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vii. Pioneer leading contemporary Philatelic Traders (contd) Smyth & Nicolle The partnership of J.H. Smyth and T.H. Nicolle, trading from a small shop at 14 Hunter St, Sydney, were the principal competitors of Messrs Vindin and Hagen in the 1890s. Both firms published a journal and lavish catalogues. Smyth and Nicolle were both established as Philatelic Traders in 1890.
14 Hunter St, Sydney (centre building) in 1933, when occupied by Hall & Co, Photographers. In all probability, the premises were then largely unchanged from the days of Smyth & Nicolle.
Nov 11 1895 uprated use of NSW 3d Registered Envelope to Edinburgh, showing double-oval SMYTH & NICOLLE/14 HUNTER ST. SYDNEY handstamp at left. 6 - Stamp News
vii. Pioneer leading contemporary Philatelic Traders (contd) Smyth & Nicolle
In 1899, Smyth & Nicolle published the first in their series of Priced Catalogue of Australasian Stamps.
April 27 1899 BOOKPOST cover Auckland, which conveyed the catalogue at cost-effective Printed matter postage rate of ld per 4ozs. The card was an enclosure.
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COMMERCIAL PHILATELY IN AUS vii. Pioneer leading contemporary Philatelic Traders (contd.) Smyth & Nicolle Smyth & Nicolle were one of two Philatelic Traders with stands at the 1900 Sydney Philatelic Exhibition. The other, manned by competitor, Fred Hagen, was claimed by the firm to be somewhat smaller. The illustration is from the firm’s The Australian Journal of Philately.
During 1900 Smyth & Nicolle graduated from handstamped to printed stationery.
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AUSTRALIA : 1860s TO WWI Part 2 vii. Pioneer leading contemporary Philatelic Traders (contd.) Smyth & Nicolle The 1900 second edition Illustrated Priced Catalogue of Australasian Stamps was considerably expanded upon the inaugural edition.
Apr 25 1900 use of NSW ld Postal card to Ceylon: In hand of T.H. Nicolle: “We have sent you by Book Post Our Illustrated Catalogue (1900). If not received will you please write us?” was prophetic, for the sending was returned unclaimed.
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COMMERCIAL PHILATELY IN AUS vii. Pioneer leading contemporary Philatelic Traders (contd.) J.H. Smyth & Co James Hodgens Smyth (1856 -1923) and T.H. Nicolle ceased to be partners in 1902. Nicolle stayed on at 14 Hunter St, and Smyth relocated to 88 King St, Sydney.
Smyth appears to have been more focused upon Philatelic publishing than trading [refer page 126].
1902 edition of Smyth & Nicolle’s Illustrated Priced Catalogue of Australasian Stamps, with name and address label for new entity placed strategically. The reverse, and all other pages received handstamped amendments
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AUSTRALIA : 1860s TO WWI Part 2 vii. Pioneer leading contemporary Philatelic Traders (contd.) J.H. Smyth & Co
1903 edition of Illustrated Priced Catalogue of Australasian Stamps, for Smyth & Co only. Curiously, although the firm makes no mention of the former Smyth & Nicolle, the “5TH EDITION” claim encompasses the catalogues published by that partnership, in 1899-1902.
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SG O3/ACSC 6bb(2)z: 1st watermark 2d grey, CA monogram PLATE 2 large OS. All stamps mint unhinged, a scarce combination.....$3,750 SG 4/ACSC 9(2)z: 1st watermark, 2½d indigo. JBC monogram PLATE 2 corner strip of 3. All stamps mint unhinged, rare piece..........$3,950 SG 35/ACSC 7(2)zd: 3rd watermark, 2d grey HARRISON two line Imprint block of 4, fine hinged mint..................................................$2,750 SG 36/ACSC 11(1)zd: 3rd watermark 2½d blue HARRISON Imprint block of 4, PLATE 1. Very fine and mint lightly hinged, scarce............. ..........................................................................................................................$2,750 SG 37ba/ACSC 13(1)za: 3rd watermark 3d olive-green INVERTED WATERMARK CA MONOGRAM - PLATE 1, block of 4 “USED”, three stamps being DIE 2. Cancelled with “4th L.H. BDE/12 Feb18/ field post office, Light horse brigade”. (Dier el Belah, Palestine) A wonderful historical and unique philatelic Kangaroo rarity with DRURY Certificate.......................................................................................$8,750 SG 42/ACSC 44Czf: 3rd watermark, 5/- grey and deep yellow ASH IMPRINT block of 4, three stamps mint unhinged, fresh and very fine, rare Imprint.........................................................................................$9,500 SG 112/ACSC 49z: Small multiple wmk 10/- grey and pale pink, ASH IMPRINT block of 4, fresh hinged (3 stamps) and one mint unhinged. Superb and scarce imprint block (Cat, value $12,500)....... ..........................................................................................................................$7,500 SG 136/ACSC 50Az: CofA watermark, 10/- grey and pink, ASH IMPRINT block of 4, upper stamps lightly hinged........................$7,500
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SG 36/ACSC 11(1)zb: 3rd watermark, 2½d blue, PLATE 1,(upper position) JBC Monogram, corner strip of 3. Fine mint.................$3,250 SG 38/ACSC 19(1)ze: 3rd watermark, 6d Ultramarine fresh mint hinged, PLATE 1 CA Monogram single..............................................$2,250 SG 43a/ACSC 48Bzd: 3rd watermark, 10/- grey and deep aniline pink, HARRISON two line Imprint pair (Cat $15,000).....................$7,500 SG SB1: BOOKLET. An original intact 2/- booklet containing ½d x 12, 1d die 1 x 18 1st watermark Kangaroo. Original fresh condition, scarce..............................................................................................................$2,900 1938 PARCEL TAG, to United States Mint, San Francisco, USA. With £1 grey and £2 black and rose carmine, CofA watermark rare usage of the high values. ....................................................................................$7,500 SG 8/ACSC 16a/z: 5d chestnut, mint unhinged THIN PAPER NO MONOGRAM corner strip (3). FIRST WATERMARK - UNIQUE PIECE. Ceremuga certificate............................................................................. $12,500 SG 30/ACSC 43Aza: 2nd watermark, 5/- deep grey and yellow, CA Monogram single, mint unhinged. (Cat. $35,000 as mint hinged.)..... ....................................................................................................................... $19,500 SG 30/ACSC 43Bzc: 2nd watermark, 5/- deep grey and chrome JBC Monogram single, mint with cracked gum, still attractive (Cat. $35,000) ..................................................................................................... $14,500 SG 40/ACSC 32(1)za: 3rd watermark, 1/- green PLATE 1 CA Monogram. Rarely seen in used condition and unpriced in ACSC as such. A horizontal fold in selvedge .....................................................$2,750
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Stamps in the News - Globally! Austria Post rolls out toilet paper
Reported at https://edition.cnn. com If 2020 could take the form of an object, it would surely be toilet paper. Not only has this year been crappy but reports of people hoarding toilet paper in large quantities during the coronavirus pandemic will live in the memoSingapore’s new wide stamp on cover ries of many. So, Austria Post has issued a come complete with a self adhesive foil, and retail at postage stamp made from three€2.75 with all proceeds going to charity. ply toilet paper, to commemorate one of the year’s “With the Corona stamp, we not only want to stranger phenomena. issue an original stamp block to remember this year, The stamp features a baby elephant, whose but also to support those who have been particularly one-meter length has been used in Austria as a reaffected by this crisis,” Austria Post CEO said. minder of the recommended social distance. Each stamp, measuring just under four inches in length, will be the size and shape of a standard sheet Singapore Post rolls out a panorama of toilet paper. Reported at www.channelnewsasia.com Customers can even use the stamps to enforce social distancing -- 10 stamps lined up next to each A new stamp from Singapore is also the widest ever other measure one meter, the recommended social to be issued by that country. The $2 Marina Bay distance. stamp issued mid-October measures 163.2 millimeThe stamps, which can be torn off the stamp ters (approximately 6.4 inches). block along a perforated line just like toilet paper, It will be interesting to find an example of it used
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on cover. The $2 stamp is one of a set of two. The other stamp, a $1.40 denomination, depicts a residential estate area called the Housing and Development Board flats. The stamp truly captures the magical skyline, including the Fullerton Hotel, a 1928 landmark that once housed the main general post office. In September Singapore Post opened its second philatelic store in the basement level of the hotel.
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Margo Campbell to watch shows by horse and camel riders that reflect Omani people’s skill in dealing with and taming the animals. . Alardhah is associated with many social occasions in Omani society, such as religious and national celebrations and traditional arts , like poetry reading, accompany the demonstrations.
Musos memorialised in Ireland
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Horse and camel Ardhah in Oman While this new stamp is Singapore’s widest, it isn’t the world record holder, which is a 170mmwide (almost 6.7 inches) stamp issued by Thailand in 2017. This 9-baht stamp marks the 70th anniversary of the accession to the throne of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927-2016).
Hoofed heritage in Oman
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AN POST in Ireland have released a special set of stamps celebrating the long and successful career of Irish band U2. The four stamps depict different eras of the band’s 34 year career told through four of U2’s most memorable albums: The Joshua Tree’ (1987), ‘Achtung Baby’ (1991), ‘All That You Can’t Leave Behind’ (2000), and ‘Songs of Experience’ (2017). Each booklet contains four stamps, two which can be used to send post nationwide, and two for international postage. The stamps and souvenir sheets include a photograph U2 performing in Dublin’s Dandelion Market when the band was just beginning to take off.
Oman Post has launched a new postage stamp featuring horse and camel taming, recently given cultural heritage recognition by UNESCO. Oman Post said: “Under the patronage of the Royal Court Affairs, we are launching a new postage stamp on the Ardhah of horses and camels on the occasion of their inclusion in the list of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity in UNESCO. The stamps support 3D augmented reality technology.” Horse and camel Ardhah (taming) is practised across many regions of Oman. On Alardhah (festival) day people gather around the racecourse U2 represented in 4 albums
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Stamps in the News - Globally! Another shows the band’s iconic performance at Wembley Stadium, which is packed to the rafters and a far cry from the Dandelion Market days. The stamp issue acknowledges the band members’ massive impact on global culture and society, from their work on climate change to social justice and more recently, with their response to the nation’s fight against COVID-19. Joshua Tree was recently voted the best album of the 1980’s Band member Adam Clayton UAE’s nuclear option said: “In a year with so many restrictions, it’s dun to think that we out to see the art. It’s great to see more people comcan travel from our homes in Ireland to anywhere in the world, courtesy of An Post!” ing to the area … this art on the tank has attracted a lot of attention,” he said. Mr Hooke said he was surprised the painting of him was chosen for the stamp. Firey featured in Australia “I do hope it is beneficial for the brigade and the Reported at https://www.abc.net.au CFA more broadly.” Mr Ellis thinks it could help generate some interThe captain of a small Country Fire Authority (CFA) est in the brigade. brigade in regional Victoria is hoping a new stamp “It’s there because of the CFA … it will create a featuring the face of one of his fellow firefighters bit more discussion and hopefully a bit more interest will help recruit some young volunteers. in the brigade.” Australia Post recently released a collection of Ellis says there are about 20 members of his stamps called Water Tower Art, including a painting brigade but he is worried there are not enough young of Chesney Vale CFA volunteer Colin Hooke from a people joining. He hopes the stamp might entice water tank in the Winton Wetlands in north-eastern others to consider volunteering for the CFA. Victoria. “It’s very difficult. Everyone seems to lead exThe brigade’s tremely busy lives, and to commit the time necessary captain, Russell is a problem, but we’re continually looking for ways Ellis, said he did to talk to people and see if they’re interested.” not know why Mr Ellis says the brigade is about start its annual Australia Post training in preparation for the upcoming season. chose this painting but that it had become a tourist UAE comes clean ? attraction since it was completed in Reported at https://www.khaleejtimes.com 2016. A commemorative stamp has been launched to mark “I go past the site regularly and the first time that clean electricity has been delivered to the UAE, following the start-up of the Barakah often there are Nuclear Energy Plant in Al Dhafra, Abu Dhabi. cars travelling In August, the plant was successfully connected 16 - Stamp News
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to the Abu Dhabi electricity grid to ensure the power generated at Barakah is safely, securely and reliably delivered to consumers across the UAE. Featuring an image of the plant, the commemorative stamp has been issued by the Emirates Post in collaboration with the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation. The Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant is the first operating nuclear energy plant in the Arab World aimed at supporting the diversification of the country’s energy portfolio as well as reducing carbon footprint. When its four units are fully operational, the Barakah plant will provide up to 25 per cent of the UAE’s electricity requirements, while preventing 21 millions of carbon emissions every year.
Canada Post sees the light
Reported at https://www.similkameenspotlight.com Canada Post has produced a new commemorative stamp to mark Diwali, a festival celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and others around the world. This year Diwali falls on Saturday, Nov. 14, with festivities continuing for five days. Diwali, also known as the Festival of Lights, usually falls in either October or November, based on the Hindu lunar calendar. It celebrates victory of good over evil, light over darkness. Canada Post’s new Diwali stamp features a diya and a geometric background evocative of a traditional rangoli. The domestic-rate stamp is available in a booklet of 10 stamps. Diwali comes from the Sanskrit word dipavali, meaning rows of lights. Diyas – small shallow receptacles made of clay that hold purified butter – are lit to ward off evil and to
usher in goodness with light. Rangoli is an art form in which patterns are created on the ground using coloured rice, sand, quartz powder or flower petals. Followers of each religion go to their respective place of worship to pray and light the diyas on this holy night. This year some Diwali celebrations will shift to the digital world. Among them is the annual 5X Festival, which aims to replace in-person parties and events with virtual performances and other ways of engaging an audience during the pandemic.
Rock on in the Netherlands Reported at https://www.postnl.nl/
Internationally renown DJ & producer, Martin Garrix, has now his own line of stamps, issued by PostNL under its customised stamp program. Stamps have been a big part of his career - his music label is named after them. Founded in 2016, STMPD Records has become a key point of Martin’s career and, as the name suggests, the visual concept about it is stamps. Covers are designed specifically to look like stamps and similarly, the merchandise. “ From an early age I’ve had stamps around me due to my dad’s company. Therefore, when starting
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Stamps in the News - Globally! my label, we even chose a name that refers to stamps: STMPD RCRDS. It was time to step up the game so Martin Garrix decided to launch his own physical stamps, available worldwide from the Dutch postal service. The stamp sheet has an augmented reality layer. This places a digital layer over reality. An app has been specially made for this Isle of Man Dickens anniversary stamps issue, which can be downloaded increased nickel concentration. for free. The stamps can only be The Hrašćina meteorite played a key role in this activated via the app, which gives access to photos, knowledge. The Viennese manufacturer Alois von info, and a performance by Martin Garrix. Widmannstätten conducted an examination of the meteorite by etching a polished meteorite plate Rock on in Croatia with nitric acid, with figures in the form of properly Reported https://www.croatiaweek.com spaced lines. These figures are now the basis for distinguishing extraterrestrial from terrestrial iron. Croatian Post has issued a new commemorative Lithothamnium limestone is a sedimentary rock. postal block from the “Minerals and Rocks” series This lumpy, hollow type of limestone was built with designs representing a Hrašćina meteorite and mostly of red algae of the genus Lithothamnium that lithothamnium limestone. lived in the then Paratethys Sea fifteen million years The Hrašćina meteorite is one of a number of me- ago, during the Middle Miocene era. teorites to fall in Croatia has a special significance. It is one of the most commonly used building Also known as the “Zagreb Iron’’, the Hrašćina fell stones of the city of Zagreb and that portals of nuon May 26, 1751, at around 6 pm in the village of merous Zagreb buildings, parts of Mirogoj arcades Domovec not far from Hrašćina. and the Zagreb Cathedral and many other churches Unlike rock meteorites that resemble rocks on were built from it. Earth, iron meteorites differ from ground iron in
What the Dickens?
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Croatian latest Rocks and Minerals issue 18 - Stamp News
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the death of Charles Dickens, the Isle of Man Post Office in association with the Charles Dickens Museum in London has produced a set of six stamps featuring five of John Leech’s illustrations for A Christmas Carol. The highest value stamp is decorated with the ‘lost portrait’ of Charles Dickens made when he was 31, lost for more than a century and bought by the museum last year for £180,000.
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“This has been a wonderful collaboration to mark the 150th anniversary and to highlight the museum and its extraordinary collection,” said the director of the Charles Dickens Museum. “Considering that Margaret Gillies’ portrait of Dickens was lost for over 130 years, it’s quite something to see it presented so beautifully on a stamp.”
Anger in Lebanon
Reported at https://www.arabnews.com/ node/1748801/media The Lebanese are trying to put the devastating Beirut blast behind them as they slowly rebuild their city, a little more than two months since the tragedy occurred. But the country’s post office has captured the dramatic explosion in a limited edition stamp costing LBP10,000 ($6.63) with the proceedings going to the Lebanese Civil Defence, angering some people at the decision to launch the stamp when investigations have been delayed and few questions have been answered. Twitter responses include: “Someone needs to get fired over this tasteless LibanPost Beirut Blast stamp.” “The view from our balcony. Were I not convinced this is an act of trite idiocy, I would say it is a manifestation of the *banality of evil.* Shame on whoever signed off on this project “ “Some perspective to this totally inadequate move: #Beirut had ran out of stamps post #blast as we repaired and needed every bill stamped for tax reasons. You won’t see me queuing to buy this one.” At least 200 people were killed, more than 6,000 were injured and more than 300,000 were made homeless following the massive Aug. 4 blast at the Port of Beirut. The explosion, as well as leveling half the city, prompted the resignation of Prime Minister Hassan Diab and his government.
new “Drug Free USA” Forever stamp to help “raise awareness about the dangers of drug abuse.” In partnership with Miss America 2020, the federal agencies unveiled the stamps recently. “With this powerful image and message, the USPS has given us another means to promote the battle against drug abuse,” a DEA spokesman said. “In America alone, 70,000 lives are lost to drug overdoses every year, with countless others impacted by the actions of violent drug traffickers and the scourge of illegal drug use.”
