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1. 5/- Grey & Yellow (3rd wmk) with quite stunning ‘cropped ears’ on roo. Poor centring doesn’t distract from scarce eye-catching vignette variety. MUH, SG 42. $1500 2. 1913 (1st Wmk) MELBOURNE CTO Roo Selection (9).

Nice group that includes £1 Brown & Blue. $4750 3. 10/- Specimen (CofA wmk) with scarce Type C overprint. Only 1200 printed. Clean & VF. MLH, BW 50x, SG 136s. $425 4. 1949 £2 Arms Imprint Block (4) with BW listed ‘Roller Flaw’ on the two left hand units. **/* Fresh & Very Fine.

SG 224d, BW 271zb. $750 5.New Guinea 1932 Bulolo Airmails (Set 14/14). Most appealing and lightly used. Very Fine and difficult to find like this, SG 212/25. $875 6. New Guinea N.W.P.I. 5/- Grey & Yellow (3rd Wmk) fine

used Roo with less common BASE OFFICE CANCEL, cds 2 AU 18, SG 116. $250 7. New Zealand 1858 1d dull orange Imperf Chalon, no wmk. Reasonable margins, one is partly shaved. Large part original gum. Scare stamp (SG Cat 8, £3000). $2750 (export price $2500) 8. New Zealand 1864 1d carmine vermilion, rouletted 7 at Auckland, wmk NZ. Bottom serration unbroken. Scarce specialist stamp (SG 101, Cat £3000). $1750 (export price $1590) 9. £2 Black & Rose (1913, 1st wmk). Brilliant colouring and well centred. A nice strong impression on this most appealing premium grade classic stamp, MLH, SG 16. $8500 10. £2 Navigator ‘King’ in unmounted marginal block of 4.

Nicely centred and very fine, SG 360. $325

11. KGV 4Ωd Violet (SM Wmk, Perf 14). A very fine & fresh unmounted corner block (4). SG 92, BW 119. $300

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12. NSW 1850 1d Sydney Views, with ‘Clouds’ plate II greyish paper. Four close margins SG 9, ASC 1b. $300 13. TAS 1858 1s Vermillion Imperf. Nice margins, Very Fine Mint example, checked under UV. SG 41, ASC 7. $750 14. New Guinea 1916-31 Bi-Colours Set (13/13). VF & Fresh. Sky retouch on 5s, MLH, SG 93/105. $395 15. New Guinea NWPI Kangaroos 1/- with One Penny Surcharge Strip of 6 on piece with curiousRABAUL 1 MY 18 cds. According to SG these were not issued until 23 May 1918 Presumably perf favour by local Postmaster, SG 100. $1250

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A closer look at modern Australian stamps: Chris de Haer.....8 Woodchip Free Zone: Rod Perry ................................................ 16 Revenue Review: Dave Elsmore ................................................. 24 Ireland: the Definitive Issues: Mike Lee ................................... 28 Cinderella Corner: Tony Presgrave ............................................ 32 Historic Lundy: Christer Brunström .......................................... 36 Looking at New Zealand: Graeme Morriss ............................. 40 Introducing the APF: John Sadler .............................................. 44 Stamps in the News: Margo Campbell .................................... 48 Market Matters: Glen Stephens .................................................... 54

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philatelic news 100th Anniversary of the Loss of the RMS Titanic : Ascension Island One hundred years ago on 10th April 1912 the RMS Titanic left Southampton, England on her maiden voyage bound for New York in the USA. Tragically the events of the next few days became one of the most fascinating and enduring stories of all time.

This was no ordinary passenger liner. Named Titanic because she was the largest passenger vessel in history she was considered by many to be ‘unsinkable’. She was the epitome of luxury and one of the marvels of the modern world. Her passengers ranged from some of the world’s wealthiest to the poorest including more than a thousand emigrants, travelling to the new world in the hope of better opportunities for themselves and their families.

For the First Class Passengers the Titanic was quite luxurious with her Grand Staircase and the general feel of a high class hotel. Facilities included a swimming pool, gymnasium, a squash court and even a Turkish bath. Whilst the fittings reflected the class of the passengers even the Third Class passengers enjoyed a sense of luxury and leisure facilities unavailable on other ships of the time.

Although Titanic was primarily a passenger liner, she also carried a substantial amount of cargo. Her designation as a Royal Mail Ship (RMS) indicated that she carried mail under contract with the Royal Mail (and also for the United States Post Office

Department). 26,800 cubic feet (760 m3) of space in her holds was allocated for the storage of letters, parcels and other valuables. The Sea Post Office was manned by five postal clerks, three Americans and two Britons, who worked thirteen hours a day, seven days a week sorting up to 60,000 items daily.

Her maiden voyage took her from Southampton to Cherbourg in France and on to Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland before heading westwards towards New York. The first 3 days of the voyage from Queenstown passed without incident with the weather becoming clear, calm and increasingly cold. Although she received warnings from other ships of drifting ice it was generally believed that ice presented little danger to large vessels, so she continued at full steam.

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At 11.40pm on 14th April the ship’s lookout spotted an iceberg immediately ahead. The helmsman swerved hoping to miss the iceberg, but they would have been better off to have struck it head on. In narrowly avoiding a head-on collision, they suffered an even worse fate! Survivors recalled a gentle shudder that briefly shook the 900 foot long vessel. It came and went so quickly that nobody gave it much of a second thought. The starboard side had struck the iceberg creating a series of holes below the waterline; just enough to cause the metal plates to buckle so that six watertight compartments began taking in sea water. It soon became clear that the ship was doomed.

The “unsinkable” Titanic was ill-prepared for such an emergency. The lifeboats could only accommodate half of those on board and the crew, who had not been adequately trained for an evacuation, launched many lifeboats barely half full. As the band played on a “women and children first” protocol was followed and most of the male passengers and crew were left aboard.

Astonishingly, just two hours forty minutes after hitting the iceberg the ship split apart with the stern section rising out of the water before sinking into the frozen water.

Although many ships were in the vicinity of the Titanic when she struck the iceberg, the speed at which she sank meant that none of those responding to her distress calls and flares were able to reach her in time. The relative position of these vessels

and their direction of travel when Titanic struck the iceberg are shown on the Souvenir Sheet. One nearby ship, the Californian had warned Titanic earlier about pack-ice that caused it to stop for the night, her radio operators going to bed. Flares were seen but the Californian, which could have arrived before the Titanic sank, failed to assist until the following day. Before that, at around 4am RMS Carpathia arrived responding to the earlier distress calls and searching the seas was able to convey 710 survivors to New York. The exact number of casualties is unclear. Some cancelled their bookings at the last minute whilst others travelled under aliases and were double counted on the casualty lists. It is thought that 1,514 perished on that fateful night, although the figure could be as high as 1,635.

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A Closer Look at Modern Australian Stamps This month we look at both traditional stamps, and some digital products. With Australia Post moving more and more into the digital realm, with new look post offices, mobile apps and digital mailboxes coming soon, there’s the possibility of collecting something from the very first issue.

Road to London (5 June 2012)

For the second time Australia Post will release three issues for an Olympic Games. The

Figure 1. Sheetlet of 10 Road to London stamps. first issue marks the journey to London for our team of around 400 athletes. Familiar London landmarks feature on the stamp, and I made sure I used some on mail to friends in the UK. Did you notice that the imprint year has been used as the bus number?

The ordinary gummed stamp was issued in sheetlets of 10 (Figure 1), and accompanied by a self-adhesive version issued in rolls of 100 and booklets of 10. As RA Printing printed all the stamps in this issue, there is no difference between the selfadhesive stamps apart from the backing paper.

Indonesia 2012 Stamp Show (18 June 2012)

To mark their participation at Indonesia 2012, Australia Post released two miniature sheets (Figure 2). The two sheets appeared online on 15 June 2012, but were not sent out from the Philatelic Bureau until the first day of the show (18 June). While no doubt popular with visitors to the show, philatelically the sheet with two $2.35 Koala stamps is rather Figure 2. The two Indonesian ordinary, with RA Stamp Show miniature sheets.

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Figure 3 Printing having printed the same stamp twice last year.

The other sheet (‘Call to Australia 2013’), also printed by RA Printing, contains a real surprise.

For the first time a gummed stamp has been Figure 4. 2012’s sheetlet of 10 Colonial Heritage stamps.

printed with a ‘tab’ incorporated into the design.

Hence this is a new stamp, as the ‘tab’ cannot be removed (removing it with scissors or guillotine would technically invalidate the stamp). The practice of reusing a design, often a definitive, within a larger design is occasionally seen in Europe (France is particularly fond of this practice (Figure 3)), but it is rarely seen from other countries. It will be interesting to see if this format is used again in the future – I certainly hope it is.

It’s also appropriate to remind readers that Australia 2013 is just over eight months away. The ‘Call to Australia 2013’ miniature sheet has also been overprinted by the show organisers and is available for purchase from www.australia2013.com

Colonial Heritage – Visualising Australia (19 June 2012) The third issue in this series spans 50 years of

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A Closer Look at Modern Australian Stamps colonial stamps.

The first stamp commemorates Australia’s first postage stamps, the locally designed and printed ‘Sydney View’ stamps (1850); while the other features ‘Hobart’ from Tasmania’s pictorial issue of 18991900, one of the last sets of stamps to be issued before Federation.

The two $2 Figure 5. First day cover for the ONJ Cancer and Wellness Centre. stamps were issued in a similar format ONJ Cancer and Wellness Centre Appeal (26 to last year’s issue – a sheetlet of 10 consisting of June 2012) horizontal and vertical pairs (Figure 4) (the Stamp Australia Post’s second charity issue will raise funds Bulletin mentions the stamps were issued in a sheet for the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness of 50, which I believe to be in error). In addition a Centre. Issued in a sheetlet of 10 self-adhesive miniature sheet contains a horizontal pair (again, the stamps, the sale price of $8 includes a $2 donation miniature sheet was trimmed by 5 mm to allow for for the Centre. This issue is the third time Australia affixing to first day covers).

Post has issued a self-adhesive only issue, and it will By the time this article is published the intaglio be interesting to see how the issue is included in the printed miniature sheets should be available, and yearbook, if at all. Australia Post has advised that I hope to feature information on this sheet next McKellar Renown printed the sheetlet, rather than month.

RA Printing.

Figure 6. Strip of four from the roll of 100 printed by Pemara Labels.

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Chris de Haer definitives issued at short notice in 2010 due to the domestic rate rise.

Gummed stamps were issued in blocks of four within sheets of 50 (with no gutter), and selfadhesive stamps in booklets and rolls. Rolls of 100 and 200 were printed by Pemara Labels and are die-cut 12¾ (Figure 6) while booklets of 10 and 20 were printed

by McKellar Renown and die-cut 11¼.

Let’s hope we see another release in this series later this year and further values in the next few years.

It would be nice to see a return to a full range of domestic definitives from the one series (as occurred with the Living Together and Sports series), rather than the odds and sods we have now. Admittedly, many of these stamps are rarely used, and are not a priority for replacement, but a full range of definitive stamps offers consistency and collectors the opportunity for specialist study.

Figure 7. ‘Hello Kitty’ sheetlet of 10.

I made sure I bought an extra few sheets for postage, and to make my own first day covers (Figure 5) (please contact me if you are interested in one). I also hope we see an annual charity issue, as happens in many other countries; and perhaps for Australia Post to experiment with the format of the issue – booklets of 10 and 20 could be issued and still allow for the inclusion of a receipt for taxation purposes.

Farming Australia (Part 2) (26 June 2012)

The second release in Australia Post’s new definitive series, these four 60c stamps celebrate four more primary producers and replace the four 60c Fish

Hello Kitty Pack (end June 2012)

Advertised in Stamp Bulletin No. 317, this special pack (sold for $10.95) features the 60c Balloons stamp from this year’s Precious Moments issue, in a sheetlet of 10 stamps and 10 tabs. Supplies were sent to post offices from the end of June, with the pack available from Australia Post’s online store on 10 July.

As with the Wiggles Pack last year the format (Figure 7) means that stamps with tabs will sell for a premium as only eight stamps with horizontal tabs are possible (horizontal pairs seem to be the preferred way of collecting tabs in Australia). RA Printing printed the sheetlet, so the pack is the source Stamp News - 11

A Closer Look at Modern Australian Stamps Australia Post iPhone/iPad Postcard App (28 June 2012)

Postal stationery collectors with either an iPhone or iPad will want to try this free app out. The app allows customers to either take a photograph or choose one stored in their image library, enter in a message and address, and then after payment is made, a high quality postcard with glossy finish is printed by Australia Post and delivered either within Australia or worldwide. Visitors to Pacific Explorer 2005 might remember that a similar postcard service was on show (see Figure 8).

Figure 9 shows the steps involved in producing a postcard (I choose an image of Geelong Town Hall from a visit to Geepex 80 last year). Postcards delivered within Australia cost $1.99 and those delivered overseas cost $2.99. Figure 10 shows the final postcard with my very original message, postage paid imprint, printed ‘postmark’ and address details. I have blacked out the suburb as somehow the postcard was printed with Victoria Park East

Figure 9. Screenshots from the new mobile postcard app. of a new specialist stamp; a stamp with attached tab and sheetlet of 10.

Figure 8. Promotional flyer for Australia Post’s MMS Postcard service available at Pacific Explorer 2005.

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Figure 10. Final postcard from the new Australia Post postcard app (see my write up about why the suburb has been blacked out). rather than the suburb I entered of Booragoon!

Australia Post has investigated and rectified this error and kindly refunded me the $1.99 fee.

It will be interesting to see what other apps Australia Post will release. Canada Post has an app that allows customers to produce postcards, and more importantly, allows people to create personalised stamps. Another Canada Post app promotes recent stamp issues using games, videos etc.

Registered Post Price Rises (2 July)

Stamp collectors will be interested in the rate rise for Registered Post which occurred on 2 July. Registration increases to $3.20 per article (discounts are available for boxes of 50 labels and imprints), with Registered Post prepaid envelopes

increasing to $3.90 (small) and $5.10 (large).

New Look Post Offices – A Missed Opportunity?

Depending on where you live you might have noticed that Australia Post is updating their post offices for the digital age. The first new look post office was Brisbane GPO which opened in January 2012, and included facilities to make posting packages easier, dedicated money exchange and travel kiosks and other services. Customers who have difficulties making it to their post office during working hours can have their parcels delivered to a parcel locker, and self-service machines allow people to pay bills, post parcels and purchase stamps and stationery outside normal hours. Unfortunately, in the change I understand that philatelic appeared to have been forgotten, with customers visiting the store in January finding the philatelic counter has now disappeared (can any readers in Brisbane advise if this has changed?).

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A Closer Look at Modern Australian Stamps Figure 11. One of the labels from the new selfservice machines.

Figure 12. An interesting error on one of the new labels.

Here in Perth, I have witnessed first hand the change over at 66 St Georges Tce, Perth, which officially opened on 9 July.

Thankfully, philatelic hasn’t been forgotten with the continuation of a philatelic counter that doubles as a service counter; still the display of products is now limited to a display behind the counter, with limited opportunity to ‘browse’ recent issues.

Two self-service machines have been installed, allowing customers to pay bills and post articles rather than queue up for service. Thankfully, Australia Post has listened to customers and you can now post an ordinary domestic letter using these machines (the initial software on these machines only allowed parcels to be mailed, so an ordinary letter had to be sent at parcel rates). International mail cannot be sent using these machines due to possible custom requirements and identity verification.

