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Contents Articles Woodchip Free Zone: Rod Perry ...................................................6 Colombia: Christer Brunström .................................................... 14 Stamps in the News: Margo Campbell .................................... 18 Postal Stationery: Ian McMahon ................................................ 26 Looking at New Zealand: Graeme Morriss ............................... 32 Cinderella Corner: Vito Milana .................................................... 48 Market Matters: Glen Stephens .................................................. 52 Rare Australian Decimal Stamp Variations: David Mallen .... 66

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I’m starting off the New Year with some subjects that were crowded-out of this column last year!

For whatever reason, they didn’t make it in to copy, but that is no reflection upon the subjects. Rather than allow their newsworthiness fade away uncommented upon, I’m featuring them en bloc this month, entitled “Items I liked at recent Australian auctions”, for want of a better description.

Figure 1. A difficult solo from inaugural Decimal series They are selected

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Figure 3. A contender for record franking of 1941 5½d Surcharge? from Phoenix and Mossgreen Auctions, presented in no particular order, realisations excluding buyer’s premium in first instance, and inclusive for second (primarily because that’s the way in which they are reported in respective Prices realized). My thanks to the Auction houses for use of the imagery.

I was particularly chuffed that my friend, Tim Rodger, came close to receiving Gold for his exhibition debut, at Adelaide Stampex last year. Tim displayed usage of Australia’s 1966 series in five frames, and I know I’m but one amongst many who are looking forward to the eight frame configuration, when he next exhibits. Figure 1 is an item

worthy of inclusion in that collection: 8c Coral Fish solo on Dec 20 1966 cover, paying Zone 3 (catalogue incorrectly says Zone 2 – not that it mattered!) 8c Greetings card rate, Little River to South Korea. This is a rare solo usage, and deserved its realization of $180 (est $100) at Phoenix.

The 1978 Trees series were an early (Nov 2008) usage feature in this column, and appear to have inspired a fair number of devotees. That may go a way towards justifying the seemingly high realisation for Figure 2. This unfranked Launceston Jul 3 1978 local cover should have had 20c franking.

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Figure 4. Neat Official solo franking required 18c postage only (the primary purpose for the 18c denomination in the series). If that were the case, however, the item would not be featured here; it would not have required the 40c denomination to meet the double-deficiency penalty for having been sent unfranked. It is the rate changes of Jul 1 1978 that rendered the Trees series so interesting. This is a particularly rare solo use of the 40c, perhaps a unique use. That is why the Phoenix realization of $575 (est $80) may not be so surprising, at least not to those of us who studiously follow usage.

The 1941 5½d Surcharge is a difficult stamp on commercial postal articles; speculators bought it up as it was deemed to be a certain “winner”. Consequently, more were preserved mint than were used postally. Figure 3 is a remarkable Jan 23 1942 franking, aggregate 14/7d, representing 2/1d combined surface/airmail rate to U.K. via U.S. x7. On board are 1941 Surcharge 3½d x10 and 5½d x11, both likely to be record franking’s. Note the defini8 - Stamp News

Figure 5. Five-figure item good value, when cross-compared

Figure 6. Rare use of Australian Territories formular Aerogramme tive KGVI 2½d scarlet had replaced the surcharge of that denomination, on Jan 1 1942. There is some tolerable damage to this large item, but I consider it should have performed somewhat better than its $170 realisation (est $200). Auctions regularly present the diligent with attractive buying opportunities.

KGV usage appears to be gaining in popularity, but I regard it still as one of the real opportunities in Australian Traditional philately. By way of example, items such as Figure 4 are rarer than many mint KGV items that sell for thousands. This punctured “OS” 1d violet solo franking, for Printed matter rate, was used Melbourne-Richmond Jun 17 1924 to convey Official vital statistics. A very attractive and scarce usage of the stamp, invoiced at Phoenix above ACSC on-cover $300 (actual realization $270, against est $150).

Regular readers will be aware that I’m fond of Postal stationery and, well, not particularly “fond” of watermark inadvertencies. Opportunistically, Figure 5 provides an unusual occurrence for crosscomparison of those two distinct categories. There are two examples recorded of this Kangaroo ½d + ½d Reply card (ACSC PS2), which catalogues $10000. This example realized at Phoenix $11000 (est $8000), and the other was sold at auction Nov 2013 for $10400. For such attractive, extremely rare items, I consider these realisations good value for money.

Coincidentally, of the ½d Watermark sideways (crown pointing to left), ACSC 1aa, there are also two recorded, both “imperfect”. They catalogue $27500 (in 2016 edition). The unique “crown pointing to right” version (#1ab) catalogues $50000. For Stamp News - 9

Figure 7. Solo franking, unknown by me from any other source mine, these items represent poor value for money.

Why? My judgement in philately is greatly influenced by appearance, particularly when related to

exhibiting. Few would argue, Figure 5 is head and shoulders in front in the appearance stakes, compared with the watermark inadvertencies. For all

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Figure 9. From a collector I’ve known for nearly half a century intents and purposes, those present no better than does an average used, normal stamp.

Australian Territories formular Stationery is scarce to rare commercially used. Figure 6 is a rare use of the 1954-59 Aerogramme, Dec 9 1957, Samarai PNG to U.S. The rate was 10d, so use of the 2/- suggests there was an enclosure, in which event the postage reverts to the regular airmail rate.

Despite rough opening (which can be reconstituted with a little care), at Phoenix this realised $420 (est $80).

Some stamps would be virtually unknown on commercial postal article, were it not for the survival of a particular correspondence. So it is, the Lawson family correspondence (British Solomon Islands), yielded several PNG usages that I hhave not encountered prior or subsequent. Figure 7 is one of those rare beasts, a solo use of 1962 Malaria 1/-, for airmail rate to BSI. The “Red Cross” slogan cancel is a highly relevant bonus. This neat item realised $60 (est $80) at Phoenix. $200+ would still

have been good value. PNG usage is a perennial favourite.

The Kangaroo 6d chestnut “Broken leg” is a readily available item mint. Not so used; that is very scarce, primarily because collectors were well aware of the variety by the time the colour change from blue to “brown” eventuated. Used is very scarce, so what does that make used on commercial cover? In a word: RARE. I had not seen such an item, until Figure 8 was offered at Mossgreen.

Mercifully, the cancellation leaves enough daylight to suitably expose the variety. This Nov 24 1924 cover, Enmore to U.S., franked 7½d, represents 3d 1st oz. + 1½d subsequent oz. + 3d registration fee.

I like this item a lot, and prefer it to many Kangaroo items that realise five figures. Against an est of $1500, it made $2160, which I regard, irrespective, as a very sound purchase.

The John Lancaster Australian Trade Exhibitions collection, at Mossgreen, was one of those memorable collections that is unlikely ever to be

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tion. Catalogue description includes “Delightful!” Only a philistine would disagree. Est $400/500, it made $595.

I should have bid.

Michael Blake is a very methodical collector, and an inspiration.

His Classic era South Australia came within a cooee of snaring the National Grand Prix at Melbourne 2013. Mossgreen featured on June 29 2016 the Blake later S.A. issues, amongst which was Figure 10. Forget mint of the “Long” types, up to and including the £10; they come up regularly around the world. This is head and shoulders above the rest, in my opinion. A Dec 27 1900 large-part linen parcel tag from Wallaroo Smelting Work, to Royal Mint Melbourne, the franking includes, remarkably, £1 x2 and £2 pair (beFigure 10. One of those items we’ll one day probably be kicking ourselves over lieved to be only extant multiple, in any form).

The rate is deciphered in the description, which I surpassed. John, whom I’ve known since about won’t repeat here.

Mossgreen conclude their de1970, is a particularly dedicated collector. Amongst scription with: “In our opinion, the best item in the so many wonderful items that I could feature from collection”. I’ve already indicated: I wholeheartedly this collection, I’ve chosen Figure 9, for no better reason than I, also, once owned it. A rare and attrac- concur. In fact, I will go on the record to suggest that the very respectable realization of $5952 (est tive survivor from the 1880 Melbourne Exhibition, $4000), will in the not too distant future be looked originating from the U.S. Commission, and sent to New York, the specially inscribed cover features the back upon as “one that got away”.

May Philately bring you much pleasure in this convergence of elusive stamp on cover (Victoria 4d New Year. rosine) and dedicated cancellation for the Exhibi12 - Stamp News

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

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COLOMBIA : A PHILATELIC TREASURE TROVE

There are few countries which offer such diverse collecting opportunities as Colombia, a nation of some 45 million people located in the north-western part of South America. After centuries as a Spanish colony Colombia was liberated in the early 1800s.

At first it was called Nueva Granada (New Granada) which was transformed into the Granadian Confederation in 1858 which comprised nine different states: Antióquia, Bolívar, Boyacá, Cauca, Cundinamarca, Magdalena, Panama, Santander and Tolima.

In 1861 the country became the United States of Colombia until 1885 when it finally became the Republic of Colombia.

Many of the constituent states released stamps of their own which can be collected in their own right.

Panama was a special case; in 1903 it became an independent state and very possibly with strong support from the USA.

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In 1995 I visited Santa Fe de Bogotá, the Colombian capital which is generally referred to as just Bogotá. After a stopover in hot and humid Caracas in neighbouring Venezuela it certainly was a relief to leave the plane in Bogotá where the climate is quite pleasant as the city is located high up in the Andes Mountains.

However, when I switched on my radio to hear the latest news on Radio Santa Fe I was shocked by a report about several people having been killed in the city the day before. Bogotá and Colombia generally have long had a reputation for being extremely dangerous.

The fact that civil war has been going on since the early 1980s has resulted in a disastrous security situation in many rural areas. However, recently the Colombian government and representatives of the FARC guerrilla movement signed a peace agreement in Havana which hopefully will lead to an

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improved situation in the country.

It is believed that many guerrilla groups have been partly financed through the production of various drugs in secret laboratories located in isolated jungle areas. Colombia has for long been a major supplier of illegal drugs which are smuggled to North America and Europe reaping large profits for the criminal cartels.

Fortunately it is another agricultural produce which has made Colombia famous: coffee. Colombia of course claims that it produces the very best coffee in the world. The production of coffee has frequently been featured on Colombia’s postage stamps and some of them are depicted nearby.

In 1859 Colombia released its very first postage stamps. Although issued in fairly small numbers the early Colombian stamps are not particularly valuable and in used condition they were generally cancelled with a pen stroke. However, nice covers

are quite scarce and frequently feature as single lots in international auctions.

Most of Colombia’s 19th century stamps are fairly primitive productions. It all changed in 1910 when Colombia celebrated the centenary of its independence from Spain. From then on Colombia’s postage stamps have had much more interesting designs and they were also printed by major international security printers.

When it comes to air mail Colombia is very much different from all other countries. For most of the 20th century the airmail service was provided by private enterprises. These air mail companies even issued stamps of their own the most famous one being the SCADTA (Sociedad Colombo-Alemana de Transportes Aéreos). This German-Colombian company released its first stamps in 1920. They paid the additional cost of air delivery within the country.

Overprinted SCADTA stamps were made avail-

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able in a number of foreign countries whereby the sender could secure air mail delivery within Colombia by adding the correct Colombian air mail postage. The stamps sold in the United States were overprinted E. U. or EU, in the UK they were overprinted G. B. or GB and in Sweden and Norway the overprint was Su. This is quite a large area and most of the stamps are uncommon to rare. Commercial covers are of course extremely good property.

Colombia also had a large number of mainly bus and taxi companies which offered to carry mail for a fee. Many of these companies released postage stamps for this service which usually linked two or more cities. This basically was a way of speeding up mail deliveries. Some of these local mail servic-

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es were quite large operations and handled thousands of mail items on a daily basis. Such covers can frequently have stamps of three different postal services: the local stamp, a national stamp and an air mail stamp.

A number of Colombian cities have had privately operated city posts. The major ones were located in Bogotá, Manizales and Medellín.

With so many collecting areas Colombia is a country which deserves our attention. And I haven’t mentioned that the country’s stamp output is a rich field for thematic collectors not to speak of an abundance of national, regional and municipal revenue stamps. There certainly is enough to keep a collector busy for life.

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Maybe we need letter from God? The story of the Star Trek stamp

Reported at www.nmspacemuseum.org In 1985, former high school English teacher and author Bill Kraft launched a write-in campaign to have the television show Star Trek honoured with its own U.S. commemorative stamp; and he wrote a book about it, Maybe We Need a Letter from God: The Star Trek Stamp.

“What I learned early in the campaign was that initial rejection was inevitable,” Kraft said, “part of the bureaucratic process. What I also learned was that you never let the naysayers demoralize you.”

Why this dedication for a stamp? The answer is in the book’s prologue: “Postage stamps are more than images on envelopes. Their visuals can tell us who we are, where we’ve been, what we dream about, where we want to go, and what we aspire to become. Maybe the greatest exploration is the one that takes us to the best in human nature, our fundamental decency.

Star Trek took us on journeys to our inner and outer worlds. Maybe the final frontier is within us and somewhere ‘out there,’ too.”

Kraft encountered a wall of governmental resistance but “The rejection letters had an inverse effect. They steeled my resolve… I didn’t believe in a no-win scenario.”

“To my surprise, I found that high profile people

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and celebrities were more accessible than I had anticipated. When I dialled Ray Bradbury’s phone number and heard his voice on the other end of the line, I was astounded that I had ‘The Man’ in person. I began to realize that the improbable was not so improbable after all. The ‘Bradbury Break Through’ emboldened me and the committee to pursue other persons of note with great success.

In ensuing weeks endorsement letters came from Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke.”

As well as writers and prominent scientists, a whole host of Republicans and Democrats found something they could agree on!

And what was the response from the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee?

Star Trek is a commercial venture.

“That’s nonsense,” Kraft told a reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times. “They published a Laurel and Hardy stamp, and somebody’s making a profit off of those old films.”

Another restriction by the committee: events of historical significance shall be considered for commemoration only on anniversaries in multiples of 50 years.

Arbitrary to be sure, but Kraft and his Enterprise Stamp Committee only became more persistent. “We had invested too much passion, too much energy, too much labor, too much money and too many people on signed petitions and in letters to Washington,” Kraft says. “Star Trek has become part of the curriculum in higher education, secondary and primary schools in a wide spectrum of academic disciplines including science, history, ethics, philosophy, theology, law, mathematics and language.”

After 13 long years, and thousands of letters and votes from the notable to the ordinary, Kraft was wondering, “Maybe we need a letter from God!” Well, God, or his representatives must’ve

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been listening because the July 15, 1998 edition of The St. Cloud Times announced victory. “It’s official.

There will be a Star Trek stamp issued by the United States Postal Service. It will be available September 1999.”

“What accounts for Star Trek’s enduring appeal?” Kraft asks. “Yes, it’s great adventure with ideas that challenge the intellect and characters we’ve embraced with great affection.

But I think what resonates most is its unabashed optimism that humankind has a future. Star Trek is about humankind’s potential to evolve into something finer and nobler. I think that is what Gene Roddenberry meant when he said the human adventure is just beginning.”

Last year, the U.S. Postal Service announced its list of commemorative stamps for 2016. Among them, “Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the television premiere, the new Star Trek Forever stamps showcase four digital illustrations inspired by classic elements of the television program.”

Looks like the Advisory Committee found their 50th anniversary requirement.

German posties hounded by dogs

Reported at www.news.com.au Around 1500 German posties are bitten by dogs each year and Deutsche Post is looking to technology to help alleviate the problem Deutsche Post CEO says the company’s

100,000 posties are trained in dealing with dogs, but that many still have to take time off work for injuries inflicted by attacking canines.

“Aggressive dogs should be brought inside when letter carriers are doing their rounds,” he said.

He said Deutsche Post was investigating the possibility of using drones for the delivery of some mail and packages.

“At the moment we are testing drones for specific instances, for example for delivering medications to hard-to-reach locations.”

NZ postie loved by dog

Reported at www.theweekendsun.co.nz Kyza naps by the fence, waiting for his best friend to arrive.

Ironically, his best friend is stereotypically other dogs’ worst enemy. The postie.

This really rather large ninemonth-old German shepherd timidly approaches the fence when he sees postie Steve Hennum ride up on his bike. He doesn’t bark, he doesn’t jump up, he doesn’t lick, but he’s clearly excited for a cuddle from his friend.

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za’s owner Michael Collins.

Steve says he and Kyza were fast friends.

“Even if we don’t have mail Steve will jump off and give him a cuddle.”

Michael shared a simple video of the love between Kyza and Steve on Monday, which has since taken the nation by storm with far more than 500,000 views.

“Who knew that patting a dog could be so interesting?” says Steve, who adds there are a few dogs on his rounds but Kyza is special.

Steve, who has been a postie for 12 years and has worked within NZ Post for two decades, says he loves the job.

And Steve says NZ Post makes sure the posties are equipped for the job – from delivering mail to knowing how to identify a dangerous pooch.

“NZ Posties are trained in identifying intimidating and dangerous dogs, their behaviours and warning signs and that sort of thing. Some can be aggressive but they’re only doing their guard dog duties. “You treat every dog as a unique case.”

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Reported at www.postaltimes.com Linn’s Stamp News has quoted a postal official as saying that the “breakage” for Forever Stamps is $2.4 billion. The official’s statement means that nearly half of that breakage was recognized in the three years since the previous time the USPS adjusted its calculations -- which suggests that postal officials either underestimated Americans’ lack of organization or their passion for stamp collecting!

That’s out of $48 billion in sales from the Forever Stamp’s introduction in April 2007 until the end of Fiscal Year 2016 on September 30, the USPS reported.

In other words, for every 14 Forever Stamps sold, one will be – or already has been -- eaten by the dog, dropped into a mud puddle, accidentally thrown out, lost in the seat cushions, hopelessly stuck to another stamp, left in that pairs of jeans in the washer, used in an art project, placed into a stamp album, or otherwise diverted from becoming postage.

When you buy a sheet of stamps, the Postal Service treats the money as “deferred revenue”: It gets the cash immediately, but accounting rules say it can’t book the money as actual revenue until the stamps are used to send mail.

The USPS, however, has no way of knowing when those stamps are used or when they become unusable, so it calculates a “breakage factor” that estimates how many stamps have been lost, destroyed, or placed into collections. The USPS didn’t release details of its latest breakage-factor calculation, except that it was based on a revised “estimation technique” using “new information regarding customers’ retention and usage habits of applicable postage.”

