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Top flight
The most spectacular stamps
celebrating national birds
Red-hot Chile
The Spanish emigré
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Going abroad
Collecting Australia’s
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in this issue
No matter how much variety we try to
present in this magazine, awkward
coincidences will occasionally jump up
and make fools of us. I am astonished to
realise that birds have now featured on
five of our last seven front covers.
Without any deliberate intent on our part (except in
this issue!), our feathered friends have been allowed
to infiltrate everything we do. A penguin here, a
flamingo there, an osprey gazing out from the
newsstands...wherever we turn, there seems to be
stamp with an avian angle.
It all adds up to very clear circumstantial evidence
that birds are among the most popular of all
philatelic themes, but don’t make the mistake of
assuming that this month’s feature on stamps
illustrating national birds (page 36) will be full of
modern ‘wallpaper’ issues produced with thematic
collections in mind. Far from it.
In reality, there are stamps from 1879, 1889, 1898,
1928, 1931, 1932, 1935, 1938, 1942, and a veritable
flock from the 1950s and 1960s. And many of these
are high-class engraved stamps and definitives
which would catch the eye in any album or display.
Whether on coats of arms or in the national
consciousness, it is obvious from our survey that
birds can perform a role in representing countries to
the wider world in a way that butterflies, orchids,
steam trains, bridges, military uniforms, television
programmes and lighthouses simply can’t. 36 Stamps illustrating national birds have a history stretching back to the 1870s
Having established that, we’ll try to keep birds off
the front cover for the next few months. We don’t
want to put all our eggs in one basket.
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CONTENTS
july 2018 | Volume 84, Number 7 | www.stampmagazine.co.uk
46 The best GB stamp designs by Howard Brown 90 International Post stamps and postal history of Australia 43 1860 joint issue by two Canadian colonies
86 Engravings which put Chile on the philatelic map 96 Great British institutions in the thematic spotlight 121 An airmail stamp which doubles as a commemorative
FEATURES 43 commonwealth COMPETITIONs

classics
British Columbia & Vancouver
36 national birds Island issued only one stamp, but Win an Owls
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national bird. Ranging from eagles 86 great engravers GB price guide!
to sparrows, these have been José Moreno Benavante quit
See page 33
appearing on stamps since the Waterlow & Sons to transform the
mid-19th century, often in iconic reputation of Chilean stamps
definitive issues
96 GB THEMES ‘It’s not only special issues which
46 stamp designs Royal Mail stamps have often
by howard brown honoured great British institutions, collectors have trouble finding in
He has created some of the most such as those with royal charters
memorable British stamps over post offices, but definitives too’
a period spanning 25 years. We 101 eyewitness accounts
examine the highlights, and ask Mobilisation scenes are reported
see page 27
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Royal Wedding scenes

on New Zealand stamps
within two days...
New Zealand was the first country to
release a Royal Wedding issue featuring
photographs taken on the day itself.
A miniature sheet of six stamps was
placed on sale on May 21, just two days
after the marriage of Prince Harry and
Meghan Markle in Windsor on May 19.
Two of the $2.70 values were based on
photographs taken when the couple
announced their engagement in December.
The remaining four are images from the
wedding day: one of the ceremony inside
St George’s Chapel, two of the newly-weds
emerging afterwards and one of their
carriage ride through Windsor.
The design was pre-approved by
Buckingham Palace using ‘placeholder’
dummy images, and staff at New Zealand
Post worked through the night after the
event to complete the design and send it
straight off for printing.
...and wedding Australia recalls its pioneering

bells on Jersey 1868 Aboriginal cricket tour
Post & Go set Australia has
issued a stamp
Jersey’s Post & Go machine-vended celebrating
stamps are available with a special Royal the 150th
Wedding commemorative overprint for a anniversary of
limited period. the Aboriginal
Crest of Jersey designs purchased from cricket team
the kiosk at Broad Street post office in St which toured
Helier carry a machine-printed ‘Prince Britain in 1868.
Harry and Meghan Royal Wedding Based on
19/5/2018’ inscription, accompanied by a period
wedding bells motif. photography,
Introduced on the day of the wedding, this the design
will be offered until June 26, and collectors’ shows a team
strips can be ordered from the Jersey line-up,
Philatelic Bureau. featuring 10
Aboriginal
players with
their English captain and team manager.
In what was the first ever international sporting tour of any kind from the Australian
colonies, the inexperienced Aboriginal XI played 47 matches against county and local cricket
teams across England over a six-month period. They won as many as they lost.
International sporting fixtures were rare in this period. Only English teams had toured
overseas previously, and no other representative Australian team would do so for 10 years.

world News AUCTIONS | GB collector | letters | COMMENT | COMPETITIONS | features | EVENTS | STRANGE BUT TRUE
World record verified British-led news in brief
for United Nations campaign for > The postal

committee of the
Arab League has
The United Nations Postal Administration’s claim to have set a
world record for the highest number of words printed on a postage
FIP reform approved a symbolic
omnibus issue
celebrating Al Quds
stamp has been verified by Guinness World Records. (Jerusalem) as the
Chris King, the Briton
Its issue commemorating the Universal Declaration of Human capital of the State
who is standing for of Palestine.
Rights, issued in October 2017, comprised stamps which had the
election as President
document microprinted in three different languages. In the case of
of the Fédération > Patrick Pearson
the 2f stamp, inscribed in French for use at the UN post office in has retired after
Internationale de
Geneva, this amounted to 1,969 words. serving on the
Philatélie, has set up Expert Committee
The three stamps are available in a miniature sheet with a border
a website advocating of the Royal
depicting Eleanor Roosevelt, who oversaw the drafting of the
a new strategic plan Philatelic Society
document as Chairman of the UN Commission on Human Rights. London for 53 years.
for the association.
Adopted by the UN General Assembly in December 1948, the
Friends Of The FIP argues for a clearer
Declaration has been translated into more than 500 languages. > The Assocation of
sense of direction, improved British Philatelic
communication and greater democracy Societies has
within the organisation, and says it should produced guidelines
do more to listen to its members, develop concerning Europe’s
new data protection
the hobby and make international rules (GDPR), which
exhibitions more sustainable. came into force in
King, who was President of the Royal May, and affect the
Philatelic Society London from 2013-15, way clubs handle
information about
says many of these issues haven’t been
members. Visit
discussed since the FIP was formed in 1926, www.abps.org.uk
and is campaigning with a programme of
reform. Visit www.fotfip.online > Abacus Auctions
The election will take place at the has acquired the
assets of the stamp
Thailand 2018 world exhibition in department of
Bangkok in December. Mossgreen
Auctions, which
ceased trading in
December. Based in
Melbourne,
German portrait marks Australia, and led

by postal history
dealer Torsten
bicentenary of Marx Weller, it held its

first sale on May 19.
> The Stamp Of The

The 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx has been Century, a new book
commemorated by Germany with a 70c stamp bearing an abstract by Kellen Diamanti
portrait of the economic and political theorist. and Deborah Fisher,
The design by Thomas Mayfried, from Munich, is based on a tells the story of the
United States
photograph of Marx taken in 1875 by an Englishman, John Mayall. ‘Inverted Jenny’
Marx was born in Trier, part of the Kingdom of Prussia, on May 5,
Brazil honours
error, 100 years
1818, but lived in London for the second half of his life. His pamphlet after it was issued
The Communist Manifesto (co-written with Friedrich Engels in 1848) in 1918. Published
and his three-volume tome Das Kapital (1867-83) served as a
blueprint for the communist regimes of the 20th century. its historic by the American
Philatelic Society, it
is priced $24.95.
postal library > Stanley Gibbons

has published a 4th
edition of its East
Brazil has released a stamp in honour of Africa With Egypt &
the 130-year-old postal library at the Sudan catalogue,
National Postal & Telegraphic Museum in priced £25.95.
its capital, Brasilia. > Guernsey’s Post &
The 1.55r value illustrates an open book Go stamps will be
along with covers, mailbags, postboxes vended by a desktop
and handstamps. machine in St Peter
Port’s visitor
Established in 1888, initially in Rio de
information centre
Janeiro, the library houses documents and until October, for
artefacts which preserve a historical record the benefit of
of Brazil’s postal services. tourists.

WORLD NEWS
NEW ISSUE
Looking at clouds from

the other side, now
A
new issue of $1 stamps from
Australia features Cloudscapes, the
magnificence of which put British
weather systems in the shade.
Four photographic images capture
various cloud formations, witnessed in
different parts of Australia. Although they
all appear threatening to some degree, they
are stunning in their beauty and diversity.
The science of cloud classification is
much more complex than most people
realise, according to Paul Toomey, weather
observations trainer at Australia’s Bureau
of Meteorology. ‘Every cloud belongs to one
of ten main groups, called genera,’ he says,
‘and many are further divided into species
and varieties which are telling of the by upward air currents and towering cloudscape photographed near Boonah in
physical processes taking place in the vertically along cold fronts. Sometimes Queensland, a state which is well known for
atmosphere.’ called ‘thunderheads’, they are closely its arcus cloud formations, known locally as
The most benign looking clouds associated with atmospheric instability, and ‘morning glory’.
illustrated are the dramatic lens-shaped or especially lightning storms. Another type of cloud that can often occur
saucer-shaped lenticularis, a variety of the Photographed here is a particularly clear with cumulonimbus is mammatus, named
genus altocumulus, which are formed on and dramatic example, between Auburn and after the hanging protuberances on its
the crests of atmospheric waves on the Balaklava in South Australia. under surface, which look like udders.
leeward side of hills or mountains. Often associated with cumulonimbus but A supplementary feature of various
Sometimes called ‘pancake stacks’, they with a very contrasting appearance are genera, rather than a genus in itself, the
are a visual indicator of mountain waves, arcus clouds. These are low, horizontal formation is composed primarily of ice, and
which can cause severe turbulence and are formations which can resemble a is often the harbinger of a thunderstorm or
a hazard to aircraft. The photograph was wedge-shaped shelf or a tubular rolled-up even a tornado.
taken over Lachlan in Tasmania. carpet, forming where there are shallow The stunning image on the stamp was
Cumulonimbus clouds are a well currents of cold air, such as sea breezes. captured near the appropriately named
recognised phenomenon in Britain, formed The stamp shows a spectacular Booborowie in South Australia.

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Frankenstein’s monster
brought vividly to life
J
ersey has issued a set of eight stamps
and a miniature sheet marking the
200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s
famous novel, Frankenstein.
The novel was conceived in 1816 when
three famous Britons staying near Geneva
in Switzerland — Mary Godwin, her future
husband Percy Shelley and Lord Byron —
had a competition to see who could write
the best horror story.
Originally titled Frankenstein or The
Modern Prometheus, it was the story of a
young scientist who succeeds in creating a
humanoid creature and bringing it to life,
but comes to regret meddling with nature
as the monster eventually brings disaster to
him and his friends and family.
It was published anonymously in January
1818, when Mary was only 20 years old, but
appeared under her name from the second
edition onwards. As one of the earliest
examples of science fiction, it has inspired
countless horror films.
Printed by Cartor and issued on June 18,
with values ranging from 50p to £2.64, the
stamps have specially commissioned
illustrations of the storyline, each with a
pertinent quote from the original text.
Lenticular printing gives the £3 miniature
sheet a three-dimensional effect, giving the
illusion of the monster opening its eyes and
coming to life amid a flash of electricity.

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UNITED STATES 1869

24c with inverted vignette SO
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8,7
The latest Robert A Siegel auction included one of the £38
world’s earliest and rarest two-colour printing errors,
the United States’ 1869 24c purple and green with inverted vignette.
Only four mint copies are recorded of this variety, one which is held by
the British Library in London. The example that came up for sale, which
has been part of several famous collections, is considered to have the
best centring of the four.
The 1869 pictorial series of 10 values, ranging from 1c to 90c, was the
first US stamp issue to diverge from portraits of statesmen. It was also
the first to feature two-colour printing, on the four highest values; invert
errors exist for three of these.
The 24c design depicts The Declaration of Independence, a famous oil
painting by John Trumbull dating from 1819, which hangs in the US Capitol
in Washington DC.
SOLD BY SIEGEL £388,705
SWITZERLAND 1850 Great Britain 1888

Geneva 4c with rare cancel Postcard by ‘Jack the Ripper’
David Feldman’s auction of classic Switzerland offered many items Sold by an auctioneer
from the period before the introduction of the country’s federal in Folkestone, this ½d
postal service in 1850, and one highlight was this cover sent from postal stationery card
Chêne to Thônex, within the canton of Geneva. of 1888 was written by
Postmarked on March 30, 1850, it was franked with Geneva’s someone claiming to
short-lived 1849 ‘Vaud’ 4c red and black, in use during the be the serial killer
transitional period between cantonal and federal posts. Jack the Ripper.
Inscribed ‘Poste Locale’, this stamp had been issued in October Following a series
1849 but already been superseded by a 5c value issued in January. of murders of women
Making the cover even more attractive was the fact that the stamp in the East End of
was cancelled with the rare blue ‘PD’ postmark of Chêne. London, it was sent to
Switzerland’s first federal stamps were issued in July 1850. Ealing Police Station
in October 1888, 11
SOLD BY DAVID FELDMAN £23,627 days before the killing
of the last victim.
The text reads:
‘Beware there is two
women I want here
they are bastards and
I mean to have them my knife is still in good order it is a students
knife and I hope you liked the half of kidney. I am Jack the Ripper.’
The Metropolitan Police received various messages either
forewarning them of murders or claiming responsibility for them,
and this example is known to have been in their files for decades. It
was put up for sale by the widow of a retired officer.
SOLD BY GRAND AUCTIONS £22,000
BAGHDAD 1917
British Occupation rarity
Warwick & Warwick offered this rarity from the originated from a souvenir sheet.
British Occupation of Baghdad in World War I. British and Indian troops took control of the city
It was the 2a on 1pi bright blue with the overprint (now in Iraq) in March 1917, and Turkish stamps
of a five-pointed red star, in addition to the were overprinted in September.
standard ‘Baghdad in British Occupation’, on piece.
It came with an RPSL certificate verifying that it SOLD BY WARWICK & WARWICK £7,500

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BRUNEI 1906 FRANCE 1870
2c on 8c overprint error Ballon monté cover to Russia
The Bill Toye collection of There was particularly keen bidding at Cherrystone’s auction for a
Brunei, sold by Spink, ballon monté cover from the 1870-71 Siege of Paris with a highly
included a unique variety unusual destination.
from the 1906 provisional Among the mail sent out of the French capital by manned hot-air
issue of overprinted balloons, to foil the blockade by Prussian troops, were copies of the
Labuan stamps. Gazette des Absents newsletter, and this example was addressed all
The lot comprised two the way to Tiflis in the Russian Empire (now Tbilisi in Georgia).
vertical strips which Addressed via St Petersburg, it was franked with an 80c stamp
together formed a portraying the Emperor Napoleon III, which was cancelled with a
complete marginal strip of ‘large star’ numeral postmark (No34) of Paris. The cover also has
10 of the 2c on 8c black and an Avenue Josephine datestamp of November 12, 1870.
vermilion, from the right Published two or three times a week between October 1870 and
side of the sheet, with the February 1871, the Gazette des Absents was printed on lightweight
surcharge doubled on the paper which included space for personal correspondence.
fifth stamp and missing
from the tenth stamp. SOLD BY CHERRYSTONE £10,040
The surcharge was
applied in two settings of
50, on sheets of 100
stamps, and in this case the
lower setting was printed
one row too high. This error
is believed to have affected
one sheet only.
SOLD BY SPINK £12,000
FRANCE 1957
Europa sheet on cover
One of the rarest items in Europa philately came up at Heinrich GREAT BRITAIN 1847
Köhler’s auction: what is thought to be the only example of France’s
1956 Europa miniature sheet used on cover. Unusual 1s pair
France was among the six European countries which started
issuing Europa-themed stamps in 1956. It produced 15f and 30f Mowbray’s auction
stamps in the omnibus design, which are common, but also a offered an unusual
souvenir sheet, with both values se-tenant, which was printed in a mint pair of Great
very limited edution of just 22. Britain’s 1847
This example, posted within Strasbourg, was used on a Council of embossed 1s green
Europe handstamped envelope and cancelled with the Council of (printed from die I),
Europe circular datestamp on January 10, 1957. which once belonged
to the Royal Philatelic
SOLD BY HEINRICH KÖHLER £8,734 Collection.
The embossed high
values of 1847-54 are
ideally collected cut-
square, but are often
found cut-to-shape,
which in this case
means octagonal.
This particular pair
combined a bit of both,
with the upper stamp
partly cut to shape,
before the effort
appears to have been
abandoned, leaving
wide margins
elsewhere. SOLD BY MOWBRAY £6,160

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GB COLLECTOR
NEW ISSUE
Eminent artists honour

their elite academy
T
he 250th anniversary of the Royal The stamps were printed in lithography by
Academy of Arts was marked by a set International Security Printers, and are
of stamps issued on June 5. available in three vertically se-tenant pairs.
Royal Mail specially commissioned works No artistic notes have been released about
of art by six current Royal Academicians, the featured artwork.
several of which give a personal impression
of the organisation’s famous Summer 1st class Summer Exhibition
Exhibition, which has been held every by Grayson Perry
year since 1769. Grayson Perry is an English artist and
Founded in 1768 by King George III, the author best known for his ceramic
RA is an independent, privately funded vases, tapestries and a penchant for
institution with charitable status, led by cross-dressing. The Turner Prize winner in
eminent artists and architects, whose aim 2003, he is co-ordinating this year’s
is to promote the visual arts. It has an Summer Exhibition.
elected membership limited to 80 at
any one time. 1st class Queen of the Sky
Based at Burlington House on Piccadilly by Fiona Rae
in London, it has its own art collection and Fiona Rae is a Hong Kong-born British
library, and offers a three-year
postgraduate art course with free tuition to
artist known for her abstract paintings,
described by one critic as ‘alien
PRICES
carefully selected students. dreamscapes’. She was appointed Set of 6 stamps £6.94
Although in its earlier days it was Professor of Painting at the RA in 2011.
Presentation pack £7.45
reluctant to embrace modern art, it has
now become a champion of all types of £1.25 St Kilda: The Great Sea Stacs Stamp cards £2.70
media, and the stamp designs reflect its by Norman Ackroyd First day cover £8.75
membership today. Norman Ackroyd is an English artist known

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painting, sculpture and needlework, often
with confessional themes. Having come to
fame as a wild child in the 1980s and 1990s,
she was appointed Professor of Drawing at
the RA in 2011.
OTHER PRODUCTS
The presentation pack, written by Dr Gilda
Williams, studies the history and activities
of the Royal Academy of Arts, and some of
its notable members. Stamps cards and a
first day cover are available as usual.
VERDICT
COMMEMORATIVE WORTH
principally for his work with aquatint £1.55 Queuing at the RA
The RA might be an elite organisation,
(an intaglio printmaking technique) but also by Yinka Shonibare
but it is a venerable and influential one
watercolour paintings, specialising in Yinka Shonibare is a British/Nigerian artist
landscapes. He was appointed Professor of known for his works on brightly coloured QUALITY OF DESIGN
Etching at the University of Arts in 1994. wax fabric, exploring political themes. With These specially commissioned works by
a physical disability that has left one side of renowned artists have variety and
£1.25 Inverleith Allotments & his body paralysed, he uses assistants to dynamism
Edinburgh Castle by Barbara Rae create works under his direction.
Barbara Rae is a Scottish landscape painter WOW FACTOR
and printmaker, known for abstract works £1.55 Saying Goodbye Modern art should grab the attention
featuring intense bursts of colour, achieved by Tracey Emin of anyone who sees it, but will it appear
using unmixed acrylic paints. She was Tracey Emin is an English artist who works on our mail?
elected to the RA in 1996. in a variety of media, including drawing,

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NEW ISSUE
news in brief
> Royal Mail is due

to issue a set of eight
stamps on June 26
celebrating the
Celebrating with
Harry and Meghan
popular television
series Dad’s Army,
but full details had
not been released as
we went to press.
> The Postal

Museum, opened in
Royal Mail produced a miniature sheet of four stamps to
celebrate the Royal Wedding of Prince Henry of Wales PRICES
2017, has been
and Meghan Markle in St George’s Chapel at Windsor
shortlisted for the Miniature sheet £4.44
UK’s Museum of the Castle on May 19.
Year Award. The Announced only four days in advance, it was issued on Presentation pack £4.95
winner will be the day of the wedding, although this was a Saturday. First day cover £5.75
announced in July by Comprising two 1st class and two £1.55 values, it is
the charity Art Fund. Press sheet £48.84
almost identical in format to the miniature sheet
> The new chief released in 2011 for the wedding of Prince William and
executive of Royal
VERDICT
Catherine Middleton, with a plain border carrying a
Mail, Rico Back, will bilingual inscription in English and Welsh.
receive a salary of
The stamp images are based on the official
£640,000 and a
potential annual engagement photographs taken by New York-based COMMEMORATIVE WORTH
bonus of 200% of photographer Alexi Lubomirski. Commemorating big royal events has long been
that salary. Uncut press sheets of 10 miniature sheets are also fundamental to the stamp programme
available, in a numbered limited edition of 2,018.
> A new page on
Royal Mail’s website QUALITY OF DESIGN
encourages its 1st class prince harry & meghan markLE The layout of the sheet is suitable for the
customers to report Full-colour formal portrait of the couple inside occasion, albeit not very original
forged stamps and Frogmore House, Windsor, taken in December 2017.
includes a form for
giving details. Visit WOW FACTOR
www.royalmail.com/ £1.55 prince harry & meghan markLE The portraits will have popular appeal, and may
report-stamp-fraud Black-and-white informal photograph of the couple in see more postal use than most special issues
the grounds of the house, taken in December 2017.
> Slogan postmarks
used towards the
end of April included
‘Congratulations
TRH The Duke and
Duchess of
Cambridge on the
birth of their son’
and ‘Celebrate
Digital Pride’. Those
seen in May included
‘Supporting youth
mental health with
Action For Children’,
‘Mental Health
Awareness Week’
and ‘Children’s
Hospice Week’.
> Limited-edition
framed enlargements
of the Royal
Academy of Arts
stamps are being
marketed by Royal
Mail at prices from
£29.99, or signed by
the artist at £79.99.
> Game of Thrones

actor Kit Harrington
is reported to have
used January’s
stamps illustrating
his character, Jon
Snow, to send out
invitations to his
wedding.

