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Richard Juzwin Pty Ltdwww.richardjuzwin.com.au
THIS MONTH’S STAMP OFFERSSTATES:
Lot 01 New South Wales: SG 11 Sydney View 1d Carmine on greyish paper, position 11. Very fine used. $475
Lot 02 South Australia: SG 205 £5 Brown, Perf 10. Fine quality & genuine commercial usage. $725
KANGAROOSLot 03 Kangaroo: SG 2 1st Wmk 1d Carmine Red Die 1 COIL strip of 5. Very fresh & totally Mint unhinged. $275
Lot 04 Kangaroo: SG 3 1st Wmk 2d Grey block of 4, official per-fin “OS NSW”. Seldom seen as a multiple. Plate 2 posn 43+44, 49+50. all stamps Mint lightly mounted. $325
Lot 05 Kangaroo: SG 4 1st Wmk 2½d Indigo. GEM quality Mint unhinged. $295
Lot 06 Kangaroo: SG 5dw 1st Wmk 3d Olive, Die 1, Wmk INVERTED. An outstanding quality stamp in mint very lightly hinged condition. $475
Lot 07 Kangaroo: SG 5e 1st Wmk 3d Olive Die 2. A superb used stamp with elusive MELBOURNE presentation cancellation. $225
Lot 08 Kangaroo: SG 06 1st Wmk 4d Orange, large ‘OS’, vivid colouring & mint unhinged. $750
Lot 09 Kangaroo: SG 011 1st Wmk 2/- Brown Large ‘OS’, brilliantly fresh & MUH. $2,275
Lot 10 Kangaroo: SG 14 1st Wmk 10/- Pink & Grey. A stamp of outstanding quality. Mint unhinged. $6,250
Lot 11 Kangaroo: SG 14 1st Wmk 10/- Grey & Pink. Presents nicely & MLH. $1,150
Lot 12 Kangaroo: SG 14 1st Wmk 10/- Grey & Pink. A clean & fresh example of a “telegraph puncture”. $175
Lot 13 Kangaroo: SG 14 1st Wmk 10/- Grey & Pink with official “telegraph puncture” perforation faults. $100
Lot 14 Kangaroo: SG 15S 1st Wmk £1 Brown & Blue SPECIMEN overprint. A fine mint light hinged stamp without usual short perforations that plague this issue. $750
Lot 15 Kangaroo: SG 16 1st Wmk £2 Black & Red. A fine example of “telegraph puncture”. A cheap way to fill an elusive gap in your album. $275
Lot 16 Kangaroo: SG 14S-16S 1st Wmk SPECIMEN (type A) set of 3. Superior centring & perforations. MLH $1,850
Lot 17 Kangaroo: SG 44 3rd Wmk £1 Brown & Blue. A fine used stamp with ‘telegraph puncture’. $250
Lot 18 Kangaroo: SG 44 3rd Wmk £1 Brown & Blue. A very neat & fresh stamp with ‘telegraph puncture’. Cancelled WELLINGTON POINT, QLD. $275
Lot 19 Kangaroo: SG 031 2nd Wmk 2d Grey ‘OS’. Fresh & MUH. $750
Lot 20 Kangaroo: SG 26 2nd Wmk 6d Ultrama-rine, Ceremuga Certificate states “mint with never hinged and fresh original gum”. $2,250
Lot 21 Kangaroo: SG 27 2nd Wmk 9d Violet, a fresh mint unhinged example with upper selvedge. $1,750
Lot 22 Kangaroo: SG 28 2nd wmk 1/- Blue Green shade. A fine MLH example $375
Lot 23 Kangaroo: SG 036 2nd Wmk 2/- Brown. A superb MLH example of this scarce stamp.$2,500
Lot 24 Kangaroo: SG 30 2nd Wmk 5/- Grey & Yellow. A superior MLH example. $1,500
Lot 25 Kangaroo: SG 35a/BW 7ib 3rd Wmk 2d Silver Grey SUBSTITUTED CLICHÉ. A fine com-mercially used stamp with official perfin “T” (TASMANIA). Most likely a UNIQUE combina-tion. $2,250
Lot 26 Kangaroo: BW 11D 3rd Wmk 2½d IN-TENSE INDIGO shade. Very fine mint unhinged.$275
Lot 27 Kangaroo: SG 047b 3rd Wmk 9d Violet ‘OS’ Die 2B. Fresh MUH $325
Lot 28 Kangaroo: BW 32D 3rd Wmk 1/- Die 2. The scarce GREY GREEN shade. Very fresh & mint unhinged. $475
Lot 29 Kangaroo: SG 40w 3rd Wmk 1/- Green Die 2, INVERTED WMK. Superior centring to that usually seen and mint VERY lightly hinged. $275
Lot 30 Kangaroo: SG 40/BW 32E 3rd Wmk, 1/- SEA GREEN (DRY INKING). A very attractive MLH example of this scarce shade. $475
Lot 31 Kangaroo: SG 43a 3rd Wmk 10/- Grey & Bright Pink Aniline, fresh & lightly mounted.$875
Lot 32 Kangaroo: SG 45b 3rd Wmk £2 Purple Black & Pale Rose. An attractive mint un-hinged stamp with selvedge on 2 sides.$7,750
Lot 33 Kangaroo: SG 111 Small Multiple Wmk 5/- Grey & Yellow. An exceptional very fine used stamp. $225
Lot 34 Kangaroo: SG 138 C of A Wmk £2 Black & Red. Fresh & very fine mint lightly hinged. Variety: “Bite out of Roos front paw”. $4,250
KGV
Lot 35 KGV: BW 71H/G17½ Single Wmk 1d DEEP RED (Aniline) smooth paper. Superb MUH, with DRURY Certificate. $75
Lot 36 KGV: BW 71Ra (G26). Single Wmk smooth paper. SALMON shade, Wmk INVERTED. MVLH – a gem. DRURY CERTIFICATE. $850
Lot 37 KGV: BW 71T/G28½ Single Wmk smooth paper. The RARE LILAC ROSE shade, exception-ally fine mint unhinged. Supplied with DRURY Certificate. $975Lot 38 KGV: BW 72I(1)fb / SG 47f Single Wmk, rough paper 1d ROSINE DIE 2 ‘OS’. A fresh mint very lightly hinged stamp. DRURY Certificate supplied. $675Lot 39 KGV: SG 47ia/BW 72N(2)ia 1d Red Brown, Die 2 ROUGH PAPER, substi-tuted cliché. Fine mint hinged. Exceptionally well centred for this variety. DRURY Certificate. $3,750
Lot 40 KGV: SG 47ba/BW 72Q(2)ja 1d Rough paper vertical pair MLH, upper stamp is substi-tuted cliché Die 1, lower is ‘y dot’ variety. DRURY Certificate. $3,750
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Postal: PO Box 2111, Hawthorn, VIC 3122 AUSTRALIAOffice: 822a Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn MelbourneE-mail: [email protected]: (03) 9818 0209 Fax: (03) 98183308 Mobile: 0418 531 659
THIS MONTH’S STAMP OFFERSLot 41 KGV: SG 22w/BW 110Aw Single Wmk 4d Orange (Aniline) Wmk INVERTED. Very fresh MUH & superb. $175
Lot 42 KGV: BW 67(8)z Small Multiple Wmk Perf 14 ½d Orange Mullett imprint block of 8, PLATE 8. A superbly fresh block with light mounting in lower selvedge, other-wise MUH. $275
Lot 43 KGV: BW 107ca Small Multiple Wmk, P13½x12½ Type B/A pair punctured ‘OS’. Superb quality, ultra fresh MUH. $650
AUSTRALIA GENERAL:
Lot 44 Australia: SG 106a 1928 3d Kookaburra Miniature sheet cancelled HAMILTON (VIC) 20 NOVEMBER 1928. Most “used” MS seen have non contempo-rary cancellations. Without faults. $250
Lot 45 Australia: SG 139 6d Airmail Imprint block of 6 in PRISTINE MUH condition. $275
Lot 46 Australia: SG: SB25ab/BW: B43a KGV 2d Red C of A Wmk, Wmk INVERTED. ‘rates on back cover’ $950
Lot 47 Australia: SG: SB26b/ BW: 46Ba KGV 2d C of A Wmk IN-VERTED, “Corrected text” $950Lot 48 Australia: SG: SB27/BW: B51Ba 2/- Booklet, 2d Red Die 2 KGVI, INVERTED Wmk. ‘Pale green cover’ $575Lot 49 Australia: SG: SB27/BW: B51A 2/- 2d Red die 2 KGVI Upright Wmk, ‘Green cover’ $575
Lot 50 Australia: SG 408a / BW 472c 1966 4c Dirk Hartog vertical strip of 4 showing ORANGE RED partially omitted on 3rd unit and totally omitted on lowest unit. Only 10 such strips initially existed. Very fine mint unhinged. $7,000
Lot 51 Australia: SG 489a/BW 558c 1971 6c RAAF with BLACK totally omitted. A stunning variety. Extra fine MUH. $5,250
Lot 52 Australia: BW 664cb, $1 ‘Ser-geant of the Lighthorse” horizontal pair showing partial BLACK omission on left stamp and TOTAL omission on stamp at right. A modern RARITY in exceptionally fine condition. Mint unhinged. $6,250
Lot 53 Australia: BW 773c 1978 18c parliament House with BLUISH GREY totally omitted. Extra fresh MUH. $1,250
OTHER:
Lot 54 NAURU: SG 26B/39B Ship set (14) Smooth Paper, mint lightly hinged. $225
Lot 55 NWPI: SG 84 1st Wmk 10/- type B.Very fine MLH $275
Lot 56NWPI: SG 92 2nd Wmk5/- Grey & Yellow.ABC strip of 3 in very fine quality.Totally MUH$950
Lot 57 NWPI: SG 92 2nd Wmk 5/- Type C, Superb Mint very light hinged. $185
Lot 58NWPI: SG 100 1d on 5dsurcharge ABC strip of 3 cancelled ‘Ra-baul’. Very nicely centred & attractive.$725
Lot 59NWPI: SG 101, 1d on 1/-ABC strip of 3 with contemporary RABAUL cancellation. Very fine.$850
Lot 60 NWPI: SG 106a 2d Grey Die 2.Very fine mint unhinged. $75
Lot 61 NWPI: SG 116 5/- Grey YellowMint unhinged. $175
Lot 62 NWPI: SG 016 1d Rosine, rough paper, fine used pair. $875
Lot 63 NWPI: SG 016b 1d Rosine, rough paper, Die 2, fine used. Scarce $1,750
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ContentsArticlesWoodchip Free Zone: Rod Perry ................................................ 10 The Red Devil - Capt. Harry Butler: Samantha Battams & Leslie Parsons ................ 16Stamps in the News - Globally: Margo Campbell ................ 24Australian Stamp Variations: David Mallen ............................ 26Introducing the APF: John Sadler .............................................. 30Irish Forerunners & Political Labels: Mike Lee ....................... 32Revenue Review: Dave Elsmore ................................................. 36Nordic Error Stamps: Christer Brunström ............................... 40 Cinderella Corner: Tony Presgrave ............................................ 44De-Mystifying the Detail: Andrew McEachern ..................... 48The Modern Scene: Sel Pfeffer .................................................... 50 Letters from the Past: Eunice Shanahan .................................. 54British Guiana & British Honduras: Noel Davenhill .............. 62Glen Stephens was away at the time of printing - His article will return next month
InformationNews........................................................................................................6Mailbag ..................................................................................................8Auction Diary .................................................................................... 52New Issues ......................................................................................... 56Internet & Email Directory ............................................................ 68Clubs & Societies ....................................................................... ......70Calendar .............................................................................................. 73Products & Services Directory ............................................... ......74Trading Post ................................................................................. ......78List of Advertisers .............................................................. ..............82
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philatelic news
The world’s most famous shop undergoes refurbishment
399 Strand, the home of stamp and collectables dealers Stanley Gibbons, is undergoing a complete refurbishment of its world famous shop in time for the London 2010 International Stamp Exhibition being held in May.
Work started on 4th February to expand the retail area with better, clearer displays, dedicated seating for stamp viewing and interactive information points for an exciting new shopping experience.
The famous curved stamp counter will remain and the shop will continue to offer an unrivalled range of philatelic items, coupled with the expertise expected from the dedicated team of philatelic specialists. Business as usual… almostOn 4th February Fraser’s Autographs will vacate the first floor gallery. During this time Frasers will continue to operate via mail order and the website www.frasersautographs.com with a free postage promotion for orders placed during the refurbishment. Frasers auction lot viewings and appraisals will be by appointment only during
this time. Stamp auction lot viewings and valuations will also be by appointment only.
On 15th February the stamp shop will temporarily relocate to the first floor Fraser’s Gallery for six weeks, with customers accessing the store by the side office entrance which will be clearly signposted.
On the 29th March the stamp shop will relocate to part of its new permanent home in the basement.
The shop is due for completion mid-April when the stamp shop will comprise two new-look floors and a revamped flexible first floor space for seminars, events, meetings and auctions.
London 2010The new look 399 Strand will host
several special events for collectors during the London 2010 International Stamp Exhibition in May, with a free shuttle bus operating between the Business Design Centre and the new look store to give everyone a chance to check out the changes.
With more stamps and accessories on display than ever before, the new look 399 Strand is sure to form an integral part of the
London 2010 experience.
Refurbishment newsThe refurbishment work will be documented photographically and uploaded to the Stanley Gibbons website www.stanleygibbons.com/newshop. Visit the website regularly to find out what’s going on and when and catch a glimpse of the new look 399 before it opens to the public mid April.
Have your sayWhether you would like to change the opening hours, have a comment on the refund policy or Strand Savers Card or have something more general you would like to say, upload your comments at www.stanleygibbons.com/newshop
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In our next two auctions we have a selection of GB and Commonwealth, plus a good selection of Europe, particularly
Germany mint, with many unhinged itemsStrong countries include GB with range
of 1d blacks, high values. Australia is well represented with many mint heads & kangaroos, including a number of £2 values, as well as the famous ‘missing head’ 1d used with cert found by a school boy in the 1950’s. Cape of Good Hope is present including items from the Sir Henry Tucker sale (1979). as well as early Falklands and Canada
Germany is well represented including many unhinged items, back to 1900 including the 5 marks, later on including Wagner sets with perfs, as well as a representation of German States
Please feel free to request our next
auction catalogus, also next auctions can be viewed online at
Next Auctions:
20 March & 15 May
Letters to the Editor may be submitted by email to: [email protected]; or to PO Box 1290, Upwey, VIC., 3158
Editor’s Mailbag
Dear EditorRe: Australia Post’s Impressions
Catalogue.As I keen stamp
collector for many years, I am writing to voice my concerns about the policy of Australia Post issuing combined stamp and coin products in their yearly Impressions catalogue. Since
stamps are my special interest, I find the combined products very expensive, in fact most are way beyond my financial reach. Spending over $1000 just to get the stamps that have a face value of about $130 is ridiculous!
David Mallen has put forward the idea of a Collectors Pack (Stamp News, January 2010) for these stamp items and I feel this could be a workable solution to remedy the situation. I wonder what stamp collectors do with all the coins and folders once they have removed the stamps and put them in their
albums?I have written to
Australia Post re the above situation and wonder whether other collectors feel they are similarly being denied the opportunity to add
these special items to their collections. I hope Australia Post is sympathetic. Yours faithfully, Noela DoddStanthorpe, QLD
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The first definitive series’ of QEII, for the whole of the British Commonwealth, are generally a colourful affair, many being bicoloured, recess-printed pictorial stamps. They look great, never more so than when commercially used on covers, postcards and other postal articles. I have usage collections of the first QEII series for many of the countries involved, ranging from sub one-frame (some are tough to find) through to full blown 8-framers (128 pages). They’re amongst my favourite collections.
One of my first QEII collections is that for Hong Kong, not a pictorial series, but interesting in that the 1954 design is an adaptation of that first used in 1862, for Queen Victoria. Now that would be a usage collection challenge extroadinaire! The QEII stamps, fortunately, are generally readily available on covers, etc, with the exception of the $10, which is fairly difficult to find, and there are many uncommon usages for most denominations to be sought out. Here follows an introduction to a usage collection of this series, the model for which can be generally applied to most other QEII definitive series’, be they the first, second or whatsoever.
Figure 1. 5c orangeFor the QEII series, the 1c, 2c and 4c denominations, found for the preceding KGVI series, were abandoned. Pity, as usage of sub base rate denominations (10c in 1954) can add to the fun. The 5c was for local Printed papers rate (also to Macau and China), and Figure 1 is a 25 Sep 1956 use from Tai Po to, well . . . The exotic nature of Chinese characters, naturally often encountered
in material from this series, in my opinion, adds to the charm of the subject.Figure 2. 10c lilacA common base rate stamp is best shown in a usage exhibit in a more unusual role. Figure 2 has this denomination x5 paying Letter rate + registration fee (40c), sent 2 Jan 1958 from Yuen Long, a smaller P.O., to Kowloon.
Figure 3. 15c greenThe 15c was for Printed papers rate (up to 2ozs.) for all other countries. A more attractive use is Figure 3, a 9 Apr 1960 combination franking with 50c for 2nd Class airmail (65c unsealed rate) to Australia.
Figure 4. 20c brown 20c was the British Commonwealth surface rate, and Figure 4 is to U.K., added interest supplied by the short term slogan cancel “THIRTEENTH EXHIBITION/OF HONG KONG PRODUCTS/2 DEC. 55 TO 2 JAN. 56”, and arrival handstamp of addressee.
