Stamp Magazine - December 2016

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The Pitcairn Islands’ 1940 definitives

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Christmas fare for Great Britain collectors

Female aviators

Full steam ahead

Postal history and ephemera of the Great Northern Railway

Stars in our eyes

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Stamps hailing the sensational impact made by women in the early years of powered flight

Astronomy as a stellar theme on GB special issues

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IN THIS ISSUE

It’s a pleasure to be able to bring you a feature about railway stamps and postal history in this issue, because the development of Britain’s rail network went hand-in-hand with the expansion of its postal service in the Victorian era. The opportunity to send letters was hardly new, but its affordability certainly was, following Rowland Hill’s reforms. Steam locomotion, meanwhile, was cutting-edge technology, drastically reducing journey times around the country and quickly muscling in on the profitable business of carrying parcels as well as other goods. Both services were about modernisation and economic growth, even if one was louder, smokier and more sensually exciting than the other. Railway philately is a complex collecting area, because (in contrast to the postal service), it was not subject to a state-imposed monopoly in the 19th century. Routes were created by separate companies, requiring separate Acts of Parliament, working in their own ways and issuing their own stamps. Studying the story of one particular railway can be illuminating, however, and that is the approach we have taken (see page 38). The Great Northern Railway carried passengers between London and York, with branch lines offering access to most of the cities and seaside resorts of eastern England. It also produced newspaper stamps, parcel stamps, agricultural sample stamps and latterly letter stamps. It even printed stationery and postcards, so you can slip seamlessly from philately into ephemera whenever it suits you!

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A trainload of collectables from the heyday of the Great Northern Railway

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14 This mourning cover from Nova Scotia to India is one of the latest auction highlights

GB NEW ISSUE Full details of this year’s Christmas stamp issue

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GB COLLECTOR A 21st-century error discovered, new Post & Go designs and a special seasonal Smilers sheet

26 LETTERS What’s the point of pictorial stamps if they are defaced in transit? Might television coverage be a poisoned chalice?

33 DEVIL’S ADVOCATE What is to be done about Stanley Gibbons? And who should do it? 4 www.stampmagazine.co.uk DECEMBER 2016

20 Our verdict on Royal Mail’s Christmas set

CONTENTS DECEMBER 2016 | Volume 82, Number 12 | www.stampmagazine.co.uk

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The global celebrities and unsung heroines of women’s aviation

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First definitive series of the Pitcairn Islands

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50 THEMATIC GUIDE TO FEMALE AVIATORS Women played a prominent role in the early story of aviation, and many of them became worldwide celebrities in the process. Philatelic commemoratives can add up to an impressive collection

62 THE FALSE ARMISTICE OF 1918 Days before World War I actually ended, erroneous reports that the killing was over spurred premature celebrations across the United States, and created some fascinating postal history

Postal history of the ‘false armistice’ of November 1918

In 1940, the first stamp issue of the Pitcairn Islands recalled its settlement by naval mutineers

59 FORGOTTEN COUNTRIES The sultanate of Upper Yafa briefly issued stamps during the British withdrawal from Aden in 1967

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Astronomy as a theme on GB stamps

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THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY Parcel stamps, goods stamps, letter stamps, covers and ephemera from one of Britain’s key communication routes of Victorian and Edwardian times

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GB THEMES Stamps relating to astronomy are among the most stunning designs in a Great Britain collection

72 WHAT’S ON Exhibition, auction, fair and society dates for your diary

78 NEW ISSUE GUIDE Detailed listing of the latest stamp issues from around the world, with a handy thematic checklist

105 STRANGE BUT TRUE The SS Great Eastern was a magnificent ship, but it couldn’t be in two places at once

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Stamps of Upper Yafa

Shipshape but fundamentally flawed

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Netherlands booklet celebrates Enschedé’s anniversary Dutch security printer Enschedé has celebrated the 150th anniversary of its debut in stamp production by creating a special souvenir in collaboration with the national postal authority, PostNL. The limited-edition booklet of stamps mimics a strip cartoon, telling a story of a newly hatched carrier pigeon as it sets out to discover its true vocation. It also incorporates a number of printing techniques which have not previously been used for Dutch postage stamps, such as cold foil (a layer of foil overlapped by the printing ink for a spectacular effect) and spot-UV varnish. Enschedé can trace its history back to 1703, when Izaac Enschedé started a small printing firm in Haarlem. He laid the foundation for a successful family business which became the official printer for the city government, and later the sole supplier of banknotes to the Dutch Central Bank. The company was already 150 years old when it first printed stamps, still from a small printing shop in Haarlem, for the second issue of the Netherlands in 1866. Nowadays Enschedé has a large printing works in the Waarderpolder, outside the city centre, designing and producing postage stamps for more than 100 countries as well as being a royal warrant holder in the Netherlands.

Hungary remembers its 1956 freedom fighters

Miniature sheet recalls Concert for Bangladesh Bangladesh has issued a miniature sheet to commemorate the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh, the first major musical event organised as a humanitarian aid project. The 80t stamp depicts former Beatles guitarist George Harrison and Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar on stage, and the cover design for the album boxed-set, showing a malnourished child. Organised by Harrison and Shankar (who was of Bengali descent), and featuring many other famous musicians including Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan, the concert took place in New York in support of UNICEF’s relief efforts for Bangladeshi refugees during the country’s war of independence from East Pakistan. The concert raised $250,000, and the subsequent albums and film raised a further $12m. Shankar said later: ‘In one day, the whole world knew the name of Bangladesh.’ 8 www.stampmagazine.co.uk DECEMBER 2016

Hungary marked the 60th anniversary of the unsuccessful 1956 Revolution against communist government and Soviet influence with a one-stamp miniature sheet. Depicted on the circular stamp is a young heroine and victim of the uprising, Erika Kornélia Szeles, who was famously photographed carrying a gun and preparing to fight for her country’s freedom, shortly before she was killed in a street fight against Soviet soldiers at the age of 15. The border includes a montage of photographs taken at the time, and the overall design and colour scheme recall the symbol of the freedom fighters: the national flag with a hole in the centre.

Stanley Gibbons belatedly reveals the scale of its losses

Members of the Danish royal family swapped formal attire for something more practical when they were photographed in traditional local costume for a new stamp issue from Greenland. Crown Prince Frederik, Princess Mary and their four children are portrayed on a 20.50kr value wearing layers of knitted, beaded, patterned and fur-lined clothing suitable for an Arctic climate, on the first occasion that they have all appeared on a stamp together. Greenland is a self-governing territory of Denmark, and its citizens are subjects of Crown Prince Frederik’s mother, Queen Margrethe II.

Stanley Gibbons’s delayed annual accounts, announced in October, revealed losses of £29.8m on a turnover of £59.1m. This resulted partly from dismal trading figures, but mostly from adjustments to prevous years’ accounts and write-offs from acquisitions and the multi-million pound investment in an internet market place which has now been abandoned. In financial jargon this is known as ‘kitchen-sinking’, giving the new chairman, Harry Wilson (September issue, page 8), the opportunity to start with a clean slate. Gibbons has also awarded options over 15m shares (representing almost 10% of all shares in the company) to its management and staff, at a strike price of 11p apiece. As we went to press, shares were trading at around 10.5p.

Belgium hails NATO’s new headquarters Belgium has issued a stamp commemorating the building of the impressive new headquarters for NATO, which is almost complete after six years in construction. The new building, designed in a shape which represents hands intertwined, is just across the road from the existing one, at Haren on the outskirts of Brussels. It is the home of NATO’s civilian administration, and houses delegations from the 28 member countries of the military alliance. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was originally based in London when it was founded in 1949, and later in Paris (France issued a stamp when it moved from the Palais de Chaillot to the Porte Dauphine in 1959), but moved to Brussels in 1967.

NEWS IN BRIEF > Thailand Post

plans to give away millions of free postcards with imprinted 1-baht stamps portraying King Bhumibol, who died on October 13 after a reign of more than 70 years. Commemorative stamps are also expected.

> The 80 countries

represented at the world exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan, from October 21-26 did not include the People’s Republic of China. The Chinese postal authority did not respond to its invitation.

> The winner of

Stamp Active’s Anne Dummer Trophy as Young Collector of the Year is Natalia Miskiewicz, who has made a significant contribution to the hobby by helping and encouraging other children in the stamp club at St Clements Primary School in Worcester.

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Auctions in the USA has established an online shop. Visit www.cherrystonestamps.com

> Next year’s

MonacoPhil will take place from November 30 to December 2, with exhibits relating to North America, South America and Philipp von Ferrary amongst the usual world rarities.

Dance enchants in France France marked its annual Fête du Timbre (stamp festival) with issues featuring two very different dance styles. A €1.40 miniature sheet celebrated ballet, in the form of Swan Lake by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, written in 1876, and a 70c stamp illustrated the Charleston, introduced to France from the USA in 1925 by the Revue Nègre music hall show. Events celebrating philately were held in 87 cities on October 7-8. Having been held in the autumn since 2012, however, the Fête du Timbre will revert to its traditional spring dates from 2017, being scheduled for March 11-12.

> A new book, The

Serbian Military Postal System in Exile 1916-1918, by Miodrag Vukovic, doubles as a catalogue of postmarks, censor marks and labels. Published in English, it is priced €42 (about £36) including postage in Europe. For details contact vladimir. [email protected]


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The Skywalk collection of Nova Scotia stamps and postal history, put up for sale by Schuyler Rumsey, included this exceptionally fine and beautiful usage of the first issue of 1851-60. A mourning cover sent from Sydney in Cape Breton to Madras in India in May 1853, it was franked with a 6d yellow-green and a pair of the 1s dull violet; although 2s 6d was the published rate to India via Southampton, an added manuscript ‘1/10’ corresponded to the closed-mail letter rate from the UK to India via Marseille. The stamps were very neatly cancelled, showing off the way that the postmark was designed specially so that the crown in the centre of the design could remain uncancelled.

SOLD BY SCHUYLER RUMSEY £73,530

Kelleher’s latest worldwide sale included a fine range of Great Britain, led by this much sought-after official stamp: a lightly hinged mint example of the King Edward VII 1904 5d dull purple and ultramarine with the ‘Board of Education’ overprint. This value and the 1s were added to the 1902 series shortly before official stamps were discontinued in 1904, making them scarcer than others with this overprint.

SOLD BY KELLEHER £28,601

ITALIAN EAST AFRICA 1941 Unissued British Occupation overprints Featuring in Cherrystone’s latest sale was a very rare set of unissued overprints from the British occupation of Italian East Africa. When the British occupied Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somaliland in 1941, an order was initially given to overprint existing Italian Colonies stamps with ‘British Occupation’. After these had been printed, however, the authorities

GB 1904 Scarce 5d official

refused approval for their issue, insisting instead on British stamps with an ‘MEF’ (Middle East Forces) overprint. The unissued stamps, ranging in value from 10c to 50l, were sent for incineration, but a handful of complete sets survive.

SOLD BY CHERRYSTONE £15,586

IRELAND 1934 2d coil stamp The Larsson collection of Ireland, which went under the hammer at Heinrich Köhler, included a very fine mint copy of Ireland’s 1934 2d coil stamp. The postal service of the Irish Free State experimented with coil stamps sold through dispensing machines from 1933. The 1d red and 2d green designs from the 1922-34 definitive series (both with the familiar map design) were specially printed for the purpose, perforated 15 at top and bottom but with imperforate sides. Both stamps have become highly sought after, but it is the much scarcer 2d whose catalogue value has soared.

SOLD BY HEINRICH KÖHLER £8,898 14 www.stampmagazine.co.uk DECEMBER 2016

The Bougainville collection of the Falkland Islands, auctioned by Grosvenor, was perhaps the finest collection of its kind to have come onto the market for years, and keen bidding resulted in some impressive hammer prices. Among them was this top-right marginal block of four of the 5s value from 1933 Centenary issue, depicting the king penguin, in the scarce black and yellow-orange shade. This is the most recognisable stamp in one of the most attractive sets issued in the British Empire during the reign of King George V, which always seems to be in high demand.

NETHERLANDS 1862 Three-colour cover The sale of the second part of the Luis Alemany Indarte collection of Dutch postal history, by the Dutch branch of Corinphila, included this lovely three-colour franking from the first issue of 1852. This is thought to be the highest number of stamps from this issue on a single cover, comprising seven of the 5c blue, four of the 10c red and three of the 15c orange. It is therefore also one of the highest rated covers from the period. Sent from Rotterdam to Belfast in British Ireland, the cover has Rotterdam and London datestamps of November 1862.

SOLD BY CORINPHILA £8,610

SOLD BY GROSVENOR £10,500

CYPRUS 1886 ½ on ½pi surcharge on cover In the first Cavendish sale of the postal history collections of Tony Eastgate, the highlight was this mourning cover from Cyprus. Sent in September 1886 to Edinburgh, and subsequently forwarded to Killiecrankie, it bore two copies of the ½ on ½pi emerald green surcharge, along with 1pi and 2pi definitives. This overprint was applied with a variety of catalogued settings, each of them scarce, so this franking is a key exhibition piece.

SOLD BY CAVENDISH £6,500

TASMANIA 1857 Quarantine mail The John Clemente collection of Tasmania postal history, sold by Spink, included this fascinating quarantine cover of 1857. An official free mail cover, sent by the colonial surgeon at the Impression Bay Quarantine Station (IBQS) to the Registrar of Deaths at nearby Port Arthur, it bears the manuscript mark ‘Fumigated’ alongside one of the slits which facilitated the fumigation of the cover and its contents. The immigrant ship Persian had suffered an outbreak of typhus fever en route from Liverpool to Hobart in the summer of 1857, killing at least 10 passengers. So the probation station at Impression Bay was converted into a temporary hospital and quarantine station for the ship’s passengers and crew from their arrival until January 1858.

SOLD BY SPINK £5,800


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FALKLAND ISLANDS 1933 5s block in scarce shade

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Apex’s Public Auction 151 A choice selection of some of the rarities to be offered in our forthcoming Public Auction.

GREAT BRITAIN 1880 Unissued 1/- purple pl 14 lettered ‘CG’, line perf 14 from the Stamp Committee book without gum (some examples have traces). Wonderfully fresh and extremely scarce. Cat £15,000 (the lettering of this example will be added to the 21 recorded examples of the 36 from the Committee book as mentioned in SG Spec Vol 1, page 257). (SG 163 Var) Estimate £5000

GREAT BRITAIN 1997 Royal Golden Wedding 20p in vertical strip of 3 u/m, the upper stamp with ‘Face value’ omitted. Very scarce, an important QEII error. BPA Cert (2016). Cat £25,000 (SG 2011b) Estimate £7000

20th November, Lingfield Park Racecourse

GREAT BRITAIN 1880 1d Venetian red lettered ‘AA’ imperforate fine mint, large margins, very scarce. RPS Cert. Cat £5800 (SG 166a) Estimate £1200

GREAT BRITAIN 1887 £1 green in used block of 4 with neat ‘Threadneedle St Registered’ oval cancels, trace of crayon on right hand pair, fine condition, extremely rare, understood to be one of just three known blocks. Listed but unpriced in SG. Cat £4500 (SG 212) Estimate £2250

BAHAMAS 1942 o/pt 2/- brownish black and indigo marginal fine mint with ‘Stop after Columbus’. Scarce. Cat £5000 (SG 172c) Estimate £1400

FALKLAND ISLES 1912 MCA 5/- maroon fine used, reversed wmk. Very scarce. Cat £4000 (SG 67BX) Estimate £2000

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CLASSIC GREAT BRITAIN DOES NOT HAVE TO BE EXPENSIVE! SG 1 1d int black 2 1d black 3 1d grey-black 5 2d blue 7 1d ex black pl. 8 1d red-brown 8a 1d blue paper 9 1d pale r-brown 10 1d dp r-brown 12 1d orge-brown 13 2d pale blue 14 2d blue 15 2d deep blue 17 1d Die I 18 1d yell-brown 19 2d deep blue 20 2d pale blue 21 1d Die II 22 1d Perf 14 23 2d Perf 14 23a 2d Plate 5 24 1d Die II 24a 1d v. blue ppr 26 1d Perf 16 27 2d Plate 5 29 1d Lge Cm P14 30 1d brick-red 32 1d brown-rose 33 1d orge-brown 34 2d Plate 5 35 2d Plate 6 36 1d White paper 36a 2d Perf 16 38 1d pale red 39 1d pale rose 40 1d rose-red (40b) 1d Res Plates 41 1d dp rose-red 42 1d Alphabet IV 43/4 1d plates: Plate 71 72 73 74 76 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104

120.00 107.50 122.50 135.00 17.50 3.00 4.50 4.75 5.00 35.00 14.00 10.00 12.50 3.00 6.00 12.50 17.50 7.50 8.00 32.00 39.00 7.50 15.00 17.50 69.00 2.00 7.50 7.50 7.50 9.50 9.00 10.00 60.00 1.50 1.75 1.00 3.00 1.25 4.25 0.60 0.80 0.60 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.55 0.80 1.50 0.55 0.55 0.80 0.50 2.00 0.50 0.50 1.20 0.50 0.50 1.00 0.50 0.50 0.70 1.20 1.00 0.75 1.80 0.50 0.70 1.00

Plate 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 127 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179

1.50 0.50 1.50 0.55 0.70 1.80 0.55 0.55 2.50 2.50 0.55 1.80 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 1.90 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.55 1.60 0.55 3.20 10.00 3.00 0.50 5.25 4.00 0.55 0.50 3.50 0.50 1.80 4.80 3.00 4.00 0.55 1.20 0.60 0.60 1.20 0.50 1.80 1.10 2.00 0.50 0.55 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 1.40 1.40 0.60 0.60 0.50 1.20 0.50 1.40 1.40 0.50 0.50 0.50 1.80 0.50 0.70 0.55 0.50 0.70 0.55

Plate 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 Set of plates 71-224 45-7 2d Plate 7 Plate 8 Plate 9 Plate 12 Plate 13 Plate 14 Plate 15 Set Plates 7-15 48/9 ½d Plates Plate 1 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 19 20 Set of plates 1-20

1.00 0.50 1.00 0.60 0.50 0.60 0.55 0.50 2.00 1.40 1.20 1.40 0.50 0.50 2.00 2.00 1.00 1.80 1.20 1.20 0.50 1.00 1.60 3.20 0.50 0.60 1.80 1.80 3.20 1.80 2.40 5.75 2.25 2.25 3.60 3.60 3.60 1.50 1.75 25.00 1.50 4.00 14.00 25.00 25.00 280.00 250.00 9.50 6.00 3.00 24.00 4.00 5.00 5.00 57.50 13.75 3.00 2.25 1.75 1.75 11.50 150.00 1.75 1.75 1.75 1.75 1.75 2.75 6.00 9.50 207.50

SG 51/2 ½d Plates Plate 1 10.00 Plate 3 10.00 62 4d Sm. Garter 55.00 62a 2d blue paper 55.00 63 4d Mdm Gtr 55.00 64 4d Mdm Gtr 52.50 65 4d Mdm Gtr 65.00 66 4d rose-carm 10.00 66a 4d rose 10.00 66b 4d Thick paper 25.00 69 6d deep lilac 12.50 70 6d lilac 9.95 70Wi 6d Wmk inv 30.00 71 1s deep green 47.50 72 1s green 35.00 73 1s pale green 35.00 73b 1s thick paper 42.50 75 3d dp car-rose 55.00 76 3d br car-rose 40.00 77 3d pale c-rose 40.00 79 4d bright red 15.00 80 4d pale red 11.50 81 4d Hair Lines 12.50 82 4d do. pale red 11.00 83 6d deep lilac 15.00 84 6d lilac 10.00 84b 6d Thick paper 19.50 85 6d Hair Lines 17.50 85c -” - Thick ppr 25.00 86 9d bistre 45.00 87 9d straw 42.50 89 1s deep green 32.50 90 1s green 19.50 92 3d Plate 4 16.00 92b 3d Thick paper 18.75 93/5 4d Plate 7 10.00 Plate 8 7.50 Plate 9 7.50 Plate 10 12.50 Plate 11 7.50 Plate 12 7.50 Plate 13 7.50 Plate 14 11.50 Set Plates 7-14 65.00 94Wi 4d Wmk Inv 7.50 96/7 6d Plate 5 9.75 Plate 6 17.50 98 9d Plate 4 90.00 98a 9d Thick ppr 110.00 101 1s Plate 4 17.50 101b 1s Thick ppr 27.50 102/3 3d Plate 4 19.50 Plate 5 7.50 Plate 6 7.50 Plate 7 7.50 Plate 8 7.50 Plate 9 7.50 Plate 10 12.50 Set Plates 4-10 65.00 104 6d lilac 10.00 105 6d dp lilac 11.50 106 6d purple 13.50 107 6d brt violet 12.00 108 6d dull violet 10.00 109 6d mauve Plate 8 9.50 Plate 9 9.50 104/9 6d Plates 6, 8, 9 27.00 110 9d straw 32.50 111 9d pale straw 32.50 112 10d red-brn 45.00 113 10d pale 47.50 114 10d deep 55.00

SG 115/7 1s Plate 4 7.50 Plate 5 7.00 Plate 6 7.00 Plate 7 15.00 Set Plates 4-7 35.00 118 2s dull blue 20.00 119 2s deep blue 20.00 120 2s pale blue 30.00 122 6d dp chest 10.00 122a 6d chestnut 8.00 122b 6d pale ch. 8.00 123 6d buff Pl. 11 12.50 123 6d Pl. 12 35.00 125 6d grey 25.00 138 2½d blue ppr 17.50 139 2½d Plate 1 10.00 Plate 2 10.00 Plate 3 17.50 Set Plates 1-3 35.00 141 2½d Plate 3 17.00 Plate 4 5.25 Plate 5 5.25 Plate 6 5.25 Plate 7 5.25 Plate 8 5.25 Plate 9 5.25 Plate 10 7.50 Plate 11 5.25 Plate 12 5.25 Plate 13 5.25 Plate 14 5.25 Plate 15 5.25 Plate 16 5.25 Plate 17 47.50 Set Plates 3-17 130.00 142 2½d Plate 17 8.00 Plate 18 7.00 Plate 19 5.25 Plate 20 5.25 23.50 Set Plates 17-20 143-4 3d Plate 11 6.50 Plate 12 6.50 Plate 14 6.50 Plate 15 6.50 Plate 16 6.50 Plate 17 6.50 Plate 18 6.50 Plate 19 6.50 Plate 20 12.50 Set Plates 11-20 65.00 146-7 6d Plate 13 7.50 Plate 14 7.50 Plate 15 7.50 Plate 16 7.50 Plate 17 23.50 Set Plates 13-17 49.50 148-50 1s Plate 8 17.50 Plate 9 17.50 Plate 10 19.50 Plate 11 17.50 Plate 12 10.00 Plate 13 10.00 Set Plates 8-13 87.50 151 1s Plate 13 90.00 152 4d vermillion pl. 15 52.50 153 4d Plate 15 32.00 Plate 16 30.00 154 4d grey-brown 80.00 156 8d orange 35.00 157 2½d plate 21 5.00 Plate 22 4.00 Plate 23 4.50 Set Plates 21-23 12.00

SG 158 3d Plate 20 Plate 21 159 3d on 3d 160 4d Plate 17 Plate 18 161 6d Plate 17 Plate 18 162 6d on 6d 163 1s Plate 13 Plate 14 170 1d - 14 dots 172 1d - 16 dots

27.50 15.00 17.50 7.50 7.50 11.50 11.50 16.50 17.50 18.50 2.75 .05

1880 164 ½d 165 ½d 166 1d 167 1½d 168 2d 168a 2d 169 5d Set of five

1.50 1.50 1.00 6.00 9.75 10.00 13.50 31.25

1884 187 ½d 188 1½d 189 2d 190 2½d 191 3d 192 4d 193 5d 194 6d 195 9d 197 1s Set of 10

Used 1.50 7.50 10.00 1.75 12.50 30.00 25.00 32.50 90.00 37.50 240.00

1887 197 ½d 197e ½d 198 1½d 200 2d 201 2½d 202 3d 203 3d 205 4d 205a 4d 206 4½d 207 5d die 1 208 6d 208a 6d 209 9d 210 10d 210a 10d deep bright 211 1s 213 ½d 214 1s Set of 10

0.30 0.40 1.00 4.00 0.90 1.00 1.00 5.00 5.00 9.50 15.00 3.50 3.75 10.00 12.50 30.00 19.50 0.50 30.00 97.50

High Vals 126/7 5s Plate 1 Plate 2 178 2/6d 179 2/6d 180 5s 181 5s 183 10s 183a 10s

Used 85.00 95.00 17.50 17.50 22.50 22.50 75.00 75.00

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his year’s Christmas set, issued on November 8, celebrates some of the most cherished secular traditions of the season: decorating the Christmas tree, lighting a lantern, hanging out a stocking, eating a Christmas pudding and making a snowman. It also illustrates one of the old favourites of seasonal stamp issues, a robin, whose

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popularity on greetings cards is said to have been inspired by the red coats worn by Victorian postmen. For the second year in succession, the set comprises six different designs for eight stamps, with the two values for large letters using enlarged versions of the standard 2nd class and 1st class designs. The illustrations are based on elaborate

paper-cut artworks by Helen Musselwhite, with the careful use of light and shade giving a three-dimensional effect. Although very ornate, incorporating Christmas motifs such as snowflakes, holly and baubles, the frames are largely white, to symbolise snowy weather. Bold splashes of colour are applied to the central image, denomination and Queen’s head only.

2nd class A snowman with top hat, scarf and a carrot nose. 2nd class LARGE Expanded version of the snowman design.

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1st class A robin with with a bright red breast, standing on a tree stump. 1st class LARGE Expanded version of the robin design. £1.05 A Christmas tree decorated with a star and coloured baubles. £1.33 A golden Christmas lantern with a lit candle inside it.

Mail, an annual tradition which was started in 1966. The 1st class and 2nd class stamps also come in booklets of 12, and all the set come in Smilers sheets (see page 23). Stamp cards are available as usual. In keeping with recent practice, 2nd class and 1st class stamps with Madonna & Child designs (from previous Christmas issues) will also be available from post offices, for customers who prefer religious imagery.

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£1.52 A Christmas stocking full to the brim with children’s presents.

COMMEMORATIVE WORTH Now in its 50th year, the Christmas special issue is itself a British tradition

£2.25 An iced Christmas pudding with a sprig of holly on top.

QUALITY OF DESIGN A lot of care has gone into a set which will see more postal use than any other this year

OTHER PRODUCTS The presentation pack, written by wellknown philatelist John Holman, includes a fully illustrated summary of the 50-year history of Christmas stamps from Royal

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Designed by The Chase, from photography by Jonathan Beer, the issue was printed in gravure by De La Rue. As usual at Christmas, the sheet stamps are self-adhesive while their equivalents in the accompanying miniature sheet are gummed.

GB COLLECTOR NEWS IN BRIEF > Royal Mail’s 2017

stamp programme had not yet been announced as we went to press, but the October issue of the Philatelic Bulletin revealed some of the special issue titles as Ancient Britain, Mail By Rail, Racehorse Legends and Windsor Castle.

> The latest in the

ongoing series of Smilers generic sheets celebrating Chinese New Year, this time marking the Year of the Rooster, will be issued on November 15, in advance of the start of the lunar new year on January 28.

> Ownership of the

Stoneham Great Britain Stamp Catalogue has been acquired by the Machin Collectors Club, and work is in progress on a 17th edition, to be published in 2017.

> Deutsche Post is

now competing with Royal Mail in the British parcel delivery market, after its £243m takeover of UK Mail.

> A story in The

Daily Mail in October accused Royal Mail of failing to crack down on scam mail sent by fraudsters. The company responded that it was legally required to deliver all addressed mail, and that it would be illegal to open it and check its contents.

Newly discovered error from 2001 Nobel Prizes set Leading errors dealer Brandon Stamp Auctions has announced the discovery of a previously unknown error, from the 2001 Centenary of Nobel Prizes set. Brandon purchased a complete imperforate sheet of 50 the 65p value, which has been housed in a bank vault for the past 15 years and is currently uncatalogued. It has been broken up into imperforate pairs, of which most are in mint condition and the remainder affected by creasing. Depicting a boron molecule, alluding to the Nobel Prize for Physics, the stamp was printed in litho by Enschedé and incorporates a hologram. Instead of in the usual band, the phosphor was printed in a frame around the design. Most of the imperforate pairs were sold directly to Brandon’s regular customers within just eight hours of being offered, an unprecedented speed according to proprietor Mark Brandon. But the unique cylinder block of six from the bottom left corner of the sheet has been reserved exclusively for Stamp Magazine readers, and is available on a first-come, first-served basis at £6,000. For further details contact Brandon Stamp Auctions. Tel: 020 3289 5201. E-mail: [email protected]

Large-format Post & Go parcel label revealed This is the new style large-format label being vended by NCR Post & Go machines for packets and parcels. Introduced in late September and dubbed an SSK (self-service kiosk) label by Royal Mail, its design resembles that of the Horizon labels printed behind post office counters, with its Machin head of the Queen at top right and QR maatrix barcode at bottom left. It is believed that the labels are dispensed from a reel which was previously used for printing receipts.

