Adelaide Stampex 99

Adelaide Stampex 99 was held from Friday 5 to Sunday 7 November 1999 at the Ridley Centre, Wayville Showgrounds, Adelaide.

A full national exhibition, Adelaide Stampex 99 attracted a 127 entries occupying 618 frames (16 pages per frame) plus 17 literature entries, a total of 144 competitive entries. With a further twelve invited exhibits occupying 78 frames, visitors to the exhibition were able to enjoy just under 700 frames of high quality and varied philatelic and related non-philatelic material.

A feature of the exhibition was the strong support for all classes of philately including the various non-FIP classes. Social attracted 12 entries, polar 10 entries, frugal 2, railway 7 and postcards 12 entries.

Special mention should be made of the fact that judging was completed before the exhibition opened, this permitting awards to be posted on the frames in time for the opening of the doors. Congratulations to the Organising Committee, volunteers and the jury for a job well done; the early posting of awards being appreciated by exhibitors attending the exhibition.

Twenty four dealer stands (not counting Australia Post) were taken up by local, interstate and overseas dealers. Chris Rainey from the United Kingdom, along with John & Jan Fitzpatrick, David Holmes Philatelist Ltd, William Carson, Charles Lilley and Bill Leggett Collectables from New Zealand all travelled from overseas to support the exhibition. Olymphilex 2000 was also among the standholders.

The Palmares held at the Adelaide International Motel in Glenelg North was a "sold out" event. It was pleasing to see the social side of exhibitions being so well supported.

Australia Post special products available during the exhibition included a set of six CPS labels (each with a face value of 45c) with special "Stampex 99" overprint, the 1999 Stamp Collecting Month "Small Pond" miniature sheet overprinted "Adelaide Stampex '99 5 - 7 November 1999" plus a different postmark for each of the three days of the exhibition (see October APF News page 17).

A number of society meetings took place on the Saturday and Sunday including the Postal Stationery Society of Australia, the Postal Stationery and Postal History Society of Australia, the Rhodesia Study Circle, the Cinderella Stamp Club and the interNational Association of Philatelic Exhibitors (NAPE). The judges' critique session held on the Saturday morning was well attended by around 60 exhibitors keen to hear from the jury.

Mike Munzer again headed the youth corner offering a wide range of activities, games and challenges for school groups and other youngsters who visited the exhibition.

Photos of both the critique session and Mike hard at work with a group of juniors are featured on the front cover.

All those behind the organisation of Adelaide Stampex 99 are to be congratulated on a warm, friendly and very efficiently run exhibition.

Replica Card No. 38:  Centenary of Sturt's Exploration, 1930

Since 1984 a Replica Card with a previously issued intaglio printed stamp design has been printed using the original hand engraved steel die (by permission of Australia Post) to commemorate national philatelic exhibitions in Australia.

On the occasion of Adelaide Stampex 99, the 1955 3½d Centenary of South Australia stamp was reproduced in the form of Replica Card number 38. The 134mm (high) by 95mm (wide) replica card features an impression of the original stamp die printed in an earth brown shade (the original stamp was issued in bright green) and contains a brief history of the stamp. The 1955 stamp was issued to coincide with the opening of the National Stamp Exhibition at the Adelaide Town Hall that year.

The Centenary of the First South Australian Stamp replica card can be purchased exclusively from the APF by mail order. The cost of the Replica Card is $5 plus $1:50 for postage and packing for up to 20 cards.  Proceeds from the sale of replica cards are an important source of funding for the APF which in turn supports organised philately in Australia. 

  Order yours from the APF today.   Note, this replica card will be withdrawn from sale on 31 December 2007 and all remaining stocks destroyed.

Competitive Exhibition

Grand Awards

Grand Prix:  Harry Lower - Classic South Australia
Grand Prix National:  Arthur Gray - George V Definitives of the Commonwealth of Australia
Grand Prix International:  Darryl Fuller - Leeward Islands Postal Stationery

