WWI CENTENARY SPECIAL

November 2018

UNSEEN GB DESIGNS
THE KING EDWARD VIII STAMPS
THAT WERE NEVER RELEASED WAR IS
WIN! LATEST GB STAMPS
ITALY’S CLASSIC 1950s SET
EXPLAINED IN DETAIL

NEW HARRY POTTER STAMPS

OVER!
YOUR COUNTRY-BY-COUNTRY GUIDE TO
FULL DETAILS INSIDE EUROPE’S STAMPS IN THE AFTERMATH OF WWI

PLUS
OWN A PIECE OF HISTORY…
HOW TO START YOUR OWN
GREAT WAR COLLECTION
 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
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-
cret source of supply? So, I bought my 1st stamp
mixture, (wholesale I thought), broke it into 50
smaller units, advertised it in Stamp Magazine
‘Classifieds’, and waited for the orders to roll in…
I’m still waiting, 48 years later !...
Wrong Offer 7 Wrong Price 7 Wrong Place 7
(naïve seller4 = H me but I was only 15 at
the time!)
2 Three years later,  attending my
first public stamp auctions I wondered
how some bidders seemed to buy everything,
paying the highest price? It didn’t occur to
me that they were probably Auction Bidding
Agents, paid by absent (dealer) bidders to rep-
resent them. I wondered why two collectors
sitting side by side muttered to each other
“he’s a dealer” as if that justified him paying
the highest price…
About The Author � Andrew found his Father’s
stamps at the age of 10. A year later at Senior
School he immediately joined the School
Stamp Club. He ‘specialised’(!) in British, but
soon was interested in Queen Victoria which he
could not afford. The 2nd to last boy wearing
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
collecting them. Aged 19, eschewing University
he quickly found a philatelic career in London,
leading to creating his own companies in
stamps. Andrew has authored many interna-
tionally published Stamp ‘Tips’ articles, appear-
ing on Local Radio and National TV promoting
Philately with Alan Titchmarsh. Andrew’s area of
expertise is unusual – in so far as his grounding
in collecting and wide philatelic knowledge has
given him a deep understanding of Philately.
He has studied Philately for the past 45 years,
in combination with Commerce and Marketing
Expertise, enabling him to create synergies in
‘lifetime’ interlinked Stamp Selling Systems, sell-
ing unit-priced stamps through to handling col-
lections & Rarities up to £700,000 each. Today
Andrew is fortunate to be co-owner with his
Wife, of Universal Philatelic Auctions (aka UPA)
– the Largest No Buyer’s Premium Reducing-Es-
timate System Stamp Auction in the World, cre-
ating records selling stamps to 2,261 different
bidders from 54 different countries in his latest
auction. Andrew stopped collecting
stamps aged 18 reasoning that his
enjoyment of stamps would be in
handling them and selling them…
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…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-
lectors are customers. Customers usually pay
the highest price, unless… for a Collector, this
was…
Wrong Presentation 7 Wrong Place 7 Sellers of Stamps today is no longer absent
therefore Wrong Price7
3 Fast-forward 48 years later 
to a British Empire collection, lot #1
in an International Stamp Auction – Estimat-
ed at £3,000, but we were the highest bidder
at £21,000 – YES – some 7×higher. Including
Buyer’s Premium in the extraordinary sum of
£4,788 we actually paid GBP£25,788= upon a
£3,000 estimate… however, we broke it down
into sets, singles, mini-collections etc. We made
a profit. Some might say it found its price.
Others may say:
7
Wrong Estimate Wrong Presentation 7 auctions) – so that when you sell through them
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
bidders saw the potential value that day
or it could have been given away… the seller
could easily have lost out couldn’t he? or she?
So, by un-peeling the layers of obfusca-
tion, hopefully we can all agree:
The Secret is Simple –
it’s ALL About: TIMING,
Plus the 3 Philatelic ‘P’s –
Presentation 4Place 4and Price 4
4
Understanding the problem…  you a seller’s commission of up to 18% (VAT
I always remember the car trade had
their own little ‘bible’ – Glass’s Guide. I’ve no
idea, I’ve not even looked - in this internet-dom-
inated world, it may even have disappeared.
Well, there’s an insider Stamp Trade publica-
tion for Stamp Dealers called “The Philatelic
Exporter”. There’s nothing that special about
it – and you won’t learn much or find massive-
ly reduced prices by subscribing – BUT – it is
a forum, a paper focal point, a last ‘bastion’ in
this on-line transparent world that we inhabit…
whereby dealers (and auctioneers) can try and
communicate with each other. I publish my own
articles there…
Recently I discussed the outcome of my 10
years’ simple research, asking dealers and auc-
tioneers ‘what is your biggest problem?’
To a man, (why are we almost all men), they
replied – “my biggest problem is
stock, if I can get more of the right
stock I can sell it easily”
Strange that, nobody ever asked
me the same question back – be-
cause my answer would have been
entirely different (and I don’t treat
it as a problem) – I seek to satisfy
collectors
This is the reason why my compa-
ny has such massive advertising. This
is the reason why we spend up to 8%
of turnover – up to £200,000 per annum
in marketing costs. (Most dealers don’t
‘TIPS O
F even sell £200K per annum).
DE’
T www.stampandcoin.co.uk
5 Why is that? Because, as the world
revolved the Stamp Market, imper-
ceptibly Changed, and incrementally –
Massively
So, although few will tell you this, it’s
clearly evident that the problem for most
stock – but absent collectors in the place
they choose to sell their stamps in. Simply
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
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
we had 2,261 different bidders from 54 different
countries, 95% of whom were Collectors. Some
other well-advertised auctions only have 200
bidders (a high percentage of whom are dealers
– so that, essentially they are Dealer-dominated
er’s commission and the buyer is paying up to
25% and more in Buyer’s Premium, credit card
fees, on-line bidding fee, delivery and insurance
etc… AND all of that so that your stamps
may be sold, wait for it – TO DEALERS
(and some collectors), but Dealers, that nat-
urally must make a profit to survive…
6 Now, let’s examine the cost
implications – Example:  Your
stamp collection sells in public auction for
£800. Upon a 25% buyer’s premium, the dealer
pays £1,000 and it could be more. He breaks
it into £2,000+ selling price (much lower and
he’ll go out of business). The auction charges
included) upon the £800 sale price. This is
GBP£144. Therefore you receive approaching
£656 – which is approximately 33% of the deal-
er’s £2,000+/- retail selling price - BUT… now
that we have identified the problem…
Isn’t the Solution Staring us
Right in The Face ?
7
Why Pay an Auction to Sell
to Dealers: Sell to Collectors in-
stead ?In our example with buyer’s premium,
sellers commission, lotting fees, extra credit
card charges, VAT and even insurance - you’re
already being charged in different ways up to
40% of the selling price to sell, possibly or prob-
ably, to the wrong person.
Why not direct that 40% cost you’re pay-
ing to sell to Collectors instead? Sounds
good, so why hasn’t this been done before ?
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
to obscure the obvious so that money may be
taken, almost surreptitiously, in numerous dif-
ferent ways, (without us apparently noticing
until we see the cheque in our pocket) – the
transparent ‘seller pays’ has been deliberately
‘obscured’ – so much so that, amazingly, the
latest 2017 European Auction Selling Legisla-
tion just introduced – now requires auctions
that charge ‘buyer’s premiums’ to warn the
buyer in advance. Just imagine going into the
petrol station, and being warned that the price
you’re paying to put fuel in you tank is not the
real price, you have to pay a premium! Obvious-
ly, there would be an uproar…
9
How can you cut out the
middleman and sell to Col-
lectors instead?  Well, I can think of two
ways. 1). DIY - Do It Yourself selling on eBay.
That may be fine for lower grade material – but,
would you risk auctioning relatively unprotect-
ed rare material on eBay ? We don’t and we’re
professionals, so we should know what we’re
doing. Or 2). Cut out the extra middle-man. Use
my company UPA, which reaches collectors
instead. Here’s how it works: Continuing from
our previous Example:
The auction sold your stamps to a dealer for
£1,000 – but You received circa £656
UPA sells them to collectors for you for up to
£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
10  Sounds Good Andrew, but
Can You ‘Deliver’?   Obviously,
nothing is as simple as that, and as we auction
stamps to collectors some collections may
‘break’ to the example £2,000+/- but the stamps
may be sold for more or less – especially as we
reserve all lots at 20% below, (Estimate £2,000
= £1,600 reserve) and not everything sells first
or even 2nd time so prices may come down…
Naturally, it’s not that straightforward for a deal-
er either – he may sell at a discount to ‘move’
stock OR, like many dealers he may be sitting
on the same unsold stamps, that you see time
and time again, in dealer’s stocks years later
and still at the same unattractive prices… So,
I think it is more reasonable for you to expect
up to 36% to 50% more, indirectly or directly via
my Collector’s Secret Weapon: Universal
Philatelic Auctions, which moves material more
quickly, by incrementally reducing estimate (and
reserve) price in a structured selling system…
11
Q.� What is the Collector’s
‘Secret Weapon’?
A.� It’s called the
Unique UPA Reducing
Estimate System... L
This is a rather long explanation, I don’t want
to bore you, but 17 years ago, when my wife and
I set up Universal Philatelic Auctions I detected
that the stamp trade’s biggest problem then was
not what sold – but what didn’t sell… So,
because I didn’t want to try to keep on offering
the same either unsaleable or overpriced stock
I created the unique UPA Reducing Estimate
(and reserve) Selling System. Simply put, if a
lot doesn’t sell in the 1st auction we reduce the
estimate (and reserve) by 11% and unlike other
dealers and auctions WE TELL YOU – ‘US’
= once unsold. If unsold after the following
auction we reduce by a further 12% and WE
TELL YOU ‘US2’, if unsold after a 3rd UPA
auction we reduce by a further 13% and WE
TELL YOU ‘US3’ and so on till the lot finds its
price, is sold or virtually given away...4
12 Any Scientist will tell you  lives, and for most dealers not being able to
that combinations of ingredients can
produce powerful results. So we created the
unique combination of my UPA Reducing Es-
timate System, married (in stone), with UPA’s
fair ‘NO BUYER’S Premium’ policy, PLUS each
lot carries my total ‘no quibble’ guarantee –
this formula is the reason why within the span
of 4 auctions (one year)… 90%-95% of lots bro-
ken from a collection have sold. This Unique
Philatelic Selling System Formula is the rea-
son why we are the largest stamp auction in
the UK today with 2,261 different bidders in
my recent auction.E
UNIVERSAL PHILATELIC AUCTIONS SCM 11/18
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Tel: 01451 861111 • Fax: 01451 861297
www.upastampauctions.co.uk • info@upastampauctions.co.uk
Contact UPA: 01451 861 111
UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIAL:
Dear Folk at UPA,
I’ve dealt with the public for 37 + years, and as
both a consumer, and a businessman, I have
created huge numbers of orders from all over
the world from a complete range of suppliers
from all aspects of our daily lives.
But I don’t believe I have ever encountered
such sensitivity, such kind thought, such
understanding as I have with you in our
initial meeting, our subsequent successful
transaction, and now this.
I recall well the item you highlight, and
realise that this one item has such colossal
personal value, I could never part with it.
It has been an absolute pleasure dealing
with yourself, and I am more than willing for
you to use this e-mail as commendation to
others who may be thinking of disposing of
their collection.
Many, many thanks for a memorable
experience, and I will try to emulate your
thought and care in my own business sphere.
Yours sincerely
D. E. B. Bath, UK
In Hindsight Dealers warned me 17 years
ago that my idea wouldn’t work. 17 years later
I think I’ve proven that it does. (Reader: Please
Request a complimentary UPA catalogue – us-
ing the contact details further below)
13
OK, Cut to the Chase
Andrew, what’s the
offer?  All of my Selling Systems are based
upon selling to Collectors Globally,
so that 95% of stamps sold by UPA are sold
directly to Collectors. If you wish to benefit
by up to 50% or more, depending upon your
circumstance and type of material, by cutting
out the middleman – then this offer may be
for you. Generally ‘time’ is the enemy in our
sell stock. Now is the time to let ‘time’ do
the ‘heavy-lifting’ and consider making ‘time’
work for you, so that at UPA you can make
time your friend. I fax, telephone or by mail. We’ll work harder for
14 AND the SMALL PRINT? Some
lots are too small in value for us to offer
this system. Other lots may not be suited to selling
in this manner (e.g. surplus mint British decimal
stamps best used for postage) – especially if the
market is heavily compromised by stock overhang
in specific areas. Some Collectors will not wish to
use time and systems to leverage price, others will
www.stampandcoin.co.uk
want to agree a specific price and know that they
are paid precisely this amount. No client is treated
like a number and no client is forced like a square
peg into a round hole. M
15
OK, What Do I Do Next?
a). You contact UPA to discuss with
Andrew or a highly-qualified Auction Valuer/
Describer what you have to dispose of and your
options bearing in mind your specific interests
/ requirements
b). If you wish, get a 2nd opinion, but
investigate what type of auction / dealer you
are dealing with. Is it a Dealer’s auction with
relatively few collectors? Can you see where
/ how the Dealer sells? If you can’t easily see
any pricelists or high quality selling catalogues
– that Dealer may sell your stamps to other
dealers…
c). Finally you ask U P A to collect your
stamps, insure in transit for an estimated re-
placement retail value…C B S
16 What Happens then?  A mem-
ber of my Team telephones/e-mails
you to confirm safe receipt. ‘Overnight’ valu-
ations, unless simple, are rare. Valuing stamp
collections that have taken tens of years to
create takes time. Depending upon your priori-
ties / timescale I, or an experienced member of
my Team will contact you to discuss your re-
quirements and the options available to you for
the sale of your collection. Provided only that
you feel well-informed and comfortable do we
agree strategy T D
17
How Strong is the Stamp
and Cover Market?  Everybody
knows that the strongest areas are GB and Brit-
ish Empire. Post-Independence / QEII material
sells but if hinged at considerable discount.
Mint hinged material pre 1952 is regarded as the
industry ‘norm’ and therefore desirable – but
genuine never-hinged commands a premium.
Europe sells but at reduced levels, Americas
is good, as generally is Asia but the ‘heat’ has
come off China which is still good – and Russia
which can still be good. East Europe is weak-
er. Overall, Rarities throughout
can command their own price
levels and real Postal History
has good demand.
18 What Should I Do Next?   Dis-
cuss your collection with U P A. Con-
tact Andrew or an experienced member of his
Team now… B C
19  Guarantee:
I want You to be
absolutely Sure  So If You’re not
sure we’ll transport and return your stamps for
FREE up to £200 in actual shipping cost at our
expense. It sounds generous (and it is), but it’s
far less than the cost of driving 100+ miles each
way and 3 to 6 hours in your home valuing your
stamps U
20 My
Double Cast Iron Guaran-
tee:  We can do a better job valuing your
stamps in our office than in your home. If you
don’t agree I’ll pay you an extra £50 for you to pay
somebody trusted to open the boxes and put your
albums back, in the same place, on the shelf they
came from. U U
21
Act NOW: Contact Andrew or
an experienced member of his Team
using the on-line selling form at our website, by
you not to regret the decision to sell all or part
of your collection…C B
A
Andrew McGavin, Philatelic Expert,
Author, Managing Director
Universal Philatelic Auctions UPA
AUGUST 2018 3
 WELCOME
The centenary of the Great War has generated a wide range of new stamps and coins over the past four years looking back
on the ‘war to end all wars’. These new issues highlight incredible stories and provide poignant reminders of the sacrifices our
ancestors made during that unforgiving conflict.
Thanks to the long history of the hobby, we can help tell some of these stories ourselves, with stamps and covers of the time.
It’s fascinating to see how postage stamps were so vital to communication in the days and weeks after the war, when Europe was
broken and up and treaties meant the identity and allegiances of large areas and populations were suddenly switched. Find out for
yourself on page 58, and don’t miss the second part of the series in next month’s issue.
As you will see, this issue comes complete with a miniature sheet, courtesy of Guernsey Post. You can read more about the royal
stamps Guernsey have issued in recent years on page 40 and don’t miss your chance to claim more Guernsey stamps (see the inlay
card with your mini sheet and page 44).
Finally, I’m delighted to announce the launch of our brand new website allaboutstamps.co.uk – do have a browse and let me
know what you think!
We also have some very exciting magazine news, see page 9 for full details.

Matt Hill, Editor

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 NOVEMBER 2018 “It took four treaties to end the war in
CONTENTS Europe. In each one, the losing country had
to relinquish territory, and when borders
PAGE
34
PAGE
66
STAMPS & POSTAL HISTORY
9 STAMP UPDATE
New stamp website
launched. Stampex
report. More Harry Potter
stamps from Royal Mail…
34 GB STAMP PREVIEW
Royal Mail celebrate
The Old Vic and mark
the WWI centenary.
PLUS: Win the stamps!
38 AROUND THE ISLANDS
The latest stamps from
Guernsey, the Isle of
Man and Jersey
40 ROYAL CONNECTIONS
A special report on the
Guernsey stamps
marking royal occasions
43 POSTAL MUSEUM GEMS
Edward VIII essays
at The Postal Museum
46 101 GB STAMPS…
We continue our story of
GB stamps, focusing on
stamps of the late 1990s
50 CELEBRATED SETS
How to collect Italy’s
‘Provincial Occupations’ set
change, stamps change” – page 58
PAGE
50
PAGE
74
54 COLLECTING THE WAR
Your introductory guide
to collecting the Great War
58 WAR IS OVER
In the first of a two-part
series marking the
centenary of the end of
WWI, we examine new
and overprinted issues
that marked the creation
of a new continent
63 POSTAL HISTORY
Our collecting by county
series visits Durham, and
we follow the journey of
a cover that travelled to
Norway 160 years ago
66 COLLECT BY THEME
Our thematics guides
feature mountains,
theatres and stamps
that smell!
74 STAMP STORIES
The stamp that nearly
caused a war
90 STAMP MISCELLANY
The tale of a Germano-
Chinese Friendship
PAGE
54
COINS
82 COIN UPDATE 18
Brand new coin website
launched. Medusa coin. 25
Sir Walter Raleigh coin.
Plus, auction results.
85 FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM
Richard Kelleher 29
examines an imitation
gold solidus of Louis the
Pious found in Cambridge
86 VICTORIAN COINS
Creating a collection 44
of silver, copper and
bronze coins of the reign
of Queen Victoria is
relatively easy compared
with older coins, but is 72
still a rewarding and
enlightening experience,
as Ed Archer explains 75
88 GEORGE III’S
EMERGENCY DOLLARS 91
Steve Webb tells the
story of these fascinating
though short-lived issues
and how the silver to 94
strike them reached the
Bank of England
PAGE
86
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Famous Britons, Football Heroes, Dr Who etc. Try and complete those difficult sets. ¼ lb £24.00, ½ lb £45.00.
GB MODERN COMMEMS NO XMAS ONLY. While Stocks Last! This sells for a small fortune on auction sites as they are so
hard to find these days, we can supply very small amounts. Mostly 2012/2018 issues only with the odd high value and multiple
issues. 2 oz £13.00.
GB SPECIAL CHARITY MIX. A well balanced on paper Charity mix covering Defins, Commems, H.Value Commems, H.Value
Defins, Pre-decimal, Wildings & Pre QEII. Covers all periods. 1 lb £12.00, 2 lbs £22.00.
GB HIGH VALUE COMMEMS. A real rarity. This on paper mixture is old and new and will contain very scarce modern issues up
2018. 2 oz £33.00, 1/4 lb £60.00, 1/2 lb £115.00.
GREAT BRITAIN OFF PAPER MIXTURES
GREAT BRITAIN Off paper mixture. The tedious washing of this modern mix has been done for you already by charity
supporters! There are over 500 basic machins to collect. One of each in good nick can cost over £1,000.00. We can’t guarantee
all in there but you’ll have great fun sorting, includes commems, h.v commems & defins, worth the price on their own.
Guaranteed totally unpicked. At least 10,000 stamps / 1 lb. 1 lb £19.00, 2 lbs £37.00.
GREAT BRITAIN OFF PAPER COMMEMS NO XMAS. Previously included Xmas, we can now supply without so the rarer
Commems only. Wealth of variety from KGVI to date, includes some high values. Approx 5000 stamps to 1 lb weight. ¼ lb
£22.00, ½ lb £42.00, 1 lb £80.00.
FOREIGN & COMMONWEALTH ON PAPER MIXTURES
SPECIAL OFFER NO.1: Buy 1 lb Aus, Canada, N.Z & U.S.A for the discounted price of £62.00. List Price £74.00.
AUSTRALIA. On paper charity mix, includes modern with dream variety, many Commems 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 difficult country. A
colourful on paper charity mixture from the Canadian Save the Children 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 difficult to find modern. Supplied
to us exclusively by a N.Z Charity. Approx. 2500 stamps / 1lb. ½ lb £11.00, 1 lb £20.00.
U.S.A. An on paper charity mixture with stupendous variety. There can’t be many mixtures so attractive and with such
good count. Approx count 3500 to 4000 stamps. Per 1lb £16.00, 2lbs £30.00.
IRELAND CHARITY. On paper. This emanates from convents throughout the Republic, is mostly modern with a wealth
of Commems. Price £16.50 / lb.
EUREKA! We’ve found it. This has to be our best world mixture yet. At least 85% commems with a staggering variety
with around 100 countries/states (yes we have found stamps from that many). Much modern and many high values
included. Our SUPER WORLD 100. ½ lb £28.00, 1 lb £55.00, 2 lbs £105.00.
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.
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 5% from the price,
4 items deduct 10%, 8 items deduct 20%!
ALDERNEY 2oz £25, ¼ lb £48.00. AUSTRALIA 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.
CYPRUS ¼ lb £30, ½ lb £58.00. ETHIOPIA ¼ lb £26, ½ lb £50.00. FAROES 2oz £52.00, 1/4 lb £95.00.
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. 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.
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.
JERSEY 1/4 lb £17.00, 1/2 lb £33.00. MALTA ½ lb £16, 1 lb £30.00. NEPAL 1/4 lb £23.00, 1/2 lb £38.00.
NORWAY 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 2017 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. Several 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.
WEST EUROPE SCOOP. An Off paper mixture of small and large stamps with much earlier material. Many better and
unusual values. In great demand as our interests in the EEC grow. Approx. 10,000 stamps to 1 lb costing around ½ p
each. ½ lb £28.00, 1 lb £55.00. Sale price ½ lb £25.00, 1 lb £49.00.
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Selling your stamp collection?
Warwick and Warwick have an expanding requirement for world collections, single country collections, single items, covers,
proof material and specialised collections. Our customer base is increasing dramatically and we need an ever-larger supply
of quality material to keep pace with demand. The market is currently very strong for G.B. and British Commonwealth and
the Far East. If you are considering the sale of your collection, now is the time to act.

FREE VALUATIONS
We will provide a free, professional valuation of your collection,
without obligation on your part to proceed. Either we will make
you a fair, binding private treaty offer, or we will recommend
inclusion of your property in our next public auction.

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We can arrange insured transportation of your collection to our
Warwick offices completely free of charge. If you decline our
offer, we ask you to cover the return carriage costs only.

FREE VISITS
Visits by our valuers are possible anywhere in the country or
abroad, in order to assess more valuable collections.
Please phone for details.

ADVISORY DAYS
We have an ongoing programme of advisory days, in all regions
of the United Kingdom, where you can meet us and discuss the
sale of your collection. Visit our website for further details.

We will be visiting the following towns within the next few weeks:
Reading, Haywards Heath, Shepperton, Crewe,
Folkestone, Maidstone, Chesterfield and Ipswich,
Bury St. Edmunds, Guisborough, Huddersfield,
Tamworth, Weymouth, Yeovil, Stevenage, Knebworth.

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2019 issue onwards, with the magazine to be 100% dedicated to stamps and
postal history.
The move follows extensive market research and the successful introduction
of Coin Collecting Magazine, which will continue to be given away with Stamp
& Coin Mart and now provides a focus for numismatists. Editor Matt Hill
said: ‘We’re really excited with the plan to start producing two magazines
rather than one, giving both stamp and coin collectors a dedicated publication
of their own. Of course, the decision hasn’t been easy, but we feel the move
will benefit both hobbies and I can’t wait for readers to see the new-look
January issue. We’ll still be including all the content you love, and will
be introducing a number of new features giving readers more insight into
collecting and the stamp market. And, of course, we always welcome feedback
and suggestions from readers, thank you to everyone who has helped us shape
the new magazines and keep your comments coming in.’
Coin Collecting Magazine, soon to be re-named Coin Collector, will be
published quarterly in 2019, meaning subscribers to Stamp & Coin Mart will
receive sixteen magazines throughout the year, not to mention the many extras
often included with the magazine.
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In addition to stamp content, the website also covers
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Award-winning collections and much more at Stampex

Queues ran down the street at the Business Design Centre in Islington anniversary of the ‘F’ Type Post
for the launch of Stampex International 2018 in September. Box at the event. A complete box
The UK’s national stamp exhibition, which offered a range of was on show, together with an
exhibits, meetings and material, kicked off with the opening of the example with the front and side
Court of Honour, which showcased the Wilding Collection put panels removed, exposing the
together by former President of The Royal Philatelic Society Frank experimental internal
Walton RDP FRPSL. clearance mechanism.
The collection brings together examples of the British definitive Of course Stampex also plays
stamps, including rare artist’s essay, proofs, and imprimaturs. The exhibit host to hundreds of acclaimed
was opened by Stampex Chairman John Curtin and Frank Walton. philatelic exhibits, and the
Over at the stand of GB stamps and postal history dealer Bill Barrell, Autumn show included a range of
Penny Red experts Mike Williams, Andrew Patmore and David Escott material from both the American
assisted collectors with their queries about the stamp. The ‘GB line Philatelic Society and the Forces
engraved made easy’ sessions were free to collectors and even included Postal History Society, the latter
tea and biscuits. Bill said: ‘I’m really trying to make collecting easier for group presenting a series of
people with these special displays to commemorate
workshops… the centenary of the end of
there are ways the First World War. The show
you can strip also hosted the ABPS National
of the veneer of Competition and you can find
complication, the results on our website at:
which is what I allaboutstamps.co.uk
am doing.’ The next Stampex
The Postal International takes place from 13 From top: Stampex Chairman John Curtin
Museum took to 16 February 2019, and you can with Frank Walton, whose exhibit of Wildings
the chance claim your free copy of the official was on display in the Court of Honour;
Experts on line engraved stamps share their knowledge with a to celebrate show guide with the March 2019 collectors queue up outside the venue; a
collector at Bill Barrell’s stand during Stampex International the fiftieth issue of the magazine. collector enjoys the Court of Honour exhibit

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Surprise Harry Potter stamps from Royal Mail

Royal Mail have issued a previously unannounced set of fifteen Harry Potter stamps, said to
be issued to ‘celebrate the series of eight Harry Potter films’.
The new stamps, which go on sale from 16 October, feature characters: Harry Potter;
Hermione Granger; Ron Weasley; Ginny Weasley and Neville Longbottom, while further
values show modes of transport from the films, namely the Hogwarts Express; Hagrid’s
enchanted motorbike; the flying Ford Anglia and the Knight Bus. The Triwizard Cup
also makes an appearance. If that wasn’t enough, a miniature sheet of five stamps has also
been issued featuring professors from the films: Pomona Sprout; Remus Lupin; Horace
Slughorn; Sybill Trelawney and Severus Snape, with the stamps set against a background Spoiler alert! Both the stamps and the miniature sheet feature hidden
of the Marauder’s Map from the films. details that are only visible under ultraviolet light, as shown above and
Royal Mail has also revealed that the stamps include hidden details that are only visible below. Meanwhile the ‘1’ is shown in the font used for the films
under ultraviolet light, whilst the style of the ‘1’ depicting the value on each of the stamps
is in the special font used for the films. What do you think of the stamps? Let us know your thoughts on our
As many collectors will know, this is the second set of stamps dedicated to author JK facebook page: www.facebook.com/stampandcoinmartmagazine or
Rowling’s characters, with twelve stamps issued in July 2007 to celebrate the popular books. by contacting the editor (see page 4)
In addition to
the stamps, a range
of products are
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Stamp details
prestige stamp book Issue date: 16 October 2018
and medal covers. Design: True North; digital image
enhancement: Smoke & Mirrors London
Read more about Printer: International Security Printers
the latest British Print process: Lithography
stamps on page 34. Perforations: 14 x 14.5
Stamp size: 37mm x 35mm
Phosphor: Bars as appropriate
Gum: PVA

Miniature sheet details…

Design: The Chase
Printer: International Security Printers
Perforations: 14 x 14
Miniature sheet size: 192mm x 74mm
Stamp Size: 27mm x 37mm
Note: sheet is self adhesive (Royal Mail
miniature sheets are normally gummed)

