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ContentsArticlesMarket Matters: Glen Stephens .................................................. 12De-Mystifying the Detail: Andrew McEachern ..................... 18Australian Stamp Variations: David Mallen ............................ 20The Modern Scene: Sel Pfeffer .................................................... 28Something New, Something Different: Mike Lee ................ 34Revenue Review: Dave Elsmore ................................................. 38Birch twigs, hot air & cold water!: Christer Brunström ....... 42 Cinderella Corner: Tony Presgrave ............................................ 44De-Mystifying the Detail: Andrew McEachern ..................... 48Letters from the Past: Eunice Shanahan .................................. 54

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Ten stamps celebrating two hundred years of postal services in Australia have been released as part of Australia Post’s bicentenary celebrations. The stamps highlight the contribution the postal service has made to the lives of Australians since Isaac Nichols became the first postmaster of New South Wales in 1809.

“The story of Australia Post is inextricably linked to the history of this nation, with the post helping to bring Australians together through defining moments such as the gold rush, Federation and the world wars.” said Mr Noel Leahy, Group Manager of Philatelic, Australia Post.

These ten stamps visually tell the story of 200 years of postal services in Australia and the important role they have played in the development of our nation. Each of the stamps feature a postmark relating to the period depicted by the stamp.

From connecting the colonies to distant Europe, to forging overland mail routes and building the nation’s communications infrastructure, the postal service has left an indelible impression on Australia.

The stamps, designed by Lynette Traynor of the Australia Post Design Studio, feature key historic mo-ments including an illustration of the appointment of Australia’s first postmaster, archival photographs of

early regional post offices, early air mail services to regional communities and the importance of the postie.

“This release shows how during times of war, Australian soldiers received letters carrying news from loved ones at home that boosted their morale,” said Mr Leahy.

The stamps depict how the one million migrants who came to Australia in the expansionary years that followed World War II, received much needed news from relatives and friends back home.

Mr Leahy said recent developments such as the introduction of Express Post, the evolution of retail PostShops as a community hub, and the introduction of the environmentally friendly Euro 5 Volvo FH520 prime mover to deliver the mail are also celebrated on the stamps.

Other products include first day covers, stamp pack, roll of 100 x self adhesive stamps, booklet of 10 x 55c stamps, stamp and coin cover, prestige booklet, col-lector pack and maxicard set. Also available is ‘The Stamp of Australia’ book by Kelly Burke and from June, ‘The Stamp of Australia’ DVD.

The issue is available at selected Australia Post out-lets, via mail order on 1800 331 794 or online at www.auspost.com.au/stamps from 25 March 2009

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Melbourne Stamp Dealer, Max Stern has won an award at Japex 08 (Japan Philatelic Exhibition) for his autobiogra-phy My Stamp on Life. Congratulations, Max!

My Stamp on Life is available for purchase from www.maxstern.com.au/bookmaxstern.htm for $35. It tells Max’s story from his childhood, through World War II when he hid and managed to avid deportation for some time before being deported to a concentration camp, and finally his philatelic experiences in Australia.

This book was reprinted in Stamp News over several months in 2004.

Max Stern wins Award for

Autobiography

The stamps illustrated above and on the front cover are issued as part of the ongoing celebrations of 200 Years of Postal Services in Australia. The date of issue 26 June 2009, is the 200th Anniversary of the first mail arriving in Australia from Great Britain. Isaac Nihcols, interestingly and ex-convict, was appointed to oversee the mail coming from overseas by boat. He was the first Postmaster in Australia.

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Letters to the Editor may be submitted by email to: kmorgan@centurynova.com.au; or to PO Box 1290, Upwey, VIC., 3158

Editor’s Mailbag

Dear Editor

I feel it neces-sary to respond to Mike Lee’s

article in the May issue of Stamp News.

Thank you for an arti-cle that, at last, did not in-timidate me and leave me feeling totally inadequate. I find the magazine quite interesting but so much of it is way above me. I have been to a couple of fairs but did not have the pleasant experience you described. Again, the dealers seemed not to be

interested in novices and came across as somewhat cliquey.

I sort of class myself as a collector but I lack the passion and obsessive-ness that characterises the true collector as evinced in the magazine. Guess that makes me an accu-mulator! Predominantly Australian, just one of every issue but not all the variations, with a smallish album of Australian States and a minor accumulation of Japan and Ireland.

Sorry to ramble on but again thank-you for a great article. Maybe on the strength of it, I’ll give the next fair another go and hope to find someone as pleasant as you obvi-ously are!

Merridy Jury

Dear Editor

I refer to your February letter from stamp-

boards member Darwinist regarding the stamp mar-ket future and Australia Post Policies condemned report.

I have collected stamps for over 50 years and I am also concerned about how to preserve a continu-

ing market considering the number of new issues produced by Australia Post and worldwide and its effect on the hobby. This does not encourage new collectors especially kids to take up buying the ever increasing volume. As there is no meaning-ful starting point or end, children and adults can-not afford this new issue excess of pretty pictures giving no feeling of secur-ing something of value and collection prestige. My experience is to have a starting point, se-lect and collect a country and year seriously with the intention of going back-wards not forwards, col-lect into the past whether it be mint or used stamps. This provides a challenge and incentive to achieve the ultimate stamp col-lection right back to its very start e.g. collect only 1840-60 issues. Dealers, societies & clubs should promote this way of collecting. Starter collections of used stamps which are freely avail-able could be promoted and marketed suggesting to new collectors whether adult or child to collect further back into the past e.g. Issues of British Com-

monwealth from QEII, KGVI, KGV, KEVII, and finally the greatest prize of all the Queen Victoria classics, 1d Black of 1840, all Australian states and New Zealand Chalons etc. Forget the new issues, they will keep for later years. Past collecting will discourage buying of these meaningless too many new issues and Australia Post will have to modify its policy to a more ac-ceptable number of new issues.

As collectors accumu-late stamps of the past, they will procure some-thing of value in educa-tion. History, peoples and places of stamps are a very satisfying pastime and monetarily rewarding if quality stamps are col-lected. This will undoubt-edly end in a collection befitting the title “Hobby of Kings”. This is a title it rightfully deserves, when it is not just a collection of pretty pictures and varia-tions sold to exploit and damage the philatelic im-age for profit to the detri-ment of the true Australian and World stamp hobby and market.

John ToddNarrawallee, NSW

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Market Matters: It pays to check your KILOWARE!

In late 2007 German metal worker Thomas Boche purchased a large box containing thousands of envelope clippings with stamps on them (i.e. “kiloware”) through ebay, and paid 55½ Euros.

When Boche looked through the box he found a number of stamps suitable for his collection, and one German stamp with an Audrey Hepburn design which he did not recognise.

In the beginning he did not pay much attention to this find. Only months later did he search for the unidentified Hepburn stamp on the internet, and found newspaper articles mentioning a record sale price for it in 2006.

He contacted the auctioneer of the previous Hepburn discovery, Ulrich Felzmann of Dusseldorf. Boche lived nearby and made an appointment for the next day.

Felzmann’s offered his stamp (now called copy #4) illustrated nearby, at the “IBRA” Essen auction on May 9, 2009 where it sold for 75,932 Euros when taxes and buyer fees were added. Or $A132,122 as this was typed.

The stamp bears a cancel from the “Briefzentrum 13” (Berlin-North in Hennigsdorf) sorting centre.

I am advised by email from an executive at Felzmann’s, that the buyer is the owner of a well known family business company, located in one of the bigger cities of Lower Saxony.

Copy #5 auctioned 2 weeks later

By remarkable coincidence a fortnight later on May

26, Berlin auctioneers Schlegels offered yet another example – copy #5. It sold in the room to an agent for 53,500 Euros.

After commission and sales tax etc was added, the invoice price was 67,000 Euros or approx $A116,583 as this article was filed.

In Associated Press reports carried by many newspapers around the world, auc-

tioneer Andreas Schlegel said that the seller wished to remain anonymous.

Schlegel added: “He’s worried that if his picture is printed in the newspaper his friends will come to him and say, ‘Hey, you got that stamp from me.”

That stamp has part of a double ring cancel in lower corner – proving once again Germans no NOT like undated cancels and hence the $A15,500 lesser price than a fortnight earlier.

The story of the Hepburn stamp began in 2001 when the German post office (Deutsche Post) pre-pared to issue a set of semi-postal stamps featuring movie stars, including Audrey Hepburn.

They were to be issued as panes of 10 (two of each of the 5 stamps) and a booklet pane that re-sembled a souvenir sheet. Some 14 million Hepburn

stamps were printed.

Hepburn’s son objectedAt the last minute one of Hepburn’s sons, Sean Ferrer objected to the stamp design and refused copyright approv-al. Reportedly as an image of his mother smoking a cigarette was not one he approved of. (Hepburn died of cancer in 1993.)

A 37¢ Hepburn stamp

$A132,122 kiloware find - #4

Auctioneer Elisabeth Schlegel and copy #5

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(without cigarette) was issued without incident in June 2003 by the USA.

The German post of-fice ordered that all the Audrey Hepburn stamps be destroyed. The issue was re-designed and eventually released October 11, 2001.

A Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman stamp in the original German set was also withdrawn around this time. The issued set quickly substituted stamps depicting Greta Garbo, and a reel of film.

The other 3 issued stamps depicted Marilyn Mon-roe, Jean Gabin, and Charlie Chaplin.

Three panes of 10 stamps each had already been sent to the German Ministry of Finance, but it is be-lieved that they were not returned and not destroyed.

The whereabouts of all these 30 stamps today is not known. I presume the 6 x Bogart/Bergman stamps must also exist in kiloware from these same 3 sheetlets?

Three years later, in late 2004, the first used ex-ample #1 of the Hepburn stamp was discovered by Werner Duerrschmidt, a stamp collector and mail-man in Bavaria, a German state.

He found the 110+50 pfennig stamp in a mixture of used on-paper stamps sent to him by friends.

Duerrschmidt’s example was cancelled Berlin, Oc-tober 14, 2003.

‘Sensation Perfekt!’ This was reported as front page news in German stamp magazines dated February 2005 calling it a ‘Sensation Perfekt!’.

The stamp became quite a media hit, and dealer and collector bodies reported the

widespread mainstream press has proven very positive for philately in Germany.

After the national media cir-cus that this initial find predi-cated, another copy was found, postmarked Berlin November 2, 2003.

This example #2 was discovered by a collector in Frankfurt au Main. It was found among stamp clippings he received from the incoming

mail of a company in Wolfsburg, Germany.This latter stamp #2 was invoiced for Euro

69,437.60 (then approximately $A112,000) when it was auctioned June 1, 2005 by Heinrich Kohler in Wiesbaden, Germany. That stamp was on the front cover of the August 2005 “Stamp News”.

The €20,000 estimate proved super conserva-tive. I emailed the Auction firm and Dieter Michel-son told me: “final invoice price for the stamp was 69.437,60 Euro, which includes a 17% commission and 16% VAT on the commission.”

Price went UP not down!A third stamp discovered SHOULD have meant the price of all three went down, not up, as each new

discovery lessens the potential value of all copies - that is the conventional thinking.

Wrong. Another copy of this 110+50 pfennig German stamp was later discovered in kiloware and sold for over DOUBLE the June 2005 price!

As television cameras recorded the occasion, this #3 example of Germany’s unis-sued Audrey Hepburn stamp was hammered down October 7, 2005 for 135,000 Euros.

With commissions and taxes, the buyer paid a total

Stamp number #2 discovered.

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of 169,000 Euro (then $A272,000). This re-alisation easily breaks the price record for a post-war German stamp.

Indeed I imagine it is easily a price record for ANY single stamp or even multiple issued anywhere post-war.

As a data point, my column last month reported the highest auction price for ANY British Commonwealth QE2 era stamp was achieved this year – and was “only” about $A75,000 for a Cyprus 1960 used 30 mil.

That stamp, the recently discovered third example known in collector hands, was the star lot in Ul-rich Felzmann’s 111th auction held October 5-8 in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Felzmann is not to be confused with the similarly named David Feldman Auctions in Switzerland, who also sells many rare pieces.

The stamp was purchased by Gaby Bennewirtz, acting on behalf of her husband Gerd Bennewirtz, an invest-ment manager and stamp collector - also living in the Dusseldorf area.

The most attractive exampleGaby Bennewirtz later told the Ger-man press: “he would actually have been willing to pay a bit more.”

It is the most attractive of all the copies I think, and being on piece with corner sheet margins, and with a superb dated cancel is as good a copy

as you could ever hope for!

Hence the massive price I imagine. Ger-mans will always pay top money for top qual-ity.

Shown nearby is winning bidder Gaby Bennewirtz holding the now famous $A272,000 stamp.

That example of the unissued Audrey Hepburn stamp #3 has part of the top left hand

corner selvedge attached from the pane of 10. The stamp is cancelled Feb. 11, 2004, at Kleinmachnow, a suburb of Berlin.

According to the lot description in the auction catalogue, the stamp was found in kiloware. All over the world, such stamps are often sold unsorted by the kilogram as sourced by charities etc, hence the name.

“I’d have paid more”

Auctioneer Ulrich Felzmann with his prize

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Great for PhilatelyOn the day after the auction, the news of this record hammer price had been published in 122 German newspapers. Great for stamps.

I have a very large business sideline selling such “kiloware” material I get from charities etc, as do many other dealers, and I sell over a ton weight a year: www.zoekeli.notlong.com

Collectors seem to love the fun of fossicking through it, and with a potential $270,000 “find” pos-sible - little wonder. All 5 copies found of this stamp came from kiloware.

So the May 9, 2009 copy #4 sale at 75,932 Euros - whilst a truly massive sum, is well down in Euros on the previous sale, but about 10% higher in Euros than copy #2 sold for.

The 67,000 Euros sale of copy #5, a fortnight later on May 26 was a whisker short of the price of copy #2, but lower than #4 obtained.

Proving once again that German collectors IN-SIST on dated cancels - the neat “corner CTO” type cancel on #5 would have delighted most Australian collectors!

Germans LOVE dated cancelsFetching 8,932 Euros (=$A15,500) less than #4 when sold a fortnight later in the same country, really

goes to prove how important those dated cancels are. As this only is the fifth copy discovered, I can

only again urge all readers to CHECK your kilo-ware!

ALL copies offered of this stamp have sold for well over $A100,000 - indeed one fetched $A272,000. That is MAJOR world rarity price level for any single stamp, even for the imperf “Classics”.

The legendary 1854 Western Australia 4d “Invert-ed Swan” often attains lesser price levels than these.

Indeed, this is the only “Inverted Jenny” of our stamp lifetime, and I have followed this story keenly from day #1, and have done about 100 hours of re-search done on it.

This article is in fact the ONLY place that all cop-ies are recorded and outlined in detail I believe.

There clearly are more copies out there – and presumably someone is yet to discover a Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman stamp from the same original German set.

Let me know if you find one!

