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Swiss coll in huge "Lighthouse" album Michel Cat E1,685 for just $A500:  In an expensive and heavy leather bound Lighthouse album. With all pages from 1843 to the 1970s.  The pages and binder are in great "as new" clean condition and they cost literally $330 EMPTY! (Price-list attached with lot)

Stamps are from 1882 onwards (but all earlier pages are here) with good general ranges inc Pro Patria, Airs, very strong Pro Juventute issues and some good mini sheets etc. Correct Michel value of the stamps here are 1,685 Euros = $A2,100 - plus $330 for the album.

A terrific lot to build upon, and many good stamps and sets and M/S already here of course. Totally untouched by me as bought from an Estate. Condition varies as always on large collections but in general seems very nice grade.  Priced cheap to sell this month - $550 - be quick for this guy! The album is worth half that at least!  DOZENS more photos here - http://tinyurl.com/SwissColl -  $A550  (Order as stock number 561TR)

  

 



 

USA 1943 5c Overrun Countries Issue - SC#909 Poland “REVERSE PRINT” ½ sheet Block 25:  I had a ½ sheet block of 25 in a junk box I shipped this month, and allowed zero for it - http://tinyurl.com/5cPoland -  I meant to check why it was in a folder on its own, to see if it was this error, and forgot! It is a quite recent listing in Scott. It is only listed in SCOTT as 909c, with a dash in both value columns, at this point in time. In the great bulk of issued stamps, the red was printed FIRST and the black over the top, hence the black is a consistent solid colour over the stamp, on the red and on the white.

A small printing was done the REVERSE way with black printing laid down first and the RED over the top. As can be seen that print is very evident on close inspection.  The Poland block is just laziness on my part .. this was in a separate folder literally saying “don’t send to auction” and common sense should have told me to check out why the guy wrote that. It was in a large box of stuff mailed to me ex the USA in December to purchase. By a relative as the buyer was deceased.

I basically allowed nothing for it as the regular stamps are 5c each retail. I did not know of this "Reverse Print" error until this thread to be honest - http://tinyurl.com/Poland5c -  Seems to check out well from the posts there, from a USA collector that was on the PF Expert Committee, and the recipient had a good look at it tonight, and he also concurs it is red over black. The section where the flag joins pope lower left is the best test, as it is jet black at pole, and grey black where red covers it nearby. The buyer of the junk box does not collect USA, so he asked if I wanted to list it up for sale on his behalf.

I suggested to him I list it up and we split proceeds 50/50, so he gets the rest of the box for free if it sells basically. If these are $45-$65 or so a piece singly in the USA as is the case, that is a deal for someone. A $1,625 deal.  When Scott price them in due course, you may get a great surprise if they are listed at or above these retail levels!

Also some of these have mathematically perfect centering it seems to me - $1,000 each on the mad USA "PSE Grading" market if they are!  MUH half sheet 25 all MUH.  A couple gum bends etc, but a most attractive looking, well centred piece at just $8 apiece.  Keep some - sell the others!  More photos here - http://tinyurl.com/5cUSPoland -  $A200  (Order as stock number 452AL)

  

 

 

1913 2/- Brown Kangaroo First Watermark *Superb* CTO:  The CTO cancels are increasingly popular as they are of course many 100s times scarcer than postal used.  There was ZERO effort taken however to reject bad centred stamps, or more important pulled perfs – many were sold in the packs with totally missing corners etc. So this is arguably the finest possible re perfs and centring. Deep rich colour, and the crisp half circle cds “Melbourne - Dec (5) 13”.  ACSC 35w.  A Gem example.  $A275  (Order as stock number 319DK)

  

 

Roo 1913 First Watermark, rare 2½d perf Large “OS”:  Very fresh fault free copy. The market is plagued with modern forgeries on these.  Ebay is awash with them, and anyone buying “OS” from there needs a brain transplant.  Experience is needed to sort the wheat from the chaff.  Luckily after 30 years of heavily stocking OS - I can.  Provencance is also vitally important - this came from a collection formed pre-war.  ACSC $450. Juzwin $275 for average centred as this is.  I keep all 'OS' perfins in stock - contact me – all are 100% GUARANTEED. $A200  - (Order as stock number 105TQ)

  

 

Belize 1980 Birds re-seller lot - Cat £1,782 for just $A225!:  (4th series) souvenir sheet, fine CTO at Bureau used, in original printer's bundle of 99 units, serially numbered:  SG MS567, catalogued £18 each, total £1782.  Always a popular topic, and the Belize sheets are much in demand. The souvenir sheet unites the fourth set of six stamps in this series, depicting the Jabiru, Barred antshrike, Northern royal flycatcher, White-necked puffbird, Ornate hawk-eagle and Golden-masked tanager.

The bundle has a protective card front and back from the printer, Litografia Nacional do Porto.  Re-sellers - There should be good profit potential here; an Adelaide dealer is currently offering the set of six single stamps removed from a CTO'd souvenir sheet on eBay (#380092368136) for A$25. (That's for ONE set, derived from one souvenir sheet!) Birds are the world’s most POPULAR stamp thematic. $A225  (Order as stock number 892KB)

  

 

 

NZ 1968 $2 MULTI Geyser Harrison Imprint Block 6 - $A125: This is the KEY Definitive and worth a lot more than $20 a stamp NORMAL.  $2 was a fortune back then - being 50 times the cost of a stamp = $30 on today's money EACH - or $180 the block essentially.  A MUH Harrisons London IMPRINT, at just $20 a stamp is a STEAL. Quite superb perfs and centring as you can see. SG 879. $A140  (Order as stock number 673GV)

  

 

 

Jamaica 1981 Reggae singer Bob Marley 20c value with spectacular colour shift:  A very striking colour shift on SG #533, in a fresh MUH marginal pair.  A similar low value error from Singapore I sold quickly last week. Indeed the same error just got $A443 at a Melbourne Auction for a single - http://tinyurl.com/Dancer5c - I can offer the PAIR fresh MUH, or behalf of client who found these in a mixed lot. The normal set design is shown here - http://tinyurl.com/NormalSet  - $A150  - (Order as stock number 283FY)

  

 

 

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. - (Order as stock number 776PT)

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: https://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.

