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Contents Articles Woodchip Free Zone: Rod Perry ...................................................6 Unhappy Arabia: Christer Brunström ....................................... 14 Stamps in the News: Margo Campbell .................................... 18 Postal Stationery: Ian McMahon ................................................ 26 Looking at New Zealand: Graeme Morriss ............................... 32 Introducing the APF: Daryl Fuller .............................................. 48 Cinderella Corner: Vito Milana .................................................... 52 Market Matters: Glen Stephens .................................................. 56

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This column has, from its outset, been almost exclusively about commercial covers, so it may come as a surprise for regular readers to note the topic for this month. The fact is, I do prefer commercial covers, but philatelic covers have a major contribution to make to Philately. Relevantly, it is generally more probable that a Traditional stamp collector will make the “leap” in to covers of a philatelic nature than they Figure 1. A scarce cancellation featured on the inaugural Shield stamp issue will, initially at least, be likely to embrace comShield covers replaced the decade old “Hermes” mercial covers. So it is, in a gently-gently approach Post Office generic covers in time for the appearance to promoting cover collecting, philatelic covers may of the 1964 6d Yellow-tailed Thornbill (Aug 19). be for some the more acceptable precedent to cover The series initially had two cover formats, a foolscollecting more generally. cap-size (popularly the “long” envelope), for sets, Which provides the opportunity for a Philatelic and “medium” length for singles, pairs and blocks. Q&A: A smaller format made its appearance with the 1967 Q: What do covers offer a collector, which mint Lions 4c. There were five colours: Red-brown, Slate, and used stamps do not? Brownish grey, Greenish grey, and a more true Grey. A: DNA The last is quite scarce, and not recognised by all collectors, but I’m satisfied it is a deliberate attempt at a “different” colour. A Yellow-olive (almost “mustard”) was made available in time for the appearance of the 1969 (Feb 26) Ports & Harbors 5c. All six colours appeared both as “solid” and “open” designs. It will be seen, therefore, that a specialised collection of “Shields” will be quite a challenge if one seeks completeness. There are many very scarce variations of stamp issue and cover type, Figure 2. Set of £SD Navigator Shield FDCs not a possibility 6 - Stamp News

Figure 3. Long cover use unusual for a single stamp issue some of which are featured below. I have provided and Jul 1 1964 issue date. The 4/- Navigator I refer an example of each of the six colours, and three to must have been an Essay for the finished design? I provided Frank with a scan, so I haven’t dreamt this cover formats. Figure 1 shows the first use of a Shield cover, for up! The 4/- (save for example mentioned above), 10/the 1964 6d Bird, mentioned above. This open deand £1 Navigators can be found only with Hermes sign for a medium cover in Brownish grey features design for Post Office sourced covers, so collectors a scarce use of the experimental “US style” duplex need to be satisfied with mixed cover issues for their cancellation, first trialled with the 1963 Christmas issue. This was the first “official” use of a Shield, set. Figure 2 is a medium Shield cover with solid design in Greenish grey, for 5/- Dampier. Note the but I once had a Melbourne Philatelic Bureau serviced set of 1963-64 Navigators, in which the 4/- Tasman was used on an open design cover in Slate. That Oct 9 1963 use was apparently in error, and I don’t believe any other examples have been reported? Frank Pauer, the leading collector and expert in Australian philatelic covers, advises Australia Post Archives state the proofs for Shield design were not done until Dec 13 1963, and approved Feb 3 1964, for distribution Jun 5 1964 Figure 4. Addressed by Philatelic Bureau, Melbourne Stamp News - 7

large Philatelic Sales Section, Russell St, cancellation. Some collectors prefer to have their covers bear a Philatelic Sales cancel of one or other of those various outlets throughout Australia. Hard core specialists attempt to obtain an example of each stamp issue cancelled at all Philatelic Sales outlets. Masochists, indeed. Amongst the harder to get configurations Figure 5. One of the more civil FDC compositions to come out of often chaotic in Shield collecting are Decimal 1st series the long envelopes utilised for a single stamp than it ought to be. They are an interesting study, issue. Figure 3 is one such use, for the Helecon with perhaps as many as 1500 POâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s participating in printing of 1965 5d Churchill, which is far scarcer the scheme at one time or another. Add to this often on FDC than the normal version. This is the solid more than one type of cancellation, and occasionally design in Slate. more than one colour! This is a field full of scarce Note use of early type Ballarat FDI cancel. The to rare cancellations, usually found in such places collecting of FDI cancellations is far less popular as Trade Dollar boxes. I have an extensive reference

Figure 6. Long envelope comes in handy 8 - Stamp News

Figure 7. The “set” of 1967 5c issues

will be only too aware of the confusion that developed out of sensibly arranging the inaugural stamp set, 1c to $4, on FDCs. There are many amateurish configurations encountered, and even the professional FDC Brands struggled at times. Figure 5 is an intelligent arrangement, providing separate treatment of the two Coil stamps in the series, on medium open design Red-brown cover, serviced at Wollongong. Another sensible arrangement from the inaugural Decimal series, Figure 6 displays entire Birds set on long, solid design cover in Greenish grey. Such attractive covers are not easy to find. Serviced at Philatelic Bureau, by then located at Russell St. I wonder how many readers recall Col and Clarrie patiently serving at the counters? Just before introduction of Decimal series, I spent hours (and a princely £1,500) with Col, buying sheets and part sheets of the outgoing

collection of this material, which I will sell in near future. In my research on this subject, I have found a number of stamp issue/cover type combinations which appear to have been available only from one or other of the nationwide Philatelic Bureaus. This may be the result of using up old stock not on general sale at that point in time. Figure 4 was serviced for 1965 5d Hargrave, medium cover with solid design in Brownish grey, for standing order by UK Trader, H. SinclairBrown, a New issue specialist. There will be times when “unaddressed only” collectors will be faced with acquiring a cover such as this, or forever have an unfilled space in their collection. Collectors of Australian Decimal FDCs Figure 8. Se-tenant gutter pairs elusive, and there are the two types

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Figure 9. Even more elusive, 1969 Flight block of nine £SD issues. Seems like just yesterday. modate a block of nine 1969 Flight Anniversary on a The 1967 (Sep 29) rate rise 5c series is found in small format cover. Serviced at Russell St Philatelic many and varied configurations on FDC, seldom as Bureau, this is the open design in Slate. Blocks of logical as that seen in Figure 7. On this small fornine are scarce on FDC, largely due to space conmat, open design Slate cover, serviced at Adelaide, straints with average size FDCs, added to which the we have the “set” of 5c stamps: 5c on 4c Surcharge, average collector did not recognize that this was 5c blue sheet stamp, 5c Booklet stamp, and pair of the optimal format for the stamp issue. At Russell 5c Coil. I don’t fancy many collectors will ever assemble every Shield configuration possible for both types of 1968 5c Soil/Medical gutter pairs. Figure 8 has the “thick” lines type, on small solid design cover in Red-brown, serviced at Brisbane. I have found the “thin” lines type slightly the scarcer of the two. Figure 9 was a crucial use of long envelope, as it would be a tight fit to accomFigure 10. “Mustard” colour covers did not appear until early 1969 10 - Stamp News

was the first of the dedicated FDCs, and although rather uncommon (collectors initially baulked at the higher priced Post Office covers, when compared to the private Brands), our featured item is much, much scarcer. This is a small format open design cover in Yellowolive, serviced at Canberra. Don’t expect to find this for $10. Figure 11 is another of the very elusive post-Feb 1970 usages of a Shield cover as a FDC. Again Figure 11. The pure “Grey” colour, which is hard to find serviced at Canberra, this small format solid design St they probably recommended this format to FDC in Grey was for the 1970 customers. Note the postal code “C1” by then had QANTAS pair. The “Grey” has none of the “brownbeen removed from cancellation (that had occurred ish” or “greenish” tinges of the other two grey-based by the time the 1968 Weather Watch/Intelsat stamps colours. were issued in 1968 (Mar 20)). Figure 12 is a small format solid design cover Some readers will have noted I’m not providing in Yellow-olive, when a long envelope would have valuations for the covers featured. Broadly, Shield been more appropriate for the 1971 Australia Asia unaddressed covers are available at between $10 and $200 or more. Addressed, particularly hand-addressed, are available at heavily discounted prices. The Flight block of nine above would probably realise close to $200 at auction. Figure 10 is the first of the era when Post Office dedicated design covers were introduced, effectively rendering obsolete any demand for Shield covers for FDCs. The 1970 EXPO Figure 12. Should have used a long envelope Stamp News - 11

large trio. The problem may have been that even at Clarence St Philatelic Sales long envelopes were not available? By mid-June 1971, when Figure 13 was serviced at Adelaide, the medium format Shield covers had been phased out for around two years. However, I have a small group of similar covers serviced at Adelaide, all blocks of four, suggesting either a batch of “mediums” had Figure 13. Very elusive item to the untrained eye been found at Adelaide, or a collector had some may not be another? leftover from earlier years. Whatever the reason for I can’t help but feel that, with the popularity that the existence of these items, they are very scarce. the Brand cachet covers of the same era enjoy today Figure 14 is the latest use of a Shield FDC I (e.g. Wesley, Royal, Parade), the Australian Post Ofhave seen. They had been replaced in 1973 by the fice generics: Hermes, Shield, and successors, have “Wattle” design. This rather special use of long solid not received their fair share of specialist devotees? design Slate cover, for 1974 (Nov 20) Education set, They certainly deserve such attention. was serviced at Canberra Parliament House. There Season’s greetings!

Figure 14. Last of the Mohicans? 12 - Stamp News

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In November 2013, Australia Post released 250 x IMPERFORATE panes of 15 mini sheets of stamps. The “1913 Disaster & Isolation” issue, for the Centenary of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) of 1911-14. The AAE left Hobart in December 1911 commanded by Douglas Mawson and returned in February 1914. Mawson was knighted for his achievements, and is regarded as one of the greatest figures of all Antarctic exploration. You needed to phone the PO “800” number, or order online. Cost was well above face value, and the maximum order was ONE sheet a person. Sold out in super-fast time, as you’d expect - within hours I am advised. There will be near none in the secondary market, as collectors who got very lucky, will not be sellers - at any price. I’d guess there are easily 20,000 keen global collectors of AAT, but only 250 of these sheets to go around. If 200 buyers hold on to their sheets for their collections, that leaves just FIFTY to service those 20,000 collectors worldwide. 99% of AAT collectors do not right now realise this IMPERF issue even exists! In the 56 years since AAT first issued stamps in 1957, I can’t recall any other *AAT* imperforates sold by the PO. Each sheet is hand numbered in top left margin, and also comes with a Certificate of Guarantee card from head of AP, confirming that only 250 panes in TOTAL were sold – globally. This is an Official Australia Post Australian Antarctic Territory issue. I am offering these as follows: SUBJECT UNSOLD – please use correct stock code!

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UNHAPPY ARABIA The old Romans described today’s Yemen as Arabia Felix or Happy Arabia. In view of the civil war which has been raging in the country for the past several years this is something of a misnomer. During the last two years more than 6.600 people have been killed, many more injured and tens of thousands of Yemenis are refugees in their own country. It is a war which doesn’t get too much attention in Western media which tend to concentrate on the situation in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Yemen is far more isolated and so far very few Yemeni refugees have arrived in Europe. The conﬂict in Yemen is yet another example of how the great powers wage war by proxy. The country has an internationally recognised government headed by President Abd Rabbu Mansur Hadi based in the port city of Aden. On the other side we ﬁnd the Huthi rebels who are based in Sana, the Yemeni capital in the northern part of the country. The Huthi rebels are supported by Iran while the Aden government relies on Saudi Arabia and several Western nations. The Saudis have created a coalition

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in support of the Aden government. Their involvement is mainly in the form of massive bombings of Huthi positions. Sometimes they hit targets which are purely civilian; in the autumn of 2016 a Saudi plane bombed a building where a funeral ceremony took place; more than 140 mourners were killed in this incident. Yemen is a very old country with a most interesting history. The Queen of Sheba ruled the country when she travelled to Israel to meet with King Solomon as she had heard so much about his legendary wisdom. This is a story which can be found in both the Bible and the Koran. There are still extensive remains near the city of Mareb which remind us of this glorious period in Yemeni history. In 1961 Yemen released a magniﬁcent set of ten stamps featuring statues and views of Mareb, the capital of Sheba. For a very long time Yemen was part of the Ottoman Empire but became an independent state following the breakdown of the empire after World War I. It was not really a uniﬁed nation as there

Christer Brunström were numerous smaller sultanates. When the British established themselves in the port city of Aden they let local sultans and clan leaders in the interior very much manage their own affairs. We philatelists know that the states of Kathiri in Seiyun and Qu’aiti in Hadhramaut issued their own postage stamps starting in 1942. In a book called Aden to Hadhramaut Dutchman D. van der Meulen tells about a 1939 journey in the area. The different clan leaders demanded a lot of money to permit the expedition to pass over their territories. Van der Meulen describes a fairly lawless society. When the British withdrew from Aden in 1967 the states of Mahra and Upper Yafa also joined the ranks of stamp issuing nations for a brief period of time. Aden was then united with all the smaller states forming the Republic of Southern Yemen. In 1962 the royalist government had been deposed and the Yemen Arab Republic was established with much assistance from Egypt. However, the reigning king received a lot of support from clan

leaders throughout the country. The civil war lasted from 1962 until 1969. Both the Yemen Arab Republic and the Kingdom of Yemen were proliﬁc issuers of postage stamps during the very long armed conﬂict. Many of the stamp issues were aimed at worldwide thematic collectors with designs having absolutely no relevance to Yemen be it republican or royal. The latter side frequently used stamps for propaganda purposes such as a 1964 set which celebrated the successful defence of the fort of Shaharah using a 19th century artillery cannon. In 1990 the two Yemeni republics were united into the Republic of Yemen with Sana as its capital. This marked the beginning of a fairly peaceful period in the country’s modern history. Stamps depicted such things as coffee for which Yemen is quite famous. However, there were still problems in the eastern part of the country where Al Qaida on the Arabian Peninsula established itself. In recent years the Islamic State has also established a foothold in the area. As these terror groups are Sunni Muslims they

UNHAPPY ARABIA have apparently received some support from local Sunni clan leaders. It is appropriate to have a closer look at religion in Yemen as this seems to play a major part in the current armed conﬂict. Islam is the state religion and Yemeni people are not allowed to convert to other religions. The sharia laws are the basis for the country’s legal system. Only schools recognised by the government are allowed to teach the basics of Islam (other religious faiths are not included in the curriculum). There are two major branches of Islam – Shia and Sunni. Approximately 45 % of the population are followers of the Shia version and they reside mainly in the northern part of the country. The Yemeni Shias belong to a branch of Shia Islam known as Zaiddiyah. Their Imams ruled Yemen from 897 until 1962. The remaining 55 % adhere to the Sunni branch and live mostly in the south. It was the Shias of the north who for centuries were the dominating politi-

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cal force in the country. Some 15 years ago members of the Zaiddyah felt that their traditional lifestyle was under threat and in 2004 there was an armed uprising in one of the northern provinces. It was led by a man called Hussein Badr al-Din al-Huthi. He was killed the same year but the rebel movement adopted his name. The Huthi rebels are basically the military branch of the Zaiddiyah. The Yemen that the ancient Romans described as Arabia Felix is not a particularly happy one today. It is one of the world’s poorest countries and it certainly suffers from worldly and religious conﬂicts where local clan leaders still play an important role. The foreign involvement in Yemeni matters has further aggravated the situation. Unlike in the 1960s the two sides in the current civil war seem to have refrained from issuing masses of postage stamps to be sold to worldwide collectors.

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Stamps in the News - Globally! The politics of stamps in US elections

Reported at http://time.com With millions of Americans voting by mail this year, the hunt for a stamp has replaced the “I Voted” sticker as a marker of the election. But if there is no stamp—or the wrong amount of postage—it will still be delivered. The U.S. Postal Service’s official policy is to deliver all absentee and mail-in ballots, regardless of whether they have proper postage but the Postal Service will charge back the local board of elections. That policy does not apply to ballots sent from overseas or a non-Postal Service facility, where correct postage is essential. Some voters are also finding that putting just the right stamp on their ballot is one more way to express their feelings on this year’s election. Harry Potter stamps have proven popular, especially for people who want to say “I’m With Her… mione.”

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Your rocks are in the mail

Reported at www.telegraph.co.uk Thousands of tourists who souvenired rocks and sand from Hawaii have come to deeply regret it. At the post office in the Hawaiian town of Hilo, parcels filled with rocks are piling up in the mail room. The parcels have been mailed by former tourists in Hawaii, who illegally souvenired rocks from national parks and are now desperate to return them. Some of the packages arrive with notes, such as “please return to the beach” or the even more bizarre: “tell Pele I’m sorry”. The reason? Fear of a curse associated with Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of fire and volcanoes is compelling these guilt-ridden tourists to return their keepsakes to where they came from. Hilo’s postmaster has received many of these packages over his twenty year career and believes visitors do so after later learning of the mysterious

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“Pele’s Curse”. According to the superstition, Pele curses anyone who removes lava rocks from the island with severe misfortune. People who claim to have been afflicted by Pele’s Curse over the years say they have suffered anything from relationship breakdowns to wrongful arrest. It’s believed thousands of objects are posted to Hawaii every year by former holiday-makers in an effort to appease the irate goddess. “After we read these letters and try to understand them, you realise that the bad luck is real for these people ” the postmaster said. But Jessica Ferracane from Hawaii Volcanoes National Park said while it was illegal for tourists to take rocks from Hawaii, “Pele’s Curse” was nothing more than a myth. “There’s no mention in any of the oral traditions that Pele would curse rocks, so it’s just this unfortunate myth that has been perpetuated.” Still, the website pelescurse.com asks spooked tourists to send the rocks to their Hawaii-based PO box so they can be returned to their proper place. “Once we receive the returned lava rocks, we will carefully wrap them in a red ti leaf, which is commonly associated with good luck and lets Pele know it’s been returned,” the website says. “Without specific instructions, your lava rocks will be returned to a special location in Hawaii National Park, close to the home of Pele, the Hawaiian Fire Goddess and Creator of Lava.” Regardless of whether or not Pele’s Curse actually exists, tourists should know it is illegal to take rocks from national parks, including volcanoes in Hawaii.

an active lava flow and using a stick to thrust their postcards into a fissure and scorch it before mailing. Hawai’i National Park was set aside in 1916, preserving the ancient crater of Haleakala as well as the active Kilauea. Congress refused to appropriate any money for the new park, however, reneged on the theory, as one Senator said, that “it should not cost anything to run a volcano.” From the 1840s, drawn by stories of Kilauea’s fury, non-Hawaiians have trekked up Kilauea to witness the lava and the lava lake Halemaumau. Many of them arrived after riding a steamer boat from Honolulu to Hilo. Following local Hawaiian

Postcards rare and well done.

Reported at http://postalmuseum.si.edu A recent article on the history of the Hawai’i National Park has highlighted one of the favourite volcanic tourist activities for generations- toasting your postcards. Tourism to the active volcano at Kilauea on the island of Hawaii took off when it became a national park in 1916, just a few weeks before the National Park Service was created. A popular early tourist activity was walking out onto the hard crust of Stamp News - 19

Stamps in the News - Globally! tour guides, the visitors climbed Kilauea during their two-to-three day journey. By day the visitors walked or rode on horseback up the volcano’s slope. By night they camped, shivering in the cold, thin air, smelling the volcano’s sulfur, and occasionally feeling light earthquakes. More permanent tourist accommodation because available in 1877 with the construction of the Volcano House. The House provided activities such as cooking meals in the hot crevices nearby: “The coffee pot was placed over the crack and the water was soon boiling merrily. The skillet was likewise put there, bacon sputtered as soon as laid in the pan, and in a short time the steak was being cooked to a nice turn.” Generations of subsequent tourists also used the volcano’s heat to toast their postcards

Postcard – not so well done

Reported at theguardian.com Australia Post has “apologised for the inconvenience” after delivering a postcard from a South Pacific island a full half-century after it was sent. An Adelaide couple found the postcard from the French Polynesian island of Tahiti in their letterbox, postmarked 1966. The Adelaide Advertiser reported that the “slightly faded” postcard was addressed to “Robert Giorgio” from “Chris” in 1966. It showed a scene from the Papeete waterfront, including the distinctive Bloc Donald building, which featured on many postcards of the 1950s. Chris said he was “enjoying myself greatly”, despite the “very humid” weather. The stamp on the postcard cost 13 francs.

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Wattle Park resident Tim Duffy, who found the postcard beneath a water bill on Monday, believed Giorgio may have been the property’s original owner. “It is clear something went wrong 50 years ago after the postcard was posted in French Polynesia, and we apologise for the inconvenience,” an Australian Post spokesman told the Advertiser.

Australia Post – not so well done

Reported at 9news.com.au A major security breach has resulted in hundreds of parcels being stolen from Australia Post distribution centres in Melbourne, with those affected left in limbo as to whether they will receive compensation. Police report that the Braeside and Clayton South distribution centres have been targeted four times by thieves, who took off with thousands of dollars’ worth of goods. CCTV shows two heavily disguised men entering an unoccupied warehouse before picking up a pallet jack to help carry their loot out onto a white tray truck. “To get access to the property they have cut chains to open a gate, they are in the property for up to 40 minutes in each incident,” a police spokesman said. The duo has targeted the centres four times since July, stealing hundreds of parcels. “Unfortunately we don’t know what’s in these packages and nor would they, they’re just taking packages at random.” Australia Post said it would be boosting security measures to ensure no further parcels were stolen. They did not comment on whether those who have had packages stolen will be compensated.

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Feline philatelic diplomacy

Reported at channelnewsasia.com Singapore Post (SingPost) released a limited-edition Hello Kitty MyStamp set in ate October to mark 50 years of diplomatic ties between Singapore and Japan, or SJ50. Limited to a print run of 3,000, the set consists of a stamp sheet set in a hard cover folder, two postcards and a paper bag featuring the special SJ50 version of Japan’s iconic Hello Kitty in a pink kimono. It will also have a background motif made up of each country’s national flower, the Vanda Miss Joaquim orchid and Sakura. “The set has been designed as a travelogue of Hello Kitty’s travels in Japan and Singapore, at which she meets Singapore’s SJ50 mascot, Doritan, a boy wearing spiky durian-like headgear and a red jumpsuit emblazoned with an image of the Merlion,” SingPost added. The commemorative issue will be priced at S$21.80 for a set of six stamps, each with a face value of S$1.10.

memorative stamps and postcards in memory of the passing of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej. The commemorative postcards and stamps will be given free to people for collection via online registration, and at all postal offices across the country. Interested people can register for the commemorative postcards and stamps by filling their identification card numbers, names, addresses and telephone numbers in the application forms. The postcards will be sent to them by mail. She said only one postcard will be given out to each person.

Political incorrectness in Taipei

Thais mourn their King with free stamp and postcard

Reported at bangkokpost.com Thailand Post has urged people wanting to obtain free commemorative postcards affixed with a stamp bearing the image of King Bhumibol to register online or at post offices across the country. The free postcards affixed with the one-baht stamp bearing the image of His Majesty the King in military uniform will come with a seal dated Oct 13, 2016, the day His Majesty passed away. Thailand Post says it is making 9,999,999 com-

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2016/10/26/2003657950 Two sets of “politically incorrect” stamps have been displayed at the recent World Stamp Championship Exhibition in Taipei, a testament to the power struggles waged in the early years of the Republic of China (Taiwan). One of them is a rare sheet of 48 stamps with a face value of 2 yuan, on which the words “provisional neutrality” are printed. When Sun Yat-sen established the Provisional Republic of China in Nanjing, China, in 1912, he asked postal authorities to overprint Qing Dynasty stamps with the Chinese characters for “Republic of China” to represent the change of regime. However, the inspector general of the Directorate of General Posts in Beijing, which was still under the rule of the Qing Dynasty at the time — did not want to take sides, so had the words “provisional neutrality” printed on the stamps instead. Stamp News - 21

Stamps in the News - Globally! million. In 1943, while visiting the US House of Representatives, the wife of Chiang Kai-shek, presented a collection of these stamps as a gift to then-US president Franklin Roosevelt, an avid stamp collector.

Gold, gold, gold for Bulgaria

One of two sets exhibited printed with the Chinese characters for “provisional neutrality,” issued when control of China was in transition between the Qing dynasty and the republic. Needless to say, Sun was furious and immediately recalled the stamps, which were issued for only a few days. After the stamps were recalled, Beijing reissued them, adding the words “Republic of China,” but retaining the words “provisional neutrality.” Not only did the reissued stamps fail to appease Sun’s government, they now contained an even more inflammatory political message, as they implied the Republic was only temporary. Sun ordered that the stamps be recalled and the words “provisional neutrality” removed. One sheet of the reissued stamps, with a face value of 5 yuan, was on display at the exhibition. Given their short run, the two sets of stamps are now extremely rare and valued at betweenUS$948,887 and US$1.6 22 - Stamp News

Reported at novinite.com Post stamps made of 24-carat gold were displayed for the first time in Bulgaria recently at the International Fair in Plovdiv during the opening of the exhibition Bulkolekto 2016. The unique collection contains 22 items – the first post stamps printed in the 19th century in England, Bulgaria, the USA, Russia, Monaco, Switzerland, Norway etc. According to experts, the value of the collection exceeds

EUR 1M. “This is merely an indicative estimate because golden stamps have never been sold at auctions so there is no exact price. Today, paper stamps are ex-

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tremely valuable because they are very rare and the golden ones - even more so since these were made in series of 100 only,” explained the chief secretary of the Union of Bulgarian Philatelists (UBP). The collection Golden Post Stamps of the World from the 19th Century belongs to the chairman of UBP Spas Panchev. The collection was taken out of the vault of the Bulgarian National Bank in order to be displayed at Bulkolekto 2016.

