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56 The Postmarks of the British West Indies
1937–1956—British Honduras
60 The Telegraph Stamps of Ceylon
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King George VI postmarks of this Central American territory.
Collecting these stamps has given Steve Hiscocks a lot of
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65 Barbados
Basil Herwald continues
his tour of Caribbean
philatelic bureaux.
72 ‘The Sower’, a Not-so-Common Little
Stamp
In the final part of this series Ashley Lawrence
reviews non-postal representations of the Sower.
81 Ryukyu Islands
The first stamps from these Japanese
islands appeared 60 years ago,
Ron Negus takes a look at them.
84 Stamps of 14 ‘New’ Countries:
the Ex-USSR Republics
David R Wright continues his survey of
recently independent former Soviet
republics, turning his attention to the
Caucasian and Central Asian republics.
96 Film Clip of Wonder Goal Shown
on Austria Post Motionstamp
Peter Jennings FRPSL, FRGS, reports from
Vienna on an Austrian stamp using new
technology to produce a moving picture.
99 Foreign Postal Stationery
2006–2007
Geir Sør-Reime’s annual review surveys
countries from Finland to Luxembourg.
GREAT BRITAIN
37 GB News
RAF Uniforms, six stamps and a prestige booklet for
September; Olympic commemorations; Early dates.
38 Royal Mail Stamp of Approval for
Westminster and Lichfield Cathedrals
A report from Peter Jennings FRPSL, FRGS.
40 The De La Rue Printings of the Wilding
Castles
The first of a two-part study by Peter Shaw.
A final group of mysteries from David R Wright.
46 More Stamp Mysteries: Great Britain
1952–60
48 Machin Watch
The new regionals provide some surprise developments as John M Deering reveals.
A supplement to the Great Britain Specialised Catalogue.
G.S.M. July 2008
53 GB Specialised Catalogue
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Dear Reader
Towards the end of last year, Stanley Gibbons assisted in gathering information for a report commissioned by Royal Mail, the
results of which received wide coverage in the national press.
The research showed that stamp collectors were better informed than average, resulting in them (us!) achieving a higher
standard of education and ultimately a better life-style (‘62 per cent of stamp collectors take at least two holidays every year’,
etc).
I am sure we would all agree that there is an element of truth in this, although the fact that it was going to broaden my
education would not have attracted me to stamp collecting in the first place and would not have maintained my enthusiasm
for the hobby over the next 50 years.
Of course, 50 years ago, the perceived wisdom was that one should begin by collecting the stamps of the whole world and
on the basis of the wide knowledge thus gained, decide if one wanted to ‘specialise’ and, if so, what to concentrate on.
This would certainly still be my advice today, but collecting ‘The World’ is a far less practical proposition than it was in the 1950s and there is an inevitable
tendency to skip this important part of the learning process and go straight to one-country or single-theme collecting, which may mean that many of
today’s younger collectors miss out on the wider educational benefits which stamp collecting brings and, as a result, all those lovely holidays!
For those of us who have been through that learning process and are now concentrating our efforts on Great Britain line-engraved, or the postal history of
Nicaragua, it is sometimes good to be reminded of what stamps taught us and what they can still teach us about the rapidly changing world that we live in
today.
A great example of this is David Wright’s two-part article on the stamps of the former Soviet republics, the first part of which appeared in last month’s issue.
In it he demonstrates what their stamps can tell us about such countries as Uzbekistan and Tajikistan—countries which many non-collectors have not even
heard of.
The only problem with articles like these as far as I am concerned is that they give me a strong urge to go back to all-world collecting, since
ignoring the stamps of Uzbekistan (or any of the other countries I do not collect) clearly means that I am missing out on something—but I must
restrain myself; after all not even stamp collectors can have it all!
Incidentally, anyone interested in learning more about the stamps of the former Soviet republics will be pleased to know that a new edition of
the Stanley Gibbons
Russia Catalogue
will be out at the end of June, and will be about 200 pages larger than its predecessor, published in
1999. Also, next month David Wright carries out a similar review of the former Yugoslav republics—don’t miss it!
22 Society News
26 Diary Dates
Reports from philatelic societies.
Forthcoming Fairs and Auctions.
News of recent auction results.
Changes to the 2008 Commonwealth and British
Empire Stamps 1840–1970 catalogue.
What there is to see at Vienna’s international
exhibition.
30 Around the Houses
80 Price Update
94 WIPA ’08
NEW ISSUES
NEWS
7 Newsdesk
Holocaust exhibit purchased; SG auction; Royal
Mail news; BPMA wiki; Exhibitions.
104 Shore to Shore
Navy vessels, racing cars and the unspoilt
beauty of Alderney; Island Hopper reports on
forthcoming issues from the Channel Islands and
the Isle of Man.
106 Panorama
John Moody investigates the background to some
more new issues.
A summary of recent and forthcoming issues from
around the world.
REGULAR FEATURES
33 New Collector
108 Stamp News in Brief
115 CATALOGUE SUPPLEMENT
John Holman takes a look at the Windward
Islands, continues his survey of Indian Feudatory
States, reports on a new king of Bhutan and
updates earlier articles.
