Glen Stephens latest Philatelic Info newsletter, GOSSIP & Postage Stamp super specials.
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STAMP KNOWLEDGE TIME - Would you buy this for $2,500 if you saw it in a dealer box, or in an ad etc - http://tinyurl.com/qeah29k etc?
And THIS stamp item is worth about $US600 BILLON a kilo - http://tinyurl.com/mf9afrx - someone will own it in 2 weeks. Why? - read the link below.
Want to buy something for a modest sum at your Post Office that might soon be selling for 10 times that figure? Well grab some of these - http://tinyurl.com/mdsybrs - I got a few today from a large PO near me, and many PO’s have them in stock as I type this. If you do NOT have one they are $50 now from me, and $200 soon, history assures us.
Have you ever seen stamp jewellery that is worth $250,000? Well you can own this strange piece - http://tinyurl.com/leym5md if you are fast.
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Make a LARGE cup of Hot coffee (or grab a cold beer!) and take a read of this email over the weekend. By all means click “Forward” and pass it on to your stamp friends. Or send them this link - www.tinyurl.com/GlenList - this is absolutely one of the few FREE things for collectors globally these days!
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And also NO nasty 24% “Buyer Fee” etc, added on top of the 3% credit card charge, like one Australian stamp auction now does. That is 27% extra.
A $1,000 stamp from me costs $1,000 – not $1,270 with credit card fee, for which I charge ZERO extra = Amazing how many buyers of better stamps overlook that. $270 is not chicken feed to most of us.
STOP PRESS – NEW SG “New Zealand Cat *JUST* Arrived Air Freight ex UK today. 150+ colour pages. NZ and all Dependencies. 1st Edition for YEARS! $A55 plus post, which is not high. Stock code 482GY.
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MUCH *BRAND NEW* RARITY STUFF JUST ADDED BELOW – ARE ALL IN STOCK NOW – THE NEXT 10-20 LOTS NOT EVEN YET LOADED TO RARITY PAGE BY WEBMASTER. CHECK RARITY PAGE SOON TO SEE PIX! FIRST ORDER FORM IN SECURES THESE. MUCH SELLS IN HOURS OF BEING LISTED THESE DAYS.
1913 First Watermark £2 Kangaroo, Cat $8,000 for $1,000: The “Big Daddy” of all the ozzie stamps. Missing from 99.9% of collections as even a nice ‘Specimen’ overprint is 4 figures. Superb looking stamp actually with a neat central repair. That aside it would be $5,000. Has the constant ACSC Variety 55(d)v, “Coast Break in Gulf Of Carpentaria” Cat $8,000 used. Excellent perfs and centering and colour, and neat upright “LISMORE - 6 FE 1919 – NSW” cds. (The Third Watermark £2 was not issued until December 1919.) Clean and attractive stamp - will look better than most other stamps on your page I can guarantee. Bought at a good price in large Townsville Estate, so out it goes at $A1,000 (Stock 714EX)
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KGV 1932 CofA “OS” INVERTED WMK – CAT $2,000 - $A385: One of the KGV watermark rarities – only a few recorded. Off centred as most are – frugal Scotsman John Ash directed that all poor looking off centred sheets be set aside for official overprints as “they got them free”. Clean and fresh, and totally fresh of hinges and gunk so inverted watermark shows up perfectly. SG 0129w. ACSC 82(OS)A $2,000 - way back in 2007. New ACSC due out very soon and this doubtless will be listed far higher, so get in NOW! If it goes to say $3000, you are paying about 13% cat! Bought well to sell FAST - $A385 (Order as stock code 712XD)
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Kangaroo 1913 10/- Grey and Pink Perf “Large OS”: A pretty stamp, and about 25 years since I have owned a mint one. Only a very small number were perfinned, as Federal Government demand for this super high value was extremely minimal – maybe as low as one sheet, for use in Melbourne on request. (Even used are near never seen – their cat is near mint). The 5/- values were mostly used on parcels and you do see those around. SG #013 £4,250 and ACSC 47b $7,500. Nice looks, with no usual ripped out perfs for 1913 Roos, and has a “Clipped Tail Roo” for the variety chasers!
The Arthur Grey hinged example, Lot 315 was invoiced for $A5,250 – SEVEN years back. The massive $A2½m Stuart Hardy Kangaroo sale did not possess a single copy of this stamp - about the only SG listed item he was missing. Fresh MVLH ... no hinge remains even, and flat and clean with BRIGHT vivid colour. Over a Century old, and as clean and attractive as you will see - maybe ONE mint or used a year is offered on the market here, and they sell strongly. $A4,750 (Order as stock number 549WA)
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Victoria 1897 Mega Hi-Vals £25 + £50 + £100 - Superb CTO: One of the legendary stamp trios – about the highest face value from the British Commonwealth. HUGE stamps. SG 289/291 Cat £1,650 = $A3,300 as CTO. No Postally used or mint exist of any value except 1 x £100 supposedly in private hands, although they were fully valid for postage until mid-1901, under the Commonwealth arrangements, hence the full SG listing. This is the only practical way for anyone to secure this trio. If you collect by SG you MUST have these. Been 25 years since I had a full set to offer.
As a valid example, a 1922 Kenya/Uganda £100 KGV top value was recently sold at auction for $A313,000 - detail here - tinyurl.com/mo58qlo so this $A1,650 price is crazy low, and WILL go up in SG, mark my words. Clean and fresh, and free of the usual thins and creases and many missing perfs these massive stamps generally attract. Matched Melbourne CTO cancels - “Melbourne Nov 20 – 1900.” Delightful looking trio, hard to improve on in appearance, at HALF the SG price - $A1,650 (Stock code 316EN)
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Australia 1971 Xmas COMPLETE sheet of 100 - $A325: In the early 1980s, this sheet cost MORE than a nice mint £1 Brown and Blue Kangaroo - I kid you not! I (and other dealers) used to get $350 a “Block of 25” for these in the early 80s - or $1,400 a full sheet of 100, and that was the BEST price anyone would pay for a £1 Bi-Colour Roo .. look up the catalogue or magazines of the era. Indeed the Roo was buyable for much less than $1,400. TODAY the Roo is $4,000 - and this sheet is $325! SHEETS were never plentiful, as this cost a lot of money then - be like buying a sheet of 100 x 70c stamps today at $70. WELL CENTRED, Clean and fresh MUH …. central gutter filing fold as they were supplied to PO’s. Been in UK most of its life, so nice and fresh. A BARGAIN – buy a SHEET at what a Block 25 used to cost! $A325 (Order as stock code 672GQ)
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Kangaroo £1 Grey on neat parcel fragment: What a great looking piece. On stout card from a heavy parcel. Neat central “SHIP MAIL ROOM - MELBOURNE - 27 OC 35” cds. Along with a 1935 SA Centenary top value - also highly rated on piece, and a KGV 1d head. The £1 is FU – the SW corner is fine, has speck of cancel ink on it. The ACSC values all high values Roos on parcel label, or parcel fragment, as covers do not exist. The £1 Grey is ACSC 54, Cat $4,000 thus, for the £1 alone. Back 80 years back these were near all soaked off piece, as that was the ‘fashion’, hence few survive. The first one I have owned for many years. Lovely corner cancel, and most attractive. (Crease on the no account 1d value) A very poorly centred, heavy cancelled 5/- CofA, a cheap stamp, was invoiced $A1,050 by Phoenix last month on a parcel label. On piece is red hot at present. $A950 (Order as stock code 245KT)
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Australia Kangaroo stamp, 1932 6d CofA, John Ash Imprint Block 4 “N over A”: ACSC 23[2]z cat $800 for MUH. From the "Townsville Hoard" I bought down. Has not been on the market for about 82 years, since it was bought as a New Issue from PO. The CofA watermark is remarkably scarce in imprint compared to the 2 earlier watermarks. Issued in the Great Depression and no-one had spare money for stamps it seems. Quite attractive facially, and light hinged in top central gutter, and bought cheap to sell cheap at - $A225 (Stock number 291EX)
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Complete IMPERF sheet 10 of $5 “Treasures Of The Archives”: Features the NSW 1888 20/- (£1) "Carrington" the highest face value postage stamp ever issued by New South Wales. It was replaced by the 1913 £1 Brown and Blue Kangaroo first watermark. Stamp is MASSIVE - 105 x 70 mm. (About 4½" x 3"!) Literally the size of many modern Mini Sheets. The sheet of 10 is about the same size as a regular sheet of 100.
