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by Mike
Thu Mar 07, 2024 5:20 pm
Forum: Tasmania - Picture Postcards
Topic: TASMANIAN STEAM LOCOMOTIVES on POSTCARDS
Replies: 23
Views: 12407

Re: TASMANIAN STEAM LOCOMOTIVES on POSTCARDS

The "Ulverstone Express" crossing the Leven River 1916.

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by Mike
Mon Nov 06, 2023 2:57 pm
Forum: Tasmania - Picture Postcards
Topic: Burke Series of RP cards with West Coast Views
Replies: 17
Views: 24451

Re: Burke Series of RP cards with West Coast Views

For the record, Burke Series No 12, The Smelters and Reduction Works Queenstown. I don't think it has been shown here but has been listed.
It has a Valentine back.

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by Mike
Wed Nov 01, 2023 3:12 pm
Forum: Tasmania - Picture Postcards
Topic: TASMANIAN POST OFFICES ON POSTCARDS.
Replies: 35
Views: 42549

Re: TASMANIAN POST OFFICES ON POSTCARDS.

Real Photo postcards do not get much better than this. Claremont Camp Post Office dated on the back, 20-11-15. Photographer was H.Dowie & Co Hobart.

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by Mike
Mon Jun 19, 2023 9:49 pm
Forum: Tasmania - Picture Postcards
Topic: REAL PHOTO CARDS by K.H. REISS
Replies: 5
Views: 12429

Re: REAL PHOTO CARDS by K.H. REISS

Another HEC related real photo postcard by K.H.Reiss.

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by Mike
Mon May 01, 2023 5:24 pm
Forum: Tasmania - Picture Postcards
Topic: ADVERTISING CARDS by F.W. NIVEN
Replies: 67
Views: 41598

Re: ADVERTISING CARDS by F.W. NIVEN

This Boags Beer unlisted Niven card just recently sold on eBay. It was posted from Launceston to Deloraine on October 10th, 1908. It is now listed.

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by Mike
Mon Mar 06, 2023 6:03 pm
Forum: Tasmania - Picture Postcards
Topic: UNLISTED TASMANIAN PHOTOGRAPHERS
Replies: 17
Views: 18754

Re: UNLISTED TASMANIAN PHOTOGRAPHERS

Another Tasmanian Photographer not listed in Chris Long's book Tasmanian Photographers 1840 - 1940.
This photographer is "A .Lockwood, Photographer Scottsdale". The photograph is of a very young-looking WW1 army recruit or perhaps a school cadet?

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by Mike
Tue Jan 03, 2023 7:52 pm
Forum: Tasmania - Picture Postcards
Topic: REAL PHOTO CARDS by R.L. KRAUS
Replies: 3
Views: 11557

Re: REAL PHOTO CARDS by R.L. KRAUS

Another Kruss real photo postcard of the Mayvilla Tea Rooms Bicheno. Interestingly printed on the back "Kruss Photo Longford"
Also on the back in poor handwriting the year 1962 upside down.

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by Mike
Fri Oct 28, 2022 11:19 am
Forum: Tasmania - Picture Postcards
Topic: THE FRANCO-BRITISH EXHIBITION CARDS of 1908 - A LISTING
Replies: 23
Views: 27455

Re: THE FRANCO-BRITISH EXHIBITION CARDS of 1908 - A LISTING

Yes, I know this card has been vandalised, but it is another rare postally used Tasmanian Franco Exhibition card. It was posted at Hobart on the 14th August 1908 to the USA with the correct franking of 1 1/2d. Also interestingly, pasted on is the Newspaper clipping, "Gossip, The United Sates Consul ...
by Mike
Tue Aug 09, 2022 2:41 pm
Forum: Tasmania - Picture Postcards
Topic: ADVERTISING CARDS by F.W. NIVEN
Replies: 67
Views: 41598

Re: ADVERTISING CARDS by F.W. NIVEN

A new Niven card to add to the listing. Launceston High School Crest & Memorial Tablet. Posted Launceston 9/6/1908
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by Mike
Mon Jun 27, 2022 3:41 pm
Forum: Tasmania - Picture Postcards
Topic: TASMANIAN POST OFFICES ON POSTCARDS.
Replies: 35
Views: 42549

Re: TASMANIAN POST OFFICES ON POSTCARDS.

