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Remember, I am instantly donating 10% of all sales of my material made here this month on stampboards to our stampboards Bushfire Appeal - so buy something that you want and need, at the normal discounted price, and YOU still donate by doing that! We have made over $10,000 of donations already to the front lines. 1,000s of my individual stamp items for sale are here - https://tinyurl.com/StampDeals

EVERYONE reading this globally can hopefully add a small donation - donate the cost of a beer or 2, and we raise another $10,000! PayPal it NOW - [email protected] in any currency. It all helps a LOT.

Heaps of donated material on offer - from a carton of the brilliant Brusden-White ACSC catalogues - buy them at normal retail, get them post free, and ALL funds you bid go the the Bushfire Appeal. THAT AUCTION CLOSES IN A FEW HOURS. Same with Stamp News subscriptions, and other generousmember donations. WIN-WIN to all! All here - https://tinyurl.com/StampDeals

All our Australian Bushire Appeal detail is here - https://tinyurl.com/FiresOz

Buy a lovely Mint 5/- Harbour Bridge here at a keen price of $450 etc, and know you are supporting to the Bushire Appeal etc.

This month, read of the cute 11 year old Canadian girl Sophia, who donated her life savings to help save Koala Bear habitat destroyed in the savage Bushfires here. Send her some animal stamps - she wants to be a zoologist! It is the front cover story in the next Canadian Stamp News.

Send Sophia some Fauna stamps - many have - https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=89203
See a piece on pricey South Australia Departmental stamps, read of all the latest eBay scams, and truly dopey offerings getting silly prices. See the 1973 Bhutan record you can play on a gramophone - that sell for $1000 a set 7! Read of the new discovery of a 5/- Kangaroo sideways watermark - only the second copy reported after 100 years.
And even more latest stamp gossip and breaking news is here - https://tinyurl.com/StampsFace - and DO tick “Like” while you are there please, we got it to near a milestone 2900 "Likes" this month - A FEW MORE needed - an amazing achievement THE place every savvy collector on this planet visits - daily! Please Pass that link on to your stamp buddies. Latest article is one on humorous cancels accidentally placed on stamps - 1300 likes so far - add one yourself! See the very humorous stamp images here - https://tinyurl.com/StampsFace
This list below all updated today, with dozens of juicy new lots added.

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Some reading, brand NEW listings, Bargain price COLLECTIONS, and recent DISCOUNTS!

Even if stamps are paid off over several payments, I will honour these prices below - i.e. a price reduced $A600 lot over 3 monthly payments of $200 gets the $600 price showing now, not the $A700 it was last week etc. "First In, Best Dressed" - as I type, ALL are in stock, and many new lots have been added today.

Stockmarkets are nervous globally, due to Trump Trade War Childish Tweets, interest rates are near zero all over the planet, Real Estate here is stuffed, and the $A is around its lowest point in a decade - it has SLUMPED against Sterling sinc ethe Election. BUY STAMPS NOW!!!
The $A has sunk REALLY badly against Sterling and $US and Euro this past month, meaning YOU pay less, and unlike Auctions, I do NOT then add a cheeky 20% on to the prices you see here!

Glen

A lot of weekend stamp reading here. Pour a LARGE Coffee or beer or wine, and browse it all carefully! An instant stamp magazine here - and all FREE! 8)

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I charge NO cheeky "Buyer Fee" of 20%-26%, nor the usual 3% "credit card fee" most auctions now also charge on top. What you see below is WHAT you pay.

Buy at NETT prices off me - NO cheeky 20%-25% buyer fees like at auction, and all credit cards accepted by me at ZERO extra fee - even Amex. Many Auctions then add 3% or more to use cards. Outrageous. A $1,000 stamp off me using a credit card, costs you $1,000 - NOT $1,300!!

If I mail from here, the way I do things, the Canada/Europe/NZ etc 20% type VAT/GST type inward fees are nearly always avoided. A huge saving for buyers in those countries. You can thus save $100s on just one stamp alone, AND get it cheap via our suddenly low $A dollar. Also, you can pay me direct in $US/Euro/STG/$NZ to save currency screws into $A

My webmaster loaded these next few lots (and many more!) in the past hour - https://tinyurl.com/GlenRare

(Be SURE to hit your "F5" Key on your top row when entering that page, to 'clear your cache' or you will NOT see the new stuff!)

Be the FIRST to see and BUY these new stock items! EVERY month dozens of folks order things just after someone else has beaten them to it. Be FAST this month! NO Nasty 20%++ "Buyer Fee" to add! Buy with CONFIDENCE from someone with 40 Years full Time Stamp Dealer Experience behind him. 8)
HUGE savings on Hagner sheets, Lighthouse stockbooks, and ALL years of the PO Annual Books and albums -
Stanley Gibbons 2018 "Stamps Of The World" Stamp Catalogues 6 volumes $300 under Retail: The set is $A700 retail locally. SAVE $300! To buy direct off SG UK costs you $750. Buy off me, and pay $350 less than buying discounted direct off SG in UK! Stanley Gibbons Stamps of the World Vol 1-6, 2018 - THE most useful set in your library! Scott recently split their World set from 6 to TWELVE expensive volumes, costing locally here, WAY over $A1,500. If SG do the same next year, you will save a FORTUNE buying these NOW! A STACK more photos and detail and info here - tinyurl.com/SOW400 BRAND NEW in SG factory storage Carton - mention it at your stamp club - just $A400 (Stock 892JQ)
British New Guinea 2/6d Black and Brown 1901/1905 Lakatoi: Absolutely superb used, free of hinges and gook and gunk and aging and foxing etc. Lightest possible Barred BNG cancel, and as you can see - stunning perfs and centering for this first issue that was single line perforated. Absolutely as good as you will get. The “5/- Bridge” of Papua, with a tiny print run of 2,235 in both papers and watermarks combined! A major Pacific rarity. SG 8, £550=$A1000, and oddly, unchanged for years - SHOULD be double this - FAR scarcer than any used £2 Roo. I only get one in stock each few years. $A500 (Stock 368KP)
Kangaroos 2/- and 5/- on parcel fragment - just $A100!: Showing a near complete strike of the massive oval RUSSELL STREET MELBOURNE / VICTORIA Parcel Branch strike with the mute rectangle in centre - almost never seen so complete. Growing interest in these different Parcel cancels, and on a 2/- and 5/- Roo far more desirable. Cat $100s on parcel fragment - nice piece, both Roos well centred and clean and sound, and bought cheap in an Estate this week, so out they go at just - $A100 (Stock 857JQ)
The RARE 1909 £1 Australia Bi-Colour Postage Due - Only 1,680 sold!: Dr. Geoff Kellow's expert research shows only 1,680 were sold of this £1. Compare this to 240,000 each sold of the same era 1913 Roo top values £1 and £2 which sell for VERY many times this price each in used! Well worth reading those figures again. Only 1,680 copies were ever SOLD - and most of those clearly are not now existing, as Postage Dues were generally not saved by businesses back 107 years ago, and most were used on business bulk Postage Due receipts and tossed away. Juzwin retail $A525 with NO variety.

If there were just a few Australian stamps that I could absolutely recommend as being insanely under-priced compared to their numerical scarcity, this would be one of them - SG D73, £300=$A660. Superb used, great colour, with the UPU CTO corner cancel. Clean and fresh and bright, free of hinges and gook and gunk, with UNBEATABLE perfs and centering for these “terrors” as you can clearly see. Has the constant flaw: “White Serif Flaw On Left Base Leg of A and Dot Before A”. ACSC D92(FP1)L - $A575. As only 1,680 were sold, in sheets of 120, only 14 of this variety could ever have existed, Mint, used and CTO - in total! Blue Chip item for the future - you will never see a nicer looking used copy. $A450 (Stock 742LT)
GB 2013 Christmas 1st Class stamp, with quite spectacular Colour Mis-Registration - $A195!: The most striking error of this type I have seen in any very modern issue. Especially from the GB, De La Rue printings, who these days have VERY sophisticated computer eye quality controls to detect exactly this type of freak. From the one sheet of 50 from De La Rue printers, that was discovered showing this error on some units. Often a spike of electrical outage causes press to “hiccup” for a millisecond, and registration on the roll of paper is slightly skewed - looks like THREE colours are mis-registered here! Very attractive price as you can see superb MUH - “Christmas On Stamps” is a huge topical, and of course GB is mega popular a MUH PAIR for $A375 (Stock 683KR) or a SINGLE as shown - $A195 (Stock 683KT)
Jordan - 1982 National Monument stamps set 3 IMPERFORATE! Bought from someone whose Father had been a senior postal official at the time, ~40 years back. He had the complete set of 3 in MUH pairs, and the same set in Imperforate strips of 3. All fresh MUH. Attractive group, fresh and bright, and will offer them separably, and as a group for anyone wanting to re-sell etc. The horizontal PAIRS as shown are $A100 (Stock 683HW) The strips of 3 are $A135 (Stock 683HX) or the entire holding of all 15 imperfs is just $US135 to clear (under a tenner each!) - or $A200 (Stock 683HZ)
1913 4d Kangaroo in the *ANILINE Orange* ink: A truly scarce Emergency print shade, and I see one only each few years or so. Lovely strong suffusion of the orange through to back of stamp too, that one needs for this to be correct. Scans never show aniline very well, but the best I can do is above! Clean FU, no faults, with a clear Western Australia town cds from first year of issue “(KALGOOR)LIE - 9 SE 13”. ACSC 5a, $275. Show me another for sale ANYWHERE! I keep EVERY Australian stamp in stock 1913-1980 and in FIVE grades for each, from Spacefiller to Superb Used, to suit EVERY budget. I have EASILY the world’s largest stock of used Roos, normal and “OS”. Masses of elusive ACSC listed shades like this. Contact me re your Australia USED gaps. Read up on Used Kangaroo Grading here - https://tinyurl.com/GlenJune19 Very tough shade to source, and this will sell fast at: $A165 (Stock 462AJ)
USA 1870s OFFICIALS, on ancient pages, Cat $A3,425 for just $A350! Bought these years back on scrappy Scott pages, from an American Estate that had not been looked at since WW2 era. Near all value here is in the 1870s Officials unused. All those look clean. Scott cat noted alongside each was done in 2016, and tonight I upped several of them after photos taken. Officials get a quite high % of Scott even if STUFFED and poor centred, as they are not common - and out here anyway, most albums have near none of these. What is shown here is Scott $US2,292 = $A3,425. Also a few bits of other shrapnel, on old bits of beaten up pages from same estate.

