The airmail advertising cover for Alfred Simpson and Son has four single privately perfinedgreen 1½d Q.E. stamps as well as the 1 shilling Lyre Bird stamp canceled by a G.P.O. ADELAIDE/ AIR/ APR 43/ SOUTH AUST as well as a slogan SEND MONEY/ BY POSTAL NOTE/ OR MONEY ORDER. It was sent to Lovell Manufacturing Co., Erie, Penna, U.S.A. The cover shows no sign of being censored on the front
Just another example of a Tattersall’s cover to Hobart, with the partially repaired spindle hole, but how wrong on several accounts! The pair of the red 1d Tasmanian Pictorial is cancelled ULVERSTONE/ MR 2/ 09/ TASMANIA, and the reverse was not seen. It was adorned with an advertisement depicting a bulldog with Read Brothers Ltd London/ The Dogs Head Bottling plus a partially obscured statement “When Ordering B[ass Ale and]
I had no idea where these two printed- to- private- order advertising covers would lead me, and I was frankly surprised that the two brothers were to be found in the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Both covers were used in 1930 and the KGV oval 1d green stamps were postmarked with a slogan cancel, COMMONWEALTH LOAN/ NOW OPEN/ APPLY AT ONCE, at Sydney (Figure 1). Frank Arthur (1881-1957) and Frederick
Two registered covers were found advertising Alcock & Co., Billiard Table Manufacturers, 213 Russell Street, Melbourne and it also listed their addresses in the other colonies. The first had 2 QV stamps of Victoria (1d &2d) as well as the green ‘TWO PENNY’ Boer War Charity stamp, with a large ‘R’ in a circle handstamp, and the postmark REGISTERED MELBOURNE/ PM/ 2/ 27.6.00. The reverses was not seen (Figure 1).
The advertising cover was for “The Chief Flushing Cistern”, approved by the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works. 250,000 in Use. The red 1½d KGV Head stamp was cancelled with a roller postmark MELBOURNE/ 4.30 AM/ 20 APR/ 1928/ VICTORIA with the slogan COM’LTH ROLL/ CORRECT ENROLLMENT/ COMPULSORY. It was addressed to Messr W & L Gordon , Merchants, Essendon (Figure 1). The reverse had on the flap Monteath &
This cover celebrates the re-enactment of the first flight after 50 years of this successful medical service, and it shows the blue printed ‘Wings’insignia of the service, below which there is a short history of the organization, as well as a printed red ‘Shield’ outlining the re-enactment of the original flight from Cloncurry, Queensland to Julia Creek Queensland by the R.F.D.S. Plane. The multicoloured 18 cent stamp showed 3 men,
The earlier cover is addressed to A.H. Boyd Esqr., Deputy Registrar of Births Etc., Port Arthur, (Tasmania) and the brick-red no watermark ‘ONE PENNY POSTAGE’ QV VAN DIEMENS LAND stamp is cancelled by the first numeral ‘48′ of Ouse, Tasmania. In addition there is a fine cancel of an unframed reception postmark of POST OFFICE/ IMPRESSION BAY with a poorly written ms. of ‘30/10/56′ in the centre. It cannot be
This advertising cover is not only intriguing, but it has also been unusually difficult to research, with the information coming in ‘dribs and drabs’ over the past 2 years. The behatted and bearded man catches one’s attention, while he contentedly smokes his pipe. His hat is adorned with ‘CORRECT THING’, and the rest of the inscription apparently reads ‘At Last, Petersburg Va. U.S.A’ (probably referring to the place of origin
An ordinary looking cover was sent from SYDNEY/N.S.W/ 11 JAN/ 1936/ 4 45 PM/ POSTED IN/ PILLAR BOX, Code 1, with a roller cancel postmarking the red 2d KGV Head stamp, with SOUTH AUSTRALIA/ CENTENARY/ CELEBRATIONS/ 1936. It was addressed to a fruiterer at Young, N.S.W. and it had a return address of a Box number, Haymarket, Sydney (Figure 1). The fine reverse showed a 3-storey corner building clearly marked WING ON
The cover has an advertisement for the company of W.E. Bramble & Sons and it was sent by airmail to Messrs. S.E. Higgins & Co. in London, England. The strip of three brown Kookaburra stamps were cancelled with a roller postmark NEWCASTLE/ 5-PM/ 24 JLY/ 1950/ N.S.W./ AUST with the slogan POST EARLY/ IN THE DAY. The reverse was not seen (Figure 1). Brambles took its name from Walter Edwin