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Commercial Philately in Australia : Rod Perry
The Geisha Stamp Co
The proprietor is not known; a candidate may be the Japanese, Jonaski Takuma, who was charged with stamp forgery in 1890s. Takuma’s most famous was the postal forgery of the NSW Centennial 2d. A “J” appears in the monogramlike signature of the 1904 card below.
1900 and 1904 uses of NSW Postal cards requesting sample copies of The New York Philatelist, the earlier enquiring as to cost of a one inch advertisement for one year.
Walter A. Hull
Walter A. Hull was the brother of Philatelic Publisher, A.F. Basset-Hull [refer page 110]. He appears to have commenced trading from 2 Imperial Arcade, 170 Pitt St, Sydney, in 1903, when he took over the business of J.C. Thomson-Black.
Jan 5 1905 use W.A. Postal card to Hull at 10 Strand Arcade, George St, Sydney, requesting catalogue (Reverse shown 70%)
Sep 25 1911 use NSW ld Pictorial Postal card to S.O. Smith*, featuring Hull’s simulated razor-blade details handstamp, now located 88 King St, Sydney (Reverse shown 70%) (* Stan Orlo-Smith (1880 - 1946) was to become a leading Philatelic Trader in years beyond the time span of this exhibit. He founded The Commonwealth Specialists’ Catalogue in 1926.)
Imperial Stamp & Coin Co Ltd
A MacKnight was proprietor, initially trading from 24 Imperial Arcade, 170 Pitt St, Sydney.
Directories of 1910 have him under his name; in 1911 as
Imperial Stamp & Coin Co
Ltd, at 24-25 Imperial Arcade. By 1924, the firm is at “No. 24” only, where it remains until 1930. Given the long tenure of this Philatelic Trader, material is surprisingly elusive. The following is the only item attributed seen by the exhibitor:
24-25 Imperial Arcade has 24-25 Imperial Arcade has an interesting relationship an interesting relationship to Philately, over more to Philately, over more than three decades. Jonaski than three decades. Jonaski Takuma, the Philatelic forger, Takuma, the Philatelic forger, variously occupied both variously occupied both shops between 1895 and 1910. shops between 1895 and 1910. F.W. Reid [see under N.S.W. F.W. Reid [see under N.S.W. this section] was at “No.24” this section] was at “No.24” in 1899, co-occupant with in 1899, co-occupant with Takuma.Takuma.
Oct 23 1913 use NSW ld Letter card to S. Orlo-Smith, signed A. MacKnight
RED ALERT...RED ALERT...RED ALERT...
1. ACSC 70A: KGV Single wmk smooth paper 1d CARMINE-RED (G1).
SINGLE LINE PERF Drury Certificate. Mint unhinged. ................... $602 2. SG 21a/ACSC 70(1)g: KGV Single wmk SINGLE LINE PERF 1d
CARMINE-RED die 2. RPSV Certificate. Well centred and fault free.
Used. .............................................................................................................$2,600 3. SG 21a/ACSC 70A(1)f: KGV Single wmk SINGLE LINE PERF 14¼, 1d CARMINE-RED DIE 2. A very scarce combination. DRURY
CERTIFICATE. Fine used. .........................................................................$3,750 4. SG 21ci: KGV Single wmk smooth paper. 1d carmine-red WHITE
FLAW UNDER NECK variety. Mint unhinged..................................... $125 5. SG 21cj: KGV Single wmk smooth paper. 1d carmine-red, “RA” joined variety. Mint unhinged. ........................................................................... $125 6. ACSC 71G(4)p: KGV single wmk smooth paper. 1d Scarlet Red with CNE variety. A late state of this progressive variety. DRURY
Certificate. Good used. ...........................................................................$1,250 7. ACSC 71(4)o: KGV Single wmk smooth paper. 1d carmine-red.
Variety: NY JOINED. SCARCE. Very fine and mint unhinged. ..... $695 8. SG 21dc: KGV Single wmk smooth paper. 1d PALE RED, die 2. Very fresh, mint very lightly hinged. ........................................................... $700 9. ACSC 71F: KGV Single wmk smooth paper. 1d REDDISH PINK (G15).
