February 2019 Quartet A selection of collecting suggestions for adventurous collectors, or to accelerate the scope of an existing collection of the relevant subject. Contact me if you have a particular interest in Australian cover/stationery fields. For individual item offerings, refer to website (www.rap.com.au) and eBay listings (search rap_com_au).
1927: KGV Single wmk 2d + Small multiple wmk. Perf 14 1d x4 unusual composition for 3d Foreign letter + 3d Registration fee Australia KGV Heads/Commems/Other Commercial Covers a Speciality
1967: Birds 6c + 20c + Navigator 40c punctured “VG” (Victoria Govt) postage tag Australia Victoria Official Decimal postage tags: All different franking composition postage tags bearing “VG” stamps, utilised by Country Roads Board for regional returns, franked both sides (75)
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1953: Postage due ½d pays Customs Duty on cover from GB Australia Postage due covers: 1902-1960s a Speciality
1941: QANTAS 21 Anniversary year cover with enclosed circular from Hudson Fysh st
Australia Commercial Airmail Covers a Speciality
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Studying trends in Philately has been a career long interest of mine. Owning a Philatelic Auction, and Publishing business, for many years, as I once did, made intelligence gathering a necessity, beyond just an interest. If one was to survive, and prosper, being one step ahead of the market was a handy prerequisite. Collecting as a pastime, however, does not require the dedicated focus necessary in commercial philately. If one is contented with the direction taken, there is no need to read further. If, however, one is looking for more in philately than is presently Figure 1. Handsome KGV Heads on cover being enjoyed, the commentary this month may be useful. I reckon they never look better than they do on a neat Variety is the spice of life, and the selection of cover, such as Figure 1. Such time capsules have philatelic categories this month is capable of providso much more to tell us than can mute, mint equivaing such stimulation. These subjects are amongst a lents, and off-cover, what could they to say? The 4d broad range of collecting fields in which I’m observ- could not even tell us where it was used? By good ing increasing interest. For consideration, here are an fortune, however, we know from this item the stamps even dozen of those subjects. were used at Childers, June 18 1915, and the article Australia’s KGV Head series, rightly, is an everwas addressed to W.H. Robinson, Brisbane. The green favourite. Most collectors opt for mint and/or cover was registered, and likely contained payment used, but more and more collectors are seeking covfor philatelic material, for Robinson was a bespoke ers to complement, and add character their displays. Philatelic Trader, as early as 1899. The red and black Childers registration label is scarce, and a reminder of how those very sad loose labels frequently seen might have looked in their prime. (See also under Figure 12). The supply of KGV Heads on cover, and other postal articles are in short supply, unlike mint/used, which generally are in abundant supply. Expect the gap between used off-cover, and on-cover to continue to broaden. Now that Norfolk Island has moved closer to the mainland, metaphorically speaking, demand for its earlier philatelic material, I’m told by some, has increased. Figure 2. Norfolk self-adhesive, used the way it was intended 6 - Stamp News
Figure 3. 2/- Silver Jubilee gem
get, despite those sums, which represented a pile of money nearly 40 years ago! Nowadays, they fetch a fraction of those prices. Even worse, a Trade friend recently told me he couldn’t recall when someone last ordered a mounted mint set. Now to commercial covers: Of the 2/-, I doubt I would have seen more than ten intact commercially used postal articles, in half a century! I’ve seen just two solo franking’s, in particular, one on a Parcel Post label, and Figure 3. This brilliant usage item, where 2/- pays full airmail service rate to Czechoslovakia, left Sydney July 4 1935, bound for Prague, aboard the Imperial Airways / QANTAS service IW356, departing Brisbane July 10, arriving Athens 20, Vienna 22, and final destination, 23. Obviously, I’m very attracted to this item, so what’s it worth, well may you ask? Well, it should be worth $1000, and one day in the not too distant future it will be. Meanwhile, expect mint (particularly mounted), and used off-cover, to continue their journey to nowhere. That great publication by Brusden-White, Postal Stationery, has provided a real shot in the arm
Of course, once a collector has acquired 1947-2019 complete mint and/or used which, unsurprisingly, can be done in the blink of an eye, where does the collector turn? Well, if that collector reads this column, he or she will be aware that a real challenge is collecting N.I. commercial postal articles, such as Figure 2. A UPU Centenary 10c never appeared more exotic than when correctly used for postage, to Sydney as in this example. Increasingly, more and more collectors are agreeing, collecting N.I. and other Territories/Former Territories mint, in particular, is a pursuit bordering on BBB (Boring Beyond Belief). Commercially used postal articles are in very short supply, and fancy prices for such material at auction are regularly being witnessed. Expect that to continue. The 1935 Silver Jubilee set mint was one of the darlings of The Great Boom We Had To Have. In 1980, auction prices hovered around $210 mint unmounted, $105 mounted. I, for one, maintained a stock of hundreds of sets, and occasionally had complete sheets. They were never hard to Figure 4. Uprated Australian Stationery keenly sought
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for the collecting of Stationery, a personal favourite of mine (see also under Figure 8). Of particular note, the number of collectors seeking uprated Stationery, for rate rises and additional postal services, has gained in popularity considerably of late. Figure 4 is typical, where the basic KGV “Star” 1½d Envelope has been uprated with KGV 3d, for airmail surcharge, Newtown NSW to Melbourne. The sender has added the attractive “Angel” etiquette, by Australian Aerial Services Ltd, providing a very pleasing item, the whole cancelled by Newtown cds. Figure 5. QEII Usage with added spice Not difficult to understand why colELSTERNWICK, S.4”, to explain the incident for lectors are keen on such material? recipient. It’s unusual for a relatively small suburban Usage collecting has been one of the most popP.O. to have a dedicated marking of this nature? A ular introductions in Australian Philately during the sought after cover, also by Instructional Marking past decade and a half. Traditional collectors have collectors. accepted that such items assist in making greater Figures 5 and 6 are good examples of the type philatelic sense of the study of the stamps they love. of material keenly sought by exhibitors. Both items Within Usage collecting, most seek out the less usual, and for the QEII 7½d something more unusual have multiple demand factors driving collector enthusiasm. In the instance of the latter item, stuthan Figure 5 would be hard to find. This registered dents of airmails of Ceylon and Australia want this article from North Brighton met with grief (more as an early example of utilisation of the Australian pronounced on reverse) en route to nearby Elsterninternal West-East airmail service (commenced six wick. The Elsternwick P.O. applied the handstamp months earlier on June 4 1929). Even more so, Post “RECEIVED IN DAMAGED / CONDITION AT Office label enthusiasts recognize the very scarce informative label, explaining why insufficient addressing can cause delivery delays. In this instance, sender addressed the item to North Brighton, whereas correct address is Bentleigh. The “Glen Orme View” is also incorrect; it was Glen Orme Avenue, where a budding philatelist, one Rod Perry, regularly rode his bicycle, in the 1950s. As noted elsewhere in this article, multiple category items have a bright present, and future. Figure 7 is a good example, where a convergence Figure 6. Seldom seen P.O. informative label 8 - Stamp News
ure 8 would deliver, at a cost likely less than three figures, provides adequate demonstration as to why Colonial/State Stationery is on the verge of becoming an awakening giant. Who wouldn’t like these South Australia Wrappers, from same correspondence, documenting change Figure 7. Multiple category covers = increased demand of Mt Barker cancel, from the enigmatic squared-circle of (a) Usage, (b) Special services, and (c) Theme/ to the cds, likely for less than the cost of a desTopic ensure this item will always be assured of a tined-for-postage Year Album? loving home. For a Decimal usage collector, the As we witness those Glorious Diggers, from 1976 Olympic Games 25c Diving will seldom be found more desirable than when used for the Priority WWII, gradually fade away, subsequent generations have come to discover that they live on, DNA-wise, paid service, of which this is an attractive example. in those covers sent from places to which they were Olympic Games collectors add increased demand deployed. For Philatelists, notably those who think element. ahead of the pack, the discovery that Military mail In May 2002, The Postal Stationery Society of Australia launched a superb priced catalogue of Postal Stationery of the Australian Colonies/States (Part One: Western Australia, compiled by eminent Philatelist, Brian Pope). This was the precursor of what was to be hoped was a series of publications destined to address the Stationery of all of the Colonies/States. Hopefully, that advance will materialize. There is no doubting, this W.A. forerunner has rendered that Colony/State the pre-eminent runner in popularity, ahead of its five contenders. One hopes that the series will be completed. Meanwhile, the appearance and success of the B-W Postal Stationery for Commonwealth of Australia has caused members of the Smart Money set to revisit the five Colonies/States outside of W.A. The delightful page that FigFigure 8. Colonial/State Stationery an awakening giant Stamp News - 9
is a rich source of rare cancellations has not been overlooked. Figure 9 is an example. This registered cover, with “UNIT POSTAL STATION / S.99 / 17 JUL 1943” handstamp, which was in use in Darwin area, following Japanese invasion, is a rarity, of 4/5R calibre. 4/5R cancels of Australia can, and do fetch four-figure sums. In comparison, Military mail rare cancels, such as this subject, which would struggle to fetch three-figures, are an absolute bargain, a fact not lost on that steadily increasing band of smart collectors. Figure 9. WWII Military mail; now up to 80 years old In the November issue, I featured Australian slogan cancels: Continuing upon Patriotism, Figure 11 has dual WWII-related. I made mention of applications in the demand stakes. It also represents their WWI precursors, Figure 10 of which is an the Meter impressions discipline, the growth of example. Good, clear strikes of the wide-ranging interest in which is most encouraging, at a time when configurations of these Patriotic cancels, on cover, many Traditional philately disciplines are in seemare now keenly sought after, and why shouldn’t they ingly terminal decline. be? During WWII, licensee’s of Meter apparatus were Now a century old, they are inexpensive time encouraged to promote Patriotism / Savings Bonds capsules, often rare, available for sums which belie / Security within their mail sending’s. This 1943 their historic / philatelic significance. That apathy is missive is from Thatcher & Oberg Pty Ltd, Mascot. rapidly changing. Meter impression collectors are blessed, worldwide, by the generosity of Messrs Hawkins & Stambaugh, for making their superb International Postage Meter Stamp Catalog freely available online: https://en.wikibooks. org/wiki/International_Postage_Meter_Stamp_Catalog Expect demand for Meter collecting to continue escalating, while certain aspects of traditional collecting predicatably continue to fade. Registration labels of Australia have long been a cherished collecting category. Sadly, removing them from cover (along with the stamps) has taken a huge toll on the number of covers Figure 10. 100 years old – finally appreciated extant, covers being the only form 10 - Stamp News
Figure 11. Another aspect of the War Effort, at-home
ries have been featured in this column over the years. I’ve heard it said, particularly amongst my peers, that banging my head against a brick wall, promoting what I’ve seen as blue-sky potential philately, has caught the attention of a growing band of inquisitive collectors. But then, my peers know me well enough to appreciate that I would be unlikely to be flogging philatelic categories for which the sun has, or is about to set. There’s way more to Philately than buying just New issues, filling gaps in a printed album, produced to perpetuate herd mentality, and other yesterday’s pursuits. If you expect more from your Philately, let 2019 be the year you resolve to elevate your collection to one of individuality. To do so is inspirational! So, where does one source such material, you ask? A good start would be to search on eBay, the Auctions, Trade websites, or you could turbo charge your ambitions, and come to the decades long specialist in such material . . . moi. May the Thrill of the Chase continue to inspire throughout this year, and well beyond?
of the topic that I would ever collect. Enter Kevin Burt, a like-minded keen cover collector, and a new publication: Post Office Registration Labels of Australia and its Territories, including Papua and New Guinea, published by The Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria, has emerged. This welcome publication on the subject will provide increased focus upon the category. I particularly like Provisional registration labels (on cover only, of course), those interim measures in place whilst dedicated, inscribed labels were being prepared for a given P.O. Provisional labels could be handstamped, typewritten, or handwritten; providing a terrific resource for P.O. individualism. Figure 12 is another form of label in demand; those allocated to Australian Servicemen, based in U.K. These black on pink/shades of magenta labels are a most interesting study, detailed in the aforementioned publication. All in all, the above subjects are reflective of what in essence is a visual hobby, so perhaps unsurprising that collecting trends are gravitating towards that direction. In conclusion, some will recall that most of these featured catego- Figure 12. Registration label collecting delivered a boost
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Tunisia – the Cradle of the Arab Spring With the statement “Ceterum censeo Carthaginem resse delendam”, Roman writer and politician Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 BC) concluded all his speeches irrespective of subject. In English, the sentence in Latin translates as “Furthermore I consider that Carthage must be destroyed”. Carthage and Rome were fighting for the domination of the Mediterranean region which led to three long and devastating wars. The third war (149-116 BC) resulted in the total destruction of Carthage and the area was turned into the Roman province of Africa. Today Carthage is a suburb of the Tunisian capital of Tunis. Shown in Fig. 1 is a Carthaginian galley on a Tunisian 1906 definitive stamp. The 2010 “Arab Spring” put Tunisia, a nation of some 11.5 million people, in the international limelight. It was in Tunisia that this revolution-
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ary movement started. Unemployed academic Mohammed Bouazzi made a living selling fruits and vegetables from his cart in the town of Sidi Bouzid. When the local police impounded his cart, he protested by torching himself. This act was a protest against the prevailing conditions in the country and its corrupt régime. This tragic event led to the overthrow of a dictatorial president. The events in Tunisia inspired similar popular uprisings in other Arab countries in North Africa and the Middle East. As we all know, the protests in Syria resulted in a bloody civil war which is still raging in some parts of the country. In Tunisia much has improved since 2010 but many of the economic problems remain. Towards the middle of the 7th century, the Arabs invaded all of North Africa bringing with
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them Islam which soon became the dominating religion in Tunisia. Much later Tunisia was included in the Ottoman Empire. In 1881 Tunisia became a French protectorate. Two post offices were opened in Tunis and La Goulette and they were given numeral cancels – 5107 for Tunis and 5121 for La Goulette. There were also Italian post offices in Tunis, La Goulette and Sousse. Tunisian postage stamps were introduced in 1888. They featured the country’s Coat of Arms and the design remained in use until a set of definitive stamps featuring local views was introduced in 1906. Some of the more interesting stamps issued during the period as a French protectorate are the two sets for parcel post released in 1906 and 1926 respectively. They carry the wording CO-
LIS POSTAUX (= parcel post). The 1906 set features mail delivery and the 1926 set depicts the gathering of dates (Fig. 2), one of Tunisia’s main agricultural exports. The 1922-1950 postage due labels are particularly interesting as they depict a Carthaginian goddess (Fig. 3). It might surprise some of the readers but independent Tunisia was actually a kingdom from 20 March 1956 until 25 July 1957. The king (locally known as bey) was called Mohammed al-Amin and his dynasty had ruled the North African nation since 1705. Before he was deposed in 1957, the bey was depicted on a number of postage stamps (Fig. 4) It was Habib Bourguiba (Fig. 5) who proclaimed Tunisia as a republic. He then went on to govern Tunisia with little regard for the coun-
Figure 3 Figure 4
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Tunisia – the Cradle of the Arab Spring try’s democratic institutions. However, he did a lot to improve the school system and both men and women were given equal rights. In 1987, President Bourguiba had to resign as he was considered to be too senile to run the country. Today, some nine years after the Arab Spring, Tunisia still suffers from unemployment. Many young Tunisian men and women have left their homeland for a better life in France and elsewhere in Europe. France is the obvious choice as French is widely spoken in the country. Since the 1960s, Tunisia has been a popular
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destination for European tourists. The country has a lot to offer: a sunny and pleasant climate, wonderful beaches, excellent food, exciting remains from the historic past and much else. Sadly, the chaos following the Arab Spring resulted in far less foreign visitors but it seems this is now slowly changing for the better. Following independence in the late 1950s, the Tunisian Postal Service employed a number of talented and innovative artists resulting in a plethora of interesting stamp designs. Shown in Fig. 6 is a 1959 stamp depicting a Camel Camp and the Mosque in Kairouan.
Figure 6
The Arthur Gray “KGV Era” Collection - Huge Hardbound Leather Grained Deluxe Stamp Catalogue - $A75 posted! A dealer colleague had a small number of these stunning catalogues that we did a deal on. Brand New of course, and our price below INCLUDES the full prices realised list. The largest grossing stamp auction sale ever held here - about $3 Million, and a total sell out - far more details here from “Stamp News” at the time - tinyurl.com/GrayKGVs This sale was a combination of just two of the very many Arthur Gray “Exhibit” collections – the “Australia KGV Definitive Stamps” and the “KGV Commemorative stamps”. They earned TEN International Large Golds between them. And many International Golds, and many top national awards too. Not bad for a bloke who had never exhibited until 17 years earlier. The sale contained not only the “KGV heads” issues in huge depth with Proofs, but all the KGV era Commemoratives, the 5/- Harbour Bridge in full sheet etc, many 1927 Canberra imperfs, and corner Plate Numbers and retouches, and re-entries, and Officials etc, and cover and FDC etc. 270 pages, full colour, masses of images, and the 11 Page Dr. Geoff Kellow intro is worth the cost of book alone. “Name” Deluxe sale catalogues hold their value forever. Without doubt THE finest Auction sale catalogue ever printed in this country - more of a perpetual Australia KGV Heads and Commemoratives Handbook actually. HUGE colour photos of all the Rarities, and deeply grained "Leather" cover etc. Cost price from Auction house initially was $100 plus post, and for anyone who still does not have one, this deal is WAY better! INCLUDING Tracked parcel shipping anywhere in Australia - $A75 (Stock 368WF) TWO copies, INCLUDING tracked parcel shipping anywhere in Australia - $A125 (Stock 368WG) FOUR copies, INCLUDING tracked parcel shipping anywhere in Australia - $A220 (Stock 368WH) OVERSEAS for 1 copy, add $A25 to above for untracked postage. (Stock 368WJ) ALL sendings use real postage stamps of course. Contact us re other queries, or extra copies etc. The 2 and 4 copies deal is a beauty - many savvy buyers will keep one, and ebay off the other(s) - (we saw one get $150 in 2017!) or sell to a friend/s at the Club etc, hence making their copy basically "FREE" with any luck! Order NOW, as when sold out, they are gone forever. Credit Cards and PayPal accepted at no fee for payment
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Stamps in the News - Globally! Royal Mail design relocates D Day 8,000 kilometres to Dutch New Guinea
Reported at www.theguardian.com
Royal Mail has apologised and announced it will re-design a stamp commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-day but depicting US troops storming the beaches of Dutch New Guinea rather than the allied D-day landings in France. The stamp was planned as part of a Best of British series to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-day landings in Normandy during WWII. Royal Mail said the image would no longer be part of the final collection, adding: “We work very hard to ensure that our Special Stamp programme appropriately commemorates anniversaries and events that are relevant to UK heritage and life. We would like to offer our sincere apologies that our preview release for our 2019 Special Stamp programme included a stamp design which had been incorrectly associated with the D-day landings. This stamp design has not been printed. We
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would like to reassure our customers that this image will not be part of the final set.” Labelled by the Royal Mail as “D-day Allied soldiers and medics wade ashore”, the image appears to be an official US Coast Guard photograph which shows “USS LCI(L)-30 landing troops carrying stretchers on to a beach” at Sarmi, Dutch New Guinea, May 1944, several weeks before the D-day landings took place in Europe. Twitter users were quick to suggest some alternative designs that could be used to represent the D-day landings. A spokesman from The Spirit of Normandy Trust, said: “The problem with most of these things is that research has got to be thorough and done well ahead of time. It’s not the first time it’s been done about D-day.”
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Up, up, up in USA
Reported at www.newsweek.com U.S. Postal Service stamps are to get more expensive. The new price of first-class forever stamps will increase from 50 cents to 55 cents on January 27 – an increase of 10 percent. The postage price increase is an effort by the United States Postal Services (USPS) to offset record operating losses in 2018 totalling nearly $4 billion. The post office has experienced a volume decline in 2018 of 3.2 billion pieces, with a 3.6 percent decline in first-class mail, which provides its most significant share of income. The January 27 stamp price hike, accompanied by other mailing and shipping increases, is the biggest price increase by total cents in the history of the post office. Approved by the Postal Regulatory Commission, the January stamp price increase accompanies mail and package rate increases across the board for the USPS – an effort to keep the post office “competitive while providing the agency with needed revenue,” officials said. Last year President Donald Trump criticized the post office for not charging online shipper Amazon enough for handling its packages. He also suggested the post office raise its prices. “Why is the United States Post Office, which is losing many billions of dollars a year, while charging Amazon and others so little to deliver their packages, making Amazon richer and the Post Office dumber and poorer? Should be charging https://www.newsweek.com/ stamp- MUCH MORE!” the president tweeted in 2017.priceincrease-2019-usps-stamp-mailrates-going-january-1274748
The price bump is expected to generate millions of dollars in extra revenue to help Canada Post keep its services running in a time of declining letter mail volumes and other financial issues. “The rate increases will help ensure that the costs of running the postal service are paid by those who use it and not the Canadian taxpayer,” a spokesman said. “In total, the new regulated rates will generate approximately $26 million of additional revenue for Canada Post.” This will be the first time stamp prices have increased since March 2014.
Pigs flying in Asia
Reported at http://en.people.cn 2019 is the year of the pig in the lunar calendarthe Pig is the symbol of wealth in Chinese culture. Occupying the last position in the Chinese Zodiac, the 12th, people born under this sign are energetic, diligent, compassionate, and generous. At least 20 countries have issued Chinese zodiac stamps this year but how did this tradition begin? Early in 1970, South Korea took the lead in issuing such types of stamps by producing a set of two stamps to welcome the year of the pig in 1971, with one featuring a seven-coloured clay pig in a green background. In 1971, a seven-yen stamp was designed by Japan in celebration of the Lunar New Year.
Up, up, up in Canada
Reported at www.canadapost.ca Canadian stamps are going to rise in price on January 14, 2019. The cost of a single stamp, currently $1.00, will soon rise to $1.05. Stamp News - 17
Stamps in the News - Globally! Twenty three years later, the Philippines issued its first set of year-of-pig stamps, depicting a clay pig wearing a pink bowknot and a couple of cartoon pigs. Around the same period, North Korea and Vietnam also issued their first sets of pig-themed stamps that were full of local characteristics. In addition to Asian countries, the US, France, Australia and some countries in Africa and Latin America also issued related special stamps, indicating the popularity of China’s zodiac culture overseas. China started to issue zodiac stamps from 1980. Here are selection of 2019 Year of the pig stamps from Asian countries.
Christmas controversy in the UK Reported at www.telegraph.co.uk
The Royal Mail is facing calls to modernise the design of its religious Christmas stamps as they are being overtaken by secular ones for first time. Around six in ten festive stamps bought by members of the public are now secular ones, up from around four in ten five years ago, according to the National Federation of Sub-Postmasters. Experts said Royal Mail’s religious stamps tended to be more serious and less glamorous in their design than secular stamps, potentially contributing to their decline in popularity. A spokesman from lobby group, Christian Concern, said: “There’s much in the Christmas story that
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Margo Campbell plained of a shortage of religious stamps at their local post offices and shops, suggesting too few may have been made available. Another customer who said they were unable to buy religious stamps said: “Clearly the Royal Mail is determined to take Christ out of Christmas.”
