values here, huge face value. 100 mixed for $49 PM49) World mixture on mostly single well clipped paper. Latest lot to arrive from major charity in the UK. Could be anything from older to recent. 500g for $93.50 1kg for $179. PM50) Ireland, latest arrived mission mix from a new source in the “Emerald Isle” Better clip than usually seen from this popular country. Lots of stuff we have never seen before inc. a lot of Wildlife issues, plus high values to 1.25 Euros. 250g for $29, 500g for $56, 1kg for $95 PM51) South Africa Mission mix on close clipped single paper. Sold as received. Latest lot just arrived. 250g for $29, 500g for $56, 1kg for $95 PM42) Australia 1913 1d Red Kangaroos, bulk lot off paper, unchecked for Dies, Varieties, Postmarks etc. 100 for $59, 250 for $139, 500 for $265, 1000 for $495 PM45) Papua New Guinea off paper mixture, mostly 1960’s – 1980’s but some more recent. Good for postmark hunters! Price per 50g $62.50, per 100g $119 PM25) Australia, off paper. Contents of a shoebox ex deceased estate. Must be close to 15,000 stamps here dating from 1913 with a few Kangaroos and KGV to quite recent with many higher values, Internationals etc. noted. Huge variety here and at about 2c per stamp. Price $295. PM26) Similar lot to the above, but Worldwide, same price $295 PM27) Contents of a Brown Paper carrier Bag of World on paper, overall weight 2.15kg. Looks like a decent mix, early to modern. Brought in by Catholic Charity. Price $249 MAP10) Worldwide contents of a Box File. A super quality lot of World on Paper, early to recent, from Deceased estate, could be anything here, good variety with some better values. Around 1.5kg, must be 6000 stamps for $179 MAP11) As above, but mainly Australia. Price $129 Great Britain 1840 1d Blacks PB80) GB 1840 1d Black, unplated example lettered D C. Just 3 margin example with small bite out of lower left, otherwise would be 4. Cancelled by light red Maltese Cross. Has some paper adherance to the reverse. Better than average spacefiller. Price $149 PB70) Great Britain1840 1d Black superb 4 even margin example from Plate 1b lettered I- D from plate 4. Cancelled by full central Red Maltese Cross. Very attractive stamp, cat. £400, price $465 PB67) Great Britain 1840 4 margins 1d Black plate 2, lettered P-A, with doubled P tied to large piece by red brown maltese Cross and dated 31 May 1840. “Lighthouse return” from Calf of Man, with accompanying letter and Brandon 2001 Certificate. May dates
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BUY OR BID SALE SEPTEMBER 2019 are exceedlingly scarce, and Lighthouse ephemera is in high demand. Price $1350 PB23) GB 1840 1d Black SG2, plate 1b. Nice 4 large margin example with red Maltese Cross cancel. Lettered M-C. Nice looking stamp. Cat. £375. Price $469 PB24) GB 1840 1d Intense Black SG1, plate 2. Nice 4 large margin example with tidy red Maltese Cross cancel. Lettered P-A. Also with variety “P doubled” Very fresh looking stamp. Cat. £525. Price $649 PB27) GB 1840 1d Black SG2, plate 4. Nice deep colour, tending towards Intense Black. 4 margin example with red Maltese Cross cancel. Lettered K-E. Attractive stamp. Cat. £375. Price $469
GB153) Great Britain 1887 – 1900 Jubilee issue mint on album page. Complete set of 14, with 5d dies I & II, but less 1/- Green. 1/- & 5d Die I are MNG. Cat. £1175, cheap at $295 GB164) Great Britain 1951 Festival of Britain PTS FDC. Neat hand addressed cover with London SW1 3rd May 1951 machine cancel. Scarce and attractive, price $82.50 DB684) GB 1996 Christmas 43p, Missing Gold used on piece. Found in Kiloware, with normal for comparison. Entirely genuine, with no tampering or evidence that the gold was ever there. Previously unrecorded. Magnificent error. Price $1665 Australian States
Other Great Britain BD222) Great Britain 1855 4d Small Garter, white paper, SG62b Fine Used. Rare stamp, and under-catalogued at £1100. Bargain Price $445 BD329) Great Britain 1855 4d Small Garter, white paper, SG62b Very Fine Used, cancelled by clean strike of barred numeral 88. Rare stamp, and under-catalogued at £1100. Bargain Price $695 BD339) Great Britain 1874 5/- Rose, plate 2, SG 127 On piece. Lovely looking stamp on small piece cancelled by clean strike of EC 2 Barred number. Possibly a closed tear at top. Nevertheless a nice looking piece, cat. £675. Selling as is at under 10% cat. Price $110 BD340) Great Britain 1880 1/- Orange Brown, SG 151 plate 13. Fine used example cancelled by clearly struck cds barred numeral 105. Lettered H- J, J – H. Well centred with full perfs. Premium stamp! Cat GB SG62b 4d Small garter white paper1400 inc. 100% premium for lightly cancelled well centred. Well priced at around 20% cat. $479 BD403) Great Britain 1883 2/6d Lilac on Blued Paper, SG 175. Lovely well centred, full perf example lettered H – K, K – H. Late usage, cancelled by Continental Night Mail cds of AU 21 96. Much nicer than most of these that you see, no creases, thins, rubbing or crayon marks! Cat. £1500, plus 50% premium for well centred, lightly used. Price $825 GB112) As above, another as above, with double ring cds, date unclear. Lettered C- F, F – C. Price $775 GB165) Great Britain1883-84 2/6d Deep Lilac, SG 179. Fine used well centred example with full perfs. London Hooded Cancel. Cat. £225. Much nicer than usually seen with fresh original colour. Price $119 GB128) Great Britain 1883 10/- Ultramarine on Blued paper, SG 177. Lovely well centred example lettered G – H., Well centred and with good perfs. Cancelled by oval registered cancel to top left. Much nicer than most of these that you see, no creases, thins, rubbing or crayon marks! Cat. £8250, plus 50% premium for well centred, lightly used. Dealer expertisation mark on reverse. A great price, only $1695 GB113) Great Britain 1883 10/- Ultramarine on Blued paper, SG 177. Lovely well centred example lettered G – G. , perfs slightly ragged at top and trimmed at lower left. Cancelled by neat corner Frampton squared circle of SP 25 87. 96. Much nicer than most of these that you see, no creases, thins, rubbing or crayon marks. Cat. £8250, plus 50% premium for well centred, lightly used. A great price, only 5% cat. $745 GB114) As above, this one centred high, lettered G – H, H – G. Cancelled by barred cancel “L.S. 6”. Perfs slightly trimmed at base. Cheap at only 7.5% cat. $1100 GB109) Great Britain 1883 9d Dull Green, SG 195 Vertical Pair Used in Ireland! Cancelled by Duplex of Armagh dated AU 19 84. A stunning and rare piece, never seen by us before. Multiples of this stamp are rare, used in Ireland are impossible! Full perfs, good colour, minor stain & wrinkle to top left in no way detracts. Cat. £480 for a single stamp, £2250 for a block of 4. Price $1725
New South Wales NSW15) New South Wales 1867 Queen Victoria 10d Lilac, striking Imperforate pair: Watermark “10” in single lined figures, SG watermark number 35. Fresh attractive unused pair, with no thins, creases or hinge remains. From an Estate. SG 205a, cat £3,000 for imperf between pair. Probably from same error sheet. Nice rich colour, and most attractive for something 150 years old now! $3250 NSW4) NSW 1875 small re-addressed cover to Aldershot Camp. Bears 6d QV Bright Mauve, SG 216 Endorsed “via. San Francisco” in Manuscript and tied by Sydney Duplex of JA 15 75, and with arrival cds on face of Farnborough (Hants) Station MR 8 75. Also reverse cds of Aldershot Camp of the same date, and of Chatham Kent the following day. Addressed to Colonel Jfy. Kent of 77th Reg’d at Aldershot Camp and re-addressed to Exeter Devon. The 77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot was a line regiment of the British Army, raised in 1787. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 57th Regiment of Foot to form the Duke of Cambridge’s Own in 1881. Nice scarce military item. Price $179 NSW42) NSW 1885/6 NSW £1, rare clear DOUBLE SPECIMEN overprint! SG 240a, perf 12 with BLACK POSTAGE overprint. SG does not even list a Specimen overprint for this stamp, and the normal non-specimen is cat. £10,000. Mint lightly hinged, with minor gum aging. Price $10,000 NSW50a) New South Wales 1888-89 Centennial of New South Wales imperforate 5/- colour trial in Dull Violet on ungummed unwatermarked paper. Price: $200 NSW52) New South Wales 1888-89 Centennial of New South Wales imperforate 5/- colour trial in Green on ungummed unwatermarked paper. Price: $200 NSW50) 1888-89 Centennial of New South Wales all-different imperforate colour trials on ungummed unwatermarked paper comprising 1d x4, 2d x6, 4d x6, 6d x10, 8d x8, 1/- x6, 5/- x 3 & 20/- x11, all but one 2d with full margins, a couple of minor blemishes. Largely complete & colourful array. Most of these are Ex John Bell (NSW). [65 different proofs have been recorded, with between 6 and 12 of each extant, some of which remain in blocks of 4] (Qty 54) Price $11,250 NSW39) New South Wales 1903 uprated postal stationery cover to Germany. Bearing: 3d Red Registered Postal Stationery and 2.5d Deep Blue. Cancelled by CDS of Sydney, MY 11 03, arrival CDS of Leipzig 16 6 03 Registered cover. Price: $60 NSW40) New South Wales 1905 2/6d Blue Green, perf 11.5 x 11. SG 349a, MLH. Price: $80 APH2) New South Wales, 1908 A SUPERB condition advertising cover from Donald Ross & Co. noted seller of horse Castrator equipment - To Jas Hatrick & Co in London who also sold Surgical Veterinary equipment - This is a COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA cover, as we Federated in 1901. A HIGHLY sought after era these days. And covers from over 100 years back are scarce from here. Clear “London May 16 – 08” arrival cancel on back. Also a brilliant cover for anyone collecting HORSES and related areas. The ½d used on any foreign cover is unusual, as the 2½d stamp was issued for this purpose. These are the scarce FINAL watermark 1907 issue stamps SG 353/354 Cat “From £125 on cover” Price $179
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Victoria V160) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 2d Brown lilac, SG 3, close margins on 3 sides, just cut into at base fine used with indistinct Barred oval cancel, Cat £500, Price $449 V162) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 3d Bright blue, SG 4, 3 close to good margins, just touching at left, area of thinning at left, still a very attractive example with bold colour, faint indistinct Butterfly cancel, Cat £600, Price $349 V163) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 3d Blue SG 4a, close margins at top and base, touching at sides, small repaired thin at left and small repaired tear at lower right, indistinct Butterfly cancel, Cat £450, Price $249 V164) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 1d red-brown SG 5, margins close to touching all around, repaired lower left corner, very faint indistinct cancel, Cat £450, Price $149 V165) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 1d red-brown SG 5, uneven margins close to cut into, indistinct Barred oval cancel, Cat £450, Price $299 V167) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 2d Dull grey SG 6a, margins close to just cut into, indistinct Butterfly cancel, Cat £225, Price $195 V169) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 1d Dull orange vermillion SG 8, 3 good margins with part of the adjoining stamps at left and at base, cut into at top and missing lower right corner, Cat £650, Price $299 V170) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 1d Dull red SG 8a, margins close to just touching, light indistinct Barred oval cancel, Cat £200, Price $179 V171) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 1d Brownish red SG 9a, margins close to touching all around, Barred oval 1 cancel of Melbourne, Cat £180, Price $149 V172) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 1d Dull rose SG 9b, close to touching margins all around, lower right corner fault & a small nick at top, indistinct cancel, Cat £180, Price $129 V173) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 2d Olive grey SG 10a, margins close to touching all around, indistinct Butterfly cancel, Cat £200, Price $179 V174) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 3d Blue SG 11, left margin showing part of adjoining stamp, top and base are close to touching, and the right margin is huge (probably the sheet margin), indistinct Barred oval cancel, Cat £90, Price $89 V175) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 3d Pale greenish blue SG 11b, margins close to touching on 3 sides, uneven margin at right with a small nick, indistinct Barred oval cancel, Cat £170, Price $129 V176) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 1d Reddish brown ‘White veils’ SG 12, 3 large to just touching margins, cut into at base, Barred oval 1 cancel of Melbourne, Cat £170, Price $129 V177) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 1d Bright pinky red ‘White veils’ SG 12a, 3 margins close to touching, large margin at left with part of adjoining stamp, indistinct Barred oval cancel, Cat £170, Price $149 V178) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 2d Drab SG 13, margins close to touching, small nick at base and small central thin, indistinct Barred oval cancel, possibly ‘54’ – the ‘5’ is clear but not the other numeral, which is rated RRRR, Cat £190, Price $99 V179) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 2d Grey-drab SG 13a, 2 close margins, just touching at right, cut into slightly at top, Cat £180, Price $139 V180) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 3d Blue ‘White veils’ SG 14, margins touching all around, indistinct barred oval cancel, Cat £80, Price $69 V181) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 3d Deep blue ‘White veils’ SG 14a, small margins at left and base, others touching, indistinct barred oval cancel, Cat £80, Price $79
