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This is are a very small selection of the tens of thousands of stamps and "job lots" I have for sale. I am constantly buying new stock, so if what you need is not here, please ask! I stock basic Australia and most "Australasian Pacifics" 100% complete up to 1980, and the material in my lists is generally only the more unusual and interesting stock - let me quote on the "bread and butter" stuff. My prices on such material are the lowest you will find in Australia, whether mint, used, FDC, year albums, packs, etc. Refer to the want list page for details on how to ask me

So grab a cup of coffee, sit down, and enjoy your browsing!

IMPORTANT! Every price on my lists is NETT, in weak AUSTRALIAN dollars!!
Check the low cost in YOUR currency by clicking here.

These Specials are for Internet buyers ONLY and are available for a VERY limited time, or until stocks run down too much...
(You MUST mention that you are ordering this off my WEBSITE to get these heavily discounted prices!):

Special Offer #1

1985 Kangaroo "Frama" FDC's Wholesale at under HALF Retail: These early Frama machine stamp labels are always a big seller. The multiple hopping Kangaroo design motifs on this one mean it is a BIG favourite outside Australia! Amazing hoard in orig. P.O. boxes. Set of 9 different capital city postcodes on P.O. unaddressed FDC from all 9 capital. cities. Ret. $A20 set. Even soaked off as "VFU" they are worth $20 a set. Superb re-sale/investor items.

10 sets of 9 ... $A85 25 sets of 9 ... $A175 50 sets of 9 ... $A300!

Special Offer #2

Carton of 220 "Hagner" style black stock sheets any size - your pick: $A175 - under HALF retail

Just made a one PALLET purchase from Germany. Huge buy = rock-bottom price. That's the way I have worked on accessory items for 25 years.

This auction is for a factory carton of 220 black stamp storage sheets. These are best selling German made "Prinz" brand - identical in appearance to the more widely used generic name UK made "Hagner" sheets. Prinz mounts are used by major album makers like Seven Seas Stamps in Australia and Scott Publications in the USA etc. They are the world's biggest seller.

We all know ANYTHING German made is top quality. The Germans are perfectionists. BUY THE BEST ... at a discount price!

Recommended Retail in Australia for these is $1.60 each sheet. My special boxful price is around HALF that. They come in packs of 10 sheets, sold as you want them, in sheets sold per number of strips.

Buyer can nominate the number of strips of the 220 sheets they require as long as they are in multiples of ten. You have options from size #1 (1 strip per page) right up to size #8. (8 strips per page) You simply tell me WHICH packs you want to make up the 220 you are paying for. YOUR choice - you can mix and match exactly as you wish.

These are BEST quality German made. I will not even go into the "quality" of a local Melbourne made copycat usually branded "Kanga". Australia Post also sells these local ones too I understand. I've handled strips that fall off due to bad gluing, warp and buckle, sheets that separate into 2 or 3 pieces due to incorrect Mylar guillotining etc. And a longevity we have no idea about.

Prinz-System stock pages are specified by many postal administrations throughout the world. Using a clear, fully synthetic adhesive, a crystal-clear polyester foil (free of softeners) which is permanently bonded to chemically neutral, tough black photo-card. The different stock page sizes will accommodate singles, pairs of blocks, Maxi sheets, souvenir sheets and many more items besides! The possibilities are endless.

Carefully selected superior black card made of homogeneous sulphite pulp is used, Mylar® film, and sized with saponified rosin size so as not to give off colour. Card has a neutral pH value (no acidity). A chemically inert, permanently elastic synthetic glue is used, which will not damage the stamps

It is about 50 years since this style of stock sheet came onto the market AND they have been constantly improved. Today they are distinguished for their unsurpassed quality, ease of use and perfect protection for stamps. Long term tests under extreme conditions have shown Prinz stock sheets will retain their valuable properties over centuries.

My price of $A175 for 220 sheets is LESS than 80 cents a sheet. This is near HALF usual retail!!! My stock will only last another few weeks I think.

You may buy another carton for the same price - and postage on that carton will be FREE!

Buy up ..... I have 1000's here and with the very strong Euro, you will never see prices like these again!

PRICE IS LESS THAN A80¢ EACH!!!

POSTAGE on these is not as bad as you might imagine. Each carton is pretty heavy - about 6 kilos.

