Postcards

ROBERT & ARTHUR BUNNING, W.A. TIMBER MERCHANTS & J. TALBOT HOBBS

This common Western Australian ½d postcard was postmarked with a duplex PERTH/ 1/ JL 5/ 92 with the G.P.O obliterator and was addressed to Messrs. Bunning Bros, Goderich St., Perth (Figure 1). The reverse had an interesting manuscript, as follows: Dear Sirs, The result of Tendering for Mrs. Lefroys Houses is as follows: Olsen & Hay £2,273.00. Hurst & Son (accepted) 2,560.0.0. Bunning Bros. 2,715.0.0. F. Collett 2,795.10.0. Templar Bros.

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MUSEUM, SYDNEY to ACADEMIE IMPERIALE des SCIENCES ST. PETERSBURG

The Commonwealth of Australia, New South Wales Post Card is addressed to The Secretary, Academie Imperiale des Sciences St. Petersburg: it has a printed red 1d ‘Shield’ stamp of N.S.W. with the uncommon OS/ NSW perfin, which perforates the card. There is a roller cancel SYDNEY N.S.W. AP 11- 3-PM 1912. In addition there are 2 identical ST. PETERSBURG (in cyrillic)/ -1-5-12-, as well as an additional ms. ‘Russia’ and

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MUSEUM CURATOR, SYDNEY, EDWARD P. RAMSAY, 1ST AUSTRALIAN BORN

The postcard had a pink ‘One Penny’ printed QV stamp of New South Wales postmark of the ‘Rays’ 30 of Camden and it was addressed to The Curator, Museum, Sydney. In addition there were 2 additional postmarks, an originating CAMDEN/ DE 15/ 1877/ N.S.W of Type 1 C, the earliest recorded date, as well as a reception postmark of SYDNEY/ (-)/ DE 15/ 77/ 8 (Figure 1). The reverse was

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MELBOURNE to the DIRECTOR of FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM, CHICAGO

This overprinted UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION Victoria postcard with the 2d stamp overprinted with 1½d has both the reference to the United Kingdom and the long sea route barred-out when Victoria joined the U.P.U. in 1901. It is postmarked MELBOURNE/ 15A/ DE 16/ 99 and is addressed to The Director, Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, U.S. America. By 1894 the original grey card of 1891 ran out and this buff coloured card

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LEATHER POSTCARDS of AUSTRALIAN INTEREST

I had thought that leather postcards were uncommon until I looked on Ebay, where I found hundreds of them on offer, all of American origin. I learnt that the leather postcard had its heyday in the last decade of the 1800’s and the first decade of the 1900’s, when they were largely replaced by commercially printed postcards, in great abundance. The writing and illustration on leather postcards were often produced

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JULES RENARD, WOOLBROKER MERCHANT, BELGIAN CONSUL, MELBOURNE

The purple 1d N.S.W. postcard went through the mail uncancelled and was posted to Messrs Jules Renard & Co., 306 Kent St., Sydney (Figure 1). The reverse showed it was sent from Dalgety & Company Limited, Sydney on 4 th May 1892.The message read: Dalgety & Company Limited, will offer for Sale by Public Auction, atWool Brokers Chambers on Friday the 16 th inst at11 30 o’clock sharp: Sheepskins. On

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F.G. MULLER-BEECK, GERMAN CONSUL, NAGASAKI, JAPAN from HOBART

The pink ‘ONE PENNY’ Tasmanian Postcard (H & G #3A) had an additional orange ½d ‘Tablet’ QV stamp paying the correct rate from Hobart to Japan. It had a duplex HOBART/ A/ FE 11/ 1897 with TASMANIA obliterator, as well as a transit HONG KONG/ MR 13/ 97 postmark. It was addressed to Consul Muller-Beeck, Nagasaki, Japan. The reverse was not seen but it had an arrival backstamp of Nagasaki

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DRAYTON & GARSON, MELBOURNE UNDERTAKERS & EMBALMERS

Why would anyone send such a postcard to a friend? Perhaps because of the historical nature of the horse-drawn funeral carriages, but this may have been the norm in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century? The undated postcard gives no clue as to its publisher, and it has the pink 1d QV ‘Postage’ stamp of Victoria cancelled with a wavy VICTORIA roller postmark. The receiver of the postcard, Mrs.

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CODED MESSAGE: WINGHAM to TINONEE, N.S.W., POSTCARD: MANLY BEACH

The coloured postcard of Manly Beach, Sydney has a red 1d ‘Shield of New South Wales’ stamp postmarked with the rays numeral ‘123′ of Wingham, New South Wales (Figure 1). The reverse message is a total surprise to the vendor and myself for it is written in an alphanumeric code, which may be difficult to ‘crack’. It was sent to a Mr. H. Gollau Jr.(Gollan?), a presumed teenager addressed at

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CETINJE, MONTENEGRO VIA SUEZ from MACKAY, QLD: 1894 POSTCARD

The Queensland Universal Postal Union 1½d postcard has the ’Rays 33′ on the printed stamp with a MACKAY/ D/ JY 21/94/ QUEENSLAND postmark alongside, as well as a transit BRISBANE/ JY 24/ 94/ QUEENSLAND postmark. In addition there is a transit SUEZ/ A/ 27 ( ) 94, as well as a partial transit of CONSTANTINOPLE (date illegible). The postcard is addressed to Frau Leonie B. Bergner, Citinje (sic), Monte Negro

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