Unique Antipodean ‘Bradbu Material Offered in UPA’s 9 A Sample ‘Snap-Shot’, 40 Years New to Market, NO BUYER’S PREMIU
T YO
U
W
ST AM
+( GBP
TR
FF
U YO
IN
£ 7 5)
AU S
I A L O $1
PS WO RT H
38
FREE
WHEN
ER
EP C C
R
A
Lots, All Lots Guaranteed, View/Bid On-Line or Request Your 21,23
AU
ADDITIONAL AUCTION HIGHLIGHTS: Australia KGV 1931-36 DieII 3d Ultramarine Inverted Watermark (SG128w) Catalogued £13,000= 4th example discovered Fine Used part CDS 2019 RPS Certificate Estimate GBP£5,000= Great Britain KGV 1935 ‘Silver Jubilee’ 2½d Prussian Blue contemporary dated VFU CDS 1945 BPA Certificate SG456a catalogued £15,000= Estimate £12,500=
060 upa bradbury Australia.indd 2
20/05/2019 05:12:20
dbury Wilkinson’ Printers sREMIUM 9th July 74th Auction AUCTION: Scans Available, ‘Live’ Bidding more Valuable
21,232 lot Complimentary UPA Catalogue Airmailed NOW
New Client Auction Offer: Yes, I’d like to See Stamps like these I can win in auction. Send Me Your Next FREE Secret Weapon UPA Auction Catalogue Worth £20, PLUS 1st £55 Auction Winnings FREE OFFER When I Win Stamps Worth £75+. I understand I am under NO obligation whatsoever 1➜ Request Free £20 ‘Secret Weapon’ catalogue NOW: www.upastampauctions.co.uk Go to Auctions 2➜ Call My Team to Collect Your SECRET WEAPON: 01451 861111 Fax Your Request: 01451 861297 3➜ Write: Universal Philatelic Auctions, UPA (SN 06/19), 4, The Old Coalyard, West End, Northleach, Glos GL54 3HE England
060 upa bradbury Australia.indd 3
20/05/2019 05:12:44
New 2019 AUSTRALIA CATALOGUE $79.95
Catalogues AVAILABLE
STANLEY GIBBONs GB & British commonwealth
Commonwealth and British Empire Stamps 1840-1970 2019 Edition ................................... $199.50 Commonwealth Simplified Catalogue 1840 - 2010 5th Edition 2014 .......................................$179.50 Australia and Territories 11th Edition 2019 .................................................................................$79.95 Burma, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka 3rd Edition 2015.................................................$49.50 Belize, Guyana, Trinidad 2009 2nd Edition ..................................................................................$45.00 Bermuda, Bahamas & North Caribbean 1st Edition 2006 .........................................................$60.00 Brunei Malaysia & Singapore 2013 4th Edition .........................................................................$57.50 Canada & Former Provinces 2014 Edition...................................................................................$62.00 Central Africa 2014 .........................................................................................................................$72.50 Cyprus, Malta & Gibraltar 4th Edition 2014 ..............................................................................$83.00 East Africa 2018 5th Edition ..........................................................................................................$60.00 Eastern Pacific 3rd Edition ............................................................................................................$48.50 Falklands Is. & Dependencies 2013 ...............................................................................................$36.00 Hong Kong 11th Edition 2015 .......................................................................................................$40.00 India including States 2018 5th Edition ........................................................................................$70.00 Indian Ocean 3rd Edition 2016......................................................................................................$47.50 Ireland 6th Edition 2015 ................................................................................................................$40.00 Leeward Islands 2017 3rd Edition.................................................................................................$72.00 North East Africa 2017 2nd Edition ..............................................................................................$60.50 Northern Caribbean Bahamas & Bermuda 2016 4th Edition ...................................................$53.00 New Zealand & Dependencies 2016 6th Edition ..........................................................................$65.00 St. Helena & Dependencies 2017 6th Edition ...............................................................................$35.50 Southern Africa & Central Africa 2014 2nd Edition ...................................................................$99.50 West Africa 2nd Edition 2012 ........................................................................................................$57.50 Western Pacific incl. Fiji, Pitcairn, Cook Is., PNG, Solomons etc 2017 .....................................$75.00 Windward Islands & Barbados 2015 3rd Edition .......................................................................$72.00 Great Britain Concise 2017 ............................................................................................................$85.00 Collect British Stamps 2019 70th Edition .....................................................................................$42.00 Collect Channel Is. & Isle of Man 2016 30th Edition ..................................................................$70.00 GB Specialised Queen Victoria 16th Edition 2011 .......................................................................$90.00 GB Specialised 4 Kings 14th Edition 2015.................................................................................. $119.50 GB Specialised QEII pre-decimal 12th Edition 2011...................................................................$81.00 GB Specialised QEII Decimal Vol 4 2010 Edition ........................................................................$79.50 KGVI Commonwealth 9th Edition................................................................................................$90.00
foreign Countries & WORLD
Western Europe Simplified catalogue 2012 2nd Edition .... $92.50 Stamps of the World, 6 volumes New 2019 Edition ........... $650.00 Austria & Hungary 8th Edition 2014 .................................... $86.50 Antarctica 2012 2nd Edition .................................................. $39.90 Arabia 2016.............................................................................. $61.50 Asia Volume 1 2011 ................................................................. $60.00 Balkans 2009 5th Edition........................................................ $99.50 Belgium & Luxembourg ......................................................... $53.00 Central America 3rd Edition 2007 ........................................ $30.00 Central Asia 4th Edition 2007 ................................................ $60.00 China 2016 11th Edition ....................................................... $117.50 Czech Republic & Slovakia 2016 1st Edition ....................... $63.00 Finland & Sweden 2017 .......................................................... $68.50 France 1st Edition 2015 .......................................................... $68.50 Germany 12th Edition 2018 ................................................... $96.00
Japan & Korea 5th Edition ................................................... $84.00 Italy & Switzerland 8th Edition 2013 ................................. $110.00 Middle East 7th Edition.......................................................... $93.50 Netherlands & Colonies 2017................................................. $52.50 Poland 2015 1st Editon ........................................................... $46.00 Portugal & Spain 6th Edition 2011........................................ $96.00 Russia 7th Edition ................................................................. $125.00 South America 4th Edition 2008 ............................................ $89.50 South East Asia 5th Edition ................................................. $107.50 USA 8th Edition 2015............................................................ $110.50 United Nations 2010 ................................................................ $48.00 We can supply a full range of Albums, Stockbooks, Stocksheets and Stockcards, Mounts and other accessories. Please contact us for your requirements. Wholesale and dealer enquiries welcome.
Stamp News Mail Order PO Box 1290, Upwey, Victoria, Australia Ph: 0425 795 693 email: kevinmorgan2@live.com
Prices do not include Postage & handling
Stamp News Australasia
Contents
21st Century Auctions Pty Ltd ABN 71 627 236 113
Articles
is published monthly by:
http://www.stampnews.net.au Phone: 0425 795 693 Editor & Advertising Manager: Kevin Morgan kevinmorgan2@live.com Advertising materials & editorial submissions email: stampnewsaus@gmail.com Post: Stamp News PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic, 3158, Australia Assistant Editor, Layout & Design: Máirín Holmes stampnewsaus@gmail.com Subscriptions Manager: Michael Woodberry Printed by: Printgraphics Newsagent Distribution: Gordon & Gotch
Woodchip Free Zone: Rod Perry ...................................................6 Alaouites and Lattaquié: Christer Brunström ............................ 12 Stamps in the News: Margo Campbell .................................... 16 Postal Stationery: Ian McMahon ................................................ 26 Cinderella Corner: Vito Milana .................................................... 32 Introducing the APF: Stephanie Bromser ................................... 52 Market Matters: Glen Stephens .................................................. 58
Information Events/Stamp & Coin Fairs ........................................................... 57 Clubs & Societies ....................................................................... ......72 Internet & Email Directory...................................................... ......75 Products & Services Directory............................................... ......76 List of Advertisers .............................................................. ..............82
Cover Background Photo by Matt Benson on Unsplash As of Oct 1 2018 Australia Post prices for Airmailing Stamp News increased from $6 to $7.50 New Zealand, $6.75 to $8 for Asia Pacific Region and $9 to $12 for Rest of the World. To simplify things for our overseas subscribers, the new Airmail rates will be: Add 50% to Domestic Price for NZ and Asia Pacific and Add 100% for Rest of the World. Please note, there is no longer a surface mail service from Australia to any part of the World for letters.
Stamp News - 5
This article first appeared in the October 2009 number of this journal. Recently, the ACSC introduced a separate pricing column for QEII pre-decimal solo frankings. There has been some variation in prices during the past decade, but essentially this article provides a useful guide to what one might reasonably be expected to pay for the respective featured subjects. I like Australia’s QEII issues to 1966. It’s probably a Baby Boomer generation thing; we grew up with these stamps. Amongst them are some fine designs, and examples of Figure 1. British Royalty visits Hollywood “Royalty” the engraver’s art, and they never look better, in my opinion, than when affixed to a genuinely used postal Well, I suppose Doris Day was once regarded as article. I reckon in comparison their mint cousins the equivalent of “Royalty”. My mum thought the appear sterile, and used, well, they’ve lost their soul world of her; so wholesome. Mum particularly liked once removed from the article which conveyed them those movies with co star, Rock Hudson. We thought on their journey of a lifetime. Reduced to woodchips, of him as wholesome, also. Figure 1 is a nice use of nothing more. 7½d Royal Visit to “Miss Doris Day”, sent from MelThis month we’ll feature some of the stamps of bourne on 5 Jul 1954, not from my mum. 7½d was that era, used as solo frankings on articles for a varithen the Foreign Letter rate, and this stamp is rarely ety of postal purposes. found so used. In fact, I’ve noted only two examples of such use. Value : $150 (off cover 50c). Stamp Duty issues are occasionally found used, illegally, for postage purposes. Regulations insisted that such items be taxed, double the resultant postal deficiency. That edict was not always adhered to, and untaxed Stamp Duty franked items are sometimes encountered. Interesting novelties, they are, too. Figure 2 was, however, one that got caught by the system, the Victoria 3d Stamp Duty making no inroad in to the required 5d Letter rate; hence 10d tax. Postage due stamps had Figure 2. Good example of how stamps can lose their “soul” once ceased to be available in 1963, removed from cover 6 - Stamp News
that grand event. Not quite as scarce as 7½d Visit, but very hard-to-get. The 8d Trans-Tasman Flight Anniversary stamp was primarily intended for the airmail rate to New Zealand, which issued a similar reciprocal (6d) stamp. The stamp is common mint, and on souvenir covers to/from N.Z., of which over 50,000 were prepared. Most Philatelic Traders would join with me in contending that there are occasions when it seems that most of those souvenir covers have gravitated to their place of business. The stamp used commercially on cover is something quite different, however. Even combination frankings are hard-to-get, and solo frankings, such as Figure 4, are rare. This is a 31 Aug 1958 airmail use from Brisbane to Figure 3. Australia basked in ’56 Games glory long after event N.Z. Value : $100 (off cover 75c). It shouldn’t be a surprise that inand this 17 Aug 1964 cover to Sydney, probably tact Booklet panes used commercially originating in Victoria, received a regular 10d poston cover will be rare. Very few exist of any Austraage stamp for taxing purposes. The 10d stamp is not lian issue, less so with the selvedge still attached. particularly scarce utilized for postage due purposes, Stitching was through the selvedge, so for selvedge to but this is the “turquoise-blue” shade, which I’ve remain intact it was necessary to dismantle a Bookfound scarce on cover, particularly as a solo franking for this use. Value : $75 (off cover $1). A good example of how stamps can become “soulless” once divorced from original cover. Another use of a 7½d for Foreign Letter rate, Figure 3 has 7½d Olympic Games used from Hobart 1 Mar 1957 to Sweden. Although issued in Oct 1956, so large were the quantities printed of the Olympic higher denominations, it’s not unusual to see them still in use commercially up to 12 months later. The intention doubtless was to extract maximum international publicity from Figure 4. Nearly 5 million printed; try finding even one solo franking Stamp News - 7
let prior to use, a very uncommon practice. Figure 5 is one such instance, a 4 Apr 1959 use of QEII 4d Booklet pane from Caulfield to Canada, representing the 2/- Airmail rate. Value : $500 (pane off cover $50). The QEII Zoological series is a popular usage group amongst specialists, and rightfully so. Interesting and scarce/rare usage possibilities abound. The Figure 6 usage is one of the more sought-after for the 1/- Platypus, not an easy denomination on any type of postal article. This is a 6 Sep 1963 use for Airmail postcard rate to U.S., from Thursday Island, no less, replete with the uncommon “PAQUEBOT” (Packet Boat) handstamp of T.I. While not as well known as the 1/2d Figure 5. Intact Booklet pane, with selvedge! Tasmanian Tiger airmail postcard (to U.K./Europe), the 1/- rate is the fourth weight step letter rate within Australia and actually much scarcer. Value : $125 (off cover 30c). British Empire, scarcer still, and then we have Figure The airmail postcard rate solo usage for the 1/2d, 7, scarcest of them all. This 16 Sep 1965 certified use, mentioned under Figure 6, is but one of the scarce from City Road Melbourne to Cootamundra, was for solo possibilities for this denomination. Another is second weight step letter rate (8d) plus
Figure 6. Nice Platypus usage, nice Paquebot 8 - Stamp News
Certified fee (6d). I’ve noted only two such usages, neither the Helecon paper printing, which is really hard on cover/ card. Value : $150 (off cover 30c). One of many wonderful eccentricities in Philately is the use of that curious term, “sleeper”, to describe a scarce/rare item which has yet to become widely appreciated as such. During my nearly 40 years as an auctioneer, I’ve never ceased to be amazed, nay, frustrated, by comparisons of “sleepers” vs “heroes” (my term), often in the same auction. At one moment I may be offering an incredible item, the likes of which I’ve seen never before nor since, only to have it fall on deaf ears, and ignominiously be
The 1/- Colombo is scarce as a solo franking, and particularly so to this destination, British Solomon Islands; for which it paid 1/- Airmail rate, emanating from Wallsend in 1963. Attractive advertising envelopes such as this are great drawcards in exhibits. Value : $100 (off cover 20c). The 5/- Cattleman is a difficult stamp to find on cover; most seen are large articles. I suppose I’ve seen about 25 items in total (or 1.25 for each year I’ve been searching!), of which five are the scarcer White paper printing of 1964. Figure 10 is far and away the best I know of, a solo registered use of the White paper Figure 7. A particularly unusual solo usage for 1/2d Thylacine from Sydney to British Solomon Islands, sent 9 Nov 1964. This is from passed in, unsold, unloved. Later, up comes a perenthe famous “Lawson” hoard, which was auctioned by nial “hero”, a virtual clone of a given item, offered in Christie’s in Melbourne in early ’nineties. I bought literally every auction, literally everywhere, and up it all, about 300kgs in total. I have fond memories go the hands. Even in Philately, herd mentality is of of loading the many lots in to my clunky old Range great comfort to many. The problem with the “sleeper”? Its rarity was its own worst enemy. Only the very Rover, and heading off in to the sunset, front wheels almost lifting off the ground. The well known U.K. informed are equipped to handle “sleepers”. Figure 8 is a “sleeper”, the 1/6d Christmas Bells is a rarity as Postal History dealer, Chris Rainey, was present at the auction, and lamented that it was impracticable for a solo franking, but has received little, if any, public acknowledgement as such. This 20 Jan 1964 use from Redfern to Taiwan was for 1/6d Airmail rate, in what was later to become known as Airmail Zone 3. I’ve noted just two such solo usages, and that’s in 20 years of enthusiastic ferreting. Value : $200 (off cover 40c). Items such as Figure 9 are, in my opinion, little gems. Minimal in value, maximal in impact. I can’t help but chuckle when I notice attention being focused on items such as this in an exhibit, while nearby material, perhaps costing thousands of dollars per item, might barely raise a yawn. Figure 8. 1/6d Flower, destined to become better known as a solo rarity Stamp News - 9
him to bid for this material, given freight costs. Chris perhaps also quietly appreciated that I was not going to give up winning this material without blood being spilled on the auction floor. Good naturedly, after the auction, Chris commented “You’ve stolen that material”, to which I unashamedly agreed. The 5/- franking for our subject item paid 3/- Airmail rate (1/- per ½oz. x3) plus registration fee (2/-). I value this item highly, and have little doubt that if offered at Figure 9. Sweet little item for usage exhibit public auction my valuation might well be considerably ditional postal service. In this instance, the 11d Bandiexceeded. Value : $1000 coot was affixed to pay combined Letter rate (5d) (off cover $10). plus Certified fee (6d). Subsequently, the 9d Magpie Figure 11 is a departure from the general topic this has been added as an apparent afterthought to obtain month. I’ve included it to illustrate a popular pursuit for usage specialists. That is to show the subject stamp the “A.R.” (Advice of Receipt) service, for which 9d was the appropriate fee. It was sent from Wollongong used for a specific purpose, to uprate an article for adto Shellharbour on 2 Dec 1964. This item could be
Figure 10. A Holy Grail for QEII £SD usage collection 10 - Stamp News
Empire. All are rare; I’ve seen at most two of any of the three possible solo usages. Figure 12 is the (c) usage, locally addressed at Sydney 14 Apr 1965, day of issue for the stamp, although apparently a commercial use. Value : $125 (off cover 75c). Do you agree that these stamps take on a refreshing new slant when seen used for the intention for which they were originally issued? That is, to pay for postal service. Traditional collecting of mint and used (off cover) stamps Figure 11. Full marks to those who recognized that this is not a solo frankhas taken a huge hiding in reing item! cent years, with many, many collectors exiting the Hobby. placed under either stamp in a usage collection, but as Who could blame them; such collecting is too easy the 9d Magpie is almost unobtainable as a solo franking, I’d be including it under the heading of that stamp and, frankly, plain boring. If only the departees had discovered USAGE, the study of the myriad styles issue. Value : $75 (stamps off cover $1.80). in which a stamp may be utilized for postal purposThe 8d ANZAC was intended for (a) letter rate es, they may well still have been countered amongst to Foreign countries, (b) airmail rate to N.Z., and (c) nd us. 2 weight step letter rate within Australia and British
Figure 12. One of three rare solo usages possible for 8d ANZAC Stamp News - 11
ALAOUITES AND LATTAQUIÉ It is my guess that only philatelists remember the two countries mentioned in the title of this story. To further confuse us, the names refer to exactly the same territory located along Syria’s Mediterranean coastline in the north-west of the country from Lebanon in the south to Turkey in the north. After World War I, the Ottoman Empire lost almost all its former territories in the Middle East outside the borders of today’s Turkey. In 1919 France assumed responsibility for what is today Syria and Lebanon and this large area was subdivided into a number of smaller states. One of these states was Alaouites or the Alawite State in English. The new state was proclaimed on 29 September 1923. It was of course the French who were still in control of Alaouites.