The dope on ‘Drug Free’ USA Stamps
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Stamps in the News - Globally! “We urge the public to engage in this fight against illegal drug use and to use the Drug Free USA stamp to signify their support for safer, drug-free communities,” he said. Drug policy reform advocates disagree. “We are facing an overdose epidemic made increasingly deadly due to the pandemic, but the DEA is selling stamps.” But Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said USPS hopes “that the Drug Free USA stamp will help publicize the dangers of illicit drug use and to promote drug abuse prevention.” The current Miss America 2020 is also involved in the anti-drug postal promotion. In the DEA announcement, she said, “I have dedicated my year as Miss America 2020 to keeping patients safe with medications and fighting prescription drug misuse, so I am thrilled to see this issue nationally recognized through the drug-free stamp.” For those with mailing needs who aren’t interested in supporting the notion of a “Drug Free USA,” USPS does have another stamp that recognizes the 50-year anniversary of the drug-fueled 1969 counterculture music festival, Woodstock.
on the post office’s Facebook page with the message “Please help find this Dad ... no other info on envelope, no origin stamp etc, please share everywhere!” The Facebook post has already been shared more than 1700 times and generated more than 100 comments. “All the local detectives have given their ideas about what it could be,” Ms Norbury said, regarding the letter’s intended destination. “We do get these types of letters from time to time, frequently out here people will send mail addressed to just mum and dad or pop,” she said. “Last year I chased up one addressed to pop. When I went to that address it was no longer occupied.” Despite the obvious challenges, Ms Norbury remains hopeful the letter does end up in an unclaimed mail file.
Woodstock mystery
Reported at https://www.centralwesterndaily.com.au A post office owner in the village of Woodstock, in central west of NSW, has embarked on a journey to find the ‘home’ a letter she received last week address to “Dad and Rich”. Denise Norbury said the tiny post office at Woodstock, an hour south of Orange in the Lachlan Valley, received a letter addressed to ‘Dad or Dad & Rich, 2 ICAN Rd, 2793’. There is no ICAN Rd in Australia. Ms Norbury has posted a photograph of the letter
Mystery letter received at Woodstock PO NSW
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Postal Stationery Welcome to the postal stationery column for December 2020. This month’s column includes new issues from Australia Post, literature on Queensland postal stationery and an updated list of the views on the 1910 Queensland view cards. The Queensland 1910 View Cards The Queensland 1910 View Postcards (Figures 1 and 2) remain something of an enigma. Issued by Queensland in 1910 as a ‘modern’ replacement to the 1897 postcards with small views on the front, the 1910 postcards have black and white views on the reverse. They were printed by the Queensland Government printer using views from the library of photographs used for the Queensland Intelligence and Tourist Bureau (QITB) postcards. Unlike many other postal stationery view postcards of this period, the number of views which appeared on the reverse of these cards has never been established. A list of the recorded views has been published in the Postal Stationery Collector with the assistance of John Sinfield, Bernie Beston, Peter Guerin, Gary Watson, and other members of the Postal Stationery Society of Australia) PSSA. This list is given below: 1. A DAIRY HERD, WEST MORETON, SOUTH QUEENSLAND 2. A DUCK POND, BOTANIC GARDENS, BRISBANE 3. ALICE STREET, BRISBANE, SOUTH QUEENSLAND 4. AT CLEVELAND, A FAVOURITE WATERING PLACE, SOUTH QUEENSLAND 5. BOTANIC GARDENS, BRISBANE, FROM PARLIAMENT HOUSE 6. BRISBANE RIVER, SHOWING SHIPPING AT SOUTH BRISBANE WHARVES 7. BUNDABERG FROM THE WATER TOWER, SOUTH QUEENSLAND 8. BUSH-HOUSE, BOTANIC GARDENS, ROCKHAMPTON, CENTRAL QUEENSLAND 9. COUNTRY ROAD, NORTH QUEENSLAND 10. HAULING TIMBER, NEURUM CREEK, SOUTH QUEENSLAND 11. HORSESHOW BEND GYMPIE, NORTH COAST RAILWAY, SOUTH QUEENSLAND 12. IN THE BOTANIC GARDENS, BRISBANE
Figure 1 Queensland 1910 1d View Card Figure 2 A DAIRY HERD, WEST MORETON, SOUTH QUEENSLAND Figure 3 1909 1d Postcard with ‘The Address only to be written on this side’ Figure 4 1910 1d Postcard with Printer’s Imprint and no View on the Reverse (Cream Card) 22 - Stamp News
Ian McMahon 13. INTERIOR OF NORTH QUEENSLAND CAVES 1 and 2 Chillagoe Caves. 3 and 4 Mungana Caves. 14. IRVINEBANK. A THRIVING MINING CENTRE, NORTH QUEENSLAND 15. KAMERUNGA STATE NURSERY, NEAR CAIRNS, NORTH QUEENSLAND 16. MAIN AVENUE, QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY, BRISBANE 17. MARY RIVER AT MARYBOROUGH. NORTH COAST RAILWAY, SOUTH QUEENSLAND 18. NEIL STREET, TOOWOOMBA, DARLING DOWNS, SOUTH QUEENSLAND 19. ON A QUEENSLAND SHEEP STATION 20. PARLIAMENT HOUSES, BRISBANE 21. SCENE ON THE MAROOCHY RIVER, SOUTH QUEENSLAND 22. SCENE ON THE UPPER JOHNSTONE RIVER, NORTH QUEENSLAND 23. SUGAR-CANE, NEAR BUNDABERG, SOUTH QUEENSLAND 24. SURF BATHING, EMU PARK, CENTRAL QUEENSLAND 25. THE BARRON FALLS IN FLOOD (660 FT HIGH) Cairns Railway, North Queensland 26. VIEW OF GYMPIE, NORTH COAST RAILWAY, SOUTH QUEENSLAND 27. VIEWS OF CAIRNS, NORTH QUEENSLAND 1. Abbot Street 2, The Esplanade 3. The Wharves 28. VIEWS OF MARYBOROUGH, SOUTH QUEENSLAND. 1. Mary River at Maryborough 2. School of Arts 3. Botanic Gardens 29. VIEWS OF TOWNSVILLE, NORTH QUEENSLAND. 1. The Strand, North West 2. The Harbour 3. Centre of the City 30. WHITSUNDAY PASSAGE, NORTH QUEENSLAND 31. Barron Falls - Half Flood Total height, 800ft 32. Hauling Cedar, Atherton-Cairns Railway 33. Isis Sugar Mills, Near Childers 34. Mount Morgan, Revenue for the last year £901,838; Expenditure £673,622 35. Neurum Creek near Woodford, Caboulture-Woodford Railway 36. On the Maroochy River, North Coast Railway 37. Stoney Creek Falls, Cairns Railway, Half flood
Figure 5 Department of Public Instruction STO Postcard ‘A Country School Garden’ Figure 6 STO Postcard for Alfred Shaw & Co Figure 7 1½d Queen Victoria Postcard Essay Figure 8 1d Wrapper with ‘OHMS’ overprint and Perforated ‘OS’ (Likely Fake) Stamp News - 23
Postal Stationery 38. View from Cairns Range, Barron River in Foreground In addition, there are two colour views with no captions which are assumed to be proofs: Neurum Creek (as number 35 but reversed) and Rockhampton Customs House. Some views are also known on buff (rather than the issued white) paper and are also thought to be proofs. If you know of any additional views, I would love to hear from you (please send scans of both the front and reverse of the card). Literature on Queensland Postal Stationery This listing of literature on Queensland Postal Stationery seeks to assist collectors of Queensland postal stationery until an up-to-date and comprehensive catalogue or handbook becomes available. It is not meant to be a comprehensive bibliography. Catalogues: Higgins and Gage’s Queensland listings remain the most recent catalogue listing of Queensland and despite its simplified nature, its omissions and its flaws it remains in use by both dealers and collectors. The lettercard listing in particular is seriously flawed and collectors should use the listing in Bill Walton’s articles (see below). The most recent edition was the AUSIPEX 84 edition in 1984. Earlier catalogue listings can be found in the Robson Lowe and Asher Catalogues: The Encyclopaedia of British Empire Postage Stamps. Robson Lowe Vol. 4, The Empire in Australasia, 1962 and Grosser Ganzsachen-Katalog Siegfried Ascher. Monographs: Queensland Postal Stationery Phil Collas 1979 is a very good account of Queensland postal stationery which is still ‘a must read’ today. Unfortunately, it has no illustrations at all making it difficult to use but the information it contains makes it worth the effort. The Postal Stationery of Queensland Alan Griffiths published by British Society of Australian Philately 2018 is based on Alan Griffiths’s collection which had a wide range of proofs and essays as well as many rare items and sold at Abacus Auctions No 240 1 March 2020 https://www.abacusauctions. com.au/Auction/240. Postcard articles include: • 1909 1d postcard with four line-heading including ‘The address only to be written on this side: A number of mint and used copies of this postcard (Figure 3) are known. See Queensland 1910 Postal Cards Bernie Beston Postal Stationery Collector (PSC) August 2000 pp 39-43. • 1910 view cards: The current list of the known views is given above. For a discussion of the source of the views see The 1910 1d Queensland Postal View Card Bernie Beston PSC May 2015 pp 42-46. • 1910 postcard with front as for the view cards but without the view (Figure 4): A number of mint copies and a used copy of this card has been recorded (see 1910 24 - Stamp News
Figure 9 2d STO Envelope for Mt Morgan Mines Figure 10 1d STO Large Envelope for Mt Morgan Mines Figure 11 STO Envelope for the New Zealand Insurance Co
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Queensland 1d Printers Imprint Card Bernie Beston PSC February 2008 pp 99-100). Department of Public Instruction Postcards (Figure 5): See Queensland Postal View Cards Bernie Beston PSC May 2000 pp 4-8 and A New Queensland Postal Card Gary Watson PSC Feb 2010 p 107. Queensland 1d Rose Post Card of 1889 Carl Stieg Postal Stationery January-February 1988 pp 12. Queensland Postal Stationery Used in British New Guinea Bernie Beston PSC May 2003 pp 16-21 1910 Queensland Scenic Postcards John Sinfield PSC
Ian McMahon Stationery Newspaper Wrapper Catalogue Part 2 2019. The 1d wrapper perf ‘OS’: This is considered to be a forgery (Figure 8). See the Review by Wayne Menuz in Postal Stationery March-April 2020 pp 112. See also: • A Contribution to The Classification of The Queensland Post Office Newspaper Wrappers Issued in The Period 18911912; Sybrand J. Bakker PSC August 2006 pp 3542, PSC November 2006 pp 71-78, PSC February 2007 pp 100-104 • Juxtapositional and Textual Varieties Of 1899 1d Carmine/Vermilion Queensland Wrappers John Courtis PSC August 2007 pp 46-51 • Varieties Of Queensland 1899 ½D Green Queen Victoria Newspaper Wrapper Professor John K. Left : Figure 12 STO Lettersheet for Robert Harper & Co Courtis, PSC November Right : Figure 13 Inside of STO Lettersheet for Robert Harper & Co 2008 pp 69-72 • Queensland Wrapper August 1999 pp 53-55, PSC November 1999 pp 67. With Inverted Cliché Mark • Australian Rarities: Bisected Queensland Reply PostDiserio PSC February 2009 p 114 cards John Sinfield PSC August 1999 pp 55-56. • The 1891 Queensland ½d Green Newspaper Wrapper • Handpainted Postal Cards Queensland Bernie Beston Jan Kosniowski PSC February 2013 pp 3-13 PSC February 2000 pp 104-106. • Guide Marks on Queensland Newspaper Wrappers Jan • 1910 Queensland View Cards - New Discoveries Bernie Kosniowski PSC November 2015 pp 111-117, February Beston PSC November 2003 pp 73-76. 2016 pp 10-17 • 1910 Queensland 1d Post Card Bernie Beston PSC Feb• Queensland Post Office Postal Stationery Wrappers: A ruary 2010 pp 103-104. (Figure 6 shows a STO postcard Tetralogy About Advertising Connections John Courtis for Alfred Shaw & Co) PSC May 2014 pp 50-55 • Queensland 1904 1d Reply Card Bernie Beston PSC • Queensland Wrapper with Private Printing Dave ElsAugust 2007 pp 70, more PSC February 2005 p 111 • Queensland A New Discovery Wayne Menuz Postal STO Envelopes: Stationery July-August 2003 pp 95. • Queensland Printed to Private Order Stationery Bernie Lettercards: For a listing of the lettercards (Figure 7) Beston PSC November 1999 pp 68-72 see Lettercards of Queensland Bill Walton Philately from • Queensland PTPO And Post Office Official Envelopes Australia Vol XL (3) September 1988 pp 56-64, Vol XL (4) Peter Guerin PSC May 2007 pp 11-15 pp 82-85 and A new sequence Hypothesis for Queensland • Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company Limited Printed Lettercards Bill Walton Philately from Australia Vol XLII to Private Order Envelopes (Figures 9 & 10) Bernie (1) March 1990 pp 23-25. Also see Queensland Letter Beston PSC August 2007 pp 53-54 Cards Bernie Beston PSC February 2002 pp 99-105. • The New Zealand Insurance Company & New Zealand Wrappers: Catalogue listing: Jan Kosniowski The Postal Accident Insurance Company Printed to Private Order Stamp News - 25
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Envelopes (Figure 11) PSC. Nov 2009 pp 72-84. Queensland Stationery Peter Guerin PSC May 2002 pp 3-6. Queensland Postal Stationery Re-Visited Bernie Beston PSC May 2002 pp 6-12. Queensland: The New Zealand Insurance Company & New Zealand Accident Insurance Company Printed to Private Order Envelopes B. P. Beston PSC. November 2009 pp 72-84. Queensland PTPO Envelope with Inverted Stamp Ian McMahon PSC November 2016 pp 101. STO Lettersheet (Figures 12 & 13): Queensland Printed to Private Order Postal Stationery (Figure 9 and 10) Ian McMahon PSC May 1997 pp 4-6.
Postal Notes articles: • Craig Chappell Queensland Postal Notes (Figure 14) PSC November 1998 pp 67-73 • Dave Elsmore Queensland Postal Notes 1880-1996 2004 • Dave Elsmore Queensland Revenue Stamps https:// www.ozrevenues.com/Revenue-Railway-Local-Perfin-Catalogue/qld-revenue-catalogue.htm. Registered Envelope articles: • Queensland King Edward VII Registration Envelopes: Hugh Campbell Philately from Australia March 1993 pp 25; Mark Diserio Philately from Australia June 1993 44 pp; Bernie Beston Philately from Australia June 1994 pp 37 • Queensland Postal Stationery Re-Visited Bernie Beston PSC May 2002 pp 6 • Queensland Formular Registered Envelope Bernie Beston and Ian McMahon PSC February 2003 pp 114115 • Wayne Menuz Queensland Registration Envelopes Postal Stationery Volume: 47 Number: 3 Year: 2005 pp 77 • Queensland’s Last Registered Envelope Ian McMahon PSC August 2010 pp 40
Figure 14 2/6 Queen Victoria Sideface Postal Note Figure 15 1½d + 1½d Reply Card UPU Specimen with Madagascar Receiving Cancel Figure 16 6d blue Kangaroo and Map STO envelope with printed ‘Wool Sample only’
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Above : Figure 17 British Post Office Stationery Post Cards, 1870-2007 Top Right : Figure 18 Mount Isa Mines Pre-Paid Postcard Bottom Right : Figure 19 Scarborough Pre-Paid Postcard • My Favourite Stationery Ian McMahon Postal Stationery March-April 2016 PSC pp 75 Specimen Postal Stationery: Ian McMahon Queensland Specimen and CTO Postal Stationery (Figure 15) PSC November 2016 pp 113-114 Auction News The Abacus Auction 29-30 August 2020 auction included a 6d blue Kangaroo and Map STO envelope (Figure 16) with printed ‘Wool Sample only’ which sold for $4,600 (excluding buyer’s premium). The Auction also included a set of the 1976 Scenic Issue 18c including the 16 views that were substituted, nine for relatively minor technical reasons and seven with the “new” versions Sold for $1,900.
