The 25c Intelsat stamp is shown in the photograph. The colours are: blue-green, grey, blue, black. The colours quoted are in the order of printing. The 25c photo shows a marked panel behind the “INTELSAT II”, where the blue-green has been drawn in a wide area overprinted by blue in…
View More Australia Philately: 1968 World TelecomunicationsCategory: Australia
Australia Philately: 1968 Weather Watch
Details Date of Issue: 20 March 1968 Withdrawn Date: Invalidated: Designer: John Mason, Melbourne Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia, Melbourne Process: Photogravure Cylinders: In printing order Yellow – Light Blue – Dark Blue – Orange (5c) Dark Blue – Black – White – Orange (20c)* Paper: Unwatermarked paper incorporating Derby…
View More Australia Philately: 1968 Weather WatchAustralia Philately: 1968 Weather Watch – 20c Weather Watch
Details Series: 1968 Weather Watch Subject: Weather Watch Designer: John Mason, Melbourne Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia, Melbourne Process: Photogravure Cylinders: Dark Blue (I) – Black – White – Orange (printing order) Dark Blue (II) – Black – White – Orange (printing order) Paper: Unwatermarked paper incorporating Derby luminescence Watermark: None Perf: 13.25 x 13.5…
View More Australia Philately: 1968 Weather Watch – 20c Weather WatchAustralia Philately: Ferntree Gully (3156)
A new Ferntree Gully post office was opened c.1968. 1974 1980
View More Australia Philately: Ferntree Gully (3156)Australia Philately: Blair Athol (5084)
Blair Athol post office was opened on 1 January 1968. 1976
View More Australia Philately: Blair Athol (5084)Australia Philately: 1967 Christmas (II)
As the 25c value of the 1967 Christmas stamps was a comparatively short run, only one set of four cylinders was used for this job. All of the printing was on unwatermarked, coated paper incorporating helecon. Details Date of Issue: 27 November 1967 Withdrawn Date: Invalidated: Designer: Erica McGilchrist, Melbourne…
View More Australia Philately: 1967 Christmas (II)Australia Philately: 1967 Christmas (I)
The 5c value was a much longer run [than the 25c stamp], and as usual for jobs of this duration, two sets of four cylinders were made. About mid-way through the run, the first four were replaced by the reserves, and the first set was stripped of its worn chrome…
View More Australia Philately: 1967 Christmas (I)Australia Philately: 1967 Decimal Definitive Series (New Postal Rate)
An increase in postal rates was proposed to be introduced in mid-1967 but did not become effective until Sunday, 1 October 1967. On Friday 29 September 1967, the new 5c value stamps became available. Because of the revision of postal rates, effective 1st October, 1967, various changes in Australian postage…
View More Australia Philately: 1967 Decimal Definitive Series (New Postal Rate)Australia Philately: 1967 Gynaecology and Obstetrics Congress
A 4c stamp will be issued on 20th September, 1967, to mark the Fifth World Congress of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, which will be held in Sydney from 23rd to 30th September. The stamp will be on sale for about two weeks. The stamp design, by Mr. Robert Ingpen of Melbourne,…
View More Australia Philately: 1967 Gynaecology and Obstetrics CongressAustralia Philately: 1967 World Y.W.C.A. Council
A 4c stamp will be issued on 21st August, 1967, to mark the World Young Women’s Christian Association Council Meeting, and in recognition of the Y.W.C.A.’s long record of service to the community. The stamp, designed by Mr. Harry Williamson of Sydney, shows multiple representations of the Y.W.C.A. emblem superimposed…
View More Australia Philately: 1967 World Y.W.C.A. Council