Reorganizing My Australia Collection.

Found out a week ago Friday wife and I had Covid. Dodged it for almost three years, but now here we are. Wife had her second negative today - I'm still positive.
Said she knew I was sick when I wasn't (as she said) "Playing with my stamps".

So that's it for NSW.
Any interest in any other States? Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria.

I'll probably do some more of the early commemorative's.
Thanks for looking,
pat

(Last Pages)
O -W










Given by a Canadian friend.
Sent 130830 - arrived Sept 06 2013 (Not bad)
Trying to make out the spray cancel. S(???)...F NSW FMOCR 708
With "Mail found damaged...." sticker.
Edmonton, AB Meadowlark PO

Thank you for sharing Pat

Bobby - Thanks for your help and interest.

Did just find this bit of info on the spray cancel:

FMOCR stands for "Flat Mail Optical Character Reader".
pat

Happy to help Pat.

I would never have guessed the acronym!

Finally tested negative after almost two weeks of Covid. Nothing bad , but it sure was irritating.

Anyway................

Went with South Australia next. Here are the SA state stamps. Will do the Commonwealth with SA cancels next.

The cancels are fun (and frustrating) to decipher. Sometimes the difference being one or two letters (start or end) as to what town it could be or another.

pat



Of all the stamps looked at, this seems to be the only plate flaw I found.












Double perf.
Rejected, sent for OS use??

Here is the rest for South Australia

Been off doing other things. Back to Australia for a bit.

Up in the mountains for two weeks. Brought my Victoria and Melbourne books with me to work on. No scanner or USB scope so will have to share when I get back.

The snow for the past month has really been something. Finally able to come up and dig out. One neighbor said he recorded 9ft. for the storms. One next to me lost a large pine, but luckily fell away from the house.

Last week the snow (berm) was to the top of the orange pole (6ft.). Rain and warmer weather starting to melt fast.
Best to all,
pat

Looks like a lovely spot patg23

Got back yesterday. Saw that it is snowing up there again today.

So on to Victoria.
Picked up my "Big Blue" Vol. 1A&B around 1973. Worked on it for many years and with glassine page dividers and quadrille extra pages it had expanded to six binders.Not sure exactly when, but at some point I stopped adding, and started moving countries I was more interested to Vario pages.

This is my original Victoria as I left it.For old memories decided to leave it as it was. For not collecting cancels back then, seemed to have captured a few.

Moving forward I'll do State stamps, then Melbourne cancels, then general towns. (maybe)

Thanks,
pat

Decided to go with Victoria state stamp BNC's first. Didn't worry about SC # just ordered 1 to n.

Again Thanks to Postmark Reveal for seeing the hard ones, and Phoenix auctions for the town name.

I'm sure a few are mis-identified, so thanks for any corrections. (I see a few already)

The bottom one on last page is very frustrating: MCCC? 130??
There is no quad number in Roman, so not CCCC

A work in progress. Saved spaces for future additions.
Thanks,
pat

Some few odds&ends:
Registered
Late Fees
English Mail
Telegraph Office
Ship Mail Room
Up Train
Private Perfins

Will do Town CDS next.
Thanks,
pat

Few town CDS's:
Will do Melbourne cancellations/time stamps next, then Victoria Commonwealth cancels.
pat

John (idgaf64) sent me the 'Cancellations of Melbourne' some time back.

Using it on the below was way deeper than I needed, but very helpful with all the variations:
Duplex single circle number and time codes
Double circle and Commonwealth types

These came to me some time ago in a large accumulation from a nice collector from the down under blog.

I've sorted these roughly, will probable redo more to follow the book.

Thanks,
pat

Nice stuff Pat

Keep 'em coming!

It is in the 1400s, 'MCCCC' (the 1500s were 'MD'). Beyond that, the number cannot be determined.