In 1925 the new state’s first postage stamps were issued. A number of contemporary French stamps had been overprinted with the new country name – ALAOUITES – and new denominations in piasters (Fig. 1). The French word ”Alaouites” refers to the Alawites, an ethnic and religious group in the north-western part of Syria. They have a very particular interpretation of Islam in which Ali, the cousin and son in law of the Prophet Mohammed, plays a major role and is basically considered to be a deity. In this respect the Alawites’ religious beliefs resemble those of Shia Islam. An estimated 10 % of Syria’s population belong to the Alawite group which for years has had an enormous impact on the country’s political
Figure 2 Figure 1
12 - Stamp News
Christer Brunström life. The al-Assad clan belongs to the Alawite minority and this family has ruled Syria for decades. When the problems erupted eight years ago, President Assad could rely in his Alawite forces. In Iran the Shia branch of Islam is the dominating one and it thus comes as no surprise that they immediately supported the al-Assad régime in the civil war which has now been raging for more than eight years. After the first 1925 issues using French postage stamps it was decided to issue Syrian stamps overprinted with the new country name. We now find stamps featuring the port city of Latakia, the capital of the Alawite State (Fig. 2). The airmail stamps (Fig. 3) are particularly interesting as many of them show a number of
overprint varieties. There are inverted and partial overprints. It is doubtful if all of them are genuine. All in all Alaouites released 63 different postage stamps and ten postage due stamps. A postage due stamp is shown in Fig. 4. In 1930 Alaouites ceased as a stamp country and was replaced by Lattaquié (Latakia in English). The port city of Latakia is the main city on Syria’s Mediterranean coast. The Alawite population is concentrated in the mountainous areas whereas the people living in the coastal towns and cities are mainly Sunni Muslims or Christians. Many orthodox Sunni Muslims don’t consider the Alawites to be real Muslims which of course helps increase tension between the two
Figure 3
Figure 4 Stamp News - 13
ALAOUITES AND LATTAQUIÉ religious groups. Lattaquié existed as a stamp country from 1931 until 1935. All stamps are contemporary Syrian issues overprinted with the new country name – LATTAQUIE – in French and Arabic (Fig. 5). There were a total of 33 postage stamps and two postage due stamps. Both the French and the Syrians wanted to establish a unified Syrian state. On 1 March 1937, the stamps of Latakia (an airmail stamp is shown in Fig. 6) lost their validity and were replaced by Syrian issues. Syria had finally become a united nation, at least as far as the stamps are concerned. Syria had been made a republic in 1934 but still under French protection. The French left for good in 1944 and Syria became fully independent. This fact of course explains why most Syrian stamps
issued during the first half on the 20th century have wording in French. In the current civil war the population in western Syria has suffered less than in most other parts of the country. This is partly due to the fact that many Alawites are strong supporters of President al-Assad and his régime. Worldwide philatelists thus have two interesting ”dead” countries to collect. Both Alaouites and Latakia are quite popular which has resulted in ever increasing catalogue values. The war in Syria has undoubtedly opened the eyes of collectors to these historically interesting issues. It is certainly not impossible to assemble complete collections of the basic stamps and there are also a number of collectable varieties. Postal history items are of course a lot more difficult to come by.
Figure 5
Figure 6 14 - Stamp News
July Quartet A selection of collecting suggestions for adventurous collectors, or to accelerate the scope of an existing collection of the relevant subject. Contact me if you have a particular interest in Australian cover/stationery fields. For individual item offerings, refer to my website (www.rap.com.au) and eBay listings (search rap_com_au).
£1 Arms 1951 gold parcel tag used at Perth Australia KGVI Usage collection 1937-52 (includes QEII-era no wmk. printings), entirely commercial covers/cards/etc, highly representative showing of the various stamp issues of the reign (200+ items). Detail of rates, etc, for every item provided.
1993 Emu Frama stamp design inverted (ACSC 1576Jab) on commercial cover Australia 1980s/1990s Frama stamp collection purely on commercial covers/postcards (many 100s)
“Text”
1930 Ford advertising cover Automobilia in Australia as seen via commercial advertising covers (few postcards), 1906-1970. My personal collection (200+ items)
1958 Heidelberg West provisional registration label Victoria registered commercial cover collection, 1930s/1980s, different Post Office/registration labels (many provisional types), good representation of scarcer cancels (several hundred items)
Registered post paid within Australia (overseas at cost) Payment by Direct Bank Transfer
Rod Perry
PO BOX 36 TRINITY BEACH QLD 4879 AUSTRALIA Email: rod [at] rap.com.au Phone: 0417 598 536
Stamps in the News - Globally! Afghan Post’s traumatic stress Reported at www.trtworld.com
Without an address system and despite the very real threat of attack by the Taliban and Daesh fighters, Afghanistan’s postal workers are determined to continue serving the country. Every morning for the last 27 years, Ahmad Zaki has gone to work without fail throughout the years of war that have plagued his country. Zaki joined Afghan Post straight from school and has worked out of the Central Post Office in Kabul since. “Sometimes, we would be out delivering post and there would be rockets and bullets flying over our heads,” said Zaki, recalling his days working as a postman during the Afghan Civil War in the 1990s. “We had to take shelter until the crossfire ended, and then we would continue our work.” Zaki, who is roughly 45, is one of a handful of employees who stayed in the service of Afghan Post
16 - Stamp News
despite the myriad wars and regimes his country has experienced. “The civil war hurt the postal services the most,” he said “But the Taliban regime that followed later did not do anything to develop Afghan Post.” Afghan Post was established in 1878 and was accepted into the Universal Postal Union in 1928. Up until the conflicts that have plagued the country for the last three decades, the organisation was known for its reliability in connecting the country to the wider world. “You can trace the history of my country through our stamps,” said 27-year-old Noor Rahman who has been working in the Central Post Office for the last five years, managing stamp sales. Rahman opens a large, thick, faded brown cardboard folder that holds thousands of stamps that have been issued over the years and shows off a copy of the first stamp ever issued by Afghan Post.
Compiled by
Margo Campbell
The gold coloured stamp has a black seal featuring a lion, a tribute to the country’s former leader, Sher Ali Khan. Next to it is a red coloured-stamp featuring the Bolshevik founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin, a souvenir from the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Many employees credit the Russians with doing the most to develop the postal services. The stamps and other memorabilia are displayed in a small museum housed in a Soviet-era building housed in the central post office. “The museum was first created by the Russians, but it remained untouched by the wars and regimes that followed,” Rahman said. “Even the Taliban who dislike the use of stamps honouring past leaders and displaying faces, especially of women, did not think to destroy it.” Rahman went on to show stamps created during the Taliban regime featuring verses from the Quran and the Holy Kaabah in the Muslim holy city of Mecca. The influx of foreign aid that followed the fall of the Taliban did help Afghanistan recover economically to an extent from years of conflicts, internal and imposed. However, there was little left in terms of public services and bureaucratic systems and with 63 percent of the country under 25 years old, newer, affordable and easier means of communication, such as mobile phones and the internet, became popular among the country’s young population. As a result Afghan Post was neglected for years, operating in the status quo established during the Soviet-backed rule of the 1980s. But that didn’t deter Ahmad Wahid Wais, when he took charge of Afghan Post in 2014. “I saw a lot of potential in Afghan Post and wanted to not only revive the service but also combine it with innovative new technologies,” he said. With state investment of $700,000 Wais drew up a plan to modernise delivery and other services. “We have started Express Mail Service, electronic post box services, government logistics, and passport deliveries, and have also connected most post offices with the fiber optic network. This is only one phase of the initiative, and we are hoping to start more services like supporting e-commerce business-
es and are also launching postal payment services by next year,” Wais explained. “The conflict of the last three decades has affected the postal culture of the country and Afghans are no longer used to sending letters or using the postal services,” he said “If someone from Kabul wants to send a package to Kandahar, he is more likely to go to the taxi stand and pay a taxi driver going that way to carry his parcel, rather than come to the post office.” country. “But we are hoping to change that and to bring more Afghans back to the post office. However, a major problem facing Wais is the lack of an address system in Afghanistan, even in the relatively developed metropolitan capital of Kabul. Wais has faith in postmen like Zaki, who know the city like the back of their hand. “Our postmen, especially in Kabul, are very adept at finding their way across the city and locating even the most remote addresses. “ The government also faces threats of increasing violence from a resurgent Taliban and a fast growing Daesh insurgency and Afghan Post finds itself at the frontline of the conflict. A Daesh attack on the compound they share with the Ministry of Communication and IT on April 20 resulted in the death of five employees, several injuries and damage to the post office. Today, postal services are mostly used for government dispatches. There are many Afghans who use Afghan Post for parcel delivery and while letters, postcards, and other communiques are rarer, they are not entirely obsolete particularly for Afghans keeping in touch with relatives in the large Afghan diaspora.
Americans showing the love Reported at https://news.gallup.com
In a recent Gallup poll on opinions on high profile US federal agencies, The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) remains the top-rated agency, with 74% saying it is doing an “excellent” or “good” job. This conforms with its No. 1 status in all prior years Gallup measured it, including 2014, 2017 and 2018. The poll shows that 74% of respondents thank the USPS is doing an excellent/good job, 18% only fair Stamp News - 17
Stamps in the News - Globally!
and 8% poor. The next highest rating organisation was the Secret Service with an excellent/good rating of 69%. The other seven agencies earning positive ratings from a majority of Americans in the April 17-30 poll include the Secret Service followed by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the CIA, NASA, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The IRS and Federal Reserve Board earn good marks from about half the public. However, three agencies tested -- the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (referred to in the survey as “the Veterans’ Administration, or VA”) -- garner more only fair/poor than excellent/good ratings. Gallup first asked this question with a shorter list of agencies in 2003 and has updated it several times since. There has been 18 - Stamp News
little change in agency ratings since the prior reading in December 2017. The changes between 2014 and 2017 were more significant, spanning the presidential transition from Obama to Trump. Americans’ trust in the federal government to solve both domestic and international problems was at a low ebb in January. Nevertheless, public faith in many of the specific federal agencies charged with doing the nation’s business remains quite strong, similar to the levels seen in 2017 and generally improved from 2014.
Helping Pakistanis return the love Reported at https://tribune.com.pk
The government in Pakistan has launched a foreign
Compiled by
Margo Campbell
remittance service through various post offices of the country after the collaboration of National Bank of Pakistan and Pakistan Post saying the government wants to ensure ease for expatriates sending money to Pakistan. “Overseas Pakistanis live in the heart of the prime minister. Labourers working abroad painfully save money to send back to their families here,” the Minister for Posts said, adding that “the family of a labourer will be paid 100 dirhams for 100 dirhams that they send and Pakistan will overcome many sanctions imposed upon it by thwarting illegal means of monetary transfers”. Initially, free money remittances services will be available at 230 post offices of the country. “We will end the system of hawala in Pakistan. Payments coming from Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates will be delivered to the recipient at their doorstep,” he said. Currently, expatriates send up to $20 billion every year of which $10 billion come from hawala. The hawala system has existed since the 8th century in the Muslim world and subcontinent and developed into a fully-fledged money market instrument. It involves money being transferred via a network of brokers who transfer money without money movement. There is no promissory documentation or legal enforceability and the system relies on honour alone. However hawala has been associated with money laundering and terrorism funding resulting in it being banned in Pakistan. Today, hawala is probably used mostly for migrant workers’ remittances to their countries of origin. “We need to bring this amount through a proper channel. The service of Pakistan Post will greatly add to the foreign exchange reserves of the country,” the Minister said. Speaking about the expatriates, the minister observed that 1.5 million Pakistanis are employed in Saudi Arabia as labourers and the service would definitely benefit them. “Around 62 per cent of
international remittances come from Saudi Arabia, Dubai and other Islamic countries,” Khan said. “The government wishes to see those remittances reach through official channels,” he added, hoping that the service will lead to positive outcomes.
Trying to promote the love in Malaysia Reported at www.straitstimes.com
A controversy has broken out in Malaysia over postage stamps bearing a famous local church, as part of the tussle between political groups, Pakatan Harapan (PH) and Malay groups opposed to it. The Malaysia Muslim Solidarity group said the issuing of a new stamp bearing a Christian symbol was “another example of Muslims being bullied” since PH won power in May 2018. “If outsiders label Malaysia as a Christian nation, we should not be angered because we have been portrayed as such.” But the post office, Pos Malaysia, said postage stamps showing prominent places of worship in Malaysia - a mosque, Hindu and Buddhist temples, a Sikh gurdwara and a church - were first issued in November 2016, before PH came to power. The new series of five stamps was issued on May 11, and is the second in the series. Each stamp features a landmark building of one of the five main religions in Malaysia, including the St George church in Penang. The tussle is part of a wider fight between Malay
Stamp News - 19
Stamps in the News - Globally!
The original 1993 A stamp and the 1995 Levy A stamp and Muslim groups which are trying to weaken PH’s image among Malay voters. These groups are pushing the narrative that Malaysia’s majority race, the Malay Muslims who form some 60 per cent of the 32 million population is being sidelined and “bullied” since PH came to power.
The designing Swiss Reported at www.ozy.com
A canton in Switzerland was among the first places to introduce postage stamps, in 1843, and the nation has continued to be a major player in the global art and design world. International Typographic Style, the blocky, minimalist design that pairs sans-serif typefaces with clean, crisp imagery, developed in Switzerland in the 1950s, is considered the foundation for modern graphic design. Helvetica, arguably the world’s most ubiquitous font, also emerged from postwar Switzerland. The first Swiss “A” stamp entered circulation in 1993. Its clear-cut lines and hints of nostalgia provided credibility to the Swiss Post, simplified the mail-sorting process and freed customers from having to mark priority mail with an “A” themselves. In 1995 this was updated by Basel-based graphic designer Jean-Benoit Levy. “I was inspired by the three strokes it takes to create the letter A,” says Levy. In 1996 over 10,000 young athletes created a 20 - Stamp News
Guinness record Swiss stamp 1996 giant human tableau in the form of Levy’s stamp, the world’s largest ever. The feat put Switzerland in the Guinness Book of Records and an aerial photograph was converted into a spectacular stamp which sold out almost immediately. Levy’s design was adapted for use in advertisements for everything from convenience stores to politicians. It even appeared on cycling team uniforms and found its way into other artists’ work. A member of the exclusive Alliance Graphique Internationale since 1998, Levy continues to extend the influence of Swiss design. Most recently, he attended AGI conferences in Mexico and Holland, and created an international traveling exhibition, a tribute to the Swiss art of merging words and images in a way that conveys information quickly and efficiently. And to think that Swiss design, famous the world over for its crisp, almost architectural simplicity, got its biggest boost from a small stamp. https://www.ozy.com/flashback/how-switzerlandput-a-stamp-on-innovative-design/94474
Singing stamps in Croatia Reported at www.croatiaweek.com
Croatian Post has released a ‘Europa’ series of commemorative stamps in May. Birds are the theme of this year’s series of postal stamps issued by all European postal operators, and motifs on the Croatian stamps are the birds – Lastavica bregunica (European sand martin) and galeb klaukavac (Yellow-legged
Compiled by
Margo Campbell
gull). What makes these stamps unique is the fact that you will be able to hear them by downloading the free application ‘Cee App’ (Google Play, App Store) on a smartphone. By scanning the stamp on the app the sounds of the Lastavica bregunica and galeb klaukavac will be played. Bregunica is a migratory bird which spends the winter in Africa – in Sub-Saharan areas and along the eastern coast of the African continent all the way to the South of Africa. In Croatia, it can be found near open areas along the water and in the wetlands
of the rivers Mura, Drava, Sava, Danube and Neretva. This bird species is endangered, and the loss of humid habitats is the main cause of the decrease in its number. There are more than 50 types of species of seagulls in the world, and galeb klaukavac (Larus michahellis) in Croatia is a nesting bird. The galeb klaukavac is recognisable by its yellow legs, while the back and wings are grey. They eat fish, crustaceans and shells, and they will also scavenge. In order to feed, they come into settlements, as well as deep into parts of continental Croatia. Young galeb klaukavac can be found outside the Adriatic, and some fly even to the northern coast of Europe from where they return to the Adriatic.
Singing stamps in Ireland Reported at www.irishpost.com
U2 AND The Cranberries are among a selection of notable Irish musicians featured in An Post’s new set of stamps celebrating Great Irish Songs. The Cranberries global smash hit Dreams is included along with U2’s With or Without You, Danny Boy by Count John McCormack and On Raglan Road by Luke Kelly. Each of the songs have been chosen by An Post because of the way they celebrate Irish identity and culture. An Post is planning to present the four songs at a special live event in the GPO where they will be performed by the group Other Voices. “The set of four stamps underscore the richness of Irish musical heritage the songs’ origins ranging from 17th century musical airs, to rock music, poetry and folk ballads”, An Post said. “The stamps are a celebration of creativity and of the power of song to tell important human stories, which are at once Irish and universal.” Stamp News - 21
Stamps in the News - Globally! And why no Van Morrison? Morrison is a native of Northern Ireland.
The Transcontinental sesquicentenary – all hail the travail on the rail Reported at www.xinhuanet.com
The U.S. Postal Service and the Museum of Chinese in America have unveiled new postage stamps commemorating the 150th anniversary of America’s Transcontinental Railroad and acknowledging contributions that Chinese immigrant laborers made in building it. A total of three Transcontinental Railroad Forever Stamps have been issued. Each of the two locomotives that met at Promontory Summit in 1869 received its own forever stamp. A third depicts the iconic golden spike hammered in that day in May, signifying the joining of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads. Each of the stamps and the header feature gold-foiled highlights that produce a glimmering effect. The Transcontinental Railroad has long been considered one of the most remarkable engineering feats of the 19th century. It reduced cross-country travel times from six months to a single week. “Today and with this stamp, we are finally telling the whole story of the Chinese and Irish railroad workers whose labour and sacrifice created an economic boon for a young nation just recovering from the Civil War,” Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said in a statement.
22 - Stamp News
While the Irish made up a large part of the railroad’s workforce, particularly that of the Union Pacific, which pushed westward, the Chinese accounted for nearly 90 percent of Central Pacific laborers, who built east from California. At its highest point, 10,000 to 15,000 Chinese were working on the Central Pacific, with perhaps as many as 20,000 in total over time. The Chinese labourers took on some of the most dangerous, most exhausting assignments for less pay (and worse treatment) than their Euro-American counterparts. Hundreds, possibly more than a thousand, Chinese workers died during the line’s construction.
Compiled by
Margo Campbell
And finally – a shaggy dog story from Scotland Reported at www.wideopenpets.com
The Scottish town of Portree is a quaint seaside village on the Island of Skye. The streets are lined with charming shops, restaurants, and inns, but the town’s biggest attraction can be found at the post office. For the last two years, Postmaster Ray Chandler has been in charge of the office. Soon after assuming his position, Chandler decided that an addition to the staff was in order. So he hired his family’s dog, Jax. Jax wasted no time making himself right at home at the office. Each day, he goes to work with Chandler, takes his place behind the counter, and gets down to business. You might think he’s simply the official greeter, but that’s not the case. Jax is actually the Official Stamp Licker. He’s even got a sign to prove it. Since being hired, Jax has become a favourite among locals and tourists. Some don’t even come to the office with a letter to mail, they just stop in to say “hello” or bring Jax a treat. However, all can rest assured that if there’s a stamp that needs to be licked, Jax is at the ready. Chandler notes that Jax is so enthusiastic about his job, he sometimes accidentally swallows the stamps he licks. It’s just part of the “customer’s risk,” jokes Chandler. For those who might be concerned about Jax
spending so much time indoors, don’t fret. In addition to the important job he does at the post office, Jax has a full life outside of work. Before work each day, he takes a long stroll through town, and often goes for a morning dip in the ocean. During the day, he takes plenty of breaks for exercise. “He’s part of our family,” says Chandler.