Just 500 of these sheets were issued IMPERFORATE by Australia Post. I bought one back from an Estate today – superb MUH and in the special hard card storage envelope. Buy it at HALF his cost price at $875. Each huge imperf costs you $87 each – you could double your money offering on Ebay etc I feel sure. $A875 (Order as stock number 852LG)
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Switzerland 1945 “PAX” High Value 5FR, in Superb U Block 4, under ¼ SG!: Attractive clean used block 4, on the silk thread fibre “Granite” high security paper, with central “ZURICH 15 V 46” cds. Europe’s most expensive post war stamp I think, and in a postally used BLOCK is an absolute gem! SG 458 £1,800 = $A3,500 in latest 2014 SG cat. Was used on a heavy parcel to Australia. Had lower margin on when I got it, but that was a little wrinkled from parcel transit so I removed it, but that is added to stockcard in case you want to hinge it back on! USED Blocks in Swiss stamps are super keenly sought, and often vast premiums are paid for them over 4 singles. Bought well, so to clear at under a QUARTER SG cat, of 4 singles! $A800 (Stock code 173EX)
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1979 National Parks 20c Waterfalls IMPERFORATE: 20c Girrawheen National Park Qld, in se-tenant strip of 4 from the left of the sheet, and major error, wide Imperforate at Left. ACSC 842b, cat $A2,000 - back 12 years back, and clearly far higher today. ACSC states 10 examples were recorded from left side of PO sheet. Fresh MUH, Cat $A2,000 - bought well so out it goes - $A850 (Stock code 173EX)
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Superb Australia Decimal stamp coll 1966-2008, in 3 x ‘Seven Seas’ albums, Ret $4,750 for $1,500: 3 packed out blue albums with matching slipcases, of Australia MUH on Seven Seas pages 1966 to 2008 - total face $A1,510. Good condition - DOZENS of pages of the contents pictured here – www.tinyurl.com/mzs84uk - face values to $20, and heaps of mini sheets and gutter pairs and peel and stick sets etc. UNDER ONE THIRD OF ACTUAL RETAIL. Nearly 100% complete - Must be 1000s of different stamps. Bought today in an Estate cheap, so out it goes at an INSANE price! $A1,500 (Order as stock code 459ZC)
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Nauru 1924/48 Ships/Freighter stamp set fresh bright unused $A150: Bright fresh unused no gum, SG SG26B/39B £180 mint, or £225 used! Very goods perfs for these …. the very coarse blotting like paper these were printed on often sees ripped out perfs and thins. And foxing on these is really common. $A150 (Stock code 728LE)
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New Zealand 1940 *£1,000* Pink and Black “ARMS” Superb Used: What a delightful piece. Clean and fresh, foxing free, and “unrubbed”. NOT punched, embossed or pen or crayon cancelled as any others I have seen are - the auditors were savage on values over £100 of course. A GEM .. the highest face value of the entire KGVI British Commonwealth I understand. The “Arms” are a super popular series globally, and this is your chance to add something special to your pages! $A350 (Stock number 293ED)
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Victoria 1900 Boer War Charity pair – fresh well centred, unused: Seldom seen items, as the number printed and sold was tiny. Indeed Kellow’s “Victoria” Handbook indicates sales were very poor due to the huge 3/- cost for only 3d of franking value, and only ~4500 sets were sold. Clean and fresh unused, with excellent perfs and centering for these. No thins, foxing or creases, so usually found on these massive issues. SG 374/5 Cat £390 mint = $A750. Juzwin retail $375 either mint or used. Always keenly sought after by Military collectors as this is the PREMIERE “Victoria Cross” stamp globally. $A275 (Order as stock number 214RZ)
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Leeward Island 1938 £1 KGVI perf 14 – attractive MVLH: Lovely bright fresh MVLH .. only a trace of a hinge mark. This KGVI ‘Keyplate’ issue is super popular worldwide. Deep vibrant original colour, and most important “Unrubbed” on face – these chalky face stamps can get terribly knocked around if handled too often. Been in the one collection I bought, since New Issue date I suspect . SG 114 £375 = $A700. $A275 - (Order as stock number (914EW)
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Great Britain 1840 "2d Steel Blue" - FU example: SG £1,900 for $A400: A nice looking stamp in this distinctive and fully SG catalogued shade. Free of all back faults. It is 174 years old now, and vast numbers have been repaired and tampered with in that time. Clean and fresh. Bright colour, and razor-sharp impression as you can see. Totally free of the thins, creases, old hinges, and toning that be-devil this issue. ’The World's First Stamp’ issued on same day as 1d Black, and sourcing a nice one from day #1 is wise.