When purchasing postage, the customer is given a white self-adhesive label that must be used that day (all labels have a date and time printed on them – see Figure 11). Customers can’t take these labels Figure 14. Examples of the with them for future colorful ‘stamps’ produced use, and technically by self-service machines these labels can’t in Denmark (top), the UK be ‘collected’ as the (middle) and Ireland (bottom).

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Chris de Haer an opportunity.

Australia Post, which so often has been an innovator, appears not to have asked Philatelic to design a label for these machines (there is plenty of room on the left hand side for a design). Special stamps featuring the Threatened Species designs were specifically released for the original Counter Printed Stamps (CPS) machines, with Kangaroo and Koala designs issued for the second generation CPS. When Australia Post trialled the Monetel ‘Weigh and Pay’ machines in Perth (which allowed public to weigh, pay and send articles, just as the new machines do), the Kangaroo and Koala stamps were used with this machine (Figure 13).

Countries with similar self-service machines have specially designed labels for these machines (Figure 14). Royal Mail is regularly changing the design of their labels, and the labels are very collectable.

Ireland, Denmark, Belgium and many other countries have also produced special labels for their selfservice machines. Post Danmark even produces a label for the annual stamp show in Denmark, with that label only available from the show and through mail order. Let’s hope Australia Post moves away from the ‘generic and sterile white label’ (as described by one customer), and offers collectors (and their customers) something more colourful, interesting and for us very collectable! Perhaps readers can suggest some ideas for possible themes?

Figure 13. Photograph of the Monetel ‘Weigh and Pay’ machine (taken from the Australia Post brochure promoting the service). Notice the use of the word ‘stamp’ in ‘Step 3’.

backing paper isn’t rouletted (though you can rip the label off as there is a cutter; or you can remove your label and stick it onto another piece of self-adhesive backing paper). I have yet to ask if these labels can be used in combination with regular postage stamps, and I have noticed that printing errors have already occurred (see Figure 12).

While many will find the installation of selfservice machines time saving (not forgetting that most people just want to print a label and post their letter), I can’t help but feel Australia Post has missed

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The introduction of the regular airmail services to and from Australia in the 1930s heralded the beginning of the end of the curse that was the Tyranny of Distance, which had so impeded Australia’s commercial and industrial development up until that revolutionary advent.

Airmail services in those early years often were not without misadventures. The information to determine which flights carried a given postal article are now generally available, and this Figure 1. Thought to be unique survivor from City of Washington crash month I feature a number of items from Australia which it can be determined were carried by incident-related Australia last January. services. My thanks to Gary Watson, Director Gary and I share an interest in Australian mail Prestige Philately, for recommending this topic to exotic destinations, less usual mail services and (Gary suggested I use the term “Instigator”). Regular articles, incidents occurring in the postal system, and readers may recall I featured airmail incidents to related philatelic esoterica in general. Perhaps it’s a

Figure 2. Not out of place in a regional Postal history collection?

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just expensive) Emergency printing of 1965 on a commercial postal article. I’ve recorded three in the past 24 years, and the highest realizing of these went for a few hundred dollars. But I diverge.

The subjects selected this month are very scarce to rare (or unique). This type of material is beginning to become sought-after by international exhibitors, yet generally when it does comes on the market can be purchased for sums which bear no relationship to rarity. How long will that aberration continue?

Figure 3. Engine trouble necessitates mail load transfer Imperial Airways IW81 service, on the Delhi-London route, saw City of Washington crash at Philatelic Auctioneers thingy.

Neufchatel on 30 Oct 1930, while trying to land In my collecting, I prefer philatelic material to be after developing engine trouble. Figure 1 is believed uncontrived, with a particular fondness for philatelic to be the only survivor of this event originating items which mimic art. I don’t share the enthusiasm in Australia. It commenced its journey at North some Australia collectors have, for example, for such Brighton on 8 Oct 1930, transited Australia east to things as questionable “unmounted” mint and/or west via Adelaide-Perth domestic airmail service, “punctured” Officials, “double” prints (one “albino” thence carried by ship to India to join the airmail a perverse “favourite” of mine), Specimen overprint service ex Delhi, which departed 21 Oct. The rate of vagaries (a philatelic candidate for the making of a 11d comprises 2d letter rate + 3d domestic airmail mountain out of a molehill), watermark anomalies , + 6d Delhi-London airmail service. The article etc. Some items from these categories have achieved arrived in London in somewhat bruised condition, auction realizations which defy gravity (not to unsurprisingly given its dilemma, and was repaired mention common sense), prompting the Trade in by the British P.O. Estimate : $1000 places like the U.K. and U.S. to observe with envy The Post Office staff at Port Douglas thought I (uttering “Why can’t we get prices for our stuff like was some kind of wizard when I recently showed you Aussies get for yours?”). By the by, amongst off Figure 2. Apparently sent from one of the local “watermark anomalies”, the 2/6d Aborigine (wmk. hotels (there is a Foster’s Export Lager Beer label sideways to left rather than to right, or is it the other on reverse!) on 17 Jan 1935 to U.K., I was able to way around?) continues to increase its headcount, return this item to Port Douglas (via eBay) some 77 mint and used, in tandem with plummeting values. I years after it originally left town. It features here as predict this item will eventually be regarded, at best, it would have been sent south to Brisbane and loaded as “reasonably scarce”. Want something really rare, to Imperial/QANTAS service IW308, departing 23 and philatelically way more significant for the 2/6d Jan. Owing to adverse weather, Helena, servicing Aborigine? Try finding the philatelically important the Karachi-Alexandria leg, force-landed at Cairo (the wmk. anomaly is not philatelically important, on 3 Feb, and the mail load was transferred by rail Stamp News - 17

Figure 4. Missed flight a philatelic blessing to Alexandria. A nice item for a regional Postal history as much as it is for an Aerophilately incidents collection. Estimate : $200 Figure 3 is an uprated Stationery 1½d postal card, bearing a 9d Kangaroo, sent from Sydney to U.K. 12 Aug 1935. The rate for an airmail postcard was then 9d only, so the sender has ignored the 1½d postal validity of the stationery item. This item was loaded to Imperial/ QANTAS service IW366, departing Brisbane 14 Aug. Hanno, servicing the Karachi-Sharjah leg, developed engine trouble at Sharjah on 21 Aug, and the mail load was transferred to Horsa, which departed for Baghdad two days later.

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Kangaroo on an article involved in an airmail related incident. Figure 4 would not have been in this category were it not for the fact that Imperial/ QANTAS IW426 service, which departed Brisbane 11 Mar 1936, was delayed arriving at Karachi, and the service went on to London without the mail load gathered further east. The mail was subsequently transferred to IW427, and that’s were matters

seen “crash” covers; 38 bags of mail destined for U.K. and places east thereof were recovered. Most of the mail survivors seen were to U.K. addresses. Figure 5 is unusual in that it is to Germany, and bears the French inscribed label explaining the event. Scipio crashed while landing in bad Figure 6. Forced landing at Rhodes weather at Mirabella. The recovered mail was largely sent to Brindisi by ship. get interesting. The City of Swanage, flying the Estimate : $400 Alexandria-Brindisi leg, developed engine trouble The 1/6d Hermes is such a common franking and force-landed in the sea enroute to Athens. Much of the value of this item lay in the scarce franking of Kangaroo 10/+ 5/-, which paid the 1/6d ½oz. airmail rate x10 (i.e. for 4½-5ozs.).

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to U.K. (it was intended for the ½oz. airmail rate) it’s a pleasure to find one which was involved in an incident, as a redeeming feature.

Figure 6, from Brisbane on 22 Sep 1936, was loaded on to Imperial/Qantas IW482 service, which departed Brisbane the following day. On 4 Oct City of Stonehaven force-landed at Rhodes. Estimate : $150 Another forcedFigure 8. Idyllic location for unscheduled stop landing, on this occasion near Jodhpur, “all-up” airmail rate, when Centaurus force-landed at India, came about when Caledonia, flying the Lake Biguglia, Corsica, the charming French island Calcutta-Jodhpur leg of Imperial/QANTAS IW643, in the Mediterranean Sea. Estimate : $200 developed engine trouble. Figure 7 commenced Figure 9 is one of the more dramatic, and the journey in Melbourne 8 Apr 1938, destined for desirable, of Australian “crash” covers. Only two Germany. Estimate : $200 examples of mail from this incident have been Figure 8 was on Imperial/QANTAS SW69 service, flying from Coogee to U.K. at the reduced 5d recorded. On 28 Dec 1941 the westbound KLM service, being operated by Douglas DC-3, arrived at Medan, Dutch East Indies, and was due to leave the following morning. The passengers and crew had disembarked, but the mail remained on board. An attack on the airfield by Japanese fighter aircraft late on the 28th caused the aircraft to catch fire. The plane was destroyed, but fortunately there were no Figure 10. Near enough not good enough 20 - Stamp News

Figure 9. Passengers and crew OK, shame about the mail casualties. Estimate : $4000 Figure 10 may be a great rarity, or not. Registered at Winchelsea 20 Dec 1941, the article arrived in Melbourne the following day, under normal circumstances in time to be dispatched to Sydney to join Imperial WS151 service, which departed for Durban, via the wartime Horseshoe route, on 24 Dec. The article, however, was censored at Mebourne,

which is where we cannot be certain it was processed in time (Censoring could cause an indeterminate delay) to make the Sydney departure time. In the absence of confirming backstamps further along in the journey, we cannot be 100% certain of the allocation to this flight, which crashed at Subaga 28 Dec. Potentially a great item, but near enough is not good enough, unfortunately. Perhaps someday Stamp News - 21

I’ll be able to confirm the flight allocation?

Philatelists love “finds”, and I’m no exception. Figure 11 is from a major incident, the first recorded which originated in Australia, and worthy of inclusion in The Australian Air Mail Catalogue.

British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines (BCPA) Flight 304/44, a Douglas DC-6, on a flight from Sydney to Vancouver, with scheduled stops at Nadi, Canton Island, Honolulu, and San Francisco, crashed during its initial approach towards San Francisco Figure 11. New discovery is first of its kind International Airport on October 29, 1953, killing all 19 people frankings. A gentleman in the U.K. kindly took the on board. The article received the “RECOVERED trouble to send me a scan of this great item, and AFTER/AIR ACCIDENT” handstamp at San transfer of ownership was inevitable. It will be a Francisco. Estimate : $2000 feature in my upcoming exhibit of the Navigator Off topic, but no off item, Figure 12 has returned series, 1963-66. A nice note upon which to complete to Australia recently; a response to the June column, this month’s column.

Rod Perry has been a where I featured Australian high denomination

philatelic trader since 1962 and a Stamp News advertiser since the 1960s . He founded Rodney A Perry Auction Galleries (now Millennium Philatelic Auctions) in 1971.

As a collector he has exhibited nationally and internationally.

Rod prefers his used stamps on cover and likens taking a stamp off its original cover to converting a tree to woodchips. Past editions of this column may be accessed on Rod’s ‘rap. com.au’

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Revenue Review Tax

As I write this on July 1 we have another start to the tax year so I thought it best to begin with a tax stamp. Dingle Smith of Canberra has a few crackers in his Tax Exhibit that was shown at the recent International stamp show in Jakarta. Figure one is no exception a super copy of the £1 from South Australia inscribed Income Tax. He also has a nice 10/- to sit along side the £1. This issue was quickly withdrawn, as it was missing the word ‘STAMP’ as described in the Act, hence the reissue with the word ‘STAMP overprinted onto the old stock. You may have a few of the lower values in this series, if so please share them here.

Victoria

Prestige Philately recently sold off a rather nice collection of Victoria, notably the high value mono colours overprinted Specimen stole the show in the revenue section, with most pulling around 3k each. As I have said in the past Victoria

is available at a price.

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I have spoke before about the Patent Office revenues [fig 2]. If you have been following eBay, several nice copies have turned up as more files get stripped from the Archives, and turn up in collector’s hands. Figure 2 is no different.

Saved from the furnace this £7-10/- being one of the most sought after values in the series of pre decimal issues. 6/8d was once a rare stamp, but must be downgraded to scarce as several strips of 3 [6/8 x 3 = £1] have surfaced, been split into singles and sold off, but very few of the £7-10/and the £12 have been found to have survived, or even used by the Patent Office.

Even More Embossed

New South Wales has a huge run of embossed issue revenues. As time goes by, more and more

Fig 1 Fig 2

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Dave Elsmore of the intermediate values are surfacing, and being added to my on line catalogue. Figure 3 is no exception, and my thanks to John Fletcher for sending in the graphic of an 18/9d [fig 3]. This value can now be added.

Velvet Beers

In Velvet Collectables last sale, they auctioned off a nice revenue collection all from the one vendor. Amongst the highlights were the beer duty issues from several States with Tasmania shining through with an unrecorded 12/9d [fig 4]. I have added this to my online catalogue. While I am on beer duty revenues I noticed figure 5 being offered on eBay in June. This printed ‘stand alone’ Beer Duty Catalogue appears to be in A4 format and full colour. I have not seen it in the flesh so I can’t give you a review on it. Maybe one of you readers has a copy and would like to review it for me. I would be interested if it lists any issues I may be missing from my own online Beer Duty

Catalogue.

My guess is the Tasmania 12/9d [fig 4] is missing and this further brings attention to using an online format for publishing any further Revenue book’s as it is so easy to update. Once it is in book form that’s the end of that, and it cant be added to.

As you can see this latest Beer Duty Book says th 8 edition at the bottom so to keep up to date on printed books you would have needed to have purchased ALL 8 editions whereas an online book such as mine, (apart from being FREE) is surely the only practical way to go. I can remember back in 1988 when I first published a revenue book, one collector in particular had great delight phoning me to say what I had missed, even after being asked to submit his holdings to me.

If you are looking to publish, all I can say is ‘ask, ask, ask’. 100% fact: once you put it in hard copy it will instantly be out of date. Lets hope any future Revenue books will ALL be online.

Fig 4 Fig 3

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Revenue Review If authors choose the old fashioned way of just printing it in book form, make sure it will include full and up to date collector holdings from ALL known collectors.

Spot This

Western Australia Financial Emergency Tax issues have very few varieties to collect so it was refreshing to come across figure 6 showing a colour ‘blob’ joining the top and inner frame. Can you please check your holding to see if you have this same variety which will tell us it is constant and not just an ink clog. If so, it would be nice to plate this, any takers?

Old Yeller

While on Western Australia a nice 4/- yellow

[fig 7] arrived on eBay in June, selling for an astounding $130. The next week another turned up on eBay. I found it strange that this would bring such a high price, as it is catalogued and usually pulls $15-$40. Maybe I am missing something [not hard for me to do] if the buyer is reading this can you please share this ‘something’.

Property Search

The New South Wales rare ‘Property Search’ revenue [figure 8] has been mentioned in an earlier ‘Revenue Review’ but it is sometimes good to refresh our thoughts. My online catalogue is the only catalogue to list this rare revenue. Used by the Railway Department to acknowledge a search fee, keeping the money paid for this search within the Railway Department hands, and out of the Treasury hands. Keep your eyes peeled as they

Fig 5 Fig 6

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Dave Elsmore can turn up in bulk railway lots. There are two different types of obliteration patterns, obliterating the words ‘PARCEL STAMP’ to see a full listing of this fascinating revenue, go to my free online catalogue of New South Wales.

Of further interest on this issue by New South Wales, it is the only property search that has a purpose adhesive to pay a search fee. Qld ‘Registrar of Titles’ use the ticket method, stapling the docket to a search notice as proof of payment.