Zimbabwe Inflation goes madEveryone reading this has of course heard that infla-tion in Zimbabwe has been insane in recent times.

However I am not sure if most folks realize just

Highest note EVER issued - ANYWHERE

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HOW crazy it got?Zimbabwe issued the highest denomination ban-

knote in the history of the world earlier this year. Stamp collectors have a HUGE crossover to

banknote collecting. Very similar 2 dimensional col-lectibles.

When I owned and edited and published the “Coin and Banknote Magazine” (“CAB”) I was amazed at the STAMP collector names I could see subscribed to our stamp magazine as well, when we ran a data match .. around 25% overlap.

“CAB” is a quite superb publication, now in the very safe hands of John Mulhall. I am sure if you mention this column he’ll mail you a recent copy –

auscoinbank@bigpond.comIt takes me a good hour to read most issues –

wonderful and varied content, and highly recom-mended – he runs regular ads in “Stamp News”.

Zimbabwe’s inflation rate reached 231 million percent in July 2008, the last annual rate published by their Government statistics office – and even that was woefully low many experts claim.

89.7 Sextillion PercentIndependent currency experts have computed that the inflation rate in November 2008 was 89,700,000,000,000,000,000,000% - or for those challenged by 20 zeros, that is pronounced as 89.7 Sextillion Percent.

And as we can see from the banknote shown nearby, it got far worse than that 3 months later.

$15 million did not cover postage!

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This is a rather sharp increase on the figure of less than a year back in December 2008 where there was a “mere” 215,000% inflation!

www.cato.org/zimbabwe has tables of detailed data for anyone especially interested in checking if I am making up these figures!

The 100 Trillion dollar banknote depicted nearby was issued in early 2009.

I found the teetering rocks central icon very ironic ... it neatly summed up the country’s parlous financ-es.

Not even the legendary inflation of the German “Weimer Republic” in 1923 got anywhere CLOSE to that figure with a stamp or banknote.

I understand at time of issuance, this note was valued at approximately $US50. There were 4 values in the set, with near identical designs on the front - Z$10 trillion, Z$20 trillion, Z$50 trillion and Z$100 trillion.

www.oogeepoh.notlong.com was an offer on stampboards for members to buy them for about $5 each.

As you can see, there was an absolute stampede and the surprised seller “PeterS” needed to try and locate new supplies!

I sourced some, to hand out to friends and rela-tives. I also bought a few 100 for stock and sell these per 10 or 20 to anyone wanting a fun party piece for your wallet. All are completely genuine.

Lop off 11 zerosVery soon after this note was issued, the Government lopped a swathe of zeros off the currency, to bring it back to where it had been, not many months earlier.

On 2 February 2009, the dollar was officially re-valued again, with Z$1,000,000,000,000 being reduced to Z$1 - i.e. 11 zeros were removed.

All in all, an amazing period of steroid inflation, that we will look back upon with wonderment in a few years time.

What about STAMPS?That was currency ... how did they cope with STAMPS you might well ask?

The answer is that at first, the stamps kept being re-issued in higher and higher and higher face val-ues. They were often obsolete before the ink was dry.

There was a stamboards.com member based in Zimbabwe called “Colin2008” who mailed many of the interested members airmail covers festooned with these issues.

One such cover is illustrated nearby, with a $5 and $10 million denomination, and a $100,000 bird. There is also an “E” stamp. More on that later.

Colin advised members that in April 2008 the PO decreed that no further stamps with denominations were planned to be issued, due to the hyper inflation.

Whether stamps were issued with higher than Z$10 million face value I am not sure, but we cer-tainly had no reports of anything larger.

From that point onward, various design sets of stamps denoted by LETTERS would be the only is-sues on sale.

“Z” paid for domestic mail, “A” for intra-Africa, “E” for Europe, and “R” for the Rest of the world.

Each PO then simply needed to update a chart each day on the wall stating “today the price of an E stamp is $51.7 million” – and so on.

The cover shown presumably had enough post-age on it to cover the price gap between “E” and “R” rates.

Such commercial looking covers, used in period will be VERY sought after postal history of the future.

Colin kindly sent me a few covers a year or so back that I gave to good clients, and I really wish I had chased up a few more.

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Andrew McEachern is a collector first, part time dealer second; he is founder & President of Collectors Club Queensland, was national Presi-dent of the APF fore-runner Austral-ian Stamp Promotion Council, and belongs to various Australian and overseas societies. Contact him at (postal) Box 5001, 149 Colburn Ave, Victoria Point, 4165 or by email to stampman5 @bigpond.com

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MORE NEW TERMINOLOGY OF SORTSPermanent stamps is the term used in Canada for what other countries are calling ‘forever stamps’...the rather anonymous looking cancel which has no place name or date, used by US Postal Service staff to cancel stamps which were used to pay postage on mail, but have passed through the mail stream without cancellation is officially called a dauber. That would be a great idea for Australia Post to issue to its staff and withdraw the Textacolours at the same time!

What we call ‘late fee mail’ is called ‘supplementary mail ‘ in USA. It is mail franked with additional postage which was lodged at a railway train post office wagon just minutes before the train departed, or at an ocean steamer bound for foreign lands, just before departure. The daily schedules of departure times pub-lished still make interest-ing reading if you ever find one, mainly from USA.

ABANDONING AUSTRALIA POSTI have largely been a staunch supporter of Australia Post, respecting their main role of delivering mail, rather than humouring testy stamp collectors. But that’s all over now. Like a discarded lover, I say “what a blind fool I have been !” So what was the final straw? After defending the constantly escalating cost of annual emissions, the Prestige and P items vended way over face value, the over-imaginative invention of new un-necessary products, and all the other anti-collecting fra-ternity initiatives, etc., it was the treatment our Club did not even receive recently. With our first Stamporama looming, Collectors Club Queensland decided to over-print a booklet and a mini sheet as a fund raiser at the time of Queensland’s 150th anniversary. A seven month lead time was allowed to bring this project to fruition.

We learnt first that when the chap who is charitably named as State Philatelic Officer, apparently among other titles and tasks, has holidays, nothing happens for many weeks...followup was needed, he had meanwhile ‘lost’ our phone number. Then we were given the wrong issue date for the minisheet...we decided we would need

about $7,000 face value in AP product but this got no reaction whatsoever - too small an order to attract interest? And still waiting for ANY answer. A request to the Philatelic Bulletin in Melbourne to publicise our overprints not only did not happen, but NIL reply either. We asked the State Philatelic chap for AP promotional literature to hand out, posters to adorn the venue, and a couple of door prizes...nothing whatsoever, not even a phone call. We wonder if all THAT will ever bring any reply. Another club holding their annual day tells us they received a couple of door prizes in the mail just the day before the event - too late to be any help. And other Clubs speak of similar poor or non-existent treatment. Wonder if the dealers or collectors peak groups will dare bring this sort of off-hand non-treatment up in their liai-son talks with AP? Does it happen in other States too?

If we do a fund raiser overprint in future years, we will probably select some off-shore postal ad-ministration which has an interest in SERVICE - and we know of several near Australia - but cer-tainly not our ‘local’ - Australia Post.

Did you know by the way, it is almost

impossible to reach the Philatelic Marketing mob in Melbourne by phone via the AP main phone number? They must all have very important jobs to be able to avoid phone calls.

THE GERMAN INFLATION PERIOD STAMPSI am often asked if the rather plain numeral bearing stamps of Germany in 1921-23 are of value. The answer is ‘very few’ but I believe the interest the stories behind these issues reveals is fun to explore. For instance, what was the highest face value stamp issued then ? I know of one showing 500,000,000 marks. At first it cost 60 pfennigs to mail a letter within Germany; By December 1923 it cost 100 billion marks. (German for ‘billion’ is ‘milliarden’.) Many issues were overprinted as the value of the currency dropped, and this generated some interesting errors including inverts. Its probably a good idea to also illustrate your collection of this period

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with a couple of multi-million mark banknotes, also cheap to obtain; this reflects the stories of people using wheelbarrows to carry currency to the baker for a loaf of bread. Things started to change when the government introduced the Rentenmark in late 1923, equivalent to 1 trillion ‘old’ marks. More recently, post-WWII Hungary and now Zimbabwe have suffered from similar hyper-inflation.

PRE-STAMPED ENVELOPESI have noted a recent resurgence in interest in prestamped envelopes (called colloquially PSE) at the stamp fairs I attend. I am not surprised, because the many private overprints, interpolated with many special postmarks, make these an interesting and inexpensive side line collection. I remember the excitement when these were introduced to replace the staid old embossed Queen’s head buff envelopes. I even plead guilty to issuing a couple of the scarcer ovrprinted PSEs - the Medibank Private one when I was Marketing Manager there - 800 issued, almost all to each chemist-agent in Queensland - doubt if many survived. Later, when I was CEO of CUA, we embellished a PSE with a cachet com-memorating a new Head Office, and carried the covers to the GPO by an ancient truck.

Stock up now while PSEs are still cheap - there was a time when some attracted huge prices.

BYE BYE SATURDAY DELIVERYNot Australia, of course, we lost that service many moons ago. It’s in the USA where there is fierce debate about their Postmaster-General’s proposal to withdraw Saturday deliveries, to effect billions of dollars in sav-ings for their fragile annual budget. Congress (their lower house of parliament) is embroiled in the argument. And in a Scandinavian country the postal authority has withdrawn delivery to the door in multi-story dwelling buildings. Imagine the postie trudging from floor to floor in (say) a 40 storey tower!)

SPIKED ENVELOPES - DO NOT DIS-CARDOtherwise interesting old covers from the 19th century with ugly spiked hoses in vital spots turn up from time to time in Club auctions here; they can be garnered for just a few dollars usually.( I see many addressed to George Adams Tattersalls in Hobart, for instance. A report from Wales announcing finding 27 covers bearing

Penny Black stamps in an attic carries a footnote from the auctioneer saying they were ‘impaled on spikes, which was a way of filing things years ago.” It reminds me of 50 years ago when I was a young internal auditor at Myer Melbourne. One monthly task was patrolling the 600+ cash registers in the city store, checking the spikes used to accumulate office copies of charge in-voices - was the department’s part sheet of duty stamps also impaled, thus WASTING threepence ? This was a reportable offence. The duty stamps were used on receipts over £2. (As an aside, if you ever find a Myer cash receipt of that time where the duty stamp obliter-ates the money amount, it probably indicates one of the favourite ploys of those who sought to fiddle the takings. The culprits used to ring up a ‘no sale’ for vague little old ladies who did not watch the visible indicator on the register, and then pocket the cash amount of the sale. I managed a team of alert little old ladies as mystery shop-pers to detect practices like this.) SIMPSONS ON STAMPSLetters to the Editor in Linns , the USA stamp weekly, abound witjh disgust and fury about the issue of a set of 5 stamps in a 20 stamp sheet featuring the Simpsons. Bugs Bunny and Co were largely acceptable in earlier years on US stamps - fun even. But as one correspond-ent put it, - “What were they thinking of when they selected this filthy-mouthed, flthy minded, low-life, anti-family cartoon family as US stamp subject ?” If stamp subject selection ever sinks to the same level of philatelic depravity here, what would the likely equiva-lent subject be? I am not game to make suggestions, but remember that the visiting chef Ramsay fellow, is not an Aussie, so not eligible.

AUSTRALIAN STATES OS PERFINSI have been looking in vain for listings of OS perfined Queensland QV stamps in my Gibbons and States cata-logues for some time. Recently I saw an answer to a reader’s query in an overseas magazine which said these can be found in the French language Yvert and Tellier “Catalogue of Overseas Stamps”. Hope this helps some other readers here. Which reminds me that ‘overseas’ is a term the content of which varies according to which country it is published in. Ever thought that to some, we are foreign ?

See pages 48 and 49 for more of Andrew McEachern’s

Demystifying the Detail

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Australian Stamp VariationsDetails of the main variations in recent stamp issues

Tourist Precincts Minisheet

The Tourist Precincts stamps were originally issued on 8th September 2008. A minisheet containing the four 55c stamps was issued on 14th May 2009 to commemorate the 23rd Asian International Stamp Exhibition. This minisheet depicts the Hong Kong Convention Centre where the exhibition was held. The four stamps had a 2008 year code in the design. My sample of one minisheet had the common perforation for this issue = 14 x 14.4. If you find one with the very rare 14 x 13.7 perf, please let me know.

Thanks to those readers that contacted me about the very rare perforation of the original Tourist Precincts issue. After many letters and phonecalls to Post Shops and Business Centres around Australia, would you believe that my local Post Shop was restocked with the $1.10 “Foreshore Cairns” stamps with the 14 x 13.7 perf! I bought out their entire stock.

Tourist PrecinctsVariations 1 Cost $2.20Issue Date 14th May 2009

Stamp Value & Design

55c Luna Park, Melbourne 55c South Bank, Brisbane 55c The Rocks, Sydney 55c Fishermans Wharf, Fremantle

Perforations 14 x 14.4Minisheet 4 x 55c se-tenant block of 4

DessertsFood now pictured on stamps, not just supermarket junk mail! Eight 55c stamps were issued on 15th May depicting four of Australia’s iconic foods. Pity they didn’t add the smell of each into the ink as we

have had on some perfumed flower stamps in the past. There were 3 different layouts for this issue. The gummed sheet stamps were in a se-tenant strip of 4, the prestige booklet gummed stamps were in blocks of 4 of the same stamp and the self-adhesive booklet stamps were in a se-tenant block of 4. Mandatory recipes appeared in the prestige booklet.

Not Just DessertsVariations 13 Cost $29.60Issue Date 15th May 2009

Stamp Value & Design

55c Pavlova55c Peach Melba55c Lamingtons55c Anzac Biscuits

Perforations Gummed stamps: 13.9 x 14.6Self-adhesive stamps: 11.2 x 11.5(IDC simulated perforations)

Blocks & Strip 4 x 55c se-tenant strip (sheet)4 x 55c Pavlova4 x 55c Peach Melba4 x 55c Lamingtons4 x 55c Anzac Biscuits(prestige booklet)

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David MallenDetails of the main variations in recent stamp issues

David Mallen

Minisheets 4 x 55c Pavlova4 x 55c Peach Melba4 x 55c Lamingtons4 x 55c Anzac Biscuits(prestige booklet)

Self-adhesive Stamps

55c Pavlova55c Peach Melba55c Lamingtons55c Anzac Biscuits(booklet)

DolphinsAs part of the World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature Conservation stamp collection, 7 stamps were issued on 26th May depicting four of the fourteen species of dolphins sighted around Australia. The gummed stamps were issued in separate sheets as well as a special se-tenant block of 4 in the separate minisheet. The $1.35, $1.40 and $2.05 were International Post stamps and were also issued in sheetlets of 5 self-adhesive stamps. These sheetlets contained the “Australia Post : Celebrating 200 Years” red logo on the back.

