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COMMERCIAL PHILATELY IN AUSTRALIA : 1860s TO WWI Part 3 Stamp News has kindly been given permission to publish the entire collection over the coming months.
vii. Pioneer leading contemporary Philatelic Traders (contd) Dawson A Vindin (1868 - 1936) In late 1889, Vindin returned to the City, opening a shop at 11 Victoria Arcade, 74 Elizabeth St, trading as Dawson A Vindin & Co. In 1891, Vindin would be joined by Fred Hagen, as partner.
Jun 11, 1890 registered cover to U.S. addressed in hand of Vindin
By Feb 12 1891, the above indicates the firm had added the shop next door, now occupying 9 & 11 Victoria Arcade. Again addressed in Vindin’s hand, to pioneer Philatelist, A.J. Derrick.
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vii. Pioneer leading contemporary Philatelic Traders (contd) Dawson A Vindin (1868 - 1936)
Victoria Arcade, 74 Elizabeth St, Sydney, as it would have appeared in 1890s
Mar 11, 1892 use of 1d Postal card, inscribed for D.A. Vindin & Co, addressed to Bendigo in hand of Fred Hagen, who had joined the firm as partner in 1891. (Obverse shown 60%) Stamp News - 7
COMMERCIAL PHILATELY IN AUS vii. Pioneer leading contemporary Philatelic Traders (contd) Dawson A Vindin (1868 - 1936) Vindin’s Philatelic Monthly, Vol VII No 3, advised that on October 1, 1893 Fred Hagen became sole proprietor of D.A. Vindin & Co. Further, Vindin advised of his intention to depart for London that month [there he would launch a new publication: refer pages 121-123]. The humorous, nowadays politically incorrect advertisement appeared in the same number, the text in Vindin’s hand .
Sep 8, 1893 use of Great Britain doubleton Stationery, registered to Dawson A Vindin & Co. The item was received in Sydney Oct 11, by which time Hagen was sole proprietor of the firm. 8 - Stamp News
AUSTRALIA : 1860s TO WWI Part 2 vii. Pioneer leading contemporary Philatelic Traders (contd.) Fred Hagen (1860 - 1935 Partnered on Jul 25 1891 with Dawson A Vindin, whose business descended from Sydney’s earliest Philatelic Traders, Buckley, Blunsum & Co. Hagen previously was President and Exchange Superintendent of the Sydney Philatelic Club. Following upon
his joining the Vindin firm, the August 1891 edition of Vindin’s Philatelic Monthly reported that the firm had purchased his “magnificent collection of New South Wales Stamps without doubt the finest in Australia”.
Dec 1904 real photo autographed greetings card of Fred Hagen, then aged in his early 40s. The recipient, C.A. Gillies, was a pioneer Philatelist, and contributor to Vindin’s Philatelic Monthly, under nom de plume “C.A.”
Feb 26 1889 use of ld Postal card to Hagen at his G.P.O. Sydney box Stamp News - 9
COMMERCIAL PHILATELY IN AUS vii. Pioneer leading contemporary Philatelic Traders (contd.) Fred Hagen (1860 - 1935
Prior to partnering with Dawson A Vindin, Hagen is listed in contemporary directories as “Agent”, 129 King St, Sydney
Nov 11 1890 use of stampedto-order Stationery for John Robertson & Son, addressed to Hagen in hand of Vindin (Obverse shown 75%)
Apr 13 1891 use of 4d Registered Envelope, addressed to U.K. in hand of Hagen. His “Broker and General Agent” handstamp is applied to reverse (shown 120%)
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AUSTRALIA : 1860s TO WWI Part 2 vii. Pioneer leading contemporary Philatelic Traders (contd.) Fred Hagen (1860 - 1935 Sep 29 1894 cover to U.S. shows corner inscription in use by Dawson A Vindin & Co, revised to reflect Hagen as a Trader in his own right.
Jul 6 1897 use of Greece Postal card: “... I am obliged to send you the 10,000 commems Grecian stamps ...”
These could have been only the 1896 Olympic Games issue, which would have been highly anticipated by collectors in the Australian Colonies. (Reverse shown 120%) Stamp News - 11
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Stamps in the News - Globally! Bugs breaks barriers
Reported at https://www.ebar.com In issuing a new series of stamps honouring Bugs Bunny that includes two Bugs in women’s clothing, the US Postal Service has featured images of drag on the country’s stamps for the first time. One of the stamps shows Bugs as a mermaid, in a blonde wig and red lipstick, sprawled on a rock like a siren of Greek folklore. The image is based on the 1944 animated short film “Hare Ribbin’ “, part of the Merrie Melodies series. In the other stamp Bugs strikes a seductive pose dressed as a mythical goddess with a sizeable bust, blonde tresses, and a gold-winged headpiece. It is inspired by the 1957 animated short “What’s Opera, Doc?” where Bugs plays Brunnhilde from the Wagner’s “Siegfried”. The commemorative Forever stamps were released on the character’s 80th birthday. Bugs made his debut in the short-subject cartoon “A Wild Hare” in 1940. Six years ago the USPS released a stamp featuring the late gay San Francisco poet, Harvey Milk, to
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honour him for his role in the fight for LGBT rights. Nicole Murray Ramirez, chair of the national Milk stamp campaign and head of the major philanthropic organization within the drag community, has called on the USPS to release stamps featuring real life drag icons within the LGBTQ community. “While this is a ‘cute’ move by the USPS we look forward to stamps in honour of true TRANS heroes like Jose Julio Sarria, Sylvia Rivera, and Marsha P. Johnson,” he said. Sarria, who died in 2013 at the age of 90, made history as the first out gay person to seek elected office in the US with his bid for a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Rivera, who died in 2002 at the age of 50, and Johnson, who died in 1992 at the age of 46, were drag performers who became revered advocates for gay and transgender issues. The USPS vice president did not address the idea of such an issue but did say “Bugs has always donned a variety of clever costumes and disguises to outwit his opponents and entertain us all. Bugs summons up any talent — and any costume — that will help him thwart his relentless foes.”
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In a 2016 interview, famed drag queen RuPaul credited watching the Bugs Bunny cartoons as a child for showing him his first images of someone dressing up in drag. “As a kid I always dressed in everything. I would use all the tools available as a human to express myself. No sexual connotation to it. It was just stuff.” The artwork for the pane of 20 Bugs Bunny stamps was developed by the postal service in partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products. It features work from Warner Bros. Animation artists, who also created the sketches on the back of the stamp pane.
Saving the US Postal Service, one top at a time
Reported at https://www.nytimes.com Margo’s note: Scanning US news sources this month has revealed literally hundreds of articles about grassroots efforts to support the USPS currently under threat from the Trump administration. The widespread advocacy even extends to TIK TOK and non-political sources such as Elle, Marie Claire and Good Housekeeping.
representative. “This could range from small toy vehicles, to puzzles and apparel,” she said. “We are always offering new merchandise and will be featuring a Bugs Bunny boxed set as well as hip-hop T-shirts, both featuring artwork from current stamps.” Earlier this year, there was a similar online campaign to encourage people to buy stamps. There is a petition to save the service on Change.org, and the Postal Service itself is creating memes it hopes will promote letter writing. The service has also become a political lightning rod of late because of the crucial role it may play in the presidential election in November. But it’s going to take more than selling tote bags to save the service. Groups like the American Postal Workers Union would like to expand what services the post office can offer to help support local communities. Those ideas include check cashing, selling hunting licenses, providing Wi-Fi and becoming electric car charging stations. A recent research poll found that 91 percent of Americans had a favourable view of the agency, and another survey found the USPS was considered the most essential business during the pandemic.
The US Postal Service has been financially besieged for years, and is in danger of running out of money by 2021. Now, there are calls on social media to save/support the USPS by buying stamps and merchandise online from its surprisingly wide variety of goods. As well as the usual postal items, the USPS site has everything from screen-printed Marvin Gaye posters to Santa-as-mailman ornaments to 1970 Plymouth muscle toy cars. The runaway hit by far, has been a long-sleeve crop top showing a stack of five envelopes in a rainbow of colours. The crop top is sold out but one person who did get the shirt beforehand was Kayla Miller of Pittsburgh who saw a tweet about the USPS store, and ended up buying the crop top and stamps. She made the purchases to do something tangible for the Post Office and by wearing the shirt, remind herself and others of the USPS’s crisis. All of the merchandise has some link to the Postal Service, according to a senior public relations Stamp News - 15
Stamps in the News - Globally! The ‘’new normal’’ for stamp shows?
Reported @ https://www.linns.com The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted in-person events in philately and beyond. But in August there were two firsts in the stamp collecting world: a virtual stamp show hosted by three major stamp societies and the first in-person national-level stamp show in the United States since March when states and cities began issuing stay-athome orders. The in-person stamp show was the St. Louis Stamp Expo held Aug. 14-16 with twenty one dealers from nine states and the UK trading. Advertising for the show included the following message: “We give a warm welcome to all! Please remember that face masks/coverings are not voluntary. They are obligatory for all. All dealers and visitors will have their temperatures taken at the door. Anyone with a temperature of 100.4F will not be admitted. Social distancing must be practiced. In addition all visitors will provide contact info. If you are ill, please stay home. We ask that everyone cooperate, as it is in the best interest of everyone.” Upon arrival, all attendees had their temperatures checked with an infrared thermometer and received a special sticker for their badge confirming that they had passed the temperature check. After the temperature check area, visitors proceeded to the registration booth where they provided detailed contact information and filled out a basic waiver confirming they did not have a list of coronavirus symptoms and that they would not hold the show liable if they contracted COVID-19. Multiple security personnel confirmed the temperature check sticker and badge were present when attendees entered and left the show area. The bourse layout for the show had dealers spread out with more space between booths than under normal circumstances. Chairs at booths were also spread to comply with social distancing requirements with many sanitation stations. 16 - Stamp News
Dealers were happy with their sales and about 200 people attended across the three days. A day after the St Louis live event, The American Philatelic Society, the American Topical Association and the American First Day Cover Society joined together to hold the week-long Virtual Stamp Show Aug. 17-22. The event attracted 3,200 participants, with 68 sessions and 14 featured speakers. Exhibits can still be seen online and dealers sales page links are available from the show’s homepage: https://stamps.connectedcommunity.org/home. Another major virtual stamp show is scheduled for 1-3 October this year. Stampex International promises to be a great free event with interactive dealers stands, meet and greets, club meetings, presentations and exhibitions all available online. Stay posted for news about the philatelic Mastermind event! For more information see https://www.stampexinternational.co.uk/
That’s mad, Ted’: stamps launched for Father Ted’s 25th anniversary Reported at https://www.theguardian.com
A quarter of a century after it first aired, Father Ted, one of television’s most loved comedies, has officially stamped itself on popular culture. Ireland’s post service, An Post, has issued a set of
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stamps to mark the programme’s 25th anniversary. Phrases forever associated with Craggy Island, the fictional home of three wayward priests and their housekeeper, now grace four stamps: “That’s mad, Ted”, “Will you have a cup of tea, Father?”, “That money was just resting in my account” and “That would be an ecumenical matter”. Retro wallpaper in the background of each stamp matches different rooms in the parochial house where Fr Ted, Fr Dougal, Fr Jack and Mrs Doyle played out surreal scenes that entered comedy lore. “I don’t think until today it has sunk in what a huge thing it is, what an honour,” Pauline McLynn, who played Mrs Doyle, said. “How many people do you know can say ‘I was once on a stamp’?” The writers, cast and crew never imagined that the show, which ran for three seasons from 1995 to 1998, would become so popular or enduring, said the actor. “I often wonder about the staying power. It’s incredibly stupid and properly funny. We made it 25 years ago and now kids are still finding it incredibly funny. You always hope that things you’re proud of will last the test of time.” In a survey commissioned by An Post, more than a third of respondents said they cited lines from the
show on a weekly basis. Best-loved episodes included Hell, Speed 3, Kicking Bishop Brennan up the Arse and A Song For Europe. Pandemic lockdowns and restrictions had increased appreciation for letters and postcards, said McLynn. “Weirdly now is an excellent time to launch the stamps.”
Paying the bills in Africa
Reported at https://www.economist.com Margo’s note: Thanks to Stampboard’s member, Joneboy, for alerting me to this article. Len Hutton was an acclaimed English cricketer. English fans recall the record 364 runs he racked up in a Test match against Australia in 1938. So why would the French speaking Central African Republic and Niger, and Portuguese speaking Mozambique all issue stamps in 2016 celebrating the centenary of Hutton’s birth? Jan Brueghel the Elder died 395 years ago in January, a milestone Sierra Leone commemorated with a stamp. Similarly, Guinea-Bissau issued a stamp for the 260th anniversary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach. Stamp News - 17
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Stamperija’s clients don’t seem bothered. “It is willing buyer, willing seller,” says a postal official in Sierra Leone. “So what’s the problem?”
Drawing a wrong bow? Stamp issues usually celebrate national heroes and culture. Yet there is a rationale for printing stamps of long-dead foreigners. Generally, these stamps are not available in the countries of issue. But collectors scouring the internet are willing to pay a premium. A set of Hutton stamps from the Central African Republic fetches €15.50. This is a handy way for African states to boost revenues. Serious philatelists may object but poor countries have been doing this for decades and even Royal Mail is accused of collector-gouging. In recent years several African countries have appointed a Lithuanian-based Stamperija to design and print their stamps. As a result Sierra Leone, with a population of 7.6m and a barely functioning postal service, issued 1,566 different stamps last year, compared with 268 released by Britain and 139 by India. Churning out so many stamps can lead to mistakes. A set of Stamperija stamps issued in 2014 turned out not to picture Marilyn Monroe, as planned, but a New York drag artist. 18 - Stamp News
Reported at https://www.classicfm.com A newly issued Royal Mail stamp features a rather uniquely constructed violin bow. Elementary my dear Watson... Stamp artwork and printing are subjected to high standards of design and scrutiny. However, a blunder seems to have slipped through in a recently issued set of stamps celebrating Sherlock Holmes. The collection features images and characters from the award-winning TV series, Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, with a focus on the specific stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock is a Stradivarius-playing violinist who loved opera, and there’s a nod to his love of violin music in the new collection. On one of the stamps, he appears with his sister Eurus Holmes, also a violinist, playing a duet together in a scene from the series. However, this is where the mystery deepens... Eurus’ violin bow, seems to be uniquely double-ended.
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String instrument bows are held at one end with what’s called the ‘frog’, the place where you grip and tighten the hair of the bow. At the other end, you have the tip. The stamp features a still from the episode third series of the much-loved programme. It appears that an error in Photoshop when designing the stamp, has resulted in a uniquely symmetrical bow with two frogs and grips. Specially designed for all those three-handed violinists, perhaps?
Blinky Bill gets the nod
Reported at https://www.portnews.com.au
said the special stamp series would engage children in animal preservation and conservation. “All of the stamps feature animals that were really badly affected in the bushfires and it is going to give children the opportunity through campaigns and activities to become involved and understand these animals,” she said. Port Macquarie Koala Hospital home carer Barb Barrett hopes the special stamp series will keep animal conservation in people’s minds. She said the bushfires’ impact on koalas was absolutely devastating and heartbreaking. An estimated 25 per cent of the most suitable koala habitat in eastern NSW was within the extent of the recent bushfires. Port Macquarie Koala Hospital cared for 79 bushfire-affected koalas from across the state, including 53 with burns. Most have now been released. Bushfire funds raised have enabled some 140 wildlife drinking stations to be installed across three states, while the koala hospital is putting the foundations in place for the wild koala breeding program.
Port Macquarie Koala Hospital has lent its support to a special stamp series to encourage primary school children to become wildlife champions. Australia Post has released six stamps, highlighting some of the country’s most vulnerable native species, to mark Stamp Collecting Month. Koalas are among them. The featured animals have been selected from those identified by the federal government’s Wildlife and Threatened Species Bushfire Recovery Expert Panel as in need of immediate conservation management. The 2019 bushfire season saw more than 12 million hectares burnt and an estimated loss of more than one billion animals. Koala Conservation Australia president Stamp News - 19
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Australia Post executive general manager said the Stamp Collecting Month theme of wildlife recovery aimed to inspire school students to learn more about Australia’s wildlife and take an active role in protecting them.
