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THIS MONTH’S STAMP OFFERSSTATES:

Lot 01 South Australia: SG 198 15/- Brown-ish Yellow “Postage & Revenue”, perf 10. A very fine dated, commercially used example. $350

Lot 02 Victoria: SG 28a 1854-57 printing of 1d Rose half length. 4 large margins & very fine used. $75

Lot 03 Victoria: SG 221 1884 3d Mauve Stamp Statute. Fine & fresh mint lightly hinged. $1,250

Lot 04 Victoria: SG 222a 1884 4d Rose stamp Statute with wmk upright. Fine mint hinged with a couple of nibbled perfs at top. $975

Lot 05 Western Australia: 1897 10/- Postal-ly used. EXTREMELY RARE, with certificate. $2,500

KANGAROOS:Lot 06 Kangaroo: SG 5b 1st Wmk 3d Olive DIE 2, DIE 1 pair in PRISTINE MUH condition. Quality cannot be improved upon. CEREMUGA CERTIFICATE. $2,750

Lot 06A Kangaroo: SG 5e 1st Wmk 3d Olive DIE 2 with Ceremuga Certificate. Simply PERFECT MUH $2,500

Lot 06B Kangaroo: SG 5 1st Wmk 3d Olive DIE 1 Simply PERFECT MUH $575

Lot 07 Kangaroo: SG 13 1st Wmk 5/- Grey & Yellow. Exceptionally fine very lightly hinged. $550

Lot 08 Kangaroo: SG 14 1st Wmk 10/- Pink & Grey. Very fine MLH $1,250

Lot 09 Kangaroo: SG 15 1st Wmk £1 Brown & Blue. Strong colours and fresh, lightly hinged. $3,500

Lot 10 Kangaroo: SG 16 1st Wmk £2 Black & Red. Great perforations and colouring. Moderate hinging on reverse, as is the norm. $7,250

Lot 11 Kangaroo: SG 26 2nd Wmk 6d Blue. Very fine MLH. $295

Lot 12 Kangaroo: SG 30w 2nd Wmk 5/- Black & Yellow/Orange. Wmk INVERTED. An outstand-ing MUH example. $7,500

Lot 13 Kangaroo: SG 37e 3rd Wmk 3d Light Olive DIE 2B. Super Fresh MUH. $120

Lot 14 Kangaroo: SG 43a 3rd Wmk 10/- Grey & Bright Pink (Aniline). Very nicely centred and fresh for this issue. MLH $875

Lot 15 Kangaroo: SG 44a 3rd Wmk £1 Chestnut/Blue. Attractive, MUH. Scarce shade. $9,750

Lot 16 Kangaroo: SG 45b 3rd Wmk £2 Purple Black & Rose. A very nice MUH example of this scarce stamp. $12,000

Lot 17 Kangaroo: SG 053 3rd Wmk £2 Purple Black/Rose ‘OS’ perfin. Reasonably centred & cancelled to order. $3,950

Lot 18 Kangaroo: SG 137 C of A Wmk £1 Grey. Fine centring for this issue. MLH $950

Lot 19 Kangaroo: SG 137, 138 C of A Wmk £1 and £2. Most unusual to find fiscally cancelled telegraph punctures (7.5mm-8.0mm diameter). An exciting lot for the specialist. Condition is very fine. $250

KGV:

Lot 20 KGV: BW 71I(s)i Drury Certificate, 1d Scarlet, Rusted Cliché, rare with dated Pmk, very fine used. $875

Lot 21 KGV: SG 22b Single Wmk 4d Lemon with outstanding centring. MUH condition. The last one in stock originally from a block of 12. $975

Lot 22 KGV: SG 039gw Single Wmk, smooth paper 1d Car-mine Rose ‘OS’ Wmk INVERTED. Block of 4 2 MUH/2 MLH. Usual gum bursts on reverse. $125

Lot 23 KGV: BW 71T(G28) Single Wmk, smooth paper, 1d PINK with DRURY Certifi-cate. A very fine unused (without gum). $150

Lot 24 KGV: BW 72Kbb(G70½) Single Wmk, rough paper 1d DAMSON ‘OS’ MUH. DRURY Certificate 9-498. A most appealing example of this RARE shade. $1,500

Lot 25 KGV: BW 72Kbb(G70½) Single Wmk, rough paper, 1d DAMSON ‘OS’. Very fine mint lightly hinged. RARE shade. DRURY Certificate 9-500 $775

Lot 26 KGV: BW 72L(G77) Single Wmk, rough paper, 1d PLUM. DRURY Certificate 9-497. An exceedingly RARE shade, this example is fresh and MUH. $2,000

Lot 27 KGV: SG 60 Single Wmk, 1/4 Pale Blue. Very fine quality, MUH $575

AUSTRALIA GENERAL:

Lot 28 Australia: SG MS106a 3d Kookaburra Miniature sheet with RED exhibition cancel (29OC28).A premium MS from central sheet position. $450

Lot 29 Australia: SG 116 (var) 1929 1½d Swan with large part offset on reverse. Previously unseen by us. Mint large part original gum. $375

Lot 30 Australia: SG 178£1 Robes, thick paper, Ash imprint block of 4. Stamps are MUH $575

Lot 31 Australia: SG 178s £1 Robes SPECIMEN in very fine MUH condition. CEREMUGA Certificate of authenticity.$1,250

Lot 32 Australia: SG 360S £2 King with SPECI-MEN overprint in the scarce central position. Note weak frame variety at left. Superb MUH$375

OTHER:

Lot 33 Nauru: SG 41 1935 Silver Jubilee 2d Orange. Horizon-tal strip 3, IMPERFORATE AT LEFT, minor natural gum bend, a very important NAURU item. $5,000

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Postal: PO Box 2111, Hawthorn, VIC 3122 AUSTRALIAOffice: 822a Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn MelbourneE-mail: stamps@richardjuzwin.com.auPhone: (03) 9818 0209 Fax: (03) 98183308 Mobile: 0418 531 659

THIS MONTH’S STAMP OFFERS

Lot 34 NWPI: SG 73 1st Wmk 2d Grey ABC strip of 3. Superb fresh & all stamps mint unhinged. $325

Lot 35 NWPI: SG 74 1st Wmk 2½d Indigo, ABC strip of 3 2 MUH / 1 MVLH $185

Lot 36 NWPI: SG 74 1st wmk 2½d Indigo, ABC strip of 3. All stamps fresh & MUH. $185

Lot 37 NWPI: SG 76c 1st Wmk 3d GREEN/OLIVE shade ABC strip of 3. Upper stamp MLH, others are MUH. An elusive shade, and RARELY offered. Fresh $2,250

Lot 38 NWPI: SG 79 1st wmk 9d Violet, Type A is MLH whilst Types B & C are MUH. Fresh & fine. $475

Lot 39 NWPI: SG 81 1st Wmk 1/- Green ABC strip of 3. All stamps fresh & unmounted mint. $875

Lot 40 NWPI: SG 84 1st Wmk 10/- Grey & Pink. Incredibly totally mint unhinged ABC strip of 3. Several nibbled perfs at right will not detract. $950

Lot 41 NWPI: SG 85 1st Wmk £1 Brown & Blue. An exception-ally fine & fresh ABC strip of 3 without the usual short perforation problems, also nicely centred. Types A & C are MLH. Type B is MUH. Very scarce. $5,750

Lot 42 NWPI: SG 88 2nd Wmk 6d Blue. Type A MLH, Type B & C are MUH. $175

Lot 43 NWPI: SG 89 2nd Wmk 9d Violet, very fine & appeal-ing. Type A MLH, Type B & C are MUH. $185

Lot 44 NWPI: SG 90 2nd Wmk 1/- Emerald. Upper stamp is MLH, others MUH. Very nice. $175

Lot 45 NWPI: SG 92 2nd Wmk 5/- Grey & Yellow ABC strip of 3 in purple black overprint. Upper stamp is MLH, others MUH. Very attractive & fresh. $875

Lot 46 NWPI: SG 92 2nd Wmk 5/- Grey & Yellow. A brilliant MUH example of the Type B. Seldom offered. $350

Lot 47 NWPI: SG 96a 3d Olive Yellow ABC strip of 3. ALL STAMPS ARE DIE 2. Type A & B are MUH, Type C is MLH. $1,275

Lot 48 NWPI: SG 96a 3d Olive All stamps are DIE 2, ACB strip of 3. Type A & C are MLH, Type B MUH. $1,275

Lot 49 NWPI: SG 97w 3rd Wmk 2/- Brown, Wmk INVERTEDABC strip of 3. Nicely centred & completely MUH. $525

Lot 50 NWPI: SG 97w 3rd Wmk ABC strip of 3. Attractive & fresh with 2 stamps MLH / 1 MUH. $375

Lot 51 NWPI: SG 99 3rd Wmk £1 Brown & Blue ABC strip of 3, of EXCEPTIONAL QUALITY. All stamps are very fresh & mint unhinged. A GEM. $4,750

Lot 52 NWPI: SG 109a 5th setting 3d Olive DIE 2 Superb MUH $425

Lot 53 NWPI: SG 109/109A forme of 30. 1918-1923 “5th” setting of 3rd Wmk 3d Greenish Olive Die 1, Die 2 combi-nation, from Plate 1, left pane, position 31-60. 15 stamps are the scarce DIE 2 (nos. 37, 38, 43-47, 49-51, 55-59) with all being MUH. A rare & outstanding EXHIBITION ITEM. $4,500

Lot 54 NWPI: SG 115 3rd Wmk 2/- Brown in 5th setting. Superb fresh MUH. $100

Lot 55 NWPI: SG 116 3rd Wmk 5/- Grey & Yellow, 5th setting. Fresh MUH $175

Lot 56 PAPUA: SG 93-105 Bi colour set (13). All very fine MLH, plus several extra shades. (18 stamps in total). $350

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Public Auction No. 5Sunday 18th April 2010

1000 lots including some unique and numer-ous rare WA and Tasmanian Colonial items.

Also a good range of postal historyCatalogues free on request.

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philatelic news

The British Library: Philatelic RaritiesAs part of the London 2010 Festival of Stamps a year long exhibition The British Library Philatelic Rarities will be on show in the permanent Philatelic Exhibition area at the British Library, 96, Euston Road, St Pancras, London, NW1 2DB

Over forty of the library’s great philatelic rarities have been selected to be specially featured. Included in the exhibition are the unique America 1765 1d Revenue proof sheet; the introduction of which prompted widespread opposition and the cry “no taxation without representation”; the famous Canada 1851 12 pence black in an unused pair, Cape of Good Hope 1861 4d vermilion error of colour in pair with normal 1d used; a rarity of Great Britain - the 1858-79 1d plate 77 unused; an example of the Hawaii 1851-52 Missionary 2 cents used; the unique cover bearing two examples of India 1854 4 annas with inverted head; the iconic Mauritius 1847 Post Office 1d red used on ‘Ball’ cover and 2d blue unused; Spain 1851 2 reales blue error of colour used; and USA 1918 24 cents Curtiss Jenny error ‘centre inverted’ unused. The

exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see many of the most significant items in philately and all in one place – The British Library.

In association with this exhibition a new booklet Treasures in Focus Stamps has been published, and is exclusively available from the British Library Shop or via the British Library Online Shop at: shop.bl.uk Price £3.99.

From Sunday 9th to Saturday 15th May at 11.30 each day a philatelic Curator will conduct a tour of the British Library’s Philatelic Exhibition, (which is on permanent public show in 1,000 display frames of about 80,000 items). These exhibits have recently been rearranged and as well as including The British Library Philatelic Rarities exhibition, will also show the first half of the Tapling Collection countries Afghanistan to Mexico, including the fabulous Great Britain collection), which has not been on public display for some time.

Other collections on display include the Mosely Collection of British Africa to 1935; The Bojanowicz Collection of Poland postal history 1938-1946;

The Model Collection of Germany 1945-46 local provisional stamps; The Harrison Collection of die proofs 1911-37, engraved by J.A.C. Harrison; The Fitz Gerald Collection of World Airmails to the 1930s (selected pages); The Bailey Collection of Spanish Civil War 1936-39 (selected pages) and The Langmead Collection of Great Britain and Ireland Telegraph stamps.

Other exciting activities that are planned to take place during the period of the year long London 2010 Festival of Stamps will include a series of presentations, which will be staged monthly throughout the year and on a daily basis during London 2010 International Stamp Exhibition from the 10th to 15th May. For details see web page at: www.bl.uk/collections/philatelic

Due to our involvement with London 2010 Festival of Stamps the Philatelic Researchers Room will be closed from 1st to 23rd May.

Visitors are also encouraged to visit the Sir John Ritblat Gallery Treasures of the British Library which includes illuminated and literary manuscripts, Magna Carta, music, maps and views and sacred texts, and the exhibition Conservation Uncovered at the Centre for Conservation to discover how precious items are conserved.

The Library, which is adjacent to St. Pancras International Railway Station, has café and restaurant facilities which overlook the King’s Library of George III and are close by to the Philatelic Exhibition, in the Entrance Hall.

The British Library web site is at: www.bl.uk and its Philatelic Collections web pages are at: www.bl.uk/collections/philatelic

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philatelic news

ASCAT, the world-wide society of the leading publisher of catalogues, albums and magazines for stamp collectors, has awarded Mr William “Bill” H. Gross the ASCAT Grand Prix, one of the most prestigious international philatelic awards. Mr Gross was awarded the prize due to his great achievements and contributions as a Philatelist. However his acts as a Philanthropist impressed the ASCAT Grand Prix Committee even more.

Mr Gross is mostly known as the founder and chief investment officer of PIMCO, the world’s largest bond manager and as an author of several books and articles about financial investments. As a stamp collector he was the first person to form a complete collection of 19th century United States postage stamps. The final stamp of the collection, a 1-cent 1868 “Z Grill”, he got by trading it against

a $2.97 million, unique, plate block of the Inverted Jenny. He was awarded the Grand Prix National at the World Exhibition WASHINGTON 2006 for his United States

collection. The same year his

also outstanding Great Britain collection was sold at auction for over $9 million. Money that was all generously donated to the medical charity Médecins

Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). In 2008 two more of his impressive collections, British Empire and Scandinavia, were sold and once again all the proceeds, totalling

over $3 million, were donated to charity. This time it was Columbia University’s Millennium Village Project that benefited from the sales.

This November, Spink

Shreves Galleries auctioned two more exceptional collections - his Confederate States Postmasters’ Provisionals and his British North America collection. The proceeds from the sales, $3,284,000 were donated in their entirety to the Smithsonian National Postal Museum.

Former winners of the ASCAT Grand Prix:1994 Swiss Post1996 S.A.S. Prince Rainier III of Monaco1998 S.E. Juan Antonio Samaranch - President

of the International Olympic Committee2000 Mr Bertrand Piccard - The first man to fly around the world in a balloon.2002 Mr Luis Figo – FIFA world football player of the year 20012004 The Royal Princess Maria Gabriella di Savoia2006 Dr Alexander Kroo in memoriam - Founder of the ASCAT Grand Prix.

ASCAT Grand Prix Ceremony in Monte Carlo for Bill Gross!

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In this column I’ve often expounded the virtues of forming a collection of Australian Decimal stamp usage material. Many of these stamps are challenging to find commercially used on covers, postcards and the like, some more so for specific usages, such as solo franking. The challenge, by the way, does not apply to standard, garden variety Decimals mint, used, or philatelic use covers. The life force is rapidly ebbing from these classes of material. Why so? Perhaps because folk expect more in life nowadays, and many would agree common mint and used Decimal stamps are as exciting as non-alcoholic beer.

Well, on the other hand, I must say I’m rather chuffed to advise that life signs in Decimal stamp usage collecting are vibrant, indeed, and for those very same garden variety stamps so out of favour mint and used. The well known Trader, Torsten Weller, a like-minded soul when it comes to covers, conducted a 300+ lot on-line auction last December, dedicated to QEII usage material (occasionally with Postal History interface), with Decimal issues predominating. This well-informed offering, with its many uncommon/rare usages, achieved frequent newsworthy results. This month, I feel compelled to share some of these outcomes with readers, particularly, dare I add, any lingering cover skeptics.

Firstly, Torsten is to be congratulated for undertaking this initiative. It takes courage to blaze trails, and rewards can be slow in materializing. From what I can observe from this inaugural event, it would appear that the concept will be viable to develop in to a regular activity, perhaps biannual? And Australia need not be the only country featured.