Stamp News - 23
KA-BE SUPER QUALITY 64 Black Page Stockbook - Padded Cover AVAILABLE IN Red, Green, Blue or Black. 64 Black Pages
Double Hinged Binding
9 Glassine Strips
4 Colours available - Red, Green, Blue or Black
Padded Covers Double Interleaving
Mix and match the colours you need.
Prices within Australia as follows, all post & insurance paid:
Per 1 Per 2 Per 3 Per 4 Per 5
$69.50 $127.50 $189.50 $249.00 $299.00
Stamp News Mail Order PO Box 1290, Upwey, Victoria, Australia Ph: 0425 795 693 email: kevinmorgan2@live.com
Glen Stephens Rarity Offers For 20 years, my ’Stamp Rarity Page’ has been a “must visit” place for many collectors and dealers, globally - tinyurl.com/GlenRare Large clear photos, and lots of detail, and FIXED NETT PRICES. “Philatelic Porn” as one client jokingly described it as! No 20% “Buyer Fees” to add on top etc. All credit cards accepted - even Amex, and with NO insulting extra fees to you either! Each month I’ll add here, a couple of items from that page, for the possible interest of readers. Choice material, and special collection offers etc, from all over the globe. Material on that page often sells FAST - within hours of being listed up, and it changes often - weekly mostly, so do bookmark this page, and check often - tinyurl.com/GlenRare
GB 1902 5/- KEVII Spectacular fresh bright MLH for just $A350: Deep Bright Carmine. Superb fresh MLH. Been in UK near all its life, so no
usual towing and rust spots we see from here. Superb perfs, centering, and deep incredibly rich colour as you can readily see. SG 264 £450 = $A900. A premium looking stamp for ANY album. From a superb album of GB I am breaking down. From 1840 1d Blacks (in every Plate!) 2 sets “1d Plates’’ to 225 etc. Strong M+U line engraved, often in superb shape. QV and KEVII to £1 and KGV to both £1. Let me know what WANTS you have - all going out CHEAP! Top grade, for near a THIRD of Cat - $A350 (Stock 382BR)
Stanley Gibbons 2018 “Stamps Of The World” Stamp Catalogues 6 volumes $200 under Retail - ONE SET ONLY! This 2018 set is $A650 retail locally. SAVE
$200! To buy direct off SG even in their current discount sale is £273 posted, plus they now add ozzie GST as required by law = £300+ = $A600. Buy off me, and pay $150 less than buying discounted direct off SG in UK! Stanley Gibbons Stamps of the World Vol 1-6, 2018 - THE most useful set in your library! Scott recently split their World set from 6 to TWELVE expensive volumes, costing locally here, WAY over $A1,500. If SG do the same next year, you will save a FORTUNE buying these NOW! A STACK more photos and detail here - tinyurl.com/y5m6gbgt My lightly used office set, mailed in SG storage box - just $A450 (Stock 893LR
Bahamas 1882 1d ScarletVermillion Crown CA, p14, superb unused Cat £950 - $A350:
Magic Eye-Appeal, as you can see - deep glowing original colour pair as you can see. It is of course common with the Crown CC watermark. This is the scarce *Crown CA* Watermark - which shows perfectly on back for quick verification. Clean and fresh and flat, and free of all hinges and gook and gunk and creases, generally found on stamps 137 years old from ANYWHERE! SG 42 cat £950 = $A1,900. I do not stock Caribbean, so bought cheap, to sell cheap at just 20% of SG cat! $A350 (Stock 327LA)
Order via: tinyurl.com/GlenOrder All Cards accepted with ZERO fee - even Amex! Bank Deposit fine, or Money Orders. PayPal is accepted in ANY major currency, saving you fees - contact me first. LayBys/Layaways always OK with me!
GLEN STEPHENS
PO Box 4007, Castlecrag, NSW, 2068, Australia. - Phone (02) 9958 1333 e-mail me: glen@glenstephens.com - www.glenstephens.com/rarity.html Life Member: American Stamp Dealers Association (New York.) Philatelic Trader’s Society. (London.)
Postal Stationery Welcome to the postal stationery column for July 2019. This month’s column looks at a King George V 1d + ½d+ ½d ‘tripleton’ Australian Commonwealth stamped-to-order envelope, a prestamped envelope issued by Australia Post in 1989 to mark self-government in the Australian Capital Territory and prepaid postcards used for a program to encourage missFigure 1 Vacuum Oil1d + ½d + ½d King George V Tripleton STO Envelope ing people to write anonymously to their families.
Australia BW ES38 (‘The Tripleton’)
The May 2019 issue of the Postal Stationery Collector, Journal of the Postal Stationery Society of Australia, included a census of the Commonwealth of Australia 1d red King George V Star (without ‘POSTAGE’ Figure 2 Vacuum Oil 1d + ½d + ½d King George V Tripleton Cut-out in the design) + ½d green King George V only known tripleton issued by Australia, although star (without ‘POSTAGE’) + ½ d green King George V sideface stamped up to six impressions are known on a Tasmanian wrapper. to order (STO) envelope for Vacuum Oil Pty Ltd The Census was undertaken by Mark Diserio (Victoria), BW ES38 (Figure 1-2). (Catalogue numand Tom Herinckx who write that the envelope “has bers are from the Postal Stationery volume of the always had a fascination for collectors, possibly beBrusden-White Australian Commonwealth Specialcause of the three stampings and the combination of ists’ Catalogue.) This tripleton STO envelope is the embossed and letterpress methods used. It is collo26 - Stamp News
Ian McMahon the exhibitor had nothing else of note, I was not able to persuade him to part with the item. The Vacuum Oil Company Pty Ltd was a major user of stamped-to-order postal stationery. The tripleton was created by the need to revalue stocks of surplus envelopes held by the Company as a result of postage rate increases. The Company originally ordered envelopes to be Figure 3 Vacuum Oil1d + ½d King George V Doubleton STO Envelope stamped with a 1d King George V Star (without ‘POSTAGE’), before quially known to collectors as the ‘tripleton’. The enJuly 1918 to cover the 1d letter rate up to ½ an ounce velope was first mentioned by ‘Harold Charles’ (the (BW ES31). Unused stocks of these envelopes were nom de plume of Charles Fawcett) in his first article, ‘Postal Stationery’, for The Australian Stamp Month- then stamped with the ½d green King George V star ly (March 1931, p 95). In the ASM of August 1949 (p without postage (Figure 3) following the introduction of the ½d war tax from 28 October 1918 to meet 627) Harold Charles wrote: the new 1½d rate for letters up to half an ounce. At the Adelaide Centenary Stamp Exhibition (BW ES34). The article speculates that Harrison my old friend, Rev. Graebner, and myself alused the letterpress method to add the ½d sideface most plotted to do away with a collector who stamp rather than using an embossed stamp as his exhibited an envelope with three Australian postal stamp impressions printed on it. The exhibitor had very little else of worth, but would not sell it or exchange it for something better. [What could be better than the Tripleton!] Writing in ‘A Jubilee Special: ‘Postal Stationery’ in the ASM of December 1954 (p 797), ‘Harold Charles’ again wrote about the tripleton: At the Adelaide exhibition in 1936 there was an envelope with no less than three impressions on it. It was the only one Figure 4 Vacuum Oil Wellington Return Address on the Flap on the I had ever saw but although Reverse Stamp News - 27
Postal Stationery
Figure 5 Stamped Envelope Issued by Australia Post to Mark ACT Self-Government embossing machines were fully utilised in producing other embossed envelopes, such as the new 2d post office embossed envelopes (BW EP21). Following the 1 October 1920 increase in postage rates to 2d, the remaining stocks of the 1d + ½d revalued envelopes were then further re-valued by the addition of the ½d King George V side-face stamp. The Census recorded eleven BW ES38 entires, used from February to July 1921 and three cut-outs. Most of the envelopes have return addresses for the Vacuum Oil Company Freemantle and are posted to Western Australian addressFigure 7 Front of the Trackless Postcard 28 - Stamp News
Ian McMahon es. One envelope has a Queensland return address sent to a Queensland address and one a New Zealand return address and sent to New Zealand. All envelopes are posted from Melbourne. Each envelope has the return address in a ‘Gargoyle’ design flap seal (Figure 4). Any reader with additional information on this envelope is encouraged to contact me ian.mcmahon4@bigpond.com so I can pass the information on to the authors.
Pre-Stamped Envelope for The Establishment of Self Government in the Australian Capital Territory
Figure 6 ‘Hope’ Reverse of the Back of the Trackless Postcard
Self-Government was established in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) thirty years ago in 1989 with the first meeting of the ACT Legislative Assembly being held on 11 May 1989. To mark the occasion Australian Post issued a pre-stamped envelope with a map of the ACT and the Royal Bluebell, the Territory flower of the ACT, and a stamp depicting Lanyon, an historic homestead located in the ACT. Australia Post held a launch of the envelope on 7 August 1989 at the foyer of the ACT Legislative Assembly. An example of the PSE autographed by fourteen of the seventeen members of the inaugural legislative assembly including the first Chief Minister of the ACT, Rosemary Follett, is shown in Figure 5. One of the signatories was Hector Kinloch who as well as being a member of the first Legislative Assembly was also a member of the Philatelic Society of Canberra.
Bunbury 2019
Bunbury 2019 is a National One-Frame exhibition (including postal stationery) which will be held in Bunbury on 20-21 Figure 8 Front of the Publicity Card for the Trackless Postcard Stamp News - 29
Postal Stationery before Christmas 2017 and 2018 in a bid to allow people who have gone missing on purpose to contact their families without providing a return address. The campaign was run by the Australian Federal Police’s National Missing Persons Coordination Centre, with Australia Post and the Salvation Army. The postcards were prepaid. They were available at Salvation Army centres, and delivered through a central Australia Post facility with no indication of the location it has been sent from. Figure 6 shows the reverse of the postcard, Figure 9 Reverse of the Publicity Card for the Trackless Postcard ‘HOPE’ with a Christmas theme. Figure 7 shows the front of the postcard while July 2019 at the South West Italian Club, 20 White Figures 8 and 9 show the front and back of a publicStreet, East Bunbury, Western Australia. Further inity card used for the service and Figure 10 an enveformation at http://www.wapc.org.au/bunbury-2019/ lope used to send out the publicity card. . If you live in the west, or are travelling there at the time of Exhibition, make a point of attending.
Traceless Postcards
The May 2019 issue of the Postal Stationery Collector also reported on a prepaid postcard known as a ‘traceless postcard’. First released in December 2017 with 8,000 cards produced and apparently rereleased in December 2018. The Postcards were released Figure 10 Official Envelope Used to Send out Publicity Card for the Trackless Postcard 30 - Stamp News
The Salvation Army Stamp & Coin Fair is held 2nd Saturday of each month, 9am – 2pm At Ferntree Gully Salvation Army 37 Wattletree Road, Ferntree Gully, 3158
(Parking At Rear, Entry By Side Door) Admission Free, Tea & Coffee Available All proceeds from Dealers’ Tables to The Salvation Army. Dealer enquiries welcome. Also donations of Stamps & Coins gratefully received at the Fair, which will be offered to dealers present on the day. Proceeds to the Salvation Army. Bulky lots may be able to be collected within 50k radius, or can be mailed to us. Telephone contact: 0425 795 693
Please note that this is a Smoke Free Event.
Cinderella Corner Official Australian Post Office Labels Part II – Mode Of Transmission
Welcome to the July edition of Cinderella Corner. Official Australian Post Office labels are Figures 1, 2 & 3 fascinating, and they form one area in philately that continues to increase in Figure 1 popularity amongst many enthusiasts. In last year’s July illustrates the first 2018 Cinderella Corner, several of these labels were of these labels, investigated and discussed. This article continues the narissued in May rative, one year on, with the assistance of Dr. Eric Frazer, 1930 with an the leading expert and co-author of The Official Postal initial printing by Labels of Australia. This issue narrows its focus from the Government its predecessor to consider those Australia Post labels Printer, Melregarding different modes of transmission. These are by bourne (200,000 in sheets of 20 with 2x10 arrangement). no means exhaustive, and, rather, offer a snapshot of the The label measures 38mm x 19mm, with Sans Serif letvast number of labels that exist in this charming area of tering, and was available until 1933. This cinderella was philately. A third article on Official Australian Post Office also included in a booklet of two sheets (2x3) promoting labels is planned for 2020, and I welcome feedback from airmail and was included alongside twelve threepenny readers about these items and their scope. stamps. Air Mail International labels were first introduced more than 60 years later in late 1996. The first of these Air Mail measured 56mm x 26mm and contained text on its Air Mail labels have featured as a vital part of the Austrareverse. A couple of years later, in November 1998, the lian aerophilatelic landscape since the 1920s. They have first of several larger type Air Mail International vignettes been well-documented in several catalogues, included were produced. Illustrated in Figures 2 and 3, this label Tom Frommer’s celebrated Australian Air Mail Labels measures 90mm x 60mm and features the reverse text: and Vignettes 1920 – 1960. Most of these earlier ones Dangerous goods must be posted. / e.g. Explosives, Flamwere issued by QANTAS and are scarce. The familiar mables, Corrosives, Aerosols etc. / If in doubt ask at a and recognisable blue and white vignette Air Mail types post office. / PM 025A. The labels were printed in sheets (aligned with Australia Post) are now briefly considered, of 3 x 3. and a broader spectrum of these are thoroughly documented in the Frazer text.
Surface Air Lifted
Figure 4 32 - Stamp News
Figure 5
Surface Air Lifted (SAL) labels were discussed in the July 2018 Cinderella Corner, and some of the information is replicated below. The SAL service was first introduced, by arrangement with Qantas Airways, on 2 August 1971. While SAL mail travelled by normal surface means within Australia and the country of destination, it was airlifted between the two countries
Vito Milana
Figures 6, 7 & 8 involved. With this, the delivery time compared to ordinary seamail was reduced by around two-thirds. The SAL labels were issued in three sizes. The first, measuring 44mm by 30mm, comes in two varieties: one with a QANTAS print in the bottom corner, and one without. An example of an SAL cinderella label in its largest size is illustrated in Figure 4. These SAL labels were printed on shiny surfaced paper. Each measures 56mm by 66mm, and are coloured blue, white and green. Four variations of the label exist: Type 1 – No text in bottom margin Type 2 – Bottom margin: Australian Post Office / QANTAS Type 3 - Bottom margin: Australian Post Office / QANTAS (different text type) Type 4 - Bottom margin: Australia Post / QANTAS Finally, a much scarcer (and smaller) variety of this label is illustrated in Figure 5. This 1986 issued cinderella measures 30mm by 32mm and features as part of a complete sheet (2x4). It is the rarest of the SAL labels.
Economy Air
The SAL service was replaced by Economy Air, with labels for the latter surfacing in late 1989. With this service, postal articles were carried by air between countries, but by surface within the originating and terminating country. Several different vignettes for the Economy Air service were issued, the earliest illustrated in Figure 6. This label measures 30mm x 32x and was printed in sheets of 18 (3x6). Along with the Australia Post logo, the top margin of each sheet presented the text: Use on mail other than airmail for quicker than surface transmission to countries
Figure 9 specified in Section 10 of the Postal Guide. Specific postal charges apply. / PM176A (Aug’89). A second Economy Air label, given the reference title Type 2-B in the Frazer text, is illustrated in Figure 7, as a block of 4. This measures 45mm x 30mm and was printed in sheets of 12 (2x6). As illustrated in Figure 7, the header text is identical to the Economy Air label shown in Figure 6, except PM176A (Aug’89) is replaced with PM176A/Sep’90. The reverse text of this label, as illustrated in Figure 8, reads: Dangerous goods must not be posted. / e.g. Explosives, Flammables, Corrosives, Aerosols etc. If in doubt ask at a Post Office. / PM 176. While seemingly identical to the text illustrated in the Figure 3 Air Mail vignette, the ‘P’ and ‘O’ in Post Office are notably capitalised.
Sea Mail
Seal Mail labels, first introduced in 1987, were affixed to postal articles sent via surface mail from Australia. The first issue of these vignettes is illustrated in Figure 9. It measures 44mm x 30mm and was printed in sheets of 8 (4x2). The top margin of the sheet presents the following text: Use on all mail items to be conveyed overseas by ship. Surface transmission applies within Australia and the destination country / PM 20A (Jun’87). A second variety of this label exists with the bow of the ship shaded. This ‘waves’ type measures 45mm x 30mm and the block of 6, presents the identical text to the Figure 9 label except that PM 20A (Jun’87) is replaced by PM20A/ Sep’90. The reverse of the text reads: Dangerous goods must not be posted. e.g. Explosives, Flammables, CorroStamp News - 33
Cinderella Corner sures 45mm x 45mm and features the text: ROAD TRANSPORT ONLY / NOT TO BE MOVED BY AIR / 8838249 8/99. These were produced in rolls of 50. A second type of this label was issued a few years later, in 2012. It is illustrated in Figure 13, also measures 45mm x 45mm, and features the text (in lower case font): Road transport only / Not to be moved by air / 8838249 9/12.
Conclusion
The mode of transmission involving postal items from Australia Post has shifted over the years and, alongFigures 10 side it, so too have the many cinderella labels identifying the sives, Aerosols etc. / If in doubt ask at a Post Office. different types. The labels discussed in Air Parcel this Cinderella Corner Figures 10 By the end of January 1990, a domestic Air Parcel service form an important was introduced by Australia Post. One label was issued in insight into this area 1989 for this service, as illustrated in Figures 10 and 11. of philately and further present a glimpse of the future of It measures 85mm x 45mm and was transportation means associated printed in sheets of 10 (2x5). The with Australia Post. I once again top margin of each sheet presents sincerely thank Dr. Eric Frazer the text: For use on domestic air for his kind assistance towards parcels, and, as illustrated in Figure the planning of this article, along 11, the reverse of the label has the with the text he supplied, The text: Dangerous goods must not be Official Postal Labels of Austraposted. e.g. Explosives, Flammalia, which he co-authored with bles, Corrosives, Aerosols etc. / If the late Robin Occleshaw back in doubt ask at a Post Office. in 1999. Although this 240-page catalogue has been out of print for over a decade, Eric still has a Road Transport few copies left with a commercial The Road Transport label illusblack/white photocopy (minus the trated in Figure 12, in a strip of four colour plates) at cost price three, was issued in 1999 as part (A$38.60) plus postage (A$13.80 of a service by Australia Post to within Australia). His email deliver items only by road and not address is Eric.Frazer@internode. by air. Each of these labels meaFigures 10 on.net. 34 - Stamp News
BUY OR BID SALE JULY 2019 Buy now at the listed price or bid a lower figure. Bids will be considered Midday 30 July 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
AAP19) Lighthouse near new Classic Optima Sigma Album with slipcase, burgundy colour containing 40 Optima Clear 3 strip pages with black interleaves. New retail $62.95 for the binder & slipcase, plus $17.95 per pack of 10 for the pages & $8.95 per 10 for the interleaves total over $170. Superb presentation, suitable booklets, gutter pairs, imprint blocks etc. Under 25% new price at $42.50 (4 available) 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 indispens-
able 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. AAP18) Australian History as seen through Banknotes. Lavishly illustrated handbook in slipcase, brand new shrink wrapped. The history of the evolution of Australian currency notes since Federation is a fascinating one. With the foreword written by Ian Macfarlane, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia from 1996-2006, this volume brings an international perspective and significant new information to the History of Australian Currency. The official note issue begins with the superscribed series printed by the Government before World War I, and ends with today’s polymer notes. This limited edition leather-bound book with slipcase has previously unpublished banknote images and information sourced from the Reserve Bank of Australia Archives, leading collectors, dealers, historians, museums, and the Dauer Collection. With the collaboration of the Reserve Bank, this 352 page full-colour tome extensively covers Pre-Federation 1851 to 1900, Federation notes from 1901 to 2001, military issues of both World Wars and Vietnam, and 20th century shinplasters. Co-authored by Dr. Edward and Joanne Dauer, America’s foremost banknote collectors, and John Pettit, Australia’s leading banknote dealer, this presentation book makes the ideal personal or corporate gift. Originally published at $225, price $39! 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 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 AP1) Magnificent stockbook offer! We have a great new item: Ka - Be, one of the most respected German manufacturers now has a 64 black page padded binder stockbook, with double linen hinging. These retail at $66 each, my price $55 each or $249 for a carton of 5. Colours available are Black, Dark Blue, Dark Green or Maroon 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.