Even a 1 or 2 margin roughie these days in the common shades can cost you $200. This has near 4 margins – just into at SW corner. Lettered "S.I." with lovely light black Maltese Cross cancel as you can see. Clean and flat – watermark shows perfectly. Every collector wants a "Penny Black" and “Two Penny Blue” on the frontispiece page of their album, no matter what country they collect – if your initials are “S.I.” - even better! SG Spec D1(5) Cat £1,900 = $A3,500. Bought well, to sell FAST! $A400 (Order as stock code 428LW)
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Marshall Island 1901 “Yachts” High Values VFU: 1 Mark, 2 Mark and 5 Marks top values. These were the high value Kangaroos of the Region. Always popular, and seldom seen or offered. Always popular with New Guinea, Nauru and Germany collectors, and SHIP/Maritime Topical collectors. Clean and fresh with no thins, tears, foxing, creases or perf issues as often found on this sort fibrous paper. Scott #22/24. Michel 22/24 Euro 480. SG G20/22 £525 = $A1000. All with clear dated “NAURU – MARSHALL INSELN” cds cancels. All expertised on reverse. Bought cheap, to sell cheap! $A275 (Stock code 728ED)
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1945 6d blue Canberra War Memorial “Savings Certificate Stamp”: Depicts the War Memorial, and Mt. Ainslie in Canberra. An attractive stamp, and was on the then current postage stamp CofA watermarked security paper, with the same 14½ perforation and ‘By Authority’ marginal imprint of the definitive stamp issues.
There seemed little interest in immediate post war Australia in these Saving Certificates, and few of these stamps appear to have been purchased or used. In 35 years as a dealer I have never before owned even a single example. For years they would change hands for about $A500 when singles occasionally showed up – often with no gum and poorly centred - see discussion here - www.tinyurl.com/lht4n22 where Simon Dunkerely sold a no gum one on ebay for $A500. Huge pic of my stamp here - http://tinyurl.com/mes7dyd
A recent Public Auction by Phoenix smashed that price point! The “Authority” imprint block shown nearby was publicly auctioned. On a pretty measly estimate of $200, the hinged/unhinged block 4 in link above, was invoiced for an absolutely astounding $A3,200. You can source an imprint block of 4 of the CofA watermark 5/- Kangaroo for that kind of money! Buy this clean fresh well centred unused example of this rare issue for just $A375 (Order as stock code 291JD)
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Tasmania 1855 2d Deep Green Queen Victoria Chalon Head: Most attractive example. 3½ margins, strong vivid colour, razor sharp plate impression, and wonderful face free cancel. 105% guaranteed in writing by me to be TOTALLY free of the faults that are on near all these 160 year old imperforate stamps. NO thins, tears, creases, repairs or foxing. GUARANTEED! SG 15 £500 = $A1,000. $A275 (Order as stock code 724EJ)
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“NAURU” overprint on 1916 2/6 Seahorse fine *MUH* original gum: These are near 100 years old, and were issued in the midst of WWI. Almost NONE exist in genuine MUH condition, as it was a lot of money so buyer got out their largest yellowest stamp hinge, licked it extra well and placed the stamp in place for KEEPS! Fast Forward 100 years, and collectors now all have hingeless albums and all want “*MUH* for them. So like 1913 Kangaroos MUH is 4 times hinged, as it should be. Attractive stamp. $A200 (Order as stock code 392XR)
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USA 1974 10c Kentucky Settlement, error "Dull Black colour omitted": Scott 1542a, SG 1540a, fresh unmounted mint MUH. Perfectly centred as you can see, and with well centred normal stamp for comparison. Fort Harrod - Kentucky Settlement Centenary 1874. Scott Cat US$700 or SG £650=$A1,300. Very striking error and seldom offered - see large pic here - http://tinyurl.com/ls5aotd $A375 (Order as stock code 932LW)
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GB 1854 6d Purple Embossed, Cat £1000 - just $A300: As close to 4 margins as you will get. 3 are wide, and as you can see the top margin has part of adjoining unit showing. The Embossed stamps were hand impressed/crimped, one at a time, onto thick sheets of paper. So units often touched as occurred at top here, or even overlapped as we see readily on the few multiples that survive. Clean and fresh, no thins or foxing or creases, and good embossing. Small margin split at SE, way clear of design. Cat £1000 = $A2000. Incredibly light cancel for these, being “340” of Harwich, a Cross-Channel port in Essex. $A300 - (Order as stock number 814GR)
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GB 1948 Silver Wedding set on fresh REGISTERED FDC: Incredibly clean and most attractive. Very high cat - SG £425 - and many on the market are forged - using a mint set on an old envelope, and backdating an old handstamp etc. Buying these REGISTERED is the only sensible way around that, and not many exist thus. Crisp steel strikes of “Rotherfield - Tunbridge Wells 26 AP 48” showing FDI date perfectly. Amazingly clean for 66 years old – as if mailed yesterday - $A300 (Order as stock number 634LR)
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KGV £1 Banknote Riddle-Sheehan, attractive collector grade: From the “Townsville Hoard” I flew up and bought back recently. On a leading note dealer card noted as “VF - $800” that I’d personally not grade it at, but banknotes are not my big thing! If I had to guess I’d go for the mid-grade area F-VF, but these things are pretty arbitrary – it might be VF for issue, have no idea. I am quite conservative on notes and coins, rather than err on the high side, and buy notes on the very low side so I can’t get caught! Luckily I buy a lot of Estates, like this one was part of.
Clean and quite fresh and quite attractive as you can see, sharp corners - very acceptable for 81 years old. (As a reference point, the lower to mid “VF”’ grade is McDonald $725, $2,100 for “EF” $3,850 for "aUnc" and $7,000 for "Unc". Anyway it is now mine, and I’ll take $A275 for it. I auction nothing, and far prefer quick turnover for guaranteed profits! And YOU save the 20%-25% “Buyer Fee” rip-offs. $A275 (Order as stock number 836JE) – pic - http://i.imgur.com/BfOjH39.jpg
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Switzerland 1936 “Pro Patria” Miniature Sheet - Superb Used: Fresh and clean and flat, with well centred stamp impressions. Being large size, these often have creases or thins, or bent corners etc. Clean and fresh. “LUXUS”. Michel Bloch #2 - 260 Euro, and SG 367 £300 = $A600. $A165 (Order as stock number 241LE) – pic - http://i.imgur.com/w2bsC2X.jpg
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1967 “Commonwealth of Australia” Banknote, $1 scarce Coombs-Randall Signature: The first issue 1966 Coombs Wilson was heavily bought as the “First” of our Decimal notes. This signature change the next year was ignored by near all, and has always been very expensive, especially in high grade like this. On dealer card marked “aUnc $500”. Nice looking original note with razor sharp corners, Renniks R72, $650 as aUnc. Bought cheap to sell cheap - so out it goes at just - $A300 (Order as stock number 612XD) – pic - http://i.imgur.com/iqbeOJD.jpg
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Kangaroo 1915 Second Watermark *UNIQUE* trio on parcel piece use: 2d, 1/- and 2/- used on portion of bright red PO "WESTERN AUSTRALIA / INTERSTATE PARCEL POST" label, tied by crisp "Post Restante - Perth 13 Oc:15 - Western Australia" cds. A most attractive 5 colour exhibition piece. Neither the 1/- or the 2/- 2nd Wmk was recorded or catalogued on label or tag or cover in last ACSC. This is the ‘discovery piece’ that allowed new listing and pricing. (2d is cat $400 on parcel label - this copy has a portion of the interpanneau gutter piece.)
