Stamp News Australasia January 2015

STAMP NEWS AUSTRALASIA

JANUARY 2015 EDITION

VOL.62 Number 1

2 014

C O LLECTION OF

AU ST RA L IA N STA M P S Perfect gifts or add to your collection!

EXCLUSIVE

Concession Stamp miniature sheet

95 109 2014 Collection of Australian Stamps $

Individually numbered and limited to 7,000

$

95 34 Australian Territories

Stamps Executive edition.

Collection of Stamps 2014

95 134 2014 Collection of Australian

$

Available now at participating Post Offices, via mail order on 1800 331 794 or online at auspost.com.au/stamps while stocks last.

Stamp News Australasia is published monthly by: Kevin Morgan ABN 61 577 987 652

http://www.stampnews.com.au Phone: 0425 795 693 Fax: 03 9758 7506 Editor & Advertising Manager: Kevin Morgan kevinmorgan2@live.com Advertising materials & editorial submissions email: stampnewsaus@gmail.com Post: Stamp News PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic, 3158, Australia Assistant Editor, Layout & Design: Máirín Holmes stampnewsaus@gmail.com Subscriptions Manager: David Woodberry Printed by: Printgraphics

Contents Articles Woodchip Free Zone: Rod Perry ...................................................8 Cinderella Corner: Tony Presgrave ............................................ 14 Faroese Stamps 40 Years: Christer Brunström ....................... 18 Stamps in the News: Margo Campbell .................................... 22 Looking at New Zealand: Graeme Morriss ............................... 30 Australian Impressions: David Mallen ...................................... 32 Revenue Review: Dave Elsmore ................................................. 42 Introducing the APF: Ian McMahon .......................................... 48 Market Matters: Glen Stephens .................................................... 52

Information News........................................................................................................6 Reviews ............................................................................................... 36 Trading Post....................................................................................... 68 Clubs & Societies ....................................................................... ......70 Calendar.............................................................................................. 73 Products & Services Directory............................................... ......74 Internet & Email Directory...................................................... ......78 List of Advertisers .............................................................. ..............82

Newsagent Distribution: Network Services

RARITIES - SUPERB ITEMS AT LOW FIXED PRICES - WITH HUGE SCANS - A MUST SEE!

glenstephens.com/rarity.html EMAIL ME TO RECEIVE MONTHLY ‘NETT PRICE’ OFFER LISTS AND GOSSIP: glen@glenstephens.com Stamp News - 5 Stamp News - 5

philatelic news

Mossgreen & Prestige Philately announce merger

Mossgreen Auctions and Prestige Philately have merged to create one of the most powerful brands in the philatelic market.

Charles Leski of Mossgreen (following its merger with Leski Auctions in 2013) and Gary Watson of Prestige Philately have enjoyed a healthy rivalry for more than 30 years. The success of their respective businesses helped to drive interest and engagement in the burgeoning philatelic market.

That market is today estimated to be worth in excess of $50 million.

The new entity will commence trading from 1 December 2014 as Mossgreen Philatelic Department. Gary Watson, will become Head of Philately, Mossgreen.

Charles Leski, Managing Director, Mossgreen, said he was thrilled with the opportunity to work with Gary Watson.

“Gary is someone that I’ve admired since he first entered the market in the early 1980s,” he said. “He has been a formidable competitor so the opportunity to work with him rather than in opposition to him is something that I’m excited about. He is undoubtedly one of the most knowledgeable people in philately in Australia.

“Ultimately, our passion for philately and our combined experience will be important assets for the new operation. I believe our clients will be the beneficiaries of that.”

Mr Leski said the appointment of Gary Watson will give him more time to introduce new categories into the business and an opportunity to expand projects that are sitting on the drawing board.”

Gary will bring key staff with him to Mossgreen.

The first series of auctions to take advantage of the merger are scheduled for 5 & 6 March, 2015.

6 - Stamp News

The fantastic journey of a family letter during time of War across continents - Spink China SPINK CHINA, HONG KONG - The 7th December 1941 is etched in the minds of millions of people across the world in terms of Pearl Harbour. Within the next year Japanese forces had conquered a vast tract of territory in the region; Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaya, Burma, Thailand, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, the other islands making up the Dutch East Indies (DEI), Wake Island, Guam and the Philippines had all fallen.

The Philippines was the last major country to fall to the Japanese. When they landed on Luzon, the primary island, US Forces retreated to the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor where they held out until 9th April 1942 and 6th May respectively. When they finally surrendered, they were force-marched to Camp O’Donnell from where they were dispersed to many sub-camps to work on projects to clear up and repair damaged infrastructure.

In March 1942 Col. John Vance wrote a letter from the Philippines to his wife using the official War Department envelope. As no war ships were still stationed in the area, it is suggested that this letter was rowed out to a waiting submarine, thereafter enter the postal system in Melbourne and thence onward to his wife in Maryland, USA. The envelope (Lot 2241) is on sale at Spink China on 18 January 2015 within the David Tett’s Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies.

After the war Col. Vance wrote his memoirs, in which he narrates how he came to the Philippines in 1940 and took on his duties as a US Army Finance Officer. He was responsible for disbursing money for all supplies bought, labour hired, vehicles and ships commandeered, and above all paying for all Philippine Army expenses since it had come into

the service of the US. He details how, even during the siege of Bataan and Corregidor, bills had to be paid, and money sent to the southern islands to allow military units to continue to make purchases and pay their men. With the fall of Corregidor, Vance became a prisoner of war; the Japanese knew who he was and questioned him endlessly about the location of money. He was moved to Bilibid, then Tarlac, Taiwan and finally Manchuria, where he was when the war ended.

Other mail from Col. Vance is also included in the auction.

75th Anniversary of The Battle of The River Plate The Battle of the River Plate took place on the 13ᵗʰ of December 1939, bringing the first victory of the Second World War and lifting the country’s morale.

For the Royal Navy this battle was an expression of the centuries old tradition of achieving mastery of the seas through offensive spirit in battle and a willingness to take risks.

The British Forces Philatelic Bureau, supported by the HMS Ajax and River Plate Veterans Association, has produced a special commemorative cover to mark this 75th anniversary of The Battle of the River Plate. It will be released for sale on

the 13ᵗʰ December 2014. The cover features images taken from the memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum, unveiled earlier this year. It includes silhouettes and badges of the ships as well as the broad pennant of Commodore Harwood. The stamp on the cover will be cancelled using a unique BFPS numbered handstamp depicting the Royal Navy crown, which is atop of all ships’ badges. The cover comes complete with a splendid A4 double-sided insert in full colour giving more information about the battle. The cover and insert are presented in a cellophane sleeve to create a high quality souvenir of a truly historic event.

Malcolm Collis, Archivist for The HMS Ajax & River Plate Veteran’s Association, said, “Every anniversary of the Battle is important, but this year being the 75th has added significance. BFPS has produced a superb collectible cover for this important event and the Association was delighted to have been involved in its design and production.”

The souvenir covers may be purchased from the BFPS online shop (www.bfps.org. uk/shop) and cost £6 for the standard cover and £15 for the double signed cover (including UK/BFPO p&p). They are available to order now on a strictly first-come-firstserved basis.

The covers are also available by post by sending a cheque (payable to ‘BFPS CIC’) to BFPS The Old Post Office Links Place Elie Fife KY9 1AX. BFPS is officially licensed by the MOD and is a not-for-profit company run by volunteer Veterans.

Stamp News - 7

This month I am very pleased to provide a selection of items for comment from the Roland Geitenbeek collection of Woodblocks of Victoria, conducted by Phoenix Auctions on October 25.

This follows upon other occasional columns featuring Figure 1. Unique block of four 6d on cover not dear Colonial Australia, an ongoing series included in my collection, given the chance. inaugurated this year.

Many years ago someone, clearly not a fan of Roland commenced a specialised collection of mine, made the comment that all I knew in Philately this world renowned classic series in the mid-1990s, was Victoria’s “Fergusson’s”, a term I had not and purchased a swathe of my personal collection encountered previously or since; presumably a for a springboard leap in to this new found philatelic reference to the Mr Fergusson of the stamp printing passion. Many of my key items had been dispersed firm Campbell & Fergusson, responsible for some by this time, and it is a great credit to Roland’s printings of Victoria’s enigmatic Half-length series. collecting tenacity that he was able to track-down Whilst it is true the Half-lengths are my personal and subsequently acquire many of the “one’s which favourite, the Woodblocks of Victoria are not far had gotten away”, together with many items I never behind. After all, these included the world’s first owned, but would have been delighted to have dedicated Registered and Too Late stamps, and were the very first bicoloured stamps of the British Commonwealth, not bad claims to fame!

The items selected for comment include several which I once owned; my thanks to Phoenix for use of the scans.

Prices realised do not include buyer’s premium.

Lot #32 (Figure 1) is believed to be Figure 2. Three out of four stamps with full sheet margin!

8 - Stamp News

Figures 3 and 4. Underappreciated cover or overpriced stamp?: Jury still out

Australian Colonies are rare with full sheet margin attached, and to find three out of four in that form on the one cover is little short of remarkable. Here are the 1/- marginal, and marginal single and pair of the 6d, used Oct 19 1857 MaldonSwitzerland. Philately as Art few philatelic connoisseurs would dispute. Realised $3800 against estimate $5000.

Single stamps to fill “gaps” in traditional collections often punch above their weight at auction, such being the allure of “completion” which drives that collecting obsession.

The Geitenbeek collection contained a number of elusive unused and used stamps which were targeted by traditional general collectors, and these often sold very well. I’m bemused, however, that very scarce stamps on cover can get overlooked in the rush to fill those gaps. A good example was #72 (Figure 3), which contained a fine example of Rouletted 6d in the reddish brown shade (SG 53), which is far scarcer than the other two listed shades, on Jul 27

the only 6d block of four recorded on cover, and a lovely Official it is, used May 5 1855 HamiltonMelbourne, paying quadruple Inland letter rate. Given perhaps just six blocks of four exist, this is indeed a fortuitous survivor. It realised £750 (then $1200) at a Purves sale in 1981, and $3500 when I sold nearly 20 years ago, so the $2200 (estimate $2600) paid by the new owner was very good value.

Offered as #46 (Figure 2) under the Six Pence issues, I had this item under the Registered banner when I owned it.

Figures 5 and 6. Unused of these “offered only once in a generation” Imperforate stamps of the

Stamp News - 9

1857 cover Melbourne-London, carried aboard Emeu which struck the Guttal el Bunna reef in the Red Sea. This well known maritime incident item, sought after

by Postal historians including those of the Middle East, realised $575 (estimate $500), when #73 (Figure 4), an off-cover example of the Rouletted 6d in less scarce orange-yellow (SG 53b), described with “tiny thin”, made $230 against an estimate of $150. Gap-fillers ruled in this cross-comparison.

I don’t often feature unused stamps, but #85 (Figure 5) and #93 (Figure 6) are rather special.

The experimental separations employed by Victoria during the 1850s are a study in themselves, and some rate amongst the rarest catalogued (and uncatalogued) stamps of the world, and the Woodblocks contain a disproportionate number of these very desirable issues. The first mentioned is 6d Serpentine roulette 10-10½ (SG 58), and second 6d Serrated 18-19 (SG 60), with perhaps 5-6 unused examples recorded, most with defects. These are generally regarded as the finest examples extant; I had three of each at one time from which to select the best. Phoenix used the description for one “offered only once in a generation”, although this can be reliably said for both. They realised $3800 (estimate $1800) and $5250 (estimate $2000),

Figure 7. A SPECIMEN with which I have no issue

respectively. Here, and elsewhere, the provenance which I had gone to great lengths to attribute was incomplete or omitted, which is unfortunate as the history of stamps where it can be traced is becoming increasingly important in this world of incessant tampering and “enhancement”. For the record, the respective provenance is Green/Harvey/Perry, and Pack/Forster/Perry. #93 had sold for just $800 in my auction of Mar 13 1990, which provides an indication of just how far some of this material has come since the days of Colonials being relatively unloved.

I have often expressed in this column my distaste for Kangaroo Specimen “varieties”, and CTO quartercancels which can be allocated to distribution batch by the study of minuitae, and more particularly Figure 8. World class cover, comparatively pedestrian price 10 - Stamp News

Office Reference collection, such by then was the demand from collectors for most obsolete stamps.

Only two examples now exist, the other in The Royal Collection.

Sold for $5000 against estimate of $3500, extremely good value in comparison with Kangaroo Specimen sub-types which have realised five figure sums despite being available (readily) in far greater numbers. Ex Harvey/ Perry.

Figure 10. The really great covers can also be great value for money One of the great 20th century Connoisseur the absurd prices often paid for such material. I don’t collectors was the have any problem, however, with the Specimen Italian, Tomasini. His tastes were simple: he wanted that was #137 (Figure 7). This was overprinted I nothing but the best. So it was with his example believe in 1870 to prevent staff pilferage of Post of a 6d Too Late on cover, #158 (Figure 8), which

Figure 9. Beautiful 1850s Essays good value for money

Figure 11. A stamp that I would have bulldozed all before me to be able to call my own Stamp News - 11

fetched £3100 in the 1981 Tomasini sale. This Apr 12 1856 cover Geelong-London bears largemargined examples of both regular 6d and Too Late, the former showing the quirky knife-cuts employed by staff at Geelong P.O. to facilitate separation.

The Too Late stamp was required as an additional prepayment to ensure despatch of the article in that day’s mail. Phoenix stated “A beautiful cover and considered by many to be the best Too Late cover in existence”, which I obviously did not disagree with in 1981. It realised a disappointing $4600 (estimate $6000).

I was particularly fond of the three different Registered Essays I owned, of which #160 (Figure 9) was one. Printed in rose and gold, from an unadopted key plate, this type of material is truly of museum-quality, although fortunately is available to us all. I sold this in my auction of Jul 1 1989 for $1300, and was pleased for Roland to see it realise $7500 (estimate $9000). Readily available mint and used so-called “blue chip” traditional stamps of the world can sell for much more.

I regarded #205 (Figure 10) as one of my favourite Woodblock covers; a convergence of superb quality and considerable rarity (for the key Rouletted Registered). From the historic Harvey collection, I had paid SF3180 for this item in 1975, then a considerable sum. Henry Harvey, who had commenced collecting in the 1880s, was amongst an elite circle of London Philatelists, which included The Duke of York (later King George V). Harvey died in 1933, but it was not until 1975 that the collection of Victoria would be auctioned. Estimated $4000, this great cover realised $6000, precisely the sum I sold it for 20 years ago.

Figure 12. Mona Lisa of Colonial Essays awaits appreciative new home The Dale-Lichtenstein collection of Victoria, part of one of the greatest general collections ever formed, contained a handful of items which I

Figure 13. Record multiple, record aggregate for an imperforate Victoria stamp 12 - Stamp News

Figure 14. A very rare, very undercatalogued stamp would dearly have loved to have included in my collection. In the 1980s I wrote to the Trustee of the Louise Boyd-Dale philatelic holdings to enquire would the collection ever be sold. I was informed that event was not likely to occur in the foreseeable future. In fact, it was auctioned in London in 1990; I would have deferred commencing the sale of my Victoria in 1987 if I had been better informed. Amongst those “handful of items” was #207 (Figure 11), a brilliant unused example of the Rouletted Registered; the only other unused example reposes in The Royal Collection.

I rate this as one of the great classic era British Commonwealth stamps. I would not have left

England in 1990 without that stamp (which sold for a paltry £3000). Now estimated at $18000, it sold for $14250. This is a stamp for which an SG catalogue value of £50000 is justifiable.

A contender for the Mona Lisa of Australian Colonial 1850s Essays was #211 (Figure 12).

Unsold at perhaps slightly ambitious estimate of $30000, it is undeniably a beautiful Essay, one of two similar items which I was once proud to call my own, ex Rundell/Purves. I would prefer this item at $24000 (reserve) to many, many Australian Commonwealth items which realise that and more, yet exist in greater numbers, and fall well short of qualifying as Philately as Art. Another Harvey item which I was very fond of was #220 (Figure 13), the record multiple of the imperforate 2/-, a strip of six, the 12/- aggregate being the highest for any Victoria imperforate item.

A friend of mine, who was considering buying it, complained “But it’s touched at base”, to which I replied “Fiddlesticks”, or words to that effect.

Estimated $3500, it realised $4200. I sold it 20 years earlier for $4500, and would not have been surprised if this great multiple had breached five figures.

The Rouletted 2/- is a much rarer stamp than generally accepted. Tellingly, Geitenbeek had just one single, and #229 (Figure 14), the remarkable vertical pair, the only multiple in private hands.

Ex Ferrary/Harvey/Perry, it fetched $3800 against estimate of $5000. I had paid $4000 in 1981 (from the buyer in the Harvey sale), and sold for $6000 20 years ago. Some great items never receive their due recognition.

In summary, I thought the Geitenbeek sale generally did well: the classic auction cocktail comprising high and low realisations and everything in between being its essence.

It will be interesting to await the next great collection of Woodblocks, although I doubt that what was achieved in the past by two collectors will ever be witnessed again.

Seasonal greetings and best wishes to readers.

Stamp News - 13

Cinderella Corner

perforation edges to the poster design) plus a generic back panel label were issued in 1964 (catalogue In the November 2014 column I illustrated a series of labels from QANTAS and I received the following numbers 179-186), A third set of ten labels plus generic back panel comment from a collector of all sorts of ephemera label were issued in 1967 (catalogue numbers 187and stamps in Adelaide.

197), and “You will be interested to know that the six A fourth set of ten labels plus generic panel label Qantas labels you illustrated are in fact matchbox were issued in late 1970 / early 1971 (catalogue labels issued by the Federal Match Company, numbers 198-208).

Alexandria, Sydney in 1961 for Qantas. The boxes Finally, there was a single issue pair (front and were given out in a cellophane wrapped box of six back labels) done for Qantas by Federal for their 707 to passengers. They have been allocated catalogue V-Jets (catalogue number 167) also issued in 1961.” numbers 172-178 in the Federal Catalogue. There is a common generic back label to each box that has not been illustrated.

Curioser And Curioser. (Fig. 1, 2 and 3).

A second set of seven labels (with stamp Also illustrated in the November issue were these

Qantas Labels.

Figure 1

14 - Stamp News

Figure 2

Tony Presgrave

stamps which I wrote about a few years back with no response. Now thanks to John Isles I have much more information which I have reproduced below.

“These are evidently designs for stamps that were never issued, made at a time when Crete was still under Turkish rule. In 1897, the date on the upper Crete 2-lepta design, there was turmoil between the Greek and Turkish communities of Crete including the burning of the Christian quarters of the town of Chania. Greece dispatched a naval squadron, and a number of volunteers arrived in Crete, as well as a small Greek military force, intending to fight the Turks, but hopes of independence or union with Greece were thwarted by the Great European Powers – Britain, Russia, France, and Italy – who

divided the island into occupation zones. It was not until 1898 that, after protracted negotiations and further atrocities, Crete became an autonomous state under Turkish suzerainty. The first stamps issued by the Cretan state were in 1900. There were indeed provisional issues made around this time by occupying European administrations and later by some rebels, but none resembling the designs you have shown. These provisional issues are shown in Volume 2 of the Hellas catalogue by A. Karamitsos.

I see no evidence of a British connection in the designs you’ve discussed. The Greece 2-lepta, (Fig. 1), shows the head of Athene, and the two Crete 2-lepta designs show, I feel sure, a seated female personification of Crete (Fig. 2). Her

Figure 3

Stamp News - 15

Cinderella Corner

appearance might well be inspired by Britannia, of course. The word above Crete’s knees, (Fig. 3), is ELEFTHERIA, or “Freedom” in Greek, which Crete clearly did not have at the given date of 1897.

The parallel designs for Greece and Crete clearly hint at the possibility of a future union between the two lands, which was in fact to be completed later, in 1913. In 1897 the currency of Crete was the Turkish piaster, not the Greek lepta shown in the denomination of the stamps.

So, in short, I think these three pieces are the fantasies of a Greek or Philhellene in 1897 who wished to see the freedom in Crete that it was not yet to enjoy. I hope these notes are useful, and I’m sorry I can’t give you any more definite

Figs 4 & 5

16 - Stamp News

information about the interesting designs you’ve shown us”.

Radio. (Fig. 4).

For readers who can remember those evenings at home before the square eyed monster AKA Television arrived in Australia, here is a label from radio station 5AD in Adelaide advertising the program Deadly Nightshade. I don’t remember this particular show, but have memories of Deadly Earnest (Hedley Cullen) and his programs in a similar vein to this. I suspect this label dates from the early 1950s as there were a number of other labels from a similar period in the accumulation that a collector in Adelaide lent me.

Tony Presgrave

Barossa Valley Vintage Festival. (Fig. 5).

This long running festival celebrates the annual wine grape vintage. This label dates from 1951, and I remember going to the 1965 festival by special train. I’m not sure when they stopped issuing labels such as this, but I have not seen any from the 1965 festival. The festival continues and it will not be long before the 2015 Vintage Festival is underway and it is well worth a visit even if only to soak up the atmosphere and Barossa Valley hospitality.

Sutherland Locals. (Fig. 6 and 7).