Extreme stamps in Spain Reported at https://www.linns.com
In the last few years, Spain has pushed the boundary of what stamp printers are able to do, and the result has been some interesting stamp issues. For example many new self-adhesive stamps have an “n” punched out in the design. Sometimes the stamps have other elements cut out. Also lenticular motion was added to a Star Wars souvenir sheet in 2018 and a Chess stamp from the same year had thermo-chromatic colour enabling you to touch black pawns and make then white. A recent issue (illustrated left) on Spain’s culinary traditions included lamb-scented stamp paper. A 2018 commemorative honouring Alvaro de Mendana y Neira, the discoverer of the Solomon Islands and Marquesas Islands, is printed on wood veneer with self-adhesive backing. And inventor Cosme Garcia Saez, who is cred20 - Stamp News
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ited with creating the inked handstamp for the post office among other things, is honoured on a stamp that resembles a handstamp and is printed on rubber. For the 2019 Euroleague Basketball commemorative, string netting was applied to the printed stamp to make it look like the ball is going through the net.
facturer Hämmerle & Vogel in Austria. 3,100 PET bottles with a volume of 600 ml each were processed to make cleaned flakes before producing a new high-quality polyester yarn from them. Seventy-five metres of thread were processed for each stamp. With 40,000 stamps issued, this means that three million metres of recycled polyester thread were used. This length is sufficient to go around the external border of Liechtenstein forty times. A single hand embroiderer would take about 25 years to produce all the stamps. The new, five-centimetre self-adhesive stamp in the shape of a globe is not only intended as a collector’s item or for franking a postal item. Philately Liechtenstein encourage people to use it to decorate clothes or other accessories to show personal commitment to environmental protection and sustainability.
Green stamps in Liechtenstein Reported at https://www.philatelie.li/en/
A new stamp from Liechtenstein is made from recycled plastic bottles. The “Globe” stamp has been embroidered from recycled PET thread. Philately Liechtenstein is using this stunning stamp to draw attention to the need for environmental protection and especially to the recovery of recyclable materials from waste. The stamp was produced by embroidery manu-
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Postal Stationery Welcome to the postal stationery column for October 2020. This month’s column includes new issues from Australia Post and the second part of a survey of the postal stationery from Costa Rica. 75th Anniversary of the end of World War II Stamped Envelope On 15 August 2020, Australia Post issued a stamped envelope (Figure 1) to mark the 75th Anniversary of the Victory in the Pacific (VP Day). The cessation of hostilities with Japan marked the end of World War II with the formal surrender taking place on 2 September 1945. The envelope was sold for $1.35 and designed by Jason Watts. The envelope features an image of civilians celebrating VP Day in the stamp area and a cachet image of celebrations at the RAAF base, Labuan. On 15 August 1945, the
Top : Figure 1 75th Anniversary of Victory in the Pacific Stamped Envelope Above : Figure 2 Crab Pre-Paid Postcard Left : Figure 3 Express Post Satchels Seized by the Australian Federal Police Australian prime minister, Ben Chifley, announced that Japan had accepted the Allied demand for unconditional surrender, effectively bringing World War II to an end after six years of bitter conflict. He commented “Fellow citizens, the war is over ... let us remember those whose lives were given that we may enjoy this glorious moment and may look forward to a peace which they have won for us.” A version of the envelope was issued as a Postal Numismatic Cover (PNC) and sold for $17.95. It was not issued mint. 22 - Stamp News
Ian McMahon gust 2020. The cards were sold for $2.40 and were illustrated by Anita Xhafer with product design by Jo Mure. The postcards were accompanied by four adhesive stamps in similar designs. The four crabs depicted were: • Bright-eyed Crab (Chiromantes garfunkel) which is small, found only on Christmas Island and named after Art Garfunkel’s song “Bright Eyes”, has a dark blue to purplish carapace and startling, bright yellow eyes. • Kuhl’s Ghost Crab (Ocypode kuhlii), a medium-sized cream-coloured crab found across South-East Asia. • Red Nipper (Geograpsus stormi) which is small, vivid red to pink and ranges throughout the Indo-West Pacific region. • White-striped Crab (Labuanium vitatum) which is an extremely rare, tree-living crab only identified as a new species in 2011. Counterfeit Australia Post Pre-Paid satchels On 31 July 2020, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) has reported that charged four people for allegedly importing into Australia 2.3 tonnes of counterfeit Australia Post Express Post and Parcel Post prepaid satchels (Figure 3). The AFP allege the Western Sydney syndicate ordered fake satchels from a Chinese company, between September 2018 and June 2019, and sold them to the public and businesses on eBay. Australia Post estimates the Figure 4 Postal Stationery Society of Australia On-Line Meetfraud cost the organisation approximately ing Nicaragua Postal Stationery $2 million. Australia Post experts assisted Figure 5 10c President Bernardo Soto Alfaro Envelope. the AFP by analysing and identifying the Figure 6 10c 1890 Coat of Arms Envelope Used to France counterfeit products seized throughout this investigation. Australia Post General ManCrabs of Christmas Island Pre-paid Postcards ager Group Security Kevin Zuccato said Australia Four pre-paid postcards (Figure 2) featuring crabs Post initially referred this matter to the AFP and was found on Christmas Island were issued on 17 AuStamp News - 23
Postal Stationery pleased to support the subsequent successful investigation. “We have strategies in place that proactively look at possible exploitation of our supply chain and products, and we’re pleased that those strategies were effective on this occasion,” said Mr Zuccato. PSSA On-Line Meeting – Nicaragua Postal Stationery The Postal Stationery Society of Australia (PSSA) held its fourth online meeting on 19 August 2020 with a presentation by Glen Stafford on Nicaragua Postal Stationery – The Seebeck Years (Figure 4). A video of the presentation can be found on the Postal Stationery Society of Australia’s (PSSA) Facebook page and a copy of the presentation on the PSSA website (Postalstationeryaustralia.com). Future topics are expected to include the Victorian advertising lettersheets and Queensland Postal Stationery. Details will be placed on the PSSA Facebook and Web pages. Overview of Costa Rican Postal Stationery (Part2) Costa Rica’s first stamped envelopes were issued on 17 June 1886 and depicted President Bernardo Soto Alfaro who was President of Costa Rica from 1885 to 1889 (Figure 5). 5c blue and 10c orange envelopes, lithographed by Perkins Bacon, were issued. 1n 1890, new stamp envelopes were issued which were embossed by Waterlow & Sons. Embossed envelopes were regarded as providing greater protection against forgery than lithographed envelopes. The envelopes show the coat of arms of Costa Rica in an oval frame (Figure 6). 5c orange and 10c brown envelopes were issued on 28 July 1890 and some have the printer’s name embossed under the flap. Envelopes embossed with a design showing a
Top to bottom : Figure 7 5c Blue 1903 Columbus Envelope Figure 8 20c Columbus Registration Envelope Figure 9 Front of 20c Columbus Registration Envelope Left : Figure 10 10c Blue 1907 Re-Engraved Columbus Envelope Used to USA 24 - Stamp News
Ian McMahon Figure 11 10c Blue 1911 Columbus Envelope Produced by the American Bank Note Co used to Italy Figure 12 5c Red 1923 Statue of Juan Mora Fernandez Envelope Used to USA Figure 13 10c Red 1930 Columbus Envelope Used to Canada Figure 14 50c 1998 Human Rights Declaration Stamped Envelope
portrait of Columbus in an oval frame (Figure 7) also embossed by Waterlow were issued on 8 September 1903. 5c blue and 10c brown envelopes were issued and have the printer’s name embossed under the flap
(with or without ‘London’ included in the name). In addition, a 20c registration envelope (Figures 8 and 9) was issued with a portrait of Columbus in a circular frame. On 1 October 1907, envelopes were issued using re-engraved dies without a thick white border around the portrait (Figure 10) and with the stamp colours changed to 5c orange and 10c blue. In 1910 the printer of the envelopes was changed to the American Bank Note Co, New York (ABNCo). The new envelopes were a similar embossed design but the envelopes had the name of the new printer embossed under the flaps (Figure 11). The new envelopes were 5c yellow and 10c blue (or violet) as well as a 20c olive registration envelope. Costa Rica moved away from embossed envelopes in 1923 issuing typographed envelopes with a design featuring a Statue of Juan Mora Fernandez (Figure 12) printed by Imprenta Lines. 2c green and 5c red envelopes were issued (although a 13c green envelope was also prepared). In 1930 Costa Rica returned to issuing embossed envelopes with Waterlow providing 5c green and 10c carmine envelopes using the same die featuring Columbus that they used for the 1903 envelopes (Figure 13). The next issue of stamped envelopes did not appear until 1978 when 1c blue envelopes using the Juan Mora Fernandez design were issued on 11 December 1978. 1c red envelopes in the same design were issued on 23 April 1979 (printed by Lehmann), 3c green envelopes (offset lithography by Casa Grafica) on 10 December 1982, and 20c blue envelopes on 4 May 1994. These were the last stamped envelope issued until commemorative stamped envelopes began to be issued in 1996. The commemorative envelopes (all printed by offset lithography by Casa Grafica) Stamp News - 25
Postal Stationery Figure 15 60c Stamped Envelope for the World Philatelic Exhibition Spain 2000 Figure 16 1890 2c Wrapper Figure 17 1980 Costa Rica’s First Aerogramme
included 1996 30c First Hispano– Costa Rican Philatelic Exhibition (in two sizes with stamp design showing a gold coin), 1998 30c World Exhibition of Philatelic Literature and Modern Philately (LORCA98), 1998 50c Human Rights Declaration Anniversary (in two sizes, Figure 14), 1999 National Institute of Electricity 50th Anniversary, 1999 50c Hispano Costa Rican Philatelic Exhibit (children with kites), 1999 XV National Philatelic Exhibition, 2000 60c World Philatelic Exhibit Spain 2000 (ceramic vase, Figure 15), 2001 65 La Salle High School, 2001 65c Organization of American States General Assembly in San Jose, 2002 110c Sister Maria Romero Beautification, 2002 170c Astronaut Franklin Chang Mission VII, 2002 300c Columbus 500th Anniversary of Arrival in Costa Rica, 2003 300c World Marshland Day, 2004 300c EXPOFILA04 26 - Stamp News
Ian McMahon a 2c aerogramme was issued with a stamp area showing the Statue of Juan Mora Fernandez and with an Orchid design panel (Figure 17). An 8.40c aerogramme in a similar design was issued in 1983 (printed by Lehmann). A non-denominated Christmas aerogramme was issued in December 1990 while an aerogramme was issued in 1998 for the UN International Year of the Oceans with Coco Island scenes (Figure 18). A range of official envelopes were also issued such as the 1947 envelope depicted Columbus’s fleet shown in Figure 19. PHILEX 2020 – Asia’s first Virtual Stamp Exhibition PHILEX 2020 was Asia’s first Virtual Stamp Exhibition held in August 2020 and organized by the Bangladesh National Figure 18 1998 Aerogramme with Coco Island Scenes Philatelic Association. It Figure 19 Official Envelope Showing Columbus’s Fleet. was a competitive exhi(two sizes), 2004 300c Young Philatelists, 2004 bition judged by national 335c Older Chain Foundation 5th Anniversary, and international judges including a number of 2004 335c Ibero American Presidents XIV Summit, judges from Australia. There were five postal sta2005 335c Don Quixote IV Centenary and 2010 tionery exhibits plus two youth postal stationery ex1000c Chile Independence Bicentenary Anniversahibits and a number of one-frame exhibits. An exry. hibit of Portuguese India by Saboo Kumar received Two wrappers have been issued. A 2c green a Large Vermeil Award while Vermeil awards went wrapper in a framed numeral design (Figure 16) to Internal Rates Post Card of Ceylon 1872-1948 lithographed by Waterlow & Sons was issued on 28 (Rupesinghe Harsha) and Postal Stationery of Natal July 1890 and a 4c red wrapper issued in July 1923 1885 – 1912 (Salman Munir). This exhibition was with design featuring a pineapple and printed by a good prelude to Australia’s own virtual exhibition, Imprenta Lines on newsprint AusVipex 2020 which will take place in October. Aerogrammes were not issued until 1980 when See apf.org.au for details. Stamp News - 27
Cinderella Corner The Kangaroo: A Goliath In Australian Philately – Part III This month’s article is devoted to continuing to explore the Australian kangaroo as a visual feature in many Australian (and worldwide) cinderellas. As highlighted in last year’s November and December Cinderella Corner pieces, the breadth of ‘kangaroo labels’ explored does not represent an exhaustive list but rather offers a snapshot of what exists; it is anticipated that another piece will be written to explore other native Australian animals showcased in Australian and foreign cinderellas. Third Victory Loan The first cinderella label offered in this article is rather large, measuring 68mm x 38mm. It also presents the detailed text: Lend Wings to Victory with your Victory Bonds / Your Union Representatives urge you to support the THIRD VICTORY LOAN. It features a kangaroo hopping in front of a large winged ‘V’. The label dates to the end of World War II, with the Third
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Figure 1 Victory Loan instituted in March, 1945 (replacing the 1944 to 1945 Second Victory Loan). This ended once the Fourth Victory Loan commenced, in July 1945, which in turn ended in September the following year. The Third Victory Loan was reported as a successful venture with more than 400,000 subscribers. Carry On! The cinderella label illustrated in Figure 2 is perforated 11 on all four sides. Measuring 38mm x 50mm and multicoloured, it features the text: Australian Made is Britain’s Aid! / CARRY ON!. The cinderella features a large prominent red kangaroo in its centre, and is one of four different Carry On labels that were issued in the series. This label likely dates to the 1942 or 1943, as two different examples of Carry On labels have been identified on covers from those two years. The origin of the prominent Carry On slogan, which features at the base of the label, can be traced to 1940 when the then Australian Minister for the Interior urged Australians to “Carry On” in the midst of war and its developments, thereby echoing the slogan previously used by Lord Kitchener (1850 – 1916) during the Great War. 90th Anniversary Of Federation Australia celebrated its 90th Anniversary of Federation in 1991, and to help commemorate the event, a few different cinderellas were released, nationwide. One is illustrated in block of six (see Figure 3). Coloured dark yellow and black, the imperforate label features a several Australian items including a pair of kangaroos. Each label measures approximately 50mm x 33mm and features the text: Commonwealth of AUSTRALIA / 5c /
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Figure 3 1901 – 1991 / 90th ANNIVERSARY of FEDERATION. One of the labels in the block is signed by the producer of the labels, Mr. Robert Kennedy, who was a stamp dealer operating out of David Jones (Elizabeth Street, Melbourne). The labels were sold for 5 cents each and produced in sheets of 21 (3 x 7) measuring approximately 156mm x 232mm. The label also exists in white and black, and this is considered as scarcer than the illustrated yellow and black one.
World YWCA Council Meeting The cinderella illustrated in Figure 4 (affixed on the reverse of a 1967 cover) was issued to help celebrate the 1967 World YMCA Council Meeting. Imperforate (with a superimposed outline of perforations) and measuring 58mm x 41mm, it features an indigenous illustration of a kangaroo as well as images of several kangaroo paws. The cinderella also features the text: WORLD Y.M.C.A. COUNCIL MEETING / AUSTRALIA 1967. The envelope’s insert informs that 1967 was the first time the
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Cinderella Corner World YMCA Council had met in Australia, and that the event would run for 14 days from 19 August to 1 September, at Monash University. It was also reported that the gathering featured Human Rights as its global theme. Sydney Red Cross Figure 5 illustrates the earliest of the ‘kangaroo’ cinderellas explored in this Cinderella Corner. Measuring 27mm x 40mm and roughly perforated on all four sides, the label, while French in origin, is fundamentally ‘Australian’ in all of its presented motifs. Multicoloured and featuring the word SYDNEY, the label features three kangaroos, as well a tree-perched cockatoo and a prominent Red Cross in the lower right-hand corner. It was produced circa 1916 by the French entrepreneur Gaston Aime Camille Fontanille Delandre (11 May 1883 – 1923), who was a prolific producer of more than 4,000 different cinderellas during the World War I era. This label is only one of a handful of Australian ones Delandre produced recognising Australia and some of its positions during the 1914 to 1918-era (and only one of two different Red Cross ones). Interestingly, while a Red Cross features on the label, the proceeds of the sale of this label, similar to all of produced Red Cross ones, did not reach the Red Cross and were rather kept by Delandre himself. This led to imprisonment and death, shortly after, in 1923. The label also exists in several scarcer varieties, including one with flesh colour missing, and another as completely imperforate. Portland Cement
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Figure 5 The cinderella illustrated in Figure 6 was issued to advertise Kangaroo cement. Imperforate and measuring 57mm x 45mm, the red, yellow, white and black label features the text: “KANGAROO” best Portland Cement / FOR LASTING WORK ABOUT THE FARM, HOME OR STATION / AGENTS ELDER, SMITH & CO., LIMITED. The cinderella features an image of a bag of Kangaroo cement (with its central image of a kangaroo) along with the additional text: ONE CUBIC FOOT / 24 BAGS 1 TON / ADELAIDE CEMENT COMPANY LIMITED / BEST PORTLAND / KANGAROO / NO HOOKS PLEASE. Portland Cement has a long history in Australia dating over 150 years. Adelaide Cement was formed in 1913, commencing operations in Birkenhead. The company then marketed as Kangaroo Brand before shifting to Brighton Company in 1952. The label therefore likely dates from the 1930s to the early 1950s. Queensland Tourists The cinderella label illustrated in Figure 7 is one from a set of 12 Queensland Tourist ones. Measuring 27mm x 37mm and roughly perforated on all four sides, the label, coloured blue and white, illustrates several iconic
Vito Milana QUEENSLAND. The backdrop of the cinderella features a large kangaroo nestled in some grassland.
