Tasmania - Colonial: 1857-1900.
Urgent rate delivery form: TC-DU-1.

  
General characteristics:

Heading and notes: No form number.
TASMANIA above Crest with ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH on either side of the Crest.

URGENT. printed vertically in orange.
Message area: Six lines.
Reverse side: Blank.
Colours (text & form): Black on cream.
Size of form overall: 175 × 217 mm.
Distinctive characteristics of this form:

This is the only known example of a Tasmanian urgent rate delivery form from the Colonial period.

TC-TU-1 1892
Provenance: Clemente (Spink Sepember 2016, Lot 470 part),
Johnstone.		 TC-TU-1.

Ulverstone to Hobart.
21 April 1892 in a special rubber rectangular date stamp.

Characteristics:

  • same characteristics as for TC-DO-4A including NO in each top corner and detals of receiving station below TELEGRAPH;
  • has URGENT. printed vertically down the center of the form in orange.

 

Details of use and rarity.

Form
sub-number		 Schedule number Earliest recorded date Rarity rating
DU-1 None 21 April 1892 at Hobart. RRRR