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Every credit card shown is accepted
WITHOUT fee. Earn Frequent Flier points
while buying at bargain prices! ALL prices are in weak Ozzie Dollars.
I charge NO nasty, nasty "Buyer's Commission" on stamps
like nearly every "Auction" does.
Queensland 1860 6d
Green, Perkins Bacon
London print. Imperf,
Star Watermark, SG 3:
VERY fine used, with the
lightest of cancels for
this top value, that was
used on Registered mail
to Europe generally.
This had several old
hinge remainders on it,
so I soaked it with
great trepidation,
suspecting they were
hiding a paper thin etc
or closed tears - as is
so often the case on
early imperfs. Happily
I can guarantee the
buyer it is SUPERB.
Guaranteed in writing to
be totally free
of hinges, repairs,
thins, creases or gunk
or toning. As nice as
you‘ll see pretty much.
Decent portion of the
adjoining stamp at top.
MOST of these on the
market are repaired, and
one soaks these things
with the GREATEST
of trepidation! I
soaked a WA 6d Hillman
Swan last month, and TWO
of the margins simply
floated away from the
cunning repair done a
century ago! My $500
potentially stamp is now
a $50 spacefiller. SG 3
£800.
$A600
Tasmania 1855 4d Deep
Blue Chalon - Star
Watermark Imperfs:
WHAT a trio. Selected
from 40 nice copies in
an old estate. The VERY
best. The centre stamp
is of mind boggling
appearance! The lovely
crisp Perkins Bacon
London printed issue.
All clean and fresh with
no hinges, thins or
tears or creases of
faults that this issue
is plagued with. All 4
good margins, SG 18
£360. A greatly
under-rated stamp, and
in this amazing
condition worth tucking
away for a rainy day.
In this grade – these
three are worth as much
as a dozen “typical”
copies. 155 years old
now, and today’s prices
are just silly.
Remember these are MANY
times scarcer than the
pretty common 4d NUMERAL
watermark local print
issue that look like
these.
$A425
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
GB Superb FDC Coll 1980-2001 comp.
(285) SG £1,540 - $A700:
Lovely Estate lot in 2 x Maroon
Royal Mail FDC albums (Ret $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 to £5 a set. More
photos at -
www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=15981
- A STEAL at WAY under $A3 each - $A700
Australia
1913 First Watermark 2/-
Kangaroo:
Wildly under-rated
stamp, that should be
retail about double
current levels. It is
SEVERAL times harder
mint than the 2/- 3rd
wmk of the same current
retail – despite USED
being a 3 times
differential. There
were THIRTY times
less 1st
wmk sold than 3rd
wmk! Fresh mint
original gum. With
truly excellent perfs
and centering for this
as you’ll know if you
have been looking for a
copy! SG 12. Juzwin
$325 for average
centering.
$A375
New Zealand 1865 4d Rose
Red Chalon Head:
The scarcest "face
different" Chalon head -
by a country mile. On
every 'want' list. This
is an absolute ripper.
Clean and fresh with far
superior perfs and
centring to 99% of what
I have seen in the past.
These usually look quite
atrocious. Light
completely face-free
cancel. Retails a lot
higher than this in New
Zealand for anything
even half decent
looking. SG #119.
$A350
Tibet 1924 Mount Everest
Expedition stamp on
mailed postcard:
One of the most sought
after local ‘stamps”
from the Asian region.
At Base Camp, a 1½ Anna
India KGV stamp was
affixed for transmission
to UK. Then carried by
Indian runner to the
nearest post office in
India. Later cancelled
with a perfect strike of
the October 16, 1924
Calcutta British Empire
Exhibition special
roller cancel. The Mt.