This comes about when you want to purchase property, or a house and your solicitor conducts a search on the property, to see if it is about to be bulldozed to make way for a bike lane etc. Some other States just use a rubber stamp, then fill in the details by pen. You may have something like this in your collection, if so I would like to hear from you so it can be added to the online book. I will

show a few different ‘proof’ of search fees in later editions of ‘Revenue Review’.

Perfin Corner

New South Wales has a rather common WC Perfin on postage stamps but the very same WC is super rare on revenues that were used to protect issues of Cattle Duty revenues from being pilfered. Figure 9 is one such beast being only the third copy to surface and the first on a 2/- value.

Regular Perfin catalogues do not split the rarity where postage or revenues are concerned which can be very annoying to the revenue collector, hence the online ‘Revenue Perfins of Australia’ publication. Best go check if you have any holes in the Cattle duty issues, if so please share them here.

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Ireland: the Definitive Issues. Part 8.

Welcome to the August edition of Stamp News, and the ongoing saga of Ireland’s definitive stamps. The thing that occurred to me as I sat down to write this month (apart from how miserable I feel because of a nasty chest infection has decided to pay me a visit), is how much more frequently new Irish definitive sets were appearing by the time we get to the subject of this month’s article, the 1990 Irish Heritage and Treasures series. Let’s reflect for a moment, and you’ll see what I mean. The original four low value designs, first introduced in 1922-23 remained is use, with some variation, for around forty five years. The Gerl designs, which replaced them, were in use, in either pre decimal or decimal form, for almost fifteen years, while the poor old Architecture set, which we looked at last month, were shown the door after less than eight years! I know, I know, it’s the way of the world, out with the old and in with the new.

And of course, Ireland certainly isn’t alone in doing this, nor by any means the worst offender. And from a philatelic point of view, it’s not necessarily a bad thing. It’s just that a drop from forty five years to seven years does seem rather extreme – in my point of view, anyway!

The 1990-97 Irish Heritage and Treasures

While this new series was primarily designed by Michael Craig, who had also been responsible for the previous Architecture series, the overall end result is strikingly different. You may recall that last month I bemoaned that the colours chosen for the simple and elegant line drawings of the Architecture series, were a little drab and dreary. Not the case with these!

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Fig 1: A Colourful group! blue, bright green, bluish violet and lemon are so vibrant that they almost jump off the stamp! Fig 1 The Heritage and Treasures series is a little more complex than the Architecture set, with three different printers. The main group of twenty two values from 1p to £5 in sheet format were printed by Irish Security Stamp Printing Ltd. On unwatermarked paper, and appeared in five groups between March 1990 and May 1992.

These are fairly straight forward from a collecting point of view, although a few values can be a little hard to track down in fine used condition, with the 40p and 41p probably being the worst offenders.

A couple of more interesting varieties can also be found. The 32p exists mis-perforated vertically, with the horizontal rows of perforations misplaced downwards several millimetres into the design, and the 52p showing a ‘kiss print’ or faint doubling of the black printing. The 2009 Hibernian catalogue lists both of these varieties in MUH only, with the 32p perforation variety listed at €300, and the 52p kiss print at €120.

The Self Adhesive coils – The Australian connection!

At the end of October 1991 the 32p design appeared in a completely new format. It was a larger size, 27 x 20mm, self adhesive, in boxed rolls of 100, and with die cut perforations gauging 11½. This will probably sound strangely familiar to all of the readers who collect Australian decimals. Yes, you guessed it! The first Irish self adhesive stamps were printed right here in Melbourne by Printset Cambec Pty Ltd, the same company responsible for some of our own (Australia’s) early peel and

Mike Lee that most issues were issued on both chalk surfaced and ordinary paper.

Although the terminology is different (and possibly technically incorrect in one case), I suspect the meaning is the same. Again as with the Architecture series, cylinder and imprint blocks abound.

The Enschede printings

In early November 1995, An Post announced that six of the sheet values of the Heritage and Treasures set, the Fig 2: The Aussie and ISSP versions of the self adhesive 32p 20p, 28p, 52p, £1, £2 and £5, had been reprinted by the Dutch printing stick issues including the 43c Skateboarding, 45c firm of Enschede. I recall reading Threatened Species etc. The Spring 1992 edition at the time that this was done due to the fact that of ‘Irish Stamp News’ announced their arrival, and ISSP was already busy preparing for the new Birds summed up their usage this way: ‘The boxed rolls definitives which would go on to make their debut are primarily aimed at small firms where the volume a little over a year later in January 1997, and were of mail does not warrant a franking machine. This therefore unable to print the additional supplies new product appears successful as the new 32p needed of these six values. stamps are regularly found on commercial mail.’

The differences between the original ISSP The initial supply of these stamps was produced versions and their Enschende counterparts are on phosphorised paper, but this was replaced by detailed in all of the major catalogues, so just a printings on normal paper from July 1992 onwards. quick recap here: the Enschende stamps were printed A second version of this self adhesive stamp using a finer screen, or to put it more simply, the appeared in June 1995, but being printed locally dots of colour are closer together. This results in the

by Irish Security Stamp Printing Ltd rather than Enschede versions appearing brighter, sharper and in Australia. While the size and design remained more distinct. This is noticeable in both the black the same, the die cut ‘perforations’ are completely and coloured background printing. This is useful to different. The Australian printed stamps have the know when sorting the three lower values. If you get smoother, more ‘perforation’ looking perforations a group of each of the three low values together, and that Aussie peel & stick stamps have (though a little providing of course there are some of the Enschede more pointed), while the ones produced in Ireland printing in the group (there probably will be, they’re have blunt tips and are generally more angular in aren’t particularly scarce), the Enschede stamps will appearance. If still in doubt, just measure ‘em! The definitely ‘pop’ from the rest. The high values are ISSP version gauges at 9 x 9½. Fig 2 even easier, as the ‘£’ sign is of a different shape, with the Enschede version also being somewhat narrower. Fig 3 Papers It’s interesting to note that both the Hibernian The majority of stamps from these ISSP printings catalogue, and the latest SG Ireland catalogue price have two varieties of combinations of clay coated used examples of the three Enschede high values at paper and gum, very similar to the Architecture around double that of the three ISSP high values. issues that we covered last month. Once again, some values are very scarce on one or other of these I’ve never been quite sure why that is as they’ve combinations. The Hibernian provides an easy to use always seemed fairly plentiful to me. I suspect that the main reason is that the Enschede stamps had checklist for these. The new SG catalogue indicates Stamp News - 29

Ireland: the Definitive Issues. Part 8.

Fig 3: The two £5, Enschede printing at right a much shorter life, and, of course, as with any country, it’s high value stamps tend to more readily available overseas than in the country of origin….. I guess!

And finally… Booklets

the Gleninsheen Collar, is actually printed in photogravure (I recall this was printed by the English firm of Walsall, but as far as can determine, neither of the current catalogues mention the printer). Fig 4 It’s actually quite a bit of fun trying to collect the various se-tennant stamp combinations from these booklets used. Actually, the same goes for the previous Architecture series of booklet panes also, I just forgot to mention it last month! Ah well, better late than never.

Versions of the 2p, 4p, 28p and 32p stamps can also be found in the 1991 £5 Fishing Fleet prestige booklet and also the 4p puts in one final appearance in the first of the Birds definitive booklets, issued March 6th, 1997.

I’ve always found this series to be colourful and interesting. I hope there may be something amongst it that will take your philatelic fancy!

Until next time, and the start of those scary Irish Birds, happy collecting!

Mike You can reach me at mlphilatelic@bigpond.com . I always enjoy your comments & questions!

Between November 1990 and November 1995, no, less than seven different Heritage and Treasures definitive booklets, all denominated at £1, were issued. Each cover featured a black line drawing of one of the ‘Treasures’ depicted in the stamps designs, against a different, solid colour background. Each booklet consisted of a single pane of either seven, five or four Heritage and Treasure stamps, in various se-tennant arrangements. The outside edges of all the panes were imperforate, resulting in all stamps having one or two imperforate edges. It’s interesting to note that the last four booklets produced all consisted of three 32p and one 4p stamp, with the 4p stamp in a different position within the pane for each booklet. One of these latter panes of 4, the one found in the booklet with the red cover and showing Fig 4: The £1 booklet with the photogravure pane 30 - Stamp News

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Cinderella Corner Tower Bridge

With the Tower Bridge as the design, (fig. 1), and no other information, it is hard to know the reason for this issue other than it being of UK origin. Any other information would be appreciated.

Hereford Scout Post

I think there was something written about this some years ago, (fig. 2), but I can’t recall where it was written. From memory it was a Christmas Post service by the Scouts which was a fund raiser for them. Again any further information would be appreciated.

Three Wise Men

This appears to be a Christmas seal, (fig. 3), and the inscription in the bottom margin indicates that it was produced by the British and Foreign Bible Society.

I have no other details about it and there is no indication of a date.

Clockwise from Top Left: Figures 1, 2, 3, 4

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Lets Back Ike

Obviously a label of American origin, (fig. 4), issued as election propaganda for the Republican Presidential campaign of Dwight Eisenhower. As he was President for two terms from 1953 to 1961 this label could date from either 1952-53 or 1956-57 or if he was attempting a third term, 1960-61.

Springfield Art Association

The Springfield Art Association is an American Charitable organization based in Springfield, Illinois.

I’m not sure why this stamp, (fig. 5), was produced, it could have been some form of fund raiser, but there is no indication on the stamp apart from a value of 10 cents. Their website provided me with the information below, but that does not explain the stamp or when it was issued.

The Springfield Art Association has been a leader in promoting and supporting the visual arts in the greater Springfield community for more than

Tony Presgrave

99 years. Founded in 1909 by local community members, the “Amateur Art Study Club� was formally incorporated in 1913 and presented with the deed to Edwards Place, a 4,200 square foot Italianate mansion which the Club used as its permanent home. In 1915, the name of the Club was changed to the Springfield Art Association of Edwards Place.

National Reconstruction

Again an American stamp, (fig. 6), issued to publicise National Reconstruction and National Savings Certificates. Probably produced not long after the end of World War II.

Greenpeace

A publicity label for Greenpeace, (fig. 7), that features an Antarctic landscape with mountains in the background and Penguins on the ice in the foreground. There is no indication of a date of issue or any reason for the issue so I guess it was just a

general purpose publicity label.

World Wildlife Fund

This stamp, (fig. 8), is one of four I found in an accumulation. They are Christmas seals and at first I thought I was looking at Partridges in Pear Trees etc., but a closer look showed the World Wildlife Fund logo. There is no date indicated on the stamps which show a Robin or similar bird, Red Squirrel, Deer and the one illustrated, probably Pheasants. There is an imprint Vasarhely at the bottom of each stamp

Rally For Peace

I know nothing of this stamp, (fig. 9), apart from the information printed on it, which refers to it being for a peace rally somewhere on Palm Sunday which is the Sunday before Easter.

Anti TB Association

Probably a Christmas seal, (fig. 10), and with a

Clockwise from Top Left: Figures 5, 6, 7, 8

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Cinderella Corner postmark of Nundah Queensland alongside (on the piece I have) makes its place of origin Queensland.

It has the date 1994 on it, but the postmark is dated 7 May 2002.

National Wildlife Federation

Probably not a Christmas seal this time, (fig. 11), but another publicity seal for this organisation.

Again there is a postmark of Nundah, Queensland on the piece which is dated 11 April 2003. I have similar labels from the Canadian National Wildlife Federation and the National Wildlife Federation with American scenery. The Cape May Warbler does not appear as an Australian Native bird so I think this label is a stray that has been brought back to Australia from elsewhere.

Mcculloch & Co Locals

The latest Velvet Collectables auction had a couple of these stamps on offer. They were from the Victorian operation, one being inscribed Registered A and the other Registered B. With an estimate of $360, they eventually sold for $725

when I checked the prices realised and with buyers premium and postage a tidy sum was paid. These stamps, along with the Registered C and D are all rare and do not turn up very often even in poor condition.

The Gippsland Times, (Victoria) of Friday 26 October 1888 on page 3 had a shipping notice for this company advising that all parcels carried on the Company’s steamers must be prepaid. Freight stamps were to be had at the Company’s office.

Has any reader ever seen these stamps, they may have been tucked away in some old back of book collections by early collectors who did not know where they came from.

The Company was formed in May 1877 and traded on the Gippsland Lakes in Victoria using steamers and sailing vessels. The affairs of the Company were wound up in September 1890 and the remaining assets were which included the steamers Dargo and Omeo were taken over by a new Company, the Sale Steamship Company.

Left to right: Figures 9, 10, 11

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Lakes Navigation Company

The “Black Caviar” Royal Ascot Day Cover!

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Her Majesty the Queen presented the winner’s trophy to Jockey Nolan and trainer, and personally visited Back Caviar in the yard after the race – see photo above. TV News and newspaper coverage of this was global. Media interest in the UK – indeed globally was massive. The pack sold out lightning FAST at PO’s here as the Mum & Dads out there snapped them up. History tells us that 95% of those packs will never emerge onto the stamp market. USED of these of course, are 1000 times scarcer than mint.

Chris de Haer discovered the 60c stamps used are a different size and perf than any Australian 60c stamp ever issued, and are thus destined to have their own Catalogue listings. So a DOUBLE Whammy. One to buy for the grand-children perhaps?

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Historic Lundy The tiny island of Lundy in the Bristol Channel has had an efficient local postal service for more than 80 years. The local post carries thousands of mail items to and from the island each year.

During the summer season hoards of tourists travel onboard the MS Oldenburg to the island some 11 miles off the North Devon coast in England. Most visitors stay on the island for just a few hours before returning to the mainland. Others spend several days enjoying the magnificent scenery and the quiet life on the island.

Regardless of the length of their stay on Lundy most visitors use the opportunity of mailing picture postcards to friends and relatives back home. They will be franked with the island’s local postage stamps. Currently the local rate is 10 puffin (= pence) + the Royal Mail rates.

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Lundy’s local currency is known as puffins which of course is the name of the emblematic sea bird which used to be very common on the island.

In the old days, puffins were used more or less as money in the local barter trade.

The Royal Mail fee is indicated by a printed frank which gives the mailer a lower cost. At times it is cheaper to mail a letter from Lundy than on the mainland.

Lundy’s latest set of stamps was released on May 26, 2012. The five stamps feature historic events which have not previously been commemorated. The stamps themselves have a most interesting history. The Lundy postal service invited the art students of Petroc College in Barnstaple to take part in a design competition.

The winner was Sarah Lewis who had painted a

Christer BrunstrĂśm delightful picture of the Old Lighthouse on Lundy.

She was then commissioned to prepare the five designs based on suggestions by Swedish collector Lars Liwendahl. He had also produced the guidelines for the design of the stamps.

At the end of the 19th century, lobster fishing was an important activity on the island. Based on an old photograph Miss Lewis produced a painting of fisherman George Thomas holding two live lobsters. The scene is depicted on the 41p stamp.

The 54p denomination illustrates the oldest event in our set as it is devoted to the construction of the Marisco Castle in the 1240s. The stamp shows building methods known to have been used at the time.

In the 1860s, the Lundy Granite Company was founded and it was active for many years. They

even built a small railway to carry the granite from the quarries. It is all depicted on the 64p stamp.

There have several attempts to build a jetty on Lundy but it was not until 1999 that the present jetty was finally completed. Thanks to this jetty it is now a lot easier to land both passengers and cargo on the island. The image on the 89p stamp shows the construction period.

The £1.40 top value is devoted to what very possibly is the most important event in Lundy’s modern history. In 1977, Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Silver Jubilee. As a part of the celebrations the royal family travelled around the UK on the royal yacht Britannia. On August 7th she visited Lundy. The royal party had a most pleasant day on the island and before returning to their ship the Queen met with all the islanders.