The 1901 PanAm set is very nice - the perfect centred VF 8c would grade 102.7, and is hence worth $50,000 to the USA Voodoo Grading Cultists! HERE it is 10% of Scott - $5. I do not stock USA, so out it all goes as received. Condition mixed as always, but the Officials looked clean on a quick glance when scanning, and near all sound to VF. Cat values shown are for no gum of course, which is in Scott for a fraction of gummed Cat vals - a few better stamps have original gum like 1c and 3c War Dept, and those were duly upped. Are these all worth 10% of Scott .. of course they are! LOTS of pix here - https://tinyurl.com/HoardUSAs Only about $US235 as I type this. $A350 (Stock 827BP)
Western Australia 1854 1d Black Swan Imperf. SG Cat $650, for just $150!: Clean, bright attractive copy, totally free of the toning etc, so often seen on these 166 year old issues. Near all margins, very large at base - Juzwin retail $325 for similar good used grade. Under HALF the Juzwin retail! Razor sharp crisp printing impression, as you can see and super light cancel for these. These were printed on wafer thin tissue type paper, and thin and tear and fox EASILY. Near all are defective. The best known "SG #1" from Australasia - and STILL very affordable - around the PO price of the current PO Deluxe Year album - literally! Believed to be the world's first BIRD stamp. Usual numeral cancel - unusually light as you can see. SG #1, £325=$A650. Bought cheap in an estate, so out it goes today, at about the price of the current Australia Post Year Book. Absurd! Nice colour and crisp impression. NO thins, creases, toning or hinge remains - a very decent copy, at under a QUARTER SG. Only around $US100 as I type this. $A150 (Stock 294LT)
Kangaroo 1913 10/- First Watermark: Nice bright facial looker for this 100+ year old Classic high value! Mint original gum, with no usual ugly hinge remains for this era. Generally the perfs are terrible on these 1913 issues, as the paper choice was poor for stamps, with long very tough fibres, that ripped out perfs readily when separated, and it was never used again. With the original vivid deep pink attractive colour, that this scan just does NOT convey. First Watermark mint high value Roos are red-hot lately - a £2 MUH, with the same number printed as this one, has sold for over $25,000! SG 14. There were in fact LESS issued of this value, than the 1913 £1 and £2 First Watermark Roos. ACSC 47a, $A2,000 for usual average centred. SG #14, £900 = $A1,800. Juzwin $1,275 for average mint. With far better perfs and colours than usual. Top MLH copies are $1,600++ these days. Bought cheap in an Estate, to clear cheap, this month! $A900 (Stock 725CD)
Australia 1916 2/- Brown Kangaroo, Perf “OS” x SIX used copies - Cat $750 for $150! ACSC 37ba x 6 = $750 cat as cheapest shades, which these clearly are all not. Removed from the hoard - all sound, several very nice, and ALL with cds cancels - these each paid for a heavy parcel back in WWI era. All Guaranteed 105% Genuine. From the quite massive THREE Generation “Townsville North Queensland Hoard” collection we flew back with - in 8 huge removalist cartons - https://tinyurl.com/TownsV Formed around issue time of the stamps, and I am very slowly working through it, and listing up a few more interesting pieces that catch my eye, whenever I get 10 minutes spare, here and there! Will take me 10 years to wade through it all. I grab a few stamps now and again, and scan and add them up here, these were in an old yellowed glassine. None of these stamps has EVER been on the stamp market before, in the past Century or so. You will be the FIRST collector to own it since! Great re-seller lot. Just $US100 - $A150 (Stock 459DX)
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China 1898 $5 China Imperial Post $5 Top Values “Bean Goose” Bird, Fresh Unused: Deep Green and Pale Salmon. Well centred, fresh unused with excellent perfs for this issue, and sharp crisp impression. Top value of this rare set, attractive unused, with no hinge remains. These were printed on a very thin coarse paper, watermarked Ying and Yang, which thins and foxes readily, and this example is free of both - no hinge remains or gunk. These can get huge numbers at auction, especially the SG listed varieties see - https://tinyurl.com/BirdChina Bought in a lovely old SG 1914 IDEAL album - has not been on the market for well over a Century. SG 119 £1,900 = $A3,800. Bought very well, so under a quarter cat at just over $US600 or $A900 (Stock 492BJ)
Australia 1928 2/3d KGV Stamp Booklet: With complete pane of 6 x 1½d KGV with INVERTED WMK - all fresh MUH. SG 96w Cat £16 = £96 ($A200) as HINGED singles. Couple usual minor blemishes after 92 years, but far better than most I’ve seen. The covers of these were a cheap acidic thicker paper, that creases, foxes, and tears readily - this is FAR better than usual, trust me! If you collect oz booklets you know this full well. Free of the usual bad foxing and heavy staple rusting usually seen on these. Has both the waxed interleaving sheets. ACSC B39a. SG SB23, £450=$A900. Just $US135 as I type! $A200 (Stock 593EK)
Malaysia - Japanese Occupation of PERAK 5¢ Brown Sultan, MUH part sheet! From the Estate of an Australia serviceman who was part of the Liberation Forces. 105% genuine, with the usual ‘’honeyed’’ Gum Arabic of this issue. For the specialist, there will be minor overprint setting errors of course. Part sheet of 35, all genuine MUH, with one rounded corner. A perfect Hagner sheet or album page size. Or a brilliant ebay seller piece etc - this area is globally HOT! SG #J193, £490=$A975 as singles - a large multiple of them is a very big premium, due to setting errors, and the undoubted genuineness. Bought well, so out it goes at just a QUARTER Gibbons! $A250 (Stock 735LQ)
India 1948 Mahatma Gandhi rare 10 Rupee SUPERB: The hottest post war stamp issue from the entire British Commonwealth I’d guess. Singles sell well in ANY condition. Mint or used. It was a FORTUNE back 70 years back - the 3 other values of set were pennies face and easily found - this was several POUNDS cost, and out of the reach of near all Indians. Very fresh MLH original flat original gum, perfect perfs and centering, and has been out of India, and in Scotland, since being sold as a new issue in 1948. SG 308, cat £400=$A800. Courvoiser Switzerland oddly printed these with the usual super shiny high gloss European gum - NEVER meant to be used in the super humid Indian sub-continent, so the gum browns and rusts very readily if they ever went anywhere near India and STICKS tight to pages. Courvoiser issued the PO stock with glassine interleaving between each sheet, and this often sticks tight to reverses of stamps, and leaves a rippled waxy, ugly mess, impossible to remove. India is the World’s number #1 booming stamp market, with an massive growing middle class. What do they like - anything scarce in stamps since INDEPENDENCE in 1947 ... like this! Gandhi is a rock star there. They are now buying back the Farm with their new wealth and earning power - and these are BLUE CHIP, and they ONLY want top grade. SG cat $800 for - $A325 (Stock 594AB)
Australia 1963 Navigators set 6 superb mint. $A150: If there is just ONE stamp absent from any QE2 collection of Australia it is the £2 Admiral King stamp. Every time. THE priciest Australian stamp post-war. Super high value issued late 1964, and replaced a year or later by the new Decimal $4 of same design, so a VERY short life. £2 Admiral King stamp and the ship “Mermaid” is the KEY post war stamp from Australia and sells for far more USED than mint out of interest! £2 was 480 pence. The set 6 cost 1038 pence at the PO. A standard letter cost 5 pence then, until decimal currency in 1966, when it became 4c. So this cost 207.6 first class stamps. Taking today’s $1.50 first class letter rate as our guide, this was $A311 in today’s money, so you needed a BIG wage to warrant that cost - way over a half century back. You are paying WAY under HALF the PO cost price essentially! Nice centering for these, especially key values, clean and flat, with fresh gum MVLH or MUH. Retail $275, and out they go at near HALF retail $150 - which is about $US100 as I type this. $A150 (Stock 614XD)
ZANZIBAR 1898 Sultan Seyyid, Complete set 15 SPECIMEN: Bright Mint, deep original colours, and 100% complete - one usually sees only bits and pieces of this exotic set. Fresh mint too - they fox and rust badly usually, for some reason. A few ‘old-school’ hinges here and there, as normal, but show me another set on offer globally! SG 156/172, Cat £275=$A550. Distributed to UPU counties for their Archives in small number, and never sold, and very few survive outside them. SG price of these should be TEN times the mint set. $A225 (Stock 438JK)
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Australia 1915 Second Watermark Roo 5/-, VFU: The priciest 5/- watermark by a long way. Clean fresh copy, with really SUPERB perfs and centering for these absolute TERRORS. With very attractive light cds cancel as you can see, and not the usual huge Parcels Branch, rubber, thick lettered “Killers” - used on near all parcel mail. SG 30. These, as we all know, usually have ugly “fluffy/woolly” perfs barely punched out, and with centering all over the place. This Second Watermark (Emergency war-time use on the KGV watermark paper) was only on sale for a short time during WWI, before the 3rd watermark 5/- was issued. I have ALL used Roos in stock, in 5 Grades, Superb to Spacefiller - contact me with your WANTS.

Only one printing of 679,920 was ever made, and near all were used up on Telegrams and destroyed. Issued in the middle of WWI, as the Germans were sinking merchant ships bringing the correct size Roo watermark paper from the UK. Deep rich, unfaded, GLOWING Chrome Yellow colour. Hard to improve on looking example for used, trust me. Clean and flat, and very fresh, with no hinges, or gook or gunk on back, to hide faults. Of the 5 x different 5/- Roos, this is the ONLY one where no CTO copies are available for VFU collectors. I’ve seen similar looking copies to this get way over $750 lately. ACSC Cat 43b, $675 for average used. Only around $US315 as I type. A great looking copy for this tough stamp, as all can see - $A475 (Stock 783JQ)

Stop Press: Stanley Gibbons 2020 "Part One" British Empire Catalogue: discounted NOW!: Just arrived Express from the UK. Local RRP is $A195, when wholesaler stocks arrive here - they have not yet. UK Retail is £90=$A180, plus a ton of shipping cost to here on top. Very STRIKING new Royal Purple cover design, thick hard cover, and the stamp on front cover and the title are all in a classy cello varnished laminated finish coating. CLASSY. Only a few for sale so be FAST! Strong price rises right through, A to Z, and especially in Australasia area - detailed review here - https://tinyurl.com/Glen11-19 EVERY reader should own one of these. If yours is years old, (decades old for many collectors!) update NOW. Now a massive 770 pages, large A4, in full colour, high brite paper, and quality hard bound - near 3 kilos when packed up!

Collectors need to realise they MUST support actively Stanley Gibbons if they are to survive the current tough times in there, and buying new catalogues is a direct way to do this. If SG cease to produce annual catalogues, this hobby is in BIG trouble. Remember that, and we all need to do our bit. This Stanley Gibbons comprehensive catalogue covers Great Britain, Commonwealth and Empire countries 1840-1970. The listings include variations in watermark, perforation, paper and printing methods, major shades, watermark varieties, important plate flaws, errors, government telegraph stamps and booklets (all listed and priced). Oz buyers ONLY - save $15, AND get yours FIRST - at $A180 (Stock 893KX)
Roo 1915 6d Second Wmk *DEEP ULTRA* Block 4, MUH/MVLH ex Gray/Kilfoyle!: Absolutely NO better owner provenance is possible! The attractive, and believed UNIQUE Block 4 of this RARE SG listed shade, with the Interpanneau Gutter lines, the solid colour of which shows this deeper than usual colour, of this tiny printing in it, very strikingly as you can see. Ex Jack Kilfoyle and Arthur Gray (Lot 352) who both respectively owned THE two finest Kangaroos stamp collections EVER formed. Fresh and flat and bright, and genuine MUH on 3 units (the both lower pair MUH) Very lightest hinge touch on the other stamp #1, and small hinge remain in top margin.