DRURY CERTIFICATE. Mint lightly hinged. ....................................... $120 10. ACSC 71E: KGV Single wmk smooth paper. 1d DULL RED (G16).
DRURY CETIFICATE. Mint unhinged..................................................... $125 11. ACSC 71G: KGV Single wmk smooth paper. 1d SCARLET RED (G17).
DRURY CERTIFICATE. Extra fine, mint unhinged. ..............................$90 12. ACSC 71J: KGV Single wmk smooth paper. 1d DEEP SCARLET Aniline, thin paper (G19). DRURY CERTIFICATE. Mint unhinged. ............. $350 13. ACSC 71K: KGV Single wmk smooth paper. 1d ROSE (G21). DRURY
CERTIFICATE. Mint unhinged. ..................................................................$75 14. ACSC 71N.bb.ca: KGV Single wmk smooth paper. 1d CRIMSN (G23)
OS. DRY INK variety. DRURY CERTIFICATE. Mint lightly hinged.$500 15. ACSC 71N.bb.ca: KGV Single wmk smooth paper. 1d CRIMSON (G23)
OS. DRY INK variety. DRURY CERTIFICATE. Mint lightly hinged...$50 16. ACSC 71Nbb.ca: KGV Single wmk smooth paper. 1d CRIMSON (G 23)
OS, DRY INK variety. DRURY CERTIFICATE. Fine used. .................... $250 17. ACSC 71P: KGV Single wmk smooth paper. 1d orange-red (G24½).
DRURY CERTIFICATE. Mint unhinged. ............................................... $575 18. ACSC 71S: KGV Single wmk smooth paper. 1d SALMON EOSIN (G27). West Maitland duplex cancellation. Fine used. DRURY CERTIFICATE. .........$1,750 19. ACSC 71S (G27): KGV 1 DEEP SALMON EOSIN, fine used, as per
DRURY CERTIFICATE. With variety: bulge in frame opposite right value tablet. A rare combination. ......................................................$2,250 20. ACSC 71SA: KGV Single wmk smooth paper. 1d RED SALMON EOSIN (G27A). Brisbane duplex cancellation. DRURY CERTIFICATE. A scarce subshade. Fine used. ...............................................................................$2,250 21. ACSC 71SA(4)h: KGV Single wmk smooth paper. 1d RED SALMON
EOSIN (G27A) with NECK FLAW variety. A VERY RARE combination.
DRURY CERTIFICATE. Fine used. ..........................................................$3,750 22. ACSC 71T: KGV single wmk smooth paper. 1d PINK (G28). DRURY
CERTIFICATE. Extra fine mint unhinged. ........................................... $595 23. ACSC 71T: KGV Single wmk smooth paper. 1d PINK (G28). DRURY
CERTIFICATE. Mint lightly hinged........................................................ $250 24. ACSC 72C(4)h: KGV Single wmk rough paper. 1d CARMINE (G62) with NECK FLAW variey. DRURY CERTIFICATE. Mint unhinged.. $185 25. SG 47b.k/ACSC 72C.ab: Single wmk rough paper. 1d carmine. A very fine mint lightly hinged example of the RARE NO WATERMARK variety. DRURY CERTIFICATE. ................................................................$7,500 26. ACSC 72D: KGV Single wmk rough paper. 1d ROSE RED (G63) DRURY
CERTIFICATE. Mint unhinged................................................................. $100 27. ACSC 72E: KGV Single wmk rough paper. 1d PALE ROSE-RED (G64).
DRURY CERTIFICATE. Very fine, mint unhinged............................$1,100 28. ACSC 72G: KGV Single wmk rough paper. 1d PINK (G66). DRURY
CERTIFICATE. Mint unhinged. A very scarce shade ....................$1,950 29. ACSC 72G: KGV Single wmk rough paper. 1d PINK (G66). DRURY
CERTIFICATE. Very fine, mint lightly hinged. A difficult shade to locate. DUNKERLEY CERTIFICATE.........................................................$1,100 30. ACSC 72H: KGV Single wmk rough paper. 1d ROSE PINK (G67).
