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Australia 1932 5/- Sydney Harbour Bridge stamp, Superb VFU: - The most iconic stamp from this country, and missing from 95% of collections. It was printed on what was essentially very coarse, Scott-towel type rough blotting paper, and perforated with blunt nails! This was the absolute height of The Great Depression, and even the Government Printer was economising. The coarse paper means a very large number are thinned - try and carefully peel an old hinge off these, and you WILL thin them! And the perfs, as all will know are often terrible and ripped out, and 'fluffy' and poorly punched. They were perforated with the single line machine, rather like a fancy treadle sewing machine, so one line at a time, then sheet rotated 90 degrees, and the other sides done. Hence wide margin centering is not common at all. A beauty - clean and perfect with superb perfs and centering for these 'terrors'. Yes these do sell a little lower at times BUT that is due to the inferior centering and reverses, and/or thins, aging, etc. Buy QUALITY, first up. Buy top grade for about $US170 at $A265 - Stock 912AX
Quite SPECTACULAR WW1 4d Roo Large 'OS' stamp, misdirected Registered “OHMS” cover: Well this must be the grand-daddy of all re-directed and unclaimed covers! Mailed in middle of WWI – June 1916 from the 'Office Of Tiles' in a violet oval,, incredibly LATE use - the Small ‘OS’ was the standard issue from late 1913, so why a large OS was being used by a Government Dept, in latter 1916, from a capital city GPO, is quite a mystery. The 4d Orange KGV head perf "OS" was issued TWO YEARS before, for this exact purpose! "UNCLAIMED", Boxed “Called For L.C.R.” (In blue) 'NOT KNOWN BY LETTER CARRIER'. and large violet boxed “DLO - PERTH" (Dead Letter Office) ‘INSUFFICIENTLY ADDRESSED’ (in green) handstamps, and all kinds of re-direction notations and comments, and back-stamps on reverse. The MASSIVE Perth Red Registered label - all intact - these were short lived, and are highly sought on their own. ACSC 15ba $275 for a normal 4d large ‘OS’ on cover use, and this is a BEAUTY for any album page. The stamp is the obvious 4d ANILINE orange, cat 5 times a normal with cds 'Registered Perth - 14 JUN : 16 - Westn Australia' - $US190 at $A299 - Stock 948JRL
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Ceylon 1927-29 KGV 20 Rupee top value, bright and attractive - just $A185! - 20 Rupee KGV dull purple and blue, overprinted ‘SPECIMEN’ bright and attractive MVLH. Only a few 100 literally of these were sent to UPU member countries, where near all still reside today in Archive collections. It is easily 100 times scarcer than the issued mint stamp. SG #367s - this was the £2 Roo top face value of Ceylon, near a Century back. Real ‘Eye Candy’ in nice shape, and NEVER offered globally really. Bought very well in an Estate to sell fast - so out it goes at what last year’s Australia Post Annual Stamp Album costs retail - quite insane. What will THAT be worth in 10 years’ time??!! Just $US120 at $A185 - Stock 582KA
Kangaroo 1929 scarce 10/- Small Multiple Watermark, ‘Shaved P’, Cat $1,750 for $A499! - A rare stamp, missing from near all collections in ANY form. SG 112, £500 = $A1,000 even as used - SG is HIGHER used than mint, as this got very little use except on Telegrams, which were destroyed. In my long experience is TEN times scarcer than the Third Wmk or CofA watermark 10/- values. There were in fact only 240,000 of this printed, v/s over 1.2 million of the Third Watermark 10/-, yet Catalogue value is near the same - absurd with a higher than 5:1 ratio. Indeed, there was the exact same low print number of this stamp, than of the super expensive 1913 £1 and £2 First Watermark Roos - 240,000 printed on all 3 of those.
Owner had this marked as 'Islands off NSW coast' as a bonus flaw. This was the 10/- stamp on national issue, all during The Great Depression, and VERY few were used postally, and was replaced very soon by the CofA 10/-. Attractive Mint hinged, bright colours, goods perfs and centering, with ‘SPECIMEN’ overprint, of which ACSC research tells us only 1,920 were ever done. This is the scarce ‘Shaved P’ variant - ACSC Sub Type 2, so only 320 of these were ever printed, and after a Century near all are lost to philately. These ‘Specimen’ packs were given to kiddies as a gifts, and most were lost forever. Well under 50 of these would still exist globally totally. ACSC 49XD, Cat $1,750. Only $US320 as I type this! $A499 - Stock 472LK
1913-21 £1 Scarlet and Yellow Green Postage Due, Rare Perf 14, fresh **MUH** - only 708 ever issued! - Not just one of the top 3 very rarest Australian stamps, but a notable British Commonwealth 20th Century rarity. SG D87 - cat £1,700=$A3,400 each as *HINGED*. New Dr. Kellow research shows only 708 of these were ever issued, less than 8 sheets, and sold only in NSW at Sydney GPO. NOWHERE else. A fortnight’s wages back then. Compare this to 240,000 and 1,171,000 each, sold of the £1 First and Third Watermark Kangaroos .... yet the latter are cat $17,500 per stamp unhinged. These are a 10,000 times scarcer – yet are 20% the price – a total no brainer to put aside. Useage of the high values was so low, that in May 1920 it was officially decreed that all Dues values over 2/- would be discontinued. No genuine postal used copy of this stamp appears to exist, but a very prominent Melbourne dealer faked quite a lot of heavy hinged/toned/creased copies over the years with bogus “Vic - Aust” corner cancels.
Pretty dumb, as that type of cancel wording simply never existed in the 1920s, and these Dues stamps were never on sale in Victoria anyway, as the ACSC now clearly advises! Anyway, that wanton vandalism reduced even further, the mint ones existing. Super fresh *MUH* white gum, with great perfs and amazing centering for these - well over 100 years old now, and are superb fresh copies. ALSO the central red vignettes are generally pretty sloppily registered - even a HALF a millimetre mis-register on that makes the design look untidy. These have superb centred red vignettes as can be seen - MOST have perfs cutting into design. This series was ‘single line perforated’ by Cooke, i.e. each line of perfs at a time, up and down the sheet, then turned around 90 degrees – like in a large sewing machine virtually. Hence the corners are never neat and tidy, like the comb perforated issues (i.e. like all Kangaroos etc.) Whenever you sell your collection this will be an Auction front cover item!
Literally one of THE most important and desirable and visually impressive pieces in ALL of Australian Philately. Six weeks wages involved here, for a working man. One of the most gob-smacking items I have offered in my 45 year career. If this stamp were on sale today, and you went into a post office and were given 8 sheets to carefully remove a strip of 3 from, this would be the finest one you could select. AND it is absolutely pristine, even after well over a Century – literally as if printed yesterday. Fresh white, totally flat original gum, and brilliant perfs, and deep rich colours. Totally unmounted - not even in the outer margin. If it were a £1 Kangaroo MUH strip you’d be adding a ZERO at least to this price, despite them being 10,000 times more numerous. There are some pieces you see in your lifetime you wish you had bought, (or in my case, wish I had not sold!) and this will certainly be one of them.
Buy an excessively rare stamp, with just 708 ever SOLD, that is still priced nowhere remotely near its true scarcity level. Prices for top end Dues are moving very solidly, in this savvy market. A block of this £1 (SG then was only a low £800 each) and with none of the units well centered, sold for near $18,000 at Public Auction At another auction the 2 used high values of the 1908/9 set that precedes this - ACSC Cat $5,000 and $12,5000 respectively, sold for $A38,000 and $A76,000! The list goes on. Do not hesitate on this one - superbly fresh *MUH* guaranteed original gum, and with deep vibrant colours, and stunning centering, *NO* Specimen stamps, or UPU sets, or sold CTO sets ever existed, or any genuinely postally used - SG D87 - cat £1,700=$A3,400 EACH as HINGED. £1 Roos are cat 3 times hinged, when MUH. I have the totally unique MUH marginal strip of 3 for sale as illustrated. GEMS for the ‘bottom drawer’. The unique strip 3 is $US6,150 - $A9,500 - Stock 457GB, and be a real shame to split it, but the singles are about $US2,100 at $A3,250 each – way under the SG HINGED price - Stock 457GC
Kangaroo 1915 *SECOND WATERMARK* 6d Violet, genuine MUH! - A GEM example - Top Quality WWI era *MUH* are truly SCARCE, and are in HUGE demand. This is GUARANTEED. Centering was generally REALLY poor, so decent looking ones like this are worth grabbing at ANY price! Issued in the midst of WWI - when most stamp collectors, being men, were fighting and training overseas. As this was simply a Wartime, non-announced watermark change, from the 6d 1913 First Watermark, very few noticed, and even fewer cared! ACSC 18, Cat $A2,250 with NO jubilee lines. A super fresh MUH corner copy, 105% guaranteed, not hinged on the margins even. with the super attractive solid blue Jubilee lines. (Regummers cannot do corner copies of course.) Was in a glassine from ’The Townsville Hoard’ – been there over 100 years, since bought as a new issue. You’ll be the FIRST collector to own it since WWI. Paying a premium for exceptional quality PAYS OFF when you come to sell.
This SG 27 was a single Emergency Printing, on the KGV head watermarked paper, as the regular paper could not be sourced from Europe - due to allied merchant shipping here being sunk by Germans. The rather common 6d Third Watermark was issued only MONTHS later, so the 2nd had a VERY short life. Things were in crisis in WWI, and few were buying mint stamps from Post Offices anywhere. Issued with no philatelic fanfare, or any prior advice (no FDC exist of course of any of this watermark values) in April 1915 - just before the Gallipoli Landing, so folks had FAR more things on their minds in life, than a stamp watermark change. So near none were bought mint, and today’s prices are absurdly LOW. Show me ANOTHER of these, being offered anywhere! Attractive MUH original gum, and with stunning perfs, and good centering and colour for these, as you can see - Cat $2,250+++ – bought very well, so but the finest example you will ever see save $750! $US975 - $A1,500 - Stock 764KJ
NAMIBIA 1997 African Bird/Animal Set 18 x *15* complete MUH Booklets - Just $A125! - Namibia 1997 African Bird and the 'Big 5' Animals set, SG 749 to 766. SUPERB set of 18, all printed in Holland by Enschede as can be seen, with Enschede imprint, and set of plate numbers. Supplied in the special booklets, or can be sold as a complete Hagner size sheet/pane of 18 with margins all sides, or as 18 singles - wherever you prefer. An ebay seller DREAM, stunning topicals, from a respectable and popular country, that no-one is offering globally. These are costing you about EIGHT $A BUCKS a set - a very small beer costs more than that now .. and they go right up to the $10 top value Cheetah! WAY under PO cost, from a very fortunate purchase. $US80 at $A125 - Stock 541SKL
NEW 2024 Editions of Brusden White *ACSC* KGVI and QE2 Pre-Decimal in COLOUR: - now in Full Colour, and in the new large A4/Quarto type size. So 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 vast amount of ACSC data found NOWHERE else. These new editions supersede and update the previous 2015 and 2018 editions. The listings have been fully revised, with some additions and corrections, and substantial price increases, and with many 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 238 x A4 pages. $A135 (Stock 892JF ) and 'Queen Elizabeth 2' is 286 large A4 pages, price $A145 (Stock 892JG ) Or buy the both TOGETHER and pay $20 less at just: $US180 or $A270 - Stock 892JD
2024 Commonwealth & British Empire Stamp Cat. 1840-1970 - (SG went into Administration at Xmas - this MAY well be the FINAL edition of this book - do NOT miss it!) - For the first time, there are 4.5 PAGES of priced South Australia Departmentals with a 'G.P.' 1d green on front cover even! Very many 100s of new listings of these - priced mint and used and based on major auction sales results. Prices up to $7,500 each = $A15,000. My air freight copies are nearly sold out - have never sold as many copies of this book - most to keen collectors of S.A. Departmentals! Most dealers do not have stock here. One super modest Departmental find, just ONCE in your life, will repay the cost of this book. If you only buy a new ‘Part 1’ each decade or so, THIS is the decade to do so! Order NOW! $A189 - stock 592LW. Well priced in spite of the totally crashed AUD against STG, and the now huge air freight costs to fly these out. A brand new priced listing of the Departmental Officials of South Australia – where no less than 54 government departments had stamps overprinted with their initials for official correspondence. $A195 - Stock 592LW
French Polynesia superb collection 1954-2000 in Lighthouse. Retail $10,000 for just $A2,500! - An outstanding collection, on fresh and clean and new 'Lighthouse' Hingeless album pages, all in a German Binder, and matching hard slipcase. As can be seen, pages and binder and slipcase retail for about $A1,000 ALONE! A magnificent collection of stamps inside, from the first issue, to end of 2000. Fresh and clean - a few earlies MVLH, the rest all superb fresh MUH, including all the key items and scarce mini sheets. Many more pages shown here - www.tinyurl.com/Poly-Fra - There are two lots of superb MUH mini sheets here cat £400 alone! A **NEVER** seen area offered locally, and it is nearly complete - 670 stamps, and sheets.
