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AUSTRALIA - July 2010 Tropical Fish Set of 4 x 60c **TOTALLY IMPERFORATE**:  A spectacular item offered to me today.  Bought at a Melbourne suburban post office in a booklet of 10, and when it came time to use it, buyer noticed that the stamps peeled off in 2 halves.  Some were used on mail, and the “penny dropped” that this booklet might be a printing mistake.  It sure was!  Six of the 10 were essentially HALF stamps, as the cutting “knife” had gone askew on the left two panes.  However the huge prize was, the right hand set of 4 different Fish stamps are all TOTALLY IMPERFORATE.

Never in Australian stamp HISTORY has there I believe been an entire Australian definitive letter rate set sold over a PO counter as totally imperforate.  And being a superb looking tropical fish thematic, makes it even more desirable and saleable.  One VERY occasionally finds a booklet that is issued part imperforate - and all are rare and expensive. (Indeed a 1990’s 45c fully imperforate single Definitive on commercial cover was sold at Public Auction late July 2010, for $A2,185.  For just ONE common stamp – see http://tinyurl.com/Imperf45c 

I am aware of NO other examples of this 60c Imperforate error reported, or on the market.  Like the 45c imperf above, they often are just a freak that occurs on 1 or 2 booklets, and the public uses them on mail.  You are buying the imperf block of 4 as shown, PLUS all the lower margin inscriptional selvedge of course.  The finder is happy with this surprisingly low price for the block, and I feel sure the buyer might well be too, in pretty quick order.  If this block of 4 went to Auction today, given the great thematic appeal and lack of others recorded, I’d not be at all surprised to see it get $2,000++ .. plus all the add-ons.  No 20% Auction fee to pay HERE!   Buy this IMPERFORATE block of 4 for -  $A1,500

Australia 1982 60c Humpback Whale trial *Proof* printing:  With solid blue-green background, and not the issued sunlight streaked background, in a dark blue. ACSC 930 E(1) Cat $350. Sold with the normal stamp for comparison.  Fresh MUH.  SG 841a Cat. £250. Ever popular due to “Whale” theme,  and this was a GENUINE error.  I received 2 of them on a Certified mail package from Charles Leski in the 1980s, who had no idea he was using proofs for postage!  $A250

 

TONGA – rare 1894 cover to Sydney:  Franked with 1894 (Jun-Nov) Surcharges ½d on 1/-,  SG 22 x 3, and 2½d on 8d, SG 23 x 3 – (huge cat on cover) all tied by ‘Nukualofa’ cds on October 31, 1884.  Also at lower left, a complete oval 'REGISTERED/TONGA F.I.' cachet in violet.  And a circled “R” at top right.  On reverse a fine “Registered Auckland” cds of November 6, and a Sydney arrival.  Covers bearing this short lived set almost NEVER seen. $A375

FIJI - 1870-1871 Fiji “Times Express” Batonné Paper, 1d genuine MINT:  SG 5, with complete printer's rules outer margins, and large-part original gum. Guarantee handstamp, and expert signature on reverse.  SG 5 - Cat £950.  Ex Fairbairn.  RPSV photo Certificate (1990).  In over 30 years as a dealer, I have NEVER offered a genuine “Times Express”.  The legendary Col. Harrie Evans Fiji auction in 2001 had EIGHT copies of SG 5 .. none had a cert, and ALL had thins and faults and/or poor margins, yet all sold for strong prices - a thinned lot #21 sold for $A835! - http://tinyurl.com/Fiji1d

These stamps were extensively forged and re-printed, and genuine originals are REALLY scarce.  And of those, near all have faults or thins on the crude quality, very thin paper, and/or tight or cut into margins.  These MUST be bought with a reputable Certificate.  As good as you’ll find, and in Europe easily a $1,000+ piece.  $A825

South Australia, superb block with official “SA” perfin: 1904-11 Thick 'POSTAGE', 4d orange, perfin 'SA'.  Marginal block of 4 from the left of the sheet with the popular 'AUSTRLAIA' mis-spelling on the double lined marginal Watermark error. This printing was first issued in 1904 and is thus officially an AUSTRALIAN stamp, not a SA stamp - as confirmed by ACSC.  ACSC #S39a - three units MUH!  Lovely centering as you can see.  Cat $A800+ as 4 normal stamps. A gift for the astute at -  $A450

Cook Island – Rarotonga - 1921-23 Overprint on Q.V. Postal Fiscal *MUH* Block 4:  De La Rue "Roughways" Paper, 2/- blue, with the overprint in Carmine.  SG 76b marginal block of 4 from the base of the sheet.  With the genuine original UNHINGED MUH streaky gum. SG Cat £680 as 4 HINGED singles!  Ex J Edgar Williams.  With a clear RPS London Certificate of Genuineness.  Delightful looking piece – if this were a MUH 2/- Roo block, you could add a ZERO to this price - TRUE!  $A575


FIJI - 1881-99 Queen Victoria 5/- dull red & black on cover:  The highest face value Fiji QV stamp ever issued.  SG 69, well tied by Suva January 26, 1900 cds, with extra strike alongside.  On Registered 1900 cover to PRENZLAU Germany, with boxed 'R ' handstamp.  Bold ‘Prenzlau’ arrival cds of 25/3/00 on reverse.  Rare on any cover.  Ex Donald Welsh & Fairbairn collections. (Ross Duberal records only ten 5/- covers, (all over-franked) and this one is illustrated by him at page 39). This exact same cover sold at Auction in April 2005 for $A1,200 ($950+10%+15%) – for that, see http://tinyurl.com/Fiji5sh  Pay $450 less than that 5 year old level! $A750

Brand New Stanley Gibbons 2010 "Stamps Of The World" 5 massive vols in COLOUR: HALF PRICE!  Save $320 off ret NOW:   Complete set of volumes 1-5, covering EVERY country A-Z.  Many more photos here -  www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=18880

All miniature sheets are now included.  FIVE massive books the size of Sydney phone books!  Shipped to you in a white storage box.  Retail is $A650. My price is HALF retail or $A330 a set plus post.  Yes they are pricey because this is a VERY heavy carton, and stock needs to come from the UK.

