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   *GENUINE* UK MADE HAGNER SHEETS DISCOUNTED! My price is well under 80 cents a sheet !!! This is around HALF usual retail!!!  Buy up .....  I have 1000's here, and as my replacement cost is going up each year, and supply issues are often CHRONIC! 220 sheets - $A200 400 sheets - $A340 600 sheets - $A475 POSTAGE on these is not as bad as you might imagine. Each lot of 220 is pretty heavy - about 6 kilos. I am making this unique fixed price offer for FLAT RATE POSTAGE ... no matter WHERE you live in Victoria, NSW,  and Queensland (except NQ)  -  I will mail these for a flat $A20, plus Reg’d and packing fee. For North Queensland (Zones Q3, Q4) and all Tasmania and South Australia it will be a flat $A25 plus Reg’d Post and packing.   And it will be a flat $30 for anywhere in Northern Territory or Western Australia.  400 or 600 often costs not much more postage than the 220 price shown here.  In some cases 600 (18 kilos) costs EXACTLY the same as one carton of 220!  600 will fit into ONE large box, meaning only ONE postage cost for you.  So buy more than you THINK you need, as you’ll save a ton on postage.  And you WILL use them up! Registered post and the time consuming packing is only a flat $5 extra, whether 220 or 400 or 600 is purchased.  And I CAN send 600 as one shipment, and still be under the PO max weight limit of 20 Kg.  Let me know your postcode.  If you are in a place that rates a high Australia Post 'zone' I'll quote postage, but 99% of readers will not be affected by this. And of course nice stamps are ALWAYS used on MY parcels!  "Win, win" for you – see here - www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=5599   For far more details on the sizes for each strip and more tech info – see www.glenstephens.com/hagner.html

 

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Special Offer #3   TRULY DELUXE LEATHER LOOK BINDERS FOR HAGNER TYPE SHEETS WITH MATCHING SLIPCASES - DIRT CHEAP - JUST $30 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 or Hagners 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 Hagner type 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 sheets quite nicely.  And 400 Hagners will fit perfectly into 10 sets, and likewise 15 sets will house the 600 sheets. The very classy leather look slipcase alone should cost this much!  Seven Seas Stamps sell their garish colour SLIPCASES ALONE 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:   www.glenstephens.com/snmarch09.html   I’ve seen retail elsewhere of over $A50 a set for this kind of quality!     FIVE sets of Deluxe binders AND the 5 matching slipcases for $A175    Or a large carton of 10 sets for just: $A320 Or a HUGE carton of 15 sets for just: $A450 NOTE: - Although these are VERY bulky as you can see – they are LIGHT, so post cost is VERY reasonable.  And of course I use light CTO valuable franking on ALL my parcels!  If you order 5 sets at the SAME TIME as the Hagner sheets special offer above, the extra cost to ship these is generally only about $A10 more to Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane areas!

 

Special Offer #3a COMBINE Hagner sheets AND Deluxe Binders/Slipcases to house them all in, and SAVE another $A40! Order 220 genuine and top quality British made Hagner sheets, in the exact size mix you require, as well as FIVE of the superb black binders/slipcases that will house them perfectly. Instead of paying $A200 and $A175 -  you pay only $A350  plus shipping and save $A25. And remember the shipping is nearly the same cost for the Hagners, if you add the 5 x Slipcases/Binders to the same order in the same carton. Order 400 Hagners of your choice or sizes (normally $A340) and TEN x Deluxe Binders/Slipcase to house them in (normally $320) together for $A625 and save a further $A35!  (Due to weight and volume, these are shipped as two parcels.) Order 600 Hagners of your choice or sizes (normally $A475) and FIFTEEN x Deluxe Binders/Slipcase to house them in (normally $450) together for $A885 and save a further $A40!  (Due to weight and volume these are shipped as two parcels.)

 

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 series $A125! 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/mini 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.   Originals of that one  stamp alone are now selling MUH in auction for $A125,000.00 apiece – the PRC market is RED HOT in 2010 -  www.glenstephens.com/snapril10.html Catalogue value is WAY into double digit 5 figures for these stamps postally used.  (Mint catalogue of course is many times higher still!)  EVERY collector of China or whole world with a printed album,  has all the pages blank for this very scarce era.   Most will readily consider buying these spacefiller attractive reprints than live with blank spaces for eternity in this era in their album.  Even if you sell these at DOUBLE this as a starting price on ebay etc, you’ll do very well.  Bidding might go mad on the scarcer pieces. The Red hot PNC market might see you do sensationally well offering these per set and strip.  Profit margin considerably higher if you buy in bulk - see the figures below.  One client sent these out in APS approval books marked correctly as not genuine, and told me he got back around $500 nett profit for that effort!  He bought more and hopes to repeat that massive return.  I’ve had these books for 10-15 years, and only just found them in a box.  1 album for $A125  - -  5 albums for $A525

 

 

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: (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 !!!!!      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.html 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 $32.50 each.  My 2 carton buy is more than 20% below retail price!  I am selling these ONLY in  Factory cartons of TEN for $A270  Or TWO factory cartons of ten = 20 stockbooks -  for just $A515!  (A80¢ 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 $26 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 #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 - 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. 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: https://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 of these and GB, NZ and PNG Books -  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. SPECIAL - 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 $200 under the Post Office cost! $A765

 

 

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.   https://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.    Cost for the whole deal illustrated above is $A100

 

 

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)   All credit cards and PayPal accepted at no fee whatever to you.   glen@glenstephens.com is my PayPal address   Order on-line :  https://www.glenstephens.com/order.html

 

 

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!   Click HERE for more details

 

 

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