Catalogue value of them is lightly marked in erasable 4B pencil for your very easy checking. That totals £4,520 = $A9,000. Add the superb new album and pages, and we are at about $10,000 retail here. A truly GORGEOUS collection of recess printed, intaglio printed material, NEVER seen here, in terrific condition, and all housed in a quite EXQUISITE finest quality album. (That of course can be added to if required) Retail prices locally for this material are VERY high - www.tinyurl.com/Fr-Poly - Have NEVER had a decent collection of this era to offer. $10,000 retail for just $2,500. Just $US1,625 now. $A2,500 – Stock 764VF
1971 25c Aboriginal *MISSING BLACK* in MUH pair with normal – SG Cat $2,600 for $A1,100 - One of the all-time classic missing colours from Australia. *TOTALLY MISSING BLACK* (Face value ‘25c’ and ‘AUSTRALIA’ and man’s eyes and nose etc) From the discovery sheet, with the unit to right with partially effected black loss on ‘25c’ as on all copies on sheet – see image in ACSC). Four colours were used - Blue Grey, Indian Red, Sepia, and Black. SG 495a £1,300=$A2,600 for just the SINGLE stamp in a pair, with part part variety, a clear premium. Fresh well centred MUH at $1,500 UNDER SG catalogue value! Now 53 years old. From the outstanding missing colours Commonwealth QE2 collection of Richard Montiero – ‘Tom Pierron’, who produced the quite superb catalogue of them. $US715 - $A1,100 - Stock 517LK
Netherlands Indies 1947 Reg’d airmail to Aust with 2½G Top Val. $A65 - A HEAVY advertsing cover, large and doubled over. SOERABAIA Red Registered label which has had over it an Aust official 'FOUND OPEN - OFFICIALLY SEALED' label from PMG. The large Queen Wilhelmina 2½ Guilden top value of set VFU, as airmail on heavier sendings was very pricey right after WW2. A rare stamp used on commercial advertising cover. SHOW ME ANOTHER! Very attractive Multi colour cover. $US42 at $A65 – Stock 579RL
Australia 1997 Sir Don Bradman $5 Coin and Stamp PNC with *AUSTRAILA* Spelling Error for ‘AUSTRALIA’ - just $A90! - The just released Greg McDonalds’s debut cat - “The Essential Reference to Australian Post And Numismatic Covers” - a huge 456 pages – a bargain from all dealers at just $A49, highlights this spelling error, that was soon corrected he notes, and states there have been ‘no recent sales’. I bought one in the Estate of a Cricket Mad collector who had an invoice from Max Stern for $200 for it, around the issue time 26 years back. The PNC contains the special bi-metal, $5 legal tender don Bradman coin, and the se-tenant pair of 45c Australia Post stamps cancelled ‘Bowral NSW’ – the home of Sir Don Bradman of course. Cricket is one of the world’s most popular topicals, hugely popular in the UK and India especially, and scarcer stamp related cricket related pieces OFTEN get way into 4 figures. Sir Don Bradman is THE most famous cricketer of all time. A very striking error - Bought well in the Estate, so out it goes at less than HALF what he paid, for just $A90! Stock 489DR
St. Helena 1953 QE2 Defins complete set 13 superb mint - SG $200 for $A95 - Very fresh MVLH/MUH, SG 153/165 - £100=$A200. Superbly engraved, steel engraved recess printing of relevant local scenes, by De La Rue in London - now over 70 years old. The top value 10/- is especially elusive, and is seldom offered, and is HALF the cat of the full set! $A90 - Stock 714LJ
Nauru 1924/48 Ships/Freighter complete set 14 unusually fine cond $A150 - The iconic ‘S.S. Century’ Ship set, complete set of 14. Unusually fresh and bright MVLH/MUH. Near all one sees of these are badly gum toned, but this one is miles better than usual. Super popular BOAT topical set. SG 26b/39b Cat £225=$A450. (and cat £275 used!) Will sell fast at $US97 at $A150 – Stock 714BR
Great Britain 1840 2d Deep Full Blue – clean and fresh, 3 margin example - $A2,000 *UNDER* SG cat! : - Totally free of usual thins and creases etc, and condition guarantees on these stamps are VERY important. It is 184 years old now. Clean and fresh and flat, and *totally* free of the usual old hinges, and gook and gunk and foxing, common on these. Bright colour, and razor-sharp plate impression as you can see. Totally free of the creases and toning that truly be-devil this issue - which ARE present on most examples. "The World's First Stamp" and sourcing a nice one from day #1 is wise. Even a 2 margin roughie these days can cost you $300! Lettered 'E.L.' with lovely and unusually crisp black ‘Maltese Cross’ cancel as you can see. Every collector wants a ‘1d Black’ and ‘2d Blue’ on the frontispiece page of their album, no matter WHAT country they collect – and if your initials are 'E.L.' - even better! Lovely deep bright colour as you can see. Removed from a lovely old style GB collection today. ANY 2d Blue is FIFTY times scarcer than any 1d Black - a solid FACT, despite the weird cat prices. This is the seldom seen Deep Full Blue shade, SG #4, cat is £1,200 = $A2,400 - and bought very well to clear at just $A2,000 *UNDER* SG price - $A399 - Stock 613LK
Papua New Guinea 1994
Rare ‘Emergency Overprints’:
Rare ‘Emergency Overprints’:
Papua New Guinea 1994 "Emergency Overprints" stamp sets 11 or 20: I have always had the largest stock of these overprints in the world. Buy DIRECT from the original dealer "source"! Thousands of collectors NEED this set to complete their collections, as all album pages on the planet have spaces for them. Only 45,000 sets were ever printed, NONE were ever sold by the global agents, or the Papua New Guinea Bureau, or even Australia Post. Nearly all were used up on genuine commercial mail. Not discovered by the stamp world until months after all the key values were all used up on mail! I first reported their existence to the stamp world in 1995. 'Set of 11' - SG # 730/740. Michel # 714 -724. Scott # 860/871. ASC Cat $A420, for the basic set 11 alone.
Definitive sets like the 1967 Anguilla overprints set 16 are already cat at £25,000 mint in Stanley Gibbons - and Anguilla has NOTHING like even 1% of the global collector following of PNG - think about it! This PNG set has a LONG way to go yet - that seems very clear. For very detailed and comprehensive background on this issue, with all numbers printed etc - see my special page on these issues: www.tinyurl.com/1994PNG - WEB SPECIAL - set of 11 (ASC Cat $420!) for just $A200 ~$US130 (Stock 928XG) or the Fine Used set 11 for $A140 (Stock 928XH) Complete Set 20 as illustrated for $A300 or $US195 (Stock 928XL) or the Set of 20 Fine Used for about $US120 at just $A185 (Stock 928XP)
Finally - all the 1994 "Emergency" sets I sell are of course guaranteed 105% genuine. You may ask for my Photo Certificate Of Genuineness on my security watermarked colour letterhead for this set of 11 or 20, mint or used, dated and signed, illustrating in full colour the exact set I mail you. If required, this CERTIFICATE costs you an extra $A70 (Stock 928ZW) on top of price of the stamps, largely to cover the considerable time and messing around of individually preparing each one, typing, and scanning to size etc.
This is substantially cheaper than sending it to the R.P.S. in London etc, which takes half a year to get back, and also incurs substantial Registered airmail and full insurance costs to you - in both directions. And quite frankly, the RPSL would not have a clue about these issues. 'Too Modern, Old Chap' they would sniff! Years down the track when the set sells for a multiple of what it does now, such a certificate Guaranteeing these came from original PNG sources in 1994/5 will add FAR more than $A70 to the extra price you obtain when selling. MUH Set of 11 (ASC Cat $420!) for just $A200 ~$US130 - Stock 928XH
2000 "FOR VALOUR" $1 Victoria Cross PNC Retail $300, for just $A135: The absolute key to any PNC collection. The ONLY way to source the Victoria Cross design $1 coin is by tearing open one of these. Coin dealers rip up 100s a year, and toss the scarce strip of 5 x VC stamps into the Fine Used box. All collectors of face different Australia coins *HAVE* to secure this one. In 10 years’ time, a complete PNC such as this will be many times the cost of a coin as the PNC’s will be near extinct - the conservative McDonald retail of the loose coin alone is $295 - the PNC is listed at $360. eBay prices are up around that $300 mark for this PNC as you can see. Bought cheap today to sell dirt cheap today. Clean condition - been in an album since bought from mint. This is "For Valour" PNC (Stock 284YQ ) for $A135. I also have the near as scarce 2000 Australian Legends - "The Last Anzacs" PNC for $A70 - (Stock 284YR ) and the 2001 "Australia Army" PNC, Cat $100 for $A60 (Stock 284YT ) and the mega "Biggie" the 2002 "QE2 Coronation Accession Jubilee PNC" Ret $295 for $A125 (Stock 284YV ) AND all the other scarce early PNCs in superb condition at great prices - enquire! "FOR VALOUR" $1 Victoria Cross PNC - Under $US87 at $A135 - Stock 284YQ
Australia 1960s 2/3d Commems MUH x 141 - cost $2,800. Out for $275! - Younger members may not realise these were high-flyers in the Stamp Boom. Retail was $25-$30 EACH. See ASC catalogue page above that the owner had with them. Estate had an invoice from Max Stern at near $20 each, for $2,800 'Special Deal'. Indeed, I recall these got to $30 each at one point - they were red-hot. 1965 ANZAC x 18, 1962 Commonwealth Games x 69, 1963 Compac Cable x 54 - Total = 141. Photos of them all here - www.tinyurl.com/Boom60s - This Doctor amassed this nice little MUH parcel of them, inc blocks, and even imprints. No-one will have checked these for the endless ACSC flaws as they were not listed back 40 years ago. I certainly have not! All looked fresh on a quick spot check. Pay under 10% of what the Doctor paid at the time! Just $US175 as I type for all 141 stamps! $A275 - Stock 595PN
Gilbert & Ellice Island 1940 Postage Dues SUPERB! - A wildly under-rated set - I almost NEVER see these, even in this market where they mostly reside. Tiny number sold and printed. Superb fresh MVLH or MUH (mostly) as been in Glasgow near all their life of 84 years. Almost ALL one sees out there have noticeably brown gum arabic, that is mostly in ugly patches. These are pristine. Beautifuuly printed by Bradbury Wilkinson in London. SG D1-8, £180=$A360 mint, and £275=$A550 in USED! Bright and fresh and attractive - $US77 at $A120 - 658KA
Solomon Islands 1991 **UNISSUED** stamp - fully SG and Scott noted - Cat $550, for just *$A80* each ($US50) 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. 'LATA' is a tiny, remote, very tropical island there - population 550 persons!
Full story here - www.tinyurl.com/Glen4-19 - Used singles have fetched up to $760 each at auction. I have 4 of them on piece here, plus another Dolphin stamp, all with a clear “LATA - March 12 - 1992” cds, dated part envelope to Canada - see pic above. This unique used multiple is just $A400 = $US260 - cat will be well over $US1,400. (Stock 362CB) The last 2 loose singles Auctioned by Status Auctions got $670 and $760 each they confirm, see - www.tinyurl.com/SolsError - Scott 693a, listed at $US350 = $A550 a mint single. I was sold a block 6 fresh MUH, and I can sell a MUH margin Block 4, Scott cat $US1,400 (= $A2,100), for just $A250 - Stock 362JA or a MUH single as pictured above, Scott Cat $A550, is around $US50 at just - $A80 - Stock 362JB
GB 1840 'Penny Black' Fine Used - $A275: "The World's First Stamp" Even 2 or 3 margin, common plate number real roughies these days, can cost $100s, as many 1000's are sold to China each year by Gibbons and others, in a large consumer marketing drive, and prices are up. On sale for only 9 months, and then the 1d red Imperf took over, in vast numbers. This one is Lettered 'F.E.' with a super lightly struck, crisp Vermilion Red Maltese Cross cancel, as you will agree - so much nicer than a usual heavy BLACK MX as most 1d Blacks have! Every collector wants a 'Penny Black' on the frontispiece page of their album, no matter what country they collect. If your initials are 'F.E.' - even better! SG #1G, with Red MX - 'From £475' = $A950. 4 clear margins, super clean and fresh and flat, and totally free of the usual old hinges and gook and gunk and repairs and aging found on near all these oldies - and now 184 years old. GREAT eye-appeal, as you can see, superb, sharp, proof like impression, for over $625 less than Gibbons. Indeed it is around the retail price of last year's Executive PO Year Album - Insane.(I always have several lower priced 1d Blacks on hand - please enquire!) Only $US175 as I type: $A275 - Stock 316BC
Australia 1964 5/- ‘White’ Paper cattle super fresh Block 4 - $A325 - The key QE2 issue from Australia. The iconic Aboriginal Stockman design. 99% offered on Scambay etc are wrongly ID’d by clueless and/or deceptive sellers, and cheerfully purchased by the equally clueless buyers, as the rare 'White' paper. ‘The Blind leading the Blind’ as usual in there. This was was a tiny Emergency print on the white 1964 Navigator paper, as production difficulties held up the 5/- Navigator release and 5/- was a heavily used rate. This was ONE POUND face value, or 240 pence. A fortune back then, SIXTY years back. Indeed about 100 times the 5d letter rate back then. So it is exactly like buying a sheet of 100 x $1.50 letter rate stamps today = $A150 in buying power. SG 327a, £400 = $A800. Superbly fresh, flat block - been in the UK near all its life - 2 x MVLH and 2 x MUH. The totally distinctive color of the INK used is the key to sorting these of course, far more so than the paper! All major albums like 'Seven Seas' etc have a space for both papers, so of course everyone needs one this stamp. BLOCKS super scarce, due to high face. $A325 – Stock 756LB
'The Engraved Stamps Of The Commonwealth Of Australia' REDUCED $200! - The quite magnificent, official Australia Post produced coffee table book - Compiled by Richard Breckon, the respected PO Archivist, and the PO Senior Design Team. Brass cornered, beautifully gold deeply embossed leatherette cover, even gilt edged outer leaf edges, with matching marbled heavy slipcase. Issued in a VERY limited Edition for 'Australia 99'. I am advised only a few 100 copies were ever made, and were a near instant sell-out, even at the very high issue price at the time. A joy to handle and own. Cost was no object here. Contains 28 different, recess, engraved, raised print, DIE PROOFS, taken from the original steel Dies. From 1913 1d Engraved KGV, to 1965 Anzac. Incs most early commems - like 1932 Harbour Bridge, Jubilee, Canberra, Hermes, Sturt, Sesquicentenary etc.
Three very similar later books were issued - 'Royalty', 32 Die Proofs (Stock 428YR ) Blue book 'Federation', 30 Die Proofs (Stock 428YU ) - those are $A400 each, and the rarest Green Book 'Transportation', 32 Die Proofs (Stock 428YX - $A550) were also sold in even FAR lower numbers - Or all 3 for $A1,200 or $US775, and save $A150. (Stock 428YZ the three. ) Being modern, these almost NEVER come on the market - no-one wants to let them go! HEAPS more pix of them here - www.tinyurl.com/StampEngr - Prestige Philately got $437 for a single book in a Public Auction. They called them 'without doubt the BEST product released by Australia Post in recent decades'. Just bought 3 in an estate, and have reduced the price of last two by $A200, reduced from $A495 to just $A295 each! Buy yourself a classy GIFT you'll always love handling and looking at - $US185 at just $A295 - Stock 428YT
Roo 10/- CofA Dark Grey and *Aniline* Pink at $1,000 UNDER Cat! - The very last, December 1937 Emergency printing, before the issue of the 10/- Robes in early 1938, due to unexpected technical issues, about printing that one, on the new to the printers, chalky faced paper. ACSC advises most of this Roo printing was withdrawn and destroyed, when the long-awaited Royalist Coronation Robes design was FINALLY printed, and rush issued. Quite superb perfs and centering and colour as you can see. What a Pretty looker – incredibly deep and vivid rich unfaded colours - glows even in normal lighting, and it lights up like a volcano under UV light. I have a dozen other 10/- mint CofA, and next to them under UV, this one glows like a VOLCANO!
I’ve never seen the grey this deep on any ANY CofA 10/-. Attractive flat fresh MVLH original gum. Scan does no justice at all to the deep colours. The pink ‘suffuses’ to the reverse, as these must do of course. This final printing was also on paper markedly thinner than the usual printing, hence the watermark is far more evident from the face, as we see here. The MEGA million $$s, Stuart Hardy, Hugh Morgan and ‘GOLDFARM’ and Peter O’Rourke and the ‘Artemeis’ stupendous Roo collections did *NOT* have this shade in mint or used, or 'Specimen' - all were totally absent. Clearly a super rare tiny printing and shade. Fresh bright MVLH, flat and fresh, a GEM, and a truly gorgeous stamp, to suit the VERY fussiest buyer. One for the bottom drawer! ACSC 50E, Cat $2,750 in hinged normal grade, and normal centering. $1,000 UNDER cat, for a gem condition example. $US1,135 at $A1,750 - Stock 982EQ
Curacao 1891 to 1928 handy range - SG value £126=$A250 just $A80 - Try finding these offered anywhere else locally - you cannot! Curacao 1891 to 1928, SG value £126=$A250. Includes fresh MLH set 12 of Queen Wilhelmina Definitives - SG cat £94 alone! Bought well from an Estate so out it goes at just over $US50 at $A80 - Stock 874TR
1913 Kangaroo First Watermark 2/- Brown Large ‘OS’, superb centred, fresh MVLH - Cat $1,750 for just $A850! - A surprisingly scarce stamp in ANY shape. The values above 1/- were seldom sent to Federal Offices, as usage was negligible in this Penny Post era. This LARGE 'OS' size puncture was quickly dropped within a few months, as the huge perfin meant the stamps literally tore apart when being separated on this coarse tough long paper fibre paper, where even tearing apart NON ‘OS’ pairs is impossible, without ripping out a perf or three.
