Philatelic Rarities. Rare Postage Stamps and Stamp Collector Investments

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LIMITED OFFER � SG 1840-1952 Commonwealth Cats at HALF retail: I made a bulk buy of these catalogues at a VERY special price. Normal retail: $A180 - my price $A90 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?f=27&t=10621

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 - WORLDWIDE. Thick, 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!   For the first time a LOT of plate flaws in photos, and prices them - see sample page on link above. If you collect Queen Victoria, KEVII, KGV and KGVI for GB and the ENTIRE Commonwealth you MUST have one of these. It lists and prices all Postage Dues, prices for stamps on cover, dies, plates, retouches, re-entries, and stamp booklets etc. HALF retail - $A90

GB 1992 �1 Carrickfergus Castle MUH Strip of 3 - GROSSLY MISPERFORATED: Striking piece, with a large misperf � resulting in the �E� of CASTLE being misplaced at side into the next stamp. And a greater misperf vertically as you can see � and at an angle too. SG 1611 variety. GB is remarkably free of such errors, and on a high face value is a lovely eye catching piece. $A250

GB Booklets hoard of 201 books - 1976 to 1997 at 15% of SG!:   A terrific group bought as new issues by a collector from Max Stern, who paid a LOT more than this as new issues. My price might even be under FACE .. have not bothered to add it. Bought this week in an estate to insane priced to clear.

201 booklets, 1976 to 1997. 10p to �3.80 face values. Complete check list attached as per current SG Concise and with more photos on - www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=12851 - TOTALLY untouched by me as always, so all the goodies are in here. He generally bought only 1 or 2 as you can see off checklist, but now and again there are a half dozen or so .. no idea why .. maybe plate numbers or diff papers or perfs etc .. I have no idea.

SG Cat �1,567 which is about $A3,300, so my price is around 15% of SG Cat to clear them fast. Be a great kick off lot as a collection, or for re-selling on ebay etc. Also 7 empty "Training School booklets� with no bar codes or text on back. which are very scarce and sought after. These are NOT counted in SG value above as they are not in SG as far as I know. $A500

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 illustrated there. $A4,000

Australia 1920 KGV 1/4d Deep Greenish Blue Fresh *MUH* original Gum; Lovely example, fresh MUH with 100% guaranteed original gum. With the left part of an A.J. Mullett Imprint pair. This is not the very rare Deep Turquoise shade, (sadly as that is cat $6,000!) but is the second scarcest shade, in this generally washed out looking issue. ACSC 128c $1,000 for the shade MUH, and add a premium for part imprint. To clear this week for: $A750

The *ULTIMATE* KGV era cover!!  The words "eye-appeal" don't seem to do justice to this one. Ararat Victoria, Registered to Cheshire UK on the 2nd Experimental air mail flight, May 1931. My Dad was born in the tiny town of Ararat, and I lived there for years, and visited there many times later on, so this one has some historical meaning to me.   The ultimate air Mail cover, and the ultimate KGV heads cover. Where does one start on this brilliant piece?

Despite the 17 different stamps, total franking is only 2/2d, which I think was actually the correct air postage.   For starters there is a 1913 1d Engraved - cat $750 on cover. A 1d violet ... scarce on any cover - minimum $45. Even a 1913 �d Roo .. "SG #1".   The 1d Red is a rare Die 3 .. and better still, has the scarce plate flaw "White Flaw Below Right Wattle Stem" (ACSC 75N). Now that one is a $150 flaw OFF cover, and ANY Die 3 on cover is cat $400+ - without flaws! The 1d Green is Large Multiple Wmk (cat $90 on cover.) 2d brown has a plate flaw etc. Even the 3d Airmail pair are from the scarce BOOKLET plate, with the small green booklet dots in margins - minimum cat $125 on cover etc. Melbourne Registered plus Ararat plus and UK Registered arrival backstamps. A show-stopper. $A600

State Of North Borneo 1894 $25 MUH Strip of 3! A scarce and seldom seen stamp. The highest stamp denomination ever issued by North Borneo. Same design style and size and SG type 32f, but presumably only used for official purposes. All MUH, with the usual brown gum �zoning� found on anything 115 years old from this region. The $5 and $10 postage stamps of this design, SG 85/86 are cat �250 and �275 each as hinged! $A200

FIJI Collection - 1935 KGV S/Jubilee, to 2002 in Davo album in slipcase: From the 1935 Silver Jubilee and the 1948 Silver Wedding, and many of the KGVI heads. Through to 2002. Near all Mint, indeed near all are MUH. Cond. a bit mixed on earlies as always, but look to be fresh and fine otherwise. See a dozen other photos of the stamps on offer at - http://eemixa.notlong.com

All in a $125 cloth covered Dutch "Davo" album in heavy slipcase. The value is VERY heavily in the post 1990 era which are "impossible" to source from the trade, at any price, from ANYWHERE. Some of the modern pages are retail $A50 a pop. Some are DOUBLE that. The page shown has a FACE value of $64 for instance, and high cat. CORRECT SG cat is pencilled on each page, and that totals �1,319 = $A2,750. Estate bargain to clear at $2,000 BELOW cat. $A750

Australia 1977 Silver Jubilee PLATE PROOF BLOCK 4 at Quarter Cat!   Always a fast seller. These are official PO plate proofs, and like all the others have some creasing. ACSC 766PP(1) Cat $500 per imperf PAIR or $1,000 a block 4. Seemed a real shame to cut it into pairs but if you want a pair, I will do that for $A140 .. your choice or top or bottom. $A250

South Australia 1856 2d Orange Red Imperfs x 3 on part cover: How on earth something nice looking, and over 150 years old can only be worth $150 sure beats me! Clean part cover with a superb strike in vermillion on back flap of unframed �SHIP LETTER / FREE / AU 28 1858 / GPO / VICTORIA�. SG 7, �240 off cover. $A150

Aust. States + NZ and other collectors - a block of Perkins Bacon Star Wmk blank paper! In an amazing find, I recently bought from the UK a full sheet of the Perkins Bacon �Star� hand-made, watermarked paper.   Perkins Bacon used this paper to print the early imperforate stamps of many Crown Agent colonies including Queensland, South Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania etc.

