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Save $50 off the *2007* Gibbons British Commonwealth!
BACK IN PRODUCTION DUE TO COLLECTOR DEMAND
 
 
The entire British commonwealth in wonderful COLOUR for the very first time! And now at $65 under retail - brand new edition!   Absolutely HUGE book - 3 kilos or 7 pounds.  Retail $A165.  Massive size - 230 x 290 - 1,200 stamp crammed pages.
 
Listing every stamp from 1840, issued by any country in the Commonwealth.  Australia and States,  Britain, and all other British Commonwealth.  Listed alphabetically A to Z.
 
This massive volume has 10,000s illustrations, and lists countless stamps - all priced both mint and used.  And for the very first time miniature sheets/souvenir sheets are now listed and priced.
 
The ideal catalogue for the general and thematic stamp collector and dealer.  Accepted internationally as the standard work of reference throughout the philatelic world.  SG numbers are a 'fingerprint' EVERY person on earth can follow.  Mauritius SG #29 mint, or Bahamas SG #1473 used, or Aden #217 CTO ............... etc are understood by everyone.
 
Bound in a very durable orange linen-look laminated cover.  Huge book - around the size of a Sydney phone book - true.  And in crisp COLOUR, on crisp white paper. SUCH a change from the dreary yellow paper they used to use with drab washed out grey photos. you'd think you were looking at a totally different book altogether than the one you have now.  
 
It provides the most up to date guide to the current market in Commonwealth stamps available ANYWHERE in a single volume. An essential reference work for collectors AND dealers.

Whether you are a dealer or collector, if you have not purchased a B/Cwth catalogue in recent years, NOW is the time at this scoop price.  As once sold out, you will not see these again.  My last 3 special price offers on SG Cats of various types all sold out FAST.  They are gone forever now.  You will not need to update this set for 10 years, so you are paying just $10 a year for a colour catalogue.

Yes imported Catalogues are pricey, as they come from Britain, and are expensive even there, are sold in strong £ Sterling, and shipping to Australia on this weight is absolutely horrific as you can imagine.
 
I just made a bulk purchase from the agent, and UNTIL SOLD OUT can offer these sets at $50 off the usual retail price of $165.  These are the *CURRENT* 2007 edition.
 
$A115 until sold out!
 
This book weighs about 3 kilos (=7 pounds) packed.  That is SOME serious catalogue!  Postage is not too bad.  About $15 Regd mail to most places in Vic or Qld, and only $10 to pretty well anywhere in NSW.  And I use useful, light cancelled stamps as you all know, so the post cost is no big deal.   And buy the EUROPE Below with it, and extra post in negligible.
 
 
  

 

 
 
 
NEW!! GIBBONS WESTERN EUROPE IN ONE VOLUME

By Popular demand - saves buying ten different sectional catalogues!  TO CLEAR AT NEAR HALF RETAIL!!

Published June 2005. first edition - not reprinted yet.  This all new catalogue is extracted from the 2005 edition of Stamps of the World Countries listed include all of Scandinavia, Germany - all types and zones,  Austria, France, Holland  Switzerland, Italy and all points west, including Great Britain, Ireland even Gibraltar and Malta.

Gibbons used to make you buy these is about 10 DIFFERENT Europe sectional catalogues to cover this lot at ~$60 each, and all were dreary black and white.

The vast majority of illustrations are in full colour and the catalogue includes prices for miniature sheets throughout.  The Western Europe Simplified catalogue follows the traditional Stamps of the World style, with a straightforward priced listing of every stamp issued from 1840 onwards with detailed descriptions for thematic collectors.

Bound in a very durable linen-look laminated cover.  Huge book - around the size of a Sydney phone book - true.  And in crisp COLOUR, on crisp white paper. SUCH a change from the dreary yellow paper they used to use with drab washed out grey photos. you'd think you were looking at a totally different book altogether than the one you have now.  
 
This book weighs about 2 kilos (= 4 pounds) packed.  That is SOME serious catalogue!   230 x 290 mm, and over 700 huge color pages.  Postage is not too bad.  About $15 Reg'd mail to most places in Vic or Qld, and only $10 to pretty well anywhere in NSW.  And I use useful, light cancelled stamps as you all know, so the post cost is no big deal.   And buy the COMMONWEALTH one above, and extra post is negligible.
 
I just made a bulk purchase of the agent overstock, to clear his warehouse, and UNTIL SOLD OUT can offer these sets at $50 off the usual retail price of $A115 for this book.   That is ABOUT HALF USUAL PRICE.   These are the one and only 2004 edition, so if you can trade-off missing a couple of years of new issues, you save half the price!  That is an easy decision for most collectors I am sure.
 
$A65 each until sold out!
(Or for ebay re-sellers etc, 5 for $250)
 
 
 
Or buy the both for just $155 ... and save another $25!  Postage is around the same $$ figure, whether you buy just one or both!!
Save $100!
 

 

 
Save $280 off the Stanley Gibbons World Catalogue set!
 
 
The entire world in wonderful COLOUR for the very first time! And now at UNDER HALF retail price!
 