Even FAIR centering is truly scarce on any large ‘OS’, as the Government printer deliberately put aside BAD centred sheets for puncturing for the ’Free Government use’ and most are SHOCKERS, as you would know if you have looked about. Nice colour, and also this has better than usual perfs for any 1913 Roo - near all First Wmks of any value have pulled perfs on one or both sides as you know. Very nice appearance for these stamps, that near always have really ’wonky’ and several ripped out perfs. Fresh MVLH, very near MUH, and FRESH - indeed owner had a $1,500 invoice for 'MUH' from leading dealer! ACSC 35ba, $A1,750 for usual average centering mint. Just $A850 - Stock 456JR
Australia 1915 Second Watermark Roo 5/-, Clean Used - SG $A700 for just $A275! - - The priciest 5/- watermark by a long way and missing from MOST collections. Clean fresh copy with dated cds cancel as you can see, and not the usual huge Parcels Branch, rubber, thick lettered 'Killers' - used on near all parcel mail in this WWI era. SG 30. These, as we all know, 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.
Only one small printing was ever made, and near all were used up on Telegrams, and officially 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. A most collectible good used example, 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 $600 lately.
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 $80 to $800 in cost, depending on how fussy - or non-fussy you are! Contact me re your Australia USED gaps. Read up on Used Kangaroo Grading here - www.glenstephens.com/snjune19.html - SG #30, £350=$A700, ACSC Cat 43b, $675 for average used. Only around $US175 as I type. A decent looking copy of this tough stamp, as all can see - $A275 - Stock 794LQ
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Norway coll 1856-1980 in new ‘Lighthouse’ classy album + slipcase - Ret $A6,250 for just $A999! - Lovely looking, near all postally used collection in a huge, and classy literally ‘as new’ top quality ‘Lighthouse’ German made black album with matching hard slipcase - retail of the empty album and slipcase is well over $450 ALONE! Masses of 25 extra pix here - www.tinyurl.com/NorwayColl - Stamps are largely complete, with many earlier top values, inc 1867/68, 8Sk rose, 1872-74 Defins complete ex 25 Ore etc. Also, a good range of elusive Officials and Postage Dues etc.
SG cat of the stamps is noted neatly in erasable soft 4B pencil for ready checking on each item or set. This totals £2,903=$5,800, plus the $450 album, is a $A6,250 collection here. 100s of stamps and impossible to assemble out here. A very conservative and popular stamp issuing country, and VERY completable down the track. Condition looks a cut above average - as it was formed in Norway, where 'condition is KING'! A wonderful solid nucleus to complete, and add to. Retail $6,200, for about 15% retail at $US650 at $A999 - Stock 546SH
Cook Islands, 1932 1d Captain Cook - attractive MUH Block 4 *IMPERFORATE PLATE PROOF* - $US95 - $A145! - Fresh, well centred, great margins, with 100% guaranteed, original gum, *MUH* hand applied, gum arabic and deep sharp bold original colour - a gem block. Been in Scotland near all their life. Captain Cook is a super popular topical globally, and being from the COOK ISLANDS, is a cool bonus for those folks! Very striking. No watermark as issued - SG 100. SG notes that these are Plate Proofs. Superb recess printed, steel engraved intaglio, by Perkins Bacon in London with razor sharp impression. Show me another block for sale ANYWHERE globally. For just the cost of last year's Annual PO Book! Near a Century old, and how many genuine MUH would still exist? Just $US95 at $A145 - Stock 495BC
Australia M+U Decimal collection in Maroon 'Seven Seas' Hingeless Album $150 - or just $US95! - Gold blocked, Maroon cover, Seven Seas album from start of Decimals in 1966 .. retail $150 new. A trifle aged looking on some pages, but not too bad. HEAPS of images here - www.tinyurl.com/MaroonDec - The stamps form nearly a complete collection here - mostly FU, Many of the modern the owner has bought as full gum MUH sets, and had his PO add light corner cancels!
Just the pages shown here, are worth well over $140 ALONE! Retail stated to be $406 plus album so $550 or so retail. As can be seen, all the key sets and items are here - only a few pages shown. Fantastic lot for someone to secure, and then simply buy the PO annual Albums thereafter, to be complete - I have special heavily discounted deals on those too - www.tinyurl.com/yearbks - Just $US95 at $A150 - Stock 178HK
Australia 1954 3½d Blue and Red matched PLATE NUMBER MUH pair – a very rare pair of survivors - The printer was supposed to guillotine these off on the final sheet trim. But as can be seen, these have extra wide RH margins so there plates escaped the trimming. Matched Lower Right corner blocks, with the ‘1’ and ‘2’ Plate numbers with vertical dashes top and base of the numbers. ACSC #312za, and #312ze cat $400. VERY few were discovered and after 72 years near all of those are hinged. Both fresh MUH, NEVER had these in 45 years of dealing. Cat $A400 for just $A200 – Stock 385JA
Hugh Freeman’s debut 'NSW NUMERAL CANCELLATIONS' on CD Rom just $A40! - I still have a few copies left of the superb NSW CD Rom shown above for just $A40, of Hugh Freeman’s debut opus 'NSW NUMERAL CANCELLATIONS' epic 400 page hard cover work. High resolution CD Rom of the debut huge NSW cancels handbook, with rarity ratings on all, exactly as it appears in the 400 page printed version, with all colour photos etc. Detailed review of it all here – www.tinyurl.com/FreemanCD - Only 220 numbered copies were ever done for the world - these fetched up to $440 at Public Auctions - see many comments on this superb work here - www.tinyurl.com/HughCD - and with shipping cost added, was hence not economic for many buyers, especially overseas, with $100 shipping added, for being over 2 Kg.
I secured a few CD Roms off Hugh which can be mailed globally as a large letter, and not a 2+ kilo book! Exact same contents - just $400 cheaper! All in a white CD protector for your stamp library or den - full colour CD label as shown. Finding just one vaguely scarcer numeral cancel, on NSW or early Roos stamps, will repay this modest cost MANY times over – so an essential for every dealer and collector. I found a scarce numeral in a $10 kiddies album recently and sold it fast for $250. This CD is just $US26 as I type! Or buy one for a local friend or stamp buddy, or sell it off on ebay etc, and save even more, as post is exactly the same globally for 1 or 2 CDs - ONE for $A40 or $US26 (Stock 637KA ) or TWO for $A70 (637KB ) or THREE for $A90 (Stock 637KC ) - Global air post is a flat $A5, for 1 or 2 or 3 CDs
1915 6d Blue Kangaroo ‘INVERTED WATERMARK’ clean Superb Used - The Inverted Watermark was from the first WWI Cooke printings of 1915 and 1917 as ACSC tells us, so this is now well over 100 years old. They are not common, and the ones generally encountered are really grotty, are average parcel used, with smeary ‘Killer’ parcel postmarks, and the usual ugly ‘fluffy’ perfs of this issue, not well centred, and most of them are creased. Superb used, PERFECT centred, crisp dated cancel, clean and fresh, with bright deep colour, and the light dated 1917 cds cancel - ‘Registered - Adelaide – Sth. AUSTRALIA’. Totally free of the usual old hinges, and gook and foxing, and thins and tears etc, found on these parcel used stamps. ACSC 19a, $275 for normal average grade. (And cat $750 for hinged mint!) As good as these get - Just $US130 at $A200 - Stock 516BX
Buy a box of current $1.20 Peel and Stick stamps and save $650! - In the past I have almost *NEVER* had current letter rate stamps in peel and stick to offer at well under face. Bought a Sprintpack printer carton with 20 x sealed boxes of 100 = 2,000 stamps in the box. 'Native Animals' - Platypus etc. Very pretty stamps as you can see. The rate increased to $1.20 on January 3, 2023, so these will be historically valid for you to use up for YEARS - the last price increase was January 2020. STOCK UP now - once sold, they can't be replaced by me. A business bought them early January to do a client mail out, but decided last minute to use a mass email program instead, as they could attach large PDF images that way, and save huge mail AND the even far larger print costs. Lots of senders use white plastic bag outer packaging - these stick tight - normal lickable gum does NOT of course. Huge plus.
These are guaranteed 105% GENUINE Australia Post produced stamps. Near everything today on FakeBay are Chinese forgeries - read more here - www.tinyurl.com/China-Fake - Those fakes cost more than this, and YOU (not the seller!) are breaching The Crimes Act Of Australia to use them on mail. They show images of PO boxes etc on FakeBay, stolen off AP website, but mail you forged flat strips 5 of 10 etc ‘to make pack it easier for you’. MINE are genuine printed in Melbourne, and not Shanghai - $2,400 face for $1,750 cash - save $650 legally! Affixing 1, 2 or 3 or 5 of these, covers all rates up to 500g - FAST. And you can also use these on ALL overseas mail of course - very pretty Animal design stamps. FAST and easy - more details here - www.tinyurl.com/CheapStamp - pass that link on to friends or Charities or business colleagues who mail a lot, or who have ebay stores etc. Or if you can't use 2,000 - will sell 10 boxes of 100 = 1000 stamps, Face $1,200, for $A900 cash - Stock 692JX . In these very toughest of economic times, legally saving $650 a box of 2000 is a quite MASSIVE plus - $A1,750 cash - Stock 692JW
10/- Kangaroo on 76½ oz, Registered parcel fragment overseas, Cat $1,750 – just $A575! - The 1932 Black and Pink 10/- Kangaroo VFU, on clean and attractive parcel piece. Franking is 10/3/2d total, and the pair of 1/6d Hermes here are of course the scarce 1932 NO WATERMARK initial issue. This franking is 158 pence, which exactly paid the 3d Registered Fee, the first ½oz fee of 3d, and then 2d per ounce thereafter. Thus paying the August 1930, exact 76.5 oz (about 5½ pounds) rate to Foreign Countries, valid up until WW2. ACSC cat for the 10/- alone is $A1,750 – and it is clean and sound and well centred. (Cat is $300 used OFF piece!) Clean and fresh and attractive – no faults or usual creasing and foxing etc. All tied neat cds of ‘GPO MELBOURNE – 28 AU : 34’. $US375 - $A575 - Stock 214LK
1948 KGVI Silver Wedding Malaysia Trio superb MUH - A gem condition trio – freshest MUH as they have been in Denmark most of their life. After 76 years near all these are HINGED by now of course. And from S. E. Asia, are mostly TONED mint too if they were in that region for 76 years! Two are sheet marginal copies. Perlis, Selangor and Kelantan – SG Cat £96 = $195. These are under-priced in SG for FRESH MUH – correct for toned ones maybe, but not NICE ones like these. $A115 - Stock 659LG
Hong Kong 1862 12c QV quite superb – SG $1,300 for just $399 - Superbly fresh unused – nicest one of these I’ve ever handled. Well printed by De La Rue in London. The very first HK issue, no watermark, 12c blue, with quite brilliant color and freshness. Clean and flat and fresh and attractive, really great perfs and centering for these, and totally free of the usual old hinges, thins, creases, repairs, and typical gook and gunk and ageing etc, near always seen on this issue after 162 years. As nice as you’ll ever seen. Not to be confused with the later issue with Crown CC watermark – this is most certainly no watermark. SG #3, £650=$A1,300. Bought very well so $900 UNDER SG cat! $A399 – stock 492FQ
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SAUDI ARABIA MUH hoard blocks 1960s-1980 Cat $A3,500 for $A650 or about $US430! WHAT a juicy hoard, from this super popular area. An immensely wealthy local population, who are very keen on stamps, and buying of them as New Issues has not been the case, until recent times. More pix and checklist here - www.tinyurl.com/SaudiMUH - These older issues ARE Liquid Gold. Inc 5 x scarce 1984 Solar Village Mini sheets, cat £100 each for starters! Full checklist on link above. Total SG Cat £1,766=$A3,500. Fresh MUH, bought as New issues. A goldmine lot for an ebay reseller at way under QUARTER cat, set by set, or in MUH blocks 4, which Saudis like enormously. No-one else has this material for sale - go check. Total £1,766 in SG 2022 Catalogue - for near $US410 as I type, at just $A650! Stock 746DC
2016 'Jewel Beetles' IMPRESSIONS, Deluxe numbered folder **200 made** - 10% UNDER PO COST - Just 200 numbered folders made, and sold out in hours. A TINY mintage figure from here. Fancy gatefold folder with 2 PNC covers with gorgeous double sided literally JEWELLED Beetle medal/coin, and a matching number mini sheet and a numbered FDC - cancelled at 'JEWELLS NSW'! These Sold for $89.95 by the PO as you can clearly see above. All housed in a heavy vinyl outer folder. HEAPS of pix here - www.tinyurl.com/BeetlesAP - The Estate had FIVE of these - 1 for $A95 - Stock 387BW - 2 for $A180 - Stock 387BX - OR all 5 for $A400 - Stock 387B,Y which is 10% UNDER PO COST!! Estate super buy - These will sell FAST.
£1 Grey Kangaroo, Fine Used - SG Cat $600, for $A295 or $US190! - 100% free of the thins, tears, creases and foxing so normal on these 90 year old stamps used on VERY heavy parcels. Missing from near EVERY Australian collection on the planet! Clean and fresh, and cancelled with neat corner ‘REGISTERED’ cds - doubtless used on a Pre-War sea parcel to UK. Clean and flat, and fresh and attractive, great perfs, lightest Roo Free cancel you’ll ever see on a £1 commercial used Roo, and totally free of the usual old hinges, thins, creases, and typical gook and gunk and ageing etc, near always seen on these, after 90 years. They are MOSTLY totally stuffed - thins, creases, tears, and HEAVY 'Killer' cancels. I keep EVERY Australian stamp in stock 1913-1980, and in FIVE grades for each, from Spacefiller to Superb Used, to suit EVERY budget. I have EASILY the world’s largest stock of used Roos, normal and “OS”. SG 137, £300=$A600. I have this exact stamp from $50 to $750 in cost. Contact me re your Australia pre-war USED gaps. Special offer - HALF Gibbons for just - $US190 or $A295 - Stock 842GW
Wide Range Australia & States designs, 24K Gold on solid bullion, Replica Stamps: $A30 each!: A perfect opportunity for you to own stamps from a Deluxe collection of Australian stamps, in gleaming precious metal proof, struck in solid silver, and plated with 24 Carat Gold known as "The Australian Collection" - for the 1988 Bi-Centenary of Australia. Each in original classy packaging, and unopened. Some of the linked photos are taken from the advertising brochure - the copy from my Archive files - that Australia Post mailed to all those on the ‘Stamp Bulletin’ mailing list back then. The Australia Post Philatelic Manager fully endorsed and approved this set by mail, and waxed lyrical in a letter to collectors on what a lovely item it all was and great investment etc. See his actual letter on link below from my files. Each ingot is identical in exterior size to the huge original stamp, but MUCH thicker of course.
