Membre Corr. Etranger                 10.11.2012

Collections :

* Philippines
* Cuba
* New Orleans
* Stampless mail entering Spain
* 1836 Anglo-French postal convention
* Philippines airmail to 1941

Philatelic Merrits :

* Tapling medal (2009)
* Australian Philatelic Research Award
* Australian Philaelic order (MAP)

Exhibitions :

* Internationale Philippines Large Gold (Washington 2006)
* Stampless mail entering Spain Large Gold (Israel 2008)
* Cuba Large Gold (Yokohama 2011)
* 1836 Anglo-French postal convention Large Gold (Rio de Janeiro 2013)
* New Orleans Large Gold (New York 2016)
* Philippines airmail to 1941 Large Vermeil (Taipei 2016)

Publications :

* The 1836 Anglo-French Postal Convention. ( RPSL, 2015).
* Postal History of the Spanish Philippines, 1565-1898. Co-author with Donald Peterson, Washington 2000.
* Stampless Mail entering Spain. Edition d’or Volume XIV, Corinphila, 2009.

Memberships of foreign academy’s or Society’s :

* Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society London.
* Fellow of the Society of Postal Historians.
* Member of the Royal Hispanic Academy of Philately.

Philatelic functions :

* FIP Juror in Postal History.
* Chairman of Jury at Australian national exhibition in Sydney 2015.
* Chairman of the Organising Committee of Australian national exhibitions in Sydney 2007 and 2011.
* President of the Philatelic Society of New South Wales (1998-2013)

International Presentations :

* Philatelic Summit at Malmö in April 2014. Summit Paper Number 10 “Postal History – Explaining the Philatelic Material”.
* 9th Postal History Symposium held in New York on 2 June 2016. The subject was “1836 Anglo-French Postal Convention”.