British Post Office Stationery Post Cards, 1870-2007. An Illustrated Guide. By Neil A. Sargent British Post Office Stationery Post Cards (Figure 17) illustrates all British postal issued from 1870-2007 using the numbering system from Collect British Postal Stationery by Huggins & Baker (2007) and giving the background and details of date of issue, stamp dies, proofs, specimens etc. for the cards. Official cards, KGV Forces cards and British cards overprinted for use in other countries are also included as are the postal rates applicable to postcards. There is an introduction to `Packet Bands’ and a brief illustrated introduction to stamped-to-order postcards. 134 pp, A4, perfect bound. Illustrations in colour. Includes contents page, postcard size guide, concordance with H&G. The price is £19.00 and orders should be sent to neil.sargent@ btinternet.com. Postage is extra and Neil will provide details. New Pre-Paid postcards Australia Post continues to issue new pre-paid postcards (Figures 18 and 19). A further 60 or so new cards are expected to be listed in the February 2021 issue of the Postal Stationery Collector including cards. Stamp News - 27
Cinderella Corner Christmas Labels Welcome to the final Cinderella Corner for 2020. To coincide with the festive season, this issue will focus on the rich landscape of Australian Christmas labels; the article is more visual than text-laden so that a wider variety of these labels can be appreciated. Next year’s December piece will continue the narrative and explore more of these wonderful Christmas items. Promoting Shopping And Christmas Figure 1 illustrates a Myer Emporium PTPO (Printed to Private Order) 3½d envelope, postmarked Melbourne 6 November 1958. Its reverse is illustrated in Figure 2, which presents a cinderella encouraging customers to shop during the Christmas period. Coloured greenblue and white, the label is imperforate, measures 77mm x 43mm, and alongside a Christmas tree features the text: For your comfort & convenience / SHOP AND POST EARLY THIS CHRISTMAS A similar label, affixed to the reverse of a Myer Emporium PTPO 3d cover postmarked Melbourne 5 November 1951, is illustrated in Figure 3. Measuring 46mm x 61mm and coloured red and cream, the imperforate cinderella features the near identical text featured in the label shown in Figure 2: For Your Better Comfort & Convenience SHOP AND POST EARLY THIS CHRISTMAS These labels are believed to have related to the rather elusive Myer Philatelic Department in Melbourne, and further information can be found in the February 2018 Cinderella Corner. Posting And Christmas A range of non-official Australia Post labels were also issued to encourage Australians to post their Christmas presents earlier, thereby ensuring timely arrival of gifts. Most of these date from the 1940s to the early 1960s. The label illustrated in Figure 4 is affixed to the reverse of a Myer Melbourne PTPO 1½d cover postmarked 11 November 1947. Imperforate and measuring 44mm x 43mm, the label features the text: POST Your Christmas Mail Figures 1 - 4 28 - Stamp News
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NOW. The label also exists in black and pale yellow, as illustrated in Figure 5. Figure 6 illustrates a colourful block of six labels, each perforated 11 and measuring approximately 33mm x 47mm. The text on each cinderella echoes a message of similar sentiment to that on Figure 5, namely: SHOP AND POST EARLY… for CHRISTMAS. The Top L-R Figures 5, 6 & 9 Above Figure 8 Below L-R Figures 7, 10 & 11
label is also illustrated affixed to the front of a 9 November 1956 postmarked PTPO envelope of Price Waterhouse & Co. Sydney (Figure 7). Similar labels were also issued in 1957 (see the block of 8 illustrated in Figure 8) and again in 1958 (see the block of 10 illustrated in Figure 9). Similar examples are shown throughout Figures 10 to 13. Any help about the dates for these latter labels is greatly appreciated. A slight variant on the promotion of posting gifts early is illustrated in Figure 14. This cinderella, measuring approximately 37mm x 36mm and rouletted 7 on all four sides, was released in late 1954 to promote the early sending of Christmas telegrams. The green, red and white label features the text: LODGE OVERSEAS GREETINGS TELEGRAMS EARLY. Further information on the Shop and the vari-
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Top L-R Figures 12, 13, 14 & 15 Left Top-Bottom Figures 16, 17, 18, 19 & 20 Below Top-Bottom Figures 21, 22, 23, & 24 ous Post Early campaigns can be found in a comprehensive article written by Eric Frazer for January 2012’s Cinderella Philatelist. Australia Post And Christmas Several different labels have been produced by Australia Post to help with the promotion of Christmas and associated Australia Post services. The two strips of Merry Christmas labels illustrated together in Figure 15 are multicoloured and feature four vertical stickers. The strip to the right measures 71mm x 161mm and was likely released in 1984. The sheet to the left is slightly narrower, measuring 64mm x 162mm, and was released in October 1985. Both self-adhesive and imperforate sheets were printed for Australia Post by S. R. Frankland Pty. Ltd. of Prahran, Victoria, for use with the Christmas ‘Postpak’ range 30 - Stamp News
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of products. The third label on the 1985 confirms this, with its margin inscription: POSTPAK CHRISTMAS STICKERS MS921 (OCT 85). Modern Christmas Greetings With the wonderful assistance of Noel Almeida, many more modern Christmas greetings cinderellas have been identified, all produced in Australia over the last 30 years. These are illustrated across Figures 16 to 34, and the 18 labels. Some of the messages heralded on these items include: We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year / NOEL NOEL; CHRISTMAS GREETINGS / Wishing you the very best for Christmas and the New Year; SEASONS GREETINGS / Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year; Glad Tidings / Extending
warm greetings on this Season of Goodwill; JOY; NORTH POLE / Christmas Town 12.25 Some of these labels were printed by Australian Label Company in Clayton Vic and sold through stationers. Others were produced by Australian Credit Stationers, an idea considered from as early as 1976. These self-adhesive labels were printed in sheetlets and in rolls. Noel Almeida also adds that firms used to send out a monthly statement of account in the post, and that many November and December statements went out with these stickers attached. It was also a reminder to pay on time, with settlement normally monthly using the statement. Conclusions The world of Australian Christmas cinderellas is vast and bountiful; those illustrated in this Cinderella Corner form only a snapshot of this extensive landscape. It is anticipated that next December’s Cinderella Corner will explore more of these wonderful labels, with a closer focus on religious-themed ones. Feedback, as usual, is welcomed. Stamp News - 31
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
Gilbert & Ellice Islands 1912/24 £1 KGV absolutely *SUPERB* MVLH: The rarest KGV high value from the entire Pacific from this tiny island. Incredible condition
ex Germany - lightest hinge touch, fresh and vivid and bright and unfaded, free of gook and gunk, and “unrubbed”, with DEEP vibrant printer-yesterday colour. These stamps fade and “rub” badly if handled carelessly, and after a century, most have been! SG 24, cat £550=$A1,100. Totally without fault or blemish of any kind. A stamp for the discerning collector, who accepts ONLY the finest quality material, yet priced at half Gibbons as bought very favorably! Only $US375 as I type. $A550 (Stock 519JR)
Davo album Netherlands 1852-1980, Cat $A3,500 for $A500!: Davo album of Netherlands 1852 to 1980 mainly used, Michel value €2,062=$A3,500. Juicy lot from an Estate. Owner has a page of imperfs from 1852, and then a decent spread to 1980. Many better pieces and sets, and Michel cat noted next to each in pencil for your easy checking. All in the very cool blue cloth covered Dutch DAVO album, with brass peg fittings and country Coat Of Arms in lavish embossed colours etc - cost $100s when new. A great nucleus to complete, and a lot of the hard work is already done. Condition a bit mixed as always on 130 year span collections, but many better pieces and sets in nice shape. Near all used. Bought well, so out it goes at just 15% of Michel cat! For a US buyer around $US350. Only a few pix here - tinyurl. com/DavoNeth a LOT of pages are in this book. $A500 (Stock 567PD)
Territory Of New Guinea, 1935 Bulolo Airmail, £5 Green Top Value, *Superb Used*: One of the most iconic Airmail stamps from the entire World in the 1930s. Incredibly high value - the largest denomination
Australia ever had was a £2, and even those are scarce and expensive - the CHEAPEST watermark being $5,000 mint. This was literally over a month’s gross wages for anyone who had a job in The Great Depression. Clean, perfectly centered, fresh VFU, with deep rich original colour. Clean and flat and fresh. Free of all hinges, gook and gunk and aging etc, after 85 years. And free of the THINS and tears and bad creases that these coarse blotting paper stamps mostly get, after usage on the very heavy shipments of Gold Bullion that these were used for. Superb light cds of “BULOLO - 31 MAY : 40 - New Guinea”. Most of these have WAU cancels which was just a few miles from Bulolo in the NG Highlands, which was the site of a huge Gold Rush in the 1930s, so this cancel is highly sought. Perfect centered, and better than usual perfs for these as you can see, that were lumpy single line perf, printed on coarse blotting paper. Way under-rated by SG 205, £450=$A900. Should be TREBLE this used, which are FIVE times scarcer than mint of course, despite the silly cat for mint, as HEAPS of mint sheets were stolen from PO, and sold off cheaply well under face to dealers at the time – see here tinyurl.com/ Bulolo - Police were even called in. I handle just one of these genuinely used, each few years. However, I handle 100s of used £2 Roos a year! Impossible to improve on quality - $A550 (Stock 382JK) Order via: tinyurl.com/GlenOrder All Cards accepted with ZERO fee - even Amex! Bank Deposit fine, or Money Orders. PayPal is accepted in ANY major currency, saving you fees - contact me first. LayBys/Layaways always OK with me!
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Discount Sale No. 1
Closing Date Midday Thursday 31st December 2020
PC England, King Edward VIII, His Majesty proclaimed king 22nd January, 1936, Ex Keith Harrison, unused $50.00 (EPC1107)
PC RP England, King Edward VIII, His Majesty, portrait by Bertram Park, Ex Keith Harrison, unused $65.00 (EPC1108)
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black Maltese Cross cancel, lettered O F. SG1 cat. £525. Price $195 (PB116) 11. GB 1840 1d Intense Black 3 margin unplated example with neat black Maltese Cross cancel, lettered F H. SG1 cat. £525. Price $175 (PB144) 12. GB 1840 1d Black near 3 margin unplated example with Red Maltese Cross cancel, lettered G A. SG2 cat. £375. Large margins either side, damaged lower right corner. Still a presentable spacefiller. Price $125 (PB145) 13. GB 1840 1d Black 3 margin plate 1a example with double strike of Red Maltese Cross cancel, (contrary to regulations) lettered I L. SG2 cat. £375. Large margin at left. Presentable stamp. Price $145 (PB146) 14. GB 1840 1d Black 3 margin plate 3 example with central clean complete strike of Red Maltese Cross cancel, lettered R B. SG2 cat. £375. Large margin at left. Attractive stamp. Price $175 (PB147) 15. Great Britain 1864 “Cinderellas” Universal Private Telegraph Company 1/- mint unhinged, three Deep Lilac blocks of 4 with serial numbers in different colours. Attractive. Price $75 (GB671) 16. Great Britain 1871 1d Lilac Foreign Bill Revenue/Cinderella Wmk. VR mint unhinged block of 4. Some perf. Separation & gum creasing. Barefoot cat. No. 70, price $29 (GB673) 17. Great Britain 1871 2d Lilac Foreign Bill Revenue/Cinderella Wmk. VR fresh mint lightly hinged block of 4. Barefoot cat. No. 71, price $39 (GB674) 18. Great Britain 1895 £1 on £1 Civil Service Revenue/Cinderella Lilac & Green tied to piece by “Cancelled” cds. Barefoot Cat. No. 23. Price $29 (GB670) 19. Great Britain 1971 National Health & Insurance Revenues/Cinderellas. £4.30 & £4.40 corner blocks of 12 with Post Office Staff training bars. Full unhinged gum (hinged in selvedge) Rarely seen. Price $120 (GB675) Australian States Tasmania 20. Tasmania 1899-1912 Pictorials set of 8 fine used circular cancels. ½d – 5d are 1st printing SG 229/36, 6d is the 1908 Perf. 11, SG 248a. Nice simplified set, price $49 (T241) 21. Tasmania 1905 3d Brown Pictorial perf. 11 SG 246a fine cds used, double perfs. at right. Cat. £42 as normal. Rare on this stamp. Price $149 (T240) Australia Kangaroos
4. 25 different New South Wales $45 (AS2) 5. 10 Different Queensland $20 (AS3) 6. 25 Different South Australia $72 (AS4) 7. 10 Different Tasmania $29 (AS5) 8. 50 different Victoria $179 (AS6) 9. 10 Different Western Australia $30 (AS7) Great Britain 10. GB 1840 1d Intense Black tidy 3 margin unplated example with neat
22. Australia 1913 2d Grey Kangaroo 1st wmk BW 5, showing Kangaroo heavily over inked (almost solid), indistinct Victorian duplex cancel, with normal for comparison (normal has slight fault), striking!, Price $49 (K545) 23. Australia 1913 2½d Indigo Kangaroo 1st wmk BW 9, lovely centring, fresh MUH, Cat $325, Price $279 (K779) 24. Australia 1913 2½d Indigo Kangaroo 1st wmk BW 9, off centre to
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DISCOUNT SALE DECEMBER 2020 lower left, fresh MLH, Cat $125, Price $69 (K912) 25. Australia 1913 2½d Indigo (deep shade) Kangaroo 1st wmk with variety ‘White scratch extending from Cape Leeuwin’ BW 9(2)e, centred to lower right, marginal example, lightly hinged in margin only, fresh MUH, Cat $275 as hinged, Price $399 (K776) 26. Australia 1913 2½d Indigo Kangaroo 1st wmk with variety ‘Break in inner top frame over ‘R’ over ‘AUSTRALIA’ BW 9(1)d, centred to upper left, fresh MUH, Cat $275 as hinged, Price $399 (K777) 27. Australia 1913 2½d Indigo Kangaroo 1st wmk BW 9, with unlisted variety ‘Two islands north of NT’, centred to upper left, fresh MUH, Cat $325 as normal, Price $269 (K778) 28. Australia 1913 2½d Indigo Kangaroo 1st wmk BW 9, centred to right, couple of nibbled perfs at left, fresh MLH, Cat $125, Price $69 (K909) 29. Australia 1915 3d Olive-green Kangaroo 1st wmk Die I, variety ‘Watermark inverted’ BW 12a, pulled perfs at right, centred high, light cds cancel, Cat $225, Price $129 (K957) 30. Australia 1915 3d Olive-green Kangaroo 1st wmk Die I, variety ‘Watermark inverted’ BW 12a, centred a little to upper right, couple of nibbled perfs, two light cds cancels, Cat $225, Price $129 (K781) 31. Australia 1915 3d Olive-green Kangaroo 1st wmk Die I, variety ‘Watermark inverted’ BW 12a, centred low, couple of nibbled perfs, centrally placed ‘MOONAH TAS’ cds, Cat $225, Price $129 (K917) 32. Australia 1915 3d Olive-green Kangaroo 1st wmk Die I, variety ‘Watermark inverted’ BW 12a, several nibbled perfs, nicely centred, Cat $225, Price $99 (K958) 33. Australia 1915 3d Olive-green Kangaroo 1st wmk Die II, BW 12D, centred to upper left, couple of nibbled perfs, Cat $400, Price $199 (K780) 34. Australia 1915 3d Olive-green Kangaroo 1st wmk Die I punctured small ‘OS’ BW 12bc, couple of nibbled perfs, above average centring for this issue, Cat $125, Price $59 (K287) 35. Australia 1915 2d Grey Kangaroo 2nd wmk BW 6, quite well centred, fresh MUH, Price $349 (K716) 36. Australia 1915 2½d Indigo Kangaroo 2nd wmk BW 10, quite well centred fresh MUH, Cat $400, Price $299 (K664) 37. Australia 1915 2½d Indigo Kangaroo 2nd wmk BW 10, centred slightly low, fresh MUH, Cat $400, Price $299 (K717) 38. Australia 1915 2½d Indigo Kangaroo 2nd wmk BW 10, centred to left, fresh MUH, Cat $400, Price $279 (K893) 39. Australia 1915 2½d Indigo Kangaroo 2nd wmk BW 10, centred to upper right, faint gum bend, fresh MUH, Cat $400, Price $249 (K892) 40. Australia 1915 2½d Indigo Kangaroo 2nd wmk BW 10, excellent centring, fresh MLH, Cat $200, Price $169 (K1029) 41. Australia 1915 2½d Indigo Kangaroo 2nd wmk, with variety ‘Retouch to first ‘A’ of ‘AUSTRALIA (and heavy coastline to WA)’ BW 10(2)l,
centred to lower left, cds cancel, Cat $500, Price $349 (K1023) 42. Australia 1915 2d Grey Kangaroo 3rd wmk Die I BW 7, centred to lower left, MLH, Price $25 (K687) 43. Australia 1915 2d Grey Kangaroo 3rd wmk Die I BW 7, centred to top, MLH, Price $25 (K1031) 44. Australia 1915 2d Grey Kangaroo 3rd wmk Die I, variety ‘Watermark inverted’ BW 7a, centred to right, bold ‘LEONGATHA’ cds, Price $39 (K771) 45. Australia 1915 2½d Blue Kangaroo 3rd wmk BW 11, centred slightly to lower right, fresh MUH, Cat $100, Price $69 (K665) 46. Australia 1915 2½d Blue Kangaroo 3rd wmk BW 11, nibbled perf at top, well centred Mint, Cat $50, Price $25 (K684) 47. Australia 1915 3d Olive Kangaroo 3rd wmk Die I BW 13, centred slightly to upper right, fresh Mint, Cat $60, Price $45 (K1028) 48. Australia 1915 3d Olive Kangaroo 3rd wmk Die I variety ‘Watermark inverted’ BW 13a centred slightly high, fresh Mint, Cat $275, Price $229 (K1005) 49. Australia 1923 3d Olive Kangaroo 3rd wmk Die IIB BW 14, centred a little to the lower right, fresh MUH, Cat $225, Price $149 (K708) 50. Australia 1923 3d Olive Kangaroo 3rd wmk Die IIB punctured ‘OS’ BW 14b, centred to lower right, usual ‘fluffy’ perfs, fresh MUH, Cat $375, Price $249 (K660) 51. Australia 1913 4d Orange Kangaroo 1st wmk BW 15, centred to upper right, fresh MUH, Cat $1000, Price $699 (K918) 52. Australia 1913 4d Orange Kangaroo 1st wmk punctured large ‘OS’ BW 15ba, centred to upper left, perfs a little uneven, light, crisp ‘YALGOO (WA)’ cds cancel, Cat $70, Price $39 (K918A) 53. Australia 1913 4d Orange Kangaroo 1st wmk punctured large ‘OS’ BW 15ba, horizontal pair, quite well centred for this issue, odd nibbled perf, multiple light cds cancels, scarce & attractive multiple, Cat $140 as singles, Price $99 (K992) 54. Australia 1913 4d Orange Kangaroo 1st wmk punctured small ‘OS’ BW 15bb, centred to right, a ‘jumbo’ stamp due to a skipped row of horizontal perfs at top, light ‘REGISTERED’ cds, attractive, Cat $200, Price $149 (K870) 55. Australia 1913 4d Yellow-orange Kangaroo 1st wmk, BW 15F, centred to lower right, ‘LATE FEE’ cds, Cat $150, Price $99 (K990) 56. Australia 1913 4d Yellow-orange Kangaroo 1st wmk, BW 15F, centred to lower left, with almost complete strike of ‘151’ starburst cancel of Condamine, Cat $150, Price $109 (K699) 57. Australia 1913 5d Chestnut Kangaroo 1st wmk BW 16, well centred fresh MLH, Cat $250, Price $189 (K1018) 58. Australia 1913 5d Chestnut Kangaroo 1st wmk punctured small ‘OS’ BW 16bb, couple of nibbled perfs, light centrally struck cds, Cat $100, Price $69 (K871)
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BUY OR BID SALE DISCOUNT 2020 59. Australia 1913 6d Ultramarine Kangaroo 1st wmk BW 17, lower marginal example, one slightly uneven perf at lower left, well centred, fresh MUH, Cat $875, Price $699 (K792) 60. Australia 1913 6d Ultramarine Kangaroo 1st wmk BW 17, rich colour, lovely centring, slightly uneven perfs, some hinge remains, fresh Mint, Cat $325, Price $199 (K997) 61. Australia 1913 6d Ultramarine Kangaroo 1st wmk BW 17, lovely centring, some hinge remains and slight gum ‘glazing’, Mint, Cat $325, Price $179 (K977) 62. Australia 1915 6d Bright blue Kangaroo 2nd wmk BW 18 (SG 26a), lovely centring, hinge remains, fresh Mint, SG Cat £475, Price $479 (K702) 63. Australia 1915 6d Deep ultramarine Kangaroo 2nd wmk BW 18B, centred to the right, Fine used, Cat $150, Price $99 (K985) 64. Australia 1915 6d Ultramarine Kangaroo 2nd wmk punctured ‘OS’ BW 18ba, centred a little low, Fine used, Cat $80, Price $49 (K760) 65. Australia 1915 6d Ultramarine Kangaroo 2nd wmk punctured ‘OS’ BW 18ba, centred to lower left, Fine used, Cat $80, Price $49 (K1020) 66. Australia 1915 6d Ultramarine Kangaroo 3rd wmk Die II BW 19, well centred fresh MUH, Cat $575, Price $499 (K789) 67. Australia 1915 6d Ultramarine (pale shade) Kangaroo 3rd wmk Die II BW 19, centred to lower left, light hinge remains Mint, Cat $225, Price $149 (K691) 68. Australia 1921 6d Ultramarine Kangaroo 3rd wmk Die II BW 19, nicely centred, barest hinge trace, MVLH, Cat $225, Price $179 (K715) 69. Australia 1915 6d Ultramarine Kangaroo 3rd wmk Die II variety ‘Watermark inverted’ BW 19a, centred a little to lower right, one slightly nibbled perf at left, Fine used, Cat $275, Price $179 (K720) 70. Australia 1915 6d Bright blue Kangaroo 3rd wmk Die II variety ‘Watermark inverted’ BW 19Da, few nibbled perfs at base, well centred, light cds cancel, Cat $275, Price $179 (K921) KGV Heads 71. Australia KGV 1924 1½d Red Single Wmk., cancelled by near full strike of NSW Relief Stamp cds of 12 OC 25. (lower left blunt corner perf) Rare! Price $149 (G665) 72. Australia KGV 1920 1/4d Turquoise single wmk. Cancelled by near full strike of ALBURY RAILWAY cds, AP 16 1921. EXTREMELY RARE! Price $325 (G666) QEII Pre-decimal simplified Australia in year groups face different. Does not include white papers, helicon stamps or imperf. edge booklet stamps. These can be supplied at an additional cost. Prices are for mint unhinged, fine used with light circular cancel available at the same price.. Good Average used or mint hinged available at half price.
