AC/DC and the Easybeats were among 12 Australian bands to feature on a set of stamps issued by the Australian post office in 1988.

The set of 12 stamps were issued on the 26th May 1998 and were withdrawn on the 30th October 1998.The stamps were issued to celebrate the contribution thjat Australian has made to the Rock and Pop world from the 50's to mid 70's.

The full list of featured stamps are as follows.

Thanks to Nikki Goff c/o Electric Outlaws , Rab Wilson (Australia) for contributions to this page.

Bogus Tuva AC/DC Stamp

The above stamps recently appeared on Ebay , However these stamps appear to be Bogus.

Tuva is a Russian Republic and in general they do not issue stamps. Any stamps that would originate from Tuva would be in Cyrillic.

Explaination from www.tuvastamps.org/
Any stamp from Tuva, except for those issued between 1926 and 1944 and listed in all the major stamp catalogs (except Scott), are not real postage stamps. The Russian postal authorities have denied the right of issuing postage stamps to all entities of the Russian Federation except for the Russian Post Office itself; thus Tuva, as a constituent republic (we would say "province") of Russia CANNOT issue valid postage stamps.

In fact the authorities in Tuva did cause some stamps to be printed in Austria and North Korea (not China, as others have stated), but even those stamps were declared by the authorities in Moscow to be illegal.

ALL of the Tuvan-issued non-stamps (if you know what I mean) are related thematically to Tuva, showing scenes of the country, its wildlife, its customs and traditions, etc.

NONE of the Tuvan-issued non-stamps show cute dogs, teletubbies, rock groups, Hollywood movie stars, tropical fauna and flora, marine life, steam trains, or antique cars, to name only a few of the popular themes portrayed on colorful labels bearing the name TUVA or TOUVA or REPUBLIC OF TUVA or TUVINSKAYA RESPUBLIKA ROSSIYSKAYA FEDERITSIYA or any other variation of the name. These stamps have several sources, a few of them perhaps in Russia, but most of them certainly in the West. Printing techniques are sufficiently cheap and sufficiently advanced that anybody can have "stamps" designed and printed, and sell them to collectors as "postage stamps" --- which they most definitely are not. (Which is not to say that nobody should collect them. People can collect whatever they want -- they should just know what it is.) I do not know who made the AC/DC stamps, or when they made them --- but they absolutely certainly were not made in Tuva or at the behest of anybody there.

The Tuvan authorities, and indeed the people of Tuva, are very unhappy about the plethora of "stamps" flooding the market, but because Tuva is a poor country, they cannot bring the fakers to court or take any other measures to prevent the mis-use of the name of their country on these products.

For further details on Tuva
www.TuvaTrader.com
www.tuvastamps.org/