Category: Australia

Details Series: 1969 Primary Industries Subject: Sugar Designer: Robert Ingpen Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia Process: Photogravure Plates: Paper:  Watermark: None Perf: 13.5 (comb) Sheet: Printed in two panes of 50 stamps (R5 x 10) divided by horizontal gutter. Quantity: Sheet Numbers

View More Australia Philately: 1969 Primary Industries – 7c Sugar

Details Date of Issue: 17 September 1969 Withdrawn Date: 31 March 1971* Invalidated:  Designer: Robert Ingpen Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia, Melbourne Process: Photogravure Cylinders: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: The 7c and 15c values…

View More Australia Philately: 1969 Primary Industries

A 5c postage stamp will be issued on 4th June, 1969, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the International Labour Organization, and will remain on sale for approximately two weeks. Announcing this recently, the Postmaster-General, Mr. Alan Hulme, said that Australia is one of more than eighty…

View More Australia Philately: 1969 50th Anniversary of International Labour Organization

A temporary post office will be established at the Southern Cross Hotel, Melbourne — the venue of the I.P.A.H. Conference — over the period 3rd-8th March, 1969, and a special postmarker will be used there.  To obtain impressions, Australian collectors should lodge fully stamped and addressed envelopes with the Philatelic…

View More Australia Philately: 1969 International Association of Ports & Harbours Sixth Biennial Conference

Details Date of Issue: 26 February 1969 Withdrawn Date: Invalidated:  Designer: J Mason Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia Process: Photogravure Cylinders: Blue – Red – Black – Light Yellow Paper: Unwatermarked paper incorporating helecon Watermark: None Perf: 13.25 x 13.5 (comb) Sheet: Printed in two panes of 50 stamps (R10…

View More Australia Philately: 1969 6th Biennial Conference of International Association of Ports & Harbours

A new Salisbury Post Office was opened in 1969. 1974 1978 Salisbury became a Limited Philatelic Sales Centre on 25 September 1978. 1979 Salisbury became a Philatelic Sales Centre on 24 September 1979.    

View More Australia Philately: Salisbury (5108)

Attractive packs containing Australian stamps including those used in the Australian Antarctic Territory and Cocos (Keeling) Islands have been produced for collectors and as a unique Australian gift item, especially for Christmas, birthdays and for business people overseas. An information folder in each packlist the technical details of the stamps…

View More Australia Philately: Souvenir Pack (1966-1969)

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…

View More Australia Philately: 1969 Northern Territory Settlement (1869-1969)

  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…

View More Australia Philately: Port Kembla (2505)

  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