Gold, gold, gold for China

Reported at chinadaily.com.cn A collection of 1,606 stamps featuring the Chinese chrysanthemum has been officially recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records for containing the most stamps in a single series. A representative of Guinness World Records made the announcement at the annual Kaifeng

Chrysanthemum Festival in Central China’s Henan province, where cultivation of chrysanthemums has a more than 1,000-year history. First released by China Post Group in 2012, the collection features 1,606 types of chrysanthemum flowers grown in the city. The flowers were depicted in a traditional Chinese painting style. It took the group four more years to release all eight sets in the collection. Copies of the collection will be sold for 1,606 yuan ($238). It was not the first time a world record has been set at the festival. In 2015, a “full-standing multiflorous chrysanthemum” grafted in Kaifeng earned its place in the Guinness Book of World Records for containing the greatest number of chrysanthemum species.

Wordsworth windfall

Reported at nwemail.co.uk A letter from Lakeland poet William Wordsworth could make up to £8,000 in a London saleroom. The rare piece of postal history is included in a forthcoming sale by Spink and Son. The cover bears a 1840 Two Pence Blue Plate 1 MK large margins, placed diagonally (perhaps suggesting a kiss) and tied by a superb red Maltese Cross in an orange vermilion shade, on printed invoice headed “postage stamps” dated 19 Dec. 1840, from William Wordsworth, to Mrs. Hannah Backhouse, Postmistress of Kendal, blue Ambleside d.s. on reverse; fine. The pre-sale estimate is £6,000 to £8,000. William Wordsworth lived from 1770 to 1850 and was Poet Laureate from 1843. He was distributor of revenue stamps for legal and official documents for the county of Westmorland from 1812 to 1842, with an office in Ambleside. Postscript: The item was passed in.

US invert stands auction record on its head

Reported at paulfrasercollectibles.com The striking and finest known 2c Pan-AmerStamp News - 23

Stamps in the News - Globally! ican invert stamp recently sold for US$170,000 against a US$55,000 auction valuation by Robert A Siegel in New York. With its full original gum, it is the only one of the 64 surviving error singles to have achieved a grade of “Superb 98”. The six Pan-American denominations were unveiled at the 1901 Pan-American Expo in Buffalo, New York, with each depicting a different form of modern transport. The stamp was released for the 1901 PanAmerican exposition. It showcases the American technological advances. 1901 Pan-American exposition was held at Buffalo, which was known for the better railroad connections. Hence, the stamp commemorating the Pan-American exposition depicts the image of railway engine. The 2c Pan-American invert was printed accidently due to complexities involved in printing and sent out to US post offices. Few stamps remained in the circula-

tion and find the way to the collector’s pocket. Aside from the stamps, the Pan-American Expo was notable for the assassination of President William McKinley within the grounds.

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Postal Stationery This month’s column looks at Australia’s change of address lettercards, the FIP Postal Stationery Commission, UPU Specimen postal stationery and stamped postcards from Sao Tome and Principe.

Australia Change of Address Lettercards

Without much fanfare, Australia issued a set of five stamped lettercards (Figure 1) each in a different colour, on 1 December 2006. The five colours used were green, brown, blue, pink and purple. The lettercards were sold in a pack of ten (two of each colour) labelled ‘moving postcards’ for $12.90. The front of the cards has a pre-paid indicium inscribed ‘For delivery within Australia Only’. Although marketed as ‘postcards’ they are in fact lettercards and are the last issue of stamped postcards sold by Australia Post, appearing some twenty-one years after the previous lettercard issue, the 33c Sooty Owl lettercard issued

Figure 1 Australia 2006 Change of Address Lettercard in 1985. The inside of the letter card (Figure 2) is printed with a form providing provision for the new address and reads moving on / / to my new home, luxury pad, sharehouse, apartment and continues And now that you’re been updated with my mew details I look forward to receiving house, warming gifts, birthday presents, gig/theatre tickets, invitations, food parcels, Christmas cards.

FIP Postal Stationery Commission

Figure 2 Inside of the Change of Address Lettercard 26 - Stamp News

Have you ever wondered who sets the rules for the judging of postal stationery exhibits in Australia and internationally? In Australia we use the rules formulated by the Fédération Internationale de Philatélie (FIP), Figure 3, an international body of stamp collectors of which Australia is a member. The FIP rules for exhibiting postal stationery are managed by the FIP Postal Stationery Commission which is

Ian McMahon

Figure 3 Postcard issued by Taiwan to mark the 90th Anniversary of the founding of FIP responsible for the development of the rules and their promulgation as well as encouraging postal stationery exhibiting and developing postal stationery judges. The Commission is comprised of delegates from each of the members of FIP with a committee of management known as the Bureau. The current membership of the Postal Stationery Commission Bureau is Lars Engelbrecht from Denmark (President), Ian McMahon (Secretary), Mike Smith (UK), Ross Towle (USA), Chen Yu An (Chinese Taipei), Juan Reinoso (Costa Rica) and Igor Pirc (Slovenia). Activities of the Commission include holding meetings, often in conjunction with an international stamp exhibition, which usually include a seminar on a postal stationery topic, running seminars and workshops for exhibitors and judges, maintaining a website and producing two newsletters a year. The Commission met recently at Philataipei 2016

World Stamp Championship Exhibition held in Taipei from 21- 26 October 2016. The Postal Stationery Commission meeting was held on 24 October and included a Presentation on China Postal Stationery by Chen Yu An (Figure 4), the election of the 2016-2020 Postal Stationery Commission Bureau and a workshop on the next four years work of the Postal Stationery Commission. Other seminars given at recent meetings include Hong Kong Aerogrammes, Postal Stationery of the Federated Malay States and Researching Postal Stationery. At the meeting a number of new projects were proposed for 2016-2020 including using social media like Facebook and YouTube for promoting postal stationery collecting. The Postal Stationery Commission maintains a very useful website on www.postalstationery.org which provides details of the membership of the Commission, reports on Commission meetings, information on exhibiting stationery, stationery exhibits Stamp News - 27

Postal Stationery

Figure 4 hen Yu-An from Taiwan presenting at the FIP Postal Stationery Commission Meeting at PhilaTaipei 2016 as well as reports, presentations and links. It also includes a listing of FIP postal stationery judges, an exhibit database, a section on “what is postal stationery”, a section on the various societies devoted to postal stationery, a working list of journals and books devoted to postal stationery, back issues of the Commission newsletter, presentations and articles on stationery. The FIP Postal Stationery Guidelines can be found at http://www.postalstationery.org/html/ guidelines.html. The FIP Postal Stationery Commission produces a regular newsletter every six months which can be viewed on the Commission’s website http://www. postalstationery.org/html/newsletter.html or alternatively I am happy to email you a copy. The contents of recent newsletters have included details of Commission meetings and activities, news from delegates, 28 - Stamp News

postal stationery exhibit results, information on \ Commission Delegates and FIP Jurors and Team Leaders, literature reviews and a range of articles with recent examples including the American Bank Note Co as a printer of postal stationery, The First Envelope of Argentina and the First Romanian Postal Cards. The Commission holds postal stationery judging seminars which

Figure 5 Lars Engelbrecht RDP, President FIP Postal Stationery Commission

Ian McMahon The Postal Stationery Chairman, Lars Engelbrecht (Figure 5), has recently been elected to sign the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists. His citation read Lars has researched the postal stationery of Denmark in depth and written a considerable number of articles about this in both national and international journals. He has attained FIP Large Gold medals for the Postal Stationery exhibit: Denmark - The Bicoloured Issue of 18711905 and FIP Gold for Danish Postal Stationery Essays. He is an FIP juror and team leader, has been Chairman of the FIP Postal Stationery Commission since 2012, and editor of the FIP Postal Stationery Commission newsletter since 2008. He has given numerous seminars on exhibiting and judging, and took the initiative for FIP jury team leader training in 2015. Figure 6 Queensland 1911, 1½d reply card, HG21, sent to UPU, Brisbane CTO, and receiving mark for Madagascar. are a requirement for people wishing to become postal stationery judges with seminars held recently in conjunction with exhibitions in Korea, Singapore and New York. A copy of the basic presentation used in these seminars including a number of examples of what can be exhibited and what cannot be exhibited as postal stationery can be found on the Commission’s website. The website also includes a list in pdf format of the results of postal stationery exhibits at FIP, FIAP, FIAF and FEPA exhibitions from 1999 to 2016.

UPU Specimen Postal Stationery

The United Postal Stationery Society (UPSS), which is the largest postal stationery society in the USA, has a detailed listing of worldwide specimen stationery sent by countries to the UPU on its website http://upss.org/upuspecimens/ index.php. This listing is derived from that created by James Bendon who is the author of the book UPU Specimen Stamps 1878-1961 which primarily covers adhesive stamps. The listing only includes those items of postal stationery that a UPU member country sent as specimens (either with a specimen Stamp News - 29

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Figure 9 Â Front of 20 DB postcard from Sao Tome and Principe overprint or other form of cancellation), to the UPU in Berne, Switzerland, for distribution to other UPU members. Countries are listed in alphabetic order. Most stationery sent to the UPU was in normal, mint condition, and are not included as they are indistinguishable from issued items. General information on the UPU procedures is included. An article on the specimen postal stationery of the Australian States has recently appeared in the Postal Stationery Collector, the Journal of the Australian Postal Stationery Society of Australia. This article, by Dingle Smith, covers both specimens intended to be sent to the UPU as well as specimens produced for presentation purposes. Figure 6 shows a Queensland postcard which has been sent to the UPU Facing page: Figure 7 Porcupine fish on the Reverse of a Sao Tome and Principe Stamped Postcard Figure 8 Â Sunbird on the Reverse of a Sao Tome and Principe Stamped Postcard

in 1911. The postcard has been CTO and has the receiving handstamp of the Madagascar post office.

Sao Tome and Principe (St Thomas and Prince) Stamped Postcards

Perhaps not a common collecting country for collectors of postal stationery, but Sao Tome and Principe (St Thomas and Prince) has a current issue of stamped postcards showing birds and sea life (Figure 7 and 8). The reverse of the postcards show illustrations similar to those depicted on adhesive stamp issues depicting birds and fish issued in 1979 and 1983. The postcards are imprinted with a Db 16 or Db 20 stamp (Figure 9) depicting the coat of arms of Sao Tome and Principe which displays a shield supported by a falcon on the left and a grey parrot on the right. Sao Tome and Principe is a Portuguese-speaking island nation in the Gulf of Guinea, off coast of Gabon. With both the reverse of the cards and the stamp depicting birds or marine life the postcards would be attractive to thematic or topical collectors. Stamp News - 31

Looking at New Zealand

1972 Alpine Flowers Until 1972, New Zealand commemorative stamps were issued to mark events such as centenaries or sporting achievements. Even the popular Roses issue of 1971 marked the World Rose Convention held in Hamilton that year. In December 1972 a set of stamps featuring New Zealandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lakes became the first of an annual series intended to promote the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s natural beauty. Before that, however, on 7 June 1972, there was an issue featuring Alpine Flowers. The artist who submitted the stamp designs was Eileen Mayo who was born in Britain in 1906 and emigrated to Australia in 1952. There she was an important part of the post-war artistic and print-making scene. She designed the Australian 1/- Platypus stamp of 1959 to 1962. She moved to New Zealand in 1962 and continued making posters and silkscreen prints. She made dioramas for museums. Her other New Zealand stamp designs were the 1969 Cook Bicentenary, the

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25 AAT .............................................................$ 3.00 50 AAT ...........................................................$ 25.00 100 AAT .........................................................$ 99.00 25 ADEN ..........................................................$ 6.00 50 ADEN ........................................................$ 12.00 100 AFGANISTAN............................................$ 15.00 100 AFRICA ......................................................$ 6.00 200 AFRICA....................................................$ 13.00 50 AITUTAKI ...................................................$ 40.00 150 AITUTAKI ...............................................$ 140.00 200 AITUTAKI ................................................$180.00 50 ALBANIA ....................................................$14.00 100 ALBANIA .................................................$ 24.00 50 ALGERIA .....................................................$11.00 25 ANDORA - SPANISH MINT U/H ...................$ 20.00 50 ANDORRA - SPANISH MINT U/H .................$60.00 25 ANDORRA - FRENCH MINT U/H ..................$ 20.00 50 ANDORRA - FRENCH MINT U/H ..................$ 50.00 25 ANGUILLA ..................................................$18.00 25 ANTIGUA .....................................................$ 5.00 50 ANTIGUA BARBUDA ..................................$ 20.00 200 ARAB STATES ..........................................$ 12.00 100 ARGENTINA ...............................................$ 6.00 200 ARGENTINA .............................................$ 15.00 25 ASCENSION ..............................................$42.00 100 AUST. (DEC MINT U/H) ............................$ 55.00 100 AUST. (PREDEC.MINT U/H) $ .......................60.00 100 AUSTRALIA ...............................................$ 4.00 200 AUSTRALIA ...............................................$ 6.00 300 AUSTRALIA ...............................................$ 8.00 400 AUSTRALIA .............................................$ 13.50 500 AUSTRALIA .............................................$ 16.50 600 AUSTRALIA .............................................$ 27.50 800 AUSTRALIA .............................................$ 40.00 1000 AUSTRALIA ...........................................$ 65.00 1500 AUSTRALIA ..........................................$100.00 25 AUSTRALIAN STATES .................................$ 16.00 50 AUSTRALIAN STATES .................................$ 56.00 100 AUSTRALIAN STATES ..............................$150.00 100AUSTRIA ....................................................$ 7.00 200 AUSTRIA .................................................$ 18.00 500 AUSTRIA .................................................$ 45.00 100 AUSTRIA (LRG.COMMEMS) ......................$ 50.00 200 AUSTRIA (LRG.COMMEMS) ....................$ 100.00

1000 AUSTRIA .............................................$ 119.00 1000 AUSTRIA (MINT U/H) ...........................$ 295.00

100 BAHAMAS ...............................................$ 90.00 25 BAHRAIN ..................................................$ 33.00 50 BAHRAIN ..................................................$ 72.00 100 BANGLADESH ..........................................$ 11.00 25 BARBADOS ................................................$ 12.00 50 BARBADOS ................................................$ 24.00 100 BARBADOS ..............................................$ 70.00 50 BASUTOLAND/ LESOTO ...............................$40.00 50 BAVARIA ...................................................$ 28.00 100 BAVARIA .................................................$ 84.00 200 BAVARIA ...............................................$ 210.00 200 BELGIAN CONGO ....................................$ 100.00 200 BELGIUM ..................................................$15.00 300 BELGIUM .................................................$ 24.00 500 BELGIUM .................................................$ 40.00 100 BELGIUM COLONIES .................................$ 13.00 300 BELGIUM COLONIES .................................$ 80.00 100 BERMUDA ...............................................$ 90.00 100 BHUTAN ...................................................$30.00 50 BOHEMIA MORAVIA ....................................$ 8.00 100 BOHEMIA MORAVIA ................................$ 24.00 150 BOHEMIA MORAVIA ................................$ 55.00 25 BOLIVIA ......................................................$ 6.00 50 BOLIVIA ....................................................$ 13.00 25 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ..............................$ 20.00 50 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ..............................$ 33.00 150 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ..........................$ 170.00 100 Br.P.O. AGENCIES ...................................$ 100.00 25 BR. SOLOMONS .........................................$ 10.00 100 BRAZIL ....................................................$ 17.00 200 BRAZIL ....................................................$ 36.00 100 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ........................$ 6.00 200 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ......................$ 10.00 500 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ......................$ 30.00 1000 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ....................$ 78.00 100 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH (MINT U/H) ...$ 27.00 100 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH KGVI (MINT U/H) ...$ 60.00 1000 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH( MINT U/H ) .. $ 190.00 50 BRITISH HONDURAS (LRG.COMMEMS) ......$ 40.00 25 HONDURAS AND BELIZE ..............................$ 9.00 25 BRITISH VIRGIN ISL. ..................................$ 22.00 50 BRITISH WEST INDIES ................................$ 10.00 100 BRITISH WEST INDIES ..............................$ 14.00 500 BRITISH WEST INDIES ..............................$ 75.00 25 BRUNEI .....................................................$ 27.00 50 BRUNEI ......................................................$66.00 200 BULGARIA ...............................................$ 17.00 300 BULGARIA ...............................................$ 22.00 800 BULGARIA ...............................................$ 88.00 1000 BULGARIA ...........................................$ 120.00 100 BURUNDI ................................................$ 20.00

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25 CAMBODIA ................................................$ 10.00 100 CAMBODIA ............................................$ 115.00 500 CAMBODIA ..............................................$ 65.00 100 CANADA ....................................................$ 6.00 200 CANADA ................................................$ 258.00 1000 CANADA ...............................................$100.00 1800CANADA ..............................................$ 179.00 100 CANADA (MINT.COMMS) .........................$ 50.00 25 CAPE VERDE ................................................$ 6.00 25 CAYMAN ISL ..............................................$ 15.00 50 CAYMAN ISL ..............................................$ 36.00 100 CHANNEL ISLANDS ..................................$ 19.00 300 CHANNEL ISLANDS ................................$ 130.00 100 CHILE ......................................................$ 12.00 200 CHILE ......................................................$ 24.00 500 CHILE ....................................................$ 110.00 100 CHINA .....................................................$ 19.00 200 CHINA .....................................................$ 48.00 325 CHINA ...................................................$ 130.00 500 CHINA P.R.C ...........................................$ 350.00 100 CHINA (LRG, MINT, COMP.SETS)................$ 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 ..............................................$ 60.00 900 COLOMBIA ............................................$ 370.00 300 COOK ISLANDS ......................................$ 350.00 400 COOK ISLANDS ......................................$ 560.00 500 COOK ISLANDS ......................................$ 650.00 750 COOK ISLANDS ....................................$ 1280.00 1000 COOK ISLANDS .................................$ 2,000.00 50 CROATIA (PRE WAR) ..................................$ 20.00 100 CUBA .......................................................$09.00 300 CUBA ......................................................$ 30.00 200 CUBA (LARGE PICT.) ................................$ 18.00 25 CYPRUS ....................................................$ 12.00 50 CYPRUS ....................................................$ 30.00 100 CYPRUS ..................................................$ 60.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ......................................$ 3.00 200 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ....................................$ 15.00 500 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ....................................$ 34.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (MINT U/H)..................$ 17.00 200 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (MINT U/H)..................$ 20.00 400 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (MINT U/H)..................$ 30.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (POST WAR).................$ 11.00 1000 CZECHOSLAVAKIA ..................................$ 85.00

Pricefighter Packets, ready made collections D

50 DANZIG .....................................................$ 29.00 100 DANZIG ...................................................$ 66.00 100 DENMARK .................................................$ 6.00 300 DENMARK ...............................................$ 20.00 50 DOMINICA BR. .............................................$ 6.00 100 DOMINICA BR. .........................................$ 30.00 50 DOMINICA BR. (KGVI & QEII) .....................$ 40.00 50 DOMINICAN REP .......................................$ 18.00 100 DOMINICAN REP. .....................................$ 39.00 300 DOMINICAN REP. .....................................$ 70.00 90 DUTCH EAST INDIES ................................$ 100.00

300 ECUADOR ................................................$ 77.00 400 ECUADOR ................................................$ 80.00 500 ECUADOR ..............................................$ 110.00 700 ECUADOR ..............................................$ 250.00 100 EGYPT .....................................................$ 10.00 200 EGYPT .....................................................$ 56.00 300 EGYPT .....................................................$ 70.00 50 EGYPT (MINT/UH, COMPL. SETS)................$ 30.00 50 EGYPT + 4 M/S .........................................$ 30.00 25 EQUATORIAL GUINEA (M/SHEET CTO) ........$ 11.00 50 ESTONIA ....................................................$ 66.00 1000 EUROPE ...............................................$ 50 .00

20 FALKLAND ISL. COMPL. MINT SETS...........$ 100.00 25 FALKLAND ISLAND ....................................$ 18.00 50 FAROE ISLAND ..........................................$ 60.00 100 FAROE ISLAND .......................................$ 130.00 50 FIJI ............................................................$ 18.00 100 FIJI ..........................................................$ 50.00 150 FIJI ..........................................................$ 70.00 200 FIJI ..........................................................$ 80.00 250 FIJI ........................................................$ 140.00 400 FIJI ........................................................$ 300.00 100 FINLAND .................................................$ 18.00 200 FINLAND .................................................$ 40.00 400 FINLAND .................................................$ 80.00 500 FINLAND ...............................................$ 140.00 10 FIUME .........................................................$ 7.00 100 FRANCE .....................................................$ 6.00 300 FRANCE ...................................................$ 30.00 100 FRENCH COLONIES .....................................$ 7.50 200 FRENCH COLONIES ...................................$ 20.00 500 FRENCH COLONIES ....................................$70.00 100 FRENCH COLONIES (PRE INDEPENDENCE) $ 28.00 100 FRENCH. MORROCO .................................$ 25.00 50 FRENCH POLYNESIA ...................................$ 50.00

50 GERMANY 3RD REICH ................................$ 13.00 100 GERMANY .................................................$ 7.00 300 GERMANY ...............................................$ 18.00 500 GERMANY ................................................$37.50 1000 GERMANY .............................................$ 50.00 500 GERMANY EAST ......................................$ 40.00 50 GERMANY INFLATION (MINT U/H ).............$ 10.00 100 GERMANY INFLATION (MINT U/H)............$ 20.00 100 GERMANY WEST(LRG.COMMEMS) ............$20.00 50 GHANA .....................................................$ 50.00 100 GHANA ...................................................$ 70.00 200 GHANA .................................................$ 120.00 25 GIBRALTAR ................................................$ 17.00 50 GIBRALTAR ................................................$ 45.00 25 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .........................$ 12.00 50 GILBERT, KIRIBATI,TUVALU .........................$30.00 150 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .......................$ 90.00 200 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .....................$ 100.00 300 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .....................$ 150.00 360 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .....................$ 190.00 400 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .....................$ 225.00 500 GILBERT, KIRIBATI, TUVALU ...................$ 270.00 50 GREAT BRITAIN ............................................$ 7.00 100 GREAT BRITAIN ..........................................$ 9.00 1000 GREAT BRITAIN ....................................$ 176.00 1200 GREAT BRITAIN ....................................$ 230.00 100 GREAT BTITAIN (LARGE COMMEMS) ........$ 12.00 200 GREAT BRITAIN (LARGE COMMEMS).........$ 20.00 100 GREECE ...................................................$ 24.00 200 GREECE ...................................................$ 50.00 300 GREECE ...................................................$ 70.00 100 GREENLAND ..........................................$ 100.00 50 GRENADA ....................................................$ 8.00 100 GRENADA (MINT U/H) .............................$ 10.00 50 GUATEMALA .............................................$ 14.00 100 GUATEMALA ...........................................$ 32.00 300 GUATEMALA .........................................$ 150.00 25 GUINEA M/S ..............................................$ 10.00 50 GUINEA REP. ................................................$ 6.00 100 GUINEA REP. (LARGE PICT.) ......................$ 10.00

50 HAITI ........................................................$ 18.00 100 HAITI ......................................................$ 30.00 200 HAITI ......................................................$ 55.00 100 HOLLAND ..................................................$ 7.00 200 HOLLAND ................................................$ 14.00 300 HOLLAND ................................................$ 30.00 400 HOLLAND ................................................$ 40.00 500 HOLLAND ................................................$ 50.00 50 HONDURAS ................................................$30.00 100 HONDURAS .............................................$ 50.00 200 HONDURAS .............................................$ 80.00 400 HONDURAS ...........................................$ 140.00 25 HONG KONG ................................................$ 6.00

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50 HONG KONG ..............................................$ 12.00 100 HONG KONG ............................................$ 20.00 200 HONG KONG ..........................................$ 100.00 500 HUNGARY ...............................................$ 20.00 2000 HUNGARY ...........................................$ 150.00 3000 HUNGARY ...........................................$ 440.00 200 HUNGRY ( LARGE PICT) ...........................$ 18.00 300 HUNGARY (LARGE PICT.) .........................$ 24.00 1000 HUNGARY (LARGE PICT.) .......................$ 88.00

25 ICELAND ...................................................$ 20.00 50 ICELAND ...................................................$ 40.00 100 ICELAND .................................................$ 60.00 25 INDO - CHINA ..............................................$ 8.00 50 INDO - CHINA ............................................$ 30.00 200 INDONESIA ..............................................$ 24.00 300 INDONESIA ..............................................$ 56.00 100 INDONESIAN ...........................................$ 33.00 50 IRAN ............................................................$6.00 300 IRAN .......................................................$ 30.00 500 IRAN .......................................................$ 60.00 50 IRELAND .....................................................$ 9.00 100 IRELAND .................................................$ 18.00 350 IRELAND ...............................................$ 120.00 400 IRELAND ...............................................$ 194.00 500 IRELAND ...............................................$ 250.00 600 IRELAND ...............................................$ 360.00 100 ISRAEL .....................................................$13.00 200 ISRAEL ....................................................$ 36.00 500 ISRAEL .....................................................$90.00 850 ISRAREL ................................................$ 180.00 25 ITALIAN COLONIES .....................................$ 15.00 50 ITALIAN COLONIES .....................................$ 24.00 100 ITALIAN COLONIES ...................................$ 75.00 200 ITALIAN COLONIES .................................$ 160.00 100 ITALY .........................................................$ 6.00 200 ITALY .......................................................$ 16.00 500 ITALY .......................................................$ 80.00

100 JAMAICA .................................................$ 50.00 200 JAMAICA ...............................................$ 130.00 200 JAPAN ......................................................$30.00 100 JAPAN (MINT U/H) ..................................$ 70.00 100 JAPAN LARGE ..........................................$ 20.00 200 JAPAN LARGE ..........................................$ 50.00 50 JERSEY ......................................................$ 13.00