These stamps have been researched and written about in many journals over a long period of time,

the last being in February 2012 so I thought as an end piece to this column for January I would run it again. I must admit that I find the history of these stamps very interesting.

Sutherland & Co. was a private company based in Japan and in about 1870 they issued two stamps for use on mail carried between Tokyo and Yokohama.

The two values were Âź Boo and 1 Boo, the Boo being an abbreviation for Ichibu a Japanese coin.

About 15 genuine stamps have been recorded, but facsimiles exist of both values and the stamps have been extensively forged as well. The facsimiles are printed on a chalk surfaced paper in somewhat brighter colours than the originals and the forgeries are generally printed on very thick paper.

Figs 6 & 7

Stamp News - 17

FAROESE STAMPS 40 YEARS In 1977 I wrote an article for a now defunct American stamp magazine in which I told about the Faroe Islands, then a fairly new stamp-issuing nation. Interest in the islands’ stamps was incredibly strong and many collectors purchased complete sheets of all new issues.

This was not particularly difficult as most issues came in small sheets of 20 stamps and face values were generally modest.

In my article I predicted an excellent future for Faroese stamps with steady increases of their value. This of course never happened and today the market is inundated with Faroese stamps from the first several years. Thus many of these early issues can now be bought for less than face value. This very probably was my worst philatelic investment suggestion ever!

1919 overprints

WWII surcharges

18 - Stamp News

But the stamps had beautiful designs and many were the work of Polish-Swedish Court Engraver Czeslaw Slania. During his long career he engraved more than 1.000 postage stamps for Sweden and many other postal administrations including the Faroes.

On 30 January 2015, 40 years have passed since the Faroe Islands released its first set of definitive stamps.

However, this is not entirely true. In 1919, Denmark (of which the Faroe Islands is a part) raised the postage rate to 7 øre. As there were no 7-øre stamps available on the islands it was decided to produce a provisional 2-øre stamp. The overprint was applied by hand to 15.500 5-øre stamps. This arrangement last from 13 January 1919 until the end of the month when supplies of 7-øre stamps arrived from Copenhagen.

Christer Brunström British armed forces occupied the islands during World War II. As no new stamps could be obtained from Denmark, the Tórshavn (the islands’ capital) postal authorities surcharged six stamps with the new denominations of 20, 50 and 60 øre.

After the war Danish postage stamps were once again on sale in the islands’ post offices. However, this all ended on 30 January 1975 when the Faroes released its own very first postage stamps. The following year an independent postal administration was established.

Already on 1 October 2014, the 40th anniversary of Faroese stamps was celebrated by the issue of four franking labels depicting older Faroese stamps which are all the work of the late Czeslaw Slania. These labels can be obtained from machines in some of the

islands’ post offices. They were printed by a Danish company but the designs are very poor versions of the original stamps. However, these new labels will be an interesting addition to Slania or Stamps on Stamps collections.

During the early years some of the more beautiful Faroese stamps were issued. The 1975 definitive stamps showed historic maps, local scenery and landscape paintings. The engraved stamps were the work of Czeslaw Slania.

The next stamp issue appeared on 1 April 1976 in connection with the inauguration of the independent postal administration. Once again the stamps are the work of Mr. Slania. They depict a Faroese boat, the islands’ flag and a local postman.

1975 definitivedesigned by Slania

Slania franking labels

Stamp News - 19

FAROESE STAMPS 40 YEARS In 1977, there was a set showing local birds and another one devoted to the island of Mykines. In 1978, there were three new issues. The same number of new issues was released in 1979 and the first issue of that year was a 25-krone high value stamp showing a magnificent ram. In my opinion this is one of Mr. Slania’s best stamps from the Faroe Islands.

During the ensuing years the number of new issues increased each year. Today we can expect at least ten new stamp issues on a yearly basis. Some are released as multi-design sheetlets. It is Faroese Post Office policy to offer its customers as much variety as possible (this is probably not appreciated by all stamp collectors).

The Faroese postal rates are quite high and I very

much doubt that many collectors invest in buying complete sheets of all new issues as so many did in the early days.

What has been typical for Faroese postage stamps during the past 40 years is the fact that they depict local subjects. A collection of the Faroe Islands will give collectors a good insight into the daily life, history, economy, wildlife and culture of these small islands in the North Atlantic. Those collectors finding today’s Faroese stamp issues too expensive should explore the first ten or 20 years which can often be found at face value or even at a substantial discount.

In many ways it’s a buyer’s market as far as the early years of Faroese stamps are concerned.

1977 25-krone ram 1976 flag designed by Slania

20 - Stamp News

AAT fully IMPERFORATE Miniature Sheets issued by Australia Post!

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

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

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

I am offering these as follows: SUBJECT UNSOLD – please use correct stock code!

A. Fully imperforate MUH or CTO AAT Mini Sheet - $A60 a sheet. (Stock code 629KE) B. Single imperforate sheet, with MASSIVE wide top or base sheet margin. $A80 (Stock code 629KF) C. PAIR of imperf panes from top LH, hand numbered “XXX/250” in margin, AND the matching AP card, $A170___ (Stock code 629KM) G. Normal perforated M/S & IMPERF sheet used on 23x32cm air cover to you $A70 post free Global! (Stock Code 629KO) Many more choices, inc. covers, and all photos are here – www.tinyurl.com/imperfsAAT order online: www.tinyurl.com/GlenOrder Cheques, money orders, cash, all credit cards, Amex, PayPal, and bank transfer accepted at ZERO extra fee. Rigidly Packed Post is $A4 in Australia (Add $5 for Registered, if needed), or $A9 Foreign Air (Add $A12 Registered if needed.)

GLEN STEPHENS

PO Box 4007, Castlecrag, NSW, 2068, Australia. - Phone (02) 9958 1333 e-mail me: glen@glenstephens.com - www.glenstephens.com/rarity.html Life Member: American Stamp Dealers Association (New York.) Philatelic Trader’s Society. (London.)

Stamps in the News - Globally!

Cultural icon or cash cow?

Reported at www.washingtonpost.com The cloistered world of postage stamps is roiling again with a rare public airing of dissent in the ranks of the secretive committee of prominent Americans that chooses new stamp images.

A postal expert whose 12-year term on the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee ended earlier this year has pleaded with committee members to resist the temptation to choose new stamp images “with the same profit motives as Big Macs, Slurpees, jeans or neighborhood tattoo parlors.”

Cary R. Brick has claimed that new stamp subjects are being held hostage by “pie-in-the-sky marketers.”

“They come from the corporate world of soft drinks and WalMarts. They are still at the table running the show, and I’m now just another consumer…But I still care deeply about the stamp program, as do philatelists and tens of millions of Americans who use the mail.”

This is the latest chapter in an ongoing debate over whether the cash-poor Postal Service should pursue commercial stamp subjects to lure new collectors and revenue at the expense of more enduring cultural images.

Brick’s reference to marketers from the “corporate world of soft drinks,” is a criticism of Nagisa Manabe, a former Coca-Cola executive

22 - Stamp News

Donahoe hired in 2012 to reinvigorate the postal brand. Manabe has pushed stamp subjects with a commercial appeal. She moved the stamp program into her department and pushed aside veterans in the program, postal sources have said.

Brick has urged the two new committee members, Katherine Tobin and Carolyn Lewis, both former governors of the postal board, to “strive for balance” in choosing stamp subjects.

Brick recalls that the committee repeatedly rejected his suggestion of a stamp honouring coal miners. “How in the world can we make that dirty job beautiful? We can’t. Let’s move on to more beautiful subjects,” is how Brick describes the discussion on the committee.

Eventually a postal official intervened, and Made in America, a sheet of 12 stamps featuring bluecollars laborers, was released last year to acclaim from collectors.

Caped crusader to rescue USPS? Reported at www.usatoday.com

A limited edition stamp collection of the iconic character Batman has been released in the US to commemorate Batman’s 75th birthday.

Batman appears on eight different stamps, depicting the character in four different eras from his original 1939 athletic design through today’s shorter eared, more muscular crime fighter.

Compiled by

Margo Campbell

“What a great place to celebrate him — on a stamp,” the US Postal Service’s director of stamp services and corporate licensing Susan McGowan said.

“It is an honour to have the US Postal Service feature the Caped Crusader on this new set of stamps in celebration of his 75th anniversary,” DC Entertainment co publisher Jim Lee responded when asked how he felt about the stamps. He added, “Batman has inspired and influenced fans around the world for generations and will continue to do so for the next 75 years and beyond.”

New stamp issues: from the sublime to the ridiculous Jersey

Reported at jersey.isle-news.com Jersey Post is helping to raise thousands of pounds for the Island’s Poppy Appeal by donating a percentage of all proceeds from philatelic sales of its special Remembrance stamp issue. Sales have raised £4,444 since the launch of the issue in May and Jersey Post is keen to raise even more for this important cause.

Entitled ‘Remembrance 2014’, Jersey Post’s stamp issue consists of six stamps and a Miniature sheet which feature delicate watercolours of field poppies, painted by artist Katherine Asher. In a first for British stamps, poppy seeds were encapsulated on two of the stamp designs, sealed behind a thin, transparent, bio-degradable plastic cover. This means the stamps, which can still be used for posting letters, could also be planted between early spring and early summer, to grow the striking red flowers which are so strongly associated with

remembrance.

Canada

Reported at www.newswire.ca A spontaneous burst of affection and excitement, frozen in time by a Canadian newspaper photographer’s lightning-fast reflexes, the “Wait for Me Daddy” photograph became famous to a generation.

Now, 74 years later and in time for Remembrance Day, Canada Post has again captured the moment with a commemorative stamp featuring the photograph, accented with poppies.

The story behind the photograph is as remarkable as its enduring power as a poignant symbol of homefront sacrifice in the Second World War. On October 1, 1940, Private Jack Bernard and other volunteers in The British Columbia Regiment were marching smartly down Eighth Street in New Westminster to board a ship and sail off to war.

Suddenly, Bernard’s five-year-old son broke free of his mother’s grasp and sprinted into the military formation to take his smiling father’s hand. In that instant, an alert Vancouver Daily Province photographer, Claude Dettloff, snapped the shutter.

Soon, his unforgettable image of little Warren “Whitey” Bernard was being printed by leading publications throughout North America. It was later used in Canada’s war bond drives with the plea, “help bring my Daddy home.”

“Our stamps are carefully chosen to reflect Canada’s rich history,” says Deepak Chopra, President and CEO of Canada Post. “The ‘Wait for Me Daddy’ stamp serves as a reminder of

Stamp News - 23

Stamps in the News - Globally! the hundreds of thousands of Canadian families who watched people they loved leave home to serve their country.”

Today, Warren “Whitey” Bernard, in his 80th year, lives in Tofino, B.C. He is retired after serving in local politics as an alderman, councillor and mayor of Tofino, following many years with a successful business career.

His father did survive the war.

Philippines

Reported at www.gmanetwork. com Filipinos can now celebrate this year’s National Family Week with stamps issued by the Philippine Postal Corp. based on designs submitted for a much earlier occasion.

PHLPost said the stamps were based on entries for a stamp-designing contest for Valentine’s Day. “Initially, the on-the-spot stamp design contest was meant for Valentine’s Day issue of 2014. But since most of the contest winners showed ‘love for the family,’ The Stamp Committee decided to feature the remaining winners as stamps for the National Family Week,” it said.

Family Week aims to highlight the importance of families, enhance understanding of their functions and problems, and focus attention on the rights and responsibilities of all family members, PHLPost said.

United Arab Emirates

Reported at www.thenational.ae Emirates Post has issued commemorative stamps to mark the UAE’s successful bid to host the World Expo 2020 in Dubai.

“The awarding of Expo 2020 to the UAE is one of the most momentous events in the country’s history,” said Emirates Post Group CEO. “At Emirates Post, we are honoured to salute the achievement of the UAE through these beautiful stamps that will commemorate for posterity this historic moment.”

World Expo 2020 Dubai will be held under the theme of ‘Connecting Minds, Creating the Future’.

Netherlands

Reported at www.mixmag.net The Netherlands has always been a hub for dance music, so much so that even the national postal service has given recognition to those involved.

PostNL will be dishing out their new collection of DJ stamps at the Amsterdam Dance Event, with beaming images of Hardwell, Afrojack, Tiësto, Armin Van Buuren and Dash Berlin set to be on envelopes very soon. Five music clips from recent tracks can be heard after scanning the stamps, one 24 - Stamp News

Compiled by

Margo Campbell

from each DJ. The company’s CEO branded the five artists “dance heroes” and said the idea behind the stamps was to “release stamps that correspond to everyone’s environment.”

Ireland

Reported at www.gimmedigital.com An Post has released four new 68c stamp designs with gaming icons and retro games on them. You can now lick the back of Sonic The Hedgehog,

Mario, Pac Man and Space Invaders.

The stamps were designed by Zinc Design Consultants and can be bought in main post offices, the GPO’s stamp shop in Dublin or online at irishstamps. ie.

Nintendo’s Mario, SEGA’ s Sonic the Hedgehog, BANDAI NAMCO Games Inc’s PAC-MAN and Taito Corp’s Space Invaders feature on the colourful four stamp set that looks likely to prove a huge hit with gamers of all ages. The set marks the iconic status of the games and transition of gaming from novelty to global industry.

In the early years, games were mostly aimed at children but very quickly became the stuff of everyday life for people of all ages and all walks of life. An Post’s new stamps will be eagerly sought by gamers past and present and by anyone with an interest in popular culture.

New Zealand

Reported at www.scoop.co.nz How do you milk a Hobbit? New Zealand Post are certainly giving it a go….

The countdown to the premiere of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, the third and final film in The Hobbit Trilogy, has begun and New Zealand Post is giving fans and the public the opportunity to feature as one or more of the 13 Dwarves from The Hobbit Motion Picture Trilogy in a special-edition stamp range.

In an agreement with Warner Bros. Consumer Products, Warner Bros. Pictures, and the filmmakers, New Zealand Post has exclusive rights to produce official stamps that celebrate Sir Peter Jackson’s trilogy of films based on The Hobbit.

This special-edition stamp range is available in sheets of 20, and can be used for postage in and from New Zealand or saved as a keepsake.

New Zealand Post’s Head of Stamps and Coins Simon Allison said the special personalised stamps are a unique way to celebrate The Hobbit Trilogy.

“The stamps are a fun way for people to get into mood for the epic conclusion to The Hobbit Trilogy Stamp News - 25

Stamps in the News - Globally!

2014, and the two products will contain a surprise twist that involves unique processes to achieve a special effect that has not been done before in New Zealand.

We are amused

Reported at www.expressandstar.com

and become one with the mighty race of Dwarves.

It’s not every day you get the chance to do that.”

Simon Allison said New Zealand Post will also issue an official range of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies-inspired stamps and legal tender coins, which will go on sale from 12 November

They produce millions of stamps bearing her image every year – but this month staff at an historic firm actually came face to face with The Queen.

Her Majesty was visiting International Security Printers on Wolverhampton’s i54 business park.

Joined by the Duke of Edinburgh, she took a behind-the-scenes tour in her first visit to the city since 1994.

The Queen was officially opening the printers, which has recently moved its headquarters from Walsall.

During the visit, the Queen came face-to-face with millions of portraits of herself, as she was shown printing machines, as well as a stamp archive.

But Her Majesty certainly didn’t appear to mind and beamed as she was shown around the plant.

American dealers hit a century Reported at www.prweb.com

American Stamp Dealers Association Celebrates 100th Anniversary at National Postage Stamp Show in New York City.

For the first time in over 20 years, the NPSS moved to midtown Manhattan in the ballroom of one of the city’s best known hotels, the Hilton. The event celebrated the 100th anniversary of the ASDA. An enlarged special 26 - Stamp News

Compiled by

Margo Campbell Crime in the mail –Drug trafficking Reported at https://au.news.yahoo.com

Authorities in South Australia have made 49 arrests and seized 29.5kg of illicit drugs since January related to people using the internet and mail system to traffic drugs.

More than 16,000 tablets have also been seized under Operation Post, as well as 74 litres of the party drug, Fantasy, and 31 litres of precursor chemicals.

The issue will be raised with state and federal counterparts at a national meeting of the Law Crime and Community Safety Council later this year.

“Internet-based illicit drug trafficking is increasing and these substances are commonly entering our community, largely through the domestic mail system,” the South Australian Attorney General said.

“What we need nationally is a more targeted and innovative inter-agency response to this issue. We also need stronger border security, especially for postal items.”

Special ASDA anniversary stamp from Grenada launched at the National Postage Stamp Show. edition of the organization’s national magazine, The American Stamp Dealer & Collector was distributed to everyone attending the show and featured the 16page show program in a special centre section.

“Our chief goal in producing this historic edition of our annual fall show is to not only celebrate an important anniversary in our hobby, but to show off the excitement and vigorous health of our hobby,” said the president of the ASDA. A key highlight of the show was the precedentsetting international philatelic exhibition consisting of 234 frames of major national and international gold medal exhibits which will test their competitive potential in preparation for World Stamp Expo NY2016 to be held in New York City in two years.

The Daniel F. Kelleher firm, official auctioneer of the show, conducted three major auctions at the show taking place on all four days of the event and the international bourse for the NPSS featured over 50 booths of dealers from the U.S. and other countries.

Crime in the mail –Arms trafficking Reported at www.ice.gov

The former owner of two New Jersey defense contracting businesses was charged with mail fraud and violating the Arms Export Control Act for allegedly creating U.S. shell companies to fraudulently obtain contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), and also for downloading export-restricted military technical documents overseas.

Alper Calik, of Ankara, Turkey, was arrested upon his entry into the United States and charged with two counts of mail fraud for submitting fraudulent contracts to the Department of Defense claiming to produce items in the United States that were actually manufactured in Turkey.

According to court documents, in November 2009 Calik was the co-owner of Clifmax LLC in New Jersey. The company contracted to supply defense hardware items and spare parts. In May 2011, Calik started a second company, Tunamann LLC, based at the same address. Both Clifmax and Tunamann were Stamp News - 27

Stamps in the News - Globally! allegedly shell companies created as a U.S. front for manufacturing facilities actually located in Turkey.

In February 2010, Calik submitted a fraudulent bid to supply parts used for steering and braking components on U.S. Marines amphibious assault vehicles. Only U.S.-based contractors were eligible to obtain that contract and Clifmax was awarded the contract valued at more than $50,000.

Shipping records show the parts were subsequently shipped from Turkey to Clifmax’s address in New Jersey and then provided to the Marines.

If convicted, Calik faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000 for mail fraud.

Crime in the mail –Child pornography Reported at www.khou.com

The U.S. Postal Service busted a man for possession of child pornography.

Omar Yusuf, 33, has been arrested and charged with five counts.

Yusuf has a lengthy criminal history that includes numerous jail stints for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, deadly conduct, possession of a controlled substance, among others.

Yusuf recently posted bond in July for evading arrest. While out, he was involved in various criminal acts and was already in jail when the Postal Service found he was in possession of inappropriate photos of children while out on bond. Yusuf faces a minimum 15 years in prison, if convicted.

US Postal Service breaches privacy Reported at www.nytimes.com

An internal government report has revealed USPS has been conducting surveillance on far more of the mail passing through its doors than previously acknowledged.

A report from the agency’s internal watchdog 28 - Stamp News

found that USPS captured information from the outside of about 49,000 pieces of consumer mail in 2013 and turned much of it over to law enforcement organizations throughout the country, unbeknownst to the intended senders and recipients.

This information reportedly did not include the contents of letters and packages, but rather was limited to the information appearing only on the exterior, such as names, addresses, and postmark dates.

The mail covers program has been in existence for over a hundred years. It’s also not as invasive as a full search warrant for the contents of mail, which the USPS also grants (although only for federal search warrants; state search warrants aren’t accepted by the agency).

In a guide for law enforcement agencies, the USPS explains exactly how the program works: a police officer/law enforcement agent needs to be already conducting an investigation into a suspected felony and have the names and addresses for their intended surveillance targets. The officer must send this information to the USPS through the mail or provide it verbally (in person or over the phone), along with a reason why the mail cover is needed.

Then the USPS will begin capturing the information from the exterior of all the targets’ incoming and outgoing mail for up to 30 days (although extensions are available).

However, as the report found, there are numerous problems with the way the USPS has been running the mail covers program:

Compiled by

Margo Campbell

Information from the mail of 928 targets was collected even after the surveillance period had ended.

Mail cover surveillance was commenced on some targets without sufficient justification from law enforcement, and some USPS employees didn’t keep the written justification on file.

The USPS doesn’t appear to have been accurately reporting the total number of mail covers in its official records obtained under Freedom of Information Act requests, which show only 100,000 total requests for mail surveillance between 2001 and 2012 (an average of 8,000 a year, way fewer than the 49,000 mail covers acknowledged in the report).

US Postal Service privacy breached Reported at www.computerworld.com

The USPS joins a growing list of US government agencies which have come under cyber attack this year. The FBI notified the USPS that it suffered an intrusion in September. USPS later confirmed the breach went all the way back “to at least the

beginning of January.” Chinese government hackers are suspected to be behind the cyber attack, reported The Washington Post.

