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This page features worldwide rare, unusual, and one-of-a-kind items of special interest.
It is one of Australia's MOST visited stamp dealer web pages.
Check EVERY day, as you can see -
new items are regularly added and the sold ones removed.
Many large dealers buy from
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A $1,000 stamp is $1,000 - not $1,200.
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LIMITED OFFER – SG 1840-1952 Commonwealth Cats
at near HALF retail
: I have a VERY limited quantity of these
(109th, 2007 edition!) catalogues
available at a VERY special price.
Normal retail: $180 - my price $99 plus shipping
These are the real
thing, brand new in perfect condition!
For the
first time a LOT of plate flaws in photos, and
prices them - see sample page of those here –
www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?p=148670.
With 412 pages, full
colour scans and the expertise/experience of
Stanley Gibbons it is no wonder that this
continues to be THE catalogue of choice for
collectors of this period.
HARD covers
.. a REAL Cat - like the OLD SG were, but now in
COLOUR and on bright white paper.
If you do not collect
modern QE2 Guyana, Samoa, Nauru and Botswana
etc that means you need pay $700 for a 5 vol
WORLD set, this is for you!
$A99
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1961 (10/-) 1 Rupee Bechuanaland
Protectorate - striking Waterlow/Plate
block 10 with overprint error:
Spectacular piece. Fresh MUH
perfectly centered Waterlow
Imprint/Plate number 1 block of 10 …
itself a rare piece, this being a
top value of set, with high cost
price. With ink smearing and black
gunk on all stamps, leaving a few
slightly doubled looking “R1”
denominations. SG 167b £100 = $A250
as NORMAL stamps with no allowance
for imprint/plates or printing
smudges! Would readily fetch
double this in the UK I have little
doubt. $A250
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PNG 1993
Birds Of Paradise Unique set of
blocks with “July 1993” fine print
base pieces;
As
keen collectors of PNG will know,
this Bird set had several reprints,
which at the time, passed with no
comment whatever in the stamp press.
The Bureau told no-one, and hence
few if any of the reprints were set
aside as MUH by anyone – dealer or
collector.
Quite a
strong market has developed in
recent years for these. Much
discussion on it here – that is a 2
page thread –http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=6169&start=50
This set of 3 sells for $A850 a
single set, so 4 sets are $A3,400,
with a good premium for the lower 2
inscription copies. Superb fresh MUH and better than usual centering
as well. Believed a UNIQUE set of
SE corner Imprint blocks – all
showing of course the “1 Kapul”
reprint symbol. Under HALF retail
(12) $A1,750
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Madagascar ‘British Inland Mail’ –
1895 ”Runners” set 2d to 2/-:
Clean FU set, that came from an old
1915 SG “Imperial” album. Not a set
you see every day! SG 59/61
£330=$A825. Near Quarter Cat -
$A225
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1913 1/-
Emerald Kangaroo with Inverted
Watermark and POSTALLY used:
This
is a curious stamp. Near all the
CTO specimen pack copies have
Inverted Watermark and are not hard
to locate. HOWEVER the ACSC makes a
special note that POSTALLY used is
“Very scarce” and is
rated at $400+. FU examples are
$500 stamps. This has a neat
“Wannon Victoria” cds cancel, with
near perfect centering, and is a TON
better looking than most postal used
I have seen. These were parcel used
and really got battered about in the
main. ACSC ‘from $400’ .. and apart
from a torn perf at right, would be
as close to the best looking you’ll
see. Clean and fresh used - no
toning or thins. $A325
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1963/65 Pre-Decimal Navigator "SPECIMENS" unused set 4: SG #357S/360S £450= $A1,125. ACSC $900+. Retail locally is $800 a basic MUH set of 4 IF ever in stock, which of course is almost never from major dealers. An enormously under-rated and under-valued set. Easily the smallest PO issue of anything Australian since WW2. New ACSC research shows only 3,480 sets of 4 were ever supplied by Note Printing Branch to the Post Office, and many believe not all those were sold before the Decimal issue of Feb 1966, and were later destroyed.