Seeing they are now in colour, on Brite-White paper stock, you will not need to update for 10 years, so for $33 a year to keep up with stamp listings is a pretty cheap deal really.  And even in 10 years, a set of these will readily sell for $100-150 or more!  There are near FIVE THOUSAND huge pages, and a HALF MILLION stamps all priced here. $A45 air shipping WORLDWIDE!  $A330

 

Kenya Uganda 1922 £1 KGV Black and Orange Hi-Value stamp:  SG 95 - £1000. Clean and fresh, and all perfs are fine and complete - some are covered by cancel ink on scan.  Various date Nairobi 1923 cancels. These chalk faced stamps often colour run when soaked, and fade .. but these colours all look wonderfully deep and bright. SG 95, £250 each. Scott 37, $US250 each. Great centering too. Used on Gov't docs of some kind.  All 4 for just - $A250

GB Superb FDC Coll 1980-2001 comp. (285) SG £1,540 - $A650:   Lovely Estate lot in 2 x Maroon Royal Mail FDC albums (Retail $50 each) and the balance were still in mailing envelopes, from the Bureau in Edinburgh!  All removed by me this week for the first time.  Cat values up to £35 each FDC, with Defins Sets up to £5 a set.  You are buying 285 First Day covers!   More photos at -  www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=15981 - A STEAL at just over $2 each – the nice albums are FREE! -   $A650

 

1936 MALAYA Negri Sembilan “Specimen” two top value stamps:  The $2 value is very lightly hinged, and the $5 value appears to be unhinged. Stanley Gibbons lists the Specimen set at £400, and they are very rare and seldom seen. They were distributed to UPU countries and not many of these set has “leaked” onto the market from that source in the past 75 years.   100% guaranteed genuine perfins, and both have original gum.  Most attractive and well priced at - $A175

  


 

NSW 1860 Imperfs used in QUEENSLAND:  Until the issue of the first Queensland stamps in 1860, NSW stamps were used up in the Moreton Bay district.  The only way to determine which ones, is via the cancels. “95” was the numeral allocated then to Brisbane (on the 6d “Registered”) and the “Brisbane JY 11- 60 – QUEENSLAND” is self explanatory.  The latter with a date slug error .. the “60” being inserted in error ABOVE the month/date as you can see.  Clean and fresh.  The ‘Registered’ with quite massive margins 2 sides, with positions of 2 adjacent stamps.  The other 6d scissor snipped into at left.  SG 91 and 103 £205 + cancel premium. $A150

  

 

Taiwan 1962 "Savings Stamps" Set 3:  Bought these this week.  Fresh MUH with a stock descriptor card in with them from SG London for £60 retail, from 1997.  No idea of real catalogue value -  I do note a set 3 sold on ebay this month for $A215 – www.tinyurl.com/Taiwan1-3  - all dealers have it on their “BUY” list -  $A150

  

 

SG Windsor ‘Elite’ GB albums at $250 under retail!   Bound in rich red buckram 22-ring binders, with lavish gold blocking on the front and spine, and come with matching dual-volume hard slipcases.  More pix here -  www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=19559

Regarded as the most comprehensive Great Britain albums money can buy... with all pages from the 1840 "1d Black" - up to 2000. If you collect top quality GB your stamps surely deserve the BEST album to house them in?

Popular with collectors since 1925, these albums feature superb quality printed leaves which provide spaces for every stamp, including Queen Victoria plate numbers, se-tenant strips and panes, sideways watermarks and shades, latest Machins, special issues, postage dues, officials, regionals, channel Islands occupation issues and more.

On the facing page is an illustrated catalogue of easy reference and in the front of each volume are helpful explanatory notes on sorting difficult stamp issues. All album pages are heavyweight grade 135gsm, and the springback binder is attractively gold blocked on the spine. Printed on 11¹⁄₈"x 9³⁄₄" cream cartridge.  Retail $A700 the set ... cancelled customer order .. brand new ex factory - $A450

 

 

1932 1/- Large Lyre Bird Clean FDC:  In 30 years of dealing this is the ONLY one I have owned or handled.  Sensationally bold Feb 15 cancel .. indeed being at 3am on that 1st Day Of Issue, it may well be the earliest date slug from anywhere.  Attractively addressed, and for 75 years old in lovely shape.  The ASC value of $450 is absurd .... it should be around twice that.  FDC's from this era for definitives were virtually unknown and collectors were just not interested.  Indeed other than the 1913 1d Red Roo not a SINGLE Kangaroo stamp exists on a FDC from anywhere - which is amazing .. right up to the 1930s CofA issues.  Indeed the entire KGV heads series is almost the same story.   Being a bird issue simply adds to its appeal.  $A400

  

 




KGV 2d Red Double Print/”Kiss Print”:  Remarkably few of these are recorded on Australian stamps.  Very minor kiss prints on Kangaroos are getting MANY $1000s in the past year.  If this was a Roo you could add a ZERO!   Clean used, quite nicely centred, with a couple of nibbled perfs at top.  Attractive “Mount Gambier 9 - OC – 33 – SA” full face cds.  The doubling very evident on lower frame, and around POSTAGE and TWO PENCE as you can see.  ACSC 103cb, $500 .... this appears to be the first loose stamp recorded.  Plated by the stampboards KGV experts as position 3L59. $A200


