Stamp News Australasia - August 2016

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Contents Articles Woodchip Free Zone: Rod Perry ...................................................6 St Helena–Napoleon’s Isand Prison: Christer Brunström .. 12 Stamps in the News: Margo Campbell .................................... 16 Postal Stationery: Ian McMahon ................................................ 26 Looking at New Zealand: Graeme Morriss ............................... 32 Introducing the APF: Daryl Fuller .............................................. 48 Cinderella Corner: Vito Milana .................................................... 52 Market Matters: Glen Stephens .................................................. 56

Information Reviews: Mike Lee ........................................................................... 10 Trading Post....................................................................................... 68 Clubs & Societies ....................................................................... ......70 Calendar.............................................................................................. 73 Products & Services Directory............................................... ......74 Internet & Email Directory...................................................... ......78 List of Advertisers .............................................................. ..............82

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Usage, as regular readers well understand, is the study on intact commercial postal article of a given stamp, and the purpose behind that usage. In a nutshell, the observations made are all about the stamp.

Those readers also understand that Postal history (P.H.), on the other hand, need have little or nothing to do with the stamp/s on the article, if indeed there are any stamps! That focus is upon the article at hand, and what events it may have encountered from the moment it was posted, until the time it was delivered. In other words, P.H. is all about the postal system, and consideration of possibly a myriad of other factors, which may come to bear during the article’s journey, from point A to B. I have touched upon subtle differences between Usage and P.H. in earlier columns.

This brief “refresher” was initiated by a learned philatelic friend, a P.H. expert, who has struggled with the concept of Usage as a distinct discipline. Recently he argued “But isn’t any stamp on a postal article a form of Figure 1. Possible record-franking for 5/usage?”

Well, certainly any stamp came up with the following definitions to broadly on a postal article is used, determine suitability of a given item for a Usage but this was a fair argument, and one I would have collection, and just “used”: to dig deep to explain the succinct separation of 1. To qualify for inclusion in a Usage collection, the two disciplines. Making it up as I went along, I 6 - Stamp News

Figure 2. Another “record-franking”, this time for 10/a stamp must be able to logically be “slotted in” to the appropriate sequence for that particular stamp in the collection. “Appropriate sequence” will depend on just how the collector chooses to arrange the collection. Some might prefer to make their arrangement in strict date of stamp issue order. Others might opt for denomination sequence, where the collection subject is usage of a given series of stamps, such as a definitive series. Alternatively, there is arrangement in a given published catalogue sequence, such as SG for British Commonwealth, ACSC for Australian Commonwealth, etc.

2. As it’s “all about the stamp”, the postal article should have the subject stamp issue present in one and/or another of the following formats: (a) As a solo franking (b) As a multiple franking

(c) As payment for a specific postal service, such as uprate for airmail, registration or certified fee, special delivery, etc. (d) As the “dominant” participant in a particular franking composition. This is a subjective qualification, and examples are given amongst the illustrations which follow.

My learned friend particularly related to the slotting in aspect. That then, will be the theme for the selection of the examples hereunder: are they best suited to a Usage collection (and if so, just where do they “slot in”) or under Postal history.

I’ve selected three items from the June 24 2016 Phoenix Auctions sale, as they give me the opportunity to jointly revisit the topic of an earlier column. In October 2011 I featured usage of NZ’s attractive 1950s Queen-on-horseback series, and Stamp News - 7

Figure 3. Queen-on-horseback smorgasbord made much of the rarity of the 10/- on commercial postal articles, and how few I had noted over the years. I was not aware at that time of the amazing Philips Industries Hoard, from which the items featured derive.

Lot #854 (Figure 1) was a May 22 1957 cover Wellington to London (as are the other two covers), franked for an aggregate £3.1.3d. All three covers were sent at 1/9d per half oz. airmail rate, which in this instance was for x35 multiple of the rate (i.e. weight was 17-17.5ozs.). The dominant stamp in the franking composition most would agree is the 5/denomination, of which there are seven, possibly as many as one is ever likely to find on a single postal article. The 10/- Pictorial x2 is also exceptional for that stamp, and this item would not be out of place if “slotted” in to a Usage collection of that series.

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tory”, but I consider all three more appropriately lend themselves to a place in a Usage collection; this item in one or other of the respective stamp series. Estimated at $250, it sold for $210 (exclusive of premium), which surely represents a lot of value for money.

Figure 1, in isolation, I would be particularly excited about, under normal circumstances. But, then along come Figures 2 and 3! Phoenix #857 (Figure 2) is one of those rare items in Philately which I greet with a “wow!” Many of the typical “rare” labelled items in auction catalogues I rate as pretty “ordinary”. This x50 multiple of 1/9d airmail rate (24.5-25ozs.), £4.7.6d, was sent Sep 5 1959.

The NZ Post website states Arms £2, £3, £4, £5 (and £10 and £20!) were still in use by Nov 1 1960, but doesn’t mention when the scarce £3.10s was withdrawn. I doubt it would have still been available

Figure 4. Yet another eBay bargain (Wellington GPO was the only P.O. where the high denominations could be purchased), but if it were, what a remarkable usage item its inclusion in this franking composition would have produced. Nevertheless, 10/- Queen-on-horseback x6, including pair and block of three (yes, correct term), is rather special! Phoenix mention of “Possibly the record franking of 10/- Queen-on-Horse on commercial cover” is unlikely to ever be challenged, I suggest. Estimated $300, it realised $1300. Respectable, but I suspect in years to come this will be seen to have been an astute purchase. The “slot” for this item in a Usage collection ought to be obvious (I would hope).

A more spectacular range of Queen-on-horseback series on cover than #856 (Figure 3) one will probably never see. This remarkable franking composition includes 2/6d (5), 3/- (6, with block of four), 5/- (3) and 10/- (block of four). Aggregate £5.1.6d represents x59 the 1/9d airmail rate (29-29.5ozs.), sent Aug 21 1959 on this occasion. I did say [2(d) above] that “dominant” is a subjective term, so the 3/- being the stamp most represented could be rated the dominant franking. However, I doubt anyone would not rate a block of 10/- as being adequate for the

cover to be “slotted in” under that denomination in a Usage collection.

Realised $1400 against $400 estimate, and my comment under Figure 2 applies here also. Yes, this would be an attractive entrant, albeit a luxuriant one, in a P.H. exhibit of airmail rates.

However, it could be said a meter denominated £5.1.6d would suffice in such a collection, as an example of an unusually high multiple for a standard rate.

Incidentally, during Phoenix auction viewing, I am told the comment was made regarding these three covers to the effect that large covers are unpopular with collectors, as they do not “fit” on an exhibition page. That of course is nonsense: enter the double-sized page. How can an article weighing close to 2lbs possibly be contained within a standard-sized envelope? If a single page determined what we do or don’t collect, where does a sheet of £2 Kangaroos fit in an exhibit?

To conclude, and this time there is no doubt where the item “slots in”, is Figure 4. This is the first solo franking of the 1965 Emergency printing 2/6d Aborigine I have recorded. The stamp is very scarce on any type of postal article (ACSC $150 “on cover”); I’ve recorded just six examples. This is the best, a Decimal era Feb 19 1966 use Melbourne to West Germany, paying 25c (2/6d) airmail rate.

Seven individual bidders participated, but none were brave enough to push it beyond AU$32. I missed the auction; I’ve been too busy giving away my own bargains as a seller on eBay (handle rap_com_au if you collect Australian commercial/philatelic covers).

It would not have sold to another for less than AU$400 if I had seen it in time to bid.

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mike lee

Just two new catalogues for review this time, the 3rd edition of the Indian Ocean catalogue, and the annual Great Britain Concise catalogue.

All of these catalogues are published by Stanley Gibbons Ltd, 7 Parkside, Christchurch Rd. Ringwood, Hants BH24 3SH U.K.

might like to expand your GB collecting horizons by including some of the areas listed above, then this is the year to do it! Why? Because you get around 20 pages more than last year’s edition, and the Australian RRP is actually a dollar less than last year!

GB 2016 Concise catalogue Paperback, 500 pages, 31st edition RRP A $77.50

2016 Indian Ocean Paperback, 192 pages, 3rd edition RRP A $53.90

As I said in the review of the 2015 edition of this catalogue, If you collect GB in greater depth than the SG ‘Collect British Stamps’ but not at the level of the multi volume and highly detailed SG GB Specialist catalogues, then this is the ideal catalogue for you!

Listings are complete up to the 2016 Shakespeare set, issued April 5th this year.

Once again, I thought it might be worth mentioning some of the areas covered in this catalogue that you won’t find in Collect British stamps: Major errors, including double or missing colours, imperforates, missing phosphors and embossing and watermark errors are listed and priced, as are booklets (the biggest thing missing from the Collect catalogue, in my opinion), All British Post Office special First Day of Issue postmarks are illustrated and priced on cover. A useful table of postage rates contemporary with NVIs is included, inverted, reversed and sideways watermarks are listed and priced. Also included is a simplified listings of specimen overprints.

Stamps from 1840 to 1911 are also priced on cover. I’m sure I’ve missed a few others, but as you can see this catalogue packs in a lot of extra information.

And very importantly, I’d like to remind readers to please, please make sure you read the section on prices, commencing on page x, taking particular note of the quality and cancelation type etc that the prices quoted for used stamps in the catalogue relate to.

If you’ve always used the Collect British Stamps catalogue but have thought that you

With up to four years worth of new issues for the four current stamp issuing countries covered in this volume, the page count in the new third edition has swollen just a little. British Indian Ocean Territory is covered up to June 2014, the Maldive Islands to 2012, Mauritius to November 2015 and Seychelles to October 2014.

As well as these countries, we also have listings for Madagascar British Consular Mail and British Inland Mail, Mauritius Express Delivery, Postage Dues and Fiscal stamps that ere used for postage, and the 1980 to 1992 issues of Zil Elwanyenn Sesel. The stamps of Mauritius used in Seychelles prior to the issue of the first Seychelles stamps in 1890 are also fully listed and priced.

The ‘Damaged S’ variety found on the 1938 4c of Mauritius is listed and priced Mint for the first time, and there are new inverted watermarks listed in Mauritius and Maldives.

The publishers advise ‘There are significant price increases to classis Mauritius, errors and varieties, and the middle period issues of Mauritius and the Maldive Islands’ The comment about the classic Mauritius issues is borne out by a quick look at the earliest listings with SG 1 and 2, the Famous ‘Post Office’ 1d and 2d coming in at a massive £1,300,000 and £1,500,000 respectively. In fact, there’s not many issues in the first decade or so that come in with a catalogue value under £1000! Not a collecting field for the faint hearted!

A great catalogue, which includes listings for some of the truly great ‘gems’ of classic philately.

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STAMPS, COINS, BANKNOTES, BULLION & MILITARIA

MELBOURNE MONEY EXPO 27-28 AUGUST

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Australasian Numismatic Dealers Association Inc. (ANDA) With thousands of collectors expected to attend the inaugural Melbourne Money Expo, the race will be on to acquire the “M” Privy Mark $1 coins. And the two PNCs. The three products have been especially produced for the Expo and will be distributed exclusively through ANDA. (Simply visit ANDA.COM.AU) Australia Post Australia Post will have a wide array of its superb products. In the belief that everyone loves a bargain, Australia Post will also be offering some special clearance prices on past issues.

Royal Australian Mint It’s been three years since the RAM in Canberra has attended an ANDA Expo.

The mint is celebrating its return to the ANDA arena with a high-tech display of its design and production process. And the appearance of world renowned designer Stevan Stojanovic entertaining the public with a demonstration of his skills.

Perth Mint The Perth Mint has created a special Melbourne Money Expo release of a 1/2oz Silver Coloured Kangaroo coin. A limited mintage of 1500 and a numbered certificate (with the lure of the lowest numbers available at the Expo) will ensure a long queue at the Perth Mint’s stand.

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The first ever banknote of the Commonwealth of Australia M000001 It is the most recognized and the most valuable banknote in Australian history and it is on display at the Melbourne Money Expo. A national treasure, the note is available for public viewing for two days only at the Expo.

The Top Dollars The largest and most valuable collection of Holey Dollars ever assembled for public viewing. Fifteen of the top Holey Dollars will be on display at the Melbourne Money Expo. A free souvenir booklet has been produced as a memento of the occasion.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE MELBOURNE MONEY EXPO VISIT ANDA.COM.AU

ST HELENA–NApoleon’s ISLAND PRISON When people are asked to tell something about the Island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic they will probably mention the French Emperor Napoleon.

After having lost the battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1814 the British sent him to his island prison the following year. The former emperor remained on the island until he passed away in 1821. He was buried on St. Helena but in 1840 his remains were taken to France to be reburied in Paris.

St. Helena was discovered by Portuguese captain João da Nova Castella in 1502 but he seems to have been very secretive about his discovery.

Thomas Cavendish rediscovered the island in 1588 and claimed it for England. The island then became very important for shipping in the South Atlantic area until the Suez Canal was opened in 1870. For a very long time the island was administered by the British East India Company. It was only in 1834 that St Helena became a British colony and the centenary of this important event was celebrated in 1934 by releasing a magnificent set of ten commemorative stamps.

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Napoleon was not the island’s only prisoner.

After the Boer War in South Africa a number of prisoners were sent to St. Helena. Later on a few freedom fighters wanting independence for Britain’s African colonies were also interned on the island.

Today the island has a population of some 4.000 people. Traditionally they have made a living through subsistence farming and fishing. St. Helena produces excellent coffee beans but the production is not large enough to allow for any substantial exports. The fishing industry also adds to the island’s economy. In the future tourism can be expected to bring wealth to the island as an international airport was recently inaugurated. The island’s capital is Jamestown which basically is a small village.

Tristan da Cunha and Ascension are also part of the territory of St. Helena which is one of the few remnants of Great Britain’s former colonial empire. On the island of Ascension there are large military bases and many of the workers come from

Christer Brunström St. Helena.

St. Helena issued its first postage stamp in 1856. It had a denomination of 6 pence which corresponded to the postal needs of the day. The stamp was printed by Perkins Bacon in England and it was imperforate. As the clichés were placed very close to each other in the printing plate it is very difficult to find nice four-margined copies.

Shown nearby is an average copy of St. Helena No. 1.

In 1861 there was an additional printing of the stamp but it was now perforated. The gauge varies from 14 to 16.

In 1863 the contract to print St. Helena’s stamps was awarded to De La Rue in England. The printing plates had been taken over from Perkins Bacon and the assignment was now to produce additional denominations at a very low cost. De La Rue printed the 6d stamp in a variety of colours and these new stamps were then surcharged with new denominations ranging from 1 penny to 5 shillings. This method of production was then used all

the way until 1890.

In 1904 it was decided to sell off the large remainders of some of the De La Rue printings.

They were cancelled to order before being sold.

These remainders are of little value. One such cancelled-to-order stamp is depicted nearby.

In 1903 the first two local designs were released. They feature the wharf and Government House. In retrospect they are not terribly good designs.

A new set of definitive stamps was introduced in 1922. It features the St. Helena badge and it includes denominations from ½ penny to 15 shillings. The top denomination is something of a rarity and is currently valued at £1100. This is an exciting set as most of the values include two or three constant varieties. They are well worth looking out for and they are illustrated in the Stanley Gibbons British Empire catalogue.

In 1953 there was a beautiful definitive set featuring local scenery. I believe it was this particular set which made me want to collect St. Helena, The

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ST HELENA–NApoleon’s ISLAND PRISON 10/- value depicts Longwood House where Napoleon stayed from 1815 until 1821.

I have decided to collect only the 1856-1956 period. After 1956 St. Helena’s stamp output is quite similar to that of so many other British colonies and territories. However, the vast majority have themes relating to the island. So far St. Helena has released some 1.500 different stamps and some 80 souvenir sheets.

There is another post-1956 set which needs to be mentioned. In 1961 a devastating volcanic eruption forced the entire population of Tristan da Cunha to leave their island. The local postal authorities on St.

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Helena wanted to give a helping hand and proceeded to overprint four Tristan stamps with the wording “ST. HELENA/Tristan Relief” plus a surcharge ranging from 3d to 1/-. The set was issued on 12 October 1961.

When the colonial authorities in London learnt about this initiative they were far from amused and orders were dispatched to withdraw the set. This happened on 19 October 1961; by then 434 complete sets had been sold. Stanley Gibbons values this set at £8,000 making it one of the most valuable items in St. Helena philately. It is sadly missing from my own collection and thus cannot be shown here.

AAT fully IMPERFORATE Miniature Sheets issued by Australia Post!

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

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

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

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

A. Fully imperforate MUH or CTO AAT Mini Sheet - $A60 a sheet. (Stock code 629KE) B. An uncut MUH and/or CTO imperf pair of 2 of the Mini Sheets $A80 (Stock code 629KI) C. PAIR of imperf panes from top LH, hand numbered “XXX/250” in margin, AND the matching AP card, $A115 (Stock code 629KM) G. Normal perforated M/S & IMPERF sheet used on 23x32cm air cover to you $A70 post free Global! (Stock Code 629KO) Many more choices, inc. covers, and all photos are here – www.tinyurl.com/imperfsAAT order online: www.tinyurl.com/GlenOrder Cheques, money orders, cash, all credit cards, Amex, PayPal, and bank transfer accepted at ZERO extra fee. Rigidly Packed Post is $A4 in Australia (Add $5 for Registered, if needed), or $A9 Foreign Air (Add $A12 Registered if needed.)

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Stamps in the News - Globally!

Brexit postal fail

Reported at www.independent.co.uk Anger is growing among countless British expats who say they have been “disenfranchised” in the EU referendum because their postal votes failed to arrive.

There were demands for an immediate investigation as the number of those known to be affected continued to grow, with some calling for a re-run of the referendum.

Christina Watkins, who lives in Normandy, said she had spoken to many other British friends in France who did not receive their postal vote papers.

“This has the potential, I believe, to demand a new referendum if the problem of overseas postal voting for expats is identified,” she said.

There were similar stories from British voters in countries including Peru, Iceland, Hong Kong, Turkey, South Africa and New Zealand, all of whom had their registrations for postal voting confirmed.

Michael Shorthouse, who did not receive his postal vote in the US, said the result of the referendum should be challenged, while another angry voter said the situation “makes a farce of the outcome of the EU referendum”.

The majority of voters contacting the press said they had received no documents at all, but some said they did not arrive until shortly before the EU

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referendum or on the day of the vote itself, making it impossible to return them in time.

Jackie Donkin, who lives in Australia, said she received her postal vote on 23 June – complete with instructions to return it by 10pm on the same day.

“I am furious and disenfranchised,” she said. “In this day of modern communications why is it not possible to enable a vote by means other than an unreliable postal system and, what is more, send out the ballot so late that it is clear that it is not going to be possible to return it by the deadline?”

Many voters said they had been told postal errors were to blame, although several said they had never had issues with the service in their respective countries.

Brexit: La Poste’s response Reported at www.thelocal.fr

France’s postal service La Poste was forced to inform its branches across the country that they must accept envelopes containing postal votes for the EU referendum after reports of voters being told to buy stamps.

A number of staff were unaware that the special envelopes used to carry postal votes for the crucial EU referendum were valid for post without needing stamps.

The move came after numerous expat voters reported issues on a local level with staff at La Poste apparently telling them the envelopes needed French stamps on them for them to be accepted despite the envelope clearly saying in both English and French “No stamp required” (Ne Pas Affranchir).

“I can confirm that the reply envelopes used by British citizens for the referendum were properly integrated into our mail circuit for the UK,” a La Poste spokeswoman stated.

“I tried to explain to (the Electoral Commission) that the problem was France-wide not

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just our département,” wrote Lizzie Hale, who was told that a stamp was “definitely needed”.

“Why should we effectively lose our vote for following the voting instructions to the letter?” she added, apparently worried that those who didn’t add a stamp would see their votes disappear.

Others have reported concern that their vote wouldn’t be counted because they simply put the letter in a mailbox without checking with a postal worker first.

Some, such as Carryn Hayward, advised other expats to buy a “poste priorité” stamp for one euro.

Similar problems were reported at local post offices in Belgium and Germany, though it appears post offices in other European countries including Spain and Sweden accepted the prepaid envelopes.

Brexit-led recovery for Royal Mail?

Reported at www.bloomberg.com

Royal Mail has anticipated the referendum on Britain’s membership in the European Union will spur a short-term surge in sales as the UK’s postal operator delivers pamphlets for the “in” and “out” campaigns as well as mail-in ballots.

Ahead of the final vote, Chief Executive Officer Moya Greene said she expected about 30 percent of voters to cast ballots by mail, based on patterns from previous elections.

“We certainly get paid for that,” Greene said.

The UK has about 45 million registered voters. The company, which also delivers pamphlets and ballots for national and local elections, said that over all it expects a benefit from these mailings in the 2016 financial year.

That could help make up for slowing growth in Europe and higher-thanexpected costs related to Royal Mail’s transition to becoming a private company. The company is grappling with a structural decline in letter deliveries because of a shift to e-mail and other forms of digital communication.

While UK letter volume fell, sales have grown in Royal Mail’s domestic and continental European parcel delivery business. The company recently won business from retailers such as John Lewis and Waterstones, helping it to make up for business lost when Amazon set up its own UK delivery operation.

Greene declined to comment on whether Royal Mail was for or against EU membership. Many UK companies with broad exposure to local voters have avoided taking a stand on the referendum for fear of alienating potential customers.

Sisterhood in the shadows

Reported at http://myedmondsnews.com Seattle artist, Mona Fairbanks, recently set an assignment for her female art students to empower girls by creating a full figure out of a postage stamp of a woman’s head and the surrounding landscape.

She was surprised at how few female stamps she found in her stamp collection so off she went to Aurora Stamps, where she found the same circumstances not only in US stamps, but worldwide. Although she was assured at the stamp store that there were many women on stamps, she found very few.