1953/54 28 Stamps $35.00 1955/56 18 Stamps $45.00 1957/58 16 Stamps $25.00 1959/62 36 Stamps $65.00 1963/65 37 Stamps $245.00 Complete collection as above arranged on Hagner Pages in Australia Post Padded Album, $395 ($20 below the stamp cost alone) Australian Territories Papua 73. Papua 1916-31 Bi-coloured Lakatois ½d Myrtle & apple green SG 93, Harrison imprint strip of 3 fresh MUH, Price $35 (PNG968) 74. Papua 1916-31 Bi-coloured Lakatois ½d Myrtle & pale olive green SG 93a, Ash imprint strip of 3 fresh MLH, Price $39 (PNG973) 75. Papua 1916-31 Bi-coloured Lakatois ½d Myrtle & pale olive green watermark Crown to right of A, SG 93aw block of 4, each unit with identified minor plate variety, Mint, Price $199 (PNG974) 76. Papua 1930 Bi-coloured Lakatois ½d Myrtle & apple green punctured ‘OS’ SG O46, Ash imprint strip of 3 fresh Mint, scarce imprint, Price $149 (PNG975) 77. Papua 1931-32 Bi-coloured Lakatois ½d Myrtle & apple green overprinted ‘OS’ SG O55, Ash imprint strip of 3 fresh Mint, Price $49 (PNG976) 78. Papua 1916-31 Bi-coloured Lakatois 1d Intense black & red SG 94c, Harrison imprint strip of 3, fresh Mint, Price $49 (PNG978) 79. Papua 1931-32 Bi-coloured Lakatois 1d Intense black & red overprinted ‘OS’ SG O56, Harrison imprint strip of 3 fresh MLH, Price $59 (PNG981) 80. Papua 1916-31 Bi-coloured Lakatois 1½d Bright blue & bright brown SG 95c, Ash imprint strip of 3, centre unit with faint bend, fresh MLH, Price $39 (PNG983) 81. Papua 1916-31 Bi-coloured Lakatois 1½d Bright blue & bright brown top left corner block of 4, the upper left unit variety ‘POSTACE’ SG 95cd, fine Mint no gum, lovely positional block, Price $69 (PNG985) 82. Papua 1916-31 Bi-coloured Lakatois ½d SG 93/93a shade selection stated to be 4 different Harrison printings & 3 different Ash printings, fresh Mint, Price $29 (PNG982) 83. Papua 1916-31 Bi-coloured Lakatois 1½d Pale grey-blue & brown variety ‘POSTACE’ SG 95d, Fine used with light corner cds, Price $69 (PNG986) 84. Papua 1916-31 Bi-coloured Lakatois 1½d Bright blue & bright brown variety ‘POSTACE’ SG 95cd, light cds cancel, Fine used, Price $69 (PNG988) 85. Papua 1930 Bi-coloured Lakatois 1½d Bright blue & bright brown punctured ‘OS’ SG O48, Ash imprint strip of 3, left hand unit some light bends, Mint, Price $99 (PNG989)
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DISCOUNT SALE DECEMBER 2020 86. Papua 1916-31 Bi-coloured Lakatois 2d Brown purple & lake SG 96a, Ash imprint strip of 3, fresh MLH, Price $129 (PNG990) 87. Papua 1916-31 Bi-coloured Lakatois 2d Brown purple & lake watermark Crown to right of A, SG 96aw, Ash imprint strip of 3, light gum bend on right hand unit, some hinge remains Mint, Price $229 (PNG991) 88. Papua 1916-31 Bi-coloured Lakatois 2d Brown purple & claret SG 96b, Ash imprint strip of 3, MUH, Price $49 (PNG992) 89. Papua 1931-32 Bi-coloured Lakatois 2d Brown purple & claret overprinted ‘OS’ SG O58 Ash imprint strip of 3, fresh MLH, Price $79 (PNG993) 90. Papua 1931-32 Bi-coloured Lakatois 2d Brown purple & claret overprinted ‘OS’ SG O58 Ash imprint strip of 3, fresh MLH, Price $79 (PNG994) 91. Papua 1916-31 Bi-coloured Lakatois 1d Black & carmine-red Cooke printing SG 94, ‘CA’ monogram single, very faint tone spot on gum, LHM, Price $35 (PNG1001) 92. Papua 1916-31 Bi-coloured Lakatois 1d SG 94/94c shade selection stated to be 3 different Cooke printings & 2 different Harrison printings, fresh Mint, Price $29 (PNG1002) 93. Papua 1916-31 Bi-coloured Lakatois 1½d Pale grey-blue & brown top left corner pair, upper left unit variety ‘POSTACE’ SG 95d, nice positional piece, fresh MLH, Price $79 (PNG1003) 94. Papua 1916-31 Bi-coloured Lakatois 1½d Bright blue & bright brown top left corner pair, upper left unit variety ‘POSTACE’ SG 95cd, nice positional piece, stamps MUH, Price $89 (PNG1004) 95. Papua 1916-31 Bi-coloured Lakatois 1½d Cobalt & light brown SG 95b part Mullett imprint pair with ‘PORT MORESBY’ cds cancels, Fine used, Price $25 (PNG1005) 96. Papua 1916-31 Bi-coloured Lakatois 2d Deep brown purple & lake, watermark Crown to right of A SG 96aw, marginal block of 4, fresh MUH, Price $299 (PNG1008) 97. Papua 1916-31 Bi-coloured Lakatois 2d Deep brown purple & lake, watermark Crown to right of A SG 96aw, corner block of 4, fresh Mint, Price $249 (PNG1010) British Commonwealth 98. Ascension 1922 ovpts. on KEVII stamps of St. Helena ½d & 1½d SG 1 & 3 mint lightly hinged, cat. £24.50. Price $29 (BC1078) 99. Bahrain 1940 Overprint on India KGVI 1 Rupee SG 32. Fresh mint unhinged block of 4, cat. £40, price $49 (BC1081) 100. Brunei 1924 5c Orange – Yellow RETOUCHED VALUE TABLET. SG 66a, fresh mint hinged cat. £325. Price $399 (BC1021) 101. Burma 1938 KGVI 1r & 2R SG 30/31, fresh mint lightly hinged. 2R has a blunt lower left corner. Cat. £32, price $20 (BC1069)
102. Canada 1908 Quebec Tercentenary set, 188/94 mint no gum. Cat. £550, price $345 (BC1067) 103. Canada 1922 1c Chrome Yellow Coil stamp in block of 4, SG 256a x 2. Imperf between the vertical pairs. Block has been folded through the central margin. Mint lightly hinged, the left pair is nice, the upper right stamp is thinned. Cat. £360 as two pairs. Price $269 (BC1065) 104. Canada 1927 Historical set, SG 271/3 mint hinged. 12c has a little paper adherance from album page. Cat. £32, price $59 (BC1066) 105. Canada 1942/3 Airs SG 399/400 Cat. £37.50, mint hinged. Price $22.50 (BC1076) Cape of Good Hope Triangulars We have a collection of these, both genuine & forgeries. The forgeries collection believed to be ex. Robson Lowe or Henry Harmer. The entire consists of around 450 stamps. The collection is available as a whole for $16,750. Time payment available. Here is a group of forgeries in Sheets or Blocks. 106. Cape of Good Hope Forgery of the 1d Red Woodblock in a complete sheet of 30 mounted on album page with forged Barred Cancels. Aged brownish paper. Edges of the sheet a bit fragile. Price $1100 (COGH43) 107. Cape of Good Hope Forgery of the 1d Red on pale green paper in complete sheet of 30 mounted on album page with forged Barred Cancels. Price $1100 (COGH44) 108. Cape of Good Hope Forgery of the 4d Blue Woodblock in a complete sheet of 30 with forged Barred Cancels. Aged brownish paper. Edges of the sheet a bit fragile. Price $1100 (COGH38) 109. Cape of Good Hope Forgery of the 4d Blue on pale green paper in complete sheet of 30 mounted on album page with forged Barred Cancels. Price $1100 (COGH46) 110. Cape of Good Hope Spiro Lithographed Forgery of the 4d Blue setting II on white paper in complete sheet of 30 mounted on album page with forged Barred Cancels. Includes varieties. Price $1200 (COGH41) 111. Cape of Good Hope Spiro Lithographed Forgery of the 6d Greyish Slate, printing II early state, on white paper in complete sheet of 30 mounted on album page with forged Barred Cancels. Price $1200 (COGH39) 112. Cape of Good Hope Spiro Lithographed Forgery of the 6d Grey-Lilac, from the later plate II, on white paper in complete sheet of 30 mounted on album page with forged Barred Cancels. Price $1200 (COGH40) 113. Cape of Good Hope Forgery of the 6d Lilac, on white paper in part sheet of 22 mounted on album page with forged Barred Cancels. Price $659 (COGH42)
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DISCOUNT SALE DECEMBER 2020 114. COGH42) Cape of Good Hope Forgery of the 6d Lilac, on white paper in block of 12 with forged Barred Cancels. Price $359 (COGH37) 115. Cape of Good Hope Forgery of the 1/- Green on pale green paper in complete sheet of 30 mounted on album page with forged Barred Cancels. Price $1100 (COGH45) British Commonwealth 116. Ceylon 1866 10d Vermilion Chalon Head SG 58. Nicely used but thinned at left. Cat. £72, price $18 (BC1024) 117. Ceylon 1866 Queen Victoria 3d Rose SG 60 used with faults. Cat. £100, price $25 (BC1025) 118. Falkland Is. 1894/6 Queen Victoria 2½d Ultramarine SG 30. Mint hinged, cat. £50, price $49 (BC1026) 119. Falkland Is. 1891 Queen Victoria 6d Orange-Yellow SG 33. Mint hinged, tiny pen mark in blue top right. cat. £325 price $135 (BC1027) 120. Hong Kong 1940 Centenary set fine postally used cds cancels. SG 163/68 Cat. £30, price $37.50 (HK584) 121. India 1865 Queen Victoria 4a Green SG 64. Nice fine used with light barred cancel. Cat. £40, price $49 (BC1028) 122. Iraq 1920 Officials 12a on 5pi SG 028. Nice used example. Cat. £28, price $35 (BC1031) 123. Iraq 1920 Officials 1R on 10pi SG 028. Mint no gum and with diagonal crease at left. Cat. £60. Good spacefiller, price $15 (BC1030) 124. Iraq 1923 Officials 12a on 5pi SG 039. Mint spacefiller. Cat. £45. Price $12 (BC1032) 125. KUT 1938 KGVI 10/- Perf. 13¼ SG 149, cat. £150. Fresh mint lightly hinged. Price $95 (BC1075) 126. Malaya, Straits Settlements 1902 $1 Dull Green & Black Tablet KEVII SG 119. Fine used with small part cds in violet at lower right corner. Good colour for this, often seen with the green washed out. Cat. £80, price $98 (BC1034) 127. Malaya, Kelantan 1922 Malaya – Borneo Exhibition overprints 4c – 50c, SG 30/33 mint lightly hinged. Cat. £31, price $39 (BC1063) 128. Nauru 1916/23 NAURU ovpt. on GB 2/6d Yellow - Brown Seahorse, De la Rue printing SG 20. Nice lightly hinged example with good perfs. Cat. £70, price $87.50 (BC1033) 129. Niger Coast 1894 Queen Victoria 5d Grey – Lilac SG 49. Fresh mint lightly hinged example, cat. £23, price $29 (BC1035) 130. Nigeria 1938/51 2/6d & 5/- SG 58/59 Good to fine used, cat. £49, price $45 (BC1077) 131. North Borneo 1931 6c Black & Orange Orangutan, SG 296. Fresh mint lightly hinged. Cat. £20, price $25 (BC1037) 132. North Borneo – Labuan 1880 Queen Victoria 2c Yellow – Green, SG 5. Mint hinged example cat £32. Price $29 (BC1041) 133. North Borneo – Labuan 1894/6 12c Orange – Vermilion & Black
Estuarine Crocodile SG 70. Mint hinged example with tiny thin at top. Cat. £23, price $10 (BC1042) 134. North Borneo 1925/28 1c – 8c Fresh Mint unhinged, SG 277/83. Cat £34, price should be at least double for unhinged. Price $69 (BC1060) 135. North Borneo – Labuan 1896 25c Green Coat of Arms SG 80. Attractive mint hinged example, a few perf faults. Cat. £45, price $27 (BC1043) 136. North Borneo – Labuan 1896 Jubilee SG 83/88 fresh mint lightly hinged set minus the 5c. (8c has no gum) Cat. £180, price $175 (BC1058) 137. North Borneo – Labuan 1899 4c on 12c Orange – Vermilion & Black Estuarine Crocodile SG 105. Mint hinged example cat. £45, price $39 (BC1046) 138. North Borneo – Labuan 1899 4c on 24c Coat of Arms SG 107. Mint hinged example with tiny gum thin. Cat. £45, price $32.50 (BC1048) 139. North Borneo – Labuan 1899 4c Surcharges perf. 14 SG 108/10. Fresh mint lightly hinged, cat. £23, price $29 (BC1057) 140. North Borneo – Labuan 1904 Surcharges set of 6, SG 129/34. Fresh mint lightly hinged set cat. £180, price $225 (BC1056) 141. Palestine 1920 3m Chestnut perf. 14, SG 28. Lovely fine used cds example, well centred with full perfs. Cat. £65, price $79 (BC1049) 142. Sarawak 1918 8c Yellow & Black Tablet SG 54 fresh mint hinged. Cat. £20, price $25 (BC1050) 143. Sarawak 1922 Tablet types 2c – 12c SG 63/70. Fresh mint lightly hinged, cat. £30, price $37.50 (BC1054) 144. South Africa – Transvaal 1894 1/- Yellow Green SG 204. Very fine used with part corner squared circle of Pretoria. Fresh & well centred with full perfs. Cat. £35, price $45 (BC1051) 145. South Africa 1933/47 6d Orange Tree horiz. Pair, SG 61. Mint unhinged, very minor gum toning. Cat. £70, price $59 (BC1074) 146. Tonga 1923 2d on 10d King George II black & lake, SG 66. Fine cds postally used, well centred & full perfs. Cat. £70, price $87.50 (BC1052) Rest of the World 147. JAPAN 1915 Emperor Yoshihito Enthronement Set, SG 185/8 Sk# C11-14 mint hinged. Cat. £85, price $89 (JP303) 148. JAPAN 1919 Trial AIRMAIL FLIGHT 1½ + 3sen SG 196/7, cat. £1050 ( Sk# C22-23, Sc C1-C2) mint lightly hinged. RARE! Price $1450 (JP306) 149. JAPAN 1921 50th Anniversary of POSTAL SERVICE set SG 202/5 Scott # 163-166 mint hinged, cat. £360. Some minor toning. Price $329 (JP304) 150. Japan 1955 National Park minisheet SG MS 739, fresh mint unhinged without gum as issued, in original folder. Cat. £39. Price $49 (JP307) 151. Japan 1939 National Parks set, SG 340/3, Fresh Mint Unhinged Blocks of 12. Cat. £240, minor faults affecting only a few, price $399 (JP291)
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DISCOUNT SALE DECEMBER 2020 152. Japan 1939 National Parks set, SG 345/8, Fresh Mint Unhinged. Cat. £25, price $39 (JP293) 153. Japan 1939 National Parks set, SG 345/8, Fresh Mint Unhinged blocks of 4. Cat. £100, price $149 (JP295) 154. Japan 1939 National Parks set, SG 350/3, Mint Lightly Hinged. Cat. £60, price $59 (JP294) 155. Japan 1940 National Parks 10y Red, SG 365, Top left corner block of 6, Fresh Mint Unhinged. Minor gum wrinkle on one. Cat. £63, scarcer than the catalogue suggests, price $110 (JP297) 156. Japan 1950 5th National Athletic Meeting complete sheet of 5 sets, SG 589/92 hinged at bottom selvedge only. Minor toning affects a few stamps, and some perf separation at base. Scarce! Cat. £640 as single sets. Price $1100 (JP299) 157. Japan 1951 6th National Athletic Meeting complete sheet of 10 sets, SG 645/6 hinged at selvedge only. Minor gum wrinkles. Scarce! Cat. £90 as single sets. Price $125 (4 available) (JP300) 158. Japan 1952 Tokyo University SG 687. Complete sheet of 20 Mint Unhinged. Hinged in selvedge only. Minor gum wrinkles. Cat. £420 as singles. Price $615 (JP301) 159. Japan 1949 small cover, from Kobe to Major G Charlesworth B.I.D.I.U. (British Intelligence) At British Commonwealth Occupation Force, Kure. Bears 1949 8y Green SG 537 National Parks issue cancelled by Kobe cds of 9th August. Reverse has printed flap of Taiyo Trading Co. and clear strike No. 8 AUST BASE P.O. cds of 11AU49. Very rare survivor. Neat typed address envelope. Filing crease mentioned for accuracy only and does not detract. Very rare survivor. Price $449 (JP289) U.S.A. 160. USA 1868 grill about 11 x 13, 10c Green Washington Scott 89, centred to lower right, light cork cancel, few uneven perfs at left, Cat $325, Price $199 (USA30) 161. USA 1869 Pictorials 12c Green, Scott 117, centred low, fresh Mint no gum, Cat $725 as MNG, Price $399 (USA26) 162. USA 1869 Pictorials 15c Brown & blue Type I, Scott 118, centred to lower left, tiny hinge thin, fairly light cork cancel, Cat $800, Price $299 (USA27) 163. USA 1869 Pictorials 24c Green & violet, Scott 120, centred a little low but quite good for this issue, couple of nibbled perfs, central cork cancel, Cat $600, Price $449 (USA28) 164. USA 1870-75 Banknote 90c Carmine, quite reasonably centred, horizontal crease at base, light cork cancel, Price $99 (USA29) 165. USA 1893 Columbus 1c to 30c, ex 4c & 5c, Mint (the 10c MNG), 2c & 8c with some black marks on gum and all with heavy hinge remains, usual mixed centring, Cat (10c not included) $580+, Price $299 (USA32)
166. USA 1898 Trans Mississippi 50c Sage green Scott 291, centred to lower left, Good used, Cat $175, Price $99 (USA31) Pricefighter Packets, ready-made collections, pay cents, not $ per stamp! Discounts from this list: Spend $100 and deduct 5%, $101-$250 10%, $251 plus deduct 15% All different in each packet.
