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'Stamp Of Australia' Foxtel Doco series March 23 and 30

http://www.thestampofaustralia.com.au/index.html

2 one-hour documentaries will premiere on The History Channel in March 2009 to coincide with the Bicentenary of the Australian Post Office.

Fly with us across the outback on the world's longest mail run for a 200-year salute to the horse riders and stagecoach drivers, the fearless aviators and outback posties, the legends and characters whose intrepid deeds pioneered Australia's postal service and tamed the tyranny of distance across a vast continent.

In 1809, Governor Lachlan Macquarie appointed a thief as Australia's first Postmaster. Isaac Nichols had been convicted - according to legend - of stealing a donkey.

Nichols started a business that today is worth billions of dollars and touches every Australian.

The Stamp of Australia is a snapshot of 200 years of Australia's history viewed through the prism of the Post Office and the remarkable letters it delivered.

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You don't know me well enough to label me sick, or even disturbed. When you break it down I'm just two girls.
Trying to blend, trying to vibe. Trying to live just one life. Everybody's got insanities... I got a split personality.

It cost AP over a million to underwrite this I think. A VERY large project.

Brendan Ward, the husband of Jana Wendt was the producer.

They had a film crew out at my place for a half day shooting lots of footage with the Sperati forgery £2 Roos etc.

He sent me a CD Rom of the finished show, but I have now lost it in the rubble of my house, un-looked at, so not sure if any of it made the final cut!

Glen

Thanks for the extra info Glen!

Wow, that would be cool if your footage on the Sperati got in, the more info the better i say!

Surely they could have run a whole series on this, but as the cost was enourmous just for the 2 - one hour episodes, i guess that wasnt possible.

Im looking forward to seeing this, i think it will be very informative!

Cheers!

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You don't know me well enough to label me sick, or even disturbed. When you break it down I'm just two girls.
Trying to blend, trying to vibe. Trying to live just one life. Everybody's got insanities... I got a split personality.

I hope you tidied up before you let them in........

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Always on the lookout for Australian pre decimal First Day Covers.

....or at least cleared a path.

So out of the million dollar budget, 99% of that was spent on workcover premiums in order to let the crew enter Glens place

I just found the CD now (have had it for 3 months!) and playing it as I type.

They did all the filming outside on the table on my deck shown below, as there are no stamps there, as I discovered the odd rain downpour affected them adversely!

It was a dumb choice as 3 times they needed to stop and re-shoot it all again, as a plane went overhead, some idiot with a speedboat went up the water, and a neighbor started using an electric saw outside!

All the other footage with Ray Chapman and Geoff Kellow etc is all done INSIDE their offices.

I am not quite sure why the deck of my place was chosen over my neat office areas?:

http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=3636


Here is crosscrescent hand feeing a local Kookaburra from there, on his visit last year - I get a few pop around each evening for a snack! :

Glen is the pool heated? How do you keep all the potential leaves out of it?

As for the neighbor .... I would've gone over there with my own chainsaw, and wearing a goalie mask.

1. Yes but it faces North East so it is never needed, as it get to 30c without heating.

2. The leaves sink eventually. The Kreepy Krauly does the rest.

3. That was the producer's thought.

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The CD rom is all very glam. I'm not really into CD's, except for a Who in concert one Margo got me recently, which is on as I type this.

I am not supposed to SELL the stamp one, but if anyone likes this kind of thing for their libraries I can always donate it to our Bushfire Meomorial fund and any sensible offer gets it! Let me know or make a post here. Comes with Brendan Ward letter as shown!

More info and a trailer here:

http://www.thestampofaustralia.com.au/

Dates and time for the Doco below... (Austar TV Guide)

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You don't know me well enough to label me sick, or even disturbed. When you break it down I'm just two girls.
Trying to blend, trying to vibe. Trying to live just one life. Everybody's got insanities... I got a split personality.

