Stamp News Australasia June 2014

STAMP NEWS AUSTRALASIA

JUNE 2014 EDITION

VOL.61 Number 6

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ORGE V STAMPS

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LETTERPRESS

KING GEORGE V: CENTENARY OF STAMPS 1914–2014

Letterpress is a traditional relief printing process. These stamps were printed using metal-moulded printing blocks on single colour flatbed cylinder press. Letterpress printing characteristically leaves a slightly heavier edge of ink around the image and the impression can sometimes be seen or felt on the reverse side of the paper.

These stamps were printed by McKellar Renown Press.

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OFFSET

KING GEORGE V: CENTENARY OF STAMPS 1914–2014

Offset lithography is a planographic process that is based on the incompatibility of water and oil-based ink. Ink is attracted to the image area of the printing plate and is then offset from the plate to a rubber blanket which is in turn transferred to the paper.

Offset lithographic printing gives high-quality print results across a wide variety of paper surfaces and substrates. These stamps were printed by EGO Print.

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Contents Articles

Four Auctions in a Single Day ........................................................6 Woodchip Free Zone: Rod Perry ...................................................8 Cinderella Corner: Tony Presgrave ............................................ 16 Stamps in the News: Margo Campbell .................................... 22 Looking at New Zealand: Graeme Morriss ............................... 34 Revenue Review: Dave Elsmore ................................................. 42 Introducing the APF: Ian McMahon .......................................... 48 Market Matters: Glen Stephens .................................................... 54

Information Trading Post....................................................................................... 68 Clubs & Societies ....................................................................... ......70 Calendar.............................................................................................. 73 Products & Services Directory............................................... ......74 Internet & Email Directory...................................................... ......78 List of Advertisers .............................................................. ..............82

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Four Auctions in a Single Day!

Prestige Philately: Friday 2nd May 2014 On 2nd May, Melbourne auction house Prestige Philately conducted an unprecedented four separate auctions in one day. In all, 1157 lots with pre-sale estimates totaling $1,510,885 were on offer.

Strong Demand For Rarities Commencing at 10am, “Australian Rarities from the Lionheart Collection” was the flagship sale. This was a remarkable offering of 63 selected items with estimates of $567,000. Unfortunately, in respect of eight major items, a Supreme Court injunction was obtained from a woman claiming they had been “misappropriated” from her late father’s collection.

A statement about the matter was read to the hushed room before the auction got underway.

Gary Watson later commented: “Despite there never having been a police report, insurance claim, or report to the stamp dealers association in respect of this matter, we were forced to withdraw these eight lots even though we and our vendor had provided the aggrieved woman with a formal offer that the proceeds from the sale of the disputed lots would be held in trust until after the court case, which is scheduled for late-June”.

He continued, “It is especially galling because we had book bids and phone bidders lined up that would have resulted in seven of the eight lots selling well.

On the morning of the sale, a local client turned up with the intention of buying the last of those lots.

And who knows what might have happened in the room?”

In spite of, or perhaps because of, this extraordinary disruption to the “Lionheart” sale, the day overall turned out to be a huge success for Prestige and its vendors.

Of the 60 lots that were offered for sale in the “Lionheart” auction, 85% were sold for a total of $315,800 (or 72.4% of the total estimates) plus 15% buyer’s premium. Had Prestige been allowed to also sell the eight disputed items, the results would have been even better: 86.7% of 68 lots would have been sold and the total hammer would probably have 6 - Stamp News

Lot 11: Second Watermark 2/- used monogram pair, ACSC Cat $35,000 for a mint single, sold for $46,000 exceeded half a million dollars.

The current “Kangaroos” catalogue published

by Brusden White was released in May 2013, with numerous quoted prices being greatly increased over the 2004 catalogue levels. Even so, some items still exceeded full catalogue value. Lot 1, the ½d block of 6 imperforate at the base sold for $20,700 compared to the catalogue value of $18,000 for three such pairs. (Please note, all prices quoted include the buyer’s premium.)

Still in the First Watermark issues, the CTO block of 4 of the 2/- brown achieved $1725 against the Brusden White price of $1200 for four singles, while the very fine mint £1 climbed to $4370: the ACSC value is $4000.

Brusden White quote $8000 for the Second Watermark 9d with the watermark inverted. A marginal unmounted example sold for $13,800. In Continued on Page 39

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The Phoenix Auctions sale of March 29 contained a number of items I liked, some of which I’ve featured this month. I had planned this to be the May article; pesky Cyclone Ita got in the way.

Thank you to those who expressed concern.

The Phoenix items largely bear higher denomination stamps, the use of which is generally associated with parcels. The Kangaroo 2/- brown and bicolour denominations Figure 1. Â Rare franking, buyer even rarer for instance were largely for telegram and and preferable for most usage specialists. My thanks bulk postage purposes, to Phoenix for use of the scans. so their use on parcel labels/tags is highly desirable, Some of the items featured had not previously been offered at auction; a few had not been offered on the open market at any time in their often quite long history. Prices realised, where the items did sell, were generally less than what I would regard as realistic for material which is seen perhaps just once or twice in a lifetime of collecting.

I put this shortcoming down to a general lack of understanding not only of the rarity of such material, but of its philatelic significance and importance. It may Figure 2. Not a hand in sight, despite unique status 8 - Stamp News

Figure 3. “Extremely rare” a modest description take another generation for the prevailing mindset to change.

Second wmk. Kangaroo 6d and above are rarities on intact postal articles. When found, they are seldom as attractive and as collectable as Figure 1 (Lot #931). This solo franking of a 6d on fashioned registered tag, used Jul 13 1916 from Murray Bridge to watchmaker in Adelaide, paid Merchandise, Patterns and Samples rate 1d per 2ozs. x3 + 3d registration fee. I’m amazed this was unsold with an estimate of just $350 against an ACSC “on cover” price of $1500. Pedestrian mint examples can sell for more.

Yet another Second wmk. rarity, indeed unique although unloved item, is Figure 2 (#937). This

use of the 1/- deep dull green in a block of four and single is not only unique as an intact postal article bearing this scarce printing, it is a unique representation of a used block, on or off “cover”.

A May 17 1916 black on pink parcels label from Adelaide, the aggregate 5/8d franking represents interstate Parcel rate for 10-11lbs. article [1/2d 1st 2lbs. + 6d per additional lb. x9]. I find those bold double-oval Parcels Post datestamps, often so ugly on single off-cover stamps, rather impressive when viewed on original postal article. Estimated at $4000, this remarkable item, which sold at auction in 2009 for $3910 (including Buyer’s premium), went unsold. Worthy of a place in an international standard exhibit of Kangaroos this, yet Stamp News - 9

one regularly witnesses bland, unworthy of exibiting Kangaroo mint and used high value singles readily sell for more than the estimated value of what is a highly important item. Incomprehensible to me.

Phoenix described Lot #942 (Figure 3) as “extremely rare”. Very conservative for what is almost certainly a unique item. A Second wmk.

2/- solo franking on black on red Victoria Interstate Parcel Post label to Melbourne, the cancellation is indistinct, but we can determine the parcel weighed between 6-7lbs., for that was what 2/- paid for a parcel of that weight sent within the State. Estimated at $1800, this sold for $1350 hammer price (as are other sold prices below), which was an astute purchase given ACSC Cat of $6000 on “cover”.

Lot #996 was an unusual and rare solo use of a Third wmk. 1/- for a registered article with additional insurance coverage. Sent from Hobart Jul 14 1927 to U.S., it went via Melbourne, where apparently a P.O. Clerk felt the Hobart cancel was on the light side, and “embellished” the stamp with manuscript scrawl. The rate of 1/- represents 3d Foreign letter + 9d for insured compensation to £20,

Figure 5. Irrelevant item, relevant to comment upon

Figure 6. Another unique item seeking a loving new home 10 - Stamp News

Figure 7. A lot of item for the price the latter incorporating the 3d registration fee. It is speculated that the article contained postage stamps, and surprisingly was an unsold with just $240 estimate.

Regular readers will be aware that I regard Kangaroo “Specimen” overprints and related CTO stamps as amongst the most undeservedly overrated items of Australian Commonwealth philately. I’ve included Figure 5 (#1027) this month with items I really like for comparison purposes only, as an example of what I regard as a uniquely Australian fascination with the philatelically irrelevant. The subject is an overprint variant, an exemplary example of minutiae, which has a gobsmacking ACSC value of $7500. The illustrated example was described as “uniformly toned gum, hinge remainder”, fair to say a particularly unattractive example of a stamp variety which I’m sure I’m not alone in finding perplexing, not to mention underwhelming. Nevertheless, on an estimate of $1250, it realised $1350, the same as for the important exhibit Figure 3 above.

The catalogue description for Lot #1101 (Figure 6) adequately tells the story, and is repeated:

“10/- Dark Grey & Aniline Pink plus £2 grey-black & rose-crimson with unlisted vignette flaw Kangaroo with pointed tail [L52], 2/- maroon x2 and £1 Robes tied by Registered Melbourne datestamp to 1938 (Nov 7) parcel tag with Melbourne bulk registration label on reverse.

This item was written-up by Rod Perry in a June 2013 Stamp News where he stated that it is «the only example of usage of 10/- dark grey and anilinepink I›ve recorded» which is unsurprising when you consider that ACSC state at page 2/166 «most of this printing was withdrawn and destroyed following the issue of the 10/- Robes definitive in November 1938.» [The tag is believed to have paid postage for a 442oz gold bullion shipment sent from Melbourne to California for refining, the rate of £3/14/- paying 3d for first oz plus 2d x441 for each additional oz, plus 3d registration.]”

With a conservative estimate of $3000, I’m amazed that this unique item did not find a loving new home. Ordinary, readily available mint £2 Kangaroos fetch more, by comparison.

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Figure 8. Â Neat and rare, always a welcome package which surfaced for the first time on the market last year. This most attractive franking, estimated at $2000, sold for $1700, which represented very

sound buying. Moving on from Kangaroos, we have Figure 8 (#1322), a rare solo franking of 1935 ANZAC 1/used

Figure 9. Â A stamp missing from almost all usage collections 12 - Stamp News

May 1 1935 on Parcel Post Label Norwood to Loveday, paying Within State but beyond 30 miles rate for a parcel weighing up to 2lbs. Estimated $400, it realised a respectable $550.

The £2 Arms is incredibly rare on intact postal articles; I’ve noted Figure 10. Rarity and frugality convergence just two usages on commercial covers.

Figure 9 (#1367) is a pair on parcel tag (pair of 3/- Flower on reverse) used at Melbourne Mar 10 1962. This most likely was attached to a parcel to U.S. sent at a multiple of the 2/- airmail rate, 86/representing 2/- x43. Estimated $750, it fetched $850, far short of what I believe was justified for such a rare item. Very sound buying opportunities abound for the informed usage collector.

The 1953 2/- Tasmania Sesqui is uncommon on commercial cover; solo frankings generally turn up on overseas airmail covers. Figure 10 (#1372) is Figure 11. Still this way in 2014? unusual in being a Sep 23 1953 use Collins St Melbourne to Mont Park Asylum, registered and Express Delivery.

Next issue I’ll review some recent auction A nice purchase at just $65. realisations for Australasian usage items.

Not in the Phoenix auction, the remarkable Figure 11, despite the dated b&w illustration, Rod Perry has been a philatelic trader since 1962 still impresses greatly. Last seen in the 1970s in a and a Stamp News advertiser since the 1960s .

Stanley Gibbons Ltd auction catalogue, estimated He founded Rodney A Perry Auction Galleries at £600/700 (I don’t have price realised), I wonder (now Millennium Philatelic Auctions) in 1971. if it still exists in this form? More likely, I suspect, As a collector he has exhibited nationally and it fell victim to the insatiable contemporary demand internationally. Rod prefers his used stamps on for ordinary used singles, and was trashed. Anyone cover and likens taking a stamp off its original know any more of the fate of this item? What a cover to converting a tree to woodchips. Past pity if all that remains are garden variety used editions of this column may be accessed on Rod’s spacefillers. ‘rap.com.au’ Stamp News - 13

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In November 2013, Australia Post released 250 x IMPERFORATE panes of 15 mini sheets of stamps. The “1913 Disaster & Isolation” issue, for the Centenary of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) of 1911-14. The AAE left Hobart in December 1911 commanded by Douglas Mawson and returned in February 1914. Mawson was knighted for his achievements, and is regarded as one of the greatest figures of all Antarctic exploration.

You needed to phone the PO “800” number, or order online. Cost was well above face value, and the maximum order was ONE sheet a person. Sold out in super-fast time, as you’d expect - within hours I am advised. There will be near none in the secondary market, as collectors who got very lucky, will not be sellers - at any price. I’d guess there are easily 20,000 keen global collectors of AAT, but only 250 of these sheets to go around.

If 200 buyers hold on to their sheets for their collections, that leaves just FIFTY to service those 20,000 collectors worldwide. 99% of AAT collectors do not right now realise this IMPERF issue even exists! In the 56 years since AAT first issued stamps in 1957, I can’t recall any other *AAT* imperforates sold by the PO. Each sheet is hand numbered in top left margin, and also comes with a Certificate of Guarantee card from head of AP, confirming that only 250 panes in TOTAL were sold – globally. This is an Official Australia Post Australian Antarctic Territory issue.

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Cinderella Corner

“Grover” Cinderella (Fig. 1)

I found this item written up in the journal of the Waterlow Study Circle, issue 35 of September 1994.

It was produced as a stamp sized item Rose Red in colour, gummed and perforated 14 x 14½. There was no indication of when it was produced nor was there any indication of who produced it, although the writer in the journal thought it might have been

by Waterlow and illustrating a Grover Perforating machine. There were no follow up copies of the journal that I could use to see if there had been an answer, so is any reader able to give me an answer.