A 50 AAT $25.00 100 AAT $50.00 25 ADEN $10.00 50 ADEN $20.00 100 AFRICA $10.00 200 AFRICA $20.00 150 AITUTAKI $140.00 50 AITUTAKI (MINT) $50.00 50 ALBANIA $14.00 100 ALBANIA $24.00 50 ALGERIA $11.00 25 ANDORA - SPANISH MINT $20.00 25 ANDORRA - FRENCH MINT $20.00 50 ANDORRA - FRENCH MINT $60.00 50 ANDORRA - SPANISH MINT $60.00 25 ANTIGUA $5.00 200 ARAB STATES $12.00 100 ARGENTINA $6.00 200 ARGENTINA $15.00 500 ARGENTINA $56.00 25 ASCENSION (MINT) $42.00 100 AUST. (DEC MINT U/H) $55.00 100 AUST. (PREDEC. MINT U/H) $64.00 200 AUSTRALIA $5.00
300 AUSTRALIA $8.00 400. AUSTRALIA $13.50 500. AUSTRALIA $17.00 600 AUSTRALIA $27.50 800 AUSTRALIA $40.00 1000 AUSTRALIA $62.00 250 AUSTRALIA CTO PACK $60.00 300 AUSTRALIA CTO PACK $70.00 50 AUSTRALIA INTERNATIONAL STAMPS $100 100 AUSTRALIA INTERNATIONAL STAMPS $170.00 25 AUSTRALIAN STATES $30.00 50 AUSTRALIAN STATES $96.00 10 AUSTRALIAN STATES - NSW $16.00 10 AUSTRALIAN STATES -QLD $20.00 10 AUSTRALIAN STATES - SA $24.00 10 AUSTRALIAN STATES - WA $30.00 100 AUSTRIA $7.00 100 AUSTRIA (LARGE COMMEMS) $50.00 300 AUSTRIA (MINT, MOSTLY LARGE COMMEM) $80.00 500 AUSTRIA (MOSTLY MINT) $130.00
B 25 BAHAMAS $30.00 50 BAHAMAS (MINT SETS) $50.00 50 BAHRAIN $72.00
50 BARBADOS $40.00 50 BAVARIA $40.00 100 BAVARIA $110.00 100 BELGIAN CONGO $32.00
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DISCOUNT SALE DECEMBER 2020 50 BRAZIL $80.00 200 BELGIAN CONGO $100.00 100 BRAZIL $18.00 100 BELGIUM $6.00 200 BRAZIL $36.00 200 BELGIUM $15.00 100 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH 300 BELGIUM $28.00 $6.00 500 BELGIUM $50.00 200 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH 100 BELGIUM COLONIES $16.00 $10.00 300 BELGIUM COLONIES $80.00 500 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH 25 BERMUDA $24.00 100 BERMUDA $90.00 $30.00 1000 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH 100 BHUTAN $30.00 MINT (COMM) $190.00 50 BOHEMIA MORAVIA $8.00 50 BRITISH HONDURAS (LARGE 100 BOHEMIA MORAVIA $24.00 COMMEMS) $40.00 150 BOHEMIA MORAVIA $55.00 25 BRITISH HONDURAS AND BELIZE 25 BOLIVIA $10.00 $9.00 50 BOLIVIA $20.00 25 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA 25 BRITISH VIRGIN ISL. (MINT SETS) $36.00 $20.00 50 BRITISH WEST INDIES $10.00 75 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA 100 BRITISH WEST INDIES $14.00 $70.00 25 BRUNEI $30.00 150 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA 100 BULGARIA $7.00 $170.00 200 BULGARIA $17.00 25 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA (MUH 300 BULGARIA $36.00 IN SETS) $50.00 100 BURUNDI $20.00 100 BR. POST OFFICE AGENCIES $100.00
C 25 CAMBODIA $16.00 100 CAMBODIA $115.00 500 CANADA $36.00 1000 CANADA $100.00 100 CANADA (MINT COMM) $50.00 25 CAPE VERDE $10.00 25 CAYMAN ISL $20.00 50 CAYMAN ISL (MINT SETS) $50.00 100 CHANNEL ISLANDS $30.00 150 CHANNEL ISLANDS (MINT) $90.00 200 CHANNEL ISLANDS, MINT SETS $110.00 100 CHILE $20.00 200 CHILE $50.00 100 CHINA $39.00
200 CHINA $100.00 300 CHINA $200.00 500 CHINA $350.00 50 CHINA AND TAIWAN $16.00 100 CHINA (LARGE MINT, ALL COMP.) $60.00 25 CHRISTMAS ISLAND $14.00 50 CHRISTMAS ISLAND $33.00 75 CHRISTMAS ISLAND $50.00 100 CHRISTMAS ISLAND $100.00 150 CHRISTMAS ISLAND $150.00 200 CHRISTMAS ISLAND $230.00 25 COCOS ISLAND $8.00 50 COCOS ISLAND $38.00 75 COCOS ISLAND $60.00 100 COCOS ISLAND $132.00 300 COLOMBIA $140.00 400 COOK ISLANDS $560.00
300 CUBA $36.00 50 CURACAO & ANTILLES $60.00 25 CYPRUS $20.00 50 CYPRUS $40.00 100 CYPRUS $80.00 500 CZECHOSLOVAKIA $17.00 100 CZECHOSL0VAKIA (ALL MINT) $17.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (POST WAR) $11.00 200 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (WINDOW DISPLAY) $15.00
500 COOK ISLANDS $650.00 750 COOK ISLANDS $1280.00 1000 COOK ISLANDS $2000.00 50 COSTA RICA (MINT SETS) $20.00 50 CROATIA (NEW REP.) $20.00 50 CROATIA (PRE WAR) $20.00 50 CROATIA (PRE WAR, MINT) $30.00 50 CROATIA (POST WAR, MINT) $40.00 100 CUBA $9.00
D 50 DANZIG $60.00 100 DANZIG $140.00 100 DENMARK $6.00 200 DENMARK $12.00 500 DENMARK $60.00 25 DOMINICA BR. $10.00 50 DOMINICA BR. $20.00
100 DOMINICA BR. $50.00 50 DOMINICA BR. (KGVI & QEII) $40.00 50 DOMINICAN REP. $18.00 100 DOMINICA REP. $40.00 200 DOMINICAN REP. $80.00
E 50 ECUADOR $8.00 200 ECUADOR $96.00 400 ECUADOR $120.00 500 ECUADOR $150.00 100 EGYPT $30.00 200 EGYPT $76.00
50 EGYPT - M/UH ALL COMPL. SETS $30.00 50 EGYPT + 4 M/S $30.00 25 EQUATORIAL GUINEA (M/SHEET CTO) $11.00 50 ESTONIA $66.00
F 20 FALKLAND ISL. COMPL. MINT SETS $100.00 100 FAROS ISLAND (MINT SETS) $130.00 50 FAROS ISLAND (MINT) $60.00 50 FIJI $18.00 100 FIJI $50.00 250 FIJI $140.00 100 FINLAND $18.00 300 FINLAND $60.00 500 FINLAND $140.00 10 FIUME $7.00 100 FRANCE $10.00 200 FRANCE $20.00
500 FRANCE $90.00 200 FRENCH COLONIES $20.00 500 FRENCH COLONIES $70.00 100 FRENCH COLONIES (AFTER INDEPENDENCE) $6.00 100 FRENCH COLONIES (PRE INDEPENDENCE) $27.90 50 FRENCH COLONIES (PRE WAR) $10.00 100 FRENCH COLONIES (PRE WAR) $30.00 100 FRENCH MAROCO $25.00 50 FRENCH POLYNESIA $50.00
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DISCOUNT DECEMBER 2020 G 150 GILBERT, KIRIBATI, TUVALU $90.00 360 GILBERT, KIRIBATI, TUVALU $190.00 400 GILBERT, KIRIBATI, TUVALU $225.00 50 GREAT BRITAIN $7.00 100 GREAT BRITAIN $9.00 1000 GREAT BRITAIN $196.00 200 GREAT BRITAIN (LARGE COMMEMS) $36.00 500 GREAT BRITAIN (LARGE COMMEMS) $70.00 100 GREAT BRITAIN (LARGE COMMEMS) $12.00 50 GREECE $10.00 100 GREECE $24.00 100 GREENLAND $130.00 100 GRENADA MINT $24.00 50 GUATEMALA $14.00 100 GUATEMALA $60.00 25 GUINEA M/S $10.00 50 GUINEA REP. $6.00 100 GUINEA REP. (LARGE PICT.) $10.00
50 GERMAN REICH $13.00 25 GERMANY $5.00 100 GERMANY $7.00 300 GERMANY $18.00 1000 GERMANY $70.00 500 GERMANY EAST $40.00 50 GERMANY INFLATION (MINT) $11.00 100 GERMANY INFLATION (MINT) $22.00 500 GERMANY WEST $60.00 800 GERMANY WEST $100.00 50 GERMANY WEST (LARGE COMMEMS) $11.00 100 GERMANY WEST (LARGE COMMEMS) $20.00 50 GHANA $50.00 100 GHANA $70.00 200 GHANA $120.00 500 GILBERT, KIRIBATI, TUVALU $270.00 25 GILBERT, KIRIBATI, TUVALU $12.00 50 GILBERT, KIRIBATI TUVALU $30.00
H 50 HAITI $18.00 100 HAITI $30.00 200 HAITI $70.00 100 HOLLAND $7.00 200 HOLLAND $14.00 300 HOLLAND $30.00 200 HONDURAS $80.00 100 HONDURAS REP. $60.00 25 HONG KONG $6.00 100 HONG KONG $36.00
200 HONG KONG $100.00 100 HUNGARY $6.00 500 HUNGARY $50.00 2000 HUNGARY $150.00 3000 HUNGARY $440.00 200 HUNGARY (LARGE PICT.) $18.00 300 HUNGARY (LARGE PICT.) $36.00
I 50 ICELAND $24.00 100 ICELAND $60.00 25 ICELAND MINT $20.00 100 INDIA $6.00 200 INDIA $16.00
500 INDIA $120.00 25 INDO-CHINA $8.00 50 INDO-CHINA $50.00 100 INDONESIA $10.00 200 INDONESIA $24.00
300 INDONESIA $56.00 100 IRAN $20.00 300 IRAN $60.00 500 IRAN $120.00 300 IRELAND $210.00 400 IRELAND $240.00 500 IRELAND $280.00 50 IRELAND (ALL MINT COMPL.) $50.00
100 ISRAEL $16.00 200 ISRAEL $50.00 20 ISRAEL COMPLETE MINT SETS $90.00 50 ITALIAN COLONIES $60.00 100 ITALY $6.00 200 ITALY $16.00 300 ITALY $36.00 500 ITALY $80.00
J 100 JAPAN (ALL MINT) $90.00 100 JAPAN (COMMEMS) $20.00
50 JERSEY $30.00
K 100 KIRIBATI $80.00 100 KOREA NORTH (LARGE PICT.) $10.00
50 KOREA NORTH (M/SHEET) $20.00 50 KOREA SOUTH $24.00
L 50 LAOS $8.00 20 LAOS PRE WAR $6.00 100 LATIN AMERICA $10.00 300 LATIN AMERICA $50.00 500 LATIN AMERICA $100.00 50 LATVIA $44.00 75 LATVIA (PRE WAR) $100.00 100 LEBANON $60.00 50 LIBERIA $9.00 100 LIBERIA $25.00
200 LIBERIA $35.00 25 LIECHTENSTEIN $10.00 50 LIECHTENSTEIN $36.00 25 LITHUANIA $10.00 50 LITHUANIA $30.00 100 LITHUANIA $100.00 50. LUXEMBOURG $8.00 100 LUXEMBOURG $21.00 200 LUXEMBOURG $50.00 300 LUXEMBOURG $70.00
M 50 MACAU $60.00 200 MALAYA AND SINGAPORE $50.00 100 MALAYSIA $13.00 100 MALDIVES $40.00 100 MALTA $10.00 500 MALTA $140.00 50 MAURITIUS $30.00 100 MAURITIUS $60.00 100 MEXICO $24.00
200 MEXICO $60.00 500 MEXICO $110.00 50 MONACO $18.00 100 MONACO (MINT) $40.00 100 MONGOLIA $10.00 25 MONTENEGRO $20.00 50 MONTENEGRO $50.00 100 MONTSERRAT $114.00 20 MONTSERRAT COMPLETE SETS (MINT) $100.00
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PC RP England, King Edward VII, the Proclamation of his Majesty King Edward Viii, procession of Life Guards & Heralds from St James Palace, Ex Keith Harrison, unused $20.00 (EPC1113)
PC RP England, King Edward VIII, HRH the Prince of Wales, Ex Keith Harrison, unused $20.00 (EPC1119)
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Coolgardie Cycle mail Set of 3 in Blocks of 4 2/- and 5/- Rejoined blocks some thin spots. $ 3,000.00
Merry Christmas to All.
Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation AusVipex 2020 AusVipex 2020 is the Australian virtual one-frame exhibition organized by the Australian Philatelic Federation. The exhibits and the results are still available for viewing on the website: ausvipex2020.com.au. Most philatelic classes are represented including Traditional, Postal History, Postal Stationery, Open, Revenues and the newest FIP class of Postcards. There are also exhibits from Australian experimental classes such as First Day Covers and Topical. This is a great opportunity to see these exhibits without having to travel to the exhibition. Christmas Feasts Christmas is celebrated in many ways all over the world, so it’s no surprise that the philately for the holiday includes thousands of stamps and covers. The Christmas theme is among the world’s most popular topical areas to collect. Many nations have issued commemorative stamps for Christmas that usually go on sale sometime between early October and early December. Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without lots of delicious food. The traditional Christmas dinner can take place any time from Christmas Eve to the evening of Christmas Day itself. The food is often particularly rich and substantial and eaten in large celebrations with family and friends. The actual dinner varies in different parts of the world with regional cuisines and local traditions. In many parts of the world, particularly former British colonies, the
Figure 2: U.K., 1979 Christmas cracker 50 - Stamp News
Figure 1: Christmas Island, 2019 Christmas Feast meal shares some connection with the English Christmas dinner involving roasted meats and a pudding of some description. In countries, without a Christian tradition, the Christmas meal may be more heavily influenced by popular culture. There are tales behind some of the most popular Christmas foods. Christmas Food Traditions Around the World Australia As you stuff the turkey, cook the ham, boil the plum pudding or snack on mince pies this Christmas, you might be wondering why we stick with these traditions in Australia in the middle of summer. The Christmas Island miniature sheet in figure 1 shows us celebrating with many festive foods are steeped in ancient northern hemisphere practices where the weather is much colder at Christmas. Christmas pudding started in early 15th-century England as plum porridge, made from
Figure 3: U.K., 1993 Christmas turkey
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Philatelic Development Officer, APF Figure 5: New Zealand, 2004 Christmas ham through the winter. Inserting a silver coin for wealth or a thimble for luck into the pudding can be traced back to the cake enjoyed at the Twelfth Night celebrations held at the end of the 12 days of Christmas.
Figure 4: U.K., 2010 plum pudding chopped beef or lamb, onions, vegetables, dried fruit, breadcrumbs, and wine. During the 16th century, the meat and vegetables started to disappear, and it became a pudding. This rich dish was served on feast days and has been a Christmas regular since the 1670s. In the Yule festival, the pudding was set alight to symbolise the rebirth of the Sun and topped with a piece of holly to represent everlasting life
Figure 6: New Zealand, 2013 outdoor feast with traditional food, berries and pavlova
Great Britain Christmas dinner in the United Kingdom is usually eaten on 25 December. The traditional meal consists of turkey, pheasant, duck or goose, served with stuffing, gravy, Yorkshire puddings, cranberry sauce and vegetables, particularly Brussels sprouts. A Christmas cracker (see figure 2) is placed next to each plate at the dinner table. When the crackers are pulled, a coloured paper crown, a small toy and a joke fall out. Turkey hasn’t always had pride of place at the festive table. Before explorer Sebastian Cabot introduced turkey to England in the 16th century, the rich feasted on peacock or swan, while boar’s head was the main course for everyone else. But once it arrived, turkey quickly became the most popular Christmas meat in Britain and it is even immortalised in Charles Dickens’s 1843 classic tale A Christmas Carol, in which Scrooge’s first act of generosity is to buy a Christmas turkey for the family of his badly treated employee Bob Cratchit (see figure 3). The dessert is plum pudding (see figure 4), mince pies or trifle, with brandy butter or cream. Today’s mince pies are a lot more appealing than those of medieval times where the parcels contained meat or liver mixed with hard-boiled egg and ginger. Over time the filling was improved. By the 1800s the mince had become a mixture of dried fruits, chopped nuts, spices, lemon juice with brandy. It’s said that if you eat a mince pie in a different house on each of the 12 days of Christmas you’re guaranteed to have a Stamp News - 51
Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation happy year, as each mince pie will bring you a happy month. New Zealand New Zealand Christmas is like Britain and Australia. They share traditions, like turkey, mince pies and Christmas pudding and they often serve a ham (see figure 5). Whether it’s glazed and baked or eaten cold off the bone, ham finds its way into most Christmas celebrations (including sandwiches for days afterwards!). Pork has featured in festivities since ancient times. The Romans ate boar during the Saturnalia festival in honour of the god Adonis, who was slain by a boar and whose birthday is celebrated on December 25. Due to New Zealanders celebrating Christmas in the summer, it is also common to barbecue, and eat seasonal vegetables and fruit such as cherries and strawberries. One popular dish is pavlova topped with pomegranate seeds and Chantilly cream (see figure 6). France In France and many other French-speaking countries, a Réveillon is a long dinner, and possibly party, held on the evenings preceding Christmas Day or New Year’s Day. The name of this dinner is based on the word réveil (meaning “waking”), because participation involves staying awake until midnight. Dishes might include roast turkey with chestnuts, roast
Figure 9: Åland, 2002 gravadlax salmon 52 - Stamp News
Figure 7: France, 2007 Strasbourg market Figure 8: Italy, 1950 Rome special cancellation Panettone goose, oysters, foie gras, lobster, venison and cheeses. Christkindelsmarik, the oldest Christmas market in France, is a joyful celebration in Strasbourg that has started four to five centuries ago (see figure 7). The market is a long-standing tradition of the representation of the “Child Jesus.” With more than 300 stalls, parades, an ice rink and much more, Christkindelsmarik proves to be a large and festive celebration with many different dishes from various stalls. Millions of people come to visit and celebrate the festivities and food involved at this Christmas festival. Italy Traditional Christmas feasts in Italy vary depending on the region. The Feast of the Seven Fishes, a famous Christmas Eve feast called la Vigilia, is a tradition that came from Southern Italy. It consists of seven seafood dishes, symbolic of the number seven, which is the most repeated number in the bible. Some popular dishes are baccala (salt cod), baked cod, fried calamari, fried shrimp, linguine with lobster sauce, octopus salad and shrimp cocktail. In
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Philatelic Development Officer, APF permint flavouring were added in the 19th century.
Spain Christmas dinner in Spain centres around family and includes an exceptionally long dinner consisting of dishes Figure 10: Finland, 2007 candy canes that come from Figure 11: Lithuania, 2019 kūčiukai traditional famiNorthern Italy, they usually eat poultry, ly recipes. They often stuffed and roasted. begin the meal Christmas sweets vary by region. with various tapas, then move on to soup as the first In Southern Italy, they serve marzipan, biscuits, course, usually a seafood soup. The second course zeppole, cannoli, candied fruits, and fresh fruits. In is usually fish and/or lamb. Dessert includes a few Northern Italy, they eat a cake enriched with canoptions, but Turrón, a nougat, is a tradition. It is a died fruits, chocolate, raisins or pine nuts, known as sweet dish like a nougat made from honey, almonds, panettone. In the last few decades, panettone (see and egg whites. You’ll find it throughout the country, figure 8) has become popular as a Christmas sweet all but traditionally it comes from the Valencia region. over Italy. Scandinavia Christmas celebrations involve a long evening feasting on a buffet of traditional foods on Christmas eve. In Finland, they call it Joulupöytä and in Norway, Julaften Classic fish dishes like gravadlax salmon (see figure 9), herring prepared a thousand ways and lutefisk are served on thick slices of rye bread. The main dish is usually a large Christmas ham and casseroles with potatoes, rutabaga (swedes), or carrots. The dessert Ris á la mande is a cold rice pudding with whipped cream, vanilla, almonds, and a hot cherry sauce. There is a peeled almond hidden in the dessert bowl, and whoever finds it gets a present. There is plenty to satisfy Scandinavia’s collective sweet tooth as Christmas approaches, with candy canes (see figure 10) and chocolate. The traditional beverage is mulled wine. Candy canes were originally white and straight, but a popular story states that in 1670, the choirmaster at Cologne Cathedral in Germany bent them into canes to represent a shepherd’s staff and gave them to his bored, young singers to keep them quiet during Christmas mass. The red-and-white stripes and pep-
Eastern Europe You won’t see any ham or turkey on the Christmas table in Poland, as it’s a meat-free day. The dinner, called Wiglia, begins when the first star appears in the sky. Nothing can be eaten until all the members of the family have broken the Christmas wafers together and exchanged wishes for good health and prosperity. Traditionally, 12 dishes are served for dinner, which represents the 12 apostles. These include the very popular red borscht with tiny dumplings, mushroom soup, carp, herring, pierogi, braised sauerkraut, cabbage rolls, kutia (wheat berry pudding), gingerbread, poppyseed cake, and dried fruit. In the Czech Republic, Štědrý den translates to “Generous Day,” probably for the wealth of food that has traditionally been served for Christmas dinner. Fish soup is the first course. The main dish is usually fried carp with potato salad. Vánočka is a Czech sweet bread that is braided and made with raisins and almonds, served for breakfast. Lithuania has Kūčiukai (see figure 11), small dough bits made of plain flour, water, and poppy seeds that resemble cookies. They are only made for Stamp News - 53
Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Figure 12: USA, 2013 gingerbread houses Figure 13: Canada, gingerbread dolls
Christmas and are served as a table centrepiece. Poppyseed milk, which is Lithuanian eggnog, is a beloved holiday drink. USA In America, both Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner is traditionally turkey or ham, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy. Cookies of many kinds are also used to celebrate Christmas in America. They can be gingerbread, snickerdoodles, or sugar cookies baked throughout December and fashioned into many shapes and figures. Gingerbread is used to make edible Christmas tree ornaments or gingerbread houses (see figure 12). Gingerbread has been popular in Europe since the essential ingredients (spices, sugars, almonds and citrus fruits) were brought back from the Middle East in the 11th century. It has since evolved in different ways. In some countries, gingerbread is a moist and spicy-sweet cake, while others enjoy it as moulded biscuits. Gingerbread men were first made by Catholic monks for saints’ days and festivals. Large, fancy carved “cookie boards” pushed a pattern into the dough, creating biscuits which showed celebrated saints and religious motifs. 54 - Stamp News
Canada In English-speaking Canada, much of Christmas dinner is like that of Britain with turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes and vegetables. For dessert, pumpkin or apple pie, raisin pudding, Christmas pudding, or fruitcake are the staple. Like Christmas pudding the fruitcake started as plum porridge, then in the 16th century, it became popular to add butter, replace the oatmeal with wheat flour and add eggs to hold it together, making a plum cake that was eaten to celebrate the Twelfth Night. In England, Stir-up Sunday (five weeks before Christmas) is considered the final day that fruitcakes and puddings can be made so they have time to age. According to tradition, all family members must take a turn at stirring the mixture, which must be done in a clockwise direction with eyes shut while making a wish. In French-speaking Canada, traditions may be more like those of France and hold a Réveillon. Eggnog, a milk-based punch that is often infused with alcohol, is also popular around the holiday season. Other Christmas items include Christmas cookies, butter tarts, and shortbread, which are traditionally baked before the holidays (see figure 13). South America A traditional Christmas dinner in Curacao includes large quantities of culinary delights such as Christmas ham, salted, dried salmon pickled in vinegar and onions, Christmas cake, Quesillo (flan), and Ponche Crema (locally made eggnog) (see figure 14). Tamales are a very important traditional Costa Rican and Honduras Christmas. Tamales (see figure 15) are eaten year-round now, but traditionally, they were only made for Christmas. The ingredients can vary depending on each family’s preferred recipe, but they’re usually made with a mix of ground corn, pork, carrots, rice, sweet pepper, and achiote, then wrapped in a plantain leaf and cooked. Other dishes include
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Figure 14: Curacao, 2011 Christmas delights Figure 15: Honduras, 2019 tamales rompope, a homemade eggnog; pierna de cerdo asada, or roast pork; and El Queque Navideño, a Christmas cake made of rum and candied fruit. Like many other countries in South America, roast suckling pig is a big part of Christmas dinner in Peru. The meal also includes things like applesauce, tamales, potato purée, and a rice dish. A popular sweet dish is panetón that pairs especially well with another Peruvian Christmas tradition, spiced hot chocolate, made with cloves and cinnamon. In Mexico, it’s a tradition to eat dinner late at night with family on Christmas Eve. The meal includes typical dishes like tamales, bacalao (dried salt cod), pozole (a soup made of pork or chicken with garlic and chilli), and buñuelos, fried dough with sugar. But on January 6th, they celebrate El Dia de los Reyes, which is considered the height of the Christmas season. This means the day of The Three Kings, and on that day, families eat a special cake called Three Kings cake or Twelfth Night cake. There is a figure of the Baby Jesus hidden inside, and whoever finds it becomes the “godparent” of Jesus for that year. Philippines Christmas dinner in the Philippines is called Noche Buena following Hispanic custom and is held towards midnight of 24 December. This usually comes after the entire family has attended the late evening Mass called the Misa de Gallo (“Mass of the Rooster”). The centrepiece of the Noche Buena is often the hamón which is usually a cured leg of pork. This is usually served with queso de bola, literally a ball of Edam cheese covered in red wax. Other ubiquitous dishes are pasta and for dessert, fruit salad. The
dinner would usually be accompanied with tsokolate or hot cocoa, which is made with pure, locally grown cacao beans. The Christmas stamp in figure 16 was designed by the PHLPost’s in-house graphic designer Rodine Teodoro. It shows the variety of sumptuous dishes that are served during this famous Filipino Christmas dinner like pancit, hamon, queso de bola, puto bumbong, bibingka, fruit salad, suman, and many more. Japan It’s traditional in Japan to eat Christmas foods such as seafood, rice and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Yes, you read that right - KFC. Every Christmas season about 3.6 million Japanese families treat themselves to fried chicken from the American fast-food chain, in what has become a nationwide tradition. Getting the KFC special Christmas dinner often requires ordering it weeks in advance or you will wait in line at the shop for hours. Takeshi Okawara, the manager of the first KFC in the country, dreamt up the idea for a “party barrel” to be sold at Christmas in 1970. It was an instant hit. In 1974, KFC took the marketing plan nationwide, calling it Kurisumasu ni wa Kentakkii, or Kentucky for Christmas. Stamp News - 55
Market Matters New finds always possible!
As I have typed 100 times over 40+ years, “The Last word In Philately Is NEVER Written”. New and exciting things turn up all the time. Often very important discoveries. Some are very immediately obvious, like a sideways watermark on stamps not recorded with them before etc. A good example of that was the 1914 1d Red KGV head stamp from Australia - a century after it was issued, one turned up in a junk collection - from Scotland as I recall, with watermark sideways. Hard to believe that such a find could be uncovered more than a century after first being issued, but it did. The 1d Red KGV is generally regarded as the most studied stamp issue on earth. About 100 different shades of ”Red” are listed and priced in the ACSC specialised catalogue, and This is a £50,000 stamp!
“Treated and Faked”. Sold for $A56,250. 56 - Stamp News
there are also various different Dies and different WWI emergency papers it was printed on etc. From Australia, that is a $50,000+ piece, and such an item was indeed discovered in recent years. It is shown nearby - it was creased, torn, thinned and stained, but still sold for a mega sum at Phoenix Auction in Melbourne. SG 21cz, £50,000. ACSC 71aa, $A85,000. After the publicity following its discovery, another example was reported soon afterwards. The same occurred with the 1913 ½d Kangaroo - SG #1. Simon Dunkerely discovered the first sideways watermarked example of that one 30 years ago in a junk lot. He submitted it the the RPSV for a Certificate. Ray Chapman it is believed stated: “I do not own one, and have never seen one, therefore it MUST be fake” and the RPSV gave it a Certificate as “treated and faked”. That howlingly wrong Certificate is shown nearby. How on earth can anyone fake a sideways watemark, on an oblong perforated stamp? Disheartened, Simon sold it to Rodney Perry for a pittance. Rod simply mailed it to the BPA in London, who had none of Chapman’s prejudice, and within months it had a clear BPA Certificate, and ended up in Arthur
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Ugly as sin, but sold for $A31,200 Gray’s $A7.15 milion Kangaroo collection, getting $A56,250. FOUR more copies later were discovered. Two of them perforated large “OS” were found recently.
World’s most inept Certificate?
It is to my mind THE most inept “Certificate” I have ever seen issued, from any “Expert” (sic) Committee, from anywhere, at any time, for any stamp. Most especially when it was submitted by Simon Dunkerley, who knew more about Roos that the entire Committee bundled together, and later on went to issue his own Photo Certificates - doubtless inspired by this travesty. After all the global publicity two more examples of this sideways watermark were then quickly discovered - the watermarks pointing in the OTHER direction to Simon’s example, proving at least 2 master sheets of 480 existed. Then, 16 years later, 2 more turned up, both perforated Large “OS” this time, just to be different! Mossgreen Auctions auctioned those two “OS” examples in February 2017, that had turned up in an
unchecked old lot. One was rather faulty. For the record, the very ugly off centred copy with ripped out perfs and toning shown nearby, estimated at $A7,500, was invoiced for $A31,200 - over 4 times estimate. Value about $1 otherwise. So do check your ½d Roos - many more must still exist in old albums. Other finds are not so easy to spot, or as clearly, and that is where an eagle eye comes in. I was sorting some loose Tasmania stamps this week I bought from The Townsville Hoard. Eight huge removalist cartons we few back with from Townsville, which had a 3 generation collection in there, and some very serious material among it. Many photos of that adventure here - tinyurl.com/TownsV The owners of the collection just wanted a fair and honest offer for the lot, as they were leery of the high auction fees, GST taxes on al fees, huge shipping costs and insurance, and of the stamp auctions that had gone into liquidation etc. They had bought off me in the past, so I was invited up, and advised to bring my cheque book.