21st Century Auctions Pty Ltd Postal: PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158
BUY OR BID SALE JULY 2019 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. Cinderella Issues
CN12) Great Britain 1960’s to 1988 local railway issues mint unhinged collection on album pages. Includes issues for Festiniog, North Yorkshire Moors, Ravenglass & Eskdale, Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch, Llechweed, Keighley & Worth Valley, Llanberis Lake, Kent & East Sussex, Great Central & Llythyr Rheilffordd Talyllyn Railways. A total of 60 stamps, mostly in sets and 5 miniature sheets. Fascinating lot. Price $98 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 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. 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 CJU6) Trains, early to modern collection on album leaves. 325 stamps plus 10 x Benham cards. Includes Queensland Railway stamps 2 different (1880’s) , mostly complete sets mint or mint unhinged from Great Britain, Australia, Honduras (1898) Hong Kong, Israel, Malta, Nauru, New Zealand, Paraguay, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, plus fine used sets from Czechoslovakia, Ghana, Hungary, Switzerland (1947) Russia (1949) Also a nice selection of Belgium Railway Stamps (25 different from 1935 – 1952) etc, etc. Price $116.50
21st Century Auctions Pty Ltd Postal: PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158
BUY OR BID SALE JULY 2019 CJU7) Great Britain, 1850’s – 1970 pre-decimal mostly used collection on oversize leaves from sketch book. Commences 1858 1d plates (2), then noted 8d Orange Surface printed, KEVII 2/6 & 5/- , 1934 Photogravure 9d & 10d mint light hinge, 1934 Seahorses set to 10/-, KGVI to £1, both 1948 & 1951 issues plus many, many more. Around 325 stamps nearly all different. Very good value at $119. 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 CJU12) Australia in 3 as New Red Padded Lighthouse Albums with slipcases. Spaces for all stamps & minisheets, both sheet and peel & stick types 1913 – 2008 plus AAT. Contains used collection, mostly cancelled by favour or cto. Pre-decimals are sparse, no Kangaroos or KGV, but does have pre-decimal Navigators set of 6 to £2. Would be 75% complete for all decimals inc. Internationals. AAT is 99% complete 1957 – 2005 with just 1 item missing. Albums new cost $1595 (I kid you not!) Plus the stamps would have to be worth close to $1000. So here we have $2595 of value, for less than half the cost of the albums alone. The $1000 worth of stamps are free! Price $749 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 CJU14) British Royalty as depicted on stamps of the British Empire 1860 – 1981. Well presented & written up on quality leaves. Commences 1860 Newfoundland Prince of Wales (later KEVII) 17c SG 19 x 2 mint examples, cat £42 each, then South Africa 1910 Union depicting KGV on 3d Blue SG 1 & 2, a mint & used example of each shade. The Australia 1934 Royal Visit by the Duke of Gloucester is represented by a mint set of the Victorian Centenary stamps. Newfoundland’s 1938 set is featured in mint blocks of 4 with images of Queen Mary, KGVI, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Elizabeth. And so it goes on with New Zealand Charity sets & minisheets, also Imprint Blocks through the 1947 Royal Visits series on to St. Helena 1961 definitive set mint, plus an extra example used of the £1, cat £82. Finally there is a mint set of the Vanuatu 1981 issue for the 60th birthday of Prince Philip. Some toning here and there, but large a nice clean lot with much mint unhinged. 240 plus stamps. Price $110 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 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 CJU21) Israel, early to recent collection of 1000 all face different, inc. many mint unhinged with tabs., minisheets Etc. A great collection including Brand New 64 black page Ka-Be stockbook. Price $465 CJU22) Pitcairn Is. Substantially complete mint unhinged collection 1940 – 1994. Housed in as new Seven Seas Hingeless Green Padded Album, with slipcase, new Cost $525. Commences 1940 defins, which are a mixture of mint & used, then 1948 Silver Wedding & 1949 UPU both fresh mint unhinged. Pre-Decimal QEII are sparse but 1965 ICY is there. Decimals are 95% complete 1967 – 1994. Stamps retail $900 plus. A total value here of $1425 for just $850 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 CJU24) Palestine 1918 -1945 used on album page. Noted 1p Indigo, SG1, cat. £110, 1927 coil perfs. SG 93a, 93ac & 97a, cat. £82, also 1p Ultramarine SG3 on piece with neat Army Post Office cds of 9 AP 18. Nice clean lot of 26 stamps. Price $249 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
Tel: 0425 795 693 Email: kevinmorgan2@live.com Web: www.21stcenturyauctions.com.au
BUY OR BID SALE JULY 2019 & 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 CMAP11) Brown 32 page stockbook with modest collections of Poland, Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria & Czechoslovakia earlies to about 1970, most are cto used. Some nice thematics here. About 650 appear all different. Cheap at about 7c each and the stockbook comes free. Price $45 CMAP12) Expensive Brass Cornered Brown Leather-look Prinz 64 black page stockbook (Cost $99) containing collection of cancelled by favour, with gum mainly blocks of 4 Australia/AAT Decimals, mostly 1980’s commems. cancelled Doncaster East Vic. Stockbook is near new but has a few loose pages, easily repaired I imagine. High face/retail/catalogue, values to $5. Counted 820 stamps, mainly complete sets. Have to be worth 10c a stamp. Stockbook comes free. Price $79. CMAP13) Nice World Colln. early to modern in near new Dark Blue 32 black page $35 stockbook. Mostly Br. Commonwealth, plus USA and a few other bits & pieces. Noted nice mint unhinged sets from Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Norfolk Is., etc. and a nice lot of GB commem. sets mint & used and Machin Heads. Values to £10. 1750 – 2000 stamps here. Heaps of better thematics. Well worth 10c a stamp. Plus free stockbook. Price $175 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 CM12) Worldwide early to modern in A5 Club books. 4 uncirculated plus 6 circulated, containing a wide array of World early to modern inc. many complete sets. Noted GB, East Germany, India, Hungary, Malta, Mongolia, Poland, Portugal, South & Central Americas, Czechoslovakia, Cambodia, Kampuchea, Spain, Finland, USSR, Vietnam, Nth. Korea & many more. 5000 plus, all different. Very clean lot. Have to worth 5c a stamp. Price $249 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
21st Century Auctions Pty Ltd Postal: PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158
BUY OR BID SALE JULY 2019 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 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 CMN1) Belgium 1970 – 1998 in as new Red Ka-Be Ring Album, on Hingeless Illustrated leaves, overflowing with extra pages. Appears virtually complete mint unhinged 1978 – 1990. Retail of stamps approx $750, plus album and leave must have cost near $300, well over $1000 value here for just $375! 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 CMN17) 1983 Commonwealth Day FDC collection, all full sets in Blue & Gold Padded Binder, almost as new. 53 unaddressed full set covers with descriptive text on reverse and coat of arms of the relevant country on face. Original brochure enclosed showing cost price of $7.50 per cover. Total cost $415 inc. the album. Stupidly low price of UNDER ONE QUARTER of the original price, and the quality album is free. $99 the lot. 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%
Tel: 0425 795 693 Email: kevinmorgan2@live.com Web: www.21stcenturyauctions.com.au
BUY OR BID SALE JULY 2019 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 - 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 CMA8) Australia KGV period used accumulation on Hagners including ‘Roos 1d (40, including 8 with private perfins), KGV heads (approx 160) noted 2d C of A inverted wmk (30+), perfin ‘VG’ (25), also 1935 2d ANZAC (500), 1936 2d Cable (100), & 1937 2d NSW Sesqui (70), majority appear to have cds cancels, great opportunity for the postmark collector! Price $175 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. CJL2) France. Mint (much unhinged) & fine used collection 1849 Imperfs – 1989 on Hagners & Hingeless pages in black binder. All items described and priced per Gibbons 2016 Stamps of the World, and with a total catalogue value of £3095, plus some first day covers not included in the pricing. Good general overall condition with some very minor duplication in places. Excellent lot for 25% of catalogue value, price $1389 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 CJL24) Channel Islands 1940 - 1984 Guernsey + Jersey MUH colln in huge and heavy Dark Green Lindner T Hingeless album. Seldom seen material. These top quality German Lindner Albums have mega thick quality pages, onto which is a clear overlay with applicable pockets, you add the mint stamps into (see photo) and on the paper page, you can then hinge on USED stamps if you want of the same issue. i.e. this album houses a mint AND used collection. It costs $300 - 400 new. Pretty reasonable condition and a few spots on page outers seen, but very usable. From earlies up to mid 1980s. Has nice things like early 1943 Jersey set of 6 MUH, and also the scarce 1969 Guernsey Dues etc. Both countries with MUH QE2 Defins to £5. Spot checked these, and near all look to be fresh MUH. There is ALSO a pile of PO packs, and also some covers, and also Hagner of earlies, and a few other bits and pieces. With the packs etc, the SG Cat is about £325 - plus an album worth $100’s = Near $1,000 value. Just $359. 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)
21st Century Auctions Pty Ltd Postal: PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158
BUY OR BID SALE JULY 2019 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. 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 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 PM91) Australia Minisheets & sheetlets, all fine used, some cto. 1970 Cook – very recent. 40 different, face value $135 plus. Very cheap at under $2 each, $89 the lot. 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)
Tel: 0425 795 693 Email: kevinmorgan2@live.com Web: www.21stcenturyauctions.com.au
BUY OR BID SALE JULY 2019 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 are exceedlingly scarce, and Lighthouse ephemera is in high demand. Price $1350 PB22) GB 1840 1d Intense Black SG1, plate 1b. Nice 4 margin example with neat red Maltese Cross cancel. Lettered J-K. Bright fresh looking stamp. Cat. £525. Price $649 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 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 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
21st Century Auctions Pty Ltd Postal: PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158
BUY OR BID SALE JULY 2019 BD221) Great Britain 1902 5/- both De la Rue Shades in nice used condition with circular cancels. SG 263 & 264 Bright Carmine and Deep Bright Carmine. Nice for comparison. Both well centred with full perfs. Cat. £440. Price $149 the two. 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
NSW41) New South Wales 1905 2/6d Blue Green, perf 11. SG 349b, MLH. Price: $65 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
Australian States New South Wales
Queensland
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 NSW26) NSW 1880’s 6d Brown Laureate Imperf in re-printed sheet of 25. From original plates. Pre-printing paper crease to lower right corner, not affecting stamps. Price $395 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 NSW51) 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 NSW31) New South Wales 1890 8d Lilac Rose Lyrebird, Ovpt OS perf 11 x 12. SG O43, MLH. Price: $32 NSW32) New South Wales 1890 1/- Purple Brown Kangaroo, Ovpt OS perf 11 x 12. SG O44b, MH light gum toning. Price: $32 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 NSW25) New South Wales 1903 10/- Perf 12 x 11, SG276a, cat. £60 Cancelled by Sydney No. 24 cds, date unclear. Price $69 NSW40) New South Wales 1905 2/6d Blue Green, perf 11.5 x 11. SG 349a, MLH. Price: $80
Q17) Queensland 1871-72 Small Chalon Postal Fiscals 6d brown, two distinct shades with very faint fiscal cancels, Price $34.50 Q9) Queensland 1880 unused Postal Stationery. 1d Rose Chalon Pristine - H&G 1b. Price: $25 Q10) Australia 1882 5/- Rose Queensland Large Chalon. With RPSV Cert. Thin paper, wmk Crown Q (SG type 5) Sideways, perf, 12, SG 154 overprinted “SPECIMEN” in Blue and showing partial Kiss Print. Certificate dated 22/1/2010. Price: $200 Q20) Queensland 1882-95 £1 thick paper £1 Deep green SG 161, with crisp sunburst ‘148’ cancels, one shortish perf at upper right, FU, Cat £85, Price $59 South Australia
SA16) South Australia 1895 small cover to France. Bearing: 2.5d SG 234. Via Modane A Paris arrival CDS in Red and Black (on reverse) Jan 1896 L’Isle Serrin. Cancelled by TPO Duplex of Adelaide, SA, DE 3 95. Price: $150 SA5) South Australia 1904 1d Scarlet SG 179a, wrong perf! Fresh mint unhinged example, perf 12 all around instead of 12 x 11.5. This perf. not recorded by SG. Price $149 Tasmania
T16) Tasmania 4d Bright Red Orange Courier, Die 1. Unused cut to shape on small piece. SG 5, Cat. £8500 for cut square. Good spacefiller at well under 5% catalogue, price $595 T40) Tasmania 1855 - 64 Imperforate, 1d Dull Vermilion Chalon. Mint without Gum 3 margins, SG 28 - ASC 3a. Price: $225 T57) Tasmania 1855 4d deep blue wmk large star SG17 two margins, others close to touching, FU. Price $69 T55) Tasmania 1863-71 QV 2d yellow-green perf 12 SG 7, FU. Price $179 T81) Tasmania 1865-71 1d carmine perf 12 SG 70, showing a spectacular vertical mis-perforation resulting in the stamp being only 20mm wide, Mint no gum, striking ‘miniature’ stamp with strong colour and full perforations. Price $99 T43) Tasmania 1865 6d Dull Cobalt, imperf 3 margins, SG 47, Fine used Barred Numeral 95 Cancel. Price: $85 T44) Tasmania 1867 6d Reddish Mauve Chalon, imperf, 3 margins, Fine used, Barred Cancel. SG 49. Price: $110 T54) Tasmania 1870 Postmasters Letter Bill from Oatlands with cds rated ‘R’ Price $149 T53) Tasmania 1880 Postmasters Letter Bill from Campbell Town with
Tel: 0425 795 693 Email: kevinmorgan2@live.com Web: www.21stcenturyauctions.com.au
BUY OR BID SALE JULY 2019 ‘CAMPBELL TOWN JN 9/80’ cds rated ‘R’, and partial Brighton cds rated ‘RR’ some damage from opening, scarce and attractive. Price $179 T72) Tasmania 1891 ½d Orange Queen Victoria Sideface Imperf Pair mint SG 172a. Nice original gum pair. Left stamp is 3 margin right has 4 good margins. Very fresh looking. Cat. £300, price $275 T85) Tasmania 1892-99 QV Tablets 2/6d Brown & blue and 5/- lilac & red SG 222-23, slightly smudged cds cancels, Nice used Cat £66, Price $79 T87) Tasmania 1892-99 QV Tablets 10/- Mauve & brown SG 224, CTO with full hinged gum, nibbled perf & wrinkle at top, Cat £120, Price $79 T86) Tasmania 1892-99 QV Tablets 10/- Mauve & brown SG 224 overprinted ‘SPECIMEN’ hinge remains, Mint, Price $149 T61) Tasmania 1903 wmk V over crown QV 1/- both perfs SG 243/243a cat £140, overall toned gum Mint. Price $79 T83) Tasmania 1909 Coloured picture postcard of Glenorchy falls rivulet to USA. Bears ½d & 1d Scenes SG249/50, cat. from x 10 on cover. Cancelled by VERY WORN Beaconsfield cds’s of JA 19 09. Price $69 T34) Tasmania 1879 Postal Fiscals 2/6d George & Dragon overprinted “Reprint” half sheet of 60 perf 12 on thin card with full unhinged gum. Originals cat. as SG F13 at £350 each = £21,000 as mint hinged. Price $1995 T90) Tasmania 1900 6d Lake Dilston Falls, vfu with central Hobart cds of 11 OC 05, late usage for this. Additionally perfin. “A” type 2. Very scarce on this stamp. Stamp cat. £40 for normal used. Price $98 Victoria
V159) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 2d Lilac-mauve, SG 2, close margins on 3 sides, touching at right, fine used with Butterfly 15 cancel of Geelong in black, Cat £1000, Price $995 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 V161) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 2d Grey-lilac, SG3a, close margins at top and base, touching at sides, fine impression, fine used with indistinct Butterfly cancel, Cat £550, 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 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 V186) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 2d Brown-lilac (deeper shade), SG 16b, close margin at top, touching on other three sides, indistinct barred oval cancel, Cat £110, Price $99 V187) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 2d Brown-lilac (paler shade), SG 16b, good margins at sides, just touching at top and base, Butterfly 1 cancel of Melbourne, Cat £110, Price $109 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 V190) 1850 QV Half length Ham printing 2d Pale dull-brown SG 17b, margins close
21st Century Auctions Pty Ltd Postal: PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158
BUY OR BID SALE JULY 2019 to touching all around, Butterfly 1 cancel of Melbourne, Cat £120, Price $99 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 V101) Victoria 1884-96 3/- Olive-drab wmk V over Crown perf 12½, Stamp Duty, SG268a, Fine used with crisp ‘ENGLISH MAIL’ cds, Price $29 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 V127) Victoria 1884-96 £1/10s Pale olive wmk V over Crown perf 12½, Stamp Duty, SG 275, with light 1900 MELBOURNE cds, centred to right, Fine used, Cat £160, Price $199 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 V72) Victoria 1884/5 £10 Stamp Duty, SG 279/279a. A fine example with neat Pen Cancel, No Pinholes! Cat. £250 as postally used. Price $125 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 V135) Victoria 1896-99 15/- Brown wmk V over Crown Stamp Duty SG 350, MELBOURNE CTO cds, centred to lower right, Cat £85, Price $99 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 V143) Victoria 1900 Patriotic Fund set, both values with horizontal crease, the 2d with some light paper adhesions, Mint, Cat £460, Price $199 V158) 1899-1901 ‘Stamp Duty’ 1d Olive SG 358, horizontal pair with light crisp strikes of ‘BAIRNSDALE/Vic/JE 22/01’ scarce postally used multiple, advertised retail $80, Price $49
V87) Victoria 1901-10 ‘Postage’ perf 12 x 12½ 1/- Yellow-orange Type A, SG 394, couple of small tone spots on gum at base, Mint, Cat £35, Price $25 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 V155) Victoria 1901 £1 Carmine-rose perf 12½, SG 399, with bold central strike of ‘VICTORIA’ obliterator, postally used is scarcer than CTO for this issue, Price $229 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
Tel: 0425 795 693 Email: kevinmorgan2@live.com Web: www.21stcenturyauctions.com.au