International Priority Mail (Fig. 2)

I wrote about this in the March column with the comment that I did not think it was of Australian

origin. I have had a response from Joan Orr who writes on matters to do with Registered Post and similar items in The Queensland Stamp Collector.

Joan says that the Priority Paid Label illustrated in the March column is very similar to that issued

by Australia although it appears to have had an extra stamp added in the hand.

Australia issued sheets of 15 (5 rows of 3) peel and stick labels similar to that in then article during the PP service, but the hand was plain.

Canadian Wildlife Federation (Figs. 3 & 4)

Two attractive publicity labels from the Canadian Wildlife Federation. Both appear to be from a sheet format rather than peel and stick, but I have no other information about them.

Top Row: Figs 1 & 2 Left: Fig 3

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Tony Presgrave

Prestige Philately

The General sale on 2 May had a large selection of Cinderella items from both Australia and world wide. I decided to have a go at one of the lots that had some particularly interesting pieces with the plan being to get some material for this column.

However, with some pretty spirited bidding on these lots, I was not in the hunt. One lot estimated at $1500 went for $4200 and then there was the buyers premium on top of that.

Cricket (Fig. 5)

Another Cricket stamp, this one issued in 1971 by Barnard’s Pirate Postal Service Attleborough as one of many local issues from the Strike Post period. It celebrates the Ashes victory in that year. It was the

last of a series of eight stamps.

Green Shield Coupons (Fig. 6)

The following is a prĂŠcis of the entry in Wikipedia.

Green Shield Stamps was established in the United Kingdom by Richard Tompkins in 1958 after he purchased the name from a luggage manufacturer.

The stamps were popular during the 1960s and 70s and one stamp was typically issued for every 6 pence (2½ new pence) spent on goods meaning that large numbers of stamps had to be stuck in the books before they could be redeemed. Later a second denomination stamp was added worth 10 of the original stamps. This stamp appears to be one from that later issue. The issue of the stamps was finally stopped in 1991. The image here is a bit distorted,

Top Row: Figs 4 & 5 Left: Fig 6

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Cinderella Corner

but that is due to the image that was sent to me being a colour photocopy of the stamp and the copier caused the distortion.

Strand (Fig. 7)

This rather grubby stamp was among a group sent to me quite some time ago by Bryan Magee. After a bit of searching I came to the conclusion that it was an advertising stamp for the Strand magazine, but an earlier one than that available now. The postmark is Petersham, New South Wales and is dated 13 July 1935. Despite the postmark, I don’t think the stamp is Australian, it is more likely British, but please correct me if I am wrong.

Star Couriers (Fig. 8)

A search of the web did not reveal anything much about this company or its activities apart from some

rather uncomplimentary comments about the service, which may or may not have been related to the operation associated with these stamps. If any reader can provide me with more information I will produce it in a later column.

Figures 7 & 8

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Couriers Please (Fig. 9)

This company was established in 1983 in Brisbane as a specialised metropolitan delivery service which now covers Toowoomba, the Gold Coast, Newcastle, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and major Victorian cities and Adelaide. These labels I have seen are either blue, yellow or olive yellow and have the old seven digit phone number or pale grey and inscribed Courier Link. The seven digit phone number would date them to some time in the 1980s or early 1990s I think, but I do not remember when Australia converted to eight digit numbers.

Tony Presgrave

British Essays

In the July 2012 column I wrote about some stamps that were produced by Waterlow & Sons Ltd. and which I though were essays for a stamp issue. Recently, while I was working my way through cataloguing the Philatelic Society of South Australia Library, I came across an article entitled “Misinformation Corrected: The Australian Waterlow Essays” by Brian Livingstone and Glenn Morgan that they had downloaded from www. stampprinters.info At least I did not fall into the trap of ascribing these stamps to Australia, but I did suggest that they were for a proposed British issue. The stamp I illustrated was in fact one of a number of “dummy stamps” designed and printed by Waterlow & Sons Ltd. as demonstration showpieces for their rotary direct plate printing machine (“Rotaglio”).

In January 1950 Waterlows produced a paper entitled “The Printing of Value Papers with special reference to our Rotary Direct Plate (formerly known as “Rotaglio”) Products” and one of these “dummy stamps” was included among the illustrations in the paper.

Helsinki Olympics (Fig. 10)

Kevin Battersby from Hallmark Stamps sent me an image of two publicity poster stamps from the 1940 Helsinki Olympic Games, one in green and this one in violet. They were printed by the American Bank Note Company and as with all printing from this Company the quality of the stamps is excellent. With only two images and not having a catalogue of Olympic Games stamps I don’t know any other details or how many different colours were used.

Figures 9 & 10

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Best Sellers This Month LATEST DISCOUNT OFFERINGS June 2014 Prices valid to end June 2014 or until sold out.

KANGAROOS 1ST Watermark PT1) Halfpenny green, used with part slogan cancel, double perfs at right, Retail $200, this one HALF PRICE $100 PT2) 1d Red horizontal pair with Wellington (NZ) Loose letter cds, unusual. $40 PT3) 2d Grey, all three listed shades, used. Retail $75, price $40 PT4) Twopencehalfpenny Indigo, cto typr II, UPU distribution, 400 only issued. ACSC 9wa, full gum, VLH, similar example fetched $380 plus the buyer’s premium at a recent Phoenix Auction. price $350 PT4a) as above, mint lightly hinged example, retail $70, this one $49 PT5) 4d Orange, MLH, frash and well centred and good perfs.

Retail $200 for this quality. Price $125 PT6) 4d Orange cto, with gum. Cat $100 minimum, this one $65 PT7) 4d Orange Yellow, retail $250, this one centred low and to left, but with nice dated cds $125 PT8) 5d Chestnut, cto, minimum retail $100, price $75 PT9) 5d Chestnut, well centred with socked on nose May 1913 dated cancel. This quality retail $75, price $50 PT9a) As above, mint lightly hinged, retail $140.This one $95 PT9b) As above, perf small OS with cds cancel, retail $80, this one $49 PT10) 6d Ultramarine, corner cto, well centred with good perfs, retail value $100, this one $75

PT13a) As above, perf small OS, fine cds used, retail $60, this one $39 PT14) 2/- Brown, mint lightly hinged, retail $300, this one centred high UNDER HALF PRICE $149 PT15) As above, cto with gum, retail minimum $300, this one HALF PRICE $150 PT16) As above, perf large OS, cds cancel, retail $200, this one has a blunt top left corner, WELL UNDER HALF PRICE $79 PT17) Two Pound Black and Red, good fresh colour, well centred with 1913 dated cds. Retail now for commercially used of this approaching $6000. This one has a very skillfully repaired small tear at top. Not noticeable to the naked eye.

Price LESS THAN ONE THIRD RETAIL $1950 Kangaroos 2nd Watermark: PT18) 6D Ultramarine, well centred MLH, retail $250, minor perf fault at lower left, UNDER HALF PRICE $95 PT19) 9d Violet, scarce and underrated. Nice cds used example. Retail $75, this one $59 Kangaroos 3rd Watermark: PT20) 3d Yellow Olive, Die II, superb stamps, with corner Hobart cds, well centred and with full perfs. Retail this quality $225, this one $175 PT21) 6d Chestnut in mlh Mullett imprint pair. Centred to top.

Retail $250, this one HALF PRICE $125 PT22) 1/- Green, watermark sideways, a little gum loss, but is unmounted. Retail $200, centred to top. This one UNDER HALF PRICE $79 PT23) As above but mint lightly hinged, and with nicer centering. Retail $110. This one $89

PT10a) As above, mint lightly hinged, retail $130, this one $95

PT24) 1/- Green Perf OS, Mint unhinged, centred low, and with perf fault at bottom. Retail $220. UNDER HALF RETAIL $95

PT11) 6d Ultramarine perf small OS. Mint unhinged, lovely fresh wellcentred example with full perfs. Retail this quality $1000, this one $495

PT25) As above, but horizontal strip of 6, fresh mint unhinged.

Centred to right, as is usual with OS stamps. Multiples are scarce! Retail $1320, cheap at $695

PT12) 6d Ultramarine, perf Large OS, MLH, well centred, fresh and full perfs. Retail $400. This one HALF PRICE $200

PT26) 10/- Grey and Pink, cto with gum, centred high. Cat. $200. Cheap at $95

PT13) 9d Violet, fine used cds, with variety “Breaks in shading under Nine Pence” ACSC 24(2) j. Retail $175, price $95

PT27) 10/- Grey and Analine Pink Ovpt Specimen Type B, mint hinged. Fresh colour. Cat $600, Cheap at $249

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Best Sellers This Month PT28) One Pound Chocolate Brown and Blue, cds cancel, with Telegraph Puncture.Thin where hinge has been removed.

Centred to left. Retail as normal $1700 plus. THIS ONE VERY CHEAP AT 20% RETAIL $340

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PT28a) Similar to the above, but in the better Chestnut shade of brown. Blunt top left perf. But no thins. Retail as normal $2400. THIS ONE ALSO VERY CHEAP AT $479

Amazing Australia Pre-Decimal and early decimal Clearance, some as low as half price! Not in any particular order, so read carefully

PT29) Two Pound Grey and Red Ovpt. Specimen ype B, mint.

Repaired top right corner. Normally $270, very cheap at $125

1) KGV 1d Red Die III nice postally used, was $$40, now $30

PT29a) As above, but overprint Type C, with variant “Shaved P” cat. $1000 “Honeyed” gum as is usual for this stamp. UNDER HALF RETAIL AT $295

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2) KGV 1d Red Die II, smooth paper vfu, was $50, now $35

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4) KGV C of A set (8) vfu, most are cto $50, now $35

PT30) 6d Chestnut Ovpt. OS MLH, retail $75, this one $49

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PT30a) as above, fine used, retail $75, this one $49

6) 6d Brown Airmail ovpt. OS muh ws $50, now $35

PT31) 9d Violet MLH retail $90, this one $59

7) 1913 6D KOOKABURRA, MUH, WAS $250, now $195

PT31a) As above, perf OS Mint Unhinged, honeyed gum, centred top right. Hard stamp to find. Retail $450 plus. Less than half price $195

8) 1928 3d Kookaburra minisheet, mlh, tiny tone spot in margin, was $150, now $95

PT32) 1/- Green perf OS MLH, one short perf at top. Retail $60, cheap at under half price $29

9) 1/- Large Lyrebird MUH was $100, now $75

PT33) 5/- Grey and yellow perf OS cto, no gum, centred high and with short perf at base. Retail normally $160, this one under half price $79

11) 1932 5/- Green, Harbour Bridge, mlh, minor tone spot in gum, was $350, now $225

PT34) TWO POUND RED AND GREY. Superb cds used example, well centred and with perfect perfs. Cannot be bettered.

Retail this quality $1100. This one a steal at $795

12) 1937 Robes 10/- & One Pound thick paper, muh was $140, now $95 13) Robes set of 3, thin paper, mlh, was $140, now $95 14) 1948 Arms set, mint, tiny cnr perf tone spot on two pound. was $100, now $75

C of A Watermark: PT35) 2/- Maroon Ash Imprint Gutter Block of 4. Mint unhinged, Superb. Retail $100, this one under half price $49

15) 1964 Arms set of 8 MUH nc white papers, was $275, now $210

PT36) 5/- Grey and Yellow, mint lightly hinged, Perfect perfs and centering, very fresh, premium stamp. Retail this quality $450. This one only $379

16) 1913 6d Kookaburra, vfu perfect centring, as good as they come! Was $75, now $40

PT36a) As above, but centred a little low. Price $279 PT37) 10/- Grey and Pink, nice socked on nose example. Retail $275, this one only $195 PT38) Two Pound Red and Black, fine used example wiuth neat corner cds cancel. Centred high. Retail $700, this one $495

10) As above, but yellow green, mlh, was $50, now $35

17) 1934 MacArthur set of 4, inc 2d Dark Hills, vfu. Was $45, now $30 18) Robes Thin Paper set of 3 vfu, was $135, now $90 19) 1948 Arms 5/- Thn Paper vfu, was $100, now $75 20) 1964 Navigaors, set of 8 inc White Papers fine used, was $165, now $120

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By George!

Reported in Australia Post Stamp Bulletin No. 328 May-June 2014 Australia Post will be marking the centenary of the first issue of the iconic KGV stamp in Australia with a new issue reprising the original design in June 2014.

A century ago Australia’s stamp designs were a hot political topic when the Labor Postmaster General’s Kangaroo and Map design was replaced with the monarch by the incoming Liberal Postmaster General.

Following the earlier advice of the British government the Australian stamp would feature the same royal profile as depicted on Great Britain’s stamps though some national flavour was retained with the addition of a kangaroo, emu and some wattle.

The initial print run was 1.2 million using intaglio. The letterpress method would be required to produce a permanent 1d George V stamps.

Engraved dies produced by De La Rue and steel printing plates produced by Perkins Bacon were shipped from Great Britain and the first 1d letterpress George V stamp printed in Australia was

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released on 17th July 1914.

For nearly quarter of a century (1914 to 1937) the George V design served for the basic letter rate.

During this period a total of 11.8 billion George V stamps were produced.

Reported at www.stampnews.com A new biography of George V, which focuses on his obsession with stamps, is the first book on a philatelic subject to be published on Kindle.

The book, George V’s Obsession – a king and his stamps, contains new archival material and is the first new biography of George V for 30 years.

It describes George V’s life and his urge to be the greatest collector of his time. It examines his life, his collecting and his interference with the production of stamps. It also examines the urge that people have to collect things. It shows how he shamelessly grabbed whatever philatelic material he could get hold of from across the British empire – often in dubious circumstances.

The book movingly describes the King’s relationship with Edward Bacon – the famous philatelist. Bacon, a middle class accountant from the suburbs of South London, became one of the king’s closest associates and was probably the

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person with whom he spent most time. The King was always solicitous to Bacon, even after he became increasingly deaf.