When she got home she did some further inves-

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Stamps in the News - Globally!

An example of the students’ work tigation and found some interesting facts in the Baltimore Sun. In the article “Stamp out gender bias in Postal Service Commemoration”,psychologist Lynette Long, states that from Jan. 2000 – Dec. 2005, out of 618 commemorative stamps 467 were topical, 123 were men, and 26 women.

“Back at the stamp store, the owner kindly donated about 30 stamps for the project. The images are of mainly Queen Elizabeth from Canada, Australia and UK, with a few women on stamps from the Netherlands and Denmark. I look forward to seeing what the students design during the week-long class,” said Mona.

Iraq gilds the lily

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Iraqi female architect, Zaha Hadid, who died of a heart attack this year. However, the stamp which features her face alongside illustrations of some of her projects, is a little odd.

In the portrait, Hadid’s face is from a headshot taken after she received the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)’s 2016 Royal Gold Medal but her body is from a portrait taken for TIME’s “100 issue” from 2010. The resulting graft is a pretty poor Photoshop job, with a weird smear of sheer fabric brushing her chin, and her face slightly stretched.

The late architect appears against an image of the wave-like Heydar Aliyev Center in Azerbaijan’s Baku, as well as her vision for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Stadium. The latter, though, was a poor choice given that the structure was plagued with controversy, with the Japanese government ultimately rejecting Hadid’s plans three years after she won the design contest as they proved too costly.

Critics have queried the choice given the dozens of completed iconic buildings Hadid created.

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Out of this world

Reported at www.energyfm.net British Astronaut, Major Tim Peake, returned from space this month after spending six months on board the International Space Station, bringing with him special Isle of Man philatelic items.

The Major left earth on a Russian Soyuz rocket and spent 173 days orbiting the earth on the Space Station as the first British European Space Agency astronaut to go to the Station, which orbits 250 miles above earth. The outward journey took about 6 hours and Major Peake celebrated his safe arrival on the ISS with a bacon sandwich and a cup of tea.

His travel companions on Soyuz were one of Russia’s most experienced astronauts from the Russian Space Agency, Yuri Malenchenko and US Army colonel Timothy Kopra, who previously flew on the space shuttle in 2009. They joined three crew members already living aboard the ISS, including NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who is there for a year as part of a biomedical experiment involving his twin brother - who also happens to be an astronaut.

Isle of Man postal spokesman said: “Isle of Man Post Office is delighted that Major Peake agreed to take 7 special covers into space with him and sign them while he was on the ISS. They are literally out of this world covers that will be put on display at various sites internationally.”

The covers were specially produced by Isle of Man Post Office and the Royal Aeronautical Society commemorating the the Society’s 150th anniversary.

The stamps illustrate the many Isle of Man links with the aerospace industry including the manufacture of environmental systems and life support equipment and other NASA-approved suppliers.

Czechs fail to check Reported at www.linns.com

The Czech Republic recently issued two versions of a souvenir sheet due to a spelling mistake in a Latin inscription.

The souvenir sheet commemorates the 700th birth anniversary of Charles IV. Born May 14, 1316, he was crowned king of Bohemia in 1346 and holy Roman emperor in 1355.

On the original version of the sheet, his name is inscribed as “Karolus Quatrus” in Latin in the lower left selvage of the sheet. The mistake of the Latin word for fourth, “quartus,” Stamp News - 19

Stamps in the News - Globally! misspelled as “quatrus” was soon noticed.

The sheet was issued May 4, and on the next day, May 5, Czech Post reported the mistake, adding that the souvenir sheet would be withdrawn from sale and a new version produced.

Czech Post said, “The letters R and T in the name KAROLUS QUARTUS were mistakenly transposed to from QUATRUS. With respect to the significance of Charles IV, Czech Post decided to reprint the miniature sheet in the correct way.”

Czech Post has not announced the issue date of the corrected version of the sheet with the inscription “Karolus Quatrus,” but used examples from mid-May are known.

Because there were no mistakes on the stamp itself, Czech Post did not let them go to waste. Czech Post said that it would remove the stamps from the unsold souvenir sheets, and that they “will be used in another way for postal purposes.”

The quantity printed of souvenir sheets with the corrected text was 35,000; and 54,500 were produced of the first version. It is not known how many examples of the first version were returned after the error was discovered.

Odd couples

The Brazilian postal service will issue two postage stamps to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Slovenia’s independence and the diplomatic relations

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between Brazil and Slovenia. One stamp will bear an image of the Slovenian white Lipizzan horse, the other an image of the Brazilian Mangalarga Marchador horse.

The Brazilian postal service Correios do Brasil will issue 600,000 postage stamps as part of its Diplomatic Relations stamp series.

The white Lipizzan horse is a native Slovenian horse breed and a symbol of the Slovenian national heritage. The Mangalarga Marchador horse is a native Brazilian breed, noted for its beauty, intelligence and endurance.

Meanwhile, Vietnam and Portugal have produced a join-issue stamp commemorating five centuries of trade between the two nations.

Depicted in this joint stamp issue are the Chu Dau ceramic vase and coastlines of Hoi An and the city of Lisbon in Portugal. The stamps were designed by To Minh Trang of VNPost in collaboration with Portuguese colleagues.

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Margo Campbell became the focus of the worst East-West crisis since the Cold War, after Ukraine’s proMoscow president Viktor Yanukovych was driven from power by violent protests in Kiev.

Kremlin-backed forces seized control of the Crimean peninsula, and the territory, which has a Russian-speaking majority, voted to join Russia in a referendum that Ukraine and the West deem illegal.

Critics have suggested Malta Post may have been duped into a form of recognition of Crimea as part of Russia by issuing this stamp. The political significance is made even greater by Malta’s status as a European Union member.

Why the Swiss should rule the world

Reported at http://postandparcel.info

Enough to make a Maltese cross Reported at www.maltatoday.com

A recent joint issue stamp of Malta and Russia has raised eyebrows internationally.

The issue theme was two paintings by Russian artist Nicholas Krasnoff, who fled to Malta in 1919 and lived there until 1922, the year that the Soviet Union came into being.

The Maltese painting depicts the view from Vittoriosa Gate, the other stamp shows the Dulber Palace in Crimea.

However, in retrospect, the choice of Crimea as the topic is questionable.

In early 2014 Crimea

Swiss Post has announced that it has signed a new mutual agreement with the price regulator valid to December 2017. And the good news is the prices for domestic A and B Mail letters, which were increased for the last time in 2004, and for domestic parcels remain unchanged.

Under the agreement, every household in Switzerland will receive a card with two free one-franc stamps as a gift, and the postal operator will reduce

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the price of SMS postage stamps from 1.20 to 1 franc as of 1 January 2017.

In addition, between July and October 2017, customers will receive a 30% discount on paid postcards sent via the PostCard Creator App.

Swooping seagulls stop service Reported at www.dailymail.co.uk

Forget about dangerous dogs - now posties are refusing to deliver mail because of dangerous seagulls.

They’ve got a reputation as dive-bombers who grab food from unsuspecting victims - but they also clearly have a taste for postal workers.

Swooping ‘seagulls’ was the reason given by one postwoman for failing to deliver mail to four addresses in the coastal town of Maryport in Cumbria recently.

A note left by her cites the birds as the risk which ‘prevented us from delivering this item’ - and Royal Mail has confirmed that the gulls were to blame.

Complaints of aggressive gulls recur in coastal communities every summer with the birds’ behaviour blamed on defending and feeding their fledgling chicks The resident response? ‘There have been problems with some seagulls dive-bombing people but to affect something like a Royal Mail delivery shoving some post through a letterbox - was a bit

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crazy.’

A Royal Mail spokeswoman said: ‘Royal Mail would like to apologise that we were unable to deliver to four addresses in Maryport on Tuesday due to swooping attacks by seagulls. Normal deliveries resumed on Wednesday. The safety of our people is paramount to Royal Mail.’

Civic authorities in the area have received many reports of seagull attacks during the breeding season and this affects other coastal areas of the UK. But senior RSPB conservation officer Tim Melling said gulls only attack when they see people as predators. He explained: ‘Sometimes, if you go near the nest they’ll swoop very low, and they’ll caw at you, making a noise.’

‘But all they’re trying to do is push you away because they’re frightened that you’re going to kill their babies.’

Herring gulls are on the conservation concern ‘red list’ after a 74 per cent decline in their numbers since the 1970s.

Other reasons given by postal workers for stopping deliveries in recent years have included a plague of midges and an ‘aggressive’ raspberry bush.

Breaking the glass ceiling

Reported at https://onlineshop.post.at Austrian Post has produced a world first with a new unique stamp issue. To date, no stamp valid for franking has ever previously been made out of glass anywhere in the world.

The new issue glass stamp shows one of the famous “Sandlbilder”: a reverse glass painted Pietà from the Upper Austrian municipality of Sandl.

In reverse glass painting the design is painted

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on the back of the glass, enabling the front to be cleaned easily, which was a big advantage in the smoke-filled farmhouse parlours of yesteryear.

There is a long tradition of reverse glass painting in Sandl. This is because there were many glass works in the nearby Bohemian forests, from which sheets of glass could be acquired easily and cheaply.

Glass painting provided peasant families with an additional source of income; during the winter the whole family worked together to produce the mostly religious designs step by step, each member of the family having his or her own particular task.

The Viennese porcelain manufacturer Augarten is responsible for the painstaking production of the glass stamp. Every glass blank has been hand-crafted, with the design applied by hand using non-fading pigments and a special silkscreen printing process. The colours are then heat-treated, ensuring that the design is firmly bonded and giving the glass a high tensile strength.

complete sheet of 80, “post office” fresh unmounted mint with bright colours and brilliant gold with white gum, unfolded with some slight black offset traces on reverse, inconsequential bends/creasing in sheet margins at corners noted for accuracy, an extremely fine example of this highly sought-after sheet for the discriminating collector. Yang T234.

Full blocks in good condition have been selling around the US$192,000 mark since 2011 ‒ a sum that will likely increase as the years roll on. Other star lots included a small 1968 Whole Country is Red stamp, which made US$125,980. It displays a red map of China above jubilant workers brandishing copies of Mao’s Little Red Book.

Monkey business still big in Hong Kong

Reported at www.paulfrasercollectibles.com A block of 80 1980 Chinese Year of the Monkey stamps has sold for $US192,676, more than $25,000 over highest estimate.

It led a sale of stamps from the People’s Republic of China and Liberated Areas at Interasia Auctions in Hong Kong on June 27.

The issue has become one of the most valuable modern Chinese stamps despite being relatively common. Around 5million were printed. It’s prized by collectors and non-collectors alike for its design, which displays signifiers of good luck ‒ a monkey, a red background and the number eight.

The sheet was described as a

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Postal Stationery This month’s column looks at the Postal Stationery Class at New York 2016 World Stamp Exhibition, new issues of postal stationery from Australia, a newly reported 2½ d Kangaroo & Map PTPO envelope and Papua New Guinea Philatelic Bureau Christmas envelopes.

Postal Stationery at New York 2016 World Stamp Exhibition

New York 2016 World Stamp Exhibition was held in New York City at the Javits Center, New York from 28 May to 4 June 2016.

The Exhibition was one of the largest ever philatelic exhibitions with over 4,000 frames of exhibits, over 200 dealers and postal administrations and a full program of society meetings and other events. For the postal stationery collector the Exhibition provided a feast of postal stationery exhibits as well as meetings of postal stationery societies and of the FIP Postal Stationery Commission.

There were 35 multi-frame postal stationery exhibits in addition to five one-frame exhibits and two youth Figure 1 Postal Stationery Jury Critique New York 2016 exhibits. The exhibits covered a broad range of subjects from Europe, was The 10 cent US Envelopes of 1870-1874 while North and South America, Australasia and Asia. the best Youth postal stationery exhibit was Postal The Postal Stationery exhibits were particularly Stationery of Mexico Serie Mulitas by a Spanish strong with 3 Large Gold and six Gold medals beexhibitor which received a Large Vermeil. ing awarded. All three Large Gold medals went to Unusually a postal stationery exhibit was nomiexhibits from Australian exhibitors with John Sinnated for the Grand Prix, the top award of the exfield receiving a Large Gold for his exhibit Panama hibition. This exhibit was Steve Schumann’s New Republic Postal Stationery to 1940, Darryl Fuller Zealand Postal Stationery 1876-1940 for Leeward Islands Postal Stationery and Michael A number of books on postal stationery were Blinman for New South Wales Postal Stationery. included in the literature class at the Exhibition The two other Australian exhibits received Gold and including The Mulready Postal Stationery by Large Vermeil medals respectively: Philip Levine Holyoake and Alan Huggins, which received a gold for Gold Coast Postal Stationery and Ian McMahon medal, the Romanian Postal Stationery Specialized for Envelopes and Postcards of Canada respecCatalog 1870-1927 by Emanoil-Alexandru Savoiu tively. The best one-frame postal stationery exhibit and Advertising postal cards of the Russian Empire 26 - Stamp News

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(2nd edition) by Valery Krepostnov.

The Mulready Postal Stationery tells the story of the Mulreadys, starting with the design and development of the Mulready postal stationery and covering the Treasury Competition entries, essays, proofs and issued items. The book presents an outline account of the genesis of the Mulready design and the

Figure 2 Indigenous Art, Gawarre, Aerogramme production, issue and usage of the actual stationery, and brings together for the first time in one place illustrations of many of the iconic items existing today. This overview is complemented by the second

Figure 3 Indigenous Art, Ngaturn Tingari, DL International Stamped Envelope

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Figure 4 $1 stamped envelope for the 50th Anniversary of the Parachute Riggers section, which demonstrates how this story can be presented through the medium of an exhibit, to provide a visual insight into the role of the Mulready stationery in the introduction of the historic reforms, which were fundamental to the creation and operation of the Uniform Penny Postage system. This is an excellent book and recommended to all postal stationery collectors.

Society journals included in the literature class were Postal Stationery and Postal History. Almanac No. 20, 21 (2015), Journal of the Union of Philatelists of Russia and the Postal Stationery Collector, Journal of the Postal Stationery Society of Australia, which was awarded a Large Silver.

One of the highlights of US exhibitions is the range of society meetings. For the postal stationery collector, the United Postal Stationery Society had two meetings at the exhibition including a talk on aspects of British West Indian stationery while the Postal Stationery Figure 5 Soldier “Carrying On� With His Correspondence Stamped Postcard 28 - Stamp News

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Figure 6 Queen Elizabeth II 90th Birthday Stamped Postcard Study Group of the British North American Philatelic Society held a meeting including a talk on private order stationery of Canada. In addition the FIP Postal Stationery Commission held a seminar on postal stationery exhibiting and judging and a talk on postal stationery research.

Aboriginal Art Aerogrammes and International stamped envelopes

Australia issued two new aerogrammes and two international stamped envelopes on 5 April 2016 with designs based on indigenous art held in the Art Gallery of Western Australia. The aerogrammes, which sell for $2.30, feature the paintings Gawarre

by Patrick Mung Mung (Figure 2) and Kirriwirri

by Jan Billycan. The DL (Figure 3) and C4 international stamped envelopes depict Ngaturn Tingari [Wati] Tjukurrpa by Tommy Mitchell, Peter Lewis, Clifford Mitchell and Valerie Mitchell and Pirnini country by Jimmy Pike respectively. The envelopes sell for $3.05 (DL) and $8.05 (C4). The aerogrames

and envelopes were printed by A&G envelopes and designed by Jo Mure from the Australia Post Design Studio.

Parachute Ringer Stamped Envelope

Australia issued a $1 stamped envelope (Figure 4) on 12 April 2016 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Parachute Riggers, a section of the Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps. The envelope sold for $1.20, was printed by A&G Envelopes and designed by Sonia Young. The issued envelope and envelopes cancelled First Day of Issue have different barcodes- Mint is 9312650516529 and FDI is 9312650516536.

Biscuit Tin Postcards

Australia Post has continued its practice of selling stamped postcards in conjunction with tins of biscuits. In April Australia Post issued two stamped Stamp News - 29

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Figure 7 2013 K1.30 Papua New Guinea Christmas Envelope postcards (Figure 5); Soldier “carrying on” with his correspondence and Australian machine gunners return from the frontline near Pozières. The cards were included in a tin of ANZAC biscuits which sold for $14.99. The issue of the postcards was related to the release of the adhesive stamp issue for the Centenary of World War I: 1916 and they were a similar design to the two of the Figure 8 2015 K6.60 Papua New Guinea Christmas Envelope

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maximum cards released with that issue. The cards were also sold as part of a gift pack containing a tin of ANZAC biscuits, a tin mug and the two cards for $24.99.

A stamped postcard was issued in May 2016 to mark the 90th Birthday of Queens Elizabeth II (Figure 6). The postcard was sold

by Australia Post in tins of shortbread from Walkers for $24.99.

Papua New Guinea Christmas Envelopes

In recent years Papua New Guinea Philatelic

Ian McMahon

Figure 9 2½d Kangaroo & Map Envelope for the Irish Mission to ChinaAdditional images in separate email Bureau has produced stamped envelopes for use with Christmas cards sent to clients. The envelopes have either a domestic or international rate imprinted stamp. The K1.30 envelope shown in Figure 7 appears to be from 2013. While they apparently intended primarily for the use of the Philatelic Bureau, collectors have in some instance obtained mint copies and used them for postage.

In 2015 two envelopes were issued, a K1.45 domestic rate envelope and a K6.60 international rate envelope. Figure 8 shows the international rate envelope used to the USA.

New 2½d Kangaroo and Map PTPO Envelope

Gary Watson from Mossgreen has recorded the ex-

istence of a second 2½d Kangaroo and Map PTPO Envelope (Figure 9). The “Australian Commonwealth Specialists’ Catalogue: Postal Stationery” records that 2½d Kangaroo PTPO envelopes were issued in 1919 and 1920, and that there were 14 orders for a total of only 12,152 envelopes. To date only one example from one of these orders has been found, an envelope for the South British Insurance Company Ltd. The newly-reported 2½d Envelope has the pre-printed Melbourne address and imprint of the Irish Mission to China and is in the unusual size 180x128mm on cream wove stock, with the sealing flap at right. The Irish Mission to China envelope was due to be offered in Mossgreen’s auction scheduled for 29 June 2016, with an estimate of $5,000

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Looking at New Zealand

1940 Centennial, Part 8: 6d First Frozen Lamb Shipment

In the June 2012 issue of Stamp News Australasia I wrote in detail of the voyage of SS Dunedin to Britain in 1882 with New Zealand’s first export of frozen lamb carcasses, as commemorated by the 75th anniversary stamp issued in 1957. This event had previously been commemorated by the 6d stamp in the 1940 Centennial of British Sovereignty set. That the frozen lamb export trade should be included in such a major stamp issue celebrating New Zealand’s history shows just how vital that trade was, and is, to the country’s economy. A picture of SS Dunedin being loaded is nearby.

The stamp design, by James Berry, showed Dunedin on a map of the world marked with her route to London via Cape Horn. The top border of the design has anchors adjacent to the words ‘New Zealand’ and a Maori motif in the side panels. Bradbury, Wilkinson printed the stamp from two engraved plates, one marked ‘A’ for the map in green and the other ‘1’ for

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the rest of the stamp in purple. The sheets had ten horizontal rows of twelve stamps with the printer’s imprint and plate numbers in the centre of the bottom selvedge.

