Geeveston

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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 ==

TYPE 1a

• 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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TYPE 2b

• Earliest recorded date: 20th - September - 1918

• Latest recorded date: 15th - August - 1939

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TYPE 5(I)

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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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TYPE 5(ii)

• 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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TYPE 5(iii)

• Earliest recorded date: 25th - July - 1949

• Latest recorded date: 30th - May - 1962

• No stops

• Violet ink 1948-50

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TYPE 5(iii)s

• Earliest recorded date: 29th - April - 1963

• Latest recorded date: 6th - May - 1968

• Rated: R

• Used regularly on registered mail

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TYPE 5sT

• Earliest recorded date: 21st - July - 1963

• Latest recorded date: 1st - December - 1977

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TYPE 6

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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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TYPE 6a

• Earliest recorded date: 11th - November - 1969

• Latest recorded date: 7th - March - 1978

• Replaced type 5(I)

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TYPE 7T

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• Earliest recorded date: 22nd - June - 1977

• Latest recorded date: 1st - November - 1989

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TYPE 7(m)T

• Earliest recorded date: 23rd - December - 1989

• Latest recorded date: 25th - August - 1992

• First letter in year is small

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TYPE 7aT

• 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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TYPE R6T

• Earliest recorded date: 15th - April - 1992

• Latest recorded date: Still in use 1995

• Blue ink 1992

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== PAID CDS ==

TYPE 5R

• 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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TYPE 5(s)

• Earliest recorded date: 8th - July - 1966

• Latest recorded date: 2nd - January - 1979

• CDS Paid at Geeveston

• Rated: R

• Red Ink

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TYPE 5(s)T

• 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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TYPE 7bT

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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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TYPE 7b(l)T

• 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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