Highly polished Deluxe Proof quality, hand struck in solid sterling silver, mirror finished plated with 24 Carat Gold, and each is a substantial 2.2 mm thick as you can see in photo. Quite a bit of “melt” value in the large chunk of thick Sterling Silver here alone. Rear of all ingots are stamped with "The Australian Collection" and ".925 Silver HF" to authenticate them. In 1988 - over 32 years back - these replicas cost subscribers exactly $A98.60 an ingot. True! See original receipt scanned on link nearby. These are brand new in the original secure and protective packaging. Each ingot is in a special clear moulded mount, inset into a large Racing Green solid card outer folder about the size of a FDC or PO pack. The ingots are thus still in as minted, highly polished mirror proof state, unscuffed or damaged. VERY few would have been retained thus after 30 years, as near all were inset into the fancy display box that came with the set. A bit like better Dinky Toys, or Barbie Dolls etc, in clean ORIGINAL un-opened packaging - worth MANY times the items if outside the packaging.
Easy to store in a #2 or #3 Hagner, or stockbook pages etc, or even stored flat in a large glassine etc. I bought a hoard off someone who paid $A98.60 each - receipt in link below. A first class letter costs 4 times more than it did in 1988, so this had a relativity value of $400 an ingot in today’s money. You are paying under 10% of that!! I have duplicates of near all the Bullion ingots in the collection, if you want more than one of all of these for the same stamp design, if they suit your collecting themes. Or for ebayer-selling etc. He has duplicates of many - this guy spent $10,000s on these! MASSES of pix and paperwork here - www.tinyurl.com/BullionStamp - Each stamp design has a unique order code - click link for all details of those. ONE packaged ingot of your choice for $A45 (Stock 526AL ) FIVE of YOUR choice stamp ingots for $A200 (Stock 526AK ) TEN for $A350 (Stock 527AB ) TWENTY ingots of YOUR choice for $A600 or $US400 (Stock 527AC ) or have ONE set only of 23 DIFFERENT Bullion ingot stamps for just $US455 - $A700 - Stock 526AAC
2020 Aust 'States Birds' set 6 in 33 special MUH sheets! Face $218 - Just $A210! - An amazing hoard of 33 copies of this special MUH special format sheet. Perfect Hagner or stockbooks size. Only a small number were made, and this format was available NO other way, and were not buyable as single sheets from AP. Due to a very fortunate purchase, can sell these at UNDER FACE!! Face is $6.60 each. For an ebay or Delcampe reseller etc, these are a GOLDMINE lot. A superbly popular topical, and WHO else has them on offer at ANY price??? Surely a treble face apiece easy seller at $20 apiece? Scan and list once, and just keep selling them.
An Official PO issue, and one to sock away for the future - these 33 superb pieces will be a UNIQUE numerical holding of these, I can guarantee - well worth placing aside to see where the value settles. Even postally used on a parcel etc, these would likely be unique. From same source had several other Hagner sized sheets of other 2020 sheets in same format as this, also UNDER FACE - can do you a great deal on those as well if you want to corner the world market in these! An amazing opportunity for someone. Just $US136 at $A210 – Stock 988XK
1915 SECOND Watermark 2/- Pale Brown Kangaroo stamp Fine Used. SG29, Cat $A450 - just $A185 - A most under-rated stamp. A stamp missing from near EVERY Roo Collection. The small Emergency single printing done in midst of WWI, on the KGV watermark paper, as the Germans were sinking shipping from UK to here. A very FU example sold recently at Public Auction here for near $600. (Est. $160!) I sold it to that seller for about $50, only 15 years back. 95% of those offered on DopeBay etc are NOT Second Watermark, sadly. Amateur sellers can rarely pick the first 3 x 2/- Browns apart accurately. This stamp was my ‘Stamp News’ Tip Of The Month - www.tinyurl.com/Glen6-19 - I can pick apart all Kangaroo stamps at a glance from the front, but most folks cannot. A WILDY under-rated stamp.
Second Watermarks are always a paler brown like this – Thirds never are, and these always have clean cut perfs .. the cheap THIRD watermark never do. Clueless or conniving Ebay Bunny sellers know neither fact of course, and most "2nd Wmk" offered on ebay are of course NOT. Much of the time the buyers are near as clueless as the sellers, so a perfect storm - with the blind leading the blind. Buying from me, you get GUARANTEED Second Watermark on these 109 year old stamps. Clean and fresh and flat and neatly cancelled – totally free of the usual hinges and gook and gunk and ageing. SG 29, £225 = $A450. ACSC 36a, $A350. Juzwin retail $275 for an inferior Good Used grade. 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 from $40 to $400 in cost. Contact me re ALL your Australia USED gaps. Around $US120 as I type - $A185 - Stock 392JX
Australia 1960s Bird & Flower 'SPECIMEN' Handstamps MUH, for just $A10 each! Wonderful lot I bought recently. These 2 stamps were HOT stuff even as normal MUH in the 1980s - the ASC cat of that time was $218 the 8 stamps normal MUH - both were KEYS to their respective sets. These were handstamped “SPECIMEN ONLY” for use in the Post Office Training School. Fresh full gum MUH. Very few ever reached the philatelic market, and with the massive BOOM in all things related to official 'Specimens' these days, a rare group. Just TEN BUCKS APIECE! A beer costs more than that. $A80 - Stock 372JX
N.Z. Decimal coll 1967-1997 in Seven Seas Hingeless Album Ret $1,600 just $A450! Terrific estate buy today. In expensive ‘Seven Seas’ Hingeless album - **retail $400 EMPTY!** Looks pretty complete, and all that I checked were fresh MUH or VFU - many CTO ex NZ Bureau. HEAPS more detailed pix here - www.tinyurl.com/DecCollNZ - only a few pages shown there - a HUGE album - ACS Retail noted lightly on pencil on corner of each page in erasable soft 3B pencil - for your easy checking.
Complete hi-cat Definitive sets etc, and heaps of the VERY expensive ‘Health’ mini sheets 1960s and 1970s - these all fresh MUH. The NZ ‘Arms’ set 4 to $10 etc. Retail of the stamps is $1,234. Plus the album and brown binder we have a $1,600 retail collection here. All here in one hit to save you years or tracking them down, and endless postage on small purchases. The buy of the year for SOMEONE! It will sell fast at $U290 - $A450 - Stock 865FD
New Zealand Post Clean coll of official PO FDC ‘Liquid Gold’ post 2000 era - Retail $1550 for $A399! : My camera is playing up and no pix, but of this lot, not really needed! These Kiwi FDCs are in tip-top condition, running from 2000 right through 2011. They look beautiful - I've never seen most of them before! Plenty of Exhibition mini sheets, even some ‘Lord of the Rings’, plus of course, plenty of Rugby (you know the Kiwis and their 'All Blacks'!) There are about 125 covers, with a total 2022 ACS catalogue value of over $1,550. Face value of the stamps alone is over $700 and of course they cost MORE than face to buy from PO. There is even a handy complete inventory of it all.
FDC from the Australia and NZ regions, fall into several distinct bands - 1. - Latter 1970s to late 1980s are incredibly abundant, as we had a massive "Stamp Boom" then, where investors jumped onto the scene, often buying 5 or 10 of each FDC. 2 - 99% of these buyers ceased in 1990, as the POs issued a $20 Definitive stamp. Back near 30 years back $20 was SERIOUS money - $50 in today's spending power, and vast numbers of folks simply said "Forget it" and stopped buying FDC’s. OVERNIGHT! HENCE the FDC from 1990 onwards are 20 times harder to get than the 1980s era. FACT. Catalogue values for the 1990s FDC are high, and even as Fine Used these are worth MANY times face ….. some up to TEN times face, as you can see in catalogues. 3 - ANYTHING after 2000 FDC, is near impossible to source. Masses of collectors and dealers drew a line in the sand at this time, at that BIG round year figure, and said "that's it".
Dealers did not buy them, and most collectors did not either. So when they appear on ebay etc they get double or treble face readily. Of course years on, they all regret it, and nearly all want and need those issues. Dealers did not stock them either, so sourcing them is near impossible - at any price. All clean PO unaddressed. Even as FINE USED these are worth easily DOUBLE my asking price! Under $US250 at $A399 - Stock 395KC
ADEN 1937 2R Dhow High Value Superb MVLH SG £120. $A90 - ADEN 1937 2R 'Dhow' traditional Arab fishing boat stamp, High Value - a bit like a 10/ -r £1 CofA Kangaroo face value, superb fresh MVLH. A highly sought after KGV era series. SG 10, £120=$A240. Only $US58 at $A95 - Stock 483RX
Box of 5 x 'MICHEL' Catalogues for GERMANY and EUROPE 2007-2012 - $A140 - Super handy lot for someone, from the Estate of an old German chap that I recently bought. All fairly recent editions covers in Western Europe, Middle Europe, South Western Europe and Central Europe plus the fat GERMAN volume as well the covers all issues from German States and Colonies, right up to EURO issues. Covers all sorts of countries as can be seen here - including GB and Channel Island etc. Everything from Russia to Spain to Norway to Ireland to Poland and Gibraltar! ESSENTIAL reference set [/b]for collectors or dealers here trying to sell into the Europe market, or to look up complicated listings not listed in SG or Scott etc, or deciphering foreign seller listings on Delcampe or Ebay etc who use ONLY Michel numbers etc.
Use these once or twice, and they will pay for themselves forever. Super detailed with different perfs and watermarks and shades and printings, and FDC values etc, and notes on forgeries and reprints etc. About 5,000 pages here - German retail as can be seen about 250 euro = $A425 back then, but cost HERE is always double German price due to high shipping costs, tax and dealer margins etc. Michel has split these up into many more volumes these days, SEVENTEEN VOLUMES in fact, so these will cost you $A1,000s to duplicate! $A140 - Stock 532DC
*40* x Australia 1984 SPECIMEN Paintings sets MUH - Face $680 for just $A300! FORTY of the special deluxe Post Office packs from 1984, each containing $17 face value of fresh MUH paintings each - all in lavish Gold Embossed packs. The owner notes showed he had bought these as an ‘Investment’ in 1990 for around $1,000 the bundle of 40, off Max Stern. He had high hopes these would also get to the same $600 a set price of the 1963/65 “Specimen” sets of 4, of 30 years earlier! Condition looks nice and clean. I see quite a few of these stamps arriving used on parcels - not ‘supposed’ to occur, but it seems few notice these days at AP. I saw a mint single pack get $30 on ebay recently! Possibly a 'Paintings On Stamps' collector looking for something a little different? Bought well in Estate, so OUT they go at under $A8 each! $US190 or - $A300 - Stock 842KA
*FIJI* - 1875 major Variety, Inverted 'A' for 'V', also round raised stops after 'R' and 'V' Cat £5,000, with BPA Cert - $A1,600! - Surcharge on 12c on 6d rose (Gothic Overprint) surcharged in one operation 2d (in black) with BPA London Photo Certificate confirming it is unused, and genuine. Also extra expertised on reverse. SG #26e, Cat £5,000=$A10,000. Very small blemishes as usual on these primitives, mainly a shallow corner thin, as these were printed on very coarse local blotting paper basically, that are now near 150 years old! Only a very few exist of these mint, and a rare stamp missing from near all advanced collections. Bright colour, and clean and fresh and flat. Nineteenth century better Fiji is VERY strong in recent years. $8,400 UNDER SG Cat! About $US1,040 at just $A1,600 - Stock 385HQ
Berlin M & U on 16 old German 'Schaubek' pages 1948-1965 - $A150 - SG £383=$A760 for just $A200 - very handy Mint and Used coll - all pages shown here - www.tinyurl.com/CollBerlin - Formed in Germany, and of 'German Condition Quality' - all the Mint are fine MUH with original gum. Valuable lot, offered cheap ex Estate, at about a QUARTER GIBBONS. $US97 at $A150 - Stock 564BL
Papua New Guinea 1971 SHELLS Booklet x *50* Mint copies! Just $US125 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 = $A1,250. 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 $A4 each, or US$2.5 apiece - Cat £650, retail $1,500. Just $US125 - $A200 Stock 782RT
Kangaroo 1929 10/- Small Multiple Watermark, Fine Used, at *HALF retail*: A rare stamp - SG 112. In my long experience with Roos, is at least TEN times scarcer than the Third Wmk or CofA Watermark 10/- values. There were in fact only 240,000 of this printed, v/s over 1.2 million of the Third Watermark 10/-, yet Cat value is near the same - absurd with a higher than 5:1 printed ratio. This was the 10/- stamp on national issue all during the Great Depression, and was used on heavy parcels and Telegrams - the latter were destroyed under audit.
Indeed there was the exact same low print number of this, than of the super expensive 1913 £1 & £2 First Watermark Roos - 240,000 on all 3 of those. Nice bright nice colour as you can see, for this 95 y.o. issue. SG 112, £500=$A1,000. My retail for VFU is $850. Very light MELBOURNE cds cancel. Fine used grade, clean stamp, that will suit most general collectors. Clean and flat and fresh and attractive, good perfs and centering, light cancel, and totally free of the usual hinges, thins, creases, and typical gook and gunk and ageing etc, near always seen on these, after 95 years. Bought well in a collection today, so out this goes for just $US270 or $A415 - Stock 825KR
Australia 1984 30c FRAMA set 7 x FIFTY sets MUH =$A195; What a wonderful estate buy. Our first ever FRAMA Vending Machine label, and machines were outside each Capital City Post Offices in the country, from Hobart to Brisbane, and Perth to Sydney etc! 50 sets of 7 postcodes MUH, on this our first EVER Frama set from 1984. The best looking of all the FRAMA sets in my view. Owner receipt in with them for $2,000 from Max Stern .... true, these were the prices back in the 1980s - $40 a set. These were red-hot, and I too did big business in them. 50 sets of 7 fresh MUH. Cat today is just $15 a set = $750. ebay retail still $A17 a set - you are paying under $2 a set! - www.ebay.ie/itm/362935900493 - Great Estate price to tuck away at under 10% of what original owner paid! $US124 - $A195 - Stock 482KQ
GB uncancelled, mostly pretty Commemoratives face £150+ just £60! - Must be handy for someone? Mostly lick and stick large attractive Commems, all readily soakable, as can be seen. Heaps more pix here - www.tinyurl.com/FaceGB I usually mail this sort of stuff to a dealer colleague at around 65% face (100 quid) who sends a lot of packets, but he is on vacation for 5 weeks. Someone cheekily might glue the Machins onto the white GB Buyback sheets! Even as VFU these commems sell way more than face. So out they go for 60 quid or $A120 to get them off my desk - payment direct into my UK Bank account if you prefer, saving currency exchange rate hassles, and overseas credit card fees etc. No VAT on the imports the way I ship - all yours for just 60 quid or $A120 - Stock 464CSL
Malaysia 15c Butterfly **IMPERFORATE pair** fresh MUH. ONE ONLY - $A99 – - Fresh MUH IMPERFORATE pair of this Malaysia 1971, 15c “Blue Pansy Butterfly” stamp. (Precis Orithya Wallacei.) Appears to be the Bradbury Wilkinson printing. Very pretty piece. I found an 'Gibbons Stamp Monthly' article on these from April 2009 – Better still, I found a detailed reference to the 15c Butterfly value with 'MALAYSIA' only - all outlined in detail here - www.tinyurl.com/ButImperfs - A superb looking pair, superb fresh MUH, and Butterflies are one of the world’s biggest selling topicals. $US65 or $A99 for the probably UNIQUE lower marginal PAIR shown here – Stock 672QW
Netherlands 1949 10 Guilder Violet Queen top value Clean FU used Block 4! $A120 - The Queen Wilhelmina TOP value of the Definitives set – and used on a heavy parcel to here in the immediate post-war period, when we had heaps of Dutch immigrants come out on assisted passage to build new lives. A SINGLE of these is not common, but a used BLOCK is near unheard of - show me ANOTHER for sale anywhere! This is the £2 Navigator type stamp from Holland. A used block of THAT, I’d ask and get $750 for - why? As near nothing cost that much postage - ditto this. In Europe Used BLOCKS of high values, unlike here, are listed thus in Catalogues, and massive premiums are paid – in Scandinavia and Italy and Switzerland etc, they can get $1000s.