Each stamp and the minisheet featured the “WWF Panda” logo of this private conservation organisation. There is no doubt the WWF is a worthy cause but should Australia Post be promoting private organisations on their stamps? I assume no money from the sale of these stamps goes to the WWF. For more information go to the Fund’s website: www.wwf.org.au.

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Australian Stamp VariationsDetails of the main variations in recent stamp issues

Dolphins of the Australian CoastlineVariations 8 Cost $58.70Issue Date 26th May 2009

Stamp Value & Design

55c Spotted Bottlenose Dolphin$1.35 Hourglass Dolphin $1.40 Southern Right Whale Dolphin $2.05 Dusky Dolphin

Perforations Gummed stamps: 13.9 x 14.6Self-adhesive stamps: 11.2 x 11.5(IDC simulated perforations)

Block 55c, $1.35, $1.40 & $2.05se-tenant block of 4(minisheet)

Minisheet 55c, $1.35, $1.40 & $2.05se-tenant block of 4

Dolphins of the Australian CoastlineSelf-adhesive

stamps$1.35 Hourglass Dolphin $1.40 Southern Right Whale Dolphin $2.05 Dusky Dolphin(3 sheetlets)

Sheetlets 5 x $1.35 self-adhesive stamps5 x $1.40 self-adhesive stamps5 x $2.05 self-adhesive stamps

Variations & 55c Statistics(Issue 1: 22nd January to Issue 11: 26th May 2009)

No. of issues 11No. of designs 53No. of stamps* 113Face value of stamps* $76.70No. of variations 170Cost of variations $530.05No. of 55c stamps* 100No. of days to 26-5-2009 125Average issue rate of55c stamps*

1 every 1¼ days

* Including perforation and self-adhesive variations

Footnote: The information shown above is based on stamps and variations bought at my local Post Shop.

These may differ from those sold at other Australia Post outlets. If you find any differences please let me know. The cost quoted in the above summary tables is the minimum cost to obtain one of each variation. Many variations are only available in sheetlets or booklets containing multiple stamps and are often sold above face value. The cost does not include the cost of single gummed sheet stamps when issued. Scan the QR code with your mobile cell phone to go to the ASV home page. Find out what Australia Post actually issued each year in my 1966-2008 ASV Catalogue.

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Web: www.users.bigpond.net.au/asv

Email: asv.cat@bigpond.net.au

7 Rodney Close, Wheelers Hill, VIC, 3150

Ph: 03 9561 2365

Visit my website for new issues, updates and stamp variations for sale

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For those readers who have not seen these Desert Magic books, they are a large A4 sized book (stockbook sized) with thick white Spiro edge binding that as you can see allows them to lay flat. (There is a half sized one which is basically useless in our view.)

The pages are of REALLY thick blotting type paper. i.e.thick heavy cardboard thickness. It is some special “fast release” formulation .. no idea what they use, but it really does WORK!

There is then a special smooth plastic coating on one side. So you wash your stamps, and if you leave them to air dry on tea towels or blotting paper or newspaper, light creases and bends will always stay there.

If they are placed into this book when touch damp (not sopping wet) and left there with the gum side to the plastic side and the front of

stamp to the blotter side, they dry perfectly flat, and many light bends and creases vanish. Nearly

all of them. It is amazing the difference they make, which is why we sell so many!

Readers of www.stampboards.com have acclaimed these as one of the best stamp accessories on the market. Just put your stamps in, pile a few heavy books on top and forget them for a week. Most collectors have two books, as that is the secret ..... do NOT touch them for a week and let them dry slowly under weight. Most important.

The special formulation plastic coated side is super important as otherwise many stamps STICK to blotter if damp and between 2 sheets of blotting paper, with heavy weight on top. These do not. Again it is some special coating they have figured out which works perfectly for this specific job.

Almost any other kind of plastic sheet you may try to experiment with at home will leave a real ugly mirror like “SHEEN” on the gum side if placed in damp, under weight, which looks really stupid, and really shows what you have been doing. These do NOT.

The books last for decades. They really do. A 10/- C of A Roo used and light creased copy will be $100 retail, and one that is nice and flat $200. So the cost of the book is paid 3 fold with just one stamp that is saved.

Retail Price is $38 each. For readers we offer 27½% off retail special deal for purchases of two books

$A30 singly or $A55 for 2 Flat Fee Registered Postage anywhere in Australia (for either 1 or 2) add

$A10 - airmail overseas is $A20 for 1 or 2. All credit cards accepted

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National Philatelic ExhibitionMelbourne Park Tennis Centre Function Room

Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 July 2009 40 Dealers plus Australia Post Over 750 frames of world class exhibits lots of free information free activities for juniors door prizes and lots more Australia Post Exhibit

www.melbournestampshow2009.com

Melbourne Stampshow 2009

Melbourne Stampshow 2009 Australia’s National Philatelic Exhibition for 2009, will be held at the Melbourne Park Tennis Centre Function Room (adjacent to the Rod Laver Arena – Melbourne Tennis Centre) from Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 July 2009. The Melbourne Park Tennis Centre Function Room is conveniently located in the heart of the city’s sporting district, a short walk or tram ride from the Central Business District. Open Hours will be:

Thursday 23 July: 12noon – 6pmFriday 24 July; 10am – 5pm Saturday 25 July: 10am – 5pmSunday 26 July: 10am – 4pmAdmission is $5 for adults, with children

admitted free. The Australasian Philatelic Traders’ Asso-

ciation (APTA) will be providing $50 prize

vouchers to be drawn regularly during the ex-hibition. These can be spent at the exhibition or with any APTA member.

Forty of Australia’s leading stamp dealers as well as several from overseas plus Australia Post will be at the exhibition. Dealers will be offering free valuations and advice throughout the exhibition. General information areas will be run by the Australian Philatelic Federation, the Victorian Philatelic Council and the Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria providing lots of free information and advice about stamp clubs, collecting and philately in general. A full list-ing of standholders can be viewed on the exhi-bition’s website which includes telephone, fax, e-mail and website contact details.

Visitors to Melbourne Stampshow 2009 will have a rare opportunity to view some of the best philatelic collections in the country with

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Melbourne Stampshow 2009GPO Box 9800Melbourne VIC 3001

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over 750 frames of world class philatelic ex-hibits from over 130 exhibitors. Australia Post will exhibit “Here Comes the Postie – 200 Years of Postal Services in Australia”. The Exhibit will include gems from the National Philatelic Centre and the Chapman Collection.

A range of exciting souvenirs, listed below, is being produced for the exhibition. These include; the Australia Post 200 Years PNC, overprinted and postmarked by Australia Post, with a unique coloured postmark only avail-able from the Show. There are exclusive First Day Covers, a Replica Card (featuring 1954 Railways Stamp), a Booklet and an overprint-

ed Postcard.

Lunar New Year – Year of the Ox (Overprinted PNC Ltd and numbered 200) SOLD OUT $ 34.95Inventive Australia Mini Sheet (Overprinted and numbered 300 only) $ 10.00Australia Post 200 Years PNC Second Issue Overprinted and numbered 300 only with Gold Foil Postmark Exclusive to Exhibition. Regular Australia Post release is in a black) $ 45.00

Melbourne Stampshow 2009

200 Club Letter to Mary Prestige FDC – Exclusive Orange Foiled Postmark – Normal release Black

Postmark

200 Club Parks and Gardens Prestige Booklet – Ex-clusive Imperforate Sheets – Normal release perfo-

rated Sheets

Australia Post 200 Years PNC – 300 Overprinted & Numbered – Exclusive Gold Foil Postmark – Gen-

eral release Black postmark

Inventive Australia Mini Sheet – 300 Overprinted and numbered

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Melbourne Stampshow 2009Australia Desserts Booklet of 10 x 55c Stamps (Overprinted and numbered 250 only) $ 15.00AAT Poles and Glaciers Mini Sheet overprinted

$ 10.00Special Cancellation Cover – Australia Post 200 Years (23 July) $ 5.00Special Cancellation Cover – Parks and Gardens (24 July) $ 5.00Special Cancellation Cover – Railways (25 July) $ 5.00Special Cancellation Cover – Australia Desserts (26 July) $ 5.00Special Cancellation Covers - Set of 4 (available 26 July only) $ 20.00Postcard - Tennis Centre (night view) $ 5.00APF Replica Card – 1954 Railways $ 5.00

A value-packed exhibition supporters’ club package is being offered which provides mem-bers with numerous souvenirs and benefits. Membership of the supporters’ club is limited to 200 and costs $100. Club benefits will include items that are exclusive to the 200 club and are not available via Australia Post.

4-day entry pass• Exhibition Catalogue• Castle Award Winner Sheet overprinted. • Only available via 200 Club.Letter to Mary Prestige first day cover • overprinted and exclusive orange post-mark. Regular Australia Post release is a gold postmark. Only available via 200 Club.Parks and Gardens Prestige Booklet with • Imperforate Sheets. Only available via 200 Club. 200 Club exclusive souvenir cover post-• marked with first day special postmark1954 Railways Replica Card• 1954 Railways Replica Card Black Print •

– exclusive to club members2002 Tennis Centre Postcard with addi-• tional postmark exclusive to club mem-bersCurrent Tennis Centre Postcard over-• printed for 200 Club exclusive to club members

The estimated retail value of the club pack-age is $150. To enrol, simply download an enrolment form from the exhibition website, but be quick as memberships are filling quick-ly. You don’t even have to visit Melbourne Stampshow 2009 to take advantage of mem-bership of the Supporters Club. For just an extra $5, the full package will be mailed to you by registered post.

A number of seminars and society meet-ings will be staged at the exhibition details of which can be found on the exhibition’s web-site.

All orders for souvenirs can be directed to:Melbourne Stampshow 2009GPO Box 9800Melbourne VIC 3001

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ATALAYACinderella Magazine

Cinderella magazine features the Haut-Oubanghi Locals

In the Summer 2009 issue of ATA-LAYA, the world’s only privately pub-lished Engish language Cinderella magazine, the editor writes about the Reunion Isle bogus issue. Also there is an article about the mysterious Haut-Oubanghi locals believed to have been prepared in the late 1890s to be used in Central Africa.

As always there are book reviews, Cinderella news, auction news, ad-vertiements and other odds and ends. This not-for-profit magazine has now been published for 34 years!

As a special offer a sample offer a sample copy of #69 along with 3 back issues can be obtained for $5 (normal cost $12). Cheques cannot be ac-cepted as payment due to high bank charges.

All orders to Editor/Publisher: Chris-ter Brunström, Kungsgatan 23, SE-302 45 Halmstad, Sweden

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The Modern SceneA focus on Framas, Reprints, Booklets and other Modern Material

Perforation DifferencesThere has been considerable interest in perforation differences in the gummed stamps in the Tourist Precincts issue, released on 8 September 2008. This issue was needed for the increase in postage rates, which took place on that date. Being a definitive issue, it is expected that many millions of stamps with these designs will be produced. My only success in finding the scarcer 14 x 13.7 was in 4 blocks of the .55c value found in stamp packs. All of the values in my stock of sheet stamps are the more common 14 x 14.4. A customer of mine, Terry Harding sent me the following interesting email – “Thanks for your reply re perforations in $1.10 and $1.65 Tourism stamps. I can assure you that both perfs. exist on both stamps. I already have a mint single of each but require a few more of the 14 x 13.7 as was my order. I also receive quite a lot of kiloware every couple of months and can report the following – $1.10 Cairns p 14x13.7 – 6 used, $1.10 Cairns p 14x14.4 – 11 used, $1.65 Salamanca p 14x13.7 – 4 used, $1.65 Salamanca p 14x14.4 – 7 used.

Also, overall I have noted that the numbers of 14 x14.4 55c stamps are in a similar ratio to the p 14x13.7 i.e. about 2:1.

I have not found any variations in 13 used copies of the $2.75 Glenelg issue”.

I would be very pleased to hear from anyone who has found the $2.75 Glenelg stamp with the scarcer 14x13.7 perforation. I illustrate the four stamps from this issue nearby.

Christmas 2008 Baubles Issue I have previously commented on the popular

Baubles booklet variety, which has imperf or part perf top stamps. Well known New South Wales philatelist, Barbara Hancock wrote to me about this issue. “Thanks for supplying the imperf/part imperf Christmas Baubles. Are you aware that the special enhanced version (P & S sheetlet of 10) is printed by typography with quite a coarse (250-line) screen. The normal issue is litho. The enhanced special “Films” sheetlet is also typo not litho. These varieties are distinct in more ways than one and the printing type is not noted in the official publication. I hope to do an article on this for the next ACCC Bulletin”.

I wrote back to Barbara, seeking more information about the terminology in Barbara’s letter and I’m sure you will find the reply most interesting. The sheetlet is illustrated along with some booklet stamps. “Sorry if I caused confusion – the correct term for these issues is ‘embellished’ with gold foil and textured varnish, or flocking, or embossing – as the case may be. The Baubles sheetlet was printed by Pemara, the printing process stated as “Flexographic” (Ref: A.P. Stamp Bulletin No 295 p5). This is apparently a form of typography. The normal issues are printed by offset lithography using a very fine computer – generated screen, whereas these “embellished” items are printed by “flexography” using a coarse line screen with quite large dots of colour. The difference can clearly be seen using a x10 magnifying glass.”

I would strongly recommend that all readers try to compare the self adhesive 50c Baubles stamps from the Christmas 2008 booklet with those from the embellished $5 Baubles sheetlet of 10. Better

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Sel PfefferA focus on Framas, Reprints, Booklets and other Modern Material

SEL PFEFFER’s BOONAH STAMP SUPPLIESPh.0754631516 - Fax 07 54631595 PO Box 155 BOONAH Q 4310 Email: slpfeffer@bigpond.comAustralia’s leading specialist in Booklets, Framas, Reprints etc. Major Credit Cards Welcome or Cheque/MO with order.

Please add $1 Post/Pack or $3.50 for Registered Mail (over $40)

BOOKLETS NEW & OLD$5.50 Legends ‘09 Set 4 SCDAA Petersham bklts, 2 prs with matching numbers . $74.00$5.50 Legends ‘09 - as above, 1 matching pair numbers ................................... $38.00Attractive AAT Huskies booklet - Mawson’s Hut illustrated etc .......................... $14.00AAT Huslies booklet with China “09 World Expo O’Print .................................... $20.00B39Aa (1928) Geo V. 2/3, 1 1/2d Red SM wmk. Invert, wax interleaves, deep green on pale green cover, original inside text ......................................$950.00B43a(1930-34) Geo V. 2/-, 2d Red, C of A wmk invert, green on pale green cover, back cover - “Parcel Rates” ..........................................................................$1000.00B46Ea (1935) Geo V. 2/-. 2d red, C of A wmk invert, final text version, 5 lines of text for Regist. ..............................................................................$990.00The following are all 1935-37 Geo V, 2/- 2d Red, C of A wmk inverted B47Ba “Wherever there is a Money Order P.Office” on cover.............................$825.00B48Aa “in most Money Order Post Offices”- black on green cover - original setting of inside covers ....................................................................$850.00B48Ba “in most Money Order Post Offices” as previous but with inside front and back covers reversed .....................................................................$900.00

NOTE: All of the above Geo V booklets are MUH SUPERB FRESH - seldom available in such FINE CONDITION

still, if you can, compare the booklet pane of 10 with the special enhanced, sheetlet of 10! The difference under UV light is even more spectacular.

