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IN THIS ISSUE
It took less than three minutes for the
world record price for a single postage
stamp to be obliterated on June 17, and
it made for interesting viewing via the
live feed on Sotheby’s website.
The bidding was casually started at a cool $4.5m,
which would have broken the record in itself, and
there was an interlude of just a few seconds (was
that a bead of sweat I saw creeping down the
auctioneer’s brow?) before it started to rise in
$500,000 increments.
Defying some scepticism as to whether it would
sell for more than the reserve, the 1856 British
Guiana 1c eventually changed hands for $7.9m (plus
a buyer’s premium that could have bought a mansion
in Surrey), attracting media attention which can only
be good news for philately as a whole.
What I’ll remember rather longer than the auction
itself, however, is the day I came face-to-face with
the iconic stamp itself, when it made its first public
appearance in Britain for decades at Sotheby’s
London headquarters two weeks earlier.
Attending a press call dominated by Fleet Street
cameramen, I found myself in the bizarre position of
being almost the only person in the darkened room
who wanted to look at this unassuming octagonal
scrap of red paper rather than just photograph it.
That the lensmen didn’t have much clue what they
were snapping was confirmed by the way one major
newspaper inadvertently published an image of the 62 The stars in our thoughts: how we see and depict the constellations
reverse of the stamp rather than the front of it!

GUY THOMAS, Editor

guy.thomas@mytimemedia.com
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42 The story of the first six months of the Great War in postal history 70 What did our correspondent find when he went stamp hunting in Turkey? 59 The obscure territory of Inini

54 How British stamps and covers have celebrated the ‘Friendly Games’ 78 Why one enthusiast collects the tiny Spanish colony of Cape Juby 51 Southern Nigeria’s 1901 issue

FEATURES 51 COMMONWEALTH COMPETITIONS

CLASSICS
How the first issue of Southern
42 COVERS FROM THE Nigeria offered a taste of India Win a Commonwealth
WESTERN FRONT Games presentation
Stunning postal history from the 59 FORGOTTEN COUNTRIES pack! And test your
British forces in France and Belgium The French colony of Inini which recall of GB stamps.
in the early months of World War I, emerged from the jungle in 1932
See page 39
from August to December 1914
75 CINDERELLA CORNER
54 COMMONWEALTH Medicine duty revenues, 1783-1941
GAMES ISSUES ‘Philately is notorious for
Britain’s commemoratives of 1958, 78 MY COLLECTION
1970, 1986 and 2002, and the covers George James aims for a complete perpetuating errors of fact, even
and varieties surrounding them collection of unheralded Cape Juby
after they have been corrected’
62 THEMATIC GUIDE TO 84 Q&A
CONSTELLATIONS Your questions answered see page 32
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postal services in Istanbul and the 121 STRANGE BUT TRUE See page 82
rest of Turkey? The airliner which flew around the
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British Guiana 1c sold for

world record £4.66m
The unique 1856 British Guiana 1c black on magenta was sold for
$7.9m (about £4.66m) at Sotheby’s in New York on June 17, to an
anonymous telephone bidder, reclaiming its title as the world’s
most expensive stamp.
The 20% buyers’ premium means the new owner paid a total of
$9.48m (about £5.58m) for the lot, making it the most valuable item
in the world by weight.
The realisation was below the auctioneer’s $10m-$20m estimate,
but well over three times the previous auction record for a single
stamp, which was CHF2.87m (about US$2.2m), set by Sweden’s
1855 Treskilling Yellow error of colour in 1996.
It was also almost one billion times the stamp’s original face
value, when it was purchased over the counter of a post office in
Demerera in April 1856.
The bidding began at $4.5 million, possibly indicating that this was ABOVE: The stamp was exhibited to the press and sold in a purpose-made protective case
the reserve set by the vendors, the estate of the late American
businessman John du Pont.
Linn’s Stamp News in the USA reported the auctioneer, Sotheby’s BACKSTAMPS
Vice Chairman David Redden, as suggesting that the buyer was a
collector rather than simply an investor. ‘I can only say that given The new owner of the British Guiana 1c joins the ranks of an
who the buyer is, we will be seeing more of this stamp in the future,’ elite list of great collectors who have owned it in the past,
he predicted. and many of them left their mark on the reverse by means of
One rumour suggested the successful bidder was a Hong a handstamp or their initials. Legible marks include:
Kong resident. † the purple trefoil handstamp of Philipp von Ferrary
The Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC has requested the (1878-1920);
opportunity to display the stamp in public at an event later this † a pencilled ‘H’ and a clover-leaf handstamp with the
year, as have the organisers of the New York international initials ‘AH’, for Arthur Hind (1922-33);
exhibition in 2016, but there is no confirmation as to whether it will † a 17-point star handstamp possibly applied by Hind’s
be made available. wife, Ann Hind-Scala (1933-40);
Mark Wardas of StampsAreArt, who attended the sale, told us: ‘I † the comet handstamp of Frederick Small (1940-70);
had the feeling that there were no more than three bidders. Other † the pencilled initials of Finbar Kenny, Small’s agent;
than the phone bidder at the far wall, I couldn’t identify who they † the pencilled initials of Irwin Weinberg (1970-80);
were.’ His videos of the sale, which took less than three minutes, † the pencilled initials of John du Pont (1980-2010).
can be viewed at www.stampsareart. (The clover-leaf ‘AH’ handstamp lies beneath the 17-point
star and was identified only after being photographed
with an infra-red filter by researcher Thomas Lera at the
Smithsonian Institution)
© WORLD STAMP SHOW-NY2016

ABOVE: Sotheby’s Vice Chairman David Redden conducts the sale in New York

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France blocks Australian dealer goes NEWS IN BRIEF

personalised rally driving for charity > The British

Library is to digitise

stamp showing A prominent stamp dealer and auctioneer has raised thousands of
dollars for a cancer charity by driving a clapped-out old vehicle
the philatelic library
of the Earl of
Crawford, an almost

female genitalia across Australia.

Prestige Philately’s Gary Watson and his brother Craig drove a
complete collection
of philatelic
literature published
1969 Mini van 2,700 miles, mostly across rough desert terrain, from
by 1913, comprising
The French postal authority refused to print Perth to Darwin.
4,500 books,
a close-up image of a vagina on a Taking part in a rally specifically for cars which cost less than periodicals, and
personalised stamp, even though it was $1,000 (about £550), they finished with a broken windscreen and catalogues. A grant
based on a famous oil painting. virtually no brakes. from the British
To coincide with an exhibition of Gustave They raised $12,000 for Australian charity the Cancer Council, Philatelic Trust will
aid the work, which
Courbet’s The Origin Of The World, Besançon which will rise to more than $16,000 (about £9,000) if they sell all will be made
Philatelic Society submitted a proposed 100 souvenir covers they carried with them. available to
design to France’s personalised stamp Produced by dealer Noel Almeida and postmarked in Perth and researchers via the
service. It was declined. Darwin, the covers are available at $50 including postage and British Library
website.
Instead, the society chose a less explicit packing. Visit www.noelalmeida.com/TTO23
image of a bronze sculpture by Pierre Duc, > Corbitts is moving
of Courbet working on the painting. its auction venue to
Two maximum cards were produced, one the Britannia Hotel
illustrating the sculpture and the other the at Newcastle
Airport. Its next sale
painting. On these, collectors were also is on July 24. Visit
offered the option of an unofficial handstamp www.corbitts.com
illustrating the genitalia.
> The famous Vera
Trinder philatelic
bookshop has
moved out of
London. The shop at
38 Bedford Street
near Covent Garden
closed its doors on
June 30, and joined
its parent company,
the accessories
dealer Prinz, at Unit
3a, Hayle Industrial
Park, Hayle,
Cornwall TR27 5JR.
The move was
forced by the
redevelopment of
the old site. Visit
www.veratrinder.org

> Papers from the

third Malmo
Philatelic Summit,
on traditional
exhibiting by Brian
Trotter and thematic
ABOVE: Besançon Philatelic Society maximum card for its exhibiting by Jari
Origin Of The World personalised stamp ABOVE: The Watsons’ Mini in action, and a mock-up of the charity cover Majander, can be
ordered from the
organisers,
Postiljonen, at €25
Antarctic stamp artwork each. Visit
www.postiljonen.com

on display in Cambridge > The PostEurop

poll for the best
Europa stamp of the
The Polar Museum in Cambridge currently has a display of stamp year closes on
artwork and proof printings from the British Antarctic Territory. August 31, even
though some
Entitled ‘Delivery By Design: Stamps In Antarctica’ it includes countries, including
design work by Michael Goaman and Andrew Robinson. It Britain, have not yet
comprises material given to the museum by the Crown Agents, issued a stamp on
which researchers can consult by appointment. ABOVE: Original artwork by Bradbury Wilkinson for the 1969 this year’s theme,
national musical
The display is open from Tuesday to Saturday until September 6. British Antarctic Territory £1 stamp depicting HMS Endurance, instruments. Visit
Tel: 01223 336540. Visit www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum in blue and black rather than the issued red and black www.posteurop.org

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NEW ISSUES

Stamps from around the

world recall aspects of
the Great War
Austria’s lost heir to the throne British Empire’s
Austria has chosen to mark the 100th
anniversary of the outbreak of World War I
recruiting drive
by commemorating its first victims, the Tristan da Cunha’s quartet of £1 stamps
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Sophie, focuses on wartime recruitment posters
Duchess of Hohenberg. produced in Britain.
A miniature sheet has stamps of 62c and ‘National Service: Women’s Land Army’,
70c featuring portraits of the heir designed by Henry Gawthorn and printed in
presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian 1917, played a part in encouraging more
throne and his wife, from a photograph. than 250,000 women to work as farm
The background image is an illustration labourers.
of their assassination in Sarajevo, Bosnia, ‘The Empire Needs Men’, designed by
on June 28, 1914, which appeared in the Arthur Wardle, was aimed at recruiting
French newspaper Le Petit Journal. dominion citizens, who were not obliged to
Gavrilo Princip, the Bosnian Serb who join up, to fight for the mother country.
shot them while they were being driven ‘Rally Round The Flag: We Must Have
through the city, can be seen at the left. More Men’ was produced by the War Office
in 1914.
‘Join The Royal

Belgium’s devastation Marines. Help To Man

The Guns Of The
Fleet’ was published
Starting off a series of issues by the Admiralty
which will run until 2018, Recruiting
Belgium is issuing five 2-value Department in 1915.
(domestic 0g-100g) stamps
which are available separately
or in a miniature sheet.
The designs are based on
evocatively merged
contemporary photographs
recalling the disasters of 1914,
when all but a small corner of
the country was invaded and
occupied by Germany.
One shows the devastation
of the city of Dinant, which
suffered badly during the
invasion, and where civilian
resistance resulted in the
summary execution of more
than 600 people.
Another recalls the
destruction of the city of Leuven, showing the turrets of the great University Library which
was burned down by the Germans.
Further designs illustrate the retreat of the Belgian army towards Antwerp and Ypres in
the early days of the war, refugees fleeing the fighting with their bicycles and horse-drawn
carts, and the German attack with infantry and armoured vehicles.

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Serbia’s heroic retreat across the mountains
Four stamps issued by Serbia focus on the
disastrous but heroic retreat of the country’s
soldiers and civilians in 1915-16 after military
defeat by Austro-Hungarian, German and
Bulgarian forces.
In terrible winter weather, on poor roads and
with scant supplies, 155,000 people made it
through the mountains of Albania and Montenegro
to reach Allied transport ships on the Adriatic
coast and were evacuated to Greece. But 240,000
more died of exposure, starvation, disease and
enemy attacks along the way.
The four stamp designs are all based on
contemporary paintings by official war artists on
the trek, Milos Golubovic and Vasa Eskecivic.
Golubovic painted The Crossing Of The Serbian
Army Through Albania on the 23d value, the view of
a refugees’ campfire at night on the 35d and the
bleak Through Albania 1915 on the 70d. Eskecivic
painted Arrival Of The Serbian Army At The Sea on
the 46d.
The stamps also show regimental flags, military
medals and soldiers’ swords and helmets.

South Africa’s men at arms Ascension’s

South Africa is issuing six
se-tenant 10r designs comprising
remembrance
three composite pairs, each pair Ascension Island played its part in World
symbolising a different aspect of its War I by serving as a mid-Atlantic radio
role in World War I. station run by the Royal Marines, and its
One commemorates the part cemetery has six World War I graves.
played by South African forces in Its four stamps with values of 50p, 55p, 60p
helping the Allies to overrun the and £1.60 simply depict poppies, and the logo
colonies of German South West also has a poppy in the shape of the island.
Africa and German East Africa. The
stamps show the colonies on a
map of Africa and portray the
victorious generals, Louis Botha
and Jan Smuts.
The figure in the dugout canoe
represents Smuts’ famous scout
Piet Pretorius, while the dividing
line through the cavalryman
symbolises the fact that many
Afrikaners, who had fought the
British only 14 years earlier,
refused to take part in the war.
A second pair of stamps recalls
the battle of Square Hill in
Palestine, which was fought
entirely by the Cape Corps, and the
sinking of the SS Mendi in the
English Channel in February 1917,
in which 616 South Africans lost
their lives on the way to fight in France.
The third pair commemorates battles on the Western Front. The Battle of Delville Wood in
1916 was the first and deadliest major engagement for the 1st South African Infantry
Brigade, and the Battle of Marrières Wood in 1918 saw 500 South Africans hold up the
advance of a whole German army. Portrayed in the centre is Private William Faulds, who
was awarded the Victoria Cross after Delville and the Military Cross after Marrières.

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Unionist politician RECURRING THEME

appears on Irish stamp Some countries have been celebrating the
International Year of Crystallography.
Julia Lee sees what’s crystal clear
Ireland has illustrated one of
the major opponents of its
BELGIUM
independence from Britain on a
Belgium’s miniature sheet has two stamps showing a
stamp for the first time.
diffraction experiment and how water molecules are
The 60c design marking the 100th
arranged in ice crystals, while the background illustrates
anniversary of the Home Rule Act of
snowflakes. The whole sheet is transparent.
1914 portrays John Redmond, the
nationalist leader of the Irish
Parliamentary Party who called for
self-government, but also Edward
Carson, the unionist politician who
opposed it.
Carson founded the Ulster
Volunteers militia to oppose any
form of ‘home rule’, and in
September 1912 he was the first
signatory of the Ulster Covenant,
threatening to use ‘all means ABOVE: Ireland’s 60c stamp portrays
necessary’ to resist it. John Redmond (foreground) and
The Act was passed by the British Edward Carson (background)
Parliament in 1914, but was never
put into practice due to the the outbreak of World War I.
One Irish academic said: ‘Many people will be surprised to see an
image of Edward Carson on a stamp issued by An Post. It is possible ISRAEL
that this is a gesture to Protestants ahead of the commemoration of Israel has issued a stamp
the 1916 Easter Rising.’ honouring Dan
Shechtman, who in 1982
discovered a new form of

D-Day veteran takes matter known as quasi-

periodic crystals, and in

Isle of Man stamps to

2011 was eventually
awarded the Nobel Prize
for Chemistry. The flower-

Normandy beaches like image on the stamp is

based on an electron
microscope’s photograph
A D-Day veteran of icosahedral (twenty-
returned to the sided) quasicrystal aggregates of an aluminum-manganese
Normandy beaches alloy, while the background illustrates an electron
for the 70th diffraction pattern from such a crystal.
anniversary
celebrations carrying
the Isle of Man’s
SWITZERLAND
commemorative
While acknowledging crystallography as a science that
stamps.
looks at the atomic structure of materials, Switzerland’s
Manxman Hector
two stamps depict crystals as the lay person understands
Duff, who landed on
them. The beautiful photographs of amethyst and epidote
Gold Beach as part of
were shot by Thomas Schupbach.
Operation Overlord
on June 6, 1944, also
drew upon his
memories to write
the text
accompanying the
island’s philatelic
products.
His return to
Normandy was
featured on ITV’s ABOVE: D-Day veteran Hector Duff with This Morning’s
flagship This Morning Denise Robertson and the Isle of Man stamp issue on the
programme. beach in Normandy

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BRITISH GUIANA 1856 RHODESIA 1922

Unique 1c black on magenta LD
F OR
8 Admirals block
SO
, 6 61,20 imperf between
Sotheby’s much anticipated sale of the 1856 £4
British Guiana 1c black on magenta brought
a world record price for a single stamp, The highlight of the first in a keenly
reclaiming a title that this iconic item has anticipated series of sales of the
held several times in the past. Vestey collection by Spink was a section of
The auction room in New York was filled the Admiral issues from Rhodesia,
with many of the big names in philately, and including essays, proofs and varieties
bidding was brisk, from $4.5m up to $7.9m which have not appeared on the market
in around two minutes. Ultimately the room since the 1980s.
fell silent as telephone bidding took over, Very competitive bidding meant that
taking the realisation to a dizzying sum, many lots sold for significantly more than
albeit one which was less than the pre-sale their pre-sale estimates, and the top
estimate of $10m-$20m. realisation was for a marginal block of four
Typeset and printed on a newspaper press of the 1922-24 1s black and dull blue, in
in the colony as a provisional measure, and initialled by the postmaster E D Wright before which the vertical pairs were imperforate
being sold, the stamp was used in Demerera on April 4, 1856. between.
Last auctioned in 1980, the stamp was last seen in public in 1987, since when it has spent From the bottom of the sheet, the block
most of its time in a bank vault in the United States. had the full printer’s imprint of Waterlow
& Sons in London.
SOLD BY SOTHEBY’S £4,661,208
SOLD BY SPINK £46,000

SINGAPORE 1854
Largest franking of Indian stamps
Christoph Gärtner’s auction included a spectacular commercial cover which may be the
largest surviving franking of India’s 1854 stamps used in Singapore.
The cover of November 1854, sent from the Philippines to Switzerland, via Singapore and
Trieste, was franked with no fewer than 10 copies of the 4a blue and red, which was five
times the basic franking rate, and must therefore have carried something of weight.
With various forwarding
cachets, charge marks and
arrival cancellations, it is
quite an exhibition piece.
Indian stamps had been
introduced in Singapore just
a few months earlier in
1854. It did not become part
of the Straits Settlements
until 1867.

SOLD BY GÄRTNER
£56,495

USA 1918
Unmounted mint Inverted Jenny
The British Guiana 1c was not the only
single-lot philatelic auction in recent weeks,
because the status of the Inverted Jenny
persuaded Spink USA to take the same
approach for one of the most desirable
examples available.
Only five copies of the famous error are
unmounted mint, and the one from the
J E Safra collection is thought to be the
finest, with others having various degrees
of faults.
Only a single sheet of 100 of the USA’s
1918 24c airmail stamp were printed with
the vignette of the Curtiss Jenny biplane
upside down, an error which was discovered
just a day after the stamp was issued.
SOLD BY SPINK USA £298,730

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CANADA 1851
Unused 3d vermilion
Eastern Auctions’ sale of the Montclair
collection of Canada included an amazing
array of rarities, one such being the 1851
3d vermilion, unused with original gum.
Recess-printed in New York on
horizontally laid paper, the lowest value in
the first issue of the Province of Canada
depicted the American beaver, and was
the first British Empire stamp to feature
an animal rather than a royal portrait.
The auction house’s research
suggested that many of the most famous
British Empire collectors, such as Sir
Gawaine Baillie, never managed to own
this particular stamp.
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GREECE 1923
Unissued
overprints
Karamitsos’ auction included a great Greek
rarity from the ‘Revolution 1922’ overprints
of 1923.
It was a part sheet of 20 of the 10d on 10d
(overprinted on the 1913 design celebrating
the Greek occupation of Macedonia, Epirus
and the Aegean Islands), which was one of
five values prepared but never issued.
The rouletted block has the printer’s
imprint in the left-hand margin.
SOLD BY KARAMITSOS £20,950
SOLD BY EASTERN AUCTIONS £36,575

RUSSIA 1858
Rare combination franking
Feldman’s auction included a
specialised section on the
postal history of the first issue
of Russia, and one of the
highlights was this fragment
of a cover with an extremely
rare combined franking.
It featured Russia’s very
first stamp, the imperforate
1858 10k blue and brown, in
combination with the rarest
stamp of the classic period,
the perforated 30k green and
crimson on thick paper which was issued later the same year.
Cancelled with a straight-line Arkhangelsk postmark, this item went well beyond its
substantial pre-sale estimate.

SOLD BY DAVID FELDMAN £16,239

BASUTOLAND 1934
Official overprints on cover
A unique item which appeared at
Cavendish’s auction was this OHMS cover
from Basutoland.
Sent on May 1, 1934, from the
Secretariat at Maseru to the colony’s
former Resident Commissioner Sir
Godfrey Lagden in England, it was franked
with two examples of the ½d official stamp
and a marginal 1d official, the latter
showing part of the printer’s imprint.
The set of four official overprints issued
in 1934 are Basutoland’s rarest issue. Only
300 of each value were produced, and they
were in use for only three months. It is
thought that only 24 of the ½d and 34 of
the 1d were ever used. SOLD BY CAVENDISH £15,000

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FALKLAND ISLANDS 1928 NORTHERN NIGERIA 1904

Unique surcharge proof
Grosvenor’s auction included
what is thought to be the
original proof made for South
Georgia’s provisional
surcharge of 1928.
When stocks of 2½d
stamps were exhausted on
the Falkland Islands
dependency in January that
year, the authorities in
Stanley approved the local
surcharging of stocks of the
2d purple-brown. Fewer than
1,200 copies were
surcharged, and they were in
use from February 7-22 only.
A contemporary letter
which accompanies this
stamp, signed by Sub-
Magistrate A G Nelson-
Jones, states that it is ‘the
first to be surcharged’ and
‘the only one in existence
with an indelible
surcharge’.
Plate proof of the £25
Philangles sold a
rare plate proof of
the most expensive
Edwardian stamp of
Northern Nigeria,
the 1904 £25.
Unlike the issued
stamp, which was
printed in green
and carmine on
Multiple Crowns
watermarked paper,
this imperforate
proof was printed in
green and black on
the Crown CA
watermarked paper
which had been used
for the earlier King
Edward VII definitives.
Although it was inscribed ‘Postage & Revenue’, the stamp was
effectively intended only for a fiscal purpose, specifically for the
payment of liquor licence fees.
SOLD BY GROSVENOR
£7,800 SOLD BY PHILANGLES £6,500

GREAT BRITAIN 1856 PERU

Postal stationery used in the Levant Revenue collection
One of the highlights of Grosvenor’s impressive section of Great Britain postal Warwick & Warwick’s sale of the Clive Akerman
stationery used in the Levant was this 1856 unoverprinted 1d pink envelope, additionally collection offered some fine South American
franked with two Penny Red adhesives. material, including an award-winning collection
Sent from Constantinople to Narbeth in Pembrokeshire, via Marseilles, it was of Peru revenues which was sold as a single lot.
cancelled with two ‘OXO’ barred oval postmarks, and it has a British Army Post office Regarded as the definitive collection in its
handstamp on the reverse. field, it included proofs, specimen stamps and
Only two such covers have been recorded, making this a rare exhibition piece. rare usages. Typical of the quality was this
signed-off Consular Service die proof of 1938.
SOLD BY GROSVENOR £2,500
SOLD BY WARWICK & WARWICK £10,350

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NEW ISSUE
Ready, set, Glasgow!
Let the Games begin...
O
n July 17, six days before the opening
of the 20th Commonwealth Games in
Glasgow, Royal Mail will issue six
stamps to celebrate the largest sporting
and cultural festival ever held in Scotland.
This is the third time the Games have
taken place in Scotland, after Edinburgh
hosted the event in 1970 and 1986. A total of
71 national teams will compete.
The six stamps are illustrated by
Dutchwoman Nanette Hoogslag, using
photographs of different sports by Andy
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Hooper, the chief sports photographer for
the Daily Mail. Each design shows top-level
sportsmen and women in action, but their
faces have been changed to keep the
emphasis on the action.
The set was designed by Howard Brown
and printed in lithography by International
Security Products.
2nd class JUDO
Judo is an ‘optional sport’, which might or
might not be included in the programme
for each Commonwealth Games. In fact
2014 will be only its third outing, after the
1990 Games in Auckland and the 2002
competition in Manchester.
1st class SWIMMING
Swimming is a ‘core sport’, included in
every Games since the first British Empire
Games in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1930, when
Canada and England dominated the events.
The swimming medals table in Delhi in 2010
was led by Australia with 22 golds.
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TOP COVERS
Who’s leading the way
in Games covers?
Julia Lee drops the tape

ELEVATING THE HOST

Bradbury’s cover has a Sport For
All theme, with the same multi-
sport illustration is used for its
Olympic Gold Medal Winner covers
in 2012 but with the background of
a saltire. The Glasgow postmark
states ‘17 sports, 11 days of
competition, 1 host city’, and the
price is £25 post free.
www.bfdc.co.uk

SPRINT QUEEN
Buckingham’s cover is a tribute to
British 400m athlete Christine
97p MARATHON Ohuruogu, and shows the Olympic
The marathon route will start and finish on gold medallist and former
Glasgow Green, going through Bellahouton Commonwealth Games champion
and Pollok Country Park and passing the (representing England in 2006)
Hockey Centre, the Tramway arts centre sprinting. The Glasgow postmark
and the Science Centre. It will also cross shows Ohuruogu carrying a relay
the River Clyde four times, including over baton, and the cover costs £15.95,
on the Clyde Arc, known locally as the or £26.95 signed by the athlete.
‘Squinty Bridge’. www.buckinghamcovers.com

£1.28 SQUASH
This racquet sport has been included in the
Games since Kuala Lumpur in 1998.
Australia and England have been the most
successful countries, winning seven golds
and seven silvers each.
£1.47 NETBALL
Introduced in 1998, netball is a
Commonwealth Games sport but not an
Olympic sport. Australia and New Zealand
have dominated the four tournaments so
far, winning gold or silver every time.
PRICES
£2.15 PARA-SPORT TRACK CYCLING
A record 22 para-sport events will be
contested in Glasgow in five disciplines:
athletics, cycling, lawn bowls, weightlifting
and swimming. Cycling is included for the
first time, with events being contested in
VERDICT
the Sir Chris Hoy velodrome. COMMEMORATIVE WORTH œ
Royal Mail has issued stamps for every
OTHER PRODUCTS British-hosted Commonwealth Games,
The presentation pack, written by Jim so the precedent is well established
Davies, provides a brief history of the

Set of 6 stamps £7.02

Presentation pack
Stamp cards
First day cover
First day envelope
Retail stamp book
TOTAL
Commonwealth Games and details the
sports included. The pack was designed by
£7.55 Supple Studio with paintings by Tim Marrs.
£2.70 A retail stamp book, also issued on July 17,
contains two 1st class Swimming stamps (in
£8.90
self-adhesive format and printed in gravure)
£0.30 alongside four 1st class Machin definitives.
£3.72 Three types of coin cover are available,
along with the standard first day envelope
£30.19
and stamp cards.
QUALITY OF DESIGN œœ
Three different people combined to
create the stamps, but the end result is
attractively homogenous
WOW FACTOR œœœ
The designs do an excellent job of
conveying movement, which is the
tricky bit, but will they catch the eye?

