South Australia: Stamps & Postmarks

South Australia  1876  Sc#65
Stamp severed by cancellation Ink
Acidic cancelling Ink.
Iron gall Ink
(Note: typo in printed piece ie: "Oat Galls"  read Oak Galls)
Wasp larvae
Sulphuric Acid



Rowland Hill's tests on Cancelling Inks.

First Series 1885-1927
Designed by Mr. Barrett
Litho at Govt Printing Office. Adelaide. SA.

7th December 1885
Type 5RP1
Catalogue : 5.1301     Green, dull green,olive green, or bluish green.                     Yellow Green =1915

Unwatermarked soft white wove paper Face Toned Yellowish paper.   Perf 12

Corners VR = Victoria Regina
Size 24mm x 31mm  in sheets of 24

Customary cancellations : CDS (circular date stamp) town name at top  SAR (Sth Australian Railways) at the bottom

CV $2   1980

Exist Rouletted (1890)  Scarcity S  = 301-1000 copies exist

Acknowledgement : The Railway and Parcel stamps of Mainland Australia   Ingles Presgrave and Craig
ISBN 0959566015   1980

Hmmm. I would have wagered "bluish green"
I shall stand corrected.

As the King George sideface, one needs multiples alongside each other for comparison.
That ain't gonna happen here  

A wonderful spirit of sharing on evidence.

Postmark

South Australia

KYBYBOLITE Aboriginal "Place of Ghosts"

I received this in a lot of stamps I bought a couple of months ago and just got around to looking at it. The dealer described this as double print. SC#47. The Scott # looks accurate, but I have never seen a double print before, I thought I would pass by the experts on the forum. I understand the forum is for discussion purposes only. I do enjoy all your opinions.

Among my dad's philatelic materials packed away after his death in 1957 were a large number of First Day Covers. I haven't sorted them all out yet, but I know a few dozen different ones have South Australia postmarks. It will be interesting to see where all the FDCs are from, and to learn when he started collecting them. Clearly, because I have found multiples of some from South Africa, he was intending to offer them for purchase through the business he ran out of our home (the Tanglewood Stamp Service).

A second look at Stamp D: I measure it to be perf. 10 on top, so that would indicate Scott #46. Maybe 46a (issued in 1868), if the color is dull purple rather than dull violet.

Today's interesting find in my dad's collections: a 1933 South Australian postal card response from the secretary of the Australian Government Workers Association (a type of union) to a request for a lecture on the "Douglas Proposals." A Google search on the latter eventually led to an economic concept called "Social Credit" developed by British engineer and economist C. H. Douglas in the 1920s and 1930s. You can learn more at his page on Wikipedia and the Wikipedia page for "Social credit." I would like to hear a lecture about the economic concept myself... another rabbit hole to go down!!
Despite the name "Australian Government Workers Association," the organization apparently was largely limited to South Australia.

philatelia (Terry) - love those old 'South Oz' pages - makes my mouth water when I see oldies like these - could run to ten shillings if you're hard up, and you can have my marble collection, and catapult too - if pushed. ;-);-);-) - thanks for posting.

Here is another South Australia mystery I hope a Stamp Forum member can help me solve. This postcard, sent to Broken Hill, New South Wales, features an Adelaide "DE 21" postmark and a South Australia 1p Queen Victoria stamp (Scott A6 design). The sender also dated his/her message "Dec21" at the top, under what I interpret as "West Hindmaith" (a Google search failed to come up with a town with that name).  The stamp has Perf. 12 x 11 1/2. The last South Australia 1p issues featuring the A6 design with that perf. and some type of reddish color were the 1904 "rose" (Scott #133) and the 1906-12 "carmine" (Scott #145). Did the South Australia stamps remain good for postage well after Australia began issuing them in 1913? Any opinion on which issue is on the card?

Agree with Ryan, "West Hindmarsh"  (I am from South Australia)

South Australia Stamps valid until decimal currency in 1966

Your postcard has a continuous roller machine cancel, (Krag?) dated December 21st 1:45pm  , (unfortunately the year is illegible)


History

South Australia was originally part of New South Wales. In December 1836 it was declared a British Colony and the
first postmaster was appointed in Adelaide. One unusual feature was that the inland mail was carried by the Mounted Police at that time.
Further post offices were opened in Port Adelaide, Port Lincoln, Willunga and Encounter Bay. By 1840 there were a total of six post office
and by 1860 the figure had increased to 146 post offices. In 1840 a total of 41,000 letter and 50,000 newspapers were mailed;
by 1860 these figures had increased to 1,360,000 letters and 1,000,000 newspapers.



First Stamps were issued in 1855, the 2d on 1 January 1855 while the 2d and 6d were issued on 26 October 1855.
South Australia became self-governing in 1856. In 1891 South Australia joined the UPU.



Control of the South Australia State post office was passed to the Australian Federal Government on 1 March 1901 and the stamps
of each the various states became valid for use in all other states. Stamps inscribed South Australia continued to be issued
until the stamps of the Commonwealth of Australia were issued on 2 January 1913.
The stamps of South Australia continued to be valid for use in Australia until decimal currency was introduced in 1966.

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