The author is Jack Shamash, a professional journalist who writes for major British newspapers including the Times and the Independent. He has written on stamps for the Guardian and is a member of the Royal Philatelic Society of London and the National Philatelic Society.

The book can be found on www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com, price £5.79.

Drought in Nicaragua

Reported at www.linns.com/news Jean Michel Maes of the Nicaragua Study Group reports that postage stamp activity in Nicaragua has been particularly quiet, and that the country has been running out of current stamps.

“For some reason,” Maes notes, “the money obtained by the selling of stamps is not being used

to print new stamps.”

Maes said that near the end of 2013, the country issued a souvenir sheet for the 25th anniversary of Spanish cooperation. In March of this year, he added, a set of two stamps was issued commemorating Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president who died in 2013.

According to Maes, post offices scrambling to supply postage are now selling stamps that were issued between 1979 and 1989, which are denominated in the country’s old currency.

Rampant inflation in Nicaragua brought about in the introduction of new versions of the cordoba currency in 1988 and again in 1990. Each time, the currency reform dropped off zeroes from the previous issue.

Maes states that he has seen use of the Rowland Hill souvenir sheet overprinted for the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, which is not listed in the Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue, and stamps from the 1986 Flowers issue.

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Drought in India

Reported at www.thehindu.com Chennai faces a critical shortage of stamps and postcards. The shortage is due to insufficient supply from the India Security Press in Nashik and Hyderabad. Only 50% of ordered materials have been received from the printers.

Customers who make regular visits to post offices to purchase postcards or stamps return disappointed as there is not sufficient stock in the city.

Customer report that they sometimes send letters by courier or opt for electronic franking usually meant for bulk dispatch of letters.

Postcards are still used to send communication about family functions. Several religious institutions and associations too find postcards an economical means to convey information.

Postal agents and stamp vendors say organisations that send periodicals and magazines

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through book post are affected because of shortage of 25-paise stamps.

Some post offices ask customers to purchase stamps in available denominations, sometimes of higher value, to post letters.

Scandal in South Africa

Reported at http://business.iafrica.com South African President, Jacob Zuma, has ordered the Special Investigating Unit to probe the South African Post Office for alleged irregularities.

According to reports, Zuma signed a proclamation directing the SIU to investigate “serious maladministration in connection with the affairs of SAPO, improper or unlawful conduct by the officials of SAPO and unlawful appropriation or expenditure of public money� at the SA Post Office.

The SIU will also investigate claims against the Post Office relating to malpractice in terms

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of management of immovable property, loss of public funds, damage to public property, the implementation of the WebRipost system as well as loans granted to Courier and Freight Group (Pty) Limited.

The SA Post Office will also be investigated for alleged irregularities relating to its recruitment or employees as well as payments it made to fictitious employees.

DIY in Britain

Reported at www.bbc.com/news A British newsagent offering a next-day postal service for half the price of Royal Mail has sold

5,000 of his own stamps in the scheme’s first month.

Brian Webb, owner of Webbs of Leverington, Cambridgeshire, said business at his 30p mail service had “gone absolutely mental”.

The service covers Wisbech and 19 surrounding villages and includes Sunday delivery.

Mr Webb began offering his mail service to 1,800 customers at the beginning of March.

“People were a bit sceptical at first, but it’s proved very popular and I think it will be even better when it comes to Easter and Christmas,” he said.

“The idea of this new business is to support other local businesses. One, which sends about 100 letters a day, saved over £150 last week by using us.

“I have had to ask one Royal Mail postman where a certain address was, and he said, ‘I’m not telling you - you’ll put me out of business’, but I know him, and it was only a joke.”

It has also created such interest across the region that a Cambridge University student has offered to redesign the stamps as part of an art and design project.

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Technology in the US

Reported at http://billingsgazette.com The U.S. Postal Service has embraced technology to improve service for western North Dakota’s growing population. Technology improvements include Mobile Point of Sale devices at six locations and self-service kiosks. Other changes will include a new post office in Williston and higher wages to attract rural letter carriers “The growth in the area has a lot to do with it,” a Postal Service spokesman said. “At the same time we have to look at what we do as a business. It’s in our best interest as well to make transactions as easy as possible.”

The Mobile Point of Sale devices are like modified iPhones with printers attached. Postal Service employees can come out from behind the counter and help customers who only need simple

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services.

The devices can be used, for example, if people are there just to pick up a package or if they have pre-paid their postage and just need to drop a package off.

The Postal Service is adding self-service kiosks as well, giving patrons access to certain services 24 hours a day, like buying stamps or mailing small packages.

Finland pushes the envelope

From the Finnish postal authority site: http:// www.posti.fi/english The Finnish autumn’s stamp series begins September 8 with Tom of Finland, who is considered one of the most well-known Finnish artists around the world. His emphatically masculine homoerotic drawings have attained iconic status in their genre and had an influence on, for instance, pop culture and fashion. In his works, Tom of Finland utilized the self-irony and

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humour typical of subcultures.

During his career, Tom of Finland produced more than 3,500 drawings. The two drawings on the stamp sheet were selected by graphic artist Timo Berry, who designed the stamp. Angeles.

The artist behind Tom of Finland was Touko Laaksonen (1920-1991), whose letters are featured in the exhibition Sealed with a Secret Correspondence of Tom of Finland opening in the Postal Museum September 6.

men with exaggerated sex traits and partially removed clothing.

Currently, same-sex marriage is illegal in Finland. On 20 February the Finnish Parliament started to begin debating a bill to allow same-sex marriage after 166,000 people called for marriage equality laws; however, the debate did not lead to a concrete conclusion.

It appears not everyone is happy with the stamps, with a petition demanding that the issue be cancelled already gathering more than 2,000 signatures. The petition demands that Itella scraps Reported at www.icenews.is plans to publish the stamp as they don’t want the country to be represented by homoerotic themes.

The Finnish Postal Service, Itella, is preparing to It goes on to state that the sexual orientation release a new stamp in September featuring “male of those in the images on the stamps leaves little drawings by Tom of Finland” – a deceased Finnish to be interpreted and that stamps in the Nordic artist notable for his homoerotic fetish art on late country have traditionally shown “culturally twentieth century gay culture. valuable and aesthetically beautiful” themes, Itella is owned by the state of Finland, noting that strong homoerotic themes are neither. providing postal, logistics and e-commerce It then advises Itella to be more careful about services in Finland. selecting themes that will make Finns proud in the Tom of Finland or Touko Laaksonen (8 May future.

1920 – 7 November 1991) is one of the most popular Finnish artists in Finland, who focused Meanwhile the Philippines prefers on drawing stylized homoerotic fetish art. He produced over 3,500 illustrations, mostly featuring the Pope Reported at www.philstar.com Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II will be featured in stamps to be issued to celebrate their canonisation at the Vatican in May. These special stamps are made of 3D embossed and gold hot foil stamping.

Jose Antonio Jayme designed the stamps in a way that one souvenir sheet would carry the side view photo of John Paul II and the second design would have at the centre a side view image of John XXIII. A spokesman for Philippine Postal Corp (PhlPost) said: “This is the first recent use of circular stamps as featured in the souvenir sheet.”

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he is more popular to Filipinos. He visited the country twice. It would be selling 10,000 copies of souvenir sheets of John Paul II stamps and 5,000 copies of John XXIII. “We are not obliged to give copies to the Vatican because it is a PhlPost initiative and not a joint issue,” she said.

Last month, the PhlPost came out with a joint stamp issue of Pope Francis and copies were presented to the Pope.

There are many events scheduled throughout the Philippines to celebrate the canonisation.

A remarkable life commemorated

by Royal Mail Reported at http://muslimvillage.com

As part of the commemoration of the centenary year for the start of World War I, the UK’s Royal Mail has announced the release of ten stamps, recognising the accomplishments of seven men and three women born in 1914.

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heroine: Noor Inayat Khan. Khan is the only Muslim included in the list. She was born in Moscow to an American mother and an Indian father.

Descendants of Indian royalty, her family first moved to England and then to Paris returning to London when Paris was occupied in 1940. Here Khan joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force and was then recruited in 1942 to the Special Operations Executive, an elite spy squad.

Noor was given the code name Madeleine and in 1943 she was the first female radio operator to be flown secretly into Nazi-occupied Paris and transmitted numerous messages back to London saving many lives. For a period of time, she was the only link between the UK and the French Resistance.

Aged just 30, Khan managed to evade capture for three months but was eventually betrayed by French collaborators and arrested. She tried to escape twice while in Paris and, being considered too difficult, was eventually moved to Germany.

Despite being tortured, Khan revealed nothing of her mission or even of her real name. She

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The National Archives reveal that Khan had studied both medicine and music. She was also an accomplished writer with a collection of traditional Indian children’s stories published in the French newspaper, Le Figaro.

Stanley Gibbons to take on eBay

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was eventually executed in 1944 by the German Gestapo in the Dachau concentration camp.

Before her execution by a shot in the back of her head, her last word was, “Liberté!”

Britain awarded Khan the George Cross and France awarded her the Croix de Guerre.

In a recent book about Khan entitled, “Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan” author Shrabani Basu claims that Khan’s decision to be involved in the war efforts was not specifically due to a love of Britain (though this was a part of it). Her involvement was largely due to the values of religious tolerance and non-violence that she was taught as a child by her father who was a musician and a Sufi teacher. She “couldn’t bear to

Stanley Gibbons has announced a drop in profits as it gears up to launch a new eBay-like collectibles marketplace.

The rare stamp company reported profits of £3.8 million for six months to December 31 2013, down 7pc compared with the same period last year.

Michael Hall, the company’s chief executive, attributed the fall in profits to a “combination of exceptional items and investment in the internet”.

The company bought collectibles auctioneer Noble Investments for £40 million in November, The new eBay-like website - which has been tested in April ready for launch in the second half of the year - will feature specialist tools for collectibles sellers, including heightened due diligence checks and escrow fund protection.

Traders will also be able to link their listing to eBay so they do not miss out on the popular auction site’s considerable network of buyers. “eBay alone did $400 million in stamp sales last year. Even if we can get a very small market

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Despite the drop in profits, sales were up 16pc to £24.3 million in the six months bringing total revenues for the full year to £41.6 million.

Mr Hall added that the company, which was founded in Plymouth in 1856, is planning to open offices in Geneva, Sydney and New York.

Blogger, Dan Wilson, one of the team who started eBay in the UK, comments: “My very first job at eBay way back in 1999 was as the category manager for stamps and coins.

And I recall conversations with Stanley Gibbons back then. They were sceptical and patronising.

The fusty old timers were having nothing to do

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with eBay, the internet would not prove to be a viable channel and philatelists wouldn’t trade online.

So it is delightful to see a comment like this from the head honcho Stanley Gibbons Michael Hall: “eBay alone did $400 million in stamp sales last year. Even if we can get a very small market share, it will have a transformational effect on our profitability.”

In a lot of ways, there already is an eBay for stamps. It’s called eBay. But equally these specialist marketplaces are very much part of the future and to be welcomed. And if anyone was going to build a special web market for stamps, Stanley Gibbons is the obvious choice. “

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Musical stamps plus - Finland Reported at www.stampnews.com

The Finnish postal authority will publish a stamp featuring traditional Finnish musical instruments in May. A code hidden in the image has a link to a brand new music video of Sibelius Academy’s Folk Big Band with a smartphone or tablet.

The 2014 EUROPA stamps represent national musical instruments. Sanna Mander, a new name among stamp designers, has illustrated two Finnish instruments: the accordion and kantele.

Mander considers traditional folk music a continuum that links the past with the future. She says that in the stamps she depicted musicians in the moment in which music and nature. “One is playing in a field covered with notes, another is in a forest with notes rising to form the tops of birches.”

An identifier that can be scanned with an app is hidden in the images of the stamps enabling people to watch a YouTube video of the Folk Big Band performing Konsta Jylhä’s schottice in D minor, arranged for the kantele and accordion in line with the theme of the stamps.

“Various types of accordions and stringed instruments similar to the kantele are common in

many countries, but Finnish folk music is quite unique in the world with its Slavic influences,” says the artistic director of Folk Big Band, which consists of up to 40 musicians.

Musical stamps plus - Guernsey Reported at www.channelonline.tv

Guernsey post has issued a new set of ‘reality’ stamps, which celebrate the music in the Bailiwick.

Hovering a smartphone or tablet over the stamps will activate an exclusive video of the chifournie being played.

The head of philatelic at Guernsey Post said: “Each year we are given a theme to interpret by PostEurop, the trade association which represent European public postal operators.

“This year’s ‘Musical Instruments’ theme for Europa stamps has seen us rediscover the traditional musical instrument most associated with Guernsey - the chifournie, or hurdy-gurdy.

“We are absolutely thrilled with the video for our stamps. This was a truly unique project and we are delighted to be able to showcase the chifournie being expertly played in such a beautiful setting.”

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Best Sellers This Month MORE DISCOUNT OFFERS OF AUSTRALIA: continued 21) 1946 BCOF set complete vfu, was $150, now $125 22) 1946 BCOF 5/- thin paper mlh, was $100, now $75 23) KGV 5d C of A ovpt OS, full unmounted gum, was $50, now $35

L85) KGV OS Commems plus Airmails and 1/- Large Lyre overprints and perfins complete vfu, some are cto. Inc, 3d Airmail Type B, Kingsford Smiths etc. was $285, now $225 L87) 1953 Produce Food, MUH blocks of 9, were $75, now $50

24) KGV C of A set Ovpt OS, set of 5, mlh. Was $75, now $50

L88) 1964 Navigators set of 8 inc. white papers, MUH, was $275, now $200

25) KGV smw 2d & 4d, Ovpt OS, both MUH and FU (4) was $100, now $75

L97) Two Pound Kangaroo, 3rd wmk, ovpt. Specimen, with Shaved P, cat $1000. Tones gum as is usual with these. Was $650, now $320

26) 1931 6d Kangaroo C of A, Ovpt OS, cto with gum, was $100, now $75

L98) KGV 1/4d Turquoise, small multi wmk, perf 14, MUH. Retail $700, centred left, now $295

27) 1932 2d and 3d Bridge Ovpt OS, MUH and fu, (4) was $50, now $35

L100) KGV 4D Olive, small multi perf 13.5 x 12.5 MUH, retail $275, off centre, now $135

28) Kingsford Smith 2d & 3d, Ovpt OS, cto. Was $90, now $65

L101) KGV 5d Brown, small multi perf 13.5 x 12.5 Pef OS, MUH off centre retail $265, now $130

29) 1/- Large Lyrebird, ovpt OS vfu, was $50, now $35 30) As above, but mlh, was $60, now $40 31) 3d Kooka and Sturt Pair, perf OS, MUH (3) Was $95, now $70 32) KGV period, commems perf OS complete cto (7) was $110, now $80 33) 1966 Navigators, set of 6, Ovpt Specimen, inc scarce 15mm ovpts.

