AI-DO-1

Australia - Interim period: 1901-1917.
Delivery form: AI-DO-1.

General characteristics:

Heading and notes:	Form E.T. No. 1. COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA above TELEGRAM.
Message area:	Blank.
Reverse side:	Blank.
Colours (text & form):	Blue on cream.
Size of form overall:	145 × 210 mm.
Size of datestamp box:	31.5 × 35 mm.

Distinctive characteristics of this form:

This form is very unusual and difficult to classify:

it is clearly an Australian form and not an Interim period form because there is no reference to a State;
it was printed early in the Interim period (1901 - 1917);

AI-DO-1.

Hobart to Melbourne
31 August 1906 at Telegraph Branch.

Characteristics:

has COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA heading as do the normal post-1917 Australian telegraph forms;
font and layout are the same as those used on the contemporaneous Victorian delivery form issued during the Interim period
(VI-DO-1);
text at the top is the same as for the Victorian form except the "Complaints" now go to the Deputy Postmaster-General.

Details of use and rarity.

Form sub-number	Schedule number	Earliest recorded date	Rarity rating
DO-1	C. 12608	31 August 1906 at Telegraph Branch, Melbourne.	RRR