stamp news australasia december 2008
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ContentsArticlesMarket Matters: Glen Stephens .................................................. 14Woodchip Free Zone: Rod Perry ................................................ 20Australian Stamp Variations: David Mallen ............................ 24New Zealand's Unofficial Stamp Booklets: David Smitham ..................................... 30Revenue Review: Dave Elsmore ................................................. 40Greenland's Grand Old Man: Christer Brunström ................ 42 Cinderella Corner: Tony Presgrave ............................................ 44Philately of Epic Proportions: Rod Perry.................................. 48De-Mystifying the Detail: Andrew McEachern ..................... 50Letters from the Past: Eunice Shanahan .................................. 54SPF-ers: Dave Elsmore ................................................................... 60
InformationNews...................................................................................................... 6Mailbag ..................................................................................................8Auction Diary .................................................................................... 48New Issues ......................................................................................... 64Internet & Email Directory ............................................................ 68Clubs & Societies ....................................................................... ......70Calendar .............................................................................................. 73Products & Services Directory ............................................... ......74Trading Post ................................................................................. ......78List of Advertisers .............................................................. ..............82
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auction news
Irish Republican Army Stamps very popular; GB Tangier Sil-ver Wedding missing overprint (illustrated) sells for £5104; Ireland Booklet No. 22 sells for £8120; Israel market strong with collections selling for £5220 & £3712; Bahawalpur first set sells for £4176
An array of buyers attended the 6th November 2008 Argyll Etkin sale in London one week after The Philatex Show where lots were, as usual, on display for viewing.
The sale featured a number of remarkable collec-tions including Great Britain and extensive British Empire stamps & Postal History; Airmails, forgeries, Cayman Islands, Ireland, Israel, Natal, St Helena, Seychelles and South Africa. Among the British Empire stamps, the Tangier missing overprint on the 1948 GB Silver Wedding in pair with normal (one of just six in existence) stood out, selling for £5,104 (Est £3000 - £4000).
Bahrain 1948 Olympic Games Variety Surcharge Double sold for £1,566 (Est £700 - £800) while the Bahawalpur very scarce first set sold for £4,176 (Est £3000 - £3500). British postal Agencies in Eastern Arabia 1986 11/2a on 11/2d green fine used reached £556 (Est £250 - £300) Botswana 1967 1c Bird Er-ror & watermark SG220a sold for £789 (Est £350 - £450).
Among Airmails a 1919 cover carried on the first Transatlantic flight piloted by Alcock & Brown from Newfoundland to Ireland reached £1856 (Est £900 - £1100).
An unusual holding of worldwide forgeries attract-ed strong interest with Fournier Album No 15 reach-ing £1624 (Est £1200 - £1500) and good interest in Sperati, Spiro and Jeffries forgeries.
A collection of Ireland established over 50 years kept the room busy with 12 lots of the Irish Republi-can Army stamps which survived the fire in the Cork headquarters of the I.R.A. when the Free State Army captured the City in 1922.
Booklets from Ireland saw strong interest with
1940 2/- booklet No. 22 sell-ing for £8120 (Est £5000 - £6000) and 1944 booklet No. 2b reaching £1856 (Est £600 - £800).
A spirited day combined with powerful bids for South-ern Africa where South Africa 1930 1d block of four with central vignette missing sold
for £1,276 (Est £600 - £800); South Africa 1941 11/2d Mine Pair with centre omitted old for £1972 (Est £1200 - £1500) and South West Africa 1943 Reduced size 4d block of four with variety ‘SWA’ inverted was knocked down for £986 (Est £350 - £450).
Argyll Etkin’s next auction will be in Spring 2009.
Argyll Etkin: Sales of £297,000!
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Letters to the Editor may be submitted by email to: [email protected]; or to PO Box 1290, Upwey, VIC., 3158
Editor’s Mailbag
Dear Editor,I would like to bring to your attention to
what appears to be an inaccuracy in Simon Dunkerley's 'Australia in Depth' report which appears on pages 14 and 15 of the September, 2008 issue.
Four photographs, 'Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4' of the Australian War Savings Stamp show an aircraft referred to quite frequently by Simon Dunkerley in the article as a 'Spitfire' which was made by the Superma-rine Aviation Works (Vickers) and also by Vickers Armstrong in the UK and flew with a crew of one (1) - the
pilot.The aircraft shown
on these stamps are NOT a 'Spitfire' but in fact a Bolton Paul P.82 'Defiant' made by the Boulton Paul Aircraft factory, Wolverhampton, UK. These aircraft were a two man crew, with a pilot and a rear gunner who sat in a Frazer Nash turret directly behind the pilot. If you look carefully at the stamp(s) you will notice a 'bump' directly behind the pi-lot's cockpit which is the turret referred to.
'Defiant' were brought into service with the RAF in July, 1939 in time for the out-break of World War 11 however it was no match for the German Messer-schmitts Bf109's during
the Battle of Britain and were withdrawn from daylight operations late in 1940 and used mainly as Night fighters and air sea rescue work.
Another give away, is the tail plane of the aircraft which is entirely different to the tail plane of a 'Spitfire'.
I am surprised that the Australian Govern-ment used the 'Defiant' as its 'Model' for the War Savings Stamp issue as the aircraft has no sig-nificant military histori-cal interest whatsoever for this country. It was not used in this country to my knowledge and was never issued to any Australian Squadrons in the Pacific during World War 11 although there would have been some
possibility of a number of Australian pilots fly-ing the aircraft whilst attached to RAF Squad-rons during the war in England or the Middle East, but surely not in significant numbers as to warrant a stamp being issued in their honour.
What's the difference you may ask? Well as far as I am concerned they are like chalk and cheese and as much alike as a 1913 ½d Kan-garoo and a 1937 KGV1 ½d Kangaroo. Two completely different stamps and two com-pletely different aircraft.
Interesting isn't it!
Regards
Ron Woods(former RAAF)
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philatelic news
AP Honours Australian FilmsThe L’Oréal Paris 2008 AFI Awards Celebrate 50 Years of Pride and Pas-sion Awards Host and Australia’s Favourite Films Revealed!
The L’Oréal Paris 2008 AFI Awards will be hosted by one of Australia’s favourite young actors, past AFI Award winner Stephen Curry. This historical event, the 50th AFI Awards, will take place at Melbourne’s Princess Theatre on Saturday 6 December, 2008 and will be broadcast on the Nine Network at 9.30pm.
The festivities will commence on Friday 5 December with the announcement of the L’Oréal Paris 2008 AFI Industry Awards presented by Digital Pictures, which will also be held at the Princess Theatre. These ceremonies are not only a celebration of 2008’s highest achievements, but are also a major celebration of the history of film and television in Australia.
Widely regarded as Melbourne’s most spectacular landmark, the Princess Theatre is the perfect setting for this glamorous event. It will lend a theatrical magnitude befitting such an illus-trious anniversary.
As a special initiative to acknowledge 50 years of pride and passion in Australian filmmaking, the Australian Film Institute and Australia Post asked the Australian public to vote for their all-time favourite Australian film. Results from an online poll have revealed the five Favourite Australian Films of all time. In no particular order, they are: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The Castle, Muriel’s Wedding, Lantana and Gallipoli. Between them, the five Favourite Australian Films as
voted for by the Australian public, have won 23 AFI Awards, 2 BAFTAs and an Oscar!
The exciting revelation regarding which of these five films received the highest number of votes and is therefore the nation’s
choice of their Favourite Australian Film, will be announced at the L’Oréal Paris 2008 AFI Awards on 6 December, 2008.
Australia Post is further honouring the Australian public’s choice of their five Favourite Australian Films of all time by issuing a series of commemorative stamps on Monday, 3 No-vember. The five stamps have been developed from the poster artwork originally used to promote the films.
Having played the central character of Dale Kerrigan in one of the top five films The Castle, it is a great thrill that Stephen Curry is hosting the L'Oréal Paris 2008 AFI Awards this year. This hosting role follows Stephen’s AFI Award win last year for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama for the role of Australian television legend Graham Kennedy in The King.
The nominees for this year’s L'Oréal Paris 2008 AFI Awards for Film and Television will be announced on Wednesday 29 October, 2008 at the Sydney Theatre.
The L'Oréal Paris 2008 AFI Awards, celebrating 50 years of pride and passion will take place at Melbourne’s Princess Thea-tre on Saturday 6 December and will be televised on the Nine Network at 9.30pm. The L'Oréal Paris AFI Industry Awards pre-sented by Digital Pictures will take place at the Princess Theatre on Friday 5 December, 2008
Australia’s Favourite FilmsThe Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the DesertTwo drag queens and a transsexual set off from Sydney for Alice Springs in a second-hand bus christened ‘Priscilla, Queen of the Desert’. It's a road movie with attitude and the occasional frock.The CastleThe extraordinary story of an ordinary family living the Australian dream: a quarter acre block; a Pool Room; a barbie; and an airport over the back fence. This is the Kerrigan family’s story of their battle with the airport to keep their beloved house, along with a "bloody good set of gates".Muriel’s WeddingLiving in a fantasy world of Abba songs, Muriel Heslop waits for Prince Charming to come along and rescue her from her bul-lying father, her bitchy peers and her small town home of Porpoise Spit. But when Prince Charming is slow to arrive, Muriel decides to take control of her own lifeand rescue herself.LantanaA woman disappears. Four marriages are drawn into a tangled web of love, deceit, sex and death. Not all of them survive. Lantana is a psychological thriller about love, the mistakes we make and the consequences we suffer.GallipoliTwo young Australians trek eastward across the desert to join the army. They face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.
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philatelic news
Hearts On Stamps And Two New DVDs Released By ATA
Retired Cardiologist, Benedict A. Termini, has taken his topical collection and written a fascinating book that covers the topic of hearts in an interesting format. In addition to the checklists of stamps and postal stationery pictur-ing hearts he set two goals. First, he wanted to encourage stamps collectors to explore the world of heart stamps. Second, he wanted to make sure that the information, which he had gathered over many years, was available to stamp collectors.
Additionally his book serves as an aid to the novice collector as he relates how he organizes his topical collections and where and how he locates sources who supply him with both information and philatelic items.
His opening chapter is “Mending Broken Hearts – Cardiology on Stamps”. In layman terms he discusses and identifies stamps showing the human heart and how it works. This is followed by the history of man’s view of the function of the heart throughout history and the development of means to overcome heart problems. Within the narrative he tells the reader about the beginning of the stethoscope, the electrocardiogram, angiography, heart surgery and transplanta-tion and preventative steps to reduce the risk of heart problems.
Next he describes the philatelic uses of the heart as a symbol in the context of love stamps, Valentine’s Day, heart-shaped stamps,
heraldic hearts, playing card hearts, religious uses and the Purple Heart.
Other interesting factoids are found with items such as the “World’s Heartiest” stamps, cover collecting, souvenir sheets, booklets, perfins, cancellations, advertising covers, and cinderellas.
Appendixes list United States Love Stamps and En-velopes; World Health Day (Your Heart is Your Health); World Communications Year; International Year of the Family; and also Betty Boop and I Love Lucy. The book closes with a listing of romantic town names in the United States complete with zip codes.
This book may be obtained from the American Topi-cal Association. Non-member’s price is US$18, however ATA members and those joining the ATA can obtain a US$3 discount. Postage to US addresses is US$2; to Canada is US$3; and elsewhere it is US$7.
The ATA also continues to create and release new topical DVDs. Music on Stamps and Horses on Stamps are the two latest programs that have been put on disk by Harvey and Terri Edwards. The ATA now has over 20 titles that are available to the public. A listing of the titles is available from the ATA – PO Box 57 – Arlington, TX 76004-0057. [email protected] or www.ameri-cantopicalassn.org.
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Market Matters: Knowledge is Power
Nicely boxed - crisp presentation
As anyone who reads my columns knows - “Knowledge Is Power” has been my mantra for several decades.
To gain knowledge you need to read books and catalogues – it is as simple as that.
Too many folks in this hobby begrudge spending money on works that can save them 5 or 10 times the purchase cost, when they first use them.
Philatelic publishing is no goldmine. Most efforts are break even – at BEST. Many self publishers lose a lot of money but continue - as it assists others.
Seldom do I see a new work that stands out from the pack. One such book hit my desk recently.
In fact the only reason I chased it up was the number of auctions and lists that were quoting “Pierron Hong Kong 558MCA Cat £750” etc, and I had no idea what was being referred to!
This is a massive new, full colour, 800 page British Commonwealth miss-ing colours catalogue, for all stamps of the QE2 reign from 1952.
New Pierron Cat.It has the not very catchy title of: “Pierron’s Modern Great Britain & Commonwealth Missing Colour Errors.”
An incredible new work. Every collector of this era MUST have one, and every dealer most certainly should
have a copy, as a LOT of this content is not in Stanley Gibbons
Just one VERY moderate find will pay for it 5 or 10 times over.
The catalogue comes in a superb custom made stor-age box, to keep out dust and humidity etc, which in Australia is most useful.
For dealers, this also means it is a breeze to mail to
clients, quickly and easily.
For the Australia errors 1952 - 2000 alone, you’d need to buy 5 volumes of the ACSC - for $A365 just to look these issues up.
They are all in this one book for $A100 - and you get all the detailed GB and British Commonwealth errors for free!
Retail price in the UK is £49.95 ($A125 at time of typing) plus post. Due to the vagaries of ex-change rates, I sell these to clients just $A100 plus
post! I’ve sold a couple of
cartons already, so they have been a big hit with local col-lectors. SG have left a huge gap in the catalogue market, and “Tom Pierron” has very neatly filled it.
Superb Production QualityThis is no back-yard stamp society effort, done on the cheap. It is very profession-ally laid out, with brilliant graphics and image quality, and printed on top quality low gloss bright-white paper.
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Worth $1,000
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Glen Stephens
The author (whose name is not Tom Pierron!) is a leading collector in this field, and knows his stuff. I understand he owns a printing business in Europe, hence the very polished and professional final product.
He is an active member of stampboards.com and has posted some of his superb material up there for others to admire.
Some of the things photographed on this page are worth well over $A1,000 apiece, and yet most collectors or dealers would not know they were rare errors, even if they tripped over them!
Does this Indian “miss-ing black” stamp on cover nearby look like a $1000 item to you? Well not to me it doesn’t, that’s for sure.
How can you look it up in SG -- they do not list modern issues past 1970 such as that in “Part One”, which is the problem.
Did you know the Bermuda 1977 Fish miss-ing color was worth £3,750? That’s $A8,500 for a modern stamp. You will not find that in SG either as their “Part One” listing stops in 1970.
And hundreds more stamps are in the same cat-egory.
Every QE2 era recorded missing colour is shown here in colour, and is priced accurately, numbers known are given, and other details surrounding it, where known.
The photos of actual error pieces is invalu-able. The various Aus-tralia 1965 5d Christ-mas missing colours are well covered - as a
good example. See the photo nearby –
which shows the ACTUAL “Missing Gold” in a strip of 5, being the lowest stamp in the strip.
Every year dozens of dreamers and/or con-men list these up on ebay etc, at $100s each after creating them with a Q-Tip dipped in Methylated Spirit. And many sell to clueless buyers.
Once you have seen the TRUE error, or a sharp colour photo of it, these crude ebay confections do not warrant a second glance.
This catalogue was cre-ated by a very keen collec-tor of the field, with active assistance of the leading error
dealers on all continents.
Many “Old Friends.”I see a lot of “Old Friends” in here …. many of which I discovered.
The Australia 1992 45c Animal roll of 100 with missing black I bought off a client only as it had a red pen mark through it all, so was unusual.
We both agreed it looked odd. I paid him many times face value for it, which he was happy with, and I forgot about it for some months.
Only much later when fidgeting with the roll when on a phone call, did I notice it also had missing black on all 100 stamps!
A dealer offered me a sum that exactly matched the current economy class airline ticket overseas I’d just booked, which pleased me.
I now see the roll is cat
TRUE “Missing Gold”
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A unique discovery
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Glen Stephens has written monthly ‘Stamp Tipster’ columns for 25 years. A vast library of past articles is
at: www.glenstephens.com/column.html
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Phone: 02 9958 1333 email: [email protected] Website: www.glenstephens.com
Market Matters
How much?
15 years in the making! £24,000 - or near $A55,000 in Pierron, so I should have forsaken the airline ticket!
Cocos Missing PinkAnother “old friend” I see in here is the Cocos Island 1969 4c fish with Salmon Pink missing. In 1984 I found a small block of these in a box of junk, with the colour progressively miss-ing, and totally missing on one row.
No-one had seen them before. Or since. I think there were 3 or 4 strips in the block, so today’s prices are way too low in my view.
I offered them to (the late) UK error dealer Derek Worboys soon after, who offered me VERY many hundreds of times what the box of junk had cost me.
I remember the year exactly, as I’d just taken vacant possession of my new home in Hunter’s Hill. The VERY first phone call I took was Derek phoning from London to make me an large offer. Paid for the removal van – and more!
These Cocos Fish are now £1,750 ($3,850) per strip of 3. To this day I understand it is the only missing colour ever discovered from Cocos, since SG 1 in 1963.
As I first found them by chance 15 years after issue date, I feel sure no others have turned up, so these really should be priced 2 or 3 times higher than now.
Over 80 different countries are covered in this Pierron, with 1,250-plus errors detailed, and more than 2,500 sharp images.
Normal stamps appear alongside errors for easy reference. Known or estimated quantities are listed. Genu-
ine market prices, based on dealer sales and auction results, are included.
How the errors occurred, where and when they were found, and other significant information also appears – often available nowhere else.
