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COMMERCIAL PHILATELY IN AUSTRALIA : 1860s TO WWI Part 2 Stamp News has kindly been given permission to publish the entire collection over the coming months.
v. 1868: Early commercial reference to “Postage Stamp” H.T. Dwight (1823-71) migrated to Melbourne c1855 and immediately commenced trading in second-hand books, brought with him from London.
It will be noted from his inscribed advertising cover below:
There is no specific evidence of Philatelic trading, although his 1868 catalogue contained 60,000 volumes, new and second-hand, which may have included stamp catalogues and/ or albums. Nevertheless, the humble postage stamp represented an essential element when dealing with Dwight.
The above was underlined, presumably by whoever addressed the cover. Catalogue would be
‘’Letters of Inquiry must contain a Postage Stamp for reply.”
“Forwarded to any part of Victoria on the receipt of a 6d. stamp; the neighbouring Colonies, 1s.”
1868 inscribed advertising cover for H.T. Dwight, 232 Bourke St East, Melbourne, to New Zealand. Inset: Dwight seated at a table holding a book or paper. Reference sources: Australian Philatelic Journals, Sands Directories, Trove (National Library of Australia) Published articles and original research by Exhibitor. 6 - Stamp News
v. The Monopolists The Colonial Post Offices were Australia’s first suppliers of Philatelic material. An effective monopoly, they were supplying stamps to the fledgling New Issue services abroad from the early 1860s. William Lincoln, 239 High Holborn, London, was a Commission Agent, and Dealer in Foreign and Colonial Stamps. Lincoln was one
of the earliest new issue importers, known to have purchased quantities of Colonial Victoria stamps from cl864 onwards. When Stanley Gibbons Ltd acquired the remainders of Lincoln’s new issue stock in 1930, included were large mint blocks of Victoria ld Laureate, 1864 and later printings, amongst other issues, in virtual “Post Office” quality.
Dec 9 1873 Victoria PostmasterGeneral Frank Stamp cover registered to William Lincoln. This article may have contained a supply of the Victoria ½d on ld Surcharge, which had issued Jun 25 1873. The nearing six months gap would have allowed sufficient time for the new stamp to begin reaching U.K., thereby alerting Lincoln or his agents to its availability.
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COMMERCIAL PHILATELY IN AUS vii. Pioneer leading contemporary Philatelic Traders Buckley, Blunsum & Co Sydney’s Edward Buckley and Edward Blunsum (1846-1903), who formed Buckley, Blunsum & Co, claimed to have been established 1870. Buckley is actually recorded as being in business in the late 1860s, and may claim title to be Australia’s first Philatelic Trader. Blunsum was advertising in his own right to buy and sell stamps as early as 1870 (South Australian Register Oct 111870). The firm published in November 1879 perhaps Australia’s first Philatelic journal, New South Wales Stamp Collectors’ Magazine. [refer page 110] Blunsum tried his hand at Real Estate in 1880s. Bankrupted by 1888, in 1896 he returned to Philately, trading from 114A Pitt St, Sydney, from 1897.
Nov 15 1897 use uprated Id Postal card to Fisher Tetley & Co, U.K. Stamp Importers, Written and signed by Edward Blunsum
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AUSTRALIA : 1860s TO WWI Part 2 vii. Pioneer leading contemporary Philatelic Traders (contd.) Buckley, Blunsum & Co A first hand insight in to Philatelic trading in 1870s Sydney is provided in the Otago Witness, 20 Haratua 1903. Writing in the “Philately” column, Pelure recounts his first visit to Buckley, Blunsum & Co “in the seventies (about 1878 or 1879)”. He continues: “As at that time I was agent in Melbourne for the sale of their packets of foreign stamps, and being on a visit to Sydney I called on them. Their place of business
was a one storied cottage in Blight Street, opposite the Turkish baths, one of those old-fashioned earlyday Sydney cottages that are now fast disappearing. I looked for it when in Sydney last year, and found that it bad been pulled down and a large building of several stories erected on the site. The cottage stood off from the street, and was approached by a path leading from the street, and entered by a door at the side of the building. Here I saw Dawson A Vindin far the first time, as he was employed there. Mr Buckley showed me an approval sheet of early Laureated New South Wales stamps, containing about 50 or 60 copies of the 6d and 8d values. These, he informed me, he was sending to England by that week’s mail. The 6d values were marked to sell at 1s and 1s 6d each, whilst the 8d values were priced at 2s 6d and 3s each; a magnificent strip of three of the latter being marked at 10s. He informed me that he had bought the lot from a person who was employed in a Government office, and he regarded it as a good stroke of business, and expected to place the lot in England, as there was no sale for the stamps in the colony at that time. “
Upon his return to Commercial Philately in 1896, Edward Blunsum traded from Tennyson St, Enfield, which may have been his residence
By Jun 1898, when at 114A Pitt St, Sydney, Blunsum was trading as far a field as Peru
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COMMERCIAL PHILATELY IN AUS vii. Pioneer leading contemporary Philatelic Traders (contd.) Buckley, Blunsum & Co When at 6 Bligh St, Sydney, Buckley, Blunsum & Co traded also as Sydney Foreign Stamp Depot. In Aug 6 1881 issue of Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier, Buckley placed the following:
1881 registered use to Argentina of the innovative address label of the Sydney Foreign Stamp Depot, simulating the design of a contemporary stamp album
By March 1882, Dawson A Vindin, at 14 years of age, would be the firm’s new proprietor.
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AUSTRALIA : 1860s TO WWI Part 2 vii. Pioneer leading contemporary Philatelic Traders (contd.) Buckley, Blunsum & Co Vindin had been apprenticed to Buckley, Blunsum & Co by 1880. The sale to him of the business two years later was summed up in an interview published in the Philatelic Journal of Great Britain, April 1892, titled rather flatteringly: ‘’Mr. Dawson A. Vindin, The Conquering Hero from the Antipodes. His Triumphal Progress.” Vindin, then 24 years of age, therein provided an account of how he became a stamp dealer at such an early age. No “cash down” was required, and the terms were “in every way advantageous” to a 14 year old. With the acquisition of the firm, also came the publication New South Wales Stamp Collectors’ Magazine [later Vindin’s Philatelic Monthly- refer pages 111-114]*
Inset: Dawson A Vind.in aged 24.
1883 registered cover from Petrokovsk, Poland (when incorporated in Russian postal system), addressed simply: “Dawson A. Vindin I Sidney {sic} I Neu Sud Wales I Australien”. *Page numbers refer to the pages in the original exhibition
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Stamps in the News - Globally! Your Holy water is in the mail
Reported at www.newindianexpress.com The Ganga is considered the most sacred river in India and from ancient times, Gangajal (Ganges water) is used for religious and auspicious works. Whether it’s the birth of a child or death of a person, everyone is purified with Gangajal but how do devotees obtain this holy water particularly with current Covid restrictions? Via India Post! The director of postal services, Uttarakhand Postal Circle said, “Last year over 12 lakh deliveries of the holy water has been done to the door step of devotees across India for just Rs 30.” The Uttarakhand state government has promised the delivery of the holy water at devotees’ doorstep. “The Gangajal is taken directly from Gangotri, the Hindu pilgrim town in the Himalayas, and then brought to Uttarkashi post office. The water is purified through sedimentation and then bottling is done for transportation.” The holy water is then supplied to around 3000 post offices across the country.
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Workforce of over 30 men work more than 12 hours every day to make the delivery of the holy water to the doorstep. Collection work for the holy water is done only 4 months in a year. “The transportation is done by our own departmental vehicles but this year due to Covid 19, lockdown we are using our own transportation to deliver the ‘Gangajal’, “ added the director.
Stamps on wheels in the Philippines Reported at https://postandparcel.info
The Philippine Postal Corporation (PHLPost) has launched a door-to-door delivery service called “Stamps on Wheels” for stamp collectors and enthu-
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siasts who love to collect and use postage stamps for their mail. By ordering online or telephone, specially designated postmen or “wheel riders” will deliver these stamps for cash on delivery. “Stamp collectors and those who are in their senior years find it difficult to travel or go out of their home to visit the post office during this pandemic period”, a spokesman said. Stamp collectors can select items available on “The Stamp on Wheels” Facebook group page or the stamp release archive found on the PHLPost website http://phlpost.gov.ph. This program hopes to encourage stamp collectors to go back to their hobby now that they have time in their homes amid the threat of COVID.
Stamps on the wing in New Zealand Reported at https://www.stuff.co.nz
It was an innovative moment in time in 1985 when
the first Timaru Herald microlight delivery service was launched. A look back in the archives reveals the service started when a futuristic Timaru Herald idea became a historic reality with microlights used to deliver advertising copy and news items from the district’s branch offices to the newspaper’s head office. This was one of a number of innovative ideas then general manager and keen philatelist Ray Bennett led to ensure the newspaper remained firmly entrenched in the life of the community. The concept was born from the need to transport advertising and news copy to the printers quickly. On board the microlights on the inaugural flights on August 16, 1985 were not only the awaited copy but congratulatory messages from district mayors to Helen McIver, the mayor of Timaru, and stamp covers to commemorate the occasion. Five microlights were flown by South Canterbury pilots. The flight path had to be along the coastline, and over bare land, as the microlights were not al-
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Stamps in the News - Globally! lowed to fly over built-up areas. By 2.30pm the microlights were in the air again and headed for Caroline Bay, landing safely at 3pm to applause from about 150 people gathered. The flights continued for three weeks until a southerly weather pattern made it impossible to fly and the newspaper had to revert to the slower bus service for delivery from then on.
Commemorating organised philately in the USA Reported at https://www.linns. com
Five United States forever stamps celebrating the American spirit of innovation will be issued on August 20th in association with the upcoming Virtual Stamp Show. The Aug. 20 issue date is the fourth day of the six-day Virtual Stamp Show sponsored by the American Philatelic Society, the American Topical Association and the American First Day Cover Society. “One of the show events is the Innovation stamps first-day ceremony,” according to the AFDCS, which has been named to host the event. Details about the Virtual Stamp Show, including advance registration, can be found on the APS website. The online show is being offered as an alternative to the 2020 Great American Stamp Show, which was cancelled as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The pane of 20 stamps is offset-printed by
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Banknote Corporation of America, one of two security printing contractors currently manufacturing stamps for the Postal Service. Each stamp recognizes a different innovation and pictures a single element associated with that subject. Those subjects are computing, biomedicine, genome sequencing, robotics and solar technology.
Commemorating organised philately in China Reported at https://www.philatelicpursuits.com
China has issued a souvenir sheet commemorating the eighth congress of the All-China Philatelic Federation features a wooden carriage that was used to transport officials and postal carriers of the Han dynasty. The sheet includes hidden designs that are revealed when it is viewed under ultraviolet light. The All-China Philatelic Federation was established on January 30, 1982 with the approval of the State Council. It
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is a national social organization formed voluntarily by the philatelic associations of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government and the national industrial philatelic organisations. The operational unit in charge is the Ministry of Transport and the State Post Office, which is under the operational guidance and supervision and management of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. The Federation joined the International Federation of Philatelic (FIP) and the Federation of Inter-Asian Philately (FIAP) in 1983.
Champion celebrated across the political divide Reported at https://punditarena.com
The legacy of football giant Jack Charlton was commemorated across Ireland and England with a special postmark created in a collaboration between An Post
Jack Charlton postmark in use in the UK and Ireland
and Royal Mail stamps. The World Cup winner and former Republic of Ireland manager died on July 10th with numerous tributes pouring in for the 85-year-old. He will be forever remembered in Ireland as the man who led the Ireland team to their first major tournament finals in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1996, he was awarded honorary Irish citizenship, the highest honour the Irish state can bestow on a person. The special postmark, which depicts a football and the words ‘Jack Charlton, 1935-2020′, came into effect from mid-July and will remain until August 9th. Stuart Simpson, chief executive at Royal Mail, said Charlton, who came from Ashington in Northumberland, was a “football hero” in both countries. David McRedmond, chief executive at An Post, said: “Jack was the greatest example of a culture shared across these islands: that a proud Leeds player, a tall English football hero could become an Irish legend. “That’s why it is so fitting that he should be the subject of the first joint postmark between An Post and the Royal Mail.”
My kingdom, my stamps – the many micronations of Australia Reported at https://www.abc.net.au
George II (or George Cruickshank) was an articulate young child —his parents had hoped for a career in politics. Instead he created his own country. Founded in 1981 when Cruickshank was just a teenager, the Empire of Atlantium, is a “parallel sovereign state” based in NSW, boasting its own constitution, Stamp News - 17
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judicial system, flag and currency. Its “global capital” Concordia sits on a private holding in the Lachlan Valley, and is home to a self-declared seat of government, commemorative monuments, a post office and more. With more than 3,000 global “citizens” to its name, Atlantium’s claim of sovereignty would be impressive, were it not for the fact that it does not actually exist in a legal sense. Australia has been home to more than a dozen different micronations, among the most in the world, ranging from well-meaning to absurd, but none are legally recognised by the Federal Government A white and red sign reading ‘Border Hutt River Province’ stands next to a gravel road under a blue sky. After a 50-year standoff, the Principality of Hutt River — the country’s oldest micronation — announced this month that it would be ceded back to the Commonwealth of Australia.
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Hutt River, which claimed to be an independent sovereign state (though the Australian Government never legally recognised it), had long been pursued by the Australian Taxation Office. “Anyone can declare themselves a king or queen in their own home, or declare their own nation, but no-one can decide to leave Australia unilaterally or stop paying tax and expect Australian law will recognise that”, says constitutional law expert, George Williams. So why do it at all? For the self-appointed sovereign of Atlantium, the goal is simple: to unite people across the globe to advocate for unrestricted international freedom of movement. Australia is the “home of micronations”, adds Williams — the consequence of a “really large number of personal motivations”. “I think in Australia these micronations come back perhaps to the larrikin spirit and the idea of thumbing your nose to authority,” he says. The Principality of Hutt River, for example, was born out of a stoush with the West Australian Government over wheat production quotas, while the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands was established as a symbolic political protest over the perceived lack of action around same-sex marriage.
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Other times, these tiny fiefdoms exist simply to prove a point — as is the case of John Rudge, the “Grand Duke of Avram”. After writing a PhD thesis in the 1980s about setting up a central bank, Rudge decided to put theory into practice, issuing his own notes and coins from the self-styled Royal Bank of Avram in Tasmania. For Paul Delprat, frustration with a long-standing council dispute over the construction of a driveway, resulted in him seceding in 2004 — not from the Commonwealth, but rather, his affluent suburb of Mosman, in Sydney. “I believe it’s important for people to feel they can have some degree of independence, even if it’s imaginary,” Delprat laughs. While it would be easy to relegate micronations to the realms of satire, embedded in its very fabric is a strong history of Indigenous nationhood. Murrawarri Republic, an Aboriginal micronation, declared independence in 2013, with its founders demanding a treaty between the Murrawarri nation and the Crown of Great Britain. Likewise, the Yidindji Tribal Nation in Far North Queensland, which renounced its legal ties in 2014, hopes to enter into a memorandum of understanding with Australia (Murrumu Walubara Yidindji, its founder, has relinquished his passport, bank accounts and Australian citizenship). “Indigenous peoples have a claim to sovereignty, a claim to nationhood, that predates the colonisation of Australia,” Williams says. “And even though they’re rejected by the state, they’re in a different category to people who, essentially for a hobby and without any foundation what-
soever, seek to declare themselves as rulers of their own land.” Love them or loathe them, if there’s one thing both the legal fraternity and self-appointed monarchs can all agree on, it’s that the very presence of micronations in Australia underscores the country’s commitment to democratic freedoms.
Stamps and spies
Reported at https://warontherocks.com In 1960, many Americans sent mail to Czechoslovakia, wrote the correct addresses, and paid the proper postage, but nevertheless found their envelopes returned undelivered and unopened. All the returned envelopes had a postage stamp featuring Tomáš Masaryk, the leader of Czechoslovak independence. The stamp was part of the ‘Champions of Liberty’ series honouring non-Americans who had struggled for political freedom in their homelands. The stamp’s message was not lost on Communist Czechoslovakia. The Czechoslovak embassy accused the United States of issuing the stamp “to use it as a propaganda means against the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.” In response, the State Department insisted that issuing stamps of “honoured personages of various nationalities is an accepted international philatelic practice.” Missing from this response was a fact about postage stamps that governments have long recognized: Stamps are government-sponsored art. They are like political posters in their concentrated visual rhetoric, yet they are more like internet ads in their ability to spread that rhetoric across international borders. Art, literature, and music were all means by which the United States tried to portray itself as more culturally refined than, and therefore superior to, the Soviet Union during the Cold War. While the CIA’s covert funding of cultural front organizations has received a lot of attention, declassified U.S. government documents reveal that the designs of the Stamp News - 19
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Examples of US ‘Champions of Liberty’ series ‘Champions of Liberty’ series and other Cold Warera stamps were similarly co-opted by the nation’s top intelligence and military officials. In the US, proposals for stamp designs are evaluated by members of the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee appointed by the postmaster general. The original founding committee in 1957 consisted of three philatelists, three artists, and one representative from the U.S. Information Agency. This representative attended monthly meetings of the stamp committee. At the same time, he attended meetings of the Operations Coordinating Board of the National Security Council. After the Soviet Union issued an ultimatum demanding the withdrawal of Western armed forces from West Berlin, the Operations Coordinating Board recommended issuing a stamp symbolizing the U.S. commitment to the divided city on the front lines of the Cold War. Discussions centred on Ernst Reuter, late mayor of West Berlin and he was proposed as the next subject in the ‘Champions of Liberty’ series. The designs being contemplated by these U.S. officials, who were normally responsible for implementing national security policies, reflected the dual nature of the Cold War as a period of both geopolitical upheaval and scientific and cultural rivalry. For example, one of the topics discussed during a meeting of the Operations Coordinating Board on Oct. 8, 1958 was the possibility of a stamp com20 - Stamp News
memorating the first U.S. satellite. This idea was proposed by the Army, on whose rocket Explorer 1 was launched into space earlier that year — nearly four months after Sputnik. The Board decided that it might be unwise to issue such a stamp in view of the obvious disparity between US and USSR satellite accomplishments. Between 1957 and 1961, ten leaders of foreign lands including South America, Hungary, Poland, Finland, Italy, and India, became rare exceptions to the tradition of primarily featuring Americans on U.S. stamps. This advanced U.S. policy objectives, as Sen. Thomas Dodd ex-
plained: “Many millions of people, cut off from the normal free press, nevertheless receive letters from abroad and study the stamps affixed to these letters. They recognize the person pictured on the stamp and remember his role in their national life. The memory of freedom is thus strengthened, and the will to freedom thus encouraged.” As politicians debate the future of the U.S. Postal Service, history shows that the message inside the envelope is not the only one the stamp delivers.