Christmas controversy in the US Reported at www. kansascity.com
could be visual. You’ve got the kings, the shepherds, the manger, the appearances of the angels.” “I don’t know whether it is because the artists for secular stamps are better and more creative than those designing the religious ones. Its hard for Mary holding a baby to compete with ä happy smiling Santa Claus.” Every year the Royal Mail designs a new set of stamps, alternating between religious and secular. Post Offices aim to supply both types of stamps to give customers a choice between the two. The religious stamps on offer this year were designed in 2017 and feature images of the Madonna and Child. The secular ones were designed this year and feature families posting letters through bright red post boxes in the snow. Meanwhile a number of customers have com-
A new flank has opened in the “war on Christmas” with a controversy that involves the U.S. Postal Service, Russia and the family who owns the Kansas City Chiefs. It started when Clark Hunt, CEO of the Chiefs, and his family went to the World Cup in Russia. While visiting Moscow’s Red Square this summer, they took a family portrait in front of the iconic St. Basil’s cathedral while holding a banner that read “Chiefs Kingdom.” Hunt’s wife, Tavia Hunt, thought the photo would make a great customized stamp for the family’s Christmas cards. The Postal Service now allows certain qualifying vendors to offer personalised first class stamps. But there are rules, as spelled out in the Federal Register. Customized stamps may not depict alcohol or firearms or illegal drugs. They also may not depict “political, religious, violent or sexual content.” Tavia Hunt placed her order on Nov. 28 with a Stamp News - 19
Stamps in the News - Globally! Hunt said she was shocked that a family photo that includes a historic cathedral in the background is considered too religious by the Post Office. St. Basil’s cathedral has long been a museum with one service a year and is part of the Kremlin and Red Square UNESCO World Heritage Site. The ban on religious content only applies to customized stamps and not regular US stamps. You can buy a nativity scene first-class stamp or stamps with menorahs or other religious content at the post office or online. Hunt eventually contacted First Liberty Institute, a Christian lobby group who sent a letter of objection to the US Postmaster, describing the Hunts as “devoted Christians who wish to share their religious identity with others via customized postage stamps during the Christmas season.” First Liberty claims that if the determination is that Hunts’ image was properly rejected under its regulations then those regulations “raise serious First Amendment concerns and may require legal action.”
United Nations honouring Kofi Annan and Hello Kitty? Reported at www.linns.com
vendor called Zazzle. She was surprised to hear back a few days later that her family image had been rejected because of its “religious” content. “The order was cancelled due to the prominence of St. Basil’s cathedral in the background,” Zazzle told Hunt. “Due to the rules on religious images from the USPS, we could not pass the image as provided.” 20 - Stamp News
The United Nations Postal Administration has added Hello Kitty stamps to its 2019 stamp program. The Hello Kitty and Global Goals issue is scheduled for release on May 2. The set is designed to promoted sustainable development projects. In 2017 the United Nations World Trade Organisation appointed Hello Kitty as Special Ambassador of the International Year of Sustainable Tourism Development. Additionally, there will be a souvenir sheet for
Singpex 2019 and the China 2019 World Stamp Exhibition with a theme of the United Nations Development Programme global animal goodwill ambassadors, the panda twins Qiqi and Diandian. There will be stamps issued by the UNPA in March carrying three themes: stop sexual exploitation and abuse, gender equality, and migration. Two additional definitive stamps will honour former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, to be issued May 31; and the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, a stamp to be released Oct. 2.
PNG mixes it up
Reported at https://postcourier.com.pg Use of letters is in decline but, Post PNG like every other postal administration around the world,
has diversified its businesses and using creative ideas for postage stamps. “So what we have done now is we have diversified because there is a decline in the industry, not in PNG, but it’s a global thing” Post PNG chief executive said. “We still receive letters but the volume is dropping at 10 percent a year.” Post PNG has since expanded into airline ticketing, partnering with other financial like Western Union. One of the more successful ways Post PNG has grown is through philatelic online selling. Post PNG’s Philatelic manager said the dwindling number of subscription stamp collectors “was quite worrying” and that was the reason for the shift of focus to the PNG Post’s online shop.
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Stamps in the News - Globally!
“We tried to come up with some innovative ideas like different shaped stamps, we tried pineapple scented stamps, just to be able to captivate the collectors.” “So instead of throwing in the towel, we decided to ride on the wave and we came up with the online shop where we have our stamps so collec-
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tors around the world can access and buy.” Most collectors are overseas-based, with only a handful of expatriate collectors in PNG. Post PNG has 8 international agents in Australia, German, Russia and UK where all PNG stamps are issued for distribution globally. Post PNG has between 8-15 issues of stamps
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annually on different topics and interests in order to maintain collectors, as well as cut down costs. Issues featuring orchids have generated a lot of interest and Post PNG have released orchid issues as often as they could over the years. “We try to balance this every year but we also take note on which topic generates more interest, and we make them our first choice.” Post PNG is creating a platform to accommodate suppliers from abroad by partnering with local companies from which customers can pick-up goods as well as partnering with international clients on their website.
Love all in Japan
Reported at www.tennisworldusa.org Honours keep coming for Naomi Osaka. The Japanese tennis player has promoted a new collection of stamps featuring her face. They will be sold around Japan, making the 21-year-old’s popularity increase even more. The Japanese-Haitian player is currently ranked fifth in the world and is expected to win more majors in 2019. Osaka will start her new season at the Brisbane International prior to competing at the Australian Open. Osaka’s popularity soared after her maiden Grand Slam title at the US Open where she defeated Serena Williams in a controversial final.
Stamp fraudsters all washed up Reported at www.dailymail.co.uk
An English couple who bought hundreds of used stamps in charity shops then washed them and sold them as new on eBay are each jailed for two years after costing Royal Mail £400,000. Wendy Baker, 55 and Dean Westwood, 56, from Birmingham, pleaded guilty to three charges of
fraud after running the scam from their home for five years. They have been jailed for two years The total value of the stamps sold was £443,244 while the couple pocketed £149,344 in profit. They pleaded guilty to possessing articles for use in fraud, adapting an article for fraud and supplying an article for fraud. The couple first started buying used first and second class stamps in bulk from charities in July 2013. The vast majority of the sales were to businesses and traders and there were multiple and repeat purchases. The couple used a chemical process to remove the cancellation marks on the stamps and white spirit to remove the glue from the back of the stamps, before drying them with talcum powder, putting them on drying racks and spraying them with hairspray ‘to make them look better.’ Westwood and Baker then sold the stamps at a significant discount, establishing a company called Stampbusters as a vehicle for their illegal enterprise. The prosecution stated the couple had advertised their business with disclaimers explaining what they do, in a bid to legitimise it. Royal Mail investigators, who made test purchases from them, and other buyers identified the stamps as having previously been used. A police raid on their home revealed large numbers of first and second class stamps ‘in various states of process.’ In passing sentence, Recorder Rachel Brand QC said the fraud had been ‘persistent and planned’ Stamp News - 23
Stamps in the News - Globally! She added: ‘You placed into circulation a huge number of washed stamps over a number of years allowing others to use them to cheat the Royal Mail out of revenue they were entitled to.’
Seattle honours its most famous son Reported at www.seattletimes.com
Last month I reported on the lobbying to have a Seattle Post Office renamed after Jimi Hendrix. This month I can report success- the Renton Highlands Post Office in Seattle is being renamed the James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix Post Office. Once a leading figure of the counterculture viewed warily by the federal government, the music icon will now have a post office near his hometown named after him. The bill, which passed unanimously, was sponsored by Rep. Adam Smith, D-Bellevue, and sup-
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ported by both of Washington’s U.S. senators, Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell. “I am honoured to join in paying tribute to rock and roll icon and Seattle native Jimi Hendrix with the renaming of the Renton Highlands Post Office” Smith said in a statement. “This designation will further celebrate Hendrix’s deep connection to the Puget Sound region and help ensure that his creative legacy will be remembered by our community and inspire future generat
India Post to spread light in rural areas Reported at www.thehindu.com
After providing several services such as postal insurance and passport services, India Post is now getting ready to sell solar lamps through its rural post offices. In the first phase, the India Post has decided to offer lamps at selected post offices in Chittoor district. “We are training an officer in each post office on the technical aspects of handling the lamps. The sale will most probably start from January,” Superintendent of Post Offices said. Claimed to be unbreakable and water-proof, the lamps are available in different glow variants - 50 lumens, 200 lumens, 250 lumens and 300 lumens. The lamp could emit light for 40-100 hours after being charged for four hours. The lamps come with features like mobile charging and USB slots.
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
1913 Roo, 4d Orange ANILINE Ink, superb MLH with Cert:
A rare and highly under-rated stamp. Have not owned one for decades. Has a clear 2017 Photo Certificate from the Shades Guru, Michael Drury’s “Sydney Philatelic Research Service’’ Certifying this as - “4d Orange - Aniline - ACSC 2017, No 15b” Incredibly fresh for any 4d Roo, with a real glowing unfaded colour. Superbly fresh vibrant MVLH. ACSC 15B, cat $2,000 for average grade, and this one is about as good as these get. Only $US875 as I type this - $A1,250 (Stock 728BA)
$10 Kangaroo complete set 5, Perf “OS” and O/P “Specimen”!:
How many Kangaroo or Australia collections globally have all 5 of these? Almost ZERO! As part of the Centenary of the Kangaroo and Map stamps in 2013, Australia Post sold a small number of sets of these 5 items shown above in a small sheetlet. They seem to have only sold them at the huge FIP International 2013 World Stamp Expo in Melbourne, and sold out fast. Oddly these got little or no publicity, as all the Black Caviar horse racing product they issued at same show, took precedence at AP, and few seemed to have bought the Roos at the time. I certainly did at the show, as I recognised their great future potential! I have waited 6 years to offer them. I do not think any other dealer on this planet has this complete set of 5 offered for sale - check it out! VERY scarce, 100% Official, yet at less than double face. Only well centred copies selected for sale. The $10 Kangaroo was offered overprinted “Specimen” in the exact same font as was used in 1913. It was also overprinted in a solid “OS” font, as was used on the 1930 Kangaroo issues. And Australia Post ALSO offered them in the Large and Small sized “OS” perfins, in sizes exactly as issued in 1913 on the original Kangaroo stamps. ASC Cat, 3099msb, $160, and SG 3983a, cat £130. PRICES - One set 5 x $10, MUH and/or CTO, your choice, (MUH sent unless specified) $A95 (Stock 729JA) Re-seller or investor special - FIVE sets of 5 x $10, MUH and/or CTO, your choice (MUH sent unless specified) $A425 (Stock 729JC). TEN sets 5 - $A800 (Stock 729JD) Or, one set 5 MUH, and one set of 5 CTO (10) for $A185 (Stock 729JF) These are OFFICIAL Post Office issues, and are in the 2 main catalogues, and I have very small stock left now. Set of 5 MUH or CTO - well under $US70 now: $A95 (Stock 729JA)
Tonga 1892 Defins, full set 5 *DIE PROOFS* just $A80 apiece!:
The Arms of Tonga, and King George I - the complete set 5. SG 10/14 - SG cat £225 mint, and £400 used, and Die Proofs in colour are 1000 times scarcer than either! Bright and gorgeous looking set, especially for 127 years old, on clear white wove paper. Each expertised on reverse by “A. Diena”. The seller’s family great grand-father was High Commissioner for this region I was advised. Only $A80 each - indeed only about $US55 apiece right now - if these were from Australia, you could literally add 2 zeros. $A400 (Stock 792BX)
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 February 2019. This month’s column looks at genesis of the first Christmas Island aerogrammes, the postal stationery competition at Thailand 2018 and a new report of a Queensland Registered Envelope.
Christmas Island Aerogrammes 1971-1975
Most postal stationery collectors Figure 1 Christmas Island 10c Aerogramme have little knowledge of the work that is involved in producing a new by the Note Printing Branch in Australia. As a result issue of postal stationery. Some appreciation of of the postal rate increase in 1 October 1971 the this work can be obtained by viewing the files held aerogramme had to have an additional 2c in postage by the National Archives of Australia. In this aradded and an order was placed for a replacement 12c ticle I discuss the production of Christmas Island aerogramme. aerogrammes over the period 1971-1975 based on On 22 October 1971, the Christmas Island Postthe archival records (NAA File N16 P1972/47). master (Mr R Stone) wrote to the Official Secretary The genesis of the aerogrammes demonstrates the at Government House requesting advice as to the difficulties imposed by the slow communications expected arrival date of the new 12c aerogrammes so between Christmas Island and the UK (email is so that he could advertise an issue date for the aeromuch quicker) and the tensions between philatelic gramme. He noted that the Post Office had been and post office requirements. It is also interesting unable to advertise an issue date for the 10c aeroto note the scale of the philatelic sales of the aerogramme and that many clients had been disappointed grammes. at being unable to obtain first day of issue cancellaThe first Christmas Island aerogramme was issued tions on the aerogramme as a result. on 17 May 1971 and was of a plain design with He also suggested that the new aerogramme be the stamp area depicting the value and name of the advertised in the next newsletter, with an issue date territory (Christmas Island Indian Ocean) with an of 5 June 1972. His also requested that as supplies orange background (Figure 1). 7,000 were printed of the 10c aerogramme might not last until the new aerogramme was issued that the Australian Post Office be requested to return any surplus 10c aerogrammes to Christmas Island. The 12c aerogramme was duly advertised in the Christmas Island Post Office Newsletter of 19 February 1972 with an issue date of 5 June 1972. The first day postmarker was available for use on the aerogramme provided orders were received before the date of issue (it was not the practice at the time to back-date first day cancellations). Figure 2 Christmas Island 12c Aerogramme The newsletter also advised that 26 - Stamp News
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Figure 4 Christmas Island 14c Aerogramme
Figure 5 14c Aerogramme Postmarked 16 Apr 74, the First Day of Issue Figure 3 Proof of Christmas Island Aerogramme Denominated 12c Produced by Harrison and Sons the 10c aerogramme would be withdrawn on 4 June 1972. The 12c aerogramme was the same design as the 10c aerogramme (Figure 2). Besides being sold at the Christmas Island Post Office, supplies were retained by the Australian Post Office for philatelic sales and some were also sent to the Crown Agents (200 mint and 20 FDC). By 4 September 1972 580 aerorgammes had been sold at the post office and 1,620 through philatelic sales. On 21 February 1973 the Postmaster wrote to the Note Printing Branch advising that supplies of the 12c aerogramme were low and ordering a further 10,000 aerogrammes which were expected to last for two years with the design remaining the same. On the same day he also wrote to Harrison and Sons (Harrison) in London who had written to the Post Office on 10 November 1971 advising that they were able to print aerogramme forms with a very simple stamp design or with decorative panels depicting varied facets of the Territory. The Postmaster indicated that Christmas Island had just made an
order of additional aerogrammes to the Note Printing Branch due to the low stock levels of the 12c aerogrammes and because he didn’t have an alternative design or quote. While he indicated to Harrison and Sons that he had ordered a supply from the Note Printing Branch and was not at this stage ordering aerogrammes from them, he asked them to prepare some designs and provide a quote for printing approximately 10,000 aerorgammes. Harrison replied on 15 May 1973 with two rough designs for the aerogramme, two rough designs for the stamp and with a quote for £422.75 pounds for producing the finished artwork, three printing plates, paper and for printing 10,000 aerorgammes. Printing would be in three colours, by lithography, punched to shape 317 mm x 240 mm, with tropical gummed flaps. Christmas Island was sufficiently impressed by the designs that the order with the Note Printing Branch was immediately cancelled. The cancellation was confirmed by the Department of Territories in a telegram dated on 8 June 1973 indicating that the cancellation was without charge, presumably beStamp News - 27
Postal Stationery cause the Note Printing Branch had not yet commenced work. On 18 June 1973 the Administrator wrote to Harrison advising that they were impressed with the designs and that he had cancelled the order with the Note Printing Branch. One of the two designs provided by Harrison was based on two Golden Bosun Birds (tropic-birds) in flight with a vertical stamp while the other depicted coconut trees with a horizontal stamp depicting an aircraft. While the administrator Figure 6 Reverse of 1912Queensland Registered Envelope Showing Im(F Evatt) originally favoured printed 3d Registration Stamp the design featuring the bosun birds, the Postmaster was able to persuade him that the other design was preferable as the bosun bird ‘had been over used in the past as a symbol for Christmas Island’. The Administrator wrote to Harrison on 11 July 1973 advising that that Christmas Island had selected the design with the coconut trees and the horizontal stamp design provided a number of changes were made. These included changes to the positions of the instructional markings and the removal of a flower design on the Figure 7 Front of 1912 Queensland Registered Envelope used from Gatton middle fold as well as the use to Germany in 1913 of a darker shade of blue. The letter also requested a copy of A cable was duly sent to Harrison accepting the the amended design before the work proceeded and designs but advising that the postage rate needed to asked if an issue date of 4 February 1974 could be be changed to 14c due to a postage rate increase in achieved. Harrison provided three photo-blocks of October 1973 (Figure 3 shows a proof of the design the amended design in a letter dated 1 October 1973 denominated 12c). The administrator also asked that along with a sample of a Malaysian aerogramme the Crown Agents approve the colour proofs before recently produced by them as an example of the paprinting commenced and sought advice on when per and gum to be used. They also advised that they Harrison could guarantee delivery. The Post Office could not guarantee supply of the aerogrammes by decided that the issue date would be set once they the proposed issue date. had advice from Harrison as to the date on which 28 - Stamp News
Ian McMahon Figure 8 Thailand 2018 Postal Stationery Jury
they could guarantee supply of the aerorgammes. Harrison replied on 28 November 1973 with a copy of a proof of the aerogramme which was accepted by the Administration subject to the Crown Agent’s response although one member of the Philatelic Committee commented “I can’t say that I like the red washy sea and the round dome in the background. Could be an oasis in a desert”. Harrison was advised of the acceptance on 28 December 1973 and asked to provide a further six proofs for publicity purposes. The Crown Agents wrote on 11 December 1973 advising that the design should be approved subject to the removal of the red on the wing of the aircraft and requesting 350 mint and 50 aerogrammes cancelled on the first day of issue. This recommendation was accepted by the Administrator on 31 December 1973. In a letter dated 2 January 1974 the Administrator confirmed the approval subject to the change suggested by the Crown Agents and asked that 350 aerogrammes be provided directly to the Crown Agents, 3,000 directly to the Australian Philatelic Bureau and 6,650 to the Island. 16 January 1974 Christmas Island issued a news release advising that a 14c aerogramme would be issued as a result of the October 1973 postal rates increase and should be available in 2-3 months. In addition, it advised that the 12c aerogramme would be sold with additional 2c stamp until sold out which
was expected to occur within the next 4 weeks. In a letter dated 2 January 1974 Harrison confirmed that they had commenced work on printing the aerogrammes. This was followed by a letter dated 25 January 1974 confirming that the aerogrammes would be ready for dispatch by 1 March 1974 and asking whether the aerogrammes should be air freighted or should be sent by sea mail. Given that supplies of the 12c aerogramme were by this time almost exhausted and that the Postmaster was keen to have the new aerorgammes issued as soon as possible, Christmas Island replied on 6 February 1974 requesting that the 3,000 aerogrammes for the Australian Philatelic Bureau be air-freighted to Melbourne and the 6,650 aerogrammes for the Island be air freighted to Singapore to the Australian High Commission with a request for forwarding to Christmas Island. The issue date was then set at 16 April 1974. The Administrator wrote to the Australian Postmaster General on 7 February 1974 advising of the issue of the new aerogramme, its issue date, that 3,000 aerogrammes would be sent by air freight directly to Melbourne and including a description “Blue is the overall colour of the aerogramme with black palm trees and a red sunset featured on the front page. The value is printed in stamp form containing a modern aircraft in flight and in the background is a global map.’ The letter also requested that the APO withdraw any stocks of the 12c aerogramme on 16 April 1974, destroy them and provide a certificate of destruction. The new aerogramme was announced in the Christmas Island Post Office’s newsletter of 11 February 1974 which included details of the issue date, a description and details of how to obtain First Day cancellations (requests for first day cancellations Stamp News - 29
Postal Stationery were to be honoured up until 19 April 1974). It also advised of the expected exhaustion of supplies of the 12c aerogramme in March 1974. On 2 April 1974 the Australian Philatelic Bureau advised that the Christmas Island press statement had arrived too late to make Stamp Preview No 2 which contained details of the April issues. On 19 February 1974 Harrison wrote enclosing the 6 proofs requested by Christmas Island with the aerogrammes (Figure 4) arriving in Christmas Island on 3 April 1974. The packing slip indicated that 6,644 aerorgammes had been included. Harrison returned the artwork to Christmas Island on 5 April 1974 and the first design on 3 April 1974. On 2 April 1974 Christmas Island forwarded 1,000 CTO aerogrammes (Figure 5) to the Australian Philatelic Bureau while 30 were sent to the Crown Agents on 3 April 1975.
Queensland 1912 3d Registered Envelope
history, postal stationery, proofs, essays, and errors. Its goal is to make the site a good reference source for collectors. If you are interested in Queensland it’s well worth a visit https://www.facebook.com/ groups/490246201113260/.
Thailand 2018 Postal Stationery Competition
Thailand 2018 World Stamp Exhibition (Figures 8 and 9) was held in Bangkok from 28 November to 3 December 2018. There were 20 exhibits in the postal stationery competition covering material from a wide range of countries as well as five one-frame and 13 Youth postal stationery exhibits. Jaiswal Sandeep’s exhibit of British India - Queen Victoria Postal Stationery and Alexey Strebulaev ‘s Postal Stationery for City Posts of St Petersburg and Moscow won Large Gold medals while Gold medals were awarded to Postal Cards Issued by the Republic of China in Taiwan (Lin Chang-Long), and The First Postal Stationery Issues of Independent Finland 1917-1929 (Jussi Tuori). Australian resident, Mohammed Islam, won a Large Vermeil medal for Postal Stationery of Bangladesh 1971-2000 while Steve Schumann (USA) displayed a one-frame exhibit of New Zealand POW airletters as well as having his New Zealand Postal Stationery exhibit in the Championship Class.