Was tempted to split this into 2 horizontal pairs, one fresh MUH, (for $A5,000!) but to break up such an historic piece would be truly Philatelic Vandalism! And regummers can’t do margin blocks of course, so keeping this intact makes perfect sense. Even a single MUH, on this 105 year Emergency Issue, on KGV paper is rare - with huge cat. ACSC $14,250 as 4 singles, and in a believed UNIQUE margin Block 4, you can double that easily, to $28,500 or so. The distinctive Deep Ultramarine colour (SG 26a) is nearly ALWAYS misidentified by the totally clueless sellers on ebay etc, due to much higher cat. Save a whopping $8,000++ - New Year Super Special, at just - $A6,250 (Stock 265KR)
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18K Solid Gold and Sterling Silver German OTTO HUTT Fountain Pen, brand new: **$A250 off**! I made a big wholesale buy from local Agent, Renniks/Lighthouse, to celebrate this exciting new product range, and can offer to clients for $A255 off, at just $A999! All German made, top end quality. The superb Xmas gift for a partner, Boss, someone special, or YOURSELF! In stunning award winning Italian made gift/storage box, with slide out drawers, with polishing cloth, and Deluxe leather carry case, extra ink cartridges, and ink converter etc. A hand numbered and timeless pen, for those who like the VERY finest things in life. VERY expensive 18 carat solid GOLD nib. This exact same pen was advertised in the current PO “Impressions” Deluxe catalogue, page 41, for $A1,254, and totally sold out fast - see https://tinyurl.com/OttoAP and https://tinyurl.com/OttoRoller - full details of these pens on those links. Comes with the popular Medium thickness nib. (Or you could WIN one here - https://tinyurl.com/WinGoldOtto ) Save $250 on nib pen at $A999 - indeed that is only $US680! (Stock 386LW) The similar design Platinum/Sterling Silver body with roller ball tip, also superb gift boxed (see PO link), is discounted $A150, and is only: $A850 (Stock 386LX)
Australia 2008 Christmas 50¢ Baubles self-adhesive *IMPERFS!* - $US85 each: A complete peel and stick $10 booklet of 20, top row of four completely IMPERFORATE and the second row of four is Imperforate at top. First time I've seen this one. Very easy to see in the flesh, but on scan of course hard to see. Caused when the guillotining “knife” came down onto the master sheet a micron out of adjustment and did not cut perforation wiggles into the backing sheet totally. Superb condition, totally flat - not ever folded. Perfect size to display on Hagner or stockbook or album page. So we have 4 x 100% Imperforate stamps, and 4 stamps are imperf along top. I was tempted to cut up the pane and offer 4 x total imperfs at $175 each, (=$A700) and then offer the 4 x part imperfs in vertical pairs along with a normal perfs for $100 each, (=$A400) but a shame to mess with what might well be a UNIQUE Booklet. A gem addition for any Australia/Booklet/Xmas/Error collection. So I’ll let this go at HALF that level at just $A500 = just $A125 ($US85) each for the 4 – imperfs - the others are all ''free''! $A500 (Stock 857JQ)
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Australia 1924 £1 Roo Third Watermark fresh MVLH: This was WAY more than a week’s wages back near a Century back. Used you see offered, but almost never MINT of this watermark given the massive face value. Very fresh MVLH. Minor blemish noted for 100% accuracy, and a stamp missing from near EVERY collection of Mint Australia. The single printing of these all had “fluffy” perfs and this is better than most of course. The same cat as the FAR more common CofA Wmk £1 Grey which is silly. SG 75, £650 = $A1300 - bought well, so out to clear at near a quarter Gibbons! I sell last year’s Leather Year Book at near this figure. $A365 (Stock 562RB)
BHUTAN 1973 playable phonograph record stamps, key value Airmails: One of the strangest stamp sets ever issued from anywhere. The only stamps ever issued, that you can play on a record player! Heaps of discussion on them here - https://tinyurl.com/BhutanLPs - and there is a YouTube clip of the music on there! High cat, and the set of 7 sells for $A1,000 these days mint or used as you can see on that link. These larger airmail are the KEY to the set and retail for $A350 the pair. Near a half Century old now and these are really creeping up in value each year. Save $100 at - $A250 (Stock 613EK)
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GB 1912 10/- Blue KEVII, perfect centered fresh MVLH: Perfs and centering and colour you simply cannot improve on - as you can see. Used these are not hard to source, but MINT are very tough. This was near a week’s wages back over a Century back. Mint VERY light hinged once, with no remains, on flat original gum, guaranteed. Bright and attractive. If it were a 10/- Roo from here from this era, you can double this price. SG 319 £1,100 = $2,200 for normal mint, and this lovely grade is a good premium on that. Bought well to sell FAST - $A875 (Stock 614AJ)
Territory Of New Guinea, 1935 Bulolo Airmail Stamp, £2 Deep Violet High Value, *Superb Used*: One of the most iconic Airmail stamp designs from the entire World in the 1930s. Very high value - the largest denomination Australia ever had was also a £2, and even those Mint are scarce and expensive - the CHEAPEST watermark being $5,000 mint. This was a few week’s gross wages for anyone who HAD a job in the Great Depression. Clean, lovely centered, fresh VFU, with deep rich vibrant original colour. Clean and flat and fresh. Free of all hinges, gook and gunk and aging etc, after 85 years. And free of the THINS and tears and bad creases that these coarse blotting paper stamps mostly get, after useage on the very heavy shipments of Gold Bullion that these were used for.

Superb light New Guinea corner cds. Wonderful centered, and really excellent perfs for these as you can see, that were lumpy single line perf, printed on coarse blotting paper and near ALWAYS have a few missing! Way under-rated by SG 204, £140=$A280. Should be TREBLE this used, which are FIVE times scarcer than mint of course, despite the silly £350 cat for mint, as HEAPS of mint sheets were stolen from PO, and sold off cheaply well under face to dealers at the time – see here tinyurl.com/Bulolo - Police were even called in. I handle just one of these genuinely SUPERB used, each few years. However, I handle 100s of £2 Roos a year! Impossible to improve on quality at just $US135 - $A200 (Stock 812AK)
SYDNEY 2000 Olympics, Australia Post “Prime Minister’s Dinner”, Deluxe Stamp Album $A350: What a truly cool item. The Australian Prime Minister hosted an official Olympics dinner, and as Australia Post were a Major Sponsor of the 2000 Olympics, they offered to present all participants with a super Deluxe, brass cornered Album for the attendees. The exact same presentation as the 4 x superb late 1990s Australia Post “Engraved Stamps” books, (all of which I have in stock at similar price!) with Brass corners, and heavily Gold embossed front covers, with Coat Of Arms of the Commonwealth of Australia, with the Olympic Wreath all around it (!), and hard matching slipcases etc. And a ton of Australia Post Olympic stamp issues inside as you can see in link below.

Near all the attendees there were IOC Big Shots, and Senior Politicians and dignitaries, and former ozzie Olympians and so on, who kept them as classy Dinner souvenirs, so very few of these Albums ever leaked into the secondary market. When did YOU ever see one??? AP never SOLD any of these to the public. These are hence HEAVILY sought, not only by Olympic Collectors globally - but by all keen collectors of Australia Post official issues. They are almost never seen in the marketplace. Prestige Auctions invoiced one for $365 way back in Auction #88, and the only other one I’ve seen was priced at $400. The large book has 44 pages, plus many printed, heavy duty, frosted type interleaves – all GOLD blocked page edges even, and in a hand numbered Limited Edition. DOZENS more pix here - https://tinyurl.com/OlyPM $A350 (Stock 682LB)
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World’s cheapest unused 1915 5/- Second Watermark Roo! SG $A2,000 - for $A425: Bought this in an old collection, and it had several large ugly hinge remains on reverse. I felt sure they were covering up a large thin spot or crease or repair etc. Rather than sell it with a nagging doubt, I soaked them off and happily stamp was perfectly sound. Clean and fresh, and free of hinges and gook and gunk and the usual foxing and aging and thins, on these parcel post issues. These, as we all know, usually have ugly “fluffy/woolly” perfs barely punched out, and with centering all over the place. This Second Watermark (Emergency war-time use on KGV watermark paper, as Germans were sinking shipping bring out correct paper) was only on sale for a short time during WWI, before the 3rd watermark 5/- was issued. Only one small printing was ever made Issued in the middle of WWI. So these have the KGV heads watermark - quite wrong sized for Roos, and appears on far left and right of the stamp as usual. Deep rich, unfaded, GLOWING Chrome Yellow colour unused, and a darn cheap Xmas buy for someone! SG 30, £1000 = $A2,000. Just $A425 (Stock 714AJ)
Australia 1902 10/- Dull Green “with stroke” Postage Due FU: 1902-04 Complete at Base design, Watermark Crown over NSW - inverted, as are all known copies - about 50 exist, ACSC advises. Free of hinges and gook and gunk, and a rare stamp either mint or used. Far superior perfs and centering to other values on this monocolour series. These “with stroke” high values were printed early 1909, all in this Dull Green colour, as the 1902 green 1d, 2d, 5d and 10d were easily confused with the original 1/-, 2/-, 5/- and 10/-. They all looked near identical at a quick glance, being numeral figures only. i.e. a 10d and 10/- looked nearly the same, until this issue, both being just a large “10”. This 10/- was issued March 1909, and was replaced, (and unsolds destroyed) near immediately by the 1909 Bi-Colour set, which was in a single printing in August 1909. Pencil expertised by A. Diena. SG D61, £26,000, and Scott J37, $US27,500. Bought well so out it goes at $US2,725 as I type, or $A4,000 (Stock 836HW)
Australian Bicentenary - Leather Boxed set of 25 Gold Stamp Ingots - $1,500 UNDER *issue* cost!! Cost $2,465 - copy of cost is on webpage below. A collection of 25 different Australia and State classic stamps, struck in solid silver, all exactly full stamp size, and plated with 24 Carat pure gold, known as “The Australian Collection”. Fully endorsed and recommend by Australia Post - their letter enclosed to that effect. Comes with numbered Certificate of Authenticity, and cleaning cloth, and handmade horn lifter etc, and in a handmade green soft quilted, handmade leather Presentation Case, with gold embossing and real brass highlights and fittings. A GEM of a production. The ULTIMATE coffee table stamp item.

All the ingots are in perfect, as issued, condition, The green leather box is also in great “as issued” shape. Many sets I have seen have had scratched and tatty ingots, and are badly knocked about, with badly scratched and torn/scuffed boxes. Most sets are certainly missing the brass key which can’t be replaced. This one is "as new" - Someone wealthy bought it “for the kids” and basically never touched it. And as such, worth TWICE what some sets in the market should fetch. A TON more info on this set, and very MANY more photos are here, do take a look - https://tinyurl.com/GoldStamps - more than $1,000 UNDER the price owner paid via Australia Post at issue! $A965 (Stock 715JQ)
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Roo 1913 2/- Kangaroo First Watermark Large “OS”: A rare stamp mint - even used are many $100s. The LARGE size OS was abandoned within months as this very thing was occurring - the huge puncture made it near impossible to separate stamps into singles, without some damage to the fabric of the stamp. Mint hinged - ACSC 35ba, $A1,500. SG 011, £650=$A1,300. From the quite massive THREE Generation “Townsville North Queensland Hoard” collection we flew back with - in 8 huge removalist cartons - https://tinyurl.com/TownsV Formed around issue time of the stamps, and I am very slowly working through it, and listing up a few more interesting pieces that catch my eye, whenever I get 10 minutes spare, here and there! Will take me 10 years to wade through it all. I grab a few now and again, and scan and add them up here. None of these stamps has EVER been on the stamp market before, in the past Century or so. You will be the FIRST collector to own it since! Cat $1,500 - a great AFFORDABLE way to fill that tough space in the album! $A250 (Stock 712JR)
Australia KGV 1922, 2d Scarlet “Watermark Inverted” perf 'OS' and fresh MUH! ACSC 96ab, super fresh MUH, Cat $2,500. SG 072w £1,300 = $A2,600 for HINGED mint. With deep vivid intense glowing colour. Non OS is 20 times this price in inverted of course, so not a forged ‘’OS” - that much is for SURE! Superb perfs and centering for these as you can see. Missing from near EVERY KGV collection in mint. Even used are rare. Pristine - SG Cat $A2,600 - save $1,400 under SG at just - $A1,200 (Stock 837GE)
Johore 1904/12 $100 Sultan, Top Value of set, Superb Used - Cat £1,000: A super high value - far higher in face value than our £2 Kangaroo. And an outstanding looking example facially too. VERY attractive, with fantastic perfs and centering as you can see, with deep, rich, original unfaded colour, and light Johore corner cancel - totally face free on the Sultan. 115 years old now - these were printed in fugitive green ink, and colour runs and fades badly when soaked usually. SG 77, £1,000 = $A2,000. Interest in top end stamps from British Asia is growing like topsy from the region, and this sort of attractive piece will keep going up in SG, I feel sure. SG Cat $2,000 - just $US375 - $A550 (Stock 673HW)
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GB 1884 £1 Brown Lilac QV “SPECIMEN” - Cat $5,600 for just $A450! Excellent perfs and centering for these huge stamps. Unusually deep colour (they often fade badly) and Mint original gum, with neatly closed tear. 3 Crowns Watermark, SG 185, Cat “From £2,800” (=$A5,600) as Specimen. The ‘Type 9’ Specimen seriffed overprint. THE most affordable way to fill this space, missing in near EVERY GB collection globally, as MINT are £28,000, and even used are cat £3,000 - and those are mostly obliterated with the ugly bootheel KILLER cancels, used heavily in this era, and they fade badly when soaked of course! SG Cat is “From $A5,600” - bought well, so out it goes at around $US300 or $A450 (Stock 674BL)
Australia £1 Grey Kangaroo in attractive used *PAIR*: How many other used pairs have I handled in 40 years - one - and that had a realy ugly smeary Parcels Branch “Killer” cancel. Every PO had £2 values on hand, so clearly they were used, and not 2 of these. Show me another used pair on offer ANYWHERE, at any price. Perfect centred, very light crisp SYDNEY GPO cds cancel, and pulled perf. 100% free of the thins, tears, creases and foxing so normal on these 85 year old stamps used on VERY heavy parcels.

