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The German company Ottmar Zieher produced the first Tasmanian stamp card. This was one card of a large set of every country or state in the world which issued its own stamps. The Tasmanian card is numbered No49 (Top left corner). The publishers details are printed faintly on the left of the picture. The original cards did not have a view printed in the middle.



Ottmar Zieher Printing.



Zieher card with a 1926 Philatelic Exhibition New York USA cinderella stamp attached.




Posted at the Exhibition.

"VSM SERIES"
"The VSM Series" is printed bottom left side on the back of the card. The No 49 is still on the front indicating their Zieher origin. This series was probably wholesaled by Zieher to VSM (Victorian Stamp Market). Cards either have no view or a printed view. Cards are very good qualitity.

I have seen the following 5 cards. Can you add to the list? Perhaps 12 to the set?

No View
Brisbane Street, Launceston Tasmania.
Burnie Tasmania
Liverpool Street Hobart Tasmania.
Queenstown Tasmania.













"O.S. & P.C. Sydney V.S.M. Melbourne" Series.

The most common issue found. The printing and paper quality is poor, embossing is rather crude. Each card has the name Cyril Dillon on the front lower right.

I have seen the following 8 cards, can you add to the listing? I have a feeling that there is 12 in the series.

Frankin, on the River Huon, Tasmania
Liverpool Street, Hobart.
Fern Tree Bower, Hobart.
Burnie Tasmania.
Electric Power Atation near Launceston, Tasmania.
Botanical Gardens and Derwent River, Hobart, Tasmania.
Government House (from Domain), Hobart Tasmania.
Deloraine, Tasmania.



















"Sanatoria Home For Conumptive Women" Series

The rarest of the Tasmanian stamp cards. Published in 1905 and sold in aid of the Sanatoria Home for Consumptive Women.
Does anyone known what the purple cross with lettering stands for? (on back of card).

I can add the following views:

Melbourne Series:

Brisbane Street, Launceston
Fern Tree Bower
Elizabeth Street Hobart (from Union Bank)
West Davenport (sic)

Original series:

Liverpool Street, Hobart
West Devonport

I also have a postally used example used as an advertisng card by a Dutch company.

This example of the V.S.M. card with an insert view of Burnie was used from Launceston on DE 8 05
There is the making of an article for The Courier in this topic ...if you have images of any other cards (or cards already listed above),
please post them here. If the card has been used, please include any clear date that appears thereupon.

""Sanatoria Home For Consumptive Women" Series

The rarest of the Tasmanian stamp cards. Published in 1905 and sold in aid of the Sanatoria Home for Consumptive Women.
Does anyone known what the purple cross with lettering stands for? (on back of card)."
The purple handstamp (QVAS around the Maltese Cross) is generally held to be "Queen Victoria Ambulance Service" which was operated by the Order of St John in Australia since 1883. The Maltese Cross is part of the Order's symbols.

Reference: "Zieher Stamp Picture Post Cards," by David McNamee, The Informer, Vol. 66 No. 4 (Fall 2002), pp. 103-105. A comprehensive listing of Zieher-type cards was written by Patrick Reid in The Informer, Vol 67 No. 3 (July 2003), pp. 60-61.

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