From Russia with love

Reported at https://rbth.com Russia has mounted a philatelically–led diplomatic assault on Asia instigating a number of joint stamp

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issues in the past three decades.

In November 2015, the two countries released an issue dedicated to the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and Laos. They chose images of well-known architectural monuments– the 12th-century Church of the Intercession, and the That Luang temple.

In August 2014, Russia and Mongolia issued a lozengeshaped stamp to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the joint victory of Soviet and Mongolian troops over

Japanese aggressors at Khalkhin-Gol in 1939.

The Battles of Khalkhin Gol were part of the undeclared border conflict between the USSR and Mongolia on one side and Imperial Japan and its puppet state of Manchukuo on another.

In 2015, Russia and North Korea issued a stamp that features the second tallest triumphal arch in the world, the Arch of Triumph (standing 60 m high and 50 m wide), which was built to commemorate the Korean resistance against Japan from 1925 to 1945.

In July 1997, Russia and Thailand issued two stamps to celebrate the 100th jubilee of the establishment of diplomatic relations. The first stamp shows the flags of both countries, while the second one is dedicated to the first visit of King Rama V to Russia in 1897.

Earlier this year Russia and Thailand announced plans to issue a stamp to mark the 120th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the countries on June 2017.

In 1990, Vietnam celebrated the 100th birth anniversary of Ho Chi Minh and the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the Vietnamese Communist Party.

Regarded as a father figure in Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh lived several years in Russia before he led Vietnam’s war effort against the United States. Marking these anniversaries, Vietnam and the USSR released two collections of stamps, designed by Soviet artists.

The USSR-Australia collection represents neither friendship nor the establishment of diplomatic relations, but shows the scientific cooperation between two countries. On June 13, 1990, the USSR and Australia released a stamp collection highlighting joint scientific research in the Antarctic. The stamps were illustrated by Soviet artist Yury Artsimenev and Australian graphic designer Janet Boschen.

In August 1990, an India-USSR stamp was issued to commemorate the friendship between the people of the two countries. The stamps feature the Stamp News - 21

Stamps in the News - Globally! drawings of Tonya Vorontsova from Moldova and Sanjay Adhikari from India.

On May 18, 1999, China and Russia released a stamp collection, which depicted red deer in both countries.

Stamping out corruption

Reported at www.vanguardngr.com The Nigerian Government recently inaugurated four special anti-corruption postage stamps created by the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST), to reinforce its resolve to wage total war corruption.

A spokesman for the President commended the NIPOST for undertaking the task to create more awareness in the anti-corruption crusade by issuing the set of stamps.

“The Federal Government is conscious of the

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vital role postage stamps play as powerful public relations tool; government recognises that by the features they bear, they serve as ambassadors for their countries. “They supply information about countries’ cultures, histories, fauna, tourism, geography, artifacts and products and the most effective medium of immortalising important national events and monuments. “ He urged all Nigerians, corporate organisations and all other critical stakeholders to embrace the use of adhesive/electronic postage stamps as a means of authenticating transactions of N1,000 and above.

“NIPOST is now positioned to be one of the highest non-oil revenue generating agencies of government; the time cannot be better than now to look for other sources of revenue for national development. “I enjoin Nigerians to maximize the advantage inherent in the usage of this set of four special anti-corruption stamps with the message `Say no to bribe, fraud, bunkering and theft. “ “The issuance of these postage stamps in support of the anti-corruption crusade, underscores the role of NIPOST in the socio-economic development of Nigeria.

“The postage stamps will constantly remind the populace of the evils of corruption and the need to eliminate the scourge. “Government resolve to reform NIPOST is to strengthen the capacity of the institution to establish more outlets in unserved areas and also serve as shared services platform. “This is to ensure that essential and efficient e-services will be delivered to the citizenry.

Government is aware of the need to replicate modernised post

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offices with commercial orientation.”

Charles & Camilla desert diplomacy

Reported at www.bna.bh Postage stamps marking the 200th anniversary of relations between Bahrain and the UK were unveiled by HRH The Prince of Wales during his November visit to the gulf state.

The Prince of Wales and HRH The Duchess of Cornwall also visited the Post Office Museum, as part of their Royal Highnesses multi-country visit across the region to promote UK relations.

The royal couple were also shown several historic postage stamps that serve as testament to the strong relationship between the Kingdom and UK as Bahrain gained training and expertise in managing postal affairs from the Royal Mail.

The Post Office Museum has undergone several significant transitions since its original establishment in 1964 by the Ministry of Finance, then responsible for all postal services in the Kingdom. The museum was first relocated in 1986 to the Ministry of Transportation’s headquarters, where it became the first permanent postage stamp museum in the Middle East region, until it finally shifted to its current location in 2015

following an official inauguration held under the patronage of His Royal Highness the Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa.

World largest philatelic library opens

Reported at www.centredaily.com At the American Philatelic Society in Bellefonte, which celebrated its grand opening recently, the world’s largest philatelic library brims with about 85,000 volumes dedicated to the history found in stamps and the postal service.

“What’s fun about working here in the library is that when people are researching their stamp collection or their postal history collection, they’re touching on geography, political history, art and design, transportation, military history,” said Tara Murray, the society’s librarian and director of information services. “They say you learn a lot of culture and geography through stamp collecting, and I really see that here.”

The two-story library contains more than 23,000 book titles and 5,700 journal titles, now safely settled in a quiet and comfortable environment that includes brick structural elements of the carefully restored old factory mingling with the advanced research tools of the 21st century.

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Researchers are welcome to visit and take advantage of the comfortable study desks, many with views of the natural beauty of Bellefonte’s delightful Talleyrand Park.

A scanning centre makes it possible to copy and story information digitally, while books and periodicals extending from the 19th century to the newest releases are neatly stored for easy access.

Additional items are kept in closed stacks, but library staff are available to help locate these materials when needed. The library holdings can be searched online with public access computers on either floor, or visitors’ own devices.

The library fills 19,000 square feet in the American Philatelic Centre, part of the former match factory complex in central Pennsylvania.

The factory thrived during the first half of the 20th century, closing in 1947 as cigarette lighters and book matches diminished the need for the wooden matches manufactured there.

The structure was vacant and in disrepair when

it was purchased by the library in 2002.

After several years of renovation, the American Philatelic Centre covers approximately 100,000 square feet and includes rental space for 11 business tenants.

“At the back of the main floor, there’s a cozy reading lounge, conference table for group study, and a children’s area, all with large windows. The loft-style second floor is reached by a wide center staircase or a side elevator. The open stacks house the library’s journals and airmail collections. The second floor includes two more reading lounges and a carrel room with storage lockers for visiting researchers. Windows overlook Talleyrand Park.”

The facility also includes a shop on the main floor offering used and new books, gifts, and souvenirs.

The library is open to the public, though only APS members have borrowing privileges.

“Our world-class collections and services now have a world-class home,” says Tara Murray.

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Postal Stationery

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This month’s column looks at a new issue of stamped envelopes for the Centenaries of the Australian Flying Corps Squadrons, an unusual Adelaide Bridge prepaid envelope with obliterated address corner and the first of a series of articles on the literature of postal stationery.

Centenaries of the Australian Flying Corps Squadron Stamped Envelopes

Australia Post issued a set of four stamped envelopes on 1 November 2016 to mark the Centenaries of the Australian Flying Corps (AFC) Squadrons 1, 2, 3 and 4 (Figure 1). The four DL envelopes are inscribed ‘Postage Paid’ and sell for $1.20 each. The stamp depicts the arms of the RAAF Association. The envelopes were designed by Sharon Rodziewicz of the Australia Post Design Studio and printed by A&G Envelopes. The cachets on the envelopes show paintings by Norman Clifford showing a ground party from No l Squadron inspecting a downed German Albatross near the Squadron’s 26 - Stamp News

aerodrome at Weli Sheikh Nuran (Palestine) in 1918, a flight of DH-5 fighters returning from close offensive patrol over the front line on the Western Front, Captain Reg Francis beside his RE-8, and three Sopwith Camels of No 4 Squadron led by Captain Harry Cobby.

Adelaide Bridge Prepaid Envelope With Obliterated Address Corner

A visit to the Wagga Wagga Post Office in the Riverina district of New South Wales in 1998 yielded something of a surprise. The Post Office had on sale single copies of the Adelaide Bridge C6 window prepaid envelopes. Included in the stock were a number of envelopes with address corners printed on them for Elder & Stuckey & Partners, Certified Practicing Accountants of PO Box 40 Tumut NSW 2720. The envelopes had this address corner overprinted with a black rectangle designed to obliterate the address (Figure 2). The counter staff indicated that a box of these envelopes had been returned to the Post Office, received the overprint and been placed on sale. The bulk of the envelopes had been sold. The counter staff also said that

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some customers had preferred to buy unoverprinted envelopes in preference to those with the overprint. The envelopes were all from the 8th printing of the envelope (code 8 to 10) and the gum had aged resulting in poor adhesion of the self-adhesive flaps.

David Collyer commented on a possible explanation for the envelope. Someone he knew ordered 500 DL size envelopes with a printed address corner and received 500 C6. Elder and Stuckey and Partners are recorded in David’s listings as using the Sydney Harbour Bridge window face stock. He suspected that the order was inadvertently printed on C6 window face stock instead of DL window face stock and that, when noted, the majority of the job was returned and then overprinted by the Wagga Post Office.

Postal Stationery Literature

While finding information on postal stationery can be more difficult than is the case for adhesive stamps, there is, however, an extensive and growing body of literature on postal stationery. All collectors are almost inevitably led to search for information about their collection. Initially that may be a basic catalogue but as their collecting progresses they will want to know when the items were issued, how to distinguish varieties, and why the postal administration issued them. They will soon find that they would like to know about differences in paper and card stock and various methods of printing.

The most recent world-wide catalogue of postal stationery is the Higgins & Gage Priced Catalogue of Postal Stationery of The World (H&G) published by Higgins and Gage between 1964 and 1986 (Figure 3). The H&G Stamp News - 27

Postal Stationery

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catalogue comprises nineteen alphabetical volumes with supplements and price updates.

The earlier volumes were edited by Edward Fladung who worked with Alexander Gage in the production of the catalogue. Although there has been no update of the Catalogue since the mid-1980s, the Catalogue and the H&G numbering system are still widely used by collectors and dealers although the prices given in the catalogue are out of date.

Before the publication of the H&G catalogue, the ‘standard’ catalogue of world-wide postal stationery was Grosser GanzsachenKatalog [Catalogue of Postal Stationery of the World] edited by Siegfried Ascher which was published in 1926-28. This catalogue was published in German. Although published about 28 - Stamp News

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90 years ago, the Catalogue is in some cases still worth consulting. It is interesting to note that until the early twentieth century Stanley Gibbons included postal stationery in its worldwide catalogues (Figure 4).

Other useful word-wide catalogues include the Katalog der Aerogramme (Catalogue of Aerogrammes) published by Werner Wiegard.

This catalogue covering world-wide aerogrammes was published in six parts covering Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania, South and Central America and Canada and the USA. Although in German it is easy to use, and in many cases is one of the few sources of information about aerogrammes of many countries. Although no longer being published, the

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sections on Africa and the Americas have been updated in catalogues edited by Klaus Muller and Norbert Sehler and published in 2012 and 2014 by the Berliner Ganzsachen-SammlerVereins (Berlin Postal Stationery Society) as part of their ‘New Postal Stationery Catalogue’ (Figure 5).

A more specialised listing of world-wide aerogrammes can be found in Kessler’s Catalog of Aerograms edited by A Lewandowski. This Catalogue, published in three volumes in 196169, is still a valuable reference due to the level of information that is included.

European stationery is covered by the Michel Ganszachen [postal stationery] catalogues (Figure 6), published in two volumes, issues before 1960 and issues after 1960. (Earlier editions of this catalogue were produced in two

volumes for Europe West and Europe East).

The Catalogues cover postal stationery from all countries of Europe except for Germany which is covered in a separate volume.

Many countries have specialised catalogues or handbooks. Germany and the USA are particularly well covered. For the USA listings of postal stationery are contained in the Scott USA Specialised Catalogue while specialised listings are provided in a series of catalogues published by the United Postal Stationery Society (UPSS) including 2015 United States Postal Card Catalog (Figure 7), U.S. 19th Century Stamped Envelopes and Wrappers, and U.S. 20th and 21st Century Stamped Envelopes and Wrappers. The UPSS also publishes books on more specialised topics including proofs and essays as well as catalogues of postal stationery of Spanish Colonial Cuba, Philippines and Puerto Stamp News - 29

Postal Stationery

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Rico, the Canal Zone, Peru and the Cuban Republic. Further information on these publications can be found at http://www.upss.org/code/ publications.php. Many of the UPSS publications can be purchased as ebooks which means that you do not need to pay the high postage rates from the USA. Germany is well served by the Michel catalogue of German postal stationery and a series of more specialised publications published by the Berlin Postal Stationery Society (http:// www.bgsv.de/index-GB.php ).

There are many other specialised one country publications (Figure 8). A few examples include Les Entiers Postaux de Belgique [Postal Stationery of Belgium] published by the Belgian Postal Stationery Society, Webb’s Postal Stationery Catalogue of Canada and Newfoundland (edited by Earle L. Covert and William C. Wal30 - Stamp News

Fig. 8

ton), Die Ganzsachen Irlands [Postal Stationery of Ireland] edited by Otto Jung, Il Nuovo Pertile Manuale Catalogo Specializzato Degli Interi Postali Italia & Antichi Stati [The New Pertile Specialised Catalogue of Postal Stationery of Italy & Italian States] and Les Entiers Postaux de France et de Monaco [Postal Stationery of France and Monaco].

In future articles I will cover other aspects of postal stationery literature including the literature of Australia and New Zealand, postal stationery journals, on-line resources and more specialised publications.

Let me finish this article though by mentioning a recent publication, the Aerogrammes of Nigeria 1948 to 2000 by Ray Harris (Figure 9), published by the West Africa Study Circle. In late 1948 stamp imprinted air letters were intro-

Ian McMahon of what is known about Nigerian aerogrammes with imprinted stamps is included in this monograph, including some varieties and plate variations not previously listed, and notes of the known specimens and proofs. Three formula aerogrammes issued specifically for Nigeria are also included. Detailed measurements are provided in an appendix, and all items are illustrated. Scarcity is recorded based on the experience of the author and other WASC members. Available from the West Africa Study Circle at http://www.wasc. org.uk/WASC4pubs.html for ÂŁ16.50, plus postage.

The book is 72 pages with card covers, fully illustrated in colour, and was published in February 2016.

Melbourne 2017 Asian International Stamp Exhibition

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duced in Nigeria for overseas mail, followed in 1949 by domestic air letters. The aerogrammes were redesigned from time to time to keep up with changing airmail rates and new designs of definitive stamps until the mid-1990s. In the early 1990s postage rates went up more quickly than aerogrammes were issued, so there are several types of surcharge. As much as possible

The next major exhibition in Australia to include a postal stationery class will be Melbourne 2017 to be held 30 Mar - 2 Apr 2017. This exhibition is an Asian International stamp exhibition and should include a strong postal stationery class with many exhibits from Australian exhibitors and of postal stationery from the Asian area representing a great opportunity to see some exciting postal stationery exhibits.

Plan now to attend. Further information can be found at http://melbourne2017.com.au .

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Looking at New Zealand

Pan-Pacific Scout Jamboree 1959 The Pan-Pacific Jamboree of the Boy Scouts was held at Epsom Show Ground, Auckland, from 5th to 12th January 1959. The Post Office approved a request from the New Zealand Boy Scouts Association for a special stamp which was issued on 5 January 1959 and remained on sale until 31 March.

The Post Office asked that the Scouts Associa-

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tion submit suggestions for the design of the stamp and the Association approached two prominent philatelists with scouting connections – Sir Joseph G D Ward, the scouts’ Chief Commissioner for Canterbury and R J G (Ray) Collins, philatelic author and stamp dealer and a former Scoutmaster of the Merivale troop in Christchurch. Mr Collins

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25 AAT .............................................................$ 3.00 50 AAT ...........................................................$ 25.00 100 AAT .........................................................$ 99.00 25 ADEN ..........................................................$ 6.00 50 ADEN ........................................................$ 12.00 100 AFGANISTAN............................................$ 15.00 100 AFRICA ......................................................$ 6.00 200 AFRICA....................................................$ 13.00 50 AITUTAKI ...................................................$ 40.00 150 AITUTAKI ...............................................$ 140.00 200 AITUTAKI ................................................$180.00 50 ALBANIA ....................................................$14.00 100 ALBANIA .................................................$ 24.00 50 ALGERIA .....................................................$11.00 25 ANDORA - SPANISH MINT U/H ...................$ 20.00 50 ANDORRA - SPANISH MINT U/H .................$60.00 25 ANDORRA - FRENCH MINT U/H ..................$ 20.00 50 ANDORRA - FRENCH MINT U/H ..................$ 50.00 25 ANGUILLA ..................................................$18.00 25 ANTIGUA .....................................................$ 5.00 50 ANTIGUA BARBUDA ..................................$ 20.00 200 ARAB STATES ..........................................$ 12.00 100 ARGENTINA ...............................................$ 6.00 200 ARGENTINA .............................................$ 15.00 25 ASCENSION ..............................................$42.00 100 AUST. (DEC MINT U/H) ............................$ 55.00 100 AUST. (PREDEC.MINT U/H) $ .......................60.00 100 AUSTRALIA ...............................................$ 4.00 200 AUSTRALIA ...............................................$ 6.00 300 AUSTRALIA ...............................................$ 8.00 400 AUSTRALIA .............................................$ 13.50 500 AUSTRALIA .............................................$ 16.50 600 AUSTRALIA .............................................$ 27.50 800 AUSTRALIA .............................................$ 40.00 1000 AUSTRALIA ...........................................$ 65.00 1500 AUSTRALIA ..........................................$100.00 25 AUSTRALIAN STATES .................................$ 16.00 50 AUSTRALIAN STATES .................................$ 56.00 100 AUSTRALIAN STATES ..............................$150.00 100AUSTRIA ....................................................$ 7.00 200 AUSTRIA .................................................$ 18.00 500 AUSTRIA .................................................$ 45.00 100 AUSTRIA (LRG.COMMEMS) ......................$ 50.00 200 AUSTRIA (LRG.COMMEMS) ....................$ 100.00

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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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

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

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.