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BUY OR BID SALE SEPTEMBER 2019 V182) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 2d Red lilac, SG 15, close margins on three sides, thinned and small fault at top, Butterfly 1 cancel of Melbourne, Cat £325, Price $129 V183) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 2d Grey, SG 15b, margins touching all around, small thin at right, Butterfly 15 cancel of Geelong, Cat £425, Price $249 V184) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 2d Dull brownish-lilac, SG 15c, margins close to touching all around, Butterfly 1 cancel of Melbourne, Cat £180, Price $169 V188) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 2d Cinnamon SG 17, close to good margins on two sides, touching to just cut into on others, Cat £170, Price $139 V189) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 2d Drab SG 17a, close to touching margins all around, Barred oval 1 cancel of Melbourne, Cat £95, Price $69 V191) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 2d Olive drab SG 17d, good margin at left, other close to just touching, indistinct barred oval cancel, Cat £190, Price $179 V192) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 2d Buff SG 17e, cut into slightly at left, other margins close to touching, indistinct barred oval cancel, Cat £250, Price $149 V193) 1854 QV Half length Campbell printing 1d Orange-red SG 23, margins close to touching all around, thin at right, indistinct barred oval cancel, Cat £140, Price $79 LM13) Victoria 1854 6d Dull Orange Imperf Woodblock on cover, SG 32a. Neat small cover Melbourne to Dublin via ship Colombia. Nice 4 margin stamp affixed inverted, possibly to warn of bad news. Cancelled by barred numeral 1, and with arrival stamp MR 16 1858. Price $395 V154) Victoria 1854 8d Orange Laureate, SG 112, a fine Mint example of this scarce stamp with fresh, almost full original gum (there is a small area of gum loss at the left), Cat £850, Price $995 V124) Victoria 1884-96 10/- Brown/rose wmk V over Crown perf 12½, Stamp Duty, SG 240b. Nice postally used with Ballarat duplex, centred to top right, unpriced in Gibbons. Price $249 V123) Victoria 1884-96 £1 Red-orange wmk V over Crown perf 12½, Stamp Duty, SG 242a, with 1897 MELBOURNE duplex, some thinning at top, Cat £120, Price $49 V116) Victoria 1884/96 £8 Red on Yellow Stamp Duty. Well centred 1888 fiscally used example with full perfs. As usual for these has a couple of pinholes. SG 251, price $279 V73) Victoria 1888 1/6d Pale Blue Stamp Duty. SG 322, mint without Gum. Cat. £275 as mint hinged. Price: $100 V133) Victoria 1896-99 4/- Orange wmk V over Crown Stamp Duty SG 346, MELBOURNE CTO with slightly suntanned gum, light vertical bend, centred to lower left, Cat £50, Price $39 V118) Victoria 1897 £25 Dull Blue Green Stamp Duty SG 289. Clean 1902 fiscally used example. Good perfs, centred a little right. One pinhole to lower left corner. Cat. £500 for cto. Price $249 V119) Victoria 1884 – 1900 £50 Dull-Lilac SG 284. Clean fiscally used example. Good perfs, well centred. No pinholes. Price $349 V108) Victoria 1897 Charity set CTO, very attractive Price $199 V144) Victoria 1897 Charity set, the 1d CTO, the 2½d with indistinct cds, attractive set, Price $179 V109) Victoria 1901-10 ‘Postage’ perf 12½ 5/- rosine & blue, advertised retail $150, Mint with some hinge remains. Price $119 V111) Victoria 1901 QV 2/- blue/pink SG 382 Mint, advertised retail $150, some hinge remains, Price $79 V21) Victoria 1893 small cover to House of Commons, London. Bears 2 x 1d QV SG 332a, cancelled by Melbourne duplexes of JE 13 93, and with arrival
cds on reverse of London S.W. JY 17 93. Addressed to James Hogan MP. James Francis Hogan MP (29 December 1855 – 9 November 1924) was an Irish history professor at University College Cork, author and Member of Parliament for Mid Tipperary 1893–1900. Born in County Tipperary in 1855, to Rody and Mary Hogan, he had one sister, Margaret. The family emigrated to Melbourne in 1856, when he was at the age of 1, and lived in Geelong, attending St. Mary’s Catholic School there, before a year at St Patrick’s College, Melbourne. He graduated and began to teach in 1872. He began writing in local newspapers on Catholic topics, before later editing the Victorian Review. Joining the Victorian Catholic Young Men’s Society in 1884 he admired the legacy of Daniel O’Connell and campaigned to erect a memorial to him. He published works on the Irish colonisation of Australia, including “The Gladstone Colony: An Unwritten Chapter of Australian History and The Irish in Australia” in the late 1880s. He then returned to England, and in 1893 was elected unopposed to the House of Commons as MP for Mid Tipperary. He served as secretary of the Colonial Party under Sir Charles Dilke. Following retirement as an MP in 1900, he moved to Ireland to teach at the University College, Cork. There, he became associated with the Blueshirt movement, advocating a Christian democracy which clashed with the more right-wing aims of their leader Eoin O’Duffy. He remained unmarried at his death, and was survived by his sister. Great historical piece, $249 V78) Victoria 1898 small cover to USA. Bearing: Orange on Yellow 2.5d. Cancelled by 14 A CDS of Melbourne, VIC, FE 11 98, hand addressed cover. Price: $40 V80) Victoria 1905 postcard of Fire Brigade Station, Melbourne to South Africa. Bearing: 2.5d Blue SG 388a. Cancelled by CDS No. 14 of Melbourne, 16 6 05. Price: $120 V71) Victoria 1911 2/- Booklet, pristine as issued with original staple, and all stamps Post Office Fresh. A wonderful find and rare so fine. SG SB4 cat. £6000. Price $4975 Western Australia WA80) WA 1854 1d Back Swan Rouletted SG 2. Complete roulettes easily visible on 3 sides. Shows part of adjoining stamp at right. Tiny thin at base. Cancelled by light barred numeral (number no legible) Cat. £700. Price $675 WA79) WA 1857 6d Grey Black Swan Imperf. SG 19. Fine 4 margin example cancelled by neat Barred Numeral 6. Dealer expertisation marks x 2 on reverse. Cat. £550, price $425 WA73) WA 1861 1d, 2d, 4d & 1/- Swans fine used, each with neat Commissariat puncture. Scarce. Price $295 WA116) Western Australia 1872 6d Lilac Swan, wmk Crown CC perf 12½ SG59, some minor hinge related toning along top perfs, full dull original gum Mint, Cat £300, Price $199 WA69) WA 1893 Swans Half Penny & One Penny surcharges on 3d Mint, some HR. Price $34.50 WA119) Western Australia 1902-11 9d Orange-yellow Swan wmk V over Crown perf 12½ variety watermark upright, SG 122a, hinged Mint with one lightly toned perf at top, Cat £120, Price $79 WA118) Western Australia 1905-12 2d Yellow Swan wmk Crown over double lined A, variety watermark upright, SG 140a, central horizontal crease, indistinct cds, a scarce stamp, Cat £350, Price $179 WA121) Western Australia 1905-12 4d Pale chestnut Swan wmk Crown over double lined A, perf 12½ SG 142a, a fine used block of 4 with multiple strikes of an indistinct cds, couple of nibbled perfs on one lower unit, an attractive and scarce multiple, Cat £72 as singles, Price $79 WA15) Western Australia 1905 undivided back Sepia Picture Postcard of Barrack Street Perth incorrectly addressed to Niagara Falls. Bears Halfpenny Green and
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BUY OR BID SALE SEPTEMBER 2019 1d Carmine Swans cat. from x 12 on cover, tied by cds of Town Hall Fremantle JU 30 06, and Niagara Falls arrival machine cancel, plus cds of AUG 6 1905 and similar return cds of the following day. No indication of its final resting place as it bears no sender’s address. Scarce and attractive, price $179 WA47) Western Australia 1906 Christmas Postcard to Subiaco WA, with horiz. Pr. Halfpenny Green, SG94a priced from x 40 on cover! Cancelled by cds’s of Fremantle 19DE06. Price $89 WA51) Western Australia 1907 coloured picture postcard to Victoria of Miss Marie Studholme. Bears Penny Swan, SG 139, cat. from x 12 on cover. Cancelled by Brownhills cds OC.26.07. Nice clean card, minor crease to top left cnr. Price $60 WA122) Western Australia 1907 coloured comic picture postcard to NSW of “A Breach of Promise Case’ Bears Penny Swan, SG 139, cat. from x 12 on cover. Cancelled by Fremantle cds of 26.SE.07. TAXED 2d with Oval more to Pay h/s, and 2d plus initialled in manuscript, and marked “Address only here” as small portion of correspondence has pervaded the address section. A bit mean if you ask me! Nice clean card, minor toning to perfs. Price $89 WA123) Western Australia 1907 Real Photographic postcard to Sweden (Dwelling & figures outside) Bears Halfpenny Green and 1d Carmine Swans cat. from x 12 on cover, tied by cds of Perth 25.NO.07 Correspondence in Swedish for you linguists might yield more info. On the photo.. scarce and attractive, price $60 WA46) Western Australia 1908 coloured picture postcard to Sweden “Log hauling on Timber Station W.A.” (Crease to lower right corner) Bears Halfpenny & Penny swans, SG 138/9, cat. from x 12 on cover. Cancelled by Bridgetown WA cds’s of 6-AUG08 and with arrival cds of Stockholm 7 9 08. Price $129 WA49) Western Australia 1910 Booklet ACSC B5B(W) Rare booklet cat. $15,000. Has scuffed front cover. 8 x Halfpenny stamps and 14 x Penny Stamps remaining. Price $6000 WA143) Western Australia 1910 Colour Picture Postcard, general view of Albany, used Perth – USA. Bears ½d Green & 1d Rose Pink Swans on face, SG 138/9 cancelled by Perth cds of 16.MY.10. Cat. x 12 on cover. Price $149 APS48) Western Australia Postal Stationery 3d Green H&G #4 Western Australia Postal card circa 1890/1899. Fine mint tiny nick to top right hand corner, mentioned only for accuracy. Price $85 Australia Postal History & Stationery APH171) Australia 1913 1d Engraved KGV, Rose Red plate 1 on small commercial use cover to UK. Cancelled by Sydney Machin Cancel of DE 13 1913, just 4 days after issue date, with arrival cds of West Norwood also cancelling stamp of JA 16 14 and with manuscript “New Stamp Just out” at top. 2 arrival cds’s on reverse. Stamp has coloured flaw to top right corner, which was later corrected by a retouch. Cover has a light central fold. ACSC 59B Cat. $750 on cover. Price $675 BD234) Australia 1914 small neat cover bearing 2.5d 1st wmk Kangaroo, Perth to USA. Franked by Machine canceller of 2 JUL 14. Cat. $150 on cover, this is way nicer than usually seen. Price $129 APH151) Australia 1915 small cover to Paris, France NOT CENSORED. Bears 2.5d 1st wmk Indigo Kangaroo cancelled by cds of Mosman NSW 6AU15. Quite late use for this, the 2nd wmk. being issued in July 1915. Clean attractive cover cat. $150, price $110 LM134) Australia 1915 small OHMS cover for Government Railways NSW to Somerset House London. Bears 1d Red Kangaroo…DRY INK…not recorded in ACSC and perf. OS NSW. Cancelled by Redfern NSW cds of 3 AP 15. Fine and rare, price $295 LM121) Australia 1916 small censored re-addressed cover to Germany, Via Switzerland. Mail for Germany from Australia & other countries was routed via Switzerland on a fee for service basis. Generally the letter was enclosed with