Values for all recorded for-mats of every error are includ-ed: mint, used, first day cover, traffic light block, plate/cylinder block, booklet pane, sheet etc.
The electronic version of this Pierron catalogue also is sold on CD-ROM for $A62 to Austra-lia. Files are in PDF format and require Adobe Reader or simi-lar. Order via - [email protected]
Because of the huge file size of the electronic catalogue, it’s impractical to offer it as a download. Instead, it comes on a packed CD-ROM and can be copied to (and printed from) your computer. PC and Mac compatible.
SA Railways CatStaying with the “Knowledge is Power” theme and new catalogues, I’ll mention another useful niche publication.
I was in Adelaide mid October for “STAMPEX” and was given a copy of “The Parcel Stamps Of South Australia – Part One – Railways, Tramways and Bus”.
This has just been released in time for the show by well known local authors Martin Walker and Tony Presgrave.
They told me this has been 15 years in the making. A most useful
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Glen Stephens
Ever seen this used?
book for collectors of this area and is 52 pages, in a font size far too small for many, I’d guess.
Why it was not 52 x larger A4 pages I have no idea, as much of the text is far too small to read readily, and many collectors of this area will have far worse eyesight than me!
Bring your magnifier!It has every appearance of being prepared as A4 in normal font size, and then shrunk down to A5, so I am at a loss as to what that was about, other than to save a few cents on paper and ink?
It may not be too late to revert back to the more usual A4 size for future copies if my guess is right. I showed it to others, and got the same comment re the small font size.
Martin Walker tells me today it is the same size font used by SG catalogues, so readers can be the judge on whether that works when in A5.
Anyway, it has copious numbers of color photos, which is a nice change from many earlier Railway type listings.
The authors are both members of stampboards.com and said there that they had bowed to suggestions and rated scarcity via both “R” rating AND $ prices.
Not always a popular course with collector authors, but the market seems to demand it these days.
A very useful book to obtain for both dealers and collectors. And at $A25 just one barely decent discovery will repay that very fast.
Let me ask all readers – if they saw this nearby ratty look-ing 1930 4d black in a circuit book or dealer
stock at $2 would you give it even a second glance?
Well I most certainly would not have, but with this book you’d discover it is rated “R5” and is valued at $A500!
1930 series RAREIndeed the entire 1930 set in this design are all rated “R5” – and all are at $500 either mint or used – even the lowest 1d value.
I would never have bothered to even ask about a 1d railway stamp, or look it up to be honest, so these books are a great resource.
This scarce set is on plain paper – the sets before and after it on coloured or under-printed paper are also all scarce, but not quite in this league.
Oddly most states did not have very high value Railway Parcel stamps for some reason - despite some very costly parcels being hauled.
For several of the SA series even 5/- top values are reported but not seen by the authors.
This SA £5 depicted nearby is the highest railway face value I can recall seeing. It is a $A1,000 stamp mint, and $A750 used.
Yet even on this set, the 5/- value has not been sighted by the authors, but 3/-, 10/-, and £1 are re-corded. The £1 is the same price as the £5, and all 4 top values are “R5”.
The book has useful sections on all the SA Private bus companies, meter and cash register stamps, and
even the Silverton Tramway issues and all Commonwealth Railway issues. With lots of colour photos.
No used copies?One interesting fact
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A $1,000 item
Buy such things now
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Market Matters
Sold for ~$20,000that Martin Walker confirmed for me when in Adelaide was the 1962 Commonwealth Railways pre-decimal set of 17 values mint, 1d to 10/- have never been seen used by the authors! Not a single value of it.
Pretty amazing as they were not replaced until 1966 with the decimal series. I recently sold complete MUH sheets of 24 of each value, so it is surprising no used copies have been sighted.
Technology is taking over catalogues of all kinds, and Dave Elsmore has a rather useful online railway and revenue listing, that some-times does not agree with this book.
It is sad that even the basic values known to exist in sets etc can’t even be agreed on by both sides, given that very serious collectors are involved.
The good thing about on-line catalogues is they can be amended and updated fast when needs be. Both with prices and new discoveries. I’ll take a closer look at that next month.
We have a wealth of info in Australia on these issues, and it would be superb to see that knowl-edge being combined and amalgamated by common agreement.
Block BustersOne of my long term campaigns has been to con-vince readers to put aside EVERY postally used block of Australia you ever see.
Right NOW most do not have much if any pre-mium over 4 singles.
I can guarantee you in a decade you will look back on this column and laugh to imagine NO-ONE placed a premium on most used blocks.
Many major European basic catalogues as a mat-ter of course list stamps mint, used, FDC, on cover and in USED blocks of 4.
Look at a Swiss/Liechtenstein Zumstein or Italian
or Scandinavian catalogues etc and you will see what I mean.
Stamps worth peanuts as sin-gles are often worth a FORTUNE in a postally used block in many European markets.
Swiss stamps issued in the Kangaroo era can catalogue 500 times as much in a used block, as for a used single.
The 1914 3f Jungfrau is in the basic Zumstein at 3,250 SF a used block, but only 8 SF for a used single. Many Kangaroos would rate high multiples like that.
The same rarity applies in Australian stamps of course. But NOT the prices – YET.
Facit does the same for Sweden and Scandinavia. In the 2009 Facit, the relatively cheap Sweden 1858 12öre blue Arms (Facit # 9) is priced at x 500 for a block of four.
That stamps is18 SEK for the cheapest shade for a used single, but 9,000 SEK for a used block of four of the cheapest shade.
For rarer issues Facit list how many blocks of four are known.
Facit also list largest known multiples. For some issues it might only be a pair that is the largest se-tenant unit, for others it is a block of 20 or larger. The ACSC can do the same.
I sold the 1963/5 Navigators shown nearby in postal VFU blocks recently for $A600 – all with dif-ferent cds, and all correctly dated in period. That is only the price of 4 used sets.
It is certainly true that virtually EVERY Austra-lia stamp from 1913 to the present date EXISTS in postally used blocks - even high values like these £2.
Used blocks existArthur Gray and I discussed this on Adelaide this month, and he agrees with me there are very few
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instances where no used blocks are recorded – and even then we are only guessing they are not out there.
The £1 Leski block shown nearby was used in 1923 and first surfaced on the market this month – 85 years after being used.
But just try finding them if you start collecting them.
Right now, few bother. For years I have been urging the editor and publisher of the ACSC to do so at some point, and I feel sure they will one day.
It will give added reason for folk to buy each new edition of catalogues and will not take any more space or pages than they now do, as they simply add the universal cross hair block symbol to all current listings.
I have discussed this will leading dealers and all agree the demand for used blocks is increasing all the time.
Richard Juzwin told me in Adelaide he fully agrees the market under-values such material at present, and that he is actively buying it whenever he sees it on offer, and hopes the ACSC lists them if future.
Juzwin told me he was the underbidder on this used block of £1 Kangaroos shown nearby at Leski’s October 6th sale in Melbourne.
The stamps are 3rd watermark, and was invoiced to the buyer at just on $A20,000. As 4 singles they would sell for about a QUARTER of that.
Charles Leski told me the vendor bought these blocks in to show him, housed in a cheap $5 type Chinese stockbook.
This block had been in the family for decades and never sold for 3 generations, so had presumably been soaked off a parcel at the time of receipt in 1923.
An equally nice looking £1 FIRST watermark used block came up at a stamp auction in Wales UK a couple of years back, and I know myself, Simon Dunkerley and Tony Shields and several others all bid strongly on it, only to see Stanley Gibbons out-bid us all.
Most of the Kangaroos are known in used blocks, and the archive sales offered the First Watermark
bi-colour high values up to £2 in used blocks with Brisbane cancels, several of which I have sold since.
11 x £1 Roos on pieceI recall Martyn Greive from A-One stamps showing me a parcel piece with no less than ELEVEN x £1 grey 3rd wmk Kangaroos on it, including a block of 6, and also THREE x £2 Small Multi Roos.
It was a new discovery he’d found in quite recent times, among an estate of a man who threw nothing out – even parcel wrappers.
This piece was used in 1933 from Sydney to Newcastle Waters NT, on a 32 lbs car parts air ship-ment. Over £17 on a domestic parcel, so MANY high value used Roo blocks DO certainly exist – especially to USA/Europe..
It is likely all the KGV heads, in all the water-marks and perfs and dies exist in blocks too – but many would be very rare thus.
I once asked experienced dealer Rod Perry if he had even seen or handled a KGV head 4d Lemon Yellow in a USED block of 4.
Rod thought about it for while, and agreed he could not recall seeing one, but also agreed one or more likely existed, if a search were made.
An inexperienced dealer would likely offer it for $50 to $100 on today’s market, but I’d want $500. Watch this space.
I’ve outlined the above and similar facts to the publisher and editor of the ACSC over several years, and if you agree please add to the groundswell.
Publishers need to add good reasons for each new edition to be purchased, and here is a perfect reason for EVERY volume to get new sales.
As I have typed many times our ACSC is the world’s best, but like a top sportsman it needs to keep improving, to stay in that position.
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Philately appears to be holding its own in the present global financial turmoil. Auction Houses here and abroad are generally achieving clearance rates not dissimilar to those in the recent pre-crisis past. It is reasonable to assume, however, that diminished fortunes for so many, on the broad scale that we have witnessed, must dampen enthusiasm to however minor an extent, at least in some categories in Philately.
Personally, I remain very bullish. Specifically towards the type of material I have been recommending in this column during the past six and a half years, that is. Material with visual appeal, suitable for exhibiting, with the scarcity factor, but without the price tag usually accompanying. I’ll continue to provide a wide berth for certain types of material, however. Such as material which rates poorly in the visual stakes, but mightily in price tag.
Here are some categories of material I would not wish to be financially exposed to, even in buoyant times:
Figure 1. And I thought I’d seen it all – but it does come “encased”
Most readers will have at least heard of the “Graded stamps” phenomenon, which has raged like wildfire in the U.S. in recent years. Graded stamps being those, which in terms of centring, are close to geometric perfection. The “graders” of such stamps do so, I understand, by projecting a super large image of the subject on to a wall, and then measuring the margins surrounding the design. A grading of 90, 95, 98 or 100, or variants thereof, is then provided for the more well-centred. It has not been explained to me why grading 91-94, 96-97 and 99 are not
recognised?Auction realisations for even common stamps in
the highest grading can defy belief. Last September, for example, Figure 1, which was described as Grade GEM-100, “ultimate example . . . matchless . . . gorgeous . . . saturated color . . . fresh as the day it was first issued . . . most incredible”, went on to realise US$57,500. By comparison, an average example sells for around US$100. Referring to Figure 1, a wag in my office commented “Perfect for those who haven’t already lost most of their money in the financial crisis”.
One final comment on this phenomenon, rated by the philatelically sane as surely the most unhealthy ever visited upon Philately, is the process of encasing graded stamps (also referred to as encapsulation). I’ve not seen an “encased” stamp (nor do I ever wish to), but the concept evokes a distant memory. In the early ’seventies I bought at auction, for the legendary collector, Charlie Zuker, the famous Australia KGV 2d tête-bêche pair. Zuker (who referred to his prize item as the “teechy-beechy” pair) rightly was concerned about it’s fragile nature; if accidentally reduced to two singles it would be worthless. Later, on a visit to pay homage to Charlie, he produced the pair “encapsulated” within no less than ten hawid mounts. “There, mate. It’s bulletproof”, he proudly exclaimed.
Other items on my “wide berth” list include certain categories which are peculiarly popular in Australia. More than one Trader in the U.K. has confided that they wish they could emulate in their country our obsession for such material. For reasons which escape many, Australia appears to hold “world records” for valuations of:
“Kiss-prints” (more advantageously marketed as 1. “Double prints”)“Ink-cloggings” (eg 2½d Kangaroo “Missing ‘1’ 2. in fraction”)Marginal inscriptions (notably Monograms, 3. Imprints and Plate numbers - including fragments thereof - take your pick of “2”, “3”, “8” or “9” if from base margin of sheet, or “6” or “8” for top margin, etc)Watermark varieties (as in Inverted or Sideways)4. Stamps with holes in them (ie punctured “O S”)5.
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On the visual appeal scale, most reasonable thinking Philatelists would argue that “1”, “2”, “4” and “5” do not rate highly. The less charitable might suggest such categories have a visual rating bordering on lousy. “3” would generally be rated as an improvement in the visual stakes, the Monograms and Imprints that is. It’s the absence of value for money, by my standards, however, which keeps me distant from all of the above five categories. “5” I like on cover, which in general represent value for money, whereas mint or used (off cover) companions usually do not. Incidentally, these punctures mint or used, particularly expensive items, should be purchased only with appropriate expert certification, or a guarantee, such as the excellent APTA Warranty offered by members of this Trade Association. It is a fact that many collectors have cast caution to the wind when buying punctured “O S”, in that familiar, obsessive quest to fill “gaps”.
Items in each of “1” to “5” above have sold for five-figure sums, some up to $50,000+, and six-figures in the instance of “3”. Will such items bring pleasure and profit to their owners? Do items which rate poorly in the visual stakes, in what essentially is a hobby all about visuals, have a bright future? I have my opinions, and suffice to say that for me, fifty grand spent on a thousand selected commercial covers, at an average cost of $50 per item, will produce pleasure, and profit, by the truckload.
I mentioned in the introduction I’m bullish towards “Material with visual appeal, suitable for exhibiting, with the scarcity factor, but without the price tag usually accompanying”. By way of examples, here follows seven subjects with these attributes, acquired during the month or so prior to submitting this month’s column, for an average of around $50 per item. The sources are eBay (4), Public Auction (1 – in a “mixed lot”), Trader’s “box” (1), and Stamp Exhibition (1). Ah, the thrill o’ the chase.
These seven subjects I rate as being very good examples of their kind, which will bring me pleasure, and I believe heaps of Blue Sky profit potential when I decide to part company with them. All will find an appropriate place in exhibits which I compose in the future. Here’s why I like ’em:
Figure 2. One of Australia’s commonest stamps – used uncommonly
Some stamps are just so common that it can be a challenge to find an unusual usage to represent that stamp in a Usage collection. Figure 2 satisfies that criterion for the humble 1942 KGVI 2½d scarlet. This 31 Dec 1947 use of a pair was to send a postcard from Bondi Junction to Java, at the 5d Airmail postcard rate. This is the first example of this rate I’ve noted. Nice enough item, but it’s a pity the 1946 5d Ram perforation change (14 x 14.75) wasn’t utilised for the purpose. That’s one of the rarest solo frankings of Australia.
Figure 3. Highest denomination stamps solo always a treat
Papua New Guinea stamp usage is one of my favourites, as I’ve indicated before in this column. At one point in time I was able to “win” most of the useful items of PNG appearing on eBay, usually for embarrassingly small sums. I did make the suggestion that readers should consider taking up the challenge of PNG usage collecting. Lately I’ve been
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winning very little, which suggests one or more out there took my advice. Philatelic self-flagellation has long afflicted me. Figure 3 fortunately I did win. This is the only example of the 1966 $2 Butterfly I’ve seen on cover, and being solo it’s a gem. Used 10 July 1969 from Boroko to Canada, $2 was for 4-4½ozs. airmail (20c per ½oz. x9 = $1.80) plus registration (20c). The Canadian “Cleared Customs” datestamp adds a nice finish.
Figure 4. Scarce rate, censor, attractive stamps = sweet package
The Fijian KGVI 1938-55 Pictorials are another personal favourite, and my usage exhibit welcomes Figure 4. This is a 2 Sep 1942 airmail cover Suva to San Francisco bearing the attractive 2d x2 and 1/-. The all-the-way airmail rate to U.S. was 2/10d per ½oz. This item is endorsed “Honolulu to U.S.A.” alongside printed Air Mail panel, the rate for this part-way airmail being 1/4d only. This is a scarce rate, complemented by scarce Fijian Censor tape/handstamp combination.
Figure 5. “One Pound Jimmy”, off to Hong Kong
The 1952-66 2/6d Aborigine is scarce as a solo franking. It is most likely, although rarely, to turn up on airmail articles to parts of Latin America, that rate being 2/6d per ½oz. Figure 5 is an unusual (and very rare) solo franking of the unwatermarked printing used 5 Feb 1959 on registered airmail cover Wahroonga to Hong Kong. 2/6d was split evenly between ½oz. airmail rate (1/3d) and registration fee (1/3d). This was the item in the Public Auction “mixed lot” mentioned above. Such “finds” are becoming increasingly infrequent as scarcer usage items become better understood and appreciated by Auctioneers, and are offered as individual auction lots.
Figure 6. From the little known Colonel Stacy W. Clapp Jnr correspondence
I’m always on the lookout for attractive examples of usage of the PNG 1/7d Cattle, a stamp which ignited my commercial senses back in the ’sixties, when it became an Australasian “glamour” stamp. As a solo franking on commercial covers (I dispassionately regard philatelic covers produced by the Papuan Philatelic Society et al) the 1/7d is rare. The stamp was issued on 2 June 1958 when 1/7d paid the 4d Letter rate + 1/3d registration fee. The rates increased to 5d + 2/- (hence the later 2/5d Cattle) on 1 October 1959, so there was not a great deal of time for valid solo use of the 1/7d. Even as a combination franking, the 1/7d is rather scarce. Figure 6 has it with the 3½d black, itself uncommon on cover, for a 26 June 1958 registered use Port Moresby to U.S. Forces member in New York. The unusual rate of 1/10½d paid 7½d Foreign letter + 1/3d registration fee. Attractive combination
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Rod Perry has been a philatelic trader since 1962 and a Stamp News advertiser since the 1960s . He founded Rodney A Perry Auction Galleries (now Millennium Philatelic Auctions) in 1971. As a collector he has exhibited nationally and internationally. Rod prefers his used stamps on cover and likens taking a stamp off its original cover to converting a tree to woodchips. Past editions of this column may be accessed on Rod’s ‘rap.com.au’
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for my taste. Incidentally, PNG also had a 1/7d Stationery Registered Envelope for combined letter rate/registration. This had issued 1 September 1959, one month before the rate change rendered it’s primary use obsolete. Little wonder, therefore, that this is such a scarce item commercially used. Surprisingly, they generally sell for under $200, which I regard as a steal.
