Bulgobac
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OPENED: 1-JUN-1938 · CLOSED: 30-JUN-1957 ~~o~~ RE-OPENED: 1-JAN-1958 · CLOSED: 30-JUN-1964
Location: situated on the Emu Bay Railway approx. 13kms NNW of Tullah at 41° 37' 42" South, 145° 35' 41" East
- closest post office to Bulgobac during it's periods of operation was at Tullah
- Telephone Office only during the second period of operation and there is no evidence that a steel datestamp was issued for use 1958/64
- listed in Postal Guides until c.1969 but the office definitely closed in 1964
- connected to the outside world only by rail, Bulgobac was the site for many decades of a large sawmill as well as an E.B.R. siding with provision for locomotives to take on water
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Datestamp[edit]
Type 5
- Earliest recorded date: 7-JUN-1938 · Latest recorded date: 26-JUL-1954
- examples of this datestamp are rated RRR (on telegram piece) and RRRR for a genuine postal use
- manuscript additions/alterations to the dateline have been recorded from the 1950s (see example on telegram piece above)
Report an earlier or later use of the Type 5 datestamp here
Other Cancellations[edit]
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- manuscript cancels "W. Shepherdson" (the postmaster) have been recorded from between 2-JAN-1955 and 11-DEC-1955 and it is presumed that the datestamp had been lost or destroyed
- mss cancels are rated RRRR
Report an earlier or later use of a manuscript cancel at this office here
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