Here follows some of the more noteworthy results, scans courtesy of Torsten Weller. There were half a dozen QEII £SD results; I’ll throw these in as an appetizer. Note: the exponential gap which has developed between used on and used off cover:1960 8d Tiger Cat Solo franking cover to East Germany $1201961 1/- Colombo Plan x2 on 12 Feb 66 cover (last day £SD) $1501963 Royal Visit 2/3d Combination franking to Austria $1201964 Airmail 2/3d Solo franking cover to Germany $801964 6d Thornbill Solo franking cover – Vietnam Forces $1001965 ANZAC 2/3d Solo franking cover to France $200

I’ve separated the Decimal issues in to distinct usage categories, (a) Airmail rate covers, (b) Airmail rate postcards, and (c) Airmail rate greetings cards (unsealed covers).

Airmail rate covers

Figure 1. Uncommon use of the common stamp Department

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Not airmail, but we’ll place it here for convenience. The Foreign letter rate was then 7c, but Figure 1 has been sent to Switzerland as an unsealed Printed papers rate item (5c for 1st 2ozs.), “Card only” endorsement; the first such usage of this stamp I’ve noted. The 1967 Christmas 5c on cover within Australia is, unsurprisingly, very common. This subject, however, is an excellent example of “uncommon use of the common stamp”. Realised $50 (off cover zero).

Figure 2. Most difficult on cover of the 25c CommemsAustralia issued four 25c Commems during the ’sixties, of which the 1968 Intelsat is the scarcest on cover. Figure 2 is a nice solo use of the stamp, for airmail rate to U.K. The ACSC cover price of $35 will need to be revised for next edition to reflect $60 realisation (off cover $2.50). Interestingly, the slightly less difficult to find Christmas 25c’s of 1967 and 1969 also made $60 for solo frankings.Figure 3. 1.56 million issued, mostly to collectors/speculators A difficult stamp on cover, the 1970 Royal Visit 30c is not easy to find commercially used even off cover, suggesting the lion’s

share of the number printed was consumed by collectors/speculators. Figure 3 is a solo use for airmail rate to Germany, which realised $75 (off cover $1.50), which is a good price for not the most attractively cancelled of usages. ACSC cover price of $35 another one for revision. A 30c Cook solo made $40.

Figure 4. Head count now up to three for this stamp. Will it get to double figures? Early in 2009 I featured in this column a 1974 Christmas 35c solo on cover, commenting it was the only example I’d seen. Two more have since been brought to my notice, including Figure 4 in Torsten’s sale, to less usual destination of Sweden. That’s three, in 20 years! There are many “sleepers” in the field of Decimal usage

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collecting. Back then I valued such an item at $100, which is precisely the realisation in the sale under review (off cover it catalogues 70c).

Airmail rate postcards

Figure 5. Odd denomination had dedicated uses The 1966 13c Avocet, an odd denomination, had three primary usages; two were for reduced airmail rates to U.K./Europe. In the April 2008 column I featured one such use, a solo franking for Greetings card rate, and mentioned it was the only example I’ve noted. That item was valued at $100. Airmail postcards are more frequently encountered; at least eight of these have been noted. Figure 5 is one, to Germany, which realised $80, a very respectable result (off cover is 30c). Figure 6. Modern usage rarityFigure 6 is but the second solo franking I’ve noted for the 1976 PNG Independence 25c; the other was also a Zone 5 airmail postcard. In my February 2009 column I featured the other recorded item, which to that point in time was, in fact, the only commercial

usage item of any kind for this stamp I’d seen, adding “likely to be a $100/150 item at auction”. That estimate was a bit light on, as it so happens; Torsten’s realised $270 (off cover it’s, well, pretty useless). Now, astute readers may well declare “but you can have fully ten complete sheets [ie 1000 mint stamps] for such a price”. True. I’ll still take the postcard.

Airmail rate greetings cards (unsealed flap)

Figure 7. Greetings card rate the one to seek out

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The airmail rates for Greetings cards and postcards are usually, if not entirely, the same. The former usage, however, is less often encountered than the latter, at a guess by a factor of 1 : 4. Torsten’s realisations for greetings card items, compared to similar stamp usages for postcards, generally confirm the respective relative scarcity. Figure 7, for example, an airmail rate greetings card to Sweden, bears the 1971 Australia Asia 15c. This realised $150, compared with the valuation of $75 placed upon an airmail postcard use for this stamp, in my February 2009 column. The used stamp off cover catalogues a humble $1.

Figure 8. 1971 Animals 12c, 18c, 24c: All a challengeI seldom come across nice usage items of the 1971 Animals 12c, 18c and 24c, particularly the last mentioned. The primary use for the 24c was for the 4th weight step for letters within Australia; ie generally awkward articles, with low survival rate. The 18c was at one time for the 3rd weight step, but for a while 18c was also for Zone 5 airmail postcard and Greetings card rates. Figure 8

is an example of the latter, to U.K. It realised $170. Nice price. My February 2009 column valued use on a postcard at $75 (off cover 30c). Torsten’s example on a postcard made $80.

Figure 9. 1972 Rehab 12c, 18c, 24c: longer lives, slightly less challengeThe 1972 Rehabilitation 12c, 18c and 24c, which replaced the Animals, were current for a longer period, and are a little less difficult to find on commercially used articles. Torsten again had solo frankings of the 18c, for Zone 5 airmail postcard and Greetings card rates. Figure 9 was the latter use, and realised $160; the postcard made $80. My February 2009 valuation for a postcard was a less courageous $45. Figure 10. Olympic Games issue = added demandThe 25c of the 1976 Olympic Games quartet is more difficult to find on commercial cover/card than the 40c. The higher denomination is primarily encountered for the Zone 4 (North America) airmail postcard rate; the 25c was for more obscure purposes, such as Zone 1 (eg PNG) airmail postcards. In

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the March 2009 column I featured a 25c solo paying Zone 5 airmail Greetings card rate, and suggested that rare item might fetch $100/150. Figure 10 is a similar use, and realised $230. Another solo use, for airmail postcard, made $160 (off cover is 40c). Olympic stamp usage has a strong international following.

Figure 11. 1976 Scenes, attractive usage seriesThe six stamps in the 1976 Scenes series lend themselves to a colourful one-frame usage exhibit. In fact, I have such. Figure 11 is one of the more difficult usage items to find for an exhibit, an airmail Greetings card rate cover to Sweden. It realised $120 (off cover 25c).

Figure 12. Has anyone considered Christmas 1957 to date as a usage exhibit?Christmas stamps became more “interesting” from 1967, when above base rate denominations were introduced. A collection of Christmas issues usage from 1957 to date would make a nice exhibit. Figure 12 is a 1979 25c solo for surface (not airmail) Greetings card rate to U.K., a very scarce usage, and realised $60 (off cover 40c).

In conclusion, the market is probably at a stage of development where it would be receptive to, and would benefit from an on-line price guide for Australian stamps on commercial covers/cards, etc. I suppose I’m odds-on to draw the short straw to undertake such a challenge. I may be tempted, but wonder how many (or more likely, how few) would be prepared to pay a reasonable service fee to access such information? Life is pretty good living in Australia’s Tropics, the world’s finest, and I can’t see myself being chained to a computer day in, day out, for perhaps a year, without due justification. Feedback from readers essential! Contact me by email, rod@rap.com.au

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The St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Philatelic Society (SHATPS) will hold its second international meeting in London, England in connection with the once-a-decade “London 2010 Festival of Stamps” international philatelic exhibition. The meeting will be open to the general public. SHATPS, formed in 1976 as a specialty society and affiliated with the American Philatelic Society, held its first international meeting in London in 1980.

The SHATPS meeting will be on Thursday, May 13, 2010 from 2 PM until 5 PM at the Hilton London Islington Hotel, 53 Upper Street, London N1 OUY, England. This is adjacent to the Business Design Centre at 52 Upper Street in London where “London 2010 Festival of Stamps” will be staged. Further information about the international philatelic exhibition is available online at http://www.london2010.org.uk.

The meeting will include six illustrated talks by society members: “Ascension Censored Mail during World Wars I and II” by Wilf Vevers of England

“Some Postal History Covers from Tristan Da Cunha” by Immediate Past President Ron Burn of England

“Interim Mails of Tristan da Cunha” by former Director-at-Large Mike Faulds of Scotland

“An Overview of the Friends of St. Helena” by The St. Helena Connection Editor Ian Mathieson of England

“St. Helena Postal History 1677-1899” by Stefan Heijtz of Sweden

“Eight Months on St. Helena, Three Weeks on Ascension, and Fifteen Days on Tristan da Cunha,” by Past President Michael D. Mueller of the U. S.

In addition, bookseller Miles Apart will offer a selection of South Atlantic-related books for sale prior to the SHATPS meeting and during intermission.

Late-breaking announcements regarding the meeting will be posted online in the news section of the society’s website, http://atlanticislands.org/news.htm.

Directions to the Hilton London Islington Hotel are available online at whttp://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/LONISHN-Hilton-London-Islington-hotel/directions.do.

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Readers should be VERY careful when buying any of the pricey post war China stamps.

And most especially from venues like eBay.

There was a lively discussion on these issues on stampboards this month - tinyurl.com/chinastamp

One experienced member there stated 9 out of 10 of such key modern stamps such as the 1980 “Year Of The Monkey” offered on ebay were forgeries in his view.

He posted up a photo of his selvedge copy of the stamp, he’d bought off a well known Hong Kong auction for many $100s as reference point of what a genuine looks like.

I pointed out it appeared to be re-perforated on 3 sides – which he and others later agreed with.

Check the photo nearby and see if YOU would have picked that manipulation. These guys are clever.

“All China Is NOT Red!”Most readers will realise many modern China stamps sell for big money, but are you aware of HOW much?

This rare 1968 issue nearby showing Taiwan as a separate country sold at auction in latter 2009 for $HK3,680,000.

That is well above $A500,000 - more money than nearly any single imperforate “Classic” gets, from any country.

And in a few years that will double is my guess.

Wan Wei Sheng was

commissioned to design a series of stamps during the Cultural Revolution, a decade-long period of mass political and social upheaval in China starting in the mid-sixties.

It was designed to depict to the Chinese masses that - “Everywhere in China is Red” – and the smiling armed soldier was probably placed there, to make sure the message got across!

One 1968 stamp depicted above features

a worker holding a book filled with leader Mao Zedong’s quotations, and showing an entirely red China map in the background.

Major political blunderHowever, Wan had left the Taiwan map uncoloured red, a major political blunder that sparked a recall of the stamps just half a day after their release.

Taiwan split from China in 1949 at the end of a civil war, and has been ruled separately since.

However Beijing still considers the island as a “Renegade Province” and a part of its territory, awaiting “reunification”.

On the day of issue, Chen Chao from the Map Publishing house of China, Beijing Branch noticed the problem in this stamp. The design had

a major error. It did not uphold

the party slogan - “Everywhere in China is Red”, since the map of Taiwan island at lower right was drawn in white color.

The Military Managing Committee decided to stop issuing this stamp, withdrew all the copies

Does this look OK to you?

Sold for over $500,000

Market Matters: Fakes of modern China on eBay

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unsold and ordered them destroyed. Some offices had just starting selling them before that order, hence the few existing copies.

Stamp designer Wang Wei Sheng poses nearby in front of an enlarged copy of the rare stamp he designed, commonly known as “The Whole Country is Red”.

He attended the sale of it at a John Bull Stamp Auction in Hong Kong for it and others from the set, on November 1, 2009.

Feared a jail sentenceFor years Wang Wei Sheng worried that he would be jailed, after the stamp he designed was quickly pulled out of circulation because it failed to include Taiwan as part of China in the design.

Designer Wang Wei Sheng, who watched the hammer fall on the record price, said he had feared he would be punished for his mistake.

“For a long time I was really worried that I would be jailed,” Wang said.

“Officials told me that it was a really big mistake, but in the end nothing happened.”

The vertical version of this stamp is illustrated nearby in a block of 4. That block sold for $HK2.3 million at the same sale.

Modern China is going from strength to strength, and in my view will continue to do so for the forseeable future.

How much do you spend?An interesting question, and one may collectors do not dare spend much time calculating!

A stampboards member from Dubai posed this very question, “How much a year do you spend annually on stamps” and a member voting poll was set up.

The voting of the poll as I typed this had 165 votes from collectors all over the world. As you can see over 70% of respondents spent over $1,000 a year.

Nearly a third of all voters spent over $5,000 a year on stamps.

Remember these votes are entirely anonymous, and in that setting are generally quite accurate.

Many of the members added their own comments to the poll, which are very interesting – you can read the results here - tinyurl.com/stampspend

Dealers never notice EVERYTHING!A great story unravelled recently. I sold a large carton of junk on stampboards around Xmas for $A150.

I’d bought it an hour before, and it was crammed with old stamps in cigar boxes, tins, envelopes, shoeboxes, and even a WW2 Army Ammunition box!

The elderly seller drove over with it, and said much of it was from a relative who had lived in New Guinea for a time before the War. He had planned to toss it all in the bin, until he saw my Yellow Pages ad.

It was a hot day, so I

He STILL looks worried!

Taiwan is also not Red!

Glen Stephens

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took photos of this one carton, loaded them up for sale, and it found a new home to Sam Kelly, a collector I’ve dealt with for decades.

Indeed Sam once mailed me 10 cartons of his own spare cover material, so it is true that what comes around, goes around!

Anyway, upon receipt Sam noticed a handful of New Guinea early 1930s covers that I’d only briefly glanced at when buying the box, and he posted them up on stampboards

One nice cover was addressed to the Edie Creek Goldfields, and there were other nice pieces – Sam’s full report is here - tinyurl.com/NGcover

One was the illustrated nearby Air Mail cover from Wahgi River, Central New Guinea. Signed by the pilot, with his aircraft rego number, and sent by first air mail in 1933.

Cat is $2,000 in the Eustis AAMC.

That one cover is cat $2,000 in Eustis as P59, which for items of that ilk, means it is WORTH around that figure, as there are far more buyers than sellers at this

scarcity level and AAMC = retail pretty much. The interior highlands area of New Guinea was unknown to Westerners until the early 1930s – see tinyurl.com/GoldNG for the report by The Royal Geographical Society, in 1934.

I’ve been to the NG highlands a couple of times, and it is still the Wild West even today. I’ve been threatened with a machete by a betel nut/cheap spirits deluded tribesman, up a rutted muddy path to nowhere.

Three Police with shotguns needed to come and defuse the issue.

I needed 2 paid security men and a driver in an

How do YOU compare with this?

A $2,000 bonus find in my box.

Market Matters

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armoured Land Rover, to drive from Goroka to Mount Hagen.

It is only a generation back where they had never seen Europeans, and many of the natives there are still of the fierce Warrior class.

I’ve spent time with the Huli Wig Men, and trust me, these are huge guys you would NOT want to mess with.

I saw the folder of New Guinea covers when buying it, and had meant to take a closer look, but it was down the bottom of box as I recalled, which I’d all sealed up, so could not be bothered to be honest.

I had literally bought about 40 cartons that day from 2 different estates, and my garage was full, so was not quite sure what was where to be honest, and I just wanted to start moving them all fast.

Only 5 covers created.The Eustis AAMC states only 5 such covers were carried in 1933.

The rule of thumb is that more than half of such things from the pre war era vanish over the decades - being sold, or more often, tossed out by folks cleaning up an estate, (as these very nearly

were) who have no idea they have any real value. So five carried we know is a fact - and the one

is illustrated in Eustis, plus this may very likely be the only ones extant.

Clearly it is rare - the Nelson Eustis collection Auction at Leski did not contain a copy.

I’d bet the house this cover has not left that family for those 75 years, and can truly be regarded as “new stock” to the market.

It all goes to show dealers overlook things all the time. I never care, as I made a profit anyway on the box.

Always check bulk lots carefully – you never know WHAT is in there! Great to see a keen cover collector ended up with this lot.

Cunning 1d Black FakeAn envelope sent to an address in Cornwall is believed to be the world’s first recorded attempt at postal fraud – and was expected to fetch up to £40,000 at a UK auction in late 2009.

The “highly important” and decorative Mulready envelope from the dawn of postal history in 1840 bears two uncancelled portions of different, previously used 1840 1d Black stamps.