 


Australia 1948 £2 “Arms” with the popular “Roller Flaw”:  Virtually perfect centred, extremely fresh MUH – very feint gum bend I literally did not notice until it was pointed out.  The “Roller Flaw” on this one being in the most advanced stage, before being retouched soon after. (The ‘blow up’ above is from file images .. this one on stamp is far more advanced as you can see on the stamp.)  Juzwin retail $375 as average centred.  SG 224da.  $A250

 

GB 1867 10/- Greyish Green Queen Victoria, at 5% of SG!:  A stamp missing from near every collection.  A facially quite decent copy of this 143 year old stamp for any album, at only 5% of SG price.  Repaired corner, SG 128, £2,800 = $A5,000.  Only 5% of SG!  $A250

  

 

 

Australia 1970 “Definitives” PO Pack:  The *Gorilla* .. the scarcest PO pack by several miles, as it cost a FORTUNE back then.  I see one each few years or so.  The $4 alone was EIGHTY times the 5c letter rate, i.e. a $48 stamp alone, on today’s 60c rate. So the pack was WAY over $A100 type buying price in today’s money.  ASC P7 - $450 and seldom seen. Fresh and un-opened. $A300

  

 
 

GB 1840 2d Mulready Envelope:  These of course are 1000 times scarcer than the 2d blue stamps issued the same day, but you’d never know from the SG current £400 silly prices!  It is VERY first thing in Gibbons .. listed even before the 1d Black!  The world’s first stamped postal stationary.  Almost never seen out here.  Stereo a203.  A few very minor blemishes as always on something this fragile that is 170 years old, and very good buying at $A325

  

 
1963/65 Pre-Decimal Navigator "SPECIMENS" set 4 – the 10/- being Rare 15mm, heavy overprint:  Fresh MUH original gum.   ACSC $2,000.   When you do see a set, you can BET 1 or 2 are woefully badly centred - this quartet have exceptional centring for these and excellent perfs as you can see.  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.  Guaranteed original gum and guaranteed genuine.

I've handled only a few sets 4 in the past 25 years, and nearly all those were hinged - and have even handled a few no gum due to toning or 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 gum on the back.  The 10/- Cream with the heavy font overprint (15mm) is rare – Cat $1,500 alone.  £2 is the scarcer lower right positioning.  ACSC $2,000.  $A1,000  



 
 

NWPI 1915/6 £1 Brown and Blue Kangaroo:  A BEAUTY .. hard to improve on this little gem.  SG 99 (Type C overprint)  Superb used and fresh, with a light genuine Rabaul cds.  Great perfs and centering as you can see. $A500

  

 


 

Germany 1931 'Graf Zeppelin' - Polar Flight 4 Mark brown, FU:  Always a popular stamp - sought after by both German and Zeppelin collectors. Clean FU with no back faults or hinge remains to hide thins or creases etc.  Nice “bite” to the cancel – a lot of “used” fakes exist, created from rubber cancels etc.  Top value of this scarce set.  Mi #458, 900 Euros.  SG #471 Cat £950 = $A1750.  A BARGAIN at around a QUARTER Gibbons!  -  $A475

  

 
 

New South Wales 1866-74 Stamp Duty, 2nd series superb MUH Plate Proof:  Spectacular condition for 140 years old.  Fresh, flat MUH original gum, on the slightly blued security paper, with the “NSW” watermark in centre. Faint natural gum bend mentioned for 100% accuracy, but a beauty you’ll never improve on. $A200

  

 

South Australia 1855 1d Dark Green *SG #1* FU pair:  The sought after Perkins Bacon first English printing.  Clean and fresh, and free of hinges and gunk - or the thins and creases and toning so often found. Deep strong colour.  Shows the image misalignment on plate well!  SG #1 £900.  The left hand unit alone with massive margins at right is worth this on its own! $A600

  

 


 

Kangaroo 1916 2/- Brown *INVERTED* Watermark:   A very rare stamp.  3rd watermark, clean FU with inverted watermark.  Has a wonderfully neat light cancel  - leaving the Kangaroo image totally clear.  Cancelled at Sydney GPO.  Clean and fresh and free of hinges and gunk.  ACSC 37a - outdated price is $750.  I was talking with the late Simon Dunkerley in recent years, who concurred that attractive used copies are near unheard of on this invert. 

Most of the few used recorded have ugly parcel cancels and/or are damaged due to heavy parcel use during WWI.  As an example, the only used copy in Gray sale had short perfs and a missing corner. Perfect perfs and centering, with a faint corner crease mentioned for accuracy only.  As nice a looking used example as would exist.  $A650 

  

"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! $A125

 

 

1913 1/- First Watermark 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.  As a bonus, has an outer frame break lower left as you can see.  $A275

  

 

1930 Kingsford Smith 3d blue, overprinted “OS” - with Certificate:  Probably 90% of these on the market mint are forged, and fully 99% offered on ebay are forged in my view.  The underlying stamp is retail $3.  Beautifully centred MVLH …. indeed it looked MUH to me on first inspection.  Comes complete with 2009 Photo Certificate of Genuineness – “Genuine in all respects”.  ASC 137 Cat $325 as hinged without Cert.  $A350

  

 

Solomon Island 1907 “Large Canes” set of 7 imperforate Plate Proofs:  A scarce and popular set that I have not seen offered for years.  Clean and fresh with bright colours, and crisp razor sharp impressions.  Cheaper than buying a mint set of the 7 issued stamps!  $A300

  

   

 

GB 1884 10/- Queen Victoria, lovely centred used Cat £475 for $A250! :  Clean and fresh, and totally free of thins and creases or hinge remains or problems on reverse.  These stamps were used on very heavy parcels, and thus invariably are badly mangled as a result!  Excellent perfs.  Central “Registered, Lombard Street” (London) cds, as often encountered on these.  Centering is often appalling.  SG 183 £475 (and they say add 50% to that for well centred!) for just: $A250

 

 
 

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 - $A400

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 - $A400

Buy both together (Cat a whopping €1,100, and save $100 more!  $A700		  

 

New Zealand PO Annual Albums .. a carton full in mailing boxes from issue #1:  SUPERB and colourful presentation as you would expect, with all the MUH sets inside. A few are photo’d above.  Plenty of FACE value here!  The first THIRTEEN books ever, and the first of anything philatelic are usually the best performers.

