1908 Walebing , Western Australia Post Card.

Lovely Postcard.

Opinion, would attract a few bids if offered here locally $5-$25 ? perhaps.

I muse if the sender, Mrs White the telegraphist................

The Walebing Post Office was built in 1896 of stone quarried on a nearby site. It was built as a repeater station for improved communications between Perth and Geraldton to update the earlier system built in 1873 which was a farm house to farm station manned by occupying settlers.

The first appointed operator was Mr RE Thomas. In 1898 Mr & Mrs F White were appointed to the new station after serving at the Post Office at Berkshire Valley and elsewhere. Mrs White was an experienced telegraphist. Her husband's duties wee to maintain the equipment at the Post Office and service the line from Toodyay to Carnamah. There was no telegraph office in Moora until much later. With the advent of the railway, the old Geraldton Road became little used and in 1894 the Walebing to Moora Road was surveyed by HB Lefroy.

The postcard looks like there's a stamp missing where the CA of CARD should be. The rate to the USA at that time was 1½d.

Is the cancellation rare? Contact Ace Stamp Auctions or Robin Linke and they should be able to advise.

Applause............

I sort of noted that, (just the ring ) but it didn't register at the time. Well spotted.
(that may reduce value)

Postmark
4 types exist
Possibly a 3b 25mm Rarity 1-2 (known to exist in low numbers)

In my previous piece, the surveyor LEFROY, the descendents, still live in Walebing 170 years on.........