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NEW ISSUE
Recalling the Great War
with art and humanity
R
oyal Mail starts a five-part annual
series commemorating the 100th
anniversary of the First World
War on July 28, with a set of six stamps
linked to the first year of the conflict,
1914. Further issues will follow in
2015-18 inclusive.
If the set looks incoherent at first glance,
Royal Mail has made it clear there is a
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carefully planned rationale behind it. Each
year’s issue will have the same six thematic
strands: poppies, poetry, portraits, war art,
memorials and artefacts. Several of the
stamps will include artwork specifically
commissioned for the issues.
Designed by Hat-Trick, the stamps were
printed in lithography by International
Security Printers.
1st class POPPY, FIONA STRICKLAND
Detested by farmers in Flanders as a
stubborn weed, the poppy’s tendency to
spring up on disturbed earth made it a
common sight on shell-torn battlefields,
and it quickly became symbolic of the war.
Its deep red colour seemed to evoke the
blood of soldiers, while its delicate petals
hinted at the fragility of life. This specially

commissioned painting is by botanical artist
Fiona Strickland.
1st class FOR THE FALLEN,
LAURENCE BINYON
A senior curator at the British Museum, an
authority on East Asian art and a published
poet, Laurence Binyon was too old to enlist
at the outbreak of war, but he made an
impact with his words. On September 21,
1914, after the British Expeditionary
Force had suffered heavy casualties at the
Battle of Mons, The Times newspaper
printed his seven-stanza poem For The
Fallen. A century later it is still heard
across the world in Remembrance Day
services, and the stamp shows the second
half of the fourth stanza carved by
stonemason Gary Breeze.
1st class PRIVATE WILLIAM CECIL TICKLE
Private William Cecil Tickle is
portrayed as a typical soldier who
enlisted during the height of the recruiting
rush in September 1914. Despite being
under-age, he managed to join the 9th
Battalion, Essex Regiment, which was
deployed to France. He was killed by
machine-gun fire on the third day of the
Battle of the Somme in July 1916, and has
no known grave. However, his name
was placed on the Thiepval Memorial To
The Missing.
£1.47 A STAR SHELL , C R W NEVINSON
After serving in France and Flanders in the
Royal Army Medical Corps but being
invalided out of the army, Christopher
PRICES
Set of 6 stamps £6.27
Presentation pack £6.80
Stamp cards £2.70
First day cover £8.00
Prestige stamp book £11.30
TOTAL £39.24
Nevinson secured a commission as an
official war artist, painting in a futurist
style. In A Star Shell, he depicted the
unearthly light of an illuminating artillery
flare revealing an alien landscape of broken
ground and barbed wire.
£1.47 THE RESPONSE , NEWCASTLE
The Response (also known as the Renwick
Memorial) is a granite monument with a
bronze frieze by William Goscombe John,
depicting the volunteers of the
Northumberland Fusiliers marching
resolutely to the station on their way to
France, heralded by the figure of Victory.
Field Marshal Lord Kitchener’s call to
arms in September 1914 met with an
overwhelming response, recruiting two
and half million volunteers by the end
of 1915.
£1.47 PRINCESS MARY’S GIFT FUND BOX
At Christmas in 1914, some 426,724 gifts
were distributed to British personnel on
active service overseas, thanks to a public
appeal led by Princess Mary, the daughter
of King George V. Launched on October
15, her Christmas Gift Fund aimed to
‘send a Christmas present from the whole
nation to every sailor afloat and every
soldier at the front’, and raised more
than £162,000. Each gift comprised a
Christmas card, writing materials, tobacco
and a photograph of the Princess, all of
which were enclosed in an embossed
brass box.
OTHER PRODUCTS
The presentation pack charts the course of
events from June to December 1914, and
was written by Ian Kikuchi, a leading
member of the team creating the new
World War I galleries at the Imperial War
Museum in London.
Besides the usual stamp cards and
first day cover, there is also a prestige
stamp book accompanying this issue (see
page 27), which includes the sheet stamps
in se-tenant strips and printed by Enschedé
rather than ISP.
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TOP COVERS
Julia Lee reviews the
covers marking the
most poignant of anniversaries
RECRUITING & REMEMBRANCE
Buckingham’s cover features a
recruitment poster with the
slogan ‘Your chums are fighting.
Why aren’t you?’, and the six
stamps are cancelled by a ‘We
Will Remember Them’ postmark
from London SW1. It is available
unsigned for £15.95, with signed
options also available.
www.buckinghamcovers.com
WHERE POPPIES GROW
Bradbury’s cover has a
background image of guns at the
front, with poppies and
silhouettes of soldiers at left. The
pictorial postmark of Alrewas in
Staffordshire, site of the National
Memorial Arboretum, also shows
a soldier and a poppy. Covers are
priced £25 post free.
www.bfdc.co.uk
VERDICT
COMMEMORATIVE WORTH 
The 100th anniversary requires
sensitive commemoration, and this is an
appropriate approach
QUALITY OF DESIGN œ
There is specially commissioned
artwork within a set that aims to cover
many aspects of the war
WOW FACTOR œœœ
The designs are moving if you
understand what they represent, but may
go over the heads of casual observers
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Postal museum to open

in 2016 after Heritage
Lottery Fund grant
The British Postal Museum & Archive has been awarded £4.5m by
the Heritage Lottery Fund towards the creation of the new national
WHAT TO EXPECT
postal museum in London.
The grant means 95% of the necessary funding for the museum is The new national postal museum is planned to have
now in place. Building work is expected to begin this summer at 1,333m² of floor space open to the public.
Calthorpe House, close to the current BPMA premises at Mount Stamps will not have a dedicated zone, but will be ‘used
Pleasant, with the museum projected to open in 2016. to portray stories around the zones’, in the words of a
As part of the plans, Mail Rail, the former underground railway BPMA spokesman.
operated by the Post Office, will be refurbished and opened as a Researchers will also have better access to the stamp
visitor attraction. archive, and a dedicated digitisation studio will mean that
The BPMA’s Director Adrian Steel said: ‘With this significant grant more material will become available online.
from the Heritage Lottery Fund, we have taken another major step
towards building a world-class, sustainable museum that will
highlight the important story of our universally recognisable postal
service, which has played a vital role in both British and global
history, shaping the world as we know it today.’
Plans for a new postal museum have had a chequered history
since the old National Postal Museum closed in 1998. A project to
establish it in Swindon reached the planning stage, but Royal Mail
withdrew its support in 2011.
For the current project, the money has been raised by a
combination of lottery grants, grants from other sources, sales of
duplicate philatelic material at auction and by private treaty,
philanthropic donations and agreements with Royal Mail and the
Post Office. There now appears to be no major obstacle to progress.

BELOW: Staff at the BPMA celebrate the news of the Heritage Lottery Fund award

© BRITISH POSTAL MUSEUM & ARCHIVE

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Post & Go pictorials printed
with 2nd class rate in error
Post & Go Spring Flowers pictorial
stamps exist machine-printed with
2nd class postal rates in error.
When stamps were being loaded
into one of the new NCR vending
machines at Haywards Heath post
office, two pictorial rolls were
installed instead of one pictorial roll
and one 2nd class roll.
After a week, the post office
manager realised a mistake had been
made, and the correct 2nd class roll
was installed. By then, a small
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number of errors had been dispensed.
A Royal Mail source informs us that
there is a device to prevent rolls of the
2nd class stamp design from being
wrongly installed in machines where
the service is not offered, but not one
to prevent pictorial stamps from
being installed where the 2nd class
value is available.
Measures are now expected to be
taken to correct this anomaly.
The 2nd class value is supposed to
be printed on its own Machin design.

Something fishy about the Great War set

Sustainable Fish issue? augmented by
Representatives of the fishing industry have objected to June’s Sustainable Fish stamps,
describing the issue as a ‘naive and poorly thought-through intervention’ which ‘feeds the
prestige book
catastrophe narrative that has harmed the reputation of our industry’.
The First World War issue (see page 24) is
In a strongly-worded complaint to Royal Mail’s Chief Executive, the National Federation of
accompanied by a prestige stamp book
Fishermen’s Organisations said its members felt ‘demoralised and undermined’ by the issue.
which appears to be the first in a series,
It complained that the issue ‘aims to influence consumer choice about what it has decided
with ‘14’ prominent on the cover.
are sustainable and unsustainable fish stocks’ and ‘adds fuel to the widely held but false
The first two panes comprise the six
notion that fish stocks are generally in decline’.
sheet stamps, arranged in se-tenant strips.
It also objected to Royal Mail’s choice of adviser on the issue, Professor Callum Roberts,
The third has a £1 Machin definitive and
who was ‘better known for environmental advocacy than robust science’.
eight reproductions of the King George V 1d
red, which met the basic letter rate in 1914.
A fourth pane has four 1st class country
definitives, two 20p Machins, two 10p
Machins and a central label showing the
cross from a Commonwealth war grave.

Bees safely delivered

from village postbox
A beekeeper was called in to remove a swarm of bees from a
postbox in Lyneham, Wiltshire, after they began to nest there.
A Royal Mail maintenance man noticed that the bees were using the
box as a home, and called in Fee Robinson to remove them safely.
She said it was the first case she had seen of a swarm in a postbox,
but pointed out that conditions there were ideal for the insects.
‘When bees are looking for a home, they want something
insulated, big enough to allow the colony to expand but with a small
entrance so it can be easily defended from other bees or wasps.’

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 GB COLLECTOR Edited by Julia Lee. Tel: 01689 869905. E-mail: julia.lee@mytimemedia.com

HOT OFF THE PRESS Only miniature sheets

Don Staddon has the inside line on British
stamp printings, post office supplies and bought from post offices
developments in postal mechanisation
come with selvedge
COMMONWEALTH GAMES PRINTING
The Commonwealth Games stamps were litho-printed Contrary to what we were informed by Royal Mail (July issue,
by Cartor from cylinders C1, C1, C1, C1, C1, phosphor page 25), miniature sheets ordered from the philatelic service at
C1. The phosphor is applied all over, apart from the Tallents House are not being supplied with barcoded selvedge. Only
2nd class value which has a single band down the those bought over post office counters have this.
right side. The only issues affected so far are the Buckingham Palace and
They come in sheets of 50, each divided into two panes Great British Film miniature sheets, issued in April and May.
of 25 by a horizontal gutter. Both panes have cylinder
numbers in the left margin above the sales date.
The top value of £2.15, meeting the international air
mail up to 60g rate, is the highest ever value in a British
commemorative issue.

GREAT WAR PRINTING

The Great War set was also litho-printed by Cartor from
cylinders C1, C1, C1, C1, C1, phosphor C1, in sheets of 50
divided into two panes of 25.

DEFINITIVE PRINTINGS
The first sighting of a 1st class red Machin from rolls with
the year code ‘M13L’ in the security overlay came on a
stamped letter sent out to Royal Mail shareholders.

BOOKLET PRINTINGS
The Commonwealth Games booklet (see page 23) was
printed by International Security Printers from cylinder
numbers W1 x 7, phosphor W1.
In a minor change to all standard booklets and Postcard display in
business sheets on August 31, the telephone number
printed on the back cover will change from an 0845
number to an 0345 number.
Manchester honours
POST & GO UPGRADES
fallen soldiers
After several postponements, Post & Go stamps with the
A Manchester man is honouring the fallen of World War I in his own
new combined ‘Euro 20g/World 10g’ machine-printed
unique way.
inscription (July issue, page 26) began to come available
David Harrop is setting up displays of wartime postcards from his
from the new NCR vending machines from June 5.
postal history collection in Manchester’s South Cemetery, where
All NCR machines are being updated, but not the old
they will remain on show for the rest of the year.
Wincor-Nixdorf machines, which are being phased out.
Harrop is the man whose personal collection was the basis of the
now closed Manchester Postal Museum in Wythenshawe Park,
which he hopes to reopen in Stockport this summer.

ROVING POST & GO MACHINES

Two of Royal Mail’s roving IAR Post & Go machines will be
in operation at York Stamp Fair on July 18-19, dispensing
Machin and Union Flag stamps without an event-specific
overprint. Collectors strips will include the new
‘Euro 20g/World 10g’ value.
Both machines (along with the machine which
dispenses Jersey stamps) will then travel to the
Philakorea international exhibition on August 7-12, where
event-specific inscriptions will be available. ABOVE: 1916 postcard from France to Croydon, sent free by a soldier on active service, with
‘Army Post Office S18’ and ‘Passed Field Censor’ handstamps

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LETTER OF THE MONTH

Is Royal Mail preparing itself for a

demonetisation of old stamp issues?
Richard Goulden wrote to Stamp Magazine last year that he had been advised by counter
staff in a main post office that it was now official policy not to cancel stamps on parcels
and small packets (June 2013 issue, page 30). Analysing my incoming post over the past
few months, I’ve noticed that this does indeed seem to be the case.
Almost all my philatelic mail now arrives with its colourful array of British stamps
GET IN TOUCH unpostmarked, as do about half of my other letters for that matter. In the past month
alone, I’ve accumulated apparently unused and therefore perfectly reusable stamps to a
These pages are devoted to giving total face value of over £5.
you the opportunity to have your say. If this situation is true across the whole country, it adds up to a huge potential loss of
Whether you want to praise or revenue for Royal Mail.
complain, suggest or advise, add This leads me to two possible conclusions. Either the company is about to place the
information or correct it, or just get world’s biggest ever order for biros, or a new regulation is soon going to be introduced
something off your chest, we’d love demonetising stamps a few months after their issue date.
to hear from you. I’m assuming the latter, and I’m guessing that dealers are thinking the same way. The
price of surplus mint decimal stamps has been falling steadily, perhaps due to a fear that
Send your letters to: they might suddenly be invalidated.
Stamp Magazine, MyTimeMedia Ltd, If that happens, of course, the costly torrent of stamps which Royal Mail is currently
Enterprise House, Enterprise Way, aiming purely at collectors wouldn’t hold its face value either. With no children’s packets
Edenbridge, Kent TN8 6HG left to get rid of the surplus, modern British stamps would literally be waste paper within
Or send an e-mail to: months of issue.
guy.thomas@mytimemedia.com Could today’s plethora of pointless high-value commemorative issues represent
Royal Mail working the golden goose of philatelic revenue to exhaustion, before finally
The Editor reads all letters, but is wringing its neck?
unable to answer them all personally. Eric Eunson, via e-mail
We reserve the right to edit letters
for publication.
Pen cancels don’t always make covers worthless!
After reading Gil
No special treatment Singleton’s letter
complaining about
I wrote to Royal Mail to complain that only about Royal Mail’s
10-15% of the stamped mail I receive from Great employees
Britain has the stamps properly cancelled. defacing stamps
The reply I received from Customer with biro (July
Services in Edinburgh invited me to send issue, page 32), I
covers to one of the special handstamp had to smile when I
centres. But I do not want special turned to Auction
handstamps. I want operational Highlights in the
cancellations! same issue.
Simon Coombe, Guernsey There was an
1840 Mulready
lettersheet franked
Machin machinations with two Penny
Blacks and four
I have been collecting Great Britain’s Twopenny Blues,
definitives from 1971 onwards, as I consider all defaced by pen.
Arnold Machin’s design a classic. But what Despite this, it had
a nightmare to collect! sold for £60,000!
Why are there at least nine variations of Some things
the humble 10p value? How many shades of never change. My
ochre are there? Why have so many advice to Gil is to
different printers been employed? Why hang on to his
introduce so many security changes, from cover, because in
elliptical perforations to overlay text? 175 years’ time it
How can I distinguish between SG X992 might also fetch a
and SG X994, or between stamps produced huge price at
on normal and abnormal paper? And what auction.
is ‘abnormal paper’ anyway? Mark Talbot,
W Oldfield, Brighouse Perton

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SOAPBOX
Do small British overseas territories issue high value stamps far in
excess of postal needs? Noel Davenhill weighs up the arguments

The number of new these territories end up

stamps issued by the being offered on eBay or
smaller British overseas at stamp fairs,
territories, such as presumably because
Ascension Island, British most are thrown out with
Antarctic Territory, the packaging.
British Indian Ocean
Territory, Pitcairn UNDERPOPULATION
Islands, South Georgia On the other side of the
and Tristan da Cunha, coin, this mini boom in
prompts many collectors parcel post cannot justify
to lose interest, the profusion of high
especially where they values issued annually
are high values for which for islands with very
there might appear to be small populations.
little postal need. Pitcairn has a
Scepticism of these population of around 50
policies is nothing new, people, covering less
of course. As long ago as ABOVE: Part of a Falkland Islands conveyancing document of 1968, which is franked with a total of 38 than 20 square miles, so
1954, there were tongue- £1 stamps used fiscally by the Registrar General (image courtesy of Stefan Heijtz) it hardly needs domestic
in-cheek comments that rate stamps, but does it
it could only be penguins really need such regular
who had need of the new issues of stamps above
Falkland Islands $2 (about £1.30) in face
Dependencies £1 value?
denomination, perhaps BIOT has 3,000 people,
to post their eggs! but these are mostly
Sure enough, in the United States military
days before regular personnel and
airmail services, few of contractors who have
these high values were their own separate
used for postage, postal arrangements.
although there is The main island of Diego
evidence of substantial Garcia is closed to
fiscal usage for marriage tourists, so few stamps
licences, wills, of any kind can be used
conveyances and postally, especially £1 to
mortgages. £2 denominations.
With the use of postage I have made enquiries
stamps for revenue to postmasters of
purposes now largely various British overseas
over, is there any point in ABOVE: High and low values to a total of £6.85 ABOVE: High and low values to a total of £6.75 on a territories, and some
big denominations from on a parcel posted from South Georgia in 2012 parcel posted from Ascension Island in 2012 have been good enough
small territories? to provide scans of
ship RMS St Helena or the twice-weekly genuine parcels franked with high value
PARCEL POST flights operating between Britain and stamps which they were handling at the
In fact, to some extent there is a the Falklands. time. Enquiries to the secretive BIOT, in
continuing need for these stamps, to Tristan da Cunha has fewer visitors, contrast, have remained unanswered.
cater for a significant increase in the use but its residents make considerable
of parcel post, a development driven by internet sales of local handicrafts RESTRAINT REQUIRED
internet shopping and cruise ship visits. such as knitwear, which require Almost everywhere, there is a need for
Postcards might dominate the mail high-denomination stamps. high denomination stamps, and it is
sent from South Georgia and the BAT There is also a growing online demand logical to include them in definitive
research stations by 5,000 tourists each for wood carvings, honey and soap from series which are replaced once every
year, but there also many copies of the cottage industries of Pitcairn Island, few years and are always available.
Antarctic Oasis , a popular book available in addition to souvenirs mailed as gifts However, there is no postal
from local museum shops, posted home, by passengers on up to 15 cruise liners justification for including them in almost
at a cost of about £10 in stamps. visiting each year. every new commemorative or pictorial
Many souvenirs are also posted from The pity is that relatively few of these stamp issue, including miniature sheets.
Ascension, by passengers on the supply commercially used high values from Noel Davenhill

AUGUST 2014 www.stampmagazine.co.uk 33

 YOUR VIEWS

Royal Tour yacht SS Gothic starred on an Take care not to repeat

unissued New Zealand stamp myths as facts
Further to your feature about the stamps and covers commemorating the 1953-54 Royal Christopher Board’s letter pointing out your
Tour of the Commonwealth (June issue, page 40), it is worth noting that the royal yacht, error in identifying the first stamp to
SS Gothic, was to be illustrated on New Zealand’s stamps for the 1952 Royal Tour. portray King George V (July issue, page 30)
Die proofs survive, but the stamps were never issued because the tour was truncated in highlights a common problem.
Kenya in February, when King George VI died unexpectedly and Princess Elizabeth had to Philately is notorious for perpetuating
return home as Queen. errors of fact that were introduced many
As your feature related, SS Gothic was the ship in which the Queen eventually arrived in years ago, even though the error may have
Auckland in December 1953 and left South Island a month later, so the original stamp been corrected many times since.
design might have been resurrected. Understandably, however, royal portraits of the new This seems to arise because there is a
monarch and Prince Philip were chosen instead. tendency amongst philatelists to quote
John Salisbury, via e-mail something they have read, without checking
whether it was subsequently corrected.
I know that this particular claim (that
South Africa issued the first stamp of King
George V) was put to bed in a philatelic
journal as far back as 1936, and perhaps
earlier. But that hasn’t stopped it being
repeated, time and time again.
We all need to be careful not to
perpetuate myths and legends as facts.
Malcolm J Givans, Petersfield

Penny Black beats a

British Guiana any day
In response to the Devil’s Advocate column
(June issue, page 35), owning the world’s
rarest stamp is certainly not for me!
Owning the 1856 British Guiana 1c
couldn’t possibly be fun. I would always be
afraid of losing it or damaging it, and how
ABOVE: Colour die proof for New Zealand’s unissued 1952 Royal Visit 3d, depicting SS Gothic
would I enjoy owning it if it was housed in a
safety deposit box?
It is much more satisfying to own a good
How to get covers from an unrecognised country example of the Penny Black, for example.
You can display it in a normal stamp album,
As your readers might or might not be aware, the Sovereign Military Order of Malta has and do so with pride, but it is not rare and
diplomatic relations with a number of countries, but these do not include Great Britain. can be replaced if necessary.
So what do you do if you want to receive a letter posted from its sovereign territory, which Mike Dornbrock, Iowa, USA
is nowadays in Rome, and which has been issuing its own stamps since 1966?
When in Rome last year, I posted a letter to a fictitious address in one of the countries
which does have diplomatic links with SMOM, writing my British address on the back of the HOT TOPICS
envelope. It worked! Three months later it arrived at my house, without a postage due label.
C Jermyn-Francis, York
You can debate the philatelic
issues of the day, and exchange
opinions and information with
other collectors, in the Forums
section on our website. Visit
www.stampmagazine.co.uk

ABOVE: Cover posted from the territory of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in Rome in 2013, franked with an SMOM €2
stamp cancelled by the Order’s Poste Magistrali handstamp, and delivered to Britain via Ecuador

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GREAT BRITAIN HIGH VALUES
UNMTD MTD VERY FINE SOUND SPACE
SG YEAR VALUE MINT MINT FINE USED USED USED FILLERS

126 (1867) 5/- Malt Cross - - £220.00 £120.00 £69.00 £18.00

128 (1867) 10/- ASK FOR -
- £950.00 £750.00 £480.00 £195.00
129 (1867) £1 - - £1850.00 £1395.00 £850.00 £350.00
134 (1867) 5/- Anchor PHOTOCOPIES
- - £995.00 £650.00 £330.00 £110.00
131 (1867) 10/- - - POR £1450.00 £880.00 £330.00
132 (1867) £1 - - POR £3200.00 £2100.00 £580.00
137 (1867) £5 Orange POR POR £2450.00 £1950.00 £1495.00 POR
178 (1883) 2/6 Q Victoria £420.00 £170.00 £48.00 £32.00 £9.50 £2.95
181 (1883) 5/- £720.00 £320.00 £66.00 £38.00 £15.00 £5.95
183 (1883) 10/- £1600.00 £820.00 £220.00 £140.00 £62.00 £30.00
185 (1884) £1 Crowns POR POR £1150.00 £750.00 £385.00 £195.00
186 (1888) £1 Orbs POR POR £1550.00 £1250.00 £890.00 £380.00
212 (1891) £1 Green £3400.00 £1650.00 £395.00 £330.00 £210.00 £120.00
260 (1902) 2/6 Edward VII £410.00 £165.00 £48.00 £32.00 £10.50 £2.95
263 (1902) 5/- £520.00 £185.00 £58.00 £39.00 £20.00 £5.95
319/265 (1902) 10/- £1095.00 £490.00 £220.00 £150.00 £75.00 £29.00
320/266 (1902) £1 £1750.00 £980.00 £420.00 £320.00 £240.00 £120.00
400 (1913) 2/6 Waterlow £320.00 £120.00 £69.00 £44.00 £20.00 £4.50
401 (1913) 5/- £595.00 £200.00 £120.00 £95.00 £44.00 £9.50
402 (1913) 10/- £1075.00 £440.00 £250.00 £180.00 £115.00 £28.00
403 (1913) £1 POR £1650.00 £850.00 £695.00 £580.00 POR
406 (1915) 2/6 DLR £375.00 £185.00 £70.00 £55.00 £24.00 £4.50
409 (1915) 5/- £690.00 £290.00 £145.00 £95.00 £48.00 £9.50
412 (1915) 10/- POR £1295.00 £380.00 £260.00 £140.00 £30.00
413a (1918) 2/6 Bradbury £220.00 £64.00 £17.50 £12.00 £5.00 £1.25
416 (1918) 5/- £210.00 £75.00 £26.00 £20.00 £7.50 £1.95
417 (1918) 10/- £410.00 £210.00 £66.00 £44.00 £27.00 £6.50
Set 3 Values £840.00 £340.00 £105.00 £76.00 £39.00 £9.50
450 (1934) 2/6 Re-Engraved £85.00 £35.00 £7.50 £6.00 £2.80 £0.70
451 (1934) 5/- £215.00 £78.00 £30.00 £24.00 £10.50 £2.70
452 (1934) 10/- £385.00 £185.00 £28.00 £20.00 £12.00 £4.95
Set 3 Values £660.00 £295.00 £60.00 £48.00 £25.00 £6.50
476 (1939) 2/6 Brown £62.00 £18.00 £3.50 £2.80 £0.95 £0.50
476a (1942) 2/6 Green £6.95 £3.50 £0.35 £0.25 £0.08 £0.05
477 (1939) 5/- £11.50 £4.50 £0.70 £0.50 £0.20 £0.08
478 (1939) 10/- Dark Blue £165.00 £82.00 £12.00 £9.50 £3.50 £1.60
478a (1942) 10/- £22.00 £9.50 £2.40 £1.60 £0.60 £0.30
478b (1948) £1 £14.50 £12.50 £11.00 £8.50 £5.20 £3.30
Set 6 Values £259.00 £125.00 £29.95 £23.00 £10.00 £5.75
509 (1951) 2/6 Festival £3.80 £1.30 £0.45 £0.30 £0.12 £0.05
510 (1951) 5/- £9.50 £3.50 £0.80 £0.45 £0.18 £0.08
511 (1951) 10/- £13.50 £6.40 £3.30 £2.40 £0.95 £0.35
512 (1951) £1 £19.50 £13.00 £8.50 £6.50 £2.50 £1.35
Set 4 Values £45.00 £24.00 £12.50 £8.50 £3.75 £1.50
536 (1955) 2/6 Waterlow £7.50 £2.40 £0.60 £0.40 £0.18 £0.05
537 (1955) 5/- £25.00 £6.50 £2.20 £1.80 £0.40 £0.10
538 (1955) 10/- £54.00 £18.50 £7.50 £5.50 £1.80 £0.30
539 (1955) £1 £72.00 £34.00 £26.00 £18.00 £4.50 £1.10
Set 4 Values £142.00 £59.00 £35.00 £25.00 £5.95 £1.50
536a (1958) 2/6 (1st DLR) £26.00 £16.00 £1.40 £1.20 £0.25 £0.08
537a (1958) 5/- £42.00 £20.00 £3.70 £2.80 £0.95 £0.25
538a (1958) 10/- £165.00 £95.00 £9.80 £8.50 £4.50 £0.60
539a (1958) £1 £205.00 £135.00 £42.00 £36.00 £12.00 £2.50
Set 4 Values £425.00 £260.00 £55.00 £46.00 £17.50 £3.40
595 (1959) 2/6 (2nd DLR) £4.50 £2.00 £0.30 £0.20 £0.08 £0.03
596 (1959) 5/- £17.50 £6.00 £0.50 £0.35 £0.15 £0.05
597 (1959) 10/- £22.00 £10.00 £1.50 £1.10 £0.35 £0.12
598 (1959) £1 £54.00 £28.00 £5.50 £4.40 £1.50 £0.35
Set 4 Values £89.00 £39.00 £7.50 £6.00 £2.00 £0.55

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BACK TO SQUARE ONE
Embarking on a new collection, with proceeds from a sale to reinvest,
should be an enticing prospect. But it’s not as easy as it sounds
I
t’s been a few months since I
sold my collection of early
Great Britain booklet panes,
and there’s a yawning gap in my
life. Not just the physical space
where it used to reside, but a
psychological space that I
need to fill.
Interestingly, I have no
regrets about parting with the
collection. The panes and I had
spent many happy years
together, and we had run our
course. We had had what
Gwyneth Paltrow might have
called ‘a conscious uncoupling’.
It’s not the first time I have been
through such a divorce. Over the
years I’ve sold many collections
and been able to move on.
You might call me fickle. You
might even be right. I prefer to
look at it more pragmatically.
Were my time and financial
resources infinite, then I would
happily have hung on to every
collection I have ever had, but
there has always come a point
where each one has become
stagnant.
I have amassed just about
everything I am likely to be able
to find or afford, and there is
nothing left to do but prevent
the albums from gathering dust
while scouring auction
catalogues for a miracle.
And slowly it becomes
apparent that a miracle is not
going to happen. A previously
unknown cache of panes is not
going to appear on the market
as if by magic, and even if it did I
would not have the resources to
buy it. Switching my attention to
something new seems the
obvious answer.
After selling every previous
collection, though, I’ve always
had another collection I’ve been
itching to start, with the
proceeds from the old one
kick-starting the new one. It’s
been an almost seamless
process.
My collecting life started with
me wanting to have one of every
stamp in the Stanley Gibbons
GB Concise catalogue. After a
while, this felt a bit limiting. I
extended my ambition to include
one of everything in the GB
Specialised catalogues. This in
ABOVE: Is there something missing from your life? Starting a new philatelic
collection would fill the void, but what kind of collection?
‘After selling every previous
collection, I’ve always had another
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turn proved to be wildly THE AUTHOR
John Crace is
over-ambitious. a GB collector
So I excluded the reign of specialising in
Queen Elizabeth II, largely on early booklet
panes, and
the grounds that there was just a newspaper
too much stuff and a lot of it columnist
wasn’t particularly aesthetically
appealing. Then I excluded the
reign of Queen Victoria,
because too many Victorian
stamps ran into hundreds and
thousands of pounds. Still, I
realised I was being stupidly
ambitious.
For a time, my collection
focused on mint stamps from
the reigns of Edward VII,
George V, Edward VIII and
George VI. I also flirted briefly
with the idea of acquiring
blocks of four of each stamp.
That, too, was prohibitively
expensive.
Which is why I ended up
collecting booklet panes. They
fitted my preferred era, they
were (by and large) within
financial reach and the
collection was attainably
self-limiting. It seemed as if it
could actually be completed,
although naturally I was wrong
about that.
Now the booklet panes have
gone the same way as my other
philatelic collections, but this
time I haven’t yet found a new
theme.
I do have other collections on
the go, I should point out. I
collect rare books (that can be
expensive!), Tottenham Hotspur
Football Club banquet menus
and Christmas cards, and World
Cup stickers. But there remains
a void. I need ideas for a new
stamp collection.
Here are my parameters. It
must be Great Britain, and
predate the current reign. It
must be relatively affordable.
And it must be completable.
I’ve thought about officials and
postage dues, but these both
seem too narrow. Am I missing
something? †
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THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914

On the front line

Covers and postcards sent by British forces in France and
Belgium in 1914 give an insight into how postal services
were organised during the early months of World War I, as
well as reflecting the travails of the soldiers involved
† Report by Alistair Kennedy, Past President of the Forces Postal History Society

E
vents moved quickly in
western Europe as the Great
War got underway in the
summer of 1914. In response to
Germany’s declaration of war on
France on August 3, and its violation
of Belgian neutrality on August 4,
Britain declared war on Germany on
the same day.
Advance parties of British troops
landed in France on August 9, and
the main body of the British
Expeditionary Force followed on
August 16.
By August 23, it was engaging the
enemy for the first time at the Battle
of Mons in western Belgium.