Four huge volumes, listing every stamp from 1840, issued by any country in the world.  Australia, Britain, USA, British Commonwealth and all foreign countries.  Listed alphabetically A to Z.
 
This massive 4 huge volume set has near 100,000 illustrations, and this lists close to 500,000 stamps - all priced both mint and used.  And for the first time many miniature sheets/souvenir sheets are now listed and priced.
 
The ideal catalogue for the general and thematic stamp collector and dealer.  Accepted internationally as the standard work of reference throughout the philatelic world.  SG numbers are a 'fingerprint' EVERY person on earth can follow.  Morocco SG #29 mint, or Bolivia SG #1473 used, or Aden #217 CTO ............... etc are understood by everyone.
 
Each volume bound in a very durable orange linen-look laminated cover.  Huge books - each around the size of a Sydney phone book - true.  And in crisp COLOUR, on crisp white paper. SUCH a change from the dreary yellow paper they used to use with drab washed out grey photos. you'd think you were looking at a totally different book altogether than the one you have now.  
 
Whether you are a dealer or collector, if you have not purchased a set of catalogues in recent years, NOW is the time at this scoop price.  As once sold out, you will not see these again.  My last 3 special price offers on SG Cats of various types all sold out FAST.  They are gone forever now.  You will not need to update this set for 10 years, so you are paying just $25 a year for colour catalogues.
 
Yes imported Catalogues are pricey, as they come from Britain, and are expensive even there, are sold in strong £ Sterling, and shipping to Australia on this weight is absolutely horrific as you can imagine.
 
I just made a bulk purchase of the agent overstock, to clear his warehouse, and UNTIL SOLD OUT can offer these sets at $280 off the usual retail price of $A530 the set of current set.   That is UNDER HALF PRICE.  These are the 2004 edition, so if you can trade-off missing a couple of years of new issues, you save $280!  That is an easy decision for most collectors I am sure.
 
$A250 the LOT!
 
This set weights about 12 kilos (=26 pounds) packed.  That is SOME serious set of catalogues!  Postage is not too bad.  About $15-20 to most places in Vic or Qld, and only $10 to pretty well anywhere in NSW.  And I use useful, light cancelled stamps as you all know, so the post cost is no big deal.  
 
 
 
     

 

 

 



 

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.

Recommended Retail in Australia for these is $1.60 each sheet.  They come in packs of 10 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.

These are BEST quality German made.   I will not even go into the "quality" of a local Aussie copycat.   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 near 50 years since these style stock sheets 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.

 

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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

DELUXE HAGNER BINDERS DIRT CHEAP:   Superb big black real "leather look" jumbo thickness, with matching black heavy duty slipcase.  The slipcase alone should cost this much!  Official Renniks brand  - the Australian Hagner Agents.  Retail $A45 a set!   5 sets for $A135,  or a giant carton 12 for: $A290

 

 

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:  https://www.glenstephens.com/overprints.html

 

Finally -  all the 1994 "Emergency" sets I sell are of course guaranteed 100% genuine.  You may ask for a Photo Certificate Of Genuineness on my security watermarked colour letterhead for this set of 11 or 20, dated and signed, illustrating in full colour the exact set I mail you. If required, this CERTIFICATE costs you an extra $A45 on top of price of the stamps, largely to cover the considerable time and messing around of individually preparing each one, typing, and scanning &c.  This is Substantially cheaper than sending it to the R.P.S. in London etc,  which takes half a year to get back, and also incurs substantial Registered airmail cost to you - in both directions.   And quite frankly, the RPS would not have a clue about these issues.  'Too Modern' they would sniff.   Years down the track when the set sells for several times what it does now, such a certificate Guaranteeing these came from original PNG sources in 1994/5 will add FAR more than $A45 to the extra price you obtain when selling.  


 

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

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 $500 face value for $400!
 
You save a cool $100.  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 PO 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 $100 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 $100 and buy off me! 
 
For instance right now I can sell you $500 face value for $400!


 

 

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: (https://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 !!!!!   



 

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.  This new Deluxe line has CLASSY looking covers front and back - like 'marbled' leather I suppose you'd call it.  SO much classier than the solid colours they have used for the past 30 years!  A lovely mix of cover colours per carton.   Top quality West German made books.  The BEST!  Surely your stamps DESERVE the best .... and at HALF the usual storage costs .. why ever not?!

 

These 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 20 years have CLEAR strips, as the cost to make them is high.  Strong LINEN HINGED pages both sides for very long wear and DOUBLE interleaving to protect all your stamps - and stopping the cheaper single interleave pages from tangling and crumpling up - which they ALWAYS do!   

 

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

 

Or TWO factory cartons of 10 - 20 stockbooks -  for just $A450!  (A70¢ 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 "real" shipping cost is often basically zero to you.  POSTAGE ON 2 BOXES is exactly the SAME as 1 box within Sydney!  Indeed, ANYWHERE within Sydney Metro/Central Coast/Newcastle/Wollongong costs the SAME for 1 or 2 boxes i.e. $A10 Registered post and packing in total.  To Melbourne or Brisbane 2 boxes costs only $A5 more in total for mailing cost.  True!  At Aust.70c a page getting 2 boxes is a deal you cannot not seriously consider.  Your page cost is way less.  And shipping costs nothing to only $5 extra on the entire order!   In nearly all of Australia heavy parcels are delivered to your door by an Australia Post parcels contractor - i.e. no lifting for you!

