Category: Australia

Details Date of Issue: 7 June 1967 Withdrawn Date: Invalidated:  Designer: Max Ripper, Melbourne Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia, Melbourne Process: Photogravure Cylinders: Blue – Gold – Black Paper: Wiggins Teape – chalk coated with Helecon Watermark: None Perf: 13.25 x 13.5 (comb) Sheet: Printed in two panes of 50 stamps (R5 x…

View More Australia Philately: 1967 Lions International (1917-1967)

Another new stamp will appear on 5th April, 1967, to mark the 150th anniversary of the beginning of banking Australia. Governor Lachlan Macquarie and a group of Sydney citizens established the first bank — the Bank of New South Wales — in 1817, and the first deposit was made on…

View More Australia Philately: 1967 150th Anniversary of Australian Banking

A 4c stamp marking the 150th Anniversary in Australia of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Australia will be issued on the 7th March, 1967. Designed by Mr. Lance Stirling, of Ringwood, Vic., the stamp shows a pair of hands outstretched to receive a bible, symbolizing the Society’s distribution…

View More Australia Philately: 1967 150th Anniversary of British & Foreign Bible Society in Australia

Clarence Gardens Post Office opened on 1 August 1946. It was renamed Clarence Gardens North in 1967 on the same day Edwardstown office (open since 1850) was renamed Clarence Gardens. In 1987 Clarence Gardens reverted to Edwardstown. 1978 References Wikipedia: Clarence Gardens, South Australia

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A new Werribee post office was opened 1967. 1972 Werribee became a first day of issue postmark office on 18 April 1972. 1975

View More Australia Philately: Werribee (3030)

As announced earlier, the Hartog stamp will appear on 24th October, 1966, coincidental with the opening of a philatelic exhibition in Perth, W.A., commemorating the 350th anniversary of the Dutch seaman’s landing on the coast at Shark Bay. The designed is illustrated. Colours are : background blue; ship, rhumb lines…

View More Australia Philately: 1966 350th Anniversary of Dirk Hartog’s Landing

This year’s Christmas stamp was issued at all post offices on 19th October, 1966, and will be on sale for about nine weeks.  The stamp, of 4c denomination, with the main design in black on an olive green background, was printed by photogravure on helecon paper at the Note Printing…

View More Australia Philately: 1966 Christmas

Northland Centre post office opened on  4 October 1966. 1972 Northland Centre became a first day of issue postmarker office on 18 April 1972.

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The Royal Life Saving Society commemorative stamp to be issued on 6th July, 1966, is shown in the accompanying illustration. The background is light ultramarine, the wave pattern is a darker blue, “4c” is in white and the lettering and the swimmers are in black.   Although the waves appear grey…

View More Australia Philately: 1966 75th Anniversary of the Royal Life Saving Society

Bundaberg Post Office is located on the corner of Bourbong Street and Barolin Street, Bundaberg. It was constructed in 1891. 1970 Bundaberg became a first day of issue postmarker office on 11 February 1970. Bundaberg became a Philatelic Sales Centre on 1 July 1970. 1975 1976

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