  Australia 1978 Aviators, 18c Sir Charles Kingsford Smith IMPERFORATE Block of 4:   From the upper-right corner of the sheet.  ACSC #792b, fresh MUH.  SG 660a £220.  These stamps attracted me back to philately in 1978.  They had just been discovered.  I bought a corner block 4 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!  $A265  (Order as stock number 542FA)  

 

  Gibraltar 1912 and 1927 KGV £1 Values:  Attractive used pair of the 2 different colours.  Both still on Parcel or Registered letter or parcel pieces, with dated 1915 and 1928 Registered cancels respectively. No foxing or creasing etc – purchased and retained in Sweden for decades, and I have many of the other pre QE2 Gibraltar VFU as well if interested.  Never soaked, so both with the deep bright un-faded original colours that fade/run badly when in water.  SG 85 and 107 – Cat £500. $A375  (Order as stock number 646LG)  

 

 

1971 Aboriginal Art 20c Long Necked Turtle bark painting, MISSING Sepia Brown:  Horizontal strip of 5 - the last unit with Sepia Brown Printing (All Inscriptions and much Turtle design detail) totally omitted.  ACSC 563ca, cat $3,500 way back in 2002.  Only 10 examples found, on one pane. This strip fits readily on a Hagner sheet, or any stockbook or album page. SG 494ab £2,250 as a single – and being in a margin to margin strip is a huge value premium. MUH.  Bargain buy at $1,250 under the 10 year old ACSC retail -  $A2,250  (Order as stock number 952FW)

  

 

 

GB 1840 1d Black, rare PLATE 10:  The second scarcest of all the 1d plate numbers. Fresh 3½ margin example, showing the “O” flaw clearly. Huge margin at top showing base line of adjoining stamp.  Wonderfully crisp “Maltese Cross” cancel – nearly a complete strike. Clean and fresh, and most attractive example of the “World’s First Stamp”.  SG 1, Cat £750.  $A375  (Order as stock number 841DU)

  

 

1971 Aboriginal Art 35c Grave Posts with ALL Black Printing ("35c AUSTRALIA") Omitted:  Only 1 row 10, of one pane was so affected. (Pierron #994Mca - £2,000). Fresh well centred MUH.  Sir Gawaine Baillie's example sold for $A2,070 – years back. Tom Pierron's example sold for £1,150.  One of the most visually striking of the Decimal missing colours. The country, value, and part of design are missing.   SG 497ab £1,800.  ACSC 570c $A2,500 – back in 2002.  Pay $500 LESS than the Baillie example obtained!  And $925 under the 10 year old ACSC retail. $A1,575  (Order as stock number 625KT)

  

 

 

1973 Marine Life - 4c Jellyfish – Mauve Stinger, horizontal strip of 10 ERROR:  With Black Printing (Inscriptions and Detail) totally omitted from the last unit, and largely omitted from the second-last unit.  ACSC #640ca, Cat $A2,500, way back in 2002.  (Pierron #1094Mca)  SG 548a.  Fresh perfectly centred MUH.  Being a very small size stamp, this strip fits readily on a Hagner sheet, or any stockbook or album page. Fish/Marine Life is a super popular thematic. Sir Gawaine Baillie's identical strip 10 sold for $A1,840 – years back.  Buy for UNDER that price from me!  $A1,750  (Order as stock number 742DL)

  

 

 

1979 National Parks, 20c Waterfalls spectacular perforation error:  Horizontal strip of 4, the third unit Imperforate Three Sides, and the last unit COMPLETELY IMPERFORATE.  ACSC #843b - Cat $1250 - way back in 2002!  Fresh flat well centred MUH.  Sir Gawaine Baillie's block of 8 , i.e. 2 rows of this, sold for $A1,955 years back. Only 10 pairs existed.  SG 713ab. $A975  (Order as stock number 742DL)

  

 

 

1972 “Pioneer Life” 15c Food Harvester with Black Printing (ALL Inscriptions) Completely Omitted:  ACSC #610c - Cat $4,000 back in 2002.  (Pierron #1050Mca – Cat £2,250)  SG 525a £2,000.  Fresh well centred MUH.  SUPERB!  With a normal stamp for comparison.  Not only all writing and country and value missing, but all the black in design as well, as you can see. The ACSC indicates that only 5 examples exist. One of the Big Banana Decimal currency errors, and well under-priced at only -  $A2250  (Order as stock number 693HQ)

  

 

 

 

Singapore 1955 QE2 Definitive top value $5 part sheet MUH:  Pristine fresh white MUH – been in Scotland since new issue times.  Pretty Bradbury Wilkinson classic. Now 57 years old, and copies that have been in SIN generally have even to heavy gum ageing.  Block 10 with selvedge 3 sides, and target cross hair top margin.  Huge face value – this was same face as an ozzie £2 Arms block of the time, or even a GB £1 QE2 – Cat £1,300.  SG 52 £420++.  One to tuck away for “bottom drawer” – absurdly under-priced today for a top value QE2 1st Defin. $A400  (Order as stock number 036JT)

  

 

 

Greece – massive dealer stock M+U from Imperf Hermes heads to 2004, Cat $7,300 for $1,500:  A dealers’ stock, in 3 x huge blue “Lighthouse” 64 page, padded stockbooks in slip-boxes – retail $50 each new. From pages of imperf Hermes Heads – have taken them all as absolute cheapest type, and many doubtless are not the cheapies!  And not a great deal of Cat in the earlies there anyway – maybe 10% of the total. A good solid range right through, mint and used.  Mint on left (mostly MUH it seems) and used to right.  Condition mixed as on all large lots, but plenty of top quality material here.

Correct Michel cat is Euro 5,545 = $A7,300, and all marked per set, and per page.  An instant business right here, or instant dealer stock, or 1000 ebay lots!  (A popular area here - there are more Greeks in Melbourne than any city except Athens I understand!)  At about 20% cat, there is bound to be a ton of upside in here.  Only a small number of pages photo’d to give you an overview. Bought cheap to sell cheap. (1,000s)  Remember there are 192 pages here, so would you pay under 8 bucks a page?! Masses more pix here - http://tinyurl.com/GreeceColl  $A1,500  (Order as stock number 736KZ)

  

 

 

Johore 1949 $1 Sultan superb MUH marginal Block 16 – under $10 each!:   Another absolute corker condition wise. Been in Scotland since new issue, so shiny white MUH gum, as fresh as the day it was printed 63 years back.  FRESH white MUH gum is near unheard of for Malaysian KGVI era. (From the same sheet I have a MUH super fresh NE corner block 25 – 5x5 for $A215, Stock 472DL)  Wildly under-rated by SG as MUH. SG 145 £160. These are under 10 BUCKS EACH!  $A150  (Order as stock number 482MW)

  

 

 

CHINA - 1921 National Postal Service Jubilee set with rare 'SPECIMEN' Overprint:  Matched metal overprint diagonally at upper-left.  SG 357/360.  All fresh MLH, with deep bright original colour.  A rare set, understood only 300 produced - most of which are still in official PO archives. Compared to the later China items retailing $10,000s each, that were issued in enormously larger numbers, this is a real "Sleeper".  One for the “Bottom Drawer for a few years! Commonwealth SPECIMEN sets from this era are often cat £1,000 or so.  Now 90 years old.  $A425  - (Order as stock number 492WP)

  

 
 

GB 1876 Judicature Fees 5/- Imperforate QV “SPECIMEN” margin block pristine *MUH*:  An amazing piece that has been in the UK all its life until this year, hence the clean white pristine shape for 135 years old!  Fresh MUH original gum. The “FEES” double lined watermark clearly showing in margin – as you can see.  Wonderful ”Scales Of Justice” watermark on each stamp.  A gift at under $70 each. $A275  - (Order as stock number 725TP)

  

 

 

 

Thailand – SIAM, 1939 National Day stamp - un-denominated Imperforate Plate Proof:  In carmine pink, on an apparently local, hand-made paper. (57x38mm).  Ex the fabulous Len Colgan collection.  Thailand is RED HOT these days, and a 72 year old proof for $125 is a most unusual buy!  Huge margins as you can see. Clean and fresh, with top notch provenance.  $A125  - (Order as stock number 629TO)