Were $450, now $300 34) 1d KGV LMW CARMINE PINK, Cooke Printing, with Drury Cert. vfu, ACSC 73A (G101) was $325, now $295 35) 1913 Two Pound KANGAROO, Ovpt. Specimen, nice and fresh MLH, was $700, now $550 36) 1915 6d blue 2nd wmk Kangaroo, mint, was $325, now $160

L102) KGV 4d Yellowish Orge, perf OS MUH, rare, retail minimum $320, now $160 L103) 4d Olive Green KGV, small multi perf 14, perf OS. Centred low MUH, retail $550, tiny nick between perfs at base, retail $550, now $220 L104) KGV 1d Green small multi perf 13.5 x 12.5 die II, postally used, cds RARE! Retail $300, now $150 L130) KGVI surcharge set in mint imprint blocks, scarce, were $48, now $24 W134) NSW 1851 2d blue Sydney views, SG33c, no clouds, 4 margins, fine used with BN 8 cancel, retail $325, now $250

37) KGV heads set, Ovpt OS good/fine used, was $90, now $45

W135) NSW 1851 2d blue Laureates SG52, fine used, huge margins, with BNN62 cancel. Was $50, now $37.50

38) 1/- 3rd wmk Kangaroo, sideways wmk, mlh, good centring, was $100 now $50

W148) 1934 MacArthur set MUH, inc. Dark Hills 2d (4) Retail $120, now $100

39) 1915 One Pound Brown and Blue, 3rd wmk Kangaroo light cds used with Telegraph Puncture. Was $700, now $350

W150) BCOF 2/- Roo, cnr imprint pair, MUH (hinged in margin) Retail $100, now $50

40) 1913 Halfpenny Kangaroo coil join strip of 3, 1 mlh, two muh.

Was 150, now $75

W158) 1/- Yellow Green Large Lyre, MUH, minor tone in gum, was $75, now $40

L78) KGV Head 1d red die II postally used, 3 diff. shades Retail minimum $21, now $10

W160) 6d Brown Airmail, Ovpt. OS MUH, was $50, now $25

L84) Robes 10/- & One Pound Thin paper fine used, 10/- is part imprint, one pound is socked on the nose, with legible 27 Oct 1949 date, Melbourne Airmail Section cds, was $125, now $100

W161) 3d Blue KGVI Die I, MUH, Was $75, now $40 W162) 3d Blue KGVI Die 1a, MLH was $125, now $60 W163) 3d Blue KGVI Die II thick paper MUH, was $60, now $30

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Best Sellers This Month W191) KGV 1d Green, smw perf 13.5 x 12.5 Die II, MUH, centred right.

Was $80, now $40

W164) 3d Blue KGVI Die II thin paper MUH, was $55, now $30 W166) 5d Brown KGV OVP OS MUH, centred low, was $60, now $30 W167) KGV 4d Orange, MUH, was $80, now $40 W168) KGV 2d Orange, perf OS MUH, centred left, was $125, now $60

W192) KGV 3d smw perf 13.5 x 12.5 MUH, Die II centred right, was $60, now $30

W169) KGV 1/4d C of A, MUH, centred right, was $400, now $200

W193) KGV 4d Olive green smw peerf 13.5 x 12.5 MUH was $80, now $40

W170) KGV 1/4d smw, perf 13.5 x 12.5 mint, toned gum was $80, now $40…cheap!

W195) KGV 4.5d smw perf 13.5 x 12.5, Die II cto , was $90, now $45

W171) KGV 1/4d smw perf 14, MUH, sweated gum, was $450, now $225

W197) KGV 3d, C of A, MUH, was $65, now $30

W196) KGV 5d Brown, smw perf 13.5 x 12.5 MUH, was $110, now $55

W172) KGV 1/4d single wmk, MUH, centred left, was $650, now $320

W198) 1/- Large Lyre, ovpt OS MUH, centred left, was $110, now $55

W173) KGV 4d Lemon Yellow, MUH, was $600, now $350

W199) 9d Kangaroo C of A, MUH, top left corner marginal, MUH slightly toned gum, was $65, now $30

W174) 6d 1st wmk Kangaroo, perf large OS, MLH. well centred, was $400 now $200 W175) 6d 1st wmk Kangaroo, perf small OS, MUH, well centred, minor toning to one perf Cat $850, was $650, now $325

W200) 1934 Victoria centenary set, perf 10.5 MUH, was $115, now $60 W201) 1934 Victoria centenary set, perf 11.5 MLH, was $65, now $30

W177) 6d Brown Kangaroo, smw, mlh, was $35, now $30

W203) 1936 NSW Sesqui set MUH, was $30, now $15

W179) 1/- Kangaroo, 3rd wmk, perf OS, MUH, centred low, was $220, now $110

W204) 1936 South Australia set MUH, was $35, now $20

W180) 9d Kangaroo, smw, perf OS MUH (toned gum) was $85, now $40

W206) 1935 Anzac set, MLH, was $40, now $20

W181) 6d Brown Kangaroo, smw, mlh, one shortish perf. Was $30, now $15 W182) KGV 2d Brown smw perf 13.5 x 12.5perf OS, MUH, well centred, was $180, now $90 W183) KGV 3d Blue, smw perf 14, perf OS, INVERTED WMK. MUH centred left, was $500, now $250

W205) 1935 KGV Jubilee set MLH, was 55, now $30 W207) 1937 – 49 Robes thin paper set, MUH, centring varies, was $225, now $110 W208) 1937 Robes set MUH, was $125, now $60 W209) 1948 Arms set, 5/- to One pound, MUH, was $100, now $50 W212) 2/- Kangaroo, C of A, imprint block MUH, was $50, now $30 W213) 6d brown Kangaroo, smw, perf OS, top left corner block of 4, MUH, was $300, now $150

W184) KGV 4d Blue, MUH, toned gum, was $180, now $90 W185) KGV 4.5d single wmk, perf OS MUH, was $600, now $300

W214) KGV Heads, ovpt. OS **/* some minor faults, budget set, was $110, now $85

W186) KG 4d purple, single wmk, MLH, perf OS, centred left, was $125, now $60

W215) 1964 Navigators set of 8, inc. white papers, MLH, was $200, now $100

W187) KGV 1/4d single wmk, MUH, perf OS, centred left, was $350, now $175 W188) KG 4d Orange, MUH, tiny natural paper inclusion. Was $50, now $30 W190) KGV 4d Olive, smw perf 14, MUH, centred left, was $300, now $150

We are also breaking a fine collection of Great Britain from Queen Victoria to 1967, please contact us with your wants. Many complete definitive sets and high values mint and used, all at very competitive prices. EXAMPLE: ONE POUND GREEN SEAHORSE SUPERB USED, RETAIL $1500, this one only $1095

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Looking at New Zealand

Commemorating ANZAC Part 1: Introduction World War I broke out in Europe in June 1914, following the assassination of the Austrian ArchDuke Ferdinand in Serbia. Britain declared war on Germany and Austria on 4th August following Germany’s invasion of Belgium en route to France.

Australia and New Zealand fell into line behind Britain - New Zealand sending 8,454 troops in the first contingent of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. About 2000 NZ reinforcements per month were sent for the next four years. By the end of the war, 104,000 men and women from New Zealand had served and the death rate was about 20 per Below: stamps featuring the Turkish commander, Mustafa Kemal Right: a patriotic label produced by ‘Delandre’ (Gaston Fontanille)

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west coast of the Gallipoli peninsula, in support of British troops landing further south. The ferocious defence by the Turks under Mustafa Kemal and the treacherous terrain of gullies and steep ridges led to a stalemate. The armies of both sides dug into trenches with any movement exposed to deadly fire.

By December 1915 the failure to achieve military objectives and the huge casualty rate from Turkish action and deteriorating winter weather led to the decision to withdraw. Using various stratagems to disguise their retreat, the ANZACs evacuated between 8th and 20th December. The British had evacuated their positions by 9th January 1916.

The huge death toll of young men at Gallipoli and later in France shocked the relatively small populations of Australia and New Zealand. A whole generation of young men was largely lost to the two countries. 2,721 New Zealanders died at ANZAC Cove – a quarter of those who landed. The first ANZAC Day march to commemorate those lost was held in London by Australian and New Zealand troops on leave from France on 25th April 1916 – one year after the landing. ANZAC Day has been Left: A map of the Gallipoli Peninsula Below: a stamp issued by Turkey in 1917 (after the Allies defeat at Gallipoli) cent as well as many permanently disabled.

In October 1914, while the Australian and New Zealand troops were crossing the Indian Ocean, Turkey’s Ottoman Empire joined the war, threatening British transport routes through the Suez Canal. It was decided that the troops should disembark in Egypt for training and to be available for any action to be taken against Turkey.

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Looking at New Zealand

Fig 3a

Graeme Morriss

Fig 3b

Looking at New Zealand

marked every year since in the two countries.

As the centenary of the ANZAC landing approaches in April 2015, there will be numerous publications and media documentaries on the events of 100 years ago. There are several major collections of military mail from Gallipoli and some of these will be displayed at the national Sydney Stamp Expo, running from Thursday 16th to Sunday 19th April, 2015. Put the dates in your diary now.

An example of this sort of military mail is shown as Figures 3a & 3b. It is an envelope originally posted from Wellington on 15th April 1915 to First Lieutenant Johnston in Egypt then turned insideout for re-use at Gallipoli on 6th June because of the lack of stationery available to the troops in the first months after the landing. Censor mark 2226 was used by the Headquarters of the NZ Infantry Brigade at Gallipoli from April to September 1915.

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ANZAC Cove not there in 1915) and a stamp issued by Turkey in 1917 (after the Allies defeat at Gallipoli). Also, stamps featuring the Turkish commander, Mustafa Kemal and a patriotic label produced by ‘Delandre’ (Gaston Fontanille).

In the coming months I shall write about the commemorative stamps issued to honour the ANZACs, beginning next month with the 1935 Australian set.

Reference: Te Ara: the Encyclopedia of New Zealand (www. teara.govt.nz) Thanks to:Darren Jones for the photo of ANZAC Cove; John Higgs for researching the military envelope Graeme can be contacted through his website, www. stampsmw.top1.com.au .

Continued from Page 6 the same issue, a 2/- single with ‘JBC’ Mongram is listed at $35,000 and is unpriced used. An interstate buyer paid $46,000 to acquire the extraordinary used pair.

Overall the Kangaroos sold extremely well, although $52,900 for the sensational First Watermark 10/- monogram single must be seen as one the bargains of the day!

The KGV Heads also performed splendidly. $29,900 was paid for the unique mint block of 4 of the Rough Paper 5d, and the ½d with the watermark sideways made an impressive $26,450 despite being a little aged.

Turning to the Australian Colonies, a group of exceptional “Sydney Views” was on offer, all but one selling for more than Stanley Gibbons’ catalogue values. A ‘Specimen’ set of Victoria’s 1886-96 High Values sold for $2530 which was more than three times what the late Bill McCredie’s set achieved three years ago.

assembled during his lifetime of collecting: varieties, plate numbers, revenues, “Cinderellas”, postmarks etc.

Most of this holding was offered in country or regional collections, many of which attracted feverish bidding.

As everyone has come to expect, the China went through the roof. The general collection was offered with an estimate of $2500, while the more unusual material was offered in a second lot at $1000. They sold for $10,925 and $10,350 respectively. The Portuguese Colonies collection achieved $2875 against a $500 estimate and a collection of Spain was hotly contested, bringing $2070 again on a $500 estimate.

As usual, there were some real bargains but, all up, the “Traveller” collection almost exactly doubled the pre-sale estimates of some $160,000.

The Australian Commonwealth section also did very well with a high percentage of lots sold and many strong prices achieved. A collection of KGV Halfpennys was chased up to $2990, well above the $500 estimate. A superb “jumbo” example of the Rough Paper 5d - a stamp that retails for $150 - fetched an equally impressive $506. A rare 1922 2/- booklet made $3910, and an enormous 1977 Test Centenary registered cover surprised at $2530.

As usual, the Australian Colonies featured numerous beautiful and outstanding items. From New South Wales, the astonishing doubly printed 3d sold for $1840, a 3d pair imperforate-between

Bedlam In Boronia It was a portent of what was to come that Prestige’s general auction kicked off at High Noon. The auction room was packed with the largest turn-out of bidders seen at Boronia for many years. The room had to be rearranged to seat as many people as possible, and about a dozen clients were still left standing, though nobody seemed to mind.

The focus of their attention was the “Traveller” Collection, an extraordinary array of stamps from around the world formed by the late Jim Stephens from Melbourne. Mr Stephens was a very private collector and even those who knew him well were stunned by the depth and variety Lot 1425: South Australian “Bastard Firkin” Beer Duty Stamp Est $600 realised $1265 of material he had

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philatelic news made $4370 despite having ‘Specimen’ overprint, and an exceptional prestamp cover with the rare ‘VIA/ MUSCLEBROOK’ handstamp went to a new home for $5520.

