Private cards for American Fleet 1908?

[bill]

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
different thread on this BB.

Were there any private postcards printed and sold by private businesses
anywhere in Tasmania to mark the event of the Great White Fleet, even
though that fleet never visited Tasmania? There were a number of these
in New South Wales and Victoria. These sometimes turn up in auctions.
There is the possibility of private cards featuring the American fleet for
Western Australia as the fleet took on lots of coal at Albany, SE of Perth.
(The post office card with a 1d stamp printed thereon is NOT a private
issue, even though Ascher himself thought it was private. That's in his
catalogue listing of WA in his Grosser Ganzsachen-Katalog of 1928.)

Perhaps several people out there on this BB may be able to comment on
the question of private Fleet cards of 1908, especially for Tasmania.

Bill

[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 Mike Simco would know?