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Contents Articles Woodchip Free Zone: Rod Perry ...................................................6 A cover tells a story: Christer Brunström ................................. 14 Stamps in the News: Margo Campbell .................................... 18 Looking at New Zealand: Graeme Morriss ............................... 28 Cinderella Corner: Tony Presgrave ............................................ 32 Revenue Review: Dave Elsmore ................................................. 42 Introducing the APF: Ian McMahon .......................................... 48 Market Matters: Glen Stephens .................................................. 58

Information Stamp Quiz No. 1 ............................................................................. 17 Review: Ken Sanford....................................................................... 27 Trading Post....................................................................................... 68 Clubs & Societies ....................................................................... ......70 Calendar.............................................................................................. 73 Products & Services Directory............................................... ......74 Internet & Email Directory...................................................... ......78 List of Advertisers .............................................................. ..............82

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This month features usage of the 1973 National Development series, following upon the “Beef” set usage article last month, being the next in the series of short-term definitives, introduced in June 1973.

I have long found that usage material of this series is generally hard to find, but it was not until I commenced research for this article that I discovered just how much that is the case.

This series, of course, was just another of so many swept in to the vortex that was the Great Decimal Boom of the late 1970s. I recently read that Sydney’s median house price increased by approximately 40-fold

Figure 1. “VG” (very good?) perfins solo and multiple frankings for 20c

Figure 2. Combination frankings most likely source of 20c usage articles 6 - Stamp News

between 1973 and 2013, from around $22,000 to $880,000. Mint sets of the subject series readily sold at many times face value during the boom, and have subsequently fallen dramatically.

Interestingly, commercial covers featuring the series, unloved during the boom, nowadays can boast Sydney real estate type performance improvement in market prices over the four decades.

spur of the moment to be an abbreviation for “perforations very good”. The auction asking price appeared to be very low, so speculatively he bought the lot, moments later to realise he had shot himself in the foot.

“VG” punctures 45 years ago were, well, rather unpopular.

Not so today, and there are many stamps which are scarce and sought-after with State Government Figure 3. Very rare specific purpose uprate utilising 20c pair punctures. On postal entire, few can be scarcer than the 20c My thanks to Tim Rodger for use of the scans of this series punctured “VG”. Figure 1 has solo from his incomparable collection of usage material and strip of three used on separate Government from the Decimals I era (1966-75).

Dept. “returns” postage cards, paying in Nov 1973 Forgive this recollection: c1970 a client paid me one of many regular visits to my Melbourne office. He had with him a number of Kangaroo 5/punctured “VG”, an auction lot he had just bought at one of the now long defunct CBD auctions. It transpired he was sitting in the auction room when this unviewed lot was offered, he noting the description “perf VG”, taken on the Figure 4. 25c solo for U.S. airmail scarcer than one would expect Stamp News - 7

Figure 5. 25c x2 for double Zone 4 airmail 20c Letter rate (50-100gms) and 60c intrastate (beyond 50kms) 500gms-1kg Parcel rate. Auction estimate: $300 pair.

Figure 2 is a combination franking for 25c

airmail to U.S., posted at Toowoomba Dec 20 1973. The 20c was placed too low for machine cancel, and was “killed� by the cds when noted a day later. Retail value around $25.

Figure 6. Another rare specific purpose uprate, this time the 25c

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Usage collectors enthusiastically seek out items where the subject stamp uprates an article for a specific service.

In the instance of Figure 3 we have 20c x2 paying the 40c Messenger Delivery fee Dee Why to Sydney Jul 30 1973.

Auction estimate: $200.

Generally airmail items to U.S. in the 1970s are amongst the more readily available of the five airmail Figure 7. Single 25c pays specific service uprate zones. This 25c stamp is however rather the stamp was replaced by the 25c Anteater. Used scarce paying Zone 4 Five Dock to U.S. Oct 19 1973. Auction estimate: airmail. The rate had reduced from 30c to 25c on $75.

Oct 1 1973, leaving a window of opportunity for Figure 5 has 25c x2 for double U.S. airmail use of around only four and a half months before

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Figure 9. Late use of 30c to Denmark rate, sent Dec 21 1973 Strathfield to Ohio. Auction estimate: $80.

The increasingly expensive Messenger Delivery service became more so on Oct 1 1973, rising from 40c to 50c. Adding to confusion over service terminology, the P.O. Guide of that date

Figure 10. 30c pair to U.S. 10 - Stamp News

refers to “Express Delivery”. The sender of Figure 6 must have deliberated before uprating this missive. Sent Taree to Sydney on Dec 12 1973, it will be noted that the 7c Envelope was cancelled before addition of the National Development 25c x2. Auction estimate: $200.

Figure 7 has 25c paying Certified fee Willoughby to Sydney Dec 12 1973. Auction estimate: $75.

I like Figure 8, which on Oct 3 1973 had been franked 57c by meter machine, 50c of which was for registration fee Brunswick to Richmond. Only problem, the registration fee had increased from 50c to 75c two days earlier. The rate increase required the addition of the 25c, a rather

novel use. Auction estimate: $75.

The 30c was replaced by the 30c Brushtail possum on Feb 13 1974, so use of our subject 30c in Figure 9 on Mar 25 1974 for Zone 5 airmail Melbourne to Denmark suggests the G.P.O. had residual stock. Auction estimate: $50.

Figure 10 has 30c pair paying double airmail rate Sydney to N.Y. Jul 2 1973.

Auction estimate: $60.

The Zone 5 airmail Figure 11. 35c solo, not easy to find rate decreased from 35c to 30c on Oct 1 1973, Figure 12 features 35c and Architecture 40c leaving less than four making combination for 75c registration fee, months in which the 35c stamp could be used for that purpose. Figure 11 is one such use, Melbourne Milton Centre to Melbourne Dec 13 1973. Auction estimate: $50. to West Germany Aug 3 1973. Auction estimate: To finish this month, I’ve selected four £SD $50. covers, and thank Danny Jurd of Velvet Collectables Group for use of the two KGV items from his March 21 sale.

Figure 13, Nov 30 1918 Printed matter rate (introduced Oct 28 1918) Estimated $200, realised $200 (excluding premium).

The Die III 1d is very scarce on cover, and as a solo franking is rare. This was a very astute purchase; many relatively easy to find KGV Monogram and Figure 12. Attractive combination franking Stamp News - 11

Imprint items can sell for much more. For example, I have seen many more Monogram configurations of the Die III stamp than I have seen of the basic issue borne upon intact postal articles, recalling that even Monogram singles realise far more than did this important usage item.

The unscrupulous in Philately have pretty much rendered Commonwealth punctured Officials, and to a lesser extent the overprinted issues (the Kingsford Smith pair very much so), guilty until proven innocent. If I were to form a specialised collection of Official stamps it would consist wholly of usage of the stamps on postal articles, such as Figure 14. This most attractive and unusual combination of KGV ½d pair punctured and 4d overprinted “OS”, paying 2d letter rate + 3d Airmail surcharge, was sent from Canberra to Brock’s Creek N.T. Jun 16 1932.

Figure 13. Rare 1d Die III solo use No “maybe’s” in identifying these as genuine Official stamps. Estimated at $300, it realised stamp, judging by its modest ACSC representation. a respectable $370. Great value for money, in my It has become rather famous however as a very opinion. scarce stamp as a solo franking. Its primary purpose The little 1952 KGVI 4½d is a rather bland was for surface mail Foreign postcards. Tim Rodger

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Figure 15. Rare form of pioneer usage hero

issue was philatelically disseminated. Curiously, postal use of the printing on intact postal articles is remarkably rare. In over 25 years of research, I’ve seen less than half a dozen usage items.

From the outset, let me add, 2/6d stamps on intact postal articles are very uncommon, be they the original Aboriginal (excuse that), the watermarked issue of 1952, replacement unwatermarked issue, or successor 2/6d Bird.

The “Emergency” 2/6d was never going to be any different, even allowing for the difficulty in classification for some.

Again from Tim, Figure 16 is a recent eBay find. This Jan 10 1966 use of “Emergency” 2/6d and QEII 2d was for 8d second weight step letter + 2/- registration fee. The sender was Philatelic trader Max Cohen, utilising the then current stamps.

recently unearthed a particularly rare variant usage, Figure 15. This Jun 16 1952 cover Sydney to New York apparently once contained a postcard, for which the rate remained 4½d provided the flap was unsealed. I’ve recorded just one other example.

I rate this as a more important item than, say, the companion 6½d brown of the series with ACSClisted “Jumped perforation”, which catalogues $1000.

Imprint blocks of four of the “Emergency” printing 2/6d Aborigine are very collectable, if for no better reason than they provide an infallible identification of the printing, which is not otherwise generally readily recognised by today’s collectors.

The only unwatermarked issue with an imprint is the “Emergency”. There are thousands of these imprint blocks available to collectors, who were quick to pounce upon Post Offices to Figure 16. Emergency printing 2/6d Aborigine doesn’t come in a extract the requisite corner block much rarer form once the announcement of the

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A COVER TELLS A STORY Most collectors put aside stamps and covers for future study. After some time they are completely forgotten and when they resurface they frequently provide a lot of philatelic pleasure. I recently discovered such a forgotten cover. Researching this cover was really quite interesting.

The cover had been mailed from Melbourne, Victoria, on 5 July 1889 and it reached its destination in the city of Lund, Sweden, on 10 August 1889. Considering that this was long before today’s fast airmail the transit time of a little more than a month is quite impressive.

The recipient of the cover was Jacob Georg Agardh (1813-1901). He was a professor of

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botany at the University of Lund from 1847 to 1879. His major interest was the study of algae.

Agardh had also created Lund’s botanical gardens and he was deeply involved in politics.

But, who had mailed the letter? There is no named sender indicated on the cover but it has one significant clue. In the lower left corner of the cover we find the words Government Botanist, Melbourne. The sender had also used a service cover for the Chief Secretary, Victoria.

This kind of official envelopes with imprinted frank stamp were used by a variety of government departments in Victoria from 3 August 1864 until the system was abolished on 31 October 1902.

Christer Brunström There are some 20 different varieties of these franks. Some are rare that that is not the case with the frank stamps for the Chief Secretary.

The letters and parcels of government officials were carried free of charge by the Victoria Post Office provided that they had a printed Frank Stamp. However, they were only valid within Victoria and to the other Australian colonies.

Now who was the government botanist at the time?

The answer is Ferdinand von Mueller (18251896). He was born in Rostock in the German Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg and emigrated to Australia where he became Victoria’s

government botanist in 1855. Two years later he was appointed director of the botanic gardens in Melbourne. Von Mueller travelled extensively throughout Australia and studied the continent’s vegetation. He named more than 2.000 flowers and plants.

Ferdinand von Mueller had many contacts with Sweden and Swedish scientists. In 1863, he was made a member of the Physiographic Society of Lund and in 1892 he was invited to join the Swedish Academy of Sciences. This was probably where he got to know Professor Agardh.

In 1901, a monument in honour of the famous botanist was erected in Melbourne and in 1948 he

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A COVER TELLS A STORY was depicted on an Australian postage stamp.

After the letter had been posted in Melbourne of 5 July 1889 it most probably travelled by train to Adelaide where the post sacks to Europe were loaded onboard the SS Liguria which left the harbour of Adelaide on 8 July 1889 at 4 PM. The SS Liguria was owned by the Orient Line. The ship called at Naples in Italy on 6 August 1889 where the mail bags for Central and Northern Europe were unloaded and then sent northwards by rail. On 8 August 1889 the cover had reached Kufstein in Austria. From there it went to Munich with the Royal Bavarian Railways as indicated by a cancel on the back of the cover.

On 9 August 1889 the cover had reached Malmö in the south of Sweden which is shown

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by the PKXP No 62 railway cancel. When the train reached Lund it was handed over to the local post office which delivered it to Professor Alandh the next morning. In all probability the letter had some interesting news from the professor’s Australian colleague.

Fellow Stamp News columnist Rod Perry told me that he values the cover at $100 which by far exceeds what I paid for it years ago.

I would like to thank Swedish collector Staffan Ferdén for telling me how the cover travelled all the way from Australia to Italy. He has a major collection of 19th century Swedish covers addressed to Australia which was last exhibited at the Baltex show in Malmö in late August 2014.

The Stamp News Quiz No.1

by David Keane 1. When was the ‘penny post’ introduced by the London Post Office? a. 1740s b. 1840s c. 1680s 2. Which ‘city views’ were depicted on Australia’s first stamps in 1850?

3. Which country issued the famous ‘bull’s eye’ stamps in 1843?

4. What colour was the stamp issued with the ‘penny black’?

5. What Scandinavian country issued the early ‘serpentine rouletted stamps’?

6. Australia has issued triangular stamps, true or false?

7. What can be ‘small multiple’, ‘spray of rose’ or ‘anchor’?

8. Which Cary Grant/Audrey Hepburn film included a search for rare stamps?

9. What denomination was the first Australian Commonwealth stamp in 1913?

10. Who is depicted as the ‘Chalon Head’ on postage stamps?

The first all correct entry drawn will win a prize. Entries must be received by June 1, 2015 This month the prize will be a pair of German Made 150mm pointed stamp tweezers value $16.50 Please send your entries to Stamp News Quiz May 2015 PO Box PO Box 1290, Upwey, Vic, 3158, Australia Don’t forget to include your name & address!

Stamps in the News - Globally!

Nothing to Crowe about Reported at www.smh.com.au

Australia’s Immigration Department appears to be puzzled over Russell Crowe’s claims that he’s not been given citizenship of his adopted home.

New Zealand-born Crowe recently voiced his frustration at not being afforded citizenship of Australia, dubbing it as “unreasonable.”

“I’ve been voted one of Australia’s 50 national treasures. I’ve even had my face on an Australian stamp, the only non-Australian to do so, apart from the Queen, of course. It’s so, so…unreasonable.”

He did indeed appear on a stamp, the 55 cent back in 2010 in a series named ‘Australian Legends’, alongside Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush.

Crowe has lived in Australia since 1968, and has said that he’s “fallen between the cracks,” with claims he was rejected in 2006 and 2013.

But the Department of Immigration has said that he’s not applied for citizenship at all.

A spokesman wrote: “According to Departmental records, Mr Crowe has not submitted an

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application for a permanent visa or for Australian citizenship.

“Should Mr Crowe apply for and be granted a permanent visa, there are a variety of options that he may use to meet the eligibility requirements, including the residence requirements.”

Looking for a career change?

Reported at www.telegraph.co.uk

Antarctic post office is looking for new staff Post office workers must be able to dodge the island’s colony of penguins.

Applicants to run the world’s most southerly post office have been warned about the harsh realities of life in the Antarctic.

The successful candidates will spend five months on Goudier, an island “the size of a football pitch” just off the Antarctic peninsula, sorting the mail at Port Lockroy, a former British scientific base.