The sheet was remarkably fresh, as are most things that have been in the UK for 150 years. Hand-made deckle edged ungummed paper. The outer margins all have the 5 parallel lines and the word �POSTAGE� along each edge as you can see.

I cut the sheet up into more convenient sized pieces for collectors to display on their album pages or a hagner sheet etc. The �Postage� block of 24 or 30 would make a wonderful centrepiece page to any collection. For those exhibiting, a piece of this paper would-be a very interesting an unusual addition to the early pages.

Or, you can cut them into pairs or blocks 4, and offer them on ebay etc, and you may get some interesting results. Prices are very affordable as you can see (shipping is extra):

Corner block of 12 as shown - $A65

Block of 24 with top margin lines, (4 x 6) $A125

Top margin block 24 with �POSTAGE� imprint as shown. (4 x 6) $A150

Superb part sheet of 30 with �POSTAGE� imprint as shown - $A200

Germany April 19, 1932 Zeppelin postcard to Brazil: Lovely looking item as you can see, in very fresh condition, especially for 77 years back. With a range of special handstamps and cds and cachets. With the German Zeppelin stamp franking. On the reverse is an engraving of some distinguished looking guy .. the name of whom I cannot read! $A250

FIJI 1914 �1 KGV SUPERB MVLH: A gem. Near 100 years old, and as fresh as if printed last week. Been in England near all its life I believe. Light hinge touches with no remainders. Incredibly deep vibrant colours - that the scan does no justice to. Perfect centring .. VERY hard to locate so centred on these small stamps. SG 137. If this were a 1913 �1 Roo you could literally add a zero. $A365

South Australia 1884 �1 Queen Victoria �Long Tom� VFU with 1901 COMMONWEALTH date cancel!   A popular high value in superb condition. Clean and fresh and totally free of hinges and gunk. SG 190a. A nicer looking copy you�ll be hard pressed to locate. With a 1901 cds, so this is cancelled in the Australian Commonwealth period, and is thus likely from a Presentation Set given to all members of our first Federal Parliament. If this were a �1 Roo you could add a zero. Crazy priced. $A225

South Australia 1908 "Great White Fleet" Official Postcard: The rare 1d red. Pristine mint.   For 100 years old, in unbelievable condition. Been in Scotland for near all that time. The Vic and NSW are often seen, indeed even the WA ones are not uncommon, but these SA ones are the key. (Have an equally superb 1�d Victoria Fleet card for $A200.) $A400

AITUTAKI - 1920 Pictorials - 2 x IMPERFORATE PAIRS: Superb looking pair of these Perkins Bacon recess printed classics, in MUH original gum arabic. HUGE margins as you can see. Great looking specialist items, now 87 years old. (4) SG 27/28. $A200

Queensland Railways 1962/63 10/- roulette, top value rarity rated �RRRR� - in fresh *MUH* pair: Top value of the entire pre-decimal series and to find it in a fresh *MUH* pair is quite a gem. RSA Cat $500 as HINGED singles!   Coming up to 50 years old - would any other MUH copies exist? Rarity rated RRRR � a gem to tuck away from this ever popular field - $A350

1946 BCOF set to 2/- Kangaroo of *FDC* and 1d with Bluish Overprint!: A lovely looking cover and FDC�s of these are SCARCE. With the crude �Aust Army Postal Service� Registered handstamp, and with TWO different Military cds on reverse for FDI � May 8, 1947. The 1d has the �Blue/Black� overprint � SG J2a �95 = $A225 OFF cover, alone.

An interesting and little realised fact, is that the ONLY way to get a FDC, of ANY Kangaroo stamp of any watermark, from any era, and of any denomination, is the 1d Red from 1913 ... and this one! $A325

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

�Australia 99� scarce official perforated pair with GROSSLY misplaced perforations. Seldom seen on the market and what a spectacular pair for just $A250!   There is a detailed article of these errors here - www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?p=360082 � where the full story of these, and photo of the machine that made them, and the OTHER sensational errors on these is outlined with many photos. Also the same pair with PART perfs as shown above ( 3 different) � also $A250 for that pair of sheets. $A250

Canberra 2008 National Stampshow $5 Canberra Raiders Rugby Booklet � astounding QUADRUPLE overprints and sideways and inverted overprints: A fuller story is found here - http://piurl.com/DN

This Rugby booklet with Silver �100 Years Of Scouting� overprint was QUADRUPLE overprinted, albino overprinted, part overprinted � and all with different numbers! I count ELEVEN different overprints! I was given this booklet Saturday March 15 in front of many witnesses from the head of AP Philatelic down, which I am told is about a week BEFORE issue date. I will confirm that on invoice for buyer if needs be.

I paid very many $100s for this amid incredibly stiff competition. I later showed it to leading dealers and collectors and specialists like Simon Dunkerley, and ACSC Editor Geoff Kellow, (who were NOT there!) and all these folks tell me these are apparently the first things EVER knowingly supplied by AP since Federation, with major printing errors upon them. Look at the blow-up for some of the bizarre multi overprint attempts.