50 KOREA NORTH (LARGE PICT.) .......................$ 6.00 100 KOREA NORTH (LARGE PICT.)....................$ 10.00 500 KOREA NORTH .........................................$ 80.00 50 KOREA NORTH M/S ...................................$ 20.00

Pay cents, not $ per stamp! 50 KOREA SOUTH ...........................................$ 14.00

50 LAOS ...........................................................$ 7.00 500 LAOS .......................................................$ 70.00 20 LAOS PRE WAR ............................................$ 6.00 100 LATIN AMERICA .......................................$ 10.00 300 LATIN AMERICA .......................................$ 50.00 50 LATVIA ......................................................$ 44.00 200 LATVIA ..................................................$ 170.00 75 LATVIA (Pre War) ....................................$ 100.00 100 LEBANON ................................................$ 40.00 200 LEBANON ..............................................$ 100.00 50 LIBERIA .......................................................$ 9.00 200 LIBERIA ...................................................$ 35.00 300 LIBERIA ...................................................$ 70.00 25 LIECHTENSTEIN .........................................$ 10.00 50 LIECHTENSTEIN .........................................$ 30.00 25 LITHUANIA ................................................$ 10.00 50 LITHUANIA ................................................$ 30.00 100 LITHUANIA ............................................$ 100.00 50 LUXEMBOURG .............................................$ 8.00 100 LUXEMBOURG .........................................$ 21.00

50 MACAU .....................................................$ 60.00 300 MALAYA AND SINGAPORE .......................$ 66.00 500 MALAYA AND SINGAPORE .......................$ 96.00 1000 MALAYA AND SINGAPORE ...................$ 400.00 100 MALDIVES ...............................................$ 24.00 100 MALTA ....................................................$ 10.00 500 MALTA ..................................................$ 140.00 650 MALTA ..................................................$ 270.00 50 MAURITIUS ...............................................$ 24.00 100 MAURITIUS .............................................$ 60.00 100 MEXICO ....................................................$24.00 200 MEXICO ...................................................$ 60.00 500 MEXICO .................................................$ 110.00 25 MONACO .....................................................$ 6.00 50 MONACO ...................................................$ 18.00 100 MONACO .................................................$ 10.00 500 MONGOLIA ..............................................$ 65.00 25 MONTENEGRO ...........................................$ 20.00 50 MONTENEGRO ...........................................$ 50.00 100 MONTSERRAT ........................................$ 114.00 50 MOZAMBIQUE ...........................................$ 10.00 200 MOZAMBIQUE .........................................$ 55.00 400 MOZAMBIQUE .......................................$ 270.00 500 MOZAMBIQUE .......................................$ 300.00

25 NAURU ......................................................$ 11.00 50 NAURU ......................................................$ 33.00 100 NAURU ....................................................$ 93.00 150 NAURU ..................................................$ 134.00

200 NAURU ..................................................$ 160.00 50 NEPAL .........................................................$ 8.00 100 NEPAL .....................................................$ 16.00 25 NETHERLANDS ANTILLES ..........................$ 20.00 50 NEW CALEDONIA ......................................$ 36.00 100 NEW CALEDONIA ..................................$ 150.00 10 NEWFOUNDLAND .......................................$ 8.00 25 NEWFOUNDLAND .....................................$ 16.00 50 NEWFOUNDLAND .....................................$ 44.00 100 NEWFOUNDLAND .................................$ 190.00 50 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .........................$ 40.00 100 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .......................$ 90.00 200 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .....................$ 260.00 300 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .....................$ 440.00 400 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .....................$ 600.00 150 NEW ZEALAND ..........................................$ 6.00 200 NEW ZEALAND ........................................$ 14.00 300 NEW ZEALAND ........................................$ 28.00 500 NEW ZEALAND ........................................$ 90.00 1000 NEW ZEALAND .....................................$145.00 25 NICARAGUA ................................................$ 2.00 50 NICARAGUA ................................................$ 5.00 100 NICARAGUA ..............................................$ 8.00 200 NICARAGUA .............................................$24.00 500 NICARAGUA ............................................$ 70.00 300 NICARAGUA ............................................$ 40.00 100 NIGERIA ..................................................$ 60.00 25 NIUE .........................................................$ 20.00 50 NIUE .........................................................$ 40.00 100 NIUE .......................................................$ 88.00 150 NIUE .....................................................$ 140.00 200 NIUE .....................................................$ 200.00 25 NORFOLK ISL. ............................................$ 11.00 50 NORFOLK ISL. ............................................$ 26.00 100 NORFOLK ISL. ..........................................$ 90.00 200 NORFOLK ISL. ........................................$ 150.00 300 NORFOLK ISL. ........................................$ 270.00 100 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH.................$ 190.00 120 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH.................$ 200.00 150 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH.................$ 240.00 200 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH.................$ 360.00 250 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH.................$ 460.00 300 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH.................$ 700.00 100 NORWAY ...................................................$ 9.00 200 NORWAY .................................................$ 20.00 500 NORWAY .................................................$ 80.00 600 NORWAY ...............................................$ 100.00 800 NORWAY ...............................................$ 135.00 25 NYASALAND ..............................................$ 50.00

50 PACIFIC IS (BR) ............................................$ 8.00 100 PACIFIC IS. (BR) ........................................$16.00 200 PACIFIC IS. (BR) .......................................$ 56.00 600 PACIFIC ISLANDS ...................................$ 250.00

100 PAKISTAN .................................................$12.00 50 PANAMA ...................................................$ 13.00 50 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...................................$ 7.00 100 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...............................$ 26.00 150 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...............................$ 62.00 200 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...............................$ 88.00 500 PAPUA NEW GUINEA .............................$ 400.00 600 PAPUA NEW GUINEA .............................$ 750.00 800 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...........................$ 1900.00 300 PARAGUAY ..............................................$ 60.00 100 PARAGUAY (MINT U/H)) ..........................$ 20.00 150 PENRHYN ..............................................$ 184.00 500 PERU .....................................................$ 170.00 600 PERU .....................................................$ 250.00 700 PERU .....................................................$ 470.00 100 PHILIPPINES ...........................................$ 18.00 300 PHILIPPINES ...........................................$ 70.00 800 PHILIPPINES .........................................$ 250.00 900 PHILIPPINES .........................................$ 330.00 1200 PHILIPPINES .......................................$ 500.00 1500 PHILIPPINES .......................................$ 700.00 50 PITCAIRN ISLAND ......................................$ 50.00 25 PITCAIRN ISLAND (MINT U/H) ...................$ 20.00 100 PITCAIRN ISLAND (MINT U/H)................$ 150.00 150 PITCAIRN ISLAND (MINT U/H)................$ 170.00 200 PITCAIRN ISLAND (MINT U/H)................$ 324.00 300 POLAND ..................................................$ 12.00 500 POLAND ..................................................$ 30.00 1000 POLAND ................................................$ 60.00 150 PORT AZORES ........................................$ 190.00 100 PORTUGAL ..............................................$ 18.00 50 PORTUGAL COLONIES ..................................$ 6.00 100 PORTUGAL COLONIES ..............................$ 40.00 200 PORTUGAL COLONIES ..............................$ 40.00

50 RHODESIA .................................................$ 16.00 200 RHODESIA .............................................$ 140.00 300 RHODESIA .............................................$ 240.00 400 RHODESIA .............................................$ 400.00 500 ROMANIA ................................................$ 31.00 1000 ROMANIA ............................................$ 100.00 100 ROMANIA (LARGE PICT.) ............................$ 6.00 200 ROMANIA (LARGE PICT.) ..........................$ 11.00 300 ROMANIA (LARGE PICT.) ..........................$ 18.00 200 RUSSIA ...................................................$ 14.00 300 RUSSIA ...................................................$ 24.00 500 RUSSIA ...................................................$ 50.00 1000 RUSSIA .................................................$ 90.00 100 RUSSIA (MINT SHORT SETS) ....................$ 11.00 100 RUSSIAN INDP.STATES (MINT U/H)...........$ 33.00

50 SAAR ........................................................$ 33.00

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Pricefighter Packets, ready made collections 50 SALVADOR ................................................$ 40.00 100 SALVADOR ..............................................$ 80.00 25 SAMOA .......................................................$ 7.00 50 SAMOA .....................................................$ 26.00 100 SAMOA ...................................................$ 66.00 400 SAMOA .................................................$ 272.00 500 SAMOA .................................................$ 380.00 600 SAMOA .................................................$ 780.00 25 SAN MARINO ..............................................$ 6.00 50 SAN MARINO ............................................$ 11.00 100 SAN MARINO ..........................................$ 30.00 50 SARAWAK .................................................$ 45.00 100 SARAWAK .............................................$ 200.00 500 SCANDINAVIA ..........................................$40.00 50 SERBIA ......................................................$ 40.00 25 SEYCHELLES ..............................................$ 40.00 100 SEYCHELLES ............................................$ 90.00 25 SIERRA LEONE ......................................... $ 24.00] 50 SIERRA LEONE ...........................................$ 50.00 50 SINGAPORE ...............................................$ 12.00 100 SINGAPORE .............................................$ 30.00 200 SINGAPORE ...........................................$ 100.00 75 SLOVAKIA ..................................................$ 17.00 100 SLOVAKIA ................................................$ 22.00 50 SOLOMON ISL. ...........................................$ 20.00 100 SOLOMON ISL. .........................................$ 60.00 150 SOLOMON ISL. .......................................$ 100.00 200 SOLOMON ISL. .......................................$ 160.00 300 SOLOMON ISL. .......................................$ 300.00 400 SOLOMON ISL. .......................................$ 520.00 500 SOLOMON ISL. .......................................$ 700.00 100 SOUTH AFRICA ........................................$ 12.00 200 SOUTH AFRICA ........................................$ 30.00 200 SPAIN ......................................................$ 24.00 300 SPAIN ......................................................$ 30.00 500 SPAIN ......................................................$ 66.00 1000 SPAIN ..................................................$ 135.00 1500 SPAIN ..................................................$ 275.00 50 SPANISH COLONIES ...................................$16.00 100 SPANISH COLONIES .................................$ 35.00 200 SRI LANKA ..............................................$ 30.00 10 ST. HELENA .................................................$ 9.00 50 ST. KITTS ...................................................$ 26.00 75 ST. KITTS ...................................................$ 36.00 100 ST. KITTS .................................................$ 54.00 100 ST. LUCIA .................................................$ 40.00 50 ST. THOMAS ................................................$ 8.00 100 ST. THOMAS ............................................$ 14.00 50 ST. VINCENT ..............................................$ 18.00 100 ST. VINCENT ............................................$ 30.00 25 SUDAN ......................................................$ 12.00 100 SURINAME ..............................................$ 56.00 50 SWAZILAND ..............................................$ 20.00 100 SWAZILAND ............................................$ 60.00 500 SWEDEN .................................................$ 70.00

200 SWEDEN ..................................................$16.00 100 SWITZERLAND ........................................$ 15.00 500 SWITZERLAND .......................................$120.00 800 SWITZERLAND ......................................$ 150.00 1200 SWITZERLAND ....................................$ 600.00 1300 SWITZERLAND ....................................$ 900.00 1500 SWITZERLAND ..................................$ 1600.00

100 THAILAND ...............................................$ 40.00 200 THAILAND ...............................................$ 70.00 300 THAILAND .............................................$ 130.00 400 THAILAND .............................................$ 180.00 600 THAILAND .............................................$ 370.00 800 THAILAND .............................................$ 800.00 100 TOGO ..........................................................$7.00 50 TOKELAU ...................................................$ 60.00 75 TOKELAU ....................................................$80.00 25 TONGA ......................................................$ 16.00 50 TONGA ......................................................$ 36.00 100 TONGA ..................................................$ 110.00 100 TRINIDAD & TOBAGO ...............................$ 76.00 10 TRISTAN DA CUNHA ...................................$ 10.00 50 TRISTAN DA CUNHA ..................................$ 60.00 100 TRISTAN DA CUNHA ...............................$ 170.00 35 COMPLETE SETS TRISTAN DA CUNHA .............$110 50 TUNISIA ....................................................$ 12.00 100 TUNISIA ..................................................$ 36.00 100 TURKEY .....................................................$ 5.00 200 TURKEY ...................................................$ 14.00 300 TURKEY ...................................................$ 18.00 25 TURKS & CAICOS .........................................$ 6.00 100 TURKS & CAICOS (MINT U/H) ...................$ 70.00

100 U.N.O ......................................................$ 24.00 300 U.N.O ....................................................$ 110.00 400 U.N.O ....................................................$ 170.00 100 URUGUAY ................................................$ 20.00 200 URUGUAY ................................................$ 36.00 200 USA ..........................................................$ 8.00 500 USA ........................................................$ 60.00 1000 USA ......................................................$ 80.00 300 USA (COMMEMS) ....................................$ 14.00 100 USA (MINT COMMEMS) ...........................$ 50.00 200 USA (MINT COMMEMS) .........................$ 100.00 1031 USA COMPLETE SETS 1935-1984 ..............$ 100

25 VATICAN ......................................................$ 6.00 50 VATICAN ....................................................$ 30.00 200 VATICAN ..................................................$ 90.00 25 VATICAN (M.U.H. ) .....................................$ 16.00 50 VATICAN (M.U.H. ) .....................................$ 40.00

KEVIN MORGAN STAMPS & COINS Postal: PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158 Tel: 0425 795 693 Fax: 03 9758 7506

100 VATICAN (M.U.H. ) ...................................$ 80.00 200 VATICAN (M.U.H. ) .................................$ 180.00 50 VENEZUELA ...............................................$ 17.00 100 VENEZUELA .............................................$ 40.00 700 VENEZUELA ...........................................$ 250.00 800 VENEZUELA ...........................................$ 350.00 100 VIETNAM .................................................$ 30.00

25 WALLIS & FUTUNA ......................................$ 6.00 50 WALLIS & FUTUNA ....................................$ 20.00 100 WALLIS & FUTUNA ................................$ 130.00 200 WALLIS & FUTUNA ................................$ 300.00 300 WORLD ....................................................$10.00 25 WURTTEMBERG ........................................$ 16.00 50 WURTTEMBERG ........................................$ 60.00

100 YUGOSLAVIA $ 9.00 200 YUGOSLAVIA ...........................................$ 17.00 300 YUGOSLAVIA ...........................................$ 20.00 500 YUGOSLAVIA ...........................................$ 80.00

50 ZANZIBAR .................................................$ 76.00

World Packets

1000 WORLD .......................................................$35 2000 WORLD..................................................... $100 5000 WORLD .....................................................$300 10,000 WORLD ..................................................$800

Thematics

500 ANIMALS .................................................$60.00 500 BIRDS .....................................................$ 80.00 300 BUTTERFLIES//MOTHS ............................$ 45.00 500 CATS & DOGS ...........................................$80.00 200DISNEY ....................................................$ 49.00 500 FISH ........................................................$ 90.00 500 FLOWERS ................................................$ 70.00 200 HORSES ...................................................$ 30.00 500 PAINTINGS ...............................................$60.00 300 SHIPS ......................................................$ 40.00 300 SPORTS ...................................................$ 30.00 500 SPACE .....................................................$ 78.00 500 TRAINS .....................................................$90.00 500 TRANSPORT ............................................$ 90.00

Other thematic packets available, please ask. Postage and insurance is extra. For orders up to $50 add $4.00, $51 to $100 add $7.50 $101 plus add $15.

DECEMBER SALE Prices valid to December 31, 2016, BE QUICK! Email or phone reservations highly advised. If you wish to view any item we can send a scan by email, or colour photocopy by mail. Discount deals: Discounts on all items from this list, excluding items prefixed Oct or MSP. Up to $100, strictly net, $101 to $150 less 5%, $151 - $250 less 10%, $251- $500 LESS 15%, $501 - $1000 less 20%, $1000 and above less 25% Also please remember that any order above $500 can be put on layby for up to 6 months, and that all of our items carry our 14 day satisfaction guarantee. New lower postage rates for smaller parcels Australia Wide, And postage & Insurance are free for orders above $500 within Australia. Up to 500g $7.50 , 501g – 3kg $13.50, 3.01kg – 5kg $17.50

Coins and Banknotes: CB1) Australia 1923 Halfpenny, in lovely fine plus condition 6 pearls clearly visible, reverse would be VF. Nice clean coin, cat $2250 plus. Price $1875 CB2) Australia 1938 Crown in nice EF condition. This coin has nice original patina and has not been cleaned as most of these have been. Cat. $265 by Renniks. Price $195 CB3) Australia 1933 -38 KGV One Pound Note, S/N N23 894333. Riddle Sheehan. Completely original note, never cleaned, pressed or trimmed as many of these have been. In very nice VF condition cat $550 by Renniks (EF is $1750!) Price $395 CB4) Australia 1912 Penny, great coin in EF (Extremely fine) condition, 8 pearls and centre diamond with some original lustre. Cat $125, price $98 CB6) Australia 1966 1st decimals uncirculated in Royal Australian Mint card of issue, includes the Silver 50c Round. In far better condition than most of these you see around these days, but does show signs of wear after 50 years. Cat $100, price $79 CB7) Australia, Royal Australian Mint uncirculated sets in plastic wallets as issued for 1980, 81 & 82. (3 sets total) Price $59 CB8) Australia, Royal Australian Mint uncirculated sets in plastic wallets as issued for 1980 x 3, bulk special deal, price $45 CB11) Australia Silver 3d starter collection, all KGV 10 different dates for $29 CB12) Australia 1921M 3d, in AUNC Condition, cat $175, price $115 CB13) Australia 1928 3d, in AUNC condition, cat $175, price $115 CB16) Australia Halfpennies, starter collection 20 different dates price $39 CB17) Australia Baby Coin Set, 1997 mint condition as issued. Thje scarcest of All the baby sets. Cat $410, price $295

Stamps and Postal History: Oct1) New Zealand, prestige booklets in as new Lighthouse Dark Blue Classic Album. 16 items to around 2014, much Anzac related material here. All stamps inside have been neatly cto first day of issue. Very cheap at under $5 a booklet, price $79 Oct2) New Zealand, near complete Decimal Collection, 1967 – 2012 with all minisheets and overprinted minisheets etc. Very little needed to complete this fine collection, stored in 3 x as new Davo printed albums with slipcases, and on Hagner sheet sin binder, these alone cost in excess of $1000. The stamps for the most part are neat corner cto cancels. Plus many extras included free of charge. Way, way under retail Price $1495 Oct3) Norfolk Island, 1960 Surcharges in blocks of 4, both mint and cto, hinged on top 2 of each block, plus mint unhinged pairs of 1967 Ships and 1973 Buildings definitive, on Hagner pages. Nice fresh lot, cat $180, very cheap at $69 Oct4) Norfolk Is. Accumulation mint and cto in red binder on Hagner sheets, commences 1947 Ball Bay, with some white paper issues mint, plus many later issues in duplicate to around 1980, but most are 1960s, with many nice blocks etc. Values to 10/-, and many, many complete sets. Near 600 stamps here, got to be cheap at under 50c a stamp, price $279

Oct5) GB 1858 1d red Plate Number Collection on album leaves. 138 stamps with plate numbers 71 – 222 represented so not much needed to complete! Way better condition than most lots like this that I see, with many selected quality examples seen. Cat. 904 pounds, = $1582 at today’s exchange rate (28/9/16) My price is under a third catalogue $525 Oct6) Large brown paper carrier bag, with world accumulation on paper, early to modern. Who knows what lurks in here! We have had several of these from the same source, and all sold very quickly. Weighs 2.2kg. $165 the lot. Oct7) Australia unused 1950’s blank cacheted fdc envelopes, Royal, Wide World and other types, some scarce. Nice little hoard of around 65 with duplication just found, 1951 – 1959 issues. Got to be worth $19.50 to someone! Oct8) Australia 1932 1/- large lyrebird, overprinted OS, in horizontal pair, cds used in the scarcer Yellowish Green shade, supplied with normal for comparison in the deeper shade. Scarce in pairs, and cat. $100 each as singles. $119 the pair. Oct9) Australia overprinted OS issues, inc. 1/- Lyre in both shades postally used, 3d Kingsford Smith cto, 2d Bridge cto and 6d Brown Airmail postally used. Neat little group cat. $239, price $129 Oct10) Australia KGV 1/4d Turquoise. C of A wmk, fresh mint lightly hinged, centred right. Cat. $150, this one just a half…$75 Oct11) Australia 1936 SA Centenary 3d solo use on Surface Mail cover to Denmark. Scarce usage. Launceston 21APR37 cds, with slogan “Post Early Each Day” Cheap at $29 (I have lots of other nice commercial covers if interested, ranging in price from $5 to $500) Oct12) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 4d Orange 1st wmk, mint lightly hinged, well centred. Retail $140, my price $110 Oct13) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 5d Chestnut 1st wmk, mint lightly hinged, well centred. Retail $140, my price $110 Oct14) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 9d Violet 1st wmk, mint lightly hinged. Retail $140, my price $110 Oct15) Australia KGV Commemorative issues, 1934 Vic. Cent. Set of 3 Perf 11.5, 1934 MacArthur set of 4 and 1935 Jubilee set of 3. The Macarthur set other than the 2d dark Hills are cto, others are fine postally used. Nice little grouping, cat. $169, price $89 Oct16) Egypt to New Zealand. Until 8 March 1940, mail from New Zealand troops was handled by the British Army Post Office, but after that they were handled by the New Zealand Army Base PO. Censored cover bearing New Zealand stamps 1d KGVI plus 2 x 2d and 1 x 4d 1935 Pictorials, and post marked with a circular cancel “Egypt” at the top of the circle and “Prepaid” at the bottom. The center of the cancel between the 2 bars is the date which appears to read 28 Jul 42 (maybe) cannot quite make out the year. So a NZ solider mailing back home using Kiwi stamps, which must have been permitted for them .. don’t think that was OK for ozzies. 9d seems a very high troop concession rate to me. There is also a red box Military censor handstamp “PASSED BY UNIT CENSOR” and initialed by an officer. Quite a scarce item I imagine. Price $69 Oct17) Something similar to the above. This one is a YMCA New Zealand Patriotic Fund Board advertising cover, bearing a 2d 1935 Pictorial cancelled by NZ Air Force cds 10 AP 42 to Officer in Charge, Hawaiian Brigades. Also with manuscript “13 BPO”, straight line “Checked by off/loc” and square unclaimed handstamp No record BPO 15” Has cds backstamps “Airforce Post Office No. 253 21DE45”“Directory Service given at APO 502 APR 17 1945” and “Wellington NZ Returned letter service 7 FE 46” So nearly 4 years in the postal system! Price $69 Oct18) Brunei SG#1 to 1990. Nice Collection SG value £1,100 = ~$A1,925. Lovely collection on stack of Hagner sheets. From 1949 UPU onwards on look to be all superb fresh MUH. Seldom seen like that out here. Formed in the UK, to condition above average. Earlier a mix of mint and used, with normal gum Arabic. Catalogue prices are rising:

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DECEMBER SALE 1952 Defins set 14 for instance were £38 in 2008, and £52.80 in 2010, and are now £65, up over 20% on just 1 set. Brunei is popular and as can be seen prices rise SOLIDLY. Priced at under 60% catalogue at $1149 Oct19) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 4d Orange 1st wmk, perf Large OS mint lightly hinged, Cat $500, my price $285 Oct20) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 9d Violet 1st wmk, perf Large OS mint lightly hinged, Cat $550, my price $315 Oct21) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 1/- Emerald 1st wmk, perf Large OS mint lightly hinged, Cat $600, my price $345 Oct22) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 3d Olive Die 1 1st wmk, perf Small OS, mint lightly hinged, cat $400, my price $225 Oct23) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 6d Blue 1st wmk, perf Small OS, mint lightly hinged, cat $425, my price $255 Oct24) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 9d Violet 1st wmk, perf Small OS, mint lightly hinged, cat $600, my price $345 Oct25) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 1/- Emerald 1st wmk, perf Small OS, mint lightly hinged, cat $600, my price $345 Oct26) Australia 1915 Kangaroo 2d Grey 2nd wmk, mint lightly hinged, retail $140, this one just $105 Oct27) Australia 1915 Kangaroo 2.5d Deep Blue 2nd wmk, mint lightly hinged, retail $90, this one just $72 Oct28) Australia 1966 – 1970 Post office Training Stamps. A lot of people do not know that these exist, they were used pre- issue in Post offices up and down the country to train staff for the advent of decimalisation and were supposed to have been destroyed. A few however did leak out and I can offer these as follows, some with very minor imperfections : 1966 Definitives, handstamped “Cancelled - Specimen only” or “Specimen only” in Purple, Blue or Red, with full unmounted gum. a) 1c Brown Queen block of 4 $39, or strip of 4 $39 b) 2c Green Queen block of 4 $39, or strip of 5 $49 c ) 3c Slate Blue Queen block of 4 $39, strip of 4 $39 d) 4c red Queen block of 4 $39 e) 5c Blue Queen block of 4 $39 f) 6c Bird block of 4 $39, horiz. Pair $39, single $10 g) 15c Galah strip of 4 $39, horiz. Pair for $19.50 h) 20c Golden Whistler block of 4 or strip of 4, showing full overprint $39 i) 6c Kangaroo Paw block of 4 $39, vert. pair for $19.50 j) 20c Sturt’s Desert Pea, block of 4 $39, vertical or horizontal pair for $19.50. single for $10 k) 20c Wheat, (very scarce) Horiz. Pair $49 l) 7c Fish, vert. Block of 4 $39, Strip of 3, creased only $15 (looks fine from front) Singles $10 m) 9c Fish, block of 4 $39, single $10 n) 10c Fish block of 4 $49, vert. or horiz. Pair $19.50 Oct33) Australia 1915 Kangaroo, 10/- Grey & Analine Pink, 3rd wmk, perf OS, mint lightly hinged, cat $2000. Suspect this may have been reperfed, so very cheap at under a quarter cat. Price $495 Oct34) Australia 1915 Kangaroo, One Pound Grey, 3rd wmk, perf OS, COMMERCIALLY USED, cat $750 as cto, this one used with heavy cds, but amazingly scarce stamp, thought for a long time not to exist. This has been repaired at some time in the past, but looks fine from the front. Very cheap example of a rarity, price $595

