Summary

A printed newsletter which was circulated daily at Ausipex 84.The newsletter was printed for stall holders, exhibitors and participants. Ausipex 84 international stamp exhibition was held at the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 21-30 September 1984.

Ausipex was held under the auspices of: The Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria; the Victorian Philatelic Associations and other Philatelic Societies; the Victorian Stamp Promotion Council, and the Australasian Stamp Dealers Association with the co-operation of Australia Post. Ausipex was the largest philatelic exhibition ever staged in Australasia. The exhibition was a combination of displays, competitive entries and trade; there were approximately 100 stands of dealers and overseas postal administrators.

Physical Description

A folded, black and white printed A4 sheet.

More Information

  • Collecting Areas

    Public Life & Institutions, Numismatics & Philately

  • Acquisition Information

    Cultural Gifts Donation from Susan Lancaster, 05 May 2015

  • Place & Date of Event

    Ausipex Melbourne '84, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 21 Sep 1984 - 30 Sep 1984

  • Inscriptions

    On the obverse:AUSIPEX 84/ REPORTER/ 29TH SEPTEMBER, 1984/ CLEVER CAR COUNTERS/ How many beans make five?/ Perhaps the better question would be 'How many stamps cover a car?'/ Lots of people are visiting the stamp covered car and trying to guess/ how many are covering the yellow duco./ Watching the technique is interesting./ Some painstakingly set about counting each individual stamp hoping they/ won't be bumped or distracted somewhere round 2500 or whatever./ Others try to get a total along one side of a panel and then count along/the other./ Then comes the multiplication and the adding to the running total ! !/ Sue Walker and Judy Jifkins said they were intrigued by the variety of/ methods used to reach the totals being handing to them for processing by/ Hewlett Packard computer/ Did you know the number of stamps on the car will be into a computer/ and it will sort out the winning entry?/ For the wide variety of totals there is obviously a lot of wild guesswork/ amid the studied calculations./ Getting the car from the Armagard security base at Port Melbourne had its problems, thanks to the heavy rain that has been sweeping across Melbourne/this past week/ Eventually the car, donated by Toyota, was brought up tastefully swathed/ in waterproof covers/ IT would have been a great pity for all of those people who have been/ patiently licking sticking stamps if the Melbourne moisture had caused some peeling ! !/ The car's owner will be known next Sunday when the computer selects the/ winner.

  • Classification

    Royal exhibition building, Exhibitions & trade shows, Philatelic

  • Category

    History & Technology

  • Discipline

    History

  • Type of item

    Object

  • Overall Dimensions

    290 (Width), 210 (Height)

  • Keywords

    Royal Exhibition Building, Stamp Shows, Philatelic Exhibitions, Stamps