All Deluxe books, very like the Australia Post ones in size and appearance.  All classy hard covers with hard matched slipcases. QUALITY. All in original outer plastics and outer white boxes as shipped ex PO!  Perfectly fills a Corona Beer bottle x 24 carton from Mexico as you can see.  From the very FIRST book ever to 1996. (13 Books.) ACS retail is $1,170.  Estate Special to clear at just $A450. That's under $35 a book!  More photos here - www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=15950 -  $A450      

  

 

 

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 £1,500 = $A3,500.  Couple trivial little blemishes typical for anything 130 years old.  A very decent buy ex estate, at WAY under 15% of Gibbons - $A400

  

 

Australian 1936 Tasmania Cable set cancelled the day BEFORE issue:  It is clearly machine cancelled at Perth GPO, 11.45am, March 31, 1936 so backdating is not an issue, as with many small town hand cancels.  Back in this era FDC were a generally un-collected novelty. In the entire period of Kangaroo issues from 1913 to 1936 there are only two FDC's recorded - despite the myriad of face values, of changing watermarks, and even many colour changes. No collectors seemed to care.

The OFFICIAL release date seems to be agreed by catalogues as April 1.  Clearly this is a day BEFORE.  The morning of the day before in fact. March 31, 1936 was a Tuesday. This cover is just one of 2 recorded - an identical one being owned by Frank Pauer, who has the largest Australia FDC collection in existence.  A ton more discussion on this cover, and many more photos are at -  www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=16457

Some genius bid $A5,125 for an apparent simple date-slug error from a small PO on a 1d green commercial cover at auction in February 2009, that had a shopping list scrawled across the back. That cover also was allegedly used the day before issue.

Pre-Decimal FDC collecting is in its infancy, and if a defective 1d green “Day Before Issue” cover has just got $5,125 at public auction .. this one in great condition surely has to be a great buy at - $A750

  

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 = $A7,000 for $A500.)  For this attractive 5/- ….  Well UNDER 15% of the normal SG price - $A350




 

Australia 1922 KGV, 2/- black on rose Booklet:  KGV 2d Red, Single Watermark.  Still has the two waxed interleave pages, with 1 stamp remaining.  ACSC # B25D.  SG SB11c.  It must be remembered that the ACSC prices for this era are strictly for BOOKLET COVERS, not full booklets, as in practice almost no full booklets exist.  They state on page 11/8 – “Catalogue prices for pre 1928 Booklets are for Booklet covers in good condition, containing any quantity of the relevant stamps”.  Full books clearly rate a premium above ACSC price.  This one is in about usual condition.  The covers were printed on thin, coarse, fibrous, acidic card - and always are knocked about and defective to some degree.  With original staple and interleaves.  SG £3,500, or ACSC $5,000 in 2003, so a real bargain at 15% of cat – be years til you see another offered at ANY price!  $A750 

 

 

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






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

 

 
 

1934 First Flight cover INDIA to Australia:  A cover I’ve NEVER seen offered.  Eustis 469H.  The common UK-Australia Imperial Airways/Qantas route that this was carried on - Eustis 469, is incredibly plentiful, and I imagine 10,000s were made and many survive.  From Intermediates like India, they will be 100 or 1000 times scarcer than those, and yet the new Eustis listing only has rated it 50% higher in price than 469!  Pricing of these intermediates is new, and clearly in future there will be price tinkering upwards.  Nice condition for near 80 years old, and try buying another at ANY price! $A125

  

  

 

 

New Zealand – 1948  £3½ and £4½ "Arms" issue for 5% of SG!:  Used, with no faults or repairs and embossing.  Cancelled with non postal dated cancels, that many dealers would simply sell as “FU”.  A stamp pair missing from nearly all KGVI collections, worldwide.  SG Cat F 209 - £1,500 and SG F167 £1600  for $A175 each – or the both for $A300.  The fiscal copies of these usually have multiple ugly auditor hole punches, and/or pen or crayon cancels and/or heavy embossing “crimps”.  Pop them on ebay and you never do know!  Sold for about 5% of the Gibbons cat for postal used at $A175 each, or buy the cat £3,100 pair at just -  $A300 the PAIR.

