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THE MAGAZINE FOR THE SERIOUS COLLECTOR
GIBBONS STAMP MONTHLY
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54 On Display
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58 Australia’s High Denomination
Kangaroo Stamps
The Australian Commonwealth’s most expensive
basic stamps, the two-colour Kangaroos are
nevertheless a collectors’ favourite; Richard Breckon
discusses their background.
63 Majeedi Camp, Johore Bahru, Malaya
Susan McEwen reveals the story behind a group of
covers sent during the Malayan Emergency.
70 ‘The Sower’, a Not-so-Common Little Stamp
In Part 14 of this series Ashley Lawrence turns his attention to postal stationery.
76 South of the Beagle Channel
Steve Pendleton visits the islands of Cape Horn and their post offices.
84 Stamps of 14 ‘New’ Countries: the
Ex-USSR Republics
David R Wright selects stamps that convey the
atmosphere of recently independent former Soviet
Republics in Europe.
91 St Vincent and the Grenadines
Continuing his tour of the Caribbean, Basil Herwald
reveals plans to renew separate stamp issues for the
Grenadines of St Vincent.
96 Stamps and Covers from the
European Parliament
The philatelic bureau at the European
Parliament has an interesting
selection of philatelic material as
Peter Jennings FRPSL, FRGS, discovers on
a recent visit.
115 Foreign Postal Stationery
2006–2007
Geir Sør-Reime’s annual review surveys
countries from Åland to Estonia.
GREAT BRITAIN
35 GB News
Air shows feature on six
stamps to be issued in
July; ‘Regionals’ display
at BPMA.
37 Stamping Around
London
Alan Sacks concludes
his tour with an emphasis
on Post Office history.
41 Machin Watch
John M Deering reports on recently issued Machins and booklet
varieties.
48 GB Specialised Catalogue
A supplement to the Great Britain Specialised Catalogue.
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G.S.M. June 2008
Dear Reader
In 1890, when Stanley Gibbons sold the company he had founded, he announced that he intended to spend
time travelling the world, visiting some of those countries whose stamps he had bought and sold during the 34
years he had been running the organisation that still bears his name.
Although he kept a journal during his travels, sadly only odd pages have survived, so we don’t know how many
separate journeys were made or exactly which countries he visited, or when; although newspaper cuttings and
mementoes in the Stanley Gibbons archive bear testament to the fact that he got around a bit!
Of course, international travel at the turn of the last century was enjoyed by the fortunate few; but stamp
collectors were always able to take ‘virtual’ (to use the word in a way SG would not have recognised) journeys
around the world every time they opened their stamp albums.
Nowadays, international travel is much easier to arrange (if you have the time to enjoy it!) and it seems that stamp collectors are no
longer satisfied with ‘virtual’ travels but, like Stanley Gibbons over a century ago, want to get out and visit those countries whose stamps
they have been collecting.
Last month, Michael Round, advised us on how to make the best philatelic use of overseas trips, and has promised further instalments of
his ‘Musician’s Tale’ in the future.
This month, by coincidence, a number of authors have been able to include personal experiences (and photographs) in their philatelic
stories. Susan McEwan visited former detention camps in Malaysia (surely not on most tour companies’ itineraries), Steve Pendleton
braved the Beagle Channel, Basil Herwald enjoyed the delights of St Vincent, David Wright recalls visits to the Baltic States and our
regular roving reporter, Peter Jennings, sampled the rather more mundane delights of the European Parliament.
Do you also have the ‘philatelic wanderlust’? If so, don’t let your stories be lost, as Stanley Gibbons seems to have
done—why not write and tell other readers about them?
This month I promised you another in our series of Gibbons Stamp Monthly Collector’s Guides—covering aspects of
European philately. Unfortunately, we have been unable to produce this and I apologise to any readers who were looking
forward to it. Next month we plan to do the second one devoted to Great Britain—so keep your eyes open for that!