JANUARY SALE Prices valid to January 31, 2017, BE QUICK! Email or phone reservations highly advised. If you wish to view any item we can send a scan by email, or colour photocopy by mail.

Discount deals: Discounts on all items from this list, excluding items prefixed D, MN, NO, MOC or Oct which are net priced. Up to $100, strictly net, $101 to $150 less 5%, $151 $250 less 10%, $251- $500 LESS 15%, $501 - $1000 less 20%, $1000 and above less 25% Also please remember that any order above $500 can be put on layby for up to 6 months, and that all of our items carry our 14 day satisfaction guarantee. No discounts on lay-by items. New lower postage rates for smaller parcels Australia Wide, And postage & Insurance are free for orders above $500 within Australia.

Up to 500g $7.50 501g – 3kg $13.50 3.01kg – 5kg $17.50 Coins and Banknotes: 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 CB1a) Similar to the above, but a slightly weaker strike, may have been cleaned at some time in the past, but still has some original lustre. Fantastic looking coin! Same price $1875 CB3) Australia 1933 -38 KGV One Pound Note, S/N N23 894333. Riddle Sheehan. Completely original note, never cleaned, pressed or trimmed as many of these have been. In very nice VF condition cat $550 by Renniks (EF is $1750!) Price $395 CB4) Australia 1912 Penny, great coin in EF (Extremely fine) condition, 8 pearls and centre diamond with some original lustre. Cat $125, price $98 CB6) Australia 1966 1st decimals uncirculated in Royal Australian Mint card of issue, includes the Silver 50c Round. In far better condition than most of these you see around these days, but does show signs of wear after 50 years. Cat $100, price $79 CB7) Australia, Royal Australian Mint uncirculated sets in plastic wallets as issued for 1980, 81 & 82. (3 sets total) Price $59 CB8) Australia, Royal Australian Mint uncirculated sets in plastic wallets as issued for 1980 x 3, bulk special deal, price $45 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 Stamps and Postal History: D1) Australia Massive lot of Kangaroos ex deceased estate in red Lighthouse stockbook.

Unchecked for varieties, postmarks etc. Well over 1000 stamps in better than the average condition you find in these lots, values from 2d – 10/- . Priced very cheaply at under 10% of the minimum catalogue of $20,000 plus and less than $2 per stamp. Price $1950 D2) Southern Rhodesia 1932 Victoria Falls pair, both mint and used, plus 1935 Jubilee & 1937 Coronation, cat 65 pounds plus, cheap lot at $32.50 D3) Australia 1954 Red Cross 3.5d, commercially used with light slogan cancel, showing clear double print of the cross. Not recorded in ACSC. Supplied with normal for comparison. Double prints such as this frequently catalogue around $5000. Price $1950 D4) Australia 1934 MacArthur 2d Dark Hills, in mint unhinged gutter imprint block of 4.

Cat $275, a lot scarcer than the catalogue price suggests. my price $239 D5) Australia 1942 6d Kookaburra perf 14.75 x 14 in NO Imprint left corner block of 4.

Hinged centrally. Cat as ACSC 203zj at $125. My price $79 D6) Cape of Good Hope 1853 4d deep blue Triangular, SG2, nice example lightly cancelled, no faults with 2.5 good margins. Cat 275 pounds, price under a half $219 D7) Cape of Good Hope 1855 4d deep blue Triangular, lightly cancelled, no faults and 3 big margins. Cat. 170 pounds, price $189D8) Cape of Good Hope 1863 1d red brown Triangular, SG18b, medium cancel, no faults, lovely rich colour, 3 big margins. Cat 350

pounds, price $345 D9) Cape of Good Hope 1863 1/- Bright Emerald Green Triangular, SG21. 3 good margins, medium cancel, cat. 700 pounds. Lovely stamp, missing from most collections. Price $749 D10) New Zealand 1931 Health 2d plus 1d Blue Smiling Boy, Campbell Paterson cat. No. T3b, in nice almost impossible to get Mint Unhinged condition. Cat at NZ$460. Price $325 D10a) As above, the 1d plus 1d red, Campbell Paterson cat. No. T3a mint lightly hinged.

Cat NZ$225, Price $89 D11) Tasmania 1853 1d Imperf. Pale Blue Courier SG2, fine used 4 margin example on piece. Lovely stamp cat. 1500 pounds. Tiny scuff to Diadem does not detract from the fine appearance. Price $795 D12) Tasmania 1853 4d Bright Red Orange Imperf Courier, SG 5 cat. 1000 pounds. Brilliant 4 margin example with vivid colour. Cancelled by light barred numeral No. 53. Price $995 D13) Tasmania 1858 1/- Vermilion Imperf. SG41 mng, with 4 clear margins. Cat 800 pounds. Price $649 D14) Tasmania, 1867 1d dull vermilion SG 67, pin perf 13.5 – 14.5, fine used with slightly heavy barred cancel. Hard stamp to find. Cat. 700 pounds, price under a third at $389 D15) Tasmania 1863 2/6d Carmine postal fiscal SG F13, perf 12 lower marginal example, with selvedge at base. Medium barred cancel. Cat. at 160 pounds. Attractive item, price under a third at $89 D16) Tasmania 1870 10d Black, mint part original gum, IMPERF with 4 margins! Lists in Gibbons at 700 pounds for an Imperf Pair at 700 pounds as SG 131a. Priced at only 15% of the pair price at $175 D17) Tasmania 1871 1d Rose used IMPERF single with 4 WIDE MARGINS. Cat as SG 144a for an Imperf Pair at 1300 pounds. Priced at only 15% of the pair price at $325 D17a) Tasmania 1880 Halfpenny Orange SG 159 or 163, mint IMPERF with 4 good margins. Not listed as imperf in Gibbons. Price $175 D18) GB KEVII 1/- Dull Green & Carmine, SG 257 DLR printing, mint lightly hinged, fresh and well centered. Cat $210, my price $109 D19) Tasmania 1880 3d Red Brown, perf 11.5 in Horizontal mint pair, left unit with plate scratch, as illustrated in Gibbons. SG 161b. Cat. At 225 pounds for a single, priced at only as third cat. for the variety stamp, $125 D20) Tasmania 1871 9d Pale Blue mint block of 4,SG 154, perf 12, well centered and full perfs. Diagonal gum crease across 2 stamps, hardly visible from the front. Very attractive piece, cat 220 pounds as singles. Priced at just 25% $89 D20a) Tasmania 1878 8d dull purple-brown in mint block of 4, SG 158, perf 14. With blue Burelle Band on all stamps. Very fine and fresh well centered, lower stamps are superb unhinged. Cat as hinged singles 56 pounds, Price $89 D21) Australia 5/- Arms thin paper Imprint Block of 4, very rare! MLH/MUH. Fine and fresh, ACSC $2500. Price $1750 D22) Tasmania 1909 4d Orange Buff Perf 11, SG 247ba, Perf T, and with full row of double perfs at left, vfu with cds of Gladstone, MR 17 11 (St. Patrick’s Day) Striking item. Price $295 D23) Australia 1915 2/- Pale Brown Kangaroo, 2nd wmk, nice full perfs fine used example with neat partial Stock Exchange cds to right, clear of Kangaroo. Cat $350, my price $179 D24) Australia 1915 5/- Grey Black and Chrome yellow Kangaroo, 3rd wmk, with socked on nose George St. West, NSW cds, 2 DE 18. Cat $225, my price $149 D25) New Zealand/Tasmania. Horizontal pair of 1d Universals each cancelled by cds of Hobart, Tasmania JE 18 1903. Unusual and striking! Price $195 D26) Australia KGV Heads, ovpt. OS group mint lightly hinged, complete face different set ex. 2d C of A wmk, retail $105, my price $79

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JANUARY SALE D27) Tasmania 1892 -97 Tablets Ten Shilling and One Pound, SG 224/5s Overprinted “Specimen” mint with part original gum. Cat 130 pounds, price just 30% cat. at $65 D27a) As above, but the 10/- value only $32.50 D28) Tasmania 1892 2/6d Tablet, SG 222 fine used cds, Perf “T”, cat 32 pounds as normal, price $32 D29) Australia 1918 3rd wmk 1/- Emerald Kangaroo, very fine postally full perf example Part cds, Watermark Inverted. Cat $200. Price $110 D30) Victoria 1887 1/- Railways Parcel Stamp, in black on off white paper. Used and signed by sender. Perf 11.75. Not recorded by Elsmore in this perf. With faults at lower left corner, still attractive, price $39 D31) Victoria 1850 1d Queen Victoria Half Length in pale dull red-brown, no frame lines. SG 5a, lovely 3 margin example cancelled by light barred numeral. Cat 450 pounds, price $249 D32) Spain 1930 Charles Lindberg 1pta Green, 2 examples, 1 missing Lindbergs head, and other with inverted head, very striking error! $159 the two.

D33) Australia 1913 5d Chestnut Kangaroo, perf large OS, cat $475, this one $239 D34) Australia 1913 3d Olive Kangaroo, perf small OS DIE II, with Perth reg. cancel. Full perfs and centered right. Cat. $350, this one just $115 D35) Victoria 1860, 4d Rose – Pink SG 92, vfu, cancelled by clear lightly struck full barred numeral 2, and grossly misperfed to show all of the central gutter and 2mm of the next stamp at left. Stunning error! Price $195 D36) Australia 1915 2d Grey Kangaroo, 2nd wmk, mlh, well centered with full perfs, Cat $150, price just a half! $75 D37) Victoria 1864 1d pale green Laureates, SG 108 vfu with “Thimble” cds of Geelong OC 25 65. Huge stamp with extra margin as right and bottom to show compartment lines.

Nice display piece. Price $159 D38) Australia Kangaroos, simplified set to 5/-, good to fine used with both colours of 6d and 2/- 14 stamps, good starter lot, price $195 D39) As above, but to 2/- only, 13 stamps price $85 D40) Large Red SG Stockbook, plus stocksheets, album leaves etc, with mint & used remnant collection/accumulation pre-decimal Australia, with KGV Head and Kangaroos, to end of KGVI period 1952. Values to 10/-. 250 plus stamps. Condition a bit mixed. Would suit re-seller. Great value at $395 the lot.

D41) Victoria 1884 10/- SG 228 Brown on Pink,vfu with light top right corner cds. Very nice looking stamp, except that the pink pigment in the paper appears to have been washed out, as to my eye the paper is white. Or could this be an error? Cat. at 400 pounds, selling at just 25%, price $165 D42) Victoria 1897, Diamond Jubilee Charity issue, SG 353/4, fine mint. price $149 D42a) Another set as above, not quite so fine,price $129 D43) Victoria 1886 4/- Red-Orange, SG 269, cto Melbourne price $49 D43a) Victoria 1901 KEVII One Pound Carmine Rose, SG 399, cto Melbourne with gum. $195 D44) As above, but postally used, slightly heavy Melbourne cds of 12 8 03. Postally used is way scarcer to find than cto Price $225 D45) Victoria 1885 10/- Green Stamp Duty, postally used with slightly heavier Melbourne cds of 5 10 00, cat 70 pounds, price $69 D46) Australia 1913 Kangaroos 1st wmk, Halfpenny to Fourpence, (no 3d) all mint perf small OS, SG Cat. is 1050 pounds. These are all rust affected but look mainly ok from the front. Priced very cheaply at under 15% of catalogue, $259 D47) Australia 1913 2/- Brown Kangaroo 1st wmk, good average used, with oval registered cancel. Cat 85 pounds, price just $79

D48) Australia 1931 KGV 1/4d Turquoise, C of A wmk, fresh mint lightly hinged example, full perfs, centered to right. Very cheap at just $74 D49) GB 1862 1/- Green, SG Spec. J102, SG 91 plate 3, but No. 2 on stamp, wmk. emblems with Dundee duplex obliteration with Royal Philatelic Society London 2014 certificate which states: “is not plate 3, but has had the 1 fraudulently altered to 2” Subitted by Spink London. This stamp is not known used, and only exists as one of the so called abnormals.

Cat.as a genuine mint example at 35,000 pounds! Nice curiosity….price $195 D50) Australia 1936 Small Airmail Cover to Germany via. Greece. Bears 2 x 1/- Green South Australia Centenary plus 1d green KGV, being the correct 2/- airmail rate plus 1d late fee. Cancellled by Sydney slogan of 18 AUG 1936 “AIR MAIL SECTION G-P-O and Sydney Airmail cds on the 1d a day later. Greek arrival backstamp. The 1/- cat. alone on cover at $200. Scarce multiple usage. Price $189 D51) Australia 1934 small registered surface mail cover to Sweden, bearing 2d Victoria Centenary perf 11.5, which is in itself very hard to find on cover and is cat. at $50 alone on cover, plus 1d & 3d KGV C of A wmk, all cancelled by cds of Wangaratta 30 OC 34.

Attractive piece, price $59 D52) New South Wales 10/- Stamp Duty overprinted POSTAGE in blue, and additionally ovpt. “Specimen” SG 241as, cat 75 pounds. Mint lightly hinged, price $69 D53) New Zealand 1862 6d Brown Imperf. Chalon, SG 42, fine used with cds cancel, margins a bit skinny, but a nice looking stamp. Cat. 130 pounds. Good value at 25%. Price $54 D54) Victoria 1901 1.5d Maroon on Yellow, SG 386 in Post Office fresh mint unhinged block of 4. Cat 48 pounds as hinged singles. Price $79 Stop Press, Collections etc, just purchased, ex Deceased Estate: D55) New Zealand, Blue 64 page Prinz, black page stockbook containing used collection commencing perforated Chalon Heads values to 6d, then QV sidefaces, both 1st & 2nd sets to 6d, good ranges of Officials in KEVII, KGV and KGVI, Dunedin set, 1935 Jubilee set, then QEII pre-decimals near complete and similar in decimals to 2002. Vast retail and around 2500 different stamps . Great basis for expansion, and condition way better than usual for this type of lot. Priced cheaply at 12c a stamp, $295 D56) Great Britain used collection in Red 64 page Prinz, black page stockbook, commencing 1844 1d red-brown. Sparse in earlies, but does have KGV Seahorses to 5/-, then KGVI almost complete, and QEII with most commemorative sets, both pre & post decimal to 2002. Around 1750 stamps, priced very cheaply at 10c per stamp, $175 D57) Austria mint and used collection in Red 4 ring binder, commencing 1850’s imperfs to 2000, with lots of back of book material too. Organised chronologically and with catalogue numbers pencilled below each stamp. Mostly fine postally used, in much better than average condition, plus some mint sets in later issues. Looks to be around 2000 all different stamps. Under 10c a stamp at $195 D58) Egypt, lovely starter collection on Scott printed pages, 1888 to 1993. Many better noted, and most identified by Scott number in pencil below the stamp. I counted 235 stamps, hard country to get in genuinely assembled collections , price $119 D59) New Zealand, collector’s spares in stack of 61 near new Hagner pages now $1.75 each! mostly decimal but some earlies from QV onwards, to around 2000. Many,many high value commems, and defins to $10. Must be 2000 plus here. Great lot for club sheets, ebay etc. Priced cheaply at below the cost of new Hagners only, the stamps are free! Price $105 D60) Stack of 21 near new Hagner pages with British Commonwealth and Pacifics and Asia array, many in complete mint unhinged sets, including Nauru, Pitcairn, Norfolk, Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Is, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong plus a bit of Zimbabwe. From mid 1970‘s to mid 1990’s, around 55 complete sets/mini sheet and some odds, very well priced at $2 a set, $110

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JANUARY SALE D61) Papua New Guinea on a stack of 23 near new Hagners, mostly fine used or cto, small amount of duplication, some in complete mint unhinged sets, ranges from early New Guinea Bird of Paradise issues to 1992. 350 plus stamps including around 25 complete mint unhinged sets for under 30c a stamp, price $98 D62) Thick stack of cover album pages, housing wide range of Norfolk Is. and Papua New Guinea First Day Covers, 1960 – 1991. Many better sets are included in this lot, and even if you do not collect covers this is a great source for fine used sets. Most are official unaddressed covers. Noted N. I. 1960 Overprints, PNG 2/5d Cattle, 1969 Sheels to $2, Large Birds Heads, WWF Butterflies, Ameripex Small Birds etc. A few with a bit of tone spotting on the cover, but stamps are fine. 113 covers, at under $1 each this is a bargain! $110 the lot.

D63) Hungary mostly Mint Unhinged all different Collection in two 16 page stockbooks, 1939 – 1971. Counted 225 complete sets/mini sheets, plus many extras and odds, with many scarcer and high catalogue value. This is a great lot, with many good thematics. Add to this a stack of30 plus near new Hagner type sheets with Worldwide thematic sets and singles, included at the price of the empty Hagners only, this is great buying at just $275 the lot.

D64) Great Britain Carton lot of used in 3 stockbooks, bundle of album pages and stack of near new Hagner sheets and an album of around 100 First Day Covers 1953 – 1974 containing as follows: Stockbook 1) Used decmal commemoratives inc. many complete sets, 1971 -1992, about 500 different stamps. Stockbook 2) Similar to about 1995 plus Machin heads and Regionals at back. About 650 mostly different to 5 pounds. Stockbook 3) Massive duplicated array of Machin heads and regionals to 75p, about 1750 stamps.

HAGNER SHEETS, as new stack of 34 contain basic collection 1902 – 1994 with a good number of complete sets, around 450 stamps. Finally a bundle of album leaves commencing Regionals then printed leaves containing a starter collection of used, including approx 65 complete commemorative sets to 1979. About 350 stamps here. So a total of around 2750 stamps mostly in complete sets. The Hagner sheets alone new are worth near $60. Price for the lot, $245.

D65) The Worldwide residue of this estate lot, comprising 5 stockbooks, folder containing ancient packets, unopened in decades, 2 Schoolboy type collections, album of covers and a Scott Minuteman album with printed leaves for USA and United Nations to 1977 containing a beginner collection. Nothing remarkable, but many 100s of stamps, covers and packets for $159 the lot.

MN2) Australia 1932 10/- Grey & Pink C of A wmk Kangaroo, nice corner Airmail cds and good perfs. Very fresh looking. Retail $325, price $249 MN3) Victoria 1879 Stamp Duty, the Two Pound Blue, nice Melbourne Duplex used, normal retail $200, this one under a half, $98 MN4) Australia One Pound Grey Kangaroo, C of A wmk, Ovpt. Specimen, mint lightly hinged. Specimen overprint misplaced left and extends well outside the left frame.