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Figure 5. 25c redA likely use of the 25c was for postcard rate to non Commonwealth countries. More unusual a use is that shown in Figure 5, where a pair has been utilized on 15 Sep 1956 to frank a formular Aerogramme (rate was 50c obviously) to Australia. One often encounters “formula” erroneously used to describe stationery of a formular nature.
Figure 6. 30c greyThe 30c as a solo franking appears to be one to look out for; I don’t have one. Two possible solo uses would be for sextuple Printed or Commercial papers rates, or reply paid postcards to British
Commonwealth countries. Now, there’s no place in this column for anything associated with the first mentioned possible use, so I’ll have to focus on acquiring one of the other possibility. Selected for the 30c for now is Figure 6, where a combination with the $1 on 24 May 1962 paid the $1.30 required for double 65c postcard rate to Australia (note “Card Only” endorsement). A rather uncommon rate.
Figure 7. 40c blueA nice solo use of the 40c on 5 Apr 1954 for validating a formular Air Letter (Aerogrammes were once so-called) to U.S., in Figure 7.
Figure 8. More 40c bluesEven nicer use of 40c, a pair with 10c, in Figure 8, for 18 Aug 1961 registered use of formular
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Aerogramme to U.S. Stationery collectors love registered Aerogrammes, which of course are quite rare.
Figure 9. 50c reddish purpleCommon stamp on postal articles, the 50c solo usage in Figure 9 is a cut above the average. Firstly, it is has a marginal “Control” number, and secondly is used from a smaller P.O., Sheungwan. The stamp pays registered Letter rate.
Figure 10. 65c grey – one of the two post-1954 issuesThe highest S.G. priced used stamp of this series is the 65c. At £12 it exceeds even the $10 denomination, at £9.50. On postal article, however, the 65c is easier to find than is the top denomination. In Australia, we see the 65c used mostly for the airmail postcard rate,
sent back home by visiting tourists. Much harder to find is the 65c used for the 2nd Class (unsealed) airmail rate, an example of which is shown in Figure 10. This was sent from Kowloon to Australia on 19 Dec 1960, paying for a greetings card.
Figure 11. $1 orange and green – commencement of the bicoloursAs Figure 6 is a 30c + $1 franking combination. Figure 11 is another of these, but for another rate, $1.30 airmail to Australia, sent 13 Jun 1957. Of course, I could have provided this item as an example of usage for the 30c denomination, but as the $1 has the well known constant variety, Short right leg to “R”, it obviously “fits” better as an item to exhibit under the $1 stamp banner. Incidentally, covers are a great medium to explore for varieties; often one can be the first to place a magnifying glass over a stamp on cover.
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Figure 12. $1.30 blue and red – the other of the post-1954 issuesFigure 12 is another of those combination frankings which would be equally at home exhibited under either denomination of the two represented in this $1.30 + 40c combination franking. Shown under the $1.30, as here, one would emphasis that this denomination paid airmail to U.K., and the 40c paid registration fee. If exhibited under the 40c stamp, one would reverse the respective franking roles.
Figure 13. $2 reddish violet and scarletThe airmail rate to U.S. was $1, and double rate items bearing the $2 are not uncommon. Figure 13 is one such use, sent 6 Apr 1960.
Figure 14. $5 green and purpleOne of the nicer items in my exhibit, Figure 14
has pairs of the $5 and $2, plus the humble 5c, for registered 2nd Class airmail to U.K. of a “Bible/7½ ozs.” (see Customs docket attached). I can’t get a date from this item, owing to uneven surface of original packaging. The rate is 65c 2nd Class airmail x21 = $13.65 + 40c registration = $14.05.
Figure 15. $10 reddish violet and bright blue – solo franking certain to be a “holy grail”The top denomination in any usage study is likely to be one of, if not the most desirable inclusion in solo franking form. Figure 15 is mine for this denomination, sent 11 Apr 1956 by registered airmail from Kowloon to U.S. The rate is $1 airmail x9 + registration 40c + insurance 50c (per $300 of insured value or part thereof) = $9.90. Not $10, I know, but who’s counting!Figure 16. Interesting item to conclude this month’s columnTo finish up on an entirely different tangent, we probably all have come in contact from time to time
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with collectors who refuse to buy from Traders or Auction Houses. “They’re too expensive!” is a typical outburst provided as an excuse for non participation. Well, of course, expensive can be the case, but as more enlightened readers will doubtless agree, the opposite can apply, even if the odds are akin to winning a lottery. Philatelically pro active Tim Roger, of Mildura, who is forming an important usage collection, recently brought to my attention a newsworthy purchase. Plucked from the website of a high profile APTA member Trader, Tim’s purchase is very much the antithesis of “too expensive”. Shown as Figure 16, Tim’s purchase is an extremely rare use of a Second wmk. 2/-, solo at that, on a Victorian Interstate Parcel Post label, a rarity in itself, and in remarkably good condition. The Melbourne parcels post datestamp is indistinct, perhaps the only points loss for this item, but appears to be 1916, correct period of use for this watermark. I’ve inspected the actual item and can confirm the watermark, and the fact that the stamp is tied to label. Although the “Interstate” label was used, I believe the parcel was sent intrastate. The rate of 2/- was for an intrastate 6-7lbs. parcel. The “Victoria” labels were by 1916 obsolete, and I suggest the Melbourne Post Office was using
them up for parcels to any destination. Tim paid $550 for this great item. What do I think it’s worth? I’d estimate it for auction at $4000, and would be surprised if that figure was not exceeded. The moral to the story? Don’t limit your collection by buying only from the Post Office and the Stamp Club. Make your collection count by being pro active in sourcing material from APTA member Traders and Auction Houses. Incidentally, I’m the first to admit I’ve made more than my fair share of bloopers when selling during a long trading career, and that’s just for the blunders I know of! Philately is so diverse that no one individual can ever aspire to know anywhere near everything. Become highly proficient in your speciality, and get out there and pillage and plunder!
Rod Perry has been a philatelic trader since 1962 and a Stamp News advertiser since the 1960s . He founded Rodney A Perry Auction Galleries (now Millennium Philatelic Auctions) in 1971. As a collector he has exhibited nationally and internationally. Rod prefers his used stamps on cover and likens taking a stamp off its original cover to converting a tree to woodchips. Past editions of this column may be accessed on Rod’s ‘rap.com.au’
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The Red Devil: Captain Harry Butler, AFC, Pioneer Aviator
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Although hailing from a tiny farming community, in his time Captain Henry John “Harry” Butler (1889-1924) was a household name and known throughout the commonwealth as ‘Butler of South Australia’. Upon Butler’s death, SA’s Register wrote:
No name was better known, no individual more esteemed and beloved than Harry Butler....Harry Butler as an airman was unrivalled, incomparable, and alone; and although he made many lives happier because he lived, we sincerely regret his early and greater flight aloft.
Butler, also known as ‘The Red Devil’ in contemporary newspapers, after his red Bristol monoplane, belonged to a small group of Australian aviation pioneers who lived in exciting and dangerous times. Many served in the Royal Flying Corps or the Australian Flying Corps during the first World War, where the average life expectancy for a pilot was only 2-6 weeks, or 17 flying hours.
Even when they survived the war, they often made the ‘ultimate sacrifice’ in pursuing their passion for flying, dying in their 20s and 30s.
To truly appreciate the exploits of these pioneer aviators calls upon us to imagine the time when over 100 years ago, aviation was in its infancy and thoughts of regular flying were little more than a dream. In 1902 the Register newspaper asked ‘Will airships ever be practicable?’
In the early days, aircraft were little developed beyond (Australian) Hargrave’s box kites, made of wood and fabric using small engines, and often made in backyards. Pilots in these aircraft were at the mercy of the unsophisticated machinery as well as unfavourable weather. A great deal of courage was required to intentionally place oneself in such craft and attempt to fly. This is especially true of the WW1 pilots, especially where parachutes were rarely given to pilots as they were in short supply and reserved for ‘observers’ in air balloons. Even the most skilful of aviators had to rely upon not only their ability but also their luck, as was reflected in
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Butler’s life motto. Despite his undoubted skill as a pilot (often referred to in contemporary reports) and his commitment to safety (he never drunk spirits for this reason), Butler’s motto was ‘Luck, Pluck and Ability’.
From his early days on the farm outside Minlaton, Yorke Peninsula, SA, Harry had a love of all things related to aviation. His obsession with flying was established from a childhood spent experimenting with the wingspans and aeronautics of his mother’s chickens and making model planes with his friends. As a young man, he joined another early SA aviation pioneer in Carl W. Wittber on the plains north of Adelaide, developing home made aircraft and learning all he could about flying. It took him 9 hours motorcycling from Minlaton to Dry Creek to join these efforts. Although these experiments often only resulted in hopping across rough fields, it was enough to peak his interest and firm up his dream of flying. The government later ordered that all backyard aircraft operations were to be ceased due to
WWI. In anger, Wittber burnt his planes.The first World War was partly seen as an
opportunity to realise Harry’s dream of flying. After travelling to Melbourne with his sights set on joining the Australian Flying Corps, he showed his natural aptitude by becoming the only applicant to be accepted (as an aeromechanic) from his group into the recently formed Central Flying School at Point Cook. The Bulletin observed that this farm boy (who had only attended primary school) had won a place over other university and college educated applicants (he was later to attend Christchurch College, now part of Cambridge in the UK).
A hiccup occurred when Butler’s chronic asthma and lack of formal education caused problems for his flying career with the AFC. There were also limited opportunities for flying due to the small number of aircraft available at the time in Australia. But the strength of Butler’s desire to fly and do his bit for the allied war effort led him to beg his father to pay his passage to the UK so he could enter the Royal Flying
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Corps. He vowed that he would go to the UK ‘by hook or by crook’. Once there, he joined the RFC as an engineer, quickly became a pilot and rose up through the ranks, becoming a Flight Instructor in Turnberry and Chief Flight Instructor in Yorkshire.
As a pilot over the Western Front in France and then as an instructor training 2,700 pilots in the UK, Harry Butler’s contribution to the allied war effort was enormous. He was also involved in protecting the UK, chasing German planes which were dropping bombs on Ramsgate. He was subsequently mentioned in despatches for his part in the capturing of two German submarines and later decorated with the Air Force Cross. He was also the first ‘airman’ to land in Turnberry, Scotland, and the first to fly airmail in such parts.
A small number of pioneer aviators who made it through the war, like Butler, used the skills that they had honed in combat in the skies over Europe to bring aviation to the Australian people. Harry’s fame and contribution to aviation did not thus end with the armistice in 1918, as he purchased two planes from the RFC, one of which was the Bristol M1c monoplane, ‘The Red Devil’, the fastest of its kind at the time, reaching a speed of 132 miles per hour, little more than the modern family car. Butler was determined to fulfil his passion for flying and
plans for civil aviation, although this would also be financially costly, leading him to sell his share in farming land to his brother, and borrowing money from the family.
Butler was on a path to fulfilling a promise he had made to his mother during the war, to one day return triumphantly to his home town in an aeroplane, the likes of which people had never seen before. True to his word, Harry flew from Adelaide to Minlaton over St Vincent’s gulf in stormy weather, and witnessed a homecoming that drew crowds from all over the Yorke Peninsula as well as Adelaide. He put the small farming community on the map, as he had conducted the first ever air crossing over a major body of water in the southern hemisphere and the first airmail over water. For the trip he wore a primitive life jacket in the form of plastic tubing under his clothing, and a steam launch was waiting in the gulf in case his mission failed. The 4000 postcards he carried held a message from Butler on one side
“Dear Friend,If ever you feel a bit down the Aeroplane will carry you heavenward where the Sunshine of dear old Aussie shines eternally. So keep on Smiling. The Plane was great in War but it
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will be greater in Peace. This little souvenir from the Clouds is the beginning of a new era in mail and passenger transport. So keep your eye on the Aeroplane.Yours, Harry J Butler, Captain R.A.F.”
Perhaps he also had posterity in mind when on the way back to Adelaide he dropped a leaflet over his old school at Koolywurtie:
To my old school and scholars, I sincerely hope that this little message from the air will bring you the very best of luck.
When he returned to Adelaide, he was met by a large crowd headed by Chief Justice Sir George Murray and Governor Galway who patriotically declared ‘you have made South Australia proud’.
In the next few years, Harry Butler was a central figure in Australian aviation. Butler’s plan to bring aviation to the people involved purchasing an ‘airport’ at Northfield and starting the first commercial flying business with his engineering partner Kauper, so everyone could experience the joys they had discovered as aviators. This is where the South Australian Smith brothers landed after they completed their historic first UK-Australia flight in December 1919: a small memorial currently marks the spot.
Butler’s strong belief was that aeroplanes could be used for a number of civilian purposes, but he needed the support of the people to embrace this venture. Butler took the first aerial photographs of Adelaide and surrounds and also sold to the government what became Adelaide’s first government airport at Hendon.
Keen to show the great potential of aviation, Butler used every available opportunity to have the Red Devil in the air. As the nickname of his plane suggested, Butler was a daredevil with a love of aerobatics at a time when it was highly dangerous.
The local newspapers could not get enough of the cheery, eccentric and debonair Captain Butler, and he became as regular a fixture in their pages as he was in the sky above Adelaide. As a contemporary report said of one demonstration
“Opening the performance with a display of looping the loop, Captain Butler included in his remarkable exhibition the spinning nose dive, rolling, half-rolling, the side slip, Immelman turns, spiral descents, and flying upside down. One of his most sensational feats was a spinning nose dive from a very high altitude.”
Crowds emerged wherever his little plane went, performing spins, rolls and death defying dives leaving crowds hungry for more. Large crowds flocked to such aerial displays to see the ‘flying man’ and his aeroplane, for many the first ever sight of an aircraft. As the Register reported
“People were ranged at every coign of vantage – on housetops, on motor cars, on fences and anywhere and everywhere. And when it was over, everyone had been thrilled by the inspiring demonstration given by this fearless flying man. The admiration of the people knew no bounds.”
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Butler was also community minded, strongly supporting patriotic and repatriation causes. He used his newfound fame by volunteering his time and aeroplane to promote the first Australian Peace Loan, which raised funds for his fellow Returned soldiers. In Premier Peake’s words at the Peace Loan Launch, ‘the money was required for repatriation purposes to provide for the future lives of the men who had fought so gloriously to save this country’. The crowd attending was more than 40,000. Butler also dropped his ‘Bombs of Good Luck’ pamphlets over the city to promote the Peace Loan. Subsequently, an oil portrait was commissioned and given to Butler by the Central Traders Association for his contribution to the Peace Loan Day and to honor his ‘skill and intrepidity’ as ‘the pioneer aviator of the state’. Along with other famous returned airmen, Captain Frank McNamara VC and Lt F S Briggs, Harry Butler also engaged in Australia’s first aerial race over Adelaide to promote the Peace Loan.
Butler’s exploits brought him into contact with the prominent people of his day, including SA Governor Galway, who requested his presence at Government House just after he arrived in Adelaide from the war effort, and Lady Hackett, mining entrepreneur and philanthropist and wife of the City Mayor. He also met the future King Edward VIII, the then Prince of Wales on his visit to Australia, and in England the French General Foch, who delivered the terms of the armistice on behalf of the allies.
Butler also welcomed Prime Minister Hughes into Adelaide after Hughes returned from England, following the train with his low flying aeroplane. He finally dropped Peace Loan literature and performed an aerial display over the Adelaide Railway Station.
Butler also dropped a tree from an aeroplane into Gallipoli Grove, South Parklands which Chief Justice Sir George Murray planted for ‘Wattle Day’ in memory of the
war dead, which was then celebrated as Australia’s national day. The tree was
“a memorial of the initiation of air navigation in South Australia, and a tribute from a gallant soldier to his comrades who have fallen in the field of battle.”
At the time Justice Murray stated that in the future there may be bigger trees dropped from greater heights in the future, but that this tree had the honour of being the first!
Butler had became a figurehead for a community which was trying to get back on its feet after the terrible costs of the war, and where large sections of the community had lost loved ones. He also appeared to be aware of his role not only in aviation, but in terms of serving and building the spirit of the community. Butler would go out of his way to bring pleasure to people through his flying displays, flying over hospitals and children’s homes. He even received fan letters from prisoners who could glimpse his departures from Northfield and willed him into the air.
Butler’s marriage in 1920 to a local teacher whom he met at Minlaton prior to the war, Elsa Birch Gibson of Bool Lagoon, was also a public event. The ceremony was held at St Pauls in Pulteney Street and attended by the people of Adelaide in their thousands, with street traffic being suspended.
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As Elsa said ‘My people had to come from [Bool Lagoon] and his people had to come from the Peninsula and the whole of Adelaide would have been disappointed if they hadn’t seen him married’. Some of the crowd sat on balconies and rooftops to get a glimpse of the couple, and one excited member of the public pulled off the bride’s veil, whilst Butler was encouraged by Priest Bleby to escape through a side door of the church. Elsa had been ‘a reluctant bride’ of 22 years of age, who had wanted to see ‘a bit of the world’ before she was married and forced to give up her profession.
Ever aware of the precariousness of his profession, Butler regularly visited fortune tellers, but his luck ran out when tragically, in 1922, he had a serious crash in Minlaton. This led to multiple breakages in his face and a number of operations to have his face reconstructed. The doctors involved in these operations included the distinguished surgeon, Colonel Sir Henry Simpson Newland, and founding member of the Anesthetists Association, Dr Gilbert Brown.
