Tasmanian Philatelic Society

Established 1900

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New Tasmanian Postmark Book

“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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Early Tasmanian Postal Guides

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

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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