The two parts had been cunningly joined and stuck to the envelope to

Cover TO the New Guinea goldfields.

World’s first postal fraud attempt?

Glen Stephens

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form an apparently unused single stamp. The Mulready was Stereo A176, and dated 9

June 1840, and additionally franked with 1840 1d. black, the left “half” from Plate 1A lettered TD, and the right part was lettered “D” joined together in an apparently successful attempt to defraud the Post Office.

Both portions were tied by red Maltese Cross cancellations.

The ruse obviously worked - because the envelope, with the stamp bearing a red Maltese Cross cancellation, was delivered without question by the UK Post Office.

Stamp specialist Dominic Savastano, of London auctioneers Spink, said: “It is believed to be the earliest recorded attempt at postal fraud involving the use of a Mulready envelope anywhere in the world. It is a rare and highly important envelope.”

The envelope, accompanied by a B.P.A. Certificate, was expected to fetch £35,000-£40,000 at Spink’s London Auction on November

11, but appeared not to sell on the day.

“Knowledge Is Power”“Knowledge Is Power” has been my mantra for 30 years as a dealer.

Often the entirely obvious is overlooked by sellers - even informed ones.

A UK dealer had this cover shown nearby for fixed sale on their website. I pounced on it, and it arrived here his week. MOST interesting.

This is how they described it, and they were large professional dealers, and like me, members of the PTS.

“01/04/1936 Australian FDC Opening of Submarine Telephone Link to Tasmania, home made with wrong date.”

It is clearly machine cancelled at Perth GPO 11.45am, March 31, so backdating is not an issue, as with many small town hand cancels.

Back in this era, FDC were a generally un-collected novelty.

In the entire period of Kangaroo issues from

Cancelled day BEFORE issue.

Market Matters Glen Stephens

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1913 to 1936 there are only two FDC’s recorded - despite the myriad of face values, of ever changing watermarks, and even many colour changes. No collectors seemed to care.

The same is true of our KGV heads - very few issues have genuine FDCs recorded. For some, the earliest recorded date is often assumed to be the day of issue.

John Gower summary of the 1930s“Mr Wesley Covers”, John Gower wrote in the 1960’s - “prior to 1936 as far as I can remember, “First Days” and the collecting of same, has very few friends among the philatelists at that time.

“Very few seemed to be interested in that branch of the hobby, and the reason for this I think was on account of no printed or cacheted covers being available to the few collectors who were interested.”

Even April 1 FDC’s of this are not common at all to check against, and are listed in the ASC at $125, and indeed I’ve seen them sell for far more.

There were virtually no illustrated covers at that time for anything (see Gower quote above) - that aspect all largely started later in 1936, mainly with the August 1936 SA Centenary trio, and then really took off in mid 1937.

Some genius bid $A5,125 for an apparent

simple date-slug error on a commercial cover. It was franked with a 1d green KGV head at auction in February 2009, that had a shopping list scrawled across the back.

This cover was stated as being cancelled the “DAY BEFORE ISSUE” and was allegedly unique thus -- and the keen bidders pushed it up to $A5,125 – so at least 2 collectors appeared to agree.

In my view and the view of some senior FDC collectors, it was a simple wheel slug error on the town hand cancel. Good luck to them, when they try and re-sell it!

Cancelled the day BEFORE issueThere is NO such chance the Perth GPO machine cancel was likely to be wrong at the GPO at 11.45am. And a simple month or day error was not possible, as THREE wheels then needed to be wrong.

The date is clearly showing “Perth/11.45am/31 MAR/1936/W.A.” - the OFFICIAL release date seems to be agreed by catalogues as April 1.

Clearly this is dated a day BEFORE. The morning of the day before in fact. March 31,

This sold for $5,125!

A clear March 31st cancel.

Glen Stephens

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1936 was a Tuesday, so very plausible it was used March 31.

If the keen buyer or under-bidder of the rough looking 1d green “Day Early” FDC, would like to send me just 20% of what was cheerfully paid for that, for $A1,000 he’ll have a UNDISPUTED “Day Before” cover for the money!

Interestingly enough there was a vigorous discussion on the 1d green cover on stampboards.com before the auction, and later, on the 1936 Cable cover. Follow all that here - tinyurl.com/36cable

Another example surfaces.Australia’s leading FDC collector Frank Pauer of Melbourne saw it, and phoned me today to say he had an IDENTICAL cover for the 1936 cable – same addressee, same handwriting, same notes at base .. and better still - the identical 11.45am Perth GPO cancel.

Pauer’s example is illustrated on the

stampboards discussion for those interested - tinyurl.com/36cable

Frank bought it many years back, and had never seen or heard of another until sighting my cover on stampboards.

Australian pre-war FDC cover collecting is still very much in its infancy.

When the Pauer/Walker detailed FDC catalogue finally gets issued, interest in all these sort of major left field items will increase enormously.

Market Matters Glen Stephens

Glen Stephens has written monthly ‘Stamp Tipster’ columns for over 25 years. A vast library of past articles is at:

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Youth philately: SingaporeReported in the Straits Times (Singapore) Undergraduates Sin Tong, 23, Sin Yong, 21, and Sin Yuan, 18, share a hobby passed down by their parents - stamp collecting. While the brothers have garnered trophies for their collections, they are a rare breed among their peers who are more used to e-mail than snail mail.

The appeal of stamp collecting to modern youth is perhaps best summed up by Sin Yong: “When I tell my peers that I collect stamps, they go ‘huh’?’’

One of the main stamp collectors’ associations is the Kreta Ayer Stamp Society which has about 500 registered members, of whom only about 50 are active. Their average age is 45. Vice-president Connie Tai said: “It is very hard to recruit younger members.”

The mother of the three undergraduates, Madam Au Yong Keok, 50, said she and her engineer husband Sin Sia Bah, 55, taught their sons to collect stamps.

She said: “Stamp collecting helps them in their studies. They learn to be meticulous and it teaches them discipline and how to organise their work.”

Youth philately: UKReported in Marketing Magazine (UK)The Royal Mail and Microsoft Advertising have established a Royal Mail MSN hub to promote its range of stamp issues to a new, younger audience.

The Royal Mail hub will include stamp facts, alongside a variety of quizzes and polls.

The UK-specific hub will sit across several MSN channels, including homepage activity, and will be supported by specially-created editorial content which will be used as the primary hook to engage users. Microsoft will refresh content around the hub as new stamps are released.

The campaign and aims to extend the appeal

of stamp collecting beyond the traditional 65+ demographic by targeting 25-44 males.

See the site at http://tinyurl.com/RMMSN

Online stamp communitiesReported in Hindustan Times (India)When Gopal Tandan’s business in Kolkata closed three years ago, the 56-year-old turned to the Internet to kill the depressing hours. Soon he struck upon a global community that rekindled an old passion. “I had thought philately was dead as a hobby. But I found thousands of enthusiasts discussing, exchanging, buying and selling on the Net,” he says. His childhood collection flourished and his depression subsided.

If the Internet made stamps a relic in terms of communication, it has at the same time boosted philately in an unprecedented manner. As an aggregator of borderless communities, it has brought together far-flung people who might never have connected over stamps.

Not long ago, Aditya Deb Gooptu, a senior marketing official, linked with a girl in South America to exchange Brazilian stamps for Indian pocket calendars. The 38-year-old resident of Delhi has exchanged stamps with collectors in Italy, Turkey, Israel, Brazil, Japan, Argentina, the Netherlands and the UK - but has never sold a stamp.

Not all of them are hobbyists, though. Vinod Sabharwal, 51, who became a ‘professional philatelist’ two years ago, launched indianstampghar.com this May. His blog has hosted more than 75,000 visitors over the past four months.

It’s so lucrative a trade that Nadeem Ahmad from Saharanpur started selling stamps over the internet three years ago with a loan of $500. He sold stamps worth $US120,000 on eBay last year.

“If the Net brings together likeminded people, it also brings cheats closer, “ says Mansoor Bolar, a 38-year-old company official from Mysore whose online hours are spent mostly on mbstamps.blogspot.com.

“The trade is based on trust - you send stamps to someone with the hope of a payment, exchange or return. It’s the code on which stamp ‘circuits’, that grew after World War II, thrived. Reputations were built over time. The immediacy of the Internet, on the other hand, doesn’t allow so much time. There is the

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Stamps in the News - Globally!

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potential for deception as much as connection.”Stamps as therapy: Returned vets

Reported in the Peninsula Clarion (Alaska US) Thirty-five years ago, Texas, resident Cy Turner had a cousin -- a veteran of World War II -- who had a stroke.

Someone suggested the Stamps for the Wounded program. Since 1942, the program has collected stamps and other stamp collecting related materials, and redistributed them to veteran’s hospitals across the U.S. as occupational and recuperative therapy for wounded soldiers.

“Stamps are so colorful and different,” Turner said. “He told me it saved his life.”

Turner decided to become involved. “People all around town save stamps for me,” she said. “We also collect from various clubs, organizations and businesses.”

Turner said she has sent a sizeable volume of stamps to be used in veteran’s hospitals around the country.

“I’ve collected more than 15,000 pounds of stamps,” she said. “For a while I was sending out 20 pounds a month.”

Turner said she likes to know that her efforts go toward a good cause, as the veterans use them for numerous activities other than just collecting.

“They’ll use them to make mosaics, crafts or for matching exercising,” she said. “It occupies their time, eyes, hands, and above all, their minds.”

And now let us buy stampsReported in Scarborough Evening News (UK)A VILLAGE post office now has a new home after a Scarborough church stepped in to save the day.

Cloughton post office, which closed more than 18 months ago, reopened yesterday at St Mary’s Church.

The move comes after the local parish council approached the church and asked for the go-ahead to run the service from the vestry.

The vicar of St Mary’s, the Rev Liz Kitching, said: “I’m delighted to see the post office open again in Cloughton and pleased that we at St Mary’s were able to help with this.

‘’It has taken 19 months from the first approach from the parish council to this opening, with the help of lots of good will, prayer, hard work and paperwork from lots of people!”

“Hosting the post office is something the church can do to help our community.”

Cloughton’s new Post Office.

Royal Mail looks to IndiaReported in The Times of IndiaRoyal Mail popularised the concept of prepaid postage stamps, when it issued the Penny Black in 1840. Now Royal Mail, UKs national postal service, is ready to enter the Indian market. It has set up a shop at the India International Trade Fair 2009 to showcase its entire range of philatelic products.

David Walker, managing director philatelic, Royal Mail, explains that stamp collecting is still a vibrant hobby. He also believes that there are immense educational possibilities in stamps and its important to draw people from all age groups into the hobby. India was an obvious choice, Walker says, because of the shared culture between the two countries. The only other country where Royal Mail is marketing its products is the US.

Unlike in India, where close to a 100 stamps might be issued a year, Royal Mail issues a dozen or so thematic issues annually. Though the themes are usually British, many of them have an appeal that goes beyond Britain’s borders. For instance, there have been sets of stamps issued on the Beatles, Harry Potter, Darwin and James Bond. The subjects for the stamps are decided after rigorous discussion and research that could last for over a year.

Royal Mail will go on a road show with events in Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Baroda, Bangalore and Guwahati. This will be followed by events in schools to reach out to students to promote philately as a hobby. There also talks are on with India Post to discuss ways of collaborating on projects.

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Compiled by Margo Campbell

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Details of the main variations in recent stamp issues

Australian Stamp Variations

2009 SummaryIn 2009 Australia Post issued 588 variations costing over $4600 ! There were 25 new issues containing 107 designs and 304 different stamps. The cost of the stamps was $219 but if you just bought one gummed stamp of each new issue this reduced to only $85. Two of the issues contained previously released stamps in special minisheets. There were 225 new 55c stamps issued which was, on average, one every 1¼ days !

Type 1 Reprints : 2009Month Stamp Koalas Original Issue

March

Panoramas:50c Walker’s Flat 1K

2002

Island Jewels:10c Maria Island 1K

2007

April

Native Wildlife:5c Platypus 2K

2006

Waterfalls:$1.40 Russell Falls 2K

2008

June

Tourist Precincts:4 x 55c Booklets of 204 x 55c Rolls of 100$1.65 Salamanca Place$2.75 Glenelg

1K1K2K1K

2008

September

Butterflies:5c Red Lacewing10c Blue-banded Eggfly

3K4K

2004

Tourist Precincts:4 x 55c Rolls of 200 1K

2008

Reprints featured again in 2009. There were 12

Type 1 (Koala) Reprints (see the table). There were 17 Type 2 Reprints. These began in March with the re-issue of 5 For Every Occasion self-adhesive stamps in booklets. On 14th May the previously released 55c Tourist Precincts stamps were issued in a special minisheet to commemorate the 23rd Asian International Stamp Exhibition. On 23rd July stamps from 3 older issues were combined into a special minisheet to commemorate the 2009 Melbourne StampShow. Three different stamps from the For Every Occasion issue of 2008 were used as “generic base stock” and issued in new layouts. The Map of Australia, Coastal and Balloons designs were released in vertical strips of 3 of the same stamp in Souvenir Stamp Sheets – in June, September and October, respectively. They were originally issued in vertical se-tenant strips with other stamps. The Map of Australia stamp also appeared in vertical pair format in the special Chips Rafferty and Errol Flynn minisheets released in December (see below). 15 Type 3 Reprints were limited to the Behind The Stamp prestige booklet released on 23rd November. They all had the 2009 year code in the image and were both perforated and imperforate. One of these was rather special. The 41c Cycling stamp was Australia’s first full imperforate self-adhesive stamp.

Number of VariationsType 2008 2009

Blocks, Strips & Pairs 72 96Gutters 6 12Image 60 69Imperforate 61 49Minisheets 121 86Overprints 0 2Perforation 55 9Self-adhesive 143 119Sheetlets 58 22Size 16 9Tabs 70 75Specials 46 40

Total 708 588

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David MallenDetails of the main variations in recent stamp issues

The 17% reduction in the number of variations compared with 2008 was mainly due to 46 fewer perforation variations. Only one new issue (Inventive Australia) had (5) stamps with two different perfs; the other 4 perf variations were reprints. Other significant reductions were in the number of minisheets (22 separate minisheets and 64 prestige booklet pages) and the fewer number of sheetlets (22). The latter is always lower in non-Olympic Games years. The Behind The Stamp Type 3 Reprints of pre-decimal stamps accounted for 36 of the 40 Special variations. The other 4 were the gold-foil Songbirds stamps. The 9c on 8c Opal perf and imperf stamps with the simulated overprint released on 23rd November were the only overprinted stamps issued since the year 2000.

Some unusual variations released in 2009 included:

55c “flocked” filigree With Love self-adhesive •

stamp The simulated watermark used on some of the •“200 Years” issuesMultiple issue minisheet with a se-tenant block •of 4 stamps from 3 different issuesImperforate Parks and Gardens stamps•Thermo-chromatic ink on the Micro Monster •stampsThe 55c £2 Kangaroo & Map embossed stamp •with special text: “Australia’s Favourite Stamp”Species at Risk minisheet issued with a Norfolk •Island stamp that is not valid for postage in Australia5 different semi-imperforate self-adhesive •personalised Christmas stamps on one sheet4 gold-foil Songbirds stamps – thin enough to •place in your album next to the paper copies of the “Favourite Stamp Issue of the Year”

The most expensive stamp variation of the year

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Details of the main variations in recent stamp issues

Australian Stamp Variations

was the special minisheet in the “Celebrating 200 Years” collection. It contained 4 x 55c £2 Kangaroo & Map intaglio printed stamps and cost $750. What a great way to celebrate Australia Post’s 200 Year anniversary!

Stamp Variations Month(Contd.)

As mentioned last month, three of the “Impressions” products containing stamps were to be released in December. Two were in fact released in November but received in December hence were too late to be included in my summary. I have also revisited my summary tables published last month and made some updates. Full details are now on my website’s 2009 Stamp Issues page.

The expensive “Celebrating 200 Years” Collection contained 5 sets of stamps with a face value of $23.10:

4 x 55c £2 Kangaroo & Map – special minisheet.•

5 x 55c Australia’s Favourite Stamps – a pair and •a strip of 3.

13 x 55c Australia’s Favourite Stamps self-•adhesive sheetlet.

