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The Australian Rowing Championships, officially known as 'Interstate Amateur Eight-oar and Sculling Championships' were held on the Derwent in 1910. It was a big event, greeted enthusiastically by the Hobart public; all Australian states sent crews. The course was on the Derwent above Bridgewater. '...

Ross started off this thread by posting the image which I have copied below. What is the significance of the anchor between POST and CARD on the back? Is this an early J. Walch & Sons logo? It seems to only occur on these early vignetted images. The anchor symbol is exactly the same as the trade mar...

Maybe there was a receipt date stamp on the back, in the area which has been torn off? There is a faint part impression just to the right of the torn area with part of a stamp impression.
Des

Have a look at the front and back image of the card shown below. This is is on EBay at the moment for $14, offered by stephenb5513. It is a Mather divided back card, so produced after 1905. But look at the stamp; it seems to me to be postmarked 1900. And it is postmarked at Launceston, but look at t...

The pictures below are of a card published by "Kellett's News Agency, Hobart". The images are those that appear on McVilly & Little cards, so there must have been some collaboration. Or perhaps they sourced the images from the same photographer. There is a printer's code STLE in the stamp box, which...

In the last post about Empire photo printing paper, I asserted that this was Australian made paper, because their logo incorporates a lion and a kangaroo. I looked them up on Trove, and found that it was produced by the Empire Works Co., which was in Sydney. They produced a range of photographic pap...

A year or so ago Ross posted a query about printed postcards with an "Empire" logo. Ross pointed out that "Empire" was a brand of postcard-back printing paper, but he had a printed postcard with the Empire logo incorporated. His card was published by A. Mather & Co. I am putting the Mather cards on ...

Can anybody identify the publisher and date of this Tasmanian Postcard? Being undivided back it is before 1905, but that's all I can deduce. Maybe one of the date stamps is '00', but that is just a guess. All suggestions welcome.
Thanks
Des Beechey

In January 1900, J. Walch & Sons, who were Hobart's principal stationers and booksellers, announced a series of Tasmanian View Post Cards. These were probably Tasmania's earliest picture postcards. They are very rare and I have never seen one of them. Perhaps other collectors have examples that can ...

Laura H Davey was the artist responsible for a group of 12 paintings published as postcards by W.T. Pater in 1906. She ran an art school and lived in Geelong, which made me wonder why she was painting scenes around Launceston. The answer is that she made her paintings from photographs, rather than s...

In other posts on this Bulletin Board there has been discussion of the Tasmanian cards published by W.T. Pater & Co of Melbourne. I have discovered there were three series: 1. The Laura H Davey paintings. These are distinctive and interesting, as they are four colour halftone prints, printed in Aust...

Amazing! Thanks Jim. Are you going to tell us how you did it? And what the key is?

Des

Postcards allow the message on the back to be read by anybody, which is not a problem because most messages are not top secret. But if you want to keep your message secret, you need to put it in code. Here are two messages in code. I wonder what they say?

Below is a very nice postcard showing the G.P. Fitzgerald shop in Collins Street. Note the two lamps on the front. Fitz2.jpg Now here is a second card for the same shop. This was published by a different publisher, from a different photograph. But in this card the lamps are in a different position s...

The card below is Walch's "Greetings from Hobart" real photo postcard, which has been a bit of a mystery because it does not have the name of any publisher printed on it. The images on the front are Walch's usual views so it has been assumed to be a Walch card, but the back is not in the usual style...

You illustrate a similar card on the BB in "Postmarks & Postal Merkings to 1912"
Des Beechey

Thanks Ross - most interesting, for two reasons. Firstly, the circular stamp on my example says "Registered/ Hobart/ 13 Jul 29". I take it that this was a private stamp applied by the sender also? Secondly, the card itself : you show another example in the same series elsewhere on the forum. What ot...

In the early 1900s when postcards were booming, there were postcard exchange clubs. You occasionally see cards with the name of the club clearly spelt out, or with some obscure codes. Members liked the stamp on the front so it could be seen with the card in a display album Below is a card that may h...

Three good examples of variation in colour, Ross. Just in case some readers are not up to speed with 1905 printing technology, I can give a little background. There was no way at that time for a printer to print from a coloured photograph. The customer supplied the printer with a black and white pho...

Graeme Williams in Launceston has looked through his collection for used and dated Ash Bester cards and extended the list by a dozen. This is how the list stands now. I think we now have enough examples to say that publication started in late 1948 and continued on until about 1960. 23 River Derwent ...

I now have an understanding of when each of the common series of McVilly and Little cards was printed, and who printed them. It turns out to be quite simple. The first four series were printed by C.G. Roder, of Leipzig, Saxony and the next three by Emil Pinkau of the same city. Series 69,000...........

In case you missed it, this card has just sold on EBay for a tidy sum. The text says "14 H.P. "Buffalo" engine owned by Mr. J.P. Power of Sorell, Tas. hauling gun and waggon weighing 9 1/2 tons out of soft cabbage patch en route to Mt. Nelson Battery". The photo raises a lot more questions than it a...

Below is a very nice card of the "Hands in Heart" style. It looks as if it should have been published by McVilly & Little, or perhaps Walch & Sons, but is neither of these. It is actually a real photo card! 3279F.jpg The back of the card gives very little information - just a "T" in the top right co...

Below is a McVilly & Little card of a style I haven't seen before - oval-shaped picture, pink surround, caption in green. I can't place this in any of the recognised series of M&L cards. On the back the card has "M. & L. Series 16", so it seems to belong to the M&L Series. But the other cards in the...

The book People of Port Esperance - Newspaper Reports & Photographs by Dorothy Baker (Published by the author, 2006) mentions Crump at Port Esperance thrice: p. 60. In a photo of the Port Esperance Regatta Committee p. 79. " Our Perambulators . This talented troupe gave an entertainment at Dover hal...