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Kevin Burt's book was published in 2018. The short title is:
"Post Office Registration Labels."

Tasmania is covered in detail on pages 33 to 39. There are a
few updates in very recent issues of Philately from Australia.

We refer to the article by Dave Elsmore in The Courier , No. 56 on the issue date correction as published in December, 2013. On reading page 18 more carefully, we see that that " No less quantity than 12 tickets will be sold ." This remark applies to the illustrated extracts shown by the author. It ...

The perf 12 (actually 11.8) is found not only on these railway newspaper stamps inscribed T G Rys but on the locally printed Revenue overprints (Platypus type & St George and Dragon) and as a corrective line of perforation on postage stamps where the outer edge missed the perforation in Melbourne (P...

Is there anything that can be done to banish this forger for good,
or at least, for a very long time? He keeps changing his identity
but is not stopped by eBay or anyone else.

A little while ago I espied a reference in Philately from Australia , Vol 3 (1951), pp.8-13, on papermaker's watermarks for Australasian colonies. As far as Tasmania is concerned, we consider the 1d Chalon head on pelure paper, which is recorded with papermaker's watermark. The above article by RWT ...

Note on early Beer Duty listings We are mainly concerned with early beer duty listings. It has been difficult to compile these listings as these stamps are hard to obtain and are often found in damaged condition, due to the strict rules for their use. They were supposed to be destroyed after use. Th...

This note considers some early reports about Tasmanian railway stamps. A the start, we acknowledge the meagre reports about railway stamps for Tasmania in early reports. Thus, the three volume catalogue by J.-B. Moens (1893) recorded a number of railway stamps for various mainland Australian colonie...

The Craig & Ingles catalogue listed a 2/6 Dragon overprinted REVENUE with watermark double-lined '1' as No. 30. This item was previously listed in Forbin's catalogue (1910) as No. 22. Morley's catalogue also listed this item. Craig & Ingles cannot be criticised for listing this item, given that the ...

Let's have a fresh look at the alleged 1/- on 3d Platypus. We take a good look at Forbin's catalogue (1915) as well as the Craig & Ingles catalogue. Craig & Ingles list it as No. 60 in their catalogue, corresponding to No. 42 in Forbin. We turn to Forbin's listing. This stamp is stated to be a surch...

Regarding this requisition for the following items a) Service postage stamps from ½d to 6d (no doubt postage stamps punctured T for official use) b) Newspaper stamps of denominations ½d to 6d as listed in Craig & Ingles' catalogue. c) Parcel stamps of values 1d, 3d, 6d (the Parcel Ticket series, no ...

We consider the PTPO wrapper used for mailing Basset Hull's journal "The Federal Philatelist." Earliest date recorded is 19 January 1891, according to Ingles' Chapter 15 in Tinsley's book on Tasmanian stamps and postal history. It may be of interest to record which journals it was mailed to. I can r...

The major listings of the private roulettes are in Tinsley's book (1986), Robson Lowe, vol. 4 (1962) and the Stanley Gibbons catalogue. They don't seen to be 100% consistent. The serrated 19 items seem to be reasonably consistent, bar the 1/- which is only in Tinsley and recent Gibbons listings. We ...

Further on the serrated 19, Gibbons mentions a 1d carmine perf 10 on three sides and serrated 19 on the fourth. Can this possibly be genuine? Jerry notes that serrated 19 was used at Hobart. But was it done by Walch or someone else, perhaps a small post office in or near Hobart? Tinsley doesn't ment...

Some interesting feedback from John and from Jerry. The inverted watermark on the 1d
with plate number is apparently not recorded in the literature. The plate number on the
½d stamp is also unclear to me as well as other readers. It would be nice to know what
it could be.

Bill

This reply from Jerry is most helpful. I should have checked Tinsley earlier. Also, recent editions of Gibbons' catalogue say the serrated 19 stamps were used at Hobart while Robson Lowe, Volume 4, stated that they were used at Deloraine (which is over 40 Km west of Launceston). Now we see that Robs...

Does anyone out there on the BB have any idea where the serrated 19
private roulettes on the Chalons were applied and issued to the public?

Thanks
Bill

Recently, a Melbourne collector told me that there were no private postcards in recognition of the Great White Fleet in 1908 when it called in at Sydney and Melbourne (and also Albany in WA to take more coal onboard). Can anyone on this BB confirm or deny this statement? Possibly Patrick Reid or Mik...

This note is added to record some measurements on the Fleet cards. The indicium (stamp-like impression) appeared over a rectangular box printed in red for Tas and also WA, SA and Qld. Some measurements were carried out for the WA card since it is much easier to see the red of the box under the blue ...

Very interesting material on sealing labels. There was also one in the Clemente collection.

An image of the Money Order label (mentioned by Hobbit123) would be welcome. Would
it be possible to illustrate an example on the BB?

Tinslay's book lists a number of known plate numbers on the De La Rue printings of the Pictorials of 1899-1900. These are: ½d - 1 1d - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 2d - 1, 2, 3, 4 2½d - 1, 2 3d - 1 4d - 1 These are the recess printed stamps produced in London, not later printings produced in Melbourne. Often...

Most collectors on this BB are well aware of the official post office issues of special postcards (postal cards) for for each State to commemorate the visit of the American Fleet (Great White Fleet) for August and September 1908, including a 1d postal card for Tasmania. That topic is covered in a di...

Dear Dave (aka Revenuer) I wrote that article for 'Philately from Australia", which officially appeared June 2019 but was posted out to members a couple of days before June began. I used my own knowledge and references, of which I have quite a few. I read Brian's article in detail. While I query cer...

A few 2½d Platypus pairs have survived as they were used to make up 5d stamp duty in the late 1950s
and early 1960s. Cheques bearing a pair of 2½d Platypus exist.

This variety seems to be missing from Gibbons' catalogue, Robson Lowe's Encycopaedia, Vol. 4
and from Tinsley's book (1986). It is probably quite rare. I am not sure if this variety has ever
been offered in auction but I could ask around.

Gary Diffen correctly points out that the ½d Sideface is known on unwatermarked paper. While it could have been intended as a plate proof, such sheets were also overprinted with the word SPECIMEN and used for presentation purposes. Certainly, these unwatermarked printings look much better than the n...