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Here is a new 'late date' for the KOOMEELA manuscript cancel ......dated 11-8-14. Current LRD is 1-8-14 ...... as this item is from the Avery Collection
it's possible that current date is a typo (i.e. '1' instead of '11' ....not an error you would pick up easily proof reading!)

After a long 'wait', I have come across another card by mystery Bothwell photographer "E.A.W." with a view of the FALLS OF CLYDE near the town


Any ideas yet as to who the initials may belong?

CORRECTION:

This last day cover with a clear strike of the LONGLEY LOWER Type 8aT cds dated 22JA93 indicates that the currently listed
date of closure for this office (i.e. 31DE92) is most likely to be incorrect.

Thanks Mike ...I have added an image of the card in my post above. I was going to check in your book but I have buried it somewhere in my office.

Looks like Fellowes missed applying his rubber stamp to this particular card!

Hopefully, this is a fairly easy query .... The real photo card below dating from 1918 was produced for the Tasmanian Tourist Bureau (it has a TTB postcard 'back'). Can anyone identify the photographer I have seen similar numbering before i.e. >133< on locally produced cards but I can't make a conne...

The longer you stare at the datestamp you will start to see the back of a '9' and a good part of a '5' ....fortunately, the message on the other side was clearly dated

JU = June · JY = July

An 'average' example of the UPPER MACQUARIE STREET Type 1 cds on a 1d postal card ....from 1895

Appears to be a fiscal use - see part framed CANCELLED h/stamp at bottom of stamp - without this I would have probably voted
in favour of a partial Lake River mss

This early real photo card (July 1904) was mailed from Hobart to the Kingston/Taroona area

I believe that the printed initials "H.B.N." may have been the photographer .....any ideas??

Here's a fine photo card with a view of "WEE GEORGIE WOOD" on the TULLAH TRAMWAY in the early 1950s

Here's another example of the "R.D. Rex · Stamp Collector · Hobart" handstamp from a couple of years before the example reported above by Mike


Could he be an ancestor of former Melbourne Stamp Dealer Robert Rex (Rex & Fair)??

Another "football" (sorry soccer fans) oval f.d.i. postmark as used at MOONAH not in the current listing

Hi Laurent

you have to post images as a .jpg or a .gif on this site for the images to be displayed

best regards Ross (Moderator)

This "football" f.d.i. canceller used at HOBART BATHURST STREET appears to have been omitted from the listing.

Possible ERD correction required for New Norfolk Type R6 f.d.i. canceller current listed as being 13Apr1970 I just came across this while tidying my desk.... erd New Norfolk Type R6 f.d.i. canceller.jpg Certified date on this cover is 31Aug1970 is quite compelling evidence that the current recorded ...

Two tram postcards which recently came to hand 1) a view of Liverpool Street from the intersection with Argyle Street similar to another view already posted but a busier scene (published by H.H. Baily) yy1696.jpg The 'Keen's Curry' sign is just visible on the hill in line with the end of the street....

A new ERD for the MILITARY CAMP TASMANIA Type R1a cds used at BRIGHTON - August 29th (1914)
Previous ERD was 1 SEP 1914

The closure date for REDPA has always been listed as being August 30th 1987 This cover and letter has just landed on my desk ee1202.jpg Please note the PM's note on the requesting letter indicating that the REDPA post office actually closed on Friday, August 28th 1987 due to there being a public hol...

A new ERD for UNIT POSTAL STATION S215 Type R5(i) datestamp which was used at the MONA VALE MILITARY P.O.

12 FEB 1943



Previous ERD was 11 JUL 1943

SORELL DELIVERY CENTRE · 18 OCT 2000 · TAS 7172 sorell delivery centre.jpg I can't recall having seen an example of this particular 'rubber' datestamp. I have just discovered another example from -5 JAN 2001 providing a LRD qq1480.jpg Please post other examples or earlier/later dates here.

many thanks Mike ..... I couldn't think of anywhere at Franklin where the distance between houses and the river is that close ..... I didn't allow for reclamation!!

This real photo card was mailed from Zeehan to Strahan in1909

Is it likely that the photo was taken at Strahan? If not, where could it be?

Launceston Type 1(iv) has been recorded with Code L (Hardinge, page 255) cheers .... Ross P.S. “Tasmanian Postal History: Post Office and Datestamp Compendium” by John Hardinge (containing listings of all Post Offices, date stamp and rarity ratings from John Hardinge’s previous book, updated)..... s...

These real photo cards 'date' from 1907-14 qq1418.jpg Unused card with a 'snow scene' .... township appears to be well-developed ...... Tasmanian location? qq1420.jpg This card is probably by the same photographer as the previous card ....is this a Tasmanian location? qq1419.jpg Mailed from Hobart t...

A new late date for the STAMP BRANCH LAUNCESTON Type R2a cds - 7 JAN 1932 (previous LRD 17 SEP 1930)