The 1/- is now Cat $2,000, and the 2/- is ACSC cat $6,000. In very good shape for franking off a heavy commercial parcel near 100 years back. A most important and attractive new discovery – until I found it 10 years back, never seen by collectors for 90 years as found in a non Roo collector's estate. The market for high value Roos used on parcel fragments or parcel tags has been exploding in recent times since the ACSC has catalogued that use, instead of just "on cover" which for most Roo high values is simply not recorded. A strikingly attractive and UNIQUE Kangaroo classic, to tuck away for those who appreciate quality and rarity - one of my VERY favourite Kangaroo pieces: $A2,500 (Order as stock number 582FL) Pic = http://i.imgur.com/GKkH3Tm.jpg
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1915 9d Second Watermark Kangaroo *Watermark Inverted* - Cat $5000 for $1750: One of the great rarities of the pre-war inverts, and most importantly, always has been recognised as such in Catalogues. Way back in pre-decimal 1965 when inverts were not of interest to anyone much really, this stamp in ACSC was still cat THREE times a normal used £1 Brown and Blue Kangaroo. (Today those are $2,500 each!) With the incredible boom in Roo INVERT prices, relative to everything else pre-war, this should now be a $20,000 stamp at least.
In fact for many decades this 9d second watermark was always regarded much more highly, and priced far more highly, than the inverted 6d blue of the same watermark - now cat ACSC $50,000. The same 1965 ACSC I looked at (issued 50 years after these stamps were off sale) has the 9d second watermark prices used at 50% MORE than its 6d cousin. This is now 100 years old and the relative scarcity has long been established.
Even my dog-eared 1979 ACSC has the 6d at $175 and this 9d at $550 - priced over 3 times higher. Logically, using historical relativity, this 9d stamp should be worth $50,000 of the 6d, plus 300% = $A150,000. Only a few used are known, and ACSC says fully half of those are non postal cancelled. The known postal used copies all have Queensland cds postmarks of April or May 1917 - as does this, a neat "Cairns - 26 AP:17". Cat $5,000 for $1,750: Stock 489EK
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North Borneo 1888/1892 $1 Scarlet high value IMPERF PAIR: Very striking looking imperforate pair of this popular Coat Of Arms high value. Fresh clean unused, with bright colour and huge margins all sides. No thins, tears, creases, foxing or hinge remains so common on these – now 126 years old. SG 42a £425 = $A850. $A275 (Order as stock number 782KT)
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Papua 1935 First Flight cover flown Police Camp Oroville to Daru: Franked with 3d Air Plane overprint, tied by the bold signature of the officer in the police camp “Cecil Cowley” in lieu of a cds cancel! Also pilot signed by “S Campbell”, and a type-written, and Crowley signed endorsement on the reverse, with arrival backstamp, Eustis AAMC #P95 which notes only a few were pilot signed like this one. Cat $375 for very cheapest pilot unsigned type. Amazingly good condition for a fragile paper Papua FFC from 79 years back – they mostly are badly foxed etc - $A325 (Order as stock number 825JW) - Pic - http://i.imgur.com/1Kt5y4Q.jpg
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Australia 1990s PO packs x 410, PO cost $1,350+ - $A950: Most have 4-5 copies present - SUPERB for eBay sellers or on-line retailers. Amazing lot of the Hot 1990s era. Dealers call this the "Liquid Gold" era and most retail for 2 or 3 times FACE value. 1980s are around in bulk due to the 80s 'stamp boom'. But with the MEGA high value $20 Glover Painting stamp issued in 1990, (near 25 years back) masses of folks quit buying as $20 back then was about $40-$50 in today's spending power. A HEAP of extra pix are here - www.tinyurl.com/pgd8z75
So 1990 was a HUGE line in the sand for a vast number of collectors. They stopped buying cold. Few collectors buying, and almost no dealers is a sure-fire recipe for a shortage. This chap was buying 4 or 5 of each pack to put aside for the Grandchildren as a surprise when they turned 18 or 21 it seems. However he passed away before that time occurred, and the wife sold it all to me.
All nearly packed into a box, for easy shipping and storage. Spans entirely the VERY saleable 1990 to 2000 decade it appears. We have well over 400 packs here, and after hours of adding up, the FACE value gets to over $A1,200. Each pack cost 40c each from PO over face, so his purchase cost ex PO was over $1,360. Bought well, so priced to clear at just $950! A SCREAMING bargain for someone.
Superb for ebay sellers as these get GREAT prices there - if you have 4 of a pack, you scan it once, add them on Free Listing days, and away you go. High catalogue for this era and HIGH retail. The Seven Seas ASC cat has a MINIMUM Cat value of 2 times face for this era and often 5 or 10 times face. 15 or 20 times for some. AVERAGE as you can see would even out at about 3 times face across the board.
Noted 6 of the scarce and large 1992 CPS Animal pack - retail $30 EACH, but low face etc. All the red-top topicals and thematics are here - nothing removed by me, except the $20s, that I'll offer separately so as not to inflate the face value and cost here! I reckon you could keep a 'one of each' collection of these, and sell off the rest and keep all yours FREE. $A950 (Order as stock number 148DS)
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USA huge 1885 $20 Liberty Head, 1 ounce Gold Coin: One of the most sought after Gold coins. A massive Gold coin – one ounce weight. San Francisco Mint and 1885 is a better date. Condition very nice for a gold coin, which being very soft gets bag marks and handling marks very readily- photo here - http://i.imgur.com/4hdD22z.jpg
If I could be bothered wasting the months of time and high costs of to and from Reg’d post to USA to get it slabbed I’d be confident it would rate MS62 or better. Seems superior to this example on current offer for $US3.150 ($A3,450) - tinyurl.com/mfcxxcv Bought well from an Estate, so out it goes for $1,300 LESS! - $A2,150 (Order as stock number 378LV)
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Australia $2.60 Ashes Victory Stamp *SELF-STICK* official FDC: I arranged for these official FDC of the $2.60 PEEL and STICK Ashes International Post. On the OFFICIAL PO FDC envelope. No standing orders were supplied to ANYONE for this peel and stick $2.60, but clearly they were obtainable to those determined enough!
These have the attractive pictorial Australia Post Ashes FDI special cancel “The Urn Returns – First Day Of Issue - Sydney 20 Jan 2014”. No Post Office in the country had stock of these until a MONTH after issue, so doing your own FDC was basically impossible. The regular perforated 60c and $2.60 Ashes pair were readily obtainable of course. On this same design FDC envelope.
Being a CRICKET item this will have global appeal – British cricket collectors are large in number, and several 100s of those alone will all want one of these - and price is generally not an issue, they simply want completeness. And they want OFFICIAL. A cds from a small PO I could have created myself, but that is meaningless – an OFFICIAL GPO cancel is what keen collectors seek.