10 x 55c 200 Years sheetlet.•

10 x 55c Everyday People sheetlet.•

This Collection cost $750 and for “one of everything” collectors it was the only way to obtain the special minisheet. This minisheet was printed using the “intaglio” process and the stamps were quite different from the original sheet stamps. The text and kangaroo were black, the “55c” was wider and the “200 years” simulated watermark was missing. The rest of the Collection contained coins which are of no interest to most stamp collectors. $23.10 mint stamps + $726.90 other stuff = $750.00. A mark-up of over 3000% ! Thanks to Chris de Haer for supplying this information. More details may be found on his new Australian Stamps website: http://stamps.chrisdehaer.com.au.

The first issue of the year was “Legends of the Screen”. These stamps were re-released in two “Impressions” products. A special silver-foiled minisheet containing the four 55c portrait stamps was found in the hardcover “Our Legends” book. The “Film Lovers” stamp pack contained four minisheets:

4 x 55c portrait stamps (without the foil).•4 x 55c Geoffrey Rush portrait stamps.•2 x 55c “For Every Occasion – Map of Australia” •stamps with tabs of Errol Flynn.2 x 55c “For Every Occasion – Map of Australia” •

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David MallenDetails of the main variations in recent stamp issues

stamps with tabs of Chips Rafferty.

This was the first time the Map of Australia “generic base stock” stamps had been issued in vertical pair format.

The silver-foiled Barbie sheetlet contained 10 stamps with a silver image of Barbie’s head in the top right corner of each stamp. This was repeated in the top right and bottom left corners of the selvedge. $5.50 face value of the stamps cost $139.95!

The table lists the 9 “Impressions” products that contained 126 Australian stamp variations. You will notice one had to pay 10 times the face value to buy one of each product. Start saving for November 2010 now!

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The Australian Philatelic Federation (APF) is the entity responsible for co-ordinating organised philately in Australia. This task is performed through an Executive Committee, a group of Project Officers, plus a network of State Councils and stamp clubs or societies (clubs).

This naturally prompts the question as to what is disorganised or unorganised philately, or, more correctly, what falls outside the scope of the APF’s umbrella. Generally, uncovered by the APF would be all stamp collectors within Australia who have neither joined a stamp club, nor exhibited their material.

The APF is apart of a worldwide network of national philatelic organisations administered by the Fédération Internationale de Philatélie (FIP), located in Geneva, Switzerland.

Overall, the role of the APF is to create an environment within Australia which creates interest in the hobby generally, and the various philatelic events specifically, such that new collectors will emerge, and existing collectors will be encouraged to join clubs and even exhibit their material. This role includes the need to keep collectors advised on a timely basis of changes which could affect their collecting interests and activity.

To learn more about the APF visit their website, www.apf.org.au. This is an excellent website with a great wealth of information regarding philatelic activity in Australia. In addition, several of the State Councils have their own websites containing much local information. These sites are available through the links in the APF site. The breadth of information in these sites is constantly under review to both ensure accuracy and to expand the content.

To assist in this role, the APF provides a number of services which are available to individual collectors, stamp clubs or state councils. This support is supplemented by similar types of services from the various state councils. These services fall into two categories, apparent or visible, and

invisible, or not so obvious.

The visible services areMaintenance of a retail store, located in 1. Adelaide, supplying album pages, page protectors, replica cards, and other products.The APF website, a virtual mine of useful 2. information. A printed sitemap of this website is available which can assist with the navigation. This map is not completely up-to-date, but provides a good initial guide to the contents.New Replica cards are produced each year 3. in conjunction with Australia Post, and are generally available for sale at the first National exhibition each year.

The Collector Series 4. Brochures for Collectors – presently there are seven brochures addressing many frequently asked questions about philately. Brochures No 8, 9 and 10 are currently being developed.

The Visiting Speaker program lists all those high 5. quality collections which can be made available to clubs to enhance their annual programs.Volunteer Workers Insurance cover – the APF 6. has instituted an Australia wide cover on all volunteer workers involved in any philatelic activity within Australia. The full details of this cover have been provided to the State Councils and will appear in a future article in this series.Public and Products Liability Insurance for Clubs 7. and Philatelic activities – this cover, initiated by the APF on a national basis, replaces the various state based covers, with the greater spread of risk reducing the overall premium to clubs and societies. Whilst the cover is co-ordinated through the APF, it is paid for by the clubs.One-Up Club – a scheme whereby an exhibitor at 8. National or International level can improve their exhibit to the next medal level.Philatelic Journal support scheme – new 9. philatelic journals are encouraged with financial

Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation . . . .

The Australian Philatelic Federation (APF) is the entity responsible for co-ordinating

organised philately in Australia.

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assistance towards the publication costs, but subject to the journal maintaining an acceptable standard.A grants scheme designed to assist with approved 10. philatelic research.At the APF Annual Meeting a forum comprising 11. state representatives, project managers and other interested parties discuss topical matters relevant to the current philatelic environment. A summary of these discussions is given to the APF Executive for consideration and subsequent follow up. Democracy in philately in action.

The invisible support services areAPF Exhibition Manual – the APF provides 12. a very detailed Guidebook covering the preparation for and the running of a National Exhibition.A booklet has been printed in July 2009 listing 13. all of the Stamp Clubs and Societies within Australia. It is accepted that it will become dated, but can still be a useful guide to interstate travelers, as well as overseas visitors to Australia.The APF has approx. 1,000 double sided 16 14. sheet display frames for use at national and international exhibitions at a small cost to the organising committees. The APF also funds the storage and continual maintenance of these frames.The APF arranges for the training of National 15. level philatelic judges and constantly ensures the total and quality is sufficient to meet the ongoing demands of national exhibitions within Australia.Accords are arranged with overseas countries 16. which allow our National level judges to gain overseas judging experience on a reciprocal basis.The APF maintains a database for assistance 17. with the running of national and higher level exhibitions. Known as Showman, the database contains the exhibiting history of all Australian exhibitors. This program assists with consistency in judging, as well as producing the exhibition Certificate and the Palmares data.

Support for exhibitors participating in overseas 18. international exhibitions

Trained commissioners are provided for the •safe transport of the exhibits;Organisation of customs clearance for the •exhibits both leaving Australia and on their return; andObtaining Movable Cultural Heritage •approval where required.

10 year old replica cards – these are no longer 19. offered for sale, but can be made available free of charge to assist in promoting philately at publicly attended club and State Council events. Under no circumstances can these cards be sold.Classic collections – every so often exceptional 20. collections will come along which are worthy of permanent record. Subject to the owner’s consent, the APF arranges this.The APF has set up a procedure to facilitate 21. the Customs clearance of exhibits included in National exhibitions which originate outside of Australia.Financial grants are provided on an annual basis 22. to the state councils for use in developing both youth and adult philately.In this world of expanding postal products, 23. the possible introduction of new experimental exhibition classes is constantly being reviewed.On behalf of collectors, the APF provides liaison 24. with Australia Post and the Trade.

Many of the above services are self-explanatory. This article is the first in a series. Over the following months, details of those support services requiring further explanation will be published in Stamp News. In the meantime, if you would like to know more about any of these services prior to their being published, contact the writer by email at jpsadler@bigpond.com.au.

Many of these support services are already detailed in the APF website. It is intended that those presently absent will be added following their publication. This article will also be included to allow our progress to be monitored.

John Sadler, Philatelic Development Officer, APF

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1931-36 C of A watermark issuesIn most cases, the earlier postage due issues had played ‘catch up’ to their postage stamp relatives when paper featuring a new watermark was introduced. The previous ‘third’ watermark paper is an excellent case in point. The first kangaroo stamps to be printed on this paper appeared in October 1915, but it would be nearly seven years before the first of the postage dues showed up, printed on third watermark paper, in May 1922.

This was not the case however with the introduction of C of A watermarked paper in 1931, when the KGV 1d green postage stamp and the 1d postage due both appeared on the new paper in October of that year.

As the printing of the bi-coloured postage dues was a two part process; the printing of the frames and of the value tablets, and the same frames plates were used for all denominations, it was not unusual for stocks of paper to have the frame section printed and then held until one or more denomination was running low, at which point the printing was completed using the appropriate value tablet(s) plate. The last frame plate printing had been in October 1928 on the last of the third watermark paper, and another printing wasn’t required until August 1931, by which time the new C of A watermarked paper was available.

So, while the postage dues didn’t have to play ‘catch up’ this time, they did play a bit of a ‘skipping’ game! In the period between frame plate printings, October 1928 and August 1931 as mentioned above, both the kangaroo and KGV postage issues were printed on ‘small multiple’ watermark paper, a type of paper that postage dues never appeared on. The last frame printing on third watermark paper had been sufficient for nearly three years of postage due requirements, causing the ‘small multiple’ watermarked paper to be ‘skipped’ completely as far as postage dues were concerned.

Seven different denominations between ½d and 1/- appeared on C of A watermark paper between 1931 and 1936, with the earliest to appear, the 1d and 2d, initially being perforated

14, then reappearing later, with all of the other denominations, in perf. 11. It’s interesting to note that the last postage due to appear in third watermark was the re-issue of the 4d with the perforation changed to11. (this denomination was re-introduced due to postage rate rises) in September 1930, and was the only stamp of that watermark to appear with that perforation gauge. Yet the first two C of A postage dues to appear about a year later, were perforated 14, then all denominations went back to perf 11 barely a year after that! The watermark situation may have stabilised by the time the postage dues appeared on C of A paper, but it seems that the perforating side of things was still rather hit and miss!

Good supplies of and/or low demand for the 3d and 6d values in third watermark must have been the case as these were the last two denominations to appear on C of A watermark paper in May an April 1936 respectively. This resulted in a rather short life of approximately two years for these two values before being replaced by the 1938 new frame plate issue. As a result, the 3d and 6d are the most elusive of this issue, with the 6d being downright scarce, with SG having a catalogue value of £375 for mint an £325 used. In my experience, the 6d is a somewhat elusive stamp in fine, commercially used condition. Many of the examples that I’ve seen have tended to suffer from heavy postmarks, short perforations, or both.

Fig 1: The old (left) and new (right) frame plates

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There is not the plethora of shades to be found in this issue as in the third watermark series, with most of the ones that do exist being pale to dark variations of the carmine of the value tablet. The exception to this is the 4d, which the ACSC lists in four different shade combinations. This is probably due to the fact that, for much of it’s life it would have been the most widely used of the postage dues, paying the double deficiency charge for the 2d postage rate in use at that time.

1938 New frame plates, C of A watermarkIn 1937/38, intaglio, or recess printing was introduced for the production of some of the new KGVI definitive postage stamps, and in July of that year, the postage due issues also started to appear printed using that method. Well, partly, anyway! It was decided that the existing frame plates, which had been producing surface, or typo printed stamps since the first bi-colours if 1909, would be replaced with newly produced plates for intaglio printing. While these new plates retained the same design, they varied in quite a number of details from the earlier plates.

The most obvious of these variations, and certainly the fastest way to tell them apart from the earlier issues, is found in the two inscription tablets: ‘POSTAGE DUE’ across the top, and ‘AUSTRALIA’ under the value tablet, at the base of the stamp. In both cases the letters are narrower and closer together. This results in stamps with the intaglio frames having ‘blank’ areas of solid colour at each end of the words, rather than the words taking up the whole tablets as in the earlier printings. Fig 1 At the time that the work of producing the new frame plates was undertaken, it was also noticed that the value tablet plates were pretty much on their ‘last legs’, and would also soon need to be replaced. For several reasons, however, not the least being World War II, this did not eventuate until 1946.

There are quite a range of shades in this issue, but this time it’s the frames where most of the differences are found, and they tend to be a little

more subtle (mostly variations on a yellow-green theme) than their earlier counterparts.

1946-56 Redrawn value plates, C of A watermarkAfter 37 years of faithful service, the original value plates began to be phased out, with the first of the new series appearing in May 1946. By the end of the following year the 1d, 2d, 3d, 6d & 1/- had appeared with the new value tablet design. Fairly substantial stocks of the ½d and 4d must have been on hand, as the new design 4d didn’t come into use until late 1951, and the ½d didn’t show up until 1956!

Again, as with the frame plate changes of the previous issue, the design remained essentially the same, but ‘the devil was in the detail’ as they say. Well, actually, not too much of a devil really. There is at least one fairly obvious difference on all of the pence values. Have a look at the ‘D’ after the numeral. If it has a solid rectangle of colour with rounded edges in the middle, it is from the earlier printing. If it has a solid semi circle in the middle of the D, it’s from the later, redrawn value plate printing. Fig 2 The one exception to this is the 3d, where the earlier printings show a hollow semi circle. The new version has the solid semi circle, and is noticeably smaller than the earlier type. The 1/- value tablet types are also fairly distinctive with

Fig 2 : The redrawn value plate at right with the ‘semi circle’ shading in the D

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the original having 6 lines of shading above the numeral, and the redrawn type only 3.

As a result of postal rate changes during this period, three new postage due values were introduced, the 5d, 7d and 8d, all with value tablets in the redrawn style.

There are plenty of shade variations and combinations in this issue, which the ACSC lists in detail.

1953-59 New shilling value plates, C of A watermarkIn the later part of 1951 the PMG received a suggestion from the Postal Workers Union that higher denomination postage dues be re-introduced, and in April 1953 it was decided to issue 2/- and 5/- denominations once again. These two values appeared in August of that year with the value tablets in a new design without background shading, resulting in a white tablet with a red shaded numeral of value. Fig 3 This change was made to the design was needed to help avoid any confusion with the 2d and 5d values. The next month saw the 1/- follow suit and appear in the new design.

There are a couple of interesting things regarding this issue. As I’ve already mentioned, the two previous issues had quite a range of shades. All of these are fairly common, and, with a couple of exceptions, all catalogue around the same price. Not so with these new high values. Both the 2/- and 5/- have a number of shades, with one being quite scarce. The 2/- printed in

carmine and deep green, as opposed to the much more common yellow green shades, is certainly worth keeping an eye out for. It catalogues in SG at £225 for MUH and £100 for used, while the yellow green shade comes in at just £14 and £8 respectively. And they do show up. I picked up a lovely used pair quite recently for the price of the yellow green shade. One word of warning – just make sure that it is a watermarked stamp, as the later unwatermarked issue of the 2/- was only printed in carmine and deep green.

The other thing of interest is that there are two distinct dies of the 5/- to be found in this issue. SG mentions this in a footnote, and the ACSC lists them separately, but despite this it seems they are still overlooked by many collectors. They are not found on the same plate, but are from two completely separate printings. The earlier die I has lighter lines of shading in the figure of value, and the ‘ball’ of the 5 is joined to the part of the numeral above it. The later die II has no such join, and the shading is stronger and heavier. Fig 4 The two dies are worth around the same, and it’s definitely worth adding examples of both to your collection.

1958-63 no watermark And so we come to the last of the Aussie postage dues! Following the lead of their postage

Fig 3: The new design high values

Fig 4: The two dies of the 5/-

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counterparts, it was decided in January 1957 that all postage dues under the value of 5/- would be produced on unwatermarked paper. As was often the case, large stocks of the earlier printings were still on hand, and the first unwatermarked values to be distributed were the 1d and 8d in January 1958, and the ½d, 4d & 5d appeared a month or so later. It was soon realised at the Note Printing Branch that due to the different shape of the unwatermarked sheets there was quite a bit of paper wastage. To avoid this, it was decided to produce new plates with a more appropriate layout. The new frame plates were prepared using the old plates, but it was decided that this was a great opportunity to ‘tweak’ the value tablet design slightly. To make the figures of value, and the attending dots and dashes stand out a bit more, a thin white outline was added around these elements of the value tablets in the pence values then available. Fig 5 These are usually referred to as die II or type II, and are clearly illustrated in all of the catalogues. The 10d was introduced in December 1959, as a result of another postage rate increase to 5d, and the 3d and 6d values, which had been discontinued some time earlier, were re-introduced the following year. Because of their later appearance, these three values exist only in the white outlined die II format. The 1/- was also modified, with the die II version showing heavier shading in the numeral etc.

Shade variations are much more limited in

the no watermark issues, with most values only showing up in one or two variations.

Farewell, postage dues!Early in 1961 it was decided that once the stocks on hand were exhausted, no further postage due stamps would be issued, and regular postage stamps would be used to denote the deficient postage due on mail. After a year or so, it must have been realised that using up the postage dues might take a bit longer than first anticipated, so January 31st 1963 was set as the last day that postage dues would be used at post offices, though collectors could still purchase them from philatelic sales points until 30th June 1963.