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Trades Union Congress HOT OFF THE PRESS
commemorative sheet Don Staddon has the inside line on British
stamp printings, post office supplies and
developments in postal mechanisation
A self-adhesive commemorative sheet issued on June 1 marks the
150th Anniversary of the Trades Union Congress, Britain’s largest
organisation representing working people. Definitive printings
The TUC held its first meeting in Manchester in 1868, convened by New printings of counter sheet stamps by International
the Manchester & Salford Trades Council. Today it has about 50 Security Printers, rather than De La Rue, were due to be
affiliated unions, and therefore more than five million members. made available by Royal Mail from May 23.
Besides supporting unions, it campaigns for better job security, GB dealer Norvic Philatelics has reported printings of
working conditions, wages and pension rights for employees. the 10p, 20p and £1 values with a printing date of
The sheet has 10 1st class Seal stamps accompanied by labels February 9 in their sheet margins, and of the 2nd class,
depicting landmarks in British labour history: the deportation of the 1st class and 1st Large dated February 14.
Tolpuddle Martyrs in 1834, the match factory strike of 1888, the All have cylinder numbers with the ‘W’ (for Walsall)
London dockers’ strike of 1889, the Order of Industrial Heroism prefix, and ‘18’ year codes in their security overlay.
medal created in 1923, the introduction of paid holiday in 1938, Official first day covers were not produced by Royal
support for the war effort in 1939-45, the founding of the National Mail, as these are not considered new stamps despite a
Health Service in 1948, equal pay for women in 1968, the Grunwick change of printer.
industrial dispute of 1976-78, and modern health and safety laws. We understand there was also a printing of 2nd class
business sheets by ISP on March 14.
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Booklet printings
ISP printings of the 6 x 1st class booklet (with the Padlock
cover) and 4 x 1st Large booklet have also been reported,
featuring stamps with ‘18’ year codes.
The Postal Museum

The Postal Mechanisation Study Circle, which now holds
its meetings at The Postal Museum at Calthorpe House in
Poppy top of the pops London, has arranged a presentation about the venue’s
former life.
Ray Northfield, who was a Royal Mail engineer based in
Readers of Royal Mail’s British
the building in the 1970s, will give a talk entitled
Philatelic Bulletin voted for the
‘Calthorpe House & East Anglia Postal Mechanisation’ on
1st class Shattered Poppy
September 15, from 10.30am.
design from the First World
War 1917 set as their favourite
Cancelling Ink Trials
stamp of 2017, with the Wren
I understand that trials of a new formulation of cancelling
design from the Songbirds set
ink have been, and possibly still are, taking place at
in second place.
Greenford in west London. They have not been formally
The Windsor Castle issue was
announced, and are shrouded in mystery!
voted their favourite set, with
Songbirds second.

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GREAT BRITAIN ON PAPER MIXTURES
GB COMMEMS NO XMAS. Wide ranging on paper mix includes h.v’s & modern to 2017
General Sale No 1986 issues. ½ lb £16.00, 1 lb £30.00.
GB HIGH VALUE DEFINS. On paper, many from registered & recorded mail so good
cancellations, a clean mix. Includes modern security issues which will become very rare with all
Monday 25th June | London the gold labels used on mail. ½ lb £18.00, 1 lb £35.00.
GB MULTIPLES ISSUES. Try to keep up with the recent multiple issues. Increasing
variety, right up to the latest 2017 Songbirds, 2016 Mr Men, Shakespeare Quotes, Star Wars,
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and high values, collected from a school-teacher in the Outback. Approx. 2500 stamps / 1 lb. 1 lb
£18.00, 2 lbs £34.00.
CANADA. Sold out before, we have been fortunate to get fresh stocks from the increasingly
Viewing on the morning of the Sale, difficult country. A colourful on paper charity mixture from the Canadian Save the Children
by appointment in London & Northamptonshire Fund of Commems, Defins, Large Pictorials and high values. 1 lb £20.00, 2 lbs. £39.00.
NEW ZEALAND. On Paper charity mixture with Commems and higher values includes dif-
prior to the sale and at Stafford Stamp Show ficult to find modern. Supplied to us exclusively by a N.Z Charity. Approx. 2500 stamps / 1lb. ½
lb £11.00, 1 lb £20.00.
(mainly Singles and a selection of other items). U.S.A. An on paper charity mixture with stupendous variety. There can’t be many mixtures so at-
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IRELAND CHARITY. On paper. This emanates from convents throughout the Republic, is
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EUREKA! We’ve found it. This has to be our best world mixture yet. At least 85% commems
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many). Much modern and many high values included. Our SUPER WORLD 100. ½ lb £28.00, 1
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OVERSEAS FOREIGN & COMMONWEALTH CHARITY MIXTURE.With
over 120 Charity sources in this country it is not surprising that this is the ultimate mixture of
Foreign & Commonwealth stamps essentially on paper. Enormous variety and mostly modern
as it is collected from offices on a day to day basis. Many h. values as many are Air mail values
and a lot will never be seen in approval books! 1 lb £30.00, 2 lbs £55.00, 5 lbs £125.00.
EUROPEAN COMMEMORATIVES. New in the spring again it has been remarkably
successful. Mostly Commemoratives from all corners of Europe (No GB). Great variety with
high values and semi-postals. Includes very interesting stamps from the new Russian States,
Iceland, Faroes, Greenland, Vatican, Monaco, San Marino, United Nations and Liechtenstein.
A must for all collectors of Europe. ½ lb £28.00, 1 lb £55.00.
CHANNEL ISLES & ISLE OF MAN. An On Paper mixture of Jersey, Guernsey,
Alderney and I.O.M containing a wealth of variety, strong in Commems, Booklets, Greetings &
h.values. ½ lb £18.00, 1lb £35.00.
COMMEMORATIVES & LARGE ONLY ON PAPER MIXTURES. Special
offer. Buy 2 different lots of the Commems & Large mixtures below deduct 50% from the price,
4 items deduct 10%, 8 items deduct 20%! ALDERNEY 2oz £25, ¼ lb £48.00. AUSTRA-
LIA ½ lb £19, 1 lb £35.00. AUSTRIA ¼ lb £35, ½ lb £68.00. BELGIUM. ¼ lb £23, ½ lb
£45.00. BHUTAN ¼ lb £35, ½ lb £68.00. BOTSWANA ¼ lb £18, ½ lb £35.00. CANADA
¼ lb £40, ½ lb £70.00. CYPRUS ¼ lb £30, ½ lb £58.00. DENMARK ¼ lb £18, ½ lb £35.00.
ETHIOPIA ¼ lb £26, ½ lb £50.00. FALKLANDS 2 oz £25, ¼ lb £48.00 FINLAND ¼ lb
£20, ½ lb £39.00. FRANCE ¼ lb £23.00, ½ lb £42.00. FRENCH AFRICA ¼ lb £47, ½ lb
£90.00. GERMANY ½ lb £16, 1 lb £30.00. GERMANY H.V COMMEMS ¼ lb £22, ½ lb £40.
GIBRALTAR ¼ lb £30, ½ lb £58. GREECE ¼ lb £31, ½ lb £60. GUERNSEY ¼ lb £33, ½ lb
£65.00. HOLLAND ¼ lb £18, ½ lb £35.00. IRAN ¼ lb £30.00, ½ lb £58.00.IRELAND ¼ lb
£21, ½ lb £40.00. ISLE OF MAN ½ lb £33, 1 lb £59.00. ITALY ¼ lb £32, ½ lb £60.00. JAPAN
¼ lb £22, ½ lb £40.00. MALAWI ¼ lb £20, ½ lb £38.00. MALTA ½ lb £16, 1 lb £30.00. NEW
ZEALAND ¼ lb £23, ½ lb £44.00. NORWAY ¼ lb £23, ½ lb £45.00. SPAIN ¼ lb £23.00, ½ lb
£44.00. SWEDEN ¼ lb £23, ½ lb £45.00. SWISS ¼ lb £23, ½ lb £45.00. THAILAND ¼ lb £23,
½ lb £45.00 U.S.A ½ lb £25, 1 lb £48.00.
OFF PAPER MIXTURES
FRANCE. An amazing collection of over 500 different Commemoratives only from 2011 to
2016 all in complete sets!! List price £65, sale price £55.00.
SPECIAL OFFER NO. 7: Buy 1 lb World, 1 lb British Commonwealth and 1 lb W.
Europe Scoop for the discounted price of £130. List price £150.00.
WORLD SCOOP. An Off paper mix scooped from our oddments tub. Emanating from
Charities, Auctions, personal collections etc. You will find high Cat (please tell us when you do
) & many additions for your collection. Each 1 lb lot is over 7000 stamps, costing around ½ p
each. ½ lb £18.00, 1 lb £35.00, 5 lbs £155.00. Sale price ½ lb £16.00, 1 lb £31.00, 5 lbs £139.00.
BRITISH COMMONWEALTH SCOOP. Sold out over the last 8 months, we can now
supply more of our popular Off paper mixture covering old Empire & modern Commonwealth. Sev-
eral clients found stamps cataloguing £10 to £50 each. No promises but with at least 7,000 stamps/1lb
you’ll have great fun sorting. ½ lb £31.00, 1 lb £60.00. Sale price ½ lb £27.90, 1 lb £54.00.
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LETTER OF THE MONTH
Royal Mail sticking to its policy that pen

cancellation is perfectly acceptable
After reading about the campaign
against collectable stamps being
vandalised by biro (April issue,
page 31), I e-mailed the Chief
Executive at Royal Mail as
suggested. I received the
get in touch following response:
‘Royal Mail annually loses
These pages are devoted to giving revenue from uncancelled stamps
you the opportunity to have your say. being reused. It’s very important
Whether you want to praise or for us to ensure all stamps are
complain, suggest or advise, add cancelled. Our standard operating
information or correct it, or just get procedures allow for cancellation
something off your chest, we’d love with a handstamp or by pen mark.
to hear from you. ‘Where small volumes are on
hand, pen cancellation can be the
Send your letters to: most efficient way. However, this
Stamp Magazine, MyTimeMedia Ltd, should be only a single pen strike,
Suite 25, Eden House, Enterprise and certainly should not be done if
Way, Edenbridge, Kent TN8 6HF the stamp has already been
Or send an e-mail to: cancelled by handstamp.’
guy.thomas@mytimemedia.com I replied that it was
disappointing and annoying to be
The Editor reads all letters, but is told that it is considered
unable to answer them all personally. acceptable practice by Royal Mail
We reserve the right to edit letters to cancel stamps in this fashion.
for publication. Lesley Smith, via e-mail
Those were the days At least one smart postal worker is correctly
deploying his dumb cancellation
Steve Williams (May issue, page 30) was
right to criticise Royal Mail’s policy of Amid the furore surrounding the increasing use of pen cancellations by Royal Mail, I would
churning out new issues on an industrial like to bring a little hope. Somewhere out there is at least one good guy.
scale. The policy has effectively turned This cover sent to me in May, using a selection of old definitive and commemorative
stamps into glorified Panini stickers. stamps to make up the 1st class rate of 67p, had clearly missed being cancelled by the
In the same issue, however, your feature automated machinery, but was correctly and neatly handstamped with the appropriate
on the 1968 stamp programme (May issue, dumb cancellation.
page 40) seemed to berate the Post Office Maybe I was just lucky, or perhaps the campaign (April issue, page 31) to get the mail
for holding back from increasing the growth correctly franked is starting to work?
of commemoratives that year. Oh, the irony! Michael Routledge, Sunbury on Thames
John Anderson, Norwich
Twitter banter
I always like seeing stamp issues discussed
on social media, and I particularly enjoyed a
recent spat on Twitter.
The Daily Telegraph journalist Christopher
Hope asked: ‘Why do owls get the right to a
commemorative stamp but Brexit doesn’t?’
The author J K Rowling replied: ‘Stamps
are too small to depict the fact that
nostalgic jingoism, fear-mongering, racism
and flag-waving delusion narrowly won a
referendum, with long-term consequences
for our society, whereas owls are great.’
David Emrys, Pontypool

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soapbox
Post office stock turnover, or the lack of it, is making it increasingly hard for Machin collectors
and dealers to acquire all the many varieties of modern British definitives, says Ian Billings
There are frequent

comments in the
philatelic press about
the lack of availability
of special stamps at
many post offices.
Several thousand
branches have closed
since the programme
of ‘network
transformation’
started, and others
have been combined
with different types of
retail outlet, where
they typically offer
longer opening hours
but reduced services.
The cut-backs
inevitably affect
philatelic products.
However, it is not
only special stamp
products which
collectors have
trouble locating.
Increasingly, the ABOVE: Even though it is a commonly used definitive stamp, there’s a ABOVE: When searching for a 2017 printing of the 2p deep green,
same applies to shortage on the philatelic market of the 1st class dark red from at least one frustrated collector found his local post office was
definitives. counter sheets with the ‘M16L’ year code still selling the 2014 printing
Collecting basic
stamps used to be easy: one of each there is market shortage of the 1st class order fresh supplies.
value would be available from your local dark red from counter sheets with the ‘On a subsequent visit, I learned that
post office for a reasonable time period, ‘M16L’ year code. more stock had arrived, but this had a
at least until the next time rates were Managers at Royal Mail have printing date of July 2016. So I repeated
increased. Now it is more complex. confirmed that on some levels they are the exercise.
If extra security features (iridescent happy for the stamp trade to save them ‘A few weeks later, fresh stock arrived
overlay text and die-cut slits) had not the trouble of having to supply certain with a printing date of January 2017, but
been introduced in 2009, my calculation new stamps, such as singles from still with plain backing paper rather than
is that we would have had 54 different booklets and business sheets. However, security backing paper. Again, the
new definitive stamps to collect over the they don’t even circulate details of those exercise was repeated.
following eight years to the end of 2017. new printings to us. ‘When I returned recently, the latest
With the security features, however, Locating them, therefore, is often stock was with a printing date of
we have had more than 350, and we can’t down to a band of collectors who traipse December 2016!’
always find them. Counter sheets, between branches and supermarkets This particular collector ended up with
booklets, business sheets and other seeking out new supplies, and for their quite a few sheets of 2p stamps which he
products have different source codes, dedication and enthusiasm we should all didn’t really want. Fortunately, being low
and the stock turnover in post offices (or be eternally grateful. values, these can easily be used up on
the lack of it) means that you cannot be The lone collector making his own way everyday postage, but after all this
sure which year codes their supplies around local branches can face effort he still hadn’t been able to buy the
will have. enormous difficulties. One recently sent latest incarnation of the stamp from a
Royal Mail provides registered dealers me this report of trying to find just one post office.
with details of new printings, and in that definitive stamp: And this is not an isolated case. When
way we can identify stamps which will ‘In late October 2017, I tried to acquire we at Norvic Philatelics were out of
have a new year code. But that doesn’t the 2p deep green Machin with a ‘17’ stock of booklets of the 2nd class Large,
apply to anything other than counter year code on security backing paper. The I tried my local post office. Its stock of
sheets, and even then the philatelic stock at the post office was from the this stamp, both in counter sheets and in
service at Tallents House in Edinburgh printing of September 2014. I offered to booklets, had the year code ‘MA12’. They
doesn’t necessarily receive supplies of buy their entire remaining stock (which were more than five years old!
all of them. That’s why, for example, was about four sheets), so they could Ian Billings, Norvic Philatelics

YOUR VIEWS
Britain’s overseas mail also gets vandalised No concensus over

Having read recent complaints in Stamp Magazine about biro cancellation, I thought you possible printing error
might like to hear my story, as a collector overseas.
For someone like me, who collects stamps and is also a great fan of the series, the Game I read with interest the Soapbox column
of Thrones set was a must-have issue, so I asked a friend of mine who lives in the UK to (March issue, page 33) about the 1973
send me a presentation pack. Christmas missing colour error.
He sent it on the first day of issue, and told me he had also used some of the stamps on When a neighbour kindly gave me her
the envelope. So I was excited that I would also receive a commercially used first day cover. album of Great Britain commemorative
Sadly, the cover came in a condition I never expected. Previously, when my friend has sent stamps from 1973-88, I noticed that her 10p
me items through the post, they have been neatly and carefully postmarked; the worst cover value in the 1974 Medieval Warriors set
I ever received was double postmarked with circular cancellations. This time, however, the differed in colour from mine. I sought
stamps had been defaced by someone using a biro, which I found very upsetting. professional advice, to be advised that the
What baffles me is that the cover had already been postmarked twice: once neatly by the stamp was ‘badly faded and toned’.
official in my friend’s local post office, and secondly with a machine cancellation. Surely All the other stamps on the page had
these postmarks were clear for all to see? perfect colours, with no fading whatsoever,
I feel the envelope was vandalised needlessly, with the intention to spoil! so I sought a second opinion. This time the
Shamji Watnabe, Brunei verdict was that the variety (missing
vermillion and reddish brown) was faked.
I don’t believe my neighbour is a forger,
so perhaps I will seek another opinion.
Third time lucky?
Ken Dixon, via e-mail
Forgotten saintly icon and medieval hymn book

Your interesting Thematic
Guide to St Patrick (April issue,
page 84) reminded us that the
patron saint of Ireland was
born in Great Britain.
Surprisingly, however, it
overlooked the one British
stamp which has portrayed
him: a 78p value in the 2008
Celebrating Northern Ireland
miniature sheet.
Incidentally, the 45p stamp in
the 2000 Spirit & Faith set also
illustrated a Latin gradual HOT TOPICS
(medieval book of hymns)
which is held by the St Patrick
You can debate the philatelic
Centre in Downpatrick.
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ART FOR ART’S SAKE
The majority of stamp design today is done on a computer screen,
but it’s always a joy to see a ‘proper’ non-digital piece of original artwork
M
ost Fridays will find into developing the stamp. Invariably this is truly stunning, THE AUTHOR
Richard West is
me at The Postal Usually there are still and a joy to behold. Stamp Magazine’s
Museum, doing a stint intermediate stages in the There was a time when every Editor at Large
of voluntary work. As a result I evolution of a stamp design, new British special issue was and a Past
President of the
sometimes get to spy on new from initial concept to greeted by a press launch, and National Philatelic
philatelic material coming in, presentation and development on display alongside the final Society
such as the original artwork for visuals. Rather sadly, though, stamp designs would often be
recent British stamp issues. what The Postal Museum unaccepted submissions and frequency is that we all have
All artwork commissioned by receives tends to be print-outs actual artwork. This helped less time to examine and fully
the Post Office or Royal Mail and of what has been created on a philatelic journalists like me to appreciate today’s stamps.
submitted for stamp issues, computer screen. appreciate the true skills of the I can remember every issue
whether it is for at least the first
adopted or not, 25 years of the
should have found present reign,
its way into the including the
Museum collections individual designs
as part of our the designers and
postal heritage. sometimes even
Understandably, the date of issue!
however, the way in Sadly that is not the
which it is produced case with more
has changed hugely recent issues, and
over the years. I’m sure it’s not
Before the digital purely down to age.
age, designers So much hard work
were given precise goes into creating
instructions as to every set, and yet
how to present it: they come and go in
often four times the a flash.
size of the printed Fortunately, there
stamp, and is still a chance to
invariably with admire some
certain details, ‘proper’ artwork
such as inscriptions within the exhibition
and denominations, area at The Postal
on separate Museum, in a
overlays to help the ABOVE: A display in The Postal Museum showcases the artistry that goes into stamp design display that is
printer. changed twice a
If changes were
required, the
‘Royal Mail continues to employ artists known for year. Showing their
illustrations at full
designer had to specific talents, and the artwork they produce is size, rather than
amend the artwork stamp size,
carefully by hand, invariably a joy to behold’ demonstrates the
or produce fresh artists’ skill and
artwork. Each stage in the However, Royal Mail continues graphic designers, artists and attention to detail, and the
design process would be held to employ artists known for illustrators, and it is a pity that display also focuses on the
within the archives. specific talents, and such events no longer happen techniques they have used.
Today, virtually all design particularly gratifying is that — a victim of the frequency of Hopefully visitors will take the
work involves a computer, and there are still times when they new issues. time to have a close look, and
digital technology means it can produce non-digital artwork. Another downside to this appreciate that the work of
go straight from the designer’s stamp designers is worthy of far
screen to cylinder production. WHAT DO YOU THINK? more than a passing glance.
The advantage is that any Stamps need not go straight into
changes are easy to make; the Is modern stamp artwork underappreciated, because of the our stock books or albums, but
disadvantage is that it can be use of digital technology or the frequency of new issues? are as worthy of careful
difficult for researchers to trace E-mail your comments to guy.thomas@mytimemedia.com examination today as they
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drawn at random were Michael Peppercorne from Maidstone,
Arthur Pennington from Morecambe, Cathy Porteus from
Manchester, Myron Kraweckyj from Heywood, Marlene Stevens
from Cheltenham, Kevin Williams from Worthing, Kristian
Snooks from Exeter, Sandeep Guntupalli from Leicester, Philip
Stokes from Fleet, Mark Whittaker from Cowley, Mike Gerrie
from Alford, and Adrian Bold from Blackpool.
Spot The Stamp

The Spot The Stamp winner from the April issue is R Walker
from Glasgow who correctly identified the mystery stamp
(right) as the 24p value from the 1992 Four Seasons:
Wintertime set, illustrating a hare on the North York Moors.

