I believe Mette runs a junior club, perhaps this article may be of interest? Courtesy of "Australian Stamp News" November 1980 Experience with Juniors by H. Trethewey (Acknowledgements to Victorian Philatelic Association) Mr. D. Trethewey is organiser of the Ringwood (Junior) Philatelic

In December there is the annual meeting and Christmas party, and during the May meeting we hold our annual competition. The competition is a one sheet, any topic event divided into two age groups at age twelve, with a perpetual trophy for the older section. The senior club provides a judge and he...

Finally the programme calls for exchange sheets. These are supplied by the juniors themselves and from donated stamps plus sheets from Ringwood members. The programme may seem crowded, with at least seven activities in two hours where senior clubs are content with three activities in three hours....

SAFETY FIRST By ALAN STERCKX, A Survey of Security Devices in Stamp Printing. (Reprinted with acknowledgements to "Stamp Collecting.") December 1977 From the very first days of postage stamps the authorities have shown concern about their security and considerable ingenuity has been exercised

CONCORDE FLIGHTS In response to inquiries from collectors, the US Postal Service has confirmed that no inaugural first flight cover service was offered for the recent flights of Concorde aircraft from London and Paris to Dulles Airport and return. No first flight service was offered, the...

Interesting to note, of the last 3 bourses I have attended I have learnt of thefts from all 3. The last, a dealer suffered the loss of an entire! stockbook of KGV's (brazen) STAMP THIEF CAUGHT. At an Open Day held recently in Brisbane, one of the dealers present noticed that certain valuable...

Courtesy of "Australian Stamp News" 1980 Postal Stationery: New Guinea http://groups.msn.com/Stamps/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=557 This is one of the rarest postal stationery items of the south Pacific - a pre-stamped card issued by the New Guinea Compagnie in 1888 for sending...

http://groups.msn.com/Stamps/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=561 A contender for the smallest Post Office? (circa 1983) Whakaangiangi is Maori for "to make thin" It is a farming settlement near TeAraroa

http://groups.msn.com/Stamps/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=562 "Bush Tucker" for the early navigators. From the Solomon Islands, discovered (the islands), then lost again for 200 years.

The Vickers Vimy biplane which made the epic England-Australia flight in November-December 1919. With Ross and Keith Smith at the controls. The four in Khaki, near the centre, are (L to R) Seargents Shiers and Bennett, and Ross and Keith Smith. The plane landed at Darwin on 10th December...

http://groups.msn.com/Stamps/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=576 .....and some Gambian Primary Die Proofs. http://groups.msn.com/Stamps/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=577 These attracted a reserve around $2,500 each in 1993

A person who was attempting to blackmail a grocery store by threatening to poison their food was recently jailed for seven years. He was arrested when he attempted to pick up the £10,000 he had demanded. He was required to give a DNA sample which matched the sample taken from the postage stamp he...

....or, perhaps, Postpersons park. Including an item on the "Post Office Rifles" Courtesy of Australian Stamp News 1973 Author: Shirley Channack (from swinging London) BIRD TALK Take a stroll down Postman's Park. Those of you who think that's just the punch line to some song or other may be...

Courtesy Australian Stamp News Aug 1993 http://groups.msn.com/Stamps/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=585 PS. I am aware of the current debate on this fellows status. :)

Yes lads, the stripper was a keen stamp collector, read on, for the naughty bits. http://groups.msn.com/Stamps/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=586

From: Rodney ) Subject: Curiosity Corner #176 Gypsy Rose Lee Newsgroups: rec.collecting.stamps.discuss Date: 2005-01-15 17:01:35 PST Certainly, that was her income, after all :). What amazes me, is how people find out about these closet collectors? How did the NSW...

http://groups.msn.com/Stamps/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=588 Thematics? this can go under music, place names, or alchohol :)

Following discussions recently on Vietnam and Booklets here is a not often seen article on the Australian Vietnam Booklet. Courtesy Australian Stamp Monthly August 1974 http://groups.msn.com/Stamps/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=591

From: Rodney ) Subject: Curiosity Corner #177 "Champagne Charlie" on a stamp. This is the only article in this thread View: Original Format Newsgroups: rec.collecting.stamps.discuss Date: 2005-01-15 05:24:41...

Message 2 in thread From: Rodney ) Subject: Curiosity Corner #177 "Champagne Charlie" on a stamp Newsgroups: rec.collecting.stamps.discuss Date: 2005-01-15 20:47:49 PST Yes, Blair, I have been scratching my head, I did a search for the lyrics which showed 1868 so that...