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A 2d Chalon wmk Large Star with top rouletted was in the recent Corinphila sale.
It has a certificate of genuineness.

This variety is mentioned in a footnote in Robson Lowe's Encyclopaedia, Vol. 4.

We have seen the contribution of 'Postagedues' on the first and second series postage dues to Tasmania - but sadly no response! I have a strip of 3 of the 1d first series postmarked at Hobart 12 May 1908 so the New South Wales design (first series being with blank space at the bottom and second seri...

So far we know of at least three examples of the 2/6 St George & Dragon with scroll. These occur with both the 1863 and 1880 printings. (Two of 1880 printing and one of 1863 printings.) Do any other examples exist? As stated previously in this thread, scrolls are known for 1d, 2d, 4d and 6d Chalons,...

Folks Here is a question about Couriers that has occurred to me a while ago. Has anyone ever recorded these primitives with papermaker's watermark? While there was no policy on watermarked paper as yet (that would occur in 1855 with the Chalons, which first appeared on Large Star paper), we can conc...

Private postcards were allowed in Tasmanian mails as from 1899 (or late 1898?), but the timing is not exactly known. The Postal Guide for Jan 1899 says they were allowed under certain conditions concerning thickness and size. They could not be thicker than the official issues and were limited to siz...

Update at long last! Postal Guide No.17 (Jan 1899) says that postage could be paid in cash for a large number of letters or newspapers lodged at the same time but not to Qld or WA. (See top of page 30.) This provision is not present in Postal Guide No.16 (Jul 1898). The quantity indicated by 'large'...

Pete Allan has advised me recently that Walch Bros & Birchall carried on business under that name between 1867 and 1893 when Birchall acquired the business (a bookstore) in 1893. We infer that the Walch Bros & Birchall lettersheets were issued prior to 1893 but exactly when is still uncertain. Gibbo...

Concerning the Walch lettersheets and the Walch & Birchall variant, there is a real difference in the perforation format as follows. The Walch & Sons lettersheets sold in Hobart have the fold at top and the gummed margins down the sides and along the bottom. The Walch Bros & Birchall lettersheets ha...

A look at Postal Guide No. 11 (January 1896) confirms that people could make
deposits to the Post Office Savings Bank could do so by affixing penny stamps
to a form available from any Money Order Office. It's at the top of page 64 in
that document.

The Postal Guide, No. 10 (July 1895) provides information on avis de réception (acknowledgement of delivery) for registered articles. The fee was 2½d in addition to all other charges (registration, postage). There is nothing about this service in the Postal Guide, No. 7 (January 1894). It seems that...

It is known from Chapter 15, written by O.G. Ingles, in Tinsley's book (1986) on Tasmanian stamps and postal history that parcel post labels were provided by the Tasmanian Post Office with earliest dates from 30 January 1893 onwards. These labels are mentioned in the Parcel Post regulations as early...

Very recently, I had the opportunity to measure the perforations on two examples of the Walch Bros & Birchall letter sheets (really lettercards). They turned out to be pert 11.8, just like the Walch & Sons lettersheets. These are precursors to the first officially issued lettercard of 1898. This res...

Ingles' Chapter 15 in Tinsley's book records More to Pay labels (page 168). One label has size 88 x 51 mm and is printed in red on white paper. The other has size 75 x 52 mm and is printed in black on light buff paper. Are images available? Ingles suggested that they were used between 1890 and 1910 ...

A Money Order Label is mentioned in both Ingles' Chapter 15 in Tinsley's book and in the Green Books, Part II, Chapter 8 at the end. Size is about 40 x 93 cm (Green Book) or 93 x 39 (Ingles & Tinsley). It is inscribed: "This form is only to be used for sealing Money Order Daily Account and Remittanc...

From one collector, I have heard of a 4d Pictorial fiscally used.
This leaves the 2½d and 5d Pictorials. These will be quite rare
if they exist, especially the 2½d.

Has anyone ever seen examples of 2½d, 4d and 5d Pictorials with fiscal use?
Examples of ½d and 2d Pictorials are already illustrated in this section, along
with the more commonly seen 1d, 3d and 6d Pictorials.

Is this item watermarked? If it is unwatermarked, it could be a reprint
that has been supplied with a fake perf 14 and bogus cancellation.

I have seen something like this in the 10/- Dragon.

The earliest report I have found for the Tasmanian postal card to commemorate the visit of the American Fleet's visit in 1908 turned up in some pages out of an old catalogue published in 1933, courtesy of Robert Binner at the Munich Philatelic Library. This is entitled: Welt-Katalog der Bild-Ganzsac...

Old listings of official perfins, including those for Tasmania, are found in "Australian Philatelist" around 1908-1909. Runs of this journal exist in some major public libraries in Australia, such as the State Library of Victoria, as well as in some important philatelic libraries. Incidentally, the ...

I have acquired photocopies of all six Australian States from the 1914 edition of Senf's catalogue, Volume 2 (Postal Stationery), plus the title page and the general introductory notes. These include the standard conventions to state the different layouts found on postal stationery, very similar to ...

Thanks to Eric Frazer (Editor, Philately from Australia), it is possible to provide a link to an Officially Sealed label inscribed VR instead of GR as in Tinsley's illustration (Fig 11-14). http://www.poseal.com/australia01.html This website is maintained by Todd A. Hirn. It illustrates examples of ...

Ross

Did you check the handstamp when the auction was held?

I had informed Malcolm previously that it might be the very
same Craig type that I had speculated on.

Bill

Malcolm

Thanks for the link. The auction was held last Saturday (20 June 2015).
Is it worth asking them for details or has it already been taken away by
the buyer? This stamp may be one of the very types recorded by AFBH
in his book of 1890.

Bill

Are any further details about this handstamp available?
Perhaps information on its size and the dimensions of
the coat of arms, for instance?

This is an interesting discovery.

Malcolm There is also the interesting image of a used reply coupon dated 18 Feb 1935 contributed by Torsten Weller in the postmarks section (post 1913). The design is slightly different from earlier examples on the BB. http://tps.org.au/bb/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=368&p=5049&hilit=reply+coupon#p5049 You ...