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THE UK’S NUMBER ONE STAMP MAGAZINE
Volume 42 Number 4
September 2011
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UK Aerial Post Centenary:
New miniature sheet
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New Collector – Express
Mail:
John Holman
A Tonic to the Nation –
The Festival of Britain:
Derek Connell
Aviation Superstar –
Andrei Tupolev:
Ian Hamilton
Rugby World
Cup: Professor
Chris Coggins
The Day the
Hindenberg
Flew over the Olympics:
John Moody
Contents
NEWSDESK
7 Newsdesk
Multiples at Sotheby’s; Imperforate Thunderbirds sheet;
Cook Islands variety discovered; Autumn Stampex
22 Society News
Reports from philatelic societies
26 Diary Dates
Forthcoming Fairs and Auctions
30 Around the Houses
News of recent auction results
SPECIAL FEATURES
78 United States Pioneer Airmail
Peter Martin tells the stories of some early airmail flights
and the pilots who undertook them
84 Norway, Its Stamps and Postal Service
Peter Jennings FRPSL, FRGS, reports from the ‘Land of the
Midnight Sun’
91 An Aviation Superstar – Andrei Tupolev
Ian Hamilton looks at the career of ‘the father of Soviet
aviation’ and the aircraft he designed
96 Australian Embossed Food Parcel Labels 1946–49
Neil Russell FRPSL, FBSAP provides some further thoughts
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on the labels used to ship post-war food parcels to Britain
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00 Rugby World Cup in Stamps
The Rugby World Cup begins this month in New Zealand;
Professor Chris Coggins highlights some of the stamps
produced to mark previous competitions
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02 The Postmarks of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands
Within the King George VI Period, 1937–1956
David Horry moves to the Pacific in search of postmarks to
be found on the stamps of King George VI
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07 New Zealand’s First Government Life Insurance
Stamp Issue
The unique ‘Lighthouse’ stamps of New Zealand are
examined by Robin Gwynn FRPSL, FRPSNZ
BRITISH STAMPS
39 GB News
Issues for the First UK Aerial Post and the House of Hanover
42 Centenary of the Coronation Aerial Post
Peter Jennings FRPSL, FRGS, takes a look back to an
important aviation achievement
47 The First UK Aerial Post
Tony Buckingham looks at souvenirs marking
anniversaries of the first UK Aerial Post
51 Machin Watch
John Deering’s regular update
58 A Tonic to the Nation
Derek Connell takes a philatelic visit to the Festival of
Britain
66 Great Britain’s Rarest Stamps
Exceptional items reviewed by Paul Brittain
68 GB Specialised Catalogue
A supplement to the Great Britain Specialised Catalogue
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12 The Day the Hindenburg Flew Over the Olympic
Games
John Moody provides a brief history of Germany’s Zeppelins
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50 A Corner of the Empire – Pangkor and the Dindings
This little-known area of Malaya is visited by Rob Holley
G.S.M. September 2011
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Dear Reader
Other than inside the pages of my own stamp album (a place which is, of
course, much more important than what most people consider to be ‘the real
world’), I have to admit to not being the best organised person around—just
ask my wife!
However, one thing which I do manage to do, most of the time, is to keep
separate my twin pleasures (or sometimes, tasks) of editing this magazine and
the Stanley Gibbons Catalogue.
Only at this time of year, as the next edition of ‘Part 1’ goes through its final
checks before being sent off to the printer, do I find it difficult to consider
either job in isolation. I hope, therefore, that you will not mind this month’s
‘Dear Reader’ having a slightly catalogue-oriented slant.
When I started collecting British Commonwealth over 50 years ago, I was one
of many, many thousands, for whom ‘Part 1’ was the annual guide. Today, as
collecting becomes more and more specialised, I find myself in a minority
and people I meet express surprise that I still attempt to collect such a wide
field.
For those collectors who concentrate on Australia, Mauritius or Ceylon,
Stanley Gibbons now produce a range of 22 ‘Commonwealth Country
Catalogues’, with predominantly yellow covers, and these have proved extremely
popular, listing each country’s stamps right up to the present day, while ‘Part 1’
now closes at the end of 1970.
The only problem is that these smaller catalogues are published roughly
every two-to-five years, so at a time when the market is active, as it is at present
for most Commonwealth stamps, they can quickly become out of date, as far as
the prices are concerned.