7d and 8d: A Maori Council Maori Councils were an important institution in traditional Maori society, providing a venue for leaders to

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1000 AUSTRIA .............................................$ 119.00 1000 AUSTRIA (MINT U/H) ...........................$ 295.00

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100 BAHAMAS ...............................................$ 90.00 25 BAHRAIN ..................................................$ 33.00 50 BAHRAIN ..................................................$ 72.00 100 BANGLADESH ..........................................$ 11.00 25 BARBADOS ................................................$ 12.00 50 BARBADOS ................................................$ 24.00 100 BARBADOS ..............................................$ 70.00 50 BASUTOLAND/ LESOTO ...............................$40.00 50 BAVARIA ...................................................$ 28.00 100 BAVARIA .................................................$ 84.00 200 BAVARIA ...............................................$ 210.00 200 BELGIAN CONGO ....................................$ 100.00 200 BELGIUM ..................................................$15.00 300 BELGIUM .................................................$ 24.00 500 BELGIUM .................................................$ 40.00 100 BELGIUM COLONIES .................................$ 13.00 300 BELGIUM COLONIES .................................$ 80.00 100 BERMUDA ...............................................$ 90.00 100 BHUTAN ...................................................$30.00 50 BOHEMIA MORAVIA ....................................$ 8.00 100 BOHEMIA MORAVIA ................................$ 24.00 150 BOHEMIA MORAVIA ................................$ 55.00 25 BOLIVIA ......................................................$ 6.00 50 BOLIVIA ....................................................$ 13.00 25 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ..............................$ 20.00 50 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ..............................$ 33.00 150 BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ..........................$ 170.00 100 Br.P.O. AGENCIES ...................................$ 100.00 25 BR. SOLOMONS .........................................$ 10.00 100 BRAZIL ....................................................$ 17.00 200 BRAZIL ....................................................$ 36.00 100 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ........................$ 6.00 200 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ......................$ 10.00 500 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ......................$ 30.00 1000 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ....................$ 78.00 100 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 25 BRUNEI .....................................................$ 27.00 50 BRUNEI ......................................................$66.00 200 BULGARIA ...............................................$ 17.00 300 BULGARIA ...............................................$ 22.00 800 BULGARIA ...............................................$ 88.00 1000 BULGARIA ...........................................$ 120.00 100 BURUNDI ................................................$ 20.00

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C

25 CAMBODIA ................................................$ 10.00 100 CAMBODIA ............................................$ 115.00 500 CAMBODIA ..............................................$ 65.00 100 CANADA ....................................................$ 6.00 200 CANADA ................................................$ 258.00 1000 CANADA ...............................................$100.00 1800CANADA ..............................................$ 179.00 100 CANADA (MINT.COMMS) .........................$ 50.00 25 CAPE VERDE ................................................$ 6.00 25 CAYMAN ISL ..............................................$ 15.00 50 CAYMAN ISL ..............................................$ 36.00 100 CHANNEL ISLANDS ..................................$ 19.00 300 CHANNEL ISLANDS ................................$ 130.00 100 CHILE ......................................................$ 12.00 200 CHILE ......................................................$ 24.00 500 CHILE ....................................................$ 110.00 100 CHINA .....................................................$ 19.00 200 CHINA .....................................................$ 48.00 325 CHINA ...................................................$ 130.00 500 CHINA P.R.C ...........................................$ 350.00 100 CHINA (LRG, MINT, COMP.SETS)................$ 60.00 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 25 COCOS ISLAND ............................................$ 8.00 50 COCOS ISLAND ..........................................$ 38.00 75 COCOS ISLAND ..........................................$ 60.00 100 COCOS ISLAND ......................................$ 132.00 300 COLOMBIA ..............................................$ 60.00 900 COLOMBIA ............................................$ 370.00 300 COOK ISLANDS ......................................$ 350.00 400 COOK ISLANDS ......................................$ 560.00 500 COOK ISLANDS ......................................$ 650.00 750 COOK ISLANDS ....................................$ 1280.00 1000 COOK ISLANDS .................................$ 2,000.00 50 CROATIA (PRE WAR) ..................................$ 20.00 100 CUBA .......................................................$09.00 300 CUBA ......................................................$ 30.00 200 CUBA (LARGE PICT.) ................................$ 18.00 25 CYPRUS ....................................................$ 12.00 50 CYPRUS ....................................................$ 30.00 100 CYPRUS ..................................................$ 60.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ......................................$ 3.00 200 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ....................................$ 15.00 500 CZECHOSLOVAKIA ....................................$ 34.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (MINT U/H)..................$ 17.00 200 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (MINT U/H)..................$ 20.00 400 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (MINT U/H)..................$ 30.00 100 CZECHOSLOVAKIA (POST WAR).................$ 11.00 1000 CZECHOSLAVAKIA ..................................$ 85.00

Pricefighter Packets, ready made collections D

50 DANZIG .....................................................$ 29.00 100 DANZIG ...................................................$ 66.00 100 DENMARK .................................................$ 6.00 300 DENMARK ...............................................$ 20.00 50 DOMINICA BR. .............................................$ 6.00 100 DOMINICA BR. .........................................$ 30.00 50 DOMINICA BR. (KGVI & QEII) .....................$ 40.00 50 DOMINICAN REP .......................................$ 18.00 100 DOMINICAN REP. .....................................$ 39.00 300 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 .....................................................$ 10.00 200 EGYPT .....................................................$ 56.00 300 EGYPT .....................................................$ 70.00 50 EGYPT (MINT/UH, COMPL. SETS)................$ 30.00 50 EGYPT + 4 M/S .........................................$ 30.00 25 EQUATORIAL GUINEA (M/SHEET CTO) ........$ 11.00 50 ESTONIA ....................................................$ 66.00 1000 EUROPE ...............................................$ 50 .00

F

20 FALKLAND ISL. COMPL. MINT SETS...........$ 100.00 25 FALKLAND ISLAND ....................................$ 18.00 50 FAROE ISLAND ..........................................$ 60.00 100 FAROE 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 ........................................................$ 300.00 100 FINLAND .................................................$ 18.00 200 FINLAND .................................................$ 40.00 400 FINLAND .................................................$ 80.00 500 FINLAND ...............................................$ 140.00 10 FIUME .........................................................$ 7.00 100 FRANCE .....................................................$ 6.00 300 FRANCE ...................................................$ 30.00 100 FRENCH COLONIES .....................................$ 7.50 200 FRENCH COLONIES ...................................$ 20.00 500 FRENCH COLONIES ....................................$70.00 100 FRENCH COLONIES (PRE INDEPENDENCE) $ 28.00 100 FRENCH. MORROCO .................................$ 25.00 50 FRENCH POLYNESIA ...................................$ 50.00

G

50 GERMANY 3RD REICH ................................$ 13.00 100 GERMANY .................................................$ 7.00 300 GERMANY ...............................................$ 18.00 500 GERMANY ................................................$37.50 1000 GERMANY .............................................$ 50.00 500 GERMANY EAST ......................................$ 40.00 50 GERMANY INFLATION (MINT U/H ).............$ 10.00 100 GERMANY INFLATION (MINT U/H)............$ 20.00 100 GERMANY WEST(LRG.COMMEMS) ............$20.00 50 GHANA .....................................................$ 50.00 100 GHANA ...................................................$ 70.00 200 GHANA .................................................$ 120.00 25 GIBRALTAR ................................................$ 17.00 50 GIBRALTAR ................................................$ 45.00 25 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .........................$ 12.00 50 GILBERT, KIRIBATI,TUVALU .........................$30.00 150 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .......................$ 90.00 200 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .....................$ 100.00 300 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .....................$ 150.00 360 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .....................$ 190.00 400 GILBERT,KIRIBATI,TUVALU .....................$ 225.00 500 GILBERT, KIRIBATI, TUVALU ...................$ 270.00 50 GREAT BRITAIN ............................................$ 7.00 100 GREAT BRITAIN ..........................................$ 9.00 1000 GREAT BRITAIN ....................................$ 176.00 1200 GREAT BRITAIN ....................................$ 230.00 100 GREAT BTITAIN (LARGE COMMEMS) ........$ 12.00 200 GREAT BRITAIN (LARGE COMMEMS).........$ 20.00 100 GREECE ...................................................$ 24.00 200 GREECE ...................................................$ 50.00 300 GREECE ...................................................$ 70.00 100 GREENLAND ..........................................$ 100.00 50 GRENADA ....................................................$ 8.00 100 GRENADA (MINT U/H) .............................$ 10.00 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 ........................................................$ 18.00 100 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 50 HONDURAS ................................................$30.00 100 HONDURAS .............................................$ 50.00 200 HONDURAS .............................................$ 80.00 400 HONDURAS ...........................................$ 140.00 25 HONG KONG ................................................$ 6.00

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50 HONG KONG ..............................................$ 12.00 100 HONG KONG ............................................$ 20.00 200 HONG KONG ..........................................$ 100.00 500 HUNGARY ...............................................$ 20.00 2000 HUNGARY ...........................................$ 150.00 3000 HUNGARY ...........................................$ 440.00 200 HUNGRY ( LARGE PICT) ...........................$ 18.00 300 HUNGARY (LARGE PICT.) .........................$ 24.00 1000 HUNGARY (LARGE PICT.) .......................$ 88.00

I

25 ICELAND ...................................................$ 20.00 50 ICELAND ...................................................$ 40.00 100 ICELAND .................................................$ 60.00 25 INDO - CHINA ..............................................$ 8.00 50 INDO - CHINA ............................................$ 30.00 200 INDONESIA ..............................................$ 24.00 300 INDONESIA ..............................................$ 56.00 100 INDONESIAN ...........................................$ 33.00 50 IRAN ............................................................$6.00 300 IRAN .......................................................$ 30.00 500 IRAN .......................................................$ 60.00 50 IRELAND .....................................................$ 9.00 100 IRELAND .................................................$ 18.00 350 IRELAND ...............................................$ 120.00 400 IRELAND ...............................................$ 194.00 500 IRELAND ...............................................$ 250.00 600 IRELAND ...............................................$ 360.00 100 ISRAEL .....................................................$13.00 200 ISRAEL ....................................................$ 36.00 500 ISRAEL .....................................................$90.00 850 ISRAREL ................................................$ 180.00 25 ITALIAN COLONIES .....................................$ 15.00 50 ITALIAN COLONIES .....................................$ 24.00 100 ITALIAN COLONIES ...................................$ 75.00 200 ITALIAN COLONIES .................................$ 160.00 100 ITALY .........................................................$ 6.00 200 ITALY .......................................................$ 16.00 500 ITALY .......................................................$ 80.00

J

100 JAMAICA .................................................$ 50.00 200 JAMAICA ...............................................$ 130.00 200 JAPAN ......................................................$30.00 100 JAPAN (MINT U/H) ..................................$ 70.00 100 JAPAN LARGE ..........................................$ 20.00 200 JAPAN LARGE ..........................................$ 50.00 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 NORTH M/S ...................................$ 20.00

Pay cents, not $ per stamp!

50 KOREA SOUTH ...........................................$ 14.00

L

50 LAOS ...........................................................$ 7.00 500 LAOS .......................................................$ 70.00 20 LAOS PRE WAR ............................................$ 6.00 100 LATIN AMERICA .......................................$ 10.00 300 LATIN AMERICA .......................................$ 50.00 50 LATVIA ......................................................$ 44.00 200 LATVIA ..................................................$ 170.00 75 LATVIA (Pre War) ....................................$ 100.00 100 LEBANON ................................................$ 40.00 200 LEBANON ..............................................$ 100.00 50 LIBERIA .......................................................$ 9.00 200 LIBERIA ...................................................$ 35.00 300 LIBERIA ...................................................$ 70.00 25 LIECHTENSTEIN .........................................$ 10.00 50 LIECHTENSTEIN .........................................$ 30.00 25 LITHUANIA ................................................$ 10.00 50 LITHUANIA ................................................$ 30.00 100 LITHUANIA ............................................$ 100.00 50 LUXEMBOURG .............................................$ 8.00 100 LUXEMBOURG .........................................$ 21.00

M

50 MACAU .....................................................$ 60.00 300 MALAYA AND SINGAPORE .......................$ 66.00 500 MALAYA AND SINGAPORE .......................$ 96.00 1000 MALAYA AND SINGAPORE ...................$ 400.00 100 MALDIVES ...............................................$ 24.00 100 MALTA ....................................................$ 10.00 500 MALTA ..................................................$ 140.00 650 MALTA ..................................................$ 270.00 50 MAURITIUS ...............................................$ 24.00 100 MAURITIUS .............................................$ 60.00 100 MEXICO ....................................................$24.00 200 MEXICO ...................................................$ 60.00 500 MEXICO .................................................$ 110.00 25 MONACO .....................................................$ 6.00 50 MONACO ...................................................$ 18.00 100 MONACO .................................................$ 10.00 500 MONGOLIA ..............................................$ 65.00 25 MONTENEGRO ...........................................$ 20.00 50 MONTENEGRO ...........................................$ 50.00 100 MONTSERRAT ........................................$ 114.00 50 MOZAMBIQUE ...........................................$ 10.00 200 MOZAMBIQUE .........................................$ 55.00 400 MOZAMBIQUE .......................................$ 270.00 500 MOZAMBIQUE .......................................$ 300.00

N

25 NAURU ......................................................$ 11.00 50 NAURU ......................................................$ 33.00 100 NAURU ....................................................$ 93.00 150 NAURU ..................................................$ 134.00

200 NAURU ..................................................$ 160.00 50 NEPAL .........................................................$ 8.00 100 NEPAL .....................................................$ 16.00 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 .....................$ 600.00 150 NEW ZEALAND ..........................................$ 6.00 200 NEW ZEALAND ........................................$ 14.00 300 NEW ZEALAND ........................................$ 28.00 500 NEW ZEALAND ........................................$ 90.00 1000 NEW ZEALAND .....................................$145.00 25 NICARAGUA ................................................$ 2.00 50 NICARAGUA ................................................$ 5.00 100 NICARAGUA ..............................................$ 8.00 200 NICARAGUA .............................................$24.00 500 NICARAGUA ............................................$ 70.00 300 NICARAGUA ............................................$ 40.00 100 NIGERIA ..................................................$ 60.00 25 NIUE .........................................................$ 20.00 50 NIUE .........................................................$ 40.00 100 NIUE .......................................................$ 88.00 150 NIUE .....................................................$ 140.00 200 NIUE .....................................................$ 200.00 25 NORFOLK ISL. ............................................$ 11.00 50 NORFOLK ISL. ............................................$ 26.00 100 NORFOLK ISL. ..........................................$ 90.00 200 NORFOLK ISL. ........................................$ 150.00 300 NORFOLK ISL. ........................................$ 270.00 100 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 ...................................................$ 9.00 200 NORWAY .................................................$ 20.00 500 NORWAY .................................................$ 80.00 600 NORWAY ...............................................$ 100.00 800 NORWAY ...............................................$ 135.00 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 .................................................$12.00 50 PANAMA ...................................................$ 13.00 50 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...................................$ 7.00 100 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...............................$ 26.00 150 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...............................$ 62.00 200 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...............................$ 88.00 500 PAPUA NEW GUINEA .............................$ 400.00 600 PAPUA NEW GUINEA .............................$ 750.00 800 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ...........................$ 1900.00 300 PARAGUAY ..............................................$ 60.00 100 PARAGUAY (MINT U/H)) ..........................$ 20.00 150 PENRHYN ..............................................$ 184.00 500 PERU .....................................................$ 170.00 600 PERU .....................................................$ 250.00 700 PERU .....................................................$ 470.00 100 PHILIPPINES ...........................................$ 18.00 300 PHILIPPINES ...........................................$ 70.00 800 PHILIPPINES .........................................$ 250.00 900 PHILIPPINES .........................................$ 330.00 1200 PHILIPPINES .......................................$ 500.00 1500 PHILIPPINES .......................................$ 700.00 50 PITCAIRN ISLAND ......................................$ 50.00 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)................$ 324.00 300 POLAND ..................................................$ 12.00 500 POLAND ..................................................$ 30.00 1000 POLAND ................................................$ 60.00 150 PORT AZORES ........................................$ 190.00 100 PORTUGAL ..............................................$ 18.00 50 PORTUGAL COLONIES ..................................$ 6.00 100 PORTUGAL COLONIES ..............................$ 40.00 200 PORTUGAL COLONIES ..............................$ 40.00

R

50 RHODESIA .................................................$ 16.00 200 RHODESIA .............................................$ 140.00 300 RHODESIA .............................................$ 240.00 400 RHODESIA .............................................$ 400.00 500 ROMANIA ................................................$ 31.00 1000 ROMANIA ............................................$ 100.00 100 ROMANIA (LARGE PICT.) ............................$ 6.00 200 ROMANIA (LARGE PICT.) ..........................$ 11.00 300 ROMANIA (LARGE PICT.) ..........................$ 18.00 200 RUSSIA ...................................................$ 14.00 300 RUSSIA ...................................................$ 24.00 500 RUSSIA ...................................................$ 50.00 1000 RUSSIA .................................................$ 90.00 100 RUSSIA (MINT SHORT SETS) ....................$ 11.00 100 RUSSIAN INDP.STATES (MINT U/H)...........$ 33.00

S

50 SAAR ........................................................$ 33.00

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Pricefighter Packets, ready made collections 50 SALVADOR ................................................$ 40.00 100 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 50 SAN MARINO ............................................$ 11.00 100 SAN MARINO ..........................................$ 30.00 50 SARAWAK .................................................$ 45.00 100 SARAWAK .............................................$ 200.00 500 SCANDINAVIA ..........................................$40.00 50 SERBIA ......................................................$ 40.00 25 SEYCHELLES ..............................................$ 40.00 100 SEYCHELLES ............................................$ 90.00 25 SIERRA LEONE ......................................... $ 24.00] 50 SIERRA LEONE ...........................................$ 50.00 50 SINGAPORE ...............................................$ 12.00 100 SINGAPORE .............................................$ 30.00 200 SINGAPORE ...........................................$ 100.00 75 SLOVAKIA ..................................................$ 17.00 100 SLOVAKIA ................................................$ 22.00 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 ........................................$ 12.00 200 SOUTH AFRICA ........................................$ 30.00 200 SPAIN ......................................................$ 24.00 300 SPAIN ......................................................$ 30.00 500 SPAIN ......................................................$ 66.00 1000 SPAIN ..................................................$ 135.00 1500 SPAIN ..................................................$ 275.00 50 SPANISH COLONIES ...................................$16.00 100 SPANISH COLONIES .................................$ 35.00 200 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 .................................................$ 40.00 50 ST. THOMAS ................................................$ 8.00 100 ST. THOMAS ............................................$ 14.00 50 ST. VINCENT ..............................................$ 18.00 100 ST. VINCENT ............................................$ 30.00 25 SUDAN ......................................................$ 12.00 100 SURINAME ..............................................$ 56.00 50 SWAZILAND ..............................................$ 20.00 100 SWAZILAND ............................................$ 60.00 500 SWEDEN .................................................$ 70.00

200 SWEDEN ..................................................$16.00 100 SWITZERLAND ........................................$ 15.00 500 SWITZERLAND .......................................$120.00 800 SWITZERLAND ......................................$ 150.00 1200 SWITZERLAND ....................................$ 600.00 1300 SWITZERLAND ....................................$ 900.00 1500 SWITZERLAND ..................................$ 1600.00

T

100 THAILAND ...............................................$ 40.00 200 THAILAND ...............................................$ 70.00 300 THAILAND .............................................$ 130.00 400 THAILAND .............................................$ 180.00 600 THAILAND .............................................$ 370.00 800 THAILAND .............................................$ 800.00 100 TOGO ..........................................................$7.00 50 TOKELAU ...................................................$ 60.00 75 TOKELAU ....................................................$80.00 25 TONGA ......................................................$ 16.00 50 TONGA ......................................................$ 36.00 100 TONGA ..................................................$ 110.00 100 TRINIDAD & TOBAGO ...............................$ 76.00 10 TRISTAN DA CUNHA ...................................$ 10.00 50 TRISTAN DA CUNHA ..................................$ 60.00 100 TRISTAN DA CUNHA ...............................$ 170.00 35 COMPLETE SETS TRISTAN DA CUNHA .............$110 50 TUNISIA ....................................................$ 12.00 100 TUNISIA ..................................................$ 36.00 100 TURKEY .....................................................$ 5.00 200 TURKEY ...................................................$ 14.00 300 TURKEY ...................................................$ 18.00 25 TURKS & CAICOS .........................................$ 6.00 100 TURKS & CAICOS (MINT U/H) ...................$ 70.00

U

100 U.N.O ......................................................$ 24.00 300 U.N.O ....................................................$ 110.00 400 U.N.O ....................................................$ 170.00 100 URUGUAY ................................................$ 20.00 200 URUGUAY ................................................$ 36.00 200 USA ..........................................................$ 8.00 500 USA ........................................................$ 60.00 1000 USA ......................................................$ 80.00 300 USA (COMMEMS) ....................................$ 14.00 100 USA (MINT COMMEMS) ...........................$ 50.00 200 USA (MINT COMMEMS) .........................$ 100.00 1031 USA COMPLETE SETS 1935-1984 ..............$ 100

V

25 VATICAN ......................................................$ 6.00 50 VATICAN ....................................................$ 30.00 200 VATICAN ..................................................$ 90.00 25 VATICAN (M.U.H. ) .....................................$ 16.00 50 VATICAN (M.U.H. ) .....................................$ 40.00

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

100 VATICAN (M.U.H. ) ...................................$ 80.00 200 VATICAN (M.U.H. ) .................................$ 180.00 50 VENEZUELA ...............................................$ 17.00 100 VENEZUELA .............................................$ 40.00 700 VENEZUELA ...........................................$ 250.00 800 VENEZUELA ...........................................$ 350.00 100 VIETNAM .................................................$ 30.00

W

25 WALLIS & FUTUNA ......................................$ 6.00 50 WALLIS & FUTUNA ....................................$ 20.00 100 WALLIS & FUTUNA ................................$ 130.00 200 WALLIS & FUTUNA ................................$ 300.00 300 WORLD ....................................................$10.00 25 WURTTEMBERG ........................................$ 16.00 50 WURTTEMBERG ........................................$ 60.00

Y

100 YUGOSLAVIA $ 9.00 200 YUGOSLAVIA ...........................................$ 17.00 300 YUGOSLAVIA ...........................................$ 20.00 500 YUGOSLAVIA ...........................................$ 80.00

Z

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

World Packets

1000 WORLD .......................................................$35 2000 WORLD..................................................... $100 5000 WORLD .....................................................$300 10,000 WORLD ..................................................$800

Thematics

500 ANIMALS .................................................$60.00 500 BIRDS .....................................................$ 80.00 300 BUTTERFLIES//MOTHS ............................$ 45.00 500 CATS & DOGS ...........................................$80.00 200DISNEY ....................................................$ 49.00 500 FISH ........................................................$ 90.00 500 FLOWERS ................................................$ 70.00 200 HORSES ...................................................$ 30.00 500 PAINTINGS ...............................................$60.00 300 SHIPS ......................................................$ 40.00 300 SPORTS ...................................................$ 30.00 500 SPACE .....................................................$ 78.00 500 TRAINS .....................................................$90.00 500 TRANSPORT ............................................$ 90.00

Other thematic packets available, please ask.

Postage and insurance is extra. For orders up to $50 add $4.00, $51 to $100 add $7.50 $101 plus add $15.

AUGUST SALE Prices valid to August 31st 2016, BE QUICK! Email or phone reservations highly advised.

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Coins and Banknotes: CBM2) Australia 1934/4 Melbourne Centenary Florin lovely virtually uncirculated coin.