BUY OR BID SALE JULY 2019 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 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 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 APH706) Australia 1915 Censored small surface mail cover to Niagara Falls. Most unusual cover. Letters to the USA were 2½d. Letters domestically or within The British COMMONWEALTH were of course common rated at 1d. So this might have slipped thru in midst of WWI as many regular postal staff were overseas in Europe fighting. However, when it came to rates, few escaped the POs eagle eyes! It SHOULD have been assessed as 1½d shortpaid, and double deficiency 3d should have been marked, via a “T3d” handstamp. Bold PASSED BY CENSOR violet caps handstamp. Stamps tied by “BRISBANE 29 JL 15 – QUEENSLAND” cds. Owner had noted these as single line perf based on the irregular sharp corners. Be nice if he was correct, as they are $10,000 on cover! I do not think so however. The ½d stamp really had little use – it was the special concessional rate for newspaper or magazines, and most of that usage were tossed away. To see two x ½d on a LETTER is most unusual as the 1d stamps were printed a million a day and all POs stock stocked and the stamp booklets contained only 1d’s. ACSC is $30 per ½d stamp on any article and a PAIR on a CENSORED cover to Niagara Falls and UNDER-FRANKED as well is rare. Price $149 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 K769) Australia 1921 small folded Military entire. Bears 2d Grey Kangaroo 3rd wmk. die 1 perf. OS, cancelled Hobart machine cancel to Caveside Tas. Printed letterhead from 6th Military District Australian Military forces dated Jan 17 1921 regarding war gratuity payment for deceased Pte. Barfoot. Face bears 3 line violet instructional marking: :”If not claimed within 7 days, please return to District Paymaster, Anglesea Barracks, Hobart.” Scarce survivor. Stamp cat. $250 on cover. Price $195 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
21st Century Auctions Pty Ltd Postal: PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158
BUY OR BID SALE JULY 2019 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 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
APH109) Australia 1932 small advertising window envelope for Yalumba Wineries, inc. picture of the winery in blue on front. Bears 1d green C of A wmk KGV, paying the printed matter rate. Cancelled by Angaston S.A. cds of 26 OC 32. A few light tone spots not affecting the stamps. Price $39 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 APS41) Australia 1934 PTPO small advertising cover for Neal’s Motors, Melbourne. On 2d Red PS envelope ACSC ES72. Cancelled by Melbourne slogan cancel of 10 NOV 1934 “VICTORIA AND/CITY OF MELBOURNE/CENTENARY 1934-35”Flap tucked in and stuck down. Attractive motoring theme, with Art Deco logo. Price $29 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. 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 APH504) Australia 1947 small registered surface mail cover to Kuala Lumpur. Bears 5d Ram perf 13.5 x 14 & ½d orange Kangaroo perf. 14.75 x 14, late usage of the 5d. Cancelled with Burnie, Tas. Cds of 9 JL 47 and with Burnie blue reg’n label No. 1171. Reverse bears Melbourne Registered transit cds of 14 JY 47, also Singapore Registered transit cds and Kuala Lumpur arrival cds of 8AUG47. Price $39 APH533) Australia 1949 small airmail cover to Sweden. Bears 1½d Green QE, plus strip of 3 x 5½d Emu, to make correct 1/6d rate. Unusual make up, cancelled by Sydney 3 line slogan of 18 JAN 1949 “KEEP PRICES DOWN/BUY SAVINGS/CERTIFICATES” Price $29
Tel: 0425 795 693 Email: kevinmorgan2@live.com Web: www.21stcenturyauctions.com.au
BUY OR BID SALE JULY 2019 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 TS244) Australia 1955 small airmail advertising cover from Clement Hack & Co. Melbourne. (Solicitors, still in business today) to New York. Bears solo use 2/Green Olympics Fore-runner cancelled by machine cancel of Melbourne 7 DEC 1955. Cat. $40 on cover, price $29 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 TS256) Australia 1956 Airmail cover to Germany bearing solo use 2/- Olympics. Cancelled by Coolangatta Qld. Slogan (illegible) of 14 MAR 1957. Price $29 TS282) Australia 1960 small airmail cover to Switzerland bearing solo use 2/3d Green AAT. Cancelled by cds of Lake Boga of 3 AP 60. Scarce solo franking, cat. $60, price $45 APH157) Australia 1960 Airmail Greeting Card size Double rate cover to UK. Bears 1d QEII plus 2/- & 2/5d Flowers to make 4/6d rate. Each is cancelled by Toowoomba Qld cds of 6MY 60 (1d black day!) Price $39 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 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 AFC25) Australia 1929 FFC Adelaide-Perth. Small typewritten registered cover bearing 1½d Canberra, 3d Kooka & 3d Airmail type A, the first 2 being marginal
21st Century Auctions Pty Ltd Postal: PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158
BUY OR BID SALE JULY 2019 examples. Cancelled by pictorial Adelaide slogan of 2 JUN 1929 “AIRMAIL/SAVES TIME” The 3d Kooka placed to the lower left has received Adelaide rubber h/stamp of the same date. Also red reg’n label No. 5002. Reverse bears smaller Adelaide h/stamp of June 2 plus Registered Perth arrival cds of 6 JUN. 29. Neat clean cover. Price $29 AFC35) Australia 1931 FFC Sydney-Singapore intermediate on ‘All the way by Air’ cover, bears Kingsford Smith set of 3 and 1/- Kangaroo, violet cachet on reverse and with three strikes of ‘1-AIR MAIL-1/7-F23 AP31/SYDNEY N.S.W’ cancelling the adhesives, Singapore arrival backstamp of 30th April 1931, AAMC 188a, attractive cover, Price $59 AFC32) Australia small 1931 FFC Launceston – Melbourne. Bears 6d Kingsford Smith & 1d Tasmania Mt. Wellington cancelled cds’s of Launceston of 1MY31. Front also bears large circular violet Cachet. Reverse has Melbourne 1 MAY 1931 slogan “ADDRESS MAIL TO PRIVATE BOX NUMBER/IT EXPEDITES DELIVERY” Clean and attractive item. AAMC 198a. Price $45 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 AFC51) Australia 1931 FFC Hobart – Melbourne & onwards to California. Bears 2 x 3d Airmail type A cancelled cds’s of Hobart of 30AP31. Front also bears large circular blue Cachet. Reverse has transit cds of Ship Mail Room Melbourne 4MY31 and Pasadena arrival cds of MAY 29 1931., presumably by Surface Mail. Small tear at right and minor aging, nevertheless and attractive item. AAMC 199. Price $37.50 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 AFC78) Australia 1934 FFC Australia – New Guinea, Bears KGV 5d on 4½d surcharge & 3d Kingsford Smith cancelled ‘PERTH/WA’ cds (date line indistinct), circular violet cachet, backstamped LAE, AAMC 391, Price $29 AFC73) Australia 1934 FFC Australia – New Guinea, Bears KGV 2d on 1½d surcharge & 6d Kingsford Smith cancelled ‘PERTH/6 30P 17 JY 34/WA’ cds, circular violet cachet, backstamped LAE, AAMC 391, Price $29 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 AFC50) Australia 1934 Intermediate registered FFC Melbourne – Cairns, carried on the Australia New Guinea/Papua flight, Bearing KGV 5d (damaged) & 3d Vic Centy, no cachet, AAMC 395a, Price $39 AFC79) Australia 1934 ‘Boomerang’ illustrated FFC Australia – New Guinea – Australia then onwards to France, Bears 6d Airmail, KGV 2d red & 1d green x 2, New Guinea 3d undated bird cancelled Lae with additional ‘POST OFFICE/SALAMAUA’ cds on front, circular violet cachet, Lae & Paris backstamps, attractive cover AAMC 395, Price $39 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 AFC70) Australia 1935 New England Airways Cacheted cover for 1st flight Brisbane – Townsville. Bears 3d Blue 1934 Vic. Cent. And 2d Red KGV cancelled by Brisbane Air Mail cds’s of 14SE35 and with Townsville arrival cds on reverse of 16SE35. Small part flap missing and small stain to lower left, otherwise fine. Listed as AAMC 527. Price $35 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, 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 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
Tel: 0425 795 693 Email: kevinmorgan2@live.com Web: www.21stcenturyauctions.com.au
BUY OR BID SALE JULY 2019 Woodhen, dated 1 JUN 1981. Clean and attractive pair of covers. Price $54 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 K445) Australia 1913 Halfpenny Pale Green Kangaroo Monogram strip of 3 plate 2 lower. Strip with CA Monogram to right, which is fresh unhinged. Hinged only on central stamp. Fine well centred strip with good perfs. ACSC 1C (2) z. Cat. $1200 as hinged cnr. Strip Price $950 K281) Australia 1913 Kangaroo ½d green 1st wmk var Inverted wmk BW1a, slightly rounded corner Mint. Price $39 K641) Australia 1913 Kangaroo ½d green 1st wmk variety ‘ROSTAGE’ ACSC 1(2)e, Cat $100, light gum ‘suntanning’, short perf at right, well centred 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
K302) Australia 1913 1d Red Kangaroo Die II “Extra Island off Tasmania”. Well centred good perf. example cancelled by July 1913 cds of Melbourne. ACSC3(E) d. Cat. $400, price $295 K191) Australia 1913 1d Deep Red Kangaroo, Swys wmk. Very fine used example, nicely centred with full perfs. Cancelled by partial Queensland cds . This is from Die 2 with crown pointing right when viewed from the front of the stamp. ACSC 3Daa, cat. $500. Very nice example, price $349 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 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
21st Century Auctions Pty Ltd Postal: PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158
Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Abandoned Stamp Cards
Abandoned Stamps Cards (ASC) were produced for the first time at Canberra Stampshow 2014 by the Australian Philatelic Federation, working in conjunction with Australia Post. The Abandoned Stamp Card series replaced the Replica Cards which finished with number 50 at Sydney Stamp and Coin Expo in 2015. The cards reproduce a stamp design derived from one of Australia’s abandoned stamp issues. Unlike non-adopted stamp designs for an issued stamp series, abandoned stamps were developed for release, but circumstances intervened to prevent this happening. The back of each card describes the reason why the stamp was developed for production and the circumstances that Figure 1: Abandoned Stamp Card No 1: Duke of Kent caused the printing to be abandoned. One or two Abandoned Stamp Cards are Australia, were released on 19th February 1945 instead. released by the APF each year to coincide with (see figure 2) each National Stamp Exhibition in Australia. Only 250 individually numbered cards are produced for general 1939 Duke Of Kent Appointment As Goversale for each issue. Cards numbered 251 to 256 are overnor-General printed “SPECIMEN”. Number 251 goes into Australia In 1939, a stamp issue was planned to commemorate the Post archives, number 252 into APF archive and numbers appointment of the Duke of Kent as Australia’s Gov253 to 256 are auctioned at the Palmares Dinner of the ernor-General. Prince George, Duke of Kent, was the exhibition as fund raisers. younger brother of King George VI. However, the duke The cards are sold for $10 each at the exhibition for was unable to take up his appointment in November 1939 which they are produced. Any unsold cards are available due to World War II. The stamp design depicted the Duke from the APF Store. They can be found at the following of Kent in the uniform of a rear admiral of the Royal website https://apf.org.au/store/. Navy, a position to which he had been recently appointed. There are 6 previously issued Abandoned Stamps The portrait of Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, feaCards in the APF Store. This year there will be 2 new tures her in Court dress and wearing a jewelled tiara. A cards. One for Sydney 2019, W.M. (Billy) Hughes, that coronet of the type worn by royal dukes separates the two was written up in the May Stamp News. The other will portraits. be released with Aeropex 2019 in Adelaide, 6-8 DecemThe Duke of Kent stamp issue was intended to comber. The rest of this article shows each of the 6 cards that prise three denominations - 2d, 3d and 6d. The stamps are still available for sale together with the information reached an advanced stage of production before work that is printed on the back. was abandoned a few days before the outbreak of war. In the event. the Duke of Kent was killed in an aircraft Abandoned Stamp Card No.1 (see figure 1) The first ASC shows a stamp designed to commemorate the appointment of the Duke of Kent as Australian Governor-General. WW2 prevented the appointment and the stamp was abandoned. Three stamps, showing the arrival of Duke and Duchess of Gloucester in Figure 2: Duke and Duchess of Gloucester issued February 1945 52 - Stamp News
Stephanie Bromser
Philatelic Development Officer, APF
Figure 4: Australian Coat of Arms issued 1949
Figure 3: Abandoned Stamp Card No 2 Charles Sturt accident in 1942. Three years later, his brother, the Duke of Gloucester, took up the position of Governor-General. All the Duke of Kent stamps and printing instruments, except for the original die of the 2d stamp, were destroyed at the Note Printing Branch in 1945.
Abandoned Stamp Card No.2 (see figure 3)
During 1943 and 1944 designs of famous Australians were prepared to replace the 1938 Coronation Robes series. In 1949 the Stamp Advisory Council preferred the Australian Coat of Arms design and they replaced the 5s, 10s, and £1 Robes values in 1949. A £2 value was added. (see figure 4)
1943-44 Charles Sturt, explorer, high denomination definitive stamp
During 1943 and 1944, artists of the Note Printing Branch in Melbourne prepared preliminary designs featuring famous Australians in 5s., 10s, and £1 values. In the event, none of the designs appeared on stamps. Apart from Sturt, the potential stamp subjects included James Cook, Bass & Flinders, John Macarthur and Edward Hargraves.
Apparently, a plan existed to issue new high denomination stamps featuring navigators, explorers and other famous people. They would have replaced the 1938 Robes definitive series featuring King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) in their Coronation robes, as the Robes designs were considered to be outdated. In 1949-50, the Commonwealth Coat of Arms stamps - Australia’s third definitive series of high denomination stamps since 1913 - was issued to replace the Robes stamps. Three years earlier the Post Office had staged a public stamp design competition for new definitive stamps embracing the medium and high denominations. Eight winning designs were selected, although only two were issued as medium value stamps. In 1947, the newly-established Stamp Advisory Committee favoured heraldry as the theme for the high value stamps, which led to the Coat of Arms stamps to be issued
Abandoned Stamp Card No.3 (see figure 5)
A mis-understanding led to a stamp being designed, in 1928, to commemorate Bert Hinkler’s flight from England to Australia. It was never issued, and it took until 1978 for Hinkler to be honoured on an Australian postage stamp, depicting his portrait. (see figure 6)
1928 Bert Hinkler’s England-Australia Flight
A commemorative stamp was “proposed’ for Bert Hinkler’s record flight from England to Australia. Herbert Stamp News - 53
Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation John Hinkler (1892-1933) undertook the first solo flight, leaving England on 7 February 1928 and arriving in Darwin on 22 February. His 15½ day flight was a record achievement. An artist in the Note Printing Branch, Melbourne, prepared a preliminary design for the Hinkler stamp in the expectation that a stamp would be issued. A misunderstanding had arisen, as there was no intention to issue such a stamp. A newspaper report of 7 March 1928 quoted Prime Minister, Stanley Melbourne Bruce as saying “ he had not considered having special HinkIer stamps printed. He did not know how the report could have been circulated saying that the Postmaster-General (William G. Gibson) was against such a proposal.” A newspaper report of 24 March Figure 5: Abandoned Stamp Card No 3 – Bert Hinkler carried the announcement that the Federal Government had rejected the suggestion that a stamp be produced for Hinkler’s flight. The 1928 original artwork for the Hinkler stamp no
Figure 6: Bert Hinkler issued 1978 longer exists. However, a photograph at stamp size of the artwork is held in Australia Post’s National Philatelic Collection.
Abandoned Stamp Card No. 4 (see figure 7)
A Daisy Bates stamp design was prepared in January 1964 for a Famous Women definitive series that did not proceed. Bates was again planned to be included in a series of Famous Women stamps issued for the 1975 International Women’s Year. Following calls for a stamp honouring Tasmanian Aborigine, Truganini (1812-1876), it was decided to substitute her for Daisy Bates. (see figure 8) Figure 7: Abandoned Stamp Card No 4 - Daisy Bates 54 - Stamp News
1961-64 Daisy Bates Famous Women Stamp Series Between 1961 and 1964. the Note Printing Branch in Melbourne prepared stamp designs for a definitive series
Stephanie Bromser
Philatelic Development Officer, APF
Left Figure 8: Truganini issue 1975 Above Figure 9: Abandoned Stamp Card No 5 - 2s. Canberra Parliament House featuring famous Australian women. In May 1961, the Stamp Advisory Committee selected six subjects: Elizabeth Macarthur (1766-1850), Caroline Chisholm (1808-1877), Constance Stone (1856-1902), Daisy Bates (1859-1951), Henry Handel (Ethel Florence) Richardson (1870-1946) and Elizabeth Kenny (1880-1952). Later, the Committee reduced the series to Elizabeth Macarthur. Caroline Chisholm and Henry Handel Richardson. In mid-1963, these designs were submitted to the Postmaster-General, Charles Davidson, but he withheld approval, asking for a wider selection of women to be made. It was decided to add Daisy Bates, a social worker amongst Indigenous people. The Daisy Bates design was prepared in January 1964: the portrait being based on a photograph in Daisy Bates’ book The Passing of the Aborigine (1938). The Famous Women stamps were to be recess (intaglio) printed in “medium” size format, 23.5 x 28.5 mm. The 2s.6d denomination was for placement purposes only, since the actual value had not been determined. The Famous Women stamps did not proceed. By this stage, the Famous Australians stamps (1968-73) were being planned. A series of Famous Women stamps was later issued to coincide with International Women’s Year in 1975.
Abandoned Stamp Card No.5 (see figure 9)
The Kangaroo and Map and George
V stamps co-existed for nearly 25 years, until the accession of King George VI required an entirely new series of stamps to be issued (193738). Canberra Parliament House was selected to replace the 2s- value. For some unknown reason the stamp was not issued and the 2s Kangaroo and Map stamp remained until 1948. (see figure 10)
2s. Canberra Parliament House 1939
Early in 1937, subjects were selected for King George VI definitive stamps, a recess-printed series to replace the existing King George V and Kangaroo and Map designs. The subject for the 10s. stamp - at a later stage this was changed to 2s. - was to be Parliament House, Canberra. For some unknown reason, the 2s. Kangaroo and Map stamp was not replaced when 14 other denominations of the George VI series were introduced during 1937 and 1938. Nevertheless, the 2s. Parliament House stamp reached an advanced stage of production before being abandoned. A master steel die of the Parliament House stamp was engraved, possibly by artist-engraver Frank Manley of the Note Printing Branch, Melbourne. The Parliament House die is not among the other dies of the George VI stamps held in the National Philatelic Collection, and it is assumed the die was destroyed. Although no trace of the production of the 2s. die has been found in archival records, a die proof in deep blue-green exists in private hands. This card illustrates one of the preliminary designs prepared by the Note Printing Branch in 1939. As a result of these developments, the 2s. Kangaroo and Map stamp remained current until its eventual replacement Figure 10: 2s Kangaroo and Map in 1948. available until 1948 Stamp News - 55
Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Abandoned Stamp Card No.6 (see figure 11)
In 1958 an unsuccessful multi-colour trial printing, using the photogravure process, was carried out by the London firm Chambon Ltd. The aerogramme was never issued, and the Australian Note Printing Branch continued with letter press printing though the 1960s and 70s.