Build-up of troops
Under the command of Field Marshal
Sir John French, the BEF initially
comprised four regular infantry
divisions. Two additional infantry
divisions and cavalry brigades joined
soon afterwards, and more still by
the end of the year, when they were
organised into the First Army and
Second Army.
An infantry division comprised
three brigades, each containing four
infantry battalions, plus artillery,
engineers, transport, field
ambulances and other support
groups. In round figures, this added
up to around 20,000 men.
In addition to these divisions, there
were support troops at headquarters
and along the lines of
communication, as well as heavy
artillery under corps control. So the
total British military presence in
France and Belgium started at around
85,000 and increased rapidly through
the second half of 1914.
Postal services
A postal service was provided by the
Royal Engineers (Postal Section). A
small army post office (APO) was
based at each formation headquarters
ABOVE: Infantry of the from brigade level upwards, and
British Expeditionary further offices at divisional supply
Force marching through bases and railheads. These used
a French village in ‘Army Post Office’ postmarks
August 1914, shortly numbered from 1-18 (with a
after the outbreak of single-ring design) and from 19-100
World War I (with a double-ring design).
There were also post offices at
suitable places on the lines of
communication, and larger ones at
bases, some using double-ring ‘E’
postmarks and others specially
worded datestamps.
The field post of the British forces
in France and Belgium in 1914 is
distinctive from that of later in the
war, because the APOs would be
completely reorganised and a new
series of datestamps brought into use
in January 1915.
Cards and letters
From the start, the troops were
provided with field service postcards
(FSPCs), which had an imprinted 1d
stamp on the front and were
pre-printed on the reverse with
simple phrases which could be
deleted as appropriate.
This was a convenient way for
soldiers to assure their families that
they were alive and well when there
was no time to write a letter. It also
obviated the need for censorship to
make sure that sensitive information
was not given away.
Mail other than FSPCs was subject
to censorship by unit officers, and a
numbered censor’s handstamp was
issued to each unit. Initially these
were circular, but before the end of

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Earliest recorded use
of an army post office
August 15, 1914
This unstamped cover was sent by a private in the 2nd
Battalion, Highland Light Infantry, and postmarked
with the Army Post Office No38 handstamp of Boulogne
on August 15. An oval-shaped unit cachet was also
applied, prior to the issue of a unit censor handstamp.
Postage was not free in the earliest days of the war, but
charges on unpaid mail were levied at the rate of 1d per
ounce, rather than the usual double-deficiency. A 1d
charge mark was applied by the Foreign Branch in
London, this sum being collected on delivery in
Sevenoaks on August 19, in accordance with the 1d
postage due stamp.

1914 they were replaced by

square designs.
Postage was payable on ordinary Earliest recorded use of a
letters up to the end of August only,
after which free postage was granted
for mail up to 4oz in weight. ‘London
field service postcard
FS Paid’ (Foreign Section) postmarks
were applied to this mail where
August 16, 1914
necessary to prevent the possibility of
it being wrongly surcharged. Field service postcards (more formally known as Army form A2042) were initially stamped at
Some land-based Royal Naval Air the 1d rate with an imprinted stamp, and were issued free to the troops.
Service units, and the Royal Flying A choice of phrases pre-printed on the reverse could be deleted as appropriate by the
Corps, made use of army post offices sender, with no need for censorship. The downside was that he was not permitted to add
even though the Royal Navy had anything personal besides a signature and the date.
separate postal arrangements. The options were: ‘I am quite well’/‘I have been admitted to hospital (sick/wounded) and
am going on well/and hope to be discharged soon’/‘I am being sent down to the base’/‘I have
Battle lines drawn received your (letter/telegram/parcel)’/‘Letter follows at first opportunity’/‘I have received no
After being defeated by a larger letter from you (lately/for a long time)’.
German force at Mons, the BEF This example, addressed to Newmarket in Cambridgeshire, was signed and dated by the
joined a general allied retreat sender on August 16, the day that the main body of the British Expeditionary Force arrived
southwards, until it played a role in in France. It was posted at the Advance Base Post Office, which had opened at Amiens on
halting the German advance at the that day.
Battle of the Marne from September
5-12. Then it began to advance,
reaching the Somme in early October.
By now both allied and enemy
forces were moving northwards in
what became known as ‘the race to
the sea’, fighting the battles of La
Bassée, Armentières and Messines
and establishing lines of trenches
which stretched from Switzerland to
the North Sea. A large part of the
BEF eventually found itself in
Belgium, defending the Ypres salient.
During this period of movement,
some units lost touch with their APO.
In these circumstances, mail was
posted at French and Belgian civilian
post offices, where it was accepted
unstamped for deliery to Britain.
As the Western Front became
increasingly static, postal
arrangements became smoother.

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THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914

First day of free postage

September 1, 1914
The Postmaster General announced in the House of Commons on August 31 that items of
mail up to 4oz sent unstamped from members of the armed forces on the continent would
henceforth be delivered without charge. This postcard was among the first to take
advantage of this, being mailed unstamped from the Army Base Post Office at Le Havre on
September 1 by Captain G E
Shand, a medical officer at No6
Clearing Hospital.
Addressed to a Reverend in
Birmingham, the message
tenders the writer’s resignation
as captain of his local hockey
club (although he
optimistically says he hopes to
get in a few games before the
end of the season) and also
notes the postponement of
his marriage.

‘A postal service for British forces in France SPLASH OF COLOUR

and Belgium was provided by the Royal Between the end of September and early
Engineers, with a small army post office November 1914, field service postcards were
printed on a variety of different coloured cards,
based at each headquarters’ with the standard wording of the original card,
but with nothing printed on the address side.
These are believed to have been provisional

Bypassing Army Post Office issues printed by the Army Printing &
Stationery Services in France following the

September 23, 1914 granting of free postage. There is no apparent

significance in the different colours.

This postcard home to Essex from a gunner with the No35 Heavy Battery,
Royal Garrison Artillery, written on September 23, is handstamped with
the oval cachet of the unit, dated September 25, but unusually has no Army
Post Office postmark.
This was almost certainly a result of the war still being in its early mobile
phase, and by soldiers losing touch with their post offices during troop
movements. Between the time of writing and the date of the cachet, this
particular battery is known to have lost wagons and equipment after being
hit by enemy shellfire.
Censor handstamp No203 was probably applied by a base censor.

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Disruption caused
by German advance
September 18, 1914
This cover illustrates the disruption caused to mail
services by German advances during September.
Addressed to Hertfordshire by a soldier of the 3rd
Cavalry Brigade stationed north of the River Aisne,
and postmarked by Army Post Office No33 on
September 18, it did not reach Base Army Post Office
at Le Havre for despatch to England until October 3.
This is because British bases on the north coast of
France were moved to the west coast for a period. The
base APO at Le Havre was relocated to Nantes on
September 6, and not reopened until September 27.

This postcard was posted not through the

Mail sent via Belgian civilian post military postal service but at a Belgian
civilian post office, because its sender was
October 6, 1914 a naval policeman from the 2nd Brigade of
the Royal Naval Division, which was not
part of the British Expeditionary Force
and did not have its own post office.
The RN Division was sent to the
besieged seaport of Antwerp for three
days, long enough to allow a large part of
the Belgian Army to withdraw from the
city rather than surrender.
Written by a serviceman to his wife in
Middlesex on October 6, the message
includes the phrase ‘You will see by this I
am well out of Kent. I cannot let you know
where I am,’ but the postmark is clearly
that of Antwerp.
The Belgian postal service accepted the
unstamped card without charging any
postage due. The circular ‘PC’ censor’s
stamp was applied in London, as was the
‘London FS Paid’ Krag machine mark in
red, to prevent possible surcharging.

Mail sent via French

civilian post
October 11, 1914
This field service postcard to Berkshire was posted at
a French civilian post office at Poix, perhaps because
its sender, Private W G Bish, of the 4th Divisional
Ammunition Park, had lost contact with his APO.
The only partly legible cancellation of October 11 is a
provisional one, presumably because the regular
datestamp had been lost during the fierce fighting over
this region in August and September. The circular ‘PC’
censor mark was applied in London, and there is a faint
circular London EC ‘Paid’ datestamp of October 24.

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THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914

Mail sent via French

military post
October 16, 1914
This Belgian picture postcard was posted by a British soldier
at a French military post office, as revealed by the ‘Tresor et
Postes’ No183 postmark dated October 16.
This office served the 89th French Territorial Division,
which was moving from Poperinghe to the front line north of
Ypres to join British and Belgian troops in defending the city.
Addressed to Glasgow, this card would have been from a
soldier with IV Corps, arriving in Ypres from Antwerp.

‘The field post of British forces in

1914 is distinct from that of French military postcard
1915, when it was reorganised’ November 20, 1914
This is a French military postcard used by a British serviceman in a
FRENCH GIRLFRIEND pioneering role: an airman with the Airship Expeditionary Force.
The Royal Naval Air Service established a number of bases in the
Dunkirk area, and this card, addressed to Brighton, was postmarked on
This French military postcard, posted at St November 20 with the lettered skeleton datestamp of Army Post Office
Omer on October 28, was written to Corporal D, a temporary office which later became APO 78.
Albert Croft of the 2nd Battalion of the Suffolk In one of their earliest uses in warfare, British aircraft were used to give
Regiment, by a French girlfriend and her family. cover to cross-Channel troopships and carry out raids on German aerial
Croft, aged 20, had been a survivor of the installations. There was also an airship was used for reconnaissance.
Battle of Le Cateau in August, when the 2nd
Suffolks had suffered very heavy casualties,
and had subsequently been withdrawn from the
front line and sent to General Headquarters in
St Omer to carry out guard duties.
On October 25, after reinforcement, they had
left for the front once again to join the 8th
Brigade, 3rd Division, at the Battle of Ypres. The
manuscript in blue pencil confirms the
redirection of the card.

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Postal Regulating Depot cover
December 17, 1914
A new Postal Regulating Depot was
established at Boulogne on November 15,
to handle all mail passing between France
and England, and this cover to London has
one of the earliest strikes of the Depot’s
own transit datestamp, which was not
available until mid-December.
Dated December 17, the double-ring
handstamp was applied in black to a
registered letter from a soldier with the 1st
Infantry Brigade.
The cover therefore also has an Army
Post Office No1 datestamp of December
16, as well as the square censor mark
No1955 of the 1st Field Ambulance.
The Postal Regulating Depot was
redesignated APO No3 in January 1915.

‘While the front

Letter from double VC winner was moving in
December 31, 1914 October, some
Sometimes the significance of a cover lies not in its postal markings but in the identity of the sender.
soldiers lost touch
This letter, postmarked by Army Post Office No51 on December 31, was signed and self-censored by with their unit’s post
Lieutenant Arthur Martin-Leake, the first double winner of the Victoria Cross.
While serving as a Surgeon Captain in the South African Constabulary during the Boer War office. After it
in 1902, Martin-Leake had been decorated for his devotion to duty in tending wounded
personnel under fire at Vlakfontein.
became static in
Twelve years later, as a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1914, he was
awarded a bar (a second medal could not be awarded to a holder) for conspicuous bravery in
November, postal
rescuing wounded men close to the enemy trenches at Zonnebeke near Ypres. arrangements were
Addressed to his wife in Hertfordshire, the cover has the square handstamp of censor
No1959, which was used by 5th Field Ambulance. much smoother’
FURTHER
READING
The Postal History of the
British Army in World War I
by Alistair Kennedy &
George Crabb (1977)

History of British Army

Postal Services, Vol II,
1903-1927
by E B Proud (c1980)

The Field Censor Systems of

the British Army in 1914-1918
by F W Daniel (1984)

I Am Well
by P C Burrows (1987)

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End of an era
The debut stamps of Southern Nigeria, in 1901, mixed an African character with a
flavour of the east, and offered a fitting epitaph to the reign of Queen Victoria
† Report by John Winchester

T
he Royal Niger Company had RIGHT: Southern
given Britain an edge in the Nigeria 1901-02
colonial powers’ scramble for 10s black and purple
the commodities of west Africa in the on yellow, the top
1890s, but by the end of the decade value in a set of nine
its charter had been rescinded and
the British Government took control
of the territory it ruled.
As part of a wider reorganisation,
the lower valley of the River Niger
was amalgamated with the Niger
Coast Protectorate to form a new
colony of Southern Nigeria, which
came into being in January 1900.
Initially it used the existing Niger
Coast stamps, pending the arrival of
a dedicated issue in 1901.

The first High Commissioner of

Southern Nigeria, Sir Ralph Moor,
was a former Commissioner of the
Niger Coast Protectorate, and seems
to have felt that the new colony’s
stamps should resemble those of his
old territory. Certainly the exemplar
of what was required, sent to the
London printer Thomas De La Rue &
Co by the Crown Agents, was a
recess-printed stamp from the
Protectorate’s 1897 series.
By April 1900 De La Rue was able
to submit a choice of three possible inscription. A single value tablet at The colours were submitted for
designs, and the Crown Agents duly the top neatly divided the name of approval in November, with a
chose one. In truth this was an the colony in two, and even though proposal that the vignette be printed
improvement on those of the the inscriptions ‘Postage’ and in doubly fugitive black ink for extra
Protectorate, with a more central ‘Revenue’ needed to be added, they security. Nine denominations were
royal portrait and a less top-heavy were relegated to the periphery where ordered, ranging from ½d to 10s, all
they were effectively invisible. printed on paper with the Crown CA
As a bonus, De La Rue had watermark and perforated 14.
‘De La Rue had a portrait die available a portrait die which could The top value, the 10s black and
which could be used free of be used free of charge. This turned
out to be an accomplished
purple, stood out from the rest of the
set in being printed on yellow paper,
charge, from the firm’s 1895 Heinrich von Angeli three-quarters and later varieties included the ½d
portrayal of Queen Victoria, and 1d appearing with the vignette in
high value design for India’ which was clearly derived from sepia rather than black.
the firm’s 1895 high value design Released in March 1901, several
for India. weeks after the death of the Queen,
MARKET VALUES Unlike the Protectorate stamps, the issue proved a fitting finale to a
Southern Nigeria’s could be produced glorious reign.
The full set of nine in the 1901-02 first issue of in two colours, for an extra touch of Its intriguing fusion of African and
Southern Nigeria is catalogued at £200 mint and class. The only downside was that Indian elements made it a successful
£450 used, with the six lower values available at that, for the sake of economy, the design, whose essence was retained
well under £10 each. issue would have to be printed by for the subsequent issues of King
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The friendly games

For the Great Britain collector, the Commonwealth Games have been a rich source
of commemorative stamps, covers and postmarks since 1958
† Report by Alastair Gunn

B
etween July 23 and August 3,
Glasgow will be hosting the
third largest multi-discipline
sporting event in the world, after the
Olympic Games and the Asian
Games.
Some people might view the
Commonwealth Games as an
anachronism in the post-imperial
world, or as a poor relation of the
Olympic Games, but it has a
strong tradition stretching back as
far as 1930.
In that time, the so-called
‘Friendly Games’ have been staged
19 times across four continents,
producing some inspirational
sporting moments and acting as a
unifying force for a loose affiliation
of big and small nations.

Winning formula
The event was originally established
as the British Empire Games in 1930,
when it was held in Hamilton,
Canada. It was renamed the British
Empire & Commonwealth Games in
1954, the British Commonwealth
Games in 1970 and the
Commonwealth Games in 1978.
The Games have been held every
four years since 1930, except 1942
and 1946, when world war and
post-war austerity intervened. They
have been hosted in Britain five times
previously, by London in 1934,
Cardiff in 1958, Edinburgh in 1970
and again in 1986, and Manchester
in 2002.
Australia has hosted the event four
times, Canada four times, New
Zealand three times, and Jamaica,
Malaysia and India once each.
Although there are only 53
members of the Commonwealth, 70
teams can participate in the Games.
This is partly because some overseas
territories and crown dependencies
compete separately, and partly
because the United Kingdom’s
constituent nations of England,
Scotland, Wales and Northern
Ireland enter separate teams.
ABOVE: Athletics relay In medal-winning terms the most
teams from India, successful nation overall is Australia,
England, Australia and followed by England and Canada.
Canada competing at
the Commonwealth Controversial times
Games in Delhi in 2010 Like the Olympics, the
Commonwealth Games have not
always been impervious to politics.
Countries whose membership of
the Commonwealth is suspended
(previously Nigeria and Pakistan,
currently Fiji) are automatically
barred from participating in the
Games.
In 1986, more than 30 African and
Caribbean countries boycotted the
Edinburgh event after Britain’s
Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher,
refused to condemn sporting links
with the apartheid regime of South
Africa.
The Northern Ireland flag used at
the Games is seen by some as a
controversially ‘loyalist’ symbol, and
separatists from Cornwall bizarrely
attempted to enter a team in 2006
but were rebuffed.
In this year of a referendum on
Scottish independence, might a
Scottish national team participating
in a major international event on
Scottish soil influence the voting?
Famous five
When the Games first came to the
mother country, in 1934,
commemorative issues were still a
rarity, and the occasion was marked
by neither stamps nor even special
postmarks.
Since then, however, the Post
Office or Royal Mail has produced a
special stamp issue every time the
event has been hosted in Britain,
starting in 1958.
There are therefore four sets of
stamps to collect already, with special
postmarks and the odd variety to

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ABOVE: 1958 British Empire & Commonwealth Games set of three and the common machine slogan cancellation
watch for, and this year’s issue (see
page 22) adds a fifth.
Cardiff 1958
A set of three stamps issued on
July 18, 1958, celebrated the sixth
Games, held in Cardiff under the
DID YOU KNOW?
One inspiration behind the Commonwealth
Games was the 1911 Festival of Empire at
Crystal Palace, which included a sporting
element by way of five athletic events, two
swimming events, boxing and wrestling,
although only the United Kingdom,
Australia/New Zealand, Canada and South
Africa competed.
Souvenir labels were produced by
Perkins Bacon, and mail posted from the
event received a special ‘Festival of Empire
Imperial Exhibition’ cancellation.
title of the British Empire &
Commonwealth Games.
Three different designers were
employed, offering different
approaches to layout and typography
but all using the established Wilding
portrait of Queen Elizabeth II and all
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opting to include the Welsh dragon.
The 3d deep lilac, designed by
Reynolds Stone, cleverly placed the
long-winded title of the event in a
ribbon held in the dragon’s mouth.
The 6d reddish-purple, designed by
W H Brown, had the dragon sitting
atop the Games emblem on a banner.
And the 1s 3d green, designed by Pat
Keely, had a victor’s wreath held by
the dragon’s claw.
Printed in gravure by Harrisons
with the Multiple St Edward’s Crown
watermark, the stamps are known
with minor constant flaws which can
add interest to a collection.
More than 320,000,000 of the 3d
were sold, compared with fewer than
30,000,000 of the 6d and fewer than
10,000,000 of the 1s 3d. Commercial
usage of the higher-value stamps is
uncommon, and even first day covers
consistently fetch more than £50.
Two special machine cancellations
were used during the Games period
of July 18-26: a common one used
nationwide, and a special one that
was restricted to Cardiff, where most
of the events were held, Barry, where
the athletes’ village was located, and
Llanberis in Snowdonia, where the
rowing events took place.
Circular ‘Empire Games Village’
datestamps also exist, including a
hooded one for registered mail, and
these are all scarce.
Edinburgh 1970
The ninth Games were held in
Edinburgh under the title of the
British Commonwealth Games, and
a set of three stamps was issued on
July 15, 1970.
The designs by Andrew Restall
were radical for their time. Unlike the
1958 set, they suggested athletes
engaged in competitive sport, albeit
in a highly stylised way, with groups
of runners on the 5d value,
GB COMMONWEALTH GAMES ISSUES

swimmers on the 1s 6d and cyclists

on the 1s 9d.
Unusually, hand-painted initial
artwork by Restall is available on the
philatelic market, which can add an
interesting sideline to a collection.
The issued 5d also exists missing
greenish-yellow, which leaves it duller ABOVE: 1970 British Commonwealth Games set of three
in appearance, but this error is very
rare; only three mint copies and not
many more used ones are recorded.
Printed in litho by De La Rue, the
stamps were again sold in widely
varying quantities, with more than
75,000,000 of the low value but
less than 11,000,000 of the middle
value and around 6,000,000 of the
top value.
A large variety of first day covers
exist, with many different special
cancellations, some of them
unrelated to the Games. The rarest is
probably that of the Edinburgh
mobile post office.
This was the third-to-last special
issue before decimalisation in 1971,
so covers with a mixed franking from
ABOVE: First day cover with the rare cancellation of the Edinburgh Mobile Post Office, with the ‘BCG’ logo
the two currencies are possible,
although rare.

Edinburgh 1986
When the 13th Games returned to
Edinburgh in 1986, now called
simply the Commonwealth Games,
five stamps were issued on July 15.
When you looked closely, though, it
became apparent that this was a
dual-themed set.
Although they were illustrated by
Nick Cudworth in a matching style,
only the four lower values were
devoted to the Games while the 34p ABOVE: Original hand-painted artwork by Andrew Restall for the concept of what became the 1s 6d stamp
top value commemorated the
World Hockey Cup for men, which
was being held in London at the ‘A special stamp issue has been produced every time the
same time (hockey was not
introduced into the Commonwealth Games have been hosted by a British city, except for
Games until 1998).
Many cover producers ignored this
1934 when commemoratives were still a rarity’
inconvenient fact and erroneously
used ‘Commonwealth Games’ as the DID YOU KNOW?
title on covers bearing all five
stamps. Royal Mail’s cover,
Only one British stamp has in
meanwhile, was more correctly but
any way featured a
mundanely titled ‘Sport’.
Commonwealth Games held
Printed in gravure by Harrisons, the
outside the United Kingdom.
designs featured athletics on the 17p
One of the £1.28 values in the
value, rowing on the 22p,
2012 set marking the Diamond
weighlifting on the 29p and shooting
Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II
on the 31p.
used a photograph of her taken
All of the illustrations concentrated
during the 12th Games in
on the legs of competitors, except the
Brisbane, Australia, in 1982.
31p which showed the partly
Designed by Kate Stephens,
obscured face of a rifle shooter with
it was printed by De La Rue.
the Scottish saltire on the side of his
cap. Although theoretically

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anonymous, to Royal Mail’s
embarrassment he was widely
identified as Charles Trotter, a
multiple world champion at the
discipline.
First day covers can be found with
the datestamps of eight different
Games venues, that of the mobile
post office in the athletes’ village, or
a wide range of special handstamps.

Manchester 2002
The 17th Commonwealth Games
were hosted by Manchester in 2002,
and this time all five stamps in the
commemorative set issued on July 16
were dedicated to the main event.
Despite being based on
photographs for the first time, the
ABOVE: 1986 Commonwealth Games 17p, 22p, 29p and 31p designs by Madeleine Bennett echoed
the 1970 set in their wide format,
stylistic approach and impression
of speed.
Printed in gravure by Enschedé,
they show swimming on the 2nd
class value, running on the 1st class,
cycling on the E value, long-jumping
on the 47p and wheelchair racing on
the 68p (this was the Games at which
athletes with disabilities were
included as full members of their
national teams for the first time).
Many private companies produced
first day covers, and some of them are
available signed by competitors.
ABOVE: Royal Mint coin cover of July 24 franked with just the four Commonwealth Games stamps, Finding the stamps used on
tied by pictorial cancellations, along with Britain’s very first commemorative £2 coin commercial mail is much more
difficult. †

ABOVE & BELOW: 2002 Commonwealth Games set of five BELOW: Royal Mail’s first day cover came with a neat stopwatch-style pictorial cancellation

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ĞŶǀĞůŽƉĞƐŝŶďŽdžĞĚĂůďƵŵ;ĚŽnjĞŶƐͿ

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Despite being all rainforest and no infrastructure, the French colony of Inini issued
around 50 stamps between 1931 and 1946, before returning to the wilderness
† Report by Adrian Keppel
A
fter more than 250 years as a
colony, French Guiana was
remarkably undeveloped. The
coastal strip exported sugar,
bananas, hardwood and cayenne
pepper, and served as a penal colony,
while the hinterland of dense
rainforest remained almost
untouched by Europeans.
In 1930, though, plans were made
to develop the interior, by building
railways and settlements. To
facilitate this, it was given separate
administrative status as the
Territory of Inini.
Inini took its name from one of the
tributaries to the Maroni River. Its
capital was Saint-Élie. And for a
period of 15 years it had its own
postage stamps.
Nowadays, it is widely considered
that the stamps issued for Inini were
aimed squarely at the philatelic
market.
After all, the territory had only
around 3,000 inhabitants, mainly of
whom were illiterate native people,
and the few French pioneers preferred
to use the telegraph service rather
than write letters.
‘A long series of definitives was issued,
and several commemoratives. But it is
widely considered that Inini’s stamps were
aimed at the philatelic market’
Besides, the stamps of French
Guiana remained available in the
territory, and most of the mail that
was sent entered the postal system
not in Saint-Élie but in Cayenne,
which was in French Guiana.
Nevertheless, a long series of
definitives was issued, and several
commemorative sets.
The definitive series consisted of the
existing French Guiana stamps with
a ‘Territoire de l’Inini’ overprint.
Released in 1931, with the occasional
FORGOTTEN COUNTRIES
ABOVE: Inini 10c sepia
and magenta from the
1932 definitive series
extra value being added through the
remainder of the decade, it would
eventually reach a dizzying 40
values. It was accompanied by a
set of nine similarly overprinted
postage dues.
Two of the commemorative sets
were part of omnibus issues for the
French overseas territories, both in
1939: two stamps marked the
World’s Fair in New York, and
five surcharged stamps celebrated
the 150th anniversary of the
French Revolution.
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Something a little different was a
1937 issue, for the International
Exhibition in Paris, which comprised
a single imperforate miniature sheet
rather than the sheet stamps which
were issued in other territories. This,
however, is not universally
catalogued.
Further stamps for Inini were printed
during World War II, on behalf of the
collaborationist Vichy government.
Some of these had the same design as
the 1932 overprinted set, but with
the ‘RF’ (République Française)
symbol omitted.
But before they could be shipped
out to South America, Inini (along
with many other French territories)
pledged allegiance to the Free French
government in exile. Accordingly
they were never issued in Inini,
although they were made available on
the philatelic market.
In the post-war era, with money short
and insurmountable problems
hindering railway construction, the
whole idea of a separate development
programme for Inini was quickly
abandoned. Instead, the territory was
once again annexed to French Guiana
in 1946.
The stamp issues ceased, and the
remainders flooded the philatelic
market, keeping prices low.
Inini remains underdeveloped
today but, as a French territory, it is
now officially part of the European
Union! †
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Heavens above!
Stamps celebrating the constellations are among the shining stars of thematic
collecting, interlinking the spheres of astonomy, astrology and mythology
† Report by Jeff Dugdale

T
he constellations in the night RIGHT: A set of four
sky are familiar to people all miniature sheets
over the world – or, at least, issued by Grenada in
to everyone who shares the same 2013 illustrate the
hemisphere. This simple familiarity, 12 constellations
allied to their complex astrological that make up the
and mythological associations, has zodiac, grouped
made them popular stamp subjects. according to the time
It’s a theme that is fascinating, as of year the Sun passes
you realise how the design challenge through them
has been met in so many different
ways, from the traditional to the
downright quirky.