Price $495 CB1) Australia 1923 Halfpenny, in lovely fine plus condition 6 pearls clearly visible, reverse would be VF. Nice clean coin, cat $2250 plus. Price $1875 CB2) Another as above, this one in VG (very good) condition, cat $1300, price $1125 CB3) Australia 1946 1d, nice VF (very fine) condition with traces of original lustre. Cat $150, price $98 CB4) Australia 1912 Penny, great coin in EF (Extremely fine) condition, 8 pearls and centre diamond with some original lustre. Cat $125, price $98 CB5a) Australia Five 1954 10 pound Commonwealth Bank Coombs/Wilson prefix WA20, nice flat note in Very Fine condition. Cat $375, price $249 CB11) Australia Silver 3d starter collection, all KGV 10 different dates for $29 CB12) Australia 1921M 3d, in AUNC Condition, cat $175, price $115 CB13) Australia 1928 3d, in AUNC condition, cat $175, price $115 CB16) Australia Halfpennies, starter collection 20 different dates price $39 CB17) Australia Baby Coin Set, 1997 mint condition as issued. Thje scarcest of All the baby sets. Cat $410, price $295 Stamps and Postal History: MY1) NSW 1894, magnificent small cover, with “copper plate” handwriting bearing 2.5d Ultramarine SG265, cancelled by Sydney cds of OC 19 94 to Boston, USA via RMS Miawera. Nice clean cover price $35 MY5) Cocos Keeling used in Australia. Small cover to Maine, USA with neat typed address bearing 4 x 6d small Kookaburra, no wmk. Tied by machine cancel of Melbourne 15 JAN 1957 via Airmail to Orlando, Florida. Correct 2/- rate. Highly attractive, price $29 MY6) Australia, Bowls thematic. Scarce Henshall & Son, manufacturer of Henselite Bowls small pictorial advertising cover, bearing 4 x 6d small Kookaburra, no wmk. Tied by machine cancel of Melbourne 15 JAN 1957 via Airmail to Orlando, Florida. Correct 2/- rate.

Highly attractive, price $35 MY7) Australia 1947 local advertising cover for Jack & Jill florists, Railway Station Adelaide, bearing 1.5d green Queen Elizabeth, tied by Adelaide slogan “Send money by postal note or money order” with cds of 3 DEC 1947. Price $22 MY8) Australia Military, WWII dual censored small cover bearing 3d Blue Die II tied by AIF Field PO 15 to New York. Very attractive. Price $45 MY9) Australia 1932 Advertising window cover for Yalumba Vineyards, bearing 1d Green KGV Head tied by cds of Angaston 26 OC 32 and with received stamp on reverse of 27 OCT 1932. Price $42 MY10) Australia 1933 small advertising cover for The Goulburn Seed & Nursery Company bearing 1d green KGV Head tied by Gouldburn 11 SE 33 cds to Vaucluse. Very attractive, price $25 MY12) Guernsey 1944 WWII German occupation 2.5d Blue on FDC SG#3 - cat £15 for the used stamp. Top value of the set on clean small typed address cover. Price $37.50 MY13) GB an accumulation including many blocks & multiples mint never hinged from

1950s to 1970s ( 1000 or so) inc. many complete sets both decimal and pre-decimal inc. better like 1963 Red Cross and FFH plus another 100 assorted used in fine clean ROYAL MAIL Stockbook and super quality mint sheet file, plus a couple of 5 pound prestige booklets for the Financial Times and Royal Mail. Price for the lot $289 MY14) Australia: Three albums of AUSIPEX 1984 stamps and related material and issues.

AUSIPEX 84 was a MONSTER show, At the absolute height of the stamp boom globally and every stamp issuing entity was there. Sydney Dealer Manfred Junge had the clever idea of making a set of superb albums to house these. He commissioned nice Gold Blocked Burgundy ring albums and has superb heavyweight parchment colour pages with the attractive “AUSIPEX 84” logo at top. Then he sourced all the gazillion of different stamp issues ,and proofs and stationary etc, made for the show. Some of it was made in small numbers and have always been elusive. There are things here like the Hungary perf AND imperf numbered sheets. Die Proofs, overprints and special issues. Pricey NUMBER sheets and covers. The always short supply issues like Lesotho Set of 5 sheetlets, Tonga, and all sorts of exotic places like Albania Cuba and Mongolia issues etc. All fresh MUH. Also much special stationery etc. Ex Deceased estate and the owner had receipts in there for $850 for these items, plus the albums cost close to $200. So a total cost 30 odd years ago of $1050 for just some of this lot. About 150 pages of goodies it looks like, so my price around a very reasonable $4 a page…. $595 MY15) Surinam 39 first day covers 1960 – around 1973 all with full sets or souvenir sheets and some semi- postals, clean unaddressed illustrated. Plus folder with 1961 Yuri Gagarin/Alan Shepherd Space issue on embossed full colour card. Well under $2.50 per item, price $89 MY16) Similar to above, from Netherlands Antilles, 55 covers here $119 MY17) Another similar lot, from Holland. This lot goes a bit later to around 1980, 43 covers for $64 MY17a) Special deal, the3 lots as above for $245 (Save $27) MY18) Australia Commercial covers, 4kg in weight, around 1000 covers I would guess bearing a wide range of commems and defins from the 33c to 50c period. Postmark possibilities abound! Mostly clean and slit open at top. A lot are from competition mail Nestle, Maggi etc. Selling at around 20c each… $195 the lot.

MY19) Australia 1913 5d Chestnut 1st wmk Kangaroo, superb Mint Unhinged, lower marginal example, clean white gum well centered and full perfs. I challenge you to find a better example! ACTUALLY BETTER THAN MY ITEM SE9, which you can buy at $475 less the discount of 25% = $356.25. But for this one cat at $550 I can sell at $479 MY20) Western Australia 6d sage green, rouletted. Lovely used example with light barred cancel in blue. SG32 cat 650 pounds. SG is way too cheap on these rouletted stamps.This is in a lighter shade and a bigger stamp than our item J22 which is priced at $1125.This one is better….price $1249 MY21) Australia 1929 5/- Grey and Yellow Kangaroo, small multi wmk, perf OS and cto used with full unhinged gum. Perfect centering and perfs too! Cat $225. Roo is moved upwards…getting it’s ears wet, and also has the end chopped off it’s tail. You will not better this example! Price $189 MY22) Australia 1915 5/- 2nd wmk Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, used by Brisbane Telegraph office oval blue cancel and with large Telegraphic Puncture. Well centered, with fluffy perfs, as this issue often is. Cat as normal at $675, this one $179 MY23) Australia 1915 5/- 2nd wmk Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, perf OS, used by Melbourne cds. Well centered, with fluffy perfs, as this issue often is. Chopped tail. Cat $700 my price $295 MY24) Australia 1917 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo, perf OS and cto, with full mint unhinged gum. Fresh with good perfs, centered high. Cat $200, this one $149

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AUGUST SALE MY25) WESTERN AUSTRALIA 1860 SWAN 2d Orange IMPERF WITH PRE-PRINTING PAPER FOLD at right, resulting in the stamp having a small wing at bottom right, in addition there is a vertical paper crease running the whole height of the stamp. Cancelled by clear strike of numeral 8. Unusual. Price $159 MY26) Papua New Guinea, Imprint Blocks of 4, mint unhinged collection in as new Lighthouse 32 page stockbook ($30 value) Magnificent lot of 195 blocks, all in complete sets, 1982 – 1990 plus some extras and minisheets, values to 5 Kina. Appears pretty well complete for the period. Retail as 4 x single sets would be $1350, plus the stockbook plus something for the imprint blocks, so say $1500 plus plus! My price just 40% of the stamp price alone $540.

MY27) Papua New Guinea superb mostly mint unhinged collection in as new $65 Red padded Lighthouse black page stockbook, plus a blue black page KEK stock book, commencing 1952 with definitives to One Pound Fisherman x sets, this is a $250 set alone.

Then 1958 Pictorials inc. 1/7d Brown cattle, all commems with some duplicated plus 10/Rabaul & One Pound Queen x 2 of each, the duplicates appear largely lightly hinged. The PostageDues, SG2/6 are there a $150 set, the 1966 Butterflies x 2 plus the extra dies of the $ & $2, Then pretty well complete to 2002 it seems, with many extras. Also includes some of the scarcer overprints and Exhibition minisheets. Retail must approach if not exceed $2000. My price just $795.

MY28) Papua New Guinea: 36 Hagner pages mint/unhinged and used collection, in binder. Inc. many mint unhinged sets and some imprint blocks of 4 inc the 5 Kina bird of paradise. Values in pre-decimal to One Pound. Looks like 100 plus sets here with a retail value of $500 plus, my price just $195 MY29) Christmas Island in Seven Seas Padded Hingeless Album 1958-1991 Mint Unhinged collection, complete except for the Birdpex Overprint on the Abbott’s Booby mainsheet. Tiny bit of toning on just a few stamps does not detract. Retail of around $285 for the stamps, plus the album would be around the $195 mark. $480 retail value for just $239 MY30) Norfolk Island in as new Seven Seas Hingeless Album 1990 - 2003 mostly complete. This is a hard to get period. Retail of the stamps alone approaching $700 plus the album retail around $175, a total value of $875 for just $345 MY31) Pitcairn Islands mint/unhinged collection on Seven Seas pages 1940-1967 complete. 1940 Definitives and sets to 1963 are lightly hinged, except the 1948 Silver Wedding which is superb mint unhinged. Retail is $370 counting the hinged at half price.

A great lot for just $149 MY32) Territories & Pacifics 2000 – 2003 Mint Unhinged starter collections in Seven Seas Hingeless Album. Comprises Norfolk Is., Nauru, Samoa, Papua New Guinea. Retail of stamps alone $200 plus plus. Bargain at just $119 MY33) Flowers, 600 different. Colourful collection….One only $69 MY34) Victoria 6d Orange- Yellow Woodblock, Rouletted all four sides, SG 57, lovely example with No. 1 Barred Numeral. Cat. 95 pounds. Price $139 MY35) Queensland 1d carmine-rose, SG1. Super 4 large margin example with light oval ring cancel., cat 800 pounds. Price $1275 MY36) Australia 1932 C of A 5/- yellow and grey. Varieties: “Wet ears” & white notch on Kangaroos tail ( BW 46 (V) Variety not catalogued. Price $125 MY37) AUSTRALIA. WA FREEMANTLE PAQUEBOT ON POSTCARD TO GB 1931, bearing GB KGV 1.5d brown with Freemantle cds of 17MR31 (St. Patrick’s Day!) and boxed “PAQUEBOT” to Co. Durham. Cute! Price $57 MY38) Australia Northern Territory. Darwin to Finland Registered letter MR 6 73 serviced with $1.21 via an NCR label in red. These are becoming quite popular as they are rare to find. See Rod Perry’s column in May Stamp News. Price $42

MY39) Germany, Saxony. RARE c. 1863 ish? Sachsen Entire ties 2 NGr Blue Coat of Arms stamp with Meissen 19 OCT cds cancels on front, sent to Lauenstein Germany. Receiving cds on reverse. No contents. Lovely! Price $59 MY40) Australia 1915 2/- Brown 2nd wmk Kangaroo, superior used example with corner cds. Nice centering and good perfs. Cat. $350. Price just a half, $175 MY41) France. 1935 Delightful Sepia Real Photographic Postcard used to Melbourne, Australia 12 x 1935 bearing 90c Le Pu yen Velay & 30c Green definitive. Nice! Price $29 MY42) Australia 1988 80c Living Together, Missing Orange (Sand and Juggling Balls) postally used. Uncatalogued and believed unique. Supplied with certificate of authenticity and normal for comparison. Price $1450 MY43) Australia 1913 1st wmk 2/- Brown Kangaroo, perf small OS postally used with 28 MY 15 cds of Melbourne. WEell centered and with good perfs. Cat $500. Price $345 MY44) AAT 1957 – 2006 mint starter collection on Seven Seas pages. Just the 1st 4 pages 1957 – 73 is lightly hinged, the balance are unhinged, with the face value of the decimals alone at $53.75. Most of these sets retail for double face or more, snap up a bargain, one lot only $74 MY45) Christmas Is. Mint unhinged starter collection Seven Seas Pages, 2001 – 2006, plus extra pages for years 1988, 1990 & 1994. Face value is $77.30, plus includes the scarce limited edition 2004 Year of the Monkey minisheet ovpt. Hong Kong, sold only at the exhibition. This alone retails at $55, and the remainder at about double face. So not counting the pages, $200 plus retail for just $139.

MY48) Massive World Collection in 10 large stockbooks each organized alphabetically, and appears all different in each book. 1000 plus in each book. Some nice pickings, early to modern. 12000 plus stamps at say 6c per stamp, $575 the lot.

MY49) Victoria on stockcard comprising full length Queen on Throne 1d green imperf x 2, 6d blue x 5 imperf and 5 rouletted, plus 4d Orange woodblock imperf, and 1d Apple Green Commonwealth period and 2/- Blue on blue duplex used, cto. 15 stamps in all.

Condition a bit mixed, but got to be worth $10 a stamp. $149 the lot.

MY50) Australia 1920 neat small cover Adelaide to New York bearing 3rd wmk 3d Kangaroo Yellow Olive Die 1 nicely centered and with full perfs. Tied by Adelaide 15JAN20 machine cancel. Nice item, cat at $100 on cover. Price $74 MAP2) Australia 1932 10/- C of A wmk 10/- Grey & Pink, postally used with two partial STEEL cds CANCELS of 22 DE 36. Well centred and good perfs, cat $300, price $229 MAP3) Australia 1932 10/- C of A wmk 10/- Grey & Pink, postally used with socked on nose with rubber Canberra cds of 4 JE 35. Lovely colour and good perfs, cat $300, price $239 MAP4) Australia 1932 10/- C of A wmk 10/- Grey & Pink, postally used with two partial Sydney cds cancels of 1937. Lovely colour, well centered and good perfs, cat $300, price $249 MAP5) Australia 1932 10/- C of A wmk 10/- Grey & Pink, postally used with two partial Sydney 1937 cds cancels of 3 NO 36 Lovely well centered example, cat $300, price $254 MAP6) Australia 1932 10/- C of A wmk 10/- Grey & Pink, postally used with two partial Sydney cds cancels of 1937. Good well centered example with bright colour, cat $300, price $259 MAP6a) 5 x 10/- Kangaroos as above, MAP2 – MAP 6, priced to sell at $1200, save $100, $1100 for all 5 stamps.

MAP7) Queenland Imperf Die Proof of 1864 6d Chalon Registered stamp SG 48 in issued deep green colour on cream unwatermarked paper. Very fine and fresh. Price $395 MAP8) Great Britain 1840 1d Black in the intense shade, with black Maltese cross postmark and 3 big margins. Unplated example, lettered KA and with nice pre-printing paper crease, unusual. Price $259 MAP10) As new Box File crammed, yes I mean crammed! With approx. 1.5kg of World on

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AUGUST SALE paper quality charity mix, just received, all on close clipped single paper, early to recent, totally unpicked as received and with great variety. I estimate 6000 + + stamps per kg, so anything up to 10,000 stamps in this lot. Magnificent value at under 2 cents per stamp, price $179 MAP11) Another box file as above, containing only Australia with maybe a smattering of foreign with mostly modern issues to 2015, good ranges of definitive and commemoratives. Noted unfranked and some better values. Count must be 5000 plus per kg, so around 7500 stamps for under 2c per stamp just $129 MAP12) Australia 1935 2d red Jubilee in mint unhinged imprint block of four from plate 2, with variety ea, retouch between IA of Australia. Cat. $375. KGV Jubilee issues are widely sought after. Price $149 MAP14) NZ Health Fdcs, 1936 & 1937 plus ANZAC 1937 pair also on fdc, very scarce.

Lifebuoy stamp sadly has a missing left lower corner, but still very rare on fdc. Nice lot, price $49 MAP16) 1913 Halfpenny Green Kangaroo in mint block of 6, (3 x 2) with 4 stamps unhinged. Some gum bends but a scarce and attractive block, looks very nice from the front. Price $119 MAP19) Large shoebox with very nice World off paper mixture old and new, small and large. As donated to leading charity. Weighs 2.15kg inc. the box, must be 25,000 stamps with a great variety here. Has to be worth 2 cents a stamp, price $495 MAP20) Worldwide Cinderellas, Revenues, Reprints, Bogus issues, amazing lot of around 500 most if not all different, ranging from the 1940’s to quite recent. Priced under 20c per stamp, $98 per lot, half lot for $49.

MAP34) Australia, magnificent lot of cto Commems ex PO presentation folders. Includes 1914 6d Claret Kookaburra, 3d Air type B, Sturt pair, 6d Brown Airmail normal and ovpt.

OS, 1/- Yellow Green Lyre, 3d Vic. Cent. Perf 10.5, 1/- Vic. Cent perf 11.5, 2/- Jubilee, 2d & 1/- S.A., then perf OS….Canberra, 3d Kookaburra, 3d Airmails both types, 1.5d Swan and Sturt pair. A magnificent group, retail approx. $525, my price $349 MAP37) South Australia 1908 neat and clean small registered cover bearing 5d dull purple SG 240 and halfpenny Yellow- Green SG 242 cancelled by registered Adelaide squared circle AU 26 08 to Milwaukee, with arrival stamps Seattle SEP 25 1908 and Milwaukee SEP 29 1908. Scarce and fine example of a Commonwealth period cover. Price $110 MAP39) Tasmania pair of KEVII Newspaper wrappers in denominations Halfpenny Green and penny Salmon unaddressed and each cto Hobart 29 JAN 06 for the UPU distribution.

Fine and scarce Commonwealth period items. Maximum 400 produced. Price $235 MAP40) Australia 1939 Dual Reign small Airmail cover bearing 1/4d Turqoise KGV And 3d Blue Die II thick paper KGVI. Scarce combination to New York via England overpaid by 1d, cancelled by neat cds of WATSONS BAY NSW AUST 3AU39 stamps appear hurridly applied and envelope a bit roughly opened, but a very scarce item indeed. 1/4d cat. on cover at $300 as the cheapest wmk (C of A) Price $249 MAP45) Australia Mining Ephemera. Comprising ancient map reproduction of Eureka Street Ballarat (Vic) and two large original 1880’s official Notices “Application for a Gold Mining Lease” and “Forfeiture of a Gold Mining Lease” the 1st printed by Robt. S. Brain (Gov’t printer) and the 2nd by John Ferres: John Ferres (1818-1898), government printer, was born 1 October 1818 at Bath, England, the second son of Robert Ferres (d.1820), printer. Read more here: http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ferres-john-3513 Fascinating historical documents. Price $149 MAP46) Br. Commonwealth mission mix on paper, 250 grams. Wide range of countries and ranging from early 1950’s to quite recent on close clipped single paper. Price $75 MAP47) Br. Commonwealth off paper mixture, mostly QEII period but with some earlier and from the larger nations, a good mix of large and small with close to 15,000 per kg.

100 grams for $39, 250g $89, 500g $175 or 1kg for $329 MAP48) Malta off paper mixture. Fairly recent mix, with values to M2 pounds. Round 12,500 to the kg. Recommend you buy in 50g lots, as quite heavy duplication 50g for $39 MAP49) British Empire, pre QEII with a decent range of issues mostly postally used, but some mint unhinged spotted. This is a very scarce mix, with roughly 15,000 to the kg.

Values to One Shilling. Does contain some Australia and GB. Price per 25 grams (350 – 400 stamps) $59, 50g $110, 100g $195.

MAP50) Australia Commemoratives only on close clipped single paper. Approx 4000 per kg. Wide range of issues to 2014. Very scarce now as few people are still actively clipping mail Price per 500g = $79, 1kg = $149, 2.5kg = $349

AP1) New magnificent stockbook offer! Many of you will be unaware that Windmill and Importa the famous Dutch firm of Album and Accessory Manufacturers has ceased to exist. This means that the VST brand of stockbooks which were sourced form that firm will no longer be available. Other German manufacturers are now having stockbooks made in Hungary, and in our opinion quality has suffered. We do however have a great new item: Ka Be, one of the most respected German manufacturers now has a 64 black page padded binder stockbook, with double linen hinging. These retail at $66 each, however as an introductory offer we can supply at $55 each or $249 for a carton of 5. Colours available are Black, Dark Blue, Dark Green or Maroon. We only have an initial supply of 40 stockbooks so please be quick!

AP6) Croatia, modern collection in near new 16 black page stockbook, looks virtually complete for the period 1994 – 2003, with both mint and used stamps. Around 250 stamps cat close to $400. A very clean lot, price $149.

AP8) Japan, very nice Commemorative Kiloware mix on single paper, very colourful and wide-ranging with excellent variety. Covers from mid 1970’s to around 2011 by the look of it. This is hard to come by, high count, around 4000 to the kg, and excellent value at $54 per 100g, 250g for $129, 500g for $245.

AP10) GB off paper, wide ranging QEII mix, Wildings to quite recent inc. Regionals. 1kg only of this available, price $30 per 100g, $69 per 250g, $136 per 500g.

AP11) Animals, lovely collection of 500 all different, mostly large. Price $49 AP12) AIF WW1 Military Mails: 3 amazing covers to and from a Sgt. In the AIF 14th Field Ambulance a) YMCA cover, NO 5 16 censored cover to Mrs. B. R. Rainsford at Wahroonga NSW. b) 20.1.16 Red cross Cover, to Sergeant B Rainsford, at Gezira, Cairo, from Paris c) 20.1.18 Censored Cover Australian Field Ambulance AIF France 1918, addressed to Bruce Rainsford, Sergent Fournier, 14th Australian Field Ambulance, Armee Australienne, en campagne, (in the field) As 2 are dated Jan. 20 are we to assume that was or was close to his birthday? Magnificent grouping, price $269 the lot.

AP15) Victoria 1879 £1 Orange George and Dragon STAMP DUTY with oval date stamp in black OFFICE OF TITLES 22.DEC.85. Price $29 AP16) Aircraft & aviation, collection of 300 different, colourful and mainly large, price $69 AP17) Nice little starter collection of 50 different Australian States. On our list at $56, special price $49.

AP19) Australia 1932 10/- Grey & Pink C of A Kangaroo, superb used, with light cds cancel across top right third of the stamp. Good perfs, centering and colour, cat $300, you will not better this for $265.