Oct35) Australia 1929 Kangaroo 2/- Maroon small multiple wmk, mint unhinged, cat $850, this one off centre, so only $495 Oct46) Australia 2nd wmk 2.5d Kangaroo, well centred lovely block of 4, with 2 mint unhinged, two lightly hinged, retail as singles $780. Magnificent piece. $585 MSP1) Around once a month an old man (well to be honest he probably is not much older than I am) turns up on my door with a box of stockbooks, which he has lovingly filled with stamps, organized by country usually 10 or a dozen books each month. Now these are large books, each holding 1200 or so stamps, with no duplication that I can see, with stuff from all over the World , early to modern and pretty well all postally used. They sell very quickly I can tell you. But this month he brought around a double lot, so I have a few to offer our regular clients via this list. You can order more than one with confidence as each has different contents. I do not know how he sources so many different stamps! Anyhow here we go, one book for $59, 3 books for $149 or take the lot, 10 books for $475 MSP2) Christmas Island, virtually complete mint unhinged collection in Illustrated Hingeless Ka-Be album 1958 – 2010 plus additional pages for 2011 in blue padded binder with slipcase, as new. Only items missing are the 1990 Transport Definitives, the 1991 Birdpex Ovpt. Minisheet, the 1996 Year of the Rat mainsheet ovpt. Melbourne, and the 2004 Year of the Monkey mainsheet. Ovpt. Hong Hong. These can be obtained for you at extra cost. The album alone retails around $395 and the stamps at over $1060, a total value of over $1450 for just $995 MSP3) As new Ka – Be multi ring padded album and slipcase in black, retail $108.50, cheap at $49 MSP4) French Colonies, lovely lot of old pre- independence on printed leaves, stockcards, in club book etc. Much postally used here, plus some mint. Huge catalogue value of $2000 plus plus and mostly in nice condition. 400 plus stamps here, includes much better with strength in Andorra, plus nice Guadelouoe & New Caledonia plus much much more. Price $395 MSP5) Papua New Guinea 1959 commercial usage of 1/7d Cattle in combination with a pair of 2.5d Bird of Paradise, to make the 2/- Airmail rate to USA. Small neat cover cancelled by cds of Rabaul 30 DEC 59 to New York. The first cover bearing the 1/7d I have owned, and only the 2nd I have sighted in 50 years! Price $295 MSP6) Worldwide collection early to modern mint and used, apparently all different, in 9 large stockbooks. Better quality than the average you see of these types of collections, with some nice surprises! The books are by no means full, but I reckon There would be around 5000 stamps total. Less than 5c per stamp, price $249 MSP7) 4 heavy duty Ka – Be padded albums, with slipcases, almost as new each containing 32 quality double sided, linen hinged stockleaves of 2 divisions. Ideal for covers, minisheets or blocks of stamps. New cost for the binders and slipcases only is $108.50 each, and the stockleaves $3 each, so a total cost of over $800 new. We have one of each Red, Green, Blue and Brown. Price $195 the lot. MSP8) Australia 1969 Tourism Cover of Caloundra, Queensland, commercially used Moorabbin Victoria 21 NOV 69 to Switzerland franked 15c Timber and the 1969 set of 3 x 5c Flight as singles. All of these stamps are scarce on cover, we recently sold a solo use of the 15c Timber for $119. Price $129 MSP9) Australia 1955 1/6d no wmk Hermes, in a muh block of 4, retail $80, my price $59 MSP23) Australia Seven Seas Green Padded hingeless album in as new condition, with pages for 1953 – 1987. New cost $280, my price well under a half, $119 MSP28) NZ Seven Seas Hingeless pages1983 - 93 in binder with some extras standard pages, mainly the Health Minisheets, not counted $59. MSP29) Czechoslovakia, mint unhinged collection of 200 different, mostly large commemoratives, on our packets list at $20, (only 6 left) at $14.95 each. Great value!

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DECEMBER SALE MSP31) New South Wales, 1/- Red Diadems Imperf. With 4 good margins and light cancel, retail is $100 for 3 margin examples. My price for this just MSP34) Handy A4 size 8 page stockbooks, with glassine strips and interleaving. Normally $12.95 each, now just $7.95 each (12 available) SE1) Great Britain, magnificent mint unhinged collection in two as new red Safe “Dual” Hingeless Albums, complete with original cartons. These alone retail around $600 and with extra pages to end of 1992, these worth $50, plus almost complete stamps for the 1st 20 years of GB decimals, both definitive and commemoratives, pristine mint unhinged, only a few gaps to fill. Retail of stamps is around $975, so around $1625 total. My price for this lot under half…$795 SE2) Schaubek Australia hingeless padded maroon album for pre-decimals, including Kangaroos & KGV through to 1965, plus AAT to 1988. Retail $295 when new. This is in very fine condition and includes the original card slipcover. Do not spend $295 on an inferior product, when you can get this for just $89! SE3) Western Australia hoard of Commonwealth Period Swans. Various shades of 1d Red/ Pink, 2d Yellow & 2d Grey, most off paper, some on. Great for research, postmarks etc. Never seen a hoard like this in my 30 years in Australia, totally unchecked by me and likely some good finds here. I simply counted them out in packets of 100, as they come. Under $1 a stamp, $98 for 100, 200 for $185, 500 for $440, 1,000 for $840, or take the lot, approx. 2500 for $1895. SE4) Australian States, unpicked mixed packs of all States off paper. Who knows what might be here! 100 for $98, 200 for $179 SE5) As above, Australian States, cheaper mixture, with mostly the more common types. 250 for $79, 500 for $149 SE6) Western Australia 1857. Simply the most stunning 6d Black Bronze Imperf. SG 18 I have ever seen or owned! 4 huge even margins, great colour and no visible faults. Light barred numeral cancel. Cat at 650 pounds. As good as they come! Price $1049 SE8) Australia 1932 1/- Large Lyrebird. Mint unhinged. Usual price $90, my price $59 SE9) Australia 1913 1st wmk 5d Chestnut Kangaroo, lovely fresh mint unhinged, well centred top marginal example, cat $550. Nicest I have owned, $475 SE10) Sweden, collection of 1500 different, most if not all nice postally used. Price on my packets list for 500 is $70, and 1500 would normally be around $275. Just two to offer here at half price: $137.50 each. SE11) Australia 1915 3rd wmk 2/- Brown Kangaroo, perf OS, lovely postally used example, Inverted Wmk, with Melbourne cds. Again the nicest I have ever seen. Cat $1500, price $1125 SE12) Australia 1913 1/- wmk Kangaroo. Postally used, with inverted watermark. Neatly cancelled by 2 partial “English Mail T.P.O. OUT 5 FE 14” Very well centred and good perfs, one at top just a little nibbed. Cat $500. Price $325 SE13) Australia 1927 Harrison printing of the 5/- Grey Black and Orange 3rd wmk Kangaroo, with partial cds of 5 JL 29 This is the 2nd scarcest shade of this wmk, cat $275. Fine used well centred and with full perfs. Price $185 SE14) Australia 1928 3d Blue Kookaburra, strip of 3 Minisheets, from the top of the sheet. Mint unhinged,except for a single hinge mark in the selvedge of the right hand sheet. Multiples of these ar scarce, I have only once in 30 years owned a complete pane of 15 Minisheets.which I sold at an ANDA Sydney show in around 2004. Price for these a very reasonable $725 SE15) Australia, Military. WWI 1917 registered censored cover AIF FPO 5 to France, with cds of 27 JY 17 tying GB KGV 2d Orange. With pink ‘Australian Imperial Force/FPO C5’ (5th Australian Brigade HQ) registration label, backstamped Amiens Station, Somme two

days later. signed by C.O. L Redgrave, to Burberrys Ltd, Paris. scarce & attractive cover, price $225 SE16) Australia 1935 Anzac Pair, 2d & 1/-, mlh, cat. $52, price $39 SE17) Australia 1915 2nd wmk, 6d Blue Kangaroo, perf OS, mint unhinged. Cat $1750, and missing from 99% of all Australia collections. Nice looking stamp, but does have a diagonal crease, hardly visible from the front, hence below 20% catalogue. Price $349 SE18) Australia 1963 solo use of 1/2d Thylacine on Airmail Postcard to London, with RP View of Belvedere, Sydney. Cancelled by machine type of Sydney 12 JNE 1963. Price $29 SE19) Australia 1921 3rd wmk die IIB 6d Pale Ultramarine Kangaroo, from the Harrison Printing, mint unhinged, perf OS. Centered high. Nice looking stamp, with great colour, nice white gum and full perfs. Under 60% cat. Price $249 SE20) Australian Air League 1d postal stationery cover to Boorowa NSW, marked “Unknown, return to A. Air league” unusually cancelled on return leg by Boorowa cds of 27 JL 1940, arrival backstamp of 26 JL 1940. Usually these items are not seen postmarked. Very scarce indeed! Price $295 SE22) Similar to above, with neat corner cds cancel. Not quite so well centered. Price $39 SE24) Australia 1913 3d Olive Green Kangaroo, Die I, inverted wmk, nice well centered example, with cds cancel. Odd minor perf fault, but very attractive example. Cat $225. Price under half $99 SE26) Australia 1936 Business sized envelope, trimmed at left, bearing 1/4d & 1d KGV C of A wmk, cancelled by clean cds Ship Mail Room Melbourne, 9 SE 36, typewritten address to radio station in NewYork. The 1/4d cat. $300 on cover. Price $98 SE28) Australia 1927 1/4d Turquoise KGV sml. Multi wmk. Perf 14,fine mint lightly hinged, cat $375, price $249 SE29) Australia 1913 2/- Brown 1st wmk. Kangaroo superb postally used, with centrally struck “Socked on nose” Perth cds, 5 FEB 15, well centered and with full perfs, a premium stamp. Cat. $300, price $249 SE30) GB 1859, small neat entire, bearing 6d deep lilac, no corner letters, SG 69, tied by neat London EC duplex of DE 21 59 to Andalucia, Spain. Arrival cds on reverse of Cadiz. Fascinating contents re the purchase of 20 butts of Cod Liver Oil @ 45 pounds per butt., to be shipped to Gibraltar. The butt was a measure of liquid volume equaling two hogsheads. This equated to 108 imperial gallons (490 l) for ale or 126 imperial gallons (570 litres) In today’s terms around 15 cents a litre. The stamp cat. 225 pounds on cover. Price $149 SE31) Australia 1934 MacArthur set of 4 inc. 2d Dark Hills, mint unhinged, retail $125, my price $95 SE32) Australia 1937 10/- Robes thick paper mint unhinged retail $35, my price just a half! $17.50 SE34) Australia, 1941 neat small Airmail advertising, for John Bisset, Orchid Specialist, Abbotsford NSW. With Red Opened By Censor sticker and diamond censor cachet in Purple. Bears 2 x 1/6d Double Globe Hermes, 2/- Marron Kangaroo and 2 x 5d Merino, to make 5/10d which would appear to be 3/- double rate Airmail plus 2/10d insurance fee. Sent to Orchid Importers in Yorkshire. Scarce and attractive price $119 SE37) As above but in mint hinged block of 8 from Electro 8. Cat $75 as block of 4. Price $59 SE39) Western Australia 1860 -64, 6d Sage Green Imperf, SG28, Local Printing, 3 margins, postally used. Cat. $800, rare stamp, but with repaired tear at top where hinge has been carelessly removed. Nice looker. My price $159 SE40) Australia, Thursday Is. 1951 Airmail cover to Trinidad from Bowden Pearling Co, Thursday Is., to a Yacht, “Seven Seas II” c/o the US Consul in Port of Spain. Bears 2 x 9d Platypus & a 4d Koala, making 1/10d, possibly 1d overpaid? Cancelled by Thursday Is. Cds 24 AP 51, and with arrival SLOGAN “Save Precious Water” and cds on reverse, Port of

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DECEMBER SALE Spain 14 MAY 1951 and company name and address on flap. There is a fascinating book “Life on the Water” depicting the life of a Pearl Fisherman in the Torres Straights who worked for the Bowden Pearling Co. More info here: http://aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/ files/products/book/life-blong-sample.pdf A scarce and attractive cover, price $159 SE41) St. Lucia KEVII 5/- , as SG 76, but in Grey and Carmine instead of Green & Carmine, mint lightly hinged. Not a colour changeling, but most likely a colour trial proof, on watermarked. Cat $170 as normal. Unusual. Price $98 SE42) Finland, wonderful packet of 600 different, very hard to assemble. 500 Finland is on our packets list for $140, so this is very good value at $129 SE43) Denmark, 700 different, lovely lot, 300 different is on our packets list at $20, 700 is way more difficult to assemble. Very cheap price for this at $39 SE44) Netherlands 1940 Queen Wilhelmina Imperfs. Printed (but not perforated) just before the Germans invaded in 1940. In 1946 the issue was brought out of the vaults, perforated and placed on sale. Sometime between 1940 and 1946 a small quantity of the imperf sheets were “leaked” (i.e. stolen) from the State Printing Works. These imperfs are now quite scarce. Set of 4 in horizontal pairs Mint Unhinged $29, blocks of 4, $59, corner blocks of 4 $69. SE45) India off paper mixture, wide range inc. higher values from Queen Victoria to quite recent. We only have a few lots of this available, nearly 20,000 to the kg. 100g for $59, 250g for $139, 500g for $259 SE46) Australia 1/4d KGV small multi wmk perf 13.5 x 12.5 horiz. Pair on parcel piece, along with 1/- Kangaroo and 3d Airmail making 3/11d, with Use The Airmail slogan cancel. Single 1/4d stamp on cover cat. $400. Attractive piece for rates collector too. Price $249 SE47) World Collection in 10 large stockbooks, with a wide variety organized alphabetically. Roughly 12,000 stamps total Mostly postally used. Early to modern with plenty of nice pickings here, price under 5c a stamp, $595 SE48) British Empire off paper mixture, Queen Victoria to KGVI, includes many mint unhinged as well as postally used, plus some blocks of 4 etc. Little in or GB, there are some Australian States here and there, plus noted British West Indies, Gilbert & Ellice Is. Palestine. Canada, New Zealand, Cyprus, Fiji, Ascension, Canada, Burma, etc. We have one lot only of around 2500 stamps, selling per 500 at $110, per 1000 $195. SE50) Australia 1938 1d Green Queen Die II, in coil strip of 3, central stamp is mint unhinged, others have been lightly hinged. Well centered and with full perfs. Cat $150 as a hinged pair. My price for this, just $119 SE51) Australia 1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge, superb cto example, well centered and good perfs with light corner cds. Seen retailing elsewhere in this quality now at around $325, and cat $450. Price $289 ( I can supply lesser quality at a lower price from $249) SE52) Australia 1928 Kookaburra Miniature sheet, Mint unhinged and fresh from bottom right of the pane. Seen elsewhere at up to $375, my price $322.50 SE53) Another as above, from the bottom centre, same price $322.50 SE54) Another with light hinge, again from the bottom right corner, price $169 MAU4) Czechoslovakia, Bohemia & Moravia plus a few UNO in black padded Australia Post binder with 32 Hagner type sheets. Around 1000 mostly used, little duplication. Hagner pages are now $1.75 each new, and the binders are $20 plus, so $75 value here alone. Stamps come virtually free! Price $59 MAU6) Green Premier Premier Globe printed World album, nicely filled with maybe 2000 of what at first glance looks to be a stock standard schoolboy collection, but there are A few gems hidden away in here, 19th Century to late 1960’s mint and used. Under 6c a stamp, $119 the lot. MAU8a) Australia 1909 10/- Green & Red Postage Due, SG D72, lovely mint example retail $470, my price $365.

MAU11) Australia, mainly decimal, but some earlier in 17 large and 1 medium stockbooks, duplicated ranges inc some High Values, organised by thematic interest. Many, many thousands. Very good value at $269 MAU15) Large blue stockbook of Hungary, neatly arranged with earlies to modern, all used with the modern being mostly cto. Big lot of about 1000, good value here at under 5c a stamp, $49 MAU15a) Massive lot of Cigarette and trade Cards, Around 1200 in albums, in bundles and loose. Many complete sets, including early Victoria Football League and Australian Cricket cards. Noted Don Bradman. I know next to nothing about cigarette cards, except that many of these popular themes sell for 100s of dollars per set, and up to $50 for a single card. In much better than average condition generally, and got to be very good value at under $1.25 per card. $1485 the lot MAU16) New South Wales, 1867 4d Red Brown Imperf Plate Proof horizontal pair on ungummed watermarked paper, from left hand edge of the sheet. Attractive and scarce piece. $295. MAU17) South Australia 1860 – 69 4d (Gibbons type 3) Imperf plate proof pair, on ungummed, unwatermarked paper in the rose-carmine colour of the 2/-. A pair in black and a block of 4 as per this example was estimated $300 and sold for $650 at a Prestige auction. Horizontal crease, but still an attractive pair. Price $195. MAU24) Romania collection, haphazardly arranged in Giant Stockbook. Wide variety, early to modern the later material are mostly cto, but the earlies are postally used. Approx 1,000 mostly all different for $69. A very good lot. MAU25) Similar lot to MAU24 above, this one containing Hungary collection. Price $59 MAU46) Pitcairn Is. 1949 UPU, the set of plate/imprint blocks in strips of 10 from the bottom of sheets, hinged/unhinged, includes both plates of the 3d and 4 plates of the 6d, one of these only being in a block of 6. Possibly Unique. Cat $675 as single stamps. Price $395. AU1) Australia 1924 One Pound Grey Kangaroo, 3rd wmk, ovpt. Specimen Type C, mint very lightly hinged. Centered right, fresh white gum, cat. $375, price $279 AU2) Australia 1918-29 3rd wmk Kangaroos set of 9, inc., both 6d & 2/- colours 2d – 5/in good average used condition, 2d inv wmk. Retail as fine used $300, this set all with circular cancels, nicely centered, Price $129 AU3) Australia 1924 One Pound Grey 3rd wmk Kangaroo, good spacefiller, with circular cancel. Retail $425 for fine used, lised at $240 on my “Wounded Roos” page, this one just $195 AU4) Pitcairn Is. Commercial Mails. We have acquired a nice lot of genuine Pitcairn Is. Commercial covers (NOT Tourist Mail) Mostly small envelopes, some registered, and some wrappers, plus parcel pieces with values to $10! A total of 35 items, which would make a nice single frame exhibition. Island families represented among the senders are Christian, Brown, Warren,Warren – Peu, Young and McCoy. Price required is $2400, plus I will throw in for free 8 Tourist Covers, including a solo use of the 2/6d KGVI to NZ. Average retail for a very ordinary Pitcairn commercial cover is $75, this lot works out at around $68 per item and includes some very interesting and scarce usages, and the period covered is from the 1940’s to 2008. As I said an immediate display for you. Contact me for further details. Price $2400 AU6) Papua New Guinea,1952-58 Pictorial Definitives Series Set Of 16 Mint Unhinged, nice Post Office fresh. Retail $250, my price just $189 AU7) Australia. Bulging green Trafalgar 32 page Olde Tyme stockbook, containing mostly decimal accumulation. Strength from 1980 with birds series in multiples to $1, similar in Reptiels and Butterflies, various commem. sets complete in multiples to 1986. Probably around 3000 styamps or so, so at around 2.5c each must be good value! $69 the lot! AU12) Australia 1913 1d Red Kangaroo, Die IIA, fresh used example, with large part

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DECEMBER SALE original gum, and Strong Offset on reverse under the gum. Cat $600 for mint, unpriced used. Lovely item. $495 AU14) Great Britain 1840 1d Black, plate 4, in horizontal pair, (Pairs are scarce!) cancelled with nicely struck Red Maltese Crosses, AU14) unplated, lettered CI – CJ, this pair both with 4 margins. Price $1100. AU15) Final of these pairs of 1d blacks, this in the scarcer Grey Black shade, and with Black Maltese Crosses. Lettered EC – ED, both are 4 margin examples, close at bottom. Price $1175. AU16) Australia 1920 3rd Wmk 1/- Blue-Green, SIDEWAYS WATERMARK, lovely block of 4, top row very lightly hinged, lower two are unhinged. Centered a little high, as is usual for this stamp. Cat. $200 each for hinged, and unpriced for unhinged, but other items in this periods are normally near 3 times the price, so around $1600. Never seen a block so nice before! Price $975. AU18) Papua New Guinea 1952 – 1978 collection on Seven Seas Pages, mostly complete mint unhinged from 1963, with a few used. Nice lot, pages would have cost $100 or so. Stamps retail $230 plus plus. Any incomplete sets have not been counted in the retail. Price $149 AU20) Australia 1908 5/- Green Postage Due, with stroke. SGD59, Cat. $95. Lovely well centered, ful perfs and “socked on nose” with scarce Perth Poste Restante cds, 7 AUG 09. Price $72 AU21) Australia 1964 10/- Navigator, overprinted 15.5mm Specimen, on cream paper mint unhinged. OVERPRINT MASSIVELY MISPLACED INTO PERFS AT LHS. Never seen this before and is not catalogued. Stamp is perfectly centered. STRIKING ERROR! Cat. $1500 as normal, Unashamedly asking $3000. AU24) Australia 1928 1/4d KGV Turquoise small multi wmk perf 13.5 x 12.5 in a horizontal strip of 3 on large linen backed parcel piece, with additional horiz pair of the 3d, and a vertical pair of the 1.5d Swan. Total franking of 4/9d. The 1/4d on cover is cat at $400 in the ACSC. A scarce piece cancelled by Ship Mail Room Melbourne 7OC 9 (29, the 2 being missing from the date slug!) A few wrinkles, but a very scarce piece. Price $295 AU25) Australia 1948 5/- Arms, thin paper horizontal strip of 3 POSTALLY USED! Never ever seen a multiple of this in 50 years of stamp dealing, must be a very rare usage. Left hand stamp thinned at top, otherwise fine. Cat $125 each as singles. Must be worth full catalogue. Supplied with normal for comparison. $375. AU26) South Africa Collection in Maroon Lighthouse Springback illustrated Album, 1910 – 1973 postally used. Has been haphazardly put together, with some duplication, plus some covers. Worthy however of expansion. Album cost $295 years ago! 200 plus stamps, selling at the secondhand value of the album, the stamps are free! Price $139 AU28) Australia 1913 1st wmk 5/- Grey & Yellow Kangaroo postally used with cds cancel, indistinct but PM 4.30 NO 3 can be discerned. Faint red registered crayon mark does not affect fine appearance, Well centered with fresh colour. Few nibbed perfs at lower left. Has the variety “Break in Bight” ACSC 42 (D) t, cat $700. Price $349 AU29) Australia KGV 4d Orange, Inverted wmk, MLH, Cat $80, cheap at $45 AU30) Australia 1913 2/- Brown Kangaroo, postally used with slightly smudged cds, but with clear date of 24 JA 14 and full perfs. Cat $250. Nice budget stamp, price $69 AU31) Australia 1929 small multi wmk 5/- Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, nicely used, well centered and full perfs, two partial cds cancels. Kangaroo slightly misplaced upwards with “Wet Ears” variety. Retail for fine used is $175, this one $135 AU32) Australia 1999 Navigators Minisheets (2) mint unhinged, Perfin. A99, cat $100 in Comprehensive Cat. My price just $29 the pair, 5 pairs for $129 AU33) Norfolk Is. 1960 Local Govt. 2/8d, SG 40, in mint block of 4, hinged on top 2 stamps only. Retail $100, price $69 AU33a) As above, but cto with gum, retail $88, price $59