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

Seychelles Queen Victoria 1901 Surcharge DOUBLE - “3 cents” on 36c brown and carmine:  The well known rarity.  SG 39a mint original gum. Cat £750.  Attractive colours – a real eye catcher.  Clear BPA Certificate - “Double surcharge, unused - is genuine” - signed by the legendary Robson Lowe. $A600



South Australia 1855 Perkins Bacon London Printings, 2d imperforate plate proof horizontal pair:  From Plate 2:  In dull carmine-lake on ungummed unwatermarked paper, with good to massive margins, clean and fresh with razor-sharp impression.  A rare multiple - and MUCH scarcer than the 6d plate proofs in blue.  Ex the "Harry Lower" collection - sold for $1,150 + fees = $1,322 at the Prestige auction of 12/5/2007 - http://tinyurl.com/25cyqu4  (Peter Jaffe's two singles sold for $604 & $483 at auction in March 2006.)  Offered at far LESS than Auction price of this exact piece, over 3 years back!  $A1,200

 

Vatican - The two “BIGGIES”!   The 2 key stamps of this popular country.  New onto the market this year from the family of Stuart Gordon McFarlane, C.M.G. M.B.E.  McFarlane was Secretary To The Treasury for a decade 1938 to 1948 - right during the WW2 era, and his signature was on billions of Australian banknotes.  I bought his Vatican collection – the balance is for sale cheap - ASK ME!   First the GORILLA – the 1948 500 Lira blue airmail. Perfect centred fresh MLH. SG 138 £550, Michel 148, 700 Euro. $425.  Then the 1951 Decree Of Gratian 300 Lira airmail.  Vibrant colour and very fresh MVLH – looks MUH.  SG 173 £300, Michel 185 360 Euro.  Superb centring .. these are line perf, and are all over the place. $A200.  Or the BOTH (Cat £850) for $A600

  

 
“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
 

 


1930 2d Red KGV Small Multiple Watermark, Golden Scarlet superb MVLH with *NO WATERMARK*:  Unusually well centred for these, superb perfs, and a true GEM example.  ACSC 102aa Cat $4,000 – 3 years back.  SG 99ab.  Fresh as a daisy, and barest hinge touch.  Has the real Golden SHEEN.  Be impossible to find a nicer looking example anywhere, at any price.  Top end material.  $A2,750


Easy Germany DDR 1953/54 Five Year plan set 18: Typo. Fresh MUH original gum. Michel 405/422 = Michel 280 Euros = $A450. $A150



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 - http://www.glenstephens.com/overprints.html

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 $A600

Australia Post Annual "Year Books" Black LEATHER "Executive" Edition complete - $665 under retail!  The "Leather" (Executive) books are VERY classy.  All have been Black genuine Leather covered, with brass corners, since the first issue in 1986, so they are a fully matched classy Black set. Covers are thickly padded and deeply gold inscribed on front and spine.  Each book has a matching gold embossed heavy slipcase ….. see the main photo above - the 3 slipcases are standing at back.  These keep dust and moisture OUT of your stamp albums and are ESSENTIAL in this climate.

Australia Post charges $35 more for each Leather album over the regular Year Book, due to high cost of making leather covers etc.  So retail is accordingly much higher - add that extra cost up over 15 books!  Numbers produced are a small FRACTION of normal books, so re-sale value stays very strong.  Sitting in a neat row on a lounge room bookshelf these look super classy - like a set of Law Books or Britannia's etc!  They come out each year in same design, so you can readily keep up to date.

The presentation of the stamps and the artwork and detail on the pages in these books is an absolute credit to Australia Post.  High gloss varnished paper, and double facing pages of info on EVERY stamp issue.  Laden with photos and factual background information.  For collectors with younger children or Grandchildren this is a goldmine for their education and general knowledge.  Or a family heirloom collection to keep up to date.

The 2000 regular Year Book surprised everyone by having in it the Australia Sydney Olympic Gold Medal winner sheetlet of 16.  You could obtain this sheet NO other way.  That sheetlet alone retails for $100 in many shops. The 1988 LEATHER book has always been near impossible to source.

I have ALWAYS had the largest stock of Year Books in Sydney.  I buy more estates than anyone else it seems, and also folks come to me when selling these books, as they know I will buy them.  And I thus MUST sell as cheaply as I can, to MOVE all this stock or I will drown in it!

This is a lovely collection of EVERY leather book issued from 1986 (Leather Book Number #1) to 2000.  FIFTEEN matched books.   A large wine carton FULL.  My normal discount retail on these as you can see nearby is $A1,565.  A superb gift idea perhaps for someone?  I bought 2 identical sets.  To clear this Estate lot fast, out they go for $665 less - a round figure per set of 15 -  $A900

 

 



China Cultural Revolution Stamp - "All China Is Red" RARITY on Mao’s ‘Little Red Book’!  I bought this from a major Hong Kong auction January 31.  A fair portion of it is filled with greetings from young friends and political slogans for a young man entering the Army.  The exact reason it was given out at schools etc.

The youngster has affixed a few used stamps to the cover of it .. which INCLUDES a copy of the great rarity - ”All China Is Red”   As a mint pair of that same stamp sold in same sale for over $A250,000, and the Yang cat says used are worth half mint (i.e. $A62,500 used), I figured the entire book at the $A42,000 I paid had to be a absolute steal.  See full review of that gang buster auction where other Cultural Revolution stamp pieces were getting near a million dollars  - www.glenstephens.com/snapril10.html

Would I rather have 8 of these books – or one HALF of a creased stamp for the same money was my thought!  (A HALF stamp sold for $A318,000 in this sale!)  Seeing the book is clearly unique (and the half stamp is not) it was a moot question, but the comparison was a valid one to make.  Like all young kid’s books, it is a little knocked around, but that adds to the authenticity.  Luckily the best looking stamp on the page – by miles – is the rare one, as you can see.