Successful SG auction; ABPS awards; Scottish
Congress; Dealer jailed; New RDPs; Events and
Exhibitions.
24 Society News
Reports from philatelic societies.
28 Diary Dates
Forthcoming Fairs and Auctions.
32 Around the Houses
News of recent auction results.
NEW ISSUES
NEWS
7 Newsdesk
110 Shore to Shore
106 Price Update
Changes to the 2008 Commonwealth and British
Empire Stamps 1840–1970 catalogue.
Birds of prey, orchids and local languages;
Island Hopper reports on forthcoming issues
from the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
112 Panorama
REGULAR FEATURES
94 The Diarie of Samuel Creeps
Michael Banister selects further extracts from the
journal of ‘an ordinarie collector’.
John Moody investigates the background to some
more new issues.
122 Stamp News in Brief
A summary of recent and forthcoming issues from
around the world.
101 Postal Stationery Matters
125 CATALOGUE SUPPLEMENT
A 16-page update to the Stanley Gibbons
Catalogue.
Bulova cards, more Australian food parcel labels,
Welsh aerogrammes and Canada’s Chinese New
Year cards; Peter van Gelder reports.
104 Stamp Hunting
Nimrod picks out some stamps from Ascension
that are worth looking for.
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114 Letters
Map errors and a warning—readers write.
124 The Unissued Stamps of King George V
David Horry reveals the story behind another
unissued stamp.
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NEWSDESK
ABPS Congress
Medal 2008
The Association of British
Philatelic Societies Awards
Committee is very pleased
to announce that the 2008
Congress Medal has been
awarded to Robert Johnson
of Bristol, who was nominated
by the Society of Postal
Historians.
Successful SG
auctions
Congress
Medal winner
Robert
Johnson
The medal will be presented
to Robert at Congress in July
at Stratford upon Avon.
Robert Johnson started
collecting stamps aged six
and changed from stamps
to postal history in 1958. He
belongs to many societies
including Bristol Philatelic
Society, the Society of Postal
Historians, the Postal History
Society and he is also a
Fellow of the Royal Philatelic
Society London.
Robert’s professional
background is that of a
solicitor and notary (now
retired). His help was sought
by Stamp Show 2000, and
he advised the late Stuart
Rossiter on the establishment
of a charitable trust and its
function.
Robert chaired the 1996
Philatelic Congress of Great
Britain staged in Bristol,
and in 1999 he gave the
Kay Goodman lecture at the
Congress in Salisbury and
he also presented a major
display at the Congress
held in Paisley. Robert is
currently Secretary of the Civil
Censorship Study Group and
the Cape Editor of the
Cape
and Natal Society Journal.
Also awarded were ABPS
Awards of Merit for 2008 to:
David Chamberlaine –
Plymouth Philatelic Society
John A Edwards – Leeds
Philatelic Society
Keith Elliot – Ferndown and
West Moors Philatelic and
Postcard Club
Brian Rowe – Hampshire
Philatelic Federation
The ABPS Committee
would like to congratulate
the winners on achieving
their Awards in recognition of
service to British philately.
G.S.M. June 2008
The Stanley Gibbons GB
auction featuring the Pat Larner
Great Britain Collection of Line-
Engraved, held in Guernsey
on 17 April 2008, proved a
great success, with a majority
of the 166 lots selling, most
reaching estimate and above.
Total realisations were £83,230
(excluding premium).
The auction was well
promoted through
GSM
and Guernsey Radio in
particular and attracted room
bidders (several of whom
had travelled over to the
island), telephone and on-
line bidders, justifying the
Company’s confidence of
staging an auction ‘offshore’.
Undoubtedly the ‘star; item
was lot 110, a 5 May 1840 1d.
Mulready envelope (Stereo A156) addressed to Ipswich with a ms ‘2’ on the front and backstamped
with a Charing Cross ‘5 MY 5’ datestamp in red which sold for £18,000 (estimate £14/17,000).
