Australians have been bitten by the fan club bug, but not to the same extent as film goers in the U.S.A. Covers sent to these actors are usually quite inexpensive, and the postal markings are rarely of interest. These two covers were sent to two silent movie stars both at the Lasky Studio and they like many others did not make the transition to stardom in the talking movies. The
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
Two covers appeared on Ebay addressed to Mrs. Deighton Taylor and it was soon obvious that Deighton Taylor, the husband, took a back seat when compared to the significance of his wife, Rachel Henning. The first letter was addressed to her at Green Mount, North Shore, Sydney, N.S.W., and the 2d blue N.S.W. stamp was postmarked with rays ‘102′ of Stroud as well as an adjoining STROUD/ DE 1/ 1870/
There are four main islands (Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark) in the English Channel that are called the ‘Channel Islands’. These islands are dependencies of the British crown (although strictly not part of the United Kingdom), having been so attached since the Conquest of 1066 when they formed part of the Duchy of Normandy. The smallest of the four is Sark. The islands were occupied by the Germans in WW
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