the fee of 10/- or so for onwards consignment under new cover. Bears 2nd wmk 2.5d Indigo Kangaroo, tied by Smithfield NSW cds of OC 5 1916, and with St. Moritz arrival cds of 23.XI.16 on front and reverse, together with Ruvigliana receiving cds on the next day for the re-direction. Black print “Opened By Censor” tape at left. A very rare survivor. Price $210 APH427) Australia 1921 small typed address cover to Germany with Die II 3d Kangaroo. 3rd wmk Die II 3d Olive solo use to Germany cancelled by Melbourne machine cancel of 27JA21. Stamp displays the die II elongated top ‘ball’ of the 3. The inner frame break (as displayed in many catalogues) is obscured by the postmark but the ‘tear drop 3’ is a more reliable test and is accepted by experts. Dated 27/1/1921 which is before the release of die IIB stamps. The top right outer frame is not rounded, and the date used completely rules it out. Cat. $500 on cover, price $395 APH526) Australia 1921 small surface mail cover to UK. Bears 2d Orange KGV cancelled by Binnaway cds of AP 28 1921. Scarce postmark on cover this period. Price $49 LM94) Australia 1922 small Orient Line cover bearing 2d Red KGV Single Wmk, cancelled by Paquebot machine cancel of Toulon 22 IV 22, addressed to Cambridge UK. Reverse bears the logo of “Orient Line of Royal Mail Steamships. Clean, attractive and rare! Price $110 APH429) Australia 1923 5d Bright Chestnut KGV Head Single Wmk Rough Paper Perf OS. Solo usage on long OHMS reg’d cover Perth to Victoria Park W.A. Office of titles cover with original Transfer of Land Act Caveat Document enclosed. Nicest of these I have seen, with Jumbo sized stamp neatly cancelled by Perth oval Reg’d cancel of 18 AP 23. Large red Perth Reg’d label No. 2781 and with “unknown” manuscript, boxed unclaimed and DLO rectangular handstamp in Violet on face. Victoria Park receiving cds on reverse of the same date, plus another on the face of 28 AP 23. Scarce, clean and attractive. Cat. $1500, price $1249 LM98) Australia 1923 late fee cover Tasmania – USA. Bears 4d Dull Blue KGV Head, ACSC 112C (3d Postage & 1d Late Fee) Cancelled by Launceston machine cancel of 24MAR23. Some minor damage to LH corners. Scarce stamp on cover. Price $129 LM130) Australia 1923 small cover to USA bearing 2d Pink, UNSURFACED PAPER, ACSC 96E and horizontal pair Halfpenny Orange KGV Heads. Cancelled BY CDS OF Albury 27? DE 23. The unsurfaced paper is a scarce stamp, catalogued at $150 used, unlisted on cover. Nice clean cover, flap is missing. Price $495 BD677) Australia 1924, superb small commercial (NOT 1st flight) Aerial Mail cover to W. D . & H. O . Wills Ltd. (Tobacco & Cigarette Company) Perth, W. A. Bears 4.5d Violet Single Wmk KGV Head, tied by cds of Carnarvon, W. A. 30 MR 24, and with incorrectly dated received stamp in violet of 1 APR 1925. (Some April foolery?) “AERIAL MAIL” straight line handstamp on front. Neat clean hand addressed cover , with “Copperplate” handwriting. (Cover has been opened on 3 sides) Carnarvon is some 900 km from Perth, so 2 days delivery time from posting is quite remarkable for the period. A scarce and attractive item. Price $389 APS5) Australia 1925 4.5d Violet Registered Envelope used to UK, no Cross to Crown ACSC RE19a. Uprated by 1.5d red KGV and with Kilmore Vic. Cds’s of 17 AP 25 and Kilmore red Reg’n label No. 97. Reverse bears a Melbourne registered cds of the following day. Scarce and attractive usage, price $65 DB543) Australia 1929 Small Registered Cover to Yugoslavia. Bears KGV Halfpenny Orange single wmk x 3, plus 1d, 1.5d & 2d Brown Small Multi. Wmk. Perf 13.5 x 12.5 to make correct registered rate of 6d. All are tied by cds of Cumborah NSW 24SE29, and with red Cumborah Reg’d label No. 552. Reverse bears arrival markings of Sydney Registered cds 25SE29 and of Ljubljana in red, date not legible. A very rare destination, with equally rare franking. Price $465
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BUY OR BID SALE SEPTEMBER 2019 APH11) Australia 1929 Long OHMS Registered Cover Stamp Duties Office Melbourne to Colac Vic. Bears solo use 4.5d Violet single wmk KGV Head perf. OS cancelled by Elizabeth St. Melbourne cds of 31 AU 29 plus Red Reg’d label type R6 of Elizabeth St. No. 3832. Reverse has Melbourne Registered cds of 2 SE 29 and arrival cds of Colac of the same date. Cover is fine, has been opened 3 sides for display. Scarce stamp on cover, cat. $400, price $239 APH199) Australia 1930 4.5d Violet Registered postal stationery cover, uprated by 5d on 4.5d Violet KGV. Cancelled by Tooraweenah, NSW cds of 14OC30, plus Violet Gilgandra double ring Violet cds of the following day, also Sydney registered cds of the 16th. Reverse has registered violet arrival cds’s of Seattle Term Station NOV 7 1930 and Berkeley, Ca. on the 9th. Also bears Tooraweenah Blue “Rat’s Tail” Reg’n. label No. 459. Tooraweenah is a small village just off the Newell Highway about 44 km north east of Gilgandra in the central west of New South Wales, Australia. This is a very rare item! Price $449 APH431) Australia 1933 KGV Head CofA Wmk Ovpt. OS 5d Brown Solo Use on Reg’d OHMS Cover. Used Melbourne to Mortlake on Office of Works long OHMS cover. Blue Reg’d Label No. 236 Elizabeth St. and cancelled by cds of Melbourne 6JY33. Reverse has receiving cds of Mortlake the following day. Stamp is centred to left with good perfs. Rare cover, cat. $1000. Price $749 APH105) Australia 1933 small PTPO cover to London. KGV 2d red Oval PTPO cover for S. Cooke Pty. Ltd. Uprated to double airmail rate by 1/4d KGV C of A wmk & 1/6d Hermes. 1/4d is rare on cover and cat. $375 alone. Cancelled by Melbourne 2 line Slogan of 20AUG33 “Always buy Australian Products” Cover has been folded twice horizontally, but still highly desirable. Price $225 APH674) Australia 1934 small surface mail cover to Port Beekbergen, Netherlands. Bears solo usage of 3d MacArthur, cancelled by Sydney 3 line slogan of 9 NOV 1934 “USE/AUSTRALIAN/PRODUCTS” Neat handwritten cover, a little roughly opened. Reverse bears oval cachet in black of Royal Dutch Airways. Single stamp on cover cat. $60, price $45 APH767) Australia 1935. Solo use on small surface mail cover to USA of the Jubilee 3d Blue. Cancelled by cds of Penrith NSW 25 JE 35. Neat typewritten cover. Price $59 APH568) Australia 1935 2/- Violet Silver Jubilee Solo Use Cover. Small airmail cover to Woodbridge Suffolk UK, re-addressed to Salop. Cancelled by cds of Downside? NSW of 24JE35, (Post office supposed to have closed in 1905) and also Woodbridge of 10 JY 35. Opened a little roughly at top. Very rare solo use, cat. $400 on cover. Price $280 APH225) Australia 1930’s Pink Parcel Post Customs Declaration Label, bearing 2/- Maroon C of A wmk Kangaroo Die II & 1/4d magenta KGVI. Cancelled by undated oval violet handstamp. Sent from Hawthorn Vic. Fire Station to The Red Cross at Ipswich UK, for a weight of 4lbs 1oz and with a value of 7/9d. Scarce complete label, price $125 APS43) Australia KGVI period OHMS un-denominated registered envelopes for the PMG’s dept. Two different. One with circular ad. For Bonds & Savings Certificates, the other without. Size 9” x 4” printed in Red on Buff. Not listed in ACSC, and the first we have seen. Slight faults. $119 the two. APH609) Australia 1942 small censored surface mail cover to USA. Bears compete set of 3 1941 Surcharges, cancelled by Canberra cds’s of 5.JA.42. Red censor tape at left and with violet diamond h/s 2/PASSES/BY/CENSOR/1243. Neat typed address cover. Price $145 APH630-634) Australia series of 5 small surface mail covers, sent NAB to Batavia Java. Each bears 3½d KGVI surcharge with a different Sydney slogan on each sent between 31 Jan and 23 Feb 1942. All have 2 line “NOT TRANSMISSIBLE/
SERVICE SUSPENDED” in violet and RTS finger in red. All additionally bear Sydney double ring DLO Office cds in red. All also with red censor tape. Probably a unique lot. Price $450 APH207) Australia 1947 small airmail cover to Ceylon. Bears 2d Mauve & 1/4d Bright Magenta KGVI cancelled by Ipswich, Qld. Slogan of 8 APR 1947 “SEND MONEY/BY POSTAL NOTE/OR MONEY ORDER” Price $35 APS6) Australia 1952 un-denominated Airletter, ovpt. “SPECIMEN” DIAGONALLY IN Violet. Fine mint, with variety “Postage/Paid” misplaced to right. Not listed in ACSC, however misplaced to left is priced at $150 for used. ACSC AO1B. Price $149 APH158) Australia 1953 small airmail cover to Singapore. Bear 1/0.5d Grey Blue KGVI plus 2 x 1d Princess & 3.5d Tasmania Sesqui (Paterson) to make 1/6d rate. Cancelled by scarce Adelaide 2 line slogan of 13 NOV 1953 “HELP ERADICATE T.B./USE CHRISTMAS SEALS” Price $39 APH165) Australia 1953 small airmail Triple Rate cover to City of London. Bears 2/- Coronation in vertical strip of 3 cancelled by cds of GPO Perth WA 19AU5? Cat. $30 for solo use. Scarce usage. Price $49 APH180) Australia 1955 small airmail cover to Austria. Bears 4 x 6.5d Orange QEII no wmk, overpaying the 2/- rate by 2d. This stamp is scarce as a solo usage on any domestic cover, and incredibly rare to find in multiple use on overseas mail. Cancelled by a Sydney Two Line Slogan of 15 JLY 1955 “ENLIST IN THE/ REGULAR ARMY” This is a slogan I have not seen previously. Reverse bears an arrival cds of Lustenau of 21 7 55. In 1951, during the Korean War, national service was introduced under the National Service Act (1951). All Australian males aged 18 had to register for 176 days training (ninety-nine days full-time) and two years in the CMF. Later the obligation was 140 days of training (seventy-seven days full-time) and three years of service in the CMF. The regular military forces were kept as voluntary. Fine and rare neat typed address cover, price $149 APH26) Australia 1960 small Airmail commercial use 5d Turquoise QEII prestamp envelope uprated by 1/6d Christmas Bells and COIL PAIR of 2d Green QM, SG 237a to Malvern UK. Cancelled by Woomera S.A. cds. Correctly paying the 2/3d Airmail rate. Woomera Village initially operated as a “closed town” between 1947 and 1982, when the facility supported the operations of the Woomera Rocket Range during the Anglo-Australia Project. Only Australian Government personnel (mostly Defence) and contractors to the Commonwealth are able to live at Woomera on a permanent basis. The current permanent population of the town is 136 (2015). The Woomera Range was first established in 1947 as a Department of Defence rocket testing range. Since its construction over 1947–53, Woomera Village has essentially operated under a specialised Commonwealth/ Defence township management model rather than a local government (council) model. This is very late usage for the QM Coil pair, which is unpriced on cover by the ACSC, and an extremely scarce combination franking. Price $265 APH605) Australia small window advertising envelope for Eltham Engineering, Vic. Bears 2/3d Airmail, marginal horizontal pair of 2/3d Cable & 9d Sepia Kangaroo cancelled by cds’s of Eltham 3SE64. Total of 7/6d paid…..for what? postage paid for bulk mail? 7/6d is 18 x the 5d letter rate. Price $79 APH359) Australia 1970 American Express printed Airmail long commercial cover to USA. Bears 5c & 20c Expo pair to make correct 25c rate. RARE COMMERCIAL USE! Cancelled by cds of Melbourne 19 AP(?) 70. Price $129 APH181) Australia 1982 small underpaid cover South Wagga Wagga to Sydney. Bears pairs of the 2c & 10c Flower coils (Late use) to registrar of Births Marriages and deaths, cancelled by 3 line slogan of 5 JUL 1982 “POST EARLY/AND SOEEO/YOUR MAIL” Whatever that may mean! Postage rate was increased to 27c on 19th April
