The Stamps Of Australia : On Steiner Pages.

43 years ago.
(and my scanner is dying)

and three of your examples from 69 years ago ...








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Interesting...Thanks Frank.
The £2 look appealing cheap by todays std.

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Postmarks:
HRMC MLOCR 544
Posted Coffs Harbour NSW Pmk date 21st November 2017

Code reads :
HRMC : Hunter Region Mail Centre
MLOCR : Multi Line Optical Character Reader
544 : Machine ID number

How it works, The MLOCR reads the multi line address, and a computer designates where the cover is to go, what bin / box/ crate/ bag, prints an orange barcode with those details.

Lord Roberts Fund Raising Labels.
Great Britain Cinderellas : Australian / New Zealand vignettes = 7



The Cinderella Stamp Club of Australasia V25 #2 September 2011
Page 1 of 6

Cinderella.
Singapore '95
Leigh Marden promotional Label.

5/- Bridge sheet of 20.
Including the "retouch over left of centre bridge"
For Sale 1991.
$16,000

Spotlight on Sc# C1 Air

Note: Not mine, from my colleague Harry's, collection.

1930
Recess, Perf 11
"Airplane over bushlands"
Booklet pane of 4...........CV $400 2009 (Booklet 3 x panes of 4)

Highlighted "Dots" indicate the stamp is from a booklet printing.

Perth to Adelaide Air Service.
De Haviland biplane, over a flock of Merino sheep, with eucalypt trees on the side.
The biplane design is identical to those used in the service established in 1929.

Del: RA Harrison, in conjuction with Harold Herbert,
Sc : A Taylor.

Unwatermarked.

2 Types : A: Paper mesh vertical, Type B: Paper Mesh Horizontal.





ignore lhs arrow

Thanks for the great C1 examples. Are the marks in the selvage constant? Especially, the curved line on Plate 2.

Hi Steve,
sorry beyond my knowledge.
I had not seen these articles in all my years of collecting.
I have searched through all my copies for the famous "dot" without success.

This is all new material for me.

Re the Sc C1, it's perhaps worth noting that in most cases, the dot on the booklet version is quite often (and was probably designed to) punched out by the perforation. Thus, the absence of the dot does not preclude the stamp as having come from a booklet. I don't know if there is any feature in the stamp that can otherwise indicate that the stamp started it's life in a booklet.

Frank,



Not that I am aware of Frank.
All this time, I have been looking for the dot in the top margin.
I'll have to dig out my duplicates and look further.

Then this is a case when you might want to acquire sheet-based stamps moderately off centre as that is the only way of being sure that it isn't a booklet stamp.

Also, both sheet and booklet stamps were printed with the paper web both horizontal and vertical in a wet process. Shrinking of the paper thus means there are two distinct sizes of stamps.

Frank

Here is my album page for SG115. Please excuse the typo in the introductory tex. Corrected Airmail serice started 20 May 1929.

Frank,
lovely page, well done you.
Query?
You have the same stamp shown in sheet and booklet form? (Pmk Charleville)
Is this intentional?