New South Wales - Colonial period: 1858 - 1900.
Ordinary rate delivery form: NC-DO-10.

  
General characteristics:

Heading and notes: NSW Stores number.
Heading changed to
NEW SOUTH WALES
POST AND TELEGRAPH.
Message area: Boxes numbered to 35.
Reverse side: Boxes continuing the numbering to 100.
Colours (text & form): Orange or red on yellow.
Size of form overall: 224 × 189 mm.
Size of datestamp box: 19 × 34 mm.
Distinctive characteristics of this form:
 After E.C. Cracknell, Superintendent of Telegraphs since 1861, died in 1893, the opportunity - long awaited - was accepted to amalgamate the Post and Telegraphic services in New South Wales. This change necessitated a change in heading on the forms.
NC-DO-10A NC-DO-10A.

Summer Hill to Windsor
(30 July 1897).

Characteristics:

  • Coat of Arms is 11 × 16 mm;
  • Stores number on front is St 637 while Stores number on reverse is St 816 (?);
  • TELEGRAM is in 4 mm high letters;
  • the text at the base of the "TELEGRAM from ..." box is in plain font;
  • printed in orange ink.
NC-DO-10Ba NC-DO-10Ba.

Cudal to Obley.
(12 July 1897).

Characteristics:

  • Coat of Arms is 9 × 24 mm;
  • Stores number on front is St 637 while Stores number on the reverse is St 627;
  • the text at the base of the "TELEGRAM from ..." box is italic.
  • printed in orange ink.
NC-DO-10Bb NC-DO-10Bb.

Ultimo to Paddington
(unframed date stamp of 16 July 1901).

Characteristics:

  • same details as for NC-DO-10Ba but printed in red ink.

To distinguish the colour used on some forms, it is best to use a magnifying glass to examine the text.
NC-DO-10B

NC-DO-10C.

Coonabarabran to Windsor.
Double oval date stamp
(RO2) of 9 December 1899.

Characteristics:

  • Stores number on the front is St 5405 while Stores number on the reverse is St 627;
  • printed in orange ink.

Details of use and rarity.

Form
sub-number		 Schedule number Earliest recorded date Rarity rating
DO-10A Stores number St. 637 on front and St. 816 on reverse. 30 July 1897 at Windsor. R
DO-10Ba Stores number St. 637 on front and St. 627 on reverse. 19 July 1895 at Windsor. R
DO-10Bb Stores number St. 637 on front and St. 627 on reverse. 16 July 1901 at Paddington. R
DO-10C Stores number St. 5405 on front and St. 627 on reverse. 9 December 1899 at Windsor NC