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Historic Lundy This year marks the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the stamp can be considered as Lundy’s participation in the celebrations.

The set was printed by Cartor, the French security printers, in sheets of 21 stamps. The designs are all based on Sarah’s water colour paintings. The two lowest denominations had printings of 25,000 copies each. 10,000 copies of each were printed of the higher values. It is expected that the printing will cover the needs of the local post for the next two years.

The puffin is in many ways the symbol of Lundy. Numerous stamps had depicted the ubiquitous bird. In the case of the new historic stamps there are depictions of a puffin in the sheet margins.

On 26 May 2012, a temporary post office was established in the island’s pub (see picture nearby). One can easily imagine the hectic activity when hundreds of first day covers and other philatelic souvenirs were produced in response to requests from worldwide Lundy collectors.

Readers wanting to add these stamps to their

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collections are advised to contact the Lundy Postal Service at the following mailing address: Lundy Island, Bristol Channel, Devon EX39 2LY, England. The postage and packing costs for orders outside Europe are £4.85. They do accept payments by credit card. A list of all available stamps and other items can be obtained from the local post. Please also note that all stamps issued prior to 1990 are no longer valid for postage.

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Looking at New Zealand

1958 Centennial of Nelson Nelson, like New Zealand’s capital city, Wellington, was named for a British military leader in the Napoleonic wars. It is situated on the north coast of the South Island and is, in fact, further north than Wellington, which is at the southern tip of the North Island (see map). The geographical centre of New Zealand is in the hills overlooking Nelson, behind the cathedral.

There is evidence of Maori settlement in the area from the 12th century, originally by the Ngati Tumatakokiri tribe

Figure 1 who were there when Abel Tasman landed in 1642.

Four of Tasman’s crew were killed by the Maoris so he named it Murderers’ Bay but the name was later changed to Golden Bay. There were later conquests by other Maori tribes, particularly by North Island tribes led by the chief Te Rauparaha in 1828. He had the advantage of European weapons purchased from

Figure 3

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Graeme Morriss

Figure 2 whalers, sealers and settlers in the far northern Bay of Islands. These Europeans were not aware of the bloody consequences of their trading on the tribes in the south, whose culture was wiped out by Te Rauparaha in the 1820s and 1830s before Europeans had penetrated that far south.

There was no permanent Maori settlement at Nelson by the 1830s. The bay was used for fishing only and was called by the local Maoris Whakatu meaning “peaceful haven”. The New Zealand Company agent, Colonel William Wakefield, purchased land there from Te Rauparaha in 1841.

He surveyed the city centre, naming the streets after Nelson’s naval campaigns - for example Trafalgar Street, Nile Street, Figure 5 Hardy Street. From

the first week, the surveying party held church services on Church Hill overlooking Trafalgar Street.

Permanent settlers began arriving from 1 February 1842.

The Bishop of New Zealand, George Augustus Selwyn (1809 - 1878) decided that Church Hill would be an ideal site for a cathedral and asked Queen Victoria to make Nelson a Bishop’s See, which she did by Letters Patent in 1858. This made

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Nelson the second settlement in New Zealand to become a city (after Wellington).

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partly complete by 1932 when work stopped because of the Great Depression. The final part of the cathedral, the spire, was finished in 1967. Three flights of steps from Trafalgar Street rise 11.5 metres up the hill to the cathedral. The steps were donated in 1913

by Thomas Cawthron and are the largest surviving structure made from Tonga Bay granite, quarried near Nelson. Figure 1 shows the cathedral before the spire was built; Figure 2 how it appeared from Trafalgar Street in the 1950s and Figure 3 with the spire after 1967.

In 1957, the Nelson City Council asked that a centenary stamp be produced and this was approved by the Postmaster General.

Mr C. W. Watts, the Principal of the Stamps Division, supervised the design process.

M. J. Macdonald, an Art Master at Nelson College was approached to prepare a design.

His first draft featured Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth and the Seal of the Diocese of Nelson. When asked for comment, a prominent philatelist, R. J. G. Collins felt that it too closely resembled the 1956 Australian Centenary of Responsible Government stamp (Figure 4). He recommended a simpler design featuring only the Diocesan Seal.

His advice was followed (Figure 5).

Top: Figure 6 The stamps were recess Left Figure 7 printed by Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. on good quality paper which included esparto fibres and was watermarked ‘NZ & star’. Two printing plates were used, each with 160 impressions (8 rows of 20). The printer’s imprint and plate numbers were in the bottom left corner and the sheet value, #2, in the top right. The stamps were perforated by a comb head gauging 13½ x 13.

Figure 6 shows Die Proof C, approved by the Post Office design panel and the Nelson City Council.

Dies A and B had included a frame line (A) and a double frame line (B). Figure 7 shows a plate proof printed on the issued paper but not perforated.

Figure 8 shows the plate numbers and imprint.

The Nelson Philatelic Society held an Exhibition

Graeme Morriss to mark the issue of the stamp. They also produced a pictorial cover for First Day of Issue use. The pictorial cover and an Exhibition cover are shown in Figure 9 which also shows the pictorial postmarker, shaped like a bishop’s mitre, which the Society requested for first day of issue use at the Nelson Chief Post Office.

Acknowledgements: John Dawson of the Nelson Philatelic Society for obtaining the postcards and for the use of his private photograph (Fig. 2).

Paul Wales of Classic Stamps, Christchurch, for the image of the Die Proof which he has in stock (Fig. 6).

An earlier version of this article appeared in Themes, the journal of the Thematic Society of Australia, in August 2009.

Top: Figure 9 Left Figure 8 References: Catalogue of New Zealand Stamps, Auckland, Campbell Paterson, 1952 – .

The Postage Stamps of New Zealand, vol. 4, Wellington, RPSNZ, 1964. website: www.nzine.co.nz article on Nelson by “Dorothy”.

Graeme can be contacted through his website, www.stampsmw.top1.com.au .

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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Part 25 Stamp Collecting

One of the big attractions with stamp collecting is the complete freedom that you have with respect to what you collect.

You can collect whatever you like, for any country or countries you desire, for any time period that is of interest. The material can be stored the way you want it, and if you wish to write up the collection, that again is your own option. If you are invited, or volunteer, to do a display at your club or society, the method of presentation of that material is entirely up to you.

However, irrespective of what or how you collect, there will be times when you would like to have access to some more information, either about the material, the method of collecting, or the storage and annotation of the collection.

Below are some of the options available.

Catalogues

The most common source of information is the catalogue produced for your collecting interest.

Catalogues generally indicate what has been issued, or identified, with supporting information.

Many catalogues also show a value for the item.

The higher this value, the more difficult it could be to obtain the item. These values are generally NOT what you could expect to receive if you wish to sell.

Many collectors use their catalogue to maintain a record of the items already obtained.

However, catalogues do have some limitations •• Many areas of collecting provide a choice of catalogues yet there are still some areas for which no catalogue exists.

•• Your catalogue may not be up to date.

•• The catalogue may be in black and white which could make it difficult to properly identify your material.

•• Some specialized catalogues are incomplete.

These are prepared from the material that is known to the author at the time of preparation. For example, The Australian Air Mail Catalogue is very comprehensive, but there are still items from as early as 1919 that 44 - Stamp News

are not yet included.

•• A set of catalogues can be quite expensive, and your infrequent needs do not justify the expense.

The Local Lending Library

Most local lending libraries have at least one set of stamp catalogues, and possibly some generic books on basic Stamp Collecting. These catalogues may be classified as reference books, and hence could not be borrowed. Any research would therefore have to be done at the library, but relevant pages could be photocopied.

Many of these libraries also provide computerised searching of their records as well as internet access, for a fee. This latter facility can be very useful for those collectors who do not have access to the internet at home.

Join a Stamp Club or Society

If your interest is serious, you could join a stamp club or philatelic society. This would give you access to a group of similar minded collectors for the exchange of ideas and possibly material. It can be quite advantageous for other collectors to be aware of your interests as they can direct attention to information and material of which you would otherwise not be aware.

Most clubs cater for general collecting interests, but there are some specialized clubs dedicated to specific collecting interests. In addition, many clubs and societies have a limited library.

Many clubs have as part of their regular meetings displays from members or visitors.

These displays can vary from very basic to exceptional. Much can be learned from studying these displays, especially the better ones – what material has been included; how are the pages laid out; how is the material affixed to the pages and highlighted; how effective and informative is the text; is the sequence of the pages appropriate?

If your club is limited in the nature of the material included in their regular displays, there is a list of potential displays from recognized exhibitors that can provide plenty of variety. This

John Sadler,

Philatelic Development Officer, APF list if available through the APF website www.apf. org.au/VisitingSpeakers .

Many of the State Councils have displays which can be made available to the clubs.

There are other benefits of belonging to a club, least of which is the access to material from their Exchange Branch or Circuit Books, as well as the regular Sales by Tender.

The clubs and societies in Australia are listed on the APF website under each of the State buttons.

State Council Libraries

The various State and Territory Philatelic Councils have specialized libraries providing for a very wide range of collecting interests. Access to these libraries is available to any member of a club or society affiliated with the State Council.

As these libraries are located in the State Capital cities, access to them may not be practical.

Most, if not all, of these libraries will allow books, etc, to be borrowed by mail.

The material in these Council libraries is generally quite up-to-date.

Talk to Your Stamp Dealer

Your stamp dealer can also be very helpful and most are happy to assist in problem solving. If they cannot resolve your query directly, they can usually point you in the right direction.

For regular customers, dealers will keep a lookout for material which is suitable for their collections, thus expanding the availability of supply sources for new items. Obviously, dealers will welcome your want lists.

Auction Catalogues

Auctions catalogues can be a good source of information, indicating items available and at what price. Quite often previously unknown or unrecorded material appears in auctions, as well as scarce material. The lot descriptions can also provide useful information. The frequency of an item’s appearance can indicate its availability.

When using catalogues for research, take care

to ensure that the item of interest is described correctly. This occurs quite often on eBay where the describer does not specialize in the items being offered.

Comparisons between the estimated values, catalogue values and prices realized can be revealing.

There are many auctions catalogues available in the State Philatelic Council Libraries.

Stamp Magazines

There are many magazines available within Australia and overseas dealing with a wide range of philatelic topics. Subscribe to the one(s) most appropriate to your collection(s).

Apart from the professionally produced magazines, the State Philatelic Councils and many of the clubs and societies produce regular magazines.

Many of these magazines are available in the State Philatelic Council Libraries.

Australia Post Publications

The Stamp Bulletin issued by Australia Post lists and illustrates all new stamp and postal stationery issues together with technical details about them.

It also includes information on Stamp Shows and Events, Reprints and Postmarks.

The booklet “Post Charges”, also issued

by Australia Post, provides details of many of the wide range of services offered by that organisation.

Specialised Clubs and Societies

Most of the specialized clubs and societies will respond to written requests for information. Some of these club’s magazines have regular features listing queries from their members, together with the answers when provided.

Australian based clubs can generally arrange for a club display from one of their members.

State Libraries

The various State Libraries are available to research historical information, especially old Stamp News - 45

Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Part 25 newspapers and documents. These libraries can provide supporting or confirming information, generally in more detail than appears in catalogues. Naturally, these libraries can be very helpful in researching unlisted items.

National and State Research Officers

The Australian Philatelic Federation and the various State Philatelic Councils offer research assistance to collectors. Such requests should be in writing and clearly state the query. It is most important to include telephone or email contact details in your request to enable any uncertainty about the request to be clarified prior to proceeding.

The Internet

Once you have a computer connected to the Internet, you have the whole world of philately available to you, and can pass many informative and/or frustrating hours browsing the great wealth of information now at your fingertips.

The internet can give you access to •• Information about basic stamp collecting; •• Stamp Auctions all around the World; •• Postal Authorities; •• Stamp Dealers, National and International; •• Virtual stamp exhibitions; and •• Specialised websites.

Even trawling through the virtual auctions such as eBay can be informative. You do not have to be a buyer to gain benefit from your membership.

The search engines available can quite quickly find responses to your request. However, it is important to experiment with different search criteria to try to narrow down the number of

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responses. It is quite easy to conduct a search and receive over one million references. At ten references per page, reviewing all of these sites could take a very long time.

In the April 2012 issue I discussed the many worldwide sources of information available through the APF Links Page www.apf.org.au/ links.

Next month I will look in more detail at some of the internet sites which can be very useful to a beginner in the hobby.

Conclusion

Shown above are some of the places where information regarding stamp collecting in all of its guises can be found. If you are aware of any additional sources it would be appreciated if you could advise me of same at the email address shown below.

Earlier articles in this series can be viewed on the APF website www.apf.org.au/stampnews.

Generally, these articles are available one month after their publication.

Should you have a subject that is either interesting, difficult to understand, or one which you would like to have explained, or if there is a particular topic on which you would like more information, please let me know by emailing jpsadler@bigpond.com.au.

reviews

mike lee Well, the catalogue backlog is just about gone for the moment, with only one to review this month. A quick look at the SG website however shows that there a few more new editions due to be released soon, so stay tuned!

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catalogues, with brighter paper and clear colour illustrations. And it’s a ripper! I must admit that when I first saw these simplified regional volumes I thought they may have a limited readership. A quick flick through this impressive volume swiftly changed my mind! In this single volume forty five different stamp issuing countries are covered, including some of the most popular in the world. I know of numerous collectors of France, Germany, Austria, the Benelux countries, Ireland, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland, to name just a few. And many of these people collect several of these countries. This catalogue will also be an excellent tool for thematic collectors. The only improvement I can think of is including Great Britain in future editions.

And if you aren’t convinced yet, check out the price! At A $69.95 this is an absolute steal. Huge, popular content, superbly laid out and illustrated, and yours for a snip. This is truly a must have. Dash out and get yours today!

Stamps in the News - Globally!

Moya cleans up

Reported in www.telegraph.co.uk The head of Royal Mail received a £371,000 bonus last year, just weeks after a record increase in the price of stamps.

Moya Greene, chief executive of Royal Mail and formerly of Canada Post, was paid £1.1million.

The news came as Royal Mail announced that it was back in the black after four years of losses, posting profits of £211 million.

The figures were fuelled by Royal Mail’s booming junk mail business, which now accounts for more than £1 out of every £10 of the company’s revenues as well as an increase in people shopping over the internet .

Miss Greene could also gain another £480,000 if she hits certain long term targets over the next three years under a longer term plan.

The core postal business, which delivers the six-days-a-week to 29 million addresses, made an operating profit of £23 million, up from a loss of £120 million last year.

However, the figures somewhat mask further declines in the number of letters being posted, and Miss Greene indicated that this could lead to further job losses.

Seagulls 1 Royal Mail 0

Reported in www.telegraph.co.uk

Royal Mail has suspended deliveries to homes in the Scottish town of Elgin, claiming its postwoman was being attacked by seagulls.

Residents have been told they will have to collect their mail from the post office until the nesting season ends due to what are described as “swooping attacks”.

More than 20 homes have been affected. Many residents are elderly or housebound, and have had difficulty getting to the Post Office.

The gulls are protected by law and roost on the roofs of homes on the road.

George McPhee, 66, said: “The seagulls are a bloody pest, but I have been 41years in the same house and they have never hurt anybody.

“Even during The Blitz everybody was getting their post.

In a league of their own

Reported in www.marketwatch.com In the pre-order stamp sales at United States Postal

Royal Mail is now forecasting a five per cent fall every year for the next five years.