In the Postal Stationery Column in the December 2017 issue of the Australasian Stamp News, I reported on the auction sale of mint, CTO and used examples of the 1912 Queensland King Edward VII 3d Registered Envelope, commenting that only two used copies had been recorded. Another used example of this envelope has now been recorded by Henk Godthelp on the Queensland Stamp Collecting group on Facebook. The envelope has been used from Gatton on 20 May 1913 to Germany with the addition of a 4d adhesive stamp. Unlike the earlier Queensland registered envelopes, the flap with the imprinted 3d registration stamp folds to the back of the envelope (Figure 6). Figure 7 shows the ‘front’ of the envelope with the address and the 4d adhesive stamp. The Queensland Stamp Collecting group page is an active Facebook group about Queensland stamp collecting covering all aspects of Queensland stamps, revenues, railways, postmarks, postal Figure 9 Audience Waiting 30 - Stamp News
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Cinderella Corner ‘Back To…’ Part 3 (1933 – 1960) Welcome to the February edition of Cinderella Corner. This piece continues the narrative from the previous 2018 March and April editions, exploring some more of the Back to cinderella labels that have helped celebrate the actions and milestones of an array of towns throughout Australia. The seven different cinderella labels in this piece cover various years, from 1933 to 1960, with a noticeable concentration in 1957. Along with the 19 different Back to labels explored last year, these 26 cinderellas are surely not an exhaustive account of all the different ones that exist under this Back to theme. Several more will also be explored next month, in a fourth instalment. As usual, I welcome any feedback about the Back to labels and look forward to seeing different types of them as they emerge. Back To Wodonga Wodonga is a town situated on the border of Victoria and New South Wales, which was establish in 1852 as a customs post with Albury, on the other side of the Murray River. It then grew as a town following the opening of the first bridge across the Murray River in 1860. The cinderella label illustrated in Figure 1 was issued in late 1951 to welcome the centenary of Wodonga. It measures approximately 34mm x 21mm, is coloured red and cream, and is perforated 11 on all sides. The cinderella features the shield-enclosed text: BACK TO WODONGA / 9th – 17th NOVEMBER, 1951 The ‘Back to Wodonga’ festival ran, in November, for nine consecutive days. Back To Warracknabeal The wheatbelt town of WarLeft: Figure 2 racknabeal is situated in Below: Figure 3 North-West Victoria. It was founded in the late 1850s with a Post Office opening in 1861. Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the district was occupied by the Wotjobaluk Aboriginal group. The cinderella label illustrated in Figure 2 was issued in late 1957 to welcome European natives home to celebrate the centenary of the town. It measures approximately 55mm x 21mm, is coloured cream and navy, and is rouletted 10 32 - Stamp News
on two sites. The simple text on the label reads: BACK TO WARRACKNABEAL / November 13 – 17, 1957 The Back to Warracknabeal festival ran for 5 days, in November 1957. Back To Bourke The historically iconic Bourke, Figure 1 situated on the Darling River, is a town in the north west of New South Wales with its earliest European settlement dated to 1835. The cinderella label illustrated in Figure 3 was issued in late 1936 to help celebrate the town’s centenary and, as noted in some articles, debunk views of Bourke as unpleasant and dusty. It measures approximately 36mm x 25mm and is imperforate on all sides. The
Vito Milana Figure 4 label features the text: The Call of the West. Back to Bourke. 4 – 10 Oct., 1936. The festival ran for one week in 1936, stretching from the 4th to 10th of October. Back To Broken Hill Broken Hill was established in 1883 as a small mining town in the western outback of New South Wales, and has since had a rich role to play in Australia’s mining and wider economic landscape. The cinderella label illustrated in Figure 4 was issued in 1933 to help celebrate the town’s 50th anniversary. It measures approximately 47mm x 66mm and is imperforate on all sides. The label is coloured blue, black, orange and white and features an aerial view of Broken Hill, complete with a mining rig observable in the top right. The text on the cinderella reads: Back To BROKEN HILL Jubilee Celebrations SEPT. 5TH – 12TH 1933 The week long jubilee celebrations comprised of several key events and ran in early September. They were reported as most successful.
Figure 5 recognised as ‘Sale.’ It encouraged natives to return as part of Easter celebrations held at the time. The label measures approximately 44mm x 17mm and is rouletted 10 on all sides. It is coloured orange and black and presents the text: Back To Sale / Easter -- 1957 An example of this cinderella affixed to the front of a cover is illustrated in Figure 6. Addressed to the CBD in Melbourne and with a Sale postmark, it also
Back To Sale Sale (previously known as Flooding Creek), in the Gippsland region of Victoria, was credited as being discovered by Angus McMillan in 1840, before being renamed to Sale in 1850. During its early years, it benefitted significantly from the gold rush and thereafter grew significantly as a town. The cinderella label illustrated in Figure 5 was issued in 1957, more than a century after the town was officially Top: Figure 7 Right: Figure 8 Stamp News - 33
Cinderella Corner features the matching slogan: BACK TO SALE EASTER 1957. Back To Bacchus Marsh Bacchus Marsh, situated in Victoria, was established by early European settlers in 1836 and was created a district in 1862. It is a significant producer of fruit and vegetables and exports produce throughout the State. The cinderella label illustrated in Figure 7 is tied to the reverse of a cover, postmarked at Bacchus Marsh. It measures approximately 55mm x 22mm and is rouletted 11 on two sides. The cinderella is coloured pink and black and presents the text: 12th to 20th OCTOBER, 1957 / “Back To Bacchus Marsh” Similar to the Back to Sale festivities, the Bacchus Marsh ones were also celebrated in 1957. Of further note, there was also a Back to Bacchus Marsh event that ran in late October, 1930. Back To Merbein White settlement commenced in Merbein, previously known as White Cliffs, in 1909. It is situated just north of Mildura, Victoria, and population numbers are noted as having dropped shortly after the end of World War II. The cinderella label illustrated in Figure 8 measures approximately 38mm x 28mm and is rouletted 11 on two sides. It is coloured navy and cream and features the text: BACK TO MERBEIN 1909 – 1959 / Aug. 1421, 1959 The label marked Back to celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the town, welcoming natives to return and celebrate for a week in August, 1959. Conclusion The Back to cinderella labels in this article help to
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further capture some of Australia’s past, following early European settlement, and shed some insight into a variety of towns scattered across the land. They were issued in Australia as early as Figure 8 1917, and were then produced as a means to encourage natives of a town to return (normally during set festivities) for a visit, and they were often tied to milestones and events, including anniversaries, fundraising fetes and fairs. As noted last year, the earlier patriotic types also had a broader war-theme, as, for a few key towns, they were available during the later years of World War I and aligned with festivities in the town to support (and fundraise) for returning Australian soldiers, including the selling of badges and lottery-style competitions. Next month’s Cinderella Corner will help explore a few more of these Back to labels and thereby further broaden the landscape of some of Australia’s historical towns.
Ballarat Philatelic Society – 2019 Cinderellas Having formed over 110 years ago in 1904, the Ballarat Philatelic Society is regarded as one of the oldest active clubs in Victoria. To help commemorate several milestones reached over its rich history, the Society is issuing a number of limited high quality cinderella labels, the first of which was discussed in last year’s September 2018 Cinderella Corner. These have been designed by club members and draw upon the images from the infamous ‘Back to Ballarat’ labels. The second cinderella, to be released next month, will commemorate the Ballarat Begonia Stamp Fair, and an example of this, as a block of 4, is presented in Figure 9. This label will be produced by wellknown printer Juergen Schwarz in fully gummed and hand-perforated sheets of 30. A small amount will also be available imperforate. Following this second release, three further labels are planned for release. Further information about these upcoming high quality labels can be obtained by emailing Jack Van Beveren at the Ballarat Philatelic Society on annejack3@bigpond.com. Figure 9
BUY OR BID SALE FEBRUARY 2019 Buy now at the listed price or bid a lower figure. Bids will be considered Midday 28th February 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 below 65% will have minimal chance of success. Bid for as many alternatives as you wish, but please put a dollar cap on your total spending, and we will allocate lots according to what is available. Orders at full 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 AAP15) Stanley Gibbon Australia Catalogue, 2016 10th Ed. Was $79, one only $59 AAP14) Ka-Be Australia as new Illustrated Hingeless Pages 2001 – 2010 for Booklet panes & Sheetlets. Huge stack of 200 pages approx., new cost around $500! Also throwing in for Zero, matching AAT pages 1957 – 1997. Weighs 4kg! Yours for only 25% of the original price, just $125 (New Binders and slipcases can be supplied if required) AAP13) Ka-Be Stockbooks. Clearing our shelves of almost as new (some may just be old stock that got a little shop soiled) 32 black page de-luxe with clear interleaving. Retail $40 each. Available in Red, Black, Blue or Green. Half price, $20 each, carton of 10 for $195 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. Single sided sizes available 1 - 3 strips, $72.50 per 100. Double sided available in 1 – 5 strips, $137.50 per 100. AMMY4) SG Part One, Commonwealth 1840 – 1970 Catalogue 2013 edition, small fault at top of spine otherwise as new. Published at $175, price just $49.
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 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 PNG20) as above, but with Benchback Wildlife –Western Province view with bird in tab, price $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
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BUY OR BID SALE FEBRUARY 2019 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. CJ1) New Zealand in 3 stockbooks & cover album. Early – Modern, mint & used. Noted KGV Official mint, inc. 1½d Grey in block of 4, 1935 Defins. 1d & 2d in plate No. Blocks then officials to 1/- mint. 1935 Jubilee x 2 sets. QEII in plate blocks to 3/- Green, many many healths mint unhinged inc. 1936 Lifebuoy. 6d Violet Express mint unhinged. Mint decimals unhinged inc. 1969 Cook minisheet. Small amounts of modern used and cover album contains mainly Health & Christmas fdcs, 1958 – 1972. Probably 1000 – 1250 stamps in all. Some aging/toning here and there but overall a good lot. Weighs close to 4kg. Price $295 CJ2) Worldwide in 3 large stockbooks. Early to modern, mostly postally used. 1st volume Noted Australia KGV Heads, values to 5d x about 400, inc. OS perfins and overprints. Unchecked by us, also a few pages of China, nationalist period plus decent early India. 2nd volume is all GB with duplicated Machin heads, small types to £1, large types to £5 x 8 plus £10 Britannia x 4 and many better used commems to early 1990. 3rd Volume is mostly Europe with good Germany, Lithuania, Norway etc. Must be 5000 stamps here! Price under 5c a stamp. $249 the lot. CJ3) Russia 1950’s -60’s Accumulation plus some Romania in 3 stockbooks. Mostly cto used in sets, 1950’s – ‘60s. Few mint noted. Must be around 1500 stamps, with light duplication. Should yield close to 1000 different. Price $96 CJ4) Australia pre-decimal used stock 1934 - 1950 in as new Red German Made 16 Black page stockbook. Noted MacArthur set of 4 x 3, South Australia set x 4, Robes £1 x 2, 1940 AIF set x 3, Arms to £2 x 4 sets etc. About 1250 – 1500 stamps. Cheap at $125 CJ5) AAT used stock to around 1990 in near new Blue 16 page German Made black page stockbook. Noted 2/3d Penguins & Map x 5, $1 Mock Sun x 3 plus several blocks of 4. About 650 – 700 stamps. Cheap lot at $59 CJ7) Papua New Guinea 1950’s – 2009 mostly mint unhinged with some used sets and odds in big red stockbook plus mint sheet file. Priced by now deceased parttime dealer very conservatively at over $500, plus some is not priced. Realistic retail would probably be at least $850. There are 250 – 300 complete hundreds of sets here at a rough guess. Some minor faults but largely fresh & clean lot. $349 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 CJ10) GB Regionals 1958 – 1978 Approx. Mint unhinged dealer stock in Red 16 page Lighthouse stockbook. Quantities from 1 to 10 of each stamp. Better items noted inc. 9d & 1/6d No wmk issues. Decimals to 10p. Some aging to stockbook and a few
stamps, most are fine. Counted 380 stamps. Cheap at 10c each, $38 the lot! CJ11) Australia Pre-Decimal accumulation in Maroon stockbook. Mixed condition, mostly used, a few mint. Noted 1937 Robes set to £1 fine used, plus Roos and KGV Heads to 2/about 40 of these, plus a few imprint blocks & other pickings Well worth $39 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, setenant 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 CJ13) Western Australia cds postmarks. A collection is 2 as new Lighthouse Brown 32 page Luxury padded stockbooks. Beautifully written up and organised in alphabetical order. Predominantly single ring cancels, covering approx. 300 different offices, 75 complete and only 84 needed to complete. Many are covered several times. From Abbots to Yundamindera, mainly on 1d & 2d denominations with mainly very fine or superb dated strikes. A very fine lot of 921 stamps with quite a lot of pairs and blocks. Good value at well under $10 per stamp. Price $8995 CJ14) West Germany 1949 – 1970 absolutely Complete collection in Lindner Hingeless album. It is a mix of Mint and fine postally used, with much unmounted. Cat. at 1250 pounds plus yonks ago = over $2000 on today’s exchange rate. Opportunity to buy at under 25% cat. and the album thrown in free! Price $495 CJ15) Australia FDC’s in 2 albums 1981 – 1991 a decade of 220 plus mainly unofficial fdcs, plus 20 or so PSE’s which are not counted. Values to $20 with some very minor duplication. Includes mostly complete sets with Living Together, Sports etc. inc. Booklet panes of these. Very clean lot…cheap at around 80c per cover. Price $179 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 CJ17) Poland 1919 – 1981 used Collection in Black Norman post fitting album. Postally used to 1960 then cto. Fair number of complete thematic sets, plus some back of book material. About 700 all different. Good value at 10c a stamp. Price $69 CJ18) Romania 1879 – 1981 used Collection in Black Norman post fitting album. Postally used to 1950 then cto. Fair number of complete thematic sets, plus some back of book material. About 600 all different. Good value at 10c a stamp. Price $59 CJ19) World modest collection in Gibbons Utile Green springback album, $130 new! Decent showings of Australia (Kangaroos to 2/- Brown, KGV to 1/4d), Belgium, Germany, GB WITH 2/6d Seahorse & KGVI 1948 £1 Brown. Nothing added for past 65 years or so. About 300 – 400 stamps mixed condition. Selling for pretty much the value of the album, $49 CJ20) World Letter C in as new Ka-be 64 page brown padded stockbook, with original protective slipcase, worth $55. Contains good ranges of Colombia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia etc., mint & used. Would have to be around 3000 all different mint & used. Stockbook comes free, 10c each for the stamps, $295 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. CJ22) World Wildlife fund Animals of the World collection of Mint unhinged stamps in Deluxe Green Padded presentation album. Each animal represented is on a full
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BUY OR BID SALE FEBRUARY 2019 colour presentation card with background information on reverse. 104 items. Well worth 75c each, original cost $300 plus! Price $78 CJ23) Modern advertising/Art postcards, unused. As new Album full, 200 all different. Becoming quite collectable recently. Cheap at under 25c each, $49 the lot! CJ24) History of Transportation, 1980 Boxed set World collection of Mint unhinged stamps in Blue Deluxe presentation case. Each stamp presented is on a full colour card with background information on reverse. Absolutely as new condition. 108 items. Under 75c each, original cost $320! Price $79. CJ25) Australia 1980 – 1991 collectors duplicates in near new $65 green padded 64 page Lighthouse black page stockbook. Values to $10 with lots of other high values. Organised neatly by date of issue. Must be about 2000 - 2500 stamps here. Duplication from 2 up to 20 of each stamp. Nice clean lot, selling for new price of the stockbook only. Stamps come free, price $65. CJ26) Australia 1966 – 1989 accumulation in Red 48 page padded stockbook. Values to $10, with many, many high values and complete sets. 2000 – 2500 stamps here duplication from 2 to 20 of each or more. Stockbook comes free, nice clean lot. Stamps must be worth 3c each. Price $65 CJ27) Great Automobiles of the World. 1982 Boxed set World collection of Mint unhinged stamps depicting Veteran Vintage and more recent Historic Cars, in Green Deluxe presentation case. Each stamp presented is on a full colour card with background information on reverse. Absolutely as new condition. 108 items. Under 75c each, original cost $320! Price $79. CJ28) World Cup Soccer 1982 Boxed set World collection of First Day Covers in Blue Deluxe presentation case. Each cover presents the flag and a related stamp for each participating country on full colour embossed cover complete with background information on an insert card and relevant postmark. Absolutely as new condition. 49 covers. Under 80c each, original cost $195! Price $39. CJ29) Australia 90% complete simplified used collection in large blue stockbook 1913 – 1992 plus a few States. Neatly organised collection, missing only a few stamps to complete. Noted KGV Heads to 1/4d and Kangaroos to 2/-, 1937 Robes and 1949 Arms sets complete, 1963 Navigators to £1 etc. Values to $20. Approx. 1500 different stamps. Very cheap at under 6c a stamp. Price $85 CJ30) British Commonwealth mostly used collection on old 5 inch thick stack of album leaves pretty well untouched for nearly 40 years, 1850’s – 1980 approx. No Australia Many pickings here Queen Victoria onwards. Noted GB Victoria & KEVII to 2/6d, plus spacefiller 5/- & 10/-. Looks like about 300 leaves nearly 3kg in weight. Probably 1500 – 2000 stamps. Has to be worth 10c a stamp. $149 the lot. CJ31) USA 1861 – 1986 mostly used collection on stack of approx. 100 old album leaves. Not touched for past 32 years or so. Looks about 75% complete from 1901 – 1975 with some back of the book items. Good lot to build on. Guestimate 1250 1500 different here. Cheap lot for someone at about 5c a stamp. Price $69 CJ32) USA Commemorative year sets mint unhinged in display books/folders for 1975 plus 1982 – 1985. 5 complete years for just $35 CJ33) Australia Decimal used collection 1966 – 2009 in large green stockbook. Appears pretty well complete for the period, approx. 1500 different stamps. Cheap at under 10c a stamp. Price $149 CJ34) Useful Palestine, Israel and USA in large green stockbook, early to modern. Mostly used, some mint. Many of the Israel with tabs. About 1200 – 1250 mostly different. Noted USA values to $14 Eagle. Has to worth 10c a stamp, price $125 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 CJ37) Germany mainly used collection in bulging older pale blue post fitting album. Commences 1880’s through to 1982, with all areas and periods represented. Includes States, Colonies, Occupation Issues, Inflation Period, 3rd Reich, Allied Occupations, West Germany & DDR. No West Berlin that we could see. Looks like 150 album pages and hard to estimate but 1500 to 2000 mostly all different. Very good value lot with many pickings for about 7c per stamp. $125. CJ38) Useful older World mint & used in Dark Blue Springback album. Commences Australia with KGV & Roos. To 1/-, approx. 40 various States issues. Then noted early Austria, Belgium, France, Hungary etc. Nothing after about 1935 it seems. 400 plus stamps mostly all different. Well worth 15c per stamp. Price $59 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 CJ40) World letter C, Cambodia – Cuba mint & used to 1975 in in thick Red Gibbons “Philatelic” springback album. New cost $125. Looks like 150 or so pages with useful mint unhinged Cambodia 1961 minisheets cat £16, decent lot of Chile from 1879 roulettes, Colombia from 1904, 1975, Costa Rica from 1863, Cuba from 1878 etc. Guessing approx. 1000 all different here. Many pickings. Good lot for under 10c a stamp, price $98 CJ41) Useful Finland mostly used 1875 – 1976 in Red Springback Album. 195 all different. Noted 1917 25 Markka red and orange, SG 213 fine cds used cat. £33 and other better pickings. Well worth $49. 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) A similar smaller lot to the above with less variety 53 PNC’s for $475 b) Another smaller lot, this time 24 PNC’s for $215 c) 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.
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BUY OR BID SALE FEBRUARY 2019 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 NO55) NEWFOUNDLAND. Magnificent collection on Scott illustrated album pages covering the period 1857-1943. One of the finest and freshest lots I have had the pleasure to offer. More than £4,200 SG Cat. Value (Aus. $6,720) includes a stunning SG 11, 3 margins example 3d Green mint lightly hinged £110, SG 13 £140, SG 15 mint £350, SG 25 mint £170, SG 40-43 Roulette mixed mint 1c others fine used £115, 1897 SG 66-69 Discovery and QV Diamond Jubilee, a stunning mint set £325, SG 83-90 mint £150, 1911 SG 117-27 mint £250, no rust or toning, more than 155 different stamps, various listed shades etc. A bargain as most of the early material normally sells well at half catalogue due to its rarity, as a collection this is available for just under 40% of cat. $2685 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 CMN4) Worldwide Thematics collection on printed pages in Red 4 ring binder. About 100 or more complete sets on many themes nicely displayed on printed pages. Priced very reasonably at 75c a set. Very clean and colourful lot, price $75 CMN6) Slovakia & Czechoslovakia 1939 – 1988 on leaves in sturdy black brass cornered 4 ring binder. About 600 – 650 mint & used mostly in sets, appear all different. Cheap lot at $39 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 CMN15) Worldwide especially produced FDC collection in 2 massive Brown leather Look albums, weighing over 7kg. 214 illustrated unaddressed covers in all with descriptive text. Cost the original purchaser $630, our price under $1 a cover, just a third of the original cost. Just $210! 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% 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. COCT14) British Empire Queen Victoria on quality leaves. All nice fine postally used apart from a couple of low value mint. . Includes 10 countries, Bechuanaland to Trinidad. All well written up and described. Strong in Ceylon with Chalons Perf. 10 different to 2/- cat. £220, also SG 193 cat. £140. Cyprus with SG 16 cat. £500, Gibraltar SG 5 Cat. £110, SG 6 Cat. £225 also SG 25 &33 cat. £100 each. 100 plus stamps Cat. well over £2500. Price $1795 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), &
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BUY OR BID SALE FEBRUARY 2019 1937 2d NSW Sesqui (70), majority appear to have cds cancels, great opportunity for the postmark collector! Price $175 CMA9) Australia & AAT FDC and PSE collection mint and used 1970 – 1983, plus some PO Souvenir covers in 4 big ledger type album neatly displayed. All very clean mostly unaddressed Official Australia Post Covers. Noted 1970 Grassland, Expo, Royal Visit, Cook, 1971 Christmas Block of 7 x 2, $10 Painting etc. Counted well over 500 covers. A steal at under 50c per cover. Price $249 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 CJL18) New Hebrides (British ), mint unhinged collection on Hagners 1949 UPU – 1980 Birds. Near complete collection cat. 200 pounds plus. Good value at $129 CJL19) Great Britain. Massive used collection/accumulation 1840 – 2007 in as new Lion Brand Dark Blue 64 page stockbook (cost $65) Bulging with around 5000 stamps from Line Engraved to present day. Very well organised chronologically. Noted Queen Victoria to 1/-, KEVI to 5/- (Both printings) KGV to 10/- (2) KGVI to 10/(7) QEII Wildings organised by printing, then a wide range of Machin Definitives and Commemoratives, with literally hundreds of complete sets and values to £10. This really is a great lot, well worth an average of 20c per stamp. Price $1000 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 a) as above but AUSTRALIA only, same prices. b) as above but 50% Australia and World, same prices. CMMY2) Germany 1936 – 1954 on Hagners. Commences 1936 Brown Ribbon minisheets, mint x 7 with original interleaving. 1937 Hitler minisheet rouletted mint unhinged, Michel 648. 1948/9 British and American Zone issues used to 75 pfg, the West Berlin views to 5DM used, red & black Berlin Overprints mint & used to 84pfg. Then Berlin 1949 UPU used, Stamp Ex. Set of 3 mint, Bell with clapper central complete used etc, etc. W. Germany Heuss defins Mint Unhinged and fine used to 3DM. All in all a lovely lot. Some duplication. SG Cat. £2250. Good value at under 20% cat. Price $749 CMMY7) Australia KGV Heads in red 16 page Lighthouse Stockbook. All 1.5d Red and Brown values, sorted by watermark. Must be some postmark interest etc. here. All good examples it looks like. Not checked by us for varieties, postmarks or shades. 1079 stamps. Price $649 CMMY10) Australia 1975 – 95 Australia Post un-addressed First Day covers, massive clearance. 100 different for $89, 250 mixed for $169, 500 mixed for $325, 1000 mixed for $595. Massive lot of 2000 mixed for $1100. (Duplication will be kept to a minimum in the mixed lots, depending upon stocks) CMMY11) British Commonwealth, 1953 Coronation Covers, many with additional stamps & markings. Amazing lot of 65 small seamail covers virtually all to Melbourne. Wide variety of usages and cancels inc. Interbank mail, Official Mail, Registered Mail, Postage Dues, Taxed Covers, Meter Frankings, Perfins, etc. Mainly not FDCs, with a variety of cancels through 1953/54. Many better countries represented inc. Singapore, Hong Kong, North Borneo, Sarawak, Falkland Is., Gibraltar, Cayman Is., St. Helena, Tristan da Cunha, Ascension, Cyprus etc. Most are neat typed address. A superb addition to any Royalty or British Commonwealth Collection. Priced well under $6 a cover, $375 the lot. a) 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. CMD1) NZ14) New Zealand Extensive study in a small red ‘Viking’ springback binder of the 1971 4c on 2½c Butterfly surcharge, more than 500 with the majority being in Plate no./imprint or Sheet value blocks of 10 with a comprehensive range of plate numbers, overprint types, retouches and flaws, all fresh MUH, also a few other values in blocks etc to 30c. A great opportunity to secure a specialised collection of this fascinating issue that is ‘well on the way’ and with a 2007 Campbell Patterson catalogue value of well over $500, Price $300 CAP2) Papua New Guinea, 25 different complete mint unhinged sets just $49 a) As above in blocks of 4, $189 CAP3) Western Samoa, 25 different complete mint unhinged sets & minisheets, price $49
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BUY OR BID SALE FEBRUARY 2019 CAP4) Nauru, 25 different complete mint unhinged sets & minisheets, price $49 CAP5) Norfolk Is. 25 different complete mint unhinged sets & minisheets, price $49 CMF5) Great Britain 1957 – 1965 Commemorative sets in fresh mint unhinged blocks of 4. Commences 1957 Scouts and includes scarcer sets such as Lifeboat, Botanical, Red Cross also ITU Phosphor. Missing the odd low value, which are easy to pick up. 14 sets with a total catalogue of 173 pounds. Price under a half cat. $149 CMF12) Great Britain QEII 1952 – 1980 in Blue Padded Lighthouse 32 black page stockbook, mint & used. Noted Phosphor Commemoratives, inc. Lifeboat, Red Cross , FFH, Cable etc. Wilding Definitives inc. Graphites with Inv. Wmks. Commem. Sets from 1953 Coronation with most sets represented in Mint & used, then HV Castles and pre-decimal Wildings mint & used sets to One Pound (approx.. 20 sets total) then Machin Definitives to 5 pounds & Britannia 10 pound x 5. Also Jersey War Time issues, Regionals, Locals of Lundy, Herm & Alderney etc. A great lot! Must be 1500 plus stamps. Price $595 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. 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 a) Similar to above, but all off paper. Must be around 7000 stamps here. Again at about 3c each, Price $225 b) 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. a) 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 1 lot of this weighing 125 grams. Around 1500 – 2000 stamps. Very good lot for $89 PM86) China Peoples Republic, 500 different, new lot just arrived. Great lot! Price $245 PM79) Australia latest received Mission Mix on paper with recent and latest. Absolutely unpicked, includes a small amount of foreign high values etc. Trim varies as is from a variety of sources. about 4500 stamps per kg. 100g for $12, 250g for $26.50, 450g for $45, 1kg for $89, 2.5kg for $210. Very small quantity available, be quick! PM78) Australia KGV period, values to 1/6d. No heads, but a wide variety of Commems. and Definitives. Great for postmark/variety hunters. 100g, about 1250 stamps for under 5c each, $59 PM77) World Minisheets by Weight! Many years since we first offered these. Approx 1100 sheets per kg. Great mixture of mint unhinged and cto from both British Commonwealth and Foreign Countries. We keep duplication here to a minimum, depending upon our stocks at the time of ordering. High catalogue/retail value. 100g for $33, 250g for $79.