BIG ISSUES
Countries which have
issued large sets of stamps
devoted to the
constellations are:

Australia 2007
Austria 2005
Canada 2011
Czech Republic 2003
Fernando Poo 1968
France 1977, 2014
Greece 2007
Grenada 2013
Guyana 1992, 2013
Hong Kong 2012
Ifni 1968
India 2010
Israel 1961, 1962
Japan 2011, 2012, 2013
Kazakhstan 1997
Liberia 2014
Liechtenstein 1976
But it’s also finite, in that patterns sky as viewed from Earth.
Maldives 1974
of stars were defined thousands of Many of these were identified and
Mali 1972
years ago and are unchanging, with named as far back as the Bronze Age,
Marshall Islands 2010
any new astronomical finds being too but the mapping of the heavens was
Poland 1996
distant to alter the perception of the formalised by the ancient Greeks,
Romania 2001, 2002, 2011
naked eye. based on what they could see from
Russia 2004
As with any theme, you can define the northern hemisphere. The Greco-
San Marino 1970
exactly what you want to collect. Roman astronomer and astrologer
Somalia 1985
Your approach could be that of a Ptolemy catalogued 48 constellations
Spanish Sahara 1968
star-gazer, a fortune-teller, a classical in the 2nd century AD.
Sri Lanka 2007
scholar, or a mixture of all three! The cartography of the skies in the
Switzerland 1982
southern hemisphere was completed
Taiwan 2001
Ukraine 2008
88 varieties by European navigators and
There are officially 88 constellations, astronomers from the 16th to the
which together cover the entire night 18th centuries, culminating in a

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SIMPLE PATTERNS

ABOVE: Stamp issues from Botswana in 1972, Tristan da Cunha, in 1984, Zil Elwagne Sesel (Seychelles) in 1984, Austria in 2005 and Cyprus in 2009, illustrating the constellations of
Centaurus, Orion, Virgo, Leo and Andromeda respectively, in each case as a cluster of stars but with lines added to give them a pattern

ABOVE: Barbados stamp of 1988 showing Orion, marking the ABOVE: The constellation Crux, better known to most observers as the Southern Cross, as featured on stamps from
25th anniversary of the Harry Bayley Observatory Japan in 1952, Chile in 1972 and New Zealand in 2011

catalogue produced in the 1750s by

DRAWING PICTURES the Frenchman Nicolas de la Caille.
The celestial map has remained
essentially unchanged since then.
Although the stars within any
constellation may be many light years
apart and moving away from each
other at colossal speeds, our
perspective changes at an
infinitesimal rate.
ABOVE & RIGHT: Albeit with background images designed to assist the imagination, the stars
remain the stars of these designs from San Marino in 1970, USA in 2005 and Kiribati in 1994, Big names
showing Sagittarius, Pegasus and Cassiopeia respectively The best-known constellations are
those of the zodiac, which are the
ones in the ecliptic plane which the
Sun, the Moon and most of the
planets appear to pass through each
year. Astrologers count 12 of these:
Aquarius, Aries, Cancer, Capricornus
(Capricorn), Gemini, Leo, Libra,
Pisces, Sagittarius, Scorpius
(Scorpio), Taurus and Virgo.
Astronomers know there is a 13th,
Ophiuchus, which is also in the
CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: It is the illustrations ecliptic but has no sign of the zodiac.
rather than the constellations which start to Of course, there are many other
hog the limelight on these stamps from the constellations in other sectors of the
Maldives in 1974, Taiwan in 2001, Greece in sky. The best known include
2007, Canada in 2011 and Japan in 2011, Andromeda, Aquila, Canis Major,
featuring Scorpius, Libra, Aquarius, Pisces Cassiopeia, Centaurus, Cygnus,
and Cygnus respectively Draco, Lyra, Orion, Pegasus, Perseus,
Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.

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FANCY THAT!

ABOVE: Stamps from Kazakhstan in 1997, Romania in 2002 and Sri Lanka in 2007 imagine Pisces, Gemini and Aries rather fancifully

ABOVE: Designs from Russia in 2004 and the

Marshall Islands in 2009, featuring Taurus
and Ursa Minor, concentrate on graphic
impact without making much effort to place
ABOVE: Images of Pegasus have featured on some dramatic stamps, including these from Uruguay in 1935 and Switzerland in 1969 the constellations in a celestial context

Least recognisable by name but

most recognisable by sight is arguably
Crux, colloquially known as the
Southern Cross.

Star turns
All of the major constellations have
been illustrated on stamps at least

DID YOU KNOW?

A constellation is an internationally defined
area of the celestial sphere, based on the
patterns of the stars most clearly visible.
An asterism is any recognisable pattern of
stars, which might form part of a constellation
or comprise stars from more than one
constellation.
For example, The Plough (or The Big Dipper)
is an asterism, which is part of the constellation
Ursa Major (The Great Bear).

ABOVE: Åland stamp illustrating The Plough, part of Ursa Major

ABOVE: A sheet of Christmas seals produced by the Faroe Islands in 2001 depicts 30 of the constellations

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SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC
ABOVE: The first large set
devoted to signs of the
zodiac came from Israel in ABOVE: Stamps featuring the signs of Aries and Gemini, from zodiac sets issued by
1962. This is Pisces Australia in 2007 and Ukraine in 2008
ABOVE: An omnibus series from the Spanish overseas territories in
1968 featured the zodiac. This is the Libra stamp from Fernando Poo
‘Astrologers count 12 constellations of the
zodiac, in the ecliptic plane which the Sun,
the Moon and the planets appear to pass
through. Astronomers know there is a 13th’
once thanks to their inclusion in sets
of various sizes produced by at least
30 countries.
Some of these sets have been
limited to the 12 constellations of the
astrological zodiac. Others have
included well recognised
constellations which are outside the
zodiac grouping.
A few countries have issued sets
restricted to the stars of several
constellations, and singleton stamps
can be found showing just one
constellation, often by way of
celebrating specific astronomers or
observatories.
A wide range of design treatments
can be distinguished in these stamps.
ABOVE: A stamp featuring the zodiac sign of Scorpio,
from Hong Kong in 2012
The simplest approach
concentrates on the basic shape of a
star formation, perhaps showing the
brightest stars joined by imaginary
straight lines.
The most common, taken by more
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ABOVE: One of the most unusual constellations
sets, from Somalia in 1985, used drawings made by
the 10th-century Persian astronomer Abd
al-Rahman al-Sufi, in this case of Orion
than half of the sets, is to attempt to
relate the main stars to features of the
mythological entity of zodiacal sign
with which it has been associated for
millennia. Sometimes the stars
themselves dominate these images;
sometimes it is the imaginary figure
which is very much the focus of
attention.
Either way, you can often be left
wondering how ancient astrologers
arrived at the designations they did.
Some, such as Scorpius, the scorpion,
can easily be understood; others,
such as Cancer, the crab, require
quite a stretch of the imagination.
Finally, there are the stamps which
make no attempt to illustrate a
constellation at all, but merely show a
symbol to represent it. Usually these
are zodiacal symbols, winning a little
victory for astrology over astronomy!
Mythological links
BELOW: Designs from Many of the major constellations
Jersey in 2009 and have mythological associations for
Ascension in 1971, which stamps can be found, even if
issued to honour the these do not illustrate the stars
astronomers Galileo themselves.
Galilei and Tycho For example, Leo, Cancer and
Brahé, show Perseus, Taurus are together called the
Orion and Cassiopeia Heraclean constellations, because
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SWISS ROLE
ENTERING INTO MYTH
One of the most whimsical design concepts in
this theme is that of the Switzerland definitive
series launched in 1982, which associated signs
of the zodiac with local landscapes.
The juxtapositions seem to have been quite
random. Linking Aries, the ram, with the Alpine
meadow of Graustock was one thing, but why
was Aquarius, the water bearer, looking down
on Bern?
The stamps bemused the public, by appearing ABOVE & RIGHT: Taurus is associated with the
to be neither one thing nor another, and bull disguise used by Zeus to abduct the
received acid criticism from some quarters. One maiden Europa, and Aquila with the eagle
clergyman attracted international media disguise he used to kidnap Ganymede. These
attention by attacking their ‘pagan’ nature. myths are depicted here on stamps from Great
Britain in 1984 and Greece in 1935

ABOVE: Switzerland 1982 1f 20c and 1f definitives featuring Aries

and Aquarius motifs with views of the country

LEFT & ABOVE: Greek stamps of 1958 and 1995

of the way they relate to the story of illustrate the god Pan, who is associated with
the Twelve Labours of Heracles Capricorn, and the hero Jason stealing the Golden
(Hercules). Fleece, which is associated with Aries
Leo represents the Nemean lion,
conquered and flayed by Heracles in
his first labour. Cancer represents the form he adopted in order to abduct with the goddess Iusticia, and the
giant crab that the jealous goddess the maiden Europa. Aquila represents principle of justice in general.
Hera sent to harass him whilst he was the eagle, in whose guise he Among the major constellations
fighting the Lernean Hydra in his kidnapped the young boy Ganymede. outside the zodiac, Orion was the
second labour. And Taurus And Cygnus, the swan, represents the huntsman placed in the sky by Zeus,
represents the Cretan Bull, which disguise in which he seduced Princess Pegasus the horse which sprang from
Heracles captured in his seventh Leda, the mother of Helen of Troy. the head of the gorgon Medusa when
labour. Elsewhere in the zodiac, she was decapitated by the Perseus,
Equally, Taurus is one of a group of Capricornus, the goat, is identified Cassiopeia the vain queen who
constellations associated with with Pan, the half-man, half-goat god enraged the daughters of Poseidon by
disguises adopted by Zeus, the of nature; Aries, the ram, with the boasting of her beauty, and
supreme god of the ancient Greeks. golden fleece stolen by Jason and the Andromeda the daughter she tried to
Taurus represents the bull whose Argonauts; and Libra, the scales, sacrifice to appease the gods. †

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STAMP HUNTING IN TURKEY

Dire straits?
What is the state of stamp collecting and the postal services in Turkey? Our
reporter tramped the streets of Istanbul in search of philatelic amusement
† Report by Allan Brink

W
henever I find myself in a
new place, curiosity
demands that I venture out
to discover the state of philately in
the local arena.
Last year I found myself in
Turkey, living for a while in one of
the most beautiful and historic cities
in the world, Istanbul. Would it
prove a happy hunting ground for a
stamp collector?
ABOVE: Istanbul’s overwhelming history. It was the
most iconic building is Emperor Constantine’s chosen new
the ancient former capital for the Roman Empire, the
church and mosque of centre of the Byzantine Empire for a
Hagia Sophia millennium and then the jewel of the
Ottoman Empire for another four
centuries.
There is plenty to impress the
visitor. The Sultan’s palace, the
Topkapi, is resplendent with art from
the period when Turkish culture and
power was at its height. Close by is
the magnificent domed Hagia Sophia
temple, almost 1,500 years old,
which was built as a Greek Orthodox
basilica, spent a short time as a
Roman Catholic cathedral, was
converted into a Muslim mosque and

Historic city
The father of the modern republic of
Turkey, Kemal Atatürk, chose inland
Ankara as Turkey’s new capital in
1922. But Istanbul remains the
country’s biggest city, and one of the
biggest in the world, with around 20
million inhabitants.
Istanbul is unique in being spread
out on two continents. On the west
side of the busy Bosphorus strait you
are in Europe, whereas on the east
side you are in Asia. ABOVE: 2009 75k, 90k and 5l definitives portraying Kemal Atatürk, the founding father of modern Turkey
The city can also boast an almost

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ABOVE: Kamer Filateli’s proprietor Arman Arikan (left) with Stamp Magazine’s Allan Brink outside his shop
‘Cross the picturesque bridge over the
Golden Horn, head past the medieval
Galata Tower and walk up a cobbled street,
and you find three stamp shops in a row’
since 1953 has been a museum.
The famous Grand Bazaar is now
one of the world’s most cosmopolitan
shopping centres, where vendors will
try to lure you into their shops in
your own tongue, whatever that may
be. But for a more authentic
experience you must visit the Spice
Bazaar, where the locals do their own
shopping.
The inlet known as the Golden
Horn is so busy with the city’s
emblematic white and yellow
ferries, constantly criss-crossing each
other’s routes, that it is a wonder they
never crash.
And if you take the ferry from
Karaköy on the European side of the
Bosphorus to Kadiköy on the Asian
shore in the late afternoon, you can
experience what one of the most
beautiful sunsets in the world.
Stamp market
Better still, you don’t have to go far to
find a philatelic sight for sore eyes.
Cross the picturesque bridge over the
Golden Horn, stepping carefully past
the hundreds of amateur fishermen
trying to catch their supper, head
past the medieval Galata Tower, walk
up towards the cobbled Galip Dede
Caddesi shopping street and, quite
unexpectedly, you find three stamp
shops in a row!
The first is owned by a somewhat
grumpy old man who barely looks up
from his newspaper when a potential
customer steps into his
establishment. The third trades only
in packages and accessories. But the
middle shop is immediately
welcoming.
Kamer Filateli is run by Arman
Arikan, a philatelist eminent enough
to have served on the jury at an
international exhibition in Australia.
The shop has been in business for
more than 70 years, during which
time it has had only two owners.
Arman took over the keys in 1967,
and on the wall behind the front desk
is a portrait of Kamer Arikan, who
founded the establishment in 1942.
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DID YOU KNOW?
n The first stamps of Turkey, issued
imperforate in 1863, are known as the Tughra
series, because they featured the personal
monogram of the Sultan, in Arabic script.
n Until 1918, the extent of the Ottoman Empire
meant that Turkish stamps were used widely
across the Middle East and north Africa.
n Over 150 years, Turkey has issued over 4,000
postage stamps, as well as many obligatory tax
stamps, officials and postage dues.
n From the 1980s the country experienced
rampant inflation, sometimes at close to 100%
per annum. The highest stamp value peaked at
3,500,000l before revaluation in 2005.
ABOVE: Turkey 1863 Tughra-series 20pa black on yellow
ABOVE: Turkey 2004 Birds-series 600,000l
Arman, who is also the chairman
of the Turkish Association of
Philatelic Clubs, is a great source of
information about the state of
philately in Turkey.
Although he cannot put a figure on
the total number of collectors, he tells
us that there are 11 organised stamp
clubs: three in the Istanbul area,
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two in Ankara, and others in ABOVE: The Postal

Eskisehir, Edirne, Izmir, Çankaya, Museum next door to
Konya and Antalya, the latter being the Main Post Office is
an increasingly popular very disappointing
Mediterranean resort for western
holidaymakers.
He also says that Posta Telgraf
Teskilati (PTT), the Turkish postal
service, has around 20,000
subscribers to its new issues service.
Most Turkish collectors prefer mint
stamps, as tends to be the case the ABOVE: The grand façade of the Main Post Office in Istanbul, and its lofty interior with Atatürk portrait
further south you go in the world!
You can buy any Turkish issue from
Kamer Filateli of course, but if you
are looking for something a bit more
unusual to add to your collection
there are also two auction houses in
Istanbul.

Philatelic service
Between Hagia Sophia and the
Galata Bridge, on Büyük Postane
Caddesi (Post Office Street) is the
grand Main Post Office, completed
in 1909.
The interior is classic and rather ABOVE & LEFT:
charming and, as always in Turkey, a Some of Turkey’s
portrait of Atatürk looks down on 2013 stamp issues,
you from a position of privilege to celebrating the 150th
check that everything is in order. anniversary of
The counter headed ‘Fílatelí’ is not Turkish stamps
constantly manned, but if you hover (above left), the
in front of it, and look sufficiently Postal Museum
lost, a nice lady will come over and (above right) and
start pulling miniature sheets out of postal transport
paper envelopes to show you! (left), the latter
Contemporary stamps, inscribed being a Europa
‘Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’ (Republic of issue
Turkey) are largely unremarkable in

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ABOVE: There’s no missing Turkish post offices, with their bright yellow colour scheme
their mix of historical, cultural,
tourism, humanitarian and sporting
themes. Each year sees around 20 to
25 sets issued, together comprising
60-80 stamps with modest face
values which all seem to be postally
relevant.
Many of these issues come only in
miniature sheets of four, in quite
limited print-runs of around 100,000.
For example, the 2013 World
Environment Day miniature sheet,
sold at L4.40 (about £1.20),
comprised four stamps of L1.10,
which is the 1st class inland rate.
Some stamps, but by no means all,
have an elliptical perforation halfway
along two edges, in a style that is not
dissimilar to British stamps, and a
star-shaped perforation halfway
‘Occupying part of the Main Post Office
building is the national postal museum.
Admission is free, but unfortunately there is
practically nothing of interest inside’
along the other two, in a style
redolent of Portuguese stamps.
In recent years, a few stamps have
been issued in hexagonal and circular
shapes, but there is little sign of
self-adhesive issues.
Most thematic collectors will find
something of interest among
Turkish stamps, and most of have
easily affordable market values,
especially in used condition.
Postal museum
Occupying part of the Main Post
Office building is PTT Müzesi, the
national postal museum.
Admission is free, but
unfortunately that is the best that can
be said about the place, because there
is practically nothing of interest
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ABOVE: Small modern inside. Its focus is absolutely on ‘T’
postbox, inspired by a and ‘T’ (telephone and telegraph),
design from the and not much on ‘P’ (post)!
Ottoman period The philatelic element is limited to
a mint collection of stamps from the
1970s, and pictures of the Turkey’s
1863 first issue and of an 1840 Penny
Black. The accompanying
information refers to the fact that
Ottoman Turkey’s postal reform was
inspired by that of Great Britain,
although clearly this was not a
particularly rapid process.
It was recently announced that a
better stamp collection is to be put on
display at the museum, so there is
some hope for a more enlightening
experience in the future.
Postal service
There are around 4,100 post offices
in Turkey, and you do not have to
look too far to find one. They are
easy to spot due to their bright yellow
façades, and they tend to be well
signposted too.
The postal system seems to
function quite well but, following the
global trend, the volume of mail it
handles is falling.
LEFT: 2013 pair A total of around one billion letters
previewing Expo 2016 was sent in 2010, which with a
in Antalya, with population of almost 80 million
elliptical perforations equates to a modest 12 per head.
on the horizontal Only 17 million letters were sent to
edges and star-shaped destinations abroad.
perforations on the As in most countries, post offices
vertical edges also offer financial services. †
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1925 Wembley, Wembley postmark £700 1st August 1913 10d £800 13th June 1913 2/6 Brown £2000
1929 PUC, full set to £1 £6000 1st August 1913 1/- £800 16th October 1934 2/6 £1500
1929 PUC, £1 only £5000 23rd December 1914 4d £1500 21st August 1939 5/- Red £300
1929 PUC, stationary full set PUC 23rd December 1920 4d £1000 4th September 1939 2/6 Brown £600
postmark £4000 2nd December 1935 4d and 9d £120 30th October 1939 10/- Dark Blue £1000
1935 Jubilee, illustrated, typed £300 22nd February 1936 5d £600 9th March 1942 2/6 Yellow Green £500
1948 Silver Wedding, illustrated typed £200 24th February 1936 10d £600 30th November 1942 10/- Light Blue £1000
26th February 1936 1/- £600 1st October 1948 £1 Brown £100
DECIMAL COMMEMORATIVES 3rd May 1951 Festival, plain, typed £100
1934-36 Francis Field Multi Value cover£1500
1971 Ulster Paintings 3rd May 1951 Festival, illustrated, typed £450
Red Hand (not Belfast or Londonderry) any £75 King Edward VIII 1st September 1955 10/- and £1, plain, typed £150
Botanic Gardens £50 1st September 1936 1⁄2d, 11⁄2d and 21⁄2d 1st September 1955 10/- and £1,
Irish BFPO CDS £30 Banff CDS £60 illustrated, typed £500
14th September 1936 1d Banff CDS £60 23rd September 1955 2/6 and 5/-, plain, typed £100
1971 Literary
10th December 1936 Abdication, Banff CDS £60 23rd September 1955 2/6 and 5/-,
John Keats, Shanklin £40
illustrated, typed £250
1971 Anniversaries King George VI 6th December 1967 £1, plain, typed £250
Rugby (either), British Legion, Twickenham 31st January 1938 2d and 3d, illustrated £40 6th December 1967 £1, railway cover, typed £400
special £90 21st November 1938 4d and 5d, illustrated £80 16th April 1968 10/-, plain, typed £150
30th January 1939 6d, illustrated £60 16th April 1968 5/-, plain, typed £150
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1st October 1870 1⁄2d Bantam £600 1st May 1939 10d, plain £50
1st October 1870 1⁄2d postcard £200 1st May 1939 1/-, plain £50 POSTAGE DUES
17th April 1900 1⁄2d £450 20th April 1914 1⁄2d £250
1st May 1939 9d, 10d and 1/-, plain £125
20th April 1914 1d £250
Edward VII 1937-39 Francis Field Multi Value cover £1500
20th April 1914 2d £250
1st January 1902 1⁄2d £40 1941-2 light colour Multi Value cover £600
20th April 1914 5d £1000
1st January 1902 1d £40 29th December 1947 11d, illustrated Airmail £75
12th June 1956 1d £300
1st January 1902 21⁄2d £200 29th December 1947, 11d, plain, typed £20 17th June 1970 10p 20p 50p £1 £300
1st January 1902 6d £300 2nd October 1950 4d, illustrated, 15th February 1971 1⁄2p, 1p, 2p, 3p, 4p, 5p £350
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2nd October 1950 4d, plain, typed £15
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Distasteful medicine
Conceived as a short-term measure to raise revenue for the British government in
the 18th century, medicine duty stamps remained in use for more than 150 years

A
fter the expense of
unsuccessfully fighting the
American War of
Independence, the British
Government was short of money and
naturally turned to new taxes to
raise funds. One of these was
medicine duty, imposed in 1783.
Initially it levied 3d on medicinal ABOVE: 1785 medicine duty 3d revenue stamp (No18 in the sheet) appropriated for Samuel Solomon of Liverpool
items sold at under 2s 6d, 6d on
items priced between 2s 6d and 5s,
and 1s on items costing 5s and
upwards. From 1785, a new lower
rate was introduced, of 1½d for
items below 1s in price.
Every item of medicine had to bear
a revenue stamp, whether this was
‘appropriated’ or ‘unappropriated’. ABOVE: 1823-75 series 1½d stamp (No7 in the sheet), unappropriated but signed by the chemist or manufacturer as a security measure
Appropriated stamps carried the
name of the vendor and had to be
ordered from the Stamp Office at
Somerset House. Unappropriated
stamps were not personalised, and
could simply be bought from local
stamp offices.

Engraved on copper plates and

printed in either chestnut or black,
the first series of medicine duty
stamps in 1783 were in the shape of
a cross. They are very scarce, with
no more than four of each type
known to survive.
The second series switched to a
long rectangular shape in 1785, and
examples are easier to find. The
printing plate contained 30 stamps,
each one numbered as a security
measure.
The most common design,
introduced in 1823 and used until
1875, was also rectangular but
printed in a distinctive way, using
the ‘Congreve’ method. The
compound plate comprised two
parts which were inked separately
and then slotted together, so the
FURTHER READING
Great Britain Medicine Stamp Duty:
A Philatelic History
by Prof Michael Tanner (Revenue Society, 2013)
ABOVE: 1915 1½d stamp appropriated for Peps Pastille Co, with an additional overprinted postage stamp
paying the extra 1½d duty, and a label explaining the increase in the price of the product
‘War created medicine duty. More
THE AUTHORS
Brothers Charles than a century later, further war was
and Francis
Kiddle are world responsible for doubling it’
authorities on
cinderellas.
Charles is a past
stamps could be printed in two Of course, this ‘emergency’ increase
Chairman of the colours, in sheets of 10. in taxation was not rescinded after
Cinderella Stamp the war ended! It had become too
Club and Francis War had created this tax, and more important as a source of
is a past than a century later further war Government revenue. Having raised
President of the
Royal Philatelic increased it. In October 1915, as an £12,600 per year shortly after its
Society London emergency measure to help to pay introduction, it was bringing in
for World War I, medicine duty £1,300,000 per year in the 1920s.
was doubled. Medicine duty was finally
As an alternative to printing more abolished in 1941, however.
revenue stamps, the Inland Revenue
decided to overprint surplus stocks
Ironically, this was also during
wartime.
of 1½d and 3d postage stamps with Mike Tanner, who has recently
‘Additional medicine duty/Not published the first book on the
available for postage’, and affix these subject since 1888, lists 22 different
to existing medicine duty stamps as types of stamp design used in the
necessary. long history of the tax. †

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Cape crusader
Twentysomething collector George James specialises in the little-known Spanish
colony of Cape Juby, and believes the hobby is safe in the hands of young philatelists
NAME
George James
NATIONALITY
English
AGE 24 years
OCCUPATION
Philatelic category manager
SPECIALISM
Cape Juby, Spanish Morocco
SOCIETIES JOINED
† Spanish Study Circle
† www.reddit.com/r/philately
OTHER INTERESTS
Poker, football, indoor
climbing, music, running
When did you start collecting,
and why?
My father bought me a Stanley
Gibbons starter pack for Christmas
in 1996, which contained an album,
some hinges, some tweezers (which I
never used!) and some stamps.
I had started collecting football
stickers before I could count, and
stamps probably seemed a natural
progression to keep me occupied in
the winter months when I couldn’t be
outside as often.
Unusually, there were a few other
children in my street who collected,
so we used to meet up at each other’s
houses and swap our duplicates.
Naturally my collecting interests
have matured over time, but that
pack was a great start. I’ve still got
the original album today. It’s bulging
out of its binding, and you can hardly
see the pages beneath the stamps!
What is your specialism, and
what attracted you to it?
At the moment I’m focusing on
completing a collection of Cape Juby,
a small part of Spanish Morocco.
I embarked on this after I stumbled
across some of the stamps on ancient
album pages at Stampex a couple of
years ago. It was a perfectly timed
78 www.stampmagazine.co.uk AUGUST 2014
discovery, as I had virtually finished
a collection of Memel and was
looking for a new project.
I was initially attracted because the
stamps are attractively designed, the
material offers good value for money
considering its rarity, and it seemed a
manageable project, with only 164
standard catalogue numbers.
Where is Cape Juby and what is
its history?
Cape Juby is the most southerly
region of modern Morocco, just
north of the disputed territory of
Western Sahara. It came into
existence as a separate colony
when Spain acquired the land from
France in 1912.
It is largely desert, but Spanish
troops built up a port town called
Villa Bens (today named Tarfaya) and
introduced stamps in 1916. An
airfield was built in 1920 and became
ABOVE: One of the an important refuelling stop for
most elusive airmail flights.
collectables of Cape Cape Juby was incorporated into
Juby is the unissued newly independent Morocco after the
1922-23 2c bistre Ifni War in 1958.
How difficult is it to form a
collection?
The standard issues of Cape Juby,
from 1916-48, are all overprints,
mostly on Spanish Morocco stamps.
Some of the early overprints were
on the stamps of Rio de Oro (which
became Spanish Sahara) and Spain,
and for the final decade of the
colony’s existence they were on the
issues of Spanish Sahara.
A complete collection of the basic
ABOVE RIGHT & RIGHT: stamps can be achieved with relative
Rare varieties from the ease, if you’re patient. I’m missing
1919 issue of only four or five. The difficulty is
overprints on Spanish finding them in good condition.
stamps include the General Francisco Franco, who
10p orange with the secured power in Spain at the end of
‘Caro Juby’ for ‘Cabo the Civil War in 1939, saw
Juby’ overprint flaw philatelists as a useful source of
and the imperforate 1c revenue, so the later issues of the
green with the Spanish colonies were produced
overprint in black almost purely for collectors, with
rather than red cheap paper and gum. It’s a real
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challenge to find well centred stamps varieties which are very scarce, as
with sound perforations. they appear only once or twice in What is your favourite stamp, and why?
Finding the rarer varieties is also each sheet of 100 stamps. A complete The 1934 4p ultramarine is my favourite, because of
difficult, and commercial covers collection will be quite a challenge, its combination of beauty and rarity.
carry a vast premium over ordinary but I’m continually on the lookout. The Spanish Morocco design shows a local man
used stamps. There are also two stamps that sitting on a ledge looking out over the capital,
were prepared for use but not issued: Tétouan. It’s intricately detailed, and was printed by
How has your collection the 1922-23 2c bistre and the 1925 2c De La Rue in a lovely shade of blue.
developed and diversified deep yellow-green. Both are elusive in With only 4,000 overprinted in red for use in Cape
over time? top quality, and each will cost me in Juby, as the top value in the series, it’s also
Initially I set out to find an example the region of £300 when I find it! comparatively rare, and very difficult to find in good
of each standard catalogue number. Sections of the Spanish Morocco condition.
When I reached a high percentage of postal archive sometimes appear on I’ll upgrade my mounted mint copy for an
completion, I purchased a specialist the market, and I’d love to have unmounted, well-centred example eventually, but
Edifil catalogue which gave me the these but I’ve been outbid on a couple it’ll do for now!
extra detail I needed to hunt for of occasions.
varieties. On a more mundane level, I have a
I’ve now picked up double set of the 1934-36 issue (total
overprints, errors of colour and catalogue value €670) which is
positional varieties, but there’s still a complete except for a single value,
lot to look for. the1c rose-carmine (catalogue value
just €2.70). Partial sets are the bane
How and where do you find of my life!
your material?
I buy most of my material from How expensive is this kind of
Spanish auction houses, and internet collection?
auctions on eBay and Delcampe. I’ve picked up stamps on eBay and
Asking for Cape Juby at most Delcampe for as little as a couple of
stamp fairs yields little more than a euros each. At the other end of the
bemused stare, but I have a few scale, my set of 14 of the 1917-19 What is the most interesting
specialist dealers on the hunt for the Spanish Morocco stamps used in thing you have learned from
things that are left on my wants list. Cape Juby has a catalogue price of your research?
almost €3,000 (£2,400), although I Something I found particularly
What are you most keen to add didn’t pay that much. interesting is that in order to
to your collection? It may be decades before all the BELOW: A variety from post a letter in many Spanish
The 1919 overprints on Spanish material I need appears on the the 1916 first issue of colonies at certain times you had to
issues contain a number of positional market at a time I’m able to afford it. Cape Juby, comprising make a compulsory charitable
a 1914 Rio de Oro 50c donation, which went to the
brown with a ‘Cabo families of injured soldiers. It was
What items are you most proud of, and why? Jubi 15 centavos’ paid by buying non-postal charity
Some of the rarest Cape Juby issues are from the 1917-19 period, when the overprint, in green stamps and affixing them to your
colony didn’t have dedicated overprints but instead used Spanish Morocco rather than the envelope.
issues, which in turn were Spanish stamps with ‘Protectorado Español En usual red These stamps aren’t listed in
Marruecos’ diagonal overprints.
The only way to prove these were used in Cape Juby is through their
postmarks, and I’ve delighted that I’ve managed to acquire a full set, right
up to the 10p top value.
Whilst most of these were used philatelically rather than commercially,
they are still very rare, and it could take a vast amount of time and money
to assemble a second set.

