Australia - War years: 1940-1957.
Reply paid telegram transmission form: AW-RO-8.

  
General characteristics:

Heading and notes: Form number T.G. 43.
Heading is PREPAID REPLY/TELEGRAM.
Thick horizontal lines divide sections.
Message area: 25 boxes in 5 lines.
Reverse side: Has the paid voucher details.
Colours (text & form): Blue on cream..
Size of form overall: 101 × 190 mm.
Distinctive characteristics of this form:
 
 

Printed April 1943.		 AW-RO-8Aa.

Unused transmission form.

Characteristics:

  • box in lower left corner has 3rd line as "CONCESSION RATES".
AW_RO_8A_rev

Reverse side of the above transmission form.

Characteristics:

  • has a solid line under the space for "Signature of Issuing Officer";
  • last paragraph finishes with "... refunded to the person who deposited it".

Printed December 1943.

AW-RO-8Ab.

Characteristics:

  • box in lower left corner has 3rd line as "AT CONCESSION RATES".

 

Printed 1944.

AW-RO-8Ac.

Characteristics:

  • box in lower left corner has 3rd line as "ARE ACCEPTED AT CONCESSION RATES".

 
Printed in September 1947. AW-RO-8B.

The reverse side of the above used transmission form.

Characteristics:

  • reverse side same as for RO-8A: second last line notes "refunded to the person who deposited it.".

NOTE: Baker & Duffy were well known Sydney stamp dealers in the Imperial Arcade.
Clemente was one of the all time great Tasmanian philatelists.

Reverse side of the above transmission form.

Characteristics:

  • reverse side same as for RO-8A: second last line notes "refunded to the person who deposited it.".

 

Details of use and rarity.

Form
sub-number		 Schedule number Earliest recorded date Rarity rating
RO-8Aa Q.5274 - 41943.  

R (unused)

RRRR (used)
RO-8Ab Sch. C.-4325 - 12/1943.  
RO-8Ac Sch. C.4495-8 - 1944.  
RO-8B Sch. C. 4758 - 7/1945.  
  Sch. C.5449 - 9/1947. 23 April 1963 at Hobart Chief Telegraph Office.