ATTENTION OWNERS OF LARGE/ VALUABLE COLLECTIONS –
Are You THINKING of SELLING?

This is
HOW THE STAMP TRADE WORKS
Philatelic Expert Lets You into his Selling Secrets so you can benefit from
a totally different (and New) Selling Experience
by Andrew McGavin
1 If You want to learn how the stamp
trade works, please read on… When I
was 15, I did. I wondered if there was some se-
…but did it really? What was the real reason?
How could a Dealer pay a higher price than a
Collector? It doesn’t make sense, does it? Col-
5 Why is that? Because, as the world
revolved the Stamp Market, imper-
ceptibly Changed, and incrementally –
cret source of supply? So, I bought my 1st stamp lectors are customers. Customers usually pay Massively
mixture, (wholesale I thought), broke it into 50 the highest price, unless… for a Collector, this So, although few will tell you this, it’s
smaller units, advertised it in Stamp Magazine was… clearly evident that the problem for most
‘Classifieds’, and waited for the orders to roll in… 7
Wrong Presentation Wrong Place 7 Sellers of Stamps today is no longer absent
I’m still waiting, 48 years later !... therefore Wrong Price7 stock – but absent collectors in the place
they choose to sell their stamps in. Simply
Wrong Offer 7 Wrong Price 7 Wrong Place 7
(naïve seller4 = H me but I was only 15 at
the time!)
3 Fast-forward 48 years later
to a British Empire collection, lot #1 in
an International Stamp Auction – Estimated
put, other Dealers, Auctions, Stamp Fairs have
not invested in marketing to have a strong Cus-
tomer-core. To be fair, this is not true of all – but
2 Three years later, attending

first public stamp auctions I wondered
how some bidders seemed to buy everything,
my at £3,000, but we were the highest bidder at
£21,000 – YES – some 7×higher. Including Buy-
er’s Premium in the extraordinary sum of £4,788
it is true of most – so that our nearest compet-
itor ‘Apex’ had 800 bidders in a recent auction.
In my most recent 20,000+ lot UPA 65th Auction
paying the highest price? It didn’t occur to we actually paid GBP£25,788= upon a £3,000 es- we had 2,261 different bidders from 54 different
me that they were probably Auction Bidding timate… however, we broke it down into sets, countries, 95% of whom were Collectors. Some
Agents, paid by absent (dealer) bidders to rep- singles, mini-collections etc. We made a profit. other well-advertised auctions only have 200
resent them. I wondered why two collectors sit- Some might say it found its price. Others may bidders (a high percentage of whom are dealers
ting side by side muttered to each other “he’s a say: – so that, essentially they are Dealer-dominated
dealer” as if that justified him paying the high- 7
Wrong Estimate Wrong Presentation 7 auctions) – so that when you sell through them
est price… 7
Wrong Structure Wrong Protection of Price 7 – you’re paying up to 18% (including VAT) sell-
– Lucky for the seller that 2 well-healed er’s commission and the buyer is paying up to
About The Author � Andrew found his 25% and more in Buyer’s Premium, credit card
Father’s stamps at the age of 10. A year later at bidders saw the potential value that day
or it could have been given away… the seller fees, on-line bidding fee, delivery and insurance
Senior School he immediately joined the School etc… AND all of that so that your stamps
Stamp Club. He ‘specialised’(!) in British, but could easily have lost out couldn’t he? or she?
So, by un-peeling the layers of obfusca- may be sold, wait for it – TO DEALERS
soon was interested in Queen Victoria which he (and some collectors), but Dealers, that nat-
could not afford. The 2nd to last boy wearing tion, hopefully we can all agree:
urally must make a profit to survive…
short trousers in his school year, he religiously
bought Post Office New Issues on Tuesdays
with his pocket money. He soon found that he
enjoyed swapping / trading stamps as much as
The Secret is Simple –
it’s ALL About: TIMING,
6 Now, let’s examine the cost
implications – Example: Your
stamp collection sells in public auction for
collecting them. Aged 19, eschewing University Plus the 3 Philatelic ‘P’s – £800. Upon a 25% buyer’s premium, the dealer
he quickly found a philatelic career in London, pays £1,000 and it could be more. He breaks
leading to creating his own companies in Presentation 4Place 4and Price 4 it into £2,000+ selling price (much lower and
4
stamps. Andrew has authored many interna- he’ll go out of business). The auction charges
tionally published Stamp ‘Tips’ articles, appear- Understanding the problem… you a seller’s commission of up to 18% (VAT
ing on Local Radio and National TV promoting I always remember the car trade had included) upon the £800 sale price. This is
Philately with Alan Titchmarsh. Andrew’s area of their own little ‘bible’ – Glass’s Guide. I’ve no GBP£144. Therefore you receive approaching
expertise is unusual – in so far as his grounding idea, I’ve not even looked - in this internet-dom- £656 – which is approximately 33% of the deal-
in collecting and wide philatelic knowledge has inated world, it may even have disappeared. er’s £2,000+/- retail selling price - BUT… now
given him a deep understanding of Philately. Well, there’s an insider Stamp Trade publica- that we have identified the problem…
He has studied Philately for the past 45 years, tion for Stamp Dealers called “The Philatelic
in combination with Commerce and Marketing Exporter”. There’s nothing that special about Isn’t the Solution Staring us
Expertise, enabling him to create synergies in it – and you won’t learn much or find massive- Right in The Face ?
ly reduced prices by subscribing – BUT – it is
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‘lifetime’ interlinked Stamp Selling Systems, sell-
ing unit-priced stamps through to handling col- a forum, a paper focal point, a last ‘bastion’ in Why Pay an Auction to Sell
lections & Rarities up to £700,000 each. Today this on-line transparent world that we inhabit… to Dealers: Sell to Collectors in-
Andrew is fortunate to be co-owner with his whereby dealers (and auctioneers) can try and stead ?In our example with buyer’s premium,
Wife, of Universal Philatelic Auctions (aka UPA) communicate with each other. I publish my own sellers commission, lotting fees, extra credit
– the Largest No Buyer’s Premium Reducing-Es- articles there… card charges, VAT and even insurance - you’re
timate System Stamp Auction in the World, cre- Recently I discussed the outcome of my 10 already being charged in different ways up to
ating records selling stamps to 2,261 different years’ simple research, asking dealers and auc- 40% of the selling price to sell, possibly or prob-
bidders from 54 different countries in his latest tioneers ‘what is your biggest problem?’ ably, to the wrong person.
auction. Andrew stopped collecting To a man, (why are we almost all men), they
replied – “my biggest problem is Why not direct that 40% cost you’re pay-
stamps aged 18 reasoning that his ing to sell to Collectors instead? Sounds
enjoyment of stamps would be in stock, if I can get more of the right
stock I can sell it easily” good, so why hasn’t this been done before ?
handling them and selling them…
Strange that, nobody ever asked
me the same question back – be-
cause my answer would have been
entirely different (and I don’t treat
8 Truth is, it Has been done be-
fore…Sometimes the ‘old’ ways are the
best ways aren’t they? But in today’s enthusiasm
it as a problem) – I seek to satisfy to obscure the obvious so that money may be
collectors taken, almost surreptitiously, in numerous dif-
This is the reason why my compa- ferent ways, (without us apparently noticing
ny has such massive advertising. This until we see the cheque in our pocket) – the
is the reason why we spend up to 8% transparent ‘seller pays’ has been deliberately
of turnover – up to £200,000 per annum ‘obscured’ – so much so that, amazingly, the
REQUE in marketing costs. (Most dealers don’t latest 2017 European Auction Selling Legisla-
ST MY
‘TIPS O
THE TR
A
F even sell £200K per annum). tion just introduced – now requires auctions
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that charge ‘buyer’s premiums’ to warn the want to agree a specific price and know that they
buyer in advance. Just imagine going into the are paid precisely this amount. No client is treated
petrol station, and being warned that the price like a number and no client is forced like a square
you’re paying to put fuel in you tank is not the peg into a round hole. M
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real price, you have to pay a premium! Obvious-
ly, there would be an uproar… OK, What Do I Do Next?
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a). You contact UPA to discuss with
How can you cut out the Andrew or a highly-qualified Auction Valuer/
middleman and sell to Col- Describer what you have to dispose of and your
lectors instead? Well, I can think of two options bearing in mind your specific interests
ways. 1). DIY - Do It Yourself selling on eBay. / requirements
That may be fine for lower grade material – but, b). If you wish, get a 2nd opinion, but
would you risk auctioning relatively unprotect- investigate what type of auction / dealer you
ed rare material on eBay ? We don’t and we’re are dealing with. Is it a Dealer’s auction with
professionals, so we should know what we’re relatively few collectors? Can you see where
doing. Or 2). Cut out the extra middle-man. Use / how the Dealer sells? If you can’t easily see
my company UPA, which reaches collectors any pricelists or high quality selling catalogues
instead. Here’s how it works: Continuing from – that Dealer may sell your stamps to other
our previous Example: dealers…
The auction sold your stamps to a dealer for c). Finally you ask U P A to collect your
£1,000 – but You received circa £656 stamps, insure in transit for an estimated re-
UPA sells them to collectors for you for up to placement retail value…C B S
£2,000 – even after 40% commission you receive
up to £1,200. Up to £544 more. Now that’s amaz-
ing, isn’t it? G 16 What Happens then? A mem-
ber of my Team telephones/e-mails
you to confirm safe receipt. ‘Overnight’ valu-
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Can You ‘Deliver’? Obviously,
nothing is as simple as that, and as we auction
Contact UPA: 01451 861 111
ations, unless simple, are rare. Valuing stamp
collections that have taken tens of years to
create takes time. Depending upon your priori-
UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIAL:
stamps to collectors some collections may ties / timescale I, or an experienced member of
‘break’ to the example £2,000+/- but the stamps Dear Folk at UPA, my Team will contact you to discuss your re-
may be sold for more or less – especially as we I’ve dealt with the public for 37 + years, and as quirements and the options available to you for
reserve all lots at 20% below, (Estimate £2,000 both a consumer, and a businessman, I have the sale of your collection. Provided only that
= £1,600 reserve) and not everything sells first created huge numbers of orders from all over you feel well-informed and comfortable do we
or even 2nd time so prices may come down… the world from a complete range of suppliers agree strategy T D
Naturally, it’s not that straightforward for a deal-
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from all aspects of our daily lives.
er either – he may sell at a discount to ‘move’ But I don’t believe I have ever encountered How Strong is the Stamp
stock OR, like many dealers he may be sitting such sensitivity, such kind thought, such and Cover Market? Everybody
on the same unsold stamps, that you see time understanding as I have with you in our knows that the strongest areas are GB and Brit-
and time again, in dealer’s stocks years later initial meeting, our subsequent successful ish Empire. Post-Independence / QEII material
and still at the same unattractive prices… So, transaction, and now this. sells but if hinged at considerable discount.
I think it is more reasonable for you to expect I recall well the item you highlight, and Mint hinged material pre 1952 is regarded as the
up to 36% to 50% more, indirectly or directly via realise that this one item has such colossal industry ‘norm’ and therefore desirable – but
my Collector’s Secret Weapon: Universal personal value, I could never part with it. genuine never-hinged commands a premium.
Philatelic Auctions, which moves material more It has been an absolute pleasure dealing Europe sells but at reduced levels, Americas
quickly, by incrementally reducing estimate (and with yourself, and I am more than willing for is good, as generally is Asia but the ‘heat’ has
reserve) price in a structured selling system… you to use this e-mail as commendation to come off China which is still good – and Russia
which can still be good. East Europe is weak-
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others who may be thinking of disposing of
Q.❱ What is the Collector’s their collection. er. Overall, Rarities throughout
‘Secret Weapon’? Many, many thanks for a memorable can command their own price
experience, and I will try to emulate your levels and real Postal History
A.❱ It’s called the has good demand.
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This is a rather long explanation, I don’t want
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Yours sincerely
D. E. B. Bath, UK
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cuss your collection with U P A. Con-
tact Andrew or an experienced member of his
I set up Universal Philatelic Auctions I detected Team now… B C
In Hindsight Dealers warned me 17 years
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that the stamp trade’s biggest problem then was
not what sold – but what didn’t sell… So, ago that my idea wouldn’t work. 17 years later Guarantee: I want You to be
because I didn’t want to try to keep on offering I think I’ve proven that it does. (Reader: Please absolutely Sure So If You’re not
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lot doesn’t sell in the 1st auction we reduce the OK, Cut to the Chase far less than the cost of driving 100+ miles each
estimate (and reserve) by 11% and unlike other Andrew, what’s the offer? All way and 3 to 6 hours in your home valuing your
dealers and auctions WE TELL YOU – ‘US’ of my Selling Systems are based upon stamps U
selling to Collectors Globally, so that
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TELL YOU ‘US3’ and so on till the lot finds its circumstance and type of material, by cutting don’t agree I’ll pay you an extra £50 for you to pay
somebody trusted to open the boxes and put your
price, is sold or virtually given away...4 out the middleman – then this offer may be
for you. Generally ‘time’ is the enemy in our albums back, in the same place, on the shelf they
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that combinations of ingredients can sell stock. Now is the time to let ‘time’ do
produce powerful results. So we created the the ‘heavy-lifting’ and consider making ‘time’ Act NOW: Contact Andrew or
unique combination of my UPA Reducing Es- work for you, so that at UPA you can make an experienced member of his Team
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timate System, married (in stone), with UPA’s
fair ‘NO BUYER’S Premium’ policy, PLUS each
time your friend. I fax, telephone or by mail. We’ll work harder for
lot carries my total ‘no quibble’ guarantee –
this formula is the reason why within the span 14 AND the SMALL PRINT? Some
lots are too small in value for us to offer
you not to regret the decision to sell all or part
of your collection…C B
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of 4 auctions (one year)… 90%-95% of lots bro- this system. Other lots may not be suited to selling
ken from a collection have sold. This Unique in this manner (e.g. surplus mint British decimal
Philatelic Selling System Formula is the rea- stamps best used for postage) – especially if the
son why we are the largest stamp auction in market is heavily compromised by stock overhang Andrew McGavin, Philatelic Expert,
the UK today with 2,261 different bidders in in specific areas. Some Collectors will not wish to Author, Managing Director
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national birds
Fine feathers
Most countries have a national bird, and many have celebrated it on their stamps. A
collection could encompass as many classic issues as modern thematic offerings
■ Report by Karl Shuker
D
espite being a nation of RIGHT: The Raggiana
ornithologists, the United bird of paradise,
Kingdom is one of the very national bird of Papua
few countries on Earth that does New Guinea, depicted
not have an official national bird. on a 1931 New Guinea
A few years ago a poll was held 1½d definitive
to suggest which species should fill
this role, and the winner was the
robin, Erithacus rubecula, a familiar
species beloved of gardeners and
Christmas card illustrators. But the
exercise failed to convince the
powers-that-be that a feathered
ambassador was truly required.
Elsewhere around the world,
conversely, there is an eclectic
variety of national birds, chosen for
many different reasons, ranging
from folklore to conservation. And
most of them, naturally, have been
celebrated on their country’s
stamps, in many cases long before
the dawn of thematic collecting.
Let’s take a global twitching tour,
highlighting some of the most
distinctive species and most
spectacular issues.
Eagles
Birds of prey have always been
admired as symbols of power
and wisdom, so it is hardly
surprising that they are popular popular of all are eagles. of eagle imagery is Germany, but in
choices as national birds. Most Perhaps the most famous this case it is the golden eagle,
example is the national bird of the Aquila chrysaetos. It was initially an
did you know? USA, the bald eagle, Haliaeetus

leucocephalus, a fish-eating species
imperial motif, used on the
country’s first stamps after
named after the adult bird’s unification in 1872, but one
characteristic white-plumed head. which has been retained in
Although the small and flightless kiwi is widely
This motif was adopted as long republican times.
considered the national bird of New Zealand, and
ago as 1782, when the Continental The magnificent plumage and
the large and flightless emu the national bird of
Congress in Philadelphia settled on stately poise of this species has
Australia, the status of both is unofficial.
a Great Seal portraying it grasping persuaded several other countries
in its talons 13 arrows, representing to adopt it, including Afghanistan,
the 13 founding states, plus an Armenia and Mexico, where it first
olive branch, signifying peace. It appeared on a coat of arms stamp
has been appearing on US stamps design in 1864.
since 1869. Panama’s national bird is the
A close relative, the African fish harpy eagle, Harpia harpyja, while
eagle, Haliaeetus vocifer, is the Poland’s is the white-tailed sea
national bird of no fewer than four eagle, Haliaeetus albicilla. The
nations in its own continent: Philippines, naturally enough,
Namibia, South Sudan, Zambia honours the Philippine eagle,
ABOVE: Kiwi, New Zealand 1898 ABOVE: Emu, Australia 1942
and Zimbabwe. Pithecophaga jefferyi.
Another country with a tradition Originally dubbed the monkey-

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ABOVE: Bald eagle, USA 1938
RIGHT: Golden eagle, Germany 1889