I also have the very same booklet overprinted 250/250 (The very last of the overprints.) Again I got this in Canberra in a heated auction a week BEFORE they were issued. Has a corner crease but it unique and a lovely piece at $A150.

Superb MUH with marker pen line showing it SHOULD have been destroyed. This CAN be legally exhibited I was told by senior APF judges � a dozen of whom were there when it was sold! A spectacular SCOUT thematic classic, AND RUGBY item .. not just an Australian major error or booklet error. $A1,000

Your number one source for USED KGV and Kangaroos

I have had for 30 years probably the largest stock of used Australia KGV heads and Kangaroos in the world. From poor to superb. Many collectors find it really tough to sort and source these by watermark and Dies accurately. In the early 1980's I ran dozens of full page ads in the 2 local magazines listing EVERY key Australian stamp in 5 different grades from "Spacefiller" to "Superb". Even the 1913 �2 Roo. Not one dealer has done that kind of ad - before or since.
My grading is precise, my stock enormous, and I have assisted many THOUSANDS of collectors complete their sets of these difficult issues. From budget conscious pensioners filling 5 albums for their grandchildren, where spacefillers of scarcer values will suffice perfectly, to multi millionaires who want and buy the BEST - from cars and houses .... to their stamps! You may not be able to afford to LIVE as well as Hugh Morgan or Sir Ron Brierley does, or drive a Bentley like they do, but your used Roos can look JUST as nice!

If you want a complete set of "Melbourne Dec 6 1913" half circle gloss black cancels on 1st watermark - I can source them. If you want the full gum corner CTO from Specimen packs I can help. (All these are now listed in the ACSC as CTO and priced accordingly.) If you want just lovely postally Superb Used like those in the photo nearby - I have always been the #1 choice to buy from. I have 1000's just like them.

Read my recent stamp column about WHY you should collect USED stamps in this country: www.glenstephens.com/snjuly05.html

Unlike mint, used stamps do not tone or rust nearly as fast - and are readily cleaned if they do! And unlike mint - no-one goes about regumming used Kangaroos! And when it comes to filling gaps in high value Roos, opting for USED, even lovely copies, will cost you a FRACTION of what mint hinged will. So it is VERY possible to fully complete your used Roo collection. Mint will cost you $30,000 - $40,000.

I purchased Private Treaty from Harmers Of Sydney in 1980 the massive H.F.McNess accumulation of used "OS" perfins. He was obsessed with accumulating these issues, and had books full. I still have much of this stock. This was at a time when perf "OS" were poorly regarded by collectors and dealers alike. Not me. I still have multiple copies of items most dealers have never seen or handled genuine examples of - like - 4d Lemon Yellow, �d and 1/4d Small Multi perf 14, KGV No Wmk pair, Roo 2�d and 4d Yellow 1st Wmks etc.

I was the person who got the �2 Small Multi perf 'OS' listed into the ACSC after 75 years, by proving beyond doubt 2 genuine copies did exist. One of which I bought from a war-time assembled collection. (The used Arthur Gray copy then sold for $A40,000.) These OS perfins (especially 1st wmk) are usually HORRIBLE looking stamps.

The stamp printer directed that badly centered sheets of stamps too poorly produced for sale be put aside and perforated 'OS' for these �nuisance� officials. That makes CHOICE copies about one in a 100 of the higher 1913 values above 3d. And do note - all perf �OS� sold by ME are genuine from the massive H.F. McNess hoard I bought. Do not TOUCH 90% of what you see on ebay. Read the many exposes here - www.stampboards.com/viewforum.php?f=21

Folks - Australian dealers in general are pretty lazy and slap-dash and vague with terminology. The Term �FU� is applied to ANYTHING with a cancel most times. Loosely translated it means �NOT MINT.� Convenient for them� yes. Accurate � NO! Entire price lists headed �Fine Used� exist. However they often mean if you order �FU� and the dealer has a single copy in stock that is truly graded AVERAGE used, you�ll be cheerily supplied that unless you complain � end of story.

I have FIVE grades - from Spacefiller Grade, to Superb Used Grade. You pay for and GET exactly WHAT suits you best. Warning � the TOP grade sets are incredibly tough to assemble as you might imagine, and can take quite a time to ship. Other grades below are good to go right now.

�Instant Australia KGV Heads *COMPLETE* Collection�:   I've assembled full sets of 72 different KGV Heads in EVERY Watermark. All four x 1/4d etc. All perfs, all Dies, all o/p �OS� values, and even all shades as per �Seven Seas� Catalogue and album. Buy just the EXACT grade that suits your budget and collecting requirements as follows: Spacefillers - $A250   Average Used - $A450   Nice Good U - $A575   Clean FU - $A850   Or for the perfectionist � a hand selected Superb Used complete set of 72: $A1,200

"Instant Kangaroo Collection�: I�ve assembled full sets of 34 different Roos in EVERY Watermark. 1st and 2nd wmks to 1/-, 3rd wmk to BOTH 2/- colours, S/Multi wmk to 2/-, CofA wmk to 5/ and even both the 6d �OS� overprints � which are VERY scarce but needed for EVERY printed album. Melbourne retail for these same 34 stamps in normal used condition is over $A750.   Buy just the EXACT grade that suits your budget and collecting requirements as follows:

Spacefillers - $A225   Average Used - $A400 Nice Good U - $A575   Clean FU - $A850 Or for the perfectionist � hand selected Superb Used complete set of 34: $1,150. And I also have great stocks of higher values - and the best stock in Australia of Perforated �OS� Roos � all GUARANTEED GENUINE. Also I have great stock of the Stanley Gibbons listed watermark errors, perfs, shades, Dies, and SG listed printing varieties etc. Please enquire.