Philatelic BulletinsBarbara Hancock finished her letter by giving her permission to report her comments in Stamp News and she went on to write that she was working on reporting the above

in the June issue of the bulletin of the Australian Commonwealth Collectors’ Club of New South Wales. This bulletin has recently been upgraded. While the high quality of the articles has been maintained for many years, it is now presented in a top quality magazine type finish. Another publication which I admire is the BSAP publication – British Society Australian Philately. With Stamp News publisher, Kevin Morgan’s consent, BSAP prints extracts from the Modern Scene. In May Stamp News I commented on the problems faced by philatelic societies in attracting younger members. After reading my article, Colin Salt, the editor of the BSAP bulletin

wrote “Your comments under the heading Younger Members wanted apply this side of the water as well. Our local Society has 48 members and only two of these are still working. The majority of us would confess to 70+ and although we are very active – 26 attended our meeting yesterday, there are frequent visits to the crematorium to say farewell to another departed member.

We have an annual exhibition and fair and so far have coped with setting up the tables and frames but for how much longer? The constant plea is for new members but it is significant that the few who do sign up are retirees whether either taking up the hobby for the first time or those returning to a former life where they collected as schoolboys.

I shall not be around in 20 years time, but it would be interesting to see how things stamp in 2029”.

Australian Postcard SocietyOn 2009 a new literal for the Roo and Koala CPS was issued. The literal is illustrated on cover and commemorated the formation of a new philatelic society – the Australian Postcard Society.

Misplaced PerforationsSteve Pound sent me a scan of an interesting misplacement of the simulated perforations on the

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The Modern SceneA focus on Framas, Reprints, Booklets and other Modern Material

recently issued Australia Post-200 Years issue. The illustration nearby shows the stamp with “Aus” cut off Australia, most of “18” cut off of the year 1809 and “55” missing completely from the value. Steve asks is it valuable and should he keep it on cover. My answer is yes, always retain on cover and while not very valuable, it is well worth retaining.

Australian Antarctic Territory AAT stamps, mini sheets and overprints have been produced in quantity recently. I have previously written

about three AAT mini sheets produced by Australia Post during the six month period from September 2008 to March 2009 and have also handled three different overprints on these mini sheets. I now have two more overprints in stock on the International Polar Year mini sheet – one done by the Richmond Stamp Club commemorating 25 Years of the $100 note (Mawson features prominently on this note) and the other was overprinted by Ian Boulton of Perth. It was a clever idea of Ian’s – he overprinted the mini sheet with his ACE STAMP AUCTIONS

three Auction dates in 2009 and sent it in a neat Antarctic folder which had obviously been designed

by Australia Post for it’s Poles and Glaciers Stamp Pack. The Richmond Stamp Club overprint is illustrated.

AAT BookletsTwo unofficial AAT booklets have been produced recently. Richmond Stamp Club produced a booklet for their 2009 Stamp Show. The cover features the two sides of the $100 note and AAT Poles and Glaciers stamps are used inside. The other Antarctic Territory booklet was produced by the Sydney Stamp Centre and uses four x .55c Antarctic Birds stamps – the Snow Petrel.

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A focus on Framas, Reprints, Booklets and other Modern Material

Sel Pfeffer

Front cover shows teams of Huskies, which used to be important for transport in the AAT. The back cover shows an enormous colony of Penguins and inside front cover shows Mawson and Mawson’s Hut. Sydney Stamp Centre was involved in the World Stamp Exhibition 2009 and a number of the Huskies booklets have the China 2009 overprint. Front cover is illustrated nearby.

What To Do With One’s StampsUnfortunately we are all getting older and it is important that we give thought to helping our loved ones and executors dispose of our stamps after our death. John Crowsley, editor of the Queensland Stamp Collector, makes some excellent suggestions. Most of us do not have a close relative, who shares or understands our hobby. With John’s permission, I reproduce a couple of paragraphs from his recent editorial “A moments thought directed to leaving a short note or memorandum addressed to one’s spouse or executors can provide all the information they require to safeguard and dispose of your collection as you would wish. The object of the note is to give guidance. This is a matter entirely distinct from leaving a collection to a person in a Will.

The note or memorandum should identify briefly but clearly – the nature of the material owned, e.g. 1 album contains GB Victorian issues, 2 albums of New Zealand 1855 to 1963, 3 volumes Scottish postal history. Quantity of literature related to the above, 3 stock books of assorted stamps. The location of the material: upstairs

under the bed, or at the bank, with name and address of the bank given. Name and address of a person or body to consult immediately as to best means of disposal and/or valuation. State whether or not collection is insured (with details if so). Sign and date the note”. This is great advice!

Southpex BookletsFor 25 years, three stamp

clubs – Armadale/Kelmscott Philatelic Society, Canning Stamp Club Inc. and Kalamunda Stamp Club – have been running the Southern Stamp Show and producing their own Southpex booklets. These Southpex booklets, because of their regular annual appearance, are the most sought after of Australia’s unofficial booklets. Since 1997 the booklets have held two Christmas Island stamps affixed by right-hand or left-hand selvedge. Most collectors bought one of each booklets. This year, 2009, as well as the pair of .55c stamps affixed by right or left-hand, four extra booklets were produced to celebrate their silver anniversary. The booklets have a silver cover and contain three stamps from the Christmas Island Zodiac sheetlet. The front cover of this booklet is illustrated. The booklets are being offered in sets of six at a reasonable price.

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THIS MONTH’S STAMP OFFERSKANGAROOS

Lot 01: Kangaroo: SG 4 1st Wmk 2½d IndigoVF MUH $225

Lot 02: Kangaroo: SG 6 1st Wmk 4d Orange. Scarce in such fine MUH condition. Super fresh. $750

Lot 03: Kangaroo: BW 24f 1st Wmk 9d Violet in very fine MLH condition showing variety:“BREAK IN RIGHT FRAME OPPOSITE CAPE OF YORK”. $195

Lot 04: Kangaroo: SG 13 1st Wmk 5/- Grey/Yellow. Very fine MLH $495

Lot 05: Kangaroo: SG 14 1st Wmk 10/- Grey/Pink. Stunning colour, perfs & centring. MLH $1,500

Lot 06: Kangaroo: SG 15 1st Wmk £1 Brown & Blue, rich colouring with MELBOURNE APRIL 1913 presentation cancellation. Very fine. $2,750

Lot 07: Kangaroo: BW B7A KANGAROO BOOKLET, complete. Inside front cover printed in RED on BLUE-GREEN, serif type. 1d RED is DIE 1. Very fine condition without

faults. $2,500

Lot 08: Kangaroo: SG 25 2nd Wmk 2½d Indigo VF MUH $295

Lot 09: Kangaroo: SG 28 2nd Wmk 1/- Bright Blue Green. Great colour. MLH $375

Lot 10: Kangaroo: SG 30 2nd Wmk 5/- Grey & Yellow Great colour & perfs. Mint hinged.$1,250

Lot 11: Kangaroo: SG 35bw 3rd Wmk 2d Grey, Wmk INVERTED, with variety ‘flaws to frame line left of A of AUST’. MLH $175

Lot 12: Kangaroo: SG 40/BW 32E 3rd Wmk, 1/- SEA GREEN (DRY INKING). A very attractive MLH example of this scarce shade. $475

Lot 13: Kangaroo: SG 40/BW 32D 3rd Wmk, 1/- GREY/GREEN shade. Very fine MLH. $275 each

Lot 14: Kangaroo: SG 74 3rd Wmk 2/- Maroon. Very fine MUH $575

Lot 15: Kangaroo: SG 051 3rd Wmk, 10/- Grey/Pink, intense Aniline, very fresh MUH (EX Aust Post Archive sale) Superb. $2,250

Lot 16: Kangaroo: SG 44a 3rd Wmk, £1 Chestnut/Blue MLH $3,500

Lot 17: Kangaroo: SG 45b 3rd Wmk Purple Blk/Pale Rose MUH $8,500

Lot 18: Kangaroo: SG 110 Sm Multiple Wmk 2/- Maroon, fresh MUH. $525

Lot 19: Kangaroo: SG 111 Small Multiple Wmk 5/- Grey/Yellow. Very strong colour, with variety ‘2 BREAKS IN NSW COAST’. MLH $395

Lot 20: Kangaroo: SG 112 Sm Multiple Wmk 10/- Grey & Pink. Very fine MLH Post office fresh. $675

Lot 21: Kangaroo: SG 114 Sm Multiple Wmk £2 Black/Red. A well centred, very fine MLH stamp. $6,500

Lot 22: Kangaroo: SG 136 C of A Wmk MUH $2,250

KGV

Lot 23: KGV: SG 22b 4d LEMON, Very fine MUH $695

Lot 24: KGV: SG 85w Sm. Mult P14 ½d Orange WMK INVERTED MUH $195

AUSTRALIA GENERAL

Lot 25: Australia: SG 0136 1/- Lyrebird ‘OS’, BRILLIANT MUH. $140

Lot 26: Australia: SG 140 1/- Lyrebird, BRILLIANT MUH $140

Lot 27: Australia: SG 147/149 Victoria Centenary Set 3, Perf 10½. BRILLIANT MUH$140

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Lot 28: Australia: SG 147a/149a Victoria Centenary Perf 11½, set of 3. BRILLIANT MUH$165

Lot 29: Australia: SG 153 1/6 Hermes, no watermark. BRILLIANT MUH $110

Lot 30: Australia: SG 156/158 1935 Jubilee set 3. BRILLIANT MUH $110

Lot 31: Australia: SG 168b KGVI 3d Blue DIE 1A. Superb MUH $325

Lot 32: Australia: SG 176/178 1938 Robes, THICK paper. BRILLIANT MUH $175

Lot 33: Australia: SG 193a 2d NSW Sesqui with catalogued variety “MAN WITH TAIL”. Well centred mint lightly hinged, difficult to locate thus. $375

Lot 34: Australia: SG 228cb ½d Orange Roo, no wmk, coil strip of 7 (with join) showing “FOGGY HILLS” variety. Superb MUH $275

Lot 35: Australia: SG 228c ½d Roo, No Wmk,Coil block of 20 showing both corner & central imprints. MUH, very fine. $100

Lot 36: Australia: SG 327a 5/- Cattle, WHITE paper. BRILLIANT MUH $125

Lot 37: Australia: SG 355/360 1964 NAVIGATOR set of 8, including 10/-, £1 WHITE papers (8 stamps). BRILLIANT MUH $325

Lot 38: Australia: BW 160 15c Pioneer, Cream Paper. BLACK OMITTED, MUH $4,250

Lot 39: Australia: BW 618c 1972 Pioneer “Missing Black”, no inscriptions or value. MUH$1,250

Lot 40: Australia: BW 1036c 1984 30c Nordic Skiing with Slalom stamp superimposed. MUH $350

Lot 41: Australia: BCOF 3d Brown with extensive omission of B of BCOF. Unlisted variety. MUH $525

Lot 42: Australia: SG D85 Perf 14 CA Monogram Blk (6) M/MUH. Rare format. $675

Lot 43: Australia: SG 524 (var) ACSC 608ca 10c Pioneer, vertical strip of 3. Upper unit BLACK OMITTED, other units partial omissions. MUH $4,500

STATES Lot 44: NSW: SG 124 (var) 1860-63 QV 6d “Registered” rose-red & Prussian blue perf 13, on course yellowish wove paper, centre shifted 3mm to left with numeral

cancel. Ceremuga Certificate $875

Lot 45: NSW: SG 048 Perf 10, Opt Specimen Mint lightly hinged. Ideal gap filler for this impossible stamp in mint condition. $375

Lot 46: NSW: SG 049b 5/- Mauve ‘OS’ overprint. A fresh MLH stamp. $425

Lot 47: NSW: SG 167b 8d Yellow/Orange Diadem. Fine mint hinged. $425

Lot 48: NSW: ASC 63a 5/- Violet, Perf 12, CTO/VFU RPSL Certificate. $775

MISC STAMPS Lot 49: PAPUA: SG 1a ½d Black/Green, thin paper, horizontal wmk. A very fine MLH example of this scarce stamp. $375

Lot 50: PAPUA: SG 4a 2½d Black/Ultramarine.Thin paper, horizontal wmk. Very fine MLH, exceptional quality. $450

Lot 51: PAPUA: SG 117 Harrison Printing Rare Carmine “Deep Cheery Red” Opt. (only 10 sheets

with this opt), showing “comma” variety. UNUSED BLK (4) $1,250

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Something new, something different

If you are like most collectors, you will probably have gone through the ‘I want something new to collect’ blues at some time in your stamp collecting experience. You may even be going through them right now! Before you go off looking for something completely different to collect such as toys or miniatures or teddy bears, think laterally (but still in the world of stamps) for a few moments and see if you can come up with something ‘out of the box’

In this article I’m hoping to inspire you by sharing some of the ideas that I’ve come up with, or have been suggested to me, when my collecting ‘juices’ have been at a low ebb in regards to my existing interests.

First of all, I think it might be helpful to examine some of the reasons why we may be in this particular form of the collecting doldrums.

Reason # 1: ‘I’ve gone about as far as I can go’ For most of us this actually means ‘I’ve spent about as much as I can spend and still feed the family, run the car, pay the mortgage etc’ I suspect this happens to all of us sooner or later!

Reason # 2: I just can’t find those last few items I’ve been searching for for years’ and I may tear what’s left of my hair out!

Reason # 3: I’ve become bored collecting this country/theme

Reason # 4: I can no longer afford to collect this country/theme as I now have to buy 10,000 stamps a year just to keep up with the new issues!

Now, all of these are valid reasons to stop what you’re collecting, at least for a time. Don’t forget collecting is supposed to be fun after all. But I’d like to suggest some alternatives to throwing your hands up & closing your albums for good.

First of all there are a few obvious choices.

Covers and Postal HistoryFor me, the first things that spring to mind are postal history and revenues, perhaps of the countries that you already collect. The thought of collecting postal history can be a bit daunting at first, but don’t let that put you off. Collecting postal history can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be. If you are planning to develop a collection to display competitively at state, national or even international level, then there are certain rules that you’ll need to follow. But let’s face it, the vast majority of us are unlikely to pursue those lofty heights, and we are going to collect what and how we like! So you could try to collect some early (or recent, you’ll

Fig 1: A US 2c ‘Banknote’ issue on an 1870s advertising cover

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probably find that more of a challenge!) covers from your favourite country, showing different stamps from a particular set, issue or time period that you can find or can afford.Fig 1 This type of collection may form the groundwork of a ‘usage’ collection of the type that Rod Perry talks about in his fascinating Woodchip Free Zone Stamp News column, if you wish to head in that direction. Or you may wish to form a more traditional collection that shows the various mail rates and routes, or perhaps a military theme with field post office, censorship or POW markings, or covers from the 1930’s bearing only blue coloured stamps! Or covers that simply have a real visual appeal for you. The possibilities are pretty much endless.

