Franklin
OPENED : 31st - August 1848 as Huon
RENAMED : 8th - December - 1853 to Franklin Huon
RENAMED : 23rd - February - 1878 to Franklin
- Still in operation
Location:
Franklin is located in the Huon Valley region approx 7 kms South of Huonville
Post offices close to Franklin were:
- Castle Forbes Bay 6.5 kms
- Huonville 7 kms
- Port Huon,Shipwrights Point 11 kms
- Geeveston 15 kms
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== BARRED NUMERAL POSTMARK ==
FIRST ALLOCATION
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Allocated BN: 36
- Rated: RRRR
- Known in manuscript
SECOND ALLOCATION
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Allocated BN: 43
- Known on pictorial
== DATESTAMPS ==
- Earliest recorded date: 4th - February - 1860
- Latest recorded date: 4th - February - 1860
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- Earliest recorded date: 30th - September - 1867
- Latest recorded date: 6th - August - 1877
- Rated: RR
- CDS Franklin Huon
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- Earliest recorded date: 13th - November - 1882
- Latest recorded date: 25th - October - 1921
- CDS Franklin
- Blue ink 1910
- Hardinge rated 1(very common)in pictorial period
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- Earliest recorded date: 1914
- Latest recorded date: 1914
- Violet Ink
- Only one copy known and date is an approximate
- Rated: RRRRR
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- Earliest recorded date: 24th - December - 1914
- Latest recorded date: 25th - June - 1938
- Formerly type 3
- Green ink 1916
- Blue ink 1916-17,1922 and 1928
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- Earliest recorded date: 28th - February - 1924
- Latest recorded date: 22nd - May - 1962
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- Earliest recorded date: 21st - November - 1962
- Latest recorded date: 16th - September - 1965
- Used on registered mail
- Rated: RRRR
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- Earliest recorded date: 28th - August - 1938
- Latest recorded date: 9th - January - 1961
- Replaced 2bT CDS
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- Earliest recorded date: 21st - November - 1962
- Latest recorded date: 24 - July - 1970
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- Earliest recorded date: 1st - August - 1960
- Latest recorded date: 8th - February - 1978
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- Earliest recorded date: 29th - September - 1966
- Latest recorded date: 1st - March - 1993
- Replaced 4(s) CDS
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- Earliest recorded date: 9th - February - 1978
- Latest recorded date: 11th - June - 1984
- Relief 11 CDS used from 13th June 1984 to 10th December 1984
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- Earliest recorded date: 16th - December - 1984
- Latest recorded date: 2nd - August - 1988
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- Earliest recorded date: 6th - September - 1988
- Latest recorded date: In use 1995
- First letter in year small and was replaced by rubber CDS in 1995
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== PAID CDS ==
- Earliest recorded date: 6th - June - 1914
- Latest recorded date: 15th - December - 1922
- CDS Postage Paid/Franklin
- Rated: RRRR
- Blue ink 1913
- Black ink 1920-22
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- Earliest recorded date: 3rd - April - 1923
- Latest recorded date: 7th - May - 1924
- CDS Postage Paid at Franklin/Tas with stars at sides
- Rated: RRRRR
- Black Ink
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- Earliest recorded date: 25th - December - 1929
- Latest recorded date: 17th - August - 1938
- CDS Paid at Franklin in black ink
- Rated: RRRRR
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- Earliest recorded date: 10th - January - 1963
- Latest recorded date: 20th - December - 1965
- CDS Paid at Franklin in red ink
- Rated: RRRR
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- Earliest recorded date: 30th - January - 1968
- Latest recorded date: 22nd - January - 1971
- CDS Paid at Franklin in red ink
- Rated RRRR
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