BELOW: Golden eagle, Mexico 1928
ABOVE: Andean condor, Bolivia 1928
ABOVE: European kestrel, Belgium 1972
ABOVE: African fish eagle, Namibia 2004
RIGHT: Philippine eagle, Philippines 1994
eating eagle, the latter is one of the

most spectacular yet also one of the
rarest of all eagles, with fewer than
1,000 individuals currently thought ABOVE: Aruba burrowing
to survive. It was adopted as the ABOVE: Gyrfalcon, Iceland 1959 owl, Aruba 1994
national bird in 1995 to raise
awareness about its critically
endangered status, a result of LEFT: Secretary bird, Smaller raptorial species are not
longstanding habitat destruction, Sudan 1991 overlooked either, with Angola and
especially through deforestation. the United Arab Emirates
represented by the peregrine
Other birds of prey falcon, Falco peregrinus, Belgium by
Vultures might not be the most the European kestrel, Falco
photogenic or behaviourally tinnunculus, Hungary and
refined species, yet they too have Mongolia by the saker falcon, Falco
their supporters. cherrug, Iceland by the gyrfalcon,
The mighty Andean condor, prominently on the first stamp Falco rusticolus, and North Korea by
Vultur gryphus, is the national bird issue of 1867), Chile, Colombia and the northern goshawk, Accipiter
of a quartet of South American Ecuador. The griffon vulture, Gyps gentilis.
nations: Bolivia (where it featured fulvus, fills this role for Serbia. In the classical era the little

national birds
‘National birds may

be adopted for many
different reasons,
ranging from folklore
to conservation’
ABOVE: Blue crane, South Africa 2004

ABOVE: American flamingo, Bahamas 1935
ABOVE: Grey crowned crane, Uganda 1965
ABOVE: Whooper swan, Finland 1956 ABOVE: Scarlet ibis, Trinidad & Tobago 1990
ABOVE: Crowned cranes, Nigeria 1965
ABOVE: Magnificent frigate bird, Barbuda 1974 ABOVE: Great frigate bird, Nauru 2008
owl, Athene noctua, was the sacred its ability to prey on snakes by
bird of Athena, the Greek goddess stamping on them.
of wisdom, and in modern times it
is the national bird of Greece. Water birds
The Caribbean island of Aruba, Popular choices for national birds
meanwhile, is represented by the also include waterbirds.
Aruba burrowing owl, Athene Denmark is represented by the
cunicularia arubensis. mute swan, Cygnus olor, and ABOVE: White stork, Lithuania 2013
Perhaps the strangest of all birds Finland by the whooper swan,
of prey is the secretary bird, Cygnus cygnus. More colourful
Sagittarius serpentarius, which is the symbols include the American
national bird of Sudan. Named flamingo, Phoenicopterus ruber, for
after its straggly crest, fancifully the Bahamas (where it starred on
likened to an untidy sheaf of quills an iconic definitive in 1935), and
that a secretary from bygone times the scarlet ibis, Eudocimus ruber, for
might have placed behind one ear, Trinidad & Tobago.
this species incongruously Standing out from the crowd,
combines the body of a hawk with however, is the magnificent frigate ABOVE: Hamerkop, Gambia 2017
the legs of a stork, and is famed for bird, Fregata magnificens, which

ABOVE: Green pheasant, Japan 1950
ABOVE: Himalayan monal, Nepal 1959 ABOVE: Siamese fireback, Thailand 2015
enjoys a position of honour not Both birds featured in these ABOVE: St Vincent parrot, St Vincent 1965
only in the Pacific nation of Kiribati countries’ colourful definitive
but also in the Caribbean nation of series issued shortly after
Antigua & Barbuda. independence in the 1960s.
Famous for the male’s vivid Meanwhile the white stork,
scarlet inflatable throut pouch, this Ciconia ciconia, fabled throughout
bird is also known for its angular Europe as the bringer of babies, is
wings and forked tail when seen in the national bird in both Belarus
flight, giving it an extraordinarily and Lithuania.
prehistoric appearance; it has been Representing the Caribbean
mistaken for a pterodactyl! nation of St Kitts & Nevis is the
Its smaller but no less distinctive brown pelican, Pelecanus
relative, the great frigate bird, occidentalis, while the African
Fregata minor, is the national bird nation of Gambia venerates the
ABOVE: Imperial parrot, ABOVE: Scarlet macaw,
of Nauru. related hammerhead or hamerkop,
Dominica 1976 Honduras 2001
Scopus umbretta.
Wading birds
Their imposing stature and noble Tropical Asians cristatus, with its tail-train which
mien no doubt explain why several The most dazzling national birds can be unfurled and held vertically
species of crane and stork have are tropical species with to bedazzle a peahen.
been adopted as national birds. multicoloured plumage, some of Elsewhere in Asia, Japan’s
Most celebrated of these is the which offer extravagant displays of national bird is the green pheasant,
blue crane, Grus paradisea, which feathered flamboyance. Phasianus versicolor, while Nepal’s is
has deep cultural links with South Papua New Guinea, for example, the Himalayan monal, Lophophorus
Africa. These include a tradition honours the Raggiana bird of impejanus, and Thailand’s is the
among the Xhosa people, whereby paradise, Paradisaea raggiana, of Siamese fireback, Lophura diardi.
a man who has distinguished whose adult male boasts a fiery Myanmar, meanwhile, has
himself in battle is honoured by explosion of long scarlet plumes adopted the confusingly-named
having his head ceremonially with which to attract the dowdy grey peacock-pheasant, Polyplectron
decorated with crane plumes. brown female. There were bicalcaratum, which is a pheasant
Other African nations which memorable depictions of the but has spotted plumage akin to
have a crane as an official symbol species in New Guinea’s 1931 and that of the peacock.
include Uganda, with the grey- 1932 issues, in Papua’s 1932
crowned crane, Balearica regulorum, definitive series, and Papua New Tropical Americans
and Nigeria, with the black- Guinea’s 1952 series. In the American tropics, brightly-
crowned crane, Balearica pavonina. India has the blue peacock, Pavo coloured parrots rule the roost.

national birds
ABOVE: Grey-headed kingfisher, ABOVE: Rhinoceros hornbill, ABOVE: Turquoise-browed ABOVE: Doctor bird, Jamaica 1962
Cape Verde 1981 Malaysia 1965 motmot, Nicaragua 1989
filtering through the leafy canopies
in their jungle domain.
Inevitably, several of them have
been adopted as national birds,
such as the Hispaniolan trogon,
Priotelus roseigaster, in Haiti, the
Cuban trogon, Priotelus temnurus, in
Cuba, and the bar-tailed trogon,
Apaloderma vittatum, in Malawi.
The trogon par excellence,
however, and a leading contender
for the title of the world’s most
beautiful bird, is the aptly-named
resplendent quetzal, Pharomachrus
mocinno, of Guatemala.
ABOVE: Hoopoe, Israel 2010 ABOVE: Keel-billed toucan, Belize 1981 During the breeding season, the
green-plumaged male, which is
normally no more than 30cm (1ft)
The largest and gaudiest is the the turquoise-browed motmot, long, grows a pair of elongated tail
scarlet macaw, Ara macao, a long- Eumomota superciliosa, for El plumes measuring up to 1m (3ft).
tailed riot of red, blue and gold, Salvador and Nicaragua. In flight, these streamer-like
representing Honduras but Israel’s national bird is the feathers extend horizontally
common throughout the region’s hoopoe, Upupa epops, with its behind it and undulate, so that it
rainforests. crested pink plumage and huge
Several Caribbean island nations black-and-white wings, which
have their own endemic species, looks like a giant butterfly when
vividly-plumed and found seen in flight. This creature is
nowhere else, in many cases intimately linked with biblical
declared as their national birds to legends: according to one story, its
highlight their endangered status. crest was once of solid gold, but
Examples are the St Lucia parrot, King Solomon transformed this
Amazona versicolor, the St Vincent into feathers to save it from
parrot, Amazona guildingii, the persecution by hunters.
Grand Cayman parrot, Amazona Superficially similar to the Old
leucocephala, and, representing World hornbills, although not
Dominica, the imperial parrot, closely related to them zoologically,
Amazona imperialis. are the New World toucans, with
the keel-billed toucan, Rhamphastos
Hornbills and hoopoes sulfuratus, serving as the national
Brilliantly-plumaged national birds bird of Belize.
also include the closely related
kingfishers, rollers, hornbills, Trogons and quetzals
motmots and hoopoes. As far as breathtaking plumage is
Examples are the grey-headed concerned, the epitome of tropical
kingfisher, Halcyon leucocephala, for beauty must surely be the trogons.
Cape Verde, the lilac-breasted Native to Africa, Asia and Latin
roller, Coracias caudatus, for America, these typically thrush-
Botswana, the rhinoceros hornbill, sized birds resemble living jewels
Buceros rhinoceros, for Malaysia, and when spotlit by shafts of sunlight ABOVE: Resplendent quetzal, Guatemala 1879

ABOVE: Hispaniolan ABOVE: Cuban trogon, ABOVE: Bar-tailed trogon,
trogon, Haiti 1969 Cuba 1991 Malawi 1988
resembles a flying snake. postage stamps, starting with the

According to ancient Aztec iconic 1879 series. ABOVE: Dodo, resembled the long silk tail-coats
mythology, the sky god Although completely unrelated, a Mauritius 1953 worn by doctors in days gone by.
Quetzalcoatl would sometimes veritable quetzal-in-miniature is
appear in the form of a great the doctor bird, Trochilus polytmus, Common touch
airborne serpent with emerald the national bird of Jamaica, Of course, not all national birds are
plumes, and it is thought this which was first illustrated on a chosen for their dramatic
curious legend might have arisen Queen Elizabeth II definitive appearance. Quite a few have been
from sightings of a quetzal. stamp of 1956. selected for their everyday
Such is the bird’s cultural impact This iridescent green familiarity and everyman appeal.
upon Guatemala that not only is it hummingbird, found nowhere else, Italy’s representative is the Italian
the national bird, but it has given is characterised by the male’s pair sparrow, Passer italiae, a cheeky
its name to the country’s currency of extremely long ribbon-like tail little upstart that is abundant and
since 1925, as well as appearing feathers, which make a humming instantly recognisable. Once
upon its national flag, its coat of sound as it flies. It is said to have thought to be a hybrid of the
arms, its bank notes and its been named because these feathers Spanish sparrow and the house
sparrow, it is now deemed to be a
separate species in its own right.
‘Many national birds are chosen for their Other popular but visually
dramatic appearance, but a few have been modest national birds are Bhutan’s
common raven, Corvus corax,
selected for their everyday familiarity’ Sweden’s common blackbird,
Turdus merula, Turkey’s redwing,
Turdus iliacus, Latvia’s white
wagtail, Motacilla alba, Austria’s
and Estonia’s barn swallow,
Hirundo rustica, and Jordan’s Sinai
rosefinch, Carpodacus synoicus.
Doves have been chosen by three
Caribbean countries: the mourning
dove, Zenaida macroura, by the
British Virgin Islands, the zenaida
dove, Zenaida aurita, by Anguilla,
ABOVE: White wagtail, Latvia 2003 ABOVE: Sinai rosefinch, Jordan 2017
and the Grenada dove, Leptotila
ABOVE: Italian sparrow, wellsi, by Grenada.
San Marino 1972
Dodo
Perhaps the last word on national
birds should be reserved for the
most poignant example, a species
that is instantly recognisable but no
longer in existence, having been
hunted to extinction more than
three centuries ago.
Too late, it has become an icon in
its former island home of
Mauritius, inspiring countless
souvenirs, picture postcards and,
ABOVE: Grenada dove, since 1950, postage stamps.
ABOVE: Zenaida turtle dove, Anguilla 1995 Grenada 1992 It is, of course, the dodo, Raphus
cucullatus. ■

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British Columbia & Vancouver Island issued only one stamp as a joint venture,
but it was remarkably versatile in terms of the postage rates it covered
■ Report by John Winchester
V
ancouver (or Vancouver’s) This process was driven initially
Island had been a British by Vancouver Island’s decision to
crown colony since 1849, adopt the dollar currency in 1862,
populated by a small settlement of which required the 2½d to be sold
fur traders at Fort Victoria. for 5c there.
Canada’s Pacific coast was still Two years later, British Columbia
largely unexplored, however, when increased the basic rate to 3d. This
gold was discovered on the became the new price of the stamp,
mainland in 1856. although it was not surcharged.
The Fraser Canyon gold rush Vancouver Island was keen to
brought a stampede of prospectors, discontinue the use of the
and British interests were swiftly dual-colony stamp, and returned
protected by the creation of a all the unused stock to the New
second colony in the region, named Westminster post office in British
British Columbia. Columbia. In May 1865, however,
A joint postal service was with no alternative stamps at its
established, initially based in the disposal until later in the year, it
office of the Hudson Bay Company, had to accept 28 sheets back, with
with a handstamp to indicate pre- complex instructions as to how to
payment. Clearly adhesive stamps deal with new rates of postage.
would improve matters, so Perkins A pre-paid letter from Vancouver
Bacon was asked to tender for Island to the interior of British
recess-printing and De La Rue for Columbia now cost 20c, made up of
surface-printing them. a 2½d stamp (sold at 5c) to convey it
Prudence won the day, and De La
Rue’s cheaper option was chosen,
ABOVE: British
Columbia &
‘During a seven-year to New Westminster, together with
a pair of 2½d stamps (sold at 15c) to
for a single 2½d denomination to Vancouver Island lifespan, this cover the rest of its journey!
cover the internal postage rate. 1860 2½d reddish
rose, the only stamp remarkable stamp It must have come as a relief to
One can only feel sympathy for the
printer, as it found itself faced with
issued by the
combined colonies
covered postage rates everyone when the joint issue was
abandoned, with Vancouver Island
a design brief stipulating that the of 2½d, 3d, 5c, receiving its own 5c and 10c stamps
stamp should be inscribed in September 1865 and British
‘British Columbia & Vancouvers 6¼c and 7½c’ Columbia its own 3d design in
Island’, ‘Postage’ and ‘Two Pence November.
Half-Penny’. trying to balance the remaining It was not quite the end of the
Sensibly, it split the names of the inscriptions, which was rather less story, though. In 1867, after
two colonies above and below Jean successful. Indeed, ‘Two Pence Vancouver Island had been merged
Ferdinand Joubert’s Diadem V Half-Penny’ was so constricted as into British Columbia and the new
head of Queen Victoria. to be almost unreadable. colony had adopted the dollar as its
Apparently, however, it then ran Sheets of 240, in four panes of 60, currency, the Acting Postmaster
out of inspiration, carving out were printed in reddish-rose on General, A T Bushby, ran out of 3d
tablets to the left and right and thin unwatermarked paper, stamps. His response was to
comb-perforated 14. reissue the old 2½d, which was
MARKET values
Some 981 sheets were shipped to bizarrely sold in pairs to cover
the colonies in December 1859, and what was now a 12½c rate.
put on sale early in the spring. Thus, during a seven-year
The earliest known use of the lifespan, this remarkable stamp
Its low print run and historical significance
stamp is on April 30, 1860. covered postage rates of 2½d, 3d,
ensure that the 2½d has high catalogue prices,
5c, 6¼c and 7½c, without ever
of £425 mint and £200 used. Collectors should
Although it remained the only receiving a surcharge. In view of
be aware that forgeries exist, some more
stamp jointly issued by the two the wordiness of its existing
convincing than others.
colonies, it would soon embark on inscriptions, perhaps that was
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GB DESIGNS by howard brown
Golden Brown
Many of Britain’s cleverest and most impactful stamp designs of recent decades
have been the work of Howard Brown. We explore the radical thinking behind them
■ Report by Peter Marren
I
t might sound like a huge claim
to make, but Howard Brown is
probably the most versatile
designer of British special stamps
in the past quarter of a century.
He has no fewer than 15 issues to
his credit, and his subjects have
ranged from maps and football in
the 1990s, through exploration and
cathedral architecture in the 2000s,
to medical breakthroughs and
Magna Carta in the 2010s.
What binds such disparate
subjects is, in Brown’s words, ‘lots
of research, and lots of thinking
about how I can best represent a
huge subject in a few tiny images’.
He approaches any given subject
with an open mind, relying on
intense study of the theme to throw
up successful design concepts.
Imaginative solutions
A Tynesider living in Yorkshire,
now aged 72, Brown was schooled
in graphic design and commercial
art in the 1960s, first in Sunderland
and later in Maidstone.
His career focused on films,
music and art catalogues, and he ABOVE: Howard He won the commission, and the a graphic point of view.’
was well-established and Brown has designed result was a memorable set of He made the numerals of value
successful long before he ever 15 of the most stamps showing the evolution of double as grid reference numbers,
designed a stamp, in the early eye-catching British OS maps from their origin in 1791 matched to the style of each map,
1990s. Yet he took to the genre stamp issues of the to modern times. and incorporated the dates
readily, and would win regular past three decades, ‘I considered how an idea could ‘1791-1991’ in the style of a scale at
commissions from then onwards. frequently taking an be made to flow through four the bottom of the design.
Most of his designs are based on unorthodox approach stamps,’ he recalls, ‘and I hit on the The stamps were even printed in
artwork created by cameras and to any given theme notion of focusing on one place, as accordance with the methods used
computers, rather than traditional mapped at different times.’ for the original maps of 1816, 1906,
crafts, but they reliably offer an He chose the village of Hamstreet 1959 and 1991, ranging from recess
imaginative and elegant solution to in Kent, partly because the first for the lowest value to four-colour
what is often a difficult brief. military surveys were made in that offset lithography for the highest
county and partly because it was value, which meant that two
On the map still recognisably the same place different printers (Harrison and
Brown’s first Royal Mail 200 years later. Better still, it was Questa) were involved.
commission came out of the blue in small enough to reproduce on The set was awarded the
1991, when he was invited to stamps at the same size as it prestigious Francobollo d’Oro in
contribute ideas for a set appeared on the maps. Italy as the best international
commemorating the bicentenary of Hamstreet in fact provided stamp design of that year.
Ordnance Survey, Britain’s national everything Brown desired: ‘I Amusingly, Brown also received a
mapping agency. ‘I nearly dropped wanted a road in red, a river in letter from a stranger saying that
the phone in excitement,’ he blue and a wood in green for he had been considering buying a
remembers. ‘It couldn’t have been splashes of colour, details that house in Hamstreet when he found
better. I love maps.’ make a place look interesting from that it was shown on the stamp,

brown designs
1991 Bicentenary of Ordnance Survey
1993 300th Birth Anniversary of
John Harrison
(illustrator: David Penney)
1994 25th Anniversary of the Investiture of
the Prince of Wales
(painter: Prince Charles)
1996 European Football Championship.
Football Legends
(illustrator: Anton Morris)
2001 The Weather
(illustrator: Tony Meeuwissen)
2001 Christmas
(illustrator: Arthur Robins)
2003 Extreme Endeavours
2006 Ice Age Animals
(illustrator: Andrew Davidson)
2007 Bicentenary of the Abolition of
the Slave Trade
2008 Cathedrals
(photographer: Peter Marlow)
ABOVE: The 1991 Bicentenary of Ordnance Survey set illustrated the development of 2010 Medical Breakthroughs
mapmaking by using one small village in Kent, Hamstreet, as an example
2012 Bicentenary of the Birth of
Charles Dickens
(illustrators: ‘Kyd’ and ‘Phiz’)
and saw this as a sign that he created the meticulous artwork
should complete the purchase! that made this a memorable issue. 2014 Buckingham Palace
Again, the four images are 2014 Commonwealth Games, Glasgow
Right on time progressive, exposing the (illustrator: Nanette Hoogslag)
Brown’s next commission was for mechanism of Harrison’s historic (photographer: Andy Hooper)
the 1993 set marking the 300th H4 chronometer in stages. The 24p 2015 800th Anniversary of Magna Carta
anniversary of the birth of John value shows its decorative silver (illustrator: Andrew Davidson)
Harrison, the inventor of the first case, with the hour, minute and
timepiece capable of accurately second hands; the 28p and 33p are
determining the longitude of a devoted to its intricate interior House of Questa, the stamps
ship at sea. mechanisms, such as the wheel, deserve close scrutiny under a
This time Brown chose to work escapement, oscillator, balance and magnifying glass.
with an illustrator, David Penney, spring; the 39p reveals the finely
who was also an authority on engraved inner casing, with Football focus
historic timepieces. Brown laid Harrison’s imprint of 1759. For a football fan (a Newcastle
down the concept, and Penney Superbly printed in litho by the United supporter), being asked to
create the stamps when England
hosted the European Football
Championship in 1996 was another
commission made in heaven.
Since no living commoner was
permitted to appear on a stamp, the
issue wallowed in nostalgia,
honouring football legends of the
past chosen by fans from a
shortlist. But there was more to this
set of five than meets the eye.
At first glance, the images appear
to be simple monochrome
photographs from the archives. In
reality, they are a subtle blend of
photography and art.
To create pictures of the
various players doing what they
ABOVE: The 1993 300th Birth Anniversary of John Harrison set showcased the fine detail of the H4 marine chronometer did best, whether that was Billy
Wright tackling, Bobby Moore

passing, Danny Blanchflower RIGHT: The 2001

dribbling, Duncan Edwards miniature sheet
shooting or Dixie Dean scoring, entitled The Weather
Brown used computer technology reinterpreted the old-
to manipulate and montage the fashioned barometer
images. in a playful way
He then turned them over to a
professional illustrator, Anton
Morris, who worked with an
airbrush to make the outlines of
the players stand out more sharply
against a soft-focus background.
The blurred faces of the crowd
were achieved by the deft use of a
typewriting eraser!
The numerals of value were
presented in the same style as the
numbers on players’ backs, while
the Queen’s head provided a single
spot of colour on each design.
Changeable weather
In complete contrast, colour was
the hallmark of the 2001 set entitled
The Weather, on which Brown
worked with the illustrator Tony
Meeuwissen.
Royal Mail had requested an
unconventional format, and ‘The 1996 European Football Championship
Brown’s idea was to produce a
block of four stamps within a BELOW: The 1996 designs are not simple photographs, but a
miniature sheet, with a composite European Football
design based on the face of a Championship set subtle blend of photography and art’
barometer. enhanced archive
Meeuswissen brought the photographs of colourful mixture of symbols and landscapes, and for suggesting the
concept to life with a witty and famous footballers visual games swirling around the immense scale of each adventure’.
circular face. Brown then added the Sure enough, the contrasting
typography by computer, background elements of sky, rock,
incorporating the numerals of sand, ice and ocean, all vast and
value into the design as though formidable, emphasise the
they were barometer readings. determination and bravery of the
In a further twist, the magenta individuals honoured.
colour extending across the 27p Only one of the designs, showing
(fair weather) stamp and the Edmund Hillary and Tenzing
miniature sheet border was printed Norgay on Everest, was based on a
in thermochromic ink, which turns single image. The remainder,
blue in the sun, though sadly this featuring Ernest Shackleton, Robert
effect diminishes over time. Falcon Scott, Amy Johnson, Freya
The issue seems to have been a Stark and Francis Chichester, were
particularly happy meeting of collages combined by computer,
minds for two artists who are and in some cases hand-tinted. In
perfectionists and lovers of detail, the case of the Shackleton stamp,
and it was voted the most popular no fewer than four separate images
of the year. were blended.
‘I wasn’t attempting to create a
Exploring possibilities realistic single image,’ says Brown,
The 2003 Extreme Endeavours set ‘but a view which was evocative of
was timed to mark the 50th the main characters and their
anniversary of the first successful achievements.’
ascent of Mount Everest, but The Royal Geographical Society
intended to celebrate a wider range helped with information, while the
of achievements by British digital artist Peter Crowther
explorers on land, sea and air. assisted with image manipulation,
Brown adopted a wide format for especially in terms of adding
the stamps because he thought it colour to monochrome
provided ‘greater scope for photographs.

