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# Australia

From [Ephemera](https://listium.com/@adelb/46191/ephemera)  
By [Adel Bulpitt (@adelb)](https://listium.com/@adelb)

List stats: 2499 views · 1 like  
Published 28 November 2019 · Updated 16 March 2021

Category: hobbies & interests / collecting

- Company: Max Stern & CO.
- Link: [https://www.maxstern.com.au/](https://www.maxstern.com.au/)
- Type of Ephemera: Glassine
- Company Info: Our service is fast, uncomplicated, efficient and friendly . The name MAX STERN has been synonymous with stamp issues of the world,  coins ancient and modern, banknotes, fair prices and ethical trading since 1948. That’s why collectors and dealers keep coming back for the famous MAX STERN service, year after year.  Retail shop of the year 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 !!!!!  Max was a stamp dealer for over 75 years. When he began stamp dealing at 17, he was the main provider for his family. Remarkably, Max continued to operate his business throughout most of World War II. After escaping the final deportation of Slovaskia’s Jews in October 1944, Max went into hiding with others and following their discovery early in 1945, Max was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin. When the War ended, Max had survived a death march from Berlin towards Hamburg.  Max re-established a stamp business in Bratislava in 1945, but the Communists takeover of Czechoslovakia three years later made it impossible for him to continue. Escaping with his wife Eva, they made their way to Australia. He set up a stamp dealer business in 1950, opening a shop in Melbourne close to his present location in Port Philip Arcade, off Flinders Street.   Max Stern’s career nurtured generations of collectors, and was recognized by his appointment as a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1999.
- Picture: ![Picture](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/u6wwvdkoavnmwnmnfhfx.jpg)
- Picture 2: ![Picture 2](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/upr223qq7oxn2vsofw3x.jpg)
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