Missing from near EVERY Australian collection! Clean and fresh, and super light cancelled for a top value. Probably used on a pre-War sea parcel to UK. I keep EVERY Australian stamp in stock 1913-1980, and in FIVE grades for each, from Spacefiller to Superb Used, to suit EVERY budget. I have EASILY the world’s largest stock of used Roos, normal and “OS”. SG 137, £550=$A1,100 as 2 SINGLES. Contact me re your Australia pre-war USED gaps. Special offer - Under HALF Gibbons for just - $A500 (Stock 694JR)
GB 1902 £1 KEVII Dull Blue Green, Clean FU. SG $2,450, for just $A450 - save $2,000!: De La Rue printing, clean FU. Neat upright dated cancel of ‘’LONDON - JAN 13 - 05”’. SG 266, cat £1,235 = $2,450 for well centred light cancel used, which this very clearly is. Fantastic perfs and centering for these massive stamps - 4 or 5 times the size of the lower values. Clean and fresh and flat, free of the usual hinges and gook and gunk and aging on these high values, that hide thins and tears etc. This was a fortune back in the day, over a week’s wages, and were used on heavy parcels and got banged about, and got damaged, and received ugly boxed grid Parcels Branch ‘’Killer’’ cancels. The £1 Kangaroo from this era is $3,500 for FU, so these are WILDLY under-rated, and grossly under-priced right now. From a superb album of GB I am breaking down. From 1840 1d Blacks (in every Plate!) 2 sets “1d Plates’’ to 225 etc. Strong M+U line engraved, often in superb shape. QV and KEVII to £1, and KGV to both £1. Let me know what WANTS you have - all going out CHEAP! Under 20% of SG - indeed $2,000 under SG price at $US305 - $A450 (Stock 792DK)
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Australia 1932 5/- Bridge fresh Mint, only $A450!: The stamp missing from 99% of Australian collections. Came from England recently with a migrant, where I imagine it has been for 80 years. Clean fresh Mint VERY light hinged, with no usual ugly hinge remains. Perfs and centering MILES better than usual for these as you can see – remember, these were printed on what was essentially cheap, coarse weave, blotting paper, which hinge thins VERY readily, and also “fluffy” or “woolly” ugly perfs are the 100% norm on these. Printed at the height of the Great Depression, and gummed with the crude Gum Arabic, in which small natural gum bends occur - check your 3d value gum, or a 1931 Sturt set, or 1932 1/- Lyre etc! Far better than most.

Then, these were all single line perforated by hand, in stacks of 20 sheets - one row at a time up, then the sheets were turned round 90° and ran through again, so centering and all 4 corners were terrible. On a block 4, all stamps are different centred as you can see from Auction photos, with weird corner perfs. Only 72,800 printed, our rarest stamp, and near all of those were corner “CTO’d” for the Specimen packs, so mint copies are RARE and actual postal used are seldom seen.. In the Great Depression 5/- was a fortune to spend on a mint collector stamp, when anyone who HAD a job got only 10/- a week pay! SG 143, £425=$A850. Bought cheap in a large collection lot, to sell in DAYS for just: $A450 (Stock 316KR)
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Australia PNCs x 45 - Retail value $1,505, for just $A450! Owner had bought several each of the better early Philatelic Numismatic Covers - PNC's. These are the GOOD ones, made in small runs. Later on, the PO got pretty greedy, and cranked up the numbers made of each, and none have done near as well as this scarce earlier ones. Retail as you can see is $1505 on the inventory sheet attached. Bought well in an Estate, so out they go at just $500. A ''double your money'' prospect on ebay etc, I am sure, at this clearance price or a nice little investment box. Nice clean attractive lot. A TON more pix here - https://tinyurl.com/HoardPNC - $A450 (Stock 536DW)
The Superb ~500 page ACSC "KGV" is released in full colour - detailed review on link below. Also see my very special reader deal on the hard cover deep grained "leather" Arthur Gray KGV catalogue - just $A65! More detail here - https://tinyurl.com/GraysKGV - buy them TOGETHER for a special $20 discount price -
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Price of the excellent 500 page FULL COLOUR ACSC "KGV" opus work is $A170 plus post, and if you want to order it along with the $A65 superb case-bound leather cover Arthur Gray sale catalogue, with all prices realised lists etc, I can do the BOTH for a special "$20 Off" offer of just $A215 the two, plus post (Stock 382JK)
£1 Grey Kangaroo, Fine Used - SG Cat $550, for $A275!: 100% free of the thins, tears, creases and foxing so normal on these 85 year old stamps used on VERY heavy parcels. Missing from near EVERY Australian collection! Clean and fresh, and cancelled with neat “SHIP MAIL ROOM - MELBOURNE” cds – doubtless used on a pre-War sea parcel to UK. I keep EVERY Australian stamp in stock 1913-1980, and in FIVE grades for each, from Spacefiller to Superb Used, to suit EVERY budget. I have EASILY the world’s largest stock of used Roos, normal and “OS”. SG 137, £275=$A550. I have this exact stamp from $50 to $500 in cost. (Stock 842GW) Contact me re your Australia pre-war USED gaps. Special offer - HALF Gibbons for just - $A275
CURACAO (Netherlands Indies) - 1923 Queen's Silver Jubilee 5 Guilder Queen FU: The key value of this superb set. The very first commemorative stamps issued in 1923, which celebrated Queen Wilhelmina's 25th Anniversary, depicting her with a finely-engraved recess printed portrait. 5 Guilder brown, SG #104, Cat £375=$A750. Clean VFU, no usual hinge remains, or gook or gunk. Near a century old now, and a seldom offered high value, for just 35% of SG cat! $A275 (Stock 672JR)
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1944 SUPERB Qantas Airletter - Re-Opening Australia-UK Air Service: Absolutely amazingly fresh condition for something 76 years old. The first Qantas/BOAC civilian mail to and from UK near end of War. Until then Military mail only was carried. This cover flew the long multi-stop 12,000 mile route via Sydney, Perth, Ceylon and Pakistan, in a lumbering “Liberator” to Karachi, and then a BOAC flight to London. AAMC 978c, cat $250 in the way out of date 12 y.o. cat, and often these are in truly dreadful condition. This airletter is in pristine shape and has the special red QANTAS overprint - worth much less without it. These flights took literally EIGHTY hours!

From a HUGE collection of Oz related air covers (especially Qantas) and Qantas Vignettes 1920s-1960s, I bought from estate of that Captain - who flew many of the flights. Get onto to me with WANTS! ! The special ARMY FORCES OVERSEAS 7d Airletter, with that use crossed out in red, with clear SYDNEY cds of “11 - SE 44”. Violet Diamond “2 / PASSED / CENSOR” handstamp on face. Inside is the printed Qantas printed story of why the Ceylon route occurred, saying 6 Japanese Zeros shot down the Empire Flying Boat CORIO, in Dutch Timor in 1942. Absolutely pristine, and SUPERB - cannot fine better, and just $US135 or: $A225 (Stock 462BG)
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New Zealand 1855 2d Blue Chalon, Perkins Bacon London Print, SG #2: Crisp light numeral cancel. Large Star Watermark. Bright original colour, with 3 margins, and just into along top. No usual thins or tears etc. Clean and fresh, free of toning, and totally free of all the usual hinges and gook and gunk that disguise the usual faults on these 165 year old classics etc. SG #2, £700 = $A1,400. Near 20% of SG cat - indeed, just $US200 right now at $A300 (Stock 729KA)
Papua New Guinea 1971 SHELLS Booklet x *50* Mint copies! Estate buy today. Someone looks like they bought these near a Half Century ago, and they have only just now reached the market. Pretty booklet, with marginal blocks 10 of the 1969 7c Shell Definitive stamp. SG SB3, Cat £650 = $A1,300. Pfeffer #3 cat $1,500. Very seldom seen early booklet, and a great ebay re-seller etc, as both PNG and Shells are globally super popular. Just $A5 each, or way under $US4 apiece - Cat £650, retail $1,500. Just $US170 - $A250 (Stock 782RT)
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1917 £1 Chestnut and Bright Blue Kangaroo stamp neatly used: In my 40 years as a dealer I’d say this is the ONE stamp missing from 99.999% of simplified Australian collections I see. It only came in 2 watermarks, and both are WAY into 4 figures, even average used. The next hardest to get face different stamp - the £2 Black and Red Kangaroo, costs under one quarter of this in used. With the £2 Roo, collectors can also “cheat”, and buy a mint CofA “Specimen” for $100 if they wish - but the lowest price £1 Bi-Colour “Specimen” is $900. Worse still, MOST of these used £1 Bi-Colours look really terrible, with horrid “fluffy” perfs being normal, and often very washed out colours, and poor centering, and back faults, and creases/tears or worse etc, from the very heavy parcel use. This is FAR better looking than most. The Third Watermark Kangaroos were issued and printed during WWI, when getting reliable ink supplies from the traditional ink suppliers - GERMANY was of course a BIG issue, for some odd reason! So the printers used whatever was on hand that remotely looked like “Blue” or “Brown” ink etc, hence the vast range of shades recorded in this value.

MOST of them were in pale shades of each, and look pretty washed out - even when mint. This looks very nice, with dated REGISTERED SYDNEY cds. Most of them also have VERY “fluffy” or “woolly” perfs, as perforating heads were not replaced on schedule - again, as those replacement parts also came from GERMANY! This one is better than most in that regard. Arthur Gray told me THIS bi-colour stamp value was his absolute favourite of the entire Kangaroo series, and I’d have to agree. He insisted this stamp be the solo front cover item on the $7¼ million Auction sale catalogue as readers will know. I have owned literally 100s of these over 40 years, and near all are rough grade. MOST are truly woeful lookers. I saw one with total missing corner get 4 figures on ebay recently! Mad Bunnies. Clean and flat and fresh with bright colours, totally free of the usual gook and gunk and hinge remains of over a century etc, that can hide faults. SG 44a, £1,800 = $A3,500. I have ALL used Roos in stock, in 5 Grades, Superb to Spacefiller - ask if you need a less costly grade - this is about a 7 out of 10 grade. $2,300 LESS than SG cat! $A1,200 (Stock 294JV)
NEW Editions of Brusden White *ACSC* KGVI and QE2 Pre-Decimal in COLOUR: Just printed. In Full colour for the first time, and in the new large A4/Quarto type size for the first time too. Lots more data, and superb Dr Geoff Kellow research, and the KGVI includes all the BCOF issues of course. All Proofs and essays and trials, and errors and imprints, and plate numbers, and the usual vat amount of ACSC data found NOWHERE else. These new editions supersede and update the previous 2015 editions, and are in full colour for the first time, and in the new large A4 format, means tons more info is in each book. The listings have been fully revised, with some additions and corrections, and with additional illustrations.