meDal of honour
In 1995, when he had just three special stamp
issues under his belt, Brown was awarded the
Phillips Gold Medal for his contribution to
British stamp design.
This put him in illustrious company. The five
other previous and future winners were David
Gentleman, Stuart Rose, Adrian George, Barry
Robinson and Jeffery Matthews.
Historical research
One of the key challenges in
designing stamps with historical
themes lies in working out how to
convey a complex issue in a very
simple way. For the 2007 set
marking the 200th anniversary of
the Abolition of the Slave Trade,
Brown decided to put the focus on
individuals, but the next question
was who?
The obvious starting point was
William Wilberforce, who was the
driving force behind the
legislation in Parliament, but many
hours of research and discussion
with historians was required ABOVE: The 2003 Extreme Endeavours set used a wide format to emphasise the immense scale
before settling on the other five of each explorer’s adventures, whether on land, sea or air
subjects.
Brown eventually chose the routes in the case of Equiano, and Altar images
abolitionists Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson’s famously The following year Brown was
Thomas Clarkson, the former shocking diagram of slaves packed invited to come up with ideas for a
slaves Olaudah Equiano and into a ship like sardines. set on the theme of Cathedrals. The
Ignatius Sancho, and the author ‘I know Royal Mail look for conventional solution would have
Hannah More. heavyweight designers for been a set of exterior views of
He placed portraits of the six serious subjects such as this,’ says magnificent medieval buildings,
campaigners in front of documents Brown. ‘Perhaps it’s because I’ve but Brown thought differently.
illustrative of their struggle, such worked successfully on a wide ‘I was struck by the richness of
as an anti-slavery poster in the case range of subjects that they felt the interiors,’ he says, ‘and thought
of Wilberforce, a map of slave trade confident in me.’ I would focus on the inside.’
ABOVE: The 2007 Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade set focused on the contribution of individuals to the cause, from parliamentarians to former slaves

ABOVE: The 2008 Cathedrals set showed magnificent interiors in monochrome, where many designers would have opted for exterior views in full colour
Instead of pursuing colour

images, which might have looked
by British scientists.
The brief stipulated that the
‘The 2010 Medical
gaudy, he took inspiration from an stamps should focus on modern Breakthroughs
old book of black-and-white research and technology which has
architectural photographs taken in made a major contribution to designs are eerily
natural light, and worked with the public health. After his usual
specialist photographer Peter thorough research, Brown chose beautiful and border
Marlow to produce a series of
pictures in that vein.
six subjects that could be presented
in a similar way, in a circular shape
on the abstract, and
These were all taken from the against a dark background, as yet they are
same angle, looking down the nave though you were looking down a
of each cathedral towards the altar. microscope or tubular probe. medically precise’
Showcasing the starkly beautiful These went as far back in time as
architecture in still, silvery light Ronald Rose’s proof of malaria motion of athletes in a strikingly
worked surprisingly well at transmission by mosquitoes in 1897 original way, he worked with the
stamp size. and Alexander Fleming’s discovery illustrator Nanette Hoogslag and
Brown also designed the of penicillin in 1928, but came more the sports photographer Andy
accompanying miniature sheet up to date with Sir Harold Ridley’s Hooper for another remarkable
commemorating the 300th artificial lens implants in 1949, fusion of art and photography.
anniversary of St Paul’s Cathedral. James Black’s heart-regulating The two artists created montages
Its se-tenant block of four stamps beta-blockers and Sir John representing six different sports
also showed the interior, but this Charnley’s hip replacement ‘by assembling figures that showed
time in full colour. surgery in 1962, and Sir Godfrey a particular type of movement’,
Hounsfield’s computed and then the photographer posed
Medical examination tomography (CT) scanning in 1971. real athletes with the aim of
There could hardly be a greater The blood-red, acid-blue and matching these as closely as
contrast between the Cathedrals set culture-green colours contribute possible. Finally, the monochrome
and his next commission, in 2010, towards a set of images that are images were each given a different
illustrating Medical Breakthroughs eerily beautiful, and seem to border colour treatment to ‘create visual
on the abstract, and yet they are effects and contrasts’.
any regrets? medically precise. An additional Brown also designed the
attraction is that they are double-X emblem which appears
educational, as many of the on all the stamps, alluding both to
Like most designers, Brown has competed for breakthroughs depicted are little the Scottish saltire and to the fact
many commissions which eventually went to understood outside the profession. that these were the 20th
someone else. His biggest disappointment, he Commonwealth Games.
says, was not being chosen to create the Sports illustrated
Centenary of Picture Postcards issue in 1994. One of Brown’s issues that was Keeping it simple
‘I presented two solutions which I thought most elaborate in conception was David Gentleman’s dictum was
were very strong,’ he remembers, ‘but the the 2014 set commemorating the that successful stamp design is all
Stamp Advisory Committee chose another Commonwealth Games, which about condensing an idea into a
designer’s work.’ were being held in Glasgow. small space with elegant simplicity.
In order to capture the speed and No recent designer has managed to

also by brown
ABOVE: 1994 25th Anniversary of the

Investiture of the Prince of Wales set
ABOVE: 2012 Bicentenary of the Birth of

Charles Dickens set
ABOVE: 2001 Christmas set
ABOVE: 2014 Buckingham Palace set
ABOVE: 2015 800th Anniversary of

ABOVE: 2006 Ice Age Animals set Magna Carta set
do this on such a wide range of ABOVE: The Medical

subjects as Howard Brown. Breakthroughs set of
Among the hundreds of British 2010 honoured
stamps issued during the past scientific progress in
quarter of a century, those he has colourful and
created stand out as being of the spectacular fashion ABOVE: The 2014 Commonwealth Games set was photographed using models who were
highest quality, with the clearest carefully posed to illustrate different types of sporting movement
thinking behind them. ■

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uninsurable against
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called ‘Mail-bid
‘Mail-bid sales’) sales’) Bear
Bear in in mind
mind that that manymany postalpostal
auctions
auctions is is that
that thethe postal
postal auctionauction is is auctions
auctions can can have
have ‘lots’
‘lots’ starting
starting fromfrom
not
not as as transparent
transparent as as public
public auctions
auctions as
as low
low as as £1 £1 –– and
and some
some present
present lotslots
theoretically
theoretically are. are. ToTo mitigate
mitigate this, this, the the to
to many
many thousands
thousands of of pounds
pounds so so that
that
best
best postal
postal auctions
auctions offer offer guarantees
guarantees postal
postal auctions
auctions are are one
one of of the
the best
best
that
that public
public8145auctions
auctions are
8145 are8132unable
unable to
8132 to 8190
offer
offer
8190 places
places 8154
8154 to
to find
find 8135
unusual
unusual material
8135 material
8254 that
8254 that 8189
8189 8118
8118 8137
8137
or
or even
even match.
match. TheseThese guarantees
guarantees can can can
can liftlift an
an ordinary
ordinary collection
collection to to the
the
make
make bidding
bidding at at postal
postal auctions
auctions safer safer ‘extraordinary’.
‘extraordinary’.
than
than bidding
bidding at at public
public auction.
auction. Often
Often overlooked
overlooked is is the
the unusual
unusual
Good
Good postal
postal auctions
auctions will will offer
offer you you flexibility
flexibility that that postal
postal auctions
auctions offer offer
the
the next
next bestbest thing
thing to to being
being ‘in ‘in thethe collectors.
collectors. Standard
Standard services
services offered
offered
room’.
room’. They They willwill offer
offer aa photocopies
photocopies by
by thethe best
best allow
allow the the collector
collector with with
7103
7103 8148
8148 8133
8133 8147
8147 8149
8149 8140
8140 8235
8235 8128
8128 8168
8168
of
of lots
lots or or scans
scans service,
service, and and aa free free aa budget
budget –– say say £100
£100 –– to to bid
bid onon asas
phone
phone call-back
call-back ‘expanded
‘expanded description
description many
many lots lots as as he/she
he/she wishes
wishes in in any
any
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report’ by by aa qualified
qualified stamp stamp order
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priority so so that
that you
you cancan bidbid
describer/expert,
describer/expert, so so that
that you you will
will feelfeel on
on lotlot 10,000
10,000 firstfirst and
and lotlot 11 second.
second.
that
thatyouyouhave
haveactually
actuallyseen seenthe thelot,
lot,even
even Computers
Computers can can handle
handle suchsuch flexibility
flexibility
though
though you you have
have not.not. Obviously
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as well
well as as requests
requests such such as as either
either
are
are limitations
limitations to to the
the number
number of of lots
lots lot
lot xx oror lot
lot yy –– but
but one
one lot
lot only.
only. Given
Given
that
that they
they can can describe
describe
8046
8046 on
on this
this8034 ––
basis
8034basis your
your £100 £100
8031 budget
8031 budget the the computer
computer
8042
8042 will
will 8051 8051 8058
8058
which
which is is why
why thethe best
best ofof them
them willwill offer
offer stop
stop youryour purchases
purchases as as close
close to to below
below
you
you an an unqualified
unqualified satisfaction
satisfaction or or full
full that
that limit
limit as as possible.
possible. Finally
Finally theythey
refund
refund guarantee
guarantee -- even even on on ‘mixed
‘mixed lots’ lots’ can
can offer
offer thethe flexibility
flexibility of of spreading
spreading
which
which is is unheard
unheard of of at
at public
public auction.
auction. payments
payments over over instalments
instalments and and many
many
Few
Few postal
postal auctions
auctions have have vendors.
vendors. can
can absorb
absorb credit
credit cardcard charges.
charges.
Most
Most postal
postal auctions
auctions offer offer theirtheir own own So
So what
what are are the
the down-sides
down-sides of of the
the
stamps
stamps for for sale
sale which
which is is why
why the the bestbest postal
postal auction
auction system?system? There There are are
can
can afford
afford to to7610
eliminate
eliminate
7610
the
the huge
huge ‘buyer’s
‘buyer’s
8061
8061
relatively
relatively8054
8054
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few provided
provided 8060
8060
as
as always
always 8071
8071 8065
8065
premiums’
premiums’ that that mostmost public
public auctions
auctions that
that youyou are are dealing
dealing with with aa reputable
reputable
charge
charge and and include
include VAT VAT so so that
that there
there company.
company. Such Such companies
companies know know that that
are
are nono extra
extra charges
charges whatsoever
whatsoever –– other other their
their reputation
reputation lies lies inin the
the hands
hands of of
than
than thethe cost
cost of of delivery
delivery perhaps.
perhaps. This This collectors
collectors and and will
will strive
strive toto deliver
deliver well
well
compares
compares favourably
favourably to to public
public auction
auction described
described materialmaterial at at market
market pricesprices
where
whereVAT VATtaxable
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buyer’spremiums
premiums which
which You, You, the the Collector
Collector determines
determines
and
and otherother costscosts can can increase
increase the the and
and cancan bebe below
below retail.
retail.
8029
8029 8076
8076 8028
8028 8044
8044 8055
8055 8033
8033
NO
NO BUYER’S
BUYER’S PREMIUMS,
PREMIUMS, NO
NO POSTAGE,
POSTAGE, NO
NO CREDIT
CREDIT CARD
CARD CHARGES
CHARGES -- SAVES
SAVES YOU
YOU UP
UP TO
TO 27%
27% ++
71
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8075Yours Today 8038
8075 8038 8032 The internet has revolutionised many
8048 parts of our lives,
9691 7948
including the sale of stamps
O BVIOUSLY THERE ARE unregulated. Punishment for bona-

different types of on- fide vendors breaking the rules can be
draconian – but crooks don’t care – they
line bidding and buying
UPA
just open up new accounts. We know
– so let’s separate them into because we block some from bidding –
8040 8035 ‘LIVE’ 8039
and ‘STATIC’. 8027 8037 later they bid 8036
and months again using a
new account.
Live Internet Auctions Let’s define A few years ago – we sold a wonderful
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‘live’ as you can bid till the very reprint of a Great Britain Queen Victoria
70
last second that bidding closes 10 shilling correctly described for what
upon a lot. Ebay dominates this it was – a reprint. Within 2 weeks we
space. Delcampe (a European ‘ebay’ found our stamp offered on-line – our
competitor is developing). I could photo and the on-line photo were
8041 8012 write 8063
a book about selling
8050on-line, identical,
8045being offered as the original
8066
10 JULY
buying is theoretically simpler but printing which is far rarer. We notified
also fraught with potential problem. potential bidders who were bidding on
No matter all the reassurances you that stamp. You can’t do that today –
are given, internet bidding at live bidders identities and e-mail addresses
internet auctions is very much a case are hidden to all except the vendor.
and place of Caveat Emptor – buyer
You can notify the vendor and service
beware.
The main ‘protection’ for buyers is providers – but don’t always expect a
8052 8073 theoretically
8069 the feedback system.
8068 Yet fast response.
8064 The item can be sold and
8053
paid for before / if anything positive
I have seen internet vendors with 1,000
+ positive feedbacks from buyers – not actually happens, and often nothing
positive happens. Internet crooks are
a negative in sight – and the stamps/
items they are selling are obviously not fleeter of foot than service providers
what they state them to be. Sometimes and authorities.
it is a case of ‘naive’ vendor and ‘naive’ Bidding with reputable long
buyer – but others it is deliberately established philatelic companies
setting out to deceive. that sell in other ways apart from the
8057 8276 8307
Beware when all you see 8384
is a picture 8336– may provide
internet 8354additional
– and next to no description – live reassurance.
internet bidding is like the ‘Wild West’ Despite all safeguards it is not
– theoretically regulated, practically always possible to be sure that you are
8070 7947 8072
8074 8062 8056
8047 8049 8043
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bidding with a reliable vendor ... but small increments is the best way to lose
most transactions go through ok – it the lot. You have two choices – either YOU like what
may be more a question of getting your place your maximum bid earlier – and you’re reading,
money back when things go wrong. watch what happens ... or use one of you may like
Bidding On Line 8515 When you are the on-line ‘sniping’ services that have my free catalogue
actually bidding on line and the sprung up 8399
to improve your chances of 8518 8267 Intro
(+ £55 free
winning. offer) – Request
last few seconds to closing time Yours Today
are counting down – many vendors, We think the best ‘snipe’ services
understandably, are rather keen to work ... but even then – there is no
see how much their item sells for, so guarantee of success and if you read
like bidders – they may be constantly the ‘small print’ of such services
clicking 8502 to see there are various reasons
their ‘refresh’ button 8397 8523 why. Our 8527
the action. This gives us an insight recommendation if you are really
UPA
into what happens. ‘Refresh’ speeds keen to win – is register a low on-line
can be fast or slow – so often it is bid personally – if the system accepts
possible to lose that lot that you your bid – you know that there are
have been bidding on by just a few no reasons why the vendor will not
seconds and a few8521 pence or pounds accept your8526 business – for example the
8529 8435
more than you were prepared to pay. vendor’s settings may forbid sale and
AUCTION
70
Don’t take it for granted that if you delivery to your country, or if you do
bid £50 and it sold to somebody else not have a PayPal account – or you may
for the next bid step of say £52 – that be ‘blocked’ for some other reason.
that is all the winner was prepared to Then during the days before the
pay. If you are kicking yourself ... take auction closes – monitor what happens
10 JULY
our advice 8454
– live on-line bidding at eBay – finally register higher/highest
8525 8524 bids 8522
is secure so that you can place a £100 shortly before the auction closes ....
bid on that £50 item and you can be the
£52 bidder/winner. Of course you really This has the disadvantage of
need to be prepared to pay that amount revealing your hand earlier – but
as somebody else may think similarly. your highest bid is all you can ever
Evolve a ‘live’ internet bidding pay. Using a ‘snipe’ system – keeps
8265
strategy. ‘Register’ your interest in one8403your cards closer
8482 to your 8430
chest ... and8433 8461 8477
of two ways – either elect to ‘watch’ does not let another bidder gradually
the lot – or bid the minimum upon it increase his bids against yours. Your
if you know you want it anyway. You ‘snipe’ comes in the dying few seconds
will receive outbid notices ... and can, if or even second – the full force of your
you wish, increase your bids further as bid is employed only then – so that
closing time approaches. there is a chance that you save against
8489 8431 the8427
maximum you—are 8408 —
prepared to pay.8428 8497 8487
Many lots that have lots of ‘watchers’
(and only the vendor can see how many The plain truth is that no auction
potential bidders are watching his system is perfect. Your best answer
lots) – have mini-bidding battles taking is to experiment on lots that are less
place in the dying few moments of the important to you – so you know what
auction closing. Bidding at this stage in to do when it really matters.
8420 8479 8528 8411 8511 8468 — 8520 —
9519 9522 9504 9557 9555 9560 9556 9558 9559
53
9524 9554 9595 9617 9513 9514 9512
— 8410 — 8268 8274 8273 8457 9682 9521
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Yours Today
8301 8301 8298 8298 8310 8310 A guide
A quick quick guide
8315 to bidding
to bidding
8315 on lineonwith
line with
an
8300 an auction
auction
8300 househouse
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and live live internet bidding
bidding
on line
on line withwith an auction
an auction collide.
collide.
house, whose
house, whose auction auction Increasingly
Increasingly – we–are
we pressured
are pressured
by by
closes
closes at aat a specific
specific time,time,
is is ‘internet
‘internet savvy’
savvy’ bidders
bidders who who
wish wish
to to
UPA
see seetransparency
the the transparency
of of ‘live’
‘live’ bidding
bidding – –
relatively
relatively straightforward,
straightforward, but but but fail to appreciate – or understand
8294 8294 8311 8311 8351 8351 but fail to 8330
8330 appreciate – or understand
8375 8375
therethere are still
are still a fewa few things
things to to that over
that over 40%
40% of of Collectors
Collectors bidding
bidding do do
look out
look out for. for. so conventionally
so conventionally – placing
– placing confidential
confidential
bids
bids by by mail,
mail, fax, telephone
fax, telephone or internet
or internet
It may It maysoundsound somewhat somewhat ‘simple’ ‘simple’ submission.
submission. For conventional
For conventional biddersbidders
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70
but the but most
the most important
important thing thingis tois itto is it is a level
a level playingplaying
field.field.
In our In mail
our mail
ensureensure
that you that getyoua get a ‘receipt’
‘receipt’ e-maile-mail auctions
auctions we refuse
we refuse to offer
to offer internet
internet
for yourfor bids
your from
bids from the auction.
the auction. E-mail E-mail ‘snipers’
‘snipers’ the the opportunity
opportunity to outbid
to outbid
is theoretically
is theoretically secure secure
but not butalways
not always conventional
conventional ‘mail’‘mail’ bidders.
bidders.
—————— 8322 ———
8322 ——— reliablereliable and placing
and placing 8314 on-line
8314 bids
bids on-line into into 8319 8319 83298329
Be aware
Be aware though though that there
that there are some
are some
a secure server/website is still
no no
10 JULY
a secure server/website is still
mail mail auctions
auctions that that discreetly
discreetly offeroffer
guarantee
guarantee that yourthat bids
your are bidsregistered
are registered
this service
this service to internet
to internet bidders bidders– so– so
correctly.
correctly. You You need need an electronic
an electronic
that internet
that internet bidders bidders
are atarea at a positive
positive
receipt.receipt.
advantage
advantage over over conventional
conventional bidders.bidders.
Naturally
Naturally youneed
you still still need
to checkto check
out out
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is a issimilar
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advantage
the auction’s
the auction’s policypolicy
upon upon the following
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to those
to those that that the Collector
the Collector or Dealer
or Dealer
checklist:
checklist:
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are attending a public
a public
8334 8334 8385 8385 • Is there
• Is there 8355 a buyer’s
a buyer’s
8355 premium premium
8347– if8347– if so
so 8393 8393 8358 8358
auction
auction – they – they
can see can for
see for themselves
themselves
how much?
how much?
how how under-estimated
under-estimated – or – or over-over-
• Does • Does the buyer’s
the buyer’s premium premium include include estimated
estimated a lotareally
lot really is. Descriptions
is. Descriptions
VAT/Sales
VAT/Sales Tax or Taxis orthis is an
thisextra
an extra onlypart
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the story.
cost? cost? Perhaps the best best
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to ‘separate’
• What • What
is their is their
postage postage and delivery
and delivery such such ‘collisions’
‘collisions’ in our in way
our way of thinking
of thinking
charge/policy?
charge/policy? is to isrealise
to realisethat that
whenwhen one one is bidding
is bidding
• Critically
• Critically – what – whatis their is their
returns returns at Public
at Public Auction Auctionthis isthis is effectively
effectively an an
8357 8357 8287 8287 policy policy
8332on on
lots
8332 lots
that that
are
8317 are
described
8317 described 8295instantaneous
instantaneous
8295 process
8184 process
8184 – so –
8117 so
bidding
8117 bidding
whichwhichyou have you have not viewed?
not viewed? Is this Is this by phone,
by phone, or live or internet
live internet submission
submission
acceptable to you?
acceptable to you? Additionally – do Additionally – do ‘dovetails’
‘dovetails’ perfectly
perfectly into into
this this
auctionauction
they ahave
they have a different
different policypolicy
for lotsfor lots process.
process.
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catalogue? Be carefulBe careful
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internet auction auction
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8201theon
8201the 8359
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8371
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photograph
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look carefully
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photo.photo. postal-auction
postal-auction arenaarena is ‘clouded’
is ‘clouded’ by the by the
NeverNever take take it forit granted
for granted that that offer/lure
offer/lure of new of new technology
technology – to –the to the
because because a stamp/lot
a stamp/lot has been has illustrated
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of computer-savvy biddersbidders
that that
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without visible visible
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and and
to the to the detriment
detriment of theof the conventional
conventional
8281 8281 8353 8353 8292 8292 8291 8291 8372 8372 8280 8280 — 8392 — 8392
— —
auctionsauctions deliberately
deliberately fail to failmention
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who who submits submits his‘waiting
his bid bid ‘waiting to to
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an unfair advantage
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8361 8361 8395 8395 8517 8517 8396 8396
8296 8296 8516 8516 8519 8519 8398 8398