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BUY OR BID SALE SEPTEMBER 2019 1982 and so this is underpaid 3c. Bears a 3 line violet handstamp “UNDERPAID/ Postage/Collected from Sender” with 23 in manuscript. Atttractive item, price $49 APH602) Australia 1974 – 1999 lovely range of 11 Tourism Greetings envelopes from Katoomba, Blue Mountains, Gosford, Jenolan Caves, Perth. Western Australia, Brisbane, Gold Coast & Surfers Paradise, variously to UK(9) & Denmark (2) All bear better usage of higher value commems, defins. Price $72 APH176) Australia 1985 Tourism greetings envelope, Toormina to Tamworth. Bears strips of 3 each of the 1971 flower coil stamps, plus 2 x 2c & 1 x 5c additional to make 30c correct domestic rate. Very late commercial usage of this issue. Cancelled by cds of Sawtell NSW 25 JA 85. Price $39 APH457) Australia 1986 Greeting card size Airmail cover S.A. to W. Germany. Bears strip of 5 x 36c Animals to make double 90c rate. Cancelled by Adelaide Pictorial Slogan “ Get Stuck Into Stamps” of 21 SEP 1986. Very rare commercial usage unlisted as such in ACSC. Price $49 APH604) Australia 1986 Christmas card size Airmail cover Perth to UK. Bears strip of 5 x 36c Animals to overpay by 30c the double concessional rate of $1.20, or underpay by 50c the zone 5 double airmail rate. Cancelled by Perth cds 9.DE.86. Very rare commercial usage unlisted as such in ACSC. Price $49 APH603) Australia 1986 Greeting card size Airmail cover Perth to UK. Bears strip of 5 x 36c Animals to make double 90c rate. Cancelled by Perth cds 10.FE.87. Very rare commercial usage unlisted as such in ACSC. Price $49 APH475) Australia 1989 small airmail cover to Finland. Bears 4 x 39c Living Together cancelled by MAR 1 1989 slogan cancel of Hunter Region Mail Centre NSW 2310 “COLLECT/AUSTRALIAN/STAMPS” Have worked out the rate as double the Zone 3 Surface Air Lifted of 80c, underpaid by 4c. (Unless anyone else knows better!) Rare usage of the domestic letter rate. Price $29 APH473) Australia 1990 small airmail cover to Denmark. Bears 80c 1989 Christmas and 30c Living Together to make $1.10 Airmail rate. Nice combination. Cancelled by Geelong Vic. Pictorial cancel “City By The Sea” 2 JAN 1990. Clean and attractive, price $29 APH490) Australia 1992 small airmail cover to Denmark. Bears $1.05 1992 Australia day and 15c Living Together to make $1.20 Airmail rate. Cancelled by OC 1 1992 machine cancel of Victoria 3077 (Northern Mail Centre) Clean and attractive, price $29 APH187) Australia 1990 28c Salmon Gums perf 14.6 x Imperf, make up rate from vending machine booklet. Solo usage on small commercial cover Terrigal – Punchbowl NSW. Handstamp at left states ‘UNDERPAID POSTAGE COLLECTED FROM SENDER” Postage at the time being 43c. Scarce attractive cover on written up album page. Cancelled by Terrigal Handstamp of 20 JUN 1991. RARE! Price $89 First Flight Covers AFC26) Australia 1931 small FFC 1st Official Airmail, Sandringham, Vic CDS 16 AP 31 to Glasgow, bears 2d Kingsford Smith, 9d Violet and 1/- Light blue Roos. Violet cachet applied to front. Opened at the top, with hinge mounting marks. AAMC188, price $30 AFC27) Australia 1931 small FFC 1st Official Airmail Melbourne to Tasmania, bears 1½d Sturt x 2, 1½d red KGV and ½d Orange KGV. CDS Perth 27 AP 31, Hobart receiving backstamp for 4 May, violet cachet on front, unopened. AAMC198, price $40 AFC28) Australia 1931 small FFC 19 November 1931 Special Air Mail Flight, bears 6d Air Mail pair and 3d Kingsford Smith, CDS Jeparit Vic 16 NO 31, to USA via England. Violet cachet on front, with South Bend, Indiana receiving cancel of DEC 24 1931, opened at top. AAMC222, price $30
AFC33) Australia small 1931 FFC Launceston – Melbourne. Bears 3d Airmail Type A & 2d on 1½d red KGV head cancelled cds’s of Launceston of 1MY31. Front & rear also each bear large circular violet Cachet. Reverse has Melbourne 1 MAY 1931 slogan “ADDRESS MAIL TO PRIVATE BOX NUMBER/IT EXPEDITES DELIVERY” Small tear at top and slightly aged. Still an attractive item. AAMC 198a. Price $35 AFC36) ) Australia 1931 FFC Launceston – Melbourne, bears ½d orange KGV, 1½d Canberra & 3d Airmail type A, three strikes of ‘LAUNCESTON/A1-MY31/TAS’ cds, large violet cachet on front and rear, AAMC 198a, Price $39 AFC93) Australia 1931 long typewritten FFC. Sent from Commonwealth Oil Refineries Melbourne to Anglo-Persian Oil Co. Ltd. London. Bears block of 4 6d Brown Airmail & 2d Red KGV Head. Cancelled by Melbourne Ship Mail Room cds of 18NO31. Has Violet Special Air Mail Flight cachet. Nice clean cover. Used multiples of the 6d Air are scarce. Price $59 AFC39) New Zealand 1933 Faith in Australia cacheted cover for 1st Auckland – Invercargill flight. Bears 3d Brown Airmail & 1d Red KGV Admiral cancelled by cds’s of New Plymouth 8DE33 and with arrival cds on face of Auckland 12DE33 and Invercargill cds of the same date on reverse. Attractive cover. Price $39 AFC52) Netherlands – Australia Macrobertson Air race illustrated cover. Bears 30c Green Triangular plus 70c & 12½c Wilhelmina, cancelled by cds’s of Amsterdam Central Station of 15 X 1934. Sydney Air Mail Section arrival machine cancel of 26 OCT 1934 plus Royal Dutch Airways Black oval arrival in Melbourne cancel of 24-10-34Also red Oval Macrobertson handstamp of 20 October 1934 to left. Listed as AAMC 444, cat. $80. Neat and clean, price $59 AFC69) Australia 1934 Autogyro Card. Sent Portland to ASM Lending Library Melbourne. Bears ½d Orange and 1d Green KGV cancelled by neat Portland cds of 16 NOV 34 and with Airmail Soc. of Australia Blue double ring cds to left. Front bears illustration of the Autogyro and Aboriginal with spear. This card numbered 1832 is perfectly clean and undamaged unlike most of these which are usually creased and dog-eared. Listed as AAMC 461. Price $69 AFC18) Australia 1934 ‘Boomerang’ FFC Australia – NZ – Australia, Bears KGV 4d olive & 3d Airmail type A, NZ 7d Airmail & 1d Admiral, appropriate violet cachets on front and back, some minor perf toning, AAMC 371, Price $39 AFC71) Australia 1934 FFC Papua – Australia, Bears Papua 2d & 6d 1932 Pictorials cancelled ‘PORT MORESBY/26JY34/PAPUA’ cds, octagonal violet cachet, backstamped Melbourne, AAMC 392, Price $29 AFC84) Australia 1934 ‘Boomerang’ FFC Australia – Papua – Australia, Bears 6d Airmail, KGV 2d red, Papua 1932 2d & 6d, Adelaide and Port Moresby cancellations, octagonal and circular violet cachets, Sydney, Port Moresby & Melbourne backstamps, AAMC 393, Price $29 AFC80) Australia 1934 ‘Boomerang’ illustrated FFC showing CTP Ulm, Australia – New Guinea – Australia then onwards to the UK, Bears 6d Airmail, KGV 2d red, New Guinea 2d undated bird, circular violet cachet, Lae backstamp, attractive cover AAMC 395, Price $49 AFC67) Australia 1938 small plain airmail cover , Blackheath NSW – Papua. Bears 2d Red KGVI die 1 plus 3d Blue die 2 thick paper cancelled by cds’s of Blackheath 27MY38 and with Sydney Air Mail cds on face of 30MY38. Neat handwritten cover, listed as AAMC 809. Price $25 Lord Howe Island APH454) Australia 1957 Lord Howe Island Advertising cover to Melbourne. Doery & Tilley (famous Melbourne Soft Furnishings firm) small advertising cover,
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BUY OR BID SALE SEPTEMBER 2019 used LHI to Brighton Beach Victoria. Bears 2.5d Henry Lawson plus Halfpenny Orange Kangaroo & 1d Violet QEII to make 4d rate. Cancelled by 3DE57 cds of LHI. Scarce dual reign cover. Price $89 APH459) Australia 1976 Lord Howe Island small surface mail commercial cover to Registrar Generals Dept., Sydney. Bears 18c Wildflower cancelled by LHI cds of 3SE76. Opened 3 sides. Price $33 APH812) Australia 1979 Lord Howe Island commercial DL size cover to Sydney Solicitor. Bears AAT 20c Albatross cancelled by LHI Pictorial cancel of 12 MAR 1979. Price $29 APH810) Australia 1979 Lord Howe Island commercial DL size cover to Sydney Solicitor. Bears 20c Fishing cancelled by LHI Pictorial cancel of 2 NOV 1979. Price $29 APH452) Australia 1980/81 Lord Howe Island. 2 x “Trader Nick” Tourist Covers, 1 used to Melbourne with LHI Pictorial cancel of 14 MAY 1980, the other unaddressed with LHI Post Office Centenary Cover Pictorial Cancel depicting Woodhen, dated 1 JUN 1981. Clean and attractive pair of covers. Price $54 APH809) Australia 1980 Lord Howe Island commercial DL size cover to Sydney Solicitor. Bears 1980 22c Queen’s Birthday cancelled by LHI Pictorial cancel of 4 JUN 1980. Price $29 APH813) Australia 1980 Lord Howe Island commercial DL size cover to Sydney Solicitor. Bears 1980 22c Kingfisher cancelled by LHI Pictorial cancel of 11 JUL 1980. Price $29 APH811) Australia 1980 Lord Howe Island commercial DL size cover to Sydney Solicitor. Bears 1980 22cLife be in it cancelled by LHI Pictorial cancel of 13 AUG 1980. Price $29 APH815) Australia 1980 Lord Howe Island commercial DL size cover to Sydney Solicitor. Bears 1980 22c National Stamp Week ASC 779 cancelled by LHI Pictorial cancel of 13 OCT 1980. Price $29 APH814) Australia 1980 Lord Howe Island commercial DL size cover to Sydney Solicitor. Bears 1980 22c National Stamp Week ASC 780 cancelled by LHI Pictorial cancel of 11 JUL 1980. Price $29 APH797) Australia 1983 Lord Howe Island Commemorative Cover, No. 743 of a limited edition of 1000. Depicts map of island and HM Brig Supply in full sail. Bears 27c 1983 Australia Day, HM Brig Supply, cancelled by LHI pictorial cancel of 17 FRB 1983. Clean unaddressed cover. Price $31.50 APH799) Australia 1983 Lord Howe Is. Long OHMS typed address Cover from Admin. Officer top Elec. Commission of NSW. Bears 27c Butterfly cancelled by LHI pictorial cancel of 26 JUL 1983. Opened 3 sides as much official mail is. Price $39 Inwards Mail APH68) Netherlands Indies 1931 Flight Cover to Consulate General of the Netherlands, Sydney. Bears 15c Blue Wilhelmina tied by Sceraba cds of 11.5.31 and Blue & Brown Flight Stamp SG 130 with Abel Tasman special Diamond cancel of 11 MEI 1931. Sydney Airmail Section arrival machine cancel of 18 MAY 1931 on reverse flap. Listed as AAMC 196. Price $69 APH78) Straits Settlements 1935 25c Jubilee solo use on small airmail cover to Bendigo, Vic. Cancelled by 1935 cds of Singapore. Unusual and scarce solo use of top value. SG 259 Cat. £12 plus from x 4 on cover. Price $59 DB333) Johore - Melbourne, 1941 Small Salvation Army printed and inscribed with Red Shield and Map of Australia, “RED SHIELD HUTS for Australian Troops” Military Censor cover. Bears 2 x 1c, 4 x 2c & 3 x 5c (25c total) definitives of Johore franked with AIF Field P.O. 19 cds of 13SE41. Also Violet Triangular Censor Cachet No. 501, signed. Addressee is at State Taxation Office, Melbourne and sender details on reverse reads “VX 31751 Pte. R.J. Hughes, HQ Coy. 2/9 Field Ambulance, AIF. MALAYA. Clean and attractive, 1 x 5c stamp has damaged corner, mentioned