Comes complete with a letter from the Director of the leading Auction, verifying the price paid by me, and that the stamps are guaranteed genuine, and are NOT reprints or forgeries.  Which was wise, as I am sure the faker's will start on this stamp one day.  Many more photos of the book, and detailed comment and translations of content therein are at – www.tinyurl.com/MaoRedBook

The other 4 stamps depicting the Red Guards, Mao, and his calligraphy Poem, all add to the appeal of it – even those as 4 used stamps have soared in value this year.  To me it has far more appeal and connection to the Chinese Cultural Revolution than any isolated mint stamp, but hey I am biased here!  Mao would have fumed if he saw this “All China Is Red” stamp, depicting “Renegade Province” Taiwan in WHITE, adorning the cover of his Communist manifesto, I imagine. $A50,000 

 

NEWFOUNDLAND: 1911 Recess Printed 8c “MOSQUITO” Imperforate Horizontal Pair:  SG 112 variety (Unitrade #99a)  Excellent margins, very lightly mounted mint original gum.  Canada Unitrade catalogue $C350 for "Fine" grade – i.e. poor margins and centering.  Accompanied by RPS London Photo Certificate (1973) $A375


PNG 1993 Birds Of Paradise unique set of blocks with “July 1993” fine print base pieces, in KAPUL blocks:  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 – dealer or collector.  Quite a strong market has developed in recent years for these.  Much discussion on it here with current prices – that is a 2 page thread – www.tinyurl.com/kapuls

This set of 3 margin copies with KAPUL is $A1,290 retail a single set 3, with a good premium for the margin Imprint copy as well.  And the overprint block is $590.  Superb fresh MUH and better than usual centering as well.  Believed a UNIQUE set of corner Imprint blocks – all showing of course the “1 Kapul” reprint symbol.  Bought them attractively, so priced to sell fast  at WAY under HALF retail! (16)  $A1,500  – or the 4 singles, perfect centred MUH - $A275

 

 

Ethiopia - 1930 Coronation of the legendary Emperor Haile Selassie  - 400 sets – 20% of SG:  Weird purchase of EIGHT sheets of 25 of each value = 400 sets of 7 = 2800 x fresh MUH, flat stamps.  Nice looking sheets too, with decorative machine turned edges top and base as you can see -- all printed in France.  SG 278-284, cat £4.40 a set of 8 =  £880, although I assume that price is for hinged .... who knows if MUH gets a premium from ETHIOPIA?!   Anyway, a fortunate purchase, and priced at 20% of the SG HINGED price!

A colourful set, and now near 80 years old.  All the Rasta fans will love the Ethiopia Lion and their spiritual leader!  I reckon if these were offered on ebay etc, per set 7 in full sheets 25, at say $A75 a sheet ($3 a set) you'd TREBLE your outlay. $A300

  

 


 

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€ = $A1725.  $A500

 


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 $A175 for one of each.  Or a joined pair of each as shown above, Cat £600 (=$A1,500) fresh MUH for -  $A300

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 $A300 the block is a silly joke.  This is now just on 80 years old. (SG 54)  $A300


 

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 exist.  I bought the unique full sheet 60 off Kevin Duffy, that I broke up very 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.  But before the TPNG Post Office's official bulletin of January 1962 stated that a forthcoming issue would feature "a Native Affairs patrol..."  (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 indeed preceded the 5d "Inland Mission".  A key piece for any collector of AUSTRALIA.  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.  Prestige invoiced a block 4 in Feb 2010 for $A2,650.  My price is $A650 a stamp for singles or pairs, and $A2,400 a block of 4 – the unique lower 2 rows of sheet block 10 (selvedge 3 sides)  with red sheet number is $A6,000
 





Australia 1938 2d Red KGVI Superb Block 4 with *COMPLETE* Plate Number “4”:  Great eye appeal. Lovely clean fresh block, with a GPO Sydney CTO cancel.  This block has a totally COMPLETE plate number “4” as you can see.  And also neatly trimmed on angle, so both perf electro pips also shown in full.  All the KGVI era plate blocks are rare, as ordinarily these numbers were guillotined off, leaving in 99.9% of cases a narrower margin, or now and again, a tiny portion of the number base. 

Plate 4 is a nice one, as copies are known with “4” and “- 4 -“ with the perfs flush along top, OR a few are known like this with the 1 perf extension above the other perfs – the only 2d plate this is known for I understand.  PERFECT perfs and centring as you can clearly see.  A gem to tuck away.  ACSC 188zc $2,000 for the more common non flush perf. $A1,000


 

 

The superb and massive Hugh Freeman ‘Numeral Cancels Of Victoria’ Book:  As readers know, my long time mantra is “KNOWLEDGE IS POWER”   Well here is a book EVERY collector and dealer should have.  Spot a scarce numeral cancel on a common 1d stamp just ONCE in your lifetime, and you'll pay for this book MANY times over, on that ONE stamp!

I use this book ALL the time.  It is a SUPERB work.  It could not be more highly recommended by me.  BRAND new hard cover book .. and at issue price due to a fortunate buy, in dust cover. 420 pages.  They list all the Vic number cancels recorded on Roos and KGV heads. (There are more than you imagine ... and most were done against instructions!)

They lists all the COLOUR strikes of these cancels when known, and when used.  This book in 5 or 10 years time will be VERY saleable - indeed I can almost bet you'll get well over $150 for it down the track.  History shows all these well written, out of print books on popular subjects, done in limited runs, hold and generally increase their value.

The much thinner modern era Robert Gibbs "GRI" book sold for $A750 at a recent Prestige sale, (many times issue price) so superb content hardcover books in a small print run always do very well long term.  I have sold about 40 of the Arthur Gray "Kangaroos" auction catalogues for $A150 each.  And that was a free auction cat, printed in MANY times the numbers this was.

 More photos and detail on this book is here -  http://uehaih.notlong.com   Read my detailed “Stamp News” review of this superb work when issued - http://aceizo.notlong.com  $A150

My current ‘Stamp News’ column on the superb books on the postmarks of Victoria and Bernie Manning’s new “Queensland cancels: have created a STAMPEDE of orders!  Collector and dealers worldwide have lined up for these.  Find ONE better type numeral cancel on a common 1d state stamp, or 1d KGV or 1d Roo, and you’ll pay for the book TWICE or TREBLE over.