The Post Office Sorell. Photographer A.A.Rollings.
On the back of the card , "This is my office and home. Office is marked X .This is the Mail Motor Car and Coach waiting for the mails.
My address is Mrs Quintal, Post Office, Sorell, Tasmania."

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by Mike
Wed Apr 13, 2022 4:24 pm
Forum: Tasmania - Picture Postcards
Topic: TASMANIAN POST OFFICES ON POSTCARDS.
Replies: 35
Views: 42549

Re: TASMANIAN POST OFFICES ON POSTCARDS.

The old Bothwell Post Office on the 7/4/22. Another coat of paint! This time a pleasant shade a grey with a white trim.

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by Mike
Wed Dec 29, 2021 1:36 pm
Forum: Tasmania - Picture Postcards
Topic: Burke Series of RP cards with West Coast Views
Replies: 17
Views: 24451

Re: Burke Series of RP cards with West Coast Views

Hi John, It has a Valentine back.
by Mike
Sun Dec 26, 2021 4:21 pm
Forum: Tasmania - Picture Postcards
Topic: Burke Series of RP cards with West Coast Views
Replies: 17
Views: 24451

Re: Burke Series of RP cards with West Coast Views

I do not think this card has been listed before, Burke Series Number 10. "Looking Toward Smelters, Queenstown, Tas."

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by Mike
Fri Dec 17, 2021 6:40 pm
Forum: Tasmania - Picture Postcards
Topic: ADVERTISING CARDS by F.W. NIVEN
Replies: 67
Views: 41598

Re: ADVERTISING CARDS by F.W. NIVEN

I have not seen this Clarke and Son's Nurseries Niven postcard before. I have now listed it along with the 3 other known Clarke and Son's Niven Advertising cards.
The scan was sourced from the Tasmanian History Facebook Group, Bramich Family Albums.

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by Mike
Wed Dec 15, 2021 4:42 pm
Forum: Tasmania - Postal Stationery
Topic: 1908 US Fleet Cards
Replies: 20
Views: 22128

Re: 1908 US Fleet Cards

Card 1. Sorell to Fingal posted August 27th 1908, one day earlier then recorded in "Tasmanian Postal Stationary" by Groom & Shatten.

Card 2. Uprated from Burnie to the USA, posted August 29th 1908. An early date for an overseas destination.


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by Mike
Mon Nov 01, 2021 3:33 pm
Forum: Tasmania - Picture Postcards
Topic: THE FRANCO-BRITISH EXHIBITION CARDS of 1908 - A LISTING
Replies: 23
Views: 27455

Re: THE FRANCO-BRITISH EXHIBITION CARDS of 1908 - A LISTING

Just recently I notice on an internet auction site four postally used Tasmanian Franco British Exhibition postcards in mixed lots. Unfortunately each card had the stamp removed, but it was possible to date each card with partial postmarks and some of the cards were hand dated. Each card was addresse...
by Mike
Thu Apr 29, 2021 4:28 pm
Forum: Tasmania - Picture Postcards
Topic: TASMANIAN POST OFFICES ON POSTCARDS.
Replies: 35
Views: 42549

Re: TASMANIAN POST OFFICES ON POSTCARDS.

The old Bothwell Post Office is now a lighter shade of Pink! It appears not to be operating as a post office no longer.

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by Mike
Tue Mar 16, 2021 2:54 pm
Forum: Tasmania - Picture Postcards
Topic: THE FRANCO-BRITISH EXHIBITION CARDS of 1908 - A LISTING
Replies: 23
Views: 27455

Re: THE FRANCO-BRITISH EXHIBITION CARDS of 1908 - A LISTING

An extraordinary genuine postal use of a Tasmanian Franco British Exhibition postcard from the Western Australian remote town of Broad Arrow to Nannine. Broad Arrow is located 38kms north of Kalgoorlie and today is a ghost town. The card is addressed to Nannine which also is a ghost town. Nannine is...
by Mike
Fri Jan 08, 2021 2:53 pm
Forum: Tasmania - Picture Postcards
Topic: THOMAS BATHER MOORE (T.B.Moore)
Replies: 7
Views: 4971

Re: THOMAS BATHER MOORE (T.B.Moore)

A new book on the life of T.B.Moore was published and released a few weeks ago titled "The Track Cutter" The author is well known Tasmanian, Patsy Crawford.
If you have an interest in Moore and/or Tasmanian West Coast history you should read this book.