I am making this fixed price offer for FLAT RATE POSTAGE ... no matter WHERE you live in Victoria, NSW, Queensland , South Australia, Tasmania and Queensland - I will mail these REGISTERED post for a flat $A15. For Northern Territory or Western Australia it will be $20. Carton 2 or more you buy will be totally post and registered free ANYWHERE within Australia.

And of course nice stamps are ALWAYS used on parcels! "Win, win" for you.

And order the superb black leather look binders and slipcase BINDERS shown nearby when you order the storage sheets, and you pay only a pittance more in postage costs! And nice stamps are used on ALL parcels of course,

In 25 years of stamp dealing I know one thing for sure. you can NEVER have too many Hagner sheets. NEVER!!!! Yes, you WILL use 220, and you'll use them 3 times faster than you think.

You will use 440 trust me. Get together with a few stamp friends and buy in bulk. Ask around at the stamp club. EVERYONE will buy 100 top quality German sheets at less than A80¢ each ... trust me!

Warning - NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER buy second-hand Hagner style sheets. You will pay nearly this price and they may ruin your collection. Fast. If stamps have been stored there before that have rust/toning/foxing etc that mould is ON the black board already. You often times cannot see it with the naked eye, but the tiny spores are there. It will attack your stamps within months when you nearly place your stamps right on the spores. Buy NEW sheets and never have this problem.

Special Offer #3

TRULY DELUXE LEATHER LOOK BINDERS FOR HAGNER TYPE SHEETS WITH MATCHING SLIPCASES - DIRT CHEAP - JUST $29 A SET!

Superb big black real "leather look" jumbo thickness, with matching black heavy duty slipcase. The photo above shows exactly what you will receive. (No stamps of course!) These have the discreet 5 gold stripes on spine, and are superb. Check the deep leather look graining .. they REALLY look classy, and are MILES better looking than some shiny vinyl things on sale for twice this price. 5 or 10 of these on bookshelf REALLY look classy. Red, green and blue never looked like leather to me, as I cannot ever recall seeing a red, blue or green COW!

These have the LARGEST capacity you can buy. Beware of thin spine binders, which often cost more, and of course store less sheets! These 4 ring binders hold about 40-50 sheets very comfortably in most cases, although if you store a lot of FDC or covers on #1 or #2 size Hagner sheets, they are clearly a little less per album due to thickness. So the 5 binder/slipcase deal will hold the 220 Hagner sheet "special offer" quite nicely.

And 10 will cope with the 440 sheet deal perfectly. You can probably add more than 50 sheets if you wish, but I would not recommend it.

The very classy leather look slipcase alone should cost this much! Seven Seas Stamps sell their garish colour SLIPCASES ONLY for about $20 EACH - www.sevenseas.com.au/catalog/?id=166 You MUST have slipcases for storage in this country especially. It keeps most dust and junk and moisture and insects OUT of your stamps, which is what causes rust/toning/foxing. You MUST use slipcases - please read my detailed story about this very important matter here from my 'Stamp News' magazine article:

http://www.glenstephens.com/snapril03.html

Retail elsewhere well over $A50 a set for this kind of quality!

5 sets of binders AND the 5 matching slipcases for $A165

Or a giant carton of 10 sets for just: $A295

If you add these to an order of 220 or 440 Prinz/Hagner sheets above, all at the same time, I will only charge $A10 extra for postage ANYWHERE IN AUSTRALIA on these binders and slipcases. Even if you buy the large carton of 10! My extra packing time, and finding and providing a suitable size large box costs more than $10!

NO GST is added to prices to any items on this website.
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!

Special Offer #4

1985 33¢ "Barred Edge" Frama Labels Stamps: Australia's - indeed the Southern Hemisphere's FIRST ever Frama machine label design stamps! Same colorful red.white/blue design as the 1984 Barred Edge, but these were a rate increase set, 33c from 30c, and thus are FAR scarcer to be honest. Complete P.O. set 9 mint unhinged still in original PO glassines: Ret. $A20 set (once was $A60!) 10 sets $A75 -- 25 sets $A165 -- 50 sets $A250

Special Offer #5

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.

Special Offer #6

CHINA ... Mao Tse Tung - Entire Cultural Revolution - ½ % Scott Cat!

