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This one is a large part strike of 'The Oaks' on a 0.5d keyplate. The 'Post Office The (...)' and crown are clear. Bought on Ebay in January 2008.

Here is a pair of strikes of 'Penghana' on a vertical pair of 2d sidefaces. The upper strike is almost complete and fairly easy to read. This was bought on Ebay in July 2007.

Crown seals were sometimes used as cancellations on pre-pictorial issues, either in error or because other cancellers were not available. They are usually hard to read and complete strikes are scarce, not least because sidefaces and keyplates are small format stamps. I only have Penghana and The Oa...

TEE POO KANA / OC 9 99 / TASMANIA TeePooKana.jpg I believe that this item was previously in the Keith Lancaster collection. It is obviously rare, with the first cds of Teepookana, shown as Tee Poo Kana, dated 9 October 1899 (the second '9' in the year date, which is only partly inked, has a sharp t...

My wife and I started coming to Australia from our home on the western side of the Gareloch in Scotland, when our son moved to Sydney. He is now an Australian citizen with a growing family and gave me a good excuse to expand my philatelic interests from a specialist collection of Newfoundland. Three...