  

 

 

 

Greece 1906 Olympics High Values, perfect centred mint:  Not often seen well centred, these as you can see are spot-on perfs and centering wise – far better than usual.  Fresh Mint with hinge remainders.  3D and 5D - top 2 values on this long set – the £1 and £2 Kangaroos of this era.  These are now 105 years old.  I also have the Greece 1896 Olympic set USED to 5D, and the 10D used on its own, very cheap if anyone has gaps there!  Michel 156/7 Cat E350. SG 195/6 £350.  $A225  (Order as stock number 283LR)

  

 

 

 

Kangaroo 10/- 1929 Small Multiple Watermark, Fresh W/Centred MVLH:  Pretty copy of this numerically scarcest of all the four 10/- Kangaroos.  Perfs and centering you’d find hard to improve upon, and light hinge touch, and fresh and flat with great eye-appeal. SG 112, £450+. $A750  - (Order as stock number 786JP)

  

 

 

 

USA 1893 $2 Columbus 400th Anniv:  One of the truly iconic stamp images – “Columbus In Chains”. Fresh mint, with a tiny natural paper fibre inclusion.  Here, he is shown facing charges of administrative misconduct after his arrest in Santo Domingo by Don Francisco de Bobadilla. Simply unbeatable centering. A $20,000 stamp the way the Americans salivate on mathematical centering – indeed a hinged one sold a year back for $US18,000!!  Only 45,550 issued. $2 was a fortune back in 1893. Scott 242, $US1,300 for usual centring.  SG 247 £1,400.  More discussion here -  http://tinyurl.com/US242  Scott Specialised has superb centred at $US8,500.  Gum a trifle glazed from hingeless mount as often found on these – now 118 years old, and still fresh.  Razor sharp impression, and nice deep, rich, colour. $A995  - (Order as stock number 518KY)

  

 

 

Australia 5/- Kangaroo attractive MVLH with large coastal frame break: 1932 very fresh mint – a lovely looker. Clean and fresh and flat, with a light hinge mark, and great colour. Has huge section of missing NSW coast NOT shown on any Arthur Gray copies - http://tinyurl.com/GrayAG  Also an unusually pointed Kangaroo ear. This was the height of the Great Depression, and folks having 5/- … a few days wages -  to spend on a mint stamp were not many!  A great number of these after 80 years have gum ageing - and bad perfs and centering are common as well.  You could buy this “MUH” for $800 and get a $5 regum!  Juzwin Retail $485 for this centering MLH with no errors. SG 135.  $A450  - (Order as stock number 284TZ)

  

  

 

Superb and Ornate NE Tasmania 1870 Share Certificate:  (Price Just Reduced By $100!)  I paid a lot of money for this recently, as it is by FAR the most attractive and colorful share cert I have EVER seen from the Australasian area.  Mostly they were pretty boring and drab looking, but this is an absolute gem - a real ornate work of art, as can be seen with gold leaf even!  On watermarked, deckle edge quality handmade paper.

"United Victorian & Tasmanian Quartz Mining Co" 1870 blue & gold 'Scrip Certificate' for 10 shares. Beautiful! This relates to the short-lived gold rush at Lyndhurst (then called Waterhouse) in NE Tasmania. Gold was discovered there in 1869.  The similar era and size, private Australian banknotes have gained in interest enormously in recent years and sell into 5 figures.  Again, the most ornate get the best prices in general. These are very akin to those private banknotes.

A near identical one - made out to same person even, with near identical share registry numbers, was offered at the nation's leading Numismatic auction Nobles last month and was invoiced for $A815 - on a $250 estimate. www.noble.com.au/auctions/lot/?id=268239 - See large blow up of it on that site.  Save $415 buying from Stevo for a finer example!  Absolutely wonderful fresh condition for 140 years old – and no pinholes as per the Noble’s example. $A400  - (Order as stock number 527GD)

  

 

 

 

Complete Set Aust Post Year Albums 1981-2000 **UNDER FACE**!   Estate special.  All TWENTY albums!  The FACE value of the stamps inside is $720.  You are paying $45 UNDER FACE!  ALL are valid for 100% postage if you ever need to use them. You are buying “CASH” essentially.  I just bought THIRTY sets of 20, off a guy who bought them for an “investment” – so have slashed my selling price. 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 is $1,250. Save $575!  All the LATER books and leather ones are all in stock - also dirt cheap, and offered singly at - http://tinyurl.com/yearbks  $A675  - (Order as stock number 735ER)

  

 

 

Queensland Railways 1962/63 10/- roulette, top value rarity rated “RRRR” - in fresh *MUH* pair:  (Price Just Reduced By $75!)  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 - $A250  - (Order as stock number 355FR)

  

 

 

SINGAPORE used coll, from SG 1 to 1990. SG £938 for just $A400:  (Price Just Reduced By $100!)   Handy lot, from KGVI Defins - sets to $5 in both perfs, to 1990.  Many key sets and Defins all through.  A lot more pages of stamps shown here -  http://tinyurl.com/SINcoll   Correct SG cat is £938 last year – higher in new cat for sure.  All on pages in side plastic protectors, in a red album.  Condition seems OK on a quick look, but being in protectors, hard to check them!  $A400  (Order as stock number 187QV)

  

 
 

West Germany - 1951 'Posthorn' 20Pf red from booklet sheet:  (Price Just Reduced By $100!)  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 - $A300 - (Order as stock number 535RR)

West Germany - 1951 'Posthorn' 6pf orange & 10pf green from booklet sheet:  (Price Just Reduced By $100!)  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 - $A300  - (Order as stock number 536RR)

Buy both together (Cat a whopping €1,100, and save $100 more!  (Price Just Reduced By $200!)   $A500 - (Order as stock number 537RR)

  

 
 

Wolverhampton to Indian “North West Provinces” covers 1849 AND 1853 with 1847 1/- Embosseds:  (Price Just Reduced By $100!)  Fascinating discussion on them both here - http://tinyurl.com/GB1sh -  and maps of destination and comments on markings on reverse etc. Pretty good clean shape for 160 years old!  SG Cat £2,200 on cover.  A bargain for the 2 covers at - $A300 -  (Order as stock number 638MB)

  

 

 

Gambia 1902-05 KEVII Wmk CA, 1/- SG listed “Dented Frame Below G of Gambia” – Cat £600:  1/- Violet and Green - very attractive mint as you can see. One of the real RARE pieces from this era. SG 52a £600: $A375  (Order as stock number 592DK)

  

 

 

Leeward Islands KGVI 1938-51 KGVI major variety “Shaved D I” flaw:  1/- black/emerald KGVI on chalky paper, major variety "Shaved D I" flaw from the 1947 printing - SG #110a, not recorded used - cat £650.  Superb used, perfect centred, and most attractive as you can see. Great colour, from this MOST popular of KGVI issuing countries.  $A325  (Order as stock number 528JR)

  

 

 