Queensland included an irregular imperforate unused block of the 1868-78 1d that sold for an impressive $7762, and a 6d Imperf at base on 1864 cover that went for $1092. The “Traveller” South Australian Departmentals were estimated at $1000 but raced to more than double that figure, despite the very mixed condition.

Victoria had a number of high points including $3220 for the only unused example of the “Laureates” 5/- with Short ‘I’, and $2530 for the perforated die proof of the 1901 5/- of the same design.

The extensive sections of Revenues were a highlight of the sale with almost every lot selling, many after intense bidding wars. Queensland was especially strong, a beautiful KEVII die proof of Lot 3008: Samuel Calvert’s progressive die proof without inthe £500 in blue selling for $3335 or scriptions was estimated at $10,000 but sold to a local buyer for more than three times the estimate. The $14,950 Western Australia included an Imperf plate proof of the ‘FIVE SHILLINGS’ on For Indian collectors, Gandhi remains an ever3d that was bought for $2185, and a very rare set of ‘PROBATE/DUTY’ Overprints that went popular subject as shown by a philatelic registered cover to Java that fetched an eye-popping $3910 for $6037. The WA Beer Duty labels were the best group ever offered at auction. The estimates totalled which was 26 times estimate!

The very fine and rare Marshall Islands $9050 but the total paid was $12,100.

‘G.R.I./2s.’ on 2mk SG 64o came in at a very Under “Rest of the World”, China was again respectable $16,100 while the 1903 missionary’s very strong with singles and collections attracting cover from the New Hebrides - that cost the vendor strong competition. The lovely Specimen set $20 at a recent Melbourne stamp fair - provided a illustrated on the front-cover of the catalogue was handsome profit, selling for $1725. estimated at $500 but sold for $3335.

New Zealand was generally very strong with The Cocos OHMS cover with a block of the 2/3d the “Traveller” collections of “Adsons”, Revenues, Tern made $2990, against which a c.1911 Fijian “Cinderellas” and postmarks all doing especially parcel tag with a straight-line cancel went for a well. A Rhodesian postmarks lot was also popular, comparatively modest $1955. From Great Britain, making $690 on a $300 estimate. a very mixed general collection racked-up $5290, while a part-reconstruction of 92 scruffy “Penny Limited Love For Tasmania Blacks” sold for $3680 (or an average of $40 per The third auction was of David McNamee’s spacefiller).

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registered mail of Tasmania. Despite this being the most comprehensive collection ever formed of this interesting material, many scarce items failed to find new owners. Still, almost two-thirds of the lots were sold, with a number of notable realisations among them.

The 1833 handwritten receipt for a registered letter went to an overseas buyer for $483. The best of the four covers with Hobart’s ‘REGISTERED’ handstamp in red also went abroad, for $1610. A striking 1885 cover to Denmark was solid at $920.

The beautiful 1898 2½d pictorial envelope, the only recorded registered example from this series, was keenly sought at $2990. $2530 was paid was paid for an internal cover franked with two examples of the 3d olive postal fiscal. And the earliest recorded officially registered cover from Tasmania - illustrated on the face of the cover - went to a delighted buyer for $2875.

The “Dear Little Ugly Ducklings” There was widespread comment that Ken Barelli’s “Emblems” of Victoria would flop, partly because the sale was devoted to a single Classic issue, and partly because, historically, the “Emblems” have seemed like the poor cousins of the “Half-Lengths” and “Woodblocks”. This, however, was not a view shared by the auctioneer, who retorted, “This is an exceptional collection of a technically interesting and entirely home-grown stamp issue. There are numerous outstanding rarities in the collection, and our results in June 2012 for Les Molnar’s showed that there is strong support for the Emblems. In addition, the back stories regarding the theft of the original concept and the later sacking of the contract printer could be turned into a feature film”.

The 174 “Emblems” lots were collectively estimated at just over $300,000. More than 80% of the lots were sold, for better than 90% of the total estimates.

Surprisingly, the historically important essays submitted with the various tenders were relatively unpopular. However, the proofs were a different matter. Samuel Calvert’s beautiful progressive die proof without inscriptions was sold to a local buyer for $14,950. The underbidder then snapped up the

finished die proof for $10,925 and the plate proof on blue paper went to a third buyer for $5750.

This rather set the tone for the entire sale, in which almost 60 bidders took part. For what is considered by many to be an ugly primitive issue, this is a quite remarkable number of participants.

Unused singles and small multiples were in hot demand, as were used blocks and strips for which heavy multiples of catalogue value were routinely paid.

Several new players for errors really spiced up that side of things. Despite obvious faults, the Imperf 1d & 4d Printed on Both Sides sold for very solid prices of $6325 and $7762 respectively; the famous Perf 12 1d strip with Imperf-between error formerly in the Caspary Purves and Perry collections impressed at $16,675; and the 2d with the Error of Watermark ‘6’ claimed the highest price of the sale with a winning bid of $26,450.

The postal history was not as well supported overall, but there were some surprises. A superb little cover with Imperf 1d pair climbed to $1265.

An astonishing $4370 was paid for an attractive cover to Massachusetts when two phone bidders slugged it out: the estimate was $750. Another beautiful cover to America fetched $3910, despite being noted as having been professionally cleaned and a tear at left having been repaired.

The vendor, Ken Barelli, was in attendance and commented afterwards “I’m very pleased.

Prestige are to be warmly congratulated for their professionalism and understanding of the market”.

Conclusion Summing up the day’s activities, Gary Watson was enthusiastic about the state of the philatelic market.

“Our results today”, he said, “show that with a combination of beautiful catalogues, an outstanding domestic and international mailing list, and smart marketing, great results can still be achieved.” He also paid tribute to Prestige Philately’s vendors and bidders. “One group without the other is of no value. But when you have a steady flow of quality material from sellers, and pool of discerning and often insatiable buyers, exciting results can be obtained in the auction room”.

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Revenue Review More Cattle

Lots of mail this month on the Western Australia flood of material being sold off, but more on this later. First up, its always nice to be able to see and record unlisted items, so when David Casey emailed me a few scans of his Victoria CATTLE overprint collection, with a note asking why I do not list a $3 [fig 1] & $10 in my online catalogue. Sure enough both these values were unrecorded. Two minutes later they were recorded. Thanks for sharing David.

WA-T

In the free online catalogue of Revenue Perfins, the

‘Other’ page lists all sorts of odds and sods including the ‘T’ punch variants. Figure 2 [apologies for the tiny graphic] taken from a tax book in WA shows this ‘T’ punch in use. No big deal I hear you say, except this is the first record of the Hospital Tax being punched. Keep your eyes peeled for some of these beauties.

Ticket To

Most revenue collectors will have a few transport tickets in their collection. Of note are the tramway passenger tickets, and figure 3 is no exception.

Southport Tramways Co Ltd of Tasmania issued

Fig 1 Fig 3

Fig 2

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Fig 4

Dave Elsmore tickets which are 99% long gone by now, so when they do turn up they are eagerly sort by collectors. It can be a challenge to just find a few from each state.

If you do take up the challenge, good luck!

Fold It

Preprinting paper folds are far and few between.

Figure 4 is a cracker that was up on eBay selling for pennies [more than 2d!] These can be visually stunning and being on a revenue they would not have been pulled out for destruction prior to delivery. These do make good fillers for exhibit pages, as they will mesmerise any judge!

Naughty

Figure 5 is one of those items that just grabs you.

It’s similar to a postal note in that a postal note exchanges money a Reply Coupon exchanges stamps. Postal Notes attract a fee for the service, hence making them a revenue, whereas a Reply Coupon has no such fee attached to it, and it is merely an international exchange voucher for a standard postage stamp in any country, hence you can prepay the return postage when writing to mother. These are a study in themselves, with many wmks, different fonts etc. All show the country of issue, and for Australia the State of issue, shown in figure 5 being from Victoria as indicated at the

Fig 5

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Revenue Review bottom. A bit naughty really by showing them here in Revenue Review as the Stationery guys lay claim to them, but as a postage stamp can be classed as a ‘revenue’ I’m off the hook.

Bets Are Off

Rarely do you see ‘Specimen’ betting tickets. One such item [fig6] overprinted CANCELLED I just had to show you. The overprint does not fit the known sizes and fonts from New South Wales which asks the question: is this genuine? I would say it is ok. Why would you bother to overprint blank tickets? The colour is right and matched used 2d tickets I have in my collection. Maybe you have other values in your collection you would like to

share here.

Back to WA

Ok back to Western Australia. I think its pretty well conclusive Dzelme is selling off his main collection in a huge way. Auction houses continue to be stuffed with swans. Figure 7 is a nice vertical pair of Supreme Court 2/6d on £1. As more and more comes onto the market I’m thinking I will have to adjust my catalogue prices down, as rare material is no longer rare at all. Your thoughts are welcome on this.

Home

More ‘proof’ of the massive Western Australia

Fig 7

Fig 6

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Fig 8

Dave Elsmore sell off is the appearance of the ‘Workers Home Board’ ‘Fine’ receipt stamps. Figure 8 is the actual set shown in the Dzelme book, which now resides with Ian Culshaw, a well known Western Australian Revenue collector. Unfortunately none of these reside in Qld!! The question now is just how many sets does Dzelme have to flood the market with?

Also we not sure on provenance, have these come direct from the printers or from Government files?

My guess is we will never know. I am told Dzelme is not one to share information with fellow collectors, and will only ‘deal’ with one or two individuals. Just remember not to dig too deep when buying a revenue with a swan on it, as there may be a 1000 more to come out.

Wine

Figure 9 is taken from the Tasmania Stamp Auction web site where a set of these beauties was on offer.

This issue being the scarcer of two such issues, very similar except the ‘C’, which precedes the numeral, is no longer there. I do have this set listed on my web site, but if you can add to the recorded list of; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 & 20 I would love to hear from you.

Entertainment

Another Victorian State Entertainment Tax issue has surfaced. Prestige Philately have figure 10 in a mixed lot of goodies in their May sale, and this 1/6d cannot be alone. Please have a rummage through your collection for some different values and share

Fig 9

Fig 10

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Revenue Review them here.

Perfin Corner

Three beauties to show you this month of which two were previously unrecorded! First up scarce usage of the LL/G.a from the company Liverpool and London and Globe. Exceedingly rare on a complete document. As the swans are attractive they were generally taken from 99.9% of documents by early students. Next up a previously unrecorded K.a [Kodak – Photographic Materials] pattern on a Railway revenue from New South Wales. Followed by a previously unrecorded SH/&Co.c [S. Hoffnung & Co - Importers & Merchants] on a 1/- Railway revenue. SH/Co.b is also found on New South Wales Railway revenues and equally as rare. All of these rare Perfins have been added to the free online book

on perfins.com.au. If you haven’t had a chance to view this free work maybe its time you called by to check your collection against the listed values. If you can add anything please let me know.

Victoria is the last State left to complete the “Private Revenue Perfins of Australia” book. For updates on Perfins and the Security Overprint please keep checking the free book, which is continually being worked on. Accessed from the perfins.com.au home page blue arrow. Maybe you can add to this last state? If so please contact one of the authors.

I can be contacted by mail: P O Box 66 Springwood 4127 Queensland or an Email link from my web site ozrevenues.com or perfins.com.au

Above: Figs 11 & 12 Left: Fig 13

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Volunteering at your stamp club

Stamp clubs (and philatelic societies) provide their members with the opportunity to meet with likeminded people and to share information about their hobby. They offer displays, visiting speakers, newsletters or magazines and purchasing schemes for books and accessories. Importantly they provide an opportunity to obtain stamps at reasonable prices

Volunteers on the front door of a stamp fair through their exchange books and other activities.

Many clubs also organise stamp fairs and exhibitions and some have libraries. Stamp club members can provide advice on storing and housing your collection and provide ideas on new collecting areas. Hopefully you will already have discovered the benefits of being a member of a club and how it adds your enjoyment of the hobby.

You can achieve even more from your involvement with stamp clubs and societies by actively participating Volunteers are always needed on Society tables at fairs and exhibitions

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Ian McMahon

Philatelic Development Officer, APF

Sharing your knowledge with other collectors in your club. Organised philately is based entirely on volunteers. It is easy to overlook the enormous amount of time and effort that volunteers put into every facet of organised philately but without that commitment the benefits of stamp clubs would be much diminished. The success of stamp clubs comes as a result of the time and commitment provided by their members who volunteer their time and effort.

Volunteering is the perfect way to feel connected to your hobby. It can provide you with the opportunity to help guide the future of your club or society, to establish a strong network of contacts with fellow collectors, to acquire new knowledge, skills and experiences, and to help

advance the hobby of stamp collecting.

It can also help you develop as a stamp collector as well as provide satisfaction from sharing your knowledge of the hobby, personal achievement and giving back to the club and to hobby.

At the local club level there are many ways to participate.

These include responsible positions such as the president, secretary, treasurer, librarian and exchange manager of the club but if you feel that you want to start out with less responsibility then there are many other ways to help, everything from seting up meeting rooms, providing supper, volunteering to help at stamp shows or with data entry, mail-outs, sorting library materials or assisting visitors and new members.

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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Part 46

Volunteers handling exhibits at an exhibition Many of the jobs don’t require a great knowledge of stamp collecting so don’t feel put off in volunteering by any perceived lack of experience.

Most clubs have exchange books which contain stamps which members of the club are seeking to sell. Many collectors join stamp clubs primarily for access to the exchange books which enable them to sell their duplicate stamps as well as to buy stamps at reasonable prices. The exchange manager is an important and responsible position in many clubs.

Many clubs run stamp markets, stamp days, open days or exhibitions. Whatever they are called they provide the opportunity for collectors to look for items to add to their collection. These provide many opportunities to volunteer, from preparing publicity, handing out flyers, mail-outs, organsing and selling souvenirs, helping set up the event on the day, helping on the entrance table or at the society table and dealing with members of the public.