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> Post & Go

machines were expected to go into operation at the Royal Signals Museum near Blandford Forum in Dorset from October 31, and the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford-uponAvon, Warwickshire, from November 1.


Buckingham’s covers for the Mr Men & Little Miss set (November issue, page 20) have been produced in association with the Stamp Active Network, which supports young collectors. They come with an insert card giving details of its activities. For each cover sold, a donation is being made to Stamp Active. Covers are priced from £16.95, and are available signed by voice actors for television versions of the Mr Men and Little Miss stories. Visit www.buckinghamcovers.com

This year’s winter issue of Post & Go pictorial stamps features Hibernating Animals. Illustrated by Chris Wormell, the two designs for 2nd class values show the hedgehog, whose body temperature drops to as low as 2°C as it shelters in piles of dead leaves, and the grass snake, which as a cold-blooded reptile cannot remain active when there is insufficient sunlight to bask in. The two designs for 1st class and other values depict the dormouse, which can spend more than half the year in hibernation in a carefully woven nest of bark and grass, and the brown longeared bat, which typically roosts in caves. Printed in gravure by International Security Printers, with pricing and coding information added in black by vending machines, the stamps are issued on November 14.

HOT OFF THE PRESS Don Staddon has the inside line on British stamp printings, post office supplies and developments in postal mechanisation CHRISTMAS PRINTING The self-adhesive Christmas stamps were printed by De La Rue in sheets of 50, with no central gutter. All were printed from ink cylinders D1, phosphor D1; the 1st class, 1st Large, 2nd class and 2nd Large values each show five cylinder numbers, while the other values each show four. All have two phosphor bands except the 2nd class, which has one central band. Printing dates we have seen are July 25 for the 1st class, July 26 for the £1.05 and £1.33, July 27 for the £1.52 and £2.25, July 28 for the 2nd class, July 29 for the 2nd Large and August 1 for the 1st Large. BOOKLET PRINTINGS The booklets of 12 x 1st class and 12 x 2nd class Christmas stamps were printed by International Security Printers from cylinder numbers W1 x 5, phosphor W1. The cover of the 1st class booklet is in the new, darker, Royal Mail red colour, and the inscriptions on both are the new font (November issue, page 23).

Christmas Smilers with an anniversary twist The Christmas stamps are available in Smilers sheets as usual, with a choice of two generic sheets. The standard sheet of 20 comprises eight 1st class, eight 2nd class, one £1.05, one £1.33, one £1.52 and one £2.25 values, alongside understated labels featuring a paper cut-out landscape. The additional sheet, entitled Celebrating 50 Years of Christmas Stamps, has 10 1st class and 10 2nd class stamps, labels inscribed with various seasonal greetings, and a border illustrating selected Christmas stamps since the first issue of its kind in 1966. This anniversary sheet is available from the philatelic service at Tallents House only, not from post offices.

POST & GO STAMPS Royal Mail Post & Go machines were installed at the Conservative, Labour and Scottish Nationalist party conferences during the autumn, and the stamps they vended have location-identifying machine overprints. Both Machin-head and Heritage Transport stamps were used. The ‘Trafalgar Day’ commemorative overprint used on Post & Go stamps vended at the various Royal Navy museums in September and October this year is reported to be the same as last year’s. POST & GO VARIETIES Although the Common Poppy stamps which were reintroduced to Post & Go machines for the remembrance period in October and November had been expected to be last year’s printings, some post offices have received examples with a 2016 year code in the security overlay. Those vended by the machine at The Postal Museum in London had the 2015 year code, but the printed stamps are different from last year’s because of the organisation’s change of name.


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YOUR VIEWS LETTER OF THE MONTH

What is the point of pictorial stamps if they are defaced by ugly stickers?

GET IN TOUCH These pages are devoted to giving you the opportunity to have your say. Whether you want to praise or complain, suggest or advise, add information or correct it, or just get something off your chest, we’d love to hear from you.

I am interested in expanding my collection of Universal Mail’s international postcard stamps, but it’s not proving easy! When I use the stamps on postcards sent abroad, for example to Grenada in the Caribbean earlier this year, they are usually defaced by large white Royal Mail ‘postage paid’ stickers. This is very disappointing for senders and recipients alike. Buyers are paying for an attractive pictorial stamp which they would presumably like their friends and family to see when they receive a card. By obliterating them with a sticker, Royal Mail is preventing these bespoke stamps from functioning in their additional role of advertising British tourist attractions abroad, and thereby boosting the economy in general. As the stickers are often in addition to normal postal cancellations, they appear to be completely unnecessary. M H Ramsay, Inverness

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Beatrix Potter? Biro-tricks potty! British postal workers are now scrawling biro marks not only through uncancelled stamps but also through those which have already been properly cancelled, as you can see from this example of a Beatrix Potter commemorative which I recently received on cover. Sadly it is no use complaining to Royal Mail, because the company condones this kind of vandalism. R Major, Swindon


Television coverage could have pros and cons

Philately needs a more inclusive image

The revelation in Richard West’s Talking Point column (November issue, page 33) that BBC4 is in the process of putting our beloved hobby in the televisual spotlight feels me with eager anticipation, but also with dread. As Richard implies, the people who make this type of documentary sometimes put the soundbite before contemplative content. I just hope that there is someone on board who has genuinely made some attempt to understand philately. What I also don’t want to see is a focus entirely on collectors who are in their 60s and 70s, which could be a kiss of death for the hobby. Let us keep our fingers crossed that young collectors are featured too. Andrew Martin, Weymouth

Richard West’s Talking Point column (November issue, page 33), expressed the hope that BBC4 will be able to convey the appeal of philately to a new audience. For that to happen, the hobby has to rid itself of what I call the Vatican mentality. Like the Vatican, stamp collecting is seen as the preserve of old men. Its image is staid and passé. For the hobby to thrive, it has got to appeal to a wider audience, in particular to 18-39-year-olds. To continue with the religious analogy, it has got to become more like the Church of England, with women involved as much as men. The old boys might not like it, but to my mind it’s the only way to reinvigorate the hobby, and give it a more welcoming face. Brendan Swindell, via e-mail

Exactly 50 years ago, Bob Rogers clearly remembers a trip to the local post office. Only recently has he found out exactly why his father was so chuffed that day

LEFT: 1966 Christmas 1s 6d block of four, with the gold-foil embossed Queen’s head partially missing from two of the stamps ABOVE: Certificate issued by the Expert Committee of the Royal Philatelic Society London in 2015, verifying that this is a genuine printing error It was 1966. I was 10 years old, England had just won the World Cup, and there had been a special stamp issue to celebrate the achievement. My father was an avid collector, whether it was pocket watches, cigarette cards or stamps, and I had begun to share his passion. He regularly went to auctions to buy new material, and we would go through stamp albums together on Sunday evenings. In early December I can distinctly remember going to the post office in our home town and buying the new Christmas stamps. CHRISTMAS CHEER This was, in fact, Great Britain’s very first Christmas issue. It was the famous set of two which were based on the winning paintings in a children’s design competition. They looked quite unlike any previous

British stamps, and they were printed with the cameo head of the Queen embossed in gold foil. When we arrived home, my father carefully examined the block of four of the 1s 6d that he had just bought, featuring the Snowman painting by six-year-old James Berry. He showed me and said: ‘One day these stamps may be very valuable.’ I didn’t fully understand why he thought that, but clearly something about the purchase had aroused his particular interest. CHRISTMAS PAST When my father died in 1979, he left us a stamp collection that was enough to fill a small room, including many auction lots which were still tied up in string and unsorted. My brothers and I, by now busy adults, left the collection at my mother’s house,

collecting dust, until her death in 2014. Finally, I decided to devote some time to the cataloguing and disposal of this immense collection, and we have been successful in auctioning or selling parts of it. It is amazing the knowledge you can pick up when you immerse yourself fully in a subject for the first time. When I finally looked carefully at that 1966 Christmas block, I found out why my father had been so pleased with it. CHRISTMAS PRESENT The block comprises two stamps which are normal and two which show a printing error, where the Queen’s head is partially omitted. It must have came about as a result of a double print of the Queen’s head, the second one a dry print offset higher and to the right. This removed some of the gold foil and leaving a blank silhouette, in the shape of the face, partially obscuring the head. I consulted Graham Slater of Worthing Stamp Auctions, who was kind enough to examine the block and do some research in specialist catalogues. Although he found similar errors recorded for the 3d stamp, he could find no such reference for the 1s 6d value. Accordingly, we referred the block to the Expert Committee of the Royal Philatelic Society London, to verify that the stamps are genuine. Of course, being present at the time of my father’s purchase over the post office counter left no doubt in my mind, but it made sense to secure a professional opinion. The certificate duly describes the error as a ‘fortuitous loss of gold foil during printing and embossing’. One day I may find out the market value of the block. For the moment, as a bornagain stamp enthusiast, I feel blessed to have such an interesting heirloom. Bob Rogers


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YOUR VIEWS Lost in transit, or lost in Transit van? A small parcel sent by 1st class mail from the Isle of Wight to North Yorkshire recently took nine days to arrive. When it was eventually delivered, its label was prominently handstamped ‘Missent to Canada’. If this parcel enjoyed 6,000 miles of travel for £3.35, that’s very good value, albeit with no benefit to me. But it had no Canadian postmark as evidence of this, so could it simply have been lost in a Royal Mail post van for several days? Peter Marshall, Ingleton

Sutton stamp fair’s prayers not answered As a regular dealer at the long-running Sutton Stamp Fair, I regret to report that it looks as though it has come to an end due to problems with the venue. In June and July the Methodist Church Hall was being refurbished. In August the event’s organiser was told it had been re-booked for a wedding, despite having been booked for the stamp fair a year before. After weeks of writing letters, sending e-mails and telephoning about the fair planned for September, he was told the hall had been set up for a band, and that the rent would be going up by 80%. It’s a very poor show from the church. Ray McQuade, Sutton

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Letter delivered long before it was posted Royal Mail has found a new way to meet its delivery target for 1st class mail. On August 27, 2016, I received a letter stamped with the large-format embossed Machin-head 1st class design from the 1999 Profile On Print prestige stamp book. Much to my surprise, it was apparently franked by Dorset Mail Centre on August 24, 2017, so I received it nearly a year before it was posted. Now that is what I call efficient! Ken Thoms, via e-mail

Nun the wiser Vatican City made an unfortunate error in the design of its 95c stamp commemorating the canonisation of St Teresa (November isssue, page 90), who we all used to know as Mother Teresa of Calcutta. The cathedral in Kolkata (Calcutta) illustrated on the stamp is St Paul’s Cathedral, which is Anglican, rather than the Cathedral of the Holy Rosary, which is the Roman Catholic equivalent. This surely cannot have been intentional! Ron Fields, London

Geoff Brown is right to point out (November issue, page 26) that used British stamps are almost impossible to collect these days as a low-cost entry point into philately. On the other hand, I’m not convinced that children are interested in collecting used stamps at all. Without a keen appreciation of postal history, why would they be? Royal Mail obviously hopes to sell mint stamps to young collectors, hence its Mr Men & Little Miss issue, and many others of the same ilk over the past few years. That it keeps producing these is interesting, and tells us something. Since children don’t write letters any more, and none of us ever see these stamps on commercial cover, we must assume that sales of mint stamps are going well. George Duxbury, Rotherham

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e are living in benchmark for most British philatelic industry. And it could interesting times. collectors and dealers. come to pass. The uncertainty Its pricing is higher than what It has been an open secret for surrounding Britain choosing to most of us consider many years that Gibbons has leave the EU is beginning to hit representative of the market as been an accident waiting to home. In October the pound hit a a whole. Nevertheless, it sets happen. I’ve talked to many 30-year low against the dollar, the standard which others dealers about it, and everyone and foreign imports have follow: most dealers will set the seemed to agree that the suddenly become about 20% selling prices of their more company’s relentless drive to more expensive. expensive items at between 65% promote stamps as a sure-fire The only good news is for and 80% of Gibbons valuations, guaranteed investment was people trying to sell their wares depending of course on going to end in tears. abroad. Stamp dealers with condition and rarity. Persuading customers that overseas clients should be Under these circumstances, it the value of their portfolio doing a roaring trade. It will is easy to appreciate how the would go up by about 10% a year feel to American buyers as if collapse of Stanley Gibbons was never going to be there is a closing-down sale might lead to a crisis of sustainable. In reality, what going on in Britain. confidence throughout the investors were likely to get was At moments like these, many of us start to look at our cherished collections with a rather more proprietorial air than usual. We know the old adage ‘collect for fun, not investment’. Some of us know it all too well, as we say it to ourselves over and over when we’re about to fork out for something we really want but know we can’t actually afford. But every stamp collection has its day of reckoning, a time when a cash value has to be put on a lifetime’s hobby. We all understand that some of our stamps are pretty much worthless, but we keep our fingers crossed for the ‘bigger ticket’ items, ABOVE: Stanley Gibbons is such a huge name in the world of philately, as a dealer and catalogue hoping their value at least publisher, that its current problems reflect badly on the hobby as a whole approximates to what we paid for them. The current parlous state of Stanley Gibbons, therefore, should be of concern to us all. Whether or not we as individuals buy our stamps from Gibbons, the company has a powerful influence over our hobby, most obviously in its cataloguing. As the publisher of the most highly regarded Is it time to stop thinking of Stanley Gibbons as the ultimate catalogues in Britain, and arbiter of price? Or are its catalogues irreplaceable? amongst the most respected in E-mail your comments to [email protected] the world, Gibbons sets a

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short-term access to an artificial bubble. Those in the trade all seemed to know this, but most have done little to speak out against it. Making a living out of buying and selling stamps and postal history is tough enough as it is, without creating extra uncertainty in your customers. Most dealers chose to ride the bubble, hoping not to leave themselves over-exposed when it eventually burst. That time appears to be getting closer. This year, the whole future of Stanley Gibbons has been placed in doubt following a perfect storm of adverse headlines. Accounting errors and restructuring costs led to the firm announcing a pre-tax loss of £29m. The value of its assets was slashed by 43%, its bank debt nearly doubled to £21.9m, its share price plummeted, and most of its management team fell on their swords. Whilst all this is of serious concern for the hobby, it is not terminal. What is required, I would suggest, is for a consortium of reputable dealers to get together to wrest control of British philately from the Gibbons hegemony that has hung over it for more than 100 years. A few dealers have done their bit by publishing their own catalogues and guides, often highly respected in their specialist fields. But something more concerted is needed now. It’s time for everyone who loves the hobby to step out from the shadows and help to protect it. ■

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The growth of Britain’s railway network in Victorian times created a huge array of collectables, from stamps to stationery and other ephemera. The Great Northern Railway between London and York offers a delightful case study ■ Report by Graham Homer-Wooff

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n the ‘railway mania’ of the 1840s, literally hundreds of new transport projects were approved by Acts of Parliament. One of the most significant was the Great Northern Railway Act, permitting a main line to be built from London to York, which passed into law in June 1846. The first section of the Great Northern Railway route to open was from Peterborough north to Lincoln in October 1848, followed by Lincoln north to Doncaster in September 1849, with the connection to York being made by agreement with existing railways. The link from Peterborough south to London was established in August 1850, terminating at a temporary station at Maiden Lane in Camden while a permanent terminus was under construction at King’s Cross. This enabled GNR trains to carry visitors from the north of England to the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park 1851.

ABOVE: Great Northern Railway express train at speed, photographed in around 1910

The original looping route between Peterborough and Retford via Lincoln was replaced by a more direct main line via Newark in 1852. In October of the same year, the temporary Maiden Lane station closed and King’s Cross station was

opened, completing a route that is still recognisable today. In 1860, the GNR came to an agreement with the North Eastern Railway (which controlled the York to Berwick line) and the North British Railway (which controlled the Berwick to Edinburgh line) to create the 393-miles East Coast Main Line, offering the fastest way to travel from London to Scotland. From 1893, the GNR became the co-owner of the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway, giving easier access to the seaside towns of East Anglia, such as Great Yarmouth and Cromer.

Incomplete records

ABOVE: GNR newspaper parcel stamp from the 1855-56 first issue, imperforate, with a value of 4d for up to 12lb, pen-cancelled in black


The story of the stamps issued by the GNR, like those of other railway companies in early Victorian times, is shrouded in the mists of time. When they first appeared, no-one was cataloguing them, and information about printers and issue dates went

distinguished by a dot after ‘Parcel’ in the inscription. All these stamps are usually found cancelled by pen or crayon.

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Newspaper parcel stamps The Post Office did not have a monopoly on delivering newspapers, and the railways cashed in on this, especially after the tax on them was abolished in 1855. Accordingly, the first stamps produced by the GNR, in 1855-56, were for the carriage of bundles of newspapers. Printed in green by Waterlow & Sons in London, and issued imperforate or perforated, they had a twin-shield design (the three lions passant of England alongside the lion rampant of Scotland) inscribed ‘Prepaid Newspaper Parcels’ and overprinted in black with four different values expressed by weight and cost: 2d for up to 3lb, 3d for up to 6lb, 4d for up to 12lb, and 6d for heavier weights. Shortly afterwards a 1d value was added for bundles weighing up to 1½lb and travelling less than 60 miles, and later overprints omitted the weight and simply showed the value in pence. The second issue of these stamps, also printed by Waterlow, again had overprinted values of 1d, 2d, 3d, 4d and 6d, but were perforated. The third issue was similar but had the printer’s name removed from the base of the design, although in some cases traces of it can still be seen. In about 1880 this newspaper parcel design was replaced by a much smaller one (measuring 28mm x 24mm rather than 54mm x 48mm) with the same denominations plus an additional 1s value. Perforation varies from 10 to 12½. Around the turn of the century, the printing contract was taken over by Sir Joseph Causton & Sons, whose printings can be

ABOVE: Newspaper parcel stamp of the 1850s, perforated, with a value of 1d for a weight up to 1½lb travelling up to 60 miles, pen-cancelled in red

From 1866 some effort was made to separate large bundles of newspapers from small bundles addressed to individual subscribers, resulting in a new series of GNR stamps, once again initially printed by Waterlow. They started with a large-format 2d blue to pay for four papers and a 1½d brown to pay for three, later joined by a small-format 1d grey and ½d red to pay for two and one respectively. The first three of these used essentially the same design, with the rated number of newspapers spelled out clearly above a double-shield motif which had the numeral of value printed less clearly over it. The ½d had the value overprinted in black, which was much more legible. From about 1868, Waterlow used a redrawn die which can be distinguished by its larger shields, softened corner

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ABOVE: Unused 4d newspaper parcel stamp from the third issue, with the printer’s name erased but traces of it still visible

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largely unrecorded. Early catalogue publishers such as Herbert L’Estrange Ewen, Walter Morley and Jean-Baptiste Moens struggled to catch up with past issues. Their listings were littered with question-marks, and only only some of the missing data has been filled in since.

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ABOVE: ½d red for the carriage of a single newspaper, printed from the small-format redrawn die after 1868, cancelled in blue crayon

ABOVE: Yorkshire Evening Post newspaper wrapper used in January 1902, bearing 1d and 2d values from the small-format later issue of newspaper parcel stamps (Causton printing) ABOVE: Arms-design 1d red newspaper stamp of type 2, inscribed ‘Great Northern Railway Company’ and with the additional ‘Prepaid Parcel/At Owners Risk’ overprint

DID YOU KNOW? The King’s Cross area of London, where the terminal of the Great Northern Railway was opened in 1852, had been named after a 60ft brick statue of King George IV. The statue was removed in 1845, but the name stuck.


ornamentation and a reduction in the amount of rough shading between the letters of ‘Railway’; the 1½d brown and 2d blue made a reappearance, too. When Causton assumed the printing contract in about 1900, the die was redrawn again, with the rough shading made neater for the three required denominations of ½d, 1d and 2d.

Arms series The final GNR series of newspaper stamps featured the full-blown arms of the company (the lions passant and lion rampant combined in a single, more elaborate shield) within an embellished circular frame. Printed in red, in shades ranging from pink to magenta, they used three different transfers. Type 1 had the points of the shield protruding into the frame and the inscriptions ‘Great Northern Railway’ and ‘News Letter’. It comprised three overprinted values based on distance carried: 2d for up to 100 miles, 3d for up to 200 miles and 4d for over 200 miles. Type 2 had the points of the shield protruding into the frame and the simpler inscription ‘Great Northern Railway Company’. It came in five values of ½d, 1d, 2d, 3d and 4d, with the additional overprint ‘Prepaid Parcel/At Owners Risk’. Type 3 had the points of the shield constrained within the frame and simpler value-only overprints, for six denominations of ½d, 1d, 2d, 3d, 4d and 6d. From

1906, this issue could also be used to pay for railway letters.

Goods stamps Almost from the start the GNR also used stamps, initially printed by Waterlow and later by Causton, to pay for the carriage of agricultural products. In July 1859 it issued a non-valueindicator specifically for corn samples: a large-format design depicting a sack bearing the GNR double-shield motif, which cost 6d for a sample weighing up to 3lb. Later came a smaller-format

‘A new era began in 1891 when railway operators were allowed to charge for the carriage of letters. In effect, they could provide an express service between stations’ non-value-indicator with a similar image, printed in yellow and overprinted in black, which cost 3d for grain samples of up to 1lb. For much bigger consignments, there was also a double-shield design in grey, overprinted ‘Farm & Agricultural Produce’, available for a range of weights. The rates were 6d for up to 20lb, 8d for 20-30lb, 10d for 30-40lb, 1s for 40-50lb and 1s 2d for 50-60lb.

the railway operators to charge for the carriage of letters. In effect, they could provide an express service between stations. The additional charge was set at double the normal postage rate, which was 2d in 1891, rising to 3d in 1918 and 4d in 1920. A common design for a railway letter stamp was chosen by the Post

LIVESTOCK TICKETS ABOVE: Grain samples stamp, sold at 3d for samples weighing up to 1lb

ABOVE: Farm and agricultural produce 1s 2d stamp, for goods weighing 50-60lb

The survival rate of these stamps is understandably poor, so they are scarce.

Railway letter stamps A whole new era began when the 1891 Railway Letter Act allowed

The railways would carry goods of almost any description, and that included livestock. This passenger’s horse, carriage and dog ticket (printed by Waterlow & Sons, like the stamps) shows a fee of £5 14s 0d for the carriage of three horses from Doncaster to Oxford, at the rate of 38s per horse.

Office in conjunction with the Railway Clearing House (the organisation which managed the allocation of revenues between the operating companies). It comprised a large central numeral of value in a circular frame inscribed ‘For the conveyance of single post letters by railway’, with the name of the railway company carried in twin tablets at the top and bottom. Most operators had the stamps printed in shades of green, although a few used blue or red instead. For the GNR, Waterlow & Sons printed sheets of 60, arranged in six rows of 10, perforated but with the marginal stamps having imperforate edges. Nine stamps in each sheet had the dot between ‘Railway’ and ‘Fee’ missing, and many of the other stamps have minor differences which means that sheets can be reconstructed. Shade varieties also help to distinguish the various issues. There were four Waterlow printings, each of 12,000 stamps, in green or deep green in 1891, in bright green in 1892, in yellow green in 1894 and in green in 1897. The first three were perforated 11½, the last 10-10½. Causton later made two printings, of 15,000 stamps in pale olive-green in 1900 and about 12,000 in grey-green in 1904, all perforated 10. Its sheets of 60 stamps were made up of stereos of five, and the design differed slightly in having its horizontal and vertical lines intersecting at the corners of the side pillars. DECEMBER 2016 www.stampmagazine.co.uk 41


ABOVE & LEFT: Corn samples stamp, sold at 6d for samples weighing up to 3lb, and an 1859 GNR Accounts Department notice to railway staff concerning its use

GB GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY LEFT: Railway letter stamp with the standard value of 2d, printed by Waterlow from 1891

STATIONERY & POSTCARDS Besides stamps, the Great Northern Railway produced its own picture postcards, correspondence cards and postal stationery, which may be found mint or used. It used them to publicise the railway itself, possible destinations for its customers (especially the seaside resorts of the east coast of England) and the chain of hotels it owned close to the stations (for example at Peterborough, Huntingdon and Leeds).

LEFT: Railway letter stamp with the standard value of 2d, printed by Causton from 1900

ABOVE: GNR stationery illustrating a No1-class Stirling 4-2-2 locomotive, used in 1873

In 1906, the GNR abandoned the common railway letter stamp. Instead, it adopted its red Arms of the Company newspaper stamp design as a multi-purpose issue, overprinted with the relevant postage rate.

Amalgamation In 1921 the Railways Act paved the way for Britain’s 120 railway companies to be amalgamated to leave a ‘Big Four’, which meant that the Great Northern Railway became part of the new London & North Eastern Railway in 1923. The LNER continued to use the GNR’s and other companies’ stamps, duly overprinted, for a short period while it prepared its own issues. ■

BELOW: Railway letter stamps were used alongside regular postage stamps, in this case with a Queen Victoria 1d lilac on a cover of February 1900

ABOVE: Unused postcard available to guests staying at the Great Northern Hotel in Peterborough, which opened close to the railway station in 1852

ABOVE: GNR postcards reproduced the company’s own advertising posters, promoting rail travel to businessmen (left) and seaside holidaymakers (right)


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t was in 1767 that Robert Pitcairn, a 15-year-old midshipman aboard HMS Swallow, on survey duties in the southern Pacific Ocean, spotted ‘a small, high, uninhabited island, not above four or five miles round’. High volcanic cliffs prevented a landing, but the sighting was named after him. The island’s second visit by westerners was less fleeting, and rather more infamous. In 1790, Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian and eight fellow mutineers from HMS Bounty, together with a group of Tahitians, settled on Pitcairn in a successful attempt to escape retribution by the Royal Navy. By the time the colony was discovered, in 1808, only one of the mutineers was still alive, although most of the inhabitants of the island to this day are descended from them. Annexed by Great Britain in 1838, the tiny colony’s postal arrangements were not formalised until the 1920s, when a New Zealand postal agency was established. Only in 1940 did the Colonial Office in London decide that the island should have its own post office, and its own stamps. A decision to inscribe these with the plural name ‘Pitcairn Islands’ must have been taken to allow for their possible future use by the uninhabited outcrops of Henderson, Ducie and Oeno islands, although this was always a remote prospect.

