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• 184 pages
• Full colour
• Rarity ratings, all currently known postal stationery listed and illustrated
• Top-quality binding, hard cover, dust jacket, stitched binding.
• A4 size.

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. The authors have half a lifetime of experience between them of collecting, researching and exhibiting Tasmanian Postal Stationery. The Groom “Printed to Private Order” exhibit achieved Large Gold and Best-in-class at Sydney 2019 . Both authors have published articles on various aspects of Tas Postal Stationery over the years.

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The book contains commentaries and listings for post cards, envelopes issued by the post office, registered envelopes, stamped to order stationery, reply cards, letter cards and wrappers.

Each section commences with a history of the category. As well as the stationery items themselves, the book presents essays and proofs, specimen overprints and official punctures, printing details where known, earliest and latest dates of use and assessments of rarity. The book is profusely illustrated.

The authors have attempted to settle some points of contention, differing in some cases from previous publications. Post Office reports to Parliament have been applied to estimate usage over thirty years, which is presented along with other evidence to support new conclusions.

The wrappers and stamped to order sections include comprehensive comments and images of the businesses that adapted the stationery for their purposes.  These two sections offer a rare historical insight into the final twenty years of Tasmania’s nineteenth century.
This work will be of interest to postal stationery collectors, postal historians and to those with a general interest in Tasmanian history.

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Published by the Tasmanian Philatelic Society