Why Not Collect Australia?

How can you not love pre-decimal Australia ?

Austria is Australia without the ale!

KGV Collector, who needs ale they've got plenty of good
lager beer in Austria.

Is there any ale left in Aussi , I figure all the stocks must
be pretty well depleted with all that heat you guys
have down there.

We could use some up here, not the ale, but the heat.

It's too bloody cold here.

I have many Aussie stamps in my collection. I do have an issue with some of the thinner, more modern prints not holding well to soaking. EVen in cold water at minimum time they seems to peel thin and fall apart. Any suggestions on how to prevent that, and is there a reason why Aussie stamps are so prone to this?

Yes I agree moldman & Aussie Al some of those bi-colour Roo's are very expensive!

I would dear like to own a grey & blue 1 pound roo!


stampcrow I would check your 1s blue roo to see if the watermark in inverted.



Nice to hear Cephus that your Australia collection is growing.
I can not encourage your endeavors enough.



Horamkhet that is the type of collecting Australia that I love to hear. The children upper most on your mind.



Good on you stallzer!




Hi lithograving.
It is always nice to have good laugh.

I noticed in Southern Germany they like a good large ale! I have always thought that Austria would be the same.

Hi Celticveil.




Hidden away on this thread I will tell the secret of how we get our self adhesives off paper from about 2006 on. Some collector will need to be in a sitting position and have resuscitation equipment at hand with a health care professional on the ready. If you have a weak stomach please do not read any further.

I have experimented to the max and have time trials over many years to back up this procedure.

Using a kitchen mixing bowl add 1 cap full of normal beach (not scented) a good squirt of detergent and then boil a kettle full of water and add it to the mixing bowl so the bowl is 3/4 full. Then the stamps on paper are added and soaked for no longer than 10mins and no shorter than 9mins. After 10mins drain the bleached boiling water into another container so it can be reused. After draining add a bit more detergent and hot water from the hot water tap. 5mins later start taking the stamps off paper and put them into a container that holds lots of water and let the stamp soak for about 1hr + to get the bleach out. Then we put the stamps into drying books. We have done 10,000's of stamps this way and there is a couple of problems I will mention them below. Always use a small amount of damaged stamp when trying to do something for the 1st time.

The 2009 issues corrugated landscapes, micro monsters and spices at risk are the most horrible hardest to get off paper stamps that Australia has printed. The Wallaby out of the 2009 issue species at risk is effected by the boiling water so that it turns part of the stamp very noticeably cloudy and this reaction due to the boiling water is even more horrible on the 2008 Mega Fauna. With these stamps mentioned we use 1/4 cold water & 3/4 boiling water.

If you soak the stamps in bleached water for more than 10mins you will turn the paper into paper Masha.

I hope all members are still in good health and took & all the Medical procedures mentioned.

2012 Issue Road Trip International Post High Values.

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2012 Zoo's issue. The Tiger was not issued as a self adhesive.

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2010 Australia Canberra Stamp Show Issue International Special Block 3 Issues 2 x 55c + 2 High Value Used

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2008 issue Mega Fauna

Set mentioned as Hot soaking makes part of the stamps go cloudy.

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More Australia King George V 1914 to 1938.

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This has got to be one of my favorite issues.

2011 issue Lake Eyre.

This to me is desert country that I worked in for 4 years with temps of over 55c for 5 month of the year. To see these stamps where the desert turns into the most amazing rarely seen natural event. An event that I have witnessed in person. To have these treasured stamps that remind me of so much of my younger days...........

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A very Australian issue.

2000 issue Faces Of Australia.

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After 18hrs of dragging for prawns. At 17 years he catches a fish on a line that is as big as himself. On a 2011 Pstamp or Picture Stamp.

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His twin brother with a Snapper caught at our back door at 17 years as well. On a 2010 issue Pstamp

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KGV - So close but the double quotes need to be like this {URL="http:// ... .jpg.html"}
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Speaking about confusing "Austria" and "Australia". There have been many incidents where confused travellers disembark their planes in Saint John, New Brunswick instead of where they thought they were going, St. John's, Newfoundland (1,000 miles further east) and vice-versa. That is one of the reasons why "Saint" in Saint John is always spelled out instead of contracted and why Saint Johners get a little annoyed when any one spells it St. John. Doesn't help much that one of the major rivers that flows through the City is the St. John River.

Ausatralian stamps are wonderful, both old ones (full of surpises) and the very recent ones (very colourful and creative). The problem though, they are rather hard to get at reasonable prices. I bought a few kiloware lots from different sellers, most of the the stamps are carefully sorted and hardly anything above 60c. Also the distance and shipping make it difficult and costly.