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 MY COLLECTION
most catalogues, as they didn’t have
postal validity, but they are a
fascinating part of the colonies’
postal history.
Unfortunately, Cape Juby’s 1938
charity stamps, which are overprints
on a Spanish set, are so spectacularly
ugly that I can’t bring myself to spend
money on them!
How do you store and display
your collection?
I store my stamps in black mounts on
Stanley Gibbons Simplex pages. They
are just the right size to display
complete sets on one page.
People who have seen my collection
often comment on my shoddy
handwriting, so I might remount it
with some typed captions!
Have you ever exhibited
competitively?
Having seen the exhibitions mounted
at Stampex, I have realised that my
collection isn’t anywhere near
detailed or thorough enough for a
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Is there any item you had to work
particularly hard to find?
I lost out in a number of auctions before I
managed to acquire some examples of the
double overprints of 1919.
There are six values recorded with this
variety, and the four I have managed to obtain
are well-centred examples with generally good
perforations, which are difficult to find.
‘The prevailing view that my
generation will reject the insights into
history, geography and culture that
philately offers is insultingly disparaging’
competition entry. collectors of Spanish Morocco who
I wouldn’t rule it out in the future, are interested.
but I think I need to add some key I am also a member of an online
pieces before I consider it. community, in the shape of a
ABOVE: Attractive discussion board on the networking
pictorial designs from Are you a member of any site Reddit.
the 1934 set include philatelic societies? Whilst there are too many
the 20c black showing The dealer Antonio Torres valuation requests posted there, there
a mounted postman, recommended the Spanish Study are also a lot of detailed discussions,
the 1p green depicting Circle, which I’ve recently joined. and knowledgeable members who are
the fort of Peñón de The first literature I received from capable of answering quite technical
Alhucemas, and the them was helpful and interesting, queries. Registration is free, so it’s
2p 50c purple even for areas that I don’t collect. worth checking out at
illustrating the city of I have ordered some of their www.reddit.com/r/philately
Xauen (Chefchaouen) pamphlets, which have the potential
to yield lots of useful information, As a young collector, what
and I may get involved with their are your views on the future
packet circuit if there are other of philately?
ABOVE: Contrasting designs from the 1935 issue, with the 25c red depicting a procession by El Khalifa, the purely ceremonial king of
Morocco during Spanish rule, and the 50c blue a forest scene in Ketama, although Cape Juby is mostly desert

LEFT & ABOVE: The
1937 First Anniversary
of the Civil War set is a
challenge to complete,
with only 1,000 each of
the 2p 50c, 4p and 10p
top values printed
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From your own
experience, what advice
would you give to other
collectors?

I’m going to get on my soapbox
here, but I am sick of hearing in the
letters pages of magazines that the
hobby is dying. There’s plenty of life
left in it!
The prevailing view that my
generation will entirely reject the
insights into history, geography and
What was your best
chance discovery?
I’ve been lucky enough to pick
up a few specimen sets of Cape
Juby stamps, which are much
harder to spot than other
specimen stamps.
Most regular Spanish colonial
stamps had serial numbers
printed on the back for security
and accounting purposes, and
the earlier specimen sets were
backstamped ‘A,000,000’ rather
than being overprinted ‘Muestra’
(Specimen) on the front.
Many sellers and buyers
don’t notice these, but they’re
always worth looking out for.
As you might expect, though,
there are a lot of forgeries on
the market.
culture that philately offers is † If you want an item that’s
insultingly disparaging. relatively common, be
I agree there aren’t as many junior prepared to wait until a top
collectors nowadays as there used to quality example appears on
be, but that’s because the hobby the market. Otherwise
requires time and more importantly you’ll end up buying it twice.
money, both of which are in short † Don’t be afraid to
supply in our younger years. interrogate auctioneers
There are no junior collectors of about their descriptions of
fine porcelain or jewellery, yet these lots, particularly if you
markets have been stable for decades. haven’t bought from the
company before.
What is it about philately that
gives you the most satisfaction?
I find it hugely fulfilling to acquire history, but I’ll start collecting it as I
something for which I’ve been reach completion with the stamp
searching for a long time. issues. I’m young enough that I hope
I’ll eventually do so.
What ambitions do you have for In the more immediate future, I’m
your collection? starting a Spanish Morocco
I don’t have any Cape Juby postal collection. †

ABOVE: 10p black and orange top value from the primarily philatelic 1944 issue,
which was printed on cheap paper and is hard to find with good perforations

ABOVE: The 10p top value from the 1940 pictorial
definitive series, in which the higher values were
printed in two colours
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YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED

Is this poorly printed 1917 block from

F6
Revolutionary Russia genuine or forged?

Q I recently acquired a block of six

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Francis Kiddle All World
A past president of the Royal
Philatelic Society London
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cinderellas
Tom Pierron Modern Errors
Editor of a comprehensive
catalogue of Queen
Elizabeth II British and
stamps (with two non-postal
labels) which appear to be
examples of Russia’s 7r pink and
myrtle green definitive of 1917.
However, they don’t match the detail given
in specialised catalogue listings, in more
than one respect.
The inking is poor in several places,
there is no varnish on the face of the
stamps, and the eagle motif in the centre of
the design is only very lightly embossed.
The paper appears to be of the wove type,
and there is a watermark only in the
right-side selvedge. Finally, the
perforations are badly done, and they
gauge 12½ rather than 13½ as the
catalogues states.
Are these stamps forgeries, or is this a
genuine block, badly printed?
Peter Hewer, Brecon
Government using very worn plates (this
particular design had been in use in various
guises since the 1880s), which would
account for the light embossing, and the
postal authorities could not guarantee the
quality of ink or paper.
Shade variations, colour shifts, variations
in the orientation of the varnish lozenge and
different types of perforation (including
imperforate stamps) can all be found.
In an article on the 1908-1923 Coat of
Arms issues in the British Journal of
Russian Philately in 1951 (issue 7, page 125)
F Julius Fohs stated that the 1r, 3½r, 5r, 7r
and 10r values had perforations cut clear
across the sheet in both directions, with
rough perforations due to the worn
machines, and that printings after 1911
were on wove paper with ‘vertical
watermarks positioned in either the left or
right hand margins’.
The two red dots in the bottom selvedge

A
The issues of 1917 were printed also conform with the plate 2, type D6
Commonwealth errors
during a very turbulent time in arrangement recorded for this issue of the
Russia’s history, with revolutions in 7r value, so there is little reason to suspect
Dickon Pollard King George VI
February and October completing a rapid that the stamps are not genuine.
Co-owner of Murray and violent transition from the absolute Interestingly, Fohs also wrote that reports
Payne, one of the world’s monarchy of the tsars to communist of forgeries of this issue had been greatly
foremost King George VI government. exaggerated.
specialist dealers Between the two revolutions, stamp Our thanks go to Neil Ritchie for his help
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Why might postboxes What is the story behind this Moroccan cover?
have a crown of spikes?
Q This unstamped 1908 letter addressed to General Albert d’Amade, Commander
of the French Forces in Morocco, has an octagonal blue ‘Service’ cachet inscribed

Q In Cambridge in the early 1960s, I

remember seeing more than one
postbox with a crown of metal
spikes around the top rim. I assumed this
‘Legation de la République Française à Tanger (Maroc)’ and a circular ‘Paq’
handstamp. Can you provide any information about these postal markings?
Robert Deakin, Mayfield

was to discourage drunken students from
climbing and sitting on them.
Was I right, and does the British Postal
Museum & Archive’s museum store
include an example of such a box?
R Broad, West Byfleet
A
France had a heavy and controversial military presence in Morocco in the early 20th
century, effectively establishing a protectorate to safeguard its control over
neighbouring Algeria and deal with a series of tribal revolts.
Its diplomatic legation was established at Tangiers, a sea port of immense strategic
importance on the southern shore of the Strait of Gibraltar, but its armed forces were
enaged in policing operations in Casablanca, 200 miles or so to the south-west.
Correspondence emanating from legation offices was sent free of postage when a

A
Julian Stray, a Senior Curator at the diplomatic handstamp was applied, as in this case.
BPMA, tells us that the spikes were The lack of any
a local refinement added to some postal markings to
postboxes after their deployment, for the contrary
reasons which are not recorded within the suggests that the
Royal Mail archive. letter was carried
The probable reason was to prevent by a French naval
students or mischievous schoolboys from vessel along the
using the box to help them climb over an coast to
adjacent wall. A more dubious alternative Casablanca before
theory is that it was to stop swans being passed to
nesting on top! the civil authority.
The box illustrated here is a Victorian The probable
high-aperture pillar box. This type is explanation for the
represented within the BPMA’s collection, ‘Paq’ handstamp
though sadly without the ferocious is that it was
additional adornment. treated as a
paquebot item by
the civilian post
office at
Casablanca.

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CORONATION AT CHRISTMAS?
In your reply to D Perkins about the 1937 Coronation cinderellas printed by
Harrisons (June issue, page 79), I was surprised that you did not comment on the
fact that the insert card carried ‘Season’s Greetings’ text and decoration.
Perhaps this might explain the apparent scarcity of the card? I speculate that
surplus stocks of the stamps might have been repackaged for sale at Christmas
1937, some six months after the Coronation, but failed to sell well as people had
lost interest in the subject.
R H Broad, Surrey

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SELLING YOUR STAMPS? (continued) Part 3

Summary Tip #20: 5 Different Ways to Sell your Stamps: Dealers ‘runners’ / Private Treaty

Dear Collector,
In Part 2 of ‘Selling Your Stamps’ we discussed the advantages
of direct sale to dealers and how with careful handling and
awareness of the ‘strength of your collection’ it is often possible
to obtain more for your collection selling directly to dealers
than by selling through auction.
In Part 4 of ‘Selling your Stamps’ we’ll discuss the potential
advantages and disadvantages of selling through auction on
your own account .... but in this article we’ll deal with two
lesser known but nevertheless important aspects of selling your
stamps .... the first being Dealers ‘runners’.
they sold to other dealers – they rarely if ever sold to collectors
– they were Dealers ‘runners’. Now for you to part with your
beloved collection to the first dealer that you contact does not
necessarily mean that you have made a mistake ... but, if that
dealer writes you out a cheque ... and almost before the ink
has even dried on it – (probably before you have presented the
cheque at your bank) ... he or she is at the nearest big dealer
50 miles away being paid a profit upon the price you sold your
collection for – this is NOT in your best interest.
So what should you be looking for? You should be looking for

...but try as I might – I never once saw an advertisement

by those companies to sell stamps.
Before you even start to try selling your stamps; preparation is
all. Make some research:
1. Draw up a list of whom you consider as a possible target to
sell / handle your collection.
..... then consider –
2. Why have I chosen those dealers/organisations ?
Here’s something to think about ... for the best part of 20 years I
watched the same advertisements extolling the merits of selling
to this or that particular dealer ... but try as I might – I never
once saw an advertisement by those companies to sell stamps.
This was in ‘pre-internet’ days ... nowadays people trade on the
internet with all manner of weird and unusual trading names,
sometimes to disguise who they actually are – but in those days
traditional selling ‘avenues’ were shops, stamp fairs, auctions,
approvals, and retail/mail-order lists ....
... so why was it impossible to find out how those dealers
actually conducted their business? The answer was simple –
an organisation / dealer that you can see and understand how
they conduct their business. Dealers that sell to other dealers
are unlikely to be paying the best price.
Private Treaty: What is it?
The idea of Private Treaty is that collectors ‘place’ their collection
with a dealer or auction that charges a small commission to sell
their collection outright. Sometimes it is claimed that the Buyer
will pay the commission so that the collector pays no charges
whatsoever. Historically ‘Private Treaty’ has acquired notoriety
as an excuse for the company handling the transaction to ‘buy-
in’ the collection for themselves. Maybe collectors and dealers
should forget the concept of private treaty in favour of an open
approach whereby the dealer/auction explains that they are
purchasing on their own account ... or will charge a small
percentage for handling/passing the collector/collection to a
more appropriate buyer.
In Part 4 of ‘Selling your Stamps?’ we’ll discuss consigning your
stamps for sale by auction.

Happy collecting from us all,

Andrew McGavin
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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

JULY 8-13 Contact: Jean-Jacques Tillard,
UKRAINE President, 57 Rue de Paris, BP 4433, BRIEFING: MALAYSIA 2014
Odessaphilex 97500 St-Pierre-et-Miquelon
Venue: Sea Gallery, Odessa Marine texspm@cheznoo.net
Station, Odessa. www.spm-expo.com EVENT: Malaysia 2014 Youth Stamp Exhibition & Asian International
Contact: Organising Committee, Apt Stamp Exhibition.
1, 20 Panteleymonovskaya Str, 65014 OCTOBER 11-12 DATES: December 1-6, 2014.
Odessa, Ukraine. GERMANY VENUE: Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.
Tel: +38 0674 842 527 Berlin International Stamp Fair
STATUS: Patronage of the Fédération Internationale de Philatélie (FIP)
dmitry-f@ukr.net Venue: Berlin ExpoCenter City,
http://russia-stamps.com Messedamm 22, 14055 Berlin, Germany. and Inter-Asian Philatelic Federation (FIAP).
Contact: Messeveranstaltungen, CLASSES: Youth, Thematic, Modern (21st century).
JULY 11-14 Numismatick & Philatelie, ORGANISERS: Philatelic Society Malaysia.
BELGIUM Reichenbachstrasse 17, 80469 TOURISM: The 450m-high Petronas Towers which dominate the city’s
Philatelic Congress of Great Munich, Germany
Britain, Ypres Tel: +49 89 268 359 skyline have a viewing deck on the 86th floor, and visitors can walk
Venue: Novotel Hotel, Sint- across the Skybridge between the two.
Jacobsstraat 15, 8900 Ypres, Belgium. OCTOBER 23-25 Religious monuments include the ultra-modern National Mosque, the
Contact: Vincent Schouberechts. GERMANY Thean Hou Temple on top of Robson Hill, and Batu Caves, which (as well
Tel: +32 474 84 84 39 Sindelfingen International
as being famous for having monkeys scampering over them), contain a
info@maselis.be Stamp Fair
www.abps.org.uk Venue: Messe Sindelfingen, shrine to Lord Murugan. A main attraction at the National Museum is a
Mahdentalstrasse 116, traditional wooden Malay palace.
AUGUST 7-12 Wurttemberg, Germany.
KOREA Contact: Messe Sindelfingen
Philakorea 2014 Tel: +49 7031 7910
Venue: Hall A, CoEx Convention kontakt@messe-sindelfingen.de
Centre, Samseong 1-dong, www.messe-sindelfingen.de
Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea.
Contact: Organising Committee, 6 NOVEMBER 21-23
Jong-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-110, NORWAY
South Korea. Nordia 2014
philakorea2014@koreapost.go.kr Venue: Norges Varemesse,
www.philakorea.com Lillestrøm.
Contact: Arne Thune-Larsen
AUGUST 21-24 arne1@getmail.no
USA http://nordia2014.no
American Philatelic Society
StampShow 2014 DECEMBER 1-6
Venue: Connecticut Convention MALAYSIA 2014
Centre, 100 Columbus Boulevard, World Youth Stamp Exhibition
Hartford, Connecticut. Venue: Exhibition Hall 1 & 2, Kuala
Contact: APS, 100 Match Factory Lumpur Convention Centre, Jalan
Place, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania Ampang, 50088 Kuala Lumpur,
16823, USA. Malaysia.
Tel: +1 814 933 3803 Contact: Mak Kok Cheong, 29 Jalan
Fax: +1 814 933 6128 USJ 4/1M, 47600 Subang Jaya,
www.stamps.org Selangor, Malaysia.
Tel: +60 133 805 049
AUGUST 29-31 worldyouth2014@gmail.com
SWEDEN lkcmak@yahoo.com
Baltex 2014 http://malaysia2014.com.my
Venue: Slagthus, Jörgen Kocksgatan
7A, 211 20 Malmö, Sweden. FEBRUARY 22-25
Contact: Valter Skenhall or Christer UK
Märtensson Spring Stampex
www.baltex2014.se Venue: Business Design Centre,
52 Upper Street, Islington,
SEPTEMBER 17-20 London N1 0QH.
UK Contact: Graham Childs, PO Box 981,
Autumn Stampex Southsea, Hampshire PO1 9PG
Venue: Business Design Centre, 52 Tel: 023 9283 2289
Upper Street, Islington, London info@philatelic-traders-society.co.uk
N1 0QH.
Contact: Graham Childs, PO Box 981, MARCH 5-7
Southsea, Hampshire PO1 9PG GERMANY
Tel: 023 9283 2289 Munich International Stamp Fair
info@philatelic-traders-society.co.uk Venue: MOC Veranstaltungscenter,
Lilienthalallee 40,
SEPTEMBER 24-28 80939 Munich, Germany.
ST PIERRE & MIQUELON Contact: Messe Sindelfingen,
SPM Expo 2014 Mahdentalstrasse 116, 71065
Venue: Salle des Fêtes Municipale, Sindelfingen, Germany
6 Rue Soeur Césarine, 97500 St Pierre Tel: +49 7031 7910
& Miquelon. Fax: +49 7031 791102

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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

JULY 9-11 Road, Ashford, Kent TN24 8QQ. george@traffordbooks.fsnet.co.uk AUGUST 13
ENGLISH-LANGUAGE
SPINK Contact: Andrew Curd or Robert Uden AJH STAMPS POSTAL SALES
Venue: 69 Southampton Row, Tel: 01303 238807 AUGUST 6 Venue: The Dunkenhalgh Hotel & Spa,
Bloomsbury, London WC1B 4ET. info@martelloauctions.com WARWICK & WARWICK Clayton-le-Moors, Lancashire BB5 5JP. APEX
Tel: 020 7563 4000 www.martelloauctions.com Venue: The Greville Suite, Lord Contact: The Laurels, Tel: 01342 833413
Fax: 020 7563 4066 Leycester Hotel, Jury Street, Manchester Road, Accrington, info@apexstamps.com
info@spink.com AUGUST 3 Warwick, CV34 4EJ. Lancashire BB52PF www.apexstamp.com
www.spink.com PROVINCIAL Contact: Chalon House, Scar Tel: 01254 393740
PHILATELICS Bank, Millers Road, Warwick, Fax: 01254 382274 COUNTY
JULY 12-13 Venue: 90 Park Road, Didcot, CV34 5DB sales@ajhstamps.co.uk county@stampauctions.co.uk
LOCKDALES Oxfordshire OX11 8QR . Tel: 01926 499031 www.ajhstamps.co.uk www.stampauctions.co.uk
Venue: 52 Barrack Square, Contact: Provincial Phiatelics Fax: 01926 491906
Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, Tel/Fax: 01235 511083 info@warwickandwarwick.com AUGUST 17 MOWBRAY
Suffolk IP5 3RF. www.provincialphilatelics.co.uk www.warwickandwarwick.com TONY LESTER Tel: +64 6 364 8270
Contact: Chris Elmy Venue: Holiday Inn, London Road mowbray.stamps@xtra.co.nz
Tel: 01473 627110 AUGUST 5-6 AUGUST 9 (A45), Coventry CV8 3DY. www.mowbrays.co.nz
sales@lockdales.com TRAFFORD BOOKS TILBURY Contact: Unit 2, The Sidings,
SANDAFAYRE
www.lockdales.com Venue: Unit 7, Astra Business Park, Venue: Washingborough Birdingbury Road, Marton, Rugby,
Tel: 01565 653214
Guinness Road, Trafford Park, Community Centre, Fen Road, Warwickshire CV23 9RX
stamp@sandafayre.com
JULY 25 Manchester M17 1SD. Washingborough, Lincoln Tel: 01926 634809
www.sandafayre.com
MARTELLO PHILATELIC Contact: George Wewiora LN4 1AB. Fax: 01926 634819
AUCTIONS Tel: 0161 877 8818 Contact: Bil Tilbury tonylester@btconnect.co.uk UNIVERSAL
Venue: The Holiday Inn, Canterbury Fax: 0161 877 8819 Tel: 01400 230769 www.tonylester.co.uk Tel: 01451 861111
info@upastampauctions.co.uk
www.upastampauctions.co.uk
LOT TO BE DESIRED VANCE
Tel: +1 905 957 3364
mail@vanceauctions.com
Lockdales’ sale on July 12-13 features this wonderful East African combination cover, which bears an
www.vanceauctions.com
1896 Uganda Protectorate 4a (with the small ‘o’ in ‘Postage’ variety) and a British East Africa
1896-1901 2½a blue. The lot includes the original contents, and is estimated at £250-£300. ENGLISH-LANGUAGE
ONLINE SALES

DALKEITH
www.dalkeith-auctions.co.uk

DELCAMPE
www.delcampe.net

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
LOT TO BE DESIRED
SKANFIL
www.skanfil.no
Spink’s July 9-11 sale will
STAMP CENTER
offer this strip of four www.thestampcenter.com
Penny Blacks from plate
2. With good to large STAMPFAIR
www.stampfair.com
margins all round and
superb red Maltese Cross STANLEY GIBBONS
cancels, and is estimated www.stanleygibbons.com
at £3,500-£4,000. TORRES
www.antoniotorres.com

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UK FAIR DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

July 11 colWyN bay West High Street, AB51 3SA. Time: 10am-4pm 10am-4pm (Saturday) Contact: Graham O’Hara
loNdoN (stamps) Time: 10am-4pm Contact: JRS Fairs Contact: Chris Rainey or Tel: 07710 683122
(stamps) Venue: Eirias High School, Contact: Chad Neighbor Tel: 01785 259350 Kate Puleston
Venue: Royal National Hotel, Eirias Road, LL29 7SP. Tel: 01674 832823 Tel: 01793 513431 or orMskirk
Galleon Suite, Bedford Way, Time: 9.30am-3.30pm WigaN 020 8946 4489 (stamps)
Russell Square, WC1H 0DG. Contact: North Wales suttoN (stamps) Venue: The Guide HQ,
Time: 9am-4pm Stamp Fairs (stamps) Venue: Pemberton Masonic July 19 Moorgate, L39 4RT.
Contact: Kate Puleston Tel: 01745 826434 Venue: St Helier Methodist Hall, Chapel Street, off eXeter Time: 10am-3pm
Tel: 020 8946 4489 Church Hall, Green Lane, Ormskirk Road, WN5 8JP. (stamps, postal history, Contact: GBC Promotions
derby Rose Hill, SM4 6SQ. Time: 10am-3.30pm postcards) Tel: 01226 765069
July 11-12 (stamps, postcards) Time: 10am-4pm Contact: GBC Promotions Venue: America Hall, De La
chessiNgtoN Venue: Nunsfield House Contact: A&C Stamp Fairs Tel: 01226 765069 Rue Way, Pinhoe, EX4 8PX. WiNchester
(stamps) Community Hall, 33 Boulton Tel: 020 8640 1404 Time: 10am-4pm (stamps, postcards)
ThematiX 2014 Lane, Alvaston, DE24 0FD. WokiNghaM Contact: Michael Hale Venue: Badgers Farm
Venue: King George Field Time: 9.30am-4pm telford (stamps) Tel: 01749 677669 Community Centre,
Indoor Bowls Club, Jubilee Contact: H V Johnson & Co (stamps, postcards, Venue: St Crispin’s Leisure Badgers Farm Road
Way, KT9 1TR. Tel: 01909 563394 coins) Centre, London Road, hull SO22 4QB.
Time: 10.30am-5pm (Friday), Venue: Belmont Hall, RG40 1SR. (stamps) Time: 10am-3.30pm
10am-4pm (Saturday) eastbourNe Wellington Centre, TF1 1LU. Time: 10am-3pm Venue: St Stephen’s Church Contact: Chris Rapley
Contact: Paula Cant (stamps, postcards) Time: 10am-3pm Contact: Nigel Stow Hall, Freehold Street, Tel: 07711 677760
Tel: 01256 415699 Venue: St Mary’s Church Hall, Contact: Bob Hemmings Tel: 01923 674999 off Spring Bank,
Decoy Drive, Hampden Park, Tel: 01694 771880 HU3 1RB. July 24
July 12 BN22 9PP. July 16 Time: 9.30am-4pm plyMouth
bourNeMouth Time: 10am-3.30pm upMiNster east griNstead Contact: H V Johnson & Co (stamps)
(stamps) Contact: Chris Rapley (stamps, postal history, (stamps, postcards, coins) Tel: 01909 563394 Venue: Guildhall,
Venue: Annunciation Hall, Tel: 07711 677760 postcards) Venue: Chequer Mead Armada Way, PL1 2ER.
Charminster Road, BH8 9RW. Venue: St Lawrence Church Community Arts Centre, keNilWorth Time: 10am-4pm
Time: 10am-4pm great barr Hall, Corbets Tey Road, De La Warr Road, (stamps, postcards) Contact: Solent Stamps
Contact: Solent Stamps (stamps) RM14 2AJ. RH19 3BS Venue: Kenilworth School, Tel: 01489 582673
Tel: 01489 582673 Venue: Collingwood Centre, Time: 10am-4pm Time: 10am-3pm Leyes Lane, CV8 2DA.
Collingwood Drive, Pheasey, Contact: Graham O’Hara Contact: Malcolm Green Time: 10am-4pm July 25
chester B43 7NF. Tel: 07710 683122 Tel: 01342 327554 Contact: JRS Fairs clyst st george
(stamps) Time: 10am-4pm Tel: 01785 259350 (stamps)
Venue: Hoole United Contact: Dave Burnett July 13 July 18-19 Venue: Parish Hall,
Reformed Church, Tel: 07765 792998 altriNchaM york sittiNgbourNe Woodbury Road, EX3 0RE.
Hoole Road, CH2 3QU. (stamps, postcards) (stamps, coins) (stamps, postcards) Time: 10am-4pm
Time: 10am-3.30pm iNverurie Venue: Mercure Hotel, Venue: The Grandstand, York Venue: Carmel Hall, Ufton Contact: Solent Stamps
Contact: GBC Promotions (stamps) Langham Road, Bowdon, Racecourse, Y023 I EJ. Lane, off West Street, Tel: 01489 582673
Tel: 01226 765069 Venue: West Church Hall, WA14 2HT. Time: 11am-6pm (Friday), ME10 1JB.
Time: 10am-3.30pm July 26
Contact: Chris Rapley coveNtry
Tel: 07711 677760 (stamps, postcards,
postal history)
July 20 Venue: Shilton Village Hall,
altriNchaM Wood Lane, Shilton,
(stamps, postcards) CV7 9JZ.
Venue: Cresta Court Hotel, Time: 10am-3pm
Church Street, WA14 4DP. Contact: Cliff Hall
Time: 10am-4pm Tel: 02476 312874
Contact: R Cudworth
Tel: 01484 866777 ealiNg
(stamps)
droNfield Venue: Polygon Complex,
(stamps) Ealing Parish Church,
Venue: Coal Aston Village St Mary’s Road,
Hall, Coal Aston, S18 3AY. W5 5EU.
Time: 9.30am-4pm Time: 9am-1pm
Contact: H V Johnson & Co Contact: T Brittain
Tel: 01909 563394 Tel: 07957 158299

kNoWle keyNshaM
(stamps) (stamps)
Venue: The Village Hall, Venue: The Fear Institute,
St John’s Close, B93 0NH. Keynsham High Street,
Time: 9.30am-3pm BS31 1DG.
Contact: Dave Burnett Time: 9.30am-4pm
Tel: 07765 792998 Contact: Kevin Noble Fairs
Tel: 07599 001101
lutoN
(stamps, postal history, MiddleWich
postcards) (stamps)
Venue: Village Hall, Markyate Venue: Community Centre,
Road & Grove Road, Slip End, Civic Way, off Leadsmith
LU1 4BU. Street, CW10 9BE.
Time: 10am-4pm Time: 10am-3.30pm

