Australia - Can Anyone Identify These Placenames?

See scan above, rod!

In the imortal words of Sergeant Schultz,

"I see nothing......"
"I see nothing......"

Ah!
OK

I am going for
Midland, Junction SB,iv nil 21.5mm
rarity factor 2

SB= Savings Bank
nil = no index number within the CDS
Diameter 21.5mm

The "iv" I have no idea what this refers to.

Yes, I think 'Savings Bank' is correct. I remember reading about this kind of cancel before.

21.5mm is also correct.

What does rarity factor 2 mean? (I don't know how the scale works.)

Thanks for checking this item out, rod!

Your cancel is 1907
The New Midland Post Office was built in 1913

OK. thanks.

By the way, I also found a WA TPO cancel. It's barely legible, but it's a barred oval with large 'T.P.O.' in the centre. (At least, I think it's T.P.O. and not G.P.O.)



I can't find anything online about WA TPO cancels, so perhaps they're also fairly rare. What do you think, rod? Are they covered in those three volumes of yours?

Another intriguing one is 'M. R.' (Manager of Roads?) followed by a word that looks like it could be either ROOTY or BOOTY. No WA placename like that that I can find.

I'd bet your wallet the first is GPO not TPO

the second I'll look later, I am off on a 40Km cycle ride.
then I'll have a "Granny nap"

Managed to survive..
40Km headwind

Still looking, but I have Identified what "iv" is in previous
query

SB = Savings Bank Type 4

Your TPO / GPO is neither,
your stamp is evidencing a double strike
possible to cancel a multiple.

It is a Type DxPO LC Room (Letter Carrier Room)
Perth and 34 Offices
From 1895

12 bar duplex circular centre with "PO" with one dot.

The bottom RHS of your stamp, you can see "AU"
of western australia, the CDS part of the duplex.

Your Last one is Rarity factor of 2

Perth
Perth MRR Col-5a In 7 "Mail Receiving Room GPO"
Your index number is 7

That's that lot cleared up :)

Now I can have a nap....

I'm glad you survived your ride, rod, and thanks for looking into these cancels for me.

I'm not going to agree with you on the second one, though. I really can't see the word PERTH there at all.

There's no obligation to agree in philately JJ
at best, it's just a consensus.

But to expand my explanation that may change your mind,
what I gave you was the Catalogue description.
Perth is not on the Cancel.
Perth is the district where it occured in use.

To read the code it goes
Perth MRR Col-5a In 7 "Mail Receiving Room GPO"

Perth : district
pmk MRR = Mail Reception Room
Col = Colonial postmark
In = Index located within the CDS circle
7 = Index number

Anyhow good luck whatever you believe.

How common are these postmarks without a year?

rod222, I simply cannot see that at all.

I think what you are writing does not agree with what I can see on the cancel.

Perhaps if you had an image of a cancel like this I could figure it out.

I'll see what I can find on the net and post something if I have any luck.

64idgaf, I don't personally recall seeing an Oz cancel without a year before. Very interesting!

Can anyone read this placename?

It could be an MOO cancel, but I doubt it.

Maybe Mount Surprise

Thanks, Al!

I can certainly see that.

(What is actually an 'N" I took to be a 'V.')