The deserved downfall of Deirdre the Dealer Reported at https://metro.co.uk
A postmistress known in her village as Deirdre the Dealer has been spared jail after she was found to be selling cocaine on the side from her shop. Deirdre Jenkins, 45, sold the class A drug to friends and regular customers at her shop in Parcllyn, rural west Wales, alongside the normal stamps and envelopes. She allowed some of her customers to have the drugs on credit, including one who had £3,000 ‘on tick’. However, when she refused to give some people cocaine unless they paid up front she was reported to police. Prosecutor Jim Davis said: ‘Police executed a
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Ian Ibrahim, defending, said she had lost her shop and been declared bankrupt since her arrest. The store has since closed. He said Jenkins had started selling drugs after she ‘relapsed back into drug use’ herself. Judge Catherine Richards told Jenkins she ‘enjoyed the status’ of being a drug dealer to her friends. Judge Richards said anyone dealing in a Class A drug such as cocaine deserved to go to prison, partly because of the tremendous harm caused to communities they lived in and dealt in. But there had been a considerDeirdre Jenkins (below) and post office/shop in Parcllyn able delay between her arrest and sentencing partly because of the backlog of cases due to coronavirus. search warrant following receipt of information Jenkins was handed a two year suspended sentence from local residents’. and ordered to complete a rehabilitation course. Mr Davis told Swansea Crown Court police found three wraps of cocaine in her handbag and eight grams hidden in a cupboard in her bedroom during a raid in December. There was also £1,200 in cash in her house, neighbouring her Londis store and post office. Mr Davis said an examination of Jenkins’ mobile telephone revealed numerous messages related to drugs deals, including to the customer that owed her £3,000. Mr Davis said: ‘It appeared that Jenkins had become fed up of giving customers cocaine “on tick” and had told some to go to other dealers.’ Jenkins pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine with intent to supply.
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Postal Stationery Welcome to the postal stationery column for September 2020. This month’s column includes a look at artist sketches of the 1986 restored historic buildings pre-stamped envelopes, new issues from Australia Post and Australia’s first virtual one-frame exhibition. COVID 19 Postal Stationery A new thematic topic has been born in the form of Covid Philately. Postal stationery has contributed to this theme with issues such as the postcard from Croatia (Figure 1) and the envelope from Romania (Figure 2). Also illustrated (Figure 3) is a Return to Sender label (supplied by Michael Kalka) used by Australia Post to return a parcel posted to Chile due to the suspension of mail services. The lockdowns around the world have resulted in a proliferation of on-line meetings many of which have been on postal stationery. In particular have a look at the website of the Royal Philatelic Society of London and the Collectors Club of New York and the American Philatelic Society for on-line programs. Restored Historic Public Buildings PreStamped Envelopes There are many ways to complement a collection
Above Top to bottom : Figure 1 Covid 19 Stamped Postcard from Croatia Figure 2 ‘Stay at Home’ Stamped Envelope from Romania Figure 3 Return to Sender label ‘Suspension of Mail Services’ Left : Figure 4 Set of Restored Historic Buildings PSES Cancelled First Day Of Issue 22 - Stamp News
Ian McMahon of postal stationery but one way is to include some of the original sketches and drawings made by the artist in designing the issue. Australia issued a set of seven 36c definitive prestamped envelopes on 8 September 1986 with the theme of restored public buildings. The August 1986 issue of the Stamp Bulletin continued: illustrating superb examples of architecture from Australia’s earlier days. Buildings shown on the pre-stamped envelopes include examples from the Australian Capital Territory and from each Australian State. The Old Parliament House, Adelaide and the Customs House, Townsville envelopes were DL size while the other envelopes were C6. The envelopes were sold for 43c each and were printed by Cambec Press, Melbourne by photolithography. The designer of the envelopes was John Spatchurst from Sydney. This article illustrates some of the design sketches he prepared in designing these envelopes. John Spatchurst is a freelance designer whose work included architectural designs as well as stamps and stamped envelopes such as the centenary of Australian cinema, opening of Canberra GPO stamped envelope and Australia Day. He has served as a member of the Australian Stamp Advisory Committee. Figure 4 shows a set of the issued envelopes cancelled on the first day of issue as presented to him. Figure 5 shows an ink sketch of the Collingwood Town Hall which was built in 1885-90 to a design by George Raymond Johnson in a style that has been described as “boom style classicism”. Figure 6 shows an ink sketch of The Mint, Sydney which is one of Australia’s oldest public buildings and originally part of Governor Macquarie’s General (Rum) Hospital while a coloured sketch is shown in Figure 7. The ‘FINAL’ ink sketch of Macquarie House Launceston, a Georgian-style warehouse built in 1830 for wealthy Launceston merchant, Henry Reed, is shown in Figure 8. Figure 9 shows an ink sketch
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Postal Stationery of the Old Parliament House, Adelaide which was constructed in 1854-55 to replace South Australia’s outgrown original Legislative Council Chamber and now houses a museum of political history. Figure 10 shows the Customs House, Townsville which is said to have been designed by the Colonial Architect to provide “the maximum of comfort in the way of ventilation, lighting and shade ... rendered desirable by the climate:’ Figure 11 shows an ink sketch of the Old Hospital, York in the historic Western Australian township which served as a hospital until the 1960s while Figure 12 shows a coloured sketch of the building. Figure 13 shows an ink sketch of the Melbourne Building, Canberra - one of a pair of identical buildings standing at the original focal point of Canberra’s Civic Centre. Figure 14 shows a sketch of the stamp in 33c denomination which was changed to 36c in the issued envelopes due to the increase in postage rates on 25 August 1986. Figure 15 shows a sketch for the publicity poster for the issue, again with the envelopes in the 33c denomination. Salvation Army Pre-Stamped Envelope Frank Pauer reported the stamped envelope shown in Figure 16 that was issued for the 125th anniversary of the Salvation Army at 69 Bourke St Melbourne. The envelope is cancelled 4 October 2019 and has the Australia Post logo and text on the reverse. ‘Domestic Letter with Tracking’ Envelopes The ‘Domestic Letter with Tracking’ Envelopes have been reprinted with revised text on the reverse emphasising the compensation payable. There are many differences with one being that the central column is headed ‘Compensation’ (Figure 17). In addition, a C4 envelope (Figure 18) has been released and sells for $4.95
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Left top to bottom : Figure 13 Sketch of the Melbourne Building, Canberra Figure 14 Sketch of the Melbourne Building Stamp with 33c Denomination Figure 15 Sketch for the Publicity Poster with the PSEs with 33c Denomination Above : Figure 16 PSE for the 125th Anniversary of the Salvation Army at 69 Bourke St Melbourne. PSSA On-Line Meetings, Website and Facebook Page The Postal Stationery Society of Australia (PSSA) held its third online meeting on 18 July 2020 as a joint meeting with the Postal Stationery Society (PSS) which is based in the United Kingdom. 26 people from both Societies attended the meeting to hear two presentations. The first was the Australian 7d Airletters by Frank Pauer and the second was Great Britain Queen Victoria STO postcards by Maurice Buxton. The presentations can be seen on the PSSA Facebook Page along with the presentation at the previous meeting. While visiting please ‘like’ the Page and consider contributing postal stationery related posts. After ‘liking’ the PSSA page, please visit the FIP Postal Stationery Commission Group’s Page. You can ask to join the Group by answering two simple postal stationery-related questions. The PSSA Website, www.postalstationeryaustralia. com, includes back issues of the Society’s Journal, Postal Stationery Collector (PSC) for members, Derek’s Brennan’s Index to the early issues, the NSW Postal Stationery Handbook and a range of other postal stationery articles. New content includes a number of articles on Australia, Australian States and Christmas Island postal stationery. August Issue of Postal Stationery Collector and the July Issue of the FIP Postal Stationery Commission Newsletter The August 2020 issue of the Postal Stationery ColStamp News - 25
Postal Stationery lector includes articles on Development of Aerogrammes in Nauru 1986-87, Queensland Pastoral Supplies GVI Embossed Crowned Circle Envelopes, Victoria - 1892 and 1894 or 1895 One Penny Envelopes: Error of Colour and Uncut Multiples of Post Office Wrappers. Also included is the list of the 98 Localised Postcards known to date and the Post Office of issue. The Localised Postcards were usually associated with a display of local souvenir items such as mugs and keyrings. The display at the GPO Canberra is shown in Figure 19. Please note that collectors requiring any of the localised postcards for their collections will need to contact the relevant post offices as these are not available from the Australia Philatelic Bureau or by mail order. July FIP Postal Stationery Newsletter includes articles on Yugoslav Airmail Envelopes with the Mount Triglav Design, Postal Stationery Dies for Sale, The 1915 Postal Cards of Ecuador, and The Hungary 4f Local Postal Stationery Card, 1926 – 1930. Download the newsletter at the FIP Postal Stationery Commission website, http://www.postalstationery.org, or from its Facebook page. Australian Virtual One-Frame Exhibition, AusVipex 2020 AusVipex 2020 is an Australian virtual One-frame Exhibition organized by the Australian Philatelic Federation. One-frame entries (16 standard pages or equivalent in larger page sizes) will be accepted as scans in PDF form. Entries will be judged on the scans by judges in the usual way and awards, medals and prizes awarded according to standard Australian Philatelic Exhibition rules. Entries for the Australian One-Frame National Exhibition 2020 (AusVipex 2020) are now open. See https://apf.org.au/ausvipex2020/ for further information and the prospectus and entry forms. Entry forms need to be emailed by 30 September 2020. All Entries will be displayed on the Exhibition website by 1 November 2020. With physical exhibitions cancelled or postponed, AusVipex 2020 offers an opportunity for postal stationery collec-
Figure 17 Reverse of the ‘Domestic Letter with Tracking’ Envelope with Central Column Headed ‘Compensation’ Figure 18 C4 ‘Domestic Letter with Tracking’ Envelope Figure 19 Local Souvenir Display at the GPO Canberra 26 - Stamp News
Ian McMahon postmarked Nauru 11 August 1997 with two ‘PAID 5c NAURU POST OFFICE’ handstamps to pay the rate to the United Kingdom. Steve has also obtained copies of the K6.90 STO envelope showing a bird of paradise shown in Figure 22.
Above : Figure 20 Reverse of Nauru Singpex 93 Pre-Paid Postcard. Right top : Figure 21 Nauru PrePaid Singpex 93 Postcard Used to the UK with ‘PAID 5c NAURU POST OFFICE’ handstamps Right : Figure 22 Papua New Guinea K6.90 STO Envelope tors to prepare and enter a one-frame postal stationery exhibit. Future Exhibitions The next National exhibitions are expected to be Newcastle 2020 (2-4 October 2020, Half-National), Toowoomba 2021 One-Frame Exhibition and Canberra 2022 (Half-National). Postal stationery one-frame exhibits will be able to be entered at Toowoomba 2021 while the next National postal stationery competition is expected to be at Canberra 2022. There will be a New Zealand National Exhibition at Hamilton in November 2021. Nauru Postcard and Papua New Guinea PTPO Envelope In 1993 Nauru issued a set of six prepaid pictorial postcards for Singpex 93. These postcards had a 45c stamp impression inscribed Singpex 93. The reverse of the postcards had views of Nauru (Figure 20). Steve Zirinsky has provided examples of these postcards (Figure 21) used to the United Kingdom
United States Postal Card Catalog 75th Anniversary Edition The 2020 Edition of this Catalogue, the standard work on US postcards, marks the 75th anniversary of its publication. It includes added listings of new discoveries; updated Earliest Reported Postmarks; revised catalogue valuations; added listings for complete booklets; current rate tables; a new appendix of illustrations of Message-Reply separations; list of number changes from last edition; new table of States’ territorial usages; reference calendar for 1873-1875 (first postal cards issued); and Scott numbers provided as a cross-reference. The case bound hard-cover 75th anniversary edition is available for USD$80.00 plus postage. Order now from UPSS Publications, P.O. Box 3982, Chester, VA 23831 USA, upsspubs@aol.com or from website at: www.upss.org. Western Express Companies 1850–1890 3rd Edition During the last half of the 19th Century, more than 400 express companies hauled supplies and mail to mining regions of the West of the USA. This edition of their history and the mail they carried includes: major revision of some express company listings (Everts and Co.’s Express, Langton’s Express); added historical information for many other expresses; 166 additional pages to the first edition; Pictures of 6,000+ covers, with descriptions, in DVD image library. The 1,100page, 2 volume, case bound hard-cover, 3rd edition with complementary DVD, is available for US$150 (order from the UPSS website, see above). Stamp News - 27
Cinderella Corner Space Covers
Space: its seemingly infinite void has fascinated humankind for generations. In the world of philately, the landscape involving Australian ‘space-themed covers ‘ (including rockets and satellites) is diverse, with 100s of different ones that exist. Cover collector from Victoria, Simon Cronk, established and maintains an excellent online resource that documents many Australian space covers: https://www.simoncronk.com/ space-australia/. He categorises this interesting thematic area into sections, including rockets and missions. Within this broad breadth of covers exist a handful of different cinderella labels affixed to their fronts. These are now explored, with some drawn from Simon Cronk’s collections, with his approval.
Apollo NASA
The 16 July 1969 postmarked cover illustrated in Figure 1 was issued to help recognise the 1969 Apollo Three Man Spacecraft. The blue, red and white label affixed on this cover is imperforate and measures 48mm on all four sides. It features the text: APOLLO NASA / CARNARVON TRACKING STATION, WESTERN AUSTRALIA. The Carnarvon Tracking Station in Western Australia was located 10 kilometres south of Carnarvon. It was built in 1963 for use by NASA as part of their Gemini Project. A second Apollo NASA label, with similar features to the cinderella featured in Figure 1, is illustrated in Figure 2. Measuring 51mm x 48mm and imperforate on all four sides, the label has rounded corners, unlike Figure 1’s sharp ones. Coloured blue, cream and gold, it features the text: Apollo NASA / HONEYSUCKLE CREEK TRACKING STATION / AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY. Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station was a NASA Earth station located near Canberra. It operated for nearly 15 years, from its opening in 1967 until 1981. It was known for relaying the first televised footage of Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon, to the rest of the world, on 20 July 1969. The 1 February 1971 postmarked cover on which the label is affixed features the signature of the Apollo 14 Station Director.
NASA – AWA
The scarce label illustrated in Figure 3 dates to 1968. It is large, measuring 82.5mm x 51.5mm, and is imperforate on all four sides. Coloured white, blue and red, it features the text: NASA / AWA / Carnarvon Tracking Station / Lewis F. Wainwright / STATION DIRECTOR / Station Director. The AWA referred to Amalgamated Wireless Australasia, an Australian contractor designated to the operating and maintaining of the Tracking Station at Carnarvon. The Station Director at the time, Lewis F. Wainwright, held several positions in the space industry over his career. I extend my thanks to Simon Cronk for providing the scan and dimensions of this wonderful label and cover. Simon has also provided the information that the reverse of the cover has an important ‘15OC68’ postmark at Tailem Bend, South Australia.
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Vito Milana Stadan Station And Orroral Valley
The Orroral Valley Tracking Station, Australian Capital Territory, was created as a member of the Satellite Tracking and Data Acquisition Network (STADAN). STADAN’s primary function, from 1966, was to track several Earth-orbiting satellites. Orroral Valley then closed nearly two decades later in 1985. Its 26 metre antenna was then relocated to Tasmania. The cinderella illustrated in Figure 4 measures 41mm x 67mm and is imperforate on all four sides. Coloured black and cream, it features the text: STADAN STATION / ORRORAL VALLEY / AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY. The label is affixed to a 11 April 1970 postmarked cover. It also features the signature of then Station Director and a LAUNCH OF APOLLO XII handstamp. A slightly earlier variant of the STADAN label illustrated in Figure 4 is illustrated in Figure 5. Measuring 41mm x 67mm and also imperforate on all four sides, the cream and black label features the text: STADAN FACILITY / ORRORAL VALLEY / AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY. It also presents the satellite pictured at a different angle from the one illustrated in Figure 4. The cinderella is affixed to a cover postmarked 3 April 1968, two years after Orroral Valley’s establishment. The cinderella in Figure 6 serves as a natural extension to the previously two illustrated ones. The simplistic label measures 43mm x 63mm and is coloured cream and black. It is imperforate and features the text: STADAN STATION / ORRORAL VALLEY / AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY. The label is affixed to a 17 April 1972 postmarked cover and features the handstamp APOLLO 16.
