especially elated to telegrams;
the slogan pAustralian Capital Territory - Canberra.
Post Office and date stamps.
This page summarises the following information for the Canberra Post Office:
There are few images of the various Canberra Post Offices. |
Taken in 1929. |
The only difference (telegraphically speaking) between Canberra and the rest of New South Wales up to 1988 was the date stamps used.
Three types of date stamp are recorded for use with telegraphs:
TELEGRAPHS CANBERRA/F.C.T.
Steel single circle (SC1-T).
Used: 9 May 1927 to 19 December 1937. Diameter: 30 mm. Hopson & Tobin believed the date stamp - only with A.C.T. - was used only in 1962 (no listing of F.C.T.). They did not distinguish between F.C.T. (Federal Capital Territory) and A.C.T. (Australian Capital Territory) at the base. |
9 May 1927. First Day of Issue for the 1½d Canberra stamp. |
Used on special Cablegram form about record England to Australia and return flights |
19 December 1937. Used on AB-DU-8Fa.
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Steel single circle (SC1-T). The Territory name changed from Federal Capital Territory (F.C.T.) to Australian Capital Territory (A.C.T.) in 1938 and the new designation was used until postcodes were introduced in 1967. |
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2 March 1967. Diameter: Used on Harold Holt's telegram. |
Rubber TELEGRAPHS/CANBERRA A.C.T. date stamps.
Rubber double circle (RC2-T). Diameter: Still incorporates the A.C.T. at the base despite postcodes being introduced 11 years earlier. |
Used on AA-DO-12Ca. |
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Rubber single rectangle (RH1-T).
Unrecorded elsewhere. Size: |
20 July1972. |
3. Slogans advertising Telegrams and the Telegraph service.
Slogan postmarks were used at Canberra Post Office for the following:
Full details can be found elsewhere.