Author Archive: jg

Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Fremantle Mail Journals: Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands): Bruce Haynes A Fremantle Inward Journal 1947/1983 and 3 Outward Journals 1979/1991 were offered for sale at Perth 2023 National Exhibition. The information relating to Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands…
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Sale by Tender 19 May 2023

Bidding Closes 19 May 2023 Catalogue Previous Sales-by-Tender 2022 – December 2022 – September 2021 – November 2021 – May 2020 – October 2019 – October 2017 – May 2004 – September 1999 – October 1998 – September 1998 –…
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Posties of the West Australian Outback

Bill Collins’s Meekatharra & Marble Bar Royal Mail Truck bogged on its route, Western Australia, 1941. Mail of the outback in the 1930’s – posted under a stone in the dust,or impaled on a station gate or a forked stick…
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Covid 19 Pandemic Delayed Mail

Covid 19 Pandemic Delayed Mail by Bruce Haynes The disruption to international and domestic airmail, due to the cancellation of international and domestic passenger flights, was the most significant change in Australian mail handling since the Second World War. There…
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Collecting Western Australia – The Stamps

by Brian Pope Illustrations: The 3d, 6d, 8d, 9d, 1/-, 10/- stamps and PC 20, EN 7, EN 8, EN 9, WR 6, are by courtesy of The Western Australian Museum. The others are from local private collections. – Originally…
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