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Courier Articles

Tasmanian Hand Cancels 1913 - 88:An up-date in 2001 Courier #31, May 2001

Three volumes of work(1., 2. 3.) provide Tasmanian Postmark Collectors with a firm foundation for the Commonwealth Period Postmarks. This Article, from The Courier #31, by John Hardinge, Robbie McDonald and Vytas (Jack) Navickas, provides an up date to 2001, including new finds, new early and late dates and additional information .Download PDF

THE WRECK OF THE TYNE 1861 - John Shepherd. Courier # 44, Dec 2007

The John Woolfe collection of ‘Maritime Wreck Covers of the World’ was auctioned by Spink on 6 December 2006. The collection contained a substantial number of Australian covers including a Tasmanian wreck cover which does not appear to have been previously recorded. Download PDF

Other Tasmanian reference articles

THE ‘MACQUARIE PLAINS’ HANDSTAMP USED AS A CANCELLER - John Shepherd

This article records the known examples of the ‘Macquarie Plains’ hand stamp. It is one of the more intriguing of the makeshift cancellers used in Tasmania during the first allocation period (1853-1861). Download PDF

TATTERSALS AND THE POST OFFICE- Richard Breckon

Australia's most famous Lottey was located in Tasmanian from 1896 to 1954, and had an enormous impact on Postal History within Tasmanian and the whole Commonwealth. Reproduced from 'The Australian Philatelist' V2, No 2, Winter 1989, with kind permission of the Author. Download  PDF

Checklists, Classifications

Circular Date Stamps on Tasmanian Pictorial Stamps - Rarity Ratings

The rarity of the Circular date-stamps on Tasmanian Pictorials has been researched since at least 19504., further refined in 19625. and 1975 6.. While still arguably still a work in progress, the Rarity ratings provided here, from Lancaster, 19867, is the currently accepted reference. Download PDF .( An excell version of this table is available to TPS members and is useful as an editable checklist. Contact the Webmaster )

 

(1) Avery and J Hardinge (1993) Tasmanian Hand Cancellations 1913 - 88, Part 1: Offices A - L (Excluding Hobart and Launceston) . Magpie Publications

(2)Avery and J. Hardinge (1994), Tasmanian Hand Cancellations 1913 - 88, Part 2:Hobart, Launceston, Other Offices M - Z, Magpie Publications.

(3)A. E. Orchard (ed) (1996) The Post Offices of Tasmania, Second Edition: Openings and Closings 1812 t0 1995(With up-dates to Tasmanian Hand Cancellations 1913 - 88). Revised and up-dated by J Hardinge. Magpie Publications.

(4)J. R. W. Purves in conjunction with Keith Lancaster, The Town name and date cancellations found on the Pictorial stamps of Tasmania (1900 - 1912)Philately from Australia, Mar 1950

(5)H Campbell, J. Purves, L Viney, Tasmania: The postal history and Postal Markings royal Philatelic Society of Victoria, 1962

(6) J Avery, P Edwards, O Ingles, J Purves Tasmania: The postal History and Postal Markings Part II Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria 1975

(7 )K. E. Lancaster The pictorial Stamps of Tasmania 1899 - 1912 Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria 1986