I've handled only a very few sets 4 in the past 25 years, and nearly all those were hinged - and have even handled quite a few no gum sets like these due to heavy hinges being soaked off. Most sets were bought as gifts for young collectors as the "Specimen" set only cost £1. I was given a set in 1964 by an uncle, and proudly affixed them all into my little album - each with a large, yellow, vigorously licked hinge! I've even bought collections where kids have LICKED these sets into albums, as of course they all had full gum on the back. The 10/- and £1 are both the cream paper. Buy them now - you'll not see these four again for a while at this price! $A350
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Tasmania £1 1892 Green and Gold Queen
Victoria "Tablet" SPERATI FORGERY: "Used" with a
genuine circular cancel, "Hobart Tasmania APR - 1901", and is the
ONLY example of this stamp ever seen by most large dealers I have
mentioned it to, or shown it to. This exact stamp I have in stock is
illustrated in the BPA superb book on the Sperati forgeries, and the
excellent Harold Bynoff Smith 'Forgeries' volume.
It is believed to have been a "one-off" attempt, and Sperati it
seems abandoned the idea of making more copies, after this absolute
perfectionist decided he could not 100% accurately colour match the
"real thing". A ton more detailed background on Sperati and his
amazing forgeries is found at -
www.glenstephens.com/snapril04.html
A quite cruddy looking copy of the £2 Sperati Roo sold at Stanley
Gibbons Sydney in late November 28, 2007 for
$A4,770, so my $4,000
for this is a
for this is a BARGAIN!
Click
HERE
to see how UGLY that stamp was!
This £2 Kangaroo is by far the most "common" of the four Pacific
region Speratis, as about two dozen exist - mostly "used". So this
possibly unique Tasmania example has to be a blue-chip bargain at
20% UNDER that price - $A4,000. Comes complete with the original
Bynoff-Smith album page, and photocopy of the BPA London Sperati
handbook pages on this stamp, showing this is the exact example
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Canberra March 2008 “100 Years Of
Scouting” PNC ... UNIQUE Number
Combo:
PNC’s (Philatelic Numismatic
Covers} are about THE hottest thing
on the stamp market. This one was a
beauty. Only 250 overprinted
by Australia Post. Past PNC’s are
already selling for many $100s each,
and they were printed in many 1000s
of copies each.
I bid on these at the auction mid
March in Canberra, and outbid
several very large dealers, as I was
not going to let these slip past.
Cost to me for this trio was
$1,700.
More details on the show here –
http://piurl.com/DN
These are the ultimate PNC trifecta
– 001/250, 250/250, and the GEM of
the trio - the UN-NUMBERED
one. The latter is a major ERROR -
like a missing color on a stamp.
NUMBER ONE is a key collectible in
anything – someone just paid $US15
MILLION for a number-plate number
ONE -
http://piurl.com/DM
Remember these are
official BOY SCOUT CENTENARY issues.
They were overprinted by Australia
Post, and 250 is a TINY run. Even
the NORMAL numbers are selling for
around $250 each. I paid $1,700 the
trio, and will sell them at cost as
my donation to the Society. OR I
will split them at
$A900
for the un-numbered one,
$A550
for the 001, and
$A375
for number 250.
These are I understand the FIRST
PO PNC to carry the special red
numbered security sticker (see
photo) on the back to GUARANTEE
these are AP issues, not
“lookalikes” created by some dealers
and eBay sellers etc, to hopefully
pass off as “genuine PO” at silly
prices. For someone who wants the
ULTIMATE in Scouting material or PNC
material. I will sell at exact
price I paid at the Auction, as a
support gesture for the Canberra
Club! -
$A1,700
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Western Australia
1896 Coolgardie Camel – Cycle Express Post
5/- Mint original gum:
Without doubt the most attractive and
superbly produced Cinderella issue in
Australian history. In 1895 when this was
printed, it even pre-dated the ground
breaking bi-colour charity stamps from NSW.
Mint very lightly hinged with original
gum.
Near all on the market are no gum as
the original “sandy’ gum granulates into
sandy particles more or less in our hot
climate.
This has been in the UK most of
its life, hence still having original gum.
And centering on most is APPALLING!
In
1895 James Healy used camels on some of his
more distant private local post
mail runs,
previously covered by cyclists.
(I have
matched original corner pairs of the 1894
1/- and 2/6d Healy Cycle Post stamps for
$400.)
The “Australian Philatelist”
records 1,000 of these 5/- Camels were
printed.
(The same number as the Lake
Lefroy Cycle mail – retail of those is about
$1,500-$2,000 each. The Tete-Beche pair of
those I once owned recently sold for $21,275
-
www.glenstephens.com/snmarch05.html )
$A425
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Easy Germany DDR 1953/54 Five Year plan set 18:
Typo.