I love the old rusted fridge serving as a postbox out in the desert (from the trailer footage)

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You don't know me well enough to label me sick, or even disturbed. When you break it down I'm just two girls.
Trying to blend, trying to vibe. Trying to live just one life. Everybody's got insanities... I got a split personality.

They are VERY common out here as mail boxes - Most of them are Kerosene fridges and were retired when electricity became available.

Tony

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If no one else collects Heligoland or UPU how come I have to pay so much ?????

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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge........

Glen,



On the basis of it being a donation by you to the Fund, I'll bid fifty bucks for the DVD.

Clive

Thats OK by me Glen if it has not left there yet Tony

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If no one else collects Heligoland or UPU how come I have to pay so much ?????

Tony as you will see by the postmark .. all went yesterday along with your stockbooks, as I step onto a plane today for Chicago. For once being efficient did not pay off.

OK - Happy Holidays

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If no one else collects Heligoland or UPU how come I have to pay so much ?????

I found in this mornings Sunday paper a 12 page spread about Australia Post celebrating its 200th year.
Looks to be some great events and prizes to given away for this event.

https://200years.auspost.com.au/

It also gives some very interesting and colourful background into how our postal services started.
Well worth a look.
Bill.

Is a great piece.
some good history items.
Which one will you vote for in the competition..???
cheers

Tough choice.

I guess you have to think like a historian or designer.

Here`s the promo from the paper.

I don`t know if I`m allowed to post it here (I guess the administrators will let me know) though I can`t see why not as Aust`Post has its logo on the home page.

No problems .. scan the other pages if you wish, for benefit of all the members who do not get that Perth newspaper .. which would be most members I'd guess!

Glen

Here in Melbourne we had a liftout in the Herald Sun on March 3. The internet site is very good and accessible to kids. Well done AP.

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GrantC

This show screens next week it seems folks.

I ended up with quite a chunk of interviews on it.

I'm probably spread over both shows I'd guess, if they are an hour each, as they were spaced a fair way apart.

Quite an interesting show, it really is.

Glen

Foxtel is marketing the hell out of this show, with lots of promos on many channels, plus a full page ad, and a couple of quarter page ads. in the March magazine.

It might lead to a new boom in Australian stamp collecting. Oh, joy!

Norm

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Geelong, VFA Premiers 1878, 1879, 1800, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, AFL Premiers 1925, 1931, 1937, 1951, 1952, 1963, 2007, 2009, 2011, .

Folks,

Sounds like a great show.

Glen,

Did you find that sperati? Its been missing in the pile for awhile now. Nice if its resurfaced.

Tim

What I'd like to know is .... who picks up that blue bag the flyer dropped off into the broken refrigerator? I mean geeeez it's in the middle of a desert in nowhereville.

Tim .. that used £2 Sperati Roo forgery ex Arthur Gray is buried in the rubble here somewhere!

They filmed if for this story actually so it must exist in the debris.

What the idiots ended up on tape with, is Ray Chapman talking about the Sperati Roo, and then they zoom in on his monocolour die proof of it in the AP collection, and then they have me talking about it and Sperati, and after that zooming in on a black and white photo of it!

So for all any viewer realises, it is a black and white stamp being discussed!

Glen

Glen,

Sounds a bit wierd. Nice to know its about though.

Tim

Just bumping this. Tomorrow night at 7:30 on the History Channel (Australia only, New Zealand?)

Norm

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Geelong, VFA Premiers 1878, 1879, 1800, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, AFL Premiers 1925, 1931, 1937, 1951, 1952, 1963, 2007, 2009, 2011, .

I have seen it already and it is good - well worth the effort.

Tony

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If no one else collects Heligoland or UPU how come I have to pay so much ?????

I knew i forgot something tonight !

Oh well, got the mystar to record it over night and tomorrow morning again so i can watch it sometime in the arvo. The only way i will remember this time!

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You don't know me well enough to label me sick, or even disturbed. When you break it down I'm just two girls.
Trying to blend, trying to vibe. Trying to live just one life. Everybody's got insanities... I got a split personality.