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Mail by Bike Post & Go stamps issued
Royal Mail recently issued a ‘Mail by Bike’
Post & Go stamp set, the fifth issue in the
‘Royal Mail Heritage’ series.
The set consists of six 1st Class stamps, each
featuring an illustration by Andrew Davidson
showing a postal worker on bicycle or motor-
bike. A first day cover (priced at £5.24) and
first day envelope (30p) are also available,
along with a stamp set with carrier card.
The six stamps depict the unique
Pentacycle, a five-wheeled cycle used for mail
delivery in the Horsham district, Sussex,
in 1882; a motorcycle and trailer used in
rural districts surrounding Sittingbourne,
Kent in 1902, among the first motorised
mail deliveries outside London; a tricycle
and basket from 1920; a bicycle from 1949;
Cinderellas turn up in
Middlesbrough station subway
Tees Valley artist Suzie Devey hit on the eye-
catching notion of exhibiting her work in a
philatelic format when she recently created a
number of linocut and drypoint portraits to
celebrate local people who have made asylum
seekers and refugees feel very welcome on Teesside.
The results have been on view throughout much
of 2018 as a series of supersize poster stamps which
look set to continue attracting the attention of
Middlesbrough railway station passengers into next
year when they walk through the station’s subway
between platforms. Displayed on the tiled walls,
each poster depicts a person from the locality who
helped to provide sanctuary for an asylum seeker
or a refugee. The stamp-like borders around each
portrait show words and images created by some
of the refugees expressing their responses to the
kindness of those who gave them help and hope.
The station, opened in 1877, has an ornate
Gothic frontage which survived German bombing
during the Second World War. An extensive
redevelopment project is underway, with an
additional platform planned and direct services
from Middlesbrough to London set to run from
a 1965
motorcycle,
and a Honda
quad bike
from 2002.
Issued on 12
September to
coincide with
the Stampex
International event in London, the self-
adhesive stamps were printed by International
Security Printers, using the gravure process
and are sized 56mm x 25mm.
The latest issue follows similar Post &
Go sets Mail by Rail (February 2017), Mail
by Air (September 2017) and Mail by Sea
(February 2018).
2020. Any increase in passenger numbers could
bring the artist’s work to wider attention, as well
as introducing more people to poster stamps if the
present display remains on the subway walls.
Cinderellas in the subway. Suzie Devey’s poster stamp style
has caught the eye of many railway travellers.
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In brief
John Lennon’s boyhood stamp album
has gone on display at the Smithsonian
National Postal Museum in Washington
DC, USA, coinciding with the US Postal
Service’s release of their John Lennon
Forever Stamp. The John Lennon: The
Green Album exhibition will be open
until 3 February 2019.
The American Philatelic Society
recently announced the winners in their
Chapter and Affiliates Web Awards. The
competition was open to all APS chapter
clubs, all clubs or federations that run
stamp shows, and their qualified affiliates.
Winners included the Rhodesia Study
Circle (www.rhodesianstudycircle.org.
uk) Ebony Society of Philatelic Events
and Reflections (www.esperstamps.org),
and the American Topical Association
(americantopicalassn.org). All entrants
received a certificate and distinctive
electronic award badge to post on their
site signifying their award level and
competition year.
The latest list from GB postal history and
stamp dealer Bill Barrell has been released.
The 140-page catalogue features a range
of material, from pre-stamp covers as early
as 1586 to modern covers, stamps, errors
and more. For more information visit the
website www.barrell.co.uk
Stanley Gibbons catalogues were recently
awarded large vermeil medals at the World
Stamp Exhibition PRAGA 2018 in Prague.
The 2018 Commonwealth and Empire
Stamps 1840 to 1970 catalogue and the
ninth edition of the King George VI
catalogue received Large Vermeil awards,
whilst the Germany and Czech Republic
and Slovakia catalogues received
Vermeil awards.
Congratulations to the following readers,
who won Dad’s Army presentation packs
courtesy of Royal Mail in our August
issue: Steven Murphy, Aberdeen; David
Martin, Stansted; Kieran Symons, Perth;
Rebecca Barnes, Sheffield; Oliver Goodacre,
Stratford on Avon; Mark Barber, Bristol;
Lisa Tallis, Liverpool; Graham Williams,
Wrexham; Georgina Tognola, York; Chris
Gnarra, Armadale.
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Victorian registration Four final Smilers

sheets available online
The Postal Museum has made
all 837 of its GB Victorian
registration sheets available on
its website, in high resolution,
for the first time, allowing
philatelists to access and
examine these sheets online.
Dating from 1840 to 1900,
the sheets include the proof
sheet of Penny Blacks and
Registration Sheets of Penny
Reds but not yet Departmental
Overprints. The images can
be accessed on The Postal
Museum’s online catalogue by
visiting http://bit.ly/reg-sheets.
Researchers can zoom into the
sheets by right clicking on the
image in the catalogue and opening in a new tab.
A spokesperson for the Museum said: ‘The Postal Museum is
continually working to improve access to its collections and intends
to extend the number of sheets available digitally in future.’
Sheets for Stampex
The Philatelic Traders’ Society, the organisers of Stampex International,
have worked ahead to produce four Smilers Sheets for future events,
following the news that Royal Mail have discontinued the sheets.
The first of the sheets was available to buy at Autumn Stampex
International 2018, with the remaining three to be made available to
visitors at forthcoming shows and the final sheet to be sold at Autumn
Stampex 2020.
Meanwhile, the PTS have also confirmed that there will only be one
Stampex International event in 2020 to leave room for the London 2020
international exhibition being held at the same venue in May 2020. PTS
spokesperson Isobel Klempka said: ‘We are fully supporting London 2020
and in doing so didn’t want Stampex in February to have an impact on
footfall for the international showcase. With the international showcases
being held every ten years, the PTS are excited to be supporting them and
helping raise awareness for what should be an exciting show and help to
further establish London as the philatelic hub.’
Megan Tester, PTS secretary added: ‘We are delighted to have been able
to design and create Smilers sheets for the collectors who join us at Stampex
International…We are currently looking at other ideas of what will replace
the Smilers Sheets and perhaps doing something entirely different…’

Royal members wish

Michael good luck

Michael Sefi (centre), with his wife Harriet, receives a sheet of stamps from Belgium
bearing his picture from Patrick Maselis RDP FRPSL, President of The Royal

The opening display of the new season at the Royal Philatelic

Society London gave members the opportunity to thank Michael
Sefi for his service to philately, after his decision to retire as Keeper
of The Royal Philatelic Collection.
The display from The Royal Philatelic Collection, the Queen’s
own private stamp collection, traditionally opens the new season,
and this year was enjoyed by over 200 fellows and members.
After sixteen years in the position, Michael Sefi LVO RDP FRPSL
FRPSC is retiring as Keeper of The Royal Philatelic Collection and
was thanked for all he had done to display parts of the Collection at
exhibitions across the world for many to enjoy. He was presented with
a a sheet of stamps from Belgium bearing his picture.
The Smiler Sheet will be available at Stampex International in February 2019

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In brief
Tristan da Cunha are
set to issue a set of
four stamps on 18
October dedicated
to migratory species
of birds. Two of the
stamps show the
Atlantic Yellow-
nosed Albatross
whilst the other pair show the Great
Shearwater. The new stamp set is one
of a ‘complimentary suite’ of stamps
being issued in 2018 by British Overseas
Territories including Ascension Island,
British Antarctic Territory, Falkland
Islands and South Georgia and South
Sandwich Islands.
Young collector Charlie Stewart from
Derby was recently awarded a Penny
Black in a prize draw for youngsters
who replied to a survey organised by
Kidstamps. The survey was undertaken
to provide feedback to the organisers on
the contents and administration of the
free postal club for children aged five to
nineteen. A spokesperson for the Stamp
Active Network said: ‘The responses were
encouraging with very positive comments
on the range and quality of the contents
of the packs. Our thanks to everyone who
took the trouble to send back the survey.’
Stamp & Coin Mart reader Roger Holden
recently wrote to The Daily Telegraph
concerning the use of pen cancellations
on stamps and was very pleased to see the
letter published in the national newspaper.
Roger added: ‘Maybe you can get more
collectors to write in’.
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Cinderella Congress set for Stockholm
A World Cinderella Stamp Congress is set
to take place in Stockholm, as part of the
Stockholmia 2019 event in June 2019.
Organised by Samlarföreningen
Bältespännarna (SfB), the Swedish Cinderella
Stamp Society, the Congress will have two
sessions on 1 June and a closing session on
2 June. The first day will cover local postage
stamps (at 10.30am) and revenues (1.30pm)
with the session on the second day dedicated to
poster stamps (10.30am).
A spokesperson said: ‘Each session will open Organisers are inviting collectors
with talks and displays. Everyone is of course interested in attending or speaking at the
invited to bring their own displays for all Congress to contact them at: SfB Treasurer
sessions but that is not a requirement. As this is Christer Wahlbom, Humlegränd 6 A,
an international event, it will be in English. SE-179 60 Stenhamra, Sweden; or email
‘It is hoped to have the signing of the christerwahlbom@hotmail.com
Maurice Williams Roll of Notable Cinderella Meanwhile visitors to Stockholmia, taking
Philatelists as part of the Sunday event. A place in Stockholm from 29 May to 2 June,
number of philatelic souvenirs will be offered will be able to buy a Cinderella poster stamp
to all participants. There will also be a Lundy designed by renowned engraver Martin Mörck.
Island Post Office at the Congress.’ For details visit: www.stockholmia2019.se
Amsterdam’s Postzegelmarkt
still going strong
We can think of several reasons
for taking a cross-Channel ferry,
train or plane trip to Amsterdam: a
pickled herring sandwich, an Amstel
brewery tour, a close encounter with
a Vermeer perhaps. But if you’d
sooner spend your time and money
on stamps you simply must visit
what may be Europe’s last outpost for
outdoors philately, writes Ed Fletcher.
Every Wednesday and Saturday
the Postzegalmarkt attracts visitors Enjoy the fresh air as you enjoy Amsterdam’s Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal Straat
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has been renowned for decades. Once it had soon notice that a number of un-refurbished
strong rivals in Paris, Madrid, Warsaw and shops have resisted the temptation to convert
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Latest auction results

The recent sale of British
North America material at
Spink included a lightly
cancelled Newfoundland 1919
‘Hawker’ 3c brown. The lot
was described as ‘an attractive
example of this rare classic
airmail stamp’ with the cancel
‘leaving a very fine appearance’.

SOLD FOR £4,500

The David Weller Collection of World First Day Covers went under the
hammer at Brian Reeve Stamp Auctions recently. Consisting of around
2,000 albums and many boxes, every item from the collection was sold.
Highlights included a 1925 Wembley set on pair of plain FDCs with
Empire Exhibition Wembley Park 1925 slogan, which realised £1,337.

SOLD FOR £1,337

The British Empire & Foreign

Countries auction held at
Grosvenor’s Strand saleroom
featured a selection of Egypt
material including the collection
of Alan Jeyes and other specialists.
The ‘Yen Boon Swee Collection of Straits Settlements Queen Amongst the highlights was an
Victoria Postal Stationery’ was recently sold at Spink and imperforate example of the 1927-
included an 1892 2c carmine card sent to Shanghai in March 37 Second King Fuad £E1 with
1899 then redirected to Germany, uprated with a 1c green, tied ‘CANCELLED’ on reverse.
by Singapore circular date stamp (CDS). At the French Offices
at Shanghai, a China 5c green pair was added, cancelled by SOLD FOR £4,500
‘shanghai/chine’ CDS for redirection to Germany, and the card
was carried by P&O ship SS Parramatta arriving at Ludenscheid
on 15 April 1899.

SOLD FOR £2,121

A 1929 block of four Australian

£2 grey-black and crimson,
showing the ‘Spencer’s Gulf
and broken tail on Kangaroo’
variety, was recently sold at
Cherrystone Philatelic Auctions
in the USA. The stamps were
well centred with rich colours, Spink recently offered a wide range of ‘Fine Stamps and Covers
and described as ‘a splendid of South East Asia’ including a cover sent from Singapore to
multiple, one of the few known Hamburg in February 1855 and bearing an Indian 4a blue
blocks in this shade’. and red horizontal pair. The ‘India used in Straits Settlements’
cover also featured a ‘via Trieste’ marking and both stamps were
SOLD FOR £16,013 cancelled (not tied) by a central diamond of hollow dots, showing
blue manuscript ‘6¼’ and ‘8½’.

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SOLD FOR £15,074
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The Jim Crompton collection of New Hebrides was
also offered at Grosvenor in London and a strip of
four of the 1908 1d. incorporating the rare overprint
omitted variety was one of the highlights. The strip of
four stamps was described as a ‘considerable rarity’.
SOLD FOR £5,760
‘The Philatelic Collector’s Series Sale’ at Spink saw the sale of
a USA 4c Pan-American, with the centre inverted. The lot was
described as ‘an especially well centred and sound mint example
of this sought-after invert, with rich colours and detailed
impression, marvellously well centred for this error rarity, with
the perforations clearing the design all around, an uncommon
occurrence.’ According to the auction catalogue, fewer than 100
examples of the classic stamp error exist.
SOLD FOR £11,056
A complete set of the Bahamas 1901-
03 set, with the locally overprinted
‘SPECIMEN’ was recently sold at
Spink. The catalogue explained that
the rare set was ‘seldom found in this
fine condition’.
SOLD FOR £3,720
A rare example of the ‘Savu Savu’ manuscript cancellation on an
1875 cover from Fiji to New South Wales was recently sold at
Grosvenor. Savusavu is a town in the Fijian Province of Cakaudrove.
COLLECTION SOLD FOR £3,720
Repairing stamps
O
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repairs on lower priced stamps, writes John
Apfelbaum. While collectors do need to
be careful about repairs and alterations it
is important to remember that stamps are
repaired for a reason and that reason is so they can be sold
as non-damaged items at higher prices than they would
be otherwise. Thus repairing a stamp is an economic act,
not someone engaging in an esoteric activity. I say this so
that you’ll keep in mind the two questions that reasonable
philatelists ask when they are examining an item for repairs;
Why, and when?
If a stamp has been in a
collection for thirty years and
was thought to be a cheap
stamp thirty years ago why
would anybody waste their
time repairing or reperfing it?
If a stamp has been in a collection for thirty years and
was thought to be a cheap stamp thirty years ago why
would anybody waste their time repairing or reperfing it?
And when would they have done it? Keep in mind that
perforating pins on early 19th-century stamps were not
perfectly placed and even when they were, they could move
over the course of thousands of cuts into stamp sheets. So
perforations are not always exact on these early stamps and
just because one perf is a fraction off doesn’t mean that the
stamp is reperfed. Some philatelists are not satisfied in their
examination until they have found a fault or a repair on a
stamp. However, if they asked themselves the question of
whether it makes any sense that someone would play around
with a stamp that wouldn’t even qualify for sale on its
own, they might be a lot happier in their collecting. Even a
repairer’s time has value and they are not apt to waste it.
John Apfelbaum has spent a lifetime
learning about stamp collecting. He runs the
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SOLD FOR £3,364 SOLD FOR £1,958 SOLD FOR £1,247

France, unissued sheetlet 1937 Philatelic Luxembourg, Reply card franked with German China, 15th anniversary of People’s
Exhibition MNG stamps cancelled Trier 1873 to Luxembourg Republic 1964 MNH
(with cert. Krug)

SOLD FOR £888 SOLD FOR £445 SOLD FOR £400

Great Britain, Penny Black strip of three New Hebrides artwork for unissued Chile, Letter from Valparaiso 1851 to Mengen
(watermark small crown) used stamp drawn by J. Kerhor (c.1938) (Würtemberg) by steamer via Panama, London
and Paris

SOLD FOR £378 SOLD FOR £373

Vatican, Definitive 1929 Pope Pius XI overprinted, 1934 MNH (cert. Diena) Germany, Thuringia 2RM Christmas
stamp 1945 ‘For the victims of fascism’
MNH (with cert.)

SOLD FOR £338 SOLD FOR £333 SOLD FOR £340

Germany, Berlin 75th anniversary of Russia, Airmail 1935 – Rescue of Egypt, stationery from Alexandrie
UPU 1949 issue MNH Icebreaker Chelyuskin MH 1899 to Valletta, blue oval disinfected /
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 Buying INTERESTING &
UNUSUAL
British Stamps BELGIUM LIBYA

Current Market Values Colonies130+ from 1887 to 25c,. 1894

most to 5Fr, 1900 to 1Fr (both) 1916 to
Italian Colony About 50 from 1912 to 50c,.
1915 dues to 2 Lire, Express issues,. 1924
5Fr,. Red Cross and S’Charge types, 1921
to 2L,. Victory set etc Cat £525 £100.00
10Fr, then Ruanda Urundi inc Belgian
Occupation set, 1924 set to 10Fr (M) etc
Cat £450 £70.00 LIECHTENSTEIN
Several 100’s from 1912 set (FU) 1920
BOLIVIA set, sparse thence to 1967-78 apparently
110 from 1867 5c,. 50c,. 1871 to 100c,. complete UNM Cat £520 £65.00
1887 5c,. 10c,. 1897 2b etc. All on appro
sheets and mainly V. fine Cat £300
MADAGASCAR
£45.00
BUYING GB DECIMAL MINT STAMPS 1971 to 2018 45 from Peace and Commerce to 1Fr
(We always require GB postage but some values are more popular than others so please contact us by email or telephone CHINA (both) 1904 vals to 2Fr Pictorials to 35c etc
where the sale value is £1000 or over). Cat £225 £40.00
100’s haphazardly arranged on leaves from
large dragon 3ra (sl. Fault) extensive Sun
Buy %
FACE VALUE (FV) Yat Sen types (M) useful post 1949 issues NETHERLAND INDIES
of FV Criteria
inc $400 orange gymnastics type block of 4 80+ from 1870 vals to 25c,. 1901 most
Stamps 1p to 35p 55% Sorted by value (M) Needs re-arranging £185.00
to 2 ½ g, 1913 Red Cross Set (M) 1922
Stamps 36p to 99p 60% Sorted by value S’Charge range dues etc £30.00
Stamps £1.00 to £1.99 72% Sorted by value GERMANY
Stamps £2.00 to £10 80% Sorted by value Good, Comprehensive range (100’s)
First (1st) Class NVI Stamps (lick and stick) 60% Commemorative and Christmas 1875-1944 with Germania to 5Mk, Inflation, ORANGE FREE STATE
First (1st) Class NVI Stamps (self-adhesive) 68% Commemorative and Christmas main value in UNM 3rd Reich inc 1933 60+ on leaves from 1868 to 1/=, 1878 5/=
First (1st) Class NVI Stamps (lick and stick) 60% Definitive Queen’s Head Reichstag, ’35 Welfare, ’36 Olympics (the good range 1896 ½ d S’Charges (6 all
First (1st) Class NVI Stamps (self-adhesive) 73% Definitive Queen’s Head M/S pair is FU) all Hitler sheets (the ’37 mint) V.R.I 187 5/=, 1903 set (M –scarce)
Second (2nd) Class NVI Stamps 65% Commemorative and Christmas Congress FU) Brown and Blue Bands, ’39
etc Cat £550+ £110.00
Second (2nd) Class NVI Stamps (lick and stick) 65% Definitive Queen’s Head Car Race, Danzig O’Prints etc. Excellent lot
Second (2nd) Class NVI Stamps (self-adhesive) 76% Definitive Queen’s Head Cat £7500+ £775.00
First Class LARGE NVI (self-adhesive) 75% all types (£1.01) PAPUA NEW GUINEA
First Class LARGE NVI (lick and stick) 70% all types (£1.01) Colonies P.O’s Many 100’s from range Lakatois (50) to 4d
Second Class LARGE NVI (self-adhesive) 75% all types (79p) 100+ on Kabe leaves all small format inc 1932 range to 2/=, 1952 most to £1, then
Second Class LARGE NVI (lick and stick) 70% all types (79p) China P.O’s from 1897, Turkish P.O’s inc extensive range to 2002. All tidily displayed
1st Class Signed For Delivery Stamps 75% all types (£1.77 and £2.11) 1884 10pa (M) New Guinea 2 pesa – 40 on hangers £375.00
Special Delivery Stamps 80% (£6.50 >100g and £7.30 >500g) pesa S.W Africa to 80pf etc Cat £700
Europe & Worldwide NVI Stamps 50% Up to 40 grams £120.00
Europe & Worldwide NVI Stamps 60% Up to 10g, 20g, E, 60g & 100g RUSSIA
Presentation Packs & Year Books 52% from 1971 to 1998 GUATEMALA 90+ from 1866 inc Arms types to 3K50,.
Presentation Packs & Year Books 60% from 1999 to 2016 1913 vals to 5K,. Later inc West Ukraine
About 60 from 1871 1c,. 1875 Liberty set
Presentation Packs & Year Books 68% 2017 & 2018
(M) 1881 Quetzal set etc to about 1950, 1919 to 3Kr £30.00
Prestige Booklets 52% up to 1998
Prestige Booklets Cat £350 £55.00
60% 1999 to 2016
Prestige Booklets 68% 2017 to 2018 SAN MARINO
Booklets with Stamps up to 26p 53% folding & retail etc HONG KONG
About 30 from 1877 inc 1918 War Casualty
Booklets with Stamps from 27p to 68p 56% folding & retail etc Few 100’s on Hagners, mainly UNM inc
and Italian Victory sets , 1894 set etc
Smiler Sheets 60% Lick & Stick Gum 1935 Jubilee (M & FU) 1941 Centenary
UNM 1968 Sea Craft, most New Year £40.00
Smiler Sheets 65% Self-adhesive Gum
ISLE OF MAN 30% issues inc 1969 and ’70, 1975 Festivals
and M/S, 1982 to $50 etc. A fine lot Cat SPAIN
£925 £150.00 60 from 1854 with 1862 19c. 1864 19c,.
1889 Baby Face types to 75c etc to 1920
ITALY
Cat £1380 £140.00
NEW! BUYING PRICES FOR COLLECTABLE GB STAMPS (SEE WEBSITE FOR DETAILS) P/O’s 57 inc Turkish Empire vals to 2L,.
FOR OUR LATEST PRICES PLEASE VISIT WEBSITE Austrian Territories, Dodecanese Islands
Top Rated Internet Selling Service with Karki to 50c (M) few Colonies etc Cat SWEDEN
High Prices Realised!
£900 £90.00 100’s in ASEA album from 1858 with 1872
Low Commission Fees
Many 100’s FU in ASEA album from 1863 to 1r, 1889 surcharge pair, 1903 5K,. 916
Contact Dave Waldie for Details inc 1891 5L 1910 10L, 1924 Holy Year Clothing Fund, Dues, Surcharges most
set, good Pneumatic and Express inc to 10 ore on 24 ore, 1918 Landstorm set,
surcharges, 1926 National Defence set.
1921 Liberation set, 1924 U.P.U Congress
1929 Montecassino set, Dante Airs to 10L,.
complete to 80 ore and 2K, Anniversary
1935 Bellini Air 5L (very scarce) Horace
Postage set and Air Vals to 5L,. Similar with most to 80 0re thence complete for these
many better items to 1975. Cat £8400 leaves to 1978 with some booklet pane
£965.00 M/S etc Cat £4500 £775.00

