The front of the card shows an imposing two-level building clearly labeled G.P. Fitzgerald & Co. in colour, and the reverse is addressed to a lady living at Constitution Hill, Tasmania. The stampless card has a POSTAGE PAID/ 1/ DEC 20/ 1907/ HOBART TAS postmark, as well as a reception postmark for Constitution Hill (now, Dysart), Tasmania the same day. The printed message reads: “With all Good Wishes/ for a/
A simple advertising cover for Nash cars posted in Adelaide 1 FEB 1939 sent to Nash Motors, Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S.A. has an illustration of a Nash car, advertised by Maughan Thiem Motor Company Ltd, established 1912 in Adelaide, South Australia (Figure 1). The history of this company is well described at its website “The streets of Adelaide in the year 1912 certainly would have sounded, looked and felt very different
This is one of the most extravagant advertising covers I have written about, and it is also the third cover to the CongoI have recorded. I seem to have a fascination for this chaotic region which has had so much strife in its pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial periods. The Australian Stamp Company, Adelaide, South Australia has resisted my many research attempts, but there is enough advertising matter to obtain an idea
A window printed-to-private-order advertising cover for A.F. Brockhoff & Co. Pty. Ltd., Biscuit Manufacturers, West Melbourne, C. 3 with the green imprinted 1d KGVI stamp was postmarked with a roller cancel MELBOURNE/ 2 -PM/ 9 JUN/ 1938/ VICTORIA, with a slogan MINIMUM LETTER/ RATE TO USA 3D/ ADDRESSEE PAYS/ DOUBLE/ DEFICIENCY (Figure 1). Sir Jack Stuart Brockhoff, biscuit manufacturer and philanthropist, was born on 11 March 1908 in South Melbourne,
The advertising cover has a picture of a small machine, but no textual description other than THE “LITTLE WANZER’. It is addressed to Mr. Ramsay, Dobroyde Nursery, Ashfield. The orange ‘ONE PENNY’ stamp of New South Wales was cancelled with a duplex cancel of SYDNEY/ I/ JY 8/ 73/ P with a vertical 4-ring oval N.S.W., as an obliterator of the stamp. Whereas I first thought the ‘I’ was a
This advertising cover “From Albert & Son, Largest Stores in Australia, Head Office 137 & 139 King St. Sydney” is in a pale dull green print, shows a picture of a three level store and on the front of its awning ‘ALBERTS MUSIC STORES SYDNEY’. A total of 2½d NSW stamps are attached and postmarked with 2 copies of SYDNEY/ FE 22/ 11-A-M/ 04/ 10 N.S.W duplex. It is addressed
The first cover shows a stylised ‘ribbon’ advertising JOHN REA/ GUNMAKER/ MCCRAE STREET/ NEXT BLACK SWAN/ SANDHURST and the cover has the 2d lilac mauve stamp of Victoria, postmarked with the duplex SANDHURST/ A/ NO 20/ 80 plus the barred numeral ‘4′ as the obliterator. The Australian Firearms Museum, in a listing of Colonial gunsmiths, gives the following information: ‘Rea, J McRae Street Bendigo (formerly Sandhurst) Vic. 1890′, and a
I almost can’t believe that I am using this advertising cover to introduce this important man, but there is a definite, albeit tenuous connection, so please bear with me. It is addressed to my boyhood friend who may still be alive so that I am obscuring his name and address. The 5c blue QEII stamp is cancelled with a HURSTVILLE/ 445 PM/ 3 OCT/ 1968/ N.S.W AUST. roller cancel with the
Two Australian advertising covers introduced this company in the early 1900s, but the company was started up in Christchurch in the 1860s (1863 in one reference, and 1868 in another), with later expansion to Auckland. However its origin was in Leicester, England where John Auslebrook was born ca. 1834. His parents were Henry George Aulsebrook and Jane Gillam who were bakers in High Cross Street in Leicester. Henry died in
The cover has considerable intrinsic interest on account of the advertising matter on its front and reverse, the type of postmark and the tax markings to warrant publication of the information it provides. The Western Australian stamp is the yellow 2d Swan issued on 4 Jan.1902 and it is postmarked with the duplex SHIP MAIL ROOM/ 11/ NO 21/ 03/ PERTH W.A. with the 8-bar GPO obliterator. It was received