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Contact: GBC Promotions southport
Tel: 01226 765069 (stamps, postcards)
Venue: Royal Clifton Hotel,
Morley The Promenade, PR8 1RB.
(stamps) Time: 10am-4pm
Venue: St Mary’s Church Hall, Contact: R Cudworth
Commercial Street, Tel: 01484 866777
LS27 8HZ.
Time: 9.30am-4pm steveNage
Contact: H V Johnson & Co (stamps, postal history,
Tel: 01909 563394 postcards)
Venue: Novotel, Knebworth
NorthaMptoN Park, SG1 2AX.
(stamps, postal history) Time: 10am-4pm
Venue: The Abbey Centre, Contact: Graham O’Hara
Overslade Close, East Tel: 07710 683122
Hunsbury, NN4 0RZ.
Time: 10am-4pm august 1
Contact: Dave Foster loNdoN
Tel: 0115 9614528 (stamps)
Venue: Royal National Hotel,
petersfield Galleon Suite, Bedford Way,
(stamps) Russell Square, WC1H 0DG.
Venue: Community Time: 9am-4pm
Centre, Love Lane, Contact: Kate Puleston
GU31 4BW. Tel: 020 8946 4489
Time: 10am-4pm
Contact: Solent Stamps august 2
Tel: 01489 582673 forMby
(stamps) Time: 10am-4pm Nottingham Street, CF5 1JP. Rose Hill, SM4 6SQ. Time: 9.30am-4.00pm
WaNstead Venue: Methodist Church Contact: Steve Search Time: 10am-3.30pm Time: 10am-4pm Contact: John Roberts
(stamps, postal history, Hall, Elbow Lane, Tel: 01702 323682 Contact: Dragon Contact: A&C Stamp Fairs Tel: 0151 4267913
postcards) off Duke Street, L37 4AF. Collectors’ Fairs Tel: 020 8640 1404
Venue: Wanstead Library, Time: 10am-3.30pm WiMborNe Tel: 01446 741026 sittiNgbourNe
Spratt Hall Road, E11 2RQ. Contact: GBC Promotions (stamps, postcards) august 10 (stamps, postcards)
Time: 10am-4pm Tel: 01226 765069 Venue: Allendale Community august 9 altriNchaM Venue: Carmel Hall,
Contact: Graham O’Hara Centre, Main Hall, bilsborroW (stamps, postcards) Ufton Lane, off West Street,
Tel: 07710 683122 huddersfield Hanham Road, (stamps) Venue: Mercure Hotel, ME10 1JB.
(stamps) BH21 1AS. Venue: Bilsborrow Village Langham Road, Time: 10am-3.30pm
July 27 Venue: St Thomas Community Time: 10am-4pm Hall, PR3 0RP. Bowdon, WA14 2HT. Contact: Chris Rapley
ascot Centre, Manchester Road, Contact: Brian Redpath Time: 10am-3.30pm Time: 10am-4pm Tel: 07711 677760
(stamps) Longroyd Bridge, HD1 3HU. Tel: 01258 880878 Contact: GBC Promotions Contact: JRS Fairs
Venue: British Red Cross Time: 9.30am-4pm Tel: 01226 765069 Tel: 01785 259350 august 17
Centre, Heatherwood Hospital Contact: A Campbell august 3 altriNchaM
Entrance 3, Kings Ride, Tel: 01484 681559 altriNchaM derby WokiNghaM (stamps, postcards)
SL5 7RD. (stamps, postcards) (stamps, postcards) (stamps) Venue: Cresta Court Hotel,
Time: 9am-1pm leicester Venue: Cresta Court Hotel, Venue: Nunsfield House Venue: St Crispin’s Leisure Church Street, WA14 4DP.
Contact: T Brittain (stamps, covers) Church Street, WA14 4DP. Community Hall, 33 Boulton Centre, London Road, RG40 1SR. Time: 10am-4pm
Tel: 07957 158299 Venue: The Holiday Inn, Time: 10am-4pm Lane, Alvaston, DE24 0FD. Time: 10am-3pm Contact: R Cudworth
St Nicholas Circle, LE1 5LX. Contact: R Cudworth Time: 9.30am-4pm Contact: Nigel Stow Tel: 01484 866777
doNcaster Time: 9.30am-3.30pm Tel: 01484 866777 Contact: H V Johnson & Co Tel: 01923 674999
(stamps) Contact: John Suschitzky Tel: 01909 563394 droNfield
Venue: Park Social Club, Tel: 0116 2350441 NeWhaveN august 16 (stamps)
Eden Grove Road, (stamps, postcards) fiNchley great barr Venue: Coal Aston Village
Edenthorpe, DN3 2LS. lichfield Venue: Denton Social Centre, (stamps, postal historys) (stamps) Hall, Coal Aston, S18 3AY.
Time: 9.30am-4pm (stamps, postal history) Denton Road, Denton, BN9 0PX. Venue: Methodist Church Venue: Collingwood Centre, Time: 9.30am-4pm
Contact: H V Johnson & Co Venue: Boley Park Community Time: 10am-4pm Hall, Ballards Lane, Collingwood Drive, Pheasey, Contact: H V Johnson & Co
Tel: 01909 563394 Hall, Ryknild Street, Contact: Eric G Langdon Essex Park, N3 1ND. B43 7NF. Tel: 01909 563394
WS14 9XU. Tel: 01273 514733 Time: 10am-4pm Time: 10am-4pm
loWestoft Time: 10am-4pm Contact: Graham O’Hara Contact: Dave Burnett hertford
(stamps) Contact: JRS Fairs august 6 Tel: 07710 683122 Tel: 07765 792998 (stamps, postal history,
Venue: Hopton Village Hall, Tel: 01785 259350 Neath postcards)
Station Road, (stamps, postal history, liNcolN hull Venue: Sele School,
Hopton-on-Sea, NR31 9BE. NorWich postcards) (stamps) (stamps) Welwyn Road, SG14 2DG.
Time: 10am-3.30pm (stamps, postcards) Venue: Town Hall, SA11 3LL. Venue: Washingborough Venue: St Stephen’s Church Time: 10am-4pm
Contact: Terry Allaker Venue: Hewitt Middle School, Time: 10am-5pm Community Centre, Fen Road, Hall, Freehold Street, off Contact: Graham O’Hara
Tel: 01502 563759 Cecil Road, NR1 2PL. Contact: Dragon Washingborough, LN4 1AB. Spring Bank, HU3 1RB. Tel: 07710 683122
Time: 10am-4.30pm Collectors’ Fairs Time: 10am-4pm Time: 9.30am-4pm
peterborough Contact: Simon Simpson Tel: 01446 741026 Contact: Bil Tilbury Contact: H V Johnson & Co kNoWle
(stamps) Tel: 01603 439298 Tel: 01400 230769 Tel: 01909 563394 (stamps)
Venue: The Holiday Inn, august 7 Venue: The Village Hall,
Thorpe Wood, PE3 6SG. raWreth cardiff suttoN prestoN St John’s Close, B93 0NH.
Time: 10am-4pm (stamps) (stamps, postal history, (stamps) (stamps) Time: 9.30am-3pm
Contact: Richard Lewis Venue: Parish Hall, Church postcards) Venue: St Helier Methodist Venue: Barton Village Hall, Contact: Dave Burnett
Tel: 01945 700594 Lane, SS11 8SH. Venue: Methodist Church, Church Hall, Green Lane, Garstang Road (A6), PR3 5AA. Tel: 07765 792998

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 WHAT’S ON: SOCIETIES To include an event in this listing, we need at least two months’ notice.
Send details to Julia Lee, Stamp Magazine, MyTimeMedia Ltd,
Enterprise House, Enterprise Way, Edenbridge, Kent TN8 6HG.
SELECTED UK PHILATELIC SOCIETY E-mail: julia.lee@mytimemedia.com

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

JULY 12 TAUNTON SC Club, Ladies Room, Broad Contact: B H Bretherick Collection Contact: Neil Wharmby
ROCHDALE PS Display by Minehead & Street, PE11 1TB. Tel: 01253 729659 by Sandra Poole Tel: 01706 665698
Postal History of the District Stamp Club Time: 7.30pm Venue: Society of Artists, 71
Tarn Departement of Venue: Community Contact: Michelle Burton WAKEFIELD PS Friar Lane, Nottingham AUGUST 11
France Centre, Parmin Close, Tel: 01775 767464 Venue: The Wakefield Sea NG1 6DH. INSURANCE &
by Eddie Dunne TA1 2JU. Cadets Headquarters, Time: 7.15pm BANKING PS OF GB
Venue: Unitarian Time: 7.30pm JULY 16 Thornes Wharf, Contact: Douglas Harvey The Centenary of the Start
Chapel, Clover Street, Contact: Tony Nicholson GRIMSBY & Thornes Lane, WF1 5QW. Tel: 0115 9233858 of World War I
Rochdale Tel: 01278 662702 DISTRICT PS Time: 7pm by Peter O’Keeffe
OL12 6TP. Club Auction Contact: Brian Hitchcock AUGUST 5 Venue: RSA, 6th Floor
Time: 7.30pm JULY 15 Venue: Grimsby Central Hall, Tel: 01924 271218 SCARBOROUGH PS Committee Room, Leadenhall
Contact: Neil Wharmby BRADFORD & Duncombe Street, DN32 7EG. August Displays Court, 1 Leadenhall Street,
Tel: 01706 665698 DISTRICT PS Time: 6pm JULY 19 Venue: The Lecture Room, London EC3.
Open Meeting Contact: Chris Dodsworth YORK PS Scarborough Library, Time: 5.30pm
JULY 14 Venue: The Latvian Club, Tel: 01652 654928 Travelling Post Office & Sea Vernon Road, Contact: Norman Oakley
INSURANCE & 5 Clifton Villas, Post Society Meeting YO11 2NN. Tel: 01474 362728
BANKING PS OF GB Manningham Lane, LYTHAM ST ANNES Venue: York Railway Institute, Time: 7.30pm
Up to 24 Sheets on the BD8 7BY. PS Hamilton, Drive, York, Contact: Christopher Phillips AUGUST 12
Letter T Time: 7.30pm AGM & Trophy YO24 4NX. Tel: 01723 368475 BRADFORD &
Venue: RSA, 6th Floor Contact: Judith Holder Presentations Time: 7pm DISTRICT PS
Committee Room, Tel: 01274 544 446 Members’ Displays: Letters Contact: A Ward AUGUST 10 Open Meeting
Leadenhall Court, X, Y & Z Tel: 01904 411378 ROCHDALE PS Venue: The Latvian Club, 5
1 Leadenhall Street, SPALDING & Venue: The Drive AGM Clifton Villas, Manningham
London EC3. DISTRICT SC Methodist Church Hall, AUGUST 1 Venue: Unitarian Chapel, Lane, BD8 7BY.
Time: 5.30pm Channel Islands East Bank Road, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Clover Street, Rochdale Time: 7.30pm
Contact: Norman Oakley by Richard Fleming FY8 1ND. PS OL12 6TP. Contact: Judith Holder
Tel: 01474 362728 Venue: The Constitutional Time: 7.30pm The Society’s Forgery Time: 7.30pm Tel: 01274 544446

YORK PHILATELIC SOCIETY

York Philatelic Society presented two of its annual awards at
its April meeting. The Eric Farrant Cup went to Jeremy Piercy
for his display of postal history, while the Munster Plate was
awarded to Edith Knight for her display of social philately.
The awards were presented by the Society’s President,
Trevor Collins.

ABOVE: Edith Knight won the Munster Plate for her display of social philately ABOVE: Jeremy Piercy (right) receives the Eric Farrant Cup from President Trevor Collins

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YOUR COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE LATEST
RELEASES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
This directory lists Great Britain first, followed by other countries in alphabetical
order. We aim to keep our listing as up-to-date as possible, but our aim of providing
more comprehensive detail than any other guide means that we might not 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 July 2014)
001 Feb 20, 2014
Classic Locomotives of the United Kingdom
Design: Delaney Consultants, from photographs.
Printing: litho, Enschedé. Perf 14.25 x 14, with
elliptical cut-outs on vertical sides of stamps in
fifth pane.
Prestige booklet (sold at £13.97): five gummed
panes.
Pane 1: 2p Machin deep green x 2; 5p Machin brown
008 ALBANIA x 2; 1st (60p) flag of England x 1; 1st (60p) Northern
Ireland x 1; 1st (60p) saltire x 1; 1st (60p) dragon
Postal Transport
from flag of Wales x 1. Label: lion and coronet
motif from British Railways crest
Pane 2: 1st (60p) BR Dean Goods No2532 x 2; 60p
Peckett R2 Thor x 2
Pane 3: 1st (60p) BR D34 No62471 and No62476 x 2;
68p BR D40 No62276 x 2
Pane 4: 1st (60p) UTA W No103 x 2; 78p UTA SG3
No35 x 2
Pane 5: 1st (60p) LMS No 7720 x 2; 78p Hunslet
No589 Blanche x 2
Cover: Southern Railway Class M7 No53 on the
Great Central Railway in 2012 (photograph)
Note: railway designs of all except the Welsh
locomotives were previously issued in miniature
sheets in 2011, 2012 and 2013; this booklet is the
only source of Enschedé-printed stamps in these
designs
002 March 25, 2014
350 Years of the Royal Marines
Design: Dick Davis (flag stamp) and CTT Design
(sheet).
Printing: litho, International Security Printers.
Two phosphor bands. Die-cut perf 14¾ x 14 with
elliptical cut-outs on vertical sides.
Self-adhesive commemorative sheet: sold at
£14.95. 10 stamps with 10 adjoining labels.
1st (60p) x 10 Union flag (small format)
Labels: Duke of York & Albany’s Maritime
Regiment of Foot, 1664; Light Company and
Batallion Company marines during American War,
1775; raising of the flag at Sydney Cove, Australia,
January 26 1788; Nelson, mortally wounded,
carried below deck by Sergeant Secker of the
Royal Marines, Battle of Trafalgar 1805; Royal
Marine Light Infantry & Artillery in late 19th
century; shell hole in deck of HMS Vindictive after
Zeebrugge raid, 1918; Royal Marines embarking on
landing craft tanks at Ostend, October 1944; 40
Commando Royal Marines on West Falkland, June
1982; amphibious exercise with Royal Navy
(modern); Royal Marines Band Service
010 ALBANIA 003 April 15, 2014
Albanian Flora Buckingham Palace
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Design: Howard Brown, from prints and paintings Buckingham Palace 2014 x 2
(sheet stamps) or Robert Maude and Sarah Davies Pane 3: 10p Machin brown-orange x 2; 20p Machin
after photographs (miniature sheet). bright green x 4; £1 Machin grey-brown x 2.
Printing: litho, International Security Printers Label: crown within 16-pointed star
(sheet stamps) or Enschedé (miniature sheet). Pane 4: 1st The Throne Room; 1st The Grand
Phosphor-coated paper. Perf 14½ (sheet stamps) Staircase; 1st The Blue Drawing Room; 1st The
or 14¼ x 14 (miniature sheet). Green Drawing Room. Border: Winston Churchill
Sheet stamps: sheets of 18 arranged in se-tenant and Ernest Bevin at the Ministry of Health, May 8,
strips of three. 1945
1st (62p) Buckingham House seen from the Cover: elevation of east front of Buckingham
north-west: oil painting attributed to Palace in its 1914 form
Adriaen van Diest, c1700 Note: this booklet is the only source of the sheet
1st (62p) Buckingham House seen from the stamp designs printed by Enschedé
east fronting St James’s Park: print by
unknown artist, dated 1714 005 April 15, 2014
1st (62p) Buckingham House: watercolour by Buckingham Palace
William Westall, 1819 Printing: gravure, Walsall. All-over phosphor
Sheet stamps: sheets of 18 arranged in se-tenant (commemoratives) or two phosphor bands
strips of three. (Machins). Die-cut perf 14¼ x 14
1st (62p) Buckingham Palace, 1846: painting by (commemoratives) or 14¾ x 14 (Machin).
Joseph Nash, showing Palace, St Definitives have source code ‘MCIL’ and year code
James’s Park and Marble Arch ‘M14L’.
1st (62p) Buckingham Palace, c1862: coloured Self-adhesive booklet (£3.72): 6 stamps,
lithography Achille-Louis Martinet affixed to inside covers.
1st (62p) Buckingham Palace, 2014: 1st (62p) the Grand Staircase: photograph by
watercolour and gouache painting by Derry Moore
Chris Draper 1st (62p) x 4 Machin, bright orange
Miniature sheet (2 x 2):. 1st (62p) the Throne Room: photograph by Derry
1st (62p) the Throne Room: photograph by Derry Moore
Moore Cover: ‘6 x 1st’ and Royal Mail logo
1st (62p) the Grand Staircase: photograph by
Derry Moore ALBANIA
1st (62p) the Blue Drawing Room: photograph by (last listed in Feb 2014)
Andrew Holt
1st (62p) the Green Drawing Room 006 Aug 27, 2013
Border: gilded crown (relief). IAAF World Athletics Championships,
Note: miniature sheets from post offices were sold Moscow
an 11mm-wide tab at left, joined by roulette, with Printing: litho, Adelprint.
barcode and paper certification. Sheets Sheetlet (4 x 2): 8 stamps arranged in 4
distributed from other philatelic outlets had this horizontally se-tenant pairs.
removed 30L x 4 runner
200L x 4 high jumper
004 April 15, 2014 Miniature sheet:
Buckingham Palace 250L pole vaulter
Design: Howard Brown (exterior views) or Robert Border: Games logo, stylised world map
Maude and Sarah Davies (interiors).
Printing: litho, Enschedé. All over phosphor 007 Aug 30, 2013
(commemoratives) or two phosphor bands Vedat Kokona, 1913-1998
(definitives). Perf 14 x 13¼ (exteriors), 14¼ x 14 Design: E Bulku
(interiors) or 14¾ x 14 with elliptical cut-outs on Printing: litho, Adelprint.
vertical sides (Machins). Definitives have source Sheet stamp: sheets of 9.
code ‘MPIL’ and year code ‘M14L’. 150L the writer in his library
Prestige booklet (sold at £11.39): four gummed
panes. 008 Oct 4, 2013
Pane 1: 1st Buckingham House c1700; 1st Europa 2013. Postal Transport
Buckingham House, early 18th century; 1st Design: L Kraja.
Buckingham House, 1819; 1st Buckingham Palace Printing: litho, Adelprint.
1846 Sheetlet: 10 stamps arranged in 5 se-tenant pairs
Pane 2: 1st Buckingham Palace c1862 x 2; 1st with composite design.

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80L x 5 parcels and envelopes over globe,
post van and post truck
200L x 5 parcel and envelope, transport
aircraft, railway train, cargo ship
Booklet: one loose pane.
80L parcels and envelopes over globe,
post van and post truck
200L parcel and envelope, transport
aircraft, railway train, cargo ship
009 Oct 16, 2013
Centenary of Albanian Police Force
Printing: litho, Adelprint.
Sheetlet: 16 stamps arranged in 8 se-tenant pairs
with composite design.
10L x 8 modern policewoman, Albanian flag
250L x 8 modern policeman, Albanian flag
010 Oct 30, 2013
Albanian Flora
Design: Bertrand Shijaku.
Printing: litho, Adelprint.
Sheetlet: 9 stamps arranged in 3 se-tenant strips
of 3.
20L x 3 Scilla albanica (wild hyacinth)
90L x 3 Gymnospermium maloi (yellow flower,
newly discovered species from Mount
Picari)
150p x 3 Tulipa albanica (recently discovered
wild red tulip)
011 Nov 6, 2013
Mediterranean Games 2013 , Mersin, Turkey
Design: Bertrand Shijaku. Both designs have
sporting pictograms and Games emblem.
Printing: litho, Adelprint.
Sheetlet: 8 stamps arranged in 4 horizontal
se-tenant pairs.
90L x 4 swimming (dive-start), water polo and
synchronised swimming
150L x 4 volleyball, weightlifting and
cycling
Miniature sheet:
200L rowing (pairs)
Border: pictograms for gymnastics and tennis
012 Nov 15, 2013
Centenary of the Red Cross movement
Design: Bertrand Shijaku (drawings).
Printing: litho, Adelprint.
Sheetlet: 8 stamps arranged in 4 horizontal
se-tenant pairs.
40L x 4 Red Cross flag, Red Cross workers
giving first aid
150L x 4 Red Cross flag, Red Cross workers,
one carrying aid packages
Miniature sheet:
250L Red Cross paramedic with accident
victim
Border: Red Cross worker handing over aid
package, Red Cross flag
013 Nov 25, 2013
Leading Albanologists, second issue
Designs: Naji Bakalli. All designs show portrait
drawings of writers, and their books.
Printing: litho, Adelprint.
Sheetlet: 9 stamps arranged in 3 horizontal
se-tenant strips of 3.
10L Milan Šufflay, 1879-1931, Croat
historian, Balkanologist, politician
100L Konstantin Jirecek, 1854-1918, Czech
historian and politician
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150L Lajos Thallóczy, 1854-1916, what might have been featured in the final panel of
Hungarian historian the Bayeux Tapestry, which was never completed
or has been lost
014 Dec 6, 2013
Archaeological Finds ASCENSION
Design: Bertrand Shijaku. (last listed in Feb 2014)
Printing: litho, Adelprint.
Sheetlet: 8 stamps arranged in 2 se-tenant strips 017 April 28, 2014
of 4. Bicentenary of Settlement, 1815-2015,
20L x 2 sandalled foot from a bronze statue, second issue. The Napoleonic Years
from Apollonia (2nd-3rd century BC) Design: Andrew Robinson.
90L x 2 mythological animal (fibula Printing: litho, BDT.
decoration), in bronze, from Lezha Sheet stamps:
(7th-8th century AD) 50p Napoleon Bonaparte, Prince Consul of
100L x 2 marble bust of a man, from Apollonia France, returns his sword to its
(2nd century AD) scabbard, after the conclusion of the
120L x 2 pediment relief of Heracles and Peace of Amiens, 1802: print
Apollo, from Apollonia (2nd 55p Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, in
century AD) his Coronation robes, 1804: painting
by François Gerard
015 Dec 18, 2013 60p portrait of Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson
Nikolla Naço, 1843-1913 in uniform: painting by Lemuel Francis
Design: Y Beqiri. Abbott
Printing: litho, Adelprint. £1.60 Napoleon on horseback at the Battle
Sheet stamp: sheets of 9. of Wagram, July 1809: painting by
200L portrait of the founder of the first Émile Jean-Horace Vernet
Albanian school
018 May 21, 2014
ALDERNEY The Christening of Prince George of
(last listed in April 2014) Cambridge. Royal Christenings
Design: Andrew Robinson (colourised
016 ALDERNEY
016 May 28, 2014 photographs).
The ‘Final Panel’ of the Bayeux Tapestry, Printing: litho, Cartor.
Bayeux Tapestry Final Panel
Created by Alderney Residents Sheet stamps:
Design: Bridget Yabsley. 50p christening of Princess Elizabeth on
Printing: litho, Cartor (sheet stamps), or litho on May 1, 1926: Elizabeth, Duchess of
100% combed cotton (miniature sheet). York, with baby
Sheet stamps: sheets of 10 (5 x 2), with 55p christening of Prince Charles on
illustrated border. December 15, 1948: Princess
40p William of Normandy dining with Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh,
family members following his victory holding baby, with Prince Philip, Duke
at the Battle of Hastings, 1066 of Edinburgh standing behind
53p William at the head of group of riders 60p christening of Prince William,
on horses August 4, 1982: Queen Elizabeth the
55p the nobles of London submitting to the Queen Mother holding the baby,
rule of William watched by Charles, Prince of Wales
63p two nobles submitting to William’s and Queen Elizabeth II
rule £1.60 christening of Prince George on
71p the Coronation of William at October 23, 2013: Catherine, Duchess
Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day, of Cambridge, holding baby, with
1066 Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, at
79p William and his nobles planning the the Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace
construction of the Tower of London
Border: yarns, embroidery stitch diagrams, BAHAMAS
inscriptions (last listed in Feb 2014)
Prestige booklet (£14.44): 6 panes, each of 4
stamps (2 x 2). 019 May 21, 2014
Pane: 40p x 4 William dining with family members The Christening of Prince George of
Pane: 53p x 4 William at head of group of horsemen Cambridge. Royal Christenings
Pane: 55p x 4 nobles of London submit to William Issue date: May 21, 2014
Pane: 63p x 4 two nobles submit to William’s rule Design: Andrew Robinson, from photographs.
Pane: 71p x 4 the Coronation of William Printing: litho, Cartor.
Pane: 79p x 4 William plans Tower of London Sheet stamps:
Cover: motifs from the tapestry (lion, the stricken 15c christening of Princess Elizabeth on
King Harold, bird) May 1, 1926: the Duke of York, the
Miniature sheet: Duchess of York holding Elizabeth,
£3 William and his nobles planning the George V, Queen Mary and others
construction of the Tower of London, 50c christening of Prince Charles at
and Latin inscription ‘Hic Angli Buckingham Palace on December 15,
Clamant Regem’ 1948: Charles asleep in the arms of his
Border: the entire panel mother
017 ASCENSION
Note: panel created by Alderney residents and 65c christening of Prince William at
visitors, to a design by Pauline Black, suggesting Buckingham Palace on August 4, 1982: Bicentenary of Settlement
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Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, 024 May 26, 2013 CYPRUS
Princess of Wales, holding the baby ISA Award for Service to Humanity, 2013 (last listed in Dec 2013)
70c christening of Prince George, at Printing: litho, Oriental Press.
Clarence House on October 13, 2013: Sheet stamps: sheets of 15. 030 Nov 13, 2013
William and Catherine, Duke and 100f profile of King Hamad and inscription Cypriot Folk Tales. Spanos & The Forty
Duchess of Cambridge, holding the as medallion Dragons
baby 200f profile of King Hamad and inscription Design: Christina Vasiliadou Mezavorian, after
as medallion linocut prints by Hambis Tsangaris.
BAHRAIN Printing: litho, Giesecke & Devrient Matsoukis,
(last listed in July 2013) 025 Dec 16, 2013 Athens.
National Day 2013 Self-adhesive booklet (1.70€): single pane.
020 Nov, 2012 Design: Khalid Al Muharraqi. 0.34€ Spanos tricking a purple dragon by 020 BAHRAIN
Opening of the National Theatre Printing: litho, Oriental Press. appearing in a fake smoke cloud of ash National Theatre
Printing: litho. Miniature sheet (4 x 1): 0.34€ Spanos in a tree, with wild boar
Sheet stamp: 200f Bahraini woman (in hijab) as flag- impaling itself on a sharp branch
250f theatre building (floodlit) bearer 0.34€ Spanos joyously leaping over the river
250f Bahraini woman (no hijab) as flag- of Justice to be greeted by villagers
021 Dec 28, 2012 bearer with garlands
33rd Summit Meeting of the Gulf Cooperation 300f Bahraini man (in traditional costume) 0.34€ Spanos and a dragon facing each other
Council Supreme Council as flag-bearer beside a whirlpool
Printing: litho, Oriental Press (vertical format) or 400f Bahraini man (in work clothes 0.34€ Spanos pours hot resin from a jug onto
litho and foil die-stamped by unreported printer including hard hat) as flag-bearer a dragon
(horizontal format). Cover: Spanos, villagers and dragons (linocut
Sheet stamps: horizontal format (width 45mm x 026 Jan 15, 2014 print)
height 35mm). Year of Art. 40 Years of the Annual Fine Arts
100f United Arab Emirates flag, portrait of Exhibition 031 Nov 13, 2013 022 BAHRAIN
UAE President Sheikh Zayed Bin- Printing: litho, Oriental Press. Christmas 2013. Children’s Paintings 60th Anniversary of Stamps
Sultan Al Nahyan, tower building, Sheet stamps: sheets of 16. Design: Xenia Christodoulou.
summit logo 200f calligraphic emblem Printing: litho, Giesecke & Devrient Matsoukis,
100f Kuwaiti flag, portrait of Emir, Athens.
towers 027 Jan 16, 2014 Sheetlet (4 x 2): 8 stamps with decorative border.
100f Saudi flag, mosque (Mecca), portrait Third Bahrain International Air Show 0.22€ Santa Claus and a Christmas tree, by
of King of Saudi Arabia, summit logo Printing: litho, Oriental Press. Maria Eleftheriou
100f Bahraini flag, portrait of King Hamad, Sheet stamps: sheets of 16. Sheetlet (4 x 2): 8 stamps with decorative border.
and modern building, summit logo 200f arrow emblem infilled with six aircraft 0.34€ snow scene with snowman outside
100f Qatar flag, portrait of Emir and modern flying in formation (coloured smoke houses, by Andreas Kefalas
building, summit logo trails); portrait of King Hamad in Sheetlet (4 x 2): 8 stamps with decorative border.
100f Omani flag, portrait of Sultan Qaboos, uniform 0.85€ Christmas tree with golden
mosque, summit logo 300f arrow emblem infilled with six aircraft decoration, hanging stockings and
Sheet stamps: vertical format (width 35mm x flying in arrow formation (white smoke Christmas cake, by Hara Drousiotou
height 45mm). trails); portrait of King Hamad in
200f GCC emblem (map on disc) and six uniform 032 Jan 30, 2014
raised arms with national flags as 400f two jet aircraft flying in close The Olive & Its Products
sleeves proximity; portrait of King Hamad in Design: Marianna Iacovou (illustrations).
200f map of Arabian peninsula on mock uniform Printing: litho, Giesecke & Devrient Matsoukis,
globe, surrounded by interlocked Athens.
hands with national flags on cuffs BELIZE Sheetlet (4 x 2):
Miniature sheet (3 x 2): sold at 1d. (last listed in December 2013) 0.34€ x 8 olive tree, Olea europaea, and trees
100f, 100f, 100f, 100f, 100f, 100f, designs as sheet growing in rolling agricultural land,
stamps 028 2012 landscape with leaves
029 BELIZE
Border: emblem of GCC, summit logo Definitive surcharge Sheetlet (4 x 2): 8 stamps arranged in 4
Pallottine Sisters
Printing: overprint of new denomination on horizontally se-tenant composite pairs.
022 Feb 15, 2013 definitive first issued in 2005, in silver on black 0.51€ x 4 ripening (black) and unripe (green)
60th anniversary of Bahraini Stamp background. olives on a branch
Issues 25c on 10c Government House of Culture, Belize 0.51€ x 4 green and black olives, landscape with
Printing: litho, Oriental Press. City trees, jar of olive oil
Sheet stamp: sheets of 16.
200f decorative frame containing portrait Note: the intervening 60th anniversary of the 033 March 12, 2014
of King Hamad, Head Post Office Coronation issue was listed in December Refugee Welfare
building in Manama, 1½-anna stamp 2013 Design: as 2013 issue, but with revised colours
of 1953 (with frame) and imprint ‘2014’.
Miniature sheet: 029 Oct 9, 2013 Printing: litho, Giesecke & Devrient Matsoukis,
500f portrait of King Hamad, Head Post Centenary of the Pallottine Sisters in Athens.
Office building in Manama, 1½-anna Belize Tax stamp:
stamp of 1953 (without frame) Design: Nick Shewring. 0.02€ refugee woman and barbed wire,
Printing: litho, Lowe-Martin. against grey-green background
023 March 26, 2013 25c sisters landing on banks of Macal
Insurance Day River, Cayo, British Honduras 034 March 12, 2014
Printing: litho, Oriental Press. 60c Novitiate Nazareth Chapel, Toledo, The Four Seasons
Sheet stamps: sheets of 16. Belize Design: Melanie Efstathiadou.
100f BIA emblem, view of Manama $10 centennial emblem of the Pallottine Printing: litho, Giesecke & Devrient Matsoukis, 030 CYPRUS
buildings from offshore, with dhows Sisters Athens.
Cypriot Folk Tales
with flag as sails Note: Cathloic missionary order Sheetlet (4 x 2): 8 stamps with decorative border.