Figure 7 Queensland and Australian features, including a small kangaroo. It also presents the text: QUEENSLAND / THE MECCA OF TOURISTS. A full sheet of the labels, printed in a 3 x 4 arrangement, is illustrated on Dave Elsmore’s website exploring ‘Queensland Cinderellas’. They all date to the 1950s and were issued to help increase Queensland tourism. Greetings From Queensland Similar to Figure 7, the label illustrated in Figure 8 was also issued to help promote Queensland and encourage tourism. Imperforate on all four sides and measuring 48mm x 30mm, the label is coloured green, white and red and presents the text: Greetings from
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Australia International Camp 1959 The final cinderella explored in this Cinderella Corner is illustrated in Figure 9. Roughly rouletted on two sides, the square label is coloured white, dark yellow and blue and measures 28mm x 28mm. It features the text AUSTRALIA INTERNATIONAL CAMP 1959. The label features a large hopping kangaroo in front of a trefoil: a three-leaf plant, and the Girl Guide symbol. This 1959 Girl Guide event was held in Victoria in the latter part of January and saw attendees from several countries, including New Zealand, Japan, Canada, and Hong Kong. Kangaroo’s feature on many Australian (and foreign) cinderellas, often helping to symbolise the quintessential features of the Australian landscape. While this Cinderella Corner has functioned as the third piece exploring these fascinating cinderellas, many more examples of ‘kangaroo labels’ exist, and I welcome readers to provide further examples of such labels to help continue broaden the breadth and scope about them. Captain Cat – Update Many thanks to Dave Elsmore for his most welcomed update on Australia Post’s Captain Cat label series, as presented in August’s Cinderella Corner. Dave has added that there were 8 labels in the set printed singular but for one issue which came in pairs. He also mentioned that all but the first were cracked-back and the first was released with tropical gum.
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Australia 1903 Postage Due, 10/- Fresh MLH:
These early high value monocolour Postage Dues are WILDLY under-priced by the market, and that will change one day soon. ACSC tells us this and 20/- were ONLY on sale in NSW, and almost none were used, and clearly almost none were bought Mint. ACSC tells us the same story occurred with the later 10/green (same cat value mint) and estimates about 50 exist globally of those Mint AND used, combined. ACSC D44, Cat $A3,750. SG D43, £2,000 = $A4,000. Fresh MVLH. These were printed on CHALKY paper, near 120 years back. The Chalk faced paper absorbs moisture of course, and the slightly damp stamps in Summers get bad foxing spots and gum toning VERY usually. This has neither, probably being in Europe most of its life. No usual hinge remains after 120 years, and clean and fresh, and as you can see has FAR better perfs and centering than generally found on these terrors. One of Australia’s very rarest stamps, for WAY less than a set of PO year albums! A true Blue Chip piece to put away, at $2,400 BELOW SG price. Been decades since I had one. $1,600 (Stock 476KX)
GB 1848 10d Brown Embossed, attractive 4 margin - SG $3,000 for $A525:
In my experience, the 10d Embossed are 5 times scarcer than either the 6d or 1/-, despite simiar catalogue values. Attractive used, no ugly hinge remains to hide thins or tears, lighter numeral cancel than the often seen “Killers” of this era, with the 2 intact vertical silk threads, and no usual added corners or margins! SG 57, £1,500=$A3,000. These stamps were rather carelessly hand crimped onto sheets of paper, and existing mutiples show the impressions touching, and indeed often overlapping the adjoining unit are common. Getting one with 4 clear straight margins is suprisingly scarce - check other dealer offerings!. Many that exist were cut octagonal shape by bored postal clerks, and sold and affixed to mail in that mutilated form. Most you see on cover are thus. $A525 (Stock 384JA)
Malaya/Singapore stamps used 1950s on COCOS ISLAND: Most know abacus had a very strong sale of Cocos Island covers in March 2019 - all lots were dreaded ‘’T’’ lots, so for local buyers, 10% was added to hammer price you see, PLUS the 20% buyer fee, so they fetched huge money. One airletter was invoiced for $35,000! Lot 2477, the 1954 Royal Visit group (of which I have a lovely KGVI cover in this group here, with Malaya and Singapore franking) - cost a local about $A1,050 each. These 4 covers here I bought decades back. Never seen them before or after. No idea of real price, but they are in stock at $A400. At abacus they’d clearly have got double or treble that! PLUS. There were many 4 figure and indeed many 5 figure prices in there - the airletter shown on link here was about $A35,000 invoice! Heaps of links and full details here - tinyurl. com/CocosEnv Not only keen ozzie buyers want this area as COCOS is now Australia, but well-heeled SINGAPOREANS do too, as it is “home issue” stuff to them. $A400 (Stock 593HW)
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BUY OR BID SALE OCTOBER 2020 Visit us at our new premises by appointment, Opposite Upper Ferntree Gully Station. 9.30 – 5.30 Monday – Saturday to view any of the lots in this sale, plus a whole lot more! Suite 1, 1174 Burwood Highway Upper Ferntree Gully, Vic. 3156 Buy now at the listed price or bid a lower figure. Bids will be considered Midday Friday 30th October 2020. Bids accepted by phone, mail or email. Provided the item has not sold at the full price, bids at 75% to 95% will have a good chance of success; 65% - 74% will have a reasonable chance of success. Bids 50% to 64% will have minimal chance of success, but still worth a try. Bids below 50% are respectfully declined. Bid for as many alternatives as you wish, but please put a dollar cap on your total spending, and we will allocate lots according to what is available. Orders at full list price above $500 are post free within Australia. Layby welcome for orders above $500. Scans or colour photocopies of individual items are available on request. Many smaller items, including many that are not on this list may be found in our eBay listings. Our store name is 21st-century-auctions Postage and insurance extra, Free within Australia above $500 for items purchased at full price. We accept Visa, MasterCard & PayPal at no fee. Hours generally 9.30 am – 5.30pm Mon – Fri, but we will often answer the phone after hours. All of our items carry our 14 day satisfaction guarantee. Australian Territories 1. 1966 AAT Definitives Set Of 11 Stamp Pack, Original & Unopened, price $24.50 (AAT13) 2. Australian Antarctic Territory 1966/68 Definitives Pack JAPANESE Insert. Original & Unopened, price $56.25 (AAT52) 3. Christmas Island 1958 QE II Definitives MUH, price $49 (CI251) 4. Norfolk Is. 1947 (Australia used in) 1/6d Double Globe Hermes McCracken 38mm corner Imprint Block of 4, ACSC 162ze cat. $225 as mint unhinged. Cancelled by neat Norfolk Is. 6DE47 cds. Scarce late use. Price $195 (APD120) 5. Norfolk Is. 1960 2/8d Local Govt. on Official NI Illustrated FDC to Glenside SA. Cancelled by NI FDC cds of 24OC60. Neat and clean typed address cover price $35 (NI3) 6. Norfolk Island 1968 QEII 5c coil strip of 4 with strong offset MUH. Price $159 (NI7) 7. New Guinea NWPI overprints 1915-16 KGV 4d Orange SG 70 ‘ABC’ strip of 3 on 1919 registered cover Rabaul to the UK with provisional registration label: ‘Deulon/ (Deutsch Neuguinea)’ obliterated and overprinted ‘RABAUL’ various backstamps, some mounting adhesions on reverse, attractive cover, Price $299 (PNG636) 8. New Guinea NWPI overprints 1915-16 Kangaroo 3d appears to be 1st wmk, opt type ‘A’ & 1/- Emerald appears to be 2nd wmk, opt type ‘C’ on 1917 registered Treasury cover to the UK with oval ‘THE TREASURY/RABAUL’ cachet in violet on the front, Sydney, London & Norwood backstamps together with Crowned oval ‘PASSED CENSOR/8SEP1917/RABAUL’ censor marking in violet, very attractive cover, Price $399 (PNG615) 9. New Guinea NWPI overprints 1915-16 Kangaroo appear to be 2nd watermark 2d, 6d & 9d + KGV 1d Red all opt type ‘C’ on 1919 registered cover to the UK, Sydney, London & Norwood backstamps, Price $299 (PNG617) 10. New Guinea NWPI overprints 1915-16 Kangaroos 2/- Brown appears to be 3rd wmk, type ‘C’ opt, on 1917 Treasury cover to Switzerland with oval
‘THE TREASURY/8JAN1917/RABAUL’ cachet in violet on the reverse, Crowned oval ‘PASSED CENSOR/8JAN1917/RABAUL’ censor marking in violet on front, some faint toning, mainly on back flap, Price $499 (PNG640) 11. New Guinea NWPI overprints 1915-16 Kangaroo 2nd watermark 5/- Grey & yellow SG 92 type C + 1d Red KGV pair on 1919 registered cover Rabaul to the UK, Sydney, London & Norwood backstamps, lovely cover, 5/- Cat from £440 on cover, Price $699 (PNG612) 12. New Guinea NWPI overprints 1915-16 KGV 1d Pale rose SG 67 ‘ABC’ strip of 3 + Kangaroo 2d Grey 3rd wmk on 1919 registered cover Rabaul to the UK, Sydney, London & Norwood backstamps, Price $179 (PNG614) 13. New Guinea NWPI overprints 1915-16 Kangaroo ‘ABC’ strip of 3 2d Grey appears to be 3rd wmk on 1919 registered Treasury cover Rabaul to the UK with faint oval ‘THE TREASURY/13AUG1919/RABAUL’ cachet in violet on the reverse, Sydney & London backstamps, Price $179 (PNG637) 14. New Guinea NWPI overprints 1915-16 Kangaroo ‘ABC’ strip of 3 3rd wmk 3d Yellow-olive on 1919 registered Treasury cover Rabaul to the UK with oval ‘THE TREASURY/13AUG1919/RABAUL’ cachet in violet on the reverse, Sydney & London backstamps, Price $199 (PNG638) 15. New Guinea NWPI overprints 1915-16 Kangaroo 2nd watermark 5/- Grey & yellow SG 92 + 3rd wmk 2/- Brown variety watermark inverted SG 97w, both opt type ‘C’ on 1918 registered cover Rabaul to the UK (address partially erased), German New Guinea registration label. Sydney, London & Norwood backstamps, lovely cover with rare combination of high values & watermark variety, Price $799 (PNG639) 16. New Guinea NWPI overprints range of 10 different on 1918 registered cover to W. Ackland Melbourne comprising KGV ½d, 1d red, 4d Orange & 5d, Kangaroos 2d, 2½d 3d, 6d, 9d & 1/- each tied by separate strikes of ‘KOKOPO/3SEP?18/QUEENSLAND’ (Powell type 14a – the Makeready obscuring QUEENSLAND starting to show significant wear), Provisional use of NSW registration label handstamped ‘Kokopo/27’, Sydney & Melbourne backstamps, spectacular cover! Price $699 (PNG652) 17. New Guinea NWPI overprints 1918 KGV ‘One Penny’ on 5d surcharge, 6 singles, all type ‘C’ opts, tied to a cover front to Kokopo by individual strikes of 1918 ‘RABAUL’ cds, rare, Cat £480 as 6 used singles, Price $799 (PNG635) 18. New Guinea NWPI overprints 1918-23 KGV ½d & 5d, Kangaroos 2½d Indigo, 6d Ultramarine & 1/- Emerald each tied by individual ‘RABAUL’ cds, on 1921 cover to the UK with blue registration lines but no label or backstamps, Price $249 (PNG654) 19. New Guinea NWPI overprints 1918-23 Kangaroo 2d Grey block of & single SG 106 on 1928 registered cover Rabaul to the USA, various backstamps, vertical bend near right edge, clear of adhesives, late overprint usage, Price $279 (PNG643) 20. New Guinea NWPI overprints 1918-23 Kangaroo 2/- Brown & 5/- Grey & yellow SG 115/116 on 1919 registered cover Rabaul to Switzerland, Sydney & Basel backstamps, couple of small gum spots on front, well away from the adhesives, scarce & attractive high value franking, Price $599 (PNG641) 21. New Guinea 1925 5/- Huts SG 134, centred low, fresh lightly hinged Mint, Price $69 (PNG924) 22. New Guinea 1931 Huts overprinted Airmail ½d to 2/-, SG 137-146, fresh Mint, some lower values are MUH, Price $39 (PNG925)
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BUY OR BID SALE OCTOBER 2020 23. New Guinea 1932-34 Undated birds 3d Blue, 4d Olive-green, 5d Deep blue-green & 2/- Dull lake, SG 180-82 & 186, the latter marginal, all fresh MUH, Price $59 (PNG926) 24. New Guinea 1932-34 Undated birds overprinted Airmail ½d to 6d + 1/- & 2/- SG 190-97 + 199 & 200, fresh Mint, some lower values are MUH, Price $99 (PNG927) 25. New Guinea 1932-34 Undated birds overprinted Airmail 5/- Olive-brown SG 201, centred to left, fresh MUH, Price $89 (PNG928) 26. New Guinea 1932-34 Undated birds 5d on Airmail cover to Sydney with indistinct cds, endorsed ‘Air Mail’ also small boxed ‘AIR MAIL/PAR AVION’ in violet, Price $25 (PNG632) 27. New Guinea 1948 Official mail. Small re-addressed envelope to USA bearing undated Birds 1d, 1.5d 7 5d Ovpt. OS. Stamps on cover cat. A minimum of £560. Price under a half $465 (DB527) 28. GRI Ovpts. On Yacht Type of Marshall Is. On cover locally addressed to Rabaul. Bears 6 examples of the 1d on 5 pfg Green inc. 1 of SG 51e, 1 & d spaced, in addition has broken left foot to 1.This stamp cat. at £325 used off cover. Each cancelled by Rabaul cds., date unclear. Central fold and flap missing, rare nevertheless. Price $1195 (PNG610) 29. New Guinea NWPI 1916 small reg’d & censored cover to Switzerland. Bears 2/- Brown 3rd wmk. INVERTED Kangaroo, ovpt. Type A. Cancelled by Rabaul cds of 27 AU 16 and with oval violet Treasury handstamp on reverse plus Berne arrival cds of 23 II 17 (23 Feb 1917) Highly attractive cover, neat & clean. Price $995 (PNG611) 30. New Guinea NWPI 1917 registered cover to the UK bearing an attractive array of 1915-16 NWPI overprints cancelled Rabaul 25SE17: KGV ½d, 1d, 4d & 5d, the latter being type B, plus Roos 6 values 2d to 1/-, most appear to be 2nd watermark, the 1/- being type B, the cover is opened at base. Sent from Treasury Rabaul. A stunning multi coloured franking item, Price $995 (PNG601) 31. New Guinea NWPI 1917 registered cover to the UK bearing 3rd wmk 2/- Red-Brown (Analine) Kangaroo Ovpt. Type B. (Normal un-overprinted stamp is SG41b, cat. £500 as used off cover, this must be substantially rarer) Cancelled by Rabaul cds of 25 SE 17 and Treasury oval Violet Handstamp on face. Reverse bears Sydney transit cds and Norwood SE oval registered arrival handstamp of 23 NO 17. Neat and attractive item. Price $995 (PNG619) 32. New Guinea NWPI 1917 registered & censored cover to Switzerland bearing an attractive array of 1915-16 NWPI overprints cancelled Rabaul 25SE17: KGV ½d, 1d, 4d & 5d, plus Roos 6 values 2d to 1/-, all appear to be 2nd watermark type C, a stunning multi coloured franking item, Price $995 (PNG621) 33. New Guinea 1917 NWPI 5/- Grey & Orange Yellow 2nd wmk. Kangaroo Type C ovpt. On reg’d & censored cover to Switzerland. SG 92, cat from £550 on cover. Cancelled by cds of Rabaul 28 NO 17. Reverse bears Sydney Reg’d transit cds of 13DE17 and Berne arrival cds of 7.II.18. (Feb 7 1918) Highly attractive and rare cover in fine condition. Price $995 (PNG623) 34. New Guinea NWPI 1919 5/- Grey & Yellow 3rd wmk Kangaroo type C ovpt SG 116. On small reg’d cover to Switzerland. The 3rd wmk is much scarcer than other printings of this value on cover. Stamp is from right of sheet with watermark line. Cancelled by Rabaul cds and with Black reg’n label. Reverse bears transit registered cds of Sydney dated 18 AU 19 and Bern arrival cds of 30 1X 19. Small neat attractive cover, price $995 (PNG622)