ABOVE: Pitcairn Islands 1940 2s 6d green and brown, depicting the coastline of Pitcairn and the mutineer Fletcher Christian on HMS Bounty

The design and printing of what was initially a set of eight pictorial definitives was divided between two firms, with Waterlow producing the ½d, 1½d, 2d, 6d and 1s values and Bradbury Wilkinson the 1d, 3d and 2s 6d. Perhaps surprisingly, the designs were based upon the theme of the mutiny on the Bounty. Some of the

‘Bradbury Wilkinson’s designs are slightly smaller than Waterlow’s, and are also perforated differently’

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essays which were sent to King George VI for approval were rejected, so clearly the insubordination of naval officers still rankled; but then, the colony had little other history to extol! The eight designs illustrated Christian three times, and the longest-lived mutineer John Adams, as well as Lieutenant William Bligh, whose command they had overthrown. Also depicted were three views of the

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T the tender age of 18 I took the decision to stop collecting when I entered the trade – reasoning that if I continued to collect and was fortunate enough to have my own company … I might end up with a wonderful collection but No money to pay the mortgage … so, never being seduced to ‘carry on collecting’ what was I to talk about at the Congress? Expecting something of a ‘grilling’ with the subject ‘Philatelic Auctions’ I entered the ‘Lion’s Den’, a good hundred passionate collectors at the Art Deco Queens Hotel Leeds. A good hour of non-stop questions later, I’m not sure why nobody asked me why I’m so passionately against huge ‘Buyer’s Premiums’ but one collector expressing amazement at the size of our auctions asked how we manage to source so many stamps? To be honest sometimes we amaze ourselves – but ultimately it is all about ‘mind-set’ and belief. You see, unlike other auctions (and dealers) I take the simple view that if something is not selling it must be too expensive otherwise you, the collector, would have bid for it and won it at auction … Therefore, when we present 20,000+ lots with a value of £1.8 million … and 10,000 lots sell to almost 2,000 different bidders/collectors world-wide … we have 10,000+/- unsold lots which must be too expensive – so we reduce them all in estimate (and reserve) according to how long they’ve been unsold and (unlike other auctions) in your next auction we tell you how many times they have been unsold so you can work out how much these stamps have been reduced, and just how much of a bargain they have become - this forms the increasingly tempting nucleus of the next auction. It follows that whilst one auction progresses towards closing date we have just 3 months to locate and describe

at least another 10,000 more lots. ‘Pouring’ in 10,000 newly sourced and described new lots is no small task. It takes a Team of 3 or 4 different describer-valuers/buyers combing the UK (and abroad) … then breaking/describing collections with the help of a further 3 or 4 different describers. Bearing in mind that none of us is becoming any younger … you may imagine that we have describer/valuers situated all over the United Kingdom including a key full-time experienced team member located in London participating at all of the major London Stamp Auctions. In our 60th £2,083,177.00 value celebratory auction somehow the team has managed to source and describe more than 13,000 new auction lots. With Christmas break intervening we’ll be lucky to manage that feat again in our 64th 61st auction. So where do all the stamps come from? Offering the U P A Unique Reducing-Estimate System is not for the fainthearted. Over the past 15 years we’ve offered more than 1,000,000 lots with valuable collector-owned items on a commission basis and sold stamps up to £90,000 each, and collections up to £600,000 – but to do so with lower priced material logistically would be a nightmare … so it’s a unique combination of valuable material upon a commission basis, lower priced material which we may have sourced and owned plus collections purchased at auction far and wide all appropriately described and lotted to suit collectors (although dealers worldwide still participate too by winning lots for their own clients). Ownership of a substantial majority of auction lots permits us to do things others dare not do … such as our controversial NO-BUYER’S PREMIUM policy saving collectors up to 27% … which in turn permits us to guarantee every lot … and to offer the Unique U P A Reducing-Estimate System etc etc

Hopefully we now have in excess of 20,000 different lots ready to create the next auction by the time our ‘deadline’ has arrived. Now the ‘Admin/Back Office’ Team takes over … 100’s of carefully organised hours’ work go into creating the complimentary 20,000+ lot free auction catalogue that I’m hoping you will request … imagine how much time and effort go into creating 76 photo-plates comprising 3,531 different stamp images, the ‘data-crunching’ to present you with 370 pages of painstakingly presented descriptions but here’s something you may have noticed but not actually noted … Please turn page6767☛ ☛ 49 Please turn to to page

THEMATIC GUIDE: FEMALE AVIATORS

Ladies of the skies From the earliest days of powered flight, women have played a prominent role in the story of aviation. A lively collection can be built around the theme, with its celebrity names but also its unsung heroines ■ Report by John Winchester

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rom Joan of Arc to Marie Curie, women have had to overcome social prejudice in order to demonstrate their skill and bravery in many male-dominated fields over the centuries. Fortunately, powered flight was pioneered in the same century as sexual equality, enabling many females to loom large among the most celebrated pilots in the history of aviation.

Early risers The story of female aeronauts began as long ago as 1784, just a few months after the first flight by a Montgolfier hot-air balloon, when four French aristocrats became the first ladies to ascend in a tethered balloon in Paris. Within weeks another Frenchwoman, an opera singer named Elisabeth Thible, rose above Annonay in an untethered balloon, from which she sang to the visiting King Gustav III of Sweden. In Britain, the first aviatrix was Letitia Sage, a small-time actress who was on board a flight by Vincenzo Lunardi’s balloon in London in 1785. The first woman to make a solo balloon ascent was the French

ABOVE: Aviation pioneer Blanche Scott at the controls of an early biplane in the United States, soon after learning to fly in 1910

ABOVE: Gibraltar 2010 Aviation Centenaries 10p stamp commemorating ‘Baroness’ Raymonde de Laroche, who became the first woman to be awarded a pilot’s licence in France in 1910 50 www.stampmagazine.co.uk DECEMBER 2016

DID YOU KNOW? The world’s first female aeronautical engineer was E Lillian Todd, an American who who started designing aircraft as early as 1906, just three years after the Wright brothers’ historic flight. With wings loosely based upon those of an albatross, and construction of straight-grain spruce, piano wire and muslin, her design completed a brief test flight in New York in 1910. This remarkable achievement was tempered, however, by the fact that Todd was refused a permit to fly the machine herself.

ABOVE: Cover commemorating Lillian Todd, the first woman to design an aircraft, used with the United States 1980 stamp honouring male pilot Glenn Curtis

Born in Michigan at a time when aeroplanes were a fanciful notion, Harriet Quimby was a journalist in New York when she started taking flying lessons, gaining the first pilot’s licence awarded to an American woman in 1911 Extrovert and naturally attractive, Harriet was quickly signed up to take part in the flying displays which were very popular at the time, cutting a glamorous figure in her plum-coloured satin flying suit and fashionable jewellery. In 1912 she travelled to Britain, where she persuaded The Daily Mirror to sponsor her flight across the English Channel, the first to be made by a woman, just three years after Louis Blériot’s crossing. The successful flight, which took 59 minutes, would have attracted worldwide headlines were it not for the sinking of RMS Titanic the previous day. Just 10 weeks later, during an aviation exhibition in Boston, USA, Quimby and her passenger were thrown out of her Blériot monoplane when it lurched unexpectedly, falling to their deaths.

ABOVE: USA 1980 Airmail 28c portraying Blanche Scott, who embarked on a successful career as a stunt pilot as early as 1910

‘The first woman to gain a pilot’s licence did so as early as 1910, and the first woman to fly in combat missions as early as 1915’ pioneer Sophie Blanchard, in Toulouse in 1805. Unfortunately she would later became the first female fatality in an aviation accident, when her balloon crashed in Paris in 1819.

Pioneer pilots ABOVE: Harriet Quimby in her cockpit in 1912 LEFT: USA 1991 Airmail 50c celebrating Quimby as a pioneer pilot BELOW: Mozambique 2012 miniature sheet illustrating the pilot and plane her Blériot XI BELOW: France 2004 €5 stamp honouring Marie Marvingt, the first woman to fly combat missions, bombing behind the German lines during World War I

Ballooning became a sideshow after the Wright Brothers achieved the first powered and sustained flight in a heavier-than-air machine in 1903, but it wasn’t long before women took up this challenge too. Soon after becoming the first female passenger in an aeroplane, the French sculptress Thérèse Peltier became the first woman to pilot one, when she took the controls of Léon Delagrange’s Voisin biplane for a solo flight across the Military Square in Turin, Italy, in 1908. The challenge of becoming the first woman to be awarded a pilot’s licence fell to another of Delagrange’s friends, ‘Baroness’



HARRIET QUIMBY (1875-1912)

THEMATIC GUIDE: FEMALE AVIATORS AMELIA EARHART (1898-1937) Born in Kansas, an American of part-German descent, Amelia Earhart took flying lessons in 1920 after enjoying a $10 aeroplane ride in California. She purchased a bright yellow Kinner Airster biplane, which she named The Canary, and within two years she had established a women’s altitude record of 14,000ft. She came to public attention in 1928 when she became the first woman to fly as a passenger across the Atlantic Ocean, which earned her the nickname ‘Lady Lindy’ after Charles Lindbergh. She was one of 20 pilots who entered the Women’s Air Derby (disparagingly known as ‘The Powder Puff Derby’) in 1929, achieving third place. Later she set a new air speed record of 181.18mph. In 1932 she made a solo Atlantic crossing in 14 hours 56 minutes, for which she was presented with a gold medal by President Herbert Hoover, and three years later she completed the even longer flight from Hawaii to the American mainland. She embarked on an ambitious attempt to circle the globe in 1937, flying with her navigator Fred Noonan in a twin-engined Lockheed Electra 10E, but they vanished between New Guinea and the uninhabited Pacific atoll of Howland Island. No remains have ever been found.

ABOVE: Amelia Earhart with her Kinner Airster biplane

ABOVE: Mali 1967 500f stamp commemorating Earhart’s refuelling stop in the country during her circumnavigation attempt LEFT: United States 1963 Airmail 8c design portraying Earhart with her Lockheed Electra aircraft

Raymonde de Laroche, in reality an actress who was the daughter of a Paris plumber. After lessons from the aircraft builder Charles Voisin, the Aéro-Club de France awarded her the International Aeronautics Federation’s licence No36 in 1910. She went on to win the Coupe Femina challenge for female aviators in 1913, with a four-hour non-stop flight, and set new altitude and distance records for women in 1919, at 15,000ft and 200 miles respectively, shortly before a fatal crash in 1919 while testing an experimental aircraft.

ABOVE: 1937 cover prepared to celebrate Earhart and Noonan’s round-the-world trip, with a pictorial label applied instead commemorating their disappearance

parachute collapsed on a descent in Coventry in 1910. The honour of being the first American woman to fly solo has two rival claimants.

Going solo The first British woman to fly solo was Edith Cook, also known under the pseudonym of Viola SpencerKavanagh, who learned to fly Blériot monoplanes in France in 1909-10. She was also known for making parachute jumps from balloons, and was killed when her 52 www.stampmagazine.co.uk DECEMBER 2016

LEFT: USA 1995 32c portraying Bessie Coleman, whose ancestry was part African and part Cherokee, who became a media sensation as a stunt flyer but was killed in an accident in 1926 RIGHT: A set of six issued by Cuba in 2011 featuring female American aviators included Ruth Nichols, the first female pilot for a commercial passenger airline

Bessica Raiche of New York took to the air in 1910 in a home-built Wright biplane, without any flying instruction, and was later awarded a diamond-studded gold medal by the Aeronautical Society as ‘the first woman aviator of America’. She might have been beaten by a few days, however, by Blanche Scott, who was in the early stages of instruction as a pilot by the famous aviator Glenn Curtiss, also in New York, when, without permission, she removed the throttle-limiter which prevented the plane from taking off and ascended to a height of 50ft.

Born in Limoges, France, Marie-Louise Bombec had a troubled early life, working in a shoe factory and struggling to get by as a single mother after a failed marriage. Everything changed when her second husband, World War I pilot Louis Bastié, instilled in her a fascination for flight. Although Louis was killed in a plane crash in 1926, just a year after she gained her own pilot’s licence, she turned to aerobatics to make a living. She also set a series of distance and endurance records. In 1931 she was awarded the Harmon Trophy for aviation, in 1935 she set up a flying school at Orly Airport, and in 1936 she flew her Caudron C-635 monoplane across the Atlantic from Dakar in Senegal to Natal in Brazil. During World War II she served as a Captain in the French Air Corps, and was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour. She was killed in 1952 when a cargo plane she was flying crashed on take-off in Lyon. ABOVE: Australia 1994 $1.80 recalling Freda Thompson’s achievement in being the first Australian woman to fly solo between Britain and Australia in 1934

ABOVE: France 1955 Airmail 50f marking the third anniversary of Bastié’s death ABOVE: Germany 2010 55c marking the 75th anniversary of Elly Beinhorn’s headline-making flight from Germany to Turkey and back in 1935

ABOVE: Signed photograph of Maryse Bastié

Soon afterwards Scott became perhaps the earliest professional female pilot, from 1910 a successful stunt pilot promoted as the ‘tomboy of the air’, and from 1912 a test pilot for prototypes.

ABOVE: Cameroun 1977 History of Aviation 80f recalling Bastié’s 1936 flight from Africa to South America

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ABOVE: First day cover for the 1955 issue, portraying Bastié in her wartime uniform and postmarked in the town of her birth

‘Pioneering flights by women made headlines around the world in the 1930s, turning them into household names’

Step by step, women began to advance towards equality with men, securing newly emerging jobs in the still embryonic world of aeronautics. During World War I, Marie Marvingt of France became the first woman to fly in combat missions, taking part in bombing raids on German military bases in 1915 and being awarded the Croix de Guerre medal for gallantry. In peacetime, she was also one of the world’s leading advocates for air ambulance services. At the end of the war, in 1918, Marjorie Stinson of the United States became the first female pilot of a plane carrying airmail. In 1932, Ruth Nichols was hired as the first female pilot for a commercial passenger airline, with New York & New England Airways. Meanwhile, pioneering flights



MARYSE BASTIÉ (1898-1952)

THEMATIC GUIDE: FEMALE AVIATORS by women made headlines around the world, making household names of the pilots. Harriet Quimby flew solo across the English Channel in 1912, Amy Johnson flew solo from England to Australia in 1930, Amelia Earhart flew solo across the Atlantic in 1932, and Germany’s Elly Beinhorn made long-distance flights across Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas in 1931-35.

RIGHT: British cover of 1986 marking the 50th anniversary of the Spitfire, signed by the Air Transport Auxiliary pilot Lettice Curtis, who flew all types of aircraft during World War II

Frequent fliers During World War II, Yekaterina Zelenko, Valentina Grizodubova

AMY JOHNSON (1903-1941) The daughter of a plumber from Hull, Amy Johnson joined the London Aeroplane Club as a diversion while she was working as a legal secretary in the capital in 1928. She rapidly obtained her pilot’s licence, and followed it up with a ground engineer’s licence. With little flying experience, she attempted to beat the England-to-Australia solo record in 1930. Only a handful of people watched her departure from Croydon in a de Havilland Gipsy Moth biplane named Jason, but after she made headlines by crash-landing in the Iraqi desert and

nearly ditching in the Java Sea, rather more turned out to see her land in Darwin, narrowly failing to break the record but achieving celebrity status. Many more achievements followed, including the Londonto-Japan record (with a co-pilot) in 1931 and London-to-Cape Town record (solo) in 1932, in the latter case beating the benchmark set by her husband, Jim Mollison! During World War II, Johnson signed up with the Air Transport Auxiliary, delivering new and repaired aircraft of all types between factories and airfields. On January 5, 1941, she bailed out of her Airspeed Oxford aircraft as it crashed in the Thames Estuary, and a naval vessel failed to in its attempt to rescue her from the water.

ABOVE: Great Britain 2003 Extreme Endeavours 2nd class stamp honouring Johnson’s England-Australia solo flight ABOVE: Amy Johnson with her de Havilland Gipsy Moth biplane

ABOVE: Illustrated cover for the Seychelles’ 1975 International Women’s Year 1r stamp, portraying Johnson, used in 1976 to mark the 40th anniversary of her second flight from Britain to South Africa


ABOVE: Guinea 2016 miniature sheet marking the 75th anniversary of Johnson’s death

Born in Kharkov in the Russian Empire (now in Ukraine), but growing up as a citizen of the USSR, Valentina Grizodubova was the daughter of a pioneer aircraft designer, and was flying a glider by the age of 14. After passing out of the Advanced Flying School in Tula in 1933, she became a flight instructor, and set numerous altitude, speed and distance world records, including some in a seaplane. In September 1938, with Marina Raskova and Paulina Osipenko, she completed a 26-hour flight of 5,908km (about 3,670 miles) from Moscow to Komsomolsk in the far east of Russia in a Tupolev Ant-37 long-range bomber, setting the women’s distance record for straight-line flying. Having already been appointed a Hero of the Soviet Union, and having trained many others as an instructor, Grizodubova commanded the 101st Long-Range Air Regiment during World War II, bombing German positions and helping to supply the besieged city of Leningrad.

ABOVE: USA 1996 50c stamp portraying Jacqueline Cochran, who delivered bombers across the Atlantic to Britain in World War II and was later the first woman to fly supersonic

ABOVE: USSR 1939 Moscow-Komsomolsk Flight 60k, portraying Grizodubova on the top value in a set of three

ABOVE: Grizodubova surrounded by male Soviet pilots

ABOVE: A Grenada Grenadines set of four issued in 1981 portrayed Amy Johnson, Raymonde de Laroche, Ruth Nichols and Amelia Earhart

ABOVE: Russia 2010 design honouring Grizodubova on the centenary of her birth

BELOW: Russia 2014 15r design honouring Yekaterina Zelenko, a fighter pilot for the Soviet Union, killed in action in 1941

and other women flew combat missions for the Soviet air force, Maryse Bastié was an officer in the French air force, Jacqueline Cochran of the United States delivered bombers across the Atlantic as part of the Wings For Britain initiative, and Britain’s Lettice Curtis flew almost 100 different types of aircraft, including heavy bombers, for the Air Transport Auxiliary. Cochran went on the become the first woman to fly at supersonic speeds, in an early jet-engined aircraft over California in 1953. Forty years later, in 1993, British pilot Barbara Harmer was the

ABOVE: Souvenir cover for the first scheduled flight of a British Airways Concorde in 1976, subsequently signed by Barbara Harmer, who became the aircraft’s first female pilot in 1993 DECEMBER 2016 www.stampmagazine.co.uk 55


VALENTINA GRIZODUBOVA (1910-1993)

THEMATIC GUIDE: FEMALE AVIATORS JEAN BATTEN (1909-1982) Born in Rotorua, New Zealand, the daughter of a dentist, Jean Batten was inspired to fly when she was taken on a flight by the Australian aviation pioneer Charles Kingsford Smith in 1927. After moving to England, she followed in the footsteps of Amy Johnson by joining the London Aeroplane Club, making her first solo flight in 1930 and gaining her private and commercial licences two years later. Having purchased a Gypsy Moth biplane, she made two unsuccessful attempts to better Johnson’s England-to-Australia record, crash-landing on both occasions, before a successful third attempt in May 1934. Batten went on to set various other solo records in a singleengined Percival Gull Six, including from England to Brazil and from England to New Zealand, and was awarded the Harmon Trophy three times. Glamorous but increasingly reclusive in her later years, she was nicknamed the ‘Garbo of the Skies’.

ABOVE: Jean Batten in her cockpit RIGHT: New Zealand 1990 50c illustrating Batten and her Percival Gull Six BELOW: Illustrated 1976 cover marking the 40th anniversary of her solo flight from England to New Zealand, signed by Batten ABOVE: French stamps of 2005, 1972, 2003 and 2014 honour Adrienne Bolland, who in 1921 became the first woman to fly across the Andes, Hélène Boucher and Maryse Hilsz, who set speed and endurance records in the 1930s, Jacqueline Auriol, who was a test pilot in the 1950s, and Caroline Aigle, who became the nation’s first female fighter pilot in 1999

first to fly the supersonic passenger aircraft Concorde across the Atlantic. By the dawn of the 21st century, female pilots were still in the minority, but by no means rare, and the achievements of the pioneers had been very well documented in stamp issues from around the world, but especially from France and the USA. ■ 56 www.stampmagazine.co.uk DECEMBER 2016

COLLECTIONS !

Every month, hundreds of collections in the price range £20 to £500+, strong in European countries plus some Colonies and Foreign. (No GB.) Estate clearances, vendor lots, collections in printed albums, stock card lots with better items, and a few better stamps individually. Why gamble in auction and pay commission plus postage, when you can quickly buy direct, the price asked is the price you pay, no buyer's commission and post free in UK (even for large boxed lots) - plus fuller describing! These lots are all available to buy at RUSSIA the time of going to press : PORTUGUESE COLONIES - ANGOLA 5655 : 1858 10k imperf (four margins), boxed canPORTUGAL

4845 : 1861-1898 mainly used collection on oldtime Imperial printed leaves, with King Luis issues incl 1870 etc straight labels a good run to 150r, later Luis and Carlos and others to 1898 Vasco da Gama, also Madeira 1868 1868 20r curved label (SG 20 cat £65), 1871 straight label 10r mint, 50r used (SG 26 cat £44) (85 stamps) ... ........... £150

PORTUGAL

5133 : 1912 First Ceres issue (chalky paper, perf 15x14) short set ¼c to 15c all mint hinged (SG 63/ 73, cat £704) (11 stamps) ... ......................... £135

PORTUGAL

5320 : 1867-1943 good range, mainly used but some better are mint, with a few later 19th century, 1910 Manoel and Republica ovpts to top values (some mint), good run of Ceres issues incl a few better mint (e.g. 1923 3E glazed paper SG 573 cat £225), 1927 In dependence mint (SG 726/40 cat £75), 1928 Independence mint (SG 780/95 cat £95), through to 1943 (except min sheets) (350 stamps) ... ...................................................... £135

PORTUGAL

5321 : 1894 Prince Henry the Navigator set used, all with special CENTENARIO cancels (SG 314/26 cat £300) (13 stamps) ... ............................... £100

PORTUGAL

5312 : 1946-1951 mainly used range with commem sets used (1950 Holy Year and San Juan de Dios sets are mint hinged, SG 1035/44 cat £130), (100 stamps) ... ........................................................ £40

PORTUGUESE COLONIES - ANGOLA

5218 : 1945-1951 good run of mint or used, includes 1947 10a and 20a Airs used (SG 423h, 423i, cat £120), 1948 Lady of Fatima mint (SG 434/ 47 cat £80), 1949 Views mint (SG 438/44 cat £90), 1951 Birds set used (SG 458/81 cat £42) (75 stamps) ... ........................................................ £85

5226 : 1914 etc Ceres issues mint, 1914 first issues (chalky paper) to 1E (SG 205/220 cat £35), plus some further issues on ordinary paper, and 1921 high values on glazed paper to 20E (SG 324/ 29 cat £75) (60 stamps) ... .............................. £35

PORTUGUESE COLS -MOZAMBIQUE

5309 : 1946-1951 virtually all used range, with 1946 surcharges, airs to 20E, 1948 Views, Fatima, 1951 most Fish (needs 4E50 cheap value), to end 1951 (70 stamps) ... ........................................ £30

PORTUGUESE COLONIES - TIMOR

5287 : 1946-1952 mainly mint run, with 1946 nine TIMOR ovpts, 1947 Liberation ovpts mint (SG 290/ 309 cat £195), 1948 Natives mint (SG 310/17 cat £40), 1950 Flowers and the others to 1952, difficult material (70 stamps) ... ................................... £90

ROMANIA

4946 : 1872 Paris print, specialised study (written up in German) with 3+ sets written up by shade, couple mint, and the valuable run of 32 proofs and colour trials (66 stamps) ... ........................... £400

ROMANIA

4947 : 1876-1880 Bucharest prints mainly used specialised study (written up in German, but good illustrations of the plate varieties), with stamps sorted by shade, by perf , imperf and part perf, varieties incl 1879 error 5b rose mint (185 stamps) (weight 2 kilos) ... .......................................... £400

ROMANIA

5193 : 1930 Air Coronation ovpt set with the scarce vertical watermark, fine used (SG 1147A/1149A, cat £375) plus several other used of the 1930 Coronation ovpts on definitives (8 stamps) ... ....... £90

RUSSIA

5662 : Imperial period semi-specialised collection from 1858 "Number One (four examples, fair), 10k perf 14« (SG2), 1858 issue with shades, postmarks (includes six 30k cat £200 each), 1860s issues by perf and wmk to several 30k in each case, some mixed cond ition but plen ty of cancel interest and huge cat, later Arms to 10R incl imperfs and a few printing errors, 1913 Romanov Dynasty set mint or unused, 1914/15 War Charity incl four Specimens, and currency stamps (about 1000 stamps) ...£750

RUSSIA

5670 : 1945-1960 collection mainly used, some mint (hinged), virtually complete, with apparently all immediate postwar with 1946 Postal Service the three min sheets mint (SG MS1222a/c cat £225), Stalin min sheet mint (but creased), 1947 Moscow Buildings set and min sheet used, 1949 Airs, the difficult early 1950s with huge cat incl 1950 Moscow Buildings set mint (SG 1657/64 cat £300), and virtually complete through to end 1960 including 1955 Savitsky min sheet mint, the three Agriculture min sheets mint (SG MS1911a/c), North Pole min sheet used etc (1500 stamps) (weight 1 kilo) ... ............................................................ £450

RUSSIA

5656 : 1858 10k imperf (four large and even margins), numeral cancel "38" (Riga), (SG 1, Mi 1, cat £650), BPA certificate signed Robson Lowe etc (1 stamp) ... ........................................................ £300

cel, (SG 1, Mi 1, cat £650), signed Bühler (1 stamp) ... .................................................................... £250

RUSSIA

5707 : Spectacularly redirected through Panama etc, 3k p.s. card with added 1k perf Arms, censor cachets 685 and 46, to LAS CASCADES cds (Panama Canal Zone), redirected several times incl USA in vain, and returned as dead letter to Russia, characterful, 1917(1 cover) ... ........... £85

RUSSIA

5659 : 1870 folded letter with 3k error of background "V" (SG19d, tiny rub, otherwise fine) and five examples of 5k (SG20a), interesting and decorative franking combination, from ODESSA, AUS RUSSLAND, BRESLAU/BERLIN tpo, to Marseilles, 1870 (1 cover) ... ............................................. £80

RUSSIA

5664 : 1927 7k Large Worker, corner block of six with the corner stamp missing one third of design from paper fold, also part double perf for the same reason, u/m (1 item) ... .................................... £75

RUSSIA

5657 : Three colour franking cover with 1k, 3k, 10k from MOSKVA to Berlin 1866, very fine, 1866 (1 cover) ... ........................................................... £60

RUSSIA

5658 : Three colour franking cover with 5k, 10k (one foxing spot), 20k, from TAGANROG via PRUSSE / ERQUELINES blue French entry mark, to Genoa, Italy, 1870 (1 cover) ... ................... £60

RUSSIA

5704 : 1858 issue 20k perf 12« (SG 6, cat £130, well centred) and 2 x 3k (SG 13) on cover from ODESSA cds, red boxed P.D., boxed AUS RUSSLAND/ FRANCO, BRESLAU/ BERLIN t.p.o., to ABERDEEN cds, 1869. Cover has folds and reinforced but high cat stamp (1 cover) ... ......... £60

RUSSIA

5663 : 1924 Air set (SG 417/20) and 20k Worker used on early flown cover from MOSKVA cds, red boxed "Mit Luftpost befördert / Königsberg", to RIGA, 1925 (back flap missing, otherwise fine) (1 cover) ... ...................................................................... £50

RUSSIA

5711 : 1947 Moscow Buildings miniature sheet type II (SG MS1300b) used (1 stamp) ... ........ £20

RUSSIA

3920 : 1990s philatelic covers posted on board atomic icebreakers, with special "atomic" cancels, several with 1998 Murmansk local stamps, and several with postage due markings (11 items) ...£10

RUSSIA - ARMENIA

4991 : 1920 unissued pictorials (Mount Ararat, Spinner etc) imperf printers trials, a range with missing centre, double centre, inverted centre. etc, mainly imperf, mostly in blocks of four or larger but good variety (240 proofs) ... ......................... £250