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advice on all aspects of collecting including identifying stamps, where to get stamps, storing and housing your collection and ideas on new collecting areas. You can help by providing that assistance to your fellow members especially new and less-experienced members and visitors.

Many clubs have a library which may consist only of a few catalogues and some magazines, or it may have a large and extensive collection of early books on stamps as well as magazines up to 100 years old or more! If you club has a library there will be many ways in which you can help including cataloguing books and magazines, data entry or being Librarian.

You could also assist other members in finding information on their collecting areas.

Stamp clubs also provide you with a chance to share your pleasure in your collection with others.

This can range from an informal talk at your local club to showing off your “gems” through local, State, National and International Competitive Exhibitions.

Many stamp clubs welcome younger collectors or provide special activities for them. Assistance is often needed for these activities (but check with your club to see that the various state rules for working with children are followed).

Club websites can be a wonderful source of information and contacts for stamp collectors and a great way to publicise the club. If you have the skills, volunteering to be webmaster would enable you to make an important contribution to your club.

Even if you are not able to play that role you may

Ian McMahon

Philatelic Development Officer, APF be able to contribute material including articles, photos, updates and other material of interest to the website to ensure that it remains fresh and attractive to visitors. Perhaps you could assist with the development of new downloadable stamp album pages for the website to attract new members to join your club.

If writing is your forte you could write articles on stamp collecting for your local media or help with the club’s newsletter/journal. Or you could create and post a video that features some aspect of the hobby. If you are not comfortable writing then perhaps you could assist with the production or distribution of the newsletter. There are also many other secretarial jobs which are important to running a club including maintaining and updating membership lists.

Your club needs you – volunteer today!

Albany - Great War Centennial Exhibition

For those interested in the one-frame class the next opportunity to enter at national level will be at the Albany - Great War Centennial Exhibition to be held at the Albany Town Hall, Albany WA from 1 - 3 August 2014. If you haven’t tried it one-frame exhibiting is a great way to engage in competitive philately. The exhibition will also include postcards and banknotes as well as a state-level multi-frame exhibition. Details can be found at http://www. apf.org.au/ALBANY%20PROSPECTUS%20 2014-fINAL.pdf . Entries close on 20 June 2014.

The Exhibition commemorates the centenary of the start of the first world war with Albany being an appropriate venue as the port from which many of the troop ships left carrying Australian soldiers to the Middle East and ultimately to ANZAC Cove and France.

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PO Box 5, Dover, UK CT16 1YQ Ph: 013 0482 9827 pjbchelse@aol.com www.stamo-centre.co.uk

Bexley Stamps - M. Hill PO Box 92 Doonside, NSW 2767 Ph: 02 9920 5057 sales@bexleystamps.com.au www.bexleystamps.com.au

Blue Owls Stamps - Jude Koch 9 Yarra Street, Suite 1207 (12th Floor, Suite 07) South Yarra Vic 3141 Ph: 03 9826 1202 jude@blueowlsstamps.com.au www.blueowlsstamps.com.au

Grant Carter PO Box 16, Northcote, VIC 3020 Ph: 03 9480 2193

Alf Clark

PO Box 40, Russell Island, QLD 4184 kgv_stamps@live.com.au http://australiankgvusedstamps.blogspot.com

Heather Johnson c/- PO Box 7436 U. Ferntree Gully, Vic., 3156 Ph: 0419 532 093 philatelicheather@yahoo.com.au

P & D Nicholls PO Box 172, Glenbrook, NSW 2773 Ph: 02 4739 6184 panddnicholls@bigpond.com

Pacific Coast Philatelics Owen Pennells, PO Box 3343, Bundaberg, QLD, 4670 Ph: 0427 551 207

Ray Pinniger PO Box 9008, Scoresby, VIC 3179 Ph: 03 9753 3520 bevvyc@optusnet.com.au

Chris Snelling Stamps PO Box 121, Kotara Fair, NSW 2289 Ph: 02 4952 8205 orcstamp@bigpond.net.au www.orchidstamps.com

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

Sydney Philatelics Graeme Fudge PO Box 122, Milton, NSW 2538 Ph: 02 4455 4011 info@sydphil.com www.stampsaustralia.com.au

Robert Kennedy Stamps P/L

Lyndsay Tooley

Shop 4, 155 Castlereagh St, Sydney, 2000 Ph: 02 9264 6168 www.kennedystamps.com.au stamps@kennedystamps.com.au

PO Box 441, Norfolk Is. NSW 2899 Ph: 06 7232 3778 stamps@ninet.nf

Dr William L. Mayo (Booklets)

64/3030 The Boulevard, Emerald Lakes, Carrara, QLD, 4211 Ph: 07 5578 1744 convayanos@hotmail.com

Ph: 02 9918 6825 mayoinavalon@yahoo.com.au

PO Box 53, Box Hill, VIC 3128 Ph: 03 9808 9717

Kevin Morgan Stamps & Coins

John Cornelius PO Box 23, Magill, SA, 5072 joda99@bigpond.net.au

PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158 Ph:0425 795 693 kevinmorgan2@golive.com www.kevinmorgan.com.au

Ken Cowden

Maree Nieuwenhuizen

PO Box 108, Bateman’s Bay, NSW 2536 Ph: 02 4472 5231 Kenbetty@bordernet.com.au

Mike Lee 7 Colbury Rd, Bayswater Nth, VIC 3153 Ph: 03 9729 5855 mlphilatelics@bigpond.com

PO BOX 457, Bayswater, VIC 3153 Ph: 03 9762 1848 maree@mpnstamps.com

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Market Matters: HOWZAT??!

We all know “Cricket on stamps” is a red hot topical, and scarce pieces always do well.

Very often the collectors are retired age folks, with the time and money to chase up ANYTHING they want within reason - and can pay accordingly!

This was proven manifestly this month when a cover franked with the Australian 1977 Cricket stamps sold at public auction for $A2,563!

The cover is shown nearby. It was in the Prestige Philately auction of May 2, and the invoice for it was $A2,563.

How do I know the invoice showed $A2,563 - as the buyer Noel Almeida emailed it to me! And that is without any postage and packing added, as it was hand collected.

Melbourne cricket enthusiast Almeida bought it not for himself (he has one already purchased for $5 decades back!) but for a cricket fan in the NETHERLANDS of all places!

Another cover sold for 4 figures years back to a cricket collector in a small town in Texas. So “Cricket on stamps” collecting is not just a British Commonwealth thing!

This envelope shown nearby I, and most other dealers, would sell for about $A10 with this same franking. It is not even first day issue.

The reason for the huge price on this item was not the franking, nor the envelope design, nor the postmarks which are common, but the special Registration Label used!

A $2563 Score!

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Buyer lives in HOLLAND!

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A March 9 FDC with this label sold at auction

by Leski in December 2011 for $A2,700 plus buyer fees. .i.e. about $A3,150 invoice. This Prestige cover is NOT a FDC, but is the final day of the special PO. It is the highest price I can recall ever paid for an Australia “Cricket” related philatelic item other than the FDC above, and is clearly near a world record price for any Registration label.

Well other than the W.W.I. “GRI” overprinted Registration labels from New Guinea. Those of course were designated official postage stamps, with a specific face value overprinted as well.

Cricket specialists tell me even a single Registered label off cover could fetch around $500$1000 at auction, given the international interest in this item. Check your old labels!

World Record Price?

Bradman Cinderella very popular.

Even scarcer “Cinderellas” of cricket, like the supposed Don Bradman one illustrated nearby from 1936, now sell for $100s in good condition off cover, and much more ON cover. They are often licked on backs of covers.

The stance and features on this label are unmistakably modelled on Sir Donald Bradman,

Depicts Don Bradman?

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then match winning Australian Captain, and national hero No #1, in those gloomy depression era years.

Bradman moved to Adelaide in 1935, worked as a stockbroker , and captained the South Australian team for the first time in November 1935 against the MCC. Cast your mind back to this Centenary Test Cricket match. The “old rivals” battling it out exactly 100 years from the first Test in 1877. The biggest sporting event of the year in Australia.

The Post Office had issued the attractive se-tenant strip of 5 x 18¢, and single 45¢ stamp, and hoped to reap substantial extra revenue by marketing this set of 6, and associated souvenirs, at the cricket ground.

A fancy temporary Post Office was erected at the MCG, built to replicate a 19th Century bush Post Office. All Australia Post staffers manning it dressed in period costume, to add to the “1877” visual effect.

This PO was open from March 9-17th, outside the Member’s Stand. A special large size color poster of the stamps was produced by AP, to sell at $2.

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Cricket issues stronger than ever. posters for 3 figures if anyone still has a copy!

The Post Office also produced a special registration label, worded “Centenary Test Melbourne” to affix to all registered items posted over the 9 days.

Only 56 Registered done.

The special pictorial cancel illustrated was a hit with collectors, and over 100,000 items bearing this cancel were serviced. But only 56 of these items were Registered, hence the extreme scarcity of this special label.

I understand the lowest number seen of this Registered label is 0005, and the highest is 0040.

Only 23 different label numbers are recorded, all on cover, and all have the applicable backstamp, and all except one are cancelled First Day Of Issue for the stamps.

Therefore for 8 of the 9 days of PO opening only

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one Registered item is recorded. A date other than March 9 or March 17 may bring more than $2,563, as it may prove to be unique.

There was NO publicity whatever given by the Post Office or the stamp magazines, or PO “Bulletin” to this label at the time.

It was then PO practice NOT to produce such printed special Registration labels for temporary post offices. Collectors had no idea or inkling that it existed.

It was assumed a “Jolimont” Registered label would be used, that being the closest PO to the MCG. (Jolimont Post Office no longer exists.)

Melbourne cricket enthusiast and dealer Noel Almeida has sought these labels for the past 37 years. He even published a monograph titled “The 1977 Centenary Test” in 1991.

Freedom Of Information Act

Almeida used the Freedom Of Information Act in 1983 to obtain from Australia Post all internal files pertaining to this stamp issue in 1977, to research his

Only 7,500 issued globally book.

He saw in the FOI documentation reference to the fact that labels 0001 and 0002 were planned to be presented to Queen Elizabeth II, presumably on covers. Her Majesty and Prince Philip personally attended the Centenary Test Match.

Noel wrote to Sir John Marriott, RDP, FRPSL, the “Keeper Of The Royal Collection”, to try and verify this fact and check if they were stored in the Royal Collection.

Sir John’s handwritten reply to him, on “Buckingham Palace” Royal crested letterhead from 1986 indicated no record of these Test Cricket labels can be found.

Still strong sellers

Cricket related stamps are still big sellers, as the market for them is not just in Australia, but strongly British and Caribbean and so on, indeed as we see above - Holland and the USA. Stamp News - 57

Market Matters The January 2014 Ashes Series 5-0 total whitewash saw Australia Post rush release a 60¢ letter rate stamp, and a $2.35 one for overseas mail.

Both were quickly available in the normal gummed perforated versions, in PO sheets, and on PO FDC, and in a PO pack.

The $2.35 value was also released in peel and stick - but four WEEKS later. There was no FDC, no pack, and it caught most collectors totally by surprise. Months later, the scarcity of it on FDC is now becoming apparent.

I had a few done on the official PO First Day Cover envelope, and with the official “The Urn Returns” Pictorial postmark. My last few are $A40 apiece, and I believe only a few dozen were ever serviced thus.

These stamps were MASSIVE …. the largest size I can ever recall seeing from Australia. Near THREE times larger than the usual “International” $1 stamps on sale at POs. The other Ashes products have done well in the past. The 2014 Philatelic Numismatic Cover (PNC) was also a rush release, and in a surprise move only 7500 were produced, all individually numbered.

They sold out nearly instantly, little wonder as the earlier 2007 “Ashes” PNC of even greater number sold - 8000 units, is a $235 item already on a $19.95 issue price!

I ordered mine quickly and hence got VERY early numbers. I have low numbers 122 to 130 left, and at $A50 each they will never be cheaper!

Insured for a MILLION dollars!

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Value today $US200-$US250 Million

Register your mail!

We all know that using Registered or insured post is smart. These days it more and more is essential for items of any value.

More and more domestic mail NOT addressed to PO boxes is getting stolen – sad but true. Contractors are not PO staffers, and will leave boxes and parcels in unsafe places or in the rain very often.

I regularly get sellers nervous about mailing me stamps to buy. They often only run to $100s, or a few $1000s, but they really are not at all happy doing it.

I will in future remind them of this true story about the safety of Registered Mail, and they might be a lot more comfortable about it all!

Harry Winston, the leading American jeweller and gem dealer, mailed the legendary “Hope Diamond” in a package via Registered Post using a single red “REGISTERED” handstamp.

In November 1958, Winston donated the diamond to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, intending it to be the foundation for a National Jewel

Collection.

It is a large, 45.52 carat deep-blue diamond, now housed in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington, DC. Value is estimated today at $US200-$US250 million.

With his years of experience in shipping jewellery all over the world, Harry Winston chose to have the near priceless diamond delivered by Registered Mail.

He told a reporter for the Washington Post that: “Registered Mail is the safest way to ship gems …. I’ve sent gems all over the world that way.”

The massive diamond was placed in a box, wrapped in brown paper, and sent by Registered Mail, travelling down from New York in a Railway Post Office train car.

The addressee, Dr. Leonard Carmichael signed the receipt for the Registered package from the Post Office delivery person.

The price paid for shipping the gem, valued at $US1 million at the time, was $145.29, most of that being for the contents insurance!

As you can see on the scan of the packaging, the postage was $2.44. It looks like $9 was the largest value USPS postage meter at the time in 1958, 56 years back, and 16 of those were used, with a $1.29 label to make up the balance.

Paint a stamp on yourself!

When trawling the web this week looking for a bird stamp image I found an unusual website.

