Details Date of Issue: 16 August 2001 Withdrawn Date: 16 September 2001 (FDC) 31 August 2002 (all other products) Designer: Melinda Coombes Engraver: Czeslaw Slania (Australian stamps) Lars Sjööblom Printer: Sweden Post Stamps Printing Works Press: Process: Itaglio and colour offset Colours: Paper: De La Rue Intaglio Dry Gum Watermark: None Perf: 12.53…
View More Australia Philately: 2001 Joint Issue Australia-Sweden2001 Australian Stamp Bulletin No.261 (August-September) 2002 Australian Stamp Bulletin No.264 (March-May) 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
View More Australia Philately: Australia Post Publications (2000-2009)Post Office Products Australia Post Publications First Day Covers Pre-Stamped Envelopes 2000 2001 2001 Joint Issue Australia-Sweden 2002 2002 Flinders-Baudin Bicentenary (Joint Issue With France) 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
View More Australia Philately: Stamps and Postal Products (2000-2009)This year marks the bicentenary of the circumnavigation of Van Diemen’s Land by Bass and Flinders. Two stamps commemorate their epic voyage, which proved the existence of Bass Strait and established that Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) was an island. Their findings had significant impact on the sailing time and saferty…
View More Australia Philately: 1998 Bass and FlindersHamilton Hume was born on 19 June 1797, near Parramatta, New South Wale. He undertook many journeys of exploration, the most significant of which was the trip with Captain W H Hovell to Port Phillip and back in 1824-25. He settled in the Yass district in the late 1830s with…
View More Australia Philately: 1997 Hamilton HumeAustralia’s first free white settlers arrived at Sydney Cove on the small transport ship Bellona on 16 January 1793. A pre-stamped envelope will be issued by Australia Post on 14 January 1993 commemorating the 200th anniversary of the arrival. The settlers included farmers, Edward Powell, Thomas Rose and Joseph Webb;…
View More Australia Philately: 1993 200th Anniversary of the Arrival of the Bellona