Names, birth dates, addresses and social security numbers of 800,000 USPS employees were stolen. Much like the State Department waited before shoring up security, the USPS was aware of the hack in Sept. but took didn’t start repairing the breach until the second weekend in November.

Although USPS claimed no customer payment data was taken, “hackers swiped call centre data going back to Jan. 1. That includes names, addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses of people who contacted the Postal Service’s Customer Care Centre.”

The USPS photographs every letter and package mailed in the U.S.; that’s about 160 billion pieces of mail per year. “Tens of thousands” of those images are handed over to law enforcement agencies for additional scrutiny. The USPS reported approving “nearly 50,000 requests last year from law enforcement agencies and its own internal inspection unit to secretly monitor the mail of Americans for use in criminal and national security investigations.”

While there was nothing mentioned about hackers pilfering data from that Mail Isolation and Tracking system, there would certainly be lot stored at any given moment since photos of letters and packages are usually “stored for a week to 30 days and then destroyed.” The amount would surely be mind-boggling if it were also compromised since January.

Stamp News - 29

Looking at New Zealand

Commemorating ANZAC

Part 8: Joint NZ-Turkey Issue 1998 It was apparently coincidental that these stamps were issued in the 80th anniversary year of the end of World War I. The official publicity releases make no mention of that but instead focus on the spirit of goodwill that has grown between Turkey and the ANZAC nations since the end of the war. This is reflected in the use of Kemal Ataturk’s famous speech of 1935, referring to the Allied dead as ‘lying in the soil of a friendly country’ to illustrate the official first-day cover.

The goodwill is also reflected in the subject of the first stamp – the Turkish statue With Great Respect to the Mehmetcik. The statue was erected in the Canakkale cemetery on the Gallipoli peninsula in 1995 (the 80th anniversary of the landings).

Designed by Professor Tankut Oktem, it shows a Turkish soldier carrying a wounded Allied soldier to

30 - Stamp News

Graeme Morriss

a first aid post.

Perhaps more realistically, the second stamp shows the statue Mother with Children from the National War Memorial in Wellington, acknowledging the burden that falls on women to keep families together while men are absent, sometimes never to return. It was created by Lyndon Smith in 1964.

The stamps and first-day cover were designed by Dianne Prosser of Wellington and lithograph printed

by Southern Colour Print of Dunedin. They were printed in sheets of 50 with the sheet value in the top right corner, the printer’s imprint in the lower left selvedge and the designer’s name in the bottom selvedge at the left. The stamps were issued on 18th March, Turkey’s Remembrance Day, and remained on sale until 19th May to include ANZAC Day. References: Catalogue of New Zealand Stamps, Auckland, Campbell Paterson, 1952 – .

New Zealand Post News Release, 16 March 1998.

The Postage Stamps of New Zealand, vol. 10, Wellington, RPSNZ, 2013.

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

Stamp News - 31

Australian Impressions

Australia Post’s “Limited Edition” Stamps Introduction

It all began in 2005. On 10th November that year Australia Post released a range of expensive “limited-edition” products. They called it their “Impressions” range and published a special catalogue showing all the “unique gifts and collectables” available.

They have been doing it ever since. A lot of the products don’t even contain stamps.

The details of 2005 to 2009 were summarised in Part 1 and Part 2 in previous editions of Stamp News. Here is a summary of the 2010 to 2011 “Impressions” releases that contained new mint Australian stamp variations. (I have excluded the Annual Mint and CTO Collections, Souvenir Stamp Sheets (SSS), products containing cancelled stamps and products that do not contain a new stamp variation.)

2010

12 “Impression” products contained mint stamp variations in 2010. They were released in both November and December. The most common price was $89.95 which bore little relationship to the stamp content.

One product even included $20 “cash back”!

The “Packaging” (pictured before it was dumped in the rubbish bin) cost $1309 – $20 = $1289.

This year’s “new” variation was the Stamplet.

It was a small minisheet containing a single stamp with a tab on the top!

32 - Stamp News

The details below are a summary of my article in February 2011 Stamp News.

10-1 Melbourne Cup presentation folder: •

Released on 20th December and included a pair of white gloves!

• Sheetlet containing three 4 x 60c blocks of 4 of the same stamp • Sheetlet containing a vertical strip of 4 goldfoiled 60c Cup stamps with large integrated tabs on the left. Semiimperforate stamps with a small elliptical hole on the left side.

• Gold-numbered minisheet containing 60c Cup stamp and a setenant strip of 3 x 60c stamps • Bart Cummings minisheet containing a setenant pair of 2 different 60c Bart Cummings stamps from the 2007 Australian Legends issue • Americain minisheet containing a vertical pair of 60c Cup stamps • 6 ‘previous winners’ stamps identical with the (original issue): 5d Archer (1960), 45c Rising Fast (2002), 45c Might and Power (2002), 50c Phar Lap (1978), 55c Peter Pan (1978) & $1 Phar Lap’s Racing Silks (2005) • 60c silver ‘mint no

David Mallen

gum’ Melbourne Cup stamp attached to an envelope. The stamp was not cancelled.

• 150th Melbourne Cup 50c coin • An image of the painting ‘The Greatest Race Never Run’ • Limited Edition = 500

Part 3 : 2010–2011 •

Limited Edition = 500 left panes + 500 right panes of each

10-4 Commonwealth Coinage wallet: Imperforate minisheet containing 55c & $2.75 se-tenant pair overprinted with the 1910 Coat of Arms in gold • Special $1 coin •

10-2 Melbourne Cup First Day Covers: 2 First Day Covers, one with a 60c silver and the other with a 60c gold ‘mint no gum’ Melbourne Cup stamp.

The stamps were 2mm wider than the original paper versions and had a 12.9 x 12.7 perforation. They were not cancelled.

• Limited Edition = 5000 (silver) and 500 (gold) •

10-3 Melbourne Cup & Commonwealth Coinage imperforate half sheets: Released on 24th November via telephone lottery • 9 large Melbourne Cup imperforate minisheets (165 x 90mm) containing 60c Cup stamp and a se-tenant strip of 3 x 60c stamps • 10 large Commonwealth Coinage silver-foiled and embossed minisheets (109 x 73mm) containing 55c & $2.75 se-tenant pair •

•

Limited Edition = 500

10-5 Darwin Defenders: Large numbered minisheet (154 x 104mm) with 45c, 2 x 75c & $1.05 ‘Australians Under Fire’ stamps • 2010 microdate on each stamp •

•

Limited Edition = 500

10-6 Kokoda Trail minisheet: •

Small minisheet (77 x 63mm) containing a setenant pair of the 55c Wounded Soldiers and “Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels” & 55c Kokoda Veterans

Stamp News - 33

Australian Impressions

Australia Post’s “Limited Edition” Stamps tion = 750

stamps • Limited Edition = 1000 10-7 National Service stamplet pack: 55 x 55mm ‘stamplet’ containing a single digital printed 60c stamp with a tab on the top and a small selvedge.

• 10 x 60c sheetlet of stamps with a gold foil logo in the top right corner and a gold serial number in •

the bottom selvedge.

10-8 National Service presentation box:

10-11 Emergency Services gutter strip: 10 x 60c stamps in ‘gutter strip’ format with 5 high gloss embellished stamps (the first, third and fifth stamps along the top and the second and fourth along the bottom) and 5 embellished logos in the gutter. The serial number of the accompanying $20 note was printed on the right selvedge.

• 2008 uncirculated $20 polymer note.

•

10-12 Macquarie Bicentenary presentation pack: 4 x 55c huge minisheet (270 x 100mm) • Special $1 coin •

10 x 60c sheetlet of stamps with a gold foil logo in the top right corner and a gold serial number in the bottom selvedge.

•

10-9 Aeronautical License wallet: •

Pearl-embellished minisheet with 2 x $1.45 John Duigan stamps 10-10 Great Australian Railway Journeys gold foil set: 3 x 55c & $2.10 stamps • 3 x 55c (perf 10.2 x 10) & $2.10 (perf 9.5 x 9.5) gold foil stamps • Limited Edi•

34 - Stamp News

# 10-1 10-2

10-3

10-4 10-5 10-6 10-7

Product

Impressions 2010 No. of Face Value Stamps of Stamps

Melbourne Cup presentation folder Melbourne Cup FDCs Melbourne Cup & Commonwealth Coinage imperforate half sheets (2 panes of each) Commonwealth Coinage wallet Darwin Defenders Kokoda Trail minisheet National Service stamplet pack

Cost of Packaging

Price

31

$17.79

$377.21

$395.00

2

$1.20

$178.70

$179.90

$109.20

$110.70

$219.90

2

$3.30

$86.65

$89.95

4 2

$3.00 $1.10

$86.95 $88.85

$89.95 $89.95

11

$6.60

$9.35

$15.95

112

David Mallen

10-8 10-9 1010 1011 1012

National Service presentation box Aeronautical Licence Wallet Great Australian Railway Journeys gold foil set Emergency Services gutter strip + $20 polymer note Macquarie Bicentenary presentation product Totals

10

$6.00

$123.00

$129.00

2

$2.90

$47.05

$49.95

8

$7.50

$91.50

$99.00

10

$6.00

$83.95

$89.95

4

$2.20

$87.75

$89.95

198

$166.69

$1371.76 $1538.45

2011

2011 saw a new way to collect the yearly issue of stamps – The Multisheet. This sent se-tenant block and pair collectors into panic but at least the single stamp collector can now wait until the end of the year to purchase the Commemoratives.

(The following list and details of each product were taken from a copy of the 2011 “Impressions” catalogue. I did not purchase and examine the content of these products. If you have any updates or corrections, please let me know.)

11-1 Mythical Creatures imperforate half sheets: • •

•

• • •

Released on 24th November Left and right ‘half sheet’ panes available Six 5 x 60c & $1.20 imperforate minisheets per pane One minisheet was 3D (3D glasses included) Each pane was numbered Limited Edition = 500 left panes + 500 right panes

Part 3 : 2010–2011 11-2 100 Years of the Navy folder: Released on 8th December • Gold embellished 10 x 60c sheetlet of RAN stamps • Perth Mint Navy coin • Limited Edition = 300 •

11-3 Air Force Aviation folder: Released on 6th December • Four minisheets with a block of 4 stamps, 2 x 60c, $1.20 & $3. Each minisheet has a different single stamp perforated with 2 semi-imperforate stamps and 1 fully imperforate stamp.

All stamps are embellished and the $3 is also embossed.

• One minisheet with a block of 4 stamps, 2 x 60c, $1.20 & $3. All stamps perforated and embellished and the $3 is also embossed.

• Limited Edition = 150 •

11-4 Remembrance Day presentation folder: Released on 18th December • Remembrance Day stamps from Australia, United Kingdom and New Zealand including individually numbered minisheets • Minisheet with •

Stamp News - 35

Australian Impressions Australia Post’s “Limited Edition” Stamps 2 x 50c ‘Playing The Last Post’ from Lest We Forget: Anzac Day issue (16th April 2008) • Minisheet with 50c ‘War veteran & child’ & 50c ‘Veterans marching’ from Lest We Forget: Anzac Day issue (16th April 2008) • Rare and moving letter facsimiles • Sound Chip recording of The Last Post Remembrance poppy • Stamp medallion • Reproduction of Recruiting Posters • Limited Edition = 350 •

11-5 The President’s Cup souvenir stamp pack: 15 x 60c sheetlet of embossed and embellished ‘The Presidents Cup’ Golf stamps • Silver foil text and graphics in the selvedge •

11-6 Commemorative Stamps multisheets: • Released on 15th December • Two sheetlets of commemorative stamps – one with 38 portrait stamps and one with 27 landscape stamps 36 - Stamp News

•

Limited Edition = 500

11-7 Bush Babies Postal and Numismatic set: Released on 23rd November • $2.35 Koala miniature sheet • 5 PNCs with foiled postmarks • Limited Edition = 300 •

11-8 Kingfisher stamp and coin set: Released on 23rd November • $1.20 Kingfisher imperforate miniature sheet.

(Stamp originally issued 26th October 2010) • Kingfisher coin • Limited Edition = 300 •

Buying!

David Mallen

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

Part 3 : 2010–2011

#

11-1 11-2 11-3 11-4

11-5

11-6

11-7 11-8

Impressions 2011 Face No. of Cost of Product Value of Stamps Packaging Stamps Mythical Creatures imperforate half 72 $43.20 $126.80 sheets (2 panes) 100 Years of the 10 $6.00 $123.00 Navy folder Air Force Aviation 20 $12.00 $117.95 folder Remembrance Day presentation 4 $2.00 $393.00 folder The President’s Cup souvenir 15 $9.00 $0.45 stamp pack Commemorative Stamps 65 $60.00 $29.95 multisheets Bush Babies Postal and 1 $2.35 $157.60 Numismatic set Kingfisher stamp and coin set

Totals

1 188

$1.20 $135.75

2012-2014

$28.75

STAMPS

Price

$170.00 $129.00 $129.95 $395.00

$9.45

$89.95

$159.95 $29.95

$977.50 $1113.25

To be continued. Full details, images and costs of the 2012 to 2013 “Impressions” stamp variations will be in future editions of Stamp News.

For a list of the 2014 releases, check out the Australia Post’s “Impressions” webpage: http://shop. auspost.com.au/stamp-coin-collectables/impressions If you have purchased any 2014 “Impressions” product containing mint Australian stamps, please send me details and photos as I am compiling the 2014 summary.

David Mallen Australian Stamp Variations Melbourne, Australia david@asv.net.au www.asv.net.au

Australia pre-decimals in sheets and large blocks MUH, paying 4 cents per stamp Australia Decimals Mint with gum, may be hinged or damaged, paying 50% face value for 70c, 45% face value for any two values to make the following rates 70c, $2.10, $3.50.

All other values pay 40% Lots must be sorted by value and supplied with a concise list. Minimum purchase $100.

Post office packs and year books, stamps in place we pay 35% face value.

Australia recent (2013-2014) close clipped kiloware on single paper with good variety, commemoratives pay $12 per kg, mission mix with no less than 50% commems pay $6 per kg, definitives only pay $3 per kg. High Value Definitives 70c and above $6 per 100g. Recent High Value Comemoratives and Internationals $30 per 100g World unpicked recent on paper close clipped, pay $30 per kg, Commemoratives and large only pay $50 per kg, small only pay $5 per kg.

Better single stamps: We need all Great Britain 1840 1d blacks and 2d blues, plus any GB One Pound and Five Pound Values from Queen Victoria, KEVII and KGV. All grades mint used and Specimen needed.

COINS

Australia Single 1oz or 2 oz sterling silver coins pay $12.50 per ounce Australia pre- decimal silver coins, 3d to florins, pre 1946 pay 28 times face value, 1946 – 1965 pay 14 x face value Australia 1966 50c round coins pay $6.00 each

MEDALS

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

Kevin Morgan Stamps and Coins

PO Box 1290, Upwey Vic 3158 Callers strictly by appointment. Tel: 0425 795 693 Fax: 03 9758 7506 email: kevinmorgan2@live.com

Pricefighter Packets, ready made collections KEEP THIS LIST, UPDATES WILL BE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN! Discounts from this list: Spend $100 and deduct 10%, $101 to $250 deduct 20%, $251 plus deduct 30% All different in each packet

A

25 AAT .............................................................$ 3.00 50 AAT ...........................................................$ 25.00 25 ADEN ..........................................................$ 6.00 50 ADEN ........................................................$ 12.00 50 ADEN – MINT U/H ......................................$20.00 100 AFRICA ......................................................$ 6.00 500 AFRICA ....................................................$ 39.00 50 AITUTAKI ...................................................$ 40.00 200 AITUTAKI ................................................$180.00 100 ALBANIA .................................................$ 24.00 50 ALGERIA $ ......................................................7.00 500 ALGERIA ......................................................$300 25 ANDORA - SPANISH MINT U/H ...................$ 20.00 50 ANDORRA - SPANISH MINT U/H .................$60.00 25 ANDORRA - FRENCH MINT U/H ..................$ 20.00 50 ANDORRA - FRENCH MINT U/H ....................$ 5.00 50 ANDORRA - SPANISH MINT U/H ..................$ 6.00 25 ANTIGUA .....................................................$ 5.00 500 ANTIGUA ...............................................$ 260.00 50 ANTIGUA BARDUDA ..................................$ 12.00 200 ARAB STATES ..........................................$ 24.00 200 ARGENTINA ..............................................$15.00 300 ARGENTINA .............................................$ 28.00 500 ARGENTINA .............................................$ 50.00 25 ASCENSION ..............................................$42.00 100 AUST. (DEC MINT U/H) ............................$ 55.00 100 AUST. (PREDEC.MINT U/H) ......................$ 55.00 100 AUSTRALIA ...............................................$ 4.00 200 AUSTRALIA ...............................................$ 6.00 300 AUSTRALIA ...............................................$ 8.00 400 AUSTRALIA .............................................$ 13.50 500 AUSTRALIA .............................................$ 16.50 600 AUSTRALIA .............................................$ 27.50 800 AUSTRALIA .............................................$ 40.00 1000 AUSTRALIA ...........................................$ 65.00 25 AUSTRALIAN STATES .................................$ 10.00 50 AUSTRALIAN STATES .................................$ 36.00 100 AUSTRALIAN STATES ..............................$120.00 100 AUSTRIA ...................................................$ 7.00 200 AUSTRIA .................................................$ 18.00 500 AUSTRIA .................................................$ 45.00 800 AUSTRIA ..................................................$79.50 100 AUSTRIA (LRG.COMMEMS) ......................$ 50.00 200 AUSTRIA (LRG.COMMEMS).....................$ 100.00 1000 AUSTRIA .............................................$ 119.00 1000 AUSTRIA (MINT U/H) ...........................$ 295.00 2000 AUSTRIA .............................................$ 465.00

B

100 BAHAMAS ...............................................$ 45.00

25 BAHRAIN ..................................................$ 16.50 50 BAHRAIN ..................................................$ 36.00 100 BANGLADESH ............................................$ 5.50 500 BANGLADESH....................................... $ 110.00 25 BARBADOS ..................................................$ 6.00 50 BARBADOS ................................................$ 12.00 100 BARBADOS ..............................................$ 35.00 50 BAVARIA ...................................................$ 14.00 100 BAVARIA .................................................$ 42.00 200 BAVARIA ...............................................$ 105.00 200 BELGIAN CONGO ......................................$ 50.00 200 BELGIUM ...................................................$ 7.50 500 BELGIUM .................................................$ 40.00 100 BELGIUM COLONIES .................................$ 13.00 300 BELGIUM COLONIES .................................$ 80.00 500 BELGUIM COLONIES ...............................$ 176.00 1000 BELGIUM .............................................$ 185.00 500 BENIN ...................................................$ 140.00 25 BERMUDA .................................................$ 15.00 25 BOHEMIA MORAVIA ....................................$ 2.00 50 BOHEMIA MORAVIA ....................................$ 8.00 100 BOHEMIA MORAVIA ................................$ 24.00 150 BOHEMIA MORAVIA ................................$ 55.00 25 BOLIVIA ......................................................$ 6.00 50 BOLIVIA ....................................................$ 13.00 25 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ..............................$ 11.00 50 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ..............................$ 33.00 150 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ..........................$ 170.00 100 Br. AGENCIES .........................................$ 100.00 25 BR. SOLOMONS .........................................$ 10.00 100 BRAZIL (LARGE COMMEMS) ....................$ 17.00 400 BRAZIL ....................................................$ 59.00 1000 BRAZIL ................................................$ 350.00 100 BRAZIL (MINT U/H) ...............................$ 370.00 100 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ........................$ 6.00 200 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ......................$ 10.00 500 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ......................$ 39.00 100 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH (MINT U/H) ...$ 27.00 100 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH KGVI (MINT U/H) ...$ 60.00 1000 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH( MINT U/H ) ....$ 190.00 50 BRITISH HONDURAS (LRG.COMMEMS) ......$ 40.00 25 HONDURAS AND BELIZE ..............................$ 9.00 25 BRITISH VIRGIN ISL. ..................................$ 22.00 50 BRITISH WEST INDIES ................................$ 10.00 100 BRITISH WEST INDIES ..............................$ 14.00 500 BRITISH WEST INDIES ..............................$ 75.00 100 BULGARIA .................................................$ 7.00 300 BULGARIA ...............................................$ 22.00 500 BULGARIA ...............................................$ 50.00 800 BULGARIA ...............................................$ 88.00 1000 BULGARIA ...........................................$ 120.00 300 BULGARIA (LARGE PICS) ..........................$ 22.00 100 BURUNDI ................................................$ 20.00

C

25 CAMBODIA ................................................$ 10.00 100 CAMBODIA ............................................$ 115.00 500 CAMBODIA ..............................................$ 65.00 700 CANADA ..................................................$ 69.00

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

1000 CANADA ..............................................$ 100.00 100 CANADA (MINT.COMMS) .........................$ 50.00 25 CAYMAN ISL ..............................................$ 15.00 50 CAYMAN ISL ..............................................$ 36.00 500 CENTRAL AMERICA ..................................$ 60.00 450 CEYLON/SRI LANKA .................................$ 99.00 100 CHANNEL ISLANDS ..................................$ 19.00 150 CHANNEL ISLANDS ..................................$ 80.00 300 CHANNEL ISLANDS $ 130.00 100 CHILE $ 12.00 200 CHILE ......................................................$ 24.00 500 CHILE ....................................................$ 110.00 100 CHINA .....................................................$ 19.00 200 CHINA .....................................................$ 48.00 250 CHINA .....................................................$ 70.00 325 CHINA ...................................................$ 130.00 500 CHINA (INC. TAIWAN) ............................$ 149.00 500 CHINA P.R.C ...........................................$ 300.00 100 CHINA (LRG, MINT, COMP.SETS)................$ 30.00 25 CHRISTMAS ISLAND...................................$ 14.00 50 CHRISTMAS ISLAND.................................. $ 33.00 75 CHRISTMAS ISLAND ..................................$ 50.00 100 CHRISTMAS ISLAND ..............................$ 100.00 150 CHRISTMAS ISLAND ..............................$ 150.00 200 CHRISTMAS ISLAND ..............................$ 230.00 500 CONGO ..................................................$ 140.00 25 COCOS ISLAND ............................................$ 8.00 50 COCOS ISLAND ..........................................$ 38.00 75 COCOS ISLAND ..........................................$ 60.00 100 COCOS ISLAND ......................................$ 132.00 900 COLOMBIA ............................................$ 370.00 300 COOK ISLANDS ......................................$ 350.00 400 COOK ISLANDS ......................................$ 280.00 500 COOK ISLANDS ......................................$ 325.00 750 COOK ISLANDS ....................................$ 1280.00 1000 COOK ISLANDS .................................$ 2,000.00 50 COSTA RICA ...............................................$ 13.00 500 COSTA RICA ...........................................$ 225.00 50 CROATIA (PRE WAR) ..................................$ 20.00 100 CUBA ........................................................$ 5.00 500 CUBA ......................................................$ 60.00 1000 CUBA ....................................................$ 85.00 300 CUBA ......................................................$ 30.00 200 CUBA (LARGE PICT.) ................................$ 14.00 25 CYPRUS ....................................................$ 12.00 50 CYPRUS ....................................................$ 30.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ......................................$ 3.00 200 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ....................................$ 15.00 500 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ....................................$ 17.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (MINT U/H) .................$ 17.00 200 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (MINT U/H)..................$ 20.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (POST WAR).................$ 11.00 400 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (MINT U/H)..................$ 30.00 1000 CZECHOSLAVAKIA ..................................$ 85.00

D

50 DANZIG .....................................................$ 58.00 100 DANZIG ...................................................$ 66.00 100 DENMARK .................................................$ 5.00

Pay cents, not $ per stamp!