PM76) New lower price! Was $295 per kg. World off paper, latest arrivals gathered together from various sources and simply mixed into the very best available mixture. Completely unchecked by us and representing well over a century of stamps here. Roughly 12,500 stamps to the kg, cheapest way to build your World collection at around 2c per stamp. Price per kg $249, 500g for $129, 250g for $69, 100g for $35 PM75) World mostly large and commemoratives mainly on single well trimmed paper. Very colourful lot with many better values. Latest arrivals from various sources around the world. 1kg for $325, 500g for $169, 250g for $89, 100g for $45 PM74) Channel Islands charity mix on paper, just received, great variety, gathered from various sources, the Guernsey mostly on single well trimmed paper. The Jersey on single torn paper. Jersey only $195 per kg, $110 per 500g, $59 per 250g, $29 per 100g Guernsey only $235 per kg, $129 per 500g, $69 per 250g, $34.50 per 100g A mixture of both islands $215 per kg, $115 per 500g, $64 per 250g, $32.50 per 100g PM71) Australia & Territories decimal mint lots, as pulled from collections, stockbooks etc. Mostly mint unhinged, and will include Singles & Blocks of 4 (The odd few may be hinged as we do not have time to check all of this) You may also find complete sets and minisheets etc, whatever we have to hand. Will cover the period 1966 – 1986 Approx. Will include Australia, AAT, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Is.. We can also add some Papua New Guinea, Norfolk Island & Nauru if required. Price per lot of 1000 mixed $110, half lot of 500 for $60. PM69) Australia decimals, cto with gum, mid 1990’s – 2011. Nice clean lot all with corner Melbourne cto cancels. Includes high values, Internationals, a few territories, se-tenant strips and blocks etc. Good variety, but expect duplication. Under 10c a stamp, approx 1000 for $98, 500 for $55 (4 lots available) PM62) Ireland, 500 different, 1 only was on our packets list at $280, price to clear $210 PM63) Fish, 500 different, normally $90, one only available $79 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
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BUY OR BID SALE FEBRUARY 2019 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 BD349) Great Britain 1881 6d Surcharge SG 162a. Variety “Dots slanting down to right” Cancelled by barred Numeral 42. Lettered J – S, S – J. cat. Tiny closed tear at top. £450. Priced cheaply at only 10% cat. $77.50 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 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 Australian States New South Wales NSW16) Spectacular piece, with 2 of the scarcest face different NSW Imperfs, *AND* a rare postmark: 1852 6d Yellow Brown Laureate, 4 large margins, SG 74 - also being a very clear *DOUBLE PRINT*. Alongside an 1853 8d Orange Yellow, SG 80, superb 4 margin. Both tied by “55” Barred numeral of Newcastle scarce Type 1Bv (6mm x 10mm) rated “RRRR” by Freeman in new handbook. Quite Superb condition, ex Clayton and the late Mark Dankin, who formed THE finest NSW collection post-war over half a century, and who ONLY bought the very finest, fault free material. His NSW Collection won FIP Large Gold medals at Belgica 2001, Washington 2006 and España 2006. Clean and fresh and with no foxing or thins or creases. Two essential face different imperfs, missing from 99% of collections. No perforated versions were issued of either so these are globally sought. Melbourne Retail $1,000 as average used OFF piece. With a double print AND a rare “RRRR” cancel it is a gem in top condition. SG £875 for average which figure is insane - 5 years ago these were HIGHER, and all NSW around them have risen in price often many fold. The Besancon collection sold NSW imperfs late 2017 for MULTIPLES of full SG catalogue for quality examples, and the new SG will reflect that. Details of that sale here - Tinyurl.com/Besancons. For the astute buyer, who recognises and appreciates top quality with THE finest provenance - a totally UNIQUE piece - $3450
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BUY OR BID SALE FEBRUARY 2019 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 NSW27) NSW 1880’s 6d Brown Laureate Imperf in re-printed sheet of 25. From original plates. Weaker strike from slightly worn plate, also brown ink smear to top right stamp. 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 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 NSW33) New South Wales 1891 cover to Sydney bearing: 2d Emu. Cancelled by Duplex of Bulli Ry STN, NSW, NO 11 1891, printed bank address cover. Price: $40 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 NSW41) New South Wales 1905 2/6d Blue Green, perf 11. SG 349b, MLH. Price: $65 NSW43) Useful range of 9 postal stationery items, mint & used 1893 – 1905. Includes letter cards x 2 used, & postcards 6 mint, 1 used. Mainly fine. Price $37.50 the lot. 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 Queensland Q1) Queensland 1860 1d Carmine Rose Imperf Chalon Head, SG1. Near 4 margin fine used example, just into at left. Cat. £800, price $395
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 Q18) Queensland 1882-1907 Large Chalons range with various perfs, printings, shades etc comprising 2/- & 2/6d (4 ea), 5/- (6), 10/- (2) & £1 (4) all with mainly light fiscal cancels, attractive group with huge catalogue value as postally used, Price $199 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 '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 T61) Tasmania 1903 wmk V over crown QV 1/- both perfs SG 243/243a cat £140, overall toned gum Mint. Price $79 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 T35) As above the 10/- Orange value, originals cat. as SG F16 at £500 each = £30,000 as mint hinged. Price $1995 T35a) Both values as above for $3950 Victoria 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 V112) Victoria 1884 2/6d Orange Stamp Duty, SG 226. Clean light fiscally used example with full perfs, centred right. Cat. £325 as used. Price $89 V113) Victoria 1884 35/- Grey-Violet Stamp Duty SG 245. Well centred, good perfs.
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BUY OR BID SALE FEBRUARY 2019 clean example with neat pen cancel. Cat. £17,000 as mint, postally used unknown. No Pinholes! Price $650 V114) Victoria 1884 £5 Black & Green Stamp Duty, SG 230b, wmk upright. Fresh mint with gum ovpt. REPRINT. Gibbons Mint price £22,000! Full perfs, centred left, price $849. 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 at mint hinged. Price: $100 V117) Victoria 1886 – 96 £5 - £9 Stamp Duties, all cto Melbourne 1900. Nice clean set without gum. SG 324/8 cat. £955. Price $1650 V76) Victoria 1893 1/6d Red-Orange Stamp Duty. SG 323a, MH. Price: $36 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 V120) Victoria 1884 – 1900 £100 Analine Crimson SG 285c. Striking ink bleed through to reverse, looks like an offset! Clean 1890 fiscally used example. Good perfs, well centred. Two small pinholes not visible from front. Price $495 V108) Victoria 1897 Charity set CTO, very attractive Price $199 V109) Victoria 1901-10 ‘Postage’ perf 12½ 5/- rosine & blue, advertised retail $150, Mint with some hinge remains. Price $119 V110) Victoria 1901 QV 1/- yellow SG 381 Mint, some minor toning and paper adhesion. Price $39 V111) Victoria 1901 QV 2/- blue/pink SG 382 Mint, advertised retail $150, some hinge remains, Price $79 V121) Victoria 1901/2 KEVII £1 & £2 SG 399/400 Melbourne cto. Fresh looking examples without gum. Well centred and full perfs. Cat. £430. Price $649 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 WA69) WA 1893 Swans Half Penny & One Penny surcharges on 3d Mint, some HR. Price $34.50 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, 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 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 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 Australia Postal History 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
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BUY OR BID SALE FEBRUARY 2019 APH151) Australia 1915 small cover to Paris, France NOT CENSORED. Bears 2.5d 1st wmk Indigo Kangaroo cancelled by cds of Mosman NSW 6AU15. Quite late use for this, the 2nd wmk. being issued in July 1915. Clean attractive cover cat. $150, price $110 LM134) Australia 1915 small OHMS cover for Government Railways NSW to Somerset House London. Bears 1d Red Kangaroo…DRY INK…not recorded in ACSC and perf. OS NSW. Cancelled by Redfern NSW cds of 3 AP 15. Fine and rare, price $295 LM121) Australia 1916 small censored re-addressed cover to Germany, Via Switzerland. Mail for Germany from Australia & other countries was routed via Switzerland on a fee for service basis. Generally the letter was enclosed with the fee of 10/- or so for onwards consignment under new cover. Bears 2nd wmk 2.5d Indigo Kangaroo, tied by Smithfield NSW cds of OC 5 1916, and with St. Moritz arrival cds of 23.XI.16 on front and reverse, together with Ruvigliana receiving cds on the next day for the re-direction. Black print “Opened By Censor” tape at left. A very rare survivor. Price $210 APH427) Australia 1921 small typed address cover to Germany with Die II 3d Kangaroo. 3rd wmk Die II 3d Olive solo use to Germany cancelled by Melbourne machine cancel of 27JA21. Stamp displays the die II elongated top 'ball' of the 3. The inner frame break (as displayed in many catalogues) is obscured by the postmark but the 'tear drop 3' is a more reliable test and is accepted by experts. Dated 27/1/1921 which is before the release of die IIB stamps. The top right outer frame is not rounded, and the date used completely rules it out. Cat. $500 on cover, price $395 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 APS2) Australia 1932 small domestic commercial Airmail cover bearing 6d Airmail Ovpt. OS. Uprated use of 2d Red oval Postal Stationery envelope Fremantle to Melbourne with additional 6d Brown OS Airmail and 3d Green Airmail. Cancelled by cds’s of Fremantle of 12JA32. Rare usage. Price $259 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 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 APH652) Australia 1939 small surface mail cover to British Guiana. Bears block of 4 x ½d orange Kangaroo cancelled by central handstamp of Bathurst NSW 13 FE 39 and a further partial small cds of the same date to the left, but cancelling only the two right hand stamps. Looks as though the machine canceller had not done its job and the handstamp was applied later. Reverse bears an arrival cds of Vreed en Hoop of 27 MR 39. Vreed en Hoop is a town at the mouth of the Demerara River on its left bank, in the Essequibo Islands-West Demerara region of Guyana, located at sea level. It is the location of the Regional Democratic Council office making it the administrative center for the region. Rare destination and unusual franking. Price $39 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
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BUY OR BID SALE FEBRUARY 2019 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 APH6) Australian Antarctic Territory, 1948 small seamail registered commercial cover from MacQuarie Island to Waterloo, Iowa, USA. Bearing 3.5d Newcastle and vertical strip of 3 1d Princess Elizabeth, to make 6.5d. Cancelled by cds of MacQuarie Is.7 MR 48, and with Registered Label No. 2793. A very scarce cover indeed. Price $135 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 pre-stamp 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 APH453) Australia 1972 Small Airmail Cover Milson’s Point NSW to Urangan Qld, re-addressed to UK. Bears solo use of 7c Purple QEII, cancelled by Milson’s Point 3 line slogan “PLEASE POST/CHRISTMAS MAIL/THIS WEEK”, With additional 35c for onward transmission made up of 30c Aboriginal Art & 5c Blue QEII, both cancelled by Urangan cds of 22DE72. Scarce International re-addressed mail. Price $42 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
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BUY OR BID SALE FEBRUARY 2019 First Flight Covers 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 AFC40) Australia - Nelson NZ Faith in Australia cacheted cover. Bears 4d Olive – Yellow KGV & 3d Green Airmail type A, cancelled by Sydney Air Mail machine cancel of 4 APR 1934. Reverse bears Wellington arrival cds of 12AP34. Neat hand addressed cover, listed as AAMC 369. Price $45 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 2410-34Also 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 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 APH147) Australia 1937 Lord Howe Island 2d Red KGV Commercial Cover to ACT. Neat small cover cancelled by LHI cds of 15JE37. Fine and rare! Price $265 APH146) Australia 1935 Lord Howe Island 1d Green & 2d Red KGV Commercial Cover to USA. Neat business size cover cancelled by clean strike LHI cds of 26OC35. Rarely seen! Price $365 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 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 Nether-
lands, 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 K552) Australia First wmk ½d green ACSC 1, imperf at top and base, with the former margin being quite large, unusual, FU. Price $99 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 K623) Australia 1913 Kangaroo ½d green 1st wmk vertical coil pair with coil join, centred to lower left, some small areas of very faint toning, upper unit has only the faintest hinge mark, lower unit MUH. Price $49 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
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BUY OR BID SALE FEBRUARY 2019 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 K603) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 3d olive-green 1st wmk die II BW 12Dwc, centred to lower left, bold CTO cancel, attractive stamp. Price $179 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 K580) Australia 1913 4d pale Orange CTO ACSC 15Dwb, Cat $100, well centred unusually ‘tall’ stamp. Most attractive. Price $79 K501) Australia 1913 5d Chestnut Kangaroo mint unhinged block of 18. From centre left of sheet and with complete watermark “AUSTRALIA” in margin, and with gutter selvedge at right. Minor creasing to the 3 right hand stamps and one slight tone spot at base do not detract in any way from the rarity of this piece. There were no large multiples in the Arthur Gray collection. All stamps centred low. incredibly rare survivor, cat. $11,700 as singles. Price $10,800
K618) Australia 1913 5d Chestnut Kangaroo ACSC 16A horizontal pair, centred slightly to the right, very faint tone spot on l/h unit MLH. Price $229 K553) Australia First wmk 5d chestnut ACSC 16 well centred, one slightly nibbled perf at top, HR Mint. Price $119 K131) Australia 1913 1st wmk. Kangaroos fine used set to 1/-Retail $220, my price $169 DB516) Australia 1913 6d Ultramarine 1st wmk Die IIa Kangaroo “Substituted Cliché”. CDS used example with dated Spencer Street, Melbourne Late Fee cancel of 1 DE 14. ACSC 17(1) ja, cat. $4500. Well centred, with fluffy perfs. Listed by Gibbons as SG 9b. A nice dated stamp from the November 1913 printing. Price $3450 K562) Australia 1913 9d Violet 1st wmk. Kangaroo ACSC 24A, centred to lower left, Cat $200, Price $99 K526) Australia 1913 9d Violet 1st wmk. Kangaroo, Melbourne cto. Very well centred, mng with good perfs. Cat. $120, price $79 K364) Australia 1913 1/- Green (Analine) Kangaroo 1st wmk. ACSC 30B. Nice fine used example of this scarce shade cancelled by 2 partial cds. Centred high, with good perfs. Cat. $750, price $495 K256) Australia 1913 2/- Brown 1st wmk Kangaroo. Well centred cto with generally good perfs. 1` slightly nibbed at base. Cancelled by Melbourne 3 DE 13 cds. Cat. $300 Price $179 K432) Australia 5/- Grey & Yellow 1st wmk. Kangaroo, postally used. Cancelled by 2 Melbourne partial cds’s of 8 JL 13. Nice well centred stamp, cpl. Of short perfs at base, almost unavoidable given the softness of the paper. Cat. $350, price $195 K115) Australia 1913 Grey & Yellow 5/- 1st wmk Kangaroo, postally used. Some perf faults at left, but well centred and neat Stock Exchange cds. Cat. $350, price $169 K401) Australia 1913 5/- Grey & Yellow 1st wmk Kangaroo, ACSC42B postally used. Rounded lower left corner, cancelled by indistinct central cds. Cat. $350, good spacefiller, price $125 K208) Australia 1915-16 2nd wmk. Kangaroos set to 2/- (6) Very Fine Used, cds. Cat. $645 in ACSC. Other dealers’ retail for regular fine used $390, Premium examples.. My price $365 K209) Australia 1915-16 2nd wmk. Kangaroos set to 2/- (6) Good to Fine Used. Cat. in ACSC $645, My price $195 K644) Australia 1915 5/- Deep Grey & Yellow 2nd wmk. Kangaroo, ACSC43A. Nice used example with partial Sydney cds. Centred a little high with blunt lower right corner perforation, still an attractive stamp, cat $675. Very good value at below 15% cat. Price $98 K598) Australia 1915 2nd wmk 5/- deep grey & yellow variety ‘watermark inverted’ ACSC 43Aa Cat $750. Quite well centred for this issue. Price $395 K586) Australia 1915 2nd wmk 5/- deep grey & yellow punctured ‘OS’ ACSC 43Ab Cat $700. Centred to left, indistinct cds. Price $349 K295) Australia 1915 Kangaroo 6d pale grey-violet 3rd wmk punctured 'OS' BW 19Gba, cat $150 for non OS, unusually well centred, steel cds, superb used. Price $110 K360) Australia 1915 6d Deep Ultramarine Kangaroo, 2nd wmk perf. OS. Very fie dated example with Registered Elizabeth St. Melbourne cds of 7AU17. Good perfs and centring. Hard shade to fine OS, price $225 K307) Australia 1915 1/- Analine Green 2nd wmk. Kangaroo. Fine used example of this rare shade Cancelled by partial cds to right. Centred reasonably well, a little to the right. Has jumped perf at base making this a larger than usual stamp. ACSC 31E Cat. $500, price $375 K398) Australia 1915 2/- Light Brown 2nd wmk. Kangaroo, mint lightly hinged. Lovely full perf. Example nicely centred and of fresh appearance. ACSC 36A.Cat. $1500, price $950
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BUY OR BID SALE FEBRUARY 2019 K340) Australia 1915 2/- Light Brown 2nd wmk. Kangaroo. Fine used, well centred and full perfs. Cancelled by blue Brisbane cds. Cat. $350, price $175 K279) Australia 1915 Kangaroo 2d grey 3rd wmk die I var Inverted wmk BW 7a, centred upper right FU. Price $29 K609) Australia 1915 2d deep grey Die I 3rd wmk showing variety ‘Scratch from value circle through map to T of POSTAGE’, Cat $150, centred to lower left, MLH. Price $99 K478) Australia 1916 Kangaroo 9d pale violet 3rd wmk die II BW 26B, centred to right, fresh MUH. Price $179 K375) Australia 1918 Kangaroo 3d olive 3rd wmk punctured 'OS' var inverted wmk, BW 13a/b cat $100+, couple of nibbled perfs, FU. Price $69 ML627) Australia 1918 2½d indigo Kangaroo 3rd wmk. variety 'Offset' BW 11c fault at top, Mint light hinge, cat $400. Cheap at $89 K361) Australia 1919 2.5d Intense Indigo 3rd wmk. Kangaroo. Well centred example of this difficult stamp. Cancelled by Wandin Vic. cds, ACSC 11D, cat. $275, price $139 K575) Australia 1918 2½d blue punctured ‘OS’ ACSC 11Ab Cat $450. Unusually well centred for this issue, Fresh MUH. Price $299 K574) Australia 1918 2½d blue punctured ‘OS’ ACSC 11Ab Cat $225. Very well centred for this issue, MLH. Price $139 K617) Australia 1915 3d Olive Kangaroo Die I, 3rd wmk. ACSC 13E Cat $175, centred slightly high, very slight gum bend, fresh MUH. Price $69 K643) Australia 1915 3d Olive Kangaroo Die I, 3rd wmk. Inverted ACSC 13Ea Cat $275, excellent centring, barely visible hinge mark MVLH. Price $199 K607) Australia 1915 3d Olive Kangaroo Die I, 3rd wmk. Inverted ACSC 13Ea Cat $525, tiny tone spot on gum, MUH. Price $249 K591) Australia 1915 3d Olive Kangaroo Die 2B, 3rd wmk punctured ‘OS’ ACSC 14Ab, Cat $200, centred to upper left, Mint. Price $99 K213) Australia 1915 3d Olive Kangaroo Die I, 3rd wmk. Inverted, perf OS. Good perf. example with cds cancel centred low. ACSC Cat. $450 ($150 x 3 for OS) Retail $360, Price $275 K310) Australia 1915 3d Yellow Olive Kangaroo 3rd wmk, Die II pair with variety. Fine postally used horizontal pair with Reg’d cds of Sydney 8MR17. Well centred and mostly good perfs, scarce in multiples. Left stamp has the variety “White flaw over T of THREE” ACSC 13B (1)d Cat $450 & $200, price $429 K616) Australia 1915 3d Yellow Olive Kangaroo 3rd wmk, Die II pair with variety ‘White flaw over T of THREE” ACSC 13B (1)d Cat $900 (see note 2 in ACSC), centred to upper left, light roller cancel, a scarce combination of die, variety & OS puncture! Price $399 DB686) Australia 1915 3d Olive Kangaroo 3rd wmk, Die II. Fine postally used with cds of Moonee Ponds, Vic. July 1918. Cat $200, price $119 ML417) Australia 1915 6d Die II Ultramarine 3rd wmk. Kangaroo. Mint hinged with lightly toned gum, centred to upper right. Has full perfs. Cat. $225, price $69 K238) Australia 1921 6d Pale Ultramarine 3rd wmk. Kangaroo Die 2B with variety “Dry Ink” ACSC 20Aca. Fresh mint lightly hinged. Centred right with full perfs. Cat. $400, price $279 K498) Australia 1920 1/- Blue Green Kangaroo Die IIB, Mullett Imprint Pair. Fresh mint unhinged, with good centring and perfs. Cat. $375 per stamp for hinged, plus value of the imprint. Price $749 DB503) Australia 1920 1/- Bright Blue Green Kangaroo Die IIB, OS Imprint Pair. Wonderfully fresh looking pair of this scarce shade. The stamps are fresh, well centred and with full perfs., hinged only in the central gutter. Also has unrecorded retouch to shading around “ONE” on right hand stamp. Cat. For a single unhinged stamp is $450, plus the value of the imprint. Price $750
