A Re-Evaluation of Queensland Numeral Cancellations
Bernard Manning. Author’s Note: This article is based on extracts from a new publication titled QUEENSLAND NUMERAL CANCELLATIONS due to be published shortly. Collecting numeral cancellations is a bit like being a detective. All the rules of observation and deduction, plus intuition ...
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
American “Great White Fleet” Postcards of 1908
[Published by kind permission of the author.] The American fleet arrives at the head of Port Phillip Bay on its Melbourne leg in 1908. The eight postcards issued in 1908 to commemorate the visit of America's "Great White Fleet" have a special ...
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
An 1890 NSW Postcard
with David Benson David Benson came across a 1890 NSW 1d. postcard which he thought might be an interesting item for recording in the New South Wales Philatelist. The front and reverse of the postcard are illustrated in Figures 1 and ...
Monday, June 16th, 2008
August Dietz, Confederate States Philatelist, Editor & Publisher
The registered cover was addressed to Aug Dietz Esq, 900 West Clay Street, Station A, Richmond, Virginia, United States and had a magenta 8d ‘Lyre Bird' New South Wales stamp canceled with a REGISTERED/ OC 7/96/ SYDNEY postmark as well ...
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Australia Map (1860)
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
Australia: Erica Post Office, Victoria 3825 (2009)
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Australia: Victoria and Tasmania Map (1935)
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Australian Rarities: 20/- green Postage Due with Stroke After Value
This month's subject whose rarity was created through a combination of timing, availability and the general unpopularity of postage due stamps, is generally reckoned as the Commonwealth's rarest basic (i.e. face-different) stamp. If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...Australian ...
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Collecting the Classic Stamps of Western Australia
Perth residents are always quick to point out that the Swan River Settlement was established in 1829, well before the larger centres of Melbourne and Adelaide. However, Western Australia's population up until Federation in 1901 was always much smaller than ...
Saturday, January 31st, 2009
First Stamp Issues of South Australia
[Published by kind permission of the author.] South Australia was effectively the last of the Australian colonies to introduce stamps for the prepayment of postage. This happened at the beginning of 1855, five months after Western Australia, 14 months after Van ...
Monday, September 15th, 2008
Queensland Postal Services in the 19th Century
At the turn of the century the chief topic of conversation was the soon-to-be achieved Federation of the Australian states, a move that would bring sweeping administrative changes, not the least in the amalgamation of the country's postal services into ...
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
SS Koombana
3668 tons. Built, 1909. Foundered, with 126 lives, on West Australian coast near Balla Balla, 20th March 1912. No survivors. [caption id="attachment_3733" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="SS Koombana, 1909-1912."][/caption] If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...SS WarildaWalhalla Post Office, Victoria, Australia 3825 ...
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
SS South Australian
SS South Australian. 716 tons. Built 1876. First Steamer of ASSCo. Sold, 1898. Sister ship to Victorian. [caption id="attachment_3734" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="SS South Australian, 1876."][/caption] If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...South Africa to England Ocean Mail Services (1876-34)Alfred George ...
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
The Byrnes Bassett Shipping Line
Bernie Beston FAP. FRPSL. Following the opening up of the Moreton Bay District to free settlers in 1842, the influx of migrants and squatters increased rapidly. As the best grazing land nearest Brisbane was taken up, adventurous pastoralists scoured further and ...
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
The Early Stamp Issues of South Australia (1921)
William Cochrane. The following was a paper, accompanied by a display, given at the meeting of the Herts Philatelic Society, London, on October 25th. 1921. by Ernest H. Collins. South Australia was discovered by the Dutch in 1627. Its coast was charted ...
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Trade Exhibitions – 1851 to 1933: An Australian Perspective
Of all the means used to convince people that they should have one product or another, exhibiting is the most powerful and persuasive method, because it combines all the marketing functions and appeals to all human senses. If you enjoyed this ...
Monday, September 8th, 2008
Western Australia Map (1935)
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Western Australia Postcard to Port Louis, Mauritius 1902
[Published by kind permission of the author.] This République Française Carte Postale has two red Western Australia 1d ‘Swan' stamps cancelled with two duplex FREMANTLE / 4/ SP 15/ 02/ W.A postmarks with the P.O obliterator, and it is addressed to ...
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Why I Love Collecting Queensland
There are many philatelic commonalities amongst the different areas that we all collect. To explain further, if we collect Postal History or stamps of a particular country or period, then our individual reasons for collecting them will in general be ...
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
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