Roo "Upgrade" Kit: Add the real key values to the Roo set above. Add the 1913 2/- First Watermark, the 2/- Second Watermark, and both the scarce 5/- ... 3rd Watermark and Small Multiple Watermarks. And last but not least add the 10/- CofA to your page. These five scarce stamps are missing from near all collections. The 10/- roo is going up in price strongly each year. Melbourne retail $835 for normal used.

My price: Spacefillers - $A325 Average Used - $A500 Nice Good Used - $A650 Clean FU - $A875 Or for the perfectionist � a hand selected SUPERB Used complete set of 5: $A1,250

This offering above is just a tiny "taste". The prices on this page for these collections supersede any of my other prices on the web. I will gladly price ANY used single stamp you need, and naturally all the later issues. Whether 5/- Bridges, Kookaburra mini sheets, �1 Thin paper Robes, �2 Navigators etc. I have them ALL in 5 condition grades.   I stock Australia 100% complete, 1913-1985, in used condition. And do I have all these above in MINT � well of COURSE I do! Let me quote you.

France 1943 National Relief Fund Complete MUH sheet: From an estate bought today formed in France, with nice France content. Full sheet, totally MUH with the usual shiny honey gum. Perfectly centred. Five se-tenant strips of 5. Michel 589/593 400 Euro = $A800. SG 780/784 cat �300 as singles ... strips are a premium. $A250

Macau 1977 Dragon Boat Festival. FIVE HUNDRED MINT SETS! Fresh MUH/NH/UM in PO sheets of 12. SG Cat 988-990 �750 = $A1,875. My selling price is around ONE QUARTER OF GIBBONS to move these fast. Prices of China, Taiwan and Macau have been rising strongly in recent times. This might be a very nice key item to tuck away?
You are buying 125 sheetlets of 12 as illustrated. Each sheet has 4 sets of 3 stamps in a se-tenant strip as you can see. 500 sets of 3 in total. Each sheet is individually NUMBERED and most collectors collect via full sheetlets. Superb topical/thematic. $A400

New Zealand �The Best Of� UNISSUED Mini Sheet sets 1996 - 2000 (5 sets of 3 sheets): NZ Post each year rewards the clients who spend a ton of money on new issues, with a VERY special freebie like these. (Dealers do NOT get them, which really annoys them!) They are **NOT** buyable - you only get them if you spend a heap of money with NZ Post. Each year these "Best Of' mini sheet sets of 3 sheets are issued. There are 9 stamps featured each year, (3 on each sheet) that are stamps selected from that year's issues. Even the circular ones they manage to do.

These have gone going ballistic in price both here and in NZ in recent years. By PO Pack collectors AND stamp collectors. Five sets of 3 special sheets from 1996 (issue #1) to 2000. All fresh MUH Each year in it�s own special Pack. VERY few complete sets exist. ACS retail Cat on these first 5 is $500. More detail on the background to these here - http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=7860 - (15 x mini sheets total here in 5 packs.)   FIVE such MUH sets for $A750 - or one set of 15 - $A175

Hong Kong - 340 x MUH 1997 Mini Sheets for just $A300!   Bizarre lot from a now deceased buyer who paid Max Stern $1,500 for these according to his invoice! Bought cheap today - to sell cheap. For anyone who wants to pop something away in the bottom drawer, you could do a lot worse .. the massive interest and resurgence of stamp buying and interest from CHINA (now in charge of Hong Kong) could see these do very well one day - see: www.glenstephens.com/snseptember08.html $A300

Roo 1913 10/- Grey and Pink �Specimen� incredibly fresh ex UK: A scarce stamp in any condition, and this fresh is about 1 in a 100. Faintest hinge touch and flat and white gum .. been in UK since issued. Wildly under-rated by the market. Only 2169 ever sold. Of those only about 25% seem to have survived being given to youngsters in the cheapie Specimen packs. And of those 500 survivors most have horrific perfs, centering and/or hinging .. and indeed many are no gum. For THIS issue a top end example � as you�d know if you have looked at any!. SG 14. $A500

Papua New Guinea 1994
Rare "Emergency Overprints":

Papua New Guinea 1994 "Emergency Overprints": I do now have, and have always had, the largest stock of these overprints in the world. Buy DIRECT from the original "source"! Thousands of collectors NEED this set to complete their collections. Only 45,000 were ever printed, NONE were sold by the agents, Papua New Guinea Bureau, or even Australia Post. Nearly all were used up on genuine commercial mail. Not discovered by stamp world until months after all the key values all used up! I first reported their existence to the stamp world.
"Set of 11" - SG # 730/740. Michel # 714 -724. Scott # 860/871. ASC Cat $A420.

Local Richard Juzwin retail price is $A330. The Seven Seas Stamps "Australian Stamp Catalogue" (ASC) price for the set 11 is $A420. MUH set of 11 - my VERY special DISCOUNT price offer for this month is: $A275. Or MUH blocks of 4 (very rare) $A1,250. I also have the earlier and later overprints also at terrific discount prices. For a complete set of TWENTY different overprints my discount price is $A335 - or that full set 20 in MUH blocks 4 for $A1,500. These will never be cheaper.

Definitive sets like the 1967 Anguilla overprints are already cat at �9,000 in Stanley Gibbons ... and Anguilla has NOTHING like even 1% of the collector following of PNG I suspect. Think about it! �9,000. This PNG set has a LONG way to go yet - that seems very clear. This PNG set selling for DOUBLE my price would not surprise me to see in the next few years. For very detailed and comprehensive background on this issue with all numbers printed etc - see my special page on these issues: http://www.glenstephens.com/overprints.html

Finally - all the 1994 "Emergency" sets I sell are of course guaranteed 100% genuine. You may ask for a Photo Certificate Of Genuineness on my security watermarked colour letterhead for this set of 11 or 20, dated and signed, illustrating in full colour the exact set I mail you. If required, this CERTIFICATE costs you an extra $A45 on top of price of the stamps, largely to cover the considerable time and messing around of individually preparing each one, typing, and scanning &c.