Two on-cover prices are now provided for every stamp - for solo usage and for other uses of each stamp. With prices that will gob-smack you! The relevant Postage Due issues have also been included in each volume - a HUGE plus. QE2 includes Australian Antarctic Territory and Cocos (Keeling) Islands issues. For most buyers, purchasing both together add zero extra post cost over a single copy - so get yours NOW. As I have typed a million times - “Knowledge Is Power” and using these just ONCE, can easily pay for themselves. A solo use on cover of a very common stamp, now Cat $500, will in fact pay for these TWO times over! King George VI is 232 x A4 pages. $A120 (Stock 892JA) and Queen Elizabeth 2 is 276 large A4 pages, price $A125 (Stock 892JB) MY SETS ARE AUTHOR SIGNED - EXCLUSIVE! Or buy the both TOGETHER and pay $15 less at just: $A230 (Stock 892JC)
50 x Aust AFL Football Centenary stamp sheetlets of 16, *FACE $360*, Cat £700, for $A150! Great "Distress" buy I made from an Estate of The Greatest Game Of All! These are each $7.20 FACE value. SG 1590a, £14 used - Scott 1507a $US17.75. ASC 1559MS, $A18 used. All are superb CTO full gum, all with neat cds. Great for folks to offer singly etc on ebay, or retail etc, or use for exchange etc, given the/AFL Football Finals Month is now upon us! Buy them for $2.75, and even if you get only face value, you make $445! Popular thematic and big seller to AFL and sport fans. BEST STILL these are the PERFORATED stamps. Near all on the market are the self-adhesive. Used copies of the perforated versions are like hen's teeth, and are NEVER seen in used full sets 16. This sheetlet was the ONLY source of used copies of the perforated lick and stick stamps. The booklets were all self-adhesive, and that is what was on wide sale at PO’s nationally. 25 for $A85 (Face $A180 - Cat £350 = $A650) Stock code 386TB - 50 for $A150 (Face $A360 - Cat £700 - $A1,300) Stock code 386TC - $A150
Australia 1968 5¢ Xmas - “MISSING GOLD” superb MUH: One of the more striking Decimal errors. The metallic gold printing over green church window was entirely overlooked, and missing. Over a half century old now, and the printer laser ID checking was not as precise as it is now! 20 or so mint exist globally from the part sheet discovered. (Any ebay “used” copies are chemically treated fakes of course - easily spotted visually, and on UV!) Obtained from Tom Pierron in a trade, who formed the finest QE2 Commonwealth missing color collections ever, and published the massive 800 page full colour catalogue of them - this one is on page 334. Guaranteed 105% Genuine by both he and I - pristine and fresh, superb centred MUH! The Hugh Morgan example sold for £575 by Spink. SG 431a £850=$A1,700. ACSC 494ca, Cat $A1,500 (18 years back!) To clear at under HALF SG! $A825 (Stock 782JA)
Victoria 1850 3d Queen Victoria "Half Length" - complete sheet of 50 of the Jeffryes forgery: Seldom seen these days. A full sheet 50 in unusually fresh condition - SUPERB. The well-known and convincing forgery by George Kirke Jeffryes, who as part of the "London Gang" received four months hard labour in 1892, for his stamp forgery efforts! Wish they would do that today on the global crop of Ebay fakers that ebay does nothing about. Well printed - 5 different engravings were made and repeated through the sheet, so stamp 1 and stamp 6 in each row match up etc. I have sometimes seen these offered in singles or pairs on eBay etc for $50 a single! A perfect size to fit on a Hagner sheet or stockbook page, or album sheet. This complete sheet of 50 is $US185 or $A275 ... or just over Five Bucks a stamp - a COFFEE costs that! (Stock 385AQ)
N.Z. 1940 1/3d *ARMS* part sheet of 24 **MUH**, SG cat $1,200 for just $A275! Perfect centred part sheet - this was a fortune back in WW2 - 30/- face - or near a week’s NETT wages for a working man. The AVERAGE annual UK wage in UK 1950, was just £100 - I kid you not https://tinyurl.com/UKwage - around TWO quid a week gross before tax. The cost of this block. FACT. (And paid annual leave was typically just ONE week!) That is the average national wage, not the minimum wage. Ozzie and NZ wages were near identical back then. This BBC link outlining the Food Rationing in the UK well after WW2, might surprise some - https://tinyurl.com/RationUK National rationing did not totally end until 1954. Meat, bacon, sugar, and butter were all tightly rationed across the UK, right up to the QE2 Coronation year in 1953. Genuine MUH original gum, with the usual ‘’honeyed’’ Gum Arabic used in this WW2 era set. Now 80 years old. SG F191, cat £600 = $A1,200. Bought cheap, so selling cheap - all MUH! Just $US185 - $A275 (Stock 852GM)

Australia Post Stamp Year Books 1983-2004 (22) at *$1,200 UNDER RETAIL*!: WEEKEND SCOOP - 22 Years of PO Year Books near HALF PO cost! Amazing buy I made from an Estate today. 1983 to 2004 - 22 different PO books, the books and stamps all look clean (for a change!) as they were stored in Broken Hill which is thankfully very dry, with no humidity. Owner wisely had removed the flimsy plastic outer PO shipping covers – stamps ‘sweat’ in there if you do not, and get rusty/foxed. Many folks fall for that mistake. Actual PO Cost was $1,227 and Retail is $1,925 as you can see here - https://tinyurl.com/POalbums

Photos above are just a few books - we all know what these books look like. You get the years mentioned. 1983-2004 complete - 22 different albums. For ebayers - a superb proposition - from 2000 on are RED HOT ... the 2000 for instance cost $87.50 from PO and sells on its own for $100+, all day long, as it has the special Olympic Games Gold Medal Winners sheetlet of 16, that ONLY came in this superb album. Actual PO cost was $1,227 and near HALF that at $A725. The FACE VALUE is just on $900! So you are paying near $200 UNDER FACE for superb MUH stamps in full sets in Deluxe Books in slipcases. All packed up neatly in 1 large carton to keep your mail costs down. Ozzie buyers ONLY, due to 22KG weight. Quick turnover is always my game, and this is the BEST bargain I have typed up this week! $A725 (Stock 793GW)

Australia $10 Kangaroo complete set 5, Perf “OS” and O/P “Specimen”!: How many Kangaroo or Australia collections globally have all 5 of these? Almost ZERO! As part of the Centenary of the Kangaroo and Map stamps in 2013, Australia Post sold a small number of sets of these 5 items shown above in a small sheetlet. They seem to have only sold them at the huge FIP International 2013 World Stamp Expo in Melbourne that I attended, and sold out fast. Oddly these got little or no publicity, as all the Black Caviar horse racing product they issued at same show took precedence, and few seemed to have bought the Roos at the time. I certainly did at the show, as I recognised their great future potential! I have waited 6 years to offer them. I do not think any other dealer on this planet has this complete set of 5 offered for sale - check it out! VERY scarce, 100% Official, yet at less than double face. Only well centred copies selected for sale.

The $10 Kangaroo was offered overprinted “Specimen” in the exact same font as was used in 1913. It was also overprinted in a solid “OS” font, as was used on the 1930 Kangaroo issues. And Australia Post ALSO offered them in the Large and Small sized “OS” perfins, in sizes exactly as issued in 1913 on the original Kangaroo stamps. ASC Cat, 3099msb, $160, and SG 3983a, cat £130. PRICES - One set 5 x $10, MUH and/or CTO, your choice, (MUH sent unless specified) $A95 (Stock 729JA) Re-seller or investor special - FIVE sets of 5 x $10, MUH and/or CTO, your choice (MUH sent unless specified) $A425 (Stock 729JC). TEN sets 5 - $A800 (Stock 729JD) Or, one set 5 MUH, and one set of 5 CTO (10) for $A185 (Stock 729JF) These are OFFICIAL Post Office issues, and are in the 2 main catalogues, and I have very small stock left now. Set of 5 MUH or CTO - well under $US70 now: $A95 (Stock 729JA)
"Plating Papua Lakatois" Book, 563 x A4 pages, RRP $110 as cheap at $A45 each! For Lakatoi lovers - "Plating Papua Stamps Part 1" by Michael Ryan, 563 pages. Huge Full colour illustrations throughout, on high grade, thick Brite White paper stock. Below is the Book Review on this from Mike Lee, saying "Magnificent - Buy It Now" and "The $110 seems extremely good value to me"! More pix and info here - https://tinyurl.com/PapuaBook - JUST $A60 - save $50 - even cheaper in bulk buy! (Stock 432HA)
Western Australia 1902 £1 *Orange* Queen Victoria Superb Used, only $A325!: SG 128. These were issued initially in the FEDERAL period, and these are fully Commonwealth Of Australia era stamps, not a "WA" stamp as such. The ACSC has for some years, fully catalogued and priced all such issues, and their prices will harden, as they truly are "Australian Commonwealth" stamps, not simply "State" stamps, as they were once wrongly regarded as. This stamp was FIRST issued 2 years AFTER Queen Victoria died! Clean and fresh used, expertised, totally free of hinges and gunk and gook or usual faults. Quite outstanding perfs and centering for this issue. Incredible looking condition for a high face value stamp. Was used for a gold shipment from the Kalgoorlie Goldfields. Has the crisp thimble cds “KALGOORLIE - JY 14:04 - W.A.” cds, yet priced at just one TENTH the price of a VFU 1913 £1 Kangaroo which replaced this, which had MANY times more copies sold!! Impossible to locate a finer copy - a stamp for someone who demands ONLY the best. $A325 (Stock 872LY)
German "Lighthouse" Deluxe 64 page stockbooks, Crocodile skin covers, 35% under retail - $A65!: 24 carat GOLD corner stockbooks. CLASSY! For the collector who wants the VERY best for their stamps. "OVER 35% OFF RETAIL" As you can see on link below, Australian recommended retail is $A95 each. My bulk buy price is over 35% UNDER! Offered these in past years and was stampeded with orders. Rich, attractively deep grained Crocodile skin style cover, in the 3 colours, with 24 carat GOLD plated corners for long life. The top of the range, "DELUXE" - from the very top maker. The very classiest stockbooks I've ever sold or handled. Expensive Padded covers, DOUBLE glassine interleaving, quality double linen hinging for very long life, and in rich, sumptuous, very realistic looking Crocodile skin covers as per many photos HERE - https://tinyurl.com/CrocSbks CLEAR strips, not glassine, so you can SEE your stamps - not the cheap cloudy glassine strips as used on many lower cost books, that obscure the stamp designs. TWICE as thick as most stockbooks sold. Popular BLACK pages, so all your stamps look superb. 6 Books is 384 pages.