10D Multicolour Photogravure Aerogramme, c.1961
In 1958, the Note Printing Branch, Melbourne, began planning the introduction of multicolour, photogravure Figure 11: Abandoned Stamp Card No 6 - 10d Multicolour Photogravure Aerostamp printing. A photogragramme vure press was shipped to the Note Printing Branch three ing. However, the trial photogravure aerogramme might years later by Chambon Ltd. of London. Ahead of this not have been attractive enough - the stamp is not a sharp development, the London firm carried out trial printings image, and the inks are printed directly over blue-tinted, of photogravure stamps and an aerogramme. aerogramme paper. In the event, aerogrammes continued The Note Printing Branch supplied Chambon Ltd. to be printed letterpress in the 1960s and 1970s, when with artwork for the purpose, the aerogramme design bephotogravure stamp production supplanted one-colour ing an adaption of the 3½d 1949 Universal Postal Union recess. Only one photogravure-printed aerogramme stamp depicting a postman on horse-back. It was apwas issued, this being for the 1962 7th British Empire & parently intended to switch aerogramme production from Commonwealth Games in Perth, printed in six colours two-colour, letterpress to multicolour photogravure printinvolving two passes through the press.
Bunbury 2019 Stamp, Coin, Banknote & Postcard Show
Figure 12: Cover taken to the Moon 56 - Stamp News
There is not long to go now until the Bunbury 2019 Stamp, Coin, Banknote & Postcard Show. It will be held on Saturday 20th July and Sunday 21st July at the South West Italian Club, 20 White Street, East Bunbury, Western Australia. Bunbury 2019Â is a National One Frame Exhibition, including an Astro One Frame Challenge. There will be about 100 entries, dealers (stamps, coins, banknotes & post-
Stephanie Bromser
Philatelic Development Officer, APF cards), youth, information and souvenir tables as well as a refreshments area. Visit their website for all the latest information http://www.wapc.org.au/bunbury-2019. The exhibition will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s journey to the moon and back with a one frame Astro Philatelic and Numismatic Challenge. The Apollo 11 lunar module landed on the Moon on 20th July 1969. At 2:56am on 21st July (12.56 PM Australian Eastern Standard Time), a historical milestone took place: Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the Moon. Here, he spoke his now-famous words: “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” This memorable moment was broadcast live around the world on television and radio. The Apollo 11 crew; commander Neil Armstrong, lunar module pilot Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and command module pilot Michael Collins, were fully aware of the historic significance of their mission and brought along
a few commemorative mementos for family, friends and themselves. Amongst those mementos were 214 crew signed envelopes that commemorated the mission. The 214 flown covers were shared amongst the crew in the following breakdown: Armstrong: 47; Collins: 63; Aldrin: 104. An example of one of these covers is shown in figure 12. The flown covers have either a six-cent postage stamp, which depicts the Apollo 8 Earthrise and the words “In the beginning God...” or a six-cent postage stamp, which depicts the US flag over White House affixed. All the covers are postmarked “Webster, TX August 11, 1969” with the Lunar Receiving Laboratory quarantine chop. Aldrin and Collins hand wrote above the cachet on each of their covers “Carried to the Moon aboard Apollo 11”, while it is not known if and how Armstrong authenticated his. The flown covers sometimes come to auction and have fetched prices from $30,000 to $240,000.
upcoming stamp & coin fairs & events new south wales
victoria
July 6 - (1st Sat) 9am to 4pm Orange Stamp Fair, Quinn’s Arcade, Summer St, Orange. Ph: Norm 02 63623754.
July 7 - (1st Sun) Western Suburbs Stamp, Coin & Banknote Fair, Strathmore Bowling Club, 40 Loeman St, Strathmore. Enq: Chris. 0413355716.
July 6 - (1st Sat) Northside Stamp Fair. 1st Floor, Car park Building, Manly-Warringah Leagues Club, cnr Federal Parade/Pittwater Rd, Brookvale, NSW.
July 13 - (2nd Sat) Salvation Army Stamp Fair, Ferntree Gully. For details see full page ad
July 6 - (1st Sat) Katoomba Stamp & Coin Fair, 9am - 4pm, Masonic Hall, Cnr Station & Civic Sts, Katoomba. Ph. 0417 802 754 July 6 - (1st Sat) Sutherland Shire Stamp & Coin Collectors Fair, Gymea Anglican Church Hall, 131 Gymea Bay Rd, Gymea. July 21 - (3rd Sun) Stamp & Coin Fair, 10am - 3pm, Pioneers Hall, Cowper St, Wallsend. 8 Dealers. 4971 3483 July 28 - (4th Sun) Epping Stamp & Coin Fair, Community Hall, 9 Oxford St, Epping. 10am 4pm. Free Entry, 6 Dealers, Buy/Sell.
July 21 - (3rd Sun) Stamp, Card - Phone Card Fair, Bentleigh-McKinnon Youth Centre, Higgins Rd, Bentleigh. Dealers. Ph: 0418 322 315. July 28 - (last Sun ex Dec) Stamp, Coin & Phonecard Fair, Jaycees Hall, Silver Grove, Nunawading. 9am3pm.
queensland TBA - QStamp Fair, Southside, Mt Gravatt Showgrounds, Memorial Hall, Logan Rd. Free Entry 8.30am - 2pm July 8 - (2nd Mon) - Gold Coast PS Sale, Rm 1, Southport Comm. Centre, Lawson St, Southport. 11.30am - 2.30pm Brisbane Table Tennis Assoc Centre
Stamp News - 57
Market Matters New Inverted Watermark discovery.
New discoveries in stamps occur all the time, even after 87 years. English company Universal Philatelic Auctions is offering on July 9 a newly discovered example of the Australia 1932 3d Blue CofA with INVERTED watermark, which is illustrated nearby. This stamp is SG 138w, cat £13,000, and has a reserve price of £4,000. (This auction has none of the usual onerous 20% Buyer Fees and taxes.) Only a very few are recorded, hence the high catalogue price. This is a new discovery, and is the most facially attractive of those known. It has a light paper wrinkle, and is nicely centred, with a very light LATE FEE cancel, and is accompanied by a 2019 RPS London Photo Certificate. If it were mine, I’d flick off the lower margin long perf tip with my “lethal” sharp tweezers tip, and the stamp would look far better! It is more attractive than the “Chartwell” example which was invoiced for about £5,000. The £20 million Sir Cyril Humphrey Cripps “Chartwell” phenomenal collection of GB and British Empire, was offered in May 2018 by Spink London, and set benchmark prices for many items. This stamp is so rare even the legendary Arthur Gray multiple International Large Gold Medal KGV collection did not have this stamp. Despite Arthur owning all the other CofA inverted watermarks - the 4d, 5d and 1/4d, of which are all also major rarities, and achieved recorded prices. (The Gray sale catalogue DID offer a 3d, but it was noticed it was the far cheaper Small Multiple watermark, and offered thus on the day.) The same sale has an amazing collection of 255 lots of Bradbury Wilkinson Proof material - which has not been onto the market for 25 years. Strong in Pacific Islands, NZ, and Australia States material, there would not be any assembly like this seen for decades. Estimates as low as £25. More details in the pages 2 and 3 colour ad here, or on - tinyurl.com/ DealUPA
$A100 of stamps free!
Universal Philatelic Auctions has an offer for new clients who read this, to get a £55 ($A100) discount 58 - Stamp News
Even Arthur Gray did not own this. off any purchase made over £75, so some stamps for free - your choice - you seldom see that offered anywhere. And post free too, as a bonus – more details here - tinyurl.com/DealUPA
Thick Renniks Coin Catalogue
Many would be surprised how many stamp collectors also dabble in coins and banknotes, and associated areas. My personal experience is the crossover is about 30%. Editor Michael Pitt this week mailed me a copy of the new 29th Edition of the “Renniks Australian Coin & Banknote Values”. A thick book of 320 pages on Hi-Brite quality paper, at under $A40 RRP has got to be the deal of the year as far as catalogues go! All main dealers stock these, and for $10 more, you can order a hard cover version which is my preferred option, and a shame ACSC and ASC do not offer that option. Clearly it is very possible to do, and at modest extra cost. This has been the leading price guide for Australian coin and banknote values since 1964. This comprehensive guide to Australian Coin & Banknote Values contains over 3,750 images, and countless thousands of prices, over 320 pages in full colour.
Glen Stephens text. Covered are all the copper, silver, gold, nickel and alloy coins, and banknotes used in Australia, from 1800 to the present day. This includes Pre-Decimal and Decimal currency, as well as privately issued banknotes, war issues, and privately issued tokens. Also included are latest Royal Australian Mint, Perth Mint and Australia Post Numismatic Covers - very handy for all the stamp collectors, who collect these.
Starts from 1880 “Proclamation Coinage.”
320 colour pages for under $A40! This book I far prefer over the McDonald coin catalogue. That once was widely used but the really silly little strange “pocket” size, and even sillier micro font size on many pages, and lack of formatting and crispness, and strange layout, makes that generally very hard to use. This book is a must for all coin and banknote collectors, whether you are just beginning, or are an advanced collector or dealer. Latest price information - compiled using weighted averages where possible, from a range of sources, to ensure the accuracy of pricing across all sectors. Top quality reproduction of the photos makes it very easy to identify items. And clear neat layout and
It starts with the First Fleet 1880 “Proclamation Coins” and 1813 “Holey Dollars and Dumps”, early cheques and Bills Of Exchange, early pre Federation, private and superscribed banknotes, and early Postal Notes. They also list many major Die varieties and flaws on coins, the pattern coins, and a strong section on banknote errors, missing colours, and special numbers etc on those issues. And trial and unissued banknotes are covered. There is great info on grading of coins, and comparing our system to American grading etc - very informative, and with large photos too on the coins showing the grading nuances. A very tricky area to learn (I never really have, to be honest!) and a fine guide to all collectors and dealers. They list Internment Camps coins and banknotes, from WWI and WW2, and even Defence Canteen issues etc. And even fairly obscure things like the Cocos Keeling Islands 1902 Banknotes, and the 1910 ivory in-store tokens that are illustrated nearby. Cocos Stamps and cover prices went insane at a recent Abacus Auction, often getting $10,000s each, so that area is Red Hot now. The Clunies Ross Family, who owned and ruled the Cocos Islands like a mini unofficial Kingdom for about 150 years, paid their Malay workers in these special Store Tokens and banknotes - that could only be spent at the Clunies Ross owned shops on the island! A very nice and super profitable payment Stamp News - 59
Market Matters
Clunies Ross Private Ivory Rupee coinage. system - if you can swing it. Co-incidentally, I added to stock recently for $A725, a quartet of these 1913 Clunies Ross “Private Currency Tokens” in Ivory, including the 3 high values to 5 Rupees I bought cheap in an Estate. Never owned even one these before, in 40 years of dealing. Globally, only 1 or 2 sets a year get offered. Only 1,000 sets of these Tokens were ever made, and they are fully catalogued, for generally many $100s each, in this new Renniks Coin catalogue. Many stamp readers also collect coins, so more detail on the background to these curious things is here - tinyurl.com/Clunies
Censorship in FIP Expo CHINA 2019?
Even the staid world of philately is not immune it seems, from the global politics of China! There were reports on stampboards.com that stamp exhibits and dealer stock on offer were being “censored” of anything the Red Nation did not like at CHINA 2019. Which are many things. The 2019 FIP China Expo was being held June 11-17 in Wuhan China as I typed this, so sadly I 60 - Stamp News
could not get any first hand confirmation from dealers there, if they had been “cautioned” on what stamps they might NOT be able to show/sell at their stands. A stampboarder advised that there were even exhibits in the literature section for CHINA 2019 which were accepted, entry fees paid, and sometime later, a notice was issued from the Chinese organisers stating that exhibit could not be shown. Overt censorship it seems to me, in our sedate hobby. A tongue in cheek image of this nearby was posted by a member, which sadly I can imagine is the type of thing that might occur. David Benson of Sydney, accredited FIP Judge, and Gold Medal exhibitor posted there - “In the last exhibition in China, exhibits from Taiwan were accepted and judged, but were then covered up during Exhibition opening hours.” tinyurl.com/ChinaFIP is the stampboards discussion which claimed that the “BANNED” stamp material that was exhibited in the planned exhibits, or was in dealer stock, was allegedly all from these following areas a. Manchukuo stamps b. All stamps issued during the Japanese occupation of China which were issued by the Japanese
Glen Stephens
“See No Evil” cartoon for China 2019. c. Taiwan stamps from 1949 onwards d. Tibet stamps e. Stamps issued by the German Empire (3rd Reich) during WW2. China has of course VERY hard-line policies on many areas. They lean really forcefully economically on small countries that still recognise Taiwan in the United Nations as a separate nation. China regards Taiwan simply as a renegade Province, but many countries accept they are a separate independent, successful country. That number is dropping fast as the map nearby shows.
The Solomon Islands is one of six Pacific nations, and only 17 countries worldwide, that recognise Taiwan - precluding them from having diplomatic relations with China. The Australian Prime Minister was there in Honiara early June frantically splashing about $A250 million in extra aid, to try and water down Chinese influence, as the Solomons Parliament votes on Taiwan shortly. The FIP in Switzerland is the Fédération Internationale de Philatélie - kind of the IOC of Stamp Collecting. Bernie Beston from Australia was recently elected President - a first President ever hailing from Australia I feel sure. Well done Bernie - a very nice guy! Their FIP website states Beston’s “Responsibility” role also covers these areas - “Jury matters, FIP Jury Academy, Legal Matters, Regulations.” Bernie was a was a well-known practising lawyer in Austra-
Please vote as WE say!
In recent years, Beijing has increased the pressure on Taiwan’s international presence by wooing its diplomatic allies with “Pay Day Loan” type deals. “We build ports and airports and roads, and you then please do exactly what we ask in the UN.” Mainland China claims sovereignty over Taiwan, and has not renounced the use of force to bring it back into the fold.
Support for Taiwan dropping steadily Stamp News - 61
Market Matters lia, and these are areas he is certainly skilled in. So it seems matters like any apparent censorship at FIP events, such as this being alleged in China, would fall under his direct portfolio, and be very interested to hear what the real story was, re any exhibits the Chinese deemed were off limits for the general public to see. I suspect the Chinese would simply ignore any FIP protests. Post War Taiwan is a country with a lot of stamp Do not mention the Dali Lama. issues, and a stamp exhibit of that with major errors, name it - scrutinised carefully, and at great length. covers, proofs and other specialist material would be Many interesting pic here - even the main PO sales interesting to look at, and it seems bizarre that the clerks! - tinyurl.com.GlenTibet owner of such a collection might be BANNED from In Lhasa there are Chinese police and military abentering it in a FIP Exhibition to gain a medal. You solutely everywhere. And they are just the ones you do not have to be anti-China to collect stamps! can see! There are apparently double that, in plain I visit China at least once annually, and many do clothes spies. The road from airport to city has rignot realise the massive censorship and government orous checks on all vehicles etc. The main focus of control that is ever present there. It is impossible China’s ire is the Dalai Lama. He is totally banned in China to use your computer or phone to access in Tibet. Even photos. Or Stamps! Gmail, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Dali Lama represents an independent Tibet, and Google etc. All are totally blocked for access. Plus China doesn’t want that. China illegally invaded Ti10,000s of other western websites. bet in the 1950’s and they do everything they can to maintain tight control of that country. The Tibetans revere the Dalai Lama as the embodiment of Buddha China bans Western social media. on earth. India where he lives, is the largest competChina banned Instagram, the massive photo-sharitor to China in the area, and supports the indepening platform, after anti-China protests rocked Hong dence of Tibet. Kong in 2014. (And they are again, as I type this.) So any county that formally greets, or hosts, That social media platform now can’t be accessed or even speaks to the Dali Lama, by anyone even from anywhere within the so-called Great Firewall resembling a senior official, incurs vast displeasure of China, a censorship project operated for more from China. Who are not shy about objecting to it. than a decade by the Communist Party. And do so most forcefully, and often, and strongarm Like Taiwan, some areas get a particular focus, most others to back off - sadly. and Tibet is one. We visited there a year back and even getting in to Tibet is a paperwork nightmare. You must carry a special pass everywhere there, and NOBODY may speak with Dali Lama. it is regularly checked. Planes, hotels, tours, you For the past 3 years not one senior official from any 62 - Stamp News
Glen Stephens
“HELP FREE TIBET” Mail. major or even middling country has been game to upset China by meeting with him - even informally, since Obama did in July 2015. To heavy diplomatic protests. And that was a clearly personal visit behind closed doors at his residence, and not an official or state visit etc. This is a man who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, and is a quietly spoken, simply dressed, non-violent, and wise and respected old monk, and is deserving of having an audience with leaders and officials of major countries, there is no doubt about that in my mind. But that now cannot occur. We all know postage stamps have been used for propaganda purposes from almost their inception. Many causes - noble or otherwise, have been peddled via the humble postage stamp. New Zealand Post had its hands full in fairly recent times, through a chap known as Bruce Henderson, a long time thorn in the side of NZ Post. He was stopped 50 years ago from charging to
deliver Cycle Mail in Timaru, South Island - on the coast just south of Christchurch. Sets of those stamps of those sell for $100s. Henderson submitted a design to the NZ Post Business Section for CALs (Customised Advertising Labels) to be printed by NZ Post. CALs are valid postage stamps in NZ. Application was made, the design was approved, and the required payment made. The design had the Tibetan flag as central design element, and the dates on it related to the 50th Anniversary of the Tibetan uprising. After the stamps were handed over, NZ Post belatedly realised the Tibet based stamps carried a blatant political message, that would almost certainly offend the Chinese, (YIKES!) so they demanded their return. He refused. New Zealand Post Security officers visited Henderson’s home and they got very serious about it all. These CALS were not to be used on overseas mail they advised him. Henderson asked WHERE that was stated anywhere, and pointed out large companies that had printed CALS to cover Stamp News - 63
Market Matters foreign Postage rates, and they backed off!