This is Substantially cheaper than sending it to the R.P.S. in London etc, which takes half a year to get back, and also incurs substantial Registered airmail cost to you - in both directions. And quite frankly, the RPS would not have a clue about these issues. 'Too Modern' they would sniff. Years down the track when the set sells for several times what it does now, such a certificate Guaranteeing these came from original PNG sources in 1994/5 will add FAR more than $A45 to the extra price you obtain when selling.

Hong Kong 1938 $10 KGVI Green and Violet Top Value: One of the key KGVI stamps from the entire Commonwealth. The original 1938 issue, which only exists with streaky yellow gum arabic. Mint lightly hinged. Nice deep original colour as you can see. I just bought the complete set if anyone has any gaps in this tough set. SG 161 �500 = $A1,250. Under 30% Gibbons at: $A375

Papua New Guinea 1961 5/- Native Patrolman UNISSUED stamp - the first COLOUR stamp ever to be printed in Australia: A famous issue and about 100 copies existed. I bought the unique full sheet off Kevin Duffy, that I broke up many years ago to clients. One client bought a fair number of those, and they have come back into stock from his estate. This was printed in Australia - who at the time had printed all of PNG�s stamps, and indeed administered the country.

Senior bureaucrats noticed the local police carrying rifles and felt showing the �natives� images of armed countrymen would cause problems, and the issue was stopped. (Remember the violent and war like highlanders had had only first seen Europeans that same generation.) Ken Humphreys wrote an article on these in the prestigious ACCC journal.

These were indeed the FIRST stamps of any type ever printed on the new colour Chambon photogravure press and preceded any Australian issues, and preceded the 5d "Inland Mission". For Richard Breckon�s story on these see here � www.tinyurl.com/cjc3uw They always get strong prices at auction - Robin Linke got $A3,300 for a block 4 at auction in Aug 2004, on estimate $A2,000. My price is $A650 a stamp for singles or pairs and $A2,400 a block of 4.

1902/4 Victoria 1d green Stamp Duty ... IMPERFORATE THREE SIDES Pair:   A new discovery �. I understand this pair has not been seen by anyone in decades. Virtually MUH with minor ageing, and a small red facial mark on lower stamp. V over Crown watermark sideways - perf 11. (Normal stamp is Barefoot 76.) Not mentioned on Elsmore�s useful and quite comprehensive website, or seen by him. This is the COMMONWEALTH period, after 1901, and makes this of far more wide interest than a pre 1901 issue.

There have been only 3 Australian postage stamps ever issued imperf 3 sides. First is the 2/- Brown Roo pair - creased and very badly torn, that sold at Arthur Gray in 2007 for about $A100,000. Second is the 1d Violet KGV head of which 16 are recorded (cat $100,000 a pair) and third is the 1951 7�d Blue KGVI .. cat $A25,000 a pair, of which 10 stamps survive. Do States revenues get big prices? Well yes - this 1d SA sold for $A11,650 at auction a year or so back - www.shasuo.notlong.com I doubt you can own another probably UNIQUE imperf 3 sides item, from a popular area, for anything like 3 figures. $A750

Victoria 1954 $10 top value Fish and Wildlife Hunting permit stamp: One of the best looking modern errors since the war. Well centered MUH. One sheet was discovered. $20 was a fortune back 33 years back. MUH with the matt gum as issued. Perfect centering and a fine item to add to the modern collection. State revenue issues are going INSANE in auction this year. A 1d South Australia sold at auction this year for $11,650 - www.glenstephens.com/snoctober07 and even a modern 1977 SA set sold at auction for over $2,500 in December - www.glenstephens.com/snfebruary08 One area to watch - $A250

1973 Australian �Formular� Aerogramme USED IN *PNG*: Used from Rabaul with light Rabaul roller cancel. Used to Tasmania to a well-known family. Chatty letter inside dated �Rabaul 27/3/73�   Fresh condition but some light creasing consistent with the postal journey. Australian un-denominated �Formular� aerograms or air-letters used in the Territories are rare, and sought-after by specialists. Stephen Bradford's two examples used on Norfolk Island realised A$625 and A$800 (both plus 16.25% commission!) at Premier Philately auction #99 way back in 2002 -   www.oopiya.notlong.com A$200

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

British New Hebrides 1920 2d on 40�, Red on Yellow - Superb Used: One of the hardest Pacific stamps to locate in used condtion. The overprint was on the FRENCH New Hebrides 40c, with the wavy line watermark. Superb used marginal copy with neat Port Vila cds. SG 35 �700 = $A1,750. Expertised on reverse. Bought from a nice estate today, and will sell fast at way under HALF of SG catalogue - $1,000 less in fact! $A600

Switzerland 1945 "PAX" set 13 Clean GU/VFU at $1,500 UNDER Michel Cat: Attractive set ex Estate with correct dated cancels. They are ESSENTIAL to be able to see, as you can do here, on the key values here, with 1945 or 1946 dates visible.

Mint hinged sets with vague corner cancels and no date showing - NO collector in Europe would ever touch! Michel 447/459. VERY high catalogue value! SG #447/459 - �700 = $A1,750. Michel 447-459 .... 1,000 Euros = $A2,050, and this is what nice sets DO sell for in Europe!