for accuracy only and does not detract from fine appearance. Price $129 LM8) Bahamas - Sydney 1948 Long Registered OHMS envelope, sent by airmail. Bears 2d & 2.5d definitives of KGVI franked by cds of Nassau 19MAR48, and with blue Nassau Reg’d Label No. 0678. with cachet at left “WAR ECONOMY RE-USE OF ENVELOPES - Open by slitting along flap edge” Neat typed address and with arrival cds’s of Miami MAR 23 1948, San Francisco MAR 27 1948, Sydney 28 MY 48 and Edgecliff 29MY48. Not a bad turnaround time for those days and probably started its journey by Flying Boat. Very attractive piece, price $129 GER1) Germany Inflation Period. Small 1923 Advertising cover, Leipzig – Melbourne Law Courts, bearing 20 x 3000 mk. Brown Michel No. 254. Cancelled by Leipzig cds of 27 8 23. Scarce survivor, price $125 Australia Kangaroos K670) Australia 1913 – 46 simplified set ½d to 5/- good to fine used. All will have circular cancels. 14 stamps including both colours of the 6d & 2/-. Some may have slight defects. Usual retail $250 plus. A good starter collection, price $145 K614) Australia 1913 Kangaroo Plate Proof imperforate 3d black on blue Die I ACSC 12PP(1)A Cat $1250, part gutter marginal example, small area of rubbing at lower left which hardly detracts, ACSC states ‘Approximately 40 survive’ Attractive and rare. Price $995 K281) Australia 1913 Kangaroo ½d green 1st wmk var Inverted wmk BW1a, slightly rounded corner Mint. Price $39 K444) Australia 1913 1d Red Kangaroo Die 1 Plate 2 Monogram strip of 3, fresh mint unhinged. Well centred strip with CA monogram at centre. ACSC 2A(C)z. Cat. $1500 for a hinged cnr. Strip. Price $1195 K642) Australia First wmk 1d red die I punctured small ‘OS’ ACSC 3bb, horizontal pair, Cat $550, unusually well centred for this issue, some fluffy perfs as usual, Fresh MUH. Price $349 K414) Australia 1913 2d Grey Kangaroo 1st wmk. Strong Offset, unlisted! Mint example with faults, but very strong offset on reverse. Not catalogued as such. Offset on the 1d red Die II perf large OS is listed at $750. Price $395 K308) Australia 1913 2d Grey 1st wmk. Kangaroo THIN PAPER. Well centred and cancelled Launceston Tas. Cds of 22SE14. Has a few nibbed perfs, but almost unavoidable given the softness of the paper. Cat. $200 as mint, no used price listed. Price $149 K386) Australia 1913 2.5d Indigo Kangaroo in superb top left corner mint unhinged block of 15. Fresh white gum, pretty much “Post Office Fresh” hinged only in selvedge. Includes the variety on stamp 1/2, “Break in inner frame over R of Australia” Large blocks of this stamp are exceedingly rare, and there were none in the Arthur Gray collection. Cat. $325 each as normals, plus the variety stamp would be at least double. Superb exhibition piece! Price $3895 K525) Australia 1913 2.5d Indigo Kangaroo perf Large OS in mint unhinged block of 4. Cat. $1000 each for single stamps = $4000 plus, blocks are RARE. Decent centring and perfs for this, gum very slightly aged. ACSC 9Aba. Priced very reasonably at $1365 K630) Australia 1913 2½d indigo Kangaroo 1st wmk ACSC 9A, horizontal strip of 4, Cat $160 as singles, centred to right, l/h unit with a couple of perf faults, light, crisp cds cancels, attractive multiple. Price $99 K633) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 3d olive die I 1st wmk ACSC 13E horizontal strip of 4, centred to upper left, r/h unit with slightly rounded corner perf, multiple crisp strikes of Brisbane cds. Price $39 K368) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 3d olive 1st wmk die I punctured large ‘OS’ with
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BUY OR BID SALE SEPTEMBER 2019 variety ‘Colour flaw off Queensland coast’ similar to BW 12(U)d but larger & a little further ‘north’, cat for the listed variety $360, couple of nibbled perfs. Price $125 K306) Australia 1913 3d Olive 1st wmk Kangaroo Die II. Attractive used example well centred. A few ragged perfs at top otherwise fine. Cancelled by partial cds to left. Cat. $400, price $195 K257) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 3d olive-green 1st wmk die II BW 12D, centred low FU. Price $149 K222) Australia 1913 4d Orange Analine Kangaroo perf. large OS. Neat steel cds of 1915 to right. Nicely centred with good perfs. ACSC 15B Cat. $275 as normal, large OS is x 2. Price $385 K223) Australia 1913 4d Orange Yellow Kangaroo perf. large OS. Neat cds of Queensland to left. Nicely centred with good perfs. ACSC 15E Cat. $250 as normal, large OS is x 2. Price $349 K618) Australia 1913 5d Chestnut Kangaroo ACSC 16A horizontal pair, centred slightly to the right, very faint tone spot on l/h unit MLH. Price $229 K553) Australia First wmk 5d chestnut ACSC 16 well centred, one slightly nibbled perf at top, HR Mint. Price $119 K131) Australia 1913 1st wmk. Kangaroos fine used set to 1/-Retail $220, my price $169 K526) Australia 1913 9d Violet 1st wmk. Kangaroo, Melbourne cto. Very well centred, mng with good perfs. Cat. $120, price $79 K952) Australia 1913 9d Violet 1st wmk. Kangaroo, BRISBANE cto. Very well centred, mng with SLIGHTLY FLUFFY perfs. Cat. $600, price $450 K364) Australia 1913 1/- Green (Analine) Kangaroo 1st wmk. ACSC 30B. Nice fine used example of this scarce shade cancelled by 2 partial cds. Centred high, with good perfs. Cat. $750, price $495 K256) Australia 1913 2/- Brown 1st wmk Kangaroo. Well centred cto with generally good perfs. 1` slightly nibbed at base. Cancelled by Melbourne 3 DE 13 cds. Cat. $300 Price $179 K432) Australia 5/- Grey & Yellow 1st wmk. Kangaroo, postally used. Cancelled by 2 Melbourne partial cds’s of 8 JL 13. Nice well centred stamp, cpl. Of short perfs at base, almost unavoidable given the softness of the paper. Cat. $350, price $195 K401) Australia 1913 5/- Grey & Yellow 1st wmk Kangaroo, ACSC42B postally used. Rounded lower left corner, cancelled by indistinct central cds. Cat. $350, good spacefiller, price $125 K208) Australia 1915-16 2nd wmk. Kangaroos set to 2/- (6) Very Fine Used, cds. Cat. $645 in ACSC. Other dealers’ retail for regular fine used $390, Premium examples.. My price $365 K753) Australia 1915 Kangaroos 2nd wmk 2d grey ACSC 6A, centred slightly to upper right, Mint, Price $129 K754) Australia 1915 Kangaroos 2nd wmk 2½d Indigo ACSC 10A, centred a little low, hinge remains, fresh Mint, Cat $200, $109 K209) Australia 1915-16 2nd wmk. Kangaroos set to 2/- (6) Good to Fine Used. Cat. in ACSC $645, My price $195 K586) Australia 1915 2nd wmk 5/- deep grey & yellow punctured ‘OS’ ACSC 43Ab Cat $700. Centred to left, indistinct cds. Price $349 K295) Australia 1915 Kangaroo 6d pale grey-violet 3rd wmk punctured ‘OS’ BW 19Gba, cat $150 for non OS, unusually well centred, steel cds, superb used. Price $110 K360) Australia 1915 6d Deep Ultramarine Kangaroo, 2nd wmk perf. OS. Very fie dated example with Registered Elizabeth St. Melbourne cds of 7AU17. Good perfs and centring. Hard shade to fine OS, price $225
K307) Australia 1915 1/- Analine Green 2nd wmk. Kangaroo. Fine used example of this rare shade Cancelled by partial cds to right. Centred reasonably well, a little to the right. Has jumped perf at base making this a larger than usual stamp. ACSC 31E Cat. $500, price $375 K340) Australia 1915 2/- Light Brown 2nd wmk. Kangaroo. Fine used, well centred and full perfs. Cancelled by blue Brisbane cds. Cat. $350, price $175 K279) Australia 1915 Kangaroo 2d grey 3rd wmk die I var Inverted wmk BW 7a, centred upper right FU. Price $29 K609) Australia 1915 2d deep grey Die I 3rd wmk showing variety ‘Scratch from value circle through map to T of POSTAGE’, Cat $150, centred to lower left, MLH. Price $99 K361) Australia 1919 2.5d Intense Indigo 3rd wmk. Kangaroo. Well centred example of this difficult stamp. Cancelled by Wandin Vic. cds, ACSC 11D, cat. $275, price $139 K575) Australia 1918 2½d blue punctured ‘OS’ ACSC 11Ab Cat $450. Unusually well centred for this issue, Fresh MUH. Price $299 K574) Australia 1918 2½d blue punctured ‘OS’ ACSC 11Ab Cat $225. Very well centred for this issue, MLH. Price $139 K643) Australia 1915 3d Olive Kangaroo Die I, 3rd wmk. Inverted ACSC 13Ea Cat $275, excellent centring, barely visible hinge mark MVLH. Price $199 K607) Australia 1915 3d Olive Kangaroo Die I, 3rd wmk. Inverted ACSC 13Ea Cat $525, tiny tone spot on gum, MUH. Price $249 K591) Australia 1915 3d Olive Kangaroo Die 2B, 3rd wmk punctured ‘OS’ ACSC 14Ab, Cat $200, centred to upper left, Mint. Price $99 K213) Australia 1915 3d Olive Kangaroo Die I, 3rd wmk. Inverted, perf OS. Good perf. example with cds cancel centred low. ACSC Cat. $450 ($150 x 3 for OS) Retail $360, Price $275 K310) Australia 1915 3d Yellow Olive Kangaroo 3rd wmk, Die II pair with variety. Fine postally used horizontal pair with Reg’d cds of Sydney 8MR17. Well centred and mostly good perfs, scarce in multiples. Left stamp has the variety “White flaw over T of THREE” ACSC 13B (1)d Cat $450 & $200, price $429 K616) Australia 1915 3d Yellow Olive Kangaroo 3rd wmk, Die II pair with variety ‘White flaw over T of THREE” ACSC 13B (1)d Cat $900 (see note 2 in ACSC), centred to upper left, light roller cancel, a scarce combination of die, variety & OS puncture! Price $399 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 K238) Australia 1921 6d Pale Ultramarine 3rd wmk. Kangaroo Die 2B with variety “Dry Ink” ACSC 20Aca. Fresh mint lightly hinged. Centred right with full perfs. Cat. $400, price $279 K954) Australia 1916 1/- Blue Green 3rd wmk. Die 2, perf OS. Fresh mint unhinged example with inter-panneau margin at left. Well centred and with good perfs. Shows wmk. misplaced right with margin line through stamp at left. Cat. $475, price $359 K498) Australia 1920 1/- Blue Green Kangaroo Die IIB, Mullett Imprint Pair. Fresh mint unhinged, with good centring and perfs. Cat. $375 per stamp for hinged, plus value of the imprint. Price $749 DB503) Australia 1920 1/- Bright Blue Green Kangaroo Die IIB, OS Imprint Pair. Wonderfully fresh looking pair of this scarce shade. The stamps are fresh, well centred and with full perfs., hinged only in the central gutter. Also has unrecorded retouch to shading around “ONE” on right hand stamp. Cat. For a single unhinged stamp is $450, plus the value of the imprint. Price $750 K357) Australia 1916 2/- Brown Kangaroo 3rd wmk. Superb Fresh Mint
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BUY OR BID SALE SEPTEMBER 2019 unhinged. Impossible to better in my opinion, with full perfs and perfectly centred. ACSC 37A Cat. $2500, price $1875 K437) Australia 1924 2/- Maroon 3rd wmk. Kangaroo mint lightly hinged. Very fresh example with good perfs., centred slightly right. SG74, ACSC 38A. Cat. $300. Price $165 K608) Australia 1918 5/- Grey & Deep Yellow, 3rd wmk. ACSC 44C, Fresh, nicely centred Mint. Cat. $450 price $295 K945) Australia 1918 5/- Grey & Pale Yellow, 3rd wmk. ACSC 44D, perfectly centred Mint with full perfs. Reverse a trifle aged. Looks superb from the front. Cat. $450, price $225 K83) Australia 1918 5/- Grey Black & Pale Yellow, 3rd wmk. Fine postally used example from right of sheet with neat Williamstown, Vic. Partial cds to left. Full perf. well centred, with slightly fluffy perfs. Cat. $225, Price $129 K173) Australia 1918 5/- Grey & Chrome Kangaroo 3rd wmk. ACSC 44A, fine used. Well centred and with good perfs, cancelled by cds of Geelong Vic. 18NO19. Nice misplaced wmk. variety with part at top and part at bottom of stamp. Cat. $225, price $159 K174) Australia 1918 5/- Grey Black & Yellow-Orange Kangaroo 3rd wmk. ACSC 44B, fine used. Well centred and with generally good perfs couple at base are nibbed. cancelled by partial cds of Exchange? Vic. 2nd Hardest of all shades for this wmk. Cat. $275, price $175 K176) Australia 1918 5/- Grey & Pale Yellow Kangaroo 3rd wmk. ACSC 44D, fine used. Centred high, cancelled by central cds (socked on nose) of Abbotsford Vic. A few nibbed perfs. Cat. $225, price $125 K83) Australia 1918 5/- Grey Black & Pale Yellow, 3rd wmk Kangaroo. Fine postally used example from right of sheet with neat Williamstown, Vic. Partial cds to left. Full perf. well centred, with slightly fluffy perfs. Cat. $225, Price $129 K590) Australia 1917 10/- Grey & Deep Analine Pink, showing variety ‘Broken tail’ ACSC 48A(V)e. Cat $650, Fine used example, nicely centred with unusually clean & full perfs. Price $475 K449) Australia 1917 10/- Grey & Pale Analine Pink, ACSC 48E. Fine used example with part Melbourne cds. Centred to lower right, and with fluffy perfs, as usual for this issue. Cat. $375, price $239 K595) Australia 1917 10/- Grey & Pale Analine Pink, ACSC 48E. Nice used example with slightly smudged part Grahamstown? (NSW) cds., couple of nibbled perfs. Price $279 K177) Australia 1917 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo, ACSC 48A, fine used. Well centred and good perfs. Cancelled by registered cds of Sydney. Cat. $500, price $349 K411) Australia 1917 10/- Grey & Pink 3rd wmk, perf OS postally used. ACSC48Aba. Nice well centred stamp with good perfs, a little fluffy at base, which is usual for this printing. Cancelled by partial cds to top left of 1937. Some minor perf. toning at top does not detract. Cat. $500, price $295 K452) Australia 1919 £1 Chocolate & Dull Blue 3rd wmk. Kangaroo fine used, well centred and with mainly good perfs, lower left cnr. Has been repaired. Cancelled by light cds. ACSC 52A, Cat. $2500. Good spacefiller at just $749 K149) Australia 1923 6d Chestnut Kangaroo 3rd wmk, ACSC 21Aba. Superb mint unhinged block of 4, perf OS. Extremely well centred and with perfect perfs. Post Office fresh Gum. Impossible to better! Cat. $600 as singles, blocks are rare, particularly as nice as this. Price $575 K446) Australia 1923 Kangaroo 6d chestnut 3rd wmk Mullett imprint pair BW 21zd cat min $200 Mint. Price $129 K950) Australia 1923 Kangaroo 6d chestnut 3rd wmk mint block of 4 perf. OS.
