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· · In the 1940s/50s, Valentine provided real photo cards to Tasmanian publishers. Best known are those produced with West Coast views published by Burke's Newsagent at Queenstown which are well-covered in this forum (search "Burke") This real photo card with a view titled OVERLOOKING CYGNET SOUTH h...

· · After a 7 year wait ..... another real photo by F.S. Rodgers has come to light, this time with a view of STATION CRICK* (CREEK) DOVER ww15516.jpg Quite an "atmosphere" depicted in this view! * "Crick" has been reported as being a local pronunciation of "Creek" but I'm no expert in the Dover Dial...

· · I have just come across this real photo style card with a VIEW OF GEEVESTON (numbered '103') printed by The Crown Studios, Sydney bb15444.jpg bb15444a.jpg R. Geeves, Geeveston has been printed as the publisher on the back of the card If you have any cards of Crown Studios origin for this Tasmani...

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Another earliest date for the DEAD LETTER OFFICE TAS. Type 4a cds ..... reported above as being 16 OC 34
but now trumped by this example from 17 MY 34 (6 months earlier)

A new late date for the KANGAROO VALLEY Type 1a cds ..... NO 3 10 ch15076a.jpg The latest listing of postmarks on the Pictorial issues (The Courier No.77) has no listed LRD but states in the remarks column ".....cds sent in for repairs 30.10.1910" so evidence for this now needs re-visiting.

DEVONPORT Time Clock datestamp with PRIORITY PAID removed dated 16 NOV 1989 · this is Type Clock (ii)(x) and a new early date qq1351a.jpg Interesting to note that the date 16 NOV 1989 is much earlier than that listed by Hardinge (5 JUN 1990) but that's not all..... The latest recorded date of the p...

New code letter 'L' seen on a very clear example of HOBART TOWN Type U2(ii) cds postmark

After a few years, I have finally come across a different view on a real photo postcard by F.M. Kennedy

PROSSER'S RIVER, ORFORD

A new late date of use of the oval PARCEL POST BRANCH LAUNCESTON Type R2(i) datestamp
Unfortunately, the 'day' and 'month' in the dateline are not discernible however '1926' is obvious

Previous LRD was 17May 1924

A very useful source of general information about Australian postcards ..... make a cup of tea and have a look!!

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-153090362

New LRD for HOBART M.O.O. No.13 Type R2a(v) rubber cds ..... 24 OCT 1962 ..... (previous LRD 5 OCT 1962)


New LRD for HOBART M.O.O. No.23 Type R2a(vii) rubber cds ..... 7 MAR 1958 ..... (previous LRD 23 SEP 1955 !!)

A new late date of use of the CORNERS Type U2 cds · previously 16/9/1881 · now 11/8/1882


Postmark is struck on the back of a privately overprinted 1d postal card

Welcome Tim

I hope that the TPS forum will add to your enjoyment of collecting Tassie stamps and postal history ..... hopefully we can get you into collecting postcards as well!

Ross Ewington · TPS BB Moderator

Recent discovery ..... a part CAMPBELL (TOWN) mss cancel on a 1d Pictorial dated 5.3.190(0)

3 more of the cards....

addendum ...... BURNIE · MONEY ORDER OFFICE Type R2a rubber datestamp

please note that the listing on page 39 is not correct

1) the datestamp does not read "MONEY ORDERS"
2) a Type R2b rubber cds does not exist

..... please edit your copy

...with the stamp also inverted as well as on both sides in order to provide as sort of 360° view

1899 dates after December 25th on Hobart and Launceston postmarks can be found with a little effort. Postmarks pre-dating December 25th are much scarcer in my experience.

All 1899 dated postmarks from post offices other than Hobart and Launceston are very scarce to extremely rare.

to assist with ID, can you please post an image of the other three positions (if you eliminate all but the cancel, that will assist too)?

cheers ... Ross E.

I have not seen any cards by C. Standaloft before. The card below is a view of "CHISWICK", a home at Ross in the Midlands bb1976.jpg A quick search in "Trove" found a couple of mentions of the name associated with events in the Ross area. If you have one or more cards by this photographer, please po...

Just listed this card by Kraus for auction ...... 'new' cards by this photographer/publisher appear to be few and far between

without a part or complete town name in the mss cancellation , one can only assume that the stamp has been fiscally used

another for the list


WATER WORKS BRID RIVER SCOTTSDALE numbered 34

A new T.R.G Williams card to me also not listed above (although we lost some data when the site was hacked in 2017

SCOTTSDALE GEORGE ST numbered '5'

Another recent "find"

TEEPOOKANA Type 1 cds on a 1d Pictorial dated 27 JA 02

This is interesting as the PO re-opened (after a 2+ years closure) on 1 FE 02

I don't recall seeing another example on a 1d Pictorial ..... does anyone have the cds on this stamp in their collection?