First Stamp Issues of South Australia
Monday, September 15th, 2008: Australian States, Classic Stamps, First Issues, Printers, South AustraliaRichard Breckon 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 ...
Western Australia Postcard to Port Louis, Mauritius 1902
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008: Australia & Dependencies, Australian States, Ceylon, Indian Ocean, Mauritius, Paquebots, Postcards, Western AustraliaMaurice Mishkel 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 Monsieur A. de Speville, Banque ...
Trade Exhibitions - 1851 to 1933: An Australian Perspective
Monday, September 8th, 2008: Australia & Dependencies, Australian States, Exhibitions, Trade FairsJohn Lancaster 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.
Australian Rarities: 20/- green Postage Due with Stroke After Value
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008: Articles, Australia & Dependencies, Australian States, Postage Dues, RaritiesDr Geoff Kellow 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.
American “Great White Fleet” Postcards of 1908
Thursday, August 21st, 2008: Australia & Dependencies, Australian States, Postcards, United StatesRichard Breckon 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 ...
Australia: Victoria and Tasmania Map (1935)
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008: Australia & Dependencies, Australian States, Maps, Tasmania, Victoria
The Early Stamp Issues of South Australia (1921)
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008: Australia & Dependencies, Australian States, South AustraliaWilliam 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 ...
Australia Map (1860)
Sunday, July 6th, 2008: Australia & Dependencies, Australian States, Maps, Oceania
An 1890 NSW Postcard
Monday, June 16th, 2008: Australia & Dependencies, Australian States, Postal History, PostcardsDavid Benson and Russell W. Stern. 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 ...
A Re-Evaluation of Queensland Numeral Cancellations
Sunday, May 11th, 2008: Australia & Dependencies, Australian States, Postmarks, QueenslandBernard 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 ...
The Byrnes Bassett Shipping Line
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008: Australia & Dependencies, Australian States, New South Wales, Postal History, Queensland, Shipping LinesBernie 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 ...
Why I Love Collecting Queensland
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008: Australia & Dependencies, Australian States, QueenslandBernard Manning. 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 ...