59 Letters
A reader’s comments on the subject of
Travancore watermarks.
Nimrod picks out some stamps from Dubai that
are worth looking for.
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David Horry reveals the story behind another
unissued stamp.
The Catalogue Editor reports.
114 The Unissued Stamps of King George V
Catalogue Column
G.S.M. July 2008
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Empire Mail:
George V and
the GPO
As part of the London 2010
Festival of Stamps, The
British Postal Museum and
Archive (BPMA) and the
Royal Philatelic Collection are
working in partnership with the
Guildhall Art Gallery to produce
an exhibition, ‘Empire Mail:
George V and the GPO’. This
will be open from 7 May to 25
July 2010 at the Guildhall Art
Gallery.
An era of conflict and
great change, the reign
of King George V saw the
development of a number
of communication methods
which brought the world
closer together. Featuring
posters, vehicles, pillar boxes,
philatelic rarities and gems
from the GPO Film Unit,
the exhibition will explore
themes from the King’s reign
such as innovations in mail
transportation, the first Atlantic
air crossing, the rise of graphic
design in the 1920s and 1930s
and war-time memorabilia.
The items on display will be
sourced from the treasures
of the BPMA and the Royal
Philatelic Collection, including
a display of stamps and stamp
artwork. The Royal Philatelic
Collection was started in the
19th century by Royal stamp
enthusiasts and its present
structure—which includes
a large amount of material
rarely seen in public—was the
creation of King George V, a
keen stamp collector, and his
adviser Sir Edward Bacon.
This exhibition is just
one of a number of events
happening across London
as part of the London 2010
Festival of Stamps, a year-long
programme of exhibitions,
events and activities
marking the centenary of
the accession of George V.
Key events include a major
international stamp exhibition
at the Business Design Centre
in Islington and partner
exhibitions at The British
Museum, the Wimbledon
Lawn Tennis Museum, the
Royal Botanical Gardens at
Kew and a number of other
locations in partnership with
the Association of British
Philatelic Societies. To find
out more about the festival
visit www.postalheritage.org.
uk/london2010
G.S.M. July 2008
Award-winning Holocaust
philatelic exhibit
purchased
An award-winning, ten-frame exhibit, ‘The Nazi Scourge: Postal Evidence of the Holocaust and
the Devastation of Europe’, created by philatelic researcher and author, Ken Lawrence, has
been acquired by an Illinois, USA, charitable organisation.
The Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation will preserve and offer the extraordinary
items for public use at Holocaust and Genocide educational venues around the world, and has set up
a website for the historic artifacts (www.SpungenFoundation.org).
A member of the Foundation’s Board of Directors, Danny Spungen, is adding additional, important
material to the original 250 items in Lawrence’s exhibit.
Left: Bible scroll
used by a German
soldier to wrap a
parcel sent from
Russia
Below: Nuremburg
Trial postcard
‘One of the most heartbreaking artifacts and
historical evidence of Nazi desecration in Ken’s
exhibit is a torn fragment of a hand-written Hebrew
parchment from a Bible scroll (Tanakh). A German
soldier used the holy scripture to wrap a parcel he
mailed from Russia to Austria in 1942,’ said
Mr Spungen.
The now enlarged collection has over 250
envelopes; postcards; letters; specially-designed
postage stamps used exclusively by concentration
camp inmates, Jewish ghetto residents and
prisoners of war; and counterfeit Bank of England
banknotes created by slave labourers during
‘Operation Bernhard’, the Nazis’ failed plot to
undermine Britain’s economy.
‘The insured value of the collection is US$1 million, but the educational value to future generations
is incalculable’, explained Spungen.
On-line Philatelic Glossary
The British Postal Museum
and Archive’s latest extension
to its website is called the
‘BPMA wiki’. The ‘wiki’ is the
interaction section of the
BPMA’s main website and
allows users to contribute
directly to information on-line.
The first project
launched via ‘wiki’ is a
philatelic glossary which provides an opportunity for the
website’s users to work together to create an informative
and interesting resource for all stamp and postal history
collectors.
Visitors can access the glossary for information and also
produce their own content. If you think you can improve an
existing entry, then go ahead and start editing. Alternatively,
if you think a term is missing, why not add it. Editing is quick
and easy.
The glossary can be found at www.postalheritage.org.uk/
wiki/PhilatelicGlossary
5.5 million mail
deliveries made by
Haypost in 2007
Haypost, the company
currently running the
Armenian postal service, has
reported that it had carried
out 5.5 million mail deliveries
in Armenia in 2007, against 3
million in 2006.
The company’s Director
General, Hans Boon, stated
at a meeting with employees
and post office chiefs that the
quality of mail delivery has
greatly improved. 95 per cent
of deliveries in Yerevan were
made within 24 hours, and
the bulk of international mail
is posted out of the country
within four days.
Haypost operates 900 post
offices across the country and
has 4000 members of staff.