RevenuesRevenues are also a great option. Virtually every country has issued them so there are plenty to choose from. You may wish to stay ‘close to home’ and pursue the revenue stamps of the countries you already collect. In my opinion, some revenue issues are far more attractive than the contemporary

postage stamps of the same country. Fig 2 shows a small selection of revenues from Victoria, WA, Canada and the USA, each one a lovely miniature work of art. Here in Australia, each colony/state has issued it’s own revenues, and there is also a smaller range of Commonwealth issues to consider. One of the most often encountered Commonwealth types, seen in ‘schoolboy’ type collections etc, are the Customs duty stamps Fig 3. These are attractive bi-coloured stamps from the early 1900’s that were usually sold in London or New York (but could be used in any country) to pay a duty on advertising material coming in to Australia. A page of these can really add a bit of zing to your philatelic life!

Revenues are also very affordable. Should you decide to collect US 19th century issues for example, the vast majority would cost you less than $5 each (in fact, most would be under $1). As with their postage paying cousins, there are some revenues that are very expensive, but these are the

Fig 2: A small selection of revenues

Fig 3: Australian 11d Customs Duty

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The Emerald Isle Revisited

exception rather than the rule. Revenue collecting was

largely neglected for much of the 20th century, one reason being that there was a lack of catalogue listings and other information available (the USA was a notable exception because the Scott catalogue, which is the main one used there, has always had a very comprehensive listing of all federal revenue issues). In the last 30 years or so this has been remedied to some extent with publications such as Barefoot’s revenue catalogues which cover issues of GB, the British Commonwealth and much of Europe. Australia has also been well covered with several catalogues and monographs being published, not to mention fellow Stamp News columnist Dave Elsmore’s magnificent free on line catalogue ‘Australia and New Zealand Revenue and Railway Fee Stamp Catalogue’ All of these information resources are available to you if you decide that revenue collecting is the ways to go.

Before I move on from revenues, I think there is one other big plus for the revenue collector, and that is, probably more than in any other area of philately, there’s a great chance to find something new and previously unrecorded. Just have a look at a few of Dave’s monthly columns and you’ll see what I mean! It seem that new finds are being reported just about every month. The next find could be made by you!

Switch around!Another idea is that if you only collect by country, consider trying a theme, or visa versa. Sometimes the country that you already collect may lead you into a logical theme. For example, I collect early USA and I’ve been interested in the American Civil War since I was young, so for a while, when reason # 1 above reared it’s ugly head, I put together a small thematic collection based on the 20th century Civil War commemorative issues. Or perhaps stamps depicting another interest that you have. I have a friend who collects antique firearms, and has also put together a

collection of stamps showing flintlocks and similar guns. And, as with any thematic subject, your collection can be as specific or as broad as you like.

Some other ideas…Postmark collecting is already well established and very popular, but you might want to do something a bit different like just collecting postmarks from the city or area where you live, or datestamps showing your birthday. I know of a collector whose goal is to get a postmark on an Australian stamp for each day of World War I

I recently spoke to a collector who collects world stamps issued in the year he was born. The collecting of catalogue ‘number 1’s’ from different countries (ie: SG1 for Australia is the ½d green ‘roo) already has a strong following, but how

Fig 4: US Plate number coil, plate # at lower right

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about collecting ‘number100’s’? Probably wouldn’t put such a strain on the bank balance!

US plate number coils (PNC’s) are another thing that I find are fun to collect. Starting with the Transportation issue of the early 1980’s, US coil stamps have had a tiny plate number (or numbers) located at the base of one stamp every 15 or so stamps in each roll. Fig 4 In the US they are usually collected in Mint strips of 3 or 5, with the plate # on the stamp in the centre. I collect them as used singles, and you’d be amazed how many I find on exchange sheets for just a few cents. I’m not sure how many I need (the Transportation issue alone has nearly 50 different designs, not counting the numerous printing variations etc), but that’s part of the fun for me. I’m sure one day I’ll get around to checking the catalogue to see what I still need to get, but for now they just go on stock sheets until I get a chance.

Collecting by stamp designer is another thought. Some collect stamps produced by a certain printer.

How about a couple suggestions for recent Australian issues you could collect: Koala & kangaroo reprints used are worth considering, as are used personalised stamps Fig 5 . I must admit that the latter is something that I enjoy collecting myself. When I started my collection of these ‘P’ stamps I imposed a couple of rules on myself: Try to obtain just one example of each stamp that has been available to the general public to be personalised (there have been dozens since 1999), and only collect the stamps/tabs that are not available directly over the post office counter (ie: not SES sheet or AFL/NRL issues etc). I’ve since adjusted the first rule and I now aim for each stamp personalised in three different ways: a person, a pet,

and a company /organization name or logo, and I have to admit a couple have snuck in that break my second rule. My rules – I can break ‘em if I want! And it’s all great fun!

Well, I hope there’s an idea here that helps you out of the ‘blues’. You may have noticed a common denominator running through most of these suggestions: they are more of a challenge than the more usual ‘fill the gaps’ collecting. Let’s face it, going to the post office or new issue dealer to collect your stamps gets a bit tired after a while, and I firmly believe that venturing into a collecting area that presents you with a bit of a challenge will re-invigorate your interest.

So now it’s up to you. Go on, try something new, something different. I’d like to hear what you come up with, as I’m sure other readers would. You can reach me at mlphilatelics@bigpond.com or via Stamp News

Until next month, happy collecting!

Fig 5: Australian ‘P’ stamp

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Revenue Review

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Turn it Over!In Revenue Review May 09 I reported on the scarce U.R.T & S.S.T. provisional overprints on New South Wales Wages Tax issues. To my amazement a phone call from well known and much loved collector Bill Harley of Dubbo in New South Wales bought about a complete new find. Bill went on to say “Hi Dave another great Revenue Review column of yours” [this was unpaid, by the way!] Bill carried on to say “I went to my Wages Tax album and opened it lining it up with your picture in the May edition and noticed I had a copy with the wording the wrong way around [fig 1] I nearly fell off my chair”. He continued to say “this wording error can be found on some values of the very first & second issue only”. My first thought was that Bill had been at the turps again! One has to remember this issue has been in albums for over 75 years and obviously not

a single collector in all this time has bothered to turn them over! Well done on your new find Bill.

I am guessing as you are all reading this you now have one hand on Stamp News and the other is reaching out for the Wages Tax album to see if you have any of these. I have made contact with a few collectors, and some have answered ‘none’ while others have just not bothered to answer which is a shame. Still if they don’t want to play that’s over to them.

At the time of writing this Bill has now recorded; no date, complete copies 1d, 3d & 10/-. Top half no date 1d, 3d & 5/- bottom half no date 1d. And dated ‘35’ for 1934-35 tax year top half 1d. That’s it, so I am hoping you will be letting me know of further finds which I will report here. My guess is this was picked up early in the printing and corrected. Now I know why some of my documents have the top half on and some have

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Dave Elsmorethe bottom half on, this must have confused employers of the time. Bill confused me for a while but I am told that is quite normal!

UpdatesWell known Melbourne collector Gary Diffen has come up with no fewer than five imperf pairs [sg77b] of the Tasmanian 1/- of which I mentioned in the March Revenue Review. One pair is postally used [fig 2] the other 4 fiscally used. Many thanks for sharing Gary. I have spoken about South Australian embossed issues before, and early copies rarely turn up so I was surprised when one of our youth collectors James A of Sydney, made contact with me with some from his collection. Included in James’s collection were fine strikes of an unrecorded Lilac VR & ER of 1900 & 1901. James also turned up an earlier date by one year to 1903 for the purple colour. All of these I would like to record here. James kindly let me add these to my FREE on line catalogue of South Australian Revenues. I should add, even my offer of a full box of Mars bars could not budge James into a swap! Well done James, enjoy your super finds and keep that collection in good order. As promised more New South Wales revenue gems, fig 3 shows a very nice pair of QV 2/- imperf vertically between with left imperf, so we could have a vertical imperf or a vertical imperf between pair, you choose. Maybe you have a pair? If so please share it here.

Revenues on ShowThe latest National Stamp Show is being held at Melbourne Park Function Centre during 23-26 July 09. This is a must for all Revenue collectors to attend, not only do you get to view some good quality revenues inc. my first time out South Australia.

You will also get to meet & greet me! I will be happy to appraise your stamps and answer any questions you may have. If you have any complaints can I suggest you go to Myers in the high street as they have a large complaints department and will be happy to listen to you.

More New FindsInternet site eBay again continues to turn up new finds. This time a very nice Newcastle Customs clearance

adhesive. I have listed a “Port of Newcastle” but have not seen fig 4. This came from Canada of all places. Next was a very nice decimal promise note from Queensland in the ‘freaks’ category [fig 5]. Black in colour and is the first I have seen in this design, and yes, you need to check the freaks page from time to time.

NSW Beer provisionalThis will be the fifth new find I am about to report in this column, just in this issue, so if you are reading this and do not collect revenues you can see the fun to be had with plenty of new research projects on the go and new finds by the month.

OK this has to be one of the better finds of this year a New South Wales beer duty provisional “Deface the Stamp when Tapping Cask or you are liable to a heavy fine” in a boxed rubber stamp on an 1891 issue. I would like to record this here. A much more attractive issue is the very first NSW beer’s of 1887. Is it just me or does this really grab you. This tri colour 15d [fig6] font just reels me in. This 15d made ‘Revenue of the month’ of May on ‘The Revenue Society’ [UK based] web site and a true contender for Revenue of the year in my book!

Queensland PostmarksAside from my love of collecting revenues, I enjoy collecting ‘straight’ stamps of the Australian States in particular Queensland. An off shoot of this is the numeral postmarks from both the Railway Stations & Post Offices. Another well known Melbourne collector is Bernie Manning who has just self published “Queensland Numeral Cancellations” this A4 250+ colour page book is a must for the numeral collector. This is the first in a series Bernie has planned which eventually will cover all the postmarks of Queensland. Well done Bernie on this fine work, I look forward to your next edition in this series.

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Birch twigs, hot air and cold water!

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In the late 1970s, I spent a year studying German at the University of Umeå in the north of Sweden. Many of the students came from neighbouring Finland. We soon discovered that our student home had a sauna in the basement. After a tough day at the university it was a relief to spend an hour in the sauna. The only problem was to keep the beer cold….

Sauna baths can be found all over the world today but most people associate the sauna with Finland. Nowhere else in the world can you find as many saunas as in Finland. Some sources claim that there are two million saunas in the country – not bad for a nation with a population of just 5.3 million people.

Finland is a country which has an incredible amount of lakes and most Finns like to build their sauna next to a lake.

A sauna is basically a small wooden hut with a stove which is used to heat the room where there are benches for the bathers to sit. From time to time water is splashed onto the hot stones on top of the stove to create a steamy environment. The temperature in the sauna sometimes reaches as much as 60-100º C.

In Finland, bathers use freshly collected leafy silver birch twigs to beat their bodies gently as this apparently improves the cleansing process.

Some bathers enjoy a swim in the nearby lake after a session in the sauna. This is something people do even in the winter when the lakes are covered by ice. The bathers simply make an opening in the ice to allow them a quick plunge into the freezing-cold water.

The habit of enjoying sauna baths has spread to many parts of the world. Strangely enough, one of the world’s major manufacturers of home sauna baths is located in this writer’s home town of Halmstad, Sweden. Called Tylöbastu, this Swedish company has a record of continuous expansion to new markets evidencing the worldwide interest in this way of cleaning your body.

A friend of mine has built his own portable sauna which he can easily bring along whenever he is travelling in Sweden.

You cannot be shy if you want to visit a sauna as men, women and children generally bath at the same

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Finland Red Cross semi-postals from 1949

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time. I recall a visit to a hotel in Swedish Lapland. After a long day of skiing in the mountains we all looked forward to a hot sauna bath. There were two doors clearly marked MEN and WOMEN but they both led to the same sauna. You can of course use a towel to cover your body but that is normally not the case.

In 1949, Finland released a set of four semi-postal stamps in aid of the Red Cross. The 5 + 2 mk value shows a young woman preparing the birch twigs. The 9 + 3 mk denomination illustrates the interior of the sauna. In the upper right corner we see a bather using the twigs.

A typical Finnish sauna is depicted on the 15 + 5 mk stamp. Finally on the 30 + 10 mk top value we see a couple of bathers running to the lake for a refreshing swim.

This has always been one of my favourite Finnish stamp sets as it tells so much about Finnish culture.

On May 6, 2009, the Finnish postal service apparently felt the need to depict the traditional sauna in a more modern fashion. Using photographs from a variety of sources, Päivi Vainionpää has designed a most interesting set which was released as a five-stamp self-adhesive booklet. He has included the birch twigs and a pile of fresh towels, a couple of

scenes from a sauna, a sauna located next to a lake and a close-up of a bunch of twigs.

The stamps are issued as first-class stamps and a complete booklet sells for four euros (5 x 0.80 euro). It is hard to know how to handle this kind of booklet stamps in mint condition. I guess collectors will have to display the stamps as a complete booklet. In used condition the stamps can of course be treated as normal stamps.

There is a time span of 60 years between these two issues. Which issue do you like best? As I am somewhat old-fashioned I very much prefer the 1949 beautifully engraved stamps. Somehow I feel that they capture the Finnish sauna a lot better than the modern versions.

Years ago I wrote a story about the 1949 issue for a stamp magazine in the USA. I mentioned that many of the major cities today have saunas catering for the gay community. I suggested that these saunas were perhaps not the ideal place to bring your family.

Much to my surprise a reader accused me of homophobia in a letter to the editor but I guess he never really read my story. As explained above many families in rural Finland have their own sauna and taking a bath is probably many Finns’ way of passing quality time with the rest of the family.

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Cinderella Corner

Top: Figs 1 & 2Left: Fig 3

Right: Fig 4

JerseyThese two stamps are part of a group sent to me by Mark Madison. (Fig 1 and 2). I don’t know anything about them, but a Google search brought up a Wikipedia item that identifies ETATS DE JERSEY as the Parliament of Jersey but these stamps have the inscription in French and the currency is also expressed as French currency. Can anyone enlighten us? (These are actually Revenues - easily available in the UK - Ed.)

Jack DaveyThis is a Jack Davey (New Zealand born 1940-1950’s Australian radio star) Cinderella advertising Greys cigarettes. (Fig 3). It is on a cover dated 28 September 1955 and the return address was Godfrey Phillips who from memory marketed Greys cigarettes. In today’s politically correct society cigarette advertising is strictly a

no no, but I think Greys have been so long gone it doesn’t really matter.