Traditional

Harry Lower Classic South Australia  [8 frames] Large Gold [93] +SP
William McCredie Stamps of the Australian Colonies invalidated for postal or fiscal use  [7 frames] Large Vermeil [82]
James Johnstone The New South Wales Centenary Issue  [7 frames] Large Vermeil [80]
James Johnstone Victoria's Queen-on-Throne  [7 frames] Gold [85]
Robin Goulder Victoria, The Postage Dues 1890-1910 Frame and Duty Plate Flaws  [5 frames] Large Silver [72]
Yvonne Jettner The Engraved Issue of 1d George V  [3 frames] Silver [69]
Arthur Gray The George V Definitive Issues of the Commonwealth of Australia - The Cooke and Harrison Printings 1913-1926  [8 frames] Large Gold [91]
David Edwards A Study of the 5d Brown King George V Definitive of Australia  [6 frames] Large Vermeil [80]
Gordon Monk King George V 1d Varieties  [5 frames] Vermeil [77]
Craig Chappell Australian Frama Stamps  [5 frames] Large Vermeil [82] +SP
Robert Phaup Australia's Peel & Stick  [5 frames] Silver-Bronze [64]
Leonard Wenitong Koala Count (Reprints)  [4 frames] Silver-Bronze [64]
Dennis Leonard Nauru 1916-23  [3 frames] Large Silver [71] SP
Bruce Alexandre New Zealand and Dependencies "Arms" Type  [8 frames] Gold [85]
John Wilson New Zealand King George VI issue  [8 frames] Large Silver [71]
James Shaw New Zealand's First Definitives, 1855-1873  [5 frames] Vermeil [76]
John Gluyas Who's Fooling Who  [5 frames] Silver-Bronze [64]
Robert John Radley Canal Zone  [3 frames] Bronze [56]
Ben Kaufmann The Definitive Issues of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen  [8 frames] Silver [68]
Brian Trindall Great Britain Surface Printed Plate Numbers 2½d to 2/1-  [4 frames] Silver [65]
Jon Fladeby Norway - Posthorn Issues 1872-1855  [4 frames] Large Vermeil [82]
Wladyslaw Piekarz Poland - The Second Republic 1918-1939  [8 frames] Large Silver [70]
Wladyslaw Piekarz Warsaw Citizen Post 1915-1918  [5 frames] Silver [71]
Graham Rowbottom Czechoslovakia "The Early Years"  [5 frames] Silver [68]
Gert Ebing Prussia  [5 frames] Silver [65]
Erica Genge The Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth  [5 frames] Silver-Bronze [62]

Postal History

Lawrence Birke A History of Postage Dues in Australia: 1832 to present  [8 frames] Large Vermeil [80]
Hugh Campbell Queensland Intercolonial and Overseas Postal Rates, 1850-1913  [8 frames] Gold [85]
Lance Holden South Australian date stamp cancels on George V issues of Australia  [5 frames] Bronze [58]
Robin Goulder Staying One Step Ahead of Unsolicited Mail  [5 frames] Bronze [59]
Charles Lawlor Western Australia 1831-1912  [5 frames] Large Silver [74]
Stephen Shimmin 1948 Palestine prior to formation of State of Israel  [5 frames] Large Vermeil [80]
Gary Brown Aden Postal History till 1952  [8 frames] Large Gold [90]
Hans von Strokirch Danish West Indies Postal History  [3 frames] Large Silver [74]
Andrew Alwast Kingdom of Poland Pre-stamp Letters  [6 frames] Large Vermeil [80]
Ivars Mastins Postal History of Latvia 1918-1945  [5 frames] Large Silver [74]
Robert Charles Colacino U.S.A - France Mails 1825-1875  [7 frames] Large Gold [91]
Leonard Buchanan Postal Markings of Hong Kong and the Treaty Ports of China and Japan  [5 frames] Large Silver [74]
Donald Napier Jamaica Postal History 1750-1860  [5 frames] Large Vermeil [81] +SP

Postal Stationery

Edward Hyde Australia - The Coronation Postcards  [4 frames] Large Silver [70]
Harold Waite New Zealand Queen Victoria Postcards 1876-1901  [5 frames] Large Silver [72]
Robert Samuel New Zealand in the Depths of the Great Depression 1931-1932  [5 frames] Gold [85] +SP
Ernest Meggyesy Hungary - Postal Cards & Letter Cards  [6 frames] Vermeil [75]
Hans Karman Dutch Postal Stationery 1945-1985  [5 frames] Silver [65]
Ross Duberal Honduras 1882-1929  [5 frames] Large Silver [71]
Darryl Fuller Leeward Island Postal Stationery: Queen Victoria to King George VI  [8 frames] Large Gold [92] SP
Arturs Neboiss Latvia - prestamped envelopes 1990-1992  [3 frames] Silver [68]

Revenues

John Homer Revenue and Duty Stamps of Western Australia  [5 frames] Large Silver [70]
David Ingle Smith Australian Tax Stamps - Depression to Federal Income Tax  [3 frames] Vermeil [78]