A 1d. red-brown plate 5 lettered ‘AC’, used with a large part Alderney Maltese cross cancel sold for
£1800 (estimate (£1100–1200), possibly because of its local Channel Islands connection.
High realisations were not limited to the classics however, the very last lot in the sale, a 1982 £1.43
Holiday Postcard (Golden Hind) booklet, margin at left, with error
‘phosphor omitted’ went under the hammer for £1200 (£900/1000).
A further auction is now scheduled in Guernsey for December,
which will feature selected investment grade material, including
specialised Great Britain. The next general Stanley Gibbons auction
in London will also be held in December.
The Guernsey sale supported the realisations from Stanley
Gibbons Post Bid Sale 202 which closed on 20 March 2008 and
achieved a total ‘hammer’ realisation of £63,545.
Left:The auction in progress; Above: The star item, a 5 May 1840
1d. Mulready envelope
UK mail carriers
TNT has been classed as a
‘Business Superbrand’ ahead
of its rival Royal Mail in a
recent YouGov survey of the
UK’s strongest brands for
2008.
The survey was
commissioned by Business
Superbrands UK Ltd and
canvassed the views of
more than 1500 business
professionals. Within the top
500 brands, TNT is ranked
118, ahead of Royal Mail
(140th), its leading competitor
in the UK postal market.
These two companies were,
however, eclipsed by Britain’s
two leading parcel carriers.
UPS was placed 21st and DHL
was placed 22nd.
Google was the top
superbrand followed by
Microsoft.
New Australian
philatelic medal
During 2006 the Australian Philatelic Federation launched a
campaign for a new design of its national exhibition medal.
The Federation issued a design specification and a
selection committee examined all the designs submitted
and recommended that the obverse should show a stylised
Lyrebird and the reverse to show a replica of the 1913
Kangaroo and Map stamp between sprigs of Wattle with a
space below for the engraving of the Class and winners’
name. The medals are very attractive despite being designed
by a committee!
The new
medals were
first used at
the 2008
Canberra
Stampshow
in March.
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NEWSDESK
Over 500 collectors visited the dealers in attendance at the
ASPS Congress
Dorset stamp
dealer jailed
Philip Clarke, trading as the
Boscombe Stamp Company,
was jailed at Dorchester
Crown Court for 21 months
in March 2008 for defrauding
collectors of almost £40,000.
He admitted 24 counts
of evasion of liability by
deception and asked for a
further eight counts to be
taken into consideration.
Judge John Beashel called his
dishonesty ‘breathtaking’.
The problem first surfaced
in October 2004 when
the Advertising Standards
Authority ordered Clarke
to cease advertising. The
judgement said: ‘Complaints
upheld. The advertisers did
not respond in writing to the
Authority’s enquiries, despite
giving their assurance in a
telephone conversation that
they would. The Authority was
concerned by the advertisers’
lack of response, which it
considered a breach of the
Code. Because the advertisers
had not shown that they paid
customers for their collections,
the Authority concluded
that the advertisement was
misleading. The Authority told
the advertisers to withdraw the
advertisement.’
Despite this, and the
Boscombe Stamp Company
apparently going into
liquidation in 2003, he still
managed to defraud stamp
collectors.
Clarke of Boscombe,
Bournemouth, was also jailed
in 1998 for 18 months after a
similar scam he carried out
from an antiques shop.
Clarke encouraged
collectors to send him their
collections for valuation and
then sold them. He pocketed
the proceeds and when his
32 victims asked for their
collections or the money back
he used stalling tactics to put
them off.
Association of
Scottish Philatelic
Societies 79th
Annual Congress
The 79th Annual Congress of the ASPS was held in Perth on
18–19 April. Over 500 collectors found much to do as they visited
almost 50 dealers and viewed the many displays.
The displays covered national, open and junior competitions
and were of a high standard. The junior entries were up from last
year.