This is an incredibly scarce FDC, and only 43 were ever done as far as I know, and each is numbered under flap as “5/43” etc. I sourced 20 of those 43. Price is reflective of their scarcity. The first “Ashes” PNC of which 8000 were issued, sell for $200 apiece. I repeat, Eight THOUSAND were sold!
$A40 each (Stock 592RD) TWO FDCs for $A70 (Stock 592RE) FIVE for $A150 (Stock 592RF) - TEN for $A200 (Stock 592RG)
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TRANSVAAL 1879-1907 M+U stamp collection SG £887 - $A375: Wonderful original oldies lot on 75 year old SG linen hinged leaves! The correct SG Cat is £887. This of course EXCLUDES the £5 Green and the £5 Green VRI which I always assume are reprints etc. However these 2 both have different violet handstamps on gum, so one or both might be OK, I have no idea. Cat is massive for genuines, but reprints are near identical looking, and are not my field.
tinyurl.com/mhbu5ng has a ton of extra pix! Nice lot in generally far better than usual shape for this era .. all over 100 years and up to 150 years old now. Some handy postage dues and the top value £1 KEVII, and other higher values Mint or used. Bought cheap so £887 cat, plus both £5's - for just - $A375 - (Order as stock number 384DF)
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Aust 1935 Silver Jubilee set 3 FU from Registered FDC: Clean and fresh from a Registered FDC .. the red Registered crayon is under left hand stamp. Clear “REGISTERED BRANCH – 2 MY 35 – LAUNCESTON” cds. This set normal used is uncommon, and even an un-cacheted FDC is a $550 piece - www.bit.do/jG2L - so a shame some goose trimmed this one off. Indeed this set goes up to $A1,100 on a plain FDC - www.bit.do/jG24 - $A125 (Order as stock number 438LT)
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Australia MUH Blocks Coll. Face over $A1,200, for just $A900: One Man's entire collection. Looks to be all in full matched sets. Totally untouched by me. Sold as received. Gutter blocks and corner blocks and mini sheets. All MUH. Condition overall looked very good - odd little age mark here and there noticed, but well above average. A TON more photos of them all here - tinyurl.com/mjwt5ls
Some very good sets and items here as you can see. Even if you want to use on mail or ebay sendings etc, you save a cool $300! For small packets and large letters etc these are perfect to use. Values to $5 and $10, but most are under $1 face value, hence easily usable. $A900 (Order as stock number 321VB)
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ALSO, a few lots from stampboards PRICE REDUCED for this weekend only – click on the links for MASSES of large photos in every case -
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QE2 Silver Jubilee large clean MUH global collection. STOCK 231VX
Reduced $A15 to $A110 (currently $125)
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1975 USA/USSR Apollo-Soyuz Silver Medal/Stamp folder PNC STOCK 391DK
Reduced $A15 to $A30 (currently $45)
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1980s x 16 Pacific PAQUEBOT covers from many places STOCK 761WT
Reduced $A10 to $A40 (currently $50)
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Here is a special reduction on YEAR BOOKS books – an instant collection, or ebay sellers delight at $33 each!! WAY UNDER FACE VALUE EVEN! $279 Under PO Cost Price!
Complete Set Aust Post Year Albums 1981-2000 **UNDER FACE**! Estate special. All TWENTY albums! The FACE value of the stamps inside is $720. ALL are valid for postage if you ever need to use them. I just bought THIRTY sets of 20, off a guy who bought them for an “investment” – so have slashed my selling price. The issue price from PO was $964!
Each Australia Post book from the debut 1981 book (issue number #1) also has a matching coloured, hard slipcase to prevent dust and moisture entering the book. Retail $1,250. Save $565! All the LATER books and leather ones also dirt cheap, and offered singly or in 10 year runs at - http://tinyurl.com/yearbks $A685 -
Also 2001 to 2006 Year Books as a special package deal at 35% off – see link above!
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Anyone reading this ever yearn to take their next holiday in Asia, in the Luxury of roomy lie-flat bed Suites, instead of 10 hours squeezed in like a sardine on all sides by other passengers, and with screaming kids in all directions.
Well, sitting upstairs, in the quiet serenity of a Thai Airways 747 is THE way to travel 10 hours for sure, we all know that, but mostly THE COST is the issue.
Flying to anywhere in Asia booking via your travel agent will cost you about $4,000-$5000 a person in a top shelf carrier in Business Class round trip, from Sydney, Perth, Melbourne or Brisbane.
If you do it via me, it will only cost $A2,900 a person round trip – and you can choose to travel to Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Macau, anywhere within Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), Philippines, Singapore, or Vietnam etc.
Any time of year, so take your spouse on a Deluxe holiday, and in supreme comfort with French Champagne, flat bed-suites etc, and the whole works in each direction. Pass on this offer to relatives or friends who may be interested, by all means.
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1913 Pale Brown 2/- Kangaroo Large “OS” Clean Used, Cat $500 - $A125: Well over 100 years old now. The OS punctures were given to Government Departments and generally the Printer selected poor centred sheets to puncture, as they were “free” stamps. ACSC 35ba $A500. Cat value is for usual poor centering and this is far better than usual centred. Pale shade, and with medium Registered cancel. Clean good used copy, and totally free of toning, thins, tears or creases so usual for heavy parcels values like this. A stamp missing from most collections - not superb used - but cheap enough! $A125 (Order as stock number 529EB)
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Hawaii 1864 set 5 Plate Proofs - Scott $US1,750 - $A350: Bought these in a nice old collection. They are clean fresh plate proofs of the issued set of 5. They are in amazingly fresh bright condition for 150 years old! On thin ungummed paper, and look very clean. Scott is $US1,750 = $A1,925 in my 2014 specialised (Cat #30P3-34P3) Under 20% of Scott. $A350 (Order as stock number 375JR)
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Kangaroo 1913 2/- Brown CTO perfect centred, $150: CTO Kangaroo prices have gone insane this past year – as you can see on link here, single stamps selling for up to SEVEN times the recent ACSC prices – tinyurl.com/k3rq5yq So stamps like this are worth grabbing NOW = 35wb $A300 as cheapest CTO. This one clearly a premium looker – centering and perfs are GENERALLY appalling on this 1913 issue. Perfectly centred, and brilliant perfs for any 1913 CTO, as you can see. A previous owner has used a heavy paper style hinge, so that might well be covering a thin spot. I never soak Roos, so will sell it on that assumption, at under half what it would be otherwise be, looking this nice. $A150 (Order as stock number 429LR)
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Western Australia 1854 4d Deep Dull Blue Swan – SG £850 - $A450: The striking ‘Deep Dull Blue’ shade. Attractive item. Sadly not the even pricier ‘Slate Blue’, but very scarce all the same! Indeed Prestige regards THIS shade as the scarcer of the 2 - tinyurl.com/pex33tz SG 3d £850 = $A1,700. Wildly misidentified on ebay etc of course, with the regular “Blue” being often sold as this very distinctive shade. See examples of all shades here - tinyurl.com/o735vrr Clean VFU, neat Perth “Mute” numeral, and clean and fresh and GUARANTEED by me to be free of toning, repairs, old paper hinges and foxing so common on these 160 year old classics. Margins all round – just touching at SW corner. Swan sideways watermark shows clearly. The world’s earliest “Bird” stamp? $A450 (Order as stock number 639LE)
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NORFOLK ISLAND, 1971 Rose Window at St. Barnabas Chapel Proofs: As a dealer for 35 years, I have NEVER even seen a set offered such as this from Norfolk. The spectacular 2002 Stephen Bradford and 2011 Eddie Garrard Norfolk Island collections did NOT have these. Presumed to be from the Printer Archive – Heraclio Fournier, Spain.