K357) Australia 1916 2/- Brown Kangaroo 3rd wmk. Superb Fresh Mint unhinged. Impossible to better in my opinion, with full perfs and perfectly centred. ACSC 37A Cat. $2500, price $1875 K260) Australia 1916 2/- Greyish Brown 3rd wmk. Kangaroo. Attractive well centred example of this scarce shade with full perfs and cds cancel. ACSC 37H Cat. $200, price $149 K437) Australia 1924 2/- Maroon 3rd wmk. Kangaroo mint lightly hinged. Very fresh example with good perfs., centred slightly right. SG74, ACSC 38A. Cat. $300. Price $165 K608) Australia 1918 5/- Grey & Deep Yellow, 3rd wmk. ACSC 44C, Fresh, nicely centred Mint. Price $295 K584) Australia 1918 5/- Grey & Pale Yellow, 3rd wmk. ACSC 44D, Fresh, centred slightly high Mint. Price $275 K83) Australia 1918 5/- Grey Black & Pale Yellow, 3rd wmk. Fine postally used example from right of sheet with neat Williamstown, Vic. Partial cds to left. Full perf. well centred, with slightly fluffy perfs. Cat. $225, Price $129 K173) Australia 1918 5/- Grey & Chrome Kangaroo 3rd wmk. ACSC 44A, fine used. Well centred and with good perfs, cancelled by cds of Geelong Vic. 18NO19. Nice misplaced wmk. variety with part at top and part at bottom of stamp. Cat. $225, price $159 K174) Australia 1918 5/- Grey Black & Yellow-Orange Kangaroo 3rd wmk. ACSC 44B, fine used. Well centred and with generally good perfs couple at base are nibbed. cancelled by partial cds of Exchange? Vic. 2nd Hardest of all shades for this wmk. Cat. $275, price $175 K176) Australia 1918 5/- Grey & Pale Yellow Kangaroo 3rd wmk. ACSC 44D, fine used. Centred high, cancelled by central cds (socked on nose)of Abbotsford Vic. A few nibbed perfs. Cat. $225, price $125 K83) Australia 1918 5/- Grey Black & Pale Yellow, 3rd wmk Kangaroo. Fine postally used example from right of sheet with neat Williamstown, Vic. Partial cds to left. Full perf. well centred, with slightly fluffy perfs. Cat. $225, Price $129 K590) Australia 1917 10/- Grey & Deep Analine Pink, showing variety ‘Broken tail’ ACSC 48A(V)e. Cat $650, Fine used example, nicely centred with unusually clean & full perfs. Price $475 K599) Australia 1917 10/- Grey & Pale Analine Pink, ACSC 48E. Fresh Mint marginal example with unusually clean perfs, centred to left. Price $599 K449) Australia 1917 10/- Grey & Pale Analine Pink, ACSC 48E. Fine used example with part Melbourne cds. Centred to lower right, and with fluffy perfs, as usual for this issue. Cat. $375, price $239 K595) Australia 1917 10/- Grey & Pale Analine Pink, ACSC 48E. Nice used example with slightly smudged part Grahamstown? (NSW) cds., couple of nibbled perfs. Price $279 K177) Australia 1917 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo, ACSC 48A, fine used. Well centred and good perfs. Cancelled by registered cds of Sydney. Cat. $500, price $349 K411) Australia 1917 10/- Grey & Pink 3rd wmk, perf OS postally used. ACSC48Aba. Nice well centred stamp with good perfs, a little fluffy at base, which is usual for this printing. Cancelled by partial cds to top left of 1937. Some minor perf. toning at top does not detract. Cat. $500, price $295 K359) 1917 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo 3rd wmk, perf. OS. Lovely cto example with fresh colours and full perfs. No gum, centred to lower left. Cat. $200, price $125 K387) As above, centred right. Price $125 K452) Australia 1919 £1 Chocolate & Dull Blue 3rd wmk. Kangaroo fine used, well centred and with mainly good perfs, lower left cnr. Has been repaired. Cancelled by light cds. ACSC 52A, Cat. $2500. Good spacefiller at just $749 K149) Australia 1923 6d Chestnut Kangaroo 3rd wmk, ACSC 21Aba. Superb mint unhinged block of 4, perf OS. Extremely well centred and with perfect perfs. Post
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BUY OR BID SALE FEBRUARY 2019 Office fresh Gum. Impossible to better! Cat. $600 as singles, blocks are rare, particularly as nice as this. Price $575 K446) Australia 1923 Kangaroo 6d chestnut 3rd wmk Mullett imprint pair BW 21zd cat min $200 Mint. Price $129 K596) Australia 1924 £1 Grey 3rd wmk Kangaroo ACSC 53A, centred to left, a lovely fresh MUH example with a slightly blunt corner perf at upper left, Cat $3750, excellent value at only $1750 K588) Australia 1924 £1 Grey 3rd wmk Kangaroo ACSC 53A, Cat $500, centred a little to the right, Fine used. Price $379 K453) Australia 1924 £1 Deep Grey 3rd wmk Kangaroo Ovpt. Specimen Type. C. Fresh mint hinged example. Centred to left with full perfs. ACSC 53Bxb cat. $375 Budget priced stamp at under 50% catalogue. $149 K451) Australia 1924 £1 Deep Grey 3rd wmk Kangaroo Ovpt. Specimen Type. D. Well centred, full perf. lightly hinged example. ACSC 53Bxg cat. $375, much better than average, price $269 K341) Australia 1918 £2 Purple – Black & Crimson Kangaroo 3rd wmk. Mint Unhinged “Specimen” Type C with shaved P. ACSC 56Cxf. Fresh mint unhinged with full perfs, centred left. Indicative cat. for MUH $2600, price $1950 K440) Australia 1929 6d Pale Chestnut sml. Multi. Wmk Kangaroo Die IIB Fresh Mint lightly hinged Imprint strip of 6. Well centred and with full perfs. ACSC 22Bza. Minimum Cat. $375, price $279 K563) Australia 1929 9d violet sml Multi. Wmk Kangaroo ACSC 28A, nicely centred and very lightly hinged, Cat $175. Price $89 K392) Australia 1929 1/- Blue Green sml. Multi. Wmk Kangaroo Mint unhinged Bock of 4. Well centred full perf block of 4. Right hand pair with lovely fresh gum, left two are “suntanned” visually very striking piece. Cat. $1200 as singles, price $595 K438) Australia 1929 1/- Blue Green sml. Multi. Wmk Kangaroo Fresh Mint lightly hinged plate 4 Imprint strip of 6. Well centred and with full perfs. All “Jumbo” sized stamps due to skipped perf at top of all 6 stamps. ACSC 34Aza. Minimum Cat. $750, price $595 K81) Australia 1929 5/- Grey & Yellow Orange Kangaroo, small multiple wmk. Perf OS cto. Has broken coast near Sydney, and elongated Spencer Gulf. ACSC 44(D)f, full perfs, centred to top left. Cat. $450, nice fresh looking stamp. Price $269 K461) Australia 1929 10/- Grey & Pale Pink Kangaroo, sml. multi. wmk Ovpt. Specimen. Fresh mint lightly hinged example, nicely centred with good perfs. ACSC 49x, cat. $475, priced very reasonably at $395 K397) Australia 1929 Grey & Rose Crimson £2 smw Kangaroo, Ovpt. “Specimen” Lovely POST OFFICE FRESH mint unhinged, full perf. example, centred left. Cat. $1750, price $975 K418) Australia 1929 Grey & Rose Crimson £2 smw Kangaroo, Ovpt. “Specimen” Fresh mint lightly hinged, full perf. example, well centred. Kangaroo slightly misplaced downwards. Cat. $900, price $549 K460) Australia 1929 Grey & Rose Crimson £2 smw Kangaroo, Ovpt. “Specimen” Mint lightly hinged, full perf. example, well centred. Kangaroo slightly misplaced upwards and with mild Kissprint through left of Map and above. Cat. $900, price $549 K409) Australia 1929 Grey & Rose Crimson £2 smw Kangaroo, Ovpt. “Specimen” Lovely well centred, full perf. mng example, with unrecorded variety “Red flaw in value tablet” ACSC 57xa cat. $900, price $720 K265) Australia 1932 Kangaroo 6d pale chestnut SM wmk opt 'OS' BW 22(OS)B FU. Price $59 K476) Australia 1932 Kangaroo 6d chestnut 3rd wmk block of 4 BW 21, centred a little low MUH. Price $129
K441) Australia 1932 6d Pale Chestnut C of A Wmk Kangaroo Die IIB Fresh Mint lightly hinged Imprint strip of 6. Well centred and with full perfs. ACSC 23Bza. Minimum Cat. $400, price $295 K443) Australia 1932 Kangaroo 6d chestnut C of A wmk N over A Ash imprint block BW 23(4)z, cat $500 for hinged, left units with faint bend, light overall gum 'tanning' MUH. Price $249 K666) Australia 1932 Kangaroo 6d chestnut C of A wmk Ovpt. OS, N over A Ash imprint gutter block BW 23(OS)4z, cat $750 left of selvedge with faint bend. Has large un-documented variety, broken A, S, R & A of Australia in imprint. Price $649. K439) Australia 1932 9d Violet C of A Wmk Kangaroo Die IIB Plate3 1st state. Fresh Mint lightly hinged Imprint strip of 6. Centred to left on 1st 3 stamps, and well centred on 2nd 3, all with full perfs. ACSC 29Aza with variety f, “Vertical white scratch over 2nd N of Nine”. Lovely positional piece. Minimum Cat. $660, price $525 K496) Australia 1940 2/- Maroon Original Die II C of A wmk. Kangaroo. Ash Imprint Gutter block of 4 from plate 1 (N over A) of sheet mint lightly hinged. ACSC 41Az. Cat. $125, price $75 K497) Australia 1945 2/- Maroon re-drawn die C of A wmk. Kangaroo. Commonwealth Imprint block of 4 from left of sheet mint unhinged. ACSC 41Az. Small tone spot to lower left stamp, not visible from front. Cat. $100, price $49 K627) Australia 1932 – 36 5/- - £2 C of A Kangaroos, an attractive well centred set of high values with mostly good perfs (the £2 has a couple of slightly nibbled perfs), Fine Used, Cat $1660. Price $975 K626) Australia 1932 5/- grey & yellow –orange Ash imprint block of 4, lower r/h unit variety ‘Opened mouth roo’ ACSC 46Aza, Cat $5000, l/h pair with very faint vertical bend, upper r/h unit with faint tone spot, lower l/h unit is MUH, attractive exhibition piece. Price $2995 K415) Australia 1932 10/- Grey Black & Pink Kangaroo C of A wmk ACSC 50Azc Well centred very fine & fresh mint unhinged hinged imprint pair, perfectly centred with full perfs. Includes the variety va, Open Mouthed Kangaroo. A very RARE Exhibition Piece. The pair is not priced unhinged, but at $3750 for hinged. The Imprint adds a big premium. There was no such pair or block in the Arthur Gray Collection. Figuring this logically, the Imprint pair for the normal Grey & Pink printing catalogues $3750 for hinged and do sell close to this price, 5 x the mint stamp and the premium for mint unhinged is x 2.5. This gives us a value of $9375. Price for this stunning piece $7500 K113) Australia 1932 10/- Grey Black & Pale Rose Crimson Kangaroo C of A wmk, ACSC 50C cat $450. Well centred very fine used full perf example with partial cds at lower left. Price $275 K116) Australia 1932 10/- Grey Black & Analine Pink Kangaroo C of A wmk, ACSC 50D cat $750. Centred to left, with a couple of missing perfs at top. Cancelled by BENDIGO Vic. Cds. Colour suffuses strongly through to the back. Rare shade. Price $249 K389) Australia 1932 10/- Grey & Pink C of A wmk Kangaroo. Mint lightly hinged, ovpt. Specimen type C. Full perf example, centred high. ACSC 50Ax, scarce stamp, cat. $850 price $675 K186) Australia 1932 10/- Grey & Pink C of A wmk Kangaroo. ACSC 50C cat $450. Well centred very fine used full perf example with light central cds. Price $275 K436) Australia 1932 10/- Grey & Pink C of A wmk Kangaroo. MNG, ovpt. Specimen type D. Centred a little right, full perf example. Has a large UNLISTED VOID AT TOP, WHICH IS NOT A THIN. Affects RA of Australia and top frame. ACSC 50Axe, Price $195 K615) Australia 1932 10/- Grey Black & Analine Pink Kangaroo C of A wmk, ACSC 50D cat $750. With telegraph puncture, centred to lower left, pulled perf at top, a rare shade. Price $149
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BUY OR BID SALE FEBRUARY 2019 K393) Australia 1934 £2 Grey and Rose Crimson C of A wmk Kangaroo. Very fine used top marginal example with full perfs. Centred to upper right Cancelled by part clean steel cds top base. Shows the variety “Broken coast in Bight” ACSC 58(D)p, cat. $1300. Price $995 K430) Australia 1931 – 36 10/- - £2 C of A Kangaroos, ovpt. Specimen Type D. Fine mint unhinged, better centred than average for these and with good perfs. Cat. $485, Price $269 K471) Australia 1945 Kangaroo 2/- maroon C of A wmk die II 14mm gutter Imprint blk of 10 BW 41zb, Price $149 K472) Australia 1945 Kangaroo 2/- maroon C of A wmk die II corner imprint blk of 4 BW 41z MH Price $69 K473) Australia 1945 Kangaroo 2/- maroon C of A wmk die II 25mm gutter imprint blk BW 41zd, cat $150 for hinged, MUH Price $129 K442) Australia 1945 Kangaroo 2/- maroon C of A wmk die II 25mm gutter imprint blk BW 41zd, cat $150 for hinged, MUH Price $129 Australia KGV Heads We currently have a wide range of KGV Shades, Varieties and Imprint Blocks. Please let us know your interests G158) KGV Heads from a deceased estate. In neat packets of 100 + although wmks are stated on packets these are unchecked by us for wmks, perfs, varieties shades etc. There may be some perf OS included. 1d Red $50 1d Green C of A $30 1d Green C of A ovpt. OS $75 1½d Red Single Wmk. $30 1½d Red Sml. Multi. Wmk. $50 1½d Green Single Wmk. $50 1½d Brown (shades) Single Wmk. $100 2d Orange $50 2d Red Single Wmk $30 2d Red Smw. $50 2d Red Smw. ovpt. OS. $200 2d Red C of A. $25 2d Red C of A wmk. Inverted. $250 2d Red C of A ovpt. OS. $100 3d Blue single wmk $200. 4d Olive Smw. P13½ x 12½ $150 4d Olive Smw. Ovpt. OS. $500 4d Olive C of A $125 5d Chestnut C of A $50 One of each as above PRICED AT $1890, $1395, save $495 Any 3 packets less 5% Any 5 packets less 10% G23) Australia 1913 KGV 1d Engraved with nice Kiss Print. Not catalogued as used, priced at $1000 for mint and we recently achieved full catalogue for an unhinged one. Cancelled by cds of NSW 1 AP 14, Town unclear. ACSC 59ca Price $795 G87) Australia 1914 KGV 1d Carmine Red ACSC 71A Plate 1 (i) Pane 2, position 56. Die II mint hinged, cat $750, well centred with good perfs. Price $410 G135) Australia 1915 KGV 4d Buff Orange, wmk. inv. Horiz. Pair. One stamp lightly hinged, the other unhinged. Fresh gum, with a few wrinkles on the unhinged
stamp. Full perfs. Centred high. ACSC 110Fa. Indicative cat. price is $560, Price $279 G294) Australia 1915 ½d emerald single wmk marginal block of 4 variety ‘Watermark inverted’ ACSC 63Aa, Cat $300 fresh MUH. Price $179 G312) Australia 1915 ½d deep emerald single wmk marginal block of 4 punctured ‘OS’ ACSC 63Aba, centred to upper right, hinged in margin, stamps fresh MUH, unusual shade. Price $69 G319) Australia 1923 ½d orange single wmk Harrison imprint block of 8 with variety ‘Clubbed fraction bar’ ACSC 66(8)z Cat $275 as block of 4, some suntanning stripes on gum and upper right unit with tone spots. Mint. Price $149 G318) Australia 1923 ½d orange single wmk ACSC 66 marginal block of 6, centre right unit with unlisted ‘Emu egg’ variety, some suntanning stripes on gum MUH. Price $39 G314) Australia 1924 2d red-brown single wmk marginal block of 4, upper right unit with variety ‘Large white flaw in left value tablet’ ACSC 97(16)f, centred to right, the variety is cat $250 for mint hinged, the stamps in this block are fresh MUH. Price $325 G257) Australia 1916 1d Carmine Red, Rough Paper. Positional block of 8 (2 x 4)cancelled by neat cds’s of Perth Post Restante 10.JUN.18. Listed Positions and varieties are as follows: 4/35 -36, 41 – 42 Substituted Cliché and Y dot. ACSC 72P Plate 2, ja & l (G73) Variety stamps alone cat. $275. Ultra-rare in a fine used block such as this. Supplied with Drury 2012 Certificate. Price $249 G290) Australia 1916 1d carmine-red, Rough paper Substituted cliché dies I & II, also smooth paper 1d carmine-rose Substituted cliché die I, ACSC 71(2)ka, 72(2)ja & ka, Cat $400, mixed centring, Good to fine used. Price $199 G284) Australia 1916 1d carmine-red, Smooth paper Substituted cliché die I ACSC 71(2)ka Cat $150. Centred to the right, Fine used. Price $89 G50) Australia 1918 KGV Halfpenny Yellowish Green, ACSC 65E (5)zd. Large Multiple Wmk. From Electro 5. CA Monogram substituted for JBC right hand corner strip of 3. Fresh mint unhinged well centred and full perfs, except has right hand selvedge reinforced with hinge. Cat $900 as hinged. Price $895 TS832) Australia 1918 KGV Large Mult. Wmk. ½d dull green irregular block of 11 MUH, some perf separation & 2 units with minor gum marks. Price $69 G292) Australia 1918 KGV Large Mult. Wmk. ½d dull green block of 4, lower left unit with variety ‘Thin fraction at right’ ACSC 63(5)s Cat $175 as Mint. The variety unit has a very light gum bend, MUH. Price $79 GS19) Australia 1918 1d Rosine Rough Paper KGV. Perf OS. Mint unhinged. Nice centring with full perfs. ACSC 72 lbb (G68) Cat. $350 as hinged. Price $495 G384) Australia 1919 KGV Large Mult Wmk 1½d black-brown gutter marginal block of 4 with variety ‘Watermark inverted’, ACSC 84Aa, Cat $700 fresh MUH. Price $495 G386) Australia 1919 KGV Large Mult Wmk 1½d chocolate lower left corner block of 6 with variety ‘Watermark inverted’, ACSC 85Ca, centred to left, Cat $1200 MUH. Price $895 G298) Australia 1924 1½d red KGV single wmk part Mullett imprint block of 8 punctured ‘OS’ ACSC 89ba, Cat $400, centred to lower right, slight gum ageing MUH. Price $159 G383) Australia 1915 4d orange KGV showing variety ‘Line through Fourpence’ ACSC 110(2)r, Cat $250, centred a little to right, FU with partial cds, Price $110 G385) Australia 1922 KGV 4d bright ultramarine ACSC 113A, part Harrison imprint block of 4, Cat $750, lower units MUH, centred a little to top, Price $449 G297) Australia 1924 4d olive Harrison imprint pair ACSC 114z, Cat minimum of $600 for a hinged imprint block, some suntanning stripes on gum, MUH. Price $199 G118) Australia 1920 1/4d Greyish Blue KGV perf OS Mint Lightly Hinged. Centred left and with some small paper adhesion to reverse. Fresh looking and full perfs. ACSC 128E. Scarce shade. Usual retail for regular shade $175, price $85
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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Valentine's Day The guidelines for thematic philately say that a thematic exhibit should use the widest range of appropriate postal-philatelic material. Each item must be connected to the chosen theme and present its thematic information in the clearest and most effective way. A variety of items should be used including stamps, stamp booklets, postal stationery, franking meters and postal cancellations (ordinary, slogan and commemorative). The material should from the pre-stamp era, through the classic period, to the present day. Valentine’s Day is a popular theme for a thematic exhibit. Valentine’s Day is associated with romance, but the origin of the holiday isn’t romantic. Saint Valentine’s Day was a feast day in the Catholic religion from around 500 AD that commemorated two martyred Roman priests named Valentine. One legend says Saint Valentine was a Roman priest who performed weddings for soldiers who were all forbidden to marry, because an edict decreed married soldiers did not make good warriors. The priest wore a ring with a Cupid on it and, in a precursor to greeting cards, handed out paper hearts to remind Christians of their love for God. Saint Valentine became known as the patron saint of love. Historians consider The Parlement of Foules (Parliament of Fowls), written by Geoffrey Chaucer in 1381, to be the origin of the modern celebration of Valentine’s Day. In the poem, the narrator falls asleep while he searches his books for a “certeyn thing.” He dreams he is brought to an annual meeting of birds, at which they hold a debate to win mates for themselves,
with Nature as the arbiter. Chaucer writes: “For this was on seynt Volantynys day / Whan euery bryd comyth there to chese his mate.” Valentine’s Day is usually celebrated on February 14 by the custom of sending greeting cards or gifts to express affection to a chosen partner. The valentines are generally sent anonymously and are often designed with hearts to symbolise love. Different countries celebrate in different ways. France The Duke of Orléans is thought to have written the first love letters that later became Valentine’s Day cards. He was captured in 1415 and taken as a prisoner to the Tower of London. While imprisoned he wrote love letters to his wife back in France. These were cartes d’amitiés, now known as French Valentine’s Day cards. Calling oneself a valentine and asking ones’ beloved to be the same, is referred to in the Paston Letters, the largest surviving collection of 15th-century English correspondence. This is pictured on the stamp in Figure 1, issued by France 1985, and designed by the French artist and cartoonist Raymond Peynet. This is probably the world’s first Valentine’s Day stamp. United Kingdom By the 19th century, the English were sending tens of thousands of Valentine letters each year. The popularity of these letters grew, and pre-printed valentine cards were manufactured in factories. In 1840 postage costs were reduced due to introduction of the Penny Black postage stamp (figure 2). 400,000 Valentines were sent that year. There are many traditions and tokens the United Kingdom associates with Valentine’s Day. Their 1981 Folklore stamp (figure 3) shows Chaucer’s fowls, red roses that represents romantic love in the language of flowers and a heart.