This year’s Tom Rielly Display was given by Richard Beith who
presented his display of ‘South Atlantic Airmails’.
The guest of honour was Dougal McIntyre, whose father was
the first to fly over Mount Everest in 1933 and was responsible
for the development of Prestwick Aerodrome and Flying School
in 1938. Dougal’s speech was supported by archive film of the
Everest flight and the work of the Flying School.
The Congress also witnessed the presentation of the ASPS
awards which went to:
Lisa Whittle (Award of Merit) for her work in promoting Youth
Philately.
Ian MacPherson (McConnell Medal) for his involvement and
support of events at local and national level.
Richard Beith (Signatory of the Book of Scottish Philatelists) in
recognition of his enhancement of aerophilately and of his work in
national organisations.
The following awards were made in the National Exhibition:
William Ferris Memorial Trophy – Norman Fairbairn (‘The 1s. and
5s. Postage Stamps of the Fiji Islands 1881–1902’).
Bruce Auckland Centennial Quaich and Cowell Salver for
Best First Time Entrant – Ian Baker (‘Scotland’s Wheel Tax in
England’).
Aerophilatelic Shield – Bill Robertson (‘Turkish Airmail in WWII’).
Robson Lowe Award for Philatelic Literature – The Alba Stamp
Group for its publication of
Scots and Philately.
Iain T Boyle Vase – Eric Kenwright (‘The Golden Jubilee of
Uniform Penny Postage, 1890’).
Dr Hirst Bowl for Best Overall Presentation – Eric Kenwright
(‘The Golden Jubilee of Uniform Penny Postage, 1890’).
Open Competition Winner and a Junior Competition (small
silver gilt) – Chris Catto (‘Penguins’).
Junior Competition
16–17 years: large silver gilt –
Patrick Adamson (‘A History of
the Wilding Stamps’).
9–12 years: small silver gilt and
the Alba Salver for best entry –
Brogan Clark for (‘My Visit to
Egypt’).
Under 9 years: small silver gilt –
Niamh O’Flaherty (‘News from
Scotland’).
One Page Competition – Claire
Mitchell (‘Why the Long Face?’).
Richard Beith signs the Book of
Scottish Philatelists
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Clear field for
France Post
The only major competition
to La Poste in the French
addressed mail market has
closed down its business,
leaving the country heading
for full liberalisation in 2011
without any real competition,
according to the French
national postal regulator.
Adrexo Mail, part of the Spir
Communication publishing
group, effectively stopped
operating in most French
cities on 31 March, the
regional newspaper
Sud Ouest
reported.
In February, Spir had
announced it would shut down
the company ‘over the next few
months’ due to a combination
of losses, a difficult operating
environment and the delay in
postal liberalisation from 2009
to 2011.
Fakes, Forgeries &
Experts Journal
The 11th edition of the
Fakes,
Forgeries and Experts Journal,
better known as the ‘FFE’, has
just been published.
This latest edition features
27 articles, covering subjects
as diverse as Qatar, the Papal
States, Austria, New Zealand,
China and Great Britain.
The Journal is priced at 50
when ordering through www.
ffejournal.com
Ringpex 2008
Ringwood Philatelic Society’s annual stamp and postcard
fair, Ringpex, will be held on Saturday 17 June 2008 at the
Greyfriars Community Centre, Ringwood, Hampshire, from
10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.
There is free admission to the fair and there is a public car
park within two minutes walk of the hall.
There will be 12 dealers present including Stanley Gibbons,
whose stand will be manned by
GSM
and Catalogue Editor
Hugh Jefferies and members of his department who look
forward to meeting collectors on the day.
Once again the Society has persuaded local dealer Peter
Mollett to donate a Penny Black for the raffle.
Further details of the event can be obtained by
telephoning the fair ‘hotline’ on 01425 474 310.
G.S.M. June 2008

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