The post office workers share the island with a colony of 2000 penguins.

For $2180 per month, they will be expected to dig out snow, face temperatures of minus 15 degrees, and go for a month without taking a shower, as there is no running water.

There is no resident population, but the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust employs four staff to run the post office in the summer, when they sort 70,000 letters sent by visiting cruise ship passengers.

“Can you carry a big heavy box over slippery rocks and slushy snow whilst dodging penguins?”

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asks the job advertisement.

Jane Cooper, 37, from Gloucestershire, who worked as postmistress the season before last, said it was the “opportunity of a lifetime”.

But there were downsides. “If you slice spam really thinly, fry it and close your eyes, you can just about convince yourself it is bacon,” she said.

Korean battle settled in court

Reported at www.washingtonpost.com A US federal appeals court has upheld $540,000 in damages the U.S. Postal Service owes to a New England artist who did not authorize his sculpture to appear on a 37-cent Korean War stamp.

Last week’s ruling is a victory for Frank Gaylord, 89, a World War II veteran and sculptor.

Nine years ago, he sued the USPS for using his depiction of a squad of soldiers on patrol, the central part of the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, without his consent.

The decision affirmed an earlier ruling by the U.S Court of Federal Claims that the Postal Service should pay 10 percent of the $5.4 million in revenue the stamp has generated since it was issued in 2002 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the Korean War. USPS spokesman said postal officials are “reviewing the court’s opinion.”

The mistake by postal officials appears to have been an oversight. The agency used a photograph of the sculptures taken by an amateur photographer during a snowstorm in the 1990s. The Postal Service paid the photographer $1,500, but did not seek Gaylord’s consent to use the image of his work.

The Postal Service appealed the lower court’s decision that a 10 percent royalty was the right amount in damages.

“There is only one nationally recognized Korean War Memorial, and by 2003, that memorial was a distinctively valuable subject for a commemoration of the veterans of that war,” said Judge Taranto.

“Under these circumstances, the trial court did not err in concluding that, faced with limited alternatives, the Postal Service would have agreed to a per-unit license.”

Creating hidden meaning in stamps Reported at www.linns.com

Post offices around the world offer personalized stamps. Usable just like regular stamps with the same value, they display an image chosen by the customer.

The choice of this image is not entirely free, as a Tibet supporter in Austria found out. He ordered personalized stamps from the Austrian post office showing an image consisting of the text “His Holiness the Dalai Lama” and a portrait of the Tibetan leader. Through informal channels he was told that pressure from the Chinese embassy in Vienna had led to the cancellation of the order.

Would it be possible to circumvent such restrictions using visual cryptography? A Mathematics academic from University of Pavia has tested this theory.

Visual cryptography is where from a blackand-white image, two images of the same size are produced that look like random collections of points. If printed on transparencies, these two random-looking images when held on top of each other show the original image with a loss of contrast.

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The story behind the stamp: the sad tale of Emma the Red Reported at www.stampnews.com

Above : Before Left : Image emerges when stamps are overlaid and backlit.

random-looking images from an image showing the letters “HH THE DALAI LAMA.” These two images were then submitted as images for personalized stamps.

If anyone at the post office had held one image on top of the other, the design would probably have been refused just like the original one was. It appears that this did not occur to anyone, since the Austrian post office printed 100 stamps each of the two random-looking images.

When visual cryptography is applied to stamps, there are problems like the small size and nontransparent material. Personalized stamps are always printed on white paper. This means that the chosen image is only visible if the two stamps held on top of each other are artificially lit from the back.

Furthermore, computer graphics issues involving the file format JPEG and the small size of the stamps meant that black and white rectangles of a certain minimal size had to be used. This, together with the size of the stamps make this an interesting experiment rather than a real risk to postal administrations’ control.

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In 2002, New Caledonia issued a stamp of a statue of a young European woman in a long dress. The caption merely gives her name as Emma Piffault – no dates or epithet to provide a clue.

The story behind the stamp is both intriguing and touching. Known today as Emma the Red, she was a twelve year-old girl when she arrived with her mother in 1873 to join her father Eugene-Joseph Piffault, a bookseller who had been deported to New Caledonia for his part in the Paris Commune of 1871. Thousands of Commune survivors were deported to the South Pacific where they lived in unimaginable squalor in lean-to shelters in the prison camp on Nou Island.

Emma was barely sixteen when she died of tuberculosis in 1877. The beautiful teenager had touched the hearts of her fellow exiles and when she died her companions commissioned the painter Felix Henry to sculpt a statue of her in the reddish terracotta mined at Tindu Mountain.

The statue of Emma Piffault survived long after everyone who had known her was dead. Legends grew up around the figure, which to Noumea was like the Little Mermaid is to Copenhagen. The Red

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Virgin became an object of veneration but as a result was desecrated by grave robbers seeking hidden treasure.

After the cemetery was flattened in 1971 the remains of the statue were scattered and lost, apart from about 60 fragments which were salvaged.

The sculptor Michel Rocton, working with the fragments and a few rare photographs of the girl, spent a year in reconstructing the life-sized statue which was recently unveiled in the Penitentiary Museum.

Emma’s tender, wistful smile evokes the courage and endurance of the Commune deportees and her reborn statue has become a place of pilgrimage and one of New Caledonia’s leading tourist attractions.

‘Special Delivery’ Promotion Has Readers Putting Their Own Stamp on Things Reported at www.publishersweekly.com

Since it requires far too many stamps to mail an elephant to her Great-Aunt Josephine, “who lives almost completely alone and could really use the company,” resourceful Sadie delivers the pachyderm herself in Special Delivery, written by Philip C. Stead and illustrated by Matthew Cordell.

The recently published picture book had an imaginative launch with Special Delivery Day, a promotion in which elementary students in 38 schools from Maine to Hawaii made their own special deliveries – courtesy of Macmillan Publishing and the USPS. The genesis of the book was a conversation with a friend, who told Stead that she had dreamed she’d brought an elephant to the post office, but couldn’t afford the postage to mail it anywhere. “I wrote the first draft that day,” recalled the author, who is an avid stamp collector. “My friend’s dream reminded me immediately of one of my favourite Maurice Sendak illustrations, of an elephant, all covered in stamps, ready to be sent off in the mail.

I suppose that on a subconscious level my love of stamps fuelled the spirit of the story, too. I view every stamp in my collection as the artifact of an incredible adventure.”

Macmillan Publishing, joined into the spirit with a promotional plan for Special Delivery. Playing on the story’s theme, the organised a pen pal-themed Special Delivery Day for the book’s pub date and reached out to teachers around the country who helped spread the word.

“We wanted to find a way to connect classrooms in the spirit of the book,” said a Macmillan spokesman. “We wanted to put together a pen pal program to help enlarge kids’ worlds a bit, and this was the perfect book for that. And we like that this has nothing to do with winning prizes- its a feel-good project that is all about teachers and kids making connections.”

Each of the participating 38 grade K-5 received a very special delivery: a copy of the book, wrapped in brown paper tied up with string, to read to their students. Also included in the package were a letter from Stead extolling the fun of letter writing and a packet of postcards featuring art from the book. The kids wrote to “friends” in their sister classrooms, citing something they’d like to either send or receive via mail.

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One teacher commented: “We live in a onestoplight town, and the kids’ world is very small.

Any time we can help them see the world as a bigger place is rewarding.”

The author was delighted. “There’s something about that adventure and the time it takes to get a piece of mail from one place to another,” he said.

“Kids are going to receive real letters from other children, maybe for the first time in their lives, and they will feel the realness of the sender in a way that they would not if a computer stood as the middleman.”

Greenlanders doing it for themselves Reported at www.worldstampnews.com

75th Anniversary Stamp by the Greenland Post On 17th September 1938 the Danish Official Gazette announced “From this provision it comes into force that messages sent from Greenland to Denmark and abroad shall be stamped with Greenland stamps”.

With effect from December 1st 1938 The Greenland Post Office became a member of The Universal Postal Union and new Greenlandic stamps were on sale from that date.

The stamps were issued in denominations of 1, 5, 7, 10 and 15 ore bearing the image of Christian X and 0.30 kroner and 1.00 Danish krone featuring the design of a polar bear. These are the motifs of the

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sovereign and the polar bear which have formed the basis for the stamps in whole sheets and souvenir sheets now created by Bertil Skov Jørgensen as a distinguished commemoration of the 75th anniversary of The Greenland Post Office.

The issue of these first Greenlandic stamps in 1938 has since been followed by over 500 stamps, each of which reflects the development of Greenland, its history, nature and culture, from Independence, culture in prehistoric times, right up to today’s modern Greenland.

Record finds from China and Russia Reported at http://globenewswire.com

It started with a phone call to auction house, Kellehers, from an overseas client excited about a find in a lot of used classic Russian Coat of Arms issues: a 20 kopeck value of the 1875 issue variety listed in Scott as the “crossed-shaped ‘T’ in bottom word” for “twenty” variety.

Then came the real surprise. Upon further inspection, he noticed that the centre was inverted.

Russian expert, Paul Buchsbayew, confirmed the find noting in his expertizing certificate: “A great rarity from Imperial Russia, one of only four known (to me) inverted centers of this value; obviously unique error with the plate flaw variety”. The stamp therefore, shows a combination of Scott No. 30ab, and is unique. The basic inverted center variety carries a current Scott catalog value of $85,000.

Within days of the discovery of the rare Russian invert, another huge discovery was made by the Kelleher firm. Though the source of the following major rarity cannot be revealed, a Kelleher spokesman commented, “The China Large Dragon cover is a true discovery--having rested for many years in a collection the owner of which did not know about

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the full significance of it.”

The China Large Dragon Cover from Peking to Tokyo in 1884, written by Saburo Yokata to Kuniomi Yokata, Minister of Justice in Tokyo, Japan, endorsed “Tokio Japan” on front, franked with Japan 5s blue New Koban stamp cancelled by a crossroads-shaped obliterator along with “Shanghai 19 MAR 1884 I.J.P.A.” date stamp imprint.

Reverse of the cover shows China 5ca chrome yellow Large Dragon on thick paper, smooth perforation issue, cancelled by one complete and one partial strike of Peking, China seal in blue, with matching “I.G. of Customs MAR 10 84 Peking” date stamp alongside, next to the 5ca stamp, which shows a partial second strike where a 1ca stamp was affixed, then lost in transit. Interestingly and quite amazingly as well, is that exactly where the 1ca would have appeared, a Tokyo (Meiji) 17.3.22 double circle date stamp appears, tying the 5ca Dragon! Estimated value: $50,000 - $60,000US. “This 1884 China cover is truly remarkable for several reasons. In Jame B. Whang’s authoritative A Comprehensive Illustration of the Covers of

Chinese Large Dragons, the author notes ‘Large Dragons addressed to destinations in Japan are extremely rare, so far only two are known.’

Secondly, according to Whang, this cover would now represent the earliest known cover charged according to the new 6ca rate to the U.S. or Japan. Thus, a huge find and a rarity of high significance,” the spokesman said.

Both the Russian invert and the China Large Dragon cover will appear at auction later this year.

Postage stamp portraits Reported at www.abc.net.au

David Bowie, Barack Obama, Ghandi and Marge Simpson line the walls in the “Nothing New?” exhibition, and their eyes seem to follow you around the room. It is only when you get up close you can see the smaller details, stamped right across their faces.

Bundaberg artist Marlies Oakley spent the last 18 months working on the 22-piece exhibition.

In preparation for the latest exhibition at the Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, Marlies has been working her way through thousands of postage stamps and hundreds of hours of television programs.

“It was very therapeutic. You just sit there, you’re listening to DVDs or music and you just go into your own world while you’re cutting up stamps,” she said.

“Because I’m using old postage stamps, I cut them and glue them, so this is nothing new, because they have been used before. The images I’m using have been around for a while as well - everybody knows them, so they’re not new”.

“But the way I’m putting the stamps together to create these portrait images, hopefully creates something new.”

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- something which relates to the portrait.

Then I sit there cutting and gluing them all together and in one of those images there are up to 4,000 stamps.”

For an interview with the artist and video of her creating a collage with stamps see: https://vimeo. com/84731078

Confucius says….

Reported at www.post.gov.tw

The portrait of Captain Cook is made up of images of Australian flags, the image of Queen Elisabeth II is formed by hundreds of horses, and Marge Simpson is constructed of yellow flowers.

“I think it just became an obsession in the end, I just couldn’t stop,” Marlies said.

“Before I even start with the stamps I do a painting of the portrait I want to fill up with stamps.

Then I go through my boxes, and boxes, and boxes of stamps and find images which suit the portrait.

In Ned Kelly I’ve got lots of sheep shearers, I’ve got lots of Australian animals all over it, and I’ve got bits of Sidney Nolan’s paintings in there

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Chunghwa Post in Taiwan is issuing a set of four stamps on idioms to enhance teenagers’ understanding of Chinese idioms and to inspire them. The issue was released on the 20th of March. The designs follow: 1. Bo Le Appraises the Horse: Bo Le is the name of a constellation in charge of the heavenly stable.

There was once a man that many called Bo Le because he was expert in the ways of horses. There is a legend about his search for a good horse. One day, he saw a horse struggling to pull a salt cart up a steep slope. Bo Le knew that this was the horse he was looking for, so he purchased it. After being properly cared for, the horse did indeed become a great war horse. Later, people began to call anyone

Compiled by

Margo Campbell before he returns. How can tiny blades of grass repay the sun, however much they appreciate its warmth?” The idiom describes how children receive so much from their parents that it is hard to expect them to repay it in kind.

Stamps of disapproval

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who was good at scouting talent Bo Le. 2. The Ambition of a Swan: There was a man called Chen She who was poor when he was young and once worked as a farmhand. One day, he woefully said to his coworkers: “Let’s not forget about each other when one of us strikes it rich one day”. The others laughed and said, “You are just a hired farmhand”. Sighing, Chen said “How can a sparrow know the ambition of a swan?” The idiom compares ordinary people to sparrows, who are incapable of understanding the aspirations of a hero.

Later, the idiom came to be used to describe great ambition.

3. Adept with Both the Pen and the Sword: In a famous Chinese novel, a man beats Kong Ming at his own game. Surprised, Kong Ming inquires about him: “Who is that? How did he see through my trick? “He then was told: “His name is Jiang Wei who is very devoted to his mother. He is adept with both the pen and the sword. He is a truly outstanding fellow”. The idiom “adept with both the pen and the sword” is now used to encourage people to pay attention to their work and their extracurricular skills.

4. Tiny Blade of Grass and Spring Sun: A famous Tang dynasty poem reads as follows: “The thread in the hand of a loving mother goes into the clothes for her wandering son. She makes the stitches tight before he leaves, worrying it might be a while

In March 1869, the US Post Office Department issued a set of ten stamps that broke from convention. These designs were pictorial: a locomotive, a ship, a mail carrier on horseback, the landing of Columbus, among other scenes of American life and history.