Haul it all away please.
An interesting trip - we had a lovely dinner up there with a bunch of local stampboards members. It was 3 hours of flying to get up there, and Townsville is 1,700 km as the crow flies, or over 2,000 km to drive it - 23 hours non-stop! Very pretty part of the world, and indeed Margo’s parents first met up there, whilst serving during WW2. We had rented the largest 4WD Avis had, and schlepped it all back to our Hotel “Suite” to sort them out roughly. We only had a day or so before the flight home, and it was school holidays as I recall, so could not get another flight out for days. We had removal boxes stacked in the lounge room, bedroom, and the hallways! I sold about 8 or 10 removalist cartons online to stampboards members whilst up there. One chap also bought over 100 KILOS of coins and banknotes sight unseen, collected by an Army mate, which had stacks of silver and gold bullion coinage, and banknotes going back to £10 KGV etc. Half a room full. Best buy of his life I’d suggest! But quite imStamp News - 57
Market Matters possible for us to get home. Virgin only allowed 4 cartons each to be checked though, 8 in all, so all the rest needed to be sold at silly low prices by the carton on stampboards, based on a few hurried pix, or given away to the stamp club there etc. We piled up the rental 4WD and headed to the little Belgian Gardens Post Office there, with a dozen large cartons of stuff to mail to the lucky buyers. The hoard had masses of mint blocks and sheets, so we pre-plastered the sides of these cartons with mint stamps. Luckily, I mail an awful lot of parcels, so have a good ‘’feel’’ as to what sort of cost that runs to. Heavy parcel rates to or from North Queensland are terrifying of course, so these boxes cost buyers One corner of just ONE room! $60 or $70 in postage - lucky nice stamps were used! date-stamper to me, and said if I did it, she could not The bemused staffer at Belgian be blamed for blurry strikes! She later added up all Gardens PO, I do not think had ever seen massive the franking, and luckily my guesswork was good, boxes plastered with full sheets of stamps down the and she was impressed - all were a little overpaid. sides, on her counter. When I asked her to cancel It was an amazing hoard, and formed around them nicely, she looked mortified and handed the issue time of the stamps, going back the Queensland State issues, and with lots of 1913 Mint Roos blocks and even sheets of lower values etc. I am very slowly working through it, and list up a few more interesting pieces that catch my eye, whenever I get 10 minutes spare, here and there! Will take me 20 years to wade through it all. For me, a once in a lifetime Aladdin’s Cave, and I grab a few now and again from one of the 100s of stockbooks, and scan them up and add them for sale to my Rarity Page. None of these stamps has EVER been on the stamp market before, in the past Century or so. So buyers get to be the FIRST collector to own it since, which is pretty cool at About 25% of the “Townsville Hoard”! times. 58 - Stamp News
Glen Stephens red “Tombstone” transit cancel of nearby Hobart - “PRE-PAID - 27 MR - 1869”. So that one was clearly struck 2 days after the manuscript marking was inscribed at Oyster Cove. Got out my John Hardinge superb and recent, hard-bound “Tasmania Postmarks” handbook, and even in the index, there is not a single reference to OYSTER COVE. Odd. So more research entailed, as I was getting very interested in this now. I sent out an “SOS” to stampboard members, and more info came flowing is - a great read - tinyurl.com/OysterCove for more background on these. It was like a giant philatelic jigsaw puzzle! Can YOU read the top line of this?
A Postage Stamp Detective Story.
Only 12 Aboriginals remained.
PPA tells us Oyster Cove was a “Receiving House” from 6/4/1857 to 8/9/1873. No cancel was ever issued for this tiny speck. Why? As it seems the population there was largely the tiny remainder of the Tasmanian Aboriginals. These included the last one to survive, Truganini - who of course was depicted on the striking 10c stamp from 1975, shown nearby. The University report in the link nearby shows only 12 aboriginals still remained alive there in 1869, when this Oyster Cove manuscript cancel letter was mailed. The rest had died. Truganini herself died a few year later, and is accepted as being the last Tasmania Aboriginal person. Indeed she may well be one of the women in this really ancient photograph, as only a few females were alive in 1858, when it was taken by Bishop of
One piece that caught my eye this week from “The Hoard”, were 2 snippings off mail from Tasmania, in an old envelope along with other near worthless mail clippings. To many readers, of little interest am sure, with a pen cancelled 6d Violet, and 2 x non full marginned later imperfs. But something about the pen cancel 6d made me look twice at it. Soaked off the piece, 99% of those reading this would assume it was fiscal use, as the vast bulk of these 6d Queens were indeed used thus. But some nagging dealer instinct told me it was worth looking into closer. Clearly both letters were in same handwriting, and obviously to the same person. I could not read the wording on top line of 6d. Margo looked, and had no idea. Handwriting from 150 years back is not easy to read, and the first word was not leaping out at me. The letters were TINY! After a bit of guessing at words, I came up with OYSTER. Typed that into google and voila, up came OYSTER COVE as a tiny remote location. So what we have here, and not seen by anyone for over 150 years most likely, is a neat manuscript cancel “Oyster Cove - 25 March 1869”. Alongside there is a clear Probably unseen for 150 years.
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Market Matters Tasmania, Dr. Nixon. An INCREDIBLY early photo from Tasmania, on any subject matter. I researched it - real photos from the 1850s are most unusual. So a tiny little piece of Australian and Aboriginal history, all intertwined into these tiny pieces in The Hoard. I asked Tasmania postmark guru John Hardinge what he guessed the poorly struck barred numeral cancel might be on the 2d and 4d imperfs, and he very tentatively guessed at “66”. That numeral has long rumoured to have been allocated to Oyster Cove, but no strike of it has ever been seen or recorded. It might be an inverted strike of Aboriginal women at Oyster Cove. that numeral cancel - what do YOU think? Certainly the last number seems to be an noted in the Tasmania Philatelic Society journal, to inverted “6” if you look carefully, and there are no add to the data base on this scarce manuscript markother obvious other numbers. ing. tinyurl.com/OysterCove is the ongoing stampboards discussion on it. As they cost me essentially “Can’t go broke making a profit” nothing, I mentioned on there I’d priced them at I auction nothing, as I prefer fast turnover, and a $A100 the pair on pieces, if anyone collected this CERTAIN result, so price things at a little more than area. One clever member then I paid. Pretty simple really! My came up with public auction restamp mentor, Ken Baker, (who alisations, for lesser examples, of lived to age 104!) the most sucthe Oyster Cove cancel manuscript cessful dealer ever in this country, that has been invoiced for over stressed time and time again, to $A1,000. Dumb ole Glen! always remember his sage advice And there were several other “Son, you CAN’T go broke making mega $100 realisations added there a quick profit”. for this rare cancel - all clearly in Ken Baker did not have a the same florid pen handwriting Harvard MBA, and neither do I, as used on this new discovery, and but oddly, simple and time proven clearly from the same person. The business principles, often work first to pounce on them was well better than fanciful theory, and known dealer/collector/FIP Judge greedy mark-ups - that often sees David Benson, and best of British dealer stock sit around for deluck to him with them. cades! Ken handled every rarity I am sure he will make many this country has even seen, from $100s on the quick purchase. the MUH pane 60 of the £2 Roo, Several keen Tasmanian postmark the 2d KGV Tête-bêche pair, 3d collectors contacted me privately Kooka Imperf Mini Sheet etc. Truganini - the last Tasmanian about it, and hopefully it can be Some several times. Aboriginal. 60 - Stamp News
Glen Stephens
Bunnies paid $450 for photocopy! cancelled, as the dated cancels are before 1863. (If you can read them!) and the other 4 are handwritten numerals. Many collectors and dealers would in isolation, regard them as pen cancelled fiscal used stamps, as the later numeral watermark imperfs of the same colours mostly were.
Steer clear of ScamBay.
All these are postally used There was no “Stamp Duty Act” until October 1863 so pen cancels on ALL Tasmania stamps used before then MUST be postally used, as usage of postage stamps to pay any kind of duty or tax was not yet authorised. The postal pen cancels took all sorts of forms - cross hatched grids, wavy lines, roughly hand written numerals, wavy squiggles, signatures, dates, and mixes of all the above! Early Tasmania stamps in particular one needs to be careful with, as stacks of the later imperfs had non-postal (or “fiscal”) pen cancels. However until October 1863, any pen cancel on early imperforate Tasmania (and there were many) must be POSTAL and not fiscal - confused? “Knowledge Is Power!” Another good reason to buy off real dealers who know their stuff, and not clueless eBay sellers. All four of the 4d Blue Star Watermark Tasmanian imperf stamps shown nearby MUST be postal
Collecting early Australia States is an absolute minefield, and for the novice, places like eBay are to be avoided at all costs. Ink jet printed scans of imperforate Tasmania are being offered on ScamBay on a daily basis, and the brain dead eBay Bunnies are hoovering them up, paying many $100s for stupid fakes the ink is not yet dry on. A fake cancel, on an old bit of paper and the idiots paid $A450 for this nonsense nearby, alleged to be SG #1. The Bunnies may as well print out the scan direct off eBay - they get the same thing - just worthless paper, and a fake cancel made days back. Saving themselves $450. When they show them to a real dealer down the track, they will get offered ZERO for either. Not such a brilliant eBay “BAAHHRRGEEN” then. tinyurl.com/TasFakes is the stampboards discussion where 100s of these laughable fakes are documented. As the originals were crudely locally printed, imperforate, and did not have watermarks - a faker’s paradise. ScamBay of course do nothing, as they make 13% profit on each one sold, and do not give one hoot whether those are fakes or genuines, Stamp News - 61
Market Matters despite their alleged rules. The 1853 4d Tasmania shown nearby he has sold dozens of this year all offered as ‘’genuine’’ of course, and getting over $250 each at times for a photocopy. He dips the paper into CocaCola or something to make it appear old and brown, and adds an old hinge. Would most readers here be able to pick these as a fake - sadly NOT. Stampboards has had SCORES of accounts from this Sydney forger closed $250 Super Bargain. Maybe. down eventually - ebay stupidly allow the same guy to open new accounts of the seller, before placing bids on expensive pieces some of the current names being used into 3 figures, unless they are well known PTS/ are: antiques unlimited - antiquesunlimited111_1 La_Lune_Collectables - StarCollectables - stamp_37 ASDA/IFSDA dealers etc, or very high feedback reliable eBayers. Scammers ARE mentioned on - clonstamps - stampcentre - biblica99 - strampsBulletin Boards, and forgery websites, and Uncle downunder - stamps_lovers101 Google will lead you right there IF you check first. Do not bother to contact the seller’s fake accounts Forged South Australia Departmentals. in any way - total waste of time - direct your comAnother profitable line is faking 100s of South Ausplaint direct to eBay. Now and again some bored tralia “Departmental” stamps. This amateur faker eBay drone in Karachi and Bangalore or Manila does hopelessly crude overprints, and loads up only gets interested, reads the actual eBay rules re selllow rez fuzzy scans. Again anyone with even a half ing forged stamps, and not marking them thus, and brain would be alerted to that. But no - the “B.G.” wipes some accounts, which is very handy. Several shown nearby sold for $A528 - the normal common complaints gets the attention of Multi-Drones. 6d stamp he bought to overprint it on, is shown next He also has a trick to scan a Hagner of totally to it here. Many fakes sell for $500+. genuine, but very common States material worth Any sane eBay bidder FIRST googles the name a few dollars, and then “salts” in a totally forged photocopied Tasmania 1853 Imperf etc, and other fakes, and does not mention them, hoping the legions of drooling Bunnies will see it, and go nuts outbidding each other for this “rare hoard”. They mostly do, sadly. The page shown nearby is one example with a FAKE 4d Orange highlighted by a stampboards member. You can also see a really crude Victoria £2 KEVII fake at base, and even a SA Departmental the scarce “GF”, a fake Victoria 1850 3d Half Length, and even a Fake OS 1/- Lyre. Incredibly fuzzy scan on purpose, so no-one can see any detail, but bidding went insane from the eBay Another rare “gem” from FakeBay. 62 - Stamp News
Glen Stephens
Another ScamBay BAAAHRGHEEN
Salted with fake “Bunny Bait.” dreamers, and sold for many $100s, for $10 of real stamps.
“PRIVATE AUCTIONS” = Shill Bid Heaven
Note this faker always uses the “PRIVATE AUCTION” feature that eBay stupidly allows spivs to choose. You cannot then see who the other bidders are (allegedly) against you, and most likely many of his duplicate accounts are madly “Shill Bidding” you upwards. Only a cretin ever bids on eBay until 4 seconds from the close, to avoid this, so that means 99% of bidders do just that, childishly bidding early, playing right into the hands of these cons. Another favourite, on top of all things overprinted, is to scissor off the perfs of NSW 6d and 8d and 1/- Diadems etc, and sell them as wide margin imperfs - see the before and after nearby. Same with SA and Qld earlies. Again if you are in the market
for these, buy **ONLY** from someone reputable, who WILL be about in 5 years - these spivs close up after a few weeks at times, and your money is then gone forever. When it comes time for you or your family to sell your $10,000s of eBay “BAAHRRGEEN” purchases, and show them to a real dealer, or a real auction house, is where the heartbreak hits. I had a guy offer me a stockbook of States material this week he spent about $25,000 on via eBay, over the past 5 years. I offered him $500 for the lot, for the few things in there that were actually genuine. He had neat little white tags on them. ’Purchased eBay “jimmytheforger” October 2016, SG £900, for $A200.’ What a deal - how could anyone pass that one up? Way less than those nasty dealers asked! More here - tinyurl.com/TasFakes Near EVERYTHING was totally faked, others wildly misidentified, or repaired or defective etc. He went off in fury to demand answers, and later reported back that ALL the selling accounts were now defunct. A $25,000 life lesson. He accepted my $500 and looked crushed. A client collects fakes, so he will like them as a reference. In life there is “no such thing as a free lunch”. Do remember that.
Legal to mail children as parcels!
In the USA, it was once legal to send babies and children through the U.S. Postal Service, as it cost WAY less than buying a train or bus ticket. No this is not an April Fool’s Day Joke - all of the following is true, and you can research more on the link below, Stamp News - 63
Market Matters on the Smithsonian, and Postal Musenot until 1920 that sending children um websites etc. by Parcel Post was finally outlawed Sending large parcels was considby USPS hierarchy, in a new Regulaered a huge innovation at the begintion. ning of the 20th Century. The home The New York Times published a delivery system was a great boon for report in 1915 where a grandmother Americans, particularly those living in Stratford, Oklahoma, sent a twoin rural areas. The new service exyear-old child to his aunt in Wellingcited the population to the point that ton, Kansas: “The boy wore a tag they started to send anything they about his neck showing it had cost could through the Parcel Post - even 18¢ to send him through the mails. their babies and children. He was transported 25 miles by rural On January 1, 1913, the U.S. route before reaching the railroad. Postal Service outlined its latest exHe rode with the mail clerks, shared pansion of delivering large parcels or his lunch with them, and arrived there packages nationwide. Rural families in good condition.” were keen to embrace the new serHowever, the most famous and most well documented story was of vice. Before 1913, farmers had to Charlotte May Pierstorff, a four year bring their goods to the nearest town, old girl. Her parents realised that that was large enough to support an sending her by mail would be cheaper express office, which added greatly to than buying her a train ticket, as she the price for transporting their goods weighed only 48 pounds. or purchases. They checked the Postal ReguHowever, because of the convenience of delivering their goods lations, and many things were speright from their door - the new postal “I must deliver and report.” cifically prohibited – explosives, system became a phenomenon, as corrosive chemicals, parcels over 50 Americans had better access to a wide pounds weight, and so on, but not children. So in 1915 they purchased 53¢ in the new variety of goods and services, very cheaply. The parcel service became essential in the United States. red Parcel Post stamps, and attached them to her During its first six months of operations, there were coat. about 300 million parcels delivered around the May rode in the train’s mail compartment the 75 country. miles from Grangeville Idaho to Lewiston, Idaho. She was delivered to her grandmother’s home by Leonard Mochel, the mail clerk on duty. When US One Third the train ticket cost! Postmaster-General Albert Burleson heard about To cater for the huge demand, USPS increased the allowable weight of packages from 11 to 20 pounds. this incident, he prohibited postal workers accepting humans as mail. A little later on, the maximum weight rose again Still, the new regulations didn’t immediately stop from 20 to 50 pounds - or about 23 kilograms. As people from sending their children by post. In 1916 the Parcel Post service was brand new, the Rules a woman mailed her six year old daughter from her and Regulations were being made up as they went home in Florida to her father’s house in Virginia. along! it was the most extended postal trip of children by A 50¢ heavy parcel was about a THIRD the cost mail that has ever been identified, and which cost of a $1.50 train ticket - which was about a day’s just 15c in postage stamps. wages for a working man at this time. And it was 64 - Stamp News
Glen Stephens eating away at some candy she carried in a bag. In the other hand she carried a big red apple, and she smiled when the curious folks waved their hands and called to her.” “The child was wearing a pink dress to which was sewed a shipping tag, covered on one side with 33¢ in stamps, and on the other side had the following words: To Mrs. Celina Smith, care Jim Haddix, Jackson Ky., from R.K. Maden, Caney, Ky.” In the Los Angeles Times on June 14, 1920, and other newspapers, First Assistant Postmaster-General Koons finally ruled that the activity was unacceptable, as babies and children “did not come within the classification of harmless live animals.” An actual copy of that final ruling is shown nearby. More detail on other cases of mailed children is found here - tinyurl.com/MailedKids Since then in the USA, babies and children have had to ride in cars, trains, buses, and planes - like everyone else!