Lovely variety, $135 MN5) Falkland Is. Dependencies 1956 2.5d & 3d Definitives SG G42/43 on neat small commercial seamail cover to Germany, cancelled by a single clean Port Lockroy, Grahamland cds dated 1 DE 59.

Port Lockroy is a natural harbour on the north-western shore of Wiencke Island in Palmer Archipelago in front of Antarctic Peninsula. It was discovered in 1904 and named after Edouard Lockroy, a French politician and Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies, who assisted Jean-Baptiste Charcot in obtaining government support for his French Antarctic Expedition. The harbour was used for whaling between 1911 and 1931. During World War II, the British military Operation Tabarin established the Port Lockroy base (Station A) on tiny Goudier Island in the bay, which continued to operate as a British research station until 1962. This is the first commercial mail I have ever handled or seen from Grahamland and must be very rare. Price $149 MN6) Victoria 1884/96 10/- Brown on Rose paper, SG240 nice fine used example with light

duplex cancel, full perfs. Cat 120 pounds. Very good value at under a third catalogue $59 MN7) Australia 1932 10/- Grey & Pink Kangaroo, C of A wmk, nice fine used with partial Darwin cds, skilful corner repair at lower left. Only $98 MN8) Australia. Lovely assembly of KGV & KGVI era plate blocks, imprint blocks and blocks of 4, comprising: a) 1929 Air Type A Post Office Fresh left marginal mint unhinged block of 4. b) 1931 3d Kingsford Smith Upper left plate 2 block of 4, Post Office Fresh mint unhinged. c) 1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge 3d Blue, Post Office Fresh mint unhinged block of 16. d) 1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge 2d Red, ovpt. OS in Post Office Fresh Ash Imprint block of 4, lightly hinged on top two stamps only. e) 1934 Vic. Cent. 3d Blue perf 11.5 in Ash mint unhinged gutter imprint block of 4. f) 1935 Anzac 2d Red Plate No. 1 lower left block of 4 and plate No. 2 upper left block of 4, hinged in selvedge only. g) 1940 AIF 6d Brown in Post Office Fresh McCracken Imprint Block of 4, lightly hinged on top 2 stamps only.

All of the above, plus 5/- & 10/- Arms Imprint blocks, KGVI 1/4d Magenta Imprint Block, 2d Typo Bridge, 3d Bridge, 2d MacArthur , 3d Perf 11.5 Vic. Centenary and 3d Anzac all in Imprint Pairs nearly all fresh mint unhinged. The lot for $625 MN9) Australia 1st wmk 2.5d Kangaroo, perf small OS, with scarce FEDERAL PARLIAMENT cds. Lovely looking stamp price $249 MN12) As above, but with the variety, retouch behind emu’s neck, ACSC 121d, cat $600, one for the specialist, rarely seen item, under a half, price $295 MN14) Australia 1924 KGV 4d Olive single wmk in Mint Unhinged, Post Office fresh horizontal full perf lower marginal pair. As is often seen for this stamp centred to lower left. Cat. $100 each as singles, under a half at $95.

MN15) Victoria 6d Dull Orange Woodblock, 2 margin example SG32a on small entire to London, with clear 1V oval cancel, and Melbourne oval SE 2 1855 on reverse with Red London received marking NO28 1855. Neat little item, and very cheap at $119 MN16) Victoria 1897 15/- Brown Stamp Duty, SG350, well centred full perf. Example with clear circular registered cancel. Cat 85 pounds, price $95 MN17) British Empire King George VI collection of 1000 all different, just the thing to start you on a collection of this vibrant area of collecting! Under 70c a stamp, priced keenly at $695 MN18) As above, but 1000 different Queen Victoria to KGVI, same price $695 (larger collections of British Empire, pre QEII up to 5000 different available, please ask for pricing) MN19) Australia 1927 4.5d KGV Violet, perf 14, fresh mint unhinged, with full Ash Imprint from centre of the sheet. Cat. $90 as a single stamp, imprint block is $400 for hinged. Price $69 MN20) Victoria 6d Dull Orange Woodblock, SG 53a, locally rouletted on one side by counter clerks, excellent well centred example showing clear rouletting at right and with big margins all round. Cancelled by nice strike of Barred Numeral 1 of Melbourne. Cat 60 pounds. Price for this fine example $72 MN21) Australia 1915 One Pound Grey Kangaroo, 3rd wmk, ovpt. Specimen type C, mint hinged. Cat $375, two nibbed perfs at right. Price $195 MN22) As above, type D, centered to lower left and some gum toning, cat $275, just $135 MN23) Queensland SG 1, 1d Carmine Rose IMPERF Chalon wmk Large Star, VFU, 4 nice margins and neat light oval cancel. No faults. Cat 800 pounds, my price a tad over half $675.

MN24) GB 1841 QV 2d Blue SG14 Twopenny Blue with clear No. 12 in Maltese Cross MX lettered "DF" VFU. Lovely 3.5 margin example (close at right) cat 550 pounds. Also with very nice Ivory Head on reverse. Priced very reasonably at under 35% cat. $295

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JANUARY SALE MN25) Cardboard Envelope Box, full of mostly complete sets of stamps, mint and cto used, from a worldwide variety of countries mainly 1980’s period. Wealth of thematics, suite ebay trader,m hoarder or dealer. Weighs 2.5kg, must be close to 15,000 stamps here. This really must be seen to be believed, refund if not delighted. Very colourful lot Price $395. Super double sized lot $749 MN26) Box of World on paper, amazing variety, mostly well clipped, and appears all large with much recent. Must be about 4000 here, under 5c a stamp, $195.

MN27) WESTERN AUSTRALIA 1861 4D VERMILION SWAN, SG40, PERF 14 very fine used, MISPERFED so that the word Postage appears beneath Fourpence! Usually misperfs of this order are never seen on Western Australia Stamps. A few years ago I sold a similar misperf on a South Australia long type 8d blue at a Prestige Auction for $1000 plus the buyers’ premium. Cat. as normal is 180 pounds. Price for this rarity $795.

MN28) New South Wales . **RARE** 1850 SG 11 1d Dull Carmine Sydney View, 4 good margins and with light Sydney barred cancellation. Variety, "Double Print". No Tears, Thins or Bends. Very Rare item. Positive "RPSL" Certificate, submitted by David Feldman Scott cv US$975++ Var. , not listed in Stanley Gibbons. Price $795 MN29) Western Australia, SG 29, Sc# 17; 2d Pale Orange Swan Rouletted, Very Fine Used with part numeral cancel. Roulettes on all sides, Very Rare in this condition, cat 250 pounds. Price $239 MN30) Neat packet of 1000 different British Commonwealth, mint and used included.

Very cheap at under 5c per stamp, price $49 MN30a) As above but 2000 different $119 MN31) As above, but Western Europe. Price $69 MN33) Australia High Values, off paper, new mix just arrived, great variety from late 1960’s to quite recent. Many with nice cds cancels. Approx 1250 by weight, less than 10c per stamp 100g for $120.

MN33a) As above but selected copies, 100 mixed for $29, Commems. only, 100 for $39, Definitives only 100 for $19.

MN34) Wide ranging Australia off paper, with Australian States, Kangaroos, KGV heads, High values, Decimals and Pre-decimals. Approx 12,500 per kg, and a guarantee of 1500 – 2000 different in the mix. There are values to $10 in the decimal and 5/- in pre-decimal, possibly even some $20 and 10/- stamps. This mix is the best we have seen in a while. % wise reckon on roughly 1% each of States, KGV and Kangaroos, 10% predecimal, 5% high values, the remainder will be a very good mix of lower and letter rate values. A great sorting lot! Roughly 2000, under 15c per stamp for $295.

MN34a) As above but decimals only, at half the above price, Approx 2000 for $147.50 MN35) Australia 1948 5/- Arms, thin paper, very fine used, retail $100, my price just $75 MN36) Tasmania Halfpenny on 1d Red sideface in imperf plate 1 block of 12, from the reprint sheet on thin card, rare and unusual! $420 MN37) A new lot of Australia unpicked on paper mixture, just arrived, wide variety through to the 70c letter rate period, similar to our old J1 mixture, but even more up to date with some high values, unfranked and maybe a little foreign, all on close clipped single paper, very clean and colourful mixture. Reckon on 4500 – 5000 per kg. Price under 2 cents per stamp, $89 per kg, 2kg for $169 (only 6kg available) MN38) Australia Kangaroo, 5d Chestnut 1st wmk, mint lightly hinged, well centred , normal retail $140, plus premium for the better centering. This one just $98.

MN39) New Zealand 1940 Centennial set, mint unhinged, sg 613/25, normally $100, price $59 MN40) The 2010 VST Comprehensive Colour Catalogue Of Australian Stamps - In full colour - case bound edition - in 3 huge volumes (3rd volume is wire bound) with total of 580 pages! This catalogue is the latest edition available, volumes 1 & 2 have now been reprinted and are in a single hardbound edition. Volume 1 Covers: Australian Colonies, Post-

age Dues, BCOF, Pre-Decimal Australia, and Australian Decimal Issues(1966-1988) and all related First Day Covers, Post Office Packs etc. Volume 2 covers the listing of Australian Decimal Issues (1989-2006) and all related First Day Covers, Post Office Packs etc. Volume 3 is the new 2010 edition - this volume has a complete re-pricing of the Australian Pre-Decimal Issues 1913-1936, plus new Decimal Listings For 2007, 2008 & 2009. This is the complete comprehensive 3 Volume edition - Colour Catalogue Of Australian Stamps.

The 3 Volumes are very detailed with COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS throughout. Note that the prices here are pretty much up to date, there having been little price movement in recent years for most issues. Originally priced at over $100, we can now offer the 3 volumes, currently being sold elsewhere for around $45 for just $24.50 bulk buyers special: 5 sets for just $99!

MN41) Magnificent Magnifier: Large 110mm Illuminated Magnifier with Stand This magnifier can be used with or without the base. It is suitable for stamp and coin collectors as well as art and craft, artists etc. Magnification: 2.5x, plus 4x Spot. Diameter: 110mm, bigger than the Lighthouse similar product. Battery operated: 2 x AA (not included). Adjustable height up to 200mm and angle to 45 degrees. RRP $36.95. Price each only $15, under 50% retail! $69 per 5 why not give away to friends and relations, or do some trading?

MN42) New Zealand, new wide ranging on paper mission mix, all single paper and close clipped with huge range going to fairly recent with the 50c letter rate values. Much better than the mix in our current mixtures list. 6kg only available. 500g for $89, 1kg for $169, 2kg for $319 MN43) Rattlesnake Island, 1989 Owls Triangulars, the last set issued of these interesting Cinderellas from the USA. Complete set of 3, in sheets of 20, mint unhinged. Price $39 MN44) World on paper, 3 grades of World on paper a) Standard mission, mostly larger countries $75, b) Super Mission with huge variety at $125 and c) All large and Commemoratives $249 per kg.

MN45) New World Off paper Mix, just received, much better variety than you see in most of these mixes, around 2000 for $39, 5000 for $89, 10,000 for $175 MN46) Australia 1937 late printing 10/- Grey & Analine Pink C of A Wmk Kangaroo. 2nd scarcest of the shades of this stamp and identified as ACSC 50D Well centred and with perfect perfs, very vibrant an vivid colour. Has 2 partial light Melbourne steel cds cancellations. Cat. $750, priced very well at $489 MN47) PNCs (stamp & coin covers) Recently acquired stock, with most at issue price of $14.95, let us know your needs. We can also offer all different lots at under issue price a) 10 Different for $110 b) 25 Different $259 c) 50 Different for $495 MN48) New South Wales, 6d Brown on blue paper Vandyke, Imperf. Nice colour and with light No. 8 barred numeral cancel. Stamp is sound margins as usual for this stamp are a bit skinny. Cat 250 pounds, nice gap filler for someone at $95 MN49) Australia 1918 5/- Grey and Yellow 3rd wmk Kangaroo SG42 Fine Used with Late Fee cds cancel, good perfs and well centred, nice example of postal use. Usual retail around $175 for fine used, this one just $98 MN50) Australia 1929 5/- grey and yellow Kangaroo, perf OS, postally used. Normal price $160, we have four grades to offer: a) Fine used circular date stamp, with clear usage date $129, b) As above but date not clear. $99, c) Light parcel cancel $79, d) Slight seconds with heavier cancels/and or perf faults $39 MN52) New Zealand Specialised collection of 1935 Pictorials Official Overprints on leaves mint and used. Includes Eleven Plate Blocks to 2/- plus other blocks of 4, all identified with Campbell Paterson numbers. Total catalogue is around NZ$7000, with more than half of the value in plate blocks. A lovely lot! 147 stamps. Price $1950 MN53) Iceland, lovely collection of 400 different postally used. 100 different is on our packets list at $60, so this which includes a fair number of better/scarcer stamps is excel-

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JANUARY SALE lent value at $179 MN54) Norway, from the same supplier as our Iceland collections a very fine lot of 500 different. On our packets list at $80, but we have a few surplus so out they go at $59 MN56) Finland, lovely lot of 500 different, all large, includes Red Cross and Anti TB charity issues. Regular large and small is on our packets list at $140, this one just $98!

MN57) New Zealand 2/- Blue Admiral overprinted Official, on parcel piece along with 1d Field Marshal, 3d Brown & 1/- Vermilion KGV Heads. All cancelled with clear strike of Welling ton Parcels 15 JAN 1931. This is a very scarce piece, the Official 2/- not having been recorded on cover. As used it is cat. At NZ$500 in Campbell Paterson as KO20b, but only 130 pounds in Gibbons as SG 0112, go figure! Anyhow all that being said, I reckon it has to be worth $250 as a parcel piece.

MN59) Australia 1928 3d Kookaburra Minisheet, from the bottom right of the sheet, with clear central Red Exhibition Cancel of 1 NO 1928. Fine and rare n this condition. Regular retail for this quality $295, save $50, my price $245 MN60) Australia 1929 Small Multiple Watermark Kangaroos, full set of 7 values to Two Pounds, nice fine used with cds cancels. The Two Pound has a few shortish perfs at base, but this does not detract from the fine appearance of this group. The 10/- is really nice.

Retail as a group would be around $1750, my price just $1295 MN60) As above, the 5/- value, light corner cto cancel. Retail up to $225 in this condition.

My price $169 MN61) Hong Kong 1982 QE II DEFINITIVES Complete SET of 17 to $50 SG 415/87 mint unhinged in Post Office Pack. Price $95 MN62) Nice World collection A – Z on thick stack of 200 album pages early to modern, mainly postally used. No Australia or GB. Must be close to 6000 stamps all different. Got to be worth 3c a stamp. $179 the lot.

MN63) Australia Seven Seas Hingeless Albums, in two padded binders with slipcases 1966 – 1991 complete almost as new. Vol. 1 is in Green and Vol. 2 in Blue for easy identification. Retail new approx.. $375. Under a half, Price $179 MN64) Samoa mint collection in blue 3 ring binder, 1967 – 1984. Appears pretty well complete with all definitives, minisheets and commemorative sets. Very nice lot, sold regardless of retail or catalogue value. 101 sets/minsheets inc. 4 definitive sets. Price below $1.50 a set $149 MN66) Papua and New Guinea collection/accumulation mint & used on a stack of 26 Hagner pages, retail $1.75 each = $45, commencing New Guinea Huts and Birds of Paradise, plus Papua Lakatois to 4d, then 1952 Definitives to One Pound fine used. Pre-decimal looks virtually complete, then a wide range of sets to 1997. Looks to be approx. 125 complete sets with extras, inc. 5 definitive sets. Very good value at under $2 a set, price $249 NO1) Papua New Guinea Mint Unhinged Collection in Blue padded Seven Seas Hingeless Illustrated album. 1986-2001 Virtually complete - no 1994 Provisional Overprints or Queen Mother 100th birthday. Very minor toning on a few earlier pages but stamps are all fine. Retail of stamps $780 plus and album is worth $265 new. A total of $1045, my price is under a half at $519 NO2) AAT Mint Collection 1957 – 2011. On Scott leaves Hinged to 1987, then unhinged.

Mostly complete retail is $545 counting the hinged as used. My price is just 42% at $229 NO3) Large green SCOTT Speciality Album as new with Christmas Island mint collection 1958-2011. Hinged to 1990 then unhinged. High level of completion and all very clean with some extra gutter blocks and PSE’s etc in back. Retail of stamps alone, counting the hinged as used = $1425, Album cost around $350 so a total value of $1775 for under 40% just $695 NO4) Large green SCOTT Speciality Album as new with Cocos Keeling Islands Mint Hinged & MUH Collection 1963-2011 Very high level of completion but no Provisional Overprints.

Some extras in back such as aerogrammes. Retail counting hinged ass used is close to $1100, plus album retail around $295, a total retail of $1395 for 42.5% = $595 NO6) Australia 1934 Two Pound Kangaroo C of A Watermark Fine Used - BW58(D)p, two light partial cds cancels which do not overlap and leave kangaroo’s head clear, well centered with good perfs. Has variety, broken coast in bight also undocumented “extra island” SW of WA. Cat $1500. Price $975.

NO7) New Zealand 2001 QEII 80c Imperf sheet of 25, these were issued as NZ Post loyalty products and were not available for direct purchase and are very scarce as one needed to part with a considerable sum in order to receive one. In Hagner with well know NSW dealer description and priced at $400. Could find none of these on eBay. My price $295 NO8) Australia 1914/1915 2/- Brown 2nd wmk Kangaroo. A lovely well centered full perf. example, with slightly heavy partial Sale, Victoria cds. Cat $350, my price under a half…$169 NO10)AAT decimal definitive mint unhinged, SG 8 – 18, advertised retail $65, my price under a third $21 (2 available) NO11) As above, the top value $1 Mock Sun in bottom right corner single. Retail $30, my price $15.