Fresh MUH original gum.
Michel 405/422 = Michel 280 Euros = $A450.
$A200 |
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KGV 1d Red “Rough
Paper” rare Die 2 perf “OS” Absolutely
unbeatable appearance:
There
would not be a better looking specimen
ANYWHERE. Has the erect die 2 spur .. many
are sold as “submerged” and ACSC warns you
should only pay a fraction for those. An
absolute ripper, clean and fresh unused,
with no faults or blemishes. Quite
incredible perfs and centering for these. $A450
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APTA/ASDA
“Countdown To 2000” Complete set of 8
Booklets at about HALF retail! :
The most sought after set of booklets in the
Decimal era. Each year dealer body ASDA/APTA
Gold overprinted and numbered a tiny number
of booklets. (I think it was 100 a year)
These sold for a high price and pretty much
always were over-subscribed. Imagine the
odds of someone getting them each year and
all getting the same number! This collector
did with number “37” and the full set is for
sale today. Retail $1,400 .. to clear at
$A750
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Australia 1932 “OS” 1/- Lyrebird, fresh and attractive well centred block of 4: With a faint hinge touch on one stamp, and the other 3 are fresh MUH. Lovely perfs and centering for these. $A425
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Kangaroo 1913 2½d First Watermark Large “OS” : The rarest value of the set, right up to the 5/-. Many on the market are recent ebay inspired fakes, so buying from an original collection, and from an established dealer, will certainly repay when YOU sell! Experts can tell from the perfin holes which are genuine. Both stamps are MUH original gum – guaranteed. The right hand stamp has a light vertical band of “tanned” gum from being in the mount as you can see. Genuine MUH are rare beasts. Juzwin $750 a stamp = $1500. Better than usual perfs and centering. The Gov’t printer directed that very badly centred stamps be put aside for “Official” use. Perfs on ALL 1st wmk stamps are likely to be pulled or short. $A900
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Australia Spectacular KGV "OHMS" unclaimed Registered War-time covers 1915-1917: Wow .. what a show stopper. I can't imagine you can have many more facial instructional markings than on this trio. The massive "PERTH" Red Registered labels, then a 1d Red block of 4, and 2 x joined strips of 4 perf "OS" (unusual even OFF cover!) One strip with strong compartment lines on all units. And a host of other instructional markings, as the addressees could not be found. One still with original official contents.
All have dated violet "D.L.O. PERTH" cancels and other transit and return marks on face and/or reverse. And all kinds of additional instructional marks. "NOT KNOWN BY LETTER CARRIER", “UNKNOWN BY LETTER CARRIER" a dated “CALLED L.C.R.” handstamp, “SECOND NOTICE”, “ADVISED TO CALL G.P.O.” and 2 different "UNCLAIMED" handstamps. The trio - $A250
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Hong
Kong
1898
QV
$1
Dollar
on
96c
“Specimen”:
The
NON
specimen
is
cat
£2,750,
so
the
only
affordable
way
to
obtain
this
one.
Superb
fresh
bright
MLH,
especially
for
well
over
100
years
old.
SG
53as
£600=$A1,500++.
$A550 |
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Kangaroo 1913 5/- Chrome Yellow and Grey CTO with JUMBO margins at top and base: In the USA such a stamp would be described as having "Boardwalk Margins" and/or "Jumbo Gem" and sell for 10 times (or more) than catalogue. The Americans have always loved stamps with unusually large margins.
