NSW Sydney Herald Newspaper Wrapper

Hi all,

took me a while to work out it was the Sydney Herald, does anyone have a picture of the full cancel?
thanks.

Guess:
that is not a cancel, but the printing of the Newspaper of the front page.
Stamps were sometimes attached to the paper before printing.

Hi Rod, I thought this was just part of the wrapper,

Hi Jony,



Hang on there pardner, you may well be right.
I was shooting from the hip, and holding my breath, hence the guess
Your option seems more reasonable, albeit, I am not aufait with NSW stationery.
I find your example extremely interesting and saved it in my Stationery files
for any future Identification down the line.

Note: I still believe it is not a "Cancellation" per se, maybe a wrapper print for bulk newspaper usage, but then again, we would expect to see more examples.
Your example looks more like a wrapper, than Newspaper, paper.

I have another unusual usage, looks like a broadsheet fragment
Your example kind of fits into this strange usage.

The Paper
wiki
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, the SMH is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and has become a national online-news brand. The print version of the newspaper is published six days a week.

The Font looks consistent for a Newspaper !

The 1d Queen Victoria De La Rue Newspaper wrappers were first issued in 1865, the design being part of the much larger wrapper.

In this case, the wrappers would have been purchased by the publisher and imprinted with SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, ready to post the newspaper to subscribers.

When the newspaper was posted, the wrapper would receive a normal postmark. This one is from 1868:


One example (there are at least two sizes) of the full SYDNEY MORNING HERALD imprint is:

This snip is from the excellent AsianPhilatelist website, which shows beautiful examples of New South Wales postal stationery.

Fabulous solution there FDS
Great to have that sourced.
Thank you very much.