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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 ...
Before the formation of Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901, each state of Australia issued separate postage stamps through colonial mail systems. After the federation in 1901, the mail systems merged and formed the Postmaster-General's Department (PMG), whose responsibilities included the provision of postal and telegraphic services ...
In 1913 the stamps of New South Wales were superseded by those of Australia. [1] Most of the stamps of New South Wales are readily available today, but it is somewhat complex to collect; there are a dozen types of watermarks, multiple perforations, and numerous colour shades.
Postage stamps and postal history of South Australia; Postage stamps and postal history of Tasmania; Postage stamps and postal history of the Australian Antarctic Territory; Postage stamps and postal history of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands; Postage stamps and postal history of Victoria; Postage stamps and postal history of Western Australia
Multiple designs, colors, papers, perforations, and watermarks resulted in a large number of different stamps; Stanley Gibbons identifies nearly 200 types issued between 1854 and 1883 alone. The Postage Act 1883 made postage, duty, and fee stamps interchangeable, and as a result, the government decided to issue only one type of stamp subsequently.
A£1 stamp of South Australia. The first stamp of South Australia was issued on 1 January 1855. [3] [4] The arrangements for the first issue of stamps had been made by the postmaster John Cliffe Watts in 1854. Perkins Bacon was commissioned to design and produce a two pence design for the colony.
Before that, Queensland used the stamps of New South Wales from 1851. [1] [2] All of Queensland's postage stamps portrayed Queen Victoria with the exception of two stamps depicting allegorical figures of Australia (1903, 1907). Between 1 January 1880 and 1 July 1892, revenue stamps of 1866–1892 were authorised for postal use. In 1913 the ...
Western Australia, a state of Australia and formerly a British colony, established its postal service soon after the British settled in 1829; in December of that year, Fremantle's harbourmaster was appointed postmaster. A post office in Albany, Western Australia opened on 14 October 1834, and the main post office moved to Perth, in 1835. [1] [2]