AP22) Australia 1935 Anzac. Lovely illustrated FDC with both 1/- plus a pair of the 2d, to make 1/4d seamail rate to USA. Highly under rated, and missing from 99,.99% of all collections, in fact the1st I have handled in over 40 years of dealing! Another dealer has a plain FDC on his website at $420. This one $398

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AUGUST SALE AP23) Australia 1935 C of A wmk One Pound Grey Kangaroo, lovely used example, with cds cancel leaving ‘roo clear and with good centering and perfs. Very fine stamp, cast $420 for just $298 AP25) Australia 1932 10/- Grey& Pink Kangaroo, C of A wmk, very fresh, mere trace of a hinge, good perfs and nicely centered. Very attractive stamp cat $700, this one $629 and worth every penny!

AP28) GB 1840 1d Grey Black, SG 3 superb 4 large margined example with lightly struck red Maltese Cross cancel, from Die 1a, lettered F L , a better example you will not easily find. Cat $100, price $549 AP29) GB 1840 1d Intense Black, SG1, superior quality 4 margin example, with lovely centrally struck red Maltese Cross cancel. Unplated, but most likely from one of the later plates. Lettered H I, Minimum catalogue $1050. Price $398 AP30) GB 1840 1d Black, SG 2, budget priced stamp, very attractive, no faults, with 2.5 margins, neat black Maltese Cross cancel, unlettered, but most probably from an early plate. Lettered A L, Minimum catalogue $750. Price $169 AP31) GB 1840 2d Blue,SG5 nice 4 margin (close at left) with clean strike of black Maltese Cross cancel. Lettered BL. Min. Catalogue $1800, price $649 AP33) Australia 1917 3rd wmk 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo oveprinted Specimen mng, type.B , Perfect centering and perfs, great colour. Cat $600, price $349 AP35) GB 1884 9d & 1/- Queen Victoria Dull Green, nice cds used. Cat a massive $1550.

1/- is correct colour, 9d just slightly faded. VERY CHEAP Price $175 AP37) Australia Green Certified labels, in mint unhinged block of 25 (5 x 5) very rare to see these! Numbered U 5055 to U 5071 in reverse as issued. Price $29 AP38) Victoria 1858 6d Orange Woodblock on cover to Ireland. Nice clean 2 margin example franked by barred numeral 1 of Melbourne to Mallow, Co. Cork, via Dublin with arrival cds of AU 16 1858. Scarce and attractive, price $195 AP39) Western Australia 1960’s 2/- brown swan revenue in fiscally used block of 18 (6 x 3) Unusual. Price $39 AP40) Western Australia 1d on 2d Yellow SG 172 in mint unhinged block of 9. Minor toning on reverse does not detract from fine facial appearance. Price $39 AP42) Australia KGV 5d single wmk on reg’d cover with red registered label, Preston, Vic. 1 SEP 1923 to St. Kilda, with 3 boxed instructional markings: Not known by postmen St. Kilda, Not know by letter carriers Caulfield and Unclaimed St. Kilda. Eventually ending up at the Melbourne Dead letter office eon 12 SP 23. Lovely! Price $119 AP43) Mostly mint unhinged, collection/accumulation of Norfolk Island 1960’s to 1990 approx mainly in pairs, counted over 100 complete sets and minisheets including 4 definitive sets to $3, plus ranges of other British Commonwealth countries in big green stockbook. Many 100s, great value at $375 AP44) Australia 1916 5/- Pale Yellow and Grey Kangaroo, 3rd wmk, perf OS, cds used, Sydney Rly Stn, Late Fee, 28 OC 21. With Kangaroo Misplaced downwards, in exactly the same position as the known 10/- of this issue, though not recorded for this value. The 10/- cat. Price is $5000. This one $2950.

AP45) Australia 1915 5/- Grey and Yellow Kangaroo, 2nd wmk, mint lightly hinged, showing Albino Kangaroo on reverse, and also Double Perfs at left, which is unrecorded for this stamp. Lower left corner a little blunt, mentioned for accuracy only, as this is due to the double perforation. Catalogue price for a normal mint example is $1500. Price for this $1250.

Ap48) Australia 1915 3d Olive Green Kangaroo, DieII, fine used with Melbourne cds, 23 JY 23 cancel. Very scarce stamp. Retail $120, my price $89.

Ap49) Australia 1913 1st wmk 3d Yellow Olive Kangaroo, Die I, perf small OS, neat cds cancel. Cat. $100, my price $75.

Ap50) As above but 3rd wmk, Die IIb, with partial Federal Parliament cds, Cat. $60, my price $49.

AP52) Victoria 1879 – 1900 One Pound Orange St. George and Dragon stamp duty, fine mint without gum, retail $600, very cheap at under 15% retail, $89.

AP53) Australia KGV 4d Lemon, mint unhinged, retail $600, but gum has sadly been sweated, nice budget buy at under 20% retail. $119.

AP54) Australia 1.5d Red KGV, no watermark in block of 4, two unhinged. Cat $75, has minor gum wrinkles, but otherwise fresh. Price $49.

AP55) As above, but type A, no imprint, mint hinged. Cat $400. Ideal for comparison with the above, has a couple of missing perfs at right so only $79.

AP56) Australia 1941 2d Purple KGVI positional block of 4 with Medallion flaw on bottom right stamp. Variety stamp is Mint unhinged. Gum is toned. Cat $150, cheap at $59.

AP57) As above, but nice unhinged single, Cat. $150, my price $110.

AP58) Papua New Guinea, 1952 plus a few earlier to mid 1990s in near new 64 page stockbook, this is an ex dealer stock, with 3 – 5 of most sets mint unhinged, plus some hinged and used. Noted One Pound Fisherman Specimen, MNG, looks like around 1250 – 1500 stamps probably 300 – 400 sets. vals. To 5 Kina (several of those) Very clean lot, and great value at about $1.50 a set across the board. $495 the lot.

AP59) Collection of 500 different Finland, with new 32 black page stockbook, worth $32.50. The 500 Finland on my packets list is $140 alone, so at $129 this is a great deal!

AP60) New Zealand Dealer stock in 2 Green 64 page stockbooks, organised by SG number and priced. Duplication with around 5 or 6 of some stamps. Strength in KGV period onwards, goes to around 2008. Many 1000s, with values to $10. Excellent lot for re-seller, hoarder or researcher! $675.

AP62) New Zealand Charity, an older mixture on close cut single paper with issues covering the period 1975 – 1995 approx, plenty to interest here in postmarks etc. Normally $90 per kg, now $60 per kg, 500g for $35, 250g for $20 AP63) GB 1840 1d Black, four margin, unplated, and just a little close-ish on the margins, but still very nice stamps. Letters available are : SG (Stanley Gibbons!) or KI Cat $750.

Price $399 each AP64) GB 1d Blacks with Black Maltese Cross, 4 margins and lettered NE or SF Price $399 ea AP63) GB 1d Black A superior example, with 4 nice even margins, unplated, lettered OK! Price $449 AP65) GB 1d Blacks. Now we come to the three margin examples, Intense Black, lettered FK, unplated and with centrally struck Black Maltese Cross, Cat. $1050. Price $295 AP66) A further 3 margin example as above, with red Maltese Cross, Cat $750 lettered RB. Price $329 each AP67) Again as above, we have 1 other example, which has minor faults, not visible from the face, if you just want a nice looking stamp to fill a gap. Lettered EA, this priced very modestly at $149 AP68) 1915 5/- Grey & Yellow 3rd wmk Kangaroo, perfect centering and full perfs, cancelled with rubber Hobart cds. Attractive stamp, retail $175, this one just $119, NOW REDUCED TO $95 AP69) Twopence Halfpenny 1st wmk Kangaroo, superb used, full perfs, colour and well centred with clear Rialto Vic cds of AP 17 14. Price $26 AP71) Great Britain, 1918 5/- Bradbury printing Seahorse, well centred and full perfs with nice partial cds cancel. Cat $270, my price just one third, $90.

MM8) TASMANIA 1935 SMALL AIRMAIL COVER bearing 1934 3d & 9d MACARTHUR, plus strip of 3 x 2d Anzac making 1/6d rate to ENGLAND, cancelled by 9 AP 35 Devonport cds, neat clean cover. 9d alone catalogues at $400 on cover. Price $329

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AUGUST SALE MM9) VICTORIA Sg 17b; 1851 2d Dull-brown Half-length. Ham Printing 4th State “Vertical Drapes” . VFU with No Faults. Fine 4 margin example, cancelled by clean complete strike of No. 1 (Melbourne) Butterfly cancel. Just superb! $249 MM10) Western Australia Sg 1, Sc# 1; 1d Black Swan Superb VFU 4 margins with neat numeral cancel 1 of Perth cv $500++ Nicest you will find! $350 MM11) Denmark, 700 different, back in stock again, price $79 (1 only available) MM12) Ireland, 500 all different , lovely new collection just arrived, very hard to find, price $245 (under 50c per stamp) MM18) Australia 1927 small registered cover, bearing 6d Chestnut 3rd wmk. Kangaroo to Coogee to San Diego USA, cancelled by full clear strike of Coogee cds, 24 AUG 27. Arrival cds of Sep 19 1927. Fine and attractive with red Reg. label No. 2495. Cat $150. Price $97.50 MM19) Australia 1937 3d KGVI Die II thick paper, mint unhinged, fine and fresh. Cat $75, price $55 MM20) Australia pre- decimal commercial mail, range of frankings, mainly single usage definitives and commemoratives, 1930’s – 1965. Will contain postmark interest and some better items. Around 100 covers, condition variable. Price $299 MM22) Australia 1943 Censored Red Cross message service Airmail Cover to Geneva bearing 5/- Robes and 9d Platypus, cancelled by square duplex type cancel of Melbourne 8 MCH 1943. With red print “3 OPENED BY CENSOR” tape and violet diamond “3/PASSED/ BY/CENSOR/250” Scarce and attractive item, price $96 MM23) World Mission on paper, from a new source, early to modern with most on single close clipped paper, well worth a look at around 2.5c per stamp, approx. 5000 to the kg, price per 250g $35, per 500g $65, per kg $125, 5kg for $595, 10kg for $1125 MM24) Similar to above, but with some off paper and some on torn rather than clipped paper, same prices as above.

MM25) TASMANIA 1900 Set of 6 MINT LETTERCARDS, 2d Pictorial on pale blue stock with a different view on the reverse of each. Believed less than 300 sets produced, this is a nice clean set in fine condition, just a little toning around edges in places, all that I have ever seen have this. These are on eBay as single cards at $125 each, sets normally get a lot more. My price, as I bought them quite well just $595 the set!

MM27) Tasmania, 1853 1d Blue Courier SG 2, fine 4 Margin VFU, nicest I have seen in a very long time! Cancelled by neat barred numeral 68 of Hobart. Cat $2600. This is way more attractive and superior in every way to an SG1 on another dealers website at $1900, however there is a small expertly repaired hole at the centre, where a hinge has been carelessly removed. Price would have been $1650, now just $649 MM28) New South Wales, NSW 1854 8d DIADEM IMPERF, SG97 Golden Yellow, FINE USED with 3 Huge Margins, and showing part of adjoining stamp at the top, proving this is not a cut down perforated stamp, as so many of these are. Cancelled by oval rings NSW handstamp. Scarce and attractive, cat $2800. Price $1495 MM31) Budget offer For Booklet collectors. 1927 Canberra Booklet of 16 x 1.5d Canberra, one stamp removed. Cover and stamps as usual have some tone spots. Retail if finer $140, this one just $39 MM32) As above but containing only 3 stamps, price $29 MM33) Australia 1952 small neat typed address surface mail cover bearing 5d on 4.5d Violet KGV, plus 3d Red sideface KGVI to make 8d rate to USA. Has been neatly opened at top. Scarce dual reign commercial cover, cancelled by a clean single GPO Sydney cds of 27 FE 52 the 5d alone being cat at $200 on cover. Price $149 MM35) Australia 1945 (Mar) OHMS Dept of Air Redirected Cover to RAAF HQ Prahran.

From Group 10 Darwin to Officer In Charge Records RAAF Headquarters Prahran Vic then cancelled and inscribed D. Manning with 5½d indigo Duke and Duchess of Gloucester with CDS “”AIR FORCE P.O./8MR45/NO. 20” and 3 x indistinct CDS “AUSTRALIA/??” with re-

verse inscribed “PEACE 1945” and “2½ SURCHARGE” Nice military/aviation item. Price $79 MM36) Australia 1931 Airmail Cover, Carnarvon, WA to Yalbalgo Station Carnarvon. These covers are highly sought after. Yalbalgo is one of the largest sheep stations in WA, and the mail must have been delivered by aircraft. This cover bears 6d & 1/- Kangaroos, plus 3d KGV all with small multiple wmk, Perf 13.5 x 12.5. The 1/- is cat. $250 on cover, and the 6d at $150. Nice clean, fresh item. We sold a similar cover recently for $395, this one is just as nice, price $349 MM37) Great Britain 1840 2d Pale Blue SG6 , lovely 4 margin example with light black Maltese Cross cancel. Lettered PL. As nice as they come! Cat $2000. Great value at less than 40% price $795 MM38) Australia 1928 part parcel label, bearing 6d Tasmania Tablet and 3d Blue Kookaburra, canclelled by cds of 9 DE 28 in Violet, believed to be Hobart Parcels Branch, but rather indistinct. Very scarce combination usage of State and Federal stamps. Price $149 MM40) Victoria 1854 Imperf 6d Dull Orange Woodblock, SG32a. Almost 4 margin mint example without gum, just touching at left hand side. Very fresh looking, tiny scuff at top left does not detract from appearance. Cat $1000. Attractive and scarce, price $295 MM41) Victoria 1854 Woodblock, 1/- Red & Blue registered stamp, 4 margins used, with clean strike of V oval handstamp. Budget priced at $149 MM44) Victoria 1884 – 1901 1/- Stamp Duty, pale blue on pale yellow, fine mint lightly hinged. Retail $200, my price $149 MM45) Australia 1918 1/- 3rd wmk Turquoise Kangaroo, fresh mint unhinged, cat $275.

Couple of nibbed perfs at top and a bit of a gum bend, hardly visible form the front make this a great budget buy at $98 MM47) Australia 1918 3rd wmk 3d Yellow Olive Kangaroo, Die II, mint unhinged, cat $800. Light overall gum toning. Nice budget price stamp at $259 MM48) Australia 1918 2d & 2.5d 3rd wmk Kangaroos, both mint unhinged. Cat $150, nice budget pair with only very minor imperfections, price $79 MM50) Australia 1930/31 5d Chestnut KGV Heads, Smalll Multi Wmk and C of A wmk mint unhinged, in very differing shades. Cat $190, price $139 M1) Lighthouse Dark Green leather look Padded 3 ring binder as new, with gold blocking Australia and Kangaroo on face and spine. Contains 28 x double sided White Vario de-luxe sheets 5 and 6 strip. Some of these are a little aged, but mostly fine. Retail when new $140 plus. My price just $42 M2) Seven Seas Australia Brown Padded hingeless album, 1966 – 1989, in good condition, a few mounts strips will need replacing at beginning. Retail if new around $250, very cheap at 25%, just $62.50 M3) Australia 1930 Magnificent Airmail Cover Perth – Yalbalgo Station, Carnarvon, with cds of Perth 4NO30 bearing strip of 3 x 5d KGV Small Multi Wmk, and 2 x halfpenny orange to make 1/4d Airmail rate. Very scarce cover, we sold a similar item recently for $395. This one $349 M4) Another cover to Yalbalgo Station, from Perth with cds 2JE37, bearing 3d Blue SA Centenary and 2 x 1d Green Queen Elizabeth Die 1. This one far more modestly priced at $45 M5) Australia 1946 small airmail cover, Wahroonga, WA cds 31MY46 bearing marginal horiz. Strip of 3 1/4d Magenta KGVI, to Washington DC, USA. Rate form Mar. 1946 for Airmail all the way was 4/-, so thisd 2d overpaid. Scarce and attractive, price $120 M6) Australia 1937 KGVI 3d Blue “White Wattles” on small airmail cover, Brisbane 19/8/1937 cds – Perth, together with 2d red KGV to make 5d rate. Rare dual reign cover, the 3d being cat. $500 on cover. Price $375 M7) Australia 2000 Olympics Athletics PNC. Very scarce, and cat. $120. Price $95 M8) Luxembourg. Lovely collection of semi-postal issues virtually compete from 1921 to 1991. Well over 400 different stamps with a CV of over £3,000 = $6000 plus. The used

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AUGUST SALE are generally all very fine used/CTO. Postally used of many of these are almost non-existent & CTO is the only realistic way to collect them. Virtually all complete sets. The mint Pre-1939 are mixed hinged & unhinged. Generally the hinging is pretty light. 1945-1954 are mixed hinged & unhinged, any stamps displayed inverted are hinged. Generally the hinging is light, with just one of the late 1940’s sets being heavily mounted. 1955-1991 are all mint unhinged. A chance to buy at under one third of catalogue for this superb lot, price $1950.

M9) Australia 1913 1st Wmk Kangaroos, 4d, 5d & 6d, all superb Mint Unhinged, post office fresh with white gum. The 5d is particularly well centred and a premium stamp. Cat. $2150. A rare opportunity to buy these in a group. Price $1595 M10) Australia 1924 6d Chestnut 3rd wmk Kangaroo, mint unhinged, cat $75. My price $55 M11) Australia 1915 2/- Brown 3rd wmk Kangaroo, with “S” Flaw, very scarce stamp, lightish parcel used, cat $450. Price $335 M12) Australia 1932 9d Violet C of A wmk Kangaroo fresh Mint Unhinged, well centred for this most are way off! Cat $125, price $95 M13) Australia 1932 Two Pound C of A Kangaroo Specimen type D, mint lightly hinged, cat $100, price $75 M14) As above, set 10/-, One Pound and Two Pound. Cat $270, price $175 M16) Australia KGV 4d Orange Single wmk, fresh mint unhinged, cat $125, price $95 M17) Australia KGV 4d Yellow - Orange Single wmk, fresh mint lightly hinged, cat $80, price $59 M18) Australia KGV Single wmk, 4d Blue, fresh mint unhinged, cat. $150, price $110 M20) Australia KGV Single wmk 4.5d Violet, fresh mint unhinged, cat. $100, centered a bit high, price $65 M22) Australia 1914 6d Claret Kookaburra, cto. Centered high, cat $80, cheap stamp at $39 M24) Another 5/- Bridge, but fresh mint unhinged, Cat $1500, price $1125 M25) Australia 1934 Vic. Centenary perf 11.5 set, mint unhinged, cat $150, price $110 M26) As above, 3d value in Ash mint unhinged gutter block of 4, inc. “Flag” variety on lower two stamps. ACSC 155za, Cat $225 price $169 M27) Australia 1935 Silver Jubilee set, fresh mint unhinged, Cat $115, price $89 M28) Australia 1935 Anzac Pair, fresh mint unhinged, cat $100. Price $76 M29) Australia 1936 S.A. Centenary set, fresh mint unhinged, cat $45, price $33 M30) Australia 1937 1/- Lyrebird, perf 13.5 x 14 in imprint block of 4, centre of sheet.

Mint hinged, cat $400, price $275 M31) Australia 1937 Robes 5/- Thick paper imprint block of 4, **/* hinged on Top two stamps only, cat $90, price $65 M33) Australia 1937 Robes One Pound Thick paper imprint block of 4, **/* hinged on top two stamps only, cat $500, price $375 M34) Australia 1937 Robes set 5/- to One Pound mint unhinged set, minor probs. with the one pound cat $200, budget price $99!

M35) Australia 1948 Robes 5/- Thin White paper imprint block of 4, **/* hinged on Top two stamps only, cat $75, price $55 M36) Australia 1940 AIF set mint unhinged, cat $60, price $44 M37) Australia 1940 KGVI 3d blue, die III, mint unhinged, cat $60, price $44 M38) Australia 1948 Arms High Values 5/- to Two Pounds, fresh mint unhinged, cat $325, price $249 M39) Australia 1963 Navigators 4/- to Two Pounds mint unhinged, at $210, price $159 M40) BCOF 1946 set to 5/- thick paper mint hinged, cat $235, price $165

M41) GB 1840 2d Blue SG 5a, with variety, double corner letters, 4 margins, close in places lettered O A . Cat $2300. Very scarce stamp, under 20% catalogue, $495 M43) Australia 1913 1st wmk Twopence Halfpenny Indigo Kangaroo, mlh, retail $70, this one centred low, half price, just $35 M44) Australia 1913 1st wmk 3d Olive, Die 1, perf small OS, mlh, retail $250, this one centered high, just half price $125 M45) Australia 1929 Small multiple wmk 5/- Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, perf OS cto with gum, very attractive stamp. Retail $225. My price $169.

M46) Australia 1913 Halfpenny Green 1st wmk Kangaroo, in mint unhinged strip of 5, superb! retail $125, my price just $85.

M47) Australia 1913 6d Blue 1st wmk Kangaroo, mint lightly hinged, retail $130, my price just $85.

M49) ) Australia 1915 6d Ultramarine 3rd wmk Kangaroo perf OS, mint hinged, retail $120, my price under half just $59.

MF3) All new World Mission mix 20kg just arrived, on close clipped paper, very high count with about 7000 to the kg. Plenty of higher values and smaller countries like Finland and Vanuatu noted. Mixture spans over 40 years and is the widest variety I have ever seen in such a mix. Got to easily be worth 3c to 4c a stamp, so here goes: 100g for $26.50, 250g for $62.50, 500g for $118, 1kg for $225, 5kg for $1069, 10kg for $1995.

MF4) Solomon Islands, Mint Unhinged starter collection of 100 different, mainly in complete sets and minisheets, 1980’s & 1990’s, great thematics here inc. Military, planes, ships, yachts, royalty, Olympics, sports, UPU, birds etc. 12 minisheets and approx. 60 stamps you will never see again at this price, $49 the lot. (5 lots available) MF5) 100 different Christmas Island, on my packets list for $100, 1 lot only for $69 MF6) 1500 different Australia, back in stock again, only 5 available. New content, price $109 MF7) 125 Different Australia pre- decimal, lovely lot, only $8.50 per packet.