TO MAINTAIN
TO MAINTAIN YOURYOUR LOYALTY
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the average percentage
percentage of ‘catalogue
of ‘catalogue value’
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for for £10,000
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further time time viewing
viewing 8644
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possible
possible forfor a dealer
a dealer to to pay pay2 hours
2 hours concentrated
concentrated viewing
viewing time,time,
such such levelslevels – but – but only only when whengiving giving the the collector
collector feedback
feedback as as thethe
valuation progressed, and knew that
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70
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justifies forfor scarce/
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8589
quality
quality – and– and notnot forfor general TheThe
general ownerowner assured
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looking for for £10,000
£10,000 forfor thethe
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incomplete or or incon-incon-collection
collection – so – so I carried
I carried on on viewing
viewing
10 JULY
sistent
sistent quality
quality sets. sets. Collectors
Collectors and andan an
hour hourand andhalf half
later later
was was in ina a
position
position to discuss
to discuss what what ourour company
company
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8639
offer – the
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£7,000. 8551
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9615
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opinion I was I was
now now ableable
sellsell at such
at such levels levels to theto the tradetradeto askto ask howhow much much thethe owner owner wantedwanted
wouldwould be be an an impossibility.
impossibility. for for
his his stamps?
stamps? TheThe answer
answer – £10,000.
– £10,000.
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reminding thethe clientclientof of ourour
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earlier conversation
conversation I I
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suspicion 9614
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it comes to8564
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selling
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offer of of
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suggested
8581 8581 that that
he he 8562
8562
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sometimes this this
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be justified – many
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obtained another
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I recall a recent
a recent home established
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considerable distance
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already been been offered
offered £7,000
£7,000 but but
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a the
dealerdealer
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pay pay
over over
a a
periodperiod
couple
couple of hours
of hours assessing
assessing a collectionof of
a collection time. time. I suggested
I suggested he he try try another
another
– dependent upon its size company
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prepared to to
pay pay immediately.
immediately.
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86058605
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we may
we may havehave a reasonable
a reasonable ideaidea of the To cut a long story short – six
of the
months later we received a call from the
potential
potential – so–thatso that we feel
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Red-hot Chile
Renowned for historical scenes and portraits, José Moreno Benavente brought
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■ Report by Adrian Keppel
B
orn in Spain and schooled
in Europe, by some of the
top engravers of their day,
José Moreno Benavente built his
reputation on the other side of the
Atlantic, creating stunning stamps
for Latin American countries.
He is most closely associated
with Chile, where he helped to
raise the quality of the country’s
stamps to new heights.
Moreno (1905-81) was born in

Granada, Spain. Undoubtedly
inspired by his father Manuel, who
was a watchmaker and engraver,
he studied the history of art and
design before starting an
apprenticeship as an engraver.
Subsequently he attended the
National School of Graphic Arts in
Madrid, where he was a pupil
of José Luis Sánchez Toda, one of
the best stamp engravers of his era.
To complete his exemplary
training, Moreno went to Paris to
study for two years at the Institut ABOVE: Chile 1944 1p 80c stamp marking the centenary of the death of Bernardo O’Higgins, depicting the Battle of Rancagua in 1814
de Gravure, and then to London to
work for the printers Waterlow & another renowned engraver, head of the department of
Sons, under the tutelage of yet J A C Harrison. engraving and design. In the
It was for Waterlow that he process, he helped to raise its
engraved his first stamp image: a prestige, and that of Chilean
portrait of Simón Bolívar, the stamps, to great heights.
military leader who fought for the Historical scenes featured heavily
independence of six South in Moreno’s output, both for
American countries, adorning the stamps and banknotes. He
5s value in Ecuador’s 1930 interpreted several iconic moments
Centenary of Independence set. a number of times, making it
possible to study the development
In 1931, Moreno moved to Buenos of his skills over time.
Aires in Argentina, where he met One such scene was the Embrace
Joaquín Marcó, the head of Talleres of Maipú, between the Argentinian
de Especies Valoradas, a newly General José de San Martín and the
established printing firm which Chilean General Bernardo
would later become the Casa de O’Higgins at the Battle of Maipú in
Moneda de Chile (the Chilean 1818, a decisive monent in Chile’s
Mint). Marcó immediately war of independence.
recognised Moreno’s artistic Moreno also engraved a number
abilities, and hired him at the of portraits which can similarly be
tender age of 26. found on both stamps and
It was the start of a 44-year career banknotes, and were re-interpreted
with the company, during which he through the years, including one of
worked his way up to the position O’Higgins, one of the founding
ABOVE: Costa Rica 1945 20c portraying the politician Mauro Fernández of chief engraver by 1953, and later fathers of the nation.

special interest because every sheet
included was Moreno’s work.
Moreno also got the opportunity

to engrave a number of stamps for
Costa Rica. This came about
through the auspices of Alvaro
Bonilla Lara, a philatelist who was
member of the government in
Costa Rica, who arranged for a
number of his country’s stamp
issues to be printed in Chile.
The first example was the 1945
commemorative marking the birth
centenary of Mauro Fernández, a
reforming politician of the late 19th
century. This was followed by an
airmail set portraying former
Presidents of Costa Rica, issued in
1947, and a design marking the
400th anniversary of the birth of
the Spanish author Miguel de
Cervantes, also in 1947.
Interestingly, the same portrait
die of Cervantes had been used for
Chile’s own stamp in the same
year, but in this case the area
Evidence of the international
reputation that the engraver and
‘Moreno engraved his ABOVE: Chile 1951
airmail 5p design
around the face was ‘polished’ to
create a lighter impression, which
his employer forged during this
period came in 1955, when the
first stamp image for marking the
centenary of the
made it stand out better.
Belgian magazine L’Illustré Waterlow & Sons, death of José de San Moreno retired in 1975, at the age
published a feature on the wonders Martín, reproducing of 70, after his eyesight began to
of engraving. It highlighted three where he worked Julio Villa y Prades’ deteriorate and his hand become
stamps from around the world, two
of which were issues of Chile
under the tutelage painting Crossing
The Andes
less steady.
He died six years later, leaving a
engraved by Moreno. of the renowned portfolio of his private engravings
The first was the top value from to the Casa de Moneda, which it
the 1944 issue belatedly marking J A C Harrison’ showcased in its museum. ■
the death centenary of O’Higgins
(which had been in 1942). This
depicted a dynamic, chaotic scene
from the Battle of Rancagua in 1814,
which is remembered as a heroic
defeat for O’Higgins at the hands
of a Spanish army.
The second was a representation
of a painting entitled Crossing The
Andes, by Julio Villa y Prades, the
top value from a 1951 set marking
the death centenary of San Martín.
Showing O’Higgins and San
Martín riding together, this
recalled the stealthy and daring
invasion of Chile in 1817 by their
army of liberation, which would
eventually lead to independence.
For further proof of the
engraver’s prowess, look no further
than the Memoria, a souvenir book
produced every 10 years by the
Casa de Moneda to highlight the
quality of its products. It typically
included special reprints of stamps,
along with prints of unadopted
essays, and the 1974 edition is of ABOVE: Portrait of the 19th-century naval hero Arturo Prat, on Chile’s 1948 stamp marking the centenary of his birth

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■ Report by Alastair Gunn
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he distinctive blue-striped RIGHT: $1.45 value
International Post stamps of illustrating koalas,
Australia are an interesting from Australia’s 2009
piece of iconography, in that they International Post
reflect how the country wants itself issue of four stamps
to be viewed around the world. entitled Bush Babies
They also provide an excellent,
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Tax exemption
International Post stamps were
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overseas mail.
The solution to making a clear
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inscribed ‘International Post’
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the left-hand side.
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International Post
Global ambassadors issue of eight Opera House and Sydney Harbour Western Australia.
The first issue of eight stamps was stamps in 2000, with Bridge in New South Wales, and Three further Views Of
released on June 20, 2000, entitled views of Sydney’s landscapes in the Northern Australia sets followed in 2001-02,
Views Of Australia, with Opera House and Territory, Queensland, South and a dedicated International Post
photographic images of Sydney Harbour Bridge Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and issue almost every year since.

Koala curiosity
Within the series there are some
interesting individual stamps to
look out for.
One came very early on, in
September 2000, in the form of a $1
stamp from the 1999 personalisable
Greetings set, illustrating a koala,
with an overprinted ‘International
Post’ strip.
This is the only International Post
issue with the blue strip
overprinted, rather than part of the
original design, and also the only
only one in which it appears on the
right hand side of the stamp.
It was unannounced in advance
and barely acknowledged at the
time; it appears to have been
available only from the philatelic
service, not from post offices, and
was not included in the Australia
Post yearbook.
ABOVE: Philatelic cover featuring a wide range of International Post stamps from the first 10 years of Mint examples, which may be
their existence, posted from Newport Beach, New South Wales, to Britain in November 2009 found se-tenant with a
personalised or generic label, are
scarce. Examples used on cover are
even more scarce.
peel & STICK

Some International Post stamps come in two
guises: gummed stamps from counter sheets and
‘peel and stick’ self-adhesives from booklets.
Wherever this is the case, the self-adhesive
versions are much harder to find, because few
people post so much international mail that they
are inclined to buy them in multiples.
ABOVE: Cover from Canberra to Carlton South, Victoria, showing an International Post $1 stamp used to
send a domestic item of mail, which is illegal. It was posted on February 8, 2001, when 90c was the first
weight step and the new tax rules might not have been understood; overpaying the postal service is not
the same as paying the revenue authorities
Landscapes have remained the commemorative sets include those

dominant theme, with sets devoted celebrating royal occasions and
to coastlines in 2004, islands in sporting achievements, as well as
2007, gorges and waterfalls in 2008, joint issues with other countries,
and beaches in 2010. Wildlife has including Britain, Sweden, France,
come a close second, largely Hong Kong and Thailand.
courtesy of issues in 2005, 2006 and In the main, the designs have
2009, while aboriginal art was been carefully chosen to promote
featured in 2003. Australia as a tourist destination,
International Post values have to show off its unique flora and
also featured as constituent parts of fauna, to allude to its
commemorative, Christmas, multiculturalism and to hail its
greetings and personalisable sporting successes. Overall, the
stamp issues, and imprinted on images used are consistently more
ABOVE: 2017 Water Plants $2.10, gummed and self-adhesive
postal stationery. sedate and conservative than those
Notable examples in seen on domestic designs.

australia international post
ABOVE: One of the rarest International Post

stamps is the September 2000 overprint on the
1999 $1 greetings stamp, illustrating a koala
Beersheba blunder
There is also an odd exception to
national symbolism associated
with these stamps, in the form the
International Post $2.60 value
released as part of a controversial
joint issue with Israel in May 2013. ABOVE: Spectacular parcel piece bearing 20 International Post stamps, comprising 18 of the $10 value issued in 2000 along with
This commemorated the 1917 $1.65 and $1.60 values from the 2011 Australian Bush Babies set. Posted in Springwood, New South Wales, in February 2012, its
Battle of Beersheba, in which total franking of $183.25 (about £104) actually represents an underpayment of $2.10 on the airmail rate to Edinburgh for a parcel
Australian troops participated in a weighing between 7.25kg and 7.5kg
British victory over German and
Turkish forces in Palestine, paving
the way for the capture of
Jerusalem shortly afterwards.
At the time Beersheba was a
largely Arab town, yet it was
incorporated into Israel when the
state was founded in 1948; the
stamp issue (with its inscriptions in
English and Hebrew but not
Arabic) could therefore be
interpreted as a snub to Palestinian
territorial claims.
International Post stamps from
commemorative sets are generally
hard to find on cover, and this one
particularly so, presumably
because of its propagandistic
undertones.
Appeal to collectors
The total number of International ABOVE: The first International Post stamp issued in a Christmas set was the 80c illustrating Byron Bay in 2000. The letter rate to
Post stamps issued had reached the UK at this time was $1.50, but unsealed envelopes endorsed ‘card only’ qualified for the special 80c rate for Christmas cards
three figures by 2009 and
continues to grow. Nevertheless,
this is a limited and discrete
subset of an Australian stamp
programme which has burgeoned
in recent years.
For that reason it has a significant RIGHT: Used examples
collecting base, albeit with several of postal stationery
potential drawbacks. envelopes and
One is that the stamps are aerogrammes with
comparatively expensive to buy in imprinted
mint condition. The first issue in International Post
2000 had face values ranging from stamps can be hard to
50c (marginally higher than the 45c find. This one was
standard domestic rate of the time) cancelled at Goolwa,
to $10 (more than 20 times that South Australia, in
rate). That top value was untypical, May 2005

ABOVE: International Post values form part of Greetings issues, which can occasionally be ABOVE: Rare postally used example of the $1.55 value from the Lake Eyre special
found on cover with personalised or customised labels. This self-adhesive example was issue of 2011. The stamps were issued on April 4, and the international postage
posted to Germany in December 2006 rates were increased on July 4, leaving this and other values redundant
ABOVE: The international-rate stamp from the controversial 2013 Battle of ABOVE: First day franking of the International Post $2.60 stamp celebrating
Beersheba joint issue with Israel, on a cover posted from Augusta, the winning of The Ashes by Australia’s cricket team in January 2014.
Western Australia, to Britain in July 2013 Cheekily, this paid the basic rate for a letter to England
did you know? ‘International Post is a limited and discrete

subset of an Australian stamp programme
International Post stamps
in the same style have also which has burgeoned in recent years’
been issued for Christmas
but the 2014 set of three had values
Island, an Australian
of $2.75, $5.35 and $7.40.
external territory.
For Australian-based postal
history collectors, of course, the
other problem is that the covers
they want are often overseas!
Even so, the real joy of these
stamps lies in their postal history.
In use now for nearly two decades,
they have seen a great many
changes in postage rates (in some
cases quickfire changes), and there LEFT: Royal-themed
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National institutions
From hallowed societies to hands-on charities, organisations which hold
royal charters are influential in almost every aspect of British life
■ Report by Jeff Dugdale
H
undreds of British RIGHT: 1984 500th
institutions which exist to Anniversary of the
support aspects of public College of Arms 16p,
life and the national heritage have illustrating the arms
been granted a royal charter. of the college itself
Some of these are learned
societies in the realms of the arts,
sciences and medicine. Some play
important roles in defence,
education, commerce or sport. A
few are long-established charities.
Royal Mail has honoured many
of these with stamps, often
celebrating major anniversaries.
Others have been referenced
indirectly through sets illustrating
their buildings and activities.
One of the oldest chartered

institutions is the College of Arms,
founded by King Richard III in
1484, whose 500th anniversary was
marked by four stamps in 1984.
The College’s heralds have
authority to act on behalf of the
crown, for example by granting
new coats of arms and permissions
for the flying of flags. The stamps BELOW: 2010 350th called the Royal Society of London Arts, Manufactures & Commerce),
illustrated the College’s own arms, Anniversary of the for Improving Natural Knowledge). an organisation committed to
and those of Richard III, the Earl Royal Society 1st Granted its charter by King Charles finding practical solutions to
Marshal of England, the Duke of class, lauding the II in 1660, this is the world’s oldest social challenges.
Norfolk and the City of London. research by Ernest national scientific institution. The designs commemorated its
Another venerable institution is Rutherford into the A set of 10 stamps in 2010 founder William Shipley, its
the Royal Society (more formally structure of atoms celebrated its 350th anniversary by commercial examinations
honouring eminent scientists. (including typing and shorthand),
These included Sir Isaac Newton, its industrial awards (with
Edward Jenner, Charles Babbage recipients including Sir Rowland
and Ernest Rutherford, for their Hill for his postal reforms), and its
ground breaking work in optics, 21st-century manifesto to stimulate
medicine, computing and atomic enterprise, expand education and
physics respectively. eliminate waste.
Several other august chartered Despite its similar title, the Royal
bodies which have promoted Academy of Arts, celebrated by a
scientific or medical advances have set of stamps this year, is a quite
been celebrated on stamps. The different organisation, focused on
Royal Institute of Chemistry was the visual arts.
honoured in 1977 and the Royal
Microscopical Society in 1989. Many of Britain’s universities have
royal charters, including
In 2004, on its 250th anniversary, Aberystwyth, Essex, Leicester and
an issue of six stamps recognised Southampton, which were
the work of the Royal Society of illustrated in the 1971 Modern
Arts (more properly the Royal University Buildings set.
Society for the Encouragement of Commemorated on its 50th