Figure 7. Rare usage items can turn up in most unlikely places
Figure 7 is from a five-decade run of correspondence from West Germany to Australia, which I bought at Stampex 2008 in Adelaide. I like correspondences to Australia; they can be interesting socially as well as philatelically. This particular group comprised over 1,100 covers, and I made only a cursory glance before agreeing to buy. I sorted them when they arrived in Melbourne, and was pleasantly surprised to find this underpaid and taxed cover. The correct rate was 90pf rather than 80pf, and the underpayment was indicated in international currency “15c” (centimes), which equated to a double-deficiency of 2d, for which the QEII 2d brown was affixed, and cancelled at Brisbane University P.O. on 23 Dec 1965. Solo uses of this 2d are very scarce; I’ve seen them only on underpaid covers during the 5d Letter rate regime. As luck would have it, this 2d is the Helecon paper printing, which is very scarce on cover in any form. This is the first solo use of a Helecon 2d I’ve noted. Being acquisitive by nature often brings it’s rewards.
Figure 8. Convergence of two passions in one item
My Philatelic interests include the broad subject of articles from around the world sent by airmail to Australasia, and unusual airmail labels (etiquette’s) on cover, from and to any country. Figure 8 combines both of these interests. A 22 Sep 1942 cover from Republic of Panama to Auckland, it was sent airmail via Portugal, and being during wartime was censored upon arrival in N.Z. This is an exotic origin/destination, enhanced by the presence of an unusual and striking airmail label, apparently of a private nature rather than Post Office issue. It’s unlisted in the Catalogue of Airmail Labels, by Günter Mair. This is an excellent publication, hard-to-get, although occasionally found in auction catalogues and on the internet, where I obtained mine. It provides an excellent excuse to collect any country of the world which has issued such labels, and provides a logical common denominator for an otherwise illogical pursuit. Labels of the 1920s and 1930s, in particular, can make for a very attractive combination with the stamp/s present on the cover. This is a highly recommended pursuit for the more philatelically ambitious amongst readers. Incidentally, the observant will note that this is the subject bought from a Trader’s box. I deliberately left the pencilled “50 -” in lower right corner, as it conveniently reflects the average cost of around $50 per item referred to in this article!
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Australian Stamp VariationsDetails of the main variations in recent stamp issues
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www.stamps.com.auYou may have noticed that Australia Post has a new internet address for stamp products: www.stamps.com.au. It came on-line at 12 noon on 8th October. Clicking on the Shop’s “Stamps” page displays an index of available stamps sets (pictured). The index appears to be in random order. Clicking on a specific set’s logo takes you to that set’s page which has an improved layout. Each product and variation is listed on the righthand side of the page. Clicking on a specific product displays an enlarged image and price, however the text details remain the same. The Technical Details relate to the gummed sheet stamps and do not change if you click on another product or variation, such as one containing self-adhesive stamps or gummed stamps of a different perforation. The perforations of many sets are still incorrect (see Footnote, below). The stamp variations contained in prestige booklets and the issue dates of individual variations within a set of stamps are not given. If you click on “Future Issues” in the For Collectors tab you get a list of issues planned for 2009. The remaining 2008 issues are not shown! There is also a link to the Commonwealth Bank’s Currency Converter for international clients.
A handy feature is the ability to save the stamp images with good resolution. To do this, do not select “Click to Enlarge”, but right-click on the image and select Open Link in New Window. Then right-click on the new
image and select Save Image As. Select file type JPG or BMP as required and left-click Save. The JPG files are 72 pixels per inch which is good enough for displaying on the screen.
While the website has been improved there is still a way to go to show what is actually issued and list the full details collectors require. What do you think of the “new look” website? What information would you like to see? Do you like seeing coins on a stamps website? Should the non-Australian stamps be on separate pages? You can leave feedback on the Contact Us page and/or send a letter to the Stamp News editor and/or post a comment on Stampboards at: www.stampboards.com To view the existing comments from Stampboards members go to: http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=8875
MegafaunaTo celebrate Stamp Collecting Month (SCM 2008) a mega set was issued on 1st October. 2 values and 6 designs were issued in a plethora of variations. There were 10 different formats of blocks, strips and pairs of the gummed stamps and 2 different perforations. The last 8 pages of the prestige booklet contained 8 different minisheets. The
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separate minisheet with se-tenant pairs of 55c & $1.10 stamps was perf 13.9 x 13.9. The gutter of the gummed sheets of 50 x 55c stamps contained images of skeletons. For the self-adhesive collector, the four 55c stamps came in a booklet, chequebook and roll of 200.
MegafaunaVariations 30 Cost $53.20Issue Date 1st October 2008
Stamp Value & Design 55c Genyornis55c Diprotodon55c Thylacoleo55c Thylacine$1.10 Megalania$1.10 Procoptodon
Perforations Gummed stamps: Sheet & prestige booklet: 14.6 x 13.9 Minisheet: 13.9 x 13.9 *Self-adhesive stamps: Booklet & Roll: 11.5 x 11.2 (IDC simulated perforations)
Blocks, strips & pairs 4 x 55c se-tenant strip2 x 55c Genyornis2 x 55c Diprotodon2 x 55c Thylacoleo2 x 55c Thylacine4 x 55c se-tenant block of 455c Genyornis & $1.10 Megalania *55c Thylacine & $1.10 Procoptodon *$1.10 Megalania & $1.10 Procoptodon (vertical)$1.10 Megalania & $1.10 Procoptodon (horizontal)
Gutter 10 x 55c (skeletons in the gutter)Minisheets 4 x 55c & 2 x $1.10 *
2 x 55c Genyornis pair2 x 55c Diprotodon pair2 x 55c Thylacoleo pair2 x 55c ThylacineSe-tenant 55c block of 42 x $1.10 Procoptodon pair2 x $1.10 Megalania pairSe-tenant $1.10 pair (vertical)
Self-adhesiveStamps
55c Genyornis55c Diprotodon55c Thylacoleo55c Thylacine
More OccasionsSeven full-perf self-adhesive variations from the “For Every Occasions” set were issued in October. They were contained in minisheets in prestige booklets and were sold for approximately 10% above face value. On 2nd October four “Special Occasions” booklets were available. These were titled: “Tying the knot”, “Love is”, “Love” and “A day to remember”. Similarly on 28th October three booklets were available: “Babies”, “Celebrate” and “Happy Birthday”. There were five minisheets per booklet each containing 4 self-adhesive stamps.
See November Stamp News for the first part of this set issued on 15th and 23rd September. For the full set there were a total number of 89 variations at a cost of $349.
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For Every Occasion (Contd.)Variations 42 Cost $117.60
Issue Dates Full-perf self-adhesive stamps:2nd October 2008 *28th October 2008 **
Stamp Value & Design
55c Gold Rings *55c Silver Rings *55c Heart and Roses *$1.10 Bridal Gown *55c Baby Feet **55c Sparklers **55c Balloons **
Perforations 11.5 x 11.2(IDC simulated perforations)
Minisheets 5 x “Tying the knot” (4 x 55c Gold Rings)5 x “Love is” (4 x 55c Silver Rings)5 x “Love” (4 x 55c Heart and Roses)5 x “A day to remember” (4 x $1.10 Bridal Gown)5 x “Babies” (4 x 55c Baby Feet)5 x “Celebrate” (4 x 55c Sparklers)5 x “Happy Birthday” (4 x 55c Balloons)
Self-adhesiveStamps
55c Gold Rings55c Silver Rings55c Heart and Roses$1.10 Bridal Gown55c Baby Feet55c Sparklers55c Balloons
Made in China
The Beijing 2008 Olympic Gold Medallist sheetlets printed in China in August finally arrived (by slow boat ?) on 10th October! The stamp images are quite different from those printed in Australia. The colour has a greenish tinge and the background is graded rather than a solid yellow. If you want to add the Chinese variations to your collection you could keep the selvedge, with the Chinese logo, attached to the stamps to distinguish them
from the Made in Australia ones. The total number of variations for this issue is now 42 at a cost of $210.
ParalympicsAt 12 noon on 24th October a sheetlet of ten 55c Paralympian of the Year stamps was available
following the previous night’s announcement of the winner, Matthew Cowdrey.
Paralympian of the YearVariations 1 Cost $5.50Issue Date 24th October 2008
Stamp Value & Design 55c Matthew Cowdrey
Perforations 14.4 x 14.4Sheetlet 10 x 55c
ChristmasThe October issues were completed on 31st with the remainder of the Christmas 2008 set. Full perf self-adhesive stamps were issued in sheetlets ($1.20) and
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Footnote: The cost quoted in the above summary tables is the minimum cost to obtain one of each variation. Many variations are only available in sheetlets or booklets containing multiple stamps and are often sold above face value. The cost does not include the cost of single gummed sheet stamps when issued. Scan the QR code with your mobile cell phone to go to the ASV home page. Find out what Australia Post actually issued this year in my ASV 2008 Catalogue.
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booklets (50c Baubles & 50c Icon). A special 50c Baubles sheetlet embellished with gold foil and textured varnish was also released.
See November Stamp News for the first part of this set issued on 15th September. For the full set there were a total number of 42 variations at a cost of $112.
Christmas 2008 (Contd.)Variations 7 Cost $42.00Issue Date 31st October 2008
Stamp Value & Design
50c Baubles50c Religious Icon (Madonna and Child)55c Religious Icon (Angel)$1.20 Religious Icon (Wise Man)
Perforations Gummed stamps: 14.6 x 13.9Self-adhesive stamps: 11.5 x 11.2(IDC simulated perforations)
Image 50c Baubles (gold foil and varnish)Self-adhesive
Stamps50c Baubles50c Baubles (gold foil and varnish)50c Religious Icon (Madonna and Child)$1.20 Religious Icon (Wise Man)
Sheetlets 10 x 50c Baubles (gold foil and varnish)5 x $1.20 Religious Icon (Wise Man)
November is “Stamp Variations Month”. From their “Impressions” catalogue, Australia Post will release many different and expensive variations of this year’s issues as well as many reprints of previously released stamps. In November 2007 there were 34 postage stamps, 29 collectable stamps and a total of 132 variations. This excludes the Annual Collection. Don’t miss next month’s
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One interesting aspect of collecting New Zealand stamps is to collect stamp booklets issued by the New Zealand Post Office and later, by New Zealand Post. It is not proposed to cover such issues as these are adequately covered in section W of Campbell Paterson’s loose leaf catalogue of NEW ZEALAND STAMPS. They can quite properly be termed official stamp booklets as they were issued and sold via a postal authority through its retail outlets.
Unlike many other countries, New Zealand is blessed (some may say cursed!) by alternate postal service providers; some of whom have also issued stamps in booklet form for their customers’ benefits. Many have been reported in earlier issues of Captain Coqk in an ongoing series compiled by Graham Muir entitled From the Other side of the Fence. As these booklets were produced by a postal service provider they too can be classed as official stamp booklets and will not be covered in this article.
So, what are unofficial stamp booklets? It would be easy to classify them as being privately produced. It would be wrong to do so because as we shall see later in this article some were produced by New Zealand Post and sold over post office/post shop counters for sale to Joe Public! Before opening up a can of worms about official stamp booklets versus unofficial stamp booklets being determined solely by their general or restricted availability – please remember that these classifications maybe somewhat obfuscated in that 1986 the New Zealand Post Office produced 2 stamp booklets that were sold at
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their stand at the Stockholmia ’86 FIP world stamp exhibition. These are given full listing in Campbell Paterson’s catalogue!
Whether termed official, private or unofficial, such stamp booklets have been produced over the past 30 years or so. They add interest to a New Zealand collection and more so to a booklet collection. Some were produced as fundraisers for stamp exhibitions by various exhibition organisers and as such were sold above the face value of their contents – for obvious reasons! Some were even produced by New Zealand Post and were sold at the face value of their contents. Some have even been produced for sale at less than their contents’ face value!
Initially this article was prepared along chronological lines, but as more information was received it became obvious that this would be messy, and difficult to follow. Accordingly it is broken down into 4 sections: complimentary booklets, booklets for sale below face value, booklets for sale at face value, and booklets for sale above face value.
1) Complimentary booklets: freebies! Everyone likes freebies or giveaways, and yes there have been a number of giveaway booklets containing valid New Zealand postage stamps over the past few years. The first was in mid 2004 when New Zealand’s postage rates increased from 40c to 45c for domestic letters.
The Australia and New Zealand Banking Corporation was involved with a New Zealand Post trial of customised advertising stamps. All New Zealand Post customised advertising stamps bear the New Zealand Post logo (and no country name) at the foot of the vertical colour stripe to the right of the stamp’s design.
Fig. 1: 2004 ANZ Bank booklet Fig 2: 2004 BMW Christmas card booklet
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The New Zealand Post trial was to gauge the success of a scheme whereby it offered a service to clients that showed it could compete against New Zealand’s alternative postal service providers who were already offering this service for clients.
Three different 5c ANZ customised advertising stamps were produced featuring Haddad’s Menswear, Passage Rock Vineyard and United Fisheries – all business clients of the ANZ bank. These and all later customised advertising stamps were printed in sheets of 50 and it isn’t exactly easy to divide 50 by 3 evenly!
The ANZ bank sent out the 14.0 x 10.5 cm booklets to some of its business customers in mid 2004 to give clients make up stamps for the new 45c base letter rate. These comprised a horizontal block of 6 stamps (i.e. two sets of the three 5c ANZ Bank stamps). Incidentally to help use up the odd 5c ANZ stamps, blocks of four were given away loose with Metro magazine; hence a sheet of 50 stamps would provide five booklet blocks of six and five magazine blocks of four.
The booklets were produced in a 3 panel vertical folding “C” format. The outer two panels had die cuts which when correctly folded let the viewer see one or more of the ANZ 5c stamps. The block of six ANZ self adhesive stamps was held in place via one upper and two lower semicircular die cuts – the upper die cut being inverted in relation to the others. The central panel held the block of six ANZ stamps and the rubric underneath the block read: So here’s something to help with the increase in postage this month.
In late 2004 BMW New Zealand produced white
14.0 x 14.0 cm Christmas cards, in a 3 panel vertical folding “C” format similar to the ANZ booklets, with an embossed simulated perforated outline of a BMW wheel’s spokes on the front cover.
This Christmas card booklet was distributed as a gift to BMW clients who had purchased a new car during the year. That seen was from the Christchurch BMW franchise and came in a silver and white outer envelope. Similar Christmas card booklets from other New Zealand BMW franchises also probably exist.
The inside front cover and centre panel of the Christmas card booklet bore Christmas messages. The inside rear cover contained a single 45c customised advertising stamp which featured a wheel with a BMW logo in the centre. The BMW self adhesive stamp was held in place by two semicircular die cuts – the upper die cut being inverted in relation to the lower.
The rubric to the left of the 45c BMW stamp read: Share your summer experience with your family or friends in New Zealand and send them a postcard with the BMW stamp provided, alternatively you can add this stamp to your collection. This stamp is legal tender.
The BMW 45c customised advertising stamp was the third such issue. It was also the second and final corporate stamp issued in conjunction with New Zealand Post as part of a trial to gauge the success of the customised advertising stamps scheme.
Since then a number of organisations have used New Zealand Post’s customised advertising stamps to promote their own business with many being sold
Fig 3: 2008 Fisher Funds promotional bookletFig 4: One of several different 1993 WWF/conservation
discount stamp booklets.
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(at a loss) at face value to clients wanting to purchase these stamps. Such stamps cost considerably more than face value to produce and presumably these losses can be written off as a business advertising expenses.
One of the more recent customised advertising stamps to be produced was also given away in booklet form by Fisher Funds to clients and potential clients at various investment seminars held around New Zealand in 2008 to promote their business. The 15.5 x 9.0 cm Fisher Funds booklet comprised a strip of four Fisher Funds 50c conventionally gummed customised advertising stamps.
They were held in the booklet by the lower panel, in a 3 panel horizontal folding “C” format. The edges of the lower panel were sealed to the central panel. This is believed to be the first such New Zealand customised advertising stamp to be released in a booklet format since the 2004 New Zealand Post/ANZ & BMW trials and the first with conventionally gummed personalised advertising stamps since their introduction by New Zealand Post in 2007.
Booklets sold below face value:2) it is believed that an Auckland manufacturer was behind the production of a number of discount priced stamp booklets for resale by dairies, etc. It is thought the entrepreneur was able to purchase stock, and repackage it for sale via stamp booklets still at a discount from face value.
Discount stamps – 1993 WWF $4.20: two different $4.20 stamp booklets bearing 10 x 45c WWF stamps have been seen, and others probably
also exist. Each booklet was printed in black and featured a different 1993 45c conservation stamp with the WWF logo, corresponding to the booklet’s contents.
A pale pink cover featured the kaka, Chatham Island pigeon and giant weta stamp whilst a pale cream cover featured the yellow eyed penguin, Hector’s dolphin and NZ fur seal stamp. The survival rates of booklets such as this will be very low as they were produced for sale to customers who would use the stamps rather than keep them for their collection.