AU35) Australia KGV, 1d Green C of A wmk, Overprinted OS, in a mint unhinged left marginal block of 8. Centered low, with appearance of almost imperf between the vertical rows. Nice fresh appearance. Cat $160. Price $119. AU37) GB 1940 Airmail censored cover to Sydney, re-addressed to Grafton, bearing 2/6d Brown KGVI plus horizontal pair of 1/- Bistre. Cancelled by cds of Gillingham, Kent, 24 OCT 40, and arrival cds of Penrith, NSW 14 NO 40. Attractive cover. Price $75 AU38) Western Australia 2d Orange rouletted, SG30, mint with original gum. Oxidised, but still a scarce stamp, cat 700 pounds in 2013 part one. My price under 20% cat, $259 AU40) Australia Kangaroos. 170+ mixed kangaroos. Mostly 3rd & Small Multiple watermarks, some 1st also. Mixed Condition, some with faults, most not. Values to 5/-, incredible value at under $2 per stamp! Price $329 AU42) Australian States, mixed bag of around 500 of mostly letter rate values of the larger states. Last time I had these they sold out in record time! Good for postmark, shade, perforation and variety hunters. Less than 30c a stamp, $149 the lot, double lot for $269 AU45) EAST GERMANY, HUGE Collection: 1949-1990 collection in three near new top quality red padded peg fitting Schaubek illustrated albums, these alone cost near $900 to buy. Largely complete to 1970 mint or used, then apparently complete mint including Minisheets to 1989, a few used and the odd empty space in 1990. High thematic content & massive CV with approx 3000 stamps here.... this is a great opportunity to obtain a near complete collections and the albums in one fell swoop! The catalogue value 20 odd years ago was around 1750 pounds = approx. $3150 today’s exchange rate (29/7/16) So adding up the cost of the albums and the catalogue value of the stamps you get to over $4000…I am asking a bit over new cost of the albums, the stamps you get for next to nothing! $995 the lot! AU47) Australia 1931 KGV 1d Green C of A watermark, in 2 distinctly different Ash Imprint Gutter Blocks. The first with Jubilee Lines and the text in a bold type. The second without Jubilee Lines and a much lighter typeface, and a slightly different font. Both hinged only in gutter, stamps are fresh mint unhinged. Unusual! Price $129 the two. AU48) New Zealand high values on paper. It is several months since we had any of this… we used toi get 1-200g per month. This time it is only 50g. One lot only Price $64 AU49) Australia 4d Red Embossed QEII small Postal Stationery Enelope uprated and registered by 2 x 10d Slate QEII, with cds of Semaphore S.A. to make 2/- total franking. Dated 5 MR 57, which is the first day of issue of the 10d stamp. Has been slit open at top. Possible accidental FDC, price $29 AU50) Australia 1966 Navigators Specimen Overprints, the Scarce 75c & $1 smaller 15mm overprints, mint lightly unhinged, retail $175, just $89 MJL2) British Commonwealth, vast accumulation of complete sets and minisheets, in complete sheets, blocks of 4 etc. Mostly mint unhinged, with a few cto, 1980’s period. Must be 1000 - 1250 sets or so here, good variety, great for the re-seller at under 25c per set! Weighs around 1kg $249 the lot. MJL3) Similar to the above, but Foreign countries only, same price $249 MJL6) Australia 23 AP 31 Experimental Airmail cover Registered Melbourne to Westmorland UK. Bear full set of Kingsford Smith, plus 3d Airmail and 1/4d Turquoise KGV smw perf 13.5 x 12.5. The 1/4d cat $400 on cover. Neat and clean with nice vignettes and cachet. Cheap price $179. MJL8) Australia 1928 small registered surface mail cover Rockhampton Qld, to Madison Square Station, New York, bearing KGV 4.5d Violet and 1.5d Red smw Perf 14. Cancelled by cds of Rockhampton 216 MY 28 and arrival stamps of New York 6.26.1928, and Madison Sq. Station of the same date. 4.5d cat $100 on cover, price $85 MJL14) St. Helena 1991 Royal Birthdays Booklet, containing Gutter Block of 4 of the stamps commemorating the 65th Birthday of HM The Queen and the 70th Birthday

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DECEMBER SALE of the Duke of Edinburgh. Cover is cancelled by OC 7 91 cds of St. Helena, presumably to prove sale over the counter and prevent pilfering, much as Australia Post cancel stationery items today. Stamps are mint. Neat Royalty item which I have not seen before. Cheap price $10, I have a few so $19 for 2, $39 for 5, might suit re-seller. MJL17) Nauru. 1960 Registered cover to Melbourne, from Nauru Co-op. Soc. Bearing pair of 1/- purple definitive SG54, and 5d Freighter SG33A, 1st issue. Very scarce combination in commercial usage. $119 JL9) USA Silk FDC Collection in dark blue Cumberland padded ring album. Covers the period 1982 – 84 and appears complete. 105 unaddressed Colorano silk covers, values to $9.35 Airmail issue. Lovely lot, a little mild toning on a very few covers. Huge retail, my price under $1.50 each, $149 JL15) Cocos (Keeling) Islands collection mainly mint unhinged in Red Lighthouse padded album, as new, retail for this near $250 alone! Appears complete 1963 – end 1992 with a few later. Odd toning in first two pages, but otherwise a very fresh and clean lot. Have only counted the retail of stamps from 1976, which is $1000 plus! So with the album a total retail of around $1250….my price under 50% includes the 1990 provisional set of 7, retail alone $325....$595 the lot. JL16) Australia Mission Mix, an older lot, to the 45c period with good variety, most on single well trimmed paper. As much aas we can cram into an Australia Post 3kg satchell! Very Cheap Price $59, 5kg Satchell for $95 JL18) Australia 1928 3d Kookaburra minisheet, lightly hinged on top two stamps and in selvedge only, this is from the centre of the complete sheet, and therefore has perfs all around the margins. Only one in 15 can be in this format. Unlike so many of these, this one has fresh white gum, no toning! Price elsewhere up to $225, this one $165. JL19) Queensland 1860 1d Carmine Rose SG 4, perf 14 -16. MNG. Cat 2500 pounds in 2013 (AUD$5000) Missing from 99.99% of all collections! Tiny closed tear at base, if you can spot it! Great spacefiller at under 5% cat. Price $249 JL21) Australian States mint & used collection in Seven Seas Album. Condition is mixed and appears to be put together on budget. Commences Sydney Views, set of 3, spacefiller quality, then NSW perforated issues about 50% complete, inc. some ovpt. OS. Queensland commences like NSW with the trio of Chalon Imperfs spacefillers, then Chalon Heads to 2/- Blue (MNG) Cat $250, large Chalons complete set to One Pound, 5/- is mint, balance largely complete used. South Australia commences with 1d Chalon Imperf, again spacefiller quality, then a fair showing of later issues, with many Ovpt. OS. (No Long Types) Tasmania and Victoria continue along similar lines with many good pickings inc. Vic. 1/- Registered stamp plus 1884 definitives complete to 2/6d. WA mint and used ranges to 1902 5/-. A very good lot at the price, approx. 375 stamps, under $2 a stamp, price $749 JL26) Australia 1936 small Airmail advertising cover for the Bank of New South Wales, franked by 6d Large Kooka and 3d C of A wmk KGV. To Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, and re-addressed via Chartered Bank of I. A. & C. (India Asia & China) printed label, to Mallacca. Cancelled by Sydney Airmail Section GPO Slogan, 28 JL 1936. Price $110 JL28) Early lot of Space, seems to be 500 odd stamps here give or take, with many complete sets and minisheets, mostly form the 1960’s & 70’s. Some mint, most cto. Many stamps I have not seen before. Price $129 JL29) Hong Kong KEVII Ovpt. Specimen group, 1c, 2c, 4c & 8c 1903, plus 4c & 10c 1907., all mint lightly hinged, cat 150 pounds each, $1800. My price just under 25% of cat. $449

GREAT BRITAIN POSTAL HISTORY: The next 11 lots are all small neat covers in fine clean condition. JL31) GB 1857 4d Rose Carmine, wmk large garter, no corner letters SG66 on entire with

Barred numeral 27, London to Marseilles 24 MAR 1859, with arrival datestamps Calais and Paris both 25 Mars 59 and Marseilles, date unclear. Cat 210 pounds = $420 on cover, price $139 JL32) GB 1867 3d Rose, SG 102 wmk spray plate 8 lettered TG on small entire London to Lyon with oval advertising cachet “ Louis Descrand & Co. London” cancelled by clean strike of duplex 88 of JU 25 72. Arrival stamps of Paris 26 Juin 72 and Lyon 27 Juin 72. Cat 110 pounds on cover = $220, price $69 JL33) GB 1876 2.5d Rosy Mauve SG 141 wmk orb, plate 15 lettered NB on small envelope London duplex DE 29 79 to Vienna with arrival cds JOSEFSTADT 31 12 79. Cat 110 pounds on cover = $220, price $69 JL35) GB 1873 3d Rose SG 143 wmk spray plate 15 lettered HB on small mourning envelope cancelled by London Duplex No. 1 of 26 SP 74 to Paris, with arrival cds of Calais 27 SEPT 74 and Paris on the same day. Neat and clean, cat 75 pounds on cover = $150, price $49 JL37) As above, but lettered LB, from London EC, with duplex FE 10 82, and arrival cds of FE 12 82. No cachet. Price $32 JL40) Australia 1938 5/- Robes thick paper mint unhinged Commonwealth Imprint Block of 4, left margin missing, cat $150, or $80 as single stamps, price $59 JL41) Victoria 1861 small cover bearing 4d perforated beaded oval SG 95 cancelled by indistinct barred numeral backstamp arrival cds in red Melbourne OC 5 61. To Major General Sir. Thomas Pratt, Sir Thomas Simson Pratt (1797 – 2 February 1879) was a British Army general. He served in the First Anglo-Chinese War (1839–1841), in India from 1843 to 1855 where he was deputy adjutant-general at Madras, and was Commander of the British Forces in Australia from 1856 to 1861. He was promoted to LieutenantGeneral on 31 May 1865, and to full general eight years later. He was Commander of the British Forces in New Zealand from 1860 to 1861, and was on the Executive Council. He commanded during the First Taranaki War, but as he realised the doubtful validity of the Waitara Purchase (the main cause of the war), he disagreed with Governor Gore Browne, and his military action was ridiculed by the local settlers. He was created K.C.B. for his services in New Zealand by the British Government. He returned to Australia as Commander of the British Forces in Victoria, and in 1862 was appointed Colonel of the 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot, which he held until he retired in 1877. Great piece of military postal history, price $159 JL43) Queensland 1860 6d Dark green Chalon, perf 14-16, wmk Large Star, SG6, nice used example, cat 70 pounds = $140. Price $89 JL58) Papua New Guinea, clean mint unhinged collection in near new Blue Lighthouse 64 black page stockbook retail approx. $65. Commencing 1962 Malaria set is a bit sparce to 1972 then a good degree of completeness (approx 75%) to 2000, with some scarce overprints noted. Retail of the stamps is $900 + +, My price very cheap at $395 the lot! JL59) Norfolk Is. Mint unhinged collection in green padded Seven Seas Album, 1947 – 1987. Complete per Seven Seas catalogue. Lovely clean lot, with album alone retailing around $275 and stamps at $950 plus, a total retail value of over $1200 for just $489 JL60) Australia 1913 10/- Grey & Pink 1st. wmk Kangaroo, superb mint lightly hinged, well centred and fresh, with variety “Broken Coast near Sydney”, ACSC 47(D) d, cat $2750. Finest you will see. Price $2149 JL64) South Australia, 1865 1/- Lake Brown, SG42, mis-cut, rouletted, so that “Postage” appears both at top and bottom of the stamp. Stunning variety, I sold something similar years ago through Prestige Auctions for $1000! This may well be the top half of an imperf between pair, cat at $3000 used. Price $295 JL65) Australia 1931 Kingsford Smith 2d & 3d Overprinted OS, mint lightly hinged. Cat $575, retail $475, my price $359

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DECEMBER SALE JL66) Australia 1916 5/- 2nd wmk Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, inverted wmk, with repaired Telegraph Puncture, also pre-printing horizontal paper crease. Cat at $750 for Inv. Wmk, cheap at $279 JL73) Australia 1942 1.5d Green Queen Elizabeth on plain “Accidental” first day cover, Melbourne Machine cancel of 1 Dec 1942 to Burwood E.13. Vic. On small commercial envelope. Cat $800! Price $595 JL74) Australia 1929 5/- Small Multiple Kangaroo in combination with 1d green KGV Head and 6d Purple Kingsford Smith, on Commercial 1931 First Flight Cover to Portland Cement Co. London, with official Cachet for Experimental Airmail 24/4/31. 5/- very rare on cover, cat $1200. Price $1139 EJ4) Australia 1923 Halfpenny Orange Single wmk marginal block of 8, mint unhinged with Inverted wmk. One stamp with minor toning. Cat $200, price $115 EJ6) Australia 1930 Sturt 1.5d in complete set of 8 Plate Number blocks plus imprint block of 4, very fresh, lightly hinged on just 1 stamp per block. Cat $135, price $98 EJ9) Australia 1931 Kingsford Smith 2d in complete set of 8 Plate Number blocks and 3d plate 2 block, all superb Mint Unhinged cat $290, price $215 EJ12) Australia 1926 1.5d Red Small multi wmk perf 14, lower right corner mint unhinged horizontal pair from plate 1A, on translucent paper, cat $300. Price $225 EJ16) Australia 1927 1.5d Red Small multi wmk perf 13.5 x 12.5, top right plate dot blocks of 4, for all plates 1 – 4, mint unhinged, very minor faults, cat $220 as hinged. Priced very reasonably at $189 EJ17) Australia 1924 4.5d Pale Violet, dry ink, in Mullet Imprint Block of 4, mint no gum. Dry ink catalogues only as used, at $250 per stamp. The imprint block of 4 cat $475 for hinged mint. Ice item, very cheap at $295 EJ20) Australia 1918 Halfpenny Yellowish Green KGV Large Multiple Wmk, in top marginal gutter strip of 14, unhinged except for perf reinforcement on 3 stamps. Cat approx $500. Price $349 EJ21) Australia 1923 KGV Halfpenny Orange, single wmk in Harrison imprint pair mint lightly hinged, from Electro 9, with variety “Break in top frame left of crown” cat $1275 as block of 4. Price $45 EJ21) Australia 1924 1.5d Red KGV single wmk in Harrison two line Imprint strip of 7, 5 stamps are unhinged. Cat $500 as imprint block of 4. Has perf reinforcement at left. Attractive piece. Very cheap at $125 EJ22) Australia 1926 1.5d Red KGV single wmk in Mullett imprint pair, mint unhinged. Left stamp with blunt top right corner perf. Cat $375 as a block of 4. Price $75 EJ25) Australia 1926 1d green KGV single wmk in Mullett Imprint pair mint unhinged from plate 4, with variety “RA Joined” Cat $175 as hinged block of 4. Small Tone Spot on non-variety stamp. Price $49 EJ27) Australia 1920 1/- Kangaroo 3rd wmk, sideways. Mint unhinged right marginal example, centered left. Cat $200 as hinged, unpriced for unhinged. Very good value at $179 MMY1) Great Britain 1958 1st De la Rue Castles high values set, SG 536a-539a, superb and perfect mint unhinged top marginal examples, beautifully fresh and well centred with good perfs, the best I have ever seen! Premium quality. Very rare and most likely the only set available for sale in Australia right now. Cat. $1200 plus, price $795 MMY2) Great Britain 1963 & 1967 Bradbury Wilkinson Castles High Values set, both watermarked and unwatermarked, the two sets, 8 stamps cat. $60 mint unhinged for just $29! MMY6) Australia 1958 8d Kingsford Smith, on plain surface mail cover to the USA opened at top, with Qld. cds of 27 AU 1958. Correct usage rate to the USA and a fine example of an accidental FDC. Price $29 MMY7) North Borneo, collection on leaves, 1888 – 1984 cat 800 pounds = $1600 plus,

handy ranges of all periods especially KGVI where half of the catalogue value is and includes the scarce 4c Postage Due, SAG D86 fine cds used. Any remaindered items are correctly accounted for in the catalogue price. This is a well sought after area. Around 150 stamps, price $795 MMY8) Australia 1939 small airmail advertising cover for George Pizzey & Son, Melbourne to USA, bearing 3d Die 2 & 1/4d KGVI definitives, overpaying the 1/6d airmail rate by 1d and with “Airmail Saves Time” slogan of Melbourne 17 JNE 1939. Nice combination usage, the 1/4d on cover cat. At $40. Price $29 MMY10) New South Wales 1850 2d Sydney View, later impression, SG18, with 4 huge margins! Used with indistinct barred numeral cancel (39?) Cat 170 pounds, price $275 MMY14) VICTORIA Sg 31b; 1854-57 3d BLUE HALF LENGTH CAMPELL/FERGUSSON printing SUPERB very fine used, with clean strike of Butterfly cancel, 4 big margins. They do not come any better than this! Price $149 MMY15) Victoria 1857 Entire in very fine condition, bearing 4d Imperf emblems SG43 - Early OHMS cover to Paymaster of Police Melbourne from Police Officer Horsham 6/4/57 with partial Horsham cancel on reverse, ands indistinct barred numeral tying the adhesive. Scarce and unusual, price $149 MMY16) Victoria, Registered Tattersall’s cover to Tasmania, bearing 2d and 5d Victoria Commonwealth period SG 387 & 391 with cds of Flemington FE 25 01. Neat small cover. Price $29 MMY17) Australia 1959 Small Registered cover Ballarat to Melbourne, bearing 1d & 3d QEII Defins, plus 1/- Platypus to make 1/7d registered rate with Ballarat cds of 10 SEP 59. Nice tri-colour combination. Price $29 MMY19) Australia 1913 1st wmk One Pound Brown and Blue Kangaroo, nice cds used example, well centered with cds of Gaffney’s Creek, Vic. 13 OC 14? A rare postmark for this High Value Stamp. Price $2650 MMY20)Australia 1918 3rd wmk One Pound Light Brown and Dull Blue, fine well centered full perf example with cds of 6 MR 19 Sth. Australia (town unclear) Price $1750 MMY22) Australia 1924 3rd wmk One Pound Grey Kangaroo, well centered and good perfs, cancelled by 2 partial cds. Price for fine used around $425, this one just $275 MMY23) Australia 1931 – 36 C of A wmk Kangaroos, complete set of 7 values, 6d to Two Pounds, nice used set, the two pound is particularly attractive. Just a few minor faults make this a very affordable budget priced set, usual retail for fine used $1450, this set just a half, $725 MMY24) Australia 1929 10/- multi wmk Grey & Pink Kangaroo, nice well centered used stamp with full colour. Just a couple of very minor perf faults make this a good budget priced stamp. Cat $700, this one under a half at $349 MMY27) Australia 1918 10/- 3rd wmk Grey& Pink Kangaroo, nice used example with two partial cds cancels of Gympie, Qld. Centred right. Cat $500, price $249 MMY28) Australia 1916 2nd wmk 2/- Brown, good – fine used with 2 partial cds cancels, well centered and with good perfs. Cat $350, price $195 MMY30) Australia 1953 Produce Food set of 6 in mint unhinged part sheets of 76, being the top half, the central gutter and a block of 16. May yield some varieties. Could break up to produce 6 blocks of 9 and 4 strips of 3, retail is huge at $400 plus, my price just $249 MMY39) Australia 1913 4d Yellow Orange, ACSC 15F, nice well centered stamp with partial Qld. Cds at top. Couple of ragged perfs at the bottom. Cat $150, price $69 MMY40) Australia 1916 2nd wmk Kangaroos, set of 5 to 1/- all nice fine used, cds cancels. Retail $195, very reasonable at $139 MMY42) Australia 1913 1st wmk 2/- Brown Kangaroo, decent used example with cds cancel, Cat $250, under half at $119

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DECEMBER SALE MMY45) Australia, absolutely magnificent, best I have ever seen! 1915 3rd wmk 3d Die II Kangaroo, with perfect centering and perfs. With light cds cancel. Cat $200. Price $149 MMY48) Australia used collection 1927 – 1946, fine used and nicely written up on album leaves in vintage “Jackey” peg fitting album. Priced to sell at $380 plus with some items unpriced. Includes most KGV & KGVI Commemoratives and definitive with 1934 Vic. Centenary in both perfs, 1934 MacArthur, 1935 Anzac, 1935 Jubilee, 1936 S.A. Centenary,1937 NSW Sesqui, 1937 Robes set to One Pound, 1940 AIF etc. A very good lot. Priced very well at $225 MY1) NSW 1894, magnificent small cover, with “copper plate” handwriting bearing 2.5d Ultramarine SG265, cancelled by Sydney cds of OC 19 94 to Boston, USA via RMS Miawera. Nice clean cover price $35 MY7) Australia 1947 local advertising cover for Jack & Jill florists, Railway Station Adelaide, bearing 1.5d green Queen Elizabeth, tied by Adelaide slogan “Send money by postal note or money order” with cds of 3 DEC 1947. Price $22 MY9) Australia 1932 Advertising window cover for Yalumba Vineyards, bearing 1d Green KGV Head tied by cds of Angaston 26 OC 32 and with received stamp on reverse of 27 OCT 1932. Price $42 MY10) Australia 1933 small advertising cover for The Goulburn Seed & Nursery Company bearing 1d green KGV Head tied by Gouldburn 11 SE 33 cds to Vaucluse. Very attractive, price $25 MY12) Guernsey 1944 WWII German occupation 2.5d Blue on FDC SG#3 - cat £15 for the used stamp. Top value of the set on clean small typed address cover. Price $37.50 MY13) GB an accumulation including many blocks & multiples mint never hinged from 1950s to 1970s ( 1000 or so) inc. many complete sets both decimal and pre-decimal inc. better like 1963 Red Cross and FFH plus another 100 assorted used in fine clean ROYAL MAIL Stockbook and super quality mint sheet file, plus a couple of 5 pound prestige booklets for the Financial Times and Royal Mail. Price for the lot $289 MY17) Holland. Unaddressed FDCs, all with full sets nice lot, goes around 1980, 35 different covers for $39 MY19) Australia 1913 5d Chestnut 1st wmk Kangaroo, superb Mint Unhinged, lower marginal example, clean white gum well centered and full perfs. I challenge you to find a better example! ACTUALLY BETTER THAN MY ITEM SE9, which you can buy at $475 less the discount of 25% = $356.25. But for this one cat at $550 I can sell at $479 MY20) Western Australia 6d sage green, rouletted. Lovely used example with light barred cancel in blue. SG32 cat 650 pounds. SG is way too cheap on these rouletted stamps.This is in a lighter shade and a bigger stamp than our item J22 which is priced at $1125.This one is better….price $1249 MY23) Australia 1915 5/- 2nd wmk Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, perf OS, used by Melbourne cds. Well centered, with fluffy perfs, as this issue often is. Chopped tail. Cat $700 my price $295 MY24) Australia 1917 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo, perf OS and cto, with full mint unhinged gum. Fresh with good perfs, centered high. Cat $200, this one $149 MY31) Pitcairn Islands mint/unhinged collection on Seven Seas pages 1940-1967 complete. 1940 Definitives and sets to 1963 are lightly hinged, except the 1948 Silver Wedding which is superb mint unhinged. Retail is $370 counting the hinged at half price. A great lot for just $149 MY34) Victoria 6d Orange- Yellow Woodblock, Rouletted all four sides, SG 57, lovely example with No. 1 Barred Numeral. Cat. 95 pounds. Price $139 MY35) Queensland 1d carmine-rose, SG1. Super 4 large margin example with light oval ring cancel., cat 800 pounds. Price $1275 MY38) Australia Northern Territory. Darwin to Finland Registered letter MR 6 73 serviced with $1.21 via an NCR label in red. These are becoming quite popular as they are rare to

find. See Rod Perry’s column in May Stamp News. Price $42 MY40) Australia 1915 2/- Brown 2nd wmk Kangaroo, superior used example with corner cds. Nice centering and good perfs. Cat. $350. Price just a half, $175 MY41) France. 1935 Delightful Sepia Real Photographic Postcard used to Melbourne, Australia 12 x 1935 bearing 90c Le Pu yen Velay & 30c Green definitive. Nice! Price $29 MY42) Australia 1988 80c Living Together, Missing Orange (Sand and Juggling Balls) postally used. Uncatalogued and believed unique. Supplied with certificate of authenticity and normal for comparison. Price $1450 MY43) Australia 1913 1st wmk 2/- Brown Kangaroo, perf small OS postally used with 28 MY 15 cds of Melbourne. WEell centered and with good perfs. Cat $500. Price $345 MAP2) Australia 1932 10/- C of A wmk 10/- Grey & Pink, postally used with two partial STEEL cds CANCELS of 22 DE 36. Well centred and good perfs, cat $300, price $229 MAP3) Australia 1932 10/- C of A wmk 10/- Grey & Pink, postally used with socked on nose with rubber Canberra cds of 4 JE 35. Lovely colour and good perfs, cat $300, price $239 MAP4) Australia 1932 10/- C of A wmk 10/- Grey & Pink, postally used with two partial Sydney cds cancels of 1937. Lovely colour, well centered and good perfs, cat $300, price $249 MAP5) Australia 1932 10/- C of A wmk 10/- Grey & Pink, postally used with two partial Sydney 1937 cds cancels of 3 NO 36 Lovely well centered example, cat $300, price $254 MAP6) Australia 1932 10/- C of A wmk 10/- Grey & Pink, postally used with two partial Sydney cds cancels of 1937. Good well centered example with bright colour, cat $300, price $259 MAP6a) 5 x 10/- Kangaroos as above, MAP2 – MAP 6, priced to sell at $1200, save $100, $1100 for all 5 stamps. MAP8) Great Britain 1840 1d Black in the intense shade, with black Maltese cross postmark and 3 big margins. Unplated example, lettered KA and with nice pre-printing paper crease, unusual. Price $259 MAP10) As new Box File crammed, yes I mean crammed! With approx. 1.5kg of World on paper quality charity mix, just received, all on close clipped single paper, early to recent, totally unpicked as received and with great variety. I estimate 6000 + + stamps per kg, so anything up to 10,000 stamps in this lot. Magnificent value at under 2 cents per stamp, price $179 MAP11) Another box file as above, containing only Australia with maybe a smattering of foreign with mostly modern issues to 2015, good ranges of definitive and commemoratives. Noted unfranked and some better values. Count must be 5000 plus per kg, so around 7500 stamps for under 2c per stamp just $129 MAP12) Australia 1935 2d red Jubilee in mint unhinged imprint block of four from plate 2, with variety ea, retouch between IA of Australia. Cat. $375. KGV Jubilee issues are widely sought after. Price $149 MAP14) NZ Health Fdcs, 1936 & 1937 plus ANZAC 1937 pair also on fdc, very scarce. Lifebuoy stamp sadly has a missing left lower corner, but still very rare on fdc. Nice lot, price $49 MAP16) 1913 Halfpenny Green Kangaroo in mint block of 6, (3 x 2) with 4 stamps unhinged. Some gum bends but a scarce and attractive block, looks very nice from the front. Price $119 MAP19) Large shoebox with very nice World off paper mixture old and new, small and large. As donated to leading charity. Weighs 2.15kg inc. the box, must be 25,000 stamps with a great variety here. Has to be worth 2 cents a stamp, price $495 MAP20) Worldwide Cinderellas, Revenues, Reprints, Bogus issues, amazing lot of around 500 most if not all different, ranging from the 1940’s to quite recent. Priced under 20c per stamp, $98 per lot, half lot for $49.