NO12) Australia 5/- Roo Acsc 43Ab, SG037 2nd Wmk deep grey & yellow *punctured os* well centred VFU with indistinct cds cancel. Current 2013 BW ROO CV $700. This stamp comes with certificate. Nice and fresh. Price $469 NO13) Australia 1918 5/- 3rd wmk Kangaroo SG42 Fine Used well centered and full perfs with slightly heavy cds cancel SG Cat. £110 = approx. $175, advertised retail for fu $175, my price for this one just $115 NO14) Australia 1913 2/- Brown Kangaroo, 1st wmk with “socked on nose” Parkville Victoria cds of SE 22 14. Lovely cancel, stamp has full perfs, brilliant colour. Centered to lower left. Cat. $250. Price $149 NO15) Australia 1913 5d Chestnut Kangaroo, perf Large OS, mint unhinged, perfectly centred with full perfs, looks great! Just some very minor toning on reverse. Cat $800, very cheap at under a third…$265 NO16) As above, small OS, mint lightly hinged, again well centred and full perfs, suntanned gum. Cat $550, again under a third, price $179 NO18) GB 1858 1d Red Plates Collection Plates 71 - 218 Complete Used, less the impossible to find plate 77 of course. 144 stamps, all in much better than average condition.

Plates 206 and 209 are mint. Similar to Oct5 in my last list which I sold for $525. Cat approx. 1030 pounds = $1650. Same price, less than one third. $525 NO19) Australia 1915 2/- Brown Kangaroo, 3rd wmk, perf OS, well centred and with good perfs, mint lightly hinged, gum a little toned. Cat. $1250! Price under a third, $395 NO20) Australia, real photographic postcard circa. 1910 of a Renault motor car taken at Albury NSW. Unused and in fine condition. Cheapest item on my list, but just beautiful! $15 NO21) GB, rare cover and letter on Buckingham Palace stationery, bearing 4d 1951 Festival of Britain stamped and cancelled with Balmoral Castle cds of 8 SP 51, surface mail to Germany. Letter reads “Dear Sir, Princess Margaret desires me to thank you for your kind message of congratulations. It gives her Royal Highness great happiness to know that the thoughts and good wishes of so many people are with her on the occasion of her 21st birthday. Yours truly Olivia Mulholland, Lady in Waiting.” Price $159 NO22) Papua, solo use of 1932 3d on small surface mail cover to Washington, Mo. U.S.A cancelled by neat Port Moresby 30 AP 34 cds. Scarce and attractive. Price $39 NO23) Australia 1934 small airmail Advertising cover form Vaughan Pate, Unley, S.A. to Perth W.A. Bearing 2 x 2d MacArthur Light Hills and 1d green C of A wmk KGV Head.

Unusual combination, franked by Adelaide Airmail slogan of 30 NO 1934. Scarce and attractive. Price $95

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JANUARY SALE NO24) Australia 1958 8d Blue Kingsford Smith on double rate South Australia cover Cockaleechie to Port Pirie, cancelled by part Cockaleechie cds. Scarce usage for this stamp. Price $49 NO25) Australia 1952 small registered cover, Leongatha VIC to Goulburn NSW bearing 5.5d Peace, 3.5d Gloucester, 2.5d Mitchell and 1d Brown QE to make correct 1/- & Halfpenny rate. Unusual and scarce franking, price $22 NO26) AUSTRALIA 1935 Airmail ADVERTISING COVER FROM LENROC Ltd, Adelaide to Excelsior Motorcycle Company, UK. Bears 1/6d no wmk. Hermes, cancelled by Adelaide “Post Early” slogan of 25 MAR 1935. Via. Singapore to London, thence to Wolverhampton by road. Very attractive item, price $49 NO27) GB 1840 1d Intense Black, SG 1, plate 5, lettered MB, cat 525 pounds, = $840.

Nice 4 margin example with heavyish black Maltese cross cancel. No faults. Bargain at under 40% cat. Price $335 NO29) SG Commonwealth & Empire Part One catalogue 2013 edition. Current 2017 edition is $229. This is nice condition for only $75 NO30) Australia 1966 7c Humbug Fish on commercial surface mail cover to South Africa cancelled by Melbourne slogan “Australia food produces champions”, bilingually in English and French, clearly a reference to the 1968 Olympics. Dated 12 NOV 1968 and with violet handstamp “House vacant” bilingually in English and Afrikaans. So a tri-lingual cover! and with manuscript “House vacant” and “RTS” notation in pencil. Received cds’s on reverse of Parkview Depot Johannesburg 4 XII 68 and 23 XII 68. Scarce and attractive piece, price $49 NO31) Australia 1927 3rd wmk Kangaroo Die IIb 1/- Emerald with sideways wmk, postally used Melbourne cds, cat $500. As usual for this stamp it is centered to top left.

One of the most difficult kangaroos to find postally used. Price $375 NO32) Australia 1916 1/- Kangaroo Die II, 3rd wmk, nice lightly hinged mint, centred left.

Cat $90, my price $59 NO33) Australia 1931 One pound Grey Kangaroo, C of A wmk, nicely used, with two partial cds cancels of Melbourne Ship Mailroom. Well centered and with good perfs. Cat $420. This one just $269 NO34) Australia 2/- Brown 2nd wmk, horizontal pair perf OS-ACSC-36ba-SG-O36-fine used and very well centered. Each with registered cds of 12 Jan 22 (Late usage) Very, very scarce in multiples. Cat $700 as singles. Price $649 NO35) GB 1841 1d Red Brown with lovely clear strike of No. 4 in Maltese Cross. This is the scarcest of all the numbers in cross and catalogued at 600 pounds = approx. $960. This example has 3.5 very big margins. Priced at 40% cat, only $385 this is indeed a bargain!

NO36) Australia 1923 6d Chestnut 3rd wmk. Kangaroo, on small registered 1925 cover Footscray Vic. to Chicago with Red Reg. label No. 3290. Cancelled by Footscray cds of 6 JA 25 and Melbourne Registered backstamp of the following day plus USA arrival cds’s of 14th, 17th and 18th February 1925. Scarce and attractive cover, the stamp being cat. At $150 for solo use. Priced very reasonably at $119 NO38) fantastic collection/accumulation of well over 3,000 Australia used. This lot has Kangaroos simplified set to 10/-, plus a complete set of 1932 Harbour Bridges to 5/- there are at least 1500 different, so only light duplication. Price for the lot $749. (Under 25c per stamp!)

NO40) Australia 1915 5/- Grey & Yellow, 2nd wmk Kangaroo, perf OS, good/fine used with circular cancel and well centred. Really hard to find in nice condition. Cat $700, this one just $449 NO41) Australia 1913 1st wmk 2/- Brown Kangaroo, mint lightly hinged, and well centred with full perfs, very scarce thus. Cat $650, price $525 NO44) Australia 1964 Two Pound Navigator, very fine used, retail $80, my price just $69 NO47) Australia 1920 KGV 1/4d Turquoise single wmk, mint lightly hinged, well centred and with full perfs. Retail $200, my price just $149

NO48a) Queensland 1864/5 6d Orange/Yellow Chalon Registered Stamp in a paler shade and without gum., couple of minor tone spots on reverse. Cheap stamp at only $95 NO49) GB 1883 5/- Rose Pink QV, SG 180, lovely well centered mint light hinge example with fresh white gum. Cat $2350, my price just $795 NO51) Australia £2 BLACK AND ROSE SG 138 C of A watermark, a very well centred stamp with good perforations, cds postmark a little heavy but nice Melbourne Ship Mail cancel, and very well priced at $549 NO53) Australia 1932 1/- Lyrebird ovpt. OS SG0136, in a superb mint unhinged block of four with bottom selvedge, well centred, stunning perfect block cat $500 as singles, and very scarce in multiples. (Imprint block is cat. $1000, and perf pip block is $2250!) Just $459 NO55) NEWFOUNDLAND. Magnificent collection on Scott illustrated album pages covering the period 1857-1943. One of the finest and freshest lots I have had the pleasure to offer. More than £4,200 SG Cat. Value (Aus. $6,720) includes a stunning SG 11, 3 margins example 3d Green mint lightly hinged £110, SG 13 £140, SG 15 mint £350, SG 25 mint £170, SG 40-43 Roulette mixed mint 1c others fine used £115, 1897 SG 66-69 Discovery and QV Diamond Jubilee, a stunning mint set £325, SG 83-90 mint £150, 1911 SG 117-27 mint £250, no rust or toning, more than 155 different stamps, various listed shades etc.

A bargain as most of the early material normally sells well at half catalogue due to its rarity, as a collection this is available for just under 40% of cat. $2685 NO57) Australia 1913 5/- Grey & Yellow 1st wmk. Kangaroo, cto, mng Melbourne Dec 3 1913, this fine example is very well centred and with full perfs. Lovely colour too! Has ACSC vignette variety ”n” broken foot and pointy tail, Cat. $700, price $459 NO59) Massive Worldwide Postcards Collection 19th Century to quite recent, apparently all different (approx.. 1200 items), many postally Used to Australia inc. Cook Islands, Croatia, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Mexico, Poland, Slovenia, Russia, Turkey, Vatican & Vietnam. Wide range of views & scenes inc. many Tourist Attractions. Also group of 100 GB/Ireland 1950s cards, mixed Unused /Used. Good overall condition. (1200+) Suit collector, hoarder, re-seller or Ebayer! Just see what this stuff sells for online! Under $1 each! Price $1175 MOC5) Australia 1913 9d Violet Kangaroo 1st Wmk, superb well centred and unhinged, cat $850, my price just $625 MOC7) Australia 1929 9d Violet Kangaroo, multiple wmk, fresh mint lightly hinged, cat $125, this one just $89 MOC26) Printing, amazing collection mint and used covering the history of printing and publishing, in 5 Lindner Maroon Ring Binders, as new (These worth $350 retail) plus hundreds of covers, mostly commercial. Massive lot which took the original owner 30 years to accumulate. Price $1549 the lot, great value at this!

MOC30) Australia 1915 2/- Brown Kangaroo, 3rd wmk, mint unhinged, full perfs. Nicest example I have owned in a while. Cat now $2500! Price $1695 MOC36) Australia 1929 5/- Grey & Yellow Kangaroo, multiple wmk, with superb socked on nose “PP Postal Hall”, Melbourne cds. (date unclear) very attractive full perf nicely centred example. Cat $225, price $165 MOC46) Australia 1913 3d Olive 1st wmk Kangaroo, Die II, cto, cat $500. Attractive nicely centred stamp, very scarce. $329 MOC49) Australia 1915 9d Violet 1st wmk Kangaroo, mint lightly hinged, full perfs, well centred Cat $175, lovely! $129 Oct1) New Zealand, prestige booklets in as new Lighthouse Dark Blue Classic Album. 16 items to around 2014, much Anzac related material here. All stamps inside have been neatly cto first day of issue. Very cheap at under $5 a booklet, price $79 Oct6) Large brown paper carrier bag, with world accumulation on paper, early to mod-

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JANUARY SALE ern. Who knows what lurks in here! We have had several of these from the same source, and all sold very quickly. Weighs 2.2kg. $165 the lot.

Oct9) Australia overprinted OS issues, inc. 1/- Lyre in both shades postally used, 3d Kingsford Smith cto, 2d Bridge cto and 6d Brown Airmail postally used. Neat little group cat. $239, price $129 Oct10) Australia KGV 1/4d Turquoise. C of A wmk, fresh mint lightly hinged, centred right.

Cat. $150, this one just a half…$75 Oct11) Australia 1936 SA Centenary 3d solo use on Surface Mail cover to Denmark. Scarce usage. Launceston 21APR37 cds, with slogan “Post Early Each Day” Cheap at $29 (I have lots of other nice commercial covers if interested, ranging in price from $5 to $500) Oct12) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 4d Orange 1st wmk, mint lightly hinged, well centred.

Retail $140, my price $110 Oct13) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 5d Chestnut 1st wmk, mint lightly hinged, well centred.

Retail $140, my price $110 Oct14) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 9d Violet 1st wmk, mint lightly hinged. Retail $140, my price $110 Oct15) Australia KGV Commemorative issues, 1934 Vic. Cent. Set of 3 Perf 11.5, 1934 MacArthur set of 4 and 1935 Jubilee set of 3. The Macarthur set other than the 2d dark Hills are cto, others are fine postally used. Nice little grouping, cat. $169, price $89 Oct19) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 4d Orange 1st wmk, perf Large OS mint lightly hinged, Cat $500, my price $285 Oct20) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 9d Violet 1st wmk, perf Large OS mint lightly hinged, Cat $550, my price $315 Oct21) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 1/- Emerald 1st wmk, perf Large OS mint lightly hinged, Cat $600, my price $345 Oct22) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 3d Olive Die 1 1st wmk, perf Small OS, mint lightly hinged, cat $400, my price $225 Oct23) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 6d Blue 1st wmk, perf Small OS, mint lightly hinged, cat $425, my price $255 Oct24) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 9d Violet 1st wmk, perf Small OS, mint lightly hinged, cat $600, my price $345 Oct25) Australia 1913 Kangaroo 1/- Emerald 1st wmk, perf Small OS, mint lightly hinged, cat $600, my price $345 Oct26) Australia 1915 Kangaroo 2d Grey 2nd wmk, mint lightly hinged, retail $140, this one just $105 Oct27) Australia 1915 Kangaroo 2.5d Deep Blue 2nd wmk, mint lightly hinged, retail $90, this one just $72 Oct28) Australia 1966 – 1970 Post office Training Stamps. A lot of people do not know that these exist, they were used pre- issue in Post offices up and down the country to train staff for the advent of decimalisation and were supposed to have been destroyed.

A few however did leak out and I can offer these as follows, some with very minor imperfections : 1966 Definitives, handstamped “Cancelled - Specimen only” or “Specimen only” in Purple, Blue or Red, with full unmounted gum. a) 1c Brown Queen block of 4 $39, or strip of 4 $39 b) 2c Green Queen block of 4 $39, or strip of 5 $49 c) 3c Slate Blue Queen block of 4 $39, strip of 4 $39 d) 4c red Queen block of 4 $39 e) 5c Blue Queen block of 4 $39 f) 6c Bird block of 4 $39, horiz. Pair $39, single $10 g) 15c Galah strip of 4 $39, horiz. Pair for $19.50

h) 20c Golden Whistler block of 4 or strip of 4, showing full overprint $39 i) 6c Kangaroo Paw block of 4 $39, vert. pair for $19.50 j) 20c Sturt’s Desert Pea, block of 4 $39, vertical or horizontal pair for $19.50. single for $10 k) 20c Wheat, (very scarce) Horiz. Pair $49 l) 7c Fish, vert. Block of 4 $39, Strip of 3, creased only $15 (looks fine from front) Singles $10 m) 9c Fish, block of 4 $39, single $10 n) 10c Fish, vert. or horiz. Pair $19.50 Oct33) Australia 1915 Kangaroo, 10/- Grey & Analine Pink, 3rd wmk, perf OS, mint lightly hinged, cat $2000. Suspect this may have been reperfed, so very cheap at under a quarter cat. Price $495 Oct34) Australia 1915 Kangaroo, One Pound Grey, 3rd wmk, perf OS, COMMERCIALLY USED, cat $750 as cto, this one used with heavy cds, but amazingly scarce stamp, thought for a long time not to exist. This has been repaired at some time in the past, but looks fine from the front. Very cheap example of a rarity, price $595 Oct35) Australia 1929 Kangaroo 2/- Maroon small multiple wmk, mint unhinged, cat $850, this one off centre, so only $495 MSP1) Around once a month an old man (well to be honest he probably is not much older than I am) turns up on my door with a box of stockbooks, which he has lovingly filled with stamps, organized by country usually 10 or a dozen books each month. Now these are large books, each holding 1200 or so stamps, with no duplication that I can see, with stuff from all over the World , early to modern and pretty well all postally used. They sell very quickly I can tell you. But this month he brought around a double lot, so I have a few to offer our regular clients via this list. You can order more than one with confidence as each has different contents. I do not know how he sources so many different stamps!

Anyhow here we go, one book for $59, 3 books for $149 or take 10 books for $475 MSP3) As new Ka – Be multi ring padded album and slipcase in black, retail $108.50, cheap at $49 MSP5) Papua New Guinea 1959 commercial usage of 1/7d Cattle in combination with a pair of 2.5d Bird of Paradise, to make the 2/- Airmail rate to USA. Small neat cover cancelled by cds of Rabaul 30 DEC 59 to New York. The first cover bearing the 1/7d I have owned, and only the 2nd I have sighted in 50 years! Price $295 MSP7) 4 heavy duty Ka – Be padded albums, with slipcases, almost as new each containing 32 quality double sided, linen hinged stockleaves of 2 divisions. Ideal for covers, minisheets or blocks of stamps. New cost for the binders and slipcases only is $108.50 each, and the stockleaves $3 each, so a total cost of over $800 new. We have one of each Red, Green, Blue and Brown. Price $195 the lot.

MSP8) Australia 1969 Tourism Cover of Caloundra, Queensland, commercially used Moorabbin Victoria 21 NOV 69 to Switzerland franked 15c Timber and the 1969 set of 3 x 5c Flight as singles. All of these stamps are scarce on cover, we recently sold a solo use of the 15c Timber for $119. Price $129 MSP28) NZ Seven Seas Hingeless pages1983 - 93 in binder with some extras standard pages, mainly the Health Minisheets, not counted $59.

MSP29) Czechoslovakia, mint unhinged collection of 200 different, mostly large commemoratives, on our packets list at $20, (only 6 left) at $14.95 each. Great value!

MSP34) Handy A4 size 8 page stockbooks, with glassine strips and interleaving. Normally $12.95 each, now just $7.95 each (12 available) SE1) Great Britain, magnificent mint unhinged collection in two as new red Safe “Dual” Hingeless Albums, complete with original cartons. These alone retail around $600 and with extra pages to end of 1992, these worth $50, plus almost complete stamps for the 1st 20 years of GB decimals, both definitive and commemoratives, pristine mint unhinged, only a few gaps to fill. Retail of stamps is around $975, so around $1625 total. My price for this lot under half…$795

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JANUARY SALE SE3) Western Australia hoard of Commonwealth Period Swans. Various shades of 1d Red/ Pink, 2d Yellow & 2d Grey, most off paper, some on. Great for research, postmarks etc.

Never seen a hoard like this in my 30 years in Australia, totally unchecked by me and likely some good finds here. I simply counted them out in packets of 100, as they come.

Under $1 a stamp, $98 for 100, 200 for $185, 500 for $440, 1,000 for $840, or take the lot, approx. 2500 for $1895.