1913 1/- Emerald Kangaroo with Inverted Watermark and POSTALLY used: (Price Just Reduced By $75!)   This is a curious stamp.  Virtually all the CTO specimen pack copies have Inverted Watermark, and are not hard to locate at all, and sell for less than $100 anywhere.  HOWEVER the ACSC makes a special note that POSTALLY used is “Very scarce” and is rated at $400+.  This has a neat Melbourne cancel, and is a TON better looking than most postal used I have seen.  These were parcel used, and really got battered about in the mail system.  ACSC ‘from $400’ .. and this is getting as close to the best you’ll see.  Clean and fresh with no faults whatever.  $A300  -  (Order as stock number 623WG)

  

 

 

 

NSW 1856 6d 'Registered' VFU, with grossly misplaced centre:  WHAT an eye-popper! 6d Orange and Blue. Juzwin retail of a GU NORMAL stamp is $A225!  Clean VFU ... a scarce and sought after stamp in this grade anyway even with no error ... SG 102 - £170.  With heavily misplaced centre -- really unusual on these. $A165  (Order as stock number 832DL)

  

 

 

 

 

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  - (Order as stock number 225RL)

  

 

 

Austria: Accumulation of Lombardy & Venetia - Cat £1,300 for $A175:  From 1850 Imperfs onwards. The paper identifications are the work of a previous owner. Assuming he was correct, SG CV is over £1,500.  If they're all the cheaper machine paper, it's about £1,300. Unchecked for varieties or scarcer postmarks. Many with great margins. Mixed condition, so starting at just a few % of SG to clear. $A175  - (Order as stock number 537WK)

 

 

Tasmania Second Allocation “RRR” Scarce Cancel: '47' of Jerusalem Lower:  A superb strike of one of the scarcer Tassie cancels, tying 1d QV Sideface to a small piece.  Rarity Rated RRR.  Interest in the better cancels is stronger than ever in recent times.  A terrific strike of this “47” with 2 vertical bars at each side. $A200  (Order as stock number 742GW)

  

 

 

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 - (Order as stock number 135DB)

  

 

 

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 - (Order as stock number 433VN)

 		 

 

  FAROE IS, FDC Coll from #1 to mid 90s. Cat $760 for $A250:  From 1975, issue #1 to mid 1990s. 108 Different official covers.  Michel Cat 558 Euro = $A760. All are official PO covers. A few are shown above. The real value is in the last 10 years of course. All in a nice red $40 "Lighthouse" album.  $A250, plus shipping. More pix of it all here - http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=28457 (Order as stock number 739JM)  

 

 

                                                                                                                                                      

 

1952 KGVI 10/- Banknote very attractive in high grade:  Clean and fresh with sharp corner and crisp body. McDonald 23. Bought from an estate where it was on a well-known dealer’s stock-sheet graded as “aUNC” - Retail $1250.  I think that is over-graded, and is more correctly graded at Strong VF+ - a $900 note, as it is has light traces of circulation. Now 60 years old, and of rich strong colour and strong body, and a great one to tuck away at $A700. (Order as stock number 749PD)

  

 

     

 

Australia 1949 £2 “ARMS” - Imprint Block 4:  An iconic design, ever popular, and of massive face value back then -  £8 was easily a week’s wages for a working man.  So, surprisingly few BLOCKS were purchased.  3 x MUH and 1 unit at top MVLH.  Average shape for over 60 years old.  SG 224d - £340 for 4 single stamps.  Juzwin $175 a stamp for MUH.  Imprints a large premium.  $A350 (Order as stock number 374HC)

  

 

     

 

 

KUWAIT 1958-1969 Mint Stamp Coll on leaves. Cat £545 for $A275:  A couple of no account sets are lightly stuck to these heavyweight pages due to humidity, but cat value of the used cat is often MORE than the mint if you float them off, and call them 'very fine used'. Coff.  Those huge, really heavy gauge Stanley Gibbons pages are a little aged here and there, so that would be a very wise move actually to re-house the entire lot in a stockbook and would yield a rather nice collection. A little mild perf toning now and again, but again, generally on the no account sets, and really luckily, most of what is here is on the pages, not any stamps!  Re-house them, and problem solved.

 Most of these seem to be £5 to £10 sets, so clearly were missed by most as new issues, hence the good SG value today. A great way to pick them up in one hit. In 30 years of dealing, I have NEVER once before had a Kuwait collection for sale. Sets here up to very high SG cat - these generally in nice shape. Top end stuff you see photo'd in auction catalogues.  Attractive stamps, and VERY seldom offered in a large, near complete run.  Bought cheap, so out they go cheap as well to a new home!  A TON more photos here - http://tinyurl.com/KuwaitColl  $A250  (Order as stock number 497UT)

  

 

 

 

 

 

1911 Sudan Camel Postman 10pi top Value “Army Service” Stamp FU:  Black and Mauve Star and Crescent watermark, with nice dated cds of Khartoum on top of the overprint.  Clean and fresh used with strong deep colour.  SG A13 Cat £650. $A425  (Order as stock number 296GL)

  

 

 

Australia 9d Violet 3rd Watermark Kangaroo, superb looking margin block 4:  The 1926 Die 2B, SG 39b.  A better facially looking block you could not obtain even if these were on sale in PO’s today and you tore it out yourself!  LH margin block, with the double lined margin watermark “AUSTR” – which plates the position of these 4 stamps.  A light hinge touch on 1 unit - the others all MUH original gum. Perfect perfs and centering as you can see.  Juzwin $1,385 retail as 4 well centred singles.  Nice one to tuck away.  BLOCKS of this are really unusual, and one that looks like this is probably unique. $A950  - (Order as stock number 471DN)

  

 

 

Nauru 1978 Stamp Surcharges, MUH SHEETS. Cost $1,000!  $A225:  One of THE scarcest Pacific Islands sets of the past 40 years. Complete MUH sheets of 25 each value.  Now 33 years old.  An emergency issue due to a shortage of low values on the islands. No standing order clients got these, nor dealers generally.  Numbers printed were about 10% of other sets from the era. For this reason blocks of any kind were unusual, and sheets near unheard of.  More pix at – www.tinyurl.com/Nauru77

PERFECT size for Hagner sheet storage as you can see, or stockbook or album page.  Bought this off a collector who paid Max Stern $1,000 for them in 1981 - his invoice was attached. Incredible as that may seem, retail was $50 a set 4 from many dealers. The ASC cat had it at $45 a set 4 ($1,125) for several editions at the time. Fresh and attractive MUH.  Each with Harrison Imprints and Plate numbers - these rate a large premium on this set. Current ASC Cat $20 a set = $500.  Bought cheap in an estate so out they go at $A225 (Order as stock number 482FD)

  

 

 

 

Queensland 1872 small QV Chalon head 2d Plate Proof block of 4:   Wow, talk about EYE-APPEAL!  Absolutely magnificent fresh condition as you can see of THE most attractive QV stamp design.  Wonderful for 140 years old.  A superb recess printed PLATE-PROOF on card in stamp size, with all margins.  Razor sharp crisp impression.  Absent from Bernie Manning’s superb Chalon collection.  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!  An Australia Post Year album at $100 costs more than one of these rare pieces – insane! $A395 (Order as stock number 429LD)

  

 


 