Last year Royal Mail laid off 4,000 staff and Miss Greene signalled more losses were likely. She said: “In a business that is experiencing structural decline you are likely to see fewer people working in that business.”

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Margo Campbell

Service, the most popular Major League Baseball All-Star Forever stamp, Boston Red Sox Ted Williams still holds a slight lead over New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio, but there’s still time for fans of Pittsburgh Pirate Willie Stargell and Cleveland Indian Larry Doby fans to step up to the plate and take the series as the stamps won’t be issued until later in July.

“Sales are well beyond the three quarters of a million mark with more than 800,000 stamps sold,” said Stamp Services Manager.

Tax stamps before the courts

Illinois Reported in www.pjstar.com Illinois must sell as many cigarette tax stamps as distributors want, an Illinois County judge decided this week.

normally sells $10 million to $12 million of the stamps weekly.

The State runs a Cigarette Tax Reward Program to reward those who report unstamped packs, taped on tax stamps or sale of loose cigarettes with rewards of up to $1000.

Washington Reported in http://www.seattlemedium.com The Washington State Supreme Court has ruled that cigarette tax stamps must now be affixed to cigarettes manufactured by commercial roll-yourown machines.

Retailers operating machines that allow their customers to roll their own cigarettes began affixing cigarette tax stamps to those products on July 1.

The decision is currently under appeal with the state arguing the enforcement is to prevent evasion of taxes that are already due on all cigarettes. The plaintiffs in the case are hoping for its suspension on a technicality. They contend it is a new tax subject to a two-thirds vote of the Legislature which has not occurred.

Tax stamps Singapore style

Reported in www.channelnewsasia.com Singapore’s tax administrator, the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore, turns 20 this year.

To mark the occasion, there will be a series of activities to get taxpayers and staff to reflect on how taxpaying and tax administration has evolved over the past two decades including a website to highlight most significant or memorable moments of IRAS’ The Court issued a restraining order that prohibits history. the Department of Revenue from limiting the To raise funds for charity, the agency has released number of cigarette stamps it will sell to distributors the final batch of decommissioned revenue stamps in advance of the state’s upcoming $1 per pack for sale via the website. The stamps were printed increase in the cigarette tax. about 15 years ago and it is believed they will be a Tobacco distributors buy the stamps from the state sought-after collectors’ item. Since 1999 Singapore and must attach them to cigarette packages. has been using e-tax stamps.

The distributors said retailers are demanding more cigarettes as smokers stock up ahead of the tax hike.

Eight cigarette companies filed suit seeking an order directing the state to sell them all the stamps they request.

One company immediately took advantage of the ruling and bought 440 rolls of stamps for about $13 million. Each roll contains 30,000 stamps. Revenue Stamp News - 49

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There are also online interactive tax games to engage both the young and old.

For more information see http://www.iras20.sg

Make mine a book of stamps and a pint Reported in www.bournemouthecho.co.uk A POOLE Post Office has been given permission to sell alcohol, despite residents’ fears that it could attract antisocial behaviour.

The council received 35 objections to the application for a premises licence at Oakdale Post Office.

The licensing sub-committee granted the application, attaching 14 conditions to the licence, including CCTV, full training for staff and logging incidents and refusals of sales of alcohol.

Postal museum for Bahrain

Reported in www.bna.bh Manama Post Office will be turned into a museum after renovation expected to be complete in December.

The planned museum will depict the history of the post and stamps in Bahrain and its opening will coincide with the issue of special stamps marking

Manama Capital of Arab Culture 2012.

The central Al-Manama area has been the focus of ongoing anti-royal protests and a violent government crackdown since February last year.

North Korea in the spotlight Reported in www.atimes.com

A new book, Exploring North Korean Arts is the by-product of the largest ever exhibition of North Korean art abroad held in Vienna in 2010. The show was entitled Flowers for Kim Il-sung and the book is based on the subsequent symposium .

It covers a wide range of the visual arts including the design of North Korean postage stamps.

Author, Ross King notes that most stamps have predictable propaganda themes, with images of the Great Leader Kim Il-sung or heroic steel workers, but some are issued mainly, if not entirely, for the export market and their subject matter is highly unexpected.

Surprisingly, North Korea has issued no fewer than 29 stamps depicting Princess Diana, although it is doubtful if any North Korean would dare stick one on an envelope for posting. One of the unexpected highlights of the book is a picture of a set of four wonderfully kitschy North Korean stamps issued for “HRH The Princess of Wales on Her 21st Birthday.”

King also notes that North Korea is almost certainly the only country that has ever depicted cursing on a stamp, on a 1975 issue which shows a muscular, handsome North Korean yelling “Yankee bastard!” (Yangkhi inom!) to a cowering American GI.

Wallenberg remembered

Reported in http://www.jwire.com.au The Council of Christians and Jews Victoria AGM 50 - Stamp News

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Margo Campbell

was the venue for the launch of a new Centenary Postmark on the Raoul Wallenberg Stamp Sheet.

The Stamp Sheet was produced with the help of Max Stern of Max Stern and Co, a leading Melbourne stamp dealership, in conjunction with Australia Post.

It features ten 60 cent Australia Post stamps with tabs which show personal images of Raoul Wallenberg from early childhood with his mother and grandfather, to adult soldier in uniform.

Permission to use these images was sought and obtained directly from the Wallenberg family.

The stamp sheet gives a brief history in point form of Raoul Wallenberg’s life. On the back of its protective envelope, a Schutz-pass is reproduced.

Issued by Raoul Wallenberg during 1944-45 to Jews in Budapest, a Schutz-pass was a document which supposedly placed the recipient under the protection of neutral Sweden. During the final months of the Second World War, more than 30,000 such Swedish diplomatic papers were issued.

As part of the Centenary Year Commemoration (Raoul Wallenberg was born on 4 August 1912), it was decided to over-stamp a small, limited edition of 250 of the sheets with a special Centenary Postmark which features the Raoul Wallenberg Unit logo with the words ‘B’nai B’rith’ below it and the encircling words ‘Raoul Wallenberg Unit, Wallenberg Centenary Year 2012’ around the perimeter.

For further information contact: judi@ judischiffphotography.com

Stamp Staycation — Travel the USA and the World with stamps

Reported in www.timesunion.com The American Philatelic Society is currently promoting “Stamp Staycations.”

According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary, “a staycation is a vacation spent at

home or nearby.”

The concept has been around for almost eight years and more Americans are taking staycations than ever before.

The reasons for this growing phenomena range from saving money to spending more time with the family, from boosting the local economy to avoiding the hassles of travel.

It also is the perfect vacation solution when family members are unable to travel.

The Society provides the following advice for those embarking on the stamp staycation: Through the magic of postage stamps one can stay at home and experience the world! Become a time traveller and visit the Civil War, or go abroad to the Louvre. Tour the nation’s national parks, from the Grand Canyon to the Great Smokies, or revisit the movies to meet Luke Skywalker and R2-D2. Stamps are the vehicle that can carry a family on a crosscountry trip or an adventure beneath the sea. Let the APS be your stamp staycation “cruise director.

When to go? Look at the calendar, select a start date and the duration of the vacation. Remember a staycation should be special, not just like any other day.

Where to go? With postage stamps as the “travel agent,” the world is at the travelers fingertips. Also, with a Stamp Staycation, families are not limited to just one destination or activity. Each family member can plan their own trip. A Stamp Staycation is perfect when the grandkids come for a visit.

What to see and do? Investigate the planned destination or activity at the library or online. Map out the route, sights to see, and things to do.

Not sure where to go? The APS has a series of free downloadable, full-color mini-stamp albums that could serve as a travel guide for your trip athttp://stamps.org/Free-Album-Pages.

Travelers also can have fun creating their own Stamp Staycation album. Along with the stamps featuring highlights of the trip, the album might include maps, postcards, photos of sights appearing on the stamps or any “side trips”.

Visit http://stamps.org/ Staycation.pdf for activities and more information.

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Market Matters: £3 Million Australia Collection An outstanding collection of rare Australian Commonwealth stamps will be auctioned in London later this year.

The “Morgan” collection will be offered at auction by Spink London, on November 13/14, 2012.

Spink say the collection is estimated to sell for in excess of £3 million.

This famous collection was created here by William Morgan, and continued by his well-known industrialist son, Hugh Morgan AC. Major Australian auction houses were of course keen to secure the collection, and I feel sure some interesting discussions took place in the “tendering” process!

There will be some empty - or at least denuded pockets by late November, as another big sale takes place here just before.

Phoenix Auctions in Melbourne will offer the first part, of the also multi-million dollar, Stuart Hardy “Australia” a week or so earlier.

The Imperforate 1928 Kookaburra miniature sheet shown nearby is expected to sell then for around $250,000 alone there. My guess is around $300,000.

It is the only copy known in private hands and several collectors “must” own it, so sparks will fly.

More on that sale next month.

Currency Risks

Consigning to Britain 6 months before a sale, exposes any seller to foreign exchange risks in these volatile times.

Arthur Gray exhibited stellar vision sending his Kangaroos to New York in 2007 when the Greenbacks he got were worth 30% higher than they are now.

The $A7.15 million that just his Roo stamps were invoiced for, was a dream The unique 20/- Essay result.

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Probably a $300,000 Kookaburra

Glen Stephens I attended that sale, and still have many of my purchases sitting in a drawer …. OUCH! If there is a financial crisis in Europe, Sterling will be impacted far more than the $A, so the results of this sale will be interesting to see.

A weak Sterling will mean less dollars in the seller’s pocket one imagines.

Mr Morgan was paid several MILLION dollars a year at WMC, so I guess exchange rate movements are not going to change his lifestyle too greatly either way!

Nick Startup, stamp specialist at Spink UK, said today: “We are delighted to have the opportunity to offer such a unique and exceptional collection.”

“We can only express our excitement that stamp collectors have been afforded the opportunity to obtain such rarities that have not been seen for many years.”

The collection is very strong in the pre Kangaroo essays and trials and proofs etc - some of which are unique.

During the development of the Kangaroo and Map design, a series of essays were produced.

One of them is a horizontal design showing the kangaroo on a map of Australia, flanked by draped flags.

Only eight known examples are recorded, of which five are in the National Philatelic collection of Australia Post.

The Hugh Morgan collection has the unique 2½d essay, printed in blue.

This 1912 un-adopted essay for Australia’s first Kangaroo and Map stamp issue was auctioned April 22, 2006 for $A174,750, bought by Morgan.

In US dollars at least, it was a record price, for any Australian stamp item, essay or proof.

World Record price?

My research indicates that was a world record price for a single stamp essay, from ANY country.

That 2006 auction result was obtained by Prestige Philately in Melbourne.

The essay in bright blue, is on thick ungummed unwatermarked paper roughly rouletted percé en scie, gauging 14½.

Sold for about $A175,000 Morgan’s collection contains many rare issued stamps of the Kangaroo series, including a multitude of the “JBC” and “CA” monograms, plus the various imprints.

Of particular note is the 1913 First Watermark ½d “JBC” corner monogram block of twelve, imperforate at base - shown nearby - the now ancient ACSC value is $40,000+ The similar Baillie ‘CA’ block of 12 was invoiced for $A74,500 in July 2005 as a relevant guide.

The Gray CA monogram block of 6 sold for near $A50,000 in 2007.

Two other “JBC” Blocks are recorded, neither in private hands – one in the Royal Collection, and the other in Vickery Collection, and hence was absent from the Gray Kangaroos.

There is a used example of this stamp with sideways watermark, and a striking 3d “JBC” monogram block of four - imperforate on three sides.

Highlights of the Third Watermark include the 2½d missing “1” of fraction, perforated ‘OS’, a 2/pair imperforate on three sides, and a £2 block of four with Harrison imprint.

The 2/- Brown pair is FAR superior in appearance to the Gray pair which was torn roughly, and badly creased, but invoiced for near $A100,000.

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Unique in private hands surprise me at all, if condition of the reverse is OK. SG 71a - £70,000.

Only 2/- pair buyable

MELBOURNE” oval cancel, or its usual purpose.

I have it on some Kangaroo blocks, and discussion on stamboards.com has unearthed several other examples on issued stamps.

The other 2 existing pairs are in the Royal Collection and Australia Post collections, so are permanently off the market.

King George V Heads include Perkins Bacon Die Proofs in First, Second and Fourth States.

Another die proof in the collection is the 1/4d, in the issued Turquoise colour shown nearby.

Ancient ACSC is $50,000.

Little is known of the unusual “RECORDS Surely $100,000+?

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Inverted “OS” on front

Of particular note is the CofA watermark 2d red KGV, with inverted “OS” overprint.

On a 1933 cover front from Ardelethan NSW. Three examples of this error are recorded, but this is the only example known on entire.

The error is illustrated nearby with the close-up detail of the error shown. And

Glen Stephens

”Unique on cover” invert probably for the first time anywhere, is published in colour?

King George VI issues in Morgan collection include a range of multiples showing plate numbers.

These plate numbers were intended to be trimmed prior to issue, therefore they survive only as a result of misguillotining, or because of paper folds during printing, and represent major rarities of the reign.

Queen Elizabeth issues in the Morgan collection include some the rarest and most important errors of this period.

The first missing colour to occur on an Australian stamp, was the 1955 Y.M.C.A. commemorative, with the red triangle omitted.

1955 YMCA “Missing Triangle”

The triangle was added as a second operation by typography.

Two examples were discovered soon after issue, one mint, and the other used on cover cancelled at Caulfield South, Victoria.

This cover did not appear on the philatelic market until 1970, when it was purchased for the Morgan collection.

Photo nearby of this piece is also probably the first time this cover has ever been illustrated in colour.

ACSC notes this cover is “defective” and values it at only $5,000. I’ll bet a stack of WMC Shares it will be invoiced for MUCH more than $A5,000!

It can think of 2 potential buyers who will not be happily outbid on this.

Apart from this cover, only a mint single exists, and SG oddly price only that, not the used example – SG 286a, £16,000.

Strange “RECORDS MELBOURNE” Stamp News - 57

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In the Decimal period, numerous missing colours are to be found in the collection, particularly among the 1966 definitives.

This outstanding collection was assembled over two generations - by William Morgan, and his son Hugh Morgan AC, who together formed a collection of international importance.

Inherited Collection

Hugh Morgan’s interest in stamp collecting began in early childhood, but with the inheritance of his father’s collection, Australian Commonwealth became the focus of his interest.

Hugh Matheson Morgan (born 1940) followed his father into the Western Mining Corporation, and was CEO of the massive company between 1990 and 2003.

He also served as President of the Business Council of Australia, and was a member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia for 14 years, and many other boards.

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$5,000 - in your DREAMS! decimal issues, so as to complement the existing collection left by his father.

He determined 1972 as a cut-off date, this being the date of his father’s death and also a protest against what he saw as an unnecessary proliferation of new issues.

Due to business commitments, little was added to the collection until the mid 1980s, but from 1989, with the assistance of a curator, Tom Carter, selective acquisitions were made.

This coincided with a decision to exhibit the collection, which involved the remounting of a large portion of the collection under Tom Carter’s guidance.

GiLbraltar?

We are all guilty of making typos of course – me included, but most do not have the global circulation of this one!

The most recent edition of the “American

Glen Stephens Anyway all reading that magazine collect stamp connected “errors” if they find them free, and this is one it seems sure!

In years to come dealers will be buying collector estates, and they’ll have just one copy of the “American Philatelist” in there - the June 2012 one.

GB Plate 77 cover surprise

Spell that AGAIN please?

Philatelist” had the stamps of Gibraltar featured on the front cover.

This is a wide circulation magazine - being the official journal of the American Philatelic Society, which has 10,000s of members, me included.