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Something for
everyone at
Stanley Gibbons
Auctions
Stanley Gibbons ‘All World’ public auction at the Strand on
26 June provides something for everyone.
657 lots of Commonwealth includes some substantial
collections, including one of Queen Victoria and Edward
VII, with high values, large multiples and varieties (estimate
£10,000–12,000) and 11 stockbooks estimated at £5000–6000.
Single-country collections include notable Australia, Cyprus
(estimate £6500–7500) and Pitcairn Islands, while the featured
collection is Michael Abbott’s Trinidad and Tobago, split
into 125 lots from imperf Britannias to Queen Elizabeth
commemoratives and covering mint, used, specimens, errors
and varieties, postmarks and postal history.
Other Commonwealth countries
particularly worthy of note are
Ascension and St Helena, with a
good range of ‘Badge of the Colony’
varieties, and Canada, with errors and
varieties and a nice ‘Port Hood’ ‘2’,
estimated at £1500–1700. There are
varied ranges of Hong Kong, Palestine
and Rhodesia, New Zealand provides
attractive James Berry essays for the
Centennial issue and Malaya
includes a 1900 Federated Malay
States $25 overprint on Perak (SG
14), estimated at £5000–6000.
Highlights in the Foreign
section include China, from
Treaty Port locals to 1963 Pandas
in perf and imperf blocks of four,
France, Germany and USA, which
features an 1859 cover to London
(estimate £800–900).
Great Britain provides some good line-engraved with a
Penny Black used on 7 May 1840 (on large piece, estimated
£1000–1200) and several others, on and off cover. Surface-
printed high values include four examples of the £5 orange,
an imperf imprimatur of the 1867–83 £1 brown-lilac (estimate
£7000–8000) and a good section of postal fiscals, while a nice
range of modern errors includes a 1988 13p Christmas and a
half-sheet of the 1997 26p Royal Golden Wedding with three
completely imperf pairs (estimate £10,000–12,000).
The sale closes with GB collections valued from £60–70 up
to £13,000–15,000—aptly demonstrating that there really is
something for everyone!
1867–93 £1 brown-lilac imprimatur
and 26p Royal Golden Wedding half-
sheet containing three imperf pairs
UN Secretary-
General pays
tribute to postal
services
United Nations Secretary
General, Ban Ki-moon,
recently stressed the
importance of postal services
in the world’s development
efforts, as he marked the
Universal Postal Union’s
60th anniversary as a
specialised agency of the
United Nations.
The Secretary General was
at UPU headquarters to chair
the bi-annual Chief Executives
Board of the United Nations
System.
‘This is an exciting time
for the United Nations, but
it is also a time when we
are challenged to exert our
best efforts to rise to the
expectations that the world
is placing on us,’ said the
Secretary General. ‘You (the
UPU) are a big part of this.
Postal services are particularly
important at a time when
hundreds of millions of people
have relocated from their
country of origin and are
anxious to share news and
resources with their relatives.’
He added: ‘You may be one
of the smallest specialised
UN agencies, but the work
you are doing is key to
the broader mission of our
Organisation.’
The Secretary General
continued, ‘the postal
sector makes a well-known
contribution to development’,
and pointed out the UPU’s
efforts to assist its member
countries, in particular
developing and least
developed countries, in the
field of technical co-operation
and development.
Itella to support
Baltic Sea
protection
programme
The Itella Corporation (owners
of Finland’s postal authority,
Posti) is participating in
Nokia’s mobile phone
recycling campaign and
contributing to the work of the
Worldwide Fund for Nature
(WWF) in conservation of the
Baltic Sea.
In the campaign, Nokia,
Itella, and other partners
will donate
2
to the
WWF’s Operation Mermaid
programme for a cleaner
Baltic Sea, for every
obsolete or not required
mobile phone posted in
a postage-paid recycling
envelope.
Itella will manage the
distribution and transport
services for campaign
materials, distributing return
envelopes to Nokia’s outlets
and delivering equipment
to Nokia’s service centre for
recycling.
Illegal miniature
sheet
Mozambique Post has allerted
collectors to the circulation
of a miniature sheet featuring
Bobby Fischer, the ex-World
Chess Champion, who died
this year.
The miniature sheet was
not issued by or with the
permission of Correios de
Mocambique. The postal
authority has confirmed
that it has only issued
one set of stamps in
2008, commemorating the
forthcoming Beijing Olympic
Games.
Julian Chapman Memorial Scholarship
Applications are invited for a travelling scholarship from
philatelists, wherever resident, wishing to study Commonwealth
stamps or postal history. The scholarship, for a sum of up
to £2500, will be a contribution towards travelling costs,
accommodation and subsistence for a trip, particularly overseas.
Applications, which must be received before 30 September
2008, should include:
an outline of the subject to be studied and how it related to the
applicant’s previous philatelic research;
intentions as to publication of the results after completion of the
study;
an accurate costing of the trip, including places and
organizations to be visited;
a short philatelic
curriculum vitae
(including personal details,
collecting interests, previous publications and philatelic
achievements).
The application should, if possible, be limited to two sides of
an A4 sheet of paper and should be sent to: The Julian Chapman
Memorial Scholarship, The Royal Philatelic Society London,
41 Devonshire Place, London WIG 6JY.
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