Aerophilately

Wesley Jones Are we there yet?  [3 frames] Vermeil [75]
Ed Wolf Extending the Line  [5 frames] Vermeil [75]
Anthony Scott Bridging Australia and Beyond  [5 frames] Vermeil [75]
Doreen Holmes 16,000 miles by airmail for Christmas  [6 frames] Vermeil [75]
John Sadler Australian Airmails 1914-1938  [7 frames] Gold [85]
Keith Griffiths New Zealand Connections  [4 frames] Large Silver [70]
Ross Wood Flying Boats over the Pacific  [4 frames] Large Silver [71]
Jacob Bouwman Early Flights of K.L.M  [3 frames] Silver [65]
John Lucaci France - Air Meetings and other Civil and Military Aeronautical Events prior to the First World War  [4 frames] Vermeil [78] +SP
Norman Banfield Russia - Airmails 1922-1937  [3 frames] Large Silver [74]
Andrew Alwast Poland's 1946 Airmail Stamps  [5 frames] Vermeil [77]
John Bodnar The First Regular and First International Airmail Service in the World: Vienna-Cracow-Lemberg-Kiev  [4 frames] Large Silver [74]
Gary Brown South Africa - Airletters  [5 frames] Vermeil [76]
John Gibson Sudan Air Mail - 1926 to World War II  [7 frames] Silver [68]
Tom Frommer Famous Pilots and Famous Flights  [5 frames] Gold [87] +SP
Darryl Fuller Jusqu'a Airmail Markings  [4 frames] Vermeil [75]

Thematics

John Crowsley "Kangaroo" - an Australian identity  [3 frames] Silver [65]
Miklos Dombay Past-Present-Future / History of European Unification  [4 frames] Bronze [58]
Lily Gibson Owls  [5 frames] Vermeil [76]
Ronald Newns-Smith Motorised Postal Services  [3 frames] Silver-Bronze [60]
Laurie Sharp Lighthouses  [5 frames] Large Vermeil [81] +SP
John Wilson Orchids  [5 frames] Vermeil [77]
David Ingle Smith Water - The resource and its use  [4 frames] Silver-Bronze [60]
Linda Lee Women in Society  [8 frames] Large Vermeil [83]
Ian Borrie Headgear  [6 frames] Large Vermeil [83] +SP
Douglas South Our Feathered Friends  [5 frames] Large Vermeil [81]
Marilyn Syme Radiomania  [6 frames] Large Vermeil [83]
James Sanders Sea Birds  [5 frames] Silver-Bronze [60]
Ernest Meggyesy The Conveyance of Messages in Europe - 1400 to 1874  [6 frames] Vermeil [77]
Charles Bromser The Copernican Revolution  [5 frames] Gold [86] +SP

Maximaphily

Raymond Kelly All Creatures Great and Small  [5 frames] Silver [67]

Youth

Thomas Karpiniec Australian Christmas Stamps 1989-1998  [1 frame] Silver-Bronze [64]
Meriana Chadderton Exploring the Seventh Continent  [1 frame] Silver [69] SP
Daniel Rudaizky Around the World in Eighty Days  [3 frames] Bronze [55]
Tong-Kyung Shinn Experience the Oriental Asia - The Art and Architecture  [3 frames] Bronze [58]

Literature

Anthony Mansfield National Mail (NZ) Ltd Silver [67]
Keith Griffiths New Zealand Airgraphs 1942-1946 Large Silver [73]
Thomas James Innis Footprints in the Sand Certificate of Participation [50]
Richard Peck Priced Catalogue of N.S.W Revenue and Railway Stamps Vermeil [78]
Queensland Philatelic Council The Queensland Stamp Collector Silver [67]
Earlwood and Districts Stamp Club Waratah Philatelist Silver [66]
Philatelic Society of Canberra Inc. Capital Philately Silver [69]
Gordon Monk The Surface Printed KGV 1d Sideface Issue Variety Catalogue Large Silver [71]
Christchurch Philatelic Society Inc. Captain Coqk Silver-Bronze [61]
The Ukrainian Collectibles Society The Southern Collector Silver [68]
Albert Farrugia 'Machinations' - A Journal for collectors of G.B Machins Silver-Bronze [61]
Gene Kelly Gene Kelly's Catalog of the Fiscal Stamps of Switzerland - Volume 9. Kanton Tax Stamps of the Kanton of Bern Silver [68]
Nigel Gooding Spanish-Philippines Handbook Vermeil [79] +SP
The Aerogramme Society 'AerogrammeR' Silver [67]
Postal Stationery of Australia Postal Stationery Collector Large Silver [74]
Thematics Queensland 'Thematically Speaking' Silver-Bronze [64]
Thematic Society of Australia 'Themes' Silver [65]