Only problem was the Editor using the misspelling “GiLbraltar” on his cover – in HUGE letters as you can see.

Stampboards member “maturin” from Chicago posted the snafu and a spirited discussion ensured tinyurl.com/coverAP I’ve edited and published stamps and coin magazines, and can empathise with them!

I recall once leaving the wrong month on a front cover i.e. the “July” edition occurred twice that year, but nothing much worse luckily.

One story I have followed with great interest in recent years is the discovery of a part cover bearing 3 x SG 1d Plate stamps.

The discovery was of a 1865 part cover from Guernsey to Brussels Belgium. Found in an old collection job lot in Europe, where the scarce plate number had not been recognised.

The part cover was pre-paid with 3 x 1d Red stamps, all dreadfully centred, with the Guernsey “324” barred numeral obliterator.

One of those is very badly scuffed, and one is creased. A rather ugly piece, value in normal circumstances – a dollar or so on a good day.

However all stamps are showing Plate “77” on both sides – making this a literally £100,000s rarity when finally certified genuine.

Indeed arguably a 7 figure piece, based on the SG recent sale of £550,000 for a single off centred stamp.

World’s Dumbest forger!?

No forger would have worked tirelessly on 3 stamps, when 1 was normal, and choosing a ratty part cover with damaged stamps is not any forger’s path.

Stampboards has many 100s of detailed colour photos, and charts and graphs, large microscope blow ups, and the whereabouts of the other known existing plate “77’ examples.

All added to and discussed, by members all over the globe.

The photo nearby shows a massive blow up of part of one of the 7s where every individual paper fibre is visible, and are clearly unbroken and unpainted.

Using a $40,000 Keyence VHX-600E digital microscope. The “White” of the 7 of course being Stamp News - 59

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the natural unprinted paper.

The RPSL claimed that new 7s had been glued on, and the PF in NYC claimed the 7s were all painted in. Talk about Amateur Hour in STEREO! 60 - Stamp News

Part of the “Mystery Cover�.

Both utter nonsensical views it seems to me and many others who have studied the matter.

Glen Stephens Over 60,000 page views.

See any fakery here?

And both totally discredited on all counts, in a detailed report by a leading forensic document and ink examiner - tinyurl.com/77Radley – a fascinating read.

And a Ph.D University Professor’s report, who also examined it in great detail, using state of the art University apparatus, and agrees in writing no tampering or faking took place.

tinyurl.com/plate77 caries the complete discussion on this cover, which to date is some 2,200 different messages, with over 60,000 page views thus far.

Recently the owner, via neat detective work, discovered the cover was hand addressed by Victor Hugo - the famous French novelist etc, who wrote “Les Misérables” and ”The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”.

Hugo was the most famous resident ever of Guernsey, and the cover was addressed in Hugo’s hand to his publisher in Brussels.

Lacroix Verboekhoven’s offices were at Impasse du Parc, Rue Royal, Brussels. Exactly as shown on the cover.

Yet another un-expected twist in this quite amazing story!

A high-resolution image of the cover was sent to Sotheby’s in Paris for an opinion on the handwriting.

The following confirmation was received from Mr. Adrien Legendre, Spécialiste en Livres & Manuscrits, Sotheby’s. (Specialist in Books and Manuscripts, Sotheby’s) That firm has sold many of Hugo’s letters etc. “In my opinion, the hand-writing on the envelope is Victor Hugo’s” Check tinyurl.com/plate77 for all the details, but the saga continues.

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

Glen Stephens

Victor Hugo’s Written Address

4 The Tor Walk, Castlecrag, NSW, 2068 Ph: 02 9958 1333 email: glen@glenstephens.com Website: www.glenstephens.com Stamp News - 61

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The pages are of REALLY thick blotting type paper. i.e.thick heavy cardboard thickness. It is some special “fast release” formulation .. no idea what they use, but it really does WORK! There is then a special smooth plastic coating on one side. So you wash your stamps, and if you leave them to air dry on tea towels or blotting paper or newspaper, light creases and bends will always stay there.

If they are placed into this book when touch damp (not sopping wet) and left there with the gum side to the plastic side and the front of stamp to the blotter side, they dry perfectly flat, and many light bends and creases vanish.

Nearly all of them. It is amazing the difference they make, which is why we sell so many!

Readers of www.stampboards.com have acclaimed these as one of the best stamp accessories on the market. Just put your stamps in, pile a few heavy books on top and forget them for a week. Most collectors have two books, as that is the secret ..... do NOT touch them for a week and let them dry slowly under weight. Most important.

The special formulation plastic coated side is super important as otherwise many stamps STICK to blotter if damp and between 2 sheets of blotting paper, with heavy weight on top. These do not. Again it is some special coating they have figured out which works perfectly for this specific job.

Almost any other kind of plastic sheet you may try to experiment with at home will leave a real ugly mirror like “SHEEN” on the gum side if placed in damp, under weight, which looks really stupid, and really shows what you have been doing. These do NOT. The books last for decades. They really do. A 10/- C of A Roo used and light creased copy will be $100 retail, and one that is nice and flat $200. So the cost of the book is paid 3 fold with just one stamp that is saved.

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21st Century Auctions

Harmers Of London

39 Kalman Drive, Boronia, Vic, 3155 www.21stcenturyauctions.com.au info@21centuryauctions.com.au Tel (03) 9729 0082 Fax (03) 9758 7506 Next sale: see website for details

11, 111 Power Road, London W4 5PY , UK www.harmers.com auctions@harmers.demon.co.uk Tel: 0011 44 208 747 6100 Fax: 0011 44 208 996 0649 Next sale: see website for details

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John Mowbray International

PO Box 2076, Ellenbrook, WA, 6069 www.acestampauctions.com stampdealer@iinet.net Tel (08) 9297 3040 Forthcoming sales: See website for details

Private Bag 63000, Wellington 6140, New Zealand www.mowbrays.co.nz john.mowbray@xtra.co.nz Tel: 0011 64 6 364 8252 Fax: 0011 64 6 364 8270 Next sale: see website for details

Auction house Christoph G채rtner

Millennium Philatelic Auctions

74321 Bietigheim-bissingen, Germany www.auktionen-gaertner.de info@auktionen-gaertner.de Tel 0011 49 7142 789 400 Fax 0011 49 7142 789 410 Forthcoming sales:10-14 September 2012

Suite 25, 89-97 Jones Street, Ultimo, NSW 2007 www.millenniumauctions.com info@millenniumauctions.com Tel: (02) 9281 4797 Fax: (02) 9281 4677 Next sale: see website for details

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Velvet Collectables Group (formerly Mowbrays Australia)

5 Mosley Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 1YE, UK www.corbitts.com collectors@corbitts.com Tel: 0011 44 191 232 7268 Fax: 0011 44 191 261 4130 Next sale; 6 September 2012

Craig Chappell PO Box 521, Clayfield, Qld. 4011 craigchappell@bigpond.com.au Tel: (07) 3262 8810 Fax:(07) 3262 8816 Please contact for details of forthcoming sales.

Cygnet Philatelics 8 Clevedon Way, Karringyup, WA 6018 Tel: (08) 9325 4542 Next sale: see ad for details

Suite 401, Level 4, 64-76 Kippax Street Surry Hills NSW 2100 velvetcollectables@iinet.net.au www.stamp-auction.com.au Tel: (02) 9280 0086 Fax: (02) 9281 4053 Next sale: 8 September 2012 (Collectables)

Robin Linke Stamp Dealer 181 Jersey Street, Wembley, 6014, Western Australia www.robinlinke.com.au robin@robinlinke.com.au Tel (08) 9387 5327 Fax (08) 9387 1646 Next sale: See website for details

Spink www.spink.com Tel: 0011 44 20 7563 4000 Fax: 0011 44 20 7563 4066 Next sale: 22 & 25 August 2012

Kevin Morgan Stamps and Coins Are Buying!

We urgently require stamp and coin collections of all types, in addition we will pay top prices for the following:

STAMPS Australia pre-decimals in sheets and large blocks MUH, paying 4 cents per stamp Australia Decimals Mint with gum, may be hinged or damaged, paying 40% face value Australia recent (2010-2012) close clipped kiloware on single paper with good variety, commemoratives pay $10 per kg, mission mix with no less than 50% commems pay $5 per kg, definitives only pay $2.50 per kg. Values above 60c pay $6 per 100g World unpicked recent on paper close clipped, pay $30 per kg

COINS Australia RAM Coin sets in original undamaged packaging, year sets, baby sets or proof sets, collections and accumulations with good spreads of years paying $10 per set, individual years, prices on request.

Australia Single 1oz or 2 oz silver coins pay $20 per ounce Australia pre- decimal silver coins, 3d to florins, pre 1946 pay 40 times face value, 1946 – 1965 pay 20 x face value Australia 1966 50c round coins pay $9.00 each Australia $100 or $150 gold coins pay 4 x face, $200 gold coins pay 2 x face, Sovereigns of any country pay $350, Krugerands pay $1450.

All other Royal Australia Mint and Perth Mint product required, please offer

MEDALS Australian, British and German war medals required, please offer. Pay minimum $10 each for the most common types, World War I Trios pay $50, pairs pay $40, World War II Pacific Star pay $50, Aircrew Europe Star pay $150, pay 20% extra if in groups.

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Millions of dollars of stock is priced up ready to sell on these sites. All Dealers may list their contact details here for a very affordable $175 per year fee, prepaid annually or only $17.50 a month.

Contact the Advertising Manager on Ph: 03 9729 0082, Fax: 03 9758 7506, or email: kevinmorgan2@live.co www.brusden-white.com Publishers of Australia’s Gold Medal catalogue series - The Australian Commonwealth Specialists’ Catalogue. Order all volumes on line. Special offers also available. info@brusden-white.com

www.bexleystamps.com.au Our web site gives all our current stock and specials so keep looking. sales@bexleystamps.com.au

www.dunedinstamps.co.nz Check out our website for selected New Zealand items, NZ mint sets, and “Lord of the Rings” stamps and covers dnstamp@es.co.nz

www.millenniumauctions.com Regular public auctions of fine and rare stamps and postal history. View our auction catalogues online and bid with confidence on our secure server. info@millenniumauctions.com

www.ozemail.com.au/~pittwaterstamps Comprehensive price lists for more than forty lists using ASC, SG & Scott numbering. By far the largest such lists in the southern hemisphere.” pittwaterstamps@ozemail.com.au

www.rap.com.au The website for Australia, Australian Territories, commercial and philatelic covers, and informative articles on the subjects. rap@rap.com.au

www.premierpostal.com PPA holds it’s auctions on the 3rd Sunday of the Month with around 4000 lots per auction. Our auctions include stamps, postal history, postal stationary, postmarks,postcards etc from around the world. We also provide a searchable Post Office reference database for Australia and several other counties. david@premierpostal.com

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www.manfredjunge.com.au Try us for Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands and Antarctica. Specialising in “Booklets” from Australia, New Zealand, The Pacifics, Great Britain & Channel Island & much more. mjstamps@manfredjunge.com.au

www.sutherlandphilatelics.com.au Long-established mail order dealer comprehensively covering British Isles, Europe, Scandinavia, North America, Australasia and Japan.

Prompt courteous service and an extensive user-friendly website. sutherlandphil@bigpond.com

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Sydney Philatelics - Largest On-Line Shop in Australia ! – User-Friendly – 10,000 and more Philatelic Items – Just a mouse click away ! Over 100 Pages of Australasia, British Commonwealth, Booklets, Accessories.etc. Always Buying ! Est 27 Years. info@stampsaustralia.com.au

www.zirinskystamps.com Browse our stock of stamps, revenues , postal history and articles on Australasia, British Commonwealth and more at www.zirinskystamps.com.

Or email szirinsky@cs.com

www.sevenseas.com.au Search our website for full listing of stamps and Seven Seas albums and pages and other accessories. We look forward to serving you. stamps@sevenseas.com.au

www.glenstephens.com Largest and most visited Stamp Dealer website in the Southern Hemisphere. 250 different pages of stamp bargains and archives! $4,000 prize always on offer. glen@glenstephens.com

www.varisell.com Worldwide stamps, covers, errors, proofs, specimens, postal stationery, philatelic literature, postcards, paper money, signed FDC-s and more in our easy to use online store. Prompt, courteous service from America.

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www.gabrieles.com.au Hundreds of new items added to our site each month. Add your email address to our “early bird” notice list, so when new material is added to the site, you get first choice! We also post out a printed copy of our monthly offers, for those who do not use the internet, this service is also free. Our printed, 36 paged price list is also available, just phone write or email today for a free copy today. gabriele@gabrieles.com.au

www.richardjuzwin.com The leading specialist dealers in Australasian stamps and the largest private dealer (non Auction) company in Australia. info@richardjuzwin.com.au

www.ballaratgoldstamps.com We stock a wide range of items from Great Britain, (Stamps, First Day Covers and Booklets), United States of America, (Stamps and First day Covers), Pacific Islands, Scandinavia, Central and South America, British Commonwealth countries pre-1953, Queen Victoria, Flight Covers and Postal Stationery.

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philatelic clubs & societies new south wales Armidale Circle RSPC: Mtg 2nd Wed Australian Cmwlth Collectors Club of NSW: Mtg 3rd Mon 7.45pm, 1st flr. Philas House, 17 Brisbane St, Darlinghurst, Sydney 2001. Ph 02 9267 8301; Fax: 02 9264 4741. GPO Box 1971, Sydney NSW 2000 Ph: 02 9264 8301 Aust. States Study Circle: Mtg 4th Wed 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301 Bathurst Stamp Coin and Collectables Club: Mtg 1st Mon 7.30pm, Old Eglinton fire shed, Park St, Elington PO Box 151, Bathurst NSW 2795 Bega Phil. & Numismatic Society: Mtg 3rd Friday 8.00pm. Mthly Newsletter. PO Box 370, Bega NSW Blue Mountains Stamp Club: Mtg 4th Friday (ex Dec) 8.00pm Katoomba Public School; PO Box 76, Blackheath Boambee East PS: Mtg 1st Tues (ex. Jan) 6pm Boambee East Comm. Centre, Bruce King Dr. Ph: 02 66581385 Campbelltown District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm (ex Jan - 4th Wed); @ Catholic Hall Acacia St, Ruse.

Inquiries: mystampclub@yahoo.com.au; PO Box 478, Campbelltown 2560 Castle Hill SC Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm, Hills District Bowling Club, Jenner Street, Baulkham Hills; PO Box 151 Castle Hill NSW 1765 China Study Group of PSNSW: Mtg 4th Mon 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301 Cinderella SC: Mtg 2nd Friday, even months; Produces “Cinderellas Australia” and monographs; PO Box 889, Chatswood, NSW 2057 Coffs Harbour SC: Mtg 2nd Wed Earlwood and District SC:Mtg 1st Wed Grafton SC: Mtg 2nd Wed (ex. Dec) Grafton Stampers & Everything Philatelic: Mtg 1st Sun 2pm (ex School Hols). Grafton Baptist Church Hall, Cnr Queen & Oliver Sts. Ph 02 6642 1363. email gbchurch@bigpond.com.

Great Lakes SC: Mtg1st Sat 9.30am , Workshop & Market 1st Sat 9-12, Great Lakes Campus Annexe, Taree St, Tuncurry Enq: Ph 02 6554 9776 Gosford PS: Afternoon Mtg 1st Mon; Evening Mtg 2nd Thurs Hawkesbury Valley PS (Richmond Stamp Club): Mtg 2nd Thurs (ex Jan) PO Box 28 Richmond 2753 Illawarra PS: Mtg 3rd Thursday (ex. Jan) Wollongong Master Build. Club Ltd, Oasis Room, 7.30pm. All welcome. Tel. (02) 42252011.