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Only for the birth of her son Prince William dated 19/07/1982, overprinted stamps, East China 1949 Mao Tse Tung & 60 of this cover are known to exist ....................... Price £9.25 the cover was re-posted with Royal Mail stamps of three General Zhu. A highly recommended lot with hundreds of generations: Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles & Prince China stamps not counting complete China stamp booklets, Alb. 7 ALBANIA - A lovely collection of Albanian stamps, William. Officially postmarked by the Royal Mail for Prince miniature sheets and FDC’s .................................. Price £37 including scarcer older stamps issued for King Zog, George’s christening on 23/10/13 at St James’ Palace unmounted mint. Unusual items noted include 1952 stamps London. The cover has been signed by the stamp designer – LUS 3. RMS LUSITANIA – Special commemorative cover for issued by the Albanian Govt. in exile. Also better overprinted only 40 of this rare cover are understood to exist and the centenary of the sinking of the Lusitania. Only 100 covers stamps. Containing over 100 stamps with -blocks and singles are destined to be vital to any future Prince William and in existence. the tragic event that GB R45 MINIATURESuperbly SHEETSillustrated & SouvenirforSheets, various different SAM.1. POLAND - small general collection, include Nazi Occupation mint and used ....................................................... Price £15. Prince George stamp collections ...................... Price £19.75. brought America into World War I. The cover bears a Royal Mail (Exhibition sheets) FOREIGN, odd Brit. Commonwealth. Total of 50+ Concentration Camp issue inscribed ‘Judenpost’ for Lodz Ghetto Navy Ensign Stamp with the 7th May 2015 Lusitania illustrated different (Mainly Foreign) Min sheets ...............................Price £8 (Litzmanstdt) 10pf Green (unused). 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Also Anti-Malaria stamps Cross the Diana Memorial British stampRed issue on stamps 3/2/98.back These Phosphor Error voil strips. Well over 500 stamps only Prisoner ofThe Azkaban cover withMint I.O.M. Harry Potter 3 x 1/-, 2/-. 6/-, 7/6d ..................................................Price £1.50 to the 1940s or earlier up to more recent. With nursing, doctors covers now mostly in collectors hands are rare and seldom unmounted mint ................................................... Price £15 stamp in combination with official Royal Mail Harry Potter and offered all formsforof sale medicine. A most interesting subject rarely Price offered£17 G23A ........................................................ stamp, postmarked with illustrated first day issue, Hogwarts OLYMPIC GAMES Enormous lot, not counting duplicates, there MM28 MARILYN MONROE - A gorgeous collection of postmark. The collection also includes unmounted mint Royal for sale ideal for anyone with some medical knowledge to form a must over 500 stampsan outstanding collection Price £11 GB10. First Flight Cover – Elusive aviation cover flown Marilyn Monroe stamps. Few other actresses embodies MailbeHarry Potter stamps and miniature sheets............. from various valuable collection .......................................................... Priceon£7 the Boeing 747 Jumbo jet on its maiden flight from New York the term ‘Hollywood Movie Star’ as much as the legendary countries, includes catalogued andunusual scarcerthematic unlistedsubjects issueswe the NY146 ENTOMOLOGY: One of the most Cyprus, Netherlands, G.B. Denmark, Portugal, Spain, Swiss, Finland, SAM.9 BRITISHon ISLES WholesaleThe Dealers newBoeing issue stock (duplicated) to London 22/1/1970. superb illustrated cover and iconic screen goddess, Marilyn Monroe. This collection whole collection ................................................. Price £19.75 have ever seen, insects on stamps. Hundreds of them ............. Price £7 Greece, Also scarcer local issues Channel bears a GPO stamp GPOincludes postmark in combination containsSweden. many different unmounted mintforand used Islands and all unmounted mint,aircraft with many highand values, Lundy, Summer Isle of Man. Hundreds of allIncluding different several Europa Stamps, “Boeing 747” cachet inBardsey red ...................... Price Marilyn Monroe stamps. elusive mainly fine SA4 NELSON MANDELA - A historic and scarcecollection mourning SPACE ‘THE FINAL FRONTIER’. A spectacular of Isles,with St Mary’s (Scilly Isles)flight Gairsay, Gugh, Island, Easdale, Sark.£8. NY148 stamps ................................................................. Price £11 cover for Nelson Mandela. ‘His was a spirit born free, today used, but mini noted .......................................................Price £17 Space stamps including Rockets. 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Over 100 cover bearing Ian Fleming’s iconic James Bond bookfine issue, Royal Mail EAST gold definitive postmarked Mount Pleasant 5/12/13. singles and blocks. Some unmounted mint, but mostly used. R.49 SOUTH ASIA - enormous lot, with some complete to wrong area of stamp. We offer the Gold Head Shift Error superb unmtd stamps……. Price £19 with first day of issue 8/1/2008 Royal Mail postmark. The Only 50 covers known to exist ................................. Price £14. A lovely collection with many engraved stamps; several hundreds, sheets unm . mint, mass of singles. Dates back to 1898, to modern mint together with normal stamp for comparison..................Price £4.25 cover was reposted on 1/5/2012 (four years later) with £21 mostly different...............................................................Price mainly used stamps. 1600-1700 of which 25. DAVID CAMERON. – A much sought after 2015on Royal Mail “British Hero James Bond 50th Anniv Postmark” GB85different GREAT BRITAIN - An About important error onstamps the 1966 Battle SJ42CAM ZEPPELINS: Impressive thematic collection of Zeppelins atofleast 1300 must be different ..................................... General Election&cover. Theabout cover100 bears the QEII “Pound note The486 James Bond continues with manyOver Unmounted Hastings 6d. value. The wrong colour gold leaf wasPrice used£32 BX BOXING - ACollection fine collection of Boxing Stamps 80 Stamps stamps with airships balloons. stamps.............Price £5 stamp” with illustrated Pmk. Dated 7/5/15 for the shock James Bond Commemorative Stamps in error on the Queens Head. Error – yellow gold instead of inMint blocks and singles, including champion boxersand suchMiniature as Muhammad SJ53a BARDSEY ISLAND. (Welsh Local Issue) A superb specialelection results giving the- All Conservatives an outright Sheets: Including, scarcer unlisted issues from various normal bronze gold. We can offer the unmounted mint error SAM.23 WORLD COLLECTION sorts, nice starter lot, withmajority. Ali. Mainly fine cto used, mint noted, with Great Britain Royal Mail 2012 ised group of Unmounted Mint (complete sets) Stamps Price from this The cover theplus Prime David Cameron. Less countries .............................................................. Price £26 plus normal stamp for comparison ........................ £7.50 upwards of 1000depicts different someMinister duplication, with covers, FDC’s, Olympic Games Gold Medal Boxing Stamps.......................Price £9.75 small Welsh Island rarely get offered for sale ............. Price £7.00 than 65 covers exist worldforwide making this........Price one of the miniature sheets All unchecked Catalogue value £13.25 scarcest political covers..................................... Price £18.50 SJ224 SJ120 specialised lotinofIraq Anti-TB HP 19A MEDICAL IRAQ WARStamps COVER with - Extremly rare War commemBRP 73. BRITISH ISLANDS A glorious stamps FILM STARSPACIFIC Collection of Film. Stars and acollection few popofstars. and Red Cross Anti-Malaria Reddepicting Cross orative cover for stamps. the fall ofAlso Tikrit. Only 150 ofstamps this cover, G.46 ORNITHOLOGY - A substantial collection of ornithological stamps. coverslotfrom thepopular British Pacific Including unmounted A and colourful of this themeIslands. includes Gary Cooper, Clara stamps back to the or We earlier up to more With IN 923. INDONESIA Super of this Saddam Hussein, ever1940s existed. understand manyrecent. were damaged mint in blocks and singles with used stamps and fdc’s, dating back Estimated at between 500 –600 bird collection stamps. Mainly all popular different S.E. used Bow, Marylin Monroe, Clark Gable, Tyrone Power, James Dean, nursing, doctors allon forms medicine. A most country back toin1945 to more with inc. only and destroyed, it isand likely a fewofcovers survived. Theinteresting cover bears a to King George VI but mostly more recent issues. Countries noted with Asian some mont, butdating with strength the unm. mint modern local sections Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Rudolph Valentino, Jean Harlow, subject rarely postmarked offered for sale ideal forLondon anyoneSHC with15some unmounted mint in blocks & singles. The collection contains GB QEII stamp, with circular April 2003 include: Solomon Islands, Pitcairn, Norfolk Islands, Niue, Samoa, Lundy Puffins, Cam La island and Calf of Man, Isle of Man locals and£18. Roman Novarro, Jayne Mansfield, Buster Keaton, Humphrey Bogart, medical knowledge to stamp form aoverprinted valuable collection Price £7 hundreds of mint Indonesia stamps ........................ Price Pmk. Together with Iraq “In British...... Occupation” Tonga, Tuvalu, Penrhyn, Kiribati, Christmas Island, Fiji, Nauru, Cook other British Locals depicting Sea birds, with some multiple blocks. This stamp is tied to the cover with a rectangular “Liberation of Iraq Katherine Hepburn, Laughton, Ladd, Bergman, Islands, Papua andCharles New Guinea. Plus Alan others. OverIngrid 100 stamps and TotalGB11. catalogue value is CHURCHILL £130+.............................................. Price £29 STR 58 GREAT BRITAIN SPECIALISED 1971 POSTAL STRIKE WINSTON – A superb cover 15-04-03 THE FALL OF TIKRIT”. Cachet in purple. A very rare Iraq alsomany several FirstThe Daywhole Coverslot. including scarce first day cover£14.00 signed plus others. ...................................Price COLLECTION - Dating back............................................Price to the short period in British £26 commemorating the 75th Anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill War Cover in superb condition by the stamp designer. The whole collection ..................Price £18.50 G.114 A WORLDWIDE COVERS & FDC’S Fantastic Accumulation Postal History when the Post Office granted licenses to becoming prime minister. The cover depicts the great man OFFER A - From the remainder of a Liquidated Stamp Dealer’s stock, LU 328 LUNDY ISLAND - A superb collection mint of Commercial & Philatelic & FDC’s including pmks,for private delivery companies to deliver mailofinunmounted the U.K. This and his quote: “All my covers past life has been but a special preparation a massive including, sheets. Great Britain including GB5 GBamount WINSTON CHURCHILL D-DAY COVER - A Locals, British localGB stamps of history Lundy Island in blocks, large multiples and earlythis to modern with Mails,The Seacover Mail,bears commemorative important postal collection comprising of postal hour and thisAirtrial”. the Winstoncovers, Churchill British spectacular cover and valuable to any Commonwealth. Foreign, Mint addition used covers, FDCWWII and pre packs. singles + miniature sheet. Starts off with period. strike stamps in singles & blocks alsoKing has George scarcerVImultiples Mail signed. commemorative stamp issue andanillustrated Royal notedRoyal designer Local posts, Islands Post, unsorted group cover is inscribed 70thand Anniv. WeCollection. counted upThe to £1,500 worth of cat value thenOfgotD-Day tired and “Lundy & Atlantic Coats Air Lines Ltd. “Following on to puffin stamps and “Tete-beche” stamps. Used and unused with many Mail Churchill postmark (from a limited issue of only 100 of about 100 covers ..................................................Price £21 .00 6thup June 1944.Clearance Illustrated with Churchill Downing Street counting. Price ...................................Price £75.00 overprinted 1960s Well stamps on one to more recent. With lots unmountedwith mint1950s (FDC¬ed). over hundred stamps covers) .................................................................. Price £14. gave 1940’s Photograph, and Churchill’s Quote: “And what a plan! of “Puffin” stamps, definitives, commemoratives & Air Mail stamps. G85 CARS ON STAMPS. Impressive thematic collection the ideal ............................................................................ Price £15 This vast is undoubtedly mostED. complicated NY124 THE operation THREE KINGS King Georgethe V, King VII and King Hundreds of unmounted mint Lundy Stamps ................Price £27.50 POW 9. – Official inRed Cross commemorative collection forCOLDITZ anyone interested automobiles, all sorts fromColditz vinand difficult that hasofever occurred.” cover bears a George VI. A collection British Colonials.The UNMOUNTED MINT SP27X SPACE - Space, the final frontier. A small but cover. The speed cover was flown Colditz to thedifferent Channel tageprison classics to super racing cars.from Several hundred combination of Royal Mail, Churchill and D-Day stamps. Bimpressive COM 434 ORNITHOLOGY - A fantastic collection of British STAMPS. In singles and blocks. Approximately 100+ stamps, low collection of outer spacethematic and space exploration Islands, the cover depicts the infamous prison with German With official Royal Mail, British Forces 3173 Postal Services carspostage on stamps ..............................................................Price £11 Commonwealth BIRDS stamps. Onlymoon Unmounted Mintcover in mulitlples to clear..............................................................Price camps. Including original 1969 landing and stamp and Colditz postmark ...................... Price £10. price postmark, D-Day 6th June 2014. The cover also bears £12.00 and single stamps. Several Hundred Brit, Commonwealth Bird Stamps People’s Republic of China space covers. Over 100+ mint SAM.26 AUSTRIA & HUNGARY - Mostly used, some mint, several original King Geo VI GPO stamps, with horizontal SCANDINAVIA: Incudes Sweden, Denmark, Norway,cachet Finland, some and usedHigh stamps andpound miniature sheets. Noted mint Royal MS 493. WORLD WIDE MINIATURE SHEETS COLLECTION£8– A G419 including Value (£) & ($) Dollar stamps in blocks ..Price £39 hundred diff ......................................................................Price inscribed “D-Day The Longest Day”forincatalogue black. The cover issue from Iceland. The collection is unchecked value, but we Mail issues for Planetary Nebula in Norma & Aquila, Seyfert 2 big collection of well over one hundred different miniature was restricted to 100 covers only ..................... Price £13.75 CR 781 in CRICKET - APegasus valuable Galaxy. specialised of cricket have estimated that there must be upwards of 1,000 .........Price £29.50 G126sheets, WORKS OF ART.noted The rarities of Russia, the world’s famous Galaxy Circinus, Alsocollection Russia mint countries include: Eq. most Guinea, St. art stamps & scarce cricket first covers, signed covers issue for Yuri Gagarin, manincluding in space. A lovely lot.autoThomas andfingertips. Prince Islands, Guyana, Cambodia, Gt. Britain, galleries at your A superb collection of famous paintings M27A CORONATION STREET. A specialised and most W37 ISRAEL - An impressive collection of Israel, comprising of ...................................................................... Price Trucial States, Tanzania, Panama, U.S.A., Korea, Mexico, Belize, graphed by famous cricketers. Comprising of Unmounted £14.50. Mint on stamps, over a thousand different not counting duplicates or unusual official thematic of Coronation streetAlso stamps illustrated firstcollection day covers (all unadressed). noted Israel, Afghanistan, Philippines, Pakistan & Cuba. A massive Great Britain and British Commonwealth Stamps in blocks of four or with COMPLETE UNM, MINT SETS. From various British miniature sheets ............................................................Price £21 sheets, including: 1949 Coins mini sheet. Catalogued GB.51 - GREAT BRITAIN - Scarce Festival of Britain lot, with mint and used miniature sheets ............ Price £17.25 miniature local Islands, including scarcer High Values and several singles with several high value ($) Dollar values. Approx 18 cricket Commem. Cover. Bearing the Abram Games stamp designer £170 (possible forgery this item “as is” not guaranteed.) Following R55 COSTUMES & HEADDRESSES Unusual thematic subject £1.00 values. Personalities depicted on stamps include: covers scarce autographed & a quantity of Unm. officialincluding Royal Mail Commem. Stampcovers cancelled with iconic SNP 12 SCOTLAND The Special Commemorative cover for the £6 onJack with&many mint IsraelKen stamps including hundred different from –several countries ...........................Price Anniegenuine Walker,unmounted Stan & Hilda Ogden, & Irma Barlow, Mint Cricket Stamps25/3/14 .......................................................Price Festival of Britain Postmark. The cover also bears £25 Scottish National Parties Landslide Victory in Scotland; winning virtually plate Jacknumber & Verablocks, Duckworth, Martha Sharples, multiples andLonghurst, singles withEna tabs. A valuable RS2a95% UNIFORMS. Mainly Hundreds different. ....Price £12 the 84 complete KingTHATCHER George VI-1951 Festival of seats. The covermilitary. depicts Nicola Sturgeon (SNP Party Leader) Mike & Alma Baldwin, Webster, Raquel Wolstenholme, PM MARGARET The very scarcestamps mourningwith cover for and impressive collection.Kevin .............................................. Price £25 black cachet “G.PO. 1951 Festival of Britain Official and bears Royal Mail Heraldic Lion stamp and official Edinburgh Ray Langton, Liz McDonald, Alf Roberts, Bet Gilroy, Let K2 GREATdated BRITAIN. UNMOUNTED MINT COMMEMO RATIVES Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. One of thetoscarcest political covers. Stamp Issue” The edition was limited only 100 of these Postmark 7/5/15. The cover is sought after in Scotland and EUR 33 EUROPA A specialised European thematic Collection of Curly Watts, Leonard Swindly, Elsie Tanner, Reg Holdworth & DEFINITIVES UNSORTED ACCUMULATION. Items noted include Only 50 ever in existence, mostly now in collectors hands and important covers .............................................. Price rarely £11.25 elsewhere as only 50 were produced at the time. .............. Price £13.75 Europa + others ............................................................. Price stamps. £12.00 stamps, spanning from the 1950’s to more modern Traffic Light Gutter Pair Missing Phosphor Error coil strips. Well over offered for sale. With “Iron Lady” illustration and official Royal Mail 8th Includes Italy, France, Germany, Iceland, Belgium, Luxembourg, 500 stamps, only unmounted mint ....................................Price £18 April 2013. Big Ben postmark price ......................................Price £13.25

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North of Aden As Britain was withdrawing from southern Arabia and Yemen was on the cusp of unifying, the sultanate of Upper Yafa enjoyed a brief moment in the sun in 1967 ■ Report by Adrian Keppel

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he port of Aden on the Arabian peninsula, occupied in 1839, was of great importance to the British Empire as a base from which it could protect the shipping route to India. To preserve their regional influence, the British entered into various treaties with the surrounding tribes, leading to the formation of the Aden Protectorate from 1874, and later the Federation of South Arabia from 1962. Among the nine tribes joining the Aden Protectorate was that of the Yafai, with the Sultan of Upper Yafa signing a treaty with the British in 1903. When other sultanates joined the Federation of South Arabia in the 1960s, however, Upper Yafa did not. As the British prepared to evacuate the peninsula, following several years of pan-Arabist insurrection backed by the new Yemen Arab Republic to the north, Upper Yafa even briefly declared its independence in September 1967. Although the State of Upper Yafa would survive only a few months, until the end of that same year, the

airmail values from 75f to 500f, depicted the Sultan’s coat of arms, comprising a red crescent and the traditional Arabian dagger known as a khanjar, framed by a green laurel wreath. A number of commemorative sets also exist, but they are of the

‘Although the State of Upper Yafa survived only a few months, the postal authorities managed to produce one definitive issue’ postal authorities did manage to produce one issue of definitive stamps. A set of 10 was issued on September 30, printed in lithography by Harrison & Sons in Britain and denominated in fils. One design, used for the six values covering surface mail rates from 5f to 50f, bore a map showing the location of the state within the Arabian peninsula, superimposed with its flag. Another design, used for the four

‘wallpaper’ variety, probably never genuinely postally used. Covering popular worldwide themes such as the Olympic Games, the 1966 World Cup, John F Kennedy and paintings by old masters, they have appendix status in Stanley Gibbons catalogues and are widely regarded as bogus. Covers bearing these stamps do exist, but all are philatelic in nature, casting doubt on their authenticity.

ABOVE LEFT: Upper Yafa 1967 20f, showing a map of southern Arabia ABOVE RIGHT: The airmail 75f value, showing the Sultan’s coat of arms in a laurel wreath

At the end of 1967, with the British presence being withdrawn from Aden and the surrounding region, Upper Yafa was among the various territories which joined the new People’s Republic of South Yemen. This entailed not only an end to issuing stamps but the abolition of the sultanate itself. In 1990 South Yemen would merge with the Yemen Arab Republic to establish the modern state of Yemen. ■

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OVERSEAS FOREIGN & COMMONwEALTH CHARITY MIXTURE. With over 120 Charity sources in this country it is not surprising that this is the ultimate mixture of Foreign & Commonwealth stamps essentially on paper. Enormous variety and mostly modern as it is collected from offices on a day to day basis. Many h. values as many are Air mail values and a lot will never be seen in approval books! 1 lb £30.00, 2 lbs £55.00, 5 lbs £125.00. Sale price 1 lb £27.00, 2 lbs £49.50, 5 lbs £112.00. SPECIAL OFFER NO.2: 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. Sale price 1 lb £16.00, 2 lbs £30.00. 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. Sale price 1 lb £18.00, 2 lbs £35.00. 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. Sale price ½ lb £9.90, 1 lb £18.00. 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. Sale price 1 lb £14.00, 2 lbs £27.00. SPECIAL OFFER No.3: Buy 1 lb Ireland Charity & ½ lb Ireland Commems for the discounted price of £45. List price £56.50. IRELAND COMMENS. Includes very modern and rare! ¼ lb £21.00, ½ lb £40.00. Sale price ¼ lb £18.00, ½ lb £35.00. IRELAND CHARITY. On paper. This emanates from convents throughout the Republic, is mostly modern with a wealth of Commems. Price £16.50 / lb. Sale price 1 lb £14.00, 2 lbs £27.00. SPECIAL OFFER NO. 4: 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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FALSE ARMISTICE OF 1918

Jumping the gun American newspaper reports and private mail carried the best possible news on November 7-8, 1918. But things were not quite what they seemed. Rare postal history reveals how many were hoodwinked by the ‘false armistice’ ■ Report by Norman Watson

W

e wear blood-red poppies and bow our heads in silent contemplation at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, marking the moment in 1918 that the whistles sounded across the trenches, the guns fell silent and the Great War came to an abrupt end. It’s a time and date that is imprinted in our minds, the instant at which the remorseless killing stopped as an armistice came into effect on the Western Front. Much less well known is that there had been a ‘false armistice’ four days earlier, prompting premature scenes of jubilation in the United States, if not in more cautious Europe.

RIGHT: Front page of Michigan newspaper The Grand Rapids Press on November 7, 1918, relaying a news agency report that the Great War was over

Plausible story The ‘false armistice’ story was engendered, in good faith, when the President of the United Press news agency, Roy Howard, who was covering the war in France,

was shown a military message on November 7, 1918. Received by an admiral in the United States Navy, it suggested that, after more than four years of warfare, Germany had surrendered. The claim seemed plausible. The German army was struggling to

Celebration time This letter, postmarked on the afternoon of November 7, conveys the joy of what turned out to be a false dawn, from the perspective of a mother on the home front who hears the news while she is putting pen to paper. Writing to an old school mate in North Auburn, Maine, a Mrs Rogers of Fortuna, California, comments on the ongoing


hold its front line, and the German navy was in a state of mutiny. Its allies Bulgaria and Turkey had pulled out of the war in recent weeks, and Austria-Hungary had agreed an armistice with Italy just four days earlier, on November 3. Howard immediately sent a

war, hoping for ‘a lasting peace that old Kaiser Bill has no strings on’, before recording that her daughter has just come in to announce ‘the grand news that Germany has surrendered and thus ends the war. The whistles are blowing and bells are ringing. I will have to close this and go out to celebrate.’ Poignantly, Mrs Rogers also mentions the influenza epidemic which had struck the western world and which, unbeknown to her, would go on to kill millions of people worldwide, more even than the Great War itself.

Astonishingly, this letter demonstrates that it wasn’t just the American public who were taken in by the United Press report, but some elements of officialdom too. It was written on War Department headed notepaper and sent in an official government envelope, albeit with the ‘official

telegram from Paris to his agency’s office in New York, stating, ‘Germany gives up, war ends at 2pm’. American military censors assumed the story’s veracity, on the presumption that French military censors must have approved it. So the sensational story was quickly disseminated to UP’s subscribing newspapers across America.

Spontaneous celebration Within hours, newspaper front pages from coast to coast screamed headlines that the war was over. Across the United States, euphoria erupted. Church bells rang, sirens sounded, schools and offices closed. The New York Stock Exchange stopped trading, and anti-aircraft guns on the roof of a block in Broadway started firing blank shells in celebration. Jubilant people came out onto the streets, linked arms and formed impromptu snake dances up and down Fifth Avenue. Total strangers embraced in sheer joy. Hundreds crowded into St Patrick’s Cathedral to kneel in prayer and give thanks. Department store Brill Brothers closed early, putting up signs which read: ‘Too happy to work: come tomorrow’.

Unwelcome denial Alas, Howard’s report had jumped the gun. The war hadn’t ended. On the Western Front, deadly artillery

business’ inscription crossed out and the postage underpaid! Sent from Baltimore, Maryland, to Kenosha, Wisconsin, on November 7, the cover has a machine-cancelled 3c violet definitive and two postage due stamps added to the value of a further 3c. The handwritten note inside, underlined for added effect, boldly proclaims: ‘Hurrah!!! November 7th 1918, 1.19pm Eastern Time, The whistles are blowing.’

Highs and lows One of the most remarkable surviving letters was written by Private Willis Wagener of the US First Gas Regiment in France, to his family in Ceres, California. Its tone changed even as it was being written. As someone whose job was to release poison gas against enemy soldiers, the writer must have felt hugely relieved as he sat down to compose the letter on November 7. ‘They have been having a big time in Vichy this evening celebrating the end of the war. Soldiers and civilians have been out crowding the streets and sidewalks cheering and laughing... The cause was an unofficial telegram which was received toward evening saying that Germany had capitulated...’ Having perhaps paused to join in the revelry, he retired for the night before finishing his letter. By the time he resumed writing the next morning, he was aware that the report was false, and his disappointment is clear. ‘Well, no official word has come this morning, except that the armies are still fighting, and a lot of the fellows who were celebrating last night are now wondering what they were celebrating.’ With its cover passed by the censor and struck with an Army Post Office datestamp, this letter proves that the false armistice was celebrated on the Western Front, as well as in the USA.



Officialdom fooled

FALSE ARMISTICE OF 1918 bombardments continued, and more men were sent ‘over the top’ in the vain quest for a military breakthrough. It was true that a German delegation was preparing to cross the front, where they would be escorted to meet an Allied negotiating team aboard the private train used by the Supreme Allied Commander, Marshal Ferdinand Foch, in the forest of Compiègne. Effectively, however, Howard had mistaken this revelation for an imminent ceasefire, which had not yet been agreed. An official denial of the story was issued rapidly by US Secretary of State, Robert Lansing, at 2pm the same day. The Associated Press (a competitor of the United Press) quickly circulated an accurate story that the war was not over, after all. The rebuttal was not well received by the revellers, who were in no mood to stop celebrating. An angry mob attacked AP’s offices in New York, and crowds destroyed copies of the newspapers that reported the official denial.

Victory parade Some American servicemen on the ground in Europe apparently still believed the rumour when they woke up the morning after the false report had been circulated. This letter, contained in a Red Cross envelope and passed by a military censor, was written on November 8, by Private Robert Heilig of the American Expeditionary Force in France, and addressed to members of his family in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania. ‘There was some excitement last night when the report came in that Germany had signed the Armistice,’ he writes. ‘The Yanks secured a few American flags and other Allied flags and had a parade. The main street was so crowded that you could hardly walk.’

‘Although few letters survive with their covers, mail posted on November 7-8 offers eye-witness accounts of the premature celebrations and subsequent let-down’

Written responses Americans on both sides of the Atlantic had already started to write to loved ones with the apparently wonderful news, so this extraordinary story can be studied through postal history. Although comparatively few letters survive with their covers, mail posted on November 7-8 offers eye-witness accounts of the premature celebrations and the subsequent let-down. It can also offer evidence that the bogus report spread quickly to American servicemen in France, something which had not been recorded until recently.

Postscript Perhaps surprisingly, Howard’s professional reputation survived what The New York Times called ‘the most flagrant and culpable act of public deception in the history of journalism’. Indeed, he would later become one of the most influential newspaper publishers in the United States. He was fortunate, no doubt, that a genuine armistice was signed only four days after his indiscretion, so it was quickly forgotten. ■ 64 www.stampmagazine.co.uk DECEMBER 2016

Different priorities This curious letter from a trainee pilot to his brother either takes the news that the war might have ended with a pinch of salt or simply places more importance on his own exploits in the skies, well behind the front line! Dated November 8, it was sent from the US Expeditionary Force military aviation school at Chateauroux in central France to Birmingham, Alabama. ‘Finished 600-metre specials today. Have to go that high and come down without power,’ the writer explains. ‘On the last we took a barograph or altimeter register, and went up the right altitude over the field and made a long steep spiral down and landed perfectly.’ Only later does he add: ‘Had [heard?] the war ended yesterday by rumour – nothing official yet. All the fellows were let off to go to town to celebrate – and they did too.’