That is just $1 a page .. Near HALF the $1.75 RRP price of a Hagner sheet even – and the Crocodile skin cover and 24 Carat gold corners are a bonus. With Hagners, you need to then buy Binders at $25 each! Taking price per page up to THREE times these. The "Lighthouse" brand is the global market leader - the Mercedes Benz of all makers, and uses carefully selected board, with anti-fungal agents added in there, to keep YOUR stamps safe. Each book is factory clear shrink wrapped for gift giving, and secure moisture proof storage, if you do not use them all now. Or, if you prefer the thinner usual size 32 page Lighthouse stockbooks, my other offer is here - also great buying - https://tinyurl.com/lighthouseSB - For either offer LayBy/Layaway is also fine. Buy a box as a gift for yourself - $100 or so a month payment for a few months, and you will be set. ** For any overseas buyer I can offer VERY cheap shipping on these HEAVY boxes 6 - ask me **. Retail is $A570 a box -- you save around $A180 a box! $A215 for 3 (Stock 482KX) or a carton of SIX for just $A390 (Stock 482KW)
Norfolk Island 1960 10/- Frigate Bird all THREE different SPECIMEN Fonts/Positions: Now these are SCARCE. All fresh attractive MUH. These will get far more sought after now, as Norfolk Island from July 1, 2016 as we all know, became 100% "Australian" for the first time for postal and legal purposes - exactly as Cocos and Christmas Islands and AAT are now. So prices of all things NORFOLK will keep rising, that is for sure, especially for nice 'CHOICE’ grade scarce material like this. All Australia Post standing order clients have now been getting Norfolk stamps and FDC for the first time in recent years, and of course many of them will opt to buy the older issues back to stamp #1. Creating vast demand - https://tinyurl.com/NorfolkPO for details on the MASSIVE changes that took place from June 30, 2016. $A225 (Stock 562BX)
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Quite Superb, boxed QANTAS 75th Anniv Phonecard Album just $A150: Commemorative Phone Card Series - QANTAS 1995 75th Anniversary - Limited Edition. What a classy presentation in a leather look large album with gold plated corners, in protective slip box. 8 of the special QANTAS Phonecards to $20 - issued for the 75th Anniversary and in a numbered Limited Edition and I am advised sold for $200 - the FACE alone is $65 of cards - right up to $20 value. From a HUGE collection of scarce QANTAS related air covers, and Qantas Vignettes 1920s-1960s, I bought from estate of that Captain - who flew many of the flights. Get onto to me with WANTS! All cards have different markings on reverse to the common normal editions. Qantas celebrates a CENTURY in 2020 and demand for top end Qantas Collectibles like this will of course soar. For an AERO collector - this outlines the history of Qantas pretty much. LAVISH production, printing on heavy grade 200 gsm semi opaque acid free classy paper. FORTY more detailed photos here - https://tinyurl.com/Qantas75 - just $US100 as I type - $A150 (Stock 792LQ)
Aitutaki 1981 BIRDS - 8 sets of 36 MUH to $5 Kingfisher - $1,000 UNDER SG! : On 10 Hagners (Retail $17.50 alone!) SG value £634=$A1,250 for just $A250! Just ~$A30 a set. 8 x complete sets of 36 Different Bird Definitives MUH, 1c to $5. 36 stamps per set, SG value £79.30 x 8 - superb lot for a Bird Collector. And for an ebay seller, a GEM hoard! COMPLETE sets are really tough as this was a fortune back near 40 years back - FIVE times today's buying power. That Block 8 of $5 cost about $A200 alone in today's money. LOTS of New Issue services supplied only the se-tenant issues to 70c, and not the mega pricey 4 x high values. We took the pricey flight to exotic Aitutaki this week actually, from Rarotonga. It is described as being the most spectacular coral lagoon on earth. Just $A250 - just HALF my airfare cost to there this week! A HEAP more pix here - https://tinyurl.com/AitBirds - Just $US170 right now. $A250 (Stock 629ES)
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Australia KGV 1927 Small Multiple Wmk 1/4d Turquoise, superb MVLH! The hardest of the entire 72 different KGV heads to get looking nice even in mint. I have assembled 100s of collections of 72, and this one near ALWAYS is rusted, damaged, faded, or more often, horribly off centre. Clean and fresh and flat, and with perfs and centering unheard of on these. Near MUH. ACSC 129, Cat $375 with usual terrible centering. WILDLY under-rated by the market in MINT. Only on sale for 12 months when the different perf 13½ x 12½ was issued with no fanfare, (and stayed sale for many years) so few collectors put the replaced version aside. SG has same price MINT for both, but has USED at over 300% more - quite insane. MINT of this perf should easily be DOUBLE the later one. If EVER there existed a stamp worth full ACSC, it is this guy! For the collector who insists on THE finest grade possible - $A275 (Stock 587QA)
AUSTRALIA - 1922 1d Violet “Star Die” embossed PSE, Rare Printed To Private Order: British Australian Wool, unused - ACSC # ES41. Printed to Private Order for the British Australian Wool Realisation Association Ltd. Envelope is very fresh unused, especially for being a Century old, and the flap is NOT stuck down. This example is indeed far nicer looking than the one depicted in the ACSC! Only a very few companies availed themselves of the PTPO facility for this scarce 1d Violet Star Die. Of course the public could never BUY these at any time, hence their great scarcity – and very high prices today Mint. These were of course pre-paid SASE, sent to clients to get a fast response, and in Mint, clearly few have survived, and hence Mint price is 4 times used price. ACSC ES41, Cat $400 Mint. You really cannot improve on this example! $A250 (Stock 842JQ)
France 1878 25¢ Peace and Commerce “Sage” superb MLH, cat £1,600 for just $A600! Black on the distinctive stippled India Red paper. The key value of this popular series. Outstanding perfs and centering for these, fresh MLH with no hinge remains. (The French catalogues have a note that well centred for this series adds 50% to cat values.) SG 262, Cat £1,600-$A3,200, for the typical bad centering, and bought well, so out to clear today for just: $A600 (Stock 738KA)
1987 Platypus "FRAMA" STAMPS, 100 x MUH sets 9, Cat $1,800. Just $A325 – UNDER FACE! Great Estate buy. A HUNDRED MUH Postcode sets of 9 x 37c values. i.e. the 9 possible postcode combos for each GPO. As per scan above, of 1 set 9. Current Renniks Cat $2 a stamp as you can see = $A1,800. Owner receipt from Max Stern in 1987 was for $15 a set = $1,500 cost. Many more pix here - https://tinyurl.com/Framas

These were pretty hot back then and sold out FAST. I can sell them well UNDER FACE for just $A325! Each set 9 in a separate stapled Australia Post glassine - unopened for 30 years! Just THREE BUCKS A SET 9 .. less than they sold from at PO - 30 years back. Brilliant to jazz up your outward mail - these are NEVER seen postally used in full sets. On a postally used cover, a set of 9 would likely be a $10-$15 piece. $A325 (Stock 392PQ)
BRAZIL 1945 Peace VIP UPU Congress Folder of IMPERFS (Proofs?): Brazil Serie da Vitoria 1945 Victory and Peace stamp series. 1945 Serie Da Vitoria post office special folder, containing VERY attractive set of 5 large marginned imperfs on thin card. Possibly proofs? Each stamp has the heavily raised recess/intaglio print, consistent with proof use etc. In multi-language hard cover folder. Issued and signed and dated by hand in pen and ink by the Director General of the Brazil Post Office, in inner front cover. 70 years back. Terrific condition for that age. Owner notes said given to big shot Delegates at the UPU Conference after the War. The normal Issued stamps were on normal paper, and rouletted. This album came from Sweden, and condition is superb for this age - the folders below shown from UK and USA sellers are in appalling condition as you can see. But are priced WAY higher than this! See details of those, and many more pix of this folder here - https://tinyurl.com/Brazil1945 - Inside are pages on a very thin tissue/onion skin type paper in 7 different languages, 7 pages, outlining the stores behind each stamp etc. $A115 (Stock 738BG)
Kangaroo 1913 5/- Grey and Yellow fresh CTO, $A265: CTO Kangaroo prices have gone insane in recent times - single stamps selling for up to SEVEN times the recent ACSC prices. So higher value stamps like this one are worth grabbing NOW = SG 13, £200 = $A400 without any variety. Has the constant flaw “Short Spencers Gulf” - ACSC 42(D)j $550 and on CTO’s, clearly any plate flaw is RARE. Brilliant perfs for any 1913 CTO, as you can see, which often are ripped out, centred right, and nice rich glowing colour, and fresh and clean, and free of hinges and gook and gunk etc - so usual on these. I keep EVERY Australian stamp in stock 1913-1980 and in FIVE grades for each, from Spacefiller to Superb Used, to suit EVERY budget. I have EASILY the world’s largest stock of used Roos, normal and “OS”. I have this exact stamp in stock from $50 to $500 in cost, depending on how fussy or non-fussy you are! Contact me re your Australia USED gaps. Read up on Used Kangaroo Grading here - https://tinyurl.com/GlenJune19 Only $US185 right now - $A265 (Stock 572QC)
Papua New Guinea 1987 17t Anemone Fish, Spectacular Misperf - just $A30 each!: From the one misperforated sheet of 50 found of this 1987 issue of the Anemone Fish - Amphiprion Leucakranos or White Bonnet Anemone Fish. Have NEVER had these before. Printed by Harrison & Sons London, and all 15 stamps are fresh MUH, with an AMAZING degree of misperf jump as you can see. Just $A30 each - list these on ebay at $75 or $100 a single, and you could make a killing! If these were from AUSTRALIA we are talking $450 EACH. Vertical pairs of this error look fantastic as you can see in cropped image above. FISH are one of the world’s biggest topicals, and PNG is a super popular country. Attractive Block 15, fresh MUH - for just $A30 apiece - or around $US20 apiece at just $US315 right now: $A450 (Stock 834JQ)
Sierra Leone 1896 £1 Queen Victoria Strip 4. Cat £1,800, for $A175: Strip 4 on small white backing piece, all neat manuscript cancelled “9/3/97”, and Registered cds, with crease along length, that will of course flatten greatly if soaked and pressed etc - I have no time for that stuff. SG 53, Cat £1,800 = $A3,600. Clean and fresh for this region, and now 121 years old. Was tempted to offer as 2 pairs at $125, each with a 9/3/97 cancel. Someone else can do that! Came from old page in a juicy 1915 Ideal Album, so bought cheap to sell cheap, at about 5% of SG, to get some of my outlay back. Not been on the market for over a Century. $A175 (Stock 534BX)
"THE SWEDEN TRESKILLING YELLOW" Superb Hard Covered Book by Lars Fimmerstad: Published in 2004 - superb hardcover: 185 pages done in a small print run. The only example I can see for sale is $US275 second-hand, plus huge post cost to oz via https://www.abebooks.com – landed cost to you of that will be $A400! An essential book for any decent stamp library.

This is a 185 page hardback book titled "THE TRESKILLING YELLOW : The Most Valuable Thing in the World". Written by Lars Fimmerstad and published in 2004. The "Treskilling" Yellow is a famous postage stamp of Sweden, and considered to be the most valuable stamp in the world. This is its fascinating story and detailed history. Beautifully illustrated, with vintage black and white, and colour photographs.

