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Cocos Islands IMPERFORATE Discovery!
Spectacular stamp errors as you can see - yet just $26 each!

 

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REMEMBER - WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU PAY
 
Most 4 figure items like these only appear at public auction.  You THEN need to pay 15-20% extra on top of the hammer price for the nasty, nasty "Buyer Commission" as well the associated GST taxes added to that commission and on the postage and handling and insurance etc.   This commission pays for the MASSIVE overhead of the auction - their dozen staff, Director fees, fancy rented CBD building, deluxe catalogues, and page ads in magazines.  I have none of this overhead.  I work on my own, from home.

I have no doubt whatever the unique £1 Tasmania Sperati Forgery offered here would sell for easily $A4,000 at Auction.   Probably much more if several collectors were bidding.  However from me it costs $A4,000 plus shipping.  Bid $4,000 at Auction and your invoice will read more like $4,800 plus shipping!   True - and $800 is not chicken feed to anyone!   All prices on this page are nett - no extra taxes or commissions are added to the price.  KNOW what you are up for!

In my 25 years full time selling stamps I have hardly auctioned one stamp.  I do not believe in it.  My huge website gets far more visitors than most auctions, and always has, so I am pleased to sell direct - at fair sensible prices, so you know where you stand.  You buy direct off me, and you the customer get the savings.  And as many of my clients are overseas remember EVERY price below is in weak AUSTRALIAN dollars.  For European and American and British buyers go check how cheap these "Pacific Peso" prices are on:  www.xe.com 
 
As with ALL my sales payment is tailored to suit YOU.  If you see something for $A1,000 that will mean a divorce case if you buy it outright,  I am happy to do a lay-by or layaway,  and debit your credit card 4 debits of $250 or whatever suits.  There is NO price penalty whatever to you to use this system.  Just let me know what suits.

 
One sheet of 50 of 3 different 1992/93 issues very recently appeared on the market.   All sheets were IMPERFORATE.   Each sheet was a pane of 25 (5x5) separated by a vertical gutter with circular colour autotrons.   I am confident these are the ONLY sheets extant outside PO Archives.  They are all 100% legitimate.   Nearly all collectors of Australia also collect Cocos (Keeling) Island stamps, as it is an Australian Commonwealth external Territory, and for many years Cocos Islands stamps have been on general sale at all Australian Post Offices, and of course like Australian Antarctic Territory Issues, are fully valid for all Australian postage rates and usages.
 
These are all full gum MUH.  Imperfs of ANYTHING Australia or Cocos from the 1990s are near unheard of,  and are generally worth many $100s if not $1000s's per single PAIR.   These stamps even as NORMAL perforated issues are very scarce and the Corals are Cat £8½ ($A20) a normal set 4.  You are getting IMPERFS for just $26 a stamp from me! 
 
These will sell out fast.  A dealer colleague and I will offer them, and when sold there are NO more.  So do NOT delay.  These sheets cost a VERY large 4 figure sum, and I am delighted to be able to offer these in imperf pairs for the first time in 14 years.
 
Apart from being major imperforate errors, they depict some best selling TOPICAL/THEMATIC subjects like Fish, Christmas, Coins, and
Corals.  i will NOT sell at set separately - as it will leave me with odd quantities.  All 3 sets are sold in one parcel.
 
I have broken these down into MUH IMPERFORATE PAIRS and blocks 4.  These are all guaranteed classics of the future.  Catalogue status for these with Stanley Gibbons and other publishers has been applied for with the respective Editors.
 
The sheets had a few very minor handling bends, and are otherwise perfect fresh MUH.  All sheets had central gutters with colour autotrons, and the Leigh Mardon central imprint - as shown.  The "Coins" set gutter is folded as you can see - all others are unfolded.
 
Only 25 collectors MAXIMUM worldwide can ever own a pair of these.   As I know full well many will be sold as blocks 4, in reality only about 15 collectors will end up owning these.  All pairs are taken from same position on the sheets.  i.e. if you order a block of 4 you will get all 11 blocks of 4 from the exact same position in the sheet, and all with matching selvedge.  ALL blocks of 4 will be selvedge/margin blocks.   Corner Plate Number blocks have in case of a couple of odd stamps minor adhesion to selvedge reverse etc, that in no way affects face.   
 
Each set offered is of 11 imperf stamps fresh MUH - in blocks or pairs, depending on which one you order.  What you get are - 1992 Xmas set 3, 1993 Early Coinage set 4, 1993 Corals set 4,  (i.e. SG 273/283).  "Lay Bys" or "layaways" can be arranged - please enquire - see point #10 here for details of how this works - essentially several identical credit card debits over a few months - http://www.glenstephens.com/payment.html
 
My $A600 price is less than £250 the lot, (or about 11 quid an imperf!) as many major Commonwealth errors buyers are British collectors and dealers.   And you generally avoid paying the nasty 17½% VAT if you order from me.  
 
Cocos Island stamp issues are remarkably free of any error material in their long history.  The only 2 things listed in Gibbons since SG #1,  43 years back are the 1969 Missing Pink SG #11 - cat £750 each = $A1,800 each, and the 1985 35c imperforate - SG 132ab Cat £700 = $A1,680.  For the many serious collectors and exhibitors of Cocos Island material this new discovery is a godsend, to add something new to the collection or exhibit. 
 
So as you can see, $A26 or 11 quid a stamp is an absurdly low price for imperforates from a very popular country.  I was the discoverer of the only known copies of SG #11a in 1984 (now $1,800 per stamp) and sold them in that year to legendary Derek Worboys for a fraction of today's $1,800 each, and I obtained the Stanley Gibbons Catalogue listing for them.
 
I am delighted to be associated with yet another major discovery on the market for Cocos Islands stamps.  I hope the buyers of these end up with stamps as valuable as those of my last Cocos discovery offering!
 
 
Lot A -  Set of 11 MUH Imperf PAIRS. (22 x MUH stamps) - $A600
Lot B -  Set of 11 MUH Imperf Gutter PAIRS. (22 stamps) - $A700
Lot C -  Set of 11 MUH Imperf marginal BLOCKS OF 4  - $A1,150
Lot D -  Set of 11 MUH Imperf CORNER Plate Blocks of 4 - $A1,200
Lot E -  Set 11 MUH Imperf unique gutter imprint blocks 4 - $A1,500

 

 
 
 
If you would like a larger block than 4, please contact me FAST before I cut up these sheets.

 
Registered Post is $A5 domestic, $A15 overseas.  Insurance is extra.  All credit cards accepted.
STOP PRESS - a buyer of lot "A" submitted them to a large public auction recently.  They lotted them into 3 lots, with each set of stamps offered as imperfs at $250 a set.   Had they sold at estimate, vendor would still have made a profit.   Bidding drove the price up to a total of $1,905 invoiced to successful bidders for the stamps.  Over THREE TIMES my selling price.  You can buy the EXACT same stamps for $600 right here!   Reading Stevo lists could save you $1,305!
 

 
 
 

 

 

                                   

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