Figure 1 (far left) Peynet lovers - Valentine’s Day 1985-02-15 Figure 2 (left) Penny Black 01.05.1840 52 - Stamp News
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Figure 3 (above) Folklore. 1981 06:02:1981 Figure 4 (above right) Friends Together, 19.01.2015 Finland Finnish people began to celebrate the Valentine’s Day only from the end of the 1980s. While most other countries celebrate Valentine’s Day with the spirit of romance, Finnish people treat it more as a friendship day. People usually exchange gifts. Roses, chocolates, candies and cards are the most popular gifts for this friendship occasion. (Figure 4)
like puppies and teddy bears. Like the rest of the world, Valentine’s Day is celebrated on14th February. It is popularly known as El Día del Amor y la Amistad, translating to the ‘Day of Love and Friendship’ (figure 6).
Japan In Japan, Valentine’s Day is celebrated on two different days. The celebration on 14th February is called Valentine’s Day like in the rest of the world but is different in the sense that only women present gifts to men (usually chocolate gifts as shown on the economy postal card (Eko Hagaki) in figure 5). These postal cards have advertising and sell for 5 fen below the face value. One month later the 14th March, known as White Day, is the ‘reply day’ when day men offer gifts in return. Mexico On Valentine’s Day in Mexico, people celebrate love and friendship in an exciting way. Most places are an all day and night carnival where you find bustling streets filled with colourful balloons, fragrant flowers especially red roses, loads of chocolate and candies, cute stuffed toys Figure 5: Echo card 08.10.1989 Stamp News - 53
Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Figure 6 (far left) Day of love and Friendship 10.02.2016 Figure 7 (left) Separated by the Milky Way 23.08.2012
China Macao Chinese Valentine Day is celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. The Qixi Festival is based on a fairy tale in China. That tells of the romance between Niu Lang, represented by the star Altair, and Zhi Nv, represented by the star Vega. The couple live on opposite sides of the Milky Way and the only time they can be together is on a bridge formed by flying magpies once a year (figure 7). The Philippines For Valentine’s Day 2014, the Philippine Postal Corporation organised a stamp design contest to depict Valentine’s Day. Ms. Jamia Mei Tolentino was chosen. Her description of her artwork is: “We Filipinos express our love in a unique way. My drawing shows the sharing of love between a Filipino and a Filipina. One way is giving gifts and flowers to the conservative Filipina, another is serenading the Filipina by playing the guitar and singing sweet songs. The birds hold a flower and a letter symbolising sending of love. Valentine’s is a day we do these things to show love but let us not forget that we should express our love to others all year round.” The stamp was issued in 2014 (figure 8). Sweden The Swedish couples have a rather different way of celebrating Valentine’s Day. They go to clubs with live music, take a walk along the beach or visit good restaurants. Valentine’s Day is marked by the exchange of pastries, roses and jelly hearts by lovers and the idea behind the celebration is to show your loved one how much you love and appreciate him/her (figure 9). 54 - Stamp News
Australia Australia follows the popular customary rituals of Valentine’s Day such as greeting cards, flower bouquets and gift baskets (figure 10). The American influence on Australian culture is profound and it’s believed that Americans introduced the whole concept of Valentine’s Day to Australia. There is a story behind the extravagant Valentine’s Day celebrations of Australia. It is believed that during the gold rush period, miners became extremely rich due to the new wealth found from the Ballarat mines. Miners ordered lavish valentine’s functions to express the happiness in their success. They distributed expensive gifts, sweets to people and their celebrations enriched the posh streets of Brisbane, Canberra and Sydney. Thailand 2018 World Stamp Exhibition, 28 November - 03 December The Thailand 2018 World Stamp Exhibition was organised by The Philatelic Association of Thailand under the patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Maha
Figure 8: Valentine’s Stamp 27.01.2014
Stephanie Bromser
Philatelic Development Officer, APF Figure 9: Valentine’s Day booklet 15.01.1998
Chakri Sirindhorn. The exhibition was held on the 5th floor of Siam Paragon shopping complex and timed to celebrate the first anniversary of H.M. King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s Royal Coronation Ceremony. Displays of interest included the personal postcard collection of Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn called ‘Record of Journey.’ There were 603 competitive exhibits from all philatelic classes displayed in 2,547 frames. 33 exhibits received Large Gold medals and 110 Gold medals. There were 16 Australian entries. We received 3 Gold, 5 Large Vermeil, 5 Vermeil and 3 Large Silver medals. There were two Australians on the Jury. Gary Brown judges Postal History – Asia, Oceania and Africa. Charles Bromser was cross accredited in Astrophilately. Thailand Post promoted tourism in each region of Thailand by presenting unique stories of 55 secondary destinations, in line with the Tourism Authority of Thailand’s project to promote these lesser-known tourist attractions. Stamps featuring tourist spots from five provinces in Thailand’s five regions were available for purchase (figure 11). Australia Post released a special daily mini-sheet each of the six days of the show. Each mini-sheet featured one of the six finch species showcased in part
1 and part 2 of the Finches of Australia stamp series, released in 2018 and illustrated by artist Kevin Stead. (figure 12). An embossing machine was used to apply a gold overprint for each day of the exhibition. (figure 13). The awards night was held at the ballroom in the Asia Hotel. The Grand Prix d’Honneur was won by the exhibit of Peter Wittsten “Sweden 1855-1872 The First Five Stamp Issues”. The Grand Prix International was won by Richard Tan from Singapore for his “Straits Settlements from pre-stamp era to 1900” and the winner of the Grand Prix National was Ayuth Krishnamara, from Thailand with his exhibit “Siam: King Rama IV and King Rama V (1837-1904)”. The trophies for the three Grand Prix winners were presented by HRH the Princess of Thailand during a special ceremony in the exhibition hall. The Federation Internationale de Philatelie (F.I.P.) 75th annual congress The FIP held the 75th annual congress on December 2, during Thailand 2018. FIP is a confederation of 95 national philatelic federations with the goal of promoting philately (the stamp hobby), international philatelic
Figure 10 (below) St Valentine’s Day 30.01.1995 Figure 11 (right) Entrance to Thailand 2018
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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation
exhibitions and related events. Mr Bernard Beston (Australia) was elected as the new FIP President (figure 14), together with new Vice-Presidents for Asia Dr Prakob Chirakiti (Thailand) and new Director for Asia Mr Richard Tan Eng Chuan (Singapore). The new FIP Board now comprises: Messrs Richard Tan; Aldo SamamĂŠ y SamamĂŠ (Peru) ; Reinaldo Macedo (Brazil); Bernard Beston, Bernard Jimenez (France); Prakob Chirakiti and Yigal Nathaniel (Israel). (figure 15) Officers and other members of the FIP board are elected for four-year terms and may serve for only two terms in the same position. Bernie is a retired barrister and solicitor, married with two adult daughters. He is an Australian philatelist resident in the Queensland city of Bundaberg, famous for its world quality rum. He began collecting at the
Figure 12 (far left) Australia Post daily mini-sheets Figure 13 (left) Australia Post embossing machine Figure 14 (above) Bernard Beston, FIP president age of 14 and started with First Day Covers of Norfolk Island, before moving on to Norfolk Island Postal History. This collection was sold many years later to fund his honeymoon. Like most Queenslanders, Bernie enjoys good food and wine while catching up with his philatelic friends. Recently he walked the Camino de Santiago Trail from France to Portugal with his wife Kay. Bernie has many philatelic collecting interests. He is an avid postal stationery collector and exhibitor, with exhibits of Queensland, New South Wales and Australia, India, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Jordan, British Guiana, Guyana, Barbados and other Caribbean Islands. In postal history he exhibits Queensland, Jordan, Norfolk Island and Australia. He has also exhibited in the aerophilately, thematic, maximaphily and revenue classes. Bernie champions all philatelic classes and is known for providing constructive feedback to help exhibitors improve their medal levels. For many years Bernie was Consultant in marketing and philatelic advice to various Postal Administrations, and the Universal Postal Union. He is a Figure 15: New FIP board
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Stephanie Bromser
Philatelic Development Officer, APF qualified National, FIAP and FIP Juror. He became an FIP Juror in Madrid in 1984 and is qualified in postal stationery, revenues, thematics and maximaphily. He is a former President of the Australian Philatelic Federation, and past Vice President of the Federation of Inter-Asian Philately (FIAP). In 2003 he was made a fellow of Australian philately. He was first elected as a FIP Director during the Lisbon Congress in 2010. At the FIP Congress in Seoul in 2014 he was elected to FIP Vice President. Until 2018 he was a FIP Director with responsibilities for postal history, astrophilately, jury apprentices, seminars and education, plus legal matters and regulations. Bernie replaces outgoing president Tay Peng Hian, who has held the office for eight years. On behalf of the FIP Board, FIP Vice-President for Europe, Bernard Jimenez conferred Tay Peng Hian as the Honorary President of FIP for his 16 years of service to FIP. He also presented the Medal of Service and Certificate of
Appreciation to Tay Peng Hian for his efforts and huge contribution to organised Philately over the last 30 years (figure 16).
Figure 16: Tay Peng Hian and Bernard Jimenez
upcoming stamp & coin fairs & events new south wales victoria Jan 5 - (1st Sat) 9am to 4pm Orange Stamp Fair, Quinn’s Arcade, Summer St, Orange. Ph: Norm 02 63623754. Jan 5 - (1st Sat) Northside Stamp Fair. 1st Floor, Car park Building, Manly-Warringah Leagues Club, cnr Federal Parade/Pittwater Rd, Brookvale, NSW. Jan 5 - (1st Sat) Katoomba Stamp & Coin Fair, 9am - 4pm, Masonic Hall, Cnr Station & Civic Sts, Katoomba. Ph. 0417 802 754 Jan 5 - (1st Sat) Sutherland Shire Stamp & Coin Collectors Fair, Gymea Anglican Church Hall, 131 Gymea Bay Rd, Gymea. Jan 20 - (3rd Sun) Stamp & Coin Fair, 10am - 3pm, Pioneers Hall, Cowper St, Wallsend. 8 Dealers. 4971 3483 Jan 27 - (4th Sun) Epping Stamp & Coin Fair, Community Hall, 9 Oxford St, Epping. 10am - 4pm. Free Entry, 6 Dealers, Buy/Sell.
Jan 6 - (1st Sun) Western Suburbs Stamp, Coin & Banknote Fair, Strathmore Bowling Club, 40 Loeman St, Strathmore. Enq: Chris. 0413355716. Jan 12 - (2nd Sat) Salvation Army Stamp Fair, Ferntree Gully. For details see full page ad Jan 19 - Stamp Coin, Card Fair, Peninsula Stamp Club, Dromana Uniting Church Hall, cnr. Point Nepean Rd & McCulloch St. 9 - 3 Free admission 0418 322 315 Jan 20 - (3rd Sun) Stamp, Card - Phone Card Fair, Bentleigh-McKinnon Youth Centre, Higgins Rd, Bentleigh. Dealers plus huge range activities. Ph: 0418 322 315. Jan 27 - (last Sun ex Dec) Stamp, Coin & Phonecard Fair, Jaycees Hall, Silver Grove, Nunawading. 9am-3pm.
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TBA - QStamp Fair, Southside, Mt Gravatt Showgrounds, Memorial Hall, Logan Rd. Free Entry 8.30am - 2pm Jan 14 - (2nd Mon) - Gold Coast PS Sale, Rm 1, Southport Comm. Centre, Lawson St, Southport. 11.30am 2.30pm Brisbane Table Tennis Association Centre
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Market Matters Under Face Postage Stamps.
Everyone likes to save money on ever-rising postage costs - human nature! In Australia, ALL Decimal currency stamps with gum, issued in the past half century+ are fully valid for mailing letters and parcels, both locally and overseas. If you can buy them for well less than face, you make a very good legal saving. Most dealers sell it - I offer packs of $500, and $1,000 of mint full gum postage. The latter costs $750, and many small businesses and eBay sellers are pleased to save $250 totally legally. As I often sell them full runs of PO packs, or blocks 4 etc, the receivers FAR prefer valuable stamps even when used, over a worthless PO meter imprint! WINWIN all round. A little bit of juggling and sorting values and fiddling about, but for many it is well worth that, given the huge ongoing savings. All outlined here - tinyurl.com/PostGlen Certainly EVERY reader should have a little stash of valid attractive mint Commem stamps of your own country on hand. Common courtesy to NOT use worthless labels, or “FOREVER”, or dreary Machins etc.
These are not “MINT” stamps. 58 - Stamp News
Nicer used on mail than LABELS!
Buying via eBay is Wild West stuff.
So folks who mail a lot, can buy off established stamp dealers, who will be there next month, indeed next year - OR buy from eBay - or ScamBay, as it is often referred to lately! Then you are trading in true Wild West conditions. Some is stolen material, or totally forged mint stamps, or 100% illegal to use material, or simply non-existent goods very often. Many shady characters soak uncancelled stamps off office kiloware, and have some 10 year old kid glue those now illegal stamps onto 1000 cheap white envelopes, and offer them on eBay as “1000 x $1 stamped envelopes - ready to mail $775”. The Bunnies crawl all over such “wonder deals”. One I saw was offering a $500 bunch of re-cycled no gum stamps, and calling them “MINT”. And even more cheekily, using official Australia Post images from $1 New Issues to do it. You did NOT get $1 + $2 stamps as shown, but 1,000 x “cleanskin” 50c! Lots of clueless buyers for them of course. The same Bunnies do not realise The Crimes Act of Australia offence of re-using stamps, or using cleaned off cancel stamps, falls entirely upon the END USER of the illegal material, NOT the supplier. Drop your 1,000 envelopes into a red mail box, and you will likely have the Federal Police at your door with a Search Warrant, days later. Guaranteed.
Glen Stephens Post only sells them in rolls of 100 or 200, all just 1 stamp wide, these were clearly STOLEN from the printer.
eBay Seller arrested by Police.
What an idiot seller duo - sell stolen Stolen from printer : offered on Scambay stamps, and then add photos of them in an uncut format that CLEARLY had been nicked from the printer. The stampboards thread updates us that one seller was arrested by Police, and I presume the Bunny You will not fool the new machines! Buyers were also getting Federal Police visitors as I kid you not - Mail Centre sorting machines are pretty clever now, and prison terms have been meted well - hopefully confiscating their $7,000 “eBay BAAAHRGIN”. out in extreme cases. Dodgy Brothers venues like Naturally eBay/Paypal LOVE all this illegal stuff, eBay and Gumtree are also of course where the folks as they make the same 15% commision on STOLEN who STEAL material from Australia Post, dump it onto the clueless. Hoping no-one notices. Folks DO stamps, as they do on the legitimate mint material shown nearby. Did they cancel either eBay account notice of course, as we reported last year. at the time, for selling $10,000s of stamps stolen Stampboards highlighted some crooks who were from the Federal Governent? Of course not - Scamlisting up $10,000 face of mint $1 peel and stick Bay would go broke if everyone stuck to offering stamps for $7,000. Discussion here - tinyurl.com/ kosher material. TheftPO Sounds like a great deal right - even LPOs As I type this, the accounts are still open and not pay much more than that for $1 stamps! The eBay suspended on eBay. I think you need to need to be sellers noted were ddldr2185 and jessicnas-1 and there were others “Hi, I am selling left over office supplies. I have 10,000 x $1 Auspost stamps, they are brand new still on the roll - face value $10,000 - selling for $7,000. Need them gone asap, pick up only from Melbourne. Any reasonable offer will be considered.” Yeah right. Both these sellers were offering stamps stolen from the stamp printers. How do we know that? As these idiots used in their eBay descriptions, photos of large uncut wallpaper sized rolls of the $1 stamps! See them nearby. Eleven stamps wide, in long rolls of 10,000 units. Seeing Australia You CANNOT buy these from POs! Stamp News - 59
Market Matters convicted of Mass Murders in 20 countries for eBay to ever remove a juicy fee paying scammer. Every kind of fake and dodge and shonkiness, occurs every hour on eBay, and they clearly do not care. Selling no gum stamps that have already been through the mail is rampant on eBay Australia, and for many countries overseas. In the UK it is big business for crooks, as Royal Mail very stupidly does not cancel most mail - very dumbly believing and stating the 4 x “U” shaped slits and self-adhesive gum will prevent re-use of un-cancelled stamps.
Royal Mail goes “Yes Minister” mode.
Royal Mail’s Fawlty Towers bumbled response to this recent court trial, was to warn CHARITIES they faced possible legal action, if they sold kiloware containing stamps that Royal Mail were now too lazy to cancel. I kid you not. It was almost like Sir Humphrey Appleby is writing their wacko scripts in there! Millions of domestic 1st and 2nd denominated stamps arrive with no cancels, and a backroom army of crooks buy Charity Kiloware etc, to then remove them with common solvents, and offer them
Best wigs £443,244.00 can buy! 60 - Stamp News
MILLIONS of re-used stamps flogged on eBay. by the 1000 or 5000 via ScamBay to willing buyers. On eBay UK, searching for “unfranked” in the “UK QE2 stamps” category, you find around TWO THOUSAND listings. Reports on the board from Brits seem to be that Royal Mail is SLOWLY starting to cancel a little more mail than in recent years, with some remarks most Christmas cards this year arrived with cancels. The PO is learning too late, from its foolish decision not to cancel most mail. tinyurl.com/2yearJail is the stampboards discussion where Police Prosecutors have seen the Courts jail for 2 years a UK couple who re-sold a lot of current stamps that had already been through the mail. The court found - “The value of the amount of stamps sold was £443,244”. The average prices of a detached house in Birmingham where they lived was only £387,500 in the past year. Wendy Baker, 55 and Dean Westwood, 56, both of Hengham Road, Sheldon UK, (bizarre photo nearby) had previously pleaded guilty to three charges of fraud, possessing articles for use in fraud, adapting an article for fraud, and supplying an article for fraud. They were both sentenced to two years imprisonment.
Two year prison sentence for Fraud.
The re-cycled stamps they sold on eBay “dramati-
Glen Stephens course not. UK eBay seller redldv has a long conga line of sales for many 1000s of them here - tinyurl. com/REDLDV Given that every new buyer will of course be henceforth supplied “under the table” at a reduced rate, hence dodging eBay fees and taxes etc, you see the size of the problem.
Gibbons “AUSTRALIA” Catalogue released.
New 2019 Gibbons “AUSTRALIA” Catalogue. cally accelerated” from initially £7,262 to £48,518 worth a month, said Ben Gow, Prosecuting for the Crown, and he stated the vast majority of the sales were to businesses and traders, and there were multiple and repeat purchases. In passing sentence, Rachel Brand QC said the fraud had been “persistent and planned” She added: ”You placed into circulation a huge number of washed stamps over a number of years allowing others to use them, to cheat the Royal Mail out of revenue they were entitled to.” Half a million quid that just one couple has defrauded Royal Mail of, and it occurs in all countries, which costs EVERY honest mail user - EVERY single person reading this article, extra money. Why - as the many countless millions in fraud involved, when taken across each country, lessens the sum gathered by POs. So, have these 2 year jail terms scared off these idiots flogging re-used stamps on eBay UK? Of course not. Has eBay tried to stop it occuring - of
For me the “event” of this month was the arrival today of my air freight copy of the new 2019 Stanley Gibbons “AUSTRALIA” catalogue. The 11th Edition in fact since 2002. Lots of big changes and price updates in here over the last Edition. The average collector buys a new major catalogue only once every few years, as they are not inexpensive. For many dealers and collectors, being a few years out of date is no big deal. THIS is definitely the year to update, if you have not done so for a while! Retail price in Australia is a rather modest $A75, and for near 400 pages of info in full colour, that is very good value in my mind. I sold a box of them on pre-order - more than usual, as it is the first volume since 2016. Get yours now. If you think any dealer gets rich selling these fully imported heavy books for $A75, you know nothing about business! Most here like it as it saves buying the huge Commonwealth book, that stops in 1970, and that contains all kinds of countries you do not need or look at, and costs 3 times this. A “Must Have” book. For folks who have not bought SG catalogues for a while, these new editions are now in full colour, on bright white paper. Superb production and finish - this SG “AUSTRALIA” Stamp Catalogue 2019 is near 400 pages. This new 11th Edition volume includes all the Colonial (“Australia State”) issues, and all the stamps of the Commonwealth of Australia, including the 1946 British Occupation Force (Japan) overprints etc.
Near 400 pages these days.
Also all booklets and booklet issues - and dies, inverted watermarks, and major plate varieties, Postage Dues etc. And prices for on-cover copies for them Stamp News - 61
Market Matters all. The new issues go to near end of 2018. Also included are ALL issues from the Australian Antarctic Territory, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island. As a perfect example, of how on-cover prices can surprise, I was processing an Estate today, and a few 1930s New Guinea and Papua commercial covers were inside an album. The 2 ordinary covers shown above are SG cat £132 - hence more than paying for this new catalogue instantly! They sold in an hour on stampboards. This new book also covers the Pre-Independence Issues for Nauru (to 1968), New Guinea, Papua and Papua New Guinea, and the popular WWI GRI/ NWPI overprints etc. If you have not updated for a while, do so this year!
Extensive price revisions
Prices have been extensively revised in line with the market - with many 100s of significant increases since the last edition. Starting at SG#1s, right through. How on earth editor Hugh Jefferies MBE and team, gets the now vast swag of Stanley Gibbons Catalogues out, is anyone’s guess. This is Edition 11 since 2002, averaging nearly one a year, and Gibbons Catalogue Editor advises me “AUSTRALIA” is by FAR their largest selling sectional. Canada comes in at a distant #2 place. Printed on a nice crisp fresh white paper stock. Colour illustrations right through, very many of them on each page. And many new varieties and listings are added this year, as well as the very many new issues and booklets etc. A nice crisp clean sans serif font has been used for the last few editions, and makes it so much easier to read - see sample page shown nearby. And in recent editions the country headings are in RED - a very simple thing to do, and they really stand out. The small things like that were overlooked for years!