MF10) Spain 1500 different, back in stock again, price $179 MF15) Victoria mixture of around 220 off paper, mixed condition, values to One Shilling, nice variety, unchecked for perfs, shades, varieties etc. Price $132 MF16) As above, Queensland, approx. 150 for $129 MF17) As above New South Wales, approx. 300 for $179 MF18) Australia Collection in Green Binder on Seven Seas Pages, contain lovely used collection, with many cto from Official folder. Noted, simplified Kangaroos to 5/-, 3d & 6d Kookaburras cto, KGV 4.5d Die II cto, Kingsford Smith pair ovpt. OS and nearly all KGV Commem period cto (No 5/- Bridge) Robes sets both thick and thin paper, Navigators set of 8 inc. white papers, then virtually complete to end 1975, all cto or very fine used. A great lot. Price $1425 MF20) Victoria 1857 6d orange Roulette 7-9 Raymonds Machine (4 sides) exceptionally rare! Roulette by Calvert on all four sides, the roulette type, very fine points, are identical to the Raymond Machine. It is believed that Calvert perforated only a few such ‘experimental’ sheets. Extremely rare with only a small number recorded or seen. This copy has four full and generous margins, is ‘full bloom” colour and nicely cancelled with barred numeral 1 of Melbourne. This roulette type is exceptionally rare and not even catalogued.

The stamp has been plated and is position number 41 on the plate of 5- (25 x 25) This stamp has no thins, no creases and is in perfect condition. Price $495 MF21) Victoria 1857 small cover to London, bearing 2d & 6d Woodblocks, with 3rd adhesive sadly removed. “Per Colombian” V1 cancel of Melbourne, and oval JY 22 on reverse, vermillion arrival paid cds on face 25 SEP 1857. Attractive and rare early cover. Price $169 MF22 ) Victoria 1879 – 1900 Stamp Duties Melbourne Printing Perf. 13. Postally used 3/Olive – Drab, with Shepparton cds of AUG 3 98, also 5/- Claret on Yellow with Sandhurst

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AUGUST SALE cds, and 10/- Brown on Rose with indistinct cancel. Possibly fiscal, together with 2/Blue, postal use but trimmed down one side and 3 different shades of the 1d. All on a well written up album page. PrIce $79 MF25) Australia JL 3 1920 3d 3rd wmk Kangaroo Die I on small cover Sydney to Sweden, with “The Swedish Chamber of Commerce for Australia and South Sea Islands Sydney” cachet on flap, arrival handstamp for Nybro, 31 8 20. Clean and attractive cover. Cat $100 on cover, price $69 MF27) Australia 31 JAN 1930 cover Sydney – Chicago, bearing 3d Blue KGV SMW perf 13.5 x 12.5, perf OS, Type A. Cat $150 on cover. Price $110 MF32) 1929 Small Multiple wmk 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo fine commercially used with clear 12 AU 31 Collins St. Melbourne cds. Centered a little left, but a very scarce stamp in commercial used, cat $700, price $575 MF34) Australia 1934 Victorian Centenary 3d blue, both perfs, each in mint unhinged marginal block of 4, retail $80 as singles, price $59 MF35) Australia 1949 Halfpenny Orange no watermark Kangaroo corner Imprint Block mint unhinged with Coil Perf. Very scarce, cat $100. Price $69 MF36) Australia 1958 Memorial Pair, lower marginal block of 4 (2 pairs) together with 2d Green Queen Elizabeth (QM) to make 2/- Airmail rate to UK, on small Airmail cover to Portswood, Southampton UK, with Melbourne Boxed machine cancel of 18 MAR 1958. A pair is rare on cover, this is almost certainly a unique combination usage. Price $249 MF39) GB 1925 Wembley 1d used on front of picture postcard “A typical bungalow in the colony Sierra Leone” posted at the exhibition with special Wembley slogan to Onehunga, New Zealand. Rare usage. $96 MF41) GB 1948 Channel Islands Liberation set of 2 on neat printed Dealer first day cover.

Very scarce to find in such fine condition. Price $37.50 each MF43 ) South West Africa, 1937 Coronation set of 16 in Bi-lingual pairs, on illustrated registered FDC Windhoek – Johannesburg. AS FRESH AS THE DAY IT WAS PRODUCED! Magnificent addition to any Royalty Collection. A less attractive similar cover with damaged corner appears on eBay at $51, my price $49. (5 available) MF44) Seven Seas Pitcairn Is. Hingeless Album 1940 - 1981 in red padded binder, in nice almost as new condition, includes a few sets mint unhinged for free from 1979 – 81.

New price around $295, this one under a third….$95 MF46)) Seven Seas Papua New Guineas Hingeless Album in cream padded binder, 1952 – 1981, in nice almost new condition, includes mint unhinged sets 1980 – 1981 near complete, plus a few mint unhinged sets for free in the last couple of years. Retail for the album alone would be $295, price $95 FE2) QUEENSLAND - 1860: a most collectable example of a 2 mgn, lightly used 1d carmine-rose QV Chalon SG1 - huge mgn at right - c.v. £800 = $1750. Price below 15% cat. Just $249 FE3) TASMANIA - 1892: complete MNH pane of 60x ½d orange/mauve QV Key Plate issue SG 216 - some minor imperfections include a few gum spots, some perf. separation on the bottom selvedge and a hint of creasing in the same are (please view largest image).

Overall condition and appearance is still excellent - total c.v. is £125+ = $275. Priced well at 40% cat. $110 FE9) Great Britain 1924 KGV Block Cypher definitives set of 12. 3d, 4d, 5d, 6d & 1/- and mint hinged, other values including the key 10d are mint unhinged. Attractive set, retail $250. Price $185 FE10) Great Britain 1934 KGV Photogravure definitives set of 11. Mostly lightly hinged, top value 1/- is mint unhinged, retail $85, price $59 FE11) Great Britain 1939 – 48 Square High Values set of 6. Both 2/6d values are mint unhinged, also the 10/- light blue and one pound. 5/- & 10/- dark blue are lightly hinged.

Retail $450, price $329 FE12) Great Britain 1951 Festival High Values, set of 4. 2/6d & 5/- are light hinge, 10/- & One Pound mint unhinged. Retail $90 Price $69 FE13) GB 1959 One Pound Windsor Castle. 2nd DLR printing. Mint lightly hinged. Retail $80, price $59 FE14) Great Britain 1971 1/2p Machin, left phosphor band, ex One Pound Wedgwood Booklet, with perfect perfs, (not trimmed as most of these are) Mint Unhinged, SG X842, retail $55, price $42 FE16) Worldwide mostly modern Christmas Collection on 30 plus 7 strip as new Hagners, mostly postally used plus some nice mint unhinged sets. Small amount of duplication, would be close to 1000 stamps if not more. Hagners alone retail $40 plus. Price for the lot $89 FE19) Two x Royal Mail super quality padded postcard albums, in Olive Green, as new, each with 50 brand new 2 division double sided Hagner style sheets. Space for up to 400 Postcards or Covers. Retail value for new albums, plus the Hagners would be $315, price under a half $149 FE22) Pitcairn Is. 1983 – 1994 Approx. Mint Unhinged collection in quality near new black page stockbook alone worth $30, looks like 75 complete sets. Included Fish and Ships definitive sets. Retail over $400, price under a half $195, be quick!

FE26) South Australia. Two early Postcards, with undivided back with views of The Exhibition Buildings Adelaide (Sadly demolished 1962 to make way for University Buildings) and The Congregational Church North Adelaide (Thankfully still standing!) Both used to London from Adelaide (different addressees) each bearing 1d Queen Victoria and Halfpenny light green definitive. Superb condition for postally used! Price $54 the two.

FE27) Australia 1928 3d Kookaburra minisheet, on First Day Cover, cancelled by two strikes of the red exhibition cancel with clear 29OC28 cancels to Nyngan NSW. Small clean attractive cover, sheet has a little surface gum seepage. Cat. $1000, good buy at $695 FE29) P.R. China 2003 Prestige Booklet Launch of 1st manned Chinese spacecraft Snenzhou.Very scarce, the only ones of these I have ever owned! 1 only left price $37.50.

FE33) GB Selection on stockcards, commencing 1935 Silver Jubilee, then KEVIII set of 4, KGVI Dark Colours, 1940 Centenary, 1948 Silver Wedding, 1946 Victory, 1948 Olympics and 1949 UPU. The QEII 1963 Crowns wmk Castles, 1967 No Wmk Castles and 1969 2/6 – One Pound Machins. Some of this is hinged others unhinged. Price as hinged retail approx $110. Very cheap at $69 FE34) Great Britain Commemoratives 1953 – 65appears complete mint lightly hinged.

(3d Nature week is fine used) Retail approx $70, price $49 FE36) Great Britain Decimal Commemoratives on hagner pages, mint unhinged 1971 – 1979 near complete plus a couple of extras. 60 plus complete sets. Retail $75 plus, price $49 FE37) Australia 1937 5/- Robes on thin white paper, imprint block of 4 mint unhinged, cat $100, price $69 FE39) Australia 1936 Submarine Cable pair in mint unhinged imprint gutter blocks, low value hinged in gutter and just touched on one stamp. Very fresh. Cat. $120, price $89 FE41) WESTERN AUSTRALIA 1879 Queen Victoria 6d TELEGRAPH 6d fine postally used with light barred P.O. in circle postmark. Dealers retail from 5 years ago $475. Very scarce indeed and the first we have ever handled in such nice condition. Australia leading dealers rarely have this in stock. Price $425 FE45) Australia 1934 MacArthur set of 3 on Registered Illustrated 1934 Victorian Centenary Philatelic fdc to Timaru NZ, with registered Public Offices Victoria C2 Label No. 264.

Also Public Offices cds 1st Nov. 1934. Scarce and attractive. Cat $550. Price $395 FE46) Australia 1937, 3d Blue KGVI Die I, 6d Kookaburra & 1/- Lyrebird on small plain registered FDC, Enmore NSW to Christchurch NZ. No toning as usually seen on these covers! Retail in this condition $200 plus. My price just $125

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AUGUST SALE FE48) Syria, in the news and hopefully soon in your collection! Nice packet of 100 different, with many earlier. 3 lots only available price $57.50 FE49) USA, 3c Purple THOMAS JEFFERSON – Scott #807 Full sheet of 100 Mint unhinged Double Perf Shift Error.. in two directions. Very impressive. Image shifted up and left, resulting in dramatic double (vertical and horizontal) perf errors on all stamps. Hard to find this error in full, fault-free sheets as the stamps are usually broken up into blocks or pairs. This mint never hinged sheet has full original gum with no perf. separations nor missing selvedge. Block of 4 currently on sale on Ebay for up to $225! Offered at One Third the price of this block, the complete sheet for $1875. Blocks of 4 available if the sheet does not sell at $95 per block, please enquire.

FE51) Fabulous Canada packets, all different collections: a) 1000 Different, my normal list price is $100, just $75 only 2 available at this price b) 1200 Different one only available $105 c) 1800 different one only available $159 FE52) Canada off paper mixture, nice lot with little duplication (no more than 3 of any stamp) approx 3000 for $225 FE53) 400 Different Sports, all large, one lot only $22.50 FE54) 500 Different Chile, on my list at $110, one only, $99 FE55) New South Africa Mission Mix, on close clipped single paper just arrived. 250g for $25, 500g for $45, 1kg for $80 FE56) Ireland, Commems and large on paper, from our “other” source, guaranteed unpicked, but is on heavier paper. We only have 1kg of this, be quick! 250g for $90, 500g for $170, or take the lot for $325 FE57) Channel Is. / Isle of Man on paper, nice close trimmed, single paper, mostly large.

Once again we only have 1kg of this. 250g for $49, 500g for $85, or take the lot for $165.

FE59) Western Europe, all large and commemoratives superb off paper mixture. Just received we only have 2 kg of this, and the only consignment of this we have had in the past 2 years. Very wide ranging, and at about 12,000 to the kg works out at about 6c per stamp, 100g for $79, 250g $187.50, 500g $372.50, 1kg $740 FE61) Really superb and guaranteed unpicked off paper mixtures just received, you will be extremely pleased you purchased these, from under 2c per stamp. Supplies are very limited. Worldwide. Approx 1000 for $24.95, 2500 for $59.50, 5000 for $110, 10,000 for $199, 15,000 for $295.

FE62) Amazing lot of old British Empire, mint unhinged, in blocks of 4. Just surfaced after major dealer’s retirement, this lot is all 65 years old or more, all issued from the 1920’s to around 1950. Absolutely No India, Pakistan, Great Britain or Australia. This lot will include smaller islands, complete sets, and some semi-postals. Countries like Cyprus, Mauritius, Seychelles, NZ, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Tonga, Gilbert and Ellice Islands. Values to 1/- and priced from under $2 per block, you could easily pay $5 to $10 per block for many of these if purchased singly. My clearance price, and we only have a few lots is as follows, the larger lots will have better values and scarcer stamps included.: Lot of 25 different blocks, $49.

FE63) Australia 1934 MacArthur, mint unhinged set of 3 (no dark hills 2d) usually $120, now just $89, or the set of 4 with dark hills usually $145 for $109 FE64) Australia 1929 6d Small Multi. Wmk Kangaroo, perf OS, Mint Unhinged, normally $75, now just $55.

FE65) Australia KGV 5d C of A wmk, Ovpt. OS, mint unhinged, usually $75, now just $55.

FE66) Australia 1934 Victoria Centenary, 1/- perf 11.5, mint unhinged marginal block of 8, some faults, 5 stamps are fine, two have minor toning, and one with an ink spot.

Normal price $120 per stamp. Very cheap at $450.

FE67) Australia 1931 Brown 6d Airmail, ovpt. OS, mint unhinged, normally $50, now $35 each (2 only at this price) FE68) Queensland, attractive collection of postal stationery comprising Postcards (14) Lettercards (9) Reply Cards (2) and the scarce 4 corners reply card, H & G 6a (unpriced in the catalogue) Clean and fresh original lot all mint, 26 items. $795, now reduced to $635.

FE69) Bulk lot of mainly Australian stamps, covers, albums etc, decimal and pre-decimal as cleared ex deceased house recently. Nothing spectacular noted but heaps of fun especially if you love stuff in bulk to sort! This is quite an amazing varied lot. We are parceling out in 3 sizes: a) 5kg lot $129, b) 10kg lot $237.50, c) 20kg lot $449 FE70) A similar lot to the above, but all World: a) 5kg lot $129, b) 10kg lot $237.50, c) 20kg lot $449 FE71) 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) FE72) 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) FE73) 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!

FE74) 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.

FE75) 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, now reduced, just $295.

FE76) GB 1955 Waterlow HV Castles, MLH cat 225 pounds, price $125.

FE77) GB 1951 Festival HVs set of 4, SG 509/12 MLH, cat 100 pounds, price $57.50.

FE78) 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.

FE88) Australia 1960 Girl Guides 5d, with offset, ACSC 377c, From a 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. Blocks of 4 at $149 or singles at $39.

FE93) Western Australia 1861 4d Vermilion, cds dated SP 27 1867. SG40, retail $350. My price $198.

FE100) World on paper, our popular mix of mainly large, as received from 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 FE101) New Zealand 1925 Dunedin set, MUH, Retail $135, my price just $98.

FE103) 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.

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

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address their communities with impassioned oratory and dramatic posturing. The stamp design shows a council taking place in front of a wharenui (meeting house) on a marae (communal land physically and spiritually the heart of a settlement). Other elements of the design include a tree fern and a warrior guarding the council from intrusion. The stamp borders show a design typical of those carved on the rafters of a meeting house. The stamp honours the centrality of Maori to New Zealand life and the contribution Maori have made to wider Polynesian culture.

Although originally considered for an 8d value, changes to the parcel rates in January 1939 led to the stamp being issued as a 7d value. The centre design in black was printed from a plate marked ‘A’ and the frame in orange-red from a plate numbered ‘1’.

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With the outbreak of World War II, parcel rates were again changed and the design was re-used for the 8d rate. The same centre plate ‘A’ was used with a new frame plate again numbered ‘1’. The 8d stamp was issued on 8 March 1940.

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

The Postage Stamps of New Zealand, vol. 2, Wellington, RPSNZ, 1952.

Te Ara: the Encyclopedia of New Zealand - http:// www.teara.govt.nz Graeme can be contacted through his website, www. stampsmw.top1.com.au .

WORLDWIDE NEW ISSUES

Australia Post takes flight with owls on stamps Australia Post’s latest stamp issue Guardians of the Night takes flight, showing off four fascinating owl species: the Sooty Owl (Tyto tenebricosa), Rufous Owl, (Ninox rufa), Eastern Grass Owl (Tyto longimembris) and lurida subspecies of the Southern Boobook (Ninox boobook).

Australia Post Philatelic Manager Michael Zsolt, said: “Of Australia’s nine owl species, this stamp issue features four beautifully illustrated species.

Birds are a popular choice for our collectors, and we hope these ‘guardians of the night’ will delight stamp collectors and bird-lovers alike.”

With acute vision and hearing, as well as specialised primary feathers that make their flight virtually silent, owls are excellent hunters that use the element of surprise to snap up prey.

Despite 1971 legislation that protects all owl species, owl populations are increasingly threatened by habitat loss and destruction, which affects not only their food sources but also their nesting and roosting sites.

The four domestic base-rate ($1) stamps have been illustrated by Adelaide-based wildlife artist Christopher Pope and feature the following species: The Rufous Owl (Ninox rufa), of which there are three subspecies, is large and often hunts sizable prey. It is a beautiful rich, deep chestnut to rufous colour. The two subspecies of northeastern Australia have a darker face than that of the Kimberley, Western Australia. It inhabits dense, tall eucalypt rainforest, river-edge forest and mangrove areas.

The Eastern Grass Owl (Tyto longimembris) differs from other Australian owls in that it is the

only ground-dweller, occupying dense groundcover of tall grasses.

This striking longlegged owl has fairly widely spaced eyes framed with a white through to rufous buff facial disc. It is found across northern Australia into much of Queensland, as well as northeastern New South Wales and north-eastern South Australia.

The Sooty Owl (Tyto tenebricosa) is heavily built and fairly large, with huge dark eyes that stare out from a distinctive dark facial disc. This very secretive bird is distributed along Australia’s eastern coast, from central Queensland into the south of Victoria. Its habitat is tall forest and densely vegetated gullies, including in coastal ranges.

Southern Boobook (Ninox boobook) is the smallest of Australia’s owls. Although it is not often seen, it is widely distributed across Australia – adaptable to rainforest, woodland and grassland environments.

The subspecies lurida, which is pictured in the stamp design, is confined to around the Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, where it inhabits dense rainforest.

The products associated with this stamp issue are a minisheet, first day cover, stamp pack, booklet of 10 x $1 self-adhesive stamps, prestige booklet, medallion cover and a set of four maxicards.

The Owls: Guardians of the Night stamp issue is available from 5 July 2016 at participating Post Offices, via mail order on 1800 331 794 and online at auspost.com.au/stamps while stocks last. Visit the Australia Post Collectables website australiapostcollectables.com.au for a forthcoming article on owls. The Australia Post Collectables website is a central resource for stamp collectors and philatelic enthusiasts across the globe.

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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation What a wonderful exhibition New York was. My fellow columnist Glen Stephens gave an overview in last month’s issue and it must have been written at the exhibition. I thought an in-depth discussion of the show might be of interest especially given the large number of Australians who attended. We estimate that 40 known Australian collectors and about 20 New Zealand ones attended the show.

NY2016 was the sixth international exhibition held in New York, the others being in 1913, 1926, 1936, 1947 and 1956. The 1947 exhibition was for the 100th anniversary of the issue of the first United States postage stamp. The Third International Philatelic Exhibition (TIPEX) held in 1936 was an especially notable show and one that I have a close link with. My Grandfather, at the age of 32, actually sent an exhibit to the exhibition, I assume by post as there were no commissioners in those days. He had a specialised collection of 5/- Kangaroo stamps handwritten on specially printed black pages as they showed off the yellow of the stamps better than pale pages. Figure 1 compares the medal he received with my own medal received from the 2016 exhibition. It may seem strange that he only received a medal for participation but in those days few people received medals for their exhibits, and only gold, silver and bronze were awarded. The big plus in receiving an award back then was that gold and silver medals were actually made of gold and silver. The 1936 exhibition had 3,000 frames from 900 exhibitors and a jury of 20. TIPEX also used a bin room but not like a modern day bin room which stores empty envelopes between mounting and dismounting. Back in 1936 you put some of your exhibit in the frames

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and the rest of your collection (in albums) in the bin room for the judges to look at. One exhibitor had 6 frames of material and 29 albums in the bin room! Australia last used such a bin room approach in 1980. The following is the preface from the 1936 jury report which I am sure all judges and exhibitors can relate to: “After many months of hard work and loyal cooperation from stamp collectors and dealers... the zero hour has arrived for the jury to report their decisions as to the winners in the many classes of competition. Our labors have been most enjoyable and pleasant. In many cases our final decisions have been very difficult because of the close and high class competition. We have probably made some mistakes, otherwise we would not be human; however we have given much careful thought to our decision and we hope and trust that you will realize that we cannot present in this report the many, many details and considerations which have entered into the making of the final awards.�

The 2016 exhibition was larger in that it had 4,500 frame from over 700 exhibitors and a jury of 57. There were more dealers than in 1936 and in an innovation that I applaud the NY2016 show gave societies tables provided they manned them for the majority of the exhibition and for a donation which varied amongst societies. NY2016 was the largest exhibition held for many years with few countries holding eight day shows anymore. It is unlikely that anyone will hold a show this large again. The cost is just too high, although I believe that despite being in New York, the exhibition has made a surplus part of

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which is passed onto the next exhibition in the USA. This will be Boston in 2026 so if you like to plan ahead - start saving because Boston is a great city to visit, with a lot of history.

