Category: Australia

Details Series: 1971 Aboriginal Art Subject: Cave Painting Designer: John Mason Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia Process: Photogravure Cylinders: Blue – Orange – Green – Indian Red (printing order) Paper:Wiggins Teape unwatermarked paper coated paper incorporating Derby luminescence Watermark: None Perf: 13.25 x 13.5 (comb) Sheet: Printed in two panes of…

View More Australia Philately: 1971 Aboriginal Art – 30c Cave Painting

Details Series: 1971 Aboriginal Art Subject: Body Decoration Designer: John Mason Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia Process: Photogravure Cylinders: Blue-Grey – Indian Red – Sepia – Black (printing order) Paper:Wiggins Teape unwatermarked paper coated paper incorporating Derby luminescence Watermark: None Perf: 13.5 x 13.25 (comb) Sheet: Printed in two panes of…

View More Australia Philately: 1971 Aboriginal Art – 25c Body Decoration

Details Series: 1971 Aboriginal Art Subject: Bark Painting Designer: John Mason Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia Process: Photogravure Cylinders: Blue – Orange – Brown – Sepia (printing order) Paper:Wiggins Teape unwatermarked paper coated paper incorporating Derby luminescence Watermark: None Perf: 13.5 x 13.25 (comb) Sheet: Printed in two panes of 50…

View More Australia Philately: 1971 Aboriginal Art – 20c Bark Painting

Details Series: 1971 Definitive Series (New Values) Subject: Hawksbill Turtle Designer: Elyse Wasile Printer: Format International Security Printers Ltd Process: Lithography Paper:  Watermark: Multiple St Edward’s Crown Block CA Perf: 14.5 x 14 (comb) Cylinders: 1A (Brown) 1A (Yellow) 1A (Orange) 1A (Green) 1A (Black) 1B (Brown) 1B (Yellow) 1B (Orange)…

View More Bahamas Philately: 1971 Definitive Series (New Values) – 6c Hawksbill Turtle

View More Australia Philately: Australia Post Philatelic Bulletin No.109 – September 1971

A temporary post office was provided at Canberra for the Twelfth Pacific Science Congress (18th-27th August, 1971). The Pacific Science Association’s emblem, shown on the postmarker, is an ancient Tahitian twin-hulled voyaging canoe. A deck connects the two hulls, with a thatched house on it. Drawn by Bishop Musuem artist-historian…

View More Australia Philately: 1971 Twelfth Pacific Science Congress

A temporary post office was provided at Hobart for the 12th International Conference on Cosmic Rays (16th-25th August, 1971). Details Date: 16 August 1971 – 25 August 1971 Quantity: 3705 (ordinary articles) 39 (registered articles)

View More Australia Philately: 1971 12th International Conference On Cosmic Rays

Details Series: 1971 R.S.P.C.A. and Animal Series Subject: R.S.P.C.A. Centenary Designer: Robert Ingpen, Melbourne Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia, Melbourne Process: Photogravure Cylinders: Orange – Maroon – Brown – Black (printing order) Paper: Wiggins Teape unwatermarked coated paper incorporating helecon Watermark: None Perf: 13.5 x 13.75 (comb) Sheet: Printed in two panes of 50…

View More Australia Philately: 1971 R.S.P.C.A. and Animal Series – 6c R.S.P.C.A. Centenary

The Sydney Philatelic Sales Centre, George Street, Sydney, was officially opened at 8pm on 26 July 1971 by the Postmaster-General, Sir Alan Hulme. The centre adjoined the Sydney G.P.O. and only provided philatelic services. The centre was designed to allow reading of local and overseas philatelic magazines, view unique historical…

View More Australia Philately: Sydney Philatelic Sales Centre (2000)

A special postmarker was used from 26th to 28th July, 1971, at a temporary post office at the Park Towers Hotel, Perth, Western Australia, for the convenience of delegates to the Australian Federation of Travel Agents Convention.  Details Date: 26 July 1971 – 8 July 1971 Quantity:  819 (ordinary articles)  21…

View More Australia Philately: 1971 Australian Federation of Travel Agents Convention