I have stock of both stock of both ON HAND now to ship anywhere.  Few if ANY dealer anywhere can say that.  If you buy both together the shipping cost is near the same as for one.  I am offering both at ISSUE PRICE of $A150 each.  History shows such superb books sell out and INCREASE in value.  More detail on that Queensland book here - www.glenstephens.com/snoctober09.html

  

 


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


West Germany – key issues circa early 1950s Fine Used – Cat $700 for $175!:  This was THE scarce era for Germany stamps. The country is in disarray after the long War, and people certainly had a lot more on their minds than to snip off stamps, and put them aside.  All are clean fine used with no hidden faults.  All have genuine cancels. Michel catalogue is $A700.  Priced to sell fast at QUARTER Michel!  $A175



Switzerland 1945 “PAX” set 13 – superb *MUH* genuine gum:  One of the key Post War sets from all Europe – indeed they were issued to commemorate the end of the war in Europe .. PAX being Latin for ‘PEACE’.   A LOT (indeed most) of “MUH” top values are of course regummed.  This is guaranteed 100% genuine MUH gum, and for $A40 extra I’ll get a Photo Certificate issued to that effect from a leading Swiss Expertiser, but allow 2 months for that to occur if needed.  SG 425-447 - £425.  Michel 447-459 – 500 Euros = $A800.   You will  not see guaranteed genuine gum MUH sets for half cat too often!  $A400



 
“The Engraved Stamps Of The Commonwealth Of Australia”

The quite magnificent official Australia Post produced coffee table book. Compiled by Richard Breckon. Brass cornered, beautifully gold deeply embossed leatherette cover, gilt edged outer leaf edges, with matching marbled heavy slipcase. Issued in a VERY limited Edition for ‘Australia 99’.  I am advised only a few 100 copies were ever made, and were a near instant sell-out .... even at the very high issue price.  Being so recent they also NEVER come on the market - no-one wants to let them go!

Semi opaque interleaved pages with designs on them. Real heavyweight grade archival weight paper. Varnished glazed paper for effect in parts. The photos really do not begin to convey the lavishness and class of this book.  My guess is the book and slipcase cost well over $100 to make.  Shows masses of issued designs and superlative background info.  Similar in size to a ‘Leather’ PO Year Book.

Also contains 28 different Official correct size recess printed DIE PROOFS in black from the original dies - from 1913 1d Engraved KGV to 1965 Anzac. Inc most early commems - like Bridge, Jubilee, Canberra, Hermes, Sturt, Sesqui etc.  Also high value Defins like £1 Robes and Arms, 7/6d Cook &c.  All this at $15 an official die proof!  NOT obtainable any of other way that via this book.

The die proofs sold separately would likely realise far more far more than the entire book is selling for here.  The KGV 1d Engraved, or £1 Robes could very easily bring $100 on their own if sold separately as official PO issued die proofs.

A magnificent book for ANY collector to own. Words cannot describe the lavish production and contents and luxury "feel" .... EVERY person - dealer or collector - who has seen it here in the office desk picked it up and said "WOW"!  Gary Watson's Prestige Philately got $437 for a set in a recent Auction. They call them "without doubt the BEST product released by Australia post in recent decades".  Buy yourself a classy GIFT you'll always love handling and looking at  $A425


 

 
 
 

Complete Set Aust Post Year Albums 1981-2000 Near 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. Save $500!  $A750

  



 

 

Complete set Michel Germany and Europe Cats. A BOXFUL – under HALF price!  We all know the ONLY catalogue to use or quote with anything Europe is MICHEL.  Problem is they cost a FORTUNE to buy, due to high initial cost (about 50 Euros each =$A100) even in Germany, and then huge shipping cost to get them out here.

I just replaced my current 2005 set with recent issues and there are now EIGHT volumes .. it is going nuts with all the new issues.  As a dealer I need to keep pretty much on top of prices, but for a collector, or ebay sellers or a stamp club etc, a few years old is no issue. Indeed the price changes appear remarkably few, on a quick flip through.

The current books have a retail of $A130 each - and there are 8 books = $A1,040. Buy at WAY under HALF price from me!  Only had fairly light use from me, so well worth considering.   These are priced 100% in EUROS of course, and 100% in COLOUR. Huge books .. up to 1,900 pages in EACH.  More detailed and photos are here – www.maegaa.notlong.com

And remember - unlike Scott and SG, Michel has a colour photo of EVERY stamp in every set when not a common design. Even for mini sheets. Saving the nightmare of those looking for middle values etc.   Michel also has the number printed of every set where known, and MOST useful, notes where forged stamps or cancels are recorded - under each set . . which is more than you imagine.

Michel lists YEAR SETS for each country - mint and used - and how many there are. For dealers or collectors wanting to know what GREECE for 1963 is worth - well those 40 stamps are 27.9 Euro mint and 16.20 Euro used. For a dealer this can save you 50 hours a year looking them up set by set, when pricing up complete runs of 20 years of a country etc, as I often need to do.  And remember even if you sell this set in 5 years you will STILL get $100s for it, as full sets of Michel are VERY seldom seen in oz.  $A375

  

 

 

South Georgia 1963 Definitive superbly fresh MUH: One of the “Key” Definitive sets of the British Atlantic Territories. All fresh MUH. SG 1-15 Cat £238. Be quick for these - $A200                                                                      

 

 

Gilbert and Ellice 1924 10/- Red and Green KGV top value of set: Seldom seen top value of this short set, and an attractive clean used example. My scanner does not do green terribly well, and the green is somewhat deeper and richer than this shows as in scan. SG 35 £375. $A250