A guy in the USA called Matt Deifer runs a business where he body-paints images directly onto people’s skin, and does high resolution photo sessions of the finished artwork.

One session with a young lady named Thalia came up with this cleverly painted on copy of the 1969 Haiti 10¢ “Calecon Rouge” bird stamp.

I understand this is the national bird of Haiti, and is known as the “Hispaniolan Trogon” and I am sure I’ll get 10 emails from serious bird collectors if that is wrong!

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New stamp collecting variation!

to have a pictorial record made of it. “Living Art” I suppose!

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The original Haiti stamp.

special occasions that they later regret as those are “forever”, so body painting and photos of it seem far less intrusive!

Heaps more examples of record album covers, movie themes, and other things people have painted on their bodies are at - www. bodypaint.me – all very tasteful I might add. Matt asked me for ideas of other

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Auctioned June 17. stamps he can paint on clients.

I assume the paint used for the body painting is water soluble, so it all washes off in the shower after the photos are taken?

Matt emailed me to say the Haiti stamp session took him about 5 hours to do, so a lot of work is involved in each creation.

It is much like those finely detailed sand sculptures people do on beaches all over the world take all day to create, and when the next tide comes in...

$20 million stamp?

About 2 weeks after this magazine is printed, the world will know what the world’s rarest stamp is actually worth.

Sotheby’s New York will auction the British

Guiana 1856 1¢ Magenta stamp on June 17. Their estimate is a pretty bullish $US10-20 million.

The stamp looks really terrible on the front, and seems to have suffered under John du Pont’s ownership - he is rumoured to have sometimes slept with it under his pillow!

This image you see I manipulated from the appalling pink blob that Sothebys Press Office came up with, as their best effort to show it, after I emailed both their New York and London press offices.

For their millions in Commission you’d think they could have taken a decent scan of it. Sadly not. A stampboard member viewed it in HK, and said in the flesh it looked far better and clearer than the dreary Sothebys official pic.

Du Pont was later jailed for 40 years for shooting dead an Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler in 1996, and he died in prison in 2010.

An Australian owned this stamp for 30 years Frederick T. Small, who sold it at auction via Robert Siegel of New York in 1970. tinyurl.com/1cGuiana contains much more detailed info, and discussion on John du Pont, and the rare stamp, and the auction. All the info is in one place there.

The Will beneficiary – apparently a weightlifter from Bulgaria, has decided to sell this stamp at Sothebys, and the balance of the British Guiana Stamp News - 61

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One of the more fascinating aspects of the British Guiana 1856 1¢ Magenta stamp is the reverse, which shows the personal owner marks of several of its famous owners including: 1. Two impressions of Count Ferrary’s famous ‘trefoil’ owner’s mark.

2. A large faint “H” of American Billionaire Arthur Hind - said to have burnt a second copy sold to him. “It is now STILL unique”.

3. A small “FK” of Finbar Kenny, the More interesting on BACK! stamp manager at Macy’s who brokered know, but China is becoming VERY important for the its sale by Hind’s stamp market.” widow.

Gary’s guess is as good as anyone’s of course.

4. A small shooting star added by the Australian, A global institution or bank may also like it for Frederick Small who owned it from 1940 to 1970. bragging rights - the same way as they often buy 5. A pencilled “IW” by Irwin Weinberg, head of a group of investors who bought the stamp in 1970 and famous paintings and art etc.

Or USA multi-billionaire Bill Gross might buy it sold it to du Pont. to donate to the National Postal Museum in the super 6. A large pencilled “J E d P”, initials of the late expensive Stamp Galley he just had built there in John E. DuPont who bought it for $US935,000 in Washington.

1980, and died in prison.

That is my guess, for what it is worth, but this 7. The large and ornate 17-pointed star has all the sale could go any way. There are many 1000s experts completely stumped. of entities globally, for whom $10 million is the running cost of their yacht!

“Someone from China will buy it” Bill Gross has sold off stamp collections in the Gary Watson, owner of Prestige Philately in past for over $US10 million each, and donated the Melbourne told me this week: “I predict the buyer entire proceeds to charity, which is most generous. will be a wealthy Chinese person. Who, I do not And remember the way US Tax Laws are, in 62 - Stamp News

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Mainstream media for stamps is very scarce these days.

Weight has been estimated to be about the same as the Sweden 4sk “Tre Skilling Yellow” which we know weighs exactly 0.02675 grams (0.0009 ounces).

If the Guiana is invoiced for around a mid-point $US16 million when all the nasty auction fees are added, it gives the stamp the staggering cost 1856 1¢ British Guiana stamp of some $US600 Billion per kilogram.

I have a client who is a Math Professor in Illinois brief if you pay $10m for a piece of art and get it check my figure, and he agrees it is correct! This appraised for $20m, and donate it to an institution, makes the stamp the most valuable thing in the world you essentially get a full tax write off for the $20m, by weight or volume - no contest. meaning very little real nett cost, and a lot of The Royal Philatelic Society London issued a goodwill and publicity.

The Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan is a good new Certificate on March 17, replacing their 1935 “clean” one, and used some curious new wording on example. A piece of white board with a red brush this one. stripe down the centre of it will have a note saying: “Surface rubbing has been reduced by over“Generously donated by Dr. Moshe Finkelstein”. painting at some time in the past - possibly while the Moshe paid a million, had it appraised in writing stamp resided in the Ferrari collection”. at $2.5 million from an obliging art dealer, and gets The handwritten cert looks like it was penned his name in lights forever at the Guggenheim, at little real cost! If you have visited there, you’ll know by a 12 year old - and one who arguably cannot spell! Ferrari is the CAR brand, Count FerrarY was what I mean. the famous stamp collector, and that is the spelling Sotheby’s took the Guiana stamp on a roadshow traditionally used in English. during May that included London and Hong Kong.

Baron Philipp la Rénotière von Ferrary was a Their “Buyer Fee” alone, if it sells for the middle of citizen of FOUR countries it transpired after his their estimate range is around $US2 million, so that death in 1917, so spelling does vary. pays for QUITE a roadshow!

The RPSL noted they were too scared to dip the Anyway I hope it gets a huge price, as that will be stamp in Benzene or testing fluid of any kind in case superb and positive global publicity for stamps and the “over-painting” or anything else was affected by most welcome. “The world’s most valuable object Stamp News - 63

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Detailed Inspection in Washington.

On April 17 The National Postal Museum in Washington was visited by David Redden, a vice president of Sotheby’s, who took along the 1¢ British Guiana for detailed analysis.

Redden was joined by highly respected stamp expert Captain Robert Odenweller, of the museum’s Council of Philatelists, a security officer, and a reporter and photographer from the New York Times.

The equipment used for testing included the VSC6000, Leica Microscope, X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (XRF) and the Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscope (FT-IR). ”VSC6600” is the Video Spectral $US600 BILLION a kilo!

Comparator 6000, which is a high resolution analyser, allowing for the markings under high magnification. removal of color to better see the stamp and its The wonderfully clear VSC6000 MONO image

shown nearby is from that recent visit. The stamp design, detail and postmark all show wonderfully when in mono, as you can see!

If you look at the colour shot nearby of the face you cannot even see the central ship design, Latin wording, nor read the postmark not the wording on outer edges of stamp.

Million Dollar Jenny?

We seem to be in big ticket auction season! An example of the USA 24¢ “Inverted Jenny” was offered for sale on May 21 by Spink in NYC. This column was written before that sale, so I cannot report the final figure, but the estimate was a nice The best centred 24¢ Jenny.

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Inverted Jenny “Locket Copy” round $US1 million. I doubt it will reach that, but we shall all know together!

The “Inverted Jenny” is not rare at all, as 100 were found and I understand all survive. It is famous, not rare, and it is stated only 5 are unhinged mint and this is one.

Several blocks of 4 exist, all owned by Bill Gross as I recall, and I am curious that near all stamps in those are apparently hinged, but I digress.

This example is apparently the best centred of the entire sheet, and hence it will get a solid price, as nicer Jennies usually do.

I have stamps in stock that one copy is known of, but are priced at a few $1000, not a Million, but this is American Razzmatazz at work for you!

“Locket Copy” Auctioned May 15

Also auctioned on May 15 .. also just after this column was submitted, was the “Locket Copy” of the 24¢ “Inverted Jenny”, offered by Harmers in California.

In 1918, Colonel Green paid $20,000 for the only

sheet of 100 24¢ Inverted Jenny airmails ever to reach the public.

Green sold some of the sheet’s singles and blocks to other collectors, but kept a total of 41 stamps, including the plate number block, for himself.

One single in particular he set aside for special treatment. He had it placed in a pendant made of two convex pieces of glass with a gold rim, and ring for a chain, back to back with a normal 24¢ Jenny airmail stamp.

He then presented the bauble to Mabel Harlow Green, a woman he had wed in 1917, a few months after the passing of his multimillionaire mother, Hetty Green (“The Witch Of Wall Street”) who had deeply disapproved of Mabel.

What Mabel thought of the curious gift is unrecorded, but there’s no evidence she ever wore it. It was unknown to the stamp world until 1956 when a dealer casually mentioned it in a magazine. 30 years would then pass until anyone else saw it.

This auction will be the locket’s third auction appearance. It failed to sell both times before in 2002 and 2009. The Harmer sale catalog estimates its value at $200,000 to $250,000.

This is one of the 5 MUH examples, but condition is not great, having a straight edge at top, poor centring, and very clearly bunged corners from being squeezed into the locket a tad too small for the job!

Being rich does not make you smart.

Decimal Dazzler

The 1966 cover shown nearby sold in May at Torsten Weller’s postal history auction on April 14, for an amazing $A660.

Most readers would barely have given this cover a second glance is my bet if spotted in a dealer’s cover box or a junk box etc.

As older readers will recall, we changed to decimal currency on Feb 14 1966. I can still hum the very catchy advertising jingle used on TV! At changeover the current 5d domestic rate converted exactly to 4c. It is now 17½ times higher Stamp News - 65

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of course at 70c, but I digress. The new stamps were available a week before that date, the ACSC tells us: “Decimal stamps were placed on sale on 7 February 1966 ... to enable businesses to obtain advance supplies and ... could be purchased only in full sheets, and could not be used for postage before 14 February.”

This commercial cover across Brisbane was stated as being bit aged/toned, and appears to be a standard bank cover used February 8, probably by a bank clerk not realising the stamps they had bought at the PO, were not valid for a week.

Why TWO 4c stamps were used on what was clearly a standard weight letter from the Brisbane office, who knows now, but it was taxed as if it was a normal weight.

Some officious PO worker circled the “illegal” postage and levied the normal Postage Due “fine” of double the postage that should have been paid - i.e. twice the current 5d = 10d, and applied the “T10d” Tax handstamp.

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THIS is worth $660?! rigorously from the RECIPIENT, and the two x current red stamps were affixed when the 10d was handed over and they were cancelled by Inala PO, as proof it was paid.

All very interesting and I had no idea such things were worth anything like $660, but it seems I was wrong, as it sold for that. As I type often “Knowledge Is Power”.

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We offer a range of collections and accumulations from across the world in our monthly lists with prices ranging from a few dollars to hundreds of dollars – something for everyone. For inclusion in the list below we have chosen a wide spectrum of material including some nonstamp items in order to give you an idea of the range of material in our monthly lists Lot 1 NEW SOUTH WALES 1960’s to 80’s decimal postmarks collection, unchecked by us but seller says 3150 postmarks mostly on pieces and mounted on foolscap pages in 4 large Marbig lever arch files, light duplication noted where there are different types of strikes for the one location, a great opportunity for a massive collection, priced at 10c each, (3150), price $315 Lot 2 PAPUA NEW GUINEA 1959, “Stamp/ Duty/ 1d” surcharge on 6½d purple Chief's House, complete sheet of 36, mint unhinged. These stamps have been sold in Sydney for $60 per single stamp and $300 for imprint block, giving a value of $2220 for our sheet if split up.

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Collection surplus Stamps from Canada, Channel Islands, Falklands & Dependencies, Fr. Antarctic, Gibraltar, GB, Ireland, Malta, Namibia, NZ, South Africa and USA. MUH mint and used. Trade Enquiries OK. Send your wants lists to: John Cornelius, PO Box 23, Magill, 5072.

Antarctic, Malta, Falklands, Sth. Africa, Ireland & much more. Dealer enquir-

Buying Australia and World Kiloware. We urgently wish to buy quantities of modern Australia and World Kiloware. Regular supplies needed.

All mixtures to be close clipped single paper, and will pay as follows, all prices per kg. (a) Australia Commemoratives only to 2012 $7, 2013 $10, 2014 $15 (b) Australia Mission modern inc..2013/14, not less than 50% commems. by weight $4 (c) Australia Territories, inc. Cocos, AAT, Christmas Is. Norfolk Is. etc. $25 (d) Australia Higher values, 53c upwards inc. Commems. $60, defins only $20 (e) Worldwide, modern mix unpicked. $30. Minimum sending $100 please. Single country mixtures also required, please enquire. Phone Kevin Morgan 0425 795 693

ies welcome. Send your wants list to: John Cornelius, PO Box 23

Wanted : Sheets or panes of 5½d Emu stamps. Contact Ted on tedg@gj.com.au

FOR SALE Modern Australia Kiloware. Mostly 55c and 60c values Popular mixture $45 er kilogram. Email orders to rigby16gmail.com

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Australia, N.Zealand, West Europe, Better earlies at bargain prices. VFU only, some in quantity. Phone 0419 680 824, PO Box 93, Bexley South, 2207 Half Price stamp Sale. Loads of stamps from 5 cents. Israel, Russia, Germany.