 

That is 320 pages of quality low acid, black page storage for only Aust.75¢ a page.  (Only Aust.70¢ a page for the 2 box buy!)  A British made HAGNER sheet is R.R.P. $1.55 each these days - with no binder of course!  So you are getting classy German made 'Lighthouse' stockbooks for in effect UNDER HALF the price per page of 32 Hagner sheets - which have no binder!  (And which are nowhere near as classy or permanent a storage medium as a Lighthouse stockbook of course.)

 

Order fast before these are sold out.  My next shipment will cost me more - sad but true, as wholesale price has increased.  Yes, with the very strong Euro, and weakening $A, my replacement cost WILL be higher if I need to re-order.  Band together with a friend and share them 5 each, or order via your stamp club etc.  One client has ordered TEN cartons (100!) of these off me in the few months since I have ran this special.  As I point out above, the postage cost for TWO cartons is often the same in $$s as ONE carton!  A strange Australia Post quirk, but true.   A huge carton delivered registered post right to your front door for $10 seems nuts.     

 

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 $20 a new stockbook to put your $1,000s of stamps into a brand new clean book makes superb sense.  A pizza costs more than this.  Foxing on the STAMPS will lose you half their value.  Once mould starts on the stockbook pages, that toning/foxing/rust spreads like a cancer to the other pages and to the stamps inside.  Like fruit in your fruit bowl at home .... one piece of fruit gets mould and the entire bowl has it within 24 hours.  Stamps are no different.  It spreads fast.  AND your old stockbooks are bound to have the VERY old fashioned cloudy GLASSINE strips, so you can't see your stamps clearly anyway!  Another good reason to replace them all NOW at this great price!

 

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.    

 

seperator 


 

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 #13

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. 

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 #14

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 #15

                                                                       The Scarcest Australian Decimal
                                                                       Regular Issue! The "
Australia 99"
                                                                       Fully IMPERFORATE Navigator
                                                                                         Mini-Sheets!

Fifty (50) sets for $A1000 -- Superb Post Office fresh MUH...

Save $A350 Right THERE!!! That is HALF current Australian retail per set and one third the USA retail price.

Scott (retail) 2002 cat price is $US1,600 (=$A2,650)

For the detailed story on these sheets and the surprising letter
from Australia Post about the numbers issued . . .

Click here for the letter:

www.GlenStephens.com/letter.html

And click here for the detailed story of WHY they are so rare:

www.GlenStephens.com/A99imperfs.html

These are the sheets being sold:

(With normal perforated sheet shown at the bottom):

 

  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 these received the "A99" perfin. 

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

They are well catalogued in all international stamp catalogues.  See the official letter from Australia Post on these - https://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.

To see a larger image, click here.

                                     

Fully IMPERFORATE Navigator Mini-Sheets: 
The big surprise of the show. Produced so that you could take them and have hand created “A99” perfins punched in.
NOT on sale at Post Offices around the country, only by mail order, and even then they sold out in weeks after show. WELL worth stocking away a handful - they ARE  catalogued and have album page provision in EVERY leading album in the world.  

 Official PO figures just released indicate only about 20,000 sets exist and if so this will be 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 $US32 ($A55) a pair.  Gibbons catalogue price has skyrocketed this year as well.  My price is - Set of 2: $A40 10 sets 2 m/s MUH: $A325. 25 sets: $A725or this month's super web special 50 sets $A1000 = around $US600! 
 


 

Special Offer #16

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 #17

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

  

 

The standard FDC.  Sailed cover offer above uses a similar envelope, and same stamps, but is festooned both sides with colourful handstamps,  signatures (5) and are all individually numbered


 

Special Offer #18

     
   

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Special Australia Post '2000 Olympic Gold Medal Winners' Album:

 
 

(Missed by MOST collectors!)
 

 

                      
Australian athletes won 16 Gold Medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Australia issued a special decorative sheetlet of
  45c - Ian Thorpe- winning the Men's Swimming 400m Freestyle

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 $A120

 
 

 
 

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 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 and a few CTO 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 #19

 

#19. Adolf Hitler ‘FUTSCHES REICH’ (Ruined Empire)12pf red  Propaganda forgery M/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 originals are fully catalogued in Michel, and of course are rare and expensive.  A huge amount of detailed info on this amazing propaganda campaign can be found here:
 
 
I bought these S/S 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 origin, but they are at least 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
 

 


 

Special Offer #20

Australia. 1980s Bank Training Notes: Set of FIVE-$5 - $100 in same size + colour

    Australia 1980s Bank Training Notes
        

As the issued paper notes!  NPA  printed on special silk thread paper.

 
What a great sideline to any Australian 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 59 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, Face Value $A925. $A90 

 


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