Everest stamp has a
quite SUPERBLY deep
colour crisp strike
of the special Red Base
Camp cancel – “EVEREST
EXPEDITION/RONGBUK
GLACIER/BASE
CAMP/1924". They are
often faint and poorly
struck – as on this near
identical card on ebay
for sale right now at
$US500 -
www.tinyurl.com/Everest1924Signed
with note from John
Noel, Captain, Mt
Everest Expedition. HALF the ebay
price -
$A250
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
1930 2d Red KGV Small
Multiple Watermark,
Golden Scarlet superb
MVLH with *NO
WATERMARK*:
Unusually well centred
for these, and a GEM
example. ACSC 102aa Cat
$4,000 – 3 years back.
SG 99ab. Be hard to
find a nicer looking
example anywhere, at any
price.
$A2,750
China Cultural
Revolution Stamp - "all
China Is Red" on Mao
Little Red Book!
I bought this from a
major Hong Kong auction
January 31. A third of
it is filled with a
youngster’s careful
copying out of the Great
Leader’s teachings into
it by hand – the exact
reason it was given out
at schools.
The student has affixed
a few used stamps to the
cover of it .. which
INCLUDED 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, I
figured the entire book
at $A42,000 had to be a
absolute steal. See
full review of that gang
buster auction where
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, a
little knocked around,
but that adds to the
authenticity.
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
Australia 1971 20c
Aboriginal Art 20c with
“BLUE OMITTED” – Ex Tom
Pierron collection:
MUH with normal stamp
for comparison. From the
superlative colelction
of total missing colours
from Tom Pierron,
auctioned by Spink
London on December
2009. Pierron AU988MCb,
£1,250. ACSC 563cd.
The missing blue is most
noticeable as a loss of
turbulence at the bottom
of the design. This
error is known to have
occurred on the left
pane of just one sheet
(number 011261 and only
20 copies were recorded,
which should make this a
FAR pricier stamp. Cost
me $A1,550 ex Spink.
Impeccable provenance.
Offered at a very modest
mark-up -
$A1,750
NSW 1854/1859 Q.V.
Diadem, superb *DIE
PROOF* in green from
Perkins Bacon plates:
Wow, talk about
EYE-APPEAL! Absolutely
magnificent fresh
condition as you can
see. A superb recess
printed DIE-PROOF
on thick card with
enormous margins. Near
complete final design
missing the value
wording. Razor sharp
raised ink intaglio
impression. A delight
to offer, and I cannot
believe how attractive
these are in price,
compared to post 1913
Australia issues, where
you could add a zero or
two!
$A300
KGV 1931 CofA Watermark
2d red *POSTAL FORGERY*:
One of the very few
forgeries ever made to
defraud the Australian
Post Office. They were
made to post out Irish
Sweepstakes tickets in
the Great Depression,
and a collector tipped
off police. The
perpetrators were
caught, bought to trial,
convicted - and sent to
prison for 12 months.
The mint copies came
from official sources.
Some “used” ones exist
that have pen cross
cancels and look
terrible. This is fresh
MLH with original gum
with EXCEPTIONAL
perfs and centering for
these .. most of
which are woeful. ACSC
103cc Cat $1,250 way
back in 2007. As nice
an example as you’ll
EVER see – check the
horrible photo example
in ACSC! -
$A1,250
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
1913
£1 Brown and Blue First
Watermark Roo,
beautifully fresh MVLH:
Clean as a whistle, most
attractive for these,
and colours deeper and
even richer than this
scan. Been in
Switzerland most of its
life I understand. SG
15. Wildly under-valued
by the market. I see
just one of these each
year or two. The exact
SAME number printed
as the £2 First
Watermark, of which
mint costs three times
this. Coming up to 100
years old, and the mint
ones you see are
generally heavily
hinged, and are very
prone to rust
spots/toning. Good
perfs on this are most
unusual.
Centering good for this
... Richard Juzwin had a
MUH copy in his recent
‘Stamp News’ ad for
$7,750 - “centred a
little to left” (coff) –
check THAT doozie out!
My thoughts on “MUH”
high value Roos are VERY
well known –
www.teobiew.notlong.com
A client from
interstate told me he is
flying to Sydney soon,
and wanted to visit me
and spend $50,000 on “MUH
high value Roos”. I
told him he was
completely nuts, and to
please go elsewhere. I
despair to hear that
kind of thinking. Fresh
MLH or VFU is the
savvy way to go.