Additionally, the 1869 Pictorial issues were nearly square, as opposed to rectangular. The gum was inferior. Four of the designs were printed in two colours.

People disliked them.

Six months later, it was reported, “in consequence of the National dissatisfaction with the new postage stamps, orders have been given to prepare designs to be issued in place of the present designs.”

And so began a centuries-long string of controversies over stamp design which continues to today.

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Stamps in the News - Globally!

Take the 3-cent commemorative stamp of 1948, for example, marking the centennial of the American poultry industry, showing a rooster waiting to crow at sunrise. The stamp was considered “undignified” and ended up being known as the “Chicken Stamp”.

Arguably the most controversial U.S. stamp ever issued made a splash in 1981, along with the message “Alcoholism: You can beat it!” Despite the Postal Service’s good intentions to convey to the public that alcoholism was treatable, recipients of letters with the stamp were insulted, believing the sender had accused them of having a drinking problem. The phrase “You can beat it” made the message too personal.

Yet purists have many agendas, from public health to historical accuracy, and voices often clash surrounding a single issue.

In 1982, for example, the Postal Service released a stamp for the centennial of President Franklin

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D. Roosevelt’s birth. The design was based upon a casual photograph of the President leaning out of a convertible, cigarette in hand — which triggered a strong and public reaction from the anti-smoking movement. Showing the former head of state smoking was unacceptable.

But with a 1994 stamp devoted to blues singer and guitarist Robert Johnson, the absence of the musician’s cigarette became controversial. The original photograph inspiring the design showed Johnson smoking, and yet the cigarette was eradicated from the stamp. While a spokesperson stated that the Postal Service didn’t want the stamp “to be perceived as promoting cigarettes,” the president of the National Smokers Alliance wrote, in a letter to the Postmaster General, that the revision was “an affront to the more than 50 million Americans who choose to smoke.”

The fact that a historical image had been amended made still others unhappy.

review

ken sanford

is effectively a study of the birth of aerial mail in Australia and New Zealand, and a comprehensive examination of the challenges and hazards facing those Published by the author, 300-pages, A4, full pioneers, from a social and historical, as color. US$90 outside the UK & Europe, well as a philatelic, perspective.

UKÂŁ50 within the UK, and Europe â‚Ź80, Forty-one pages are devoted to the all postpaid. Net proceeds are donated to Western Australia Airways crash on their charity as with other books published by this inaugural mail flight on 5 December author. Payment by PayPal to Brian Peace 1921. While this may appear excessive, at brpeace@ntlworld.com or go to www. an examination of the facts demonstrates brianpeace.com. For alternate payment that the appalling state of landing grounds method contact author. and the reluctance of the government to The title is slightly misleading. Yes, this invest in the provision of facilities they book covers all air crashes and incidents were contracted to provide, contributed to where mail was involved; but it is much accidents and death. more than that. The author has been The inclusion of a census of surviving thorough in setting a context; not simply covers for many of the most important explaining the distinction between an crashes, including that of 5 December accident and an incident, but detailing both 1921, will be one of the most important the constituent parts of an aircraft and the features for aerophilatelists, dealers and reasons for aerial events which lead to a auction houses. Each census also includes crash. So the reader can skim over the the auction history of the cover, and, where section on aircraft components, controls appropriate, the name of the collection and terminology, and return to it when a where it resides. technical explanation of a crash is required.

The tables at the end of each of the three There follows a chronology of aviation chapters are useful, in that it is a relatively accident investigation in Australia, New simple task to check early air mail covers Zealand and the UK. One can deduce from to establish if they were involved in an this that inquiries and investigations, even incident. Chapter one covers accidents and in the 1920s, were reasonably detailed incidents within Australia. Chapter two and professional. We are told that today, covers accidents and incidents within New investigations can take years, the sole Zealand. And chapter three covers accidents purpose being to learn from the event and and incidents involving mail being carried prevent a recurrence, the sole focus being on to or from Australasia. In this chapter, some safety, not allocating blame. flights suffered more than a dozen incidents The book is not simply a listing or and the author has introduced a novel way of record of accidents and incidents involving listing these in the table as being subservient mail within, to and from Australasia. It continued on p.31 AUSTRALIAN CRASH MAIL AND OTHER INCIDENTS, VOL ONE: 1917-1930

by Brian R Peace FRPSL

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Chatham Islands 1970 The Chatham Islands are volcanic outcrops on the eastern extreme of New Zealand’s continental shelf.

They lie 862 kilometres east of Christchurch but only 770 km southeast of the North Island’s east coast near Napier. They were first settled by Polynesian voyagers about 1400 AD. These people called themselves the ‘Moriori’, a dialectical variation from the same root as ‘Maori’, both words meaning ‘people’. They followed a huntergatherer culture with no food crops, living on the islands’ rich resources of fish and sea birds. As there were no trees suitable for making sea-going canoes, they lived in isolation from the rest of the world for 400 years. The population had built up to about

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2000 people by the late 18th century.

In November 1791, the brig HMS Chatham was blown off course and discovered the islands, landing on the main island. HMS Chatham,

Graeme Morriss captained by Lieutenant William Robert Broughton, was part of an expedition surveying the Pacific and the west coast of America under the command of George Vancouver.

By the early 1800s, European sealers and whalers, mainly from Sydney, were living on the islands. They introduced diseases against which the Moriori had no immunity and by 1835 their population had reduced to about 1700. In that year, a tribe of about 500 Maori displaced by warfare in the southwest of New Zealand’s North Island seized a merchant ship in Wellington Harbour and sailed to the Chathams to make a new home.

Although the Moriori offered no resistance, the Maori killed about 200 of them and enslaved the rest. Using this slave labour, the Maori grew vegetables and crops which they sold in Wellington. By the 1860s the surviving Moriori population was only about 100 people. Most of the Maori had returned to live in New Zealand and interbreeding amongst the remaining Moriori, Maori and European sealers and whalers led to a distinctive population known today as ‘Chatham

Islanders’. In recent years, population numbers have slowly declined and in 2006 only 612 people lived on the islands.

In modern times, the economy has revolved around fishing, sheep and cattle farming and, most recently, forestry and tourism. A fish freezing operation was established in 1910 but has since closed. A short boom harvesting crayfish (lobsters) in the 1980s ended when stocks declined. Sheep and cattle products cannot really be exported economically because of the expense and limited availability of transport from the islands.

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Economic activity has to be subsidized by the New Zealand government.

Locals requested a set of stamps to mark their presence on the islands as part of New Zealand.

No particular event was cited for commemoration but it can be seen as the 180th anniversary of the islands’ discovery by Europeans. There is a certain symmetry in the dates (1791 to 1971).

The stamp designs by Eileen Mayo feature flora and fauna unique to the Chathams. The Chatham Islands Lily (Myosotidium hortensia) is sometimes called a forget-me-not though it is not a true member of that family. It has thick, glossy leaves and a bright blue flower. The Chatham Islands Mollymawk is a small albatross that breeds nowhere else in the world except on Pyramid Rock, a small islet near Pitt Island, the second main island in the Chathams group. It has a grey head and neck with a pale yellow bill. There is a black spot on either side of the bill near the hooked tip. The top of the wings is black, joined by a black patch on the bird’s back between the wings.

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The stamps were photogravure printed by the Japanese Government Printing Bureau. The plates had two panes of 50 images (10 rows of 5) numbered T201 for the 1 cent and T202 for the 2 cents. The paper was unwatermarked and chalky-surfaced; the perforation gauged 13 x 13½.

The date of issue was 2nd December 1970 – 5,107 covers received a special cancellation at the main town of Waitangi on the Chathams.

References: Catalogue of New Zealand Stamps, Auckland, Campbell Paterson, 1952 – .

The Postage Stamps of New Zealand, vol. 6, Wellington, RPSNZ, 1975.

Richards, Rhys, The Chatham Islands in Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand www.TeAra. govt.nz Graeme can be contacted through his website, www.stampsmw.top1.com.au .

review continued from p.27 to the most significant incident.

The six pages of references point to this study being not only thorough, but wideranging. There are several serious, even fatal crashes of mail carrying aircraft in Australia which have remained unrecorded in philatelic literature. The possibility of new crash covers emerging is an incentive for aerophilatelists, and dealers, to re-examine their early air mail covers.

The book is the culmination of decades of research and writings. The author first wrote on the subject 53 years ago, and is the acknowledged authority on the subject. It may be that the readership will turn out to be wider than the aerophilatelists and dealers mentioned in the introduction.

Some of the stories of the inter-continental flights are gripping, and one may wonder why some of these feats have remained largely unacknowledged.

Some of the cover scans are rather faint and poor quality, which is probably because the author received scans from many collectors and he had to use what he received.

We are told that four further volumes will follow over the next few years. This

ken sanford first volume has set a standard which it is hoped will be maintained. The book is very well done and will be essential for collectors of Australia & New Zealand crash covers.

Some of the cover scans are rather faint, but it is probably because the author obtained scans from other collectors, so it is difficult to get good clear scans.

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Cinderella Corner

in the Netherlands. These issues were supposed to announce the archipelago and flag of the The Republic of South Moluccas is a Republic of South Moluccas, point out the Government in exile in the Netherlands. The concern of this exile government, and win stamps that have been issued in this name are support from organisations such as the Universal bogus or private issues, having been produced Postal Union, the United Nations and others. without the authority of the South Moluccan In 1955 a large number of coloured Government.

The first issues appeared in 1950 and were the triangular or rectangular stamps prepared by the stamp dealer Henry Stolow appeared on the stamps of the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia market. These were printed in Austria without overprinted with “Republik Maluku Selatan”. verification of the status of the Republic. (Fig. These are believed to be forgeries.

3).

Stamp issues of the “Government in Exile” A further comment stated that the Republic appeared from about 1954, Fig. 1 and 2, and was proclaimed on the Indonesian Moluccas were probably sold by the exiled Government

South Moulccas. (Fig. 1, 2 And 3).

Fig. 1

Fig. 3 Fig. 2

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Islands of Ambon and Ceram. The Republic was in existence for only a short time as many of the inhabitants who supported the Republic fled to the Netherlands.

It is thought that the total number of stamp denominations issued was in the region of 150.

Adelaide Scenes. (Fig. 4, 5 and 6).

These three stamps were sent to me by a reader.

I have seen similar illustrations on picture postcards, but had not seen these before. I had a reference to who may have produced them, but as usual when I want it I can’t find it.

Oceanic Research Foundation. (Fig. 7).

This mini sheet was sent to me by one of my regular correspondents with a request for more information. After a bit of searching I came up with the following information.

The Oceanic Research Foundation is a not for profit conservation organisation based in San Francisco USA dedicated to “the preservation of the global marine environment and its biological diversity through underwater photography as a means of documenting changes to the oceans”. I did not go any further as their website included a link to another web page to go further and I was not inclined to go that deep.

Fig. 4

Fig. 5

Fig. 6

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Cinderella Corner

Glenelg Returned Services League.

(Fig. 8).

This stamp was among a lot of Cinderellas offered in the Phoenix auction of 10 April. It was issued to record a donation towards the erection of a memorial to those local soldiers who fought in the Second World War. A search of the RSL Virtual War Memorial website revealed several memorials in the Glenelg area and this one in Aroona Place seems to be the one referred to on the stamp. I could be wrong but the other memorials are either buildings or plaques in buildings.

V.A.O.C. (Fig. 9).

The Volunteer Air Observers Corps (VAOC)

was an Australian air defence organisation of World War II. The VAOC was formed on 31 December 1941 to support the Royal Australian Air Force by sighting and observing aircraft over Australia. The VAOC swiftly established observation posts across Australia and provided information to the RAAF’s regional air control posts. As the threat to Australia declined the VAOC’s role was expanded to include coast watching, assisting air traffic control and weather reporting. The VAOC was staffed by civilian volunteers and reached a peak strength of 24,000 personnel and 2,656 observation posts in 1944. After the end of the war the VAOC was disbanded on 10 April 1946. The above information is from Wikipedia.

Fig. 8 Fig. 7

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David Mallen This patriotic stamp was among a lot of Cinderellas offered in the Phoenix auction of 10 April. The Volunteer Air Observers Corps was a little known but important part of the War effort and many of these observation posts were in isolated inhospitable places.

Wasp Airlines. (Fig. 10).

This facsimile of the label issued by Western and Southern Provincial Airlines was produced

by Stamp News in August 2007. The originals are much more difficult to come by and were issued from March 25 1935 by the company for attaching to mail carried on the inaugural Sydney to Narromine service. They can also be

found on mails other than that special service as the company continued to issue them. Both the original and the facsimile were printed in sheets of six.

Woodpex 92. (Fig. 11).

To commemorate the 55th anniversary of the Woodville Philatelic Society they held an exhibition in the Woodville Town Hall. This miniature sheet was produced as part of the exhibition and sold as a fund raising effort. The miniature sheet was a block of four with the second pair reversed in relation to the other pair.

Unfortunately Woodville Philatelic Society is no more having passed into history about 3 years ago.

Fig. 10

Fig. 9 Fig. 11

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MAY OFFERS Prices valid to end May 2015 or until sold out.

ARRIVALS IN COLLECTIONS, SINGLES, LOTS AND MIXTURES: AP1) VAST WORLD COLLECTION IN 59 STOCKBOOKS. Terrific lot, untouched for 25 years from deceased estate. Organised by country/area chronologically, this lot must contain close to 30,000 stamps, if not more with some very good pickings noted throughout.

Plenty of earlier material, going up to around 1990 at the latest, majority is postally used.

Will pack into 4 or 5 cartons and we will post free to anywhere in Australia, just pay for insurance. Priced very reasonably at $2950. Lay-by available by negotiation.

AP2) Bulk Prinz mounts, buy at big discounts. Each pack contains a variety of sizes at around ONE THIRD of what it would cost to buy individual packs.

Please note that this offer is for CLEAR MOUNTS. A 500 Gram Pack contains around the same amount of mounts as in 15 regular packs of strips. Elsewhere these are selling at up to $89, my price 500 grams just $74, 250 grams $39, 1kg for $159. (I do carry a full range of Prinz Mounts both clear and black so just let me know what sizes you want if you prefer to buy in individual packs) AP3) Tweezers, famous Solingen German Manufacture, the one dealers prefer, 150mm pointed ends supplied in protective sheath. RRP $16.50 per pair, my price NEAR HALF at $8.50, or two pairs for $15. (Dealer special 10 pairs for $62.50) AP4) French Colonies, old packet of 100 different, mostly if not all pre-independence.

Made up near 50 years ago! Usual retail around $12, my price just $7.50 per pack, or two for $12!