FIJI - 1881-99 Queen Victoria 5/- dull red & black on cover - $500 UNDER Auction price:  (Price reduced $50 October 2011) 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 $500 less than that 6 year old level! $A700  - (Order as stock number 205RZ)

  

 

 

 

1936 MALAYA Negri Sembilan “Specimen” two top value stamps:  (Price reduced 20% October 2011)  The $2 value is very lightly hinged, and the $5 value appears to be unhinged.  Stanley Gibbons lists the Specimen set at £425, 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  - (Order as stock number 935RG)

  

 

 

 

Ceylon 1857 6d Brown QV, 4 margin used copy without faults of any kind:  (Price reduced $50, October 2011) This debut series of Ceylon is fraught with pitfalls. First, clever repairs were often done. This is expertised and is totally fault free – I guarantee it.  Second, many of the later perforated issues are cut down and offered as imperfs. This has not occurred here as it evident. Third – the common Purple brown is sold as Brown – again this one passes readily, indeed is leaning toward being Light Brown – a £1,300 stamp.  4 clear margins, close to good, and clean and fresh.  SG 6a £550.  One of the great early classics, for a very affordable -  $A225  - (Order as stock number 796GW)

  

 

 

Rhodesia 1910 Perf 15 KGV “Double Heads” Selection:  SG 150, 170, 170a, 171b, 173, 176, 177 (7) The SG 150 is perf 14, all others are perf 15. SG £320.  A quite nice genuine lot, with genuine cancels, of a SUPER popular collecting area.  $A225  - (Order as stock number 562YA)

  

 

 

 

Newfoundland 1897 60¢ Black King Henry VII top value, superb PLATE PROOF Block 4:    Absolutely MAGIC! Quite amazing quality for 114 years old. Pristine. Razor sharp impression. “400 Year Anniversary of Discovery” top value of set, SG 79.  Any proof block from this Ozzie area you could generally add a zero!&  $200  (Order as stock number 492FL

 

 

Hong Kong 1862 18¢ Queen Victoria fresh unused: A rare stamp and seldom offered. Clean and flat and fresh, totally free of the hinges and gook so common on these super oldies. Came with a range of bright unused 1863 QV HK that I will list up next week when scanned. Deep original unwashed colour. Perfs and centering typical of these – now 150 years old after all. SG 4 £600 . Bought well in an Estate, so to clear at just: $A300 - (Order as stock number 492FL)

  

 

Niue 1931 £1 pink "Arms" in superb **MUH** perfect centred block, at ½ Gibbons hinged price:  Magic vivid color and “fresh as a daisy” appearance ex UK. Cat £300 for mint hinged (MUH is a large premium) and £640 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. If it were a MUH 1pd Roo block you could add a zero – literally.This is now 80 years old. (SG 54) How many genuine “MUH* blocks can exist? $A275 - (Order as stock number 639OT)

  

 

Pitcairn Island FDC Collection 1986-2000. Retail $670 for just $A325:  From an Estate this week. I *NEVER* see this era. Pitcairn to mid-80s you do see, as it was Red Hot in the early 80s, and then the interest of many waned. The 90s are near impossible to source - globally.  64 Different covers with high initial cost.  Right up to last issue of the Century – ‘Bees’ in November.

A dozen more photos of them are here -  http://tinyurl.com/PITfdc - Retail price is $A679.  Well under HALF retail to clear! (Retail lightly pencilled onto reverse of each so you can check it.)  Many beautiful sets. Attractive lot - many superb topicals - WWF, Birds to $5 etc. Untouched by me. Heaps of $3 values. All this - $355 below retail - $A325  (Order as stock number 724LT)

 		 

 

 

1896 Coolgardie Cycle Express Company “Local Post” WA Goldfields: Prices for these have truly soared in recent years, due to the vast prosperity over in WA, combined with the large number of new collectors globally for top end 19th Century “Goldfield” related material. (Or CYCLE related from the same era.) These were produced for use on the rich Kalgoorlie Goldfields, and were used thus, until the WA PO closed the service down. Stamp Magazine reports a few years after their issue state 500 sets were printed, and of those, only 130 sets were unsold. A rough condition and foxed used pair was invoiced for $A2,530 on August 27, 2011 at auction - http://tinyurl.com/CoolGar - lot 222 Phoenix. A decade ago it would not have got 10% of that level.

These were crudely printed by Lithography, on essentially coarse blotting paper by “The Coolgardie Miner” newspaper office. Near all I’ve seen over the decades are thinned/creased/toned, and/or with horrible perfs and centering. These are clean and flat and fresh with deep colour, and have NO faults of any kind. Impossible to improve on for these. 2/6d has a nice ink blob flaw next to value. This pair also comes complete with the also scarce and accurate 1964 Reprint perforated pair of these used on the special Goldfields postcard – near 60 years old itself – photos of both sides of that here - http://tinyurl.com/CoolGar2 - value $50 alone. If a rough used pair is now over $2,500 - in this quality, these are a gift at - $A450 (Order as stock number 583RT)

  


  1913 £1 Kangaroo Brown & Blue, 1st Watermark attractive "Mint Unhinged" -  $13,000 UNDER Auction price!:  Well all is not as it seems at times.  I bought this from a collector who gladly paid $10,000 for it from a well known Melbourne dealer.  I diplomatically pointed out it had been professionally regummed.  A very good (German) job I agree, but a regum all the same.  So I paid a little more than the hinged price, and can now offer it for under HALF what the previous owner rather foolishly paid.  Perfs and centering you really will not better for this incredibly difficult issue, to see in anything looking half decent.  As you can see, a delightful looking stamp facially.

And with the stunning deep rich colours that one only finds on the 1913 issue £1 and not the later wmk - deeper than most of this issue actually.  As Arthur Gray told me here - www.glenstephens.com/snfebruary07.html - this was his all time favourite stamp among the Kangaroos because of the very rich colours.  Seeing he sold his collection for over $A7 million, his view does count!  (Even Gray’s massive collection did not have a MUH single.) 

Satisfaction guaranteed - most would not pick this as regummed unless advised otherwise.  A near identical looking SG 15 stamp MUH (with “sun-tanned” gum!) was invoiced for $A18,640 at Prestige Public Auction - http://tinyurl.com/1PD-Rooo -  Save $5,500 over what some unfortunate person paid for this one, and pay $13,500 under what the Public Auction price has reached!  Buying “MUH” top value 1913 Roos has always been total lunacy to my mind, and this just proves it perfectly.  $A4,500  - (Order as stock number 789VR)

  

 

NSW 1853 8d Orange QV Laureate - proof-like crisp impression: SG 81 £650:  The key “standard” face different NSW stamp, near always missing from every collection.  As someone who has handled a lot of Laureates I can assure you the printing impressions on these are NOT anything near sharp as this generally.  Juzwin $675 for a typical heavy cancel copy.  Clean and fresh, and totally fee of hinges and gunk to hide thins etc.  Light crisp “69” cancel of MURRURUNDI – a scarce cancel on its own.  A notoriously tight marginned series, wide to just touching.   $A500  (Order as stock number 528LC)

  

 

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  - (Order as stock number 228CX)

  

 