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LETTER OF THE MONTH
OUR HOBBY HELPS HISTORY
Dear Stamp & Coin Mart
Postal history has grown in popularity
in recent years and many stamp fairs are
dominated by collectors looking for covers
rather than just the stamps themselves.
Whether you think this is an encouraging
trend or not is down to opinion, but I
personally believe the study of our history
via the postal system and stamps is a
fantastic, fresh and much-needed approach
to history in general. For example, the
stamps used in occupied territories and the
covers which were sent during such times
is a huge, bright window into our past. It’s
not just a niche for we philatelists.
Now we need the academics who study
history to embrace this field of study,
and perhaps for the two worlds to come
together to enhance both and bring the
stories of the post to a larger audience. I
would welcome fellow readers’ thoughts
on how this might be done.
Brian Paxton, Cambridge
Stamp & Coin Mart replies:
We asked contributor and postal
hsitorian John Scott for his views…
In response to the letter from Brian Paxton
can I say that I agree entirely with the
sentiments expressed by him. The main
trouble with philately is the degree of
introspection, where enthusiasts spend
most of their time, energy and money in
accumulating material which they then
display to fellow collectors, often behind
closed doors and sometimes even talking
to their sheets with their back to the
audience. In the meantime we bemoan
the lack of new adherents which is
hardly surprising in the circumstances
and gone are the days when the local
newspaper would run a story about the
local stamp club winner in the annual
competition. And yet this is at a time
when there is more interest than ever in
genealogy and in our country’s past.
There are of course notable exceptions
to every rule and a minority of collectors
are doing what they can to spread
the word by exhibitions in public
libraries, by taking stamps into
schools and by speaking to local
history groups and educational
organisations such as U3A or The
Arts Society (NADFAS). However
it is disappointing that in these
anniversary years of the First World
War there have been relatively few
exhibitions of the philatelic history
of the conflict in public venues and
yet, when such an event took place
in Ypres, it was noticeable how
many non-collecting members of the
public took the opportunity to view
the mixed display of stamps, postal
history and ephemera.
In my personal view a postage stamp
was produced for a purpose, namely to
facilitate written communication between
businesses and individuals, and taken out
of context you can understand why the
outsider’s attention fails to be grabbed by
a stamp alone. The evidence for this can
be seen in most learned publications on
our industrial and urban history where
there is often not a single mention of the
role of the post office in enabling efficient
communication. As students of the history
of the post office, many of us own unique
primary source material which casts
light upon subjects as diverse as paper
production, printing techniques, fashions
in design and the influence of politics, let
alone the eye witness accounts contained
in many letters held by postal historians.
In my experience the public are
fascinated by such stories and the Postal
History Society is a founder member
of A2SN, the Archives & Artefacts
Study Network, which seeks to inform
professionals in the world of academia,
libraries and institutions of the secret
world of collectors. But it has to be said
that not all philatelists share my view. The
editor of one of the leading postal history
journals in America opined in August that
he felt that genealogy and social history
have no place in philately and complained
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Stamp collectors can
now form a substantial
Harry Potter collection,
with at least fifty Potter-
themed stamps having
been issued by post
offices around the world
that self-adhesive postage stamps are
a disaster for outreach because they
can’t be soaked off their envelopes. In
contrast, I would contend that the
reasons for writing are fundamental to
the very existence of a postage stamp
and are a key to unlocking wider
public interest in what we collect.
NOT SO POTTY ABOUT POTTER
Dear Stamp & Coin Mart
I feel compelled to contact you to
express my disappointment at the
arrival of yet more Harry Potter stamps
from Royal Mail. It seems autumn
is now reserved for an unannounced,
commercial issue, so perhaps I
shouldn’t be so surprised, but more of
the same stuff we’ve seen in past years?
Really? As far as I can tell, and I gave up
collecting all GB some years ago, there
have now been 27 Harry Potter stamps
issued, and that’s just by this country.
I don’t mind Royal Mail issuing
stamps that are commercial, every
now and then, and I’ve seen that
younger people really like the Star
Wars stamps, but surely we can find
new films, books or music stars to
celebrate, rather than just going back
to something seen before.
John Gronfeld, via email
TIME FOR CHARITY THIS XMAS?
Dear Stamp & Coin Mart
Why can’t Royal Mail issue a charity
stamp for Christmas? I’ve seen this
call before and nothing has come of
it. Perhaps there is too much red tape
to get through or there are financial
implications that we don’t appreciate, but
it seems to me that such a project would
benefit everyone, including Royal Mail,
who have their own chosen charities for
other work anyway. If readers agree please
encourage them to let you know via the
pages of the magazine and then I feel an
official petition coming on…
Nick Brown, via email
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 IS.231 ISRAEL A superb collection of Israeli stamps. F84 FOOTBALL A colourful collection of football PRC10 CHINA A glorious collection of stamps of
All unmounted mint with descriptive tabs. Well over 100 stamps from around the globe, many countries China. Mostly People’s Republic of China, with an
different & first day covers .............................. Price £15
included. Includes G.B stamp 1966 World Cup England interesting group of Hong Kong stamps, also China
In 1973 we recommended and sold the British definitive 1/2pstamps
winners, other (SGX842)notedwith
from oneBritishphosphor band on
local islands, side.
stamp We told
booklets, mintour customers
complete to buy
sheet noted them
some oddat
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is catalogued FC, Wimbledon
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for an miniature
outlay of only sheets£50and China First
in1973, the
Coronation anniv. stamps SG.1061 and 1062, 11p and City, Bobby Moore (West Ham FC), Liverpool FC and Day Covers. Noted
current catalogue value of your investment would be a staggering total of £11,000.00. In 1999 we recommended
13p values. Both printed in black and gold instead of green
ourbetter overprinted
customers to buystamps,theEast
Princess
others. Approx. 100 superb football stamps, not China 1949 Mao Tse Tung & General Zhu. A highly
Diana
& violet.Welsh Language
Both stamps Presentation
are completely imperforatePacks.
and The catalogue value
counting any was only
duplication £2.50 each, but
........................... we£9.75
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recommended lot with hundreds of China stamps not
ble catalogue
overprinted value
“PROOF” £5 Pair
in red. each. Within
of scarce only 6 years
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complete go downstamp as well asminiature
booklets, up and the
past in not necessarily a guide to the future. However, MB.26 being selective
BIKES, and taking
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recommended our collection
customers of to buy thespecialised
Coronation stamp
£1collection
Green (SG includes
2380) Isle which
of Man T.T.
was catalogued by Stanley Gibbons at £1.50 per stamp.
Canadian stamps. Dating back to Queen Victoria and races, Harley Davison motorbikes, racing car stamps
Within 1 year the catalogue value had increased to £50 per stamp, an increase of overBRITAIN
GBX5 GREAT 3,200%.PRESENTATION PACKS A
following through to King George V and King George VI, include “Formula 1 Monaco”, “Formula 1 Japan”, racing valuable and highly collectable collection of elusive
but mostly more Queen Elizabeth II issues. Comprises car champions Ferrari, Jaguar, plus many others. A Royal Mail Presentation packs. Some earlier pre-
Last
over 400 different stamps ......................... year
.Price we recommended
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£15 Packs.
decimal GPO packs noted, but mainly modern Royal
The Stanley Gibbons catalogue value was £3.50 each, if you had taken our advice even if you had Mailbrought them
recent issues. Highatface
fullvalues
catalogue value. For
with catalogue
an outlay
DAM.75 of only £875.
DAMBUSTERS Your
A historic investment
WWII would be
cover from Jersey B.56 MARITIME
worth a massive £10,000
A superb at collection
nautical current catalogue
of value. An £200
increase of catalogue value of over
value of over ..................................... Price £58.50
commemorating the 75th anniv. of “Operation Chastise”,
1,000% ships,
in only one boats,
year. Ourandcustomers
all types of complemented
sea-going vessels us once again saying
the famous Dambusters Air Raid on 16th May 1943. The noted Cunard, Paquebot cover and hundreds of
cover depicts the Dambusters aircraft and bears a Jersey
“THANK YOU AGAIN,YOU WERE RIGHT”. SA337 SAUDI ARABIA A small but valuable collection
different ships stamps includes older stamps dating
of Saudi Arabian stamps, all different and in superb
stamp issue showing the Dambusters crew of 7 heroes back decades. ....................................Price £16.50
unmounted mint condition. Contains lots of elusive items,
and plane. Postmarked on the anniv. date 16/5/18. Due to
severely restricted issue of only 50 covers this must be one LOT K3 GREAT BRITAIN, COMMEMS & DEFINS. the catalogue value is in excess of £100 .......Price £23.50
of the scarcest Jersey WWII covers. ................ Price £13.50 UNSORTED ACCUMULATION
With stamps in blocks, multiples and singles. ZF20 RUDOLF HESS Nazi cover commemorating
VIC.95 GREAT BRITAIN POSTAL HISTORY Historic Items noted include Traffic Light Gutter Pairs and the 75th Anniversary of the crash landing by Rudolf
Queen Victorian 1d black stamp of 1840. An extremely miniature sheets. Well over 500 stamps, only Hess, the infamous Nazi. The cover depicts Hess in
SAM.1. POLAND - small general collection, include - Nazi Occupation
scarce commemorative
Concentration Camp issue inscribed cover depicted
‘Judenpost’ Sir Ghetto
for Lodz Rowland
R45 MINIATURE SHEETS & Souvenir Sheets, various different GB
unmounted
(Exhibition mint.....................................
sheets) FOREIGN, odd Brit. Commonwealth..Price Total of£18
50+ Buying GB Royal Mail 2008
Nazi uniform and the Messerschmitt Bf 110 aircraft
which crash landed in Scotland in 1941. The cover
Hill. Only10pf50Green
of this scarce Wecover
cannotwere postmarked by
(Litzmanstdt)
the Royal
remainder of theMail.
(unused).
Bearing
collection all seem official
OK Cheap Royal
guarantee
PriceMail
this item but
1d black
................... £8.75
different (Mainly Foreign) Min sheets ...............................Price £8
N-R472 RYUKYU ISLANDS Rarely offered for sale, this is handover of Olympic flag
bears a Scotland Royal Mail stamp with the official
SJ132 GREAT BRITAIN. British Postal Strike 1971 - Emergency
SJ120stamp tied toStamps
MEDICAL the cover with blacklotMaltese
with specialised of Anti-TB Cross
and Red anniv. a superboncollection
Overprints of theLabels
Local Carriage stamps of The
printed Ryukyu and
by Harrison Islands.
Sons from Beijing to London,
Royal Mail postmark Edinburgh 10/05/16. Exactly
75 years to the day of his crash landing. The cover
CrossPMK dated
stamps. 6.5.2015
Also Anti-Malaria In addition,
stamps Red theCross
coverstamps bearsback an forContaining only superb
Use in Southampton. Theunmounted
complete unm. mintMint stamps.
set of sixApprox.
stamps
imperforate
to the (4 margin)
1940s or earlier up to more 1d black
recent.stamp printed
With nursing, by the
doctors 3 65 different
x 1/-, 2/-. 6/-,Ryukyu Island stamps ................Price £18.75
7/6d ..................................................Price £1.50 presentation pack paying more
was a severely restricted and limited issue of only 60
covers worldwide ...................................... Price £19
and Royal
cover
Mail
all forms
for sale ideal
with
from official
of medicine.
for red
anyone
A most
with some
Maltese
special
Cross.
sheetsubject
interesting
medical
and tied
Only knowledge
rarely
a tiny restricted
to offered
the
to form a
G23A OLYMPIC GAMES Enormous lot, not counting duplicates, there
RU10
must TSAR
be over 500 NICHOLAS II OF RUSSIA,
stamps- an outstanding collectionABDICATION
............. Price £11
than full cat value £9.25
valuable
issue of 50 covers exist. ................................ .Price£7
collection .......................................................... Price COVER An historicOnecommemorative RS470 RACQUET SPORTS A specialised collection
£26 NY146 ENTOMOLOGY: of the most unusualcover
thematicfor the we
subjects Cyprus, Netherlands, G.B. Denmark, Portugal, Spain, Swiss, Finland,
SAM.9 BRITISH ISLES Wholesale Dealers new issue stock (duplicated) 100th
have ever anniv. of the
seen, insects on abdication of Tsar
stamps. Hundreds Nicholas
of them II £7
............. Price of blocks and singles includes tennis, badminton
all unmounted mint, with many high values, Greece, Sweden. Also scarcer local issues for Channel Islands and
PAD.5 PADDINGTON BEARS’ 60THincludes
BIRTHDAY Lundy,COVER
Summer of Russia on 15th March 1917. Bearing a striking
NY148 SPACE ‘THE FINAL FRONTIER’. A spectacular collection of
and
Isle oftable
Man. tennis.
HundredsStamps depicting
of all different Europa famous
Stamps,tennismainly fine
Isles,Depicting
St Mary’s (Scilly Isles) Gairsay, Gugh,
his Bardsey
favouriteIsland,
jar ofEasdale, Sark. illustration of the Rockets.
Tsar and hisships
Royal
Paddington holding
Only unmounted mint. The face value alone must be £60.00 Price £14
marmalade. Space stamps including Space and“double
all types ofeagle”
Outer stars;
used, butChris
miniEvert, Steffi Graf, John McEnroe, Martina£17
noted .......................................................Price
The cover has official Royal Mail Paddington Bear stamp emblem.
Space The including
Exploration, Royal cover
severalbears a Royal
scarce Moon Mailcovers.
Landing Royal500+ Navratilova,
FR 229 FRANCE Boris Becker,
& COLS Billie Jean-King,
- A smashing collection ofBjorn FranceBorg,
with
E32 issue
GREATpostmarked
BRITAIN - SPECTACULAR ERROR
with illustrated on 1966 XMAS
“Paddington 3d value
Station PMK” Lion stamp, with Royal Mail Buckingham PalacePrice £15 Virginia Wade plus
(SG71 3) SHIFT OF GOLD COLOUR causing Queen’s head to move over
stamps, all different not counting Covers and Miniature sheets French Colonnies & Ex many
Colonies. others.
MainlyIncludes,
Commemorative severalstamps in
dated 18/6/18 for the bears’ birthday. Only 60 of these iconic illustrated
R.49 SOUTH EAST postmark
ASIA - dated
enormous 15.03.2017.
lot, with some The cover is
complete British colonial
singles and blocks.stamps in mint blocks.
Some unmounted mint, but100+ mostlyworldfine used.
to wrong area of stamp. We offer the Gold Head Shift Error superb unmtd
mintcovers
togetherexist
with worldwide...........................................Price
normal stamp for comparison..................Price £4.25 £9.50 from unm
sheets a severely restricted
. mint, mass and
of singles. limited
Dates back issue
to 1898, oftoonly
modern A lovely collection
stamps with many
mint & used engraved stamps; several
..................................... hundreds,
Price £14
50 covers
mainly ...............................................
different used stamps. About 1600-1700 stamps Price £8.50
of which mostly different...............................................................Price £21
SJ42 ZEPPELINS: Impressive thematic collection of Zeppelins on
SC484 SCANDINAVIA A fine collection of Scandinavian at least 1300 must be different ..................................... Price £32 DT17
BX 486 DONALD
BOXING - ATRUMP PRESIDENTIAL
fine collection of Boxing Stamps COVER
Over 80The
Stamps
stamps with airships & balloons. about 100 stamps.............Price £5
stamps including Denmark, Norway & Sweden, and N-SH305
SJ53a BARDSEY SUPER HEROES
ISLAND. (Welsh A spectacular
Local Issue) A superbcollection
special- in blocks cover
special and singles, including champion
commemorates Trump boxers such President
as 45th as Muhammad
SAM.23
fewerWORLD COLLECTION
Iceland & Finland- All sorts, nice
stamps. starter
A nice lot, withlot’ to
‘starter of super
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Unmounted including
Mint (complete severalfrom this
sets) Stamps Ali. Mainly fine cto used, mint noted, with Great Britain Royal Mail 2012
upwards of 1000 different plus some duplication, with covers, FDC’s, of the U.S.A. bearing foreign Trump stamps with
build on ....................................................... Price £9.75 issues for: Superman and Batman also includes£7.00
small Welsh Island rarely get offered for sale ............. Price Olympic Games Gold Medal Boxing Stamps....................... Price £9.75
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Museum of Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway Museum
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Swindon in one of the original railway
workshops, which has been restored and is a
listed grade II building, just across the road
from Swindon’s Designer Outlet – where
there is plenty of parking, writes Stuart
Leigh.
In the reception area by the shop is a
Post & Go kiosk (reference A010), which
has been operational since 25 August
2015, when it dispensed the standard
Machin Head and Union Flag stamps with
the basic overprint of ‘STEAM GWR’.
In February 2016 the Machin stamp
was replaced by the Locomotive design
from the Royal Mail Heritage set issued
a month earlier, this single design was
reproduced digitally by ISP (Cartor).
Both the Locomotive and Union Flag
stamps had the overprint ‘STEAM GWR
– Swindon 175’ in celebration of the
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Works. By September 2016 the overprint
was updated to ‘STEAM’ in bolder type
and an image of the GWR logo, still
retaining the Swindon 175.
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In the past, stamp dealers frequently used
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writes Christer Brunström. Perhaps one of
the most curious such stamps was issued by
Parisian stamp dealer Arthur Maury (1844-
1907). He was one of the great names in the
early days of philately and stamp dealing.
In 1864 Maury published the very first issue
of Le Collectionneur de Timbres-poste and it was
followed by a comprehensive worldwide stamp
catalogue in 1865. Both his monthly journal
and the catalogue were greatly appreciated by
his contemporaries.
In the early days, stamp dealers frequently
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For just three weeks, at the end of February
2017, the Mail by Rail issue that had been
released the previous week was loaded alongside
the Locomotive issue with the overprint
‘STEAM’ and the logo of the GWR.
To celebrate the ninetieth anniversary of
the building of the GWR 6000 Class King
George V on 15 March 2017, both the
designs, Machin and Locomotive, carried the
overprint ‘King George V 90th’ as well as the
now standard ‘STEAM’ plus GWR logo.
Since April 2017, the Locomotive and
Machin stamps have been available with the
to be sold to collectors and Arthur Maury
was no exception. However, he also made
significant contributions to philatelic research.
He published one of the first books on French
postal history and he served as the Honorary
President of the French Philatelic Society.
The engraved poster stamp is a beautiful
production which exists in a variety of colours.
The wording is incomprehensible: ‘SERBMIT’ at
the top and ‘SIRAP A YRUAM’ at the bottom.
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solved. ‘SERBMIT’ is, of course, ‘TIMBRES’
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Anyone collecting ‘Literary Figures’ as a
theme should ensure that they add the recent
slogan postmark from Royal Mail that marks
the 200th anniversary of Emily Bronte’s
birth, writes David Gwynn.
Born on 30 July 1818, Emily Bronte’s
career as a novelist comprised just one
novel, Wuthering Heights. This was first
published in 1847, under the pen-name
Ellis Bell, to mixed reviews. The passion
and cruelty portrayed was unusual, given
her background, but this has not prevented
the novel becoming a classic of English
literature. There were rumours at the time,
and indeed since, that a second novel had
been begun, but there is no evidence to
support this. Emily Bronte was also a poet,
Emily Bronte
having published, albeit
reluctantly, a selection of
the Gondal poems written
about the make believe
world created with her
sister Anne. Elder sister
Charlotte also contributed
to the joint publication.
Emily Bronte died in 1848 at just thirty
years of age. Information about her is sparse,
and so potential biographers have always found
her a difficult subject. Her sister Charlotte
wrote about her, but much of what she said
cannot be guaranteed as impartial, or even true.
She continues to be a source of fascination
for Bronte fans the world over, and all on the
strength of one novel and a handful of poems. Emily Bronte appeared on a British stamp in July 1980

FIRST DAY COVERS

Working offices during the strike

I may have featured the 1971 postal strike before,
but this issue is one I always try to add to and feel
is worth revisiting, writes Brian Austin.
The Post Office workers went on strike from
the 20 January until 7 March, a period which
included ‘Decimal Day’ when all the new stamps
were due to be issued. A few offices remained open
and these postmarked the new stamps with their
CDS (Circular Date Stamp) postmark. Any cover
with an FDI postmark would have been done,
and backdated, after the strike had ended. First
day cover collectors and dealers hunted down the
working offices to get their covers postmarks done.
I have been trying to put together a list of these
and at the moment the results can be seen here.
Already the list is interesting, there were
lots of post offices remaining open in Bristol Ashford (North Horsmunden St Leonard’s on Sea
and there must have been some interesting Willesborough) Hythe (Kent) Slough (Datchet)
conversations at the Palace! Bristol (Filton) Ilminster (Barrington) Stockport
This month’s cover is another interesting Bristol (Oldland Common) London (Crescent Road, Swindon (Watchfield)
piece from the period; there are lots of BFPO Bristol (Yatton) Wood Green) Tintagel
postmarks to be found because the armed forces Buckingham Palace London (Finchley Road Swindon (Watchfield)
could not go on strike. This RAF Ballykelly cover Coatbridge and Airdrie Hampstead) Wareham
is even signed by the chairman of the philatelic Crawley (Southgate) Lyme Regis (Bovington Camp)
club to say it is genuine and delivered on the Derby (West End Alfreton) Malton Warrington (Latchford)
day of cancellation. Do let us know if you have Dereham Padstow Warwick (Kineton)
further examples of post offices that remained Great Glen Petersfield (West Meon) Wingate
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Early Canada official stamps were perforated ‘OHMS’. In 1949 however, the first set of
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in black. The four low values are from the War Issue depicting King George VI in military
uniform. The five high values are from the Peace Issue which portrays scenes from across
the country.

The quantity printed was relatively small. The key value is the 50¢, with a printing of just
30,000 stamps. There was limited for high values and this stamp was replaced shortly after
issue with the new 50¢ Oil Well design.

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Philatelic
curiosities
#32
I CHANG:
THE CHINESE
COURIER SERVICE

In this month’s curiosity from the world of postal communication, David Bailey provides an introduction to
the pioneering Imperial Chinese Courier service… using the account of a British spy in Tibet

A
ccording to reports from
the postal museum in
Zhujiajiao, the first
Imperial courier service
was established in the
early years of the Zhou Dynasty (c.11-
255 BC). It was used exclusively for
military and official mail and operated
via a system of Daks, or post houses,
with couriers speeding between them
on horseback or on foot. The service
expanded and contracted over the
centuries, as China’s fortunes rose and
fell. It eventually covered every major
town in this vast country. It reached
Europe via the Silk Road and Marco Polo
commented on its size and efficiency.
British involvement in Tibet, China
and its postal service meant that detailed
descriptions of the I Chang emerged
before it closed, notably from Sarat
Chandra Das.
Das was one of the Pundits sent by
Britain to carry out covert surveys of
Tibet at a time when foreigners were
barred. He made two trips to Tibet
in 1897 and 1881-2, and became so
enamoured of the country that he spent
the rest of his life studying its language
and culture.
His reports to his controller were
confidential and remained unpublished
until the 1890s, when heavily-censored
versions appeared in small print runs. In
1902, these were collated into one book:
Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet.
In Tibet, the service was centred
The postal routes of on Lhasa but also operated between
the I Chang were often a handful of major towns. By this
across difficult terrain point in its history, the I Chang was
and the couriers were carrying private letters, mostly from
often punished if their Chinese Merchants, as well as official
deliveries were late correspondence. And in many ways, the
horse couriers resemble the riders of the
Pony Express, an ocean away in America.
Chinese Government couriers were
carefully selected and highly trained.
They were called chib-zamba, or
ta-zamba, which means ‘horse-bridge’.
And they were treated very much as an
elite group. They were provided with
food and accommodation wherever they
stopped and Das noted that ‘everyone
assists them with great promptness.’
There were two classes: those on foot
and those on horseback, who were
naturally given the best ponies to ride.
Foot couriers would cover twenty to
25 miles per day. Horse couriers
provided an express service and would
cover thirty to 35 miles.
On the route from Lhasa to China,
Das describes the horse couriers as being
‘dressed in tight, blue-coloured gowns,
the tape fastenings of which are tied
on their heads and the knot sealed.’
They had to eat a healthy diet; their
daily ration of food was five eggs, five
cups of plain tea, a pound of cornflour,
half a pound of rice and quarter pound
of lean meat. They were forbidden to
eat onions, garlic, red pepper, butter
or milk. They were restricted to three
hours sleep a night, to be taken in a
sitting position and it was said that they
were ‘in the habit of taking certain
medicines to give them the power of
endurance against fatigue.’ Letters
were carried in a soft yellow bag and
there was generally a feather cushion
between this and the courier’s back.
On approaching a post house, the
courier would fire a gun as a signal
to get a fresh pony ready. There were
generally five available at any one time.
Couriers had target times to meet.
For instance, they were given 72 days
to get from Lhasa to Beijing. Delays
of up to five days would be tolerated.
If they took any longer than that, they
were punished.
In 1854, the Imperial Maritime
Customs post was established by
foreign embassies in Canton (now
Guangzhou) and quickly grew into a
parallel administration, with its own
postal network. Stamps arrived in
1878, when the post was opened up
to the public and the new network
ran alongside the I Chang until the
revolution of 1911.
Some sources give a date in the
12th century for the founding of the I
Chang, but even if the latter is correct,
the I Chang’s size, longevity and
coverage make it the greatest postal
network of the pre-industrial world.
Many thanks to blogger Meg Doherty
and author HR Holmes for information
used in this article.

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The glitz and glamour
of The Old Vic
Eight of Britain’s finest actors and actresses in some of their greatest
ever performances are featured in Royal Mail’s special issue, marking
the bicentenary of The Old Vic theatre
T
he Old Vic is one of
Britain’s best-loved theatres
and in its 200-year-history
has seen performances
from some of our greatest
stars of the stage. From its pre-Victorian
days as the Royal Coburg Theatre, through
its rebuilding in 1871 as the Royal Victoria
Palace and on to its Grade II listed status
after another re-opening following
wartime damage in the Second World
War, The Old Vic is loved by theatre
Stamp details
Issue date: 30 August 2018
Design: hat-trick design
Printer: International Security Printers
Print process: Lithography
Perforations: 14.5 x 14
Stamp size: 35mm x 37mm
Phosphor: Bars as appropriate
Gum: PVA
1st – The Dance of Death (1967), Laurence Olivier
1st – King Lear (2016), Glenda Jackson
£1.25 – Hamlet (1975), Albert Finney
£1.25 – Hedda Gabler (1970), Maggie Smith
£1.45 – No Man’s Land (1975), Ralph Richardson
£1.45 – Carmen Jones (1991), Sharon Benson
£1.55 – Romeo & Juliet (1960, Judi Dench and John Stride)
£1.55 – Henry V (1955), Richard Burton
34 NOVEMBER 2018
The Old Vic stamps goers and performers alike.
would fit nicely into a Many actors and actresses went
‘Stage and Screen’ on to become household names after
themed collection performing at The Old Vic and the new
and are similar in stamps reflect this, showing performances
approach to the Royal of British actors at The Old Vic, including
Shakespeare Company Richard Burton in Henry V; Judi Dench
stamps seen in 2011 and John Stride in Romeo and Juliet; and
which also featured Laurence Olivier in The Dance of Death.
photographs of actors
performing on stage The early days of The Old Vic
The Old Vic was originally called the
Royal Coburg and first opened in
May 1818. It was built on reclaimed
marshland, 300 yards south of the
newly built Waterloo Bridge. The
theatre could hold 3,800 people and
offered everything from spectacular
melodramas to Shakespeare revivals.
The theatre was renamed the Royal
Victoria in 1833.
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‘The Vic’ soon became the world’s
premier Shakespearean theatre and
Edith Evans, Sybil Thorndike, Peggy
Ashcroft, John Gielgud, Ralph
Richardson and Alec Guinness all gave
their first great classical performances
here. Tyrone Guthrie directed a
glamorous young film star named
Laurence Olivier as Hamlet, Henry V
and Iago. There was a hiatus between
1940 and 1950, after bombing had
left The Old Vic unusable as a theatre,
but then Richard Burton came to play
Hamlet, Coriolanus and an award-
winning Henry V during a five-year
season in which all Shakespeare’s plays
were staged.
The special stamps
Each of the stamps, which range in value
from 1st to £1.55, features an actor or
actress on stage at The Old Vic, along
with the title and year of the performance.
Four of the eight plays featured are the
work of William Shakespeare, in tribute
to The Old Vic’s status as a premier
Shakespeare venue. The two first class
values have Laurence Olivier in The Dance
of Death in 1967 and Glenda Jackson in
King Lear (2016). Next (£1.25) is a young
Albert Finney in a 1975 performance of
Hamlet, and Dame Maggie Smith in the
Norwegian play Hedda Gabler (1970).
The 1970s are represented again
on the £1.45 value featuring Ralph
Richardson in No Man’s Land, performed
at The Old Vic in 1975, whilst Sharon

Benson is featured in a 1991 performance
of the Oscar Hammerstein II play
Carmen Jones. The final two stamps
(£1.55) feature two Shakespeare plays –
Romeo & Juliet and Henry V, with Judi
Dench and John Stride as the ill-fated
lovers, and Richard Burton in role as
King Henry V. Actress, Kate Burton, said
of her father’s appearance on the Henry V
stamp: ‘He’d be absolutely thrilled. It’s an
important tribute. It’s a fitting tribute. I’m
so happy that dad is being recognised
for his brilliant work on stage because,
god knows, he had such a wonderful
colourful life, never a dull moment, but
he was an unbelievably gifted actor.’
Product portfolio
The eight special stamps are accompanied
by complementary products which
include a First Day Cover with all
eight stamps and words relating to the
theatre’s rich history, including: ‘brave’,
‘eclectic’, ‘inclusive’ and ‘magic’. Inside,
an information card gives a brief history
of The Old Vic, beginning in its Royal
Coburg days, through to the present day
under the leadership of artistic director
Matthew Warchus.
The presentation pack includes
photographs of The Old Vic’s opulent
interior and has a timeline and
information about the various plays
which have been staged over the years, as
well as the actors and actresses who have
trodden the boards at this historic theatre.
The three postmarks also pay tribute
to the roots of The Old Vic. The
Tallents House postmark has a quote
from actress Glenda Jackson OBE on
the theatre’s 200th anniversary: ‘There’s
nowhere else like it’. The alternative
postmark has a drawing of The Old Vic
and is postmarked SE1, the theatre’s
London postmark. A non-pictorial
version also carries the SE1 location.
Centenary of the
Great War
Royal Mail concludes a five-year commemoration of the centenary of
the First World War with six new stamps on themes that sum up the
loss and sacrifice of the ‘war to end all wars’
T
hroughout
the centenary
programme of 2014
to 2018, the stamps
issued each year
have covered the key themes: poppy,
poetry, portrait, memorials and
artefacts. The themes have allowed
Royal Mail to focus on how the
First World War has been portrayed
in art and popular culture, as well
as looking at those involved in the
conflict, and how the war has been
commemorated over the years.
The previous four issues have
covered the years 1914 to 1917
and these final stamps of the set
mark the final year of the war and
the armistice. The poppy theme is
central to the first stamps in the set
(1st class) that features the artwork
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The Great War stamp ‘100 Poppies’ by Zafer and Barbara
programme has, Baran. ‘100 Poppies’ was created
over the last four by photographing 100 freshly-cut
years, featured a poppies and then layering the images
series of different together to form one final image.
poppy stamps, giving Light filters through the petals, giving
collectors the chance the effect of gentle movement.
to create a poignant War poet Wilfred Owen mourns
themed collection the loss of a generation in ‘Anthem
for Doomed Youth’, whose hard-
The prescription hitting words are reproduced in a
goggles seen on the single sentence on the second stamp:
£1.55 value allowed ‘What passing bells for those who did
Lieutenant Francis as cattle? Only the monstrous anger
Hopgood to safely fly of the guns’. The words of the poem
his plane have been carved into a woodblock
print by illustrator Andrew Davidson
and there is extra poignancy due to
the fact that Owen died just a week
after the Armistice.
The ‘portrait’ theme features on
stamp three, with a photograph
of Second Lieutenant Walter Tull,
the first mixed race army officer
to command troops in a regular
unit. Folkestone-born Tull died on
the Western Front on 25 March
1918 and is commemorated on the
Arras Memorial. Football fans may
know Tull for another reason. The
war hero was also an accomplished
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footballer and one of the very first
mixed heritage players to play in the
top division of the Football League.
During his short life, he played for
teams including Tottenham Hotspur
and Northampton Town.
We are making a new world by Paul
Nash features on the first of the £1.55
values. In his work as an official war
artist, Nash was able to access scenes
which the general public could not, and
often portrayed the destruction of the
natural world in his wartime artworks.
A poignant photograph of the
tomb of the Unknown Warrior
in Westminster Abbey, London,
features on the fifth stamp. Dwarfed
by the grandeur of the medieval
cathedral, the simplicity of the tomb
represents enormous loss of life. The
tomb has acted as a focal point for
remembrance in the years since the
war ended and forms part of the
Remembrance Day commemorations
each November.
Finally, a pair of goggles belonging to
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Lieutenant Francis Hopgood form
the ‘artefacts’ theme for this issue.
Hopgood was a Lieutenant of the Royal
Flying Corps and his goggles were
fitted with prescription lenses in Triplex
safety glass to enable him to meet the
challenge of flying in combat situations.
Associated products
The theme of remembrance continues
through the other Royal Mail
products that accompany the six
special stamps. The first day cover has
all six stamps and also carries a poppy
image and the words ‘The Great War
1918’. Inside, an information card
explains the story behind each of the
six images featured. The presentation
pack explores the events of 1918 and
the end of the First World War in
more detail, taking a look at the lead
up to the armistice through text, a
timeline and photographs.
Also available are six ‘PHQ’
postcards featuring each of the
stamp designs, silver proof and gold
proof coin covers, and collector’s
packs which bring
together products from
the entire five-year
collection. The three
postmarks for this issue
are Tallents House,
with ‘World War at an
end’ newspaper-style
wording, a Tallents
House alternative with a
Union Jack flag and the
wording ‘comrades of the
Great War’, and a non-
pictorial postmark from
location SW1, where the
Cenotaph is located.
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Issue date: 13 September 2018
Printer: International Security Printers
Print process: Lithography
Perforations: 14.5 x 14.5
Stamp size: 35mm x 35mm
Phosphor: Bars as appropriate
Gum: PVA
1st 100 Poppies
1st Anthem for Doomed Youth
1st Second Lieutenant Walter Tull
£1.55 We Are Making a New World
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GUERNSEY

Remembering
those who served
Guernsey Post has released the final stamps in
its five-year series to mark the centenary of the
First World War, featuring details from some
of the memorials created to commemorate
islanders who died in the conflict

T
he six stamps form the fifth
and final issue in Guernsey
Post’s First World War
centenary issue, which has
looked at the centenary from
the perspective of the island of Guernsey.
These final stamps feature details from
memorials to those who served, including
the island’s postal workers, many of whom
enlisted in the services and lost their life in
the Great War.
The first stamp (46p) features a memorial
to members of the Royal Guernsey Light
Stamp details
Issue date: 8 November 2018
Designer: Charlotte Barnes
Printer: Cartor Security Printing
Print process: Offset Lithography
Stamp size: 40.6mm x 36.9mm
Infantry, formed in 1916 to show the
island’s devotion to the Crown. Its first
major engagement was at the Battle of
Cambrai where half of the regiment
was killed, injured or reported missing.
The memorial in St Peter Port’s Sunken
Gardens, show on the stamp, is twinned
with one in Masnières, France, where the
men made their stand.
The first of two Rolls of Honour
depicted on the stamps is for the Guernsey
postal workers who enlisted and died in
service. Their names are captured on an
illustrated memorial (shown on the 62p
stamp), which is located in the archives of
the Guernsey Museum.
The second Roll of Honour comes from
Guernsey’s Elizabeth College. The College
crest depicted on the 63p stamp includes
the school motto Semper Eadem: Always
the Same. This was the personal motto
of Elizabeth I, which celebrates integrity,
stability and composure, come what may.
The 1914 Alderney Commemoration
Stone (76p stamp) is found in St Anne’s
Memorial Garden. It was unveiled in 2014
to mark 100 years since the start of the
War, where it was announced that the town
church bells would ring out a quarter peel
to mark the centennial anniversaries of the
days when each of the 41 local men lost
their lives.
The Guernsey War Memorial, featured
on the 85p stamp, is located at the top of
Smith Street looking out over the town
of St Peter Port. Designed and built by
local craftsmen, it was unveiled in 1926 by
Guernsey’s Lieutenant Governor, Major-
General Charles Sackville-West.
At the top of the Memorial stands a
victorious St George with the head of the
dragon at his feet, which also features
on the Memorial Window of St Peter’s
Church in Sark (94p stamp). The window
is inscribed with the names of sixteen local
men who were killed in the conflict.

ISLE OF MAN

Lighthouse landmark anniversaries

Isle of Man Post Office has issued a set of four stamps celebrating the 200th anniversary of the first
permanent lighthouses on the Isle of Man, at Point of Ayre and the Calf of Man

During the 18th century, the Isle of Man’s treacherous coastline
presented a serious hazard to ships trading between England,
Ireland and Scotland and subsequently it became the scene of
countless shipwrecks. After an act of Parliament in 1815, the
construction of three lights on the island was commenced: one at
its northern tip, the Point of Ayre, and two on the Calf of Man, a
small island off its south-western tip.
The lighthouses, which mark their 200th anniversary this year,
were constructed and operated by the Northern Lighthouse Board
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under the supervision of renowned engineer Robert Stevenson.
The stamps feature images taken by Duke Aerial Productions using
drones equipped with high quality 4k cameras, which present a
bird’s eye view of the buildings.
The 52p stamp shows the Point of Ayre lighthouse, dwelling
and service buildings and the £1.53 stamps shows the ‘Winkie’
which is an automatic light and foghorn with the Point of Ayre
lighthouse in the background. The £2.60 and £3.10 stamps show
the lighthouses at the Calf of Man, the former depicting both
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JERSEY

Prince Charles 70th birthday celebrations

Six new stamps and a miniature sheet from Jersey Post mark the seventieth birthday of HRH Prince Charles

C
harles Philip Arthur
George, the first son
of Princess Elizabeth
and Prince Philip was
born on 14 November
1948 at Buckingham Palace, London, at
9.14pm, weighing 7lb and 6oz. In keeping
with royal tradition, an announcement
was made to the British public with a
proclamation posted on the railings of the
Palace, just before midnight.
When Charles was three years old, his
mother ascended the throne on the death
of her father King George VI and Prince
Charles became heir apparent. Charles
was invested as Prince of Wales by the
Queen in 1969 in a colourful and televised
ceremony at Caernarfon Castle.
After carrying out military service with the
RAF for five years, Prince Charles married
Lady Diana Spencer at Westminster Abbey
in 1981 and together they had two children,
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and
Prince Henry, Duke of Sussex. The couple
divorced in 1996. Since his marriage in 2005
to Camilla Shand, Prince Charles has also
become grandfather to Prince George, Princess
Charlotte and Prince Louis, the children
of Prince William and his wife, Catherine,
Duchess of Cambridge.
The six stamps feature Prince Charles at
different stages, from boyhood, through
military service and on to the present day,
whilst a miniature sheet depicts Prince
Charles with Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
during a day out at Ascot Racecourse in the
summer of 2017.
Stamp details
Issue date: 14 November 2018
Printer: Cartor Security Printing
Print process: Offset lithography
Stamp die size: 45mm x 28mm

the upper and lower lights aligned to

Chicken Rock and the latter depicts
the upper light with a view to the west
coast of the Isle of Man. Manx historian
Charles Guard wrote the accompanying
issue text.

