Useful links for collectors of Tasmanian and Australian Material

Other Tasmanian Philatelic Societies

The Launceston Philatelic Society is a very active club with two meetings per month, including sales and displays, circuit sheets, and 6-monthly market days which are attended by buyers and sellers from all over Tasmania. Check out the Launceston Philatelic Society site.

The following businesses are members of the TPS

Tasmanian Stamp Auctions Tasmanian Stamp Auctions

The Stamp Place Tazi Tiger 's Den - Stamps, Coins, Medals and Collectables. Tazi Tigers' Den

Tasmanian Revenues - Dave Elsmore's site is full of useful information

Revenue and Railway Stamps of Australia (includes Tasmania)

Collection of Tasmanian Revenues

1 Judging Tasmanian Revenue collections

On-line Revenues and Railways stamp catalogue

Society of Australasian Specialists/Oceania

2 Society of Australasian Specialists

Useful links for Tasmanian Postmark collectors

3 Australian Stamps

4 Locate a Post Office

* A data base of Tasmanian Town names

See the Resources page for cheklists and articles about Tasmanian post marks

The Tattersall's Private Mail Network

5 Tasmanian Tattersall's Tickets & Stamp Duty Tax.

The World Association for the Development of Philately (WADP) Numbering system

6 The WADP numbering System

Philatelic database

7Philatelic database

Queensland

A site for Queensland Collectors
Footnotes

1 Very useful paper lists the key items for inclusion in a Tas Revenues collection

2 Much of interest to the Tasmanian collector plus States, Australia, New Zealand and S. Pacific Islands. Publishes the 1/4ly Journal, 'The Informer'.

3 An Australia Post site with details of Australian Stamp issues

4An Australia Post Site providing details of individual post Offices - search for Tasmanian Post Offices here

5David McNamee detailed the story of Tattersals Private mail network in his book, Beating the Odds (Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria, 2002, isbn 0 947345 175). This site by Dave Elsemore may be of interest.

6The WADP and the Universal Postal Union (UPU) jointly conceived and developed this system which was launched on- WNS, which was launched on 1 January 2002.

7A database of Philatelic references, including Tasmania - continually up-dated