The following is an edited extract from Wikipedia.

Jack Davey was born John Andrew Davey on 8 February 1907 and educated at Kings College Auckland. Davey was the second son of Union Steam Ship Company captain Arthur Henry Davey and his wife Ella May, née Hunter.

After leaving school, Davey worked in the haberdashery department of a large store. He was also variously a signwriter, used car salesman and assistant stage theatre manager. His father, despairing of his son’s future, took him to sea, in an attempt to establish a career for his son. After being given the hardest, most unpleasant jobs aboard ship, Jack decided the life of a sailor was not for him.

Jack Davey arrived in Sydney in 1931 aboard

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Figs. 5, 6, 7

his father’s ship, and decided to stay in Australia. He worked as a crooner on radio station 2BL, but his real career began when he was hired by Sydney radio station 2GB. Jack went on to host numerous radio shows in the 1930s, 40s and 50s.

He took part in the REDEX Car trials in the 1950s until illness prevented him from further participation.

Ignoring his doctors’ advice to ease his workload, Jack seemed to throw himself into work with even greater gusto. 1955 saw the introduction of a new show “Go for Greys”, sponsored by the makers of Greys cigarettes. At the same time he was working on the “Ampol Show”, “Give it a Go”, and other programs.

Davey’s health began to suffer, and once again the Macquarie Network called in the doctors. Their advice was the same as it had always been - a reduced workload and rest, something Jack

wasn’t about to agree to.In 1957 he added television to his workload,

with three regular programs for Sydney station ATN 7. Working on his radio programs all week, Jack spent his Saturdays on production of his TV programs. The workload grew even further in 1958, when 2GB reintroduced him to breakfast radio, in an attempt to counter the popularity of television. But for Jack Davey, time was running out. X-Rays revealed a small cancer in his right lung, but Jack went on with his work, including a trip to the United States to look at advances in television. Further tests, several weeks later, revealed the cancer had grown, and Davey was moved to hospital.

Jack Davey died at St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst on 14 October 1959, the same day that another larger-than-life Australian character, Errol Flynn died.

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Cinderella Corner

Were there any other Jack Davey or radio star cinderellas, or tobacco cinderellas?

IsraelAnother of Mark’s queries. This is an unknown Israeli stamp, at least it is unknown to me. (Fig.4). It looks like it has been cancelled on cover. With an aeroplane illustrated, it may be an airmail stamp and therefore not a Cinderella, but what is it? What was it for? What is the plane illustrated? Information please.

Neal LabelsNew England Airways Limited operated in Northern New South Wales and these labels were issued as a form of advertising. A number of airline companies issued labels as a form of publicity in the late 1930s and up into the 1950s. (Fig 5). This Adelaide Airways label was issued

for a similar purpose and dates from about 1937. (Fig 6).

Motor Transfer.This stamp, (fig. 7), is actually a revenue issue and although my rather dated copy of the Handbook of Victorian Revenue Stamps does not give any reason for its use my guess is that it was used to denote the fee paid on the transfer of ownership of a motor vehicle. The handbook indicates that its period of use was 1930 to 1966. The half crown or 2/6 was the only value issued.

War ChestI illustrated one of these war chest stamps in the May column and Maris Lee sent me a scan of all twelve in the set which I have included here. (Fig. 8).

Fig 8

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STAMPS PRINTED ON PAPER - BORING?As postal marketing departments around the world strive to outdo each other - and sell more and more stamps to us collectors, the variety of materials on which stamps are produced just grows. As the trend towards stamps being mainly collectables and not for use on mail, its likely that the odd-ball products of recent history will attract non-stamp collectors to acquire. The traditional collector may turn up a nose at some more novel items, but we must all move with the times. After all, those who persisted with the unfashionable stamps of earlier times have been proved short-sighted. Like Cinderellas (Ugh! Album weeds!)...Tanna Touva (Yes, finally proved used au-thentically) and Lundy Island (these stamps are now permitted to beaffixed to the front of envelopes.)

Was it Tonga’s 1963 gold foil stamps which started it all? Bhutan is a leader in philatelic in-novation with its earlier 3D appearance plastic stamps and then more recently, stamps which are also CD-roms. We have seen stamps print-ed on steel, aluminium foil, silver leaf, polyester film, and timber veneer. Italy used silk in 2001, and appro-priately, the printing process was silk screen. Several countries have issued embroidered stamps, too.

Two other exciting dimensions which have emerged in stamp design in recent years have been perfume and embedding. We have seen - sorry, smelled - scented stamps smelling of chocolate, roses, coffee and even burnt wood; Brazil issued a block of 4 stamps in 1999 on forest fire prevention, on recy-cled paper smelling of burnt timber. Gibraltar showed the way in 2002 by embedding tiny bits of the Rock ; then Thailand inserted pieces of rock in the 2007 rock formations set. Meanwhile Russia issued a Davis Cup souvenir sheet in 2003 with clay particles on the surface, and Nauru used minute particles of timber from Nelson’s flagship HMS Victory in the 2005 Bat-

tle of Trafalgar anniversary $1.50 stamp. Not to be outdone, in 2006 Austria issued a souvenir sheet with embedded meteorite dust.

There’s also been the UAR 2005 pearl diving issue with pearl halves attached to each stamp, and Austria’s sheet with a dozen tiny faceted Swarovski crystals But the latest innovation is a stamps booklet issued by Finland this year about saunas, with tiny scent capsules on the surface which when rubbed, yield a pleasant aroma of birch leaves. Rubbing, by the way, reminds me of the New Zealand issue of scratch-it stamps. I never did win anything, and its not clear whether this issue is considered ‘mint’ if the panel has been scratched!

Does all this suggest we need a small sideline col-lection of the weird and wonderful? To this could perhaps be added the ugliest stamps in the world - like Liberia’s na-tive masks issue.

Of course, if you want to stick with paper-based stamps, there are the Latvi-an stamps printed on German army maps..... stamps used as currency in

some countries... I seem to remember stamps printed on tissue paper, and peel and stick stamps where one must save the backing paper also as it bears inscrip-tions. And some countries have had issues where you just MUST save two copies, to show the printing on both face and reverse. (Hey, wasn’t that why HINGES were invented?) Examining paper types brings us back closer to traditional philately, with papers react-ing different ways to UV light - seems we have gone the full circle in looking at the unusual in stamps.

UNUSED STAMPS - NEITHER ONE THING OR THE OTHER.It seems that the more the postal stream is mechanised and automated, the more we will have uncancelled stamps reaching us. Re-gumming fools no-one and does not satisfy us ourselves, and in the unused state,

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stamps are avoided by other collectors in exchange or for sale. As the high risks involved in re-use of uncancelled Australian stamps salvaged from the mail become more widely realised, the number of lots of bulk’ unused’ appearing in auction catalogues is less-ening.

How about seeking a post office sales clerk who will apply light cancels to these ‘per favor’? In USA, its easier because of the existence of mute cancel-lers - postmarkers which have no date or place name in the design. Do not ask for overseas stamps to be cancelled at Australia Post - you will get an inevita-ble and proper refusal, and lets face it, postmarks of one country on stamps of another should be limited to paquetbot and similar special needs. But you are entitled to ask that Australian stamps be cancelled at your local P.O.

MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENTS - COULD PHILATELY HELP ?Motorcycles are in the news a lot these days - with a disproportionate percentage of road accidents involv-ing them, and the rather sensational Press coverage about bikie gangs and their activities. In USA there is a Motorcycle Awareness Week held in early May each year, and a number of US Postal Service outlets offer different designs of cancels featuring motorcycles. This year, two locations even featured illustrations of tri-wheelers. Would such an observance and associ-ated postmarks help reduce the fatalities involving motorcycles in Australia? Worth a try! And since Aus-tralia Post are major users of motorcycles for deliver-ies, perhaps a special stamp issue too ?

MORE FOR YOUR STAMPS VOCABU-LARYBoth expressions featured here are from Great Britain. Mileage marks are the numbers, usually preceding a town name on an early postmarker, signifying the mileage from London to the post town. These were introduced into the British mail system in 1784 - at a time when usually the recipient paid the postage. By 1787 postmarkers had been altered so that the ‘mile-age mark’ appeared on a second line, under the place name. These are hard to find, as they were phased out after 5 years, due to inaccuracy. A new set of mileage

mark annotated hand-stamps were issued in 1801, re-sulting from a a new survey of roads. Scotland did not use mileage marks until 1808. But overall, there are thousands of the marks to watch out for, and although phased out when uniform postage came about in 1839, there were still some in use in the 1850s.

Post & Go is the name the GB Royal Mail have given to the new computer-produced non-denomi-nated self-adhesive stamps bearing the Machin QEII head available from self service kiosks at 80 post of-fices. Collectors are already using an alternative name - ‘faststamps’. The labels measure 60mm by 72mm, and will create a totally new field of interest for the Machin collector.

ANTARCTIC BASESIf you customarily collect Australian Antarctic Terri-tory stamps (colloquially ‘AAT’) as a natural sideline to Australia, you should give some thought to also collecting covers at least from the 40 or so countries which have bases in the Antarctic. Be prepared to send an International Reply Coupon (IRC) with a self-addressed cover, to the other bases - find their addresses by Googling - and wait many months for a reply, as supply ships don’t go and return that often. For readers who don’t have the ability or opportunity to Google, let me know, and perhaps I can assemble a list of addresses for an SAE from you.

You will be amazed at how much activity occurs down there by so many interested Governments.

CAN MAJOR ERRORS STILL CREEP THROUGH ?The sophistication of modern security printing tech-niques is echoed by tougher than ever checking proce-dures - so can stuff ups still occur ?

A publicity blurb for Malaysia’s Unique Birds miniature sheet looked fine until it was noted that the scientific name of the featured bird was misspelt. A timely intervention to alter the black plate, and pro-duction started. But the intervention had accidentally removed the country name and year! This in turn was not noticed until several days after the miniature sheet went on sale. As many as 10,000 sheets could have escaped.

Which all goes to show that even with modern new issues, your scrutiny can sometimes bring rewards.

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This month’s letter is another of those chatty family letters, which throw a light on life in the previous centuries.

It was written by a son living at Sibton Hall to his mother in Colchester. It has only two postal markings, t he unda ted c i r cu la r YOXFORD (a post office which has an annual income of less than £1000) and the manuscript charge mark of ‘7’ indicating a single letter carried over a distance of between 30 and 50 miles. Yoxford was 93 miles from London and Colchester 51, so the difference was 42 miles. The paper is a good quality cream, but has no watermark.

The address panel (Fig.1) appears to be :Mrs. Errington, The Casnid, Colchester Essex.

Above this address are the initials T.R.E., which appear to be the initials of the sender. Maybe be wanted his mother to know who had written the letter, so that she knew she could pay the 7d to receive it!

I have been unable to trace any place in Colchester called The Casnid, so unless it has been demolished, perhaps I have deciphered it incorrectly. The ‘7’ charge has been written through the address, which makes it difficult to be sure. However, I had better luck with the address of the writer. Not only is there a website for this place ‘Sibton Park’,

but I have friends in that part of England who very kindly went there and took photos for me. (fig.2)

Now to the letter, which begins with his concern for his mother’s health, and then continues about his wife’s health. (Fig.3)

“Sibton Park Jan: 10: 1834

My dearest MotherYou wish to have some

account dear Fanny’s health, and had she herself been well enough she would have given

you a line and would have explained her case better than I can; particularly as I have only a few moments to do it in. Let me however first say how concerned I am to hear that you are again worse, as I had flattered myself from the account you gave of yourself in your affectionate letter to me that, you were gaining ground; this weather is a great draw back to invalids, and I

trust a change may effect you for the better.

Fanny has had within this week a return of the inflammation of stomach wh. Formerly two years ago, attacked her, and has been suffering much in consequence. Dr. Wilson who has been attending her twice a day, pronounces her to be gradually mending, though he says she will be thrown back most considerably by this attack - She does not keep her bed and her spirits are tolerably good. She is much pulled down and looks very poorly. The children

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have been ill from the water pox – but are doing well.”

(Note: I had not heard of the ‘water pox’, but have since found out that it is a form of Chicken Pox or Varicella).

He then continues with local information, including a comment about oysters, which shows that they had been sent, obviously by carrier, presumably from Colchester. He finishes with affectionate greetings to everyone.

“Ambrose and Hodgson left us last Saturday. I go tomorrow & Blunt next day or Monday. I shd like to see Hal, on his return to Sibton.

The Oysters were excellent & Robt begs to thank my Father who I am glad to hear is all right again.

Eliza quite well and good - Best love from all to my Father & Fred & Hal, and trusting my dearest mother that you may be gaining ground.

I am, your very affect son, T R Errington”.

Another of the photos sent by my friends was of the Yoxford Post Office, (Fig. 4), and also the local inn (Fig.5) which is a very attractive old building, showing the gateway through which the coaches would

enter the premises. When they went there they found that Sibton is a small rural village that has almost been submerged into Peasenhall, famous for supplying the Queen Mother with bacon and ham, and the infamous Red Barn murder.

They were able to contact the present-day owners of Sibton Hall, and gave them a copy of this letter for their records. The owners found it most interesting, and gave me the following information – including a comment about the Aussies sporting prowess.

“Thank you for your letter. I don’t have any details of that family and they are not as far as I can recall,

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mentioned on the transfer documents when my great-great-great-grandfather bought Sibton Park in 1840. The letter is dated 1834 so they predated our time here but they may also of course have lived in one of the houses or cottages that were part of the estate at that time. There were about 60 of these at the time we purchased the property.

It is interesting how these things turn up from time to time. I had a letter recently from an Australian who lives I think in Sale, Victoria, who had come across some photos and a letter from here mailed in the 1870’s. It turned out to have come from the neighbouring estate, Sibton Abbey.

Perhaps the Australians are getting serious about their roots instead of just mocking our sports teams.”

I had not heard of the Red Barn murder, but found out that the story as reported in Gill Elliott’s “Hidden Suffolk” was rather sad. In June 1902 Rose Harsent a maid at Providence House, who was pregnant, was brutally murdered in the Red Barn. The finger of suspicion fell on William Gardiner, a married man, father of six children, and a member of the Primitive Methodist church, as was the late Rose. He was arrested at his house less than 200 yards from the scene. An inquest was held at the Swan Inn; an

adjourned hearing took place at the assembly room and he was committed to trial at Ipswich where H.F.Dickens, son of the famous author, was one of the prosecution team. The police bungled their investigation, witnesses were shown to be unreliable and the jury acquitted Gardiner. At the anniversary of her death the skies are said to darken. Rose was buried in the churchyard close to the path to the church door, although the author was unable to find the grave.

The research for each of my letters always seems to lead me to some new interesting facts. It is not possible for me to be bored with postal history.