  

 

 1951 TEAL Melbourne to Christchurch First Flight specially overprinted Aerogram: The special 3 line Dark Blue cachet overprint is rare, and occurs only on some aerograms. Superb fresh condition, and the ‘Christchurch 29 JN – 51’ backstamp roller cancel has slightly rumpled a corner. AAMC 1274A, $325. Wonderfully Fresh, and desirable. $A250                                                                  

 

 

 

1949 Red "BERLIN" overprints complete set on Cover:  A wonderful piece.  The entire second BERLIN issue on superb condition Registered Airmail cover to New York.  With 3 different New York backstamps.  All stamps well tied by neat "BERLIN - Charlottenburg 5" cds of "26-3-49."   Accompanied by the number one expert on Berlin overprints 1995 photo Certificate - Herr SCHLEGAL, stating all the stamps, overprints and cancels are 100% genuine.

This is not a FDC, but was mailed 5 days after issue date.  2005 Michel cat for the stamps OFF cover is 2,000 Euro = $A3,225.  (On FDC the cat is 20,000 Euro = $A32,250!)  No idea what the Michel Specialised cat premium for ON COVER set is, but I guess it is a few times the used price, especially for a Registered cover to USA.  The rarest European post war set, and 99% on the market are clever to crude fakes.  This set mint or used or on cover is impossible to sell without a Schlegal type Certificate of Genuineness. (The Certificate is 4 pages - the colour photo of cover is on inner pages.)  Quite sensational and pristine condition for 60 years old, especially for one that saw real postal duty across the seas, and endured multi-office Registered handling.  Even all the BERLIN stamps are perfect - excellent and perfs. And a "Blue Chip" item to tuck away for the future, in impossible to beat condition, at only:  $A2,250

 



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 (and photos) 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 $A550 - or one set of 15 - $A140

 

 

  ‘Australia 99’ the scarce $1 Butterfly logo print at FACE VALUE:  Printed AT the Exhibition, with "A99" logo in the margin and not usual Roo or Koala. Very few made. Only sold in strips 10 like this. 10 x left and 10 x right strips of 10. (200 all up – all with the special little Koala logo) Superb MUH. At Face! ASC cat 1608c $600.  $A200  

 


 

KGV 1/4d turquoise Single Wmk with part Two-Line Harrison Imprint on piece!   ACSC #128z (Cat $A7,500 for a mint block of 4 with full imprint) with a significant part of the second line - usually guillotined-off – evident.  Well centred as you can see, and very fine.  Plus 4d olive (Cat $125 on parcel fragment) both tied to mid-1920s small piece by the usual large rubber parcels cancel of Melbourne.  This 1/4d is not even recorded or priced by ACSC on parcel fragment – much less with part imprint!  (The later SG 93 is however Cat $1,200 on piece.)  A truly exceptional franking and a remarkable looking piece.  $A500

  

 

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!  $A375

 

Macau 1977 Dragon Boat Festival. FIVE HUNDRED MINT SETS! Fresh MUH/NH/UM in PO sheets of 12. SG Cat 988-990 £750.  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. $A300

 

 

 

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 7½d 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

 

 

 

 

Rhodesia and Nyasaland. 1954-56 QEII 10/- Waterlow & Sons Proof Pairs on gummed paper with security punctures: Superb looking group.  Comprising the imperf central vignette only, the complete design as issued but totally imperf, and also a pair on perforated paper, looking exactly like an issued pair.  The latter two from matched position on the sheet, with RH margin plate dot as can be seen.  A real eye-catching group, at a most affordable price.  $A275

  

 

 

New South Wales Stamp Duty *IMPERFORATE* Block:  1938 No Wmk, imperforate 3d Purple, corner block of eight, fresh unmounted mint.  A lovely eye-catching piece for any collection - and at only $A30 apiece!  Lovely shape for over 70 years old, and it is believed only a part sheet was found.  Un-recorded in Elsmore and Barefoot. $A250

  

 

 

 

Australia 2d Buff Orange KGV Head Perf OS with “NO WATERMARK”:  Fresh Unused, with corner crease top right mentioned for accuracy. (SG 62 group.)  This stamp with totally NO watermark trace of any kind is a major rarity.  In USED that is cat ACSC 95a at  $15,000  A used pair (perf OS) and 2 normal used singles are all that are recorded of that. 

ACSC note says that a few stamps like this one, with margin line only and part of marginal watermark letters existing, (“PO” of POSTAGE) where the ‘Crown over A’ should be.  These are cat in “OS” at $3,000 mint and $750 used.  Prestige have a less scarce mint non OS pair of this stamp with margin line watermark in their October 24 Auction with estimate $5,000 (plus 16.5%!)  DON’T pay auction price!  $A500

  

 



 

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$150

  

 



Victoria 1975 $10 top value Fish and Wildlife Hunting permit stamp “Fallow Deer”:  One of the best looking modern errors since the war. Well centered MUH.  One sheet was discovered.  $20 was a fortune back 35 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 - $A200

 




 

Australia 1970 Captain Cook Bicentenry set of TWELVE covers each with pictorial cancel down the coast:  A REALLY tough to locate set, especially in good shape.  Nearly 40 years old now, and the few sets I’ve seen are knocked around due to large size.  Cancel starts at Thursday Island, and proceeds down the coast to Port Hicks Victoria.  Pictormarks cat $375.  Priced to clear at - $A225

  


 

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 -  $A200

  



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

 


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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!
Buy with CONFIDENCE from Glen Stephens

 


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





 

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

  


 

 

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



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, ½d and 1/4d Small Multi perf 14,  KGV No Wmk pair,  Roo 2½d 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.

 

 


 

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

  



 

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


 

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