DRURY CERTIFICATE. Very fine, mint lightly hinged...................$1,250 31. ACSC 72Hbb: KGV Single wmk rough paper. 1d ROSE PINK (G67) OS.
A superb example of this scarce shade. DRURY CERTIFICATE. Mint unhinged ....................................................................................................$1,250 32. SG O54c/ACSC 72l.bb: KGV Single wmk rough paper. 1d ROSINE (G69) OS, die 1. DRURY CERTIFICATE Well centred examples are scarce. Very fresh, mint lightly hinged............................................... $225 33. SG O54f/ACSC 72l(1)ib: KGV Single wmk rough paper. 1d ROSINE,
DIE 2, OS, DRURY CERTIFICATE.Well centred examples of this shade are scarce. Very fine, mint unhinged................................................$1,500 34. SG 47c /ACSC 72J: KGV Single wmk rough paper. 1d DEEP ROSINE (G70) die 1. DRURY CERTIFICATE Well centred, mint lightly hinged ......$875 35. ACSC 72K: KGV Single wmk rough paper. 1d DAMSON (G70½). A SCARCE shade, very fine and mint unhinged. DRURY CERTIFICATE............$1,500 35. ACSC 72L: KGV Single wmk rough paper. 1d PLUM (G71). A VERY
SCARCE shade. DRURY CERTIFICATE. Mint lightly hinged.......$1,500 36. ACSC 72L.bb: KGV Single wmk rough paper. 1d PLUM (G71) OS. A scarce shade. DRURY CERTIFICATE Mint lightly hinged. ....... $1,100 37. ACSC 72R: KGV Single wmk rough paper. 1d MAROON (G77). DRURY
CERTIFICATE. Fresh, mint lightly hinged. .......................................$1,100 38. ACSC 72S.bb: KGV Single wmk rough paper 1d ORANGE BROWN (G78), OS (only issued as ‘OS’). A superb used example of this RARE shade. DRURY CERTIFICATE. .................................................................$5,500 39. SG 53a(var)/ACSC 75Am,n: KGV Single wmk 1d carmine-red, die 3.
Varieties WHITE FLAW ON ‘S’ and WHITE FLAW ON TIP OF BEARD.
Very scarce as a multiple. CHOICE mint unhinged ........................ $825 40. ACSC 75D: KGV Single wmk rough paper. 1d BROWNISH RED, die 3 (G112). A very appealing mint lightly hinged example of this
VERY RARE and often misidentified shade. This being the FIRST mint example we have had to offer in over 25 years, very underrated in mint condition. DRURY CERTIFICATE. ................................................$7,500 41. ACSC 75D: KGV Single wmk rough paper die 3, 1d BROWNISH RED (G112). DRURY CERTIFICATE Missing perf in upper right corner, price reduced, used................................................................................................ $875
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Stamps in the News - Globally!
Heroes hailed in Australia
Reported at https://canberraweekly. com.au
One year since the pandemic began, Australia Post has released a set of stamps featuring essential workers to honour their ongoing contributions and the challenges they face.
The Frontline Heroes stamps celebrate teachers, healthcare workers, Australian Defence Force members, police, postal workers, supermarket staff and food delivery workers.
An Australia Post spokesman said the stamp designs represented everyday heroes who continue to keep the country moving, providing important services to the community.
“Healthcare workers have tested millions, Australian Defence Force and the police services have helped monitor our borders and quarantine arrangements, and educators have been quick to adapt to online learning.
Lennon lauded in Brazil
A new stamp from Brazil reproduces a famous blackand-white photograph of John Lennon. Taken by rock photographer Bob Gruen in 1974, it shows Lennon wearing a New York City T-Shirt.
Gruen says on his website, “After taking portrait photos of John Lennon’s face on the roof of Lennon’s New York apartment, I asked him to wear a NYC T-shirt I’d given him a year earlier. With the skyline all around I thought this would be the perfect place to wear it.”