Stamp details
Issue date: 18 October 2018
Printer: Cartor
Print process: Offset lithography
Perforations: 14 per 2cm
Stamp size: 60mm x 30mm JANUARY 2018 39
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Royal connections
Guernsey’s royal connections
Guernsey’s philatelic bureau has marked a number of royal occasions over the years, from birthdays and royal
births, to special anniversaries including the Golden and Diamond Jubilee celebrations for Her Majesty, The Queen
W
e are
particularly
delighted to
celebrate the
seventieth
birthday of His Royal Highness,
the Prince of Wales, with our first
set of stamps depicting The Prince.
The set features images of His Royal
Highness enjoying some of his many
interests and passions, including
playing polo and watching an Air
Force display.
The Prince of
Wales’s charities
Over the years, His Royal Highness
has developed a wide range of
interests which are reflected in The
Prince of Wales’s Charities, a group of
not-for-profit organisations of which
The Prince is Patron or President.
For over forty years His Royal
Highness has led the way in
identifying charitable need – in
setting up and driving forward
charities to meet it. From the early
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days of The Prince’s Trust in the mid-
1970s, His Royal Highness’ charities
have grown to represent a broad range
of areas. Today, The Prince of Wales’s
charities work to transform lives and
build sustainable communities.
With the support of his wife,
The Duchess of Cornwall, The
Prince of Wales carries out dozens
of engagements every year to help
his charities. Collectively The
Prince of Wales’s charities raise
more than £100 million annually to
transform lives and build sustainable
communities in the UK and overseas.
Charitable foundation
In addition to The Prince’s
Charities, in 1979 His Royal
Highness also founded The Prince
of Wales’s Charitable Foundation,
a grant-making body that supports
many causes, primarily the built
environment, responsible business
and enterprise, young people and
education, and global sustainability.
The Foundation also seeks to nurture
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Order an item from initiatives and projects that fall within
Guernsey’s new issue these primary areas of interest.
celebrating the seventieth
birthday of The Prince Becoming a grandfather
of Wales (shown above), Prince Charles became a grandfather
using the order form for the first time on 22 July 2013,
attached to the cover following the birth of the infant son of
of this edition, and you The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge,
will receive a copy of which we marked with the release of a
the prestige booklet – a miniature sheet.
wonderful complementary Kensington Palace released a statement
addition to the miniature two days later, which said: ‘The Duke
sheet included with this and Duchess of Cambridge are delighted
month’s magazine to announce that they have named their
son George Alexander Louis. The baby
will be known as His Royal Highness
Prince George of Cambridge.’
Future king
After his grandfather, Charles, Prince
of Wales, and his father, Prince George
In 2011, Guernsey is third in line to succeed his great-
commemorated the 85th grandmother, Her Majesty Queen
birthday of Her Majesty, Elizabeth II.
The Queen, and the 90th He could choose to become King
birthday of Prince Philip, George VII when he eventually takes
Duke of Edinburgh the throne. This would follow a long

tradition dating back to German-born
George I, the first Hanoverian King
of Great Britain, who acceded to the
throne in 1714.
The Prince of Wales has previously
spoken about becoming a grandfather,
and said: ‘It’s a different part of your
life. The great thing is to encourage
them. Show them things to take their
interest. My grandmother did that,
she was wonderful.’
Royal birthdays
In 2011, we commemorated the 85th
birthday of Her Majesty, The Queen,
and the 90th birthday of Prince
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Chosen for their natural qualities,
the stamps look back at the life of
Her Majesty and Prince Philip since
the early years of their marriage,
through to celebrating the Queen’s
eightieth birthday at St Paul’s
Cathedral on 15 June 2006.
The earliest image depicts the Royal
couple completing their tour of what
was then known as West Riding in
Yorkshire with a visit to the city of York
on 29 July 1949; another stamp shows
them near the King George IV Gateway
at Windsor Castle, an official residence
of Her Majesty, on 6 June 1959.
Other images include The Queen
and Prince Philip at Balmoral on 1
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June 1972 and attending the Silver
Jubilee Thanksgiving at St Paul’s
Cathedral in London on 7 June 1977,
where they are seen kneeling in prayer.
Completing the collection is a stamp
depicting The Queen and Prince
Philip attending the Sikh Temple
Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha in
Hounslow, London, on 15 October
2004, where they met Sikh war
veterans and elders.
The Queen’s official
and actual birthday
The Queen celebrates two birthdays
each year: her actual birthday on
21 April and her official birthday
on either the first, second or third
Saturday in June when the weather is
likely to be better.
On her official birthday, Her
Majesty is joined by other members
of the Royal Family, invited guests
and members of the public to watch
Trooping the Colour, which moves
between Buckingham Palace, The Mall
and Horseguards’ Parade.
The Queen’s actual birthday is
usually a private affair, although the
occasion is marked publicly by gun
salutes in London at midday.
Prince Charles became Prestige Booklet
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first time in July 2013, a prestige booklet, which contains
following the birth of four sets of each of the stamps in
Prince George, which beautifully illustrated panes, along
Guernsey celebrated with with a wealth of information about
the release of a miniature the royal couple.
sheet showing the couple Should you decide to order an item
with their new addition from our new issue celebrating the
seventieth birthday of The Prince of
Wales, using the order form attached
to the cover of this edition, you
will receive a copy of the prestige
booklet – a wonderful complementary
addition to the miniature sheet
attached to this month’s copy of
Stamp & Coin Mart.
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Gems from The Postal Museum
A short-lived reign
In the year of the three kings, the people of Britain and its Empire went from mourning the
monarch to wondering what the future of the royal family held, whilst philatelists witnessed a
fascinating period in the nation’s stamp history
F
or what amounted to less
than eleven months, the
reign of King Edward
VIII created a surprising
amount of material in
the form of trials and essays. Even
more surprising were the ambitious
plans, quite unprecedented, for not
only an Accession issue, but also a
Coronation set, both to be followed by
a permanent issue. So while the reign
produced just four stamps, The Postal
Museum holds much artwork, all of
which can be seen online.
Considerable work was undertaken
by Harrison and Sons on designs for
the Accession issue, in the initial stages
using for convenience portraits of the
King in the uniforms of the Seaforth
Highlanders and the Welsh Guards.
A photographic duplicate of the reverse
‘hexagonal’ design by Dulac
However, the King was not impressed
by what he saw, describing it as ‘over-
ornamented and foreign-looking’.
What did attract the King was the
development work and simplicity
of an unsolicited idea submitted by
seventeen-year-old student Hubert J.
Brown. Brown’s sketch was the basis for
the issued stamps that used a profile
portrait by Hugh Cecil.
For the Coronation remarkable
ideas were considered, including a
set ranging in values from ½d to 1s,
with the thought of a later £1 value
showing the King in the Coronation
robes. Serious consideration was given
to using pictorial designs for the first
time, depicting famous landmarks in
London and Royal residences. Other
designs were more ‘traditional’, with
the King’s portrait set within various
frames, all including the year ‘1937’,
for which many essays exist, several the
work of Eric Gill. For the ‘traditional’
designs the King expressed a preference
for a crowned portrait as was to be used
for the Coronation medal. Throughout
the process the King was naturally kept Top, from left: work portrait of the King shown uncrowned.
fully informed but, as time progressed, by Harrisons on Brown’s Work ground to a halt when the
his attention proved to be elsewhere. design; essays of a King signed the Abdication papers on
With so much effort being expended potential permanent 10 December 1936. As plans for the
on designs for the Coronation, design. Above: designs Coronation were well in hand it was
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GREAT 101
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The stamps you STAMPS
YOU NEED

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In the fifth part of our series on British stamps through the decades, we follow the evolution of the country’s
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pictorial stamps, as national events, figures and anniversaries vied for space alongside the Queen’s portrait

20th Century Women of Achievement,

August 1996
Royal Mail chose to remember the contributions of five women who
had passed away during the last seven years for this set, but it seemed
everybody had an opinion on who ought to have been included. Many
called for Virginia Woolf, Marie Stopes, and Vivien Leigh to be honoured
on stamps; later they were, in 2006, 2008 and 2013, respectively. The
controversy did not, of course, detract from the achievements of those
chosen (namely Prof. Dorothy Hodgkin (scientist, Dame Margot
Fonteyn (ballerina), Dame Elisabeth Frink (sculptress), Dame Daphne
du Maurier (novelist), Dame Daphne du Maurier (novelist), and Dame
Marea Hartman (Sports administrator), but suggested there were plenty
more ‘Women of Achievement’ stamps required to redress the balance of Millennium Series:
Britain’s seemingly male-orientated stamp subjects. The Entertainers’ Tale,
June 1999
Royal Mail’s ambitious Millennium
Series was issued monthly
throughout 1999, with each
stamp set telling a different ‘tale’.
The ‘Entertainers’ Tale’ in June
saw a 19p value pay homage to
flamboyant Queen frontman
Freddie Mercury – an avid stamp
collector in his youth. It wasn’t
the rock ‘n’ roll aspect of the
Horror Stories, May 1997 stamp that caused controversy, but
Four hair-raising horror stories were brought together for this grisly set to mark the bicentenary of Mary the presence of drummer Roger
Shelley’s Frankenstein and the centenary of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Rather than highlighting the B-movie Taylor. Until then, members of the
version of the monsters (see 2008’s ‘Carry on Hammer’ set), the stamps remained loyal to the authors’ Queen’s family were the only living
creations, though glow-in-the dark elements added some novelty. A Royal Mail spokesperson quipped: ‘The people allowed on stamps, now, it
royal family are the only living people allowed to be on British stamps. We’ve broken with convention by seemed, the privilege stretched to
featuring the first living-dead person - Dracula the vampire.’ members of Queen too.

Celebrating Fifty Years of the NHS, June 1998

July 1948 saw the introduction of the new National Health Service across the UK. A
leaflet at the time explained: ‘Everyone – rich or poor, man, woman or child ¬– can use
any part of it … you are all paying for it, mainly as taxpayers, and it will relieve your
money worries in times of illness.’ Four simple stamps marked the system’s half century,
cleverly using hands to capture the communal care open to all. Each stamp also included
figures on the daily demands of the service, an ongoing cause for both concern and pride.

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Millennium Projects, 2000
Throughout 2000, Britain’s stamps celebrated
projects that had received funding from the
Millennium Commission, with a handful of new
definitives and regionals, and a set celebrating
the Queen Mother’s 100th birthday, scattered
amongst the year-long series.
The forty-eight stamps each highlighted a
project aimed at ‘uniting and informing local
communities, rejuvenating local environments and
sustaining our heritage’.
In February, excitement at the opening of
Edinburgh’s new Dynamic Earth attraction was
captured on a 44p value showing lightning.
Gateshead’s Millennium Bridge, which dramatically
tilts to let vessels past and was also depicted on a
£1 coin in 2007, featured on a value in June; while
in August a giant sunflower brightened up a 1st
Class value, marking the creation of Cornwall’s
celebrated Eden Project. Birmingham’s science and
technology hub, Millennium Point, was represented
by a unique X-ray image of a hand operating a
computer mouse, on a 44p stamp; while October
saw acrobatic performers at the Millennium Dome
on a 2nd Class value.
Golden Jubilee, February 2002
The iconic and immovable Machin profile, seen on countless
definitive stamps, might not reflect the changing face of our
monarch, but a set of five issued to mark her fiftieth year on
the throne made up for it. The photograph on the 2nd Class
value was taken by Dorothy Wilding, who was responsible
for the Queen’s first stamp portrait back in 1952.
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Cats and Dogs, February 2001
These black and white photos of our four-legged friends might have left
dog and cat lovers purring with delight but others thought the collection
of lackluster snaps was a bit of a dog’s dinner, a sign of a post-Millenium
slump for GB stamp designs? But the set had one notable feature to earn
their place in your album, being Britain’s first self-adhesive special stamp
issue, and so sparing us the ordeal of licking the animals’ behinds.
The Weather, March 2001
Preceded by the ‘Cats and Dogs’ stamps,
it was inevitable that this colourful set
would feature some good old British rain,
with a few more subtle animal appearances
thrown in for good measure. Thankfully
the sun shone through the prevailing
barometer design on the 27p stamp and the
thermochromic violet ink on this value and
the accompanying miniature sheet turned
blue when exposed to heat.
150th Anniversary of Great Ormond Street Children’s
Hospital. Peter Pan by Sir James Barrie, August 2002
London’s Hospital for Sick
Children opened in 1852 with
just ten beds and two physicians,
but quickly expanded thanks to
widespread support. Rather than
feature the hospital itself, Royal
Mail celebrated the work of JM
Barrie, who donated the rights
of Peter Pan to the hospital in
1929. The beautiful illustrations
capture the drama, wonder and magic of the story; Captain Hook peering
through a slashed sail, Tinkerbell in the sparkling spotlight, and Peter and
his friends flying high above the capital.
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 Celebrated Sets
Celebrated
Sets
Every postwar school-boy and girl collection had a few of these, and the full set still makes for
an attractive addition to any stamp album today. Now, David Bailey discovers the story behind
the set and how it relates to the reality of post-war Italy
B
y the late 1940s, the
Republic’s first set of
definitives was showing
its age. Images of broken
chains and newly-planted
saplings looked a little hackneyed, while
the set had no unity of design. It had
been chosen following a competition
organised by the Ministry of Posts, and
when thinking about a set to replace
it, Minister Angelo Raffaele Jervolino
remembered one of the unsuccessful
entries. It was a series of ten regional
occupations called ‘Italy at Work’,
designed by Professor Corrado Mezzana.
On commissioning Mezzana to expand
the series the Minister said that Italy’s
large scale agricultural and industrial
enterprises were similar to others all over
the world and did not show the soul of
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ITALY, PROVINCIAL
OCCUPATIONS
Italy. This set would show the traditional
regional artisans who maintain the
Italian traditions of art and craft. And
to emphasise the link between the craft
and the land, each activity would be
shown against the background of a
typical landscape or a monument. Post-
war Italy had nineteen regions, so there
would be nineteen stamps.
Loyalty to one’s home town or region
still ran strongly in Italy; they call it
‘campanilismo’ after the bell tower of
a church. And there were extensive
discussions abut which region would
feature which activity and in what order.
It was settled by a complex formula which
featured north-south progressions of first
artisan and manufacturing activities, then
marine subjects and then the agricultural
workers. All of these are beautifully
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integrated with their background
landmarks in a unified set of stamps that
serve as minor classics in their own right.
The stamps appeared in 1950
on paper with a ‘Winged Wheel’
watermark. The seventeen lower values
were printed by photogravure, the 100l
and 200l were line engraved. In 1955,
seven values appeared on paper with the
Multiple Stars watermark and the set
was withdrawn in 1958.
The wider economy
The years from 1950 to 1967 were
boom years in Italy; it was the time
of the economic miracle that would
transform the whole country. On seeing
the Provincial Occupations series,
philatelist Enzo Diena wrote that ‘it
depicted an Italy more medieval than the
most medieval reality’. And the set has
often been dismissed as a pre-unification
fantasy of regional crafts and costumes
that bore no relation to reality.
The true position is a little more
nuanced. Italy’s economic boom only
really took off in 1958. Historians
see the period from 1950 to 1957
as the years of preparation, featuring
improvements in infrastructure and
the integration of the Italian economy
into world trade, which culminated in
membership of the Common Market.
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So the set may paint a romanticised
picture of one sector of the Italian
economy. But it was still a major
sector at the time.
Plus of course there’s the question
of what you call it. At home, the set
is known as ‘Italy at Work’, which is
debatable. Here we call it the ‘Provincial
Occupations’ which is fine.
The set, however, was not practical in
use. It was too big for postal stationery,
so the Siracusana design was created.
This featured an allegory of Italy as a
crowned woman and was derived from
a 4th-century coin.
Postal stationery was followed by the
first Siracusana stamps. A series of nine
small format definitives appeared in June
1953, with values from 5l to 80l. They
were easier to store and use, and the
design was easier to update as postal rates
changed. The Siracusana became Italy’s
Machin, and was only superseded in 1980.
Collecting the set
The Provincial Occupations series proves
that classic sets don’t stop at 1935 and
don’t come with a massive price-tag.
One in VFU condition should cost no
more than £10. Mint is more daunting,
cataloguing £300 in Gibbons, but UM junior album somewhere, take another
sets are being offered online for £110. look. If you don’t find a rare perforation,
Gibbons lists the lower values as being you’ll rediscover one of Europe’s most
perf 14 and the 100l and 200l perf 14.5. beautifully evocative sets.
Italian specialised catalogues list the
norm for these stamps as being 14 x 14.25 Many thanks for information used in
and recognise another ten variations for this article to Bruno Crevato-Selvaggi,
the 100l and five for the 200l. Some of as translated by LRH for Fil-Italia,
these are very rare. So if you do have a few the magazine of the Italy and Colonies
‘Provincial Occupations’ in an abandoned Study Circle.

Value Occupation Region Background

50c violet blue Blacksmith Valle D’Aosta Bard Castle

1l blackish violet Motor mechanic Piedmont Chiusa Abbey

2l black-brown Stonemason Lombardy Basilica of St Ambrose and

Duomo, Milan

5l black Potter Tuscany Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

6l purple-brown Lacemaking/embroidery. Abruzzi and Molise Hill village of Scanno

10l green Weaving Calabria Tyrrhenian Coast

12l turquoise-green Helmsman Venetia Doge’s Palace and Bell tower, Venice

15l slate-blue Boatbuilder Liguria Rapallo Castle

20l bright violet Fisherman Campania Bay of Naples and Vesuvius

25l orange-brown Packing oranges Sicily Palermo and Mt Pellegrino

30l bright purple Harvesting grapes Apulia Castel del Monte

35l carmine Harvesting olives Basilicata Greek temple at Metaponto

40l brown Transporting wine Lazio Roman Aqueduct and St Peter’s

50l violet Shepherd Sardinia A Nuraghe, a megalithic building

55l blue Ploughman Umbria Basilica of St Francis, Assisi

60l scarlet Harvester Marche Ducal Palace, Urbino

65l blue-green Hemp harvester Emilia Romagna Pomposa Abbey

100l chestnut Sorting maize Friuli Venezia Giulia A local kitchen

200l yellow-brown Timber-worker Trentino-Alto Adige Vajolet Towers; peaks in the

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OMNIBUS ISSUES
1935 1937 1946 1948 1949 1953
JUBILEE CORONATION VICTORY RSW U.P.U. CORONATION
COUNTRY M/M U/M M/M F/U U/M M/M F/U U/M M/M U/M M/M U/M M/M F/U
Aden 1·30 0·85 2·60 0·60 0·35 1·65 22·50 15·00 3·50 2·50 0·70 0·45 0·75
“ Seiyun 0·40 0·25 0·60 11·00 7·50 1·50 1·00 0·20 0·15 1·00
“ Qu’aiti 0·35 0·20 0·90 10·00 7·00 1·65 1·00 0·50 0·30 0·35
Antigua 12·00 1·85 1·20 4·00 0·35 0·20 0·35 8·00 6·00 2·50 1·50 0·20 0·15 0·45
Ascension 33·00 1·25 0·85 1·20 0·45 0·30 1·00 32·00 22·00 5·50 4·00 0·50 0·30 1·40
Australia 22·00 0·80 0·50 1·50 0·50 0·20 2·20 1·20 1·50
Bahamas 11·00 0·50 0·35 1·00 0·30 0·20 0·70 25·00 17·50 2·50 1·50 0·80 0·50 0·35
Bahrain 18·50 13·00 2·20 1·60 7·25 4·00 8·50
Barbados 18·00 1·10 0·70 0·75 0·30 0·20 0·60 10·00 7·00 1·85 1·40 0·50 0·30 0·20
Basutoland 5·00 0·80 0·55 1·00 1·00 0·60 1·20 27·50 20·00 2·50 1·70 0·25 0·15 0·25
Bechuanaland 10·00 1·00 0·60 1·20 1·00 0·60 2·60 25·00 17·50 2·00 1·40 0·75 0·45 0·20
Bermuda 15·00 1·10 0·75 2·35 0·30 0·20 0·45 26·50 20·00 1·90 1·40 0·50 0·30 0·30
Br. Guiana 14·50 0·80 0·55 1·20 0·60 0·35 0·75 13·00 9·00 1·50 1·00 0·20 0·10 0·20
Br. Honduras 10·00 0·90 0·60 1·20 0·30 0·20 0·25 14·00 10·00 1·90 1·40 0·35 0·25 0·20
Br. Solomons 15·00 0·70 0·40 1·10 0·30 0·20 0·90 6·00 4·00 2·50 1·80 0·60 0·35 0·75
Br. Virgins 15·00 1·20 0·80 3·50 0·30 0·20 0·40 9·00 6·00 1·80 1·25 0·20 0·10 0·75
Brunei 4·75 3·40
Burma 1·00 0·60 0·50
Canada 17·00 1·00 0·60 0·60 0·20 0·10 0·20
Cayman Is. 11·00 1·00 0·55 1·40 0·60 0·35 0·45 13·50 9·50 2·00 1·25 0·20 0·10 1·20
Ceylon 6·00 4·00 2·60 4·50 0·30 0·20 1·30 2·00 1·40 0·50 0·35 0·20
Cook Is. 5·50 1·50 0·90 1·40 1·25 0·85 1·75 1·50 1·00 1·50
Cyprus 20·00 4·00 1·50 2·50 0·60 0·35 0·35 34·00 24·00 2·75 1·80 1·00 0·60 0·20
Dominica 11·00 0·70 0·40 1·00 0·35 0·25 0·25 14·50 9·50 1·20 0·80 0·20 0·10 0·20
Falkland Is. 25·00 1·65 0·90 1·00 0·45 0·30 0·75 50·00 37·50 7·50 5·00 0·40 0·25 0·90
Falkland Deps. 0·75 0·50 0·60 2·00 1·50 7·50 5·00 0·50 0·30 0·80
Fiji 10·00 1·00 0·55 0·45 0·30 0·20 1·00 9·00 6·00 1·40 1·00 0·90 0·50 0·30
Gambia 10·00 0·60 0·40 2·20 0·30 0·20 0·55 11·50 8·00 2·00 1·20 0·40 0·15 0·90
Gibraltar 18·00 2·75 1·60 3·30 0·35 0·20 1·70 37·00 26·00 3·50 2·50 0·30 0·20 1·20
G. & Ellice Is. 19·00 0·50 0·40 1·00 0·30 0·20 0·80 9·00 6·50 2·20 1·60 0·30 0·20 1·40
Gold Coast 14·00 3·75 2·25 5·00 0·95 0·65 1·90 19·00 14·00 1·75 1·20 0·70 0·45 0·20
Grenada 11·00 0·80 0·50 1·60 0·30 0·20 0·90 13·00 9·00 1·50 0·80 0·20 0·10 0·20
Hong Kong 35·00 15·00 9·95 7·00 4·25 3·00 1·90 190·00 135·00 40·00 30·00 2·00 1·25 1·40
India 18·00 3·50 2·00 3·50
Hyderabad 0·30 0·20 0·30
Jamaica 12·00 1·00 0·60 0·50 0·80 0·55 1·90 17·00 12·00 1·70 1·20 0·70 0·40 0·20
K.U.T. 5·00 0·60 0·40 1·00 0·30 0·20 0·50 28·50 20·00 1·50 1·10 0·20 0·10 0·20
Kuwait 22·00 15·00 3·00 2·00 7·00 4·00 7·50
Leeward Is. 18·00 1·30 0·80 1·80 0·30 0·20 0·90 3·75 2·75 1·50 1·00 0·50 0·30 1·40
Straits 7·00 3·30 2·10 0·50
Malaya - Johore 16·00 12·50 2·80 1·90 0·65 0·40 0·20
Kedah 18·00 14·00 2·70 1·80 1·20 0·75 0·40
Kelantan 18·00 14·00 2·50 1·70 0·60 0·35 0·80
Malacca 21·00 16·50 2·50 1·70 0·80 0·50 0·95
N. Sembilan 15·00 11·50 2·00 1·50 0·60 0·35 0·30
Pahang 16·00 12·00 2·00 1·50 1·30 0·80 0·20
Penang 23·50 17·00 3·20 2·30 1·30 0·80 0·20
Perak 16·00 12·00 2·00 1·25 1·20 0·75 0·20
Perlis 21·00 16·00 2·00 1·50 0·80 0·50 1·85
Selangor 18·00 13·00 3·20 2·30 0·90 0·50 0·20
Trengganu 18·00 13·00 2·50 1·70 1·20 0·75 0·80
Malta 15·00 1·60 1·00 0·80 0·30 0·20 1·30 23·00 16·50 2·50 1·75 0·30 0·20 0·20
Mauritius 24·00 1·50 0·90 1·50 0·30 0·20 0·60 10·00 7·00 2·50 1·80 0·70 0·45 0·20
Montserrat 5·00 1·00 0·65 1·50 0·30 0·20 0·25 3·50 2·50 1·70 1·20 0·30 0·20 0·20
Mor. Ags. Br. 7·00
Mor. Ags. Sp. 7·00 0·60 0·35 0·50 11·00 8·00
Mor. Ags. Fr. 3·00 0·25 0·15 0·20
Muscat 17·50 13·00 2·75 2·00 5·50 3·85 3·75
Nauru 5·50 1·25 0·75 4·00
Newfoundland (3) 6·00 3·00 2·00 5·00
Newfoundland (11) 32·50 15·00 27·00
New Hebrides 1·00 0·50 0·45 0·30 0·30
New Heb. French 15·00 10·00
New Zealand 11·00 1·20 0·80 2·20 1·50 0·90 2·40 3·00 1·80 4·00
Tokelau 1·00 0·65 2·00
Nigeria 8·00 3·60 2·35 5·00 0·40 0·25 1·60 9·50 6·50 1·50 1·00 0·20 0·15 0·20
Niue 5·00 0·80 0·40 0·80 0·90 0·65 1·00 0·75 0·50 0·50
N. Borneo 17·50 12·50 3·75 2·80 1·10 0·65 0·60
N. Rhodesia 10·00 0·70 0·40 1·00 0·65 0·45 1·40 80·00 55·00 2·75 1·80 0·50 0·30 0·20
Nyasaland 20·00 0·70 0·40 3·30 0·30 0·20 0·35 11·00 7·50 2·20 1·60 0·30 0·20 0·45
Pak. Bahawlp. Post. 3·50 2·00 2·75 0·50 0·40
Pak. Bahawlp. Off. 0·50 0·40
Papua 7·50 1·00 0·60 2·00
New Guinea 2·00 1·00 0·70 3·30
Pitcairn Is. 0·85 0·50 0·40 25·00 17·00 12·00 8·00 1·00 0·60 2·20
St. Helena 21·00 1·00 0·60 0·80 0·60 0·35 0·45 15·00 10·00 2·75 2·20 0·80 0·50 0·90
St. Kitts-Nevis 7·50 0·90 0·50 0·90 0·30 0·20 0·25 5·00 3·50 1·25 0·75 0·20 0·10 0·20
St. Lucia 11·00 0·70 0·45 0·85 0·30 0·20 0·35 11·00 7·00 1·40 0·85 0·30 0·20 0·20
St. Vincent 5·00 0·70 0·40 2·20 0·30 0·20 0·25 15·50 11·00 1·00 0·70 0·20 0·10 0·20
Samoa 2·00 1·10 0·70 0·40 1·20 0·70 0·30
Sarawak 30·00 20·00 6·00 4·00 1·00 0·70 1·00
Seychelles 10·00 1·10 0·70 0·75 0·30 0·20 0·30 9·00 6·50 1·60 1·30 0·30 0·20 0·40
Sierra Leone 15·00 1·85 1·20 3·00 0·30 0·20 0·30 12·00 8·00 2·00 1·40 0·20 0·10 0·20
Singapore 65·00 40·00 12·50 8·00 1·25 0·80 0·20
Somaliland 10·00 0·90 0·60 1·60 0·30 0·20 0·30 3·50 2·50 1·80 1·25 0·20 0·10 0·20
South Africa 25·00 4·50 3·00 5·00 0·35 0·20 2·20 0·35 0·25 1·00 0·70 0·20 0·15 0·20
S. Rhodesia 18·00 3·75 2·60 7·50 1·00 0·60 2·20 1·00 0·80 4·50 2·60 4·00
SWA 6·50 2·00 1·50 3·60 1·10 0·80 1·80 0·70 0·50 2·00 1·25 2·00 1·20 0·80
Swaziland 4·00 0·80 0·55 1·60 1·10 0·80 2·20 24·00 17·50 1·70 1·20 0·20 0·10 0·20
Tangier 12·00 0·60 0·35 0·45 1·50 0·90 1·65 12·50 8·00 2·00 1·20 4·00 2·75 3·75
Tonga 1·80 1·25
Trin. & Tob. 7·00 0·70 0·45 1·40 0·30 0·20 1·00 17·50 13·00 2·20 1·60 0·20 0·10 0·20
Tristan 0·40 0·25 1·20
Turks 5·00 0·85 0·50 0·65 0·30 0·20 0·25 9·00 6·00 1·80 1·30 0·30 0·20 0·80
Zanzibar 0·30 0·20 0·60 15·00 10·00 2·75 1·85

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Collecting the Great War

As the world pauses to mark the centenary of the end of World War One,
Alan Baker of the Forces Postal History Society provides a guide to collecting the
stamps and postal history of this turbulent period

T
he Great War began in August 1914 following the assassination of Archduke
Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife.
Over the four years it continued, it involved armies from a wide range of
countries, not only in Europe. In total, over 65 million soldiers, sailors
and airmen were involved. It is estimated that there were over forty million
casualties, both military and civilian, of which eighteen million died.
This story of the ‘war to end all wars’ may be familiar to us all, but begin to investigate
and collate just some of the varied stamps and postal history of this chaotic period and
you can create your own unique postscript. There are countless avenues to pursue and
the following introductory guide will provide you with examples and inspiration to start
creating your own WWI collection, 100 years after the events that shook the world.