Deep Space Station
The Deep Space Station 41 (DSS-41) was the first Deep Space Tracking Station constructed outside of the USA. This station, located in Woomera, commenced construction in 1959, and was operational on 3 November 1960. It closed just over a decade later in December 1972. The cinderella illustrated in Figure 7 measures 58mm x 51mm and is imperforate on all four sides with rounded corners. It is coloured cream, silver and dark blue, and features the text: DEEP SPACE NET / DSS 41 / SPACETRACK PTY. LTD. / ISLAND LAGOON / WOOMERA SOUTH AUSTRALIA. It Is affixed to a 13 April 1970 Woomera postmarked cover. The Deep Space Station 42 (DSS-42) was a 26-metre antenna built in 1964. It provided many dozens of robotic deep space missions and was operational for over 35 years, ceasing its function in 2000. The cinderella illustrated in Figure 8 echoes design similarity to the one featured in Figure 7. It measures 76mm
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Cinderella Corner x 64mm and is imperforate on all four sides with rounded corners. Also coloured blue, silver and cream, it features the text: DEEP SPACE NET / DSS 42 / TIDBINBILLA AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY / STATION DIRECTOR. The signature of Station Director, Don Gray, is also provided. The label is affixed to a 15 November 1969 Canberra City postmarked cover.
CSIRO
The Parkes Radio Telescope is a part of the Australian Telescope National Facility. It commenced operation in 1961 and has an impressive diameter of 64 metres. As recent as 2012, it played a supporting role in tracking NASA’s Curiosity rover. The cinderella illustrated in Figure 9 measures 46mm x 69mm and is imperforate on all four sides. Coloured white and black, it features the central image of the Parkes Radio Telescope, along with the text: CSIRO / CSIRO VISITORS’ CENTRE / P.O. BOX 276, PARKES, N.S.W. 2870. / PARKES RADIO TELESCOPE / SCIENCE FOR AUSTRALIA. The label is affixed to a 16 April 1986 Parkes postmarked cover.
ELDO Launch
Europe’s cooperative venture in space was marked with the launch of the Europa rocket in June, 1964, from Woomera, Australia. The large photographic cinderella illustrated in Figure 10 celebrates the 1970 launch of Europa. It measures 63.5mm x 82.5mm and is imperforate on all four sides. Black and white, the label features the image of the Europa Rocket in launch, along with the text: BOELKOW PHOTO / ELDO LAUNCH EUROPA ROCKET / WOOMERA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA. It is affixed to a 12 June 1970 Woomera postmarked cover. I again extend my thanks to Simon Cronk for providing the scan and dimensions of this scarce label on cover.
Aero High
Aero High was an Australian sounding rocket first launched in 1964 and retired in 1972. The foil cinderella illustrated in Figure 11 celebrates the 1970 twin launch of the rocket from the Woomera Space Centre, South Australia, to a height of approximately 580,000 ft. The label measures 76mm x 46mm and is imperforate on all four sides. Coloured gold and navy, it features the text: 4 & 5. The label is affixed to a 3 March 1971 Woomera postmarked cover.
Tidbinbilla Deep Space Communication Complex The Tidbinbilla Deep Space Communication Complex (TDSCC), later known as the Canberra Deep Space Com-
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Vito Milana munication Complex, was opened in 1965. It is located south west of Canberra and originally served as a Deep Space Tracking Station. The labels illustrated across Figures 12 to 15 are identical, except for different handstamps offered on each. The navy and white cinderella measures 87mm x 81mm and is imperforate on all four sides. It features the text: tdscc / Tidbinbilla / DEEP SPACE COMMUNICATION COMPLEX / CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA. Each cover is postmarked at the Australian Capital Territory between 1976 and 1979. The additional handstamped texts are as follows: Figure 12 – VIKING / 4 SEP 1976 Figure 13 – PIONEER – VENUS / Multiprobe Launch Figure 14 – VOYAGER / 20 AUG 1977 Figure 15 – VOYAGER – 1 / CLOSEST APPROACH TO JUPITER Many thanks, once again, to Simon Cronk for providing scans of the labels and covers illustrated in Figures 12, 14, and 15.
Viking ‘75
A Viking ’75 cinderella is illustrated in Figure 16. Measuring 66mm x 90mm and imperforate on all four sides, the black and white label features the text: VIKING ’75 MARS LANDING / Tidbinbilla Deep Space Communication Complex Canberra, Australia / PROJECT VIKING MISSION TO MARS. The label and cover were issued to help mark and commemorate the 1975 launch of the Viking mission to Mars. This, in particular, included the first Mars landers.
Comet Country
The final cinderella explored in this article is illustrated in Figure 17. Imperforate and coloured white and green, it features the text: Visit TENNANT CREEK NORTHERN TERRITORY / ‘COMET COUNTRY’ 6 – 12TH APRIL 1986 / Sponsored by CWA NORTHERN TERRITORY. Tennant’s Creek is located more than 500 kilometres north of Alice Springs and several meteor showers have been recorded by individuals there.
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N.Z. 1857 No Watermark Chalon, on Blued Paper FU, 1/Green SG #6, *WITH* Cert, at 15% of SG: An EXTREMELY rare stamp. On the special blued wove paper, Auckland printing, by Richardson. Fine Used - clean and fresh, and free of hinges and gum and gook, to hide repairs or thins etc. Crisp light “10” numeral cancel. 100% Guaranteed by me to have no repairs or faults etc, as does the Certificate. Bright colour, and with close margins near all round. SG 6, £3,750 = $A7,500, and far superior to any others I have handled, near all of which are badly defective as you will know. With totally clear 2010 Colour Photo Certificate - “Genuine in all respects”. Only $US735 as I type. Just 15% of SG Cat - $A1,100 (Stock 729KAL)
Australia Territory Year Albums x 10. 2008-2017. Ret $625 - $A325! Each year Australia Post issues an annual Territories Collection stamp album folder. Large A4 size. They started in 1994. It contains the mint stamp sets of AAT, Cocos Keeling Islands & Christmas Island, and also included is background information behind the designs/issues, and it is very nicely presented. These items are from Australia’s external Territories and therefore the stamps are issued by Australia Post. Bought an official black leather Australia Post album of these today 2008-2017 (10 diff ) fresh condition, retail $600 plus the $25 album cost, and can move these fast as one line at just $A325 the LOT - SAVE $300! OR, if you are missing just 1 or 2 years, can supply those individually. (And of course I have EVERY Australia Year book in stock, Deluxe and Executive Leather) Heaps more pix here - tinyurl.com/TerritBks - $A325
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BUY OR BID SALE SEPTEMBER 2020 Visit us at our new premises by appointment, Opposite Upper Ferntree Gully Station. 9.30 – 5.30 Monday – Saturday to view any of the lots in this sale, plus a whole lot more! Suite 1, 1174 Burwood Highway Upper Ferntree Gully, Vic. 3156 Buy now at the listed price or bid a lower figure. Bids will be considered Midday Wednesday 30th September 2020. Bids accepted by phone, mail or email. Provided the item has not sold at the full price, bids at 75% to 95% will have a good chance of success; 65% - 74% will have a reasonable chance of success. Bids 50% to 64% will have minimal chance of success, but still worth a try. Bids below 50% are respectfully declined. Bid for as many alternatives as you wish, but please put a dollar cap on your total spending, and we will allocate lots according to what is available. Orders at full list price above $500 are post free within Australia. Layby welcome for orders above $500. Scans or colour photocopies of individual items 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 Visa, MasterCard & PayPal at no fee. Hours generally 9.30 am – 5.30pm Mon – Fri, but we will often answer the phone after hours. All of our items carry our 14 day satisfaction guarantee. Cinderellas 1. 1971 Postal Strike Bannockburn Delivery, 2/- - 5/- Imperf. Specimen Ovpts. MLH (4) $29.95 (GB285) 2. 1971 Postal Strike Exeter Emergency Delivery Service, Set of 6, dual currency. Famous British Explorers MLH. Price $45 (GB282) 3. Australia 1935 WASP Airlines Vignette sheet 6, 2007 reprinted version, no gum and no perforations, but with printed on perfs. Looks great in a Hagner and appears perforated! Price $29, (10 available) (C2) 4. Australia 1959 Anpex Labels, Aboriginal and Jet Plane design in full colour. Complete sheet of 15 labels mint unhinged. Printed by John Sands Pty. Ltd. of Melbourne. Mainly very fresh odd gum tone spot, not visible from the front. Never had one of these before. Price $62.50 (C11) 5. Australia 1960 Anpex Labels, NSW 1d Sydney Views & Victoria 3d Half Length designs in full colour, Fresh mint unhinged complete sheet of 12. Lower left label is inverted! Never had one of these before either, price $59.50 (C12) Accessories/Albums/Literature 6. AAT Seven Seas Red Padded Hingeless Album as new 1957 – 2000. Retail $118. Includes a few used stamps for free. Half price $59 (ALB35) 7. Norfolk Is. Seven Seas Burgundy Padded Hingeless album and slipcase, 1947 – 1996 near new. Retail $459. Well under half price at $195 (ALB36) 8. Australia Seven Seas Burgundy Hingeless album and slipcase, 1966 – 1984 in good condition. Retail $185. Under a third of new price at $59 (ALB37) 9. Secondhand Stockbooks, all A4 size in good condition, 32 and 64 pages, inc. some famous brands such as Lighthouse. Selling by weight…10kg parcel for $195 (ALB38) 10. Michel, Luxury German Manufacture Australia Hingeless Albums 1978 – 2002. absolutely as new. Never seen these before, based on the Seven Seas pages, but larger and heavier duty 300gsm card pages. Three Tan Padded Leather Look Multi Ring Binders too, each of these costing near $100 each, let alone the pages. Weighs in at nearly 7.5kg. As a guide the equivalent Lighthouse Albums would cost you $1195! Selling at 25% of this, $298 the lot! Promise you will be delighted with these. (ALB18) 11. Australia Post luxury padded 4 ring binders, as new in Burgundy Colour. New
price $25 each, $15 each or 5 for $62.50 (AP1) 12. Australia Post luxury padded 3 ring binders, to take Hagner style pages, as new in Black. New price $25 each, $15 each or 5 for $62.50 (AP2) 13. Lighthouse Australia 1992 - 2003 Green Padded Hingeless Album & Slipcase in Green as new. New price $600 plus, under half price save over $300! Price $295 (LH1) 14. Lighthouse Australia 2004 – 2008 Hingeless Pages as new. New price $460 plus, under half price save $265! Price $195 (LH2) 15. Lighthouse Blue Padded Ring Binder as new. New price $99.95, well under half price $44.95 (LH3) 16. Items LH2 & LH3 together for $225 (LH3a) 17. Lighthouse Cocos (Keeling) Is. 1963 -2004 Brown Padded Leather Look Hingeless Album & Slipcase as new. New price well over $200, under half price at only $95 (LH4) 18. Cumberland Burgundy Padded Cover Albums, as new. Each with 15 pages to hold 60 covers. (Additional pages available at $24.95 per 10 new or $12.50 per 10 second-hand) New cost approx. $50 each, 7 available at $25 each or $150 for the lot. (CU1) 19. Fabulous new range of Lighthouse Stockbooks. 64 black pages with padded cover in GOLD, SILVER or BRONZE! Very attractive, and of course the unbeatable Lighthouse German made quality. RRP $89.50 each, our price $69.50, carton of 5 for $329 (LH1) 20. Dansco Push in coin albums, were $21.90 each 10 years ago, to clear at $18 each. Choose from : Australia: One Shilling (1/-), Florin (2/-) 1 & 2 cents, 5 cents, 10 cents, 50 cents, 2 Dollars. (CA1) 21. Dansco Luxury Slide in Coin Albums (slide in) Were $64.90 10 years ago, now $49.50 each Choose from: Australia: One shilling (1/-), 20c & 50c coins, World: Crown sized coins (CA2) 22. “Plating Papua” Book, 563 x A4 pages, RRP $110 for just $89. For Lakatoi lovers “Plating Papua Stamp Part 1” by Michael Ryan, 563 pages. “The Lithographs, SG 47 to 83” Huge Full colour illustrations throughout, on high grade, thick Bright White paper stock. The Book Review on this by Mike Lee, says “Magnificent - Buy It Now” and “The $110 seems extremely good value to me” Great value at just $89! (PP1) 23. Brand New Ka –Be New Zealand Hingeless Album 1967 – 1988, the 1st 22 years of NZ Decimals. In Green Padded Binder. Cost $295, my price well under a half, $125 (ALB10) Great Britain 1840 1d Blacks We have more than 60 1d Blacks, the World’s 1st postage stamp in stock ranging in Every collector ought to have one! 24. GB 1840 1d Grey Black (worn plate) SG 3 from plate 2. Nice fault free 3 margin example lettered RB with Black Maltese Cross. Has distinctive guide line at right of B square. Very attractive stamp. Cat. £500. Price $570 (PB92) 25. GB 1840 1d Black SG 2, plate 6, just 4 margins lettered JK (Characteristic dot in K square) with red Maltese cross. Shallow thin to lower left, not visible from front. Cat. £375, price $315. (PB91) 26. GB 1840 1d Intense Black, SG 1 from Plate 6, lettered NE. Cancelled by indistinct red Maltese Cross. Thee margin example with a few minor faults, rounded corners at top. Cat. $525, price $315 (PB93) 27. GB 1840 1d Intense Black, SG1 from Plate 3. 4 large margin example lettered KA, showing part of above stamp. Top and left margins are huge. Heavyish Red Maltese Cross cancel. Scarcer plate. Cat. Min. £525. Price $495 (PB82) 28. GB 1840 (SG.1) 1d intense black plate 1B lettered G E, 4 complete margins, lightly struck Maltese cross cancel in vermilion, CAT £525 as normal red cross. Price
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BUY OR BID SALE SEPTEMBER 2020 $795 (PB85) 29. GB 1840 (SG.2) 1d black plate 4 lettered M I, 4 complete margins, crisp Maltese cross cancel in red, CAT £400.Price $569 (PB87) 30. GB 1840 (SG.2) 1d black plate 6 lettered M C, 4 complete margins, cleanly struck Maltese cross in red, CAT. £375. Price $539 (PB88) 31. GB 1840 (SG.3) 1d grey-black (worn plate) plate 1a, lettered H I, 4 complete margins bold strike of ruby Maltese cross cancel, CAT £500 as normal red cancel. Price $725 (PB89) 32. GB 1840 (SG.3) 1d grey-black (worn plate) plate 3 lettered P B, 4 complete margins, bold Maltese cross cancel in black, CAT MIN. £500. Popular corner letter combination which can serve as acronym for “penny black”. Minor rub to lower left square. Nice example of this better plate. Price $750 (PB90) 33. GB 1840 1d Black unplated example lettered AH, 4 margins, showing part of lower stamp, and a neat Ruby Red centrally struck Maltese Cross. Cat 1200 pounds. Price $665 (PB7) 34. Great Britain 1840 1d Black SG 2, plate 5, lettered B – E. Nice 4 margin example on entire wrapper Ireland to Sheffield Yorkshire. Cancelled by bright red Maltese Cross and with cds of Enniscorthy DE 3 1840, and Dublin Diamond arrival handstamp in vermilion of the next day. Cat. £750, for use in England, this is way scarcer. Price $1195 (PB69) 35. Great Britain 1840 1d black QV, plate 2, block of 4, used, SG # 2. check letters QG, QH, RG, RH, used with indistinct Maltese Cross Cancels. Blocks of 4 of the penny black are very rare and catalogue at £25,000. This is a very nice item without creases, thins or other faults. The two left hand stamps are 3 margin, the right hand pair each have 4 large margins. Price $22,500 (PB65) 36. Great Britain- 1840 1d black QV, plate 6, horizontal strip of 4 on cover SG # 2. Plate 6, horizontal strip of 4, check letters SF to SI on an entire wrapper. The 4d franking was for a 2oz letter, so presumably contained several pages of correspondence, most likely of a legal nature. Has a partial 22 FEB 1841 reverse cancel. The stamps are all 3 margin, close at bottom, and showing parts of 2 other stamps at top. Each cancelled by a neat black Maltese Cross, with a double cancel to the 4th stamp (contrary to regulations) A block of 4 stamps not on cover is catalogued at £25,000. Price $7750 (PB66) 37. GB 1840 1d Black plate 2, lettered KE, 4 good margins, and a neat Red Brown cleanly struck Maltese Cross. Price $595 (PB4) 38. GB 1840 1d Black plate 8, lettered BH, 4 good margins, and a lightly struck Red Maltese Cross. Price $595 (PB5) 39. GB 1840 1d Black unplated example, lettered BF, 3 good margins, just touching at bottom and a neat central Magenta Maltese Cross, cat. 3000 pounds. Price $895 (PB8) 40. GB 1840 1d Black, SG 2 lettered O-F. 4 large margin unplated example, cancelled by nice strike of red Maltese cross. Cat. £375. Price $525 (PB12) 41. GB 1d 1840 Black SG2, plate 8, lettered J-G. Fault free 4 margin example with neat red Maltese cross cancel. Cat. £525. Price $425 (PB15) 42. GB 1840 1d Black, SG 2 lettered R-C. Nice 4 margin unplated example, cancelled by complete light strike of red Maltese cross. Cat. £525. Price $495 (PB16) 43. GB 1840 1d Black SG2. Great looking 4 margin example from plate 1 with Full centrally struck Bright Red Maltese Cross cancel. Lettered K – F Cat. £375 price $595 (PB19) Great Britain Other Issues 44. Great Britain 1840 2d Blue Mulready Lettersheet SG ME3, Fine used to Berkeley Sq. London with neat Black Maltese Cross cancel, reverse cds of Gosport MY 24 1842 in black also “A 25 MY 25 1842” cds in red. Some opening damage at rear and a little
aged. Cat. £2400, price $1850 (GB259) 45. Great Britain 1856-58 1d Red-Brown Imperforate, SG 37-41. Complete reconstructed sheet of 240 stamps on Lighthouse pages. Very rare assembly. Cat. Minimum £2880 as single stamps, price $2150 (GB253) 46. Great Britain 1864-79 1d Red plate No. 92. Fresh well centred mint with original gum, lettered I-J, J-I. Cat. £55, price $49 (GB297) 47. GB 1841 1d Red Brown with IVORY HEAD, 4 margins mint original gum, lettered N C. Small tone spot at base. Guideline lower left corner SG 8, cat. £600, price $165 (GB190) 48. Great Britain 1848 10d brown Embossed Queen Victoria Die 1. Horizontal strip of 3, cut square with generally good margins, plus two horizontal pairs of 1841 imperf. 2d blues, 4 margin plate 3. from the top left hand row of the same sheet check letters AA-AD. Used on cover, part back is missing. Each with ‘107’ numeral cancel of Bradford, Yorkshire 1 MR 1849 to Frankfurt am Main. Has been endorsed at the top in pen (underneath the stamps) “via Ostend” and “Contains only Patterns.” (In German) Has a German Aus. England per Aachen Franco boxed cancel. The 38d (= 3s/2d) franking was the rate for an item under ¾oz in weight sent to the German States via Belgium. SG Cat. # 14 + 57 (Specialised Cat. Nos. ES11 + H2(1)) Reverse bears an unframed Bradford cds in Blue of MR 1 1849 plus a red arrival cds dated MR 2 1846! Clearly the year date slug is an error. 1849 A single 10d Embossed is cat. £3200 on cover, however the 1st and 3rd 10d both appear Part Double Impression, cat. £20,000 each off cover. Attractive and rare, price $27,500 (GB131) 49. Great Britain 1848 10d Brown Embossed. 3 margin lightly used example. Very presentable example facially, but is thinned. SG 67 Cat. £1500. Budget priced stamp at well under 10% cat. $249 (GB160) 50. GB 1847, 1/- Pale Green Embossed. SG 54. Fine 3 good margin example, 4th just touched at the top. Cancelled by Barred Numeral 41 (2 strikes) Cat. 1000 pounds. Well-priced at under 15% cat. $249 (GB2) 51. GB 1865 – 73, 4d Vermilion, plate 12 SG 94 Mint unhinged, lettered C – G / G C. Cat. £575 for hinged. Superb fresh premium quality stamp, price $675 (GB81) 52. GB 1867 – 83 5/- Rose, plate 1 SG 126, wmk. Maltese Cross. Attractive used example with London Hooded Cancel. Lettered AC – AD. As usual stamps from the A row (top of the sheet) are a little shorter than from other rows. Well centred and full perfs with London Hooded cancel. Deep rich colour for this stamp. Has horizontal crease 6mm from base hardly visible from front. Cat. £675, price $169 (GB659) 53. GB 1867-83 5/- Rose White Paper plate 4m SG 134 wmk Anchor. Nice used example with 2 London Hooded cancels, 1 near complete. Letter F -F. Nice used well centred example, ragged perfs at base. Cat. £3800. Price $495 (GB658) 54. GB 1880 -83, 2.5d Blue plate 23. Mint very lightly hinged. SG 157, lettered L – H/H – L. Cat. £450. Very fresh with great colour and full perfs., centred left. Price £229 (GB53) 55. GB 1880 – 83 3d on 3d & 6d on 6d Overprints. SG 159 & 162, mint hinged, the 3d being extremely fine. Lettered A – N / N – A and D – L /L – D respectively. Both full perfs. With reasonable centring for these. Cat. £1325. Price $659 (GB60) 56. GB 1880 – 8, 2d Pale Rose SG 168, mint lightly hinged. Fresh full perf. example centred right. Cat. £340, price $239 (GB56) 57. Great Britain 1882 5/- Plate 4 BLUED PAPER lettered E B – B E. Nicely centred used example with 1884 Lombard St. London L.S. 2 Duplex cancel. Plate number clear of the postmark. Cat. £4800. Price $1250 (GB267) 58. Great Britain 1883/4 2/6d, 5/- & 10/- all used and with private perfins. “BNZ” (Bank of New Zealand) These perfins may be seen on various high and low value GB QV and KE VII etc., stamps on mail from their Threadneedle Street branch in London. Scarce group, price $249 (GB656) 59. Great Britain 1883/4 2/6d, 5/- & 10/- all blued papers, SG 175-177, Cat. £13,750.
