Queensland - Interim: 1901-1917.
Urgent rate delivery envelope: QI-EU-1.

  
General characteristics:

Heading and notes: No form number.
Urgent Telegram on two lines separated with a Crest.
Message area: Blank.
Reverse side: Has a printed oval seal in black on the flap.
Colours (text & form): Black on orange.
Size of form overall: 85 (approx) × 138 mm.
Distinctive characteristics of this form:
QI-EU-1.

Used for a Cablegram to Cairns IQI-DC-1.
20 February 1913.

Characteristics:

  • Electric Telegraph Department words used n the Colonial Urgent rate delivery envelopes have been removed;
  • date starts "191_";
Reverse side of the above envelope front.
The curved flap is the same as for the Queensland Colonial delivery envelopes.
The Crest has the same arrangement inside the oval but the oval has a thinner outer ring and its size is 23 × 34 mm (e = 0.74).
QI-EU-1 QI-EU-1.

Used for an Urgent rate delivery telegram
QI-DU-1Ba.
Calcutta, India by Cable to Killarney (19 July 1916).

Characteristics:

  • has URGENT heading at the top;
  • Electric Telegraph Department words used n the Colonial Urgen rate delivery envelopes have been removed;
  • date starts "191_";

Details of use and rarity.

Form
sub-number		 Schedule number Earliest recorded date Rarity rating
EU-1 None 19 July 1916 at Killarney. RRR