In BRAND NEW excellent condition. Was still sealed in shrink-wrap, and only opened it to take a few photos - contact me if you want me to email you more images. My detailed review of it here - https://www.glenstephens.com/snmay05.html The sought after superbly written ENGLISH Edition is offered here! Rare - most that exist are in Swedish or German. $A135 (Stock 958BP)
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N.Z. 1858 *No Wmk* Chalon, FU, 1/- Blue Green SG #17: £1,800 just $A500!: Fine Used - clean and fresh, and free of hinges and gum and gook, to hide repairs or thins etc - totally sound. Really thick white paper - nice looker. Light numeral cancel. 100% Guaranteed by me to have no repairs or faults. Bright colour, and with 3 very good margins. SG 17, £1,800. From an extensive NZ coll I bought this week cheap LOTS more of it listed here - https://tinyurl.com/GlenRare - $A500 (Stock 729KR)
Australia Post Year books 8 each x 2001+2002, *under HALF Retail*! Bulk Australia Post Year Books - 8 each or 2001 and 2002. PO Cost price was $1,023, and retail price is $225 a set - or $1,800 as you can see - https://tinyurl.com/yearbks - Bought these from an Estate where the buyer made good money when the 2000 Year book shot up fast in price back then, so he bought 8 copies each of the 2001 and 2002 his family told me. They cost him $1,023 to buy at New Issue, as we know, and they did OK retail wise - they retail for $1,800 for the 8 pairs. Each year in hard slipcase of course, and all in PO outer packaging. Superb books, and ANYTHING after 2000 is HARD TO SOURCE. The family were clearing and de-cluttering the house for Auction, so were happy to accept $750 the carton, so out they go for just $A850 - allowing someone else to carry the mantle, or offer on ebay etc as singles - indeed each contain fresh MUH stamps sets with a FACE way over $850 - you are paying well under face value in this one-off clearance offer! I just want to mail the carton - and move on! $A850 (Stock 526HU)
New Zealand rare official mail “O.P.S.O” overprint, 2½d QV superb MVLH with RPSL Cert: These crude handstamped overprints - denoting “On Public Service Only” are very scarce, and have been WIDELY faked of course - ebay is awash with them of course. You *MUST* Buy these only with clear RPS type Photo Certs, such as this one has. Second Sideface issue, perf 10 x 11, diagonal overprint in Violet Rose. Superb fresh MVLH original gum. Bright and VERY attractive. The VERY finest example you will encounter globally. SG #013 cat £850 = $A1,600. $A600 (Stock 794RX)
Tasmania, the 1892 £1 “Tablet” top value Queen Victoria $A400: A REALLY scarce super high value, and far scarcer than ANY other State £1 of the time, and only a tiny number printed of this value by De La Rue in London. Missing from pretty well ALL collections. These lasted on sale until the 1913 £1 Kangaroo came on sale - that is cat £2,500 in SG, and is TEN time more plentiful than these - go figger. SG 225, Cat £500 = $A1,000 mint or used, and used are actually less seen than mint or ’Specimens’. Clean and fresh, and lovely deep bright original Green and Gold colours - these can fade BADLY on used copies if soaked for more than a minute or so. Excellent perfs and centering as you can see. The master stamp forger Jean Sperati did a few of these - I have sold both known copies several times, at $4,000 EACH - for FAKES! - See all detail on that here https://tinyurl.com/speratis And I have a new Sperati discovery of this on hand now - price $4,000. Neat cds of “DEVONPORT SP 22 : 1900 - TASMANIA” and no usual hinge remains, or gook or gunk, or thins or tears, from the very heavy parcel use they warranted. Cat £500 = $A1,000 - and 10% of the cost of a FAKE! - just $A400 (Stock 692KP)


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 at Auction for up to TEN times the recent ACSC prices - tinyurl.com/Glen12-19 So stamps like this are worth grabbing NOW = ACSC 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 avoid soaking Roos, so will sell it on that assumption, at under half what it would be otherwise be, looking this nice. $A150 (Stock 429ER)
South Australia 1886, £15 Queen Victoria “Long Tom” $A300: What a stamp! Scanners do not show “sheen” on a stamp, but this has original metallic sheen - stunning looker in the flesh - 10 times nicer than this! Clean flat unfaded after 133 years, with really excellent perfs and centering for these, that often have appalling perfs. SG 207a Cat is £35,000 mint, unknown used, so “Specimen” is your only option! (I also have the even rarer £20, top value of this set in same shape - Stock 529BK for $A350) : $A300 (Stock 529BJ)
Roo £2 Black and Red Kangaroo **Cheapie** - $A195! Came in an Estate this week, and bought cheap to sell cheap, as I am regularly getting asked for a BUDGET copy, to fill that near always missing gap. The ONE stamp missing from near all Australia collections is the “2 Pound Roo”. They have never been cheap, even for spacefillers, and they get dearer each year. They were used on heavy parcels etc, and MOST have condition issues as a result. Tears, scuffs, creases, thins, greasy stains, or perforation problems, and horrid dark smeary cancels, etc, etc, are the norm! This one has a repair at top. Was on an undated dealer stockcard as “Clean unused, with repair - $450”. Hmmmm. Anyway Juzwin is $725 for average used. SG 138, ACSC 58 at $850 for usual average used shape. Buy a budget copy, to fill that album space, for a quarter the FU price, for just: $A195 (Stock 825GY)
New Zealand - Both KGV and KGVI reign, 1935 £4½ "Arms" Super Hi-Val, for UNDER 5% of SG Cat!: SG Cat £2,500 for just $A225!: Clean and fresh Used, with no thins or faults or repairs or embossing. A stamp missing from nearly all KGV and KGVI collections, worldwide - issued in 1935 it was on sale during KGV reign as well, and is in printed SG “KGVI” albums. SG F167, Deep Olive Grey, cat £2,500 = $A5,000 for just $A225 - UNDER 5% of SG! Has usual neat audit puncture, and a neat and attractive black dated cds. The audit copies of these usually also have ugly pen or crayon cancels, and heavy and ugly embossing “crimps” in addition. This thankfully has neither! Sold here for well under 5% of the Gibbons cat for postal used. Cat £2,500 for just - $A225 (Stock 367AZ)

ITALY 1889 King Umberto 45¢ Dull Green MLH, Cat £2,500 for tiny 5% of SG Cat!: Bought cheap, and have several other Mint Italy from this era also cheap if you have gaps. MLH with guaranteed ORIGINAL gum, and the usual centering for this era. Deep rich original colour, a bargain at a tiny % of SG. SG #40 £2,500=$A5,000. Decent shape for 130 years old, and bought cheap, to sell cheap. Just $US175 as I type this: $A250 (Stock 634EK)
Complete Set Australia Post Year Albums 1983-2003 - $1,000 *UNDER* Retail !!: Red Hot Estate special. All TWENTY ONE albums. The FACE value of the stamps inside is $842.27. You are paying WAY UNDER UNDER ACTUAL FACE! ALL are 100% valid for global postage if you ever need to use them. You are basically buying $100 bills for less than $100! I just bought TWENTY sets of 21, off a guy who bought them for an “investment”, so have slashed over $1000 off my usual selling price, to see them clear FAST.

The issue price from PO was $1,103! You are paying $300 UNDER PO cost, and $1,000 less than retail. One of each year Australia Post books here, from the 1983 book, and ALL have a matching coloured, hard slipcase, to prevent dust and moisture entering the book. My discount Retail is $1,810 as per link below. Save $1000 off retail! All the LATER Year Books and the Black “Leather” cover ones are always in stock - I have the WORLD’S BIGGEST AP YEARBOOK STOCK - also keenly priced cheap, and all are offered singly, if you only need certain issues, at - https://tinyurl.com/yearbks $A800 (Stock 735ET)

Hoard of ST. HELENA PHONE CARDS circa 1990 - $A145: Local stamp legend, and very good client, the late Dr William Mayo swapped these with me 20 years back, for some Lord Howe Island material he wanted. Mayo formed a superb STAMP COLLECTION of St. Helena, from earliest known 19th Century covers etc, and with Richard Peck punished a monograph on the collection. Bill even bought a home there in St. Helena (pretty hard as there are so few!) and visited there a few times - his earliest visit was 1950s as I recall - had photos in the book. Anyway he assembled this cool lot. The heavy thick UK style cards, and FACE alone is about $A550!

Telephone cards from St. Helena x 54 face value £274=$A550 - 9 different designs, all issued about 1990 I'd guess, as Bill visited there at that time as I recall. These are SCARCE - a dealer who specialised in there has strong prices - the scarce £2 Gardens one Bill had 21 copies of - retail of each is £12 - or SIX times face as you can see - and lots of scarce £5 value as well. These sell well - https://tinyurl.com/HelenaPC Anyway, an ebay re-seller super bargain deal at under a QUARTER face and probably this is 10% of retail! NO-ONE else will be offering them, at ANY price globally, that is for sure - check - ZERO other sellers! Super popular country too. LOTS of pix of these at - https://tinyurl.com/PCHelena To a UK buyer only £75 the lot – just over a QUID apiece, and many £15 face values here! $A145 (Stock 763QW)
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Australia 1951 3d Scarlet KGVI, complete Booklet Pane sheet of 144 - $1 each! ACSC 251c as 24 panes or 8 x Vertical strips of 3 panes ACSC 251ca, that are highly sought. Cat $360+ - only a small part of it in photo here above - Just $A150. 1951 3d Scarlet KGVI, complete booklet pane sheet of 144. These sheets were printed, and the usual stamp booklets were just about to be assembled, when the UPU demanded a colour change to 3d GREEN for this value, which were hastily printed and issued July 9, 1951. So 3d Red booklets were NEVER issued. Rarely seen in a COMPLETE sheet thus. Now 68 years old, and still just $A150 - way under HALF the ACSC price! Well centred, and stores easily on a #1 Hagner, or stockbook page, as it folds perfectly vertically as shown here. Around a DOLLAR apiece. All with the UNIQUE "Gutter Pairs" all through it. The ONLY sheet ever sold like this in our history - PO had them for sale if you specifically asked, but few did.

This is the ONLY way to source a booklet pane of the 3d Scarlet KGVI. Right after WW2, money was TIGHT. This had a HUGE face value of 432 pence - near £2. The AVERAGE annual UK wage in UK 1950, was just £100 - I kid you not - https://tinyurl.com/UKwage - around TWO quid a week gross before tax. FACT. And ours were similar here. (And paid annual leave was typically just ONE week!) That was the average national wage, not the minimum wage. So this cost around a WEEK'S wages to buy. A new type of booklet plate was used from 1949. This new booklet sheet comprised six horizontal panels of 48 stamps, each in three rows of sixteen with horizontal gutters between the panels. This is what we have here. Each panel was cut vertically into panes of six stamps, each of which has a margin at the top, so panes could be stitched or stapled into booklets. JUST A DOLLAR APIECE .. to mail a local letter today costs that! $A150 (Stock 823YK)
Ceylon 1937 KGVI Coronation, large 2R.70 Booklet - SG Cat £1,300 ($A2,600) for just $A750!: A truly rare beast, and only a very few exist - globally. Even the famous Dr William Mayo Booklet collection, the world’s finest, never possessed this one. Bill had it on his short ‘Major Want’ list for 20 years, and told me he had never even seen a booklet cover, or roughie, offered anywhere! Only 1000 printed in June 1937, as per note on lower left front cover “1000 - 6/37”. 9¢ was then the airmail rate for UK and Commonwealth Countries according for postage rates inside cover, (local mail was 6¢) but that was increased to 10c within months of this book being issued, and new booklets SB17 and SB18 were printed soon after this, as there was no need for these green 9c stamps, and near all the 2R.70 booklets were destroyed according to Mayo, hence the huge SG price. Imprint on outer back cover - “Printed at the Ceylon Government Press, Columbo.”