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The legend of the Lady in Húsavík
Jellyfish FO 776-778.
Faroese underwater photographer Ingi Sørensen has taken
some fascinating pictures of these living fossils in the
waters around the Faroe Islands - FO 779-782.
Ingi Sørensen 2014

Ingi Sørensen 2014

Ingi Sørensen 2014

Ingi Sørensen 2014

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Hvalspýggja Aurelia aurita 8 KR FØROYAR
Levsa Cyanea capillata 15 50
KR
FØROYAR 18 50
Hvalspýggja Pelagia noctiluca KR
FØROYAR
Hvalspýggja Beroe cucumis 26 KR
Nordic Issue - The ferry „Norröna„
FO 784-785
Soft Downy Rose
The original Faroese rose - FO 783.

14,50 KR

Mjúk rósa . Rosa mollis . 2014

Europa 2014: Music Instruments

The Faroese Symphony Orchestra
FO 786-787. The Prince Consort 80 years
Joint issue with Denmark and Greenland. Also
available as a self adhesive booklet of four stamps
FO 791.

Faroese Lighthouses
Stamps and a self-adhesive stamp booklet representing photos of
the lighthouses in Akraberg, Stóra Dímun and Toftir. FO 788-790.

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0.22€ winter: child in coat and boots Kyrenia harbour, mosque) Tourism & Sustainable Energy
sheltering under an umbrella in Note: local postal service introduced by the Printing: litho, Post Printer.
rainstorm, snowflake Turkish Cypriot communities, 1964. A single stamp Sheet stamp:
Sheetlet (4 x 2): 8 stamps with decorative border. and miniature sheet were sold together in a E£1 sun, ‘2012’ and UNWTO emblem
0.43€ spring: flowering meadow and presentation folder for 10TL (a premium of 7.80TL) (symbolical design)
(stylised) butterfly
Sheetlet (4 x 2): 8 stamps with decorative border. 039 Jan 6, 2014 046 Nov 12, 2012
0.85€ summer: child in sea shallows with 50th anniversary of Turkish Cypriot Posts 75th anniversary of the Faculty of Art at the
heart and dolphin-shaped balloons on Printing: State Printing Office, Lefkosa. University of Helwan
strings Sheet stamps: Printing: litho, Post Printer.
Sheetlet (4 x 2): 8 stamps with decorative border. 50k Social Aid local stamp (nurse and Sheet stamp:
1.71€ autumn: child holding up a fallen leaf child) used on philatelic local cover E£2 ‘75’ and anniversary emblem (text as
60k both sides of cover from Lefkosa to key ring)
CYPRUS (Turkish) England with Turkey 1963 Europa
(last listed in Jan 2014) airmail stamp 047 2012
100k both sides of a cover from Lefkosa to Definitives. Pharaohs
035 July 8, 2013 USA, with Social Aid local stamp and Designs: after reliefs in ancient temples.
Flora & Fauna three US stamps also affixed Printing: litho, Post Printer. Perf 11.
Design: H Baglar (25k), Görel Korel K Sönmezer Sheet stamps:
(50k) or Hüsseyín Bíllur (60k). 040 Jan 27, 2014 E£3 Ramses II, pharaoh of the 19th
Printing: State Printing Office, Lefkosa. 50k and 50th anniversary of the Turkish Education dynasty, reigned 1279-1213BC
60k stamps triangular-format. College (blue background)
Sheet stamps: sheets of 14 (2 x 7). Design: Görel Korel K Sönmezer. E£4 Amenophis IV Echnaton, pharaoh
25k Mediterranean or iris mantis, Iris Printing: State Printing Office, Lefkosa. of the 18th dynasty, reigned
oratoria, and two common blue Sheet stamp: 1354-1347BC
butterflies, Polyommatus icarus 2.20TL badge and building (brick red background)
(wings folded) Note: founded 1964 as an English-language Note: see issue of Oct 7, 2013 for these designs
50k hoopoe, Upupa epops secondary school, offering English GCEs; changed with revised background colours
60k flowers of the Cyprus branched its name to Turkish Education College and
germander, Teucrium divaricatum ssp language to Cypriot Turkish in 1973 048 Jan 2, 2013
canescens Post Day
041 Feb 17, 2014 Printing: litho, Post Printer.
036 Sept 10, 2013 FIFA Football World Cup Finals, Brazil Sheet stamps: se-tenant strips of 3.
Islamic Art & Culture Design: Görel Korel K Sönmezer. E£3 pharaoh Tutankhamun, reigned c1357-
Design: Görel Korel K Sönmezer. Printing: State Printing Office, Lefkosa. 1339BC (seated) and his wife Queen
Printing: State Printing Office, Lefkosa. Sheet stamps: Ankhesanamun (standing)
Sheet stamps: sheets of 40 (8 x 5). 70k tournament emblem, footballer E£3 stylised flowers and Tutankhamun
60k leather ceremonial shield (late 18th kicking ball, building (mask)
century) 2TL tournament emblem, footballer E£3 Ankhesanamun (seated) and
70k prayer rug (19th century) making overhead kick, cable-stayed Tutankhamun (standing)
2TL gold-plated copper candlestick (16th bridge
century) 049 Jan 25, 2013
EGYPT 2nd anniversary of the Revolution of
037 Nov 20, 2013 (last listed in Sept 2013) January 25, 2011
Anniversaries Printing: litho, Post Printer.
Design: Görel Korel K Sönmezer (60k, 70k) or 042 Aug 3, 2012 Sheet stamp:
Hüsseyín Bíllur (80k). Arab Post Day E£1 stylised dove of peace and groups of 036 CYPRUS (TURKISH)
Printing: State Printing Office, Lefkosa. Design: APU omnibus design. Egyptian citizens with monumental Islamic Art & Culture
Sheet stamps: sheets of 40. Printing: litho, Post Printer, Egypt. statue and Sphinx
60k 50th anniversary of the start of inter- Sheet stamp:
communal violence (between Greek E£3 Arab Postal Union seal, dove, map of 050 April 24, 2013
and Turkish Cypriot communities: ‘50’ north Africa and Arabia with APU African Under-20s Football Championship
and memorial emblem member nations infilled in green Finals, Algeria
70k 30th anniversary of the founding of the Printing: litho, Post Printer.
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus: 043 Aug 18, 2012 Sheet stamp:
dove, flag and laurel wreath Festivals E£3 trophy, footballer with Egyptian flag,
80k 80th anniversary of the founding of the Printing: litho, Post Printer, Egypt. emblem and mascot over outline of
Republic of Turkey: inscription over Sheet stamps: composite strips of 3. Africa
Turkish flag E£1 horse riders in ancient Egyptian style
beside River Nile 051 April 25, 2013
038 Jan 6, 2014 E£1 horse riders in ancient Egyptian style 31st anniversary of the Return of the Sinai
50th anniversary of Turkish Cypriot Posts beside River Nile Peninsula to Egypt
Printing: State Printing Office, Lefkosa. Perf E£1 horse riders in ancient Egyptian style Printing: litho, Post Printer.
13¾ x 14¼ (sheet stamp) or imperf (miniature beside River Nile Sheet stamps: arranged in se-tenant blocks of 4
sheet). stamps with composite design, including
Sheet stamp: 044 Sept 12, 2012 background map.
1.10TL 50th anniversary emblem, map of Centenary of the Egyptian Bar Association E£2 Crusader castle on islet off Taba
island of Cyprus with KKTC (northern Printing: litho, Post Printer. (near Eilat)
Cyprus) flag superimposed on the Sheet stamp: E£2 shoreline scene (reported to show the
northern part E£1 ‘100’ and Bar Association building River Nile at Aswan, with Aga Khan
Miniature sheet: . mausoleum) 045 EGYPT
1.10TL anniversary inscription on outline of 045 Sept 27, 2012 E£2 oasis in Sinai International Year of
KKTC, montage of views (coastline, International Year of Sustainable Energy. E£2 divers over coral reef Sustainable Energy

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052 June 5, 2013 Note: the 50p, E£3 and E£4 designs were treasure of Viking chief Sigmundur
World Environment Day previously issued with different background Breistisson)
Printing: litho, Post Printer. colours. At least some Egypt Post first day covers 10kr Skúvoy, now the Lady of Húsavík, who
Sheet stamp: of this issue bore the 50p with ochre background owns extensive estate from the
E£3 globe supported by stylised hands, rather than green background proceeds of selling the horn to the
slogan Think-Eat-Save (in English and King, instructing the magical creature
Arabic), logo of UNEP 059 Oct 9, 2013 Nykur (horse with fish-tail) to remove
Note: United Nations Environment Programme World Post Day boulders from the infield pastures
Printing: litho, Post Printer. 10kr Lady of Húsavík seated on chair, in
053 July 23, 2013 Sheet stamp: pasture surrounded by wall of
61st anniversary of the Revolution of 1952 E£4 motif from UPU monument, Bern boulders
Printing: litho, Post Printer. Note: there is documentary evidence of two rich
Sheet stamp: 060 Dec, 2013 women owning most of the land in Húsavík, on the
E£3 emblem (stylised figures with Tourism island of Sandoy, in the 14th century
ribands), crowd of Egyptians including Design: all three designs incorporate at left an
Army officer advertising label noting the sponsor and 066 March 17, 2014
distributor of the stamp. Norden 2014. Ships. Freight & Passenger
054 Aug 25, 2013 Printing: litho, Post Printer. Transportation
Day of Nile Inundation Sponsored sheet stamps: Design: Kári við Rættará, from photograph by
Printing: litho, Post Printer. Imperf E£4 Hotel Madinat Makadi, Hurghada Finnur Justínussen.
Miniature sheet: E£4 view of Hurghada old town Printing: litho, Lowe-Martin. 046 EGYPT
E£4 view of Nile in flood and in normal flow E£4 horse riders on beach at Hotel Utopia, Miniature sheet: se-tenant pair. The Faculty of Art at the
(photomontage), and circular emblem Marsa Alam 14.50kr, 14.50kr MS Norröna (built 1999,
University of Helwan
bearing map and emblems of Nilotic Note: the Marsa Alam design was previously Germany), operated by Smyril
countries and communities issued on Dec 27, 2007, in a 150p value and with Line between Hirtshals
Note: the map omits South Sudan the date ‘2007’ incorporated (Denmark), Bergen (Norway),
Tórshavn (Faroes) and
055 Sept 21, 2013 061 Jan 2, 2014 Seydisfjorður (Iceland)
25th anniversary of the International Islamic Post Day 2014 Note: the ship is the second Smyril vessel with the
Council for Da’wah & Relief Printing: litho, Post Printer. Imperf. name Norröna
Printing: litho, Post Printer. Miniature sheet:
Sheet stamp: E£4 painting of passenger ferry and 067 April 28, 2014
E£2 emblem (globe with flanking feluccas on the River Nile, by Europa 2014. Musical Instruments
wheatears), UNWTO emblem Mohamed Sabry (b1917) Design: Finnur Justínussen. 059 EGYPT
Note: United Nations World Tourism Organization Printing: litho, Lowe Martin.
World Post Day
062 Jan 25, 2014 Sheet stamps: sheets of 20.
056 Sept 27, 2013 3rd anniversary of the Revolution of January 14.50kr Faroese Symphony Orchestra
World Tourism Day. Tourism & Water 25, 2011 (founded 1983)
Printing: litho, Post Printer. Printing: litho, Post Printer. 19.50kr two double bass players
Sheet stamp: Sheet stamp:
E£3 ‘globe’ as ball splashing into water E£2 crowd (stylised), clenched fist against 068 April 28, 2014
the sun, torn Egyptian flag Lighthouses
057 Oct 6, 2013 Design: from photographs by Erik Christensen,
40th anniversary of Victory in the October FAROES Ólavur Frederiksen and Finleif Mortensen.
1973 War (last listed in March 2014) Printing: litho, Lowe Martin. Perf 14 (gummed) or
Designs: adapted photographs. die-cut 14 (self-adhesives).
Printing: litho, Post Printer. 063 Feb 26, 2014 Gummed sheet stamps: sheets of 20.
Sheet stamps: Jellyfish 14.50kr Toftir lighthouse
E£1 Anwar Sadat, Egyptian leader, 1918- Design: Ingi Sørensen, from photographs. 15.50kr Akraberg lighthouse
1981, with his senior military officers Printing: litho, Lowe Martin. 17kr Dimun lighthouse
E£4 troops raising Egyptian flag Sheet stamps: sheets of 20. Maximum cards: set of 3.
Note: war fought against Israel, where it is known 8kr common jellyfish, Aurelia aurita Self-adhesive booklet (94.00kr):
as the Yom Kippur war 15.50kr lion’s mane jellyfish, Cyanea capellata 14.50kr x 2 Toftir lighthouse
18.50kr mauve stinger, Pelagia noctiluca 15.50kr x 2 Akraberg lighthouse
058 Oct 7, 2013 26kr melon or comb jellyfish, Beroe 17kr x 2 Dimun lighthouse
Definitives. Pharaohs cucumis Note: booklet stamps are affixed separately
Designs: after reliefs. spaced to inside cover, with matrix still present
Printing: litho, Post Printer. Perf 11. 064 Feb 26, 2014
Sheet stamps: SEPAC 2014. Flower GIBRALTAR
50p Thutmosis III (Thotmes III), pharaoh of Design: Edward Fuglø, from photograph by Jens- (last listed in June 2014)
the 18th dynasty, reigned 1480- Kjeld Jensen.
1435BC Printing: litho, Lowe Martin. 069 March 20, 2014
(deep emerald green background) Sheet stamps: sheets of 10. Old Gibraltar Views, fourth issue
E£1 Sesostris I, pharaoh of the 12th 14.50kr soft downy rose, Rosa mollis Designs: from postcards in the Gil Podesta
dynast, reigned c1875-1930BC collection.
(grey background) 065 Feb 26, 2014 Printing: litho, Cartor.
E£3 Ramses II, pharaoh of the 19th Faroese Legends. The Lady of Húsavík Sheet stamps:
dynasty, reigned 1279-1213BC Design: Edward Fuglø. 12p Waterport Wharf
(mauve background) Printing: litho, Lowe Martin. 40p Eliott Memorial (monument in
E£4 Amenophis IV Echnaton, pharaoh Miniature sheet (3 x 1): Alameda Gardens)
of the 18th dynasty, reigned 10kr servant girl Skúvoy in meadow with 50p entrance to the old town
1354-1347BC cattle and sheep, after discovering the 64p Sandpits (now location of tennis club) 063 FAROES
(golden-olive background) golden horn (part of the buried 70p Alameda Gardens Jellyfish

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Miniature sheet (2 x 2): 4.00Q hand with pelota glove and calendar participants in rally in a montage of
12p view down Waterport Street stone historic photographs
40p ‘The Wharfs’ (sic): view of port 5.00Q pelota player Miniature sheet:
50p the Market 5.00Q carved god figure, from Quiriguá 10.00Q design as sheet stamp, but
£1.00 the Cascade 8.00Q stele, from Quiriguá photomontage extends to border
10.00Q calendar relief (porter) Note: rally of motorcyclists, riding from
070 March 20, 2014 10.00Q walls of Mixco Viejo, capital of the Guatemala City to Esquipulas, staged annually.
50th anniversary of the Red Arrows Poqomam Maya in modern The 50th anniversary rally is reported to have had
Design: Stephen Perera, from photographs of Chimaltenango department more than 40,000 participants. the event is a
aircraft in flight. All designs include a roundel. Booklet: 1 each of the 9 stamps. candidate for the UNESCO Intangible Cultural
Printing: litho, Lowe-Martin. 1.00Q inscised calendar stone Heritage register
Sheetlet: 6 stamps (2 x 3) with coloured border. 2.00Q the Leiden Plate
50p single Red Arrow (BAE Hawk trainer 3.00Q anthropomorphic wall carving ISLE OF MAN
aircraft) 4.00Q hand with pelota glove (last listed in May 2014)
Sheetlet: 6 stamps (2 x 3) with coloured border. 5.00Q pelota player
54p two Red Arrows 5.00Q carved god figure 079 Feb 19, 2014
Sheetlet: 6 stamps (2 x 3) with coloured border. 8.00Q stele, from Quiriguá The 50th Display Season of the Red Arrows
64p single Red Arrow (nose view) 10.00Q calendar relief (porter) Design: Isle of Man Advertising, in co-operation 070 GIBRALTAR
Sheetlet: 6 stamps (2 x 3) with coloured border. 10.00Q walls of Mixco Viejo with Ministry of Defence, from photographs of Red 50th Anniversary of the
70p single Red Arrow (rear view, leaving Note: the stamps were also reported as released Arrows aerial display over Douglas Bay.
Red Arrows
smoke trail) on December13, 2012; it is possible this was the Printing: litho, Lowe-Martin. Die-cut perf 13.6.
Sheetlet: 6 stamps (2 x 3) with coloured border. issue date of the booklet Self-adhesive booklet pane (3 x 2):
£2 Red Arrow (nose and cockpit view) 40p four aircraft with coloured trails
074 Oct 22, 2012 42p Red Arrows in ‘diamond nine’
071 May 2, 2014 UPAEP. Post Boxes formation, with white trails
Dolphins & The Rock of Gibraltar Design: Ziomara de León. 69p two Red Arrows crossing paths
Design: Stephen Perera, from illustrations by Printing: litho, TNGA. 73p three Red Arrows (aerial on-board
Jonathan Pointer. All designs show dolphins Sheet stamp: sheets of 72. view)
leaping from sea off the Rock. 5.00Q historic iron postbox mounted in brick 108p four red arrows in diamond formation,
Printing: litho, Cartor. wall, from the Railway Museum with white trails
Sheet stamps: 265p Red Arrows seen over wing of
68p common dolphin, Delphinus delphis 075 Dec 11, 2012 companion aircraft (aerial on-board
84p striped dolphin, Stenella coeruleoalba Museums in a Changing World. Pre- view)
£2.50 bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops Columbian Artifacts Border: smoke trails in sky
truncatus Design: Ziomara de León, depicting exhibits in Self-adhesive booklet pane: 3 stamps and 3
VICAL Museum of Pre-Colombian Art & Modern labels in ‘arrowhead’ layout.
072 May 2, 2014 Glass, Antigua-Guatemala. 73p three Red Arrows (aerial view)
Europa 2014. The Royal Gibraltar Regiment Printing: litho, TNGA. 108p four red arrows in diamond formation
Design: Stephen Perera from photographs of Sheet stamps: sheets of 72, arranged in 36 265p Red Arrows seen over wing
Changing of Guard. composite se-tenant pairs. Labels: ‘Red Arrows’ emblem, roundel, ’50 Display
Printing: litho, Cartor. 4.00Q ancient horn-blower and animal Seasons’ emblem
Sheetlet (2 x 4): figurines (stone) Border: smoke trails in sky. 074 GUATEMALA
50p Band & Corps of the Royal Gibraltar 4.00Q animal figurine (orange glass) and Self-adhesive booklet pane: 3stamps and 3 Postboxes
Regiment at Gates of Buckingham figurine of two cojoined Mayan labels in ‘arrowhead’ layout.
Palace, Westminster musicians (translucent glass) 40p four aircraft with coloured trails
Border: the Band outside Palace 42p Red Arrows in diamond formation
Sheetlet (2 x 4): 076 Dec 12, 2012 69p two Red Arrows crossing paths
£1.00 drummers of the Band of the Royal 75th anniversary of the Max Tott Half- Labels: ‘Red Arrows’ emblem, roundel, ’50 Display
Gibraltar Regiment on guard duty at Marathon, Guatemala City Seasons’ emblem
Buckingham Palace Design: Ziomara de León. Border: smoke trails in sky.
Border: the Band outside Palace Printing: litho, TNGA. Cover: two Red Arrows aircraft in flight
Note: apart from the Bandmaster, all the Sheet stamp: sheets of 54. Note: gummed sheet stamps in these designs
musicians are from the Gibraltar community and 8.00Q statue of runner, Guatemala City (listed in May 2014) were perforated 13.25 x 13.25.
form part of the Territorial Army contingent in monuments The ‘technical details’ printed on inside back cover
Gibraltar are partially in error, as they relate to the gummed
077 Dec 13, 2012 stamps
GUATEMALA 150th Anniversary of the Daughters of Charity
(last listed in Oct 2012) of St Vincent de Paul 080 April 4, 2014
Design: Ziomara de León. Archibald Knox, 1864-1933
073 Sept 24, 2012 Printing: litho, TNGA. Design: Emma Cooke, from details of
Expiration of the 13th Ba’kt’un of the Mayan Sheet stamp: sheets of 54. illuminations of texts in The Deer’s Cry by Knox.
Calendar 6.50Q stained glass window depicting St Printing: litho, Lowe-Martin. Perf 13 x 12½
Design: Ziomara de León, from photographs of Vincent de Paul, 1581-1660, from (gummed) or die-cut (self-adhesive).
sculptures and costumed reconstructions. central church of the Daughters in Sheetlet (5 x 2): 2 horizontal strips of 5.
Printing: litho, Taller Nacional de Grabados en Guatemala City 42p Deer’s Cry
Acero. 42p To the Virtue of His Crucifixion
Sheet stamps: 078 Feb 2, 2013 42p In Splendour of Fire
1.00Q inscised calendar stone, with hand of 50th Anniversary of Caravana del Zorro 42p God’s Wisdom To Guide Me
calendar scribe Design: Ziomara de León. 42p In Compactness of Rock
2.00Q the Leiden Plate (incised stele) with Printing: litho, TNGA. Sheetlet (5 x 2): 2 horizontal strips of 5.
Mayan date 320 Sheet stamp: sheets of 72. 75p God’s Shield To Protect Me
081 ISLE OF MAN
3.00Q anthropomorphic creatures in wall 10.00Q badge of Caravana del Zorro 75p His Ascension
carving from Quiriguá (ancient site) (motorcyclist from front), and 75p In The Creator of the Universe
Battle of Clontarf