There were 763 exhibits, including literature at the exhibition and to give you an idea of the size of the exhibits hall look at Figure 2 which is shot down the centre aisle. With 4,500 frames each of 16 pages, if you looked at each page for one second it would have taken 20 hours to view the exhibition.

Despite being there for eight days I only looked at the postal stationery, aerophilately, revenues and the court of honour. One Australian exhibitor spent over three days looking at all the postal history exhibits.

The court of honour had the famous 1 cent British Guiana stamp and almost complete sheets of the first postage stamps, the penny black and twopenny blue of Greta Britain. These were both illustrated in Glen’s article. There was also that most famous of United States’ stamps, the ‘inverted Jenny’, a copy of which sold for $US1.3 million at an auction at the exhibition. To further promote the exhibition (and the auction) the Robert A. Siegel Auction Gallery brought a Curtis Jenny aeroplane to the exhibition.

Figure 3 shows the plane at in the foyer of the Javitt’s Centre and Figure 4 shows them dismantling it at the end of the exhibition for transportation.

The exhibition opened on the Memorial Day weekend, a holiday for its armed services and in addition that week was Fleet Week where about 10,000 sailors are given leave in New York. The city puts on a great welcome for the sailors. My reason for mentioning this is that the exhibition used two

admirals in their opening ceremony. Both gave very interesting talks, both about naval matters as both were submariners, and about collecting. There were also talks by James Cochrane from the US Postal Service and Wade Saadi, the President of the organising committee. Stuart Weitzman, the owner of the 1 cent British Guiana black on magenta stamp (which was on display in the court of honour) sent video greetings. These talks were then followed by an actor playing Alexander Hamilton who was very important in the US Revolution and helped found the first national bank, the US Mint and a tax collection bureau that would later become the US Coast Guard.

He was the first Secretary of the Treasury as well.

He is famous for dying in a duel but is a far more important person in US history than this one event.

He is also the subject of the most popular musical currently showing in New York. Figure 5 shows the final part of the opening ceremony, the ribbon cutting ceremony with (from left to right) Jamie Gough the master of ceremonies; Admiral Thomas B Fargo, U.S. Navy (Ret.); Wade Saadi, Vice Admiral Joseph P. Mulloy, U.S. Navy Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Integration of Capabilities and Resources; and James Cochrane from the US Post Office. Admiral Fargo was the Submarine Commander that was used to train the actor who was Commander in the movie Hunt for Red October.

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225 registered helpers plus a number more, as many people helped put up exhibits including a number of Australians. No exhibition works without volunteers and we should always acknowledge their support as it would be impossible to pay for these services.

There were 39 Philatelic Societies at the exhibition, either with a table or holding meetings. The most amazing statistic was that there were over 300 meetings or events (stamp launches etc) that were scheduled over the eight days, plus a number of dinners. It was impossible to attend even a fraction and all I managed to attend were two FIP seminars on Revenues and Aerophilately. I also attended about an hour of a full day seminar on British West Indies

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postal history. It is these meetings that distinguish US exhibitions from any other international I have attended. It is also an opportunity to meet the people you correspond with over your topic of interest. The seminars can be quite useful as the two I attended had a quite specific focus in each case. The aerophilately seminar, given by the APF President Glen Stafford, talked about changes to the Aerophilately class that allow a much greater emphasis on airmail stamps and their production. The Revenue seminar was about the displaying of complete documents, which all revenue collectors know, can be a difficult task as many are large and some items are three dimensional.

Australians had not only a good physical presence at the exhibition but had the second highest number of exhibits after the host country. With 171 frames of material and seven literature exhibits it was quite a task to get the exhibits to the exhibition. As we had over 150 frames we were entitled to two commissioners plus the APF funded an assistant commissioner. I also roped my wife into the task as the exhibits filled three exhibition trunks, two hard shell suitcases and I hand carried one exhibit. The 33 Australian exhibits did well. Australia had one exhibit in the Championship Class and one One-frame exhibit.

Of the 31 exhibits that received medals (one-frame exhibits get a score only and Championship class tend to receive a small prize) we had five large gold, five gold, ten large vermeil, seven vermeil and four large silver medals. We received two prizes - one for Alan Grey’s postal history exhibit and the other for John Sinfield’s postal stationery plus we had a potential Grand Prix International candidate with

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Stephen Browne’s early New South Wales postal history. It was interesting to note that Geoff Lewis is the first non-US collector to get a large gold for US postal history we believe. Further, there were only three large gold medals for stationery and all went to Australians. As a final note, three Australian exhibits qualified for championship class at New York.

Overall a great result for Australian exhibitors all of which should be congratulated. Australia has well trained local judges and the consistently high results we receive overseas supports this.

As there were so many medals to give out no medals were presented at the Palmares, rather there was a separate medal ceremony held at the exhibition centre. This meant that the commissioners had to sit through about 6 hours of medal presentations and prize presentations. Figure 6 shows a long table full of medals to be given out. This table was filled a few times as there were 763 exhibits in total including 77 large gold, 204 gold, 198 large vermeil, 149 vermeil, 64 large silver, 40 silver, 26 silver-bronze and 5 bronze. Figure 7 shows Victorian exhibitor Alan Grey receiving his medal from Stephen Reinhard, the President of the American Philatelic Society (APS), with Stephen Schumann, commissioner general, and Ken Martin, also APS, partially hidden.

As a final word or two Figure 8 shows the final act of any FIP world exhibition, the handing over of the FIP flag to the next exhibition. In this case the next FIP World Exhibition will be in Taipei in October this year. Mr Tay Peng Hian, the current President of FIP is the person with his hand raised.

Figure 9 is the final image and shows how forlorn an exhibition looks once all the exhibits, dealers and

The FIAP exhibition to be held in Melbourne at the end of March 2017 has approached the FIP to have auspices, thanks to an anonymous donor and the APF who will jointly pay the fee. In international exhibitions if you get a large vermeil medal you can then move your exhibit from five to eight frames. If you qualify at a FIAP exhibition (without auspices) you can only go to eight frames at another FIAP exhibition. However, at a FIAP exhibition with FIP auspices, if you get a large vermeil medal you can then have eight frames at any future FIAP or FIP exhibition. This is a big plus for exhibitors as there are fewer and fewer FIP exhibitions at present and it can be hard to qualify, especially as it is usually easier to get into a FIAP exhibition than a FIP. This means that Melbourne will be more popular with exhibitors and is likely to attract better dealers as well. If you are interested in Melbourne 2017 take a look at www.melbourne2017.com.au not just for exhibitors but for an exciting range of souvenirs.

(Correction – in an earlier column I stated that the Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria was the oldest in Australia but two others are in fact older.

The Philatelic Society of South Australia was first founded in 1888 and the Royal Sydney Philatelic Society was founded in 1890.)

If you need any further information see www. apf.org.au or contact me at Darryl.fuller@home. netspeed.com.au.

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Cinderella Corner Olympics

This month welcomes the 28th modern Summer Olympic Games. Held in Rio de Janeiro Brazil, it will run from August 5 to 21 and will certainly delight fans worldwide as they witness spectacular competitive feats across twentyeight sports including archery, hockey, swimming and tennis, to name a few. It is an opportunity to cheer for your country and celebrate wins (and near-wins) throughout two weeks.

In a country that notably prides itself of sporting endeavours, it is no surprise that Australia has produced an array of richly vibrant cinderella labels that commemorate the Olympics. This August edition of Cinderella Corner explores some of colourful poster stamps that were produced by this country and abroad to celebrate the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 and, in doing so, helps mark the arrival of this 2016 Olympics and 60 years since it was first hosted in Melbourne.

The illustrations shown here are from the Olympic collection of Noel Almeida, Melbourne.

Melbourne Olympic Organising Committee

Figures 1 (above) & 2 (below left)

The blue label illustrated in Images 1 and 2 is perhaps the most common of those showcased

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in this Column. It measures 30mm x 42mm and is rouletted 7 on all four sides. Coloured in simple

Vito Milana Image 1 illustrates the left block of 16 with the vertical gutter strip evident to the right.

Clear margins on the other three sides are apparent. Image 2 extends the illustration by highlighting a portion of the gutter strip with labels attached to either side of it. A second printing of this label also exists and was also issued in sheets of 32 with no gutter strip (arrangement of 8 x 4 labels). These labels were printed on white paper. It may be difficult to ascertain which label belongs to which printing with absolute precision based on the paper colour alone, and the presence of the Figure 4 dark blue and white, it presents the text: OLYMPIC GAMES – MELBOURNE – AUSTRALIA – 22 Nov. – 8 Dec. 1956 along with the image of the Olympic torch skyrocketing from the location of Melbourne, as positioned on a map of Australia. The Olympic Rings are also seen underneath the words OLYMPIC GAMES. The production of this label has been attributed to the Melbourne Olympic Organising Committee and two separate printings have been identified. The first, on cream paper, saw the labels issued in sheets of 32 with a vertical gutter strip separating two panes of 16 labels.

Figure 6 gutter strip (full or in part) would help determine the origin.

Olympex Exhibition

Figure 5

The Organising Committee of Olympex Expo produced the 10 different Olympex labels (two different images across five different colours) featured in this article. Each of these labels measure 38mm x 45mm and is rouletted 7 and present the following text: OLYMPEX VPA PHILATELIC EXHIBITION – At Preston Motors Showroom – 104 Russell St. Melbourne – Nov. 12 – 24 1956. The labels advertised the upcoming philatelic exhibition, hosted by the Victorian Philatelic Association, in Melbourne.

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Above: Figures 7 & 8 Below: Figure 9 One of the label pairs features a sprinter and the other shows a track and field competitor jumping over a hurdle.

The labels were offered as singles or pairs and were available perforated or imperforated. They were also produced in five different colours: pink and green, yellow and green, blue and red, green and red, peach and green. Image 3 illustrates an example of the five different cinderellas (all perforated) and Image 4 showcases the green and red labels issued as an imperforate pair. The labels were also available as full sheets, both perforated and imperforated. They were issued in sheets of 12 (4 x 3) and a complete sheet of

the perforated blue and red variety is presented in Image 5. Imperforate sheets are much scarcer than their perforated counterparts.

Seven Seas

Another set of labels produced to publicise the Melbourne Olympics are those 16 illustrated across Images 6 to 9. They are the work of famed cinderella enthusiast and former Cinderella Corner writer, Bill Hornadge, who owned Seven Seas Stamps of Dubbo at the time. Monty Wedd of Sydney designed the stamps for Bill, as he did for many products of Seven Seas. Encased within an intricate frame of two Olympic torches and the text OLYMPIC GAMES – MELBOURNE – 1956, four different sporting images are displayed in four different colours. These are: hurdles, cycling, running and swimming. The colours issued were red and brown, blue and brown, violet and brown and green and brown.

Each label measures 42mm x 35mm and is perforated 11.2 on all four sides. The labels are fairly common and often turn up in a collection of cinderellas in varying conditions. Printing of the labels was completed at Dubbo, New South Wales and were sold at 6d for a set of four.

National Association Of Round Tables East Africa

By far the rarest of the Olympics 1956 labels discussed in this issue, examples of those produced by the National Association of Round Tables in East Africa are illustrated in Image

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Vito Milana

10. The International Round Tables Association is a social networking and charitable organisation for men that was founded in 1927 with affiliates in many countries around the world. It is still in existence with headquarters in London. The East Africa association was based in Nairobi, Kenya.

The label measures 26mm x 38mm and rouletted 7.5 and present the following text at top: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ROUND TABLES IN EAST AFRI-

Above: Figure 10 Below: Figure 11 CA; below the latter: a round, spoked coat of arms of the Round Table Association with its motto ADOPT, ADAPT and IMPROVE. Below this text are the Olympic rings and XVI OLYMPIAD/MELBOURNE 1956. An empty panel across the bottom in a lined border completes the design. In the empty panel, as shown in Illustration 11, was printed the name of the company that sponsored the East Africa Association.

References:

1. Almeida, Noel & Moore, Michael, Australian Philatelic Covers No 4 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, self-published, Lara, Vic, 2001.

2. DuBois, Robert J, Catalog of Olympic Labels 1894-1985, self-published, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, 1986.

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Market Matters Norfolk Island is now “Australia.”

Many readers will not be aware of this, but from July 1, 2016 stamps inscribed “Norfolk Island” were no longer valid for use, even on Norfolk Island. For postal purposes, from that date Norfolk Island was part of Australia.

Nearby is the write up in the last ever “Philatelic Bulletin” from Norfolk Island. It contains official confirmation that Norfolk Island stamps produced before the takeover were no longer valid for postage on the islands from 1 July, 2016.

Apparently Norfolk residents will lose their income tax exempt status etc, but will gain access to many Australian and State Government services that are not currently available there, such as Defence, free health and education and pensions and benefits etc.

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$10 stamp becomes $1,864!

There was minimal advice of these postal changes, and many interesting postal history items will have been created by quick thinking collectors.

Covers cancelled June 30 as “Last DAY of Validity”, and FAR smarter, covers mailed Registered July 1, using current Australian stamps on the first day valid.

Well that is not technically true, as in fact Australian stamps were the only stamps used on Norfolk Island until the “Ball Bay” definitives were issued in 1947. Indeed Tasmania stamps were valid there when it was utilised as a harsh penal colony in the 1850s, and usage from there is of course scarce As I often type in this column - “Knowledge Is Power”. The very ugly looking 3 margin cut-toshape Tasmania (“Van Diemans Land”) 1854 4d orange “Courier” shown nearby is worth about $10 normally in this shape. This one appears to have a very large tear or crease through it - neither were mentioned in the lot description.

As most collectors know, this stamp (along with the GB 1854 “Embossed” series) is near valueless if the corners are removed or “cut-to-shape” as this one is. Nonetheless, and despite being cut into at side, it was auctioned in the past by Prestige Philately in Melbourne for way above estimate - at $A1,864, when the “buyer fees” and taxes were

Glen Stephens added.

“Why does a $10 stamp become $1,850 more valuable” you might well be asking? And so you should. The postmark is the key here, as it has a clear strike of the Tasmanian barred numeral “72”.

Not that this is so easy to see, when the stamp is turned the “correct” way up.

Ugly stamp sells for $1,864!

This is where the “Knowledge” comes into play.

Tasmania numeral “72” was allocated to Norfolk Island, when the very harsh penal colony was set up there, and it was administered initially from Hobart, Tasmania.

The “72” canceller finally arrived on Norfolk Island in July 1854. The Government brig carrying it - the “Lady Franklin” initially sailed December 16, 1853, but was forced to turn back owing to a mutiny of the convicts on board. This cancel had only a short working life on Norfolk Island.

In May 1855 the last convicts were removed, and Norfolk was presumably uninhabited until the descendants of the mutineers from the “Bounty” arrived April 8 1856 from Pitcairn Island. Norfolk Island was removed from Tasmanian postal administration in October 1856, and reverted to New South Wales control.

How does one know all this? Well there are 2 excellent large handbooks on the “Postal History

A $A3,620 circular cancel

and Postal Markings of Tasmania”, authored by Bill Purves et al. To my mind these are absolutely essential books to own if you have any interest in Tasmania postmarks or markings.

Many circular postmarks on the common 1899 “Pictorial” series are worth several $100s each many indeed are way into the 4 figure region. The Tasmanian Philatelic Society recently issued an updated handbook on the Pictorial Stamp Rarity ratings, that I reviewed in a past column.

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 10¢.

“TEEPOOKANA” is one of the scarce cancels.

That is more than a superb Mint £1 Brown and Blue Kangaroo stamp costs!

Wavy lines & squiggles POSTAL use.

Likewise, often very valuable, are the many manuscript cancels of wavy lines, squiggles, wiggles, cross-hatching, signature scrawls and graffiti tags on imperfs, which many folks assume are near worthless fiscal cancels. They are POSTAL and are valuable - I bought a Hagner full of imperfs this week, I’ll sell as a job lot for $250.

From the same source, was the used strip of 4 of the Tasmania 4d Blue imperforate Chalon shown nearby. MANY dealers and collectors globally, would assume the pen cancel on it denotes revenue use, and would place minimal value on it.

WRONG. The first allocation of numerical cancellers did not reach all Tasmania offices quickly, and TORQUAY used pen manuscript to postally cancel all imperfs until it got a numeral in 1861. This was a sound used strip 4 of the 4d Blue, with complete manuscript: “Registered Torquay 16/8/56”. I sold it last month for very many $100s, hours after listing it on my Rarity page.

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Singles with “Torquay” M/S are seen, but not a full Registered cancel like this.

Long Norfolk connection to Oz.

Fiscally cancelled? No Way latter countries are now collected here from SG#1, as both entities are regarded broadly as “Australia”.

To that list many will now add Norfolk Island.

“Standing Order” clients with Australia Post will doubtless soon start getting stamps inscribed “Norfolk Island Australia” in their new issue standing orders, and will gradually seek all the issues pre 2016.

Large local album maker Seven Seas Stamps have of course always made attractive Hingeless Albums for Norfolk Island, and I am sure they’ll sell far more sets in the next 12 months, than they have in the past decade!

Back to Norfolk Islands, their stamps have had interesting postal ties to the Tasmania, New South Wales and Australian postal administrations in the past 150 years. When the “Ball Bay” series was issued in 1947, Australian stamps were no longer possible to use in Norfolk - until this month.

Likewise Norfolk stamps from 1947 onwards were not legally able to be used in Australia. Like all rules, things were not always adhered to. The 1960 commercial cover shown nearby to a local newspaper office shows a 5d Norfolk stamp accepted untaxed, as correct Australian 5d domestic postage.

All this means that interest in Norfolk Island stamps will greatly increase in future years locally. Many folks collect just “Australia” and to them that strictly means Australia, Australia Antarctic Territory (AAT), Christmas Island and Cocos Islands - only.

The later 2 jurisdictions are like Norfolk - some earlier issues were valid for use in Australia and many were not.

However ALL issues of both Illegal, but untaxed usage.

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Demand for Norfolk increases now.

I have noticed an uptick in demand for the Norfolk older stamp issues, and several other dealers have commented they have seen similar interest. tinyurl. com/NorfIsl is a set of Seven Seas albums and MUH stamps I listed recently, and getting stamp content that goes past the 1980s is very difficult.

One stampboards.com member announced he had decided to collect all the past Norfolk stamp issues on postally used envelopes or parcel pieces. tinyurl.com/NIcovers is the discussion, and if you can assist, he’d appreciate hearing. A HUGE challenge! But NOW is the time to start.

I understand the newest volume of the ACSC being worked on is “Papua New Guinea” and who knows, adding in Norfolk right now might be a perfect fit with this news. Assigning ‘on cover’ use prices for either will be tough, and those who buy NOW, will be the winners for sure!

I was VERY pleased to stumble across this tatty parcel piece shown nearby. Not excited? Well I do not blame you! Please indulge my little story. I love my job, as EVERY single day is different, and new things turn up unexpectedly.

This stamp is a Norfolk Island 1961 10/- Red Tailed Tropic Bird, SG 36, cat £35 used. A scarcer

Always look in tins of junk! top value in used, but nothing to normally get excited about, as many “used” exist, being soaked off from FDC’s and “CTO” copies, both done by Norfolk PO or dealers.

Butterscotch Biscuit Tin Find.

A lady bought over stamps her deceased mother left, and part of it was this Butterscotch Biscuit tin shown nearby, full of used stamps from 1960s era mostly. On and off paper. Most she had soaked off, as was the fashion at the time, as Rod Perry laments so often. Had she done that with these, it would be a $10 find, not a $100s one.

Rodney Perry has written he has not in 45 years seen this stamp postally used - even a soaked off one - tinyurl.com/RPBird True, this is barely a parcel fragment, and not a full parcel label, and is in rough shape, but it is better than whatever else has been recorded to date globally - ZERO! LUCKILY whomever got the parcel partly tore, and part peeled, these stamps off, thinning the 5/-, but importantly saving the underlying note on parcel - still showing to us (mirror image) as “17/2” Stamp News - 59

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scrawled on the reverse. A great deal of franking back then.

Penned by the clerk in Norfolk, that was indicating 17/2d was the assessed postage rate, and indeed we have 17/2d of stamps here, showing this was the complete franking used on the parcel, over 50 years ago. The 10/- were overprinted “$1” in 1966 when Decimal Currency arrived.

Exact cds date is not possible to read - pretty normal from Norfolk where postal articles got roughly cancelled as noted in Rod’s article above, but it is clearly a Norfolk Island cds. On large cover, or a larger parcel piece with address etc, value 4 figures easily I’d guess.

Has anyone, anywhere, seen another?

I passed it onto a keen collector for a modest 3 figure sum, but a fun find all the same! Please let me know if you have seen any other genuine COMMERCIAL use of this 1961 10/- value - some QE2 material is surprisingly scarce thus, indeed this one appears unique.

This kind of piece is increasingly sought after by Australian collectors - from all eras. The excellent set of 9 x “Brusden White” ACSC Volumes list and price usage on cover or parcel piece for EVERY stamp from SG#1, and such usage brings many times the price of the same stamps that are soaked off.

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Tatty 10/- … but unique.

A good example of that is the parcel label fragment nearby, I added to stock this month. At first glance to anyone without an ACSC, it probably has minimal collector appeal. Rather carelessly affixed stamps, and a rather unattractive parcel roller cancel.

It bears the 1929 5/- Small Multiple Watermark Kangaroo, plus a few other stamps, on a unique 1930 parcel label to Austria. To the small village there of Voeslau - population even today is only 11,000 persons.

