Mr Clarke.
HKG 205/2
RECEIVED MICROSTRY NO. 51
- 3 OCT 1978
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Mr Quantrill
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Reference
POSTAGE STAMP AGENCIES IN THE UK OVERSEAS TERRITORIES
Mr Quantrill's minute (copy below) on the Tuvalu Stamp file: action on which should now be transferred to the Policy file since the questions affect all our overseas territories. The following is the list of territories issuing their own stamps showing (i) whether they possess powers over their own stamp issues; and (ii) the names of the Agents acting on their behalf:-
Territory
Anguilla
Bermuda
Agents
John Lister Crown Agents Crown Agents
Possess Stamp Powers
De facto
Yes
Ascension Is.
No
Belize
Yes
Yes
Crown Agents
British Ant. Terr.
No
Crown Agents
B.I.O.T.
No
Crown Agents
British Virgin Is.
Yes
Cayman Is.
Falkland Is.
(S Georgia) Gibraltar Gilbert Is. Hong Kong
Montserrat
De facto Yes
-
Govt./CA's/IGPC (Sales
Crown Agents
(Sales
No
Crown Agents
No
Crown Agents
No
Crown Agents
Yes
No
Yes
Pitcairn
St Helena
No
No
Turks & Caicos Is.De facto
Yes
Tristan da Cunha Tuvalu
New Hebrides
Antigua
NO Yes
Dominica
Yes (Joint Anglo/French)
St Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla St Lucia
St Vincent
2.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes Yes
Crown Agents
Crown Agents
Govt./Urch Harris/CA's(Print Crown Agents Crown Agents Govt./IGPC Crown Agents Urch Harris
Crown Agents
IGPC (Inter-Governmental
IGPC Philatelic Corporation) Crown Agents
Crown Agents/IGPC
Govt./CA's/Urch Harris
I attach the following files with various papers flagged giving background to attempts made in earlier years by certain agents to gain control in the 0.T's:
CM 270/169/01(1961/63):CM. 270/26/01 (1964/66); COM.170/27/01 ATT. 3/7/1 (1967/68);
the agents mostly concerned have been J & H Stolow Inc. (New York) of which Mr Finbar Kenny is Managing Director; Inter-Governmental Philatelic Corporation of New York (Mr Manfred Lehmann): Messrs 0 J Urch Harris (of Bristol). By curious coincidence an article has appeared in "Stamp Collecting" of 17 August 1978 which shows the extent to which
Still Finbar Kenny is involved in the finances of the Cook Islands -
a copy is below for your information.
3.
Reputations which have been lost are now mostly See Saving
Mauritius independent countries and considerable research would be needed in those
cases to produce profit & loss figures for the'post' and 'ante' periods of take-overs. If we confine our exercise to the territories listed
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