Brazil issued its nondenominated John Lennon stamp in conjunction with an exhibition of Gruen’s photographs from his 2005 book John Lennon: The New York Years at the Museu da Imagem e do Som (Museum of Image and Sound) in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The Brazilian issue joins the list of 195 international postage stamps focussing
Compiled by Margo Campbell
on John Lennon. The last stamp in honour of the singer is from 2018, released by the USA and also reproduces a photo of Bob Gruen.
Expat extolled in Åland
Reported at https://www.linns.com
An upcoming stamp from Åland commemorates a weather satellite named after an American of Åland descent, Verner E. Suomi (1915-95).
Åland Post has said that Suomi, known as “the father of satellite meteorology,” contributed to laying the foundations for today’s weather satellites, essential for providing weather forecasts.
Born in Minnesota to parents who had emigrated from Åland, Suomi was an educator, inventor and scientist.
One of his major inventions was the spin-scan camera, developed in 1964. Mounted on satellites, spin-scan cameras transmit images back to earth from 25,000 miles above the Equator.
In 2012 NASA renamed the NPP (National Polarorbiting Partnership) Earth-monitoring satellite after him, Suomi NPP.
Åland’s stamp shows Peter Bergstrom’s illustration of the satellite in orbit over Earth.
Inscribed in two lines in the lower right of the design are “Verner E. Suomi” and “Suomi NPP.” In the upper right is “Varlden,” the Swedish word for “world.” This indicates that the stamp pays the international rate, currently €2.20.
Expat extolled in Taiwan
Reported at https://www.taipeitimes.com
A stamp featuring James Laidlaw Maxwell, the first Presbyterian missionary to visit Taiwan, has been issued to commemorate the centennial of his death by Chunghwa Post.
“Maxwell, who was known as the father of medical missionaries in Taiwan, dedicated his life to assisting patients, and training missionaries and doctors.
To commemorate his contributions to Taiwan, we are publishing this memorial stamp, featuring a portrait of Maxwell and the Tai-Peng-Keng Maxwell Memorial Church,” a spokesman said.
A whiter shade of pale in Canada
Reported at https://www.newswire.ca
A new Canadian stamp issue showcases five native mammals that share the remarkable characteristic of changing colour with the seasons.
Stamps in the News - Globally!
Canada is home to more species of mammals that moult from shades of brown or grey to white – and back again in spring – than any other country in the world.
The five featured on these stamps represent the hunters and the hunted. The ermine and the Arctic fox are predators that blend into the snowy background to sneak up on their next meal. The snowshoe hare, Peary caribou and northern collared lemming are prey that rely on their camouflage to avoid detection.
Internationally recognized wildlife photographer Dennis Fast took the picture of an Arctic fox, that is part of the set.
Fast said he’s known the photo was being considered for the stamp for close to two years, but until last week, was not able to mention the honour. “It was top secret,” he said. “It’s an honour and I’m really humbled by it.”
Fast recalls taking part in a boat trip in northern Manitoba to York Factory.
That’s exactly what he was doing when he captured that image of the Arctic fox in 2013, while working as a polar bear guide for Churchill Wild.
‘Second Class Citizen’ Stamps Send A Message in the UK
Reported at https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
“Second class” are words people in the UK use when buying stamps at the post office, but they shouldn’t apply to human beings. This is the point behind a new set of Cinderella postage stamps that might not be legal tender– but still have a powerful message to send.
Featuring the face of TV comedian Rosie Jones and five other public figures who all have cerebral palsy, the mock ‘2nd Class Citizen’ stamps are part of a campaign asking the government to “stamp out” the gap in healthcare those with cerebral palsy encounter as they turn 18.
“Adults with CP are treated like second class citizens when it comes to healthcare,” says a Adult Cerebral Palsy Hub spokesman. This charity commissioned the stamps and fed into care guidelines for those with cerebral palsy - guidelines yet to be adopted across the NHS.