I am not aware of any other stamp from Norfolk (or anyone locally) printer by Fournier. Fresh MUH progressive Colour Proofs, on same gummed paper as issued stamp, with matching perforated stamp. A spectacular looking album page. At only $55 each, for almost certainly unique pieces - indeed each is HALF what the AP current PO year book costs! Insane. SG #125. $A500 (Order as stock number 672FT)
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Do you use up a lot of Clear or Black mounts in a range of sizes? If you want to buy the top brand Lighthouse, at a tiny FRACTION of retail click - http://tinyurl.com/letp2r2
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Tasmania Second Allocation “RRR” Scarce Cancel: '47' of Jerusalem Lower: A superb strike of one of the scarcer Tassie cancels, tying 1d QV Sideface to a small piece. Rarity Rated RRR. Interest in the better cancels is stronger than ever in recent times. A terrific strike of this “47” with 2 vertical bars at each side. $A200 (stock number 742GW)
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Greece 1906 Olympics High Values, perfect centred mint: Not often seen well centred, these as you can see are spot-on perfs and centering wise – far better than usual. Fresh Mint with hinge remainders. 3D and 5D - top 2 values on this long set – the £1 and £2 Kangaroos of this era. These are now 108 years old. I also have the Greece 1896 Olympic set USED to 5D, and the 10D used on its own, very cheap if anyone has gaps there! Michel 156/7 Cat E350. SG 195/6 £350. $A200 (stock number 283LR)
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Hong Kong 1938 KGVI $5 Dull Lilac and Scarlet *MUH* Corner Block 6: A MUH original gum corner block. Now 76 years old, and $30 back then was an absolute FORTUNE for a stamp block. Has the usual ‘honeyed’ gum Arabic, that occurred on ALL this issue, and the $10 of this set etc. SG 160, £480 = $A1000, and Asian buyers attach a very LARGE premium to corner pieces of high values, as is well known. Bought cheap in an Estate today. $A350 (Stock code 284LR)
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INDIA KGVI 1937 full set 18 fresh Mint. SG £500. $A350: Empire of India – Attractive full set on SG album page, clean Mint. Very bright original colours, been in UK most of its life. Couple blemishes here and there noted after 77 years, but a pretty looking set. The Key 10R top value, cat £225 is very fine. India is THE Boom child of the Commonwealth, and prices WILL keep rising. SG 247/64. $A350 (Stock Code 917ND)
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“The Engraved Stamps Of The Commonwealth Of
Australia” - price *Reduced* $A200 this month!
The quite magnificent official Australia Post produced coffee table book. Compiled by Richard Breckon. Brass cornered, beautifully gold deeply embossed leatherette cover, gilt edged outer leaf edges, with matching marbled heavy slipcase.
Also contains 28 different Official correct size recess printed DIE PROOFS in black from the original dies. From 1913 1d Engraved KGV to 1965 Anzac. Inc most early commems - like Harbour Bridge, Jubilee, Canberra, Hermes, Sturt, Sesquicentenary etc. Also high value Definitives like the £1 Robes and Arms, 7/6d Cook &c. All this at around $A10 an official Die Proof! Singles get up to $50 EACH on ebay! And NOT obtainable any other way than via this book.
Gary Watson's Prestige Philately got $437 for a set in a Public Auction. They called them "without doubt the BEST product released by Australia post in recent decades”. Bought 3 in an estate, and have reduced the price of last 2 from $500 to just $300 each! Buy yourself a classy GIFT you'll always love handling and looking at: $A300 (Order as stock number 428YS)
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A FULLY IMPERFORATE AAT MINI SHEET was just issued in a tiny run of 250 numbered sheets globally – you can own one for just $A50 while stock lasts! You can expect large price rises on this one down the track.
http://tinyurl.com/AATimperfs - outlines ALL the options – you can order mint sheetlets, CTO, pairs, blocks, hand number pairs, and even postally used on cover to you - all are GEMS of the future!
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1942 Australia Rare 1½d Queen Mother FDC - Just $800: One of the most scarce KGVI era covers. Issued right in the middle of WW2, and most collectors were serving overseas. No pre-announcement of these at all, and only a few genuine covers are recorded. ASC 22a $900 for a single on FDC – block 4 FDC are retail now $A2,650 - http://tinyurl.com/Block4FDC and are rare. Censored, to USA with letter inside to a friend noting it was a surprise new issue that day. Superbly clear Sydney cancel of December 1 1942 issue date. Much more discussion on it here - http://tinyurl.com/1942FDC Being a block is most uncommon, and a VERY clean cover, being overseas near all its 72 year life, and went 7,500 miles to SEA to USA right through a heated Pacific War! $A800 (Stock 629KQ)
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INDIA Gwalior State 1938/48 KGVI Hi-Val, cross gutter MUH Block 16!: A most spectacular and probably UNIQUE block. Fresh MUH – rare enough for something 66 years old. Gum on these if stored in India is deep brown – this is a beauty. All the interpanneau gutter lines, and not even a hinge touch. SG 113 Cat £880 as 16 mint singles. Scott #113 $US1,000. In my view, all India related high values in CLEAN condition and MUH, have a TON of future upside. These are just $A31 each! $A500 (Order as stock number 936KT)
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Netherlands 1913 Centenary Set 13, Cat £1325 - $A600: This is the complete set, attractive clean used. Same year and same importance as the 1913 Kangaroo set – THOSE are $6,000 used and these are just $600! Michel 81-92 cat E1,100. SG 214/222 £1,325. $A600 - (Order as stock number 283LF)
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10/- Kangaroo Dark Grey and Aniline Pink stamp, with RARE Type 1a “SPECIMEN” - Cat $10,000+: The scarce aniline printing, that glows like a volcano under the UV Lamp. Clean and fresh and flat, lightest hinge touch. The scarce “Type 1a” Specimen is distinguished by the shaved left of “S”, and distortion bump on lower loop of “C”. (Previously called Type “C1”). This occurred only once on each overprint Forme.
As only 1,200 CofA 10/- Roos were issued with this Type C font overprint, there were 40 of these Type 1a ever printed. Being the “lowly” CofA which mainly went into Kiddie collections, via gifting of the cheap Specimen packs by doting relatives, many of those 40 examples are long lost over the past 80 years.
