£2 Roo - Townsville Cancel & Telegraph Puncture

£2 Roo with Townsville cancel and telegraph puncture (tastefully repaired). Recently acquired for the collection.

Perth Stamp & Coin Show, August 16 & 17 2014

Held on August 16 & 17, this event saw local, interstate and international stamp, coin, banknote, postcard, militaria including medals & collectable dealers come together for what is quickly becomming the largest and arguably the best Stamp & Coin show in Perth & Western Australia.

In addition to the professional, full time & part time dealers, upstairs was a room of local collectors with their own  tables selling their excess or unwanted material, very similar to the European "Flea Market" style stamp shows.

The event is the brainchild of Ian Boulton or Ian Boulton Stamp Dealer and Ace Stamp Auctions and is the only event of its scale & kind in Western Australia. 

A very worthwhile event to attend and be involved in and we look forward to attending again next year. For further details for the next event see Perth Stamp & Coin Show. 

Note: The authors company is a financial sponsor of the event.

Nice use of stamps for some heavy parcels this month

I have received two heavy parcels already this month. One from Australia (Tasmania) and the other from the United States (Arizona).

Now admittedly the package from Tasmania was from a fellow stamp collector, so its not unusual to receive such a lovely array of fairly recent issues but its the package from Arizona that takes the cake this month.

This was totally commercial in its nature - containing some books. The only difference was that I asked the sender if he would kindly use "real-stamps" when he sent the parcel.

Its nice to see such thoughtful franking used on commercial packages these days and a nice surprise, especially when paying over $33 in shipping costs - many more examples of thoughtful parcel franking can be seen here on StampBoards.