Difference between revisions of "Bulgobac"

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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

• only connected to the outside world by the railway, Bulgobac was the site of a large sawmill for many decades as well as 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

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

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