The current Indian Ocean catalogue was published in 2006, but you will be
shocked to discover that, when you empty your piggy bank and go down to the
Strand to buy SG 1 and 2 of Mauritius, the £1 million which you have saved up
will now only buy you the 1d. ‘Post Office’ stamp, whereas five years ago it would
have bought both of them!
So, how do we provide the more specialised collector with the regular price
updates which we can still provide for the ‘all-Commonwealth’ man—or woman.
The only answer seems to be via an electronic version of the catalogue—and we
are busy working towards having this available. But feedback from those who
complete the questionnaires in the existing, printed, catalogues, suggest that
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or 20 years time—but I am confident that SG will continue to provide us with
the catalogues we want—it’s up to us to make it clear just what that is!
Just as I ask catalogue users to give me their thoughts via a questionnaire, I
am frequently asked, as editor of
Gibbons Stamp Monthly,
how I view the future of
the magazine and, in particular, when I think it will move from a print-on-paper
product to an electronic one. I always tick the ‘more than ten years’ box (always
the longest option), but it seems that most magazine editors think it will happen
a lot sooner that that for their titles.
This may be a reaction to the fact that magazine sales, generally have fallen
sharply during the current recession and some are either closing altogether or
going ‘online’ only.
The good news is that
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REGULAR FEATURES
33 New Collector
John Holman looks at Express Mail stamps; designers
Arnold Machin and Stuart Rose, both born 100 years
ago; UK Aerial Post anniversary items and National Trust
‘Passport Stamps’
71 Dear GSM
Readers’ correspondence
73 Postal Stationery Matters
Peter van Gelder reports on New South Wales Greater
Jubilee cards, early GB aerogrammes, New Zealand
postcards and Cecogrammes
90 Stamp Hunting
Stamps worth looking for from Northern Rhodesia
Competition
Your chance to win a £50 SG voucher
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17 The Diarie of Samuel Creeps
Michael Banister selects extracts from the Creeps’ journal
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64 The Unissued Stamps of Queen Elizabeth II
David Horry reveals the story behind an unissued stamp
Catalogue Column
Hugh Jefferies reports on the new
Commonwealth and
British Empire Stamps
catalogue
NEW ISSUES
155 Shore to Shore
Island Hopper reports on stamps for The Guernsey Literary
and Potato Peel Pie Society, a Commonwealth Youth Games
sheet from the Isle Man and issues for Jersey’s financial
industry and scenery
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58 Stamp News in Brief
A summary of recent and forthcoming issues from around
the world
162 Panorama
Dean Shepherd investigates some recent new issues
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65 Catalogue Supplement
A 12-page update to the Stanley Gibbons Catalogue
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NEWSDESK
Centenary of the
first aerial post
celebrated at
The British Postal
Museum & Archive
To celebrate the centenary of
Britain’s first aerial post, The
British Postal Museum & Archive
(BPMA) will refresh its Treasures
of the Archive exhibition to
include exclusive items from the
event.
One of the highlights of
the updated exhibition, which
opens to the public on Friday 9
September—exactly 100 years to
the day since Britain’s first aerial
post took to the air, will be the
striking 1911 poster which was
designed to promote the flight.
This poster also forms the basis
of Royal Mail’s new miniature
sheet, with the presentation
pack written by BPMA Philatelic
Curator, Douglas Muir.
Other exhibits will include
the original artwork for
commemorative postcards and
envelopes carried on the flight,
as well as the postcard addressed
from the pilot, Gustav Hamel,
to the Postmaster General. The
original handstamps from both
Hendon and Windsor will also be
on display.
Douglas Muir, Curator,
Philately at the BPMA
commented, ‘Today we take air
travel and transport for granted.
It is almost unbelievable that it
is only 100 years since its debut,
with extraordinarily flimsy
machines and excited crowds.
The BPMA has a fascinating
collection of objects and records
relating to airmail, and I am
delighted to have a selection of
them on show in this exhibition.’
To commemorate the
anniversary, an A5-sized postcard
depicting the 1911 Aerial poster
will be available to buy. The
postcard is being produced in
a numbered limited edition
of 200. A brand new postcard
pack featuring airmail-themed
images will also be produced.
The postcards will be available
from the end of August. More
information can be found on
the BPMA website (http://shop.
postalheritage.org.uk).