From April 20th 1967 to August 1970. Scott 938 -1046 complete, (less the cheap #1019/37) i.e. you are buying 81 different stamps in total here. Full colour perforated forgeries/reprints (no idea which is correct to be honest!) in a handsome 8 page, 7" x 10" full colour folder/stockbook, all neatly arranged in clear hawid mounts. Includes all 4 of the valuable se-tenant strips 5 and the super rare 1968 8f "Entire Nation Is Red" stamp, Scott #999a. That stamps alone could surely sell for AT LEAST for what I sell the entire collection for! Scott is around $US 6,686.65 for used stamps. (Mint catalogue of course is many times higher still!) My price even for a single set is WAY under 1% of Scott for the genuine stamps i.e. 1% Scott comes to $US 66.86 ( = $A 110 ) per album of 81 stamps complete. However, all I will charge you on credit card is $A 100 = $US 65 approx for the entire collection. EVERY collector of China or whole world with a printed album, pretty well has all the pages blank for this very scarce era. Most will readily consider buying these spacefiller attractive forgeries than live with blank spaces for eternity in this era in their album. Even if you sell these at around 2% of Scott catalogue you nearly TRIPLE your money. Profit margin considerably higher if you buy in bulk - see the figures below. Would make VERY interesting eBay auction lots! One client sent these out in APS approval books marked correctly as not genuine and told me he got back around $500 nett for that effort! He bought more and hopes to repeat that massive return.

1 album for $A 100 - - 5 albums for $A 450 - - 10 albums for $A 800 --

25 albums - (Cat Scott $US167,141) for $A 1,700 = $US 1000 approx, or round about
one HALF A PERCENT OF SCOTT!

Special Offer #7

AUSTRALIAN RECENT KILOWARE SUPER SPECIAL

95,000 recent Australian large size commemorative stamps for only $A575! Also lots of sensational KILOWARE offers, and off-paper hoards. All at low "third world currency" $Australian prices! With colour photos! Click Here for all the detailed info on these super popular offers.

Special Offer #8

Buy Mint Australian Stamps at well below FACE value!!!

I have right now about $20,000 of mint with gum Australian and AAT and Cocos and Christmas Island decimal currency period stamps.

All perfectly valid for use on local or overseas mail of course. AND you can pay the Registered fee on domestic mail or Insurance fee for overseas mail using stamps as well. Depending on the quantity you order you will save a TON on your postage costs.

For instance right now I can sell you $A500 face value for $A400 cash!

Buy $1,000 face value for just $775 cash

You save a cool $225. No GST is added to your invoice either. CATALOGUE value will be many times face value most times. Generally in full sets .... I can often supply the entire order in Post Office packs where the stamps are fresh, clean, mint unhinged, and in complete sets. Perfect for anyone sending out philatelic mail to clients .. either here or overseas. OR also perfect for folks overseas placing mint Australia up for sale on eBay etc.

Or, if you run a small business or want to impress the boss with your business savvy - save yourself $100s today!

Full commemorative sets or mini sheets lightly cancelled are generally worth MORE than face value when lightly used so using these on mail is a VERY appreciated gesture by those receiving them. Do NOT pay full face to the PO when you can save $100s and buy off me!

Click here for FAR more detail on my offer - www.glenstephens.com/postage

Special Offer #9

1970 7¢ Sturt's Desert Pea Missing BUFF Colour: New listing in latest SG - #486bb £200 ea = $A550 (ACSC $A300 ea) I just bought a strip of TEN copies cheap. MUH single $A165 -- pair with special coil perf $A300 -- strip of 5 for $A675 = ¼ SG!

Special Offer #10

Lady Diana Stamp Errors.

Well, I get to be offered all sorts of things in this business. How about the apparent first offering after 15 years laying un-recognised, of Lady Diana stamps printed Tete-Beche???!!

I bought them cheap, and am selling them cheap. They may well be worth TEN times my silly low price of a few dollars each from error specialists or mainline dealers. As usual, my business logic holds fast – “you can’t go broke making a fast profit”! In a short time they’ll all be sold. And so what if they later get auctioned etc … it is not my worry.

For full details and colour photos click HERE: (http://www.glenstephens.com/diana.html is link to use)

Special Offer #11

***** I bought Pallet loads from Germany! *****

LIGHTHOUSE STOCKBOOKS AT Under HALF THE COST OF HAGNER SHEETS !!!!!

Bulk in bulk and pay 20% UNDER RETAIL!