These booklets are LARGE - contain three panes of 10 of the large size Coronation stamps, all with glassine interleaving sheets, and a sheet of airmail labels, and rates on another inset page sheet inside covers. The cover was printed on a cheap coarse local blue/green card, and if kept in Ceylon will have been STUFFED after 5 years. Tatty, foxed, torn outer covers, rusted staple etc! Even a sweaty/oily finger-mark will I am sure show forever on this coarse matt cardboard. This one is superb, and is still in a glassine to KEEP it nice! This booklet is near as pristine as you can imagine, for something from this tropical region, 82 years old. Was in a glassine envelope, inside the front cover of a 1938 SG catalogue, from Estate of family who lived there, and later moved back to Scotland. Two stamps were used, and it was put aside inside the Catalogue cover, hence the superb condition of the coarse outer cover. SG SB 16, Cat £1,300=$A2,600. Show me another offered globally - ANYWHERE in the past 5 years, at ANY price, in ANY condition! A real KGVI and Commonwealth rarity - for just $US530 right now - $A750 (782TKL)
Portugal 1945/1946 Lisbon Castle Mini Sheets Fresh MUH - SG £275 – REDUCED $50 to $A200: The superb looking Portuguese Castles 1E.75 Miniature Sheet. SG #996a, fresh MUH, Cat £275. Well centred and fresh and seldom offered in this region at ANY price. Especially MUH examples. An absolute key post war issue, and missing from near all Portugal collections. $A200 (Stock 682GQ)
Trinidad 1885 Postage Due 1/- “SHORT STROKE” SG £275, for $A150: 1/- Slate Grey and Black, top value of the set - a popular stamp error. 1885 Single Crown watermark. SG D9ab, cat £275 = $A550. Two expert handstamps, and signatures that it is SG D9ab. Superb centred, perfect perfs, and fresh flat unused - fantastic shape for 134 years old. SHORT UPRIGHT STROKE variety - as can be seen the stroke is only as high as the top of the numeral “1”. A normal stroke can be seen here - https://tinyurl.com/TrinError - SG Cat $550 - Estate buy, to go out cheap just : $A150 (Stock 782JA)
1968 London-Australia BOAC nicely charred *CRASH cover* just $A150: Addressed to North Bexley NSW. Water damaged from fire hoses, with ink runs on fountain pen writing, and rather badly charred as can be seen. Both EXACTLY what Crash Mail collectors want! AAMC 1622a, “From $200” the BOAC G-ARWE, Captain C. Taylor, crashed on take-off at Heathrow, and 5 were killed, and 38 injured. Airletter has a superb machine cancel of the day before as can be seen, 7 April 1968. The first one of these I have owned - not many oz based covers were rescued - or survived. $A150 (Stock 783LQ)
Solomon Islands 1991 **UNISSUED** stamp - fully SG and Scott noted - Cat $500, for just *$A100* each MUH!: 1991 Health Campaign, 65¢ UNISSUED value, depicting “Less Healthier Food” at left. A set of 5 stamps were printed by Walsall Security Printers in the UK, on the usual CA sideways watermarked paper. On arrival of stock in the Solomons, it was decided not to issue this 65¢ value, as it was noted the more correct English term was of course - “Less Healthy Food”. In error however, a small number of sheets were delivered to some remote Post Offices, and they were certainly used on commercial mail, and several clearly dated used in period pieces and stamps are recorded, from charity kiloware. Full story here - https://tinyurl.com/Glen4-19 Used singles have fetched up to $760 each at auction. I have 4 of them on piece, plus another Dolphin stamp, all with a clear “LATA - March 12 - 1992” cds, dated part envelope to North America - see pic above. This unique used multiple is just $A500 = $US350 (Stock 362C) The last 2 loose singles Auctioned by Status Auctions got $670 and $760 each they confirm - see https://tinyurl.com/SolsError Scott 693a, listed at $US350 = $A500 a mint single. I was sold a block 6 fresh MUH, and I can sell a MUH margin Block 4, Scott cat $US1,400 (= $A2,000), for just $A325 (Stock 362JA) or a MUH single as pictured above, Scott Cat $A500, is just ~$US70 or: $A100 (Stock 362JB)
Aust PNCs 2000 to 2008 ASC value $1,480 - HALF retail - $A700! Total Retail - $1480. Bought cheap in an Estate - owner had paid for them as New Issues from PO or the Mint. Lovely clean condition, and with all the SCARCE pieces that sell instantly - many Military related ones, and with ANZAC Day upon us soon, they always sell well then. Bought cheap to sell cheap at UNDER HALF retail. A brilliant ebayer re-seller - full list and more pix here - https://tinyurl.com/AustPNC UNDER HALF RETAIL - $A700 (Stock 456CV)
USA $US377 face, mostly in full sheets 100 x 50c Nimitz for just $US250!: An American friend mailed me some fresh mint USA mostly full sheets etc, of the super usable 50c Nimitz. A little dampness on corner of a few sheets, that will peel apart I am sure with care, and only affects a few stamps anyway, otherwise all clean fresh MUH. FACE value as per letter in link is $US366.76 as you can see HERE - plus extra pix https://tinyurl.com/50cNimitz You will pay $US250 NETT to me on paypal, plus the shipping. (Or for non US buyers, $A at day’s rate.) Save over $US125 legally! $US250 (Stock 672LQ)
Laos 1954 Golden Jubilee set MUH - Cat £435 ($870) for just $A225! The KEY set from Laos - the “Sydney Harbour Bridge” issue from there!! The 1954 Golden 50th Jubilee of King Sisauang-Vong. Beautifully engraved bi-colour, steel engraved recess intaglio printing. All are flat MUH, with the usual evenly ‘’suntanned’’ gum after 65 years in Indo China. I see these in stock once in 20 years. SG 40/42, £435 = $A870. USED is the exact same price as mint I notice in SG, this set had such a tiny printing and either mint or used, are NEVER seen offered anywhere. $A225 (Stock 584JR)
Hong Kong - 340 x MUH 1997 Mini Sheets for just $A200! Bizarre lot from a now deceased buyer who paid Max Stern $1,500 for these according to his invoice! Bought cheap - to sell cheap. For anyone who wants to pop something away in the bottom drawer, you could do a lot worse .. the massive interest and resurgence of stamp buying and interest from CHINA (now in charge of Hong Kong) could see these do very well one day - see: https://www.glenstephens.com/snapril10.html $A200 (Stock 465KA)
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Cocos Island 1991 Provisional Overprints Complete Set:
Fresh MUH set of 7 of the regular size stamps, SG 234/239, and that includes the very rare 1991 Coconut "OFFICIAL - PAID MAINLAND" which as always, is CTO with full gum - and was never sold Mint without the corner cancel. A cover with 3 copies, just sold for $A4,800. (SG #01) - see https://tinyurl.com/Glen4-19 – Cocos prices have gone quite INSANE at auction in March 2019 - click the link! ASC 140a/148a, cat. $A350 just the 7 small stamps. This includes both types of overprint grid bars on 10¢ Shell, as per cat listings - one is VERY scarce. One of the priciest and most sought “Shell” stamp sets of the post war era - globally. The 2017 ASC Catalogue Retail is $350 a set 7. I also have the scarce and huge, December 1990 size $5 on 65¢ Aeroplane, Emergency overprint MUH, ASC 186a, cat $A110, for $A70 (Stock 107CR) So, the basic set of 7, ASC Cat $350 is from me $A275 (Stock 107CQ) or all EIGHT overprint stamps as per photo above, including the scarce and huge $5 Aeroplane, for a $A25 discount - all 8 for: $A320 (Stock 107CT)


Hong Kong stamp Collection M+U Queen Victoria to 2000, in S/Bk. SG £1,875 for just $A625! : Large German "Lighthouse" black page stockbook (Retail $80) of Hong Kong, M & U to year 2000. SG Cat £1,874 = $A3,400 - pencil noted on each page for easy double checking. Not all pictured of course, but a few sample shots here – https://tinyurl.com/CollnHK - to give an overview. Clean lot it looked like, when taking pix. Bought cheap in Estate, so out it goes at a silly price! We fly to Hong Kong this week, so this will pay part of the Hotel bill. A HOT collecting area, rock solid, and gets hotter each year as Chinese collectors now chase it heavily, along with Commonwealth Stamp Collectors. Superb nucleus of a new collection, with 90% of the work done already. OR, a brilliant re-sale lot at this price, at about 20% of SG value. Only a few pages photod. FACE value alone will be massive. Lots $50 face value stamps etc. HEAPS more photos on link above - $A625 (Stock 652GF)


Western Australia, 1907 £100 SUPREME COURT FEES Top Val, MUH Plate Block 4! What a gem, and doubtless UNIQUE in a corner Plate Block. All flat MUH, with usual slightly suntanned original gum after 112 years, mentioned for accuracy. Watermarked W Crown A - all inverted, as you can see on scan. Clearly shows plate dot at lower left. They should have been guillotined off by stamp printer, but he left the left margin unusually wide. Single margin plate dots like this are cat $4500 on 1932 Bridge set etc. Has the WA Swan logo on each stamp so even keen BIRD collectors will like this one. The very highest face value ever issued by Western Australia. £400 would have bought you a HOME back then! Bought very well, a gem piece, at only $US340 as I type this - $A500 (Stock 729DC)


Christmas Island 1996 Booklet SG SB1, cancelled on cover with Christmas Island 1996 cds, as most are - all stamps inside are mint of course - $A150 each - Stock 682ER - more background is here - https://tinyurl.com/XmasSB1


Have stocks right here of all these superb titles below -- brilliant additions for any library. Buy yourself a USEFUL Gift!

My lifetime Stamp Manta is "Knowledge Is Power", and I HEAVILY support Philatelic Publishers. Just one modest find using any of those books, will repay the cost right there, and a decent find, just ONCE in your life, will repay book price FIVE times over. A no brainer really!

Shipping cost is often around the SAME in Australia for 1 or 3 or 4 or 5 books! LayBy/Layaway is of course always available on all my stock. ALL are in stock here and now - NO other dealer in the country has stock of all these.



Geoff Kellow - the superb hardcover "The Stamps Of Victoria" Retail $165. Discounted to $A150
https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=32599 (Stock code 842FQ)

The superb, huge Hugh Freeman "Barred Numeral Cancels Of Victoria"NEW 2018 Vol #2. $A190
https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=84178 (Stock code 274BN)

The Numeral Cancellations of New South Wales, 2nd Edition (2017), Hugh Freeman, APR - $A185
https://www.glenstephens.com/snjanuary18.html (Stock 782JQ)

Stanley Gibbons AUSTRALIA (and area) 2019 - near 400 pages full colour - $A85
https://glenstephens.com/snfebruary19.html

“The hand-held Postmarks of South Australia and the Northern Territory” 3 huge Volumes. Near 1000 pages! - $A199
https://www.glenstephens.com/snaugust14.html

John Barwis "Half Lengths Of Victoria" a MAGNIFICENT hard back book - discount Retail $A175
https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=29922 (Stock code 263TL)

"Plating Papua Lakatois" Book by Michael Ryan, 563 x A4 pages, RRP $110 - just $A60!
https://stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=83370 - (Stock 432HA)

Stanley Gibbons new "2020 British Commonwealth Cat" - 750 pages hardbound - $A180
https://glenstephens.com/snnovember19.html- (Stock 893KX)

New 2018 ACSC "Australia Postal Stationery" Catalogue - 484 huge pages colour
https://stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=80347 (Stock 782DV)

Geoff Kellow the superb 'Stamps Of Victoria' Ret $165. NOW JUST $A125!
https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=32599

The Arthur Gray "KGV Reign" Collection, Superb hard bound Catalogue + prices realised $A75
https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=81761 (Stock 368WF)

Superb full colour A4 Seven Seas Stamps "Australasian Stamp Cat" - 400 pages: ONLY STOCK EXISTING! - $A105
https://www.glenstephens.com/snoctober17.html (Stock 792TQ)

New FULL COLOUR ACSC "Australia KGV Reign" Cat ~500 pages - $A170
https://www.glenstephens.com/snjune18.html (Stock 382KX)

Or, add $A40 for a high rez CD Rom copy of the debut Hugh Freeman “The Numeral Cancellations of New South Wales” : https://www.glenstephens.com/snoctober12.html - (Stock code 637KT)


Canada QV 1857 ½¢ Deep Rose Imperf, Cat £2,250 for $A350! Imperforate on very thin, horizontal weave paper. No thins, tears, creases or repairs – or even hinge remainders to disguise all of the above as usually found, after 160 years! Clear “HAMILTON - MR 22 : 1858” cds, clearly verifying the SG number. (The later thick paper SG 25 not issued until DECEMBER 1855) Expertised on reverse, and with Photo Certificate. 2 clear margins, one huge at right, and just clear to touching along left side. Sharp plate impression. Cat £2,250 for just $A350 (Stock 465AC)

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British Solomon Islands 1907 Large War Canoe 2½d Orange Yellow, very fresh pair, IMPERF AT RIGHT: One the classic British Pacific stamp issues, with a true global following. The debut issue, crudely local designed, and primitively produced, these are far better than usual - clean and fresh, bright deep colour, with white MLH original gum. Been in Europe near all their life – luckily, as out here they fox badly. SG 4b is cat £12,000 - the imperf between pair of this value. One sheet of those were recorded, and one sheet with imperf at side. Only a few pairs exist globally. SG do not list imperfs one side from anywhere, but in this case, they are equally as scarce as SG 4b. $A1,875 (Stock 598AC)

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