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1971 Antarctic Treaty and UNICEF commemoratives and three fish stamps of the 1970 definitive series. She was made a Dame in 1994 shortly before her death at the age of 87. The plant on the 4 cent stamp, the Black Scree, was classified as Cotula atrata until 1987 but is now classified as Leptinella atrata, the Black Daisy. It is pictured in Figure 2. This plant was originally found by Dr Leonard Cockayne near the summit of Mt Torless on 2 March 1891 on a shingle slip. Such slips are called scree in the South Island’s alpine regions where the plant is widespread. The 6 cent stamp featured the North Island Edelweiss (Leucogenesleontopodium) which grows in subalpine to alpine regions, generally on rock

outcrops, cliff faces and crevices where there is little surrounding vegetation. It has stout, woody stems and flowers from November to March – see Figure 3. Haast’s Buttercup (Ranunculus haastii), pictured as Figure 4, is considered to be at risk as its numbers decline in the high alpine areas where it grows on shingle slips (screes). The Latin rana means ‘little frog’, associating the plant with marshy areas which are also home to frogs. Its name also honours Julius von Haast, a Prussian-born geologist instrumental in the early geological surveys of New Zealand. The Haast Pass, one of the main road routes through the mountains dividing the East and West coasts of the South

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Looking at New Zealand stamps from plate 1A1A1A1A which did not have the sheet value. Perforations gauged 13 x 13½. The stamps were withdrawn from sale on 31 July 1972. References: Catalogue of New Zealand Stamps, Auckland, Campbell Paterson, 1952 – . The Postage Stamps of New Zealand, vol. 6, Wellington, RPSNZ, 1975. Graeme can be contacted through his website, www.stampsmw.top1.com.au . Island, is also named for him. The Brown Mountain Daisy (Celmisia traversii) is widespread in the South Island’s mountain regions and even grows on bluffs overlooking rivers. Its stem structure spreads out just below the soil surface and the plant emerges in clumps – see Figure 5. The stamps were printed by Harrison & Sons in four-colour lithography on white chalk-surfaced unwatermarked paper. Each value was printed from plates numbered 1A1A1A1A and the 4 cent was also printed from a second plate numbered 1B1B1B1B. The total value of the sheet was printed in the top right margin except for the 4 cent

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Queensland 1860 Chalon “Registered” Superb looking *DIE PROOF*:

Stunning item. In the Green of the issued 6d, on ivory paper stock. Wonderfully attractive as you can see. Steel engraved, recess printed in London, by Perkins, Bacon Co, 166 years back. Razor sharp crisp impression, rich bright colour. Far larger margins than some of the other colour Die Proofs of this stamp. I sold a smaller outer margin Die Proof last year, ex Sir Gawaine Baillie sale, Sotheby’s July 2005 in Melbourne (lot 982). Which sold for $A575 way back then. In superb “English Fresh” grade - such a nice change for States items of this age! If these was a Kangaroo proof, you could add a zero - or more! Even 1d PLATE proofs of Roos get up to $37,500 each, like lot 68 at the Arthur Gray sale. These Queensland are absurdly under-rated right NOW in the market - just as Roo proofs were only a decade or so back. Pay $50 LESS than the smaller margin Sir Gawaine Baillie proof got, 11 years back! $A525 (Stock 641HR)

PNG *MUH* stamp collection, from SG#1, in Seven Seas Hingeless album. Ret $1,300: $A500:

Maroon Seven Seas hingeless album of PNG 1952 to 1993 MUH. Bought from an Estate today in a clean looking classy maroon Seven Seas Album on Hingeless pages 1952 SG #1 to end 1993, in a matching slipcase. Retail of pages alone plus binder when new is $300 - sevenseas. com.au/catalog/?id=139 Postage Stamps are 100% complete in MUH, and when spot checked whilst taking pix, looked a nice clean lot to me. Noted the odd trivial age marks on a few page outers, mentioned for 100% accuracy. Retail of stamps over $1,000, plus books and pages $300 = $1,300. Only a few sample pages shown on link below. 100s of MUH stamps = 100% complete from SG#1. Tons more pix here - tinyurl.com/PNGMUH To clear from Estate at $500 the LOT - save $800! $A500 (Stock 446SW)

NSW 1894 1/- QV, DLR Telegram Form, o/p “SPECIMEN” - $A185:

The very scarce 1/- black Queen Victoria value, showing the 1876 De La Rue design type. Retail elsewhere $470 on this exact same form! These NSW Telegraph/Telegram forms were issued in February 1894, 122 years back. 1/- was for inland messages. The messages could not exceed ten words for the pre-paid 1/-. Lovely item to display for the collector - fits superbly on a #1 Hagner Sheet, or album or stockbook page, and looks very attractive, as you can see. These were UPU distributed, folded horizontally, to all the recipient UPU countries. These are on very fragile thin paper. I’ve seen these in the past where foxing is very bad, due to the cheap acidic paper used, and indeed some were separated in 2 pieces, and this one is VERY clean and intact, I am pleased to say: $A185 (Stock 815LX)

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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Australasian Challenge 2016 2016 Judges’ Course The APF held another successful judges’ course run by Gary Brown, Malcolm Groom, Bernie Beston and David Figg with a little help from Glen Stafford and yours truly. We also had some wonderful catering by a number of the local ladies, for which we were all grateful. In my opinion there are two things new judges learn at a judges’ course. The first is that there is a lot more to judging than meets the eye. The second, and possibly even more important point is, they learn more about exhibiting and how to improve their own exhibits. You really only become a good judge by judging in front of the frames. As each judge (and presenter) was required to bring a one-frame exhibit to the course it was certainly interesting having your peers critique your exhibit. Figure 1 shows the course participants in active discussion in front of exhibits. Figure 2 shows a number of the trainee judges, and the odd presenter, listening to some detailed discussion by another presenter. Australasian Challenge 2016 Adelaide was host for both the eight Australasian Challenge and the third Picture Postcard Challenge. The venue for the exhibition was the Drill Hall, Torrens Parade Ground in Adelaide. It is a wonderful venue for an exhibition of about 300 plus frames with dealers. What is even better is that it is free to community groups and you can self-cater. Figure 3 shows the venue and dealers on the Saturday of the exhibition. For those of you who are not aware, the Australasian Challenge pits teams of exhibitors against each other to win the Ed Druce Memorial trophy. The late Ed Druce always wanted such a competition. It was started after his sudden passing with the first challenge held in Canberra in 2002. The challenge is between the States, the ACT and teams from the north and south islands of New Zealand. The rules have changed slightly over the years but it involves teams of four experience philatelists plus a novice and youth exhibitor, preferably. However, given that some States have trouble getting novices and youth exhibitors a team can comprise two youth or two novices. Each of the experienced exhibitors can have a 5 or 8 frame exhibit with a maximum of two 8-frame exhibits per team. Novices can have any number of frames from 2-5 and youth can have what is allowed under their age classification. This year there was no South Island of New Zealand team and the Tasmanian team ‘borrowed’

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Top to bottom : Figures 1, 2 & 3 exhibitors from other places as long as they were members (already) of a Tasmanian club. This allowed them to be competitive. To win the trophy it is simply the team with the highest number of points based on the individual points that each exhibitor received. The jury comprised a judge from each State plus two from New Zealand as well a local jury secretary and one consultant plus two apprentices from the recent judges’

Daryl Fuller

Philatelic Development Officer, APF Jenny Roland (Secretary), Bernie Beston and Michel Roland (consultant). As one of the judges this year I can assure you that no thought is given to the winning team during judging. All exhibits are simply marked by the jury and it is only when all the awards are signed off, are the points tallied. This year proved to be the closest ever with the winning team winning by one point! The results were as follows: New Zealand (North Island) 512 New South Wales 511 Western Australia 503 Tasmania 499 Victoria 499 Queensland 483 ACT 475 South Australia 457

The New Zealand team won it in 2014 so have to take the trophy back to New Zealand. Figure 5 shows the two New Zealand judges holding the Ed Druce Memorial Prize. In terms of individual results the overall best exhibit was Martin Walker with his South Australian Revenues who was awarded 94 points. This exhibit was then sent to Taiwan for the world stamp exhibition and received 95 points or an international large gold medal. Australasian Picture Postcard Challenge This was the third Australasian Picture Postcard challenge and involves teams of four competitors, two 5-frame exhibits and two 1-frame exhibits. Not every State and Territory takes part and New Zealand only has one team (I believe). This year there were five teams and their results were as follows: South Australia 335 New Zealand 331 New South Wales 318 ACT 310 Western Australia 300

Top to bottom : Figures 4 & 5 course. The judges are shown in Figure 4 and are: (back row) from left to right, Alan Grey (apprentice), Bob Gibson (NZ), Russell Boylan (apprentice), Mike Rhodes, Steven Chivers (NZ) and Darryl Fuller; (front row) John Moore, Malcolm Groom, Gary Brown (Jury Chair),

This is the third time that South Australia has won the trophy but since any exhibit that has won is ineligible to be entered again, I am sure that the South Australians will soon be back with the rest of the field. Figure 6 shows members of the winning South Australian team (Tony Presgrave, Alma Downes, David Figg) with Martin Walker at right presenting the trophy. The fourth member of the team, Pauline Edwards was not available. Stamp News - 49

Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Best Dealer Prize One final part of the exhibition is the prize awarded to the best dealer at the exhibition. This is done using secret shoppers and has been run at a few exhibitions. This year the prize was won by John Cornelius, a local South Australian dealer â&#x20AC;&#x201C; congratulations. Philataipei 2016 This was the second world exhibition held this year, from 21-26 October, and was a wonderful exhibition put on by Chungwa Post. There were a number of Australians there, as usual, and we had a great time. We had four people on the jury with Bernard Beston as one of the jury vice-presidents, Geoffrey Kellow on the expert group, Ian McMahon cross accrediting and Glen Stafford as an apprentice. The latter two pay their own way. Australia had 17 entries including one literature entry. We received two vermeil medals, seven large vermeil, four gold, two large gold plus two one-frame exhibits achieved 85 and 87 points. We also won four special prizes. Overall a great result for Australian exhibitors. The exhibition, whilst not as big as New York had a wide variety of dealer stands and over 3,200 frames of material to look at. A high shot of the exhibition is shown in Figure 7. One really useful aspect of the layout of the frames was that the carpet was colour coded so that you could easily find a class of exhibits. This is the first time I have seen this used. The opening ceremony including a troupe of indigenous Taiwanese musicians as shown in figure 8 and it wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have been Taiwan without a robot (Figure 9). Figures 10 and 11 show the crowds that attended the exhibition with Figure 10 the Post Office counter queue and Figure 11 the crowds milling through the dealer stands. There were also extensive queues for the equivalent of frama machines and you were limited to 5 minutes at a time on the machine. The exhibition was not the only reason that so many philatelists were in Taipei. There was also the biennial FIP Congress where the members of the FIP vote on new members, changes to regulations, board member elections and any other business that arises. This takes up most of a day on the last day of the exhibition with Figure 12 showing the delegates and other attendees. We also celebrated the 90th birthday of the FIP with a special cake. One last activity undertaken was the signing of the agreement between APF and the FIP for auspices for Melbourne 2017. Figure 13 shows Glen Stafford (APF President) and Stephanie Bromser (Melbourne 2017 Chair) signing the agreement with Dr Prakob Chirakiti. 50 - Stamp News

Top to bottom : Figures 6, 7 & 8 More Scarce Australia Post Overprints Australia Post now has a policy of producing a range of limited issue overprinted souvenirs for any show that it attends. For example, it produced a series of eight miniature sheets for New York that have become a very scarce set. I recently attended the Mandurah Stamp and Coin Fair which was a half-national exhibition held at

Daryl Fuller

Philatelic Development Officer, APF one reason to attend Melbourne 2017 next March.

Top to bottom : Figures 9 & 10 Mandurah about 80 kilometres south of Perth (more in the next issue). For Mandurah they produced three sets of souvenirs only available at the exhibition. The special Mandurah exhibition miniature sheet had the three different postmarks printed on (one in green, one in black and the last one in red). Only 100 sets were overprinted. Only day one sold out and the remainder of days two and three were destroyed. Thus I estimate about 75 sets can exist at most. They also overprinted and numbered 300 of the $2 Dirk Hartog sheetlets of 10, but I estimate less than 150 sold. Finally, they overprinted and numbered 100 sets of three of the Dirk Hartog PNCs (numbered 1-100, 101-200 and 201-300, respectively). Again these were not all purchased and the remainder will be destroyed leaving possibly 50-70 sets available. I was surprised that the PNCs did not sell out as the similar sets in both Canberra and Sydney sold out in the first 30 minutes of each day. Figures 14 and 15 illustrate the set of three miniature sheets and one of the PNCs. Items such as these are certainly

Catalogue of Worldwide Reply Coupons One of the things I always look for at international exhibitions are new books. I try to bring back any of interest for two reasons. Firstly, they are not always easy to get otherwise, and secondly, the price of postage on books is often as much as the price of the book. Figure 16 illustrates one that I thought might be of interest to many people. It is Yao’s catalogue of Worldwide Reply Coupons – Volume 1 – The UPU Coupons. Even though not much used today International Reply Coupons have been seen by most people are collected by postal stationery collectors in particular. The catalogue was produced by Jack and Carol Yao and was released in September 2016. It is the only catalogue of IRCs that I know of, and is a welcome addition to philatelic literature. It is a softbound book of 222 pages plus covers in full colour. The first 68 pages goes into detail of the various types and subtypes of IRCs. The rest is largely a catalogue listing by country and includes all know types and subtypes plus information on earliest and latest known usage (where known) plus a valuation for most. There are some errors in the listings (such as Addis Abeba as a single listing that should come under Ethiopia) but it is an excellent start to a worldwide listing, where none exists. Cost is about $US65 but I paid in Taiwan and don’t have an exact figure. Contact the publishers Quality Development LLC, PO Box 416, Hinsdale IL 6052-0416 USA or collectRC@ gmail.com Melbourne 2017 All of the extra dealer stands mentioned last month have been sold and there is now a waiting list for a stand. It has now been arranged for the postal administrations to have a special area with input from Australia Post and Sprintpak. There has been strong demand for frames and there will be some disappointed exhibitors from around Asia. This will be an exhibition not to miss so start planning today. Remember there are many ways you can help the exhibition – through a Supporters’ Pack or Patrons’ Pack, donate to the auction or volunteer. We always need helpers whether mounting exhibits or assisting the public. (See http://melbourne2017.com.au for further details on the exhibition and how to assist.) If you need any further information see www.apf.org. au or contact me at Darryl.fuller@home.netspeed.com.au. Stamp News - 51

Cinderella Corner Backstamps

I am most grateful to reader Dr. Roger Day for his feedback on some cinderella labels aligned with early Australian Philatelic dealers. Part of the July 2016 issue, which was devoted to these Trader items, illustrated a number of different stamps with printings on the reverse identifying details of Australian philatelic dealers. Of these items, which were labelled as underprintings, Roger offered the following: The five examples illustrated in Figs. 5–9 (SNA, July 2016, pp54–55), are better described as backstamps, not underprintings. They are private advertising handstamps applied by stamp dealers to the backs of stamps. Expertising marks used by European experts are another type of backstamp: the tiny handstamp identifies the expert, and its position on the back of the stamp indicates the expert’s assessment of the condition and genuineness of the stamp. Another kind of back marking, involving printed advertising, is the backprinting applied (before gumming) to New Zealand stamps in 1893 (see note before SG187 of New Zealand in Stanley Gibbons, Commonwealth and British Empire Stamps 1840–1970). The term underprinting is often used for backprinting, but I suggest it is best reserved for printing on the face of a stamp, before the stamp design is applied, just as overprinting describes the reverse sequence. For example, some Australian railway parcel stamps (notably 1946 issues of Queensland) were printed

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Image 1 on unwatermarked paper which first had a security underprint Q.G.R. (Queensland Government Railways) applied, before the stamp designs were added. In 1926 Queensland railway stamps appeared with the backprint QR lithographed on the back before gumming.

An extended thanks, once again, to Roger for his much appreciated input. The added information has helped to further cement the necessary differentiating features between some of the lesser identified Australian cinderellas.

Christmas Is Descending

The arrival of December and the closing of 2016 signifies that the festive season has well and truly descended upon us. It is an opportunity to embrace the warmer mornings and nestle amongst all things cinderellas. This final Cinderella Corner issue for 2016 helps to welcome the Christmas and holiday spirit by considering a few of the many issued Australian anti-tuberculosis (anti-TB) labels and seals. Those selected in this issue are drawn from a very narrow selection of seals issued in Australia over more than 80 years. In particular, I have illustrated a handful of labels from: i) The South Australian Tuberculosis Society (Adelaide). This ran from 1943 to 1949 inclusive ii) The Australian Tuberculosis Association (Adelaide). This ran for two years in 1950 and 1951 and was the continuation of the South Australian Tuberculosis Society (Adelaide). iii) The National Association for the Prevention

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Image 3 of Tuberculosis in Australia (Adelaide). This ran from 1952 until 1967 and served as the continuation of the shortly named Australian Tuberculosis Association (Adelaide). The few examples presented in this Cinderella Corner edition across these three South Australian organisations are exclusively rare varieties of the standard issues. The images are referenced (in bold) using Greens Catalogue of TB Seals of the World (1983), which is the latest edition on offer (although colour supplements exist). It is the quintessential manual to helping sort out anti-TB seals which, when considering the 1,000s that exist, can be a rather murky territory to navigate. Image 1 illustrates seal 4.p, which is a variety of the standard label 4 (1947 kangaroo). It is identical to this seal except that “South Australia” is omitted. In the Greens catalogue from 1983, it is priced at 20USD. The original label 4 was issued in sheets of 60 (6 x 10) and is perforated 11 on all four sides. Label 4 is a favourite amongst anti-TB collectors as it features a central kangaroo and is also one of the earliest examples of an Australian anti-TB seal. Image 2 illustrates a block of 4 of the aforementioned label 4, with a rather prominent (and unlisted) colour shift evident in all of the labels. This is likely a by-product of the misperforations that are also evident. The only other error in this issue listed in Greens is 4.1 (Error, HPIB). Image 3 illustrates an imperforate strip of 4 of label 6 (1949 Santa seated on kangaroo). The text at the base reads: First proof – perforations. While a

‘Proof’ variety in listed in Greens (6.p), this particular item is unlisted and was produced prior to the 6.p labels, which are far more common. Label 6 was issued in sheets of 60 (10 x 6) and were available rouletted 7, perforated 11, and perforated 11 with roulette 7. I purchased the item illustrated in Image 4 a few years ago. It is a hand coloured bromide of label 6. The note attached to the item was: Bromide sanctioned by Mr. W. C. Dridan (who, upon some research, was discovered to be the acting Executive Secretary for the Australian Tuberculosis Association) with intention for a national seal to cover all organisations. However, by 1949, W.A. and N.S.W. had already commenced production of their own seals. Greens catalogue also notes that the original design for label 6 had the text South Australia but this was then changed to Australia. This occurred when the Citizens’ Tuberculosis League of N.S.W. had decided to use the 1949 label instead of designing one themselves. It is believed that a few

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Image 5 hand-coloured examples of the original design are in existence. The anti-TB labels were produced to raise awareness and were instructed to act as a seal on the reverse of envelopes. Image 5 illustrates that, occasionally, they were incorrectly applied to the front of some correspondences and even tied by a postmark (in this case, label 6 with the date October 24, 1949). Image 6 illustrates another sort of ‘error’ in label 8 (1951 Map of Australia). The dramatic misperforation is unlisted but is not uncommon in the anti-TB labels of Australia. Label 8 was originally released in sheets of 60 (10 x 6) with perforation 12 ½ on all sides. There is, however, a HPIB Error listed in Greens catalogue for this label (as 8.1.a).

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Image 7 illustrates a variety of label 11 (11 pcp 2 - 1954 Sprig of yellow blossoms). This Die Proof is unlisted in Greens who only references another Die Proof example in his catalogue (label 9 – 1952 – Die Proof with very large margins on ungummed paper). It is reasonable to assume that this version of label 7 carries a similar scarcity to 11 pcp 2, which Green assigns a RR. It is interesting to note that for the Australian antiTB labels, Green rarely does not list a price value for his discussed items. This can, therefore, comfortable carry a price of $100. The Die Proof measures 133mm x 87mm and the three colours, red, green and yellow, and more profoundly deep than those of the issued seals. Label 11 was also originally issued in sheets of 60 (10 x 6) and is perforated 12 ½ on all four sides. Image 8 illustrates a drastic colour effort of label 13 (1956 – Koala Bear dressed as Santa). It is unlisted in Greens catalogue. Label 13 was originally issued, like most of the earlier South Australian labels, in sheets of 60 (10 x 6) and is perforated 12 ½ on all sides.

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Concluding Remarks

Image 7 While colour errors have been identified in several different Australian anti-TB seals, this level of error is rather unique. Image 9 illustrates a variety of the three issues in labels 17 - 1960 Three designs alternating in sheet, all red, blue and green: 17.1 – Santa & four children dancing 17.2 – “NAPTA” forming hull of ship 17.3 – Four children looking on the Christ child These labels were originally offered in sheets of 60 (10 x 6) and perforated 12 ½ on all sides. Image 9 is an example of listed item 17.4 – Error: Strip of 3 with green omitted. Green offers no price for this item and it is one of the rarest items in his Australian part of the catalogue. Similar to the item in Image 9, Image 10 illustrates an example of 17.5 – Error: Strip of 3 with blue omitted. It too carries no value in Greens catalogue and, like 17.4, is

It is no surprise that the anti-TB labels and seals of Australia are often overlooked by cinderella collectors; they are plentiful and available from a variety of sources. There is, however, a joyous challenge is searching for those that carry various errors and varieties, including a few listed in this issue of Cinderella Corner. They can supplement an anti-TB collection and offer further insight to the processes involved in them over the course of several decades. If you would like more examples of such anti-TB seals, or further information about them, please let me know.

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Market Matters Snail Mail Lives On!

We all use the term “snail mail” to refer to the postal services in general, in this age of email, and SMS and text messages, and internet etc. Less and less letters are being mailed in every country, and the cost of domestic mail keeps going up and up as a result. “Slippery Slope”. Anyway the photo nearby caught my eye this week, in the stamp dealer monthly journal “The Philatelic Exporter” published in the UK. It is now (oddly!) owned by Stanley Gibbons, and has been published monthly for 72 years - longer than most collector stamp magazines globally. It is full colour, and a very interesting read

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Letter was “cancelled by gastropods. each month. I have written a monthly multi-page “Australasia” column in there for the past 30 years or more, so must be coming up to 400 different columns by now, and they have not sacked me yet! Editor for all that time has been Graham Philips, and he has seen some pretty amazing changes in this industry over his many decades. UK dealers Dauwalders of Salisbury sent them a photo of a cover they received last month from a client. As you can see it is badly snail chewed, or as Dauwalders cleverly phrased it - “cancelled by gastropods.” And the owner Paul Dauwalder called it “exceptionally well eaten” in his “Exporter” letter! Dauwalder said in his letter to the “Exporter” that the cover had arrived at his office in an outer cello bag, with a note inside from Royal Mail, inviting them to make a claim via official channels for compensation. Knowing Bureaucracies, my guess is this would involve $25 of time and messing about, to get a $1 refund for the chewed up letter! I’d bet if Dauwalders listed this cover on their website, and offered it complete with the Royal Mail compensation letter, they’d easily get 10 or 15 quid for it, off someone as a curio. Many folks collect Post Office delayed mail or “interrupted mail” etc, and with the PO letter, that adds to the appeal.

Glen Stephens works”. The UK street mailboxes have quite large openings in them, as can be seen in the photo nearby, and they are often sited with lots of snail habitat vegetation nearby. Snails apparently find the gum on envelopes and stamps a really delicious treat, and if they can fit in the hole - and they easily can, make a mess of the contents of the Royal Mail red boxes. In Australia the roadside mail posting boxes have, like the USA, a hinged metal flap that allows very large parcels to be inserted. But have only a very small opening for snails! I use that feature regularly huge things like a Gibbons “Part 1” catalogues packed up securely, or a couple of stockbooks in a box fit in easily. Even 3 kilo items like that. My post office closes at 5pm but EATEN BY SNAILS - Official GB PO “Eaten By Snails” note. the roadside box at my street corner is collected at 7pm nightly, so some“Blown Up By Hooligans” thing urgent can be mailed at 6.30pm Fri/Sat/SunI have seen more official Post Office annotations on day in the red box, as long as correct franking and the actual mail items here - tinyurl.com/SnailChew paperwork are on it. The photo nearby shows a 1983 GB cover shown Often it is delivered on Monday then, and otheron stampboards.com where the Post Office affixed wise it would be the Monday when I got to mail it. an official note saying the letter had been “Eaten By No neat cds cancels that way of course, but buyers Snails”. Another PO note I saw there was indicating mail was “blown up by hooligans with fire-

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Market Matters many experience - the “Herald Sun” newspaper in Melbourne had a bunch of readers contact them with “sure fire” tricks and tips, all guaranteed it seems, to stop snails eating mail in your letterbox at home, if you do not clear the box often. The article is shown nearby, and the range of homeowner solutions is pretty bizarre. Ranging from a handful of thick rubber bands, rat bait, plastic shopping bags, sandpaper, swimming pool salt, mothballs, or broken up eggshells - working on the theory our local snails munchers find those sharp and uncomfortable. I am not so sure I’d like picking up and handling any mail that was residing in the same mailbox as the rat bait pellets, crushed eggshells or mothballs, but they may work - if any readers here have a tried and proven solution that works for you, please let me know. Just do not mail it in to me!

Icebergs Ahoy.