Kempsey RSL PS: Mtg 2nd Wed Lake Macquarie Stamp Club:: Mtg 2nd Sat 9am; Combined Pensioners & Community Care Services 130 Josephson St, Swansea. Enq: 02 4392 5211 Lord Howe Island Postal History Society: Mtg by arrangement. Contact Pres: Dr William Mayo, 02 9918 6825 Lower Clarence PS: Mtg 4th Tues Macquarie Valley PS: Mtg 2nd Tues Maitland SC: Mtg 2nd Mon ex Jan. ‘Show & Tell’ every mtg E. Maitland Bowling Club, Bank St. Pres.

Mark Saxby; Sec. David Carratt; Ph: 02 4932 4045 Email: carrotspatch@tpg.com.au Manly-Warringah PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs St David’s Church Hall, Dee Why. Sec. Graeme Morriss Ph: 02 9905 3255 email: stampsmw@bizland.com.au Manly-Warringah Rugby Leagues SC: Mtg 4th Tues cnr. Pittwater Rd & Federal Pde, Brookvale. Sec. Graeme Morriss Ph: 02 9905 3255 email: stampsmw@bizland.com.au Milton-Ulladulla SC: Mtg 7pm on 4th Mon (ex Dec); Milton-Ulladulla Bowling Club Mtg Room, St Vincent St, Ulladulla, Sec. PO Box 670, Ulladulla, NSW, 2539 Morisset Uniting Church SC: Mtg 4th Sat 10am (ex Dec) Enq: 4977 2525 (Jenny)

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

western australia Armadale-Kelmscott PS: Mtg 4th Tues; Ph: 08 9397 6525 email: fit.kanga@bigpond.com Bridgetown-Manjimup SC: Mtg 1st Thurs 7.30pm Masonic Hall, Hampton St, BridgetownPh 08 9761 4638 or 08 9761 2005 Busselton SC: Mtg 2nd Mon; Ph: 08 9752 4449, 0400 646 282 email witches1@westnet.com.au Canning SC: Mtg 1st Wed; Ph: 08 9457 7565 Daytime SC: Mtg 1st Thurs; 08 9341 3576 Eastern Goldfields: Mtg 3rd Thurs ; Ph: 0412 156 351 Eaton SC: Mtg 3rd Thurs, 7pm Ph. 08 9795 7744, email: scrapbit@tpg.com Ellenbrook SC: Mtg 3rd Wed; Ph: 08 9296 9306 Fremantle and District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed, Tennis Club House, Parry St, Fremantle at 8pm; Ph: 08 6363 6415 Kalamunda SC: Mtg 3rd Wed; Ph: 08 9291 8484 Mandurah PS PO Box 625 Mandurah WA 6210 2nd Tues 4.45 - 6.30pm Bortolo Park Pavilion Cnr. Bortolo and

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NSW club information:The Philatelic Association of NSW, PO Box220, Darlinghurst, NSW, 1300 Phone: 02 9264 8301

Mudgee Coin Note & Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Sunday Ph 02 63735324 Nambucca River PS: Mtg 1st Sunday Newcastle PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs, 7.30pm Mayfield Ex-Services Club; 10am 3rd Wed, 48 Mackie Ave, New Lambton, Juniors 11am 3rd Sun, Wallsend Pioneers Hall NSW Postcard Collectors Soc: Mtg 1st Wed 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301 Northern Suburbs PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs, 7.45pm, Naremburn Library, Central St, Naremburn off Slade St; Ph: 02 9419 7354 Orange Coin and Stamp Club: Mtg Last Tuesday, Orange Community Info Centre, 79-81 Kite St, Orange 7.30pm Ph: 02 6362 3754.

Orchid Stamp Club: Mtg 3rd Sat. (Jan and each 2nd mth) Parramatta PS: Mtg 1st Friday Penrith and District PS: Mtg 1st Thursdays, 8pm, CWA rooms, Baby Health Ctr, Tindale St PO Box 393, Kingswood NSW 2747 PHILAS Stamp Auctions: Mtg 2nd Sat Mar,Jul, Nov Ph 02 9264 8301 PS of Australia: Mtg 3rd Wed (exDec); Ph 02 9399 7556 PS of NSW: Mtg 1st Tues (Philas House), 3rd Tues (Chatswood); Ph: 02 9264 8301 Richmond River (Lismore) PS: Mtg 4th Thursday Royal Sydney Philatelic Club: Mtg 2nd Tues. (ex Jan); Ph: 02 9264 8301 Sapphire Coast Stamp & Coin Club: Mtg Enq 02 6495 7308. Mail to PO Box 285, Pambula, NSW 2549 St. George PS: Mtg 1st Mon Shoalhaven PS: Mtg 2nd Monday (Ex Jan) PO Box 4047, East Nowra 2541. Ph 02 44472976 Smithfield SC: Mtg 2nd Mon Society for Polar Philately: 2012 meetings: 2nd Wednesday of February, March, May, July, Sept and November held at Ryde Ex-Services Club 724-730 Victoria Rd, Ryde, NSW Tel: 9807 3344 (in Mackinnon room) starting at 8pm.Enq 0407 277 223 or email penviews@hotmail.com Strathfield-Burwood PS: Mtg 4th Wed Sussex Inlet and District: Mtg 3rd Mon Sutherland Shire PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. , 7:30pm, Sutherland Uniting Services Club, 7 East Pde, Sutherland. Information Secretary, PO Box 339, Sutherland, NSW 1499 Sydney Anglican Stamp Society: Mtg 2nd Sat, even months 9.30am - 2.30pm, St Paul’s, Carlingford.

Details: www.philas.org.au/sysdneyanglicanstampsociety Tamworth PS: Mtg 1st Mon ex. Jan. Tamworth Bridge Club, 7 Hilton St, Tamworth Sec. Graeme Mitchell. PO Box 678, Tamworth NSW 2340 Ph. 02 67664853 Taree RSL Club Ltd SC: Mtg 3rd Mon Thematic Society of Australia: Mtg 3rd Wed Toronto SC: Mtg 1st Wed Tuggerah SC: Mtg 4th Sun (ex Dec.) Turramurra SC: Mtg 2nd Monday, 7.45pm. Ph: 9144 4225 Twin Towns Stamp Club Inc.: Mtg 1st Monday, 7.30p, Home & Comm. Centre, Tweed Heads Wagga SC: Mtg 1st Wed (ex Jan) ARCC Building, Tarcutta St, 7.30pm. Secretary: Peter Simpfendorfer Ph:02 6922 3393 Willoughby Legion Philatelic Section: Mtg 4th Tues Wyong PS: Mtg 3rd Tues, 7.30m. Jim Spence, Sec. Ph 02 4392 7536

northern territory Alice Springs SC: Meet Informally; PO Box 1529, Alice Springs, NT, 0871.

Ph 08 8953 3054 Darwin Philatelic Circle: 1st Sun. 10am - 2pm. 53 Flametree Crt, Rosebery; Ph:(08) 8931 2898; PO Box 1624, Palmerston, NT, 0831; Email: Nadine.Tinsley@nt.gov.au-.

WA club information: WA Philatelic Council, GPO Box 9800, Perth, WA, 6001 Murdoch Drives Greenfields WA 6210 08 9581 1083 keithmich@bigpond.com Northern Districts SC: Mtg 2nd Mon; Ph: 08 9329 0117 Philatelic Forum: Mtg 1st Mon (ex Jan); Ph: 08 9294 4277 Rockingham & Kwinana (PS of): Mtg 3rd Tues (NB 2nd in Dec) Pres. Malcolm Brown; Sec. Terry Boyd; PRO Lucie Schokker Ph. 08 9419 1604; email: malcolm.b@iinet.net.au PS of WA: Mtg 3rd Tues; Ph: 08 9294 4277 Stirling PS: Mtg 4th Wed (ex Dec); Clubrooms, Charles Riley Reserve, Wendling Rd, North Beach, Ph: 08 9447 7256 The Postmark Circle (WA): Mtg 2nd Mon; Ph: 08 9294 4277 Victoria Park SC: Mtg 1st Wed; Ph: 08 9472 8072 or 08 9450 5280 WA Study Group: Mtg 4th Thurs (ex Dec) 08 9384 1050 Wanneroo SC: Mtg 3rd Mon; Ph: 08 6106 0874.

philatelic clubs & societies new zealand Air Mail Society of NZ: Mtg 3rd Mon (ex. Jan). Ph: 03 358 4838 Auckland PS: Mtg 1st and 3rd Tues (except Jan); Email bruce.chadderton @fitec. org.nz Add Ph 09 9853212 www.aps.gen.nz Christchurch PS: Mtg 2nd Tues, Library night 3rd Tuesday; Email: gftyson@inet.net. nz Ph 03 3541064 Dunedin PS: Mtg 4th Thurs (except Nov and Dec). Ph 03 4557643; Email paul@ classiekrealestate.co.nz Hastings Stamp Collectors Club: Mtg 3rd Wed (except Jan and 2nd Wed Dec). Ph 06 8706710; Email jan-dave@clear.net.nz Hawkes Bay PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex. Jan); Ph: 06 843 9433 Email dennmarg@paradise. net.nz Horowhenua PS: Mtg 2nd Mon. Ph: 06 368 6202 Email michael.Christensen@xtra. co.nz Hutt Valley PS: Mtg 1st Tues (ex. Jan); Ph: 04 568 4892; Email: richards@nec.co.nz Kapiti PS: Mtg 3rd Tues (ex Dec); Ph: 04 297 1197 Manaia PS: Mtg (Hawera) 1st Sun. Ph 06 2784292, email: peter.Williams @xtra. co.nz Manawatu PS: Mtg 1st Wed, daytime meeting 3rd Tues. Ph 06 3289 895; Email patricia.Larsen@xtra.co.nz Marlborough Stamp Collectors Club: Mtg 3rd Mon (except Jan and 2nd Mon Dec). Ph 03 5776166; Email lousv8@yahoo.com Morrinsville Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd Wed Ph 07 8896251 Nelson PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 03 5477516 NZ Stamp Collectors Club Christchurch: Mtg 4th Wed ; Ph 03 3596758; www.nzeal. com/philately/nzscc.htm North Shore PS: Mtg 2nd (except Jan) and 4th Wed (except Jan and Dec). Ph: 09 4141044; Email: nsps@xtra.co.nz www.northshoreps.com Postal History Soc of NZ: Auckland 1st Mon (except Jan). Ph: 09 522 0311 Chapter meetings held Invercargill, Nelson, New Plymouth and Wellington.

Ph: 07 3476428

queensland Arana Hills SC: Meeting 2nd Tues; 07 3851 0213; email: petermccloskey@bigpond. com Bayside Afternoon SC: Meeting last Wed; Ph: 07 3206 6281.

Bribie Island SC: Meeting 4th Wed; Ph: 07 3408 2238 Bundaberg PS: Mtg 2nd Mon, The Family Centre, Kensington St (in the Show Grounds); Ph: 07 4152 2403 or 07 4151 3062 Caboolture & District SC: Mtg 3rd Sat. Ph: 07 5498 6504 Cairns SC: Mtg 3rd Wed. 7.30pm Star Services, 115 Lyons St, Bungalow Ph: 07 4055 1302 Sec: Ross Bottomer, email:rbottomer@y7mail.com, web:www.cairnsstampclub. asn.au Caloundra SC: Mtg 4th Thurs 1.30pm Ph: 07 5494 7233 City Daytime SC: Mtg 2nd Thurs. Ph: 07 3206 6281 City of Brisbane PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs; Ph: 07 3263 8573 (ah); email: desley@mycelebrant.com COLLECTORS CLUB QUEENSLAND: Mtg 2nd Thurs 1.00 pm BCC Library, Garden City Shopping Centre, Upper Mt.Gravatt. Contact 32068507 or stampman5@ bigpond.com Deception Bay SC: Mtg 1st Sat. Ph: 07 3204 6095 Enoggera SC: Mtg 1st and 3rd Mon. Ph: 07 3264 4157 Gladstone and District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed (Ex. Jan) & 4th Wed (Ex.Dec). Ph. Sec: 07 4978 1155 Ian Rippingale, Gold Coast PS: Mtg 2nd Mon, 11.30am, Southport Community Centre, Lawson St, Southport. Ph: 07 5546 3801 Gympie SC: Mtg - 3rd Mon. Ph: 07 5482 5698 Hervey Bay Afternoon Club: Mtg 3rd Wed. Ph: 07 4124 1138 Ipswich SC: Mtg 1st Thurs (ex. Jan). Ph: 07 3282 2983

Further information can be obtained from the NZ Philatelic Federation, PO Box 58139, Whitby, Porirua, 5245, NZ. E-mail: secretary@nzpf.org.nz Pukekohe Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Sunday Ph: 09 2357737 Email: pukekohestampclub@gmail.com Royal PS of NZ: Mtg 2nd Tues (ex Jan); Ph: 04 472 2590; Email office@rpsnz.org.nz and; Website www.rpsnz.org.nz South Auckland PS:Mtg last Sat (except Dec), Papatoetoe, day time mtgs 3rd Fri(ex Dec); Ph: 09 5366708 ; Email: panross@xtra.co.nz Southland PS: Mtg 1st Thurs (except Jan). Ph 03 2158177 Email antqgevi@es.co. nz Taranaki PS: Mtg 1st Mon except Jan. Ph: 06 758 6233; Email: sheryllb@xtra.co.nz Tauranga & District Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd (except Jan) and 4th Mon (except Dec); Ph: 07 5765210; Email: beducker@hotmail.com Thames Valley PS: Mtg 1st Mon(except Jan). Ph: 07 8689190; Email: apberry@ wave.co.nz Thematic Association of NZ: Ph: 04 234 7218; Email: bob@gibsonz.com Timaru PS: Mtg 1st Wed. Ph: 03 6888829 Upper Hutt PS: Mtg 3rd Mon (except 2nd Mon Dec).04 5284123 ; Email km_Isaac@ paradise.net.nz Waikato PS: Mtg 1st (except Jan) and 3rd Wed (except Dec). Ph 07 8556572 Email c.cameron@agresearch.co.nz Wakatipu PS: Ph: 03 442 8865 Wanganui PS: Mtg 2nd Wed. (Ex. Jan) Ph 06 3448009 Warkworth & Districts Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Thu 1:00pm Ph 09 4258791 Wellesley PS: Mtg 2nd and 4th Mon (ex public holidays). Ph: 09 8271240 Wellington PS: Mtg 4th Mon (except 2nd Mon Dec); daytime meeting 3rd Thurs.

Ph: 04 234 7218; Email: bob@gibsonz.com Whakatane PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Thurs Ph: 07 3071016 Whangarei PS: Mtg 2nd Meeting: 2nd Tues (Ex. Jan) 09-4348000 Email johnmonica@xtra.co.nz QLD Philatelic Council, 18 Coolcrest St, Wynnum, Qld, 4178. Ph: 07 3396 0846 Fax: 07 3396 0842. Email: QPC-stamps@acenet.net.au Web: www.qpc.asn.au

Junction Park SC: Mtg 1st Tues, 7.30pm, Annerley Baptist Hall, Lambton St. Contact: 07 3272 8304. PO Box 177, Annerley, 4103, lopatich@bigpond.net.au Lockyer Valley SC: Mtg 4th Sun, 1.30pm, Senior Citizens’s Hall, Gatton. Kerri Martin, Sec. Ph: 07 5465 3390 Email: lvsc@bigpond.com Logan City SC: Meetings 2nd Thurs, Presbyterian Church, Barry St, Slacks Creek, 6pm. Ph: 07 3805 9226.