A year and a half later, Captain Harry Butler suddenly died from an abscess of the brain, aged 34, bringing shock to the community. The outpouring of emotion and grief by the public and the many thousands that lined the streets for his military funeral procession (despite just a day’s notice), were testament to his popularity and the regard with which the people of South Australia held him. His state funeral was accorded full military honors. Following this, the SA community raised funds for a memorial, through the Register newspaper. In the wake of the funeral, The Pioneer newspaper asked the local community to remember that
Though short the span of his life, it was filled with honor and achievement – and to what
greater ambition can man aspire for truly indeed
One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
After Harry’s death, Elsa Butler gave up teaching and retrained as a nurse, following a career in the profession she had always desired, and which she was now well prepared for. She would ‘see a bit of the world’ as she had always wanted, nursing throughout the UK including during the bleak times of WWII in London, before returning to Australia.
In the 1950s, a UK Doctor and postal historian, Dr Gordon Ward, started to write Butler’s biography and collect information about Butler, including many letters from South Australians who had come across him (the collection was later donated to the Mortlock library, SA). In this collection is the letter of one woman who reported writing to Butler to tell him about her cockatoo that squawked ‘Hurrah, here’s Butler!’ the ever courteous Butler replied back that he’d heard of many cockatoos that emitted ‘Here’s Butler’, but none that said ‘Hurrah’ before it!
Butler’s memory is kept alive in Minlaton, where his historic 1919 flight marking the first crossing of a major body of water in the southern hemisphere has been regularly celebrated. The 6th August 2009 marked the 90th anniversary of this crossing, and the event was celebrated in the region, with guests including aviator Dick Smith, AO. There is also a memorial in the town housing Butler’s Bristol monoplane, ‘the Red Devil’. This is said to be the only original of its kind in the world. Others reminders of Butler include the 150th SA jubilee commemoration plaque on North Terrace and the portrait in the Art Gallery of SA, the memorial funded by the SA community following Butler’s death.
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Mr Norman Fowler had collected stamps very seriously from the 1920’s until just prior to his death in the late 1990’s. Throughout his collecting, he was able to put together award winning collections of Australia and Cape of Good Hope, plus a good selection of Commonwealth and early European countries.
Although most of the collection was sold in the late 1970s, a chunk of material was left over to be further enhanced by one of his sons. In a collection purchased by Mr Fowler snr in the late 1940’s, John Fowler, ( son), came across the missing head on the 1d, which he found when he was just 12 years old. Although a lot of the collection has been sold, this stamp has remained with John to this day.
The stamp was certificated in Oct 1953 by the BPA with one of the signatories being the great philatelist, Robson Lowe. Although the item has been with the family over 60 years, the stamp was not alone, in that it forms part of a valuable range of Australian issues including five Sydney Harbour Bridges, virtually all the £2 values mint, as well as a range of fine used, including many unusually well centred items.
The item is coming up for sale in the UK for the first time in more than 60 years and it gives collectors a chance to bid for this fine Australian rarity. In the planned sales there will of course be a range of Australia mint & used issues, Cape of Good Hope, from the Sir Henry Tucker collection (1979), including ‘Woodblocks’ as well as
material from GB, example, a selection of all GB high values, including 2 x £5 oranges, 2 x PUC £1, etc, plus Canada, New Zealand, France, Luxembourg, German States, Austria, Belgium, Falkland Islands and a range of other early Commonwealth and European
issues. Most of the countries represented, have key items. The collection excluding the headless 1d Roo, is expected to realise well in excess of A$350,000
Full details on the material can be obtained by contacting the Auction company Pennyred.com. Scans of
the 1d roo plus certificate are freely available on request by email.
Viewing of the material is available at Spring Stampex 24 to 27th February, London, UK, as well as the usual viewing arrangements at the auctions which are, March 20th and May 15th 2010..
Buchanan Street Stamps in Glasgow, Scotland has been established since 1981, although the owner has been selling stamps from December 1969. Gordon Carroll is a long standing PTS, ASDA, and SPTA member, and is only now beginning public auctions again after 30 years away from this side of philately.
Headless Roo For Sale
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A selection of other items for sale at Buchanan Street Stamps. Further information can be obtained by visiting www.pennyred.com
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Stamps in the News - Globally!US holiday stamps wrapupReported in www.news-record.com/ Greensboro North Carolina
For the first time US annual holiday stamps have been designed and printed in the same locale.
Greensboro NC businessman, Joe Cudd, designed this year’s series of four stamps — a reindeer, snowman, toy soldier and gingerbread man — and Banknote Corp., in the same
county, printed 1.3 billion of them.It’s Cudd’s first design for the Postal Service, but
Banknote has been printing stamps off and on for years.
Cudd, owns Brushworks, a small gift-wrap and print-design firm. He became a stamp designer by accident, thanks to a piece of his Christmas wrapping paper.
Several years ago, Dick Sheaff, a contract art director for the Postal Service saw some paper that Cudd had designed and thought a reindeer image on it would make a great stamp.
Sheaff contacted the paper’s manufacturer, Shamrock Corp. in Greensboro.
“I guess he was pretty surprised,” Sheaff said. “I called up and said, ‘How would you like to do a postage stamp?’ ”Cudd agreed and turned out four different stamps in the style that Sheaff had seen on the wrapping paper.
The project took about 5 years. The Postal Service typically works with a two-year lead time on holiday stamps and sometimes longer.
Cudd said he’d like to design more stamps.“I really do feel honoured that they would go to the trouble to track me down,” he said. “It’s a great feeling seeing something you produced out there on so many packages.”
Legendary investor’s stamp connectionReported in www.crainsnewyork.com
Tweedy Browne investments has occupied a special niche in Wall Street lore due its relationships with a legendary client: Warren Buffett.
It helped Mr. Buffett acquire his stake in Berkshire Hathaway, and Tom Knapp, one of Tweedy’s partners teamed up with Mr. Buffett in
1958 to try to corner the market in out-of-print 4-cent American blue eagle airmail stamps. They purchased 400,000 stamps encountering difficulties with the sheets sticking together. It appears as if the buying failed to help lift the value of the remaining stamps in circulation, but, on the other hand, Tweedy owned so many stamps that it didn’t need a postage meter for years. It remains one of Buffett’s few business failures.
Visit the British Postal Museum and Archive onlineReported in http://www.postalheritage.org.uk/
The British Postal Museum & Archive illuminates the lives of people in the Post Office, the messages carried by Royal Mail, British history through the post.
You can also visit the Museum online - of particular interest is the Phillips exhibition:
In 1965, Reginald M Phillips donated his award-winning collection of British Victorian stamps to the nation. Today, The British Postal Museum & Archive has taken over responsibility for caring and developing access to the Phillips Collection and has made it available online.
The Phillips Collection is an essential resource for the understanding of postage stamps and philatelic research. It contains the world’s very first, first day cover - that of the Penny Black. It also includes 1839 Treasury Essays for pre-paid postage, Rowland Hill letters and unique proofs and studies of stamps such as the Twopenny Blue and the Penny Red.
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Compiled by Margo CampbellSee the Phillips collection online at http://www.
postalheritage.org.uk/collections/archive/stamps/phillips
ACCC stamps out Australia Post price hikeReported www.abc.net.au/
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says Australia Post’s draft proposal to increase the price of basic postage from 55 to 60 cents is not justified based on the information in its submission.
The ACCC’s chairman, Graeme Samuel, says the competition watchdog has been unable to determine how Australia Post determined its demand and service cost forecasts.
“The relationship between demand and costs is a critical issue,” he noted in a statement.
“The ACCC recognises that some of Australia Post’s costs are fixed. However, overall, the cost base would be expected to respond as demand declines. The proposed costs of Australia Post in the material provided to the ACCC do not reflect this decline.
“Accordingly, the ACCC is unable to agree to Australia Post’s proposed price increases at present.”
London Festival of Stamps
Reported in www.london2010.org.uk/
London 2010: Festival of Stamps is a year long program of exhibitions, events and activities that aim to showcase, celebrate and raise public awareness of stamps, stamp design and postal heritage. The Festival also marks the centenary of the accession of George V, the philatelist king.
The British Postal Museum & Archive is co-ordinating wider festival exhibitions, events and activities at venues across London, aimed at all ages. They will showcase, celebrate and raise public awareness of British stamp design and postal heritage.
See the website for more information: http:www.london2010.org.uk/
USA and UK outline 2010 stamp issue program
Both postal authorities have issued press releases outlining stamps to be issued in 2010.
A dogs home, the Girl Guides and album covers will all be featured on new stamps being released in 2010, Royal Mail has announced.
Legendary designs on albums including Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells and Blur’s classic Parklife will appear on stamps in January, followed by special stamps in February to mark the 100th anniversary of girl guiding.
Another anniversary will be celebrated in March - the 150th of Battersea Dogs Home in London.
Other stamps planned for later in the year will feature children’s books, the Olympic and Paralympic Games, musicals and railways.
Nobel Prize winner Mother Teresa and Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldin will be honored on U.S. postage stamps next year.
Joining them will be Oscar-winning actress Katharine Hepburn, singing cowboy Gene Autry, artist Winslow Homer and Admiral Arleigh Burke.
Other new stamps will honor the Negro baseball leagues, the Sunday funnies and the Hawaiian rain forest and more of the ‘Flags of our Nation’ series
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Legends 2010The first new stamp issue of the year was the “Australian Novelists: Legends of the Written Word”. It consisted of 6 legends, 12 designs and 42 stamps and 108 variations. So many stamps and variations! I wonder if this will be the trend this year. There were 3 separate sheets of stamps each containing a se-tenant block of 4 of 2 novelists – one colour stamp and one black & white stamp. The 18 black & white stamps in this issue are the first black & white decimal stamps. Some decimal stamps have been issued with black & white images and coloured text or symbols in the past but the stamps in this issue are full greyscale.
Australian Black & White StampsDate Stamp
1 Sep 1949 1/6 Hermes2 Aug 1954 3½d Centenary of First WA Stamp 17 Nov 1954 3½d Australian Research in Antarctica18 Nov 1994 45c, 45c, $1.35 & $1.80 Aviation Feats
(Unofficial imperf stamps in a souvenir minisheet issued at Aeropex ’94)
21 Jan 2010 6 x 55c black & white Australian Novelists.12 x 55c imperf black “colour separation” Australian Novelists.
The prestige booklet accompanying this issue was issued at the same time as the stamps in some States but was only available a week later in other States. It contained 24 postage stamps and 30 collectable stamps. The collectable stamps were all imperforate and not valid for postage. (Collectors of mint Australian stamps usually save both types, so postal validity is ignored.) The face value of the 54 stamps is $29.70 and the booklet sold for $24.95. Is Australia Post realising that they don’t provide a postal service for most stamps sold to collectors and is reducing the cost at last?
The booklet contains three separate pages each with a block of 4 in the same format as the sheet stamps. More interesting are the three 428 x 207mm fold out gummed pages that contain a se-
Details of the main variations in recent stamp issues
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tenant pair of perforated stamps and 4 “colour separation” images of the pair. The “colour separation” images are CMYK. (K = black, C = cyan, M = magenta and Y = yellow) Each page has the stamps of two novelists per the block of 4 sheet stamps, in the order: K, C, M, Y imperf pairs & the “original” perforated se-tenant pair. i.e. McCullough & Courtney (2 x 5 pairs), Carey & Malouf (2 x 5 pairs) and Keneally & Winton (2 x 5 pairs). Of the 5 pairs, only the K separation of the colour stamp and all 4 separations of the black and white stamp have “Australia” and “55c” in the image and are therefore “stamps”. The text in the yellow stamp is very hard to read on some stamps. Those images of the colour stamp without “Australia” and “55c” can be classified as integrated tabs as they are attached to the imperf stamp of the same colour.
David MallenDetails of the main variations in recent stamp issues
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Australian NovelistsStamp Issue No. 1
FDI: 21 January 2010Stamps and Variations Variations
Gummed stamps: No. CostPerf = 14.6 x 13.9: [3 sheets]55c Colleen McCullough (colour)55c Colleen McCullough (black & white)55c Bryce Courtney (colour)55c Bryce Courtney (black & white)55c Peter Carey (colour)55c Peter Carey (black & white)55c David Malouf (colour)55c David Malouf (black & white)55c Thomas Keneally (colour)55c Thomas Keneally (black & white)55c Tim Winton (colour)55c Tim Winton (black & white)Imperforate: [prestige booklet]55c Colleen McCullough (colour) – K55c Colleen McCullough (b&w) – K, C, M, Y55c Bryce Courtney (colour) – K55c Bryce Courtney (b&w) – K, C, M, Y55c Peter Carey (colour) – K55c Peter Carey (b&w) – K, C, M, Y55c David Malouf (colour) – K55c David Malouf (b&w) – K, C, M, Y55c Thomas Keneally (colour) – K,55c Thomas Keneally (b&w) – K, C, M, Y55c Tim Winton (colour) – K55c Tim Winton (b&w) – K, C, M, Y
30 $24.95
3 se-tenant blocks of four: [3 sheets]McCullough & Courtney (colour + black & white)Carey & Malouf (colour + black & white)Keneally & Winton (colour + black & white)
3 $6.60
6 se-tenant pairs (colour + b&w) [3 sheets] 6 $6.606 imperf se-tenant pairs (black ‘colour separation’) [prestige booklet]
6
$24.956 cyan, 6 magenta & 6 yellow ‘colour separation’ imperf stamps with tabs. (The ‘tabs’ are the ‘colour separation’ images of the colour stamp without “Australia” and “55c”.) [prestige booklet]
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30 imperf ‘colour separation’ image variations. (No text except for “Australia” and “55c”.)[prestige booklet]
30 $24.95
3 large minisheets with a perforated se-tenant pair on each. [prestige booklet]
3 $24.95
Australian Novelists3 large minisheets with a perforated block of 4 on each. [prestige booklet]
3 $24.95
3 very large fold-out minisheets with a 8 imperf ‘colour separation’ pairs and 2 perforated se-tenant pairs. [prestige booklet]
3
Self-adhesive stamps:(Die-cut simulated perf = 11.5 x 11.2)6 x 55c (colour) [Booklet of 20] 6 $11.00Total number of stamps = 42 108 $148.95b&w = black & white, K = black, C = cyan, M = magenta and
Y = yellow
New Stamps WebsiteAs mentioned last month, Chris De Haer’s new website is worth a look: http://stamps.chrisdehaer.com.au
Chris has published full technical details of the Legends issue. If this is indicative of future issues there will be no need to visit Australia Post’s Stamps website nor buy their Stamp Printing Technical Details book anymore!
As I could only get hold of the Legends prestige booklet in Melbourne a day before this article had to be submitted I am indebted to Chris for some of the above details.
Footnote: The stamp information shown above is based on stamps and variations bought at my local Post Shop or from Philatelic Mail Order. This may differ from other Australia Post outlets. If you find any differences please let me know. Find out what decimal stamps Australia Post actually issued each year in my new 1966-2009 ASV Catalogue. More information at www.asv.net.au. FDI = First Day of Issue.
Details of the main variations in recent stamp issues
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2. AUSTRALIA, 2000 Olympic Gold Medallists sheetlets of 10 set, offset, ASC1864ms-1879ms, mint unhinged, 16 sheetlets for $120
3. AUSTRALIA, 2000 Olympic Gold Medallists sheetlets of 10 set, digital, ASC1864msa-1879msa, mint unhinged, 16 sheetlets for $120
4. AUSTRALIA, 1951, 3d scarlet King George VI coil, strip of 5 showing 2 lots of the variety “Coil perforation pair with large and small holes”, BW251bb, also with coil join, mint unhinged, (5)
5.. AUSTRALIA, 1959, 1s. deep carmine. & deep green Postage Due, no watermark., SGD140a, block 10, (5x2), mint unhinged, price $200
6. AUSTRALIA, 1933 PIGEONGRAM Cinderella vignette prepared for Sydney Festival Week with inverted overprint, mint, price $50
7. SWITZERLAND, 1938 miniature sheet from the National Philatelic Exhibition at Aarau, Scott 242, mint unhinged, price $60
8. ERITREA, 1943 Air set (Camel and plane and Globe and plane), SG222/7, fine used condition, desirable set, 6 stamps for $55
9. NEW ZEALAND, 1996 “Best of 1996” Stamp Point folder containing the 3 miniature sheets, mint unhinged, price $60.
10. LIECHTENSTEIN, 1931 Air set featuring Graf Zeppelin over the Alps, SG116/7, mint unhinged, price $115
To purchase from the above list simply circle the lots that you want and send to the address below or fax or phone
Jim. For payment, we accept money orders, cheques, Visa or Mastercard.
OR TO JOIN JIMBO’S FREE MAILING LIST
SEND TO: Jimbo’s, P.O.Box 2155 Ivanhoe East, Vic, 3079 Australia
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Introducing the Australian Philatelic Federation . . . Pt 2The February magazine detailed the wide range of support services available from the Australian Philatelic Federation (APF) that are available to individual collectors, stamp clubs or state councils. This support is supplemented by similar types of services from the various state councils.
This month’s article provides more detailed information regarding three of these support services provided by the APF, viz, The Collector Series Brochures, the Sitemap for the APF website and the National Listing of Stamp Clubs.