One of the scarcest sets post-war from Europe at $1,500 under Michel value! $A550

KGV1 3d Blue Die 1 on a double sided LETTERCARD FDC with 1d QM on the other side! Amazing. In 30 years of dealing I have never seen an
Amazing. In 30 years of dealing I have never seen an example of this. Neither have any cover dealers or collectors I have spoken to. A privately made LETTERCARD style double sided FDC for 2 different issues. Also I have never heard of the �Philatelic Investment Corp� .. goodness knows who they were! The 1d QM is clearly postmarked FDI = Sydney 10 May 1937. And the 3d blue KGVI is clearly postmarked FDI �Sydney � 2 Aug: 37�. Nice condition, and clearly a howling rarity for a FDC collector � or KGVI collector with an eye for the unusual. The 3d is cat on the fairly often seen NORMAL FDCs at $250 alone! $A300

Amazing 1932 Junkers Flight Cover: 12 December 1932 (AAMC.242 � Cat $1,500) Australia - Germany cover, flown and signed by Captain Hans Bertram with the "Bertram Allan Junkers Atlantis" ornate design at upper right. G.U. Allen was co-pilot. The quite SPECTACULAR looking Castrol Oil cover � LARGE size 9� x 6� fills a hagner sheet! I�ve never even seen or owned one of these before. The cover the bears the postage stamps and postmarks of FOUR countries - the Netherlands Indies, Australia, India and Germany � only a few ever carried.

Cancels of Darwin Dec 12, Sourabaya Dec 13 (where the plane crashed badly upon landing!) then 4 months later to Aykab India (April 2) and Berlin arrival of April 17, 1933. (You will see there are TWO cancels on 2 x 10� Indies Airmail � LH one being 10/4/33 and RH one from arrival crash 13/12/32 � 4 months earlier!) From the personal collection of the late Nelson Eustis. Absolutely impeccable provenance, and enormous rarity - and quite unbeatable eye-appeal as you can see with all the various colours on it. In GREAT condition for 76 years old and given the distance and history of this and a plane crash to boot.   The price of this top end Aerophilatelic material simply goes one way � UP! $A1,400

(Note - I bought a lovely lot of scarce early Australian airmail covers recently. Most I have never before set eyes on before. Please contact me for more details. Many had only a dozen or two dozen pieces flown, yet my prices are often only $200 or so. Such items have HUGE upside in price potential in my view.)

Surprise end year issue � QANTAS $2 Airbus A380 stamp totally **IMPERFORATE** block of 4:   On November 25 Australia Post released just 750 x IMPERFORATE panes of 12 mini sheets of 4 x $2 stamps. You needed to phone a special '800' number after midday, and maximum order was a sheet a person, and they sold out within hours as you'd expect.   All the $2 stamps depict the massive new Qantas Airbus A380.

Each sheet is foil numbered in lower right margin, and also comes with a hand numbered PO card of guarantee that only 750 panes in TOTAL were sold including all left and right panes, as AP offered with Architecture imperfs - although they were done in a much larger 5000 run � but are still much sought after.

Indeed there were only 375 left pane and 375 x right pane ... both panes of 12 sheets are marked thus lower left.   This is a Qantas Airbus A380 issue and that is a red hot theme, even for non stamp collectors. And it is imperforate. It is an 100% OFFICIAL PO issue, and one of the smallest in the post war era.   It is limited, and will be RED hot - just like the stamp border colour! I obtained a few by paying folks $100 to sit on the phone for hours re-dialling until they got through! Price per IMPERF pane is from $35 � full details here � with a LOT more photos of all the options and choices on these - www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?p=401608 - $A35

Germany 1900 "Reichspost" 5 Mark top value FU: Type II, lovely clear dated 'BERLIN/ 4.1.02.7-8N/6' cancel. SG #65a Cat �400 = $A900. Michel #66II cat �500 = $1000. A choice beautifully centred copy of a key high value - at well UNDER HALF Cat! $A450

Roo 1919 Third Watermark �2 Black and Rose Used - $5,200 under retail! : The VERY hardest Australian stamp to find attractive used. Even harder than the 1913 �2, which thankfully had a lot of CTO copies done. SG #45 Black and Rose. Missing from 99% of collections. Quite attractive used with a single Receiving Room cancel of "20 AP : 30", with very decent perfs and appearance.

I sold a very nice one last month for $3,750. Nearly ALL this printing had "fluffy" and ugly perfs, often not punched out at all. This one has a very professional central repair, otherwise would be in the $4,000+ league. A FU copy (lot 661) sold for $A6,000 at the Arthur Gray Auction in New York late February. Buy this one for a $5,200 discount over that price, due to the very neat repair. $A800

New Zealand 1855 2d blue Chalon on BLUED paper - NO Watermark: Fine used imperforate strip of 3, from the corner of the sheet. Unusually light cancels. Has double lined letters paper-maker's watermark along the top edge - see note in SG covering this, and proving these are SG 5. clean ands fresh, and a large multiple of this is clearly worth a premium. SG #5 �900 = $A2,250. Just 17�% of cat! $A400

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

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 very 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.

