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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

Allocated BN: 36

• Rated: RRRR

SECOND ALLOCATION

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Allocated BN: 43

• Known on pictorial

== DATESTAMPS ==

MPE

• Earliest recorded date: 4th - February - 1860

• Latest recorded date: 4th - February - 1860

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TYPE U1

• Earliest recorded date: 30th - September - 1867

• Latest recorded date: 6th - August - 1877

• Rated: RR

• CDS Franklin Huon

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TYPE 1(solid stops)

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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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TYPE R3

• 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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TYPE 2bT

• 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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TYPE 4

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• Earliest recorded date: 28th - February - 1924

• Latest recorded date: 22nd - May - 1962

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TYPE 4(s)

• Earliest recorded date: 21st - November - 1962

• Latest recorded date: 16th - September - 1965

• Used on registered mail

• Rated: RRRR

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TYPE 5

• Earliest recorded date: 28th - August - 1938

• Latest recorded date: 9th - January - 1961

• Replaced 2bT CDS

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TYPE 5(s)

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• Earliest recorded date: 21st - November - 1962

• Latest recorded date: 24 - July - 1970

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TYPE 5sT

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• Earliest recorded date: 1st - August - 1960

• Latest recorded date: 8th - February - 1978

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TYPE 5s

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• Earliest recorded date: 29th - September - 1966

• Latest recorded date: 1st - March - 1993

• Replaced 4(s) CDS

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TYPE 7T

• 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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TYPE 7(l)T

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• Earliest recorded date: 16th - December - 1984

• Latest recorded date: 2nd - August - 1988

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TYPE 7(m)T

• 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 ==

TYPE R1c

• 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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TYPE R2b

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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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TYPE 4R

• 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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TYPE 4(s)

• 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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TYPE 5s

• 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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To the Index of Tasmanian Post Offices and Postal Markings To the Tasmanian Datestamp Types main page

Other Information

• Image of Franklin Post Office taken 2014

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Links & References

To the Index of Tasmanian Post Offices and Postal Markings To the Tasmanian Datestamp Types main page

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