About this object

Registration label from Fremantle, blue, rectangular, dated 25 June 1934.

Envelope is addressed to 'Mr MC Bradbury/Port Moresby/Papua; Please Return to/Mr. MC Bradbury/c/o Town Hall/Fremantle WA.'

Also attached: Air Mail Service 6d Sepia; Air Mail Service 3d Deep Grey Green; King George V 2d Red; Papua 6d Olive-Sepia; Papua A Papuan Dandy 3d Black on Prussian Blue; Papua 2d Red postage stamp(s); Black ink postmark from Fremantle (D27 type).

Object details
Museum accession number
H2020.2799
Type
Registration label
Label Date
Label Place
Fremantle
Addressed to
Mr MC Bradbury/Port Moresby/Papua; Please Return to/Mr. MC Bradbury/c/o Town Hall/Fremantle WA
Style
print letters
Shape
rectangular
Colour
blue
REGISTRATION LABEL
Label number
2303.0
Registration label type
65.1
Label font
typed or printed(?)
sans serif capitals
COVER
Cover media
cover
Cover text
[illustration of map of Australia and boomerang]
'First Official Air Mail:- AUSTRALIA TO PAPUA AND NEW-GUINEA/(Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Rockhampton, Townsville, Cairns, Port Moresby, Lae)/Per VH-UXX "AITH IN AUSTRALIA" - C.T.P. ULM, Commander.'
MARKS & STAMPS
Postmark type
D27
Postage stamp type
Air Mail Service 6d Sepia
Other postage stamp types
Air Mail Service 3d Deep Grey Green; King George V 2d Red; Papua 6d Olive-Sepia; Papua A Papuan Dandy 3d Black on Prussian Blue; Papua 2d Red
FRONT MARKS
Postmark cancellation
Fremantle
Other marks on front

FREMANTLE 25 JE 34 (25/06/1934); PORT MORESBY 26 JY 34 (23/07/1934); violet circular ink stamp with 'AUSTRALIA/PAPUA/AND/NEW GUINEA/JULY/1934/FIRST OFFICIAL/AIR MAIL' and winged crest; blue sticker 'BY AIR MAIL/PAR AVION'

REVERSE MARKS
Other marks on reverse

red, rectangular Port Moresby No. 7592 registration label; violet octagonal ink stamp 'NEW GUINEA/AUSTRALIA/JULY/1934/FIRST OFFICIAL/AIR MAIL' and winged crest

Citations and licences
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Western Australian Museum 2024, Registration Label, Fremantle (with D27 type postmark), 1934, accessed 22 November 2024, <https://collections.museum.wa.gov.au/collection/hanekamp-postal-collection/object/267>.
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