Clean block, with neat dated cds. Swiss stamps issued in the Kangaroo era can catalogue 500 times as much in a used block, as for a used single. The 1914 3Fr Jungfrau is in the basic Zumstein catalogue I have, listed at 3,250 SFr a used block, but only 8 SFr for a used single. In a recent Facit catalogue, the common old cheapie Sweden 1858 12 öre blue Arms (Facit #9) is priced at “x 500” for a block of four. That stamp is 18 SEK for the cheapest shade for a used single, but 9,000 SEK for a used block of four of the cheapest shade. SG 701, £120=$A240 as 4 singles and add a large premium for a used BLOCK. Bought well in an Estate so out it goes at - $US75 or $A120 - Stock 496LQ
Australia 1970 Definitives, rare Post Office Pack Cat $650, for just $A275 or $US180: The *Gorilla* - the scarcest Australia face different PO pack by several miles, as it cost a FORTUNE back then. I see one each few years or so. This larger sized B5 pack has all the current Defins right up to the 1966 Navigator set 6, in a plastic Hagner type sheet inside. Add it up - FACE was $10.47 of the stamps here. ‘No big deal’ you might think today. Well over Half A Century back, that was huge. A First Class letter then cost 5¢! (There are 2 different 5¢ Queens in here) so $10.47 bought you 210 x first class stamps. Today a First Class letter is $1.50, so 210 of those is $A315 in today’s money. Would YOU pay $A315 TODAY for a new issue Post Office pack? Of course not, and certainly almost no-one did in 1970, so they are super scarce, and retail MANY $100s despite being on sale nationally at capital city Philatelic Bureaux. The $4 King alone cost EIGHTY times the then 5¢ letter rate. So the pack was about $A315 type buying price, adjusted to today’s money. You are paying miles LESS than that! Little wonder almost none sold. ASC P7, Cat. $650, and seldom seen or offered ANYWHERE. Fresh and un-opened. $US175 - $A275 -Stock 542JKL
New Zealand 1898 5/- Mount Cook, flat MLH, SG Cat $800 - for just $A275! – The ‘5/- Bridge’ of NZ pre war issues. Missing from near all collections. Top value of the attractive pictorial set, and was seldom used other than fiscally with crayon cancels and punch holes etc. Most one sees of these 'lumpy' perf 11, have rough perfs and poor centering, and are tatty. Being a large sized stamp, they were very often thinned or creased, or torn from heavy parcel use. This guy flat MVLH, with no usual hinge remains. Superb deep original Vermillion color, and excellent perfs and centering for this issue. No watermark, perf 11. SG 270, £400=$A800. (And Cat £500 in used!) $US175 at $A275 – Stock 746BJ
British New Hebrides 1938 ‘Gold Currency’ Definitive complete set 12 - Fresh, bright MVLH - way above average for these, which fox and age very badly. Superb recess printed in London by Bradbury Wilkinson. Near all of them are marginal copies. SG 52-63 (12) Cat £325=$A650 and full sets to the 10 Francs are almost NEVER encountered, as this was a few £ Sterling at time of issue. About $US175 = $A275 - Stock 467EK
1996 Aust Olympic Mini Sheets CTO full gum Melb GPO x 30 - $40 under face! - $A95 - 2024 is the OLYMPIC year, and all things Olympic will be popular and SALEABLE then. A gorgeous design, with gold foiled embossed design of the Olympic torch on face of each unit as you can see. 1996 Aust Olympic stamp Miniature Sheets CTO full gum Melbourne GPO x 30 - just $A95. ATLANTA 1996 to Australia Olympic SYDNEY 2000 Miniature Sheets - CTO full gum Melbourne GPO x 30 - Face value $A135. To clear at just $95! High retail. Brilliant ebayer lot. $40 UNDER face - $A95 - Stock 362DEL
NZ 1969 Capt Cook Bicentenary *MINI SHEET* issue FDC 5 x clean FDC - $A85 - Amazing lot from Estate. SELDOM seen unaddressed and clean .. now 55 years old now. Once a $70 FDC each. Now, retail is around half that, making these $200 retail. An ebayer 'double your money' dream lot. Photos taken late at night - in real daylight they are superb. $A85 - Stock 238UTL
'WOUNDED' STATES EARLIES – with 2 rare NSW cancels! - Bought an old glassine of clearly defective States in an estate, that had a quite superb strike of ‘365’ Type 3R16, on an 8d Yellow Diadem, and what is also a certain '365' of the earlier 2R37 cancel of ‘Jereelderie’ on a 6d bi-colour 'Registered' - a pricey stamp. Both are Hugh Freeman high rarity rated ‘RRR’. These 2 cancels are worth $100, no matter what the stamps or condition of them - and these are better stamps. There are 2 cancels on the latter 6d, with a left and right strikes. He also had a Victoria 1850 3d ‘Half Length’ classic, and an 1852 NSW 6d brown Laurete imperforate - cat £325, but clearly a faulty stamp. The 2 cancels are very easily worth this asking $100 - the others are all free! The current PO stamp year book costs more than this - $A99 - Stock 425QR
Lebanon 1968 Antiquities MS Perf *AND* Imperf x 10 each! Under 10% of SG - SG $1,350 for $A130! - Amazing little hoard I bought from the Estate of an old chap who had Lebanese heritage. He presumably bought them as a New Issue? 'Tyre Antiquities' Mini Sheet, depicting the Roman Banquet Bas Reliefs. Superb intaglio, engraved recess printed issue. TEN of each Perf **AND** imperf, fresh MUH. (20 x MUH Mini Sheets) Ebay re-seller dream deal - WHO else has these for sale?! Bought cheap, so out they go at near 10% of Gibbons! SG MS #1018 - cat £33 each - Perf or Imperf = £660 = $A1,350. $A130 - about $US82 - Stock 435BL
FAROE ISLAND 41 x MUH Corner Plate Blocks 4 collection - Just $A99: What a deal! - Faroe Islands were THE hottest thing on the stamp planet in the early 1980s. Prices were TEN times today’s level - indeed the deceased owner paid Max Stern $750 PER set of blocks for these, his invoice showed. He bought 10 such sets, and the invoice was generously rounded down to $A7,000. We have 41 Top left numbered Plate number blocks here - 161 x Fresh flat MUH stamps at about SIXTY CENTS OZZIE a stamp! The 1975 Defins (issue #1) were a really expensive set, and those were about $100 a single set on their own back in the day. LOTS of photos of them all here - www.tinyurl.com/FaroeIs
The VERY first 11 Faroes issues are here, in corner Plate Blocks 4. Includes the super high face value 1979 25 Krona Ram - a real FORTUNE back 45 years ago! The CURRENT SG cat as 4 MUH is £202=$A400 valued as single sets and clearly, matched Top Left corner Plate blocks is a nice premium added on top of that. YOU pay just $A99 the LOT! All MUH, odd minor blemish as usual after 50 years. Beautiful steel engraved recess printed, line engraved gems - most seem to be engraved by the Master of the genre - Czeslaw SLANIA. The original buyer got TEN sets of matched blocks 4 for his $7,000. Superb lot to offer per set of blocks on ebay etc, or break into singles etc. Bought VERY well from Estate so OUT they go at a silly low price - One set $A99 - Stock 287LR
QANTAS $2 Airbus A380 stamp, totally **IMPERFORATE** Block of 4 - just $A75 or $US49!: - Australia Post a few years back, released just 750 x IMPERFORATE uncut press sheets of these $2 stamps. A FIRST from anywhere. Striking and gloss varnished etc. You needed to phone a special '800' number after midday, and maximum order was one sheet a person, and they sold out within hours, as you'd expect. All the $2 stamps depict the massive Qantas Airbus A380. Qantas staffers and aviation collectors keenly seek this sheet, as do the 1000s of pure “A380” theme collectors. Each press sheet was foil numbered in lower right margin, and also comes with a hand numbered PO 'Certificate Of Guarantee' that only 750 sheets in TOTAL were ever sold, including all left and right panes. (Uncut IMPERF sheet of 12 in special black folder is $A550 - Stock 482YX)
Indeed there were only 375 left pane, and 375 x right pane ... both sheets of 12 are marked and numbered thus lower left. This is a Qantas Airbus A380 issue, and that is a red hot theme, even for non stamp collectors. Pilots and aviation fans buy them as this was a FIRST. And it is fully imperforate. It is an 100% OFFICIAL PO issue, and one of the very smallest issues in the post war era. It was VERY limited, and has remained RED hot - just like the stamp border colour! I obtained a few, by paying folks $100 cash profit to sit on the phone for hours re-dialling until they got through. THERE WAS *NO* OTHER SOURCE FOR THESE! Price per IMPERF mini sheet is from $A75 - full details here - with a LOT more photos of all the options and choices on these, even full uncut press sheets of 12 are available for just $A550 - www.tinyurl.com/QantasStamp - $A75 - Stock 482YL
Australia 1963 Navigators set 6 attractive *MUH* $A180 (*Or* Fine Used just $A140!) : 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 1,038 pence at the PO. A standard letter cost 5 pence (5d) 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 high cost on a new stamp set - SIXTY years back. You are paying about HALF the initial PO cost price essentially! (Clean *FU* cds set of 6 is just $A140 - Stock 742JB - the £2 is FAR scarcer used than mint!) Quite nice centering for these, especially key values, clean and flat, with guaranteed original gum MUH. Retail $275, and out they go at $100 under retail - which is about $US113 as I type this. $A180 - Stock 742JA
Hong Kong 1960s MUH group SG Cat £233=$A460 for just $A90 - Handy fresh Estate lot. 1962 QE2 'Annigoni' 20c and scarce $1 x 2 each (SG 199/205 - Cat £53), 1966 Churchill top value $2 x 2, SG 221 (one with blemish - Cat £60) 1968 ‘Arms’ pair SG254/254 Cat £50 assuming cheapest papers and watermarks (did not check) and the scarce 1969 Chinese New Year in MUH pairs, SG 257/258 Cat £70. Total SG cat £233=$A460. Great lot – and a strong ebayer prospect – this material is HOT globally. Bought heap in Estate, so out they go at 20% of SG! $US60 the lot at $A90 - Stock 478KQ
Jordan - 1982 National Monument stamps set 3 IMPERFORATE! $US60 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 about $US125 to clear (under a tenner each!) - or $A200 - Stock 683HZ
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Estate carton of Australia Post Year albums **42% under retail!** - Bought an estate that had a nice clean run of these super popular items. Many now buy these to easily keep up to date, year by year, or buy them for the kids etc. NO very expensive hingeless albums needed then - and all in hard, matching, protective slipcases. I have THE largest stock of AP Annual Books on the planet - I have a complete listing of all years here if you are missing any - www.tinyurl.com/APyearBks - Buy 1991-2000 together - 10 books for $A635 - That's about 30% off my already low prices, and very near issue price. (Stock 451WD) Buy 2001 to 2010 inclusive - 10 books - my usual retail as can be seen on link above, is $A1,455. SUPER discount, well over 35% off my retail of this red hot era, at just $930 (Stock 451WL) Or, all buy all 20 books, and pay 42% under my $2,360 cheap retail - save a cool $1,000! 20 Books will ship in 1 large carton. Just $A1,360 - Stock 451WZ
Tonga 2015/2015 Butterflies complete set FACE $A361 for just $A261 - save $100!!! - A gorgeous set - cost owner $361 buying direct from the Tonga Bureau as a New Issue, as Tonga uses $A currency of course. These tiny islands now have MASSIVE postage rates as EMS screw them terribly. Each is inscribed - 'Airmail Express EMS' and the relevant zone that each stamp covers franking to. We were in Samoa last month, and visited the GPO there, and see my photos of clerk's counter book, with sheets of stamps up to $200 FACE - all those shown here - www.tinyurl.com/FV200 - and clerk said she needed to put several x $200 on heavy air parcels to Europe/USA etc. These Butterflies were all for legit POSTALLY use. Values up to $A89 face each. SG #E13-16 and 18-19, $15 to $89 'Airmail Express' set of 6 x imperforate Mini Sheets, each 76mm x 51mm, fresh MUH, SG Cat £329=$A658. A truly gorgeous looking, high cat set, for butterfly thematic or Tonga collectors, and seldom offered anywhere, much less at $100 UNDER face value! (6) $US169 - $A261 - Stock 497JQ
HONG KONG MUH 2006-2010 - SG cat £201=$A400 for $A175 - Current SG cat noted on each set for your easy checking on small neat stickers. The ''as new'' #7 Hagners alone retail $16. Bought a large collection off a banker, who moved around globally, and bought stamps and FDC from POs from wherever he was posted. Often very obscure places. He was in HONG KONG in 2006-2010, and bought these MUH full sets and many mini sheets. GLOBALLY, all mint sets are scarce post 2005. "LIQUID GOLD" - can you see anyone else offering these in 1 hit - of course not. All fresh MUH. Gorgeous clean lot. And WILL get pricier over time of course. Only a very few of the Hagner sheets shown here, as late night now. Bought cheap to sell cheap for $A175. HEAPS of pix here - www.tinyurl.com/HK-MUH - Adding these up on eBay would be a big hit as almost no-one else globally will have these past 2005 – trust me! Clearly, almost NO-ONE bought these mint as new issues, that much is pretty clear - lots of $20 sets among these of course. $A175 or $US110 - Stock 574ZQ
Luxembourg 1956 **RARE** Europa set 3, Hoard - Superb MUH. SG Cat £700=$A1,400, for well under 7% of SG - at $US78!: Bought a few sets very attractively from the Estate of an old French gentleman, who had bought them off leading dealer BEHR in Paris, as an Investment, some years back. This is the KEY set to the entire EUROPA Omnibus series, and has always been highly sought. Mint Unhinged, with guaranteed fresh original gum. This set is 66 years old now of course. One of the scarcest mint sets from post-war Europe, and the absolute KEY to any “EUROPA” Omnibus collection. Bright, well centred, with good perfs, and guaranteed original gum mint unhinged, and will look brilliant in any album, at under 10% of SG! THREE sets of 3 for the “bottom drawer” - SG cat $A4,200, for just $A275 or $US170 (Stock 568UR ) - One set 3, SG 607/609, cat £700=$A1,400 - $US71 or $A115 - Stock 568UQ
British Virgin Island 1985 Ship set of Imperforate plate proof pairs MUH. $A95 - From an Estate recently. The owner notes show he paid $400 for these as a Ship topical rare piece from a UK dealer - 25 years back! Pay under ONE QUARTER OF THAT - Only around 10 bucks ozzie a stamp - a glass of beer or house wine costs more than that here. True. $US62 at $A95 THE LOT! - Stock 423EV
AAT 1979 1st Flight 170 sets postal USED sets in GUTTER PAIRS! Just $A99 - AAT 1979 sets on piece mostly CTO gutter pairs, blocks SG 35/6 cat value £340=$A680. Interesting lot. Created by me back over 40 years back when these were current. Been lost in an old box ever since in my junk cave here! I recognised that these were not going to see any real POSTAL use, as these stamps were only available from Philatelic Offices at GPOs in those days. So I bought 200 sets, near all in traffic light GUTTER PAIRS and mailed them to folks who were posting me material I'd bought.