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BUY OR BID SALE SEPTEMBER 2020 Reasonable used set, 2/6d & 5/- expertised on reverse. Price $2295 (GB266) 60. GB QV 1883-84 SG180s 5s Rose lettered H N – N H Specimen Ovpt. Type 9, fresh mint hinged. Centred to upper right and with one short perf. at top. Cat. £450, price $275 (GB263) 61. GB 1883 5/- Crimson, SG 181. A superb used example with Bridport M.O. & S.B. (Money Order & Savings Bank) steel cds. Well centred with full perfs. Cat. £250, price $349 (GB660) 62. GB QV 1883-84 SG183s 10/- Ultramarine lettered B J – J B Specimen Ovpt. Type 9, fresh mint hinged. Well centred with full perfs. Minor soiling to lower right corner. Cat. £550, price $375 (GB264) 63. Great Britain 1883 – 84 10/- Cobalt Blue, SG 182. Very rare shade, cat £8250. Bright colour, well centred used example with heavyish London Rubber cds of 21 JUN 90. A few nibbled perfs top left, otherwise a very nice sound stamp. Price $1230 (GB265) 64. Great Britain 1884 £1 Brown- Lilac SG 185 lettered A O – O A, fine used. Cancelled by Lombard St.? London duplex, largely leaving Queen’s profile clear. Well centred and with good perfs. Cat. £3000, price $1125 (GB262) 65. GB 1887 Jubilee set ½d – 1/- (both) set of 14 used on ancient approval book page. Cat. Value £430 plus. Good spacefiller set for under 5% catalogue, $39 (GB299) 66. GB 1902 – 11 Chalky paper set of 9 to 1/-, fresh mint lightly hinged, Cat. between SG 223 – 259. Price $315 (GB74) 67. Great Britain 1902 2/6d & 5/- KEVII used and with private perfins. “BNZ” (Bank of New Zealand) These perfins may be seen on various high and low value GB QV and KE VII etc., stamps on mail from their Threadneedle Street branch in London. Scarce pair, $165 (GB657) 68. 1905 2/6d KEVII Pale Dull Purple SG261. Magnificent lightly hinged example, with fresh white gum, full perfs. and perfect centring. Cat. £350 Price $295 (GB71) 69. 1905 2/6d KEVII Dull Purple SG262. Lightly hinged example, full perfs. and perfect centring.. £350, Price $275 (GB70) 70. Great Britain 1912 5/- Posthumous issue for KEVII. Somerset House printing, fine well centred cds example with good perfs. SG 318 Cat. $200. Hard stamp to find in nice condition, and seriously under catalogued by Gibbons. Only in use for One Year before the introduction of the Seahorse Issues of KGV. The DLR printing is catalogued at more, yet was in use for 10 years. Try to find another as nice. Price $375 (GB655) 71. GB KG V 1913 £1 pound Deep Green Seahorse SG 403 fine used. Well centred example with oval registered cancels. Attractive stamp cat. £1400. Price $1695 (GB654) 72. GB 1915 DLR Seahorses set of 3, fresh mint lightly hinged. Lovely set to 10/-, between SG 408 – 413, the 2/6d being the Seal Brown. Way above average for these. Cat. £4,375. Price $3375 (GB78) 73. GB 1915 5/- Pale Rose Seahorse SG410. DLR printing, fine used cds example, well centred and with full perfs. Cat. £500. Nice looking example, and hard to find in this condition. Priced at just 30% cat. Price $249 (GB13a) 74. GB 1939 2/6d Brown on early 1940 Censored Airmail Cover to Sydney. Rare solo use on cover. Cancelled by London cds of 17 FE 40m and with Red Censor Tape. Roughly opened at top left but still an attractive typewritten address cover. Very scarce, price $149 (GB166) 75. Great Britain - 1948 (SG.494) Silver Wedding £1 corner MUH block of 4 with Plate No. ‘1’, and sheet No. excellent centring, together with the 2½d in a corner block of 4. (8). Superb fresh Mint Unhinged. Cat.£160+, price $239 (GB222) 76. Great Britain 1948 – 51. You will never see this again! The three KGVI One Pound issues on separate Registered covers, all to USA. 1) 1948 Pound FDC London
– Michigan, 2) 1948 Silver Wedding pair FDC London – Michigan, 3) 1951 Pound COMMERCIAL ! REG’D COVER, London – Iowa, with London Oval Reg’d cancel 9 JU 51. All with nice arrival backstamps. These are a must for any cover collector of GB, price $1325 (GB136) 77. Great Britain 1953 Small Typewritten Airmail Cover to USA. Bears solo use 2/6d Green 1951 Festival. Minor aging. Scarce solo franking. Price $69 (GB174) Australian States New South Wales 78. New South Wales 1859 small cover Sydney – Auckland. Bears 4 margin 6d Grey Brown Diadem, error of watermark (8 instead of 6) SG 96a (cat. £110 off cover) Stamp has been removed and re-affixed with a hinge to easily display the wmk. Variety. Exceedingly scarce on cover. Cancelled by Sydney cds of OC 13 59, and with Auckland arrival cds on face of OC 28 1859. Neat clean cover, minor tear centre top has been neatly repaired internally with a hinge. Price $525 (NSW5) 79. NSW 1880 1d Salmon perf. 10, SG 208a. Mint Original Gum with massive diagonal plate scratch and two white voids either side of the Queen’s Crown. Striking error. Cat. £250 as normal. Price $395 (NSW23) 80. NSW 1885-86 5/- Lilac & green overprinted ‘POSTAGE’ in black perf 12 x 10 SG 238b, very slight gum wrinkling, few nibbled perfs at left, fresh Mint, Cat £800, Price $749 (NSW126) 81. 1888-90 NSW Centennial 1d Mauve perf 12 overprinted ‘OS’ SG O39ba complete sheet of 120, selvedge missing from 4 stamps at lower right, right pane has two stamps hinged and three with thins, otherwise a fresh MUH sheet with marginal inscriptions etc, Price $995 (NSW146) 82. NSW 1891 12½d on 1/- red, Listed by SG as perf 12 x 11½, but mostly 11½ with error in perf 12 at top right corner in 2 directions. SG 268d. Used by indistinct cancel. Price $149 (NSW24) 83. PC Farm Cove, Sydney, British Man of War, Australia, used to Toulon, France, Bears 3 x ½d Green NSW Cancelled by Sydney Duplexes No.10 of JA 26 04 GC, Price $89 (APC681) Queensland 84. Queensland 1907 Crown over A wmk. Horizontal pairs. 4d Grey pair, line perf. mint, 1 unhinged. 6d Green pair, mint, 1 unhinged. 1/- Violet pair, MUH, irregular line perf. 12½/13, these were produced when comb perf. machines were under repair. Price $250. (Q19) 85. Queensland 1866-68 Postal Fiscals no watermark 1d Blue SG F1, two distinct shades, with fiscal cancels, usual uneven perfs, Price $24.99 (Q32) 86. Queensland 1866-68 Postal Fiscals no watermark 20/- Rose SG F8, with crisp corner cds type fiscal cancel, slightly uneven perfs, a lovely stamp, SG Cat £1200 for postal use, Price $199 (Q38) 87. Queensland 1871-72 Postal Fiscals watermark large crown & Q 1/- Green SG F18 with fiscal cancel partially cleaned and subsequently used postally with an almost full strike of ‘BRISBANE/L/FE 2/86/QUEENSLAND’ cds, Price $69 (Q39) South Australia 88. South Australia 1876-85 4d Deep mauve wmk broad star perf 10 x 11½-12½ overprinted ‘OS’, SG O17, few trimmed perfs, full fresh OG, Price $119 (SA28) 89. South Australia 1894-1906 QV 2½d Violet-blue & 5d Brown-purple perf 15 overprinted ‘SPECIMEN’ SG 234s/35s, Mint Cat £70, Price $79 (SA40) 90. Real Photographic Sepia Postcard. Captain Henry John “Harry” Butlers flight around Moores, Aug 1919, possibly dropping Peace Loan Flyers from the plane, unused. “Charles Moore and Co. was a company based in Adelaide, South Australia which owned a number of department stores in three Australian states. It was
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BUY OR BID SALE SEPTEMBER 2020 founded by Irish-born businessman, Charles Moore (ca. 1858 – 30 September 1916). Its best-known assets were the department store known to two generations of Adelaideans as “Moore’s on the Square”, Charles Moore’s on Hay Street, Perth, Western Australia and Read’s in Prahran, Victoria. Butler was known as the ‘Peace Loan flyer’ and performed many acrobatic displays over Adelaide to raise money for the Peace Loan and repatriation causes following World War I. He dropped Peace Loan flyers from his plane to promote the loan. He also partook in the first aerial race over the City of Adelaide to raise money for the Peace Loan.” - source Wikipedia. Nice clean condition, price $60 (APC680) Tasmania 91. Tasmania 1857-67 Chalon imperf wmk double lined numeral 1d Brick-red SG 27, margins close to touching, Mint no gum, Cat £475, Price $179 (T93) 92. Tasmania 1857-67 Chalon imperf wmk double lined numeral 2d Deep green SG 33, two close margins, just cut into at left, Mint no gum, Cat £950 as Mint, Price $399 (T95) 93. Tasmania 1857-67 Chalon imperf wmk double lined numeral 2d Deep green SG 33 (a deeper shade than the one above) , two close margins, two touching, Mint no gum, Cat £950 as Mint, Price $349 (T91) 94. Tasmania c1890’s 5/- QV side face in a pale reddish mauve shade, complete sheet of 120 on thin gummed card overprinted ‘REPRINT’ with stops, unfortunately the top right hand stamp has been removed, odd minor gum spot, fresh MUH, a scarce survivor, Price $2499 (T104) 95. Tasmania 1912 One Penny on 2d surcharge perf 11 SG 260a, complete sheet of 60 with JBC and CA monograms, some minor perf separation, still a fresh and scarce survivor, Price $449 (T103) Victoria 96. Victoria 1850 Half-length second state of the dies 1d Pale dull red-brown SG 5a, three good margins, cut into at right, indistinct barred numeral cancel, Cat £450, Price $299 (V157) 97. Victoria 1851 Half-length third state of the dies 1d Brownish-red SG 9b horizontal pair, margins close to touching, stated to be positions 5 & 6, two strikes of the ‘11’ Barred oval cancel, Cat £360, Price $249 (V234) 98. Victoria 1854 1d Rose Half Length SG 23a. Superb 4 margin example of this scarce Melbourne printing, cancelled by light duplex. Expertised twice on reverse. Cat. £750, price $995 (V23) 99. Victoria 1854-57 QV Half-length Campbell & Fergusson printing on poorer quality paper 1d Brick-red SG 26a, four good to large margins, indistinct oval cancel, Cat £120, Price $119 (V232) 100. Victoria 1854-55 Woodblocks imperf 2/- dull bluish green SG 35, three large margins, just touching at base, used on small piece. Advertised retail $375. Price $249 (V96) 101. Victoria 1854 1/- Registered stamp SG34, Cat £200, attractive example with 4 large margins, very light surface rub at lower left, indistinct barred numeral cancel, fine used. Price $199 (V103) 102. 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 (LM13) 103. Victoria 1855 6d Too Late stamp, SG 33. Magnificent Huge 4 margin example, neatly cancelled by Barred Numeral 1 of Melbourne. Nicest I have seen in 55 years. Cat. £250. Price $425 (V97) 104. Victoria 1856 “Australian Packet Paid Liverpool JU 9 56” cds in red, clear full strike on small cover “per Mermaid” to Plymouth UK with large 5d also in red, pre-
sumably tax for underpaid item. Bears 6d Orange woodblock with some evidence of rouletting at left and top, cancelled by Melbourne barred numeral cancel No. 1 of Melbourne type A1. Reverse bears Melbourne oval cancel of MA 11 1856 and Plymouth arrival cds in Green of JU 11 1856. Fine scarce cover, price $240 (V268) 105. Victoria 1857 small cover bearing 6d Dull Orange Woodblock 4 margin example, tied by barred Numeral 4 of SANDHURST (renamed BENDIGO) and Red cds “Paid 5 SP 1857” to Essex, UK. Fine and attractive, flap torn on opening. Price $195 (BD515) 106. VICTORIA - POSTAL HISTORY: 1859 (SEPT.) COVER TO LONDON ENDORSED “PER MAIL STEAMER BOMBAY” WITH EMBLEMS 2D VIOLET ROULETTED 5½-6½ ON HORIZ. LAID PAPER SG.70 STRIP OF 3 TIED BY BN ‘78’ CANCELS OF ST KILDA (RATED ‘R’), INDISTINCT CROWN OVAL & MELBOURNE DEPARTURE BACKSTAMPS, LONDON ARRIVAL DATESTAMP ON FACE, FILING CREASE RUNNING THROUGH ADHESIVES & SMALL COVER TEAR CLEAR OF THE STAMPS. Price $359 (V149) 107. Victoria 1864 2d Violet SG 109 Imperforate! Not listed in SG, definitely big enough margins to be imperf. Nicely used with barred Numeral cancel. Imperf between vertical pair of the 1/- from this issue is Cat. at £6500. Price $495 (DB56) 108. Victoria 1870. Small registered cover, Malmsbury – Melbourne. Bears 2d Dull Violet Laureates Perf. 13 SG 109ad, cancelled by Malmsbury Duplex No. 98 Type 2, rated SS. 1 adhesive removed. Has rectangular boxed “registered” in black and oval registered in Red. Melbourne small transit cds of AP 19 70 on face and arrival cds of Carlton on the following day. Price $98 (V270) 109. Victoria 1883 small cover to Torquay UK. Bears 6d Blue SG (V265) 110. 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. (V72) 111. Victoria 1895 Halfpenny Yellow/Orange wrapper used to London. Cancelled by Duplex 327 Tarnagulla JE 28 95. Fine and scarce, price $69 (V31) 112. Victoria 1895 ½d Yellow-Orange newspaper wrapper simply addressed to “Punch Melbourne” Cancelled by clean strike of Nagambie second 712 Duplex of AP 5 95. Clean and attractive, small tear at left does not detract. Price $59 (V67) 113. Victoria 1896 ½d Emerald SG 331 fresh mint lightly hinged with full double row of perfs at top. Well centred with full perfs. Spectacular! Price $169 (V84) 114. Victoria 1897 Diamond Jubilee 2/6d Red Brown Hospital Charity stamp, cto Melbourne OC 25 97, 3 days after issue. Clean stamp with gum full perfs. And expertisation mark on reverse. Price $195 (V41) 115. Victoria 1897 Diamond Jubilee 2/6d Red Brown Hospital Charity stamp, cto Melbourne AU 24 06, late usage. Clean well centred stamp without gum and full perfs. Price $210 (V42) 116. Victoria 1901-13 QV ‘Postage’ 1/- orange or yellow x 10 unchecked for perfs etc, great range of shades, advertised retail $200+. Price $99 (V90) 117. Victoria 1905 1d Rose red SG 417, Double Perfs. Used by Melbourne machine cancel is well centred with full perfs. Complete row of double perfs. at top and also double perfs. along right side. Spectacular! Price $169 (V85) 118. Victoria Revenues 1934 1/8d Yellow & Black Tax Instalment Rouletted stamp with gum in unhinged horizontal pair. Wmk V over Crown. Cancelled by Fountain Pen manuscript 26-1-40 and 2-2-40 respectively. Fine and scarce, price $95 (V18) Western Australia 119. Western Australia 1885 1d on 3d surcharge, both the Pale brown and Cinnamon shades, SG 91 & 91a, Cat £70, fine Used, Price $79 (WA130) 120. Western Australia 1895 ½d surcharge in red & green on 3d Cinnamon, SG 111a, Mint, some hinge remains, Price $199 (WA78) 121. 1910 usage of 1d Blue Postal Stationary Postcard, Mount Magnet to Perth. Cancelled by cds of Perth 14 NO 10. H & G 17, cat. $400. Very fine with 2 staple holes