checklist
Date Issue Stamps
1957 World Scout Jubilee Jamboree 3
1968 Anniversaries 1
ABOVE: 2004 250th Anniversary of the Royal ABOVE: 1984 50th Anniversary of the British 1971 Modern University Buildings 4
Society of Arts 40p, honouring the founder of Council 34p, alluding to its work in encouraging 1972 Broadcasting Anniversaries 3
the organisation, William Shipley education and linguistic study abroad 1977 Royal Institute of Chemistry 4
1982 Youth Organisations 1
1982 Maritime Heritage 5
1983 British Army Uniforms 1
1984 College of Arms 4
1984 British Council 4
1985 Safety at Sea 3
1986 Royal Air Force 5
1989 RSPB 4
1989 Royal Microscopical Society 4
1990 RSPCA 4
1990 Royal Botanic Gardens 4
1998 Lighthouses 5
2001 Royal Navy Submarine Service 4
2004 Royal Horticultural Society 6
2004 Royal Society of Arts 6
ABOVE: 1972 Broadcasting Anniversaries 3p, illustrating microphones of various ages used by the BBC 2007 Centenary of Scouting 6
2008 Rescue at Sea 4
anniversary in 2011 was the Royal cultural and educational
2008 RAF Uniforms 6
Shakespeare Company, with six opportunities overseas, from health
stamps showing real-life actors in awareness in Nigeria to a library in 2009 Royal Botanic Gardens 4
character alongside quotes from the Middle East, and from 2009 Royal Navy Uniforms 6
the respective plays, and a promoting the arts in Greece to
2010 Royal Society 10
four-stamp miniature sheet technical training in Sri Lanka.
illustrating the company’s theatres A set of four illustrating coastal 2010 Age of the Stewarts 2
in Stratford-upon-Avon. birds marked the centenary of the 2011 Royal Shakespeare Company 10
Many stamps can also be found Royal Society for the Protection of 2012 UK A-Z 1
to illustrate the history of Britain’s Birds (RSPB) in 1989, and a set of
2018 Royal Air Force 10
armed forces. The Royal Navy and four showing cuddly animals
the Royal Air Force have charter noted the 150th anniversary of the 2018 Royal Academy of Arts 6
status, but only certain regiments Royal Society for the Prevention of
within the British Army, such as Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) a
the Royal Regiment of Artillery
and the Royal Welch Fusiliers.
year later.
The lifesaving work of the Royal
‘Many bodies with royal charters
Look out, too, for issues
illustrating the Royal Observatory
National Lifeboat Institution
(RNLI) was honoured in 2008,
have been commemorated, often
in Greenwich, the Royal Opera while the Lighthouses set of 1998 on major anniversaries’
House in London and the Royal alluded to the duties of Trinity
Botanic Gardens at Kew, and House, the coastal navigation Most in the public eye, arguably, is
celebrating some of the early authority for England and Wales. the British Broadcasting
leading lights in the Royal One of the country’s leading Corporation, which started life as a
Astronomical Society. volunteering organisations, the private company, became a public
Scout Assocation, was featured on corporation in 1927 and currently
Some of Britain’s best-known issues of 1957 and 2007, and there has its royal charter up for renewal
charities have had their work have been several stamps with every 10 years.
applauded on stamps. indirect links to chartered bodies Three stamps in the 1972
In 1984 the 50th anniversary of regulating the laws of popular Broadcasting Anniversaries set
the British Council was celebrated sports, such as the Royal & Ancient depicted technical equipment of
with a set of four picking our Golf Club (R&A) and the various ages, from microphones to
examples of its work in boosting Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). a television camera. ■

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ELV32 ELVIS PRESLEY A hand-picked collection of Elvis E28 POSTAGE DUES Unusual collection of Postage IOM8 ISLE OF MAN Queen Victoria illustrated com-
Presley miniature sheets depicting the life of the singer Due stamps, including GB, Br Cols and foreign. In memorative cover for the 175th Anniv. of the world’s
from his days in the army through to his star -studded singles, blocks of multiples, uncatalogued. Mint first stamp. The impressive cover bears a block of xix
performances. Both the photographic and colourful, (mostly unm.) and used. About 120+ stamps. ....... penny black stamps and one two penny blue stamp tied
artistic representations of Elvis make a lovely memento ............................................................... Price £8 to the cover with 6th May IOM Anniv. postmarks. Only
and present for his worldwide fans. Includes scarcer 100 of this cover were postmarked by the IOM Post
issues which are not included in Stanley Gibbons CH17 GB WORLD WAR I Sir Winston Churchill World Office........................................................... Price £9.25
catalogue. ................................................... Price £18.50 War I, Commem. Cover. The Centenary Cover which was
a limited edition of only 100 covers, commemorated the C545 WORLD COLLECTION A great starter lot, with mint
EL54 ELEPHANTS A gorgeous collection of elephants on spiriting away of the UK’s Naval Fleet from Portland Base & used stamps also noted: miniature sheets, PHQ cards
stamps. With Indian and African elephants on stamps to Scapa Flow, in the Orkneys on 28/7/1914. Churchill’s and several FDC’s. Several hundred different world-wide
(might include the odd mammoth). Mostly modern but pragmatic first action of World War I. The cover bears the stamps plus other items. Low price to clear. ......... £9.75
dates back to KGVI. With blocks and singles, mint and special Churchill, Royal Mail commemorative, postmarked
used over 100 stamps........................................ Price £7 with Royal Mail Maritime Scapa Flow Orkney illustrated
postmark dated 28/7/14. ................................. Price £9.75 LOT K3 GREAT BRITAIN, COMMEMS & DEFINS.
UNSORTED ACCUMULATION With stamps in
SA37 PANAMA CANAL Impressive cover commemorat-
blocks, multiples and singles. Items noted include
ing the centenary of the opening of the Panama Canal. E2R.GP1 GREAT BRITAIN Rare Machin gutter pair
Superbly illustrated with Panama Canal Map and quote by Traffic Light Gutter Pairs and miniature sheets. Well
cover. One of the most sought-after Machin defini-
W.H.Taft. Taft served as Secretary of War under Theodore over 500 stamps, only unmounted mint. .....Price £18
tive covers. The Royal Mail illustrated cover bears the
Roosevelt and supervised the building of the Canal; he scarce blue 2nd class definitive Machin gutter pair with
later became 27th President of the USA. The cover was a gold coronation Anniv. Royal Mail crown design Gutter E32 GREAT BRITAIN XMAS ERROR Spectacular error
restricted issue of only 100. It bears a USA ship stamp tied Pair. The cover is postmarked with the official London on 1966 XMAS 3d value (SG713) shift of gold colour,
to the cover with small purple cachet inscribed “Zona del E2R Coronation Anniv. postmark dated 1/1/13. This is causing Queens Head Shift Error, superb unmounted
Canal de Panama” also British stamp used in combination of postal history importance as the Machin Coronation mint together with normal stamp for comparison. …....
with Royal Mail ship and bi-plane Southampton postmark Gutter Pair is scarce as mint, but rare used on First Day ................................................................... Price £4.25
15/8/14. .............................................................. .Price £14 cover. ........................................................... .Price £27
UK84 GREAT BRITAIN Royal Mail Elusive Mount Pleas-
WL82 WEIGHTLIFTING An unusual thematic collection SNP12 SCOTLAND The special commemorative cover ant Sorting Office Cover. Issued to commemorate the
of weightlifting stamps, including mint and used stamps for the Scottish National Parties Landslide Victory in 125th Anniversary of the GPO Mount Pleasant Office,
in blocks and singles, many better and elusive stamps Scotland; winning virtually 95% of seats. The cover officially opened on 30/8/1889, on the site of Coldbath
noted, including the scarce Greek Olympic weightlifting depicts Nicola Sturgeon (SNP Party Leader) and bears Prison. Once acknowledged as the largest post sorting
champion and medal winner, Leonidas Sampanis. Sam- Royal Mail Heraldic Lion stamp and official Edinburgh office in the world, it continues to handle millions of
panis was found to have cheated by taking drugs. His Postmark dated 7/5/15. The cover is sought after in postal items daily. Only 100 of this important cover
medal was withdrawn and the special Greek Sampanis Scotland and elsewhere as only 50 were produced at were ever produced. Bearing the iconic Machin stamp
postage stamps were withdrawn from sale over night. the time..................................................... Price £13.75 postmark. Dated 30/8/14. Offered in superb condition. .
The scarce Sampanic drug cheat stamp is only one in
................................................................... Price £7.50
this specialist weightlifting collection of well over 100
RD32 IRAQ WAR Rare Operation Red Dawn Iraq War
stamps. The entire collection. ................... .Price £14.25
Cover. Issued for the capture of Saddam Hussein. The
LA39K BRITISH ISLES A phenominal and valuable col-
illustrated cover bears a Royal Mail Tower Bridge stamp
CH28 GREAT BRITAIN The GB Churchill Commemora- lection of British Local Island’s stamps. Only unmounted
with illustrated Tower Hill postmark, dated 13th Dec
tive 4d White Brown and Black with startling broken mint, including Lundy Island, Davaar Island, Cairn Iar,
2003. The cover also bears an Iraq Saddam Hussein
white line error. The white line dividing Churchill from Isle of Easdale, Bemara Island, Staffa, Stroma, Isle of
stamp tied to the cover with black cachet inscribed
the Queens head on the stamp is broken; causing “Ad Dawr Iraq December 2003” in English and Arabic. Pabay, Bardsey, Herm, Calf of Man, Hildasay – Shetland
Churchill’s shoulder to be dislocated. We offer the Originally the cover issue was only 100 covers, but few Islands, Jethou, Brechou, Alderney, St Kilda, St Marys,
unmounted mint error stamp plus normal stamp for are believed to still exist outside collectors’ hands. ....... Calvey Island, Sanda Island, Gugh, St Martins. With
comparison.....................................................Price £7.75 ...................................................................... Price £21 blocks, multiples, singles and miniature sheets. This
important and valuable collection with only unmounted
BX486 BOXING A fine collection of boxing stamps over mint stamps and many high £ values. The normal face
BE822 THE BEATLES A fantastic collection of Beatles value is well over £200.............................. Price £47.25
80 stamps in blocks and singles, including champion stamps. “The Fab Four” John Lennon, Paul McCartney,
boxers such as Muhammad Ali. Mainly fine cto used, George Harrison, and Ringo Star. Contains various
mint noted, with Great Britain Royal Mail 2012 Olympic Beatles stamps including mint and used and miniature GER15 HELIGOLAND A valuable cover for the centenary
Games Gold Medal Boxing stamps. ............ .Price £9.75 sheets with catalogued and scarcer uncatalogued of the battle of Heligoland. This was the first Naval Bat-
issues. Scarce Beatles FDCs included, with Royal Mail tle and first British Naval victory of World War I. Superbly
GBX 13 GREAT BRITAIN Royal Mail presentation packs Beatles official postmarks. The important collection of illustrated depicting the German cruiser SMS Coln. The
and illustrated First Day covers. Also unmounted mint Beatles stamps FDCs and miniature sheets from differ- battle of Heligoland ended with 3 German cruisers and
commemoratives, definitives and miniature sheets. Not ent countries including GB Royal Mail issue. . .Price £16 1 destroyer being sunk by the British. The cover bears a
counting mint stamps, the presentation packs and First Heligoland stamp with German Cross cachet inscribed
Day covers have a combined catalogue value of over £160 POW9 COLDITZ Official Red Cross commemorative “Deutches Reich – Heligoland” also a Britishstamp with
.................................................................................Price £41.25 Colditz prison cover. The cover was flown from Colditz Lions and Crown London postmark with the centenary
to the Channel islands, the cover depicts the infamous date of 20/8/14. Originally 100 covers existed, but
WX2 WORLDWIDE Someone has collated a collection of prison with German postage stamp and Colditz post- mostly in collectors hands they are rarely available for
over 100 different countries worldwide. A compact and mark. ............................................................. Price £10 sale. Recommended at our price of............ Price £18.50
complex philatelic oddity. A fascinating lot. .... Price £12.50
ERIC 2 - ERIC MORCAMBE GB Special Cover for Eric EXP 14 THE BRITISH ICELANDIC EXPEDITION A scarce
CYL29 CYLINDER NUMBER BLOCKS A specialised Morcambe. The cover had a limited and restricted issue expedition cover for the British – Icelandic expedition of
collection of Great Britain & British Commonwealth of only 150 covers and bears the official Royal Mail 1981. This is the official illustrated cover flown from the
cylinder number blocks. It is unusual to see such a large stamp issue in honour of Eric Morcambe. Postmarked UK to KEFLAVIC (Iceland) and bears the P.O. expedition
lot of different cylinder number blocks. 120 stamps in with official Royal Mail illustrated “Morcambe and Wise” postmark. The cover has been additionally signed by
all unmounted mint cylinder number blocks. ................. cancellation, which was in use for one day only. ........... Mike Todd, (Chairman of the B.S.A.C.) An important
...................................................................... Price £21 ..................................................................Our Price £5 postal history cover for sale. .......................... Price £12
eyewitness accounts
Minute of madness
A postcard cancelled at the precise moment Britain entered the Great War in 1914
describes the nervousness of travellers and the fearful chaos of mobilisation
■ Report by Norman Watson
T
here is not usually anything
extraordinary about a ½d
green postal stationery card
popped into a postbox in Kent a
century ago. But this one was
postmarked at 11pm on August 4,
1914 (midnight in Berlin).
That was the very minute the
British ultimatum to Germany
expired, marking the country’s
entry into World War I.
Cancelled by Folkestone’s
circular datestamp, it was sent by
someone named Neville, who was
staying at the town’s Bouverie
Hotel, to his aunt in St Ives,
Huntingdonshire.
For local historians there is little
surviving evidence of the events
and the atmosphere in the English
Channel ports at the time of the
outbreak of war. This card,
however, carries a dramatic ABOVE: Postal
eyewitness account of the British stationery card sent
Army’s mobilisation. from Folkestone to
It sounds as if Neville had just St Ives, postmarked
returned to Britain from the at 11pm on August 4,
continent, following Germany’s 1914, the exact time
declaration of war on France and that Britain entered
invasion of Belgium. World War I
‘Managed to get away. Dreadful
time. The mobilisation is dreadful. RIGHT: The sender
Everyone going. We were glad to penned a breathless
see the British ships’ searchlights description of
and the searchlights of Dover. Folkestone as war
‘The boat was so full you could loomed and
not walk at all. The lights watched mobilisation got
us all the way. The Channel is underway
mined...there were hundreds
of ships.’
Filling every spare space at the
top of the card are some further
‘Folkestone was one of the principal ports of
observations from Folkestone itself. embarkation for the British Expeditionary
‘The scenes here are memorable.
The French come smiling and Force being sent to France and Belgium’
singing to get on the boats to go to
defend their land. The people cheer German incursion into Belgium. arriving from London and the
the boats.’ In the years ahead, Folkestone steamers waiting in the harbour.
Folkestone was one of the would also act as an important These would then take them to the
principal ports of embarkation for conduit for mail keeping soldiers in Army’s base post office across the
the British Expeditionary Force, the touch with their families. Dover Strait at Boulogne/Calais,
largely volunteer army which was A fleet of three-ton lorries would from where they could be
being despatched to fight alongside be deployed to carry bulging forwarded to the troops serving on
France and try to counter the postbags between the trains the Western Front. ■

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June 8-10 Praga 2018 World Stamp PO Box 290, Lingfield, Surrey November 9-11 Thailand, 2nd Floor,
ICELAND Exhibition RH7 9AX NEW ZEALAND Sam Sen Nai Post Office,
Nordia 2018 Venue: Clarion Congress Hotel Tel: 01342 830225 The Armistice Stamp Show 2018 Phaholyothin Road,
Venue: Sports Centre, Prague, Freyova 33, Vysocany, Fax: 01342 837888 Venue: More FM Arena, Phayathai, Bangkok 10400,
Gardabaer, Iceland. 19000 Prague. info@thepts.net Edgar Centre, Portsmouth Drive, Thailand
Contact: Michael Smith, Contact: Organizing Committee, www.thephilatelictraderssociety.co.uk Dunedin. info@thailand2018.org
UK Commissioner Praga 2018 World Stamp Exhibition Contact: Secretary, The Armistice www.thailand2018.org
Tel: 01256 364231 Association, Opletalova 1337/29, September 21-24 Stamp Show 2018, PO Box 753,
mikesmith.fhilatelist@gmail.com 11000 Praha 1, Czech Republic MACAO Dunedin 9054, New Zealand February 13-16
www.nordia2018.is Tel: +420 222 541 395 Macao 2018 International Stamp armisticestampshow@outlook.co.nz UK
info@praga2018.cz Exhibition www.armisticestampshow.com Spring Stampex
July 13-15 www.praga2018.cz Venue: The Venetian Macao Venue: Business Design Centre,
ESTONIA Convention & Exhibition Centre, November 23-25 52 Upper Street, Islington,
EstEx 18 August 31- Estrada da Baía de Nossa ITALY London N1 0QH.
Venue: Estonian Fair Centre, September 2 Senhora da Esperança, Taipa, Italia 2018 Contact: Philatelic Traders Society,
Pirita Tee 28, 10127 Tallinn, SWEDEN Macao. Venue: E A Fiere di Verona, PO Box 290, Lingfield, Surrey
Estonia. Malmex 2018 Contact: Tel: +853 2871 8063 Viale del Lavoro 8, RH7 9AX
Contact: EstEx 18 Venue: Malmömässan, Fax: +853 2871 8018 37135 Verona. Tel: 01342 830225
estex2018@refs.ee Mässgatan 6, SE-215 32 secretary_2@macao2018.org.mo Contact: Unione Stampa Fax: 01342 837888
www.estex2018.eu Malmö. www.macao2018.org.mo Filatelica Italiana info@thepts.net
Contact: Lars Nordberg, comunicazione@usfi.eu www.thephilatelictraderssociety.co.uk
July 20-21 Maskinmästaregatan 2, October 5-7 www.italia2018.eu
UK 233 43 Svedala, Sweden IRELAND May 29-June 2
Northern National Exhibition Tel: +46 725 44 65 98 Stampa 2016 Irish National November 28- SWEDEN
Venue: Grandstand, www.malmex2018.se Stamp Exhibition December 3 Stockholmia 2019
York Racecourse, Venue: Griffith College Conference THAILAND Venue: Waterfront Congress Centre,
York YO23 1EX. September 12-15 Centre, South Circular Road, Thailand 2018 World Stamp Nils Ericsons Plan 4,
Contact: Association of British UK Dublin 8. Exhibition Stockholm.
Philatelic Societies Autumn Stampex Contact: Stampa, PO Box 12624, Venue: Royal Paragon Hall Contact: Stockholmia 2019
www.abps.org.uk Venue: Business Design Centre, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16, Republic Exhibition & Convention Centre, Exhibition
52 Upper Street, Islington, of Ireland 5th Floor, Siam Paragon, stockholmia2019@meetagain.se
August 15-18 London N1 0QH. info@stampa.ie Rama I Road, Bangkok. info@stockholmia2019.se
CZECH REPUBLIC Contact: Philatelic Traders Society, www.stampa.ie Contact: Philatelic Association of www.stockholmia2019.se
ABOVE: Visit the old walled city of Tallinn, Estonia’s cosmopolitan capital, for EstEx 18 in July
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June 11-15 WC2R OLT. Contact: Provincial Philatelics. Tel: +852 2890 5767
english-language
Christoph Gärtner Contact: Grosvenor Tel: 01235 511083 info@jbull.com POSTAL SALES
Venue: Steinbeisstrasse 6-8, Tel: 020 7379 8789 www.provincialphilatelics.co.uk www.jbull.com
74321 Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany. info@grosvenor-auctions.co.uk Apex
Contact: Philatelic Christoph Gärtner www.grosvenorauctions.com June 25 July 1 info@apexstamps.com
Tel: +49 7142 789 400 Plumridge & Co Tony Lester www.apexstamp.com
info@auktionen-gaertner.de June 20-21 Venue: Edward Suite, Holiday Inn, Venue: Citrus Hotel, London Road,
county
www.auktionshaus-gaertner.de Cavendish Southwold Road, Bexleyheath, Coventry CV8 3DY.
county@stampauctions.co.uk
Bernard Lucas Collection of Kent DA5 1ND. Contact: Tony Lester
www.stampauctions.co.uk
June 13-14 Persia, part 1 Contact: Mark Zinopoulos Tel: 01926 270107
Grosvenor Venue: 153-157 London Road, Tel: 020 8857 3161 tonylester@btconnect.com Mowbray
Venue: 399-401 Strand, London Derby DE1 2SY. mark.zinopoulos@plumridge.co.uk www.tonylester.co.uk mowbray.stamps@xtra.co.nz
WC2R OLT. Contact: Greg Spring www.plumridge.co.uk www.mowbrays.co.nz
Contact: Grosvenor Tel: 01332 250970 July 4
Tel: 020 7379 8789 stamps@cavendish-auctions.com June 26-27 Warwick & Warwick Sajal philatelics
info@grosvenor-auctions.co.uk www.cavendish-auctions.com Stanley Gibbons Venue: The Court House, Jury Street, brian@brian-reeve.com
www.grosvenorauctions.com William O’Connell collection of Warwick CV34 4EEW. www.brian-reeve.com
June 23 Rhodesia Contact: Warwick & Warwick
Sandafayre
June 16-18 Somerset Venue: 399 Strand, London Tel: 01926 499031
stamp@sandafayre.com
Interasia Venue: Hill Farm, Hemyock, WC2R 0LX. info@warwickandwarwick.com
www.sandafayre.com
Venue: Suite A, 13/F Shun Ho Tower, Cullompton, Devon EX15 3UZ. Contact: Stanley Gibbons Auctions www.warwickandwarwick.com
24-30 Ice House Street, Central, Contact: Somerset Stamp Auctions Tel: 020 7836 8444 Universal
Hong Kong. Tel: 01823 681358 auctions@stanleygibbons.com July 10-12 info@upastampauctions.co.uk
Contact: Rob Schneider shirley@somersetstampauctions.com www.stanleygibbons.com/auctions Spink UK www.upastampauctions.co.uk
Tel: +852 2868 6046 www.somersetstampauctions.com David Pitts Collection of British
info@interasia-auctions.com June 30 North America VANCE
www.interasia-auctions.com June 24 John Bull Venue: 69 Southampton Row, London mail@vanceauctions.com
Provincial Venue: 7/F Kwong Fat Hong Building, WC1B 4ET. www.vanceauctions.com
June 19 Philatelics 1 Rumsey Street, Sheung Wan, Contact: Tel: 020 7563 4000
Grosvenor Venue: Parish Hall, Benson, Hong Kong. info@spink.com
Venue: 399-401 Strand, London Oxford OX10 6LZ. Contact: John Bull Stamp Auctions www.spink.com english-language
ONLINE SALES
lot to be desired Dalkeith

