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Most real photo cards from the various Ash Bester series produced in the late 1940s through to the 1960s are common to very common in unused condition. This is due to the fact that the remaindered stock (a hoard of huge proportions!) was sold at auction in Hobart a number of years ago when Ash Beste...

Below are images of the block of 4 and horizontal pair of MUH 8c lemon Tas Tiger stamp duties to which Alex refers (above). Sorry about the quality of the colour ... the scanner I used three years ago wasn't a patch on the one I have now. - Ross http://tsauctions.com/bb/8c%20lemon%20muh%20block%202....

Thanks Alex - I probably still have the images from the auction that I will post here when I locate them. There is another MUH block of four (below) that has just (today!) been consigned to me for auction. I have no idea how many other examples the vendor has but it is probably very few as it is kno...

These labels were reported in The Courier No.20 (September 1995) by TPS member Colin Jones. http://tsauctions.com/bb/pioneer%206d%20coupons.jpg In his brief report of the discovery he states "I was working on renovations in Sussex House, 156 Harrington Street, Hobart (and) the removal of a mantle s...

Hi Patrick

great to have you "on board"

Ross Ewington (one of the usual suspects)

Hi Tony welcome to the TPS bulletin board! Regarding you inquiries: 1) as a beginner, the approach of collecting "anything and everything" is a good idea as you will quickly get an overview of the available material and eventually find a publisher,photographer, theme, locality that you would like to...

re St Georges Church - During a short troll through the State Archive website I managed to find these images. The first image of St Georges Church of England at Sorell dated 1900 looks like a match - three windows down the side, similar cross on front, position and type of trees, etc BUT........ ht...

A lot now rests I feel, with a comparison of the paper used for these 13/6d Beer Duties with the plate proofs
and other issues. I should have the "items in question" in my possession for a closer look in a day or two.

BUT ..... if the 13/6d Beer Duties were just reprints of "fantasies", why produce them in at least five different colours closely matching those "as issued"? The reprints of the Bradbury Wilkinson beer duties in negative (probably from the 1930s) were produced only in one colour I believe ..... if t...

I did refer to your FREE Online catalog Dave, but to the best of my knowledge not all of the first issue have been seen used with 1904 dates. Please regard my posting as a confirmation of a new early date of use for Craig 7.81. I was surprised to find it as I have seen numerous examples of the 1/- ...

OSTERLY SOUTH / AU 7 01 / TASMANIA - rated RRRR



This postmark was offered on eBay during late August 2009. I will add the
price realised here when known.

I was recently scanning some Court of Requests/General Sessions documents with revenues thereupon for my next auction and noted a 1/- green Numeral Stamp Duty in among the St George & Dragons and Platypus issues. Curiosity lead me to Bill Craig's " Handbook of Tasmanian Revenue Stamps " and found h...

Thanks to Dave for images of plate proofs made of the various 1880 denominations in the colours as issued, I have been able to prepare this comparison between three of the proofs and three of the 13/6d "fantasies"/trials/reprints/whatever. It appears to me that the colours match very well consideri...

NEW NORFOLK RY. STN / AU 1 07 / TASMANIA - rated (R) Note that the "month" and "day" have been added using handheld type! Most unusual - not only a well above average strike but a weird one as well! Postmark ties a 1d Pictorial to a Walch & Sons PPC featuring a picture of "Hobart, from Huon Road". ...

This image of a photo card by H.J. Hellesey from the 1940s was sent to me by an eBay seller based in Victoria It does not have a printed back so it's not strictly a postcard but was probably intended to be used as one (J. Breaden sold similar "tourist photos" during the 1940s that are sometimes see...

The 13/6d Beer Duties are currently stuck down on ancient album page remnants and the paper on which the stamps were printed on cannot be easily determined. Below is an "in situ" image .... the age of the paper and the handwriting suggest a pre-WWII date at least. http://tsauctions.com/bb/Tas%20Bee...

These five 13/6d Beer Duties originally issued in 1880 (below) have just "surfaced" in Hobart. The were found in a small old-time collection of Australian and worldwide stamps. Although nothing is definite yet they may be offered for auction later in 2009 .... or they may disappear into the back of...

"S.S. Sydney at Stanley, Tas." - photographer / publisher not identified
Probably from c.1910 - printed in Germany with index #142385

"Central Charles Street, Launceston, Tasmania" by S. Spurling - c.1912
Card No.684 / German printer's index #111164

This was card was sold by Tasmanian Stamps Auctions for $68
in their November 2008 postal auction

YOLLA / 20.MAY.09 / TASMANIA - rated (R)R


This postmark was sold by Tasmanian Stamp Auctions
for $66 in their 7.JUN.2008 postal auction

LOIRA / 4.NO.12 - 10.15.AM / TASMANIA - rated RRR


To be offered for sale in the TSA November 2009 Postal Auction

1912 - "Mt Lyell Haulage conveying the people to the scene of disaster" - photographer unknown as is the publisher. This is one of a series of cards with views of the North Mount Lyell mining Disaster in 1912. For an extensive description of this disaster, a whole chapter can be found in "The Peaks...

"At Trevallyn, A Popular Suburb, Launceston, Tasmania" - photographed and published
by Spurling c.1913 (card no.751 / German printer's index #104158)

This card will be offered for sale by TSA in November 2009

1896 - small Commercial Bank Launceston cashier’s cheque altered in pen for use at the National Bank of Tasmania, Stanley with circular colourless One Penny impressed duty Craig 7.504 (i.e. base of crown 3.5mm wide). This is a very late usage (approx. 16 years after Craig’s LRD) but this may be expl...

LEGANA / 13 SE.11 / TASMANIA - rated RRR

Offered on eBay - August 2009