300 DENMARK ...............................................$ 20.00 500 DENMARK ...............................................$ 60.00 500 DENMARK( LARGE PICT.) .......................$ 120.00 25 DOMINICA BR. .............................................$ 4.00 50 DOMINICA BR. .............................................$ 6.00 100 DOMINICA BR. .........................................$ 30.00 50 DOMINICA BR. (KGVI & QEII) .....................$ 40.00 500 DOMINICA BR. .......................................$ 260.00 200 DOMINICAN REP. .....................................$ 33.00 300 DOMINICAN REP. .....................................$ 70.00 90 DUTCH EAST INDIES ................................$ 100.00

E

300 ECUADOR ................................................$ 77.00 400 ECUADOR ................................................$ 80.00 500 ECUADOR ..............................................$ 110.00 700 ECUADOR ..............................................$ 250.00 100 EGYPT .....................................................$ 10.00 300 EGYPT .....................................................$ 70.00 500 EGYPT .....................................................$ 55.00 1000 EGYPT .................................................$ 155.00 50 EGYPT (MINT/UH, COMPL. SETS)................$ 30.00 50 EGYPT + 4 M/S .........................................$ 30.00 50 ESTONIA ....................................................$ 66.00 25 EQUATORIAL GUINEA (M/SHEET CTO) ........$ 11.00 1000 EUROPE ...............................................$ 50 .00

F

20 FALKLAND ISL. COMPL. MINT SETS...........$ 120.00 25 FALKLAND ISLAND ....................................$ 18.00 50 FAROS ISLAND ..........................................$ 60.00 100 FAROS ISLAND ......................................$ 130.00 50 FIJI ............................................................$ 18.00 100 FIJI ..........................................................$ 50.00 150 FIJI ..........................................................$ 70.00 200 FIJI ..........................................................$ 80.00 250 FIJI ........................................................$ 140.00 400 FIJI ........................................................$ 300.00 500 FIJI ........................................................$ 440.00 300 FINLAND .................................................$ 60.00 400 FINLAND .................................................$ 80.00 500 FINLAND ...............................................$ 140.00 10 FIUME ........................................................$ 7.00 300 FRANCE ...................................................$ 30.00 500 FRANCE ...................................................$ 50.00 100 FRENCH COLONIES .....................................$ 6.00 500 FRENCH COLONIES ...................................$ 70.00 50 FRENCH COLONIES (PRE INDEPENDENCE) ..$ 12.00 500 FRENCH COLONIES (PRE INDEPENDENCE) ...$ 185.00 50 FRENCH POLYNESIA ...................................$ 50.00

G

500 GAMBIA (MINT U/H) .............................$ 500.00 50 GERMANY 3RD REICH ................................$ 13.00 25 GERMANY ...................................................$ 5.00 100 GERMANY .................................................$ 7.00 300 GERMANY ...............................................$ 18.00 1000 GERMANY .............................................$ 50.00

50 GERMANY (PRE WAR) ...............................$ 11.00 100 GERMANY (PRE WAR) .............................$ 22.00 100 GERMANY EAST ....................................$ 119.00 500 GERMANY EAST ......................................$ 40.00 50 GERMANY INFLATION (MINT U/H ).............$ 10.00 100 GERMANY INFLATION (MINT U/H)............$ 20.00 500 GERMANY WEST ......................................$ 50.00 1200 GERMANY WEST ..................................$ 260.00 100 GERMANY WEST(LRG.COMMEMS) ............$20.00 100 GHANA ...................................................$ 50.00 200 GHANA .................................................$ 120.00 500 GHANA .................................................$ 149.00 25 GIBRALTAR ................................................$ 17.00 50 GIBRALTAR ................................................$ 45.00 500 GILBERT, KIRIBATI, TUVALU ...................$ 270.00 25 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .........................$ 12.00 150 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .......................$ 90.00 200 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .....................$ 100.00 300 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .....................$ 150.00 360 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .....................$ 190.00 400 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .....................$ 225.00 25 GREAT BRITAIN ............................................$ 2.00 50 GREAT BRITAIN ............................................$ 7.00 100 GREAT BRITAIN ..........................................$ 9.00 500 G\GREAT BRITAIN ....................................$ 25.00 1000 GREAT BRITAIN ....................................$ 176.00 1200 GREAT BRITAIN ....................................$ 230.00 100 GREAT BTITAIN (LARGE COMMEMS) ........$ 12.00 200 GREAT BRITAIN (LARGE COMMEMS).........$ 20.00 50 GREECE .......................................................$ 5.00 100 GREECE ...................................................$ 14.00 200 GREECE ...................................................$ 30.00 1000 GREECE ...............................................$ 165.00 100 GREENLAND ..........................................$ 100.00 50 GRENADA ....................................................$ 8.00 100 GRENADA (MINT U/H) .............................$ 10.00 25 GUATEMALA ...............................................$ 6.00 50 GUATEMALA .............................................$ 14.00 100 GUATEMALA ...........................................$ 32.00 300 GUATEMALA .........................................$ 150.00 25 GUINEA M/S............................................. $ 10.00 50 GUINEA REP. ................................................$ 6.00 100 GUINEA REP. (LARGE PICT.) ......................$ 10.00

H

50 HAITI ........................................................$ 12.00 100 HAITI ......................................................$ 30.00 200 HAITI ......................................................$ 55.00 100 HOLLAND ..................................................$ 7.00 200 HOLLAND ................................................$ 14.00 300 HOLLAND ................................................$ 30.00 400 HOLLAND ................................................$ 40.00 500 HOLLAND ................................................$ 50.00 1000 HOLLAND ............................................$ 120.00 100 HONDURAS..............................................$ 50.00 200 HONDURAS .............................................$ 80.00 400 HONDURAS ...........................................$ 140.00 25 HONG KONG ................................................$ 6.00 50 HONG KONG ..............................................$ 12.00

100 HONG KONG ............................................$ 20.00 200 HONG KONG ..........................................$ 100.00 50 HUNGARY ...................................................$ 2.00 100 HUNGARY .................................................$ 3.00 500 HUNGARY ...............................................$ 20.00 1000 HUNGARY .............................................$ 65.00 2000 HUNGARY ...........................................$ 150.00 3000 HUNGARY ...........................................$ 440.00 300 HUNGARY (LARGE PICT.) .........................$ 24.00 1000 HUNGARY (LARGE PICT.) .......................$ 85.00

I

25 ICELAND (MINT U/H) .................................$ 20.00 50 ICELAND (MINT U/H) .................................$ 40.00 500 ICELAND .................................................$ 89.00 300 INDIA ......................................................$ 24.00 700 INDIA....................................................... $99.00 1000 INDIA ..................................................$ 200.00 25 INDO - CHINA ..............................................$ 8.00 50 INDO - CHINA ............................................$ 20.00 100 INDONESIA ................................................$ 6.00 300 INDONESIA ..............................................$ 56.00 300 IRAN .......................................................$ 30.00 500 IRAN .......................................................$ 60.00 500 IRAQ .....................................................$ 230.00 1000 IRAQ ...................................................$ 270.00 350 IRELAND .................................................$ 60.00 400 IRELAND ...............................................$ 194.00 500 IRELAND ...............................................$ 250.00 600 IRELAND ...............................................$ 360.00 300 ISRAEL ....................................................$ 45.00 500 ISRAEL ....................................................$ 90.00 25 ITALIAN COLONIES .....................................$ 10.00 50 ITALIAN COLONIES .....................................$ 24.00 100 ITALIAN COLONIES ...................................$ 75.00 200 ITALIAN COLONIES ...................................$ 80.00 500 ITALY .......................................................$ 80.00

J

200 JAMAICA ...............................................$ 130.00 50 JAPAN .........................................................$ 4.00 200 JAPAN .....................................................$ 21.00 500 JAPAN .....................................................$ 60.00 1000 JAPAN .................................................$ 140.00 100 JAPAN (MINT U/H) ..................................$ 60.00 50 JERSEY ......................................................$ 13.00

K

50 KOREA NORTH (LARGE PICT.) .......................$ 6.00 100 KOREA NORTH (LARGE PICT.)....................$ 10.00 500 KOREA NORTH .........................................$ 80.00 50 KOREA SOUTH ...........................................$ 14.00

L

25 LAOS ...........................................................$ 4.00 50 LAOS ...........................................................$ 7.00 500 LAOS .......................................................$ 70.00

Email: kevinmorgan2@live.com Web: www.kevinmorgan.com.au www.21stcenturyauctions.com.au www.stampnews.com.au

Pricefighter Packets, ready made collections 20 LAOS PRE WAR ............................................$ 6.00 100 LATIN AMERICA .........................................$ 3.00 300 LATIN AMERICA .......................................$ 19.00 500 LATIN AMERICA .......................................$ 36.00 50 LATVIA ......................................................$ 22.00 200 LATVIA ..................................................$ 170.00 75 LATVIA (Pre War) ....................................$ 100.00 100 LEBANON ................................................$ 40.00 200 LEBANON ..............................................$ 100.00 100 LIBERIA ...................................................$ 15.00 300 LIBERIA ...................................................$ 70.00 25 LIECHTENSTEIN .........................................$ 10.00 50 LIECHTENSTEIN .........................................$ 30.00 500 LIECHTHENSTEIN ........................................$ 320 25 LITHUANIA ................................................$ 10.00 50 LITHUANIA ................................................$ 30.00 100 LITHUANIA ............................................$ 100.00 50 LUXEMBOURG .............................................$ 8.00 100 LUXEMBOURG .........................................$ 21.00 300 LUXEMBOURG .........................................$ 55.00

M

50 MACAU .....................................................$ 60.00 200 MALAYA AND SINGAPORE .......................$ 20.00 500 MALAYA AND SINGAPORE .......................$ 96.00 1000 MALAYA AND SINGAPORE ...................$ 400.00 25 MALAYSIA ...................................................$ 2.00 100 MALAYSIA ...............................................$ 13.00 100 MALDIVES ...............................................$ 19.00 100 MALTA ....................................................$ 10.00 500 MALTA ..................................................$ 140.00 650 MALTA ..................................................$ 270.00 50 MAURITIUS ...............................................$ 24.00 100 MAURITIUS .............................................$ 30.00 200 MEXICO ...................................................$ 54.00 500 MEXICO .................................................$ 110.00 25 MONACO .....................................................$ 6.00 100 MONACO .................................................$ 40.00 100 MONGOLIA ..............................................$ 10.00 500 MONGOLIA ..............................................$ 65.00 25 MONTENEGRO ...........................................$ 20.00 50 MONTENEGRO ...........................................$ 50.00 100 MONTSERRAT ........................................$ 114.00 25 MOROCCO AGENCIES ...................................$ 7.60 100 MOZAMBIQUE .........................................$ 22.00 200 MOZAMBIQUE .........................................$ 55.00 400 MOZAMBIQUE .......................................$ 270.00 500 MOZAMBIQUE .......................................$ 300.00 50 MYANMAR ................................................$ 20.00

N

25 NAURU ......................................................$ 11.00 50 NAURU ......................................................$ 33.00 100 NAURU................................................... $ 93.00 150 NAURU ..................................................$ 134.00 200 NAURU ..................................................$ 160.00 50 NEPAL .........................................................$ 4.00 100 NEPAL .......................................................$ 8.00 400 NEPAL ...................................................$ 100.00

500 NEVIS (MINT U/H) .................................$ 260.00 25 NETHERLANDS ANTILLES ..........................$ 20.00 50 NEW CALEDONIA ......................................$ 36.00 100 NEW CALEDONIA ..................................$ 150.00 10 NEWFOUNDLAND .......................................$ 8.00 25 NEWFOUNDLAND .....................................$ 16.00 50 NEWFOUNDLAND .....................................$ 44.00 100 NEWFOUNDLAND .................................$ 190.00 50 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .........................$ 40.00 100 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .......................$ 90.00 200 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .....................$ 260.00 300 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .....................$ 440.00 400 NEW HEBRIBES/VANUATU .....................$ 600.00 100 NEW ZEALAND ..........................................$ 5.00 150 NEW ZEALAND ..........................................$ 6.00 200 NEW ZEALAND ........................................$ 14.00 300 NEW ZEALAND ........................................$ 28.00 400 NEW ZEALAND ........................................$ 33.00 100 NEW ZEALAND ......................................$ 105.00 25 NICARAGUA ................................................$ 2.00 50 NICARAGUA ................................................$ 5.00 100 NICARAGUA ..............................................$ 8.00 500 NICARAGUA ............................................$ 70.00 25 NIGERIA ......................................................$ 5.40 100 NIGERIA ..................................................$ 60.00 50 NIUE .........................................................$ 40.00 100 NIUE .......................................................$ 88.00 25 NORFOLK ISL. ............................................$ 10.00 50 NORFOLK ISL. ............................................$ 26.00 100 NORFOLK ISL. ..........................................$ 90.00 200 NORFOLK ISL. ........................................$ 150.00 300 NORFOLK ISL. ........................................$ 270.00 50 NORTH BORNEO ........................................$ 50.00 50 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH .....................$ 30.00 100 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH ................$ 190.00 120 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH ................$ 200.00 150 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH .................$ 240.00 200 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH .................$ 360.00 250 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH .................$ 460.00 300 NORTH BORNEO AND SABAH .................$ 700.00 100 NORWAY ...................................................$ 8.00 500 NORWAY .................................................$ 80.00 25 NYASALAND ..............................................$ 50.00

P

50 PACIFIC IS (BR) ............................................$ 8.00 100 PACIFIC IS. (BR) ........................................$16.00 200 PACIFIC IS. (BR) .......................................$ 56.00 600 PACIFIC ISLANDS ...................................$ 250.00 100 PAKISTAN ..................................................$ 7.00 500 PAKISTAN ..............................................$ 120.00 50 PANAMA ...................................................$ 12.00 25 PAPUA NEW GUINEA....................................$ 5.00 50 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...................................$ 7.00 100 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...............................$ 26.00 150 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...............................$ 62.00 200 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...............................$ 88.00 250 PAPUA NEW GUINEA .............................$ 100.00 500 PAPUA NEW GUINEA .............................$ 400.00

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

600 PAPUA NEW GUINEA .............................$ 750.00 800 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...........................$ 1900.00 100 PARAGUAY (MINT U/H)) ..........................$ 20.00 50 PENRHYN ..................................................$ 46.00 150 PENRHYN ..............................................$ 184.00 50 PERU ...........................................................$ 5.00 500 PERU .....................................................$ 170.00 600 PERU .....................................................$ 250.00 700 PERU .....................................................$ 470.00 100 PHILIPPINES ...........................................$ 12.00 800 PHILIPPINES......................................... $ 250.00 900 PHILIPPINES .........................................$ 330.00 1000 PLILIPPINES .............................................$ 420 1200 PHILIPPINES .......................................$ 500.00 1500 PHILIPPINES .......................................$ 700.00 25 PITCAIRN ISLAND (MINT U/H)................... $ 20.00 100 PITCAIRN ISLAND (MINT U/H) ...............$ 150.00 150 PITCAIRN ISLAND (MINT U/H) ...............$ 170.00 200 PITCAIRN ISLAND (MINT U/H)................$ 324.00 50 POLAND ......................................................$ 2.00 100 POLAND ....................................................$ 4.00 300 POLAND ..................................................$ 12.00 500 POLAND.................................................. $ 30.00 1000 POLAND ................................................$ 60.00 200 POLAND (PICTORIALS) ..............................$ 8.00 150 PORT AZORES ........................................$ 190.00 100 PORTUGAL ..............................................$ 12.00 200 PORTUGAL ..............................................$ 39.00 500 PORTUGAL ............................................$ 125.00 50 PORTUGAL COLONIES ..................................$ 6.00 200 PORTUGAL COLONIES ..............................$ 40.00

Q

50 QATAR .......................................................$ 20.00

R

50 RHODESIA .................................................$ 16.00 200 RHODESIA ...............................................$ 70.00 300 RHODESIA .............................................$ 140.00 400 RHODESIA .............................................$ 400.00 50 ROMANIA ....................................................$ 2.00 100 ROMANIA ..................................................$ 3.00 200 ROMANIA ..................................................$ 5.00 500 ROMANIA ................................................$ 31.00 1000 ROMANIA ..............................................$ 73.00 1500 ROMANIA ............................................$ 225.00 100 ROMANIA (LARGE PICT.) ............................$ 6.00 200 ROMANIA (LARGE PICT.) ..........................$ 11.00 300 ROMANIA (LARGE PICT.) ..........................$ 18.00 100 RUSSIA .....................................................$ 7.00 200 RUSSIA ...................................................$ 10.00 300 RUSSIA ...................................................$ 20.00 1600 RUSSIA ...............................................$ 199.00 2000 RUSSIA ...............................................$ 225.00 500 RUSSIA (LARGE) ......................................$ 40.00 1000 RUSSIA (LARGE) ....................................$ 70.00 1000 RUSSIA (MINT U/H) .............................$ 149.00 100 RUSSIA (MINT SHORT SETS) ....................$ 11.00 100 RUSSIAN INDP.STATES (MINT U/H)...........$ 33.00

Pay cents, not $ per stamp!

