AB-DU-7

Australia - Brown years: 1923-1939.
Urgent rate delivery form: AB-DU-7.

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General characteristics:

Heading and notes:	Form number T.G. 42A. Heading is RECEIVED TELEGRAM URGENT RATE.
Message area:	Blank.
Reverse side:	Blank.
Colours (text & form):	Blue on salmon/pink.
Size of form overall:	193 × 222 mm.

Distinctive characteristics of this form:

heading has three distinct sections plus the advertising box and date stamp box;
advertising box in the top left corner "FOR QUICK SERVICE ..." has a thick outline and rounded corners;
has three advertisements surrounded by a single frame on the reverse.

Printed in March 1930.

AB-DU-7.

Hobart to Bothwell, Tasmania (datestamp damaged).

Common message during Australian summers.

Reverse side of Hobart to Bothwell, Tasmania telegrams showing the three advertisements within a single box.

Reverse side of a cable telegram from Oamaru, New Zealand to Mosman
(4 December 1936).

Has same printing date and schedule number (March 1930) as the Hobart telegram but has three different advertisements within a single box on the reverse side.

Details of use and rarity.

Form sub-number	Schedule number	Earliest recorded date	Rarity rating
DU-7	Sch. C. 542. 3/1930.	27 November 1936 at Leichardt, NSW.	NC