The Collector Series BrochuresThese brochures are double-sided A4 sheets folded to a convenient one-third size. They answer many of the frequently asked questions about stamp collecting as well as providing introductory information for various aspects of the hobby.There are currently seven brochures available, which are
1 Why Collect Stamps? 2 Why Join a Stamp Club? 3 I have just inherited a stamp
collection - where do I go from here? 4 I have just rediscovered my old stamp
collection – where do I go from here? 5 Where do I get stamps for my
collection? 6 Beyond Australia! 7 How can I identify and value my
stamps? This list is constantly being reviewed and supplemented, and the next four brochures are presently being developed, and will cover the following – 8a An Introduction to Exhibiting –
Part 1. Explains exhibiting and the
exhibiting environment in general terms, and the transition from collector to exhibitor.
8b An Introduction to Exhibiting – Part 2. Explains in more detail multi-frame, one-frame and youth exhibiting.
9 The Exhibition Classes Available in Australia. Gives a brief description of each of the classes, and compliments Brochures 8a and 8b.
10 An Introduction to Stamp Collecting. Some of the early considerations about what to collect and how.
The brochures are ideal as handouts at various philatelic activities, especially where members of the public will be attending. They can also be useful to Clubs in response to queries from their own members.
The four new brochures will be available progressively over the next four months.
These brochures are available on the APF website, where they can be downloaded if required. To access this information open the Home page of the APF website (www.apf.org.au) and then click on the “Collecting” button. Select the brochure you wish to view. The brochures are in an easy to read A4 format.
If you have a suggestion regarding a possible topic for this series, please contact the writer as shown below.
Sitemap for the APF WebsiteThe APF maintains an excellent website with a great wealth of information regarding philatelic activity in Australia, at international, national, state and club levels, with links to associated activities
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such as Australia Post, stamp dealers and auction houses. It is constantly being updated. The address of this website is www.apf.org.au.
To contain such a wide range of information necessarily requires the website to be reasonably complex, and it can be quite frustrating at times to find a specific area of interest. The main problems will generally come with differing interpretations of where in the website the needed item will be included.
To assist in the navigation of this site, a printed sitemap was produced and distributed in late 2005. Whilst now over 4 years old, it is still reasonably current, and can provide a good initial guide for prospective as well as regular visitors to the site, especially for those new to this site
If you are searching for some recent information, simply click on the Last Update button at the top of the Home page. The resultant listing can include a brief description of all of the updates made during the last three to four months.
A tour of the APF website is well worthwhile. Take the time to visit all of the pages, and you may be surprised at the amount of knowledge available to assist your interests.
This website already has a mini sitemap which can be accessed from the Home page by clicking on the “About Us” button and scrolling down the page to “What will you find on this website?”
Listing of the Stamp Clubs in AustraliaA booklet listing all the Stamp Clubs and Societies within Australia was printed in July 2009. It is accepted that it will become dated, but can still be a useful
guide to interstate travelers, as well as overseas visitors to Australia. For ease of identification, it is arranged by meeting location.
In addition, the booklet provides an overview of organized philately at international, national and state levels, and indicates where additional information is available.
All of the information contained within the booklet is available on the APF website, where it is listed by state or territory. The booklet comes into its own if you are away from home and your computer. Simply slip it into your briefcase and it is readily available to assist wherever you are in Australia.
Availability of the AboveAll of the above described items are available from the various State Philatelic Councils, or by contacting the writer either through the APF website, by email at [email protected], or by writing to The Philatelic Development Officer, APF, at PO Box 528 Cardiff NSW 2285.
It is strongly recommended that all clubs obtain a supply of each of the above documents for internal distribution and for displaying at any club event where the public is involved. By helping your members and the interested public to better understand our hobby, we are creating better members and potential new club members. In addition, these documents will always be available at any National level exhibition in Australia.Next month’s article will provide details of the APF’s retail store in Adelaide, the Stamp Replica Cards, and the Visiting Speakers Program.
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Irish Forerunners & Political Labels
After you’ve been collecting Ireland for a little while (and you all have now, haven’t you?), and your Irish philatelic library has been slowly but surely expanding (and it has been, hasn’t it?), you have probably come across David Feldman’s ‘Handbook of Irish Philately’ published way back in 1968.Fig 1. A wonderful book, and essential for all enthusiastic collectors of Irish philately! And there, taking up 80% of the front of the dust jacket, is a reproduction of the 1865-67 Republic of Ireland one cent black on green stamp with a harp featured centrally in the design. Wait a minute, I hear you say, that stamp isn’t in my Stanley Gibbons, or Scott, or Michel catalogue, and anyway, everyone knows that Ireland didn’t issue its first postage stamps until 1922! What’s going on here? What garden path are you trying to lead us down, Mike? And what on earth is a stamp that isn’t even listed in any major catalogue doing on the front cover of one of the key handbooks about Irish philately?
Fear not, intrepid reader! All will be revealed, and all of the pieces will fall into place (well, hopefully) as you read on through this series of articles. So sit back, make yourself comfortable, and we’ll plunge right in to this popular area of Irish collecting!
ForerunnersBefore we get started, it might be helpful to explain just exactly what a ‘forerunner’ is. In a nutshell, and for the purposes of the issues that we’ll be looking at, they are stamps or labels that are used (or prepared for use), in a country, prior to the issue of the first official postage stamps for general use in that country. This doesn’t always mean that they were intended to pre-pay postage, they may also have been issued to promote a particular political cause or agenda, and this is mainly the case with the Irish examples..
The 1865-67 Fenian issueDuring the American Civil War, approximately 190,000 Irish-American immigrants served in both the Union and Confederate armies, with almost 80% of that number fighting for the North. When the war ended in 1865, a group of Irish veterans, members of an Irish Nationalist organization, Clan na Gael (Family of the Gael), which had been established in the late 1850’s, and was better known as the Fenian Brotherhood, realised that a great way to promote their cause was to produce postage stamps for the ‘Republic of Ireland’, even though no such place existed at that time. After all, by the mid 1860’s, many countries were using stamps to pre-pay postage, and it was widely realised that not only did a stamp on a letter pay the postage, it was also a wonderful ‘paper ambassador’ for the country or state of origin. Around the same time that Clan na Gael appeared in the US, The Irish Brotherhood, an organization with the same objectives, was established in Ireland. Both movements were described as ‘secret, separatist, physical force organizations whose object was national (Irish) independence’. Both organizations were involved in violent actions against the British authorities. In Ireland, The Irish Brotherhood were involved in unsuccessful risings in Dublin and Kerry during 1867. The Fenian Brotherhood were involved in a number of terrorist activities including armed raids over the border into Canada, assassinations, and dynamiting railways and buildings. These activities included between 800 and 1300 (accounts vary) Fenians, under the command of Colonel John
Fig 1. Front cover of the David Feldman handbook
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Irish Forerunners & Political Labels Mike Lee
O’Neill, actually capturing Fort Erie on the Great Lakes in 1866. These activities, both in Ireland and the US/Canada, had two main purposes, to force the British government into granting Ireland independence, and to raise the visibility of this cause to the world at large. It was in anticipation of Irish independence coming about sooner, rather than later, that these ‘Fenian issue’ stamps came to be. Independence did not happen, and so, of course, the stamps were never used.
The stamps themselves (actually, essays is a more accurate term, as they never really advanced beyond that stage) vary in design from denomination to denomination, but all share a harp as the central motif. They were produced, probably by S. Allen Taylor of Boston, from wood blocks in three different denominations, 1c black on green (this is the one featured on the Feldman handbook mentioned earlier), 1c black on pale blue, 1c black on rose mauve, 3c green, 24c deep green, and 24c mauve-purple, and 24c black on yellow. Fig 2. They are all imperforate, although the 3c is also recorded perforated, and all are quite rare. To emphasise this point, in his handbook Feldman states: ‘Most of the examples in circulation are forgeries, copied from magazine or catalogue illustrations’. It also seems that small printings, of at least the3c and 24c values, were produced around 1893 from metal plates.
Although these stamps were never issued, the 1c and 24c have appeared on Irish postage stamps.
These two designs featured on the two values of the Fenian Rising Centenary set issued in October 1967. For most of us, owning this set will probably be the closest we’ll ever get to having the real thing!
1893 ‘Erin go Bragh’ issueVery little is known about this particular stamp. It is thought that it may have been produced at the same time as the 1893 Fenian metal plate printings, It is similar in design to the 24c Fenian issue, but is inscribed ‘Erin go Bragh’ (Ireland for ever), and is denominated at one penny rather than in cents. It is known in green and dull green shades, and is of similar rarity to the Fenian issues, and the same warnings about forgeries apply. Fig 3.
1893 Colonial design issueThese interesting ‘stamps’ probably don’t quite ‘cut the mustard’ as forerunners in the real sense of the word. They are actually bogus labels, produced from plates used to illustrate the British Colonial key type stamps in European stamp catalogues of the late 19th century. The 2009 edition of the Hibernian Handbook & Catalogue prefaces it’s listing of them with these remarks: ‘These stamp labels are included here as a bow to tradition. They have been listed as Irish forerunners in many respected publications and
Fig 2. A faulty, but genuine, 3c Fenian issue
Fig 3. The ‘Erin go Bragh’’ stamp
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Stamp Coin & Phonecard
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(December - Third Sunday)
Jaycees Hall, Silver Grove, Nunawading, VIC
Melway map 48 E10
First Sunday each month 9am to 3.30pm
Ukrainian Hall 3-11 Russell St, Essendon, VIC
Melway map 28 G4
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have had their place in many famous collections as part of the history of Irish stamps. However, they are bogus in origin’ Three values are known inscribed ‘Ireland’ in varying styles at the top, the ½d grey-green, 2½d blue and 4d brown. Fig 4. There is also a 4d rose-red inscribed ‘Sligo’. All are perforated rough 11½. Despite their dubious status, they are still rare and sought after, with the 4d brown having the lowest catalogue value of the group, coming in at a mere €1800 in the Hibernian!
As with the Fenian reprints and the Erin go Bragh issue, the Colonial design issues also appeared in 1893. Because of the timing, it seems very likely that all of these forerunners were produced to coincide with, and promote the introduction of Prime Minister Gladstone’s second Irish Home Rule Bill into parliament that year. The bill passed in the House of Commons, 347 votes to 304, on September 1st, 1893, but was soundly defeated in the House of Lords, 419 votes to 41. Almost 30 years would pass, and two more Irish Home Rule Bills would come before parliament, in 1914 and again in 1920, before the provisional government of Ireland would issue it’s first ‘real’ postage stamps in February, 1922.
Before we close off this month, it’s worth mentioning one other 19th century issue with a
definite Irish theme, which was probably produced in the US. The design is clearly based on the US 1861 1c blue Franklin issue, but has the letters ‘HHGH’ in the four corners, and is inscribed ‘IRELAND’ above the portrait, and ‘AMERICA’ below. There doesn’t seem to be any information available regarding the origins of this stamp (or what the ‘HHGH’ might stand for), but an educated guess would suggest that it is a contemporary of the Fenian Rising stamps, as the US 1c stamp on which it based was in use at that time.
Next month we’ll move into the forerunners of the 20th century, starting with what are probably the most familiar designs of any of the Irish forerunners, the Sinn Fein labels of 1907-16.
Please feel free to contact me at [email protected] with any questions or comments
Until next month, happy collecting!
Mike
Fig 4. 2½d 1893 Colonial design
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Tasmanian Beers at Canberra Stamp ShowOne would think by now, each and every beer duty issue from Tasmania would have been sighted and recorded in it’s 130 year history. Apparently not, an unrecorded provisional issue of 1892 9/- with a 12/- surcharge followed by a sub-charge of 8/3d has been found. This stamp has had the usual revenue ‘Troublemaker’ label attached to it by collectors for years as it was not know if it existed or not. Issued late January 1903 this provisional 8/3d has never been listed in any publication [other than in my on line web site] of Tasmanian works extant. This provisional N-E-I [Not Elsewhere Included] bulk beer One Barrel issue from my studies, I believe had a tiny print run of just 200. Current survival rate, 1.
This emergency provisional was made from the remainders of the 1892 12/- on 9/- surcharge issue pending the release of the purpose 8/3d brown red in late February 1903. It’s grubby, dirty, cut into pieces, bits missing from it and an all round stinker of a stamp that should have never survived, that is if you collect general run of the mill boring well centred full perfed nice shiny gummed pretty stamps. But, if
you collect revenues [and if you are reading this, my guess is you do] then it is a brilliant stamp showing every characteristic a revenue collector could wish for. We are lucky some loving collector saved all the pieces and rejoined them. If you want to see this exceedingly rare revenue ‘in the flesh’ [no longer labelled a ‘Troublemaker’] it will be on shown at the Canberra Stamp-Show 2010, between 12 to 14 March at the Hellenic Club in Woden, ACT. Just look for the Tasmanian Revenue exhibit.
Quiet RailwaysAll appears quite on the railway revenue fee front. Even eBay appears to have dried up where railway parcel stamps are concerned. Can I suggest if you see any railways you grab them as fast as you can and tuck them away. Figure 1 was the only railway item I have been able to collect this past month. Unusually it is cancelled with a postal two line registered handstamp from Nambour on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.
Club Book GoodiesThe recent arrival of a new Cinderella Circuit Book yielded some scarce revenues. One such item was figure
Revenue Review
Fig. 1 Fig. 2
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2. This revenue is an exceedingly rare Queensland 20/- Unemployment Stamp of 1943. This is the first 20/- I have seen with this date. Only a small handful of the high value unemployment issues with various dates have survived to date. If you are lucky enough to own one of them you should consider yourself very lucky.
New Zealand Postal Note BookNew Zealand Postal Notes 1886-1986 [fig 3] A Priced Catalogue Including notes on British Postal Orders Issued in New Zealand by Jack Harwood, FRPSL.
For the first time, collectors have a reference work which details all Postal Note issues of New Zealand. This catalogue presents the results of almost thirty years of collecting and research by Jack. The author’s research is shown in the twenty-seven separate and distinct Postal Note types identified, with most of them photographed in full colour. Every variety and denomination is listed and priced. Counterfoil types are described and pictured, and watermarks are identified. Other sections include information on Post Office Training School usage, remaindered items, “star” notes, archival holdings at both Museum of New Zealand Te
Papa Tongarewa and New Zealand Post, and extensive listings of British Postal Orders issued in New Zealand. A series of appendixes include information on serial numbers for many issues, plus a group of Official Acts and documents relating to Postal Notes. The book is 130 pages, perfect bound, card cover.
This catalogue should help both philatelists, who typically consider Postal Notes to be a Revenue fee, and bank note collectors, who consider them a form of paper money. The catalogue is easy to use, with a separate page devoted to each type and design. Several charts assist in locating items by year of issue and design characteristics. Price: A$67 postpaid to Australia or A$97 for two copies postpaid to Australia. NZ$80 postpaid to New Zealand or NZ$118 for two copies postpaid to New Zealand.
Orders to: Jack Harwood, 3241 Ringwood Mdws, Sarasota FL 34235-7005, USA. With convenient payment via Paypal accepted. Jacks contact email is: [email protected]
More Postal NotesGary Watson has sent me figure 4 which I believe is
Dave Elsmore
Fig. 6
Fig. 4
Fig. 3
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an unrecorded 10/6d SPECIMEN postal note from Victoria. It shows a super 3d poundage or fee revenue, very collectable by both the revenue & bank note collectors alike. This will be offered in Gary’s next rarities sale.
More and More Holes NeededMy latest venture of collating all recorded perfins on revenue & railways stamps of Australia with co author David Coath [President of the New Zealand & Australian Perfin Club] is coming along very nicely. Many thanks to those of you who have already supplied photocopies or scans of your holdings. This is very much appreciated. They have come from as far away as the UK & Canada. Can I further ask if you have not got around to it yet, that you find time to sort, scan & send your perfins to me, thank you.
More TasmaniaWhile Tasmania is the flavour of the month, I have
figure 5 in my exhibit of Tasmania Revenues showing clearly doubling of the value TWO PENCE. What I consider strange is that if the sheet was run through twice surely all the four values should align up the same, but be out of register. This block shows all four do not align up at all. Any thoughts you may have on how this has happened can you please make contact with me. If you look closer at the central design, the platypus has gone for a swim, possibly over-inked or the plates are just about worn out.
Even More TasmaniaOne would think I am exhibiting my Tasmania Revenues this month, well ok, I am, so this month I have added an extra Tasmanian flavour just to spread the word. If you can’t make it to the Canberra show I will have the full exhibit on line in my ‘Exhibits’ tab from my internet home page. Once there, you will be able to self judge the exhibit, I would also welcome any comment to improve it.
Right then, last little beauty to show you this month, and quite a scarce stamp to find. Figure 6 is the second perf 14 1/- Platypus with REVENUE overprint on I have found. Unfortunately the first got lost! I think I threw it out with some papers on my desk after scanning it for a friend over a year or two ago now. Boy did I feel an idiot [not hard to do]. Anyway figure 6 can be seen in my exhibit in Canberra. It may pay you to go and check your 1/- Platypus issues for a perf 14 as very few remainder sheets were used up before a fresh printing which was then perfed 11¾. Let me know if you do find one so I can add it to the handful already recorded.
I can be contacted by mail: P O Box 66 Springwood 4127 Queensland or an Email link from my web site ozrevenues.com
Fig. 3 Fig. 4
Revenue Review
Fig. 5
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Stamps in the News - Globally!Thailand: Postage stamps to celebrate 70 million ThaisReported in Thai News Service
The Thailand Post releases postage stamps to celebrate a hundredth anniversary of the national census as well as the Thai
population reaching 70 million. The images of people and houses and the official
logo of the 2010 population and housing census appears on the 10-baht stamps. A total of 700,000 stamps will be issued.