In
ten years time I
GUARANTEE this
stamp will be worth a
LOT more than my current
selling price, but I
can’t guarantee that for
ANYTHING in “MUH” Roo
high values. A high %
of them on market are
professional German
regums. Richard showed
me a £2 First Wmk at the
last “StampShow” that
was regummed and
re-perforated 2 sides,
that some goose had
forked out 5 figures
for, and Richard
needed to be the one to
break the bad news to
that goose. Very
attractively priced at:
$A3,150
The 5/- CofA Roo
Imprint blocks
are for some
reason
incredibly
elusive:
This one of
course also has
the "Open Mouth
Roo" variety on
stamp 55, which
was only found
on the very last
print run
according to
ACSC.
Arthur Gray's
block see photo
here -
www.tinyurl.com/Roo5sh
- had that
really common
and ugly looking
"Jump Perf"
issue for these,
where not only
was the block
well off centred
to both sides,
but the comb
perf head was
out of
syncopation
vertically
between rows -
as we can
readily see.
Consequently,
many corners are
well out of
whack and look
weird and ugly
as you can see.
All personal
choice of
course, but
Gray’s block is
about half
as visually
attractive as
the one above.
The kind of
buyers for these
items will only
buy one
block in their
lifetime (as
Gray did!) and
generally are
very experienced
in Roos, and
would rather pay
a bit extra for
very top grade -
the first time
around. ACSC
46za. Superb
fresh MVLH/MUH.
$A3,750
1937 1/- Lyrebird
perf 13½ x14 with
the striking margin
Guide Mark:
In 30 years of stamp
dealing, I have
never handled one of
these. A
short-lived
experiment on Plate
1. These are
impressions from the
striker plates of a
mechanical punching
device, designed to
achieve better
centering. Pressure
from these cracked
the metal, and they
were quickly
abandoned. Superb
fresh MUH. ACSC
208bb $800 for a
strip 3. $A375
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.
$A1,250
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
.. andat
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.
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
Stanley Gibbons 2008 "Stamps
Of The World" 5 massive vols
in full COLOUR! Save $225
off retail right NOW:
Complete set of volumes
1-5, covering EVERY country
A-Z. Many more photos here
-
www.tinyurl.com/2008SG
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 $A550. My price
is $495 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
$30 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. $A325
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
Heavy Carton of 36 x PO
Fancy modern collections for
just $250 - HALF issue
price:
Superb hard cover books,
all with applicable stamps
sets inside etc. All direct
ex PO new issue, and never
opened, in original sleeves.
Superb. Most probably a
complete run for this period
I'd guess as they came from
one man's estate.
Cost
marked on them seems to be
either $14.95 or $16.95 each
ex PO, so purchase price
would be WAY over $500. All
different .. a BOOKSHELF
full! To clear this weekend
at UNDER HALF issue price
... $A250. A HUGE heavy
carton full. A lot more
pix here -
www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=16800
-
$A250
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
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. $A300
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 - $A1,000
"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
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. $A725
Complete set Michel Germany and Europe Cats. A BOXFUL –
under HALF price!We all know the ONLY catalogue to use or
quote with anything Europe is MICHEL. Problem is
they cost a FORTUNE to buy, due to high initial cost (about
50 Euros each =$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 $100s for
it, as full sets of Michel are VERY seldom seen
in oz.$A450
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: $A2,500
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
KGV 1d Red
“Rough Paper” rare Die 2 perf “OS”:
Absolutely unbeatable appearance.
Missing from near EVERY collection.
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.
On the Juzwin
pricelist this rates a 100% premium for
well centred - i.e. $A1,150 for
hinged. For unhinged "MUH" you can
double that to about $A2,000. It had
several large heavy yellow hinges on it
when I bought it, that I felt pretty
sure were disguising a paper thin. These
stamps are near 100 years old now, and
having been in many collections is
typical, hence the few hinges.