About 170 SETS of 2 got back to me - all POSTALLY used, paying correct prevailing rates. A GOLDMINE lot for someone to ebay over a period, as all are UNIQUE and AAT is HOT globally, and postally used on PIECE near unheard of. SG 35/36 cat £340 (=$A680) as 170 used sets OFF piece. (i.e. SG cat used is £1.85 a pair of single stamps. Add a ton of premium for used GUTTER pairs, and a premium for postal used in ISSUE PERIOD as these clearly are .. all around 1980. A once in a lifetime lot for just $A99 - SG Cat $A680++++ Indeed many have extra AAT stamps used as well - with Ship Values to $1 top value - these I have NOT included in SG catalogue value above. Those extras are essentially "free" to the buyer. $US63 or $A99 - Stock 345SC
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Geoff Kellow the superb 'Stamps Of Victoria' Retail $175 - *WEB SPECIAL* at $A115 or $US71: "The Stamps of Victoria", by Dr Geoff Kellow, FRPSL, RDP. The definitive publication on this subject, this book presents in a comprehensive and readable form, an in-depth treatment of all of Victoria's stamps. For each Victorian stamp, a history is presented in its entirety, including design essays and printer's proofs. It is large A4 format hardbound and beautifully illustrated (approximately 900 illustrations), many in colour, over 400 pages. Still the pre-eminent reference, this book presents an in-depth treatment of all of Victoria's stamps. For each stamp a history is presented in its entirety, commencing with essays and proofs, production techniques, printing characteristics and quantities. All known errors and varieties are discussed. Extensively illustrated. Awarded a FIP Gold Medal as a publication. A must-have reference for collectors and EVERY dealer, and those interested in the Philately, and history of Victoria. This superb publication has won many awards at Philatelic Exhibitions including a Gold Medal at FIP Kuala Lumpur. High original price - of retail $A175 - and I have seen these get as high as $200 + buyer's premium at auction. Found some BRAND NEW books in a carton in my stock room! NO-ONE else GLOBALLY has this in stock. No-one.
THE Ultimate reference on Victoria. Quoted as "The Bible" by most. Large hardbound by RPSV. Almost never offered. Profuse illustrations, incl colour plates. With original gloss outer dust jacket. BRAND NEW. Stamps, Stamp Duties, Dues, Railways, excellent Postal Stationary, forgeries, reprints, Specimens, CTOs - the WORKS on this state - and all compiled by Dr. Kellow, the man who had a superb personal collection of this state. And he worked using full access to Rodney Perry’s collection too - who owned THE finest collection ever formed of this State - surpassing even Bill Purves superb efforts. Numbers sold, and numbers printed and listed for many issues .. info found nowhere else. Detailed write ups of how to sort printings within printings. For the early Victoria issues that info is a GOLDMINE! Unbeatable preface on printing and perforation styles used. Brilliant coverage on the complicated "Half Lengths". The much thinner, modern era, Robert Gibbs "GRI" book sold for $A750 at a Prestige Auction sale, so superb content hard-cover books, in a small print run always do very well long term. Retail $175 - Save $60 at just $US73 or $A115 Stock 842FQ or TWO for $A200 or $US126 - Stock 842FR
India 1882 Q.Vic 1 Anna, 6 Pies Sepia Brown INVERTED watermark - A rarely seen printing error. Watermark easily seen on the stamp. Neat upright cds of ‘Calcutta - AU 12 - 89’. SG 90w £550=$A1,100. (Mint are unknown and of used, only a few copies are recorded, hence the high cat.) Clean and flat and fresh and attractive, great perfs, light cancel, and totally free of the usual hinges, thins, creases, and typical gook and gunk and ageing etc, near always seen on these Indian stamps, after 141 years. SG Cat $1,100 – just $US260 at $A415 – Stock 493JK
LED Magnifier in zippered storage case - Hint as a Gift! - Here’s something absolutely EVERY reader of this email needs Only $A52 = $US35 - mailed right to your DOOR globally , and will last for years. In a very classy zippered hard storage case too! WAY less per unit if you buy along with a stamp buddy, your Club, or for re-sale - been a HUGE seller this year for me - Many HUNDREDS units sold click - www.tinyurl.com/LED10xx for a dozen more photos of it - Stock 682RQ
ACSC "Postal Stationery" Catalogue - 484 huge pages, all in colour - Including Australian Territories, the latest Edition which updates the first edition of nine years earlier, incorporating a number of corrections and new discoveries. In particular, the Postal Cards up to 1936 have been extensively revised, and there are many additions to the listing of Lettercards. The decimal Stationery produced by the Note Printing Branch is included for the first time. All prices have been fully updated. In full colour, 484 x large A4 heavily illustrated pages, perfect bound. If you only buy one catalogue each decade, whether you are a dealer or a collector, or Auction, you MUST have this. Detailed review here - www.tinyurl.com/GlenAP2018 - The most common innocuous looking thing on your desk might be valued at ten times the purchase price of this catalogue! I kid you not. Maybe 25 times.
There are HUNDREDS of items in here listed at between $5,000 and $15,000 EACH. EVERY item is illustrated in colour (reduced in size of course) - a GODSEND for many of the earlier Registration envelopes etc. (Only about 4 pieces in the entire book, they were unable to get copies of to scan!) Very coolly, all down the outer spine is colour coded to go to Wrappers - go right to the BLUE tagged edges. For postcards go to PURPLE tags etc. A breeze to use quickly, as I need to do each day.
I HATED using the initial huge ring binder edition as time went on, as the printer punched the holes way too small in my view. Making finding any given section an annoying juggling act, risking damaging and tearing all earlier pages each time. This one is a BREEZE to use. For instance ALL the “View” Lettercards are now all illustrated and priced SEPARATELY - some 170 different! Some of these are worth a fortune, and dealers and collectors without this book have not got a CLUE as to what is scarce, and what is not. You will easily pay for this book with the first vaguely scarce view you pick up on ebay etc.
There are all the Aerograms illustrated - many quite valuable, all the wide range of Military material, WW2 Food Parcel labels (one is cat $10,000, and another $7,500!), and even all the myriad of different views on the initial 1911 “Coronation" set. All priced separately. The highest price in here I saw was $15,000 for a KGV low face value reply card, that I bet a lot of overseas (even local!) sellers would price at $20 retail and cross their fingers! It is huge - near 500 large A4 pages, on quality grade paper, in full colour - all proudly printed and produced here in Sydney Australia.
Edited by Dr. Geoff Kellow, the usual super high standard of original research work and fine attention to detail has taken place here. Geoff told me much of his original research on numbers printed of the early issues has never been published before the ACSC did these. Not only Australia is covered, but the “Territories” and that includes all the “Formular” Aerograms and airletters etc for the Territories. And all the Papua early issues, and GRI material, and PNG and Cocos and Christmas Islands etc. This is all listed and priced. www.tinyurl.com/ACSC-PSTAT - Heaps more pix are here of contents etc are on that link - about $US151 at $A245 Stock 782DV
Kangaroo 1913 5/- Grey and Yellow fresh CTO, $A299: 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, £225 = $A450 for average used. With the lovely crisp gloss ink PO CTO cancel of “MELBOURNE - DEC 3 - 13” Superior perfs and centering for any 1913 CTO, as you can see, which often are ripped out and perfs touching. Nice rich glowing original Chrome colour, and fresh and clean, and totally free of hinges and gook and gunk etc - so usual on these with original gum. 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”. Contact me re your Australia USED gaps. Read up on Used Kangaroo Grading here - www.tinyurl.com/GlenJune19 Only $US189 right now - $A299 - Stock 836KF
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Lighthouse top end new black cover *DELUXE* version Stamp Drying Book - with 10 sheets, made from extra-strong blotting card and 10 extra strong interleaves. These maintain the shape of the drying book even after many years of use, and prevent the stamps from sticking. Thick card cover and spiral binding for flat usage. Large A4 type Size - 220 mm x 300 mm (8¾’’ x 11¾’’)
For those who have not seen these stamp drying books, they are a large A4 sized book (stockbook sized) with thick black Spiro edge binding that as you can see allows them to lay flat. The pages are of REALLY thick blotting type paper. i.e. thick heavy cardboard thickness. It is some special "fast release" formulation - no idea what they use, but it really does WORK! Have sold many 100s over 15 years. Lots of photos, and how to buy here - www.tinyurl.com/DryingBks
There is then a special smooth plastic coating on one side. So you wash your stamps, and IF you leave them to air dry on tea towels or blotting paper or newspaper, light creases and bends will always stay there. If they are placed into this book when touch damp (not sopping wet) and a few books added on top to add weight, and left there with the gum side to the plastic side and the front of stamp to the blotter side, they dry perfectly flat, and many light bends and creases vanish.
Nearly all of them. It is amazing the difference they make, which is why I sell so many! Just put your stamps in, pile a few heavy books etc on top, to add weight, and forget them for a week. Just one book is not wise - most collectors have two or 4 books, as that is the secret - do NOT touch them for a week, and let them air-dry slowly under weight. Most important. The special formulation plastic coated side is super important, as otherwise many stamps STICK to blotter if damp and between 2 sheets of blotting paper, with heavy weight on top. These do not.
Again it is some special matt coating Lighthouse have figured out, which works perfectly for this specific job. Almost any other kind of plastic sheet you may try to experiment with at home will leave a real ugly mirror like "SHEEN" on the gum side if placed in damp, under weight, which looks really stupid, and really shows what you have been doing. These do NOT. The books last for decades, they really do. $A40 for ONE book (Stock 482FX) $A70 for TWO books (Stock 482FY) Or FOUR Books for $A125 (Stock 482FZ)
Yemen Arab Republic, 1975 Revolution 25 Fils, Fully *Imperforate* Pane 50 MUH - Just $A6 each! 12th Anniversary of Revolution : IMPERFORATE pane of 50 x 25 Fils denomination, depicting the 7th Century Al Janad Mosque - one of the world’s oldest. Fine, fresh MUH. Catalogue numbers for the normal issued perforated issue 13½ x 14 are - SG #539, Scott #316 and Michel #1545. Cannot see any other IMPERF versions of this about anywhere on the globe for sale, and a full sheet may well be unique - and after 43 years, none will turn up NOW! Just $US3 each - superb ebayer opportunity to offer in imperf pairs and blocks 4 - an easy treble your money deal here surely? about $US160 at $A250 - Stock 492RJ
*Set of 60* Different Essays from the 1911 First Australia Stamp Design Competition just $A125 - There are 5 x 1d designs, and they come in sets of 30, or 6 Miniature sheets of 5, on quality gloss, white thin card, in 6 colours. So each set is of 30 different unadopted Essays. MOST attractive as you can readily see. Red, blue, green yellow, brown and black. I bought a few sets of 30 of these from a dealer in the late 1990s. ACSC tells us just 100 sets were printed letter press and the plate was then donated to the Australia Post Archive Collection. A closer scan of one colour, I just did above. ACSC tells us this fairly crude essay design series for our first Commonwealth stamp was engraved by a Mr Grant of Wonthaggi, Victoria. Nonetheless, the 3 single original essays from this set that Arthur Gray offered at auction in 2007, were invoiced at about $A3,500 each! All way above the full ACSC value of $2,500 each.
ACSC also records these same reprints from the original printing block on gloss thin card. The Gray copies looked TERRIBLE - I looked at them all, but sold for about $A10,000! This ugly one below in black - www.tinyurl.com/Gray1911 - was invoiced at $A3,750! This is the actual photo from Shreves Auction catalogue - un-retouched by me. $3,750 there - from me they cost just $2 a stamp. These same sets 30 are currently offered for $A750 a single set by a leading ebay Dealer as you can see - www.tinyurl.com/1911Set - Most collectors like to buy two sets .. one of the 30 singles, which fills a Hagner or album or stockbook page perfectly, and most colourfully - and the same 30 stamps in Miniature Sheets as shown. $A70 for the 30 imperf singles (Stock 568TG), or $A85 for the set of Mini Sheets (Stock 568TH) Or, Buy BOTH the above, and save a huge $30 - $A125 - Stock 568TJ - or TWO sets 60 (120 Essays) for just $US139 or $A220! - Stock - 568TK
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Reduced $85 to as low as just $A90! (Or $US62 as I type) Superb hard bound, with dust cover
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. NONE.