Lower 2 are unhinged. Block shows misplaced wmk. With A at top and crown at base of each stamp. Well centred and fresh with good perfs. Cat. $420 as singles, price $349 K596) Australia 1924 £1 Grey 3rd wmk Kangaroo ACSC 53A, centred to left, a lovely fresh MUH example with a slightly blunt corner perf at upper left, Cat $3750, excellent value at only $1750 K453) Australia 1924 £1 Deep Grey 3rd wmk Kangaroo Ovpt. Specimen Type. C. Fresh mint hinged example. Centred to left with full perfs. ACSC 53Bxb cat. $375 Budget priced stamp at under 50% catalogue. $149 K451) Australia 1924 £1 Deep Grey 3rd wmk Kangaroo Ovpt. Specimen Type. D. Well centred, full perf. lightly hinged example. ACSC 53Bxg cat. $375, much better than average, price $269 K341) Australia 1918 £2 Purple – Black & Crimson Kangaroo 3rd wmk. Mint Unhinged “Specimen” Type C with shaved P. ACSC 56Cxf. Fresh mint unhinged with full perfs, centred left. Indicative cat. for MUH $2600, price $1950 K440) Australia 1929 6d Pale Chestnut sml. Multi. Wmk Kangaroo Die IIB Fresh Mint lightly hinged Imprint strip of 6. Well centred and with full perfs. ACSC 22Bza. Minimum Cat. $375, price $279 K563) Australia 1929 9d violet sml Multi. Wmk Kangaroo ACSC 28A, nicely centred and very lightly hinged, Cat $175. Price $89 K392) Australia 1929 1/- Blue Green sml. Multi. Wmk Kangaroo Mint unhinged Bock of 4. Well centred full perf block of 4. Right hand pair with lovely fresh gum, left two are “suntanned” visually very striking piece. Cat. $1200 as singles, price $595 K438) Australia 1929 1/- Blue Green sml. Multi. Wmk Kangaroo Fresh Mint lightly hinged plate 4 Imprint strip of 6. Well centred and with full perfs. All “Jumbo” sized stamps due to skipped perf at top of all 6 stamps. ACSC 34Aza. Minimum Cat. $750, price $595 K941) Australia 1929 5/- Grey & Yellow Orange Kangaroo, small multiple wmk. cto. with fresh unhinged gum. Very well centred, perfs mostly full, with a few at base just nibbed. Attractive stamp. Cat. $250, price $175 K949) Australia 1929 5/- Grey & Yellow Orange Kangaroo, small multiple wmk. cto. without gum. Very well centred, perfs mostly full, with a few at base just nibbed. Vibrant colour, attractive stamp. Cat. $250, price $149 K942) Australia 1929 5/- Grey & Yellow Orange Kangaroo, small multiple wmk. cto. perf. OS with lightly hinged gum. Centred a little to right, good perfs. Cat. $250, price $175 K81) Australia 1929 5/- Grey & Yellow Orange Kangaroo, small multiple wmk. Perf OS cto. Has broken coast near Sydney, and elongated Spencer Gulf. ACSC 44(D)f, full perfs, centred to top left. Cat. $450, nice fresh looking stamp. Price $269 K397) Australia 1929 Grey & Rose Crimson £2 smw Kangaroo, Ovpt. “Specimen” Lovely POST OFFICE FRESH mint unhinged, full perf. example, centred left. Cat. $1750, price $975 K418) Australia 1929 Grey & Rose Crimson £2 smw Kangaroo, Ovpt. “Specimen” Fresh mint lightly hinged, full perf. example, well centred. Kangaroo slightly misplaced downwards. Cat. $900, price $549 K460) Australia 1929 Grey & Rose Crimson £2 smw Kangaroo, Ovpt. “Specimen” Mint lightly hinged, full perf. example, well centred. Kangaroo slightly misplaced upwards and with mild Kissprint through left of Map and above. Cat. $900, price $549 K409) Australia 1929 Grey & Rose Crimson £2 smw Kangaroo, Ovpt. “Specimen” Lovely well centred, full perf. mng example, with unrecorded variety “Red flaw in value tablet” ACSC 57xa cat. $900, price $720
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GB 1840 “Penny Black” 4 Margin - Rare Plate 10 - No Faults - $A495: Clean and fresh. Free of the toning 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)
Australia 1/4d KGV, 1927 Small Multiple, Perf 14, rare *Deep Turquoise*: One of the real legendary shades from the KGV heads. Many
offered are simply NOT. Even deeper than the Arthur Gray example - lot 307 (with Drury Cert), which being MINT should be far darker! From the quite massive THREE Generation “Townsville North Queensland Hoard” collection we flew back with - in 8 huge removalist cartons - tinyurl. com/TownsV None of these stamps has EVER been on the stamp market before, in the past Century or so. You will be the FIRST collector to own it since! ACSC 129c, $2,750. Good perfs and centring for these, (perfs at base all fine - cancel ink on a few), and neat dated MACKAY 1928 Queensland cds. This Small Multi, perf 14 is a scarce stamp in the NORMAL shade - cat $150 used cheapest shade. ACSC tells us there was only ONE quite small printing of this short lived watermark issue in May 1927, which was replaced within a year with the 12½ x 13½ perf version. And ACSC also tells us that most of these SG 93s were used on Telegrams, and destroyed internally by PO. Unlike the Single Wmk 1/4d which was printed in a huge range of shades over 7 years in vast numbers, the usual shade of these is VERY consistent, and is of course far lighter than this - check your own used copy! Used copies fade fast in water, so even more strikingly in used - this MINT copy (clearly same colour) sold for $3,960 in a July 2019 Auction, WAY above est - with NO cert - tinyurl.com/DeepTurq $A995 (Stock 482LA)
Roo 1917 Deep Aniline Pink, with Inverted Watermark *MUH*. Cat $18,000 for just $A7,000 - *save $11,000!* : A super RARE Roo of the highest order. The scarce Third Watermark in INVERTED WATERMARK. A tiny printing of just a few sheets were done in WWI by Harrison, and even USED copies sell for many $1000s. This one is flat bright *MUH* with 105% guaranteed by me ORIGINAL GUM MUH - near unheard of on ANY high value Roo, from over a century back. ACSC 48a cat $18,000 as MUH. Have NEVER seen one ever offered before in MUH. Arthur Gray’s HINGED copy, with “fluffy” perfs, sold for $A4,875, 12 years back - when the ACSC cat figure was 50% lower! ACSC notes MUH is 4 times hinged on this 10/-. The gorgeous Grey and Deep Aniline Pink shade, that this error is only found on, being an early Harrison print. It really GLOWS - a great stamp for the discerning collector, who has a fine eye for QUALITY! Excellent perfs and centering for ANY Harrison 10/-. Which due to WWI equipment shortages of perforating heads that came from GERMANY, were replaced many months after they should have been, hence the blunted pins, giving raggy perfs - this one is as good as you will see. Bought VERY well, so out it goes at $11,000 UNDER Cat! $A7,000 (Stock 394KA) 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!
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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation This article on One Frame exhibiting is based on papers by Jussi Tuori, past FIP Vice President, and Prashant H. Pandya in an article in Vadophil.
Concept Of One Frame Exhibits
One of the important features in today’s philately has been to create new attractive ways to collect and exhibit. We see this in classes like Postal History, Thematic Philately and Traditional and in innovations like One Frame, Open and Postal Cards Classes. One-Frame exhibits (exhibits of 16 standard size pages, or equivalent in oversize pages, contained within a single frame) have had their own competitive class for quite some time now. They were initially intended to encourage more novice exhibitors to enter smaller exhibits into our shows. When One Frame exhibits were first accepted at national philatelic exhibitions, there was a great outcry that the traditional exhibits were being undermined by inferior efforts. It took a while to convince the critics. One Frame exhibits have now evolved into an exacting and challenging method of exhibiting for all levels of exhibitors. They are part of most exhibitions and growing in popularity all around the world. They can be shown in almost all classes, the exception being Youth. The purpose of One Frame exhibits is still regarded as twofold in National exhibiting. • to provide new exhibitors at the club, regional or even national level with an easy way to start their exhibiting career. • to provide seasoned exhibitors the opportunity to show exhibits on a narrow theme and which are only suitable, due to their limited subject or available material, to exhibit in a single frame. The first concept is that a One Frame exhibit could be the starting point for a multi-frame exhibit on the same 52 - Stamp News
topic. A One Frame exhibit could provide new collectors with a platform to start exhibiting on a small scale at a philatelic exhibition. Collectors would be able to start modestly, get their feet wet, and then continue to develop their exhibit into a more complex and complete one. This was the concept under which one-frame exhibiting began in the United States. The FIP website does not discuss this in its Guidelines, preferring to leave the principles of judging at the club or regional level to National Federations. Australia follows FIP Guidelines for all National classes including One Frame. The second concept is that the One Frame exhibit provides established collectors with an opportunity to
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Philatelic Development Officer, APF and Presentation. It is rightly said by Charles Verge (a well-know juror) that “times have changed, and the One Frame exhibit has proven itself. It is not a weak feature of the hobby, but rather an innovative one that is here to stay.”
Summary of the FIP Guidelines for Judging One Frame Exhibits
prepare exhibits on subjects that cannot be treated well in more than a single frame. It is very important that a One Frame exhibit is completely contained within the confines of a single frame and is not able to be expanded into a multi-frame exhibit. It is also to be noted that One Frame exhibits must not be simply a single frame extracted from a multi-frame exhibit. One-frame exhibiting certainly has become a popular form of philatelic exhibiting. Your topic is limited only by your imagination and your ability to find enough philatelic material with which to fully and succinctly encompass your topic. You are evaluated on; Treatment, Philatelic Knowledge, Personal Study and Research, Condition and Rarity,
Purpose of One Frame Exhibits is • To encourage new exhibitors to exhibit; however, these Guidelines are not generally suited for this type of exhibits. It is left to National Federations to implement the Guidelines for beginners in National or Club Exhibitions. • To provide experienced exhibitors with the opportunity to show competitive exhibits on a very narrow theme and which could not be expanded to more than a single frame. Only topics that allow the detailed treatment of all the important aspects of the topic in a single frame should be chosen. An extract from a multiple frame exhibit is not allowed. Exhibits that are not suitable for a One Frame Exhibit will suffer a loss of points when judged, especially in Treatment. Exhibits may come from any of the FIP competitive classes, except the Literature Class or Youth Class. They will be classified and judged in their respective FIP class. All the exhibitors will be awarded a Exhibit certificate. The qualification for participation at FIP Exhibitions is the equivalent of a Vermeil medal obtained at a national exhibition.