Also with the 6d and 2/- small multiple watermarks (also scarce on parcel piece) and a 1930 3d Sturt. And the scarce on label 1927 2d brown KGV Small Multi perf 14, SG 89 - £45 used. (ACSC Cat $350 on parcel piece alone.) Franking 7/11d.

As can be seen, it contained fabric samples from Monckton’s Sydney, to the Voeslauer Worsted Fabric Company. The 5/- alone (SG 111) is ACSC cat $A1,200 on parcel piece. Usual Sydney parcel cancel - piece is on stout card, and a trifle wrinkled as typical on such 10,000 mile, 3 month, sea parcel usages.

Luckily the 5/- value is in sound used condition.

Retail value of these 5 stamps if they were foolishly soaked off by someone, would be about $A75, as they would be just 5 x roughish looking used

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NEVER “soak� such pieces! stamps. However being left on piece, means it went into my stock at $A475, and I have no doubt will sell fast.

Hawaii early covers hot.

One place many do not think of re valuable stamped covers is Hawaii. Hawaii did not gain statehood to the USA until 1959. Oddly many of the key pieces

from there have fetched higher prices than anything from the USA itself!

Collectors generally seem to know that individual STAMPS issued globally in the early classic period are multi-million dollar pieces, but often the key covers are overlooked from such areas. Big mistake.

I attended the massive World Stamp Expo in New York in June, and reported on many of the highlights last month in my column.

A great success, and many price records were broken, and the top world stamp rarities were on display.

One result I did not have room to mention last month was the auction by Siegels of New York of the Bill Gross collection of Nineteenth Century Hawaii. Financial servies Billionaire, Bill Gross has formed many superb collections from all kinds of areas. GB, Switzerland, USA and Hawaii etc.

Hawaii stamp eye candy!

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Highlight of the sale was the pretty 1857 cover shown nearby bearing five examples of a provisional “5” manuscript surcharge on the 13¢ King Kamehameha III issue, along with four USA 10¢ A $A3 million old envelope! stamps of 1855, and a 12¢ USA stamp of 1851.

Steven Walske Collection of Hawaiian Postal HisThe attractive mixed tory. “The Dawson Cover” is the rarest and most franking paid the quintuple weight rate for postage important cover in Hawaiian postal history from the Hawaii islands to California, and thence The envelope is the only known cover bearing to Massachusetts, plus a 2¢ ship captain’s fee. After the Hawaiian 2¢ value “Missionary” stamp. Indeed spirited bidding, it sold for $US253,000 (about it is the only cover to boast two different denomi$A340,000) with all the ‘add ons’. nations from the “Missionary” stamp series. It is The stamps on this cover are further evidence addressed in the hand of William Dawson, to “Miss that the postal clerks cut the stamps apart before Eliza A Dawson, Care Jacob H Dawson, 273 Cherthey were sold, as they are all singles, and are from different positions on the main sheet. (i.e. it is NOT ry Street, New York”.

We are lucky it survived at all, considering the a tête-bêche pair at left!) cover was bundled into a factory furnace along A great price of course, and fantastic to see wealthy collectors like Gross donating the proceeds with other correspondence in 1870. Fortunately, the package was wrapped so tightly that the fire of all his stamp collection sales to worthy charities.

This is however, by no means a record price for any went out, and the cover remained unharmed - aside from a small scorch mark at left side.

Hawaii cover.

It was only discovered 35 years later, long after the factory had been abandoned. A cleaner preparing A hard record to top! the space for reuse found it among the ashes. Some On June 25, 2013, an 1852 cover from Hawaii find - a $A3 million cover - and other choice covers sold for $US1,950,000, PLUS 15% “fee” = were found in the same ashes. $US2,242,500 invoice - near on $A3 million on today’s rate. You can buy a very decent MANSION Butterflies still Flying High. for that in most cities in the world!

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Glen Stephens and collectors I knew from talking to them, had bought some at the show. Needle in a haystack stuff, it really was. Some had 3 days, some had 3 others etc, and so it went on. I only ever once found one full set 8, in one place.

None sold anywhere in Australia.

The rare Day #8 Butterfly Sheet. ful “Butterfly” set of different mini sheets was a surprise hit, and demand and prices have soared globally since the show. Butterflies is a hot global topical of course.

Australia Post had a large stand, and I had a chat to the 3 staffers lucky to have been rostered onto this once in a decade show. Senior staffers Rowan and Cheryl showed me the Butterfly related issues created solely for the show, and never sold in Australia.

AP offered each day, some of these foil numbered, from 1 to 250, with a letterpress Stamp Expo show overprint on the centres. They were issued each day of the show, and Day #1 soon sold out, as did Day #5. You could NOT buy Day 6 until Day 6 etc.

News of that soon spread, so many folks I spoke to did not have much interest in part sets, and did not chase them, as they were not cheap. There were 6 totally different Butterly Mini Sheet designs, and many assumed there would be 6 different numbered sheets on sale. Me included. Wrong.

I never bought any sets of 8, or the scarce final day sheet #8 in NYC, but needed to track down them down later very expensively, from dealers

No Bureau “Standing Order” clients ever got them, and none were sold in Australia - you needed to be at the show in person to purchase these at near double face, and they were strictly limited, and issued on correct days. And in $US cash only, no ozzie dollar notes, cheques, or credit cards of any kind accepted - which I found VERY odd.

Expo Day #8 was “Pack-Up Day” and many dealers and Postal Administrations did not attend at all, or packed up, and left in morning to go home, as it was Saturday. “Official” show closing time was 6pm on all other days, but Day #8 close was 3pm, and by lunchtime, was in full shut-down mode.

A client popped by the Australia Post stand on Day 8 to buy something else, and to his surprise saw the Day #8 special sheet on display. He like me, assumed only 6 overprints had been done. A maroon metallic foil overprint was on those, as can be seen nearby - the scan does not catch the metallic too well.

AP staff were then in the process of packing up when he got there, and he almost missed them. He bought some of these #8s, and would have bought more except they demanded $US folding cash $US8 apiece, no credit cards, and he only had $US50 or so in $US. Stamp News - 63

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He told me very few of the box of 250 appeared to have been sold to that point, as he saw what was left. If not for that very lucky source, a lot less sets of 8 numbered sheets would be possible globally!

The actual numbers sold we will never know I suspect, and I was advised by staff any unsold numbered sheets were destroyed. Staffers “shuffled” the sheets each day for some reason, so that consecutive run buys were not possible. Strange, as I Do not confuse with these. wanted some consecutive pairs of one day.

So the sheet “43” shown numbered, and many confuse those, with the scarce illustrated above, might have been sold adjacent to foil NUMBERED set 8. A pretty ~$75 set retail number “111” and then number “4” etc. They were YES, and I sold many, but not a $A1,000+ set! never on sale via the Bureau in Australia, or the PO website. $US cash folding money only, at the Western Australia Surprises.

Booth.

Another example of the strength of early postal hisThe number of complete sets 8 possible is tory is the Western Australia pre-stamp cover shown clearly limited to how many they sold of Day #8, nearby. It was auctioned in the UK a few weeks that some feel was only 60 or so units. Buyers of back, and I ran a poll on stamboards.com asking for Day #8 mostly did not get Day #1, and vice versa, readers to vote on its likely value. so piecing together numbered sets 8 globally, is The poll is here - tinyurl.com/WA1830 - and clearly near impossible, hence the 4 figure price tag makes for interesting reading. From 66 votes, many already. from folks like Rod Perry and David Benson etc Singles of these Day #8 sheets have already who already knew the Auction result, about half the reached $500 on ebay, and several full sets of 8 difvotes estimated the value of it to be $A2,500 or less. ferent numbered sheets have sold there for $1,000+.

About a QUARTER voted its value as about $A250.

A dealer I know got $1,500 for the 1 set of 8 he It was an 1830 letter, from an early WA settler of bought at the show. I wish I’d bought more of them no real note (then or later!) to his Uncle, also of no ALL! real note. Chatty family letter about his land and his Be mindful that always at the NY stand, and AP view etc. Small faults, and nothing unusual in the Melbourne also openly sold at face value for a short postal markings of Mauritius, and via India and UK while, sets of 6 Different inscribed “Day 1” to “Day on reverse. Manuscript “1/4d” on face or 16d, again 6” at lower left - photo nearby, but these were NOT normal rate.

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Guess the value of this oldie!

The cover was purchased by the vendor for just £20 ($A40) from a dealer in 1965.

Auctioned by Cavendish Auctions in the UK on June 15, with a pretty bullish looking £10,000 estimate, it was invoiced after fees for about £50,000 - then near exactly $A100,000.

Not a bad result bought for 20 quid from a dealer, and it sells at auction for £50,000.

Who said there was no money in stamps! All the details re the markings on cover etc are on the web link above. Proving once again buying truly scarce material at market prices, almost never fails to see a good return in the end.

Wide catalogue CPS listing.

And it is not just 150 year old material that gets high prices. The “Adelaide 2016” issue from earlier this year has seen sets of 6 of these stamps settle at about $A2,000 real retail, for a set with a face value of just $1.50! Indeed a single stamp used on kiloware snipping fetched over $A2,000 at Auction.

Prices as high as $A7,500 a set are asked today tinyurl.com/7500CPS All the Australian stamp catalogues have announced they are listing these stamps in next editions, some of which are published soon. Renniks Australia, also the Seven Seas Stamps “ASC”, and Brusden White ACSC etc.

Far more immediate is the news from the July “Gibbons Stamp Monthly” article on these from the Magazine Editor, outlining the reasons Gibbons deGibbons fully list Adelaide 30¢.

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The image nearly shows how the listing of these will appear in Gibbons, and they have been assigned full catalogue numbers - SG #4492/4497. Many folks collect entirely by Gibbons listings, and many/most of those to this point have no idea this set of stamps was even issued.

They have received global publicity with a front page article in “Linns Stamp News” in the USA, and a feature article in the June “BRIEF MARKEN SPIEGEL” the leading German collector magazine etc. Even the last “Australian Commonwealth Collectors Club” specialist journal Part of the $1 Set of 6. had a very long and detailed article on them from Martin Walker. them. There never was dealer stock, and every set These 30¢ and $1 2016 “CPS” sets 6 offered gets keenly fought over. were never sold outside of Adelaide, and the EmerLimited issues of some British Commonwealth gency issue 30¢ were sold out to postal users within QE2 sets do get very high prices. The Anguilla a few days. Philatelic Sales in Melbourne never 1967 set is listed in Stanley Gibbons at £24,000 accepted dealer or collector orders, and never had mint, and £4,000 used. Scott lists them at similar stock of either. The CPS machine was ordered sent prices - $US26,935 mint and $US4,285 used. back to Melbourne on July 1 for storage, and AdThe Postmaster there distributed these sets to a elaide will produce no more. selected few, the SG note indicates, yet the prices stay high, and the set remains pricey and popular, Album page provision in 2017. wherever they appear, despite no domestic Anguilla The SG and other catalogue listings will ensure collector market to speak of. many “2016” album pages sold globally next year The “Gibbons Stamp Monthly” magazine piece from many makers, will have provision for sets of highlights the not as scarce “ADELAIDE 2016 $1” 6 of these stamps. As the real retail price is already set of 6, suggesting they will be a logical fall back in the $A2,000 region, it will be interesting to see set choice for many collectors faced with filling where they end up in a year’s time. blank album page spots next year.

Just 20 or 30 folks globally seeking a set to be “complete”, will likely see prices rise markedly, as $A2,000 a set 6 already. there are simply not 10 sets for sale on the market No more of those are being made or sold either, and globally - at any price. The small number of mint sets existing are already owned by collectors, who I they might also have a very solid future. I bought a stock of these sets when they were still available, as feel sure are not sellers now.

I think they were totally overlooked by most in the Most Australian dealers have never laid eyes on hobby, for some strange reason. a set! I suspect if you asked Tony Shields, Richard Indeed as they were never on sale via Melbourne, Juzwin, Max Stern, Michael Eastick and Kevin or via credit card from ADL, I doubt few, if any, Morgan etc, they have not sold a single set between

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Glen Stephens ”Inverted Ghost Albino” Error!

dealers chased them down, as many have ordered them off me this month. Wholesale price now is only about $A50 a set 6, which is more palatable than $A2,000, to most buyers! Ebay price is as high as $A275 a set 6 - tinyurl.com/ADLset Both the 30¢ and the $1 sets had some sets sold with the “Inverted Albino Ghost” error on the inscription section. This very curious freak is explained more fully here - tinyurl.com/AdelCPS and the 30¢ set 6 with this error is offered here for $A7,700 - tinyurl.com/CPS-7770 and past sales at similar massive figures have taken place for “Albino” sets.

The error was essentially caused by the carbon ribbon used to make the CPS stamps black lettering, being inserted upside down, after already having been used once. That means that the “$1.00 ADELAIDE 2016” wording in parts did not print completely, and was also inverted. See photos nearby to see it visually. Only a few sets of either value set were ever reported. FAR less of the $1 than 30¢ actually!

I have 2 Mint joined strips 6 of the $1 value all with this variety, for $A500 a strip, or less than $100 per stamp error. I have scanned detail of a single stamp nearby, and as you can clearly see the “2016” is a reversed and inverted “GHOST” print over the $1.00 at right etc. Humorously the photo SG used in the new Cat is of a “Ghost” print 30¢

single, used in error!

These are very striking errors, and very easy to see at stamp size. Some might scoff at such things, but those folks also scoff at inverted watermarks and gum offsets that cannot even been seen on the face of the stamps, yet those are often selling for $50,000 apiece!

Visit STAMPEX Adelaide, October!

Sadly the withdrawal on July 1 of the only CPS machine in Australia messed up the fundraising for the Adelaide “Stampex 2016” Committee. They ordinarily arranged a special CPS issue to be produced for each annual show. Not sure what they replaced it with, but please support it. I have.

This year’s “STAMPEX” show is October 7-9 in downtown Adelaide at Torrens Parade Ground, King William Road - adelaidestampex.com I’ll fly down to add my support, as they have a well-run show, and hope to see a few readers there, and we’ll hopefully set up a collector dinner there one evening.

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

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

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

Mark Saxby; Sec. David Carratt; Ph: 02 4932 4045 Email: carrotspatch@tpg.com.au Manly-Warringah Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd Tues, cnr. Pittwater Rd & Federal Pde, Brookvale. Sec. Graeme Morriss Ph: 02 9905 3255 email: stampsmw@bizland.com.au Milton-Ulladulla SC: Meeting 1pm on 4th Monday of each month (ex Dec.) Milton Ulladulla Bowling Club, St. Vincent Street, Ulladulla Sec. POBox 670, Ulladulla, NSW 2539 Tel. Barbara Smith 0244555214 Morisset Uniting Church SC: Mtg 4th Sat 10am (ex Dec) Enq: 4977 2525 (Jenny) Mudgee Coin Note & Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Sunday Ph 02 63735324 Nambucca River PS: Mtg 1st Sunday Newcastle PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs, 7.30pm Mayfield Ex-Services Club; 10am 3rd Wed, 48 Mackie Ave, New Lambton, Juniors 11am 3rd Sun, Wallsend Pioneers Hall NSW Postcard Collectors Soc: Mtg 1st Wed 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301

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

western australia The Airmail Circle of WA: Mtg 5th Monday “Wellington Fair” Unit 18, 40 Lord St. East Perth Tel: 08 9294 3356 Armadale-Kelmscott PS: Mtg 4th Tues; Ph: 08 9397 6525 email: fit.kanga@bigpond.com Bridgetown-Manjimup SC: Mtg 1st Thurs 4.30pm Bridgetown Library Ph 08 9761 4638 or 08 9761 2005 Busselton SC: Mtg 1st Mon, 5pm 7th Day Adv. Church, Alpha St; Ph: 08 9752 4449, 0400 646 282 email witches1@westnet.com.au Canning SC: Mtg 1st Wed; Ph: 08 9457 7565 Daytime SC: Mtg 1st Thurs; 08 9341 3576 Denmark SC: Mtg 1st Weds Lions Lair Rivermouth Inlet Drive, Denmark. Tel: 08 9848 3325 email: fishneil@westnet.com.au Eastern Goldfields: Mtg 3rd Thurs ; Ph: 0412 156 351 Eaton SC: Mtg 3rd Thurs, 7pm Ph. 08 9795 7744, email: scrapbit@tpg.com Fremantle and District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed, Tennis Club House, Parry St, Fremantle at 8pm; Ph: 08 6363 6415 Have a go SC: Mtg Last Thurs. 137 Edward St, East Perth. Tel: 08 9305 2073 email: nigan@iinet.net.au Kalamunda SC: Mtg 3rd Wed; Ph: 08 9291 8484 Mandurah PS PO Box 625 Mandurah WA 6210 2nd Tues 4.45 - 6.30pm Bortolo Park Pavilion Cnr. Bortolo and Murdoch Drives

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

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. www.sass.asn.au 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, 07 5535 3168 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.

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 Lockyer Valley SC: Mtg 4th Sun, 1.30pm, Senior Citizens’s Hall, Gat-

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. John Mounce, President 649-291-9381 johnmounce@ihug.co.nz 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

ton. 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 2nd Sat, 10:00am, Nanango RSL. Contact Ph: 07 3103 8938 or ema il: bowtell_harris@activ8.net.au 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 5535 3168 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 PS Contact: K. Grey Tel: 08 8752 0446 or email cdhuntmundulla@yahoo.com.au 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)

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 156 Balwyn Vic. 3103 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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1.30pm - 4pm. PO Box 2261,Mt Gambier.Ph: 08 8724 9474 Para Hills PS: Mtg 1st Sun; Community Hall Wilkinson Rd, Para Hills. PO Box 64, Para Hills; Ph: 08 8522 4345 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 9800, 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 5975 0574 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: 1st Thurs. & 3rd Sat. ex. Jan. 6.30 pm, Max Fry Hall,TrevallynLauncestonTel: 03 6331 2580 (A/H) 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

August 6 - (1st Sat) 9am to 4pm Orange Stamp Fair,

August 7 - (1st Sun) Western Suburbs Stamp, Coin & Banknote Fair, Strathmore Bowling Club, 40 Loeman Quinn’s Arcade, Summer St, Orange. Ph: Norm 02 St, Strathmore. Enq: Chris. 0413355716.

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August 13 - Bendigo Stamp Fair, 10am - 4pm, St August 6 - (1st Sat) Northside Stamp Fair. 1st Floor, Andrew’s Hall, 24 Myers Street, 15 dealers, free entry, Free valuations. Tel: 03 5447 8610 Car park Building, Manly-Warringah Leagues Club, August 21 - (3rd Sun) Stamp, Card - Phone Card cnr Federal Parade/Pittwater Rd, Brookvale, NSW. Fair, Bentleigh-McKinnon Youth Centre, Higgins Rd, August 6 - (1st Sat) Katoomba Stamp & Coin Fair, 9am Bentleigh. Dealers plus huge range activities. Ph: 0418 - 4pm, Masonic Hall, Cnr Station & Civic Sts, Katoomba. 322 315.

August 28 - (last Sun ex Dec) Stamp, Coin & PhonePh. 0417 802 754 card Fair, Jaycees Hall, Silver Grove, Nunawading.

August 6 - (1st Sat) Sutherland Shire Stamp & Coin 9am-3pm.

Collectors Fair, Gymea Anglican Church Hall, 131 Gymea Bay Rd, Gymea.

queensland

August 21 - (3rd Sun) Stamp & Coin Fair, 10am - 3pm,

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

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WE ARE ALWAYS BUYING, CONTACT US BEFORE OFFERING ELSWHERE! We want to buy collections, accumulations, dealer stocks, etc, etc.

Australia and States, Kangaroos, King George V Heads, Pre-decimal, Decimal, Covers, Great Britain, British Commonwealth, Foreign. Here are some examples of the prices we can pay: Australia C of A wmk Kangaroo High Values 10/- -Two Pounds, Specimen overprints, mint lightly hinged $120 Australia 5/- Harbour Bridge, MUH $795, MLH $295, Fine postally used $225, cto used with gum $150, without gum $135, slightly second grade (no bits missing please but may have minor thins, heavier cancel, short perfs etc) $65 Mint unhinged, pre-decimals in singles, blocks or sheets.

Definitives 1d to 1/7d we pay 4c per stamp, Low value Commemoratives, 2d to 1/- we pay 5c per stamp, High value definitives 2/- to 4/- we pay 10c per stamp, High value Commemoratives 2/- or 2/3d we pay 40c per stamp.

Decimals for postage including AAT, and postally valid issues from Cocos and Christmas Islands may be torn or damaged (no bits missing please) but must have gum.

Values 1c to 68c we pay 40% face value, 70c to $20 we pay 50% face value, must be sorted by value in packets/envelopes and supplied with a concise list. We reserve the right to counter offer on messy lots.

Post Office Packs and Year Books with stamps in place we pay 30% face value, year books with stamps in original stocksheets we pay 45% face value Mint PSE’s 20c - 60c we pay 30% face value, 70c pay 40% face value, no stuck down flaps please Recent Commemorative Bundleware, 55c values and above we pay $1 per bundle.

Small or Large format High value Definitives fine used 1989 to date with circular cancels $1 to $3 we pay 5% face value, $3 to $20 we pay 10% face value.

High value commemoratives, values $1 and above as above again from 1989 onwards, we pay 10% face value.

Coins, Medals, Banknotes We buy Australian coins, loose or in sets, decimal and pre-decimal, including Perth Mint and Royal Australian Mint Product. Also buying Worldwide Gold and Silver coins.

Pre-decimal and Decimal Banknotes also required in all grades, also military medal groups.

Our minimum purchase value is $200, smaller lots respectfully declined, please confirm all lots via phone or email before sending and send via registered/ insured mail, or contact us for an appointment, all transactions carried out in strictest confidence. WE PAY ENHANCED PRICES TO GST REGISTERED DEALERS WHO PROVIDE A TAX INVOICE.

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