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A 6d stamp of 1858 showing Queen Victoria on the Coronation chair. Victoria, a state of Australia and until 1901 a British colony, was still under the control of New South Wales when its first post office was opened in Melbourne in April 1837.
A block of four £2 "Roo" stamps showing the printer's imprint in the selvedge 1d King George V, used at Sydney in 1916. The six self-governing Australian colonies that formed the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901 had operated their own postal service and issued their own stamps – see articles on the systems on New South Wales (first stamps issued 1850), Victoria (1850), Tasmania ...
Soon after, the two atolls that comprise the islands started to appear on maps. These stamps show details of various Italian, French, Dutch and English maps over 400 years from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Each stamp is composed of various maps from a particular century: 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th. 100th Anniversary First Air Mail: 1 July 2014
In philately, a philatelic bureau is the part of a national postal administration that sells philatelic items to stamp collectors, tourists and stamp dealers. Bureaus by country [ edit ]
Postmark showing postal district number Postmark with postal district number filed off after postcode introduction 1931 PO redirection using postal district number only: S.5 Brighton Insufficient address: marked to try E1 (Richmond), W14 (Spotswood) and Springvale (a suburb, but outside PDN area)- delivered to Spotswood
A beer duty stamp from 1892. The first beer duty stamps were issued for beer in kegs in 1880, and like issues for the other Australian states, most were damaged or destroyed in use so most existing examples are in mint condition. The second issue was in 1881, and stamps in similar designs for use on kegs or bottles were issued until 1906.
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These have since been commemorated with a stamp by Australia Post. [ 7 ] Malvern Star was sold to Electronic Industries in 1958 then in 1970 the brand was purchased by the Dutch multinational Philips , which sold Malvern Star in 1980 to Raleigh (all Australian bicycle building by the company ending in 1987, however most Malvern Stars were ...