Author: thedigitalphilatelist

Details Series: 1976 Christmas ’76  Subject: Mother & Child Designer: Colin Medlycott (15c) Printer: Note Issue Department, Reserve Bank of Australia, Melbourne Press: Rembrandt (15c) Process: Multicolour photogravure Cylinders: Printing order Pale Blue – Bright Carmine I (appx. 50% of printing) (15c) Pale Blue – Bright Carmine II (appx. 50% of printing)…

A new Singleton post office was opened on John Street on 26 August 1974. 1976 Singleton became a first day of issue postmarker office on 1 November 1976. 1977 1978 Singleton became a Limited Philatelic Sales Centre in 1978. 1979

The Australian Stamp Promotion Council was formally constituted in November 1976. The council was conceived at ANPEX 72 as a nationwide philatelic organisation. The purpose was to promote and support philately but also for admission of Australian into the Federation Internationale de Philatelie (FIP). The organisation comprised of Australia Post,…

The Australian 1976 Christmas stamps of 15c and 45c values were issued on 1st November, 1976. The 15c stamp is the special postage rate introduced for standard size envelopes containing Christmas cards for delivery within Australia and endorsed “card only”; the rate applies only during November and December, 1976. The…

A pictorial postmarker was used to cancel 1,137 articles, including five registered, at a temporary post office at the Hilton Hotel, Sydney, between 6th October and 9th October, 1976, for the Pharmaceutical Society of N.S.W. Centenary Seminar.  Details Date: 6 October 1976 – 9 October 1976 Quantity: 1,137 articles 1,132 (ordinary) 5…

On the opening day of the National Stamp Week – 27th September, 1976 – an 18c stamp and a miniature sheet comprising four perforated 18c stamps (each stamp showing a progressive colour step of the photogravure process of printing) were issued for approximately two weeks sale at post offices. The…

A special postmarker at a temporary post office provided for the Springpex 76 philatelic exhibition, held in conjunction with National Stamp Week, at the Royal Agricultural Society Showground, Sydney, was used to process 18,766 articles, including 96 registered, between 27th September and 4th October, 1976.  Details Date: 27 September 1976 –…