AP5) Old tyme dealers packet stock, mostly single sets in Glassines priced to sell at up to $1.50 each some 30 odd years ago. These are Worldwide mainly thematic sets, in cto condition. A chance to buy at a HUGE DISCOUNT, there will be some duplication in these lots. 100 packets mixed, $150 retail for $49, Triple sized lot, $450 retail for $99.

AP6) Victoria 6d Woodblock, 4 margins on 1858 small neat cover Melbourne to Dublin, tied by Barred Numeral 1. Melbourne oval departure cds Jan 6 1858 and Dublin arrival cds MR 16 1858 on reverse. Sent “Per Colombian” Stamp has been affixed inverted, which would probably be to alert the addressee of bad news. We had a similar cover on last month’s list which I could have sold 3 times over, this one is nicer, as is to a way scarcer destination. $395

AP11) Range of British Commonwealth Omnibus stamps for 1949 UPU, in a range of imprint and plate No. blocks of 4, and corner pairs mostly hinged on top two stamps, pairs are MUH. A total of 68 blocks and 43 pairs. Price $179 AP12) As above, but for 1948 Silver Wedding, the low values only. 59 Plate blocks of 4, price $118 AP13) Bahamas 1948 Tercentenary set of 18 to One Pound, SG 178/93 MLH Cat 75 pounds. Price $49 AP14) Malta, 1948 Self Government original set of 15 MLH cat 85 pounds, price $59 AP15) Ascension, 1922 overprints on St. Helena set to 2/- SG 1-7 and SG 8, all mint lightly hinged cat 200 pounds. $133 AP16) Gambia 1922 set to 1/- fine used, inc. both 4d. Between SG 118-134, Min cat 80 pounds, price $49 AP17) New Guinea 1939 Airs to 2/- (11v) MLH, min cat is 360 pounds. Price $239 AP18) Bermuda 1936 KGV Pictorials complete to 1/6d, MLH cat 28 pounds, price $19 AP19) Jamaica 1921 -29 SG 94/106, complete to 10/- plus extra shades, 20v total, minimum Cat. 175 pounds. MLH, price $115 AP20) Papua 1932 Pictorials fine used set to 2/6d, SG 130 – 142, min Cat. 95 pounds, price $63 AP21) Papua 1938 Airs, 5v, complete fine used Cat. 55 pounds price $36 AP22) North Borneo 1931 50th Anniv. Set to 25c SG 295-299 MLH, Cat 80 pounds, price $53 AP23) Antigua 1932 Tercentenary set to 1/-, SG 81-88 MLH, Cat. Min 50 pounds Price $33 AP24) Norfolk Is. 1947 Ball Bays, complete set of 12 to 2/- in MLH Blocks of 4. Cat min 80 pounds price $49 AP25) 1953 Coronation Omnibus, complete with extras MLH, Cat 140 pounds, price $93 AP26) GB 1955 Waterlow HV Castles, MLH cat 225 pounds, price $125 AP27) GB 1951 Festival HVs set of 4, SG 509/12 MLH, cat 100 pounds, price $57.50

AP7) Great Britain 1934 10/- re-engraved Seahorse, SG 452 cat 80 pounds each in postally used block of 4, cancelled by circular (unusual as these are normally oval) London W1 hooded registered cds cancels. Some minor faults but this is a very scarce block. Total cat around $600, under 25% at $149

AP28) GB 1948 One Pound Brown MLH cat 25 pounds, price $16.50

AP8) Bulk Australian States, ideal for searching postmarks, shades and varieties. We can now offer by State. In mixed packets of 100. Smaller States will contain more duplication.

AP30) Australia & Victoria Postal Stationery collection, 104 items, mainly postally used in album. Highlight is 1d Red octagonal envelope uprated to Celebes, Dutch Indies, (addressees name deleted. Nevertheless very scarce) Most of this is KGV, with some nice uprates to Holland. Terrific value at under $20 per item, $1950

a) NSW b) Queensland c) South Australia d) Tasmania e) Victoria f) W.A. Price per 100 mixed $69, take different 3 packets for $189 AP9) Lovely collection of mainly Australia 1st flight and exhibition covers, many scarce items here including Pilot signed items, and AAT Base flown covers dating from 1929 to 1956. Highlights are 1933 “Faith in Australia” card, AAMC No. 348 signed by both Allan and Ulm, cat $200, and 1956 Olympics full set on official cover with OLYMPEX registration label. 93 items, Priced very reasonably at $15 per item. $1395 AP10) Western Australia officials, Perf OS. Commonwealth period 1910 -1912 values Halfpenny to 5/- all postally used including scarce 4d perf 11. A very scarce assembly, comprising SG 125, 126, 138, 139b, 139c, 140, 141a, 141b, 142, 142a, 142b, 143, 145, 153 and 154. Price $595

AP29) GB Phosphor issues 1962 NPY, 1963 Freedom from Hunger, 1963 Cable, 1963 Nature, 1964 Forth Road Bridge, 1965 Churchill, Parliament Salvation Army and Battle of Britain in blocks 4 (4d in block of 6) , generally 2 in each block are MUH. Price $195

AP31) Heavy binder with Collections MUH of Fiji, Nauru & Norfolk Is. 1947 to 1998 stored in around 100 new double sided Hagners, retail of these alone $225. Absolutely huge retail! $1350 AP32) Worldwide collection in heavy Binder full of around 100 new double sided Hagners, retail of these alone $225, plus approx 2000 stamps. Good ranges of Austria & GB noted. Selling for the price of the Hagners only, price $225 MM1) No more bulges! If you like to fill your stockbooks to the utmost, then these are great! Just developed and manufactured in Germany by Prinz, this new design 32 black page stockbook is slightly wedge shaped, with the spine being a little larger than usual

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

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MAY OFFERS to allow for expansion. A magnificent innovative idea, at around the same price as normal stockbooks! Price $32.50 each, 5 for $159, 10 for $279

MM30) C of A, ovpt. OS set Halfpenny to 5d, mint lightly hinged, retail $75, my price $59 MM31 Halfpenny Orange, small multi wmk, perf 13.5 x 12.5, imprint block of 4, stamps unhinged Retail $60, a steal at $39

MM2) Lion Stockbooks, Made in Holland, 64 black page, with PADDED COVER. We have never been able to offer these on special before, just a few available, RRP $72, unchanged since 2012, when the Australian Dollar was a lot stronger, newly imported stock will be at least $79. My very special price, 1 for $59, 3 for $169, 5 for $269

MM33) 4d Olive, small multi wmk, perf 13.5 x 12.5 mint unhinged, retail $80, price $59 MM34) 2d Brown Single wmk, mint lightly hinged imprint pair retail $100, price $63

MM3) Lion Stockbooks, Made in Holland, 32 black page, RRP $31.50, my price $29.50 each, 5 for $142.50, 10 for $275

MM35) 3d Blue small multi wmk perf 13.5 x 12.5 Die II mint unhinged. Retail $60, price $45

AUSTRALIA KANGAROOS:

MM36) 5d Chestnut, small multi wmk, perf 13.5 x 12.5 mint unhinged, perf OS, centring to top left as is usual for this issue. Retail $265, this one just $110

MM4) 1932 Ten Shilling Grey & Pink C of A wmk, Imprint pair very fresh lightly hinged mint. Retail $2750, my price $2495. I challenge you to find another of this quality at the same price!

MM37) 4d Olive Green, small multi perf 14, perf OS, mint unhinged, centred low, as is usual for this issue. Retail $550, this one just $219

MM5) The same stamp as above, but a lovely well centred single, fine used, with Melbourne cds, dated 1 FE 38. Retail value $300, this one just $225

MM38) 2d Orange single wmk, perf OS, mint unhinged, centred left as is usual for this issue. Retail $125, my price just $89

MM6) Halfpenny Green, JBC Monogram strip of 3 from right of sheet, fresh mint hinged.

Retail $1000, my price just $585

MM39) 4d Purple, single wmk, perf OS mint light hinge, centred to left as is usual for this issue. Retail $125, price $89

MM7) Two Shilling Brown. 2nd wmk, well centred lightly hinged example on THIN PAPER. Cat $4500. My price, well under half. $1950

MM40) 1.5d Red, small multi wmk perf 13.5 x 12.5 Inveerted Wmk block of 4, two hinged. Ex booklet, therefore some blunt perfs at base on two stamps. Very fresh. Retail $100, these just $63

MM8) Two Pound Purple- Black and Rose, third wmk, horizontal pair from the top of the sheet, showing watermark border line. Lovely circular dated cancel, showing late use.

Counter Section Melbourne 16NO31. Each with neat small telegraphic puncture. Retail if postally used, around $8000, the pair for $1495!

MM41) As above, but the 2d red, full perfs. Retail $90, my price $49 MM42) 2d Brown, small multi wmk perf 14, Mullet imprint pair, gum a bit aged, mint hinged. Cat $800 as an Imprint Block of 4. Very cheap at $95!

MM16) 9d Violet, small multi wmk, Mint Unhinged, perf OS. Minor gum toning, Cat $450, this one $249

MM43) 4d Olive, small multi wmk, perf 13.5 x 12.5, mint unhinged, centred top left.

Retail $275, this one just $119

MM17) 6d Ultramarine 3rd wmk, Die II, mint hinged, cat $200, good value at $95 MM18) Twopence Halfpenny Indigo 1st wmk, mint hinged, cat $100, my price just $49 (2 available) each, or nice lightly hinged fresh example for $79 MM19) One Pound Blue and Brown 3rd wmk, light circular cancel used, with circular telegraph puncture. Minor thin where hinge has been removed. Retail for fine used $2250. This one at one 6th catalogue $375

MM47) 2d and 1/4d KGV, C of A wmk on neat clean small airmail cover to London, UK, re-addressed. Clear bright Vic circular cancel dated 15OC37 (My birthdate! But I was not born until 1951) The 1/4d is cat. $300 on cover. Delightful! $225

MM20) 4d Olive, small multi wmk, perf 14, mint unhinged, slightly aged gum. Retail $175, my price $125

KGV Period:

MM21) Single wmk, 1d Carmine, Harrison one-line Imprint pair, with variety “Dash in lower R frame�; BW.71(3)zf, VI/55. Stamps MUH. Cat $1000 as hinged imprint block of 4.

Price $249

MM48) 1930 Sturt pair on neat clean Reg. envelope, the 3d being top marginal. From South Singleton NSW. FDC cat $200. Way better than average! $149

MM22) 5d Orange-Brown, Ash imprint pair. MUH. Small multi wmk, Perf 13.5 x 12.5, Ash Imprint Pair, cat $475 as Hinged Block of 4. Price $119 MM24) 4d Orange, single wmk, Mint Unhinged, lovely example, Retail $80, my price $55 MM26) 4d Ultramarine single wmk, mint unhinged, perf OS, gum evenly toned. Retail $180, my price $135 MM28) 1/4d Turquoise, small multi wmk, perf 14, fine postally used, retail $150, one only at this price $69

MM45) 1/4d Turquoise single wmk lightly hinged mint perf OS. Retail value $175, centred lower left as is usual for this issue. Price $79 MM46) 3d Blue Die Ia, Type A small multi wmk perf 13.5 x 12.5 perf OS, lightly hinged mint. Retail $150. Centred right. This one just $60

Australia KGV Heads:

MM25) C of A wmk set Halfpenny to 5d, vfu, some cto. Retail $50, my price $39

MM44) 3d Deep Blue, small multi wmk perf 13.5 x 12.5, Ash Imprint Pair. Stamps Unhinged, cat $250 as a hinged imprint block of 4. Cheap at $110

MM49) 1931 Kingsford Smith and 1935 Jubilee both in cto sets. Retail $78. Just $39, HALF PRICE! MM50) 1913 6d Kookaburra, fine postally used example, retail $60, just $48 MM51)As above, but horizontal used pair, very scarce in multiples. $139 MM52) 1931 6d Airmail in top right mint unhinged block of 4. Some gum wrinkling/ creasing on lower pair, but a lovely block. Retail $160 as singles. $79 MM53) 1932 large Lyrebird, in the yellow green shade, mint unhinged. Retail $150. My price just $119

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MAY OFFERS KGVI and QEII Period:

Australia pre-decimal mint unhinged lots, many in blocks of 4:

MM55) 3d Blue KGVI Die 1 mint unhinged, retail $75, this one $59

MM83) Approx 250 mixed stamps, values to One Shilling, $49.

MM56) As above, but Die II thick paper, retail $60, price $45

MM84) As above, approx 500 stamps values to 1/6d, $92

MM57) As above, but thin paper, retail $55, price $39

MM85) As above approx 1000 stamps values to 2/3d or 2/6d price $179

MM58) 1948 Arms 10/- to two pounds Overprinted Specimen. Without gum. Retail for mint unhinged $250. Price $95

REST OF THE WORLD (Not in any particular order)

MM59) 1964 Navigators, 4/- to Two Pounds, set of 6, fine used, retail $135, my price $95 MM60) As above, mint unhinged set of 8 including the scarce white papers. Retail $275.

My price $195 MM61) 1966 decimal Navigators Specimen Overprints, mint unhinged set of 6 inc. scarce 15mm overprints. Retail $450, my price $329 MM62) 1975 45c flower, ACSC 727ca, Green grey omitted and partially omitted, cat $2500 as a pair, this is a vertical strip of 5, mint unhinged, including 3 normals. VERY RARE. Under half catalogue at $1149 MM63) 1979 Steam Locomotives COLOUR TRIAL without value, based on the 50c design.

Vertical block of 4, with part of 5th stamp, plus normal 50c stamp for comparison. Singles have fetched $275 plus buyer’s premium at auction. This piece is probably unique. Price $995.

MM64) 1960 Girl Guides 5d, with offset, ACSC 377c, possibly unique block of 48 mint unhinged. Cat. $75 per stamp. I have seen a block of 4 on eBay recently offered by a well known Sydney firm for $175. Total catalogue for the block is $3600, my price well under half at $1695. Enquiries invited for blocks of 4 at $149 or singles at $39, if the larger block is not sold.

Australian States: MM65) New South Wales: REPRINTS: De La Rue 1/- black block of 24 (12x2) from the top of the sheet with Current Number ‘7’, Plate Number ‘1’ & the sheet number, each unit overprinted ‘REPRINT’ in red, full unmounted o.g., superb! $595

MM86) Canada, Mint unhinged imprint and plate blocks covering a 40 year plus period from late 1940’s. All appear different, stored on around 300 x 3 strip stock cards, with and average of 3 blocks per card, so probably around 900 total. Plus around 20 booklets. Great value at around $1.50 per block, the stockcards worth $100 are thrown in, price $1350.

MM87) New Guinea Bulolo Two Pound and Five Pound Airmails, superb postally used.

(Often seen cto) Lovely pair, Cat $1180 and retail $900 plus in this condition. My price $795 MM88) Spain, 1930 Lindbergh Airmail 1 peseta green stamp, SG650. Normal catalogues 900 dollars mint, these two are the famous missing head and inverted head varieties.