Colourful and vibrant SG Catalogue.
Lots of constant plate flaws, and stamp booklets are now listed. And lots of inverted watermarks - indeed all recorded inverted and sideways watermarks are now fully listed and priced. 62 - Stamp News
These two alone paid for the book!
Find just a really medium one from a country like Australia and the entire book will be readily paid for MANY times! Often stamps cat 10p each used, are cat many £1,000s each with inverted watermark. Or £35,000 for Australia SG #1 Roo, with sideways watermark, used. This edition, the pricing committee have been super active in the Australasia area. If you only buy a new SG each 5 or 10 years, this is the year to update, as there are extensive upward adjustments. Some I saw on quick look of over 100% increases over last edition, so some SERIOUS moves! There have been exceptional auction realisations for much of this material in the past year or two, and these price increases are simply taking that pricing reality into account, and moving the SG prices into line with what is occurring in the real world stamp marketplace. The attractive 2d Sydney View shown nearby, SG
Glen Stephens Stampboards.com has numerous threads exposing these eBay idiots knowingly offering cut down perforated issues as imperfs etc, and regularly offering forged perfins and overprints and errors etc as genuine. The Bunnies hoover them up. The 5d Green NSW “Imperf” stamp shown nearby was Superb used imperf right? WRONG! sold this month on eBay (so excuse the All NSW “Sydney Views” up strongly. hopeless washed out fuzzy image!) and some dope(s) assumed it was a wide margin imperf, and of course it is not, and has #15 is now cat £21,000. Only a few years back, full simply had the perforations of a cheapie cut off with SG was way under HALF that at - £8,500, so buyscissors. Full discussion here - tinyurl.com/Faking quality always pays off. And if your SG value eNSW says £8,500, you are so out of touch, for your book to be essentially meaningless. Big increases in Australian States. I do know that as a large dealer WHATEVER I These price increases are often very substantial, so offer lately in attractive nice condition Australia any collector or dealer working on older books is States issues - right from imperfs, to the last iscosting themselves money. All the Australia States sues, sell near as fast as loaded up. They have been issues have had extensive re-vamps I noticed, and under-priced for decades, and if you have any gaps, what follows is a brief summary of what I noted, on NOW is the time to fill some spaces, as they will a fairly quick spot check of this new edition. never be cheaper. NSW sets the trend with all the early Imperfs, SG 1-43 all up mint about 20% - that is serious money Source States stamps CAREFULLY. upticks on these already pricey classics. SG #1 goes The States issues are NOT something to buy as a from £13,000 to £16,000 etc. Nice copies fetch ternovice, off cowboy sources like eBay. They are rific money at auction, and are tough to source. VERY often wildly misidentified - often deliberately, Indeed looking through the new Catalogue, I see and/or repaired etc. Cleaned off fiscal cancels are near all NSW issues up to 1870 or so, are up in price offered with new fake cancels as “FU” etc. Mint, and often in used as well. Certainly worth a You really are foolish if you buy such material careful look. Even some of the often neglected PostEXCEPT from well-established dealer members age Dues NSW issues see increases. of major stamp trade bodies. There, you can get a Are all NSW imperfs up? Well no, and there are refund in a year - or 5 years, if the material is found indeed some “sleepers” lurking among early NSW, I wanting. Anonymous eBay sellers can and do vanish can guarantee you that! I was this week pricing up overnight. With YOUR money. a superb and clean and fault free 6d Fawn Diadem, Stamp News - 63
Market Matters 4 margin SG 93a, with error Watermark numeral “8” and not “6”, that is shown nearby. I found it on a stockcard I’d last priced in 1998. That happens all the time here - a 3 floor house of stamps in long forgotten boxes and filing cabinets etc. Usually 20 year old cards of Classics are now double or treble the original prices. Anyway, when I originally priced it, SG was then SG 119a, and listed at £120. In the new 2019 SG - 21 years on, it is listed used at £110. Less than in 1998! So we have a 164 year watermark error Imperforate, in superb 4 margin condition, with no faults, being placed into stock at $A95 - way less than the current PO Year Album. Madness. Do SG have one in stock - of course not! These at £200-250 is more like the correct level.
Rises in Queensland stamp prices.
Queensland sees the very tough 2d Blue imperf SG 2, up from £16,000/£1,800 to £18,000 mint and £2,000 used. Again, buy these ONLY from members of leading dealer bodies who offer FIRM guarantees - the spivs on eBay offer perforated 2d Blues with trimmed off perfs, as these rare stamps. Same colour. South Australia has the ever popular 1855 1d green SG #1 up 20% mint from £12K from £10K, and up too is the scarce 6d SG 3 imperf, also increasing around 20% to £5,500 from £4,500. Again the notes above apply - avoid eBay where the conmen offer trimmed off perforated copies regularly on the SA SG Faulty and regummed - but got 1-3 as “imperfs”. The SA 1855 1/full SG! 64 - Stamp News
Gone BACKWARDS over 1998 price! Violet imperforate moves up over 50% from £26K to £40K - a heck of a leap in one edition. Who says there is no money in better stamps! Solid increases I saw across all areas - even the 1888 “Long Toms” are all up 10% or so, based on strong auction results - the top value £20 is now £42,000 mint. Tasmania remains ever popular. The earlies SG 1-18 are all up mint, often by 10% or so. Later imperfs are often up nicely - the 1855 6d Imperf is up 25% mint to £1,500 for instance. Be SUPER careful about “Mint” of those on eBay that have had fiscal pen cancels bleached off etc. For VICTORIA all the “Half Lengths” seem to get increases in mint, SG #1 going from £32K to £35K. The Imperforate “Queen On Throne” issues are often up 25% in mint. Again all due to strong auction results in the past year, setting new price records for these sought after issues. Victoria 1886 “Pastel Long Toms” are up a lot mint - the £6 SG 325, up 25% to £15,000. Again due to the mad prices paid at the Corinphila “Besancon” auction. This example shown nearby was estimated at just 2000 Francs and was invoiced at the time, for FULL then SG, $A22,500 - despite being described as: “mark removed from face of stamp, diagonal
Glen Stephens
Invoiced for $A425,000, despite faults. crease, and regummed” Indeed all 4 of these pretty “Pastel” bi-colour stamps were offered - all regummed, and all sold for the same price - for about $A90,000 the quartet. Rod Perry sold the 4 to him for $A9,000 all with no gum, so 10 times profit is never bad on that kind of large outlay. The new SG price as can be seen, is not much more than this creased, fiddled with, and regummed copy fetched.
WA prices not even keeping up.
Western Australia powers on strongly of course. The SG #1, “1d Black Swan” is up both mint and used to £1,500/£300. Always a popular Bird item. The 4d “Inverted Frame” is of course up strongly from £140K to £180K. Sound high? Well actually it is nowhere near as high as it SHOULD be of course. The example of this stamp illustrated nearby sold for $A425,000 in mid-2018 at Corinphila in Switzerland. That 1854 4d “Inverted Frame” has a bad 3mm paper slit above “OU”, and a vertical crease. I suspect the SG prices had been set before that sale took place, as even full new cat £180,000 is miles under what this defective example shown nearby, has sold for at Public Auction. Western Australia sees price increases right into
the 1900s. A very popular State, and it always has very strong global demand - especially among “Bird” thematic collectors, as near all their issues depict - BIRDS! Don’t laugh - near all the available Western Australia 4d Swan “Inverted Frames” (worth many millions) are owned by Hong Kong doctor, Arthur Woo - who has a serious BIRDS ON STAMPS collection! Only 14 genuine “Inverted Frame” examples are recognised, and exactly HALF of those, or 7 copies, are in Museum or Royal or Institutional collections, and are thus not buyable by modern collectors, and never will be I am sure. The two fakes of the Western Australia “Inverted Frame” previously widely regarded as genuine, Dr Woo also owns. Photos of all 16 errors are here, and how to pick the fakes - tinyurl.com/FakeSwan Woo owns near all the others - I have seen them exhibited all on one page - and he may well have been the buyer of the example auctioned mid-year in Switzerland. The buyer has not yet been disclosed, and/or made himself known. It was invoiced for 314,600 Swiss Francs, or near exactly $A425,000 at the time.
Big gains in AUSTRALIA.
Lots of price increases noted in AUSTRALIA. Many of the major printing errors and inverted watermarks are up strongly. The 4d Violet KGV “Line Through Four Pence” is up to £34K and £9K. The last used one I sold years back went for a tiny fraction of that, so these have performed very well, and are not often seen offered. Some more modest and affordable plate errors like the 1929 3d green Airmail “Long Wing To Plane” I suggested in last edition should be added, is up 20% to £300 and £180 used. You should have bought early! A very easy to spot error, but almost no-one overseas knows it exists, so you might pick one up for a dollar or so in dealer stock, or on first flight covers where many of them were used - and it really is a simple and striking visual error to spot. As usual, SG cleverly adds a new plate flaw or two for folks to chase. This year I note the appearStamp News - 65
Market Matters ance of the “Falling Mailbag” variety on the 1931 3d Blue Kingsford Smith. SG 122a sees it debut in listing at £120 mint and £100 used. Why the names of errors when newly added, do not coincide with the 50 year usage here of “Plane Dropping Mailbag” mystifies me. Later issued varieties like the 1941 1/Lyrebird “Roller Flaw” SG 192a is up in value 20% mint or used. All the other KGVI era “Roller Flaws” also increase in price. The 2d red KGVI “Medal Flaw” shown nearby is £350/£130, and are worth only pennies with no flaw. Fill those gaps soon, as these errors are not getting any more common! Did you know the “Top Hat” flaw on the 6d Kookaburra is now cat £1,500 mint - up from £550 only a few years before? A scarce and very popular flaw, and very seldom offered, so leaps up EVERY year. Buy off someone foolishly using a couple of years old Catalogue to “save money”, and YOU win by £950! Were you aware that a ½d Orange Kangaroo Coil Block of 4 is now Cat in SG at New plate variety added this year. £1,000 mint? Or the “Green Mist Retouch” on the 1/- Lyrebird SG 230da is £4,500 mint major retouches or flaws that are very easy to spot and £3,250 used etc. “Knowledge Is Power” - as I with the naked eye. One I suggested added for the have probably typed here 1,000 times! next edition, is the 1960 8d Tiger Cat “Typhoon Did you know the 1941 1/- Lyrebird, also with Retouch”. A scarce error, as it was not noticed by inverted watermark SG 192w is Cat £6,000 mint or collectors for a couple of years after stamp was used - but just 10p in normal used etc? This is up withdrawn, so in mint positional blocks is really by £1,000 mint and £2,000 used over last edition. tough. Check your duplicates. Many are still out there to A client has matched top right corner blocks be found. 6 showing all of the 4 stages of this amazing and EASY to see plate varieties are great to see clumsy retouch - the most dramatic ever on Austraincluded. Super specialised catalogues like the lia recess printed stamps - I took this scan nearby ACSC, by their very nature, are filled with 100s of from his block. I keep trying to swap them with pages of near impossible to see at normal size “Fly him for a Roo he needs, as they would be near Specks” that totally do my head in - and they do my unique in matched mint blocks! eyes in, that is for SURE! Price rises are even seen in the Postage Dues
Down with tiny “fly-speck” errors!
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issues - the scarce 1908 20/- “With Stroke” is up to £7,500 mint and £40,000 used, but a warning, read the SG and ACSC notes. These were ONLY issued
Glen Stephens some popular areas getting the same price increases in all sections of the catalogue.
Collectors need to support SG.
Collectors are famously tight fisted 8d “Typhoon Retouch” coming next. with buying catalogues, but a strong and profitable SG catalogue division is ESSENTIAL for a robust and healthy world stamp market. Many totally forget that, so do your bit, and add to their sales volume. I have sold plenty of these new this month to help out. If all collectors (and clubs) who actively collect ”Top Hat” to £1,500 from £550. this region all went out and bought this new catalogue today, that is a LARGE cash injection into SG right there. A small cost to each collector/club for a in NSW, so the fake “Vic. Aust” cancels applied by very useful book, but a big injection to SG finances, a Melbourne dealer to toned mint stamps etc, are at a crucial time. forgeries made to deceive. Stanley Gibbons are not a Charity or Government Perforated “OS” Australia very often see inDepartment, but a publicly listed business, and must creases. The usual warning on these too, buy the make a profit. Falling sales of these works may well scarcer ones ONLY from experienced and reputable see the new bean counters in place at SG decide to dealers. Near all on eBay are modern fakes cranked not print catalogues at all. Simple as that. And in out by the 1,000s, as the Bunnies cannot tell, and my experience, such moves are instant, AND final, cannot resist a ”BAAAHRGIN” - which they will so there is no good lamenting it all after the event. regret when they sell! SG have now sacked their previous incompetent In a quick perusal of the PAPUA listings I noCEO Michael Hall, who near sent the company ticed some upward price tinkering, and a “HALO” broke in recent years with his wacky ideas. His flaw has now been added to the common 1d green, foolish and disastrous acquisitions, £10 million web 1937 KGVI Coronation. It is SG 154a, cat £40 and follies, and Portfolio selling are all gone, and SG are £50 used. You might pick these up for 10¢ each in now back to basics, where they were 15 years ago the club circuit books or dealer stocks! selling top quality stamps and publications. The Papua “OS” official overprints appear to be A great effort from editor Hugh Jefferies MBE, up right across the board. They are NOT easy to and his Catalogue team - how they get the vast swag source in complete sets, and I’d suggest you ONLY of SG Catalogues out each year, sure beats me! A buy them thus, as chasing about for 3 or 4 missing never-ending process, and juggling, logging, and middle values may well take you the rest of your tracking all the New Issues, and new flaws and lifetime, and odd singles are seldom offered. ever-changing prices etc, must be an absolute nightDeadline here precluded me looking at a lot of mare. later issues, but I did some spot checking, and noted DO secure one - a strong SG Catalogue division Stamp News - 67
Market Matters is essential for the ongoing health of this hobby, and with SG’s recent fiscal problems, they truly need support. Many readers have VERY narrow or non-existent “Big Picture” vision sadly - and I can only repeat - DO support these fine works - without them, this hobby would be in a terrible mess. $100 or so a year, now and again, to support the Catalogue division, is a drop in the pond to what most A serious coin - melt value near US5 MILLION! cheerfully spend on their stamps a year. And a drop with a massive 100 kilogram (221 pound) gold coin, in the Ocean as to how the value of your stamps will worth millions in bullion melt value. DROP in an era of no new catalogues. Think about The Bode Museum Spokesman, Stefen Petersen it. said the thieves apparently entered through a window about 3:30 a.m, and broke into a cabinet where Quite a “Chunk Of Change”! the “Big Maple Leaf” coin was kept, and escaped Lots of stamp collectors also collect coins, and even with it before police arrived. A ladder was found by if you do not, this is a pretty amazing story. Berlin nearby railway tracks. It was on loan from a collecpolice say thieves broke into the German capital’s tor! Bode Museum in late March 2017, and made off The three cm (over 1”) thick coin, with a diameter of 53 cms (21”) has a nominal face value of $C1 million. But by weight alone, however, recent overseas news reports state it would be worth around $US5 million at bullion market “melt” prices on today’s rates. In October 2007, the Million Dollar Coin was certified by Guinness World Records to be the world’s largest gold coin. The coins are Weight 100 Kilos - 3 men to lift. 68 - Stamp News
Glen Stephens seas roadshows to Asia and to Europe and the mind really boggles at what the insurance was on $50 million!
Alleged thieves now on trial.
300 heavily armed German police in raids. manufactured at the Mint’s Ottawa facility, where the Mint operates world-class gold and silver refineries, securely stores gold bullion, and mints all Royal Canadian Mint gold bullion products and collector coins. After several interested buyers came forward after that theft publicity, the Mint decided to make a very limited quantity available for sale. To date, five of these gold bullion coins, weighing 3,215 troy ounces each, have been purchased by investors, from Canada and abroad. Gold producing superpower Australia could not bear to be outdone, and in 2012 the Perth Mint produced a 1 TONNE Gold Coin (1,000 kilos) shown nearby, which in turn captured the Guinness World Records title of the world largest coin, knocking off the Canadians. “Melt” value of the bullion inside is a reported $A50 Million. This giant “Coin” is 80cms wide and more than 12cms thick - near 5 inches for American readers. The reverse depicts a bounding red Kangaroo as you can see bordered by the inscription “AUSTRALIAN KANGAROO - 1 TONNE .9999 GOLD” and the issue year date of 2012. Issued as legal tender under the Australian Currency Act 1965, the obverse of the coin portrays QE2, and the monetary denomination is “1 MILLION DOLLARS”. The coin has done some over-
The European media reported this month that the alleged Berlin thieves had been apprehended by German Police. The four men were accused of carrying out the spectacular heist of a giant solid gold coin from a Berlin Museum, have now gone on trial. The men stand accused of stealing the 100kg “Big Maple Leaf” from the Bode Museum after using a ladder to enter a third-floor window, smashing the bulletproof cabinet in which the coin was on display, then transporting it in a wheelbarrow and skateboard to a nearby park, and abseiling with it to a getaway vehicle. Three of the men on trial, identified only, as per the odd German practice as Wissam R, Ahmed R, and Wayci R, are members of a Berlin crime family. My research has revealed their surname is Remmo, and are from a Lebanese origin family, who have over 500 members living in Germany, with many ties to organised crime there, it is alleged. The fourth accused is a security guard identified as Denis W, and a classmate of the Remmo Brothers, who is accused of assisting the men, by providing them with “inside” information about the Museum which was vital to the plot. The men hid their faces behind magazines with holes cut out for their eyes, as they entered the court in Berlin, and during the hearings. The massive “coin” is believed to have been broken up, and melted down shortly after the theft, and it is felt sure it will never be recovered. However if any of them are convicted, under German law, the value of the stolen item must be paid back to the rightful owner. OUCH.
Remmo family well known to German Police
Detectives revealed early on in the investigation that the Remmo family was part of a crime ring,
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Market Matters well known to German Police, and whose members had carried out numerous high-profile crimes over several years, including break-ins, a bank robbery in which the bank building was blown up to hide evidence, and acts of violence in Berlin, including a murder in broad daylight. Last summer Berlin investigators confiscated 77 properties valued at €9.3 million, which members of the Remmo family were believed to have purchased with the proceeds from various crimes. Shotguns and large amounts of cash were also reportedly seized in the raids, that involved 300 heavily armed Police. The German Police seemed to have taken these raids very seriously, with all officers wearing balaclavas to protect their identities, and one photo nearby is from some of those officers taking part. Arrests were made. German Investigators later charged
16 of the Remmo clan with money laundering. The alleged thieves are part of a large “Arabic-Kurdish” family known to local authorities for its involvement in racketeering, drug smuggling and the arms trade. The Neukölln district in Berlin where they lived, has one of the highest immigrant populations in Berlin. During the investigation into the coin robbery, prosecutors said that unknown persons had tried to destroy evidence in a vehicle believed to have been the getaway car, which had been confiscated after an illegal car rally. The culprits gained access to a police compound where the car was parked, and sprayed fire-extinguishing foam into its interior.
Modern technology assists the case.
However this attempt to hide or destroy evidence failed, after police found gold deposits on the car upholstery, of a purity that matched the stolen mega coin composition identically. DNA left behind at the Museum by the burglars, and CCTV footage of them, also is said to be held by the German Police. The trial was expected to take about 12 days, amidst a huge media presence, before a chamber of Berlin’s regional court reserved for youth crimes. Due to the ages of the three of the men, between 18 to 20 - when they allegedly carried out the heist. The men are not in detention, which seemed odd to me at least. If found guilty, they could face up to 10 years in jail. The verdict is expected to be handed down on 28 March. Glen Stephens has written monthly ‘Stamp Tipster’ Columns for over 30 years - globally. A vast library of his past articles and photos are found at – www.glenstephens.com/column.html
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NSW Postcard Collectors Soc: Mtg 1st Wed 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301 Northern Suburbs PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs, 7.45pm, Naremburn Library, Central St, Naremburn off Slade St Orange Coin and Stamp Club: Mtg Last Tuesday, Orange Community Info Centre, 79-81 Kite St, Orange 7.30pm Parramatta PS: Mtg 1st Friday Penrith and District PS: Mtg 1st Thursdays, 8pm, J3A Bldg. Castlereash St. New PO Box: 252 Kingswood 2750. Ph: 02 4733 3062 Piallaway PS: PO Box 12, Werris Creek PHILAS Stamp Auctions: Mtg 2nd Sat Mar,Jul, Nov Ph 02 9264 8301 PS of Australia: Mtg 3rd Wed (exDec) PS of NSW: Mtg 4th Sat (Philas House), 3rd Tues (Chatswood); Ph: 02 9264 8301 Richmond River (Lismore) PS: Mtg 4th Thursday Royal Sydney Philatelic Club: Mtg 2nd Tues. (ex Jan); Ph: 02 9264 8301 Sapphire Coast Stamp & Coin Club: Mtg Enq 02 6495 7308. Mail to PO Box 285, Pambula, NSW 2549 St. George PS: Mtg 1st Mon Shoalhaven PS: Mtg 2nd Monday (Ex Jan) PO Box 4047, East Nowra 2541. Smithfield SC: Mtg 2nd Mon Society for Polar Philately: 2012 meetings: 2nd Wednesday of February, March, May, July, Sept and November held at Ryde Ex-Services Club 724-730 Victoria Rd, Ryde, NSW Tel: 9807 3344 (in Mackinnon room) starting at 8pm.Enq 0407 277 223 or email penviews@ hotmail.com Sussex Inlet and District: Mtg 3rd Mon Sutherland Shire PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. , 7:30pm, Sutherland Uniting Services Club, 7 East Pde, Sutherland. Information Secretary, PO Box 339, Sutherland, NSW 1499 Sydney Anglican PS: 2nd Sat. even months 9.30-2.30 North Rocks Community Church132 North Rocks Road North Rocks Tamworth PS: Mtg 1st Mon ex. Jan. Tamworth Bridge Club, 7 Hilton St, Tamworth Sec. Graeme Mitchell. PO Box 678, Tamworth NSW 2340 Ph. 02 67664853 Taree RSL Club Ltd SC: Mtg 3rd Mon Toronto SC: Mtg 1st Wed Turramurra SC: Mtg 2nd Monday, 7.45pm. Twin Towns Stamp Club Inc.: Mtg 1st Monday, 7.30p, Masonic Centre, 8 Boyd St, Tweed Heads, 07 5535 3168 Wagga SC: Mtg 1st Wed (ex Jan) ARCC Building, Tarcutta St, 7.30pm. Secretary: Peter Simpfendorfer Ph:02 6922 3393 Wyong PS: Mtgs: 3rd Tues 7.30pm, daytime meetings 1st Weds, KGV Heads group 4th Weds. Jim Spence Sec. 02 4392 3610 email: dandasonter6@bigpond.com
northern territory Alice Springs SC: Meet Informally; PO Box 1529, Alice Springs, NT, 0871. Ph 08 8953 3054 Darwin Philatelic Circle: 1st Sun. 10am - 2pm. 53 Flametree Crt, Rosebery; Ph:(08) 8931 2898; PO Box 1624, Palmerston, NT, 0831; Email: Nadine.Tinsley@nt.gov.au-. WA club information: WA Philatelic Council, GPO Box 9800, Perth, WA, 6001 Mandurah PS PO Box 625 Mandurah WA 6210 2nd Tues 4.45 - 6.30pm Bortolo Park Pavilion Cnr. Bortolo and Murdoch Drives Greenfields WA 6210 08 9581 1083 keithmich@bigpond.com Northern Districts SC: Mtg 2nd Mon; Ph: 08 9329 0117 Philatelic Forum: Mtg 1st Mon (ex Jan); Ph: 08 9294 4277 Rockingham & Kwinana (PS of): Mtg 3rd Tues (NB 2nd in Dec) Pres. Malcolm Brown; Sec. Terry Boyd; PRO Lucie Schokker Ph. 08 9419 1604; email: malcolm.b@iinet.net.au PS of WA: Mtg 3rd Tues; Ph: 08 9294 4277 Stirling PS: Mtg 4th Wed (ex Dec); Clubrooms, Charles Riley Reserve, Wendling Rd, North Beach, Ph: 08 9447 7256 The Postmark Circle (WA): Mtg 2nd Mon; Ph: 08 9294 4277 Victoria Park SC: Mtg 1st Wed; Ph: 08 9472 8072 or 08 9450 5280 WA Study Group: Mtg 4th Thurs (ex Dec) 08 9384 1050 Wanneroo SC: Mtg 3rd Mon; Ph: 08 9305 3130.