Fundamentals of a One Frame Exhibit
The One Frame exhibit may well be described as the short story of philatelic exhibiting. In Slovenia, the One Frame class is called Eno Okno, meaning “one window”. Each frame is like a window telling a different story to the audience. Stamp News - 53
Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Collections from any philatelic class, like traditional philately, postal history, postal stationery, thematic philately, aerophilately, astrophilately, maximaphily, revenues, open or postcards can be developed into a One Frame exhibit. Choice of Subject The critical factor for a good and successful One Frame exhibit is the topic. The exhibit should be based on a subject or theme that is best treated in a single frame. Though it is narrow in scope, the depth of treatment and importance should be as complete as possible. All the important aspects must be included. This principle clearly excludes exhibits where the owner of a successful multi-frame exhibit chooses the best items from the exhibit or maybe the first frame and shows it as a One Frame exhibit. It does not help, if an exhibitor sells the rest and claims, that the resultant One Frame exhibit is no longer an extract of a multi-frame exhibit. This also excludes exhibits showing only one (stamp) value taken from a longer issue of stamps. If there was one separate value not belonging to any issue and that value otherwise fulfilled the requirements above, it would fit the concept of a One Frame exhibit. The key is the choice of subject matter. The choice is difficult as it must be narrow in focus. There must be a self-contained topic that lends itself to material that can only be shown in a single frame, such that the topic is most appropriate for only a single frame. Think of an area that can have only a limited amount of material and you are well on the way to determining if it is appropriate for just a single frame. Don’t consider topics such as “King George V Penny Reds” or “Birds of Australia” for single-frame treatment. They have enough available material for a multi-frame exhibit. Think of an area that can have only a limited amount 54 - Stamp News
of material, philatelic research of some kind, a routing and delivery of a cover/item or service or an unusual or specific event. In a Thematic exhibit the subject must be narrow. In Postal History choose a limited area of study, such as a small region or a short-lived rate or route. Title Page: Purpose, Scope and References In developing a One-Frame exhibit you need to pay particular attention to your Title Page as, with only limited space, it needs to communicate a lot of essential information. The title itself needs to be carefully crafted to fully describe and contain what it is you will be showing. The introduction and plan should lay out the concept, intention and scope of the exhibit and explain the treatment
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treatment will be reduced. It also might be difficult to show the philatelic knowledge needed for the theme.
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and philatelic significance and importance of the subject. The scope sets the limits of the exhibit (and why those limits are appropriate). State how the scarce or difficult to acquire items are highlighted and include the important references used in the study of the subject and its writeup. Illustrated with this article are examples of title pages that were shown in Bunbury. Queen Elizabeth II pre-decimal post cards – figure 1; The first Convoy of the Australian Expeditionary Force 1914 – figure 2; Republic of Biafra – Internal and outgoing mail in a time of conflict and shortage – figure 3. All three of these title pages state what is being shown. Their plans / scopes clearly define the material and areas covered by the exhibit. Their introductory statements provide an overview of the topic. The included philately is informative. Primary references are included. A One Frame exhibit also needs an effective conclusion. Either is a short epilogue, or what happened “after the story”. Judging When evaluating the One Frame exhibits, the emphasis is placed upon treatment, development, knowledge, research and presentation of the exhibits. One Frame exhibits are classified and judged in their respective FIP class. The judging is based on both the regulations of their respective classes and for judging One Frame exhibits. If the theme is inappropriate to One Frame, the points for
The Bunbury 2019 Stamp, Coin, Banknote & Postcard Show was held on Saturday 20th July and Sunday 21st July at the South West Italian Club. Bunbury 2019 was a National One Frame Exhibition, including an Astro One Frame Challenge. There were 55 philatelic and 6 coins and banknotes entries. Some exhibits showed a subject that was not suitable as a One Frame exhibit as they could easily become a multi-frame exhibit. Their lower treatment points reflected the inappropriateness of the primary subject. Exhibitors must keep this in mind when developing the One Frame exhibit. The jury (see fig 4) was made up of 3 jurors from WA, one from NSW and one from Victoria. Medals awarded included 5 large gold, 11 gold, 13 large vermeil and 14 vermeil. The winner of the best exhibit in the show was The 1900 Patriotic Fund Charity Issue of Queensland There were 13 dealers (stamps, coins, banknotes & postcards) who provided visitors an opportunity to add to their collections. (see figure 5) On Saturday afternoon a bus tour went to the Ferguson Valley. We stopped at Gnomesville, had afternoon tea and wine tastings at St Aidan’s Winery and visited Wellington Mill and a Local Art Gallery
Antarctic Stamp, Postcard & Collectibles Exhibition 2020 The Antarctic Stamp, Coin & Collectibles Exhibition 2020 will be held in conjunction with the Australian Antarctic Festival, held in Hobart biennially. In 2018 the Festival attracted nearly 25,000 visitors – local, interstate
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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation
and international. The Festival covers everything from icebreakers to the CSIRO research laboratories. The Festival will run from 29 July to 2 August 2020. A great variety of stamps, postcards and other collectibles have been a part of all Antarctic expeditions – both as fundraisers and souvenirs. For the first time, we have decided to run a non-competitive exhibition of Antarctic-related stamps, postcards and other collectibles as a part of this important festival. As a non-competitive exhibition it is free of any of the usual constraints of competitive philatelic exhibits. We are hoping to attract exhibits from the “heroic” era of Mawson, Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton and others, all of who had strong connections to Hobart. The exhibits will include stamps, postal history, postcards, antique maps and other collectibles. The exhibition will be limited to 90 frames so if you are interested in being part of this unique event, please send in an entry. All exhibits will receive a specially minted silver medal. There will be a special commemorative dinner held at Hadley’s Hotel which recreates Mawson’s farewell dinner held in the same hotel. The venue for the exhibition is the award-winning Brooke Street Pier (see Figure 6) which is in the heart of the Hobart tourist precinct on the harbour. 56 - Stamp News
It is the ferry terminal for the famous Museum of Old and New Art (MONA). There will dealers present from Australia, New Zealand and the USA. To support the exhibition there is a special supporters’ club available at $100 which includes three specially overprinted PNCs and an overprinted Antarctic Replica Card, plus a drinks voucher for the special dinner. For entry forms and details about the supporters’ club see the APF website or contact Darryl Fuller (djbsfuller@iinet.net.au). Highlights include opportunities to tour Antarctic icebreakers and research ships and sit in the pilot’s seat of the huge Boeing Globemaster C17 military aircraft which lands on the ice runway at Wilkins Airstrip in Antarctica. Crews will be on hand to demonstrate equipment, answer questions, and give you a guided tour. Next year is the last year of operation of the Australian Antarctic ship Aurora Australis, which will be in port and has carried virtually every Australian Antarctic expeditioner in the last 30 years. Many will come just to farewell this iconic vessel. There will be numerous fascinating public lectures on a wide range of Antarctic related subjects, given by a wide range of stakeholders. If you have any interest in all matters Antarctic, then Hobart will be the place to be.
Stephanie Bromser
Philatelic Development Officer, APF
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Market Matters Stamp Tip Of The Month
Sometimes the stamp markets price things in no rational way. I was recently processing an order for some mint Australia £1 Robes on the scarcer “Thin” ordinary paper - SG 178a. I mused aloud to myself that I always have ten times more of the “Thick” paper in stock (SG 178) than the thin paper, despite very similar retail prices for both. It makes absolutely no sense! Asked around to a few other large dealers, and they all agreed - one seems about 10 times more numerous than the other. I sell “Thin” for about $A125 in fresh well centred MUH, and NICE copies of the “Thick” for about $A100. Of course the correct technical distinction is “Ordinary” versus “Chalk Surfaced” paper, but “Thin” and “Thick” are terms we use almost exclusively locally in the trade. The two stamps are VERY easily picked apart visually - the “Thin” being a deeper colour, and printed FAR less crisply and sharply than was possible on the superb smooth, chalk coated “Thick” paper. On the photo nearby, the “Thin” paper is the stamp on the bottom. The differences in appearance are readily visible, even if you have no experience sorting these. .
Easily picked on reverse.
Looking at the reverse, the “Thin” paper shows the watermark far more clearly and sharply on both mint and used copies. I referred to the excellent Australasian Commonwealth Specialist Catalogue (“ACSC”) “KGVI” edition to see if print figures tell us anything. I was amazed at the data in there re the numbers printed. These figures have NEVER been public or published before until recent years, as Editor Geoff Kellow keeps coming up with new data for each new ACSC edition, based on his archival research. I spoke with Geoff Kellow, and he assures me his new research is correct, and that this tiny print run for the £1 “Thin” paper is totally accurate. The current retail market is hence WAY out of kilter. 58 - Stamp News
Worth 3 Times Today’s Level?
Only 160,000 were ever printed in just a single printing, of the £1 1949 “Thin” paper - versus 1,920,000 of the “Thick” (Chalky surfaced) issue of 1937. My typical stock levels over the past 30 years of around ten to one, are borne out rather perfectly by the printing figures above. Remember that the 1937 issue was HEAVILY bought up mint by immediate post-war “Black Money War Profiteer” type speculators. Older dealers can confirm these high values traded under face wholesale for decades, until we changed to decimal currency in 1966. Indeed many dealers swapped them face for face for the new Decimal issues, as the PO permitted such
Glen Stephens
These latter day fakes sell for $10,000+!
deals back then. The 1945 Duke Of Gloucester issue was bought up nearly entirely by “Black Money” speculators for the same reason by the same folks.
Buy £1 “THIN” paper NOW!
Even today those sets sell wholesale for under face value! I still get offered 1000’s sets in MUH sheets from relatives of these people. The “Thin” paper £1 stamp, not being a face different stamp, did not attract much interest at all from the stamp trade in the Post War period - much less from any
speculators, as the “Hot Money” was long gone by mid-1949 when these were first issued. The proof of the fact that scant attention was paid to this paper change by collectors of the time, is that only a few FDC’s of this £1 “Thin” stamp are recorded. It is scarce - being cat in ACSC at $7,500 on FDC, although more exist than the ACSC notes. This top value on “Thin” paper was first issued only in April 1949, and was replaced in latter 1949 by the £1 “Arms”, so useage was truly minimal - just a few months. The FDC illustrated nearby was invoiced by Stamp News - 59
Market Matters Prestige Philately a decade back for $10,500. Not bad going for a fabrication made AFTER issue date! Similar FDC also exist in small numbers for other “impossible” issues of the time, like booklet panes, colour and watermark changes etc, that the PO never advised officially were to be issued. Far more discussion here - and were NOT done by Hayward Parish either tinyurl.com/FDCfakes The few FDC of these that exist are all unregistered fabrications. They clearly were never done at Blocks most uncommon. issue date, but made after issue by an insider staffer at Sydney GPO with access to the much back-dated “SYDNEY 130” cds, who was married to Thompson’s sister. When you see a £1 stamp (week’s wages) on a un-registered cover (fee for that was just 3d!) you smell a rat. On Registered mail, relevant backstamps were applied, and that cannot occur, if created weeks after issue. Much of their use was on telegrams, and for bulk postage payments - neither of which generally later reached the stamp market as used copies. As if to prove that point, truly genuine dated fine USED copies of the “Thin” are nearly non-existent. Many hinged or toned copies etc get “CTO’d” across corners even to this day, but to my mind, a lovely 1950s era dated example is worth at least TWICE as much as a MUH copy.
Genuine USED copies rare
Indeed, exactly as a superb 1930s postally used 5/- Bridge is today worth twice or treble a CTO copy, these £1 Robes “Thin” are equally scarce 60 - Stamp News
in my view. Geoff Kellow agreed with me that “in period” dated copies are quite scarce, and pointed out Rodney Perry advised he has only ever seen one or two £1 “Thin” Robes on cover or parcel piece - in 40+ years of searching. Rod confirmed that with me, and agreed that there should be a significant premium for correct cancel used copies, over Mint. Perry said double the mint price was not out of line for a genuine dated contemporary cancel. Conversely a used stamp sells for about a third of a MUH copy. Which in my view is about correct. In short, my “TIP OF 2019” for anyone who likes a challenge, is to tuck away a little supply of this stamp in fresh well centred MUH, or harder still, in VFU circa 1950s dated used. The current Stanley Gibbons quotes for the £1, SG 178a is £70 MUH and £75 used …. both absurdly low. I was pricing up a superb dated cds used set in blocks recently, and it occurred to me this is the ONLY set of used blocks of the thin pa-
Glen Stephens sugar, and butter were all tightly rationed across the UK, right up to the QE2 Coronation year in 1953.
Avoid eBay sellers.