War stamps
Put simply, the stamp issues of many countries
reflect their involvement. Some were overprinted
by occupying armies, others were used to raise
money for the war effort. The range of shades
seen in British definitives of the time reflects the Postcard sent in 1915 to a
shortage of inks during the war. Sergeant in the 3rd Division
of the Belgian army

Postcard from a
Lieutenant in the
Portuguese
military administration,
posted from Calais,
30 June 1918

The Western Front

War Tax stamps issued in various British colonies
Although the history of the British army on the Western Front and those of the
Empire is well known, it was the French army which bore the brunt of the fighting,
particularly in the early stages when the British force was building up.
Many of the soldiers wrote letters or postcards home regularly and there is much
scope to collect these. One of the most detailed books covering the various censor
and postmarks etc used by the British postal service is The Postal History of the
British Army in World War I by Alistair Kennedy and George Crabb, both early
members of the Forces Postal History Society.
In addition to France and Britain, there were troops from other countries involved
on the Western Front: Belgium, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Portugal, Italy,
Russia and eventually the USA, facing the armies of Germany and Austria-Hungary.

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Postcard sent in 1915 to a Czech cadet held as a Prisoner of War in Serbia
Postcard dated January 1917 from a French soldier with L’Armee d’Orient in Salonica
Other Fronts
Fighting took place at various times in the war on other fronts,
including Serbia, Salonica, the Caucasus, the Middle East and in Africa
At the start of the War, Austria invaded Serbia, but were beaten
back, only finally occupying the country with the aid of German and
Bulgarian troops.
In 1915, in a failed attempt to come to the aid of Serbia, an Anglo-
French force was sent to Salonica. Later augmented by Russian, Italian
and Greek troops together with the remnants of the Serbian army, an
offensive was launched against the Bulgarian army, which was forced to
retreat and seek an armistice.
Postal History
One of the first functions to be set up, as each army was deployed,
was the postal service. Soldiers were keen to have news from home and
their families were anxious to hear from their loved ones. Considerable
numbers of letters, covers and postcards have survived, each adding to
the story. Much research has been undertaken into the postal services and
censorship arrangements for the forces involved.
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Postcard from a stoker on the British battleship HMS Majestic, posted on Malta while
en route to the Dardanelles. On 27 May 1915, HMS Majestic was anchored off Cape
Helles, giving support to the British troops, when she was struck by two torpedoes
fired by U21. She sank within seven minutes. There were 49 casualties, but Stoker
Thornhill survived. He was, however, invalided out of the service after this
Gallipoli
As with the Western Front, the history of the Gallipoli
campaign is well documented. Following an unsuccessful
attempt by British and French naval forces to force the
Dardanelles, Allied troops landed on the peninsular in 1915
but were held by Turkish forces and were eventually evacuated
in January 1916.
Censored card from a Romanian soldier serving with Rgt 38 Infanterie Comp 4a,
Divizia IX, posted from Braila. Following the attack, the cities of Craiova and Braila
were occupied by the invading force
The Eastern Front
In the East, the Russian army faced those of Germany and
Austria-Hungary. The Austrian army was made up of men from
many ethnic backgrounds, German-speaking Austrians, Magyars,
Czechs, Ruthenes, Romanians, Italians and Bosnian Slavs.
Later, Bulgaria joined the war on the side of the Central
Powers and Romania joined the allies in 1916. However, a force
consisting of the Bulgarian 3rd Army, a German brigade and
units of the Ottoman army attacked from the south and large
parts of Southern and Eastern Romania were occupied.
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Postcard from an Austrian soldier on the Isonzo

Italy
Italy entered the War on the side of the Allies in April 1915
and fought on two fronts, the Tyrol and on the Isonzo river,
to begin with against Austrian forces but later German troops
as well. Twelve battles were fought on the Isonzo, resulting in
considerable Italian casualties.
With the introduction of German troops, a breakthrough
of the Italian lines was achieved at the Battle of Caporetto and
British and French units were sent to Italy to support their
defence. Finally, in October 1918 at the Piave River, Allied
forces broke through the Austrian lines and an armistice was
called for.
German propaganda postcard purporting to depict a scene from the Battle of Jutland ; Postcard
from the Captain of the Japanese destroyer Katsura, sent from Port Said in 1917. The text
mentions damage caused to one of her sister ships HIJMS Sakaki by a German U-Boot which
caused almost sixty casualties, a quarter of all Japanese losses in the War

The war at sea

The Naval Race between Britain and Germany during the early years of
the century was a major source of conflict between the two countries.
Germany sought to build up a fleet to rival the Royal Navy, while the
British were anxious to preserve their superiority, which was important to
protect the trade routes and their colonies around the world.
There were few major sea battles during the War, the German High
Command being reluctant to risk their ships against the British Grand
Fleet. However, there were clashes at Coronel (off the Pacific coast of South
America), the Falkland Islands and the Dogger bank.
Finally, the two fleets clashed at the Battle of Jutland in 1916. Although POW postcard from Able Seaman Fred Elliott to a friend in Kent. Able Seaman Elliott
British losses were greater than those of the German fleet, they never again was one of only two survivors of the crew of 1,019 of HMS Indefatigable, lost at the
left port to challenge the Royal Navy. Battle of Jutland. They were picked up by a German torpedo boot, S16
In the Mediterranean, apart from the actions off Gallipoli, the war at
sea was mainly concerned with German and Austrian efforts to disrupt the Prisoner of War Mail
movement of troops and goods. This was generally carried out by U-Boots. With many combatants of both sides being taken prisoner
The Allied naval forces included ships from Britain, France and Italy. In and interred in POW camps, there are many items of
1917 a squadron of the Japanese navy, consisting of an armoured cruiser correspondence, both to and from these camps. This often took
and several of their newest destroyers, was sent to assist the Allied forces the form of simple postcards giving the location of the camp.
For much of the War, the German naval effort concentrated on the
U-Boot efforts to deprive Britain of goods and supplies from abroad, while Forces Postal History Society
the British blockade of German trade was designed to have a similar effect. Established in 1952, the Forces Postal History Society was formed
In the end, the adoption of the convoy system by Britain led to the U-Boot to bring together the many collectors interested in the postal history
efforts failing to disrupt imports into Britain. However, the British blockade of the Armed Forces of all countries. Since its formation the Society
was successful, causing hardship and starvation in Germany. has achieved steady growth with nearly 300 members in many
The Unrestricted Submarine War was extremely unpopular across the countries. A wide variety of interests is catered for covering all
globe among neutral countries and finally led to the entry of the USA into military forces in all theatres of war and in peacetime.
the war. After this, it was a matter of time before Allied victory was assured. Visit the Society website at www.forcespostalhistorysociety.org.uk

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After the war to end all wars

It took four treaties to end the war in Europe. In each one, the losing country had to pay
reparations and relinquish territory. When borders change, stamps change, and in the first of a
two-part series marking the centenary of the end of the First World War, David Bailey discovers
the new and overprinted issues that marked the emergence of a new continent

T
reaty of Versailles
This was signed with
Germany on 28 June
1919. In it, Germany
lost 25,000 square miles
of territory and seven million people.
In most cases, this happened with no
public consultation. However, five
plebiscites were also held: one in the
west, four in the east.
Administration of the Eastern
Cantons of Eupen and Malmedy was
returned to Belgium, with a plebiscite
to be held within six months to see if
Above, from top: the the population agreed. intractable problems. Versailles
Commission issued a The vote was a farce. It was held resolved it by means of a plebiscite
set of fourteen stamps without a secret ballot and, amid held in 1920, which was publicised
for Marienwerder, the rumours of recriminations, all with sets of stamps. The Inter-
Mark values are in two citizens who opposed the transfer Allied Commission took over
colours • A low value had to register their objections at administration and split the
of the Upper Silesia set, the town hall. In the event, only 271 territory into three zones. Zone 1
overprinted with the out of 34,000 people objected and in the North used stamps in Danish
date of the Plebiscite • Eupen and Malmedy were finally currency and overprinted ‘1. ZONE’.
Schlesvig Zone 1 used absorbed into Belgium in 1925. Three quarters of its voters chose
overprinted stamps in Denmark. Zone 2 used unoverprinted
Danish currency The Eastern Plebiscites stamps of the same designs but in
The Schleswig Holstein question pfennigs and marks; 80% chose
was one the 19th century’s most Germany. No poll was held in the

From left: Schlesvig Zone 2 was closer to Germany and used stamps in German currency without an overprint • The four top values of the Schlesvig set in Marks or Kroner show a rural scene
• Country scene with dove and coal mine: the Upper Silesia design

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southernmost Zone 3 as its people Right, from top: two

were almost entirely German. types of overprint are
The Commission in Zone 2 found on the Merson
also issued a set of Official stamps definitives. This, from
overprinted ‘C.L.S’, which are now rare. 1922, has larger figures
A third plebiscite was held in those of value • In 1922, the
parts of Upper Silesia which had not later Merson definitives
already been given to Poland. The were additionally
first set of stamps was simply for overprinted for airmail
the Inter-Allied Commission. These use. Two styles of
featured the province’s name in three overprint were used: the
languages but made no mention of script shown here and
the plebiscite. The stamps were later a straight line of type
surcharged with the most popular • Both versions of the
values. Later in 1920 came a set in ‘Sower’ design were
two sizes, which featured a dove overprinted for Memel
flying over a coal mine. These were
later overprinted with the date of the
Plebiscite and also surcharged with
three new values. The Commission
also issued its own stamps for
postage and official use. All are
overprints on German stamps and
many are extremely rare.
The run-up to the vote was
marred by fierce campaigning which
degenerated into violence. And the
unrest continued after a patchy
result. Overall, the province voted
60/40 for Germany, but many
districts were strongly Polish. The
Allied Commission handed the fourteen stamps for the territory
problem over to the newly formed it administered; there were also
League of Nations and a settlement Below: early stamps of two sets of overprints on German
was finally agreed in May 1922. the Sarre were overprints stamps. On 11 July, the date of the
A fourth plebiscite was held in on Germany and Bavaria plebiscite, another set of fourteen
Marienwerder, a part of Western • In 1920, the Sarre stamps was launched which
Prussia, and here again the switched from German mentioned it. The vote went to
choice was between Germany and to French currency and Germany by 92%.
Poland. Early in 1920, the Inter- the existing pictorials On the same day, Allenstein in East
Allied Commission issued a set of were redrawn Prussia also voted to stay German

by 98%. Here, German stamps were

overprinted to announce it; first with
type, then with a cartouche naming
the Treaty of Versailles.

Memel
The area around the Baltic port of
Memel was the most northerly part
of Prussia. Under the treaty, it came
under the control of the League of
Nations and was to be administered by
France. This came to an end in 1923,
when the area was invaded by Lithuania
and christened Klaipeda; it was
incorporated into Lithuania in 1923.
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administration, Memel used German
currency and overprinted stamps.
One set is on German stamps; the
rest are on the current stamps of
France. With their familiar French
designs and heavy Gothic surcharges,
they are among the most distinctive
of all overprinted stamps. By the
autumn of 1922, inflation was
beginning to take hold, so there are
double and triple surcharges, with all
the specialist varieties that result.
The stamps were popular with
collectors of the day, so literally
millions of the Memel stamps were
forged to meet demand. These
include basic stamps and desirable
errors. It was a major philatelic
scandal at the time and today’s
collectors are still advised to approach
these stamps with caution.
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The Saar (Sarre)
The Saar was Germany’s main centre
for coal mining and heavy industry.
Under the treaty, it came under the
control of the League of Nations for
fifteen years, while ownership of the
coal mines was transferred to France.
A plebiscite would then be held
in 1935 offering a choice between
French and German citizenship.
Initially, the Sarre used German
currency. The first stamps were
locally overprinted in letterpress,
using base stamps from both
Germany and Bavaria. From 1920,
the name changed from Sarre to
Saargebiet. The overprinting plates
display a wide range of constant
varieties: you’ll find a detailed listing
at: http://worldstampsproject.org/
plebiscite-area-saargebiet
In 1921, these were replaced by
a set of pictorial definitives, which
seek to romanticise the industrial
scenery and installations of the area.
Above: fund-raising They feature probably the only slag
stamps from the heap to appear on a stamp. However,
Carinthia plebiscite, from the end of April, the Sarre
from Austria and the currency changed from German
nascent Yugoslavia to French, which spared its people
from the horrors of hyperinflation.
The 1921 set was redrawn and the
territory used French-produced
stamps until its return to Germany
Below, from left: in 1935.
the two types of
overprint for the Treaty of St Germain
Allenstein plebiscite. After the war, the Austro-Hungarian
The second announces Empire was dissolved and both
the date • A Bosnian countries were treated as separate
stamp overprinted for states; the Treaty of St Germain
the Kingdom of the applied to Austria, whilst the
Slovenes, Croats and Treaty of Trianon applied to
Serbs. These are found Hungary. Together they carved
with Roman and up the old empire to create three
Cyrillic characters new, or re-established countries:
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Czechoslovakia, Poland and the
Kingdom of Slovenes, Croats and
Serbs (later Yugoslavia).
The Treaty was signed on 10
September 1919. Under it, Austria
lost over 60% of its territory and
only one plebiscite was held, in
the province of Carinthia, which
was to be awarded to Austria or
Yugoslavia. Here, the plebiscite
stamps were produced to raise money
for propaganda. Austria created a
special printing of nineteen Imperial
stamps overprinted Kärntner
Volksabstimmung plus a premium.
These could be used for postage all
over Austria. Yugoslavia did the same.
The plebiscite was to be held in
two zones and in two stages. The
first was on 10 October 1920. But
when the primarily Slovene-speaking
Zone A voted to stay in Austria, the
poll in the German-speaking Zone B
was abandoned. 10 October is sill a
public holiday in Carinthia.
During the war, the Italian army
had made substantial inroads into
Austrian territory. Occupation issues
were produced for three regions,
by overprinting stamps of Italy and
Austria. The Treaty ratified most of
these gains and two regions, Venezia
Tridentina and Venezia Giulia (Istria)
passed to Italy, but no new stamps
were created as a result.
Treaty of Trianon
The signing of the Treaty of Trianon
was delayed until 4 June 1920, due
to continuing unrest in the former
warzones and in Hungary itself.
Eventually, it cost Hungary 72%
of its former territory, 64% of its
population and its access to the
sea. The main beneficiaries were
Romania, Czechoslovakia and the
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nascent Yugoslavia.
Romania had effectively annexed
Transylvania in 1918. It was made
up of two regions, Clug and Oradea,
and new stamps were issued in
each one. These were overprints on
whatever Hungarian issues were lying
around in post office warehouses.
They included Flood Relief stamps
from 1913, War Charity Stamps
from 1915, the 1916 Harvesters
and Parliament set, and the current
Charles and Zita sets. The cartouches
used by each region are similar but
the lettering for Clug is in Roman
capitals, that for Oradea is italics. As
with all the overprints carried out
around this time, there are various
types and errors which have been
extensively studied and researched; country got itself together. From left: a Hungarian again is a highly complex area
some are well worth spotting. Bosnia and Herzegovina had stamp overprinted for to collect in detail. Croatia had
A similar exercise occurred in been annexed by Austria in 1908, use in the new kingdom been part of Hungary, so obsolete
the formation of Yugoslavia. From and various issues dating back • Dramatic imagery Hungarian stamps were overprinted
1918, stamps were produced in four to 1910 were overprinted in with Roman and Cyrillic ‘HRVRATSKA SHS’. The stamps
of its member states, while the new Roman or Cyrillic characters. This characters on the were still denominated in Hungarian
stamps of Slovenia currency but sold for the same
amount of Heller and Krone,
Yugoslavia’s first currency. In 1919
these were followed by an original
commemorative set celebrating
freedom and a set of art-nouveau
inspired definitives.
It was Slovenian nationalists who
first mooted the idea of Yugoslavia,
one state for all the Southern
Slavs, and when independence
came, Slovenia produced two sets
of stamps, showing inter alia,
chainbreakers, King Peter and three
falcons, a symbol of liberty.

Treaty of Neuilly
This was signed with Bulgaria on
27 November 1919. Compared to
the other three central powers, they
got off lightly. Yugoslavia was the
main beneficiary but Western Thrace
was eventually awarded to Greece;
this cut off Bulgaria’s access to the
Aegean Sea and led to a voluntary
exchange of populations.

Next month: we conclude our look

Flag-vendor and boy at the dramatic changes to Europe’s
in the Rue St. Honore, postage stamps after World War
Paris. Everybody wanted One, as we detail the new European
flags to wear and to countries, the Free City of Danzig, the
wave while celebrating fuss over Fiume and the Victory issues.
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Armistice with Germany December issue on sale from 9
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Wars on British stamps artist Malcolm Tween, obviously a great success for Royal stamps include design features that
back in 2015 was the as did the Star Wars set Mail, and so the arrival of a new become visible only under a UV light.

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of Marmite, you either loved the idea
or hated it. Traditionalists enquired
issued in 2015
as to the British connection of a film
set, this time in anticipation of Star
Wars:The Last Jedi, due in cinemas at
Christmas, is hardly a surprise.
According to Royal Mail: ‘the new
stamps reflect the passion of the British
public for the movies, and celebrate the
Once again the stamps feature the major British contribution to the film

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created by Disney – actually many of
the characters featured were played by
British actors while most of the movie
was filmed in the UK – while fans of
the films eagerly collected the stamps
beautiful artwork of British artist Malcolm
Tween, who also designed the 2015
stamps, and the eight new designs follow
the format of the previous stamps closely.
The style of the ‘1st’ value on each of the
series.’ But this time the British influence
is a little harder to see, with no human
characters included. Instead we’re treated
to ‘new and classic droids and aliens that
have appeared across the iconic films’. So

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Alien issues
Issue date: 12 October 2017 We start with the orange, 1,000-year-
Design: Interabang old alien, Maz Kanata on the first of
Illustrations: Malcolm Tween the stamps, a boisterous ex-pirate,
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Printers, lithography seen in The Force Awakens.
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 Postal history
Discoveries in Durham
Our postal history travels around the country stop off at Durham which boasts an intriguing history
thanks to its location, on the Great North Road and beside the North Sea. By John Scott
D
urham has for long
been an independent
sort of place; until 1675
no MPs were elected as
the Bishop of Durham
ran the County Palatine virtually as
his own country with the right to raise
armies, levy taxes, issue coinage and
with legal jurisdiction. Even the county
boundary was defined by the extent of the
Bishop’s personal estates and so it comes
as little surprise that Durham was rated as
‘the best bishoprick in England’ in 1834.
From the point of view of the
postal historian what really mattered
was that the Great North Road was
the area’s principal highway, running
from Darlington in the south through
Rushyford, Durham City, Chester-le-
Street and on to Gateshead. The former
town may be the least recognizable
name to many but that was the office
Above: the invoice for soda
water bottles shows the
distinctive bottle kilns at the
Bill Quay Bottle Works in
Gateshead in 1842 which
were shipped direct by the
coastal vessel Catherine
to Perth. Below, from left:
notice of a shipment from
Sunderland to Caen in
1867, printed in French on
thin paper to allow for the
lower weight limit applied by
the French Post Office and
sealed with a printed wafer
listing the fifteen other
coastal towns in which John
Hudson had offices;
the clarity of this early mark
from Gateshead in June
1781 is indicative of the
sparse population in the
pre-industrial era
of exchange for mail to the Bishop’s
Palace at Bishop Auckland while
Boroughbridge was the place on
the Road where the Carlisle branch
left before calling at Barnard Castle.
Consequently the importance of many
of the coaching inns along the route
has contributed to a better survival
rate than for many other counties, not
that any of them are common and
those with decorative headings are
particularly sought after.
All this activity means that there is
plenty of scope for the collector to tell
the story of the county’s development
through postal history. The county is
rich in raw materials such as coal and
iron, with 30,000 people supported
entirely by the mining industry on the
River Wear alone by the 1830s. The
rapid expansion of new industrial towns
in the 19th century with Middlesbrough
rising from a population of 400 in 1831
to 6,000 ten years later is reflected in
the growth of the Penny Post system
which, prior to the reforms of 1840,
enabled local letters to be sent within
conurbations for 1d. Middlesbrough
did not even warrant an entry in Pigot’s
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Directory of 1834 but the discovery of
lead and the availability of coal carried
by the Stockton & Darlington Railway
changed the landscape, quite literally. At
the time of its completion the railway was
the country’s longest at 24½ miles from
Witton Park Colliery to Stockton and
was run by a combination of locomotives
and fixed engines on the steeper inclines.
It was said that one good horse could
pull ten tons and the locomotives were
designated as eight horse power. The
industrial development of the county was
assisted also by a long coast line which
facilitated the export of raw materials
and manufactured goods through
coastal shipping as well as the North
Sea trade with Europe. The fragility of
products such as glass bottles meant that
the distinctive kilns were often located
adjacent to a means of water transport,
either by canal or by sea.
While some purists frown at the
inclusion of non-postal material this can be
the best way of conveying the atmosphere
of a place, with all the industrial activity
of Victorian England, which was the very
reason for the creation of much postal
history and laid the foundations for this
country’s prosperity.
FURTHER
READING
‘A Postal History of Darlington’,
J. Courtney, Darlington 1974.
‘A Postal History of Durham City’. H.
Oxley & D. Williams, Durham 1980.
‘The Postal History and Postal Markings
of Stockton-on- Tees’, V. Watson
& G. Bolckow, Stockton 1961.
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Cover explained
Across the sea from Portsmouth
For the fiftieth edition in this popular postal history series, philatelist Dane Garrod
reviews and describes a cover that travelled to Norway over 160 years ago
W
e are fortunate as
stamp collectors
and philatelists
that we have
this treasure of
material to look at, to review, some
to own, but above all, to enjoy. There
were less such postal items and indeed,
correspondence, two to three hundred
years ago. For the future, there will be
less correspondence from our present
day. So, at the present time and from
our past, we can consider covers from
years ago and try to explain the reasons
for their postal obliterations and
postage stamps affixed. This one item
from 1857, twenty years into the reign
of Queen Victoria, has a number of
questions that perhaps have no answer
at this distance in time.
The cover shown, of many colours
and handstamps, has a total postage
amount of 1/10d (one shilling and
tenpence) comprised of 1/4d (one
shilling and fourpence) for postage and
6d (sixpence) for the summer rate to
Norway. There are four different types
of stamps, two penny reds, a twopenny
blue, a sixpenny lilac and a one shilling
green, and is addressed to a Captain A.
Folkman in Porsgrund, a city that from
1931 has been spelt as ‘Porsgrunn’ and
is situated on a fjord close to the open
sea, south-west of the capital, Oslo.
No specific address was written, so the
usual whereabouts of the Captain was
presumed to be known and readily
found. We do know that Arnt Severin
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Folkman was born in Porsgrund in
1799, and this is probably our captain
of later years.
It appears as if the Penny Red stamp
to the far right and the sixpenny stamp
were affixed first, and then cancelled
with the sideways duplex ‘625’ for
Portsmouth, clearly readable on the
penny stamp. The shilling stamp in the
middle was clearly added afterwards as
it is over the ‘PORTSMOUTH / AU25
/ 1857 / B’ part of the original duplex.
Then the shilling stamp has been
cancelled with the 1844-type obliterator
reading ‘625’, the only stamp to have
been cancelled with this handstamp.
Why the shilling stamp was added
afterwards is unknown. However, the
final two stamps to the left, a penny
and twopence, were also cancelled
by the Portsmouth duplex, and were
there before the shilling stamp was
added. This we do know because the
1844-type obliteration on the shilling
stamp also catches the top edge of
the sideways mounted twopenny
blue. Why this all happened may
never be known, but the total postage
is the correct rate for the registered
carriage at that time.
A strong strike in red of the
scarce crown and ‘REGISTERED’
handstamp is beneath the name,
together with the letter ‘P’ in an
oval. The post office has also written
‘Registered’ in red crayon, probably
before the crown handstamp was
applied, and as a request that it
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Portsmouth harbour - should be. Blue crayon marks gave
early 19thC guidance on rates to be charged,
though one was later crossed out
as being superseded. The ‘6’ may
well be to signify the registration
fee applicable. The answer to this
mystery may be that a decision to
send the item as registered post came
after the initial postage was paid with
the original stamps.
On the following day, Wednesday
26 August 1857, a circular red
handstamp showing ‘1857 / 26AU26
/ P X’ and a crown, was marked on
the reverse. Two days after that with
the postal item well on its way, we
see two black handstamps added in
transit. An oval ‘ST.P.A. / 28 Aug
57’ and a ‘HAMBURG / 28 / 8 /
6-7’ where the word before ‘Hamburg’
is unclear. The ship delivering this
mail would have gone eastwards from
Portsmouth along the English Channel,
and then northwards, calling at
Hamburg before onwards to Oslo.
Captain Folkman appears in readily
available records of that time. We
know he was captain of the Danish
barque of 406 tons, Aalborg, which
sailed from London on 6 September
1860. But what he required three
years earlier to be sent registered from
Portsmouth is unfortunately unknown.
With thanks and acknowledgements
to Ray Barton who is the source of
this cover, and for his assistance in
unravelling the story.
 POSTAL HISTORY

2
3

1 affixed first, and then cancelled with the sideways duplex ‘625’ 3 one was later crossed out as being superseded. The ‘6’ may well be
The Penny Red stamp to the far right and the sixpenny stamp were Blue crayon marks gave guidance on rates to be charged, though

for Portsmouth. The shilling stamp was added afterwards as it is over to signify the registration fee applicable.
the ‘PORTSMOUTH / AU25 / 1857 / B’ part of the original duplex.

4 26AU26 / P X’ and a crown, was marked on the reverse.

The shilling stamp has been cancelled with the 1844-type obliterator On 26 August 1857, a circular red handstamp showing ‘1857 /
reading ‘625’. The final two stamps to the left, a penny and twopence,
were also cancelled by the Portsmouth duplex, and were there before

5 two black handstamps added in transit. An oval ‘ST.P.A. / 28

the shilling stamp was added; the 1844-type obliteration on the Two days after that with the postal item well on its way, we see
shilling stamp also catches the top edge of the sideways mounted
twopenny blue. Aug 57’ and a ‘HAMBURG / 28 / 8 / 6-7’ where the word before
‘Hamburg’ is unclear.

2 handstamp is beneath the name, together with the letter ‘P’ in an

A strong strike in red of the scarce crown and ‘REGISTERED’

oval. The post office has also written ‘Registered’ in red crayon.