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BUY OR BID SALE SEPTEMBER 2020 and bend to upper left corner. Price $195 (WA57) 122. Western Australia 1911 real photographic postcard “Greetings from Fremantle” to St. Louis, USA. Bears Halfpenny Green and 1d Rose Pink SG 138/9. Cat £12.25 and from x 12 on cover. Neat & clean, price $175 (WA34) Australia Kangaroos All of our Kangaroo stamps are accurately described and fairly priced according to condition, you may order with confidence that there are no hidden faults. 123. Bulk used Kangaroos ex. Retired dealer. Unchecked by us for shades, varieties etc. Priced per 100. Assume all to be the cheapest watermark. Obviously damaged & very heavily cancelled stamps removed. 1d Red 100 for $89 (10 for $10) 6d Brown ovpt. OS 100 for $1000 (10 for $110) 1/- Green 100 for $375 (10 for $39) 2/- Maroon 100 for $125 (10 for $15) (K652) 124. Australia 1913 Penny Red Kangaroo used x 36 on annotated album pages. Noted “Rostage” x 2, Coil / Booklet Stamps x 2, + varieties not listed for this value, inc. “Missing Inner Frame Top Left” and “Shading Line Over One Penny Missing”. Condition generally good to fine used. Minimum Cat. $847. Price: $539 (K343) 125. Australia 1913 1st wmk. 1d Red die II variety ‘Watermark sideways’ (crown pointing to right when viewed from the back) ACSC 3aa, very light machine cancel, excellent perfs, centred slightly to upper right, Cat $500, Price $425 (K1070) 126. Australia 1913 1st wmk. 1d Red die I variety ‘Watermark sideways’ (crown pointing to left when viewed from the back) ACSC 2ab, centred to upper left, couple of nibbled perfs, light cds cancel, Cat $450, Price $229 (K1074) 127. Australia 1913 1st wmk. 2d Grey Kangaroo. Nice mint unhinged example with good perfs, centred right, cat. $300, price $120 (K86) 128. Australia 1913 1st wmk. 2d Deep Grey Kangaroo. A mint lightly hinged example, couple of slightly nibbled perfs, centred high, price $49 (K739) 129. Australia 1913 1st wmk. 2.5d Indigo Kangaroo. Superb lower marginal cto example with gum, perfectly centred and full perfs. Melbourne cds of DE 3 13. They honestly do not come better than this! Price $125 (K148) 130. Australia 1913 3d Olive Kangaroo, Die I. Nice mint lightly hinged example with good perfs. Has light gum bend not visible from front. Cat. $250, price $119 (DB826) 131. AUSTRALIA 1913 4d ORANGE KANGAROO SHOWING SIGNIFICANT UPWARD DISPLACEMENT OF THE WATERMARK, WITH THE HORIZONTAL WATERMARK LINE RUNNING LEVEL WITH THE TOP OF THE VALUE TABLET, jumped perf and IMPERFORATE AT BASE! COUPLE OF NIBBED PERFS, FRESH WLL CENTRED MUH, BW:15 - CAT $1,000 (AS A NORMAL STAMP). VERY UNUSUAL, PRICE $795 (K1069) 132. Australia 1913 4d Analine Orange Kangaroo. ACSC 15B Fresh Mint Unhinged. Lower left corner marginal example. Lovely well centred full perf. Stamp. Very rare shade. Cat $2750. Very Rarely offered. Skipped perf. at base and misplaced wmk. We sold a non-marginal example last year for $1650. Price $1995 (K784) 133. Australia 1913 4d Analine Orange Kangaroo. ACSC 15B Mint lightly hinged. Lovely fresh example, centring to top right. Rare shade. Cat $2000. Rarely offered. Price $595 (K88) 134. Australia 1913 4d Analine Orange Kangaroo Horiz. pair perf Large OS. ACSC 15Bba. Lovely use pair cancelled by Hobart cds of 10NO17, very late use for this. Left stamp has some perf faults. Very attractive piece, and a scarce shade. Cat. $275 each as non OS. Price $425 (K914) 135. Australia 1913 5d Chestnut Kangaroo with variety. Fresh nicely centred int unhinged with good perfs, has the variety Colour Flaw off WA Coast. Listed as ACSC 16(U)d. Cat. $450 for hinged = approx $1200 for unhinged. Price $895 (K785) 136. Australia 1913 5d Chestnut Kangaroo mint unhinged. Well centred and fresh
with a few shortish perfs at base. Cat. $650, very well priced at just $189 (K89) 137. Australia 1913 5d Chestnut Kangaroo ACSC 16A, centred low, light hinge remains Mint, Cat $250, Price $99 (K700) 138. Australia 1913 5d Chestnut Kangaroo ACSC 16A, centred slightly to lower right, lightly hinged Mint, Cat $250, Price $109 (K744) 139. Australia 1913 5d Chestnut Kangaroo, “Kissprint”. Nice well centred example with full perfs, fresh mint very lightly hinged. Coastline appears doubled almost all around. Cat $250 as normal. Price $495 (LM12) 140. Australia 1913 1st wmk. 6d Ultramarine Kangaroo, ACSC 17A, fresh MUH, full perfs, centre left. Cat $875, Price $425 (K792) 141. Australia 1913 1st wmk. 6d Ultramarine Kangaroo, Melbourne CTO with full lightly hinged gum, ACSC 17Awb, one short perf at right, centred low, Cat $100, Price $49 (K740) 142. Australia 1913 9d Deep Violet 1st wmk. Kangaroo, mint lightly hinged. Nice fresh example with good perfs. and nicely centred. ACSC 24C, cat. $500, price $398 (K554) 143. Australia 1913 1/- Emerald, variety ‘’Watermark inverted’ ACSC 30Aa, a fine commercially used example, Cat $500, centred a little to the left. ’ELIZABETH STREET NORTH’ cds of December 1913, scarce thus. Price $399 (K650) 144. Australia 1913 2/- Brown Kangaroo 1st wmk ACSC 35A, another lovey used example with light, crisp partial Registered cds and very good centring, Price $179 (K701) 145. Australia 1913 2/- Brown Kangaroo 1st wmk SG 12. Nice used example with corner cds. Good perfs centred a little to lower left. ACSC 35A Cat $250. Keenly priced at $119 (DB777) 146. Australia 1913 2/- Brown Kangaroo 1st wmk SG 12. Nice good used example with 2 partial cds cancels. Few ragged perfs to top, centred a little to left. ACSC 35A Cat $250. Keenly priced at $74 (K122) 147. Australia 1913 2/- Dark Brown Kangaroo 1st wmk SG 12. Nice used example from right of sheet with central 1913 Parcel Post cds. Good perfs. & well centred. ACSC 35B Cat $300. Keenly priced at $129 (K241) 148. Australia 1913 10/- Grey & Pink 1st wmk Kangaroo, Ovpt. Specimen Mint Unhinged. Post Office Fresh! Nicely centred for this issue with full perfs. ACSC 47x, Cat. $3500. Price $1950 (K483) 149. Australia 1913 10/- Grey & Pink 1st wmk Kangaroo, Ovpt. Specimen marginal Mint Unhinged ACSC 47x, three short perfs at upper left, centred to lower left, Cat $3500, Price $1495 (K1087) 150. Australia 1915 2d grey Kangaroo 2nd wmk centred high Mint, light HR, advertised retail $175 for well centred, price $89 (ML534) 151. Australia 1915 Bluish Indigo 2nd wmk Kangaroo in a fresh mint (**/*) block of 4. Hinged on top two stamps this is a fine marginal block with interpanneu margin at right. ACSC 10B cat. $1800 as singles. Nicely centred with full perfs. Price $1350 (K850) 152. AUSTRALIA - KANGAROOS - SECOND WATERMARK: 1/- DULL GREEN, SMALL HINGE REMAINDER, FINE MINT CENTRED HIGH WITH FULL PERFS. SCARCE SHADE, BW:31C - CAT. $1250. Price $925 (K1068) 153. Australia 1/- Bright Blue Green Kangaroo, 2nd wmk, Socked on Nose. Nice scarcer shade, socked on nose by Spencer St. Melbourne cds of 19AU15. Well centred with good perfs. Cat. $150, price $110 (K372) 154. Australia 1915 1/- Green Kangaroo 2nd wmk. Perf. OS. Good/fine used with 2 partial cds’s of Perth. Well centred, some short perfs at base. Has skipped perf at lower left. ACSC 31Aba, cat. $475, well-priced at $89. (K204) 155. Australia 1915 2/- Light Brown 2nd wmk. Kangaroo, ACSC 36A. Superb used example with double ring cds of South Yarra Vic, dated 13.7.15. Fine looking stamp,
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BUY OR BID SALE SEPTEMBER 2020 centred to top with full perfs. Cat. $350, price $237.50 (K937) 156. Australia 1913 2/- Dark brown 1st wmk. Kangaroo, Punctured small ‘OS’ ACSC 35Bbb, Cat $400, an unusually well centred example with an indistinct cds cancel. Price $249 (K587) 157. Australia 1913 2/- Brown 1st wmk. Kangaroo, Melbourne CTO ACSC 35A, centred slightly to upper left, Cat $300, Price $179 (K743) 158. Australia 1913 5/- Grey & yellow ACSC 42, centred slightly low, with light crisp centrally struck cds, couple of slightly nibbled perfs at right, much scarcer than CTO, Cat $350, Price $379 (K1072) 159. Australia 1915 2/- Light Brown 2nd wmk. Kangaroo, ACSC 36, an attractive well centred example with partial ‘STOCK EXCHANGE MELBOURNE’ cds. Cat. $350, price $229 (K742) 160. Australia 1915 2/-Light Brown Kangaroo 2nd wmk ACSC 36A, Cat $350, a superb used example with excellent centring, light oval ‘PERTH REGISTERED’ datestamp, a premium stamp. Price $299 (K649) 161. Australia 1915 2/- Light Brown 2nd wmk. Kangaroo, ACSC 36A. Well centred full perf. used example cancelled by partial Brisbane Qld. cds. Cat. $350, cheap price, $125 (K244) 162. Australia 1915 5/- Deep Grey & Chrome 2nd wmk. Kangaroo, ACSC43B. Nice used example with neat partial cds, quite well centred and with strong colours, clean cut perfs (a couple are slightly nibbled}. Attractive stamp, Cat $675, Price $475 (K741) 163. Australia 1915 5/- Deep Grey & Chrome 2nd wmk. Kangaroo, ACSC43B. Nice used example with light partial circular cancels. Centred high with some fluffy perfs., usual for this issue Cat. $675 this one cheap at a third cat. $225 (K140) 164. Australia 1915 2d grey Kangaroo, 3rd wmk. Die I punctured ‘OS’ two faintly toned perfs Mint unhinged. Centred to top right with good perfs. ACSC 7Aba, cat. $225 price $69 (ML531) 165. Australia 1918 2d Grey 3rd wmk. Kangaroo Die IIA, mint unhinged, small amount of gum disturbance at top otherwise fresh. Nice centring with good perfs. Cat. $225, price $65 (K92) 166. Australia 1915 3d Olive green 3rd wmk. Kangaroo Die I, ACSC 13A, top marginal example centred to right, fresh MUH with good perfs. Cat $175, Price $110 (K685) 167. Australia 1922 3d Olive Kangaroo Die IIB 3rd wmk. ACSC Block of 4, usual ‘fluffy’ perfs, some gum bends, centred a little low, lower units MUH, Cat $650, Price $249 (K672) 168. Australia 1915 6d Milky Greyish Blue Kangaroo, 3rd wmk. ACSC 19G Harrison Printing. Fine used with Condobolin NSW cds of SP 21 19. Well centred and with good perfs, this stamp shows the undocumented variety “Broken/Missing ears” very striking! The bite out of leg of this issue catalogues $2250, and sells for around $1500. Price $995 (K141) 169. Australia 1918 6d Pale Greyish Violet Dull Blue Kangaroo Subs. Cliché. 3rd wmk SG 38ba (shade) , ACSC 19Gja, Nicely centred and with good perfs and 2 x partial Sydney cds cancels. cat $3750. Hard stamp to find, price $1950 (DB796) 170. Australia 1923 6d Chestnut Kangaroo 3rd wmk, ACSC 21A. Nice mint unhinged example well centred and with good perfs. Has skipped perfs. at top creating a larger than usual stamp. Cat. $250, priced at just a half catalogue. $125 (K94) 171. Australia 1923 6d chestnut Kangaroo, 3rd watermark, gutter corner marginal block of 4 with the variety ‘broken leg on Kangaroo’. ACSC 21A(3)d, usual ‘fluffy’ perfs and average centring, still a fresh and attractive MUH positional block. Price $225 (K634) 172. Australia 1916 9d Pale violet Kangaroo, 3rd wmk. Die II ACSC 26B, Cat $375, centred to right, fresh MUH. Price $199 (K639) 173. Australia 1916 9d Pale violet Kangaroo, 3rd wmk. Die II ACSC 26B, Cat $375,
centred to right and with tiny natural paper inclusion in the gum, fresh MUH. Price $179 (K613) 174. Australia 1916 9d deep Violet Kangaroo, 3rd wmk. Die II. Fine used example of this scarce shade lightly cancelled by cds at left. Well centred with good perfs. ACSC 26C Cat. $200, price $149 (K263) 175. Australia 1916 9d Violet Kangaroo, 3rd wmk. Die II punctured OS. ACSC 26Aba, Cat $475, nicely centred for this issue, fresh MUH. Price $349 (K572) 176. Australia 1916 9d Violet Kangaroo, 3rd wmk Inverted Die II. Cooke Printing. Nicely centred full perf example, cancelled by partial Bowen, Qld. Cds. ACSC 26Aa, Cat. $325, price $239 (K200) 177. Australia 1918 9d Violet Kangaroo, 3rd wmk Die IIb. Nice mint lightly hinged example with perfect perfs, centred a tad high. Has light overall gum toning and one toned perf. at left, not visible from front. Cat. $125, cheap at $37.50 (K54) 178. Australia 1918 9d Violet Kangaroo, 3rd wmk Die IIb, punctured ‘OS’ ACSC 27Aba, Cat $350. Mint lightly hinged example centred slightly to the lower left, faint gum bend at lower right. Price $125 (K592) 179. Australia 1918 9d Deep Violet Kangaroo, ACSC 26Ca 3rd wmk Die II, Inverted. Nice fine used example, well centred, with a few ragged perfs. Cancelled by circular Brisbane Registered handstamp. Cat. Indication for this scarce shade $2000, price $995. (K132) 180. Australia 1916 1/- Grey Green Kangaroo 3rd wmk fine cds used. Centred low, with light cds cancel to upper right and with good perfs. Nice example of this scarcer shade, listed as ACSC 32G. Cat. $125. Priced at 30% $37.50 (K371) 181. Australia 1918 1/- Blue Green Kangaroo, 3rd wmk Die IIb Harrison two line imprint block of 4 ACSC 33(4)z, Cat $2250, upper right unit slightly damaged at right, some hinge remains on upper pair, lower pair are MUH. Price $1250 (K635) 182. Australia 1918 1/- Blue Green Kangaroo, 3rd wmk Die IIb. Melbourne mint lightly hinged example Sideways Wmk. Centred left with full perfs., ACSC 33Aaa Cat. $200, Priced well at $99 (K277) 183. Australia 1916 2/- Greyish Brown Kangaroo, 3rd wmk. Perf OS. Scarce shade, listed as ACSC 37Hba. Indicative cat. $700. The normal OS used being $125, 3.5 times the used regular stamp, and the shade cat. at $200. This stamp is well centred with mostly good perfs, a couple at base are nibbed. Cancelled by 2 x Melbourne slightly heavier cds cancels. A nice stamp for the shades collector. Well-Priced at 30%, $210 (K367) 184. Australia 1924 2/- Maroon Kangaroo 3rd wmk.perf OS. Faintly toned top right corner perf, centred low Mint lightly Hinged, ACSC 38Aba advertised retail $325 for fine, cat. $550, price $99 (K528) 185. Australia 1924 2/- Maroon Kangaroo 3rd wmk. Nicely centred full perf. mint hinged example, cat. $300. Well-priced at under as half. $149 (ML528) 186. Australia 1918 5/- Grey & Yellow Kangaroo 3rd wmk. Well centred full perf example MNG. Price $139 (K832) 187. Australia 1918 5/- Grey & Pale Yellow 3rd wmk. Kangaroo, perf. OS, cto with gum. Well centred with goods perfs. ACSC44Db, cat. $200, price $149 (K456) 188. Australia 1918 5/- Grey & Pale Yellow Kangaroo, 3rd wmk, perf. OS. CTO with unhinged gum, fresh well centred with good perfs. ASCS 44Dwf. Spencer Gulf Elongated & Broken Coast near Sydney. Cat $450, Price $359 (K733) 189. Australia 1918 5/- Grey Black & Pale Yellow Kangaroo 3rd wmk. perf OS, CTO with unhinged gum. Centred to top right. ACSC 44DWwa Cat $300 Price $149 (K940) 190. Australia 1918 5/- Grey & Deep Yellow 3rd wmk. Kangaroo Perf OS ACSC 44Cwa, cto with unhinged gum. Well centred and with 1 minor perf. fault at base. Wmk misplaced to left and Kangaroo misplaced right with tail a little outside map. Price $225 (K939) 191. Australia 1918 5/- Grey & Pale Yellow 3rd wmk. Kangaroo with variety ‘Broken