Booklets sold at face value: 3) these were produced for sale at postal outlets at face value, and surprisingly a number of them were produced by local New Zealand Post outlets.
Ferrymead 1980: Ferrymead historic village located in the south east of Christchurch features many historic buildings and businesses from the settlement of Canterbury period. One such building located there is a post office. Initially the Ferrymead post office was sited in a small temporary building in the park. It has its own pictorial date stamp and sells stamps to visitors. One of the volunteers manning the Ferrymead post office arranged for a number of booklet folders to be printed in red ink. These booklets were sold after the opening of the post office at Ferrymead on 5 April 1980.
The booklet covers featured the Ferrymead Historical Society’s logo in red on the front and were printed in the Ferrymead Print Shop (located elsewhere within the Ferrymead historic village’s
Fig. 5: Ferrymead 1980 Booklet Fig. 6: Ferrymead 1994 Booklet
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precinct. The booklets were produced to promote the Ferrymead Historical Society and were sold at face value. Details of the producer [Available from/P. & T. Collectables/P.O. Box 2500, /Christchurch N.Z.] are located on the booklet’s inside flap at the right reading downwards. They may be found with ten 45c 1994 Christmas stamps (affixed to the covers by the sheet’s selvedge) or, with various other NZ stamps.
Ferrymead 1994: on 24 April 1994 a new permanent building was opened as the Ferrymead post office and is open to visitors every week end, on public holidays and by arrangement for school visits, etc. This building is depicted on the front and the Ferrymead Post and Telegraph Historical society’s logo is depicted on the rear of a second booklet cover which was produced after the opening of the new post office and is in use today. The booklets were printed in grey and red., and there is nothing printed on the flap at the right.
The most recently seen booklet featured this design and contained 5c stamps as a make up convenience when domestic letter postage rates increased on 28 March 2008 from 45c to 50c.
Gisborne Health Camp 1995-1997: Gisborne Health Camp sold health stamps in folders, measuring approximately 14.3 x 3.7 cm, for the years 1995, 1996 and 1997. Each bore the blue and white Te Kainga Whaiora children’s health camp and school self adhesive label and also a three line rubber hand stamp impression with the health camp’s address and telephone details.
In 1995 the booklet cover was blue and contained ten 45c + 5c triangular skateboarding health stamps which were stapled to the cover. The booklet covers may be found with the health camp’s cricket pictorial 21 June date stamp.
For 1996 the booklet cover was pale blue and contained ten 40c + 5c child in car seat (sans teddy bear!) self adhesive health stamps stapled to the cover. The 1997 booklet cover was orange-
yellow and contained ten 40c + 5c fruit picking self adhesive health stamps stapled to the cover.
Gisborne Health Camp 1998-2002: the Lions Club of Gisborne sponsored the production of new style stamp booklets which measured approximately 6.5 x 9.6 cm. Each bore the health camp’s logo - a stylised version, in colour, of a young boy and girl waving happily to the viewer. In addition there was a five line rubric detailing the year, contents, donation and booklet cost. The rear of each cover bore the sponsor’s logo and details of the number (800) produced. It is unlikely that the number produced of the earlier years exceeded this figure.
The 1998 booklet cover was yellow and contained ten 40c+ 5c child in lifejacket sheet health stamps. A New Zealand Post circular sighted from the Gisborne Post Shop (ref 2) advised that these booklets would be sold at both the Gisborne Health Camp and also at the Gisborne Post Shop at face value ($4.50) with the 50c surcharge going to the Gisborne Health Camp. Collectors could, if they wished, have the booklet covers cancelled with their 24 June lifebuoy pictorial date stamp.
It is interesting to note that on the circular a proof of the booklet cover is depicted. It showed: Proudly supported by Gisborne’s/Post Shop in Grey Street/A maximum of only eight/hundred booklets in four lines at the top of the rear booklet’s cover.
The 1999 booklet cover was pale blue and contained ten 40c + 5c A Lion in the Meadow child’s reading book sheet health stamps. The 2000 booklet
Fig. 7: Gisborne health camp 1995 booklet Fig. 8: Gisborne health camp 1998 booklet
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cover was pale blue also and contained ten 40c + 5c teddy bear sheet health stamps. No Gisborne Health Camp stamp booklets were issued in 2001.
The 2002 booklet cover was red with the health camp’s logo and rubric now all printed in black ink, and contained ten 40c + 5c vegetables self adhesive health stamps stapled to the booklet’s cover. It is likely that owing to rising production costs these booklets were only printed in one colour and as such were the last to be produced by the Lions Club of Gisborne.
$4.50 smiley 1996: it is believed that an Auckland producer was behind the production of a number of unofficial stamp booklets for resale by dairies. It is thought the entrepreneur was able to purchase stock, and repackage it for sale via red coloured stamp booklets at face value.
A red card cover (not unlike those used by New Zealand Post for their stamp booklets) was used for these unofficial stamp booklets. There is no evidence on the booklet cover about the issuer. $4.50 written by a black marker pen (faint traces of the marker pen ink may be seen on the inside front cover) appeared on the front of one cover with a 1.5 cm diameter smiley face icon produced by an ink stamper – often used for children.
This booklet comprised a folded strip of ten 1996 child in car seat (sans teddy bear!) 40c + 5c health stamps affixed by the sheet’s selvedge.
Of course with plain covers such as this anyone can manufacture these booklets today, but for what purpose? Postage rates for domestic letters increased to 50c on 28 March 2008 so $4.50 stamp booklets now would be pointless to produce. $5.00 booklets with plain red covers would be fine, but again why would one wish to manufacture such? Manufactured for a collection? It would be hardly worth the expense
involved. The survival rates of booklets such as this will be very low as they were produced for sale to customers who would use the stamps rather than keep them for their collection.
New Zealand Post Auckland 1998: until 1998 there was a competition between the Auckland post shops as to which could sell the most health stamps and the booklet issue was seen as a way of boosting sales. From documentation sighted by this writer (ref 1) it appears that a marketing strategy in 1998 was undertaken in Auckland (by Tise Wilson, manager Remuera post shop) to promote the sales of health stamps via stamp booklets. A total production cost of $700.00 was involved as New Zealand Post arranged Haysom Print, located in Onehunga, to print 5000 booklet covers. These were 80 gsm weight light blue card printed in blue ink which depicted on the front cover 40c + 5c and 80c + 5c 1998 health stamps. Each booklet contained ten 40c + 5c child in lifejacket 1998 sheet or self adhesive health stamps, or ten 80c + 5c learning to swim health stamps. The production costs were recouped as each of New Zealand Post’s 18 post shops south of the Auckland harbour bridge were charged $14.00 per 100 stamp booklet covers ordered.
Each individual post shop then affixed the relevant stamps inside the booklet covers. For example, the Auckland Mail Centre ordered 100 of the booklet covers and was charged $14.00 for their production whilst St Lukes was charged $70.00 for their 500. The remaining 4400 stamp booklet covers were distributed to the following Auckland post shops: 200 – Dominion Road; 300 – Glen Innes; 200 –
Fig. 9: A smiley 1998 booklet of unknown origin Fig. 10: Auckland - suburban 1998 health booklet
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Greenmount; 250 – Howick; 300 – Mangere; 100 – Newton; 200 – Newmarket; 500 – Otahuhu; 200 – Pakuranga; 100 – Panmure; 150 – Parnell; 200 – Ponsonby; 500 – Remuera; 300 – Royal Oak; 400 – St Heliers; 500 – Waiheke Is.
Conspicuous by their absence from the above list are the Downtown and Wellesley Street post shops. They did not participate in this scheme involving 5000 booklet covers, but instead produced their own! All 5000 of the light blue Auckland health stamp booklets were sold within the first three weeks of the 1998 health stamp promotion and the concept received lots of interest from within New Zealand Post.
It was stated that: Those Post Shops fortunate to sell this products(sic) in many cases double and trebled their sales compared to last year. The product itself was a catalyst for staff to motivate and find new ways to sell Health stamps by across counter sales or door to door sales. And what I did learn from this experience, that a product must have a demand and is marketed properly.
It is interesting to note that some booklet covers containing the 80c + 5c learning to swim stamps had a fast post sticker applied over the 40c + 5c = SS484 x 10 printed rubric on the back cover, thus leaving
only the lower line of rubric (80c + 5c = SS485 x 10) visible. This indicated to the postal staff the correct code number to punch into their electronic cash register when sales of this product were made.
New Zealand Post Downtown Post Shop 1998: similar booklet covers to those sold elsewhere in suburban Auckland were produced for the Downtown Post Shop (presumably also by Haysom print). They were produced from red card stock, printed in black ink and were numbered on the reverse. 1000 such were produced and contained only 40c + 5c child in lifejacket sheet health stamps. These were also sold in the Auckland philatelic sales centre based in the Downtown Post Shop.
The same concept in 1999 was to be repeated by the Auckland philatelic sales centre based in the Downtown Post Shop and health booklet covers were produced. The day before the 1999 health stamps were issued an official came from Wellington and ordered that the covers were to be destroyed. No reason was given other than they were unofficial, but it is believed that any sales could have affected the planned budgeted sales of New Zealand Post’s official stamp booklets.
New Zealand Post Wellesley Street Post Shop 1998: A number of red card booklet covers
Fig. 11: Auckland - suburban 1998 health bookletFig. 12: Auckland - Wellesley Street 1998
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were produced for sale at the central Auckland Wellesley Street Post Shop. Their cover’s design was rather uninspiring and contained only printed rubric on the front. This did include the relevant New Zealand Post SS484 sales code only applicable for the sale of 40c + 5c health stamps.
The Wellesley Street Post Shop’s booklets contained only ten 40c + 5c child in lifejacket sheet health stamps. As these were produced on red card stock it is likely that they were printed simultaneously with the Downtown Post Shop’s booklet covers.
New Zealand Post Porirua Post Shop 1998: it is probable that the manager of the Wellington suburban Porirua Post Shop learned of the New
Zealand Post Auckland health stamp booklet promotion; used his initiative and produced booklet covers for sale. The plain red booklet covers bore ten 40c + 5c child in lifejacket sheet health stamps as well as the New Zealand Post oval Porirua date stamp. They had a competition with a prize of free swimming lessons (as it fitted in with the stamp theme - water safety).To date it is unknown how many such booklets were produced.
Downtown Post Shop Christmas 1998: the Auckland philatelic sales centre then located in the Auckland Downtown Post shop used their initiative, and produced a number of $7.50 and $9.00 stamp booklets. Each comprised five of the $1.50 or $1.80 1998 Christmas stamps, respectively, affixed by the sheet selvedge. The glossy red card ($7.50) booklet cover bore, in black ink, Christmas greetings from the Downtown Post Shop and a message about philatelic products – even with free delivery!
The glossy green card ($9.00) booklet bore the same Christmas rubric. Each booklet cover also depicted an image of the appropriate $1.50 or $1.80 1998 Christmas stamp similar to the earlier Downtown Post Shop 1998 health camp booklets. Based upon their earlier production run of Downtown Post Shop health camp 1998 booklet covers it is likely that no more than 1000 of each were produced.
Fig 13: Auckland - Downtown 1998 Christmas booklets
To be continued in the January
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Revenue Review
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Another Year GoneIt’s that time of the year again to hang out your mistletoe and keep your lips puckered. This issue brings up my third year of writing ‘Revenue Review’ with many new friends made, and lots of encouragement to keep on going; this column appears to be going from strength to strength. This months issue looks as if South Australia has stolen the show with a major auction of South Australian revenues, a new booklet; part one of ‘The Parcel Stamps of South Australia’ and a new South Australian parcel carrier to record, so let’s get into it.
Mark’s RevsFirst up; Prestige Auctions sold off Mark Hancock’s revenues with some spirited bidding. Most of the lots sold above estimate. Several were listed in bulk, which meant for the avid revenue collector complete lots had to be purchased to pull out that one rare item e.g. in the Tasmania section of Marks material there was an 8c lemon sitting in a couple of hagner pages a rare stamp in it’s own right. The now famous Jimbo’s 50/- South Australian numeral [fig 1] which Mark brought from Jimbo’s direct sale pages for $100 a couple of years ago sold for $900 plus buyers and in my opinion still a cheap buy. The new owner should be very pleased with this rare item. If you’re not on Jimbo’s list give him a call.
Astor MotorsA super 1/- Webster Rometch Ltd pre-cancelled ‘Astor Motors Pty Ltd’ after a takeover was up for grabs on eBay [fig 2], eventually selling for just over $150. The under bidder was offered another copy but in green [fig 3] so we now have two new colours and a 1/- value to add to the locals listing with this precancel. I have already added these two to my on line catalogue.
SA Parcel Fee StampsI have received part one of the parcel stamps of South Australia co authored by Presgrave and Walker from SA. It is an A5 publication with some 50 pages, and according to the notes it includes 15 years of research, but you will need a magnifying glass to read them as the print is so small.
It is beyond me to think that after 15 years of research some collectors were not approached for a final update of their holdings [me included] which makes me wonder why my name has been used in the acknowledgments of this new publication ‘The Parcel Stamps of South Australia’ part one.
I can see no new information in it that has not been published previously; in fact I can add to it. This publication to me has again been all ‘secret squirrel’ business which, as we know in this field, South Australia is renowned for. Strangely I did note a request on Glen Stevens chat board for information but only after the book had been published. Prior to writing this review, I requested some information from one of the authors but at the time of writing this, I have had no reply.
The booklet is fine if you’re looking for something to throw in your port for a general checklist, but I do really feel after 15 years of research a station name listing should have been included along with the 1927 issued numeral cancellers. This would help the student and exhibitor alike to know if he has a cheap stamp from a small station with a scarce cancel. Only Adelaide is mentioned as being numeral 60. There is a tiny listing of the first series railway station date stamps and a few post office cancellers are mentioned in the notes but unfortunately we do not know which is rare, which is scarce or which is common. Unfortunately if the exhibitor follows some of this work he will no doubt get into trouble with the judges. One such very important item is listed as a “composite proof” in paragraph one page seven, when in fact it
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is an ‘essay paste up’ and clearly shown by me as this in Revenue Review January this year.
Many shades are listed contemporary to the postage stamps of the time but unfortunately the security background shades have been left out. I am unsure why this is been overlooked as there are several striking colour differences.
One thing that does puzzle me on page seven the very last paragraph reads “The first series was withdrawn from general use from 1 September 1887, after which date the stamps were only used on parcels of newspapers and parcels sent by government departments – particularly the Education Department”. To me this reads that after 1 September 1887 all railway stamps were available to the general public for use on newspapers only, and the Parcel Service was then only available for official use.
Included in this booklet are the tramways and bus parcel tickets, but unfortunately Richard Peck’s excellent publication “Tickets Please” 2006 has not been consulted here. Figure 4 is just one such tramway ticket from Richards publication missing in this booklet so after 15 years of research and after just a couple of weeks of issue we have the very first update. I did also notice in the ‘No.1 Bus Depot’ listings they have completely missed the very first perforated series. By their own admission the bus companies are a ‘throw together’ section and I can’t for the life of me understand after 15 years, why this has been put together this way.
Without going on, I feel this publication may have been released in a rush to have it made available for the South Australian stamp show a couple of months ago. If you are only looking for a general listing of the railway stamps you can print out a copy from my web site on line priced catalogue for free. I believe the booklet has a price tag of A$25.00 plus postage. I have reviewed this work as a serious collector of South Australia Railways. You
should be able to read a dealers review elsewhere in this month's Stamp News.
CockingIt looks like an earlier parcel carrier than J. R. Cocking for South Australia has turned up. A ‘Bradley & Co’ 6d over stamped in red ‘J. R. Cocking’. You can see a picture of this on my web site in the free Local Carriers on line catalogue. I have asked Tony Presgrave to see if he can find out any info on this for me and will publish his reply in this column. I purchased the Bradley 6d from our very good friend Brett of eBay ozphila fame. Brett is of the belief the Bradley is from Victoria and over stamped Cocking upon arrival of a possible gold shipment. Brett may well be right, as I can find nothing on the internet re the Bradley name, maybe this rings a bell with one of you out there? If so please make contact with me. Remember you read it here in ‘Revenue Review’ first. Figure 5 is the latest J. R. Cocking 6d to be unearthed, another first for Revenue Review! This totals four newly recorded items in this edition.
All that is left is to wish you all a very merry you know what. I hope Santa fills your stocking with the things dreams are made of. The problem is if Santa fills my stocking with what I have been dreaming of I will be in for a good tongue lashing from ‘er indoors! Look forward to chatting to you all next year.
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Greenland's Grand Old Man
Above: 1966 The Boy & his Fox SeriesRight: 1986 Standing Polar Bear Coat of Arms stamp Facing page: Jens Rosing's last stamp: 2007 3kr Dogs pulling sled
For some 50 years POST Greenland was privileged to have Jens Rosing as its number one stamp designer. During his long career he produced more than 130 different stamp designs. He was extremely versatile expertly handling images of people, animals and numerous other subjects.
It all started way back in the mid 1950s. Rosing was asked to design Greenland’s very first commemorative stamp featuring a scene from the Mother of the Sea, an old traditional story. It’s a very attractive stamp which was beautifully engraved. The 1957 version was printed in greenish blue colour. It was then reprinted in 1961 in plain blue. The 1957 variety is four times as costly as the reprint.
