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June 2007
All these News stories, and others, can be read in full in the June 2007 Philatelic Exporter
Multi-faceted celebration of Machin anniversary
To mark the 40th Anniversary of the Machin definitive, Royal Mail is producing a new £1 definitive and a miniature sheet. Both will be issued on June 5, the same date the original Machin definitive went on sale ...
'St Petersburg' organised in a rush
According to Flash, the FIP journal, the St Petersburg 2007 international philatelic exhibition taking place on June 19 to 25 has been organised at very short notice. It celebrates the 150th anniversary of the first Russian stamp and has full FIP patronage ...
Scouting and Machin at Thematica
Britain’s National Thematic Stamp Exhibition, Thematica, will be held at the Carisbrooke Hall, Seymour Street, London W2, on Saturday and Sunday, June 23 and 24, 2007 ...
Poppies top poll
The annual readers' poll conducted by Royal Mail's British Philatelic Bulletin to find the most popular British stamp of 2006 has seen the '1st' Poppies stamp triumph ...
'Ideal' returns
Stanley Gibbons is reprinting the Ideal Postage Stamp Album, first published over 100 years ago ...
CISCo sold
Channel Island Stamp Company of Guernsey has been sold by owner Ian Wood to long-time associates Donald and Irina Squibb, who have relocated the company to London, incorporating it into British and Commonwealth Stamp Company Ltd along with Oceanic Stamps ...
Massive Dutch haul for Apex
Apex Philatelics Ltd has acquired the largest single collection ever sold in the Netherlands. Assembled mostly in the 1920s, it comprises an all-world, mostly used, collection of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Malta show in September
Maltex 2007, the philatelic exhibition being organised by the Malta Philatelic Society in collaboration with Malta Post, is to be held at the Le Meridien (Phoenicia) Hotel, Floriana, Malta, on September 28 to 30 ...
Also ...
007 in '008
John Bull moves
Illegals on the Internet
Evolution of Machin's icon
Beautiful Corners of Europe
$5m GB collection to aid charity
Greg Manning dropped by Escala
Special feature this month
Michel Jahresinventur 2005 - Ivory Coast tops the chart.
Exchange rates - a guide to the currencies of all the stamp issuing entities of the world.
Regulars:
About People
What’s happening in your life - tell the editor!
Around the Rooms
Auction action in the salerooms of Apex, David Feldman, Postiljonen, Warwick & Warwick.
Auction Diary
Public stamp auctions around the world in June and July 2007.
Auction houses
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Back Stamps
What was in The Philatelic Exporter this month in 1957, 1967, 1976, 1984, and 1999.
Crime Column
Forged overprints, perfins, and cancels on eBay
There has been a spate of forged material being offered on eBay Australia recently. Material affected includes OS perfins, OSNSW, BCOF, NZ Stars errors, Papua, New Guinea, PNG and other South Pacific countries ...
Anchor away
At the Kent Federation Fair in Maidstone, on April 14 2007, a GB SG136 £1 Anchor with a Telegraph central CDS was stolen ...
Information to Andrew Curd on 07802 720066 or sales@andrewcurd.com or the PTS on 01252 628006.
Mexico removed
Mexico 1856 cover to Vera Cruz with three 1856 ½r blue opt MORELIA, tied by boxed ORIZAVA date stamp (19 Oct) and boxed FRANCO ...
This was sent registered mail from Peterborough addressed to Gerald Leverant in San Antonio, Texas, on April 18 2007. It was delivered in San Antonio on May 1 2007 but with the contents missing.
Contact Brian Moorhouse on 01733 268708 brian@moorhouse.u-net.com or the PTS.
Missing in the mail
These two GB items have gone missing in the UK mail.
Any information to the PTS.
New Issues
Hundreds of new stamps from around the world.
Postal administrations and/or agents
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Trade Diary
What's on in the UK and overseas - events in the UK in June and July 2007, and international events up to mid-2008 are listed in the June 2007 Philatelic Exporter.
Event organisers
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From our contributors:
Albert Boerma - Europe
Sensitive article praised
Ten years ago it would have been unthinkable that a German philatelic magazine would publish a politically sensitive article on the subject of ‘Misplaced German persons’. After defeat in World War II, Germany bitterly resented the agreements allowing east European countries to deport German-speaking minorities. Czechoslovakia and Poland in particular, having won back occupied territory, drove out the Germans and confiscated their properties as war booty ...
Also: TNT to axe thousands ... Costly stamp and coin offerings ... Schulz centenary.
Read the column in the June 2007 Philatelic Exporter.
Otto Hornung - In My View
Zimbabwe issues millions of dollars' worth of stamps
Looking at the Michel world survey of stamp issues for 2005 I noticed something which made me think. First of all I was truly surprised that Michel had found a way of dealing with the galloping inflation in Zimbabwe. In the 2005 survey 'Simbabwe', as it is spelt in German, issued 30 stamps and two miniature sheets. The shock came when I looked at its figures - these 32 items have a total face value of Z$1,025,800! ...
The highest ever denomination (so far?) on a Zimbabwean stamp was this $650,000 stamp depicting Tichafa Samuel Parirenyatwa from the National Heroes set of four issued on July 25 2006.
Liz McKernan - Postcard World
Postcard double in Champagne country
Setting off for Reims at the end of March I felt slightly apprehensive because, two days previously, the Paris Gare du Nord railway terminus and its environs had experienced serious rioting. It had taken the baton-wielding and tear-gassing gendarmes eight hours to bring the rioters under control ...
Also: Cartexpo 50 ... Tribute to Abbé Pierre (1912-2007) ... Collecting is good for you! ... Found on the Internet ... June Fair Diary
Official entry postcard by Pierre Gauthié for 'Amicarte 51' at Reims.
Read the column in the June 2007 Philatelic Exporter.
David Rennie - New Books
All reviewed in the June 2007 Philatelic Exporter.
James Skinner - Great Britain
A recurring Smilers nightmare
One of the clauses in Royal Mail’s newly introduced Key Accounts contract deals with both its and its account holders' responsibilities in the event of a recall of a stamp issue. Under the contract, if, for whatever reason, RM deems it necessary to withdraw stamps supplied on pre-release, prior to the issue date, the Key Account holder is obliged to return the entire stock to RM. Little did RM expect that this clause would be invoked more than once within weeks of the new contract coming into effect ...
Double trouble
Who's smiling now?
To err once is human, but to falter twice so badly is downright careless. Quite how the design department can have been guilty of two howlers in the space of a matter of weeks is beyond belief ... It may be the cynical side of me but I would lay odds that by the year end we will see another, previously unscheduled, Smilers sheet sneak into the programme to make up for the costs incurred in two recalls and reprints. However, I would be delighted if RM were to prove me wrong.
Read the column in the June 2007 Philatelic Exporter.
Glen Stephens - Australasia
“Sell them for £1”
Most readers should by now have heard of Sir Gawaine Baillie who died in 2003 aged 69. Almost none of his family or friends knew he even collected stamps ... Sotheby’s auctioned his superb stamp collection over ten sales, and it realised £15,975,438 ... Lady Baillie instructed Sotheby’s to offer all 1342 unsolds at one last Baillie 'Missed Opportunities' sale on May 2 and 3 2007...
One item that I’d be rather pleased to buy at £1 is the 1903 20 shillings green Australian Postage Due illustrated above ...
Also: A Federer first ... 'RoC' becomes 'Taiwan' - for just one day?
Read the column in the June 2007 Philatelic Exporter.