This is a wonderful lot. My BEST selling line all year. Another few pallets of stock just arrived. All BLACK pages as that is what all collectors prefer. Your stamps look SO much better on black pages than white. The universal best-seller 32 page size. More details on this offer here - www.glenstephens.com/lighthouse

This new Deluxe line has really CLASSY looking covers front and back - like a rich 'marbled' leather look I suppose you'd call it. SO much nicer looking than the boring solid colours used for the past 30 years - even by "Lighthouse"! A lovely mix of cover colours per carton as you can see in photo. Five different colours - 2 books in each colour per carton. PERFECT for your fast location of your GB, NZ, Norfolk or USA or Canada collections.

These are top quality West German made "Lighthouse" books. The BEST! Surely your stamps DESERVE the best .... and at HALF the usual storage costs ..... why ever not?! The photos above were taken by me, and are of the books and colours you actually receive.

These books have CRYSTAL CLEAR strips - 9 strips per page. This is much more expensive than glassine to manufacture of course, but with glassine your stamps are always half hidden behind murky/cloudy type glassine when you look at them. VERY few stockbooks (only a few %) sold in the past 25 years have CLEAR strips, as the cost to make them is high. Strong LINEN HINGED pages on both sides for very long wear, and DOUBLE glassine interleaving to protect all your stamps - and stopping the cheaper single interleaved pages from tangling and crumpling up - which they ALWAYS do!

Retail price is $29.50 each. My 2 carton buy is more than 20% below retail price!

I am selling these ONLY in Factory cartons of TEN for $A250

Or TWO factory cartons of 10 - 20 stockbooks - for just $A470! (A73¢ a page!)

(And yes, I will quote even lower prices on larger buys - dealers, re-sellers or collectors with a LOT of re-housing to do please enquire!)

Postage and insurance is of course extra, but as always, I use carefully selected, light cancelled, philatelically VERY valuable stamps and se-tenant strips, small run modern mini sheets of 10 etc on every carton mailed, so the "real" shipping cost is often basically zero to you. POSTAGE ON TWO BOXES is exactly the SAME as ONE box within Sydney! Indeed, TO ANYWHERE within the Sydney Metro/Central Coast/Newcastle/Wollongong costs the SAME for 1 or 2 boxes - i.e. $A10 Registered post and packing in total.

Don't ask me why but if I mail you ONE stock book it costs exactly the same as TWENTY books costs! Australia Post calls anything over 500g a "parcel" therefore 501 grams to 20 kilos costs the identical dollar figure to ship to these areas. So you save a FORTUNE on shipping if buying your stockbooks in one order.

REMEMBER: It is a great idea to now and again re-house ALL your stamps. At this price why not do that NOW? Stockbooks 10-15 years old WILL have mould growing on the pages if stored in Australia. NO doubt about it. In any coastal areas it will start in well under 10 years. And on black pages it is VERY hard - indeed almost impossible - to see with the naked eye. You WILL see it using a UV lamp - go check your books! For a measly $23 a new stockbook to put your $1,000s of stamps into a brand new clean book makes superb sense.

In 25 years of stamp dealing I have learnt one truism. No collector can EVER have too many empty stockbooks! Just because you "think" you will not use 10 or 20 (or 30 or 40 or 50) you are WRONG. Trust me.

Special Offer #12

‘LONDON 2000’ - Special Aust. Post Personalised Stamps: I flew over for this massive show of the Decade. AP had installed their huge computer “P” stamp booth, but due to dirty pool politics with Royal Mail I was told, it was hidden away in a dim lit empty corner of Earl's Court and FEW visited it, much less were able to FIND it! I surely DID. These were the ONLY ‘P’ stamps ever done overseas and only the SECOND ones AP had ever done at an Exhibition. The debut “A99” issue now sells elsewhere for $A200. ( And of course I did a very few of these too - from Australia 99 - with my ugly mug on it - $A150 per sheet, including the special detailed folder, cards and duplicate proof sheet. ) I am happy to personalise and sign the margins of either sheet should you request it.

These ground breaking personalised stamps were the subject of a FRONT PAGE article in Linns Stamp News I wrote - see photos of these stamps and read it all HERE!

I put together a "London 2000" a package of - the photo sheet 10 (of me!) the A4 size “proof” sheet of 10, colour brochures on the stamps, color brochure on the show, Mylar folder for storage, special large AP outer hard folder to keep it all it together and TWO unissued Deluxe £5 show entry tickets! 20 sets only done! $A70

Or for the keen collector who wants the FIRST 2 of a now well established series, the BOTH for $A200.