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 $A800 for the un-numbered one, $A600 for the 001, (Now SOLD) and $A400 for number 250. (Now SOLD)

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. $A800

Easy Germany DDR 1953/54 Five Year plan set 18: Typo. Fresh MUH original gum. Michel 405/422 = Michel 280 Euros = $A450. $A200

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

West Germany - 1951 'Posthorn' 20Pf red from booklet sheet: Vertical se-tenant strip with green "X" label (at top), Michel #S7, Cat �550 = $A1,125. Excellent perfs and centering as you can see, and guaranteed original gum. WAY under HALF Michel cat at - $A475

West Germany - 1951 'Posthorn' 6pf orange & 10pf green from booklet sheet: Se-tenant interpanneau horizontal strip of 4, separated by label with colour vertical bars & label with green "X", Michel #WZ4, Cat �550 = $A1,125. Excellent perfs and centering as you can see, and guaranteed original gum. Way under HALF Michel cat at - $A475

Buy both together and save $150! $A800

Complete Set Aust Post Year Albums 1981-2000 Under FACE!    Estate special. All TWENTY albums! The FACE value of the stamps inside is $720.   ALL are valid for postage if you ever need to use them. The issue price from PO was $964! Each Australia Post book from the debut 1981 book (issue number #1) also has a matching coloured, hard slipcase to prevent dust and moisture entering the book. Retail $1,250. $A725

Straits Settlements � 1945-1948 British Military Administration � the UNISSUED 8c Grey under HALF cat!: Quite unbelievable perfs and centering as you can see. Faint hinge touch. See note below SG 18. Cat �375=$A940. You will never see a better looking one at any price. Especially at well under HALF Gibbons. $A415

Perak 1896 $1 Elephant � attractive well centred fine used:   As collectors know, these are printed in doubly fugitive green ink, just like the GB 1883 "Lilac and Green" set. Immersion in water � even briefly - causes the colours to run and fade dramatically. Therefore finding a nice looking USED copy is near impossible. Portion of a neat "KAMPAR" squared circle cds � Proud type D1 � that leaves the central design vignette perfectly postmark free. Has been in the UK since issue date pretty much, so has NONE of the paper toning/ageing one gets if stamp is from long term SE Asia storage or residency! The very conservative Tan Cat value is 800 MYR = $A365.   SG 76 �200 = $A500+. Well under HALF SG cat at - $A235

ITALY - 1937 "200th Anniversary Of Birth Of Augustus The Great" set of Fifteen: Michel #576-590, Cat �360 (**) = $A725. Attractive VERY well centred set. All MUH, or 1 or 2 vals with barely discernable hinge touches. When did you last see a set of these offered locally � and at THIS price!? $A275

PNG 1994 21t on 80t Land Shell "Emergency Overprint': Corner blocks 4 from all 4 corners, of the rare 21t Land Shell. Always around the scarcest of the entire set. I bought a couple spare sheets of this in 1995 via my cunning "buying" ads in the national "Post-Courier" newspaper. These were mailed to me from a priest up in Goroka who had them in the parish postage folder. Needless to say the Church re-building fund got a sharp upward increase! These I sold to the original buyer in 1995, and the 4 blocks come complete with the lavish dated photo certificate I gave him way back then.

Read the quite detailed and FASCINATING story behind this rarest of all British Commonwealth post war sets - with dozens of other special offers of them - www.glenstephens.com/overprints

This still today is a very rare stamp. SG #734 and current 2007 SG Cat price is �40 each = $A100 a STAMP = $A1,600. Here we have 16 stamps in matched corner imprint blocks. My usual price for a single is $60 so 16 singles is $960, making no allowance for the obvious premium that matched Imprint blocks like this must attract. Such an assembly must be virtually unique? Also the impeccable provenance and photo-certificate from 1995 will always be worth a premium too. A real bottom drawer item - the lot for $A650

STOP PRESS - I believe I am the first stamp dealer in the world, outside of New Zealand to offer these stamps.

The un-issued 45� "Poi" Maori dancer self-adhesive booklet stamps. I have ten (10) copies of this stamp - and that is it. This is around 10% of the copies that exist worldwide. FAST ordering is recommended as when they are gone, they can't be replaced. Just one more booklet will be broken down and the market supply will then cease. And prices will clearly rise.

Price is $A2,275 a single self-adhesive neatly cut from the block, or $A4,475 a horizontal pair, or $A8,750 a block of 4 - if a block is still intact of course when you order! (A block of 4 is a booklet pane - each booklet has 2 panes of 4, and a pair.) Or the complete booklet of 10 for $A22,500.

These figures are in line with (or lower than) NZ retail which is getting higher each month as supply rapidly shrinks, and news of their existence slowly spreads overseas. "Linn's Stamp News" carried my story on these front page November 20 in colour. And the NZ dollar has strengthened a lot against $A in recent months. (A recent Len Jury auction in Auckland saw a set of 5 of these sell for $14,900 on a $13,500 estimate.)

(I also have several full sets of 5 for sale MUH at $A13,500 a set.)

If you buy them off me as an Australian resident, you avoid a certain 10% GST impost upon arrival as a highly insured item versus ordering from NZ, and avoid the nasty new 3-4% "currency surcharge" + bad exchange rate your credit card bank will certainly levy. My copies are IN-STOCK and ready to mail now.

The next 2 orders I get will be for Maori 4 x colour bar matched selvedge sets, and a matched corner imprint set of 5. Remember only 39 mint sets of 5 were sold. Each stamp in each set is FAR scarcer than the 1906 1d "Claret" Christchurch, which have fetched up to $NZ22,500 each at public auction.

I also have the UNIQUE 3 copies of the $2 top value from the top left corner of the sheet. The 4th one from the block was used on a letter to Scotland. NO others can exist.
For FAR more details of them all here:

www.glenstephens.com/kapa_haka.html

Hong Kong 1880 10� on 24� green Queen Victoria unused - UNDER 15% of S.G. Cat!: A very scarce stamp. Expertised 3 times on reverse. SG 27 �1,400 = $A3,500. Couple trivial little blemishes typical for anything 127 years old. A very decent buy ex estate, at WAY under 15% of Gibbons - $A450

Great Britain superb Booklet collection - $3,250 UNDER SG price!:   A wonderful Estate lot. All have an accurate current SG Concise SG catalogue (2005) yellow sticker on the outer vario sheet with SG number and value. Clean looking lot. All neatly arranged on Lighthouse "Vario" sheets.