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On Tuesday 9 June, Australia Post will join in the festivities of Queensland’s 150th anniversary celebrations with the release of two stamps that honour the significant contribution the sunshine state has made to Australian life and the way its history, places and achievements have helped shape its identity.

From the spectacular natural beauty of the Great Barrier Reef and Queensland outback, to iconic symbols such as the windmill and Queensland Parliament House, Australia Post has endeavoured to capture the essence of Queensland in this commemorative stamp issue.

Fittingly, the poem “Waltzing Matilda” written by Banjo Paterson typifies the spirit of early Queensland settlement. It was during Banjo Paterson’s visit in 1895 to Dagworth Station near the Queensland outback town of Winton, that Christina Macpherson set the words of “Waltzing Matilda” to music. Amazingly, the resultant ballad is still being sung by Australians today.

“As Queenslanders, this is something to really hang our hat on, celebrating the impact and legacy Waltzing Matilda has made to Australian life over the past 150 years,” said Helen Brodie, Commercial Manager Queensland, Australia Post.

“Australia Post has been part of Queensland community life for 150 years and we’re delighted to tell the Queensland story via this stamp issue, and in doing so highlight historical events and places such as the iconic ballad “Waltzing Matilda”, the stunning Cape Tribulation beach where the reef meets the rainforest, right down to the red-eyed tree frog,” she added.

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has welcomed the historic initiative of Australia Post to kick start the “Queensland 150 Years” celebrations in Queensland Week.

“In such an important week in Queensland’s history, it is a great tribute to have a national institution such

Australia Post stamps Queensland 150

celebrations to the tune of Waltzing

Matilda!

as Australia Post recognise the state of Queensland and its many wonderful achievements and qualities in such a way,” said Premier Anna Bligh.

“What a perfect way to cap off a wonderful week of celebrations in Queensland than to see our great state up in lights around the nation on a series of stamps.”

Since its beginnings on the 6th June, 1859 when a population of just 23,520 people celebrated the birth of the new colony of Queensland, the state has evolved enormously over 150 years, to a point when on Saturday 6 June 2009 over 4.3 million people enjoyed Queensland Day celebrations.

The two stamps – 55c and $2.75 – were designed by Sally Piskuric of the Australia Post Design Studio.

Other products include first day covers, a mini-sheet, a maxicard set and a stamp pack. The issue is available at participating Australia Post outlets, via mail order on 1800 331 794 or online at www.auspost.com.au/stamps from 9 June 2009 while stocks last.

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Educator, scholar, feminist and activist Anna Julia Cooper (c.1858-1964), who gave voice to the African-American community during the 19th and 20th centuries — from the end of slavery to the beginning of the Civil Rights move-ment — was immortalized on postage on 11 June 2009.

Cooper, best known for her groundbreaking collection of essays and speeches, A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South, also exhibited educational leadership, most notably challenging the racist notion that African Americans were naturally inferior.

The U.S. Postal Service dedicated the stamp today at Washington, DC’s Paul Laurence Dunbar High School (previously M Street High School and the Preparatory High School for Colored Youth), where Cooper taught math and science and ultimately served as principal.

“Anna Julia Cooper once said, ‘The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class — it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of human-ity.’ Her actions to support these memorable words dur-ing her life are the reason the Postal Service has chosen Ms. Cooper as the subject of the 32nd stamp in the Black Heritage series,” said Delores Killette, vice president and Consumer Advocate.

“Cooper wasn’t subdued by the color of her skin, her gender, her lack of opportunity, or lack of wealth,” Killette added. “She held an instinctive awareness that by virtue of being human, she was entitled to freely know the world and participate in everything it had to offer. This is what ignited the cause of freedom in Anna Julia Cooper.”

Joining Killette in dedicating the stamp were Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, (D) District of Columbia, Univer-sity of Maryland English Professor Carla L. Peterson, 2009 Dunbar High School graduate Malik Shabaazz, Dunbar High School Principal Gerald Austin and Washington, DC, Postmaster Yverne “Pat” Moore.

The 44-cent First-Class Anna Julia Cooper commemo-rative stamp features a portrait of her created by Kadir Nelson of San Diego, CA, who based his painting on an undated photograph. Nelson worked under the direction of Art Director Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, MD. All 125 mil-lion stamps, available in sheets of 20, are available nation-wide today.

Anna Julia Cooper BackgroundCooper — who once described her vocation as “the educa-tion of neglected people” — viewed learning as a means of

true liberation.Anna Julia Haywood was born into slavery around

1858 in Raleigh, NC. As a child, she developed a love of learning and wanted to become a teacher. In 1868, she received a scholarship to enter the inaugural class at St. Augustine’s Normal School and Collegiate Institute (now St. Augustine’s College), a local school for Afri-can Americans created by the Episcopal Church and the Freedmen’s Bureau, where she earned part of her tuition by tutoring fellow students. She continued to teach at St. Augustine’s after completing her studies in 1877. That year she married George A.C. Cooper, who was studying for the ministry at St. Augustine’s.

Two years after her husband’s unexpected death in 1879, Cooper enrolled at Oberlin College in Ohio. In 1884 she graduated with a degree in mathematics, becoming one of the first African American women to

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graduate from the school. Cooper returned to Raleigh and taught maths, Greek and Latin at St. Augustine’s until 1887, when she was invited to teach maths and science at the Preparatory High School for Colored Youth (later known as M Street and today as Dunbar High School) in Washington, DC, the largest and most prestigious public high school for African Americans in the nation.

In 1892, Cooper published A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South, the first book-length volume of black feminist analysis in the United States. Cooper explored a variety of topics including race rela-tions, poverty, and gender inequality. Across the con-texts of religion, education, and literature, she examined the place of African Americans, especially women, in American society. “The time is ripe for action,” she wrote, urging all readers to assume an active role in liberating themselves and others from both rac-ism and sexism in order to realize their fullest potential. She encouraged the African American community to take advantage of education and to develop and promote its own folklore, literature, and artistic culture. Well received by black and white critics alike, the collection was regarded as “one of the most readable books on the race question of the South” by the Kingsley Times of Iowa.

Because white women routinely excluded them from the growing feminist movement, Cooper and other black women across the nation began to create clubs and associations in the late 19th century that were dedicated to the interests and well-being of the African American community. In Washington, DC, Cooper helped establish local organizations for women, young people, and the poor that addressed a range of issues in-cluding education, housing, and unemployment. Cooper also used public speaking as a platform for change. In 1893, she spoke about the needs of African American women at the Chicago World’s Fair, and she was one of only two African American women to address the first Pan-African Conference in London in 1900.

In 1902, Cooper became principal of the M Street High School and immediately worked to strengthen the curriculum, which stressed both liberal arts and

vocational training. “We are not just educating heads and hands,” she stated, “we are educating the men and wom-en of a race.” Refusing to use inferior textbooks, Cooper sought to better prepare students for admission to some of the nation’s top colleges and universities, including the Ivy League. Four years later, she was removed from her position under allegations of incompetence and miscon-duct, but more likely because of her steadfast resistance to the racist notion of African Americans’ intellectual inferiority. Cooper then taught languages at Lincoln Uni-versity in Missouri until 1910, when she was invited to return to the M Street High School to teach Latin.

Noted for the breadth of her education, Cooper stud-ied French literature and history for several years before enrolling as a doctoral student at Columbia University

in 1914 while also remaining a full-time teacher. As part of her graduate work, she translated Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne (The Pilgrimage of Charlemagne), a medieval epic poem, from Old French into modern French. However, because of her race, the translation — which was

published in Paris in 1925 — was never published in the U.S. despite the professional recognition it garnered. In 1924, Cooper transferred to the University of Paris, Sorbonne, in France and, in 1925, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, which explored the attitudes of the French toward slavery during the late-18th-century revolutions in France and Haiti. She was only the fourth African American woman in the U.S. to earn a Ph.D. and the first black woman from any country to do so at the Sorbonne.

Cooper retired from teaching at Dunbar High School in 1930 but continued to give lectures, publish essays, and be active in community affairs. During this time, she also served as president of Frelinghuysen University, which offered affordable liberal arts and professional courses for working African Americans in Washington, DC. She retired from her role as president in 1940 but continued to serve Frelinghuysen, which was partly locat-ed in Cooper’s own home for several years. She privately published her memoir, The Third Step, around 1945.

Cooper died in her home at 201 T Street in Wash-ington, DC, on Feb. 27, 1964. She is buried next to her husband in Raleigh, NC.

Anna Julia Cooper becomes 32nd Inductee

“Cooper wasn’t subdued by the color of her skin, her gender, her lack of

opportunity, or lack of wealth,”

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This stamp issue, which is part of the WWF–World Wide Fund for Nature Conservation Stamp Collection, features four of the 14 species of dolphin that have been sighted in Australian waters.

55c Spotted Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops aduncus)This dolphin is characterised by dark spots or flecks on the underside of the body. In Australia this species is found in warm shallow waters from Perth to Port Macquarie, including the well-known tourist site of Monkey Mia in Shark Bay, Western Australia.

$1.35 Hourglass Dolphin (Lagenorhynchus cruciger)The striking Hourglass Dolphin is distinctively marked with large white hourglass-shaped patches on its sides. Vigorous and energetic, it enjoys surfing large waves. The only true polar species in the Southern Hemisphere, it has been seen in Antarctic waters and off subantarctic Heard and Macquarie Islands.

$1.40 Southern Right Whale Dolphin (Lissodelphis peronii)The streamlined Southern Right Whale Dolphin is the only dolphin in Australasian waters that lacks a dorsal fin. It has a black back and white undersides, and has been seen in the deep, cold waters off Tasmania and the Great Australian

WWF: Dolphins of the Australian Coastline

Bight.

$2.05 Dusky Dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obscurus)The Dusky Dolphin is comparatively short and stocky, with a dark back, white belly and throat and grey sides. Known for displays of aerial acrobatics, groups of these entertaining dolphins often follow boats. In Australia this species has been sighted off Tasmania and Kangaroo Island, South Australia.

The WWF Conservation Stamp Collection is the world’s largest thematic stamp collection. Over 165 countries have participated and up to 16 stamp sets are issued each year. Most species depicted are at risk of extinction in the country of issue and in other cases it is the animal’s habitat that is endangered.

The most recent Australia Post WWF stamp issue was the Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT) Royal Penguins in 2007.

Other collectables include a minisheet, first day covers, stamp pack, maxicards, postcards, self adhesive sheetlets and a stamp and medallion cover.

The issue is available at selected Australia Post outlets, via mail order on 1800 331 794 or online at www.auspost.com.au/stamps from 26 May 2009, while stocks last.

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June 12, 2009OTTAWA – Canada Post today issued a domestic rate commemorative stamp in celebration of the centenary of the Boundary Waters Treaty that has guided Canada and the United States in managing their shared boundary waters.Water is the most crucial requirement for life as we know it, and the ability of nations and peoples to share this precious resource is an ongoing chal-lenge for humanity.

“It was a groundbreaking treaty that proved that nations can share rather than fight over water rights,” says Robert Waite, Chairman of the Stamp Advisory Committee and Senior vice president, Corporate Social Responsibility at Canada Post. “The treaty established the International Joint Com-mission (IJC), which was the first permanent Ca-nadian-American body, and continues to settle and prevent disputes over our boundary waters today.”

The unique stamp design is a spectacular combination of images from Niagara Falls. The background depicts a historic sepia-tone image of the American Falls while the foreground shows a modern photo of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls lit up at night in a glorious rainbow of colours. “There’s a remarkable transition as the Falls of yesteryear transform through the mist into the Falls of the present day,” says designer Paul Ha-slip. “It’s a wonderful way to celebrate 100 years of the Treaty.”

“The stamp catches the essence of the falls and in combining the historical, present and future in the design, it signifies the longevity of the Bound-ary Waters Treaty and its present and future use to prevent and resolve disputes over the shared fresh waters of Canada and the United States,” said Canadian IJC Chair, the Rt. Hon. Herb Gray.

The 54-cent stamp measures 36 mm x 36 mm (square) with 13+ perforations. Lowe-Martin printed 2.5 million stamps, which will be sold in panes of 16. The P.V.A. gum stamp will be printed

using lithography in eight colours on Tullis Russell paper. They are general tagged on four sides. The Official First Day Cover will bear the cancel CARD-STON ALBERTA.

While the treaty contains general provisions that apply to all boundary waters, resolutions for disputes in only two specific locations are mentioned in the Treaty, the Niagara River and the St. Mary and Milk Rivers. As the stamp features Niagara, Cardston was chosen as the cancel site because it is the home to the post office closest to where the St. Mary River and the Milk River first flow into Canada.

Additional information about Canadian stamps can be found in the News section of Canada Post’s website, and photos of these new stamps are also available. Stamps and other products will be availa-ble at participating post offices, or can be ordered on-line by following the links at Canada Post’s website www.canadapost.ca/collection, or by mail order from the National Philatelic Centre. From Canada and the USA, call toll-free: 1 800 565-4362, and from other countries, call: 902 863-6550.