Excellent doco. The bloke with the beard wasn't much chop though........

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Always looking for KGV British Commonwealth, mint, used, covers, anything

Yes Geoff Kellow was a fizzer I thought too ................

Perth Mint just issued these - $14.95 each -






Issued by Australia Post, this commemorative Stamp and Coin Cover celebrates the beginning of postal services in Australia with the historic appointment of Isaac Nichols as first Postmaster of New South Wales in 1809.

Perth Mint Coloured Coin

The Stamp and Coin Cover incorporates a Perth Mint base metal coin featuring a coloured representation of Isaac Nichols, a former convict whose diligence and sobriety recommended him for the position of Australia's first Postmaster.

Prior to his appointment, news hungry residents of Sydney Town had rushed to greet incoming ships, where, in the chaotic scramble for letters and parcels, items were either lost or damaged, while unscrupulous people took advantage of the mayhem to obtain mail fraudulently.

Nichols collected correspondence and packages from vessels in Sydney Cove, advertising the names of recipients who could collect their mail from his home - Australia's first Post Office - situated near the waterfront in Lower George Street.

Also featured on the coin's reverse is the border inscription 200 YEARS OF POSTAL SERVICES IN AUSTRALIA and The Perth Mint's 'P' mintmark.

Australian Legal Tender

Issued as legal tender under the Australian Currency Act 1965, the coin portrays the Ian Rank-Broadley effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the 2009 year-date on the obverse.

Illustrated Envelope and Stamp

The coin is housed in a superbly illustrated envelope featuring an Australia Post 55c stamp.

Anniversary Postmark

The commemorative stamp is postmarked with the anniversary date 25 March 2009.

At least now I know what the bloke who ignores emails looks like!

That's a nice PNC from the mint. Another one to put away.

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Always looking for KGV British Commonwealth, mint, used, covers, anything

He's far too busy to be answering emails

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Tony

Apparently

I'm glad I'm not that busy...............

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Always looking for KGV British Commonwealth, mint, used, covers, anything

I hope that some time in the future this will be screened on free to air for us paupers to view !

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Collecting mainly British Empire/Comm pre QE2 ,Australian postal history ,and other things that take my fancy at the time !

Do what I did Sherro, Go to Sydney - Walk down past the Power House - Walk in the front door and ask the lovely young lady on the desk for him and he will gladly have a chat with you .

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If no one else collects Heligoland or UPU how come I have to pay so much ?????

Just a reminder that Part 2 screens on the History Channel in a bit under four hours time.

Norm

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Geelong, VFA Premiers 1878, 1879, 1800, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, AFL Premiers 1925, 1931, 1937, 1951, 1952, 1963, 2007, 2009, 2011, .

My local PO still has a few PNC's for sale. Email me if you want one and I'll pick them up. You pay me cost plus postage. I only suggest this because I now know the purchasing policy of our little PO. You may never miss a PNC again

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Always looking for KGV British Commonwealth, mint, used, covers, anything

I feel sure it will one day.

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I found this book at the Op-Shop today.

A great read, and I have to ask, Glen, would you recommend this book, seeing as you are mentioned in it?









If I am breaking any copyright laws, then please Admin, delete these pics.

Thanks
Arlene

Arls .. good pick-up .. what did it cost --- the notes above seem to say it cost $26.95 from the PO.

A couple of years ago, on the Secret Santa giveaway, I purchased the DVD for my Australian member, and the book for my overseas member. From memory, they were both AUD 19.95.

Norm

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Geelong, VFA Premiers 1878, 1879, 1800, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, AFL Premiers 1925, 1931, 1937, 1951, 1952, 1963, 2007, 2009, 2011, .

Poor Glen has been remaindered

$3 from the Op-Shop...

What a buy Arls!

Maybe pop back for a closer look, as someone proably donated a range of PO books at the same time.

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Unfortunately not Glen. I work there (volunteer) for 7 hours every Saturday, and have plenty of time to go through everything. As of yet, no stamp goodies..