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
This advert cover was for “Sil Rohu, (Late A.I.F), Successor to W. Graham & Son), Practical Gunsmith, and Importer of High-Grade Guns and, Rifles and Shooters’ Accessories, 110 Bathurst Street, Sydney (Aust.)”. The red 1½d KGV head stamp was cancelled with SYDNEY/ 10PM/ 22 JUN/ 1928/ N.S.W. roller postmark with a slogan COMMONWEALTH LOAN/ NOW OPEN/ APPLY AT ONCE. It was addressed to Mr.H. Woodd Adams, Cookamidgera, NR. PARKES (N.S.W.).
The stampless 0.H.M.S. paper with a manuscript ‘free’ and a red [crown]/ FREE/ with date slugs removed, also has an originating unframed KOORINGA/ DE 13/ SOUTH AUSTRALIA postmark, and it is addressed to Alex Tolmer, Commissioner of Police, Adelaide (Figure 1). The reverse has a reception postmark of G.P.O / DE 14/ SOUTH AUSTRALIA as well as red sealing wax (Figure 2). Alexander was born in England in 1815 of
This slightly battered and indistinct postcard from Egypt was sent ‘On Active Service’ to Mrs Jacka (his mother) in North Fitzroy, Melbourne on 2/2/16 with a message: “A very pretty Landscape of the Pyramids of Giza Lovely in the evenings how is George & Mary and your Mother Hope all well Bert The vendor stated that the card was sent after Albert’s evacuation to Egypt (Figure 1). The front of
This entire has a strip of three of the 1855 Perkins Bacon, London printing rose-carmine TWO PENCE (S.G. # 20) imperforate stamps of South Australia postmarked with 2 strikes of the ‘empty’ circle & bars cancel of Adelaide as well as alongside the PAID/ MR 24/ 1855/ ADELAIDE S A in red. It is rated with a manuscript ‘3′, and unusually it has no transit or arrival markings on the
A long cover with a manuscript “On Public Service” addressed “To Captain Freeling R.E., Surveyor General, Adelaide” has a fine black strike of an oval “POST OFFICE/ MT BARKER” with a manuscript March 1850 in its centre, plus a red “Crown over ‘FREE’ in a circle/1850” plus a black unframed arrival cds “G.P.O./ Crown/ MA (fleuron) 1/ 50/ SOUTH AUSTRALIA” postmark (Figure 1). Arthur Henry Freeling was born in London
As luck would have it, these 2 covers turned up on the same day from two different sources, and surprisingly the two submarines noted were related in time and place, even to the point that the two had been berthed together in Sydney Harbour, at one point in time. The first large cover was On Her Majesty’s Service, with a purple stamping and blue vignette showing it was sent by
This fairly unique destination cover to a long-time troublesome area, now in the Pakistan-Afghanistan region, is related to a series of conflicts starting with the Anglo-Afghan wars during the imperialist Great Game between the United Kingdom and Russia which led to the dismemberment of Afghanistan. The front which was not seen is a real photo, b/w postcard of ‘The Blow Hole, near Flinders’. The reverse shows it is an Australian
This cover is unusual in that it appears to be printed to celebrate the christening and launching of the HMAS Albatross on 23 February 1928, but the cover was not posted until 10 years later from SYDNEY/ 4 15 A 11 JL 38. This date is confirmed by the purple rectangular boxed POLICE OFFICE/ 11 JUL 1938/ H.M.A.S. “ALBATROSS” marking. This date probably celebrates its re-commissioning in July, 1938, but
This item is regarded as a cinderella, a stamp-like creature with no postal validity. Such items are not infrequently applied to the front, but more often to the reverse of a posted envelope mostly for its decorative appeal. There is not a skerrick of postal history interest in a mint copy such as this, but the fact I have never seen a copy before, and that there is a real