Celebrating a centenary of international cooperation in sharing water resources

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Internet & Email DirectoryThe following is an extensive listing of Stamp Dealer and Internet Website contact addresses worldwide. Millions of dollars of stock is priced up ready to sell on these sites. All Dealers may list their contact details here for a very affordable $175 per year fee, prepaid annually or only $17.50 a month. Contact the Advertising Manager on Ph: 03 9752 2677, Fax: 03 9758 2488 , or email: kmorgan@centurynova. com. au

Our web site gives all our current stock and specials so keep looking.bexleystamps@optusnet.com.au

Publishers of Australia’s Gold Medal catalogue series - The Australian Commonwealth Specialists’ Catalogue. Order all volumes on line. Special offers also available. info@brusden-white.com

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

Long-established mail order dealer compre-hensively covering British Isles, Europe, Scan-dinavia, North America, Australasia and Japan. Prompt courteous service and an extensive user-friendly website. sutherlandphil@bigpond.com

Check out our website for selected New Zealand items, NZ mint sets, and “Lord of the Rings” stamps and coversdnstamp@es.co.nz

Comprehensive price lists for more than forty lists using ASC, SG & Scott numbering. By far the largest such lists in the southern hemi-sphere.”pittwaterstamps@ozemail.com.au

Details of NZ Catalogue and NZ Stamp Auc-tions Sales with easy to use directions. Also latest newsletter. isit us and leave your details. acs@nzstamps.com

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

Try us for Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands and Antarctica. Specialising in “Booklets” from Australia, New Zealand, The Pacifics, Great Brit-ain & Channel Island & much more. mjstamps@manfredjunge.com

Regular public auctions of fine and rare stamps and postal history. View our auction cata-logues online and bid with confidence on our secure server. info@millenniumauctions.com

Australia’s only world-class auction house, three times voted “Auction House of the Year” by APTA members. Complimentary catalogues on request. info@prestigephilately.com

www.nzstamps.com

www.bexleystamps.com.au

www.brusden-white.com

www.dunedinstamps.co.nz

www.glenstephens.com

www.manfredjunge.com

www.millenniumauctions.com

www.ozemail.com.au/~pittwaterstamps www.sevenseas.com.au

www.sutherlandphilatelics.com.au

www.prestigephilately.com

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

www.ronbakerstamps.com.auOur website, four years in the making has finally been launched. At this stage it contains Australia, Territories, New Zealand, Great Britain and also Coins. info@ronbakerstamps.com.au

www.goldcoaststamptraders.com.au1000’s of items for sale from mint stamps including varieties to FDC’s, flight covers, postal history, autographs and more. competitive prices, wants lists welcomesales@goldcoaststamptraders.com.au

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Internet & Email Directory

www.premierpostal.com

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

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

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

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

www.stores.eBay.com/VarisellStampBoutiqueWorldwide stamps, covers, postal stationery, inverted centres, postcards, philatelic litera-ture, proofs, specimens, and much more. View over 6,500 items in our easy to use eBay store. Prompt and courteous service.Varisell@aol.com

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A-ONE STAMPS __________________www.aonestamps.com; mgreive@bigpond.net.au ACE STAMP AUCTIONS ___________________________www.acestampauctions.comBIlBy STAMPS & COVErS _______www.bilbystamps.com.au; ann@bilbystamps.com.auCDDSTAMPS ________________ www.cddstamps.com; http://cddstamps.blogspot.comKENNEDy STAMPS P/l www.kennedystamps.com.au; stamps@kennedystamps.com.auKEVIN MOrGAN STAMPS AND COINS ___________________www.kevinmorgan.com.au

kevinmorgan2@live.comMOWBrAyS AUSTrAlIA ___________ Melbourne: mowbraysaustralia@ozemail.com.au

Sydney: mowbraysaustralia@bigpond.comNOrFOlK ISlAND PHIlATElIC BUrEAU _______________________ info@stamps.gov.nfNrG PHIlATElICS _______________ www.nrgphilatelics.com; info@nrgphilatelics.com PACIFIC STAMPS ___________ www.pacificstamps.com.au; info@pacificstamps.com.aurENNIKS PUBlICATIONS ______________________________________www.renniks.comSTAMPS4COllECTOrS __ www.stamps4collectors.net; stamps@stamps4collectors.netSTANlEy GIBBONS UK _______www.stanleygibbons.com; sales@stanleygibbons.co.uk STATUS INTErNATIONAl _______________ www.statusint.com; auction@statusint.comSTEWArT’S STAMP SHOP ___________________ Stewartsstampshop@ozemail.com.auSyDNEy STAMP CENTrE (WESlEy COVEr SErVICE) ___ www.sydneystampcentre.com.au

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

philatelic clubs & societies

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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 7.45 pm, Crestwood Community Centre, Cnr Chapel Lane & Crestwood Dr, Baulkham Hills; POBox 151 Castle Hill NSW 1765China Study Group of PSNSW: Mtg 4th Mon 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301 Cinderella SC: Mtg 2nd Friday, even months; Produces “Cinderellas Australia” and monographs; PO Box 889, Chatswood, NSW 2057Coffs Harbour SC: Mtg 2nd WedEarlwood and District SC:Mtg 1st WedGrafton SC: Mtg 2nd Wed (ex. Dec)Grafton Stampers & Everything Philatelic: Mtg 1st Sun 2pm (ex School Hols). Grafton Baptist Church Hall, Cnr Queen & Oliver Sts. Ph 02 6642 1363. email 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. Imlay Stamp Collectors Soc: Mtg 4th Mon; Ph: 02 6495 7308Kempsey 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); Ph: (02) 4472 7701; email: jnmullin@bigpond.com.au

Morisset and District SC: Mtg 3rd SundayNambucca River PS: Mtg 1st SundayNewcastle PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs, 7.30pm Mayfield Ex-Services Club; 10am 3rd Wed, 48 Mackie Ave, New Lambton, Juniors 11am 3rd Sun, Wallsend Pioneers HallNSW Postcard Collectors Soc: Mtg 1st Wed 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301Northern Suburbs PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs, 7.45pm, Naremburn Library, Central St, Narem-burn off Slade St; Ph: 02 9419 7354Orange Coin and Stamp Club: Mtg Last Tuesday, Market Days Sat APR 30 MAY 1st Ph: 02 6392 6334 (BH), 02 6362 3754.Orchid Stamp Club: Mtg 3rd Sat. (Jan and each 2nd mth)Parramatta PS: Mtg 1st FridayPenrith and District PS: Mtg 1st Thursdays, 8pm, CWA rooms, Baby Health Ctr, Tindale St PO Box 393, Kingswood NSW 2747PHILAS Stamp Auctions: Mtg 2nd Sat Mar,Jul, Nov Ph 02 9264 8301PS of Australia: Mtg 3rd Wed (exDec); Ph 02 9399 7556PS of NSW: Mtg 1st Tues (Philas House), 3rd Tues (Chatswood); Ph: 02 9264 8301Richmond River (Lismore) PS: Mtg 4th ThursdayRoyal Sydney Philatelic Club: Mtg 2nd Tues. (ex Jan); Ph: 02 9264 8301St. George PS: Mtg 1st MonShoalhaven PS: Mtg 2nd Monday (Ex Jan) PO Box 4047, East Nowra 2541. Ph 02 44472976Smithfield SC: Mtg 2nd MonSociety for Polar Philately: 2009 Mtg Dates: Weds May 13th, Jul 8th, Sept 9th, Nov 11th, 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.stamparena.comTamworth PS: Mtg 1st Mon; Market Days 1st Sat. Newsletter editor, Michael de Groot , Pres. Peter Newley. Sec. Graeme Mitchell. PO Box 678, Tamworth NSW 2340 Ph. 02 67664853Taree RSL Club Ltd SC: Mtg 3rd MonThematic Society of Australia: Mtg 3rd WedToronto SC: Mtg 1st WedTuggerah SC: Mtg 4th Sun (ex Dec.)Turramurra SC: Mtg 2nd Monday, 7.45pm. Ph: 9144 4225Twin Towns Stamp Club Inc.: Mtg 1st Monday, 7.30p, Home & Community Centre, Tweed HeadsWagga SC: Mtg 1st Wed (ex Jan) ARCC Building, Tarcutta St, 7.30pm. Secretary: Peter Simpfendorfer Ph:02 6922 3393Willoughby Legion Philatelic Section: Mtg 4th TuesWyong PS: Mtg 3rd Tues, 7.30m. Jim Spence, Sec. Ph 02 4392 7536

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

Alice Springs SC: Meet Informally; PO Box 1529, Alice Springs, NT, 0871. Ph 08 8953 3054Darwin Philatelic Circle: 1st Sun. 10am - 2pm. 53 Flametree Crt, Rosebery; Ph:(08) 8931 2898; PO Box 1624, Palmerston, NT, 0831; Email: Nadine.Tinsley@nt.gov.au-.

Armadale-Kelmscott PS: Mtg 4th Tues; Ph: 0419 954 862Canning SC: Mtg 1st Wed; Ph: 08 9459 7381Daytime SC: Mtg 1st Thurs; 08 9341 3576Eastern Goldfields: Ph: 0413 047 941Ellenbrook SC: Mtg 3rd Wed; Ph: 08 9296 9306Fremantle and District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed, Fremantle Tennis Club House, Parry St, Fremantle at 8pm; Ph: 08 6363 6415Kalamunda SC: Mtg 3rd Wed; Ph: 08 9293 1948Mandurah SC: Mtg 2nd Tues; Ph: 08 9582 9108email: stafford@southwest.com.auNorthern Districts SC: Mtg 2nd Mon(ex Jan); Ph: 08 9342 1989

Philatelic Forum: Mtg 1st Mon (exJan); Ph: 08 9457 0519Rockingham & Kwinana (PS of): Mtg 3rd Tues (NB 2nd in Dec) Pres. John Sutton; Sec. Terry Boyd; PRO Lucie Schokker Ph. 08 9419 1604; email: yiman@openaccess.com.auPS of WA: Mtg 3rd Tues; Ph: 08 9457 0519Stirling PS: Mtg 4th Wed; Anglican Parish Centre, Brompton Rd, Wembley Downs, 7.45pm, Ph: 08 9447 7256The Postmark Circle (WA): Mtg 2nd Mon; Ph: 08 9446 4794Victoria Park SC: Mtg 1st Wed; Ph: 08 9367 3954Wanneroo SC: Mtg 3rd Mon; Ph: 08 9305 3130. Pres: Joe Wedlock

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

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 Mon; Mr Les Revell (Secretary)07 3263 8573; email: desley@mycelebrant.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, Marsden Library, Marsden Park Shopping Centre, 6pm. Ph: 07 3805 9226. Mackay and District PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 07 4942 5433; Maryborough and Wide Bay PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex. Jan). Salvation Army Youth 7 Comm. Hall. Bazaar St Maryborough. Ph: 07 41224708 (see also Hervey Bay)Nanango SC: Mtg 4th Thurs. Ph: 07 4162 2945Philatelic Society of Qld: Mtg 4th Wed 7.30pm,18 Coolcrest St, Wynnum. Ph: 07 3245 5222Queensland Study Group: Sunday bi-monthly 1.00pm meets QPS house. Contact Ph: 07 3396 0846 email: 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 5576 8246Southside 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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July 4 - (1st Sat) 9am - 3pm, Box Hill City Bandrooms, 411 Mid-dleborough Road, Box Hill Vic. (Walking distance from Laburnum Station)July 5 - (1st Sun) Stamp, Coin & Phone Card Fair, Ukrainian Hall, Russell St, Essendon. July 18 - (3rd Sat) Stamps, Coins & Medals Fair - Uniting Church Hall, Boronia Rd, Boronia. Ph: 03 9752 2677 July 19 - (3rd Sun) Stamp, Card - Phone Card Fair, Ormond An-gling Club Hall. Cnr North Road & Queens St, Ormond. Dealers plus huge range activities. Ph: John Thomas 0418 322 315. July 25 - Collectables fair Bendigo & District Coin Club, St Andrews Uniting Church, 24 Myers St, Bendigo. 9am - 4pm Enq: 03 5447 7488July 23-26 - Melbourne Stampshow 2009, Melbourne Park Func-tion Centre, Batman Ave. July 26 - (4th Sun) Stamp, Coin & Phonecard Fair, Jaycees Hall, Silver Grove, Nunawading. 9am-3.30pm.Aug 8 - Bendigo Stamp Fair, St Andrews Uniting Church Hall, 24 Myers St, Bendigo, 10am - 4pm, 12 Dealers, Free entry. Refresh-ments. Ph: 03 5443 0347

July 12 - QStamp Fair, Southside, Mt Gravatt Showgrounds, Memorial Hall, Logan Rd. Free Entry, refreshments. 8.30am - 2pmJuly 13 (2nd Mon) - Gold Coast PS Sale, Rm 1, Southport Comm. Centre, Lawson St, Southport. 11.30am - 2.30pmAug 16 - Caloundra Stamp Fair, Community Hall, Beerwah, 8.30am - 3.30pm, Free admission. Enq: 07 5494 7233

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

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

July 4 - (1st Sat) Northside Stamp Fair. 1st Floor, Car park

Building, Manly-Warringah Leagues Club, cnr Federal

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

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Contributor & Advertiser DeadlinesSeptember 2009 Issue - 1 August 2009

October 2009 Issue - 1 September 2009We reserve the right to repeat advertising from a previous issue if material is

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All prices subject to stock requirements/availability and are subject to change without notice. Call for latest information.

Buy/Sell Multiples, Covers etc. call to discuss Kevin Morgan Stamps & Coins

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15 Years supplying British Commonwealth , Worldwide, Pacifics, Thematics, Australia. P&D Nicholls P.O.Box 172, Glenbrook NSW 2773 04/09

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.

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Collection surplusStamps from Canada,

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Join the exciting Products & Services Directory!Single: 46mm x 24mm $260 per year or $26 per month

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exchangeSend 100 single country & receive 100 Australian. Used other countries available for

exchange also. Ask for your preference. Don Kerr, PO Box 394, Deepdene MC, Balwyn, 3103,

Vic.

GIGANTIC PACKETS Including Individual Countries P&D Nicholls P.O.Box 172, Glen-brook NSW 2773 02 4739 6184 11/08

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

Adelaide’s One Stop Stamp Shop. Buying, Selling + regular Stamp & Coin Auctions. Refer to our Dealers Ad in Products & Services. Stewarts Stamp Shop & Hallmark Auctions Ph [08] 8223 4435.

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Wanted: Book “ British Post Office Numbers 1844-1906” by G.Brumell. Write to J.Wills, 14 Austral St, Nelson Bay, NSW 2315. Ph: 02 49811697 05/09

wanted

Australia, N.Zealand, West Europe, Better earlies at bargain prices. VFU only, some in quantity. Phone 0419 680 824, PO Box 93, Bexley South, 2207-

BUYING AUSTRALIAN & COMMONWEALTH bundleware in quantity. Contact Austral-ian Bulk, P.O. Box 1840, Bacchus Marsh 3340, Victoria. Telephone: (03) 5367 4080 Fax: (03) 5367 4085 Email: ausbulk1@bigpond.com 09/09

FOR SALE: Australia Used on Paper with latest adhesive sheet, High Values. Enquire: Domenic Biviano. Tel: 03 9850 5595; Fax: 03 9850 5593 05/09

FIJI: Stamps, First Flight Covers, Postal History, Stationery, Commercial mail. Hill, 28 Corn-

wall Drive, Elanora, QLD, 4221 05/09

Wanted: Indonesia 1941-49 Issues including Japanese Occupation, Revolutionary Period, Japanese Occupation Labuan, Borneo, malaya, Sarawak; Sets, Singles Collections. Yun

0417 799 137. Pay good price. Contact PO Box 32, Chatswood, NSW, 2087 05/09

Seeking Used Australia Single, pairs, blocks, strips, souvenir sheets. Offer same Canada and worldwide. Stamp per stamp basis, or Scotts Catalogue. Anthony Gari-ano, 179 Waverley Street, Ottawa, Ontario K2P OV5 05/09

Wanted to Buy: Cover with Broome Postmark for consecration of bishop. Dated June

1st 1996, Ring Michael 03 9467 4499 05/09

Australia & Territories, First Day Covers, Packs. Discounted Prices. List sent on request. Joe Schillani, 7 Westhaven Court, Vic, 3116 08/09

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

Wanted: Collecting US Precancels. Send offers with quantity and price to Rick

Aalhuizen, 13 Booth St, Balmain, NSW, 2041 (02) 9810 6272. raalhuizen@bigpond.com

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PENINSULA STAMP CLUB Meets 3rd Wednesday eachh month at

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St George Philatelic Society meets on 1st Monday of each month at the Senior Citizens Centre, 36 George St, Rockdale at 7.30pm. New members and visitors welcome. Contact Sec. PO Box 112, Kogarah, 2217. Ph. 9584 1090 08/08

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