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Revision as of 05:15, 2 June 2014

___ this listing is currently being prepared by R.E. and any assistance with improving the accuracy and amount of information provided below is welcome___


OPENED: 1-JUN-1938 · CLOSED: 30-JUN-1957 ~~o~~ RE-OPENED: 1-JAN-1958 · CLOSED: 30-JUN-1964


Location: situated on the Emu Bay Railway approx. 13kms NNW of Tullah at 41° 37' 42" South, 145° 35' 41" East

  • closest post office to Bulgobac during it's periods of operation was at Tullah
  • Telephone Office only during the second period of operation and there is no evidence that a steel datestamp was issued
  • listed in Postal Guides until c.1969 but the office definitely closed in 1964
  • connected to the outside world only by rail, Bulgobac was the site for many decades of a large sawmill as well as an E.B.R. siding with provision for locomotives to take on water

Please 'click' on the RH map for an enlargement - Bulgobac is not included on Google Maps


Datestamp

Type 5

  • Earliest recorded date: 7-JUN-1938 · Latest recorded date: 26-JUL-1954
  • examples of this datestamp are rated RRR (on telegram piece) and RRRR for a genuine postal use
  • manuscript additions/alterations to the dateline have been recorded from the 1950s (see example on telegram piece above)

Report an earlier or later use of the Type 5 datestamp here


Other Cancellations

  • manuscript cancels "W. Shepherdson" (the postmaster) have been recorded from between 2-JAN-1955 and 11-DEC-1955 and it is presumed that the datestamp had been lost
  • mss cancels are rated RRRR

Report an earlier or later use of a manuscript cancel at this office here

To the Index of Tasmanian Post Offices and Postal Markings

To the Tasmanian Datestamp Types main page

Other Information


Links & References

To the Index of Tasmanian Post Offices and Postal Markings

To the Tasmanian Datestamp Types main page


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