In the 1950s and 60s most Greenlandic stamps were designed by Viggo Bang. Rosing was mainly commissioned to design the stamps with purely Greenlandic motifs. Thus his second stamp was the 1962 Drum Dance followed in 1966 by yet another stamp in the Greenlandic Legends series. The stamp shows The Boy and the Fox and it marks the beginning of Rosing’s long association with legendary
Polish-Swedish stamp engraver Czeslaw Slania. Until well into the 1980s all Greenlandic stamps
were recess-printed in one colour only (with very few exceptions). In my view this is the classic period of Greenlandic philately. Starting in 1985 more and more stamp issues were either printed in offset or in a combination of offset and recess printing. These later issues are of course more colourful but lack the classy appearance of the one-colour recess printed stamps.
Leafing through my Greenland album I rediscover all of Rosing’s wonderful stamp designs and I realize that his work could easily be grouped together as a specialized collection telling a lot about the life, traditions and culture if the Inuit people on the big island in the Arctic. In addition there are numerous appearances of Greenland’s wildlife. The stamps designed by Rosing are still very affordable and a complete collection can very possibly be assembled for less than $200.
Jens Rosing was born in 1925 in the town of Ilulissat (Jakobshavn in Danish). He married a
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Danish woman and they had four children. Until the late 1950s, the family lived in the Nuuk (Greenland’s capital) area. In the 1950’s he helped introduce domestic reindeer into Greenland and in the 60s he took part in several scientific expeditions. He also served as the director of the museum in Nuuk.
The family then moved to Denmark. They lived in Humlebaek, a Copenhagen suburb. Despite being so far away from Greenland he continued to work for the Greenlandic postal service. In 1985 he designed the coat of arms for the local government in Greenland. It shows a standing polar bear. It is shown on a 1986 stamp (which Rosing did not design).
In addition to designing stamps he was a very talented artist using various materials and techniques to produce his works. Rosing also provided the illustrations for several children’s books. He was the renowned author of a number of books on Greenlandic culture. Towards the end of his life he received many awards in recognition of his distinguished services to both Greenland and Denmark. On May 24, 2008 Jens Rosing passed
away at the age of 83.His very last stamp was released in 2007. It shows
his beloved dogs pulling his sled somewhere in Greenland. This is also the country’s largest stamp so far. With a face value of just 3 kroner I guess this beauty can still be picked up for about a dollar. Greenland collectors all over the world appreciated the design which was voted the most beautiful stamp in 2007. Rosing learnt about this honour a couple of months before his passing.
Greenland has lost one of its most important cultural personalities and also one of its major ambassadors in portraying the island and its people to the outside world.
The Grand Old Man of Greenlandic philately has left us but the Rosing name will still be associated with Greenlandic stamps. Jens Rosing’s daughter Ina is a very talented artist who has already designed several stamps for Greenland. She was born in 1965 in Denmark but has spent some time in Greenland. I expect we will see more of Ina Rosing’s work on future Greenlandic stamps.
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Adelaide has just held a very successful National One Frame exhibition in combination with a State level three frame show and the South Australian Congress. The venue was the Drill Hall at Torrens Parade Ground, which is ideal for a show of this size and with a large area of free parking in the centre of the city there was no excuse for locals not being there.
There were a number of revenue exhibits on show including the Patents Office Stamps of Australia 1954 to 1988, the Beer Tax stamps and the effect Federation had on the duty, Victorian Impressed Duty stamps of Victoria and Israeli Promissory Notes which are revenue stamped paper.
With 13 dealers in attendance there was plenty to choose from. My advice to collectors planning on going to an exhibition is to get a list of the dealers attending and contact them well before the show and let them know of your interests, that way you get to see what you might like to buy and the dealer can then take things he knows will be of interest. This is particularly so if your collecting interests are somewhat obscure.
By the time this appears I will have been to Jakarta 2008 exhibition in Indonesia as Assistant Commissioner for the Australian exhibits and the Australasian Challenge will have been held at Tarapex in New Zealand.
New South Wales MinesAn item from New South Wales which is an advertising poster stamp for the centenary of the Department of Mines in 1974. (Fig. 1). It shows a modern day miner about to detonate a charge, and a miner panning for gold. I have no more information about it so if any readers can add
information I will be happy to pass it on through this column. It appears to have been placed close to the postage stamp as it has a roller cancel defacing it.
Timber WeekAnother poster stamp with an unknown year of issue. (Fig. 2). Using my perpetual calendar and making the assumptions that the stamp was issued between 1950 and 1965, and that the event was celebrated on a Monday to Friday week, it leaves us with the years 1951, 1956 and 1962. Earlier that 1950 can only be 1945 and later than 1965 would make it 1973 or 1979. Anyone want to offer any other suggestions?
John Sands Metal PrintersI found this item in a collection, (fig. 3), on show at Stampex 2008 in one of the exhibits. The exhibit was titled “Postal Problems and Solutions, Things that can Happen to a Letter” and this poster stamp had been placed where the postage stamp should have been, hence the machine cancel, and the scruffy appearance is because I photographed it through the acrylic sheet on the frame.
PostspaarbankKevin Battersby from Stewarts Stamp Shop in Adelaide showed me these stamps. (Fig. 4). I think they are probably Dutch and look to be related to a school savings program, but beyond that I have no idea.
David JonesThese two poster stamps advertising a Boyproof watch,
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(fig. 5), and an electric torch, (fig. 6), from David Jones apparently are part of a set of at least 47. I have not seen them before and I don’t recall seeing any of them in a collection that Richard Peck put together on the big Department stores. They appear to date from the 1920s. With the inscription in the bottom margin it is obvious that there were a large number of stamps in the set, my guess is 49. Does any reader have a set of these, or at least some more of them. One day we may be able to piece the sheet together. Any more details will be welcome.
YMCA World War Ii LabelThis interesting label, (fig. 7), was among a group sent to me by Dave Elsmore. It appears to be an official Government issue, or at least supported by the Government as the text under the picture states that it is an official war photo. I have not seen it before and Bill Hornadge also did not make mention of it when he was writing the column.
Christmas Parcel SealAlthough this attractive little item is not really a Cinderella stamp, I thought it would be worth a note in the column. (Fig. 8). It appears to date from the late 1940s, but I couldn’t be sure, maybe a reader can set the record straight. It is gummed and embossed on stout paper
Those Missing Stamps From Last MonthRemember those stamps I referred to in last month’s column that I had put away in a safe place? Well they turned up again……. When I flipped the cover of my diary open one day they fell out! I had taken them to a meeting where I
hoped to speak to a collector from Murray Bridge, however he was not there so I tucked them in the diary for safe keeping. Hmmmm!
Railway Parcel StampsMartin Walker and I have just produced a catalogue of the stamps of the Railway, Tram and Bus Parcel carrying services in South Australia. We have included both rarity ratings and prices. The rarity ratings are based on some 25 years of research, recording and collecting. It has been a joint effort between Martin and myself and adds much information that has come to light since I was involved in the Revenue and Railstamp books back in the early 1980s. The book can be obtained from either Martin or myself for $25.
Christmas SealsThis year Bedford have released their Christmas seals just in time for me to include them in the December column. This year there are 9 different designs in blocks of 4 each with two different coloured borders making a sheet of 36 peel and stick seals and in a departure from previous years there are no Card Only stickers. The designs are all children’s impressions of various aspects of Christmas.
The seals can be obtained from Bedford at P.O. Box 23 Melrose Park South Australia 5039 for a donation.
I will take this opportunity to wish all readers the compliments of the season and may Father Christmas fill your stocking with stamps instead of all those other things we don’t really need.
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It’s been 6 years since the last edition of the Hibernian Handbook and Catalogue of the Postage Stamps of Ire-land, and it has certainly been worth the wait!
Published in October 2008, this excellent specialised catalogue is 240 pages, full colour throughout on art paper, in B5 format with glazed card cover (stitched & glued – my 2002 edition has had constant use and is still holding together very well!), with approx. 3200 illustra-tions and almost 16,000 valuations in Euros of all Irish postage stamps from the 1865-67 ‘Fenian’ Forerunners to August 2008. The prices throughout reflect the worldwide interest in, and very strong market for Irish stamps.
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Philately of Epic Proportions Rod Perry
Correspondence between Japan and Australia resumed reasonably soon after the end of WWII. The earliest item I have is a Stationery card dated 17 September 1946, in which a penpal states “Now the war is over & we are privileged to write to you, I am very happy to let you know altho’ we have lost our home we were safe & are living peacefully.”. Philatelic relations had resumed at least as early as 15 February 1948,
for that is the date on another Stationery card, to venerable Philatelic Trader, William Ackland in Melbourne.
The earliest contact between Commerce Houses which I have, is also the highest aggregate franking article I’ve noted of the early postwar-era. It’s our subject item this month. This is a parcel-wrapping portion, fortuitously with adequate remnant information to enable
Japan to Australia by airmail in early postwar years
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Philately of Epic Proportions Rod Perry
Rod Perry’s other column, Woodchip-free Zone, appears in Stamp News. Rod invites own-ers of highly franked covers of the world to send scans of their items to him at [email protected].
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us to deduce the philatelic significance. The stamps are cancelled 25. 4. 7, or 7 April 1950, “25” in the Japanese Showa Era equating to our 1950. The article passed the Tokyo Branch of Customs the following day. The presence of the air mail handstamp enables us to conclude that the postage rate of 2080 yen represented 26 times the 80 yen basic airmail rate to the destination of Sydney Australia.
The very high postage rate permitted the use of a strip of four of the 1949 500 yen Locomotive Construction, the then highest denomination stamp of Japan. I’ve found this to be a scarce stamp on entire, and previously to Australia had seen only one item, bearing a single 500 yen. The airmail rate in 1950 from Australia to Japan was 1/6d, and therefore a 26 times rate item would be 39/-, just short of requiring a £2 Arms for transmission. Such cross-comparisons I find useful in determining a ballpark degree of relative scarcity.
Austria - August 2008 updateFor the subject of this column last August, the highly franked Austria-Australia parcel-wrapping, I sent up a flare for assistance in determining the rate. Thankfully, Heinz Patzak in France, and Martin Frischauf in Austria are avid Stamp News readers, and kindly answered my plea. Both gentlemen pointed out my two errors. I had misread schillings for groschen in the case of the 6s stamps; the aggregate postage was therefore 322s 90g, not 311s 2g as I made it. Secondly, I read a European “1” as a “7” (I should know better), the indicated weight is 1200 grams, not 7200.
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Andrew McEachern is a collector first, part time dealer second; he is founder & President of Collectors Club Queensland, was national Presi-dent of the APF fore-runner Austral-ian Stamp Promotion Council, and belongs to various Australian and overseas societies. He also conducts the only course in the world for wan-nabe stamp dealers. Contact him at (postal) Suite 333, 236 Hyperdome, Loganholme, 4129 or by email to stampman5 @bigpond.com
De-Mystifying the Detail
Stamps Resist Economic WoesAre you wondering how our hobby might be af-fected by the world 'economic crisis'? I am no expert on financial markets ups and downs, despite many years previously at the helm of Credit Union Aus-tralia. But I do know that history proves conditions at such times are temporary, and one must guess at when normality will be on the way back. Investment advisers wisely counsel patience. Meanwhile, some collectors hasten to make advantageous buys in the stamp market, although some think of giving up col-lecting.Here then are some suggested DO's and DONTs.
DON'T stop collecting. Its a relaxing pastime • you deserve, and you might find it a counter-action to any pre-occupation with diminishing shares investments. As a 120 a day smoker some twenty years ago, while wondering, during a period of rate volatility, what to do with the credit union's interest rate for the next week, I used to actually FORGET to smoke when immersing myself in stamps in the evenings! DON'T look at your • collection as an in-vestment. Collecting is primarily for pleasure. The occasional good buy or small re-sale profit are consolation prizes, not mainstream investment events.DON'T buy large quantities of new issues un-• less you spot some real opportunity. Some of the Stamp News columnists who write on Aus-tralia stamps often give a good guide as to future scarcity. The vast majority of new issues of most countries seldom pass face value, and many countries including Australia have a secondary market where recent issues change hands private-ly at far less than face, for cheap postage.DON'T economise on hinges by cutting them in • half as happened during the 1930's Depression ; they are the cheapest collecting aid in any case.DON'T waste your mount strips when cutting • strips to size; a bit of pre-planning by measuring all the items to mount, and not just cutting one by
one, will save waste.DON'T sell your collection right now. That is a • matter for some thought as to best timing in rela-tion to your life style. It should not have anything to do with world money matters.DO consider joining a stamp club nearby if you • are not already a member. It is a good venue to dispose of your excess, and occasionally even find a bargain in your own collection field.DO review your surplus material you have • tucked away in that box. And if you are a themat-ic collector with part sets left over from buying to get that one item for your theme, now is the time to seek other collectors whose interests may lie in the other themes represented in the part sets.DO watch for specials and bargains at your •
favourite dealer or stamp fair. Some dealers may have over-stocked on some items in an adverse exchange rate situation unwit-tingly.
DO try to • interest any worry-wort non-collector friends in collecting; a selection of used stamps and a modest
stockbook is a nice gift. Explain that a good way to start is obtaining used stamps off the mail (yes, they are still sometimes seen, mainly on private correspondence!) No need to rush into the post office for mint new issues at face value at first.DO consider starting another little collection • totally different to your current collecting inter-ests. You will find that refreshing. Even consider whether the movement in world exchange rates may advantage you in a country you choose. Or some theme that can build at low cost. Can I suggest certain less popular members of the British Royal Family as one - as an example, there seems to be a huge surplus of Lady Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew out there at rock bottom prices, including imperfs, proofs and other non-standard items. There are a lot of other 'royal families' around the world to choose from too - and less popular Presidents of some African
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countries.DO review your album arrangements. If you •use hingeless albums, consider buying the non-hingeless type and mounts stock separately, and becoming a DIY hingeless album owner. Or if you are starting some new countries, consider buying my STAMPAGESAVER CD-ROM (par-don the free plug!)DOconsiderstandingforofficeinyourlocal•stamp club. Another way of getting fresh in-terests and helping others at this time. Active committee members are getting scarcer...some incumbents frankly have been there too long...and in some States, the peak group could do with some fresh blood perhaps. Note that 'fresh blood' does not necessarily mean 'young blood.'
USA's New President -ElectThe recent success of Barack Obama suggests a cou-ple of different new themes - well, new to me, but no doubt somewhere in the world someone has already started these. Although many past Presidents already feature on USA stamps - and there is a formula which governs how soon after their demise they may be shown on USPS stamps - many have been me-morialised on the stamp of other countries. President Roosevelt, an ardent stamp collector himself, has been portrayed on many other stamps; and there is a good demand for covers issued on Inauguration Day.
And what about a collection of Presidents of all countries? Plenty of scope there. How far one ven-tures into sidelines is a decision for every thematic collector - but there could be 'Presidents' pets (NO - I don't include Monica); presidential palaces; giving VicePresidentsago,acategoryofofficialseldomobserved philatelically, and even cars used by Presi-dents.
If this sounds un-Australian, remember that a collection of Australian Prime Ministers on stamps would be relatively small, and one of Governors-General even more so.
Perfect Or ImperfectA reader has asked me to explain the dichotomy between the ethic of collecting of stamps with per-fect characteristics, and collecting stamps containing errors. As I proceed towards an inevitably non-com-mittalanswer,letsfirstlookatthenatureoferrorsonstamps.
Errors fall into these main categories:1. Errors of design2. Errors caused in the production process.3. Errors as to issuance
Errors of design can be further sub-divided into those where the wrong image or inscription is used, and those where the design is based on false infor-mation or a fallacy.
Errors in the production process can include a range of different factors such as wrong colour, col-our omitted, perforation shift, perforation omitted, printing on gum side, inverted centres, etc.
Errors as to issuance includes premature release beforeofficialfirstdayofissue,
Having said all that, it might serve as a smoke screen for me to hide behind; I really cannot answer why some collectors only accept perfectly centred, lightly postmarked, fresh colour in their stamps, while others ardently seek the errors in design. And some collectors have both these elements in their collection. I can only answer the query as "It's what we do".
What is ignored too much I feel, is the range of errors like portraying the wrong person, illustrating the wrong bird, or showing a scene of the wrong place. I do hope to list some of these in this column soon,firstlyforAustraliaandthenforothercoun-tries. I would welcome readers' input
A Personal NoteI need to remind readers of a few small matters about yours truly from time to time. Nothing personal, just some helpful jottings.1. My mail address of Suite 33, 236 Hyperdome, Loganholme 4129 is just a private mailbox, not a shoporoffice.2. If you want a reply please enclose an SAE. But be patient, it might take weeks.3. I only identify stamps for a fee; notes at the front of Gibbons and Scott catalogues are helpful, as is a small ID booklet many dealers sell. Please do not send me stamps - except of course, as a gift for my collection!4. Be familiar with the specialities of the other excel-lent Stamp News columnists; I have to say that I am the last one to answer queries on Australian stamps!5.Iamacollectorfirst,a(very)smalltimedealersecond. If it is said that collectors are specialists and dealers can only aspire to be generalists - that's about where I am in relation to queries.
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WorldWide NeW issues
Falkland Islands: Breeding Penguins
This issue illustrating the breeding penguins of the Falkland Islands are taken from photographs by local photographer Alan Henry and Reinhard Mischke. The set comprises of six Airmail Postcard rate stamps (currently 55p) showing the head profile of each type of the five breeding penguins and an unusual picture of an albino Rockhopper penguin. Penguins are generally regarded as being synonymous with the Falkland Islands and attract a great number of tourists each year to our shores. The stamps are available singly in sheetlets of 10 and combined in a souvenir sheet.