Census taking started in 1900 during the reign of King Rama V and 2010 will be the eleventh population count taken in Thailand.
From banker to chief postieReported in The Age
Australia has a new top postie: former banker, Ahmed Fahour, has been appointment as Australia Post chief .
After a stint on Wall Street with
US bank Citigroup, Mr Fahour was hired by National Australia Bank in 2004 to rebuild its Australian business.
Mr Fahour joins Australia Post as it faces pressure on several fronts. The internet and email are eroding its core letters delivery business, profits for parcel delivery remain under pressure and it is in the middle of an industrial dispute that could stretch well into next year.
“It’s an iconic company with a strong brand. Like banking, it services a vast array of customers every day in locations all over Australia,” he said.
Sick of Tiger?Reported in The Wall Street Journal
TOKYO: Japan’s teen golf star Ryo Ishikawa will be featured on postage stamps marking his success in becoming the sport’s youngest domestic tour money leader, Japan’s postal service has announced.
Japan Post said. Ishikawa, who turned 18 in September, won
four tournaments to become the top prize earner on the Japan Golf Tour last year. He was the youngest annual money leader on any of the world’s six major tours.
German stamps on the noseReported by SAPA
Berlin - If you’re expecting a letter from Germany any time soon, you might want to follow your nose.
Germany’s Finance Ministry this week, in an annual tradition, issued new postage stamps designed to support charities. In a twist, the stamps are scratch and sniff, with customers able to choose between apple, strawberry, huckleberry and lemon scents.
The scent -which is only released upon scratching the stamp’s surface - is made possible with scented oils wrapped in miscroscopic capsules.
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Nordic Error Stamps
For more than 15 years I have written a very long series of articles aimed at beginners for the Swedish Philatelic Magazine. It has never been difficult to find suitable topics to write about as we have such a rich and varied hobby.
Recently I worked on an article devoted to different kinds of error stamps which I believe might be of interest to STAMP NEWS readers as well.
Quite a number of mistakes might occur during the production of postage stamps. In the following I just want to discuss errors which are easily spotted even by the ordinary letter writer without any special interest in stamps or stamp collecting.
Errors usually have to do with two-colour printing, overprinting and the perforation process. Watermark errors are quite common but as they are difficult to see I leave them out for the time being.
In the Nordic area error stamps are far from common. Quality standards at the printing works seem to guarantee that the vast majority of all stamps printed are free from any problems. However, to err
is human and mistakes do occur.In this article I intend to spotlight a number of
interesting stamp errors using stamps of Sweden and North Ingermanland as illustrations.
Most readers are probably familiar with Sweden but what on earth is North Ingermanland?
In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution the mainly Finnish-speaking population of Ingermanland on the Isthmus of Karelia opted for independence. The plans had to be abandoned when the area was occupied by Russian forces in late 1917. Finland received a lot of refugees from Ingermanland and many of these refugees wanted to liberate their homeland. In late 1919, a small area surrounding the town of Kirjasalo was occupied by a Corps of Volunteers and a provisional government was established. It is mainly know for having issued two sets of stamps in 1920. The independent state of North Ingermanland (Pohjois Inkeri in Finnish) only lasted for a few months.
The only post office in North Ingermanland
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was located in Kirjasalo but the mails were mostly handled at Rautu on the Finnish side of the border.
The stamps were printed by the Viborgs Bok- och Stentryckeri AB. Controls at this concern appear to have been rather lax to say the least as numerous (but interesting!) errors have reached the philatelic marketplace.
Probably the most exciting errors occur when stamps are printed in two colours. In the past the sheets needed to go through the press twice to get the two colours printed. Occasionally a sheet was fed into the press upside down for the second printing. What we get is an inverted centre!
This is what happened with the 10-mark denomination of the 1920 North Ingermanland pictorials. The two musicians playing the Kantele are upside down! Only 100 stamps were printed in this way making it North Ingermanland’s most expensive stamp (currently valued at some AU$1,500).
There are very few inverted centre stamps in the Nordic area. I can only think of a Danish local post
stamp and a number of Swedish proofs.On June 18-19, 2009 a huge collection of
inverted centres was sold at the Spink Shreves Galleries in New York. The collection was the life-long passion of Robert H. Cunliffe and the beautifully produced set of two hardbound catalogues is a must for any serious collector of inverted centres.
Most inverted centre stamps are rare and thus command very high prices. However, as always there are exceptions for collectors of more moderate means. An inverted centre adds a lot of pizzazz to any collection.
Stamps are frequently overprinted for a variety of reasons. In 1889, the Swedish post office decided to surcharge the 12- and 24-öre service stamps with the new denomination of 10 öre following a rate change. There are several interesting overprint varieties including the one illustrated here. The stamp to the right shows the denomination as 10 ÖKE! It is an interesting variety which at least
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doubles the value of the stamp. I obtained the two stamps at a local stamp club auction. As the stamps had been hinged interest was not very strong and I don’t believe anyone actually spotted the error.
When North Ingermanland ceased to exist as an independent state some of the remainders of the pictorial set were overprinted Inkerin Hyväksi which can be translated as For the prosperity of Ingermanland in English. The postage stamps were thus turned into charity labels. Shown nearby is a stamp with the overprint upside down.
Finally we turn to problems involving the perforation of stamps and once again I have selected a stamp from North Ingermanland to illustrate my point.
Swedish and many other collectors consider stamps of identical design and colour but with a different perforation gauge to be a separate stamp issue. The Swedish 19th century ring type stamps exist perforated 14 or 13 and are considered to be two separate issues by Facit and other catalogues.
However, the difference in perforation is not obvious to the average person so let’s look at a more striking variety.
Illustrated here is a pair of North Ingermanland pictorial stamps where an entire row of perforations is missing! This certainly is a variety which can be appreciated by the untrained eye. I have several examples of strange or missing perforations on North Ingermanland stamps.
By their very nature error stamps are a lot scarcer than the normal variety. As far as most other consumer products are concerned we look for flawless items. Not so in stamp collecting where an error stamp makes your album page so much more interesting.
The Nordic area has got its share of error stamps with the most famous one being the 1855 Three Skilling Banco Yellow of Sweden. It is currently the most valuable single stamp on planet earth and it has been the subject of numerous books and countless articles in the philatelic press.
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AUCTION DIARYHere are the dates and details for sales being held by public auction houses who are regular display advertisers in Stamp News. This is a free service to readers and advertisers.The information listed here is as supplied to us; readers are advised to contact the businesses directly in order to ascertain that this is correct. Other auc-tion houses are invited to list here. Cost is $275 prepaid per annum for a basic list-ing, unchanged for the period. Listings which require maintenance, such as updat-ing auction dates, are $550 per annum.
21st Century Auctions39 Kalman Drive, Boronia, Vic, 3155 www.21stcenturyauctions.com.au [email protected] Tel (03) 9729 0082 Fax (03) 9762 1280 Next sale: See website for details
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Auction house Christoph Gärtner74321 Bietigheim-bissingen, Germanywww.auktionen-gaertner.de [email protected] 0011 49 7142 789 400 Fax 0011 49 7142 789 410Forthcoming sales: See website for details
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Corbitts 5 Mosley Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 1YE, UKwww.corbitts.com [email protected] Tel: 0011 44 191 232 7268 Fax: 0011 44 191 261 4130Next sale: 11 March 2010
Craig ChappellPO Box 521, Clayfield, Qld. [email protected] Tel: (07) 3262 8810 Fax:(07) 3262 8816Please contact for details of forthcoming sales.
Cygnet Philatelics8 Clevedon Way, Karringyup, WA 6018Tel: (08) 9325 4542Next sale: see advertisements for detail
Harmers Of London11, 111 Power Road, London W4 5PY , UKwww.harmers.com [email protected]: 0011 44 208 747 6100 Fax: 0011 44 208 996 0649 Next sale: 6 March 2010
John Mowbray InternationalPO Box 80, Wellington 6140, New Zealandwww.mowbrays.co.nz [email protected]: 0011 64 6 364 8252 Fax: 0011 64 6 364 8270Next sale: See website for details
Millennium Philatelic AuctionsSuite 25, 89-97 Jones Street, Ultimo, NSW 2007www.millenniumauctions.com [email protected]: (02) 9281 4797 Fax: (02) 9281 4677Next sale: 10 March 2010
Mowbray’s AustraliaLevel 6, 36 – 38 Clarence Street, Sydney, NSW [email protected] Tel: (02) 9299 1300 Fax: (02) 9290 1999 Next sale: 24 March 2010
Prestige PhilatelyPO Box 126, Belgrave, Vic. 3160www.prestigephilately.com [email protected]: (03) 9754 7666 Fax:(03) 9754 7677Forthcoming sales: See website for details
Robin Linke Stamp Dealer181 Jersey Street, Wembley, 6014, Western Australia www.robinlinke.com.au [email protected] (08) 9387 5327 Fax (08) 9387 1646Next sale: 7 March 2010
Spinkwww.spink.com Tel: 0011 44 20 7563 4000 Fax: 0011 44 20 7563 4066Next sale: 11 25,29,30 March 2010 (London & USA)
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Salvation Army Depression StampsThe Salvation Army in the USA issued these labels, (fig. 1), as publicity effort after the Great Depression of the late 1920s and 1930s. There were six labels to a sheet and the back of each label had the inscription as shown in fig. 2.
Hallmark Auctions AdelaideThe next Hallmark Auction has a large section devoted to Cinderella items. These have come from a world wide hoard and cover every facet of Cinderellas. There is also a section on Postal Stationery cutouts.
The sale is on 21 March 2010 in Adelaide. Catalogues can be ordered from Stewarts Stamp Shop, 4 Coromandel Place, Adelaide, South Australia 5000.
Adelaide Stampex 2010This exhibition will be held in Adelaide from 20 to 22 August and Cinderella Stamps will be catered
for in a class of their own. But note that Railway and Revenue stamps are excluded.
Moonta Tramway TicketsAs a break away from the usual Cinderella items, I thought readers might be interested in some vintage tram tickets held in the collection of State Records in South Australia. From the 1860s the towns of Moonta, Wallaroo and Kadina were the centre of huge copper mines with Moonta being the principal town. Parts of the Moonta tramway were converted from an earlier railway and between 1895 and 1897 the system was developed to eventually extend from Moonta Bay to Moonta Mines and East Moonta with a branch to Hamley Flat. The tramway continued to operate until 1931 when it was closed. The tickets illustrated here are examples of the early card tickets sold by the dozen and the later paper tickets. (Figs. 3, 4 and 5). There were several examples in the collection but I have chosen three that I consider show the best representation.
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Adelaide And Hindmarsh TramwayOne of the many Adelaide suburban tramways operated from Adelaide to Hindmarsh now an inner western suburb of Adelaide. This line was the forerunner of the Findon electric tram service of 1910.
I have seen tickets from the Prospect, Enfield and Nailsworth tramway and the Adelaide, Unley and Mitcham tramway but this ticket from the Hindmarsh tram is the first I have seen. (Fig. 6).
1937 RevisitedCollectors will be familiar with these stamp designs that were issued as part of the 1937 definitive series. As issued in monocolour they were quite an attractive series, but much later they were issued in colour as self adhesive labels that were used as the centrepiece of wine labels. I must admit that they look much more attractive reproduced in colour. I have only illustrated two of them here. (Figs. 7 and 8).
JerseyBack in the July column last year I wrote about these issues requesting more information as I did not know anything apart from what I found in a search on the internet. Our editor kindly added a note under the item in the column advising me that they are actually revenue stamps of Jersey and are easily available in the UK. These came as a query from a reader in Victoria who sent me a group of six but I am only showing two. (Figs. 9 and 10). I don’t have a world revenue catalogue but no doubt they are listed in the Barefoot catalogue.
MLC JubileeIn 1936 the National Mutual Life & Citizens Insurance Company celebrated 50 years in New Zealand. This label was issued as a commemorative and publicity label. (Fig 11). It is recorded in Heslop as E86.
British Empire Cancer CampaignAn impressive label issued by the New Zealand
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Branch of the British Campaign against Cancer some time in the 1910s. Heslop records two values, 6 pence blue and one shilling red, (G12 and G14), although the illustration shows it as red and black. (Fig. 12).
Big Tree OilThis is one that has not been recorded before, at least not that I could find. The auction catalogue indicated that it was possibly of 1920s vintage. (Fig. 13). A Google search provided a bit more information and indicated the name was of 1920s origin when motor spirit came in 4 gallon cans two to a case.
Carlyle Farm ImplementsThis little beauty, (fig. 14), dates from the early 1900s with Heslop dating it as 1906 and listing it as E15. It is a very attractive item, and this example that was offered in the auction was a fine copy. Booth, MacDonald & Co was an agricultural implement
company in Christchurch.
Papanui FeteThis is a very early New Zealand label dating from 1903. It was issued as a fund raiser by St. Paul’s Church to commemorate the jubilee fête, which indicates a 50 years celebration. (Fig. 15).
PSSA StampsLastly three stamps issued over the years from this organization. The blue ‘For Orphans’ stamp dates from 1936, (fig 16), the Xmas Cheer issue is self explanatory and is one of a set of three, from 1941, (fig 17), as is the last one, again one of a set of three, from 1947, (fig 18).
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BOO - WHO?Sutherland & Co was an operator of a local post in Japan around 1870. It issued two denominations of stamp, and the originals are quite rare, probably less than twenty of each exist. But watch out for the forgeries or copies, of which there are many.
The denominations are 1 boo and a quarter boo. Ever tried saying “boo” in a quarter of the time? The word is a contraction of an ancient Japanese coin, the ichibu.
DO RAILWAYS HAVE THE ANSWER?I have a great belief in finding the answer to problems, new ideas, and challenges by looking at what is happening in other hobbies or fields of endeavour. One of my long lasting interests is in rail - including trains and trams, model and prototype. So much so that the following ideas leapt off the page of a recent international railways magazine, crying out to be adapted by analogue to our world of philately.
A theatre train is being evolved in Nottingham (UK) whereby a specially adapted carriage will have a fold-down side to reveal a stage,on which plays and other theatrical productions will be conducted at various venues as the train makes its way across the country.
There are already some similar rail vehicles elsewhere in Europe. What a boost to philately in Australia it would be if Australia Post - or even APF - had a similar mobile exhibition and workshop constantly travelling by rail from town to town. It could be funded by local sponsorships, and manned by AP folk and clubs’ committee members.
In Britain, when there is a major breakdown or holdup in rail services, the Under-Secretary of Transport can require the offending rail compnany
to make available free or discounted tickets to passengers who were adversely affected. Is there a concept here which could be applied to any problems Australia Post causes- not that there are really many, apart from smudgy postmarks and premature shortages.
Then there’s the initiative by India’s Northern Railway Company in hiring 36 boxers and wrestlers to work on ‘revenue protection’. Australia Post would definitely banish the re-use of uncancelled stamps - now a large and embarrassing part of stamps commerce here - by adopting a similar strategy. (No, I am just kidding!)
A ‘Bring Back British Rail’ movement has been formed to campaign for the re-integration of the
original UK rail network. It advocates a public transport system “for the people, owned by the people”. Could we do something similar to bring sanity back into our postal system? Here’s a list of some possible objectives:
1. Resile back to the stamp issuing policy which existed when the late and great Phil Collas was the PMG Philately boss.
2. Have AP issue SPECIMEN and CTO folder sets at a low price to interest more potential collectors. ( not to sell the overprints in sheets to the trade, though.)
3. Clear the junk and non postal-related merchandise out of post offices so they can revert to their original and main objective.
4. Here’s a cheeky one - re-introduce imprint blocks - what would that do to the value of such material still held and collected by older collectors?
5. Ban and abolish cancellation of first day covers other than on the actual date.
Feel free to add your favourite ideas to this list.
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 [email protected]
De-Mystifying the Detail
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De-Mystifying the Detail Andrew McEachern
WE NEARLY GOT A CINDERELLAS CATALOGUE!There are many excellent books and monograms written by such illustrious authors as Barefoot, Peck, Craig, etc. on Cinderellas and revenues, plus those interesting columns by Tony Presgrave and Dave Elsmore in this magazine; but no-one has been able to produce a world-wide all periods catalogue of this material. I know it would be an IMMENSE task, and probably would need to be issued in instalments like the Billig books. Yet it nearly happened in the early 1900s when ‘Part Three’ of the Stanley Gibbons world catalogue of those times was solely devoted to locals and railway stamps. Hey SG, what went wrong ? And if any reader out there has a Part Three published around that time, please let me know. At 122 pages, with many inaccuracies recognised subsequently, it is a rare and expensive piece of essential philatelic history.
BILLIG?In the previous paragraph I mentioned ‘Billig’. Who is or was Billig ? Fritz Billig was a Vienna stamp dealer who fled to USA after the Austrian anschluss in 1938 and continued to trade in New York. He published a long running and successful series of philatelic handbooks - probably more than 50, variously in the English and German languages.
Many of the books won medals and prizes at Exhibitions in the 1930s. He died in 1986 at age 84. Some books were on single countries, others on topics like rockets, private local posts, and plating of selected issues. A complete series of the books on postmarks of the world continue to be the best source of such infornation. The Handbook of the Private Posts, issued in 1950, with prices in US dollars, is the last known comprehensive work on the subject. A Florida company acquired and reprinted some of the handbooks in the 1960s.