35. New Guinea 1919 NWPI overprint on 10/- grey & bright pink kangaroo SG117 VFU, price $329 (PNG431) 36. New Guinea 1919 NWPI overprint on 3d olive Die II kangaroo, SG109a MHR, price $149 (PNG434) 37. New Guinea 1918 NWPI overprint type C on 1d on 1/- green kangaroo SG101 MH, price $169 (PNG436) 38. New Guinea 1919-23 NWPI overprint on 9d Kangaroo SG 112 on 1922 registered cover Rabaul to the UK, scarce on cover, Price $249 (PNG503) 39. New Guinea 1922 NWPI overprint on 4d Violet SG 123 horizontal pair, centred a little to upper right, scarce multiple, Price $139 (PNG574) 40. New Guinea 1931 Dated birds 1d,1½d, 2d & 4d SG 150-52 & 154 on registered cover Rabaul to the USA, Price $109 (PNG487) 41. New Guinea 1931 Dated birds 1/- and 2/- SG 158 & 159, horizontal pair of each on 1935 registered airmail cover Rabaul to London, a very attractive cover with scarce franking, Price $249 (PNG495) 42. New Guinea 1931 Dated birds 5d & 6d overprinted ‘OS’ SG O36 & O37 on registered cover Talasea to the UK, Price $189 (PNG477) 43. New Guinea 1932 (7th Jan) England – Australia – New Guinea First All Australian Airmail, two Flight covers from the UK to Rabaul via Australia with GB KGV franking, each with the appropriate boxed ‘CHRISTMAS GREETINGS/ENGLAND - NEW GUINEA/BY/FIRST ALL-AUSTRALIAN SPECIAL FLIGHT’ pictorial cachet, one in red and one in blue (the two recorded colours) AAMC P40, each with numerous backstamps. Only 30 covers were carried in total, a rare ‘set’ of flight covers, Cat $700, Price $599 (PNG351) 44. New Guinea 1932 long OHMS registered cover to the UK with vertical pair of 6d dated birds overprinted ‘OS’ SG O37, some vertical creasing, $395 (PNG154) 45. New Guinea 1932-34 Undated birds 2½d Green, 3½d Aniline-carmine & 6d Bistre-brown SG 179a, 180a & 183 on 1936 registered cover Rabaul to Ireland, Price $139 (PNG489) 46. New Guinea 1932-34 Undated birds overprinted Airmail 1d Green SG 191 x 10 (including imprint pair) on large cover to Sydney, some light staining, Price $69 (PNG383) 47. New Guinea 1932-34 Undated birds overprinted ‘OS’ 1½d & 3½d on Airmail cover to NSW, endorsed ‘2nd Regular Air Mail/New Guinea to Australia’ horizontal filing fold, Price $199 (PNG479) 48. New Guinea ½d Huts optd Airmail on 1933 cover Rabaul to the Cayman Islands underpaid with tax markings and large rectangular violet ‘INSUFFICIENTLY PREPAID LETTER/POSTAL DEPT. COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA cachet on reverse, Cayman Is 1932 Centenary ½d & 2½d used to pay postage due, cancelled Georgetown cds, some minor spotting, a rare and unusual cover, Price $499 (PNG599) 49. New Guinea a similar cover to the above from 1934 (no violet cachet on reverse) and posted from Manus, with Dated birds 1½d Vermillion and Cayman Is 1932 Centenary 1d paying the postage due, Price $449 (PNG598) 50. New Guinea another similar cover with 1d Huts optd Airmail and Cayman Is 1932 Centenary 2d paying the postage due, corner bend which has not affected the adhesives, Price $449 (PNG597) 51. New Guinea, a final similar cover with Dated birds optd Airmail 1d Green, posted from Aitape and with Cayman Is 1931 KGV 2d Grey definitive paying
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BUY OR BID SALE OCTOBER 2020 the postage due, Price $449 (PNG600) 52. New Guinea: Purchase all 4 of these rare covers and save $140 - Price $1700 (PNG600A) 53. New Guinea 1932-34 Undated birds overprinted Airmail ½d, 3d and 6d x 2 each + 1/- on 1936 registered Airmail ‘Bank of NSW’ cover Wau to the USA some minor perf faults due to one 3d & 1/- slightly overlapping the cover edge, Price $79 (PNG488) 54. New Guinea, Another cover carried on the same flight (AAMC 55. P84) with Undated birds overprinted ‘Airmail’ 3½d Aniline carmine and typed ‘First direct flight from Wau to Madang/Per ‘VH-UQS’ piloted by Orm. Denny’ Vertical bend at left, Cat $225, Price $149 (PNG320) 55. New Guinea 1937 KGVI Coronation set on First Official Airmail Flight cover Madang to Wewak AAMC P111, with correctly dated Madang and Wewak cds and typed ‘First Official /Air Mail MADANG to WEWAK ‘drome’ horizontal filing crease at base, Cat $250, Price $149 (PNG329) 56. New Guinea 1932-34 Undated birds overprinted ‘Airmail’ 2½d Green pair on 1939 First Flight cover Wewak to Salamaua (then onward to the UK via Australia) with typed ‘FIRST OFFICIAL MAIL, WEWAK, SEPIK DISTRICT/TO LONDON via AUSTRALIA’ AAMC P142a, some minor damage at top and on flap due to careless opening, Cat $200, Price $129 (PNG318) 57. New Guinea 1934 (July) First Flight ‘Boomerang’ cover Australia-New Guinea-Australia AAMC 395, with Aust 6d Sepia Airmail & New Guinea Undated birds 2d & Undated birds Airmail 6d, with two violet cachets, Price $39 (PNG338) 58. New Guinea 1934 (July) First Flight registered cover New Guinea to Australia AAMC 394 with Undated birds 3d & 5d, with violet cachet, Price $29 (PNG361) 59. New Guinea 1937 Coronation set on FDC, faint stain at top of 3d, Price $25 (PNG378) 60. New Guinea 1937 Coronation 3d, 5d & 1/- on 1938 registered cover Rabaul to the UK, Price $29 (PNG379) 61. New Guinea 1938 Empire 1½d Air Mail scheme cover with appropriate pictorial cachet in black and postmarked ‘NEWPORT 23 JUL 1938’, addressed to ‘A. PHILLIPS/G.P.O./NEW GUINEA’ similar to AAMC P137/138 but with Townsville machine cancel of 5 August 1938 on front and reverse, and ‘RABAUL/A11AU38/ NEW GUINEA’ on reverse, The AAMC indicates that the backstamp should be Port Moresby on the 10th of August, and that Townsville was an intermediate only on the return flight, interesting and unusual, Price $129 (PNG386) 62. New Guinea 1938 First Flight ‘Boomerang’ cover Australia-New Guinea-Australia AAMC P134 with Aust 3d Airmail, KGVI 2d die I & New Guinea Undated Airmail birds 5d, unusually on Campe NSW 150th Anniversary ‘Sydney Cove’ FDC in green and brown, a little soiled but scarce and unusual, Price $49 (PNG377) 63. New Guinea 1940 Airmail censored cover Salamaua to Queensland with 5d undated bird, Opened by Censor tape and indistinct boxed ‘Passed by Censor’ cachet in violet, ‘Lady Gowrie’ red & blue Red Cross label on reverse, Price $75 (PNG162) 64. Papua New Guinea 2001 50T/25T Olympics error triple Overprint MUH, with Certificate. Mi. 906DDD, SG903 (Var.) Only one sheet believed to exist. Price $495 (DB534) 65. Papua 1906 Lakatoi large ‘Papua’ overprint watermark horizontal 6d Black & myrtle-green SG 18, Fine used, Price $79 (PNG912)
66. Papua 1906 Lakatoi large ‘Papua’ overprint watermark horizontal 1/Black & orange SG 19, Fine used, Price $69 (PNG913) 67. Papua 1907 Lakatoi small ‘Papua’ overprint watermark vertical 4d Black & sepia SG 42 showing variety ‘d for second p in Papua’, Fine used with central Port Moresby cds, Cat £70, Price $99 (PNG929) 68. Papua 1907 Lakatoi small ‘Papua’ overprint watermark vertical 1/- Black & orange SG 44, fresh MUH, scarce this nice, Price $199 (PNG931) 69. Papua 1907 Lakatoi small ‘Papua’ overprint watermark vertical 1/- Black & orange SG 44, showing variety ‘d for second p in Papua’, fresh lightly hinged Mint, Price $149 (PNG930) 70. Papua 1907 Lakatoi small ‘Papua’ overprint watermark horizontal 2½d Black & ultramarine, thin paper SG 35a fresh MUH, Price $159 (PNG911) 71. Papua 1907 Lakatoi small ‘Papua’ overprint watermark vertical 1/- Black & orange thin paper (comb perf) SG 44a, variety ‘Raised second a in Papua’, very worn frame plate, particularly noticeable at base, Mint, Price $99 (PNG914) 72. Papua 1907 Lakatoi small ‘Papua’ overprint watermark vertical 1/- Black & orange thin paper (comb perf) SG 44a, block of 4, the left hand units showing variety ‘d for second p in Papua’, fresh with upper unit VLH and lower units MUH, Price $349 (PNG915) 73. Papua 1907-10 Lakatoi small ‘Papua’ watermark upright perf 11 2½d Black & pale ultramarine SG 51a, 4 examples with varieties ‘Rift in clouds’, ‘White leaves’, ‘Comet’ & ‘White flaw on U of Papua’, Mint, attractive group, Price $149 (PNG916) 74. Papua 1907-10 Lakatoi small ‘Papua’ watermark sideways perf 11 1d Black & carmine & 2d Black & purple SG 60/61, both with variety ‘Rift in clouds’, Price $129 (PNG917) 75. Papua 1907-10 Lakatoi small ‘Papua’ watermark sideways perf 11 4d Black & sepia SG 63, lower right corner block of 4, lower l/h unit with variety ‘Flaws in left value tablet’ MUH, Price $69 (PNG922) 76. Papua 1907-10 Lakatoi small ‘Papua’ watermark upright perf 11 1d Black & rose SG 49, with variety ‘Rift in clouds’ Mint, Price $29 (PNG932) 77. Papua 1907-10 Lakatoi small ‘Papua’ watermark upright perf 11 6d Black & myrtle-green SG 53, fresh MUH, Price $49 (PNG934) 78. Papua 1907-10 Lakatoi small ‘Papua’ watermark upright perf 11 1/Black & orange SG 54, with variety ‘White scratch through second A of Papua’ Mint, Price $99 (PNG935) 79. Papua 1907-10 Lakatoi small ‘Papua’ watermark upright perf 12½ 4d Black & sepia SG 57, with variety ‘Hollow d at left’, possibly the ’Deformed d at left’ variety retouched, Fine used, Price $49 (PNG933) 80. Papua 1907-10 Lakatoi small ‘Papua’ watermark sideways perf 11 1d Black & carmine SG 60, upper right corner block of 4, lower left unit with variety ‘Lines through POSTAGE at left’, MUH, Price $79 (PNG936) 81. Papua 1907-10 Lakatoi small ‘Papua’ watermark sideways perf 12½ ½d Black & yellow-green SG 66, two examples, one showing ‘Comet flaw’ & ‘Thickened U of PAPUA’, the other ‘Flaw on U of PAPUA’, both MUH, Price $39 (PNG937) 82. Papua 1907-10 Lakatoi small ‘Papua’ watermark sideways perf 12½ ½d Black & yellow-green SG 66 block of 6, the lower l/h unit with variety ‘Lightning (vertical scratch) in sky’, lower r/h unit with variety ‘Black spot in sky at right’ MUH, Price $89 (PNG938) 83. Papua 1907-10 Lakatoi small ‘Papua’ watermark sideways perf 12½ 2½d
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BUY OR BID SALE OCTOBER 2020 Black & dull blue SG 69, two examples, one with variety ‘Comet flaw’, the other ‘Colour flaws in & around r/h POSTAGE tablet’ Mint, Price $79 (PNG939) 84. Papua 1907-10 Lakatoi small ‘Papua’ watermark sideways perf 12½ 1/Black & orange SG 71, variety ‘Rift in clouds’ Mint, Price $89 (PNG940) 85. Papua 1909 Lakatoi large ‘Papua’ watermark sideways perf 11 2/6d Black & chocolate SG 48 with crisp corner cds, Very fine used, Cat £90, Price $149 (PNG954) 86. Papua 1910-11 Lakatoi large ‘Papua’ watermark sideways perf 12½ set ½d to both 2/6d types SG 75-83, the 4d with crease, Mint with some hinge remains, Cat £195, Price $279 (PNG953) 87. Papua 1910-11 Lakatoi large ‘Papua’ watermark sideways perf 12½ 2½d Black & blue-violet SG 78, two distinct shades Mint, Price $39 (PNG918) 88. Papua 1910-11 Lakatoi large ‘Papua’ watermark sideways perf 12½ 1/Black & orange SG 71, very fine used, Price $89 (PNG923) 89. Papua 1910-11 Lakatoi large ‘Papua’ watermark sideways perf 12½ 2/6d Black & brown type C, SG 83, Price $99 (PNG919) 90. Papua 1910-11 Lakatoi large ‘Papua’ watermark sideways perf 12½ 2d Black & dull purple, variety ‘C for O in POSTAGE’ SG 77a, Fine used, Cat £130, Price $189 (PNG941) 91. Papua 1910-11 Lakatoi large ‘Papua’ watermark sideways perf 12½ 2/6d Black & brown type C, SG 83, with a number of identified minor plate varieties, the most prominent being a large white spot between the A and P of PAPUA, fresh Mint, Price $149 (PNG942) 92. Papua 1911-15 Lakatoi monocolours set of 8 ½d to 2/6d SG 84-91, Mint with some hinge remains, Price $119 (PNG955) 93. Papua 1911-15 Lakatoi monocolours 2/6d Rose-carmine SG 91, Mint with light hinge remains, Price $69 (PNG956) 94. Papua 1911-15 Lakatoi monocolours 2/6d Rose-carmine SG 91, deeper, bright shade, Mint with the barest hinge touch, Price $75 (PNG944) 95. Papua 1911-15 Lakatoi monocolours perf 14 1d Pale scarlet SG 92a, corner example Mint, Price $25 (PNG943) 96. Papua 1916-31 Lakatoi 2/6d Maroon & bright pink SG 103a, two examples with constant varieties ‘Retouched (distorted) 6 in right value tablet’ & ‘Retouched 2 (long tail) in left value tablet’ fresh MUH, Price $99 (PNG920) 97. Papua 1916-31 Lakatoi 10/- Green & pale ultramarine SG 105, very fine used/CTO, Cat £190, Price $249 (PNG921) 98. Papua 1916-31 Lakatoi 6d Dull & pale purple SG 101, marginal block of 4, lower units MUH, Price $39 (PNG945) 99. Papua 1917 ONE PENNY on ½d Green watermark Crown to right of A SG 106aw, marginal block of 4, some minor gum bends, MUH, Cat £32, Price $39 (PNG946) 100. Papua 1929-30 Lakatoi ‘AIR MAIL’ overprints 3d Black & Blue-green SG 114 pair & single on 1930 registered cover Port Moresby to the UK, various backstamps, filing folds at top & centre, away from adhesives, mounting remains on rear, Price $69 (PNG709) 101. Papua 1932 Pictorials ½d to 6d SG 130-37, all fresh MUH, Cat £55+, Price $89 (PNG947) 102. Papua 1932 Pictorials 9d Black & violet SG 138, Very fine used, Price $29 (PNG948) 103. Papua 1932 Pictorials 1d Black & green + 3d Black & blue SG 131 & 134 in Ash imprint blocks of 4, LH Mint, Price $59 (PNG949)
104. Papua 1932 Pictorials 4d Olive-green SG 135, Mc Cracken imprint block of 4, a rare imprint block with some marginal thinning & perf re-enforcing, Mint. Only four values of this series were printed by Mc Cracken as well as Ash, and imprint blocks of these are elusive to rare, Price $499 (PNG950) 105. Papua 1934 Declaration set of 4 SG 146-49, Fine used, Price $35 (PNG951) 106. Papua 1939-41 Airmail set of 6 to 1/6d SG 163-68, Fine used, Price $99 (PNG952) British Empire/Commonwealth 107. Antigua 1867 QV 1d Vermilion SG7 MNG, with a small thin in the right margin. CV £250, price $180 (BC603) 108. Bahrain 1942 KGVI 3a Bright Violet overprint on India SG45 in a MUH block of 4, three stamps affected by a crease, and minor toning. Cat £88 as MH, price $55 (BC591) 109. As above, two stamps affected by a crease, minor toning, $65 (BC590) 110. Bermuda 1865-1903 QV wmk Crown CC 2d Bright blue SG4, fresh lightly hinged Mint, a lovely example of this scarce stamp, Cat £475, Price $599 (BC235) 111. Bermuda 1865-1903 QV wmk Crown CC 6d Dull purple & 6d Dull mauve, SG 6 & 7, Nice used, Cat £87, Price $79 (BC236) 112. British Honduras 1865 QV no wmk 1d Pale blue SG 1, some minor paper adhesions, Mint Cat £70, Price $59 (BC237) 113. Bahrein – Burma Cacheted 1933 1st Flight Cover. Bears 1A3p KGV of India ovpt. Bahrain & 4A KGV of India cancelled by 27SEP.33. Reverse bears arrival cds of AKYAB, Burma OCT 33. Exceedingly rare. Price $795 (IN8) 114. Burma 1933 Cacheted 1st Flight Cover England flight, intermediate to Delhi. Bears 3A Blue India Airmail cancelled Allahabad cds 3 OCT 33, Reverse has India KGV 3p with the same cds plus Delhi arrival cds of the same date. A little fragile, with small portion lower left corner missing and 5mm tear at right. Imperial Stamp Co. Cover. Exceedingly rare cover, Price $795. (IN16) 115. Burma 1936 Illustrated Reg’s FIRST DAY COVER to Waikato New Zealand. Bears KGV stamps of India Ovpt. BURMA, SG 1-8. Cancelled by cds’s of Meiktila, and with Reg’n label No. 790, 1 AP 37. Reverse bears clean strike of Cambridge N.Z. 13MY37. Exceedingly rare, price $995 (BU19) 116. Burma 1937 KGV 1r - 5r fresh mint very lightly hinged. SG 13/15, cat. £190, price $285 (BU3) 117. Burma 1940 KGVI 1a on 2a6p Postage Centenary MH, showing the “birds over tree” variety, SG34a. CV £90, priced at $125 (BC654) 118. Burma 1946 KGVI 2r and 5r SG62-63 MLH, Cat £37, price $45 (BC594) 119. Burma 1943 Japanese Occupation 1c Orange x 3 SG J82 commercially on postcard to Burma State Lottery, cancelled by Experimental P.O. cds of 4 AUG 43. Extremely rare, price $1995 (BU43) 120. Burma 1943 Japanese Occupation small plain unaddressed FDC of Independence Day, SG J82/J83 cancelled by cds of Mandalay 1 AUG 43. Very rare, cat. from £450 on cover. Price $695 (We recently sold a similar cover with cachet at $895) (BU43A) 121. Burma 1944 Japanese small handmade envelope bearing horiz. Pr. of 5c Carmine Elephant SG J91 Cancelled by cds of TOUNGOO 10 NOV 44, and arrival cds on reverse of PYU…? 13 NOV 44. Rare survivor, price $495 (BU39) 122. Burma 1st Oct. 1947 FDC for 1st Provisional Government Ovpt. Stamps.