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by Mike
Wed Dec 30, 2020 6:09 pm
Forum: Tasmania - Picture Postcards
Topic: WHOIZIT? SEEK ASSISTANCE WITH PUBLISHERS/PHOTOGRAPHERS HERE!
Replies: 83
Views: 116209

Re: WHOIZIT? SEEK ASSISTANCE WITH PUBLISHERS/PHOTOGRAPHERS HERE!

Another interesting T card. Australian Titan Products, works near Burnie. Construction started in 1946 and production started in 1948. I would date this image late 1947/early 1948. This same image as a real photo appears in the rare booklet, "Tioxide Australia Pty Ltd, A Pictorial History 1946 - 199...
by Mike
Mon Dec 28, 2020 4:26 pm
Forum: Tasmania - Picture Postcards
Topic: WHOIZIT? SEEK ASSISTANCE WITH PUBLISHERS/PHOTOGRAPHERS HERE!
Replies: 83
Views: 116209

Re: WHOIZIT? SEEK ASSISTANCE WITH PUBLISHERS/PHOTOGRAPHERS HERE!

I would have to agree with Ross. I doubt very much that these T cards were published by Robert Jolly. Robert Jolly sold his business in 1919. One of the cards which I scanned has a picture of the Australian Newsprint Mill at Boyer, near New Norfolk. This mill commenced production in 1941 and the mil...
by Mike
Sun Dec 27, 2020 2:48 pm
Forum: Tasmania - Picture Postcards
Topic: THE FRANCO-BRITISH EXHIBITION CARDS of 1908 - A LISTING
Replies: 23
Views: 27455

Re: THE FRANCO-BRITISH EXHIBITION CARDS of 1908 - A LISTING

This item appeared on a well known online auction site today. A rather late postal usage of a Franco British Expo postcard, posted from Somerset 15th March 1920 to Holland.

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by Mike
Sat Dec 05, 2020 7:49 pm
Forum: Tasmania - Picture Postcards
Topic: WHOIZIT? SEEK ASSISTANCE WITH PUBLISHERS/PHOTOGRAPHERS HERE!
Replies: 83
Views: 116209

Re: WHOIZIT? SEEK ASSISTANCE WITH PUBLISHERS/PHOTOGRAPHERS HERE!

T cards. I have scanned a few more cards which are from the same "set" which Ross scanned. Mine are all scenes from the New Norfolk area. It would appear that these are cards cover the whole state, New Norfolk, the West Coast and Devonport. I am sure there are lots of more cards from this set to be ...
by Mike
Fri Dec 04, 2020 3:05 pm
Forum: Tasmania - Picture Postcards
Topic: WHOIZIT? SEEK ASSISTANCE WITH PUBLISHERS/PHOTOGRAPHERS HERE!
Replies: 83
Views: 116209

Re: WHOIZIT? SEEK ASSISTANCE WITH PUBLISHERS/PHOTOGRAPHERS HERE!

Edward Raymond Ash was the chemist at Franklin.
A quick search found 4 real photo cards by Ash. All were taken around the Franklin area. One is postally used from Huonville, December 1912.

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by Mike
Tue Oct 13, 2020 2:21 pm
Forum: Tasmania - Picture Postcards
Topic: ADVERTISING CARDS by F.W. NIVEN
Replies: 67
Views: 41598

Re: ADVERTISING CARDS by F.W. NIVEN

Charles Adams & Sons, Timber Yards & Offices Launceston. Finally a new unlisted Tasmanian Niven postcard has been sited on "Facebook". The card was posted from Launceston on 6/1/09 to Lilydale. It is over 2 years now since I last came across an unlisted card. The scans are rather poor but it was the...