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Thematics A to Z
Perfumed collections
It may be difficult, although no longer illegal, to send perfume through
the mail but thanks to some innovative postal services, perfumed stamps
are making the world a more fragrant place. By Paula Hammond
O
ver thirty
countries have
issued scented
stamps, with
the USA finally
joining in the fun this year with a
set of fruity and colourful scratch-
and-sniff Forever issues. However
it all began with the ever-inventive
Bhutan, who became the first
country to experiment with rose-
infused stamps back in 1973.
It took a couple of decades for
other postal services to catch on,
but rose-scents have remained
a firm favourite. Korea’s 2000 love stamp is an
especially nice example, featuring a rose-scented,
heart-shaped stamp, illustrated with a hand spelling
out the word ‘love’ in American Sign Language.
While rose is one of the most frequently used
postal perfumes, when it comes to adding smells to
stamps, there’s a scenty smorgasbord on offer. Often
the perfumes chosen have a particular significance
to the issuing country. For instance, in Asia and on
the Indian sub-continent, Jasmine flowers are both
spiritually and culturally important so it’s no surprise
that India (2008), Hong Kong (2001) and Japan
(2012) have all used jasmine perfume on postal issues.
Daffodils were the stars of the show in 2009,
when Slovakia produced a book of perfumed self-
adhesives to support their Day of Daffodils anti-
cancer campaign. Brazil have used the scents of coffee
(2001), priprioca (2004) and burnt wood (1999)
on their stamps – the latter to raise awareness of
dangers of forest fires. Another staple of the perfume
industry, sandalwood, has featured on issues from
New Caledonia and India (2006). Qatar’s 2008
mini sheet was inspired by the scents of traditional
Arabic perfumes and featured the fragrant scents of Al
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YOUR GUIDE TO COLLECTING STAMPS BY THEME
P is for Perfumed
Why collect?
• Evocative and nostalgic
• Includes a wide variety of
different perfumes
• Scented stamps are issued to
Marash, Oud oil, Agar wood, and celebrate local and national
Al Moghass. The Isle of Man used industries, festivals, and
honey to add buzz to their 2012 special days
bee-themed stamp. Cut grass and • Small, potentially
eucalyptus have both featured on ‘complete-able’ theme
Australian stamps (2000, 2011). • New issues can keep their scent
Paprika-infused stamps added extra for many years
spice to Hungry’s 2012 tete-beche
set celebrating Stamp Day. While Notable releases
China, memorably, created a sweet • 1973, Bhutan, first ever
and sour pork perfumed stamp to perfumed postage stamp
mark 2007’s Year of the Pig! • 2001, Switzerland, chocolate
The author Lewis Thomas said: stamp in a foil-wrapped booklet
‘The act of smelling something, • 2002, Hungry, tete-beche
anything, is remarkably like set featuring an embroidered
the act of thinking. Immediately, at the moment stamp alongside a paprika
of perception, you can feel the mind going to perfumed stamp
work, sending the odour around from place to • 2007, China, sweet and sour-
place, setting off complex repertories through the infused Year of the Pig stamp
brain, polling one centre after another for signs of • 2018, USA, scratch-and-sniff
recognition, for old memories and old connection.’ Forever stamps
Scents have the ability to evoke warm memories and
feelings of nostalgia which makes this thematic all Expand the theme
the more appealing. Strawberry (France, 2011) and Flower-scented stamps can make
mango (French Polynesia, 2010) scented stamps a lovely introduction to a national
may be fun, but imagine opening your Christmas flowers, or flora theme.
cards and being greeted by the smells of festive
seasons long gone: chocolate, cinnamon baked treats Collecting links
(Slovakia, 2011), ginger biscuits (Lithuania, 2017), The American Topical Association
Scott’s pine (Spain, 2015) and vanilla have all been has extensive lists of themed
used to infuse stamps. stamps which are available to
It’s true that the first perfumed stamp releases members. Anyone interested
didn’t keep their smell for very long but new can find details, join, or
micro-technologies now mean that scents can be renew membership online by
sealed within the stamp ink, and released by the visiting their website at:
heat of your hand, or (horror of horrors) a quick www.americantopicalassn.org
scratch. So, regardless of the vagaries of fashion All new members will receive
and the collector’s market this is one thematic that ATA handbook 133,
definitely is to be sniffed at. Adventures in Topical Collecting.
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 Philatelic landmarks
Eiffel Tower
Christer Brunström continues his globe trotting, stopping off in the French capital to pay
homage to what has become an icon of the country and its people
T
he organisers of the 1889
World’s Fair in Paris marking
the centennial of the French
revolution wanted something
quite spectacular to attract visitors
from all over the world. They came up with the
idea of erecting the world’s tallest building and
they approached construction company owner
Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923) for his views on the
project. At first he appears to have been rather
lukewarm to the tower which later made him one
of the world’s most famous people.
Construction work began in 1887 and the 324-
metre tall tower was ready in time for the opening
of the fair in 1889. It remained the world’s tallest
construction until the Chrysler Building in New
York City was inaugurated in 1930.
The plan was to dismantle the tower in
1909 but in view of its tremendous popularity
The Eiffel Tower at
night during the Paris
Exposition, 1889
it was decided to retain it. In fact, it is one of
the world’s most visited monuments attracting
some 25,000 daily visitors. Despite my fear of
heights, I have been to the top of the tower
many times enjoying the spectacular views of
the French capital. There are three levels that
can be visited.
The tower has been used for the transmission
of both radio and TV programmes and the
installation of a radio antenna at the top has
added a few metres to its height.
Recently I met a philatelist who has assembled
a large collection of Eiffel Tower related stamps,
covers and picture postcards. Years ago he wanted
to add a small sideline collection and he thought
the Eiffel Tower would fit the bill nicely. Today, and
a few decades later, this collection fills all of four
albums and he also has a large box of miscellaneous
items which have yet to be mounted.
Get started…
Get your Eiffel Tower collection going with
these stamps on the theme…
France, 1936 – the tower can be seen in the
Paris skyline on seven airmail stamps
France, 1939 – semi-postal showing the
tower (illustrated above)
Brazil, 1951 – a value celebrating the
pioneering flight of Brazilian aviator
Santos-Dumont showed the tower
France, 1955 – the arrival of television saw a
15f value showing the tower's antenna
Romania, 2007 – 60b value showing Gustave
Eiffel and a piece of the Eiffel Tower
Vatican City, 2007 – one of six stamps
showed the tower with an EU circle of stars
Wallis & Futuna Islands, 2009 – 85f value
showing 'Eiffel Tower in Tapa clothes'
France, 2010 – illustration showing tower
with text 'Tour Eiffel'
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 Thematics
Collect every mountain…
Postage stamps often showcase the world’s most beautiful landscapes with many depicting
nations’ highest peaks. Christer Brunström provides a summary of mountain stamps to help
your collecting reach new heights
T
he UK is not
particularly famous
for its mountains but
Ben Nevis in Scotland
measures no less than
1,344 metres making it the highest
point in the British isles. This and
other mountainous or hilly areas in
Britain attract lots of climbers and
ordinary visitors. In winter thousands
of British skiers travel to other parts
of Europe to enjoy high altitude
skiing as shown on the Liechtenstein
stamp above.
Mont Blanc is Europe’s highest
mountain reaching a height of
4,807 metres. The Alps have long
attracted visitors. In summer they
go for long treks enjoying the
beautiful views. Sometimes they stay
at isolated guest-houses far from the
nearest village or town. In earlier
years, some hotel owners arranged
68 NOVEMBER 2018
local messenger services carrying
newspapers, postcards and letters
for their guests issuing local postage
stamps to pay for the service.
We are living in a period of
climate change. The ever-increasing
annual temperatures have already
had a considerable impact on the
glaciers in the Alps (and elsewhere).
They are simply slowly disappearing
and it is difficult to fathom the
future consequences. Environmental
concerns and their affect on our
mountains could also be represented
with postage stamps; many countries
have issued stamps concerning our
need to be more green.
We don’t really associate Africa
with huge mountains as large parts
of the continent are covered by
deserts or savannahs. However,
Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania
is the highest mountain (5,895
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Stamps from metres) in all of Africa and certainly
Liechtenstein, Bolivia not impossible to climb. Only
and Nepal showcase recently ten-year-old South African
the many different Retshegofaditswe Hatang reached
types of mountains the top, apparently having been
around the world inspired by the late Nelson Mandela.
A distant view of Mount Kilimanjaro
was shown on two definitive stamps
(65 cents and 2 shillings) released by
Kenya-Uganda-Tanzania in 1955 and
1956. Since then there have been
many Tanzanian stamps featuring
this mountain.
Ivory Coast on the West Coast of
Africa is a fairly flat country. They
still chose to depict Mount Niangbo
(750 metres) on a 200-franc airmail
stamp in 1970. The mountain and
Mount Fuji in winter;
the Road to Lhasa on a
Chinese 1956 stamp;
a 1925 stamp from
Mooserboden in Austria

nearby region is a popular Ivorian
tourist destination.
Asia is home to the world’s
highest peak – Mount Everest
(8,848 metres). It is located in the
Himalayas which also boast many
other incredibly high peaks. Mount
Everest is the most important
asset in Nepal as it attracts tens of
thousands of tourists and daredevil
climbers every year. The huge
mountain is, to use a philatelic
term, on the ‘wants list’ of every
climber. Many climbers make it to
the summit but it is a treacherous
beast and hundreds of climbers have
lost their lives while attempting to
reach the top. The mountain has
been featured on numerous Nepalese
stamps, whilst it has stood proud
on stamps from countries including
Canada (in 2002), India (2002 and
2003), New Zealand (2003), and even
Bolivia (2009).
Many older readers probably
remember the sensation caused by
Sir Edmund Hillary when he was
able to reach the top way back on 29
May 1953 accompanied by Nepalese
climber Tenzing Norgay, a feat
captured on camera and reproduced
on one of the six New Zealand
stamps issued in November 2008 to
celebrate the explorer’s life.
Mount Fuji (3,776 metres) in
Japan is certainly not as daunting as
Mount Everest but it is of immense
significance to the Japanese. Watching
the sun rise while climbing the
mountain appears to be one of life’s
great moments for many Japanese.
Mount Fuji was first depicted on a
Japanese stamp in 1930. It is one of
Japan’s Three Holy Mountains and it
was added to the UNESCO World
Heritage List in 2013.
Many of us would imagine
the nations of the South Pacific
as mostly low-lying flat islands
and most of them are. However,
some of the islands are extremely
mountainous including, of course,
New Zealand which has a number
of impressive peaks. Mount Cook
(or Aoraki in the Maori language)
reaches 3,724 metres above the
level of the sea. It is located in the
Southern Alps. It was first featured
on a postage stamp in 1898.
When the expansion westwards
in North America began in the
early 19th century, the Rocky
Mountains made the journey to
California difficult and especially so
in wintry conditions. Today many
of these mountainous areas have
been transformed into enormously
popular National Parks. Places like
Yosemite and Grand Canyon attract
visitors from all over the world.
Thus it comes as no surprise that
the US Postal Service has featured
mountains on numerous stamps.
Shown nearby is snow-covered
Mount McKinley (6,190 metres) in
Alaska. Since 2015 it is known as
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MOUNTAINS ON STAMPS
From left: stamps
from Nicaragua and
Tanganyika; New
Zealand stamps from
2008, celebrating Sir
Edmund Hillary's climb to
the top of Mount Everest Denali which is the name traditionally
with Sherpa Tenzing given to it by the Koyukon Native
Norgay, and 1898 Americans living in the area.
showing a beautiful view Some mountains are also volcanoes
of Mount Cook which can be either dead, dormant
or very much alive. Central America
has many volcanoes which frequently
erupt causing death and massive
destruction. Some have been featured
on postage stamps. The fact that
Nicaragua depicted a volcano on
some of its early stamps reputedly
diverted the isthmian canal project
from Nicaragua to Panama.
Mountains frequently contain
huge quantities of minerals which
offers opportunities for mining
From left: Canadian operations in sometimes far from
coil stamp from easy surroundings. The copper
January 2018 showing mines of Bolivia high up in the
Nááts’jhch’oh National Andes created riches for the early
Park Reserve; an mine owners leaving very little to
Indian stamp marking the local people.
Sir Edmund Hillary's For lovers of mountains there
'conquest of Everest' is a wealth of philatelic material
in 1953; a USA stamp available. Most nations have
from the 1898 Trans featured their mountains on more
Mississippi Exposition than one occasion. Sometimes the
set, depicting explorer mountains shown are far from
Captain John C Fremont impressive and struggle to compete
planting the US flag on with the highest peaks, but they still
the Rocky Mountains count as something remarkable and
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Austrian stamp showing the ski resort of Bad Gastein
worthy of a collector’s attention.
Quito, Ecuador’s capital, is
located high up in the Andes at
2,850 metres. When I spent some
time there in 1995, we went for
early morning walks up the slopes
of Mount Pichincha enjoying the
impressive views. You had to walk
slowly in order not to lose your
breath. Extreme heights can be
somewhat of a problem and visitors
to places like La Paz (3,600 metres)
in Bolivia or Lhasa (3,650 metres) in
Tibet need to take extra care in order
to avoid headaches and nausea.
Transportation is often quite
difficult in mountainous terrain. In
the Andes region of Ecuador, roads
are meandering along the mountain-
sides. Journeys, which are quite
short as the crow flies, may take
many hours as you zigzag up and
down mountain slopes.
Mountains and especially the highest
peaks have always fascinated people.
In many cases mountain ranges like
the Himalayas have been considered
to be the homes of gods. For most of
the early 1900s, most Nepalese stamps
depicted Hindu deity Shiva Mahadeva
in a mountainous setting.
A vast number of countries
have released stamps depicting
mountains or hills. Thus there
is no lack of philatelic material
available for collectors wanting
to build a Mountains on Stamps
thematic collection. With the
notable exception of the New
Zealand Mount Cook stamp, all the
stamps illustrating this article are
inexpensive… so the sky’s the limit.
70 NOVEMBER 2018
TEN STAMPS ON…
Fabulous theatres
Take a tour around the world with these ten theatre-themed stamps
1 once a year for the performance of Kabuki (dance and
Japan’s 19th-century Konpira Grand Theatre is used just 1
drama) plays. The theatre has three entrances, including a quirky
‘mouse door’, which requires theatre-goers to crouch to enter and
was used to help with crowd control in the theatre’s early years.
2
2 was Royal Mail’s philatelic contribution to European
This stamp featuring the National Theatre in London
Architectural Heritage Year in 1975. The Grade II listed
building stands on London’s South Bank and opened in 1963.
3
3
With a huge capacity of 6,000 spectators, the Roman
theatre at Zaragoza in Spain was featured on this 2003
stamp, that shows the spectacular ruins, now a popular
archaeological site for visitors to the Aragon region of Spain.
4
4
The specialist Natalya Sats Musical Theatre in Moscow,
specialising in theatre for children, featured on this
1983 stamp from Russia. The building is designed to
resemble a fairytale castle and has a ‘bluebird of happiness’ 5
at the roof ’s highest point.
5 set featured people and places connected with the
Saint Helena’s 2005 ‘First Elizabethans’ eight-stamp
Elizabethan era. This £1 stamp shows the Old Globe Theatre 6
in London, which is associated with William Shakespeare.
6 but in 2012 Croatia took a new approach to the subject for
Many theatre stamps feature the exterior of these buildings,
the 400th anniversary of the Hvar Theatre. The stamp features 7
the opulent interior of the building, with its decorated ceiling
and seating boxes.
7 anniversary in 2013 with a stamp featuring the Queen
The Romanian town of Oradea celebrated its 900th
Marie Theatre. The theatre is named after Marie, last
8
Queen of Romania, who died in 1938.
8 supernatural, something which Canada picked up 9
The world of theatre has often had links with the
on with this 2016 stamp from a ‘Haunted Canada’ set. It
features a drawing of a white lady overlaid onto the interior
of the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre, the world’s
only functional ‘double-decker’ theatre.
9 feature on this 2017 stamp, which marked the 128th
The early years of Paraguay’s municipal theatre
anniversary of the building.
10 guise on this 2017 stamp, marking the city’s 650th
Brăila’s Maria Filotti theatre is shown in its night-time
anniversary. The theatre was built in 1896 and was renamed in
1969, in honour of one of Romania’s best-loved actresses. 10
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sold the British definitive both mint 1/2p and used (SGX842)
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current catalogue value of your investment wouldprinted
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be a staggering total of £11,000.00. In 1999 we recommended
early Afghan stamps. A lovely lot unchecked
our customers to buy the Princess
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stamps. Mainly in the used condition and containing EUR33 EUROPA A specialised European thematic
Within 1 year the catalogue value had increased to £50 per stamp, an increase of over 3,200%.
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unusual collections we have ever seen assembled, with of different stamps..................................... Price £16.25 to more modern stamps. Includes Italy, France, Germany,
everything except normal stamps. Including Last year we recommended our customers to buy EFTA Presentation
triangular Packs. Luxembourg, Cyprus, Netherlands,
Iceland, Belgium,
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1,000% in only one year. complemented again saying
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PS438 POP STARS A glorious collection of pop stars by the Royal Mail ex-special exhibition sheet tied to SCI.8H ALBERT EINSTEIN A special cover
stamps. With British, Foreign mint and used stamps. the cover with superb red Maltese Cross postmark. commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Einstein’s
Includes: The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, Bob In addition, the cover bears duel Royal Mail official theory of relativity. The illustrated cover depicts Einstein
Marley, Michael Jackson, Oasis, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, postmarks both “Bath” one dated 2/5/15 exactly and bears a Royal Mail commemorative officially
Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, AC-DC and Def Leppard. 175 years to the day of the first 1d Black ever postmarked by the Royal Mail with Mount Pleasant
Over 100 stamps in sets, singles, miniature sheet, postmarked. A second official Royal Mail postmark 11/05/16 postmark. In combination with Jersey Einstein
also includes Royal Mail Beatles’ covers. The entire in Red inscribed “Bath” 2/5/1840 ties Royal Mail 1d commemorative issue tied to the cover with large
impressive collection .................................... Price £31 R45
SAM.1. POLAND - small general collection, include - Nazi Occupation
Concentration Camp issue inscribed ‘Judenpost’ for Lodz Ghetto
BlackMINIATURE SHEETS & Souvenir Sheets, various different GB
and 2d Blue commem. stamps to the cover
(Exhibition sheets) FOREIGN, odd Brit. Commonwealth. Total of 50+ Buying GB Royal Mail 2008
circular red Theory of Relativity cachet dated 11/05/16.
on first(Mainly
officialForeign)
day ofMin issue 6/5/15. The cover’s The cover came from a severely restricted issue of only
(Litzmanstdt) 10pf Green (unused). We cannot guarantee this item but
SA 92ofSOUTH
remainder & CENTRAL
the collection all seem OKAMERICACheap PriceA...................
fantastic £8.75
different sheets
restricted issue of only 75 must surely make this
...............................Price £8
handover of Olympic flag
60 covers ....................................................... Price £18
SJ132 GREAT BRITAIN. British Postal Strike 1971 - Emergency
accumulation of comprising of only unmounted mint
SJ120 MEDICAL Stamps with specialised lot of Anti-TB and Red
stamps in Also
partAnti-Malaria
sheets, multiples, blocks
highly desirable cover one of the rarest of all Royal
Overprints on Local Carriage Labels printed by Harrison and Sons from Beijing to London,
GBX13 GREAT BRITAIN Royal Mail presentation packs
Cross stamps. stamps Red Cross and stamps singles
back Mail
for Use1d Black commemorative
in Southampton. The complete covers unm. Mint ........
set ofPrice £38
six stamps
ranging
to the 1940sfrom older
or earlier up engraved
to more recent. stampsWith to the more
nursing, doctors 3 x 1/-, 2/-. 6/-, 7/6d ..................................................Price £1.50 presentation pack paying more
and illustrated First Day covers. Also unmounted mint
andrecent. Includes: Nicaragua, (Underprints subjectnoted) Chile, K.747 KENYA Scarce Kenya revenue stamps in superb commemoratives, definitives and miniature sheets.
all forms
forColombia,
of medicine.
sale ideal forArgentina,
A most interesting
anyone withVenezuela,
some medical Panama,
knowledge
rarely offered
Paraguay,
to form a
G23A OLYMPIC GAMES Enormous lot, not counting duplicates, there
unmounted
must be over 500 mint blocks
stamps- of four with
an outstanding high .............
collection value 20/- Price £11
than full cat value £9.25
Not counting mint stamps, the presentation packs and
valuable
Uruguay,collection
Brazil, ..........................................................
Mexico & Dominica. This hoardPrice of £7 and 30/- stamps (engraved) also includes other Kenya, First Day covers have a combined catalogue value of
NY146 ENTOMOLOGY: One of the most unusual thematic subjects we Cyprus, Netherlands, G.B. Denmark, Portugal, Spain, Swiss, Finland,
unsorted
SAM.9 BRITISHunmounted
ISLES Wholesale mintDealers
stamps, is unchecked
new issue for
stock (duplicated) Uganda and Tanganyika stamps dating back
have ever seen, insects on stamps. Hundreds of them ............. Price £7
to King over £160. .............................................Price £41.25
cataloguemint, value withand ishigh
estimated at over oneSummer
thousand Greece, Sweden. Also scarcer local issues for Channel Islands and
all unmounted many values, includes Lundy, George VI with used, and unmounted mint ...... Price £8
Isles, St Mary’s (Scilly Isles) Gairsay, NY148 SPACE ‘THE FINAL FRONTIER’. A spectacular collection of Isle of Man. Hundreds of all different Europa Stamps, mainly fine
five hundred (1500) unm. Gugh, mint Bardsey
stamps. Island,
For Easdale,
sale atSark. the AG23 BATTLE
used, but mini notedOF AGINCOURT The scarce cover issued£17
.......................................................Price
Only unmounted Space stamps including Rockets. Space ships and all types of Outer
low price ofmint. onlyThe face value alone must be £60.00 Price
........................................... Price £14
£48 Space
BA.47 BAHAWULPUR, PAKISTAN AND
Exploration, including several scarce Moon Landing covers. 500+BANGLADESH to commemorate the 600th Anniversary of the Battle of
FR 229 FRANCE & COLS - A smashing collection of France with
E32 GREAT BRITAIN - SPECTACULAR ERROR on 1966 XMAS 3d value A lovely
stamps, collection
all different of mintCovers
not counting Bahawulpur,
and Miniature plus Price £15 Agincourt.
Pakistan
sheets The cover is superbly illustrated with the arms
French Colonnies & Ex Colonies. Mainly Commemorative stamps in
(SG71
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OF GOLD COLOUR causing
A specialist Queen’scollection
reference head to move of over of King and
Henry V and bears the official
to wrong area of stamp. We offer the Gold Head Shift Error superb unmtd
and Bangladesh. Over 160 different mint and used
R.49 SOUTH EAST ASIA - enormous lot, with some complete singles blocks. Some unmounted mint,British
but mostlyRoyalfine Mailused.
Queen Victoria forgeries, spectacular lot includes singles sheets stamps unm......................................................
. mint, mass of singles. Dates back to 1898, Price £16
to modern Postmark, depicting
A lovely collection withKingmanyHenry engraved V, dated
stamps; 25/10/15, six
several hundreds,
mint together with normal stamp for comparison..................Price £4.25
and blocks of issues of 1854 various ½ Anna and 1 mainly different used stamps. About 1600-1700 stamps of which hundred years to the day of the historic battle. Only 50 of£21
mostly different...............................................................Price
SJ42AnnaZEPPELINS:
stamps.Impressive
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blue and of Zeppelins
red stamps. on this scarce cover
stamps
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least GREAT
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be different 1961 POST OFFICE SAVINGS
..................................... Price £32 BX 486 BOXING - A exist ........................................Price
fine collection of Boxing Stamps Over 80 Stamps £15
1852with airships
Scinde Dawk.& balloons.
Includes aboutunused
100 stamps.............Price
and used stamps. £5
BANKBARDSEY
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fine cto used, mint REPUBLIC
noted, withUnusual
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upwards
£38,000.of 1000Thedifferent
reference plus some duplication,
collection of fake withstamps
covers, FDC’s,
and Orange
small Welsh colour,
Island the
rarelyowlget in the top
offered right-hand
for sale corner
............. Price £7.00 group
OlympicofGames
Dominican
Gold Medal miniature
Boxing Stampssheets. A duplicated
....................... Price £9.75
miniature sheets All unchecked for Catalogue
forgeries is being sold “as is” although some genuine value ........Price £13.25 group
of theFILM
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THREE KINGSin King the unm. mint local
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eye Presley,
Elvis owl error, unm.
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Jackson, (together with Jean
Valentino, normal stamp
Harlow, GB QEIIcatalogue value ...................Special
stamp, postmarked with circular London SHC low15price April£25
2003
Edward VII and King George VI. A collection of British Roman Novarro, Jayne
for comparison) Mansfield, Buster Keaton, Humphrey
........................................... Bogart,
Price £8 Pmk. Together with Iraq stamp overprinted “In British Occupation”
other British Locals depicting Sea birds, with some multiple blocks. This stamp is tied to
colonials,
Total unmounted
catalogue value mint stamps. In singlesPrice
is £130+.............................................. and£29 Katherine Hepburn, Charles Laughton, Alan Ladd, Ingrid Bergman, MC334 MUSIC Anthe cover withcollection
awesome a rectangular of “Liberation
music stamps of Iraq
plus many others. The whole lot. ...................................Price £14.00 15-04-03 THE FALL OF TIKRIT”. Cachet in purple. A very rare Iraq
blocks. Approximately 100+ stamps, low price to SJ.77 TRISTAN DA CUNHA Miniature sheet for Sir with
War an orchestra
Cover in superb of musical
condition instrument stamps. The £26
............................................Price
G.114 A WORLDWIDE COVERS & FDC’S Fantastic Accumulation
clear ......................................................... Price £12 OFFER
of Commercial & Philatelic covers & FDC’s including special pmks, Rowland A - From
Hill, the remainder
depicting theof famous
a Liquidated “1dStamppotato Dealer’s
stamp” stock, classical
LU 328 LUNDY section includes:
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collection of unmounted Bach,mint
adesigned
massive amount including, sheets. VIGreat Britain including Locals, Tchaikovsky, Verdi,
early to modern with Air Mails, Sea Mail, commemorative covers, during King George reign. The mint postally British local stamps of Bartok.
Lundy Island Jazzinand blocks,poplarge music stamps,
multiples and
British Commonwealth. Foreign, Mint used covers, FDC and pre packs.
MM28
noted MARILYN
designer signed. LocalMONROE posts,AIslandsgorgeousPost, an collection
unsorted of group valid sheet has been personally signed by the designer with
singlesLouis Armstrong,
+ miniature sheet.FrankStarts off Sinatra,
with King Oasis,
George Marlene
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We counted up to £1,500 worth of cat value and then got tired and “Lundy & Atlantic Coats Air Lines
Marilyn
of about 100Monroe stamps. Few other actresses embody
covers ..................................................Price £21 .00 of the
gave up “potato
counting. stamp”,
ClearanceAllan B. Crawford. Scarce with
Price ...................................Price £75.00 Dietrich. With G.B. Royal MailLtd. “Following
stamps on to puffin
of Freddy stamps
Mercury,
overprinted with 1950s & 1960s stamps on to more recent. With lots
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CARS STAMPS. Impressive Movie Star’ as much
thematic collectionas the
the ideal the designer’s signature................................. .Price £19
NY124 THE THREE KINGS King George V, King ED. VII and King
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of Beatles
“Puffin” and definitives,
stamps, Pink Floyd. A multiple of other
commemoratives & Air issues
Mail stamps.
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collection and iconic
for anyone interested screen goddess, all
in automobiles, Marilyn
sorts from Monroe.
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Hundreds unmounted JimimintHendrix,
Lundy Stamps Michael Hendrix, £27.50
................Price
George VI. A collection of British Colonials. UNMOUNTED MINT
tageThis collection
classics to supercontains
speed racing many different
cars. Several unmounted
hundred different R339 HORSE
STAMPS. In singles RACING
and blocks.A fine specialised
Approximately 100+ collection
stamps, low Michael
B COM 434 Jackson,
ORNITHOLOGY Kylie -Minogue,
A fantastic Elvis
thematic Presley
collection andof many
British
carsmint and used
on stamps Marilyn Monroe stamps ......... Price£11
..............................................................Price £11 price
of Great Britain superbly illustrated commemorative
to clear..............................................................Price £12.00 more. Hundreds
Commonwealth of stamps.
BIRDS stampsOnly – mint and used
Unmounted Mint inwith several
mulitlples
SAM.26 AUSTRIA & HUNGARY - Mostly used, some mint, several horse racing covers; with RoyalDenmark,
Mail Horse Racing miniature
and single sheets.
stamps. The
Several best
Hundred music
Brit, collection
Commonwealth we have
Bird Stamps
G419 SCANDINAVIA: Incudes Sweden, Norway, Finland, some
STR25 diffGREAT BRITAIN POSTAL HISTORY COVER£8 stamps and including
ever High
seen. Value (£) pound & ($) Dollar stamps in blocks
................................................. .Price ..Price
£29.25 £39
hundred ......................................................................Price from Iceland. Theofficial
collectionRoyal Mail Jockey
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for catalogue Postmarks.
but we
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of 1,000 Greenwood £29.50– CR 781 CRICKET - A valuable specialised collection of cricket
of thisat official
galleries postalA strike
your fingertips. are much
superb collection of rarer
famousthan paintings races
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ISRAEL Cup andcollection
- An impressive Stewards Cup and
of Israel, more. The
comprising of
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stamps G.B. AVIATION
& scarce cricket COVER FOR “DAN-AIR”
covers, including signed covers AIRLINE
auto-
on those
stamps,ofover thea previous GB postal strike of 1971. or whole collection. graphed by
Depicts famous cricketers.
4 different “Dan-Air” Comprising
aircraft, of with Unmounted
Royal Mail Mint
thousand different not counting duplicates illustrated official first............................................
day covers (all unadressed). Also noted Price-£7
miniature
The cover sheetswas ............................................................Price
sent from the UK to St. Helena, and £21 Great Britain
stamp tied to andcover
BritishwithCommonwealth
illustrated “Dan-Air”Stamps in blocks Gatwick of four or
miniature sheets, including: 1949 Coins mini sheet. Catalogued
singles with several high value ($) Dollar values. Approx 18 cricket
R55bears a Brit.&Local
COSTUMES stamp overprinted
HEADDRESSES Unusual thematic “Postal
subject Strike BX.20
£170 MUHAMMAD
(possible forgery this ALIitemScarce
“as is” mourning cover for
not guaranteed.) one
Following Airport Royal Mail PMK dated 21/6/1983. .... Price £8.25
covers including scarce autographed covers & a quantity of Unm.
Delivery”
hundred differentandfrom surcharged
several countries £1. Postmarked 6/8/96£6
...........................Price on
of with many genuine
the greatest Boxer’sunmounted mint Israelknown
ever. Otherwise stampsas including
Cassius Mint Cricket Stamps .......................................................Price £25
in addition a paper cachet inscribed
RS2a UNIFORMS. Mainly military. Hundreds different. ....Price £12 Emergency UK plate
Clay. number
The blocks,
cover multiples
depicts and
Muhammad singles Aliwith
with tabs. A
personalvaluable E28 POSTAGE DUES Unusual collection of Postage Due
and impressive collection............................................... Price £25 PM 84 MARGARET THATCHER - The very scarce mourning cover for
Postal Strike Overseas Post;
Let K2 GREAT BRITAIN. UNMOUNTED MINT COMMEMO RATIVES as well as St. Helena quote from U.S.A President Barack Obama. Only 50 stamps, including GB, Br Cols and foreign. In singles,
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. One of the scarcest political covers.
stamp tiedUNSORTED to the cover with a Jamestown Items notedSt. EUR 33 EUROPA blocks of multiples,
in existence,uncatalogued. Mint (mostly unm.)
& DEFINITIVES ACCUMULATION. include covers - A specialised
exist worldwide with European
illustratedthematic
official Collection
Royal Mail of
Only 50 ever mostly now in collectors hands and rarely
Helena
Traffic Pmk Dated
Light Gutter Pair MissingSeptPhosphor
96 ..................Price
Error coil strips. Well £12.50
over Europa
Postmark stamps, spanning
4/6/2016 thefrom the 1950’s
memorial dateto..........Price
more modern£11.75 stamps. and used. About 120+ stamps ......................... .Price £8
offered for sale. With “Iron Lady” illustration and official Royal Mail 8th
500 stamps, only unmounted mint ....................................Price £18 Includes Italy, France, Germany, Iceland, Belgium, Luxembourg,
April 2013. Big Ben postmark price ......................................Price £13.25

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DE24 0FD Polygon Complex, Ealing Parish AJH Stamps Ltd 15 November 2018
01909 563394 Church, St Marys Road Dunkenhalgh Hotel, Clayton le 21 November 2018
W5 5RH Moors Edinburgh
Maidstone 07957 158299 BB5 5JP Thomson Roddick Warwick
Grove Green Community Centre, www.ajhstamps.co.uk The Auction Centre, 118 Carnethie Warwick & Warwick
Penhurst Close, Weavering Morley Street, Rosewell Court House, Jury Street
ME14 5BT St Mary’s Church Hall, 15 November 2018 EH24 9AL CV34 4EW
01622 675784 Commercial Street 0131 440 2448 01926 499031
LS27 8HZ Edinburgh www.thomsonroddick.com www.warwickandwarwick.com
Sutton Coldfield 01909 563394 Thomson Roddick
7 Trinity Centre, Church Hill The Auction Centre, 118 Carnethie COIN FAIRS
B72 1TF Northampton Street, Rosewell All dates and venues are correct
01785 259350 Abbey Centre, Overslade Close EH24 9AL 3 November 2018 at the time of going to press.
NN4 0RZ, 07957 158299 0131 440 2448 Please check details with the event
11 November 2018 www.thomsonroddick.com London organisers before attending.
25 November 2018 Holiday Inn, Coram Street
Chesterfield 15 & 16 November 2018 WC1N 1HT
Chester Street Club Bracknell 01694 731781
S40 1DL; 0161 766 9031 British Red Cross Centre, 21 London
Martins Lane Grosvenor Philatelic 11 November 2018
Wokingham RG12 9EN 399-401 Strand Birmingham
St Crispins Centre, London Road 07957 158299 WC2R 0LT National Motorcycle Museum,
RG40 1SR 0207 379 8789 Bickenhill; B92 0EJ
07957 158299 www.grosvenorauctions.com 01694 731781