Well I hope you’ve found these articles on postage dues interesting and informative, but most of all, that they may have motivated you to check out those stamps loitering towards the back of your album, and maybe adding a few new ones! There’s plenty of areas of postage due collecting that I’ve only just touched on (or missed altogether) such as plate varieties, offsets, imprints, plate number blocks, misplaced centres, postal history, rates, usages and more. So now it’s over to you – perhaps a new direction for 2010? Enjoy!

Next time we’ll start looking at something a bit different – Irish forerunners and political labels!

Please feel free to contact me at mlphilatelics@bigpond.com.au with any questions etc

Fig 5: No watermark 4d Die I and Die II

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Fig. 1 Fig. 2

New South Wales WeekliesI can now finalise the New South Wales Bus tickets shown as figure one in the December 2009 ‘Revenue Review’. David Anderson [who I would like to thank] of Sydney [editor of the Perfin Journal of New Zealand & Australia] had all the answers as he used to use the system! These items were used to prepay weekly bus fares on public buses in Sydney 1976 to 1978/80. David supplied me with written documentation listing three issues.

First issued on 1-9-1974 [colours unknown] $1, $1.50, $2, $2.50, $3.50, $4.50, $5, $6, $7. Second issue $1.40 tan, $2.20 mauve, $3.90 blue, $4.90 purple, $5.50 blue green, $6.40 dark green, $7.40 light tan/yellow. Third issue 27/6/76 $1.10 orange, $1.80 green, $2.30 red, $3.10 mauve, $3.90 blue, $4.30 blue/green, $5.10 khaki green, $5.90 light tan/yellow.

At the time, when this system ceased to be used [c1980], David was able to get some remainders of the second & third issues. The first issue was completely used up and colours are unknown. The 1976 series were remaindered in full sheets 10x10. For the observant reader the commission supplied a date of 1-9-1974 for

the first issue but the used piece I showed in December last year had an issue date of 4-8-1974 on it!

Rare GreyThe first New South Wales 1929 small numeral issue 3d [fig 1] on watermarked ‘NSW’ paper appears to be a very rare beast indeed. This was the only 3d of the complete series to be issued in grey. I have never seen a grey copy on a document. This 3d value was a late edition to the first issue, with the colour changed to purple in the 1938 issue on unwatermarked emergency paper. Probably because it clashed with the 10/- greenish grey.

I have an earliest known date [EKD] of 1935. This 3d value is also missing from the 1929 series ‘specimen’ overprinted set held in archives. As I have already said the emergency unwatermarked paper issue was issued in 1938 so the window of opportunity for collectors to find this grey is very small indeed. Maybe you have one of these 3d greys on a document? Maybe you have clear dated copies? If so can you please send me a scan so I can share it here?

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Dave Elsmore

Fig. 4 Fig. 3

Rates & DatesIt has been over twelve months since scanning each and every page of each and every newspaper in Australia began. This has slowly been put on line free for all. The search engine is brilliant, you can even save the actual newspaper clipping you want as a pdf or in .jpg format. “Who cares” I hear you say! Well this newspaper information can supply the researcher with rates & dates, so we have a situation now where one never needs to check reference books for any duty rates as it is all on line. This can further save hours, nay days in archives researching dates & rates of a particular duty stamp you have in mind. Just type in newspapers.nla.gov.au into your address bar and away you go. I just typed in ‘beer duty’ and presto up comes 77,176 results! Have fun.

Papua ForgeryeBay can be fun, but occasionally a forgery can show up which makes us all wonder, why bother? Well I guess a good start is greed and money. The £5 Stamp Duty overprint [fig 2] must have come about due to two groups of these overprints turning up in Melbourne

auctions and selling for high prices. When some of these were offered back in 1986 by Jarrett Philatelic Service the £5 had an estimate of $120.00 on it, with the estimate on the £100 overprint just $220.00.

Twenty years on and all are selling for up to $2000.00 + each. A tidy sum for the forger to collect for a relatively simple overprint on a cheap stamp. As shown in figure 3 the £5 has some five easy to see distinguishing features. The eBay copy is at the bottom: 1; No gap between TA. 2; No inner tail curl to ‘5’. 3; All serifs appear to be too long. 4; ‘5’ thinner. 5; Different £. I am tipping before this edition on Stamp News hits the stands the £50 and £100 forgeries will be in the market place. This £5 was first offered privately all over the world and when there was no taker’s it was dumped on eBay.

Carry ThisLittle if anything has been written on the ‘City Carrying Co Pty Ltd’ from Adelaide South Australia. In figure 4 the value shown is just 3c, a very low value for the delivery of freight, cheaper than letter delivery in 1966, so possibly it is from a series of various values with the

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Revenue Review

Fig. 5

3c used as a ‘make up’. Or maybe just a 3c was issued to deliver standard mail.

Going by the serial number on the stamp 123183 there should be thousands of them out in the market place but this is only the second copy I have seen, the other has a serial number of 123185, maybe the numbering started at 123---. If so then there may be very few in the market place making this a rarity.

In the 1880s there is a ‘City Carrying Co’ listed for New South Wales so the plot thickens. This company is missing from all the published works from South Australia, but is listed in ‘The Railway Stamps of Mainland Australia’ 1980 as being issued during a mail strike with an issue date of 26 Aug 1968. Have you seen this parcel stamp before? Maybe you have some? If so please share them so we can add to the listings etc.

I Promise For ‘A Long Time’In the October 2009 issue of ‘Revenue Review’ I ran a small piece on Promise Notes inviting others to show

off some they may have lurking in collections. Well I had a dig into my collection and found one from Victoria [fig 5], nothing special on the 6d impressed duty but the time limit on the note is an extraordinary 258 months. That’s 21½ years! Of all the notes I have seen 99.9% are for a short term promise say 3-12 months. So was this a cheap way to obtain a long term loan?

More HolesDavid Coath from Victoria, who is the new President of the Perfin Club of New Zealand & Australia has now joined me as a co author in my venture to list all perfins found on revenues & railway parcel stamps from Australia. Can I ask you please keep the scans coming of your perfin holdings thankyou.

I can be contacted by mail: P O Box 66 Springwood 4127 Queensland or an Email link from my web site ozrevenues.com

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There is something exciting about really small countries. They are frequently referred to as micro states and there are quite a few throughout the world. Mostly they are small island communities. Places like Niue, Tokelau and many other miniscule nations in the Pacific come to mind in this connection.

San Marino is the world’s oldest republic and the nation has been governed in very much the same way for at least 800 years. Among the members of the local parliament two persons are selected as capitani regenti (or reigning captains in English) for a period of six months after which they are replaced by others. Thus most members of parliament stand a chance of becoming head of state if only for a very limited period of time.

The republic’s known history goes back to the 4th century after Christ. The Roman emperor Diocletian had initiated severe persecution of the Christian minority. A group of Christians under the leadership of a man called Marinus sought refuge

in a mountainous area located in the north-eastern corner of the Apennine Peninsula (i.e. today’s Italy).

The republic owes its name to this saint and thanks to its isolated and inaccessible location it has been able to survive as an independent state throughout the centuries. Saint Marinus is shown here on a 1944 stamp.

Being embedded in Italy the republic has always had to adapt to the reigning situation in its huge neighbour. Thus San Marino had a period of fascism in the 1930s as reflected on many of the postage stamps of the period.

San Marino has a total land area of 61 square kilometres and a population of some 30.000 people. I suppose it equals the size of an Aussie town.

The republic’s terrain is extremely mountainous. Almost the entire country is composed of the Ticino Mountain. The highest peak – Monte Titano – reaches 756 metres above sea level. Mount Ticino has three pronounced peaks on each of which

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there is an old fortress. The three fortresses have become the symbol of the republic. The first stamps were issued in 1877 and they of course depict the three peaks. The same basic design but in another version was released on a very long set of definitive stamps printed from 1903 until 1925.

All in all this extensive set has 37 different denominations and colours (not counting the overprints). This is my own favourite San Marino stamp set but I still lack seven values. It is doubtful if I will ever be able to complete the set as the 2 lire violet is something of a rarity. However, it is the chase of all those elusive stamps which makes this hobby so exciting. It should also be added that it is hard to find these stamps well centred.

In the 1950s and 60s San Marino released loads of beautiful pictorials. The sets frequently had more than ten denominations most of which were very low. Thus these pictorials often found their way into most children’s collections of the day.

The denominations were so low that they did not

really fill any postal needs. Postcards mailed from San Marino in the 1960s had to be plastered with stamps to reach the required postage.

The stamps were of course intended for the thriving packet trade; some 50 years ago most department stores still had large sections of philatelic material. Also many were sold by dealers specializing in inexpensive approvals. Whenever you look at a typical boyhood collection from the early 1960s you will find dozens of low-value San Marino pictorials.

Admittedly most of the stamp issues from the 1950s and 60s had appealing designs. They depict exciting topics like hunting, sports, dogs, famous detectives, mountaineering and almost everything else. Even today half a century later these sets are very inexpensive.

Many countries have featured Disney characters on their postage stamps. Did you know that San Marino was one of the very first nations to issue Disney stamps? In 1970 there was a long set of

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stamps depicting some of Walt Disney’s most cherished cartoon creations.

Many collectors probably believe that the Republic of San Marino solely exists as an excuse to sell stamps to collectors. There certainly was some truth in this belief 50 years ago but today the republic’s philatelic programme is devoid of excesses and certainly of very limited importance to the nation’s economy.

San Marino is an affluent country with a diversified economy. There is some industrial production but most people work in the service sector. Tourism is of major importance and thousands visit each year.

On the Adriatic Coast due east of San Marino, we find the city of Rimini which boasts some of the most beautiful beaches in Italy. During the summer season Rimini attracts huge crowds of vacationers many of whom go on day trips to the Republic of San Marino. During their visit they most certainly send home picture postcards featuring the three

mountain tops and franked with San Marino stamps.

Today San Marino does not issue any long sets with useless denominations. It is rather the opposite. However, there still is the occasional issue with popular themes aimed at the stamp collecting community (in fact, a policy maintained by most other postal administrations today).

Since 1877 San Marino has released far more than 2,000 different postage stamps which makes it quite an extensive collecting area. Not everything is inexpensive as there are some early 20th century issues which have impressive catalogue valuations. I suppose the best advice here is to collect only the stamps which appeal to your fancy.

For those collectors who specialize in thematic stamps San Marino provides a rich source of material as any stamp catalogue will reveal.

San Marino is Europe’s smallest republic but can boast of being a pioneer with its form of democratic government.

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Cinderella Corner

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Monte Bello LocalsThese stamps were last written up in this column in March 1995 so I thought I would give them another airing along with some background information from Wikipedia.

The Montebello (or Monte Bello) Islands are an archipelago of around 174 small islands (about 35 of which are named) located 80 miles (130 km) off the Pilbara coast of North West Australia. Montebello is Italian for Beautiful Mountain.

The islands lie just to the north of Barrow Island and as I write this column are probably getting a beating from Cyclone Laurence.

There are two main islands, named by the French explorer Nicolas Baudin in 1801. Hermite Island named after the French Admiral, Jean Marthe Adrien L’Hermite. Trimouille Island named after a French noble family. Trimouille Island also has the highest point at 120 metres.

There are problems with the naming of the islands in the accounts of the early explorers, and there is

the suggestion is that the French and later English explorers mixed up the names of Lowendal and Hermite islands.

Of the smaller islands, the largest are: North-West Island, Primrose Island, Bluebell Island, Alpha Island, Crocus Island.

An early reference to the islands is in 1622, when the ship Tryall was wrecked just west of them. For years afterwards their position was approximately recorded on charts as the Tryal Rocks.

The islands were economically significant for pearl fishing from the end of the nineteenth century until the outbreak of the Second World War.

A bay of Trimoulle Island was the site of the first British nuclear weapons test on 3 October 1952. There were two further tests on Alpha and Trimouille Islands in 1956.

The islands now form a conservation park administered by the Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation.

The stamps appeared in 1952 when they were

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offered for sale by a London dealer claiming they were locals probably produced in Perth and used on a local post between the islands and Perth during the Atomic Tests. They are not known on cover.

Although no one has ever claimed responsibility for their production, it is generally believed that they were produced by a dealer in the UK. The three denominations, One Penny in black featuring a map of the islands, Three Pence in green featuring a ketch or schooner depending on which way it is facing, and Six Pence in yellow featuring Aboriginal art, are now not easy to find. The 1d value was printed in sheets of 24 (4 rows of 6), and the 3d in sheets of 25 (5 rows of 5). Figures 1, 2 and 3.Bill Hornadge reported in the 1995 column, two more recent issues had appeared, one from Bruce Henderson in New Zealand (34c), and a further one by Tim Bolotnikoff from Queensland (45c). I have not seen either of these latest two and I am relying on the illustrations Bill used in 1995 and since those illustrations were not in colour I have no way of

giving a better illustration now.

S.A.G. St. Anthony’s GuideI wrote about these labels in the November 2007 column and so far nothing more has come out about them, however in the Cinderella Philatelist Volume 1 number 1 of January 1961 there is an article by F.E. Dixon giving the background to St. Anthony’s Guide and how the custom of using these initials came into being.

Quoting from the article: “The custom of invoking St. Anthony’s protection in regard to mail is based on a tradition which dates back to 1729.

It is related that a certain merchant left Spain for Peru. Although his wife wrote several letters to him she never received a reply, which greatly worried her. Finally she invoked St. Anthony’s aid. Filled with child like confidence she went to the Franciscan Church in Oviedo where she placed a letter in the hands of a statue of St. Anthony begging him to deliver it to her husband. Later she returned

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to the church and to her great joy found, in place of her letter, a reply from her husband, together with several gold pieces.

The letter, which may still be seen at Oviedo, is dated Lima, 23 July 1729, and states that the wife’s letter was delivered by a Franciscan Father.

From this grew the custom of writing S.A.G. on letters and of sealing mail with St. Anthony’s Guide stamps.”

There is considerable variation in the colours of the labels, some brown, some green and others blue. More elaborate ones have been seen embossed in red on yellow paper.

Road SafetyThis is a label I have not seen before and it’s not listed in the New Zealand Cinderella Catalogue. It was offered in the Mowbray Auction of 12 January 2010. (Fig. 4).

American Dental AssociationMark Madison sent me this label, (fig. 5), which he thinks may have been used during or after World War I. He has two examples both perf 13 but the stamp size is different as is the green shade. They are on covers dated 1924 and 1926.

EgyptAlso from Mark this label advertising travel to Egypt. (Fig. 6). It is on the back of a Canadian cover dated 1917.

Free DanesI have had this image in my Cinderella file for some time and decided to use it here as an end to the column. It is obviously a World War II item used as propaganda about the occupation of Denmark. (Fig. 7).

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PHILATELIC TRAVEL BONUSESThere seem to be more and more stamp collectors travel-ling overseas for holidays, now that airlines are offering better fares than ever. One does not have to be a ‘whole world’ collector to reap enjoyment from many of the countries one passes through - I thought I would list some of my experiences in recent years, which might inspire some other travellers to seek philatelic adven-tures. Wherever you go, seek out a post office, ask about postal museums, and shop for postcards which may be thematic. Some cards might even be around as freebies.

The story even my wife will never believe occurred two years ago during a visit to Paris. I had carefully researched and selected a middle of the range price hotel close to attractions and transport. Going out for a walk first day to get my bearings I was amazed to find that the street at the next corner to the hotel contained some 30 plus dealers shops, with a further 15 or so shops in an arcade at right angles to this. I KNEW Rue Druott was a major venue for collectors, but never realised how close I had positioned myself. There was one shop I absolutely haunted; the whole stock was collector albums on shelves. I bought more and more albums daily until I realised I had to stop or I would have excess baggage problems! Considering the size of Paris and the thousands of hotels, how can I explain stumbling into this particular bonanza? (If you succumb to a similar fate, lighten your load in advance by removing album covers, and reducing pages with only a few stamps into an envelope.

In Paris there is an interesting philatelic museum also, narrow floors in a high rise building. Worth the visit and some interesting souvenirs on sale.

