TNAG-0718-FCO40-916-Policy-on-issuing-postage-stamps-1978 — Page 42

Mr Clarke.

HKG 205/2

RECEIVED MICROSTRY NO. 51

- 3 OCT 1978

PA

DESK OFFICER INDEX

Mr Quantrill

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REGISTRY

Action Take

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HKG. 205/2

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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

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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

No. 45, m

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/above