£2 Roo - Townsville Cancel & Telegraph Puncture

£2 Roo with Townsville cancel and telegraph puncture (tastefully repaired). Recently acquired for the collection.

Nice use of stamps for some heavy parcels this month

I have received two heavy parcels already this month. One from Australia (Tasmania) and the other from the United States (Arizona).

Now admittedly the package from Tasmania was from a fellow stamp collector, so its not unusual to receive such a lovely array of fairly recent issues but its the package from Arizona that takes the cake this month.

This was totally commercial in its nature - containing some books. The only difference was that I asked the sender if he would kindly use "real-stamps" when he sent the parcel.

Its nice to see such thoughtful franking used on commercial packages these days and a nice surprise, especially when paying over $33 in shipping costs - many more examples of thoughtful parcel franking can be seen here on StampBoards.

A new addition to the collection - 1924 £1 Roo with Type 'C' Specimen Overprint

A new addition to the collection. A 1924 £1 Roo with the Type 'C' Specimen Overprint.

This is SG75s or ACSC 53XB, printed by Harrison and perforations measure 12.

A lovely stamp that's in Mint Condition with an ever so light hinge mark at the rear that is typical of these earlier Australian stamps.