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- ↑ "The Story of Stanley Gibbons" by Michael Briggs in Gibbons Stamp Monthly, July 2006, pp. 52–59.Download link Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "2422. Western Australia Convict Stamps" by Brian J. Birch in The Bulletin, British Society of Australian Philately, Vol. 66, No. 5, October 2011, p. 103.