King Penguin Aptenodytes patagonicusThe King Penguin is the largest of the breeding penguins in the Islands. They are majestic birds and stand at an incredible 36 – 38 inches (91 – 96cm) tall. Although resident in the Islands, the King Penguin is not found in large numbers. Adults generally raise two chicks every three years. Full grown juveniles appear larger than adults and look like dark brown teddy bears, but once the down has moulted the penguin takes on a beautiful colour of black and white with a particularly striking orange / yellow band at the front of the neck and towards the sides on the back of its head.
Gentoo Penguin Pygoscelis papua The Gentoo Penguin is perhaps the most well known of the species in the Islands and indeed the largest common Falklands penguin. It is second in size to the King Penguin standing at about 30 inches (76cm) tall and unmistakable with a white bar over the crown and a long orange and black bill. They nest on level ground in groups and generally about a mile inland from the shore. Nests are made from Diddle Dee (a native low woody type shrub) and other grasses torn from the ground along with stones. A noisy creature when approached as the adults trumpet loudly to deter any unwanted visitors.
Magellanic Penguin Spheniscus magellanicusThe Magellanic Penguin or perhaps better known locally as the
“Jackass” derived from its mournful braying call. Standing about 2 inches shorter than the Gentoo Penguin, the Jackass burrows in ground on sea coasts particularly near or under Tussac bogs or Stands where the burrows can be up to 6 ft deep. Adults have conspicuous black and white bands on their head, neck and breast and sport a stout black and grey bill and pink skin around the eyes. Adults breed from early September, normally laying two eggs in mid October. The young fledge in March and the colonies are generally deserted by late April. The Jackass appears to be shyer than the other penguin species and once disturbed in its burrow, it shakes it head menacingly from side to side.
Rockhopper Penguin Eudyptes chrysocomeThe Rockhopper is the smallest and probably most agile of the penguins found in the Islands with a height of some 24 – 25 inches (61- 64 cms). It is recognised by the straight thin yellow eyebrows ending in tufts or plumes at the sides and top of the head. Rockhoppers are aptly named as they climb steep rock faces and slopes by bounding with both feet together in a characteristic “hop”. Rockhoppers spend the winter months at sea and return in September each year to breed in densely packed colonies quite often associating with Imperial Cormorants, known locally as Shags. Come April and once moulted, the Rockhoppers descend the cliffs back to the sea to spend the winter foraging for food.
Macaroni Penguin Eudyptes chrysolophusThe Macaroni penguin, similar to the Rockhopper, spends much of its time ashore nesting with Rockhoppers on the tops of cliffs. Bigger than the Rockhopper, it is identified by the distinctive golden orange head plumes which spread out and back from the forehead. Although similar, the Macaroni is slightly larger than the Rockhopper and stands between 27 – 30 inches (69 – 71 cms) in height. The Macaroni is the rarest breeding Falklands penguin and only very small numbers tend to breed alongside Rockhoppers at some sites.
The Albino Rockhopper PenguinThe Albino Rockhopper penguin is very rare and only very few
are ever seen. The penguin shown here is probably also known as a “leucistic” penguin as it is not a true albino but does have some other colour. Albino penguins have been born in captivity although not very often. It is believed that the albino mutation interferes with the production of melanin so no black pigment is produced. The albino penguin is not thought to be affected physically, just looking lighter than the others and can forage and feed her chicks just as well as the rest of the penguins.
The official first day cover and the background for the sheetlet show King Penguins strolling along one of the many white sandy beaches found in the Islands which could easily be mistaken for a tropical island beach with stunning sky and cloud formations.
Please note that the s/s will not be produced as a first day cover.
Photography by Alan Henry, except for Gentoo stamp, souvenir sheet border and FDC by Reinhard Mischke. For additional information, please contact John Smith, Pobjoy Mint Ltd, Tel: (44) 1737 818181 Fax: (44) 1737 818199; e-mail: [email protected]
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Falkland Islands - A Farewell to the Queen Elizabeth 2
The contract to build Cunard’s replacement for the Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mary was signed between Cunard Line and John Brown (Clydebank) Limited on 30th December 1964. However it was not until September 1967 that her enormous hull was ready to slide down the slipway into the Clyde, launched by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York commenced on 2 May 1969. Consistently rated as offering among the finest service, accommodation and facilities in the world the QE2 has, during her 39 years welcomed some 3 million passengers aboard, sailed 5.5 million nautical miles including 24 full world cruises and has become the longest serving Cunard express liner in the company’s history. To this day she remains the fastest merchant ship in operation.
When hostilities broke out between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands in April 1982, few envisaged a role for QE2. However, the Government announced that she was to be one of several merchant ships requisitioned for war duties. The extensive conversion work, preparing her for troop carrying duties, began immediately. Her open decks were cleared of their varnished steamer chairs and sun beds, decks were strengthened to allow helicopters to land and major structural alterations were begun. Lounges became dormitories while most of the ship’s removable décor including paintings, furniture and historic items together with crockery and glassware were packed away and stored in shore side warehouses. Carpets were protected with masonite and military experts installed their own top secret communications equipment in a specially adapted room behind the bridge.
After just eight days and nights of frantic activity, troops started to embark. With a volunteer crew of 650, she sailed from Southampton on the afternoon of May 12 with 3,000 members of the Fifth Infantry Brigade settling in to their new surroundings. Sea King helicopters joined as the ship headed down the Solent and the 8,000 mile voyage to the South Atlantic in support of the Naval Taskforce was well and truly underway.
As she approached the war zone news reached those on board that the Atlantic Conveyor had been lost following an air strike by Argentine forces. She started to weave rather than maintain a straight course. The ship’s radar had been turned off and full blackout implemented to lessen the risk of detection by enemy forces. Without radar to assist navigation and with thick mist and fog forming, icebergs became a serious threat. After consultation with military commanders QE2’s Captain, Peter
Jackson, reactivated the ship’s radar. In the hours that followed, more than 100 icebergs were picked up by ship’s radar.
After the ice threat passed, plans were made for QE2 to rendezvous with other naval vessels to commence the transfer of troops. On the evening of May 27, QE2 dropped anchor in Cumberland Bay, South Georgia about a mile from the former whaling station which weeks earlier had witnessed the start of the entire conflict. Troops and equipment were transferred under the safety of the close mountains to a variety of vessels, including SS Canberra, for the final leg to San Carlos waters some 200 miles to the East.
Survivors from three sunken Royal Navy ships, HMS Ardent, HMS Antelope and HMS Coventry were taken on board QE2. Finally, on June 3, orders were received for QE2 to start her long journey home with the survivors still on board.
Just 8 days later, back in more familiar waters off the Isle of Wight, a tumultuous welcome home awaited with HM The Queen and HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia leading the official recognition of Cunard Line’s contribution to the Liberation of the Falkland Islands.
A message from the Queen Mother was flashed to QE2. It read: “I am pleased to welcome you back as QE2 returns to home waters after your tour of duty in the South Atlantic. The exploits of your own ship’s company and the deeds of value of those who served in Antelope, Coventry and Ardent, have been acclaimed throughout the land and I am proud to add my personal tribute.” Captain Jackson replied with the words: “Please convey to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, our thanks for her kind message. Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth 2 is proud to have been of service to Her Majesty’s forces.”The two messages have been engraved in silver and can be seen on board.
QE2 was home after a mission which took her almost 15,000 miles in just under 30 days. After refitting she returned to transatlantic duty within two months. .
The QE 2 first visited the Falkland Islands on 22 January 1993 during a “Round the World” voyage. Being too large to enter Stanley Harbour, she had to settle at anchor in Port William.
The QE 2 had scheduled a final visit to the Islands in 2007 but unfortunately, due to the poor weather prevailing at the time, she was forced to sail past. However, the Royal Air Force stationed at the military air base at Mount Pleasant ensured that her final journey past the islands did not go unnoticed. SAC Trish Brown, in a Tornado F3, photographed and witnessed the historic passing of the grand old lady of the seas as she glided past the coast continuing on her final “Round the World” voyage. The flypast, acknowledging her service to the islands, is recorded as the local rate stamp.
In 2007 it was announced that The QE2 was to end her days as a Middle Eastern hotel at The Palm Jumeirah in Dubai. After a final visit to Liverpool in October 2008 she will be delivered to Dubai in November, where she will cease her role as an ocean-going passenger vessel and be adapted to become a luxury floating hotel, retail and entertainment destination at The Palm Jumeirah.
The top value stamp and First Day Cover portray the simple elegance of the QE2, illustrated by Leslie Taylor. Les describes himself as a 46 year-old and an “old school” self taught graphic artist and draughtsman, from the days of pen and ink. Converting to digital artwork over the years has been more of a hobby activity than a paying one, and he continues to gain pleasure from portraying things that he likes (such as beautiful ships) in digital form.
For additional information, please contact John Smith, Pobjoy Mint Ltd, Tel: (44) 1737 818181 Fax: (44) 1737 818199; e-mail: [email protected]
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This month’s letter was written from Easdale, dated 27th Sept 1839, addressed to Lau Davidson Esqr, W.S. 43 N. Castle Street, Edinbr. (Fig.1) It has five clear postal markings.
1) Good two line OBAN PENNY POST. In Haldane’s book “Three centuries of Scottish Posts”, he notes that one of the earliest places outside the immediate neighbourhood of Edinburgh or Glasgow to get a Penny Post service was the small community of Easdale, ten miles south of Oban. Here an application in 1824 led to the establishment of a post runner to take mail to and from Oban on a penny post basis, the local people guaranteeing the Post Office against loss - a guarantee which in fact proved unnecessary. The establishment of a penny post for Easdale was no doubt at least partially due to the important slate quarries at that time in active operation.
2) Good framed 3 line OBAN SE 28 1839 date stamp in black .
3) Manuscript charge mark ‘11’. This is for a distance of between 170 and 230 miles, but working on the usual system of the distance each town is from London, the distance works out at only 108, as Oban is 504 from London, and Edinburgh is 306. In that case, it should only have cost 9d. However, on Haldane’s map which shows the actual route for the letter, I make it about 160 miles, which cost 10d. It was a circuitous journey, beginning with a footpost to Oban, then gigs or rides to Glasgow, then mailcoach to Edinburgh. With the addition of the Penny Post charge that is the 11d.
4) Additional ½d mark was applied in Oban. This is a type IIIB which is a boxed ½, 19x12mm in black ink recorded in use from 11-6-1838 to 8-11-1839.
5) Edinburgh arrival circular date stamp SEP C 29 M 1839 in red.
It also has an intact red wax seal with the initials J.R. The letter was opened very carefully, and cut around the seal.
So now to the letter. (Fig.2) It is a
very short one, but is one of those which has fascinating references. It was written by James Robertson of Easdale. Iain McDougall, chairman of the Easdale Island Folk Museum, kindly checked on this man and advised me that in the 1841 census he was listed as a factor on the estate.
“Easdale 27th Sept 1839 Dear Sir, I have just heard that during my absence at Barra, Mr Stevenson Junr, Engineer Edin. was up Loch Feochan inspecting Eallanewtis Quarry, and that he also visited ours at Barnacarry - His object
was to see if good stones could be got for the Light House now building at Skerryvore - I am sure the Barnacarry quarry would afford the best stones to be got for the purpose and it might therefore be well if you could see Mr Stevenson and ascertain if he would be inclined to deal with us - as the Marquis is anxious to get a market for the stone. I remain, yours very truly, James Robertson.”
The interesting sidelines to this letter are the references to Mr Stevenson Junior, the Skerryvore lighthouse, and the Marquis. The latter would be
the Earl of Breadalbane, who wrote a good many letters to the Postmaster General of the time, Francis Freeling, requesting more frequent mail services for his part of Scotland.
The ‘Mr Stevenson Junior’ i s Alan 1807-1865, c iv i l engineer, eldest son of Robert Stevenson, and uncle of Robert Louis Stevenson the author of ‘Kidnapped’ ‘Treasure Island’ etc. Alan was educated to enter the church, but decided to follow his father’s profession, and became a pupil in his father’s office, at the same time gaining experience in
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practical engineering. After entering into partnership with his father, he was engaged in general engineering practice, especially in connection with marine works, such as piers, harbours, etc. He was also engaged on work for the Scottish lighthouse board, and in 1843 succeeded his father as engineer to the commissioners. He designed and carried out work on ten lighthouses, i n c l u d i n g S k e r r y v o r e lighthouse tower, the finest example for mass, combined with elegance of outline, of any extant rock tower.
The National Lighthouse Board has a marvellous website http://www.nlb.org.uk/history/skerryvore.htm which gives the full story of the building of the lighthouse, including this picture (Fig.3) – (the helipad would have been built later!) which begins with these details :-
"Skerryvore Lighthouse, the name of which is derived from the Gaelic words “Sgeir” meaning the rock and “mhor” (“mh” is pronounced “v”) meaning big, marks a very extensive and treacherous reef of rocks lying in the sea off the Hebrides some 10 or 11 miles south west of Tiree. It was built of granite quarried on the Island of Mull during the six years from 1838 to 1844, to the design of Alan Stevenson, Engineer and constitutes an outstanding example of lighthouse engineering. The beautiful symmetry of the outline of the tower, the proportions of which are a height of 156ft with diameter of 42ft at the base tapering to 16ft at the top, ranks it amongst the most graceful of all lighthouse towers; it is even asserted by some that Skerryvore is the worlds most graceful lighthouse. It is 48 metres tall and has 151 steps to the top."
My further research revealed details of the building: the ‘solid’ or monolithic part extends to 26 ft. above the rock, the cubic contents are double the entire contents of Smeaton’s Eddystone tower. The walls, as they spring from the solid, are 9¼ ft. in thickness, gradually diminishing to 2 ft. The interior is divided into ten floors, including the light-room, each 12 ft. in
diameter. The optical apparatus is dioptric revolving, the most complete which had been constructed up to that time; the height of the eight central lenses was extended to 3 ft. 3 in. and, instead of Fresnel silvered mirrors below the lenses, Stevenson designed prismatic rings, which were introduced for the first time in this apparatus.
Easdale has a community website and I contacted Jess Hill and her reply was from the village shop:
"Thank you so much for the email. We are always delighted to receive information like this. The island community trust
‘Eilean Eisdeal’ has recently bought the museum so its future is now more secure. I will forward your email on to the manager and also to one of the directors, whose family goes back for generations here.
"We would be very pleased to receive a scanned copy of the letter. Barnacarry is not far from here just at the entrance to Loch Feochan."
Iain McDougall, one of the trust directors, whose family has had continuous connection with the island since 1730, also advised me that the only quarry on Barnacarry that appears on the maps is one where mill stones were quarried but millstone grit would not be suitable for a lighthouse. The records show that the stone for the lighthouse was actually quarried on the Isle of Mull.
The great thing about collecting postal history is that each item is different. In all the years I have been collecting I have seldom found any item which did not have something of interest – either the postal markings, or the contents of the letter. In this case, it had both, which was a bonus.
Acknowledgements:- Encyclopaedia Brittannica; Dictionary of National Biography; Haldane ‘Three Centuries of Scottish Posts’; Hodgson & Sedgewick ‘Scottish Additional ½d Mail Tax 1813-1839’; Robertson’s ‘Great Britain Post Roads Post Towns and Postal Rates 1635-1839’.
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Very little has been recorded on the South Australian School Patriotic Fund [SPF] in the philatelic press. I have been fortunate to come into some information to help add a few more pieces to the jig-saw.
The School Patriotic fund was set up in South Australia during WWI to mobilize school children for fund-raising and scrap collecting. No Cinderella poster stamps are known to have been printed at this time. The Society was reformed in 1939 and Miss Adelaide Miethke re-organized the South Australian Children’s Patriotic Fund. In 1940-46 she directed the Schools Patriotic Fund of South Australia, a total of £402,133 was raised and the remaining money collected by the S.P.F. after World War II went to buy a hostel, ‘Adelaide Miethke House’ [opened 1951], for country girls studying in Adelaide. Further S.P.F. money went to the (Royal) Flying Doctor Service.
National Salvage CorpsThe S.P.F. [Registered National Salvage Corps] helped sailers, soldiers and airmen in battle areas, in camps, in lonely outposts, in military hospitals, in prison camps and children whose fathers have died at the front. The S.P.F.-ers were responsible for making sure there was an S.P.F. collecting bag in every home which was to be filled with scrap paper. One slogan for 1944 was “Nineteen Hundred and forty-four, our bag’s behind the kitchen door.” The children would collect the bags on a weekly basis and have them
weighed. The incentives being
reward tokens leading to service badges and bars. The children were given ‘Service Value points’ but to make reckoning easy for them the points were called pennies 240 Service Points were called 240 pennies or £1 Service Value. S.P.F.-ers were also responsible for the supply and collection of tins to each of the 70,000 homes in South Australia. These tins were filled with various items for inclusion in the troop’s food parcels. In 1943 the S.P.F.-ers collected 2000lb’s of blackberries for blackberry jam which was filling the tins for the troops. The Navel Friendly Union would send out letters of thanks to S.P.F.-ers who
were outstanding in their collection work. See thank you letter nearby.
Service Value PointsPulping paper had a service value of 1½ value points or 1½d per lb. Cement bags 2 value points or 2d per lb. Chronicles like ‘The Woman Weekly’ etc. Wrapping paper was worth 3 value points or 3d per lb. Other scrap collected besides paper was bones, paying 2 value points or 2d per lb: bones were needed to replace fertilizer supplies as the Japanese had stopped supplies coming from the northern islands. Rubber paid up to 9 value points or 9d for large truck tyres. Uncooked Apricot stones had 1 value point or 1d per lb but they must be dried in the sun for 2 days, these contained oil. Large pieces of rags were paid at 6 value points or 6d per lb and so
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on. Metals were where the big points were. If you were from a wealthy family you could just ‘buy’ stamps for 3d. The above service values were taken from 1944 service points for earlier and later years varied.