So I could have
sold it for say $750 as attractive mint,
"as is" heavy hinged. And if someone
bought it and soaked off the gum, and
found a thin, it would be ASSUMED I knew
it was there. And I'd have a lost ...
or very angry customer! So I soaked off
the hinges, and luckily enough it was
100% sound, so I now have a fresh
attractive, perfectly sound no gum copy
as you can see. I could do as many
dealers here do, and mail it to Germany
to be regummed, and sell it readily
for $2,000, and 99% of buyers would
not have a CLUE it was done. And make a
fast $1,500. No thanks - $A500
‘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.
$A600
Australia 1978 Aviators 18c sir
Charles Kingsford Smith imperforate
block of 4:From the
upper-right of the sheet. ACSC
#792b, fresh MUH. SG 660a £220.
These stamps attracted me back to
philately in 1978. They just been
discovered. I bought a corner blocks
from each corner, made a small
profit on the deal and thought “what
an easy way to make a Buck” – and
here I am today! $A250
South Australia 1860-69 New Design
Queen Victoria 2/- imperforate plate
proof block of 4:In black,
on ungummed unwatermarked paper, and
a most attractive piece for any
collection. Clean and fresh, and
lovely sharp impression.
$A300
Straits Settlements – 1945-1948
British Military Administration
– the UNISSUED 8c Grey under
HALF cat!:
Quite unbelievable perfs and
centering as you can see. Faint
hinge touch. See note below SG
18. Cat £375=$A940. You will
never see a better looking one
at any price. Especially at
well under HALF Gibbons. $A415
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
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
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
Norfolk Island 1974 UPU “Free Form” Map
Mini Sheets x 20 MUH - CHEAP!:Bought these from an Estate, from
a fellow who bought them off Max Stern
in 1980 for $60 each, and he had the
receipt still!
($A1,200!) These Certainly were
RED HOT for a long time, and indeed the
Juzwin pricelist still has then at $560,
and are high priced in all catalogues -
and are to this day the standout Decimal
item from Norfolk. You will NEVER see a
job lot of these again. They were a
surprise issue at the time, and dealers
were not supplied in general, as they
under-estimated demand terribly, so were
scarce from Day #1.
$A250
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
One Ounce Of Pure PLATINUM –
the World’s first!
I end up buying some very
weird things in Estates.
Recently I got this Isle Of
Man Platinum ‘Noble’. An
ounce of pure platinum.
The world’s first Platinum
coin. All in a Perspex
box as shown. With a
striking design of a Viking
long ship. My price is
$A100 above the $A cost of
physical bullion on the day
you buy it – which is a
DIRT cheap premium as you
can see here -
http://ahwahr.notlong.com
As $A200 over bullion is
more usual – and the current
$A bullion price is here
that we will use -
http://zeizai.notlong.com
…. this price is for a
‘cash’ sale - cards etc add
3%. Many are tipping
another good run for
Platinum and Gold.
New Zealand – 1948 £3½ and £4½
"Arms" issue for 5% of SG!:
Used, with no faults or
repairs. Cancelled with a non
postaldated cancel. SG
Cat F 209 - £1,500. A stamp
missing from nearly all KGVI
collections, worldwide. I also
have the equally scarce £4½ Grey
"Arms" companion to this, with
similar back dated cds, (SG F167
£1600) for the same $A175 price
–
or the both for
$A300.
The fiscal copies of these
usually have multiple auditor
hole punches and/or pen or
crayon cancels. Pop them on
ebay and you never do know!
Sold for about 5% of the Gibbons
cat for postal used at $A175
each or
$A300 the PAIR.
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.comA$150
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
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 - $A2
00
Hong Kong QE2
1962 Annigoni Queen set, complete MUH:
5c to $20 set 15m and coming up to 50 years old!
All are MUH .. near all I ever see locally are
hinged. SG 196-210 Cat £225. Estate bargain to
clear at - $A175
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 = $A3,500.
Couple trivial
little blemishes typical
for anything 127 years
old.