ANSCHLUSSOne paragraph seems to lead to another! ‘ANSCHLUSS’ gets a mention above; the term covers the de facto annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938. It was a time when Jews were victimised and many other cruelties occurred. The Austrian people were
forced to ratify the annexation in a plebescite which, it was claimed, showed 99% in favour.
TELEGRAPH STAMPSIt has always been somewhat borderline as to whether telegraph stamps are postage stamps or revenue stamps.Gibbons gave up listing GB telegraph stamps in 1940, but other catalogue editors continued to do so: Yvert & Tellier still lists these issues under their respective countries. Scotts lists the private telegraph stamps of 1870-1947. Michel records those of the old German States and there are many different authors who have done work on GB’s issues. But that’s enough on Cinderellas and the like from me, before Stamp News’ experts Dave and Tony cry ‘foul’. (Telegraphs still continue to be listed in SG Specialised GB Catalogues. Ed.)
OLD CATALOGUESOut of date stamp catalogues yield mixed rewards; some catalogue editors, in consideration of the publisher needing to maintain or improve profits, will delete pages of useful preface information from each new issue, even also reducing the descriptions and useful footnotes which previously were scattered throughout the listings. Which is a good reason to pick up cheap earlier editions and compare with the current catalogue.
Of course, there is a down side too. The values in an old catalogue will be meaningless, even misleading,and updated information found by specialists after publication will naturally be absent.
Other uses include clipping stamp illustrations to place in your album as ‘dummies’ to remind you to find the real thing for your collection....using selected torn-out pages as a checklist to mark off what you have and what you haven’t, to save carrying your current catalogues to meetings and fairs....
You can also indulge in some fanciful memories as you look at the prices of accessories in the advertisements which are always included.
A Brisbane character, now deceased, used to carry two sets of catalogues everywhere with him - the current set for him to set selling prices, the other, 20 years older, for his buying prices. Wonder why he was always interested in buying even more ancient editions?
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Giant PandasThe arrival of these attractive animals was mentioned in my article in January Stamp News. Australia Post issued a Souvenir Stamp sheet featuring Wang Wang (male) and Funi (female). The Austrian Postal Authorities have released a pleasing illustration of these two bears on a minisheet. The heading says “Giant Panda Conservation in Australia” in English and Chinese. The caption at the bottom says “Adelaide Zoo 2009” (see illustration nearby). I have secured a small shipment of these minisheets and you can see them priced in my advertisement in this issue of Stamp News.
Collecting HabitsI have been involved in the hobby of stamp collecting or philately for over seventy years and I am always surprised at the diversity of collector’s interests. It would be a fair assumption that most of us started collecting used stamps fairly indiscriminately.
If young people are lucky, they have a parent or grandparent who guides them or encourages them to join a group of collectors. In later life we see the many facets of our hobby. We can read articles
and see advertisements in Stamp News about early state and Australian stamps, postal history and covers, stamps from around the world, modern Australia, revenue labels, stamp packets, cinderellas, catalogues and so on. There are even interesting article about covers and letters sent long before the advent of the postage stamp! In the first two weeks of 2010 I received a sizeable order from Europe for Third Trial Booklet variations and another from the United States for quite a number of different singles and other permutations of original and reprinted printings of our Living Together series. It is quite interesting to note that these two foreign philatelists have made such a study of two interesting modern Australia Post issues.
Third Trial BookletAustralian stamp booklets had been part of Post’s issue programme from 1 January 1904 until they were discontinued in 1973. During this period the production methods were mechanised but eventually because of increasing costs and a fall off in advertisers in the booklet interleaves, the authorities decided to halt production of booklets. However, after six years it was decided to trial a couple of
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couple of booklets, to be dispensed from machines made by the Sterner company. This first trial was carried out, by placing dispensing machines in the Brisbane GPO. Both trial booklets used the then common bird definitive stamp – the 20c Grebe. Unfortunately the fourth edition of my Australia and Territories Booklet Catalogue has an error and calls these two booklets – the “First Trial Booklet – 60c” and the “First Trial Booklet – 80c”. Obviously wrong – the 80c is the Second Trial Booklet. I apologise for this error. Obviously this trial was successful and a Third Trial Booklet was commissioned for use at Sydney and Melbourne GPO’s. The letter rate was 27c but as the machines were designed for the use of 20c coins, the booklets contained 2 x 1c, 2 x 2c bird stamps and 2 x 27c Blue Mountain Tree Frog stamps.
Normal stamp sheets were torn into strips of 2. The pairs were stuck into the booklet by hand using the stamp selvedge. The 1c and 2c sheets have two panes separated by a gutter with colour bars. This gutter was guillotined, creating a gutter selvedge. The three pairs were placed in a variety of positions relative to each other, using any of their selvedges. The number of possible different arrangements of the pairs runs into the hundreds.
Only 20,000 of these trial booklets were done but because of the great philatelic interest quite a lot were bought but not used for mail. As a result they are not scarce and sell for $14 or $8 depending on which perforation. There are two different catalogue numbers – the first had the 27c Tree Frog with 12.6 x 12.8 perforation – the second had the Frog with 14 x 14.4 perforation. Two of these trial booklets are illustrated nearby.
Living TogetherThis set of Australian definitive stamps is unusual in many ways. The number of stamps in the issue – 27 – was unusually high; all stamps carried the bi-centennial symbol – a stylised map of Australia; 26 of the 27 stamps were issued in two lots of 13 in a four week period – the only extra was the 39c Tourism stamp – issued because of a rate increase; there was only one perforation change – the fourth reprint (4 Koala) of the 25c Housing stamp saw a change from the usual 14 perf to 14.68 (commonly referred to as fourteen and three quarters. Many of the values served only as make-up values as there were ten stamps below the 37c postal rate – later in the year 39c. There were three different papers
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in use – Harrison, Clark and CPL. This added to the interest for keen collectors. Also selvedge had variations – some fully perfed, some imperf, some three hole; some one hole and a few four hole perforations. Added to the above, this issue saw the introduction of the Koala count in October 1989. As Living Together was released in February/March 1988, some of the denominations were into their third reprint before the addition of Koalas to the margins. Various clues are used to decide original, second printing (first reprint) etc. Paper used, colour under UV, sequence of colour dots in the gutters are a help in deciding which printing we are checking. These reprints, without Koalas, are generally more expensive as fewer of them were saved at the time. All in all, this is the most exciting of the modern issues which one may wish to study! I illustrate a few of these stamps nearby.
Queensland Frama Philatelic ClichesFrom time to time I am asked to explain how or why we have type 1 and type 2 Framas for three Queensland and one Victorian cliché numbers. The clichés are A20 (Broadbeach), B87 (Mount Ommaney), B95 (Redcliffe) and C4 (Belgrave). Although Belgrave is in Victoria these were called Queensland Framas because they were produced in Brisbane.
Most Australian Frama collectors are happy to have a good collection of Australian Framas. However a lot of European collectors are keen to own Framas or ATM’s from around the world. These collectors can source button sets and sets of
nine from Australia Post or Australia Post Agents. Because Australia Post never produced Framas with Alpha Numeric cliché numbers (except A25 Ringwood in their sets of nine) these collectors turned to their dealers who then had to establish contact with a reliable source in Australia. In the early days these contacts were a couple of Adelaide dealers but later the approach was made to me and from the early nineties, thousands of Framas wee supplied in this manner.
This caused ill-will with other collectors at these machines on the first few days of new security paper. The demand was for hundreds or thousands of A cliché, B cliché and C cliché so A20 Broadbeach, B87 Mount Ommaney and C4 Belgrave were selected. When the Emu reprint appeared as greenish-grey to replace the first print which was slate grey, I phoned Melbourne and it was agreed that Australia Post would get duplicate clichés made for the A20, B87 and C4 machines. These clichés were supplied to the Post Workshops and a philatelic lady from Brisbane GPO supervised the operation and cleared the money and fitted new rolls of paper as required.
Distinguishing Type 2 From Type 1 These Framas did not all go overseas as I supplied my Australian customers as well and these Framas quickly became known as Type 2 as the ones from the actual machines at Broadbeach, Mount Ommaney and Belgrave were Type 1. There were no C clichés in Queensland and this did sometimes present a problem. The main criteria distinguishing between type 1 and type 2 are as follows:
Type 1 lines and text not of even thickness. “0” in A20 is rounded. B with smaller top in B87 also 8 has even sized top and bottom. Straight top bar of 7.
Type 2 has thicker, more even lines and text. “0” in A20 in narrower – not rounded. B in B87 has bigger top while top of 8 is smaller than type 1. 7 has “tail” at front of top. Magnified cliché sections of the Emu paper are illustrated nearby.
NOTE: C4 was not available in type 1 in Green
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Emu – Slate Grey only.
Mawson’s Huts FoundationThis is a not for profit charity organization that exists solely to raise funds for the conservation of the historic Mawson’s huts. In addition to being one of the most successful scientific research expeditions of it’s time, the Australian Antarctic Exhibition was also considered one of the most heroic, largely due to Mawson’s miraculous story of courage and survival. When Mawson’s companions, Belgrave Ninnis and Xavier Mertz, tragically died during a remote sledging expedition and
much of the group’s equipment and food plummeted down a crevasse, Mawson was forced to embark on a desperate journey that would see him walk 500 kilometres, the last 160 kilometres starving and alone. Incredibly, he eventually reached the huts at Cape Denison, only to find that his ship, the Aurora, had departed a few hours earlier, forcing him to remain behind for another winter.
Two special commemorative overprinted AAT minisheets have been produced to raise funds for the Mawson’s Huts Foundation. The one celebrates the installation of wind turbine at Cape Denison – Antarctic, while the other shows the search for Mawson’s “Vickers Aircraft”. Both minisheets are illustrated nearby.
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After all these years of collecting I still get excited when I find one from my ‘neck of the woods’. I have never discovered any from my direct forebears, but this month’s letter is one to an area I know well. It is a short letter that still has interest for anyone collecting postal markings, particularly from the London area, as it started in the Twopenny Post area and was transferred out to the General post. (Fig.1) It was addressed to Mrs Bullock, Pyle Cottage, Colnbrook, Bucks and although there is no address inside the letter, the postal markings tell the story.
It was put in to the Receiving house in Fulham, which was in the Twopenny Post country area as it was outside the 3 mile radius of the Town area. Here it received the boxed FULHAM office name stamp and the handstruck ‘2’ stamp showing the postage which had to be paid, plus the manuscript ‘8’ which was the overall cost to the receiver of the letter. At this time all letters in the country area of the had to be lodged at the Twopenny post Receiving houses, as there were no General Post receiving houses in the country area. Fulham, which was also a sorting office, came under the control of the Westminster Office of the Twopenny Post, so the letter would have been transferred there where it received the Transfer stamp 7 SP night 7. (Fig.2) This was applied on unpaid letters transferred to the General Post. It can be identified as being applied at the Westminster office because the day is before the month , whereas the Chief Office had the month before the day, and this particular size and shape was in use only from 1823 to 1825.
At the General post office the London double ring evening duty stamp was applied. (Fig.3) It has the date in the centre circle, the month at the top SE
the year at the bottom, and the identifying letter of the hand stamp at the left – in this case ‘X’. This type of evening duty stamp was in use from 1823 until 1828. It is interesting to note that the evening duty stamps of
this period can always be recognised by the fact that the year was shown in a curve, even when they were shown only in two figures. The morning duty stamps in contrast, always showed the year in a straight line. The double ring showed that it was an ‘extra’ stamp used when warranted by the amount of mail to be processed. The cost of 8pence seems a lot as Colnbrook is only 17 miles from London and was the second stop after Hounslow for the changing of the horses.
The letter is on good quality cream paper, with a distinct watermark GATER 1822. (Fig.4)
Now to the contents, (Fig.5 )which are very easy to read, and is a chatty letter to her aunt.
Tuesday Septr the 7th 1824My dearest AuntAfter a very pleasant excursion we are at length
returned home & I have had the delight of finding Papa quite well.
I will not at present enter into any particulars
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of our travels hoping that Saturday next may find you disengaged & that my dear Uncle will have the kindness to give me a line by return of post to say if we may be welcome on that day.
I am obliged to return to Fulham on Monday, and hope therefore we shall be fortunate in finding you at liberty.
Ever my dearest AuntYour affectionate NieceFrances Barnard”.
The letter then ends with a postscript :
“Should Saturday be inconvenient I will endeavour to fix Friday or Sunday.”
It is obvious that the post was sufficiently reliable for
them to make arrangements at short notice. The service at the time was frequent. Brumell’s book reports that letter carriers would have taken the letters from the local receiving offices to the sorting office, (in this case Fulham) twice a day. These letters were then made up into sealed bags to be taken to London. The system worked in reverse too, the General post letters and letters from other Town areas would be sent in sealed bags to the sorting offices where the local letter carriers met to collect the letters for delivery on their respective walks. It was all highly organised and dependable.
I checked and found that the Bullock family of Colnbrook were in trade as leather dressers. This brings to my mind images of the 1960s when it was definitely ‘cool’ to be dressed in leather, but that is not what it meant in the 18th
and 19th centuries.
Reference: George Brumell’s “The Local posts of London 1680-1840”
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WASHINGTON — Four revered U.S. Navy icons were commemorated with a First-Class salute with the dedication of the Distinguished Sailors collectable stamps. Available nationwide from February 4, the 44-cent stamps immortalize four sailors who served with bravery and distinction during the 20th Century: William S. Sims, Arleigh A. Burke, John McCloy and Doris “Dorie” Miller.
The dedication ceremony took place on February at the United States Navy Memorial in Washington, DC.
“On behalf of the U.S. Postal Service, I am pleased to honor these four great sailors who impacted our nation and world,” said Potter. “These brave individuals represent the U.S. Navy’s proud legacy of service to this nation. Their example is an inspiration to every American.”
Joining Potter in dedicating the stamps were Juan M. Garcia III, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs); Vice Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, Director, Navy Staff; Edward K. Walker Jr., Rear Admiral, Supply Corps (Ret.) and United States Navy Memorial President; David A. Rosenberg, PhD, Naval Historian/Captain, U.S. Navy Reserves; Rep. Chet Edwards (D-TX); Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX); and, U.S. Postal Service Vice President, Supply Management, Susan M. Brownell.
“I am honoured to recognize the contributions these great Americans made to our Navy and to our country,” said Garcia. “It is only fitting that their legacy of honour, courage and commitment be spotlighted by the United States Postal Service.”
The stamps, designed by Phil Jordan of Falls Church, VA, are based on photographs from Navy archives. Text along the top of the stamp sheet
WorldWide NeW issues
identifies the four sailors, the approximate date of each photograph, and a ship named in honor of each sailor.
William S. SimsCommander of U.S. naval forces in European waters during World War I, Sims (1858-1936) was an outspoken reformer and innovator who helped shape the Navy into a modern fighting
force. Frustrated by the Navy bureaucracy, he circumvented his superiors to get the Navy to adopt improved gunfire techniques that increased firing accuracy as ships rolled through ocean swells. He also is noted for promoting the convoy system that grouped ships closely together as they were accompanied by small numbers of Navy escorts while crossing the U-Boat infested Atlantic — saving countless lives in both world wars. The stamp features a detail from a 1919 photograph of Sims and depicts the crest of the destroyer escort USS W.S. Sims (DE-1059), commissioned in 1970.
Arleigh A. BurkeAfter serving as one of the top destroyer squadron commanders of World War II, Burke (1901-1996) had an equally distinguished postwar career in which he played a major role in modernizing the Navy and guiding its response to the Cold War. During World War II, he gained a reputation for brilliance and innovation while commanding Destroyer Squadron 23, known as “the Little Beavers.” The squadron fought in 22 separate actions in a four-month period, sinking or helping to sink nine enemy destroyers and downing 30 airplanes. He later served an unprecedented three terms as the Navy’s highest ranking officer — Chief of Naval Operations — to speed construction
Distinguished Sailors Saluted On Stamps
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of nuclear-powered submarines and initiating the Polaris Ballistic Missile Program. His stamp, based on a 1951 photograph, depicts the crest of the guided missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51), commissioned in 1991.
John McCloyDescribed by a shipmate as “like a bull” who couldn’t be stopped, McCloy (1876-1945) holds the distinction of being one of the few men in the nation’s history to earn two Medals of Honor for a rescue mission during the Boxer Rebellion in which he was wounded, and during the 1914 Mexican Revolt for intentionally exposing his boat to draw enemy fire to identify their positions for retaliation by U.S. cruiser gunfire. Shot in the thigh, he remained on post 48 hours until the brigade surgeon sent him to a hospital. In 1919 he was awarded the Navy Cross as commander of USS Curlew, which engaged in the “difficult and hazardous duty” of sweeping mines in the North Sea in the aftermath of World War I. His stamp is based on a circa 1920 photograph and depicts the crest of the destroyer escort, USS McCloy (DE-1038), commissioned in 1963.
Doris MillerThe first black American hero of World War II, Miller (1919-1943) became an inspiration to generations of Americans for his actions at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Serving aboard the battleship West Virginia as a mess attendant — the only job rating open to blacks at the time — Miller helped rescue scores of shipmates wounded or trapped in wreckage. He was later ordered to the bridge to help move the ship’s mortally wounded captain. Never trained in its operation, he manned an unattended 50-caliber machine gun to fire on Japanese aircraft until ordered to abandon the bridge as fires raged out of control. He was later awarded the Navy Cross. Miller was promoted in June 1943 to Officer’s Cook Third Class aboard the new escort aircraft carrier Liscome Bay and was killed in action on Nov. 24 that year along with more than 600 shipmates when an enemy torpedo sank the ship during the invasion of the Gilbert Islands. His body was lost at sea. His stamp is based on a 1942 photograph and depicts the crest of the destroyer escort USS Miller (DE-1091), commissioned in 1973. Actor Cuba Gooding Jr., portrayed Miller in the 2001 movie Pearl Harbor.
