The Courier
Journal of Tasmanian stamps, postal history & postcards
The Courier is the research journal of the Tasmanian Philatelic Society. Published twice per year in June and December since 1984, The Courier contains information on all aspects of Tasmanian philately, postal history, revenues, postcards, postmarks, rarity ratings and more. Since Edition 49 The Courier has been produced in full colour. The latest edition is No 67, Dec 2018.
Contents of recent editions of The Courier
Courier No 64 December 2017
- “Postage to Collect” for Australian Colonial Mail
- Early “Registered” Mail
- Somerset River Cam Handstamp: 7th Example
- Stephen Hooker: Waratah Pioneer Postcard Photographer
- The Vickery Courier Sheet
Courier No 63 June 2017
- Earliest date of the 1882 1d Postal Card
- Tas unframed Queen Victoria 1d Postcards
- Use of the 1d Thin paper issue (SG 261 and 261a)
- New “Victoria” Postal History discoveries
- Annie Agatha Bower nee Mylan: A Queenstown identity, Postmistress, Newsagent, Postcard Producer and Hotelier
Courier No 62 December 2016
- Plate and Printing Flaws on the Halfpenny Lithographed Pictorial
- Hobart Stamp Show 2016
- Tasmania at Auction
Courier No 61 June 2016
- The McVilly and Little Postcards
- Tasmania – a revised view of the 25/CTM/T Tax mark
- “Hobart South” the early cds
- Tasmanian “Lake View” letter cards: a new census
- Queenstown Post Office and the Mt Lyell and Railway Company
Courier No 60 December 2015
- Awards for TPS members
- Award for The Courier
- Crotty: Its history, Post Office, Postmaster and Postmarks
- 1d and 4d Surcharges on “Platypus”, 1903 – 1905
- Tasmanian Sideface discoveries
- Tasmania’s Registered envelopes
- Tasmanian Post Office handstamps at auction
Courier No 59 June 2015
- Tasmania – Printed to Private Order stationery – complete listing
- Post Offices and datestamps of the West Coast – part 2
- Postcards – Spurlings Whales
- Postcards – 5 cards with an interestign story
- Hobart date stamps – some rare examples
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A Guide to Circular Date Stamps on the Tasmanian Pictorial Issues 1899 – 1913
A Special Edition of 48 pages – the first major revision of rarity ratings for cds on Pictorials since 1962. $30 + postage
- Expanded and revised Rarity Ratings
- Circular datestamp types
- Early and late dates of use
- Other markings on the Tasmanian Pictorial stamps
- Transition from the State to the Commonwealth period
- Tasmania – Barred numeral 60 – genuine or forged?
- Circular date stamps used at towns and sidings on the Emu Bay Railway
- How a postcard was made – the King Island Shipwrecks card
- Earliest Torquay manuscript date clarified
- Obituary: William “Bill” Craig
- Tasmanian Letter Cards
- Tasmania 4d Pictorial – the Melbourne Printings
- Zeehan type 3 CDS and times
- Analysis of Tas postal stationay wrappers
- C W Coard
- Tas 3d pictorial: Melbourne printings
- Obituary: Colin Salt
- Tas Government Railway issue date correction
- Sir Henry Somerset colletion
- Census and provenance of 1d Courier covers
- Tasmania – revenue rates and regulations 1863 – 1869
- Cobb & Co in Tasmania
- Tasmania at Auction
Special Postcard edition- 40 pages
- A luctative market: Spurling postcards
- International Printing, stationary and traded exhibition, London 1904
- Ten favorite early Tasmanian postcards
- Postcard instructional markings
- Postcards from Waratah, Magnet & the osmiridium fields
- Postcards in Australia: Postal rates and regulations
- Tasmanian circular datestamps: issue of datestamps in batches, 1861 – 1913
- St Michaels date stamp
- An un-recorded tax mark from the DLO
- From the bulletin Board
- List of Free franking entitlements & exemptions form postal charges, Little Swanport PO, 1900
- Tasmanian Railway Telegraph Offices
- Tasmania 6d Pictorial: Melbourne Printings
- Hobart Code “L” 1883
- New Colombo wreck cover discovered
- Tasmanian penny bank system 1895
- Three Hut Point datestamp
- Another look at the Platypus Postal fiscal & related matters
- From the TPS bulletin board
- Tasmanian Beer Duties update
- Official OS perfin on an 8d sideface
- SEcond allocation barred numerals- a study, part 3
Special 50th edition (48 pages)
- Tasmanian relief handstamps including rarity ratings
- Postage due markings on outgoing mail
- Straight-line registered handstamp
- Second allocation barred numerals – a study, part 2
- Platypus revisited
- Chief Office date stamp: an addendum
- Tasmania: the Courier reprints revisited
- Paper thickness varieties for Courier issues
- Reissue of Tasmanian stamps in the early Commonwealth era
- 1d pictorial variety – white dot right value tablet
- Tasmania’s second allocation barred numerals – a study, part 1
- The Chief Office handstamp and the money order system
- Halfpenny on one penny surcharge of 1889
- Blue Tier Junction – an update
- Not known by Postman, Launceston
- From the Archives
- Tasmania rare inland packet
- “Newtown” manuscript cancel on a 4d Courier
Download Courier Index no 1- 50
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