Australia 1996 AFL Booklets **TOTALLY IMPERFORATE**:  Collingwood and Essendon Booklets completely imperforate.  ACSC 1930Ab and 1934Ab, Cat $2500 each.  Only one of each believed discovered, and the first of either I have handled.  Only 3 of the 16 club booklets were discovered imperforate.   ACSC Cat $2,500 each NINE years back.  $A1,800 each or the BOTH for $A3,500  (Order as stock number 674HG and 675HG)

  

 

NSW 1856-59 (6d) 'REGISTERED' Imperf, Salmon and Indigo, superb 4 margin on piece: Exceptionally large margins for these, tied to piece by barred numeral “36” of Braidwood it appears, to a Reverend Seymour. SG 103 - Cat £190+++. Lovely strike of the “REGISTERED 13 MR – 1857” red oval. Especially deep strong colours – these are often far paler. Delightful looking piece. $A200 (Order as stock number 836LU)

  

 

 

1880 GB 2/- Brown – GB’s most elusive face different postage stamp:  (Reduced $100 late August 2011!)  Average used, with the usual heavyish cancel of “FB” – Foreign Branch. Indeed many of these got parcel cancels so heavy, you can hardly see the underlying adhesive design. GB’s leading dealer Arthur Ryan, has this multi cancelled blob on his site right now for £650 .... with a repair at left!  http://tinyurl.com/2waptt

A really tiny number sold of this stamp - 77,620 copies, which was like Australia issuing 20,000 of a mainstream postage stamp – and it is very rare in any condition. (The 1913 £2 Roo had 240,000 copies sold!)  Being a very small size and very boring looking brown stamp, few were torn off brown paper parcels to retain. (Versus the massive sized issues 5/- and above) And this £3,250 cat value WILL increase in the SG next edition out soon, you can bet.  THIS stamp is missing from 99% of GB collections. (A mint block of 20 of this stamp sold for $US650,000.00 in the Bill Gross sale last year.) SG 121, cat £3,250.  A nice used one will cost you $1,000s more than this.  Estate bargain to clear at -  $A950 - (Order as stock number 436TR)

  


 

 

 

GRENADA - 1938-50 Scarce Perf 12, Narrow Frame Ship:  10/- slate-blue & bright carmine, perfect centred, attractive lightly mounted mint,  SG 163c - Cat £700. One of the key 20th Century stamps from this country, in this scarce perf.  Also a super selling SHIP topical as well!  $A500  (Order as stock number 394FE)

  

Marie Curie Pair

 

North Korea - 1984 Marie Curie 10 Chon original stamp artwork - UNIQUE:  In detailed watercolour, on thick paper, in impressive large size, (117 x 170mm) from the printer or Post Office' archives, with official markings in Korean on reverse.  Also a corner pair of the issued stamps overprinted 'SPECIMEN' in blue, MUH – also very scarce in themselves.  Curie was the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes - in physics and chemistry.  A gem Exhibition trio for any Science, Medicine, Women on Stamps, Physics, Nobel exhibit etc.   A UNIQUE piece for just -  $A400  (Order as stock number 261GP)

  

 

Tasmania 1855 Large Star 2d deep green Chalon, with POSTAL pen cancel:  Four good even clear margins, manuscript  "noughts & crosses" postal cancellation, SG 15, Cat £500.  Superb!  Ex David Cohen Collection.  RPSV Certificate (2009) states "the pen cancel is in accordance with the instructions to postmasters".  (Indeed all large star wmk Chalons with pen cancels MUST be postally used as the Stamp Duty Act did not occur until 1863.)  $A325  (Order as stock number 193FL)

  

 

BERLIN: 1949 Buildings Dm1 to Dm5, matching marginal blocks of 4 Genuine *MUH* – Cat €2,280 for just $1,100!:  All matched and well centred and fresh MUH original gum, from the left of the sheets, all with the essential Herr Schlegel guarantee handstamps,  Michel 57-60  Cat €2,280+. Superb! (4 blocks)  -$A1,100  (Order as stock number 724LT)

  

 

Morocco Agencies - OVERPRINTS ON Queen Victoria GIBRALTAR, the major overprint Error: 1898-1900 Wmk Crown CA Queen Victoria, 25c bright lilac with Inverted 'V' for 'A' error showing clearly.  SG 6a, well centred, attractive used.  SG Cat £350.  $A250  (Order as stock number 492GP)

  

 

Complete set of 6 x Scott *2011* Catalogues - $270 under retail – Great buy for locals!:   (Reduced $100 August 2011!)   In Australia these Catalogues cost $A145 each from the agent Max Stern, as weight to import from USA is heavy so a set of 6 costs $870 retail.  I can do one brand new set of the entire world A-Z for $A500.  Huge set ... each book is literally 1300-1400 pages thick, and now all is in full colour. 

If your present set is 10 or 20 years old you MUST update!  These are far better than current Gibbons “Stamps Of World” (also $650 a set retail) as they list perf and wmk varieties, and major errors, and prices are in dollars which are at parity now. Scott have announced all cats issued this year are going up 25% in retail so grab this bargain NOW! - - http://tinyurl.com/ScottUp - $A500  - (Order as stock number 635ER)

  

 

Australia 1938 2d Red KGVI Superb Block 4 with *COMPLETE* Plate Number “4”:   (Reduced $100 August 2011!)  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. $A750  - (Order as stock number 416JK)		  

 

Germany 1931 'Graf Zeppelin' - Polar Flight 4 Mark brown, FU:  (Reduced $50 August 2011!)  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.  Michel #458, 900 Euros.  SG #471 Cat £950.  A BARGAIN at around a QUARTER Gibbons!  -  $A450  - (Order as stock number 145TR)

  

 

Isle Of Man - both the 1973 Definitives Colour Outer Border Errors:    (Reduced $75 August 2011!)  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 $A150 for one of each.  Or a joined pair of each as shown above, Cat £600 (=$A1,500) fresh MUH for -  $A250  - (Order as stock number 735LP)

  

 

"Aeropex 94" - the special 1944 KGVI 7d Aerogram/Airletter reprint:   (Reduced $50 August 2011!)  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  - (Order as stock number 557LR)

  

 

Switzerland 1945 3 Franc “PAX” in a superb used block 4:  Perfect central cds of “Basel 12-7-45”.  The Swiss love USED blocks with genuine cancels, and a key stamp like this in block form is RARE.  This was a high face value right after the War, when everyone in Europe was cash strapped.  Zumstein Cat 500 Swiss Francs.  Michel 400 Euros as 4 singles. $A275  (Order as stock number 491WK)

  

 

Bermuda 1920 2/- KGV, FU with *WATERMARKED REVERSED*, Cat £2,500 for $A1,750:  One of the highest catalogued 20th Century Bermuda stamps – a true Classic from this super popular collecting area.  The reversed “CA” watermark shows perfectly and clearly and centrally on the reverse – as you can readily see in the over-exposed image above of back. 