Very seldom offered here and booklets are RED HOT in the UK. I see half page BUYING ads in "Linns" from large UK dealers like Rushstamps offering well above catalogue at times. I bet you could not buy these booklets at this price in the UK. The Cat price I used was 2005 (most recent "Concise" I have!) - it may well be higher than shown already.

A terrific challenge to work back from, for anyone seeking something different to undertake. Or for someone to offer separately on eBay or via a postal auction etc. And my Estate Clearance price is $A3,250 under Gibbons price!

(1) QE2 Pre-Decimal Booklet collection. Nice lot from 1959 N1 to N32. (Excludes N7 - but has 5 extras it seems.) 36 booklets, Cat �717 = $A1,800. $A700

(3) Gummed Barcode Machin "Window" booklet collection. From 1987 to circa 1990. 93 different booklets - with some reprints and different printers etc. Lots of �20 to �50 type items seen here. SG Cat �1,213.75 = $A3,050. $A1,000

(3) Keep them together as one group! Correct SG Cat is $A4,850. Save $200 off prices above! $3,250 under Gibbons! $A1,500

All prices on EVERY list are weak Australian Dollars!!

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Queensland 1902 6d Green Railway Parcel Stamp MUH pair! These stamps have seldom survived mint, and certainly not MUH. And certainly not DECENT looking! Typically with quite dreadful perfs and centring. This pair each have the really neat train watermark .. rather like the central design - complete with 4 wheels, and funnel etc. Really cute. A great little piece for a Rail collector, Queensland collector, Cinderella collector, or just someone who likes the unusual. Fresh paper, a few normal gum bends, but if these were 1913 6d Roo STAMPS, price would be $700 or so. $A125

Cocos Island 1994 rare overprint complete set of 8: Superb MUH including the huge $5 Airmail, and the Coconut "Official" which as always is CTO. Retail $385. $A250

Scarce Territory Of New Guinea pioneer airmail First Flight cover: June 1937 first flight from Mai Mai in the Sepik River, to Wewak. New Guinea 2d Coronation stamp cancelled by bold "Wewak 19 Jun:37" upon arrival. Addressed to Coogee NSW. William Gray carried just 21 covers in a Fox Moth from the Wambara Aerodrome. One of the rarities of NG aerophilately. Eustis P114, Cat $A500. $A400

Stop Press - All key airmail covers have taken good rises in price after the new Eustis/AAMC cat was issued mid March 2008. Now in big A4 size with superb Spiro binding, with a LOT more listings and photos and intermediates, and CURRENT market prices are given, to order see - www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=4335

(Note - I bought a lovely lot of scarce early Australian airmail covers recently. Most I have never before set eyes on before. Please contact me for more details. Many had only a dozen or two pieces flown, yet my prices are only $100-$200 or so. Such items have HUGE upside in price potential in my view.

All prices on EVERY list are weak Australian Dollars!!

All prices are "nett" ... what you see is WHAT you pay. NO Nasty, nasty 15%-20% Auction house "Buyer's Commission" silly nonsense is later extorted from you!

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Papua New Guinea 1994/5 �EMERGENCY� Overprints set of 11 - Superb Used: The scarcest post war set from the entire Pacific. I have the world�s largest stock of these mint and used and on cover. For full details see the FULL story in great depth here.. a great read even if you do NOT collect these! - www.glenstephens.com/overprints - Clean and fresh, and all overprints as always guaranteed 100% genuine. Indeed used sets are many times scarcer than MINT! February special! $A250

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All prices are "nett" ... what you see is WHAT you pay. NO Nasty, nasty 15%-20% Auction house "Buyer's Commission" silly nonsense is later extorted from you!

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Victoria 1850 3d Queen Victoria "Half Length" - complete sheet of 50 of the Jeffryes forgery: Seldom seen these days. A full sheet 50 in unusually fresh condition: The well known forgery by George Kirke Jeffryes, who as part of the "London Gang" received four months hard labour in 1892 for his forgery efforts! I have sometimes seen these offered in singles or pairs on eBay etc for $50 a pop! A perfect size to fit on a Hagner sheet or stockbook page, or album sheet. I have two sheets of 50 as per photo in very slightly different shades. Each sheet of 50 is $A200 or the BOTH sheets for $A375 ... or just $A3.75 a stamp!

1970 Captain Cook �Anpex� Mini Sheet x 50 only $7 ea! Amazing hoard ex Estate. Soaked off FDC�s it appears with NSW, �27 AP:70� FDI cds. Only 50,000 issued. Retail $25 each. Superb re-seller or �tuck away for the future� at only $7 each! $A350

"Aeropex 94" - the special 1944 KGVI 7d Aerogram/Airletter reprint: Very unusual lot I bought off Bill Hornadge - never seen them before. Flat and pristine 70c Aerograms. 50 x mint as shown, and 69 of same design with the scarce and special Adelaide plane design FDI cancel - also flat and unfolded. Can't have been many done! ASC cat A120 - $1,455. 119 items. This is scarcest used Australian aerogram since 1971. Be perfect for dealer to re-sell as 50 sets of both mint and FU, with some used spares left over. My cost is around 10% of Cat, and only about twice face from 13 years back, and back then they more than likely cost way over face anyway! $A150

All prices on EVERY list are weak Australian Dollars!!

All prices are "nett" ... what you see is WHAT you pay. NO Nasty, nasty 15%-20% Auction house "Buyer's Commission" silly nonsense is later extorted from you!

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