PARK CITY, UT — The U.S. Postal Service today commemorates the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games with the issuance of a stamp featuring an illustration of a snowboarder. The stamp on sale in january in Park City, UT, and in Post
Offices across the United States. The XXI Olympic Winter Games will be held Feb. 12-28, 2010, in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
First-day-of-issue ceremonies for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Stamp immediately followed the Sprint U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix at Park City Mountain Resort, Park City, UT. Alan C. Kessler, member, Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service, and Dick Coe, Executive Vice President and chief operating officer, U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association, are the dedicating officials.
“We are proud to support the Olympics and are pleased to be able to continue the tradition of honoring the Games by issuing postage stamps celebrating different Olympic sports,” says Gov. Kessler.
Illustrator Steve McCracken captures the thrill of Olympic sports in his portrayal of an airborne snowboarder against the backdrop of a snow-capped mountain.
Stamps featuring Olympic themes have been popular since the first modern Olympiad in 1896, when Greece issued 12 Olympic-themed commemorative stamps. Beginning in 1932, when the Olympic Games were held in Los Angeles, CA, numerous U.S. stamps have honoured the Games.
Vancouver 2010
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British Guiana & British Honduras
The two countries are combined because they were Britain’s only mainland Crown Colonies in the British West Indies. The others are Caribbean islands! British Guiana (now re-named Guyana), is located on the north-east coast of South America and British Honduras (now Belize) is on the east coast of Central America.
British Guiana is renowned by stamp collectors for issuing the World’s rarest stamp – the legendary 1c black and magenta of 1874. Only one example is known.
Both countries have many post offices, and collecting the colourful names especially on King George Sixth stamps makes an interesting sideline. British Guiana used a lot of stamps, and lower values in particular are still available for little cost. However, used Guyana stamps are much scarcer due to increased dependence on electronic and metered mail. Used British Honduras stamps have always been much harder to find. Some postmarks to worth looking for include Double Head Cabbage, Gallon Jug and Crooked Tree!
My British Guiana collection starts with the
pictorials of King George Fifth. Three of the twelve designs were adapted from the 1931 ‘Centenary of County Union’.
With one exception the designs were repeated for the 1938 King George Sixth definitives. Just one was discarded - the Victoria Regis Lilies, which was re-introduced in a new format on the $3.00 stamp. Particularly interesting was the retention of the 1936 3c and 12c denominations in existing colours. A new design for the 4c was a map of South America, showing the exact location of the Colony which was being frequently mistaken for New Guinea.
Notable designs include the 2c and 36c with the magnificent Kaieteur Falls, the World’s largest single drop and five times higher than Niagara Falls. Also interesting is the $2.00 stamp featuring Mount Roraima, which inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic novel The Lost World Another unusual design is the 96c showing part of the picture of Sir Walter Raleigh and his son copied from the full-length painting in the Legislative Council Chamber in Georgetown.
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One extreme rarity of this set is the 1951 printing of the $1.00 perf 14x13.
Queen Elizabeth pictorials were issued in 1954, using mostly new designs printed initially by Waterlow, but from 1961 De La Rue took over. The 6c repeats the fishing design of previous issues with the Indian fisherman now renamed as an Amerindian. Perhaps the most original is the 72c showing Arapaimia, described on the stamp as The largest freshwater fish in the World.
Apart from the standard omnibus sets, no specific commemoratives were issued until the History and Culture Week in 1961. This was followed in 1964 with three diamond-shaped stamps marking the Tokyo Olympics. The two stamps commemorating Winston Churchill were for some unexplained reason, quite different from the standard omnibus set issued by the other Crown Colonies.
In 1966 the colony was renamed Guyana. In addition to an Independence commemorative issue,
definitives were overprinted in London ‘GUYANA INDEPENDENCE 1966’ There are different watermarks depending on the availability of stamps for overprinting, including some completely new printings.
By 1967, stocks were running low and new overprints
were applied locally. These are easily identified by quite different lettering. The local printers were not accustomed to producing postage stamps, resulting in many errors. There are several inverted overprints, and some malformation in lettering. A major variety is however the ‘1966 INDEPENDENCE 1966’ errors which occur in the 2c, 3c, and 6c stamps. This was corrected but not before many had been removed from sheets and sold to collectors.
New wildlife definitives were issued in 1968, followed in 1971 with a set of flowering plants. In 1969 remainders of some stamps were officially cancelled- to- order and placed on the market. Because these look postally used they have severely devalued the
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stamps concerned. Subsequent issues have been in uncontrollable numbers, and today Guyana holds the unenviable record for almost 7000 different stamps, and consequently is no longer widely collected
Pictorials from British Honduras commenced in 1938 with a portrait of King George Sixth. These are typical of the period with attractive designs pertaining to the colony. The 2c and 50c stamps feature an unusual local industry - the production of chicle, which was a major ingredient of chewing gum! British Honduras also participated in all omnibus stamps from the Silver Jubilee to UPU issue. The only specific commemorative was in 1949 when six stamps belatedly marked the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of St George’s Cay in 1798 – a very important event in the territory’s history!
Twelve completely new stamps were issued in 1953. The interesting designs included one of the Country’s many spectacular orchids. They were replaced in 1962 with an attractive ‘bird’ series designed by the well-known artist D.R. Eckelberry. The stamps include occasional missing colours so prevalent in multicoloured photogravure printing.
In 1968 the final definitives, prior to the change of name to Belize featured native wildlife. The blue ½c denomination Crana fish was added in 1969, and changed to yellow in 1971. The reason for changing the colour of such a low value is not known.
The frequent commemorative sets included several
overprints - clearly a money saving exercise. These sets included the New Constitution in 1960, and in 1962 four stamps marking “Hurricane Hattie” . It is not clear whether sales of this set contributed to the relief fund. Further overprints marked Self-Government in 1964, and in 1965 the dedication of a site for the new Capital, Belmopan. This is located 80 km inland from the old capital, Belize City, as a direct result of its destruction by Hurricane Hattie.
There were twenty-one further special issues before British Honduras became Belize in 1973.
The first Belize definitives were current British Honduras stamps
overprinted BELIZE in silver. These were followed in 1974 with identical stamps, now inscribed with the Country’s new name.
Because of Belize’s prolific issuing policy, including the very speculative ‘Cayes of Belize’ stamps, I no longer saved special issues after 1967. My definitive collection ended in 1974
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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. [email protected]
www.stampsale.comwww.rap.com.auThe website for Australia, Australian Territories, commercial and philatelic covers, and informative articles on the subjects. [email protected]
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northern territoryCanberra, Philatelic Society of: 1st Thursday: General Meeting,3rd Thursday: Afternoon Meeting (IF REQUIRED),3rd Thursday: (Evening) Exchange Night, 2nd Tuesday: Postcard Group, 4th Monday: Machin Collectors Group. All meetings 7:45pm, Griffin Centre, Genge Street, Canberra City Postal Address:PO Box 1840,Canberra ACT 2601,Email:[email protected] www.canberrastamps.org
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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: [email protected]; PO Box 478, Campbelltown 2560Castle Hill SC Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm, Hills District Bowling Club, Jenner Street, Baulkham Hills; PO Box 151 Castle Hill NSW 1765China Study Group of PSNSW: Mtg 4th Mon 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301 Cinderella SC: Mtg 2nd Friday, even months; Produces “Cinderellas Australia” and monographs; PO Box 889, Chatswood, NSW 2057Coffs Harbour SC: Mtg 2nd WedEarlwood and District SC:Mtg 1st WedGrafton SC: Mtg 2nd Wed (ex. Dec)Grafton Stampers & Everything Philatelic: Mtg 1st Sun 2pm (ex School Hols). Grafton Baptist Church Hall, Cnr Queen & Oliver Sts. Ph 02 6642 1363. email [email protected]. Great Lakes SC: Mtg1st Sat 9.30am , Workshop & Market 1st Sat 9-12, Great Lakes Cam-pus Annexe, Taree St, Tuncurry Enq: Ph 02 6554 9776Gosford PS: Afternoon Mtg 1st Mon; Evening Mtg 2nd ThursHawkesbury Valley PS (Richmond Stamp Club): Mtg 2nd Thurs (ex Jan) PO Box 28 Richmond 2753Illawarra PS: Mtg 3rd Thursday (ex. Jan) Wollongong Master Build. Club Ltd, Oasis Room, 7.30pm. All welcome. Tel. (02) 42252011. Kempsey RSL PS: Mtg 2nd WedLake Macquarie Stamp Club:: Mtg 2nd Sat 9am; Combined Pensioners & Community Care Services 130 Josephson St, Swansea. Enq: 02 4392 5211Lower Clarence PS: Mtg 4th TuesMacquarie Valley PS: Mtg 2nd TuesMaitland SC: Mtg 2nd Mon ex Jan. ‘Show & Tell’ every mtg E. Maitland Bowling Club, Bank St. Pres. Mark Saxby; Sec. David Carratt; Ph: 02 4932 4045 Email: [email protected] PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs St David’s Church Hall, Dee Why. Sec. Graeme Mor-riss Ph: 02 9905 3255 email: [email protected] Rugby Leagues SC: Mtg 4th Tues cnr. Pittwater Rd & Federal Pde, Brookvale. Sec. Graeme Morriss Ph: 02 9905 3255 email: [email protected] SC: Mtg 1pm on 4th Mon (ex Dec); Milton-Ulladulla Bowling Club Mtg Room, St Vincent St, Ulladulla, Sec. PO Box 670, Ulladulla, NSW, 2539Morisset Uniting Church SC: Mtg 4th Sat 10am (ex Dec) Enq: 4977 2525 (Jenny)
Nambucca River PS: Mtg 1st SundayNewcastle PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs, 7.30pm Mayfield Ex-Services Club; 10am 3rd Wed, 48 Mackie Ave, New Lambton, Juniors 11am 3rd Sun, Wallsend Pioneers HallNSW Postcard Collectors Soc: Mtg 1st Wed 7.30pm; Ph: 02 9264 8301Northern Suburbs PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs, 7.45pm, Naremburn Library, Central St, Narem-burn off Slade St; Ph: 02 9419 7354Orange Coin and Stamp Club: Mtg Last Tuesday, Orange Community Info Centre, 79-81 Kite St, Orange 7.30pm Ph: 02 6362 3754.Orchid Stamp Club: Mtg 3rd Sat. (Jan and each 2nd mth)Parramatta PS: Mtg 1st FridayPenrith and District PS: Mtg 1st Thursdays, 8pm, CWA rooms, Baby Health Ctr, Tindale St PO Box 393, Kingswood NSW 2747PHILAS Stamp Auctions: Mtg 2nd Sat Mar,Jul, Nov Ph 02 9264 8301PS of Australia: Mtg 3rd Wed (exDec); Ph 02 9399 7556PS of NSW: Mtg 1st Tues (Philas House), 3rd Tues (Chatswood); Ph: 02 9264 8301Richmond River (Lismore) PS: Mtg 4th ThursdayRoyal Sydney Philatelic Club: Mtg 2nd Tues. (ex Jan); Ph: 02 9264 8301Sapphire Coast Stamp & Coin Club: Mtg Enq 02 6495 7308. Mail to PO Box 285, Pam-bula, NSW 2549St. George PS: Mtg 1st MonShoalhaven PS: Mtg 2nd Monday (Ex Jan) PO Box 4047, East Nowra 2541. Ph 02 44472976Smithfield SC: Mtg 2nd MonSociety for Polar Philately: 2009 Mtg Dates: Weds Feb 10, Mar 10, May 12, July 14, Sept 8, Nov 10, 8pm, Ryde Ex-Services Club, 724-730 Victoria Rd, Ryde, NSW. Tel: 9807 3344. Sec. Peter Brigden, PO Box 408, Wahroonga, NSW, 2076. Visitors welcomeStrathfield-Burwood PS: Mtg 4th WedSussex Inlet and District: Mtg 3rd MonSutherland Shire PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. , 7:30pm, Sutherland Uniting Services Club, 7 East Pde, Sutherland. Information Secretary, PO Box 339, Sutherland, NSW 1499Sydney Anglican Stamp Society: Mtg 2nd Sat, even months 9.30am - 2.30pm, St Paul’s, Carlingford. Details: www.philas.org.au/sysdneyanglicanstampsocietyTamworth PS: Mtg 1st Mon ex. Jan. Tamworth Bridge Club, 7 Hilton St, Tamworth Sec. Graeme Mitchell. PO Box 678, Tamworth NSW 2340 Ph. 02 67664853Taree RSL Club Ltd SC: Mtg 3rd MonThematic Society of Australia: Mtg 3rd WedToronto SC: Mtg 1st WedTuggerah SC: Mtg 4th Sun (ex Dec.)Turramurra SC: Mtg 2nd Monday, 7.45pm. Ph: 9144 4225Twin Towns Stamp Club Inc.: Mtg 1st Monday, 7.30p, Home & Community Centre, Tweed HeadsWagga SC: Mtg 1st Wed (ex Jan) ARCC Building, Tarcutta St, 7.30pm. Secretary: Peter Simpfendorfer Ph:02 6922 3393Willoughby Legion Philatelic Section: Mtg 4th TuesWyong PS: Mtg 3rd Tues, 7.30m. Jim Spence, Sec. Ph 02 4392 7536
NSW club information:The Philatelic Association of NSW, PO Box220, Darlinghurst, NSW, 1300 Phone: 02 9264 8301
Alice Springs SC: Meet Informally; PO Box 1529, Alice Springs, NT, 0871. Ph 08 8953 3054Darwin Philatelic Circle: 1st Sun. 10am - 2pm. 53 Flametree Crt, Rosebery; Ph:(08) 8931 2898; PO Box 1624, Palmerston, NT, 0831; Email: [email protected].
Armadale-Kelmscott PS: Mtg 4th Tues; Ph: 08 9397 6525 email: [email protected] SC: Mtg 1st Thurs Ph 08 9761 2611 or 0407 194 603 email [email protected] SC: Mtg 2nd Mon; Ph: 08 9752 4449, 0400 646 282 email [email protected] SC: Mtg 1st Wed; Ph: 08 9457 7567Daytime SC: Mtg 1st Thurs; 08 9341 3576Eastern Goldfields: Ph: 0413 047 941Eaton SC: Mtg 3rd Thurs, Ph. 08 9795 7744, email: [email protected] SC: Mtg 3rd Wed; Ph: 08 9296 9306Fremantle and District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed, Fremantle Tennis Club House, Parry St, Fremantle at 8pm; Ph: 08 6363 6415Kalamunda SC: Mtg 3rd Wed; Ph: 08 9291 8484
Mandurah SC: Mtg 2nd Tues; Ph: 08 9582 9108email: [email protected] Districts SC: Mtg 2nd Mon; Ph: 08 9329 0117Philatelic Forum: Mtg 1st Mon (ex Jan); Ph: 08 9294 4277Rockingham & Kwinana (PS of): Mtg 3rd Tues (NB 2nd in Dec) Pres. Malcolm Brown; Sec. Terry Boyd; PRO Lucie Schokker Ph. 08 9419 1604; email: [email protected] of WA: Mtg 3rd Tues; Ph: 08 9294 4277Stirling PS: Mtg 4th Wed (ex Dec); Clubrooms, Charles Riley Reserve, Wendling Rd, North Beach, Ph: 08 9447 7256The Postmark Circle (WA): Mtg 2nd Mon; Ph: 08 9294 4277Victoria Park SC: Mtg 1st Wed; Ph: 08 9472 8072 or 08 9450 5280WA Study Group: Mtg 4th Thurs (ex Dec) 08 9384 1050Wanneroo SC: Mtg 3rd Mon; Ph: 08 6106 0874.
