Details Date of Issue: 6 November 1968 Withdrawn Date: Invalidated: Designer: A Cook Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia, Melbourne Process: Recess Cylinders: Paper: Wiggins Teape with Helecon Watermark: None Perf: 14.75 x 14 (comb) Sheet: Quantity: 40,904,000 Subjects 5c Edgeworth David 5c A.B. (Banjo) Patterson 5c Albert Namatjira 5c Caroline Chisholm…
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Australia Philately: 1968 Christmas
This year’s 5c Christmas stamp was issued on 23rd October, 1968. The approved design was by Mr. George Hamori, of Sydney, and shows a scene of the flat-roofed houses and olive groves of Bethlehem as it might have appeared at the time of the Nativity; on this is superimposed a…
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Details Date of Issue: 16 October 1968 Withdrawn Date: Invalidated: Designer: Erica McGilchrist, Melbourne Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia, Melbourne Process: Photogravure Cylinders: Yellow-Green – Mauve – Brown – Black Paper: Wiggins Teape – chalk coated with Derby luminescence Watermark: None Perf: 13.5 x 13.25 (comb) Sheet: Printed in two panes of 50 stamps…
View More Australia Philately: 1968 Building and Savings Societies Eleventh World CongressAustralia Philately: 1968 Olympic Games Mexico – 25c Sunstone Symbol & Mexican Flag
Details Series: 1968 Olympic Games Mexico Subject: Sunstone Symbol & Mexican Flag Designer: Harry Williamson Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia Process: Photogravure Plates: Paper: Wiggins Teape – chalk coated with Helecon Watermark: None Perf: 13 x 13.5 (comb) Sheet: Printed in two panes of 50 stamps (R10 x 5) divided by vertical…
View More Australia Philately: 1968 Olympic Games Mexico – 25c Sunstone Symbol & Mexican FlagAustralia Philately: 1968 Olympic Games Mexico – 5c Sunstone Symbol & Athlete
Details Series: 1968 Olympic Games Mexico Subject: Sunstone Symbol & Athlete Designer: Harry Williamson Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia Process: Photogravure Plates: Paper: Wiggins Teape – chalk coated with Helecon Watermark: None Perf: 13.5 x 13 (comb) Sheet: Printed in two panes of 50 stamps (R5 x 10) divided by horizontal gutter. Quantity: 31,200,000…
View More Australia Philately: 1968 Olympic Games Mexico – 5c Sunstone Symbol & AthleteAustralia Philately: 1968 Olympic Games Mexico
Details Date of Issue: 2 October 1968 Withdrawn Date: Invalidated: Designer: Harry Williamson Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia Process: Photogravure Plates: Paper: Wiggins Teape – chalk coated with Helecon Watermark: None Perf: 5c – 13.5 x 13 (comb) 25c – 13 x 13.5 (comb) Sheet: 5c – Printed in two panes of…
View More Australia Philately: 1968 Olympic Games MexicoAustralia Philately: Wollongong (2500)
The original Wollongong post office was constructed in 1882. On 23 September 1968, a new building was officially opened by Postmaster-General Alan Hulme as the Wollongong Post Office and Telephone Exchange. The new building cost $1,226,400. Wollongong Central post office in Piccadilly Centre closed at noon on Saturday, 21 September…
View More Australia Philately: Wollongong (2500)Australia Philately: Southland Centre (3192)
Southland Centre, Cheltenham, was opened in September 1968 and was one of the premier shopping centres in Melbourne. 1972 Southland Centre became a first day of issue postmarker office on 18 April 1972, the date of issue of the 50th Anniversary of the Country Women’s Association postage stamp. 1973 1975…
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Details Date of Issue: 6 August 1968 Withdrawn Date: Invalidated: Designer: Robert Ingpen, Melbourne Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia Process: Photogravure Paper: Unwatermarked paper incorporating Derby luminescence Watermark: None Perf: 13.25 x 13.5 (comb) Sheet: Printed in two panes of 50 stamps (R10 x 5) divided by vertical gutter. Quantity: 5c…
View More Australia Philately: 1968 International Soil Science Congress/World Medical Association AssemblyAustralia Philately: 1968 State Floral Emblems – 30c Waratah
Details Series: 1968 State Floral Emblems Subject: Waratah Designer: Nell Watson Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia Process: Photogravure Cylinders: Paper: Watermark: None Perf: 13.5 (comb) Sheet: Printed in two panes of 50 stamps (R5 x 10) divided by horizontal gutter. Quantity: Reprint: 29 June 1971 Stocks of the 30c Waratah stamp became…
View More Australia Philately: 1968 State Floral Emblems – 30c Waratah