500 RUANDA ...............................................$ 125.00

S

50 SAAR ........................................................$ 33.00 50 SALVADOR ................................................$ 20.00 100 SALVADOR ..............................................$ 80.00 25 SAMOA .......................................................$ 7.00 50 SAMOA .....................................................$ 26.00 100 SAMOA ...................................................$ 66.00 400 SAMOA .................................................$ 272.00 500 SAMOA .................................................$ 380.00 600 SAMOA .................................................$ 780.00 25 SAN MARINO ..............................................$ 6.00 100 SAN MARINO.......................................... $ 30.00 50 SARAWAK .................................................$ 45.00 100 SARAWAK .............................................$ 200.00 50 SERBIA ......................................................$ 40.00 25 SEYCHELLES ..............................................$ 40.00 100 SEYCHELLES ............................................$ 90.00 25 SIERRA LEONE .............................................$ 8.00 50 SIERRA LEONE ...........................................$ 30.00 500 SIERA LEONE(MINT U/H) .......................$ 330.00 50 SINGAPORE ...............................................$ 12.00 100 SINGAPORE .............................................$ 30.00 200 SINGAPORE ...........................................$ 100.00 300 SINGAPORE ...........................................$ 150.00 50 SLOVAKIA ....................................................$ 7.00 75 SLOVAKIA ..................................................$ 17.00 100 SLOVAKIA ................................................$ 22.00 150 SLOVAKIA ................................................$ 30.00 50 SOLOMON ISL. ...........................................$ 20.00 100 SOLOMON ISL. .........................................$ 60.00 150 SOLOMON ISL....................................... $ 100.00 200 SOLOMON ISL. .......................................$ 160.00 300 SOLOMON ISL. .......................................$ 300.00 400 SOLOMON ISL. .......................................$ 520.00 500 SOLOMON ISL....................................... $ 700.00 100 SOUTH AFRICA ..........................................$ 7.00 1000 SOUTH AFRICA ....................................$ 400.00 1000 SOUTH AMERICA .................................$ 120.00 25 SOUTHERN RHODESIA .................................$ 6.00 150 SOUTHERN RHODESIA .............................$ 70.00 1500 SCANDINAVIA .....................................$ 130.00 100 SPAIN ........................................................$ 8.00 200 SPAIN ......................................................$ 20.00 300 SPAIN ......................................................$ 30.00 500 SPAIN ......................................................$ 66.00 1000 SPAIN ..................................................$ 135.00 1500 SPAIN ..................................................$ 275.00 100 SPANISH COLONIES .................................$ 20.00 100 SRI LANKA / CEYLON ...............................$ 11.00 200 SRI LANKA ..............................................$ 30.00 10 ST. HELENA .................................................$ 9.00 50 ST. KITTS ...................................................$ 26.00 75 ST. KITTS ...................................................$ 36.00 100 ST. KITTS .................................................$ 54.00 100 ST. LUCIA .................................................$ 30.00 50 ST. THOMAS ................................................$ 8.00 100 ST. THOMAS ............................................$ 14.00

25 ST. VINCENT ................................................$ 7.00 50 ST. VINCENT ..............................................$ 18.00 100 ST. VINCENT ............................................$ 30.00 25 SURINAME ................................................$ 12.00 100 SURINAME ..............................................$ 56.00 500 SURINAME............................................ $ 190.00 25 SWAZILAND ................................................$ 6.00 50 SWAZILAND ..............................................$ 20.00 100 SWAZILAND............................................ $ 60.00 500 SWEDEN .................................................$ 70.00 1000 SWEDEN ...............................................$ 90.00 100 SWITZERLAND........................................ $ 15.00 300 SWITZERLAND ........................................$ 44.00 500 SWITZERLAND ........................................$ 65.00 800 SWITZERLAND ......................................$ 150.00 1000 SWITZERLAND ....................................$ 220.00 1200 SWITZERLAND ....................................$ 600.00 1300 SWITZERLAND ....................................$ 900.00 1500 SWITZERLAND ..................................$ 1600.00 50 SYRIA ..........................................................$ 7.00

T

500 TAIWAN ................................................$ 170.00 200 THAILAND ...............................................$ 70.00 300 THAILAND .............................................$ 130.00 400 THAILAND .............................................$ 180.00 600 THAILAND .............................................$ 370.00 800 THAILAND .............................................$ 800.00 500 TOGO .....................................................$ 100.00 1000 TOGO ...................................................$ 460.00 50 TOKELAU ...................................................$ 60.00 25 TONGA ......................................................$ 16.00 50 TONGA ......................................................$ 36.00 100 TONGA ..................................................$ 110.00 10 TRISTAN DA CUNHA ...................................$ 10.00 50 TRISTAN DA CUNHA ................................$ 120.00 100 TRISTAN DA CUNHA ...............................$ 170.00 25 TUNISIA ......................................................$ 4.00 50 TUNISIA ....................................................$ 12.00 100 TUNISIA ..................................................$ 36.00 500 TUNISIA ................................................$ 190.00 100 TURKEY..................................................... $ 5.00 300 TURKEY ...................................................$ 18.00 500 TURKEY ...................................................$ 55.00 25 TURKS & CAICOS .........................................$ 6.00 50 TURKS & CAICOS .......................................$ 20.00 100 TURKS & CAICOS (MINT U/H) ...................$ 70.00 500 TURK AND CAICOS (MINT U/H)...............$ 500.00

U

100 U.N.O ......................................................$ 24.00 300 U.N.O ....................................................$ 110.00 400 U.N.O ....................................................$ 170.00 100 URUGUAY ................................................$ 16.00 200 URUGUAY ................................................$ 36.00 1000 URUGUAY ............................................$ 185.00 100 USA ..........................................................$ 4.00 200 USA ..........................................................$ 8.00 500 USA ........................................................$ 45.00

1000 USA ......................................................$ 80.00 300 USA (COMMEMS) ....................................$ 14.00 100 USA (MINT COMMEMS) ...........................$ 50.00 200 USA (MINT COMMEMS) .........................$ 100.00

V

25 VATICAN ......................................................$ 6.00 200 VATICAN ..................................................$ 90.00 300 VATICAN ................................................$ 132.00 25 VATICAN (M.U.H. ) .....................................$ 16.00 50 VATICAN (M.U.H. ) .....................................$ 40.00 100 VATICAN (M.U.H. ) ...................................$ 80.00 200 VATICAN (M.U.H. ) .................................$ 180.00 500 VATICAN(MINT U/H) ..............................$ 270.00 100 VENEZUELA .............................................$ 34.00 700 VENEZUELA ...........................................$ 250.00 800 VENEZUELA ...........................................$ 300.00 100 VIETNAM .................................................$ 30.00

W

25 WALLIS & FUTUNA ......................................$ 6.00 50 WALLIS & FUTUNA ....................................$ 20.00 200 WALLIS & FUTUNA ................................$ 300.00 100 WESTERN EUROPE ...................................$ 30.00 25 WURTTEMBERG ........................................$ 16.00 50 WURTTEMBERG ........................................$ 33.00 600 WORLD LARGE ........................................$ 39.00

Y

100 YUGOSLAVIA .............................................$ 6.00 200 YUGOSLAVIA ...........................................$ 17.00 300 YUGOSLAVIA ...........................................$ 20.00 500 YUGOSLAVIA ...........................................$ 80.00

Z

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

THEMATICS

500 ATHLETICS/ ATHLETES ...........................$ 105.00 800 ART .........................................................$ 49.00 800 ANIMALS ................................................$ 49.00 500 AUTOMOBILES ........................................$ 59.00 500 AVIATIN ...................................................$ 65.00 500 BIRDS .....................................................$ 60.00 1000 BIRDS ..................................................$ 135.00 500 DOGS ....................................................$ 120.00 500 FISH/MARINE LIFE ...................................$ 50.00 500 FLOWERS (INCLUD. PLANTS/TREES) .........$ 60.00 500 HORSES .................................................$ 100.00 500 OLYMPICS ...............................................$ 49.00 250 REPTILES .................................................$ 39.00 500 SHIPS ......................................................$ 80.00 500 SPACE .....................................................$ 49.00 500 TRAINS ..................................................$ 100.00 500 TRANSPORT ............................................$ 90.00

Email: kevinmorgan2@live.com Web: www.kevinmorgan.com.au www.21stcenturyauctions.com.au www.stampnews.com.au

Revenue Review We’re off

And we’re off into another year of fun packed Revenue chit-chat, with hopefully many new friends made along the way and some new finds thrown in.

I trust you all made it through the festive season and are ready to get back into filling those gaps in your revenue collection.

Again

inside cover. The £1 being the highest denomination available in the 1880’s. Users were forced into using multiples of the £1 as make up values, so it’s nice to see it in its entirety. These sheets do of course include both the Major GS listed flaws.

Them Tolls

Last year I showed a few Toll tickets, which are classed as ‘revenue stamped paper’. Figures 2&3 are a couple more. Again, can you please check your holdings and let me know what you have so I can list them in the database.

Starting off this year, I would like to share with you a full sheet of 30 5x6 of the £1 large Chalon of 1882 [fig1]. There are several full sheets around without the outside selvage, mostly coming from Company Rego Articles of Association booklets, whereby a full WA sheet, minus its outer selvage was a perfect fit for the I was hoping not to mention Western Australia, at

Fig 2

Fig 1

42 - Stamp News

Fig 3

Dave Elsmore least for one month, but figure 4 turned up on eBay late last year with a $600 price tag and was bid on instantly. If you can believe the description only 6 were sold!

WA Again

Prominent Victorian Philatelic Dealer Michael Eastick occasionally turns up some revenue gems.

This time Mike emailed me figure 5 saying he was about to place this in stock. Less than a handful have survived to date. S.T. [Sample Type] 684 being Waterlow & Sons sample number, which were sent to UPU countries as samples of their work or ‘Tradesman’s Samples’ as they are known. No sooner had I typed this, Mike emailed me saying it

Fig 4

Fig 6

had already sold. Gee you gotta be quick!

Sydney Carrier

New South Wales has very few carrier survivors, so when figure 6 turned up in auction it was going to be a blood bath! Eventually selling for what I feel a very low price of around $550.00. Circa 1930, you just do not see any carriers from this state, so the selling price was somewhat a disappointment.

Dev Tax

Ok, its taken till figure 8 for me to come up with the first unlisted revenue of the year. This Queensland 4/- Development Tax is unlisted in all catalogues,

Fig 5

Fig 7

Fig 8

Stamp News - 43

Revenue Review excepting of course, my free online Revenue Catalogue. This one being dated 40 [in red] for 1940. Check your relief tax revenues for Queensland as you may easily have some Development Tax issues mixed in, as they all bare the same design.

Development Tax appears to be in short supply when compared with Relief Tax issues.

Wage Sheet

A nice New South Wales wage sheet recently come up for auction [fig 9]. Collecting revenues on documents for their original use can be very rewarding as early students tended to strip all documents of stamps thinking the document to be of little use or value. If you see full documents best grab them.

Answers

The Victorian revenue ‘no value’ stamp from the November ‘Revenue Review’ issue I asked for help on has had a reply. David Casey from Victoria came fourth to correct me and answer my query as follows; “The graphic you show in your November 2014 ‘Revenue Review’ is not an Exempt Stamp.

It is to record the 2d as the duty payable, and it’s payment results in the document being duly stamped. It is not an endorsement seen on the “Not Chargeable” stamps. On all the “Duly Stamped” adhesives I have seen, is written the amount of duty paid in respect of the document. No duty is written on the ‘Not Chargeable” adhesives and it would be inconsistent with the stamp for any to be written”.

David many thanks for writing and clearing this up.

David has been hard at work on these issues and

Fig 10

Fig 9

44 - Stamp News

Dave Elsmore all of the Transactional, Imposts, Register imprints, Fee Impressions & Comptroller cancels of Victoria.

There are 4 large .pdf specialist files in the research tab of ozrevenues.com by David Casey with each being a major study and well worth having a look to compare with your own holdings.

Perfin Corner

Two items of Perfin interest to start the year off are figures 10 & 11. Figure 10 is a cracking ‘COOK’ cancelling device. Cook being from the firm of Thomas Cook the travel company. This 2/6d far outstripping previous recordings of 1d, 2d & 3d.

One can only presume the 2/6d revenue fee on the ticket must have been for a round the world trip for 6 people! We may never know. If you want to know more on this company, please go to the free online

Revenue Perfin book at Perfins.com.au and follow your nose into the Western Australia tab and then the ‘Other’ page.

Figure 11 is from a recent auction lot with some fabulous multiples within. The £50, £10 & $100 multiples are all record breakers! The Perfin ‘HI’ within is from the Hartford Fire Insurance Co. Often the ‘IH’ has been mistaken for International Harvester. All the Hartford Fire Insurance ‘HI’ Perfins of any value are rated R4 so best go check your HI’s to see just where you have them listed.

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

Fig 11 Stamp News - 45

MANY PRICES REDUCED OR UPDATED

Catalogues AVAILABLE

STANLEY GIBBONs GB & British commonwealth

Commonwealth and British Empire Stamps 1840-1970 2015 Edition ................................... $179.95 Commonwealth Simplified Catalogue 1840 - 2010 ...........................................................................$55 Australia and Territories 9th Edition 2014...................................................................................$69.95 Burma, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka 2nd Edition 2010 ................................................$32.50 Belize, Guyana, Trinidad 2009 .......................................................................................................$24.95 Bermuda, Bahamas & North Caribbean 1st Edition 2006 .........................................................$59.95 Brunei Malaysia & Singapore 2013 ..............................................................................................$52.50 Canada & Former Provinces 2014 Edition...................................................................................$52.50 Central Africa 2008 ..............................................................................................................................$15 Cyprus, Malta & Gibraltar 3rd Edition 2011 ..............................................................................$37.90 East Africa 1st Edition 2007 ...........................................................................................................$41.50 Eastern Pacific 2011 ........................................................................................................................$37.20 Falklands Is. & Dependencies 2013 ...............................................................................................$35.75 Hong Kong 4th Edition 2013.........................................................................................................$29.95 India including States 2013 ............................................................................................................$50.95 Indian Ocean 2nd Edition 2012 .....................................................................................................$34.50 Ireland 5th Edition 2011 ................................................................................................................$31.90 Leeward Islands 2012 .....................................................................................................................$50.35 North East Africa 2013 ...................................................................................................................$53.95 Northern Caribbean Bahamas & Bermuda 2013 .......................................................................$39.95 New Zealand & Dependencies 6th Edition 2014 ..........................................................................$49.90 St. Helena & Dependencies 2014 ...................................................................................................$34.90 Southern Africa & Central Africa 2011 ........................................................................................$59.90 West Africa 2nd Edition 2012 ........................................................................................................$50.95 Western Pacific incl. Fiji, Pitcairn, Cook Is., PNG, Solomons etc 2009 .....................................$41.50 Windward Islands & Barbados 2nd Edition 2012 .......................................................................$35.90 Great Britain Concise 2014 ............................................................................................................$69.90 Collect British Stamps 2014 ...........................................................................................................$29.95 Collect Channel Is. & Isle of Man 2014 ........................................................................................$52.50 GB Specialised Queen Victoria 16th Edition 2011 .......................................................................$79.95 GB Specialised 4 Kings 11th Edition 2011 ....................................................................................$71.90 GB Specialised QEII pre-decimal 11th Edition 2011 ...................................................................$71.90 GB Specialised QEII Decimal Vol 4 2010 Edition ........................................................................$79.50 KGV Commonwealth Specialised 1st Edition 2010 .....................................................................$39.95

foreign Countries & thematics Western Europe Simplified catalogue 2012 ........................ $69.95 Stamps of the World, 6 volumes New 2014 Edition ................ $450 Austria & Hungary 7th Edition 2009 .................................... $49.50 Balkans 2009 ................................................................................. $39 Benelux 6th Edition 2010........................................................ $71.90 Central America 3rd Edition 2007 ........................................ $71.90 Central Asia 4th Edition 2007 ................................................ $49.50 China 10th Edition 2013 ....................................................... $102.50 Czech. & Poland 7th Edition 2012......................................... $52.50 France & Colonies 2010.......................................................... $68.50 Germany 10th Edition 2012 ................................................... $54.75 Japan & Korea 2008 Edition ...................................................... $35

Italy & Switzerland 8th Edition 2013 ................................... $95.00 Middle East - 2009 ...................................................................... $37 Portugal & Spain 6th Edition 2011........................................ $71.90 Russia 2014 Edition...................................................................... $92 Scandinavia 7th Edition 2013 ................................................ $62.90 South America 2008 Edition .................................................. $71.90 South East Asia 2012............................................................... $80.95 USA 7th Edition 2010.............................................................. $76.50 We can supply a full range of Albums, Stockbooks, Stocksheets and Stockcards, Mounts and other accessories. Please contact us for your requirements. Wholesale and dealer enquiries welcome.

Stamp News Mail Order PO Box 1290, Upwey, Victoria, Australia Ph: 0425 795 693 Fax: 9758 7506 email: kevinmorgan2@live.com Prices do not include Postage & handling

Special ‘27½% Off’ Discount.

“Desert Magic” Imported Stamp Drying books For those readers who have not seen these Desert Magic books, they are a large A4 sized book (stockbook sized) with thick white Spiro edge binding that as you can see allows them to lay flat. (There is a half sized one which is basically useless in our view.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Retail Price is $38 each. For readers we offer 27½% off retail special deal for purchases of two books

$A30 singly or $A55 for 2 Flat Fee Registered Postage anywhere in Australia (for either 1 or 2) add $A10 - airmail overseas is $A20 for 1 or 2. All credit cards accepted

Stamp News Mail Order PO Box 1290, Upwey, 3158, Victoria, Australia Ph: 0425 795 693 Fax: 03 9758 7506 email: kevinmorgan2@live.com

Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation Happy New Year! 2015 promises to be an exciting year for stamp collectors in Australia and New Zealand with a major National Exhibition in Sydney in April as well as other events throughout the year.

This month I look at what’s coming up in 2015, the outcome of the 2014 Australasian Challenge and include the second part of the article on the mechanics of preparing an exhibit for an Australian National exhibition.

The philatelic event of the year in Australia will be, without a doubt, the Sydney Stamp Expo 2015 ANZAC Centenary, a Full National Philatelic Exhibition that will be held at the Johnny Warren Sports Centre in Penshurst Park Hurstville to commemorate the Centenary of the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli in 1915.

The Johnny Warren Indoor Sports Centre features excellent car parking facilities both undercover and in the open for about 200 cars. Refreshments will be available within the climatecontrolled facilities. Hurstville is less than 30 minutes from the city centre and is well served by public transport. There will be free offstreet parking within the grounds.

The Exhibition will be open for four days from Thursday April 16 until Sunday April 19 2015. All National Classes will be available, including David Figg receiving his award for the Best Postcard exhibit from Postcards. Special Prizes will be Norman Banfield, Baypex 2014 awarded for ANZAC and other Military Exhibits. Further information frame exhibition in Newcastle from 30 October to on the Exhibition can be found at 1 November 2015. In addition there will be a New http://www.sydneystampexpo2015.org.au/. The Zealand National Exhibition, Capital Stamp Show, at Dealer Trade Fair associated with the Exhibition the TSB Bank Arena, Wellington New Zealand from is being organised by the Australasian Philatelic Traders’ Association (APTA) and will be attended by 23 - 25 October. (Australian exhibitors are eligible to enter New Zealand National Exhibitions as a many Australian and international stamp, coin and result of an accord between the APF and the New banknote dealers.

Zealand Philatelic Federation).

Later in the year there will be a National one48 - Stamp News

Ian McMahon

Philatelic Development Officer, APF wonderful exhibits and access to dealers who you would not otherwise meet in Australia. London 2015 will also provide a full program of meetings of specialist societies as well as access to British and European dealers.

Why not plan your next holiday to include a major international exhibition?

Australasian Challenge 2014

Viewing exhibits at Baypex 2014 For those who are prepared to travel a little further afield or can time a holiday with a stamp exhibition, there will be an International Stamp Exhibition in Singapore, Singapore 2015 World Stamp Exhibition, at the Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Singapore from 13 - 17 August 2015 and Asian International exhibitions in Taipei, Taipei 2015 30th Asian International Stamp Exhibition, at the Taipei World Trade Centre from 24-28 April 2015 and Hong Kong 2015 from 20-23 November 2015. There

The 2014 Australasian Challenge was held at Baypex 2014, a New Zealand National Stamp Exhibition held in Napier on 14-16 November 2014.

The Australasian Challenge is a philatelic contest between teams from each Australian state, the ACT and the North and South Islands of New Zealand. Each team comprises four

will be a European stamp exhibition in London, London

2015, from 1316 May 2015. Like Australia 2013 World Stamp Exhibition held in Melbourne in May 2013, international exhibitions provide the opportunity to view a wide range of Baypex 2014 Stamp News - 49

Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation exhibits in different classes from experienced adult exhibitors as well as two exhibits from either novice adult exhibitors or youth exhibitors. The winning team receives the Ed Druce Trophy.

The Australasian Challenge has been described as the Bledisloe Cup of Stamp Collecting.

This year’s contest was won by the North Island, New Zealand teams with teams from Queensland, ACT and Western Australia not far behind.

Congratulations North Island!

Preparing an exhibit: Sheet Protectors Last month I looked at choosing paper for your exhibit. This month I look at sheet protectors.

To protect stamps and covers on exhibit sheets in the frames and in transit, all exhibitions require that the exhibit sheet be placed in a protective clear plastic sheet protector.

In choosing sheet protectors, the plastic needs to be • • • •

clear archival quality of a suitable size of a suitable weight

Arthur Gray: winner of the Prize for the Best Exhibit, Baypex 2014

As the aim is to display your material clear plastic sleeves are essential to ensure that people looking at your exhibit can see and read it clearly.

Many plastics including some used for cover albums contain chemicals designed to enhance the flexibility of a plastic. These chemicals can be damaging to your stamps. In addition some plastics such as PVC degrade into acids and other chemicals which are also harmful to your stamps and covers.

Sheet protectors should be made from inert plastic 50 - Stamp News

such as polyester, polypropylene or Mylar which do not have added ‘plasticisers’ or other additives.

Sheet protectors should be about 2 mm wider around your page. They should be a snug fit but should not require you to force or bend a page into the protector to avoid damaging your stamps and covers. Remember that the height of the protectors needs to be taken into account to ensure that the page and its protector fit into the frame. For Australian national exhibitions the maximum height to fit comfortably in the frames is 285 mm.

Ian McMahon

Philatelic Development Officer, APF

Sheet protectors should be closed on three sides. They may be side opening or top opening.

Top opening protectors generally provide better protection if a stamp or cover comes loose on the page.