Geoff Kellow - the superb hardcover "The Stamps Of Victoria" Retail $175. Discounted to as low at $A90 each!
https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=32599 (Stock code 842FQ)
The superb, MASSIVE Hugh Freeman "Barred Numeral Cancels Of Victoria"NEW 2018 Vol #2. $A210
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 - $A195
https://www.glenstephens.com/snjanuary18.html (Stock 782JQ)
ACSC Brusden White 'Australian States Federal Period 1901-1912' Catalogue - 2024 - massive A4 size with 362 pages - $A185 (Stock Code 385BJ)
Stanley Gibbons AUSTRALIA (and related Pacific area, inc all Norfolk) 2022 - 465 pages full colour - $A85 (Stock 762TX)
Brusden White - ACSC - 'Postage Dues, inc Vic & NSW'' - NOW IN *FULL COLOUR* - New Large A4 format - $A125 (Stock 483KQ)
Australia KGVI and QE2 Pre-Decimals - huge A4 NEW 2024 full colour - the BOTH books for $A270 (Stock 892JD)
ACSC "KANGAROOS" 170 pages, Full Colour, new 2021 A4 large size. ESSENTIAL! $A145 (Stock 382KR)
New 2018 ACSC "Australia Postal Stationery" Catalogue - 484 huge pages colour - $A245
https://stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=80347 (Stock 782DV)
Brusden White 'DECIMALS 1966-2001' new large A4 COLOUR, 2 huge Volumes, near 1,200 pages! - $A385 (Stock 582KQ)
FULL COLOUR 2022 Huge A4 ACSC "Australia KGV Reign" Cat ~325 pages - $A185 (Stock 382KX)
New SG *2024* Part One Commonwealth Catalogue" Cat ~800 pages - $A190 (Stock 592LW)
Brusden White - ACSC 'Stamp Booklets' - 1904-2001 - SUPERB! 3rd Editon, Full Colour, 190 pages, detail packed. Large A4 size - $A130 - Stock 398RT
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NEW - ACSC Brusden White 'Australian States Federal Period 1901-1912' Catalogue - a massive 352 x large A4 pages, and now all in FULL COLOUR. Far thicker than the huge recent 'KGV' Volume even. Selling like CRAZY. This is THE hottest area of collecting here - these are all truly 'AUSTRALIAN' stamps, being issued after Federation in 1901. This new edition updates the debut 2004 section, that was included in the 'Kangaroos 4th edition', and is in the new full colour, large page, A4 format. I routinely got $150 for that 20-year-old mono book, as it was the ONLY source of this info. All the listings and prices have been extensively revised, many with massive price increases of up to 400%, and with many new discoveries and finds being listed and priced. Further archival information has been included, and numerous new illustrations and listings have been added. Have pre-sold boxes of them! Adding in 1 or more of the other TEN x ACSC Volumes, generally adds zero, or very little extra mail cost - see all 10 volumes listed here - www.tinyurl.com/SetACSC
Numbers printed and sold are included where known, of EACH printing, and perf and watermark change - an invaluable resource. Proofs and essays, and all official CTOs, and all SPECIMENS - Imperforates and part perforates are listed and priced here, as are all known constant plate varieties, sheet sizes are given, watermark inverts etc, monograms and imperfs shades, and ALL official perfins etc. All perforation variants are listed and priced, and ON COVER PRICES are given - a goldmine area for collectors and re-sellers. ONE medium find, just once in your life, will pay for this book easily. Totally re-numbered - using the old version is now a disaster! These are HUGE - near 1.5 kilo, (over 3lbs) so a 'parcel' for postage purposes. I mail in special rigid book mailing boxes, not flimsy padded bags that often ding and dent the book in transit etc. And best of all I use superb VFU intelligent and unusual franking, protected when cancelled UNDER PLASTIC - worth far more retail fine used, than you pay in shipping cost! Max Stern price is $189 = www.tinyurl.com/New-BW - From me - only about $US120 at $A185 - Stock 385BJ
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1928 Kookaburra Miniature Sheet MUH. ACSC Retail $A425 - for $A275! - THE item missing from 99% of pre-war Australia collections. Especially in MUH. Near all of those existing are HINGED/Thinned - and/or otherwise defective. Also very popular with "Bird" topical collectors, globally - the first BIRD Mini Sheet anywhere I understand? Indeed, one of the world's FIRST Miniature Sheets of any kind, from ANYWHERE. Juzwin retail $350 for AVERAGE centred, average gum, MUH sheets these days. The Stuart Hardy imperforate version of this Sheet was invoiced for $A326,200.00, and that was global headline news, and gave prices for all other sheets a boost. Full story here - www.tinyurl.com/Kooka1928 - These sheets were single line perforated, one line at a time, both ways, and centering is generally appalling for that reason. Often fair centred for 2 stamps, and perfs touching the next two, vertical and/or horizontal, and corners of course never have comb perf 'neatness'.
Vivid steel blue colour, and crisp sharp plate impression, with truly excellent perfs for these as you can see. A nice looking item in your album, at a VERY affordable ex-estate price. These were printed on what was essentially thin, very soft, and super coarse acidic blotting paper, like Scott paper towels - hence the really "fluffy" perfs generally. And these sheets thin, tear and crease, and fox VERY readily, and the outer margins and perfs often rip out when being separated from the Master Sheet of 15 Mini Sheets, due to the coarse paper. Guaranteed 105% original gum Arabic hand applied gum, and flat and bright and unfolded. Stamps and margins all totally unhinged Slightly overall 'honeyed' or 'zoned' Gum Arabic as quite usual on these, after 95 years. A great budget priced sheet to fill that missing space! I see HINGED copies sell for this price often on eBay etc, to clueless buyers! ACSC MS 133 - $A475. I have over 20 Kooka sheets in stock – MUH, MLH, used, and on piece, one attractive piece with the special RED Exhib FDI cancel, on piece Cat $A475 for $A250 (Stock 565TJ) and ditto on a large part of FDC cover (Cat $1,750!) for $A350 (Stock 269LR), and all in various grades and pricings - ask me! This one is $A275 - Stock 565JK
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New Zealand 2006 Kapa Haka Maori Dancers Rare “Unissued” set of 5 - $12,000 UNDER auction price! - Sold, advertised, mailed and charged to some standing order clients by NZ Post. But hastily withdrawn in panic at the Eleventh Hour, as some radical Maori activists did not like the design images! (Despite Ta Papa Museum fully approving the designs.) Only 39 mint sets of 5 were ever mailed out, and a few FDC, booklets, and one coil roll, and they are the rarest post-war issues for 100 years from NZ. (See detailed note on these in SG “New Zealand” cat after SG #2285.) An affordable way to buy these is via the un-issued 45c "Poi" Maori dancer self-adhesive booklet stamps, or the 45c coil version. FAST ordering is recommended, as when my small stock is gone, they can't be replaced.
The current market leading NZ Len Jury mass selling NZ catalogue is $17,500 a set of 5, FDC at $25,000, and coil or booklet 45c singles $2,500 each. MY price is $A1,500 a single (Stock 583AB ) 45c self-adhesive booklet stamp, neatly cut from the block, or $A2,750 (Stock 583AC ) a horizontal pair. (45c Coil stamps the same prices - Coil strip of FOUR for $A5,000 - Stock 583AH) Or $A5,000 a booklet block of 4 (Stock 583AD ) - if a block is still intact of course when you order! (A block of 4 is a booklet “pane” - each booklet has 2 panes of 4, and a pair.) Or the complete booklet of 10 for $US6,600 or $A10,000. (Just ONE only booklet of 10 on hand - Stock 583AE )
These figures are miles lower than NZ retail which is high, as tiny supply rapidly shrinks, and news of their existence slowly spreads overseas. "Linn's Stamp News" carried my story on these front page in colour. And best of all, the NZ dollar has strengthened a lot against $A in recent months. Noticed a phenomenal $21,185 invoice price for a set 5 at Auckland City Stamps Auction in May 2022, on an estimate of just $12,500. Intensely keen bidding for it. Forget $21,000 Public Auction prices - I have a full set of 5 for sale MUH at $US5,750 or $A8,500 a set 5 (Stock 583EF ) or $A30,000 for matched MUH blocks 4 - Stock 583EG
If you buy them off me, you avoid a certain 15% GST impost upon arrival from NZ as a highly insured item, versus ordering locally, and avoid the nasty new 3%-4% "overseas use surcharge" + bad exchange rate your credit card bank will certainly levy. Likewise for NZ buyers, I mail in such a way Registered, as to cause no 15% GST and Customs “interest” there on entry. My copies are IN-STOCK, and ready to mail now. NZ Buyers can pay into my NZ account if they choose, to save card and Forex fees.
Remember only 39 mint sets of 5 of these were EVER sold, and a few booklets and coil stamps, and NZ Post has confirmed that in writing, and confirmed these were a fully legit PO issue - see article below. Each stamp in each set is FAR scarcer than the 1906 1d "Claret" Christchurch, which have fetched up to $NZ22,500 each at public auction. See recent strong sales and that stamp’s history here These Kapa Haka are Classics of the future. For FAR more details of them all here - www.tinyurl.com/Kapa-NZ - A full set of 5 from me costs only $US5,750 at $A8,500 (Stock 583EF ) - or just $A1,700 apiece!
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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 - see SG footnote. A cover with 3 copies of this, sold for $A4,800. (SG #01) - see www.tinyurl.com/Glen4-19 – Cocos prices have gone quite INSANE at auction - click the link here! ASC 140a/148a, cat. $A350 for 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 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 stamps MUH or clean FU (do specifiy) - for about $US200 or $A320 - Stock 107CT
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MAURITANIA 1982 Grand Prix Car Racing M/S x 500! SG $2,300: $A125: Amazing hoard from the Estate of a Doctor, who invested in all sorts of things from the early 1980s boom era. He had a PO bundle 500 of the Australia 1976 Miniature sheet if anyone wants those! He had 200 each of many Aust PO packs and full sheets. Masses of Aust face value in there. He had bought a bundle of these from France for $A625 his file notes said. 75th Anniversary of Grand Prix Car racing. Fine CTO with full gum at capital city, NOUAKCHOTT. SG MS 729, £2.30 each used x 500 = £1,150 = $A2,300. Under 5% of SG to find them a new home FAST! Brilliant items for an ebay re-seller to offer per 5 or 10 or 50 pieces a time etc - popular thematic, and a seldom seen sheet and seldom offered anywhere. Pay near $500 LESS than original buyer did 40 years back! $US79 as I type - $A125 - Stock 614RL
Kangaroo 1913 2/- Brown CTO superb and fresh - $A225: CTO Kangaroo prices have gone insane in recent times - single stamps selling for up to SEVEN times the recent ACSC prices. So stamps like this one are worth grabbing NOW = ACSC 35wb, $A300 as cheapest CTO date, in average grade - which most are, with pulled perfs, and bad centering etc. First Watermark - Superbly Fresh - been in Scotland all its life. 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 $35 to $400 in cost, depending on how fussy or non-fussy you are! Contact me re your Australia USED gaps. Read up on my Used Kangaroo Grading here - www.tinyurl.com/RooGrade - The reason Grange Hermitage red wine sells for $500 a bottle, and rough reds are always $5 a bottle, is the same as VFU stamps - some savvy folks in life recognise real quality - and will gladly pay a tad extra for it! $US140 - or $A225 Stock 462KY
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Australia PO Packs 1974 Science x 100 NEW! SG 582/585. Just $1.25 each! Bought these 50 year old packs from Bill Hornadge (founder of Stamp News and Seven Seas Stamps) who had in turn bought them as New Issues, and they were still in a box from the Distributor of Stamps Sydney! As purchased direct at that time. Condition as good as you'll ever for anything 50 years old. MUST be a surefire “double your money” prospect on ebay surely at this price? In sealed PO packs NOT often seen, as the "Stamp Boom" did not start until late 70s, so PO PACKS are worth 10 times a mint set. ASC Retail $500. Priced to clear at - $A125 – Stock 186XD
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Adelaide 2016 $1.00 set 6 Mint, CTO in week of issue, "Albino", or on “Last Day Cover” $A199: The early 2016 Emergency issue of the ADELAIDE CPS set caused a global sensation, and the set of 6 x 30¢ is listed and priced in Gibbons at £250 PER stamp, and indeed is priced at $A4,500 a set 6 in Renniks. (My price is just $A1,995 a set of 6 - 2 sets left.) The $1.00 value in exact same design issued around the same time and on same machine is - so far, is oddly largely overlooked. Only a tiny number were sold mint, and I’ve yet to see a single postally used copy of those, despite that being the new postal letter rate. For many collectors the ONLY cost acceptable way to fill up these 6 spaces on the Hingeless Seven Seas Stamps, or other printed pages globally, will be with a set of 6 x $1.00, so demand will keep increasing. And prices too. Ton more discussion of this exciting new issue here - www.tinyurl.com/2016set
I managed to have serviced just SIX Last Covers as shown here. I have ONE left now. On Official PO cover, with the pictorial Adelaide Philatelic Sales Centre “Clocktower” pictorial cancel. Superb item, and a star of the future, at just $A199. I doubt more than 20 exist globally of these. No mail orders were accepted, no credit cards accepted, hence very few secured them in person. The CPS machine went back to MEL on that same day for scrapping. So a double piece of Philatelic History. Set of 6 x $1 MUH or VFU your choice - $A75 (Stock 571GX) or MUH and VFU sets 6 for $A125 (Stock 571GK) or 10 sets MUH and/or FU - $A500 (Stock 571GU) or my VERY last of the tiny number made of LAST DAY COVERS illustrated above: $A199 - (Stock 571GZL )
Your #1 source for USED Kangaroo Stamps!
For well over 45 years, I have held the largest stock of used Australia KGV heads and Kangaroos in the world. From poor to superb. Many collectors find it really tough to sort and source these by watermark, and shades, and Dies accurately. In the early 1980's I ran dozens of full page ads in the 2 local magazines listing EVERY key Australian stamp in 5 different grades from "Spacefiller" to "Superb". Even the 1913 Mega Scarce £2 Roos. Not one dealer has done that kind of ad - before or since.
My grading is precise, my stock is enormous, and I have assisted many THOUSANDS of collectors complete their sets of these difficult issues. From budget conscious pensioners filling Seven Seas albums for their grandchildren, where space-fillers of scarcer values will suffice absolutely perfectly, to multi-millionaires who want and buy the BEST - from cars and houses .... to their stamps! You may not be able to afford to LIVE as well as Hugh Morgan or Ron Brierley does, or drive a Bentley like they do, but your used Roos can look JUST as nice!
If you want a complete set of "Melbourne Dec 3, 1913" half circle gloss black cancels on First Watermark - I can supply them. If you want the full gum corner CTO from later Specimen packs I can help. (All these are now listed in the ACSC as CTO, and priced accordingly, per type.) If you want just lovely postally Superb Used like those in the photo nearby - I have always been the #1 choice to buy from. I have 1000's just like them - Read my recent stamp column HERE - www.tinyurl.com/RooGrade - about WHY you should collect only USED stamps in this country.
Unlike mint, used stamps do not tone or rust nearly as fast - and are readily ‘cleaned’ if they do! And unlike mint - no-one goes about regumming used Kangaroos. And when it comes to filling gaps in high value Roos, opting for USED, even lovely copies, will cost you a TINY FRACTION of what mint hinged will. So it is VERY possible to fully complete your used Roo collection. Mint hinged will cost you $40,000. USED are a tiny fraction of that, as you can see below.
I purchased Private Treaty from Harmers Of Sydney in 1979, the massive H .F. McNess accumulation of used "OS" perfins. He was obsessed with accumulating these issues, and had books full. I still have much of this stock. This was at a time when perf "OS" were poorly regarded by collectors and dealers alike. Not me. I still have multiple copies of items that most dealers have never seen or handled genuine examples of, like - 4d Lemon Yellow, ½d and 1/4d Small Multi perf 14, KGV No Wmk pair, Roo 2½d and 4d Yellow 1st Wmks etc.
I was the person who got the £2 Small Multiple perf “OS” Roo listed into the ACSC after 75 years, by proving beyond doubt 2 totally genuine copies did exist. One of which I bought from a WW2 assembled collection. (The used Arthur Gray copy, who owned the other, then sold for $A40,000.) These “OS” perfins (especially First Wmk) are usually HORRIBLE looking stamps.
The stamp printer directed that badly centered sheets of stamps, too poorly produced for sale to the public, be put aside, and be perforated “OS” for these “nuisance” Free Government Official stamps. That makes CHOICE copies about one in a 100 of the higher 1913 values above 3d. And do note - all perf “OS” sold by ME are genuine, from the massive H.F. McNess hoard I bought etc. Do not TOUCH 90% of what you see on eBay. Read of the ENDLESS FakeBay fakes exposes on this board.
