TOURIST PROMOTION LABELS - "Come to Tasmania", etc

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TOURIST PROMOTION LABELS - "Come to Tasmania", etc

#1 Post by Ross Ewington » Wed Sep 23, 2009 3:29 pm

I was just sorting through some "rather ordinary" first flight covers from the 1930s and flipped
one over to find this attractive label which I have never seen before.

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Does anyone have any information about the "Launceston 50,000 League"?? A Google search reveals
little except some representatives of the League visited Lilydale in 1932 and they lodged a complaint
about greyhounds at some time, probably in 1949!!

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#2 Post by Ross Ewington » Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:27 am

TOUR TASMANIA ON A TENNER - BEGIN AT BURNIE
This label probably dates from the late 1920s through
to the mid 1930s.
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Does anybody know when the "Tour Tasmania (or Tassie) on a Tenner" Tourist Bureau
promotion was current? You can find pre-WWII era Tourist Bureau envelopes with the slogan thereupon.

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#3 Post by Revenuer » Tue Apr 23, 2013 11:06 am

This description came with the Poster stamp:

A long running campaign of the Tasmanian Government Tourist Bureau, late 1930s per consignor.

Likely commissioned by Evelyn Temple Emmett, bushwalker, writer and Tasmania Tourism Director in 1914-1941, who had coined the slogan.
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#4 Post by Ross Ewington » Thu Nov 07, 2013 7:41 pm

I have seen recently, a plain envelope FDC for the 9d Platypus issued on -1SE38 which confirms a late 1930s usage as per Dave's post above.

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#5 Post by Ross Ewington » Mon Nov 11, 2013 8:18 pm

...and now for something completely different - a "Car Sticker" c.1960 still in it's original cellophane packaging.
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Definitely a "rare survivor"!

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#6 Post by Hobbit123 » Fri Nov 15, 2013 9:13 am

I have a number of promotional envelopes that I will dig out and post images. I have the sticker shown above in two different sizes. Dealer Willard Allman has in stock a wonderful Tas Tourist Board envelope, but its price is beyond my means. I have a similar but much scruffier example somewhere that I will also dig out.

Watch this space!

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#7 Post by Ross Ewington » Mon May 16, 2016 8:05 pm

I just come across this example of the TOUR TASMANIA ON A TENNER.... label "on cover" mailed from Burnie in 1934
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