Genuine use of either of the 1900 Patriotic Fund stamps is extremely difficult to locate.
There are many covers which bear one of the stamps or both but which do not pay the correct rate.
There are however some covers which, although perhaps fabricated to some extent, still pay correct rates and also appear to have been through the appropriate postal procedures.
One cover of the only pair of First Day Covers recorded.
They were prepared by Mr. William Rundell who worked in the General Post Office.
The 1d FDC is shown elsewhere.
Provenance: Matthew Bennett February 2003 Lot 579;
Prestige Philately May 2007 Lot 577 and April 2011 Lot 522.
2d (2/-) tourquoise single franking.
Moonee Ponds to Rose Park, SA.
Has transit backstamps for GPO Adelaide and squared circle Norwood - both on 24 March 1905.
Provenance: Abacus December 2019, Lot 1532.
8 May 1901.
2d inter-colonial letter rate.
Prestige Philately in June 2010 Lot 684 and in August 2011 Lot 496.
Recorded covers with a single 2d (2/-) franking.
- 22 May 1900 (FDI) at Melbourne for local delivery.
Provenance: Matthew Bennett February 2003 Lot 579;
Prestige Philately May 2007 Lot 577 and April 2011 Lot 522. - 8 May 1901 from Melbourne to Perth, W.A.
Has an extraordinarily poor cancellation - certainly a philatelic cover.
Has a L.C. Room hand stamp in reverse together with a NOT IN ...DELIVERY handstamp.
Provenance: Matthew Bennett April 2003; Prestige Auction 156 June 2010 Lot 684. Lot 2836;
Prestige Philately: June 2010 Lot 684 and August 2011 Lot 496. - 22 March 1905 from Moonee Ponds to Rose Park, S.A.
National Bank of Australasia envelope addressed to Miss Nesbitt at Rose Park, South Australia.
The stamp is rotated 90º clockwise. The franking pays the correct interstate rate.
Provenance: Status May 2006 Lot 1477 and 2007 Lot 1680 and August 2011 Lot 1737 and February 2012 Lot 1697.
Mixed franking of the 2d (2/-) stamp.
5d registered inter-colonial letter rate:
Provenance: Millennium Auctions in August 2005 Lot 472
and in December 2005 Lot 756;
Prestige Philately June 2010 Lot 684.
5d inter-colonial registered letter rate on an illustrated advertising cover front.
This cover - and its companion with the 1d (2/-) Boer War stamp -
advertised Alcock & Co., Billiard Table Manufacturers
of 212 Russell Street, Melbourne.
Alcock is credited with bringing the game of billiards
to its high level of popularity in Australia during the 1800s. Provenance: Prestige Philately in May 2004 Lot 1073 and
in June 2010 Lot 690A.