Lance Skinner has made significant contributions in a wide range of areas to the research of the postage stamps of Australia.  Lance epitomises the traditional image of the researcher of stamps, magnifier to the eye checking each example, determining its position on the sheet and observing what changes have occurred.

Monographs

Lance has been associated with both editions of the listing of the King George V side face 1½d Die 1.  In 1969 along with Julie Resch he contributed to the first publication on this subject which was coordinated from United Kingdom.  At the start of the 21st Century Lance and a group of like minded philatelist rewrote the original work for the first fourteen electro's of this issue.  This work was launched at the December 2005 meeting of the Australian Commonwealth Collectors Club.  The new work is significant because it includes new material found since the original publication.  The format is innovative in that the text and illustration pages are side by side.  This published was a team effort which shows that there is still much to research in the King George V side face issues of the Commonwealth of Australia.

Journal Articles

Lance's research finding have been produced mainly in the Bulletin of the Australian Commonwealth Collectors Club of NSW and the Bulletin of British Society of Australian Philately.  In the first 30 years of the ACCC Bulletin Lance had material published in 24 years, 76 articles.  In recent years the Bulletin will have at least one major article from Lance each year.  Lance enjoyed the King George V side face issues but wrote about a range of topics on the stamps of the Commonwealth of Australia.

Research areas

 1959 5d Blue Queen Elizabeth
 1960 8d Tiger Cat
 1963 Export commemorative
 1963 5d Green Queen Elizabeth
 1965 5d Red Queen Elizabeth
 1966 low value Decimal Definitive (1c-7c)

Lance has been the co-ordinator of the King George V Study Group of the ACCC for over 10 years.  He is also the co-ordinator of the Frama Study group of the ACCC for over 10 years

He has been awarded the ACCC Research medal.  In 2001 he was made a fellow of the British Society of Australian Philately for his contributions to philatelic study

Lance has collections from most philatelic periods of the Australian Commonwealth.  He has a significant collection of King George VI plate number which was used in the revision of the Australian Commonwealth Specialist Catalogue

Lance has also collected postal stationery of the Commonwealth period

His most recent foray has been in the International Post issues of Australia.  Lance is a strong supporter of club displays which enable him to show how material can be researched.