A huge bonus, as most reversed watermarks you need to peer and squint at, and still not be at all certain.  (SG lists all wmks as seen from the FRONT.)  Fine used and fresh - free of hinges, toning, thins and gunk, and beautifully centred.  With lightest face free “Parcel Post” cds, and bright and attractive colour.  Be impossible to improve on this one methinks – for quality, appearance, or for price!  SG 51bx £2,500.  $A1,750  - (Order as stock number 638HX)

 		 

   

 

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 - (Order as stock number 117ML)

  

 

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   - (Order as stock number 422NT)

  

 

 

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 - (Order as stock number 785XR)

  

 

East Germany DDR 1953/54 Five Year plan set 18: Typo. Fresh MUH original gum. Michel 405/422 = Michel 280 Euros = $A450.
 $A150  - (Order as stock number 775KK)

  

 

Australia 1955-57 QEII 1/0½d SPECTACULAR Misperf:  Lower left corner block of four with mind boggling post printing paper fold, and dramatically mis-guillotined.  Best looking thing I have seen of these in the QE2 reign for ages.  Also have a near identical 3d Brown KGVI IMPRINT block with same error – nearly the same looking piece, for same price, or the 2 for $A400.  $A250  (Order as stock number 526HM)

  

 

 

43.85 Troy Ounces of Pure Silver ($US1,757 right now) .. for $A1,500:  A handy parcel of silver bullion in coin forms, now that it is bouncing up again off recent lows, and is up about 20% in the past fortnight, but nowhere near very recent highs. Sample photo shown to give you an idea - a bag of issued ozzie silver coins is what you are getting of course!

What we have here is about 2.6 kilos weight total of Australian older coinage that is either 50% pure silver (after 1945) or Sterling silver - .925 fine.  There is 1.364 kilos of PURE silver here - GUARANTEED. That is 43.85 TROY ounces of pure silver. GUARANTEED.  As I type this, Silver is holding strongly at over $US40 an ounce, but do check this CONSTANTLY updated graph below, as it has generally been rising hourly in recent days, and anything above $US40 is a plus to the buyer!  http://www.kitco.com/charts/livesilver.html

So as I type this, 43.85 Troy Ounces at $US40.07 an ounce is $US1,757 as "melt value". So my price is about $150 BELOW the melt rate as I type this - and that $150 saving will go higher or lower depending on bullion price and $A price - minute by minute.  If you happen to believe we might re-visit the $US50 type price level of just a month back, this price might look very tempting. If silver did reach that $US50, this lot is $US2,192.50 melt value.  Me, I have no idea, I just buy and sell such lots when purchased, make a tiny profit, and move on. Lots more info and graphs here -  http://tinyurl.com/Silver44oz  - $A1,500 “Cash”:  - (Order as stock number 452SC)

 		 

 

 

Tryggve Gran signed "Terra Nova" Antarctic Sheet with 1d Dominion:  (Price Just Reduced By $100!)  1d "VICTORIA LAND" overprint on the New Zealand 1d Dominion stamp. SG A3, cat £110 used. Crisp cancel of "BRIT.ANTARCTIC EXPD. 1.30PM JA 18 13".  The Penguin expedition logo at top left corner is in expensive raised print in black. "BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION - TERRA NOVA R.Y.S. "  Today I learned about the Norwegian daredevil Tryggve Gran. Had you ever heard of him before? I never had.

Here is a VERY interesting read -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryggve_Gran  He died in his 90s (and had 3 wives!) He used the dead Robert Falcon Scott's skis, to ski back to base - reasoning the skis made the complete journey at least, to the Pole.  He left the Continent - but not before he climbed Mount Erebus - which erupted whilst he was doing it - near killing him!  Gran was later awarded the Polar Medal by King George V for his part in this Terra Nova Expedition. From this Expedition he went flying, and in 1914, Gran became the first pilot to cross the North Sea.

Under the identity of "Captain Teddy Grant" of Canada, he was admitted to the RFC, serving in 1916 with No.39 Squadron on Home defence, flying the Sopwith Camel on the Western Front with No. 70 Squadron during 1917, and later commanding various Royal Air Force units in Arkhangelsk and North Russia during the Allied intervention in 1919.

During the war, the RAF promoted Gran to Major, and awarded him the Military Cross for distinguished war service. He was also awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.  In 1944, a commemorative stamp was issued by Norway I presume to mark the 30th anniversary of Gran's flight across the North Sea.   After a trial in 1948, Gran was found guilty of treason and sentenced to a prison term of 18 months. How bizarre. A similar signed sheet but with more stamps is offered here for $6250 -  http://tinyurl.com/TGran - Tons more info on the sheet and the man here -  http://tinyurl.com/tryggve - $A975  (Order as stock number 935GC)

 		 


 

 

BHUTAN, PHONOGRAPH RECORD STAMP 1973, FULL SET of 7:  All different phonograph record stamps, Michel #557-563, Scott #152-152F.  Self  Adhesive.  All fully playable on a record player, and in quite superb condition. Others I have seen have been foxed, scuffed, scratched bent and/or grotty from being in the Sub Continent etc.  GEM state,

Still a red hot set, and with the explosion of all things in better India related material, these have a long way to run.  I see a set on ebay now for $US495 - and Bill Hornadge’s set 7 got over $800, along with a few other no account pieces at Prestige - http://tinyurl.com/Bhutan3D  (I also have MUH extras of the 3NU and 9NU Airmail pair, stock 428BY) the 2 large stamps, for $165 the pair  - KEY to the set, and a lot of short sets of 5 are about!)  Cheap at full set 7 at -  $A400 (Order as stock number 428BX)

 		 

 

STOP PRESS: Bernie Manning Queensland *CDS* Circular Date Stamp Book JUST issued:  This is the FIRST place you will see these advertised.  Volume 1 was NUMERALS, and this new Volume 2 in the CIRCULAR (cds) cancels.

Find just ONE half decent cancel, once in your life, on a common 1d or 2d stamp, in a glassine of junk, or on a circuit book page etc, and your book cost is repaid WITH interest.  I have several 'RRRR' Queensland cancels in stock now for $A200 each .. and many in each book are FAR rarer and FAR pricier than that!

This one is even THICKER than the first - at 270 large A4/Quarto type pages. Volume 2 - The Town Cancellations. The new book is approx 270 pages spiro-bound, and covers 700 towns, and 1600 cancellation types. Ratings are based on a census of over 12,000 cancellations.

This book is around a kilo, (2.2 lbs) as is Volume 1. Given the absurd way AP treats 'parcels' it only costs about a DOLLAR more to post TWO books as ONE to most places! i.e. to MEL/ADL/BNE post one book is $12 and just $13 for both! Overseas unreg'd SEA - that generally goes by AIR - is $A20 for 1 book, or $A30 for both.

