This registered and air mail cover has a Perth registration label and the Australian postage of a single violet ‘Roo on Map of Australia’ stamp is postmarked PERTH REGISTERED/ 23 MY 30/ WESTERN AUSTRALIA. It pays for the ship voyage to the USA, and there are 2 pairs of the bicoloured US 5 cents Air Mail stamps also postmarked with the identical Perth postmark, to pay for the air mail
This stampless ‘On Her Majesty’s Service’ cover was addressed to Messrs. H.J. Cooper & Co. Ltd., 22 Thavies Inn, Holborn Circus, London E.C. England. The duplex MELBOURNE/ 13 K/ AU 14/ 94 with ‘VICTORIA’ obliterator partially obscures a black copy of the MINISTER OF WATER SUPPLY/ FRANK/ STAMP/ VICTORIA. At lower left is a pink-purple oval ‘ V. W. S./ ms 13/8/94/ RIVER GAUGING & WATER BORING’, handstamp [V.W.S. =
The cover is an advertisement for a book Australian Insects by W.W. Frogatt , F.L.S., Government Entomologist, N.S.W. and it has the red 1d ‘Shield’ stamp of New South Wales, canceled by the Sydney suburb of Croydon with an uncertain date. It was addressed to Herr H. Ribbe of Dresden, Germany. There were several German entomologists with that surname, all experts in Australian and Papuan butterflies, and one of them was Herrn
The cover had a pair of the yellow 1c and a pair of the 2c green stamps of Peru showing Manco Pacic, founder of the Inca Dynasty which were issued 1896-1900, but the colours were different than stated by Scott catalogue 142-143. They were cancelled by an illegible oval Peruvian postmark. It was addressed to Walter F. Gale Esqre,Newcastle N.S.W., Australia (Figure 1). The reverse had 4 postmarks, 3 of
This ON PUBLIC SERVICE ONLY stampless cover was addressed to W.F.Petterd, Brisbane St., City and it had a duplex cancel of LAUNCESTON/ A/ NO 21/ 91, TASMANIA which partially obscured a blue CORPORATION OF LAUNCESTON/ FRANK STAMP. There was a printed TASMANIAN EXHIBITION, 1891-92 in the lower left corner (Figure 1). The reverse had a blue printed Tasmanian Exhibition 1891-2, Launceston with the Lion, Unicorn and crest in its centre
The cover is addressed to Saml. W. McGowan Esq, Supt. of Telegraphs, Central Office, Melbourne. The imperforate dull rose 4d ‘Emblems’ stamp of Victoria is canceled with the barred numeral‘8′ of Portland (Type A1) (Figure 1). The cover’s reverse has an oval unframed PORTLAND/ [crown]/ MA 17/1858/ VICTORIA (Figure 2). Samuel Walker McGowan, scientist and administrator, was born on 4 January 1829 in Londonderry, Ireland, eldest son of Samuel McGowan
This Commonwealth of Australia postcard documents one of Australia’s multifaceted heroes, who is described in a 4 page entry in The Australian Dictionary of Biography (A.D.B.) as an Academic, Army officer, Explorer, Geologist, Palaeoentologist and Public servant. The red-brown 1½d KGV Head stamp is cancelled with a roller cancel in which SOUTH AUSTRALIA is legible and neither Adelaide nor the date are visible. The card is addressed to T.E. Powell,
This cover front only was sent from the University of Sydney to J.T. Anderson Esq, B.A., B.E., A.M. (—- ), Messrs Monash & Anderson, Civil and Mechanical Engineers, Australian Buildings, 49 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne and the pair of the lilac ‘ONE PENNY’ ‘Sydney Views’ stamps of New South Wales were obliterated with an illegible postmark, but there was a fine HOMEBUSH/ SP 27/ 1894/ N.S.W postmark alongside (Figure 1). Joshua
This dull rose-red 1d Victorian embossed envelope has an additional 1d stamp added and both are postmarked with the barred numeral ‘461′ of Hochkirch and there is also an unframed HOCHKIRCH/ JU 8/ 03/ VICTORIA postmark, with the year slug inverted and reversed. It is addressed to Mr. Teppper, Entomologist, Public Museum, Adelaide, S. Australia. The sender is identified by the purple hand-stamp as Louis Kurtze, Hochkirch, Victoria. The ‘4′
The cover has a green 1d ‘Sideface’ stamp of Tasmania and it is postmarked with a duplex HOBART/ S/ OC 24/ (—) with the obliterator TASMANIA over the stamp. It is addressed to Wm. Sharland Esq, New Norfolk (Figure 1). The reverse has an arrival cancel of NEW NORFOLK/ OC 25/ 85/ TASMANIA and there is a double oval printed DOBSON MITCHELL & ALLPORT/ SOLICITORS/ HOBART on the flap (Figure