Post by paul1 on Aug 11, 2023 11:26:39 GMT
An area I know almost nothing about - I would probably and wrongly tend to call these things 'postal stationery' - but then maybe that's an adequate general term for what they are. U.K. collectors see plenty of these from the first half of the C20 and some from QV too - there is currently an article running in the U.K. magazine 'Stamp Collector' - with part two almost upon us.
These things seem not to be collected with the same passion as adhesive stamps, but they're attractive and colourful if nothing else.
Of this particular piece I know nothing other than what can be read .....which is that it's a postal item for which someone paid three shillings and seven pence (pre U.K. decimal value) and the embossed head appears to be that of George VI - Oz went metric currency in February 1966. The word MELBOURNE can just be read, but the date is illegible - though I'd take a punt and suggest somewhere around the late 1930s and the end of the 1940s - unfortunately my SG catalogue doesn't seem to list these things.
Expect someone down under might be able to help - so thanks in advance:-) Sorry if I'm in the wrong place with this but couldn't see a sub heading for such things.
These things seem not to be collected with the same passion as adhesive stamps, but they're attractive and colourful if nothing else.
Of this particular piece I know nothing other than what can be read .....which is that it's a postal item for which someone paid three shillings and seven pence (pre U.K. decimal value) and the embossed head appears to be that of George VI - Oz went metric currency in February 1966. The word MELBOURNE can just be read, but the date is illegible - though I'd take a punt and suggest somewhere around the late 1930s and the end of the 1940s - unfortunately my SG catalogue doesn't seem to list these things.
Expect someone down under might be able to help - so thanks in advance:-) Sorry if I'm in the wrong place with this but couldn't see a sub heading for such things.