Special Offer #13

Papua New Guinea WHOLESALE High Values at 5% of Catalogue value:

1994 5 Kina Gogodala dance mask 100 copies, superb CTO from Papua New Guinea Bureau.
Cost literally $A625++ from the Bureau to purchase at the time, as Kina was worth 25% more than one $A!! S.G. #723, Catalogue Value £375 = $A1,100. Or Scott # 839, Retail $US900 = $A1,500 Cheap at $A120

Or a terrific dealer/investor hoard of 250 copies at $A 220 = $US 130

Or for 500 cost $A3,125+ at $A 375. That is only 7% of what the 'investor' paid for them at the Bureau and is 5% of the 2002 Scott Catalog retail of $US 4,500!

Papua New Guinea High Values are NEVER seen in bulk. What a superb re-seller line!

Special Offer #14

The Scarcest Australian Decimal Regular Issue!

The "Australia 99" Fully IMPERFORATE Navigator Mini-Sheets.

The big surprise of this mega success story International show. Produced so that you could take them and have hand created “A99” perfins punched in. NEITHER were on sale at Post Offices around the country, only by mail order, and even then they sold out in weeks after the show. WELL worth socking away a handful - they ARE catalogued and have album page provision in EVERY leading album in the world.

Official PO figures indicate only about 15,000 IMPERF sets can exist, making it the scarcest post war regular Australian issue by far. Fully catalogued and listed by Scott - their Catalogue/retail on these for either Mint or Used is $US32 ($A45) a pair. Gibbons catalogue price has jumped high as well.

My price is - Set of 2 M/S, MUH: $A30. 5 sets: $135 10 sets 2 m/s MUH: $A250. 25 sets: $A575,

Or this month's super web special - 60 sets $A1,000 = around $US750!

I also have a VERY few official PO FDC sets on hand cancelled at the Exhibition. I bought these on Day #1. They are OFFICIAL PO unaddressed covers, each with an imperf MS and each with the special Koala Bear Exhibition April 19-22 pictorial cancel. They are RARE. Per set $A60 - per 5 sets $A250. Per 10 sets $A425

To see a larger image, click here.

The IMPERFORATE Navigator mini sheets issued at the exhibition caused a sensation when it was discovered only 30,000 sets were issued - and about half of those received the "A99" perfin. (See lowest sheet photo.) The "brown" sheet all got a rare 15½ perf gauge. Therefore only 15,000 stamps can exist with that perf.

They are well catalogued in all international stamp catalogues. See the official letter from Australia Post on these - http://www.glenstephens.com/letter.pdf

I have good stocks and these are easily the scarcest post-war Australia post issue. Tuck a few sets away for the future - or your collection.

The Seven Seas "ASC" Catalogue value on this pair is $A120. My special price is HALF Cat - $A70 a pair MUH. 5 sets for $A300. 10 sets for $A500

To see a larger image of all THREE, click here.

For far more details on this issue - click here: http://www.glenstephens.com/sept99text.html

Or to cover all bases - an IMPERF set, and an "A99" set MUH for $90. 5 sets $350. 10 sets $A600.

Special Offer #15

AUSTRALIA POST YEAR BOOKS CHEAP!!

I Have a MASSIVE stock purchased cheap from a very financially embarrassed "Investor" of these ever popular Annual Collections.

Generally 15 or 20 of EACH book, 1981 to 2000, including all the expensive "Black Leather" Executive books, and the Deluxe brown boxed 1988 Bicentennial set of 5 albums which cost $50 to buy ex PO. (My price $40 if purchased separately) - and this is a very popular line for me.

I am always buying year books and always have a ton of stock ... an entire wall to ceiling bookshelf full in fact!

All must clear regardless of cost. Let me quote on what YOU need: my price will amaze you! I can supply full sets, single books, multiples of any year, or just the 2 or 3 or 4 you need for completeness. For more details just click HERE! THE most extensive website listing in the southern Hemisphere on these. discounts of 10% and 15% for multiple purchases too ... off my already low prices!

Not only Australia - but NZ and PNG and GB Year Books are also listed and priced on the hot link above. Please check it out today - photos and details etc on Year Books.