We visited Lithuania to spend time with my older son when he was CEO of Coca Cola there, so took the opportunity to visit the GPO in the capital city Vilnius. The highlight there was a number of small time dealers and (I suspect) illicit Cinderella producers stationed on either side of the passage leading to the stamp counters.

I made some interesting purchases - but here’s a lesson learnt the hard way - buy it when you see it! Wherever you go, take the attitude that you will not return to the spot where that item you are considering is on sale. Buy it NOW!

I was very proud as MD of a large funerals & cem-eteries group to be selected to represent Australia at the First China International Exhibition of Funerary Art in Bejing - until I realised on arrival it was a contrived attempt to sell hundreds of local crematoria to us unsus-pecting Westerners! Not for me, so I used up part of my remaining stay to get out and about. I visited the huge philatelic bureau where stamps, cover, yearbooks etc from the last 12 years were laid out for sale on display in waist high display cases - for all the world looking

like one of those old GJ Coles or Wool-worths department stores of the 1950s. I was allocated a pretty young assist-ant who followed me round with a clip board for a couple of hours. I bought far too much at amaz-ing low face value prices. I left there to walk to the central railway station and

at a few roadside stalls and bought some interesting China cinderellas. By the time I decided to go back and buy more, it was snowing, so back to the hotel. My last para’s exhortation never happened here.

In Bangkok, attending an International Stamp Exhibi-tion, I missed out on a bonus too. Here also, the GPO Philatelic Bureau was laid out GJ Coles’ style, also vertical display boards, with back issues aplenty. And at weekends, in the street outside were some young part-time dealers selling material.

But - no-one told me the national philatelic museum was upstairs at the GPO.

Liechtenstein relies on sale of stamps for a large part of its national income, and here I found a well equipped stamp bureau, plus some interesting dealers shops. More than one would expect in such a tiny country. Good place to buy postcards of the ruling Royal Family too.

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. Contact him at (postal) Box 5001, 149 Colburn Ave, Victoria Point, 4165 or by email to stampman5@bigpond.com

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A couple of general hints - in some countries like Spain, entering a dealer’s establishment means a tim-bered office with no stamps visible. No browsing, the moment you enter you are asked what your interests are. If visiting tiny villages on one of those Rhine or Danube cruises, watch out for a yellow posthorn sign. In differ-ent shapes, it is the most common post office emblem, and those little POs are the place to find withdrawn issues which have not been returned to their central administration.

Always collect a few sheets of airmail etiquetttes and sample PO forms wherever you go, there is always someone back home who collects them. Most interna-tional airports have post offices - good places to get rid the last notes and coins of the country you are exiting. Not all are open at the hours at which planes leave for OZ, however.

With ‘across the border’ marketing affiliations between post administrations of various countries wide-spread, most philatelic counters sell not only their local issues, but also those of other countries.

In Singapore for instance, Hong Kong, Ireland, Great Britain, and Malaysia material was on sale at close to face value last time I visited. Year Books are a good way to start a collection of the countries you are visiting for the first time. Don’t be inveigled into FDCs unless you want to soak your own nice FU sets, but recent postal stationery is cheap and will add another dimen-sion to your collecting..

Its not hard to find a philatelic counter in USA, with

a helpful clerk, although not all large POs have one. You may have to be prepared to order some of the scarcer recent issues from the USPS Philatelic Fulfilment Centre in a far-away State. Ask. A nice cheap sideline when in USA is to watch out for unusually named places - all POs have their local name in big letters outside - and get a hand cancellation on a postal card.

There are quite a few major post offices across Ger-many which have philatelic counters, although expect to have to buy a multiple of 10 in a sheetlet instead of that one new issue you wanted. And you will have difficulty sending your stuff home from that country in a parcel with lots of stamps attached.

Ask first rather than risk a knockback. Although with postal rates in most countries quite high, its seldom worth it these days.

Hong Kong has two particularly collector-friendly post offices, one on the island being the GPO just near Star Ferry. It has a mini display museum, and provision for using cachet rubber stamping yourself.

Avoid the place if there is a new issue out that day - unless you revel in impenetrable crowds. Observe the hundreds of collectors and dealers assembling their own FDCs. ON the Kowloon side, one street in there is a good PO, behind the Sheraton Towers hotel.

Well that’s just a few of the philatelic adventures I have had. Hope you have fun too. And a final tip - don’t necessarily settle for QANTAS as your airline of choice. Consider others for both price and service - Emirates, Etihad, Brunei, and Cathay to name a few.

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US Postal service gets it wrong

Reported in The Boston HeraldA critic of the U.S. military policy has sued the federal government because a letter that she wrote to her serviceman son stationed in Iraq was returned with “DECEASED” erroneously stamped on it in red letters.

Joan Najbar, mother of U.S. soldier Sam Eininger, sent her son a letter in September of 2006 only to have it returned with the disturbing stamp imprinted upon it.

Najbar contacted the Red Cross to try to track her son. Fortunately, the next day she found that her son was fine but the damage had been done. For an entire day she was under the impression that her son may be dead.

Najbar filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Services in 2008 for emotional distress and negligence. The suit was denied twice.

A new lawsuit was filed last month in Minneapolis federal court claiming that “as a result of receiving the letter indicating that her son was dead, Ms. Najbar suffered emotional distress with physical manifestations.”

Najbar, 58, has never received an apology from the Postal Service or a reason for why the letter was mistakenly stamped, an act that the suit contends is “extreme and outrageous conduct and exceeds the boundaries of decency.”

Eininger, who spent 22 months in Iraq and will wrap up his time in the Guard in March after six years, said he has never been given an explanation for his premature demise, speculating, “Just some (jerk) pulling a prank, I guess.”

Royal Mail fails to honour war dead

Reported in the Timesonline (UK)UK artist, Steve McQueen’s artwork, Queen and Country

is a project to commemorate, and celebrate, those British soldiers who had paid the ultimate sacrifice.

He contacted the families of all the service personnel killed in Iraq, and asked them to select a favourite photograph of their lost loved one in uniform. He then created facsimile sheets of “postage stamps”, each sheet carrying multiple images of the dead soldier as well as the details of his or her age, regiment, and date of death.

Both the Ministry of Defence and the Imperial War Museum were initially unenthusiastic about the idea. The dead soldiers’ families, on the other hand, were not. More than 80 per cent of the relatives approached agreed to participate.

The result was this large oak cabinet containing 155 vertical drawers, each of which can be pulled out to disclose the images and details of a single soldier. The pictures of the 155 servicemen and women are arranged chronologically in the order in which they died.

It was never McQueen’s intention that Queen and Country should exist only as an oak cabinet. With the overwhelming support of the families, he approached the Royal Mail with the suggestion that it issues the soldiers’ images as official postage stamps — thus making a public gesture of gratitude towards the young men and women who gave everything “for Queen and country”.

Unfortunately, the Royal Mail didn’t agree offering a range of justifications.

As a result, the Art Fund has started an online petition urging the Royal Mail to reconsider the matter and 21,000 people have already put their names to it.

The work is on display at http://tinyurl.com/afsteve

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Joan Najbar holding the letter returned marked ‘deceased’.

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Oliver Cromwell, who ruled England as Lord Protector from 1653-1658, was a great organiser, and his Parliament passed an Act in 1657 which declared :-

“There shall be one General Post Office and one officer styled the Postmaster General of England…and that all other persons were forbidden ‘to set up or employ any footposts, horseposts, or packet boats.’

This meant that no one else could carry the mails as a business. It also meant that it was easier to arrange a proper postal service. However, letters were exchanged privately, in particular within the City of London, which at that time was the business and financial centre. This month’s letter is an example, written by Jo.Heath from his office in the Inner Temple, (one of the Inns of Court in London) which is dated ‘Last of 10th 1660’. It is addressed to ‘Mr. Robert Clayton, a Scrivener Neere the old Exchange these’. There are no postmarks as the Bishop Mark (showing the day and month the letter was posted) was not introduced until 1661, the year after this was written. (Fig.1)

The contents of this letter show that it was privately delivered, and the reply returned to the sender. It is a very early letter concerning banking, and the transfer of money.

“Mr. Clayton,I have been hitherto irresolute at least, if not

improvidently negligent in disposing of my moneys, in yr hands to some better advantage, but within a day or two, when my brother & I are somewhat better (haveing both at present very troublesome colds) I will advise with you, resolve noth. myselfe about it. In the meanetime I pray deliver to bearer fifty pounds sterling, of wch I have present use, for which this shal bee yr discharge from

Yr assured friend & servantJo. Heath Inner Temple last of 10th 1660”Josiah Heath then

added the following note :- (Fig.2)“Take a note under his hand for the fifty pound wch

will testify you have delivered it on this letter.” Robert Clayton then added this note as a receipt in

his own handwriting.

“January ye 3rd, 1660.Recd. then according to contents above of Mr.

Robert. Clayton sum of fifty pounds I say…….(50).....” This note was signed by the bearer of the note who received the money to be returned to Jo. Heath.

The dates are interesting, as the first part of the letter is dated the last of the 10th 1660, and the follow up is January ye 3rd also 1660, and that is because at this time the Julian calendar was in use, and the year began in March, so December was the 10th month, and 1660 would continue to be the year until the following February. The Gregorian calendar was not introduced in Britain until September 1752, (about 150 years after it was accepted on the Continent). There were riots in the streets in England as the date after the 2nd September was declared to be the 14th and the people thought they had been deprived of 11 days of their lives!

1660 was also important for London and Great Britain as this was the year the Monarchy was restored.

Charles the Second was proclaimed Monarch in May 1660, but his accession was formally backdated to 1649 when his father King Charles I had been tried and executed. After the restoration of the Monarchy in 1660, the new parliament did not recognise any of the laws passed by the Commonwealth or Protectorate parliaments. So in 1660 another Act of Parliament was passed, which confirmed most of the previous

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legislation, including the establishment of a General Post Office, under the control of one Postmaster General. This is considered to be the origin of the British Post Office as it is known today.

Now, for some information about the addressee of this letter, Sir Robert Clayton (1629–1707), British merchant banker, politician and Lord Mayor of London. (Fig.3 portrait).

He was an amazing man who rose from humble beginnings in a country area of Britain to be wealthy and powerful. He was born in Northamptonshire and became an apprentice to his uncle, a London scrivener, (that was a writer, drafter of documents, a notary, broker, money-lender or any or all of these). He met a fellow apprentice, Alderman John Morris and they became successful businessmen and established the bank, Clayton & Morris Co., where they developed deposit banking, the basis of our present-day system. The records of this bank have examples of the first

cheques, first bankers’ notes, first statements of account, the earliest banking cashier’s book and the first banking ledgers and mortgage finance.

The list of his social commitments is astonishing. As Robert Clayton he entered politics and representing several wards as a Whig. He was knighted in 1671. He made

a considerable fortune, and in 1697 he lent the king £30,000 to pay for the army. He was president of the St. Thomas’ Hospital in London (next to the River Thames opposite the Houses of Parliament), and employed Thomas Cartwright to rebuild the hospital and St Thomas Church. He was a member of the Scriveners and Drapers company, and Alderman of Cheap Ward in the City of London (1670-1683), a Sheriff in 1671, Lord Mayor of London (1679–1680), a Member of Parliament for the City of London (1678-1681) Colonel of the Orange Regiment of militia (various times, 1680–1702), President of the Honourable Artillery Company (1690–1703), Commissioner of the Customs (1689–1697), an Assistant to the Royal African Company (1672–1681). In 1694 he was one of the first contributors to the capital of the Bank of England with a subscription of £2000 and served as a director of the Bank of England from 1702 until his death in 1707.

John Evelyn a social diarist of the time wrote that Sir Robert Clayton lived more sumptuously than a prince, but his palatial mansion was also the office of the bank and the staff lived there.

I think it is surprising that a letter written to and by this man nearly 250 years ago is still in existence outside archival records. I have seen a reproduction of the portrait of Sir Robert Clayton in his mayoral robes painted by Lorenzo da Castro, but do not know where it is – possibly hanging in the Bank of England headquarters?

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Governor MacquarieIn a stone mausoleum at the end of a moss-covered drive, at Gruline on the Isle of Mull, lies the body of Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of NSW from 1809 until 1821. The National Trust of NSW maintains this mausoleum. It was near here, on the isle of Ulva, in January 1761 that the future governor was born in January 1761 into a family of impoverished Scottish chieftains. Yet it was to be this man who held a vision for Australia’s first bank, established in 1817. In 1967 a stamp, designed by Gordon Andrews, was issued to commemorate 150 years of banking in Australia.

Macquarie was the fifth governor of the colony of NSW, and his administration was to bring order into the chaos of the previous years of corruption and disorganization under Governor Bligh. He was also responsible for the country’s first distinctive coins - the Holey Dollar and the Dump. For the first thirty years of settlement there had been no banking arrangements either, partially because there was no actual currency in circulation. The British had not even been making coins for themselves with the result that there were few in the colony. Captain Phillip had some gold ducats of the Netherlands, and members of the ships’ crews, the military, and even some of the prisoners, had odd coins of various countries which arrived with passing ships, however, these were in great demand. They would disappear quickly when used to buy goods from those same passing ships. A barter system therefore was brought in as a form of trade - goods exchanged for labour or supplies. In turn this system led into the bartering or rum, and IOUs counted as a means of exchange.

In 1791 the Spanish dollar, then valued at five shillings, was declared legal currency and in 1792 coin from the British Government finally arrived. A supply of British pennies, halfpennies and farthings was then circulated with Governor King trying to keep the money in the country by giving them an inflated value of twice the British value. It seemed to work, and many of these old coins, although very worn, can still be found in Australia.

During his twelve years, Governor Macquarie did possibly the most to set the country on its feet and herald a new era. A humanitarian with qualities of compassion, he had a keen sense of morality. One of his first tasks upon arrival was to eliminate the trading monopolies and rum

trafficking. Ironically, one of his greatest achievements - the building of a new Sydney hospital - was accomplished at no cost to the government and using the very method he was trying to stamp out - that of granting to the building contractors a monopoly in the importation of rum

in lieu of cash payment for their work. This magnificent building was built on an elevated site and remained an outstanding landmark in Sydney for years to come. In 1810 when Macquarie arrived, Macquarie Street was only a bridle track beside the Domain. He planned for the whole east side to be occupied by official buildings while the western side was lined with the town houses of rich and influential citizens. Of typical colonial Georgian architecture, Macquarie’s rum hospital (as it became known) had simple tapering columns, shuttered, multi-paned windows and panelled doors with arched fanlights. Although the infirmary, the centre building, was vacated in 1876, and demolished to make way for the present-day Sydney hospital, the smaller flanking buildings remain. Parliament House to the north was added-to extensively and the former Mint Building (now the Mint Museum) remains on the other side. It is under the control of the Historic Houses Trust.

The building of this enormous hospital showed the kind of vision Governor Macquarie held for the future of the nation, and he also made enormous differences to the economic climate of the country. A shipment of 40,000 Spanish ‘pieces of eight’ arrived in 1812 and he ordered that the middle of the coins be struck out, creating the ‘holey dollar’ and the ‘dump’. The holey dollar was stamped “New South Wales 1813” on one side and “fifteen pence” on the other. The work was done by convict William Henshall, transported for forgery. The system worked although today it is believed that only about 280 holey dollars are known to exist. While the dump was popular the holey dollars tended to be hoarded especially by the Bank of New South Wales after its formation in 1817. Unfortunately the large holdings of the bank were shipped to the Royal Mint in London where they were melted down. A few years ago someone found a holey dollar in the Shoalhaven River, NSW, whilst bathing, so they turn up in the most unusual places!

As well as building the Rum Hospital, Macquarie laid

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Angie Testathe foundations of organized commerce and finance with his issue of a charter incorporating the first Bank of NSW. Meetings were held to discuss the formation of a bank - the first on November 19th 1816, at Judge-Advocate John Wylde’s chambers. At a second meeting on November 22, it was agreed to form a bank with a capital of not less than “Twenty Thousand Pounds in Shares of not less than One Hundred Pounds each”. Local merchants, officials and dignitaries met and rules and regulations laid down. John Thomas Campbell was appointed President with J. Harris, D’Arcy Wentworth, T. Wylde, A Riley, R. Jenkins and William Redfern as directors. On February 7th, 1817, the first board was elected and Entally House in Macquarie Street rented from Mrs Mary Reibey. The Governor, on his own initiative, issued a charter - the first of a public company in Australia and the Bank of New South Wales (with an emancipist amongst its original directors) was officially established and, though now called Westpac, has existed without interruption ever since. On 8th April 1817 Macquarie sent the directors this message: “Persevere, Gentlemen, in your exertions to foster this Infant Establishment and be assured it shall ever have my warmest support and patronage - and that the time is not far distant when the Bank will on its own merits obtain a public confidence and gradually flourish, to the Credit and Benefit of the Proprietors and the Country at large.”