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BUY OR BID SALE SEPTEMBER 2020 tail on kangaroo’ ACSC 44D(V)e, very well centred with bold Sydney cds which is completely clear of the variety, Cat $325, Price $195 (K680) 192. Australia 1917 10/- Grey & Deep aniline pink 10/- 3rd wmk Kangaroo ACSC 48B, centred to upper right, usual ‘fluffy perfs’, neat corner cds, Cat $375, Price $199 (K1086) 193. Australia 1917 10/- Grey & Deep Analine Pink “Kissprint” Harrison printing mint with light hinge, nice fresh gum. Has prominent “Kissprint” of frame clearly visible on map, at top, to right of Kangaroo and clear doubling of shading to left of Kangaroo’s head. Centred to the lower right, and with some short perfs at base. This is believed unique, and is only recorded in ACSC as Perf. OS used. (ACSC 48Bc) at $3000. I did sell a mint OS example through auction as couple of years ago in Melbourne for $3750 plus buyers’ premium. This example has been submitted to the ACSC for future listing. Price $3950 (DB325) 194. Australia 1924 3rd wmk £1 Grey Kangaroo overprinted SPECIMEN type C ACSC 53Axb, centred slightly high, fresh Mint, Cat $375, Price $199 (K1085) 195. Australia 1924 3rd wmk £1 Grey Kangaroo SG 75S, ovpt. Specimen Type C2. Early state of shaved P. Fresh mint unhinged well centred and with full gum. BW 53xf not catalogued as unhinged, but using the same formula as the normal type C should be $2275. Price $1495 (LM152) 196. Australia 1929 6d Chestnut Kangaroo sm. Multi. Wmk. Ash N over An imprint block of 4. Hinged only in selvedge. ACSC 22A(4)z. Cat. $400 as hinged. Very fresh well centred with full perfs. Premium block. Price $575 (K859) 197. Australia 1929 Sml. Multi. Wmk., 6d Chestnut “Kissprint “of left frame MUH. Super Post Office Fresh left marginal example, well centred and full perfs. Unrecorded variety. Price $249 (LM15) 198. Australia 1929 Sml. Multi. Wmk., 9d violet ACSC 28A fresh MUH Cat $375, centred to lower left, one short perf at base. Price $149 (K573) 199. Australia 1929 Sml. Multi. Wmk., 9d violet plate 4 Ash imprint second state block of 4 with die II substitution at position 4R49 ACSC 28(4)z, Cat $1500 for hinged, left hand pair centred to left, right hand pair well centred, some gum ‘suntanning’ bands, a scarce imprint, MUH. Price $1475 (K629) 200. Australia 1929 1/- Blue Green sml. Multi. Wmk. Kangaroo. Lovely mint unhinged block of 4, well centred and with good perfs. Some perf separation at top. Cat. $1200 as singles, price $749 (K854) 201. Australia 1929 1/- Blue Green small multi. wmk. Kangaroo punctured ‘OS’ ACSC 23Aba, centred slightly to the left, one nibbled perf at top MVLH Price $49 (K600) 202. Australia 1929 1/- Blue Green small multi. wmk. Kangaroo punctured ‘OS’ ACSC 34b block of 4, couple of minor perf faults, multiple strikes of the ‘MELBOURNE/VIC’ cds. Centred right Price $47.50 (K278) 203. Australia 1929 5/- Grey & Yellow Orange small multi wmk. Kangaroo ACSC 45A, nicely centred with good perfs, central cds cancel, Cat $250, Price $189 (K1080) 204. Australia 1929 5/- Grey & Yellow Orange small multi wmk. Kangaroo. Perf. OS. cto with unhinged gum, ex. Specimen Pack. Centred high with full perfs. Cat. $250, price $129 (K510) 205. Australia 1929 Small Multiple Wmk. 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo. Fresh Mint Top marginal Block of 4! Lower pair are superb unhinged, others lightly hinged. A well centred block with full perfs. Cat. $12,000 as singles, blocks are exceedingly rare. Cat. $8200 as singles, price $7550 (K485) 206. Australia 1929 Small Multiple Wmk. 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo, fine used dated Melbourne cds 4NO31, and with variety “Very short Spencer’s Gulf” ACSC49 (D) f, cat $1100, price $695 (K2) 207. Australia 1929 Small Multiple Wmk. 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo, overprinted ‘SPECIMEN’ type C, ACSC 49x centred to left, fresh Mint, Price $449 (K1083) 208. Australia 1932 6d Chestnut Kangaroo C of A wmk ACSC 23A, centred to upper
right, fresh MUH. Price $39 (K651) 209. Australia 1932 6d Chestnut Kangaroo C of A wmk, Imprint block with variety. ACSC 23Ag, white hairline from value circle to map. Fresh mint unhinged. Cat. $550 as hinged, odd short/nibbed perf fault. Price $525 (K858) 210. Australia 1935 2/- Kangaroo C of A wmk ACSC 40A, horizontal marginal pair fresh well centred MUH, the l/h unit showing unlisted variety ‘Colour flaw under P of Postage’ Price $24.99 (K612) 211. AUSTRALIA C OF A WATERMARK 10/- DARK GREY & ANILINE PINK WITH “ROO DISPLACED DOWNWARDS WITH TAIL DIPPING IN SEA OFF NSW COAST”, MVLH, BW:50E - CAT. $2750, PLUS PREMIUM FOR VIGNETTE DISPLACEMENT. Price $1950 (K1067) 212. Australia 1935 £1 Grey Kangaroo C of A wmk. Fine used example with good perfs, centred a little to right. Cancelled by Sydney late fee cds of 16AP37. Advertised retail $425, price $329 (K963) 213. Australia 1934 £2 Grey-black & rose-crimson overprinted ‘SPECIMEN’ ACSC 58x, centred to base, fresh MUH, Cat $225, Price $179 (K1073) Australia KGV Heads Breaking superb KGV Collection, starting here with the 1d Red Shades, mainly mint with certificate 214. Australia 1918 1d Rosine Mint Lightly Unhinged. ACSC 72 l (G68) Fresh centred to right with good perfs. Supplied with Drury 2015 Certificate. Cat. $700, price $525 (GG4) 215. Australia 1918 1d Rosine Mint Unhinged, perf. OS. ACSC 72ibb (G68) Fresh, centred lower left with full perfs. Supplied with Starling 2014 Certificate. Cat. $875, price $649 (GG6) 216. Australia 1917 1d Orange Red KGV. Post Office fresh Mint Unhinged. Nice full perf example, centred left. ACSC71P, (G24.5) Cat. $600. Supplied with Drury 2004 certificate. Price $475 (GS23) 217. Australia 1918 1d Rose Pink Rough Paper KGV. Post Office Fresh mint unhinged, nicely centred with full perfs. ACSC 72H (G67) Cat. $1500, very rare stamp, Supplied with Drury and Bozic 2011 Certificates. Price $1195 (GS17) 218. Australia 1918 1d Rose Pink Rough Paper KGV perf OS. Fine used example centred right with good perfs. Cancelled by Melbourne Ship Mail Room cds of 22MY20. ACSC 72H (G67) Cat. $250, rarer shade, price $149 (G232) 219. Australia 1914 1d Carmine smooth paper punctured ‘OS’ Die II ‘Merged’ spur (position 56 – see ACSC page 4/52). Centred to right, Mint very lightly hinged, Price $275 (G382) Other KGV Heads 220. Australia KGV Single wmk, range ½d Green – 4d Blue, with some nice shades of the 2d Reds and Oranges. All perf. OS NSW, plus 2d & 4d C of A wmk. Perf. G NSW. 19 stamps all nice used, many with cds. Cat. as normal OS $225. State perfins are much scarcer. Price $149 (G467) 221. Australia 1915 ½d Pale Green single line perf. Fine used example, cancelled by Lang Lang Vic. Cds of MR 29 16. Centred upper right with full perfs. Tiny pinhole bottom right does not detract from fine appearance. ACSC 64B cat. $1,000, advertised retail $625 for the cheaper shade. Price $475 (G514) 222. Australia 1924 1d Green single wmk block of 4, upper l/h unit variety ‘Wattle line’, lower l/h unit variety ‘Flaw under neck’ and upper r/h unit ‘Nick near top of left frame’ ACSC 77(4)f/g/h, upper units MLH, lower units unhinged, centred a little low, Cat $200 as hinged, price $149 (G361) 223. Australia 1920 2d Orange KGV Single ACSC 95E wmk block of 6, fresh, with 4 units being unhinged, other VLH, one of the hinged units with slight gum bend,
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BUY OR BID SALE SEPTEMBER 2020 centred low, Cat $200, Price $129 (G634) 224. Australia 1920 2d Orange perf OS wmk. Inverted. ACSC 95Eba inv. Cancelled by Melbourne Sept 1922 cds. Well centred and with good perfs. Non OS inverted wmk is cat. $8000. Price $125 (G468) 225. Australia 1920 2d Orange perf OS Grossly Misperfed. ACSC 95Eba. Used with partial machine cancel and showing part of adjacent stamp at right. Price $49 (G456) 226. Australia 1924 2d Deep Red Brown perf OS Grossly Misperfed. ACSC 97Bbb. Used with slogan cancel and showing part of adjacent stamp at top. Cat. $50 for used in the lighter shade. Price $79 (G455) 227. Australia 1914 – 20 KGV 4d Orange-Yellow shades, range of 10 between ACSC 110A – E, H & I. All fine used cds and cat. $700 plus. Includes the rare Lime Yellow cat. $600 alone. Price $475 (G452) 228. Australia 1914 – 20 KGV 4d Orange shades, range of 10 different all perf. OS, does not include Lemon or Lime yellow. All fine used with cds cancels. Price $98 (G466) 229. Australia 1915 4d Orange KGV variety ‘Watermark inverted’ CTO ACSC 110Ha/w with full slightly ‘suntanned’ unhinged gum, centred to right, Price $49 (G321) 230. Australia 1921 4d Violet single wmk. Nice mint unhinged example, well centred. Has 1 nibbed perf at top, together with a light gum bend also at top. ACSC 111A, cat. $75, price $30 (ML530) 231. Australia 1923 4d Bright Ultramarine Single wmk. Mint unhinged block of 4 with selvedge at left from gutter. Light gum toning. Well centred with good perfs, cat. $250 each as singles. ACSC 113A, priced very reasonably at $325 (G258) 232. Australia 1923 4d Dull ultramarine Single wmk. variety ‘Watermark inverted’ ACSC 113aa, centred to the right, fresh MLH, Cat $200, Price $169 (G258) 233. Australia 1920 1/4d Turquoise KGV Single wmk. Mint unhinged Block of 4 perf OS, with variety “Thick 1 at right” and grossly misperf’ed showing parts of additional stamps at right. Cat $1500. Lovely fresh condition. Supplied with certificate. Price $1150 (DB491) 234. G19) Australia 1920 1/4d Turquoise KGV Single wmk. Mint unhinged, centred lower right. Fresh full perf example, advertised retail $650, my price just $295 (G19) 235. Australia 1918 ½d Green Large mult wmk block of 4, upper left unit variety ‘Thin fraction at right’ ACSC 63(5)s, centred to upper right, lower units MUH, Cat $200+, Price $139 (G632) 236. Australia 1918 1d Carmine-pink Large mult wmk Cooke printing (confirmed with 360nm UV lamp) ACSC 73A, centred to right, some hinge remains, fresh Mint, a scarce stamp, Cat $500, Price $429 (G633) 237. Australia 1924 no watermark 1½d red interpane block of 30 [LP4-6 TO 28-30, RP 1-3 TO 25-27], left pane variety “white spot over roo’s foot” [L4], right pane variety “white flaw over roo’s ears” [L23], perf. reinforcements and lower-left unit thinned, BW:90 - CAT. Very scarce multiple. Cat. $1500 as single stamps without varieties. Priced cheaply at $425 (G622) 238. Australia 1926 1½d Rose Red on translucent paper. Plate 1a top right block of 4, with plate dot. Fresh mint unhinged, with some gum disturbance to lower right unit. Centred left. Rare! Cat. $1000 as hinged on normal paper. Translucent ought to be 5 x that. ACSC91aa(1a)z. Price $2495 (G593) 239. Australia 1927 1d Green Small mult wmk perf 14 variety ‘Watermark inverted’ ACSC 80a, centred a little to the left, fresh MUH, Price $39 (G639) 240. Australia 1927 4d Olive KGV Sml. Multi. Wmk perf. 14, SG 91 fresh mint unhinged. Centred left with good perfs. Advertised retail $300, price only $149 (G14) 241. Australia 1926 1d Green KGV Small mult wmk perf 13½ x 12½, die I & II pair ACSC 81(1)ia, centred to the left, fresh MUH, Cat $150, Price $109 (G642) 242. Australia 1926 1d Green KGV Small mult wmk perf 13½ x 12½ variety
‘Watermark inverted’ ACSC 81a, centred a little high, light machine cancel, Price $69 (G640) 243. Australia 1927 4d Greenish Olive KGV Sml. Multi. Wmk perf. 14, Ash imprint pair ACSC 115(3)z (pair), centring a little mixed as usual, fresh MUH. Price $795 (G326) 244. Australia 1927 2d Red-brown KGV SM Wmk perf 14 Mullett imprint pair ACSC 98(16)z (pair), centred low, very faint gum ‘suntanning’, very lightly hinged Mint, Cat $1000 for imprint block of 4, Price $149 (G381) 245. Australia 1927 3d Dull Blue KGV smw. Perf. 13.5 x 12.5 die 1a. Mint unhinged gutter block of 4, 2 x vertical pairs of type A & B. ACSC 107c, cat. $1150 as two pairs. Very scarce, price $725 (G70) 246. Australia 1932 1d Green C of A wmk, ovpt. OS, Grossly Misperfed. Also with ovpt. Misplaced a little to left. Cancelled by wavy line machine canceller. Misplaced perfs. show part of adjacent stamp at right. Price $49 (G458) 247. Australia 1927 5d Brown KGV Sml. Multi. Wmk perf. 13.5 x 12.5, SG 103a, mint unhinged. Centred to upper right, with good perfs. Fresh gum with very light overall toning. Advertised retail $110, price $54. (G9) 248. Australia 1932 5d Brown C of A wmk optd ‘OS’ with the overprint being under inked, also skipped vertical perfs at base resulting in a jumbo stamp! Attractive and unusual stamp LH Mint, Price $79 (G646) 249. Australia 1932 KGV C of A wmk 1d Green optd ‘OS’ horizontal pair variety ‘Misplaced perforations’ BW 82(OS)b, used with machine cancel, Cat $150 ea for Mint, unpriced used, Price $199 (G655) 250. Australia 1932 KGV C of A wmk 1d Green optd ‘OS’ with perforations misplaced vertically and to the left, showing part of the adjoining stamp at base, cds cancel, striking variety, fine used, Price $149 (G454) 251. Australia 1932 1/4d Turquoise KGV, C of A wmk. Mint unhinged. Full perf. fresh gum example centred left. Small crease at top left corner. Advertised retail $400, price for this one just $129 (G5) 252. Australia 1932 1/4d Turquoise KGV C of A wmk Ash imprint block, ACSC 131Az, one unit MUH, others MLH, stamps centred towards gutter, Cat $1000, Price $725 (G391) 253. Australia 1932 1/4d Turquoise KGV C of A wmk Ash imprint block, ACSC 131Az, some perf re-inforcing, mainly in lower right margin, stamps centred towards gutter, Mint, Cat $1000, Price $625 (G392) 254. Australia 1932 1/4d Turquoise KGV C of A wmk Ash imprint pair, ACSC 131Az (pair) some very light gum bends, stamps centred towards gutter, lightly hinged Mint, Price $229 (G393) Australia Pre- Decimal Issues 255. Australia 1914 6d Kookaburra, centred to lower left, bold cds cancel, Price $49 (APD484) 256. Australia 1928 3d Kookaburra Minisheet First Day of Issue superb used! Cancelled by two beautiful complete strikes of the Red Exhibition Handstamps 29 OC 28, one of which is magnificent. Best I have seen in well over 50 years! The ACSC price for a First Day Cover is $1500, and these are usually long covers, often worn, toned and tatty! Price for this gem $1195 (APD545) 257. Australia 1928 3d Blue Kookaburra Minisheet Fresh Mint Unhinged well centred from top of the sheet. Sydney retail $325, price $243.50 (APD536) 258. PD491) Australia 1929 3d Green Airmail type A, block of 4, well centred fresh MUH, Price $69 259. APD431) Australia 1929 3d Green Airmail type B, punctured “OS’ ACSC 135b centred a little to the right, fresh Mint with tiny hinge mark, Cat $75, Price $69 260. D317) Australia 1929 3d Green Airmails, Types A & B perf OS, CTO with unhinged gum. Very Fresh, full perfs. Cat $100, Price $79
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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
Switzerland 1951 *LUNABA* Miniature Sheet: Superb condition VFU, with no hinge remains or gook or gunk after 80 years. What a gem - superb fresh VFU - been in the UK near all its life. These sheets had only 121,000 printed, and PO cost was high - 3 Francs EACH, or 7.5 times face. Even so, a LARGE number of them have been cut up over the past 68 years. Why? As Michel and Zumstein catalogues both list and price the central single as an IMPERF, mint and used ... and album pages make allowance for those chopped up sheets! So heaps of sheets got cut up, to create that catalogue listed item, and to fill spaces in album pages. SG MS 531A, £275 = $A550. Superb crisp cds “LUCERNE 15/10/51”. (One of the few scarcer Swiss Sheets, where used is lower priced than mint!) Bought well to sell cheap, at about $US135 - $A195 (Stock 754LQ)
France 1868 5 Franc Napoleon, SG cat £1,300=$A2,700 for just $A270!:
This super high value is missing from EVERY collection. They ALL have faults pretty much, as they were used on heavy parcels overseas. Often with bad creasing and thins and bad foxing and pinholes - this is totally free of all those and has a small closed tear at top. Over 150 years old now! Lovely neat dotted star “26” cancel. This stamp comes in several shades. SG list the cheapest “Lilac” as SG 131, at £1,300=$A2,700. Yvert have this one the 5f Grey Blue at 20% higher than cheaper shade. Bought well in a large estate, so out it goes for $US185 or 10% of the cheapest SG cat shade at just $US185, or $A270 (Stock 327RJ)
QANTAS 1st flight Sydney to Vancouver, 1954 x 8 Diff First Flight covers:
ALL of these most usually bear the special QANTAS vignette - Frommer 99a, Eustis 1345a, cat $60 each OFF cover $A600. Some are pilot signed Jackson/Shields who captained various legs of the lumbering “Connie.” Flights covers with no labels are Eustis $50 apiece, so a lovely bunch. 66 years old now, and the odd very minor blemish due to age, but VERY seldom offered even singly, and most unusually, all having the special QANTAS VIGNETTES. The limited flying range of the Connies, took the route via Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Canton Island, Fiji, Honolulu, and even San Francisco, and ALL are back-stamped. More pix here - tinyurl.com/Qantas54 A steal at $A225, or to an American, just $US155! $A225 (Stock 793BM) Order via: tinyurl.com/GlenOrder All Cards accepted with ZERO fee - even Amex! Bank Deposit fine, or Money Orders. PayPal is accepted in ANY major currency, saving you fees - contact me first. LayBys/Layaways always OK with me!
