Postmark Theme, New, Old, How Or Why.

Nigel,
both from an auction catalogue.
Probably the only place I will see them.

Well done stampgal

Bayswater, and that is a <very> pertinent postmark,
long ago, in the mists of time that was the aerodrome
for the wood and wire flying machines to access Perth City.

I have a picture somewhere of Ulm taking off from
Hinkler on his way there.

Bayswater/maylands ajoin each other
and I'd suggest the Bayswater PO was near the aerodrome.

Rodney - your Madagascar stamp on the previous page is shown in SG Pt.1 under Madagascar: British Consular Mail as SG28 (1886).

Thankyou very much 22crows,
I don't have the auction catalogue, just the scans,
and I was in the dark, along with most people I suspect :)

The image stuff has changed! lol

Some Australia Victoria state stamps with two cancels that look close
together in years but are they legitimate cancels?
They just do not look right to me. They seem to have too many things
the same. Could very easily be wrong but.

Genuine John,
one differs in that it has location "E" in the CDS
MmmBalf will probably shine a light on that.
Two socked on the nose cancels, well done you :)

Two differing perforations?

Do the cancels press through the back slightly on both? The left hand one looks to be a deeper strike to me. Might just be over inking?

The left hand strike seems to have a time/operator code ('L' or 'E'?). I'd guess Sandhurst would have been a fairly large and busy post office in those gold mining days. These days, it's known as Bendigo.

Here's an unpaid British Indian cover I received the other day





with a nice assortment of cancellations it collected as it wandered around the Bundelkhand region of Central India, circa 1880, looking for a home. Nothing startling: I think it probably started out from Karwi on 30 June, went on to Kampta on the same day, then on to Satna and Nowgong on the 1 July, at some point travelling by rail and picking up the railway 2 5 A UP and UNPAID/SORTING strikes on the front. It finally managed to reach its destination at Charkhari Town (Charkhari State issued its own stamps between 1894 and 1948) on the 3 July, after some expert in the local geography cottoned on to the fact that the 'Maharajnagar' of the address was the local alternative name for Charkhari Town. Who'd be a mail sorter in India in the good old days?

It also has a POSTAGE DUE stamp, with (I think) '1 Anna' in manuscript in the lower box. It certainly had an anna's worth of travel about the countryside.

How interesting was that!
Sure glad I posted those 2 stamps.

They are real cancels, thanks Rod and the
perforations are different but the stamps
have no real value except to the collector.

Sandhurst is now Bendigo thanks tonymacg.

Puzzler the lighter cancel or 2nd stamp comes
through the back of the stamp more than the other.

Any idea why Sandhurst changed to Bendigo?
That's interesting.

I cycled to Piesseville the other day (30km)
turns out it was originally "Barton"
It conflicted apparently with a "Barton" in Queenland so was renamed.

Curious as Barton was Australia's first prime minister
so to change it from Barton must have been important.

Even when cycling, Philately pokes her nose in.

Blowhard VIC

Dunedoo NSW

This one covers two areas of mine, KGV jubilee's and postmarks from the Gulgong district

Crikey!
love the Dunny doo and the blowhard postmarks!
why am I not surprised Blowhard is in victoria ?


and Gulgong, home of that famous SCF KG5 collector.

I am watching, Rodney