G.S.M. September 2011
PHILATELIC NEWS
World
Great Britain
Local
Society News
Sotheby’s Sale
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Cook Island Variety Discovered
•
Post Office
Archive Online
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Indian Postal Museum
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EU to Investigate Royal
Mail
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Hampex
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Autumn Stampex
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Imperf Thunderbirds Sheet
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News from World Postal Administrations
Marvellous multiples
at Sotheby’s
A highlight of the sale – the
unique mint block of four
1927 De Pinedo 60c. airmail
stamps of Newfoundland
Historic USPS site
named as one of
3700 post offices
facing closure
Sotheby’s will be auctioning a
unique GB and Empire collection
containing only mint blocks of
four or larger multiples. The
extensive collections, compiled
by the late Lord Steinberg, will
be sold over two auctions at
the company’s London auction
rooms in September.
The first sale, which takes
place on 6–8 September,
comprises of British Empire
mint multiples; the second sale,
which will take place on the 21
September, will feature Great
Britain mint multiples exclusively.
Over the course of his life,
Lord Steinberg, who was the
founder of the Stanley Leisure
chain of casinos and betting
shops, assembled an impressive
33-album collection, with
each item on a separate page
meticulously written-up by a
skilled calligrapher. Together, the
sales will feature 2068 lots and
the collection is estimated in the
region of £4 million.
One of the highlights of the
sale is a unique mint block of
the 1927 De Pinedo airmail 60c.
from Newfoundland (estimated
at £120,000-150,000). The stamps
commemorate the 1927 flight to
Italy from Newfoundland by the
Marchese Francesco de Pinedo,
one of the leading pioneer
aviators and is among the rarest
20th-century British Empire
blocks.
The United States Postal
Service has listed 3700 post
offices across the country
that have been earmarked
for potential closure. The
figure represents about
11 per cent of the USPS’s
retail outlets, which employ
around 4500 staff.
Amongst the list of sites
under threat is one of
America’s oldest and most
significant post offices. The
small office, situated in
Philadelphia, was opened
by Benjamin Franklin,
America’s first Postmaster
General and one of the
Founding Father of the
United States, in 1775. The
site, which was also Franklin’s
home, was established as a
post office on 26 July 1775;
on 26 July 2011, exactly
236 years to the day later,
it received the news of its
potential closure.
RPSL to exhibit at MonacoPhil 2011
In addition to material from the Collection of Her Majesty Queen
Elizabeth II, the MonacoPhil 2011 exhibition, which takes place
on 2–4 December 2011, will feature a key display from The Royal
Philatelic Society London. More than 75 frames will be shown from
the society’s own collections—the largest exhibition of the Society’s
material ever shown together in one place.
Society members will also be providing more than 40 exhibits and
displays in an exhibition largely devoted to the philately of the United
Kingdom and former colonies. In addition, 100 rarities belonging to
His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco and to members of
the Club de Monte-Carlo, will also be shown.
For further details on the event and the exhibitions, visit the official
MonacoPhil website www.monacophil.eu
In a statement released
alongside the list of
sites under threat, USPS
Postmaster General, Patrick
Donahoe, outlined his
vision of a ‘smaller, leaner
and more competitive’
service, which will ‘continue
to drive commerce, serve
communities and deliver
value.’
According to the
statement, many of the
closed offices will be replaced
with what the USPS describes
as ‘Village Post Offices’.
The new outlets would be
operated by local businesses,
such as pharmacies and
shops, and would offer postal
products and services.
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Newsdesk
PHILATELIC NEWS
Thematic winners at
Midpex
Perforations Are Go!
Allan Grant of Rushstamps tells us that he has acquired an
imperforate example of the 2011 ‘Genius of Gerry Anderson’
miniature sheet showing the Thunderbirds (SG MS3142).
The lucky purchaser bought the sheet at Tuckton post office in
Bournemouth, but, as so often happens, did not notice the error until
some time later.
The sheet will be listed as MS3142a in the next edition of the
Great
Britain Concise Catalogue
and we would be interested to hear of other
examples
The winners of The Friends of
Thematica competitions for
2011, which were held as part of
the Midpex exhibition on 2 July,
have been announced.
The British Thematic
Association Thematic Trophy
was won by M Humfrey for his
exhibit ‘From Mexican Flower to
Worldwide Flavour’, which tells
the story of vanilla.
