Geeveston
OPENED : 1st - June - 1876 as Geeves-Town
- Still in operation
Location:
Geeveston is located in the Huon Valley region approx 22 kms South of Huonville
Post offices close to Huonville were:
- Waterloo 1.5 kms
- Port Huon,Shipwrights Point 3.5 kms
- Cairns Bay 5.5 kms
- castle Forbes Bay 8.5 kms
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== BARRED NUMERAL POSTMARK ==
SECOND ALLOCATION
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Allocated BN: 178
- Known on pictorial
== DATESTAMPS ==
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- Earliest recorded date: 28th - June - 1886
- Latest recorded date: 26th - July - 1918
- Violet ink 1915
- CDS Geeves-Town
- Hardinge rated 1 (very Common) in pictorial period
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- Earliest recorded date: 20th - September - 1918
- Latest recorded date: 15th - August - 1939
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- Earliest recorded date: 19th - August - 1936
- Latest recorded date: 20th - August - 1969
- Stop after "Tas"
- Violet ink 1946 and 1949-50
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- Earliest recorded date: 10th - January - 1940
- Latest recorded date: 31st - July - 1963
- Stop after "Tas" and "Aus"
- Violet ink 1948-50
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- Earliest recorded date: 25th - July - 1949
- Latest recorded date: 30th - May - 1962
- No stops
- Violet ink 1948-50
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- Earliest recorded date: 29th - April - 1963
- Latest recorded date: 6th - May - 1968
- Rated: R
- Used regularly on registered mail
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- Earliest recorded date: 21st - July - 1963
- Latest recorded date: 1st - December - 1977
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- Earliest recorded date: 5th - June - 1968
- Latest recorded date: In use 1995
- Replaced type 5(iii)s
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- Earliest recorded date: 11th - November - 1969
- Latest recorded date: 7th - March - 1978
- Replaced type 5(I)
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- Earliest recorded date: 22nd - June - 1977
- Latest recorded date: 1st - November - 1989
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- Earliest recorded date: 23rd - December - 1989
- Latest recorded date: 25th - August - 1992
- First number in year is small
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- Earliest recorded date: 7th - May - 1988
- Latest recorded date: 7th - May - 1988
- Was ordered as a "Paid" CDS and was actually struck in July of 1981
- Only one copy struck before being returned
- Rated: RRRRR
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- Earliest recorded date: 15th - April - 1992
- Latest recorded date: Still in use 1995
- Blue ink 1992
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== PAID CDS ==
- Earliest recorded date: 27th - April - 1953
- Latest recorded date: 7th - March - 1958
- CDS Paid at Geeveston
- Rated: RRRR
- Black ink 1953-54
- Red ink 1958
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- Earliest recorded date: 8th - July - 1966
- Latest recorded date: 2nd - January - 1979
- CDS Paid at Geeveston
- Rated: R
- Red Ink
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- Earliest recorded date: 26th - August - 1980
- Latest recorded date: 24th - August - 1981
- CDS Paid at Geeveston with time added to dateline
- Red ink
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- Earliest recorded date: 24th - August - 1981
- Latest recorded date: 1st - April - 1989
- Used Paid at Relief from at least 7th April 1989 to 2nd August 1989
- Red ink
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- Earliest recorded date: 23rd - August - 1989
- Latest recorded date: Still in use 1995
- Red ink 1989-91
- Black ink from 1991
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Other Information
- Image of Geeveston Post Office taken 2015
- Postmaster Geeveston Cancel
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