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 Out and about
Send your society and club news to: matthewh@warnersgroup.co.uk

Roger Tozer (Faroe Islands Study Circle Chairman), John
Smith (FISC Treasurer), Marianna Nattestad (Posta), Sheila
Denholm (FISC founder), Ingun Olsen (Manager, Posta),
Norman Hudson (FISC Secretary and Journal Editor)
Members of the Faroe Islands Study Circle
recently visited the headquarters of Posta,
the Faroe Islands’ postal service, whilst on
a week-long tour of the Faroes. Roger Tozer
(Chairman), Norman Hudson (Secretary
and Journal Editor), John Smith (Treasurer
and Auctioneer) and Sheila Denholm
(founder member), were given a guided tour
of the HQ, including the philatelic section,
and afterwards enjoyed coffee, cakes and
a discussion with Posta staff. During the
preceding week, John had been presented
with the Association of British Philatelic
Societies’ Award of Merit, granted to him
for outstanding voluntary service to British
Society news
philately. The award, one of only seven
made by the ABPS in 2018, was presented
to John by Roger Tozer at a meeting of the
Wirral Philatelic Society, John’s local society.
Members of the Stratford upon Avon
Philatelic Society marked the group’s
thirtieth anniversary recently with a special
cake. The Society was launched in 1988, by
means of an advert in the Stratford Herald
on 23 March, placed by Kurt Mannaberg,
inviting expressions of interest. There was
sufficient response to get the club going in
a very active way, not least in persuading
the GPO to open a philatelic counter at
Stratford post office. The society meets on
alternate Wednesdays at Stratford upon
Avon School Community Sports Centre; for
membership details contact Colin Fountain
on tel: 01789 841 606.
The programme of the Wakefield Philatelic
Society for the remainder of the year
includes: ‘Scottish Traditional Half Penny
Mail Tax’ by David Druett (7 November,
7pm), ‘GB King George VI’ by Daphne
McMillan (21 November, 7pm), ‘Mail Boats
of the Dover-Ostend Route from 1846’
by Paul Schofield & ‘Life and Times of
Christopher Columbus’ by Nigel Harpham
(5 December, 7pm), and Christmas Social
and Displays (5 December, 7pm). Visitors
of all philatelic abilities and interests, are
always welcome to Wakefield Philatelic
Society which meets at the Standbridge Lane
Community Centre, Kettlethorpe, Wakefield
WF2 7NP, on the first, third and fifth
Wednesdays of the month (September to
June) and occasionally in July and August.
The Austrian Philatelic Society annual
weekend for 2018 took place at The Stuart
Hotel in Derby recently. Proceedings began
with an auction with over seventy percent of
the reserve value sold, highlights included
a Lombardy Venezia Revenue stamp
which sold for over £200. The Saturday
saw 21 displays covering a wide range of
Austro-Hungarian philately and history
from ‘Spectacular Postage Dues’ to ‘Pre-
Stamp Budapest’. The annual nine-sheet
competition was won by David Bravery
with ‘Furthest South’ (the southernmost
part of the Empire at the Montenegran
border). The Sunday featured a two-
part President’s Invitation Display of the
‘Austrian Registered Post 1789-1918’ by
Keith Brandon and the weekend concluded
with the Society’s AGM. For Society details
visit: www.austrianphilately.com

SPOTLIGHT ON

Eastbourne & South Downs Philatelic Society

Founded in 1936, Eastbourne & South Downs Philatelic Society is one of and special members’ evening.
the largest and most active in the UK and prides itself on providing a warm Upcoming meetings include
welcome to new members, both beginner and advanced. Queen Victoria and Edward
The society’s inaugural meeting was held on 28 September 1936 VII (6 December), Kiribati (17
and it was originally founded as a section of the Eastbourne Natural January) and commemorating
History Society. In the years prior to World War Two, fortnightly World War I (24 January).
meetings were held at the Eastbourne’s Public Library and in 1938, The packet continues to
a packet was introduced. In 1950, the South Downs Society and circulate around club members, The committee pictured earlier this year, during
Eastbourne Philatelic Society amalgamated to form the Eastbourne who also enjoy the club’s auctions, a club evening titled ‘The society entertains’
and South Downs Philatelic Society. held around seven times a year. The
The society’s philatelic library began in 1939 when Mr C Stibbs donated society journal The Lighthouse, now in its fourteenth year, is published
a bookcase and sixty books – many of which are still housed in the society’s quarterly and distributed to members, who can access back issues on the
current library. Members benefit from this extensive library, which includes website: www.eastbournestampclub.co.uk
current stamp catalogues and several hundred books.
In the 1970s, the society moved to its current meeting venue at the How to join
St John Ambulance Headquarters Bourne Street, Eastbourne, where Annual membership is £12 and both new and experienced collectors
it continues to thrive, with a membership of over 100. Members meet are welcome to join. Simply use the contact form on the website www.
weekly on Thursday evenings, with regular talks from visiting speakers eastbournestampclub.co.uk or come along to any of the meetings.

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Stamp stories
nearly caused a war
This inoffensive-looking air mail stamp from Nicaragua came close to causing
a war when it was issued in 1937, as Chris West explains
T
he war, had it
happened, would have
been a reigniting of
an old conflict with
its north-western
neighbour, Honduras, about the
exact border between the two
countries. Originally, both were part
of the mighty Spanish Empire, which
stretched unbroken down the western
side of the Americas from modern
Canada (the Spanish claimed land
as far north as Alaska) to Tierra del
Fuego and Cape Horn. This empire
was divided into large administrative
areas: modern Honduras and
Nicaragua were both part of the
‘Captain Generalcy of Guatemala’.
Nobody bothered about the border
between them.
When the Spanish left in 1821,
the two nations became first part
of a new empire, that of Mexico,
then of an independent ‘Republic of
Central America’. This coalition soon
fell apart – Nicaragua was the first
member to leave it, but Honduras
soon followed.
The border was now more of an
issue, but still largely a theoretical
one, as few people lived in the
disputed territory (the name of
part of it, the Mosquito Coast,
maybe explains why). A boundary
commission in 1894 produced a
nice clear frontier – for the southern
section of the border, but nothing
for the north. In 1906, the king of
the former colonial power was asked
to adjudicate. King Alfonso XIII
came down in favour of a solution
that gave a large chunk of land to
Honduras. This is the northern
area marked ‘Territorio en Litigio’
(Territory in Dispute) on the stamp.
Nicaragua was not pleased at this
74 NOVEMBER 2017
The stamp that
The controversial
stamp design showing
the ‘TERRITORIO EN
LITIGO’ adorned seven
different values,
all intended to be
seen overseas
decision, but spent much of the
next decades in civil conflict. In
January 1937, Anastasio Somoza
García seized power. A classic Latin
American strongman – his family
remained in control till 1979 – he
had strongly nationalistic views, and
regarded King Alfonso’s decision as
a national insult. The debatable land
belonged to Nicaragua!
Stamps are often one of the earliest
ways that new nations and regimes
express themselves. New internal
stamps featuring Somoza’s presidential
palace soon appeared, asserting his
legitimacy to the country’s residents.
In August, the stamp shown here
was issued in seven different values
and colours for overseas Air Mail,
asserting Nicaragua’s right to its
‘lost’ territory. Letters bearing these
stamps soon started arriving in the
neighbour country.
The Honduran government
protested, but Nicaragua replied that
the map was ‘official’. Requests to
Chris West is co-author recall the new stamps were ignored.
of Lost Countries, Soon there were riots on the streets of
Exotic Tales from an the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa. In
Old Stamp Album early September, police had to prevent
(History Press, £12.99) a mob from storming the Nicaraguan
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embassy. Both sides began to
mobilize troops in the disputed area.
War looked imminent.
Diplomats from the United
States, Mexico and Costa Rica
stepped in to avert conflict. On 10
December, a treaty ‘demilitarising’
the area was signed. Amongst
other things, it promised that ‘the
cordial relations which have always
existed and should continue to
exist between the Governments
and people of both countries be
re-established’.
The boundary issue wouldn’t go
away, despite the cordiality. In the
late 1950s, it was referred to the
International Court of Justice in
Den Haag. This body agreed with
King Alfonso. In 1960, the land
officially became part of Honduras.
How much use it is to its owners
is debatable. Much of the area
is hard to cultivate, and one of
its main economic activities is
drug smuggling. But land is land!
Apparently you can still buy maps
in Nicaragua that show the area as
Nicaraguan territory. Maybe more
twists await in this story. Will
stamps play a part?
 New stamps

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latest new stamps from around the world

GREAT BRITAIN DZD10.00 Semi-precious Pearl Necklace Stamp size: 43mm x 43mm
DZD20.00 Gold Bracelets DZD25.00 Police logo and ’55 years’ date
001 The Old Vic, eight values DZD20.00 Gold Pendant
Issue date: 20 August 2018 012 Child protection, two values
Printer: International Security Printers 006 2nd Session of the Specialized Technical Issue date: 6 August 2017 014
Perforations: 14.5 x 14 Committee on Social Development, Labour and Printer: Imprimerie Banque Centrale d’Algerie
Stamp size: 35mm x 37mm Employment of the African Union, one value Perforations: 14 x 14
1st The Dance of Death (1967), Laurence Olivier Issue date: 24 April 2017 Stamp size: 40mm x 30mm
1st King Lear (2016), Glenda Jackson Printer: Imprimerie Banque Centrale d’Algerie DZD25.00 Child crossing the road safely
£1.25 Hamlet (1975), Albert Finney Perforations: 14 x 14 DZD25.00 Internet danger
£1.25 Hedda Gabler (1970), Maggie Smith Stamp size: 40mm x 40mm
£1.45 No Man’s Land (1975), Ralph Richardson DZD25.00 Conference logo and dates 013 Infrastructures, two values
£1.45 Carmen Jones (1991), Sharon Benson Issue date: 10 September 2017
£1.55 Romeo & Juliet (1960, Judi Dench and 007 Theatres, three values Printer: Imprimerie Banque Centrale d’Algerie
John Stride Issue date: 18 May 2017 Perforations: 14 x 14 015
£1.55 Henry V (1955), Richard Burton Perforations: 14 x 14 Stamp size: 48mm x 34mm
Printer: Imprimerie Banque Centrale d’Algerie DZD25.00 Algiers Opera House
002 First World War I918, six values Stamp size: 30mm x 40mm DZD25.00 International Conference Centre
Issue date: 13 September 2018 DZD5.00 Regional Theatre of Sidi-bel-Abbès
Printer:International Security Printers DZD20.00 Bejaia Regional Theatre ANDORRA (SPANISH)
Perforations: 14.5 x 14.5 DZD25.00 Regional Theatre of Tizi-Ouzou
028
Stamp size: 35mm x 35mm 014 Women of Andorra: Pilar Riberaygua,,
1st 100 Poppies by Zafar and Barbara Baran 008 International Artists Day, two values one value
1st Anthem for Doomed Youth by Issue date: 8 June 2017 Issue date: 22 September 2017
Wildfred Owen Printer: Imprimerie Banque Centrale d’Algerie Printer: RCM-FNMT
1st Second Lieutenant Walter Tull Perforations: 14 x 14 Perforations: 13 x 13
£1.55 We Are Making A New World by Stamp size: 34mm x 47mm Stamp size: 41mm x 29mm
Paul Nash DZD50.00 Warda Al-Jazairia €1.25 Pilar Riberaygua
£1.55 The Grave of the Unknown Warrior, DZD50.00 Fadila Dziria
029
Westminster Abbey, London 015 Granite Architecture: Xalet Arajol, one value
£1.55 Lieutenant Francis Hopgood’s 009 Waterfalls, four values Issue date: 14 October 2017
goggles Issue date: 24 June 2017 Printer: RCM-FNMT
Printer: Imprimerie Banque Centrale d’Algerie Perforations: 13 x 13
ALGERIA Perforations: 14 x 14 Stamp size: 30mm x 41mm
Stamp size: 40mm x 30mm €3.15 Granite building at Xalet Arajoi
003 Consumer Awarenes: The Prevention of DZD25.00 Oued El-Bared Falls – Setif
Food Poisoning, two values DZD25.00 Tifrit Falls – Saida 016 Animals in art – Oxen, one value
Issue date: 15 March 2017 DZD25.00 Sidi Ouadah Falls – Tiaret Issue date: 3 November 2017
Printer: Imprimerie Banque Centrale d’Algerie DZD25.00 Lakhdaria Falls – Bouira Printer: RCM-FNMT
Peforations: 14 x 14 Perforations: 14 x 14
Stamp size: 29mm x 43mm 010 Battles, five values Stamp size: 41mm x 28mm
031
DZD25.00 Man surrounded by dishes of food Issue date: 5 July 2017 €1.35 Altarpiece of Sant Miquel de Prats
DZD25.00 Disposal of food Printer: Imprimerie Banque Centrale d’Algerie
Perforations: 14 x 14 017 Christmas, one value
004 World Down Syndrome Day, one value Stamp size: 40mm x 30mm Issue date: 8 November 2017
Issue date: 21 March 2017 DZD25.00 Battle of Kheng Ennetah (1832) Printer: RCM-FNMT
Printer: Imprimerie Banque Centrale d’Algerie DZD25.00 Battle of Bir El Gharama (1881) Perforations: 13 x 13
Perforations: 14 x 14 DZD25.00 Battle of Bir Teskift (1957) Stamp size: 35mm x 25mm
Stamp size: 43mm x 29mm DZD25.00 Battle of Aîn Zana (1959) €0.50 Yule log 034
DZD25.00 Two children with balloons DZD25.00 Battle of Djebel Bouk’ hil (1961)
018 Definitive series: coat of arms, one value
005 Tinhinan Jewellery, three values 011 55th Anniversary of the Algerian Police, Issue date: 12 January 2018
Issue date: 18 April 2017 one value Printer: RCM-FNMT
Printer: Imprimerie Banque Centrale d’Algerie Issue date: 22 July 2017 Perforations: 13 x 13
Perforations: 14 x 14 Printer: Imprimerie Banque Centrale d’Algerie Stamp size: 29mm x 41mm
Stamp size: 43mm x 43mm Perforations: 14 x 14 A Andorra coat of arms 035

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019 Andorran Diversity 2017: Italian 026 Intangible heritage of Humanity: Summer Perforations: 12.75 x 12.75
Community, one value solstice fire festivals in the Pyrenees, Stamp size: 40.3mm x 40.3mm
Issue date: 24 February 2018 one value A Bauble decorated with snowflakes
Printer: RCM-FNMT Issue date: 5 June 2018 A Bauble decorated with angels
Perforations: 13 x 13 Printer: RCM-FNMT
Stamp size: 30mm x 41mm Perforations: 13 x 13 033 Medal Winners of the XV Summer
€1.35 Roman emperor Stamp size: 82mm x 29mm Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, four
€1.45 Fire festival scene values
020 Anniversaries - 25th Anniversary of the Issue date: 29 October 2016
039 Constitution, one value ARGENTINA Printer: RUE Bobruisk Intergrated Printing House
Issue date: 14 March 2018 Perforations: 13 x 13.5
Printer: RCM-FNMT 027 Christmas 2017, one value Stamp size: 26mm x 37mm
Perforations: 13 x 13 Issue date: 11 December 2017 H Ihar Boki Six-time Paralympic
Stamp size: 30mm x 41mm Printer: Letra Viva SA, Buenos Aires champion and bronze
€3.30 Copy of the constitution Perforations: 14 x 14 medal winner (swimming)
043
Stamp size: 66.5mm x 27.5mm M Andrei Pranevich Paralympic champion
021 40th Anniversary of the parish of ARS32.00 Cartoon figures beside Christmas tree (wheelchair fencing)
Escaldes-Engordany, one value M Uladzimir Izotau - Paralympic champion
Issue date: 6 April 2017 028 200 Years of the Crossing of the Andes, (swimming)
Printer: RCM-FNMT one value N Aliaksandr Tryputs Bronze medal winner
Perforations: 13 x 13 Issue date: 26 December 2017 (athletics)
Stamp size: 29mm x 41mm Printer: Letra Viva SA, Buenos Aires
€0.55 Saxophone player Perforations: 14 x 14 034 Happy Postcrossing!, one value
Notes: Scaldes-Engordany, in southern Andorra, is Stamp size: 60mm x 40mm Issue date: 3 January 2017
noted for its annual jazz festival ARS53.00 Early crossing of the Andes by armies Printer: RUE Bobruisk Intergrated Printing House
Perforations: Imperforate
022 Europa Bridges, one value 029 Renewable energies, two values Stamp size: 32mm x 31mm
Issue date: 23 April 2018 Issue date: 15 January 2018 M Woman in national costume holding a
Printer: RCM-FNMT Printer: Letra Viva SA, Buenos Aires postcrossing sign
Perforations: 13 x 13 Perforations: 14 x 14
Stamp size: 41mm x 29mm Stamp size: 80mm x 40mm 035 Children’s philately: Kittens, four values
€1.35 Egordany Bridge ARS16.00 LPG gas filling station and gas- Issue date: 18 January 2017
powered cars Printer: RUE Bobruisk Intergrated Printing House
044
023 Andorran women: Roser Jordana Mallol ARS16.00 Wind turbines in country landscape Perforations: 12 x 12.5
(1942-2014), one value Stamp size: 30mm x 28mm
Issue date: 16 May 2018 030 25 years of the death of Astor Piazzola, A Bengal
Printer: RCM-FNMT two values A Maine Coon
Perforations: 13 x 13 Issue date: 8 May 2018 N Scottish Fold
Stamp size: 41mm x 29mm Printer: Letra Viva SA, Buenos Aires N British Shorthair
€1.35 Photo of Roser Jordana Mallol Perforations: 14 x 14
Notes: Roser was noted for her efforts to promote Stamp size: 30mm x 50mm 036 Children’s philately: Puppies, four values
tourism in Andorra, and was known locally as an ARS45.00 Piazollo playing the bandoneon Issue date: 26 January 2017
‘institution for tourism in Andorra’ ARS75.00 Piazollo portrait Printer: RUE Bobruisk Intergrated Printing House
Perforations: 12 x 12
024 Tree leaves: walnut tree, one value BELARUS Stamp size: 30mm x 28mm
Issue date: 25 May 2018 A French Bulldog
Printer: RCM-FNMT 031 Butterfiles, four values B Standard smooth-haired dachshund
Perforations: 13 x 13 Issue date: 19 October 2016 N American Cocker Spaniel
Stamp size: 41mm x 29mm Printer: RUE Bobruisk Intergrated Printing House N Chihuahua
€1.45 Walnut tree leaves and fruit Perforations: 12 x 12
Stamp size: 40mm x 28mm 037 RCC Subjects: National crafts, two values
025 Anniversaries: 25 years of the A Garden Tiger Moth (Arctia caja) Issue date: 17 February 2017
048
establishment of bilateral relations with A Camberwell Beauty (Nymphalis antiopa) Printer: RUE Bobruisk Intergrated Printing House
Spain, one value A Six-spot Burnet (Zygaena filipendulae) Perforations: 12 x 12
Issue date: 5 June 2018 A Eyed Hawk-moth (Smerinthus ocellata) Stamp size: 28mm x 40mm
Printer: RCM-FNMT H Pottery
Perforations: 13 x 13 032 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, N Straw weaving
Stamp size: 41mm x 29mm two values
€1.35 Maps and flags of Andorra and Spain Issue date: 27 October 2016
051 Printer: RUE Bobruisk Intergrated Printing House

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038 100th Anniversary of Belarusian militia, Printer: Casa da Moeda do Brasil Stamp size: 40mm x 30mm
two values Perforations: 12 x 11.5 CRC2100 Nurses with patient
Issue date: 24 February 2017 Stamp size: 30mm x 40mm
Printer: RUE Bobruisk Intergrated Printing House 049 International Women’s Day, three values
Perforations: 13.5 x 13.5 043 500 Years of Lutheran Restoration, one value Issue date: 8 March 2017
Stamp size: 40mm x 40mm Issue date: 13 April 2017 Printer: Imprenta GOZAKA SA
P Emblem of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Printer: Casa da Moeda do Brasil Perforations: 11 x 11
P Ministry of Internal Affairs Perforations: 11 x 11.5 Stamp size: 35mm x 35mm
Stamp size: 44mm x 26mm CRC550 Shirley Cruz
BRAZIL BRL4.15 Martin Luther portrait CRC600 Christiana Figueres
Notes: Joint issue with Germany CRC800 Sandra Cauffman
039 Brazilian Butterflies, 22 values
Issue date: 20 October 2016 044 Brazilian Birds, six values 050 50th anniversary of DINADECO, one value
Printer: Casa da Moeda do Brasil Issue date: 19 June 2017 Issue date: 7 April 2017
Perforations: 11.5 x 11.5 Printer: Casa da Moeda do Brasil Printer: Imprenta GOZAKA SA
Stamp size: 38mm x 38mm Perforations: 12 x 11.5 Perforations: 11 x 11
1st Protesilaus sp. Stamp size: 30mm x 40mm Stamp size: 45mm x 33mm
1st Junonia evarete BRL1.25 Purple-winged Ground Dove CRC2060 Painting of houses and washing on
1st Anartia amathea (Claravis geoffroyi) the line
1st Heliconius sara apseudes BRL1.25 Blue-eyed Ground Dove Notes: DINADECO is a charitable organisation
1st Lasaia agesilas (Columbina cyanopis) which promotes and coordinates community work
1st Vanessa myrinna BRL1.25 Araripe manakin (Antilophia bokermanni)
1st Crocozona coecias 1st Purple-winged Ground Dove 051 Diplomatic relation: Republic of Costa
1st Siproeta stelenes (Claravis geoffroyi) Rica – People’s Republic of China, one value
1st Urbanus esmeraldus 1st Araripe manakin Issue date: 30 June 2017
1st Udranomia spitzi (Antilophia bokermanni) Printer: Imprenta GOZAKA SA
1st Marpesia petreus Perforations: 11 x 11
1st Emesis fatimella 045 100 Years of Samba, one value Stamp size: 45mm x 30mm
1st Phocides sp. Issue date: 23 June 2017 CRC1400 Great Wall of China
1st Echydna punctata Printer: Casa da Moeda do Brasil
1st Chorinea licursis Perforations: 11.5 x 11.5 052 Common insects of Costa Rica, four values
1st Chamaelimnas briola Stamp size: 38mm x 38mm Issue date: 20 July 2017
BRL1.70 Aricoris middletoni 1st Samba dancers and musicians Printer: Imprenta GOZAKA SA
BRL1.70 Evenus gabriela Perforations: 11 x 11
BRL1.70 Parides bunichus bunichus 046 Mercosur series - Public Transport, one value Stamp size: 25mm x 45mm 052
BRL1.70 Melete lycimnia Issue date: 28 July 2017 CRC420 Carneades superba
BRL1.70 Myscelia orsis Printer: Casa da Moeda do Brasil CRC550 Edessa rufomarginata
BRL1.70 Mimoniades versicolor Perforations: 11 x 11.5 CRC650 Chrysina aurigans
Stamp size: 44mm x 26mm CRC900 Golofa costaricensis
040 Tattoo: Art on skin, five values BRL1.50 Metro train
Issue date: 11 November 2016 053 National Park of Water ‘Juan Castro Blanco’
Printer: Casa da Moeda do Brasil 047 Brazilian Historical Monuments, (1992-2017): Craugastor escoces, one value
Perforations: 12 x 11.5 three values Issue date: 24 August 2017
Stamp size: 40mm x 30mm Issue date: 11 August 2017 Printer: Imprenta GOZAKA SA
1st Chest tattoo Printer: Casa da Moeda do Brasil Perforations: 11 x 11
1st Brazilian history tattoo Perforations: 11.5 x 11.5 Stamp size: 50mm x 30mm
1st Historic lady tattoo Stamp size: 38mm x 38mm CRC1100 Frog
1st Statue tattoo BRL1.80 ‘The Lassoer’ Statue – Porto Alegre
1st Feather design tattoo BRL1.80 Equestrian Statue of Dom Pedro I – ISRAEL
Rio de Janeiro
041 Araripe GeoPark, two values BRL1.80 Monument to the Opening of the 054 Passover Haggadah, three values
Issue date: 21 November 2016 Amazon Province Ports to Foreign Issue date: 4 April 2017
Printer: Casa da Moeda do Brasil Nations – Manaus Printer: Cartor Security Printers
Perforations: 11.5 x 12 Perforations: 13 x 13
Stamp size: 40mm x 30mm COSTA RICA Stamp size: 40mm x 30mm
1st Moth fossil ILS4.00 Pirkei Pesach (Passover Chapters),
1st Moth fossil 048 100th Anniversary of the School of Nursing Haganah, 1948 (Security)
of the University of Costa Rica, one value ILS4.00 The Kibbutz Artzi Federation,
042 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Miguel Issue date: 1 March 2017 1944 (Aliyah)
Arraes, one value Printer: Imprenta GOZAKA SA ILS4.00 Kibbutz Ein Gev, 1944 (settlement)
Issue date: 14 December 2016 Perforations: 11 x 11 060

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055 Joint Issue Israel-Portugal - Dolphin Stamp size: 33mm x 39mm 063 The World Heritage Series No.9: Sites of
Research, one value JPY82 Tokyo scene Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution, Iron and
Issue date: 4 April 2017 JPY82 Passengers crossing harbour bridge Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining, ten values
Printer: Cartor Security Printers JPY82 Traditional Japanese building Issue date: 8 July 2016
Perforations: 13 x 13 JPY82 Great Wall of China Printer: philaposte
Stamp size: 40mm x 30mm JPY82 Coastal scene Perforations: 13 x 13
ISL7.40 Dolphin beside research boat Stamp size: 28mm x 36mm
061 Traditional Japanese design series, JPY82 Kitakyushu City
056 Memorial Day 2017, one value twenty values JPY82 Omuta City
Issue date: 4 April 2017 Issue date: 17 June 2016 JPY82 Izunokuni City
Printer: Cartor Security Printers Printer: Toppan Printing Company JPY82 Kamaishi City
061 Perforations: 13 x 13 Perforations: 14 x 14 JPY82 Izunokuni City
Stamp size: 40mm x 30mm Stamp size: Various JPY82 Nagazaki Prefecture
ISL2.40 Memorial garden JPY52 Mountain, green floral background JPY82 Kamaishi City
JPY52 Mountain, purple floral background JPY82 Kagoshimi City
057 WW1 in Eretz Israel Centenary – General JYP52 Birds and blue ocean waves JPY82 Omuta City
Allenby entering Jerusalem (1917), one value JPY52 Birds and purple ocean waves JPY82 Nagasaki Prefecture
Issue date: 13 June 2017 JPY52 Green floral pattern
Printer: Cartor Security Printers JPY52 Pink floral pattern 064 ‘Omotenashi’ (Hospitality) Flowers Series
066 Perforations: 13 x 13 JPY52 Blue petals No.6, ten values
Stamp size: 40mm x 30mm JPY52 Orange petals Issue date: 15 July 2016
ISL11.60 Archive photograph of Allenby in JPY52 Blue waves Printer: Toppan Printing Company
Jerusalem with soldier in foreground JPY52 Pink waves Perforations: 14 x 14
JPY82 Dark blue mountain Stamp size: 21mm x 25mm
058 The 20th Maccabiah, one value JPY82 Light blue mountain JPY52 Red lily
Issue date: 13 June 2017 JPY82 Bird and blue waves JPY52 White lily
Printer: Cartor Security Printers JPY82 Bird and pink waves JPY52 Pine flowers
Perforations: 13 x 13 JPY82 Green tile pattern JPY52 Pink and purple wildflowers
Stamp size: 30mm x 40mm JPY82 Pink tile pattern JPY52 Pink flowers
ISL2.40 Collage of athlete photos JPY82 Yellow tile pattern JPY52 Pink roses
Notes: The Maccabiah Games, established in JPY82 Blue tile pattern JPY52 Orange and pink flowers
1932, are held every four years, with around JPY82 Pink waves JPY82 Purple hyacinth
10,000 athletes from around the world competing JPY82 Yellow waves JPY82 Pink and yellow flowers
in various sports JPY82 Bouquet of lilies
062 Greetings (Doraemon), twenty values
059 Israeli Music: love songs, twelve values Issue date: 1 July 2016 065 Letter-writing day, ten values
Issue date: 13 June 2017 Printer: Toppan Printing Company Issue date: 22 July 2016
Printer: Cartor Security Printers Perforations: 14 x 14 Printer: Not reported
Perforations: 13 x 13 Stamp size: 20mm x 27mm Perforations: 14 x 14
Stamp size: 30mm x 30mm JPY52 Smiling cat Stamp size: 21mm x 25mm
ILS2.40 People dancing JPY52 Cat with letter JPY52 Fountain pens
ILS2.40 Book and red rose JPY52 Cat postal worker JPY52 Sticky tape
ILS2.40 Doves JPY52 Smiling cat JPY52 Erasers
ILS2.40 Woman singing JPY52 Girl, boy and cat JPY52 Pencils
ILS2.40 Bowl of food JPY52 Cat eating JPY52 Paper clips
ILS2.40 Couple and love heart JPY52 Cat winking JPY82 Letter seal
ILS2.40 Man waiting outside a woman’s house JPY52 Boy writing a letter JPY82 Crayons
ILS2.40 Couple with candle JPY52 Girl reading a letter HPY82 Fountain pens
ILS2.40 Flower JPY52 Acrobatic cat JPY82 Coloured pencils
ILS2.40 Girl with stars and moon dress JPY82 Flying cat JPY82 Envelopes
067 ILS2.40 Boat scene JPY82 Bedtime cat
ILS2.40 Man walking down a path as woman JPY82 Waving cat MALAYSIA
watches JPY82 Cat with a torch
JPY82 Office cat 066 Chung Ling High School Centenary 1917-
JAPAN JPY82 Cat and door 2017, four values
JPY82 Smiling cat Issue date: 9 February 2017
060 The 60th Anniversary of Enforcement of JPY82 Waving cat Printer: Southern Colour Print New Zealand
Local Autonomy Law (Tokyo), five values JPY82 Cat licking its lips Perforations: 14 x 14
Issue date: 7 June 2016 Stamp size: 40mm x 30mm
Printer: philaposte MYR0.85 School entrance
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RON15.00 Plateau with central leg Stamp size: 43.5mm x 33.06mm