JUST IN STOCK -- deceased Estate lot of a carton of TWENTY Year Books. Complete set 1981 (Book #1) to the scarce 2000 - with the sheetlet of 16 se-tenant Olympic winners, obtainable nowhere else except in this book. The cost of these books from PO alone was $A964. And the super scarce 1988 book is in here of course - also worth about $A125. All the nineties books are difficult to scarce to find in dealer hands and often sell for double face. Priced to clear this week at $100 under the Post Office cost! $A865

Special Offer #16

1999 Lord Howe Island Courier Post "Damaged At Sea" Covers.
The tiny island 'David' - who whupped the "Goliath" Australia Post in a legal exchange!! Superb looking 4 colour, 4 stamp, Marine Life Issue - in MUH sheets 40 (Face value $A72!) $A85, TEN of the stunning booklets containing same (Face value $A72) for $85, and the FDC. Ten for $A85. Read my article on the legal battle HERE!

Also, even better, I have TWENTY FIVE ONLY of the striking Captain &crew signed ‘Damaged At Sea’ version of these FDC’s - with FDI postmark. There were only 100 of this design existing - #1 was presented to the NSW Governor who launched the stamps. Rest of envelopes destroyed as wording was in error. They were actual yacht carried to Australia by Alan Pitt - M.D. of Renniks/Lighthouse and a crew of friends, and are covered in color cachets inc ‘Paquebot’ &c. Other cachets inc a boxed red "Damaged By Sea Water In Transit". Each is hand numbered. They were slightly salt water wettened in the hold in the violent storm that saw a crew member FLY home as he could not face the trip back! Each is also signed by designer Margaret Murray. Full details on this amazing voyage here.

http://www.glenstephens.com/snseptember03.html

Each with a large green ink handstamp on reverse stating carried on sloop "Taranaki" and listing dates, times, and latitude and longitude involved. Postal history of the future for sure, from this SUPER popular island. Each $A 60, per 5 for $A 225.

The standard FDC above. Sailed "Damaged by sea water" cover below above uses a similar envelope, and same stamps, but as you can see is festooned both sides with colourful handstamps, signatures (5) and are all individually numbered.

Special Offer #17

	Special Australia Post '2000 Olympic Gold Medal Winners' Album:
	(Missed by MOST collectors!)

45c - Ian Thorpe- winning the Men's Swimming 400m Freestyle

Australian athletes won 16 Gold Medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Australia issued a special decorative sheetlet of 10 stamps for EVERY medal winner. In a world first, these stamps were on sale nationally the day AFTER each medal win! See my three different front page 'Linn's Stamp News' stories on this remarkable world first by clicking here:

Australia Post rushed out this special album, with all 16 Gold Medal Winner sheets inside, perfectly housed on black #1 size Hanger sheets. A LOT of dealers and collectors overlooked this official issue, as it did not receive much publicity at all. As "Olympics" is a major thematic/topical worldwide, this will always be a key item. And it is of course an 100% OFFICIAL Australia Post Album.

The FACE value of the stamps inside alone was $A72, and the album and Hagner sheets cost extra. I bought a bunch of these as I had a hunch they'd be overlooked. They will be shipped to you still in the Australia Post white cardboard protective mailing box they arrived in!

Cost for the whole deal illustrated above is $A125

SET OF NINETY SIX DIFFERENT SHEETLETS OF TEN!

And ALSO for keen collectors of 2000 Olympic stamp issues. I bought a few sets of all NINETY SIX Digital printed sets of $4.50 sheetlets of 10. i.e. all 16 gold medal winners - from all 6 states with applicable state emblems in red at lower right -- see Linn's story above for more detail. i.e. Cathy Freeman sheet with 6 different state emblems at lower right - or so on for all 15 other Gold Medal winners.

I had very good contacts with Australia Post at this time, so managed to secure all 96 - a tough (near impossible! job for many as some sold out in hours at the applicable GPO's. EVERY single one of these 96 different sheets is listed and priced in the new ACSC. (Australian Commonwealth Specialists' Catalogue.) You could ring 10 dealers and I doubt any could assist you with this set of 96.

I have a few MUH sets of all 96 sheets. FACE is $A432, and my price for either is $A675, or just the standard New Issue dealer mark-up. I reserve the right to increase this price at any time.

