Details Series: The Early Years Subject: The Rocks & Sydney Cove 1800 Designer: Jim Passmore, Australia Post Graphic Design Studio, Melbourne Printer: CPE Australia Pty Ltd, Melbourne Press: Process: Photolithography Colours: Yellow – Magenta – Cyan – Black – Very Deep Green Paper: Harrison unwatermarked white paper incorporating helecon Perf: 13.25 (comb)…
View More Australia Philately: 1988 The Early Years – 37c The Rocks & Sydney Cove 1800The central image depicts Brickfield Hill and village on the High Road to Parramatta (1797) by Edward Dayes. Details Series: The Early Years Subject: Parramatta Road Designer: Jim Passmore, Australia Post Graphic Design Studio, Melbourne Printer: CPE Australia Pty Ltd, Melbourne Press: Process: Photolithography Colours: Yellow – Magenta – Cyan –…
View More Australia Philately: 1988 The Early Years – 37c Paramatta Road, Sydney 1796Details Series: The Early Years Subject: Government Farm Designer: Jim Passmore, Australia Post Graphic Design Studio, Melbourne Printer: CPE Australia Pty Ltd, Melbourne Press: Process: Photolithography Colours: Yellow – Magenta – Cyan – Black – Very Deep Green Paper: Harrison unwatermarked white paper incorporating helecon Perf: 13.25 (comb) Sheet: Printed in…
View More Australia Philately: 1988 The Early Years – 37c Government Farm, Parramatta 1791Details Series: The Early Years Subject: Government House Designer: Jim Passmore, Australia Post Graphic Design Studio, Melbourne Printer: CPE Australia Pty Ltd, Melbourne Press: Process: Photolithography Colours: Yellow – Magenta – Cyan – Black – Very Deep Green Paper: Harrison unwatermarked white paper incorporating helecon Perf: 13.25 (comb) Sheet: Printed in…
View More Australia Philately: 1988 The Early Years – 37c Government House, Sydney 1790The arrival of the First Fleet was but the beginning. The Fleet, with its convict cargo, was sent to establish a colony in New South Wales. A new set of stamps, which Australia Post is releasing on 13 April 1988, looks at the colony as it struggled to survive in…
View More Australia Philately: 1988 The Early YearsOn 13 April 1988 Australia Post will release the set of five Early Years stamps and on the same day a set of four pre-stamped envelopes are to be issued featuring similar subjects. The set of pre-stamped envelopes feature details from the panormanic View of Sydney from the West side…
View More Australia Philately: 1988 The Early Years (Pre-Stamped Envelopes)“I am going to offer an object of consideration of our Government that may atone for the loss of our American colonies.” – James Matra, proposal for the settlement of New South Wales, 1783. The American War of Independence left Britain with no place to transport convicts. Soon the British…
View More Australia Philately: 1988 Joint Issue with USAIn the evening of the 26th the colours were displayed on shore, and the Governor, with several of his principal officers and others, assembled around the flag-staff, drank the King’s health, and success to the settlement with all that display of form which on such occasions is esteemed propitious, because…
View More Australia Philately: 1988 The First Fleet: Arrival 1788 – 37c Raising of the Flag