This is such a stamp. Clean, fresh, free of hinges and gook, and looks spectacular as you can see with stunning, glowing, original colour. SG #13. With the special crisp "Melbourne DE 3 13" steel cds used on the MP Presentation sets etc. Centring on these was often APPALLING, and a few perfs missing is also very much the norm, so with Jumbo margins like this, is a one in 500 copy. $A295
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Netherlands 1923 Silver Jubilee top values attractive MVLH: Almost never seen offered locally. Most attractive centering for these, and light hinge touch on each, on original gum. Crisp proof-like impressions. Two of Holland’s most sought after 20th Century stamps, and missing from near all collections. Michel 268/269, 1,080€. $A550
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Australia 1912/23 1/- Bi-Colour Superb Fresh *MUH* part sheet of 30 – only $40 each!: Very fresh and attractive. Only 1 unit with a light hinge mark. Clean and bright with enormous eye-appeal. A few perf separations as always, on this “sharp perf” issue. Possibly the largest multiple extant. I was most tempted to offer this as 2 blocks at $650 each, but that seemed rather vandalistic if this is in fact the largest block. It fits very neatly on a Hagner, stockbook or album page. SG D85 cat as HINGED singles is £750=$A1,875. Juzwin retail $1,800. The new and way overdue, and vastly up-dated ACSC on Dues is about to be released before Xmas, and could have large price rises. This block may well have plate flaws – I have no idea. If these were the same era 1913 1/- Roos in a MUH block 30, you could add $20,000 to this silly price - literally. Absurdly low priced at $40 each! $A1,200
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1913 1st Watermark Kangaroo rare ** YELLOW Orange ** shade with scarce "OS NSW" perfin: What an scarce piece. A nice looking First Watermark stamp, no matter what value it was. Superb perfs, centering and freshness - as is self evident. With commercial cancel “Lismore 19 DEC : 14” cancel. Free of hinges and gunk or any fault or blemish. Remember this was on official Registered mail, so condition and cancels are mostly less than ideal.
The 4d Yellow is a rare stamp. And with any kind of official perfin, even far more so. Perf small 'OS' it sells for $500 in this grade. "OS NSW" is FAR scarcer, as specialists will know. You will never, ever see one with perfs and centring like this again! $A250
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Australia 1932 5/- Sydney Harbour Bridge – fresh unused - $450: I bought this as hinged, with a large thick yellow hinge remain on it. I felt sure that was hiding some thinning, which be-devils this issue, (as it is printed on cheap blotting paper essentially!) so I soaked it, and there was nothing – a perfect stamp! Missing from 95% of collections. Clean and fresh and totally free of usual blemishes, and with superb perfs and centering. MUH copies are now selling at around FOUR times this figure. A bargain at $A450
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Great Britain 1840 2d blue clean used pair – 15% of Gibbons!: The world’s first stamp, being issued on same day as the 1d Black, but 10 times scarcer as we know. Indeed 69 million blacks were sold and only 6 million blues, so the current catalogue is surprisingly low on these. Clean and fresh, and soaked free of old hinges and gunk that can hide thins and tears etc. Unusually light Maltese Cross cancels. Has a tiny half millimetre nick top centre margin way clear of stamps, mentioned purely for the pedantic detail I add to my descriptions! Lovely strong colour. SG 5, minimum cat £1,350 = $A3,400. Bought cheap in an estate collection, so to sell cheap - 15% of Gibbons at $A500
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G.B. 1867 5/- Queen Victoria
scarce Plate 2 well UNDER
15% of SG!:
Superb
used appearing example with
a perfectly upright "466"
numeral. And superb
centering that is unheard of
on these stamps that OFTEN
are perfs touching 2 sides!
The critical plate number 2
is totally clear of the
postmark. (Plate 2 are worth
40% more than Plate 1.)
Clean used. SG 127 Cat
£1,100 as average used
(=A$2,750) and 75% more for
well centred
=
$A4,800.
Has a tiny closed tear at
right you can see if you
squint at the photo! (I
also have a clean average
used 10/- Green in this
series - SG 128 Cat £2,800 =
$A7000 for $A500.) For this
attractive 5/- …. Well
UNDER 15% of the normal
SG price -
$A400
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Isle Of
Man - both the 1973 Definitives
Colour Outer Border Errors:
I bought pairs of these from a
well known UK dealer. Not really
easy to tell apart unless you are
experienced with them. SG 17a and
18a. Cat £150 each, i.e. £300 for
one of each or cat £600 for a pair
of each. He guarantees these are
the correct SG listed items.
My price
$A200 for one of each.
Or a joined pair of each as shown
above, Cat £600 (=$A1,500) fresh MUH
for -
$A350
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Niue 1931 £1 pink "Arms"
postal fiscal in superb
**MUH** perfect centred
block of 4 at HALF
Gibbons hinged price:
Magic vivid color and
appearance ex UK. Cat
£280 = $A700 for mint
hinged (MUH is a large
premium) and £600 USED!
Delightful item to tuck
away. A £1 top value
fresh MUH original gum
block from the Roo era,
for $A350 the block is a
silly joke. This is now
77 years old. (SG 54)
$A350
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