SE4) Australian States, unpicked mixed packs of all States off paper. Who knows what might be here! 100 for $98, 200 for $179 SE6) Western Australia 1857. Simply the most stunning 6d Black Bronze Imperf. SG 18 I have ever seen or owned! 4 huge even margins, great colour and no visible faults. Light barred numeral cancel. Cat at 650 pounds. As good as they come! Price $1049 SE9) Australia 1913 1st wmk 5d Chestnut Kangaroo, lovely fresh mint unhinged, well centred top marginal example, cat $550. Nicest I have owned, $475 SE10) Sweden, collection of 1500 different, most if not all nice postally used. Price on my packets list for 500 is $70, and 1500 would normally be around $275. Just two to offer here at half price: $137.50 each.

SE11) Australia 1915 3rd wmk 2/- Brown Kangaroo, perf OS, lovely postally used example, Inverted Wmk, with Melbourne cds. Again the nicest I have ever seen. Cat $1500, price $1125 SE15) Australia, Military. WWI 1917 registered censored cover AIF FPO 5 to France, with cds of 27 JY 17 tying GB KGV 2d Orange. With pink 'Australian Imperial Force/FPO C5' (5th Australian Brigade HQ) registration label, backstamped Amiens Station, Somme two days later. signed by C.O. L Redgrave, to Burberrys Ltd, Paris. scarce & attractive cover, price $225 SE16) Australia 1935 Anzac Pair, 2d & 1/-, mlh, cat. $52, price $39 SE17) Australia 1915 2nd wmk, 6d Blue Kangaroo, perf OS, mint unhinged. Cat $1750, and missing from 99% of all Australia collections. Nice looking stamp, but does have a diagonal crease, hardly visible from the front, hence below 20% catalogue. Price $349 SE18) Australia 1963 solo use of 1/2d Thylacine on Airmail Postcard to London, with RP View of Belvedere, Sydney. Cancelled by machine type of Sydney 12 JNE 1963. Price $29 SE19) Australia 1921 3rd wmk die IIB 6d Pale Ultramarine Kangaroo, from the Harrison Printing, mint unhinged, perf OS. Centered high. Nice looking stamp, with great colour, nice white gum and full perfs. Under 60% cat. Price $249 SE20) Australian Air League 1d postal stationery cover to Boorowa NSW, marked “Unknown, return to A. Air league” unusually cancelled on return leg by Boorowa cds of 27 JL 1940, arrival backstamp of 26 JL 1940. Usually these items are not seen postmarked.

Very scarce indeed! Price $295 SE26) Australia 1936 Business sized envelope, trimmed at left, bearing 1/4d & 1d KGV C of A wmk, cancelled by clean cds Ship Mail Room Melbourne, 9 SE 36, typewritten address to radio station in NewYork. The 1/4d cat. $300 on cover. Price $98 SE29) Australia 1913 2/- Brown 1st wmk. Kangaroo superb postally used, with centrally struck “Socked on nose” Perth cds, 5 FEB 15, well centered and with full perfs, a premium stamp. Cat. $300, price $249 SE30) GB 1859, small neat entire, bearing 6d deep lilac, no corner letters, SG 69, tied by neat London EC duplex of DE 21 59 to Andalucia, Spain. Arrival cds on reverse of Cadiz.

Fascinating contents re the purchase of 20 butts of Cod Liver Oil @ 45 pounds per butt., to be shipped to Gibraltar. The butt was a measure of liquid volume equaling two hogsheads.

This equated to 108 imperial gallons (490 l) for ale or 126 imperial gallons (570 litres) In today’s terms around 15 cents a litre. The stamp cat. 225 pounds on cover. Price $149 SE32) Australia 1937 10/- Robes thick paper mint unhinged retail $35, my price just a half! $17.50

SE37) As above but in mint hinged block of 8 from Electro 8. Cat $75 as block of 4. Price $59 SE39) Western Australia 1860 -64, 6d Sage Green Imperf, SG28, Local Printing, 3 margins, postally used. Cat. $800, rare stamp, but with repaired tear at top where hinge has been carelessly removed. Nice looker. My price $159 SE40) Australia, Thursday Is. 1951 Airmail cover to Trinidad from Bowden Pearling Co, Thursday Is., to a Yacht, “Seven Seas II” c/o the US Consul in Port of Spain. Bears 2 x 9d Platypus & a 4d Koala, making 1/10d, possibly 1d overpaid? Cancelled by Thursday Is. Cds 24 AP 51, and with arrival SLOGAN “Save Precious Water” and cds on reverse, Port of Spain 14 MAY 1951 and company name and address on flap. There is a fascinating book “Life on the Water” depicting the life of a Pearl Fisherman in the Torres Straights who worked for the Bowden Pearling Co. More info here: http://aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/ files/products/book/life-blong-sample.pdf A scarce and attractive cover, price $159 SE41) St. Lucia KEVII 5/- , as SG 76, but in Grey and Carmine instead of Green & Carmine, mint lightly hinged. Not a colour changeling, but most likely a colour trial proof, on watermarked. Cat $170 as normal. Unusual. Price $98 SE43) Denmark, 700 different, lovely lot, 300 different is on our packets list at $20, 700 is way more difficult to assemble. Very cheap price for this at $39 SE44) Netherlands 1940 Queen Wilhelmina Imperfs. Printed (but not perforated) just before the Germans invaded in 1940. In 1946 the issue was brought out of the vaults, perforated and placed on sale. Sometime between 1940 and 1946 a small quantity of the imperf sheets were "leaked" (i.e. stolen) from the State Printing Works. These imperfs are now quite scarce. Set of 4 in horizontal pairs Mint Unhinged $29, blocks of 4, $59, corner blocks of 4 $69.

SE48) British Empire off paper mixture, Queen Victoria to KGVI, includes many mint unhinged as well as postally used, plus some blocks of 4 etc. Little in or GB, there are some Australian States here and there, plus noted British West Indies, Gilbert & Ellice Is. Palestine. Canada, New Zealand, Cyprus, Fiji, Ascension, Canada, Burma, etc. We have one lot only of around 2500 stamps, selling per 500 at $110, per 1000 $195.

SE50) Australia 1938 1d Green Queen Die II, in Coil strip of 3, central stamp is mint unhinged, others have been lightly hinged. Well centered and with full perfs. Cat $150 as a hinged pair. My price for this, just $119 SE51) Australia 1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge, superb cto example, well centered and good perfs with light corner cds. Seen retailing elsewhere in this quality now at around $325, and cat $450. Price $289 ( I can supply lesser quality at a lower price from $249) SE54) Another with light hinge, again from the bottom right corner, price $169 MAU4) Czechoslovakia, Bohemia & Moravia plus a few UNO in black padded Australia Post binder with 32 Hagner type sheets. Around 1000 mostly used, little duplication.

Hagner pages are now $1.75 each new, and the binders are $20 plus, so $75 value here alone. Stamps come virtually free! Price $59 MAU8a) Australia 1909 10/- Green & Red Postage Due, SG D72, lovely mint example retail $470, my price $365.

MAU15a) Massive lot of Cigarette and trade Cards, Around 1200 in albums, in bundles and loose. Many complete sets, including early Victoria Football League and Australian Cricket cards. Noted Don Bradman. I know next to nothing about cigarette cards, except that many of these popular themes sell for 100s of dollars per set, and up to $50 for a single card. In much better than average condition generally, and got to be very good value at under $1.25 per card. $1485 the lot MAU17) South Australia 1860 – 69 4d (Gibbons type 3) Imperf plate proof pair, on ungummed, unwatermarked paper in the rose-carmine colour of the 2/-. A pair in black and a block of 4 as per this example was estimated $300 and sold for $650 at a Prestige auction. Horizontal crease, but still an attractive pair. Price $195.

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Graeme Morriss with an information insert.

More than 8,000 boy scouts from New Zealand and other Pacific nations attended the Jamboree which was the largest youth gathering ever held in New Zealand.

suggested that his daughter-in-law, Shirley Collins, a former Art Mistress of Christchurch Girls High School be asked to draft the design. This was the first New Zealand stamp to be designed solely by a woman. Mrs Collins’ 1953 portrait by William Sutton is shown nearby.

The stamp design was based on the Jamboree badge of a kiwi in a circle with text encircling it. The brown colour of the kiwi was chosen to match as closely as possible the bird’s natural colouring, based on two kiwi feathers sent to the printers, Bradbury Wilkinson. The stamp was recess printed using two frame plates numbered 1 and 2 and two centre plates lettered A and B. All four possible plate combinations exist. The plate numbers and printer’s imprint were in the left of the bottom margin and the sheet value was in the top right.

A post office operated at the showgrounds from 29th December 1958 to 12th January 1959. It had a pictorial date-stamp designed by Mr. F Kee for the stamp’s first day of issue and circular date-stamps for use on the other days. The Scouts Association produced pictorial souvenir covers

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

The Postage Stamps of New Zealand, vol. 4, Wellington, RPSNZ, 1964.

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

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Tony Shields receives Honorary FAP Tony Shields started collecting stamps at the age of five.

Nine years later after moving from the country, he joined the Frankston and District Stamp Club as a junior in 1967 and Brighton Philatelic Society in 1968. He was awarded The Ern Allitt Junior Trophy for his B.C.O.F. Japan exhibit at The Victorian Philatelic Association Congress in 1970, and worked for Tam Mappin of Mappin and Curran in their stamp shop over the university holidays. A year later he joined his friend David Kirby and worked at Max Sterns over the next 6 years on a part time and then full time basis.

Within a year of finishing his Economics Degree and other studies, he married and together with his wife, Christine started a mail order stamp business, advertising in The Australian Stamp Monthly, and selling on exchange sheets. He helped re-establish the defunct Eltham Stamp Club (now Diamond Valley Stamp Club) and was its foundation Vice President, and in due course its President for over 10 years. He continued as a member for over 20 years.

He opened his first shop on 1st March 1979 in Greensborough and joined the Australasian Stamp Dealers Association. Within a year he was asked by Max Stern to join the committee, and by 1982 was President of the Victorian Chapter of ASDA and already on its National Board. He became a delegate to The Victorian Philatelic Council in the same year.

In 1985 Tony became the youngest ever President of the national trade body ASDA - now called The Australasian Philatelic Traders Association. He has held that position a record number of times, and undertook a massive restructuring of that organisation in the 1990s to turn its fortunes around and establish it as the most successful stamp dealers association in the world. Membership boomed and Tony was actively involved in obtaining most of the new ones through his international contacts. He also established a national circuit of APTA stamp shows, organised dealer bourses which were only open to the trade, proposed and helped to organise National stamp Dealer Conventions to educate the trade in various business matters, and helped to run a significant number of social events including golf days and a car rally. Many of his ideas for promoting shows and the trade are still used today. It was his idea to overprint booklets for 1989 Tram Show in Melbourne, and that idea has been used by virtually every show ever held in Australia since then, to help raise funds to run the show. Subsequently he did the same for exhibition 46 - Stamp News

covers and Philatelic Numismatic Covers. The idea has been copied by many other trade bodies around the world and even Australia Post and by now has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for organised philately and the trade.

In 1989 Tony attended his first overseas stamp show, which was in Singapore. Since then he has been a stand holder at hundreds of overseas stamp exhibitions, in 22 different countries, and significantly helped to promote Australian Philately in the process. He has joined trade bodies and collectors clubs in virtually all of them. In Australia Tony was Vice President of Melbourne Stamp Show 1989 and the last 4 world stamp exhibitions held in Australia - Melbourne 1999, Olymphilex 2000, Pacific Explorer 2005 and Australia 2013. He was a very active contributor to all of these and it was his idea at the Victorian Show in Wodonga to hold Australia 2013.

Tony and his business have received many trade awards from the national trade body including Dealer of the Year on numerous occasions. In 2002, he was the first non-British person to be awarded The Roland Hill Philatelic Award in London for "Enterprise and Personal Contribution" to the trade and hobby. The award was given by the British Post Office and Philatelic Traders Society. Later in the same year, he became the first ever recipient of the SPAN award from APF, and in 2007 was awarded life membership of APTA one of only 7 people to be ever awarded this honour.

Extract from APF News, August 2016, Vol. 30 No.2 by Gary Brown.

Glen Stephens Rarity Offers For 20 years, my ’Stamp Rarity Page’ has been a “must visit” place for many collectors and dealers, globally - tinyurl.com/GlenRare Large clear photos, and lots of detail, and FIXED NETT PRICES. “Philatelic Porn” as one client jokingly described it as! No 20% “Buyer Fees” to add on top etc. All credit cards accepted - even Amex, and with NO insulting extra fees to you either!

Each month I’ll add here, a couple of items from that page, for the possible interest of readers. Choice material, and special collection offers etc, from all over the globe. Material on that page often sells FAST - within hours of being listed up, and it changes often - weekly mostly, so do bookmark this page, and check often - tinyurl.com/GlenRare

Great Britain 1840 "Penny Back" on COVER!: A very decent looking stamp for these, with three MASSIVE margins and portions of adjoining stamps as you can see - indeed it is from RH side of sheet as letter “L” tells us. It is 176 years old now - clean and fresh. Bright colour, and razor-sharp plate impression. "The World's First Stamp" and ever popular. Neatly addressed to Glasgow - love the no street address! Shipping advice inside from merchant James Brebner, via ship “per Royal George”. Lettered "F.L.” with nice light Red Maltese Cross cancel as you can see. On reverse a neat 3 line boxed arrival in black, and Liverpool dispatch cds in Red of Jan 23. Every collector wants a "Penny Black" on the frontispiece page of their album, no matter what country they collect - if your initials are “F.L.” - even better! Blacks on cover are a lot less common than many imagine.

Probably 500 singles exist for every cover. SG MINIMUM cat on cover is £750. $A400 (Stock 783KQ)

Ireland 1931/40 2/- Pristine First Booklet - SG #SB2, Cat “From £4,750” - just $A925: Black on red cover, not 100% complete, as mostly found, but stamps of all 3 values, and from all panes, do remain in here. Stunning condition as can be seen and PERFECT perfs on all stamps - most unusual – near all have guillotined edges. SG Cat “From £4,750” as a complete booklet. Edition “18.39” as seen on front left cover - so a WW2 era 1939 issue, when most folks had more pressing things on their mind, than a new edition stamp booklet! (The next 2 x 1940 booklets are SG £12,000 each.) The Brusden White ACSC “Booklets” Cat here notes that early booklets are priced for covers only basically, with or without any stamps, as no complete books exist of most. They still value many of those in the $50,000 a booklet region. Spectacularly fresh condition for something 77 years old no foxing or toning or aging etc. Perfect stitching and razor sharp corners. In true “Printed Yesterday” condition. “Show me another” for sale at any price - ANYWHERE on this planet! Around $US685 as I type this - $A925 (Stock 842GK)

N.Z. 2003 Xmas 40c “MISSING SILVER FERN” Variety, Ret $3,500, just $A350: Really spectacular error. In a late printing of the self-adhesive coil rolls 100 of this stamp, someone, somehow, omitted the Silver Fern on 1 stamp in each roll on the printer plate. As it was a last printing, all collectors and New Issue dealers had bought their copies long ago, and this error largely seemed to pass without notice until way off sale. A few used copies later turned up from folks searching mission kiloware, and even so, are $500 apiece, but MINT are really elusive. The Silver Fern will be the new NZ flag design of course, so these have added zing! See - tinyurl.com/KiwiFlag MUH strips 3 - showing the "Missing Fern" error superbly in the centre of each strip with a normal on either side. Campbell Paterson Cat SC45f(Y), $NZ1,750. Stanley Gibbons Cat SG 2649a. Retail elsewhere is $A3,500 for such strips of 3 - http://ow.ly/RT7ck - or strips 6 sell for $A2,275 - tinyurl.com/ FernNZ which only have 1 error of course. $A350 (Stock 692GL) Order via: tinyurl.com/GlenOrder All Cards accepted with ZERO fee - even Amex! Bank Deposit fine, or Money Orders.

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Cinderella Corner Welcome to the first Cinderella Corner issue for 2017. Towards the end of last year, cinderella items continued to fetch well-above generous estimate prices at philatelic auctions towards, indicative the this area of philately is alive and well. The number of collectors interested in cinderellas from Australia and around the world have also increased, raising the profile of the importance of such material. This year will surely see new welcomed discoveries un-

earthed regarding cinderella labels from around the world and remind readers of their numbers and the soaring varieties that exist amongst them.

In this issue, I revisit one earlier explored cinderella from the September 2016 Cinderella Corner following some welcomed feedback from Tony Presgrave. Other labels are also discussed in this edition, including some fairly recently acquired ones bearing the colourful title: Van Demon’s Land.

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There are a number of elusive cinderella labels that herald from the Australian colonial-era. From the 1840s Hobart Wilkinson chemist label, revered as the earliest example of a non-postal Australian label, to the 1899-1900 Australian Imperial Contingent Boer War poster stamp, these items help build breadth to the types of labels, and their uses, that existed throughout some of Australia’s early States. One such item with a fairly longstanding curiosity are the Van Demon’s Land labels presented in this article. The location Van Diemen’s Land, to which the cinderella’s colourful name of Van Demon’s Land is drawn, was changed to the Australian state of Tasmania in 1856. Its original title was coined by explorer Abel Tasman in honour of Dutch colonial governor Anthony van Diemen. The items (as a block of 6) illustrated in Figure 1 first appeared only a few years after this change of name, sometime between 1865 and 1867, as reported in a 1938 newspaper article from Hobart’s Voice. They are, as such, around 150 years of age and one of the earliest of the Australian cinderellas. The written account notes that the image is of satanic majesty (as identifiable in Figure 1). It also notes two varieties of the label: black on bright red and black

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Figure 1 on yellow. The former colour scheme is colourfully (and appropriately) known as Devil’s Mourning.

The block in Figure 1 illustrates examples of the latter colour scheme, and appears to offer a complete sheet (2 by 3) with an overall measurement of 81mm x 132mm. Each individual imperforate label, when separated, measures approximately 38mm x 40mm and bears the following text: VAN DEMON’S LAND – 5 SOULS. The central image of a demon, with mouth agape, is further adorned with a skull and crossbones in the top right hand corner of each label.

An earlier article from the late 1866 French philatelic magazine Le Timbres Post suggests that the labels were created by a Frenchman or Belgium living in Australia. The piece further purports that the fictional currency of 5 souls aligned to 5 French halfpennies, lending further weight to the possibility of a French connection. It is not known, however, if the labels were sold or offered free of charge.