NZPO demanded their return
As can be seen, the official NZPO Logo is on the corner at lower right of the CAL stamps. This really annoyed NZ Post, but they had approved the design, printed and handed over the stamps, and were stuck with it. And clearly they could legally be used globally. Bruce Henderson joined stampboards.com and outlined his version of the story thereafter “I was keen to mount a ‘discrimination’ case against NZ Post, so submitted a complaint to the Human Rights Don’t show a Tibetan flag on a NZ stamp! Commission. They ordered a mediation meeting, so Ivor Masters NZPO Philatelic me the cover shown nearby, with one of these 50¢ Manager and I met in a stormy three-hour session at CAL stamps on it paying the correct $1.90 franking, the HRC office in Auckland. Ivor was obstinate, and to see if it passed through the mails. As can be seen, just kept repeating ‘they violate our terms and condi- it arrived without incident, despite the prominent tions’ - for showing a ‘political’ topic like a flag.” “HELP FREE TIBET - Boycott Chinese Products” “I urged him to reflect on other cases where sticker affixed on the front. I asked for it to be backhe has permitted CALs to show such things as Sri stamped at my Post Office for “proving” purposes Lanka, Buddhists, Moslems, and even the famous - which it was. Vietnamese politician Phan Boi Chau. And none of those were ever restricted. I then received a multiEnter AUSTRIA - stage left. page legal opinion from the Human Rights CommisThis was one example above, where the NZ Post Ofsion’s chief lawyer. I’m happy to supply photocopies fice reluctantly issued pro-Tibetan stamps. However of this to anyone interested. a little known example of far wider philatelic impor“Today, the Tibet flag CALS have considerable tance occurred in Austria in 2001. A €1.25 stamp notoriety in NZ, and are among the more elusive was printed to honour the 70th Birthday of the Dali CAL stamps around, mainly due to not being inLama. Designed by M. Rosenfeld, who designed cluded in the NZPO annual “collector packs”. The other Austria issues of this era – all oddly using Encurrent Mowbray auction offers some mint blocks glish wording only, and the face value in small font. with estimate over $1,000, while used blocks are on So these stamps were designed, printed, perforatTradeMe (our version of eBay) at over $2,000.” ed, and gummed by the Austrian Government PrintAll very interesting, and Henderson even mailed er. Media or VIP “Specimens” were even distribut64 - Stamp News
Glen Stephens
China had this stopped from issue ed, those the stamps having the words ”Frankatur - Ungütlig” (invalid for postage) stamped in a circle at lower right in a separate black printing. Hence two versions of this €1.25 stamp exist. It got to the point of nearly being released, and samples being distributed to media and VIPs and so on. And then China seems to have got wind of its impending issue. The issue was cancelled last second. How you browbeat a Post Office like Austria, as to what they depict on their stamps I have no idea, but clearly it happened. A few singles and blocks of 10 have dribbled onto the market over the past decade, and the recent Michel catalogues have listed them at 8,000 Euro a sheet of 10, or €800 a single, for either type. Early sales were higher - I can see a single was auctioned in 2008 realised €5,683 = AUD $9,295 at today’s
rates. Prices have settled down since that early sale, to 10% or 15% that. But are still rare. DISCLAIMER - I do not own one, have never handled one, and until this week had no idea this stamp existed. I would however suggest at around the current full Michel catalogue price of €800 or so a single, they are a superb buy for the future. I see them as identical in all ways to the Audrey Hepburn stamps below, that sell for 120 times this level. Caption on AUSTRIA Photo Certificate for Dalai Lama stamp - “Withdrawn due to China objections.” They are now recently priced in Michel, and the Scott Catalogue prominently notes their existence, and states that only 30 copies are reported. That figStamp News - 65
Market Matters ure now appears on the low side, but nonetheless after 13 years, I doubt any holdings of these will emerge, and the market appears to have settled to a stable level. There is an 2016 Austrian Expert Photo Certificate shown nearby, for a corner single, that states: “This issue, which was planned on 6 July 2005 on the occasion of the 70th birthday of the 14th Dali Lama, was printed in miniature sheets of 10 copies, and had to be withdrawn for political reasons, due to the objection of the government of the People’s Republic of China.”
Giant Cyber Vacuum at work.
The entire affair appears shrouded in secrecy. It took 3 years for even the first stamp to appear on the market. I and others have searched the web for reports from the time. Advance New Issue info from Austria Post, and so on, and it is as if a giant Cyber Vacuum from Beijing or somewhere, has somehow sucked out, and deleted every word of it! Real “1984” material! Austria had every justification to honour this man. The Dalai Lama, has very frequently visited Austria, and won the Nobel Peace “Withdrawn due to China objections.” Prize for his non-violent struggle against Chinese rule of his homesmoking” stamps of 2001, photo nearby, that also land. In 2002, Austria’s Graz were allegedly “withdrawn” by German PO before University gave him an award for his contributions to Human Rights, an honour the school has bestowed official issue date, but a few used copies were later discovered in office kiloware, and the global hunt only on a few people, including renowned Nazi was then ON!. hunter Simon Wiesenthal. Those used copies have sold for as high as These Austrian issues are basically identical in 169,000 Euro - then $A272,000 apiece - indeed each nature to the German Audrey Hepburn “cigarette 66 - Stamp News
Glen Stephens
$A272,000 - “I’d have paid more”
active campaigner against alcohol and tobacco addiction, and abuse. It appears the first he knew of the impending issue, was when Deutsche Post mailed him a single mint stamp, and a pane of 10 showing their next issue. That pane of 10 is what was sold by Ferrer. All proceeds went to UNICEF - Hepburn’s favourite charity. The other 14 million stamps allegedly were destroyed. Audrey Hepburn died of cancer in 1993. The stamp design as you can see, shows her smoking a cigarette, taken from the famous “Breakfast At Tiffany’s” movie. The Mint sheet was auctioned for 430,000 Euro - over $A700,000 today. It went surprisingly cheap I have always thought - a dealer broke it up into singles.
new one turning up was for a period getting a much HIGHER price than the others! Defying the usual supply/demand rules. Full details and photos of all those stamps here - tinyurl.com/Glen9-10 Mint of those are cat higher than used in Michel. That unissued Hepburn is Michel Cat “XIX” and this 2005 unissued Austria Dali Lama is Michel “IX”. The “unissued” Hepburn stamps (Auction price as high as $272,000 each) are an absolutely perfect comparison. A small number of used copies of that turned up in Kiloware, and a few mint also reached the market. At the last minute, one of Hepburn’s two sons, Sean Ferrer, objected to the 2001 stamp design, and refused to grant copyright approval. Deutsche Post had strangely not sought family permission to use her image on the stamp it seems. Ferrer is an Hepburn stamps sell 430,000 Euro!
Stamp News - 67
Market Matters NZ Kapa Haka stamps issued and sold.
These kind of stamp issues will always be popular with collectors. Accidental issues, that the Post Offices tried to withdraw. The New Zealand Kapa Haka issue of 2006 is another very similar case in point. These issues were in fact mailed and charged to some buyers in fact. The stamps were printed, advertised in PO cost 90c - retail now $A2,250! advance as an upcoming new issue in the PO Zealand etc, in the artwork and design approval proBulletin, and were in cess. “Letters To The Editor” ensued and someone fact mailed out to a number of clients who had spein Government made a knee jerk reaction not to issue cifically ordered them, and whose credit cards were them. charged by New Zealand Post for them. All too late. The New Zealand Post Office later “Kapa Haka” is the term for traditional Māori confirmed in writing that it had mailed out a quantity performing arts, and literally means to form a line (kapa) and dance (haka). Kapa Haka is an avenue for of the stamps, and booklets, coils, packs and FDC to a small number of its Standing Order customers, who Māori people to express and showcase their unique had ordered and paid for this issue already. It offered heritage, and cultural Polynesian identity, through an inducement to these recipients, of a free 2005 song and dance - and is still widely practised and Annual Album to send them back to the Philatelic showcased. Bureau, and receive a full refund to their credit card. Ivor Masters, New Zealand Post Stamps General New Zealand Post could not, however, enforce Manager, stated that representatives from Te Papa their return, and it did not dispute the rightful ownand Te Puni Kokiri, the Ministry for Māori Develership of the stamps by those few lucky recipients, opment, had been consulted on the designs. Masters whose credit cards had already been charged for their said the Māori performing arts stamps offered “a orders, and official invoices issued. The New Zeawonderful opportunity” to celebrate an art form that land Post Office has since confirmed that they are all was “totally unique” and of great cultural signifilegally the property of those customers, or anyone cance to New Zealanders. “We think the images by they have on-sold them to. a young, local artist are a fresh and contemporary interpretation of Kapa Haka.” A few in New Zealand thought the cartoon-like Some were postally used. designs were rather unflattering to be used for this Some copies were certainly used on mail - one buyer issue - despite the full involvement of Te Papa used a $2 value on a letter to GB Philatelic Bureau Tongarewa, the Government’s own Museum of New in Edinburgh, enclosing an order form for GB new 68 - Stamp News
Glen Stephens
$17,500 a set of 5 Kapa Haka. issues, and Scottish dealers like Robert Murray posted an APB alert to his many Kiloware snippers, as it being used on cover or piece made it worth $1000s! This lucky buyer Bernard, also used most of his booklet of 45¢ letter rate stamps to pay local bills. Then he saw media reports the stamps were possibly scarce, and via a Google search, found my original article on them in Stamp News, and I bought the balance of what he still had left. Check your kiloware - a postally used copy would be worth easily $2,000 in my view. The issue is described in detail in the Stanley Gibbons stamp catalogue after SG #2285, and thus is keenly sought by serious collectors of New Zealand
stamps the world over. There is also a solid group of collectors of errors on stamps globally, for whom this issue is also highly sought. The Stanley Gibbons catalogue notes that a small number of gummed sets of five was sold, mailed and charged to collectors. 11 stamp booklets of 10 x 45¢ self-adhesives, one roll of 100 x 45¢ self-adhesive coil stamps, and a very few FDC and packs were sold of this issue. It is expected they will be priced in the next Edition of that SG catalogue, and the fun will then begin. Michel took 12 years to finally price the Austria Dali Lama issue etc. A First Day Cover has been sold for $NZ24,000, and the set of 5 Kapa Haka stamps is catalogued in the leading Len Jury New Zealand catalogue for $17,500, and the 45¢ coil and booklet stamps for $2,500 each, as can be seen in the photo nearby. At nothing like the Hepburn prices, they have quite some upside I’d guess. I bought a few from another one of the original buyers who had all his PO receipts, and told the PO to go away, when they asked if he would kindly mail them back for a full credit of the face value, AND get a free Year Book! He bought a large slab of what the PO mailed out several Plate Blocks 6, PO packs, 10 booklets, a coil roll 100, and FDCs. Most of it he still has. Sadness was expressed however by some Māori that the issue had been withdrawn. Rotorua Deputy Mayor and Kapa Haka tutor, Trevor Maxwell argued that the series would have highlighted and promoted Kapa Haka to the rest of the world. New Zealand Post scrapped more than a million stamps, and the New Zealand Post Group Chief Executive, John Allen admitted that doing so, had cost the company around $190,000. Stamp News - 69
Market Matters tinyurl.com/KapaNZ has the detailed background story for those who did not follow this saga when it unravelled. These are of course far more legitimate an issue than the NZ 1906 1d Claret Christchurch “Error of Colour”. As all collectors know, the stamp was issued and sold in vermillion orange red, and is fairly common - SG 371 is cat £16 for mint. The error is 371a, and a MUH example of that single stamp is a $30,000 item.
Sheet of 1d Claret purloined by Boss?
The Secretary of the Christchurch Exhibition, Mr E. Righton basically purloined Dr Alan Craig with $25,000 NZ FDC. the sheet of “1d Clarets” that were to have been displayed Clarets were fully listed and priced in the CP cat, there at the Exhibition. He used many of them on despite none ever being on sale at any Post Office, at covers addressed to himself, or in his hand, and any time. kept others mint it seems. I know of three covers Dr. Craig was then pointing out in the same addressed to him, each bearing 3 stamps (3d) despite newsletter that the 2006 “Kapa Haka” Māori Perdomestic post being just 1d. forming Arts set was oddly NOT listed in CP in any The sheet given to the Organising Committee form. The original buyers were not inclined to offer should have stayed forever in their archive etc, just any cheaply to CP, as appeared to be the traditional as the PO Archive sheet stayed put to this day. These practice at the time there, and they were hence never stamps were NEVER sold to the public, were NEVlisted. Only in NZ! ER sold at any PO, and should NEVER thus have attained full catalogue status anywhere. Glen Stephens has written monthly ‘Stamp Tipster’ Sadly it is one of those ‘inside jobs’ that Gibbons Columns for over 30 years - globally. A vast library of his was suckered into listing over a century back, and it has stayed there ever since. The SG listing criteria past articles and photos are found at – today totally precludes such an insider listing. Dr. www.glenstephens.com/column.html Alan S. Craig wrote a most revealing and detailed article on these, in the Campbell Paterson newsletter a few years back. This Dr. Craig is a senior and highly respected 4 The Tor Walk, Castlecrag, NSW, 2068 NZ collector and NZ specialist, and has been on the Ph: 02 9958 1333 email: glen@glenstephens.com scene there for very many decades. He was pointing Website: www.glenstephens.com out the absurdity to Warwick Paterson, that these 1d
Glen Stephens
70 - Stamp News
The world's very largest and friendliest Stamp Bulletin Board - with a strong Aussie flavour! A fast-growing true Community which started in 2007. Stampboards now has over 20,000 real members from 150 countries - who have made over SIX MILLION posts, on over 80,000 topics. See a MILLION high resolution colour photos, showing rare stamps, errors, discoveries, cinderellas and new issues etc. We get over 5 MILLION hits each month. Zero cost: www.stampboards.com or facebook.com/stampboards A vast array of leading dealers and collectors are active members. The Presidents of both APTA and the APF are members. Senior International Stamp Judges are members. Catalogue producers, stamp magazine publishers, and leading auctioneers are all active members. Masses of stamp club secretaries worldwide are members, and promote their clubs and events free - does YOURS??? All entirely FREE. If you can two-finger type you are all set - simple and intuitive. Discuss EVERY aspect of stamps, from ANY country, and get instant answers and input. Show and share your photos, ask questions, get advice from experts. Buy or sell or trade the stamps you need - ALL FREE. Loads of fun threads, jokes and general discussions too. HUNDREDS of eBay crooks, cons and forgers have been exposed and expelled from eBay by our member reports and Detective work - essential reading. Monthly competitions with very valuable stamp prizes. Pop by today. It is like your ‘local stamp club' - but you do NOT need to ever leave your home!
Join today, membership is free! No fees for the first 12 months, open to all traders in collectables, part-time or full-time. AAA Stamps
Edlins of Canberra
Pacific Coast Philatelics
PO Box 1050, Warners Bay, NSW, 2282 Ph: 0432 540 760 aaastamps@yahoo.com.au www.aaastamps.com.au
Eddie J Cummings GPO Box 289, Canberra, ACT 2601 Ph: 02 6248 7859 edlins@tpgi.com.au www.edlins.com.au
Owen Pennells, PO Box 3343, Bundaberg, QLD, 4670 Ph: 0427 551 207
A.G.T. Devine
PO Box 571, Milsons Point, NSW, 1565 Ph: 02 9299 1300 rwaugh@bigpond.net.au
56 Gardner Circuit, Singleton Heights, NSW 2330 Ph: 02 6573 4209 alan.devine@devalri.com www.devalri.com
Robert D. Andersen 141 Monash Rd, Tarragindi, QLD 4121 Ph: 07 3892 7066 daleandersen@bigpond.com.au
Ace Stamp Auctions
Falcon Stamps
Gold Coast Stamp Traders
PO Box 121, Kotara Fair, NSW 2289 Ph: 02 4952 8205 orcstamp@bigpond.net.au www.orchidstamps.com
Stephen Joe
Glen Stephens
GPO Box 302, Suva, Fiji Ph: 679 3319183 stephenj@connect.com.fj
Peter Barrett
John Hurtado/KGV Collector
Bexley Stamps & Coin Accessories Ken Pullen PO Box 36, KURMOND, NSW 2757 02 4573 1332 sales@bexleystamps.com.au www.bexleystamps.com.au
Blue Owls Stamps - Jude Koch 9 Yarra Street, Suite 1207 (12th Floor, Suite 07) South Yarra Vic 3141 Ph: 03 9826 1202 jude@blueowlsstamps.com.au www.blueowlsstamps.com.au
Grant Carter PO Box 16, Northcote, VIC 3020 Ph: 03 9480 2193
Alf Clark
PO Box 40, Russell Island, QLD 4184 kgv_stamps@live.com.au http://australiankgvusedstamps.blogspot.com
Kennedy Stamps P/L Suite 706a, 250 Pitt St, Sydney NSW 2000 Tel: + 61 2 92646168 Fax: + 61 2 92645969 stamps@kennedystamps.com. www.kennedystamps.com.au
Kevin Morgan Stamps & Coins PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158 Ph:0425 795 693 kevinmorgan2@live.com www.kevinmorgan.com.au
PO Box 53, Box Hill, VIC 3128 Ph: 03 9808 9717
Maree Nieuwenhuizen
John Cornelius
PO BOX 457, Bayswater, VIC 3153 Ph: 03 9762 1848 maree@mpnstamps.com
PO Box 23, Magill, SA, 5072 joda99@bigpond.net.au
Ken Cowden PO Box 108, Bateman’s Bay, NSW 2536 Ph: 02 4472 5231 Kenbetty@bordernet.com.au
Edenzac Stamps: Tim Papadopoulos Ph: 03 9791 7733 edenzac@optushome.com.au
Chris Snelling Stamps
Glyn Fairbairn PO Box 275, Currumbin, QLD 4223 Ph: 07 5533 9582 www.goldcoststamptraders.com.au sales@ goldcoastsamptraders.com.au
PO Box 2076 Ellenbrook, Western Australia, 6069 (08) 9297 3040 or email stampdealer@iinet.net PO Box 5, Dover, UK CT16 1YQ Ph: 013 0482 9827 pjbchelse@aol.com www.stamo-centre.co.uk
Ray Pinniger PO Box 9008, Scoresby, VIC 3179 Ph: 03 9753 3520 bevvyc@optusnet.com.au
Mike Lee 7 Colbury Rd, Bayswater Nth, VIC 3153 Ph: 03 9729 5855 mlphilatelics@bigpond.com
P & D Nicholls PO Box 172, Glenbrook, NSW 2773 Ph: 02 4739 6184 panddnicholls@bigpond.com
4 The Tor Walk, Castlecrag, NSW 2068 PH: 02 9958 1333 glen@glenstephens.com www.glenstephens.com
Sydney Philatelics Graeme Fudge PO Box 122, Milton, NSW 2538 Ph: 02 4455 4011 info@sydphil.com www.stampsaustralia.com.au
Lyndsay Tooley PO Box 441, Norfolk Is. NSW 2899 Ph: 06 7232 3778 stamps@ninet.nf
Con Vayanos 64/3030 The Boulevard, Emerald Lakes, Carrara, QLD, 4211 Ph: 07 5578 1744 convayanos@hotmail.com
ACTS
PO Box 1290 Upwey, VIC 3158
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
72 - Stamp News
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
Stamp News - 73
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
74 - Stamp News
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
Internet & Email Directory The following is a listing of Stamp Dealer and Internet Website contact addresses worldwide. Millions of dollars of stock is priced up ready to sell on these sites. All Dealers may list their contact details here for a very affordable $175 per year fee, prepaid annually or only $17.50 a month. Contact the Advertising Manager on Ph: 0425 795 693, or email: kevinmorgan2@live.com
www.StampsFrance.com New European stamp store devoted to French stamps. All stock availablein used and mint, with photo, and Scott+Yvert numbers for easyreference. There are thousands of stamps, with prices starting at just20 cents each, the lowest prices you can find on the Internet. Alsocomplete stock from Airmails, Postage Dues, Military, Blocks, FullYears, etc...
www.glenstephens.com Largest and most visited Stamp Dealer website in the Southern Hemisphere. 250 different pages of stamp bargains and archives! $4,000 prize always on offer. glen@glenstephens.com
www.gabrieles.com.au Hundreds of new items added to our site each month. Add your email address to our “early bird” notice list, so when new material is added to the site, you get first choice! We also post out a printed copy of our monthly offers, for those who do not use the internet, this service is also free. Our printed, 36 paged price list is also available, just phone write or email today for a free copy today. gabriele@gabrieles.com.au
www.premierpostal.com PPA holds it’s auctions on the 3rd Sunday of the Month with around 4000 lots per auction. Our auctions include stamps, postal history, postal stationary, postmarks,postcards etc from around the world. We also provide a searchable Post Office reference database for Australia and several other counties. david@premierpostal.com
www.richardjuzwin.com The leading specialist dealers in Australasian stamps and the largest private dealer (non Auction) company in Australia. info@richardjuzwin.com.au
www.rap.com.au The website for Australia, Australian Territories, commercial and philatelic covers, and informative articles on the subjects. rap@rap.com.au
www.stampsale.com New Zealand and worldwide in our Ashford Stamps postal auctions. Ask for a catalogue, or view the website. Also ask for direct sales list of NZ Chalons. ashford@stampsale.com
www.StampsItaly.com New European stamp store devoted to Italian stamps. All stock availablein used and mint, with photo, and Scott+Sassone numbers for easyreference. There are thousands of stamps, with prices starting at just20 cents each, the lowest prices you can find on the Internet. Alsocomplete stock from Airmails, Semi Postals, Pneumatic and Express mail,etc...
www.sutherlandphilatelics.com.au Long-established mail order dealer comprehensively covering British Isles, Europe, Scandinavia, North America, Australasia and Japan. Prompt courteous service and an extensive user-friendly website. sutherlandphil@bigpond.com
www.sevenseas.com.au Search our website for full listing of stamps and Seven Seas albums and pages and other accessories. We look forward to serving you. stamps@sevenseas.com.au
21ST CENTURY AUCTIONS ___________ www.21stcenturyauctions.com.au HALLMARK STAMPS ________________ www.hallmarkstamps.com.au hallmarkstamps@hallmarkstamps.com.au KENNEDY STAMPS P/L ______________ www.kennedystamps.com.au stamps@kennedystamps.com.au KEVIN MORGAN STAMPS AND COINS ____ www.kevinmorgan.com.au kevinmorgan2@live.com PACIFIC STAMPS ___________________ www.pacificstamps.com.au info@pacificstamps.com.au STAMP NEWS AUSTRALASIA _________ www.stampnews.net.au stampnewsaus@gmail.com Stamp News - 75
Products & Services Directory dealers MONTHLY BUY OR BID SALES See ad elsewhere in this magazine www.21stCenturyAuctions. com.au Tel: 0425 795 693 email:kevinmorgan2@live.com
GLEN STEPHENS RARE STAMPS 4 The Tor Walk Castlecrag, Sydney, NSW, 2068, Australia. Australia’s most visited stamp dealer website:
THE NEW ZEALAND
PENINSULA STAMP CLUB Meets 3rd
GLADSTONE AND DISTRICT PS Inc.