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Stars in our eyes Astronomy is one of the most rewarding themes in the history of British stamps, thanks to a combination of imaginative design and spectacular imagery ■ Report by Jeff Dugdale

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he night sky is perhaps the ultimate universal theme, and sure enough there is a healthy array of British stamps relating to astronomy. Indeed, many are issues of great beauty. Whilst some have offered simple images of stellar objects, visually stunning in themselves, others have tapped the imagination of their designers and taken interesting left-field approaches. A good example was Royal Mail’s 1986 celebration of the return to view of Halley’s Comet, which is visible from Earth with the naked eye for a short period every 75-76 years. A large number of countries produced similar commemorative stamps, but Britain’s approach was to issue four designs in the very distinctive caricature style of Ralph Steadman. Particularly quirky was the 17p value portraying Dr Edmond Halley, who worked out the periodicity of the comet in 1705, with his face and wig forminging its nucleus and tail. The other designs showed the comet’s orbit around the Sun, the Giotto probe which was sent to observe it at close quarters, and the phrase ‘Maybe twice in a lifetime’. The set which best repays close study, however, is the 1990 Astronomy quartet by Australian

RIGHT: 1990 Astronomy 37p, illustrating Stonehenge, an armillary sphere, navigation using the stars and the phases of the Moon

BELOW: 1986 Halley’s Comet 17p, caricaturing Edmond Halley himself as the celestial body named after him


artist Jeff Fisher, with each design full of fascinating references. The 37p top value illustrates Stonehenge, which is thought to have been used for astronomical alignments by Bronze-Age Britons, an armillary sphere (the celestial model invented in ancient times) and a reference to basic navigation using the stars, with the phases of the Moon arching over them. The 31p shows the old Royal Observatory and the Greenwich Meridian, flanked by a mural quadrant and John Harrison’s marine chronometer, which revolutionised seafaring in the 18th century by adding a reliable clock to aid navigation by the stars. Overarching these is part of an old star map and a diagram of the planets as far out as Uranus. On the 26p value, Sir Isaac Newton’s study of gravity is represented by diagrams of orbital motion and its impact on tides, and there are a drawings of our galaxy, the Milky Way, and the 40ft

reflector telescope which William Herschel built at Slough. The 22p stamp references the Armagh Observatory, founded in 1789, the Lovell radiotelescope at Jodrell Bank, built in 1957, and the Herschel telescope in the Canary Islands, opened in 1987. Stonehenge, Greenwich, Newton, Harrison and Jodrell Bank have all featured in other sets, but not always with astronomy as a theme. A far more conventional approach was taken by three issues showing astronomical objects by way of high-quality photographic images, in all cases allowing their natural beauty to take your breath away. In 2002 it was distant galaxies and nebulae in the spotlight in a four-stamp miniature sheet, with the stunning bipolar planetary nebula in the constellation Norma stealing the show. In 2007, a set of six marking the 50th anniversary of the BBC television programme The Sky At

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ABOVE: 2002 Astronomy 1st class, showing a bipolar planetery nebula in the constellation Norma

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British Technology

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1970

Anniversaries

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1975

European Architectural Heritage Year 1

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Greenwich Meridian

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Halley’s Comet

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Sir Isaac Newton

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Bicentenary of Australian Settlement

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Astronomy

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Europe in Space

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1996

Greetings

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1999

The Scientists’ Tale

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Above & Beyond

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2002

Astronomy

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2007

The Sky at Night

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2009

Eminent Britons

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2011

UK A-Z

1

2012

Space Science

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ABOVE: 1966 British Technology 4d illustrating the Lovell radiotelescope at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, which at the time was the largest of its type in the world

Night again showed nebulae, with an astonishing variety of shapes and colours. In 2012 the focus of the Space Science set was phenomena in our own solar system, from the clouds of Venus to the rings of Saturn, as seen by the probes and satellites of the European Space Agency, of which Britain is a member. When Newton was honoured with a stamp issue in 1987, it was to mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of his Principia. Even so, one of the four designs has an astronomical reference, to his study of the elliptical motion of planets. Newton’s work was also referenced obliquely in the 1999 Scientists’ Tale set, whose image of Saturn captured by the Hubble Telescope is stunning. Other great British astronomers to have been celebrated are William Herschel, John Herschel and

Francis Baily, depicted on a stamp marking the 150th anniversary of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1970; George Airey, whose transit telescope was illustrated in 1984; and Sir Martin Ryle, who initiated new ways of to survey the universe using radiotelescopes, in 2009. A simple image of the night sky was used on a stamp in the Above & Beyond set in 2000, noting the new National Space Science Centre in Leicester, which was a designated Millennium Project. Representations of Polaris (the northern hemisphere’s pole star) and the Southern Cross (the

ABOVE: 2012 Space Science 1st class reproducing a photograph of clouds on Venus, taken by a European Space Agency satellite

‘The set which best repays close study is the 1990 Astronomy quartet, with each design full of fascinating references’

southern hemisphere’s equivalent) also appeared on the stamps in the 1988 Bicentenary of Australian Settlement set. More esoteric designs with a link to astronomy can be found in the 1991 set entitled Europe in Space (that year’s Europa theme), which comprised two pairs of paintings by Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon. Thematic collectors might also want to consider Christmas issues illustrating the Star of Bethlehem. Some astronomers think this might have been a supernova visible to the naked eye, or a spectacular conjunction of planets. As an amusing aside, one of the cartoon designs in the 1996 Greetings set, entitled The Cheque in the Post, cheekily illustrated a cheque in orbit beyond Jupiter and Saturn! ■



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Exhibition Venue: NanNing, GuangXi. Contact: FIAP Coordinator, Surajit Gongvatana, 3 Kian Teck Way, Singapore 628732 Tel: +65 6795 2075 Fax: +65 6795 3831 [email protected] www.asiaphilately.com

November 18-20 New ZealaNd Christchurch Stamp & Postcard Exhibition Venue: Addington Raceway & Events Centre, 75 Jack Hinton Drive, Addington, Christchurch 8024. Contact: Jim Robb, CPS Secretary, 67 Mandeville Street, Riccarton, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand [email protected] www.cps.gen.nz

february 15-18 uk Spring Stampex Venue: Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 0QH. Contact: Philatelic Traders Society, PO Box 290, Lingfield, Surrey RH7 9AX Tel: 01342 830225 Fax: 01342 837888 [email protected] www.thephilatelictraders society.co.uk marCH 30-april 2 australia

Melbourne 2017 International Stamp Exhibition Venue: Caulfield Race Course, Melbourne. Contact: John Moore, Exhibition Secretary [email protected] www.melbourne2017.com.au may 4-6 GermaNy Essen International Stamp Fair Venue: Messehaus Ost, Essen Exhibition Centre, Norbertstrasse 2, 45131 Essen. Contact: Jan Billion, Messeagentur, Postfach 108 254, 40863 Ratingen, Germany Tel: +49 2102 50675 Fax: +49 2102 895825 [email protected] may 24-28 fiNlaNd Finlandia 2017 Venue: Tampere Hall Congress &

Concert Centre, Yliopistonkatu 55, Tampere, Finland Contact: [email protected] auGust 3-7 iNdoNesia Asian International Stamp Exhibition Venue: Bandung, Indonesia. Contact: FIAP Coordinator, Michael Ho, 3 Kian Teck Way, Singapore 628732 Tel: +65 6795 2075 Fax: +65 6795 3831 [email protected] www.asiaphilately.com september 13-16 uk Autumn Stampex Venue: Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 0QH. Contact: Philatelic Traders Society, PO Box 290, Lingfield, Surrey RH7 9AX Tel: 01342 830225

Fax: 01342 837888 [email protected] www.thephilatelictraders society.co.uk oCtober 5-8 irelaNd Stampa 2017 Irish National Stamp Exhibition Venue: Griffith College Conference Centre, South Circular Road, Dublin 8. Contact: Stampa, PO Box 12624, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16 [email protected] www.stampa.ie oCtober 27-29 deNmark Nordia 2017 Venue: DGI-House/Spektrum, Willy Sorensens Plads 5, 7100 Vejle. Contact: Poul Andersen, Bleggaardsgade 38, 7100 Vejle, Denmark [email protected] www.nordia2017.dk

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ABOVE: The Chicago skyline, one of the most spectacular in the USA. Explore the Windy City during a visit to Chicagopex in nearby Itasca Every care is taken to ensure the details published are accurate, but we cannot be responsible for any errors or cancellations. You are advised to check with the event organisers before setting out.

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UK & WORLDWIDE AUCTION DATES FOR YOUR DIARY November 9 aJH stamps Venue: The Dunkenhalgh Hotel & Spa, Clayton-le-Moors, Lancashire BB5 5JP. Contact: The Laurels, Manchester Road, Accrington, Lancashire BB5 2PF Tel: 01254 393740 Fax: 01254 382274 [email protected] www.ajhstamps.co.uk November 9 GrosveNor British Empire & Foreign Countries The Hugh Osborne collection of King George VI Venue: 399-401 Strand, London WC2R OLT. Contact: Grosvenor Philatelic Auctions Tel: 020 7379 8789 Fax: 020 7379 9737 [email protected] www.grosvenorauctions.com November 9-18 robert a sieGel Irwin Weinberg Treasures of Philately Venue: 4th Floor, 60 East 56th Street, New York, NY 10022, USA. Contact: Siegel Auction Galleries Tel: +1 212 753 6421 Fax: +1 212 753 6429 [email protected] www.siegelauctions.com November 10 spiNk-iNvestpHila Italian Post Offices in China Venue: 7 Via Balestra, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland. Contact: Tel: +41 91 911 62 00 Fax: +41 91 922 20 52 [email protected] www.spink.com November 20 toNy lester Venue: Holiday Inn, London Road (A45), Coventry CV8 3DY. Contact: Unit 2, The Sidings, Birdingbury Road, Marton, Rugby, Warwickshire CV23 9RX Tel: 01926 634809 Fax: 01926 634819 [email protected] www.tonylester.co.uk November 23-26 CoriNpHila Venue: Wiesenstrasse 8, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland. Contact: Corinphila Tel: +41 44 389 9191 [email protected] www.corinphila.ch November 26 epsom stamp CompaNy Venue: St George’s Christian Centre, Barnett Wood Lane, Ashtead,

Surrey KT21 2DA. Contact: Epsom Stamp Company, 23 Waterloo Road, Epsom KT19 8EX Tel: 01372 720051 [email protected] www.epsomstamp.co.uk November 27 esseX stamp auCtioNs Venue: Marriott Hotel, Old Shire Lane, Waltham Abbey, Essex EN9 3LX. Contact: Essex Stamp Auctions, Three Ashes Cottage, Lanham Green Road, Cressing, Braintree, Essex CM77 8DR Tel: 01376 585357 [email protected] www.essexstampauctions.com November 28 mossGreeN The Arthur Gray collection of King George V Venue: 926-930 High Street, Armadale, Victoria 3143, Australia. Contact: Gary Watson Tel: +61 3 9508 8888 Fax: +61 3 9508 8899 [email protected] www.mossgreen.com.au deCember 3


somerset stamp auCtioNs Venue: Hill Farm, Hemyock, Cullompton, Devon EX15 3UZ. Contact: Somerset Stamp Auctions Tel: 01823 681358 Fax: 01823 681375 [email protected] www.somersetstampauctions.com deCember 4 proviNCial pHilateliCs Venue: Parish Hall, Benson, Oxfordshire OX10 6LZ. Contact: Provincial Philatelics, 90 Park Road, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 8QR. Tel: 01235 511083 Fax: 01235 511083 www.provincialphilatelics.co.uk deCember 5 robert murray stamp sHop Venue: Stewart’s Melville Club Pavilion, 523 Ferry Road, Edinburgh EH5 2DW. Contact: Robert Murray Stamp Shop, 5 & 6 Inverleith Gardens, Edinburgh EH3 5PU Tel: 0131 552 1220 [email protected] www.stamp-shop.com

deCember 7 warwiCk & warwiCk Venue: The Ballroom of the Court House, Jury Street, Warwick CV34 4EJW. Contact: Chalon House, Scar Bank, Millers Road, Warwick CV34 5DB Tel: 01926 499031 Fax: 01926 491906 [email protected] www.warwickandwarwick.com deCember 10 bil & Co Venue: Washingborough Community Centre, Fen Road, Washingborough, Lincolnshire LN4 1AB. Contact: Bil Tilbury Tel: 01400 230769 [email protected] www.bilandco.co.uk deCember 10-12 JoHN bull Venue: 7/F Kwong Fat Hong Building, 1 Rumsey Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong. Contact: John Bull Stamp Auctions Tel: +852 2890 5767 Fax: +852 2576 5110 [email protected] www.jbull.com

eNGlisH-laNGuaGe postal sales apeX Tel: 01342 833413 [email protected] www.apexstamp.com CouNty [email protected] www.stampauctions.co.uk mowbray Tel: +64 6 364 8270 [email protected] www.mowbrays.co.nz saNdafayre Tel: 01565 653214 [email protected] www.sandafayre.com uNiversal Tel: 01451 861111 [email protected] www.upastampauctions.co.uk vaNCe Tel: +1 905 957 3364 [email protected] www.vanceauctions.com eNGlisH-laNGuaGe oNliNe sales dalkeitH www.dalkeith-auctions.co.uk delCampe www.delcampe.net

LOT TO BE DESIRED Here’s something out of the ordinary to add to an Estonia collection, a postal stationery collection or even a Scotland thematic collection, from the huge worldwide auction to be held by Corinphila in Switzerland on November 23-26. Among the postal stationery lots is a set of 28 advertising lettercards from Estonia, dating from 1937, one of which promotes Johnnie Walker’s Old Highland Whisky! The starting bid for this varied lot is almost as stiff as the drink itself, at SF600 (about £500), so have a word with your bank manager first if you don’t want to end up on the rocks.

mcCusker www.jamesmccusker.com mowbray www.mowbrays.co.nz pHilatiNo www.philatino.com rasmusseN www.bruun-rasmussen.dk reGeNCy www.regencystamps.com roGers www.michaelrogersinc.com sammariNese www.filsam.com saNdafayre www.sandafayre.com skaNfil www.skanfil.no stamp CeNter www.thestampcenter.com stampfair www.stampfair.com staNley GibboNs www.stanleygibbons.com torres www.antoniotorres.com trafford books www.traffordbooks.co.uk

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UK STAMP FAIR DATES FOR YOUR DIARY November 11 loNdoN (stamps, postal history) Venue: Royal National Hotel, Bedford Way, Russell Square, WC1H 0DG. Time: Friday 9am-4pm Contact: Kate Puleston Tel: 020 8946 4489 November 12 CHester (stamps) Venue: Hoole United Reform Church, Hoole Road, CH2 3QU. Time: 10am-3.30pm Contact: GBC Promotions Tel: 0151 486 2610 ColwyN bay (stamps, postal history, postcards) Venue: Eirias High School, Eirias Road, LL29 7SP. Time: 9.30am-3pm Contact: S J Chapman Tel: 01745 826434 derby (stamps, postal history) Venue: Nunsfield House Community Hall, 33 Boulton Road, Alvaston, DE24 0FD. Time: 9.30am-4pm Contact: H V Johnson & Co Tel: 01909 563394

laiNdoN (stamps, postal history) Venue: Methodist Church Hall, High Road, Langdon Hills, SS16 6EX. Time: 9.30am-3.30pm Contact: David Church Tel: 01268 543371 maidstoNe (stamps, postal history) Venue: Grove Green Community Centre, Grove Green, ME14 5BT. Time: 10am-3pm Contact: Brian Stonestreet Tel: 01622 675784 NortoN (stamps, postal history, postcards) Venue: Norton Methodist Church Hall, High Street, TS20 2QQ. Time: 9.30am-1.30pm Contact: Northern Stamp & Postcard Fairs Tel: 01904 701464 soutHamptoN (stamps, postal history, postcards) Venue: Methodist Hall, St James Road, Shirley, SO15 5HE. Time: 10am-4pm

Contact: Solent Stamps Tel: 01489 582673 November 13 NewHaveN (stamps, postal history) Venue: Denton Social Centre, Denton Road, Denton, BN9 0PX. Time: 10am-4pm Contact: Eric G Langdon Tel: 01273 514733 wokiNGHam (stamps, postal history) Venue: St Crispin’s Leisure Centre, London Road, RG40 1SR. Time: 10am-3pm Contact: Nigel Stow Tel: 01923 674999 November 16 east GriNstead (stamps, postal history, postcards) Venue: Chequer Mead Arts Centre, De La Warr Road, RH19 3BS. Time: 10am-3pm Contact: Malcolm Green Tel: 01342 327554 November 19 basiNGstoke (stamps, postal history)

Venue: The Costello School, Crossborough, RG21 4AL. Time: 10am-4pm Contact: Paula Cant Tel: 01256 415699 Hull (stamps, postal history) Venue: St Stephen’s Church Hall, Freehold Street, off Spring Bank, HU3 1RB. Time: 9.30am-4pm Contact: H V Johnson & Co Tel: 01909 563394 keNilwortH (stamps, postal history) Venue: Kenilworth School, Leyes Lane, CV8 2DA. Time: 10am-3.30pm Contact: JRS Fairs Tel: 01785 259350 prestoN (stamps, postal history) Venue: Barton Village Hall, Garstang Road (A6), PR3 5AA. Time: 9.30am-4.00pm Contact: John Roberts Tel: 07943 174958 sittiNGbourNe (stamps, postal history, postcards) Venue: Carmel Hall, Ufton Lane, off West Street,

ME10 1JB. Time: 10am-3.30pm Contact: Chris Rapley Tel: 07711 677760

BS23 1XU. Time: 10am-4pm Contact: Michael Hale Tel: 01749 677669

westoN super mare (stamps, postal history, postcards) Venue: Victoria Methodist Church Hall, Station Road,

November 20 bowdoN (stamps, postal history, postcards) Venue: Mercure Hotel, Langham Road, WA14 2HT. Time: 10am-4pm Contact: Howard Hatton Tel: 0161 7669031 droNfield (stamps, postal history, postcards) Venue: Coal Aston Village Hall, Coal Aston, S18 3AY. Time: 9.30am-4pm Contact: H V Johnson & Co Tel: 01909 563394 HerNe (stamps, postal history, postcards) Venue: Herne Parish Hall, Herne Street, CT6 7HE. Time: 10am-3.30pm Contact: Chris Rapley Tel: 07711 677760 ormskirk (stamps) Venue: The Guide HQ, Moorgate, L39 4RT. Time: 10am-3pm Contact: GBC Promotions Tel: 0151 486 2610 November 24 plymoutH (stamps, postal history, postcards) Venue: Guildhall, Armada Way, PL1 2ER. Time: 10am-4pm Contact: Solent Stamps Tel: 01489 582673

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Contact: Solent Stamps Tel: 01489 582673

Peterborough (stamps, postal history) The Holiday Inn, Thorpe Wood, PE13 6SG. Time: 10am-3pm Contact: Richard Lewis Tel: 01945 700594

Huddersfield (stamps, postal history) Venue: St Thomas Community Centre, Manchester Road, Longroyd Bridge, HD1 3HU. Time: 9.30am-4pm Contact: A Campbell Tel: 01484 681559

Rugby (stamps, postal history, postcards) Venue: Benn Hall, Newbold Road, CV21 2LN Time: 10am-3.30pm Contact: Simon Hemmings Tel: 07792 603334

November 25 Clyst St George (stamps, postal history) Venue: Parish Hall, Woodbury Road, EX3 0RE Time: 10am-4pm Contact: Solent Stamps Tel: 01489 582673 November 25-26 Leeds (stamps) Venue: Pudsey Civic Hall, Dawson’s Corner, Pudsey, LS28 5TA. Time: 10.30am-5pm Friday, 10am-4pm Saturday Contact: Derek Baron, Leeds PS Tel: 01943 465236 November 26 Guildford (stamps, postal history, postcards) Venue: Onslow Village Hall, Wilderness Road, GU2 7QR. Time: 10am-3.30pm Contact: Chris Rapley Tel: 07711 677760

Venue: St James Church Hall, Uniton Street, BA14 8RU. Time: 10am-4pm Contact: Solent Stamps Tel: 01489 582673 November 27 Doncaster (stamps, postal history) Venue: Park Social Club, Eden Grove Road, Edenthorpe, DN3 2LS. Time: 9.30am-4pm Contact: H V Johnson & Co Tel: 01909 563394 Harrogate (stamps, postal history) Venue: Masonic Hall, Station Avenue, HG1 5NE. Time: 9.30am-3.30pm

Southport (stamps, postal history, postcards) Venue: Royal Clifton Hotel, The Promenade, PR8 1RB. Time: 10am-4pm Contact: R Cudworth Tel: 01484 866777 December 3 Beckenham (stamps, postal history, postcards) Venue: Azelia Hall, Croydon Road, BR3 4DA. Time: 9.30am-3.30pm Contact: R&L Stamps Tel: 020 8395 9285 Bournemouth (stamps, postal history, postcards) Venue: Pelhams Park, Millhams Road, Kinson, BH10 7LH. Time: 10am-4pm

Leicester (stamps) Venue: The Holiday Inn, Derby Room, St Nicholas Circle, LE1 5LX. Time: 9.30am-3.30pm Contact: John Suschitzky Tel: 0116 235 0441 Lichfield (stamps, postal history) Venue: Boley Park Community Hall, Ryknild Street, WS14 9XU. Time: 10am-4pm Contact: JRS Fairs Tel: 01785 259350 Middlewich (stamps) Venue: Community Centre, Civic Way, Leadsmithy Street, CW10 9BE. Time: 10am-3.30pm Contact: GBC Promotions Tel: 0151 486 2610 Rawreth (stamps) Venue: Parish Hall, Church Lane, SS11 8SH. Time: 10am-4pm Contact: Steve Search Tel: 01702 323682

Stourbridge (stamps, postal history) Venue: Platters Café, Victoria Street, DY8 1SP. Time: 9.30am-2pm Contact: Chris Proctor Tel: 07813 260752 December 4 Bowdon (stamps, postal history, postcards) Venue: Mercure Hotel, Langham Road, WA14 2HT. Time: 10am-4pm Contact: Howard Hatton Tel: 0161 7669031 December 7 Neath (stamps, postal history, postcards) Venue: Town Hall, Church Place, SA11 3LL. Time: 10am-3pm Contact: Dragon Collectors’ Fairs Tel: 01522 857343 December 8 Cardiff (stamps, postal history, postcards) Venue: Wesley Church Hall, Cowbridge Road East, CF5 1BA. Time: 10am-3pm Contact: Dragon Collectors’ Fairs Tel: 01522 857343 December 9 London (stamps, postal history, postcards) Venue: Royal National Hotel,

Bedford Way, Russell Square, WC1H 0DG. Time: Friday 9am-4pm Contact: Kate Puleston Tel: 020 8946 4489 December 10 Derby (stamps, postal history) Venue: Nunsfield House Community Hall, 33 Boulton Road, Alvaston, DE24 0FD. Time: 9.30am-4pm Contact: H V Johnson & Co Tel: 01909 563394 Norton (stamps, postal history, postcards) Venue: Norton Methodist Church Hall, High Street, TS20 2QQ. Time: 9.30am-1.30pm Contact: Northern Stamp & Postcard Fairs Tel: 01904 701464 Preston (stamps, postal history) Venue: Barton Village Hall, Garstang Road (A6), PR3 5AA. Time: 9.30am-4.00pm Contact: John Roberts Tel: 07943 174958 December 11 Wokingham (stamps, postal history) Venue: St Crispin’s Leisure Centre, London Road, RG40 1SR. Time: 10am-3pm Contact: Nigel Stow Tel: 01923 674999

Liverpool (stamps) Venue: St Columba Church Hall, Hillfoot Road, Hunts Cross, L25 0NR. Time: 10am-3.30pm Contact: GBC Promotions Tel: 0151 486 2610 Morley (stamps, postal history) Venue: St Mary’s Church Hall, Commercial Street, LS27 8HZ. Time: 9.30am-4pm Contact: H V Johnson & Co Tel: 01909 563394 Trowbridge (stamps, postal history) Every care is taken to ensure the details published are accurate, but we cannot be responsible for any errors or cancellations. You are advised to check with the event organisers before setting out.

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WHAT’S ON: SOCIETIES SELECTED UK PHILATELIC SOCIETY DATES FOR YOUR DIARY November 10 bristol ps Stamp Dealers 1870-1930s by Edward Caesley Venue: Redland Park United Reformed Church, Whiteladies Road, BS6 6SA. Time: 7.30pm Contact: Rosemary Atkins Tel: 01179 504427 November 14 ferNdowN & west moors p&pC Six-Sheet Competition Venue: Day Centre, Shopping Precinct, Ferndown, BH22 9JP. Time: 7.30pm Contact: Paul Barry Tel: 07932 581791 November 15 ediNburGH ps Birds & Eighty by Sid Morgan & Alex Shepherd Venue: St Mark’s Unitarian Church Hall, 7 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2DP. Time: 7pm Contact: Bob Catto [email protected]

soliHull ps Bosnia by J Anthony Venue: Solihull Cricket & Tennis Club, Marsh Lane, Solihull B91 2PF. Time: 8pm Contact: Paul Woodness Tel: 01564 776 879

November 18 belfast ps Revenues by B Thompson Venue: Braniel Hall, Hillhall Road, Lisburn, BT27 5JA. Time: 7.30pm Contact: Norman Scott Tel: 028 9079 5530

wimbledoN & distriCt ps French Somali Coast by Michael Round Venue: Residents’ Pavilion, 129 Grand Drive, London SW20 9LY. Time: 8pm Contact: Barbara Priddy Tel: 020 8946 6224

November 22 Crawley & distriCt ps 100 Years of USA by Derek Mauri Venue: Furnace Green Community Centre, Ashburnham Road, Furnace Green, RH10 6QZ. Time: 7.30pm Contact: Richard Smith Tel: 01293 408598

November 17 burNley & distriCt ps The Good, The Bad & The Ugly by Graham Wilson Venue: Central Methodist Church, Hargreaves Street, Burnley BB11 1DU. Time: 7.30pm Contact: Dr Barry Evans Tel: 01282 616156

soliHull ps Australia & New Zealand Airmails by L Kimpton Venue: Solihull Cricket & Tennis Club, Marsh Lane, Solihull B91 2PF. Time: 8pm Contact: Paul Woodness Tel: 01564 776879


November 23 bromley & beCkeNHam ps Kings & Queens Venue: Public Hall, Bromley Road, Beckenham BR3 5JE. Time: 7.30pm Contact: David Rennie Tel: 020 8778 7001 November 24 bristol ps France: La Semeuse by Ashley Lawrence Venue: Redland Park United Reformed Church, Whiteladies Road, BS6 6SA. Time: 7.30pm Contact: Rosemary Atkins Tel: 01179 504427 November 26 Great britaiN ps British Printed Papers 1836-1876 by Gavin Fryer Time: 11am Leeds Postal History by Richard Wheatley Time: 2.15pm Venue: Grosvenor Auctions,

ITALY & COLONIES STUDY CIRCLE The highlight of the Italy & Colonies Study Circle weekend event at Lea Marston was the presentation of the Richard Harlow Cup...to Richard Harlow! A founder member of the Circle 42 years ago, and its long-time Secretary, Richard has been instrumental in increasing its international membership, running its popular quarterly auction, developing its Fil-Italia journal and introducing organised trips to Italy. The Cup was purchased by members to show their gratitude, with Richard himself being its first recipient. The weekend was attended by 31 members and their partners, and they enjoyed 19 displays on a wide variety of subjects. The Study Circle covers all aspects of Italian philately, including the former colonies, Vatican City, San Marino and foreign post offices. For details contact Richard Harlow (of course!). Tel: 020 8977 8737. Or visit www.icsc-uk.com

399-401 Strand, London WC2R 0LT. Contact: Phil Waud Tel: 07484 629171 November 28 ferNdowN & west moors p&pC A Bit of This & A Bit of That by John Duckworth Venue: Day Centre, Shopping Precinct, Ferndown, BH22 9JP. Time: 7.30pm Contact: Paul Barry Tel: 07932 581791 November 29 soliHull ps Sheffield Postal History by C Jones Venue: Solihull Cricket & Tennis Club, Marsh Lane, Solihull B91 2PF. Time: 8pm Contact: Paul Woodness Tel: 01564 776879 November 30 lytHam st aNNes ps French Post Offices in Egypt by Cyril Defriez Venue: The Drive Methodist Church Hall, Eastbank Road, Lytham St Annes, FY8 1LH. Time: 7.30pm Contact: Graham Chadwick Tel: 01253 367254 deCember 1 burNley & distriCt ps Topical Displays Venue: Central Methodist Church, Hargreaves Street, Burnley BB11 1DU. Time: 7.30pm Contact: Dr Barry Evans Tel: 01282 616156 ketteriNG ps Christmas Fun Night Venue: St Mary’s CEVA Primary School, Fuller Street, Kettering NN16 0JH. Time: 7.30pm Contact: Gordon Tregidgo Tel: 01536 746800 kiNGstoNupoN-tHames & distriCt ps Banknotes by Brian Asquith One-Sheet Competition Venue: Surbiton Library New Hall, Ewell Road, Surbiton, KT6 6AG. Time: 8pm Contact: Christopher E Oliver Tel: 020 8940 9833

ABOVE: Richard Harlow receives the Richard Harlow Cup from Paul Woodness

taw & torridGe sC Four-Sheet Competition: Letter N

Venue: Castle Hall, Castle Street, Barnstaple, EX31 1ET. Time: 7.30pm Contact: Andrew Austen Tel: 01271 329762 deCember 6 beNfleet & distriCt ps Chairman’s Night & Christmas Social Venue: The Small Hall, rear of Runnymede Hall, Kiln Road, Thundersley SS7 9SU. Time: 7pm Contact: Laurence Gardiner laurencewgardiner1@ hotmail.com west loNdoN ps Christmas Banquet Venue: The Church Hall, Woodlands Avenue, Acton, W3 9BU. Time: 8pm Contact: Christopher E Oliver Tel: 020 8940 9833 deCember 7 bromley & beCkeNHam ps Inter-Society Meeting & Visitors’ Bourse Venue: Public Hall, Bromley Road, Beckenham BR3 5JE. Time: 7.30pm Contact: David Rennie Tel: 020 8778 7001 deCember 8 maidstoNe & mid-keNt ps Austro-Hungarian Navy by Lindy Bosworth Venue: St Paul’s Church Hall, Boxley Road, Maidstone ME14 2AH. Time: 7.30pm Contact: Brian Stonestreet Tel: 01622 675784 deCember 10 CHaNNel islaNds speCialists’ soCiety Members’ Displays: Dates Ending in 6 Venue: RPSL, 41 Devonshire Place, London W1N 1PE. Time: 10.30am Contact: Steve Wells Tel: 01903 501415 yeovil & distriCt ps Club Auction Venue: St Marks Church Hall, corner of Milford Road and Chelston Avenue, Yeovil BA21 4PM. Time: 7pm Contact: David Bryant Tel: 01460 74422

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NEW ISSUE GUIDE YOUR IN-DEPTH GUIDE TO THE LATEST RELEASES FROM AROUND THE WORLD This directory lists Great Britain first, followed by other countries in alphabetical order. It is limited to countries in which stamp issues are sold in post offices and for which reliable information is available. We aim to keep our listing as up-to-date as possible, but in attempting to provide more comprehensive detail than other guides we do not necessarily list every country each month. The three-digit number which appears before the date of each issue is for cross-referencing with the Thematic Checklist at the end of this section. GREAT BRITAIN (last listed in Nov 2016 issue)