philatelic clubs & societies new zealand Air Mail Society of NZ: Ph: 03 3584838; Email: alant@snap.net Auckland PS: Mtg 1st and 3rd Tues (except Jan). Ph 09 9853212; Email kiwibrooce@ yahoo.com; Website: www.aps.gen.nz Christchurch PS: Mtg 2nd Tues, Library night 3rd Tues; GB Machin 3rd Fri odd months; Postal History 1st Mon; Postcard 3rd Tues even months. Email: secretary@ cps.gen.nz; Website: www.cps.gen.nz Dunedin PS: Mtg 4th Thurs (except Nov and Dec). Ph: 03 4557643; Email: davidallison2009@gmail.com; Website: www.dunedinstampclub.org.nz Hastings Stamp Collectors Club: Mtg 3rd Wed (except Jan and 2nd Wed Dec). Ph: 06 8765911; Email: clairemole@xtra.co.nz Hawkes Bay PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex. Jan). Ph: 06 8439433; Email: dennmarg@paradise. net.nz Horowhenua PS: Mtg 2nd Mon. Ph: 06 3689881; Email: michael.christensen@xtra. co.nz Hutt Valley PS: Mtg 1st Tues (ex. Jan). Ph: 04 5697439; Email: richards@nec.co.nz Kapiti PS: Mtg 3rd Tues (ex Dec). Ph: 04 2971197; Email: ian.burttt@yahoo.co.nz Manaia PS: Mtg (Hawera) 1st Sun. Ph: 06 2784292; Email: peter.williams@xtra.co.nz Manawatu PS: Mtg 1st Wed, daytime meeting 3rd Tues. Ph: 06 3584565; Email: mps@inspire.net.nz Marlborough Stamp Collectors Club: Mtg 3rd Mon (except Jan and 2nd Mon Dec). Morrinsville Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd Wed. Ph: 07 8893199 Nelson PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 03 5469092; Email: paula.hucklesby@clear.net.nz North Shore PS: Mtg 2nd (except Jan) and 4th Wed (except Jan and Dec). Email: nsps@xtra.co.nz; Website: www.northshoreps.com NZ Stamp Collectors Club Christchurch: Mtg 4th Wed. Ph 03 3895511; Email: steve@ philatelic.org.nz; Website: www.nzeal.com/philately/nzscc.htm NZ Postcard Society: Ph: 03 3848463; Email: jenny-long@clear.net.nz; Website: www. postcard.org.nz
queensland Arana Hills SC: Meeting 2nd Tues; 07 3851 0213; email: petermccloskey@bigpond.com Bayside Afternoon SC: Meeting last Wed; Ph: 07 3206 6281. Bundaberg PS: Mtg 2nd Mon 7pm, The Family Centre, Kensington St (in the Show Grounds); Ph: 07 4152 2403 or 07 4151 3062 Caboolture & District SC: Mtg 3rd Sat. Ph: 07 5498 6504 Cairns SC: 4th Tues. 7.30pm Comm. Hall, 15 Kamerunga Rd., Stratford 07 4033 2211 Caloundra SC: Mtg. 4th Thurs. Catholic Church Hall, Edmund St. 1.30pm. Ph: 07 5494 7233 City Daytime SC: Mtg 2nd Thurs. Ph: 07 3206 6281 City of Brisbane PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs; Ph: 07 3263 8573 (ah); email: desley@mycelebrant.com Collectors Club Queensland: Mtg 2nd Sunday each month 9am to 1pm - RSL Hall, 58 Arnold St, Holland Park. Contact 0409 130 266 or ccqueensland@gmail.com Enoggera SC: Mtg 1st and 3rd Mon. Ph: 07 3264 4157 Gladstone and District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed (Ex. Jan) & 4th Wed (Ex.Dec). Ph. Sec: 07 4978 1155 Ian Rippingale, Gold Coast PS: Mtg 2nd Mon, 11.30am, Southport Community Centre, Lawson St, Southport. Ph: 07 5546 3801 Gympie SC: Mtg. 2nd Sun. Jessie Witham Centre 1 - 3pm Ph. 07 5483 9188 email: sandandan@bigpond.com Hervey Bay Afternoon Club: Mtg 3rd Wed. Ph: 07 4124 1138 Ipswich SC: Mtg 1st Thurs (ex. Jan). Ph: 07 3282 2983 Junction Park SC: Mtg 1st Tues, 7.30pm, Annerley Baptist Hall, Lambton St. Contact: 07 3277 6724. PO Box 177, Annerley, 4103, righteo274@bigpond.com Lockyer Valley SC: Mtg 4th Sun, 1.30pm, Senior Citizens’s Hall, Gatton. Kerri Martin, Sec. Ph: 07 5465 3390 Email: lvsc@bigpond.com Logan City SC: Meetings 2nd Thurs, Presbyterian Church, Barry St, Slacks Creek, 6pm. Ph: 07 3805 9226. Mackay and District PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 07 4942 5433;
Further information can be obtained from the NZ Philatelic Federation, PO Box 58139, Whitby, Porirua, 5245, NZ. E-mail: secretary@nzpf.org.nz Postal History Soc of NZ: Auckland 1st Mon (except Jan). Ph: 09 5220311. Chapter meetings held Invercargill, Nelson, New Plymouth and Wellington. Pukekohe Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Sun. John Mounce, President 649-291-9381 johnmounce@ihug.co.nz Royal PS of NZ: Mtg 2nd Wed (ex Jan). Ph: 04 5899530; Email: office@rpsnz.org.nz; Website www.rpsnz.org.nz South Auckland PS: Mtg last Sat (except Dec), Papatoetoe, day time mtgs 3rd Fri (ex Dec and Jan). Ph: 09 2682245; Email: elowera@orcon.net.nz Southland PS: Mtg 1st Thurs (except Jan), 3rd Tue (daytime) (except Jan). Email: antqgevi@es.co.nz Taranaki PS: Mtg 1st Mon except Jan. Ph: 06 7546212; Email: murray-grimwood@ hotmail.com Tauranga & District Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd (except Jan) and 4th Mon (except Dec). Ph: 07 5765210; Email: beducker@hotmail.com Thames Valley PS: Mtg 1st Mon (except Jan). Ph: 07 8689190. Thematic Association of NZ: Ph: 04 2347218; Email: bob@gibsonz.com Timaru PS: Mtg 1st Wed. Ph: 03 6880343 Upper Hutt PS: Mtg 3rd Mon (except 2nd Mon Dec). Ph: 04 5284123; Email: teme. isaac@clear.net.nz Waikato PS: Mtg 1st (except Jan) and 3rd Wed (except Jan and Dec). Email: c.cameron@agresearch.co.nz Wakatipu PS: Ph: 03 4428865 Wanganui PS: Mtg 2nd Wed. Ph: 06 3427894; Email: g.p.phillips@xtra.co.nz Wellesley PS: Mtg 2nd and 4th Mon (ex public holidays). Ph: 9 8271240 Wellington PS: Mtg 4th Mon (except Dec); Ph: 042347218; Email: bob@gibsonz.com Whakatane PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Thurs (except Jan) Ph: 07 3222054 or 07 3086193 Whangarei PS: Mtg 2nd Meeting: 2nd Tues (Ex.Jan) Ph 09 4348000; Email john-monica@xtra.co.nz QLD Philatelic Council, 18 Coolcrest St, Wynnum, Qld, 4178. Ph: 07 3396 0846 Fax: 07 3396 0842. Email: QPC-stamps@acenet.net.au Web: www.qpc.asn.au
Maryborough and Wide Bay PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex. Jan). Salvation Army Youth 7 Comm. Hall. Bazaar St Maryborough. Ph: 07 41224708 (see also Hervey Bay) Nanango SC: Mtg 2nd Sat, 10:00am, Nanango RSL. Contact Ph: 07 3103 8938 or ema il: bowtell_harris@activ8.net.au Philatelic Society of Qld: Mtg 4th Wed 7.30pm,18 Coolcrest St, Wynnum. Ph: 07 3245 5222 Queensland Study Group: Sunday bi-monthly 1.00pm meets QPS house. Contact Ph: 07 3396 0846 email: QPC-stamps@acenet.net.au Redland Bay Coin and Stamp Club, 4th Thurs. Monthly. John Hardman 07 3206 9996 or 07 3822 6987 Rockhampton SC: Mtg 1st Tues. Ph: 07 4926 3336. email: rockystampclub@gmail.com Sherwood Afternoon SC: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 07 3372 6096 Southport Afternoon SC: Mtg 2nd Sat; Ph: 07 55630384 Southside PS: Mtg 3rd Tuesday & 3rd Wednesay (9am) Ph: 07 3848 2304 (ah) email: david. appleton@mailbox.uq.edu.au Sunshine Coast SC (formerly Nambour SC): Mtg 1st Wed, 7.15pm Red Cross Rms, Price St., Nambour 07 5445 3647 Thematics Queensland: Mtg bi-monthly 9.30am. Ph: 07 3262 5605 email: j.crowsley@ uq.net.au Toowoomba SC: Mtg. 2nd Sat 1pm, Salvation Army Hall, Cnr. West St. 7 Anzac Ave. Ph. 07 4635 5623 Email: bob.benny@bigpond.com Twin Towns SC: Mtg 1st Mon; Ph: 07 5535 3168 Waterloo Bay SC: Mtg. 1st Thurs. 1pm & 4th Mon. 7pm. Redlands Multi SportsClub, Birkdale Ph: 07 3206 0815
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philatelic clubs & societies south australia
Information about clubs in SA can be obtained from the SA Philatelic Council, GPO Box 9800, Adelaide, SA 5001. Daytime Ph: 08 8212 3557 or 8223 4435
Australian Airmail Society: 1st Wed. 7.45pm 22 Gray Court, Adelaide. PO Box 395, Edwardstown 5039. Ph: 08 8276 3969 Barossa SC: Mtg 1st Tue 7.30 Greenock Luth Church Hall, Bevan St, Greenock; 19 Evans Street Ancaston 5353; email: ptomely1939@gmail.com; Ph: (08) 8562 8386 Blackwood PC: Mtg 2nd Wed ex Jan; Uniting Church, Main Rd, Blackwood; Ph: 08 8278 1629; PO Box 581, Blackwood 5051; email: teepee@teegee.com.au Bordertown & Districts PS: Mtg: 3rd Thurs. Bordertown PS Contact: K. Grey Tel: 08 8752 0446 or email cdhuntmundulla@yahoo.com.au Community PS: Mtg 1st & 3rd Fri - 7.30pm. Marion Bowling Club, off Sturt Rd. PO Box 75 Edwardstown, 5039; Auctions, circuit books. Ph: 0408806894 City of Noarlunga PS: Mtg alternate thurs,-- Community Health Centre, Grand Boulevard, Seaford, Contact 08 85566371 or PO Box 272, Port Noarlunga 5167 Eastern Districts PS: 2nd Thurs (ex. Jan), 7.30pm Senior citizens Hall, 47 Reid Ave. Hectorville; PO Box 240, Magill, 5072; Ph: 0400 156 796 Elizabeth PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Fridays, 7.30pm, RSL Hall, Cnr of Halseys/Midway Rds;PO Box 701, Elizabeth 5112; Ph: 08 8255 0608 Encounter Bay SC: Mtg 1st Wed, 7.30pm; School Hall, Woolworths Centre, Victor Harbour; PO Box 317, Goolwa 5214; aydepe@bigpond.com; Ph: 08 8555 3311 SA Power Networks Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Mon (ex. Jan); Canteen, 1 Anzac Highway, Keswick; PO Box 2079, Magill North, 5072; Ph: 08 8278 7163 Frama Club: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm, members homes; For collectors of CPS, Framas. Newsletter and Auctions. PO Box 62 Campbelltown 5074. Gawler SC: Mtg 4th Mon 7.30pm; Evanston Primary School, Para Rd, Evanston. PO Box 2, Willaston 5118; Ph: 08 8522 2335 Email: jo.trev@bigpond.com German Philatelic Club: Mtg 2nd & 4th Mon 8pm; German Club, 223 Flinders St, Adelaide 5000; Ph: 08 8260 2251 Glenside PS: 1st & 3rd Sat 1.30pm; Uniting Church Hall, Carlton St. Highgate. c/- 9 Moore St., Tranmere, SA 5073 08 8398 2475 Lower Murray PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs,7.30pm, 2nd Sat, 10am; The Lions Den, Murray Bridge. PO Box 810, Murray Bridge; Ph: 08 85704074 lmphilsocsec@gmail.com Mount Gambier PS: Mtg 3rd Tues; Reidy Park Corn Centre. 8pm. Also1st Sunday (ex. Jan)
victoria Australian PS: Bi-monthly meetings on 3rd Monday in February, April, June, August, October and December at RSL Homes, 152 Canterbury Road [cnr Keats Street] Canterbury. Secretary, PO Box 156 Balwyn Vic. 3103 Bairnsdale SC: Mtg 3rd Thurs Ballarat PS:Mtg 3rd & 5th Mon Balwyn PS: Mtg 3rd Friday; Daytime 1st Friday Bendigo PS: Mtg 1st Tues Berwick SC:Mtg 2nd Sun (ex Jan); Ph: 03 5942 7626 Blackburn Baptist SC: Mtg 3rd Thurs Brighton PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Tues; Daytime 3rd Tues Bulleen PS Mtg 2nd Mon (ex Jan) 7.30 pm Veneto Club Upstairs 191 Bulleen Rd Bulleen (PO Box 166, Niddrie VIC 3042)Contact Secretary: Frank 0438830645 Treasurer: Joe 0408560601 Camperdown SC: Mtg 1st Tues Castlemaine SC: Mtg 3rd Tues (ex Dec) Colac PC: Mtg 4th Mon (ex. Dec), Colac Community College, Bromfield St, Colac. Ph:52314746 Corner Inlet SC: Mtg 4th Thurs, Foster, Ph: 03 56881100 Dandenong PS: 4th Thurs. ex Dec. 7.30pm, Meeting Room, Church of Christ, David St., Dandenong 03 5996 9501 Diamond Valley PS: Mtg 3rd Mon Essendon-Broadmeadows PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs; St Johns Uniting Church Hall, Cnr Mt Alexander Rd & Buckley St, Essendon; Murray Gorham, Ph 9306 7480 Footscray PS: Mtg 1st Mon (2nd in Jan); Maribyrnong Comm. Centre, 54 Raleigh Rd, Maribyrnong. PO Box 2477 Taylors Lakes 3038. PH. 0438 901 144. email: footscraystamps@gmail Frankston & District SC: Mtg 3rd Tues (2nd in Dec) Seaford Community Centre, Broughton St Seaford. Ph: 5996 3745 Geelong PS: Mtgs 1st Sat 7.00pm, 3rd Mon 1pm (ex Jan) Sat - Diversitat Community Centre, 9-15 Clarence St, Geelong West. Mon - Belmont Library, High St, Belmont Ph: 0438578591 (Sec); PO Box 342, Belmont 3216
tasmania Derwent Valley PS: Mtg 4th Mon Devonport Junior SC: Mtg 1st & 3rd Mon Devonport SC: 4th Fri, except Dec. 3rd Fri. 7.30pm, Oldaker Christian Centre, Oldaker St, Devonport, 03 6424 3449 devstampclub.org Devonport Stamp Group: Mtg 4th Fri, Public Library Mtg Rms, 7.30pm Ph. 03 6424 3449 Glenorchy SC: Mtg 1st Tues
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1.30pm - 4pm. PO Box 2261,Mt Gambier.Ph: 08 8724 9474 Para Hills PS: Mtg 1st Sun; Community Hall Wilkinson Rd, Para Hills. PO Box 64, Para Hills; Ph: 08 8522 4345 Phillumeny SC: U3/26-28 Crozier Av, Modbury 5092. Ph: 08 8337 6533 Email: www.users.or.net/ figg/amccs Port Pirie PS: Mtg 4th Mon; PO Box532, Pt Pirie 5540; Ph: 08 8632 1105 Printed Collectables Club (SAPC): Mtg last Tues, Julia Farr Cent. Canteen, Ground Floor, Fisher St. Ph: 08 8265 7395; PO Box 657, Enfield Plaza 5085 PS of South Australia:1st & 3rdTues; 22 Gray Ct. GPO Box 9800, Adelaide 5001; Ph: 08 8555 3311 PS of South Aust. (Aus. Com. Spect.Grp.): Mtg 4th Tues 7.30pm;22 Gray Ct. Ph: 08 8555 3311 PS of South Australia (Daytime SC):Mtg 1st & 3rd Thurs; 22 Gray Ct.Ph: 08 8555 3311 PS of South Australia (Study Group):Mtg 4th Tues 7.30pm; 22 Gray Ct. Ph: 08 8522 4345 Postal Stat & Postal Hist Soc: Mtg 2nd Tues; SAPHIL House, 22 Gray Ct, Adelaide. email: psandph@arcom.com.au; Ph: 08 8260 3352 Riverland PS: Mtg 3rd Fri, 10am ;Whitmore Hall, Barmera Village; Ph: 08 8595 3023 SA Junior Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd Sun 1pm - 3pm;Anyone over 5years, parents welcome. 22 Grey St, Adelaide. 08 8250 0484 Salisbury PS: Mtg 1st & 3rd Mon;StJohns Church Hall. PO Box 336 Salisbury 5108; Ph: 08 8252 2392 Stirling PS: Mtg 4th Fri 7.45pm, Old Railway Station (now Community Services Bldng.); Ph: 08 8370 2680 Strathalbyn PS: Mtg 2nd Mon, 8pm; Rosa Hoare Room, Lutheran Church Complex Corner, Commercial Rd/North Pde; C/- Post Office, Strathalbyn 5255; Ph: 0429 693 747 Ukrainian Collectibles Club: Mtg Wed as per syllabus; PO Box 466, Woodville 5011; Ph: 08 8345 4033 Yorke Peninsula Collectors Club: Senior Citizens Club. Taylor St, Kardina. Mtg 3rd Wed ex. Jan; PO Box 178, Bute 5560; Ph: 08 8821 2906 Club Information: Victorian Philatelic Council, GPO Box 9800, Melbourne, Vic, 3001 Hamilton PS: Mtg 2nd Monday 7.30 pm ex. Jan. Guide Hall, Foster St. 0407 659664 Hungarian PS: Mtg 2nd Wed Latrobe Valley PS: Mtg Last Wed ex Dec 7.30pm, St Lukes Uniting Church Hall, Princes Way, Morwell; Chris Zarb, Sec. ph. 03 5174 3394 Maryborough Stamp Club:Mtg mthly ex Jan 2nd Tues of month 8pm, St Augustine’s Hall, Maryborough. PO Box 295, Maryborough, 3465; Ph: 03 5464 2400. maryboroughsc@eudoramail.com. maryboroughsc.web1000.com Mildura PS: Mtg Last Thurs (ex Dec)Carnegie Building 74 Deakin Ave Ph: 03 5023 8789 Mooroolbark PS: Mtg 1st Tues; Ph: 03 9723 3304 Oakleigh PS: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm (ex Jan) Oakleigh Public Library, Drummond St, Oakleigh Ocean Grove SC: Mtg 4th Wed. 10am. Ocean Grove Senior Citizens Clubrooms Melways: 234 A. Ph. 03 5255 1372 Peninsula SC: Mtg 3rd Wed, 7.30pm Uniting Church Hall, Murray Anderson Rd, Rosebud. Ph: 03 5975 0574 Polish PS: Mtg 3rd Tues (2nd in Dec) Prahran PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex Jan) Ringwood PS: Gen Mtg 1st Thurs; Daytime 3rd Mon Ph: 03 9725 0514 email hanszomer@bigpond.com Royal PS of Victoria:Mtg 3rd & 5th Thurs; Daytime 1st Tues Sale SC: Mtg 1st Mon (ex Jan) Shepparton PS: Mtg 2nd Tues, Mechanics Institute, Shepparton. Ph. 0419 560 813 Sherbrooke PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs ex Jan Upwey Fire Brigade Hall, 8pm; Bob Cook Ph: 03 9758 3465 Upper Yarra SC: Mtg 3rd Tues St Arnaud SC: Mtg 3rd Mon (excl. Jan & Dec) 03 54951371 Warragul PS: Mtg 2nd Fri Warrnambool PS: Mtg 3rd Wed 7.45pm St Joseph’s Primary School, Botanic Road;Ph: 03 5561 1470 Waverley PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs 7.30pm, Mt Waverley Community Centre, 47 Miller Cres, Mt Waverley; Daytime mtg the following Friday, 9.30am, Uniting Church Hall, 482 High St, Mt Waverley. Ph. 03 9898 4102 Obtain Tasmanian clubs information from: Tasmanian Stamp Council, GPO Box 9800, Hobart, TAS, 7001. Ph: 03 6278 7084 Hobart Junior Group: Mtg 1st Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224 Kingston Junior Group: Mtg 2nd Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224 Launceston PS: 1st Thurs. & 3rd Sat. ex. Jan. 6.30 pm, Max Fry Hall,TrevallynLauncestonTel: 03 6331 2580 (A/H) Mersey-Leven PS: Contact: 03 6425 3603 Rosny Junior Group: Mtg Last Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224 Tasmanian PS: Mtg Last Monday (ex. Dec); www.tps.org.au, Legacy House, 159 Macquarie St Hobart
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