Bulgobac

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OPENED: 1-JUN-1938 · CLOSED: 30-JUN-1957

RE-OPENED: 1-JAN-1958 · CLOSED: 30-JUN-1964

Location: situated on the Emu Bay Railway approx. 13kms NNW of Tullah

• closest post office to Bulgobac during it's period of operation was at Tullah

• operated as a 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

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Bulgobac(1) 5 7 Jun 1938 26 Jul 1954 RRR> Opened 1 Jun 1938. Rarer postally used. Would rate RRRR thus Mss 2 Jan 1955 11 Dec 1955 RRRR "W.Shepherdson" with date in pen. He was the postmaster at Bulgobac. CDS presumably lost. Closed 31 Jun 1957.

Bulgobac(2) Reopened 1 Jan 1958 as pastoral T.O. CDS does not appear to have been issued as not open to the general public. Present in the postal guides until some years later(about 1969) but closed 30 Jun 1964

Datestamp

Type 5

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• Earliest recorded date: 7-JUN-1938 · Latest recorded date: 26-JUL-1954

• examples of this datestamp are rated RRR

• 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

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