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Latest revision as of 22:48, 21 January 2016
Location: 43° 8' 0" South, 147° 3' 0" East
- Approx. 11kms SSW of Huonville and across the Huon River from Castle Forbes Bay
see Google Map for an enlargement
The post office at Glazier's Bay operated over three periods
- 01-DEC-1899 to 30-SEP-1903 (as a Mail Receiving House) · Miss F.A. Judd was appointed as the first postmistress
- 01-APR-1907 to 16-NOV-1908 (as a Mail Receiving House)
- 01-FEB-1912 to 31-MAY-1968 (as a Mail Receiving house until 30-JUN-1927 and from then until closure as an Agency) · Mrs. Alice Teahey was appointed as the first postmistress from this re-opening date.
Barred Numeral Postmark[edit]
Allocated BN371 in 1899
As an example of this postmark is yet to be recorded, it's use may have ceased quite early or it may have not been used at all.
Datestamps[edit]
Type 1b (circle stops)
- Glaziers bay 1b (2).jpg
- Earliest recorded date: 14-DEC-1899 · Latest recorded date: 02-JUL-1903
- Rated: RRR
- An altered datestamp, used throughout the first period of opening
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- Earliest recorded date: 05-APR-1907 · Latest recorded date: 04-SEP-1908
- Rated: RRRR
- In use throughout the second period of opening. Only four examples of this postmark have been recorded and all of them are illustrated above!
- The quality of postmark impressions from this office is mainly poor.... let's hope that if a fifth example turns up, it is of A1+ quality!
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- Earliest recorded date: 24-SEP-1923 · Latest recorded date: 13-APR-1956
Rated: RRR
The first Type 4 datestamps were not issued for quite some time after the post office re-opened in 1912 and it is not known if the Type 2 datestamp was re-issued to the office or some other type was in use during the early years of the third period of operation.
- Earliest recorded date: 19-OCT-1959 · Latest recorded date: 31-MAY-1968 (day of closure)
- Rated: RRRR
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Other Information[edit]
- Report of Government Gazette notice re the opening of Glazier's Bay post office in The Examiner, 03-OCT-1899
- Report of the (re-)opening of the Glazier's Bay post office in The Mercury, 26-JAN-1912
Links & References[edit]
| To the Index of Tasmanian Post Offices and Postal Markings
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Please contact the author of this page to report any errors and/or omissions or to provide better or 'missing' images, etc.
