Books about Tasmanian Postmarks, Stamps, Postal History and Postal Stationery
The Tasmanian Philatelic Society publishes books about Tasmanian postmarks, stamps, postal history and postal stationery. Please see the Buy Books page for prices and to purchase a book.
Tasmanian Postal Stationery Catalogue
Malcolm Groom, Allen Shatten
Price: $90+ Postage and Packing
Price reduced to allow for new publications
This book aims to present all that is currently known about Tasmanian postal stationery. It covers the period up to (and sometimes beyond) the transfer of powers to the Commonwealth in 1912. Authors Malcolm Groom and Allen Shatten have many years of collecting, researching and exhibiting Tasmanian Postal Stationery behind them.
184 pages, hard bound, dust jacket, sewn sections.
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Guide to Postmarks on Tasmanian Pictorial Stamps
John Hardinge & John Campton
Contains detailed information & rarity ratings for all datestamps, manuscript cancells and crown seals on Tasmanian Pictorial Stamps 1899 – 1914
Price: $50, plus postage and packing.
60 pages in colour.
- Datestamp Types – each postmark type described and illustrated
- Rarity rating scale
- Datestamps, manuscript cancells and crown seals listed for every Post office open 1899 – 1914
- Much new information
- New information on postmarks for Hobart, Launceston and Zeehah
- All known datestamp codes listed with rarity ratings
- 160 images