The weight of a sheet protector is also a consideration. On the one hand use of flimsy sheet protectors (such as the commonly available sheet protectors sold for school or office use) may result in the pages ‘flopping’ when being taken to and from the frames and provide less protection. On the other hand heavy weight protectors add to the total weight of the exhibit which can be a consideration when the exhibits are being transported.

Suitable sheet protectors can be difficult to obtain although they are stocked by a small number of

2014 Australasian Challenge Winners North Island New Zealand being presented with the Ed Druce Trophy by Philip Levine, President of the APF dealers. As a service to exhibitors, the APF sells polypropylene and Mylar sheet protectors suitable for exhibiting at Australian National exhibitions and which fit the exhibit pages available through the APF. Polypropylene protectors come in three sizes: 225 mm wide x 285 mm high, 240 mm x 285mm, 457 mm x 285 mm and 465 mm x 285 mm. Mylar protectors are available in three sizes 225 mm x 285 mm, 240 mm x 285 mm and 465 mm x 285 mm.

Details can be found on the APF website www.apf. org.au.

Stamp News - 51

Market Matters: Cyclone Tracy 40th Anniversary As you read this, it will be exactly 40 years since the devastating Cyclone Tracy demolished Darwin, on Christmas Day in 1974.

One of the most significant natural disasters in Australian history. The Cyclone wiped out most of the town, and it seems no-one was expecting it.

Tracy destroyed more than 70% of Darwin’s buildings, and 80% of houses. She left more than 41,000 out of the 47,000 inhabitants of the city homeless, and required the evacuation of over 30,000 people.

There was a “State of Emergency” type Military Administration Committee quickly put in place by the Whitlam Government, headed by Major General Alan Stretton.

In an estate I purchased, were 10 covers which were mailed to Townsville from Darwin in the period immediately after the Cyclone, when regular mail services were finally established.

The recipient added handwritten notes to the backs of some, soon after receipt. Sender was Neville Barwick, the Commonwealth Architect sent to Darwin to supervise the rebuilding.

Barwick was Chairman of the Federal Government Department of Housing and Construction for Darwin, as outlined on one of the many press clippings inside. Barwick signed the envelope sealing flaps of 2 x OHMS covers.

Wiped out 80% of houses.

Error date on OHMS mail.

There were 4 x large long OHMS envelopes with “14-II-75” franking that was a meter setting in error for 14-1-75 the recipient says, and the newspaper clippings inside each backed that up.

Then 6 x small envelopes were all to Townsville, many also with press clippings, and all of these are UNFRANKED, as “Free Mail” cancelled “PAID” was approved for those there, for a time.

In 35 years as a dealer I have never owned ONE of these covers Newspaper tells the story.

52 - Stamp News

Glen Stephens - tinyurl.com/Tracy74 A terribly tragedy, and the stamps and covers remind us of such events in our history, which is why many of us enjoy this hobby so much. Let us remember those who perished, and moved out forever.

USA $2 “Jennies” still hot.

Post Tracy mail was Free mailed in the immediate aftermath, much less TEN of them!

Remember when stamps cost 60¢?!

Australia Post issued a 60¢ stamp to mark this tragedy only last year - remember 2013 - when a letter cost only 60¢ to mail, and not 70¢!

Real mail sent soon after Cyclone Tracy would make a wonderful exhibit by someone, and locating relevant material would be a lot harder than you’d imagine, I feel sure.

I sold them for about $10 each to a Sydney dealer - a ton more pix of all the cover details, and press clippings inside are here for anyone interested

A new find of the intentionally created upright variety of the USA $2 “Inverted Jenny” pane of 6 was discovered in Ohio in November.

“Linn’s” detailed tally of the number of panes found now stands at only 20, which leaves 80 panes still waiting to be discovered.

Still on sale for $US12.

Stamp News - 53

Market Matters U.S. Postal Service spokesman Mark Saunders told Linn’s the latest example reported to the USPS was purchased in Zanesville, Ohio.

USPS issued the pane of six $2 stamps on September 22, 2013.

Ten days later, the Postal Service revealed that just 100 panes of six showing the plane flying right side up, were randomly seeded into the entire print run of the normal stamps.

The odds of purchasing one of the 100 panes printed with the intentional variety is estimated by Linn’s to be Totally secretive packaging.

1 in 19,000 - IF all panes sell.

Only 13 reported to USPS

Of the 13 of 20 panes reported to the USPS, counting the latest find, only 3 were discovered in mail order stock shipped from USPS. The balance were purchased at POs. All “error” sheets have a note inside the packaging urging you to contact a special “800” number and the Postmaster General mails you a Certificate that your sheet is genuine.

Sam Malamud of Ideal Stamp and Coin has purchased at least 2 of the error sheets for $US25,000 each via his large “BUY” ads in “Linn’s Stamp News”.

The actual scarce pane is not showing the “Inverted” plane, but the intentionally created “NonInverted Jenny” pane of six.

These show the planes on the stamps flying correct side up. To re-cap, the USPS deliberately printed 100 of the sheets with the plane CORRECT way up.

54 - Stamp News

80 Error packs left

They sealed up the sheets in all manner of secretive packaging, so that one simply cannot tell from outside, the stamp orientation.

One of the packs I busted open is shown in photo nearby. Secretive lined envelope, printed on outside, heavy piece cardboard, white card insert and all in heat sealed cello.

I bought a few cartons of 100 packs for fun as a client “Scratch Lotto” ticket basically, to sell at less than USPS cost when mailing orders.

Unlike a worthless scratchie - if you “lose” on this lottery, you still have $US12 of USA stamps, valid for use forever!

I am sending blocks of 6 to USA suppliers, and asking they glue-stick them down on Express Parcels to me. They sell readily.

4 x $12 Jenny panes is $48, and that is around what a medium Express Mail carton costs these days to Australia, and I buy many of those.

Glen Stephens

100% valid for postal use Therefore, I am getting back near full face for that sending, so “Free Post” essentially, on a heavy airmailed box to Australia. One recent carton is shown nearby.

or so back for $US55,000, and had been asking $US60,000.

Some nutter cut up a pane with a blunt cheese knife it looked like, mangled it, and hopefully took a bath on it, for being such an amateur.

Others have been offered on eBay (good luck with that idea!) and also via real stamp auctions. To very varied results.

If 100 had turned up in the market, a price of $10,000 or so would appear top end.

However, as after a year plus, only some 20 are recorded, the equation changes greatly.

At some point the USPS I assume recalls the issue and destroys it, and with it, the 80 or so “error” panes, and THEN the fun will really begin.

Near “FREE” Global postage.

Had 4 x $12 Jenny sheetlets, 6 singles, the new Jimi Hendrix ‘Forever’ stamp, and a $US19.95 Grand Central Station - the highest face value postage stamp ever issued by the USA. All paying the exact ‘signed for’ air rate for the large box. An Adelaide client loved it, and a few other panes used to me on correctly paid Registered envelopes etc. In years to come he’ll be delighted.

The market price for the complete panes of 6 of the 100 possible “Error” sheets has yet to be firmly established.

Linns reports New York dealer Henry Gitner sold one pane a month The NORMAL issued stamp.

Stamp News - 55

Market Matters Beware Certs on eBay

Stamps accompanied by leading Expert Committee Certificates sell for far more money than without, and of course, so they certainly SHOULD. However on places like eBay, where you have no idea of the seller background most times, a vast dollop of scepticism needs to be employed, or you can lose your money. GUARANTEED. The RPS in London alerted me this week to the Certificate shown nearby offered on eBay. Totally fake, and it was never issued by the RPS they advised me.

The eBay seller presumably knew this, but offered it as genuine with RPSL Certificate, and the clueless eBay Bunnies as usual bid madly on it. eBay Seller was Adelaide based echobangla (name now changed) who appears to be a crook, and a link to full discussion is - tinyurl.com/FakeStamp the ‘Certificate’ is of course a total and amateur fake.

Why? As the RPSL issue Certificates Totally forged Cert, eBay of Genuineness ONLY in handwritten form .. *never* laser computer generated as this one was.

Stamps accompanied by leading Expert Commitee certificates sell for far more money than without, and of course, so they SHOULD.

Pretty Parrot!

Birdie Envelope fetches $A2,316 56 - Stamp News

Never underestimate the value of something philatelic if a BIRD image is a central part of the design. Demand is often huge.

Glen Stephens Covers to the KINGS!

Sir Edward Bacon RPSL Certificate.

The pretty advertising envelope shown nearby was auctioned by Prestige Melbourne on November 14, and was invoiced for $A2,316.

As you can see it was a business type PTPO window faced stamped envelope, from the large Rosella sauce/bottling company, with the then current 1914 1d Red KGV head franking.

These exist in both the window face shown and plain types, and come in both Die and Die 2 of the 1d KGV. These envelopes of course are not common, but nor are they rare – they achieve steep prices way above things of similar scarcity - due to the BIRD design.

Prices are generally well under 4 figures, but this one must have had 2 or more VERY keen bidders, pushing the price up to what a superb mint £1 brown and Blue Kangaroo stamp fetches.

Most readers will be aware that King George V was a FANATICAL stamp collector. Less so his son “Bertie” - better known to most of us as King George VI. KGV told his stamp curator - “I wish to have THE best stamp collection, and not ONE of the best collections in England”.

He succeeded.

It seems true that KGV set aside a few hours most days to devote to the hobby.

Locked in “The Stamp Room” at St James Palace, with trusted curator Sir Edward Bacon - no matter what was occurring in his Empire.

Indeed the Prime Minister etc visiting the Palace in the midst of the carnage of WWI, to update the King on the latest massacres on The Somme etc, needed to wait until his stamp activities were dispensed with.

His official biographer Harold Nicolson, despaired of George’s time as Duke of York, writing: “He may have been fine as a young midshipman, and a wise old King, but when he was Duke of York - he did nothing at all except shoot animals, and stick in stamps.”

Sir Edward Bacon was Curator for basically all of the long KGV reign. In 1917 Bacon was made a Member of the Royal Victorian Order, then Commander in 1922, and Knighted in 1932 for his philatelic service.

Bacon was President of the RPS London, and the nearby WW1 Certificate shows him telling Gibbons their Heligoland stamp had a fake cancel!

The KGV stamp collection is immense, and housed in large RED, numbered, Buckram Leather albums. The KGVI reign stamps are in similar BLUE albums, and the QE2 era Collection are in GREEN.

Many HUNDREDS of Albums.

A small section of the KGV collection is illustrated nearby. There are a HUNDRED huge slip-cased Stamp News - 57

Market Matters

Some of KGV’s Stamp albums.

Her Majesty is NOT Amused!

58 - Stamp News

leather albums shown there alone. Imagine the countless MILLIONS of dollars of stamps housed inside!

On one row, not even the lowest one, I can see numbered volumes up to 222, so my guess is we are talking over 300 Red albums alone.

KGVI did not appear to have much interest in stamps, and my feeling is that QE2 has more connection with them. She is shown nearby inspecting the Crown Agents artwork for her 2002 “Golden Jubilee” issue.

Getting back to my trail of thought here, the cover shown nearby with the Imprint blocks 4 of the 1935 Australia interested me when I first saw it. Addressed to KGV. A dealer stamp friend of mine bought it for a very modest sum from an experienced UK dealer’s website, paying far less than the stamps were worth soaked OFF cover!

He asked me if I had seen it before and I

Glen Stephens

Government House the sender?

as postmark ink ran into some of the perf holes. And the gold and black raised print crown emblem on seal appeared to be from Government House, Canberra.

Anyway, onto eBay it went in late November, and ends up costing someone about $A850. HOW a cover addressed to the fanatical stamp collecting King got into public hands, is anyone’s guess.

This kind of thing does sneak out now and again, that is for certain. The KGVI one shown nearby

said no, but pointed out the KGVI 1937 cover I had sold last year for $A150, and suggested he use that as a rough price guide, his having better stamp content of course.

This friend trades on eBay as “1915cazna” - he is a WW1 tragic, and cazna is ANZAC spelt backwards, and 1915 was of course the Gallipoli landing. The horse KGV is on, was named “ANZAC” – a gift from the Australian people.

Cazna was certain the blocks were “tied” Stamp News - 59

Market Matters

Wife, Dad and King on 1 cover! certainly went thought the mails.

How do they reach the market?

The KGV one likely was sent under outer cover.

Why? No wear evident, no backstamps evident, never opened, and has the 2 colour raised crest.

Probably Government House was sender, so they make their own rules generally!

Also as Registration fee was only 3d, it would have been sent Registered is my guess, as it was WAY overpaid. But if sent Registered, it would HAVE to be placed in mainstream, and this clearly 60 - Stamp News

was not.

My KGVI cover was sold for a pittance at $A150, but my choice of pricing on that one. AND it depicted King George VI, his wife and his father (KGV) on the other stamps as well!

A stampboards member saw it at a large UK stamp show. It was priced well out of his remaining show budget to take a punt on himself, so he showed a camera phone photo to me, and gave me the name of the dealer.

That dealer had no website, or anything like that of course. Dealer was from “Oop Narth� and does

Glen Stephens than the 1937 Sesqui set was issued.

Which on FDC is a $40 item for the set of 3.

A 1932 6d Large Kookaburra is not common on cover, nor is the 1937 1/- Lyrebird SG 137, in the first perf 13½. And also has the 1937 1d and 2d depicting KGVI and his new Queen.

The cover is addressed to : H.M. KING GEORGE VI BUCKINGHAM PALACE, LONDON SW1 ENGLAND

Liberia, Ebola Awareness stamps. not accept credit cards or paypal, and I do not have a UK cheque account.

So after a bit of toing and froing, and messing about, the cover was eventually mine! I added it to my Rarity Page stock at $A150 and it sold fast, as it is a most interesting curio.

Franking was 3/- ... way over the 9d or so rate to UK. It is a bit worn at edges so might have been quadruple weight I suppose, and if so, 4 x 9d = 3/-, and is correct. Who knows?

Not even a FDC!

It is not a FDC of course, being used a year later

All stamps tied with neat “PERTH 18 JA 38 WA” cds. There is no sender address on flap, which would have allowed it to have been returned, and no Palace markings or notations etc.

Who knows what the content was, (it clearly had something inside) but one assumes a collector mailing the King an example of the current stamps on cover, with a note inside to that effect?

In such cases some kind of autopen type note was generally sent by an underling, saying “The King commands me to thank you for your kind gesture ............ “ etc.

“The Queen’s Stamps” Book

There is a wonderful hard cover book I sell a lot of titled: “The Queen’s Stamps” by Nicholas Courtney.

It costs $A70 post-free globally, and is a quite superb read, and really highly recommended.

It traces first hand, stories of King George V and his stamps, and all manner of other accurately sourced stories up to recent times. All OFFICIALLY sourced.

It is well illustrated in colour, and the photos nearby were taken from the book. With 337 pages Hardbound in dust jacket, it is a very entertaining read.

Stamp News - 61

Market Matters World’s First Ebola Stamps

The Ebola Virus is of course a major health concern this year. It is a very serious matter in some West African countries including Liberia, where 1000s have died in the past 6 months from it.

Liberia issued a striking sheet of 12 black and gold stamps in November, urging awareness to combat this horrible Ebola disease.

The “$50” stamps are not really very expensive. The entire sheet has a face value of about $A10, and all new issue dealers should have it in stock.

Let’s us hope the epidemic is bought under control soon.

I was in Ghana West Africa for Christmas Day last year. Our luxurious Genuine “stamp on stamp” issue! lunch that day was on a dusty road in of “Everyday Fresh” to wash your hands, and a bottle a tiny café, that of STAR beer. With the Ebola crisis in the region served us all they had left – fatty, bony, goat stew! now, not sure we’d visit Ghana at this time.

We visited another African country Madagascar The FINEST goat stew. last August, and Margaret caught a notifiable All on plastic plates etc, with the usual bottle there 62 - Stamp News

Glen Stephens I have never seen a Post Office anywhere offer stamps licked one over the other, and KOJO BEEDU was a “first” for that strange usage of old stamp stock!

As always in such cases, I pleaded with him to hand cancel them, which he did with the usual bemused look of “weirdo tourists”.

More pix here - tinyurl.com/ GhanaPO

Season’s Greetings to all!

Glamorous Ghana Xmas communicable disease Shigellosis, whilst staying at a mountain Lemur camp there, with no electricity.

Again we’d not be doing that again soon.

We had a funny experience in Ghana. Whilst driving thought the countryside we decided to mail some postcards. Found a galvanised iron sheeting PO, in a tiny place called KOJO BEEDU. Asked clerk for 6 stamps for overseas postcards.

He tears off 6 stamps - all had a large size 90c Commem underneath (from 2008 it seems!) and a small 10c PawPaw stamp was pre-licked on top, making up 100 cents, or 1 Cedi.

This Christmas we fly 24 hours to Germany, and then hub off for Christmas Day in either Portugal or Canary Islands probably. Then to Istanbul, and then somewhere in Greece for New Year’s

Eve. We want to then drive though Albania - a strange little place that was in a North Korean type wacko communist time-warp for decades, and is now just emerging. Then to Serbia, and back home via German and Thailand.

“Thank You” to all readers for the many phone calls and emails with comments - for AND against what has been written here!

“Merry Christmas and Happy New Year”, to one and all. Be safe - and enjoy the break!

Stamp News - 63

philatelic news

Baypex 2014 - Napier NZ The Baypex national stamp exhibition was held at the Pettigrew-Green Arena in Napier, NZ from14th to 16th November. There were 653 display frames of stamp exhibits, including 54 multi-frame entries in the Australasian Challenge. This was a competition

between all the Australian States, the ACT and both the North and South Islands of New Zealand with each region fielding a team of six exhibitors. The winning team was from the North Island.

Above: Fig 5 Lois Ion of Rotorua

Left : Figs 1 & 2 The Pettigrew-Green Arena

64 - Stamp News

Right : Fig 3 Mr Fenton Wilson, Chairman of the Hawkes Bay Regional Council, ofďŹ cially opens the event watched by the ExhibitionChairman, Jan Price.

Above: Fig 6 John Kilpatrick of Kadine Stamps

Right: Fig 4 Smita Sali staffs the New Zealand Post stand

Stamp News - 65

The world’s largest and friendliest Stamp Bulletin Board - with a strong Aussie flavour! A fast-growing true Community which started in 2007. About 12,000 real members, from over 130 countries – who have made about 3½ MILLION posts on 10,000s of topics. There are 100,000s of high resolution colour photos there - showing rare stamps, errors, discoveries, cinderellas and new issues etc. We get over three MILLION hits each month. No cost – www.stampboards.com Check us out on Facebook even!

A vast array of leading dealers and collectors are active members. The Presidents of both APTA and the APF are members. Senior International Stamp Judges are members. Catalogue producers, stamp magazine publishers and leading auctioneers are all active members. Masses of stamp club secretaries worldwide are members, and promote their clubs and events free - does YOURS???

All entirely FREE. If you can two-finger type you are all set - simple and intuitive. Discuss EVERY aspect of stamps, from ANY country, and get instant answers and input. Show and share your photos, ask questions, get advice from experts. Buy or sell or trade the stamps you need - ALL FREE. Loads of fun threads, jokes and general discussions too. HUNDREDS of eBay crooks, cons and forgers have been exposed and expelled from eBay by our member reports and Detective work - essential reading. Monthly competitions with very valuable stamp prizes. Pop by today. It is like your ‘local stamp club’ – but you do NOT need to leave your home!

Join today, membership is free! No fees for the first 12 months, open to all traders in collectables, part-time or full-time.

AAA Stamps PO Box 1050, Warners Bay, NSW, 2282 Ph: 0432 540 760 aaastamps@yahoo.com.au www.aaastamps.com.au

A.G.T. Devine 56 Gardner Circuit, Singleton Heights, NSW 2330 Ph: 02 6573 4209 alan.devine@devalri.com www.devalri.com

Robert D. Andersen 141 Monash Rd, Tarragindi, QLD 4121 Ph: 07 3892 7066 daleandersen@bigpond.com.au

Ace Stamp Auctions PO Box 2076 Ellenbrook, Western Australia, 6069 (08) 9297 3040 or email stampdealer@iinet.net

A-One Stamps - M Greive

Edenzac Stamps: Tim Papadopoulos Ph: 03 9791 7733 edenzac@optushome.com.au Edlins of Canberra Eddie J Cummings GPO Box 289, Canberra, ACT 2601 Ph: 02 6248 7859 edlins@tpgi.com.au www.edlins.com.au

Falcon Stamps PO Box 571, Milsons Point, NSW, 1565 Ph: 02 9299 1300 rwaugh@bigpond.net.au

Gold Coast Stamp Traders Glyn Fairbairn PO Box 275, Currumbin, QLD 4223 Ph: 07 5533 9582 www.goldcoststamptraders.com.au sales@goldcoastsamptraders.com.au

Stephen Joe

PO 82, Edgecliffe, NSW, 2027 Ph: 02 9362 3636 mgreive@bigpond.net.au www.aonestamps.com

GPO Box 302, Suva, Fiji Ph: 679 3319183 stephenj@connect.com.fj

Peter Barrett

John Hurtado/KGV Collector

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

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

Robert Kennedy Stamps P/L Shop 4, 155 Castlereagh St, Sydney, 2000 Ph: 02 9264 6168 www.kennedystamps.com.au stamps@kennedystamps.com.au

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

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

Grant Carter

Kevin Morgan Stamps & Coins

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

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

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

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

Dr William L. Mayo (Booklets)

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

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

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

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

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

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

ACTS

PO Box 1290 Upwey, VIC 3158

WORLDWIDE NEW ISSUES

Ascension Island - The Rosetta Mission Ascension Island sends its congratulations to the ESA and all involved in the Rosetta Mission.