Both mint lightly hinged. $595 the pair.

MM89) Papua 1/- Lakatoi, airmail overprint in dark carmine, scarce. Mint lightly hinged, $89 MM90) Zeppelin Cover. Germany 7 OKT 28 Airmail cover bearing 4RM brown Zeppelin, carried by LZ127 to New York. Excellent example. $169 MM91) Brunei, 1942-44 Japanese occupation overprint (SG.J9) 8c grey-black, with overprint in blue fine used. Cat. $1700. Quarter catalogue Price $425 MM92) Sarawak, 1942 Japanese occupation overprints (SG.J11 & J16) 8c Carmine & 15c Blue with overprints in violet, FU on piece with Japanese cds. Cat $580, quarter catalogue $145 MM93) Great Britain SG126, 5/- Rose, plate 1, used. Nice example for the price, Cat $1350, just 15% cat. $199

MM66) Tasmania, one pound Queen Victoria tablet issue, used and overprinted Revenue.

Normal used $275, this one $169.

MM94) Great Britain 1883 Lilac and Green set, SG 187-95, cat. $2800 plus! Nice clean set, but green colours as usual are a bit washed. Priced as spacefillers at 5% catalogue, just $139

MM67) Tasmania: Halfpenny on 1d red sideface, plate No. 1, in block of 12 on thin card, overprinted REPRINT from bottom left of sheet. Clean and fresh, superb! $359

MM95) Great Britain 1958 Graphites set, SG 587/94 mint unhinged, cat $220, my price just $149

MM68) Queensland Queen Victoria Chalon Head 1/- Grey, SG 29, mint hinged. Cat $650.

Very rare mint, unpriced on most dealer lists. Retail $525, my price $329

MM96) Great Britain 1959 Phosphor Graphites, mint unhinged SG 599/609 Cat $170, my price just $95

MM69) Queensland Queen Victoria Large Chalon Head, one pound deep green. SG161 mint hinged. Cat $600. My price just 25% of Cat. $149

MM97) Great Britain 1959 Castles High Values, 2nd De la Rue printing, mint unhinged SG 595/8, cat $390, my price just half, $195

MM70) Victoria, neat small cover, bearing 2d Lilac Laureates, with barred numeral 49 and unframed cds of Heathcote AP13 68 to Clerk of Court Heathcote. Very attractive. $99

MM98) New Zealand KEVII Officials, SG between 059/77, halfpenny, 1d, 3d. 6d, 8d & 1/-.

Mint Lightly Hinged, cat $240 at minimum, cheap at $59

MM80) Victoria 1901 – 1912 One Pound and Two Pound KEVII both cto, the One Pound is with gum in the scarcer dull rose shade, with MAR221911 central date stamp, the two pound with a partial June 1903 cds. Cat $875, price $550

MM99) New Zealand KGV Officials, between SG 0100/05, cat $150, lightly hinged mint, cheap at $39

MM81) Western Australia 1861 4d Vermilion, cds dated SP 27 1867. SG40, retail $350. My price $198 MM82) Western Australia 1909 One Pound Orange, SG 128a Cat $650. Fine postally used, with dated cds of Kalgoorlie, JUL 12 05. Superb! $399

MM100) New Zealand 4c Moth, SG 919ba, Green (wing veins) omitted, in imprint lower left block of 20, with 3 stamps showing colour completely missing, and 5 others with varying degrees of partial missing colour. Possibly unique piece, cat $500 per stamp.

Excellent value 25% catalogue, $375 MA1) China Peoples Republic, nice colln. Of 300 diff. inc. MUH and Postally used. A very few are cto. Very hard to assemble, and prices are quickly rising. $165, one lot only.

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MAY OFFERS MA2) Deceased Estate, worldwide colln. In 12 handmade albums, many 1000s of stamps with a lot of earlier and lots of better stamps and sets, not much past 1975. Organised alphabetically. Good original lot with nothing removed, great price $625 MA5) USA off paper mixture, very wide ranging from 1940’s to 1980’s. Around 1000 for $24.50, 2500 for $57, 5000 for $110, one lot only of 10,000 for $199 MA6) China, Peoples Republic, mainly larger envelope pieces dating from around the mid 1980’s to about 2012. Mainly large Commems, scarce lot, but it is on heavier paper. 100 grams for $29.50 MA7) World on paper, our popular mix of mainly large, as received form overseas. We only get around 2kg of this each month. Close clipped single paper in the main. Count will be about 4000 – 5000 to the kg. 100g for $29.50, 500g for $129, 1kg for $250 MA10) Australia 1913 1d Red Kangaroo, Die II with clear Melbourne 3rd July 1913 cds cancel Perf Large OS, and with complete double perf at top, SPECTACULAR ERROR, much more commonly seen on Die 1. Rare and attractive, ACSC cayt. $275 for non OS stamp. $135 MA12) Australia 1913 1d Red Kangaroos, each perf small OS, one showing dry ink, the other slurred print (kissprint) varieties. Neither is listed in ACSC. Uncommon. $125 the two or $65 each

MMF18) Australia 1948 5/- Arms, thin paper, very fine used, retail $100, my price just $75 MMF19) Australia 1958 5/- Stockman, mint unhinged, both cream and white papers (2) retail $180, my price under half! $89 MMF20) As above but lightly hinged mint, only $69 MMF25) Australia 1979 Steam Engine, COLOUR TRIAL without value in vertical strip of 4, based on the 50 cent design. Only one sheet exists and singles have sold at auction recently for $265 plus the buyer’s premium. Supplied with an example of the issued stamp. Exhibition piece and priced well below auction price $995.

MM26) Tasmania, Halfpenny on 1d Red sideface, in imperf plate 1 block of 12, from the reprint sheet on thin card, rare and unusual! $420 MMF27) Australia Kangaroos: b) 9d Purple 2nd wmk, fine used, normally $65 each, now just $59 c) 5d Chestnut 1st wmk, mint lightly hinged, well centred , normal retail $140, plus premium for the better centring. This one just $98

MA21) New Zealand 1925 Dunedin set, MUH, Retail $135, my price just $98

MMF28) Spain 1927 Linbergh 1 Peseta green mint, SG 650, two major varieties: 1) Missing Lindbergh’s head, and 2) Lindbergh’s head inverted. $100 each for either or both for $175

MA22) GB 10/- Seahorse, SG417, nice mint example, cat 475 pounds = $950. My price just $360.

MMF29) Samoa, Express stamps, complete set 1d to 5/-, mint. Believed reprints, cute lot. $49

MA23) West Berlin, SG B21 – 34, RED OVERPRINTS, MUH. Cat 1600pounds, and retail 750 Euros in Europe. Selling these as is, but look pretty good to my untrained eye. If correct these are remarkably cheap at just $5% of cat. Value $159

MMF30) Hong Kong, 1973 QEII Wilding Head definitives, SG283/96 Mint Unhinged, cat 100 pounds = $200, cheap at under a half catalogue, $98

MA24) GB 1854 10d Brown Embossed, the hardest of this set. Clean stamp, not cut to shape as many of this issue are. Cat $3000, lovely stamp at just 15% cat. Value. $450 MA25) GB 1883 1/- Dull Green, correct colour, with fine RANDWICK GATE EDINBURGH cds.

SG 196, cat $650, nice lightly cancelled example worth a 100% premium according to Gibbons, but from me just 15% $195 MA30) Lovely old World Accumulation, collection, in albums, stockbooks, packets etc. very heavy lot, must be some decent pickings in here! $485 MMF10) China, Nationalist and PRC cut short collection, sadly caused by owners demise who had just started to collect this country. Comprises 1) Crocodile 32 page stockbook of partially duplicated used, some on piece, around 500 stamps cheap lot $66.

2) Hagner page of better items mint and used $85 3) Packet of 200 plus seemingly all different, with some complete sets to around 2008. $66 SOLD 4) Envelope of 500 plus containing partially duplicated wide range of issues, mostly postally used, $215 5) 1994 Year set mint unhinged complete with Minisheets $66 MMF13) Australia 1913 6d Kookaburra, cto used, very nice! Usually $60 plus in this condition. My price $49 MMF16) Australia 1914 6d Blue War Savings stamp, mint unhinged, but creased, these usually sell for $240 or thereabouts, this one just $95 MMF17) Australia 1931 Kingsford Smith 2d & 3d Overprinted OS, cto used. Usualy retail $95, my price just $46, under half!

MMF31) Papua New Guinea, 1952 One Pound Fisherman, Mint Unhinged, SG 15, well centred and fresh. Normal retail $100 plus, if you can find one! Probably your one and only chance at this price $89 MMF32) BCOF 1946 2/- Kangaroo in Mint Unhinged imprint pair, retail $60 each, plus the value of the imprint. My price $89 MMF33) New Zealand 1940 Centennial set, mint unhinged, sg 613/25, normal retail $100, my price $59 MMF35a) Australia KGV 1/4d Turquoise C of A wmk, Mint Unhinged, beautifully fresh.

Retail $400, my price under half! $195 FE1) the 2010 vst comprehensive colour catalogue of australian stamps - in full colour - case bound edition - in 3 huge volumes (3rd volume is wire bound) with total of 580 pages! This catalogue is the latest edition available, volumes 1 & 2 have now been reprinted and are in a single hardbound edition.

Volume 1 covers: australian colonies, postage dues, bcof, pre-decimal australia, and australian decimal issues(1966-1988) and all related first day covers, post office packs etc.

Volume 2 covers the listing of australian decimal issues (1989-2006) and all related first day covers, post office packs etc.

Volume 3 is the new 2010 edition - this volume has a complete re-pricing of the australian pre-decimal issues 1913-1936, plus new decimal listings for 2007, 2008 & 2009. This is the complete comprehensive 3 volume edition - colour catalogue of australian stamps. The 3 volumes are very detailed with colour illustrations throughout.

Note that the prices here are pretty much up to date, there having been little price movement in recent years for most issues.

Originally priced at over $100, we can now offer the 3 volumes, currently being sold elsewhere for around $45 for just $24.50 BULK BUYERS SPECIAL: 5 sets for just $99!

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MAY OFFERS FE2) Magnificent Magnifier: Large 110mm Illuminated Magnifier with Stand This magnifier can be used with or without the base. It is suitable for stamp and coin collectors as well as art and craft, artists etc. Magnification: 2.5x, plus 4x Spot. Diameter: 110mm, bigger than the Lighthouse similar product. Battery operated: 2 x AA (not included). Adjustable height up to 200mm and angle to 45 degrees. RRP $36.95. Price each only $15, under 50% retail! $69 per 5 why not give away to friends and relations, or do some trading?

FE3) West Berlin, complete collection Mint Unhinged 1960 – 1990 30 years of stamps and minisheets. Bargain! $275 FE4) Worldwide carton of 11 stockbooks/albums. Very wide ranging, with some nice China, French Colonies etc. Many thousands, weighs 17.5kg. Super lot, condition a bit mixed but many nice pickings throughout. $285 FE5) World El Cheapo on paper mixture! Plenty from the bigger countries, Germany, South Africa, USA etc, plus other bits and pieces tossed in from ends of ranges etc. As always you get what you pay for, but around 4500 – 5000 stamps to the kg, if you want bulk then this is it! Per kg $45, around 1c per stamp.(If you want better quality we have 3 better grades of World on paper at $75, $125 and $295 per kg. Call them FE5a, FE5b and FE5c) FE6) Australia El Cheapo Mission on paper, just bought 200kg of this, wide ranging and mostly on single well trimmed paper, great variety going up to 2009 or so…only $22.50 per kg. Or if you want better grade FE6a is a more recent mix with stamps up to around 2013, $49 a kg. ASK ABOUT BULK BUYS FOR BOTH OF THSE MIXES, PRICES WILL BE CHEAP AS WE NEED TO SHIFT IT! FE7) Papua New Guinea, packet of 150 different, currently on our list at $62, this one includes some nice mint unhinged too…special price $49 FE9) New World Off paper Mix, just received, much better variety than you see in most of these mixes, around 2000 for $39, 5000 for $89, 10,000 for $175 FE9) Australia very wide ranging off paper mix, from the same source as above, lots of better values, have noted values to 10/- in the pre-decimal, and $10 in the decimal, going very nearly up to date with recent 70c letter rate values spotted here and there.

FE10) Deep discounts on World and Australia Packets, just arrived. Mostly postally used with many better values, not your usual packets, these are quite a lot better.

FE10a 1000 different World, normally $24.50, now $16.50 FE10b 500 different World, normally $12, now $7.25 FE10c 250 different World, normally $5.50, now $3.95 FE10d 750 different Australia, normally $33.50, now $23.50 FE10e 500 different Australia, normally $16.50, now $11.50 FE10f 250 different Australia, normally $6.95, now $4.95 Quantity and wholesale enquiries for all of the above packets are welcomed.

FE11) British Commonwealth Collection in 2 big stockbooks, arranged alphabetically and chronologically. Looks to be around 2000 all different, with plenty of early material from Queen Victoria onwards, no Australia. Many many high values and better items seen.

Largely postaly used with some mint. Great value at under 15c per stamp! $295 FE12) As above, smaller lot, around 1000 different under 10c each $95 FE13) Kabe Australia Hingeless pre-decimal album, 1934 – 1965. Plus heaps of spare blank pages at back. Near new, Retail $149, only $49

FE14) World and Australia in 64 page King, red padded stockbook. Looks like around 3500 stamps, all organised by country, in near chronological order, and A –Z with Australia at the end. Massive lot, neatly organised, and virtually all postally used. You will love this! Under 10c per stamp $349 FE15) Big World Lot in 2 old stockbooks, organised A – Z and in Chronological order, no Australia. Around 2500 stamps it looks like, again under 10c per stamp $249 FE16) As above, in a single stockbook, around 1500, only $149 FE17) Australia Collection, looks like 1000 stamps or so, all different postally used in an old stockbook, commencing Australian States, no Roos or Georges, but good ranges to 10/- in pre-decimal, right up to around 2013. Nice lot, at under 7c per stamp, only $69.

FE18) PNCs (stamp & coin covers) We have a brand new stock, with most at issue price of $14.95, let us know your needs. We can also offer all different lots at under issue price a) 10 Different for $110 b) 25 Different $259 c) 50 Different for $495 d) Our complete range, 56 different for $529 (under $9.50 each!)

FE19) Dream Mix on paper of Australian & New Zealand Territories and Pacifics. All on close clipped paper, from KGVI issues to very recent (2014) Many, many high values, much from an accountants office. Sensibly a lot have a complete circular dated postmark.