The Inter-Federation Friends
of Thematica Healey & Wise
Salver went to Sussex, for
entries submitted by Grace
Davis (‘Symbols of Peace—The
Dove and Olive Branch’),
J Etherington (‘A Failed
Expedition: The BEF in France’)
and Angela Reilly (‘Olympic
Champions’).
Winners of the Barclays Cup
Competition for young collectors
were Emma Hodge (up to 8 years
old) with ‘A Scottish Time Line’;
Ffion Harries (ages 9 to 12) with
‘Mister Magnolia by Quentin
Blake’ and Claire Mitchell (ages
13 to 18) with ‘Let There Be
Light’.
The John Fosbery Thematic
Trophy, which is voted for by
visitors to the event, went to
James Dickinson with ‘Jesuit
Powder: Its Discovery, Use and
Development—The Story of
Quinine’. Second place went
to Helen Eastgate for ‘Sewing
Machines’.
The Friends of Thematica
competitions for 2012 will be
staged as part of the Scottish
Congress in Perth, which takes
place on 13–14 April.
In Brief
Stanley Gibbons
expands into Asia
Stanley Gibbons has announced
that it will open a new office in
Hong Kong in September this
year.
The Group has been preparing
for the move since 2010,
following the growing demand in
China and other Asian countries
for rare stamps and other
premium collectibles. The Hong
Kong office will place Stanley
Gibbons in a strong position
to buy rare Chinese stamps to
satisfy increased demand both in
Britain and in Asia.
The Hong Kong office is due
to open in September, with a full
launch planned for later in the
year.
Lithuania announces
postage stamp
design competition
2012
Guernsey Post has reporting an
operating loss of £900,000 for
2010/11, despite improvements
in its underlying performance.
The postal authority cites higher
charges from Royal Mail, the first
decline in bulk mail volumes for
20 years and an increased cost of
£600,000 in its pension budget as
reasons for the loss.
Richard Hemans, Finance
Director explained, ‘Although
we are announcing an operating
loss, the core performance of
the business actually improved
during the year. We made an
underlying operating profit of
£200,000, thanks to our cost
reduction initiatives and strong
performances from express
servces and mail coming into the
island for delivery.’
Guernsey Post is expecting
2011/12 to be another
difficult year, but it says it has
a clear strategy to address the
challenges.
Guernsey Post
reports a loss
Lithuania Post has announced
an open competition to design
the company’s stamps for 2012.
The competition is open to all
residents of Lithuania and other
countries, irrespective of their
age or qualifications. Entrants
should submit their works on
the themes announced by the
bureau, which can be found on
the Lithuania Post website www.
post.lt/en, along with more
details of the competition.
Winning designs will be issued
as stamps in the first half of 2012
with monetary prizes awarded to
the artists responsible. Entries
must be submitted to the jury
before 19 September 2011.
Rare signed sheets
to be sold in aid of
MS charity
European Commission to investigate the
government’s Royal Mail overhaul
The European Commission will
investigate to see if the coalition
government’s plan to take on
Royal Mail’s £8bn pension deficit
and restructure its £1.7bn debts
contravenes EU rules on state
aid.
The Commission said it
doubted that the plan did
enough to deal with how much it
would distort competition.
EU Competition
Commissioner, Joaquin
Almunia, said ‘The Commission
acknowledges the importance of
the reform of the postal market
in the UK. However, we must
ensure that the state measures do
not provide undue advantages to
Royal Mail as this would distort
the conditions of competition
among postal operators in the
internal market.’
However, the government
is confident that its plans for
Royal Mail are in line with EU
guidelines for rescuing firms
in difficulty. Postal Affairs
Minister, Edward Davey, said the
investigation had been expected
and was the next step in the
government’s attempts to reform
Royal Mail. ‘It is only right that
the Commission has opened the
State Aid process to properly
investigate the case,’ he said.
A pair of hard-to-find miniature
sheets are to be auctioned at
Stanley Gibbons’ December sale
to help raise funds to help find a
cure for Multiple Sclerosis.
On offer will be an example
of each of the Royal Mail 2000
and 2010 miniature sheets,
designed by Jeffery Matthews.
The designer, whose own mother
suffered from the disease and is
an avid supported of the charity,
has kindly signed each of the
sheets especially for the auction
in order to raise money to help
fund research into finding a cure
for the killer disease.
Stanley Gibbons will not be
charging its usual fees for the
sale of the miniature sheets,
which will be sold as part of their
December auction.
G.S.M. September 2011
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