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Hobart Stamp Show new dates – 19 – 21 May 2023

22/03/2022 pete

The Hobart Stamp Show National One-frame now 19 – 21 May 2023 The APF has agreed to a TPS request to re-schedule the Hobart Stamp Show one-frame national exhibition to May 2023 . The Exhibition will be held from Friday…

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Hobart Stamp Show 2020 Cancelled

16/08/2020 pete

Hobart Stamp Show 2020 Cancelled Unfortunately we have had to cancel the next Hobart One-frame National stamp and postcard exhibition due to restrictions from the COVID19 Pandemic

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Hardinge Tas Postmark book sold out

03/05/2019 pete

John Hardinge’s major work on all Tasmanian Postmarks has sold out   After the release of “Tasmanian Postal History: The Post Offices and their Datestamps ” in June last year, orders for the un-sold copies soon exceeded stock. Sadly there…

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New Tasmanian Postmark Book

08/01/2018 pete

“Tasmanian Postal History: The Post Offices and their Datestamps” Tasmanian Postal Historian, John Hardinge has a new book, to be published by the TPS in April this year. John’s book lists every hand-held datestamp from 1823 – 2000 showing rarity…

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Hobart National One-frame Exhibition 18 – 20 Nov 2016

03/06/2016 pete

TPS to host a National One-frame Exhibition in 2016 The TPS is again presenting an  Exhibition in Hobart at the Hobart Town Hall in November 2016. Following the successful 2012 event a similar stamp and postcard exhibition with up to…

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Early Tasmanian Postal Guides

09/05/2016 pete

Attention Tasmanian Postal Historians Access to source documents for Tasmanian postal historians seems to have become more difficult since the 1980s. Once, the Tasmanian Postal Museum held originals or copies of many useful documents such as Postal Guides, Letter Books…

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Latest TPS Journal published

09/08/2015 pete

The June 2015 edition of the TPS Journal, The Courier has been  published. Articles include: a definitive listing of Tasmanian Printed to Private Order stationary including illustrations Part 2 of a series of articles about the Postal History of Tasmanian’s…

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Tasmanian Postal History Page added

10/02/2015 pete

New Tasmanian Postal History timeline A new Tasmanian Postal History page has been added to our site. This is in the form of a timeline showing significant dates an a brief summary of the more important Acts, regulations, routes and…

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Guide to cds on Pictorials now available

02/02/2015 pete

Guide to cds on Tasmanian Pictorials 1889 – 1913 now available All pre-publiction orders will be shipped by 6 Feb 2015. Corrections and additional information is available here http://tps.org.au/bb/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1133

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New Publication – Rarity ratings and Guide to date stamps on Pictrials

16/01/2015 pete

A Guide to the circular date stamps on Tasmanian Pictorial issues The TPS  will publish the completely revised and enlarged listings and rarity ratings for the circular date stamps on Tasmanian Pictorials. This is the result of  many years of…

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