Special Offer #18

. Adolf Hitler ‘FUTSCHES REICH’ (Ruined Empire)12pf red Propaganda forgery Mini Sheet of 4:

Fresh mint unhinged and imperf. The then current Hitler German 12pf letter rate stamp design lampooned with smiling Hitler ‘Death Mask’. Originals were part of the World War 2 USA Office Of Strategic Services (OSS) “Operation Cornflake” propaganda campaign to undermine the German public.

Details of this wide ranging stamp propaganda campaign were not found until shortly after the death of wartime USA President Franklin D. Roosevelt - whose stamp collection was sold at auction and official letters outlining this issue were discovered among it.

The original "Skull" stamps were key part of a high level clandestine plan to undermine the morale of the average German citizen. The Allies felt that if many German people started receiving Anti-Nazi propaganda in their morning mail delivered punctually at breakfast time by the mailman, they would feel that their "German Empire" was falling apart from within.

They were the brainchild of General "Wild Bill" Donovan, head of the OSS - the U.S. espionage agency during World War II (that later became the CIA) who ordered the original stamps printed by OSS operations in Switzerland.

The OSS decided that the best way to smuggle the mail into the regular German postal system was to bomb mail trains. In addition to the bombs possibly destroying the trains, they dropped sacks of mail containing Anti-Nazi propaganda. During the confusion of cleaning up the wreck, the false mail sacks were mixed with the damaged German mail.

The OSS re-created all aspects of the German Postal system from real business return addresses to many thousands of names and addresses pulled from the telephone directories. They even replicated the mail bags, postal markings and every other detail of the postal system. Every letter was franked with the fake "Skull" stamps. On opening the letter, they would find it filled with anti-Nazi propaganda often including the 12pf red "Futsches Reich" stamp.

"War is Hell" as we all know and Donovan wrote to Roosevelt: "Every fortnight approximately 500 to 1200 copies of the Frankfurter Zeitung are likewise sent into Germany where they are mailed to individuals whose addresses appear in the death notices of soldiers who are reported to have died for the fatherland."

The original forgeries are fully catalogued in Michel, and of course are rare and expensive and seldom are offered on the market. A huge amount of detailed info on this amazing propaganda campaign, and the Hitler forgeries and reprints can be found here:

http://www.psywarrior.com/Cornflakes2.html

I bought these mint reprint/forgery Miniature Sheets of 4 stamps over 25 years ago in my first year of stamp dealing, from an old dealer of Jewish background, and have not seen them since until cleaning up this month! I have no idea of their origin, but they are obviously well over 25 years old.

Surely be useful for Judiaca or Germany or USA or forgery collectors? One x fresh imperforate MUH Miniature sheet as shown in photo $A30 or per 5 - $A90

Air post anywhere in the world $A3. (100% at your own risk)

Registered Post anywhere in the world $A10. (Australia $A4)

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Special Offer #19

Australian 1980's Bank Training Notes:

Australia 1980s Bank Training Notes

In the same size and colour as the issued Decimal paper notes! NPA printed on special 1946 silk thread paper.

What a great sideline to any Australian numismatic collection. These notes were printed by Note Printing Australia to allow staff of banks etc to train in counting and handling large sums of cash.

Each is double sided, and printed in the colour and exact SIZE (i.e. all are different sized) of the issued paper banknotes, and each is inscribed along base: "For Training Purposes Only". Best of all, these were printed on a special high security paper held in storage since 1946 when it was intended to be used for a new 5/- note.

This paper has masses of colour silk threads distributed through it as an anti-counterfeit measure. Your can see these beautifully on this scan. That paper is therefore 60 years old - from the reign of King George VI, and was NEVER issued for banknotes, so what a timely opportunity to add these to your collection?

One set of 5 as shown for $A40, or superb re-seller line -

FIVE such sets of 5, with Face Value $A925 - for just $A90

Special Offer #20

Stanley Gibbons World Cats. 4 vol. set in colour - save over $280 off retail!

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There are NO nasty 15% "Buyer's Commissions" or other such outrageous fees added to the price YOU pay when you deal with Glen Stephens. A $1,000 Kangaroo stamp from me costs $1,000 plus shipping. You could bid "$1,000" for the same Kangaroo stamp from an "Auction" house (who in Sydney OFTEN owns the stamp themselves anyway!) and it might cost $1,000 plus 15% "Buyer Fee" plus 10% GST on that $1,150 = the "$1000" stamp is now invoiced at $1,265. All depends on whether possibly saving $265 is important to you I guess.

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