Magill SA 5072 Phone: 0407 615 240 (11/13)

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Collector/Active Buyer of quality old time world collections. Albums must be in excellent condition and issed prior to 1932. Dr William Mayo, Email mayoinavalon@ yahoo.com.au. Ph 02 99186825,

Quality British Commonwealth Pacifics Australia World & Thematics. P&D

Buying Australian Kiloware 55c Or 60c Values, Commemoratives and Definitives

Nicholls P.O.Box 426, Glenbrook NSW 2773 0413 542 081 After 7pm

and current year kiloware too, 60c bundles wanted too, for more details email:

accessories

postagestampsonpaper@gmail.com.

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

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

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

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

Mark Saxby; Sec. David Carratt; Ph: 02 4932 4045 Email: carrotspatch@tpg.com.au Manly-Warringah 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: Meeting 1pm on 4th Monday of each month (ex Dec.) Milton Ulladulla Bowling Club, St. Vincent Street, Ulladulla Sec. POBox 670, Ulladulla, NSW 2539 Tel. Barbara Smith 0244555214 Morisset Uniting Church SC: Mtg 4th Sat 10am (ex Dec) Enq: 4977 2525 (Jenny) Mudgee Coin Note & Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Sunday Ph 02 63735324 Nambucca River PS: Mtg 1st Sunday Newcastle PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs, 7.30pm Mayfield Ex-Services Club; 10am 3rd Wed, 48 Mackie Ave, New

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

western australia The Airmail Circle of WA: Mtg 5th Monday “Wellington Fair” Unit 18, 40 Lord St. East Perth Tel: 08 9294 3356 Armadale-Kelmscott PS: Mtg 4th Tues; Ph: 08 9397 6525 email: fit.kanga@bigpond.com Bridgetown-Manjimup SC: Mtg 1st Thurs 7.30pm Masonic Hall, Hampton St, Bridgetown Ph 08 9761 4638 or 08 9761 2005 Busselton SC: Mtg 1st Mon, 5pm 7th Day Adv. Church, Alpha St; Ph: 08 9752 4449, 0400 646 282 email witches1@westnet.com.au Canning SC: Mtg 1st Wed; Ph: 08 9457 7565 Daytime SC: Mtg 1st Thurs; 08 9341 3576 Denmark SC: Mtg 1st Weds Lions Lair Rivermouth Inlet Drive, Denmark. Tel: 08 9848 3325 email: fishneil@westnet.com.au Eastern Goldfields: Mtg 3rd Thurs ; Ph: 0412 156 351 Eaton SC: Mtg 3rd Thurs, 7pm Ph. 08 9795 7744, email: scrapbit@tpg.com Fremantle and District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed, Tennis Club House, Parry St, Fremantle at 8pm; Ph: 08 6363 6415 Have a go SC: Mtg Last Thurs. 137 Edward St, East Perth. Tel: 08 9305 2073 email: nigan@iinet.net.au Kalamunda SC: Mtg 3rd Wed; Ph: 08 9291 8484 Mandurah PS PO Box 625 Mandurah WA 6210 2nd Tues 4.45 - 6.30pm Bortolo Park Pavilion Cnr. Bortolo and Murdoch Drives

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

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

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

Morrinsville Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd Wed. Ph: 07 8893199 Nelson PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 03 5469092; Email: paula.hucklesby@clear.net.nz North Shore PS: Mtg 2nd (except Jan) and 4th Wed (except Jan and Dec). Email: nsps@xtra.co.nz; Website: www.northshoreps.com NZ Stamp Collectors Club Christchurch: Mtg 4th Wed. Ph 03 3895511; Email: steve@ philatelic.org.nz; Website: www.nzeal.com/philately/nzscc.htm NZ Postcard Society: Ph: 03 3848463; Email: jenny-long@clear.net.nz; Website: www. postcard.org.nz

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

Bribie Island SC: Meeting 4th Wed; Ph: 07 3408 2238 Bundaberg PS: Mtg 2nd Mon 7pm, The Family Centre, Kensington St (in the Show Grounds); Ph: 07 4152 2403 or 07 4151 3062 Caboolture & District SC: Mtg 3rd Sat. Ph: 07 5498 6504 Cairns SC: Mtg 3rd Wed. 7.30pm 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. Catholic Church Hall, Edmund St. 1.30pm. Ph: 07 5494 7233 City Daytime SC: Mtg 2nd Thurs. Ph: 07 3206 6281 City of Brisbane PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs; Ph: 07 3263 8573 (ah); email: desley@mycelebrant. com Collectors Club Queensland: Mtg 2nd Sunday each month 9am to 1pm - RSL Hall, 58 Arnold St, Holland Park. Contact 0409 130 266 or ccqueensland@gmail.com Enoggera SC: Mtg 1st and 3rd Mon. Ph: 07 3264 4157 Gladstone and District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed (Ex. Jan) & 4th Wed (Ex.Dec). Ph. Sec: 07 4978 1155 Ian Rippingale, Gold Coast PS: Mtg 2nd Mon, 11.30am, Southport Community Centre, Lawson St, Southport. Ph: 07 5546 3801 Gympie SC: Mtg. 2nd Sun. Jessie Witham Centre 1 - 3pm Ph. 07 5483 9188 email: sandandan@bigpond.com Hervey Bay Afternoon Club: Mtg 3rd Wed. Ph: 07 4124 1138 Ipswich SC: Mtg 1st Thurs (ex. Jan). Ph: 07 3282 2983 Junction Park SC: Mtg 1st Tues, 7.30pm, Annerley Baptist Hall, Lambton St. Contact: 07 3277 6724. PO Box 177, Annerley, 4103, righteo274@bigpond.com

Further information can be obtained from the NZ Philatelic Federation, PO Box 58139, Whitby, Porirua, 5245, NZ. E-mail: secretary@nzpf.org.nz Postal History Soc of NZ: Auckland 1st Mon (except Jan). Ph: 09 5220311. Chapter meetings held Invercargill, Nelson, New Plymouth and Wellington.

Pukekohe Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Sun. Ph: 09 2357737; Email: pukekohestampclub@ gmail.com Royal PS of NZ: Mtg 2nd Wed (ex Jan). Ph: 04 5899530; Email: office@rpsnz.org.nz; Website www.rpsnz.org.nz South Auckland PS: Mtg last Sat (except Dec), Papatoetoe, day time mtgs 3rd Fri (ex Dec and Jan). Ph: 09 2682245; Email: elowera@orcon.net.nz Southland PS: Mtg 1st Thurs (except Jan), 3rd Tue (daytime) (except Jan). Email: antqgevi@es.co.nz Taranaki PS: Mtg 1st Mon except Jan. Ph: 06 7546212; Email: murray-grimwood@ hotmail.com Tauranga & District Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd (except Jan) and 4th Mon (except Dec).

Ph: 07 5765210; Email: beducker@hotmail.com Thames Valley PS: Mtg 1st Mon (except Jan). Ph: 07 8689190.

Thematic Association of NZ: Ph: 04 2347218; Email: bob@gibsonz.com Timaru PS: Mtg 1st Wed. Ph: 03 6880343 Upper Hutt PS: Mtg 3rd Mon (except 2nd Mon Dec). Ph: 04 5284123; Email: teme. isaac@clear.net.nz Waikato PS: Mtg 1st (except Jan) and 3rd Wed (except Jan and Dec). Email: c.cameron@agresearch.co.nz Wakatipu PS: Ph: 03 4428865 Wanganui PS: Mtg 2nd Wed. Ph: 06 3427894; Email: g.p.phillips@xtra.co.nz Wellesley PS: Mtg 2nd and 4th Mon (ex public holidays). Ph: 9 8271240 Wellington PS: Mtg 4th Mon (except Dec); Ph: 042347218; Email: bob@gibsonz.com Whakatane PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Thurs (except Jan) Ph: 07 3222054 or 07 3086193 Whangarei PS: Mtg 2nd Meeting: 2nd Tues (Ex.Jan) Ph 09 4348000; Email johnmonica@xtra.co.nz QLD Philatelic Council, 18 Coolcrest St, Wynnum, Qld, 4178. Ph: 07 3396 0846 Fax: 07 3396 0842. Email: QPC-stamps@acenet.net.au Web: www.qpc.asn.au

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 Redland Bay Coin and Stamp Club, 4th Thurs. Monthly. John Hardman 07 3206 9996 or 07 3822 6987 Rockhampton SC: Mtg 1st Tues. Ph: 07 4926 3336. email: rockystampclub@gmail.com Sherwood Afternoon SC: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 07 3372 6096 Southport Afternoon SC: Mtg 2nd Sat; Ph: 07 55630384 Southside PS: Mtg 3rd Tuesday & 3rd Wednesay (9am) Ph: 07 3848 2304 (ah) email: david.appleton@mailbox.uq.edu.au Sunshine Coast SC (formerly Nambour SC): Mtg 1st Wed, 7.15pm at C.W.A. Hall, Short St. Nambour. Ph: 075445 3647 Thematics Queensland: Mtg bi-monthly 9.30am. Ph: 07 3262 5605 email: j.crowsley@ uq.net.au Toowoomba SC: Mtg. 2nd Sat 1pm, Salvation Army Hall, Cnr. West St. 7 Anzac Ave. Ph. 07 4635 5623 Email: bob.benny@bigpond.com Twin Towns SC: Mtg 1st Mon; Ph: 07 5598 7629 Waterloo Bay SC: Mtg. 1st Thurs. 1pm & 4th Mon. 7pm. Redlands Multi SportsClub, Birkdale Ph: 07 3206 0815

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philatelic clubs & societies south australia

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

Australian Airmail Society: 1st Wed. 7.45pm 22 Gray Court, Adelaide. PO Box 395, Edwardstown 5039. Ph: 08 8276 3969 Barossa SC: Mtg 1st Tue 7.30 Greenock Luth Church Hall, Bevan St, Greenock; 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 SA Power Networks Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Mon (ex. Jan); Canteen, 1 Anzac Highway, Keswick; PO Box 2079, Magill North, 5072; Ph: 08 8278 7163 Frama Club: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm, members homes; For collectors of CPS, Framas. Newsletter and Auctions. PO Box 62 Campbelltown 5074.

Gawler SC: Mtg 4th Mon 7.30pm; Evanston Primary School, Para Rd, Evanston. PO Box 2, Willaston 5118; Ph: 08 8522 2335 Email: jo.trev@bigpond.com German Philatelic Club: Mtg 2nd & 4th Mon 8pm; German Club, 223 Flinders St, Adelaide 5000; Ph: 08 8260 2251 Glenside PS: 1st Wed 7.30pm& 3rd Sat 1.30pm; Uniting Church Hall, Carlton St. Highgate. PO Box 29, Glenside 5063. Ph: (08) 8353 8683 Lower Murray PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs,7.30pm, 2nd Sat, 10am; 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

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); Maribyrnong Comm. Centre, 54 Raleigh Rd, Maribyrnong. PO Box 2477 Taylors Lakes 3038. PH. 0438 901 144. email: footscraystamps@gmail Frankston & District SC: Mtg 3rd Tues (2nd in Dec) Seaford Community Centre, Broughton St Seaford.

Ph: 5996 3745 Geelong PS: Mtgs 1st Sat 7.00pm, 3rd Mon 1pm (ex Jan) Sat - Diversitat Community Centre, 9-15 Clarence St, Geelong West. Mon - Belmont Library, High St, Belmont Ph: 0438578591 (Sec); PO Box 342, Belmont 3216 Hamilton PS: Mtg 2nd Monday Hungarian PS: Mtg 2nd Wed 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 SC: 4th Fri, except Dec. 3rd Fri. 7.30pm, Oldaker Christian Centre, Oldaker St, Devonport, 03 6424 3449 devstampclub.org Devonport Stamp Group: Mtg 4th Fri, Public Library Mtg Rms, 7.30pm Ph. 03 6424 3449 Glenorchy SC: Mtg 1st Tues

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June 1 - (1st Sun) Bankstown Stamp & Coin Fair,

June 1 - (1st Sun) Stamp, Coin & Phone Card Fair, Ukrainian Bankstown Masonic Hall, Cnr Greenfields & Restwell Hall, Russell St, Essendon. 9am-3pm June 9 - Peninsula Stamp Club Stamps Coins & Phonecards Sts, Bankstown. 9am - 3pm. 7 Dealers.

Fair, Dromana Uniting Church Hall, Cnr. Point Nepean Rd & June 7 - (1st Sat) 9am to 4pm Orange Stamp Fair, Mc Culloch St Dromana 9am - 3pm, 0418 322 315 June 15 - (3rd Sun) Stamp, Card - Phone Card Fair, Quinn’s Arcade, Summer St, Orange. Ph: Norm 02 Bentleigh-McKinnon Youth Centre, Higgins Rd, Bentleigh.

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Dealers plus huge range activities. Ph: 0418 322 315.

June 7 - (1st Sat) Northside Stamp Fair. 1st Floor, June 29 - (last Sun ex Dec) Stamp, Coin & Phonecard Fair, Car park Building, Manly-Warringah Leagues Club, Jaycees Hall, Silver Grove, Nunawading. 9am-3pm. cnr Federal Parade/Pittwater Rd, Brookvale, NSW. June 7 - (1st Sat) Katoomba Stamp & Coin Fair, 9am - 4pm, Masonic Hall, Cnr Station & Civic Sts, Katoomba. Ph. 0417 802 754 June 7 - (1st Sat) Sutherland Shire Stamp & Coin Collectors Fair, Gymea Anglican Church Hall, 131 Gymea Bay Rd, Gymea.

June 15 - (3rd Sun) Stamp & Coin Fair, 10am - 3pm, Pioneers Hall, Cowper St, Wallsend. 8 Dealers. 4971 3483 June 22 - (4th Sun) Epping Stamp & Coin Fair, Community Hall, 9 Oxford St, Epping. 10am - 4pm. Free Entry, 6 Dealers, Buy/Sell

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www.sidneyfenemore.com World wide Postal History Bid Sales Every 2 months. Inc. Aerophilatelic, Maritime, Paquebots, Military all aspects, Polar and Commercial Mail. Interesting listings on offer. APS Member 52833-1 sfenemore@clara.co.uk

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