001 July 28, 2016 150th anniversary of the Birth of Beatrix Potter Printing: gravure, ISP (Walsall Security Printers, Wolverhampton). Die-cut perf 14¾ x 14¼. Self-adhesive booklet (£3.84): 1st (64p) Peter Rabbit 1st (64p) x 4 Machin head of Queen Elizabeth II in amethyst purple (source code ‘REIGC’, year code ‘O16R’ in security overlay) 1st (64p) Mrs Tiggywinkle Note: the Peter Rabbit and Mrs Tiggy-Winkle stamps are set within a self-adhesive surround, illustrated with blue dots; the Machin definitives have no surround, and stamp underlay is printed with repeating wavy-line security text ‘Royal Mail’, in blue

004 ASCENSION Endemic Fish

Correction: the gummed sheet stamp depicting Squirrel Nutkin in the Beatrix Potter issue (listed in November 2016) was a £1.33 denomination

002 July 28, 2016 Definitive. Machin series Printing: gravure, ISP (Walsall Security Printers, Wolverhampton). Die-cut perf 14¾ x 14¼. Self-adhesive booklet (£3.94): 1st (64p) x 6 Machin head of Queen Elizabeth II in red (source code ‘MBIL’, year code ‘M16L’ in security overlay) Cover: golden padlock bearing the Machin profile of Queen Elizabeth II, and Royal Mail logo with crown against white background Back cover: Royal Mail logo with crown against white background, slogan ‘The future: in safe hands’ Note: stamps are affixed to inside back cover, with no surround, and underlay is printed with repeating wavy-line security text ‘Royal Mail’, in blue 003 Aug 18, 2016

005 BARBADOS Landships

300th anniversary of the Birth of Capability Brown. Landscape Gardens Design: Robert Maude and Sarah Davies. Printing: litho, Cartor (ISP). One centre phosphor band (2nd) or two phosphor bands (1st, £1.05, £1.33). Perf 14.25 x 14. Sheet stamps: sheets of 60 (2 panes of 30, 6 x 5) separated by gutter, arranged in se-tenant pairs. 2nd (55p) garden of Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire 2nd (55p) garden of Longleat, Wiltshire 1st (64p) garden of Compton Verney, Warwickshire


1st (64p) £1.05

garden of Highclere, Hampshire garden of Alnwick Castle, Northumberland £1.05 garden of Berrington Hall, Herefordshire £1.33 garden of Stowe House, Buckinghamshire £1.33 Croome Park, the garden of Croome Court, Worcestershire Note: Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, 1716-1783, landscape ‘architect’ ASCENSION (last listed in Nov 2016)

004 Oct 17,2016 Endemic Fish Design: Andrew Robinson. Printing: litho, Cartor. Sheet stamps: sheets of 10. 50p resplendent angelfish, Centropyge resplendens 55p Ascension white hawkfish, Amblyhcirrhitus earnshawi 65p Ascension wrasse, Thalassoma ascensionis £1.60 yellow damselfish, Stegastes lubbocki BARBADOS (last listed in Sept 2016)

005 Aug 17, 2016 Landships in Barbados Printing: litho. Sheet stamps: 10c landship tuk-tuk band, 1970s 65c maypole dancing $1.80 landship performance during parade for Cropover festival in August $2.20 landship commander Leon Marshall, honorary title Admiral of the Fleet, with Barbados flag Miniature sheet: $5 Landship Lord High Commander Vernon Nathaniel Watson, credited with reviving the landship movement Note: landships are friendly societies conducting cultural (folkloric and musical) performances and welfare work. Said to date from 1863, they were rejuvenated in the mid-1970s BERMUDA (last listed in April 2016)

006 April 21, 2016 Centenary of the Great War

Design: Keno Simmons, from photographs. Printing: litho. Sheet stamps: 50c the first contingent of the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps at Hamilton Docks, Bermuda, in May 1915; medal and badge $1.00 officers and NCOs of the Bermuda contingency of the Royal Garrison Artillery, in England before their departure for the Western Front; map of France and Belgium showing key battlegrounds $1.15 letter from Bermuda addressed to W F Anderson, who was attached with the Lincolnshire Regiment, returned with the notation ‘Killed in action 1/4/16’; ‘dog tags’ of 2nd Lieutenant Wentworth Gray Trimingham, Lancashire Fusiliers, killed in January 1918 at the age of 27 $1.20 postcard sent back to Bermuda by BVRC’s Cyril Young, and a photograph of Cyril Chesterfield Easton of the Bermuda Militia Artillery $1.35 pre-war recruitment poster for the BMA; Royal Garrison Artillery cap badge $1.55 19-year-old Cecil Montgomery-Moore, who earned the Distinguished Flying Cross after shooting down three German planes, in front of his aircraft; and Royal Flying Corps badge

007 Aug 18, 2016 Definitives. Bermuda in Bloom Design: from photographs. All designs show a view of tree or shrub, and close-up of a flower. Printing: litho, Lowe-Martin. Perf 12¾. Sheet stamps: 20c golden angel trumpet, Datura aurea 60c queen’s wreath, or sandpaper vine, Petrea volubilis 75c pink cassia, Cassia javanica 90c crepe myrtle, Lagerstroema indica $1.95 coral vine, Antigonon leptopus $3.00 beach morning glory, Ipomoea pescaprae Note: stamp values have no currency designator BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY (last listed in March 2015)

008 Feb 12, 2016 First Pelagic Expedition. Sharks Printing: litho.

Sheetlet (2 x 3): 50p tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvia 50p silvertip shark, Carcharhinus albimarginatus 50p silky or blackspot shark, Carcharhinus falciformis 50p grey reef shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos 50p shortfin mako shark, Isurus oxyrinchus 50p tawny nurse shark, Nebrius ferrugineus Note: open water natural history research expedition to BIOT Marine Reserve, 2012

009 April 21, 2016 90th Birthday of Queen Elizabeth II Designs: from photographs. Printing: litho. Sheet stamps: 54p Princess Elizabeth, as a child 54p Queen Elizabeth II, in red hat 90p Princess Elizabeth, c1950 90p Queen Elizabeth II, c 2015

010 July 28, 2016 Literary Anniversaries Printing: litho. Sheet stamps: 54p William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 (400th anniversary of death): portrait, and scene from Romeo & Juliet 54p Beatrix Potter, 1866-1943 (150th anniversary of birth): portrait, and scene from The Tale of Peter Rabbit 94p Charlotte Bronte, 1816-1885 (200th anniversary of birth): portrait, and scene in woods from Jane Eyre 94p Roald Dahl, 1916-1990 (centenary of birth): portrait, and scene from Fantastic Mr Fox CAYMAN ISLANDS (last listed in May 2016)

011 Dec 3, 2015 25th anniversary of the Cayman Islands National Museum Design: Andrew Robinson. All designs incorporate a logo showing the Old Courts Building, now housing the Museum. Printing: litho, BDT. Sheet stamps: sheets of 50 (2 x 25). 25c Plath Navistar ship’s sextant of the 1960s, owned by Captain Wordal Rankine of East End, Grand Cayman 25c figure of Caymanian woman handcarved from a tree limb by Clarence Carter of Bodden Town, 1960s 75c cast-iron double-wheel coffee grinder (made by Lane Bros, USA, 1950s), from Ira Thompson benefaction $1.60 red clay water container, known as a ‘monkey pot’, probably imported from Jamaica in early 20th century

012 May 16, 2016 Historic Ships Design: Andrew Robinson. Printing: litho, Lowe-Martin Group. Sheet stamps: Kirk B (sail freighter), built in Cayman 25c Islands in 1929 for R B Kirkconnell &

Brothers, registered 1931 Nunoca (cargo ship), built in 1932 by Heber Arch. Lost at sea between Grand Caymand and Tampa in 1936 Rembro (sail freighter), built in $1 Cayman Islands in 1930 for the McTaggart family Clara Scott (schooner) built at Cayman $2 Brac in 1905 for Captain James Scott Miniature sheet: $4 HMS Dragon (naval cruisier), provided support to victims of the hurricane of November 1932 Border: RMS Atlantis (Cunard cruise ship), the first cruise ship to visit the Cayman Islands

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CROATIA (last listed in July 2016)

013 Feb 2, 2016 She’s Mercedes Design: Mercedes-Benz, Croatia. Printing: litho, Zrinski Printers, Cakovec. Sheet stamp: sheets of 10 stamps and 10 labels. 3.10K ‘She’s Mercedes’, graphic inscription Label: ‘Be Inspiration/Feel Inspiration’ Note: the designs are from a Mercedes-Benz campaign to promote car sales to women

014 Feb 3, 2016 1700th anniversary of the Death of St Blasius (St Blaise) Design: Orsat Frankovic. Printing: litho, Zrinski Printers. Sheet stamps: sheets of 20 (5 x 4). 3.10K painting of St Blasius in Bishop’s vestments, by Carmelo Reggio (Italy, 19th century), from parish church of St Nicholas, Cavtat Note: Armenian-born Bishop of Sebaste (now Sivas, Turkey), martyred in February 316. Patron Saint of Dubrovnik

015 Feb 21, 2016 Children’s World. Household Pets, fourth issue. Aquarium Fish Designs: after illustrations by Lidija Novosel and Adam Peter Maguire. All designs depict fish wearing children’s apparel or with children’s toys. Printing: litho, Zrinski Printers. Sheetlet (2 x 4): 8 stamps arranged in 2 se-tenant blocks of 4. 3.10K rainbow fish (Siamese fighting fish), Betta splendens 3.10K guppy, Poecilia reticulata, and toy fighter aircraft 3.10K goldfish, Carassius aibelio (auratus), wearing a hat 3.10K angelfish, Pterophyllum scalare, and toy pram

016 March 8, 2016 Easter 2016. Easter Bunny Design: Alenka Lalic, from illustration by Sanja Rešcek. Printing: litho, Zrinski Printers. Sheet stamps: sheets of 20. 3.10K Easter bunny applying green paint to an Easter egg

017 March 21, 2016 Flora of Croatia Design: Klara Mikulic.

Printing: litho, Zrinski Printers. Sheet stamps: sheets of 20 (4 x 5). 2.80K rosemary, Rasmarinus officinalis 3.10K narrow-leaved lavender, Lavandula angustifolia 4.60K immortelle, or curry plant, Helichrysum italicum Booklet (28.00K): 2.80K x 10 rosemary Cover: as stamp motif. Booklet (31.00K): 3.10K x 10 lavender Cover: as stamp motif. Booklet (46.00K): 4.60K x 10 imortelle Cover: as stamp motif. Maximum cards: set of 3

018 April 20, 2016 Significant Croatians Design: Katarina Loncar. Printing: litho, Zrinski Printers. Sheet stamps: sheets of 20 (5 x 4). 3.10K Mirko Bogovic, 1816-1893, writer, poet, editor, political philosopher: portrait and signature on document 3.10K Mia Corak Slavenska, 1916-2002, prima ballerina at Metropolitan Opera, New York, ballet director, ballet teacher: portrait, signature, dancing, ballet score/notation 3.10K Sidonija Erdödy (married name Rubido), 1819-1884, singer, operatic diva, charitable fundraiser: portrait and document 3.10K Slavo Kolar, 1891-1963, writer, scriptwriter, agronomist: portrait and signed document 019 April 26, 2016

012 CAYMAN ISLANDS Historic Ships

90th anniversary of Radio Zagreb & 60th anniversary of Television Zagreb Design: Ivana Vucic and Tomislav-Jurica Kacunic. Printing: litho, Zrinski Printers. Sheetlet: 10 stamps and 10 labels. 3.10k radio station and KRT emblems, radio announcer, television cameraman Labels: producer’s control console Note: Radio Zagreb commenced broadcasting on May 15, 1926

020 April 27, 2016 Centenary of the Recognition of Islam in Croatia Design: Nifradin Dino Trtovac, after photograph by Edib Ahmetaševic. Printing: litho, Zrinski Printers. Sheet stamp: 3.10K Zagreb Mosque, built in 1981-1987, which incorporates the Zagreb Islamic Centre and School Note: the Croat Assembly confirmed equal rights for Islam in Croatia on April 27, 1916

021 April 27, 2016 Croatian Inventors & Innovations Design: Ariana Noršic. Printing: litho, Zrinski Printers. Sheetlet (2 x 3): 5.00K x 6 Giovanni Biagio Luppis, 1813-1875, Austrian Croat who designed, built and tested torpedos (co-operatively with Robert Whitehead of Bolton, England):

016 CROATIA Easter 2016

028 CROATIA EuroMed. Mediterranean Marine Life


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022 May 8, 2016 Red Cross Week Printing: litho. Tax stamp: for use on May 8, 2016. 1.55K inscription ‘Mladiyouth’ (‘Youth’) Note: issued to support the 20th National Youth Competition organised by Croatian Red Cross

023 May 9, 2016 Europa 2016. Think Green Design: Dubravka Zglavnik-Horvat (4.60K) or Doxia Sergidou, Cyprus (7.60K). Printing: litho, Zrinski Printers. Sheet stamps: sheets of 20 (4 x 5). 4.60K droplet of rainwater on a green leaf 7.60K cyclist passing factories, blocks of flats, parkland and wind turbines, which a paint roller is recolouring from black to green

024 May 24, 2016 800th anniversary of the Dominican Order in Croatia. The Dominican Church, Trogir Design: Dubravka Zglavnik-Horvat. Printing: litho, Zrinski Printers. Sheet stamp: sheets of 20. 3.10K lunette with sculptures of the Madonna, Mary Magdalene, St Augustin Kažotic and his sister Bitkula (church benefactor), by Nicola Dente of Venice, c1372

025 June 1, 2016 Tourism. Public Space Works by Nikola Bašic in Zadar Design: Ljubica Marcetic-Marinovic. Printing: litho, Zrinski Printers. Sheet stamps: sheets of 10 (2 x 5) with illustrated borders. Greetings To The Sun (2008): shoreline 2.80K frame structure with multiple sensors activated by sunlight, creating a dance of coloured light and shadows Sea Organ (2005): marble staircase on 4.60K shoreline with underwater tubes which create sound Note: Bašic, b1946, is an architect and concept artist

026 June 23, 2016 25th Croatian Day of Statehood Design: Ivana Vucic and Tomislav-Jurica Kacunic. Printing: litho, Zrinski Printers. Sheet stamp: sheets of 30 (5 x 6) comprising 26 stamps and 4 labels with a composite design. 3.10K flag of Croatia in wind, overlain with inscription and date Labels: detail of flag 027 June 28, 2016 European Sporting Events in Croatia 2016 Design: Anna Zaja Petrak and Mario Petrak. Printing: litho, Zrinski Printers. Sheetlet (2 x 5): 9 stamps and 1 label. 3.10K European Universiade Games, Zagreb

and Rijeka: tournament logo, and mascot (cartoon hamster) Label: detail of event logo Sheetlet (2 x 5): 9 stamps and 1 label. 3.10K European Junior Synchronised Swimming & Diving Championships, Zagreb: diver in action Label: detail of event logo

1.00P central plaza of Santiago de Cuba Note: first day covers were dated May 20, 2015, but the set was on sale prior to that date

028 July 7, 2016 EuroMed Postal Cooperation. Mediterranean Marine Life Design: Alenka Lalic, from photograph by Dalibor Andres. Printing: litho, Zrinski Printers. Sheet stamp: sheets of 16 (4 x 4). 5.80K martinka, the ocellated wrasse, Symphodus ocellatus Note: part of the EuroMed members’ omnibus issue for 2016

032 May 26, 2015 National Flowers of the Americas Printing: litho, State Stamp Printer. Sheet stamps: 5c dahlia, Mexico Tabebuia aurea, Brazil 15c 20c mayflower, Cattleya mossiae, Venezuela 20c ceiba, Erythrina crista-galli, Argentina and Uruguay Rhyncholaelia digbyana, Honduras 30c 40c Virgin Mary orchid, Ecuador 65c pink rose, Ecuador 75c bellflower, Lanageria rosea, Chile 90c white ginger-lily, Hedychium coronarium, Cuba (introduced)

029 July 18, 2016

033 June 1, 2015

150th anniversary of the Naval Battle of Lissa (Vis), July 20, 1866 Design: Edi Berk, Slovenia. Printing: litho, Zrinski Printers. Miniature sheet: design composite with border. 7.60K portrait of the Austrian Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, 1827-1871, based on print by Joseph Kriehuber, and painting of the battle by Carl Frederik Sørensen (Denmark) Note: a victory for Austria-Hungary over the newly unified Italy. The painting shows the ramming of the Italian ironclad ship Re d’Italia, which then sank. Joint issue with Slovenia

Singapore 2015 International Stamp Exhibition. Merchant Shipping Printing: litho, State Stamp Printer. Perforated (sheet stamps) or imperforate, with printed perfs (miniature sheet). Sheet stamps: 5c container ship, China 20c paraw (small sailing boat), Philippines 50c paddlesteamer, Vietnam 65c transport barge, India (and lighthouse) 75c dhoni (single-sailed ship), Maldives 85c two-masted junks, China Miniature sheet: design composite with border. 1.00P ‘turtle ship’, Korea

030 Aug 3, 2016

034 July 14, 2015

Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games Design: Dean Roksandic. Printing: litho, Zrinski Printers. Sheet stamp: sheets of 10 (5 x 2), comprising 9 stamps and 1 label, design composite with border. 4.50K stylised celebrating athletes, one wearing gold medal Label: stylised athlete in white

History of the Telephone in Cuba Designs: exhibits in the Cuban Telecommunications Museum. Printing: litho, State Stamp Printer. Perf 12½ x 12½ (sheet stamps) or imperforate, with printed perfs (miniature sheet). Sheet stamps: 10c late 19th-century telephone with separate speaking and listening pieces 20c mid 20th-century wall-mounted telephone 30c 19th-century telephone with combined speaking/listening crosspiece on rest 50c mid 20th-century telephone set 65c 20th century double telephone set (both ends of line) 75c two telephones of late 20th century Miniature sheet: 100c public telephone of 20th century (metal, with coin mechanism) Border: map of operational area in Havana in early 20th century, old telephones, Cuba Telephone Company advertisement (c1920s)

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031 2015 500th anniversary of the City of Santiago de Cuba Designs: after paintings (5c, 10c, 1.00P), or photographs (15c, 30c, 75c, 85c). Printing: litho, State Stamp Printer. Perf 12¾ (sheet stamps), or imperforate, with printed perfs (miniature sheet). Sheet stamps: 5c Antonio Maceo Gajales, 1845-1896, freedom-fighter, on a white horse: painting by Luís Desangles, 1861-1940 10c statue of Frank Pais, 1934-1957, revolutionary, and Cuban flag 15c Fidel Castro, b1926, former President, on a visit to the José Marti mausoleum 30c Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca, castle on cliff top above harbour 75c historic buildings of the La Isabelica coffee plantation 85c tumba francesa, performance by folk dancers and musicians Miniature sheet: design composite with border.

014 CROATIA St Blasius

ESTONIA (last listed in Nov 2016) Correction: the Bird of the Year stamp issued on Feb 17, 2016 (listed in July 2016) depicted a great tit, Parus major

035 Aug 5, 2016 World Masters Orienteering Championship, Estonia

015 CROATIA Aquarium Fish



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Design: Jaan Saar. Printing: litho, AS Vaba Maa. Sheet stamp: sheets of 20 (5 x 4). 1.50€ male and female competitors in action, tournament logo, and contour lines from a map

036 Aug 17, 2016 Estonian Heads of State. Tõnis Kint, 1896-1991 Design: Lembit Löhmus. Printing: litho, AS Vaba Maa. Sheet stamp: sheets of 10 (5 x 2). 0.65€ portrait, after screened press photograph Border tabs: inscriptions Note: member of Estonian government in exile in Sweden, Prime Minister 1864-1970, Prime Minister in Duties of President, 1970-1980

037 Aug 25, 2016 Fauna of Estonia. The Birch Mouse Design: Sandor Stern. Printing: litho, AS Vaba Maa. Sheet stamp: sheets of 20 (4 x 5). 0.65€ birch mouse, Sicista betulina, climbing branch of bush Maximum card: image of mouse

038 Sept 8, 2016 Fungi of Estonia. Fly Agaric Design: Ulla Marks and Juri Kass. Printing: litho, AS Vaba Maa. Sheet stamp: sheets of 25 (5 x 5). 0.65€ fly agaric mushroom, Amanita muscaria, at three stages of its development Note: stamp design is marked with ‘poisonous’ symbol; there is some debate over whether this mushroom can be eaten safely FALKLAND ISLANDS (last listed in July 2016)

039 Aug 1, 2016 Definitive. Marine Life. Southern Right Whale Design: Tony Chater. Printing: litho, BDT. Perf 13. Imprint date ‘2016’. Sheet stamp: 31p southern right whale, Eubalaena australis Note: this design was previously used for a 30p value, issued on Nov 9, 2012 GIBRALTAR (last listed in Sept 2016)

040 May 16, 2016 Fifth Wedding Anniversary of the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge Design: Stephen Perera. Printing: litho, BDT. Miniature sheet: perf 14½ x 14. £2 William and Catherine, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Border: two royal coats of arms Note: an imperforate ‘proof’ printing was sold by the philatelic service in a folder at £19.95

041 May 16, 2016 Great War Commemoration. Centenary of the Battle of the Somme Design: Stephen Perera. All designs bear a

stylised poppy, a quotation and a battle scene based upon a 1916 photograph or film still. Printing: litho, Cartor. Sheetlet (2 x 4): 8 stamps with illustrated border. 22p infantry advancing, quotation ‘I will never forget the first of July’ Border: poppies, edge of trench Sheetlet (2 x 4): 8 stamps with illustrated border. 64p infantry advancing, quotation ‘In the greatest fight I have ever seen’ Border: poppies, edge of trench Sheetlet (2 x 4): 8 stamps with illustrated border. 70p two soldiers reaching defensive barbed wire, quotation ‘When we started our great push’ Border: poppies, edge of trench Sheetlet (2 x 4): 8 stamps with illustrated border. 80p infantry advancing, quotation ‘And our gallant lads in the trenches’ Border: poppies, edge of trench Sheetlet (2 x 4): 8 stamps with illustrated border. £2 soldiers leaving trench, quotation ‘Over the top like a flash and rush’ Border: poppies, edge of trench

042 May 28, 2016 New York 2016 World Stamp Exhibition, May 28-June 1, 2016 Printing: litho and digital print. Generic personalisable sheetlet (8 x 5): 20 stamps with 20 labels. G (50p) x 20 view along the spine and east flank of the Rock of Gibraltar Labels: NY 2016 logo and photographs of structures in New York City, including Brooklyn Bridge, UN Headquarters and Statue of Liberty Note: sheetlet is numbered and inscribed ‘Limited Edition’. Sold at £5 043 July 25, 2016 Gibraltar Historic Gates Design: Stephen Perera, after paintings by Leslie Gaduzo. Printing: litho, Lowe-Martin Group, Canada. Sheet stamps: 22p Ragged Staff Gates (built 1836, and 1900-1921) 64p Prince Edward’s Gate (built 1790) 70p Landport Gate: tunnel and bridge which once served as main land entrance to Gibraltar 80p Grand Casement Gates £1 Old Waterport Gates (18th century) £2 Southport Gate (16th century)

044 July 25, 2016 Bicentenary of the Alameda Gardens Design: Jonathan Pointer (paintings). Printing: litho, Lowe-Martin Group, Canada. Sheet stamps: 64p main entrance to gardens, with Russian artillery piece captured in 1858 70p Prince of Wales’ Summer House (bandstand) and aloes in flower in the Gibraltar Botanic Garden 80p bridge over The Dell, bougainvillea in flower, bust of Giuseppe Codali (Italian landscape gardener) £1 The Dell, or Italian Garden (created 1842) £2 Monument to General George Augustus Eliott, and howitzer of 1778

LATVIA (last listed in June 2016)

045 Jan 13, 2016 25th anniversary of the January Barricades Design: Ludis Danilans. Printing: litho, Baltijas Banknote. 0.54€ Latvians in Riga, with flag beside a barricade under erection Note: on January 13, 1991 the Latvian government, anticipating attacks by Soviet forces, called on citizens to take to the streets and erect barricades. The attacks duly materialised, and six people were killed

035 ESTONIA World Masters Orienteering Championship

046 Jan 29, 2016 Definitives. Town Coats of Arms Design: Girts Griva. Printing: litho, Baltijas Banknote. Die-cut perf 20, with elliptical cut-outs on all sides. Self-adhesive sheet stamps: sheets of 25, separately spaced within rouletted labels, designs composite with surround. 0.50€ arms of Alsunga municipality, a jewelled fibula (garment fastening) 0.57€ arms of Beverina municipality, a fibula with a cross-shaped symbol 1.39€ arms of Smiltenes, depicting a ninepetalled cornflower

039 FALKLAND ISLANDS Definitive. Marine Life

047 Jan 29, 2016 Definitives. Garden Flowers Design: Girts Griva. Printing: litho, Baltijas Banknote. Perf 13.75 x 14. Imprint date ‘2016’. Sheet stamps: sheets of 50 (5 x 10). 0.01€ daisies 0.03€ narcissi 0.50€ lily-of-the-valley Note: the narcissi design was previously issued on Jan 2, 2014, and the daisies and lily-of-the-valley designs on Mar 22, 2014, all with 2014 imprint 048 Feb 19, 2016 Latvian Museums. The Natural History Museum, Riga Design: Girts Griva. Printing: litho, Baltijas Banknote. Sheetlet (5 x 2): 10 stamps arranged with the lower row inverted, creating 5 tête-bêche pairs. 1.71€ pair of black grouse, Lyurus tetrix 049 March 18, 2016

044 GIBRALTAR Alameda Gardens

Flower Painting Design: Lilija Dinere (artist). Printing: litho, Baltijas Banknote. Sheetlet (2 x 2): 0.50€ x 4 water lily, Nymphaea sp

050 March 18, 2016 Janis Rozentals, 1866-1916 Design: Lilija Dinere. Printing: litho, Baltijas Banknote. Miniature sheet: Temptation: painting of Eve beneath 0.50€ apple tree, from Latvian National Museum of Art (1913) 0.50€ portrait of the artist Border: drop curtain created by Rozentals (1909) for play Vaidelote by Elza Rozenberga (pen name Aspazija) Note: Rozentals was born in the Russian Courland governate

048 LATVIA Natural History Museum



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The following Off Paper Collections are in addition to regular listed items. (Most are commercially used) GREAT BRITAIN – Over 1000 different. From Victoria to 2015 and including 2 Booklet Panes – Catalogue over £20 and 1d Black mini sheet. Price £30.00 GREAT BRITAIN – Over 500 different Commems/Large to 2015. Including multiples, high values and a Bonus of 2 F.U. mini sheets. Price £15.00 *A similar collection of over 750 diff is yours for £35 and over 1000 for £60.00 GREAT BRITAIN – A collection of over 500 diff. High Value Commems and Large Defins to 2015, and including Britain’s Only £10 stamp!! Price £65.00 GREAT BRITAIN – Over 100 diff issues of Victoria to George VI Only. Including better values which alone catalogue over £100. Price £13.00 CHANNEL ISLANDS – Over 500 each of Guernsey (including Ald.), I.O.M. and Jersey–with values to £5 and many sets comp. Over 1500 stamps. Price £125 **Exceptional 1000 of each – totalling 3000 stamps, individually listed at £370. For Only £350

GREAT BRITAIN Queen Victoria Only

An excellent selection of used stamps, all in clean, sound, collectable condition. All different including visible plate numbers, watermarks and listed shades (where applicable) SG cat £250+ - £26.00 SG cat £500+ - £49.50 SG cat £1000+ - £95.00 SG cat £2000+ - £175 As above, but may contain some slight duplication and/or Edward VII (if Edward not required please state) SG cat £5000+ - £395 SG cat £10,000+ - £750 SG catalogue value at least £15,000

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NEW ZEALAND 1000 all different and pretty much up-to-date. Headed by New Zealand’s largest stamp in size and money. Whilst Current Stocks Last …….. Price is :- £50.00 only

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We hope to offer you a range of all different Off Paper Country Collections each month, that compare favourably with other Dealers AUSTRALIA-1000 diff Lge - £35.00 GUERNSEY - 500 different - £40.00 INDIA Pict/commems-500 diff.£36.00 NORFOLK ISLAND-200 diff.£40.00 PAKISTAN - 1000 different- £100

FAROES - 100 different - £45.00 JAPAN - 1000 diff.Comms- £75.00 KUWAIT – 100 different - £15.00 LITHUANIA – 100 diff. - £15.00 SWEDEN - 1000 different - £44.00

