Australia 2009 Info

About the Latest Edition

Key Information

• This catalogue lists and prices stamps from the first stamp issued (SG1) up to the end of 2008 to the same level of detail as the Part 1 Commonwealth and Empire Stamps catalogue.
• This best-selling catalogue is the most authoritative and up-to-date single-volume listing of Australian stamps on the market.
• Includes Stanley Gibbons detailed listing of the increasingly popular ‘States’ stamps, recognised worldwide as the standard reference work.
• Fully updated with new issues listed to end of 2008
• Prices extensively revised with many significant increases since the 4th edition.

General Description/Contents

• This series of colour catalogues list and prices of stamps of Commonwealth Countries from SG1 to date, to the level of detail familiar to users of the ‘Part 1’ British Commonwealth listings. 
• The Australia volume includes the colonial issues of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia, the stamps of the Commonwealth of Australia to the end of 2008 and the issues of British Commonwealth Occupation Force (Japan), Australian Antarctic Territory, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Norfolk Island and the pre-independence issues for Nauru to (1968), New Guinea, Papua and Papua New Guinea (to 1975). 
• Major plate flaws, watermarks varieties, postage dues, officials and booklets are all listed, including the ‘OS’ perforated stamps of New Guinea, Papua and the Commonwealth of Australia, and there is a comprehensive design index for Australia.
• Prices for issues up to 1970 have been taken from the 2009 Commonwealth and Empire Stamp Catalogue. Later issues have been specially repriced for this volume. 

About the Editor
Hugh Jefferies has been a keen stamp collector for over 50 years, concentrating on the stamps of Great Britain and the British Commonwealth. He has been editor of Gibbons Stamp Monthly since 1988 and Stanley Gibbons catalogue editor since 2003.

Reviews/Endorsements

Glen Stephens, Stamp News Australasia, February 2008

"...the most comprehensive single volume catalogue for these issues available"

David Rennie, Philatelic Exporter, July 2009

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