Help – I’m trying to establish the earliest use of a Wesley cover, with or without WCS logo, in Papua New Guinea.
The 1958 – 60 issue ie.SG.18 – 24, issued 2.6.58 seems to be it. However I have a Wesley Covers not showing the logo, with an earlier issued stamp SG.16, but with a later postmark ie.13th.Dec 1959.
Wesley cover are known to have be…[Read more]

If the members of the PPS want another auction in 2019, I will soon be needing some material to offer. I cannot ‘magic’ it out of thin air. I have nothing at present to offer. Anything accepted. Frank (PPS Auctioneer)

I am just doing some research on the Australian period of PNG and was wondering why Bainings post office was closed in 1953 after only being open two years? Does anyone know why?

Further to Alan Grey’s excellent article on the Sir Robert Bear covers – PNG Calling, July – pp4/5 – here’s some additional information I came across (quite by accident – amazing what you find when tidying up a cupboard!). Hopefully the attached scans from the ‘NSW Philatelist’ of May 1995 are accessible. There is more information on that cover…[Read more]