When at “World Stamp Expo” in New York, Melbourne Auctioneer Gary Watson from mossgreen (in photo) showed me a nice piece that had just been consigned to him. It is a UK parcel label with a 6d KEVII stamp, addressed to the “Marconi Telegraph Officer, RMS Titanic, White Star Line, “Take some crushed eggshells …… “ tell me most times the pretty stamps are not cancelled at all such is the mess at PO Mail Centres here! I can’t say I have ever seen a mail item here snail chewed whilst in an Australia Post streetside mail box - maybe they secretly toss baits etc down into the base who would know in this day and age! The mail slits in them are quite thin and a decent size snail just cannot enter. When the mail gets to households - well that is another story altogether, as some boxes are open to bugs. Clearly it is a widespread issue that

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“Titanic” parcel label for Auction.

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Southampton UK”, and is dated April 11, 1912. Clearly the parcel just missed the sailing, and the Liner sunk April 14/15. Sender of the parcel was the “Marconi Telegraph Company Ltd” UK head office in Chelmsford, with 2 different parcel cancels. Watson has confirmed the auction estimate is $A20,000 at mossgreen’s next sale. ALL things “Titanic” have a global collector base, and I am sure it will do well. There is essentially no POSTAL connection material to the tragic journey. A few very tenuously connected pieces still fetch 5 figures. It will be auctioned in Melbourne on the afternoon of November 29. This extraordinary item survived only because it arrived after the departure of the ill-fated “Titanic”, apparently containing blank Telegraph forms. This is the first time that it has appeared in the philatelic market, having recently been “discovered” in a provincial general auction in England. Considering the source, addressee and low postage rate, it seems certain that the packet contained

Estimated to sell for $A20,000. telegram forms. The packet was actually handed to the first officer of “Titanic’s” sister-ship, the “Olympic”, with the intention of it being delivered to the “Titanic” in New York. However, as is well known, on the night of April 14/15, 1912, the “Titanic” - on her maiden voyage - collided with an iceberg and sank, with the loss of some 1500 lives. It is believed to have been held since 1912 by the family to whom it was given by the First Officer of the “Olympic”, and is offered with a piece of unused notepaper headed with embossed ‘On board RMS Oceanic’, plus two small original photographs, one captioned “Wireless/Apparatus” and the other “Alec Bagot/Marconi Operator/on RMS Olympic”. Photos on mossgreen site. I do hope mossgreen show some initiative, and email the shiny new massive Titanic Museum in Belfast with bidding details. I visited there last year soon after it opened, and it is already THE #1 tourist attraction in the city. Near a million visitors in the

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Market Matters first year, WAY above projections, and at £35 a couple entry, they can afford the cover! “Titanic Belfast” is a huge 12,000 square metre metal statement of stunning modern architecture, built exactly where “Titanic” was constructed 100 years earlier Once a dirty and abandoned looking dockside area until recent years, it is now the tourist magnet for Northern Ireland, and brilliantly done, and this piece would be perfect in there.

American Centering Madness.

Maybe it will end up here?

Who needs the American kooky “numerical grading” fading fad system,

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when large USA auction houses bypass it totally when it suits, and cheerfully make up their own wacky and nonsensical system to sell rare stamps, and give them absurd and Total Fantasy centering descriptors! Take a look at this rather ordinary stamp nearby. It was recently invoiced for $US41,300 - about $A55,000 at the time. It is the 1923, 1¢ green Washington-Franklin rotary-press issue, perf 11 - Scott 544. A scarce stamp, no doubt at all on that, but it surely does not mean Auctions can blithely INVENT condition and centering terms for it that are nonsense??? The 1856 British Guiana 1¢ Black on Magenta is UNIQUE, and worth ~$10 million, but the auctions never call that stamp “superb” or “immaculate” as it quite simply is not - makes no difference whatever to the price. Scarce is scarce . “It is what it is”. The British Guiana stamp is in truly terrible condition – but is “FANTASTIC CENTERING “ USA style.

Glen Stephens unique. Everyone accepts that. This USA 1¢ green shown nearby was offered September 29 by Kelleher Auctions, based in Danbury Connecticut - literally “The Oldest Philatelic Auction House in the United States, established in 1885.” Kellehers do not need the PSE or anyone to tell them it is an ugly looking stamp - instead they just invent their own grading terms - this dog suddenly has “FANTASTIC CENTERING” according to them “An impressive well margined example with fantastic centering” What? No mention whatever in their description of the 2 or 3 “nibbled” or pulled/torn perfs at base - it is “well margined and fantastic centred” after all. Kellehers did however say this stamp is “in immaculate mint condition”. Nibbled/torn perfs and “immaculate” do not gel, and should not be used on such a stamp - they are a contradiction in terms. It is clearly NOT in “immaculate condition”. Here is that same stamp item, shown at real stamp size - does any reader here concur it has “FANTASTIC CENTERING”? What utter nonsense. However Kelleher Auctions fooled someone it seems - it was invoiced for $US41,300 - about $A55,000. So who needs numerical grading to sell American high price stamps? Not a PSE “Numerical Grading Certificate” in sight for this average looker stamp. Just make it up as you please, and things can STILL sell for WAY more than Scott value - which is ‘only’ $US35,000 for this stamp, Scott #544! “Only In America.” It does illustrate that common looking stamps facially can be worth serious money IF you source catalogues - and can read them. This exact design stamp is NORMALLY a few cents retail, mint or used. Gazillions were printed of them, and every kid’s collection ever formed has one in there. So they all google it, see this one got $A55,000, and start bugging dealers!

Why $55,000, and not 10¢?

WHY is this one worth $A55,000, and the one

in every kid’s album globally, worth only 10¢? “Linn’s Stamp News” offered this explanation. In the 1910s, in order to print stamps more efficiently, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing switched from flat plate to rotary presses, allowing stamps to be printed in continuous rolls. The printing plates for the rotary press were curved around a large cylinder, resulting in a printed image that was slightly stretched either horizontally or vertically, depending on which way the plates were oriented. This means that rotary-press stamps are about half a millimetre taller or wider than similar flat-plate stamps. A truly TINY size difference, but measurable. As part of an effort to economise, in the early 1920s the BEP salvaged otherwise wasted parts of rotary-printed stamp sheets, and converted them into usable sheets for issuing and sale to the public. These printings are known to collectors as either “sheet waste” or “coil waste”, depending on their original intended purpose. What distinguishes the salvaged waste from other rotary press stamps printed at the time, is their perforations. Instead of coil-type perfs in one direction only, the waste stamps were perforated all around, either gauge 11 (like earlier flat-plate printings) or 11 by 10, or 10 by 11. Many of these salvaged waste stamps are very scarce. In the case of this 1¢ green Washington-Franklin rotary-press perf 11 (Scott 544), fewer than 20 are recorded to have survived unused.

Rare Mauritius Auctioned Dec 1.

For anyone with quite a few spare million laying about idle, the famous Mauritus “Bombay” cover is being auctioned by David Feldman in Switzerland on December 1. The estimate is 3-5 Million Euro, plus all the onerous “add-ons”. That converts to about $A4.3-$A7.2 Million - plus fees. The Auction description says in part: Bearing the two finest examples of the “Post Office” One Penny issue, this cover realised the highest price ever for a philatelic item in 1968 (Dale Lichtenstein auction) and can be considered to be on a par with

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Expected to invoice about $US5 million. the British Guiana One Cent, which was recently sold by Sotheby’s for $US9.5 million. 1d Deep Orange, two singles, datelined Port Louis, January 1, 1850, on entire letter addressed to “Thos. Jerrom Esq., Secretary to the Bombay Auxiliary Bible Society, The Esplanade, Bombay”, cancelled by twelve-bar handstamp, in circular format and the right stamp additionally by handstruck “2” in circle; showing “MAURITIUS/G.P.O” crowned circle d.s. (Jan. 4, 1850) adjacent. The stamps are of contrasting shades and impressions - the right stamp very sharp and the left a little heavier - indicative of the primitive printing methods of single impression from a copper plate on a hand press. Both stamps are of a brilliant colour and fresh, with unusually large margins all round. The cover has a small cut at right below “Society” in the address panel, and has also been reinforced at the joins. The entire letter comprises a double letter sheet written by the Reverend Langr62 - Stamp News

ishe Banks on 1 January 1850. Surprisingly, the contents of the letter, which concern the acknowledgement of receipt of a box of Scriptures (Bibles), were not known, until the Weill Brothers dealers in the USA allowed the letter to be opened up in 1976. It will be interesting in a few days, to see what figure the cover obtains. The same auction house is also offering the original copper printing plates for the “Post Office” Mauritus pair of stamps on the same day, also for a several million estimate, which seems high to me. I saw them on display at “World Stamp Expo” New York in June, and whether non stamps can ever get to 7 figures, we shall all soon know.

Original copper printing plate found.

This printing plate has done a bit of a “roadshow” in the past two years, being on display by Feldman at “Europhilex” in London in May 2015, Singa-

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For Sale: Estimate 2-3 Million Euro. pore World Stamp Exhibition in August 2015, and “Monacophil” in December 2015. And then most recently at the big show in New York in mid-2016. The 1847 Mauritius “POST OFFICE” stamps were the first colonial stamp issues of the British Empire, and rank among the world’s greatest and most sought-after rarities. 1,000 stamps were printed (500 each of 1d and 2d) but only 27 examples are known to have survived of the 2 values combined. Near all of those are used, or on cover. The printing plate disappeared from view for many years, and was rediscovered in 1912, when it was described by Alexander J. Sefi in 1912 as: “the Greatest Philatelic Treasure existing”. Sefi was the

legendary dealer, prolific philatelic writer, and specialised collector of this era. He was invited to sign the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1933. The Mauritius printing plate was then acquired by the also legendary European collector Maurice Burrus around 1930, and was last displayed at the 1935 Silver Jubilee exhibition, of the Royal Philatelic Society in London. It then disappeared from view, and for many years it was feared that it had been lost. However, following the death of Odile Burrus, the niece of Maurice, the plate was re-discovered by the Burrus family, and has since been with David Feldman of Geneva Switzerland, so that it could

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Market Matters once again be displayed in public, as it has been for the past 2 years. Now it is set for auction, soon after you read this article. I was fortunate to visit the impressive “Blue Penny” Museum in Port Louis, Mauritius a year or so back, on our way to mysterious Madagascar. That Museum has a slightly faulty mint example of each stamp, both bought in 1993 by a consortium of Mauritius business interests, for well over $US2 million the pair. Huge money then. Only 2 mint of the 1d exist globally, one of which is in private hands, and The only MINT pair are inside. has not been seen for decades. 270 colour pages. Even The Royal This perfect sized book (150 x 215mm size) lists Collection does not have them - so the only place and illustrates in FULL COLOUR, the Colonial on earth to see the pair mint is in Mauritius. As it “State” Stamps of Australia, from 1850 to 1912, is not a country remotely on the global tourist trial, also all Australian Commonwealth and AAT stamps so clearly well worth a visit! They had all kinds from 1913 to June 2016. The photo nearby shows of cool souvenirs of that pair I bought back, fridge magnets, locally embroidered handtowels and “Post the front cover of the latest catalogue. Not just basic issues either. All perfs and waterPaid” handmade perfumed soap etc, if anyone colmarks are listed in the Kangaroo and KGV heads lects that stuff! - tinyurl.com/1dPostPaid series, Large and Small “OS” punctures are listed for both, and “OS” for all later commems etc. Also RENNIKS “Australia” Catalogue listed and illustrated are the popular Philatelic Renniks Australia publishes each year or so, a very useful and feature packed stamp catalogue that suits Numismatic Covers (PNCs) which are popular with the needs of large numbers of collectors. Now in its both stamp and coin collectors. First Day Covers are priced right back to the 15th Edition over 24 years, the RENNIKS “Stamps 1920s, and modern stamp booklets and Prestige Of Australia” is super value at just $A27.50 r.r.p, Booklets are all listed and priced. As are all Minand has over 3,000 colour photographs, and about iature Sheets and sheetlets etc. The sheetlets 10 are 64 - Stamp News

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273 colour pages just $A27.50

sometimes priced mint and used, and some only mint. Suggestion to Editor - add the used price to all, in line with mint - I use 1,000s a year myself on mail. Editor is Alan B. Pitt, who is Managing Director of Renniks/Lighthouse, who are Australian agents

for Lighthouse, Stanley Gibbons and UK Hagner Sheets etc. I’ve known Alan for 35 years and how on earth he gets time to cobble all this stuff together, I have no idea, but RENNIKS “Stamps Of Australia” is a superbly priced 1 stop book for this region for most collectors. Many readers will know RENNIKS publish the sister volume - the regular “Australian Coin and Banknote Values” catalogues, and have done for well over half a Century, and it is the “Bible” in the numismatic industry for coins, and most especially, Banknote prices. Few know it, but RENNIKS spelt backwards is SKINNER, and these catalogues were founded in 1964 by the numismatic industry uber legend Dion H. Skinner, who came up with the easy to remember brand name, and it lives on, over a half century later. Renniks/Lighthouse are a huge national operation, wholesaling stamps and coin accessories, and masses of motoring and other collector and niche books and stationery. They get large numbers of these catalogues placed into bookshops and newsagents and libraries nationally via their networking, which means lots of new collectors get into stamps, as $27.50 is a perfect price point. One listing I noticed in the new Edition was

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Cat price $4,500 mint, $3,000 used. the “30¢ Adelaide 2016” CPS Emergency issue of 6 stamps. A mint set is shown nearby. Renniks catalogues these at $A4,500 mint and $A3,000 used, as Renniks #4242-4248. Stanley Gibbons also gave them full catalogue listing recently, as SG #4492/4497, and demand from overseas has been massive since then. This listing will alert many Australia collectors to the set for the first time. Also the new Seven Seas “ASC” Catalogue is nearing finalisation as we speak, and I understand this set of 6 will be listed and priced in there too. When the printed album pages for this set of 6 appear globally next year, the fun will really start then I imagine! These will be one of the rarest stamp sets sold widely over Post Offices counters in the entire British Commonwealth since the War. The dodgy insider deals re Anguilla “emergency” 1967 set is well known, but that is in SG for £25,000 a set mint and no-one actually really collects Anguilla, so these Adelaide sets are hot stuff for the future. 66 - Stamp News

There is an identical set of 6 x “$1.00 ADELAIDE 2016” of these designs, and for many collectors will nicely fill the album pages. I bought 100 sets of those $1 before they were withdrawn on June 30. They already sell for $A75 a set (Stock 571GX) or investor lots of 10 are $500, and for most, is far more palatable than $1,000s for the 30¢ set! Australia Post Philatelic or overseas agents NEVER sold either, at any time, so supply is tiny of both.

Four Years Of Trump.

Finally in closing, as I type this mid-month, many around the world are still reeling in shock and disbelief that near half the Americans who actually bothered to vote in November, did so for Donald Trump. Who was it that said: “The public always get the Politicians they deserve” ! The rest of the world prays they hide the nuclear codes from him for 4 years, as hopefully he will not get a second term. Trump is not even close to being sworn in yet, and he is back-flipping already

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The ultimate in Garish Wallpaper. on his 100% guaranteed “promises” - jail Hillary, ban Muslims, loosen gun laws, sue all those lyin wimmen, deport all illegals, dismantle Obamacare, charge the Mexicans to build “The WARRL” etc. All hot air, that will simply never occur. A raft of tin-pot stamp issuing “nations” of course all jumped onto the Presidential Election bandwagon, with a host of expensive sets and mini sheets that hopefully sold poorly! Laughable stamp non-entities like TCHAD have already issued Trump stamps, which seems somehow most appropriate to me. As well as the Central African Republic etc. Stampboards.com members added a montage of these garish wallpaper “stamps” for those who like this stuff - tinyurl.com/TrumpStamp I am sure some of these hillbilly entities will create stamps from the recently released naked photos of his Slovenian wife Melania, from her alleged high end callgirl past era - and even stamps like that do sell. WHY - who knows?

Strange days indeed, and whilst technically who they elect is only relevant to Americans, it does affect all others globally, when a maniac like this lies his way into office. The Germans elected a megalomaniac into power in the 1930s, and that worked out rather badly for everyone globally. The fact Vladimir Putin was the ONLY world leader to applaud the Trump result, should concern EVERY American! Anyway, Politics do not usually enter my stamp columns, but this recent result I think it is fair to say, totally gobsmacked and worried most of the world. Indeed like Brexit, would probably have got a VERY different result if the vote was re-taken a week later in both cases, once the Penny Dropped, and cold reality set in on what they'd done. Everyone has 4 years of this nutter now. Enjoy the TCHAD stamps!

Glen Stephens has written monthly ‘Stamp Tipster’ Columns for over 30 years - globally. A vast library of his past articles and photos are found at – www.glenstephens.com/column.html

Glen Stephens 4 The Tor Walk, Castlecrag, NSW, 2068 Ph: 02 9958 1333 email: glen@glenstephens.com

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philatelic clubs & societies new south wales Armidale Circle RSPC: Mtg 2nd Wed Australian Cmwlth Collectors Club of NSW: Mtg 3rd Mon 7.45pm, 1st flr. Philas House, 17 Brisbane St, Darlinghurst, Sydney 2001. Ph 02 9267 8301; Fax: 02 9264 4741. GPO Box 1971, Sydney NSW 2000 Ph: 02 9264 8301 Aust. States Study Circle: Mtg 4th Wed 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301 Bathurst Stamp Coin and Collectables Club: Mtg 1st Mon 7.30pm, Old Eglinton fire shed, Park St, Elington PO Box 151, Bathurst NSW 2795 Bega Phil. & Numismatic Society: Mtg 3rd Friday 8.00pm. Mthly Newsletter. PO Box 370, Bega NSW Blue Mountains Stamp Club: Mtg 4th Friday (ex Dec) 8.00pm Katoomba Public School; PO Box 76, Blackheath Boambee East PS: Mtg 1st Tues (ex. Jan) 6pm Boambee East Comm. Centre, Bruce King Dr. Ph: 02 66581385 Campbelltown District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm (ex Jan - 4th Wed); @ Catholic Hall Acacia St, Ruse. Inquiries: mystampclub@yahoo.com.au; PO Box 478, Campbelltown 2560 Castle Hill SC Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm, Hills District Bowling Club, Jenner Street, Baulkham Hills; PO Box 151 Castle Hill NSW 1765 China Study Group of PSNSW: Mtg 4th Mon 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301 Cinderella SC: Mtg 2nd Friday, even months; Produces “Cinderellas Australia” and monographs; PO Box 889, Chatswood, NSW 2057 Coffs Harbour SC: Mtg 2nd Wed Earlwood and District SC:Mtg 1st Wed Grafton SC: Mtg 2nd Wed (ex. Dec) Grafton Stampers & Everything Philatelic: Mtg 1st Sun 2pm (ex School Hols). Grafton Baptist Church Hall, Cnr Queen & Oliver Sts. Ph 02 6642 1363. email gbchurch@bigpond.com. Great Lakes SC: Mtg1st Sat 9.30am , Workshop & Market 1st Sat 9-12, Great Lakes Campus Annexe, Taree St, Tuncurry Enq: Ph 02 6554 9776 Gosford PS: Afternoon Mtg 1st Mon; Evening Mtg 2nd Thurs Hawkesbury Valley PS (Richmond Stamp Club): Mtg 2nd Thurs (ex Jan) PO Box 28 Richmond 2753 Illawarra PS: Mtg 3rd Thursday (ex. Jan) Wollongong Master Build. Club Ltd, Oasis Room, 7.30pm. All welcome. Tel. (02) 42252011. Kempsey RSL PS: Mtg 2nd Wed Lake Macquarie Stamp Club:: Mtg 2nd Sat 9am; Combined Pensioners & Community Care Services 130 Josephson St, Swansea. Enq: 02 4392 5211 Lord Howe Island Postal History Society: Mtg by arrangement. Contact Pres: Dr William Mayo, 02 9918 6825 Lower Clarence PS: Mtg 4th Tues Macquarie Valley PS: Mtg 2nd Tues Maitland SC: Mtg 2nd Mon ex Jan. ‘Show & Tell’ every mtg E. Maitland Bowling Club, Bank St. Pres. Mark Saxby; Sec. David Carratt; Ph: 02 4932 4045 Email: carrotspatch@tpg.com.au Manly-Warringah Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd Tues, cnr. Pittwater Rd & Federal Pde, Brookvale. Sec. Graeme Morriss Ph: 02 9905 3255 email: stampsmw@bizland.com.au Milton-Ulladulla SC: Meeting 1pm on 4th Monday of each month (ex Dec.) Milton Ulladulla Bowling Club, St. Vincent Street, Ulladulla Sec. POBox 670, Ulladulla, NSW 2539 Tel. Barbara Smith 0244555214 Morisset Uniting Church SC: Mtg 4th Sat 10am (ex Dec) Enq: 4977 2525 (Jenny) Mudgee Coin Note & Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Sunday Ph 02 63735324 Nambucca River PS: Mtg 1st Sunday Newcastle PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs, 7.30pm Mayfield Ex-Services Club; 10am 3rd Wed, 48 Mackie Ave, New Lambton, Juniors 11am 3rd Sun, Wallsend Pioneers Hall NSW Postcard Collectors Soc: Mtg 1st Wed 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301

act Canberra, Philatelic Society of: 1st Thursday: General Meeting,3rd Thursday: Afternoon Meeting (IF REQUIRED),3rd Thursday: (Evening) Exchange Night, 2nd Tuesday: Postcard Group, 4th Monday: Machin Collectors Group. All meetings 7:45pm, Griffin Centre, Genge Street, Canberra City Postal Address:PO Box 1840,Canberra ACT 2601,Email:psc@netspeed.com.au www.canberrastamps.org

western australia The Airmail Circle of WA: Mtg 5th Monday “Wellington Fair” Unit 18, 40 Lord St. East Perth Tel: 08 9294 3356 Armadale-Kelmscott PS: Mtg 4th Tues; Ph: 08 9397 6525 email: fit.kanga@bigpond.com Bridgetown-Manjimup SC: Mtg 1st Thurs 4.30pm Bridgetown Library Ph 08 9761 4638 or 08 9761 2005 Busselton SC: Mtg 1st Mon, 5pm 7th Day Adv. Church, Alpha St; Ph: 08 9752 4449, 0400 646 282 email witches1@westnet.com.au Canning SC: Mtg 1st Wed; Ph: 08 9457 7565 Daytime SC: Mtg 1st Thurs; 08 9341 3576 Denmark SC: Mtg 1st Weds Lions Lair Rivermouth Inlet Drive, Denmark. Tel: 08 9848 3325 email: fishneil@westnet.com.au Eastern Goldfields: Mtg 3rd Thurs ; Ph: 0412 156 351 Eaton SC: Mtg 3rd Thurs, 7pm Ph. 08 9795 7744, email: scrapbit@tpg.com Fremantle and District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed, St. Peter’s Church Hall, 4 Hammad St., Palmyra. Circuit books 7pm, meeting 8pm Ph: 08 9284 7125 Have a go SC: Mtg Last Thurs. 137 Edward St, East Perth. Tel: 08 9305 2073 email: nigan@iinet.net.au Kalamunda SC: Mtg 3rd Wed; Ph: 08 9291 8484

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Northern Suburbs PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs, 7.45pm, Naremburn Library, Central St, Naremburn off Slade St; Ph: 02 9419 7354 Orange Coin and Stamp Club: Mtg Last Tuesday, Orange Community Info Centre, 79-81 Kite St, Orange 7.30pm Ph: 02 6362 3754. Orchid Stamp Club: Mtg 3rd Sat. (Jan and each 2nd mth) Parramatta PS: Mtg 1st Friday Penrith and District PS: Mtg 1st Thursdays, 8pm, CWA rooms, Baby Health Ctr, Tindale St PO Box 393, Kingswood NSW 2747 PHILAS Stamp Auctions: Mtg 2nd Sat Mar,Jul, Nov Ph 02 9264 8301 PS of Australia: Mtg 3rd Wed (exDec); Ph 02 9399 7556 PS of NSW: Mtg 1st Tues (Philas House), 3rd Tues (Chatswood); Ph: 02 9264 8301 Richmond River (Lismore) PS: Mtg 4th Thursday Royal Sydney Philatelic Club: Mtg 2nd Tues. (ex Jan); Ph: 02 9264 8301 Sapphire Coast Stamp & Coin Club: Mtg Enq 02 6495 7308. Mail to PO Box 285, Pambula, NSW 2549 St. George PS: Mtg 1st Mon Shoalhaven PS: Mtg 2nd Monday (Ex Jan) PO Box 4047, East Nowra 2541. Ph 02 44472976 Smithfield SC: Mtg 2nd Mon Society for Polar Philately: 2012 meetings: 2nd Wednesday of February, March, May, July, Sept and November held at Ryde Ex-Services Club 724-730 Victoria Rd, Ryde, NSW Tel: 9807 3344 (in Mackinnon room) starting at 8pm.Enq 0407 277 223 or email penviews@hotmail.com Strathfield-Burwood PS: Mtg 4th Wed Sussex Inlet and District: Mtg 3rd Mon Sutherland Shire PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. , 7:30pm, Sutherland Uniting Services Club, 7 East Pde, Sutherland. Information Secretary, PO Box 339, Sutherland, NSW 1499 Sydney Anglican Stamp Society: Mtg 2nd Sat, even months 9.30am - 2.30pm, St Paul’s, Carlingford. www.sass.asn.au Tamworth PS: Mtg 1st Mon ex. Jan. Tamworth Bridge Club, 7 Hilton St, Tamworth Sec. Graeme Mitchell. PO Box 678, Tamworth NSW 2340 Ph. 02 67664853 Taree RSL Club Ltd SC: Mtg 3rd Mon Thematic Society of Australia: Mtg 3rd Wed Toronto SC: Mtg 1st Wed Tuggerah SC: Mtg 4th Sun (ex Dec.) Turramurra SC: Mtg 2nd Monday, 7.45pm. Ph: 9144 4225 Twin Towns Stamp Club Inc.: Mtg 1st Monday, 7.30p, Home & Comm. Centre, Tweed Heads, 07 5535 3168 Wagga SC: Mtg 1st Wed (ex Jan) ARCC Building, Tarcutta St, 7.30pm. Secretary: Peter Simpfendorfer Ph:02 6922 3393 Willoughby Legion Philatelic Section: Mtg 4th Tues Wyong PS: Mtgs: 3rd Tues 7.30pm, daytime meetings 1st Weds, KGV Heads group 4th Weds. Jim Spence Sec. 02 4392 3610 email: dandasonter6@bigpond.com

northern territory Alice Springs SC: Meet Informally; PO Box 1529, Alice Springs, NT, 0871. Ph 08 8953 3054 Darwin Philatelic Circle: 1st Sun. 10am - 2pm. 53 Flametree Crt, Rosebery; Ph:(08) 8931 2898; PO Box 1624, Palmerston, NT, 0831; Email: Nadine.Tinsley@nt.gov.au-. WA club information: WA Philatelic Council, GPO Box 9800, Perth, WA, 6001 Mandurah PS PO Box 625 Mandurah WA 6210 2nd Tues 4.45 - 6.30pm Bortolo Park Pavilion Cnr. Bortolo and Murdoch Drives Greenfields WA 6210 08 9581 1083 keithmich@bigpond.com Northern Districts SC: Mtg 2nd Mon; Ph: 08 9329 0117 Philatelic Forum: Mtg 1st Mon (ex Jan); Ph: 08 9294 4277 Rockingham & Kwinana (PS of): Mtg 3rd Tues (NB 2nd in Dec) Pres. Malcolm Brown; Sec. Terry Boyd; PRO Lucie Schokker Ph. 08 9419 1604; email: malcolm.b@iinet.net.au PS of WA: Mtg 3rd Tues; Ph: 08 9294 4277 Stirling PS: Mtg 4th Wed (ex Dec); Clubrooms, Charles Riley Reserve, Wendling Rd, North Beach, Ph: 08 9447 7256 The Postmark Circle (WA): Mtg 2nd Mon; Ph: 08 9294 4277 Victoria Park SC: Mtg 1st Wed; Ph: 08 9472 8072 or 08 9450 5280 WA Study Group: Mtg 4th Thurs (ex Dec) 08 9384 1050 Wanneroo SC: Mtg 3rd Mon; Ph: 08 6106 0874.