Social Philately

Victor Bullock South Australia - An "Official" History  [5 frames] Large Silver [70]
Barbara Bartsch The Australian Certified Mail Service  [6 frames] Silver [65]
Edward Mouatt Richard Bates - Stamp Designer  [4 frames] Silver [68]
George Gunderson The Telegraph and the Post Office  [8 frames] Gold [88] +SP
Harry Palmer QANTAS  [5 frames] Vermeil [75]
Sharon Whitelaw-Jenkins Australian Pre-decimals revisited  [5 frames] Bronze [55]
Ross Marshall Soviet Antarctica - The Early Years 1955-65  [6 frames] Vermeil [76]
Anthony Scott "Paradise" in the East Pacific  [5 frames] Silver-Bronze [62]
Kim Dwyer Cocos (Keeling) Island. Jewel of the Indian Ocean  [8 frames] Gold [85]
Harry Schmidtke Polish Philatelic Exhibitions from 1919 to 1975  [5 frames] Silver [67]
Borys Zachariv Swiss Army Territorial Units 1939-45  [3 frames] Silver [68]
Jenny Banfield Medicine  [3 frames] Silver-Bronze [60]

Polar Philately

Anthony Scott Antarctica - The Last Frontier  [3 frames] Large Silver [73]
Kevin Dwyer Australian Antarctic Territory - First 52 Years  [5 frames] Large Vermeil [83] +SP
Kevin Dwyer Ships Chartered by A.N.A.R.E. 1951-1990  [3 frames] Silver [65]
Graham Englefield The founding and operation of Wilkes Base (A.A.T)  [4 frames] Silver [67]
Graham Englefield From S.Y. "Aurora" to RSV "Aurora Australis"  [4 frames] Large Silver [74]
Peter Brigden French Southern and Antarctic Territories  [3 frames] Silver-Bronze [63]
Peter Brigden Postal Cancellations of British Antarctic Bases  [4 frames] Silver [65]
Paul Wales The 1901-04 British National Antarctic Expedition  [4 frames] Gold [85] +SP
Kevin Brown Postmarks of the Argentine Antarctic Base  [6 frames] Vermeil [77] SP
Anthony Walker The Soviet Arctic  [7 frames] Large Vermeil [83] +SP

Frugal Philately

Anthony Scott Tarcoola  [3 frames] Certificate of Participation [50]
Frank Wilkinson From 1d to 43c  [3 frames] Bronze [55]

Railway Philately

Francis Kiddle Queensland Railway Stamps  [4 frames] Large Vermeil [82] +SP
Richard Peck Romance of the Railway in N.S.W  [4 frames] Silver [68]
Raymond Kelly Australia - Railway Parcels Stamps of the Eastern States  [5 frames] Large Silver [74]
Wilson Ilbery N.S.W Railway Parcel Stamps  [5 frames] Large Silver [74]
John Dibiase Western Australia "The Railway Parcel Stamps and Labels"  [5 frames] Vermeil [79]
Derek Pocock A Comparative Study of Railway Parcel Stamps  [5 frames] Large Silver [72]
Clyde Ziegeler Railways of Jaipur  [3 frames] Silver [68]

Postcards

Nicholas Yelland South Australian Semi-Official Railway Cards  [3 frames] Vermeil [75]
Laurie Sharp The Borough of Queenscliffe  [3 frames] Silver-Bronze [64]
Hubert Goron New Hebrides  [6 frames] Silver [67]
Pamela Wright Australiana - Coastline, Cities, Bush  [3 frames] Bronze [53]
Keith Griffiths New Zealand Aviation on Postcards  [5 frames] Large Vermeil [80] +SP
Denis Gallagher 55 Years of Powered Flight  [4 frames] Silver-Bronze [61]
Pamela Wright Boats and Ships  [3 frames] Bronze [52]
Janet Ingleton Norddeutscher Lloyd  [3 frames] Large Vermeil [81] +SP
Jennifer Roland Power before Steam  [6 frames] Vermeil [76]
Pamela Wright Horses  [3 frames] Bronze [51]
Hans Karman Windmills  [5 frames] Silver [69]
Alma Downes Windsor Castle  [4 frames] Vermeil [78] Fel

[ Source:  APF News, February  2000 ]