Australia’s first savings bank - the Savings Bank of NSW, came into existence at a meeting of citizens held at the Rum Hospital on June 5th 1819, with Governor Macquarie in the chair. The need for such an institution was great, those at the meeting having “long witnessed with sorrow the extravagance and improvidence which the poor settlers, mechanics, servants and labourers of this Colony have fallen into”, reported the ‘Sydney Gazette’. People did not save money, it said, because there was no encouragement to save and “from the peculiar circumstances of this Colony” they had no safe place to deposit money earned. Coupled with this was the fact that little actual money did change hands, as payment for produce and labour was made in goods “rated upon an artificially high scale.” Any real money that did change hands was “quickly dissipated in spirituous liquor or gambling” it added. Accordingly, Judge Barron Field, of the NSW Supreme Court (later to become first President) hit on the idea of the savings bank. Merchant Robert Campbell became treasurer and secretary and the trustees were Colonel James Erskine of the 48th Regiment,

Judge-Advocate John Wylde and Sir John Jamison. A committee of ten was appointed to manage the affairs of the bank. Branch offices were to be run by Hannibal Macarthur at Parramatta, William Cox Jr at Windsor and Thomas Moore at Liverpool. The bank, often known as ‘Campbell’s Bank’ operated successfully until 1832 when it was superseded by a new bank constituted by legislation and controlled by trustees.

Following upon the establishment of Australia’s first bank, came Australia’s first bank robbery. This took place on 15th September 1826 at the then recently opened Sydney branch of the Bank of Australia. The amount stolen is believed to have been more than twenty thousand pounds, expertly hidden in the Mosman Heights area and never recovered. As the second bank in the colony, it had opened its doors on 3rd July, only a month after the Chamber of Commerce was set up as a supervisory body for all aspects of trade and commerce.

Despite poor health, Macquarie did much during his twelve years, starting banks and putting down the Rum Rebellion, making proper roads and building buildings which would be a testimony to him in the future. Sydney was in ‘a state of shameful dilapidation’ when he arrived. He set about cleaning up the town, restoring order and allocating land for community use. There was only a discovered radius of about fifty miles around Sydney town when he first arrived and he set about opening up the land for settlement. With the amount of effort he put it, he should really be considered the real founder of Sydney, yet during his last years in NSW his enemies undermined his authority until the biased report of Commissioner Bigge caused Macquarie’s policies to be discredited in the eyes of the British Government. He tendered his resignation, which was accepted, and left Australia in 1822. From his very poor beginnings in Scotland he had risen to great heights, ending his years a broken-hearted man in a 34 shillings a week lodging house in London, from where he urged the Colonial Secretary to clear his name which had been slandered by the Bigge report. He would have been deeply gratified by a newly composed song, sung in Sydney at that time by the emancipists, which went,

“Macquarie was the Prince of men! Australia’s pride and joy! We ne’er shall see his like again Bring back the OLD VICEROY!”

Four new 55c stamps to commemorate the bicentenary of Governor Macquarie will be issued on 16th February 2010 designed by Stacey Zass showing him as visionary, emancipator and builder during his years as Governor of NSW.

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Gibraltar

Gibraltar is a mountainous promontory jutting out from the south-west coast of Spain. Once a Crown colony, it is now a British Overseas Territory. Despite continuing attempts by Spain to gain control, Gibraltar’s citizens remain loyal to Britain.

King George Sixth pictorials were issued in 1938. There was criticism of the small-size £1 stamp, which along with the ½d depicts only the royal portrait. The others feature local landmarks and scenes. The stamps were modelled on the 1931-33 pictorials, but only the 1d and 1½d adopted the actual design used for that issue..

Changes in postal rates necessitated a reversal of colours in 1½d and 2d stamps to comply with UPU regulations. In 1947 a 5d orange was added. There were numerous watermark and perforation changes and some interesting plate flaws.

In 1953, thirteen Queen Elizabeth stamps showed local views, and the coat of arms on the £1. They were replaced in 1960 with multi-coloured photogravure stamps featuring the Annigoni portrait and locally significant designs. The massive keys of the fortress are seen on the 2½d. Gibraltar’s

famous Barbary apes are shown on the 1s stamp. Legend has it that while the apes remain, Gibraltar will stay British, so in 1942, when ape numbers had dwindled to just seven individuals, Churchill ordered immediate replacements. Each stamp also has a small square depicting local fauna. The 4d Catalan Bay was reprinted with sideways watermark in 1966.

New stamps in 1967 featured fourteen ships associated with the colony; a 5d was added in 1969. Especially interesting is the Mary Celeste, found abandoned west of Gibraltar. The disappearance of all on board remains an unsolved mystery.

Decimal currency in 1971 resulted in two simultaneous issues: Three coil stamps (½p, 1p and 2p), for use in vending machines and radical definitives in se-tenant pairs showing old and new views of Gibraltar – a clever way to double sales to philatelists! New printings of 1p, 2p and 4p with revised watermarks were issued in 1973 and 1975.

Flora and fauna stamps in 1977 carry a descriptive text on the gum. My collection includes an extra mint set in protective mounts to show the inscriptions. In a significant spelling mistake on the

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9p, the Latin name Leguminosae reads incorrectly as Leguninosae. The error was not corrected when the stamp was reprinted in 1978.

Also issued in 1978 were five 10p and 20p vending machine sachets containing loose low-value definitive stamps. .

A £5 stamp featuring the coat of arms was added in 1979, followed by a 15c flower in 1980

Greatly increased numbers of most commonwealth stamps produced from the mid 1970’s reduced my enthusiasm for special issues. Gibraltar however continued to appeal due to an obliging correspondent who encouraged me to continue saving definitives into the 1990’s.

Fifty pence and £1 booklets were issued in 1981, containing se-tenant panes of 1p, 2p and 15p small-size stamps. I am not sure how long these remained on sale.

A thematic series featuring aircraft connected with Gibraltar

was issued in 1982. Aeroplanes include the ill-fated de Havilland ‘Comet’. Each design also carries a bird’s eye view of Gibraltar. Some values were reprinted with different dates.

Historic guns situated throughout Gibraltar were the theme of the 1987 stamps. A provisional surcharge of £1.05 was applied to the £3 in 1991. This was to cover a new registration fee.

My collection closed with the ‘architectural heritage’ stamps of 1993. Eight denominations were added in 1995, supposedly for revised postal rates, but I suspect some, especially a £2, were not strictly necessary. Remember the set already contained £1, £3 and £5 denominations.

Crown colonies omnibus sets were of course issued for Gibraltar, but the only specific King George Sixth commemoratives were four

stamps overprinted ‘NEW CONSTITUTION 1950’ for the formation of the Legislative Council. Re-entries and other flaws abound and the issue has been thoroughly researched.

The 1953 3d definitive was appropriately inscribed ‘ROYAL VISIT 1954’ to mark the visit of the Queen and Prince Philip.

An updated New Constitution was commemorated in 1964 by overprinting 3d and 6d definitives. It is worth looking out for a flaw on the 6d with a missing full stop after ‘1964’ on row 2/5.

Special issues in 1966 include three stamps marking the European Sea Angling Championships and a 2s stamp for the Centenary of Re-enthronement of ‘Our Lady of Europa’. Three stamps featuring the new cable car, shark fishing and skin diving marked the 1967 International Tourist Year.

There was also a gaudy set for the 250th Birth Anniversary of General Eliott, who commanded the garrison during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.

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Gibraltar

(1779-83). A statue of Eliott features on the 2s King George Sixth.

Regrettably from about here onwards special stamps became increasingly ‘gimmicky’ and I stopped collecting them.

Although my articles seldom refer to omnibus stamps, the 1965 ICY Gibraltar issue is of exceptional interest. Catalogues list the 1s2d green and lavender stamp as ½d, and clearly it was sold as such by the Gibraltar Post Office, otherwise there would have been comments from local philatelists regarding the listings. Mistaking this stamp in Gibraltar would have been quite understandable because nobody there could have known that the designated colours for all the low values were purple and green! The large ‘1’ is identical to the ‘1’ of the 1s6d Pitcairn Islands and quite different to the small ‘1’ of the ½d Gilbert & Ellice Islands. Further evidence indicating the Gibraltar stamp was intended as a 1s2d denomination is seen in dealers 1965 selling prices, which compared closely to other ICY sets. In 1966 however, when the stamp was described in catalogues as only a ½d denomination dealer’s prices dropped significantly. Other indications that this stamp is incorrectly designated are the numbers issued: Invariably low values are sold in greater numbers, but there were only 197,940 sold of the so-

called ½d. Twice as many 4d stamps were sold. There are other points to consider::

Gibraltar’s ICY stamps cost only 4½d? – (1) face value far lower than from any other colony!

In May 1965 Gibraltar issued ITU stamps (2) of 4d and 2s. Is it not strange that 4d was the low value, when just five months later the ICY 4d was the top denomination?

Although Gibbons refer to the anomaly in a footnote, I think the catalogue listings should be changed.

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Gibraltar was once regarded favourably for a relatively modest output of stamps.. The administration now issues stamps far in excess of postal requirements. Even the previously prosaic postage dues are now colourful pictorials clearly aimed at stamp collectors.

The Philatelic Bureau once described its issuing policy as being ‘Rock Solid’. Sadly this no longer applies. If excessively innovative activities continue, I believe many loyal collectors will give up and kill the proverbial golden goose. A sobering example is the set of four stamps plus a miniature sheet issued in 2004 to recall the Queen’s visit in 1954. Face value of these ‘non-event’ stamps was almost £4 – ridiculous when the modest stamp issued fifty years previously on the day of the visit cost just 3d!!!

In October 2009 the bureau launched a massive auction of more than 700 items of archival material related to Gibraltar stamps issued between 1993

and 2009. The magnificent catalogue listed all items in colour and was mailed out to thousands of prospective clients, in addition to extensive advertising. Just a couple of days before the auction it was cancelled.

Apparently the Gibraltar government

decided to retain this material for their own museum. The aborted exercise is estimated to have cost about half a million pounds!!!

Final thought: For an interesting addition to your collection why not include two 1969 Spanish stamps featuring excellent views of Gibraltar (SG 1991/2)

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This is the third Lunar New Year stamp Dani has designed for Australia Post. She designed the first of a 12-year zodiac cycle with her Year of the Rat stamps in 2008. The Year of the Ox stamps followed in 2009. A classic gold foil treatment is incorporated into this year’s stamp designs.

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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 Aca-cia St, Ruse. Inquiries: mystampclub@yahoo.com.au; PO Box 478, Campbelltown 2560Castle Hill SC Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm, Hills District Bowling Club, Jenner Street, Baulkham Hills; PO Box 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 gbchurch@bigpond.com. Great Lakes SC: Mtg1st Sat 9.30am , Workshop & Market 1st Sat 9-12, Great Lakes Cam-pus Annexe, Taree St, Tuncurry Enq: Ph 02 6554 9776Gosford 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. Kempsey RSL PS: Mtg 2nd WedLake Macquarie Stamp Club:: Mtg 2nd Sat 9am; Combined Pensioners & Community Care Services 130 Josephson St, Swansea. Enq: 02 4392 5211Lower 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: carrotspatch@tpg.com.auManly-Warringah PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs St David’s Church Hall, Dee Why. Sec. Graeme Mor-riss Ph: 02 9905 3255 email: stampsmw@bizland.com.auManly-Warringah Rugby Leagues SC: Mtg 4th Tues cnr. Pittwater Rd & Federal Pde, Brookvale. Sec. Graeme Morriss Ph: 02 9905 3255 email: stampsmw@bizland.com.auMilton-Ulladulla SC: Mtg 1pm on 4th Mon (ex Dec); Milton-Ulladulla Bowling Club Mtg Room, St Vincent St, Ulladulla, Sec. PO Box 670, Ulladulla, NSW, 2539Morisset Uniting Church SC: Mtg 4th Sat 10am (ex Dec) Enq: 4977 2525 (Jenny)

Nambucca 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, Narem-burn off Slade St; Ph: 02 9419 7354Orange Coin and Stamp Club: Mtg Last Tuesday, Orange Community Info Centre, 79-81 Kite St, Orange 7.30pm Ph: 02 6362 3754.Orchid Stamp Club: Mtg 3rd Sat. (Jan and each 2nd mth)Parramatta PS: Mtg 1st 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 8301Sapphire Coast Stamp & Coin Club: Mtg Enq 02 6495 7308. Mail to PO Box 285, Pam-bula, NSW 2549St. 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: 2009 Mtg Dates: Weds Feb 10, Mar 10, May 12, July 14, Sept 8, Nov 10, 8pm, Ryde Ex-Services Club, 724-730 Victoria Rd, Ryde, NSW. Tel: 9807 3344. Sec. Peter Brigden, PO Box 408, Wahroonga, NSW, 2076. Visitors welcomeStrathfield-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 2nd Sat, even months 9.30am - 2.30pm, St Paul’s, Carlingford. Details: www.philas.org.au/sysdneyanglicanstampsocietyTamworth PS: Mtg 1st Mon ex. Jan. Tamworth Bridge Club, 7 Hilton St, Tamworth 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 2898; PO Box 1624, Palmerston, NT, 0831; Email: Nadine.Tinsley@nt.gov.au-.

Armadale-Kelmscott PS: Mtg 4th Tues; Ph: 08 9397 6525 email: fit.kanga@bigpond.comBridgetown SC: Mtg 1st Thurs Ph 08 9761 2611 or 0407 194 603 email lawryt@wn.com.auBusselton SC: Mtg 2nd Mon; Ph: 08 9752 4449, 0400 646 282 email witches1@westnet.com.auCanning SC: Mtg 1st Wed; Ph: 08 9457 7567Daytime SC: Mtg 1st Thurs; 08 9341 3576Eastern Goldfields: Ph: 0413 047 941Eaton SC: Mtg 3rd Thurs, Ph. 08 9795 7744, email: kdaniels66@bigpond.comEllenbrook 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 9291 8484

Mandurah SC: Mtg 2nd Tues; Ph: 08 9582 9108email: stafford@southwest.com.auNorthern Districts SC: Mtg 2nd Mon; Ph: 08 9329 0117Philatelic Forum: Mtg 1st Mon (ex Jan); Ph: 08 9294 4277Rockingham & Kwinana (PS of): Mtg 3rd Tues (NB 2nd in Dec) Pres. Malcolm Brown; Sec. Terry Boyd; PRO Lucie Schokker Ph. 08 9419 1604; email: malcolm.b@iinet.net.auPS of WA: Mtg 3rd Tues; Ph: 08 9294 4277Stirling PS: Mtg 4th Wed (ex Dec); Clubrooms, Charles Riley Reserve, Wendling Rd, North Beach, Ph: 08 9447 7256The Postmark Circle (WA): Mtg 2nd Mon; Ph: 08 9294 4277Victoria Park SC: Mtg 1st Wed; Ph: 08 9472 8072 or 08 9450 5280WA Study Group: Mtg 4th Thurs (ex Dec) 08 9384 1050Wanneroo SC: Mtg 3rd Mon; Ph: 08 6106 0874.

