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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/Everest1924  Signed 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 .. and at issue price due to a fortunate buy, in dust cover. 420 pages.  They list all the Vic number cancels recorded on Roos and KGV heads. (There are more than you imagine ... and most were done against instructions!)

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

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

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

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

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

  


 

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

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 postal dated 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.com  A$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 -  $A200

  


 

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 UNDER SG price!:   A wonderful Estate lot. All have an accurate current SG Concise SG catalogue (2005) yellow sticker on the outer vario sheet with SG number and value.  Clean looking lot.  All neatly arranged on Lighthouse "Vario" sheets.

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

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

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

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

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

 



All prices on EVERY list are weak Australian Dollars!!
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
 



Your number one source for USED KGV and Kangaroos
I have had for 30 years probably the largest stock of used Australia KGV heads and Kangaroos in the world.  From poor to superb.  Many collectors find it really tough to sort and source these by watermark and Dies accurately.  In the early 1980's I ran dozens of full page ads in the 2 local magazines listing EVERY key Australian stamp in 5 different grades from "Spacefiller" to "Superb".  Even the 1913 £2 Roo.  Not one dealer has done that kind of ad - before or since.

My grading is precise, my stock enormous, and I have assisted many THOUSANDS of collectors complete their sets of these difficult issues. From budget conscious pensioners filling 5 albums for their grandchildren, where spacefillers of scarcer values will suffice perfectly, to multi millionaires who want and buy the BEST - from cars and houses .... to their stamps!  You may not be able to afford to LIVE as well as Hugh Morgan or Sir Ron Brierley does, or drive a Bentley like they do, but your used Roos can look JUST as nice!

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

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

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

I purchased Private Treaty from Harmers Of Sydney in 1980 the massive H.F.McNess accumulation of used "OS" perfins.  He was obsessed with accumulating these issues, and had books full.  I still have much of this stock.  This was at a time when perf "OS" were poorly regarded by collectors and dealers alike.  Not me.  I still have multiple copies of items most dealers have never seen or handled genuine examples of - like - 4d Lemon Yellow, ½d and 1/4d Small Multi perf 14,  KGV No Wmk pair,  Roo 2½d and 4d Yellow 1st Wmks etc.

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

 


 

 

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

  



 

 

Papua New Guinea 1994
Rare "Emergency Overprints":


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

 "Set of 11" - SG # 730/740. Michel # 714 -724. Scott # 860/871. ASC Cat $A420.

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

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

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

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




 

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



 

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.

For FAR more details of them all here:

www.glenstephens.com/kapa_haka.html

 


 

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!

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Most 4 figure items like these below only appear at public auction. You THEN need to pay 15-20% extra on top of the hammer price - for the nasty, nasty "Buyer Commission". As well the associated GST taxes then added to that commission, and then GST added on the postage and handling and insurance etc. AND then often another 3½% on top of all that, to use a credit card like Amex or Diners!

These commissions pay for the MASSIVE overhead of the auctions. Their dozen or so staff, Director fees, fancy rented buildings, Deluxe catalogues, and $2000 a page full colour ads in magazines all around the globe etc. I have none of this overhead. I work on my own - from home. No rent, no staff, no fancy catalogues or $2000 ads. Just fast turnover and low prices, and a done on the CHEAP website – as you can see!

All prices on this page are nett - NO extra taxes or commissions are added 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: 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.

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 reading! Glen

 



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