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What's New in
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Stamp
Collecting Month
In the 300th Edition of the Stamp Collecting
Bulletin Australia Post announced that as part of stamp collecting month it
would issue a set of 6 stamps of children's sports as part of the "Lets get
Active" issue. The set included an Aussie Rules stamp as pictured and will
be issued on the 6th October 2009. The issue
will include "peel and stick" and gummed stamps, FDCs, Minisheets, stamp
pack, maximum cards, sheets of 50 and cheque book issues of the booklet
issue. The other sports are basket ball, soccer, netball, cricket and
tennis. |
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2009 AFL Premiership
The 2009 Premiership was won by Geelong over St
Kilda by 12 points in a nail bitting struggle in wet conditions. Australia Post
announced that they would release a Premiership Medallion
cover
on the 4th November 2009 and a
Souvenir Stamp Sheet
on the 29th September 2009. The selvedge of the stamp
shows the Premiership Cup
postmarked with
the Geelong permanent pictorial postmark.
Matthew Scarlett
was one of Geelong's best. He is shown on the tab of
the 2009 AFL issue with the Geelong permanent pictorial
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Premiership Players Club
The 2009 Premiership Player's Club P-stamps were
again released continuing an annual tradition from 2000. The issue
consisted of a sheet of the 20 players along with single sheets for each player
and a sheet featuring father and son,
John Kennedy Snr and Jnr
from Hawthorn. |
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2009 AFL Stamp Issue
Australia Post announced that the release of the
2009 AFL Personalised stamps would be on 2nd March 2009.
The actual release date was closer to the start of April. The issue consists of
20 x 55c stamps (total stamp value
$11.00), Player profiles of the 20 players featured in
the tabs, 2009
fixtures and
the Team background. |
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