AB-TO-7

Australia - Brown years: 1923-1939.
Ordinary rate transmission form: AB-TO-7.

General characteristics:

Heading and notes:	Form number T.G. 41.
Message area:	35 boxes in 7 lines.
Reverse side:	Single advertisement covering the whole area. Printed in black.
Colours (text & form):	Black on cream.
Size of form overall:	126 × 202 mm.

Distinctive characteristics of this form:

boxes for Cash Register and Stamps are separate;
the "Stamps ..." box is empty - no rates are printed;
an advertisement in the lower left corner begins "TELEGRAPH!";
first printing of single advertisements on the reverse side with the Hermes image - here in black;
the main distinctions between the varieties are:
7A: two lines of text at the base separated by two dotted lines for sender details;
7B: two lines of text under two dotted lines for sender details.

No image presently available.

AB-TO-7A.

Characteristics:

there are two lines of text at the base which are separated by two dotted lines for sender details.

Printed in November 1934.

AB-TO-7B.

Used but details not recorded.

Characteristics:

AB-TO-7B (reverse side).

Single advertisement printed in black. Has round frame for Hermes.

All advertisements recorded for this form are single in the same format shown here. Others include:

Details of use and rarity.

Form sub-number	Schedule number	Earliest recorded date	Rarity rating
TO-7A	SCH. C687 3/1931	(H)	RRR
TO-7B	Sch. C. 917/2.1933 P.259/2.33. - 372.	(H)	RRR
	Sch. C. 1054. - 12/1933 P.259/2.34. - 79.	7 May 1936 (Melbourne?) - a copy of a message on this form is known and dated.	RRR
	Sch. C. 1237. - 11/1934 P.445/11.34. - 5375.		RRR