Included are Papua New Guinea, Christmas Island, Fiji, Samoa, Pitcairn Is., Vanuatu, Palau, Solomon Is., Cocos (Keeling) Is., and maybe small amounts of Norfolk Island, AAT, Kiribati and Tonga. Believe me this mix is RARE! All postally used, not from FDC clips. I agree it is not cheap, but many of these stamps sell for $2, $3 each or more! One lot only of 110 grams, be quick! $169 FE20) Similar to the above, but Fiji only not quite as recent as the above, but with plenty of KGVI values to 1/- and $5 seen floating around in this mix, we have around 300g. 100g for $159, 50g for $85 FE21) Papua New Guinea in Green Stockbook, mainly Mint Unhinged to 1990, most in complete sets, some toning mostly on earlier. Very nice collection of 390 different here. $119 FE22) Canada, QEII collection to about 1990 in Warwick 22 ring album, mainly Mint Unhinged with some used. Nice lot! $149 FE23) Vatican in Minkus printed album, lovely mint and used colln., mostly complete sets, 1929 – 1991, with a few dubious Papal States issues. Mostly complete from 1960. $198 FE24) New Zealand, 1981 – 1998 in 3 Warwick 22 ring albums, plus Green 48 page Lighthouse stockbook. Mostly mint unhinged and fine used of each issue, virtually compete for the period, with a little duplication. Great Lot! $785 FE25) Untidy average used Australian Collection, commencing States, then a few Roos and Georges, through to about 2006 in near new Blue Hagner Binder with slipcase. Plus around 50 hagners, some double sided. New cost $130 plus. The stamps are free! Just $65 FE27) Malaya/Malaysia all different in packets: 50 different $5, 200 different $29, 500 different $79 FE30) 1984 Auspex Official Album, with Mint Unhinged sets from a wide range of countries, A – S. 54 mint sets and minisheets. Under $2.25 a set $119 NOW REDUCED TO $95

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MAY OFFERS FE31) 1981 Charles and Diana Royal Wedding, in two Stanley Gibbons printed albums.

Looks pretty well complete Mint sets and minisheets unhinged for Commonwealth Countries, plus 8 prestige style booklets. Rarely offered these days, a must for the Royalty fan. Very clean lot $295, now only $235

MMJ31) Bulk World Coins, much of it holiday change…we regularly sell this at $37.50 a kg but are a little overstocked just now, so out they go! Around 150 coins to the kg, so under 20c each. Heaps of variety and some spendables from USA, UK, NZ Switzerland etc. 1kg for $29.50, 5kg for $139, 10kg for $259

FE35) Benham “The Royal Golden Wedding Collection” in padded binder, with Covers and Coin Covers from Great Britain, many signed, including:

JA2) Papua New Guinea 1952 One Pound Brown Fisherman, superb Mint Unhinged, normally $125, this one just $75, Bargain!

Princess Alexandra, Lady Pamela Mountbatten, Patricia Mountbatten of Burma, etc, etc.

Many of these are scarce and valuable signatures. 17 items including 4 Crown size coins.

Great value at under $20 each. $329 NOW JUST $265

JA6) Australia Navigators, 1964 mint lightly hinged pre-decimal set of 8, inc. White papers, normally $200, this set just $169. Fine used also available at $125.

FE38) Victoria, the 1901 Queen Victoria Federation Definitives series to Five Shillings, in nice fresh mint condition on Seven Seas Album Page. Very hard to assemble these days. Out of date 2013 catalogue states 290 pounds = $575. Melbourne retail in 2012 was $395. Under half catalogue for this scarce set $279

JA7) Australia 1948 Arms set to Two Pounds, mint lightly hinged, usually $125, two sets only to clear at $99 each JA8) Austria, collection of 1000, all mint unhinged, earlies to quite recent. Magnificent lot! Under 25c per stamp, $249

FE40) New Zealand pre- decimal Collection in 64 page blue stockbook. Commences Perforated Chalon Heads, to 1/-, plus a pair of the 2d imperf Hausberg reprints. 2nd sidefaces to 1/-, then good ranges of the 1900 definitives to 6d, with shade and perf varieties, 2/- Admiral used, 1935 Definitives to 2/- mint unhinged, then later issues mostly complete. Nice back of the book section with Dues, Officials, and long type Queen Victoria Postal Fiscals and Arms to 10/- and One Pound. Nice lot worthy of expansion. $525 reduced, now only $425

JA9) Superb Iceland collections, just arrived from Icelandic Mission, one of each only:

FE41) New Zealand 1967 $1 Glacier, top left corner marginal, mint unhinged, with double perfs, Campbell Paterson Catalogue NZ$450. Nice striking error! Under half catalogue $195, now reduced to $159

DE7) Great Britain, duplicated ranges of used in stockbook and on leaves, with many high values to One Pound, both KGVI and QEII pre-dec. Castles various printings, plus a mint unhinged and used collection of Commems. To around 1977. Nice traders lot! $165, now reduced to $129. Final reduction, just $99

a) 200 Different $49, b) 275 Different $65, c) 300 Different $75, d) 400 different $125, e) 625 different $249 f) 200 Diff. Mint Unhinged $59, 300 Diff. Mint Unhinged $95 JA10) 500 Diff. Greece, mostly large, $36

MMJ10) Three thick old stockbooks, each filled with World array with plenty of earlier stuff here, seemingly all different, each contains 1000 plus stamps, so about 3000 here for a few cents per stamp $159.

DE10) GB Wildings 1955 Edward Crown Watermark MUH, retail $175, my price $115, reduced to $92

MMJ11) Another lot similar to the above, $159 or buy both for $299!

MMJ16) CHINA, Peoples Republic. 1992 Complete Year set, mint unhinged, 49 stamps and 2 minisheets. Bear in mind that year sets from the 1970’s and ‘80s are now selling at $350 - $650 US Dollars! 2 only available. $49 each. BE QUICK! MMJ17) CHINA, Peoples Republic. 100 mint unhinged stamps in complete sets. All recent issues from the past 20 years or so, up to 2013. $49 few only!

MMJ20) Australia 1929 5/- grey and yellow Kangaroo, perf OS, postally used. Normal price $160, we have four grades to offer: a) Fine used circular date stamp, with clear usage date $129 b) As above but date not clear. $99 c) Light parcel cancel $79 d) Slight seconds with heavier cancels/and or perf faults $39 MMJ29) All different packets clearance, all of the following reduced heavily in price: a) 500 different World Large $14 b) 500 Birds $49 c) 500 Hungary $24, 800 $33, d) 500 Romania $24 e) 500 Cambodia $35 f) 300 Haiti $52 g) 1000 Egypt $93, h) 1000 Austria Mint Unhinged $165 i) 500 Greece $24 k) 500 Olympics $34 m) 500 Russia Mint Unhinged $28 n) 500 Transport $34 o) 500 Sport $19 p) 500 Trains $59 r) 300 Luxembourg $33 t) 1000 New Zealand $63 u) 1000 Japan $89 v) West Berlin complete Mint Unhinged 1960 -1990 $275 MMJ30) Finland, new lot of 470 different, just arrived. Lovely lot with early to modern plus high values. Under 20c per stamp $89

DE12) Great Britain QEII Commems. 1953 – 1967 complete, plus pre-decimal Machins to one pound, and Castles High Value Definitives, both crowns and no wmk. Sets. Al Mint Unhinged, retail $300, my price $195, now only $159 NO5) Ireland Mission on paper nice mix 500g $40, 1kg for $70 SA1) Minisheets by weight, 1st time we have been able to offer these in quite a few years, used to be one of our best sellers! Mixture of mint and cto used, all different in every lot, 150 plus sheets in each 100 grams. $99 per lot, 5 lots available, all are completely different. REDUCED IN PRICE TO $79 PER LOT! Final reduction, now just $62.50!

SA13) Pitcairn Is. 1966 World Cup, illustrated First Day Cover, un-addressed. Hard to find!

Other dealers list at $55, my price just a half! $27.50 Now reduced to just $19.50! final clearance price, now only $15.

AA2) Worldwide mainly complete sets, mostly cto used but with some mint unhinged, plus some minisheets. Ex Fair Dealers Stock, mainly in multiples of 5. Ideal for re-sale on Ebay or through club sheets etc. Fantastic variety, and mainly the more popular thematics. We have three lots of this, sold by weight 2.25kg in each lot, but each lot estimate to contain around 2500 sets. Sell at 50c to $2 or more per set. Each lot for $750 (That is 30c per set) LAST TWO LOTS NOW, REDUCED TO $600 EACH. FINAL CLEARANCE NOW, $495 FOR THE LAST LOT LEFT, UNDER 20C PER SET! AA4) Great Britain 1924 Wembley set in Mint Unhinged blocks of 4, very fresh. Cat. Price is 100 pounds for hinged. Unhinged usually at least double, so around $375, cheap at 30% catalogue: Price $115, sale price now only $99! Final clearance price, now just $89

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Revenue Review Moo, Oink, Again!

After showing Figure 4 a couple of months ago [the page of mint pairs of Victoria Cattle & Swine duty stamps], more [fig1] have turned up from this seller from Israel. This time, blks of 4 MUH, with a great selection of Swine & Cattle, which must be remainders from Victoria. I am unaware of official remainders being sold off maybe you are reading this and can enlighten me, but for now we can put these down to some collector paying full face value or from a farm sale with these being the remainder stock.

Double The Fun

A rather nice Queensland Railway 1921 roulette issue, with a double Greenmount station name [fig2] recently turned up in auction. Double station names

are sought after from this issue with the train at the top. The train points left which I always feel is going back home not forward, but then I’m a left hander so who knows! Greenmount is on the original Gold Coast southern line, making figure 2 more appealing as Gold Coast line stations rarely turn up.

QR

As with figure 2, figure 3 has its appeal apart from being the earlier perforated issue on QR wmk, and a high value of 2/6d. It has an unrecorded ‘CANCELLED’ on it in violet encased in an oval frame. I have not seen this before, selling on eBay after some spirited bidding from a UK seller. Figure 3 could ask a couple of questions like: “Is this a genuine used copy, or is it some kind of cancel for

Fig 2

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Fig 3

Dave Elsmore presentation?” Please check your holdings and see if you can match this cancel. It amazes me how this material gets over there in the first place.

More QR

While chatting about Queensland railway parcel stamps I can’t go by without mentioning figure 4. A rare 1867 trio recently up for auction. The left copy being the essay with the right pair, being proofs of the issued values. Rare survivors are very under rated, remembering this issue from Queensland was the very first from the whole of Australia to issue parcel stamps.

Beer

It’s been a while since any ‘better’ beer duty stamps

came up for grabs. Figure 5 coming from Status auctions in Sydney and selling for a modest price.

Used Commonwealth beers are hard, very few turn up and this should have done a lot better. I think if had this been on eBay it would have gone for triple the sale price of $110 [a steal] that was achieved.

Double Specimen

Amongst the pickings from the last Status auction apart from figure 5, is figure 6 a double/triple SPECIMEN. I had not seen this larger what appears to be hand stamped on SPECIMEN. At $150 it was passed in. Whenever I see something I have not seen before, I ask myself ‘what’s this covering up!’ but I’m sure in this case it is not trying to hide anything. That said I did manage to pick up

Fig 4

Fig 5

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Revenue Review figure 7, a lovely pair of the same value but with blue SPECIMEN in capitals. This being the much scarcer of the two overprints. Paid A$70 for the pair with the seller being Stanley Gibbons [UK] of all people.

No Not Beer, Wine

After reporting a new find via Peter Smith of Melbourne last month, I bragged that I had now listed it in my free online catalogue a 3 wine producer, A.W.P.A. with the colour ‘Grape Green’.

Low and behold another 3 turned up on eBay with the same seller offering another unrecorded value, 2 [fig 8]. Now I can’t call this one ‘Grape-Blue’ so I think it will just have to be ‘Blue’! Not to

Fig 6

be outdone Peter Smith again contacted me with figure 9, an unrecorded value font for the 10 AWP [Australian Wine Producers], thanks Peter.

Waffle

If you follow my waffling here in Revenue Review you will be aware I have an interest in local Store Coupon stamps from Australia. Figure 10 is no exception being from Holmes Stores in Inverloch, Victoria. Alas my heart sunk when I was outbid at auction. You may be reading this thinking “hang on I have a few of those”. Well if you do please let me know. Also this company is hard to trace. Are there any Inverlochians reading this? Maybe you can help pin point this company for me.

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Dave Elsmore Perfin Corner

This month I have another gem for you. FJCo.a just on the left copy of figure 11 running sideways up.

Foggitt Jones commenced trading in about 1904 and became manufacturers and distributors of a range of pork and animal products such as cheese, pate, hams and other meats from a number of sites in and around Brisbane. Initially they operated from a basement location in Adelaide Street, as well as a production site in Oxley (inner Brisbane) and later at a multi story factory off Riverside Drive on the Brisbane River. They later expanded their distribution and production facilities to Sydney and Perth respectively.

The FJCO device is most likely a single head

device. It is also found on postage stamps from 1914 until the late 1940s. It is found in the usual variety of positions characteristic of a single head device. No railway parcel stamp use is reported.

Foggitt’s Brisbane, sought and gained approval to perforate stamps in July 1914. This 2/- is a new value for this Perfin.

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

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Fig 11

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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation This month I look at two new APF publications and at the Revenue Class.

Australia’s Stamp Replica Cards With the release of the ANZAC Replica Card, the last in the series of the APF replica cards, at Sydney Stamp Expo 2015, the APF has published a book describing the replica cards issued since the first replica card which was issued for Ausipex 84 and depicted the 1914 unissued stamps. The book, Australia’s Stamp Replica Card, has been written by Martin Walker and describes all 50 basic replica cards as well as varieties of the replica cards including black prints and overprints. It is wirebound, in colour and over 100 pages. Only 100 copies have been produced. Copies are available for $50 plus postage from the APF and will include a copy of the black print of the ANZAC replica card.

APF Classic exhibits The APF publishes an APF Exhibit Series which seeks to preserve a record of important exhibits of Australian material Tasmania: Imperforate Stamps from ‘Courier to Chalon Head as well as important exhibits of Australian exhibitors. Previous international Large Gold medal Exhibit went on to exhibits in the series have win the Grand Prix D’Honneur, the highest award at included Ed Druce’s Postal History of New South FIP World exhibitions, at Australia 2013.

Wales and John Sinfield’s Whiskers.

The publication, Tasmania: Imperforate Stamps The latest in the series is the exhibit Tasmania: from ‘Courier to Chalon Head, includes all 128 Imperforate Stamps from ‘Courier to Chalon Head formed by Koichi Sato RDP FRSPL of Japan. This pages of the exhibit presented in colour, perfect bound. Copies are available for $50 plus postage exhibit clearly falls into this category as one of the from the APF. best collections of Tasmania ever exhibited. The 48 - Stamp News

Ian McMahon

Philatelic Development Officer, APF

Canada Customs stamps used on a newspaper wrapper posted from the USA Revenue Class Postage stamp collecting began shortly after the issue of the first adhesive postage stamps in 1840 and became a hugely popular hobby. Revenue stamps, that is stamps issued by Government authorities for the collection of tax or fees for service other than postal purposes, pre-date the issuing of postage stamps and provide similar collecting interest. Collecting revenue stamps was quite popular in the early part of the 20th century but was largely overtaken by the increasing popularity of collecting postage stamps. However, there has been a resurgence in collecting revenues over the last 30 years.

