Help To Identify The Place Name On New South Wales (N. S. W.) Postmarks

Hi fairdinkumstamps,

That's a late use of a Sydney dumb obliterator.

Wmk SG40, perf. 11x12 comb is it?

Nice catch Bobby

Thanks Rod

A few more for the record.

Your top right stamp is almost identical Bobby.

I gotta tell you, I was just about to call it a non postmark,
the "V" shape looked absurd, but now we can see the bars do converge
when the hammer is worn.

I agree Rod222.

Thanks very much Bobby De La Rue.



Spot on Bobby De La Rue - SG 223f.

Looking for help with this one please.

The closest I could find is NASHUA but the spelling is reading NASHAU. I have a list that spells it with AU but an online search only shows UA.




Tasnaki

Hi Tasnaki,

The only place I could find that might be a match is Marshall in Victoria.

It is NASHAU New South Wales

From my 20,000 database. (The only result with text string SHAU)
I am assuming there exists a mis-spelt cancelling hammer
for, as you said, NASHUA

Perhaps a reconnoitre through Prestige auctions may confirm?

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Rod222 Fantastic work, I wondered if that was a possibility and you have now confirmed it. The March 1908 date is clearly an early strike.

Mossgreen had one for auction in 2016 with $75 reserve.

Tasnaki

Hi Tasnaki,
yes I was ruminating on that,
Error in use 8 years 6 years, smaller town, what would be the survival rate of good Pmks?

Your price suggests the answer.

Great find Rod

Hopson & Tobin have a date range of 1908 to 1914 so yes, it's a very early use!

What has me perplexed,
is the 1910 impression shows an ARC based design,
(Also periods between Year Month Day in the date slug)
yours does not. (albeit there is a tiny spot of ink at end)

Ergo, they misspelt the hammer twice? or was there 2 hammers sent / in existance?

This one is interesting.

Appears to be a type 2(i) Gravesend postmark from 1909.

28 km from Warialda, Hopson and Tobin show Gravesend as a Receiving Office 1/2/1900 then Post Office at the Railway Station on 16/4/1900. Telegraph (April 1900), Money Order Office (1/11/1905) and Government Savings Bank (20/11/1905) facilities came soon after.

Gravesend was allocated barred numeral 1986.

Canceller type 1D(i) is recorded from 1901-07.

On 3/6/1909, Gravesend became a Semi-Official office and was removed from the railway station.

In 1913 a Telephone Service was established and a manual Telephone Exchange in 1914.

Canceller type 2(i) is recorded from 1913-62 so the one below (if it is Gravesend!) brings the earliest recorded date 4 years earlier.

Gravesend became a Non-Official Post Office on 15/11/1939 and an Automatic Exchange was introduced in 1987.

Canceller type type 3(i) is recorded from 1937-95.

Has to be GRAVESEND

Only 3 Postmarks in the whole of Australia end in SEND
Townsend
Wallsend

You are dashed lucky to have the top strike indicate a faint 1909
Nice catch.
Just make sure the Type 2i Date plug ends at the "D"

Do you have any regime to advise authors of a new EKU?
Curious

I am having trouble here
(NSW postmark novice)
If as you say the 2(i) Pmk is from 1913

Why does your Pmk show the year in full? (1909)
should it not be a 2 character slug? and "NSW AUST"

Ooops
Just noted two hammers in use in 1938 so this must be a 3i
Shucks



This must be the 2i
114241098818
The hammer is definitely dying...