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BUY OR BID SALE OCTOBER 2020 Bears 6 pies, horiz. Pair 9 pies & 3 Annas of KGVI. Sent Rangoon to local address. Neat & clean hand addressed cover. Exceedingly rare, price $795 (BU6) 123. Burma Interim Government 1947 KGVI 1r and 10r overprinted SG79 & SG82, MUH, Cat £19.50, price $26 (BC593) 124. Canada 1897 Jubilee 2c, 3c, 5c & 8c, the 3c has a gum spot and the 5c has paper adhesions, others fresh Mint, mixed centring as usual, Cat £148, Price $79 (BC232) 125. Canada 1897 QV Definitives SG141-9 VFU, the 8c has a diagonal crease and isn’t included in the price. Typical centring for these. CV £89, price $119 (BC624) 126. Canada 1950 KGVI “G” Overprints SGO191-2 MH with some disturbed gum from page adhesion and priced accordingly. CV £84, price $54 (BC656) 127. Canada 1950-52 KGVI “G” Overprints SGO178-90 (ex SGO188) MH with faults and priced accordingly (minor toning, adhesion disturbance, and the 20c is thinned). CV £222, price $97 (BC657) 128. Cape of Good Hope 1855 Triangle 4d blue SG 6a two large and one close margins used. Price $99 (BC156) 129. Cape of Good Hope 1858 Triangle 1d rose SG 5a two good margins, bottom margin touching to just cut into used. Price $179 (BC155) 130. Cape of Good Hope 1863-64 Triangle 1d deep carmine-red variety wmk sideways SG18a, cat £600, three margins but damaged at base, used. Price $129 (BC154) 131. Ceylon 1857-59 1d blue on blued paper SG 2b, Cat £225, 4 margins, close at lower left, Fine used, Price $179 (BC178) 132. British Guiana 1875-76 24c deep green perf 15 SG 115 FU. Price $129 (BC162) 133. Ceylon 1857 6d Purple Brown on Blued paper, SG 1. Nice lightly used 4 margin example, cat. £450. Very rare stamp, under-catalogued. Price $569 (BC48) 134. Ceylon 1857 1d Blue Imperf. SG 2a. Nice 3 margin lightly used example, cat. £80. Budget priced, $25 (BC42) 135. Fiji 1891-98 ½d Slate-grey perf 12 SG76 block of 4, multiple cds cancels, odd minor perf fault. Cat £44 as singles, Price $59 (BC239) 136. Fiji 1891-98 1d Black perf 11 SG87 block of 4, r/h units have a light vertical bend, lower units MUH, Cat £92 as Mint singles, Price $69 (BC238) 137. Gambia 1927 KGV 4d Elephant SG129 MH, with tropicalised gum. CV £29, price $27 (BC613) 138. Gambia 1927 KGV 7½d Elephant SG132 MH. CV £26, price $35 (BC614) 139. Gibraltar 1889 QV 5p SG33 good used. The key value of the set, this has one nibbed perf, CV £100, price $126 (BC612) 140. Gibraltar 1940 KGVI 2d Grey perf 13½ block of 4 MUH. CV for MH £36, so should be double, price $75 (BC623) 141. Hong Kong 1862-63 No wmk QV 2c Brown SG 1 MNG, Cat £600 as Mint, Price $299 (HK503) 142. Hong Kong 1862-63 No wmk QV 2c Brown SG 1, slight corner crease at lower right, lightly struck barred numeral cancel, Cat £120, Price $99 (HK502) 143. Hong Kong 1862-63 No wmk QV 24c Green, SG 5, lightly struck barred numeral cancel, Cat £120, Price $159 (HK504) 144. Hong Kong 1877 wmk Crown CC 16c Yellow SG 22, barred numeral cancel, Nice used, Cat £65, Price $79 (HK579) 145. Hong Kong small selection of Mint QV issues: 1880 2c Dull rose SG 28, thinned at top, 1882-96 2c Carmine SG 33, 4c Slate-grey perf fault at top, SG 34, 1898 Surcharge with Chinese characters 10c on 30c Grey-green SG 55,
part gum, some toning & 1900-01 5c Yellow SG 58 some gum adhesions, Cat £477, Price $249 (HK583) 146. Hong Kong 1882-96 wmk Crown CA QV 2c Carmine & 2c Aniline carmine SG 33 & 33a, some hinge remains, fresh Mint, Cat £110, Price $139 (HK519) 147. Hong Kong 1882-96 wmk Crown CA QV set of 8 to 30c Grey-green, includes 2c Rose-lake, SG32-39, most are Fine used with cds cancels, Cat £93, Price $119 (HK521) 148. Hong Kong 1882-96 wmk Crown CA QV 10c Dull mauve SG 36, Mint with some gum loss, approx. 30% original gum, Cat £1000, Price $499 (HK522) 149. Hong Kong 1882-96 wmk Crown CA QV 10c Dull mauve SG 36, two distinct shades, barred numeral cancels, Cat £46, Price $59 (HK523) 150. Hong Kong 1885 QV 20c on 30c Orange-red MNG, with possible finger mark, Cat £200, price $98 (BC597) 151. Hong Kong 1885 wmk Crown CA QV surcharges $1 on 96c Grey-olive SG 42, heavily hinged resulting in slight horizontal crease, strong colour, Mint, Cat £750, Price $599 (HK524) 152. Hong Kong 1885 wmk Crown CA QV surcharges set of 3 SG 40-42, the $1 with tiny hinge thin, Good – FU, Cat £143, Price $109 (HK525) 153. Hong Kong 1891 wmk Crown CA QV surcharges 7c on 10c Green SG 43, slightly aged gum Mint, Cat £95, Price $79 (HK531) 154. Hong Kong 1891 wmk Crown CA QV surcharges 7c on 10c Green & 14c on 30c Mauve, SG 43-44, strong colours, Nice used, Cat £90, Price $129 (HK532) 155. Hong Kong 1891 wmk Crown CA QV surcharges with additional Chinese characters 50c on 48c Dull purple SG 49, Mint, Cat £80, Price $119 (HK526) 156. Hong Kong 1891 wmk Crown CA QV surcharges with additional Chinese characters $1 on 96c Purple/red SG 50, hinge remains & minor gum disturbance Mint, Cat £450, Price $429 (HK527) 157. Hong Kong 1891 wmk Crown CA QV surcharges with additional Chinese characters set of 4 20c on Green(both shades) to $1 on 96c Purple/red SG 48-50, Nice used, Cat £56, Price $69 (HK528) 158. Hong Kong 1891 wmk Crown CA QV 2c Carmine Jubilee overprint SG 51, overall aged appearance Mint, Cat £475, Price $299 (HK529) 159. Hong Kong 1891 wmk Crown CA QV 2c Carmine Jubilee overprint variety ‘Broken 1 in 1891’ SG 51c, small area of gum loss & small central thin, Mint, strong colour, Cat £950, Price $599 (HK530) 160. Hong Kong 1898 wmk Crown CA QV surcharges with additional Chinese characters $1 on 96c Grey-black SG 52a, part original gum, Cat £200 as Mint, Price $149 (HK533) 161. Hong Kong 1898 wmk Crown CA QV surcharges with additional Chinese characters 10c on 30c Grey-green SG 55, Mint, Cat £75, Price $99 (HK534) 162. Hong Kong 1900-01 wmk Crown CA QV colour changes set to 30c Brown SG 56-61 Mint, some hinge remains, the 4c Carmine part gum & tone spot, Cat £200, Price $229 (HK536) 163. Hong Kong 1900-01 wmk Crown CA QV colour changes set to 30c Brown SG 5661, all (ex the 5c) with cds cancels, mainly fine used, Cat £100, Price $139 (HK535) 164. Hong Kong 1900-01 wmk Crown CA QV 12c Blue SG 60, wing margin at right, two bold strikes of barred numeral cancel, Cat £70, Price $79 (HK581) 165. Hong Kong 1903 wmk Crown CA Edw VII set of 8 1c to 12c SG 62-68, the 4c part gum, the 10c MNG and not included in Cat value, Mint, Cat £86, Price $129 (HK538)
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BUY OR BID SALE OCTOBER 2020 166. Hong Kong 1903 wmk Crown CA Edw VII 1c Dull purple & brown, 2c Dull green, 8c Slate & violet & 12c Green & purple/yellow SG 62, 63, 66 & 68, hinge remains Mint, Cat £62, Price $89 (HK539) 167. Hong Kong 1903 wmk Crown CA Edw VII 2c Dull green SG 63, fresh MUH, Cat £24 for Mint, Price $39 (HK540) 168. Hong Kong 1903 wmk Crown CA Edw VII $1 Purple & sage-green SG 72, Mint lightly hinged, Cat £130, Price $179 (HK541) 169. Hong Kong 1903 wmk Crown CA Edw VII 1c to 50c SG 62-71, including shades of the 1c, 4c, 10c & 20c, the 30c with private perfin, all with cds cancels, mostly Fine used, Cat £135+, Price $169 (HK542) 170. Hong Kong 1904-06 wmk Mult Crown CA Edw VII 4c Purple/red, 8c Slate & violet, 20c Slate & chestnut & 30c Dull green & black, the 20c with some minor gum wrinkles, mixed chalk surfaced & ordinary papers, Mint, minimum Cat £189, Price $199 (HK546) 171. Hong Kong 1904-06 wmk Mult Crown CA Edw VII $2 Slate & scarlet, chalk surfaced paper SG 87a, MNG, strong colours, Cat £350 as Mint, Price $229 (HK543) 172. Hong Kong 1904-06 wmk Mult Crown CA Edw VII set of 10, 2c to $1, mixed chalk surfaced & ordinary papers, SG 77-86, all with cds cancels, mostly Fine used, minimum Cat £118, Price $149 (HK544) 173. Hong Kong 1904-06 wmk Mult Crown CA Edw VII 30c Dull green & black, chalk surfaced paper, SG 84a, Very fine used with crisp light cds, Cat £24, Price $35 (HK545) 174. Hong Kong 1907-11 wmk Mult Crown CA colours changed & new values Edw VII 1c Brown, 6c Orange-vermilion & purple, 10c Bright ultramarine & 20c Purple & sage-green, SG 91, 92, 95 & 96, some hinge remains Mint, Cat £174, Price $239 (HK547) 175. Hong Kong 1907-11 wmk Mult Crown CA colours changed & new values Edw VII set of 9, 1c to 50c including both shades of the 2c, SG 91-98, all with cds cancels, Nice – fine used, Cat £134, Price $179 (HK549) 176. Hong Kong 1907-11 wmk Mult Crown CA colours changed & new values Edw VII 20c Purple & sage-green SG 96. Cds cancel fine used, Cat £50, Price $69 (HK550) 177. Hong Kong 1912-21 wmk Mult Crown CA KGV 4c Carmine-red, 6c Yellow-Orange, 12c Purple/yellow, 30c Purple & orange & 50c Black/bluegreen SG 102, 103, 106, 110a & 111 some hinge remains Mint, Cat £112, Price $149 (HK551) 178. Hong Kong 1912-21 wmk Mult Crown CA KGV set 1c to $1, includes the listed shades of most values to 10c, 12c on white back, 50c different papers/ backs x 4 etc SG 100-112 range, all cds cancels, Nice – FU, attractive group, Cat £160+, Price $199 (HK552) 179. Hong Kong 1912-21 wmk Mult Crown CA KGV $3 Green & purple SG 114, cds cancel, strong colours, Nice used, Cat £130, Price $169 (HK553) 180. Hong Kong 1912-21 wmk Mult Crown CA KGV 25c Purple & magenta type A SG 108, Mint with hinge remains, Cat £50, Price $59 (HK582) 181. Hong Kong overprinted ‘CHINA’ 1917-21 wmk Mult Crown CA KGV 6c Orange, 25c Purple $ magenta & 30c Purple & orange-yellow, SG 4, 9 & 11, some hinge remains, fresh Mint, Cat £75, Price $99 (HK557) 182. Hong Kong overprinted ‘CHINA’ 1917-21 wmk Mult Crown CA KGV $2 Carmine-red & grey-black SG 14, bold cds cancel, strong colours, Nice used,
Cat £80, Price $109 (HK559) 183. Hong Kong overprinted ‘CHINA’ 1917-21 wmk Mult Crown CA KGV $3 Green & purple SG 15, nibbled perf at lower left, bold cds cancel, strong colours, Nice used, Cat £275, Price $279 (HK560) 184. Hong Kong 1921-37 wmk Mult Script CA KGV 1c, 2c, 4c both shades, 8c Grey, 8c Orange, 10c, 12c & 20c, SG 117, 118, 120, 120a, 122-125, most are lightly hinged, few with hinge remains Mint, Cat £123, Price $159 (HK554) 185. Hong Kong 1921-37 wmk Mult Script CA KGV set of 19, 1c to $5 including the 4c shade, SG 117-132, all with cds cancels, mostly Fine used, attractive set, Cat £200+, Price $279 (HK555) 186. Hong Kong overprinted ‘CHINA’ 1922-27 wmk Mult Script CA KGV 4c Carmine-rose, 8c Grey, 10c Bright ultramarine, 20c Purple & sage-green, 50c Black/emerald & $1 Purple & blue/blue, SG 20, 22-24, 26 & 27, some hinge remains Mint, Cat £223, Price $299 (HK561) 187. Hong Kong overprinted ‘CHINA’ 1922-27 wmk Mult Script CA KGV 10c Bright ultramarine SG 23, marginal example, very lightly hinged Mint, Cat £24, Price $35 (HK562) 188. Hong Kong overprinted ‘CHINA’ 1922-27 wmk Mult Script CA KGV $2 Carmine-red & grey-black SG 28, fresh lightly hinged Mint, Cat £200, Price $279 (HK563) 189. Hong Kong 1935 KGV Jubilee set, the 5c with some gum loss, Mint, Cat £55, Price $59 (HK556) 190. Hong Kong 1938-52 KGVI definitive set to $10 Deep bright lilac & blue SG 140-62, ex $2 Red-orange & green & $10 Green & violet, but with SG listed shades of most values including 20c Rose-red, 50c, $1 both colours, $2 Violet & scarlet, $5 Green & violet and $10 Bright lilac & blue, and the perf 14½ x 14 printings 2c to 50c are also included, all are fresh Mint, some with hinge remains, a very attractive group totaling 36 stamps, min Cat £1200+ for MUH, Price $899 (HK576) 191. Hong Kong 1938-52 KGVI definitives 25c Bright blue SG 149, fresh MUH, Cat £29, Price $39 (HK569) 192. Hong Kong 1938-52 KGVI definitive $5 Yellowish-green & violet, chalk surfaced paper SG 160ab, Mint with hinge remains, Cat £120, Price $89 (HK568) 193. Hong Kong 1938-52 KGVI definitive $10 Pale bright lilac & blue SG 162, Mint lightly hinged, Cat £140, Price $119 (HK567) 194. Hong Kong 1938-52 KGVI definitive set to $10 Deep bright lilac & blue SG 140-62, ex $2 Red-orange & green, $5 dull lilac & scarlet & $10 Green & violet, but includes several SG listed shades with $1 both colours & $2 (3ea), attractive group of 31 stamps, Good – fine used, min Cat £70+, Price $89 (HK570) 195. Hong Kong 1949 UPU set, fresh MUH, Cat £50, Price $69 (HK566) 196. Hong Kong 1954-62 QEII definitive set to $10, SG 178-91a, includes all of the SG listed shades to $10 ex the $1.30 Bright blue & red, fresh Mint with some hinge remains, Cat £400+ for MUH, Price $299 (HK571) 197. Hong Kong 1954-62 QEII definitive $5 Green & purple SG 190, Mint very lightly hinged, Cat £80, Price $59 (HK572) 198. Hong Kong 1954-62 QEII definitive $5 Yellowish green & purple SG 190a, MUH, Cat £120, Price $159 (HK573) 199. Hong Kong 1954-62 QEII definitive $10 Reddish violet & bright blue SG 191, Mint very lightly hinged, Cat £60, Price $49 (HK574)
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BUY OR BID SALE OCTOBER 2020 200. Hong Kong 1954-62 QEII definitive range of 17 values to $10, includes 15c, 20c, 65c, $1 & $2 (2 ea), Good to Fine used, the $5 & $10 are fine used, Cat £50+, Price $59 (HK575) 201. India 1855 QV ½a Pale Blue Die III FU, two large margins, two close. CV £95, price $129 (BC631) 202. India 1895 QV 3r Brown and green SG108 MH with an indistinct blue stain on the gum, apparently under the hinge. CV £80, price $97 (BC615) 203. India 1922 KGV 3p Slate SG154 pair MUH/MH with aged gum. The left unit (MUH) is SG154a showing the “Rs” or “Rupee” flaw. CV £41 (should be double for the flaw), price $79 (BC602) 204. India 1928 15r KGV Blue & Olive, upright wmk SG 219 mint lightly hinged. Gum a little “suntanned” Cat. £100. Price $120 (IN1) 205. India 1933 Calcutta - Karachi India First Flight Cover. Imperial Stamp Co. Cachet in red. Bears 2A Green Airmail cancelled rectangular Bi-plane pictorial h/s cancel in black of 11JLY.33. Reverse bears KGV 1A3p with the same cancel, plus Jodpur transit cds of the same date and Karachi arrival cds of the folowing day. Clean typed address cover, Exceedlingly rare, price $575 (IN24) 206. India 1933 Calcutta - Asansol India First Flight Cover. Imperial Stamp Co. Cachet in red. Bears 2A Green Airmail cancelled Calcutta cds of 10 JLY 33. Reverse bears KGV 1A3p with the same cancel, plus rectangular Bi-plane pictorial h/s cancel in black of 11JLY.33, Calcutta – Karachi. Also Asanol arrival cds of the following day. Clean typed address cover. Exceedlingly rare, price $575 (IN25) 207. India 1933 Asanol - Allahabad India First Flight Cover. Imperial Stamp Co. Cachet in red. Bears 2A Green Airmail cancelled Asanol cds of 10 JLY 33. Reverse bears KGV 1A3p with the same cancel, plus rectangular Bi-plane pictorial h/s cancel in black of 11JLY.33, Calcutta – Karachi. Also Allahabad arrival cds of the following day. Clean typed address cover. A little fragile, small “bite” at bottom does not detract. Exceedlingly rare, price $575 (IN26) 208. India 1937 KGVI 10r Purple and claret SG262 MUH, mildly suntanned gum, Cat £35 as MH, price $89 (BC592) 209. Jamaica 1919 KGV 2/- Purple and bright blue on blue SG66 MH. A lovely fresh example, CV £27, price $36 (BC616) 210. KUT 1954 QEII Definitive High Values, SG178-80 MH. The £1 has some toning on reverse. CV £112, a bargain at $69 (BC653) 211. Nauru 1980 Air Nauru set in imperf pairs without denominations in composite proof sheet without gum as issued. Rare. Price $1995 (BD859) 212. Nauru 1923 KGV 2d Orange Overprint at bottom SG5 MLH. CV £70, price $95 (BC618) 213. New Hebrides 1910 Edw VII DLR overprints ½d Green SG 10, FU, Cat £32, Price $39 (BC514) 214. New Hebrides 1911 set to 5/- SG18-28, the ½d & 1d Mint, others fresh unhinged Mint, Cat £110 as mint hinged, Price $179 (BC507) 215. New Hebrides 1925 5/- Green/yellow SG 51, centred to upper left, FU, Price $29 (BC515) 216. New Hebrides 1938 Postage Dues overprint set of 5 to 1f SG D6-D10, small paper adhesion on 1f, fresh Mint, Cat £190, Price $229 (BC508) 217. New Hebrides 1911 Definitives SG 18/28 complete mint lightly hinged. Some minor gum toning. Cat. £110, Price $119 (DB754) 218. New Hebrides 1921 5c on 40c red on yellow SGF34 marginal MH,