18c Parcel Post across to next State. According to the United States Postal Service historian Jenny Lynch, babies and children delivered via mail were not packed into boxes or wrapped like gifts - they were handled with care. Proof of Lynch’s statement is the story of Maud Smith, a 3 year old who was mailed by her grandmother 40 miles through Kentucky, to visit her sick mother on August 31, 1915.
Sitting on the mail sacks.
Maud was put on a train at Caney, Morgan County, and arrived at Jackson at 11am. The mail clerk pinned a letter on her dress and stated that he doubted the mailing’s legality. However, he said, “the child was on the mail train - therefore, she must be delivered.” On the way to her mother’s house, Maud was seen sitting on a pile of mail sacks in the postman’s wagon. “The child was seated on a pack full of mail sacks between the mail carrier’s knees, and was busily
No more children as parcels! Stamp News - 65
FAROESE PHILATELY IN 2020 All the Nordic postal services have been hit very hard by the digitalisation of communications. Today some 90 % of the entire populations use their mobile phones or laptops for both work and pleasure. This has of course reduced mail volumes quite considerably but increased the parcels business as many people now order all kinds of goods from Internet-based companies. One of the consequences has been the steady increase in postal rates with Denmark now being a world leader in this particular field. Postal counters in supermarkets have replaced the traditional post offices in countries like Sweden and tests are under way to explore a system of reducing mail deliveries to every second day. Also some of the Nordic postal services have scrapped their philatelic services as they didn’t produce enough money to make them worthwhile. Iceland has announced that there will be no more stamp issues as there are ample supplies of old stamps to last for many years. Postnord, the Danish-Swedish postal corporation, no longer actively promotes its new stamp issues and
relies on a stamp company in Denmark to do the job. It is still quite a different matter as far as the Faroe Islands is concerned. Posta Stamps, the islands’ philatelic service, is still actively marketing its stamps and other philatelic products advertising in some of the major philatelic magazines and by taking part in stamps shows. The Faroe Islands located in the North Atlantic is a nation of some 48.000 people. Their language is far more similar to the language spoken a thousand years ago by the Vikings than the contemporary languages of Denmark, Norway or Sweden. In fact, this writer’s mother tongue is Swedish and when I hear anyone talking in Faroese I just manage to understand a few words. Thanks to their isolation, the Faroese have managed to preserve their ancient language. The fishing industry is the main economic activity but in more recent years tourism has added a lot to the islands’ revenue. However, the current pandemic has undoubtedly caused havoc to this industry as in the rest of the world.
Figure 2 Figure 1
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Christer Brunström In this month’s column I would like to introduce STAMP NEWS readers to some of the more interesting Faroese issues of 2020. There were 18 new postage stamps, four souvenir sheets and a number of pictorial franking labels. Customers buying one of each new stamp issue would have to pay 491 Danish crowns which is the equivalent of AU $110. The Faroe Islands is a Danish possession which enjoys a considerable degree of autonomy in internal matters. Thus Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II is not only the reigning monarch of Denmark but also of the Faroes and Greenland. Early in 2020 she celebrated her 80th birthday but due to the coronavirus pandemic almost all the planned activities had to be cancelled. Margrethe is a popular Queen and thus it comes as no surprise that the Faroese decided to release a very special souvenir sheet (Fig. 1) to mark her birthday. It certainly was a remarkable design featuring a selection of local wildlife including the emblematic puffin and with the profile of the Queen printed in gold. The sheet was issued on 16 April 2020.
The Faroese are pretty good at team sports and in recent years have scored quite a few rather sensational successes in international football which is quite remarkable considering the size of the country. However, it was the game of volleyball that the Faroese post office wanted to spotlight in 2020. There were two stamps showing both a male and a female player (Fig. 2) in action. The pair went on sale on 24 February 2020. During World War II Denmark was occupied by German forces. To prevent the German armed forces from using the Faroes as a base for attacks on the UK, the British simply occupied the Faroe Islands. British forces were withdrawn at the end of the war. The British occupation army ran its own field post offices for the duration of the war. This rather interesting episode in Faroese postal history was marked by two stamps and a souvenir sheet (Fig. 3) on 27 April 2020. Chess has always been a popular pastime on the islands. The Faroese sometimes use larger chessboards which resulted in longer matches. Two stamps depicting locally made chessmen (Fig. 4) were issued on 21
Figure 4 Figure 3
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FAROESE PHILATELY IN 2020 September 2000. The vast majority of Faroese postage stamps have designs which relate to local life and culture. The major exception in 2020 was a souvenir sheet marking the 250th anniversary of German composer Beethoven. The famous musician is depicted on a souvenir sheet (Fig. 5) along with examples of Faroese animals and plants. The design was the work of local artist Heidrik á Heigum and it was also produced as a poster in an edition of 150 copies. The sheet was issued on 21 September 2020. Most European postal administrations issued EUROPA stamps showing historical postal routes during the year. The Faroes of course took part with two values. Carrying the mail in small boats on a stormy sea or in mountainous areas in a snowstorm can be quite a challenge. In fact, there have been a few cases where post-
Figure 5
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men have lost their lives while trying to deliver the mail to isolated communities in adverse weather conditions. Shown nearby is one of the stamps (Fig. 6) featuring a mail boat on its route to a distant island community. The set was released on 27 April 2020. To sum up, the 2020 Faroese stamp issues continued the tradition of showcasing local events, culture, nature, society and the islands’ history. I am quite impressed by the way Faroese postal officials avoid issuing stamps solely for the benefit of worldwide thematic collectors. Since the independent Faroese postal service was begun in 1975, the country has issued all of 941 different stamps. In case no local Aussie dealer stocks Faroese new issues may I suggest interested readers take a look at www.stamps.fo for more information on Faroese collecting opportunities.
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Information about clubs in SA can be obtained from the SA Philatelic Council, GPO Box 9800, Adelaide, SA 5001. Daytime Ph: 08 8212 3557 or 8223 4435
Australian Airmail Society: 1st Wed. 7.45pm 22 Gray Court, Adelaide. PO Box 395, Edwardstown 5039. Ph: 08 8276 3969 Barossa SC: Mtg 1st Tue 7.30 Greenock Luth Church Hall, Bevan St, Greenock; 19 Evans Street Ancaston 5353; email: ptomely1939@gmail.com; Ph: (08) 8562 8386 Blackwood PC: Mtg 2nd Wed ex Jan; Uniting Church, Main Rd, Blackwood; Ph: 08 8278 1629; PO Box 581, Blackwood 5051; email: teepee@teegee.com.au Bordertown & Districts PS: Mtg: 3rd Thurs. Bordertown PS Contact: K. Grey Tel: 08 8752 0446 or email cdhuntmundulla@yahoo.com.au Community PS: Mtg 1st & 3rd Fri - 7.30pm. Marion Bowling Club, off Sturt Rd. PO Box 75 Edwardstown, 5039; Auctions, circuit books. Ph: 0408806894 City of Noarlunga PS: Mtg alternate thurs,-- Community Health Centre, Grand Boulevard, Seaford, Contact 08 85566371 or PO Box 272, Port Noarlunga 5167 Eastern Districts PS: 2nd Thurs (ex. Jan), 7.30pm Senior citizens Hall, 47 Reid Ave. Hectorville; PO Box 240, Magill, 5072; Ph: 0400 156 796 Elizabeth PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Fridays, 7.30pm, RSL Hall, Cnr of Halseys/Midway Rds;PO Box 701, Elizabeth 5112; Ph: 08 8255 0608 Encounter Bay SC: Mtg 1st Wed, 7.30pm; School Hall, Woolworths Centre, Victor Harbour; PO Box 317, Goolwa 5214; aydepe@bigpond.com; Ph: 08 8555 3311 SA Power Networks Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Mon (ex. Jan); Canteen, 1 Anzac Highway, Keswick; PO Box 2079, Magill North, 5072; Ph: 08 8278 7163 Frama Club: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm, members homes; For collectors of CPS, Framas. Newsletter and Auctions. PO Box 62 Campbelltown 5074. Gawler SC: Mtg 4th Mon 7.30pm; Evanston Primary School, Para Rd, Evanston. PO Box 2, Willaston 5118; Ph: 08 8522 2335 Email: jo.trev@bigpond.com German Philatelic Club: Mtg 2nd & 4th Mon 8pm; German Club, 223 Flinders St, Adelaide 5000; Ph: 08 8260 2251 Glenside PS: 1st & 3rd Sat 1.30pm; Uniting Church Hall, Carlton St. Highgate. c/- 9 Moore St., Tranmere, SA 5073 08 8398 2475 Lower Murray PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs,7.30pm, 2nd Sat, 10am; The Lions Den, Murray Bridge. PO Box 810, Murray Bridge; Ph: 08 85704074 lmphilsocsec@gmail.com Mount Gambier PS: Mtg 3rd Tues; Reidy Park Corn Centre. 8pm. Also1st Sunday (ex. Jan)
victoria Australian PS: Bi-monthly meetings on 3rd Monday in February, April, June, August, October and December at RSL Homes, 152 Canterbury Road [cnr Keats Street] Canterbury. Secretary, PO Box 156 Balwyn Vic. 3103 Bairnsdale SC: Mtg 3rd Thurs Ballarat PS:Mtg 3rd & 5th Mon Balwyn PS: Mtg 3rd Friday; Daytime 1st Friday Bendigo PS: Mtg 1st Tues Berwick SC:Mtg 2nd Sun (ex Jan); Ph: 03 5942 7626 Blackburn Baptist SC: Mtg 3rd Thurs Brighton PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Tues; Daytime 3rd Tues Bulleen PS Mtg 2nd Mon (ex Jan) 7.30 pm Veneto Club Upstairs 191 Bulleen Rd Bulleen (PO Box 166, Niddrie VIC 3042)Contact Secretary: Frank 0438830645 Treasurer: Joe 0408560601 Camperdown SC: Mtg 1st Tues Castlemaine SC: Mtg 3rd Tues (ex Dec) Colac PC: Mtg 4th Mon (ex. Dec), Colac Community College, Bromfield St, Colac. Ph:52314746 Corner Inlet SC: Mtg 4th Thurs, Foster, Ph: 03 56881100 Dandenong PS: 4th Thurs. ex Dec. 7.30pm, Meeting Room, Church of Christ, David St., Dandenong 03 5996 9501 Diamond Valley PS: Mtg 3rd Mon Essendon-Broadmeadows PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs; St Johns Uniting Church Hall, Cnr Mt Alexander Rd & Buckley St, Essendon; Murray Gorham, Ph 9306 7480 Footscray PS: Mtg 1st Mon (2nd in Jan); Maribyrnong Comm. Centre, 54 Raleigh Rd, Maribyrnong. c/24 Carrington Street Sydenham 3037. PH. 0438 901 144. email: footscraystamps@gmail Frankston & District SC: Mtg 3rd Tues (2nd in Dec) Seaford Community Centre, Broughton St Seaford. Ph: 5996 3745 Geelong PS: Mtgs 1st Sat 7.00pm, 3rd Mon 1pm (ex Jan) Sat - Diversitat Community Centre, 9-15 Clarence St, Geelong West. Mon - Belmont Library, High St, Belmont Ph: 0438578591 (Sec); PO Box 342, Belmont 3216
tasmania Derwent Valley PS: Mtg 4th Mon Devonport Junior SC: Mtg 1st & 3rd Mon Devonport SC: 4th Fri, except Dec. 3rd Fri. 7.30pm, Oldaker Christian Centre, Oldaker St, Devonport, 03 6424 3449 devstampclub.org Devonport Stamp Group: Mtg 4th Fri, Public Library Mtg Rms, 7.30pm Ph. 03 6424 3449 Glenorchy SC: Mtg 1st Tues
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1.30pm - 4pm. PO Box 2261,Mt Gambier.Ph: 08 8724 9474 Para Hills PS: Mtg 1st Sun; Community Hall Wilkinson Rd, Para Hills. PO Box 64, Para Hills; Ph: 08 8522 4345 Phillumeny SC: U3/26-28 Crozier Av, Modbury 5092. Ph: 08 8337 6533 Email: www.users.or.net/ figg/amccs Port Pirie PS: Mtg 4th Mon; PO Box532, Pt Pirie 5540; Ph: 08 8632 1105 Printed Collectables Club (SAPC): Mtg last Tues, Julia Farr Cent. Canteen, Ground Floor, Fisher St. Ph: 08 8265 7395; PO Box 657, Enfield Plaza 5085 PS of South Australia:1st & 3rdTues; 22 Gray Ct. GPO Box 9800, Adelaide 5001; Ph: 08 8555 3311 PS of South Aust. (Aus. Com. Spect.Grp.): Mtg 4th Tues 7.30pm;22 Gray Ct. Ph: 08 8555 3311 PS of South Australia (Daytime SC):Mtg 1st & 3rd Thurs; 22 Gray Ct.Ph: 08 8555 3311 PS of South Australia (Study Group):Mtg 4th Tues 7.30pm; 22 Gray Ct. Ph: 08 8522 4345 Postal Stat & Postal Hist Soc: Mtg 2nd Tues; SAPHIL House, 22 Gray Ct, Adelaide. email: psandph@arcom.com.au; Ph: 08 8260 3352 Riverland PS: Mtg 3rd Fri, 10am ;Whitmore Hall, Barmera Village; Ph: 08 8595 3023 SA Junior Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd Sun 1pm - 3pm;Anyone over 5years, parents welcome. 22 Grey St, Adelaide. 08 8250 0484 Salisbury PS: Mtg 1st & 3rd Mon; The Dutch Club, 21 Greenfields Dr.,Greenfields 5107, PO Box 336 Salisbury 5108; Ph: 08 8252 2392 Stirling PS: Mtg 4th Fri 7.45pm, Old Railway Station (now Community Services Bldng.); Ph: 08 8370 2680 Strathalbyn PS: Mtg 2nd Mon, 8pm; Rosa Hoare Room, Lutheran Church Complex Corner, Commercial Rd/North Pde; C/- Post Office, Strathalbyn 5255; Ph: 0429 693 747 Ukrainian Collectibles Club: Mtg Wed as per syllabus; PO Box 466, Woodville 5011; Ph: 08 8345 4033 Yorke Peninsula Collectors Club: Senior Citizens Club. Taylor St, Kardina. Mtg 3rd Wed ex. Jan; PO Box 178, Bute 5560; Ph: 08 8821 2906 Club Information: Victorian Philatelic Council, GPO Box 9800, Melbourne, Vic, 3001 Hamilton PS: Mtg 2nd Monday 7.30 pm ex. Jan. Guide Hall, Foster St. 0407 659664 Hungarian PS: Mtg 2nd Wed Latrobe Valley PS: Mtg Last Wed ex Dec 7.30pm, St Lukes Uniting Church Hall, Princes Way, Morwell; Chris Zarb, Sec. ph. 03 5174 3394 Maryborough Stamp Club:Mtg mthly ex Jan 2nd Tues of month 8pm, St Augustine’s Hall, Maryborough. PO Box 295, Maryborough, 3465; Ph: 03 5464 2400. maryboroughsc@eudoramail.com. maryboroughsc.web1000.com Mildura PS: Mtg Last Thurs (ex Dec)Carnegie Building 74 Deakin Ave Ph: 03 5023 8789 Mooroolbark PS: Mtg 1st Tues; Ph: 03 9723 3304 Oakleigh PS: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm (ex Jan) Oakleigh Public Library, Drummond St, Oakleigh Ocean Grove SC: Mtg 4th Wed. 10am. Ocean Grove Senior Citizens Clubrooms Melways: 234 A. Ph. 03 5255 1372 Peninsula SC: Mtg 3rd Wed, 7.30pm Uniting Church Hall, Murray Anderson Rd, Rosebud. Ph: 03 5975 0574 Polish PS: Mtg 3rd Tues (2nd in Dec) Prahran PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex Jan) Ringwood PS: Gen Mtg 1st Thurs; Daytime 3rd Mon Ph: 03 9725 0514 email hanszomer@bigpond.com Royal PS of Victoria:Mtg 3rd & 5th Thurs; Daytime 1st Tues Sale SC: Mtg 1st Mon (ex Jan) Shepparton PS: Mtg 2nd Tues, Ph. 0417 955 546 Sherbrooke PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs ex Jan Upwey Fire Brigade Hall, 8pm; Bob Cook Ph: 03 9758 3465 Upper Yarra SC: Mtg 3rd Tues St Arnaud SC: Mtg 3rd Mon (excl. Jan & Dec) 03 54951371 Warragul PS: Mtg 2nd Fri Warrnambool PS: Mtg 3rd Wed 7.45pm St Joseph’s Primary School, Botanic Road;Ph: 03 5561 1470 Waverley PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs 7.30pm, Mt Waverley Community Centre, 47 Miller Cres, Mt Waverley; Daytime mtg the following Friday, 9.30am, Uniting Church Hall, 482 High St, Mt Waverley. Ph. 03 9898 4102 Obtain Tasmanian clubs information from: Tasmanian Stamp Council, GPO Box 9800, Hobart, TAS, 7001. Ph: 03 6278 7084 Hobart Junior Group: Mtg 1st Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224 Kingston Junior Group: Mtg 2nd Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224 Launceston PS: 1st Thurs. & 3rd Sat. ex. Jan. 6.30 pm, Max Fry Hall,TrevallynLauncestonTel: 03 6331 2580 (A/H) Mersey-Leven PS: Contact: 03 6425 3603 Rosny Junior Group: Mtg Last Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224 Tasmanian PS: Mtg Last Monday (ex. Dec); www.tps.org.au, Legacy House, 159 Macquarie St Hobart
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