The StampsThese service value points were paid to the children in stamps depicting a Sailer, Soldier & Airman. Each stamp being an equal 3 value points or 3d. Every school was supplied cards and stamps printed by the
South Australian Government Printer. These cards were handed out by the teacher. The children would then stick there value point stamps onto them until full. There were 5 spaces for ‘Message’ stamps, these showed no point or penny value but within each space on the card, 3d was printed and once on each line, room for the word ‘message’ for affixing a message stamp, the very last but one space at lower right was printed 6d and the very last space left for a message stamp. I have recorded seven cards to date with two different layouts, one with the printer imprint at the base [shown nearby], the other two with the imprint running vertically up the right side of the card. The 6d value appears to have been
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ignored on several of the cards as a full 40 x 3d stamps have been affixed others have completed the card correctly with 38 x 3d and 1 x 6d stamps. There is no difference between the 3d or 6d stamp.
The Message StampsMessage stamps were supplied at a rate of one stamp per message. Once a message was written
and sent to headquarters to be included in food parcels the teacher would supply a free message stamp which was affixed onto the appropriate square on the card.The message stamps I have recorded so far are:Don’t worry! Australia will be there.Coo-ee! Here’s love from all at home.Cheer-up! Red Cross will find you out.Cheer-up! Parcel coming soon.Chins-up! We hope you’ll soon be home.Chins-up! We hope to reach you soon. Chins-up! S.P.F. will do its best.Cheerio! Better times ahead.Cheerio! We’ll help you all we can.
The BadgesUpon becoming an S.P.F.-er each child was issued with an oval blue and gold enamelled badge with S.P.F. on [shown nearby]. This could also be worn by mum or dad. In June 1941, paper collectors were issued with celluloid badges, reading “Collector Paper S.P.F.” different colours were used to denote a military rank. Light
Green was a Private, Red with 3 stripes was Sergeant, Yellow Lieutenant, and Red with crown Major. These were issued according to the number of premises you had on your collecting round. Once two cards [service value of 240 points or £1] were filled with stamps they were handed back to the teacher who in turn sent it back to ‘Headquarters’ [to be pulped with the other paper]
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who would then forward an Honour badge. Each additional full card [120 value points or 10/- was worth an additional service bar to match the badge. The honour badges shown nearby with 6 service bars had a value of 960 points or £4. 1940-41 badge [shown nearby] was the blue & white magpie [piping shrike] the 1942-43 badge was blue with white shield the same design for the 1944-45 red with blue shield [shown nearby]. The next badge awarded was when the S.P.F.-er reached 3600 value points or £15 and this got you a silver aeroplane with blue wings [also shown nearby] this then became the first step to the D.S.R. [Distinguished Service Ribbon]. Each step to the D.S.R. was awarded with a step badge. The second step 7200 value points or £30. The third step 8400 value
points or £35. The fourth step 9600 value points or £40 and then the Distinguished Service Ribbon at the fifth step of 12000 points or £50 [D.S.R. shown nearby]. For each additional £25 or 6000 points or pennies you were given star, so the D.R.R. badge nearby
with 5 stars had a value of £175 or 42,000 value points. I think I would sooner have had a bag full of aeroplanes! If you collected 2240lbs or 1 ton of paper your badge was gold with red wings. The scarcity of some of these badges comes from the fact you had to keep returning the last badge to receive the next higher awarded badge.
References: The 5 star D.S.R. picture. Badge issue order “Badges of the Childrens/Schools Patriotic Funds South Australia” R Chapman 2000.
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Belarus 21 October 2008Holocaust VictimsDenomination: 50025 October 20081020th Anniv. Christening of RusDenomination: 1500 x 3Bosnia Herzogovina Croatian Post Mostar4 October 2008The Monastery of ZaostrogDenomination: 1,009 October 2008Hand Tobacco Cutter
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Denomination: M/S Cyprus2 October 2008Cyprus through the AgesDenomination: 0.43 x 8 Czech Republic15 October 2008Handicrafts: Historic StovesDenomination: 10.00, 17.00 Estonia16 October 2008Estonian Churches: Audru Denomination: 5.5030 October 2008DefinitiveDenomination: 5.50 Fiji15 October 2008Freshwater Eels of Fiji Denomination: 50c, 90c, $1.50, $2France6 October 2008500th Anniv. 5th RepublicDenomination: 0.55I am sportDenomination: 0.5516 October 2008French Commune - VietnamDenomination: 0.55, 0.8520 October 2008
Jean-Jacques HennerDenomination: 0.88French Polynesia15 October 2008Air Tahiti/TAIDenomination: 250fGermany9 October 2008100th Anniv. FlightDenomination: 1,45150th Anniv. Lorenz Werthmann Denomination: 0,55Archaeology in GermanyDenomination: 0,55Gallimarkt Beer FestivalDenomination: 0,45FlowerDenomination: 0,25Guernsey31 October 2008Festive Foliage Denomination: 29p x 6, 34p, 40p 48p, 51p, 53p, 74pGuernsey Granite at St Paul's Cathedral Denomination: 34p, 40p, 48p, 51p, 53p, 74pGreenland20 October 2008ScienceDenomination: 6.50,10.50 ,28.00Expeditions VI - Nordenskiöld
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Denomination: 8.50, 16.25ChristmasDenomination: 5.75, 7.50 Hungary9 October 2008Philavillage VDenomination: 2 x 100ft (M/S)Your Own hello StampDenomination: 20 x 70ft (M/S)28 October 2008Olympic History - Helsinki 1952Denomination: 600ft (M/S)100th Anniv. Gyorgy KonecsniDenomination: 70ft, 100ftIceland9 October 2008Imagine Peace TowerDenomination: 120 ISKIndia7 October 2008Festivals of IndiaDenomination: 500p x 312 October 2008 III Commonwealth Youth Games Denomination: 500p x 4Ireland10 October 2008Irish MusicDenomination: 55c x 2, 82c x 2Isle of Man
1 October 2008WWI Letters HomeDenomination: 30p, 31p, 44p, 56p, 81p, 94p 20 October 2008Jolly Christmas PostmanDenomination: 28p, 31p, 48p, 50p, 60p, 1.56 Denomination: 1.60, 3.80 x 2 Italy10 October 20082008 Philately DayDenomination: 0.60Italia 2009Denomination: 0.85, 2.8023 October 2008Local Police ForceDenomination: 0.6624 October 2008Tribune of the PeopleDenomination: 0.60 30 October 20082008 ChristmasDenomination: 0.60, 2.8031 October 2008UNESCODenomination: 3.40Jersey19 October 2008Jersey Birdlife - Migrating BirdsDenomination: 6 Stamps Latvia
8 October 200820th Anniv. Popular front of LatviaDenomination: 1 stamp11 October 2008Animals of LatviaDenomination: 2 stamps 24 October 2008Olympic BMX ChampionDenomination: 1 stamp 25 October 2008National Costumes: DecorationsDenomination: 1 stampLithuania4 October 2008Town Coats of ArmsDenomination: 3 stampsMacedonia6 October 2008Childrens' DayDenominations: 12denars15 October 2008Euro Womens' handball C'ship 2008Denominations: 30denars Flora of MacedoniaDenominations: 1, 12, 50, 72 denars22 October 20087 centuries Musical DignityDenominations: 12 denars150th Anniv. PucciniDenominations: 100 denars
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northern territoryCanberra, Philatelic Society of: 1st Thursday: General Meeting,3rd Thursday: Afternoon Meet-ing (IF REQUIRED),3rd Thursday: (Evening) Exchange Night, 2nd Tuesday: Postcard Group, 4th Monday: Machin Collectors Group. All meetings 7:45pm, Griffin Centre, Genge Street, Can-berra City Postal Address:PO Box 1840,Canberra ACT 2601,Email:[email protected]
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new south walesArmidale Circle RSPC: Mtg 2nd Wed Australian Cmwlth Collectors Club of NSW: Mtg 3rd Mon 7.45pm, 1st flr. Philas House, 17 Brisbane St, Darlinghurst, Sydney 2001. Ph 02 9267 8301; Fax: 02 9264 4741. GPO Box 1971, Sydney NSW 2000 Ph: 02 9264 8301Aust. States Study Circle: Mtg 4th Wed 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301 Bathurst Stamp Coin and Collectables Club: Mtg 1st Mon 7.30pm, Old Eglinton fire shed , Park St, Elington PO Box 151, Bathurst NSW 2795Bega Phil. & Numismatic Society: Mtg 3rd Friday 8.00pm. Mthly Newsletter. PO Box 370, Bega NSWBlue Mountains Stamp Club: Mtg 4th Friday (ex Dec) 8.00pm Katoomba Public School; PO Box 76, BlackheathCampbelltown District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm (ex Jan - 4th Wed); @ Catholic Hall Acacia St, Ruse. Inquiries: [email protected]; PO Box 478, Camp-belltown 2560Castle Hill SC: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.45 pm, Crestwood Community Centre, Cnr Chapel Lane & Crestwood Dr, Baulkham Hills; POBox 151 Castle Hill NSW 1765China Study Group of PSNSW: Mtg 4th Mon 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301 Cinderella SC: Mtg 2nd Friday, even months; Produces “Cinderellas Australia” and monographs; PO Box 889, Chatswood, NSW 2057Coffs Harbour SC: Mtg 2nd WedEarlwood and District SC:Mtg 1st WedGrafton SC: Mtg 2nd Wed (ex. Dec)Grafton Stampers & Everything Philatelic: Mtg 1st Sun 2pm (ex School Hols). Grafton Baptist Church Hall, Cnr Queen & Oliver Sts. Ph 02 6642 1363. email [email protected]. Great Lakes SC: Mtg1st Sat 9.30am , Workshop & Market 1st Sat 9-12, (Feb-Nov), Great Lakes Campus Annexe, Taree St, Tuncurry Enq: PO Box 717, Forster, 2428Gosford PS: Afternoon Mtg 1st Mon; Evening Mtg 2nd ThursHawkesbury Valley PS (Richmond Stamp Club): Mtg 2nd Thurs (ex Jan) PO Box 28 Richmond 2753Illawarra PS: Mtg 3rd Thursday (ex. Jan) Wollongong Master Build. Club Ltd, Oasis Room, 7.30pm. All welcome. Tel. (02) 42252011. Imlay Stamp Collectors Soc: Mtg 4th Mon; Ph: 02 6495 7308Kempsey RSL PS: Mtg 2nd WedLower Clarence PS: Mtg 4th TuesMacquarie Valley PS: Mtg 2nd TuesMaitland SC: Mtg 2nd Mon ex Jan. ‘Show & Tell’ every mtg E. Maitland Bowling Club, Bank St. Pres. Mark Saxby; Sec. David Carratt; Ph: 02 4932 4045 Email: [email protected] PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs St David’s Church Hall, Dee Why. Sec. Graeme Morriss Ph: 02 9905 3255 email: [email protected] Rugby Leagues SC: Mtg 4th Tues cnr. Pittwater Rd & Federal Pde, Brookvale. Sec. Graeme Morriss Ph: 02 9905 3255 email: [email protected] SC: Mtg 1pm on 4th Mon (ex Dec); Ph: (02) 4472 7701; email: [email protected]
Morisset and District SC: Mtg 3rd SundayNambucca River PS: Mtg 1st SundayNewcastle PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs, 7.30pm Mayfield Ex-Services Club; 10am 3rd Wed, 48 Mackie Ave, New Lambton, Juniors 11am 3rd Sun, Wallsend Pioneers HallNSW Postcard Collectors Soc: Mtg 1st Wed 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301Northern Suburbs PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs, 7.45pm, Naremburn Library, Central St, Naremburn off Slade St; Ph: 02 9419 7354Orange Coin and Stamp Club: Mtg Last Tuesday, Market Days Sat APR 30 MAY 1st Ph: 02 6392 6334 (BH), 02 6362 3754.Orchid Stamp Club: Mtg 3rd Sat. (Jan and each 2nd mth)Parramatta PS: Mtg 1st FridayPenrith and District PS: Mtg 1st Thursdays, 8pm, CWA rooms, Baby Health Ctr, Tindale St PO Box 393, Kingswood NSW 2747PHILAS Stamp Auctions: Mtg 2nd Sat Mar,Jul, Nov Ph 02 9264 8301PS of Australia: Mtg 3rd Wed (exDec); Ph 02 9399 7556PS of NSW: Mtg 1st Tues (Philas House), 3rd Tues (Chatswood); Ph: 02 9264 8301Richmond River (Lismore) PS: Mtg 4th ThursdayRoyal Sydney Philatelic Club: Mtg 2nd Tues. (ex Jan); Ph: 02 9264 8301St. George PS: Mtg 1st MonShoalhaven PS: Mtg 2nd Monday (Ex Jan) PO Box 4047, East Nowra 2541. Ph 02 44472976Smithfield SC: Mtg 2nd MonSociety for Polar Philately: 2007 Mtg Dates: Wed May 9th, Jul 11th, Sept 12th, Nov 14th, 8pm, Ryde Ex-Services Club, 724-730 Victoria Rd, Ryde, NSW. Tel: 9807 3344. Sec. Peter Brigden, PO Box 408, Wahroonga, NSW, 2076Strathfield-Burwood PS: Mtg 4th WedSussex Inlet and District: Mtg 3rd MonSutherland Shire PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. , 7:30pm, Sutherland Uniting Services Club, 7 East Pde, Sutherland. Information Secretary, PO Box 339, Sutherland, NSW 1499Sydney Anglican Stamp Society: Mtg 1st Sat, even months 9.30am - 2.30pm, St Paul’s, Carlingford. SDetails: www.sass.stamparena.comTamworth PS: Mtg 1st Mon; Market Days 1st Sat. Newsletter editor, Michael de Groot , Pres. Peter Newley. Sec. Graeme Mitchell. PO Box 678, Tamworth NSW 2340 Ph. 02 67664853Taree RSL Club Ltd SC: Mtg 3rd MonThematic Society of Australia: Mtg 3rd WedToronto SC: Mtg 1st WedTuggerah SC: Mtg 4th Sun (ex Dec.)Turramurra SC: Mtg 2nd Monday, 7.45pm. Ph: 9144 4225Twin Towns Stamp Club Inc.: Mtg 1st Monday, 7.30p, Home & Community Centre, Tweed HeadsWagga SC: Mtg 1st Wed (ex Jan) ARCC Building, Tarcutta St, 7.30pm. Secretary: Peter Simpfendorfer Ph:02 6922 3393Willoughby Legion Philatelic Section: Mtg 4th TuesWyong PS: Mtg 3rd Tues, 7.30m. Jim Spence, Sec. Ph 02 4392 7536
NSW club information:The Philatelic Association of NSW, PO Box220, Darlinghurst, NSW, 1300 Phone: 02 9264 8301
Alice Springs SC: Meet Informally; PO Box 1529, Alice Springs, NT, 0871. Ph 08 8953 3054Darwin Philatelic Circle: 1st Sun. 10am - 2pm. 53 Flametree Crt, Rosebery; Ph:(08) 8931 2528; PO Box 1624, Palmerston, NT, 0831; Email: [email protected].