Another article, dated a year later in April 1867, mentions that the cinderellas were possibly affixed to unpopular Government bills and, as such, the use of these labels and the motivation for their pro-

duction was likely to be political. Such a satirical undercurrent at the time of geographical change in Australia was certainly charming!

Figure 2 offers one of the yellow and black labels affixed to the front of a Hobart addressed cover

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dating 29th December 1894. While the label is not tied, it does suggest that this important Colonial-era cinderella was used on a cover more than 30 years after it was first produced. It also highlights the size of the label, as it trumps the size of the one penny Tasmania stamp cancelled to its left.

A modern copy of the red and black label often surfaces, with one example illustrated in Figure 3. This label, with an uncertain date of release, is

much smaller than the original labels, measuring 22mm x 24mm. The features of the demon are also slightly different, including: - The absence of extended fingernails on the demon’s hand - The absence of the demon’s tongue as the mouth appears to be closed.

The copy is also notably glossier than the original cinderellas and is printed on slightly thicker pa-

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Melbourne Toy Fair

Figure 7 per. That aside, there is no indication on its reverse that it is a copy and it uncertain when these were printed.

The Van Demon’s Land cinderellas offer a glimpse into the early world of Australian labels.

They are humorous and rare and further information is needed on them, both the originals and reproductions, to help build greater breadth to their creation and purpose.

Seventh Australasian Philatelic Exhibition

In the September 2016 issue of Cinderella Corner, I illustrated an example of a cinderella celebrating the 1936 Seventh Australasian Philatelic Exhibition alongside a near identical label from New York. The former is rather common and can often be cited tied to South Australian covers. Both are re-illustrated here, respectively, as Figures 4 and 5.

Since listed last year, Tony Presgrave has offered some welcomed additions to these labels and their co-alignment and association. He mentioned that the President of the Philatelic Society of South Australia, Mr. Reuben Sharples, visited the New York exhibition and from the information in the Society’s minute book of the time, it indicated that he brought the New York label back to South Australia and reproduced it with slight alterations for the South Australia exhibition. Historical documents therefore confirm that the New York label was created first and the Australian counterpart then followed.

The Philatelic Society of South Australia was also the only society in the state at the time and its members were the main driving force behind the

The Melbourne Exhibition Buildings, completed in 1880, have hosted, and continue to host, countless events and fairs over a period spanning more than a century. For several decades, one event that has featured in various forms is the Toy Fair. In March of this year, it will be called the Toy Hobby and Licensing Fair and is a ‘leap forward’ in terms of technological advancements to what the fair offered in the 1950s and 1960s.

There are three known poster stamps that were produced to help promote the Toy Fair in the 1950s and 1960s. These were available more than a month before the opening of the event and were distributed to Victorian organisations that were associated with toy products so that they could be affixed to letters and other written correspondences as a means to help promote the Toy Fairs. For example, Figure 6 presents the 1959 Toy Fair label affixed to the top left corner of a Kiddicraft cover postmarked 10th April 1959. Kiddicraft, founded in 1932, pioneered the use of plastics in manufacturing toys. Similarly designed labels are illustrated for the years 1958 and 1960 with Figures 7 and 8, respectively. They each feature a golliwog with arms outstretched as well as The Royal Exhibition Building. The dates of the fair are also printed at the base. Reports of the events from the 1950s suggest that the fairs were well attended by both children and adults. Given that the Toy Fair, or derivatives to the event’s name, existed over many years, it is likely that other cinderella labels exist for

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Market Matters “Post Office” Mauritius In The News

For anyone wondering what the famous “POST OFFICE MAURITIUS” cover, and original copper printing block sold for at Feldman Switzerland early in December - wonder no more! The sale is over, and both piece sold for pretty solid prices.

The famous Mauritus “Bombay” cover was auctioned by David Feldman in Switzerland on December 1. The Feldman invoice price was 2.4 million Euro (then $A3.45M) plus all the Swiss taxes that seem to entwine you, whether you take the piece with you (it sold in the room), or “Export” it by mail or courier etc. Then any GST/VAT taxes of your country of residence all kick in too. Serious dollars on that figure!

The Auction description said in part: Bearing the two finest examples of the “Post Office” One Penny issue, this cover realised the highest price ever for a philatelic item in 1968 (Dale Lichtenstein auction) and can be considered to be on a par with the British Guiana One Cent, which was recently sold by Sotheby’s for $US9.5 million.

Invoiced for about $3½ Million.

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1d Deep Orange, two singles, datelined Port Louis, January 1, 1850, on entire letter addressed to “Thos. Jerrom Esq., Secretary to the Bombay Auxiliary Bible Society, The Esplanade, Bombay”, cancelled by twelve-bar handstamp, in circular format and the right stamp additionally by handstruck “2” in circle; showing “MAURITIUS/G.P.O” crowned circle d.s. (Jan. 4, 1850) adjacent.

The stamps are of contrasting shades and impressions - the right stamp very sharp and the left a little heavier - indicative of the primitive printing methods of single impression from a copper plate on a hand press. Both stamps are of a brilliant colour and fresh, with unusually large margins all round.

The cover has a small cut at right below “Society” in the address panel, and has also been reinforced at the joins. The entire letter comprises a double letter sheet written by the Reverend Langrishe Banks on 1 January 1850.

Surprisingly, the contents of the letter, which concern the acknowledgement of receipt of a box of

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Printing plate sold $A1.9 Million.

Scriptures (Bibles), were not known, until the Weill Brothers dealers in the USA allowed the letter to be opened up in 1976.

The same auction house also offered the small original copper printing plate for the “Post Office” Mauritus pair of stamps, on the same day. They had some surface scratches, and had been bent at some point. I saw it on display at “World Stamp Expo” New York in June this year. The Feldman invoice to a phone bidder, after “Buyer Fees”, was for Euro 1.32 million (then $A1.9 million) before the onerous Swiss taxes were added. Pretty good for a small piece of copper!

Original copper printing plate found.

This printing plate has done a bit of a “roadshow” in the past two years, being on display by Feldman at “Europhilex” in London in May 2015, Singapore World Stamp Exhibition in August 2015, and “Monacophil” in December 2015. And most recently, at the big show in New York in mid-2016.

The 1847 Mauritius “POST OFFICE” stamps were the first colonial stamp issues of the British Empire, and rank among the world’s greatest and most sought-after rarities. 1,000 stamps were printed (500 each of 1d and 2d) but only 27 examples are known to have survived, of the 2 values combined. Near all of those are used, or on cover.

The printing plate disappeared from view for many years, and was rediscovered in 1912, when it was described by Alexander J. Sefi in 1912 as: “the Greatest Philatelic Treasure existing”. Sefi was the legendary dealer, prolific philatelic writer, and specialised collector of this era. He was invited to sign the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1933.

The Mauritius printing plate was then acquired by the also legendary European collector Maurice Burrus around 1930, and was last displayed at the 1935 Silver Jubilee Exhibition, of the Royal Philatelic Society in London. It then disappeared from view, and for many decades it was feared that it had been lost.

However, following the death of Odile Burrus, the niece of Maurice, the plate was re-discovered by the Burrus family. It has since been with David Feldman of Geneva Switzerland, so that it could once again be displayed in public, as it has been for the past 2 years.

Feldman produced superb A4 size detailed catalogues for both the Printing Plate, and the cover, and are both highly commended for those that col-

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Perry Family Moves On.

My fellow magazine columnist, and well known dealer Rodney Perry will be pleased with one Santa’s Christmas gift. His Cape Tribulation “Alkira” Mansion in the Daintree Rainforest, up near Port Douglass/Cairns in Northern Queensland, has finally found a new owner this month.

I suspect no home on earth has ever before had a swimming pool modelled upon a postage stamp design? Rodney Perry did just that, and had a leading architect design his massive new home around that swimming pool, based on an iconic Australian stamp design he admires. The home won top end Awards.

The swimming pool as you can see in nearby

“One Pound Jimmy” Swimming Pool.

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photo, was made into the outline of the famous Aborigine “One Pound Jimmy” stamp silhouette. The home was Rod and Madel’s first new build, and the national Fairfax newspaper chain ran a story on it headed - “The House That Stamps Built” - tinyurl.com/Alkiras - which has more photos.

The Perry’s had listed the home for sale with many agents over recent years, and Rod says in that article, they plan to travel the world when the sale is completed. I will not get tacky and touch on the price range, which has jumped around in a many Million $ price band, but unless you had a lazy 8 figures or so at your disposal, it will not have been quite in your league!

It was set for Auction in Cairns on November 30, and the current agent told the “Australian Financial Review” the owners were determined to

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“Floats” on man-made lake. move on, and the home would sell on the day “totally without reserve”, to whoever made the highest bid. I enjoy the tropics, so carefully raided the piggy bank, and grabbed the dollar coins lost down the back of the sofa, all poised to strike decisively on the day.

Disappointment loomed however, as the agent announced to the national Fairfax press the day before the sale, that a southern state family had made a pre-auction offer the day before, that the Perry’s had accepted, and “Alkira” was no longer for sale.

Perry’s “Alkira” Now Sold.

“Alkira” looks quite spectacular as is self-evident, and Rod says it is sited on about 75 acres of Daintree Rainforest in far North Queensland. The selling agent stated the original asking price was around what it cost the Perry’s for the land, added to the huge cost of building the massive home, in a truly inaccessible location for most tradespeople.

The house is located in the only place on the planet covered by two World Heritage listings - one

for the Great Barrier Reef, and one for the Wet Tropics Heritage area. Rod said obtaining permits alone took about a year, with the design necessitating water to be pumped from a nearby creek, to the man-made lake the house seemingly “floats” upon. tinyurl.com/AlkiraSB is the stampboards thread Rod started on his unique Rainforest property, with many extra photos of it. With a ton of room inside, and a private beach nearby, sounds like quite a getaway from the madding crowds! Nice place to work out of, and they will have many fond memories from there, I am sure.

Where the Perry’s will be based going forward, I am not certain. Rod told me he loved the relaxed and casual and warm lifestyle up there, and when I had dinner with him after Arthur Gray’s funeral, he said that was the first time he’d worn a tie for “years”. My personal hunch however is “Casa Perry 2017” will have a postcode starting with a 3.

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Market Matters our association has been good both for “Jimmy’s” legacy, and Philately. tinyurl.com/AlkiraSB

USA Columbus Stamp Grading.

The American 1893 “Landing Of Columbus” series is globally popular, and as all collectors know, is very expensive. They are all inscribed “1892” but no values were issued until 1893 for some reason.

The high values of $1, $2, $3, $4 and $5 caused worldwide screeching at Sold for 9 times catalogue. the time, due to the “excessive” face value. And York Stamp Expo from Mystic Stamps, for $US1 little wonder - in the half century history of USA million. They like round figures. postage stamps, no postage stamp had ever before I’ve reported in the past that Harmers of New had a face value of more than 90 cents!

York auctioned a USA $5 Columbus for a record Remember domestic postage at that time was price. That $5 stamp - illustrated nearby, had a very a mere 2¢, and even the $1 value was 50 of these obvious short perf at base that the gushing catastamps. Just ONE mint set of these would have logue description did not mention at all, calling it cost a fortune to the average person, even in a well- ‘flawless in every regard’. (Coff) It was PSE “gradpaid job. Getting up near $A1,000 a set in today’s ed” 95 from 100, and I have no idea how that high a money values. grade could be assigned, with a top right corner like In 1893 the average annual salary of a pressman this, and a short perf. in the US Government Printing Office was $1,002 This stamp had a Scott catalogue value of p.a, or $19.27 per week, so this set would have cost $US9,000 at that time of Auction in MUH condinear a full week’s pre-tax wages of a Government tion. It sold for $US67,500 plus the 15% “Buyer Employee to buy, so clearly most did not bother.

Fee”, or total invoice $US77,625 = $A105,066 Only 26,350 sets were ever sold. TINY for the then. That was then near NINE times full Scott USA. The 1913 Roos had TEN times that sold. catalogue value for a MUH stamp, seemingly far So, few mint were purchased, especially of the easier to find than any MUH 1913 £2 Kangaroo. five top “Dollar” values and they are all worth Was the buyer a collector? Quite possibly not $1000s each today MUH, as all are scarce. Conse- - dealer Greg Manning purchased it on behalf of quently, very few large mint Multiples are known, a client, so it may well have been purchased as an due to the massive face value. The only Hi-Val ‘investment’ by yet another American with “far sheet I understand accepted as existing, is a sheet more money than sense”. A classic example of the 100 of the $1 value. I saw it on offer at the New silly American “numerical grading” madness, that 56 - Stamp News

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Quite an 1892 Expo Souvenir! in this case, cost someone a bundle I am sure, as it would not get $US77,625 today, you can bet.

Numerous large blocks exist of this $5 Columbian stamp. American Dealer Harry Hagendorf showed me blocks of 4, 6 (all MUH!) and 8 of the $5 alone at his stand at ‘Pacific 97’. He even had complete plate proof sheets of the 1893 Columbian issue!

I have seen covers bearing sets of Columbian high values, and many singles and mixes, and a pretty one is illustrated nearby of all the top 4 values, posted at the World’s Fair Post Office in Chicago. For comparison, the 1913 £2 Roo does not exist on any cover or parcel tag, and no larger multiple than a block 4 exists, mint or used.

USA 1893 $2 Columbian SHEET found!

As I often write, “the last word in Philately” is NEVER written”. As living proof of that, a full

MUH sheet of 100, of the 1893 $2 value Columbian stamp recently surfaced in Germany, after 123 years of never being recorded by specialists or dealers.

They were folded flat in a manila folder, consigned by a widow whose husband had somehow obtained it, and some pristine MUH examples of the other high values. The sheet had separated into 2 panes, due to the long storage. The gum was pristine white MUH, and colours deep and rich.

The existence of this MUH sheet of 100 stamps, with both the sought after Plate Blocks, was not known to the stamp world until they appeared for sale late 2016 in a second string German Auction house, with an insanely low estimate. An auction with no online bidding option even, and a hopeless website, and not even a photo of the sheet I understand!

Hans Mohrmann in Munich was the lucky Auction who sold these November 15 with little publicity and no online bidding, and earned himself a cool

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Market Matters ~150,000 Euro for doing nothing much at all. He is NOT to be confused with the large Hamburg stamp auction Edgar Mohrmann, purchased

by Christoph Gaertner in early 2015.

The 19% German sales tax would have been avoided, had the vendor or her agent flown or mailed or Fedexed the sheet 100 to the USA. Essentially no sales tax there for anyone savvy. The market for this kind of unique piece is clearly in the USA, and not a small German Auction house with no internet bidding, and as far as I can determine, no catalogue illustration even.

From an opening bid of just €10,000 (about $US10,625), the sheet was purchased by German stamp dealer buyer, Stefan Hempfling. Who, after paying the 20% “Buyer Fee”, and THEN Germany’s 19% value“Private Treaty - Price On Request” added tax on top, bought his invoice total to more Viereth-Trunstadt, an hour’s drive north of Nuremthan $US800,000 - way more than $A1 million. berg.

Cost way over $1 Million.

Hempfling, who is primarily a dealer in Germanarea stamps and covers, also described himself in a phone interview on November 21 to Linn’s as an avid buyer of “unusual worldwide postal history and stamps.” He is based in the small town of

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Scott Trepel, President of the market leading Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries in New York City, flew to Munich to bid in person on this sheet.

Trepel was the aggressive under-bidder on the day, but flew home empty-handed from the auction, with no sheet of 100 in his briefcase.

The sheet’s new owner said the consignor had

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A lowly ungraded $2 cheapie! been an elderly widow, who inherited it, along with many German stamps, after her husband died several decades ago. She gradually sold off the German material, but the sheet of $2 Columbians and the other high 1893 values remained in her safe. She took it to Hans Mohrmann, who told her it would “probably fetch more than €10,000” at auction.

Asked whether he intended to preserve the sheet or break it into singles and blocks for resale, Hempfling said he was open to either option, and that his decision would rest on price. “I would be happy to sell it intact,” he said, assuming he can justify it financially. “Perhaps to a museum, or to a wealthy American collector.”

Estimate at cost of a Year Book.

The estimate on the full sheet of 100 was 10,000 Euro. Just 100 Euro a stamp - about what a current Australia Post Annual Album costs to buy today.

It was as totally stupid, as offering a sheet of 1913 £2 Kangaroos with a E100 a stamp estimate. The

wonders of the stamp auction market, when dealing with elderly widows. Scary.

Clearly that insane estimate was going to be surpassed, and LUCKILY for the clueless widow, it got surpassed by a huge amount. Had a large USA Auction house owner NOT flown over, to try and buy them, and been a very aggressive underbidder, she might have taken a massive bath on the price. Stamp Sellers are truly dumb at times.

The sheet 100 appeared this week in a page ad from the irrepressible Christoph Gaertner of Germany. That is shown nearby, offered for “Private Treaty Sale - Price On Request”. Christoph is a very savvy operator. Hempfling paid over $US800,000, so will clearly want far more than that, and Gaertner will add more on top, so now very clearly a $US1+++ Million mint sheet I’d guess.

I was unable to get an exact asking figure from Gaertner due to time zones, and the weekend, as am right on printer deadline for this Xmas early deadline month. He suggested I phone him back next week, but I am sure we are talking into 7 figures in USD. HOW many dollars more, you can ask yourself! And Memo to the Germans - 1893 was not 126 years ago!

The highest price I can see paid for a SINGLE MUH $2 Columbian was $US92,000 ($A123,000) at Siegels in 2006 when this Loopy numerical grading Cult was at its peak, as it was graded - Gasp - a “95”. The exact same stamp was sold in 2012, by the same auction, for $US77,625, about 15% less.

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Market Matters Some savvy “investment” after 6 years.

These are the American Nutto prices for numerical grades - the perfect centred mint copy I show nearby, I cheerfully sold here for well under $A1,000 = $US700. For $A123,000, would you rather have 125 copies of that, or the near identical looking $2 stamp with a piece of paper saying “GRADED ‘95’ - HOT DAWG, YIPETTY DOO DAAH” typed on it? These grading Cultists are nuts.