tropicalised gum, Cat £27 price $24 (DB512) 219. New Hebrides 1925 KGV ½d and 6d values, SG43 and SG48 FU. CV £39, price $52 (BC633) 220. New Hebrides 1938 Gold currency set to 2f Mint, the 40c with horizontal crease SG F53-F62, also 10f Mint no gum, Price $129 (BC504) 221. New Hebrides 1941 ‘France Libre’ overprint set of 12 to 10f SG F65-F76, all CTO with unhinged gum, couple of values with some gum tropicalisation, Cat £375 as used, Price $399 (BC505) 222. New Hebrides 1941 Postage Dues ‘France Libre’ set of 5 to 1f, SG FD77FD81, the 40c Mint, others CTO with gum, Price $229 (BC506) 223. New Zealand 1954 QEII set of 14 to 10/- (ex 1/9d which was issued later) Official FDC. Neat hand addressed. Cancelled by cds’s of Wellington 1MR54. Three small tone spots at top not affecting stamps. Price $125 (NZ2) 224. New Zealand 1960 Pictorials ½d, 1d & 3d sets of numbered (1 to 6) stitched booklet panes for each denomination plus a single stapled pane for each, hinged onto album pages, CPW8a/c (Y/W/ U) Cat approx NZ $240 for MUH, Price $149 (NZ20) 225. 1960 Pictorials 8d Rata SG789, two MUH blocks of 4 showing the “white flaws in green leaves” variety and the subsequent retouch. CP Cat NZ$54 price $42 (NZ27) 226. New Zealand 1967 3c Puarangi complete sheet of 200 plate 2B1B1B1B, appears to include all of the CP plate 2B (blue) listed varieties except for R20/6, cat NZ $180+ as variety singles, couple of minor marginal bends, fresh MUH, Price $119 (NZ21) 227. New Zealand 1967 3c Puarangi, another complete sheet with the same plate numbers but with several of the varieties retouched, excellent companion sheet to the previous lot, Price $89 (NZ22) 228. New Zealand 1970 5c Scarlet Parrot Fish complete sheet of 200, plate 1A1A1A1A, with sheet value error ‘$12’, See CP P7a, cat value NZ $600 for $12 value block, also another sheet same plate # with the sheet value corrected to $10 for comparison, fresh MUH, scarce and attractive sheets, Price $399 (NZ23) 229. New Zealand 1985 St Johns, Bridges, Trams, Military, Health, Xmas MUH, price $29 (NZ340) 230. New Zealand 1988 Electricity, Philatelic Soc. m/sheet, Rafter Paintings, Kiwi, Xmas MUH, price $29 (NZ357) 231. New Zealand 1988 Framas - Flag (40c,60c,70c,80c,$1.30) MUH, price $34 (NZ354) 232. New Zealand 2001 QE II Birthday Imperforate Strip MUH, price $37 (NZ214) 233. Nigeria 1953 QEII £1 Lagos SG80 VFU. CV £20, price $25 (BC661) 234. Papua 1935 cover posted ship-side in Papua to Melbourne with Papua 1932 pictorials ½d & 1½d and 50th Anniv 2d affixed, endorsed ‘via Rabaul/ Late Fee’ stamps cancelled in Rabaul, interesting cover, Price $85 (PNG158) 235. Rhodesia 1892/3 6d Blue SG2 fine cds used. Cat. £26, price $32.50 (BC559) 236. Rhodesia 1892/3 £1 - £5 SG 10 – 12. £1 & £5 fiscally used, £2 is mint no gum, perfined. Neat trio, price $110 (BC544) 237. Rhodesia 1892/3 £10 Brown Arms SG13 part original gum. Perfin. 12 2 01. Cat. £2750 for mint. Price $195 (BC558) 238. Rhodesia 1898/1908 £5 Deep Blue Arms, SG 92, perf. “Specimen”
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BUY OR BID SALE OCTOBER 2020 vertically. Attractive and fresh unused, most probably had been stuck down on UPU presentation card. Normal mint is cat. £3250. Price $495 (BC149) 239. Rhodesia 1909 SG 116/117 7½d & 10d Surcharges, fine cds used. Cat. £29, price $36 (BC547) 240. Rhodesia 1910/13 ½d green Double Head SG 119 mint part OG. Cat. £16, price $20 (BC562) 241. Rhodesia 1919 5d Black & Pale Green Admiral Die III SG 263 fine mint. Cat. £14 price $20 (BC564) 242. St Lucia 1938 KGVI 2/-, 5/- and 10/ high values, SG136-8 MH. CV £56, price $79 (BC626) 243. St. Vincent 1861 1d Rose Red SG 1 Double Perfs. at top! Mint with small part original gum. Price $149 (BC41) 244. Singapore 1948 $5 KGVI Green and brown SG15 VFU commercially used block of 4, price $75 (BC595) 245. Singapore 1948 $5 KGVI Green and brown SG15 VFU commercially used block of 4, price $75 (BC596) 246. South Africa – Orange Free State 1909-04 Edw VII wmk Crown CA 1/Scarlet & bistre and 5/- blue & brown SG 146 – 147, both are fresh Mint with light hinge remainders, Cat £210, Price $249 (BC251) 247. South Africa selection of 1936 Jipex covers including mini sheet set of 2 on one registered Official cover (some creasing), additional ½d mini sheet on Official cover, two covers with Exhibition Cinderellas, one in red, blue & green, the other red, green & gold, all with exhibition postmarks, attractive group (5 covers), Price $49 (BC907) 248. South Africa 1936-37 Jipex special Airmail post card to Sydney with ½d Springbok tied by Exhibition cancel, during the Exhibition a special worldwide Airmail rate of ½d applied, with ‘LAST DAY CANCEL’ stamp applied in red, attractive and unusual, Price $79 (BC909) 249. South Africa 1949 KGVI 5/- Ox-wagon SG122 block of 4 used. A few minor surface rubs, but a scarce block. CV £160, priced at $179 (BC627) 1935 Silver Jubilee Issues VARIETIES 250. British Guiana 1935 Jubilee 2c ultramarine & grey SG 301h with variety. MH with Dot by flagstaff. Cat. £130, price $125 (DB358) 251. Gambia 1935 Jubilee 6d light blue & olive - green SG 145b with variety. MH with short extra flagstaff. Price $349 (DB360) Rest of the World 252. Denmark 1851 1 Skilling Blue. 3 margin attractive used example on piece, cancelled by light concentric rings. Cat. £2000, price $399 (ROW104) 253. German New Guinea 1900 small cover to “Postmaster General, General Post Office, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Bears 20pfg blue Mi. 4 Germany Arms type ovpt. “Deutsch – Neu – Guinea” cancelled by cds of Herbertshohe, and Sydney arrival duplex on reverse of MY 2 00. Some tone spotting, which may have pre-existed on the envelope before posting, otherwise very fine. Ultra-scarce early cover. Price $995 (GNG27) 254. German New Guinea 1901 small cover re-addressed from Rhiune to Westereappiln, Germany. Bears 10pfg Red Yacht type Mi. 9 cancelled by cds of Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen (Now Madang) of 15/10 01, and with arrival cds
on reverse of a) Rhiune? 18.12.01 and Westereappiln of the same date. Fine 7 scarce, price $245 (GNG25) 255. German New Guinea 1910 clean “Bantam” cover to Weimar. Bears 3pfg brown Yacht type Mi. 7 cancelled by cds of Herbertshohe 3 6 10 Lovely little cover. Price $225 (GNG3) 256. German New Guinea 1910 clean small cover to USA via Hong Kong. Bears 20pfg blue Yacht type Mi. 10 cancelled by cds of Rabaul 27 6 10 and with Hong Kong transit cds on reverse dated 26 JY 10. Rare scarce survivor. Price $575 (GNG19) 257. German New Guinea 1913 clean “Bantam” cover to Hien, Netherlands bearing 2 x 3pfg brown Yacht Type Mi. 7 cancelled by cds of Herbertshohe 4.11.13. Price $275 (GNG1) 258. Indochina 1915 small commercial Cover to India, via Ceylon. Bears 5c & 2 x 10c Definitives cancelled by Saigon Central cds’s of 18 – 1 15 and reverse arrival cds of Tirupatur 30JAN15. Opening tear at left damages 1 x 10c stamp, otherwise fine. Scarce survivor! Price $59 (ROW48) 259. Indonesia 1989 WWF Orangutans 100R & 500R values each postally used on piece. Rare thus, cat. £30, price $35 (ROW47) 260. Philippines 1928 First Flight Cover, “London – Orient Flight” Puerto Prince – Manila. Bears Blue Bi-Plane cachet and Philippines 2c Green & 10c Blue Defins. With 4c Pink and Grey Palace of the Legislature opt. OFFICIAL in red. Cancelled by Puerto Prince cds NOV 8 1928 and with Manila arrival duplex of the following day on reverse. Printed address. Very clean and attractive, price $49 (ROW15) 261. Philippines - San Francisco 1935 1st Flight Cover with official Cachet, intermediate cover addressed to Guam. Scarce. Price $95 (ROW13) San Marino We have a big stock, just a couple of items shown here. We have Mint unhinged sets, FDC’s and some complete sets in full sheets. Let us know your interests 262. San Marino 1963 Contemporary Aircraft 9 blocks of 4 MUH PLUS 2 sheetlets. Very minor fault to one corner of sheetlet. Price $79 (SM30) 263. San Marino 1974 Ancient Weapons “Cesta” Museum Slania 8 imprint blocks of 4 blocks of 4 MUH. Price $34 (SM56) Egypt First Day Covers We have a large collection 1956 – 1965, enquire for items needed. 264. Egypt 1946 Flag Day Cairo Citadel Cachet FDC, printed address to Alexandria. Rare cover, price $125 (EG1) 265. Egypt 1954 Evacuation on typed address Reg’d FDC Cairo to Khartoum, Sudan. Rare cover, price $125 (EG2) 266. Egypt 1st Feb. 1958 United Arab Republic unaddressed FDC, price $49 (EG5) 267. Egypt 1958 6th Anniversary of Liberation Industries in Egypt, se-tenant strip of 5 unaddressed FDC, price $95 (EG7) 268. Egypt 1959 UNICEF United Arab Republic unaddressed FDC, price $28.50 (EG12)
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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Thematic Exhibiting Basics Thematic exhibits use the widest possible range of philatelic material, from a variety of postal authorities and philatelic periods to tell a story developed by the exhibitor. Every item shown should be relevant and displayed in the most suitable order to enlighten the reader. A thematic exhibit is fascinating because it allows for continuous improvement. The more you get familiar with the subject, the more you discover new details for supporting your story and acquire the relevant philatelic items. The more you know about the material from using philatelic literature, by browsing through auction catalogues and visiting the dealers, and by studying other collections on display at the philatelic shows, the more you can improve your development when including new items. The rules for thematic exhibiting can be found on the APF Website at https://apf.org.au/classes. More information and explanations about the class can be found at http://www.fipthematicphilately.org. The differences between Topical exhibiting and Thematic exhibiting were discussed in a previous Stamp News article and can also be found on the APF Website. There are many Thematic collectors but not many exhibitors. One of the common complaints is that Thematic exhibiting has too many rules and restrictions. The purpose of this article is to deal with this miscon-
Figure 1: Elephant tusks were the main source of ivory used for carving chess pieces 50 - Stamp News
ception by telling you the only five things you need to do to exhibit Thematics. 1. There must be a story. One you love, one you want to share Write about a passion, something you really know about. Make your words clear, make them concise (please don’t write a book). The story should have a logical beginning, middle and end. The logical flow of your story will greatly help treatment. Your words should be able to be read on their own. When you finish your story look for philatelic material to illustrate it. As with all classes, you must show what you say and say what you show. If the story needs the words, and you have nothing to illustrate them, you will have to buy an item. 2. Find a variety of philatelic material to Illustrate your story Find philatelic items to enhance and compliment your story. This not topical exhibiting. You are telling the story of chess, not chess on stamps, so you don’t need to show chess on each item. Show ebony wood and elephant tusks for chess pieces. The text near the item links the picture to your story (see figure 1). Only choose material that is valid in a FIP class (but not Open or Postcards). Traditional, postal history and postal stationery should dominate. Justify the sparing use of revenues and maximum cards. Respect the item. Don’t window or overlap postal stationery. Don’t show complete stamp sets unless all are relevant. Do not overuse any type (or you may be transferred). Window to show just a cancel. Remember your choices demonstrate your knowledge. • Your material should come from a wide time period – pre-philately to modern. Figure 2 shows Napoleonic military mail and figure 3 is a modern stamp of Napoleon from Monaco. • You need a variety of philatelic material – not just stamps, not just covers. Ideally each page should have more than one type - stamps, covers, stationery, booklets, cancels, proofs. Examples can be seen in figures 4 and 5. Don’t be tempted with illustrations on items that can’t be shown in other classes. The cachet/illustration on a cover or the content of the letter is not allowed. In
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Figure 2: 1834 Napoleonic military police mail
Figure 3: Emperor Napoleon
figure 6 the cachet of Charles Darwin is not valid in any FIP class and adds no value to an exhibit. Anything produced exclusively for collectors, even by the Post Office, is not liked, so only show private to order items or French deluxe sheetlets if nothing better is available. The picture in a postmark, if it relates to your story, is good. Beware generic postmarks. They can’t be used for something like a person’s birthplace. Show the stamp instead of a cover with a generic postmark on the same stamp. Figure 6 is a good example of where the stamp would be better than the cover. A FDC must have an illustrated postmark to be appropriate and must be windowed, not shown whole. 3. Link your items to your story with thematic text Thematic knowledge is shown in the choice of items and the thematic text. Your story should be spread over each page and read from left to right and top to bottom. Put thematic text under each item to tie it to your story. Keep it simple, like the name of a person or an object in your story e.g. “Queen Elizabeth” or “guide dog”. The thematic element you are showing should be dominant on the item. If you need an arrow
to show the element it is probably not the right item. Don’t “force” your story to show a good philatelic item. E.g. A penny black labelled “Queen Victoria liked opera”. 4. Show your philatelic knowledge Philatelic knowledge is shown by compliance with philatelic rules, the range and balanced use of philatelic material, the appropriateness and correctness of the
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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation or funky. The plan lists the content as it appears in the frames in a logical order of chapters. It should give a summarised version of your story. The 150 or so words in the introduction and purpose are arguably the most important words in your entire exhibit. They describe the scope and what’s omitted. Figure 8 shows an example of a well-structures title page. Have fun searching - discover new items to better tell your story and improve your exhibit APF Awards 2020 The Australian Philatelic Order was established by the APF in 1994 to recognize and honour philatelists who Figure 5: Australian pre-paid postcard showing the Rod Laver have given distinguished service to Arena in Melbourne Australian Philately. The awards are now philatelic text and any philatelic studies. an established highlight of the Australian Use a different font for the thematic and philatelic text philatelic calendar with a formal presentation ceremony (usually italics for philatelic). Write up each item as held in conjunction with the Annual General Meeting if it were in its own class. Covers and used stationery of the APF. Nominees are considered based on their should talk about route, rates and markings. Mint services to organized philately, distinguished philatelic stationery might talk of the type and printer. Figure 7 study and research. This also includes judging, is Dutch meter cancel that has both thematic and philatelic text. An explanation is required only when the material is not self-explanatory or there is a need to illustrate special research. Do not state the obvious e.g. “USA stamp”. Highlight rarity as in any other class. 5. Sell your story – perfect your title page Your title page, like other classes, shows the purpose of your exhibit. It is the very last creative step. There is never a good reason to design the page before the exhibit is finished, because doing so is likely to mean you’ll need to do it again. The title must clearly define the scope. It should not be too general 52 - Stamp News
Figure 6: First day cover of issue of a Charles Darwin stamp with a generic cancellation.