Australian dealers in general are pretty lazy and slap-dash and vague with used stamp terminology. The Term “FU” is applied to ANYTHING, with any cancel, most times! Loosely translated it means “NOT MINT.” Convenient for them - yes. Accurate - NO! Entire price lists headed “Fine Used” exist. However they often mean if you order “FU” and the dealer has a single copy in stock that is truly graded AVERAGE used, you’ll be cheerily supplied with that unless you complain - end of story. As for private sellers on ScamBay ... “rust and toning and foxing - what's that”?? Is a 3 mm tear, pinhole, or bad corner crease worth mentioning - of COURSE not! "Is that a paper thin, or the watermark - let’s say watermark" as it will sell for more. "What is re-perfing?" - they do not know (or care), and you do not know. The Blind leading the Blind in many cases.
I have FIVE specific USED grades in my stock - from Spacefiller Grade, to Superb Used Grade. You pay for, and GET exactly WHAT grade suits your collection best. Warning - the very TOP grade “SUPERB USED” sets are incredibly tough to source, as you might imagine, and are priced accordingly, and can take quite a time to assemble and ship. Always ask FIRST. The other 4 grades below are good to go right now, when you order. For MOST buyers, “Clean Good Used” is actually perfect. Better than MOST other dealer’s “VFU” grading!
"Instant Kangaroo Collection”: I’ve assembled full sets of 34 different Roos in EVERY Watermark. 1st and 2nd Wmks to 1/-, 3rd Wmk to BOTH 2/- colours, Small Multi Wmk to 2/-, CofA Wmk to 5/-, and even both the 6d “OS” overprints - which are actually VERY scarce used, but are needed for EVERY printed album. Melbourne retail for these same 34 stamps in normal used condition is well over $A1,000. ACSC cat is way higher. Buy just the EXACT grade that suits your budget, and collecting requirements as follows: (Order as stock number 245RU and specify GRADE.)
Spacefillers - $A225 - Average Used - $A425 - Nice Good Used - $A595 (about $US375) - Clean FU - $A925 - Or for the perfectionist - hand selected Superb Used complete set of 34: $1,650. And I also have great stocks of the higher face values than these - and the best stock in Australia of Perforated “OS” Roos - all GUARANTEED GENUINE unlike the ebay Forgery Factory. Also I have great stock of the Stanley Gibbons listed watermark errors, perfs, shades, Dies, and SG listed printing varieties etc. Please enquire. - (Order as stock number 245RV and be sure to specify your wanted GRADE.)
Roo "Upgrade" Kit: Add these real key values to the Roo set above. Add the 1913 2/- First Watermark, the 2/- Second Watermark, and both the scarce 5/- Third Watermark, and Small Multiple Watermarks. And last but not least, add the 10/- CofA to your page. These five scarce stamps are missing from near all collections. The 10/- Roo is going up in price strongly each year. ACSC Cat for “normal” average used grade for just these 5, in very cheapest shades, is $1,350! So the attractive Good Used set at $US440 at $A695 is near HALF CAT.
My price for these 5 ''Upgrade'' stamps: Spacefillers - $A345 Average Used - $A525 - Nice Good Used - $A695 - Clean FU - $A975 - Or for the perfectionist - a hand selected SUPERB Used complete set of 5: $A1,625 - (Order as stock number 245RW - and specify your wanted GRADE.)
This offering above is just a tiny "taste". READ up on my used GRADING - www.tinyurl.com/GlensVFU - The prices on this page for these collections supersede any of my other prices on the web. I will gladly price ANY used single stamp you need, and naturally all the later issues. Whether KGV Heads sets of 72, 5/- Bridges, Kookaburra Mini Sheets, £1 Thin paper Robes, £2 Navigators etc. I have them ALL in 5 diff. condition grades. I stock Australia 100% complete, 1913-1985, in used condition. And I have all these above in MINT of course … and MUH. Let me quote you! Glen
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Australia Post in 2016, issued THEIR scarcest new issue for 100+ years - see photo below. A genuine local and totally official "Emergency" postal issue, as the dullards in Australia Post had not planned for our new $1 postage rate from 70c too well, and were wildly short of 30c stamps.
Stampboards of course reported it to the world first - if you collect Australia you DO need these - https://tinyurl.com/rare30c - NO dealer in the country has stock - except me AFAIK.
PO's sold out fast, and I am down to a couple sets 6 as I type this. There are TWO very distinct sets 6, Type "A" and Type "B" and I have just 2 sets of each in stock. If anyone has any spare sets, singles, or postally used covers to sell - please email ASAP!
These sets ARE now listed in Stanley Gibbons with full catalogue numbers and £250 PER stamp pricing - SG 4492/4497. And also listed and priced at $2,500 a set 6 in the Seven Seas Stamps "Australian Stamp Catalogue", Renniks "Stamps Of Australia" etc. The Renniks 'Stamps Of Australia' cat has these at $4,500 a set of 6 mint. If you collect Australia you MUST source these, OR be incomplete.
This set 6 recently sold for $7,900 - more detail on link below
It is clearly THE scarcest Australia new issue stamp set for 100 years.
If YOU still need these, prices are heading just one direction now that they have been allocated full SG Numbers and pricing - full details here - www.tinyurl.com/GlenMay16 and are in the leading Renniks Australia catalogue, at $4,500 a set 6.
This amazing stamp issue made the big selling Newspapers, Fairfax and News Limited websites, and Radio media nationally. And this story was the Number #1 viewed article on the Linn's Stamp News website in the USA, and was in UK Magazines -
https://www.glenstephens.com/snmarch16.html
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Adelaide 2016 30c Emergency Set of 6 - My today's price of $A1,995 ($US1,235) per set of 6 - Stock 582GY - will seem cheap next year!
I can offer the identical "Adelaide 2016, $1.00" sets of 6 for $A450 for 10 sets 6 MUH, but strictly while stock lasts. (Stock 571GU ) (Or 1 set is $A75 - Stock 571GX ) Or TWO sets one M one FU is $A125 - Stock 571GF. Retail on those is up to $A100 a set already.
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Hong Kong, 2007 “PRESTIGE ANNUAL STAMP ALBUM” $A110: An overlarge, hard slip cased, classy looking album. Far larger than any Australia Annual album. Totally unopened and pristine. Cost price was $HK490 = $A90+ with note on back from PO to that effect. There is a somewhat similar design cover one from 2007, that cost less at PO. Even they are not common, and retail for well over $A100. After a 15 minute search I could not see one offered anywhere, for any price, at any time. Check for yourself - these must have had a tiny number done? Bought from an ExPat banker then working in HK, for whom cost was never an object! A really superb deal for someone. $US69 - $A110 - Stock 397KQ
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Hutt River Province 1974 Mini Sheet #1 x **440** Retail $3,080 - just $A245 or $US155!: These were issued in the Stamp Boom, and investors bought quantities of many things. These included, clearly! Someone decided to buy 440 of these attractive Miniature Sheets. Face value is $1.20 a sheet - so FACE alone is $528 alone. He could have bought a mint £2 Roo for that money 50 years back! And dealer retail is $7 a set = $3,080 as you can see here - www.tinyurl.com/HuttMS - Bought well to sell FAST, at a fraction of what he paid 50 years back, and you pay just 7% of current retail. Doing 100+ hour weeks now, and just no time to break these down as I really SHOULD! He had a few other issues in duplicate full PO sheets that he bought at the same time if anyone is interested, also at a low % of retail - ask me! Brilliant lot for someone on ebay to offer per sheet, or per 10 or per 100 (you have 440 sheets!) and make a real killing. This Hutt River material is enduringly popular. A few single sets sold for $510 on ebay - to many bidders.
Amazing find .. owner paid $3,200 for these in the 1980s according to his auction invoice. These are near FIFTY years old now of course. Hutt River's FIRST ever Mini Sheet. The Principality of Hutt River is situated some 600 km north of Perth, Western Australia and is an Independent Sovereign State having seceded from the Commonwealth of Australia on 21st April 1970. The Head of State was the late HRH Prince Leonard. His son, Graeme took over the reins of the Province. For many years until recently, he printed his own stamps, issued his own coins and notes, and also issued his own passports and bestowed Knighthoods to visitors from all over the world. Pay near 7% of current retail, and just 44% of face! $A245 or US$155 (Stock 462BX)
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Australia Post Annual "Year Books" Black LEATHER "Executive"
Editions complete – Book #1, to 2000 - 22% off - *$A425 UNDER retail*!
Editions complete – Book #1, to 2000 - 22% off - *$A425 UNDER retail*!
ONE set only at this price - these Leather (Executive) books are VERY classy. All have been black genuine Leather covered, with brass corners, since the first issue in 1986, so they are a fully matched classy Black leather set, in matching black slipcases. Covers are thickly padded and deeply gold inscribed on front and spine. Each book has a matching gold embossed heavy slipcase ….. see the main photo above - the 3 slipcases are standing at back. These keep dust and moisture OUT of your stamp albums and are ESSENTIAL in this climate.
Australia Post charges $35 more for each Leather album over the regular Year Books, due to the far higher cost of making leather covers etc in short runs. So retail of each is accordingly much higher - add that extra cost up over 15 books! Numbers produced are a small FRACTION of normal books, so re-sale value stays very strong. Sitting in a neat row on a loungeroom bookshelf these look super classy - like a set of Law Books or Encyclopedia Britannia etc! They come out each year in exact same design, so you can readily keep up to date.
The presentation of the stamps and the artwork and detail on the pages in these books is an absolute credit to Australia Post. High gloss varnished paper, and double facing pages of info on EVERY stamp issue. Laden with photos and factual background information. For collectors with younger children or Grandchildren, this is a goldmine for their education and general knowledge. Or a family heirloom collection to keep up to date. The 2000 regular Year Book surprised everyone by having in it, the Australia Sydney Olympic Gold Medal winner sheetlet of 16. You could obtain this sheet NO other way. That sheetlet alone retails for $100 from many dealers. The 1988 LEATHER book has always been near impossible to source etc. Full retail list of ALL these superb books here - www.glenstephens.com/yearbook.html
I have ALWAYS have the largest stock of Year Books in Australia - true. No other dealer comes ever close. I buy more estates than anyone else it seems, and also folks come to me when selling these books, as they know I will buy them cash. And I thus MUST on-sell them as cheaply as I can, to MOVE all this stock, or I will drown in it! Bought this nice clean collection CHEAP in an Estate, so OUT they go. This is a lovely clean collection of EVERY Black Leather Year Book issued from 1986 (Leather Book Number #1) right up to the scarce 2000. FIFTEEN matched leather books. A large wine carton FULL.
My normal discount retail on these 15 books, as you can see from link above, is $A2,175. (All the later year Leather Books are in stock of course. I can do a similar bulk discount deal for 2001-2020 etc, or for any other single years you are missing - ask me for my rock bottom price!) A superb gift idea perhaps for someone? As always on pricier lots, happy to do a time payment or LayBy system etc - 4 monthly payments of around $425 and these are yours! To clear this Estate lot fast, out they go for $425 UNDER my retail - a super bargain figure for this ONE discounted set of 15 - 22% off retail at just - About $US1,125 at $A1,695 - Stock 451WX
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18K Solid Gold and Sterling Silver German OTTO HUTT Fountain Pen, brand new: **$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. Save $250 on nib pen at $A999 - indeed that is only $US700! (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 $US535 - $A850 Stock 386LX
In this low interest rate climate, and Euro zone jitters, good stamps often perform FAR better than money in the bank, the evidence shows clearly. The overheated Real Estate market in Australia is experiencing a correction as we speak, given our economy and COVID lately, and stamps are generally unaffected in such downturns, indeed usually go up.
Please order via new HTTPS encrypted SECURE site - www.tinyurl.com/GlensOrder And please do that NOW. Too many think “I’ll do that later” and then quickly “forget”. I then often lose the stamps in the rubble here, and waste an annoying hour finding them again.
All payment details etc are on: www.tinyurl.com/GlenPay - NICE VFU franking is used whenever possible, when I mail (depending on how busy PO counter is!) and I ALWAYS use stamps of some kind locally : see member pix of some of that franking here - www.tinyurl.com/GlenCTO COMBINED POSTAGE is fine - save big money when buying more than 1 lot at once! For overseas members, to find out the approx goods cost in YOUR currency, click here - www.xe.com - the $A has CRASHED lately, and for USA buyers etc, my prices are REALLY cheap in your money - lowest for years! MONEY BACK GUARANTEE - don't like it - mail it back within 48 hours of receiving it. No-one ever has yet.
Remember, adding another lot of mine (posted by either Admin, GlenStephens or Global Administrator or ozstamps) here (or on my website www.glenstephens.com/rarity.html ) for sale, in general adds ZERO to your shipping cost, so have a good look at what is on offer on the pages here, in case something else appeals. And "lay-by/layaway" is always possible - email me with any queries to ozstamps [at] g mail dot com - OR "trade-ins" always possible! If you have a pile of surplus stuff, I may well be happy to offset that against this item, see: www.tinyurl.com/GlenBuy
As most know - I do NO fairs or shows, have NO shop, and do NOT bother with ebay or any other auctions. I buy endless bulk lots from Estates, and distress sales etc, in this massive city of 6 million, with no other real stamp buyers here, and offer it here at *NETT* prices for fast turnover. NO "20%-25% Buyer Fees" and “3% credit card fees” to add to my *NETT* prices, as in auction! ZERO extra charged to use any cards - and Amex is accepted too or PayPal in ANY currency. .
Many similar mouth-watering NETT price offers are being loaded weekly onto - www.tinyurl.com/GlenRare and www.tinyurl.com/StampDeals Unless noted by me, all stampboards lots priced *$A100 and under* are generally mailed Unregistered and untracked at *YOUR* total risk, unless YOU specifically note otherwise on order form. 1,000s of my transactions here for 15 years have been delivered safely by normal post.
Orders over $100 are ALWAYS sent Registered (but Max PO cover is for $A100 only sadly) - cost is extra $A4 local. Request this on order form IF you require it, under $A100. Letter size FOREIGN sendings globally are usually only $4 untracked. Smallish, large packet items FOREIGN up to 500g/1lb are normally sent in pre-paid *EXPRESS* envelopes cost $17 total, near always dodging you inward VAT/GST Taxes/Fees!
"All Risk" Insurance is always possible if required as well, and is cheap at $A2 per $A100 covered locally, or $3 per $A100 overseas - and all buyers are strongly advised to use this, and I generally will add it automatically, unless asked not to. Full detail on all of this - www.tinyurl.com/Glen2-15 It is like Travel Insurance - decline that when booking your ticket, and THEN tell Qantas you really meant to take it out 3 weeks back, and ‘you now need to cancel your ticket, with no nasty penalty please’, and see how you get on with THAT one!
As per stampboard convention - this lot is offered exclusively first to board members - and on no other sales venue. For members who make a BANK TRANSFER or send cheque or Money Order etc, you WILL generally get your goods faster, as it saves me some hassle - but you MUST email me the confirmation number etc - many "forget"! Phone me anytime with any queries on these stamps – 0409- 399 - 888
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