This overprint variety is almost never is offered on the market. One with inferior perfs and centering to this (and NON aniline) was auctioned by Prestige in 2011 - estimate $1,500 - and invoiced $A8,450, and when the full ACSC value was only $1,750 - http://tinyurl.com/Spec1A (An ugly example sold for $A8,900 a few months before.) That Prestige example sold for about SEVEN times prevailing full ACSC. Current ACSC 50Exc, cat $10,000+++.
Doubtless UNIQUE in this shade - but a SUPERIOR example, with lovely fresh GLOWING appearance, for WAY under year’s old action price! $A8,000 (Order as stock number 486QK)
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Australia 1916 2/- Brown Kangaroo INVERTED WATERMARK, with RPSL Certificate: An incredibly rare stamp. ACSC lists Inverted Watermark stamp as 37a at $1,500 - and often in terrible shape from parcel use in WW1. As an example, the only used copy in Arthur Gray sale had short perfs and a missing corner. This is a 98 year old stamp, clean and flat and fresh, attractive FU with no hinge remains or gook or gunk. Most of this watermark 2/- has “fluffy” perfs - this one is superb as you can see. With incredibly light cancel for a parcel usage 2/-.
October 2012 Royal Philatelic Society London, (RPSL) Photo Certificate – “SG 41w used – is genuine.” Better Kangaroos have gone totally GANG-BUSTERS this year - their centenary - the Hardy Kangaroo sale broke all records in May. Rare pieces getting TREBLE the brand new ACSC even - http://tinyurl.com/HardyRoo A superior grade stamp, suitable for a collector with the very fussiest of standards. $A995 (Order as stock number 718LT)
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Sand Cay WILLIS ISLAND (QLD) to “Buka Passage” New Guinea 1939: FROM - "Willis Island Queensland 7 APR 1939 Radio Station" scalloped oval in Violet. And a straight line WILLIS ISLAND handstamp on face as well. With correct 2d KGVI stamp - normal domestic post rate applied to British New Guinea at this time.
Stamp appears to have NOT been date-stamp cancelled at Willis Island, so it was cancelled on arrival at Buka Passage ..... that cds being "Buka Passage 3 JU 39 - New Guinea".
This was just before WW2 commenced, so is not a wartime cover. However the S.S. MALAITA soon became a troop and transport ship, and was later torpedoed by the Japanese. Auction price for identical cover is $A1000+. MANY more pix, map and discussion on it here - http://tinyurl.com/BukaPass - $A650 (Order as stock number 271LR)
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1942 Japanese Occupation of Brunei *MUH* Block 6: What a delightful looking block. MUH original gum .. not even hinged on the margin. These are over 70 years old, so may be unique in a *MUH* block. These 3c green stamps do not exist EXCEPT overprinted, so fake overprints (for a change!) are thankfully not an issue.
Hand-stamped in violet - “IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT”. One of the scarcest values in the set. SG J4 Cat £174 mint – and £450 used! Incredible centring for these, that often are perfs touching, being single line perforated. A real showpiece. $A200 - (Order as stock number 748NT)
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GB 1902 £1 KEVII VFU. Cat £800 for $A500: 1902 £1 Dull Blue Green KEVII VFU. Perfect centred. Steel oval “Registered - Threadneedle Street 12 SP 08” proving it as the earlier print i.e. SG 266 Cat £800. Clean and flat, totally free of hinges and gunk, and also free of the thins, tears and creases that bedevil these massive stamps used on heavy parcels. Real roughies get $250 all day long, so a top end one for only double that is a real deal. $A500 - (Order as stock number 712TR)
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How many readers here mail heaps of ebay packets or parcels, or mail lots of 60c or $1.20 or $1.80 letters at work?
Some forget that I always sell mint full gum postage WAY under face value – even sheets of 60c stamps.
Buy $A1,000 of mint postage for just $A700 cash.
Not only is your mail franked with interesting and eye catching full sets, you save $300 over buying from the PO. Tell your boss – saving $300 cold hard cash these days is not to be sneered at. Or, sell them on ebay, set by set etc.
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GB 1883 9d QV “Lilac & Green” high value stamp, mint original gum. Cat £1,200 for $A475: This set as well all know was printed in doubly fugitive ink to stop cancels being cleaned off. Place these into water and the green runs immediately and as Gibbons note says those are “virtually worthless”. In 35 years as a dealer I’ve handled 100 times more 6d (a fairly common stamp here) than the 9d, despite used price being only double 6d. As is the mint. MLH with totally usual slightly honeyed original gum, good deep colour, and a bargain at this price, as purchased from Estate today. Attractive looking stamp – and one missing from 99.9% of mint GB collections. 130 years old now, and not many of these about. $A475 (Order as stock number 428TD)
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1944 Ascension Island 2/6d KGVI “DAVIT” Flaw – Cat £1,400 for just $A800: One of the highest catalogued flaws in the KGVI era for the Commonwealth. Bright and fresh, and totally free of the gum aging so often seen on these. Faint hinge touch. SG 45ca Cat £1,400. Bought attractively, so priced to clear fast! $A800 (Order as stock number 629RL)
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Netherlands huge Registered & EXPRESS Airmail franking piece to China, 1936: Bought this stunning and clean piece, from a collection formed by a chap who was manager of the Shanghai Museum in the pre-war 1930s. This piece is from the famous shipbuilder and Engineering company of Werf Gusto, located in the small town of Shiedam, Holland well outside Amsterdam. Some stamps are cancelled at Amsterdam the others at origin. WEIRD!
This was clearly off a large packet that was sent Registered, Airmail, and EXPRESS - the latter 2 services very expensive to China in 1936. Likely they were Engineer plans etc. There are 2 sets of cancels - one from Shiedam, and the others on 5 stamps on left from Amsterdam Central Station .... all on the same day. Schiedam PO used a yellow 5 Guilder King high value as we can see (SG 224 £50), AND a 2½ Guilder overprint on 10G - SG 237 Cat £170 used - a very scarce stamp used. Detailed discussion on this piece here - http://tinyurl.com/Shiedam - : $A275 (Order as stock number 294LR)
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NZ 1993 $1.20 Dinosaur Stamp superb CTO, SG Cat. £3,125 for just $A250! What an amazing hoard. A dealer bought a stack of sheets of these in 1993, all cancelled FDI at the Philatelic Bureau on October 1, 1993. He knew this Mauisarus stamp would be scarce, as it was a UNIQUE Dinosaur species from NZ (from 70 million years back) and as such had barely appeared on any other country stamp for that reason. As there are masses of Dinosaur topical collectors globally, all after things they do not own, that was pretty cunning.