GLEN STEPHENS
PO Box 4007, Castlecrag, NSW, 2068, Australia. - Phone (02) 9958 1333 e-mail me: glen@glenstephens.com - www.glenstephens.com/rarity.html Life Member: American Stamp Dealers Association (New York.) Philatelic Trader’s Society. (London.)
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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Father’s Day Father’s Day is a celebration that honours the role of fathers. It is a modern holiday, though the ancient Romans did have a tradition of honouring fathers, every February, but only those who had deceased. Around the world, Father’s Day is celebrated in a similar manner, usually involving giving Figure 1: Jordon issued 1973 gifts to fathers and family activities. gah had killed 361 men the previous winter. The first noted Father’s Day celebration was held on July 5, 1908, in Fairmont, West Virginia. It What Day is Father’s Day? was first celebrated as a church service at Williams The most common choice worldwide is the third Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South, now Sunday in June, a tradition deriving from the United known as Central United Methodist Church. ApStates and now followed in more than 70 countries. parently, the service was suggested to the pastor as a A key figure in the establishment of a June Father’s memorial after a mine explosion in nearby Monon-
Figure 3: ANDA PNC with special Father’s Day cancel 3rd September 2017 50 - Stamp News
Stephanie Bromser
Philatelic Development Officer, APF Day was Mrs Sonora Smart Dodd, whose father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, as a single parent reared his six children. Mrs Dodd initially suggested June 5, the anniversary of her father’s death as a date for Father’s Day. It is claimed she did not provide the organisers with enough time to make the arrangements, and thus the celebration was put back to the third Sunday of June. President Calvin Coolidge recommended the day as a national holiday. President Lyndon Johnson made Father’s Day a holiday to be celebrated on the third Sunday of June in 1966, though the day was not officially recognised until 1972, during the presidency of Richard Nixon. In Spain, Italy and Portugal, Father’s Day is celebrated on 19 March, which is the Feast of St. Joseph, the patron saint of fathers. In Germany, Father’s Day is celebrated on Ascension Day. In Scandinavia, the tradition of a Father’s Day was adopted in the 1930s. Originally the American date was used, but in 1949 the Nordic countries decided to move it to the second Sunday in November. This was partly to place it half a year away from Mother’s Day but also it was chosen to increase sales in an otherwise quiet trading period before Christmas. In Taiwan, Father’s Day is celebrated on 8 August as the Chinese word for eight is ‘ba’, while a colloquial word for father is ‘baba’ - so the eighth day of the eighth Figure 2: USA booklet 1987
month sounds like ‘daddy’. This was also the date for Father’s Day in China, but the date was moved to the third Sunday in June. Australia is one of four countries where Father’s Day is celebrated on the first Sunday in September. The others are New Zealand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea. The September date goes back to the mid-1930s. A newspaper from Newcastle in 1936 wrote “A new day for the Calendar is ‘Fathers’ Day,’ September 6. Mothers’ Day has become very popular, and maybe ‘Fathers’ Day’ will as well.” The reason Pacific countries choose a different date seems to be for commercial reasons to distance it from other celebrations. Similarly, the reason Scandinavia holds Father’s Day in November was to maximise its commercial value. Father’s Day Philately When I went looking to see the philately that has been issued to celebrate Father’s Day, I found that there was far less than I had anticipated. The Post Offices in many countries have issued a commemorative stamp or cancel for Mother’s Day but very few have issued anything for Father’s Day. These are what I have found. The earliest issue I could find was a set called Father’s Day Family from Jordon in 1973 (see figure 1). Despite being the country with the longest history of celebrating Father’s Day, the only United States stamp that relates to Father’s Day is the Love You, Mother and Love You, Dad issues in the SpeStamp News - 51
Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation cial Occasions booklet of April 20, 1987 (see figure 2). I could not find anything from Australia or New Zealand except for a “Happy Father’s Day” ANDA cancel on a Trans-Australian Railway PNC from the Melbourne Money Expo in 2017 (see figure 3). Great Britain also has not issued any stamp with a Father’s Day theme. I did find a spe- Figure 4: Great Britain special cial 1998 cancel from Father’s Day cancel 23rd June Oxford that said, “Fa1998 ther’s Day, 21st June, what will you send?” (see figure 4). Figure 5: China-Taiwan issued On Father’s Day in 1999 1999, China-Taiwan Post issued a set of two stamps showing children giving presents to their father. The stated intent was to “To call for filial piety towards parents, to pay respect to all the hard-working fathers of the country, to affirm the ideal of loving fathers and filial children, and to correct the general mood of society.” (see figure 5). For Father’s’ Day 2015 China issued a stamp and a miniature sheet entitled Gratitude to Father. On the back of the FDC, it says “Fathers are just as supportive and caring as mothers, though less expressive about their love towards their children. Fathers deep and great love illuminates the path ahead for their children encouraging them to move forward. In gratitude to father we see a gesture of love.” (see figure 6). The Australian Philatelic Order Research Awards 2020 In 2013 Lithuania Post commemorated Father’s The Australian Philatelic Order was established by Day by releasing a stamp dedicated to all fathers. the APF in 1994 to recognize and honour philatelists The stamp features a drawing “Daddy” by a 3-yearwho have given distinguished service to Australian old child (see figure 7). Other issues I found were a Philately. Wherever possible the awards are present2014 stamp from Lebanon (see figure 8) 2019 stamp ed to the recipients at a formal presentation cereissued by Latvia (see figure 9). mony held in conjunction with the Annual General 52 - Stamp News
Stephanie Bromser
Philatelic Development Officer, APF represents, in limited form, the complex shades and colours of Australia’s most written about and extensively researched stamp – the 1914 KGV One Penny Red. The criteria for the award are as follows: Criteria
Figure 7: Lithuania issued 2013 & Figure 8: Lebanon issued 2014
Meeting of the APF, usually held in September. Nominees are considered based on their services to organized philately. Recipients are presented with a medal a collarette ribbon that have special significance to Australian philately. The APF Research Award was introduced in 1997 to ensure recognition of those who have made significant contributions in the field of research. For Research, the medal design is symbolic of Australian philatelic research, while the Collarette Ribbon colour is of philatelic significance in that it
Importance of the work to philately Originality of the research conducted Quality of the research conducted including the difficulty and complexity of the subject
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Additional criteria for awarding bonus points Recognition of the published work(s) by awards received at National & International exhibitions Recognition of the published work(s) by other philatelists including citations and acceptance as the authoritative work in exhibits, books and other publications Other Recognition of the research including publication sales, republication and recognition on the Web, the award of Felicitations etc
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Full details of the award can be read in the APF Website https://apf.org.au/apoaward/ This year the APF is pleased to award three Research Awards. Unfortunately, the ceremony, like so many other philatelic events, has been deferred due to Covid-19 to December in the hope that philatelists from States can attend. The three recipients are John Hardinge, Bert Wajer and Ed Wolf.
Figure 6: China issued 2015
John Hardinge (see figure 10). John Hardinge has been researching and writing on Tasmanian postal history for over 35 years and now has 8 significant works in print as well as many journal articles. His publications are the acknowledged reference works on Tasmanian postmarks, Post Offices and barred numerals. His books are held in many Stamp News - 53
Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation philatelic libraries and are the standard references for dealers, collectors and postal historians on all aspects of Tasmanian postmarks, including rarity ratings. John became interested in Tasmanian postal history at an early age and by the early 1990s’ was actively recording and researching both Tasmanian postmarks, Post Office openings and closures and barred numerals. He researched local archival sources, earlier work by Campbell, Purves and others and began working cooperatively with other Tasmanian postal historians recording as many examples of postal markings as possible. Over time, John built a large database of Tasmanian Post Office openings and closings and circular datestamps, recording types, early and late dates and deducing Figure 9: Latvia issued 2019 rarity ratings. He has developed and extended the Tasmanian postmark taxonomy - the circular datestamp clasThanks to his efforts since the early 1990s, Tassification system used by all Tasmanian postmark mania has arguably the best record of its postmarks collectors. He has authored the following books: and numerals of any State. • The Post Offices and their Datestamps • Tasmanian Hand-held Cancellations 1913-88 – Bert Wajer (see figure 11). Bert was one of the founding members of the former parts 1 & 2. Australian Commonwealth Group of the Philatelic • Guide to Circular Datestamps on Tasmanian Society of South Australia and a major contributor to Pictorial Issues the group’s journal Stamp Talk over many years. His main area of research has been in the King George V Head issues in all denominations and he has researched and plated the 4½d and 1/4 d values and privately published monographs. Other work has involved research on the 1d Die 3 and again he privately published his research and his co-research on the 2d Die 1. In conjunction with Mr M. Hill of Melbourne, Bert researched the ½d value. He was also acknowledged in the 1988 edition of the Australian Commonwealth Specialists Catalogue for his work on the new format and extensive revisions to the King George V Head issues. He has been actively involved with Gordon Monk and the late Paul Kaigg in the research work on the King George V One Penny issues, in particular, One Penny Die 2. Bert also has contributed numerous articles to the British Society of Australian Philately journal. He authored and co-authored the following books: Figure 10: John Hardinge. 54 - Stamp News
Stephanie Bromser
Philatelic Development Officer, APF
Figure 11: Bert Wajer • Commonwealth of Australia: the George V fourpence halfpenny, die 1 • Commonwealth of Australia: The George V fourpence halfpenny die 1 and fourpence halfpenny, die 2 and surcharge • Commonwealth of Australia: the George V two pence, die 2 • Flaw checklist for the K.G.V 4½d violet, die 1 • Flaw checklist for the King George V one shilling and fourpence issue, 1920-1937 His research and tireless effort over many years and his willingness to share his wealth of knowledge and research deserve recognition. Ed Wolf (see figure 12). Ed has researched widely in fields connected with Aerophilately in both Australia and internationally. His topics are wide-ranging with the emphasis on the development of international air-links from Europe to Australia and with internal services in Australia. Ed’s work on the 1919 Ross Smith flight has extended and filled in many gaps. Ed has explained in detail the Australian mail from Mesopotamia which
Figure 12: Ed Wolf was carried on both the “Old Carthusian’ and the Ross Smith flights. The Sergeants hypothesis that Shiers and Bennett accepted mail carried on the Ross Smith Vickers Vimy flight has been proven. His research has involved travel to UK based institutions and establishing contacts with like-minded overseas Aerophilatelists. Many of the pieces written on Australian domestic flights have been supported by contemporary newspaper reports and he has created reference files from philatelic auction records that have updated numbers that were carried on early flights to India and beyond. Ed is a regular contributor to Australian Aerophilatelist, Australian Commonwealth Collectors Club Bulletin, and the New South Wales Philatelist. He has authored the following books: • The flight of the Old Carthusian (2012). • The QANTAS Coronation day airmail flights June 1953-the untold story (2013) • The Borton and Smith 1919 aerodrome survey and other Ross Smith related items of interest (2019) Stamp News - 55
Market Matters What would you value this cover at
Dealers like myself that price all items with a fixed figure generally have a pretty good idea of fair retail value. A fine used 5/- Harbour Bridge, or a 1963 Navigator set MUH - all a cinch, as catalogues guide us on such items and sets. A First Day Cover of anything is easy to price for the same reason. They are in catalogues, and 99% easy to price. Commercial COVERS however can be very tricky, as several varied factors come into play. My sadly departed colleague Rodney Perry would have been pleased to see the result on the cover illustrated nearby. He would have been widely extolling its virtues, so here is one for Rod! The cover is pretty ugly, damaged, and banged about, with a totally unclear 1966 date on the smeary Melbourne cancel. Despite Auction burb, there was no evidence of any kind it was posted before Decimal currency commenced – 14/2/66, and even so there was a 2 year grace period to use up old currency stamps. So date is totally irrelevant The 3/- franking covered the: “other articles per 2oz
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by airmail rate to the USA.” Both 1/6d Galah stamps are punctured “VG” for Victorian Government use - not a scarce perfin in any way, on 1/6d Definitives. So we have a conundrum here. The stamps were not described as having missing colours, and clearly do not appear to be thus, the only real reason I’d have thought anyone would pay $1,450 for it! It is not a terribly difficult definitive to source on cover. One of life’s mysteries, however at least 2 collectors were hell bent on securing this cover, and had very DEEP pockets.
Estimated $75 - invoiced $A1,450!
It was offered by Millennium Auctions Sydney in July, with an estimate of $A75. If it had been in my stock I’d have ripped your arm off if offered as much as $75! I’d have taken $A10 just as fast. Indeed, it almost certainly would have remained in one of my huge junk cartons of bits and pieces and floor sweepings I offer weekly for $150 the carton on stampboards.com The auction description agreed the date was not
Glen Stephens clear, and indicated the green DOUANE label on reverse stated the content were “Museum Specimens Only” Nematology is the scientific discipline concerned with the study of nematodes, or roundworms. There is my new word for the day! It was estimated $A75 and was invoiced at around $A1,450. You can buy a VERY nice £1 Brown and Blue fine used Kangaroo stamp for that. In 5 or 10 years’ time I know which one I’d rather own! Anyway, one ecstatic and totally bemused vendor I am sure. The Auction description said this “1964-65 Birds 1/6d Galah pair punctured ‘VG’ tied to 1966 (date unclear) ‘Museum Specimens You MUST get stamps insured. Only’ packet from Melbourne to USA, paying very scarce 30c (3/-) other articles per 2oz. by airmail rate, exceptional £sd usage within decimal era, minor blemishes not detracting. Estimate: $75”
Are your stamps INSURED?