THEMATICS – A small selection from our New List ANIMALS - 500 different - £14.00 OLYMPIC SPORT- 300 diff £ 9.00 FLOWERS - 1000 different - £33.00 OLYMPIC SPORT-1000diff £30.00 HORSES - 200 different - £ 5.00 TRAINS - 200 different - £ 6.00 NUDES - 300 different - £28.00 TRIANGLES – 200 diff - £14.00

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051 April 9, 2016 11th Men’s Floorball World Championships, December 3-11, Riga Design: Artis Zeila. Printing: litho, Baltijas Banknote. Sheet stamps: sheets of 10 (2 x 5). 0.64€ tournament logo and dates LITHUANIA (last listed in Nov 2016)

052 Aug 6, 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games Design: Domantas Vildziunas. Printing: litho, Garsu pasaulis. Sheet stamps: sheets of 10. 0.81€ horse rider, statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio 0.84€ swimmer, statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio MAURITIUS (last listed in April 2016)

053 May 9, 2016 Together for Sustainable Development. United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Printing: litho. Sheet stamp: R27 UN emblem and slogan

054 May 24-May 31, 2016 Definitives. Flora of Mauritius Design: Nurveen Ratty. Printing: litho, BDT. Perf 13½. Imprint date ‘2016’. Sheet stamps: Myanima obovata (issue date May 31) R3 Distephanus populifolius (May 24) R8 Roussea simplex (May 24) R25 Note: these designs were originally issued on April 9, 2009, with ‘2009’ imprint. Shades also differ slightly in the new issue

055 June 6, 2016 Aquatic Life. Freshwater Fauna Design: Graphi Dept, Mauritius Post. Printing: litho, BDT. Sheet stamps: R1 giant mottled eel, Anguilla marmorata R10 water scorpion, Laccotrephes annulipes R18 Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus R32 freshwater shrimp, Macrobrachium lar Note: all species depicted are in decline in Mauritius, due to over-exploitation and pollution RUSSIA (last listed in Nov 2016)

056 April 25, 2014 Weapons of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945. Artillery (re-listing with amended information) Design: A Drobyshev. Printing: litho, with partial lacquer (varnish) layer, Goznak. Perf 13.5 x 13.4 (sheet and sheetlet stamps) or perf 11.5 (booklet panes). Sheet stamps: sheets of 15 (5 x 3). 12r 44mm anti-tank gun (53-K) 15r 75mm divisional gun (ZIS-3) 18r 85mm anti-aircraft gun (52-K) 20r 122mm howitzer (M-30)

Sheetlet (2 x 4): arranged in se-tenant strips or blocks of 4. 12r x 2 44mm anti-tank gun (53-K) 15r x 2 75mm divisional gun (ZIS-3) 18r x 2 85mm anti-aircraft gun (52-K) 20r x 2 122mm howitzer (M-30) Prestige booklet (sold at 330r): 4 panes of 1 stamp each. Pane: 12r 44mm anti-tank gun (53-K) Pane: 15r 76mm divisional gun (ZIS-3) Pane: 18r 85mm anti-aircraft gun (52-K) Pane: 20r 122mm howitzer (M-30) Cover: 122mm howitzer, as stamp motif Note: varnish layer applied over artillery

057 April 30, 2015 Weapons of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945. Armoured Trains Design: A Drobyshev. Printing: litho, with partial lacquer (varnish) layer, Goznak. Perf 13.5 x 13.4 (sheet and sheetlet stamps) or perf 11.5 (booklet panes). Sheet stamps: sheets of 15 (5 x 3). 12r armoured train Moscow Metro 17r armoured train Fighter of the German Aggressors 19r armoured train Moskvich 27r armoured train Kozma Minin Sheetlet (2 x 4): arranged in se-tenant strips or blocks of 4. 12r x 2 armoured train Moscow Metro 17r x 2 armoured train Fighter of the German Aggressors 19r x 2 armoured train Moskvich 27r x 2 armoured train Kozma Minin Prestige booklet (sold at 365r): 4 panes of 1 stamp each. Pane: 12r Moscow Metro Pane: 17r Fighter of the German Aggressors Pane: 19r Moskvich Pane: 27r Kozma Minin Cover: Moscow Metro train, as stamp motif, with snowy forest background Note: steam locomotives and wagons with mounted artillery. Varnish layer applied over trains

058 May 5, 2015 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War Design: S Ulyanovsky. Printing: litho, Goznak. Miniature sheet: design composite with border. 70r Soviet banner (flag) of Victory Border: fireworks, documents, and photograph of British Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov, US Army Air Force Colonel-General Carl Spaatz and French Marshal Jean Lattre de Tassigny at the signing of Germany’s surrender in 1945 059 May 5, 2015 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Medals, 7th issue Design: A Moscovets. Printing: litho and embossed, plus lacquer layer, Goznak. Perf 11½. Sheetlet (4 x 2): 7 stamps and 1 label (position 1). 30r Liberation of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) medal and ribbon (blueemerald and black) Sheetlet (4 x 2): 7 stamps and 1 label (position 1). 30r Liberation of Vienna medal and ribbon (cyan and deep blue)

Sheetlet (4 x 2): 7 stamps and 1 label (position 1). 30r Liberation of Berlin medal and ribbon (indigo and orange on scarlet) Sheetlet (4 x 2): 7 stamps and 1 label (position 1). 30r Liberation of Budapest medal and ribbon (deep cyan and pale orange)

060 May 6, 2015 Outstanding Jurists, fourth issue. Roman Rudenko Design: A Drobyshev. Printing: litho, Goznak. Sheetlet (3 x 3): 8 stamps and 1 label (position 1). 17r portrait of Roman A Rudenko, 19071981, prosecutor at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials

061 May 7, 2015 150th anniversary of the International Telecommunications Union Design: S Kapranov. Printing: litho, Goznak. Sheet stamp: 17r 150th anniversary emblem

052 LITHUANIA Rio de Janeiro Olympics

062 May 12, 2015 CSTB Exhibition of Communications & Information Technology, Moscow Design: K Bedretinova. Printing: litho, Goznak. Sheetlet (2 x 3): design composite with border. 19r x 6 Moscow Expo Centre, exhibition logo

063 May 29, 2015 Eurasian Economic Union Design: R Komsa. Printer: litho, Goznak. Sheet stamp: 17r map of Eurasia with frontiers of members marked, EAEU emblem Note: free-trade grouping, established on May 29, 2014, initially comprising Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia. Stamp notes the first anniversary and admission of Kyrgyzstan

064 May 22, 2015 Joseph Brodsky, 1940-1996 Design: S Ulyanovsk. Printing: litho, Goznak. Sheet stamp: sheets of 9. 17r portrait of the poet, professor of Russian and English literature; city at night, church of Norenskaya Konosha Note: after a period of internal exile in the Soviet Union, Brodsky moved to the USA in 1987

054 MAURITIUS Definitives. Flora

065 May 28, 2015 Dogs Design: O Shushlebina. Each design shows the head of a dog, and the dog in a landscape. Printing: litho, Goznak. Sheetlet (4 x 2): 8 stamps arranged in 2 se-tenant blocks or vertical strips of 4. 16r South Russian sheepdog (grey coat) 18r Caucasian sheepdog (brown coat) 20r Central Asian sheepdog (brown and white coat) 26.50r black Russian terrier Border: track through farmland

066 May 28, 2015 175th anniversary of the Birth of Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

057 RUSSIA Armoured Trains



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NW8 GREAT BRITAIN: Hero of World War II Sir Nicholas NE832 BRITISH ISLES A phenomenal & valuable GB.8 HARDIE AScarce political cover forofthe Centenary of the MALKEIR 62 MALAYA substantial collection Malaya, Malaysia Winton Commemorative cover. The great humanitarian collection of British Local Island’s stamps. Only unmounted death of Keir Hardie. This must be one of theunmounted scarcest political with Singapore. Contains several hundred mint saved 669 Czech children who would have been transported mint, including Lundy Island, Davaar Island, Cairn Iar, Isle of covers, due to the fact that only 50 covers were produced; issued and fine usedwe stamps in blocks and singles. Noted:Perak, In 1973 recommended and sold the British definitive 1/2p (SGX842) with one phosphor band on side. 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In 1999 we recommended our customers to buy the Princess Johor, Pahang with strength in Singapore. Several hundred with unusual red Royal Mail official First Day Nicholas Martins. With blocks, multiples, singles & miniature sheets. Edinburgh Postmark dated 26/09/15, one hundred years to the stamps………………………………………… Price £17 Wintonour Postmark. Only 50 to of this were by This important & valuable collection witheach, only unmounted mint telling day of KeirWelsh Hardie’s Language death ...........................................Price £11. Diana Presentation Packs. The catalogue value was only £2.50 but we were customers buycover them forcancelled up to douthe Royal Mail ................................................Price £19.50 stamps and many high £ values. The nominal face value is ble catalogue value £5 each. Within only 6 years they had£150 increased by 3,900%. As everyone knows, investments can go down as well as up and the well over ......................................................Price £33 CIND 21. “CINDERELLA STAMPS” An amazing esoteric VATICAN CITY: A small starter collection unmounted collection worldwide Cinderellaastamps: past inofnot necessarily guideincludes to theunissued, future. However, being selective and taking sound advice is theV34 best way to make your hobby payoffor itself. In mint Vatican stamps ...........................................Price £4.25 - HAROLD WILSON Scarce GB Political Cover, bogus, forgeries, phantoms, reprints, essays, propaganda issues, 2003 recommended our to buy thePM22 Coronation £150th Green (SG 2380) which was catalogued by Stanley Gibbons at £1.50 per stamp. commemorating the Anniversary of the Election proofs andwe printers progressive proofs. Alsocustomers noted better local MZ 112ofMOZAMBIQUE COMPANY: An impressive old of Harold Wilson as Prime Minister.to The cover is illustrated issues, postal strike stamps. From a multitude plus catalogue Withinof 1countries year the value had increased £50 per stamp, an increase over 3,200%. collection of the stamps of the Mozambique Company dating with the iconic “Labour will get things done” poster spectacular GB KEVII one pound green imperforate unmounted back to the 1930’s and earlier; With mint and used stamps in and bears Royal Mail, Wilson stamps with official first day mint (faux), also India Queen Victorian four annas red and blue singles and blocks including postage dues and early air mail Last year our Harold customers to buy Packs. post mark and famous Wilson quote: “TheEFTA main Presentation inverted head (faux). Spanish Civil War communist legion issue,we recommended issues. The stamps are classically engraved and superbly a successful prime minister are sleep and if you had private company stamps, catalogue GB unadopted value designs (essays) Thedelivery Stanley Gibbons was £3.50essentials each, ifof you had taken our advice even brought them at full catalogue value. For printed approx. 80 stamps ....................................Price 9.75 a sense of history.” Only fifty of this cover are known plus other items. If only a few of these stamps were genuine ancatalogue outlayvalue of only Your investment worth a massive £10,000 at current to exist, reposted on 16/10/14 with official Royal Mailcatalogue value. An increase of catalogue value of over the would £875. be in excess of £20,000. But thesewould be 8H ALBERT “Big Ben” postmark exactly fifty years to the day of his us once SCI are sold “as is” not guaranteed as genuine. The 1,000% spectacularin only one year. Our customers complemented again sayingEINSTEIN: A special cover commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Einstein’s theory of relativity. The first election victory. .............................................Price £14 collection of Cinderella Stamps mint and “used” ....Price £14.30 “THANK YOU AGAIN,YOU WERE RIGHT”. illustrated cover depicts Einstein and bears a Royal Mail commemorative officially postmarked by the Royal Mail with EI342 IRELAND A superior collection of only SW171 STAR WARS A fantastic specialised collection of Star Mount Pleasant 11/05/16 pmk. In combination with Jersey unmounted mint Irish stamps; Includes older stamps Wars postage stamps and Star Wars first day covers. Contains a Einstein commemorative issue tied to the cover with large with definitive, commemoratives and postage dues. Also mass of different Star Wars stamps including Great Britain (Royal circular red Theory of Relativity cachet dated 11/05/16. The includes unusual stamps for the Fenian movement, these Mail) issues also scarcer Star Wars stamps from other countries; cover came from a severely restricted issue of only 60 covers are imperforate and unmounted mint depicting an Irish includes stamps for the original film, “Return of the Jedi”, “The .............................................................................Price £18 harp and priced in “cents” understood to have been issued Phantom Menace”, “The Empire Strikes Back”. Characters circa 1860s. The Fenian stamps are offered “as is” and depicted include: Obi Wan Kenobi, Princess Leia, Darth Vader, N-MO27 MONACO: A fine collection of Monaco stamps dating without guarantee, but these form only a small part of Anakin Skywalker, Hans Solo, The Jedi Knights plus many back to the early issues of the 1920’s through to the 1950’s the larger collection of 100 plus stamps, which are all others, too many to list. Comprising mostly of complete sets in R45 MINIATURE SHEETS & Souvenir Sheets, various different GB SAM.1. POLAND small general collection, include Nazi Occupation and on to more recent issues. Superior engraved stamps. guaranteed genuine. Entire Collection ...............Price £18.50 mint sheetlets plus miniature sheets and First Day Covers. The (Exhibition sheets) FOREIGN, odd Brit. Commonwealth. Total of 50+ Concentration Camp issue inscribed ‘Judenpost’ for Lodz Ghetto The Collection of over 100 different only contains unmounted impressive Star Wars stamp collection .................. Price: £29.75 different (MainlyPOSTAL Foreign) HISTORY Min sheetsAn...............................Price (Litzmanstdt) 10pf Green (unused). We cannot guarantee this item but mint stamps ..........................................................Price £13 AST 3 SPACE extremely rare British £8 remainder of theZEALAND: collection allAseem OKcollection Cheap Price £8.75 Space GREAT Cover issued to British commemorate Major Tim- Peake, the NZ.108 NEW superb of ................... New Zealand SJ132 BRITAIN. Postal Strike 1971 Emergency FS 40 FENCING & SHOOTING: A lovely sports stamps first BritonontoLocal walkCarriage in Space. Only printed 80 of this Outer Space cover Stamps dating back to King V follows to King Geo VI Overprints Labels by Harrison and Sons SJ120 MEDICAL Stamps withGeorge specialised lot ofon Anti-TB and Red collection, specialising in stamps with fencing and shooting areUse known to exist. TheThe cover depictsunm. TimMint Peake issues, onto early Elizabethan stamps more recent issues; for in Southampton. complete setwith of sixRoyal stamps Cross stamps. Also Anti-Malaria stamps to Red Cross stamps back themes in blocks and singles. Approx. 130 stamps of these Mail stamp officially postmarked on the day of the space walk, containing several hundred stamps in mostly fine used condition. 3dated x 1/-,15/01/2016 2/-. 6/-, 7/6dused ..................................................Price £1.50 to the 1940s or earlier up to more recent. With nursing, doctors unusual and interesting specialist sport themes ...Price £8.75 in combination with a Royal Mail Unchecked for catalogue value, this is a great specialized lot to and all forms of medicine. A most interesting subject rarely offered spaceOLYMPIC stamp tied to the cover with a counting blue “First British there Space build upon. Several hundred different NZ stamps ... Price £16.50 G23A GAMES Enormous lot, not duplicates, for sale ideal for anyone with some medical knowledge to form a E56 EIRE: A political and historical cover commemorating Walk 15” January 2016” Squared Cachet. This sought after must be over 500 stampsan outstanding collection ............. Price £11 valuable collection .......................................................... £7 the Easter Rising of 1916. The cover depicts the defence item of Space Postal History...................................Price £26 A.94 ZOOLOGICAL: A glorious collection of worldwide animalPrice stamps. NY146 ENTOMOLOGY: One of the most unusual thematic subjects we Cyprus, Netherlands, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, in Swiss, of the Post Office inG.B. O’Connell Street. Inscribed bothFinland, This isBRITISH virtually ISLES a Noah’s Ark of allDealers speciesnew of animal life; includes SAM.9 Wholesale issue stock (duplicated) have ever seen, insects on stamps. Hundreds of them ............. Price £7 Greece, Alsothe scarcer issues for Channel Islands and EnglishSweden. and Gaelic coverlocal bears an offical N. Ireland BPO 49 BRITISH POST OFFICES ABROAD An impressive from insects and butterflies to fish and sea life,Summer birds, alleverything unmounted mint, with many high values, includes Lundy, stamp with Belfast postmark dated 24/4/16 in combination collection of over 100 unmounted mint British stamps domestic animals and wildlife. A colourful collection including many Isle of Man. Hundreds of all different Europa Stamps, mainly fine NY148 SPACE ‘THE FINAL FRONTIER’. A spectacular collection of Isles, St Mary’s (Scilly Isles) Gairsay, Gugh, Bardsey Island, Easdale, Sark. with Eire overprinted stamp commemorating the 1916 £17 overprinted BritishRockets. Post Offices abroad sets with several hundred different animal stamps ..........Price £17.25 used, but mini noted .......................................................Price Space stampsfor including Space ships andincluding all types of Outer Only unmounted mint. The face value alone must be £60.00 Price £14 Easter Rising tied to the cover with blue cachet inscribed surcharges in foreign currencies for use in Landing Bahrain,covers. Kuwait, Space Exploration, including several scarce Moon 500+ FR 229Dublin FRANCE & COLS24/4/16. - A smashing France with G.P.O - Sunday Onlycollection 80 of thisofhistoric Morocco and Qatar; with scarcer multiple blocks including WWI.74 valuable andERROR scarce E32 GREATGHURKA: BRITAIN - ASPECTACULAR on Ghurka 1966 XMAS 3d value stamps, all different not counting Covers and Miniature sheets Price £15 French Colonnies & Ex Colonies. Mainly Commemorative stamps cover exist .....................................................Price £16.50in overprints on Wilding definitives (St. Edwards Crown E2R cover3)issued to GOLD commemorate the heroic Ghurkas (SG71 SHIFT OF COLOUR causing Queen’s head to at move over singles and blocks. Some unmounted mint, but mostly fine used. R.49 SOUTH ASIA with some complete£19 wmk,) CircaEAST 1950’s. The- enormous Specialist lot, collection ..........Price In of1915 theWeGhurkas immortal fame at unmtd toGallipoli. wrong area stamp. offer thegained Gold Head Shift Error superb A lovely collection with many engraved stamps; several hundreds, N-SH 305 SUPER HEROES: A spectacular collection of super Gallipoli with capture of for “Ghurka Bluff”. The Ghurkas£4.25 were sheets unm . mint, mass of singles. Dates back to 1898, to modern mint together withthe normal stamp comparison ..................Price heroesdifferent...............................................................Price on stamps including several issues for: Superman and mostly £21 ZF20 RUDOLF HESSstamps. Nazi cover the of 75th the only troops in the whole campaign to gain the ultimate mainly different used Aboutcommemorating 1600-1700 stamps which SJ42 ZEPPELINS: Impressive thematic of Zeppelins Batman also includes Spiderman, X Men and The Incredible Anniversary thebe crash landing by Rudolf Hess, the Price infamous objective in capturing the Crest linecollection that overlooked the on at least 1300 of must different ..................................... £32 BX 486 BOXING A fine collection of Boxing Stamps Over 80 Stamps stamps & balloons. about 100 stamps.............Price £5 Hulk, plus other super heroes. Mostly unmounted mint stamps Nazi. The cover depicts Hess in Nazi uniform and the straits.with Theairships cover bears the official Royal Mail Ghurka inimcluding blocks andseveral singles,miniature including champion boxers such as Muhammad SJ53a BARDSEYBfISLAND. (Welshwhich Local crash Issue) landed A superb sheets ...................Price £19.75 Messerschmitt 110 aircraft in specialScotland stamp WORLD issue with “Cape Helles” Gallipoli pmk. Dated SAM.23 COLLECTION - All sorts, nice starter lot, with Ali. Mainly fine cto used, mint noted, with Great Britain Royal Mail 2012 ised groupThe of Unmounted (completeRoyal sets)Mail Stamps fromwith this in 1941. cover bearsMint a Scotland stamp 14/05/2015 in combination with the Royal Mail upwards of 1000 different plus some duplication, with covers, FDC’s, Olympic Games Gold Medal Boxing Stamps .......................Price small Welsh Royal Island Mail rarelypostmark get offered for sale ............. Price £7.00 EXP3 ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION: A limited edition first £9.75 the official Edinburgh 10/05/16. Exactly “We will remember them” illustrated pmk. Dated 25/04/15. miniature sheets All unchecked for Catalogue value day19A cover only 50 COVER issued,- to commemorate theIraq Imperial 75 years to STARS the dayCollection of his crash landing. Theacover was The cover is highly recommended as only 60........Price covers £13.25 HP IRAQ WAR Extremly rare War in commemSJ224 FILM of Film Stars and few pop stars. Trans-Antarctic Expedition by Only Ernest superb a severely restricted and limited issue of only 60 covers existORNITHOLOGY worldwide ....................................................Price £23. orative cover for the fall of Tikrit. 150Shackleton. of this cover,This depicting G.46 - A substantial collection of ornithological stamps. A colourful lot of this popular theme includes Gary Cooper, Clara illustrated coverever bears the Royal Mail Endurance Shipdamaged worldwide .............................................................Price £19 Saddam Hussein, existed. We understand many were Estimated at between 500 600 bird stamps. Mainly all different used Bow, Marylin Monroe, Clark Gable, Tyrone Power, James Dean, and destroyed, it iswith likelyspecial on a few covers survived. The cover bears a Commem. Issue Royal Mail Antarctica Map F.D. AF.some 418 AFGHANISTAN: A specialized collection of stamps with mont, but with strength in the unm. mint local sectionsfrom inc. Elvis Valentino, Jean Harlow, GB QEII stamp, postmarked with circular London SHC 15 April 2003 Postmark ...............................................................Price £15 RSAPresley, SOUTHMichael AFRICAJackson, A large Rudolph and valuable collection of South this war-torn country. Comprising used Afghan Lundy Puffins, Cam La island and Calfofof both Man,mint Isle ofand Man locals and Roman Novarro, Jayne Mansfield, Buster Keaton,mint Humphrey Bogart, Pmk. Together with Iraq stamp overprinted “In British Occupation” African stamps containing only unmounted stamps stamps in blocks and singles with miniature sheets. Strength is other British Locals depicting Sea birds, with some multiple blocks. This is tied to theAND cover with a rectangular “Liberation of Iraq Katherine Charles Laughton, Alanblocks, Ladd, Ingrid RW stamp 986 RAILWAYS LOCOMOTIVES: A fantastic in superbHepburn, condition; Includes singles, plate Bergman, blocks, in used commemoratives, noted earlier mono-coloured crudely Total catalogue value is £130+.............................................. Price £29 15-04-03 FALL OFofTIKRIT”. Cachetand in purple. very rare Iraq plus many others. Theminature whole lot.sheets. ...................................Price thematic THE collection locomotive railwayA stamps. complete sets and Hundreds of stamps£14.00 plus printed early Afghan stamps. A lovely lot unchecked for catalogue War Cover in superb conditioncontails ............................................Price The specialised collection several hundred train £26 G.114 WORLDWIDE Fantastic Accumulation miniature sheets all unmounted mint ......................Price £27 valueAand containing COVERS hundreds&ofFDC’S Afghanistan stamps Price £18. OFFER A - From the remainder of a Liquidated Stamp Dealer’s stock, stamps with many scarcer unmounted blocks mint LU 328 LUNDY ISLAND - A superb collectionmint of unmounted of Commercial & Philatelic covers & FDC’s including special pmks, a massive amount including, sheets. Great Britain including Locals, included F.D.C SYR 9 WAR IN SYRIA: A rare cover for the war in Syria. British localplus stamps of also Lundyseveral Island inscarcer blocks,local large issues, multiples and R. 472 RYUKYUwith ISLANDS: Rarely offered for sale, this iscovers, a early to modern Air Mails, Sea Mail, commemorative British Commonwealth. used covers, and pre packs. singles + miniature Starts with King George period. specimen stamps,sheet. proofs andoff progressive proofs,VI lots of The illustrated coverForeign, depictsMint Russian ForeignFDC Minister superb collection of the stamps of Islands The Ryukyu Containing noted designer signed. Local posts, Post, Islands. an unsorted group We counted up toand £1,500 worth of cat value and then gotKerry; tired and “Lundy & Atlantic Coats Air Lines Ltd. “Following on to puffin higher $ stamps and £1 values; also many Railway andstamps Sergei Lavrov U.S.A Secretary of State John only superb unmounted mint stamps. Over 100 different Ryukyu of about 100 covers ..................................................Price £21 .00 gave up counting. Clearance Price ...................................Price £75.00 overprinted 1950s &sheets. 1960s stamps on tocollection more recent. locomotivewith miniature A glorious for With any lots Issued to Commemorate the Syrian Cease fire announced Island Stamps .........................................................Price £18.75 of “Puffin” stamps, & Air Mail stamps. G85 CARS ON STAMPS. Impressive thematic collection the ideal philatelic railway definitives, enthusiastcommemoratives ................................Price £28 by the THE U.S.A and Russia on 27/2/16. a NY124 THREE KINGS King George V,The Kingcover ED. VIIbears and King Hundreds of unmounted mint Lundy Stamps ................Price £27.50 collection for anyoneISLANDS: interestedAnin impressive automobiles, all sorts from vinU.K Machin stamp with officialColonials. Royal Mail illustratedMINT MI 349 MALDIVE stamp collection George VI. A collection of British UNMOUNTED DJ. 98 DJIBOUTI A small but specialised collection of Djibouti postmark date 27/2/16 in combination with Syrian and tage classics to supermint speed racing Several of only unmounted blocks of cars. Maldive Islandhundred stamps.different The B COM 434 ORNITHOLOGY - A fantastic thematic collection of British STAMPS. In singles and blocks. Approximately 100+ stamps, low stamps, mostly used but mint noted. Contains many better United Nations stamps tied to the cover with red cachet collection is rich in thematic commemoratives. Several hundred cars on stamps ..............................................................Price £11 Commonwealth BIRDS stamps. Only Unmounted Mint in mulitlples price to clear..............................................................Price £12.00 catalogued, high denomination stamp ...................... Price £9.60 inscribed “UN Security Coucil resolution no. 2254. 18/12/15” mint Maldive Islands Stamps ..................................... Price £16 and single stamps. Several Hundred Brit, Commonwealth Bird Stamps SAM.26 AUSTRIA & HUNGARY - Mostly used, some mint, several G419 SCANDINAVIA: Sweden,came Denmark, A fragile cessationIncudes of hostilities into Norway, force inFinland, Syria.some including High Value (£) pound & ($) Dollar stamps in blocks GB 38 GREAT BRITAIN WAR OF THE ROSES – Historic ..Price £39 hundred ......................................................................Price 97 fighting groups as well as the Syrian Govt. value, and but we CH 739diff CHURCHILL A fantastic thematic collection of Winston£8 from Iceland. The collection is unchecked for catalogue Commemorative for thespecialised 530th Anniversary Battle of Russian Air Force signed a ceasefire. 40 of £29.50 CR 781 CRICKET Cover - A valuable collectionofofthecricket Churchill stamps; comprising of hundreds of mint andfamous used art have estimated that there mustupbetoupwards of 1,000Only .........Price G126 WORKS OF ART. The rarities of the world’s most Bosworth Field. Less than fifty covers are known to exist, mostly this rare cover exist ........................................... Price £35 Churchillatstamps, including blocks,collection noted scarcer unmounted stamps & scarce cricket covers, including signeddepicting covers autogalleries your fingertips. A superb of famous paintings now in collectors’ hands and elusive to locate; a superb W37 ISRAEL - An impressive collection of Israel, comprising of blocks of exile govt. Churchill datingduplicates back to 1952 graphed by of famous cricketers. of Unmounted illustration the last battle of Comprising the War of the Roses, one Mint of the onmint stamps, over a thousand different stamps not counting or illustrated official first day covers (all unadressed). Also noted MA 275 MALTA: A quality collection of Maltese unmounted unlisted in Stanley Gibbons Catalogue (seldom seen). All aspects most decisive battles in English History. The cover bears Great Britain and British Commonwealth Stamps in blocksthe of four or miniature sheets ............................................................Price £21 miniature sheets, including: 1949 dating Coins mini Catalogued mint stamps. Over 100 stamps backsheet. to King Geo VI to of the great man’s life are portrayed in this collection. Hundreds GB green “pound tiedDollar with Royal official singles with severalnote highstamp” value ($) values.Mail Approx 18 King cricket £170 (possible forgery this item “as is” not guaranteed.) Following R55 COSTUMES & HEADDRESSES Unusual thematic subject more modern ....................................................Price £11.50 of Winston Churchill stamps.........................................Price £18 Richardincluding III illustrated postmark, dated: 22/08/15, the anniv. Date covers scarce autographed covers & a quantity of Unm. on with many genuine unmounted mint Israel stamps including hundred different from several countries...........................Price £6 (530 years later ...........................................................Price £13 Mint Cricket Stamps .......................................................Price £25 GB 4T FLYING SCOTSMAN: Railway Postal History Cover. SJ120 MEDICAL Stamps with specialised lot of Anti-TB and Red plate number blocks, multiples and singles with tabs. A valuable RS2a UNIFORMS. Mainly military. Hundreds different. ....Price £12 CO.84 882 COLOMBIA An important Colombian stamps Theimpressive illustrated collection. cover depicts the “Flying Scotsman Train” Cross stamps. Also Anti-Malaria stamps Red Cross stamps back PM MARGARET THATCHER - Thecollection very scarceofmourning cover for and .............................................. Price £25 datingMinister back toMargaret older engraved Thescarcest collection contains and bears official Royal Mail train stamp tied to the cover Let MINTWith COMMEMO to K2 theGREAT 1940s BRITAIN. or earlier UNMOUNTED up to more recent. nursing,RATIVES doctors Prime Thatcher.issues. One of the political covers. EUR EUROPA Royal - A specialised European Collection of several hundred Columbian stamps, mint and with33 illustrated Mail special Flyingthematic Scotsman postmark all forms of medicine.ACCUMULATION. A most interestingItems subject rarely &and DEFINITIVES UNSORTED noted include Only 50 ever in existence, mostly now in including collectors hands andused rarely with elusive overprinted stamps noted. Several hundred different Europa stamps, from the-1950’s to more modern Manchester to spanning Carlisle 23/1/16 First Mainline run. Thestamps. offered offered forGutter sale ideal anyone with some knowledge Traffic Light Pair for Missing Phosphor Errormedical coil strips. Well over to With “Iron Lady” illustration and official Royal Mail 8th stampsforofsale. Columbia ....................................................Price £24 Includes Italy,limited France,toGermany, Luxembourg, edition was only 100Iceland, coversBelgium, .................Price £8.75 form a valuable collection ............................................ Price£18 £7 500 stamps, only unmounted mint ....................................Price April 2013. Big Ben postmark price ......................................Price £13.25