So if you buy BOTH you save ~$10 in post, AND I give a $20 discount for both books bought together.  I am offering both at ISSUE PRICE – NO MARK-UP.  Indeed buy both at $20 UNDER issue price.  History shows such superb books sell out and INCREASE in value. My credo for decades has been “Knowledge Is Power” and I URGE all readers to buy these kind of superb tomes. They often sell out and go up in value. More here - http://tinyurl.com/QldCDS

EVERY dealer who ever sees some QLD lower values cannot be without this book(s). Low value Queensland QV heads are only a dollar or 2 per 100 and have generally never been checked for cancels as these books are only recent. Volume #1 is $A150 - stock code 581QL -  Volume #2 is $A150 - stock code 582QL - Both Volumes bought together are $A280 - stock code 583QL

 		 

 

 

 

Australia 1d Red KGV Head -  The popular “Prancing Horse” Essay:  Fresh unused Block of 4 in issued colour, with large even margins.  Usual small bend as always found on these essays.  VERY seldom seen other than in singles, and of course is noted in ACSC on page 4/48.  Have never owned a block of 4 other than this one.  Lovely specialist item.  $A425  (Order as stock number 527HM)

  

 

 

 

 

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  - (Order as stock number 433FX)

  

 

Great Britain 1935 Silver Jubilee set 4, on attractive Registered FDC:  A very tough set to find complete .. often the letter rate only value is seen.  A neat cover in quite good shape really for 75 years old, that really travelled 10,000 miles.  All 4 stamps have a crisp “Maidstone Kent 7 May 35” cds.  Also the same cds is crisply struck on reverse, along with ‘Sydney Registered’ arrival cds of June 10.   SG Cat £600.  $A300  - (Order as stock number 682FZ)

  

 

 

 

Queensland – *FORTY* copies of the 1936 £1 Bi-Colour in pairs and strips:  (Price Just Reduced By $50!)  An astounding hoard – in 30 years of odd dealing I have never had a single much less 40 of them!  Cat $20 each = $800 - http://tinyurl.com/QldRevs - and in pairs and strips, a really nice bonus.  These have the sideways ‘Crown over Q’ watermark .. not unlike the Qld state stamp issues.  Pop a few on ebay now and again and you might get a nice surprise – your cost is just $5 each. NO usual ugly pen or punched cancels.  Revenues are going mad in price in recent years.  $A200  - (Order as stock number 492HW)

  

 

 

Huge carton Aust PO packs in pricey PW albums. ⅓ Retail!  Superb buy for someone - bought cheap from an estate today.  The massive "PW" Deluxe PO Pack albums.  Each page has a custom made space for each pack, and a descriptive cards.  These superb books retail for $110 each. There are also pages for Volume #1 - retail $90, so the books alone are $530.  The early pre 1990 packs I can often supply at a bargain bulk buy rates to fill the early pages - binders are available too. As of course are binders and pages for the later packs.

A large heavy carton full. Look to be in good condition. Defins to $20 and all the key items .. missing only a couple of cheap packs from Jan 1980 to mid 1996. (PO 67 to 259.) There are 190 packs here. A big boxful - see the Pepsi can next to it, to show you the SIZE of these impressive books.

The FACE value of the stamps in the packs here is $A495.62, but each pack costs 40c over face, so PO cost of these was - $A571.62. Retail of these packs is $1,325 - check-lists attached. So Pack new issue cost was $572, and albums cost $530 = so owner paid over $1,100 for this lot.   Retail is $1,325 plus $530 for albums = $1,855.  You are paying near ONE THIRD OF RETAIL PRICE.  An "instant collection" for someone, at WAY near one third retail. Many more pix here - http://tinyurl.com/PWpack -   $A600  - (Order as stock number 493DV)

 		 

 

 

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) $A325  - (Order as stock number 425AS)

  

 

 

 

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 centered copy of a key high value - at way UNDER HALF Cat!  $A325 - (Order as stock number 495RX)

  

 

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  - (Order as stock number 439ZZ)

  



 

New South Wales 1858 Charred cover Grafton to Throgmorton Street London!  Massive 8/- Franking, with EIGHT x 6d and 4 x 1/- imperf Diadems. A huge franking - the highest face value stamp from NSW at this time was this 1/-.   All tied by "90" sunburst cancels.  Grafton, Sydney and London backstamps, and impressive red wax seals on reverse.  Two of the stamps are "singed" at SW corner.   Certainly not in perfect shape as you can see! But for over 150 years old, a quaint and rare survivor, bearing an amazing franking, with high catalogue value. $A450  (Order as stock number 682PV)

  

 

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.  $A175  - (Order as stock number 445FG)

  

 

 


 

 

Prince William Wedding – *Major Date Error* on NZ Packs – rapidly withdrawn:  What a new issue to have a huge error on!  The Media event of 2011, with the April 29th Wedding of Prince William of Wales, and Kate Middleton with TWO AND A HALF BILLION viewers globally.  William will almost certainly be the next Monarch as Charles/Camilla are not a popular option.  NZ issued a Deluxe pack with set, mini sheet and FDC for $20 - and some goose used the WRONG birth-date ... May and not June.  Instant panic and NZPO immediately withdrew any on sale at Post Shops.  Shades of the Kapa Kaka withdrawn issue – a set worth $13,500 today - http://tinyurl.com/HapaHk -  This error made national NZ TV News  -  http://tinyurl.com/NZpack  

Only a very few were sold before they were withdrawn.  It was re-issued April 1 showing correct June birthday!   Leading NZ dealers have them on ebay at £106 STG -  and offer BOTH packs for $US500 -  http://tinyurl.com/WiilPack2 -  and from the USA $US215 posted - http://tinyurl.com/WillPackUS - and my price below is clearly less than either. One appeared on online auction site for $2,000 start price - http://tinyurl.com/TradeMePack   I understand I have the **ONLY** dealer stock of these in Australia. These are large impressive packs, in a classy Gold Embossed, Deep Royal Violet, in a thick clear protective outer. Even the common re-printed pack was a total sell-out a week before Wedding! - http://tinyurl.com/NZsellout

William is a SUPERSTAR in NZ and his recent visit to the Earthquake site got him 24/7 media coverage.  A ton of folks globally with major Royal Events sign up for "everything issued".  If that means buying two NZ folders, they want both, cost irrelevant.  My hunch is these folks alone will more than vacuum up near all packs out there for sale.  Add to that the number that collect NZ in some depth, and there is a clear supply/demand collision about to occur. (Check prices on the Aust 1970 PO packs for Japanese buyers - $1,000s each!)  I secured a few from a NZ source.  $A165 each,  or 2 for $A300 - or - 5 for $A625 for re-sellers/investors  (Order as stock number 372DQ)

 		 

 

 
“The Engraved Stamps Of The Commonwealth Of Australia” - price  *reduced* $100 this week!

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 almost 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 around $14 an official die proof!  And NOT obtainable any other way than via this book.

The die proofs sold separately would 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”.  Bought 3 in an estate, and have reduced price of last 2 from $500 to just $400!  Buy yourself a classy GIFT you'll always love handling and looking at  $A400  - (Order as stock number 428YR)

 

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:   - (Order as stock number 225MR)

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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  - (Order as stock number 495UY)

 

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  - (Order as stock number 994XD)

  



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Papua New Guinea 1994/5 “EMERGENCY” Overprints set of 11 - Superb Used: The scarcest post war set from the entire Pacific. I have the world’s largest stock of these mint and used and on cover. For full details see the FULL story in great depth here.. a great read even if you do NOT collect these! - www.glenstephens.com/overprints - Clean and fresh, and all overprints as always guaranteed 100% genuine. Indeed used sets are many times scarcer than MINT! February special! $A250  - (Order as stock number 430VX)

  

 


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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: www.xe.com 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.

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