Useful links for collectors of Tasmanian and Australian Material

Other Tasmanian Philatelic Societies

The Launceston Philatelic Society is an active club with two meetings per month, including sales and displays, circuit sheets, and 6-monthly market days. Check out the Launceston Philatelic Society site.

The following businesses are members of the TPS and offer material likely to be of interest to members

Tasmanian Stamp Auctions

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

Premier Postal Auctions

Torsten Weller

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

Philatelic sites with Tasmanian content

2 Society of Australasian Specialists

British Society of Australian Philately

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 checklists and articles about Tasmanian post marks

This Post Office Database from Premier Postal Auctions provides a searchable database of post Offices

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

Australian Philatelic Links

Australian Philatelic Society The Society is based in Melbourne, Australia and has members from around the world dedicated to the research, study, publication and display of all aspects of philately and postal history, both of Australia and its States, and worldwide. The Society states its objective is to provide the best possible environment for the encouragement and promotion of philately. It states it is forward-looking and dynamic, aiming to be the premier society in Australasia, bringing new members, and all collecting interests together for the good of philately.

Links - Other Australian States

Les Molnar's comprehensive Victoria site

Queensland Postal Markings to 1913

 

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