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Since about 2005, larger letters have been charged a round multiple of the base postage rate, which is helpful to customers if they do not have stocks of the more expensive stamps. 260 x 360 x 20mm – Up to 125g – $3.00 [17] 260 x 360 x 20mm – Up to 250g – $4.50 [18] 260 x 360 x 20mm – Up to 500g – $7.50 [19]
The trees have not previously been represented on Australian stamps. The issue is a companion to the 2005 Australian Trees stamp issue. Cocos (Keeling) Islands - Birds of Cocos: 24 March 2015 Owen Bell and John White The Cocos (Keeling) Islands comprises 27 islands in two atoll groups, with a total land area of about 14 square kilometres.
A block of four £2 "Roo" stamps showing the printer's imprint in the selvedge 1d King George V, used at Sydney in 1916. The six self-governing Australian colonies that formed the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901 had operated their own postal service and issued their own stamps – see articles on the systems on New South Wales (first stamps issued 1850), Victoria (1850), Tasmania ...
Postage stamps and postal history of Queensland; Postage stamps and postal history of South Australia; Postage stamps and postal history of Tasmania; Postage stamps and postal history of the Australian Antarctic Territory; Postage stamps and postal history of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands; Postage stamps and postal history of Victoria
As they continued to be used as revenue stamps, high values were printed, up to 100 pounds. The stamp duty inscription was dropped in 1896. The stamp duty inscription was dropped in 1896. Victoria issued semi-postal stamps in 1897 and 1901, in the first instance the extra income went to a hospital fund, and in the second, to a Boer War ...
A new swan design, for the 3d value, appeared in 1872, and variations on it finally superseded the 1854 design starting in 1885, with a definitive series of eight values. After federation, the states continued to operate their postal systems, and 1902 saw a new series of swan definitives, along with stamps depicting Queen Victoria for the first ...
The first commemorative stamp (as seen in the infobox) of the Australian Antarctic Territory was released on 16 October 1961 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first Antarctic Expedition in 1911, [5] led by the Australian scientist and explorer, Sir Douglas Mawson. This stamp features an image of Mawson on this expedition, surrounded by ...
James Richard William Purves (5 March 1903 – 13 May 1979) – generally denoted in publications as J. R. W. Purves-- was an Australian lawyer and philatelist. His half century of work in Australian philately earned him the title "The personification of Australia in International Philately".