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Philatelic Development Officer, APF his early working career when he had pen pals in Fiji & Canada. Collecting continuously through his Tertiary Studies in Accountancy, it wasn’t until he took an aroundthe- world trip in 1979 that he became convinced of the need to join a stamp club (or two) - which has now grown to over fifteen clubs. David became involved in the administrative and organisational side of the hobby in the mideighties and has held numerous positions of Treasurer, Secretary, Vice President and President over the years, currently being President of two clubs, Vice President of two, Figure 7: Dutch meter cancel with both thematic and philatelic text Treasurer of two and Life Member of three. In addition, David has been promotion of philately and public dissemination on both the APF Executive and SA including teaching. Philatelic Council continuously since 2001, receiving David Figg (see figure 9) will be awarded a Member the SAPC Briskham Award in 2006. of Australian Philately (MAP) at a ceremony planned At the National level David is currently APF for December this year (although the exact date of the Treasurer, Picture Postcard Class Coordinator, National presentation ceremony cannot be confirmed until the Juror and FIP Maximaphily Commission Delegate. He travel restrictions due to COVID are known). has also been President and Treasurer of many National There is a policy of not awarding these awards Stamp Exhibitions held in Adelaide. posthumously. Gary Brown (see figure 10) passed away very unexpectedly last year. His enormous contribution to both Australian and Word philately, had never been recognised with an APF Award. It has therefore been decided to award Gary with an APF Honorary Fellow Award. This award will be accepted at the ceremony by Gary’s family. The citations for David and Gary are: David Figg citation for Member of the Australian Philatelic Order David started collecting stamps during his Primary School years and continued through High School and
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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Being a retired accountant by profession, his business acumen and organisational skills have been very much appreciated. For example, David was responsible for organising the Australia-wide insurance policies on Public & Products Liability insurance and the Voluntary Workers Personal Accident insurance.
Figure 9: David Figg Internationally, David has been Australian Commissioner on numerous occasions, CommissionerGeneral for Australia 2013, Vice President to Melbourne 2013 and is currently a Bureau Member on the FIP Maximaphily Commission. His judging career commenced in 2003. Since then, David has judged on numerous occasions nationally and on overseas accords, and in recent years became a Team Leader in Picture Postcards and has also served as Jury Secretary & Jury Chair. David exhibits prolifically in the Picture Postcards Class having achieved Large Gold Nationally and Large Vermeil internationally. He has also exhibited in Aerophilately, Open and Polar. Although not an international judge, it was through his interest in picture postcards that he scored a jury assignment in Finland in 2017. Following that assignment, at the request of Bernard Beston (then FIP Vice President), David prepared two discussion papers for the FIP Board; one on the class being considered as an experimental class, and the other on how to accredit international judges in to the class. David has also conducted sessions on the class at National Training and Refresher courses as well as seminars and workshops including overseas. 54 - Stamp News
Gary Brown citation for Honorary Fellow of the Australian Philatelic Order Gary Brown has been one of the leaders of Australian Philately with enormous achievements both Nationally and Internationally. As a collector, exhibitor, International Judge, mentor, trainer, manager of International exhibitions, member and leader of philatelic societies and innumerable other roles, Gary’s contribution to organised philately was huge. Gary’s personal exhibiting record is staggering. The official record maintained by the Australian Philatelic Federation lists 107 separate awards for a diverse range of topics. Perhaps his greatest achievement as an exhibitor was with his Aden Postal History which he first showed in 1986 in Adelaide and which he developed into an international large gold exhibit that was awarded the Grand Prix d’Honneur in the FIAP exhibition in Sharjah in 2012. Having won three FIP large gold medals in Portugal, Jakarta and Thailand, Gary competed in the Championship class at Australia 2013 World Exhibition. His many other exhibits include the South African Protea series that achieved a gold also at Australia 2013, South Africa airletters and aerogrammes, Natal postal stationery to large vermeil level in Bandung 2017 and South African Revenues to gold level in China in 2019. He also developed large vermeil exhibits of Tunisia and the Airgraph Service, both particularly challenging subjects and ones which Gary researched and presented with enthusiasm. His Open class Exhibit, “Cricket, the Game” is another of his better-know exhibits. Gary was not just a collector and exhibitor. He put far more into our hobby through his untiring efforts serving organised philately over very many years. He joined the Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria in 1977 and served on their Council for about 20 years. As the President 2002-2004 he played an important role in their move to new premises in Ashburton, seen as a crucial step in securing their future. He served
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Figure 10: Gary Brown on the Finance and Publications committees and in recognition of this long commitment to the Royal he was one of ten inaugural Fellows elected in 2010. He first became involved with the Australian Philatelic Federation as Vice President in 2005, was President in 2007 to 2009 and assumed the role of International Officer in 2011, a position he still held until his untimely death in 2019. Gary served on the Executive Committee of the Asian Federation (FIAP) from 2010 to 2017 when he was made an Honorary Member, an honour only bestowed on one other Australian and a symbol of the high regard in which he is held throughout Asia. I cannot recall an Exhibition in Asia where he was not present in some role and he did an enormous job in enhancing the reputation of Australian philately abroad. The World Philatelic body (FIP) also benefitted from Gary’s hard work and expertise. He served on their Traditional Commission as the Bureau Secretary and then as Chairman of the Literature Commission. Perhaps his greatest contribution to FIP was as a judge. He served as a probationary judge at London 2010 and went on to serve on many international juries where he earned great respect for his wise and freely given advice to exhibitors from across the world. It
is this willingness to spend time with them, that many international exhibitors remember him for. He brought that experience back to Australia where he was the Convenor for several Judges Training courses and would willingly volunteer to run seminars and training course whenever asked. He most recently was one of the FIP presenters at training courses for international judges for the FIP Jury Academy. Australia has hosted only six international exhibitions and Gary was instrumental in the success of the three most recent of them. He undertook the role of Commissioner General at Pacific Explorer 2005 in Sydney, a very demanding job, and enthused by that he was the driving force at the very successful World Exhibition Australia 2013 in Melbourne. Many contributed to this success, but it was his strong relationship with Australia Post and their senior philatelic staff as well as his practical ability in working with the exhibition organisers and his energy in mustering support overseas that were key ingredients in the success of Australia 2013. His enthusiasm did not wane after Australia 2013 and he went on the act as Vice President at the equally successful Melbourne International in 2017 and was busy organising a similar show for 2021. Although not a prolific author Gary wrote to educate others with articles on his favourite country, Aden, and others on areas he was trying to promote such as the Open Class and the new area of Topical exhibits. Perhaps more importantly, Gary was an editor of three different journals, a task that only other editors in the philatelic field will appreciate. He was the inaugural editor of ‘The Dhow’, a journal about Aden philately. He also took over as editor of the NAPE journal, a journal aimed at philatelic exhibiting, but due to a lack of articles his tenure was relatively brief. He then took over as the editor of APF News and completely reinvigorated it, receiving many compliments on his approach. Gary loved his hobby but more importantly he was always willing to share his knowledge and experience with other collectors and exhibitors. He left a legacy that improved Australian and international philately, which is all any collector can hope for, and is a most worthy in becoming an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Philatelic Order. Stamp News - 55
Market Matters SG “Colour Key” is no more.
Useful stamp products come and go - sadly. I had a UK client order a SG “Colour Key” this week. I told him the postage from here was probably higher than the thing retails for, and suggested he secured one locally. He advised ‘’none were buyable in UK’’ and to please just send and charge it to his credit card. Thought to myself, what a strange order, charged his card, mailed him the one Colour Key I then had in stock, and ordered 10 more from local agent - to get told they were discontinued by SG! Just double checked with SG in UK and sure enough - TOTALLY KAPUT! These are an essential piece of kit in THIS is Steel-Blue on a stamp. EVERY stamp den, as I have posted 100 times here over the years. Stamp Colour Key”, was pretty much the only refI must have sold hundreds over the decades, erence anyone used globally. And has been so for quite cheap, and easy to store, and easy to use, and MANY decades. A bit like the paint match colour very accurate for British Commonwealth stamp charts they used to have at hardware shops really, colours. I mean how would you ever know what and worked just as well. SAGE GREEN is, unless you have one of these to You just place the correct colour chip over the compare that shade to the solid colour chip on these stamps in question, via the large hole in centre of cards. And 100 other similar examples. each chip, and the accurate colour shade you are The “Stanley Gibbons Colour Guide” and in looking at is then readily evident. Every stamp some markets also called the “Stanley Gibbons computer monitor differs, so looking at them on screen is most inaccurate in many cases. A waste of time for fine shade nuances. Tried and proven, and far better than 10 folks taking a different “guess” at what a “buff orange” is - and getting 10 different answers! Did you know before what “Myrtle Green” was - well now you do, looking at the Key. I use mine a lot each year, and for the modest cost, is an essential accessory for most collectors. They last forever. Came in a clear vinyl storage wallet. EVERYONE now knows what “Indian Red” looks like exactly - without this, no-one has the vaguest CLUE. Now $140 each on ebay! They let you identify about 200 DIF56 - Stamp News
Glen Stephens FERENT colours with great accuracy. A loss to the hobby, and let’s hope a new manufacturer can be located somewhere, who can replicate this handy gizmo, at an affordable price point. SG claim they cannot. Anyone trying to sort scarce SG listed shades by peering at images on the web is wasting their time. It just is not possible to do accurately. Those that ordered one when they figuratively cost peanuts globally, owe me a beer! One sold on eBay UK this week for £64 plus £5 post, and 10% GST to a local buyer = £76 or about $A140. tinyurl.com/StampColour has details of this, and a whole pile of albums and Now THESE Machins I like. pages SG have also stopped making.
HM not aged in 53 Years!
The vanity of Queen Elizabeth 2 being happy to leave the exact same Machin portrait on the most heavily used UK stamps for 53 years, is near impossible to believe to me, but it endures. It has been there unchanged since 1967 when I entered high school. Stamp collectors love Machin heads of course, with well over five thousand varieties of colour, value, gum, phosphor banding, iridescent overprints,
“Off With Her Head”!
perforations, printing methods - Photogravure, Intaglio/Engraved, Typography, Electro-Mechanical Engraving (EME Gravure), Embossing etc possible. I am not a huge fan, except for the elegantly re-done £5 design shown nearby, and a few other re-works, but know many fellow dealers who sell almost nothing else except Machins, so to each their own. If the Queen, now 94, lives to be old as her mother, the Machin head stamp design will have lasted 60 years! Whilst researching this article I found a Royal Mail summary of the history of Queen Elizabeth’s head on stamps. It seems clear socialist/Labour Leftie newly appointed Postmaster General Tony Benn fought tenaciously to remove her head OFF all UK stamps. At this time, around ONE THIRD of each commemorative stamp design needed to show the Queen! See the nearby 1961 1/6d Post Office Savings Bank issue as a typical example, showing the vast chunk the QE2 imStamp News - 57
Market Matters age took up on stamps of this era. I scanned this stamp today, and looked at the few straggly flowers, and wondered to myself what on earth they had to with the POSB?
Guess the design central element.