His theory was perfect as the used stamp soon shot up in value – to more than mint in fact, and in the SG cat is SG 1766, Cat £2.50 each x 1,250++ units = £3,125 current cat. Dealer laboriously tore them into singles and added one in each outgoing order as a “thank you” freebie for his buyers, with a little roneoed note inside as to what it was, and why it would stay scarce. Smart idea as a good client freebie for a low cost Would work just as well today actually, or offer them on ebay etc - £25 SG cat, superb FDI CTO, for $10 each lot etc. $A250 (Order as stock number 713LD)
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Bermuda 1920 2/- KGV, VFU with *WATERMARKED REVERSED*, Cat £2,500 for just $A1,500: One of the highest catalogued 20th Century Bermuda stamps – a true Classic from this super popular collecting area. The reversed “CA” watermark shows perfectly and clearly and centrally on the reverse – as you can readily see, in the over-exposed image above of back.
A huge bonus, as most reversed watermarks you need to peer and squint at, and still not be at all certain. (SG lists all wmks as seen from the FRONT.) Fine used and fresh - free of hinges, toning, thins and gunk, and beautifully centred. With lightest face free “Parcel Post” cds, and bright and attractive colour. Be impossible to improve on this one methinks - for quality, appearance, or for price! SG 51bx £2,500. $A1,500 - (Order as stock number 638HX)
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Australia 1954 3½d Red Cross stamp, Matched Plate Number '2' and '3' blocks 6 MUH: SG #276, lower right corner MUH blocks of 6, with Plate Nos '2' and '3' on outer margins. ACSC #312z. Really scarce .. near all were guillotined off when trimming down the sheets. MANY times scarcer than current ACSC prices would suggest. I see one block each few years. (12) Both fresh MUH, gum wrinkle on 1 stamp. $A250 (Order as stock number 143EY)
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GB 24p Machin stamp POSTAL FORGERY in MUH blocks. As low as $5 each! I bought a couple of sheets of these nearly 20 years back when they first surfaced in the UK, sold to Indian and similar family owned small corner stores and supermarkets, who retailed stamps for letters.
UK dealers currently sell blocks of 8 of these same stamps for £77.50 ($A125) or over $A15 apiece, as you can see - http://tinyurl.com/Mach24p - see other blocks sizes and prices here - http://tinyurl.com/24PMach I have one even larger block on hand at $A5 a stamp, if anyone is interested in breaking it down on ebay etc for a far greater profit. Keep a single or block of 4 for yourself from the above lots, and sell the others on ebay etc, to get yours FREE! You may even come out in front money wise, and keep yours free. Illustrated MUH block 10 as per photo, at under half dealer price - $A70 - or block of 20 for $110 (Order as stock number 619TQ)
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New South Wales Stamp Duty *IMPERFORATE* Block: 1938 No Wmk, imperforate 3d Purple, corner block of eight, fresh unmounted mint. A lovely eye-catching piece for any collection - and at only $A30 apiece! Lovely shape for over 70 years old, and it is believed only a part sheet was found. Un-recorded in Elsmore and Barefoot. $A250 - (Order as stock number 994XD)
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1971 Aboriginal Art 35c Grave Posts with ALL Black Printing ("35c AUSTRALIA") Omitted: Only 1 row 10, of one pane was so affected. (Pierron #994Mca - £2,000). Fresh well centred MUH. Sir Gawaine Baillie's example sold for $A2,070 – years back. Tom Pierron's example sold for £1,150. One of the most visually striking of the Decimal missing colours. The country, value, and part of design are missing. SG 497ab £2,500. ACSC 570c $A2,500 – back in 2002. Pay $500 LESS than the Baillie example obtained! And $825 under the 10 year old ACSC retail. $A1,675 (Order as stock number 625KT)
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I just got into stock the New Zealand Famous “KAPA HAKA” 45c Coil stamps. Only one roll 100 was ever sold. Prices here – I reported these to the world, and have always been able to supply the issue - www.glenstephens.com/kapa_haka.html - have the sets of 6 and booklet stamps too.
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Treat yourself to one or more of the Australia Post superb year albums – I have the best stock in AUSTRALIA of these – and right now as a super special you can save 35% buying these in multi year blocks –
And do not worry about the postage cost to anywhere on the globe..... I mailed a heavy carton air express to Singapore this week that cost $180 – and the recipient got stamps worth MUCH MORE than that at his end! He added the photos of them all here –
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In view of the scandals that swept the stamp world this month re knowing fakes being sold, I can GUARANTEE the following offers contain no re-perfed, no gassed and no forged perfins - I have been a full time dealer for 30 years and collectors buy off me, as they are confident they are getting what they pay for. You can’t put a price on peace of mind.
Buy on ebay and it is the unregulated Wild West - where shill bidding is ignored (indeed apparently endorsed) by ebay, and sellers of all kinds of fakes are able to continue without penalty. Remember, a stamp “bargain” is not a Bargain if it is FAKED or FORGED. And only when you sell will you know.
I am a Life Member of - American Stamp Dealers' Association. (New York) Also a Member of: Philatelic Traders' Society. (London)
Buy these items with COMPLETE CONFIDENCE -
Superb and Ornate NE Tasmania 1870 Share Certificate: I paid a lot of money for this recently, as it is by FAR the most attractive and colourful share cert I have EVER seen from the Australasian area. Mostly they were pretty boring and drab looking, but this is an absolute gem - a real ornate work of art, as can be seen with gold leaf even! On watermarked, deckle edge quality handmade paper.
"United Victorian & Tasmanian Quartz Mining Co" 1870 blue & gold 'Scrip Certificate' for 10 shares. Beautiful! This relates to the short-lived gold rush at Lyndhurst (then called Waterhouse) in NE Tasmania. Gold was discovered there in 1869. The similar era and size, private Australian banknotes have gained in interest enormously in recent years and sell into 5 figures. Again, the most ornate get the best prices in general. These are very akin to those private banknotes.
A near identical one - made out to same person even, with near identical share registry numbers, was offered at the nation's leading Numismatic auction Nobles last month and was invoiced for $A815 - on a $250 estimate. www.noble.com.au/auctions/lot/?id=268239 - See large blow up of it on that site. Save $315 buying from Stevo for a finer example! Absolutely wonderful fresh condition for 140 years old – and no pinholes as per the Noble’s example. $A400
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Tonga 1895 George II 2½d rose block of 9: SG 33. Characteristic rough perforations, fresh and flat unused, Cat £198+. BLOCKS from Tonga of this era are most elusive. A block 4 of the 1897 ‘Inverted Centre’ of this same King has just sold for $A75,000 – despite being way off centred, and thinned on 2 stamps! SG of that is only £24,000 - yet 3 bidders fought it out madly over the phone - http://tinyurl.com/MayGlen - so grab an issue from the same era for just - $A200
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1911 Sudan Camel Postman 10pi top Value “Army Service” Stamp FU: Black and Mauve Star and Crescent watermark, with nice dated cds of Khartoum on top of the marking . SG A13 Cat £650. $A425
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