Revenue stamps can be exhibited in Australian national and international philatelic exhibitions in the Revenue Class. The exhibiting of Revenues is very similar to that of postage stamp and can include dates of issue, printing methods, watermarks, perforations, errors and usage.

A revenue exhibit comprises embossed, imprinted or adhesive tax, fee or credit stamps issued by or under the authority of a country, state or municipal government.

Such exhibits will display one or more such type

of stamp, and where appropriate will explain the reasons and regulations relating to the use of the stamps.

Tax stamps are issued for the payment of a tax, levy or other fiscal imposition or duty, fee stamps are issued to record payment of a fee for a service while credit stamps are issued to denote some monetary or fiscal credit in favour of the purchaser.

A revenue exhibit consists of unused or used embossed, imprinted or adhesive revenue stamps.

If used on documents, such documents should be arranged to illustrate clearly the pertinent transactions or services. The exhibit may comprise stamps issued for some of the following purposes: 1. Registration of Deeds or Documents 2. General Revenues 3. Judicial or Court 4. Transfers of ownership of moveables or immoveables 5. Receipts 6. Documentary 7. Public Service 8. Bills 9. Duty Stamps 10. Funds

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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation 11. Assurances and policies 12. Consular services 13. Inspections 14. Weights and Measures 15. Licenses 16. Postage stamps used as revenue stamps, or revenue stamps used for postage 17. Other Revenue Stamps A revenue exhibit may also contain, where it improves its composition: 1. Essays, proofs of adopted or rejected designs 2. Legal documents and postal covers if applicable 3. Varieties of all kinds including watermark, perforation, paper and printing 4. Maps, prints, decrees and similar associated materials which must have direct relation to the fiscal services described in the exhibit.

Revenue exhibits are judged against the following points breakdown: • Treatment and Importance of the exhibit 30 • Knowledge and Research 35 • Condition and Rarity 30 • Presentation 5

Canadian wildlife stamp used on a hunting permit

Generally a Revenue exhibit should show: • mint or used revenue stamps of a particular country, state or local authority, explaining the reason for the issue or use and showing its developments; • it should show the date of usage and the date it was withdrawn from use, why and whether it was replaced; • method of printing, type of paper, essays, proofs, design varieties if appropriate to the subject or presentation; • geographical or chronological development 50 - Stamp News

within one country, continent or covering the whole world where the exhibit lays emphasis on the subject matter of the revenue use; • documents with printed, embossed or adhesive revenue stamps demonstrating and explaining the rules, the sums paid and/or the reason for the document.

All exhibits of Revenue must contain an introductory plan showing the scope of the intent of the exhibitor. This plan should be headed with a title which corresponds to the introductory plan. The plan should also be used to give relevant general

Ian McMahon

Philatelic Development Officer, APF of moneys from a variety of different sources and, because of this, there is a wider scope for a revenue exhibit to have an imaginative treatment.

Within the narrower fields of specialisation, exhibits concerned with the plating of specific stamps or concerned with errors which have arisen during the production of stamps, should be treated in the same way as similar exhibits of postage stamps.

Whenever possible, the Indonesian Departure tax stamp on the reverse of a boarding exhibit should illustrate or at least explain usage. Non revenue material should information on the subject and to indicate areas of normally be avoided. Its inclusion will usually personal research. It should also contain a short list of important documentary sources used. The judges be regarded as legitimate only if it advances or enhances the central theme of the exhibit in some will use this information to evaluate the material clearly discernible manner. shown in relation to the aims of the exhibitor as In comparison to the literature covering postage stated in the introduction and plan.

It must be stressed that complete revenue collections do not exist from the majority of the countries, and therefore exhibits of revenue stamps are judged more according to their relative philatelic significance than for their completeness.

A revenue exhibit may require different treatment from a postage stamp or postal history exhibit.

Postage stamps, with some few exceptions, are issued solely for the prepayment of postal charges, whereas the same revenue stamp may The first Replica Card issued at Ausipex 84 be used for the collection

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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation stamps, literature on revenue stamps for many countries has been rather sparse. The judges will, therefore, take into account the extent of available research material.

The exhibit is evaluated on the write-up of each page by reference to what is known and available in the existent literature and what, if any, new information is given. For instance, in a Bills of Exchange display, additional research on the rates relating to values would be a plus. Explanations of the less obvious and a reference to sources, rules and regulations which add to the reason for the transaction or service for which the revenue was paid, will add to the points. But these are not available for all countries.

Many revenue stamps are far rarer than postage stamps, but often by the way they were used they became damaged. When used as a seal such as Beer or Tobacco stamps, they were torn. Others, such as Indian Native States revenues were mostly punched when applied to documents. Some were cut, even nailed or stapled. For these, fine condition is exceptional. Therefore acceptable damage of used stamps should not be downgraded.

They may be very rare or even the only recorded examples.

Rarity in revenues is a vitally important factor. It seldom has any connection with price or value. Some revenues are expensive to buy but are not rare. On the other hand, many revenue stamps are very common and should not attract points for rarity. When specialized revenues are shown, reference to a catalogue (if one exists and provided it is relevant) may be helpful.

Good presentation is very important.

The display should appeal to the eye and each sheet in every frame should give the impression of balance to the display. The write-up should be limited to the essentials, but should provide all important information.

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Market Matters New Book on Tasmania cancels

Many circular postmarks on the common Tasmania 1899 “Pictorial” series are worth several $100s each - indeed some are WAY into the 4 figure region.

The one shown nearby sold for $3,620 at auction …. most readers of this article would not have given it a second glance it if were on a circuit book page marked at $1 - the underlying stamp is retail 10c.

“TEEPOOKANA” is one of the scarce cancels, and the one illustrated here sold for $A3,620 at auction. That is more than a superb Mint £1 Brown and Blue Kangaroo stamp costs!

Collecting Tasmanian postmarks is a great passion for many, and many a time I have plucked a cancel worth $100s from childhood albums or junk lots. Generally on very common letter rate stamps otherwise valued at literally pennies each.

It takes a little practice and study to remember the scarce ones, but having books like this new Tasmanian Philatelic Society handbook makes it quick and easy to check against.

Edited by John Hardinge, with lots of backup from the TPS members, it is a great reference, and for $A30 posted, is the buy of the year!

Luckily I have always had a retentive memory for postmarks of that state, as they have always fascinated me. I visited Tasmania again last week, driving 100s Kms though some of these tiny hamlets where the cancels hailed from.

The only serious stamp collection I was ever

A $A3,620 circular cancel.

58 - Stamp News

Brand new and a must have. tempted to form was a complete showing of all the Tasmania circular date-stamps, and instructional markings of this period.

Offer I couldn’t refuse!

I made some decent headway, and then sold it when made an “offer I could NOT refuse”! My sideline collection of $100 banknotes did however swell considerably from this transaction.

I once visited a very glamorous stamp shop in Copenhagen, Denmark. Leather lounges, and coffee machine, and very genteel and up-market surroundings and fittings.

Virtually the only thing Australasian in the store (indeed the city!) was a large stockbook or two of 1000’s of Tassie pictorials all neatly arranged into little lines sorted per value.

All were priced at about full catalogue, which I think was about 20c each as basic used stamps at

Glen Stephens

Who could resist these at 20c each!?! that time. No bargains in THAT store. Well so they thought.

I nonchalantly selected about 30 pictorials with nice strikes. I guessed wrong on a few of them of course, but about 15-20 of those postmarks paid for my round trip airfare from Australia. And a few nice hotel nights as well!

I remember there being a nice examples of classics like “Erriba”, “New River” and “Honeywood” among them. Clearly I was the only person in 100 years to glance through these stamps, who had any clue about Tasmania postmark Rarity.

If you ever see unremarkable sounding circular Tasmanian datestamp names like “Ridgeway” or “Bronte” or “North Franklin” or “Scottsdale West” etc on the low value Tasmanian Pictorials in a junk lot or dealer bulk stock - some would be worth many $100s if not $1000s to you, for nice clear strikes.

Like finding a used £2 Kangaroo.

It would be just like finding a fine used £2 Kangaroo for 10c or 20c in a junk box, or circuit book, or in a cigar tin of unsorted stamps etc.

TPS Committee member and specialist Peter Allen told me: “It is probably important to note, that the high prices are a function of both rarity AND strike quality, as was the case with Teepookana”.

“There are a few equally as rare towns, but no “A” grade strikes. “Scottsdale West” and “Orrville” being cases in point – both exist in poor strikes in all cases. I have a terrible strike of “Orrville” and ‘only’ paid $1,600 for it” he concluded.

There is a big premium for complete, clear strikes, regardless of rarity of the cancel. Allen paid $A3,200 for the “SPRINGS” cancel illustrated nearby.

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Market Matters

“SPRINGS” cost $3,200 in 2007.

A $5,000 cancel on Pictorial?

Here is a list of the top-rated cds. “RRRRR” and “RRRRR” from the new publication: RRRRR : Glaziers Bay Type 2, Gravelly Beach Type 3, Legana Type R1a, Orrville, Peppermint Bay, Scottsdale West (6, plus Windmill Hill not yet seen on Pictorial) RRRRR : Osterley South, Queenstown Type 1(iii), Springs, Teepookana, Warrentinna (5) Note, the “Queenstown” has never been listed in any previous rarity rating, and is unknown to the vast majority of collectors. If people buy the book they will then have the knowledge.

“100% Complete” collections (i.e. of all Tasmanian cds postmarks on the 1899-1912 Pictorial issues known at the time) have been formed in past decades by collectors in the United States (x 2 collections) and the United Kingdom.

Unfortunately, since the discovery of a part “Peppermint Bay” cds on a 1d Pictorial, in an eBay lot - offered by a seller in the Ukraine of all places, it is only possible for ONE collector to have “the lot” now.

There are still new finds to be made. The “Windmill Hill” cds is known on PO receipts and Telegram forms from this period, and even on other design stamps, but not YET on Pictorial stamps.

album etc.

This cancel just sold for a tad over $A5,000.

Why? Because it is worded “Cricket Ground Brighton”.

Amazing .. about $A5,000 for an off centre stamp, with gum soaked lower perfs, and a corner crease, otherwise worth ten bucks on a VERY good day!

It appears ALL these CRICKET GROUND

Cancel Hit for SIX!

Speaking of $5000 cancels, here is another! To be honest I’d have not looked twice at it in an old

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A $5000 Cricket Cancel!

Glen Stephens hold that role, and an internationally known name even today, in the cricket world.

Right into the Junk Box.

Holy Grail for Cricket Collectors. cancel stamps were all in fact stolen property from the Post Office, being from the GB Telegraphic Offices CDS’s used at Cricket Grounds.

These stamps were affixed to telegram forms and, as we know, none should have escaped Royal Mail shredders at that time etc.

Most seen are on high value stamps, and perhaps the postal clerks thought it was a chance to obtain some high value stamps, and onsell quietly to the nearest stamp dealer?

Almedia sent me scans of his block 4, of “HALIFAX CRICKET GROUND” cancels shown nearby on reverse scan on a 1/- QV block he purchased a few years back!

It has a clear RPSL Certificate.

If I saw this in the box of assorted UK covers, I’d barely give it a second glance, and it would have gone into one of my “Junk Cartons” - but a keen cricket collector might have different thoughts!

If you find one of these, it is worth around $A1,000 to a client that I can vouch for, and his money is certainly good.

Melbourne Cricket collector Noel Almeida exhibits this area - here and in the USA, and needs a nice example of this cover, to improve his Exhibit marks from the Judges. tinyurl.com/Halsham is his offer on stampboards.com to pay £500 (around $A1,000) for an unaddressed cover of this FDC shown nearby, in good condition with the set of 3 stamps as shown, and clear cds.

This is a bigger than usual size envelope than is generally encountered for First Day Covers - more like the old legal size for trust deeds and titles, and is sized 236mm x 103mm.

He has one already, but it is not in great shape, and others he has seen are in worse condition still, as storage in boxes invariably leads to folds, tears, and dog eared corners etc.

Noel has been offering to buy this for ever increasing amounts, and finally upped it to £500

£500 offered for Cricket FDC

Cricket covers and cancels that look pretty ordinary can get BIG money as you can see above! The 1973 FDC shown nearby from the Yorkshire Cricket Federation is one such beast.

This was issued at the time Geoff Boycott was Yorkshire Cricket Team $A1,000 offered for one of these.

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Market Matters in recent times - full detail are here - tinyurl.com/ Halsham Halsham is a small village situated four miles from the town of Withernsea in Yorkshire. No idea why it is so hard to locate, but presumably not a large number done, and being longer than most covers, will have been knocked about.

The 1973 GB stamps were designed by Edward Ripley, of the Berkshire College of Art in Reading, England.

The UK stamp designs are from a series of a 100 drawings of the legendary British cricketer Dr.W.G.Grace by Punch artist, Harry Furniss, and first published in 1900.

The tiny sized cricket bat Grace and others used in this era looks like a toothpick, compared to the huge and heavy “tree stumps” used by modern day cricketers!

I suspect if he played today, Dr Grace would have the coach enrol him in a Weight Watchers Program, as a matter of some urgency!

Want $300 for a $1 FDC?

Noel Almeida also needs this cancel on FDC shown nearby, and will pay $A300 for a clean example.

This is a common 1972 Overland Telegraph 7c stamp Post Office FDC, and literally 100,000s were sold nationally. Most dealer “Dollar Boxes” have this cover in there.

Noel needs one from this large PO. Not Sydney,

A $2,500 Auction piece. not Adelaide, but Coolangatta. He does not care if the cancel ink is violet or black - as long as is from this PO. He has been looking for ages via stampboards tinyurl.com/CoolFDC - and keeps upping his offer price, and I am rather surprised that one has not turned up.

Hopefully readers can make his month, and fill that long empty gap for this keen Melbourne collector!

CTO Kangaroos still hopping.

$300 offered for this $1 cover!

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The strength of the official CTO cancels on Kangaroo stamps rolls on stronger than ever.

The 1913 1/- Green shown nearby had no gum, and was not a brilliant looker - with ropey perfs and centering, but was invoiced for $2,500 at a recent Phoenix auction in Melbourne - way above estimate.

This has part of the elusive “JY

Glen Stephens see a single stamp there that even looks like it may be “JY 17” date - can anyone else see one?