The Postal Museum website gave me the answer - it is supposedly a “Thrift Plant”!! I kid you not - I am not making this up. A Committee of big shots worked tirelessly on this master brain storm design for months. This was UK “Adventuresome” design! Talk about LAME. And I was not the only person cerned - “we are trying to be as adventuresome as wondering what on earth this possible”. silly looking bunch of flowers thing was all about. Just take a look at the truly dreary CEPT ConThe same website tells us Her Majesty approved the ference set of 3 issued the very next month, and the designs after a trip to Italy, but noted: “The Queen even worse and corny National Productivity Year was puzzled as to the significance of some of the trio issued the following month, the heavily used designs, and the Postmaster General was asked letter rate value is shown nearby, and you wonder if if, in future, short explanations could accompany he was inwardly laughing, and just taking the pith! stamp designs.” Even the Queen looks glum. The Assistant Postmaster General at the Press Conference announcing this issue, and the next Let me give back my Peerage. 2 issues (quite a flood back then!) was laughably Postmaster General Tony Benn was very radical in reported in the press as stating as far as issues of many ways, and had fought long and hard to give future British commemorative stamps were con-
Unissued and issued GB Churchills. 58 - Stamp News
Glen Stephens BACK his hereditary peerage title of 2nd Viscount Stansgate of Stansgate. He was the first in Britain to do so, due to the ‘1963 Peerage Act’ being passed - and almost entirely due to his continued efforts to rid himself of his inherited title - being a radical Labour activist! Though a fierce critic of the British class system, Benn came from a moneyed and privileged family himself. Both of his grandfathers had been Members of Parliament and his father, The first Cameo head stamp. William Wedgwood Benn (1877-1960), had been a felt 75% of the issued stamps would be imperfect. I Liberal, and then a Labour, MP who in 1942 enassume that a tiny colour misregistration would vitered the House Of Lords as 1st Viscount Stansgate. sually thin that vertical line easily? In practice I am Tony Benn commissioned essays of the 1965 not sure whether that occurred much in the finished Churchill and Battle of Britain stamps showing no stamps. Queen’s Head, and tried hard to get them approved by the Palace. A losing battle it seems very clear. Postmaster Benn Prevails The 1/3d Churchill essay is shown nearby, with NO Queen and the never before seen words “Great Brit- The UK Postal Museum official website postalmuseum.org also tells us that in early 1965, the Britain” - alongside the issued stamp, showing the then ish Postmaster General Benn expressed a sudden traditional Wilding design head. interest in the content, and the general instructions The accepted Churchill design stamps were sent to stamp artists, to aid them with their designs, shown to, and approved by Lady Churchill before and the parameters and necessary content to be used they were submitted the Queen. Lady Churchill in them, for future stamp designs. much preferred the Oscar Nemon marble bust resiIn early March Benn had been granted an audident in Windsor Castle, but was advised this would ence with the Queen, at which time the subject of not work well, if transferred to one dimension on a the ‘new stamp policy’ was discussed. During this stamp. audience, the Queen agreed that ‘non-traditional’ The Stamp Advisory Committee insisted on a designs could be submitted for future issues. This vertical line on the final Churchill stamp design bewas confirmed by a letter from the Queen’s Private ing added, so that it did not give the impression the Secretary on 12 March 1965. Queen was hovering somewhere in space, peering It would appear that, during this Royal audience, over Sir Winston’s left shoulder. the question of the continued use of the Queen’s Printers Harrison & Sons informed the PO that head on stamps had been the subject of some because that line was the natural colour of the discussion with Benn. Certainly, the letter from paper, there would be a tendency for the color to Buckingham Palace contained the suggestion that spread over that line. After much testing Harrisons Stamp News - 59
Market Matters the Royal Cypher be used in place of the Queen’s head ‘on certain stamps’. However, the GPO representative informed the Stamp Advisory Committee that it was ‘very unlikely’ that any design without the Queen’s head would be chosen, despite what had been said about design freedom in the ‘Instructions to Artists’ - emanating direct from boss, Postmaster General Benn. It is all rather Never seen for over 100+ years. like an out-take script from “Yes Minister”! the same Machin bust design to this day, and the never aging Queen - who after 53 years has not “I do want my head please.” changed one iota on definitive stamps, or added a Postmaster General Benn pushed ahead with his single wrinkle line! I feel sure no-one has ever “Off With Her Head” campaign according to Roydared to raise it with her again. Her Majesty’s imal Mail: “At an audience in November 1965 The age has seen her age gracefully on UK coinage, but Queen informed the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, oddly not on the stamps - I am sure there is a reason that she DID want her head to appear on all stamps, - someone will know! but would approve the use of a silhouette format. Fearing a political row, Benn accepted the situation, Hidden Stamp Treasures Still Exist. and pressed ahead with the use of a cameo silhouMany collectors and dealers despair that no nice ette.” “finds” are still to be made, as it is near certain all Benn’s first “cameo” was on the 1966 “Landold circa 1900 albums around the globe have been scape” issue shown nearby, where Mary Gillick’s checked/picked over already, by the many, many, cameo head design was used. The Queen approved generations of other collectors or dealers that have that design, and made no comment on it. Tony walked before them, and peered in and plundered Benn in VERY quick time greatly reduced the size the vintage stamp albums. of that HUGE cameo head, as we all know, so that Whilst that is largely true, it is still possible to by the 1967 Christmas issue it was very unobtrusive find key face different pieces like 1913 £2 Kangaand in the corner of each new stamp - and stayed roos, or GB £5 Oranges, or USA $5 Columbians that way! etc, and even they still do turn up from time to time About 35 years ago there were moves to update in old collections, that have remained tightly held in her likeness on the Machin stamps - after all it had families, and have never been near a stamp dealer then been used for about 25 years. The Queen’s or an auction etc. Private Secretary is quoted by Royal Mail as reAn elderly lady bought over a huge red SG sponding in part: “Her Majesty is very content with “Ideal” album that had been in her family for over the Machin effigy on the stamps, and thinks that a century, and she was downsizing to a care unit, a work of real quality is required, if this is to be and did not want to take it with her, and none of the replaced.” family were interested in stamps. She did not trust Needless to say after that - Britain is stuck with Auctions, and simply wanted a fair cash price for it 60 - Stamp News
Glen Stephens all, so it would find a new home. These books are generally sparsely filled, as they are so huge, and but not so with this one. The first pages of all these books contains AUSTRALIA, as they are arranged alphabetically. On that page she had among other nice pieces, a complete set 15, of the 1913 Kangaroo stamps, ranging from the ½d to £2. The values to 5/- all had the glossy CTO cancels, themselves a scarce set, and as always, the 3 high values were handstamped “Specimen” with a rubber stamp pad. All lightly hinged in there THE most attractive GB stamp design? over 100 years back, and had nevwe do not know for certain what packaging the set er been seen by any dealer since. They are shown nearby, and are worth $1000’s thus. or folder it was sold in, or consisted of, as none have survived - rather amazingly. Another nice piece in the old book was the GB Now on a 787 to Africa! 1913 £1 Green “Seahorse” VFU nearby. This is by All with fresh full gum, and super light peelable far the scarcest face different GB stamp from the Gibbons hinges, and a client in South Africa is the past century+, and is missing from nearly EVERY proud owner of them today. The 1913 “Specimen” GB collection globally. It is cat way near treble issue is not common at all, and indeed to this day, used, the GB “Glamour” item, the £1 PUC, and almost double the £1 KEVII. A rare stamp. I get one every few years or so in stock. So nice stamps still DO surface, after a century of being hidden. The £1 Seahorse is THE most attractive GB stamp ever, in my view. And luckily, this one was superbly centred, within wide margins as you can see - most are not. Near all on the market have horrid, really heavy thick smeary rubber “Killer” cancels, and/or many missing perfs due to the thick fibrous paper.
Just try finding one for sale!
“FU” with RPS Certificate. Faked!
In my view it is the most under-priced high value in the SG book. Even decent fault free examples like this sell for exactly what a MUH 5/- Harbour Bridge does. Any of 30 dealers in this country have those in Stamp News - 61
Market Matters stock right now - but likely none of them have a £1 Seahorse, in any condition, at ANY price! Ask around. Anyway, this one sold very fast. It will have been used on a parcel from the UK to Sydney, where the collection was formed. Postal use of a £1 back in this era was most unusual. Many all the UK high values “used” are from Telegrams or revenue use. A very large % of the £1 Green KEVII have undated rubber GUERNSEY or JERSEY cancels from customs charges etc. Near ALL the existing “used” QV £5 Oranges are from excise payments of Whisky etc - large numbers have Belfast, Glasgow and Edinburgh neat black steel cds from this use, often in multiples even the ones with superb steel cds cancels. Far more on that here from the world expert on these, Dr. John Horsey - tinyurl.com/QV5PD The £5 Orange stamp illustrated nearby is a truly lovely looking example of a key stamp, I am sure you’ll agree. Nicely centred, great colour and perfs, and attractive. This 1882 GB £5 Orange stamp is cancelled with a neat “Registered - Threadneedle Street - London” oval cancel of “24 - JA - 83”. The stamp very attractive stamp has the usual large single lined Anchor watermarks on each side. SG 133. Cat £12,500 used. Comes complete with a 1985 Royal Philatelic Society London (RPSL) clear photo Certificate of Genuineness saying - “SG 133 £5 Orange on blued paper, used, is genuine”.
The oblique angles show it all.
So a lovely looking stamp, cat £12,500 with a clear RPSL Certificate, should be worth near $A10,000
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or so - correct? Wrong - it is a FAKE! A forger carefully picked/scratched off those “SPECIMEN” letters, and then added a dodgy cancel on top, making it worth $1000s more than a “Specimen”. The oblique photos above show it well if you look carefully. Indeed the very REASON the Australian Post Office moved from the handstamped “SPECIMEN” overprint used on these 1913 stamps nearby, was their fear that crooks would buy the sets for £1, and get £3½ of usable postage if they removed the nonfast handstamp letters by simple bleaching, AND got a bunch of other FU stamps VFU to 5/- “free” as well. Memos flew around the place, and the often very faintly applied 1913 rubber stamp ink handstamps were replaced on all issues for the next 50 years with sold black letter “SPECIMEN” wording, in a very bold CAPS font, and was machine metal type applied, using jet black letterpress permanent printer ink. The Australian Post Office for over 50 years created a wide range of different outer design and shaped packs to sell these packs to the public. The empty pack montage shown nearby I passed on to a client, and many are surprised at just how many variances came out over the decades. And this is by no means all of them! These stamps (and the many other KGV era stamps that were in the same pack) were sold for £1 a set at GPOs, with the stated intention of interesting youngsters in collecting Australian stamps. The composition of the stamps in each pack changed
Glen Stephens very often over the ensuing decades, as new stamps were issued.
What a fantastic contents range.
Shown nearby is a full page ad for these in the April 1935 “Walkabout” magazine - a mass circulation publication to the public, and even then, few sets were sold, despite them having a CTO 1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge set 4, KGV Die 2, 4½ violet, Kingsford Smith overprinted “OS” trio, 5/- Roos OS, and the high value Roos overprinted “Specimen” etc. Australia sold these “Specimen” packs well into the 1970s at all Philatelic Bureaux - even then still at only $2 (=£1) a pack, and as always, the content was altered to include A wide variety of Folders exist. newer sets that had come on stream. The 1966 era pack with all the 24 diff Decimal and will cost you not much more than $A100 or so. issues up to $4 Navigators are still seen pretty often, The policy right to the end, was that the higher values were handstamped (1913 only) or overprinted (all other issues) with the word “SPECIMEN”. Obtaining a CofA watermark Specimen set of 3 high value Kangaroos “SPECIMEN” is a remarkably affordable way to fill those 3 gaps - costing $150 or so hinged. Even an average USED trio will set you back around $1,000 these days!
Packs never sold very well.
Quite a deal for just £1!
History shows us that these packs never really sold well, given the quite superb value they represented. For generations the corner CTO and “Specimen” contents were heavily sneered at by “serious” philatelists, being regarded as “Kiddies goodie bags” type stamps etc, and no-one was very keen on them. Stampboards.com has a long 5,000 message thread on these CTO/Specimen stamps - tinyurl.com/ozCTO - that in parts has re-written sections of the ACSC with new findings. Prices today have gone nuts for many pieces. Tons of original research in there, and for anyone collecting this area a MUST READ discussion to follow. Many issues were short lived with “SPECIMEN” overprints, and are costly. The 1937 £1 Coronation “Robes” issue was done in small numbers starting Stamp News - 63
Market Matters 1944 in WW2, as the £1 grey Kangaroo was held in large numbers in Melbourne, so not many of that stamp were done, but of the 10/- “Robes”, plenty were sold. Odd. The partial insides and cover, of an original pack I sold to a client are shown nearby to demonstrate how these stamps were arranged inside each “Specimen” pack in this pre-war era. Here glassine strips were mostly employed, but the later 1960s issues were simply placed in a heap, into a small glassine, licked to inner cover of the folders.
were buyable for the same £1 ($2) purchase cost. The 4 high value Navigator “Specimens” shown $750 return on a $2 outlay. nearby I sold recently for $A750. Not a bad return Even as recently as the 1960s some rather rare sets on the original PO investment of $2. They were freely available to anyone who wanted them - oddly VERY few ordered them. Easily the smallest PO issue of anything Australian since WW2. Recent ACSC research shows only 3,480 sets of 4 of these Navigators were ever supplied by Note Printing Branch to the Post Office, and many believe not all those were sold before the Decimal issue of February 1966, and hence were later destroyed. Most sets were bought as gifts for young collectors as the “Specimen” set only cost £1. I was given a set of these in 1964 by an uncle, and proudly affixed them all into my little album - each with a large, yellow, vigorously licked stamp hinge! I’ve even bought collections where kids have LICKED these sets into albums, as of course they all had gum on the back in the packs. Nearly all £1 “Robes” Specimens offered on amateur seller sites like eBay are Forgeries, and any Bunny buying ANYTHING pricey there gets zero guarantee of course. Genuine copies are pretty easily spotted by experienced dealers, but the forger cowPart of a GENUINE WW2 Specimen pack. (Image above and boys who inhabit eBay LOVE this stamp, at top of page) 64 - Stamp News
Glen Stephens as each fake makes them many $100s of easy profit, as GENUINE examples MUH fetch way into 4 figures these days.
eBay Bunny Fodder Heaven.
Anyone buying ANYTHING overprinted or perfinned on eBay, where the overprint or perfin is worth much more than the normal, needs rocks in their heads. As you are near always buying forgeries in that “Bunny Bargain” deal. I offered a seller $50 for his £1 Robes as a curio reference this week - he paid $800 for it on eBay early last year, via a long departed spiv seller. Brilliant “Investment”. My sad seller blurted out Even 1960s sets are valuable. that the dodgy unknown eBayer had as part of his shifty spiv in a smoky pub offered him a “Solid description: ”All stamps fully genuine - 100% monGold Rolex watch” with the same guarantee, if he ey back Guarantee”. I laughed, and asked if some would place much weight on THAT warranty! So he lost $750. The lack of IQ and savvy shown by many stamp buyers on venues like eBay astounds me - week in and week out. Stampboards. com has endless new threads from “Bargain Buyers” proudly showing their latest “treasure” purchased for $100s or “half retail”, and being shown it was nothing but a crude fake worth pennies. eBay do not care one iota - they make about 12% eBay and paypal fee total from EVERY transaction, whether the stamps are faked or not, and are clearly not the slightest bit interested in even banning the most active and most blatant forgers, as they make very good money from them. Sad but true - and only a mug buys overprints, etc, from there. *NEVER* buy these on eBay etc. Stamp News - 65
Afghan PROBLEM STAMPS Afghanistan is a country which is troubled by political and ethnic unrest, religious fanatics and endless terror. Most weeks we get news about suicide bombings resulting in multiple innocent victims. The situation in the country has been more than difficult for decades. For many stamp collectors Afghanistan can also be a country which poses many problems. The first Afghan stamps with the country’s name in an understandable language for most of us only appeared in 1927. Since then most stamp issues have included the words POSTES AFGHANES in French which of course helps us locate the correct country in our stamp catalogues. Recently a collector friend asked me for help to identify a number of rather exotic stamps with
writing in what he described as Arabic. They all turned out to be Afghan stamps. I thought it might be a good idea to share my findings with Stamp News readers. The stamps are difficult to identify but there are some rather helpful clues when we pay attention to various design elements. The Afghan coat of arms depicts the gate to a mosque with two crossed cannon below. It might therefore be a good idea to carefully study the stamp in Fig. 1 as it shows exactly this design. The stamp lacks a specified denomination and was only used on official correspondence inside Afghanistan. Hence there was no need to indicate the country name in French or any other Western language for that matter.
Figure 2
Figure 1
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Christer Brunström The service stamp in Fig. 1 was issued in 1909 and there were several additional printings in shades of red until at least 1927. Very possibly the use of service stamps ceased at about this time. A new type of service stamp (Fig. 2) was introduced in 1939. Until 1968 there were five different values. Once again the design features the Afghan coat of arms and the printing quality is a lot better without being perfect. As these service stamps could only be used within the country there was no need for the country name in French. In 1891 Afghanistan issued a special stamp (Fig. 3) to be used in connection with registered mail. It was printed on very thin paper and it only had writing in Arabic script. This stamp is very scarce genuinely used but quite common in mint
condition as large remainders must have been sold off to the trade. Starting in 1893 the design of the registration stamps was changed and it now included the coat of arms (Fig. 4). During the following years there were several printings on differently coloured papers and always on very this paper. The stamp shown here was printed on rose paper and it was used in the 1898-1900 period. In 1909 the Afghan Postal Service introduced special stamps for the handling of parcels (Fig. 5). Once again they can easily be identified as the Afghan coat of arms is part of the design. The printing quality of these early stamps leaves a lot to be desired. An entirely new type of parcel stamps went
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AFGHAN PROBLEM STAMPS on sale in 1921 (Fig. 6). They depict the Old Habibia College located in the vicinity of Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan. These stamps are generally only perforated on two sides and finding a nicely centred copy is very difficult. Afghanistan’s last parcel stamp was issued in 1929 (Fig. 7) and by then the design had changed once again as it now includes the coat of arms in the centre surrounded by a most intricately executed frame. Many of the ordinary postage stamps from the early 1900s also included the Afghan coat of arms in their designs. This holds true for a tiny stamp released in 1913 (Fig. 8). It carries a denomination of 2 paisa and could only be used
on postcards as indicated by the wording “Tiket waraq dak” (= stamp for postcards). This stamp could not be used to pay postage on any other kinds of mail. There is a host of many other early regular Afghan postage stamps which will provide identification problems for most collectors. It would appear that the remainders of many of the stamps presented in this story were sold to the stamp trade long after they ceased to be valid for postage. This certainly explains why they frequently pop up in collections of Afghanistan and each time they create problems for collectors trying to identify them.
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