WA club information: WA Philatelic Council, GPO Box 9800, Perth, WA, 6001
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philatelic clubs & societiesnew zealand Further information can be obtained from the NZ Philatelic Federation,
PO Box 58139, Whitby, Porirua, 5245, NZ. E-mail: [email protected]
Air Mail Society of NZ: Mtg 3rd Mon (ex. Jan). Ph: 03 358 4838Auckland PS: Mtg 1st and 3rd Tues (except Jan); Email bruce.chadderton @fitec.org.nz Add Ph 09 9853212 www.aps.gen.nzChristchurch PS: Mtg 2nd Tues, Library night 3rd Tuesday; Email: [email protected] Ph 03 3541064Dunedin PS: Mtg 4th Thurs (except Nov and Dec). Ph 03 4557643; Email [email protected] Stamp Collectors Club: Mtg 3rd Wed (except Jan and 2nd Wed Dec). Ph 06 8706710; Email [email protected] Bay PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex. Jan); Ph: 06 843 9433 Email [email protected] PS: Mtg 2nd Mon. Ph: 06 368 6202 Email [email protected] Valley PS: Mtg 1st Tues (ex. Jan); Ph: 04 568 4892; Email: [email protected] PS: Mtg 3rd Tues (ex Dec); Ph: 04 297 1197Manaia PS: Mtg (Hawera) 1st Sun. Ph 06 2784292, email: peter.Williams @xtra.co.nzManawatu PS: Mtg 1st Wed, daytime meeting 3rd Tues. Ph 06 3289 895; Email [email protected] Stamp Collectors Club: Mtg 3rd Mon (except Jan and 2nd Mon Dec). Ph 03 5776166; Email [email protected] Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd Wed Ph 07 8896251Nelson PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 03 5477516NZ Stamp Collectors Club Christchurch: Mtg 4th Wed ; Ph 03 3596758; www.nzeal.com/philately/nzscc.htmNorth Shore PS: Mtg 2nd (except Jan) and 4th Wed (except Jan and Dec). Ph: 09 4141044; Email: [email protected] www.northshoreps.comPostal History Soc of NZ: Auckland 1st Mon (except Jan). Ph: 09 522 0311 Chapter meetings held Invercargill, Nelson, New Plymouth and Wellington.Ph: 07 3476428
Pukekohe Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Sunday Ph: 09 2357737 Email: [email protected] Royal PS of NZ: Mtg 2nd Tues (ex Jan); Ph: 04 472 2590; Email rpsnz @orcon.net.nz and; Website www.rpsnz.org.nzSouth Auckland PS:Mtg last Sat (except Dec), Papatoetoe, day time mtgs 3rd Fri(ex Dec); Ph: 09 5366708 ; Email: [email protected] PS: Mtg 1st Thurs (except Jan). Ph 03 2158177 Email [email protected] PS: Mtg 1st Mon except Jan. Ph: 06 758 6233; Email: [email protected] & District Stamp Club: Mtg 2nd (except Jan) and 4th Mon (except Dec); Ph: 07 5768866; Email: [email protected] Valley PS: Mtg 1st Mon(except Jan). Ph: 07 8689190; Email: [email protected] Association of NZ: Ph: 04 234 7218; Email: [email protected] PS: Mtg 1st Wed. Ph: 03 6888829Upper Hutt PS: Mtg 3rd Mon (except 2nd Mon Dec).04 5284123 ; Email [email protected] PS: Mtg 1st (except Jan) and 3rd Wed (except Dec). Ph 07 8556572 Email [email protected] PS: Ph: 03 442 8865Wanganui PS: Mtg 2nd Wed. (Ex. Jan) Ph 06 3448009; Email [email protected] & Districts Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Thu 1:00pm Ph 09 4258791Wellesley PS: Mtg 2nd and 4th Mon (ex public holidays). Ph: 09 8271240Wellington PS: Mtg 4th Mon (except 2nd Mon Dec); daytime meeting 3rd Thurs. Ph: 04 234 7218; Email: [email protected] PS: Mtg 2nd & 4th Thurs Ph: 07 3071016Whangarei PS: Mtg 2nd Meeting: 2nd Tues (Ex. Jan) 09-4348000 Email [email protected]
queenslandArana Hills SC: Meeting 2nd Tues; 07 3851 0213; email: [email protected] Afternoon SC: Meeting last Wed; Ph: 07 3206 6281.Bribie Island SC: Meeting 4th Wed; Ph: 07 3408 2238Bundaberg PS: Mtg 2nd Mon, The Family Centre, Kensington St (in the Show Grounds); Ph: 07 4152 2403 or 07 4151 3062Caboolture & District SC: Mtg 3rd Sat. Ph: 07 5498 6504Cairns SC: Mtg 3rd Wed. Ph: 07 4031 5342 Sec: Alan Sparks, email:[email protected], web:www.cairnsstampclub.asn.auCaloundra SC: Mtg 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: [email protected] CLUB QUEENSLAND: Mtg 2nd Thurs 1.00 pm BCC Library, Garden City Shopping Centre, Upper Mt.Gravatt. Contact 32068507 or [email protected] Bay SC: Mtg 1st Sat. Ph: 07 3284 3161Enoggera SC: Mtg 1st and 3rd Mon. Ph: 07 3264 4157Gladstone and District PS: Mtg 2nd Wed (Ex. Jan) & 4th Wed (Ex.Dec). Ph. Sec: 07 4978 1155 Ian Rippingale, Gold Coast PS: Mtg 2nd Mon, 11.30am, Southport Community Centre, Law-son St, Southport. Ph: 07 5546 3801Gympie SC: Mtg - 3rd Mon. Ph: 07 5482 5698Hervey Bay Afternoon Club: Mtg 3rd Wed. Ph: 07 4124 1138Ipswich SC: Mtg 1st Thurs (ex. Jan). Ph: 07 3282 2983Junction Park SC: Mtg 1st Tues, 7.30pm, Annerley Baptist Hall, Lambton St.
Contact: 07 3272 8304. PO Box 177, Annerley, 4103, [email protected] Valley SC: Mtg 4th Sun, 1.30pm, Senior Citizens’s Hall, Gat-ton. Kerri Martin, Sec. Ph: 07 5465 3390 Email: [email protected] City SC: Meetings 2nd Thurs, 25 Ewing Rd, Logan Central, 6pm. Ph: 07 3805 9226. Mackay and District PS: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 07 4942 5433; Maryborough and Wide Bay PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex. Jan). Salvation Army Youth 7 Comm. Hall. Bazaar St Maryborough. Ph: 07 41224708 (see also Hervey Bay)Nanango SC: Mtg 4th Thurs. Ph: 07 4162 2945Philatelic Society of Qld: Mtg 4th Wed 7.30pm,18 Coolcrest St, Wynnum. Ph: 07 3245 5222Queensland Study Group: Sunday bi-monthly 1.00pm meets QPS house. Contact Ph: 07 3396 0846 email: [email protected] SC: Mtg 2nd Sat. Ph: 07 3204 6095Rockhampton SC: Mtg 1st Tues. Ph: 07 4926 3336Sherwood Afternoon SC: Mtg 2nd Tues. Ph: 07 3372 6096Southport Afternoon SC: Mtg 2nd Sat; Ph: 07 55630384Southside PS: Mtg 3rd Tuesday & 3rd Wednesay (9am) Ph: 07 3848 2304 (ah) email: [email protected] Coast SC (formerly Nambour SC): Mtg 1st Wed, 7.15pm at Red Cross Hall, Price St Ph: 075445 3647Thematics Queensland: Mtg bi-monthly 9.30am. Ph: 07 3262 5605 email: [email protected] SC: Mtg 2nd Sat 2pm; Pres. Bob Littlehales; Secretary Allan Weeks Phone 07 46355623; PO Box 1591. Ph: 07 4638 3328Twin Towns SC: Mtg 1st Mon; Ph: 07 5598 7629Waterloo Bay SC: Mtg 1st Thurs (afternoon); 4th Thurs (evening); Ph 07 3207 3121.
QLD Philatelic Council, 18 Coolcrest St, Wynnum, Qld, 4178. Ph: 07 3396 0846 Fax: 07 3396 0842. Email: [email protected] Web: www.qpc.asn.au
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philatelic clubs & societiessouth australia Information about clubs in SA can be obtained from the SA Philatelic Council,
GPO Box 9800, Adelaide, SA 5001. Daytime Ph: 08 8212 3557 or 8223 4435
Australian Airmail Society: 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: [email protected]; Ph: (08) 8562 8386Blackwood PC: Mtg 2nd Wed ex Jan; Uniting Church, Main Rd, Blackwood; Ph: 08 8278 1629; PO Box 581, Blackwood 5051; email: [email protected] & Districts PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs; Bordertown PSchool; Ph: 08 8752 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; [email protected]; Ph: 08 8555 3311ETSA Stamp Club: Mtg 1st Mon (ex. Jan); Canteen, 1 Anzac Highway, Keswick; PO Box 2079, Magill North, 5072; Ph: 08 8278 7163Frama Club: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm, members homes; For collectors of CPS, Framas. Newsletter and Auctions. PO Box 62 Campbelltown 5074.Gawler SC: Mtg 4th Mon 7.30pm; Evanston Primary School, Para Rd, Evanston. PO Box 2, Willaston 5118; Ph: 08 8522 2335 Email: [email protected] Philatelic Club: Mtg 2nd & 4th Mon 8pm; German Club, 223 Flinders St, Adelaide 5000; Ph: 08 8260 2251Glenside PS: 1st & 3rd Wed 7.30pm; Staff Dining Room, Glenside Hospital. Fullarton Rd Eastwood.PO Box 29, Glenside 5063. Ph: (08) 8382 4223Lower Murray PS: Mtg 3rd Thurs,7.30pm, 2nd Sat, 10am; Murray Bridge Show-grounds. PO Box 810, Murray Bridge; Ph: 08 85704074 [email protected] Gambier PS: Mtg 3rd Tues; Reidy Park Corn Centre. 8pm. Also1st Sun-day (ex. Jan) 1.30pm - 4pm. PO Box 2261,Mt Gambier.Ph: 08 8724 9474Para Hills PS: Mtg 1st Sun; Community Hall Wilkinson Rd, Para Hills. PO Box 64, Para Hills; Ph: 08 8522 4345
Phillumeny SC: U3/26-28 Crovier Av, Modbury 5092. Ph: 08 8337 6533 Email: www.users.or.net/figg/amccsPort Pirie PS: Mtg 4th Mon; PO Box532, Pt Pirie 5540; Ph: 08 8632 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: [email protected]; 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. [email protected]. maryboroughsc.web1000.comMildura PS: Mtg Last Thurs (ex Dec)Carnegie Building 74 Deakin Ave Ph: 03 5023 8789Mooroolbark PS: Mtg 1st Tues; Ph: 03 9723 3304Noble Park SC: Mtg 4th Mon (Ex. Dec 2nd Mon), Paddy O’Donoghue Centre, 18-32 Buckley St, Noble Park, 3174; 03 97017085Oakleigh PS: Mtg 2nd Wed 7.30pm (ex Jan) Oakleigh Public Library, Drummond St, OakleighOcean Grove SC: Mtg 4th Wed. 10am. Ocean Grove Senior Citizens Clubrooms Melways: 234 A. Ph. 03 5255 1372Peninsula SC: Mtg 3rd Wed, 7.30pm Uniting Church Hall, Murray Anderson Rd, Rosebud. Ph: 03 5974 1950Polish PS: Mtg 3rd Tues (2nd in Dec)Prahran PS: Mtg 1st Wed (ex Jan)Ringwood PS: Gen Mtg 1st Thurs; Daytime 3rd Mon Ph: 03 9551 2235Royal PS of Victoria:Mtg 3rd & 5th Thurs; Daytime 1st TuesSale SC: Mtg 1st Mon (ex Jan)Shepparton PS: Mtg 2nd Tues, Mechanics Institute, Shepparton. Ph. 0419 560 813Sherbrooke PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs ex Jan Upwey Fire Brigade Hall, 8pm; Bob Cook Ph: 03 9758 3465Upper Yarra SC: Mtg 3rd TuesWarragul PS: Mtg 2nd FriWarrnambool PS: Mtg 3rd Wed 7.45pm St Joseph’s Primary School, Botanic Road;Ph: 03 5561 1470Waverley PS: Mtg 2nd Thurs 8pm, Mt Waverley Community Centre, 47 Miller Cres, Mt Waverley; Day-time mtg the following Friday, 9.30am, Uniting Church Hall, 482 High St, Mt Waverley. Ph. 03 9898 4102
tasmaniaBurnie PS: Mtg 2nd Fri , 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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Mar 7 - (1st Sun) Stamp, Coin & Phone Card Fair, Ukrainian Hall,
Russell St, Essendon.
Mar 20 - Stamps, Coins & Medals Fair - Uniting Church Hall,
Boronia Rd, Boronia. Ph: 03 9752 2677
Mar 21 - (3rd Sun) Stamp, Card - Phone Card Fair, Bentleigh-
McKinnon Youth Centre, Higgins Rd, Bentleigh. Dealers plus
huge range activities. Ph: John Thomas 0418 322 315.
Mar 28 - (last Sun) Stamp, Coin & Phonecard Fair, Jaycees
Hall, Silver Grove, Nunawading. 9am-3.30pm.
Mar 8 (2nd Mon) - Gold Coast PS Sale, Rm 1, Southport Comm. Centre, Lawson St, Southport. 11.30am - 2.30pmMar 21 - QStamp Fair, Southside, Mt Gravatt Showgrounds, Memorial Hall, Logan Rd. Free Entry 8.30am - 2pmMar 21 - Sunshine Coast Annual Annual Stamp Fair, Buderim Square Dance Centre, 260 Dixon Rd, Buderim, 9am - 4pm. Enq: 07 5448 6565. Free AdmissionMar 28 - Annual Stamp Day, Twin Towns Stamp Day, Wa-terways Hall, Sunshine Bde, Broadbeach. 9am - 3pm. Free Admission, Dealers, Refreshments. Enq. 07 5598 7629April 11 - Northside Stamp Fair, 9am - 3pm. Community Cen-tre, Kedron Wavell Services Club, Hamilton Rd, Chermside. Free Admission. Enq: 07 3851 0213
Mar 6 - (1st Sat) 9am to 4pm Orange Stamp Fair, Quinn’s
Arcade, Summer St, Orange. Ph: Norm 02 63623754.
Mar 6 - (1st Sat) Northside Stamp Fair. 1st Floor, Car park
Building, Manly-Warringah Leagues Club, cnr Federal
Parade/Pittwater Rd, Brookvale, NSW.
Mar 6 - (1st Sat) Katoomba Stamp & Coin Fair, 9am - 4pm,
Masonic Hall, Cnr Station & Civic Sts, Katoomba. Ph. 0417
802 754
Mar 6 - (1st Sat) Stamp & Coin Collectors Fair, East Coast City
Church, 375 Kingsway, Caringbah
Mar 7 - (1st Sun) Bankstown Stamp & Coin Fair, Bankstown
Masonic Hall, Cnr Greenfields & Restwell Sts, Bankstown.
9am - 3pm. 7 Dealers. Ph. 02 4455 4011
Mar 21 - (3rd Sun) Stamp & Coin Fair, 10am - 3pm, Pioneers
Hall, Cowper St, Wallsend. 8 Dealers. 4971 3483
Mar 28 - (4th Sun) Epping Stamp & Coin Fair, Community
Hall, 9 Oxford St, Epping. 10am - 4pm. Free Entry, 6 Deal-
ers, Buy/Sell.
April 4 - Stamp Fair, Milton Ulladulla Stamp Club, Ulladulla
Civic Centre, opposite the harbour. 10am - 4pm
April 10/11 - Expo 2010, Orange Coin & Stamp Club, The
Kenna Hall, St Joseph’s Church, Hill St, Orange 9am-5pm
(Sat) 9am - 4pm (Sun). Enq: 6361 4878 or 6362 3754
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Products & Services Directory dealers
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STAMP, COIN & PHONECARD FAIRS
First Sunday each month 9am to 3.30pmUkrainian Hall 3-11 Russell St, Essendon, VIC
Melway map 28 G4
Last Sunday each month from 9am to 3.30pm(December - Third Sunday)
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Buying/Selling 5/- Sydney Harbour Bridges
Mint Unhinged ............. Buy $1200 Sell PORMint Hinged ................. Buy $395 Sell $525CTO Used ..................... Buy $200 Sell $275Postally Used ................ Buy $320 Sell $395
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accessories
Discounted Worldwide - Bristish Commonwealth, Pacifics, Australia, themat-ics. P&D Nicholls P.O.Box 426, Glenbrook NSW 2773 02 4739 6184
ALBUMS, CATALOGUES, AND EQUIPMENT for stamps, coins, & banknotes at mail order discount prices. Enquiries or quotes write to: SAPPHIRE COAST PHILATELIC SUPPLIES, PO Box 285, Pambula, NSW 2549, or Phone/Fax (02) 6495 7382.
approvals
Collection surplusStamps from Canada,
Channel Islands, Falklands & Dependencies, Fr. Antarctic, Gibraltar, GB, Ireland, Malta, Namibia, NZ, South Africa and USA. MUH mint and used.
Trade Enquiries OK. Send your wants lists to:
John Cornelius, PO Box 23, Magill, 5072.
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Buying Australia and World Kiloware. We urgently wish to buy quan-tities of modern Australia and World Kiloware. Regular supplies needed. All mixtures to be close clipped single paper, and will pay as follows, all prices per kg. (a) Australia Commemoratives only to 2007 $7, 2008 $10, 2009 $15 (b) Australia Mission modern inc..2005/6, not less than 50% commems.by weight $4 (c) Australia Territories, inc. Cocos, AAT, Christmas Is. Norfolk Is. etc. $25 (d) Australia Higher values, 53c upwards inc. Commems. $60, defins only $20 (e) Worldwide, modern mix unpicked. $30. Minimum sending $100 please. Single country mixtures also required, please enquire. Phone Kevin Morgan 0425 795 693
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H.R. HARMER’S MARCH 12-13, 2010 AUCTION
Featuring
Fine Australian Area
Our March sale features several Australian area collections offered both in large lots and as singles or sets; collections include from J. Michael Powell, the Golden Times and from the Montgomery County Historical Society. Included are the unusual and fine stamps illustrated as well as our usual great selection of U.S., British and Worldwide singles and large lots.
At H.R. Harmer, our first priority is to obtain the highest prices realized while providing unparalleled customer care to each and every client. When you select H.R. Harmer to auction your stamps, you’ll join the thousands of satisfied clients who have trusted us over the last seven decades of service.
Visit www.hrharmer.com for more information about this and future auctions. If you would like to sell or consign your stamps to an upcoming H.R. Harmer auction, call Larry Gibson or David Coogle at 800.782.6771.
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