Category: Australia

Two 5c commemorative stamps will be issued in February 1969. The first will appear on 5th February, to mark the centenary of the first permament settlement in the Northern Territory. Designed by Mrs. Marietta Lyon, a Melbourne artist, the stamp expresses the passing of a centenary of development in the…

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  A new Port Kembla post office began construction in 1969 at a cost of $96,253. It replaced the older post office that had been built in April 1926. The new post office was a result of the increased demands for mail services for post-WW2 immigrants. 1977 1978 Port Kembla…

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  Details Date of Issue: 27 November 1968 Withdrawn Date: Invalidated:  Designer: Reserve Bank of Australia, Melbourne Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia, Melbourne Process: Recess Cylinders: Paper: Wiggins Teape – chalk coated with Derby luminescence Watermark: None Perf: 14.25 x 13.5 (comb) Sheet: Printed in two panes of 50 stamps (R5 x…

View More Australia Philately: 1968 Macquarie Lighthouse 1818

Details Date of Issue: 6 November 1968 Withdrawn Date: Invalidated:  Designer: A Cook Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia, Melbourne Process: Recess Cylinders:  Paper: Wiggins Teape with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…

View More Australia Philately: 1968 Famous Australians (Booklet)

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…

View More Australia Philately: 1968 Christmas

Details Date of Issue: 16 October 1968 Withdrawn Date:  Invalidated:  Designer: Erica McGilchrist, Melbourne Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia, Melbourne Process: Photogravure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 Congress

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 Flag

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 & Athlete

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 Mexico

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…

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