Society announces 2025 presentation schedule

By Linn’s Staff

The Society of Australasian Specialists/Oceania announced its 2025 virtual presentation program in a Dec. 22, 2024, email.

Each session will take place over Zoom and begin at 6 p.m. Eastern Time, except for the Nov. 20 presentation, which will begin at 7 p.m. Zoom details for attending will be sent before each event.

A discussion will follow each session, and both will be recorded and made available on the Society of Australasian Specialists/Oceania website.

The first quarter of 2025 will see Jerry Weirich present “Tasmania Manuscript Cancels of the Deprived Offices 1853-61” on Jan. 16, Andrew Napier presenting “The ‘Temporary’ Solution That Has Lasted 20 years - Fiji’s 21st Century Provisionals” on Feb. 13, Paul Woods speaking on “Finding The Impossible - The Quest for Rare Samoan Revenue Stamps” on Feb. 27, and Stephen Jones and Darryl Keegan will discuss “New Zealand Cinderellas” during World War I and World War II, respectively, on March 11.

Presentations in the second quarter include “New Hebrides: British Free Franks and 1977 Provisional Overprints” by Richard Moss on April 3, Tony Griffin’s “British New Guinea: Cancels and Forgeries and Bicolor Lakatois” on May 22, and Ian McMahon with “Pacific Islands Aerogrammes” on June 19.

Three presentations take place July 17: “PNG Departure Tax Stamps” by Roy Materne, and both “Australia Modern Definitives: Living Together, Rates & Usages” and “Australia Modern Definitives: 1978 Tree Issue, Rates & Usages” by David Hopper.

Other presentations in the third quarter will take place Aug. 18 with “South Australia Postmarking Machines” by Anthony Presgrave and Sept. 11 with “South Australia- Postage and Revenue Stamps” by Jim Edwards.

The fourth quarter of 2025 will include three more presentations. On Oct. 16, Rufus Barnes will speak on “Easter Island,” and on Nov. 20, Bruce Haynes will cover both “Western Australia WWI Censorship of Civilian Mail” and “Cocos (Keeling) Islands 1907-2022.”

Contact Steven Zirinsky by email at szirinsky@cs.com for meeting details or for information or ideas on future presentations.

The Society of Australasian Specialists/Oceania, founded in 1936 and based in the United States, is a global community of collectors interested in the stamps and postal history of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific islands.

The society maintains a 2,500-item research library accessible to members, and its quarterly journal, the Informer, has been published since the society’s founding and features philatelic articles, research and news.

An annual general meeting takes place alongside a philatelic show sponsored by the Society of Australasian Specialists/Oceania, in which exhibits on Australasia are encouraged.

More information on the Society of Australasian Specialists/Oceania can be found on the society’s website.

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