Comets have inspired awe and wonder since the dawn of history. Many scientists today believe that comets crashed into Earth in its formative period spewing organic molecules that were crucial to the growth of life. Comets may have formed about the same time as the giant planets of our solar system (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) - about 4.6 billion years ago. Some scientists think that comets and planets were both made from the same clumps of dust and ice that spewed from our Sun’s birth; others think that these roving time capsules are even older than that, and that they may contain grains of interstellar stuff that is even older than our solar system!

Rosetta is a robotic space probe launched by the European Space Agency (ESA). Along with its lander module, Philae, Rosetta’s ten-year mission was to catch the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P) and to answer some of our questions about comets.

The Rosetta spacecraft is named after the ancient Rosetta Stone that you can visit in London’s British Museum. The Philae lander is named after the Philae Obelisk which, together with the Rosetta Stone, provided the key to our first understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Scientists hope that the Rosetta spacecraft will enable us to translate the even older language of comets, as expressed by their thermal signatures, into new knowledge about the origins of our solar system and, perhaps, life on Earth. This daring international mission is spearheaded by the ESA with key support and instruments from NASA. Rosetta was launched aboard an Ariane 5 space rocket on 2 March 2004 from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana.

Rosetta’s Ariane 5 soon passed out of range of the Galliot tracking station, near Kourou, and was followed in its journey around the world by tracking stations in Brazil, Ascension Island (shown on the souvenir sheet), Kenya, Australia and Hawaii. In order to know what to expect on the day, all these places had rehearsed the launch during the preceding months.

The launch of Rosetta was a particular challenge as it was the first time Ariane 5 had placed a spacecraft onto an Earthescape trajectory. To do this, an unprecedented delayed ignition of the Ariane 5 upper stage was needed. 106 minutes after

Rosetta had been placed into space the upper stage ignited and powered Rosetta away from the Earth towards its icy rendezvous. Despite the hundreds of millions of kilometres that Rosetta would eventually travel 99.8% of the propellant needed for the mission was consumed during the first hundred kilometres as the rocket struggled to slice a path through the atmosphere and escape Earth’s gravity.

To achieve the required velocity to rendezvous with 67P, Rosetta used gravity assist manoeuvres to accelerate throughout the inner Solar System. The first flyby of Earth occurred on 4 March 2005. On 25 February 2007, the craft was scheduled for a low-altitude bypass of Mars (during which Rosetta returned detailed images of the surface and atmosphere of the planet). The second Earth flyby occurred on 13 November 2007. Rosetta ‘s​ third and final flyby of Earth happened on 12 November 2009.

In August 2014, Rosetta rendezvoused with the comet 67P, after a journey of some 6.4 billion kilometres through the solar system, and entered actual orbit about it in September. The surface layout of 67P was unknown before Rosetta ‘s​ arrival.

The orbiter mapped the comet in anticipation of detaching its lander and five potential landing sites were identified before the ESA announced Site J, named Agilkia, as the lander’s destination.

On 12 November 2014, 510 million kilometres from earth, Philae detached from Rosetta and approached 67P at a relative speed of around 1 m/s (2.2 mph). It bounced twice, but Philae’s soft landing on the comet was the first time in history that such an extraordinary feat has been achieved. Confirmation of contact with 67P reached Earth at 16:03 GMT. After landing on the comet Philae commenced its science missions.

“After more than 10 years travelling through space, we’re now making the best ever scientific analysis of one of the oldest remnants of our Solar System,” said Alvaro Giménez, ESA’s Director of Science and Robotic Exploration. “Decades of preparation have paved the way for today’s success, ensuring that Rosetta continues to be a game-changer in cometary science and space exploration.”

Although the future of the lander Philae is uncertain, Rosetta is the workhorse of the mission and its work will continue as it escorts the comet around the sun.

Stamp News - 67

philatelic trading post

australia's only stamps classifieds

exchange

worldwide

Send 100-1000 Australia and World Stamps for my same # US stamps. Tom Harkins, 7 Quaker R, New Fairfield, CT 06812, USA. Email harkins.tom@gmail.com Collector needs collectors in Canada, China, Great Britain to exchange used or mint stamps, please. Fair exchange only. Chris Jewell-Smith, PO Box 5124, Broulee, NSW, Australia 2537

Germany Third Reich. For Germany Third Reich and other World War II material please visit www.ww2historical.com Magnificent selections on approval from Africa, Pacifics, Nth. & Sth. America, Asia, Europe, Mediterranean, Iceland, Greenland, Venezuela.P & D Nicholls, PO Box 426, Glenbrook, NSW 2773

buying

Penfriend Wanted - For exchange, fauna, flora, mushrooms, lighthouses, moun-

tains, stamps on stamps, Christmas, Olympics, world cup, music, trains, airplanes from Aust, NZ & Pacific. Exchange value Yvert, Michel, Scott. Speaks Spanish/ English. Antonio Creo Reyes, PO Box 2222 Habana 2, Cuba 10200 Exchange: Send 200 - 800 World stamps, exchange for World/Australia. Brian Clark, 57 Mawson Pde, Chifley , NSW 2036

for sale Germany Kiloware/packets. Excellent quality. 450 grams Commemoratives $20, 800 different commemoratives $20, postage included. Werner Eisenstein, Privasstr. 4, D-35781, Weilburg, Germany. Please send cash.

Exp 02/15

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.

Antarctic, Malta, Falklands, Sth. Africa, Ireland & much more. Dealer enquiries welcome. Send your wants list to: John Cornelius, PO Box 23 Magill SA 5072 Phone: 0407 615 240 (11/13)

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.

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 Wanted : Sheets or panes of 5½d Emu stamps. Contact Ted on tedg@gj.com.au Collector/Active Buyer of quality old time world collections. Albums must be in

approvals

excellent condition and issed prior to 1932. Dr William Mayo, Email mayoinavalon@

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

yahoo.com.au. Ph 02 99186825,

postagestampsonpaper@gmail.com.

thematics

ALBUMS, CATALOGUES, AND EQUIPMENT for stamps, coins, & banknotes at mail order discount prices. Enquiries or quotes write to: SAPPHIRE COAST PHILA-

Animals - Birds - Aeroplanes - Automobiles - Sports - Flowers Including Packets on

TELIC SUPPLIES, PO Box 285, Pambula, NSW 2549, or Phone/Fax (02) 6495 7382.

approvalP&D Nicholls P.O.Box 426, Glenbrook NSW 2773

Join the exciting Products & Services Directory!

Single: 46mm x 24mm $260 per year or $26 per month Double: 46mm x 50mm $520 per year or $52 per month Triple: 46mm x 78mm $695 per year or $69.50 per month Quad: 46mm x 102mm $990 per year or $99 per month Larger spaces POR Ph: 0425 795 693 Fax: 03 9758 7506 email: kevinmorgan2@live.com 68 - Stamp News

www.stampnews.com.au

now free for subscribers (subject to available space)

societies PENINSULA STAMP CLUB Meets 3rd Wednesday each month at 7.30pm, BRIGHTON PS Inc. Meets 8.00pm 2nd and 4th Tuesday and 10.30am Uniting Church Hall, Murray Anderson Road, Rosebud. Visitors most 3rd Tuesday each month. 80 Gardenvale Road, Gardenvale, Vic, 3185.

Visitors/new members welcome. www.brightonps.org.au welcome. Secretary: PO Box 187,Dromana, 3936 AUSTRALIAN PS meets 3rd Monday monthly. RSL Homes, 152 Canterbury GLADSTONE AND DISTRICT PS Inc. Meets on the 2nd Wednesday each Rd (cnr Keats St) Canterbury. All visitors most welcome. Contact: PO Box month at 7.30pm. Venue: Neighbourhood Centre, 10 Toolooa St, Gladstone. Postal: PO Box 1089, Gladstone, Qld, 4680. Ph: (07) 4978 1155.

7014, Hawthorn, Vic, 3122 for advice.

The IPDA Inc - Internet Philatelic Dealers Association - dealers & prt time sellers who believe there is a need for a global organisation to represent them as accredited internet sellers. Join the IPDA. Go to www.ipdaonline.org for details.

classified advertisement order form Classified advertising in THE PHILATELIC TRADING POST costs only $1 per word or free for subscribers (dealers and clubs excluded) - or you can insert the same advertisement in three consecutive editions for the price of two! Payment MUST accompany classified advertisement copy and may be made by money order, cheque or credit card (American Express, Bankcard, Mastercard and Visa welcome). If paying by credit card, be sure to quote your account number and expiry date. Classifieds are pre-paid only. Please state your preferred classification or suggest a new one for us to consider.

Address your classified ad to: STAMP NEWS, PO Box 1290, Upwey VIC 3158

Payment method: Cheque Money order Credit card

Free! I am a current subscriber

Card no: __________________________________________ Type: ____________________________________________ Expiry: ___________________________________________ Name: ___________________________________________ Signature: ________________________________________

Check your advertisement for accuracy of the first insertion. Stamp News cannot be responsible for the cost of more than one incorrect insertion.

All ads require name, address and phone number with order; they do not need to be used in your copy.

NUMBER OF ISSUES TO RUN: ________________________ TOTAL # OF WORDS: ________________________________ COST: ____________________________________________

Abbreviations, initials and phone numbers count as one word. PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY. CLASSIFICATION: _______________________________

3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 33 36 39 42 45 48

Stamp News - 69

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

70 - Stamp News

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: Mtgs: 3rd Tues 7.30pm, daytime meetings 1st Weds, KGV Heads group 4th Weds. Jim Spence Sec. 02 4392 3610 email: dandasonter6@bigpond.com

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

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

WA club information: WA Philatelic Council, GPO Box 9800, Perth, WA, 6001 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

Stamp News - 71

philatelic clubs & societies south australia

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

Australian Airmail Society: 1st Wed. 7.45pm 22 Gray Court, Adelaide. PO Box 395, Edwardstown 5039. Ph: 08 8276 3969 Barossa SC: Mtg 1st Tue 7.30 Greenock Luth Church Hall, Bevan St, Greenock; 19 Evans Street Ancaston 5353; email: ptomely1939@gmail.com; Ph: (08) 8562 8386 Blackwood PC: Mtg 2nd Wed ex Jan; Uniting Church, Main Rd, Blackwood; Ph: 08 8278 1629; PO Box 581, Blackwood 5051; email: teepee@teegee.com.au Bordertown & Districts PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs; Bordertown 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; The Lions Den, Murray Bridge. PO Box 810, Murray Bridge; Ph: 08 85704074 lmphilsocsec@gmail.com Mount Gambier PS: Mtg 3rd Tues; Reidy Park Corn Centre. 8pm. Also1st Sunday (ex. Jan) 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: 4th Thurs. ex Dec. 7.30pm, Meeting Room, Church of Christ, David St., Dandenong 03 5996 9501 Diamond Valley PS: Mtg 3rd Mon Essendon-Broadmeadows PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs; St Johns Uniting Church Hall, Cnr Mt Alexander Rd & Buckley St, Essendon; Murray Gorham, Ph 9306 7480 Footscray PS: Mtg 1st Mon (2nd in Jan); Maribyrnong Comm. Centre, 54 Raleigh Rd, Maribyrnong. PO Box 2477 Taylors Lakes 3038. PH. 0438 901 144. email: footscraystamps@gmail Frankston & District SC: Mtg 3rd Tues (2nd in Dec) Seaford Community Centre, Broughton St Seaford.

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

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

72 - Stamp News

Para Hills PS: Mtg 1st Sun; Community Hall Wilkinson Rd, Para Hills. PO Box 64, Para Hills; Ph: 08 8522 4345 Phillumeny SC: U3/26-28 Crozier Av, Modbury 5092. Ph: 08 8337 6533 Email: www.users.or.net/ figg/amccs Port Pirie PS: Mtg 4th Mon; PO Box532, Pt Pirie 5540; Ph: 08 8632 1105 Printed Collectables Club (SAPC): Mtg last Tues, Julia Farr Cent. Canteen, Ground Floor, Fisher St. Ph: 08 8265 7395; PO Box 657, Enfield Plaza 5085 PS of South Australia:1st & 3rdTues; 22 Gray Ct. GPO Box 1937, Adelaide 5001; Ph: 08 8555 3311 PS of South Aust. (Aus. Com. Spect.Grp.): Mtg 4th Tues 7.30pm;22 Gray Ct. Ph: 08 8555 3311 PS of South Australia (Daytime SC):Mtg 1st & 3rd Thurs; 22 Gray Ct.Ph: 08 8555 3311 PS of South Australia (Study Group):Mtg 4th Tues 7.30pm; 22 Gray Ct. Ph: 08 8522 4345 Postal Stat & Postal Hist Soc: Mtg 2nd Tues; SAPHIL House, 22 Gray Ct, Adelaide. email: psandph@arcom.com.au; Ph: 08 8260 3352 Riverland PS: Mtg 3rd Fri, 10am ;Whitmore Hall, Barmera Village; Ph: 08 8595 3023 SA Junior Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd Sun 1pm - 3pm;Anyone over 5years, parents welcome. 22 Grey St, Adelaide. 08 8250 0484 Salisbury PS: Mtg 1st & 3rd Mon;StJohns Church Hall. PO Box 336 Salisbury 5108; Ph: 08 8252 2392 Stirling PS: Mtg 4th Fri 7.45pm, Old Railway Station (now Community Services Bldng.); Ph: 08 8370 2680 Strathalbyn PS: Mtg 2nd Mon, 8pm; Rosa Hoare Room, Lutheran Church Complex Corner, Commercial Rd/North Pde; C/- Post Office, Strathalbyn 5255; Ph: 0429 693 747 Ukrainian Collectibles Club: Mtg Wed as per syllabus; PO Box 466, Woodville 5011; Ph: 08 8345 4033 Yorke Peninsula Collectors Club: Senior Citizens Club. Taylor St, Kardina. Mtg 3rd Wed ex. Jan; PO Box 178, Bute 5560; Ph: 08 8821 2906 Club Information: Victorian Philatelic Council, GPO Box 9800, Melbourne, Vic, 3001 Italian PS: Mtg 2nd Mon (ex Jan), 7.30pm, Veneto Club, 191 Bulleen Rd Bullen. (PO Box 166, Niddrie, 3042) Latrobe Valley PS: Mtg Last Wed ex Dec 7.30pm, St Lukes Uniting Church Hall, Princes Way, Morwell; Chris Zarb, Sec. ph. 03 5174 3394 Maryborough Stamp Club:Mtg mthly ex Jan 2nd Tues of month 8pm, St Augustine’s Hall, Maryborough. PO Box 295, Maryborough, 3465; Ph: 03 5464 2400. maryboroughsc@eudoramail.com. maryboroughsc.web1000.com Mildura PS: Mtg Last Thurs (ex Dec)Carnegie Building 74 Deakin Ave Ph: 03 5023 8789 Mooroolbark PS: Mtg 1st Tues; Ph: 03 9723 3304 Oakleigh PS: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm (ex Jan) Oakleigh Public Library, Drummond St, Oakleigh Ocean Grove SC: Mtg 4th Wed. 10am. Ocean Grove Senior Citizens Clubrooms Melways: 234 A. Ph. 03 5255 1372 Peninsula SC: Mtg 3rd Wed, 7.30pm Uniting Church Hall, Murray Anderson Rd, Rosebud. Ph: 03 5974 1950 Polish PS: Mtg 3rd Tues (2nd in Dec) Prahran PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex Jan) Ringwood PS: Gen Mtg 1st Thurs; Daytime 3rd Mon Ph: 03 9725 0514 email hanszomer@bigpond.com Royal PS of Victoria:Mtg 3rd & 5th Thurs; Daytime 1st Tues Sale SC: Mtg 1st Mon (ex Jan) Shepparton PS: Mtg 2nd Tues, Mechanics Institute, Shepparton. Ph. 0419 560 813 Sherbrooke PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs ex Jan Upwey Fire Brigade Hall, 8pm; Bob Cook Ph: 03 9758 3465 Upper Yarra SC: Mtg 3rd Tues Warragul PS: Mtg 2nd Fri Warrnambool PS: Mtg 3rd Wed 7.45pm St Joseph’s Primary School, Botanic Road;Ph: 03 5561 1470 Waverley PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs 7.30pm, Mt Waverley Community Centre, 47 Miller Cres, Mt Waverley; Daytime mtg the following Friday, 9.30am, Uniting Church Hall, 482 High St, Mt Waverley. Ph. 03 9898 4102 Obtain Tasmanian clubs information from: Tasmanian Stamp Council, GPO Box 9800, Hobart, TAS, 7001. Ph: 03 6278 7084 Hobart Junior Group: Mtg 1st Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224 Kingston Junior Group: Mtg 2nd Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224 Launceston PS: Mtg 1st Thurs (ex. Jan) & 3rd Sat (ex. Dec), Max Fry Hall, Trevallyn 7.30pm; Ph: 6344 3676 Mersey-Leven PS: Contact: 03 6425 3603 Rosny Junior Group: Mtg Last Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224 Tasmanian PS: Mtg Last Monday (ex. Dec); www.tps.org.au, Legacy House, 159 Macquarie St Hobart

stamp & coin fairs & events new south wales Jan 3 - (1st Sat) 9am to 4pm Orange Stamp Fair, Quinn’s Arcade, Summer St, Orange. Ph: Norm 02 63623754.

Jan 3 - (1st Sat) Northside Stamp Fair. 1st Floor, Car park Building, Manly-Warringah Leagues Club, cnr Federal Parade/Pittwater Rd, Brookvale, NSW. Jan 3 - (1st Sat) Katoomba Stamp & Coin Fair, 9am 4pm, Masonic Hall, Cnr Station & Civic Sts, Katoomba.

Ph. 0417 802 754 Jan 3 - (1st Sat) Sutherland Shire Stamp & Coin Collectors Fair, Gymea Anglican Church Hall, 131 Gymea Bay Rd, Gymea.

Jan 18 - (3rd Sun) Stamp & Coin Fair, 10am - 3pm, Pioneers Hall, Cowper St, Wallsend. 8 Dealers. 4971 3483 Jan 25 - (4th Sun) Epping Stamp & Coin Fair, Community Hall, 9 Oxford St, Epping. 10am - 4pm. Free Entry, 6 Dealers, Buy/Sell

victoria Jan 4 - (1st Sun) Stamp, Coin & Phone Card Fair, Ukrainian Hall, Russell St, Essendon. 9am-3pm Jan 17 - Stamp & Coin & Card Fair, 9am-3pm. Dromana Uniting Church Hall, cnr Point Nepean Rd. & McCulloch St. Dromana Jan 18 - (3rd Sun) Stamp, Card - Phone Card Fair, Bentleigh-McKinnon Youth Centre, Higgins Rd, Bentleigh.

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

Jan 25 - (last Sun ex Dec) Stamp, Coin & Phonecard Fair, Jaycees Hall, Silver Grove, Nunawading. 9am-3pm.

queensland TBA - Queensland Stamp & Coin Fairs, 8:00am -1:00pm,

Contract Bridge Club, 67 Ipswich Road,Woolloongabba.

Check ‘Weekend Shopper’ to confirm or contact 0428 450 616 day only.

Jan 12 - (2nd Mon) - Gold Coast PS Sale, Rm 1, Southport Comm. Centre, Lawson St, Southport. 11.30am 2.30pm Brisbane Table Tennis Association Centre Jan 25 - QStamp Fair, Southside, Mt Gravatt Showgrounds, Memorial Hall, Logan Rd. Free Entry 8.30am -2pm

request for listing or update of events or clubs & societies pages This form or a photocopy of this form must be completed in full and signed by and authorised person and submitted by post to Stamp News for any event or update to be listed in the Events or Societies pages - please note that specific dates cannot be included in club details. If any part of the form is incomplete the listing/update will not be made. Information will not be accepted via email. This is a free service and listings are included at the discretion of Stamp News and also subject to available space. Wording may be altered.

Please PRINT CLEARLY - illegible submissions will be disregarded.

Name of event/club: ________________________________

Signature of authorised person: _________________________

Section to appear in (EVENTS or CLUBS): ____________________

Wording requested for listing/update: _____________________

Date/s of event/meeting: _____________________________

____________________________________________

Town & STATE: ___________________________________

____________________________________________

Contact phone to appear in listing: _______________________

____________________________________________

Name of person authorised to request listing/changes: ____________________________________________

Contact details (phone or email) of authorised person (not to appear): ____________________________________________

Submit to: Stamp News, PO Box 1290, Upwey VIC 3158 Stamp News - 73

Products & Services Directory dealers MONTHLY ONLINE AUCTIONS

STAMP MALL

Zero Buyer’s Commission Zero Card Fees Flat sellers fee per lot www.21stCenturyAuctions.com.au Tel: 0425 795 693 Fax: 03 9756 7506 email:info@21stcenturyauctions. com.au

Stamp Collecting Does not have to Be Expensive to Be Fun. Over 17,500 items in our Online Store at Fair Prices

GLEN STEPHENS RARE STAMPS 4 The Tor Walk Castlecrag, Sydney, NSW, 2068, Australia.

