This cover is unusual both for the name of the sending company (JUNGLE DOCTOR, 93 Bathurst Street, Sydney) as well as the printed graphics, with the small ‘stick’ men at top left which are most likely a black man and a white missionary, and the running animals at the bottom, which include a lion, zebra, gazelle, hippopotamus, monkey, giraffe and elephant. I was surprised how this cover quickly identified 2
This relatively insignificant postcard has modest postal history appeal but is of considerable social philatelic interest. Early on, I recognised the interest but it remained in my postcard collection for a decade as I was not in a writing mode in those days. The front shows that it was sent from Parkville Victoria and the red 1d and the green bantam ½d ‘Postage’ stamps were postmarked with the duplex PARKVILLE/
This fine cover is addressed to Joaquin Miller, The Hights, Oakland San Francisco, U.S.A. and it has a purple ‘cogwheel’ N.Z. MARINE P.O./ 10 JUL 99/ R.M.S.”MOANA’ hand-stamp. The blue 2½d New South Wales definitive stamp is cancelled with a black double-lined PACKET BOAT handstamp (Figure 1). The reverse has a transit postmark, SAN FRANCISCO/ JUL 28/ 1899/ PAID ALL, as well as a reception postmark OAKLAND/ JUL 28/ 5
This postcard with a relatively unimportant message related to the exchange of postcards between friends, was posted from DELORAINE/ NO 17/ 03/ TASMANIA to Evandale, Tasmania (Figure 1). I was attracted to the postcard’s reverse of an acknowledged beautiful lady who was born in Sydney, became a comedian, singer, screen actor as well as an actor on the New York and London stage, and was acknowledged as one of London’s
The main reasons for writing up this actress were the large numbers of postcards that show her picture, though born in England her career started in Australia and progressed later to England, and the paucity of information of biographical information that exists about her on the internet, other than a nasty divorce that took place in Melbourne. This postcard appeared on Ebay, and it is labeled ‘Mrs. Maesmore Morris (Figure
Two ‘POST CARD/ FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM/ By the long sea route’ produced in 1889 in Victoria with the ‘TWO PENCE/ STAMP DUTY’ stamp were sent to Germany in 1891 from, the same individual to the same addressee. The ‘long sea route’ referred to the fact that the card was transmitted totally by the sea route to Britain, and it was less expensive than the ‘THREE PENCE’ green post card
This postcard was sent from BRIGHTON STATION/ SP 7/ (19)08/ TASMANIA to Elizabeth Street, Hobart and the personal message was of no consequence (Figure 1). The illustrated side shows a picture of Miss Tittell Brune in a dramatic pose in ‘Parsifal’ on a Talma & Co., Sydney and Melbourne, copyright postcard (Figure 2). Minnie Tittell Brune was the most popular actress on the Australian stage between the years 1904 and
The address side of this postcard has the N.S.W. red 1d ‘Shield’ stamp postmarked with a duplex NEWCASTLE/OC 11/ 12.15 P.M./05/ N.S.W with the barred numeral ‘55′, and it was sent to a Hobart, Tasmania address (Figure 1). The picture side of the postcard shows Miss Maud Jeffries, in her acting role costume, the card being one made by Talma & Co., Melbourne and Sydney copyright (Figure 2). Maud Evelyn
The postcard had a pink 1d QV stamp of Victoria, cancelled with BENALLA/ 21 DE 05/ VICTORIA, and it was addressed to Hobart and readdressed to Launceston. At the original address it was postmarked HOBART/ P.R / 7 – -A 27. DE. 05/ TASMANIA The message of good wishes for Christmas and New Year was of no particular significance and of no relevance as regards the picture on the reverse
This 1d red New South Wales postcard has an additional red 1d ‘Shield’ stamp added and it is cancelled with a duplex SYDNEY/ MY 3/ (–) PM/ 01/ 41 with the N.S.W obliterator. It is addressed to Allan Hamilton Esqr, The Brough Comedy Coy, Shanghai. It has a double circle SHANGHAI’ 1/ JU 1/ 01/LOCAL POST with an adjacent small single circle ‘34′. There is a manuscript Chinese script along