MYR1.05 View from gardens RON16.00 Plateau with central leg E Black Sea Common Dolphin
MYR5.00 Original building and school badge (Delphinus delphis ponticus)
SWEDEN N Barnea candida
067 National Definitive Series – Orchids, six
values and a miniature sheet 072 National Archives of Sweden, three values 078 Mykyta Kozhumiaka (The Dragon Spell),
Issue date: 21 February 2017 Issue date: 4 January 2018 four values
Printer: Percetakan Keselamatan Nasional Sdn Bhd Printer: PostNord Stamps Issue date: 30 May 2017
Perforations: 14 x 14 Perforations: 13.5 x 13.5 Printer: Ukraina Plant
Stamp size: 27mm x 32mm Stamp size: 25mm x 40mm Perforations: 11.5 x 11.5
MYR0.60 Rhynchostylis retusa SEK21.00 Village map Stamp size: 48.72mm x 26.1mm
MYR0.70 Phalaenopsis violacea SEK21.00 Old books UAH2.40 Dragon
MYR0.80 Vanda helvola SE21.00 Magnifying glass UAH3.00 Grandfather Danylo
MYR0.90 Paphiopedilum lowii UAH3.00 Squirrel Kamikadze
MYR1.00 Arachnis flos-aeris 073 Lighthouses, seven values UAH5.40 Mykyta Kozhumiaka
MYR1.10 Papilionanthe hookeriana Issue date: 7 January 2018
Printer: PostNord Stamps 079 Europa 2017: Castles, four values
068 Festival Food Series - Kadazandusun & Perforations: 14 x 14 Issue date: 9 June 2017
Dayak, four values Stamp size: 26mm x 36mm Printer: Ukraina Plant
Issue date: 16 March 2017 Brev Långe Jan Perforations: 11.5 x 11.5
Printer: Southern Colour Print New Zealand Brev Vinga Stamp size: 52mm x 25.2mm
Perforations: 14 x 14 Brev Falsterbo UAH5.00 Medzhybizh Castle
Stamp size: 30mm x 40mm Brev Pite-Rönnskär UAH5.80 Olesko Castle
MYR0.60 Soup and crackers Brev Vinga UAH12.80 Medzhybizh Castle
MYR0.80 Rice and salad Brev När UAH12.80 Olesko Castle
MYR0.90 Vegetables Brev Örskär
MYR5.00 Confectionery UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
UKRAINE
069 Festive Greetings, four values 080 Peace Rose, one value
Issue date: 28 March 2017 074 Jamala, one value Issue date: 21 April 2018 072
Printer: Joh Enschedé Stamps BV Issue date: 5 May 2017 Design: Ethel Kessler
Perforations: 14 x 14 Printer: Ukraina Plant Printer: Ashton Potter
Stamp size: 40mm x 30mm Perforations: 11.5 x 11.5 Stamp size: 22.10mm x 24.89mm
MYR0.80 Happy Deepavali Stamp size: 33mm x 30mm Forever Hybrid tea rose
MYR0.80 Chinese New Year Greetings UAH4.00 Jamala photo and signature
MYR0.80 Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Fitri Greeting Notes: Ukranian singer Susana Alimivna Jamaladinova URUGUAY
MYR0.80 Lembaran Mini (stage name Jamala) is a singer-songwriter who won
the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest with her song 1944 081 25 Years of Apadista, one value
070 Pertabalan KeBawah Duli Yang Maha Issue date: 8 March 2017
Mulia Seri Paduka Baginda Yang Di-Pertuan 075 25th Anniversary of Ukraine - US Printer: Sanfer SRL
Agong XV Sultan Muhammad V, two values Diplomatic Relations, one value Perforations: 13 x 13
Issue date: 24 April 2017 Issue date: 8 May 2017 Stamp size: 42mm x 30mm
Printer: Percetakan Keselamatan Nasional Sdn Bhd Printer: Ukraina Plant $20 Person in wheelchair with teacher, and
Perforations: 14 x 14 Perforations: 11.5 x 11.5 clasped hands
Stamp size: 30mm x 50mm Stamp size: 28mm x 40mm
MYR0.60 Royal portrait UAH4.40 Ukraine and US flags 082 Definitive Series Artigas 2017 (Reddish),
MYR5.00 Military portrait one value
076 300 years since the Birth of Mariia Issue date: 23 March 2017
ROMANIA Theresia, one value Printer: Garino Hnos
Issue date: 13 May 2017 Perforations: 10 x 10
071 Romanian Collections: platters and Printer: Ukraina Plant Stamp size: 31mm x 24mm 073
trivets, seven values Perforations: 11.5 x 11.5 $50 Jose G Artigas portrait
Issue date: 29 March 2018 Stamp size: 29.58mm x 36.54mm
Printer: Fabrica de timbre E Portrait of Mariia Theresia 083 ACM2017 Montevideo, asteroid, three values
Perforations: 13.5 x 13.5 Notes: Joint issue of Ukraine, Slovenia, Austria, Issue date: 9 April 2017
Stamp size: 36mm x 36mm Hungary and Croatia Printer: Sanfer SRL
RON2.20 Pressing iron support Perforations: 13 x 13
RON2.50 Pressing iron protection 077 The Black Sea, two values Stamp size: 42mm x 30mm
RON2.70 Ornamental plateau Issue date: 22 May 2017 $20 NASA planet image
RON3.50 Support with grate Printer: Ukraina Plant $20 Asteroid photograph
RON4.00 Plateau with floral motif Perforations: 11.5 x 11.5 $20 Planet photograph 074

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084 100 Years of the Club Atlético Progreso,

one value
Theme checklist
Issue date: 27 April 2017 Use the list below to cross reference the new
Printer: Sanfer SRL stamps listed in this issue against your theme
Perforations: 13 x 13
Stamp size: 42mm x 30mm A I
$20 Club shirt
Animals: 016, 035, 036, 055 Industry: 050, 063
Architecture: 007, 013, 015, 038 Insects: 031, 041, 052, 053
085 100 Years of the Lions Clubs
075 International , one value Artists: 008 International relations: 019, 025, 051, 075
Issue date: 28 April 2017 B J
Printer: Sanfer SRL Birds: 044 Jewellery: 005
Perforations: 13 x 13 Bridges: 022 L
Stamp size: 42mm x 30mm
Butterflies: 031, 039 Law: 064
$65 Lions logo with montage of
C Love: 059
Lions activities
Castles: 079 M
086 100 Years of José Enrique Rodó, one value Cats: 035 Mammals: 077
Issue date: 3 May 2017 Celebrations: 027, 032, 069 Mankind: 040
076 Printer: Sanfer SRL Children: 004, 012 Marine life: 077
Perforations: 13 x 13
Christmas: 017, 027, 032 Medicine: 048
Stamp size: 42mm x 30mm
Cinema: 078 Military: 010, 028, 070
$20 José Enrique Rodó photograph
Notes: Essayist José Enrique Rodó was born in Coats of arms: 018 Music: 021, 030, 074
Montevideo on 15 July 1871. He is best known Communications: 065 N
for the work Ariel, published in 1900 D National symbols: 038
Dance: 045 New Year: 032
087 100 Years of La Cumparsita, one value
Dogs: 036E P
077 Issue date: 7 May 2017
Printer: Sanfer SRL E Paralympics: 033
Perforations: 13 x 13 Economy: 006, 050, 063 Philately: 034
Stamp size: 30mm x 42mm Education: 066, 081 Politics: 006, 060, 082
$65 Scene featuring the tango carnival Energy: 029 R
composed in 1916
Europa: 022, 079 Religion: 016
Explorers: 028 Royalty: 070
081 088 50 Years of Mevir, one value
Issue date: 17 May 2017 F S
Printer: Sanfer SRL Festivals: 026 Science: 083
Perforations: 13 x 13 Fine arts: 014, 037, 047, 061, 071 Ships: 073
Stamp size: 42mm x 30mm First World War: 002, 057 Space: 083
$20 Mevir headquarters
Flags: 025, 055, 075 Sport: 033, 058, 084
Flowers: 064, 067, 080 T
082 VATICAN CITY
Food: 068 Theatre: 001, 007
089 Centenary of the Marian Apparitions of Football: 084 Trains: 046
Fatima, one value G Transport: 046, 063
Issue date: 4 May 2017 Geography: 009, 060 Trees: 024
Printer: Cartor (France)
Government: 011, 020, 060 W
Perforations: 13 x 13.25
Stamp size: 30mm x 40mm Greetings: 062 Women: 008, 023, 049
€2.55 Fatima children with Mary in the clouds H
Health: 003, 048
Hearts: 059
History: 043, 047, 056, 057, 072, 073, 076,
079
Holy days: 017, 054, 069

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Fitzwilliam Museum
Found in the river
This month’s coin from the Fitzwilliam Museum collection is a local find with a
continental pedigree, writes Richard Kelleher, as he examines an imitation gold solidus
of Louis the Pious found in Cambridge
I
t was minted somewhere in
Frisia (northern Netherlands);
it imitates a coin of a Frankish
emperor, and yet it was found
in a river in England. The
coin provides a fascinating insight
into the use of gold in Anglo-Saxon
England and networks of trade and
communication shared with the North
Sea world in the 9th century. The coin,
which is our focus here, was presented
to the Fitzwilliam Museum by the
Reverend Latimer Neville (1853-1904),
who was Master of Magdalen College.
The accompanying ticket states that it
was ‘found in the river near Magdalen
College.’
The two-year-old Louis the Pious
was crowned king of Aquitaine in 781.
In 813 he was created co-emperor with
his father Charlemagne (768-814) in
813 and, upon the latter’s death four
months later, succeeded him in his
own right. Two main difficulties, one
external and one internal, dominated
Louis’ reign. The external trouble
came in the borderlands
of Louis’ huge empire,
particularly from increasingly
devastating Viking attacks,
while the internal problems
stemmed from Louis’
inability to satisfy his sons
in the succession. This led
to civil war and the decline of
royal power. After Louis’ death in
940 his empire was split between his
three sons creating East Francia, Middle
Francia and West Francia, and
creating the basis of what would
become France and Germany.
Despite the troubled
political circumstances of the
reign, the coinage maintained
a good sense of order. The
monetary system of the
Carolingian Empire had been
reformed by Charlemagne and
was principally composed of
silver deniers and occasionally obols
Figure 1. Frisian
imitation of a gold
solidus (c.830-50)
(halfpennies), a structure that continued
into the reign of his son Louis. Almost
fifty mints are known to have produced
coins in the name of Louis the Pious.
Eighty percent of these were found in
the Frankish kingdom, from Quentovic
Figure 2. Louis the in the north to Barcelona in the south,
Pious, gold solidus (816- and Nantes in the west to Besancon in
819?) with beaded rim the east. Six were active in northern Italy
and mount added and just four in Germany. For most of
the period from the 9th century to the
13th, Europe was dominated by silver
coinages with, usually imported,
gold reserved only for ceremonial
purposes and high-status
exchange. Only in those areas
conquered from the Muslims,
such as Spain and southern
Italy, were gold coinages
introduced on anything
approaching a regular basis.
What then of the gold coin
found in the river Cam?
The piece (Figure 1) weighs 4.50g
and is clearly a crude imitation of
an authentic solidus (Figure 2).
Specific gravity testing of the
alloy revealed a gold content
of 76 per cent, somewhat
lower than the c.83-86 per
cent found with authentic
coins. Elements of the
prototype are visible on
the bust with vertical lines
for the hair, a broad straight
line for the nose, a group of
pellets for the eye, and parts of
the wreath and robes visible. The
gold solidi of Louis are somewhat
more numerous than those of his
father. They are modelled on Roman
prototypes, and show a draped laureate
bust facing right. The legend on the
obverse of the imitation at least makes
an attempt to replicate the ‘DNM
LVDVVICVS IMP AVG’ on the true
coin. However, the reverse inscription
‘MVNVS DIVINVM’ is less faithfully
represented and the cross in wreath
design has become a simple cross set in
a circle of pellets.
The solidus imitations are attributed
to Frisia, north of Louis’ domains,
and have been found widely in hoards
and as single finds, from Norway to
Brittany. This fact, combined with the
evidence we now have of cut fractions
of imitation solidi, suggests a function
beyond the traditional trope that they
were high status and ceremonial pieces,
and implies a more nuanced monetary
function. A function that saw them
circulate across the North Sea to end
up lost in a Cambridge river.
FURTHER
READING
P. Grierson and M. Blackburn,
Medieval European Coinage 1.
The Early Middle Ages (5th-10th
centuries), Cambridge, 1986.
NOVEMBER 2018 85
 British coins
Collecting Victorian
coins on a budget
Creating a collection of silver, copper and bronze coins of the reign of Queen Victoria is relatively easy
compared with older coins, but is still a rewarding and enlightening experience, writes Ed Archer
V
ictorian coinage is not
at the scarce end of the
scale, yet most British
coin collectors will
want to own examples
of the coins, and this can be achieved
without a huge outlay. The challenge
on finding Victorian coins is a gentle
one, thanks to the majority of the coins
of her reign being struck in very large
numbers over a long number of years.
Victoria ruled from 1837-1901 – a
total of 64 years, a record only recently
surpassed by our present Queen.
Another factor that helps the
collector of limited means is the fact
that the population grew enormously
in the 19th century due to better
health and sanitation from the 1850s
onwards. Coupled with the large
increase in population was the growth
both of British industry and the
Empire. In Victoria’s reign Britain
had by far the largest economy in
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the world which was in no small
measure due to the phenomenal
growth of industries in all sectors,
whether it was making Paisley shawls
for India or building ships on the
Clyde. Added to the Industrial Power
of Great Britain was its vast Empire
unequalled in world history.
Silver Crowns
It is possible to purchase early crowns
of Victoria’s reign but this is the more
costly option. Most collectors tend, in
the first instance, to go for either the
Jubilee Crown struck between 1887
and 1892. In Fine condition these
vary between £18 and £25, in Very
Fine the prices are roughly doubled.
Worthy of consideration is the more
imposing Old Head Crowns which
are about the same price as the Jubilee
Crowns. Without doubt these coins
should be acquired since they are
commonly available for about £20.
Double Florin
This coin is a four shilling piece and
was known as ‘the barmaid’s ruin’
as it could be easily mistaken for its
slightly larger cousin the Crown. It
was introduced in 1887 and scrapped
in 1890; this was part of a prolonged
attempt to bring in the idea of
decimal currency, a project that was
abandoned. Despite being short lived,
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Above, from left: a young the double florins are not greatly
head portrait of Victoria expensive with it being possible to get
on a halfcrown of 1845 a fine example for about £20.
(courtesy of Tom Hislop);
the reverse of a shilling Silver half crowns
of Queen Victoria dating The early half crowns are fairly
to 1879; the reverses of expensive even in Fair condition,
two bronze pennies, the their relative scarcity being due to the
first showing an ornate fact that no half crowns were struck
motif in the bottom and between 1850 and 1874. However,
first issued in 1847, the specimens can easily be obtained for
second design (showing the dates 1874 to 1880. Examples
1862) first introduced of the Jubilee and post-Jubilee half
in 1860 crowns are fairly common and are
available for a modest price even in
Very Fine condition.
The florin
The florin / two shilling piece
was introduced in 1864 as part of
the original plan to bring British
currencies into line with Europe
and the USA. The first of these are
known as ‘godless florins’ because
Left: the obverse of a
Victorian farthing of 1884
Right: the reverse of a
halfcrown of Victoria of
1846 (images courtesy of
Tom Hislop)

they did not have the text ‘Dei
Gratia’ included on the obverse
design. These were quickly replaced
with the inscription in place. It is
possible to acquire both the godless
florins and later florins for £10 to
£12 in fine condition and £20 very
fine condition. Those florins issued
towards the end of Victoria’s reign,
such as in the 1890s, are the cheapest
because large numbers were produced.
The shilling
The early shillings of Victoria are fairly
easy to get for about £10 in fine and
£20 in very fine condition, however
a bit of haggling will get these prices
down a little. The coins which were
struck for the Jubilee fall into two
basic categories: small and large heads.
Neither variety is particularly rare, thus
a decent example will cost about £15.
Those of the old head variety which
were made from 1893 to 1901 are again
fairly cheap with £12 being the price
for a tolerably good example.
The sixpence
Victorian sixpences of the whole
reign do not cost a vast amount;
many of them can be bought for a
few pounds in fine condition. In
very fine condition many dates can
be purchased for between £8 to £10.
In this way a good collection can
be made up which includes Young
Heads, Jubilee Heads and Old Heads
for not a great sum of money. In such
a collection, the withdrawn sixpence
of 1887 should be included; it looks
like a half sovereign in design. This
was why it was withdrawn as people
used to gild them and pass them
off as half sovereigns. Government
officials at the mint were not amused.
The groat
Victoria’s reign was the last during
which groats, or four penny pieces,
were in general circulation. Groats
Right: both sides of a
viel headed farthing
of 1901, the last year
of Victoria's reign
(courtesy of Tom Hislop)
had a fairly short life in Victoria’s
reign as the last examples for general
distribution were struck in 1855.
However, so many were made that a
few pounds will secure a good specimen
but one will need to spend over £10 to
get a really nice example of this coin.
Threepence
The threepence is the easiest of the
Victorian silver coins to collect. Large
numbers were struck throughout
Victoria’s reign from beginning to
end. Coins in both fine and very
fine condition can be purchased for
relatively small amounts of money.
Many of them ended up as part of a
bracelet so it is worth checking if any
evidence of holes or mounting can be
seen as this can reduce the value of
these coins significantly.
Three halfpence
Between 1838 and 1862 this rather
small silver coin was produced
chiefly for colonial use. Despite
this, it is not too difficult to get a
specimen for about £4 in Fine and
£10 in Very Fine condition.
Below, from left: the
Jubilee obverse of Pennies
a crown of 1889; a From 1842 to 1860 the Victorian
threepence of Victoria pennies were struck in copper and
dating to 1885; the were of the same size as those made
obverse of a Victorian for William IV. Most dates are easy
penny of 1862 (images to find in fair condition for a few
courtesy of Tom Hislop) pounds, whereas those in very fine
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VICTORIAN COINS
are between £12 and £20.
In 1860 a decision was made to
reduce the size of the penny and
make them out of bronze. There
are many different varieties of the
pre-Jubilee heads and if one wants
to find out about them, it is a good
idea to buy a copy of Spink’s Coins
of England, which gives the reader
all the important information.
Most pennies can be purchased
in fine condition for £1 or so but
examples in very fine condition
command about £10 and upwards.
The post-1887 old head issues can
be purchased for about a £1 but in
very fine condition they generally are
difficult to get for less than £15.
Half pennies
In general half pennies cost about the
same as the pennies. Likewise there are
as many varieties as pennies so again it
is worth studying the Spink catalogue
to check on the varieties of half pennies
that you have purchased.
Farthings
In Britain the farthing was the
smallest coin in general circulation
though specimens of one third of a
farthing can be purchased. The third
of farthings cost about £3 in fine and
about £30 in very fine condition,
however, it is sometimes possible to
find them at a cheaper price.
As for the farthings themselves,
they are generally fairly cheap and
are plentiful in a very fine condition
and only cost a pound or two. The
old head ones are however a bit more
expensive though the 1901 example
is only £4 in very fine.
It is possible to build up a collection
of Victorian coins for a modest outlay
and it is rewarding to seek out the more
unusual and interesting examples.
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 World coins
George III’s Emergency Dollars
Steve Webb has the story of these fascinating though short-lived issues and
how the silver to strike them reached the Bank of England
I
n May 1774 a Royal Mint
assay master explained
to a House of Commons
committee, probing
incompetence at the Mint,
that no method could at that time
be devised to prevent counterfeiting
of gold because criminal gangs had
developed a means of clipping then
re-milling guinea edges to render
them indistinguishable in appearance
from new coins issued at a bank. The
witness also reported that the Mint
was at work flat-out striking guineas;
and that even if the Royal Mint
premises were extended, it would
take a year, perhaps two, before staff
became competent to strike new
silver coins.
Prime Minister Lord North later
voiced his preference for a solution
that would eventually involve newly
designed gold coins issued under
stricter rules on the amount of wear
allowed against each coin when it
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Above: obverse and
reverse of a Spanish 8
reales dated 1787; later
countermarked c.1797
with an oval stamp clearly
seen in the image on the
right (images courtesy of
Timothy Medhurst Coins.
Visit their website to view
other interesting coins)
Below: although this
coin carries an almost
identical Bank of England
countermark, its reverse
has a monogrammed
PTS close to the left pillar,
indicated that it was
struck at the Potosi Mint in
Bolivia. After minting it was
probably transported by
mule across South America
to an eastern port, then
shipped to Spain… and
perhaps captured en route
by a British man-of-war
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returned to the Bank. In practice little
altered. The late-18th century ran its
tumultuous course with only a single
new gold coin issued in 1797: a one-
third gold guinea worth 7 shillings
that slightly eased the giving of change
among the middle classes. In the world
beyond Britain’s coastline, however,
silver had begun to rise in importance.
Spanish reales, or dollars; better
known to pirates as pieces-of-eight;
had become firmly established in
the 18th century as the money of
international trade. Merchant ships
of every nation carried them and
used them to buy and sell all types
of cargo. Spain held almost all of the
world’s purse-strings, striking South
America’s riches into gold doubloons
and silver dollars and shipping
them home aboard Spanish treasure
fleets. Nothing stood in their way
but a few scattered islands … and
the Royal Navy. At war (or uneasy
truce) with Holland, France, North
American Revolutionaries, and Spain
in those days, England (morphing
into Great Britain) had built and
deployed several hundred warships as
the world’s first, and largest, global
blue water navy. Distant bases and
ship-to-ship re-supplying systems
allowed vessels of ninety-plus guns
with crews of over 700 to undertake
voyages up to three years long;
circumnavigating the globe to harass
Spanish (and French) shipping in
both Atlantic and Pacific waters.
The reward for success in taking
enemy ships carrying valuable goods
and precious metals was a share
of the Prize Money. English legal
arguments to justify the system
stressed that ruining an enemy’s
economy and disrupting enemy
trade were important in conducting
warfare. The Cruisers and Convoys
Act of 1708 which gave the system
the force of law, specified that crews
should receive the full value of their
captures, shared proportionately
among all according to rank.
Accounts of cargoes captured from
the Spanish were regularly published
in English newspapers; so many
that towards the end of the 18th
century they often merited no more
than a line or two unless the prizes
were especially large. The three
mentioned below were substantial,
but certainly neither the richest nor
least significant:
Manchester Mercury,
16 May 1797
Despatches received at the Admiralty
yesterday from Rear Admiral Pringle
at the Cape of Good Hope state that
two Spanish ships with 600,000 in
dollars and other specie aboard have
been captured on their passage home
by one of His Majesty’s cruisers.

Hampshire Chronicle,
11 September 1799
Copy of a letter from Captain
Pierrepont of the ship Naiad off Cape
Finisterre, 19 July, 1799 to Admiral
Lord Bridport … My Lord, I have
great pleasure in reporting to you
the capture yesterday morning of
the Spanish frigate Santa Brigada, of
thirty-six guns and a crew of three
hundred. […] The prize is of immense
value, having on board one million
four hundred thousand dollars, and a
cargo of equal estimation.
Exeter Flying Post,
19 March 1801
A Spanish ship from Vera Cruz
carrying 200,000 dollars has been
captured by one of our cruisers and
taken to Jamaica.
When paying prize money
officials from the Admiralty and the
Bank of England usually gave all
non-commissioned ranks Spanish
dollars, while paying larger prizes
to commissioned ranks in English
guineas. Huge stocks of silver
dollars thus accumulated in the
bank’s vaults, pending a time when
work pressures from striking gold
coins would reduce and leave time
for striking silver. Matters reached
crisis point in March 1797 when an
official announcement declared:
The Governors of the Bank of
England have issued 400,000 dollars
which are stamped [..] with a mark
consisting of the King’s head, which
is placed on the King of Spain’s neck.
The marked dollars are issued to
A Holey Dollar struck
in New South Wales
in 1813. The work of
a notorious forger, it
nevertheless circulated
as official currency
throughout the colony
Below: a scarce example
of a 4 reales (half dollar)
piece that was clearly
countermarked. Note the
Potosi monogrammed
mintmark on the reverse
Bottom: this 1796
Mexico Mint 8
reales piece was so
heavily struck by a
countermarking punch
that the blow almost
broke through on the
obverse. Such marks
proved all too easy for
forgers to imitate
GEORGE III’S EMERGENCY DOLLARS
relieve the present embarrassment
arising from a scarcity of silver
specie. Intrinsically worth only
4s.2d, they are to pass for 4s.6d.
(Next Sunday a further 30,000 will
be stamped at the Mint.)
The general public hailed the
arrival of this emergency money
with enthusiasm, eagerly forming
queues in Threadneedle Street to
get their hands on the first of the
newly counterstamped dollars even
though they were fully aware of their
over-valuation, a precaution taken by
the Bank to deter melting down or
exporting. Alas, within six months
the project came under severe threat
when criminals on both sides of the
English Channel began to smuggle
Spanish dollars officially valued at
4s.2d into England and to mark
them with false GIII counterstamps,
which immediately raised their
value to 4s, 6d. Understandably, the
Bank of England refused to accept
any carrying false counterstamps,
leaving holders 4d out of pocket
on every dollar. A new octagonal
counterstamp came into use not long
afterwards, but forged copies of it
soon circulated as the value of silver
bullion rose and the new dollars
became current for 4s.9d.
The situation was summed up in
a Kentish Gazette news report on
12 September 1797: ‘Bank dollars
are now issued far above their real
value, tempting coiners to forge
the new Mint stamp so accurately
that it becomes impossible for a
common observer to detect the false
money. Since the first Emergency
issue many chests of dollars have
been imported into England for the
sole purpose of forging the stamp.
As they circulate at 4s, 9d and their
value is only 4s, 2d it has afforded
too great a temptation to resist. It is
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also supposed that more than half of
all now in circulation are counterfeit
in their stamp only, the silver being
good. Yet when taken to the Bank
they are refused. A vast number of
[silvered] copper counterfeit dollars
are also in circulation.’
Not until 1804 when the Bank of
England engaged Matthew Boulton
of Birmingham to convert Spanish
dollars into re-struck Bank of
England dollars was the situation
fully recovered. The Boulton steam
presses were so powerful they could,
in a single movement, almost totally
obliterate the King of Spain and
the Spanish arms from the obverse
and reverse of a Spanish dollar and
replace them with a bust of George
III and a fine figure of Britannia.
Later in the reign (1816-1820) the
Royal Mint finally issued regal silver
in denominations ranging from
crowns to sixpences.
We must make brief mention of
the solution to the Spanish dollars
problem innovated by Governor
Lachlan Macquarie of New South
Wales. Unable to obtain silver coins
from England in 1813, he came to the
aid of the new colony by employing a
notorious transported forger, William
Hanshall, then languishing in Sydney’s
convict prison. The man possessed the
skills required to remove a circle of
silver from the centre of a dollar, and
to strike-up the resulting doughnut
shape to produce what became known
as a Holey Dollar, valued throughout
New South Wales at 5s, 0d. The small
circle (known locally as a dump) was
then struck-up as a silver coin valued
at 1s, 3d.
Thanks to the Wildwinds Database,
TimeLine Auctions, other dealers and
private collectors for use of images to
illustrate this feature.
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Stamp miscellany
Germano-Chinese Friendship
Such is the size and influence of China, many countries have issued joint stamps with the nation over
the years, including those wishing to celebrate their political links, as Christer Brunström reveals
F
ollowing the end of
the Second World
War, the Soviet Union
occupied the eastern
sector of Berlin and
several provinces in the eastern part
of Germany. In 1949, the former
zone of Soviet occupation became
the German Democratic Republic
(GDR) ruled by the German
Socialist Unity Party.
The East German government
maintained very strong ties not only
with the Soviet Union but also with
the other republics forming the
Warsaw Pact or frequently described
as the Iron Curtain states. Following
the collapse of the Soviet Union in
1989, the two German states were
once again united into a single
German entity.
Stamp collecting has always been a
very popular hobby in the German-
speaking area and the GDR was no
exception in this respect. There was
a national philatelic society, stamp
shops and philatelic magazines. I
remember visiting what remained of
the Senf Brothers shop in Leipzig in
the early 1980s.
In today’s market East Germany is
quite inexpensive and even the key
sets which used to be highly priced
are now much easier to obtain
The GDR maintained an
ambitious philatelic programme with
many issues having a strong political
emphasis. Others were mainly
issued to be sold to the philatelic
market abroad. Many were offered in
cancelled to order condition for the
packet trade.
Starting in 1955, most multi-
stamp sets had restricted sales of
one of the values. Apparently this
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was in an effort to increase the value
of the complete set.
Today interest in East German
stamps is not as big as it used to
be and very possibly because there
are no new issues to keep the area
in the limelight. In fact, in today’s
market East Germany is quite
inexpensive and even the key sets
which used to be highly priced are
now much easier to obtain.
One of the countries which the
East Germans seemed to be very
keen on maintaining good relations
with was the People’s Republic of
China. Like China, the government
in East Berlin had introduced
important land reforms and created
large cooperative farms. They were
either specialised in the production
of grains or meat. Not everyone was
happy with this change.
Land reform was also a very
important part of the programme
for the rapid development of New
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Two of the values from China under the leadership of
the 1951 set of three, the country’s Communist party.
including the 12 pfennig Hence the 24-pfennig value of the
stamp featuring a portrait East German 1951 set marking
of Mao Tse-tung. The 24 the Month of Friendship between
pfennig design is said to Germany and China featured a scene
be a key stamp in any where rejoicing Chinese farmers took
collection of East Germany possession of their new land.
The three-value set was released
on 27 June 1951 to publicise this
important event. The 12 and 50
pfennig stamps show a portrait of
Mao Tse-tung (1893-1973). At the
time the set was issued, he was the
Chairman of the Central Committee
of the Chinese Communist party.
The designs were the work of D.
Martens and the Deutsche Wertpapier
Druckerei produced one million sets.
The 24 pfennig value has always been
scarcer than the other two stamps
in the set. This is the key set in a
general collection of GDR stamps.
For years it traded for more than
£100 in unmounted mint condition
but in recent years the asking price
has come down considerably making
it affordable for most collectors.
During the same period there were
many other issues with printings of
just a million copies but strangely
enough their catalogue values are a
lot lower. This would suggest that
demand for the Friendship with
China stamp set was very strong at
the time of issue and that it found a
place in collections all over the world.
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