Mackay and District PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 07 4942 5433; Maryborough and Wide Bay PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex. Jan). Salvation Army Youth 7 Comm. Hall. Bazaar St Maryborough. Ph: 07 41224708 (see also Hervey Bay) Nanango SC: Mtg 4th Thurs. Ph: 07 4162 2945 Philatelic Society of Qld: Mtg 4th Wed 7.30pm,18 Coolcrest St, Wynnum. Ph: 07 3245 5222 Queensland Study Group: Sunday bi-monthly 1.00pm meets QPS house. Contact Ph: 07 3396 0846 email: QPC-stamps@acenet.net.au Redcliffe SC: Mtg 2nd Sat. Ph: 07 3204 6095 Rockhampton SC: Mtg 1st Tues. Ph: 07 4926 3336 Sherwood Afternoon SC: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 07 3372 6096 Southport Afternoon SC: Mtg 2nd Sat; Ph: 07 55630384 Southside PS: Mtg 3rd Tuesday & 3rd Wednesay (9am) Ph: 07 3848 2304 (ah) email: david.appleton@mailbox.uq.edu.au Sunshine Coast SC (formerly Nambour SC): Mtg 1st Wed, 7.15pm at C.W.A. Hall, Short St. Nambour. Ph: 075445 3647 Thematics Queensland: Mtg bi-monthly 9.30am. Ph: 07 3262 5605 email: j.crowsley@uq.net.au Toowoomba SC: Mtg 2nd Sat 2pm; Pres. Bob Littlehales; Phone 07 46355623; email: bob.benny@bigpond.com Twin Towns SC: Mtg 1st Mon; Ph: 07 5598 7629 Waterloo Bay SC: Mtg 1st Thurs (afternoon); 4th Thurs (evening); Ph 07 3207 3121.

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philatelic clubs & societies south australia

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

Australian Airmail Society: 1st Wed. 7.45pm 22 Gray Court, Adelaide. PO Box 395, Edwardstown 5039. Ph: 08 8276 3969 Barossa SC: Mtg 1st Tue 7.30 Greenock Luth Church Hall, Bevan St, Greenock; PO Box Greenock 5360; email: Jamil49@bigpond.com; Ph: (08) 8562 8386 Blackwood PC: Mtg 2nd Wed ex Jan; Uniting Church, Main Rd, Blackwood; Ph: 08 8278 1629; PO Box 581, Blackwood 5051; email: teepee@teegee.com.au Bordertown & Districts PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs; Bordertown PSchool; Ph: 08 8752 1297 Community PS: Mtg 1st & 3rd Fri - 7.30pm. Marion Bowling Club, off Sturt Rd. PO Box 75 Edwardstown, 5039; Auctions, circuit books. Ph: 0408806894 City of Noarlunga PS: Mtg alternate thurs,-- Community Health Centre, Grand Boulevard, Seaford, Contact 08 85566371 or PO Box 272, Port Noarlunga 5167 Eastern Districts PS: 2nd Thurs (ex. Jan), 7.30pm Senior citizens Hall, 47 Reid Ave. Hectorville; PO Box 240, Magill, 5072; Ph: 0400 156 796 Elizabeth PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Fridays, 7.30pm, RSL Hall, Cnr of Halseys/Midway Rds;PO Box 701, Elizabeth 5112; Ph: 08 8255 0608 Encounter Bay SC: Mtg 1st Wed, 7.30pm; School Hall, Woolworths Centre, Victor Harbour; PO Box 317, Goolwa 5214; aydepe@bigpond.com; Ph: 08 8555 3311 ETSA Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Mon (ex. Jan); Canteen, 1 Anzac Highway, Keswick; PO Box 2079, Magill North, 5072; Ph: 08 8278 7163 Frama Club: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm, members homes; For collectors of CPS, Framas. Newsletter and Auctions. PO Box 62 Campbelltown 5074.

Gawler SC: Mtg 4th Mon 7.30pm; Evanston Primary School, Para Rd, Evanston. PO Box 2, Willaston 5118; Ph: 08 8522 2335 Email: jo.trev@bigpond.com German Philatelic Club: Mtg 2nd & 4th Mon 8pm; German Club, 223 Flinders St, Adelaide 5000; Ph: 08 8260 2251 Glenside PS: 1st Wed 7.30pm& 3rd Sat 1.30pm; Uniting Church Hall, Carlton St. Highgate. PO Box 29, Glenside 5063. Ph: (08) 8353 8683 Lower Murray PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs,7.30pm, 2nd Sat, 10am; Murray Bridge Showgrounds. PO Box 810, Murray Bridge; Ph: 08 85704074 purjohn@activ8.net.au Mount Gambier PS: Mtg 3rd Tues; Reidy Park Corn Centre. 8pm. Also1st Sunday (ex. Jan) 1.30pm - 4pm. PO Box 2261,Mt Gambier.Ph: 08 8724 9474 Para Hills PS: Mtg 1st Sun; Community Hall Wilkinson Rd, Para Hills. PO Box 64, Para Hills; Ph: 08 8522 4345

victoria Australian PS: Bi-monthly meetings on 3rd Monday in February, April, June, August, October and December at RSL Homes, 152 Canterbury Road [cnr Keats Street] Canterbury. Secretary, PO Box 7014, Hawthorn, Vic, 3122 Bairnsdale SC: Mtg 3rd Thurs Ballarat PS:Mtg 3rd & 5th Mon Balwyn PS: Mtg 3rd Friday; Daytime 1st Friday Bendigo PS: Mtg 1st Tues Berwick SC:Mtg 2nd Sun (ex Jan); Ph: 03 5942 7626 Blackburn Baptist SC: Mtg 3rd Thurs Brighton PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Tues; Daytime 3rd Tues Camperdown SC: Mtg 1st Tues Castlemaine SC: Mtg 3rd Tues (ex Dec) Colac PC: Mtg 4th Mon (ex. Dec), Colac Community College, Bromfield St, Colac. Ph:52314746 Corner Inlet SC: Mtg 4th Thurs, Foster, Ph: 03 56881100 Dandenong PS: Mtg 4th Wed (ex Dec) Diamond Valley PS: Mtg 3rd Mon Essendon-Broadmeadows PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs; St Johns Uniting Church Hall, Cnr Mt Alexander Rd & Buckley St, Essendon; Murray Gorham, Ph 9306 7480 Footscray PS: Mtg 1st Mon (2nd in Jan); Footscray Senior Citizens Room, 130 Buckley St, Footscray Frankston & District SC: Mtg 3rd Tues (2nd in Dec) Seaford Community Centre, Broughton St Seaford.

Ph: 5996 3745 Geelong PS: Mtgs 1st Sat 7.00pm, 3rd Mon 1pm (ex Jan) Sat - Diversitat Community Centre, 9-15 Clarence St, Geelong West. Mon - Belmont Library, High St, Belmont Ph: 0438578591 (Sec); PO Box 342, Belmont 3216 Hamilton PS: Mtg 2nd Monday Hungarian PS: Mtg 2nd Wed Italian PS: Mtg 2nd Mon (ex Jan), 7.30pm, Veneto Club, 191 Bulleen Rd Bullen. (PO Box 166, Niddrie, 3042)

tasmania Derwent Valley PS: Mtg 4th Mon Devonport Junior SC: Mtg 1st & 3rd Mon Devonport Stamp Group: Mtg 4th Fri, Public Library Mtg Rms, 7.30pm Ph. 03 6424 3449 Glenorchy SC: Mtg 1st Tues Hobart Junior Group: Mtg 1st Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224

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Phillumeny SC: U3/26-28 Crozier Av, Modbury 5092. Ph: 08 8337 6533 Email: www.users.or.net/ figg/amccs Port Pirie PS: Mtg 4th Mon; PO Box532, Pt Pirie 5540; Ph: 08 8632 1105 Printed Collectables Club (SAPC): Mtg last Tues, Julia Farr Cent. Canteen, Ground Floor, Fisher St. Ph: 08 8265 7395; PO Box 657, Enfield Plaza 5085 PS of South Australia:1st & 3rdTues; 22 Gray Ct. GPO Box 1937, Adelaide 5001; Ph: 08 8555 3311 PS of South Aust. (Aus. Com. Spect.Grp.): Mtg 4th Tues 7.30pm;22 Gray Ct. Ph: 08 8373 3756 PS of South Australia (Daytime SC):Mtg 1st & 3rd Thurs; 22 Gray Ct.Ph: 08 8373 3756 PS of South Australia (Study Group):Mtg 4th Tues 7.30pm; 22 Gray Ct. Ph: 08 8522 4345 Postal Stat & Postal Hist Soc: Mtg 2nd Tues; SAPHIL House, 22 Gray Ct, Adelaide. email: psandph@arcom.com.au; Ph: 08 8260 3352 Riverland PS: Mtg 3rd Fri, 10am ;Whitmore Hall, Barmera Village; Ph: 08 8595 3023 SA Junior Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd Sun 1pm - 3pm;Anyone over 5years, parents welcome. 22 Grey St, Adelaide. 08 8250 0484 Salisbury PS: Mtg 1st & 3rd Mon;StJohns Church Hall. PO Box 336 Salisbury 5108; Ph: 08 8252 2392 Stirling PS: Mtg 4th Fri 7.45pm, Old Railway Station (now Community Services Bldng.); Ph: 08 8370 2680 Strathalbyn PS: Mtg 2nd Mon; Reg Sissons Day Car Centre, 41 High St, Strathalbyn; C/- Post Office, Strathalbyn 5255; Ph: 08 8536 2770 Ukrainian Collectibles Club: Mtg Wed as per syllabus; PO Box 466, Woodville 5011; Ph: 08 8345 4033 Yorke Peninsula Collectors Club: Senior Citizens Club. Taylor St, Kardina. Mtg 3rd Wed ex. Jan; PO Box 178, Bute 5560; Ph: 08 8821 2906 Club Information: Victorian Philatelic Council, GPO Box 9800, Melbourne, Vic, 3001 Latrobe Valley PS: Mtg Last Wed ex Dec 7.30pm, St Lukes Uniting Church Hall, Princes Way, Morwell; Chris Zarb, Sec. ph. 03 5174 3394 Maryborough Stamp Club:Mtg mthly ex Jan 2nd Tues of month 8pm, St Augustine’s Hall, Maryborough. PO Box 295, Maryborough, 3465; Ph: 03 5464 2400. maryboroughsc@eudoramail.com. maryboroughsc.web1000.com Mildura PS: Mtg Last Thurs (ex Dec)Carnegie Building 74 Deakin Ave Ph: 03 5023 8789 Mooroolbark PS: Mtg 1st Tues; Ph: 03 9723 3304 Oakleigh PS: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm (ex Jan) Oakleigh Public Library, Drummond St, Oakleigh Ocean Grove SC: Mtg 4th Wed. 10am. Ocean Grove Senior Citizens Clubrooms Melways: 234 A. Ph. 03 5255 1372 Peninsula SC: Mtg 3rd Wed, 7.30pm Uniting Church Hall, Murray Anderson Rd, Rosebud. Ph: 03 5974 1950 Polish PS: Mtg 3rd Tues (2nd in Dec) Prahran PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex Jan) Ringwood PS: Gen Mtg 1st Thurs; Daytime 3rd Mon Ph: 03 9551 2235 Royal PS of Victoria:Mtg 3rd & 5th Thurs; Daytime 1st Tues Sale SC: Mtg 1st Mon (ex Jan) Shepparton PS: Mtg 2nd Tues, Mechanics Institute, Shepparton. Ph. 0419 560 813 Sherbrooke PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs ex Jan Upwey Fire Brigade Hall, 8pm; Bob Cook Ph: 03 9758 3465 Upper Yarra SC: Mtg 3rd Tues Warragul PS: Mtg 2nd Fri Warrnambool PS: Mtg 3rd Wed 7.45pm St Joseph’s Primary School, Botanic Road;Ph: 03 5561 1470 Waverley PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs 7.30pm, Mt Waverley Community Centre, 47 Miller Cres, Mt Waverley; Daytime mtg the following Friday, 9.30am, Uniting Church Hall, 482 High St, Mt Waverley. Ph. 03 9898 4102 Obtain Tasmanian clubs information from: Tasmanian Stamp Council, GPO Box 9800, Hobart, TAS, 7001. Ph: 03 6278 7084 Kingston Junior Group: Mtg 2nd Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224 Launceston PS: Mtg 1st Thurs (ex. Jan) & 3rd Sat (ex. Dec), Max Fry Hall, Trevallyn 7.30pm; Ph: 6344 3676 Mersey-Leven PS: Contact: 03 6425 3603 Rosny Junior Group: Mtg Last Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224 Tasmanian PS: Mtg Last Monday (ex. Dec); www.tps.org.au, Legacy House, 159 Macquarie St Hobart

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Aug 4 - (1st Sat) 9am to 4pm Orange Stamp Fair, Quinn’s Aug 5 - (1st Sun) Stamp, Coin & Phone Card Fair, Ukrainian Hall, Russell St, Essendon. 9am-3pm Arcade, Summer St, Orange. Ph: Norm 02 63623754.

Aug 19 - (3rd Sun) Stamp, Card - Phone Card Fair, Aug 4 - (1st Sat) Northside Stamp Fair. 1st Floor, Car Bentleigh-McKinnon Youth Centre, Higgins Rd, Bentleigh. park Building, Manly-Warringah Leagues Club, cnr Dealers plus huge range activities. Ph: John Thomas 0418 Federal Parade/Pittwater Rd, Brookvale, NSW. 322 315.

Aug 4 - (1st Sat) Katoomba Stamp & Coin Fair, 9am - Aug 26 - (last Sun ex Dec) Stamp, Coin & Phonecard Fair, 4pm, Masonic Hall, Cnr Station & Civic Sts, Katoomba. Jaycees Hall, Silver Grove, Nunawading. 9am-3pm.

Aug 11 - Bendigo Philatelic Society Annual fair. St Andrew’s Church Hall, 24 Myers St, Bendigo. 10am-4pm.

Aug 4 - (1st Sat) Sutherland Shire Stamp & Coin Collec- Dealers, prizes, Free entry. Enq: 03 5447 8610 tors Fair, Gymea Anglican Church Hall, 131 Gymea Bay Ph. 0417 802 754

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Aug 5 - (1st Sun) Bankstown Stamp & Coin Fair, Bank- Aug 5 - QStamp Fair, Southside, Mt Gravatt Showgrounds, Memorial Hall, Logan Rd. Free Entry 8.30am stown Masonic Hall, Cnr Greenfields & Restwell Sts, - 2pm Bankstown. 9am - 3pm. 7 Dealers.

Aug 13 - (2nd Mon) - Gold Coast PS Sale, Rm 1, SouthAug 19 - (3rd Sun) Stamp & Coin Fair, 10am - 3pm, Pio- port Comm. Centre, Lawson St, Southport. 11.30am neers Hall, Cowper St, Wallsend. 8 Dealers. 4971 3483 - 2.30pm August 19 - Caloundra Stamp Fair, Beerwah CommuJuly 22 - (4th Sun) Epping Stamp & Coin Fair, Community Hall, 25 Peachester Road, Beerwah. Dealers, Raffle, nity Hall, 9 Oxford St, Epping. 10am - 4pm. Free Entry, Refreshments, Sale by tender. Parking available. Enq: 54947233 6 Dealers, Buy/Sell

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