Australia’s most visited stamp dealer website:

www.glenstephens.com

1000s of nett priced bargains and offers and specials. Philatelic journalist. ALL credit cards and methods of payments accepted - I even accept mint stamps in payment! Phone (02) 9958 1333. One of Australia;s biggest stamp buyers - see my buying page.

Email - glen@glenstephens.com - email me now to get on my regular lists FREE! Life Member ASDA (New York) PTS (London) ANDA (Australia) etc.

Full time dealer for 25 years. 11/05

By Steve Fletcher

www.stampmall.com.au

THE NEW ZEALAND

STAMP COLLECTOR Published quarterly by the ROYAL PHILATELIC SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND (INCORPORATED) PO Box 1269, Wellington, NZ Annual subscription (posted) NZ$60.00 (airmail extra)

Subscription correspondence and advertising enquiries should be addressed to the Business Manager, PO Box 1269, Wellington, New Zealand

Join the exciting Products & Services Directory!

Single: 46mm x 24mm Double: 46mm x 50mm Triple: 46mm x 78mm Quad: 46mm x 102mm Larger spaces

$260 per year or $26 per month $520 per year or $52 per month $695 per year or $69.50 per month $990 per year or $99 per month POR

Ph: 0425 795 693 Fax: 03 9758 7506 email: kevinmorgan2@live.com

www.stampnews.com.au

PACIFIC STAMPS Australia’s leading dealer in stamps of the Pacific.

New Issue Service for all the Pacific Island nations, including: Fiji, Pitcairn, Papua New Guinea, French Polynesia, Solomon Islands, New Zealand, Tuvalu, Tonga, Micronesia, Wallis and Futuna Cocos (Keeling) Niue, Norfolk Island, Samoa, Nauru, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Cook Islands etc.

Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Palau, Tokelau, Christmas Island etc.

For details and a copy of our price list, write to: Pacific Stamps, PO Box 816, Tewantin, QLD, 4565. Or phone: (07) 54740799 fax: (07) 54740757 or E-mail: info@pacficstamps.com.au website: pacificstamps.com.au

Philatelical event of the year: : a real magazine, 100% colour

Timbres Magazine

Reports, studies, hundreds of photos of stamps in France and in the whole world. Monthly, 100 pages Free sample (Join $A2 by stamps) Subscription by air: 475ff (approx. $A90) Information & subscription: TIMBROPRESSE 6, rue du Sentier 75080 Paris Cedex 02 Telephone: (33) 1 55 34 92 55

SAS/OCEANIA INVITES YOUR MEMBERSHIP Our award-winning quarterly journal, ‘The Informer’, contains regular, informative articles about Australia and States, New Zealand, PNG, and other Pacific countries by knowledgeable philatelic writers. Sample copy/ application form sent airmail for $US1.00. Mint US postage accepted.

Kevin Morgan Stamps & Coins Postage wanted: Always buying/selling collections,

Up to 68c pay 40% 70c values pay 50% 75c and above pay 45% Regret no longer require other countries unless in substantial quantities.

Tel: 0425 795 693 Fax: 03 9758 7506 Email: kevinmorgan2@live.com Web: www.kevinmorgan.com.au

accumulations, mixed lots. We are a general dealership stocking a wide range of worldwide items plus albums, accessories, etc.

Credit Cards accepted. Discounts for Seniors Card holders and Philatelic Club members on production of membership ID.

SAS/O Secretary, PO Box 24764,San Jose, CA 95154-4764, USA

SEVEN SEAS STAMPS PTY LTD PO Box 321 Brookvale, NSW 2100

Manufacturers of the full range of Seven Seas brand album pages and complete albums, and publishers of the Australasian Stamp Catalogue. Also a full range of stamps as well as other accessories. Personal callers welcome or ask for free price lists.

Tel: (02) 9905 3255. Fax: (02) 9905 7922.

Email: stamps@sevenseas.com.au Web: www.sevenseas.com.au 06/06

74 - Stamp News

www.andrewglajer.co.uk Andrew G Lajer Ltd

sales@andrewglajer.co.uk / T: +44 (0)1189 344151 The Old Post Office, Davis Way, Hurst, Berkshire, RG10 0TR, UK

societies&publications MONTHLY ONLINE AUCTIONS Zero Buyer’s Commission Zero Card Fees Flat sellers fee per lot www.21stCenturyAuctions.com.au Tel: 0425 795 693 Fax: 03 9756 7506 email:info@21stcenturyauctions. com.au

AS C T

AUSTRALASIAN COLLECTABLE TRADERS SOCIETY

Join today, membership is free!

No fees for the first 12 months, open to all traders in collectables, full or P/T.

c/- PO Box 1290 Upwey, Vic. 3158 PHILATELY from AUSTRALIA a quarterly record of Research & information

ROYAL PHILATELIC SOCIETY OF VICTORIA INC. Australia $35, Br. Commonwealth £14 Sterling, United States & Canada $US28 per year. No serious collector of Australia and its States, New Zealand and Pacific Islands should be without asubscription to this International Award Winning Journal.

Three Year Indexes - $A10 each Most back issues on hand.

Write to: Business Manager PO Box 642, Toorak, VIC, 3142

PHILAS STAMP AUCTIONS 17 Brisbane St, Sydney 12:30pm Saturdays Second Saturday in March, July and November.

Viewing on preceding Saturday, Thursday and Friday illustrated catalogues posted free within Australia ($15 per annum posted overseas) Lots for sale welcome PO box 220 Darlinghurst NSW 1300 Phone: (02) 9264 8301 or ()2) 9264 8406 Fax: (02) 9267 4741

Sel Pfeffer’s BOONAH STAMP SUPPLIES PO Box 155, Boonah Q 4310, Australia Australia & Territories Booklet Catalogue Edition 4, Volume 1 - 1904-1972 - $40.00 Edition 4, Volume 2 - 1979-2009 - $45.00 Supplement 2010 - $18.00; 2011 - $15.00 Australasia & Territories Frama & CPS Catalogue - $45.00 Aust. Postage on cats. $3 - on sups. $2.

Overseas at cost.

Try one of my famous $100 Mystery boxes.

Worth $400 retail!

Box (1) - stamps & covers etc. (2) Booklets.

(3) Framas & CPS Boxes - plus post at cost Four (4) STOCK REDUCTION DIRECT SALES annually Savings of up to 50% on popular material Reduction sale lists emailed or posted free.

Phone 07 54631516.

Email:- slpfeffer@bigpond.com web : www.apta.com.au/bss.pdf

PHILATELIC SOCIETY OF CANBERRA Inc.

The society has a regular program of meetings, with displays, exchanges and discussion nights, and welcomes visitors to Canberra.

It has a flourishing exchange branch, which circulates to small stamp clubs in the south region, as well as in the Canberra area. It publishes, quarterly, a newsletter and a research journal ‘Capital Philately’. Enquiries about membership or about separate subscriptions to the journal should be directed to: Secretary: Tony Luckhurst Ph: 02 6241 1963 e-mail: tony_luckhurst@bigpound.com

JOIN TOPICAL STAMP COLLECTORS IN 90 COUNTRIES Join the AMERICAN TOPICAL ASSOCIATION! Many Benefits: 96-page TOPICAL TIME stamp journal containing articles and checklists, printed on slick coated paper, profusely illustrated.

Membership Directory (150 pages) of 8,000 members listed under 700 topics and specialties, plus services.

Biography service for 13,000 persons shown on stamps.

Membership Information Board to answer your questions.

Translation service.

Handbooks of many topics.

Much more...

Write today Airmail to :

AMERICAN TOPICAL ASSOCIATION PO Box 8, Carterville, IL 62918-0008, USA PH: 1-618-985-5100 Fax: 1-618-085-5131 Visa and Mastercard welcome

Trouble getting Stamp News?

Not a subscriber yet? See our handy form towards the back of this issue, you can also order your subscription through your favourite stamp dealer. The following Stamp Shops do keep Stamp News, though mostly for regular purchasers, so you may need to ask the dealer to order in an additional copy for you. ( dealers who have a standing order for a minimum of 3 copies monthly get a free listing here, ask for details)

New South Wales Gabriele’s Philatelic Service, Gabriele Woodbine, Suite 11/17 Gerrale Street, Cronulla, Ph: (02) 9544 3333 Fax: (02) 9247 8333 e-mail: gabriele@gabrieles.com.au Web: http://www. gabrieles.com.au Kennedy Stamps Pty Ltd, Robert Kennedy, Suite 706A, 250 Pitt St, Sydney 2000 Ph: (02) 9264 6168 Fax: (02) 9264 5969 e-mail: stamps@kennedystamps.com.au Web: www.kennedystamps.com.

Tasmania

The Stamp Place, Trafalgar on Collins, Shop 3, 110 Collins Street, HOBART TAS 7000, Ph: (03) 6224 3536 Fax: (03)62243536 e-mail: info@thestampplace.com Web: http://www. tazitiger.com

Victoria

Geelong Collectors Corner, 93 Little Malop Street, Geelong, VIC 3220, Ph: (03) 5229 4969 Max Stern & Company, Port Phillip Arc, 234 Flinders St, Melbourne VIC 3001, Ph: (03) 9654 6751 Fax: (03) 9650 7192 e-mail: maxstern@netspace.net.au Web: http://maxstern.customer.netspace.net.au Kevin Morgan Stamps & Coins, PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158 Tel: 0425 795 693 Fax: 03 9758 7506 email kmorgan2@ live.com Shields Stamps & Coins, 52 Burgundy St, Heidelberg, Vic., 3084 Ph. 03 9459 5953

Western Australia Cygnet Stamps, 8 Clevedon Way, Karringyup, WA, 6018. Ph/

Fax: 08 9447 8004 Ace Stamp Auctions, PO Box 2076, Ellenbrook, WA, 6069. Ph: 08 08 9297 3040 email: stampdealer@iinet.net.au There are also about 4950 newsagencies in Australia, and most of the major stores carry a number of copies, alternatively you can arrange with your local newsagent to put one by for you each month.

Stamp News - 75

Stamp News Australasia Advertising Rates & Data Commencing January 2015 Publication details Stamp News Australasia is published

by Stamp News Pty Ltd, ACN 099 565 223, at monthly intervals, twelve times per year. Publication date is the 1st day of each month.

Advertising deadlines 1st day of month prior to month of publication (eg the June edition advertising deadline is 1st MAY)

RATES - casual (all rates include GST) All Prices now include 4 Colour Separation Full page

Half Page

Quarter Page

Eighth

1 month

$900

$450

$225

$115

3 months

$850

$425

$215

$110

6 months

$800

$400

$200

$105

9 months

$775

$390

$195

$100

12 months

$750

$375

$190

$95

All rates are now for prepaid series only, 30 day terms will incur an accounting fee of 5%.

Payment via credit card on a monthly basis is also acceptable for prepayment terms at no surcharge, however American Express, Diners Club and Paypal payments will attract a 2.5% administration fee.

SPECIAL NOTES 1. Advertisers may vary their display advertising sizes within a contract period.

2. If booked advertising material does not arrive by the due date the Publisher reserves the right to publish a previously published advertisement in lieu.

3. Prices are for copy supplied in digital format to the required standard. If production work is required extra charges may be necessary. Please consult.

Required submission format Advertisements should be supplied in digital format (on disk or via email). Advertisements should be provided as high resolution PDF files, with all fonts embedded. All images must be scanned at 300dpi resolution and sent as separate files, and must not be compressed by jpeg below medium quality.

Price lists must be provided in Excel format. Phone to discuss other formats or alternatives. Note that MS Publisher files are NOT accepted.

Advertisement Sizes

Trimmed magazine size Full page nominal image size Half page horizontal Half page vertical Third page horizontal Third page vertical Quarter page horizontal Quarter page vertical

W 210 190 190 93 190 60 190 93

H 297 277 136 277 89 277 66 136

Advertising Contact Details Kevin Morgan Ph 0425 795 693 Fax: (03) 9758 7506 Stamp News, PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic 3158.

SPECIAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS Advertisers are hereby notified of the following conditions to which they signify their acceptance in submitting any advertisement: * Although oral instructions may be acted upon, no liability will be accepted for advertising instructions, alterations or cancellations made orally, they must be in writing. * No liability will be accepted for any loss occasioned by the failure of an advertisement or insert or any part of an advertisement or insert to appear in any specified issue, or for any error in an advertisement or insert. * Positions selected for advertisement are entirely at the discretion of the Publisher, except where otherwise arranged (see “Preferred Position�). * The matter, content and style of any advertisement is subject to approval of the Publisher. Advertisements held by the Publisher to be unlawful or undesirable in any way will be declined. * The Publisher reserves the right to suspend, refuse or withdraw any advertisement or order at its discretion at any time without notice. The Advertiser, in submitting an advertisement and/or material, is deemed to have agreed that no liability for claims, damages or compensation in respect thereof will be held against the Publisher. * TRADE PRACTICES: Advertisements submitted must be in strict accordance with the applicable State and Federal consumer and advertising laws in force from time to time. * INDEMNITY: In submitting any advertisement or insert, the Advertiser agrees that if any material, statement, information or matter contained in any such advertisement or insert is in breach of any statute, regulation or law (whether Federal, State or Territorial, directly, by inference or otherwise) and the Publisher publishes the advertisement or insert in good faith with no reason to be aware of such impediment and consequently suffers any penalty by reason of or arising from the publication of such material, then the Advertiser indemnifies the Publisher against the amount of any such penalty and shall pay the amount thereof and any consequential and reasonable legal costs incurred by the Publisher.

Contributor & Advertiser Deadlines February 2015 Issue 2 January 2015 March 2015 Issue 1 February 2015 We reserve the right to repeat advertising from a previous issue if material is not received in time.

Email submission: info@stampnews.com.au

POSTAL BID SALES

A couple of examples from our stocks -

We produce regular Postal Bid Sales featuring a varied assortment of Australian and British Commonwealth stamps, priced to suit all budgets - Lots are estimated from as $1 upwards.

Our sales are run fairly in accordance with best industry practices.

CONTACT US TODAY TO RECEIVE OUR CURRENT SALE LISTING – ABSOLUTELY FREE!

Or View On-Line at www.burstamp.com NEW WEB-SITE – Visit

www.burstamp.com

to view our stock of quality Australia and New Guinea stamps

BURSTAMP.com

PO Box 132, BURPENGARY Q 4505 Email: burstamp@bigpond.com Phone: 0409 473 150 Fax: (07) 3102 8558 Mastercard &Visa Accepted

Mention you saw us in Stamp News!

Internet & Email Directory The following is an extensive listing of Stamp Dealer and Internet Website contact addresses worldwide.

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

Contact the Advertising Manager on Ph: 0425 795 693, Fax: 03 9758 7506, or email: kevinmorgan2@live.com www.brusden-white.com Publishers of Australia’s Gold Medal catalogue series - The Australian Commonwealth Specialists’ Catalogue. Order all volumes on line. Special offers also available. info@brusden-white.com

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

www.dunedinstamps.co.nz

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

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

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

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

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

78 - Stamp News

www.acestampauctions.com WA Auction selling classic material from the Commonwealth countries including Great Britain through to modern Australian errors that have only just been discovered. Attractive early Australian Kangaroos & KGV along with States material is also available. stampdealer@iinet.net.au

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

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

www.stampsaustralia.com.au

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

www.zirinskystamps.com Interested in a interesting monthly electronic stamp newsletter from New York?

Take a look at www.zirinskystamps.com/Newsletter

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

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

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

Varisell@aol.com

www.stampsale.com New Zealand and worldwide in our Ashford Stamps postal auctions. Ask for a catalogue, or view the website. Also ask for direct sales list of NZ Chalons. ashford@stampsale.com

21ST CENTURY AUCTIONS ___________________ www.21stcenturyauctions.com.au kevinmorgan2@live.com BILBY STAMPS & COVERS ______________________________ www.bilbystamps.com.au ann@bilbystamps.com.au HALLMARK STAMPS ____________________________________ hallmark@senet.com.au www.philatelyunlimited.com.au KENNEDY STAMPS P/L ______________________________ www.kennedystamps.com.au stamps@kennedystamps.com.au KEVIN MORGAN STAMPS AND COINS ___________________www.kevinmorgan.com.au kevinmorgan2@live.com VELVET COLLECTABLES ___________ Melbourne: mowbraysaustralia@ozemail.com.au Sydney: mowbraysaustralia@bigpond.com NORFOLK ISLAND PHILATELIC BUREAU _______________________ info@stamps.gov.nf PACIFIC STAMPS ____________________________________ www.pacificstamps.com.au info@pacificstamps.com.au STAMP NEWS AUSTRALASIA ________________________ www.stampnews.com.au info@stampnews.com.au STANLEY GIBBONS UK ________________________________ www.stanleygibbons.com sales@stanleygibbons.co.uk STATUS INTERNATIONAL ____________________________________ www.statusint.com auction@statusint.com Stamp News - 79

r s o r f e s ib t f cr i G s b u S

New subscription gift options.

In 2015 we are making these new subscription offers to make your subscription even more affordable: For each 12 months of your new subscription you may choose 1 of the following: 1) 2 recent Australia PNC covers, our choice retail value $45…or ask for a list of those available.

2) A 32 page European made black page stockbook, retail value $35 3) A Desert Magic Drying Book, retail value $35 4) Stanley Gibbons Collect British Stamps, current edition, retail value $29.95 5) 30 Eureka stocksheets, made in Australia on a Hagner machine, our choice of strip sizes, retail value $37.50 6) 5000 Prinz folded stamp hinges, retail value $25 7) A mixed selection of Prinz black or clear mounts (state which) retail value $45 8) 20 different Australian Antarctic Territory covers all with Base Cancels, retail value $40 9) 100 Different Peoples Republic of China stamps, all mint unhinged in sets, retail value $45 10) 500 Different Australian stamps, retail value $25 For a lifetime subscription you will receive all 10 gifts.

In the event of your chosen gifts being unavailable, we reserve the right to substitute.

Please circle the gifts required and return with your completed subscription form on the facing page together with and payment to: Stamp News Subscriptions, PO Box 1290, Upwey Vic. 3158 Australia. Fax, email and telephone subscriptions always welcome.

Subscribe and Save up to $158!* *5yr subscription

CHOOSE FROM OUR STAMP NEWS SUBSCRIPTION OFFERS!

This months free gift for subscribers: A complete thematic set or minisheet (may differ from those illustrated)

All prices include postage and packaging within Australia

6 months 12 months 24 months 36 months 60 months Lifetime

$49.50 $89.50 $169.50 $239.00 $379.00 $895.00

Every Month an exciting free gift for subscribers only.

Please add for postage & packaging: $3.00 per issue for NZ & Asia/Pacific Region $4.50 per issue rest of the world (airmail) NOTE: NEW LOWER PRICES

Please note: All subscriptions are nonrefundable and non-transferable.

OfďŹ ce Use Only

SUBSCRIPTION FORM - ABN 61 577 987 652 Stamp News, PO Box 1290 Upwey, VIC, 3158, Australia Ph: 0425 795 693 Fax: 03 9758 7506 Email: kevinmorgan2@live.com

Please enrol/re-enrol me as a subscriber to Stamp News Please start my subscription from the ................2015 issue Tick one (All prices include GST, Postage & Packaging within Australia 6 month trial subscription $49.50

1 year subscription $89.50

2 year subscription $169.50

3 year subscription $239.00

5 year subscription $379.00

Lifetime subscription $895.00

I enclose cheque/money order (CIRCLE ONE!) for the above amount - OR I hereby pay by Visa/Mastercard/Amex/Diners Club (CIRCLE ONE!) Card No: Name on card:.................................................................................................

Expiry Date: ................................... Signature ...............................................

Subscription Address: Name: .......................................................................

Address: .........................................................................................................

City:............................................ State/Postcode ...........................................

Country:..................................... Phone: (..........) ..........................................

Fax: (.........) .................................email:............... ...........................................

List of Display Advertisers

ACTS................................66 Australia Post....................4 Burstamp..........................77 Classic Stamps. .................82 Glen Stephens...............5, 21 Kevin Morgan S & C..........38 Mossgreen..........................2 Phoenix Auctions. .............84 Premier Postal Auctions....77 Richard Juzwin........3, 63, 83 Stampboards.com. .............66 Stamp News Mail Order ....47 Sutherland Phil................82 Vance Auctions Ltd...........82

VANCE AUCTIONS LTD. Serving Stamp and Postal History Collectors Since 1972

Collecting Canada?

You will find a tremendous variety of singles, sets, covers, errors, varieties, collections, and stocks in our sales every 7 weeks.

Contact us today for your FREE colour catalogue or view it online at

www.vanceauctions.com P.O. Box 267, Smithville, Ontario Canada L0R 2A0 Toll Free Phone: 877-957-3364 Fax: 905-957-0100 mail@vanceauctions.com