A very decent buy ex estate, at WAY under 15%
of Gibbons -$A400
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
Save $225 off the legendary Gibbons "New Imperial" 2
album set: The massive “New
Imperial” Two Volume Stamp Album provides spaces for all
the stamps of the British Empire, Egypt and Iraq.
Spaces for all issues from Queen Victoria 1840, right up
until the end of the King George V issues. 2 x massive
thick books, all in a storage box. An honoured
philatelic tradition for 75 years. All with olde-worlde
speckled edge pages as shown. The issued stamps you
need, are shown on the LEFT in black, with SG numbers
and date, as you can see.
Spaces are here for all major
variations of watermark, perforation and shades. As
well as postage dues, Officials, and special Delivery
stamps etc. Quality fast-bound cloth covered albums,
with impressive GOLD embossed front covers and spines.
With perforated blank pages at handy intervals
throughout, to enable you to mount extra stamps, covers,
blocks - or allowing you to make notes. These are
cleverly serrated, so you can easily remove them
altogether if you wish.
If you hanker for a "REAL" stamp
collection, free of new issues and confections and “Jam
Labels”, start one of these up. NEVER buy vintage
"Imperials" as there will be foxing and mould for
CERTAIN on the pages, and your good clean stamps will be
infected very fast. Brand new from UK factory.
Local retail is $A675 - see
www.viezie.notlong.com – save $225 at - $A450
Great Britain superb Booklet collection - $3,250 UNDERSG 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 underGibbons
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!
$A1,500
All prices on
EVERY list are
weak Australian
Dollars!!
All
prices are "nett" ... what you see
is WHAT you pay.
NO Nasty, nasty 15%-20% Auction house "Buyer's
Commission" silly nonsense
is later
extorted from you!
Buy
with CONFIDENCE from Glen Stephens
Papua New Guinea 1994/5 “EMERGENCY” Overprints set of 11 -
Superb Used:The scarcest post war set from the entire Pacific.
I have the world’s largest stock of these mint and used and on cover.
For full details see the FULL story in great depth here.. a great read even if you do NOT collect these! -www.glenstephens.com/overprints - Clean and fresh, and all overprints as always guaranteed 100% genuine.
Indeed used sets are many times scarcer than MINT!
February special!$A250
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
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
“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
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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.
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$1,500for 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 exactset 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 clueabout these issues. 'Too Modern' they would sniff. Years down
the track when the set sells for several times what it does now, such a
certificateGuaranteeingthese 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
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
Easy Germany DDR 1953/54 Five Year plan set 18:
Typo.
Fresh MUH original gum.
Michel 405/422 = Michel 280 Euros = $A450. $A200
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
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.
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!
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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with CONFIDENCE from
Glen Stephens
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to the price. KNOW in advance what you are up for! And I NEVER charge buyers
extra for using their credit card. NEVER. That is absurd, and pure gouging,
but the world’s leading auction houses seem to hate Amex cards as you will
doubtless realise.
In my near 30 years full time selling stamps I have hardly auctioned one
stamp. I do not believe in it. My huge website gets far more visitors than
most large local auctions, and always has. Coming up to TWO MILLION visitors
is living testament to that. I am pleased to sell direct - at fair sensible
prices, so you know EXACTLY where you stand. You buy direct off me, and you
the customer get the savings.
And as many
of my clients are overseas, remember EVERY price below is in weak
AUSTRALIAN dollars. For European buyers go check how cheap these
"Pacific Peso" prices really are on:
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And most
importantly, the way I ship, you generally avoid the nasty UK 17½% VAT - and
the similar European and NZ and Canada import and GST taxes etc.
As with ALL my sales, payment is tailored to suit YOU. If you see something
for $A1,000 that will mean a divorce case if you buy it outright, I am happy
to do a lay-by or layaway. I can debit your credit card 4 debits of $250 or
whatever suits. There is NO price penalty whatever for you to use this
system - even if you use credit cards. Just let me know what suits. Happy
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