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Design: A Fedulov. Printing: recess and litho, Goznak. Miniature sheet: freeform at top. 150r portrait of the composer, 1840-1893, and building of the Moscow State Conservatory Border: lyre and branches tied with ribbon symbolising ballet The Nutcracker

Booklet (260r): pane of 20 (5 x 4) taken from sheets, affixed by left selvedge. 12r x 20 arms of Derbent Cover: pane with one stamp detached Booklet (340r): pane of 20 (5 x 4) taken from sheets, affixed by left selvedge. 17r x 10 arms of Nyzhny Novgorod Cover: pane with one stamp detached

067 June 2, 2015 80th anniversary of the Norilsk Combine (now MMC Norilsk Nickel) Design: S Ulyanovsk. Printing: litho and embossed, Goznak. Sheetlet (2 x 4): design composite with border. 26.50r x 8 plant worker (metallurgist), open-cast mine view with LHD loader (excavator) and helicopter, metallurgical plant Note: nickel and palladium mining and smelting company established in 1935, initially using forced labour from Soviet gulag penal camps. All the foreground features of the design are embossed

071 July 7, 2015

068 June 4, 2015 155th anniversary of the Bank of Russia Design: O Yakovleva and S Ulyanovsky. Printing: litho (portrait, building), or litho and embossed (coin), Goznak. Miniature sheet (3 x 1): 40r portrait of E I Lamanski, 1825-1902, financier and Head of the State Bank of the Russian Empire (1867-1881) 40r four coins: 3-kopeck of 1811; 1-rouble of 1866; gold coin of 1923 depicting sower and factory; present-day design depicting the new rouble symbol 40r bank building Border: mythological figures and bank building from old document 069 June 16, 2015 Artek International Children’s Centre Children’s Drawing Competition Design: K Bedretinova, after drawing by Mary Dzhakaeva. Printing: litho, Goznak. Sheetlet (3 x 2): with illustrated borders. 26.50r x 6 `Funny Bear’: a take on Artek symbol Bear Mountain, showing reclining bear on coastline with sun over beach Border: sun symbol Note: issue notes the 90th anniversary of Artek, a children’s camp/resort founded on June 16, 1925, at Gurzuf, Crimea 070 June 16, 2015 Definitives. City Coats of Arms series Design: A Povarikhin. Printing: litho, Goznak. Sheet stamps: sheets of 30 (5 x 6). 12r arms (shield) of Derbent: golden fortress tower and tied bunch of poppies with red (madder) roots 17r arms (shield) of Nyzhny Novgorod: red stag with black horns and hooves Booklet (130r): pane of 10 (5 x 2) taken from sheets, affixed by left selvedge. 12r x 10 arms of Derbent Cover: pane with one stamp detached Booklet (170r): pane of 10 (5 x 2) taken from sheets, affixed by left selvedge. 17r x 10 arms of Nyzhny Novgorod Cover: pane with one stamp detached

Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit Meeting, Ufa, July 8-9, 2015 Design: A Moscovets. Printing: litho, Goznak. Sheet stamp: sheets of 15 (5 x 3) with illustrated borders. 19r sculpture of Salavat Yulaev (national hero of Bashkir people of Russia); Ufa city skyline and bridge over Belaya river; summit logo Note: meeting of leaders of CIS member countries (nine former Soviet republics) with leaders of BRICS member countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa)

072 June 23, 2015 Pavel A Fedotov, 1815-1852 Design: A Povarikhin, after paintings by the artist. Printing: litho, Goznak, with lacquer (varnish) layer. Sheet stamp: sheets of 10 (5 x 2). Portrait of N P Zhdanovich at a Piano: 25r painting of woman playing piano, 1849 Sheet stamp: sheet of 10 (2 x 5). Encore, Once More Encore: painting of 25r mealtime scene in house with dog (or fox) running through room, 1852 073 June 25, 2015 The Year of Literature in Russia Design: A Moscovets. Printing: litho, Goznak. Sheet stamp: sheets of 9 (3 x 3). 17r heads of Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol and Anna Akhmatova in silhouette, in grey, blue and red

074 July 15, 2015 Prince Pyotr Bagration, 1755-1812 Design: V Beltyukov. Printing: litho, Goznak. Sheetlet (3 x 3): 8 stamps and 1 label (position 5). 21r Prince Pyotr Bagration, 1765-1812, General of Artillery from 1809, and Russian artillery division at the Battle of Borodino, 1812 Note: Bagration was a Prince of the Georgian royal family. He was killed at Borodino 075 July 23, 2015 Russian Geographical Society, 1845-2015 Design: A Povarikhin. Printing: litho. Die-cut perf 13¾ x 14½. Self-adhesive sheet stamp: sheets of 9 (3 x 3), separately spaced within rouletted rectangular labels, background and surround coloured beige. 35r world map (emblem of RGS) 076 July 23, 2015 New Logo of Russian Post Design: A Povarikhin. Printing: litho. Die-cut perf 13¾ x 14½. Self-adhesive sheet stamp: sheets of 9 (3 x 3),

separately spaced within rouletted rectangular labels, background and surround coloured buff. 17r two-part logo in white on blue, and two-headed eagle in blue on white

077 July 24, 2015 FINA World Aquatics Championships, Kazan, July 24-Aug 9, 2015 Design: O Shushlebina. Printing: litho, Goznak. Sheet stamp: sheets of 8 (2 x 4). 17r diver performing ‘swallow’, and roof of the Water Sports Palace, Kazan

078 Aug 3, 2016 Cavaliers of St George. Heroes of the Great War Design: V Beltyukov. All designs include a portrait, based on a photograph, and a medal. Printing: litho, Goznak. Sheet stamps: sheets of 12 (4 x 3), comprising 11 stamps and 1 label. 21r Konstantin Nedorubov, 1889-1978, Guard Captain, 15th Don Cossack Regiment 21r Ivan Tyulenev, 1892-1978, Lieutenant, Kargopolsky Dragoon Regiment 21r Nikolai Ulanov, 1881-1948, 18th Orenburg Cossack Regiment 21r Ivan Khizhnyak, 1893-1980, Company Commander of the 3rd, 222nd, 153rd, 286th Regiments, and Commander, 208th regiment ST HELENA (last listed in Oct 2016 issue)

062 RUSSIA Communications & Information Technology Exhibition

077 RUSSIA World Aquatics Championships

063 RUSSIA Eurasian Economic Union

079 Feb 1, 2016 Bicentenary of the Arrival of Napoleon Bonaparte on St Helena Printing: litho. Miniature sheet: £2 portrait of the former Emperor of France, in exile on St Helena between 1815-1821 Border: ships arriving at St Helena, Longwood House (boarding house), Napoleon gardening, Napoleon dictating his memoirs, death of Napoleon, Napoleon’s grave

060 RUSSIA Roman Rudenko

SAMOA (last listed in Jan 2016)

080 Feb 24, 2015 The Pacific Tree Boa, Candoia bibroni. WWF issue Printing: litho. Sheet stamps: sheets of 20. Stamps have white borders. 50c mottled Pacific tree boa, curled around tree trunk (WWF emblem at bottom right) 50c blue and yellow Pacific tree boa, on rock (WWF emblem at bottom right) 50c pale yellow Pacific tree boa, on pebbles (WWF emblem at bottom right) $5.00 orange Pacific tree boa, on bark of tree (WWF emblem at bottom right) Miniature sheet (2 x 2): 4 stamps se-tenant. Stamps have no white borders. 50c mottled Pacific tree boa, curled

079 ST HELENA Arrival of Napoleon



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around tree trunk (WWF emblem at bottom right) $2.00 blue and yellow Pacific tree boa, on rock (WWF emblem at bottom right) $2.70 pale yellow Pacific tree boa, on pebbles (WWF emblem at top right) $5.00 orange Pacific tree boa, on bark of tree (WWF emblem at top left) Sheetlet (2 x 2): stamps have no white borders. 50c x 4 mottled Pacific tree boa, curled around tree trunk Border: stamp motif, enlarged Sheetlet (2 x 2): $2.00 x 4 blue and yellow Pacific tree boa, on rock Border: stamp motif, enlarged Sheetlet (2 x2): $2.70 x 4 pale yellow Pacific tree boa, on pebbles Border: stamp motif, enlarged Sheetlet (2 x 2): $5.00 x 4 orange Pacific tree boa, on bark of tree Border: stamp motif, enlarged Note: the species is naturally variable in colour

081 March 16, 2015 Definitives. Threatened Species Design: Mariya Karchevskaya. Printing: litho. Sheet stamps: arranged in a se-tenant triptych of composite design (in order $12.50, $45.00, $6.25), se-tenant at foot with a label. $6.25 brown-marbled grouper, Epinephelus fuscoguttatus $12.50 green turtle, Chelonia mydas $45.00 whale shark, Rhincodon typus Label: postage rate information Border: coral reef

082 April 2, 2015 Easter 2015. Pietà Paintings Design: Melissa Cato. All designs show paintings depicting Mary with the body of Jesus. Printing: litho, BDT. Miniature sheet (2 x 2): Pietà, by Titian (Venice), 1475 $2.70 Pietà ‘of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon’ by $2.70 Enguerrand Quarton (France), c1455 Pietà by Rogier van der Weyden $2.70 (Netherlands), c1440s Pietà by Pietro Perugino (Florence), $2.70 c1480s Border: Pietà by Titian Note: the first design is inscribed as being by van der Weyden and the third by Titian, both in error 083 June 15, 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games, Apia, Samoa Design: Melissa Cato. All designs are pictograms and incorporate the Games logo. Printing: litho. Sheetlet (3 x 3): $2 aquatics $2 tennis $2 athletics $2 lawn bowls $2 weightlifting $2 boxing $2 archery $2 rugby sevens $2 squash

Border: Games logo (different), mascot, photograph of Apia Park Sports Complex

084 June 24, 2015 Commemorating the Birth of Princess Charlotte of Cambridge Design: Alison Bjertnes, from photograph. Printing: litho, BDT. Miniature sheet: design composite with border. $12.50 Duchess of Cambridge, alongside Duke of Cambridge, holding the Princess outside St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, May 2015

085 July 21, 2015 800th anniversary of Magna Carta Design: Derek Miller. All designs depict King John on the throne and barons on horses. Printing: litho, BDT. Sheet stamps: $2 medallion or coin of King John (obverse, on throne; reverse, on horse), quotation ‘To no one will we deny or delay right or justice’ $2.70 golden figure of Liberty with scales of justice, quotation ‘No free man shall be seized…’ $3 King John wearing crown, quotation ‘Given by our hand in the meadow that is called Runnymede…’ $3.90 two coats of arms, quotation ‘To no one will we deny or delay right or justice’ 086 Sept 4, 2015 40th anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between (Western) Samoa & People’s Republic of China Design: Alison Bjertnes, from photographs. All designs incorporate flags of Samoa and China. Printing: litho, BDT. Miniature sheet (2 x 2): $2.50 To Sua Trench, giant natural swimming hole near Lotofaga village, on Upolu Island, Samoa $3.70 Government Building, Apia, a Chinesefunded project $4.70 meeting between Xi Jingping (President of China) and Tuiilaepa Lupesoliai Sailele Malielegaoi (Prime Minister of Samoa) $5.40 parade, and Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Efi (elected Head of State of Samoa) inspecting the police force and the police band during independence anniversary celebrations 2015

087 Sept 15, 2016 Definitives. Butterflies Design: Alison Bjertnes. Printing: litho, BDT. Sheet stamps: $10.00 glasswing butterfly, Acraea andromacha (white frame on all sides) $12.50 blue tiger butterfly, Tirumala limniace (white frame on all sides) $56.25 orange lacewing butterfly, Cethosia penthesilea (white frame on all sides) $75.00 brown pansy butterfly, Uunonia hedonia (white frame on all sides)

Miniature sheet (2 x 2): $10.00 glasswing butterfly (white frame at left and top) $12.50 blue tiger butterfly (white frame at top and right) $56.25 orange lacewing butterfly (white frame at right and base) $75.00 brown pansy butterfly (white frame at base and left) Sheetlet: 16 stamps (4 x 4) arranged as se-tenant strips of 4, both vertically and horizontally. $10.00 glasswing butterfly (no white frame) $12.50 blue tiger butterfly (no white frame) $56.25 orange lacewing butterfly (no white frame) $75.00 brown pansy butterfly (no white frame) Note: all values are for airmail express service

088 Sept 25, 2015 Chinese New Year. Year of the Monkey Design: Sophia Zhang (decorative art). Printing: litho. Sheet stamps: sheets of 20 (4 x 5). $3.90 monkey, with black ears and tail $4.70 monkey with ginger-red coat Miniature sheet: two diamond format stamps, se-tenant at tips, with free-form border. $5.50 monkey with black ears and tail $6.60 monkey with ginger-red coat Border: monkey with dark red coat

089 Nov 5, 2015 Environmental Conferences. Oceania 21 Pacific Summit, New Caledonia & United Nations Climate Change Conference, France Design: Derek Miller. All designs are inscribed ‘United Nations Climate Change Conference, Paris, December 2015’ and carry Oceania 21 logo. Printing: litho, BDT. Sheet stamps: 2 designs se-tenant in sheet. $2.50 waves and sun, listing of territories participating in Oceania 21 (starting with Solomon Islands), inscription noting first Oceania 21 summit, April 2015 $2.50 wind turbine, waves, inscription noting second Oceania 21 summit, June 2015 Sheet stamps: 2 designs se-tenant in sheet. $3.70 Eifel Tower, Paris, symbols of solar and wave energy, inscription noting third Oceania 21 summit, April 2016 $3.70 waves and sun, further listing of Pacific territories participating in Oceania 21 (starting with New Zealand), inscription noting fourth Oceania 21 summit, 2016

087 SAMOA Definitives. Butterflies

090 Nov 16, 2015 Queen Elizabeth II, Longest Reigning Monarch Design: Alison Bjertnes, from photographs. Printing: litho, BDT. Miniature sheet (2 x 2): $1 Queen Elizabeth II using telephone (1960s) $2 Queen Elizabet II in lemon-coloured wide-brimmed hat (recent) $3 Queen Elizabeth II in silver-white outfit (recent) $4 Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, waving whilst

080 SAMOA Pacific Tree Boa



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riding in open carriage (1960s) Border: Queen wearing coronet (1950s) Note: this stamp was also included in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting sheetlet reprising 27 stamps from 27 different nations, issued on November 27, 2015, available from Isle of Man Post and from the Samoan Philatelic Agency at US$29.95

092 Dec 4, 2015 Christmas 2015. The Nativity of Christ by Lorenzo Lotto Design: three contiguous details of the painting. Printing: litho. Miniature sheet (1 x 3): $1 angels on roof of stable $1 Mary and Joseph in prayer $1 Jesus lying in manger SOUTH GEORGIA & SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS (last listed in Sept 2016)

093 Aug 1, 2016 South Georgia Sports Design: John Alexander, from photographs. Printing: litho, Cartor. Sheet stamps: 55p long jump 70p high jump 80p shot put £1 ski jumping Note: sports competitions were held between the whaling stations in South Georgia between 1913 and the 1960s, and were revived between residents and visiting ships’ crews in the 1970s and 1980s WALLIS & FUTUNA (last listed in March 2016)

094 March 5, 2014 Scenes from Everyday Life Design: from painting by Rebecca Kulimoetoke. Printing: litho, PhilaPoste, France. Sheet stamp: 95f women making tapa bark cloth 095 April 27, 2014 Canonisation of Pope John XXIII & Pope John Paul II Design: François Jaupitre. Printing: litho, PhilaPoste, France. Sheet stamps: 100f Pope John XXIII, 1881-1958 100f Pope John Paul II, 1920-2005 096 April 27, 2014 Opening of International Pilgrimage Centre at Poï, Futuna Design: François Jaupitre. Printing: litho, PhilaPoste, France. Sheet stamp: 130f the new Pilgrimage Centre, and cameos of St Peter Chanel, 1803-1841 (martyred French missionary), and the Basilica of St Peter Chanel (built 1986)

097 May 23, 2014 Mother’s Day Design: Jean-Richard Lisiak. Printing: litho, PhilaPoste, France. Sheet stamp: 115f children giving their mother flowers

098 June 19, 2014 The Turtles of Fatumanini Design: S Pambrun, from photograph. Printing: litho, PhilaPoste, France. Sheet stamp: 65f turtles

099 June 23, 2014 Oceania Weightlifting Championships, Nouméea, New Caledonia Design: Jean-Richard Lisiak. Printing: litho, PhilaPoste, France. Sheet stamp: 20f weighlifter, map of south-west Pacific, tournament emblem

100 July 12, 2014 FIFA Football World Cup, Brazil Design: Jean-Richard Lisiak. Printing: litho, PhilaPoste, France. Sheet stamp: 300f goalkeeper, trophy, flag of Brazil 101 Aug 6, 2014 The Fortress at Taliematu, Wallis Design: E Barnabé. Printing: litho, PhilaPoste, France. Sheet stamp: 75f aerial view of the Taliematu Fortress, built in stone in mid-15th century by the Tu’i Tongan empire 102 Sept 5, 2014 Early Tapa Designs of Wallis & Futuna Design: Department of Cultural Affairs from preserved tapa-bark cloth patterns. Printing: litho, PhilaPoste, France. Miniature sheet (2 x 2): 85f pattern with triangles and squares 85f pattern with people around cooking pot 85f geometric pattern with central cross 85f geometric pattern around octagonal cameos of outrigger canoe and house

103 Oct 2, 2014 The American Village at Gahi Design: M Bunel. Printing: litho, PhilaPoste, France. Sheet stamp: 400f Camp huts (stipple-drawing) Notes: American Villages company operates immersion courses for young people in the English language and American culture

104 Nov 8, 2014 Marianne Stamp Design of 1944 by Edmond Dulac & Local Life Designs of 1957-1960 Printing: litho, PhilaPoste, France. Stamps inscribed ‘Postes 2014’, imprint ‘PhilaPoste’. Sheetlet (3 x 3): 3f x 1 Polynesian man in traditional dress, and outrigger sail-canoes in bay (purple, magenta and lilac) 7f x 1 men around bowl, preparing kava meal 9f x 1 Polynesian man in traditional dress, and outrigger sail-canoes in bay (brown-purple and indigo) 225f x 6 Dulac’s 5f + 20f orange-red design of 1944 featuring a head of Marianne Border: tapa cloth patterns mocking perforations Note: Dulac’s design, printed by Harrisons, was used in 1944 for ‘Mutual Aid & Red Cross Funds’ issues by several French colonies. The Polynesian

man design, by R Cami, was originally issued in 1957. The kava design, by Georges Bétemps, was originally issued in 1960

105 Nov 8, 2014 Benjamin Brial Design: SPT, after press photograph. Printing: litho, PhilaPoste, France. Sheet stamp: sheets of 10. 340f portrait of the 2nd Deputy for Wallis & Futuna in the French Assembly 106 Nov 8, 2014 Art of Oceania Printing: litho, PhilaPoste, France. Sheet stamps: 40f untitled painting by Nicolaï Michoutouchhkine: trees in forest 205f signed painting by Aloï Pilioko: line of women dancers 107 Dec 23, 2014 Christmas 2014 Design: Jean-Richard Lisiak (cartoon). Printing: litho, PhilaPoste, France Sheet stamp: 85f Santa riding on a red-tailed tropicbird 108 Feb 5, 2015 Scenes From Everyday Life Design: from painting by Rebecca Kulimoetoke. Printing: litho, PhilaPoste, France. Sheet stamp: 95f group of women sitting outside house

109 Feb 18, 2015 Beaches Design: Café Fale, from photograph. Printing: litho, PhilaPoste, France. Sheet stamp: 85f beach view with palm tree and boat

093 SOUTH GEORGIA Sports

110 March 27, 2016 Kamilo Gata Design: SPT, from photograph. Printing: litho, PhilaPoste, France. Sheet stamp: 600f portrait of the 3rd Deputy for Wallis & Futuna in the French Assembly

111 April 28, 2015 Commemorating St Pierre Chanel, 1803-1841 Design: Rebecca Kulimoetoke. Printing: litho, PhilaPoste, France. Sheet stamp: 55f the French missionary raising a Christian banner, with Polynesians

106 WALLIS & FUTUNA Art of Oceania

112 May 21, 2015 Orchids Design: C Ruatolo. Printing: litho, PhilaPoste, France. Sheet stamp: 75f red orchid (unidentified) 135f deep pink orchid (Phalaenopsis) 113 June 24, 2015 Sport. Territorial Olympic & Sports Committee Printing: litho, PhilaPoste, France. Sheet stamp: 55f CTOS logo: pirogue with Olympic rings on sail, Olympic flame, flags of France and Wallis & Futuna

096 WALLIS & FUTUNA International Pilgrimage Centre at Poï



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THEMATIC CHECKLIST A HANDY CROSS-REFERENCE TO ACCOMPANY THIS MONTH’S NEW ISSUE GUIDE The most popular collecting themes are listed in alphabetical order, with the reference numbers of all the relevant entries in this month’s New Issue Guide, guiding you quickly to the new stamps which most interest you. Personalities are given a separate listing for your convenience. A single stamp issue will often be cross-referenced under more than one category.

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065 DOGS Dogs, Russia

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037 ANIMALS The Birch Mouse, Estonia

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006 WORLD WAR I Centenary of the Great War, Bermuda

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H Hearts: 097 Helicopters: 067 Horses: 031, 085 Human Rights: 020, 085 Hydrology: 023

I Independence, Revolutions & Uprisings: 026, 031, 045, 086 Industry: 021, 067 Insects: 023, 087 International Cooperation: 053, 061, 063, 071, 086, 089, 091 Inventions, Implements & Gadgets: 019, 021, 025, 034, 056 Ireland: 041 Italy: 014, 024, 029, 082, 092

K Korea: 033

L Lakes: 003 Law & Constitution: 020, 060, 085 Libraries & Archives: 073 Lighthouses: 033

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S Saints: 014, 024, 096 Santa Claus: 107 Science: 008, 075 Sculpture: 011, 024, 025, 071 Shakespeare: 010 Ships: 012, 033

PERSONALITIES A Akmatova: Anna (Anna Akmatova Gorenko), Russian poet, diarist, 074

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036 TONIS KINT Estonian politician

T Tanks: 057 Tax Stamps: 022 Telecommunications: 019, 034, 061 Textiles: 094, 102 Theatre: 010, 018 Tools: 010 Tourism: 003, 025, 043, 044, 069, 086, 096, 101, 103, 109 Toys & Games: 015 Trade: 002, 012, 013, 034, 053, 062, 063, 067, 076 Transport: 013, 033 Trees: 003, 080, 106, 109

021 GIOVANNI LUPPIS Croat inventor

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W Weaponry: 044, 056, 057, 074 Welfare & Charitable Organisations: 005, 022 Windmills & Turbines: 023, 089 Women: 010, 013, 018, 024, 050, 072, 094, 108 World War I: 006, 041, 078 World War II: 056, 057, 058, 059, 060, 104 Writers: 001, 010, 018, 041, 064, 073 WWF: 080

Bagration: Pyotr, Georgian Prince, Russian military and naval commander, 074 Bašic: Nikola, Croat monumental sculptor and event artist, 025 Blasius (Blaise): Armenian bishop, saint, Patron Saint of Dubrovnik, 014 Bogovic: Mirko, Croatian writer, poet, literary editor, political philosopher, 018 Bonaparte: Napoleon, French revolutionary leader, military commander, Emperor, 079 Brial: Benjamin, Wallis & Futuna political leader, member of French Assembly, 105 Brodsky: Joseph, Soviet (Russian) writer, literary reviewer, political prisoner, latterly an American citizen, 064 Bronte: Charlotte, English writer, poet 010 Brown: Lancelot ‘Capability’, English landscape gardener, architect, 003

C Castro: Fidel, Cuban revolutionary leader, President, 031 Catherine: British Duchess of Cambridge, 040, 084 Chanel: Peter, French monk, missionary, martyr, 096, 111 Charlotte: British Princess, 084 Codali: Giuseppe, Italian (Genoan) landscape gardener, 044 Corak: Mia (Slavenska), Croat-American ballet dancer, ballet teacher, director, 018

D 021 EDUARD PENKALA Croat inventor

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Dahl: Roald, British writer, poet, RAF fighter pilot, 010

E Easton: Chesterfield, Bermudan soldier in the Great War, 006 Eliott: George Augustus, English General, colonial administrator, 044 Elizabeth II: British Queen and Head of the Commonwealth, 002, 009, 090, 091

Youth: 022, 083, 103

F

Gajales: Antonio Maceo, Cuban nationalist, independence fighter, 031 Gata: Kamilo, Wallis & Futuna political leader, member of French Assembly, 110 Gogol: Nikolai, Russian writer, 074

J John Paul II: (Karol Józef Wojtyla) Polish Pope, 095 John XXIII: (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli) Italian Pope, 095 John: King of England, 085

K 066 PIOTR TCHAIKOVSKY Russian composer

Lamanski: E I, Russian financier, founding Director of the State Bank of the Russian Empire, 068 Lattre de Tassigny: Jean, Free French military officer, 058 Lotto: Lorenzo, Italian (Venetian) renaissance artist, 092 Luppis: Giovanni Biagio, Austrian-Croat inventor of the torpedo, 021

M Marshall: Leon, Barbadian landship commander, 005 Montgomery-Moore: Cecil, Bermudan pilot, 006

N Nedorubov: Konstantin, Russian guardsman, decorated in Great War, 078

P Pais: Frank, Cuban revolutionary, 031 Penkala: Eduard Slavoljub, Croat-Austrian inventor of the propelling pencil, 021 Potter: Beatrix, English writer, illustrator, farmer, conservationist, 001, 010 Pushkin: Alexandr, Russian poet, sketch-artist, 074

R Rozentals: Janis, Latvian (Imperial Russia) artist, art theorist, 050 Rudenko: Roman, Soviet Russian lawyer, prosecutor at Nuremberg trials, 060

S Shakespeare: William, English dramatist, poet, theatrical impresario, 010 Spaatz: Carl, American Army Air Force officer, Air Force commander, 058

T Tchaikovsky: Piotr Ilyich, Russian composer, 066 Tedder: Arthur, English military officer, war leader, government adviser, 058 Tyulenen: Ivan, Russian soldier, decorated in Great War, 078

Ulanov: Nikolai, Russian soldier, decorated in Great War, 078

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088 NEW YEAR Year of the Monkey, Samoa

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018 MIA CORAK Croat-American dancer

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V von Tegetthoff: Wilhelm, Admiral in AustroHungarian Navy, 029

W Watson: Nathaniel Verson, landship commander, 005 William: Duke of Cambridge, British Prince, 040, 084

Y Yalaev: Salavat, Bashkir (Russian central Asia) national hero, 071

Z Zhukov: Georgy, Soviet Russian military officer, government adviser, 058



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