Armadale-Kelmscott PS: Mtg 4th Tues; Ph: 0419 954 862Canning SC: Mtg 1st Wed; Ph: 08 9459 7381Daytime SC: Mtg 1st Thurs; 08 9341 3576Eastern Goldfields: Ph: 0413 047 941Ellenbrook SC: Mtg 3rd Wed; Ph: 08 9296 9306Fremantle and District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed, Fremantle Tennis Club House, Parry St, Fremantle at 8pm; Ph: 08 6363 6415Kalamunda SC: Mtg 3rd Wed; Ph: 08 9293 1948Mandurah SC: Mtg 2nd Tues; Ph: 08 9582 9108email: [email protected] Districts SC: Mtg 2nd Mon(ex Jan); Ph: 08 9342 1989
Philatelic Forum: Mtg 1st Mon (exJan); Ph: 08 9457 0519Rockingham & Kwinana (PS of): Mtg 3rd Tues (NB 2nd in Dec) Pres. John Sutton; Sec. Terry Boyd; PRO Lucie Schokker Ph. 08 9419 1604; email: [email protected] of WA: Mtg 3rd Tues; Ph: 08 9457 0519Stirling PS: Mtg 4th Wed; Anglican Parish Centre, Brompton Rd, Wembley Downs, 7.45pm, Ph: 08 9447 7256The Postmark Circle (WA): Mtg 2nd Mon; Ph: 08 9446 4794Victoria Park SC: Mtg 1st Wed; Ph: 08 9367 3954Wanneroo SC: Mtg 3rd Mon; Ph: 08 9409 5015
WA club information: WA Philatelic Council, GPO Box 9800, Perth, WA, 6001
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philatelic clubs & societiesnew zealand Further information can be obtained from the NZ Philatelic Federation,
PO Box 58139, Whitby, Porirua, 5245, NZ. E-mail: [email protected]
Air Mail Society of NZ: Mtg 3rd Mon (ex. Jan). Ph: 03 358 4838Auckland PS: Mtg 1st and 3rd Tues (except Jan); Email bruce.chadderton @fitec.org.nz Add Ph 09 9853212 www.aps.gen.nzChristchurch PS: Mtg 2nd Tues, Library night 3rd Tuesday; Email: [email protected] Ph 03 3541064Dunedin PS: Mtg 4th Thurs (except Nov and Dec). Ph 03 4557643; Email [email protected] Stamp Collectors Club: Mtg 3rd Wed (except Jan and 2nd Wed Dec). Ph 06 8706710; Email [email protected] Bay PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex. Jan); Ph: 06 843 9433 Email [email protected] PS: Mtg 2nd Mon. Ph: 06 368 6202 Email [email protected] Valley PS: Mtg 1st Tues (ex. Jan); Ph: 04 568 4892; Email: [email protected] PS: Mtg 3rd Tues (ex Dec); Ph: 04 297 1197Manaia PS: Mtg (Hawera) 1st Sun. Ph 06 2784292, email: peter.Williams @xtra.co.nzManawatu PS: Mtg 1st Wed, daytime meeting 3rd Tues. Ph 06 3289 895; Email [email protected] Stamp Collectors Club: Mtg 3rd Mon (except Jan and 2nd Mon Dec). Ph 03 5776166; Email [email protected] Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd Wed Ph 07 8896251Nelson PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 03 5477516NZ Stamp Collectors Club Christchurch:Mtg 4th Wed ; Ph 03 3596758; www.nzeal.com/philately/nzscc.htmNorth Shore PS: Mtg 2nd (except Jan) and 4th Wed (except Jan and Dec). Ph: 09 4141044; Email: [email protected] www.northshoreps.comPostal History Soc of NZ: Auckland 1st Mon (except Jan). Ph: 09 522 0311 Chapter meetings held Invercargill, Nelson, New Plymouth and Wellington.Ph: 07 3476428
Royal PS of NZ: Mtg 2nd Tues (ex Jan); Ph: 04 472 2590; Email rpsnz @orcon.net.nz and; Website www.rpsnz.org.nzSouth Auckland PS:Mtg last Sat (except Dec), Papatoetoe, day time mtgs 3rd Fri(ex Dec); Ph: 09 5366708 ; Email: [email protected] PS: Mtg 1st Thurs (except Jan). Ph 03 2158177 Email [email protected] PS: Mtg 1st Mon except Jan. Ph: 06 758 6233; Email: [email protected] & District Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd (except Jan) and 4th Mon (except Dec); Ph: 07 5768866; Email: [email protected] Valley PS: Mtg 1st Mon(except Jan). Ph: 07 8689190; Email: [email protected] Association of NZ: Ph: 04 234 7218; Email: [email protected] PS: Mtg 1st Wed. Ph: 03 6888829Upper Hutt PS: Mtg 3rd Mon (except 2nd Mon Dec).04 5284123 ; Email [email protected] PS: Mtg 1st (except Jan) and 3rd Wed (except Dec). Ph 07 8556572 Email [email protected] PS: Ph: 03 442 8865Wanganui PS: Mtg 2nd Wed. (Ex. Jan) Ph 06 3448009; Email [email protected] & Districts Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Thu 1:00pm Ph 09 4258791Wellesley PS: Mtg 2nd and 4th Mon (ex public holidays). Ph: 09 8271240Wellington PS: Mtg 4th Mon (except 2nd Mon Dec); daytime meeting 3rd Thurs. Ph: 04 234 7218; Email: [email protected] PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Thurs Ph: 07 3071016Whangarei PS: Mtg 2nd Meeting: 2nd Tues (Ex. Jan) 09-4348000 Email [email protected]
queenslandArana Hills SC: Meeting 2nd Mon; Mr Les Revell (Secretary)07 3263 8573; email: [email protected] Afternoon SC: Meeting last Wed; Ph: 07 3206 6281.Bribie Island SC: Meeting 4th Wed; Ph: 07 3408 2238Bundaberg PS: Mtg 2nd Mon, The Family Centre, Kensington St (in the Show Grounds); Ph: 07 4152 2403 or 07 4151 3062Caboolture & District SC: Mtg 3rd Sat. Ph: 07 5498 6504Cairns SC: Mtg 3rd Wed. Ph: 07 4031 5342 Sec: Alan Sparks, email:[email protected], web:www.cairnsstampclub.asn.auCaloundra SC: Mtg 2nd Tues & 4th ThursPh: 07 5445 2940City Daytime SC: Mtg 2nd Thurs. Ph: 07 3206 6281City of Brisbane PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs; Ph: 07 3263 8573 (ah); email: [email protected] CLUB QUEENSLAND: Mtg 2nd Thurs 1.00 pm BCC Library, Garden City Shopping Centre, Upper Mt.Gravatt. Contact 32068507 or [email protected] Bay SC: Mtg 1st Sat. Ph: 07 3284 3161Enoggera SC: Mtg 1st and 3rd Mon. Ph: 07 3264 4157Gladstone 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, Law-son St, Southport. Ph: 07 5546 3801Gympie SC: Mtg - 3rd Mon. Ph: 07 5482 5698Hervey Bay Afternoon Club: Mtg 3rd Wed. Ph: 07 4124 1138Ipswich SC: Mtg 1st Thurs (ex. Jan). Ph: 07 3282 2983Junction Park SC: Mtg 1st Tues, 7.30pm, Annerley Baptist Hall, Lambton St.
Contact: 07 3272 8304. PO Box 177, Annerley, 4103, [email protected] Valley SC: Mtg 4th Sun, 1.30pm, Senior Citizens’s Hall, Gat-ton. Kerri Martin, Sec. Ph: 07 5465 3390 Email: [email protected] City SC: Meetings 2nd Thurs, Marsden Library, Marsden Park Shopping Centre, 6pm. Ph: 07 3805 9226. Mackay and District PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 07 4942 5433; Maryborough and Wide Bay PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex. Jan). Salvation Army Youth 7 Comm. Hall. Bazaar St Maryborough. Ph: 07 41224708 (see also Hervey Bay)Nanango SC: Mtg 4th Thurs. Ph: 07 4162 2945Philatelic Society of Qld: Mtg 4th Wed 7.30pm,18 Coolcrest St, Wynnum. Ph: 07 3245 5222Queensland Study Group: Sunday bi-monthly 1.00pm meets QPS house. Contact Ph: 07 3396 0846 email: [email protected] SC: Mtg 2nd Sat. Ph: 07 3204 6095Rockhampton SC: Mtg 1st Tues. Ph: 07 4926 3336Sherwood Afternoon SC: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 07 3372 6096Southport Afternoon SC: Mtg 2nd Sat; Ph: 07 5576 8246Southside PS: Mtg 3rd Tuesday & 3rd Wednesay (9am) Ph: 07 3848 2304 (ah) email: [email protected] Coast SC (formerly Nambour SC): Mtg 1st Wed, 7.15pm at Red Cross Hall, Price St Ph: 075445 3647Thematics Queensland: Mtg bi-monthly 9.30am. Ph: 07 3262 5605 email: [email protected] SC: Mtg 2nd Sat 2pm; Pres. Bob Littlehales; Secretary Allan Weeks Phone 07 46355623; PO Box 1591. Ph: 07 4638 3328Twin Towns SC: Mtg 1st Mon; Ph: 07 5598 7629Waterloo Bay SC: Mtg 1st Thurs (afternoon); 4th Thurs (evening); Ph 07 3207 3121.
QLD Philatelic Council, 18 Coolcrest St, Wynnum, Qld, 4178. Ph: 07 3396 0846 Fax: 07 3396 0842. Email: [email protected] Web: www.qpc.asn.au
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philatelic clubs & societiessouth 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: Saphil House 22 Gray Court, off Sturt St, Adelaide Mtg 1st Wed (even months); 6 mtgs a year bi-monthly + 4 journals for $15US. PO Box 395 Edwardstown 5039; mtgs ; Ph: (08) 2967 3969 Barossa SC: Mtg 1st Tue 7.30 Greenock Luth Church Hall, Bevan St, Greenock; PO Box Greenock 5360; email: [email protected]; Ph: (08) 8562 8386Blackwood PC: Mtg 2nd Wed ex Jan; Uniting Church, Main Rd, Blackwood; Ph: 08 8278 1629; PO Box 581, Blackwood 5051; email: [email protected] & Districts PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs; Bordertown PSchool; Ph: 08 8752 1297City of Noarlunga PS: Mtg Alt Thurs - 7.45pm. Comm. Health Centre, Grand Boulevard, Seaford. PO Box 272 Noarlunga 5167; Ph: 08 8556 6371Community PS: Mtg Alt Fri - 7.30pm. Marion Bowling Club, off Sturt Rd. PO Box 75 Edwardstown, 5039; Auctions, circuit books. Ph: 0408806894Eastern Districts PS: 2nd Thurs (ex. Jan), 7.30pm Senior citizens Hall, 47 Reid Ave. Hectorville; PO Box 240, Magill, 5072; Ph: 0400 156 796Elizabeth PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Fridays, 7.30pm, RSL Hall, Cnr of Halseys/Midway Rds;PO Box 701, Elizabeth 5112; Ph: 08 8255 0608Encounter Bay SC: Mtg 1st Wed, 7.30pm; School Hall, Woolworths Centre, Vic-tor Harbour; PO Box 317, Goolwa 5214; [email protected]; Ph: 08 8555 3311ETSA Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Mon (ex. Jan); Canteen, 1 Anzac Highway, Keswick; PO Box 2079, Magill North, 5072; Ph: 08 8278 7163Frama 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: [email protected] Philatelic Club: Mtg 2nd & 4th Mon 8pm; German Club, 223 Flinders St, Adelaide 5000; Ph: 08 8260 2251Glenside PS: 1st & 3rd Wed 7.30pm; Staff Dining Room, Glenside Hospital. Fullarton Rd Eastwood.PO Box 29, Glenside 5063. Ph: (08) 8382 4223Lower Murray PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs,7.30pm, 2nd Sat, 10am; Murray Bridge Show-grounds. PO Box 810, Murray Bridge; Ph: 08 85704074 [email protected] Gambier PS: Mtg 3rd Tues; Reidy Park Corn Centre. 8pm. Also1st Sun-day (ex. Jan) 1.30pm - 4pm. PO Box 2261,Mt Gambier.Ph: 08 8724 9474Para 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 Crovier Av, Modbury 5092. Ph: 08 8337 6533 Email: www.users.or.net/figg/amccsPort Pirie PS: Mtg 4th Mon; PO Box532, Pt Pirie 5540; Ph: 08 8632 1105Pt. Noarlunga Community PS: Mtg Alt Fri, 7.30pm, Elizabeth House, Elizabeth Rd, Christies Beach; PO Box 75, Edwardstown 5039 Ph: 08 8276 9691Printed Collectables Club (SAPC): Mtg last Tues, Julia Farr Cent. Canteen, Ground Floor, Fisher St. Ph: 08 8265 7395; PO Box 657, Enfield Plaza 5085PS of South Australia:1st & 3rdTues; 22 Gray Ct. GPO Box 1937, Adelaide 5001; Ph: 08 8555 3311PS of South Aust. (Aus. Com. Spect.Grp.): Mtg 4th Tues 7.30pm;22 Gray Ct. Ph: 08 8373 3756PS of South Australia (Daytime SC):Mtg 1st & 3rd Thurs; 22 Gray Ct.Ph: 08 8373 3756PS of South Australia (Study Group):Mtg 4th Tues 7.30pm; 22 Gray Ct. Ph: 08 8522 4345PS of Woodville: Mtg 2nd Fri; Murree Smth Hall. PO Box 27, Woodville 5011; Ph: 08 8443 5547Postal Stat & Postal Hist Soc: Mtg 2nd Tues; SAPHIL House, 22 Gray Ct, Adelaide. email: [email protected]; Ph: 08 8260 3352Riverland PS: Mtg 2nd Fri;Berry Primary School. PO Box 901, Berri 5343; Ph: 08 8588 1109Salisbury PS: Mtg 1st & 3rd Mon;StJohns Church Hall. PO Box 336 Salisbury 5108; Ph: 08 8252 2392Salisbury Junior Stamp Group: Alt Sat; Sal Primary School.PO Box 964, Salis-bury 5108; Ph 08 8258 5339Southern Districts PS: Mtg 4th Wed; PO Box 145, Daw Pk 5041; Ph: 08 8271 8522Stirling PS: Mtg 4th Fri 7.45pm, Old Railway Station (now Community Services Bldng.); Ph: 08 8370 2680Strathalbyn PS: Mtg 2nd Mon; C/- Post Office, Strathalbyn 5255; Ph: 08 8536 2770Ukrainian Collectibles Club: Mtg Wed as per syllabus; PO Box 466, Woodville 5011; Ph: 08 8345 4033Yorke Peninsula Collectors Club: Senior Citizens Club. Taylor St, Kardina. Mtg 3rd Wed ex. Jan; PO Box 178, Bute 5560; Ph: 08 8821 2906
victoria Club Information: Victorian Philatelic Council, GPO Box 9800, Melbourne, Vic, 3001
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 59 Flinders Lane Vic 8009Bairnsdale SC: Mtg 3rd ThursBallarat PS:Mtg 3rd & 5th MonBalwyn PS: Mtg 3rd Friday; Daytime 1st FridayBendigo PS: Mtg 1st TuesBerwick SC:Mtg 2nd Sun (ex Jan); Ph: 03 5942 7626Blackburn Baptist SC: Mtg 3rd ThursBrighton PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Tues; Daytime 3rd TuesCamperdown SC: Mtg 1st TuesCastlemaine SC: Mtg 3rd Tues (ex Dec)Colac PC: Mtg 4th Mon (ex. Dec), Colac Community College, Bromfield St, Colac. Ph:52314746Corner Inlet SC: Mtg 4th Thurs, Foster, Ph: 03 56881100Dandenong PS: Mtg 4th Wed (ex Dec)Diamond Valley PS: Mtg 3rd MonEssendon-Broadmeadows PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs; St Johns Uniting Church Hall, Cnr Mt Alexander Rd & Buckley St, Essendon; Murray Gorham, Ph 9306 7480Footscray PS: Mtg 1st Mon (2nd in Jan); Footscray Senior Citizens Room, 130 Buckley St, FootscrayFrankston & District SC: Mtg 3rd Tues (2nd in Dec) Seaford Community Centre, Broughton St Seaford. Ph: 5996 3745Geelong PS: Mtgs 1st & 3rd Sat 7.30pm (ex Jan) Diversitat Community Centre, 9-15 Clarence St, Gee-long West. Ph: 5261 5461 (Sec)Hamilton PS: Mtg 2nd MondayHungarian PS: Mtg 2nd WedItalian PS: Mtg 2nd Mon (ex Jan), 7.30pm, Abruzzo Club, East BrunswickLatrobe 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, Mary-borough. PO Box 295, Maryborough, 3465; Ph: 03 5464 2400. [email protected]. maryboroughsc.web1000.comMildura PS: Mtg Last Thurs (ex Dec)Carnegie Building 74 Deakin Ave Ph: 03 5023 8789Mooroolbark PS: Mtg 1st Tues; Ph: 03 9723 3304Noble Park SC: Mtg 4th Mon (Ex. Dec 2nd Mon), Paddy O’Donoghue Centre, 18-32 Buckley St, Noble Park, 3174; 03 97017085Oakleigh PS: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm (ex Jan) Oakleigh Public Library, Drummond St, OakleighOcean Grove SC: Mtg 4th Wed. 10am. Ocean Grove Senior Citizens Clubrooms Melways: 234 A. Ph. 03 5255 1372Peninsula SC: Mtg 3rd Wed, 7.30pm Uniting Church Hall, Murray Anderson Rd, Rosebud. Ph: 03 5974 1950Polish 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 9551 2235Royal PS of Victoria:Mtg 3rd & 5th Thurs; Daytime 1st TuesSale SC: Mtg 1st Mon (ex Jan)Shepparton PS: Mtg 2nd Tues, Mechanics Institute, Shepparton. Ph. 0419 560 813Sherbrooke PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs ex Jan Upwey Fire Brigade Hall, 8pm; Bob Cook Ph: 03 9758 3465Upper Yarra SC: Mtg 3rd TuesWarragul PS: Mtg 2nd FriWarrnambool PS: Mtg 3rd Wed 7.45pm St Joseph’s Primary School, Botanic Road;Ph: 03 5561 1470Waverley PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs 8pm, Mt Waverley Community Centre, 47 Miller Cres, Mt Waverley; Day-time mtg the following Friday, 9.30am, Uniting Church Hall, 482 High St, Mt Waverley. Ph. 03 9898 4102
tasmaniaBurnie PS: Mtg 2nd Fri Derwent Valley PS: Mtg 4th MonDevonport Junior SC: Mtg 1st & 3rd MonDevonport Stamp Group: Mtg 4th Fri, Public Library Mtg Rms, 7.30pm Ph. 03 6424 3449Glenorchy SC: Mtg 1st TuesHobart Junior Group: Mtg 1st Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224
Kingston Junior Group: Mtg 2nd Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224Launceston PS: Mtg 1st Thurs (ex. Jan) & 3rd Sat (ex. Dec); Ph: 6344 3676Mersey-Leven PS: Contact: 03 6425 3603Rosny Junior Group: Mtg Last Sat; Ph: 03 6278 2224Tasmanian PS: Mtg Last Monday (ex. Dec); www.tps.org.au, Legacy House, 159 Mac-quarie St Hobart
Obtain Tasmanian clubs information from: Tasmanian Stamp Council, GPO Box 9800, Hobart, TAS, 7001. Ph: 03 6278 7084
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nity Hall, 9 Oxford St, Epping. 10am - 4pm. Free Entry,
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