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Delcampe
The Cavendish sale on June 20-21 includes a British pre-stamp entire which at first glance looks www.delcampe.net
unremarkable but has several interesting historical twists.
McCusker
One is that it was sent by one famous botanist, Francis Boott in London, to another, Sir William
www.jamesmccusker.com
Hooker, in Glasgow. Another is that it was postmarked on May 4, 1840, just two days before the first
postage stamp came into use. Best of all, far from being simply a letter about botany, it is also Mowbray
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about philately. Boott writes: ‘Have you seen the new postage envelope and stamp? I enclose a
specimen of each. They are to be used on the 6th...’ Philatino
Although, sadly, the enclosures no longer survive, this is still a wonderful early reference to the www.philatino.com
Penny Black and Mulready postal stationery. The lot is estimated at £150. RASMUSSEN
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Regency
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Rogers
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Sammarinese
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Sandafayre
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Skanfil
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Stamp Center
www.thestampcenter.com
StampFair
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Stanley Gibbons
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Torres
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TRAFFORD BOOKS
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June 15-16 Fisherton Street, SP2 7RG. Bowdon
Stafford Time: 10am-4pm (stamps, postal history,
(stamps, postal history, Contact: Solent Stamps postcards)
postcards) Tel: 01489 582673 Venue: Mercure Hotel,
Venue: Ingestre Suite, Langham Road,
Staffordshire County Scarborough WA14 2HT.
Showground, Weston Road, (stamps, postal history, Time: 10am-4pm
Stafford ST18 0BD. postcards) Contact: Howard Hatton
Time: 10am-5pm (Friday), Venue: Westborough Tel: 0161 766 9031
10m-4pm (Saturday) Methodist Church,
Contact: JRS Fairs Westborough, Dronfield
Tel: 01785 259350 YO11 1TS. (stamps, postal history,
Time: 10am-4pm postcards)
June 16 Contact: Chris Phillips, Venue: Coal Aston Village
Bristol Scarborough PS Hall, Coal Aston,
(stamps, postal history, Tel: 01723 368475 S18 3AY.
postcards) Time: 9.30am-4pm
Venue: Shirehampton Public Sittingbourne Contact: H V Johnson & Co
Hall, Station Road, (stamps, postal history, Tel: 01909 563394
Shirehampton, BS11 9TX. postcards)
Time: 9.30am-4pm Venue: Carmel Hall, June 20
Contact: Kevin Noble Fairs Ufton Lane, off West Street, East Grinstead
Tel: 07599 001101 ME10 1JB. (stamps, postal history,
Time: 10am-3.30pm postcards)
Hull Contact: Chris Rapley Venue: Chequer Mead Arts
(stamps, postal history) Tel: 07711 677760 Centre, De La Warr Road,
Venue: St James Centre, RH19 3BS.
169 First Lane, June 17 Time: 10am-3pm
Hessle, HU13 9EY. Amersham Contact: Malcolm Green
Time: 9.30am-4pm (stamps, postal history, Tel: 01342 327554
Contact: H V Johnson & Co postcards)
Tel: 01909 563394 Venue: Jubilee Scout Hall, June 21
Rectory Hill, HP7 0BT. Plymouth Armada Way, PL1 2ER. June 22 Parish Hall, Woodbury
Salisbury Time: 10am-4.30pm (stamps, postal history, Time: 10am-4pm Exeter Road, EX3 0RE.
(stamps, postal history) Contact: David Milton postcards) Contact: Solent Stamps (stamps, postal history) Time: 10am-4pm
Venue: United Reform Church, Tel: 01895 637283 Venue: Guildhall, Tel: 01489 582673 Venue: Clyst St George Contact: Solent Stamps
Tel: 01489 582673
June 23
Kenilworth
(stamps, postal history)
Venue: Kenilworth School,
Leyes Lane, CV8 2DA.
Time: 10am-3.30pm
Contact: JRS Fairs
Tel: 01785 259350
June 24
Southport
Venue: Royal Clifton Hotel,
Promenade, PR8 1RB.
Time: 10am-4pm
Contact: Howard Hatton
Tel: 0161 766 9031
June 30
Eastbourne
(stamps, postal history,
postcards)
Venue: St Mary’s Church Hall,
Decoy Drive, Hampden Park,
BN22 9PP.
Time: 10am-3.30pm
Contact: Chris Rapley
Tel: 07711 677760
Keynsham
Venue: The Fear Institute,
Keynsham High Street,
BS31 1DG.
Time: 9.30am-4pm
Contact: Kevin Noble Fairs
Tel: 07599 001101

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July 7 Contact: John Suschitzky Club, Chester Street, Folkestone
Beckenham Tel: 0116 2350441 S40 1DL. (stamps, postal history)
(stamps, postal history, Time: 10am-4pm Venue: Trinity Church Hall,
postcards) Stourbridge Contact: Howard Hatton Sandgate Road,
Venue: Azelia Halls, (stamps, postal history) Tel: 0161 766 9031 CT20 2UQ.
Croydon Road, BR3 4DA. Venue: Methodist Church Time: 9am-1.30pm
Time: 9am-3pm Centre, New Road, July 13 Contact: Peter Barrett
Contact: Ray McQuade Stourbridge DY8 1PA. London Tel: 01304 829827
Tel: 020 8395 9285 Time: 9.30am-1.30pm (stamps, postal history,
Contact: Chris Proctor postcards) Telford
Bournemouth Tel: 07813260752 Venue: Royal National Hotel, (stamps, postal history,
(stamps, postal history, Bedford Way, Russell Square, postcards)
postcards) Ruislip WC1H 0DG. Venue: Belmont Community
Venue: Pelhams Park, (stamps, postal history, Time: Friday 9am-4pm Hall, off Tan Bank car park,
Millhams Road, postcards) Contact: Kate Puleston Wellington, TF1 1LU.
Kinson, BH10 7LH. Venue: Methodist Church Tel: 020 8946 4489 Time: 10am-3pm
Time: 10am-4pm Hall, Ickenham Road, Contact: Bob Pilkington
Contact: Solent Stamps HA4 7BZ. July 14 Tel: 01299 211737
Tel: 01489 582673 Time: 10am-4.30pm Derby
Contact: David Milton (stamps, postal history) July 15
Deal Tel: 01895 637283 Venue: Nunsfield House Bowdon
(stamps, postal history, Community Hall, (stamps, postal history,
postcards) Sutton Coldfield 33 Boulton Road, postcards)
Venue: The Landmark (stamps, postal history, Alvaston, DE24 0FD. Venue: Mercure Hotel,
Centre, 129 High Street, postcards) Time: 9.30am-4pm Langham Road, WA14 2HT.
CT14 6BB. Venue: The Trinity Centre, Contact: H V Johnson & Co Time: 10am-4pm
Time: 9am-1pm Church Hill, Mill Street, Tel: 01909 563394 Contact: Howard Hatton
Contact: Peter Barrett B72 1TF. Tel: 0161 766 9031
Tel: 01304 829827 Time: 10am-3.30pm Chichester
Contact: JRS Fairs (stamps, postal history, Dronfield
Leicester Tel: 01785 259350 postcards) (stamps, postal history,
(stamps, postal history, Venue: Donnington Parish postcards)
Morley 30 Shelfanger Road, postcards) July 8 Hall, Stockbridge Road, Venue: Coal Aston Village Hall,
(stamps, postal history) IP22 4EH. Venue: Derby Room, Chesterfield Donnington, PO19 8QR. Coal Aston, S18 3AY.
Venue: St Mary’s Church Time: 10am-3pm The Holiday Inn, St Nicholas (stamps, postal history, Time: 10am-3.30pm Time: 9.30am-4pm
Hall, Commercial Street, Contact: David James Circle, LE1 5LX. postcards) Contact: Chris Rapley Contact: H V Johnson & Co
LS27 8HZ. Tel: 01328 855003 Time: 9.30am-3.30pm Venue: Chester Street Tel: 07711 677760 Tel: 01909 563394
Time: 9.30am-4pm
Contact: H V Johnson & Co
Tel: 01909 563394
July 1
Bowdon
postcards)
Venue: Mercure Hotel,
Langham Road, WA14 2HT.
Time: 10am-4pm
Contact: Howard Hatton
Tel: 0161 766 9031
Worthing
postcards)
Venue: Heene Community
Centre, 122 Heene Road,
BN11 4PL.
Time: 10am-3.30pm
Contact: Chris Rapley
Tel: 07711 677760
July 4
Stowmarket
Venue: Stowmarket Football
Club, Bury Road, IP14 1JQ.
Time: 10am-3pm
Contact: David James
Tel: 01328 855003
July 6
Diss
Venue: Diss Youth &
Community Centre,

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June 14 June 15 June 20 June 26 District PS July 10
Bristol ps Kingston Upon Grimsby & York PS The Titanic York PS
GB Postage Dues Thames PS District PS 70th Anniversary Evening Venue: Jubilee Hall, Visit by Leeds Philatelic
by David Williams Sport & Pastimes Visit by Bridlington PS Venue: Priory Street Centre, St Barnabus Church, Society
Venue: Redland Park Venue: Surbiton Library Venue: Grimsby Central 15 Priory Street, YO1 6ET. Church Road, Venue: Priory Street
United Reformed Church, New Hall, Ewell Road, Hall, Duncombe Time: 7.30pm Hadleigh, SS7 2EJ. Centre, 15 Priory Street,
Whiteladies Road, Surbiton, KT6 6AG. Street, Grimsby, Contact: Jeremy Piercy Time: 7.30pm YO1 6ET.
BS6 6SA. Time: 8pm DN32 7EG. Tel: 01904 646390 Contact: Laurence Gardiner Time: 7.30pm
Time: 7.30pm Contact: Christopher E Oliver Time: 7pm laurencewgardiner1@ Contact: Jeremy Piercy
Contact: Mike Breward Tel: 020 8940 9833 Contact: Trevor Smith July 3 hotmail.com Tel: 01904 646390
Tel: 01179 567853 Tel: 01469 572354 West London PS
June 18 The Letter I Grimsby & July 11
Taw & Torridge SC South Midlands Newport & Venue: The Church Hall, District PS Bromley &
Serviceman’s Mail from SC Gwent PS Woodlands Avenue, AGM & The President Beckenham PS
World War I by Roger Wine The Large & The Small Visit by Barry SC Acton, W3 9BU. Entertains King George VI
Venue: Castle Hall, Venue: Barford Memorial Hall, Venue: Civic Centre, Time: 8pm Venue: Grimsby Central Venue: Public Hall,
Castle Street, Barnstaple, Church Street, Godfrey Road, Contact: Christopher E Oliver Hall, Duncombe Street, Bromley Road,
EX31 1ET. Barford, CV35 8EN. Newport, NP20 4UR. Tel: 020 8940 9833 DN32 7EG. Beckenham, BR3 5JE.
Time: 7.30pm Time: 1.30pm Time: 7pm Time: 7pm Time: 7.30pm
Contact: Andrew Austen Contact: John Gledhill Contact: Roy Bentley July 4 Contact: Trevor Smith Contact: David Rennie
Tel: 01271 329762 Tel: 01789 842112 Tel: 01633 892410 Benfleet & Tel: 01469 572354 Tel: 020 8778 7001
royal philatelic society london

The extraordinarily high standard of displays enjoyed by He explained how to distinguish the output of the four
members of the Royal Philatelic Society London was printers who held the contract for these stamps at different
exemplified by its springtime meetings. times (Waterlow & Layton, De La Rue, Bradbury Wilkinson and
On March 22, Vittorio Morani showed what is thought to be Waterlow & Sons) by examining perforations, shades and the
the best collection in existence of the postal history of the size of the design area.
Grand Duchy of Tuscany, from the introduction of postage On May 3, James Podger displayed his impressive collection
stamps in 1851 to postal unification with the newly founded of the Cayman Islands, from the introduction of Jamaican
kingdom of Italy in 1863. stamps in 1889 through the islands’ own early issues, which
Covers of outstanding quality, some of them very rare, included the final key-type designs of Queen Victoria and the
demonstrated a variety of postal rates and routes, for first of King Edward VII.
domestic mail, letters to the other Italian states and mail with The coverage continued up to the present reign, including
countries beyond Italy. proofs and varieties, fine examples of usage, airmails and the
On April 5, Bryan Kearsley gave a revealing presentation of extremely rare ‘East End Grand Cayman’ rural postmark.
Great Britain’s famous Seahorses, the beautiful 1931-34 high Non-members wishing to visit the RPSL or be a guest at one
values of the reign of King George V, including mint stamps of its meetings are asked to contact the Administrative Office
and postal usages. at 41 Devonshire Place. Tel: 020 7486 1044.
ABOVE: Vittorio Morani ABOVE: Bryan Kearsley ABOVE: James Podger

ST77 STAMPS ON STAMPS The ultimate thematic with official Royal Mail “Falklands War British Task illustrated postmark dated 27/2/16 in combination with
collection comprising of different stamps on stamps, Force Anniv. Portsmouth pmk.” Seldom available as only Syrian and United Nations stamps ted to the cover with
many depicting some of the rarest stamps ever issued. a handful of this elusive cover exist. ............... Price £10 red cachet inscribed “U.N. Security Council resolution
With mint and used stamps dating back to KG.V1, but GB10 FIRST FLIGHT COVER Elusive aviation cover no. 2254, 18/1215”. A fragile cessation of hostilities
mostly modern issues, and also miniature sheets. The flown on the Boeing 747 Jumbo jet on its maiden flight came into force in Syria, 97 fighting groups as well as
specialised stamps on stamps collection......... Price £11 from New York to London on 22/1/1970. The superb the Syrian government and Russian Air Force signed up
Boeing illustrated cover bears a GPO postmark in to a ceasefire. Only 40 of this rare cover exist. ..............
B COM 434 ORNITHOLOGY A fantastic thematic col- combination with “Boeing 747” flight cachet in red. ...... ...................................................................... Price £35
lection of British Commonwealth BIRDS stamps. Only ........................................................................ Price £8
unmounted mint in multiples and single stamps. Several SF9 SCI-FI An impressive thematic collection of science
hundred Brit, Commonwealth bird stamps including GBX5 GREAT BRITAIN PRESENTATION PACKS A valu- fiction stamps and covers, including several differ-
High Value (£) pound & ($) Dollar stamps in blocks......... able and highly collectable collection of elusive Royal
ent British “Dr Who” covers & PHQ cards. Also noted:
...................................................................... Price £39 Mail Presentation packs. Some earlier pre-decimal
Star Wars stamps, Star Trek stamps and miniature
GPO packs noted, but mainly modern Royal Mail recent
issues. High face values with catalogue value of over sheets. Lot includes scarcer covers and “$” values with
E40 EIRE The elusive cover commemorating the cen- unmounted mint & used and mini sheets. All Sci-Fi. ......
£200......................................................... Price £58.50
tenary of the Ireland Home Rule Act of 1914; granting ...................................................................... Price £21
the whole of Ireland Home Rule. The act was postponed
for the duration of World War I and subsequently never NE58 GREAT BRITAIN SPECIALISED 1971 POSTAL
STRIKE COLLECTION Dating back to the short period SCOT8 RARE ANTI-NAZI COVER Commemorating the
enacted; vital to complete any collection of Ireland
postal history. Only sixty of these covers are known to in British Postal History when the Post Office granted brave Shetland Islanders, who risked their lives in World
exist. The cover bears a green Irish stamp with double licences to private delivery companies to deliver mail in War II, shipping supplies, arms, saboteurs and agents
rimmed Belfast Royal Mail postmark. Dated 18/9/14 in the UK. This important GB postal history collection com- to Nazi Occupied Norway. Known as the Shetland Bus;
combination with an Eire map stamp with “Home Rule prising of postal strike stamps in singles & blocks also the return journey was an escape route for refugees
for Eire” squared cachet in blue................. Price £14.50 has scarcer multiples and “Tete-beche” stamps. Used from the Gestapo. The rare cover of which only 75 are
and unused with many unmounted mint (FDC noted)..... known to exist bears two Hildasay Shetland Island
...................................................................... Price £15 map stamps, with red Hildasay cachet, plus Royal Mail
H54. ISLE OF HILDASAY Scarce China related cover
Machin issue postmarked with Baltasound Shetland
commemorating the 70th Anniv. of the Dixie Mission.
LUS3 RMS LUSITANIA Special commemorative cover pmk. Dated 15/5/12 and re-cancelled by the Royal
The cover depicts Mao Tse Tung and American soldiers
in 1944. Inscribed in English and Chinese the cover un- for the centenary of the sinking of the Lusitania. Only Mail with Scalloway Shetland Isl. Ship postmark dated
usually bears a combination of Royal Mail and Shetland 100 covers in existence. Superbly illustrated for the 17/5/12. Seldom offered for sale............... Price £18.00
island stamps; bearing a Shetland £1 stamp depict- tragic event that brought America into World War I. The
ing Mao Tse Tung with red Hildasay Island Cachet in cover bears a Royal Mail Navy Ensign stamp with the FEM2 GREAT BRITAIN UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE An
combination with Royal Mail postage stamp pmkd. With 7th May 2015 Lusitania illustrated Royal Mail Liverpool important GB cover for the Centenary of the release of
official Royal Mail penguin pmk. At Unst (Britains most postmark..................................................... Price £8.75 all Suffragettes from prison on 10/8/1914. The British
northerly post office) on 22/7/14. Only 60 of the Dixie Government after negotiations with Emmeline Pankhurst
mission cover where ever known to exist & seldom of- D30 GERMANY An impressive specialised collection announced it was releasing all suffragettes from prison.
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Romania’s celebration of its fledgling airmail service in 1928 effortlessly
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■ Report by John Winchester
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