To be honest, I can’t A unique Faroes stamp. see any appreciable visual difference between that at less than $A1,000, or the $A123,000 copy on this link following, but what would us Dumb Ole Hayseeds down here know about stamp centering! If you want to see how mad these things get in the USA, visit here - tinyurl.com/2Columbus - add 15% Buyers Fee to it all, and then multiply all their figures by 1.33 to get in $A. Anyway, all very strange. I do like the set. This $2 value depicts “Columbus In Chains”. On the stamp, he is shown facing charges of administrative misconduct, after his arrest in Santo Domingo

by Don Francisco de Bobadilla. The funny thing is Columbus never, ever, set foot anywhere on any part of the USA, a fact most Americans do not know, yet “Columbus Day” is a US Federal holiday.

And few Americans have a clue WHY they are called “America”. Out of interest, I’ve asked 100s of Americans when travelling, and they mostly have no idea. There is no Amerigo Vespucci Federal Holiday there - THAT is for sure! The answer 60 - Stamp News

is, the name comes from Americus, the Latin version of the obscure Italian Explorer Vespucci’s first name.

Something Fishy in the Faroes!

Stamp designers keep coming up with novel ideas to add to postage stamps. Some are pretty corny, but I really, really, like this one, and the research and work that went into it. Real craftsman tanned FISH SKIN has been affixed in little squares onto the stamps!

The Faroes Islands are a remote country in the North Sea, and are of course surrounded by Atlantic Cod fish. Over the centuries Cod fishing has been a mainstream part of the Island economy.

I am booked to fly there in a few months from Scotland, so this recent issue caught my eye - I might even mail a few “Cod Leather” stamped covers to myself from there if still on sale then! Very cool idea. And 1000 hours of work must have gone into the planning!

Glen Stephens

Above & below : Cod Stamps from Cartor Printers.

So how does a fish skin stamp design actually work? They were in principle designed as ordinary stamps with text, face value, and a small shaded drawing by master engraver Martin Mörck.

But the similarity stops right there.

Each stamp has a square piece of tanned Cod skin glued onto it. It is not at all grey and dullish - but incredibly beautiful, and patterned with almost metallic colour tones, which change in hue depending on the angle it is viewed from. And each stamp is unique patterned as can be seen from the photos.

are made with skin of Atlantic Cod fish caught of course in Faroese waters, and tanned by Atlantic Leather in Iceland, and then ‘overprinted’ in “Fire Engine Red” by Cartor Printers in France.

Stamboards member “Aethelwulf” took the 2 photos shown nearby recently, at the big Asian Stamp Exhibition in Taipei. Not great clarity of shots as it was in a glass display case via his cellphone, but they seem very pleased at showing their efforts in

Tanned in Iceland!

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creating these unique Cod Skin stamps!

The Atlantic Cod (Gadus Morhua) is usually about one metre in length, but can grow up to 2 metres, and weigh up to 96 kilos. It lives as long as 25 years, and is found on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Bureau even accepts PayPal! Cod is generally sandy brown, its back and sides are yellowish-green, with grey or brown spots, and with a white lateral stripe running along its sides.

The belly is white or greyish-white. However, it

Glen Stephens can have other colour variations, depending on habitat.

“Stronger Than Cowhide”

Tanning of fish skin is an ancient art, although it has not been common in the post-war period. The quality of fish leather will of course vary, but it is a fact that properly treated skin of cod, salmon and lumpfish etc, is often stronger than ordinary cowhide.

The size of fish skins have made them especially well-suited for producing smaller items, such as shoes, bags, purses and watchbands. Sewn together, they can also be used in the garment industry, and to upholster furniture.

Today’s designers are getting more and more aware of fish skin practicality and beauty - and use is growing.

Stampboards member Greg Jorgensen in Queensland, who collects absolutely everything unusual in new stamp eBay lets the scammers do this. designs and technology, ordered a sheetlet usual stamps with stuff affixed/attached to them can of 10 x 50Kr direct from be found here - tinyurl.com/WeirdStamps the Faroes Bureau, and sent me the scan you see nearby. Fast and easy he said - they even accept PayPal! eBay Scammers still mega Active.

Greg commented - “And they actually smell!

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Market Matters scammers and forgers and con-men on eBay grows like topsy, and they often change names, abandon accounts, get banned etc, and vanish into the green slime ooze where all crooks end up.

Your screaming eBay “Bargain” is no bargain at all of course, when you are later told by stamp experts the gum/perfin/cancel/perfs/overprint etc are forged or altered, and your only recourse a year later is to a deserted Hotmail account that never responds, after cleaning out their PayPal funds.

Clever buying, Mr Bunny!

Try invoking the “Guarantee” so many Bunnies are so comforted to read on eBay lots from these scammers - “Full Refund If Not Completely Satisfied”. Try getting that “refund” a year later from BillyBob395471 - or one of his 100 aliases -

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long abandoned. It is a total Mug’s Game, but very sadly there are 10,000s of active players a year.

If you are dumb enough to buy a “Genuine Solid Gold Rolex” in a dark bar on a Saturday night for $100, you are JUST the sucker these folks try and attract - just READ the stamp faking/cons that goes on, and eBay does NOTHING - tinyurl. com/StampScam eBay cheerfully allows these scammers to change their eBay name at will. The Sydney Forger has used HUNDREDS of names to rip off $ millions from Bunnies. This one current account he has already changed names on 15 times, as you can see. EBay loves his type, as they make a fortune from all the fakes and regums and repairs. eBay encourages all that of course, as they make

Glen Stephens money from EVERY sale, fake or real. They have ZERO interest in whether your collection is riddled with fakes and duds bought there, or who sells it. EBay/PayPal make about 10% from every sale, and they also appear to endorse “Shill” bidding to run up the “Bunnies”, as it is also hugely profitable.

I read that the STAMPS division on eBay is their second WORST performer globally. If true, little wonder, as eBay themselves by their inaction in removing the fakers endlessly reported to them, actively aid and abet their activities. And have driven off all the intelligent stamp buyers back to REAL stamp action houses that belong to Trade Bodies, and dealers who WILL be around in 2 or 5 or 10 years’ time etc.

(not to be confused with Guangzou!) in China.

Then fly to Taipei Taiwan, for a week of driving around the Taiwan countryside - I’ve never met anyone who has ever done that. We have New Year’s Eve back in Taipei for 4 nights. NYE is a massive deal in Taipei, as it occurs even before Sydney, and Hotel prices downtown are totally INSANE - $500+ a night anywhere around Jan 1, as I sadly discovered when booking last moment as always.

Back to Bangkok for some shopping, and another flight across to Manila in the Philippines where I’ve not been for 35 years or so. A day or so there, and a flight back to Bangkok, then Sydney, to wade into the back-orders here in early January, and learn if the kids and their friends totally trashed the house, or only partly so!!

Season’s Greetings To All! “Thank You” to all readers globally, for the The stamp business for me has gone BALLISTIC many phone calls and letters and emails with comthis year. The weak $A has seen a vast surge in orders from overseas, USA especially, and particular- ments - for AND against what has been written ly for better pieces in the 3 and 4 figure plus range, here, over the past year! It has been a most interthat I mostly deal in. Other dealer friends report the esting one. Our mid-year visit to the “World Stamp Expo” in New York was a highlight, and a week in same kind of story and pattern this year.

The Smoky Mountains after it, and a week in Japan.

Super low interest rates globally, and often “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year”, nervous share markets, and even more nervous real to one and all, and your families. Be safe, have estate markets in many countries, has seen a good a great time among your family and friends and deal of savvy money switching into better stamps.

STAMPS - and enjoy the break! See you all in Which often rise 5% or more a year - mostly Tax 2017.

Free for private collectors.

We spent last Christmas Day in the serene tranquillity of leafy historic UNESCO city Luang Glen Stephens has written monthly ‘Stamp Tipster’ Prabang in Laos, a largish city I love, sited on the Columns for over 30 years - globally. A vast library Mekong River, and still not heavily visited by tourof his past articles and photos are found at – ists. Then off to Columbo Sri Lanka for last New Year’s Eve, and days driving around that not often www.glenstephens.com/column.html visited country. Back home via New Delhi, to the usual backlog of work!

This Christmas we fly to Bangkok, then a tiny plane to the rural ROI ET airport, right up on the Lao border that sees almost zero tourists. Two hours 4 The Tor Walk, Castlecrag, NSW, 2068 of bumpy roads later, we stay in a tiny guesthouse Ph: 02 9958 1333 in a remote village, where you stay much as a Thai email: glen@glenstephens.com rural local. Should be rather interesting - as long as they have internet! Back to Bangkok, a 5 hour Website: www.glenstephens.com flight to Beijing, and then down to pretty Huangzou

Glen Stephens

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Rare Australian Decimal Stamp Variations Here are some of the decimal stamps that are hard to find – if they exist at all !

1. The personalised “Stamplet”. This digitallyprinted 55 x 55mm ‘minisheet’ containing a single 60c National Service Memorial stamp, with a tab on the top, could be personalised.

Very few were as they cost $19.95 each. This was only available to National Servicemen from 3 December 2010. I doubt if any were postally used. Stamplets with blank tabs were available in the National Service Stamplet Pack that was part of the limited-edition range of products also released in December.

2.

27c yellow Rose with perforation 14.6 x 14.4. It was issued on 19 May 1982. It is rumoured that a single sheet of 100 stamps was bought by a Victorian company for use on mail. A few postally used copies are around, postmarked in NE Victoria. Never seen a mint one though!

Original perf = 13 x 13.3.

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with a 16mm text tab. There were 8 different variations of this stamp due to the different tabs and the International POST overprint. 4 variations are quite rare: Type 3 – Stamp with 20mm text tab.

Type 4 – Stamp with 20mm generic tab con taining a photo of Australia Post employee, Angela Thom.

Type 5 – Stamp with 20mm personalised (Pstamp) tab.

Type 6 – Overprinted stamp with 16mm text tab.

Types 3, 4 & 5 variations were released on 19 June 2000 and withdrawn on 31 August 2000, 2½ months later. The Type 6 variation was possibly released in September 2000 to get rid of old stock. Other overprinted variations first appeared on 8 September 2000. These variations were not sold at Post Offices. They were only available from the Philatelic Mail Order and Personalised Stamps services. Why did they bother to overprint this stamp?!

4. 41c Cycling imperforate selfadhesive stamp.

Two of these were released in the special ‘Behind The Stamp’ Prestige Booklet on 23rd November 2009.

It is the only fully imperforate self-adhesive stamp released to date. No kiss cut. One had to cut them out of the page with a blade.

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5. 60c Rising Sun Badge ‘1991 – ’. A special embossed variation of this stamp was released on 16 November 2012 in a minisheet attached to the ‘Remembrance Day Coloured Coin PNC’. It cost $19.95. The stamp was cancelled with a gold ‘Canberra’ cancellation. No known individual mint embossed stamps or embossed minisheets exist.

6. 2015 ‘Love is in the Air’ Pstamps. These were advertised on the back of the self-adhesive booklet. This set of stamps was issued on 3rd February 2015. About this time Australia Post was changing the personalised stamp printer to ABnote Australia Pty.Ltd. Guess production of these stamps got lost in the changeover. Have you got any?

If you know of any other rare decimal stamps, please let me know.

David Mallen Australian Stamp Variations, Melbourne david@asv.net.au www.asv.net.au Co-author of the Australian Stamp Variations Catalogue 2011-2015 www.blurb.com/bookstore

Forty-five dealer stands booked at STOCKHOLMIA 2019 Jonas Hällström, Exhibition Manager, recently announced that the 45 dealer stands available at the ‘STOCKHOLMIA 2019’ International Stamp Exhibition in Stockholm, Sweden, have already been booked. The Global Philatelic Network as the Philatelic Partner to the exhibition will have a Mega Stand and conduct a Rarity Auction. Stanley Gibbons, Spink and Christoph Gärtner have booked the three premium stands.

Bulletin No. 1 will be presented on 25 May 2017 at the FINLANDIA 2017 exhibition. It will be included as a supplement to The London Philatelist, the monthly magazine of the Royal Philatelic Society London.

There will be a number of events leading up to the Exhibition in 2019. A Pre-STOCKHOLMIA Philatelic Summit will be held in Stockholm 7-9 April 2017. The Summit will offer a series of seminars chaired by Jonas Hällström.

The topic for discussion is the choice of philatelic material with special attention being paid to philatelic importance. Some of the world’s leading philatelists will be hosting the seminars, which are aimed at collectors, exhibitors and philatelic judges. More details and an application form are available at the STOCKHOLMIA 2019 website.

More information about the exhibition and other related activities can be obtained at the website: www.stockholmia2019.se.

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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 Mandurah PS PO Box 625 Mandurah WA 6210 2nd Tues 4.45 - 6.30pm Bortolo Park Pavilion Cnr. Bortolo and Murdoch Drives Greenfields WA 6210 08 9581 1083 keithmich@bigpond.com Northern Districts SC: Mtg 2nd Mon; Ph: 08 9329 0117 Philatelic Forum: Mtg 1st Mon (ex Jan); Ph: 08 9294 4277 Rockingham & Kwinana (PS of): Mtg 3rd Tues (NB 2nd in Dec) Pres. Malcolm Brown; Sec. Terry Boyd; PRO Lucie Schokker Ph. 08 9419 1604; email: malcolm.b@iinet.net.au PS of WA: Mtg 3rd Tues; Ph: 08 9294 4277 Stirling PS: Mtg 4th Wed (ex Dec); Clubrooms, Charles Riley Reserve, Wendling Rd, North Beach, Ph: 08 9447 7256 The Postmark Circle (WA): Mtg 2nd Mon; Ph: 08 9294 4277 Victoria Park SC: Mtg 1st Wed; Ph: 08 9472 8072 or 08 9450 5280 WA Study Group: Mtg 4th Thurs (ex Dec) 08 9384 1050 Wanneroo SC: Mtg 3rd Mon; Ph: 08 6106 0874.

philatelic clubs & societies new zealand Air Mail Society of NZ: 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 Brothers Leagues Club, 99 Anderson St. 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, Gatton. Kerri Martin, Sec. Ph: 07 5465 3390 Email: lvsc@bigpond.com Logan City SC: Meetings 2nd Thurs, Presbyterian Church, Barry St, Slacks Creek, 6pm. Ph: 07 3805 9226.

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

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

Jan 7 - (1st Sat) 9am to 4pm Orange Stamp Fair, Quinn’s

Jan 1 - (1st Sun) Western Suburbs Stamp, Coin &

Arcade, Summer St, Orange. Ph: Norm 02 63623754.

Banknote Fair, Strathmore Bowling Club, 40 Loeman

Jan 7 - (1st Sat) Northside Stamp Fair. 1st Floor, Car

St, Strathmore. Enq: Chris. 0413355716.

park Building, Manly-Warringah Leagues Club, cnr Federal Parade/Pittwater Rd, Brookvale, NSW. Jan 7 - (1st Sat) Katoomba Stamp & Coin Fair, 9am - 4pm,

Jan 15 - (3rd Sun) Stamp, Card - Phone Card Fair, Bentleigh-McKinnon Youth Centre, Higgins Rd, Bentleigh. Dealers plus huge range activities. Ph: 0418 322 315.

Masonic Hall, Cnr Station & Civic Sts, Katoomba. Ph. 0417

Jan 29 - (last Sun ex Dec) Stamp, Coin & Phonecard

802 754

Fair, Jaycees Hall, Silver Grove, Nunawading. 9am-

Jan 7 - (1st Sat) Sutherland Shire Stamp & Coin Collectors

3pm. Please contact for date.

queensland

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

TBA - QStamp Fair, Southside, Mt Gravatt Show-

Jan 15 - (3rd Sun) Stamp & Coin Fair, 10am - 3pm, Pio-

grounds, Memorial Hall, Logan Rd. Free Entry

neers Hall, Cowper St, Wallsend. 8 Dealers. 4971 3483

8.30am - 2pm

Jan 22 - (4th Sun) Epping Stamp & Coin Fair, Community

Jan 9 - (2nd Mon) - Gold Coast PS Sale, Rm 1, Southport Comm. Centre, Lawson St, Southport.

Hall, 9 Oxford St, Epping. 10am - 4pm. Free Entry, 6 Deal-

11.30am - 2.30pm Brisbane Table Tennis Association

ers, Buy/Sell.

Centre

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

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

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

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

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Fax: 08 9447 8004 Ace Stamp Auctions, PO Box 2076, Ellenbrook, WA, 6069. Ph: 08 08 9297 3040 email: stampdealer@iinet.net.au

There are also about 4950 newsagencies in Australia, and most of the major stores carry a number of copies, alternatively you can arrange with your local newsagent to put one by for you each month.

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Stamp News Australasia Advertising Rates & Data Commencing January 2017 Publication details Stamp News Australasia is published

by Kevin Morgan, ABN 61 577 987 652, at monthly intervals, twelve times per year. Publication date is the 1st day of each month.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Contributor & Advertiser Deadlines February 2017 Issue 3 January 2016 March 2017 Issue 1 February 2016 We reserve the right to repeat advertising from a previous issue if material is not received in time.

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BILBY STAMPS & COVERS _______ www.bilbystamps.com.au ann@bilbystamps.com.au HALLMARK STAMPS ______ hallmark@senet.com.au www.philatelyunlimited.com.au KENNEDY STAMPS P/L _ www.kennedystamps.com.au stamps@kennedystamps.com.au KEVIN MORGAN STAMPS AND COINS _ www.kevinmorgan.com.aukevinmorgan2@live.com PACIFIC STAMPS ___________ www.pacificstamps.com.au info@pacificstamps.com.au STAMP NEWS AUSTRALASIA ____ www.stampnews.net.au stampnewsaus@gmail.com STANLEY GIBBONS UK _______www.stanleygibbons.com sales@stanleygibbons.co.uk STATUS INTERNATIONAL _______________www.statusint.com auction@statusint.com

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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2) Approx 1250 Australian Stamps, unsorted, off paper, retail value $30 3) 110mm Illuminated Magnifier on stand, RRP $35 4) Approx 1250 World Stamps, unsorted off paper, retail value $30 5) 30 Eureka stocksheets, made in Australia on a Hagner machine, our choice of strip sizes, retail value $37.50 6) Australian Comprehensive Catalogue, 3 volumes complete, latest edition, RRP $99 7) A mixed selection of Prinz black or clear mounts (state which) retail value $45 8) A pair of European Made stainless steel 150mm pointed tweezers, in safety wallet, plus a perforation gauge RRP $20.00 9) Approx 1250 British Commonwealth stamps unsorted off paper, retail value $30 10) 500 Different Australian stamps, retail value $25 For a lifetime subscription you will receive all 10 gifts.

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