This worth 30 times Robes?
per I’ve ever handled. Not surprising really - it was near a MONTH’S wages for a working man! £7 was an absolute fortune at that time. Several weeks wages for a normal worker. The AVERAGE annual UK wage in UK 1950, was just £100 - I kid you not - tinyurl.com/UKwage - around TWO quid a week gross before tax. FACT. (And paid annual leave was typically just ONE week!) That is the average national wage, not the minimum wage. Ozzie wages were near identical then. This BBC link outlining the Food Rationing in the UK well after WW2, might also surprise some - tinyurl.com/RationUK - National rationing did not totally end until 1954. Indeed, meat, bacon,
One wise word when purchasing “Thin” paper Robes issues - buy from REPUTABLE and experienced dealers only. Some of the cowboys on places like eBay delight in mis-describing “Thick” paper copies as “Thin”, and pocketing treble what they should. Sadly the vast army of clueless eBay Bunny Buyers as always, hoover up the fiction, and grab the “EBaayaarghins”. Do not join them! tinyurl.com/RobesTute is a detailed discussion with many images, on how to accurately sort Thick from Thin paper in this VERY tricky issue. Please do not ask ME for bulk stock of either, as I have almost no stocks. This is not an ad, but a genuine tip for readers about a wildly under-rated stamp. The market price for the MUH “Thin” really should be at least DOUBLE the “Thick”, i.e. at about the $A200-300 level for nice copies. Let’s be sensible about price levels the 1935 £1 Grey “CofA” Kangaroo (SG 137) that preceded this Robes stamp sells for $4,000 in MUH – the stamp shown nearby I mailed to a client this month. ACSC value is $A5,000. Even so, it is rather plentiful, and 600,000 were printed. Yet it is valued THIRTY times more than a MUH £1 Robes of the same year??? Quite absurd. Used copies of the £1 CofA Kangaroo are still pretty plentiful, and yet a nice VFU one is now getting around the $500 mark these days. There is no reason in my mind that a “Thin” paper genuine FU £1 Robes should not be a similar price, as it certainly is many times scarcer. At bare MINIMUM they should be $A200 with cancels circa 1950s, so snap up any you see at today’s silly low prices. Stamp News - 61
Market Matters “Stamp Collecting is a Great, Great, Great hobby”.
postage stamp approvals company when younger, and took ads in the mass circulation “Linns Stamp News” selling his approval selections. He still has his stamp and FDC collection at his home he confirmed this month in the interview below. Buffett attended the recent APS National Stampshow at Omaha Nebraska, due to his long held interest in philately, and the photo nearby shows him being interviewed by the APS roving reporter there, and as can be seen, this was all taking place in front of the Abacus Stamp Auctions stand, the well-known business based in Melbourne Australia. Stamp collectors can even buy a set of 41¢ postally valid American stamps, depicting Warren Buffett, and his lifelong business sidekick, and Berkshire Vice President, Charlie Munger - the two stamps are shown nearby. The two famously
Warren Buffett is recognised as the smartest living investor, and many books and detailed articles have been written dissecting and studying his successful, logical and very conservative approach to investing, spanning a half century. The share price of his main company Berkshire Hathaway was $US303,000 or $A450,000 per single share as I typed this. Buffett apparently owns endless millions of shares - do the math! He still lives in the modest Omaha home he bought 61 years back. Buffet’s estimated net worth today is “only” about $US75 Billion, but he has given away $US35 Billion in recent years. Buffett has indeed promised to give away over 99% of his fortune. In 2019 so far he has donated $3.6 billion, much of it to the Foundation of friends Bill and Melinda Gates, who also donate much of their immense fortune. Berkshire Hathaway has averaged an annual growth in book value of 19.0% to its shareholders since 1965 - compared to just 9.7% from the S&P 500 Index with dividends included for the same period. Berkshire oddly pays no dividends, and yet Buffett is paid only $US100,000 a year, and insists on paying his own postage and phone bills out of that pittance pay. So clearly much is publicly known of Warren Buffett the mega successful investor, but few realise he ran a Warren Buffett at Abacus Auctions stand. 62 - Stamp News
Glen Stephens
You can buy Warren Buffett USA stamps.
hold court centre stage at the annual Berkshire Hathaway downbeat and very folksy shareholder meetings - that for decades have been investor Pilgrimages! tinyurl.com/WBstamp is the stampboards discussion on this recent interview, with transcripts of his comments on stamp collecting. Warren Buffett did say - “Stamp Collecting is a Great, Great, Great hobby”. As Rod Perry posts on there, such an endorsement should really be used widely by the hobby. When Warren Buffet endorses anything so enthusiastically, it is well worth repeating, and I do so here!
Warren Buffet makes bad stamp investment.
Even the savvy business skills of Warren Buffet does not mean even he has always picked winners in life. Buffet in his younger days decided he would try and corner the market in a current USA 1954 4¢ Airmail postage stamp, in the hope of rich rewards - and proverbially lost his shirt! A true story that makes for interesting reading. In 1959, Benjamin Graham was scheduled to speak at Beloit College about valuing individual common stock investments and bonds. Buffett wanted to see Graham speak in person, and so he
called his friend Tom Knapp who worked at the Tweedy, Browne brokerage house that served as Graham’s broker. Buffett convinced Knapp to go with him, and on the drive from Nebraska to Wisconsin, Knapp speculated that the current USA 4¢ Airmail stamp “The Blue Eagle” was soon going to be taken out of circulation, and would one day become a valuable collector’s item. Buffett was convinced the 4¢ Eagles could someday be worth tens of dollars each adjusted for inflation, paving the way for a possible 1,000% to 3,000% nominal gain, which would create true investment gains of 700% to 2,500% after adjusting for the expected opportunity cost, and inflation - and waiting for the market to develop. After they saw Graham speak, Buffett and Knapp decided they would stop at all Post Offices on the way back to Omaha, and effectively “corner” the stamp market on these 4¢ Blue Eagle stamps. The biggest haul came in Denver, where they purchased a 200,000 stamp supply for $US8,000 face value. That is the equivalent of about $US55,000 in today’s dollars. In total, they bought almost 400,000 of the 4¢ stamps for around $16,000, making a stamp investment worth somewhere around Stamp News - 63
Market Matters $US100,000, when converted into today’s dollars. As the years went by, Buffett found himself encountering one tiny problem - the stamps never became a scarce collector’s item! No one especially wanted the 4¢ Blue Eagle stamps. The pair had cornered the market they thought, gave the stamps years to mature in value, but the Boom in price never happened. Eventually, in 1982, 23 years later, Buffett sold his stamps at a 10% discount under face, to a dealer who was active in supplying under face postage. Knapp held on to his share of the Blue Eagles, ironically using 4¢ stamps in combination as rates rose, as postage for the rest of his life. Buffett was wise to cut his losses in 1982 - the stamps still sell for pennies retail even today. He sold his $8,000 investment in 1959, for just $7,200 in 1982, which was truly a $4,000 actual loss when Warren Buffet lost his shirt on these. adjusting for inflation - a pretty severe beating on a $4000 ininever returned to the arena of collectible investing, tial investment. after his ill-fated 1954 4¢ Blue Eagle foray into That loss from the stamp investment had a clear new issue stamp speculation. influence on Warren Buffett’s approach to investing thereafter. You never hear about him buying 6 Metre Stamp Highway sign in Sydney art, or ancient artefacts or other collectibles, a marWe seldom see 6 metre long stamp designs on ket that has helped create a lot of wealth for those public roads, but visitors to the huge Bunnings that accurately predicted America’s cultural trends hardware store complex at Rydalmere in Sydney regarding art. have been able to see this huge roadside sign as Mark Twain said that once a cat sits on a hot they visited. These huge montages have been stove, it will never again sit on either a hot stove, in place for about 5 years now, and millions of or a cold stove. Likewise, Warren Buffett has non-stamp collectors have seen them, in this busy 64 - Stamp News
Glen Stephens
2d Macarthur stamp on roadside.
suburban area. This visual public artwork called “Memory Fragments” commemorates part of the history of Australia Post. The sculpture was commissioned to comply with local Council policy, which mandates new property development invests in public artworks. Director of the site Ross Shepherd was commissioned to develop art concepts based on historical themes and forms. The postage stamp hoardings reference the establishment of the first Merino sheep farms located on lands adjoining the
site, with these well-known classic Australia Post stamps. Captain John Macarthur, who arrived with the Second Fleet in 1789, is credited with establishing the fine Merino wool industry in Australia, that when mature, largely supported this country’s economy. Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies, famously said in the 1950s our prosperity “rode on the sheep’s back”. Macarthur’s first property “Elizabeth Farm” was established in 1793 on the Parramatta River, near where Harris Park is today. Macarthur died in 1834, and the popular 3 stamp Stamp News - 65
Market Matters set commemorating his death is well known to all collectors of Australian stamps. “The form of vertical blades at varying intervals along the roadway shows slices of the stamp image separated, while a composite single image of the stamp can be viewed from certain angles,” Shepherd explained. “This dynamic visual effect gives distinctive contemporary Estimate $2,500 - invoiced $30,000. expression to the history of Australia Post at this site 50 years, and the Editor really wants to, and asks me years ago. The flickering effect of many passing to get the keen collectors to guide him, but they stamps on envelopes would have created a striking never do, so “Catch 22” sadly, but the demand impact on the 1,000 workers who sorted the mail stays strong. here during the peak of its operation.” Abacus offered a nice range mid-year from the Seven huge 5 metre vertical blades make up Murray Sherry (“Tamiami”) collection, and some the massive display, with two different stamp very bullish prices resulted, despite all the lots bedesigns on each side, and a total of 14 metal strips ing “T” Lots, where 10% Tax is added to hammer fabricated in the build. Each metal strip is made price, BEFORE the very juicy auctioneer “Buyer of structural steel that adjoins composite panels Fee” is then whacked on top of that. One that took to keep the blades safe, to withstand wind, and my eye is shown nearby, and had a pre-sale estiother weather conditions. The overall structure is mate of only $2,500. held up by concrete foundations that are set into SURVEYOR-GENERAL - Black “S.G.” on the landscape strip on the footpath. The design, DeLaRue Crown SA watermark, rouletted 2d orengineering and construction of the art piece was ange horizontal pair, the right-hand unit being the carried out by Kennovations. “S.C.” Error - resulting in a “S.G. - S.C.” se-tenant pair, as you can see, with a neat Adelaide GPO cds South Australia “Departmental” stamps. of OC - 7 - 69. The South Australia “Departmental” stamps have There is of course a separate “SC” overprint, so a keen following. These 2 or 3 letter department a single would be impossible to pinpoint, but leadoverprints on otherwise common stamps often get ing specialist on these stamps, Tony Presgrave, has 4 figures. I have been urging SG to price them for advised that the Supreme Court “S.C.” on the same 66 - Stamp News
Glen Stephens ‘GAMBIERTON/ JY29/70/S.A’ cds. Believed to be Ex Manus (1920s) and Houston Wynn. Estimate $3000, it was invoiced after all the taxes and fees were added, for about $13,000. tinyurl.com/SADept is the 100s of post long discussion on these South Australia “Departmental” stamps, and highlights many of scarce ones, and shows many of the recent fakes that eBay is now awash with of course. The Sydney Forger is cranking these out like crazy, and the eBay Bunnies are buying them with glee. The IQ level of many eBay buyers does not reach double digits in many cases as we all know, but for those that do pass that low bar, simply google the seller name of the “EBARHHGEENS” and more often than not you will find match #1 is to Stampboards, where their current fakes are being exposed and discussed. Buyer Beware. MAIN ROADS, GAMBIERTON sells $13,000.
DLR 2d was not issued until 1873, so this pair with an 1869 postmark must be a setting error.
These not for the centering fanatics!
Anyway, despite the pretty silly low $2,500 estimate, it was finally invoiced for around $A30,000 and clearly there was very keen bidding on it. Centering purists will be horrified! The American Grading Numbah Voodoo Cultists would grade this maybe 50 out of 100, and I am sure would never be interested, as these are not 98 or 99 graded. Another to do well was the MAIN ROADS, GAMBIERTON, Black “M.R.G.” overprint on DLR Crown/SA Rouletted 2d orange, with -
American Stamp Grading Madness
The Americans often take Wacko Pills over their GRAYDEENG NUMBAHS, and pretty common stamps worth dollars to the rest of the sane stamp world, sell for $50,000 or so, to the tiny handful of cultists who cannot see this is all a Ponzi scheme type FAD, that like all fads will crash and burn. tinyurl.com/GRAYDEENG is a recent discussion where a US GRAYDEENG company PSE, shows a “Perfect 100J” centred 4¢ stamp they were drooling over. As stampboards members clearly showed via precise diagrams, the stamp was not “perfect” centred at all - not even close. Some American paid near $A50,000 at Siegel Auctions for a stamp cat $170, that I’d gladly sell for $100. Two corners are about to fall off as is obvious to Stamp News - 67
Market Matters all, and if is not perfect centred, but hey the PSE Voodoo GRAYDOUGHMEETAAH says “100J” (impossible to improve on allegedly!) and the rich Texans come flocking like lemmings trusting this nonsense. They should read stampboards and save their $50,000! It is all a giant Ponzi type scheme in my view, and millions will be lost as prices fall and fall. Exceedingly common USA stamps worth less than face value in the real word, these Numbah Cultists madly pay 4 figures for, as shown in that discussion. Folks can spend their money how they choose of course. Build collections of pet rocks, “Perfect Centering = $50,000”. Voodoo Science. or Hula Hoops, or Beanie BaYOU paid. You can buy 20 or 30 fresh mint sets bies etc. But when the music of 3 USA Zeppelins for that money, that WILL stops, you own a box of hyped up material that always be saleable! no-one else will buy for anything like what
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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 Citizens’s Hall, Gatton. Kerri Martin, Sec. Ph: 07 5465 3390 Email: lvsc@bigpond.com Logan City SC: Meetings 2nd Thurs, Presbyterian Church, Barry St, Slacks Creek, 6pm. Ph: 07 3805 9226. 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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