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: secretary@nzpf.org.nz

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: gftyson@inet.net.nz Ph 03 3541064Dunedin PS: Mtg 4th Thurs (except Nov and Dec). Ph 03 4557643; Email paul@classiekrealestate.co.nzHastings Stamp Collectors Club: Mtg 3rd Wed (except Jan and 2nd Wed Dec). Ph 06 8706710; Email jan-dave@clear.net.nzHawkes Bay PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex. Jan); Ph: 06 843 9433 Email dennmarg@paradise.net.nzHorowhenua PS: Mtg 2nd Mon. Ph: 06 368 6202 Email michael.Christensen@xtra.co.nzHutt Valley PS: Mtg 1st Tues (ex. Jan); Ph: 04 568 4892; Email: richards@nec.co.nzKapiti 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 patricia.Larsen@xtra.co.nzMarlborough Stamp Collectors Club: Mtg 3rd Mon (except Jan and 2nd Mon Dec). Ph 03 5776166; Email lousv8@yahoo.comMorrinsville 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: nsps@xtra.co.nz 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

Pukekohe Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Sunday Ph: 09 2357737 Email: pukekohestamp-club@gmail.com 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: panross@xtra.co.nzSouthland PS: Mtg 1st Thurs (except Jan). Ph 03 2158177 Email antqgevi@es.co.nzTaranaki PS: Mtg 1st Mon except Jan. Ph: 06 758 6233; Email: sheryllb@xtra.co.nzTauranga & District Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd (except Jan) and 4th Mon (except Dec); Ph: 07 5768866; Email: patandrobcarlyon@xtra.co.nzThames Valley PS: Mtg 1st Mon(except Jan). Ph: 07 8689190; Email: apberry@wave.co.nzThematic Association of NZ: Ph: 04 234 7218; Email: bob@gibsonz.comTimaru PS: Mtg 1st Wed. Ph: 03 6888829Upper Hutt PS: Mtg 3rd Mon (except 2nd Mon Dec).04 5284123 ; Email km_Isaac@paradise.net.nzWaikato PS: Mtg 1st (except Jan) and 3rd Wed (except Dec). Ph 07 8556572 Email c.cameron@agresearch.co.nzWakatipu PS: Ph: 03 442 8865Wanganui PS: Mtg 2nd Wed. (Ex. Jan) Ph 06 3448009; Email sandy.j@ihug.co.nzWarkworth & 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: bob@gibsonz.comWhakatane PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Thurs Ph: 07 3071016Whangarei PS: Mtg 2nd Meeting: 2nd Tues (Ex. Jan) 09-4348000 Email john-monica@xtra.co.nz

queenslandArana Hills SC: Meeting 2nd Tues; 07 3851 0213; email: petermccloskey@bigpond.comBayside 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:alan47@bigpond.com.au, web:www.cairnsstampclub.asn.auCaloundra SC: Mtg 4th Thurs 1.30pm Ph: 07 5494 7233City Daytime SC: Mtg 2nd Thurs. Ph: 07 3206 6281City of Brisbane PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs; Ph: 07 3263 8573 (ah); email: desley@mycelebrant.comCOLLECTORS CLUB QUEENSLAND: Mtg 2nd Thurs 1.00 pm BCC Library, Garden City Shopping Centre, Upper Mt.Gravatt. Contact 32068507 or stamp-man5@bigpond.comDeception 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, lopatich@bigpond.net.auLockyer Valley SC: Mtg 4th Sun, 1.30pm, Senior Citizens’s Hall, Gat-ton. Kerri Martin, Sec. Ph: 07 5465 3390 Email: lvsc@bigpond.comLogan City SC: Meetings 2nd Thurs, 25 Ewing Rd, Logan Central, 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: QPC-stamps@acenet.net.auRedcliffe 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 55630384Southside PS: Mtg 3rd Tuesday & 3rd Wednesay (9am) Ph: 07 3848 2304 (ah) email: david.appleton@mailbox.uq.edu.auSunshine 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: j.crowsley@uq.net.auToowoomba 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: QPC-stamps@acenet.net.au 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: 1st Wed. 7.45pm 22 Gray Court, Adelaide. PO Box 395, Edwardstown 5039. Ph: 08 8276 3969 Barossa SC: Mtg 1st Tue 7.30 Greenock Luth Church Hall, Bevan St, Greenock; PO Box Greenock 5360; email: Jamil49@bigpond.com; 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: teepee@teegee.com.auBordertown & Districts PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs; Bordertown PSchool; Ph: 08 8752 1297Community PS: Mtg 1st & 3rd Fri - 7.30pm. Marion Bowling Club, off Sturt Rd. PO Box 75 Edwardstown, 5039; Auctions, circuit books. Ph: 0408806894City of Noarlunga PS: Mtg alternate thurs,-- Community Health Centre, Grand Boulevard, Seaford, Contact 08 85566371 or PO Box 272, Port Noarlunga 5167 Eastern Districts PS: 2nd Thurs (ex. Jan), 7.30pm Senior citizens Hall, 47 Reid Ave. Hectorville; PO Box 240, Magill, 5072; Ph: 0400 156 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; pres@comstech.com; 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: jo.trev@bigpond.comGerman 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 purjohn@activ8.net.auMount 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 1105Printed 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: psandph@arcom.com.au; Ph: 08 8260 3352Riverland PS: Mtg 2nd Fri;Berry Primary School. PO Box 901, Berri 5343; Ph: 08 8588 1109SA Junior Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd Sun 1pm - 3pm;Anyone over 5years, parents welcome. 22 Grey St, Adelaide. 08 8250 0484 Salisbury PS: Mtg 1st & 3rd Mon;StJohns Church Hall. PO Box 336 Salisbury 5108; Ph: 08 8252 2392Southern 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, Veneto Club, 191 Bulleen Rd Bullen. (PO Box 166, Niddrie, 3042)

Latrobe Valley PS: Mtg Last Wed ex Dec 7.30pm, St Lukes Uniting Church Hall, Princes Way, Morwell; Chris Zarb, Sec. ph. 03 5174 3394 Maryborough Stamp Club:Mtg mthly ex Jan 2nd Tues of month 8pm, St Augustine’s Hall, Mary-borough. PO Box 295, Maryborough, 3465; Ph: 03 5464 2400. maryboroughsc@eudoramail.com. 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 , 7.30pm. Ph: 03 6433 3962Derwent 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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Boronia Rd, Boronia. Ph: 03 9752 2677

Feb 21 - (3rd Sun) Stamp, Card - Phone Card Fair, Bentleigh-

McKinnon Youth Centre, Higgins Rd, Bentleigh. Dealers plus

huge range activities. Ph: John Thomas 0418 322 315.

Feb 28 - (last Sun) Stamp, Coin & Phonecard Fair, Jaycees

Hall, Silver Grove, Nunawading. 9am-3.30pm.

Feb 8 (2nd Mon) - Gold Coast PS Sale, Rm 1, Southport Comm.

Centre, Lawson St, Southport. 11.30am - 2.30pm

Jan 31 - QStamp Fair, Southside, Mt Gravatt Showgrounds,

Memorial Hall, Logan Rd. Free Entry 8.30am - 2pm

Mar 21 - Sunshine Coast Annual Annual Stamp Fair, Buderim

Square Dance Centre, 260 Dixon Rd, Buderim, 9am - 4pm.

Enq: 07 5448 6565. Free Admission

Mar 28 - Annual Stamp Day, Twin Towns Stamp Day, Wa-

terways Hall, Sunshine Bde, Broadbeach. 9am - 3pm. Free

Admission, Dealers, Refreshments. Enq. 07 5598 7629

Feb 6 - (1st Sat) 9am to 4pm Orange Stamp Fair, Quinn’s

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

Feb 6 - (1st Sat) Northside Stamp Fair. 1st Floor, Car park

Building, Manly-Warringah Leagues Club, cnr Federal

Parade/Pittwater Rd, Brookvale, NSW.

Feb 6 - (1st Sat) Katoomba Stamp & Coin Fair, 9am - 4pm,

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

802 754

Feb 6 - (1st Sat) Stamp & Coin Collectors Fair, East Coast City

Church, 375 Kingsway, Caringbah

Feb 7 - (1st Sun) Bankstown Stamp & Coin Fair, Bankstown

Masonic Hall, Cnr Greenfields & Restwell Sts, Bankstown.

9am - 3pm. 7 Dealers. Ph. 02 4455 4011

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

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

Feb 28 - (4th Sun) Epping Stamp & Coin Fair, Community

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

ers, Buy/Sell.

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Products & Services Directory dealers

1840-GREAT BRITAIN-2010We can supply all reigns, in top quality condition, at the lowest prices in Australia.

Commemorative Sets U/M, F/U, F.D.C.s, Presentation PacksMiniature Sheets, Smiler Sheets.

1840 - 2010 Definitives High & Low Value Sets & Singles, including Officials &Postage Dues, U/M, M/M, F/U,. Also Machin & Regional Issues U/M, F/U.Channel Islands & Isle of Man, Commemorative & Definitive Sets U/M.

Request free price lists. Large S.A.E. Appreciated.44 years dealing in fine stamps of Great Britain

H.M.Reed (Est.1966)P.O. Box 476, Redlynch, Queensland, 4870 Tel: (07) 4039 3459, Fax (07) 4039 3469

Email. gbphil@westnet.com.au

Postal Bid Salesevery 4/6 weeks, at which we offer around

1000 lots, starting from 50c.Lots contain stamps for both beginners

and the advanced collector.There is no buyers commission

Free postage on most lots that you buy.Write or email us for a free catalogue

Abilene StampsPO Box 4158, Swan View, 6056 WA

or email: abilenestamps@bigpond.com

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

Manufacturers of the full range of Seven Seas brand album pages and complete albums, and publishers of the Australasian Stamp Catalogue. Also a full range of

stamps as well as other accessories. Personal callers welcome or ask for free price lists.

Tel: (02) 9905 3255. Fax: (02) 9905 7922. Email: stamps@sevenseas.com.au Web: www.sevenseas.com.au 06/06

GLEN STEPHENS RARE STAMPS

4 The Tor Walk Castlecrag, Sydney, NSW, 2068, Australia.

Australia’s most visited stamp dealer website:

www.glenstephens.com1000s of nett priced bargains and offers and specials. Philatelic journalist. ALL credit cards and methods of payments

accepted - I even accept mint stamps in payment! Phone (02) 9958 1333. One

of Australia;s biggest stamp buyers - see my buying page.

Email - glen@glenstephens.com - email me now to get on my regular lists FREE!

Life Member ASDA (New York) PTS (London) ANDA (Australia) etc.

Full time dealer for 25 years. 11/05

FIVEWAYS PHILATELICS, ALF & KAREN CLARK PO Box 53, Box Hill, Victoria 3128. Ph: (03) 9808 1905, Fax: (03) 9888 8122.

Specialising in satisfying the customer - Worldwide Coverage - Stamps - Covers - Member SCDAA 06/06

LAKER PHILATELICS PO Box 18157

Clifford Gardens, QLD, 4350

Worldwide stamps - New & Old. Thematics. Packets. Accessories,

Standing Order Service Ph: (07) 4634 0761 Fax: (07) 4634 2231

email: lakerphil@optusnet.com.au 11/06

ADELAIDE’SONE STOP STAMP

SHOPSTEWARTS STAMP SHOPBuying & Selling Aust & World stamps

Wants lists & enquiries welcomeExtensive Range of Accessories

4 Coromandel Place Adelaide 5000Ph 08 8223 4435 or Fx 08 8232 3828 stewartsstampshop @senet.com.au

HALLMARK AUCTIONSRegular Stamp & Coin Auctions

Catalogues & detailsemail hallmark@senet.com.au

PACIFIC STAMPSAustralia’s leading dealer in stamps of the Pacific. New Issue Service for all the

Pacific Island nations, including: Fiji, Pitcairn, Papua New Guinea,

French Polynesia, Solomon Islands, New Zealand, Tuvalu, Ton-ga, Micronesia, Wallis and Futuna

Cocos (Keeling) Niue, Norfolk Island, Samoa, Nauru, New Cal-

edonia, Vanuatu, Cook Islands etc. Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Palau,

Tokelau, Christmas Island etc.For details and a copy of

our price list, write to: Pacific Stamps, PO Box 816,

Tewantin, QLD, 4565. Or phone: (07) 54740799 fax: (07) 54740757 or E-mail:

info@pacficstamps.com.auwebsite: pacificstamps.com.au

APPROVALS Beginners, Medium and Advanced

collectors - if you would like to complete your collection in the quiet of your home,

let me know, please. I am sending on approval, with countries of whole world,

with no obligation to buy and send stamps according to your want list.

Mr N KarshenboimPO Box 7192, Bondi Beach,

NSW 2026

STAMPAPPROVALS (Discounted)Hurry! Please send me a quality

selection of: Aust. Brit. Com. World

Thematics Pacifics Or.........Name ....................................................................Address .................................................................Phone ...................................................................I collect .................................................................

P&D Nicholls PO Box 172,Glenbrook NSW 2773Ph/Fax 02 4739 6184 07/07

Postage wanted:Up to 49c pay 50%

50c and above pay 60%Also buying NZ @ 45%, GB @ 60%, USA @ 60% Tel: 03 9729 0082Fax: 03 9756 0317

Email: kevinmorgan2@live.comWeb: www.kevinmorgan.com.au

Always buying/selling collections, accumulations, mixed lots. We are a general dealership stocking a wide

range of worldwide items plus albums, accessories, etc.

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

ID. Member of PTS

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Products & Services Directory dealers

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philatelic trading post

accessories

15 Years supplying British Commonwealth , Worldwide, Pacifics, Thematics, Australia. P&D Nicholls P.O.Box 426, Glenbrook NSW 2773 02 4739 6184

ALBUMS, CATALOGUES, AND EQUIPMENT for stamps, coins, & banknotes at mail order discount prices. Enquiries or quotes write to: SAPPHIRE COAST PHILATELIC SUPPLIES, PO Box 285, Pambula, NSW 2549, or Phone/Fax (02) 6495 7382.

approvals

Collection surplusStamps from Canada,

Channel Islands, Falklands & Dependencies, Fr. Antarctic, Gibraltar, GB, Ireland, Malta, Namibia, NZ, South Africa and USA. MUH mint and used.

Trade Enquiries OK. Send your wants lists to:

John Cornelius, PO Box 23, Magill, 5072.

First Day CoversAUSTRALIAN

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Wholesale list for dealersAMBROSE THONG

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Buying Australia and World Kiloware. We urgently wish to buy quan-tities of modern Australia and World Kiloware. Regular supplies needed. All mixtures to be close clipped single paper, and will pay as follows, all prices per kg. (a) Australia Commemoratives only to 2007 $7, 2008 $10, 2009 $15 (b) Australia Mission modern inc..2005/6, not less than 50% commems.by weight $4 (c) Australia Territories, inc. Cocos, AAT, Christmas Is. Norfolk Is. etc. $25 (d) Australia Higher values, 53c upwards inc. Commems. $60, defins only $20 (e) Worldwide, modern mix unpicked. $30. Minimum sending $100 please. Single country mixtures also required, please enquire. Phone Kevin Morgan 0425 795 693

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My current buying list for Australia available on request. Kiloware wanted – Modern Australia unpicked. Send 1kg sample. (I pay $10 minimum if acceptable).Robin Linke, 181 Jersey Street, Wembley, 6014. 08 9387 5327. robin@robinlinke.com.au

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Exchange mint stamps worldwide - Especially Brit.Comm & French Territories. Will exchange mint sets of Birds, Marine Life, Ships, WWW, Fish, Butterflies. Also offer Mint & Used sets of Ex Soviet Union & New republics, Ex DDR, General Government, Danziz, Ex Czech, Czech Rep, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Roomania, Cuba, Mongolia, Nth Vetnam, Korea. Stanislaw Slusarczyk, 25-667 Kielce, Ul. P. Piwnika 19A, Poland 3/10

Buying: British Cartoon Comedy Postcards (1930s to 1960s) Postally used or unused. Fair Prices given. Contact Chris Jewell-Smith, PO Box 5124 , Broulee, 2437,or phone 02 4471 5864 12/09

Wanted: Full Mint Sheets of Australian 1974 Golf Stamp. ASC 608, SG573. Also 16/7/2001 Issue of the magazine “Stamp Collector”. Max lennox, 117 Edgewater Village, Bli Bli, QLD, Phone: 07 5448 6565 02/10

Wanted:Indonesia 1941-49 issues including Japanese Occupation, Revolutionary period, Japanese Occupation Labuan, Borneo, Malayas, Sarawak Sets, Singles, Col-lections. Yun 0417 799 136, Pay Good Price Contact PO Box 329 Chatswood, NSW 2057 05/10

Australian & Territories, First Day Covers, Packs, List sent on request. Discounted prices. Joe Schillani, 7 Westhaven Court, Chirnside Park, Vic, 3116 6/10

FU Decimal Australia Perf Stamps Only. Send Want List for elusive singles. C/- Post office, Inglewood, SA, 5133 or dkeane@iweb.net.au

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