I am always amazed at how many otherwise very savvy collectors mention in conversation they have ZERO formal insurance documents covering their stamps. Often for 6 figure collections. The USA seems rather lenient on stamp insurance paperwork. In Australia Insurance companies are (understandably) very hard-nosed and tough. I do several Insurance valuations and claims matters every month, and have flown to all states to do this. Not
just for insurance, but for divorce, and inheritance and probate matters etc, as outlined here in detail - tinyurl. com/GlenIns These days there is no retail stamp shop in the entire city of Sydney, so those in country areas etc, have NO hope of a local dealer doing it! In Australia, in short - if your stamps are stolen, burnt, water damaged etc, you generally have **ZERO** chance of getting a cent refunded, unless you can furnish insurer with a detailed, dated, and all signed off assessment, all done well BEFORE the alleged event occurs. Insurers here ask that it be done by a qualified, independent stamp valuer, and a member of the relevant Stamp Dealer Trade Associations, whom they recognise. A scribbled note from your mate at a stamp club etc, they will simply NOT accept, as many assume AFTER the Stamp News - 57
Market Matters event will be the case!
Penny Pinching brings $100,000 loss!
One local client had about $100,000 real world value of mainly Kangaroo stamps etc, purchased over the decades, from dealers, fairs, and online etc. He asked me what it would cost for a formal typed valuation, and told him the typical cost was a few $100 to cover my time. Mr. Genius snorted derisively, and stated that was far too high. He said he had an Excel document listing them all in great detail, along with the recent catalogue values etc, and he felt happy his detailed inventory “Father Knows Best”! was totally adequate to satisfy any possible Insurance
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claim, should one occur.
He was burgled a few months later, and cheerfully emailed his inventory to his Insurers after the theft to be paid out in full, and they basically laughed, and said he might well have typed that up a few hours back, and paid him zero, and declined the claim entirely. My Dad used to call that kind of cheapskate logic “Penny Wise, Pound Foolish” and this fellow’s “saving” of a couple $100, for a professional written valuation, cost him his $100,000 collection more or less. The stamps are gone forever. He never saw them again, and he wore the entire loss. Genius. Anything less than that kind of detailed valuation, all dated and lodged with insurer in advance, being a copy of the original documentation, and you
Glen Stephens have no chance in general of being paid out here. In general insurers trust NOBODY! Often there is a modest nominal sum covered for ”general household goods” stolen or damaged on any Home Contents Policy, but nothing like covering the full amount of larger stamp collections. It might be capped at $1,000 or $2,500 etc. (Here in Australia anyway, I can’t speak for overseas countries.)
Useful for Police & Dealer tracking.
client with Australia hingeless pages in them. Cost him $A1,800 alone. In his case, my written valuation had $42,500 for stamps, and $5,000 to replace the Hagners, albums, slipcases, catalogues and reference books. Many dealers lazily fail to list those, or to value them. For all written valuations, I email a very detailed copy to the client after close inspection. I urge the collectors to print out 2 copies. ONE to keep filed away safely, (well away from stamps!) the other copy I suggest they mail Registered Post to their insurer to attach to their client files. THEN if your formal valuation dated June, 2020 is on their file, and your house is burgled, flooded or burnt down etc in September 2020, and the Police/Fire Department reports confirms that event, they tend to accept that stamp loss as real and legitimate, and they pay up on it pretty fast. Many large Insurers in Australia have a “new for
The good thing about a detailed written valuation, is that it can be handed to Police to assist them, and also circulated globally to stamp dealer bodies. I get regular advices from PTS/ASDA/IFSDA listing stolen material, and stamp dealers are a very small group, that communicate very well, and we very often help recover the goods. I generally take photos of the better items in collections, and again these are essentially a “Fingerprint” that protects your material. Own a 5/- Bridge with a Kalgoorlie cancel and that is likely unique. A Druggie caught trying to sell that is behind bars if the Cops have my image on file. Likewise, I also have another ID trick I pass on to those whose goods I have valued, that almost no-one has ever thought of. Like the photos, it is a certain set of handcuffs to anyone caught with YOUR books when claiming “Grandma left them to him last week” etc. A common mistake is not to specify the replacement costs of your albums and pages and catalogues etc. The 4 x “Lighthouse” albums shown nearby I sold to a Page cost LESS than Hagner sheets!
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Market Matters old” policy when covering household contents. This is terrific news for stamp collectors. ALL stockbooks and Hagner sheets MUST be replaced every 20 years or so, as they start to age, and that can damage the stamps. So if you have a claim, all your 20 year old books and sheets are replaced with NEW ones!
$50,000 refund based on my paperwork.
One client got ~$50,000 back recently, based solely on my very detailed valuation letter of about a year earlier, which outlined the replacement value of his stamps, hingeless pages, and reference books, and catalogues, and the extensive set of quality albums he had them all stored in. Albums can be very expensive. I sold this week a set of seven x “Seven Seas Stamps” hingeless album binders/slipcases/pages for Australia, 1966-2019. Retail of those is near $A1,400 EMPTY, just for the Decimal era albums and pages. Most collectors forget to list
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those, and insurance companies will not ASSUME you owned them! European albums are far pricier. In the past 5 months since COVID struck, I have sold more albums, Hagners, Binders and catalogues than in the past 5 YEARS! True - and other dealers concur. Most folks are largely stuck inside, and at least have plenty of time to re-arrange and update their storage and albums etc. Perfect break - and do look at your insurance too! I mail several 21 kilo factory cartons of 20 x German made Lighthouse stockbooks to folks each week. I kid you not. At $A30 a thick book it is a very cheap way to store stamps, at under $1 a page, and mail cost is far more palatable buying via the heavy carton, as a single book costs $20 to mail these days! But I bet those guys do not update their insurance cover. Stockbooks have improved out of sight in recent years. My best seller is factory cartons of the German Lighthouse “Crocodile Skin” huge 64 page books,
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“Seek Otherwise Useless Imperf Stamps” which literally have 24 carat Gold corners for wear protection - tinyurl.com/CrocBooks ANY collection looks superb in these - black pages, crystal clear strips, yet cost per page is WAY less than a Hagner sheet!
And at least I bothered to take a decent grade scan of it. Gotta luv those ebay BAHHRRGEEENZ! You just can’t make this stuff up. ASC cat is just $70 - it is not an especially difficult FDC to locate, and a decent
1929 Swan FDC fetches $A600 - true!
This stamp is not really scarce on FDC. ASC lists it as $70. Ebay buyers of course often never bother with buying boring old catalogues - but just pay 5 times real value and “save” on reference works! This appears to have been a genuine recent sale with many bidders. The fuzzy cellphone shot nearby was all they offered. Offered by a UK seller, this 1929 1½d Western Australia Swan was invoiced to any ozzie buyer for about $A600 after GST and postage added, and then the obligatory fake PayPal currency rate gouge is added on top of all that. Lots of bidders. I sold a very nice one last year for $A125. Identical “Mitchell” FDC. As that was the fair market 1200 x 1d Blacks peeled off wall! price to any informed buyer. Stamp News - 61
Market Matters looking “Mitchell’’ at $A125 is about right – so $600 is just more Ebay Bunny madness. Do not get me wrong - many early circa 1930 FDC are scarce, but this one is near the bottom of that list to be honest.
House Walls covered in Penny Blacks!
It does sound fanciful I agree, but a detailed discussion of rooms and houses being covered in stamps has been taking place on stampboards.com An ad on page 1, column 2, of “The Times” on October 29, 1842 seems to be the earliest reference, and it is shown nearby. “Otherwise useless 1d Blacks and 2d Blues” - classic! A member on here - tinyurl.com/EarlyStamp – transcribed the near 180 years old The Times advertisement as reading “A young lady, being desirous of covering her dressing room with cancelled postage stamps, has been so far encouraged in her wish by private friends as to have
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succeeded in collecting 16,000! These, however, being insufficient, she will be greatly obliged if any good-natured person who may have these (otherwise useless) little articles at their disposal would assist her in her whimsical project. Address them to E. D., Mr. Butt’s, glover, Leadenhall Street, or Mr. Marshall’s, jeweller, Hackney.” Similar requests were made in the UK press at this time .. one seeking donations of “worthless” new used stamps to be sold to aid the rebuilding of a chapel etc, and all sorts of appeals. One room got covered in GB imperfs and leading dealers Whitfield King bought it “as is” and peeled them off, and tried to salvage the 1000s of imperfs - including 1200 x 1d Blacks. The piece from a 1920 Magazine .. itself now 100 years back, is nearby. ‘The New Zealand Stamp Collector’ journal from November 20, 1920. Whitfield King were a VERY large UK stamp dealership. They printed quality albums and stamp Catalogues, and made acces-
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“The Stamp House” in Bognor Regis. sories etc. Their catalogue was almost as widely used as Gibbons, in their era.
Dealer employed 17 staff.
Charles Whitfield King was a very successful businessman and stamp dealer, and sold millions of stamps from Ipswich. He employed 17 people in the grand Morpeth House office building - including sorters of stamps, addressers, cleaners, and even an engineer to keep the building in tip top condition. A photo of it is nearby. The Stamp Room within Morpeth House was created by Charles Whitfield King. It was a former library that was wallpapered in 1892 with 44,068 stamps (total face value £699-16s-9d he boasted!) by a decorator engaged exclusively for 3 months, working eleven hours a day. Moving onward in time - “The Stamp House” was a well-known building (a pub actually) in Bersted, near Bognor, which I understand the British oddly regard as a “beach”. The grains of alleged “sand” there can run to several kilos each, and could readily be used in the discus
throw at the next Olympics. But I digress!
The fateful bet!
“Rising Sun” pub owner Richard Sharp collected postage stamps, and this was to form the basis of his future fame. As the years progressed, his stamp collection grew, and he began decorating a few picture frames with his spare stamps. Then, in 1882, a customer bet Mr Sharpe he would not be able to cover part of a room with stamps, within a time restriction. Mr Sharpe was quick to take up this challenge - as most would, and with 76,795 stamps he succeeded gluing the stamps on all the walls and obviously won his bet. But of course this was only the start. He continued covering items such as tables and chairs with stamps. When the village of North Bersted had planned nothing for Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee year in 1897, Sharpe thought he could produce his own memorial so as to mark the occasion, which would also further extend his hobby of stamp collecting. Stamp News - 63
Market Matters He decided to paste stamps over a complete room, from floor to ceiling. It took him five years to complete. It was not a random task of just sticking the stamps on walls. He formulated designs and words with the stamps, such as the words ‘Jubilee Stamp Room’ on one wall. Another wall displayed a large star design, and the Bognor coat of arms was displayed above the fireplace. Other displays included a picture of Queen Victoria, and the Prince of Wales Feathers. Patriotism was all the rage in the Nineteenth Century! It was estimated more than two million stamps were used and their estimated value, during the 1920s, was in the region of £28,000. It was a continuing interest and, as more visitors came and its fame grew, people began sending stamps for his use. Sometimes, full sacks of stamps arrived at the pub. During its heyday, The Rising Sun was mentioned in many publications recounting that it was ‘one of the sights of Sussex’. Mr Sharpe also received letters from all over the world regarding his unusual art form. He was not to stop at one room, and he started to cover chairs,
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tables, a candlestick, a tablecloth, a hat and even a bust of King Edward VII! His work then extended into a corridor, and even continued out into the summerhouse in the garden. Eventually, in the 1920s, Mr Sharpe retired. By then, over three quarters of a million visitors had seen his stamps and written in the 24 visitors’ books. The signatures included such people as members of Parliament, Sussex nobility, and Justices of the Peace. By 1929, it was claimed that 764,580 visitors had signed the books.
Valuable Australia stamps glued on!
Richard received and used stamps from worldwide destinations, and some attached to one of the doors, included quite rare stamps from Australia. He apparently received many offers for this particular door, with the purchasers willing to remove the door, there and then, to take it home with them. With the ever-increasing number of stamps Sharpe received, it became impossible to paste all the stamps on to walls, doors or items, so he started to thread stamps
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Political messages on stamps. onto cotton thread, and made them into long garlands or ‘snakes’, festooned around the walls etc. Some garlands were suspended from the ceiling - one large version is said to have contained more than 60,000 stamps. Finally, the Rising Sun pub closed, the building started to decay, and eventually it was demolished in 1957. It is now a Tesco Express Supermarket! It had a Stamp Garden and Stamp House Tea Rooms even. Lot of photos of all the garlands of millions of stamps inside it etc, can be seen here - tinyurl.com/EarlyStamp
Pakistan - “Kashmir Under Siege” Stamps.
Stamps and politics have gone hand in hand for well over a century. As most realise, there has been a long conflict for decades - sometimes military, and always diplomatic conflict, between Pakistan and India, over the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir in the north of India. (China also appears to meddle in it quite a bit too!) From time to time they issue stamps to draw atten-
tion to their viewpoint of the simmering confrontation, which could any time break out into a major military crisis. Now the postal service of Pakistan has returned to the philatelic facedown, with a single 58 Rupee stamp very recently issued - on 5 August 2020, which is titled ‘Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir - 365 days under siege’. This has a graphic design featuring an armed Indian soldier pointing a rifle at a child, with blood stains on his arm, and an adult male lying with blood stains on his chest and abdomen. The stamp also bears the inscription ‘State terrorism at its worst’ and depicts a saw cutting through the middle of Kashmir. No subtle messaging anywhere here. I am not on any side of this dispute. But do find it rather interesting that even in 2020, some countries find postage stamps a preferred avenue in which to get across very political messages. I really wonder how many of these kinds of Propoganda stamp issues get used on mail? One thing for sure - I bet none are delivered to any address in India! Stamp News - 65
Vanuatu’s philatelic History Towards the mid-1800s both Great Britain and France began taking a serious interest in the many islands scattered all over the Pacific Ocean. Generally they didn’t meddle too much into each other’s ambitions but in the case of the New Hebrides they both aspired to possess the islands. What the local population though about their plans was of very little concern to the European colonialists. The exact political status of the New Hebrides remained rather undecided until well into the early 1900s. In 1897 the Australasian New Hebrides Company issued two postage stamps (Fig. 1) to be used on inter-island mail and also on mail to the rest of the world. Mail posted in the New Hebrides was taken to Sydney where New South Wales stamps were added. The company had been founded ten years earlier but it seems it was wound up in 1899. Genuine commercial covers franked with these stamps are very scarce. The remainders were sold off to the trade in 1913. In mint condition these two stamps are still
quite affordable. In 1903 the Syndicat Français des Nouvelles Hébrides released a set of four postage stamps to be used on mail carried locally. However, it is rather doubtful if these stamps ever saw a legitimate use. Very possibly the primary purpose was to stake out the French claim on the islands. They do exist mainly used on picture postcards but these items are very likely philatelic creations. Shown nearby is one of the stamps (Fig. 2) depicting a view of Port Vila, the capital, with a volcano in the background. Britain and France finally reached an agreement in 1906 and the New Hebrides became a condominium run jointly by the two European powers but with two different administrations. This state of affairs also included two post offices. In 1908 the first stamps were issued for the New Hebrides. The British overprinted stamps of Fiji with the new country name while the French did exactly the same with stamps issued by New Caledonia. The
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Christer Brunström stamps thus had denominations in British and French currencies. In 1911 the first stamps specifically featuring a local design were issued and in two different language and currency versions. The design shows weapons and idols (Fig. 3) and it remained in use for many years. The gold franc was introduced in 1938 as a common currency for the New Hebrides but the two administrations continued with separate stamp issues in English and French. The design of the new definitives depicted a view of Lopevi Island with a canoe and a volcano in the background (Fig. 4). This new set then remained in use until 1953. In 1953 there was a new set of definitive stamps featuring three different designs. The three lowest values show a sailing canoe, the three mid values a man carving a totem pole (Fig. 5) and two natives sitting outside a hut are depicted on the three top denominations.
The next set of definitive stamps was released in 1957 and once again it has three different designs: Port Vila with Irikiri Island, a river scene with a spear fisherman and a woman enjoying a drink from a coconut. During the following years there were several new issues and always in the two different language versions. The designs are generally quite interesting painting a good picture of life in the New Hebrides. The 1972 definitive set featured shells, birds and local folk art. The next major change occurred in 1977 when a new currency unit was introduced: FNH (Franc des Nouvelles Hébrides). The current definitives were overprinted with new denominations (Fig. 6). There were both local and Paris printings resulting in some rather scarce varieties which will be of interest to specialists. On 30 July 1980 the New Hebrides finally became an independent republic changing its name to
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Vanuatu’s Philatelic History Vanuatu. During the first few months the policy of having two language versions was continued but this system was terminated in November 1980. In 1981 Vanuatu introduced a new currency unit. The vatu is worth slightly more than Australian cent. Independent Vanuatu’s new issue policies are quite similar to those of many other smaller nations. Many stamps have been issued to promote Vanuatu as a tourist destination (Fig. 7). With a population of just under 300.000, Vanuatu struggles to make ends meet. Many people are engaged in subsistence farming with copra being one of the country’s major exports. Today income from financial services and from commercial fishing licences provide additional income for the gov-
ernment. It is also interesting to note that about a hundred different languages and dialects are spoken in the country. Bislama is the official language but English is also widely used. In March 2015 tropical hurricane Pam hit Vanuatu causing tremendous damage and a number of casualties. The tourist industry is becoming increasingly important and Vanuatu has particularly targeted divers. Diving has been featured more than once on Vanuatu’s stamps (Fig. 8). In 2003 an underwater post office was established which of course provided the country with a lot of publicity (at least in the philatelic press). It should be added that Vanuatu also has a Volcano Post Office!
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philatelic clubs & societies south australia
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Nov, and 20th Dec 2020. Location unchanged, Bentleigh Mc Kinnon Hall, Higgins Rd, Bentleigh. The Strathmore Stamp and Coin Fair is reopening on Sunday 6th September, and then the 1st Sunday each month, at the Strathmore Bowling Club, 40 Loeman St, Strathmore. The Nunawading Stamp and Coin Fair may be moving location, so we await further details about this fair.
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