VC-DO-6

Victoria - Colonial period: 1854-1900.
Electric Telegraph ordinary rate delivery form VC-DO-6.

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General characteristics:

Heading and notes:	Form number E.T. No. 2. Heading is BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. This is the last form to have this heading before the change to POST OFFICE TELEGRAPHS.
Message area:	32 numbered boxes in eight lines.
Reverse side:	14 Regulations and conditions as for Form DO-3.
Colours (text & form):	Blue on light cream.
Size of form overall:	239 × 216 mm.

Distinctive characteristics of this form:

has heading across the top commencing with Telegram of Ten Words ...;
form number and printing details moved to the top right corner;
includes new entries of No. Words and Check under the heading at the left.

Printed in July 1872. Phoenix Auctions, March 2012, part of Lot 1608.	VC-DO-6. Melbourne to Richmond 3 March 1873.
	The reply annotated on the back of the delivery form - for information to finish the story.

Details of use and rarity.

Form sub-number	Schedule number	Earliest recorded date	Rarity rating
DO-6	500,000 - 7\|72	11 December 1872 at Richmond, Vic.	RR
	250,000 - 1\|73	29 July 1873 at Richmond, Vic.	RR