Published quarterly by the ROYAL PHILATELIC SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND (INCORPORATED) PO Box 33435, Petone, Lower Hutt, 5046, NZ Annual subscription (posted) NZ$60.00 (airmail extra)
Uniting Church Hall, Murray Anderson Road, Rosebud. Visitors most welcome. Secretary: PO Box 14, McCRAE, 3938
at 7.30pm. Venue: Neighbourhood Centre, 10 Toolooa St, Gladstone. Postal: PO Box 1089, Gladstone, Qld, 4680. Ph: (07) 4978 1155.
STAMP COLLECTOR Wednesday each month at 7.30pm, Meets on the 2nd Wednesday each month
Email - glen@glenstephens.com email me now to get on my regular lists FREE! Life Member ASDA (New York) PTS (London) ANDA (Australia) etc. Full time dealer for 25 years.
(President, A. Melville-Brown)
Subscription correspondence and advertising enquiries should be addressed to the Business Manager, PO Box 33435, Petone, Lower Hutt, 5046, NZ
email: mel.cricket.100@googlemail.com web: www.cricketstamp.net
Join the exciting Products & Services Directory! Single: 46mm x 24mm Double: 46mm x 50mm Triple: 46mm x 78mm Quad: 46mm x 102mm Larger spaces
$260 per year or $26 per month $520 per year or $52 per month $695 per year or $69.50 per month $990 per year or $99 per month POR
Ph: 0425 795 693 Fax: 03 9758 7506 email: kevinmorgan2@live.com
www.glenstephens.com
1000s of nett priced bargains and offers and specials. Philatelic journalist. ALL credit cards and methods of payments accepted - I even accept mint stamps in payment! Phone (02) 9958 1333. One of Australia;s biggest stamp buyers - see my buying page.
AUSTRALIAN PS meets 3 rd Monday monthly. RSL Homes, 152 Canterbury Rd (cnr Keats St) Canterbury. All visitors most welcome. Contact: 51 Camperdown St, Brighton East, VIC, 3187. www.aps.org.au
Cricket Philatelic Society
www.stampnews.net.au
BRIGHTON PS Inc.
The IPDA Inc Internet Philatelic Dealers Association
dealers & part time sellers who believe there is a need for a global organisation to represent them as accredited internet sellers. Join the IPDA. Go to www.ipdaonline.org for details.
Meets 8.00pm 2nd and 4th Tuesday and 10.30am 3rd Tuesday each month. 80 Gardenvale Road, Gardenvale, Vic, 3185. Visitors/new members welcome. www.brightonps.org.au
Kevin Morgan Stamps & Coins Postage wanted: Up to 39c pay 35% 40c to 98c pay 40% $1 and above pay 60% Regret no longer require other countries unless in substantial quantities. Tel: 0425 795 693 Email: kevinmorgan2@live.com Web: www.kevinmorgan.com.au
Always buying/selling collections, accumulations, mixed lots. We are a general dealership stocking a wide range of worldwide items plus albums, accessories, etc. Credit Cards accepted. Discounts for Seniors Card holders and Philatelic Club members on production of membership ID.
SAS/OCEANIA INVITES YOUR MEMBERSHIP Our award-winning quarterly journal, ‘The Informer’, contains regular, informative articles about Australia and States, New Zealand, PNG, and other Pacific countries by knowledgeable philatelic writers. Sample copy/ application form sent airmail for $US1.00. Mint US postage accepted. SAS/O Secretary, PO Box 24764,San Jose, CA 95154-4764, USA 76 - Stamp News
Great Britain 1839-1951
www.andrewglajer.co.uk Andrew G Lajer Ltd sales@andrewglajer.co.uk T: +44 (0)1189 344151
The Old Post Office, Davis Way, Hurst, Berkshire,RG10 0TR, UK
societies&publications MONTHLY BUY OR BID SALES
PHILATELIC SOCIETY OF CANBERRA Inc. The society has a regular program of
See ad elsewhere in meetings, with displays, exchanges and discussion nights, and welcomes this magazine visitors to Canberra. It has a flourishwww.21stCenturyAuctions. ing exchange branch, which circulates com.au to small stamp clubs in the south Tel: 0425 795 693 region, as well as in the Canberra email:kevinmorgan2@live.com area. It publishes, quarterly, a news-
AS C T
AUSTRALASIAN COLLECTABLE TRADERS SOCIETY
Features: Major Collectables Shows around Australia; discounted advertising in major collectables journals and yellow pages; regular newsletter; special discounts on accessories/albums etc.; free 6 month subscription to Stamp News; website, with free advertising for members
Join today, membership is free! No fees for the first 12 months, open to all traders in collectables, full or P/T. c/- PO Box 1290 Upwey, Vic. 3158
letter and a research journal ‘Capital Philately’. Enquiries about membership or about separate subscriptions to the journal should be directed to: Secretary: Tony Luckhurst Ph: 02 6241 1963 e-mail: tony_luckhurst@ bigpound.com
PHILATELY from AUSTRALIA
Trouble getting Stamp News?
Not a subscriber yet? See our handy form towards the back of this issue, you can also order your subscription through your favourite stamp dealer. The following Stamp Shops do keep Stamp News, though mostly for regular purchasers, so you may need to ask the dealer to order in an additional copy for you. ( dealers who have a standing order for a minimum of 3 copies monthly get a free listing here, ask for details) New South Wales Gabriele’s Philatelic Service, Gabriele Woodbine, Suite 11/17 Gerrale Street, Cronulla, Ph: (02) 9544 3333 Fax: (02) 9247 8333 e-mail: gabriele@gabrieles.com.au Web: http://www.gabrieles.com.au
a quarterly record of Research & information
ROYAL PHILATELIC SOCIETY OF VICTORIA INC. Australia $35, Br. Commonwealth £14 Sterling, United States & Canada $US28 per year. No serious collector of Australia and its States, New Zealand and Pacific Islands should be without asubscription to this
Tasmania The Stamp Place, Trafalgar on Collins, Shop 3, 110 Collins Street, HOBART TAS 7000, Ph: (03) 6224 3536 Fax: (03)6224-3536 e-mail: info@thestampplace.com Web: http://www.tazitiger.com
International Award Winning Journal.
JOIN TOPICAL STAMP COLLECTORS IN 90 COUNTRIES
Three Year Indexes - $A10 each
Join the AMERICAN TOPICAL ASSOCIATION!
PHILAS STAMP
Many Benefits: 96-page TOPICAL TIME stamp journal containing articles and checklists, printed on slick coated paper, profusely illustrated. Membership Directory (150 pages) of 8,000 members listed under 700 topics and specialties, plus services. Biography service for 13,000 persons shown on stamps. Membership Information Board to answer your questions. Translation service. Handbooks of many topics. Much more...
Write today Airmail to :
AMERICAN TOPICAL ASSOCIATION PO Box 8, Carterville, IL 62918-0008, USA PH: 1-618-985-5100 Fax: 1-618-085-5131 Visa and Mastercard welcome
Most back issues on hand. Write to: Business Manager PO Box 642, Toorak, VIC, 3142
AUCTIONS 17 Brisbane St, Sydney 12:30pm Saturdays Second Saturday in March, July and November.
Viewing on preceding Saturday, Thursday and Friday illustrated catalogues posted free within Australia ($15 per annum posted overseas) Lots for sale welcome PO box 220 Darlinghurst NSW 1300 Phone: (02) 9264 8301 or ()2) 9264 8406 Fax: (02) 9267 4741
Victoria
Max Stern & Company, 271 Collins St, Shop 8B, Melbourne VIC 3001, Ph: (03) 9654 6751 Fax: (03) 9650 7192 e-mail: maxstern@netspace.net.au Web: http://maxstern.customer.netspace.net.au Kevin Morgan Stamps & Coins, PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158 Tel: 0425 795 693 email kmorgan2@live.com Shields Stamps & Coins, 52 Burgundy St, Heidelberg, Vic 3084 Ph. 03 9459 5953 21st Century Auctions Suite 1, 1174 Burwood Hwy, Upper Ferntree Gully, Vic. 3156 tel. 0425 795 693
Western Australia Cygnet Stamps, 9 Grevillea Way, Heathridge, WA 6027 Ph: 08 9402 9261 There are also about 4950 newsagencies in Australia, and most of the major stores carry a number of copies, alternatively you can arrange with your local newsagent to put one by for you each month. Stamp News - 77
Stamp News Australasia Advertising Rates & Data Commencing January 2019 Publication details Stamp News Australasia is published by Kevin Morgan, ABN 61 577 987 652, at monthly intervals, twelve times per year. Publication date is the 1st day of each month.
Advertising deadlines 1st day of month prior to month of publication (eg the June edition advertising deadline is 1st MAY)
RATES - casual (all rates include GST) All Prices now include 4 Colour Separation Full page
Half Page
Quarter Page
Eighth
1 month
$900
$450
$225
$115
3 months
$850
$425
$215
$110
6 months
$800
$400
$200
$105
9 months
$775
$390
$195
$100
12 months
$750
$375
$190
$95
All rates are now for prepaid series only, 30 day terms will incur an accounting fee of 5%. Payment via credit card on a monthly basis is also acceptable for prepayment terms at no surcharge, however American Express, Diners Club and Paypal payments will attract a 2.5% administration fee. SPECIAL NOTES 1. Advertisers may vary their display advertising sizes within a contract period. 2. If booked advertising material does not arrive by the due date the Publisher reserves the right to publish a previously published advertisement in lieu. 3. Prices are for copy supplied in digital format to the required standard. If production work is required extra charges may be necessary. Please consult.
Required submission format Advertisements should be supplied in digital format (on disk or via email). Advertisements should be provided as high resolution PDF files, with all fonts embedded. All images must be scanned at 300dpi resolution and sent as separate files, and must not be compressed by jpeg below medium quality. Price lists must be provided in Excel format. Phone to discuss other formats or alternatives. Note that MS Publisher files are NOT accepted.
Advertisement Sizes
Trimmed magazine size Full page nominal image size Half page horizontal Half page vertical Third page horizontal Third page vertical Quarter page horizontal Quarter page vertical
W 210 190 190 93 190 60 190 93
H 297 277 136 277 89 277 66 136
Advertising Contact Details Kevin Morgan Ph 0425 795 693 Stamp News, PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158. SPECIAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS Advertisers are hereby notified of the following conditions to which they signify their acceptance in submitting any advertisement: * Although oral instructions may be acted upon, no liability will be accepted for advertising instructions, alterations or cancellations made orally, they must be in writing. * No liability will be accepted for any loss occasioned by the failure of an advertisement or insert or any part of an advertisement or insert to appear in any specified issue, or for any error in an advertisement or insert. * Positions selected for advertisement are entirely at the discretion of the Publisher, except where otherwise arranged (see “Preferred Position�). * The matter, content and style of any advertisement is subject to approval of the Publisher. Advertisements held by the Publisher to be unlawful or undesirable in any way will be declined. * The Publisher reserves the right to suspend, refuse or withdraw any advertisement or order at its discretion at any time without notice. The Advertiser, in submitting an advertisement and/or material, is deemed to have agreed that no liability for claims, damages or compensation in respect thereof will be held against the Publisher. * TRADE PRACTICES: Advertisements submitted must be in strict accordance with the applicable State and Federal consumer and advertising laws in force from time to time. * INDEMNITY: In submitting any advertisement or insert, the Advertiser agrees that if any material, statement, information or matter contained in any such advertisement or insert is in breach of any statute, regulation or law (whether Federal, State or Territorial, directly, by inference or otherwise) and the Publisher publishes the advertisement or insert in good faith with no reason to be aware of such impediment and consequently suffers any penalty by reason of or arising from the publication of such material, then the Advertiser indemnifies the Publisher against the amount of any such penalty and shall pay the amount thereof and any consequential and reasonable legal costs incurred by the Publisher.
Contributor & Advertiser Deadlines August 2019 Issue 1 July 2019 September 2019 Issue 1 August 2019 We reserve the right to repeat advertising from a previous issue if material is not received in time. Email submission: stampnewsaus@gmail.com
POSTAL BID SALES
BROWSE, BID AND BUY
IN THE COMFORT OF YOUR OWN HOME Tell us your collecting interests and we will BUILD YOUR OWN CATALOGUE. Only
Premier will build a customised catalogue
with just the items that interest you. This service is available on the website or in print. Auctions held about every 2 months. Each auction contains 4000-4500 lots of world-wide stamps, postal history, postal stationery, postmarks & postcards. Estimates from less than $5 to $1,000s. When you visit our website don’t forget to browse through the 25,000+ retail items that we have listed. To find out more visit our Website
www.premierpostal.com Or contact us at:
Email: david@premierpostal.com Phone: (03) 9038 8136 Fax: (03) 8677 2858 PO Box 458, Canterbury, Vic 3126 274A Canterbury Road, Surrey Hills, Vic 3127
A couple of examples from our stocks -
We produce regular Postal Bid Sales featuring a varied assortment of Australian and British Commonwealth stamps, priced to suit all budgets - Lots are estimated from as $1 upwards. Our sales are run fairly in accordance with best industry practices.
CONTACT US TODAY TO RECEIVE OUR CURRENT SALE LISTING – ABSOLUTELY FREE!
Or View On-Line at www.burstamp.com NEW WEB-SITE – Visit
www.burstamp.com
to view our stock of quality Australia and New Guinea stamps
BURSTAMP.com
PO Box 132, BURPENGARY Q 4505 Email: burstamp@bigpond.com Phone: 0409 473 150 Fax: (07) 3102 8558 Mastercard &Visa Accepted
Mention you saw us in Stamp News!
Stamp News is now available online To see how a back issue looks for FREE go to our website at www.stampnews.net.au Stamp News Australasia Magazine The cost is just AUD$4.95 for a single issue or a discounted AUD$39.95 for a 12 month subscription. This represents a huge saving over the Newsagency price of $8.95 for a single issue and $99.50 for a 12 month mailed subscription. To purchase or subscribe go here:
www.stampnews.net.au
(Please note that these subscriptions are handled by an external agency and in case of any difficulty you must contact them direct)
Gift options for new subscribers In 2018 we are making these new subscription offers to make your subscription even more affordable: For each 12 months of your new subscription you may choose 1 of the following: 1) 2 recent Australia PNC covers, our choice retail value $45…or ask for a list of those available. 2) Approx 1250 Australian Stamps, unsorted, off paper, retail value $30 3) 110mm Illuminated Magnifier on stand, RRP $35 4) Approx 1250 World Stamps, unsorted off paper, retail value $30 5) 30 Eureka stocksheets, made in Australia on a Hagner machine, our choice of strip sizes, retail value $37.50 6) Australian Comprehensive Catalogue, 3 volumes complete, latest edition, RRP $99 7) A mixed selection of Prinz black or clear mounts (state which) retail value $45 8) A pair of European Made stainless steel 150mm pointed tweezers, in safety wallet, plus a perforation gauge RRP $20.00 9) Approx 1250 British Commonwealth stamps unsorted off paper, retail value $30 10) 500 Different Australian stamps, retail value $25 For a lifetime subscription you will receive all 10 gifts. In the event of your chosen gifts being unavailable, we reserve the right to substitute. Please circle the gifts required and return with your completed subscription form on the facing page together with and payment to: Stamp News Subscriptions, PO Box 1290, Upwey Vic. 3158 Australia. Email and telephone subscriptions always welcome. Gifts are for NEW hard copy subscribers only.
Subscribe and Save up to $1.80 per copy over newsagency prices* *5yr subscription CHOOSE FROM OUR STAMP NEWS SUBSCRIPTION OFFERS!
This months free gift for subscribers: A complete thematic set or mini-sheet (may differ from those illustrated)
All prices include postage and packaging within Australia
6 months 12 months 24 months 36 months 60 months Lifetime
$54.50 $99.50 $189.50 $259.00 $429.00 $895.00
Every Month an exciting free gift for subscribers only. Please add for postage & packaging:
• Add 50% to Domestic Price for NZ and Asia Pacific • Add 100% for Rest of the World.
Please note: All subscriptions are nonrefundable and non-transferable. Office Use Only
SUBSCRIPTION FORM - ABN 61 577 987 652 Stamp News, PO Box 1290 Upwey, VIC, 3158, Australia Ph: 0425 795 693 Email: kevinmorgan2@live.com
Please enrol/re-enrol me as a subscriber to Stamp News Please start my subscription from the ................2019 issue Tick one (All prices include GST, Postage & Packaging within Australia 6 month trial subscription $54.50
1 year subscription $99.50
2 year subscription $189.50
3 year subscription $259.00
5 year subscription $429.00
Lifetime subscription $895.00
I enclose cheque/money order (CIRCLE ONE!) for the above amount - OR I hereby pay by Visa/Mastercard (CIRCLE ONE!) Card No: Name on card:................................................................................................. Expiry Date: ................................... Signature ............................................... Subscription Address: Name: ....................................................................... Address: ......................................................................................................... City:............................................ State/Postcode ........................................... Country:..................................... Phone: (..........) .......................................... Fax: (.........) .................................email:............... ...........................................
List of Display Advertisers 21st Century Auctions...............35 ACTS.........................................71 Burstamp...................................79 Glen Stephens............................25 Jimbo's Philatelic Service............82 Leski Auctions............................51 Phoenix Auctions. ......................84 Premier Postal Auctions.............79 Richard Juzwin P/L.................5, 83 Rod Perry..................................15 Salvation Army S & C Fair..........31 Stamp News Mail Order..........4, 24 Stampboards.com. ......................71 Sutherland Phil.........................82 Universal Philatelic Auctions...2, 3 Vance Auctions Ltd....................82
(03) 9459 9161