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75p God’s Way To Lie Before Me of Howard Pixton’s Victory closed flower buds
75p I Bind Myself To... Design: Robin Carter. Miniature sheet:
Self-adhesive booklet (£5.04): 12 separately Printing: litho, BDT. £3 poppies and birds flying over war
spaced stamps (six on each inside cover). Sheetlet: 4 stamps and 5 labels arranged in a cemetery
42p x 3 Deer’s Cry se-tenant block (3 x 3). Note: the 46p and 56p values have poppy seeds
42p x 2 To the Virtue of His Crucifixion 75p x 4 Pixton’s winning aircraft in 1914, a affixed to the centre of the stamp, sealed in a tiny
42p x 2 In Splendour of Fire Sopwith Tabloid biodegradable plastic case. Jersey Post says the
42p x 2 God’s Wisdom To Guide Me Labels: photographs whole stamp can be planted, and the seed should
42p x 3 In Compactness of Rock Border: photomontage grow. It also offered a ‘Grow Your Own
Cover: motif of Deer’s Cry, 42p God’s Wisdom Sheetlet (sold at £7.50): imperf. Remembrance Poppies’ sachet (with postcard-
design and self-portrait of Knox 75p x 4 Pixton’s winning aircraft in 1914, a style reverse including place for stamp) containing
Note: artist, craftsman and designer in Celtic Sopwith Tabloid poppy seeds, for £1.50, with half the sale price
style, who worked uncommissioned illuminating Labels: R J Mitchell and Thomas Sopwith with going to the Jersey Branch of the Royal British
the verse of The Deer’s Cry or St Patrick’s Schneider Trophy, Sopwith Tabloid in surf, Sopwith Legion
Breastplate (a prayer of protection) for about 20 Tabloid in flight over Monaco, Howard Pixton,
years. The work was incomplete at his death, and aircraft and management of Sopwith entry, people LATVIA
is now in the Manx National Heritage Museum. This on beach viewing the aircraft (las listed in July 2014)
issue coincides with an exhibition noting the 150th Border: photomontage and map of course
anniversary of his birth at the House of Manannan Note: the Coupe d’Aviation Maritime Jacques 087 April 11, 2014
Schneider was instituted in 1913 as a time trial for Europa 2014. Traditional Musical Instruments
081 April 15, 2014 seaplanes. Pixton flew the British entry in the 1914 Design: Lilija Dinere.
Millennium of the Battle of Clontarf, Ireland event, held off Monaco, setting a world speed Printing: litho, Baltijas Banknote. Perf 13¾ x
Design: Victor Ambrus (paintings). record for a floatplane 13¾, with booklet stamps having one imperf edge.
Printing: litho, BDT. Sheet stamps: sheets of 10 (5 x 2) with lower row
Sheet stamps: sheets of 15. JERSEY inverted, creating 5 tête-bêche pairs, and
2p Broðir the Warrior, Norse warrior with (last listed in June 2014) illustrated borders.
fleet of 20 ships at his disposal, who 0.78€ Kokle: instrument, player and musical
effected dawn landing close to Irish 084 March 25, 2014 score
forces at Clontarf Europa 2014. Musical Instruments 1.71€ Dudas (bagpipe): instrument, player
42p hand-to-hand fighting at the centre of Design: Mark Wilkinson. and musical score
the battle, with Murchad (Brian Boru’s Printing: litho, Cartor. Booklet (3.12€):
eldest son) against Earl Sigurd of Sheet stamps: sheets of 10 (5 x 2) with Pane: 0.78€ x 2 imperf at top, 0.78€ x 2 imperf at
Orkney for the Norsemen illustrated borders. base
90p Eithne, the Irish-born mother of 45p guitar, and audience at rock concert Cover: flower bed with rocks, and inscription
Sigurd, knits the raven banner carried 50p grand piano, and concert hall noting Essen Stamp Fair, May 8-10, 2014
by Sigurd though generally bringing auditorium
death to its bearer 60p saxophone, and jazz musicians LITHUANIA
£1.00 a Clontarf warrior 80p banjo, and view of Jersey coast within (last listed in May 2014)
£1.60 King Brian Boru, holding aloft sword celtic-style decoration
and crucifix Note: the 60p and 80p values are inscribed ‘Europa’ 088 Feb 15, 2014
£2.30 the fight for the raven banner (two of Folk Festivals. Shrove Tuesday
its bearers were killed, and after Earl 085 April 23, 2014 Design: Irma Balakauskaite.
Sigurd ripped it from its standard and William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 Printing: litho.
wrapped it under his clothing he too Design: Chris Ede. Sheet stamp: sheets of 25 with illustrated
fell in battle) Printing: litho, BDT. border.
Note: battle of April 22, 1014, between united Irish Sheet stamps: sheets of 10 (5 x 2) with 2Lt three Shrove Tuesday masks (from
forces under Brian Boru (Munster, High King of illustrated borders. Aušros Museum in Šiauliai), revellers
Ireland) and Vikings (who had already long been 46p Romeo & Juliet: dagger and heart Note: Shrove Tuesday was traditionally the day of
settled in Dublin) 56p Hamlet: skull wearing crown the driving away of winter by figures wearing 086 JERSEY
62p Macbeth: king chesspiece in pool of unusual clothing and masks, usually made of bark,
Remembrance. Poppies
082 April 16, 2014 blood budge, and animal skulls. Masks often had the
Protected Rare Breeds 70p Othello: arm with clenched fist features of an ugly old man with big nose, gap-
Design: Emma Cooke, from illustrations by Dr 82p Twelfth Night: lute toothed mouth and asymmetric eyes
Jeremy Paul. 91p A Midsummer Night’s Dream: butterfly
Printing: litho, Cartor. Borders: portrait, as miniature sheet stamp. 089 March 8, 2014
Miniature sheet (3 x 2): Miniature sheet: 25th anniversary of the Restoration of
38p Manx Loaghtan sheep (ram) £3 full-face portrait of the playwright Vytautas Magnus University
38p northern dairy shorthorn cattle (three Design: Domantas Vildžiunas
heifers, at Clypse Mooar Farm near 086 May 6, 2014 Printing: litho.
Onchan) Remembrance 2014. Poppies Sheet stamp: sheets of 50 (5 x 10).
38p Cotswold sheep Design: Katherine Asher (paintings). All designs 1.55Lt seal of the University and Vytautas the
38p Exmoor ponies show poppies melded with armed forces motifs. Great, Duke of Lithuania, on his throne
38p Gloucestershire old spot pig Printing: litho, Cartor. Note: University originally founded 1922, given
38p Irish moiled cattle Sheet stamps: sheets of 10 (2 x 5) with present name in 1930, closed by the USSR
Border: logos of Manx Ark project, Southern illustrated border tabs. government in 1950, and re-established in 1989
District Agricultural Society and Rare Breeds 46p poppy, line of Allied soldiers of World
Survival Trust War I period 090 March 29, 2014
Note: issue celebrates the Manx Ark project, 56p flower-head of poppy 10th anniversary of Lithuania’s Admission to
protecting rare breeds, and the 100the anniversary 62p poppy flower as ‘eternal flame’ NATO
of the Southern District Agricultural Society 70p soldier as silhouette against poppy Design: Ruta Kajackaite.
flower hed Printing: litho.
083 April 20, 2014 82p medal on poppy Sheet stamp: sheets of 25. 087 LATVIA
Schneider Trophy Seaplane Race. Centenary 91p modern soldiers and poppies with 2.15Lt NATO emblem Traditional Musical Instruments

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091 March 29, 2014 Miniature sheet (3 x 1): Design: Marzanna Dabrowska.
Fauna of the Red Book. Endangered Birds 1.60zl, 2.35zl, 3.80zl, designs as sheetlet stamps Printing: recess and litho, PWPW.
Design: Irma Balakauskaite. Note: in the miniature sheet, all stamps have the Miniature sheet (2 x 1):
Printing: litho. elliptical cut-out three holes up from the base. In 4.20zl towers of the Cathedral of St
Sheetlet (5 x 2): 10 stamps with illustrated the sheetlets, each design occurs twice with the Stanislaus and St Wenzel
border. cut-out three holes down from the top 8.30zl nave of the Cathedral, and the
2Lt barn owl, Tyto alba, on fence post Sigismund Bell (16th century)
Sheetlet (5 x 2): 10 stamps with illustrated 096 Nov 23, 2013 Border: statues and relics
border. 80th Birthday of Krzysztof Penderecki, Note: the cathedral is depicted as rebuilt in
3Lt Eurasian pygmy owl, Glaudicium Design: A Niemierko. baroque style
passerinum, on tree branch, with kill Printing: litho, PWPW.
(rodent) Sheet stamp: sheets of 12 (4 x 3). RUSSIA 088 LITHUANIA
Maximum cards: pair. 3.80zl photograph of the conductor and (last listed in June 2014) Folk Festivals
Booklet (sold at 21Lt): composer, conducting
Pane: 2Lt barn owl x 3, 2Lt Eurasian pygmy owl x 3 103 Nov 30, 2013
Cover: barn owl in flight, Eurasian pygmy owl, 097 Nov 29, 2013 Sochi 2014 XII Winter Olympic Games &
deciduous tree in winter, printed illustration of the Spiders XI Paralympic Games. Venues
two stamps with first day cancellation Design: J Konarzewski. Design: S Ulyanovi.
Printing: litho with lacquer (varnish) layer, Printing: litho, Goznak.
092 April 26, 2014 PWPW. Sheetlet (2 x 3):
10th anniversary of Entry of Lithuania to the Sheetlet (3 x 3): 8 stamps and 1 label. 20r Fisht stadium: main Olympic stadium,
European Union 1.60zl Argiope bruennichi named after Mount Fisht, site of
Design: Ruta Kajackaite. Label: spider without denomination opening and closing ceremonies in the
Printing: litho. Sheetlet (3 x 3): 8 stamps and 1 label. Olympic Park, Sochi
Sheet stamp: sheets of 25. 2.35zl Atypus muralis 20r Laura complex, and cross-country
2.15Lt circle of stars (motif from European Label: spider without denomination skiers, on Psekhako ridge
Union flag) Sheetlet (3 x 3): 8 stamps and 1 label. 20r Russian Hills complex, with ski-jumps
3.80zl Eresus kollari and cross-country skiing courses 089 LITHUANIA
093 May 3, 2014 Label: spider without denomination 20r Bolshoi Ice Dome, site of ice hockey Vytautas Magnus University
Europa 2014. Musical Instruments Sheetlet (3 x 3): 8 stamps and 1 label. 20r Iceberg Skating Palace, site of figure
Design: Ieva Turulyte. Both designs have a 4.55zl Philaeus cyrysops skating and short-track speed skating
pixellated landscape as their background. Label: spider without denomination 20r Puck (Shayba) ice arena
Printing: litho. Border: snowy mountains
Sheet stamps: sheets of 10 (2 x 5), designs 098 Feb 7, 2014
composite with borders. Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games 104 Dec 3, 2013
2.45Lt skrabalai (wooden bell) and birbyne Design: A Dbouczyk (illustrations). Russian Jurists, second issue
(reed-pipe) Printing: litho and embossed, PWPW. Design: R Komsa.
2.45Lt ožragis (goat-horn) and kankles (table Sheetlet (2 x 2): Printing: litho, Goznak.
stringed instrument) 1.75zl x 2 ski-jumper Sheetlet (3 x 3): 8 stamps and 1 label.
5zl x 2 cross-country skier 15r Fëdor Nikiforovich Plevako, 1842-
POLAND Border: logo, QR code 1909, barrister, orator, legal theorist
(last listed in March 2014) Sheetlet (3 x 3): 8 stamps and 1 label.
099 Feb 22, 2014 15r Alexsandr Nikolayevich Radischev, 096 POLAND
094 Oct 21, 2013 Henryk Oskar Kolberg, 1814-1890 1749-1802, lawyer, political scientist
Krzysztof Penderecki
Lost Works of Art. Paintings of the Actor Printing: gravure, PWPW. and writer
Ludwik Solski, 1855-1954, by Stanislaw Sheetlet (4 x 4): arranged in tête-bêche pairs. Note: Radischev served under Tsar Alexander I,
Wyspiánski 4.20zl portrait of the ethnographer folklorist, drafting a new civil law code, and also pioneered
Design: A Ubukata. song collector and composer, and the collection and analysis of judicial statistics,
Printing: gravure, PWPW. traditional floral pattern but is better known as a radical writer and
Sheetlet (3 x 2): 2 se-tenant strips of 3. Note: Kolberg published 36 volumes of collected political scientist
1.60zl x 2 Ludwik Solski as The Guardian, in folk songs, folk tales, fairy tales, proverbs, riddles
Treasure by Leopold Staffa and descriptions of folklore festivities 105 Dec 6, 2013
2.35zl x 2 Ludwik Solski as Sir Andrew Cars
Aguecheek, in Twelfth Night by 100 March 7, 2014 Design: S Ulyanov.
William Shakespeare IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships, Printing: litho, Goznak.
3.80zl x 2 Ludwik Solski as Warius the Defender, Sopot, Poland Sheetlet (3 x 3): 8 stamps and 1 label.
in The Varsovian Anthem by Stanislaw Printing: litho with lacquer layer, PWPW. 15r x 4 ZIL 111V (only 12 made), and
Wyspiánski Sheetlet (2 x 2): Moscow skyline
Note: Wyspiánski, 1869-1907, was a painter, 5zl x 4 shot-putter, runner, pole-vaulter, roof 15r x 4 Sunbeam Alpine (1953-55), and 101 POLAND
graphic designer and playwright of hall Mediterranean coastal scene Easter Eggs
Border: championship logo, QR code Note: the ZIL 111V was used as official transport
095 Oct 31, 2013 for Politburo members, and to transport Yuri
Polish Stars of Stage & Screen 101 March 26, 2014 Gagarin to a reception in the Kremlin 1961. A
Design: from portrait photographs. Easter 2014. Easter Eggs Sunbeam Alpine appeared in the 1955 film To Catch
Printing: litho, PWPW. Perf 11½ with elliptical Design: B Sanciewicz. A Thief, starring Grace Kelly, and another was used
cut-outs on vertical sides. Printing: gravure, PWPW. by Nikita Khrushchev on official trips. Joint issue
Sheetlet (4 x 3): Sheet stamps: sheets of 100. with Monaco
1.60zl x 4 Helena Grossówna, 1904-1994, 1.75zl decorated Easter egg from Kozienice
actress and dancer 5zl decorated Easter egg from Opoczno 106 Dec 12, 2013
2.35zl x 4 Adolf Dymsza, 1900-1975, comedic 20th anniversary of the Constitution of the
actor 102 March 28, 2014 Russian Federation
3.80zl x 4 Mieczyslawa Cwiklínska, 1879-1972, 650th anniversary of Wawel Cathedral, Design: S Ulyanov. 115 RUSSIA
actress and singer Krakow Printing: litho, Goznak. 150th Anniversary of Moscow Zoo

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Miniature sheet: mathematician, and the Stelkov 25r x 7 Order of Kutuzov (military decoration
50r cover of the bound constitition Function (concerning the movement of for senior or junior officers for
Border: Article 1 of the Constitution, the Russian a solid body in liquid) successful operations)
Senate building, quotation from Vladimir Putin,
Russian flag 111 Jan 24, 2014 114 Feb 7, 2014
XXII Winter Olympic Games, Sochi. Winter Opening of the XXII Winter Olympic Games,
107 Dec 12, 2013 Sports Sochi. Medals
20th anniversary of the Council of the Federal Design: A Drobyshev (stamps) and A Ilyina Design: A Drobyshev.
Assembly of the Russian Federation & the (booklet). Printing: litho, with varnish layer, and embossed,
State Duma Printing: litho and embossed, Goznak. Imprint Goznak.
Design: A Moskovets. date ‘2014’ incorporated into designs. Miniature sheet:
Printing: litho, Goznak. Stamps are diamond- Sheetlet (4 x 4): 15 stamps and 1 label. 25r Sochi 2014 bronze medal
format. 25r biathlon (horizontal format)
Sheet stamps: sheets of 9. 25r two-man bobsleigh 50r Sochi 2014 silver medal
20r national crest, riband and map of 25r Alpine skiing (downhill) (horizontal format)
Russian Federation, inscription ‘The 25r curling 75r Sochi 2014 gold medal
Federation Council’ 25r ski-jump and cross-country relay (vertical format)
20r national crest and map of Russian (combined team event) Border: Krasnoya Polyana (mountains) under snow,
Federation, inscription ‘Statehood 25r cross-country skiing QR code
Duma’ 25r ski jumping
25r luge (solo) 115 Feb 13, 2014
108 Dec 14, 2013 25r skeleton 150th anniversary of Moscow Zoo
Winter Sport Champions & Personalities, 25r speed skating Design: R Komsa.
second issue 25r snowboarding Printing: litho, Goznak.
Design: O Ivanova. 25r figure skating (pairs) Miniature sheet: 107 RUSSIA
Printing: litho, Goznak. 25r freestyle skiing 40r oblique schematic view of the Council of the Federal
Miniature sheet: 25r ice hockey Zoological Park, with entrance gates Assembly & State Duma
15r Claudia S Boyarsky, 1939-2009, 25r short-track speed skating and lake
cross-country skier (world champion, Label: Games website address Border: macaw, giraffe, tiger, manul cat, peacock,
Oslo 1966) Prestige booklet (sold at 595r): crocodile, brown baby bear, pink flamingo, Asian
15r Vsevolod Bobrov Mikhailovich, 1922- 5 panes, each of 25r x 3, designs as sheetlet elephant, gibbon
1979, ice hockey player (captain of stamps
gold-medal winning national team at Cover: pictograms of 15 winter sports disciplines, TRISTAN DA CUNHA
1956 Winter Olympics), footballer coloured frieze of athletes, snow-formations (last listed in July 2014)
(with three national caps) Note: all 15 values were previously issued in
15r Tatyana Averin, 1950-2001, speed sheetlets of 8 during 2013 and 2014, with imprint 116 May 21, 2014
skater (two gold medals at Innsbruck appropriate to year of issue The Christening of Prince George of
Winter Olympics in 1976, and world Cambridge. Royal Christenings
champion) 112 Jan 24, 2014 Designs: Andrew Robinson, after photographs.
15r Pierre de Coubertin, founder and Definitives. Kremlins Printing: litho, Cartor.
General Secretary of the International Design: A Kernosov and K Bedretinova. Sheet stamps:
Olympic Committee, 1863-1937 Printing: litho, Goznak. Die-cut perf 11 with part 35p christening of Princess Elizabeth on
15r Sir Ludwig Guttmann OBE, CBE, 1899- free-form smooth edges, within rouletted label. May 1, 1926: Duchess of York, holding
1980, German neurosurgeon, founder Self-adhesive sheetlet (2 x 5): designs baby
of the International Federation of composite with label/surround. 45p christening of Prince Charles on Dec
Sport for the Disabled, and promoter 1.00r Astrakhan Kremlin 15, 1948: Princess Elizabeth, Duchess
of precursor to the Paralympic Games 1.50r Zayarsk Kremlin of Edinburgh, holding baby, with Philip,
held at Stoke Mandeville in Britain 2.00r Kazan Kremlin Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Mary and
2.50r Kolomna Kremlin King George VI
109 Dec 26, 2013 3.00r Rostov Kremlin £1.10 christening of Prince William on Aug 4,
Centenary of the Discovery of the Severnaya 4.00r Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin 1982: Charles, Prince of Wales, and
Zemlya Archipelago 5.00r Novgorod Kremlin Diana, Princess of Wales, holding baby
Design: A Drobyshev (stamps) and E Plotnikova 6.00r Pskov Kremlin £1.50 christening of Prince George on Oct 23,
(pane and booklet). 10r Moscow Kremlin 2013: Prince William, Duke of
Printing: litho, Goznak. 25r Ryazan Kremlin Cambridge, holding baby, with Prince
Prestige booklet (sold at 284r): Note: these designs were previously issued on Charles and Queen Elizabeth
15r ship Vaygach October 1, 2009, in sheets of 40 and in a sheetlet of
15r B A Vikitski, 1885-1951, leader of the 12, and these reprints still bear the ‘2009’ imprint VANUATU
Hydrographic Expedition to the Arctic date (last listed in May 2014)
116 TRISTAN DA CUNHA
Ocean, 1910-1915
15r ship Taimyr 113 Jan 31, 2014 117 Dec 11, 2013 Royal Christenings
Cover: scene in Severnaya Zemlya. Orders of the Russian Federation, second 10th anniversary of the Vanuatu Underwater
Note: these stamps were previously issued in a issue Post Office, Hideaway Island, Port Vila
miniature sheet on Sept 4, 2013, the anniversary of Design: A Moscovets. Design: Denise Durkin (painting and
the day the two icebreakers discovered the Arctic Printing: litho, with varnish layer, and embossed, photographs).
islands Goznak. Printing: litho, Southern Colour Print.
Sheetlet (4 x 2): 7 stamps and 1 label. Miniature sheet:
110 Jan 9, 2014 25r x 7 Order of Ushakov (naval 350vt Underwater Post Office by coral reef
Vladimir Andreevich Stelkov, 1864-1926 decoration) with fish
Design: A Povarikhin. Sheetlet (4 x 2): 7 stamps and 1 label. Border: construction of the Post Office from
Printing: litho, Goznak. 25r x 7 Order of Zukov (army or combined fibreglass; Post Office on wharf, before immersion
Sheet stamp: sheets of 15. operations decoration) in ocean; postal workers in diving gear; dock with
117 VANUATU
15r portrait of the scientist and Sheetlet (4 x 2): 7 stamps and 1 label. postal workers and visitors Underwater Post Office

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Motorcycles: 078
A HANDY CROSS-REFERENCE D
Denmark: 066 Mountains: 071, 103, 114
TO ACCOMPANY THIS MONTH’S Design: 003, 004, 005, 046, 080 Museums & Galleries: 014, 016, 036, 074, 075,
080, 088
Disasters: 033, 037
NEW ISSUE GUIDE Diving: 051, 117 Music: 002, 067, 072, 084, 085, 087, 093, 095, 096,
099; Musical Instruments 002, 072, 084, 085, 087,
Dragons: 030
The most popular collecting themes are listed in 093
E Mythology: 030, 065, 073, 075
alphabetical order, with the reference numbers of all
Easter: 101
the relevant entries in this month’s New Issue Guide, Education: 15, 40, 46, 89 N
Embroidery: 016 Napoleon: 017
guiding you quickly to the new stamps which most
Engineering: 001, 083 National Parks: 073
interest you. Personalities are given a separate listing Environment: 045, 052, 054, 056 NATO: 090
for your convenience. A single stamp issue will often Ethnography: 099 Nordic Issues: 066
Europa: 008, 039, 067, 072, 084, 087, 093
be cross-referenced under more than one category. O
Europe: 092
Explorers: 109 Owls: 091

THEMES F P
Fairy Tales & Legends: 030, 065, 099 Paintings & Prints: 002, 003, 004, 017, 026, 061,
A Festivals: 043, 078 080, 081, 094
Administration & Government: 009, 016, 038, Flags: 001, 002, 009, 012, 021, 025, 037, 050, 057, Personalised Stamp Issues: 060
051, 053, 057, 062, 104, 106 062, 092 Philosophy: 104
Agriculture & Animal Husbandry: 032; Cattle Flowers: 010, 034, 035, 064, 086, 099 Photography: 018, 019, 063, 068
065, 082; Horses 082; Pigs 082; Rare Breeds 082; Folklore: 030, 087, 088, 093, 099, 101 Physics: 110
Sheep 082 Food & Drink: 016, 031, 032, 055 Plants: 035, 064, 086
Americana: 002, 039 France: 016, 017, 083, 108 Polar Regions: 109
Ancient World: 014, 043, 047, 048, 049, 058 Police: 009
Animals: 075, 082, 091, 115 G Politics & Politicians: 021, 037, 049, 051, 053,
Archaeology: 014, 073, 075 Gardens & Parks: 003, 004, 069 057, 062, 092, 104, 107
Architecture: 003, 004, 005, 020, 021, 023, 028, Germany: 087, 108 Ports & Harbours: 023, 069, 117
029, 040, 044, 051, 069, 073, 76, 102, 103, 106, 112 Glass: 075 Postboxes & Pillar Boxes: 074
Arctic: 109 Post Offices: 022, 117
Armed Forces: 002, 017, 057, 070, 072, 079, 086, H Posts (history of): 022, 038, 039, 074
090, 094, 113 Handicrafts: 014, 016, 030, 036, 093 Posts (modern operation of): 008, 042, 059, 064,
Astrology & Calendars: 073 Historians: 013 117
Australiana: 002 Horses: 016, 043, 060 Power: 045
Aviation: 008, 027, 070, 079, 083 Hotels: 060 Printing: 016, 030, 086
Hydrology: 056 Public Safety: 009, 068
B
Badges: 078 I R
Balloons: 034 Independence, Revolutions & Uprisings: 025, Railways: 001
Banking, Finance & Economics: 023, 055 049, 053, 062 Red Cross: 0120
Battles: 002, 016, 017, 081 Industry: 001, 032, 105 Religion: 016, 029, 036, 055, 073, 077, 080, 081,
Bells: 102 Insects: 035 102
Bicycles: 011 International Cooperation: 021, 042, 051, 055, Religious Art: 077
Birds: 035, 081, 091, 115; Doves of Peace 037, 090, 092 Remembrance: 086
072 MUSIC 042, 049 Inventions, Implements & Gadgets: 002, 086, Reptiles: 115
Royal Gibraltar Regiment, Boats: 023, 029, 061, 069 117 Rivers: 030, 051, 054, 061
Gibraltar Book Illustrations & Illuminations: 030, 080 Ireland: 001, 081 Roses: 64
Brazil: 041 Royalty: Queen Elizabeth II 018, 019, 116; Prince
Bridges: 001, 041 J Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 018, 019, 116; Prince
British History: 001, 002, 003, 004, 005, 016, 017, Judaica: 108 Charles 116; Diana, Princess of Wales 019, 116;
018, 019, 069, 070, 072, 079, 080, 081, 083, 085, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, 018, 019, 116;
086, 094, 108, 116 L Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge 018, 019, 116;
Butterflies & Moths: 035 Lakes: 003, 004, 115 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother 018, 019, 116;
Law & Constitution: 044, 104, 106, 107 King William I, 016; King George V 019; Queen
C Libraries & Archives: 007, 013 Mary of Teck 019, 116; King George VI 019, 116; Abu
Calligraphy: 026 Lighthouses: 068 Dhabi 021; Ancient Egypt 047, 048, 058; Bahrain
Canadiana: 086 021, 022, 024, 027; Kuwait 021; Lithuania 089;
Carpets: 036 M Oman 021; Qatar 021; Saudi Arabia 021
Castles & Fortifications: 016, 051, 112 Machins: 001, 004, 005 Russia: 006, 098, 103-115; USSR 108, 109, 110
Child Art: 031 Maps & Globes: 021, 042, 050, 051, 052, 054, 056,
Children: 018, 019, 034 107 S
Christmas: 031 Marine Life: Corals 117; Fish 117; Jellyfish 063; Saints: 077
Churches & Cathedrals: 029, 102, 112 Whales, Dolphins & Porpoises 071 Science: 110
Cinema: 095 Masks: 088 Scotland: 001, 069
Cities, Towns & Settlements: 003, 004, 005, Mathematics: 073, 110 Sculpture: 014, 047, 049, 073
023, 028, 060, 069, 072, 076, 102, 103, 105, Medals & Badges: 024, 086, 113, 114 SEPAC: 064
106, 112 Medicine: 012, 108 Ships: 008, 066, 069, 081, 109
Coats of Arms: 107 Meteorology & Climate: 034 Spiders: 097
068 LIGHTHOUSES Conservation: 056, 082, 091 Monaco: 105 Sport: Athletics 006, 076, 100; Biathlon 111;
Lighthouses, Faroes Costume: 014, 017, 025, 034, 088 Mosques: 021, 038 Bobsled 111; Curling 111; Cycling 011; Football

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041, 050, 108; Gymnastics 011; Ice Hockey 108, PERSONALITIES Nelson: Horatio, English naval commander,
111; International Olympic Committee 108; Luge & 002, 017
Skeleton 111; Marathon 076; Mediterranean A
Games 011; Pelota 073; Rowing 011; Short-Track Amenophis IV Echnaton: ancient Egyptian P
Speed Skating 111; Skating 108, 111; Skiing 098, Pharaoh, 047, 058 Penderecki: Krzysztof, Polish conductor and
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War II when the mother country was Vichy Government, and establish the
in the grip of German occupation. Free French Forces to continue the
But it was all an illusion, in so many struggle against Nazi Germany.
ways. Not the least of which were that One of his many projects was to
the stamp was designed in Dorset, and create new stamp designs for use by
the airliner never actually existed. the Free French colonies. And among
In 1938, the British Air Ministry the designers he recruited was
decided to boost the development of ABOVE: Cameroon 1942 Airmail 100f, illustrating the unbuilt Fairey FC1 Edmund Dulac, the Anglophile
commercial aviation by Frenchman who had created King
commissioning new aircraft, and one of the companies invited to George VI’s Coronation stamp and some of Britain’s definitive sets.
tender for the short-to-medium-haul design was the Fairey Aviation When Dulac set about looking for a suitable image for an airmail
Co. Exciting plans for the FC1, a four-engined monoplane with a design for the Free French issue, he came across an illustration of
pressurised cabin, seating for 26 passengers and a cruising speed of Fairey FC1 project. Struck by its sleek lines and triple tail fins, he
225mph, won the contract, and an order was placed for two made it the central feature of an iconic stamp, with was issued for
prototypes and 12 production aircraft. various territories starting in 1942.
Unfortunately, the outbreak of war meant the project was The aircraft itself might never have got off the ground, but its
mothballed in October 1939, before a single plane had been built. likeness flew extensively around the French colonies. †

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AJH STAMPS....................................50 MILLSTAMPS ...................................69

APEX................................................19 MRM SERVICES ...............................67

ARROWFILE .....................................36 MURRAY PAYNE ..............................13

BRISTOL & DISTRICT PHIL . SOC .....53 NEWTON HOUSE ..............................49

CANDLISH McCLEERY ......................52 PETER MOLLETT ..............................20

CORBITTS .................................. 30, 31

PHIL-INDEX ......................................86

COURT PHILATELICS ........................67

PLUMRIDGE .....................................20

DAUWALDERS..................................58
PORTISHEAD AUCTIONS ...................53

ENFIELD STAMP CENTRE .................93

PRINZ ..............................................48

GARY J LYON ...................................14

ROBSTINE ........................................52

GERT MULLER ................................ IFC

ROWLAND HILL ................................48

GRAHAME MANN .............................40

RUSHSTAMPS ..................................35

GUERNSEY POST OFFICE....................6

SANDAFAYRE ...................................49

GUSTAMPS ......................................38
STONEHAM CATALOGUE ..................60

HAWID .............................................60
SWAN .........................................14,48

IAN LASOK-SMITH ...........................61

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INTER-ASIA ......................................21
STAMP CO .......................................49

J.HAWKER-SMITH ..........................118

TONY LESTER ....................................7

JOHN CURTIN ..................................40

UPA ..................................... 15, 41, 87

JOHN LAMONBY ..............................68 ...................................... 122, IBC, OBC

JOHN WELLS ...................................40 VARISELL .........................................20

M.L.CLIFFORD .................................53 VERA TRINDER .................................86

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