philatelic clubs & societies new zealand Air Mail Society of NZ: Ph: 03 3584838; Email: alant@snap.net Auckland PS: Mtg 1st and 3rd Tues (except Jan). Ph 09 9853212; Email kiwibrooce@ yahoo.com; Website: www.aps.gen.nz Christchurch PS: Mtg 2nd Tues, Library night 3rd Tues; GB Machin 3rd Fri odd months; Postal History 1st Mon; Postcard 3rd Tues even months. Email: secretary@ cps.gen.nz; Website: www.cps.gen.nz Dunedin PS: Mtg 4th Thurs (except Nov and Dec). Ph: 03 4557643; Email: davidallison2009@gmail.com; Website: www.dunedinstampclub.org.nz Hastings Stamp Collectors Club: Mtg 3rd Wed (except Jan and 2nd Wed Dec). Ph: 06 8765911; Email: clairemole@xtra.co.nz Hawkes Bay PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex. Jan). Ph: 06 8439433; Email: dennmarg@paradise. net.nz Horowhenua PS: Mtg 2nd Mon. Ph: 06 3689881; Email: michael.christensen@xtra. co.nz Hutt Valley PS: Mtg 1st Tues (ex. Jan). Ph: 04 5697439; Email: richards@nec.co.nz Kapiti PS: Mtg 3rd Tues (ex Dec). Ph: 04 2971197; Email: ian.burttt@yahoo.co.nz Manaia PS: Mtg (Hawera) 1st Sun. Ph: 06 2784292; Email: peter.williams@xtra.co.nz Manawatu PS: Mtg 1st Wed, daytime meeting 3rd Tues. Ph: 06 3584565; Email: mps@inspire.net.nz Marlborough Stamp Collectors Club: Mtg 3rd Mon (except Jan and 2nd Mon Dec). Morrinsville Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd Wed. Ph: 07 8893199 Nelson PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 03 5469092; Email: paula.hucklesby@clear.net.nz North Shore PS: Mtg 2nd (except Jan) and 4th Wed (except Jan and Dec). Email: nsps@xtra.co.nz; Website: www.northshoreps.com NZ Stamp Collectors Club Christchurch: Mtg 4th Wed. Ph 03 3895511; Email: steve@ philatelic.org.nz; Website: www.nzeal.com/philately/nzscc.htm NZ Postcard Society: Ph: 03 3848463; Email: jenny-long@clear.net.nz; Website: www. postcard.org.nz

queensland Arana Hills SC: Meeting 2nd Tues; 07 3851 0213; email: petermccloskey@bigpond.com Bayside Afternoon SC: Meeting last Wed; Ph: 07 3206 6281. Bundaberg PS: Mtg 2nd Mon 7pm, The Family Centre, Kensington St (in the Show Grounds); Ph: 07 4152 2403 or 07 4151 3062 Caboolture & District SC: Mtg 3rd Sat. Ph: 07 5498 6504 Cairns SC: Mtg 3rd Wed. 7.30pm Brothers Leagues Club, 99 Anderson St. Ph: 07 4055 1302 Sec: Ross Bottomer, email:rbottomer@y7mail.com, web:www.cairnsstampclub.asn.au Caloundra SC: Mtg. 4th Thurs. Catholic Church Hall, Edmund St. 1.30pm. Ph: 07 5494 7233 City Daytime SC: Mtg 2nd Thurs. Ph: 07 3206 6281 City of Brisbane PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs; Ph: 07 3263 8573 (ah); email: desley@mycelebrant.com Collectors Club Queensland: Mtg 2nd Sunday each month 9am to 1pm - RSL Hall, 58 Arnold St, Holland Park. Contact 0409 130 266 or ccqueensland@gmail.com Enoggera SC: Mtg 1st and 3rd Mon. Ph: 07 3264 4157 Gladstone and District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed (Ex. Jan) & 4th Wed (Ex.Dec). Ph. Sec: 07 4978 1155 Ian Rippingale, Gold Coast PS: Mtg 2nd Mon, 11.30am, Southport Community Centre, Lawson St, Southport. Ph: 07 5546 3801 Gympie SC: Mtg. 2nd Sun. Jessie Witham Centre 1 - 3pm Ph. 07 5483 9188 email: sandandan@bigpond.com Hervey Bay Afternoon Club: Mtg 3rd Wed. Ph: 07 4124 1138 Ipswich SC: Mtg 1st Thurs (ex. Jan). Ph: 07 3282 2983 Junction Park SC: Mtg 1st Tues, 7.30pm, Annerley Baptist Hall, Lambton St. Contact: 07 3277 6724. PO Box 177, Annerley, 4103, righteo274@bigpond.com Lockyer Valley SC: Mtg 4th Sun, 1.30pm, Senior Citizensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hall, Gatton. Kerri Martin, Sec. Ph: 07 5465 3390 Email: lvsc@bigpond.com Logan City SC: Meetings 2nd Thurs, Presbyterian Church, Barry St, Slacks Creek, 6pm. Ph: 07 3805 9226.

Further information can be obtained from the NZ Philatelic Federation, PO Box 58139, Whitby, Porirua, 5245, NZ. E-mail: secretary@nzpf.org.nz Postal History Soc of NZ: Auckland 1st Mon (except Jan). Ph: 09 5220311. Chapter meetings held Invercargill, Nelson, New Plymouth and Wellington. Pukekohe Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Sun. John Mounce, President 649-291-9381 johnmounce@ihug.co.nz Royal PS of NZ: Mtg 2nd Wed (ex Jan). Ph: 04 5899530; Email: office@rpsnz.org.nz; Website www.rpsnz.org.nz South Auckland PS: Mtg last Sat (except Dec), Papatoetoe, day time mtgs 3rd Fri (ex Dec and Jan). Ph: 09 2682245; Email: elowera@orcon.net.nz Southland PS: Mtg 1st Thurs (except Jan), 3rd Tue (daytime) (except Jan). Email: antqgevi@es.co.nz Taranaki PS: Mtg 1st Mon except Jan. Ph: 06 7546212; Email: murray-grimwood@ hotmail.com Tauranga & District Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd (except Jan) and 4th Mon (except Dec). Ph: 07 5765210; Email: beducker@hotmail.com Thames Valley PS: Mtg 1st Mon (except Jan). Ph: 07 8689190. Thematic Association of NZ: Ph: 04 2347218; Email: bob@gibsonz.com Timaru PS: Mtg 1st Wed. Ph: 03 6880343 Upper Hutt PS: Mtg 3rd Mon (except 2nd Mon Dec). Ph: 04 5284123; Email: teme. isaac@clear.net.nz Waikato PS: Mtg 1st (except Jan) and 3rd Wed (except Jan and Dec). Email: c.cameron@agresearch.co.nz Wakatipu PS: Ph: 03 4428865 Wanganui PS: Mtg 2nd Wed. Ph: 06 3427894; Email: g.p.phillips@xtra.co.nz Wellesley PS: Mtg 2nd and 4th Mon (ex public holidays). Ph: 9 8271240 Wellington PS: Mtg 4th Mon (except Dec); Ph: 042347218; Email: bob@gibsonz.com Whakatane PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Thurs (except Jan) Ph: 07 3222054 or 07 3086193 Whangarei PS: Mtg 2nd Meeting: 2nd Tues (Ex.Jan) Ph 09 4348000; Email johnmonica@xtra.co.nz QLD Philatelic Council, 18 Coolcrest St, Wynnum, Qld, 4178. Ph: 07 3396 0846 Fax: 07 3396 0842. Email: QPC-stamps@acenet.net.au Web: www.qpc.asn.au

Mackay and District PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 07 4942 5433; Maryborough and Wide Bay PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex. Jan). Salvation Army Youth 7 Comm. Hall. Bazaar St Maryborough. Ph: 07 41224708 (see also Hervey Bay) Nanango SC: Mtg 2nd Sat, 10:00am, Nanango RSL. Contact Ph: 07 3103 8938 or ema il: bowtell_harris@activ8.net.au Philatelic Society of Qld: Mtg 4th Wed 7.30pm,18 Coolcrest St, Wynnum. Ph: 07 3245 5222 Queensland Study Group: Sunday bi-monthly 1.00pm meets QPS house. Contact Ph: 07 3396 0846 email: QPC-stamps@acenet.net.au Redland Bay Coin and Stamp Club, 4th Thurs. Monthly. John Hardman 07 3206 9996 or 07 3822 6987 Rockhampton SC: Mtg 1st Tues. Ph: 07 4926 3336. email: rockystampclub@gmail.com Sherwood Afternoon SC: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 07 3372 6096 Southport Afternoon SC: Mtg 2nd Sat; Ph: 07 55630384 Southside PS: Mtg 3rd Tuesday & 3rd Wednesay (9am) Ph: 07 3848 2304 (ah) email: david. appleton@mailbox.uq.edu.au Sunshine Coast SC (formerly Nambour SC): Mtg 1st Wed, 7.15pm at C.W.A. Hall, Short St. Nambour. Ph: 075445 3647 Thematics Queensland: Mtg bi-monthly 9.30am. Ph: 07 3262 5605 email: j.crowsley@ uq.net.au Toowoomba SC: Mtg. 2nd Sat 1pm, Salvation Army Hall, Cnr. West St. 7 Anzac Ave. Ph. 07 4635 5623 Email: bob.benny@bigpond.com Twin Towns SC: Mtg 1st Mon; Ph: 07 5535 3168 Waterloo Bay SC: Mtg. 1st Thurs. 1pm & 4th Mon. 7pm. Redlands Multi SportsClub, Birkdale Ph: 07 3206 0815

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philatelic clubs & societies south australia

Information about clubs in SA can be obtained from the SA Philatelic Council, GPO Box 9800, Adelaide, SA 5001. Daytime Ph: 08 8212 3557 or 8223 4435

Australian Airmail Society: 1st Wed. 7.45pm 22 Gray Court, Adelaide. PO Box 395, Edwardstown 5039. Ph: 08 8276 3969 Barossa SC: Mtg 1st Tue 7.30 Greenock Luth Church Hall, Bevan St, Greenock; 19 Evans Street Ancaston 5353; email: ptomely1939@gmail.com; Ph: (08) 8562 8386 Blackwood PC: Mtg 2nd Wed ex Jan; Uniting Church, Main Rd, Blackwood; Ph: 08 8278 1629; PO Box 581, Blackwood 5051; email: teepee@teegee.com.au Bordertown & Districts PS: Mtg: 3rd Thurs. Bordertown PS Contact: K. Grey Tel: 08 8752 0446 or email cdhuntmundulla@yahoo.com.au Community PS: Mtg 1st & 3rd Fri - 7.30pm. Marion Bowling Club, off Sturt Rd. PO Box 75 Edwardstown, 5039; Auctions, circuit books. Ph: 0408806894 City of Noarlunga PS: Mtg alternate thurs,-- Community Health Centre, Grand Boulevard, Seaford, Contact 08 85566371 or PO Box 272, Port Noarlunga 5167 Eastern Districts PS: 2nd Thurs (ex. Jan), 7.30pm Senior citizens Hall, 47 Reid Ave. Hectorville; PO Box 240, Magill, 5072; Ph: 0400 156 796 Elizabeth PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Fridays, 7.30pm, RSL Hall, Cnr of Halseys/Midway Rds;PO Box 701, Elizabeth 5112; Ph: 08 8255 0608 Encounter Bay SC: Mtg 1st Wed, 7.30pm; School Hall, Woolworths Centre, Victor Harbour; PO Box 317, Goolwa 5214; aydepe@bigpond.com; Ph: 08 8555 3311 SA Power Networks Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Mon (ex. Jan); Canteen, 1 Anzac Highway, Keswick; PO Box 2079, Magill North, 5072; Ph: 08 8278 7163 Frama Club: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm, members homes; For collectors of CPS, Framas. Newsletter and Auctions. PO Box 62 Campbelltown 5074. Gawler SC: Mtg 4th Mon 7.30pm; Evanston Primary School, Para Rd, Evanston. PO Box 2, Willaston 5118; Ph: 08 8522 2335 Email: jo.trev@bigpond.com German Philatelic Club: Mtg 2nd & 4th Mon 8pm; German Club, 223 Flinders St, Adelaide 5000; Ph: 08 8260 2251 Glenside PS: 1st Wed 7.30pm& 3rd Sat 1.30pm; Uniting Church Hall, Carlton St. Highgate. PO Box 29, Glenside 5063. Ph: (08) 8353 8683 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 Camperdown SC: Mtg 1st Tues Castlemaine SC: Mtg 3rd Tues (ex Dec) Colac PC: Mtg 4th Mon (ex. Dec), Colac Community College, Bromfield St, Colac. Ph:52314746 Corner Inlet SC: Mtg 4th Thurs, Foster, Ph: 03 56881100 Dandenong PS: 4th Thurs. ex Dec. 7.30pm, Meeting Room, Church of Christ, David St., Dandenong 03 5996 9501 Diamond Valley PS: Mtg 3rd Mon Essendon-Broadmeadows PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs; St Johns Uniting Church Hall, Cnr Mt Alexander Rd & Buckley St, Essendon; Murray Gorham, Ph 9306 7480 Footscray PS: Mtg 1st Mon (2nd in Jan); Maribyrnong Comm. Centre, 54 Raleigh Rd, Maribyrnong. PO Box 2477 Taylors Lakes 3038. PH. 0438 901 144. email: footscraystamps@gmail Frankston & District SC: Mtg 3rd Tues (2nd in Dec) Seaford Community Centre, Broughton St Seaford. Ph: 5996 3745 Geelong PS: Mtgs 1st Sat 7.00pm, 3rd Mon 1pm (ex Jan) Sat - Diversitat Community Centre, 9-15 Clarence St, Geelong West. Mon - Belmont Library, High St, Belmont Ph: 0438578591 (Sec); PO Box 342, Belmont 3216 Hamilton PS: Mtg 2nd Monday Hungarian PS: Mtg 2nd Wed

tasmania Derwent Valley PS: Mtg 4th Mon Devonport Junior SC: Mtg 1st & 3rd Mon Devonport SC: 4th Fri, except Dec. 3rd Fri. 7.30pm, Oldaker Christian Centre, Oldaker St, Devonport, 03 6424 3449 devstampclub.org Devonport Stamp Group: Mtg 4th Fri, Public Library Mtg Rms, 7.30pm Ph. 03 6424 3449 Glenorchy SC: Mtg 1st Tues

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1.30pm - 4pm. PO Box 2261,Mt Gambier.Ph: 08 8724 9474 Para Hills PS: Mtg 1st Sun; Community Hall Wilkinson Rd, Para Hills. PO Box 64, Para Hills; Ph: 08 8522 4345 Phillumeny SC: U3/26-28 Crozier Av, Modbury 5092. Ph: 08 8337 6533 Email: www.users.or.net/ figg/amccs Port Pirie PS: Mtg 4th Mon; PO Box532, Pt Pirie 5540; Ph: 08 8632 1105 Printed Collectables Club (SAPC): Mtg last Tues, Julia Farr Cent. Canteen, Ground Floor, Fisher St. Ph: 08 8265 7395; PO Box 657, Enfield Plaza 5085 PS of South Australia:1st & 3rdTues; 22 Gray Ct. GPO Box 9800, Adelaide 5001; Ph: 08 8555 3311 PS of South Aust. (Aus. Com. Spect.Grp.): Mtg 4th Tues 7.30pm;22 Gray Ct. Ph: 08 8555 3311 PS of South Australia (Daytime SC):Mtg 1st & 3rd Thurs; 22 Gray Ct.Ph: 08 8555 3311 PS of South Australia (Study Group):Mtg 4th Tues 7.30pm; 22 Gray Ct. Ph: 08 8522 4345 Postal Stat & Postal Hist Soc: Mtg 2nd Tues; SAPHIL House, 22 Gray Ct, Adelaide. email: psandph@arcom.com.au; Ph: 08 8260 3352 Riverland PS: Mtg 3rd Fri, 10am ;Whitmore Hall, Barmera Village; Ph: 08 8595 3023 SA Junior Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd Sun 1pm - 3pm;Anyone over 5years, parents welcome. 22 Grey St, Adelaide. 08 8250 0484 Salisbury PS: Mtg 1st & 3rd Mon;StJohns Church Hall. PO Box 336 Salisbury 5108; Ph: 08 8252 2392 Stirling PS: Mtg 4th Fri 7.45pm, Old Railway Station (now Community Services Bldng.); Ph: 08 8370 2680 Strathalbyn PS: Mtg 2nd Mon, 8pm; Rosa Hoare Room, Lutheran Church Complex Corner, Commercial Rd/North Pde; C/- Post Office, Strathalbyn 5255; Ph: 0429 693 747 Ukrainian Collectibles Club: Mtg Wed as per syllabus; PO Box 466, Woodville 5011; Ph: 08 8345 4033 Yorke Peninsula Collectors Club: Senior Citizens Club. Taylor St, Kardina. Mtg 3rd Wed ex. Jan; PO Box 178, Bute 5560; Ph: 08 8821 2906 Club Information: Victorian Philatelic Council, GPO Box 9800, Melbourne, Vic, 3001 Italian PS: Mtg 2nd Mon (ex Jan), 7.30pm, Veneto Club, 191 Bulleen Rd Bullen. (PO Box 166, Niddrie, 3042) Latrobe Valley PS: Mtg Last Wed ex Dec 7.30pm, St Lukes Uniting Church Hall, Princes Way, Morwell; Chris Zarb, Sec. ph. 03 5174 3394 Maryborough Stamp Club:Mtg mthly ex Jan 2nd Tues of month 8pm, St Augustine’s Hall, Maryborough. PO Box 295, Maryborough, 3465; Ph: 03 5464 2400. maryboroughsc@eudoramail.com. maryboroughsc.web1000.com Mildura PS: Mtg Last Thurs (ex Dec)Carnegie Building 74 Deakin Ave Ph: 03 5023 8789 Mooroolbark PS: Mtg 1st Tues; Ph: 03 9723 3304 Oakleigh PS: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm (ex Jan) Oakleigh Public Library, Drummond St, Oakleigh Ocean Grove SC: Mtg 4th Wed. 10am. Ocean Grove Senior Citizens Clubrooms Melways: 234 A. Ph. 03 5255 1372 Peninsula SC: Mtg 3rd Wed, 7.30pm Uniting Church Hall, Murray Anderson Rd, Rosebud. Ph: 03 5975 0574 Polish PS: Mtg 3rd Tues (2nd in Dec) Prahran PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex Jan) Ringwood PS: Gen Mtg 1st Thurs; Daytime 3rd Mon Ph: 03 9725 0514 email hanszomer@bigpond.com Royal PS of Victoria:Mtg 3rd & 5th Thurs; Daytime 1st Tues Sale SC: Mtg 1st Mon (ex Jan) Shepparton PS: Mtg 2nd Tues, Mechanics Institute, Shepparton. Ph. 0419 560 813 Sherbrooke PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs ex Jan Upwey Fire Brigade Hall, 8pm; Bob Cook Ph: 03 9758 3465 Upper Yarra SC: Mtg 3rd Tues 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

stamp & coin fairs & events new south wales

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Dec 3 - (1st Sat) 9am to 4pm Orange Stamp Fair, Quinnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Dec 4 - (1st Sun) Western Suburbs Stamp, Coin &

Arcade, Summer St, Orange. Ph: Norm 02 63623754.

Banknote Fair, Strathmore Bowling Club, 40 Loeman

Dec 3 - (1st Sat) Northside Stamp Fair. 1st Floor, Car

St, Strathmore. Enq: Chris. 0413355716.

park Building, Manly-Warringah Leagues Club, cnr Federal Parade/Pittwater Rd, Brookvale, NSW. Dec 3 - (1st Sat) Katoomba Stamp & Coin Fair, 9am - 4pm,

Dec 18 - (3rd Sun) Stamp, Card - Phone Card Fair, Bentleigh-McKinnon Youth Centre, Higgins Rd, Bentleigh. Dealers plus huge range activities. Ph: 0418 322 315.

Masonic Hall, Cnr Station & Civic Sts, Katoomba. Ph. 0417

TBA - (last Sun ex Dec) Stamp, Coin & Phonecard Fair,

802 754

Jaycees Hall, Silver Grove, Nunawading. 9am-3pm.

Dec 3 - (1st Sat) Sutherland Shire Stamp & Coin Collec-

Please contact for date.

queensland

tors Fair, Gymea Anglican Church Hall, 131 Gymea Bay Rd, Gymea.

Dec 4 - QStamp Fair, Southside, Mt Gravatt Show-

Dec 18 - (3rd Sun) Stamp & Coin Fair, 10am - 3pm, Pio-

grounds, Memorial Hall, Logan Rd. Free Entry

neers Hall, Cowper St, Wallsend. 8 Dealers. 4971 3483

8.30am - 2pm

TBA - (4th Sun) Epping Stamp & Coin Fair, Community

Dec 12 - (2nd Mon) - Gold Coast PS Sale, Rm 1, Southport Comm. Centre, Lawson St, Southport.

Hall, 9 Oxford St, Epping. 10am - 4pm. Free Entry, 6 Deal-

11.30am - 2.30pm Brisbane Table Tennis Association

ers, Buy/Sell. Please contact for date.

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WE ARE ALWAYS BUYING, CONTACT US BEFORE OFFERING ELSWHERE! We want to buy collections, accumulations, dealer stocks, etc, etc. Australia and States, Kangaroos, King George V Heads, Pre-decimal, Decimal, Covers, Great Britain, British Commonwealth, Foreign. Here are some examples of the prices we can pay: Australia C of A wmk Kangaroo High Values 10/- -Two Pounds, Specimen overprints, mint lightly hinged $120 Australia 5/- Harbour Bridge, MUH $795, MLH $295, Fine postally used $225, cto used with gum $150, without gum $135, slightly second grade (no bits missing please but may have minor thins, heavier cancel, short perfs etc) $65 Mint unhinged, pre-decimals in singles, blocks or sheets. Definitives 1d to 1/7d we pay 4c per stamp, Low value Commemoratives, 2d to 1/- we pay 5c per stamp, High value definitives 2/- to 4/- we pay 10c per stamp, High value Commemoratives 2/- or 2/3d we pay 40c per stamp. Decimals for postage including AAT, and postally valid issues from Cocos and Christmas Islands may be torn or damaged (no bits missing please) but must have gum. Values 1c to 68c we pay 40% face value, 70c to $20 we pay 50% face value, must be sorted by value in packets/envelopes and supplied with a concise list. We reserve the right to counter offer on messy lots. Post Office Packs and Year Books with stamps in place we pay 30% face value, year books with stamps in original stocksheets we pay 45% face value Mint PSEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 20c - 60c we pay 30% face value, 70c pay 40% face value, no stuck down flaps please Recent Commemorative Bundleware, 55c values and above we pay $1 per bundle. Small or Large format High value Definitives fine used 1989 to date with circular cancels $1 to $3 we pay 5% face value, $3 to $20 we pay 10% face value. High value commemoratives, values $1 and above as above again from 1989 onwards, we pay 10% face value. Coins, Medals, Banknotes We buy Australian coins, loose or in sets, decimal and pre-decimal, including Perth Mint and Royal Australian Mint Product. Also buying Worldwide Gold and Silver coins. Pre-decimal and Decimal Banknotes also required in all grades, also military medal groups. Our minimum purchase value is $200, smaller lots respectfully declined, please confirm all lots via phone or email before sending and send via registered/ insured mail, or contact us for an appointment, all transactions carried out in strictest confidence. WE PAY ENHANCED PRICES TO GST REGISTERED DEALERS WHO PROVIDE A TAX INVOICE.

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