Why this date is not priced in ACSC, when the “BRISBANE” are (purpose of distribution totally unknown) is a total mystery to me. 128 copies of the “BRISBANE” cancels seem to have been distributed, and even so they fetch high prices.

As followers of these CTOs realise, copies of even the common Die 1 3d Kangaroo 1913 with the “BRISBANE” cds have obtained $A1,864 at Phoenix, and a block 4 of the 2/- got $A7,000!

Stampboards has had detailed discussion on these CTO’s - many 1000s of posts, and some of that info is transcribed here - tinyurl.com/ozCTOs

NEW ACSC “King George VI” out.

CTO cancel fetches $A1,864.

17 : 13” cancel. The stamp world is still learning about CTOs, but the long stampboards thread has made good inroads on this “JY 17” date.

The theory has been persuasively put forward, that about 20 sets of CTO 1913 Roos were needed in July - to present to the 20 or so newbie MPs inducted in the 1913 Federal Election.

EXISTING Federal members had all got a set of CTO to £2 earlier, with “Dec 5 1913” CTO sets.

Themselves very scarce today, even though 120 or so sets clearly were distributed.

The Brusden White ACSC “KGVI” Australian Specialist catalogue was released latter April. Price is $A100 posted in Australia, and I sold a surprising number.

Thicker, and with much more detail than the ancient NINE year old Edition, it is an essential

New intake of Federal MPs.

The Federal Election on May 30 1913 saw about 20 new Members and Senators elected, and it seems logical the “freebie” set of Kangaroo stamps dated “JY 17:13” was extended as a gift only to those new members - only 20 in number, hence the great scarcity of this CTO cancel.

I have carefully looked through the massive $A7¼ million “Arthur Gray” Kangaroos, and mega million “Stuart Hardy” Kangaroo Catalogues, which had heaps of 1913 CTOs right up to £2, and cannot

Now a whopping 280 pages.

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Market Matters book for both collectors and dealers to own, local or overseas. Many absolutely huge price increases.

New ‘Bright White’ paper stock.

Edited by Dr. Geoffrey Kellow, this “King George VI” includes proofs, and incorporates much new research, and now lists and prices all the stolen from the Note Printing Branch material.

The badly centred Tête-Bêche 2½d pair (a terrible muddy scan!) on the front cover is of course one such piece, and instead of being arrested for owning it, today it has an ACSC value of $10,000.

Pretty ridiculous for stolen material, of which about 10 pairs are recorded.

A few decades ago, the Federal Police actively raided dealers or collectors possessing this material and seized it all, but the mists of time have made that unlikely today, it seems pretty clear.

Additional plate varieties and enhanced illustrations are added in some cases, with UPU Specimen and cancelled-to-order stamps listed.

CTO’s not carefully priced.

$A5,000 to $A10,000. And expensive “Thin” papers are now listed for some of the “Arms” values and other Definitives of this era. Often many $1000+ apiece, so just one new find will readily pay for this catalogue 10 times over.

I sold a set 3 Arms “Specimen” a few weeks back on stampboards, with a THIN paper 10/- in it.

As the then current ACSC did not list thin paper for any value, assumed I was dreaming, despite it being markedly different. The other 2 are now listed for $A1,000 hinged each!

“Thin Papers” expanded greatly.

tinyurl.com/ThinArms has the lucky buyer post, who got a so far un-recorded stamp, worth about $1000, for $100. “Knowledge Is Power” and had I listed up this set a few weeks later, that nice windfall would have been mine - timing is everything in life!

Some of the popular errors like the 1942 6d Kookaburra “Top Hat Variety” go up near 10 fold, from $250 to $2,000 mint hinged - and to $3,250 used. I sold one for $100 last year, so someone will be delighted!

The new prices do seem pretty silly, but since SG has listed this error in recent years, global demand has been high. An old collector told me a common metal staple adhering to the plate for a short while caused this error.

Imprint blocks seem up all across the KGVI reign, often trebling in value. And coil pairs and other plate varieties see huge increases in many areas.

The pricing of the Post Office issued CTO material all throughout is very sloppy, and not thought through at all, just like the KGV volume. Expect massive upticks when it is ever looked at carefully.

This new Edition also includes a detailed listing of all 1946 BCOF Japan issues, and the myriad and flaws and proofs etc for this ever popular collecting field.

Third edition, now a whopping 280 pages, has a ton of upward priced movements. Some stamps have increased TEN times in value on some of the 1946 BCOF items, adding $100s of extra value in just one edition to one medium stamp.

Some pieces have doubled or more, from already very high prices, like the 1/- Lyrebird “Green Mist Retouch” moving from $2,000 to $5,000 etc.

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“Top Hat” Error up near 10 fold.

This new catalogue annoyingly uses some ACSC numbers in this edition, that in last one were something else entirely. That, combined with some sloppy editing of footnote numbers at times, makes it not always simple to follow in parts.

There seems no good reason for this, other than the create mass confusion, so not having the current book will give you headaches at times, and make auctions and some dealer lists a tangled mess to decipher.

Money Business on eBay.

bleached rag shown nearby was peddled as a “rare white paper printing”, and described as being: “in fine condition” despite a quite huge thin.

The truly massive thin was of course illustrated, but even that did not deter the Bunny Bidders, and nor did they look at the dozens of others Fake “T46 Monkey Stamps” this con has sold before on eBay. The bare minimum of research of past sales even when planning to spend $1,000s on eBay never EVER seems to occur to some of these dopes. tinyurl.com/ChinaT46 is the detailed discussion on this saga, for those who enjoy watching Train Wrecks in progress - right before your eyes.

eBay buyers fleeced for $100,000+

Buying pricey stamps on eBay, from unknown low feedback sellers, is nearly always a disaster waiting to happen. ESPECIALLY short 3 days ales and “Private” auctions where shill bidding runs rampant.

“Bargain Hunters” got ripped off for about $100,000 in recent weeks alone madly bidding on masses of totally non-existent stamps for sale – added up as scans from a Status paper auction catalogue, Despite the “stamps” for sale showing obvious dot pixilation from being lifted from that source, the Bunnies by the 1000s fired off bids, and never saw any stamps of course, and may well have lost their money totally.

The IQ of many eBay stamp bidders is surely in the single digits, that has been proven several million times, but now and again it gets heavily reinforced!

Recently a bunch of frantic bargain hunting Bunnies bid this ridiculous rag shown nearby up to $A1,575. There were 41 bids.

This stamp, the 1980 8f “Year Of the Monkey” is scarce - when genuine. I ask and get $A2,000 each when REAL copies turn up in collections. A genuine example is shown nearby.

It is a deep red colour, and 95% of those offered on eBay are fake – this eBay seller “bmw202012” has sold dozens of fakes in recent times for a healthy 5 figure sum in total. Mint, used and on cover!

This sad sunA GENUINE China “Year Of The BUNNY” stamp? faded and/or “Monkey” stamp.

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Market Matters Sydney Stamp EXPO April 2015.

Stolen scans from Auction Cat. A quick google of the seller’s names will have led them to stampboards warnings that it is all a $100,000 scam. “auandr_pajgxdrkx” is the same person as “assa_jef” and “aujoh-4q99e7” but of course doing any kind of basic research is unknown to most eBay bidders. Link here - tinyurl.com/ StampScan The Kookaburra sheet shown nearby as can be seen is a paper auction catalogue scan - Lot 1212 at back of next page can be seen, and another lot number is underneath it. The 22 clueless bidders did not notice, and buyer has lost their money, as the seller never owned it, or the others.

Three Generations of Pitt Family.

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I am submitting this column on April 17th at the end of the first full day of the large Australia National for this year.

Held in a new location for stamp shows at Hurstville - a middle distance suburb from the Sydney city, the show so far seemed pretty good in dealer’s eyes when I did my rounds today.

Sadly this column goes to press before the Medal Awards, and further updates are to hand. Alan Pitt, MD Of Renniks/Lighthouse said: “we have a huge Mega stand, and have done very well so far”.

Hurstville may not be a totally ideal choice, but for those aware of the realities of Sydney Exhibition space, there are basically no other realistic options given the budget of such shows.

Committee members spent 100s of unpaid hours on this. This venue cost about $16,000 for hire alone I think someone told me, and I assume security and insurance etc was extra, plus promotion and advertising etc.

The venue seemed very roomy to me, and Stewart Robbins APTA President, told me approx half the floor space was Exhibits, and 50% dealer stalls.

Randwick Racecourse since their recent update costs about $50,000 for 4 days I recall was the

Glen Stephens figure I heard. And other more central places are even higher cost.

This is not Hobart or Wagga Wagga etc, it is Sydney, and prime venues with the HUGE floor footprint that stamp shows need, where masses of Exhibits are booked, cost a fortune.

“Rent Out The Opera House”

I am sure if they rented out the Opera House for $75,000-$100,000 it would cost visitors $50$100 a day to attend. Then Spot the Brush Turkeys the geniuses would be saying “why can’t they pick a place like Hurstville, where it only cost a few bucks to enter?”

It must be remembered this was a NATIONAL. Not to be compared in any way with the number of collector exhibits, dealer stands and visitors, to the massive “Australia 2013” which was a full blown, once in 20 years, FIP INTERNATIONAL, which got SEVERAL MILLION $$s of AP support.

Much interesting material was on offer. Phoenix Auctions showed me a trial sheet of 5d Brush Turkey stamps they’d just been consigned, from the estate of a technician at the Note Printing Branch.

Directors David Wood and Ken Pearson had other interesting Banknote/Money Order proof

material from the same source, and we were able to impose on specialist banknote dealer Trevor Wilkin to explain it more fully.

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

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

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

Lambton, Juniors 11am 3rd Sun, Wallsend Pioneers Hall NSW Postcard Collectors Soc: Mtg 1st Wed 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301 Northern Suburbs PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs, 7.45pm, Naremburn Library, Central St, Naremburn off Slade St; Ph: 02 9419 7354 Orange Coin and Stamp Club: Mtg Last Tuesday, Orange Community Info Centre, 79-81 Kite St, Orange 7.30pm Ph: 02 6362 3754.

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

Details: www.philas.org.au/sysdneyanglicanstampsociety Tamworth PS: Mtg 1st Mon ex. Jan. Tamworth Bridge Club, 7 Hilton St, Tamworth Sec. Graeme Mitchell. PO Box 678, Tamworth NSW 2340 Ph. 02 67664853 Taree RSL Club Ltd SC: Mtg 3rd Mon Thematic Society of Australia: Mtg 3rd Wed Toronto SC: Mtg 1st Wed Tuggerah SC: Mtg 4th Sun (ex Dec.) Turramurra SC: Mtg 2nd Monday, 7.45pm. Ph: 9144 4225 Twin Towns Stamp Club Inc.: Mtg 1st Monday, 7.30p, Home & Comm. Centre, Tweed Heads Wagga SC: Mtg 1st Wed (ex Jan) ARCC Building, Tarcutta St, 7.30pm. Secretary: Peter Simpfendorfer Ph:02 6922 3393 Willoughby Legion Philatelic Section: Mtg 4th Tues Wyong PS: 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 Redland Bay Coin and Stamp Club, 4th Thurs. Monthly. John Hardman 07 3206 9996 or 07 3822 6987 Rockhampton SC: Mtg 1st Tues. Ph: 07 4926 3336. email: rockystampclub@gmail.com Sherwood Afternoon SC: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 07 3372 6096 Southport Afternoon SC: Mtg 2nd Sat; Ph: 07 55630384 Southside PS: Mtg 3rd Tuesday & 3rd Wednesay (9am) Ph: 07 3848 2304 (ah) email: david.appleton@mailbox.uq.edu.au Sunshine Coast SC (formerly Nambour SC): Mtg 1st Wed, 7.15pm at C.W.A. Hall, Short St. Nambour. Ph: 075445 3647 Thematics Queensland: Mtg bi-monthly 9.30am. Ph: 07 3262 5605 email: j.crowsley@ uq.net.au Toowoomba SC: Mtg. 2nd Sat 1pm, Salvation Army Hall, Cnr. West St. 7 Anzac Ave. Ph. 07 4635 5623 Email: bob.benny@bigpond.com Twin Towns SC: Mtg 1st Mon; Ph: 07 5598 7629 Waterloo Bay SC: Mtg. 1st Thurs. 1pm & 4th Mon. 7pm. Redlands Multi SportsClub, Birkdale Ph: 07 3206 0815

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philatelic clubs & societies south australia

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

Australian Airmail Society: 1st Wed. 7.45pm 22 Gray Court, Adelaide. PO Box 395, Edwardstown 5039. Ph: 08 8276 3969 Barossa SC: Mtg 1st Tue 7.30 Greenock Luth Church Hall, Bevan St, Greenock; 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

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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

victoria

May 2 - (1st Sat) 9am to 4pm Orange Stamp Fair,

May 3 - (1st Sun) Stamp, Coin & Phone Card Fair, Ukrainian Hall, Russell St, Essendon. 9am-3pm Quinn’s Arcade, Summer St, Orange. Ph: Norm 02 May 17 - (3rd Sun) Stamp, Card - Phone Card Fair, 63623754.

Bentleigh-McKinnon Youth Centre, Higgins Rd, Bentleigh.

May 2 - (1st Sat) Northside Stamp Fair. 1st Floor, Car Dealers plus huge range activities. Ph: 0418 322 315.

May 28 - Dandenong PS Auction, Church of Christ park Building, Manly-Warringah Leagues Club, cnr meeting room, 139 David St. Dandenong 3175, Viewing Federal Parade/Pittwater Rd, Brookvale, NSW. 6.30pm, Auction commences 7.30pm Contact 03 9795 May 2 - (1st Sat) Katoomba Stamp & Coin Fair, 9am 8022 4pm, Masonic Hall, Cnr Station & Civic Sts, Katoomba. May 31 - (last Sun ex Dec) Stamp, Coin & Phonecard Fair, Jaycees Hall, Silver Grove, Nunawading. 9am-3pm.

Ph. 0417 802 754 May 2 - (1st Sat) Sutherland Shire Stamp & Coin Collectors Fair, Gymea Anglican Church Hall, 131 Gymea

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 May 17 - (3rd Sun) Stamp & Coin Fair, 10am - 3pm, 616 day only.

Pioneers Hall, Cowper St, Wallsend. 8 Dealers. 4971 May 11 - (2nd Mon) - Gold Coast PS Sale, Rm 1, Southport Comm. Centre, Lawson St, Southport. 11.30am 3483 2.30pm Brisbane Table Tennis Association Centre May 24 - (4th Sun) Epping Stamp & Coin Fair, CommuMay 17 - QStamp Fair, Southside, Mt Gravatt Shownity Hall, 9 Oxford St, Epping. 10am - 4pm. Free Entry, grounds, Memorial Hall, Logan Rd. Free Entry 8.30am - 2pm 6 Dealers, Buy/Sell Bay Rd, Gymea.

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