Pictorial Postmarker
A special posting box and pictorial postmarker were introduced at the new Post Office Museum, located at 90 Swan Street, Richmond, Victoria, on 5th April, 1974, for continuing use.
The museum, which contains displays of historical items associated with the Post Office, provides Victoria with its first permanent Post Office exhibition. The exhibit includes early telephones and switchboards, telegraph equipment, early postal documents, stamps, seals and other items of postal interest.
The museum is housed in the former Richmond South Post Office which was built in 1905. The distinctive old building is just a few minutes by public transport from Melbourne city. Trams pass the door and the Richmond Railway Station is obliquely opposite.
All mail posted in the special posting box at the Museum will be cancelled with the pictorial postmarker which features the “Butterfly” design of the postmarkers used to cancel Victoria’s first postage stamps in 1850.
