About this object

Registration label from Registration Branch GPO Perth, blue, rectangular, dated 06 July 1955.

Envelope is addressed to 'Mrs C Martin/32 Washington St/Victoria Park/WA.'

Also attached: 19th Century Royal Mail Cobb and Co 2s Reddish Brown; 19th Century Royal Mail Cobb and Co 3½d Blackish Brown postage stamp(s); Black ink postmark from GPO Perth RS 8 (C31-T-RS8-c type).

Object details
Museum accession number
H2020.2349
Type
Registration label
Label Date
Label Place
Registration Branch GPO Perth
Addressed to
Mrs C Martin/32 Washington St/Victoria Park/WA
Style
print letters
Shape
rectangular
Colour
blue
REGISTRATION LABEL
Label number
576.0
COVER
Cover media
First Day Cover
Cover illustration
illustrated
Cover text
FIRST DAY COVER/Commemorating the early pioneers/of the coaching era carriers of/Royal Mail throughout Australia./6th July, 1955
[embossed illustration blackish brown coach]
MARKS & STAMPS
Postmark type
C31-T-RS8-c
Postage stamp type
19th Century Royal Mail Cobb and Co 2s Reddish Brown
Other postage stamp types
19th Century Royal Mail Cobb and Co 3½d Blackish Brown
FRONT MARKS
Postmark cancellation
GPO Perth RS 8
Other marks on front

-

REVERSE MARKS
Postal markings on reverse
GPO PERTH RS 8
VICTORIA PARK
Other marks on reverse

ink type '(FDC only)'; ink type 'From: N.Ph. Tebneff/23 Tate Street/South Perth WA'

Citations and licences
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Western Australian Museum 2024, Registration Label, Registration Branch GPO Perth (with C31-T-RS8-c type postmark), 1955, accessed 22 November 2024, <https://collections.museum.wa.gov.au/collection/hanekamp-postal-collection/object/1563>.
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